Author: Matthew Dubas

“Eyes Up! Discover Your Full Potential and Form Meaningful Connections Through Subtle Shifts in Perspective,” by T.J. Kostecky with Dan DiClerico, Matt Holt/BenBella Books, Dallas, Texas, 2024. $30 (hardcover). ISBN: 978167744666. Sports, and soccer in particular, can be a gateway to a richer, more successful life. It pushes individuals to expand their vision to take...

HORSHAM, Pa. – The Ukrainian Sports Museum and Ukrainian Sports Hall of Fame held its induction banquet for 2020-2022 inductees on December 9 at the Ukrainian American Sport Center Tryzub in Horsham, Pa. The induction banquet could not be held from 2020 to 2022 due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, as well as because of the...

NEW YORK – More than 100 people participated in a celebration of Crimean Tatar Flag Day as well as the Muslim holiday of Kurban Bayram on July 1 at the Ukrainian National Home in New York. Held under the slogan “Two Flags – One Country,” the event, which was co-hosted by Razom for Ukraine and...

NEW YORK – Yara Arts Group, a New York-based performing theater group founded and directed by Virlana Tkacz, was awarded a Village Preservation Award during a ceremony on June 13 inside Cooper Union’s Great Hall. The award was presented by the Village Preservation Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. Village Preservation honors invaluable local leaders,...

NEW YORK – A groundbreaking exhibit and discussion, titled “War/Art Balance: Deimperializing the Soviet Avant-Garde at the Time of Russia’s War on Ukraine, Its Culture, and People,” was held at The Cooper Union’s historic Great Hall on April 27. The event was hosted in partnership with the Shevchenko Scientific Society and The Ukrainian Museum.  Adriana...

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Ukrainian National Association President and Chief Executive Officer Roman B. Hirniak received a state award from the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi. The award was presented by Prof. Eduard Balashov, rector’s assistant for international relations and fundraising at the National University of Ostroh Academy. Mr. Balashov, in a letter to Mr. Hirniak, wrote: “We all thank you personally for your longstanding and selfless support of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National University of Ostroh Academy!  We sincerely hope and believe in a quick victory over the enemy, and we…

Ronald “Ron” Cahute – known by his Ukrainian name Roman – a Ukrainian Canadian accordion legend and recording musician, composer and producer who released over 30 albums either as a solo artist or with the band Burya, died on April 22 in Toronto.  He was 68. Mr. Cahute, a prolific performer who took worked on...

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – An independent, comparative analysis of the Ukrainian National Association’s (UNA) key financial ratios as of December 31, 2022, prepared by Standard Analytical Service, Inc., concluded that, based on financial results achieved in the year ended in 2022, the UNA received a rating of “favorable” when compared to the aggregate averages of 25 of the leading life insurance companies in the United States. The report focused on areas of solvency (assets for each $100 of liabilities), liquid invested assets (bonds, stocks, cash and short-term investments for each $100 of liabilities) and additional organizational strengths based on assets, reserves…

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – A charity hockey game called “Skate for Ukraine,” held between the New York Kozaks and the New Jersey Kings on April 23 at Clary Andersen Arena in Montclair, N.J., raised more than $70,000 for humanitarian aid to Ukraine, according to the event’s organizers. Taras Odulak, who played for the Kozaks, described what...

PARSIPPANY, N.J. − Ukraine’s women’s team, in fourth place in Group B of the qualifying stage of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup after four matches played (one win, one draw and two losses, with four points), is scheduled to resume matches on April 7 against Scotland, April 11 against Hungary, September 1 against the...

CHICAGO/PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Ukrainian American entrepreneur Fedia Kourbatov, 23, is the founder of Baba Bags, whose company tagline is “doing good-like Baba would.” Through sales at Baba Bags (www.baba-bags.com), Mr. Kourbatov is raising funds for refugee children from Poltava, Ukraine, who have been displaced from their homes as a result of Ukraine’s ongoing war against...

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Ukrainian Dance Academy Workshop (held June 28 through July 10, for campers age 16 and over), and the Ukrainian Dance Camps (first session: July 19-31; and second session: August 1-14, for campers ages 8-16), were held in a safe and fun environment at Soyuzivka Heritage Center in Kerhonkson,...