Month: February 18, 2021 10:17 pm

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Metropolitan Epifaniy, primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), celebrated the second anniversary of his enthronement on February 3 with a divine liturgy celebrated at St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv. The metropolitan’s enthronement was initially held on February 3, 2019, with hierarchs from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Canada concelebrating.

CHICAGO – The Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago announced on February 12 its plan to re-open beginning on March 4. Visitors are recommended to schedule a reservation by contacting the museum via e-mail, [email protected], or telephone, 312-421-8020.

Crimean Tatar activists detained
Russian authorities have detained several Crimean Tatar activists after their homes were searched in Ukraine’s Russian-controlled Crimea region. The Crimean Solidarity group told RFE/RL on February 17 that the searches were conducted at the homes of Abdulbori Makhamadaminov, Azamat Eyupov, Timur Yalkabov, Ernest Ibragimov, Oleh Fyodorov, Lenur Seydametov and Yashar Shikhametov in different towns and cities across Crimea. The official reason for the searches remains unclear.

Chmelevski notches point in NHL debut
Alex “Sasha” Chmelevski produced an assist and two shots on goal in San Jose’s 5-4 shootout win over Anaheim on February 5. Chmelevski was credited with the secondary helper on linemate Matt Nieto’s opening tally. The assist was the 21-year-old Ukrainian’s first NHL point in his debut game with the Sharks. He was selected by San Jose in the sixth round of the 2017 NHL Entry Draft. Chmelevski totaled 27 points in 42 games with San Jose’s AHL team in 2019-2020. He is slated to spend the bulk of the current season back with the San Jose Barracuda, seeing occasional time with the parent club as an extra forward on the taxi squad.

KYIV – Less than a week after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy muted three nationwide television channels for broadcasting Russian disinformation, Moscow reiterated its stance that Ukraine is part of “the Russian world.”

KYIV – Around the same time that Austria’s highest court ruled to extradite Ukrainian billionaire Dmytro Firtash to the U.S. on bribery and racketeering charges in June 2019, he and his companies were opening accounts at Wirecard, a German bank that is now insolvent due to malfeasance.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelens­kyy announced a series of 30 large-scale public forums on various topics of national importance that will take place over the next six months. The initiative, meant to coincide with Ukraine’s 30th anniversary of independence, is an effort by the Ukrainian government to focus discussion in the country on topics the president believes are most important to Ukraine.

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