MLAs spoke eloquently, passionately and at times tearfully Thursday of the horror of genocide and the strength of the Ukrainian people as they passed a bill proclaiming a memorial day for the Ukrainian famine, or Holodomor. Premier Ed Stelmach's voice cracked as he spoke in both English and Ukrainian about the genocide. "I do this with a great range of personal emotion," he said...
The European Union is founded on reconciliation, the belief that we can create a better future by acknowledging our past in all its brutality. Germany has justly acknowledged and is trying to atone for the indescribable atrocities of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Greece, Spain, and Portugal peacefully turned their back on their right-wing dictatorial regimes and met their future as democratic countries within the EU...
The Russian Federation, using "pressure and blackmail", attempts to deny Ukraine its right to submit the issue of the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine [Holodomor] for consideration by the UN General Assembly. The press service of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine told the UNIAN news agency that on 23 October 2008 the General Committee of the UN General Assembly, after a heated debate, refused...
Ukraine's fractured parliament broke a political deadlock Wednesday and gave initial backing to a legislative package negotiated with the International Monetary Fund as a condition for a $16.5 billion loan to bolster the nation's reeling economy. The vote came as the IMF announced...
Ukraine's parliament on Wednesday gave initial approval to legislation crucial for receiving an emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund, as forecasts of the country's financial crisis grew gloomier. The government hopes the $16.5 billion loan will help avoid a meltdown...
Toronto – 17/11/2008 – The League of Ukrainian Canadians (LUC), League of Ukrainian Canadian Women (LUCW) and Ukrainian Youth Association (UYA) are organizing Holodomor Education Week from Nov. 17 to Nov. 20, 2008 at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre on 85 Christie St.The opening ceremonies will take place on Monday, Nov. 17 at 7pm.On 18 – 20 November, the event will be open to the public from 10am to 9pm.
Dave Levac, MPP for Brant, James Bezan, MP for Selkirk-Iterlake and Borys Wrzesnewskyj, MP for Etobicoke Centre will attend Holodomor Education Week and address the public at the opening ceremonies.They will highlight their personal experiences in dealing with this genocide and express the need for further recognition of the Holodomor as genocide.In addition, LUC and LUCW will announce their new Holodomor Education project under the name, Let’s Build 1000 Holodomor Monuments.
For the first time since the Soviet era, Russia's Black Sea Fleet undertook an offensive operation in August of this year when it attacked Georgia, landing Russian ground forces in Abkhazia. The Russian Fleet, mainly based in Sevastopol, misused Ukraine's territory and abused Ukraine's neutrality in launching that operation. It did so...
European Parliament has recognised the Ukrainian famine of 1930s as crime against humanity, according to the EP official web-site. In a resolution on the commemoration of the Holodomor, the artificial famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933, MEPs describe it as "an appalling crime against the Ukrainian people, and against humanity". According to the resolution...
The European Parliament on Thursday denounced the famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the early 1930s as an appalling crime against humanity instigated by the regime of Soviet leader Josef Stalin. The EU assembly voted by a large majority to condemn the famine and demanded that former Soviet nations open up their archives so that the causes can be fully investigated...
No disrespect to the people of Iceland (pop 302,000), but if Ukraine and its population of 46 million on the borders of Europe goes belly up as a result of financial and political turmoil it would be a most serious matter for all of us. Any instability in Ukraine would have implications for our energy supplies, because Russian gas transits through the former Soviet state on its way to western Europe...
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DAY WILL MARK UKRAINIAN GENOCIDE
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