Today as we remember the suffering and the tragic fate of millions of people in Ukraine, we bear witness to the power of human and national memory. This memory does not allow to conceal, distort or forget the cruel actions and policies of totalitarian regimes and their crimes against humanity. We will never forget the genocide that killed tens of millions of people in Europe and worldwide: the brutal Soviet policy that doomed hard working Ukrainians...

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was accompanied by a proclamation of autonomy by a segment of Ukraine's Orthodox Church, whose leader is known as the Kyiv Patriarch. Another part of the Orthodox Church - the so-called Moscow Patriarchate - recognizes the Patriarch in Russia. Both churches claim millions of followers and also reflect Ukraine's political divide between those who favor closer ties with Russia and those seeking to orient their country towards Europe...

Victims of Holodomor 1932-1933 were commemorated on the whole territory of Ukraine from the east to the west. A mourning meeting in memory of Holodomor victims was held in Donetsk. The meeting took place nearby the monument to the victims of political repressions. In the evening residents of Donetsk and Donetsk region will light candles of memory within the All-Ukrainian action Light the Candle. Within the events...

A Welsh journalist who exposed Stalin's starvation of millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s has been posthumously honoured by the Ukraine government. Gareth Jones, who was born in Barry, south Wales exposed the 1932-33 Ukrainian famine caused by the Soviet leader's infamous five-year plans. Millions of Ukrainians starved to death but news of the tragedy was suppressed. However Mr Jones wrote about it, and was given the nation's Order of Merit at Westminster in London on Saturday...

"Holodomor" is Ukrainian for "death by hunger." During 1932 and1933, between seven and 10 million Ukrainians were murdered through a brutal campaign of mass starvation, under the direct orders of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Everyone has heard of the Jewish Holocaust carried out by the Nazis. It has been the subject of innumerable movies, film and television documentaries, novels, history books, and articles. The names of Nazi concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Dachau, Treblinka, and Sobibor are well known...

I address you with regard to the 75th Anniversary of the most tragic incident in the history of the Ukrainian nation - the Holodomor of 1932-33. It took decades for the truth about this genocide deliberately perpetrated by Stalin's regime on fertile Ukrainian land to make its way to the public. I want to express...

After searching for and studying documents of this country’s historical and cultural heritage, the departmental archive of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) has just declassified materials that make it possible to open another, hitherto unknown, page about the 1932-1933 manmade famine in Ukraine. These documents are part...

Polish historian Jan Jacek Bruski has published records by Polish diplomats and Polish Intelligence Service on the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, which were found at the Central Military Archive in Krakow. The book entitled "The Holodomor of 1932-1933" will be soon on sale in Ukraine. "The Polish documents have remained unstudied...

The "Holodomor: Through The Eyes of Ukrainian Artists" exhibition opened at the Ukrainian House in Kyiv. According to a press-release of the Exhibition Subcommittee of the International Holodomor Committee (IHC), forwarded to UNIAN, it consists of over 250 original artworks by outstanding Ukrainian artists which show in a very moving, compelling and visual way all aspects of this tragedy against the Ukrainian people. The exhibition consists of artworks assembled...

A delegation lead by Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney is taking part in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor, the 1932-33 famine-genocide in Ukraine in which millions perished. Joining Minister Kenney in Kyiv is Senator Raynell Andreychuk, the Honourary Chair of the Holodomor Committee of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Paul Grod, President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, and Eugene Czolij, President of the Ukrainian World Congress...