Month: June 22, 2018 10:22 am

KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada passed another bill to complete the architecture of establishing a separate court to prosecute corrupt public officials on June 21, but failed to revise clauses that make it possible for graft cases to skirt the judiciary body. 

Choosing to vote for creating the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) in its entirety, instead of the optional two readings, 256 lawmakers voted in favor of President Petro Poroshenko’s bill. 

OTTAWA – The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) on June 15 called on all Canadians to support the #RedCard4Putin campaign, which…...

CHICAGO – In commemoration of the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, the Consulate General of Ukraine in Chicago and the Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation-USA Inc. on Saturday, May 19, co-sponsored the North American premiere of “Ukrainian Requiem” composed by Yevhen Stankovych. 

The program included soloists Nina Matviyenko and Stefan Szkafarowsky, the Kalamazoo Philharmonia, Kalamazoo Bach Festival Chorus, actor George Wyhinny and the Women’s Bandura Ensemble of North America. 

The Ukrainian government will resume its privatization campaign in October, the acting head of the local privatization body, the State…...

BRUSSELS – European Union agricultural ministers have prolonged the bloc’s investment ban against Crimea for another year.  The ministers extended…...

The start of the 2018 World Cup (June 14-July 15) had everything that the millions of soccer fans in Russia…...

KYIV – Before the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia kicked off on June 14, one Ukrainian artist got a…...

WASHINGTON – Sixteen embassies, four delegations and representatives from 39 ethnic and human rights organizations joined the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) on June 8 for the 11th annual Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom and Roll Call of Nations wreath-laying ceremony at the Victims of Communism Memorial on Capitol Hill, which this year honored slain Cuban dissident and democracy advocate Oswaldo Payá. 

Executive Director Marion Smith noted that, despite efforts by contemporary pundits and totalitarian regimes to rehabilitate the bloody ideas of Karl Marx, “the real legacy of Marxism is this ceremony. It is the dozens of countries represented here by those who will lay wreaths to commemorate the lives of those killed in some 40 communist countries since 1917.” 

WASHINGTON – The Ukrainian National Credit Union Association (UNCUA) held its 37th annual meeting and spring conference on June 7-9…...

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The governor of Illinois, Bruce Rauner, on May 19 presented a proclamation commemorating “the 85th anniversary of…...

OTTAWA – The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) testified on June 8 at the House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human…...

The humanitarian crisis at the U.S. border has brought to light most penetratingly that our immigration system is broken. In…...