The Ukrainian Weekly 2010, No.48
www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE: • A historian’s fight to save her native village – page 3. • Snyder discusses his new book, “Bloodlands” – page 9. • Californians provide “Wheels for Ukraine” – page 19. THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal Wnon-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXVIII No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2010 $1/$2 in Ukraine 60,000 protest in Kyiv Hundreds gather at St. Patrick’s Cathedral against new tax code to mark Holodomor’s 77th anniversary by Matthew Dubas NEW YORK – Hundreds gathered at the landmark St. Patrick’s Cathedral, located on world-famous Fifth Avenue, to commemo- rate the 77th anniversary of the Holodomor, the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932- 1933. Prior to the service, Bishop Paul Chomnycky, eparch of Stamford for the Ukrainian Catholic Church, remarked how the Holodomor, planned by the Soviet regime, had targeted the Ukrainian people. Metropolitan-Archbishop Stefan Soroka and Bishop Chomnycky of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, and Archbishop Antony, Eastern eparch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A., led the memorial ser- vice, with responses sung by the Dumka Choir of New York. Tamara Gallo Olexy, president of the Victor Glasko Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, Matthew Dubas On the sixth anniversary of the Orange Revolution, more than 60,000 Ukrainians one of the organizations that coordinated this U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). came to the “maidan” (Independence Square) on November 22 to protest the tax code annual event, urged the attendees to honor passed by the Verkhovna Rada that they argue will destroy small business in Ukraine.
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