Author: Askold S. Lozynskyj

The first days of the war did not unfold as the Russians anticipated. Becoming even more unhinged by this setback, Russian President Vladimir Putin increased not only the number of Russian soldiers but also the variety of weapons and methods of warfare. The latter should be most alarming. A missile was fired indiscriminately at the...

The recent United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting convened by the Russian Federation under its own chairmanship was more eye popping than normal and that says a lot. Russia routinely distorts and misinforms. The UNSC is mostly an exercise in futility since five permanent members have veto power, including Russia, which is essentially a rogue...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently spoke about the arrival of Russian paratroopers in Kazakhstan at the alleged invitation of the president of that country. These are the kind of people who will not leave your house, Mr. Blinken said. History shows that this has been the modus operandi of Muscovite and Russian imperialists....

This commentary is written on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Ukrainian Free University (UFU), today located in Munich, but originally in Vienna, then Prague. It was located in Munich only after World War II. The history of this remarkable institution has been written many times and by many authors,...

In the history of U.S.-Ukraine relations, it was a long-time coming. The Biden-Zelenskyy summit did happen within the language of “this summer.” There were two brief postponements, but, if anything, they contributed to the duration of a meeting scheduled for only one hour but one that actually lasted for two. At least Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy boasted that the length of the meeting was indicative of success. More likely, length was irrelevant, at best a concession to or reward for President Zelenskyy’s patience.

To my personal dismay, since I have been hoping to see a Catholic from Western Ukraine elected president of Ukraine, on its 30th anniversary, Ukraine has been a model of diversity, though it has not included my own preference. Ukraine has had presidents from Volyn, Chernihiv by way of Dnipro, Sumy, Donetsk, Vinnytsia and Dnipro.

The irony here is that he may not know it and, certainly, helping Ukraine is not his intention. There is evidence of the “democratic,” “anti-corruption” Alexei Navalny being, in fact, yet another Great Russian chauvinist. His position on the Russian invasion, occupation and annexation of sovereign Ukrainian territory, Crimea, is undisputed. Thus, he remains within...

Over the history of the last half millennium, Ukrainian Polish relations have been strained, to put it mildly. This included at least three invasions of Ukrainian territory by the Poles and accusations of genocide by both sides. However, in 1991, when the Ukrainians proclaimed a free and independent Ukrainian state, the Republic of Poland was...

Volodymyr Serhiychuk is a professor of history at the Kyiv State University and one of the more eminent researchers in Soviet archives. In terms of publishing his findings, he is perhaps the most prolific of the researchers. One of the topics of his expertise is the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933, known as the Holodomor. For...

With the upcoming elections in the United States, particularly presidential and congressional, Ukrainian American voters should be raising issues of concern with the candidates. The purpose is to both inform the candidates about those issues and to let the Ukrainian American electorate know the candidates’ positions. It seems to me that the following issues should...

I attended a Lemko Vatra (literally a campfire of people from the Lemkivshchyna region of today’s Poland), an annual celebration of Ukrainian Lemko heritage with song and dance and a few serious moments. One of those was a discussion titled “The Ukrainian-Polish Civil War and the Expulsion of Ukrainians after the Second World War.” In...

This month a bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives titled “Countering Foreign Propaganda  and Disinformation Act of 2016.” The two co-sponsors, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, (R-Ill.) and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), made no secret of the fact that the thrust of the bill involves Russian disinformation about Ukraine. To say that action on...