Section: The Ukrainian Weekly (USA)
Tapped as medical director of breast imaging at Loyola
CHICAGO – Ukrainian American physician Theresa Kuritza is determined to improve the future of women’s health care. Last September this assistant professor of radiology was appointed medical director of breast imaging at Loyola University Health System, where she dedicates herself to her professional passion of breast imaging with digital...
Ukrainian Catholic University promotes world rehabilitation practices
LVIV – The Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) hosted a conference with the participation of worldwide professional occupational therapists: the vice-president of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists, Samantha Shann; a representative of the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists, Natalie Zaraska; and a representative of the...
Russia’s denial of Ukrainian identity at heart of library closure in Moscow
KYIV – Russia’s timeworn orchestrated efforts to denigrate Ukrainian identity and culture were on full display this week when a judge convicted the head of the country’s only state-run Ukrainian literature library located in Moscow for “extremism.” A municipal court on June 5 in the capital gave Natalia Sharina, a native Muscovite and...
Controversies over proposed Crimean Tatar autonomy in Ukraine
While Ukraine continues to battle joint Russian-separatist forces in the Donbas, it is simultaneously facing a great dilemma over the Crimean Tatar question and the future status of the Crimean peninsula, both of which represent serious long-term challenges. The post-Viktor Yanukovych government in Kyiv wanted to change the previous “unjust”...
Russian electronic warfare in Ukraine: Between the real and the imaginable
The outbreak of war in the Donbas region (April 2014) turned Ukraine into one of the main targets of Russian information warfare, information-psychological operations, as well as cyberattacks and electronic warfare. Within the past three years, Ukraine has been subjected to no less than 7,000 cyberattacks. Ukrainian cyber expert Sergey Radkevych...
Cardinal Lubomyr Husar laid to rest in crypt of Patriarchal Cathedral in Kyiv
PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Funeral services for Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, the former primate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC) who died on May 31, were held in Lviv and Kyiv from June 1 through June 5. The divine liturgy and the burial rite for Cardinal Husar took place at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of […] …read more...
Pope Francis pays final respects to Cardinal Lubomyr Husar
Vatican CITY – In a heartfelt personal letter, Pope Francis has expressed his desire to “be among those praying to the heavenly Father” for the “chosen soul of our Brother” Cardinal Lubomyr Husar. The holy father noted the “extraordinary influx of people” paying their respects to the former head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. This, […]...
INTERVIEW: Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan on his background and his work
Serhiy Zhadan is a Kharkiv-based internationally known poet, novelist, musician and activist. He will be performing in “1917-2017 Tychyna, Zhadan & the Dogs,” a new Yara Arts Group piece at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club on June 9-25. He was interviewed in New York in April during his U.S. reading tour, which included The Ukrainian […]...
UNWLA in Holmdel hosts “Music of Survival” film screening
HOLMDEL, N.J. – On May 6 Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Branch 98 of Holmdel/Middletown, N.J., sponsored a screening of the documentary film, “Music of Survival, the Story of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus” at the theater of the Middletown Arts Center in Middletown, N.J. The film tells the inspiring story of the original 17...
UAV commemorates Memorial Day in front of its monument
SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. – Mathew Koziak, national monument officer of the Ukrainian American Veterans (UAV), who is responsible for the upkeep and beautification of the monument dedicated to all Ukrainian American servicemen and women who served in the U.S. armed forces, arranged with Metropolitan Anthony of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the...
