Month: November 24, 2017 12:01 pm

The Kremlin’s effort to affect the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential elections has provoked one consequence Moscow has long wanted – the demoralization of the American elite – but it is having other less welcome ones on both that elite and the Russian one, something only becoming clear, Liliya Shevtsova says.

On November 8, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) welcomed the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2018, as announced by the House-Senate Conference Committee. As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the conference committee, Sen. Blumenthal fought for provisions in the defense bill to bolster U.S. military capabilities and to assist Ukraine through the Ukrainian Security Assistance Initiative.

The statement below was released by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America on November 14.

On Monday, November 13, a Ukrainian American activist was arrested outside the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. A member of the National Cathedral community, Alexa Chopivsky had been vocal in her disappointment over the cathedral hosting “A Concert for Unity” organized by the Russian Embassy. The concert featured conductor Valery Gergiev and pianist Denis Matsuev, both well-known supporters of Vladimir Putin and his imperial ambitions in Ukraine. Not only did both artists sign a well-publicized letter in support of Putin’s actions in Ukraine after the occupation of Crimea, Gergiev has touted his friendship with Putin by performing in Russian-occupied territory in Georgia and in the Russian-occupied city of Palmyra in Syria while Putin’s forces were actively shelling civilians in Aleppo in 2016.

A statue of military and political leader Symon Petliura (1879-1926) was unveiled in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, on October 14, Defender of…...

MINNEAPOLIS – Four researchers of the Holodomor presented their findings at the annual meeting of the Oral History Association (OHA).…...

TORONTO – The Holodomor National Awareness Tour (HNAT) continued its travels across Canada this past summer, engaging communities and schools about the Holodomor, the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933.

From southwestern Ontario to the Maritime Provinces to Vancouver Island and back to Ontario, the Holodomor Mobile Classroom (HMC) was on the road this summer since July, visiting communities throughout Canada, many for the first time – including Moncton and St. John in New Brunswick; Halifax and Sydney, Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island; Victoria, Vancouver and Richmond, British Columbia.

Ukrainian Americans and their supporters came out on Saturday, November 18, to show they will always remember the 1932-1933 Holodomor…...

Fourth anniversary of Euro-Maidan  Ukraine marked the Day of Dignity and Freedom, a holiday commemorating the beginning of the Euro-Маidan…...

LVIV – U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch visited the Ukrainian Catholic University in…...

GOSHEN, N.Y. – While coaching at the sports camp of the Ukrainian American Youth Association (UAYA) 14 years ago, I…...

KYIV – Among the first people to pinpoint that Russia engages in lies on an industrial scale packaged as actual news was Yevhen Fedchenko, 41, director of the Mohyla School of Journalism.

He and his colleagues noticed the practice during the Revolution of Dignity that ended in February 2014. That month, disgraced Kremlin-backed President Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia after leaving behind a dry treasury and a graft-infested, dysfunctional government, along with 100 civilians killed by his law enforcement personnel.

OTTAWA – Canada’s Official Opposition Conservative Party has joined the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) in calling for a Canadian-led United Nations peacekeeping mission in eastern Ukraine.

“The defense of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity should be a priority for Canada’s government on the international stage,” said Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer on November 9 when he announced that a Conservative-led Canadian government would call for such a mission that “would allow Ukraine to restore control over its eastern border with Russia” and ensure the Russian military stays out of Ukraine.