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GREENWICH, Conn. – Faced with the challenge of operating in a structure originally built to house a theater more than a century ago, the New York Branch of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization recently kicked off a $1.5 million renovation of its headquarters building (“domivka”) in the heart of the Ukrainian Village in Manhattan.
EAST CHATHAM, N.Y. – After an unprecedented yet successful online summer camp season last year, members of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization are eager to return to the open air, get reacquainted with sleeping in a tent, and, of course, reunite with their friends in person once again. Campers and counselors returning this year will be greeted by the sight of Vovcha Tropa campground’s brand new pool located just beyond the pavilion.
Kyiv would ‘gladly’ swap Medvedchuk
A top Ukrainian official did not exclude the possibility of a prisoner swap with Russia if a Kyiv court convicts a Kremlin-leaning politician of treason. Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, said in a TV interview that Kyiv would “gladly” hand over lawmaker Viktor Medvedchuk to Moscow in exchange for Ukrainians held in Russian prisons if the opportunity arises.
SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. – Hundreds of pilgrims visited the Spiritual Center of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. (UOC-U.S.A.) for the annual St. Thomas Sunday weekend pilgrimage on May 8-9 at the Metropolia of the UOC-U.S.A. in South Bound Brook, N.J.
Below is an excerpt from the article “50th Anniversary of Repose of Metropolitan John” by Metropolitan Antony of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. from the May 2021 issue of the UOL Bulletin (Vol. 67, No. 6). Metropolitan John died on May 3, 1971, marking 50 years since his repose. The entirety of the article can be viewed on the UOC-U.S.A. website, www.uocofusa.org.
KYIV – The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has searched the Kyiv home of Kremlin-friendly tycoon and politician Viktor Medvedchuk, who along with another pro-Russian Ukrainian lawmaker, Taras Kozak, is under suspicion of treason.
KYIV – Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the United States is considering Ukraine’s request for “additional” military assistance to help deter Kremlin aggression following a massive buildup of Russian forces near their shared border and in annexed Crimea.
KYIV – In an attempt to combat Russian propaganda over “the Red Army’s glorious victory” during World War II, the Ukrainian government has in recent years largely shifted toward adopting Western traditions that commemorate the end of the war.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his closest entourage sometimes raise public expectations of what the United States can deliver to Ukraine to unrealistically high levels. Furthermore, they tend to discount the close relationship between what the U.S. is actually delivering to Ukraine and the latter’s own performance on economic and governance reforms. These twin tendencies of Mr. Zelenskyy’s team can generate public disappointment after undue expectations, confronting the U.S. with a problem of expectation management in Ukraine (see Part One in Eurasia Daily Monitor, June 6).
The United States recently conducted a virtual training exercise with partners from Ukraine to help domestic security services, law enforcement and first responders identify, respond to and investigate assassinations involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD). This is part of a series of engagements the Department of State is conducting across Europe.