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UKRAINE MACROECONOMIC SITUATION-DECEMBER, 2003
By Iryna Piontkivska, Edilberto L. Segura, SigmaBleyzer, Kyiv, Ukraine

CHRISTMAS: HOLY SUPPER--TRADITIONAL MEAL LIES AT THE CENTER OF UKRAINIAN CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION
By T.C. Mitchell, Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage, Alaska, Dec 31, 2003

SIX CHRISTIAN CHURCH LEADERS REFLECT ON STATE OF MORALITY IN UKRAINE AND ADDRESS FAMINE COMMEMORATION
RISU, Lviv, Ukraine, Dec 31, 2003

CHRISTMAS: "ROSY-CHEEKED PIONEER AND GLASS BANDURA"
Christmas and New Year's ornaments of different times on display at the Museum of One Street, "Mint Sweets of Childhood"

By Vira Koulyova, "Khreshchatyk" newspaper, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tue, Dec 30, 2003

RUSSIAN PATRIARCH ALEKSIY II MAKES STATEMENT ON REFUSAL TO MEET POPE
Interfax news agency, Moscow, Russia, 30 Dec 03

BaWL: THE BEST AND THE WORST LIST FOR 2003
By Oksana Bashuk Hepburn [Ukrainian-Canadian Leader], Published in E-POSHTA, Canada, Dec 30, 2003

MEMBER OF UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT SAID CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECISION LIKELY TO DELIVER SERIOUS BLOW ON UKRAINE'S AUTHORITY IN WORLD
UNIAN, Kyiv, Ukraine, December 30, 2003

UKRAINE'S CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULES PRESIDENT LEONID KUCHMA CAN RUN FOR A THIRD TERM
The Associated Press, Kiev, Ukraine, Dec. 30, 2003

ONE TIMES SQUARE REMAINS CULTURAL ICON
A Ukrainian-born metalworker inspired by imagination in 1907 created first New Year's Ball in New York

By Verena Dobnik AP Writer, New York, NY, Sunday, December 28, 2003

THERE WILL BE A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, COME WHAT MAY
By Viktor Yushchenko, Leader of "Our Ukraine" Political Party, Zerkalo Nedeli on the Web, Mirror-Weekly, Kyiv, Ukraine, Sat 27 Dec 2003 - 9 Jan 2004

MEMORIAL COMPLEX IN MEMORY OF HOLODOMOR VICTIMS TO OPEN IN KYIV IN AUTUMN OF 2004 ACCORDING TO MAYOR
UNIAN, Kyiv, Ukraine, Dec 26, 2003

RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH STATES TIES WITH VATICAN HAVE WORSENED, CITES PAPAL TRIP TO UKRAINE IN 2001
Associated Press, Moscow, Russia, December 26, 2003

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT KUCHMA SEEKS BOOST TO POWER WITH NEW DEAL REGARDING UPCOMING ELECTIONS
By Olena Horodetska, Reuters, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, December 25, 2003

UKRAINE PARLIAMENT FAVORS ELECTION CHANGE
By Anna Melnichuk, Associated Press Writer, Kiev, Ukraine, December 24, 2003

SUPREME RADA OK'S UKRAINE'S ELECTION OF PRESIDENT BY PARLIAMENT
Prime-Tass, Moscow, Russia, December 24, 2003

CHRISTMAS: SNOWMAID BECAME INTEGRAL CHARACTER OF NEW YEAR FESTIVITIES ONLY IN SOVIET TIMES
Exhibition of old Christmas/New Year decorations opened in Kyiv at Museum of One Street

Interview with Vladyslava Osmak, Curator, By Ihor Osypchuk, "Fakty" (Facts) newspaper, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tues, Dec. 23, 2003

NO AIR TO BREATHE
By Yulia Mostovaya, Zerkalo Nedeli [Mirror-Weekly], Kyiv, Ukraine, Sat, Dec 20-26, 2003

"THEY SAID THEY WOULD TAKE ME TO A FOREST AND BURY ME ALIVE"
FULL PAGE ADVERTISEMENT, Paid for by the Friends of Ukraine, Washington, D.C., The New York Times, Friday, December 19, 2003, Page A35

SOME COMMENTS ON THE RECENT ATTEMPTS TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE
By Judge Bohdan A. Futey, Washington, D.C., Friday, December 19, 2003

HISTORICAL AND EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX/MUSEUM TO BE BUILT BY THE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE USA
Will Include A National Memorial For Famine Victims

By E. Morgan Williams, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF), Washington, D.C., Friday, December 19, 2003

ANOTHER UNSCRUPULOUS POWER GRAB IS UNDERWAY
EDITORIAL, The Kyiv Post, Kyiv, Ukraine, Dec 18, 2003

UKRAINE'S CONSTITUTIONAL COURT SAYS PROPOSED CHANGE IN CONSTITUTION TO HAVE PARLIAMENT ELECT THE NEXT PRESIDENT IS CONSTITUTIONAL
Reuters, Kiev, Ukraine, December 11, 2003

WORLD BANK APPROVES 250M-DOLLAR LOAN TO UKRAINE
Interfax-Ukraine News Agency, Kiev, Ukraine, 10 Dec 03

AGRICULTURAL LANDS IN UKRAINE ARE USED INEFFICIENTLY
www.AgriMarket.Info, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, December 10, 2003

"KOZACHENKO CASE" DEADLOCKED ACCORDING TO THE UKRAINIAN AGRARIAN CONFEDERATION (UAC)
www.AgriMarket.Info, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, December 10, 2003

"HOLODOMORS IN UNDER-SOVIET UKRAINE"
A New Book For The 70th Anniversary of Holodomor-Genocide

Article by E. Morgan Williams, Senior Advisor, USUF, Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, December 5, 2003

LOBBYING BY DIASPORA CHANGES HOLODOMOR STAMP DESIGN
by Ingert Kuzych and Morgan Williams, The Ukrainian Weekly, Page 13-14, Parsippany, NJ, Nov 30, 2003

UKRAINE FACES DEFINING CROSSROADS
By Natalia A. Feduschak, The Washington Times, Washington, D.C., Sunday, November 30, 2003

OPPOSITION FACTIONS IN UKRAINE RALLY IN KYIV
By Vlad Lavrov, www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS) Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, November 27, 2003

UKRAINE MARKS SOVIET-ERA FAMINE THAT KILLED MILLIONS AMID INCREASED AWARENESS OF THE DEATHS
San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, By Anna Melnichuk, A/P Writer, Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, November 22, 2003

UKRAINE REMEMBERS THE MILLIONS WHO DIED IN THE GENOCIDAL FAMINE OF 1932-1933
Thousands of Candles Light up St. Michael's Cathedral Square

Morgan Williams, Senior Advisor, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF), Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, November 22, 2003

INVITATION: To the Opening of the Ukrainian Genocidal Famine (Holodomor) 1932-1933 70th Anniversary Commemoration Art Exhibition, "To the Dead, and the Living and the Unborn"
Friday, November 21, 2003, 5:30 p.m., Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine

MARCH OF REMEMBRANCE
For the Millions of Ukrainian Victims of Stalin's 1932-1933 Genocide

Saturday, November 15, 2003, 11:45 a.m., New York City, New York

UKRAINE ISSUES JOINT DECLARATION AT THE UNITED NATIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT FAMINE IN UKRAINE OF 1932-1933
Co-signed by Twenty-six Nations

By E. Morgan Williams, Senior Advisor, Government Relations, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF), Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 11, 2003

UKRAINIAN GENOCIDAL FAMINE 1932-1933 ART EXHIBITION
Kyiv, Ukraine, November 21-29th, 2003, Financial Sponsors Needed

Ukrainian Genocidal Famine 1932-1933 Art Exhibition Committee, ARTUIS, Kyiv, November 11 2003

86TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT OCTOBER REVOLUTION MARKED IN UKRAINIAN CAPITAL, UKRAINIANS DEMAND CHEAPER BREAD
Interfax-Ukraine news agency and Reuters, Kiev, Nov. 7, 2003

