Section: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and USA (Canada)
Ukraine is in a full-scale financial crisis as the country’s GDP dropped 7.5% and its inflation went up 21%
Hontareva said Ukraine’s banking system is non-functioning and the hryvnia has become the worst (or one of the worst) performing currency worldwide. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Serbia Takes Over the Presidency of the OSCE in 2015 – Providing a Solution to Ukraine Crisis
Will Belgrade, with its good relations to both East and West, be able to mediate? Serbia’s political class has never been known for modesty. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Ukrainian Separatists Carried Out Sporadic Attacks on Government Forces as the New Year Began
The military said rebels had carried out several mortar and small arms attacks on Ukrainian positions in the east. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Ukraine’s Parliament Approves 2015 Budget
Ukraine’s parliament backed a budget for 2015 on Monday that it had been under pressure to approve to secure the next tranche of financial aid under a $17 billion International Monetary Fund loan package, the Interfax news agency reported. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Ukraine’s Facebook Warriors
At an army checkpoint near the occupied city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, Lt. Col. Natalia Semeniuk approached a convoy of two minibuses that had just arrived from Kiev. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Ukrainian authorities and pro-Russia rebels exchanged nearly 370 prisoners
Ukraine handed over 222 prisoners and the rebels released 145 people, according to Russia’s state RIA Novosti news agency — the biggest one-time prisoners swap since the pro-Russian insurgency flared up in eastern Ukraine in April. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Ukraine, Pro-Russia Rebels Report Little Progress In Talks To End Fighting
Ukraine and pro-Russia rebels reported scant progress toward their goal of a cease-fire after the first high-level talks between the two sides in months. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Fleeing Their Country’s Civil War, Ukrainian Jews Head For Israel
Yulia, Kostiantyn and their daughter, Valerie, don’t look like a typical refugee family. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Lessons in peace from U.S.
Two hundred years ago this Christmas Eve, America and Britain received a special gift. Only nobody in either country knew about it. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Ukraine’s Parliament Took a Historic Step Towards NATO – Drawing Swift Condemnation from Russia
MPs in the government-controlled chamber overwhelmingly adopted a bill dropping Ukraine’s non-aligned status – a classification given to states such as Switzerland that refuse to join military alliances and thus play no part in wars. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
