Vice-President Biden to travel to Georgia, Ukraine on July 20-24

Cleveland’s Ukrainian Museum-Archives holds grand re-opening

ANALYSIS
U.S.-led Sea Breeze 2009 exercise cancelled in Ukraine
by Vladimir Socor
Eurasia Daily Monitor
Ukrainian government launches bailout plan for three banks
by Pavel Korduban
Eurasia Daily Monitor

NEWSBRIEFS
Yushchenko honors Chernomyrdin
Tymoshenko thanks Chernomyrdin
Presidential election set for January 17
Campaign kicks off on September 19
Transport minister resigns
100 candidates for president?
U.S. energy envoy visits Kyiv
Penalties for desecration of state symbols
Kyiv wants FSB officers out of Crimea
EU addresses issue of gas supply
54 Peace Corps volunteers take oath
PRU sees Yatsenyuk as main rival
Bohatyriova heads NSDC commission
Donetsk leaders meet EU ambassadors
Yushchenko on Central European summit
Lytvyn may run for president
Embassy in Moscow expands activities
Ukraine commemorates war victims
Sailor dies off Somalia coast
Peacekeepers’ rotation in Liberia
Rada toughens smoking restrictions
Holocaust Museum opens in Odesa
Lutsenko on government’s neutralization
Kendzior on Tabachnyk’s comments
Lviv beer drinkers set world record

NEWS ANALYSIS: Energy and the Russian national security strategy
by Roman Kupchinsky
Eurasia Daily Monitor

UKRAINE’S ECONOMIC CRISIS: Interview with economist Borys Kushniruk
by Zenon Zawada

UCCA meets with U.S. government officials in advance of Obama-Medvedev summit

Helsinki Commission urges White House to raise rights concerns at Moscow summit

Canadian MP’s motion seeks to protect integrity of Immigration and Refugee Act

CIUS and Kyiv Mohyla Academy to cooperate on scholarly projects

Work of UCU “akin to building our state,” says President Yushchenko

EDITORIAL
Preserving and sharing

NEWS AND VIEWS
Canada doesn’t need former KGB officers
by Lubomyr Luciuk

ACTION ITEM
Continued advocacy for visit by President Obama to Ukraine

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Questions about Demjanjuk case
A reminder to Germany
Obama: stay away from Ukraine

Faces and Places by Myron B. Kuropas
Obama, Ukraine and the age of Zinn

Ukrainian studies flourish in the state of Washington
by Lida Mykytyn-Voronka

NEW RELEASES
Scholarly journal devotes entire issue to Holodomor
New journal focuses on Holodomor studies
Edition presents papers delivered at symposium

BOOK NOTES
Western Pennsy Ukrainians featured in pictorial history

IN THE NEWS: Bohdan Bejmuk named to NASA review panel

UNF retools for new Ukrainian schools in Canada
by Halyna Klid

Rochester’s Ukrainian Federal Credit Union holds annual meeting

Credit union opens new branch

The New York Times spotlights continuing legacy of Surma

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE
Florida veterans remember comrades on Memorial Day
by Jerry Zinycz
Parma youths commemorate Holodomor of 1932-1933
St. Josaphat Cathedral Choir is finalist in choral festival
Philadelphia-area center offers “Conversational Ukrainian for Adults”

80 golfers participate in 33rd annual Tryzub tournament
by Orest Lesiuk

SPORTSLINE

Chicago’s Wings travel to Ukraine

OUT AND ABOUT

Soyuzivka’s Datebook

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

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