Ukraine Celebrates Independence Day Ukraine Concludes Olympic Games with 27 Medals
INSIDE: • Kyiv makes it onto board of worldwide Monopoly – page 4. • Experimental aviation pioneer Paul H. Poberezny – page 11. • North Dakota Ukrainians celebrate their heritage – centerfold. THE PublishedU byKRAINIAN the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal Wnon-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXVI No. 35 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 2008 $1/$2 in Ukraine Ukrainian World Congress Ukraine celebrates Independence Day by Zenon Zawada meets in Kyiv, elects Czolij Kyiv Press Bureau KYIV – For the first time in seven years, as president for 2008-2013 the Ukrainian government commemorated its independence from the Soviet Union by Zenon Zawada with a military parade, which included Kyiv Press Bureau scores of tanks and missile launchers, as KYIV – Montreal lawyer and longtime well 30 aircraft. Ukrainian diaspora leader Eugene Czolij While military brass bands are standard emerged as the new president of the for the annual Independence Day parade, Ukraine’s military leaders decided to put its Ukrainian World Congress (UWC), which heavy artillery on display for this year’s cel- held its ninth congress in Kyiv on August ebration, even weeks before the Russian 20-22. Federation’s invasion of Georgia. More than two-thirds of the 209 dele- However, the war’s outbreak coincided gates in attendance voted on August 22 in with the parade’s military theme, helping favor of Mr. Czolij to succeed New York set an urgent tone for the festivities, which City lawyer Askold Lozynskyj, who served attendees could access only with govern- for 10 years and concluded his second term. ment passes and invitations. Mr. Czolij pledged to launch the third “The time dictates some other accents,” phase in the Ukrainian diaspora’s develop- said Vasyl Vovkun, the minister of culture ment of partnerships among the world’s of Ukraine.
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