U.S. SENATE GENOCIDAL UKRAINE FAMINE RESOLUTION 202
There are Now 20 Co-sponsors, More are Needed

Statement on the Senate Resolution by James Mace, Kyiv, Ukraine, By Morgan Williams, ARTUIS, Washington, D.C., November 6, 2003

COLUMBIA PROF ARGUES TO REVOKE '32 PULITZER
Von Hagen argues that Duranty failed to report on the Ukrainian Famine

By Rachel Zeldin, Columbia Daily Spectator, Columbia University New York City, NY, Thursday, October 30, 2003

BEHIND THE TUZLA ISLAND CONTROVERSY
OPINION by Taras Kuzio, The Kyiv Post, Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct 30, 2003

UKRAINIAN GENOCIDAL FAMINE 1932-1933 HOLODOMOR STAMP, NEW APPROVED VARIANT, 2003
Valentyna Khudoliy, Director, Marka Ukrainy, Kyiv, Ukraine, October 29, 2003

RUSSIA PROBES UKRAINE'S DEFENCES, BRITISH ANALYST JAMES SHEER BELIEVES
Den Newspaper, Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct. 28, 2003

UKRAINIAN CHURCH LEADER ACCUSES MOSCOW BRANCH OF INFLAMING RELIGIOUS TENSIONS
Den, Kiev, in Russian 24 Oct 03; p 6, BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Oct 28, 2003

PRESIDENT SAYS CAUSEWAY ROW IS CAUSING UKRAINE TO RECONSDER ITS FOREIGN POLICY AND IS DRIVING UKRAINE CLOSER TO THE WEST
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 27 Oct 03 BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Oct 27, 2003

PROTEST RUSSIAN AGGRESSION IMPERIALISTIC TENDENCIES !!
Demonstration in Front of Russian Embassy, Wednesday, October 29, 1 p.m.

Michael Sawkiw, President, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, Washington, D.C., Sunday, October 26, 2003

DURANTY'S AWARD
Pulitzer Board Should Not Revoke the Award

COMMENT, Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Saturday, October 25, 2003 - Page A22

UKRAINIAN PLANT DELIVERS GAS TURBINES TO USA
Defense-Express web site, Kiev, 24 Oct 03

ENERGY ALLIANCE OFFERS UKRAINIAN INDUSTRY ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND MANUFACTURING COST SAVINGS
Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF), Kyiv, Ukraine, October 24, 2003

HISTORIAN URGES REVOCATION OF 1932 PULITZER
By John J. Goldman, Times Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Thursday, October 23, 2003

LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE NY TIMES BY LUBOMYR LUCIUK, UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION, ABOUT WALTER DURANTY'S PULITZER PRIZE
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 23, 2003

N.Y. TIMES AGREES 1932 PULITZER PRIZE WAS NOT DESERVED
By Howard Kurtz, Washington Post Staff Writer, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Thursday, October 23, 2003

NEW YORK TIMES SHOULD LOSE PULITZER FROM 30's, CONSULTANT TO PAPER SAYS
By Jacques Steinberg, The New York Times, NY, NY, Thursday, October 23, 2003

HISTORIAN SAYS NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER'S 1932 PULITZER PRIZE SHOULD BE RESCINDED
Sara Kugler, Associated Press Writer The Associated Press, New York, NY, October 22, 2003

UKRAINE LEADER FLIES HOME IN BORDER ROW
Passions are running high in Kiev over the dispute

BBC NEWS, UK, Wednesday, October 22, 2003

FAMINE-GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE, 1932-1933, WRITING COMPETITION 2003 FOR RESIDENTS OF CANADA
Famine-Genocide Commemorative Committee, Ukrainian Canadian Congress, National, Monday, October 20, 2003

TEAMWORK AND A GOOD SAVE IN THE PIPELINE GAME
OP-ED by Vladimir Socor, Senior Fellow Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies, For The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY, October 17, 2003

CAMPAIGN TARGETS THE NEW YORK TIMES
An International Campaign: "Do The Right Thing"

Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Calgary/Toronto, Canada, 14 October 2003

WAYS TO PREVENT THE SEDUCTION OF KIEV
OP-ED by Robert McFarlane, U.S. President Ronald Reagan's National Security Advisor, The Wall Street Journal, New York , NY, October 10, 2003

CITIZEN ACTION AT WORK
Regarding Ukrainian Postage Stamp to Honor Victims of 1932-1933 Famine

EDITORIAL, The Kyiv Post, Kyiv, Ukraine, October 9, 2003

MARKA UKRAINY PULLS STAMP WITH ERRONEOUS PHOTO
By Roman Zakaluzny, Kyiv Post Staff Writer, The Kyiv Post, Kyiv, Ukraine, October 9, 2003

SHARING POWER, BUILDING UKRAINE
"The most important reason much of Ukraine is so depressed is the concentration of power at the top in Kyiv, while other cities are left with little power and less money"

OP-ED by E. Morgan Williams, The Kyiv Post, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, September 25, 2003

CHICAGOLAND UKRAINIANS COMMEMORATE THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UKRAINIAN GENOCIDE FAMINE OF 1932-1933
By Katya Mischenko-Mycyk, Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, Monday, September 22, 2003

VICTIMS OF HOLODOMOR, POLITICAL REPRESSIONS AND FORCED DEPORTATIONS: The All-Ukrainian Open Competition for the Best Draft Project of the State Historical and Memorial Complex of Victims of Holodomor, Political Repressions and Forced Deportations
Jury Competition, Kyiv, Ukraine, September 22, 2003

UKRAINIANS' VIEW OF HISTORY LAMENTABLE
Blaming famine on Jews bares anti-Semitic views; it doesn't explain history. Writings by Levko Lukyanenko and I.A. Khyzhnyak

By David Marples, Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, September 22, 2003

RALLY IN MEMORY OF HEORHIY GONGADZE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 IN KYIV
By Vlad Lavrov, Correspondent www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS) Kyiv, Ukraine, September 17, 2003

AGRIBUSINESS UPDATE, UKRAINE REPORT 2003
Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, September 2, 2003

"TIME TO SPEAK THE TRUTH"
Roundtable In Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of Holodomor in Ukraine

By Vlad Lavrov, www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS), Kyiv, Ukraine. Friday, August 22, 2003

1991 COUP WAS ONLY MEANS TO SAVE USSR, SAYS GEN. VALENTYN VARENNIKOV
by Dmytro Krykun, Public Radio, Kyiv, Ukraine, August 21, 2003

SOROCHYNSKIY NATIONAL FAIR
Yarmarok, Poltava Region, Ukraine, A huge annual historical fair featuring folk art, artists, Ukrainian singers and dancers, carnival rides, trade show, traditional food and much more

Year 2003 dates are August 20- 24

FIRST "METRO" SUPERMARKET OPENS IN KYIV
To have 800 suppliers, carry 20,000 items, employ 550 people

UNIAN, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, August 19, 2003

VIII WORLD UKRAINIAN CONGRESS DENIED RIGHT TO USE UKRAINIAN HOUSE AT LAST MINUTE, ADVISED TO TURN TO THE PRESIDENTIAL ADMINSTRATION
Public Radio, Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, August 16, 2003

THE BIG NEXT STEP: BASIC ADMINISTRATIVE COMPETENCE
More than anything else, Ukraine needs a state administration at all levels ...capable of providing basic services for its citizens

OP-ED by William Gleason, The Kyiv Post, Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug 7, 2003

GERMANS: THE LOST GERMANS ARE FOUND: NOW WHAT?
The hammer and sickle fell on their colonies in the former Soviet Union. Germans were nearly extinguished in a silent holocaust of mass starvation

By Karen Herzog, Bismarck Tribune, Bismark, North Dakota, July 31, 2003

TWO UKRAINIAN ORGANIZATIONS URGE ACTION REGARDING U.S. SENATOR BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL'S UKRAINE FAMINE SENATE RESOLUTION 202
Zenia Chernyk, Board Chair, Ukrainian Federation of America, Ihor Gawdiak, President, Ukrainian American Coordinating Council, Philadelphia, PA and Washington, D.C. Tuesday, July 29, 2003

