Section: US & Canada
UNA General Assembly holds its 2017 annual meeting
KERHONKSON, N.Y. – The Ukrainian National Association’s General Assembly convened its 2017 annual meeting here at Soyuzivka Heritage Center on Friday and Saturday, November 17-18. It was the last meeting of the General Assembly elected for the 2014-2018 term before the 2018 convention of the UNA is convened in May. The meeting’s...
Canadian House Foreign Affairs Committee urges Ottawa to bolster initiatives for Ukraine
OTTAWA – Canada’s House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development has called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government to maintain its major initiatives regarding Ukraine and add new ones in the areas of cyber-security and visas. …read more Source: The Ukrainian...
Turns out, a Jewish woman was Miss Germany in 2011
Valeria Bystriskaia being crowned Miss Universe Germany in Berlin, July 7, 2011. (Courtesy of Bystriskaia) (JTA) — Last week, the story of a Jewish woman competing in the Miss Germany competition went viral, appearing in JTA along with media outlets around the world. Tamar Morali, 21, said organizers told her she was the first Jewish woman to get...
What in the world is going on in Russia-backed Luhansk ‘republic’?
November 23 KYIV – Residents of “separatist”-controlled Luhansk awoke on November 21 to an all-too-familiar and distressing scene: masked, heavily armed men on armored vehicles patrolling the streets of the war-wracked eastern Ukrainian city. It captured the attention of those not only on the ground but in Kyiv and Moscow and beyond. And for good...
Patriarch Filaret Says Ukrainian Church Will Never Go Back To Moscow Patriarchate
The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Filaret, has said the Ukrainian church will never go back under the control of the Moscow Patriarchate. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Riot Police Clash With Protesters In Kyiv
Ukrainian riot police clashed with protesters in Kyiv who marked the fourth anniversary of the crackdown on the pro-European Maidan movement. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Victim’s Father Detonates Grenades At Ukraine Murder Trial, Killing Self And Defendant
Police say a man detonated two grenades during a murder trial in the Ukrainian town of Nikopol on November 30, killing himself and a defendant and injuring nine other people as shrapnel sprayed through the courtroom. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Victim’s Father Detonates Grenades At Ukraine Murder Trial, Killing Self And Defendant
Police say a man detonated two grenades during a murder trial in the Ukrainian town of Nikopol on November 30, killing himself and a defendant and injuring nine other people as shrapnel sprayed through the courtroom. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Monetary Imperialism
Photo by Chris Dlugosz In theory, the global financial system is supposed to help every country gain. Mainstream teaching of international finance, trade and “foreign aid” (defined simply as any government credit) depicts an almost utopian system uplifting all countries, not stripping their assets and imposing austerity. The reality since World...
Monetary Imperialism
Photo by Chris Dlugosz In theory, the global financial system is supposed to help every country gain. Mainstream teaching of international finance, trade and “foreign aid” (defined simply as any government credit) depicts an almost utopian system uplifting all countries, not stripping their assets and imposing austerity. The reality since World...
