Section: The Ukrainian Weekly (USA)
Kolomoisky ally Korban is arrested
KYIV – Ukrainian authorities on October 31 arrested and detained Hennadiy Korban, a longtime business associate and political confidante of Igor Kolomoisky, Ukraine’s second-biggest oligarch. Arrested at his home in Dnipropetrovsk, Mr. Korban was charged with stealing from the private Country Defense Fund, as well as organizing the...
The sine qua non safeguards for Donetsk-Luhansk elections
On October 27 in the Minsk Contact Group, the Ukrainian delegation presented a concept document to serve as a basis for the “law on local elections in the temporarily occupied areas” of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts (see article on page 3 of this issue). President Petro Poroshenko has personally authorized this concept and mandated...
Minsk process refloats Donetsk-Luhansk election plans
Recasting Russia’s armed proxies as democratic mandate-holders – and tutoring them to look like that on an election’s schedule – is an innovation of the Minsk armistice and ensuing negotiations on the status of the occupied territories in Ukraine’s east. Russia had never seriously attempted to sell this approach to Western...
November 10, 1990
November 10, 1990, marked the conclusion of the “National Week to Commemorate the Victims of the Famine in Ukraine, 1932-1933,” as proclaimed by President George H.W. Bush. The U.S. Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 329, designated the week of November 3-10 to commemorate the victims of the famine, and requested that President Bush issue a […]...
More Ukrainians forced to flee violence in their country than Syrians in theirs
Because of Russian actions, more than 3 million Ukrainians have fled the Donbas and Crimea either to other parts of Ukraine, thus becoming internally displaced persons, or to Russia and other countries – a number that is “much larger than” the refugee flow into Europe from the Middle East, Yevgeny Kiselyov says. In a post […] …read more...
Amplifications re: Wolowyna analysis
Dear Editor: Allow me to offer a few amplifications and observations on Oleh Wolowyna’s interesting and informative article “The situation in Ukraine and challenges for the Ukrainian community in the U.S.” (October 18) on the socio-economic status of Ukrainian Americans, which, as he details, compares quite favorably to the total U.S....
Canada’s Ukraine agenda under the Liberals
Canada’s October elections returned the Liberal Party to power and relegated Prime Minister Steven Harper’s Conservatives to the opposition. What does this mean for Canada’s relations with Ukraine? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made promises during the election campaign suggesting that it will be business as usual – even better....
UWC meeting in Madrid concludes with march in support of Ukraine
MADRID – The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) on September 13 concluded its three-day annual general meeting (AGM) in Madrid with a peaceful march in support of the Ukrainian people in their struggle for Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. The AGM officially opened on September 11 at the world-renowned Cervantes...
UCC launches “Ukraine Appeal” website
OTTAWA – The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) on October 16 launched a new website for humanitarian and medical assistance for Ukraine through its “Ukraine Appeal,” which is accessible through the www.ucc.ca site or at ukraineappeal.ucc.ca and the Ukraine Appeal logo featured on the UCC home page. UCC President Paul Grod stated: “The UCC Ukraine...
Local elections held with lower-than-expected turnout
Euro-Maidan opponents re-elected KYIV – Exhausted by war, economic depression and ongoing government corruption, Ukrainians turned out less-than-expected to elect their local councils and heads on October 25. Tallies conducted locally were still being registered by the Central Election Commission on October 29 but observers were already drawing...