EDITORIAL--GETTING OVER PAST HATREDS
"For instance, the Stalin-era famine in Ukraine - which Ukrainian nationalists erroneously blame on "the Russians," as if there were no Ukrainians in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union"

EDITORIAL, The Russia Journal Daily, Moscow, Russia, Monday, July 28, 2003

ADOPTED CHILDREN: OVERSEAS ADOPTION IS DREAM COME TRUE FOR SOUTH DAKOTA FAMILY
Larry and Dwan Tjeerdsma recently adopted two Ukrainian sisters

By DeAnn McClure, P&D Correspondent, Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan, Yankton, SD, July 28, 2003

SPORTS: UKRAINIAN ZHANNA BLOCK READY FOR COME BACK
Letter from Zhanna Block published by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), IAAF.org, Monaco, 28 July 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 75, MONDAY, JULY 28, 2003
INDEX OF ARTICLES
(1) U.S. Shifts Stance on Ukrainian President, Washington Post
(2) The Ukrainian Holocaust of 1932-1933..A New Book
(3) Labor of Love, Article About Natalie Jaresko
(4) Senator Campbell Expresses Concern over VOA-RFE/RL Cuts
(5) Russia Buys RS-18 Missiles from Ukraine
(6) Ukraine Remembers Lviv Air Show Disaster of One Year Ago
(7) A Pantheon of One..Lenin The Survivor (Ideas and Statues)
(8) Ukraine Ready to Join CIS Common Economic Space-Azarov
(9) U.S. Working on Ukraine's Market Economy Status-Pascual
(10) Klochkova Wins Gold, Serdinov Takes Bronze Medal in Barcelona
(11) Ambassador Pascual Hopes US AID of $120 Million, FY2004
(12) Wanting to Help, A World Away in Ukraine: Young Adults from the Woonsocket, Rhode Island Ukrainian Orthodox Church

UNITED STATES SENATOR BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL (R-CO) INTRODUCES RESOLUTION IN U.S. SENATE REGARDING THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GENOCIDAL UKRAINE FAMINE OF 1932-1933, ALSO MAKES FLOOR STATEMENT
U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO), Co-Chairman, U.S. Helsinki Commission, Monday, July 28, 2003, United States Senate, Washington, D.C.

A PANTHEON OF ONE..LENIN THE SURVIVOR
"Yet in Russia, nobody toppled Lenin. He remains the central feature of hundreds, if not thousands, of town squares and city halls here and in the post-Soviet states of Ukraine, Belarus and Central Asia"

By Michael Wines, Moscow, The New York Times, NY, NY, Sunday, July 27, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 74, Sat-Sun, July 26-27, 2003
The Politics of Good Creates A Crisis in Ukraine. Real Threat at the Moment of a Return to a Soviet-like Command System?
INDEX OF ARTICLES
(1) Militiamen to Track Grain Movements in Ukraine
(2) Ukraine's PM Warns Ag Minister, Etc. Over High Bread Prices
(3) Yanukovych Accuses Government Officials for Grain Shortages
(4) GPO Will Continue to Check Food Market According to PM
(5) Several Top Gov. Officials to Take Fall For Food Price Hikes
(6) GPO States it Revealed Numerous Abuses in Farm Sector
(7) Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Urge Gov't to Stop Mass-Scale Checks of Ag Businesses by Authorities
(8) Checks by Law-Enforcement Bodies have Stripped Ukrainian Agriculture of $656.6 Million in Investments Says L. Kozachenko
(9) Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and Agrarian Confederation Oppose Grain Crisis Trials by Government
(10) Ukrainians Consume Three Times Less Milk, Meat and other Ag Products than Frenchmen, Germans, or Englishmen according to L. Kozachenko of the Ukrainian Agricultural Federation
(11) U.S. Ambassador Speaks About State of Ukrainian Agriculture

WAR GAMES: UKRAINE'S KNIGHTS AND DAMSELS RELIVE BATTLE
The Hundred Years War between England and France is raging on-not far from the Ukrainian capital Kiev

BBC NEWS, UK, Saturday, July 26, 2003

MISS DEAF WORLD: UKRAINIAN LADY WINS MISS DEAF WORLD 2003 CONTEST HELD IN PRAGUE
Galina Broiko Named The Most Beautiful Deaf Girl in the World

www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS), Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 22, 2003

DURANTY UPDATE
Pulitzer Prize Committee Withdrew An Award in the Past

By John Berlau, Insight On The News, Washington Times Corporation, Washington, D.C. Thursday, July 17, 2003

VOLYN: GREEK CATHOLIC HIERARCHY "WITHOUT RECONCILIATION.... THERE WILL BE NEITHER A RELIGIOUS NOR POLITICAL FUTURE"
The Day Weekly Digest, Kyiv, Ukarine, Tuesday, July 15, 2003

VOLYN: UPA VETERANS FROM CANADA AND THE US: A VIEW ON THE VOLYN TRAGEDY
The Day Weekly Digest, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 15, 2003

MALAYSIAN PM BEGINS FOUR-DAY VISIT TO UKRAINE
SPORTS: IRYNA KOVALENKO OF UKRAINE WAS A SURPRISE WINNER IN THE WOMEN'S HIGH JUMP AT THE 3RD IAAF WORLD YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS HELD AT SHERBROOKE, CANADA
UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 67, Sat-Sun, July 12-13, 2003
INDEX OF ARTICLES
(1) Ukraine has 7.5 Percent GDP Growth in First Half of 2003
(2) Central Banker Tyhypko Says Inflation is the Price of Growth
(3) Turkmenistan Offers Ukraine 700,000 Tons of Grain
(4) Ukraine Imposes Civilian Control Over Army, Police
(5) Ukraine Asks USA to Resume Funding of Nuclear Missiles Elimination
(6) Ukrainian Reformer Yushchenko Hails End to Deadlock in RADA
(7) Ukraine Government Bans Most Alcohol and Tobacco Ads
(8) Kirov Opera Performs Prokofiev Work "Semyon Kotko" in NYC
(9) French Trading Co. Soufflet Buys Ukrainian Slavuta Maltings
(10) Thousands in Ukraine Protest Against Food Price Rise
(11) Polish, Ukrainian President's Joint Statement on Volyn Massacres
(12) President Kuchma's Address at WWII Volyn Massacre Event

ROUND-UP OF REACTIONS TO POLISH-UKRAINIAN 1943 COMMEMORATION
Anna Kuzma, for Polish Radio, in Kyiv; Polish Radio 1, Warsaw, Poland, in Polish, July 12, 2003; BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English on July 12, 2003

VOLYN: POLISH, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT'S JOINT STATEMENT ON 1943 MASSACRES ANNIVERSARY
TV Polonia, Warsaw, Poland, in Polish, Friday, July 11, 2003; BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Friday, July 11, 2003

EXHIBITS AND ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS AT VIII UWC CONGRESS IN KYIV, UKRAINE AUG 18-21, 2003
Ukrainian World Congress (UWC), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 11, 2003

VOLHYNIA: POLAND AND UKRAINE SEEK TO PUT WARTIME ATROCITIES BEHIND THEM
By Stefan Wagstyl, East Europe Editor, Financial Times, London, UK, Friday, July 11, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 66, Friday, July 11, 2003, Twelve Articles
INDEX OF ARTICLES:
(1) After Much Soul-Searching, Ukrainian VR Passes Volyn Declaration
(2) Ukrainian Parliament Passes Resolution in WWII Massacre in Volyn
(3) Polish Parliament Adopts Ukrainian Reconciliation Motion on 1943 Massacres in Volhynia
(4) Peace Bid over World War II Massacre
(5) Polish Speaker Comments on Ukrainian 1943 Massacres Resolution
(6) Polish President Kwasniewski Says Ukrainian 1943 Massacre Commemoration to Serve the Truth, to Honor the Victims,
(7) Polish President, Aide on Political Hopes for 1943 Massacre Commemorations
(8) Heated Debate in Sejm on Polish-Ukrainian Reconciliation Regarding the Volyn Massacre, Wanted the Word Genocide Included
(9) Pope John Paul II Calls on Poles and Ukrainians to Reconcile Over WWII Massacres
(10) Autocephalous Orthodox Archbishop Addresses Volyn Tragedy at Conference in Kyiv
(11) Polish Parliamentarians in Vehement Dispute Over Ukrainian Reconciliation Statement Regarding the Word Genocide
(12) IPN Reports on Investigation into Volhynia Massacres

