Acting Foreign Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Ohryzko confirmed that he talked with the Russian delegation in Ukrainian through an interpreter. He told journalists at a briefing in Kyiv. “I wasn’t notified that the meeting would be held in Russian...
Integration into the Euro-Atlantic community remains a strategic goal of Ukraine, but it is important today for leading Ukrainian political forces to formulate a joint position on the pace of development of Ukraine’s relations with NATO. President Viktor Yushchenko stated this during a meeting with NATO’s Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in Munich. According to Mr. Yushchenko, Ukraine will continue its active participation in NATO operations...
Lviv citizens resolved to present the bust to Solomiya Krushelnytska to the Italian Theatre "La-Scala". The Lviv citizens came up with the relevant idea after a visit of the "La-Scala" troupe to Lviv. Solomiya Krushelnytska was born in the village of Beliavyntsi, Ternopil region. In 1893 she graduated form the Lviv Conservatory and moved to Italy. She moved to Italy then and held solo...
An exhibit called"Unclassified Memory" will be opened in Kharkiv, in which secret materials [made public in 2006] of the Security Service of Ukraine will be represented.
The head of the Kharkiv department of SBU, Andriy Mukhatayev, told journalists the exhibit will be organized next week jointly with the Kharkiv regional state administration...
Quite recently, Russia's ministry of foreign affairs called the historical tragedy that befell the Ukrainian nation, the manmade famine in 1932-1933, the "so-called" famine [or holodomor, to use a Russian and Ukrainian word for it - AUR]. It was done specifically to avoid the need to recognize it as an ethnic genocide. Russia is a legal successor of the USSR [and is therefore accountable for all its deeds...
The documentary "Harvest of Despair" has been posted on Google video. The link to the documentary: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3897393411603039499&q=famine+Ukraine&hl=enLeonard Klady wrote the following about the documentary film, "Harvest of Despair" in an article for the Winnipeg Free Press, Friday, October 26, 1984 which is posted on the Infoukes website, Toronto, Canada...
Russia's refusal to admit a member of Ukraine's pro-presidential faction into the country last week was a response to Kyiv’s bans on certain Russian politicians, the Foreign Ministry said. Authorities turned away Petro Poroshenko, a member of the Our Ukraine party, who had traveled to St. Petersburg on a private visit February 3. The pro-Western party stood behind the "orange revolution" of 2004 when the Kremlin-backed presidential candidate was defeated...
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers should make Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople and Ukrainian Orthodox bishops of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the U.S., Canada, and Europe “persona non grata” in Ukraine. So said representatives of the Union of Orthodox Citizens of Ukraine (UOCU). otechestvo.org.ua posted the news on 5 February.A delegation headed by Petro Yushchenko, brother of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, is going to visit Constantinople
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