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09.07.2010
Russian muscle flexing in Georgia in August 2008 and more recently in Ukraine, installing its lackeys as rulers, has caught the attention of the international community. However, the reaction has been acquiescing with little manifest indignation and no protest. The relevance of a Soviet manufactured and Russian rebuilt plane with almost one hundred Polish leaders killed to this Russian show of force has yet to be determined. What is largely unknown is how the Kremlin internally has directed police tactics against its ethnic communities in Russia. Russia has never manifested much love for its non-Russian population, but recent steps have become brazenly hostile, yet with seemingly no protest from international structures in which Russia is a member...
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22.08.2010
This book has been prepared by the employees of the Institute of National Remembrance -- Commission of the Prosecution of Crimes against rht Polish Nation, Security Service of Ukraine, Polish? Ministry of Interior and Administration and the Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. It presents documents on the famine in Ukraine in the first half of the 1930's, documents created by the Soviet special services, as well as Polish military intelligence and diplomatic services. The volume also holds documents of the Polish police and local government administration repenting on the reactions of Ukrainians living in Poland with respect to the information on the tragic events in Soviet Ukraine...
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22.08.2010
 Canada-Ukraine relations were the focus of a wide-ranging discussion during a meeting of Ukrainian-Canadian community organizations and NGO representatives with the Hon. Peter Van Loan, Canada’s Minister of International Trade. The meeting participants included Oleh Romanyshyn, President, League of Ukrainian Canadians (LUC), and Editor-in-Chief of Homin Ukrainy/Ukrainian Echo; Chrystyna Bidiak, President, League of Ukrainian Canadian Women (LUCW); Margareta Shpir, President, Canadian Friends of Ukraine (CFU); Lisa Shymko, Chair, Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Centre (CUPC) of the CFU; Orest Steciw and Borys Potapenko, National Executive, LUC. In thanking Minister Van Loan for the meeting, Lisa Shymko stressed the need for the Government of Canada to re-focus its engagement with Ukraine and broaden Canada’s policy-making process to include input from Ukrainian-Canadian NGOs with a track-record of democracy-building in Ukraine...
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22.08.2010
The June 21 meeting of Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych and Ukrainian World Congress President Eugene Czolij and General Secretary Stefan Romaniw is an important first step in establishing a dialogue between the President and the Government of Ukraine and the diaspora. Yanukovych himself stated: “I truly wanted to meet with the leadership of the Ukrainian World Congress, which I consider a leading association of public organizations of the Ukrainian diaspora.” He added:”I think that now it is urgent to organize cooperation with you and other leaders of the Ukrainian diaspora to promote respectful image of Ukraine in the world. It is very important. I believe...
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05.06.2010
The recent Bandera/Shukhevych/ OUN/UPA debate has evoked a panoply of positions. Its gamut ranges from glorification to opprobrium. Somewhere in between, there have been a number of academic and non-academic papers stating that Bandera etc. were heroes, not Nazi collaborators, potential but frustrated German allies with a non-democratic and often fascist ideology. On the subject of alliances, OUN was never reticent about its loyalty. As early as June 4, 1935 OUN leader Evhen Konovalets presented a memorandum to the British seeking support for the Ukrainian cause: “We… are fighting for the total independence of Ukraine… we are actively challenging all foreign occupiers of Ukrainian lands, and although we consider Russia to be the main occupier, we shall… challenge unilateral attempts of any foreign invader to solve the affairs of Eastern Europe without the participation, or against the will, of the Ukrainian people...
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22.08.2010
"The Glory of Ukraine," two major art and cultural exhibitions featuring rare and historic treasures from Ukraine, will be presented in five cities in the United States during the next eighteen months. The first exhibition opened in New York City with a private reception on the evening of Thursday, June 17th and then opened to the public on Friday, June 18th. The two major exhibitions from Ukraine present a rare glimpse into the extensive artistic collections of the famous National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Preserve (the Monastery of the Caves) and the National Lviv Museum Named for Andrei Sheptitsky, and the Museum of National Cultural Heritage PlaTar. The Foundation for International Arts & Education (FIAE)...
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09.05.2010
 The Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program or CUPP was founded in the early 90’s, on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the renewal of Ukraine's independence. Its founder and director was and remains Ihor Bardyn, son of Ukrainian immigrants, lawyer by profession. Along with some friends he established an educational Foundation to support the CUPP Program. CUPP has been maintained for the past 20 years from the interest earned by the Foundation’s endowment fund. Over these years, a lot of energy and effort has been put into the program, to bring university students to Canada for a parliamentary internship, but all these endeavours are worth it, because this program is a starting...
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22.08.2010
The World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations (WFUWO) is an international Federation of 28 non-profit organizations from 17 countries spanning four continents. The WFUWO supports cultural, educational, humanitarian and social programs, and advocates the advancement of the status of women, their families and children. WFUWO upholds the principles of political and religious tolerance, and universal human rights. It is with utter dismay that the Federation has learned of the tactics used by the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) in relation to a request made of Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak, Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. Representatives of the SBU presented a letter to Rev. Gudziak, warning students that “illegal” protests could lead to prosecution, and requested him to sign it. As was noted...
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12.07.2010
The Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies (CAUS) passed a resolution at its Annual General Meeting expressing its concern about recent events in Ukraine that could have serious implications for the academic freedom of universities there. The recent visit of a Security Service of Ukraine agent to the rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Borys Gudziak, for the purpose of pressuring him to stem potential student protest over “controversial (and in some cases inflammatory) policies of the Ukrainian authorities” was the incident of particular concern. The CAUS meeting took place on 29 May at Concordia University in Montreal during the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. CAUS is a...
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