UKRAINE SEES 8% GDP GROWTH, INFLATION TO RISE TO 8%
Reuters, Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, July 10, 2003

PROKOFIEV'S HEROIC BOLSHEVIKS
"Semyon Kotko" is Sergei Prokofiev's Fifth Opera and Features a Ukrainian Peasant Village

Lincoln Center Festival Review, By Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, NY, NY, July 10, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 65, Wednesday, July 9, 2003
INDEX OF ARTICLES
(1) Ukraine President Approves New 13% Income Tax Law
(2) Kuchma Assures US He is not Seeking to Prolong Presidency
(3) US Grants 1 Million to Ex-Soviet Regional Alliance GUUAM
(4) Interpol Targets Child Pornography in Ukraine
(5) The Internet and Media Freedom in Ukraine-by Kuzio
(6) Bush Admn. Begins to Bury the Hatchet with Ukraine
(7) Uniting Ukrainians in Florida, USA
(8) Duranty's Deception, Lies and Pulitzers by John Berlau
(9) Ukrainian Rower Rezvoy Knows What Floats His Boat
(10) Hetman Ivan Mazepa: A Look Through Centuries-in Lviv
(11) Ukrainian Opposition Rejects President's Criticism

PROKOFIEV: KIROV OPERA PERFORMS RARE SERGEI PROKOFIEV WORK IN NEW YORK
The opera, Semyon Kotko, is set in a Ukrainian village at the end of World War I

By Mike Silverman, Associated Press Writer New York, New York, Wednesday, July 9, 2003

VOLYN: POPE JOHN PAUL II CALLS ON POLES AND UKRAINIANS TO RECONCILE OVER WWII MASSACRES
Associated Press, Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, July 9, 2003

FRENCH SOUFFLET BUYS UKRAINIAN SLAVUTA MALTINGS
Soufflet Said It Will Also Invest in Malting Barley Production in Ukraine

Beverage Daily Website, Montpellier, France, July 8, 2003

VOLHYNIA: IPN IN POLAND REPORTS ON INVESTIGATION INTO VOLHYNIA MASSACRES
Ukrainian Nationalists Against Poles living in Volhynia, Ukraine 1939-1945

by Jan Maksymiuk, "RFE/RL Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine Report" Volume 5, Number 26, Prague, Czech Republic, July 8, 2003

MAZEPA: UKRAINIAN COSSACK HETMAN IVAN MAZEPA: A LOOK THROUGH CENTURIES
Exposition at the Lviv Art Gallery in Lviv, Ukraine

By Iryna Yehorova of Lviv, The Day Weekly Digest, The Day, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 8, 2003

DURANTY'S DECEPTION, LIES AND PULITZERS
By John Berlau, Writer, Insight On The News magazine Washington Times Corp., Washington, D.C., July 7, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 64, Sat-Sun, July 5-6, 2003
INDEX OF ARTICLES
(1) Kuchma May Be Eligible to Run For Third Term in 2004
(2) Danish Official Checks On Media Control in Italy & Ukraine
(3) US Official Steven Pifer Said Positive on Ties with Ukraine
(4) Crimean Tatar History & Culture CD-ROM Created
(5) Solvenia Firm Largest Telecommunications Supplier to Ukraine
(6) Kuchma Says Simultaneous Elections Could be Held in 2014
(7) Hosting Russian Fleet No Obstacle to Ukraine Joining NATO
(8) Los Angeles Times Article about Ukraine Misses the Mark
(9) "Famine-Genocide in Ukraine 1932-1933," a New Book
(10) Eastern Economist Publications Announces New Ownership
(11) Ukrainian Rowman Ted Rezvoy Sets Out to Conquer Atlantic
(12) Cabinet of Min Bill Aims to get Control of Internet in Ukraine

CRIMEAN TATAR HISTORY AND CULTURE CD-ROM CREATED WITH U.S. EMBASSY SUPPORT IN UKRAINE
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS), Friday, July 4, 2003

EASTERN ECONOMIST PUBLICATIONS IN KYIV ANNOUNCES NEW OWNERSHIP
Eastern Economist, Kyiv, Ukraine, July 3, 2003

SPORTS: UKRAINIAN ROWMAN THEODORE REZVOY SETS OUT TO CONQUER ATLANTIC
Attempt to be the first ever, but first, second, third and last, he is a citizen of the Ukraine

OP-ED by Steve Dunlevvy, New York Post, NY, NY, July 3, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 63, Thursday, July 3, 2003
Twelve Articles: (1) Cabinet of Ministers Seeks to Stabilize Food Markets, (2) Locust Plague Spreads Crisis for Ukraine Farmers, (3) Introduction of State Regulation of Prices for Flour and Bread, (4) Comments by Yulian Kulyas, Ukrainian-American Democratic Party about Amb. John Herbst, (5) Kuchma Signs Omnibus Intellectual Property Rights Bill Into Law, (6) US Equity Fund SigmaBleyzer Eyes Romania and Bulgaria, (7) Welsh Journalist Gareth Jones' Relatives Write to the Pulitzer Committee about Walter Duranty, (8) World Bank, Inflation Will be 6% in 2003, (9) Black Sea Cruise Stops at Four Historic Ports in Crimea, (10) Libya Orders Five Air Transports from Ukraine, (11) Russian Companies Ask Russian, Ukrainian PM's to Support Reverse of Odessa-Brody, (12) New Book about Early Aerial Exploits Features Ukrainian Igor Sikorsky's Historic Flight from St. Petersburg to Kiev, in 1914

LOCUST PLAGUE SPREADS CRISIS FOR UKRAINE FARMERS
By Tom Warner in Kiev, Financial Times; London, UK, Wednesday, July 02, 2003

"WE HOPE JOHN HERBST WILL NOT PURSUE A DOUBLE- STANDARDS POLICY, " SAYS CHAIR OF THE UKRAINIAN- AMERICAN PARTY YULIAN KULYAS
Interview with Yulian Kulyas Chair of the Ukrainian-American Democratic Party By Public Radio, Kyiv, Ukraine, July 1, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 62, Monday, June 30, 2003
Twelve Articles: (1) Kuchma Orders Selling of Grains in State Reserves to Stabilize Bread Market, (2) U.S. Senate Approves Appointment of John Herbst as Ambassador to Ukraine, (3) West LB Bank [Germany] Plans to do more Business in Ukraine, (4) Ukraine Declassifies Archives on Famine 1932-1933, (5) Ukrainian Astronaut Joins Private Space Race, (6) US Trade and Dev. Agency Gives Grant to Antonov, (7) Ukrainian Boxer Klitschko Pushes for Lewis Rematch, (8) Ukraine's Credit Rating Upgraded by Fitch Ratings, (9) "Strip Villian [Duranty] of His Pulitzer Prize,' (10) Ukraine, IMF Poised for Further Cooperation, (11) Ukrainian President will not Apologize for 1943 Massacres, Polish Reports Say, (12) What can be Expected from Ukraine's New Defence Minister Yevhen Marchuk

US FUND SIGMABLEYZER EYES ROMANIA
Already Has Launched Three Equity Funds in Ukraine

BUSINESS BRIEFS, Bucharest Business Week Online, Bucharest, Romania, 30 June 2003

SPORTS: FRANCE-BOUND UKRAINIAN ROWER THEODORE REZVOY KNOWS WHAT FLOATS HIS BOAT
"I do it for my country," he said. The blue and yellow flag of Ukraine will be aboard

