Ukraine marks January 22 anniversary

KYIV - President Leonid Kuchma, along with Prime Minister Viktor Yuschenko, Vice Prime Minister Mykola Zhulynskyi and First Vice-Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Viktor Medvedchuk, commemorated Unity Day (Den Sobornosty) in Ukraine on January 22 by placing wreaths at the memorial to Mykhailo Hrushevsky in Kyiv. Prof. Hrushevsky headed the Ukrainian Central Rada, which on that date in 1918 declared the first independent Ukrainian state of the modern era. Exactly a year later, the two-month-old Western Ukrainian National Republic united with the Kyiv-based Ukrainian National Republic led by President Hrushevsky. Speaking during the ceremony commemorating the 82nd anniversary of that event, Dr. Zhulynskyi called unity and statehood Ukraine's paramount achievements of the 20th century.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, January 28, 2001, No. 4, Vol. LXIX

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