THE 13th ANNIVERSARY OF UKRAINE'S INDEPENDENCE

Embassy of Ukraine sponsors reception


WASHINGTON - Olympic figure-skating champion Victor Petrenko made a surprise appearance at the Ukrainian Embassy-sponsored reception marking the 13th anniversary of Ukraine's independence on September 8 at the Madison Hotel in Washington. Next to him are Cultural Attaché Natalia Holub (center) and Iryna Reznik, the wife of Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Mykhailo Reznik. Among the other prominent guests attending the event were Ukraine's first foreign affairs minister, Anatolii Zlenko, and two former U.S. ambassadors to Ukraine, Carlos Pascual and Steven Pifer.


Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, September 26, 2004, No. 39, Vol. LXXII


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