Month: September 21, 2018 11:27 am

KYIV – When perhaps the country’s most popular singer Svyatoslav Vakarchuk was going to give a sold-out concert at Kyiv’s Olympic Stadium on Independence Day the previous month, pundits speculated he would announce his candidacy for the March 2019 presidential race. 

It has been such a popular topic ever since he completed a fellowship at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law during the autumn of 2017. So much so that Mr. Vakarchuk, 43, is often included in polls that gauge the public’s political preferences. 

LVIV – The first World Forum for Ukrainian Saturday and Sunday Schools took place at Lviv Polytechnic National University on August 17-22. Held under the patronage of Maryna Poroshenko, first lady of Ukraine and chair of the Council of the Petro Poroshenko Charitable Fund and the Ukrainian Cultural Fund, the forum was co-organized by the International Educational Coordinating Council (IECC) of the Ukrainian World Congress.

The leader of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR), Aleksandr Zakharchenko, was assassinated by a bomb blast on August 31, after…...

The Kremlin has announced its decision to stage “elections” in the occupied Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” (DPR, LPR) in…...

The Russian Orthodox Church has announced it will no longer take part in structures chaired by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and that a deepening row in Orthodox Christianity over the Ukrainian Church’s bid to formally break away from Russia’s orbit may lead to violence.

The Russian Orthodox’s Church’s Holy Synod ruling body met on September 14 to consider a response after the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate said last week it was sending two bishops to Ukraine in what is widely viewed as a step toward declaring ecclesiastical independence for the main Ukrainian Orthodox church there.

KYIV – President Petro Poroshenko gave the keynote speech at the 15th yearly Yalta European Strategy (YES) meeting on September…...

TORONTO – On September 13-15, Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) President Eugene Czolij fulfilled a working visit to Ukraine, during which he raised current Ukrainian issues with the president and prime minister of Ukraine; high-ranking officials of Ukraine, other countries and international institutions; and representatives of civil society. 

While in Kyiv, the UWC leader discussed strategic issues related to combating Russian hybrid aggression, the development of the Ukrainian state, and recognition of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as a genocide of the Ukrainian people, particularly during the 15th Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting.

TORONTO – The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) obtained participatory status as an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the Council of…...

As was reported on our pages earlier this month, the Ukrainian World Congress and its member organizations worldwide are conducting…...

Fifty-five years ago, on September 21, 1963, the site of the Taras Shevchenko monument in Washington located at the intersection…...

On September 7, the Ecumenical Patriarchate announced that it has appointed as its exarchs an archbishop from the United States…...

Many in Moscow are reacting hysterically to Constantinople’s moves to grant autocephaly to the Kyiv Patriarchate, but instead of getting…...