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Oct. 11, 1991

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Thirty years ago, on October 11, 1991, Ukraine’s parliament adopted in a closed session a conception of the defense and military forces of Ukraine, which paved the way for debate over a package of seven laws: on the defense of Ukraine, on the military forces of Ukraine, on the Republican Guard of Ukraine, on the state border of Ukraine, on the border troops of Ukraine, on the social and legal protection of military personnel serving on military territory and their families, and on alternative service.

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Joseph Biden and Ukraine: an assessment

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Nearly one year after Joseph Biden was elected president of the United States, it is time to assess the implications of his presidency for Ukraine, the United States and the world.

In November 2020, American Ukrainian voters faced a dilemma. Neither of the candidates was an ideal choice for the office of the president. The only option for the electorate was to choose between the lesser of the two bad choices. Today, with the benefit of hindsight, it is evident that Mr. Biden was the inferior choice.

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Despite pandemic challenges, community life for Ukrainians in New Haven continues with various events

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic forced the School of Ukrainian Studies (Ridna Shkola) of St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in New Haven, Conn., to close in March 2020, it was able to reopen in April of this year, and the Ukrainian community here has managed to hold various events despite difficult circumstances.

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Ukrainian American Veterans announce scholarship award winners for 2021

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YONKERS, N.Y. – The Ukrainian American Veterans (UAV) 74th National Convention will take place on October 21-23, during which time the organization will formally recognize the winners of this year’s UAV Scholarship Awards.

The UAV National Scholarship Committee selects award winners from among matriculated undergraduate and graduate part- and full-time college students. The committee then awards scholarships to help students pay for tuition, books or school supplies.

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Lodnia loaned to KHL’s Dinamo Minsk

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After trading away their first and second round selections in the 2017 NHL Draft, the Minnesota Wild’s first pick ended up being Ukrainian Ivan Lodnia in the third round. He was deemed their best-case scenario: a second-round-level talent with offensive upside and a right-handed shot – two desperate needs for the Wild at the time.

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Mostrianska to play for Ukraine’s U-19 women’s team at Euro 2022

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PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Ukrainian immigrant Liana Mostrianska, 18, is set to represent Ukraine in the first qualifying round of the 2022 UEFA Women’s Under-19 Championship (UEFA Women’s Under-19 Euro 2022) soccer tournament on October 19-27 in the Netherlands. During the week prior to the tournament, she will be in Ukraine training with Ukraine’s Women’s National U-19 Soccer Team.

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Controversy accompanies Ukraine’s 80th anniversary of Babyn Yar genocidal murders
Rival museum project by Russian oligarchs called Kremlin ‘Trojan Horse’

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KYIV – In what at first appears to be a recreational park in the northwestern part of Ukraine’s capital, lined with tree-canopied serpentine trails, as well as a nestled playground for children, is the site of one of the biggest atrocities of the Holocaust in the country. Nearly 34,000 Jews were executed in the sprawling area of about 200 hectares (494 acres) in the span of just two days on Sep­tember 28-29, 1941, by invading German military personnel during World War II. The Nazi administration of Kyiv had issued a directive that infamously ordered Jews in the city and the surrounding area to gather their valuable belongings and identity credentials to assemble near the site, called Babyn Yar, or in English Old-Woman’s ravine. They were to arrive by 8 a.m. on Septem­ber 28 of that year near the Lukianivka freight station “according to rumors for deportation,” historians Vladyslav Hry­ne­vych and Paul Robert Magocsi wrote in “Babyn Yar History and Memory” that was published in 2016. By the time Soviet forces retook Kyiv in fierce battles two years later, approximately 100,000 people had been murdered at the sites, the majority of whom were Jews, who were targeted solely because of their ethnicity.

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Ukraine introduces new quarantine restrictions, fights against forgery of vaccination certificates

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LVIV – With new COVID-19 cases once again surging in Ukraine, the government announced the country was now in a “yellow” epidemic level. The move, which imposes limits on public gatherings and large events and includes mandates for wearing masks and social distancing, came after a special sitting of the State Commis­sion on Technogenic and Environ­mental Safety and Emergencies on September 21.