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Atlantis, an award-winning film from Ukraine (Valentyn Vasyanovych: director, screenwriter and cameraman) is a dispassionate, penetrating, slow-moving, artistically and cinematically stunning meditation on war and its aftermath set in war-torn Donbas.
NEW YORK – Rutgers University professor Alexander Motyl has published his latest novel, Pitun’s Last Stand, a Graham-Greenesque “entertainment” about serious events in Russia.
We, the G-7 foreign affairs ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, are united in our condemnation of Russia’s continued actions to undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence.
On March 3, the Russian proxy representatives of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) reportedly gave permission to their military to launch preemptive attacks against Ukrainian forces along the frontline (Armiyadnr.su, RBC, March 3).
LVIV – The Lviv regional council approved an appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on March 16 requesting that the largest stadium here be renamed after Stepan Bandera, the former leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). The move came after the Ternopil city council on March 5 renamed its largest stadium after Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) commander Roman Shukhevych.
Seven years have passed since Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula was invaded and illegally occupied by the Russian Federation. On March 16, 2014, Russia’s armed forces staged an illegal referendum at gunpoint.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) today introduced the Ukraine Security Partnership Act to provide security assistance and strategic support to Ukraine.
The Philadelphia District Committee of the Ukrainian National Association is pleased to announce the establishment of the Philadelphia District Stefan Hawrysz Scholarship in the amount of $750 per year. Students who are members of the Philadelphia District Branches (Nos. 10, 83, 153, 162, 163, 173, 362, 397 and 501) of the UNA are eligible to apply for the scholarship.
Perhaps the winds are beginning to shift. Or, perhaps it’s just the ongoing pandemic restrictions that have begun to affect Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is often described as intent on projecting a calm, controlled yet commanding demeanor. But clearly something has riled the normally staid former KGB intelligence officer.
Ten years ago, on March 27, 2011, Bishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the 40-year-old native of Stryi, Lviv Oblast, and who previously served as apostolic administrator of the eparchy of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was enthroned as the major archbishop of Kyiv-Halych of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv.