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12.09.2011
“We must openly state that no American should participate in meddling in the internal affairs of other countries. Of course, we all dislike the abhorrent bolshevism and its sinful work in Russia and all over the world, but this does not mean that we should also hate Russia and her people. In trying to destroy bolshevism, we have no right whatever to undermine the former Great Russian Empire by striving, as the Ukrainian separatists do (assisted by good and honest, but misled Americans), to detach from her the 'Little-Russia' (known as present as the “Ukraine”) only because some arrogant Galician aggressors, instigated by Polish and Austro-German enemies, deliberately changed “Little Russia” into “Ukraine!”... |
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12.09.2011
I did not expect the call of a muezzin in Simferopol. Not that hearing the chosen being invited to their devotions troubles me. I appreciate this caution against allowing the commerce of daily life to distract one from giving thanks to God. Yet other residents of this Crimean city find the five-times-daily summoning of Muslims to prayer, the adhan, worrisome. It reminds them that ownership of this peninsula is contested. They forget one thing – it always has been... |
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16.08.2011
In the light of recent developments in Ukraine, specifically the imprisonment of ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and ex-Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, as well as up to 50 other political prisoners, I call upon Ukrainians in the United States, Canada and elsewhere to boycott official events and celebrations at Ukrainian embassies. It would be inappropriate and contradictory for us to attend these celebrations after firstly condemning arrests in Ukraine and secondly, protesting outside Ukrainian diplomatic premises. If we attend these celebrations we would be indirectly giving our support to the authoritarian regime under the Viktor Yanukovych administration... |
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04.08.2011
Lilia Shevtsova, a well-known political scientist, felt quite at ease as she began to grant an interview at Den/The Day’s editorial office. Without waiting for an introductory word and first questions, Shevtsova started speaking out and, so to say, putting us into the picture. Those present – journalists and students of Den Summer School of Journalism – learned a lot of things even though they know Shevtsova very well not only as a regular expert for our publication but also as one of those Russian academicians who share Den/ The Day’s values and philosophy. This atmosphere immediately made the participants feel free to discuss... |
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13.11.2010
The structure of the United Nations officially consists of a little more than 190 countries comprising its membership as well as institutions created by the United Nations themselves, i.e. UNESCO, the International Court on Human rights, etc. Additionally the United Nations recognizes the role of non-governmental organizations in democracy building and allows NGO participation in the UN process in special consultative capacity. Since 2003 the Ukrainian World Congress has had the opportunity to serve in that capacity. NGO’s at the UN are required to submit quadrennial reports of their activity for review by a nineteen member committee composed of member governments. Scrutiny is often perfunctory as more than three thousand NGO’s are affiliated with the UN with various degrees of activity... |
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12.09.2010
The deepening crisis in Ukraine and in the region was precipitated by a number of circumstantial causes and deliberate actions. The international economic and financial crisis had a profound impact on Ukraine. Even prior to the economic meltdown, there already was a breakdown in effective governance due to disagreement between the past President and Prime Minister. At the same time, the Russian government has worked to exacerbate the political, economic, and social situation. And, the West, preoccupied with the global financial crisis and seeking accommodation with Russia, turned away from Ukraine, claiming “Ukraine fatigue.” Taken together... |
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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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27.06.2010
As international leaders prepare to attend this year’s G8 and G20 Summits hosted by Canada, troubling events are emerging in Eastern Europe. Russia is steadily intensifying its economic and political stranglehold over its southern neighbour, Ukraine. In November 2004, while in Kyiv as an international election observer, I witnessed the mass demonstrations of the Orange Revolution that brought a pro-Western President to power in Ukraine. After 13 years of nominal independence, Ukraine had finally wrestled itself away from Russia’s sphere of influence towards a fully sovereign democratic state eager to join Europe. I never imagined that, barely six years later, the tide would take an extreme turn. Over the last month, thousands of people in both Canada and Ukraine have taken part in mass rallies condemning the most recent developments in Ukraine, where... |
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10.04.2010
Most historians would agree that one of the most eminent, if not the preeminent expert on the “Holocaust” was Raul Hilberg. Professor Hilberg published a three volume seminal study of this tragic event under the title “The Destruction of the European Jews” and that publication remains one of, if not the single greatest achievement of “Holocaust” historiography. In fact the US Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations has relied predominantly on the expertise of Prof. Hilberg in a large number of its denaturalization and deportation proceedings. The last few years have witnessed an avalanche of anti-Ukrainian nationalist writings and accusations. This has been spearheaded by the Russians, but the Jews and the Poles have attempted to introduce their perspective as well. The object of this calumny has been the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), its leader Stepan Bandera, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army... |
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08.03.2010
The spurious allegation that the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its members in the Nachtigall Battalion carried out pogroms in Lviv in the summer of 1941, continues to be dredged up to defame the Ukrainian liberation struggle during WWII. Despite having been authoritatively exposed as part of a Soviet disinformation campaign from 50 years ago, it is again being forced on unwitting media outlets to discredit Ukrainian President Yushchenko’s decision to confer a posthumous medal “Hero of Ukraine” on Stepan Bandera, leader of OUN during and after WWII. Five separate and exhaustive investigations established that neither the OUN nor its members in the Nachtigall Battalion participated in the heinous war crimes/pogroms in Lviv in July of 1941. First, the investigation of the Extraordinary State Commission on German atrocities, created by... |
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