Pirates release Faina and crew
by Yuriy Onyshkiv

Brushfires in Australia damage Ukrainian Youth Association camp
by Matthew Dubas

NEWS ANALYSIS: Tymoshenko defeats Yanukovych in Rada
by Pavel K. Baev

Tymoshenko seeks foreign loans to help support Ukraine’s economy

ANALYSIS
Who owns the gas in Ukraine’s underground reservoirs?
by Pavel Korduban
Putin retains the initiative in the gas dialogue with Europe
by Pavel K. Baev

NEWSBRIEFS
President cites non-transparent talks
Tymoshenko challenges NSDC
Lytvyn: power struggle is obstacle
Tymoshenko at Munich conference
Calls for Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih republic
Both sides say ICJ verdict is fair…
…Ukraine’s rep at ICJ concurs
46,000 became Ukrainian citizens
Nazar and Anastasia most popular
NBU takes over two more banks
Rare plants and animals smuggled
Essay contest: “I Am Obama”
Ukraine’s oldest wood church

Eastern Ukrainians fight to preserve the Holodomor’s memory
by Zenon Zawada

The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund: January

Fall fund-raisers benefit the Ukrainian Catholic University
by Matthew A. Rarey

UNIS plans March 25-26 Ukrainian Days in Washington
by Michael Sawkiw Jr.

EDITORIAL
Establishing historical truth

NEWS AND VIEWS
Remembering John Updike
by R.L. Chomiak

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Are there DVD’s of Tkacz pieces?
Vladimir Putin lost the gas war

Faces and Places by Myron B. Kuropas
Luba Markewycz did it!

NEWS AND VIEWS
‘Blood and Belonging’: Ignatieff removes Wrzesnewskyj from shadow Cabinet
by Myroslava Oleksiuk

FOR THE RECORD: A letter to Ignatieff

NEWS ANALYSIS: The Russian-Central European gas conflict continues
by Roman Kupchinsky

COMMENTARY: The gas wars, Russian lies and European interests
by Oksana Bashuk Hepburn

NEWS AND VIEWS: Verkhovna Rada interns meet in Kyiv
by Ruslana Kostina

St. Nicholas Cathedral School rolls out the welcome mat
by Maria Kulczycky

FOR THE RECORD: Statement
by head of IMF mission to Ukraine

TRAVELS: Skiing and shopping in Ukraine’s Carpathian winter wonderland
by Victoria Varvariv Markowicz

THE ARTS: Pianist Roman Rudnytsky completes concert tour
Olena Onufriv, artist from Lviv, exhibits in Chicago

Continuum presents “Illuminating Ukraine: Virko Baley and the Avant-Garde”

Pre-Cana conferences at Newark parish mark 40th anniversary
by Ksenia Hapij

SPORTSLINE

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE
Philadelphia’s UECC holds 2008 annual Christmas Bazaar
by Andrea Zharovsky

Passaic Choir performs ‘Christmas Story’

Celebration of Ukrainian culture at San Francisco Public Library

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