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The Holodomor Memorial Day Act, Private Member’s Bill 147 recognizing the Holodomor as an act of genocide and providing for the declaration of Holodomor Memorial Day on the fourth Saturday in November in each year in the Province of Ontario, was passed by the Parliament of Ontario on Thursday, 9 April 2009. The passage of the bill represented the culmination of an arduous process that started more than two years ago. Then Minister of Labour and current Speaker of Parliament, the Hon. Steve Peters...

The IMF's mission visited Ukraine April 8-17 and was satisfied with the results of its talks with the government. It will recommend that the IMF board resumes financial assistance to Ukraine in May. This means that Ukraine must avoid a critical depletion of its foreign exchange reserves (forex) and consequently a sovereign default -which has been feared by many observers. In order to qualify for IMF financing, Ukraine agreed to implement several unpopular economic measures. Also, seven banks will now be bailed out by the government...

The 1932-33 Holodomor in Ukraine was a dark episode in world history and major crime against mankind. The archives are now open and the facts readily available. So why the need to continue to conduct roundtables such as the one held at University of Melbourne on Saturday March 21, 2009 , titled 'The scale and causes of the 1931-33 famine and whether the Holodomor should be classified as a genocide’? The round table discussion was strongly negotiated by the...

Hard facts have been established, revealing the horrible truth about the death of small inmates of an orphanage in downtown Zaporizhia, 75 years ago. The city learned the tragic story after the city council’s commission on toponyms began discussing the possibility of installing a memorial sign dedicated to the inmates of the Children’s Home who died in 1932–33. The evidence, which was discovered almost accidentally, is hair-raising: over 700 inmates of the orphanage, aged between one day and four years, died within a year and a half. Most often the cause of death...

ON JANUARY 7, 2009, after an unexpectedly severe disagreement between Russia and Ukraine, ostensibly over natural gas prices, Moscow cut off gas supplies to Ukraine. Then, Ukraine did the same to Europe. European reserves soon dwindled, and with neither Russia nor Ukraine willing to give in, it took intense European pressure to lead both parties to reach a compromise agreement, which they did on January 18. Russia got higher prices for its gas, and Ukraine got a modest price rise in 2009, relative price stability, and favorable terms for gas transit costs...

"The very historical development of the Russian nation is in no small measure based on the riches associated with our ethnocultural and multiconfessional environment. For many centuries we have inhabited a state composed of more than 160 different peoples." The quotation comes from Dmitry Medvedev, president of the Russian Federation, who delivered these lines -- and many others embodying similar sentiments -- to the Fifth World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples in Khanty-Mansiisk on June 28, 2008. This is the same President Medvedev...

In a historic day at Queen’s Park, the joint efforts of Liberal, PC and NDP MPPs to commemorate victims of the Holodomor, the Man-Made Famine of Ukraine, have been realized. The co-sponsors, lead by Dave Levac, Liberal MPP for Brant, along with Frank Klees, PC MPP for Newmarket-Aurora and Cheri DiNovo, NDP MPP for Parkdale-High Park, joined forces on February 18, 2009 to introduce Bill 147, the Holodomor Memorial Day Act, legislation that provides for the declaration of Holodomor Memorial Day on the fourth Saturday in November in each year in the Province of Ontario...

Ukrainians have marked the 65th anniversary of the largest battle between the Ukrainian Liberation Army (UPA) and Soviet troops during World War II, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. At a place called Hurbi, near the town of Rivne, 5,000 UPA fighters from the Bohun division clashed with 30,000 Soviet Red Army and Interior Ministry troops (NKVD) from April 22-25, 1944. A special commemoration ceremony was held in Hurbi on April 21. UPA veteran Dmitro Avdeev told RFE/RL that thousands of soldiers from both sides were killed during the fighting, including his two brothers and several friends. He was wounded and was later sentenced to 25 years in jail by the Soviets...

One could have been forgiven for suspecting that this month's deal for the European Union to help reform Ukraine's gas market was just more political window dressing. It is true that the scale of the incompetence, double-dealing and corruption in the Ukrainian gas market is enormous. However, this time the EU and Ukraine may have achieved a breakthrough. For the first time, a reform plan for the Ukrainian gas sector is backed up by a detailed, stage-by-stage program to fundamentally reform the market. If this program is implemented, it would not only drive out the corruption and opacity in the market...