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BROOKLYN, N.Y. – The Ukrainian Sports Club (YCK) is starting a new chapter in its history. After almost 50 years, YCK sold its building in Manhattan located on 2nd Avenue between 7th and 8th streets.
PHILADELPHIA – The Ukrainian National Association (UNA) has a longstanding tradition of assisting students in their pursuit of higher education. Despite the continuing challenges of the coronavirus, the UNA continued that tradition in 2021. The UNA Scholarship Committee met virtually on June 22 to review all applications for scholarships and awards.
The final official tally saw Team Ukraine comprising 139 Paralympian athletes ready to participate in the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo that began on August 24. Team Ukraine includes 59 female athletes and 80 male athletes participating in 15 sporting disciplines.
She will be competing at her first Paralympic Games, and this young World and European champion hopes to record personal bests in Tokyo. Since there are few athletes in the world better with a rifle in their hands than Ukraine’s Iryna Shchetnik, the odds are she will reach new personal heights on the world’s ultimate competitive sports stage.
The competitive fire burning inside of Roman Polianskyi was ignited and fueled by his father, who instilled in his son a love of sports at an early age. This has served as the foundation for his dominance in Para-rowing since the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
Now internationally known as a world Paralympic powerhouse, Team Ukraine certainly did not disappoint on the first day of action at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
KYIV – Smaller than a school pupil’s notebook, yet carrying significant historical weight, Ukrainian kozak leader Pylyp Orlyk’s early 18th century Constitution went on display at Kyiv’s 1,000-year-old Saint Sophia Cathedral on August 17.
KYIV – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s White House visit has been postponed by one day and will take place on August 31 due to an extended agenda of wide-ranging talks.
KYIV – A documentary film made up of personal cell phone video captured by Ukrainian soldiers fighting in the war against Russia-backed forces will premiere in Ukraine on August 24.
In the wake of the policies of glasnost, perestroika and demokratizatsia announced by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, there was ferment throughout the USSR. What follows is a timeline of events leading up to the proclamation of Ukraine’s independence on August 24, 1991, and its affirmation by a nationwide referendum on December 1, 1991