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It now seems that a significant portion of the world’s attention is focused on Ukraine and the question of whether Russian President Vladimir Putin will once again invade Ukraine. Trying to forecast Mr. Putin’s real intentions can be a tricky trade, but U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking in Berlin on January 20, made...

Forty-two years ago, on January 27, 1980, as Ukrainians in the diaspora commemorated the 62nd anniversary of Ukraine’s independence and unification that was formalized on January 22, 1918, The Ukrainian Weekly’s editorial for that issue endorsed the U.S. boycott of the 1980 summer Olympic Games in Moscow. The U.S. Olympic Committee voted on January 26,...

NATO rejects Russian demands NATO had a “serious and direct exchange” with Russian officials on the Ukraine crisis and the alliance is ready to meet Kremlin envoys again to discuss European security, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said. Speaking on January 12 after meeting in Brussels with a delegation from Russia as part of the NATO-Russia...

A flurry of high-level diplomatic meetings between Russian and Western officials centered on Ukraine have come and gone. By all accounts, each ended in deadlock. The somewhat positive news coming out of those meetings is that it appears Ukraine’s allies did not concede to any of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s outlandish demands, among them that...

Five years ago, on January 16, 2017, Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry filed a lawsuit against Russia at the United Nations International Court of Justice at The Hague, accusing Russia of acts of “terrorism” and “discrimination” for it backing militants in eastern Ukraine since 2014 and its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014. The lawsuit...

Heads of anti-doping body resign The Ukrainian sports minister has announced the resignation of the head of the national anti-doping agency (NADC), which is facing accusations it has violated international standards for years. “The NADC has violated the international testing standard. Today, the director of the NADC, Ivan Kurlishchuk, and his deputy, Yaroslav Kruchek, resigned,”...

In November, Ukrainians around the world will once again honor the memory of the millions killed during the Holodomor, the genocide perpetrated in 1932-1933 by Joseph Stalin against the Ukrainian people. As those preparations continue, another crucial and connected project is underway in Ukraine that, when completed, will be instrumental in raising awareness throughout the...

Fifty years ago, on November 1, 1971, the hierarchs of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, during the fifth Synod of its bishops that was held in Rome at Ss. Sergius and Bacchus Church (the oldest Ukrainian property outside of Ukraine), confirmed Archbishop-Major Josyf Cardinal Slipyj as the Church’s prime hierarch. It was seen as a major...

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Lawmakers approve bill on NABU Ukrainian lawmakers have approved a bill to strengthen the independence of the National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) that will move it toward securing more loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under a $5 billion loan deal. In the vote on October 19, 304 members of the country’s parliament,...

During a meeting on October 21 of the Valdai Discussion Club that took place in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin once again expressed his concern regarding Ukraine’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). “Formal membership [of Ukraine] in NATO may not take place,” Mr. Putin said, according...

Sixty-five years ago, on October 28, 1956, the Ukrainian Institute of America was formally dedicated to serve the needs of Ukrainian studies and culture in the United States of America. The dedication ceremonies opened with the singing of the U.S. and Ukrainian national anthems, and Daniel Kane, vice president of the Institute, served as master...