No. 44, Sunday, November 1, 2009

Yatsenyuk campaign on the decline
by Zenon Zawada

Top two candidates kick off battle for Ukraine’s presidency
by Zenon Zawada

Ukraine says Islamists planned to kill Crimean Tatar leader
RFE/RL

ANALYSIS
The rise and fall (and rise?) of candidate Arseniy Yatsenyuk
by Andrew Wilson
RFE/RL

NEWSBRIEFS
Ukraine elected to ECOSOC
Progress in EU-Ukraine agenda
Ukrainian, Russian sailors found dead
IMF demands veto on social standards law
Prime minister wants presidential veto
One accused in Artek scandal
YTB faction expels Omelchenko
Artek chair wants prosecutions
Poroshenko calls for diplomacy
"Politicians" sold to highest bidders
Kyiv gives PACE Holodomor evidence
Tymoshenko most influential woman
Embassy cites Ukrainophobes
RFE/RL news for Abkhazia, South Ossetia
New terminal to be built in Donetsk
Autobahn to link Ukraine, Poland
Ministry creates database of lawbreakers
5,000 Ukrainians get passes to Poland
Ukrainian becomes Little Miss World
Canada cuts Ukrainian steel duty
Cossack leader barred from Ukraine
President sacks SBU deputy chief
President orders more border controls
President hopes for population growth

Kyiv conference focuses on World War II and historical memory
by Zenon Zawada

NEWS ANALYSIS: Biden working to make it all quiet on the Eastern front
by Brian Whitmore
RFE/RL

Quotable notes

CAMPAIGN WATCH
Feast Day of the Protectress – Day of the UPA

The Ukrainian National Association Forum
UNA GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2006-2010
UNA CONVENTION UPDATE
Branches can increase membership to qualify for convention delegates
by Christine Kozak
UNA National Secretary
Young UNA’ers

EDITORIAL
Must reading about Demjanjuk case

COMMENTARY
Despite ‘specter of approaching war,’ few Ukrainians think Moscow will attack
by Paul Goble

NEWS AND VIEWS
To vote or not to vote
by Bozhena Olshaniwsky

National Holodomor Awareness Week to be observed by Canadians

Faces and Places by Myron B. Kuropas
A conversation about race

Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky: prince of the Ukrainian Church

Ukrainian cultural programs on the increase in the D.C. area
by Yaro Bihun
Special to The Ukrainian Weekly

GENERATION UKE
Inaugural Social Awards to bring friends together for roast at Verkhovyna
by Yarema Belej
Labor Day weekend at Soyuzivka draws Ukrainian youth in farewell to summer
by Yarema Belej

Zrada releases 16 tracks on self-titled album fusing many styles with Ukrainian

Haydamaky deliver solid wall of Kozak rock at Toronto Ukrainian Festival
by Jurij Klufas

U. of Alberta offers graduate study in Ukrainian culture, language, literature

U.S. Embassy in Kyiv institutes new apppointment system
Embassy of the U.S.

Carpathian Ski Club marks 85th anniversary with fall get-together at Soyuzivka

Basilian sisters host annual pilgrimage in Pennsylvania

NOTES ON PEOPLE
Judge’s retirement is end of an era
by Myroslaw Prytulak 
U.S. diplomat is Brussels bound
Named to NGOs’ Committee on Sustainable Development

Ukrainian Institute of America slates multi-faceted Hohol Arts Fest
by Lila Dlaboha

OUT AND ABOUT

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