Author: Matthew Dubas

Soccer  • In the UEFA Champions League, Dynamo Kyiv lost 1-3 against Manchester City in Kyiv on February 24 in the first-leg match of the Round of 16.  Man City opened the scoring in the 15th minute by Sergio Aguero, in the 40th minute by David Silva; Ukraine’s Vitaliy Buyalskiy scored the lone goal for...

More than 1,000 march to White House WASHINGTON – More than 1,000 activists took part in an early evening march on November 7 from Union Station, the location near the recently unveiled Holodomor monument, to the White House. Marchers, who carried blue-and-yellow flags of Ukraine and many dressed in Ukrainian embroidery, snaked through the streets...

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Ukraine finished in eighth place in the medal standings with 31 medals – eight gold, 17 silver and six bronze – at the 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade (student youth games) on July 3-14 in Gwangju, South Korea. Artistic gymnast Oleg Verniaiev won six medals – gold medals in the individual all-around, men’s...

KERHONKSON, N.Y. – Approximately 6,000 people attended the ninth annual Ukrainian Cultural Festival under the theme “Solidarity with Ukraine” during a beautiful summer weekend on July 10-12 at the Soyuzivka Heritage Center. That spirit of solidarity could be seen all around the Soyuzivka grounds, not only the stage show, but among the vendors, the delicious...

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Telecom giant Verizon has drawn the ire of the Ukrainian community in the United States and around the world with its offensive advertisement that showed a couple channel-surfing, and complaining that anything would be better to watch than Ukrainian dancing. The advertisement on its website has been modified (replacing the Ukrainian dancers...

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Ukraine finished in eighth place in the medal standings with 46 medals (eight gold, 14 silver and 24 bronze) at the Baku 2015 European Games on June 12-28. Following is The Weekly’s report on the results of the final three days of the European Games. Inna Cherniak (57 kg) won the blind...

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Ukraine is in 11th place in the medals standings with 35 medals (six gold, 11 silver and 18 bronze) at the Baku 2015 European Games on June 12-28. Ukraine’s team is represented by 241 athletes, among the 6,000 competitors representing 50 participating countries in 20 sports disciplines. Twelve of the sports –...