Section: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and USA (Canada)
Last spring, eastern Ukraine was a struggling, rust-belt region of mines and metal works
Now it’s a battle zone where armies face off with heavy weapons, and where nearly 5,000 people have died. In Russia, one man claims to have touched off the conflagration, and he says he’s proud of what he did. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Rising Warlords Threaten Ukraine’s Rebuilding
Kyiv is abuzz with creative reforms in governance, major anti-corruption initiatives and budgetary clawbacks against rent-seeking oligarchs. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
OSCE To Double Size Of Ukraine Monitoring Mission
OSCE spokesman Michael Bociourkiw made the announcement on January 4 in an interview with the German dpa news agency. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Ukraine Leader Was Defeated Even Before He Was Ousted
Ashen-faced after a sleepless night of marathon negotiations, Viktor F. Yanukovych hesitated, shaking his pen above the text placed before him in the chandeliered hall. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Can a group of young reformers fix a broken country?
That is the question that Dmytro Shymkiv, the first deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential administration, is getting a lot these days. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Canadian firms hurt by Ukraine crisis
Canadian exporters stung by Russia’s currency crisis and its retaliatory sanctions against the West wonder what 2015 will hold for a market filled with promise less than 12 months ago, writes Andy Blatchford of the Canadian Press. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Peace Proposal For Ukraine Is Wrong-Headed And Dangerous
Efforts to secure some kind of peace deal between Moscow and Kiev – and not just a temporary ceasefire that preserves a frozen conflict – continue. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Harper’s Russian Sanctions Send the Right Signal
One hundred years ago this past summer, western countries, including Canada, ended up in conflict as a result of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the now-famous “shot heard ’round the world.” …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Ukraine Rebel Militia Allegedly Holding ‘Voluntary’ Enlistment For Child Soldiers
Militia rebels in Ukraine are reportedly recruiting child soldiers for the frontline fight against troops, as columns of Russian military – including hundreds of tanks – cross the border into the embattled east of the country for what is feared… …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
The broadcaster presented a concert featuring Russian singers supportive of the separatist movement in Ukraine
Anger over the New Year’s Eve broadcast by Inter, Ukraine’s major television channel, centers on the appearance of pop singers who support the separatist movement in the country. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
