Amendments to local elections law still aimed to help PRU, say critics
by Zenon Zawada

Two independent TV networks lose their broadcast licenses
Activists in Kyiv protest restraints on media
by Zenon Zawada

Lviv lawyer seeks justice in Hero of Ukraine rulings
by Zenon Zawada

ANALYSIS
President calls for more powers, as Ukraine marks Independence Day
RFE/RL
Tabachnyk: Holodomor was not genocide
Interfax-Ukraine

NEWSBRIEFS
Merkel presses Ukraine on media
Yanukovych seeks German investors
Lesia Ukrainka plaque unveiled in Berlin
Journalists, artists protest censorship
Coalition favors change to election law
Rada amends local election law
Yanukovych cites “democratization”
President chooses 10 priority projects
U.S. official to visit Ukraine
Azarov seeks revises gas pricing formula
60% ready to work anywhere
Ukrainian migrant workers prefer Russia
Who seeks Ukrainian citizenship
Forbes will be published in Ukraine
KIA Motors Ukraine goes bankrupt
China hosts Days of Ukrainian Culture
Chocolate museum opens in Cherkasy
Statistics on Ukraine’s tourism

NEWS ANALYSIS: A prognosis for Ukraine’s ebbing democracy
by Alexa Chopivsky

Canadian MP Wrzesnewskyj meets with Crimean Tatar leader Dzhemilev

Colleague of missing journalist slams investigation as “farce”
RFE/RL

THE 19th ANNIVERSARY OF UKRAINE’S INDEPENDENCE
Boston
by Peter T. Woloschuk
Binghamton, N.Y.
by Lubonyr Zobniw
Yonkers, N.Y.

The Ukrainian National Association Forum
So, you think you don’t need life insurance? Think again!
by Christine E. Kozak
UNA National Secretary
Young UNA’ers

EDITORIAL
Summer’s (almost) over...

Reporter's Notebook by Zenon Zawada
A Donetsk entrepreneur tries to fight the system

Crosscurrents by Andrew Sorokowski
The freedom thing

Faces and Places by Myron B. Kuropas
Dumbing down Ukraine

U.S. UKRAINIANS IN NUMBERS
Ukrainians in the N.Y. Metropolitan Area: Dynamics and Fourth Wave settlement
by Oleh Wolowyna and Vasyl Lopukh
PART I

NDI and IRI release analysis of Ukraine’s local election law

IN THE PRESS: Oleh Skrypka, Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian conundrum

Teens win bronze in national beach volleyball championship

Ukraine’s junior baseball team competes in World Series in Michigan

Ukrainian Canadian wins contest for Harbourfront’s best spicy dessert

GENERATION UKE
Yonkers Krylati wins annual UAYA softball tournament
Denys Drozdyuk makes it to top 18 on TV dance competition in Canada
Barnard College recognizes work of Lara Chelak, web developer
Kyiv’s Shopping Hour releases lounge jazz album “Gossamer”             

Soyuzivka Heritage Center hosts Plast camp for preschoolers

Yanukovych tops Korrespondent ranking of 100 most influential
Ukrinform

Ukrainian pro sports update: vintage football
by Ihor Stelmach
Mike Ditka: Ukrainian in Pro-Football Hall of Fame

NOTES ON PEOPLE
Violinist earns doctorate in music
by Vasyl Lopukh
Lawyer tapped as federal judge
Priest celebrates his first liturgy

Papa Duke to perform at 14th annual Toronto Ukrainian Festival

Center for Ukrainian Canadian Studies offers seven accredited courses in 2010-2011

Toronto roundtable to focus on danger to journalists in Ukraine

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