Month: February 26, 2021 9:13 am

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on February 25 that he appointed former finance minister Oksana Markarova to be the country’s new ambassador to the United States. Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba proposed Ms. Markarova for the position in late November 2020, despite her having no experience in the foreign service.

Twenty-seven years ago, on March 6, 1994, The Ukrainian Weekly’s editorial highlighted the yearlong centennial celebrations marking the founding of the Ukrainian National Association, the publisher of Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly newspapers.

MINNEAPOLIS – In the fall of 2018, members of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization in the U.S.A. within the Twin Cities area met in the empty gymnasium of St. Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Church to discuss the branch’s future. Here, one generation reminisced about how strong the Plast community in Minneapolis once was, while another dreamed of its resurgence and revival.

U.S. awards Ukrainian anti-corruption figure
The editor-in-chief of a Kyrgyz investigative website and a former Ukrainian prosecutor general are among 12 people who have been recognized by the U.S. State Department as anti-corruption champions. The winners of the new International Anti-Corruption Champions Award were announced on February 23 by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said in a statement that the award recognizes people who have worked tirelessly, often in the face of adversity, to combat corruption in their own countries.

SOMERSET, N.J. – Archbishop Daniel of the UOC-U.S.A. traveled to Ukraine on December 21-23 to visit the Znamianka Children’s Orphanage in Kirovohrad Oblast. The archbishop delivered financial assistance from the faithful of the UOC-U.S.A. for necessary repairs of the heating pipes in the orphanage and to help pay for the annual wages for special needs instructors at the orphanage.

SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. – St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Memorial Church at the Spiritual Center – Metropolia of the Ukrainian…...

SOMERSET, N.J. – The Ukrainian Orthodox League (UOL) hosted a Souper Bowl Sunday fundraiser in February to raise funds through soup sales to benefit the work of St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Society of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. (UOC-U.S.A.), which sponsors soup kitchens and orphanages in Ukraine. Multiple events were planned for February 7 but, due to snowstorms, some were postponed until February 14.

Walter Edward “Turk” Broda was born in 1914 and very quickly as a youngster fell in love with hockey. He grew up wanting to be a defenseman, but had lots of difficulty as a skater. When his Brandon, Manitoba, school organized a hockey team, Broda had high hopes, which were soon enough dashed because of his poor skating. At the time, coaches usually selected the chubbiest kid to play goalie, so Broda had shots fired at him every day in practice.

In June 2020, a group of nine current and former NHL players established the Hockey Diversity Alliance (HDA), an organization dedicated to social justice issues in the world of hockey. One of the two co-chairmen of the HDA is Akim Aliu, a 31-year-old former NHL defenseman of Ukrainian origin, who shook the sport in November 2019 by exposing his encounters with racism.

KYIV – Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers this week registered a bill in parliament that would prematurely dismiss the head of a Western-funded graft-fighting agency to align it with a Constitutional Court ruling from August that nullified his appointment less than six years ago.

Zelenskyy signs memoranda with UAE for $3 billion investment

KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s legislative body, on February 17 passed a resolution saying that the pro-democracy Euro-Maidan uprising that culminated this month seven years ago was a significant nation-building moment in the country’s history.

KYIV – Nearly seven years after the Euro-Maidan protests in the Ukrainian capital reached a bloody climax, the site where protesters clashed with security forces remains a crime scene.

There is no police cordon to give away the forensic significance of the vacant lot atop Institutska Street, but investigators believe it may hold important clues to conclusively establish who gunned down dozens of anti-government demonstrators there on February 20, 2014.