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  • 2 September 2010, 11:54 | Society-digest

    “Temptation to control” – report of fact-finding visit to Ukraine

    Reporters Without Borders is today publishing the report of the fact-finding visit it made to Ukraine from 19 to 21 July. Entitled “Temptation to control,” it looks at the marked increase in press freedom violations since Viktor Yanukovych’s election as president in February.

  • 31 August 2010, 18:22 | Society-digest | 

    At the crossroads

    Many people remember how their hearts throbbed when in the morning of August 19, 1991, the television and radio announcers — in formal voices — announced the introduction of the state of emergency in the country. Three days later putschists rushed to the dacha of arrested Gorbachev to apologize. What started as a tragedy, ended as a farce. The Soviet past seemed to have lost for good. People refused to go back to the stall. Just three days later Ukraine was independent. That feeling of pride returned once more in 2004.

  • 31 August 2010, 16:50 | Society-digest | 

    Ukraine's new regime: the first 200 days

    Mykola Riabchuk is one of Ukraine’s leading intellectuals. In an interview with Ingo Petz he outlines his views on the failure of the Orange Revolution and the early stages of the Yanukovych presidency

  • 30 August 2010, 16:02 | Society-digest

    Independent Ukraine 2010

    Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire,” wrote Polish-born Zbignew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, over sixteen years ago in Foreign Affairs. This observation was as accurate then as it is in August 2010 when Ukraine celebrates nineteen years of independence from Muscovy.

  • 30 August 2010, 14:46 | Society-digest

    They are a people without a country

    Sons and daughters of peasant farmers who found their way to Johnstown in the late 1800s from isolated Carpathian Mountain villages in central Europe did not have a strong sense of national identity and had little knowledge or interest in politics of their homeland.

  • 27 August 2010, 15:15 | Society-digest

    Touching lives through Bible camp in Ukraine

    Bible camp brings hope to children from broken homes in Ukraine.

  • 26 August 2010, 16:04 | Society-digest | 

    Do ordinary things with extraordinary love

    Father Brian Kolodiejchuk (Canadian of Ukrainian origin) became a priest in Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity Fathers.

  • 26 August 2010, 12:44 | Society-digest

    A sad birthday for Ukraine

    Ukraine’s nineteenth birthday was not a happy one for democrats there and around the world. The bully neighbor is exerting enormous pressure to transform Ukraine into Russia.Not good. But hope springs eternal.

  • 26 August 2010, 12:34 | Religious-digest | 

    One step from sainthood for martyred Bishop

    St. Joseph’s Ukrainian Catholic Church houses a museum and shrine to Bishop Vasyl Velychkovsky, a bishop who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001. Work is currently underway to have him canonized as a saint.

  • 25 August 2010, 12:51 | Society-digest

    Scholar Says Ukraine's Greatest Achievement 'Survival'

    As Ukraine marks its Independence Day on August 24, one analyst says Kyiv's greatest accomplishment since independence has been "survival." But he adds that survival is not good enough.

  • 20 August 2010, 15:11 | Society-digest

    Travel: Straddling east and west

    Ukraine’s capital city, Kiev, is a fascinating blend of ancient and modern, east and west

  • 20 August 2010, 13:36 | Society-digest | 

    The ins and outs of Lviv – Ukraine’s historical pearl

    Many stories and legends have been told about the origins of Lviv, the architecturally rich and largest city of western Ukraine. Most of them are connected with lions because the word Lviv is derived from lev in Ukrainian.

  • 18 August 2010, 14:41 | Society-digest

    Ukrainian Orphans Find a Welcome in Cary

    The kids had been brought to the Triangle by Hope Community Church as part of the Redline United program.

  • 17 August 2010, 17:00 | Society-digest

    The Lemkos together again

    Festival of long-suffering ethnic group’s culture held in Ternopil region

  • 17 August 2010, 15:52 | Society-digest

    History is still to be written

    We explore our monthly topic. Here is the article from Day newspaper. Against whom and what for did Ukrainian nationalists fight in Belarus?

  • 13 August 2010, 15:28 | Society-digest

    Travel: Ukraine in transition

    I have to agree that the Ukraine is not among Europe's top holiday destinations.

  • 13 August 2010, 15:21 | Society-digest

    World in Ukraine: Ukraine suffers from ‘no strategy’ in Arab relations

    The average “babushka” in Ukraine may know more about the Arab world than her counterparts in Europe or the United States. But ask her grandchildren what they know about the Arab world, and you’ll probably hear something about the latest holiday excursion to Egypt or news about terrorist attacks in Iraq.

  • 4 August 2010, 18:43 | Society-digest | 

    New Police Policy on Rights and Civic Freedom?

    The Ministry of Internal Affairs traffic police were extraordinarily busy around the Orthodox Festival of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus on 28 July. Not however with trying to reduce Ukraine’s abysmal road fatality statistics. No, they had an entirely different task.

  • 4 August 2010, 17:04 | Monitoring

    Prayer and politics: Russia's pincer movement in Ukraine

    Patriarch Kirill was received with acclaim in Ukraine, but there was more to his visit than Orthodox fervour.

  • 4 August 2010, 14:40 | Monitoring | 

    Unequal opportunities

    Once again Ukrainian Orthodoxy is divided in celebrating the anniversary of baptizing Kyivan Rus’: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate is free to operate, while the Kyiv Patriarchate isn’t.

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