Section: US & Canada
Parish holds traditional prosfora celebration
TOMS RIVER, N.J. – On Sunday, January 29, a prosfora dinner was held in the Parish Community Center of St. Stephen Ukrainian Catholic Church in Toms River, N.J. Over 120 parishioners and guest attended the celebration held in the beautifully decorated church hall following the second liturgy (celebrated in Ukrainian). Spokesperson Gerry Tchir...
Ukrainian American Veterans meet at 69th annual national convention
CHICAGO – Ukrainian American Veterans Post 32 from Chicago hosted the 69th annual national UAV convention in mid-October. The two-day event included delegates’ meetings, bus tours for spouses, election of the 2016-2018 National Executive Board and a banquet with dinner and entertainment. The convention meetings were conducted by National...
Writer teaches Ukrainian and more at U. of Texas
AUSTIN, Texas – Oksana Lutsyshyna, a well-known Ukrainian author, is a lecturer in the Ukrainian Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Originally from Uzhhorod in the Zakarpattia region of Ukraine, since 2001 she has lived in the United States, first in Florida, then in Georgia and now in Austin, Texas. Dr. Lutsyshyna […]...
Pence seeks to reassure European allies
Vice President Mike Pence, who throughout the campaign sought to soften Donald Trump’s edges and make him palatable to uneasy conservatives, now takes his reassurance tour to a new audience: foreign leaders frightened by Russian aggression and wary of an American president full of praise for Vladimir Putin.Pence took off for Europe on...
Ukrainian Art Song Summer Institute to be held in August in Toronto
TORONTO – The Ukrainian Art Song Project (UASP) has announced that the inaugural Ukrainian Art Song Summer Institute will be held on August 7-13 in Toronto at the highly regarded, musically rich and historic Royal Conservatory of Music, at its TELUS Center for Performance and Learning Conservatory representatives have stated that they are “happy...
Three Ukrainian Soldiers Killed In Donbas Fighting
The Ukrainian military says three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 10 others injured in fighting against Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in the past day. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Fact-checking Trump’s claim that he has no business ties to Russia
Trump doesn’t own real estate in Russia, but he’s done plenty of business with Russians. At a raucous press conference on Thursday, President Trump faced a volley of questions about his and his inner circle’s ties to Russia. At one point, he declared: “I can tell you, speaking for myself, I own nothing in Russia. I have no loans...
Kyiv Moves To Protect Energy Security Amid Coal Shortage
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree to prevent threats to the country’s energy security amid a shortage of coal from eastern regions controlled by separatist fighters. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Donald Trump Is the Bizzaro Noam Chomsky
In her famous 1984 speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, diplomat Jeane Kirkpatrick, at the time America’s ambassador to the United Nations, characterized the Democrats as the party with the tendency to “blame America first.” The Democrats, according to Kirkpatrick, habitually criticized the foreign policy of the United...
The Morning Vertical, February 17, 2017
Your daily roundup. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
