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This year, The Ukrainian Weekly celebrates its 85th anniversary. The first issue of The Ukrainian Weekly appeared on October 6, 1933, as a supplement to the Ukrainian-language Svoboda, which marks its own major milestone – its 125th anniversary – in 2018. Both newspapers are published by the Ukrainian National Association, which prides itself on this invaluable service to our community.
KYIV – A diplomatic confrontation is brewing with Hungary after hidden-video footage emerged that shows a group of Ukrainians taking an oath of loyalty during a citizenship swearing-in ceremony inside the Hungarian Consulate in the Zakarpattia Oblast border town of Berehove.
After the induction, a Hungarian diplomat told the group to hide their new citizenship status from the Ukrainian authorities while toasting them with champagne, according to the video posted on YouTube on September 19.
KYIV – Russia’s imperial foreign policy and the adverse effect it has on neighboring countries and the world order took center stage at a panel devoted to Ukraine’s future at the annual Yalta European Strategy conference that took place on September 13-15.
Titled, “The Future of Ukraine and Eastern Europe – Beyond Spheres of Influence and Zones of Conflict,” the panel was moderated by Munich Security Conference chief Wolfgang Ischinger.
KYIV – In what is becoming reminiscent of how long the USSR stayed silent during the Chornobyl disaster of 1986, it took the Russian-occupying Crimean authorities about 10 days to acknowledge a toxic chemical leak in the peninsula’s northern town of Armiansk.
More than 4,000 children and adults have been evacuated, and dozens have sought medical treatment in the border area between Ukraine-controlled Kherson Oblast and the Russia-occupied Ukrainian territory of Crimea since August 23 when sulfur trioxide was released into the air.
KYIV – Ukraine received more encouraging signs that it could receive canonical permission to form a unified Ukrainian Orthodox Church following an assembly of more than 100 metropolitans and archbishops at the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul that took place on September 1-3.
The move would further erode Moscow’s influence in Ukraine as the two predominantly Orthodox countries continue fighting a multi-front war on the battlefield, in cyberspace, diplomatically and on energy issues.
KYIV – When the country’s legislature, the Verkhovna Rada, reconvenes on September 4 after the summer break, it will have a presidential bill registered to have European Union and NATO membership enshrined in the Constitution.
President Petro Poroshenko said that government lawyers have “found a formula for doing this optimally and quickly,” during a speech in Kyiv at the Ukrainian Independence Day parade on August 24.
KYIV – Kozak regiments of old aren’t triumphantly riding on horseback into a fortress at the former Hetman state capital of Baturyn in Chernihiv Oblast, 140 miles east of Kyiv, for the nation’s Flag Day celebration on August 23.
In their place, where such nation-building leaders of the Hetmanate as Demian Mnohohrishny, Ivan Mazepa and the last hetman, Kyrylo Rozumovsky, made their base of operations, another assembly is gathering.
KYIV – Controversy is swirling over a biopic film about the last days of Ukrainian poet and human rights activist Vasyl Stus, who died in 1985 at the age of 47 in a forced labor camp, where he was imprisoned for defying Soviet authorities and advocating Ukraine’s self-determination.
SOUTH BOUND BROOK/SOMERSET, N.J. – More than 500 people, including more than 100 clergy members, celebrated the centennial of the founding of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. on July 28 with a hierarchical divine liturgy led by Metropolitan Yurij of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada. The feast day on July 28, according to the Julian calendar, is dedicated to Grand Prince Volodymyr the Great, who is credited with baptizing Ukraine into Christianity in 988. A procession, led by a cross-bearer who was joined by participants carrying church banners and flags of various church organizations, began the centennial celebrations as participants gathered to celebrate the centennial divine liturgy. From the steps of the Ukrainian Cultural Center, after snaking their way around the St. Sophia Seminary building, participants walked along Easton Avenue with the aid of local police who closed off a section of the road for the procession.
KYIV – If the fictitious archaeologist Indiana Jones were to descend several meters underground at the Dnipro riverside Poshtova Ploshcha (Postal Square), he would discover an ancient 1,500-square-meter living quarter with two bisecting streets dating to the 11th-12th centuries of the Kyivan Rus’ era.
Unearthed in 2015 when an opaque construction firm started digging to build a two-tier underground shopping center, the magnificent site features an ancient street aligned with deteriorated wooden gates that leads to the historic Podil district and southward, parallel to Ukraine’s main waterway.