The regional status of the Russian language has been reinstated in Donetsk, the Donetsk Regional Rada's press secretary Iryna Taranova told Ukrinform. People's deputies of the Donetsk Region Rada have won a court battle over the status of the Russian language in Donetsk...
A meeting including a bishop and a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) recently held in Novosibirsk, Russia, concluded that the country’s Greek Catholics need a separate church structure. ugcc.org.ua posted the story on 12 February 2007.The meeting gathered 18 Catholic priests of the Byzantine rite who minister in Russia. They discussed and resolved issues of pastoral care for their faithful...
Some of modern art's great innovators, including Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Archipenko and Alexander Rodchenko, are usually described as Russian artists. But these painters and sculptors were actually born or raised in Ukraine, and thought of themselves as Ukrainian. Their mislabeling is a lingering result of decades of Soviet repression of Ukrainian culture...
Honoring the memory of millions of fellow countrymen who became victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine and its consequences; Honoring all citizens that survived this horrible tragedy in the history of the Ukrainian people...
Ukrainian billionaire and Regions Party MP Rinat Akhmetov says Ukraine's big businesses doesn't need any special economic zones and priority development territories...
Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus said that they will establish an oil supply system that will serve as an alternative to Russian energy supplies to secure soft landing in case Moscow cuts deliveries. The initiative came from the Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus who said it is necessary for the three countries to coordinate their actions and diversify energy supplies...
Vladimir Putin -- Russia's president, although the more accurate title would be godfather -- made headlines last week with a speech in Munich that set a new standard in anti-Americanism. He not only charged the United States with the "hyper-use of force," "disdain for the basic principles of international law" and having "overstepped its national borders in . . . the economic, political, cultural and educational policies it imposes on other nations...
FOR DECADES, the Voice of America and its sister broadcasting organizations offered a remarkably balanced alternative to state-controlled media all over the world, buoying dissident movements and undermining anti-American dictatorships for a relatively small investment. Soviet citizens even learned how to reconfigure their radios to break through the jamming signals their government used to interrupt VOA and British Broadcasting Corp. programming...
It is over half the century, to be exact 65 years, since the famine-genocide in 1932-1933 in Ukraine. Although all progressive mankind have recognized it as a reality, only P. Symonenko, leader of Ukrainian Communists, speaking on television on Nov. 7 declared with irony, that the holodomor death toll calculated by self-proclaimed researchers exceeds the Ukrainian population of the country...
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DONETSK SEES REINSTATION OF REGIONAL STATUS OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE 
