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KYIV – The results of Ukraine’s July 21 snap parliamentary election have continued the biggest political shake-up in independent Ukraine’s history. Political newcomer Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent landslide victory in the presidential election has been replicated by a win on a historic scale by his party, Servant of the People.
KYIV – Ukraine’s eighth Parliament since independence convened its final plenary session on July 11 with a long-awaited political breakthrough – the adoption of a new Election Code designed to improve and democratize the country’s election system.
It followed weeks of recriminations after the calling of snap parliamentary elections by newly elected President Volodymyr Zelenskyy between his team and the outgoing administration of President Petro Poroshenko and his allies in the Verkhovna Rada. It took a ruling by the Constitutional Court on June 20 to remove doubts about the legality of Mr. Zelenskyy’s action.
OTTAWA – A global summit organized to support Ukraine’s reform process was the logical venue for Ukraine’s new president to make his first overseas trip and North American debut with Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska.
Attending the third annual Ukraine Reform Conference in Toronto – a gathering of more than 800 representatives of 37 countries and 10 international organizations – along with receiving a red-carpet welcome, signing bilateral agreements and obtaining further funding from the Canadian government made Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s decision to interrupt his campaigning for Ukraine’s July 21 parliamentary election an astute move to demonstrate his statecraft skills back home.
On the agenda: Russia sanctions, energy security, occupation of rimes, continued U.S. assistance to Ukraine
WASHINGTON – The first Ukrainian Day advocacy event sponsored by the Ukrainian National Information Service (UNIS), the Washington public affairs bureau of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA), was held on Wednesday, June 12, in the nation’s capital. Nearly 50 community activists from 11 states descended upon Washington to promote issues of concern, including a robust Russia sanctions regime and enhanced U.S. assistance to Ukraine.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Ukraine’s under-20 men’s team put on a showcase final with its 3-1 come-from-behind win against South Korea on June 15 at Lodz Stadium in the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland. South Korea drew first blood with a penalty kick in the fifth minute by Lee Kang-in. Through modern Video Assistant Referee technology, the play that triggered the penalty was reviewed and showed that captain Hwang Taehyeon was tripped on the inside right edge of the penalty area. Ukraine dominated the scoring for the remainder of the match with a brace of goals by Vladyslav Supriaha in the 34th and 52nd minutes. (He is among few players to score multiple goals in a U-20 World Cup final, including Oscar’s hat-trick in 2011 for Brazil.) Supriaha’s equalizer came off Serhiy Buletsa’s free kick returned by South Korea, when Supriaha captured a loose ball and fired it into the goal from eight yards.
KYIV – Constitutional Court hearings started this week on whether President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s decree to call pre-term parliamentary elections for July 21 are in compliance with the supreme law of the land.
Addressing the panel of 18 judges on June 11, Mr. Zelenskyy eschewed legal arguments for his May 21 decree and instead cited public sentiment.
PHILADELPHIA – Over 2,500 people gathered inside the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Tuesday, June 4, awaiting with much anticipation the enthronement of the seventh Ukrainian Catholic metropolitan-archbishop of the United States, the Most Rev. Borys Gudziak.
Bishop Borys, 58, a native of Syracuse, N.Y., was recommended by the Synod of Ukrainian Catholic Bishops in September 2018, and appointed as metropolitan and archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia by Pope Francis on February 18 to officially take canonical possession of the archeparchy on June 4.
KYIV – President Volodymyr Zelensky is making Brussels the destination of his first foreign trip on June 4-5 to visit European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) institutions.
Meetings are planned with European Council President Donald Tusk, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
Dissolves Verkhovna Rada, announces pre-term electionsKYIV – President Volodymyr Zelensky has moved swiftly and controversially since being sworn in as the country’s sixth post-Soviet president on May 20 in the Verkhovna Rada.
KYIV – Ukraine argued during a hearing at the United Nation’s International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany, on May 10 for the release of 24 military crewmen and three vessels that Russia impounded in shared waters six months ago.