The Ukrainian Weekly, 2015
INSIDE: l Dnipro loses in UEFA Europa League final – page 4 l Holodomor monument unveiled in Saskatchewan – page 5 l 39th annual Ukrainian Festival in New York – page 10 THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXXIII No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2015 $2.00 Ukraine and EU UCCA celebrates 75th anniversary come up short by Yaro Bihun WASHINGTON – The Ukrainian Congress at Riga summit Committee of America (UCCA) celebrated the 75th anniversary of its founding with a by Zenon Zawada reception on May 20 at the Senate Visitor’s KYIV – The Eastern Partnership Center at the U.S. Capitol, where U.S. and summit in Riga on May 21-22 revealed Ukrainian government representatives the European Union has lost the bold- joined with a large group of representatives ness it demonstrated in Vilnius in of Ukrainian American organizations and November 2013, when its participants the Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox ostracized former Ukrainian President Churches to mark the occasion. Viktor Yanukovych for declining to sign As they praised and thanked the UCCA the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement. for the positive work it has done since its After the military aggression dem- founding in 1940 for the benefit of its com- onstrated by the Russian government munity, Ukraine and the United States, much of the focus of remarks by speakers, since then, the European Union’s lead- including five members of the U.S. ers demonstrated heightened caution, Congress, was also on what the United refraining from any direct condemna- States and other Western countries are and tions of Russia and mutedly encourag- Yaro Bihun should be doing to help Ukraine during its ing the six post-Soviet member states Three former U.S.
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