By Charles Zusman, The Star-Ledger, NJ.com website, Newark, New Jersey, June 29, 2003

'STRIP VILLAIN OF HIS PULITZER PRIZE'
Relatives of a legendary Welsh journalist have joined the campaign

By Tomos Livingstone, The Western Mail, Cardiff, Wales, icWales, Thursday, June 26, 2003

UKRAINE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS TO DECLASSIFY DOCUMENTS ON 1932-1933 FAMINE
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, June 26, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 61, Wednesday, June 25, 2003
(1) Ukraine to Lose Economic Independence to Russian Oil Oligarchs (2) "Ukrainian Modernism 1910-1930," A New Exhibition (3) Administrative Reform and Presidential Power in Ukraine (4) Boxer Vitali Klitschko Loses Title Bout But Wins Respect (5) Ukraine to Ask UN to Declare 1932-1933 Famine an Act of Genocide (6) Ukrainian Pres.Urges EU to Take Stand on Odessa-Broady Pipeline (7) UK to Use NHS Records to Find Nazi War Criminals (8) A Historic Motion, Senate of Canada Recognizes Famine-Genocide (9) IMF May Resume Lending to Ukraine in August 2003 (10) Polish Co Invests $35 Million in Can Production in Ukraine (11) Vatican Praises Religious Freedom in Ukraine (12) 'Bloody' Mark Single Victim of Fatal Strike Day in Winnipeg in 1919 Acknowledged Via Grave, Was of Ukrainian Heritage

BEARING WITNESS
In 1932, the Pulitzer Prize went to a foreign correspondent who concealed a famine and the deaths of millions. Ukrainians want that prize revoked. Interview with Anatole Kolomayets, Famine Witness

By Charles Leroux, Tribune Senior Correspondent, Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, June 25, 2003

LETTER TO THE PULITZER PRIZE COMMITTEE
Open letter on the revocation of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence from Walter Duranty

by Dr. Margaret Siriol Colley, and Nigel Linsan Colley, neice and great nephew of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, Bramcote, Notts, UK, Tuesday, June 24, 2003

UKRAINE TO ASK UNITED NATIONS TO DECLARE 1932-1933 FAMINE AN ACT OF GENOCIDE
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 24, 2003

"FAMINE-GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE 1932-1933"
Western Archives, Testimonies and New Research

A New Book Edited by Wsevolod W. Isajiw, Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre (UCRDC), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2003

UKRAINIAN KLITSCHKO LOSES TITLE BOUT BUT WINS RESPECT
Vitali Klitschko Also Won the Hearts of the Crowd

By Steve Keating, Reuters, Los Angeles, CA, Sunday, June 22, 2003

WWII: UK POLICE TO USE NHS RECORDS TO FIND NAZI WAR CRIMINALS
The 7,100 people on the list were Ukrainian members of the 14th SS Division, which operated in eastern Europe during the Second World War

By Daniel Foggo, News.telegraph.co.uk, London, UK, June 22, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 60, Sat-Sun, June 21-22, 2003
INDEX OF ARTICLES
(1) U.S. Voices Concern over Ukrainian Energy Related Crime Ties
(2) John Herbst, US Ambassador-Designate to Ukraine Appears Before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, D.C.
(3) Moms Have Different Views of Boxers Lewis-Klitschko
(4) Ukraine Parliament has Legalized Farms in Ukraine
(5) Bishop Calls Award for Ukrainian Communist Leader "Hypocrisy"
(6) Kozachenko: Price of an Honest Job, Kyiv Post Editorial
(7) Moroz Wants Court to Decide Kuchma Third Term Issue
(8) The Pulitzer Pulled? Walter Duranty
(9) Earn Us Respect: Ukrainians Tell Boxer Klitschko
(10) Survivor of Ukrainian 1933 Famine Keeps Vow to Kin-Canada
(11) Vatican Praises Religious Freedom in Ukraine
(12) President Kuchma Addresses Nation on Constitutional Reform

ORTHODOX (UOC-KP) BISHOP CALLS AWARD FOR UKRAINIAN COMMUNISTY LEADER "HYPOCRISY"
Symonenko leads the party that refused to vote in the Parliament to declare the famine in 1932 and 1933 in Ukraine a genocide against the Ukrainian nation

RISU.org.ua, Lviv, Ukraine, Friday, June 20, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 59, Thursday, June 19, 2003
INDEX OF ARTICLES
(1) Romanian, Ukrainian Presidents Sign "Historic" Border Treaty
(2) OSCE Representative Urges Ukraine to Abide by Election Law
(3) Ukrainian Boxer Vitali Klitschko Eager to Make Final Step
(4) Westward Flow--People Leave Ukraine Looking for Jobs
(5) Ukrainian Lawmaker Urges Caution on Volyn Massacres Statements
(6) Kuchma Approves Large Pay Rise for Teachers
(7) Belarusian President Keen on Barrier-Free Trade with Ukraine
(8) One Pulitzer That Should Shake the World--Walter Duranty's
(9) Yushchenko Wants Broader Coalition to Win Next Election
(10) Ukrainian PM Advocates Free Trade Zone in CIS Countries
(11) Amb. Pascual Speech on Security and Peace in a Changing World
(12) Wyoming USA Couple Adopts Siblings from Ukraine

PRICE OF AN HONEST JOB
EDITORIAL about Leonid Kozachenko, Former Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for the Agro-Industrial Complex

The Kyiv Post. Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, June 19, 2003

LEONID KOZACHENKO FREED, PROTESTS INNOCENCE, PREPARES FOR TRIAL
By Peter Byrne, Kyiv Post Staff Writer Kyiv Post, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Jun 19, 2003

JOHN HERBST, US AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE TO UKRAINE APPEARS BEFORE US SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE
U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, June 18, 2003

UKRAINIAN BOXER KLITSCHKO CONFIDENT DESPITE HIS UNDERDOG ROLE
by Ken Peters, AP Sports Writer, A/P, Los Angeles, Wednesday, June 18, 2003

ONE PULITZER THAT SHOULD SHAKE THE WORLD
The prize in question was won in 1932 by Walter Duranty for "excellence in reporting" out of the Soviet Union

By Matt Bivens, Washington, for The Moscow Times, Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 16, 2003

UKRAINIANS DEMAND END TO 66 YEARS OF N.Y. TIMES LYING
WND Commentary By Les Kinsolving, WorldNetDaily.com, A Free Press for a Free People, Cave Junction, Oregon, Saturday, June 14, 2003

THE BLAIR AFFAIR FUELS A 70-YEAR-OLD SCANDAL
Editorials, Op-Ed, By Tim Ruttin: Regarding Media, The Los Angeles Times, LATimes.com, Los Angeles, California, Saturday, June 14, 2003

ACADEMIC AND MEMORIAL EXPEDITION "IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE FAMINE OF 1933" COMPLETES IT'S FIRST STAGE IN UKRAINE
Religious Information Service of Ukraine, (RISU), Lviv, Ukraine, June 13, 2003

PULITZER-WINNING LIES
After 70 years a Pulitzer committee is reexamining Walter Duranty's Stalin whitewashes in the New York Times. How bad were they? See for yourself

by Arnold Beichman, The Weekly Standard, Washington, D.C., Thursday, June 12, 2003

WALES: JUSTICE AT LAST FOR CRITIC OF STALINISM?
Welsh Journalist Gareth Jones Wrote The Truth About the Famine

by Tomos Livingstone, The Western Mail, Cardiff, Wales, June 12, 2003

COMMENTARY: GARETH JONES, HERO OF UKRAINE
By Martin Sieff, UPI Senior News Analyst, United Press International (UPI), Washington, D.C., June 12, 2003

PECHERSK DISTRICT COURT IN KYIV RELEASES LEONID KOZACHENKO ON BAIL UNDER RESPONSIBILITY OF MEMBERS OF RADA AND PUBLIC FIGURES
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, June 12, 2003

'32 NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER COULD BE YANKED
By Paul D. Colford, Daily News Business Writer, New York Daily News New York, New York, Wednesday, June 11, 2003

