The Ukrainian Armed Forces are going to honor the memory of victims of famines and mass political repressions on November 25. Ukrainian News has learned this from the Armed Forces' press service...
The "Declassified Memory" exhibit in Kyiv presented as many as 5,000 pages of documents of USSR's entities, displaying the tragic event of the 1932-1933 famine. The exhibit has on display orders, directives and secret documents of the USSR Main Political Department on repression in Ukrainian villages and criminal cases of victims of the totalitarian policy of the communist regime, including pictures and accounts of witnesses...
Victor Yushchenko has attended a ceremony to unveil a monument honoring the Holodomor victims in the village of Serhiivka (Chernihiv oblast), president's press office reported. In his speech, the President said such events were necessary to preserve national memory...
Ukraine - If a black flag waved in the air above a Ukrainian village in 1933, Ukrainians knew that every resident was dead and that their emaciated bodies were waiting to be collected. Today, this former Soviet republic marks the 73rd anniversary of the Great Famine, a tragedy orchestrated by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin that continues to haunt and divide the nation of 47 million. President Viktor Yushchenko wants the deaths of an estimated 10 million of his countrymen recognized as genocide, but Russia has warned Kiev against using that term to describe the mass starvation...
Ukraine held solemn commemorations Saturday to mark the 73rd anniversary of a man-made Soviet-era famine that killed one-third of the country's population, a tragedy that Ukraine's president wants recognized as an act of genocide. At the height of the 1932-33 famine, 33,000 people died of hunger every day, devastating entire villages. Cases of cannibalism were widespread as desperation deepened...
British authorities said Friday that a toxic radioactive substance had been found in the body of a former KGB agent turned Kremlin critic who blamed a "barbaric and ruthless" Russian President Vladimir Putin for having him poisoned. Putin denied the allegation and called it a "provocation."
Ukraine and Poland plan to draft an intergovernmental agreement on transporting Caspian oil via the Odessa-Brody-Plock pipeline, based on the European Commission's recommendations, the Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Ministry reported on November 16...
This year, on Saturday, November 25, we honour the memory of millions of Ukrainians who became victims of the Great Famine Genocide of 1932-33 in Ukraine, called the Holodomor, engineered and executed by the Soviet regime under Joseph Stalin. The President of Ukraine issued a Decree establishing that the fourth Saturday in November be a National Day of Remembrance for the victims of this mass atrocity...
As I touch the little box shrubs, violets, and marigolds and look at the surprisingly living photo of a smiling man, which is attached near the cross on the grave of my late husband, in spite of the never-ending pain and bitterness I still feel a shimmer of hope deep in my heart: a sudden rain has given way to warm sunshine and the flowers brighten - this must be a sign from him...
FOR THE PAST 15 years it has been commonly assumed that Russian leaders gave up the Soviet practice of murdering political dissidents, inside and outside of the country. Maybe not. British authorities say they are investigating the apparent poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin...
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UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES TO HONOR MEMORY OF VICTIMS OF FAMINE AND MASS REPRESSIONS ON NOVEMBER 25
