Author: Yaro Bihun

WASHINGTON – This year’s candle-lighting remembrance ceremony in Washington for the millions of people who died in Joseph Stalin’s genocidal famine, the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine, was unique. For the first time, the annual commemoration took place at the site of the Holodomor Memorial, constructed this year and dedicated three weeks earlier. As the sun...

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WASHINGTON – It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon on November 1 in this capital area. A little bit of autumnal chilliness was beginning to arrive, but the audience arriving at The Washington Group Cultural Fund’s Music Series concert in Old Town Alexandria, Va., knew the temperature would quickly rise inside the historic Lyceum hall. And...

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WASHINGTON – Serhii Plokhy, the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, was honored with this year’s Omelan and Tatiana Antonovych Foundation award for his work as a historian and author of history books that insightfully analyze Ukraine’s past and present and shed light on what...

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WASHINGTON – The dedication of the Ukrainian Holodomor Memorial in Washington on Saturday, November 7, was not a single-day event in front of the U.S. capital’s Union Station and the nearby memorial site. It was accompanied by several noteworthy related events: a large informative exhibit about the Holodomor, special liturgies in local Ukrainian churches, two...

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WASHINGTON – The fall 2015 Ukrainian classical concert season in the nation’s capital area was launched on Sunday, October 4, with Ukrainian violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv and Georgian pianist Angelina Gadeliya launching The Washington Group Cultural Fund’s 2015-2016 Music Series at the historic Lyceum in Old Town Alexandria, with a program presenting a century of Ukrainian...

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WASHINGTON – As world leaders – among them the presidents of the United States, Ukraine and Russia – began arriving in New York in late September to address the United Nations General Assembly and discuss some of the major world issues, including the crisis in Ukraine, representatives of the Ukrainian and U.S. governments, Ukrainian American...

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WASHINGTON – The long-awaited large bronze depiction of a receding field of wheat, memorializing the millions of innocent people who perished during Joseph Stalin’s 1932-1933 Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, arrived here on August 4 and was affixed as the main part of the Holodomor Memorial being erected not far from the U.S. Capitol building. The 6-foot-high-by-35-foot-long...

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President expresses “unwavering support” for Ukraine’s sovereignty WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama expressed the U.S. government’s “unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity” on July 13, during an unexpected meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. As noted in a White House statement, the president “dropped by” a meeting at the White House between Vice-President Joseph...

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WASHINGTON – The large gathering of parishioners and others who came to the Sunday, May 31, liturgy at Washington’s Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family were overwhelmed by what they witnessed that morning. Their church choir sang a new composition of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom No. 3 in English, under...

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WASHINGTON – The music lovers who came to the June 5 evening concert at the Ukrainian Embassy knew that this would be a remarkable performance by Ukrainian soprano Sofia Soloviy and composer-pianist Elia Andrea Corazza. Some of them had already attended the duo’s first Washington Group Cultural Fund Music Series concert last November, and they...

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WASHINGTON – As President Barack Obama and the other G-7 leaders on June 8 were concluding their summit meeting discussions with a focus on how best to resolve the crisis of Russia’s intrusion into Ukraine, the prime minister of Ukraine, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, arrived in Washington for three days of talks about that crisis and other...

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WASHINGTON – The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) celebrated the 75th anniversary of its founding with a reception on May 20 at the Senate Visitor’s Center at the U.S. Capitol, where U.S. and Ukrainian government representatives joined with a large group of representatives of Ukrainian American organizations and the Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox Churches...

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