"UKRAINIAN MODERNISM 1910-1930," A NEW ART EXHIBITION
Agreement on the Joint Project "Ukrainian Modernism 1910-1930"

National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 10, 2003

PULITZER PROBES TIMES WRITER'S 1932 AWARD
A Review of Walter Duranty's Work

By Larry McShane, Associated Press Writer, A/P, New York, Tuesday, June 10, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 55
Sat-Sun, June 7-8, 2003

Thirteen Articles: (1) Ukrainian Cabinet Approves WTO Entry Action Plan; (2) Kuchma Rebukes Cabinet Over Low Foreign Investment; (3) Soccer Star Shevchenko Honored in Ukraine; (4) Famine-Genocide Monument in Washington, D.C.; (5) Chief Banker Tyhypko Advocates Economic Union with CIS: Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan; (6) Prof. James Mace Discusses Responses to New Famine Bibliography; (7) Austria Voices Support for Ukraine's EU Bid; (8) Ukraine, Russia Work On Payments for Victims of Airplane Crash; (9) Ukraine Mayor to Visit In Georgia; (10) New IT Project Brings Computer Literacy To Ukraine's Youth; (11) Fitting Ukraine into the Iraqi Picture by Taras Kuzio; (12) Book Review of Anne Applebaum's "Gulag" by Robert Service, London; (13) Pulitzer Prize Board Begins Review of Duranty's Award

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 54
Friday, June 6, 2003

Twelve Articles: (1) Parliament Gives Permission to Use Agricultural Land as Collateral, Law "On Mortgage;" (2) Ukraine Joins Iraqi Peacekeeping Force; (3) USA Welcomes Ukraine's Decision to Send Troops to Iraq; (4) Honored Chernobyl Hero's Lonely Death Far From Home; (5) Kuchma Considers It His Task To Insure Freedom of Speech; (6) 100th Anniversary of Translation of Full Bible into Ukrainian Celebrated; (7) New Ukraine Bond Cuts Cost of Borrowing; (8) Ukraine's Oil Pipeline Project Gains EU Backing; (9) Price of Choosing Way to Europe; (10) Ukrainian Visitors Welcomed to Cincinnati, Ohio; (11) E-Bay Sells A Missing Sputnik from Ukraine?; (12) TV Media Exec Wants Help to Solve Conflict with Rada

FEARS GROW THAT UKRAINIAN AUTHORITIES WILL RIG 2004 ELECTIONS
END NOTE: By Taras Kuzio, RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 7, No. 106, Part II, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Prague, Czech Republic, June 6, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 53
Wednesday, June 4, 2003

Twelve Articles: (1) Ukraine Readies $ 800 Million Offering; (2) Contest Announced in Ukraine for Best Monument to Commemorate 1932-1933 Famine Victims; (3) US Warns Ukraine Government of Grain Market Reforms; (4) Made in Dynamo! Andriy Shevchenko: First Ukrainian To Win The Cup of Champions; (5) Analysis: Shame of Duranty's Pulitzer, by Martin Sieff, UPI; (6) Three Western Ambassadors Urge Ukraine not to Restrict Rebroadcasts of the BBC, Deutsche Welle and VOA; (7) NATO OK's Plans to Help Poland in Iraq, Ukraine Will Probably Be Involved; (8) US Hasn't Exported Any Poultry to Ukraine in 2003; (9) Testimony by Embassy of Ukraine About the Erection of a Monument in Washington, D.C. to the Victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933; (10) Ukraine Needs to Break Moscow Ties, Moscow Patriarchate's Control over Ukrainian Orthodox Churches; (11) Ukraine Drafts Agreement for Int. Gas Consortium; (12) 10 Years On, CIS Has Yet to Create An Identity

UKRAINE ANNOUNCES CONTEST FOR BEST MONUMENT TO COMMEMORATE 1932-1933 FAMINE VICTIMS
Ukrinform, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 3, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 52
Monday, June 2, 2003

Twelve Articles; (1) Kuchma Urges Leaders To Speed Up Creation of CIS Free Trade Zone; (2) UK, US and German Ambassadors Warn Ukraine Against Crackdown on Rebroadcasting of BBC, VOA and Deutsche Wells programs; (3) Natural Birthing Techniques Taught In Ukraine; (4) Ukrainian Opposition Leader Taras Stetskiv Urges Yushchenko to Take More Radical Steps, (5) UK Supports Ukrainian Troops In International Contingent in Iraq; (6) Randolph, Vermont Rotary Club Gives 140 Children Hearing Aids in Mirgorod; (7) Acute Slavophobia 08) Kuchma Warns Against Regional Divisions In Ukraine During the 2004 Presidential Elections; (9) Major Additions Made to Ukrainian Village Project; (10) Comment: Why I Back This Warwas Pact. (11) Ukraine Macro Economic Situation by SigmaBleyzer (12) Holy Sites, the Churches of Ukraine, By Natalia Feduschak

DISCUSSION ON H-RUSSIA LIST OF THE NEW UKRAINIAN FAMINE (HOLODOMOR) OF 1932-1933 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Letter to the Editor of UKRAINE REPORT 2003, E. Morgan Williams, Ukraine Market Reform Group, Washington, D.C.

By Prof. James Mace, Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, June 2, 2003

ANALYSIS: SHAME OF DURANTY'S PULITZER
The Pulitzer Prize board is reviewing the award it gave to Duranty

By Martin Sieff, UPI Senior News Analyst, Washington, D.C., Monday, June 2, 2003

FOLKLORE AND ETHNOGRAPHIC DATA ABOUT UKRAINE
Major Additions Made to the Ukrainian Village Project

By Natalie O. Kononenko, Faculty, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia, Monday, June 2, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 51
May 31-June 1, 2003

Thirteen Articles: (1) Kuchma Boasts of Economic Growth and Dwells on Politics; (2) US Amb. Pascual Speaks About "Energy and Ukraine's Euro- Atlantic Future;" (3) Shevchenko Awarded Ukraine's Top Sports Honor; (4) U.S. Lawmakers Plead Case of Jailed Former Agriculture Official in Ukraine; (5) Volyn 1943-1944, An Unknown Tragedy by The Day; (6) Russia's Largest Brewer Baltika Expands in Ukraine; (7) Reconstruction of Ancient Church Begins In Kyiv; (8) Polish Paint Producer Has Good Results in Ukraine; (9) Britain is on "Free Speech" Bandwagon Against Ukraine; (10) Students Come to Massachusetts from Ukraine; (11) Ukrainian Greek Catholic Religions Leader Cardinal Lubomyr Hussar in Chicago to Install New Bishop; (12) Soviet-Era Intelligence Agency SMERSH on Exhibit in Moscow, Fought Against the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement; (13) UK Air Charter Firm in Air Crash Row

U.S. LAWMAKERS PLEAD CASE OF JAILED FORMER AGRICULTURE OFFICIAL IN UKRAINE
By Tim Vickery, Associated Press Writer; The Associated Press, Kyiv, Ukraine
Friday, May 30, 2003

SHEVCHENKO AWARDED UKRAINE'S TOP SPORTS HONOR
AC Milan Soccer Striker

Reuters, Kyiv, Ukraine, May 30, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 50
Thursday, May 29, 2003

Twelve Articles; (1) Fitch Rates Ukrainian Eurobonds B; (2) Northland Power Seeks $170 Million For Power Plant Upgrade in Ukraine; (3) ADRA Ukraine Nourishes Hungry Street Children, (4) IMF Considers Decision to Create New Development Bank Unfortunate; (5) The Case of Pavlo Lazrenko by Taras Kuzio; (6) Mexico-Ukraine Sign Economic Agreement; (7) Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus Celebrates 85 Years and Goes on Historic Tour to Europe; (8) Agency Setup for Restructuring Khlip Ukrainiy Debts; Khip Ukrainy to Buy Crimea's Largest Bread Production Co. (9) UK Says Protection of Journalists Must Come Before Ukraine Membership in EU and NATO; (10) Vatican: Moldavia and Ukraine Should Join EU before Turkey, Russia and Israel; (11) EU to Support Ukrainian Oil Import Pipeline; (12) World Famous Ukrainian Artist Kazimir Malevich's Shapes of Things to Come Exhibition At Guggenheim Gallery in NYC

