Month: July 26, 2019 10:21 am

Ukrainian World Congress

The Ukrainian World Congress released the following statement on July 16.

Over the past five years, the Russian Federation has harbored the criminals responsible for the killing of 298 innocent civilians on July 17, 2014, when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over Ukrainian territory by a Russian-controlled missile system. Despite persistent efforts by the Kremlin to discredit the findings of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) tasked with determining the cause of the disaster, the overwhelming evidence gathered confirms that culpability for this crime lies with the Russian Federation.

Like Leonid Kuchma 25 years earlier, newly elected President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made his first official foreign visit to Canada. Unlike Kuchma’s five-day visit in October 1994, which included stopovers in Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Winnipeg, Mr. Zelenskyy came only to Toronto on July 1-3 and that was to participate in the third annual Ukraine Reform Conference, the first two having been held in London and Copenhagen.

On July 17, 2014, a Boeing-200ER of Malaysia Airlines was shot down in the sky over the part of Ukraine’s Donetsk region controlled by Russian militants. The passenger plane was flying a regular route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. All 298 people on board were killed – 283 passengers, including 80 children, and 15 crew members.

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“Odessa Recollected: The Port and the People,” by Patricia Herlihy, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Brighton, Mass.: Academic Studies Press, 2018. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-1-61811-736-6 (hardcover) $42.

“Contours of The City,” by Attyla Mohylny, translated by Michael Naydan. London: Glagoslav Publication, 2017. 140 pp. ISBN: 978-1-911414-57-5 (paperback), $26.50.

UWC offers preliminary observations 

The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) International Election Observation Mission released its preliminary observations during a press conference held on July 22 at the Ukraine Crisis Media Center in Kyiv, confirming that the parliamentary elections in Ukraine met international standards for the conduct of democratic elections. The UWC Mission, which numbered 142 short-term observers (STOs) from 30 countries, closely cooperated with the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, a UWC member organization, which registered 32 STOs.

Twenty-plus years ago when Ukrainian Gary Makar and Laura MacGregor were seeking a name for their newborn son, they settled on Cale. Gary was working in the Calgary Flames marketing department at the time when Cale Hulse was a key member of the team’s defense corps. They both liked the name and chose it for their son.

PERTH AMBOY, N.J. – On Saturday, June 22, the church grounds of Assumption Ukrainian Catholic Church in Perth Amboy, N.J., swelled with neighbors and those who traveled quite a distance to appreciate Ukrainian culture, crafts, foods and entertainment at the seventh annual parish festival. 

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – On June 23, Father Iura Godenciuc, pastor of St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in…...

KYIV – Ukraine’s eighth Parliament since independence convened its final plenary session on July 11 with a long-awaited political breakthrough – the adoption of a new Election Code designed to improve and democratize the country’s election system.
It followed weeks of recriminations after the calling of snap parliamentary elections by newly elected President Volodymyr Zelenskyy between his team and the outgoing administration of President Petro Poroshenko and his allies in the Verkhovna Rada. It took a ruling by the Constitutional Court on June 20 to remove doubts about the legality of Mr. Zelenskyy’s action.

OTTAWA – Hundreds of delegates from dozens of countries gathered in Toronto in early July for the third annual Ukraine Reform Conference, and to hear from Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during his first official overseas visit. Among the attendees were not only Canadian government officials, but also Ukrainian Canadian community leaders who had specific concerns about the neophyte politician’s policies.