Sports

Ukraine exceeds expectations at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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Ukraine wins additional eight medals
Ukraine’s Liudmyla Luzan captured a bronze medal in the women’s C-1 200-meter (canoe sprint) with a time of 47.034 seconds, barely being edged out by second-place finisher Laurence Vincent-Lapointe of Canada (46.786 seconds). Luzan finished first in her semifinal heat with a time of 47.339 seconds. The 24-year-old Ivano-Frankivsk native is the 2021 European champion in the C-1 500-meter and C-2 500-meter events.

Sports

Ukraine’s superiority in women’s artistic gymnastics: A retrospective

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The late 1980s witnessed the Soviet Union begin to fall apart, and along with it, so did their women’s artistic gymnastics program. Concurrently, Ukrainian gymnasts were dominating. The year 1989 saw six Ukrainians active at the senior level reach outstanding heights: Oksana Omelianchik, Olga Strazheva, Yulia Kut, Ludmilla Stovbchataya, Olesia Dudnik and Natalia Kalinina.

News

Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies clash as fugitive former judge Chaus is detained

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LVIV – Detectives from the National Anti­corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) on August 3 said they detained former Kyiv Dnipro District Judge Mykola Chaus after the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) alleged that the fugitive justice, whose whereabouts had previously been unknown, contacted them from a village in the west of the country.

For the record

Sen. Menendez, chairs of European foreign affairs committees issue joint statement opposing Nord Stream 2

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U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and counterparts from Estonia, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Latvia, Poland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and Lithuania issued a revised joint statement on August 2 in opposition to the recent agreement between the United States and Germany to allow completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Editorials

Tokyo 2020

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The 2020 Summer Olympics will come to a close on August 8. While these Games will certainly be remembered as much for various displays of outstanding athleticism and sportsmanship, they will also be remembered as the Games that were held under extremely difficult circumstances for athletes during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Turning the pages back...

August 10, 2008

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Thirteen years ago, on August 10, 2008, Ukraine threatened to prevent Russian warships that moved to blockade Georgia’s Black Sea coastline from returning to their Crimean base in Sevastopol, Ukraine. The move came following the five-day war between Georgia and Russia (August 8-12) that saw Russian armed forces pry two regions – South Ossetia and Abkhazia – from Georgian control.

Columnists

Gift, challenge and charge: on Ukraine’s 30th anniversary

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The following is the first instalment of a new column for The Weekly written by Borys Gudziak, the metropolitan-archbishop of the Philadelphia Archeparchy of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church and the president of the Ukrainian Catholic University.