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT BOASTS ECONOMIC GROWTH, DWELLS ON POLITICS
Says Rival Yushchenko made wrong choice

Ukrainian Television first programme, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 28 May 03 BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, May 28, 2003

SHYP, WOODEN SCULPTURE ARTIST: Ukraine Through the Eyes of Laslo Shyp, Renowned Transcarpathian Master of Wooden Sculpture
By Yury Zelinsky, The Day Weekly Digest, Kyiv, Ukraine, May 27, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 49
Tuesday, May 27, 2003

Thirteen Articles: (1) Ukraine Agrees to Send Troops to Iraq, (2) Airplane Crashes are a Blow to Ukraine's Charter Business; (3) Pottery and Art Shape the History of Kolomiya; (4) Ohio Man Named Honorary Consul for Ukraine; (5) US and GUUAM Develop Cooperation in Security, Trade and Transportation, (6) Syngenta Agro Ag Company States Charges About Their Company and Officials Totally False, Demands Prosecutor Refute Charges; (7) FDI Creates Significant Economic Multiplier Effect According to WNISEF Study, (8) Miners Strike, Demand Govn't Pay Back Wages; (9) Cooperation on Environment with New Neighbors; (10) Can-Do Company, New Can Mfg. Plant in Ukraine; (11) New Book, "When Luba Comes Home" by Irene Zabytko; (12) New Holodomor-Famine Bibliography and H-RUSSIA Discussion; (13) Testimony on Constructing a Monument in Washington, D.C. to Honor Victims of Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933

MALEVICH'S SHAPES OF THINGS TO COME--A Revolutionary Whose Brush Was Mightier Than His Pen. Kazimir Malevich was born near Kiev in 1878
By Blake Gopnik, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., May 27, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 48
Sat-Sun, May 24-25, 2003

Twelve Articles: (1) Chernobyl Still Haunts Hill Farms in Wales; (2) Children's Voice Radio Program From Ukraine Wins Top UNICEF Award for Outstanding Children's Program, (3) EBRD Urges Improvement in Investment Climate in Ukraine, (4) Ministers Sign Agreement to Preserve the Carpathian Mountain Region in 8 Countries, (5) Kuchma Optimistic About Ukraine's International Role, (6) Major Ukrainian Bank, Oshchadbank [Savings Bank], Faces Bankruptcy, (7) 'Our Ukraine" Political Leaders Meet German Chancellor, (8) Vasyl H. Krychevsky Art Collection Returns to Ukraine from Venezuela, (9) Coca-Cola and Edinburgh University, UK, Provides Scholarships to Ukrainian, Eastern Europe Gifted Students, (10) Leader of Ukrainian Smuggling and Prostitution Ring Jailed in the USA, (11) Campaign Mounts to Maintain Funding for RFE/RL and VOA Ukrainian Services, (12) Russia and Ukraine Determined to Cooperate on An-70 Transportation Plane

WORKS BY MALEVICH STIR CONTROVERSY AT GUGGENHEIM
Kazimir Malevich was born near Kyiv in 1878

The Russia Journal Daily, Moscow, The Associated Press, New York, May 23, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 47
Friday, May 23, 2003

Twelve Articles: (1) New 13% Income Tax Law Passed; (2) Yushchenko in Canada Says Ukraine is Between Democracy and Totalitarianism; (3) Ukraine Signs Carpathian Environment Convention; (4) Ukraine, Russia, Belarus Agree to Rehabilitate the Dnieper River; (5) Rada Recognizes Famine As Genocide, Communists Demur; (6) Ho Chi Minh's Birthday Marked in Ukraine; (7) Kuchma Thinks Ukraine Can Influence European Integration Decisions; (8) EBRD Hails Ukraine's Tax Waiver for Chernobyl Type Projects; (9) The Foreign Policy of Pessimists, Op-Ed by William Gleason; (10) Russia Still Sees Ukraine As A Satellite, The Day; (11) The Court As Tool: Ukraine Has Made Little Progress Towards A Truly Independent Judiciary, Editorial, (12) Ukraine Bolsters Music Piracy Law

CHERNOBYL STILL HAUNTS HILL FARMS IN WALES
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster shook the world in 1986 - and hundreds of Welsh farmers continue to feel the tremors 17 years on

BBC NEWS, World Edition, UK, Thursday, May 22, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 46
Thursday, May 22, 2003

Ten Articles: (1) Carpathian Mts. Home to Europe's Richest Diversity of Mountain-Dwelling Animal and Plant Species; (2) Ukraine Urged to Cancel Canal in Danube Wetland; (3) Ukraine Greens Protest Against Danube-Sea Canal; (4) Kuchma Asks EU to Help Handle Chernobyl; (5) Standard and Poor's [S&P] Elevates Outlook for Ukraine; (6) Danish Clothing Maker to Set Up Factory in Ukraine; (7) Eurocar to Start Assembly of Volkswagens in Ukraine; (8) Lawmakers Say TB Threatens Nation, Not Enough Being Done; (9) Polish Expert Says, "A Free and Powerful Ukraine Could be One More Chance for the Existence of a Stable Europe;" (10) "The Universals of Ukrainian Culture" by Professor By Professor Serhiy Krymsky

RADA RECOGNIZES FAMINE AS GENOCIDE: COMMUNISTS DEMUR
By Evgenia Mussuri, Kyiv Post Staff Writer, Kyiv Post, Kyiv, Ukraine, May 22, 2003

CAMPAIGN MOUNTS TO MAINTAIN FUNDING TO UKRAINIAN SERVICES OF VOICE OF AMERICA AND RADIO FREE EUROPE
Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA), Ukrainian National Information Service (UNIS), Washington, D.C., Thursday, May 22, 2003

CONSTRUCTING A MONUMENT IN WASHINGTON, D.C. TO HONOR VICTIMS OF UKRAINIAN FAMINE-GENOCIDE OF 1932-1933
UCCA Makes Presentation to the National Park Service About A Site

Michael Sawkiw, Jr, President, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA), Washington, D.C., Thursday, May 22, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 45
Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Fifteen Articles: (1) Kuchma Urges Faster Action On EU and WTO; (2) Ukraine WTO Membership in 2003 Possible; (3) Water is Ukraine's Most Urgent Environmental Issue, World Bank; (4) Parliament Painfully Recognizes Holodomor at a Genocide; (5) Great Ukrainian Jihad; (6) UK Firm UKX Purchases Oil Stake; (7) South Troy, New York Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Founded in 1897, (8) Rada Makes Russian A Minority Language; (9) Hungarian Firm to Build A Large Mall in Kyiv; (10) Solonci, Ukraine Remains Divided; (11) Church Expedition in Memory of Famine Victims; (12) Money Talks for Ukrainian Artist in Odessa; (13) UWC on Ukrainian-Polish Relations; (14) The EU and Slavic Dreams in Ukraine; (15) Banning Sale of Baby Parts in Italy

STALIN'S APOLOGIST
New York Times Scandal Sparks Memories of Far Worse One

By Paul Jackson, Associate Editor, The Calgary Sun Calgary, Alberta, Canada, May 20, 2003

"FACING THE PAST, Parliament Painfully Recognizes the Holodomor As Genocide"
By Serhiy Makhun, James Mace, The Day Weekly Digest, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 20, 2003

NEW YORK TIMES STILL BACKS 'GREATEST LIAR' REPORTER
Walter Duranty deliberately covered up the starvation of millions of Ukrainian peasants by Stalin's government

By Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com, West Palm Beach, Florida, Monday, May 19, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 44
Monday, May 19, 2003

Fifteen Articles: (1) President Kuchma's Europe Day Address; (2) Parliament of Ukraine Declares the 1932-1933 Famine an Act of Genocide; (3) Plight of Small Businesses in Europe; (4) Viktor Yushchenko Speech in Canada; (5) AES Energy Company to Continue in Ukraine; (6) Medical Dictionary Available In Ukrainiain for the First Time; (7). Georgia Calls for Strategic Triangle with Azerbaijan and Ukraine; (8) U.S. Lawyers for Lazarenko Arrive in Kyiv; (9) Diaspora Role in Kyiv Famine Memorial Unclear; (10) Ukraine's Supreme Court Denies Claim of the Western NIS Enterprise Fund; (11) March for the Rights of the Tartars Held in Crimea; (12) Ukraine Reports Increase in Foreign Investment; (13) Caspian Oil May Reach Europe Via Ukraine by End of 2003; (14) Egypt to Import Wheat from Ukraine and Russia; (15) Thousands March in Kyiv to Honor AIDS/HIV Victims

PARLIAMENT OF UKRAINE DECLARES THE 1932-1933 FAMINE "AN ACT OF GENOCIDE," AND A "DELIBERATE TERRORIST ACT OF THE STALINIST POLITICAL SYSTEM"
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service, Kyiv, Ukraine, May 19, 2003

DIASPORA ROLE IN UKRAINIAN FAMINE MEMORIAL UNCLEAR
UWC received an incomprehensible letter from Kyiv Mayor Omelchenko

www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS), Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, May 19, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 43
Friday, May 16, 2003

Fifteen Articles: (1) Rada and Sending Ukrainian Army to Iraq; (2) Second Rada Hearing On the 1932-1933 Famine, Communists Leave; (3) New York Times: Jayson Blair and Walter Duranty; (4) Iraq Oil Deals; (5) New Ukrainian Book Award In Canada; (6) U.S.,Ukraine and Iraq Tenders; (7) The New York Times and Ukrainians Drive to Take Duranty's Pulitzer Prize Away; (8) MP's and Criminal Cases Against the Media; (9) Buying Newly Harvested Grain, Derzhreserv or Khlib Ukrainy?; (10) Ukrainian Orthodox Church Writes Kuchma about L. Kozachenko; (11) Tymoshenko, Yuschenko, Symonenko and Moroz Unity Coming to an End? (12) UK City Helps Children in Yalta; (13) Kyiv's Homeless Kids Find Hope in the Ark; (14) Poland's New Neighbourhood Policy for Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova; (15) Former National Bank Official Sentenced, Yushchenko Claims it is Political

UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH SENDS LETTER TO PRESIDENT KUCHMA ASKING FOR BAIL FOR LEONID KOZACHENKO
Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Office of Kyiv Domain, Kyiv, Ukraine, Ukrainian Agribusiness News Service, Thursday, May 15, 2003

SECOND RADA HEARING ON THE 1932-1933 FAMINE IN UKRAINE
Communists refuse to participate, state the famine was not artificial

By Vlad Lavrov, ArtUkraine.com correspondent in Kyiv
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service, Kyiv, Ukraine, May 15, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 42
Wednesday, May 14, 2003

Fifteen Articles: (1) Anders Aslund: What is Needed is Free Trade; (2) Borys Tarasyuk May Revive Ukraine's Rukh Party; (3) U.S. Assisting Ukraine Regarding NATO; (4) President Kuchma's Constitutional Reforms; (5) Seven Ukrainian Artists Exhibit in the USA; (6) ITIC on Taxation of Cigarettes in Ukraine; (7) Solving Journalist's Murder; (8) Prof. James Mace on Freedom of the Press; (9) Yushchenko to Visit Canada, (10) Artwork of Vasyl H. Krychevsky Showing In Kyiv; Donated to Ukrainian Museums; (11) Statement by Granddaughter of Vasyl H. Krychevsky, Oksana Linde de Ochoa; (12) A 'Great Europe' has to Include Turkey, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia; (13) Ukrainian Football Coach Valeriy Lobanovsky Honored with Award and Statue; (14) Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan to Develop Nuclear Fuel Venture; (15) Kolchuga Plant Reports Record Profits

KRYCHEVSKY ARTWORK AND ARCHIVE EXHIBITION IN KYIV
Collection Of Items by Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky Donated to Ukrainian Museums by Krychevsky Family in Caracas, Venezuela

By Vlad Lavrov, ArtUkraine.com Correspondent in Kyiv
ArtUkraine.com Information Service, Kyiv, Ukraine, May 14, 2003

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION RELEASES
STUDY ON TAXATION OF CIGARETTES IN UKRAINE
ITIC Recommends Retaining Current Regime and Indexing Rates

Ukraine Market Reform Group, Kyiv, Ukraine, May 14, 2003

VOLYN 1943-1944, AN UNKNOWN TRAGEDY
The Terrible Interethnic Conflict Between Ukrainians and Poles in Volyn National dignity means truth for ourselves and our descendants

Prepared by Serhiy Makhun, Ihor Siundiukov, Vyacheslav Darpinyants, and Mykhailo Mazurin THE DAY Weekly Digest in Two Parts Part I, May 13, 2003; Part II, May 27, 2003, Kyiv, Ukraine

UKRAINIAN CHURCHES SUPPORT EXPEDITION IN MEMORY OF FAMINE VICTIMS
Dedicated to the 70th Anniversary of the Soviet-Imposed Famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), Lviv, Ukraine, May 13, 2003

FOLK ART AND CULTURE TOUR OF UKRAINE 2003: "RETURN TO THE SOURCE"
Eighth Annual Folk Art and Culture Tour of Ukraine, 2003
Hosted by Ukrainian-Canadian Folk Art Specialist Orysia Tracz
Ukraine, July 28-August 12, 2003
ArtUkraine Information Service (ARTUIS), May 13, 2003

NARAZYAN, VACHAGAN AND SIX OTHER UKRAINIAN ARTISTS WITH TIES TO KHARKIV TAKE ON BEAUTY IN ART EXHIBITION
Beacon, New York Gallery Hosts Exhibit "The Interconnection of Time" Artworks by Vachagan Narazyan, Dmitriy Dymshyts, Edward Yashin, Stas Gidzevich's and three other Ukrainians

By Rebecca Rothbaum, Poughkeepsie Journal Poughkeepsie, New York, May 12, 2003

LOBANOVSKIY: UEFA REMEMBERS UKRAINIAN FOOTBALL COACH
UEFA'S Ruby Order of Merit Award Presented to Family

Union of European Football Association (UDFA), Nyon, Switzerland, May 12, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 41
Monday, May 12, 2003

Fifteen Articles: (1) Ukraine Upbeat on Results of NATO Conference; (2) Ukraine Security Chief Notes Warming Relations With USA; (3) Walter Duranty and the New York Times; (4) Works of Vasyl H. Krychevsky Arrive in Ukraine, (5) Fight Against Breast Cancer, Mrs. Kuchma; (6) Ukrainian Candy-Making Entrepreneurs Tour in the USA; (7) New Famine 1932-1933 Bibliography Published; (8) What's Next in U.S.-Ukraine Relations?; (9) OP-ED by Taras Kuzio; (10) Campaign to Revoke Pulitzer Prize; (11) Clash on Victory Day Between Left and Right; (12) Families Forced to Farm Poisoned Land in Belarus; (13) World War II Victory Day Celebrated; (14) Monument to Catherine The Great Proposed for Sevastopol; (15) Ukraine Celebrates Mother's Day

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 40
Friday, May 9, 2003

Eight Articles: (1) Ukraine: Famine--Eliminating an 'Enemy' Class Through Collectivization; (2) Ukraine Famine--Survivors Recall The Horror of 1933; (3) Ukraine: Famine--Seventy Years Later World Largely Still Unaware of the Tragedy, Three Articles by Askold Krushelnycky in 2003; (4) Gareth Jones Writes to Lloyd George, 1933; (5) Gareth Jones Says Famine Grips Russia, 1933; (6) Gareth Jones Reports On Famine in the Soviet Union, 1933; (7) Walter Duranty's Infamous Reply to Gareth Jones in the New York Times, 1933, "But--to put it brutally--you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.;" (8) Gareth Jones Replies to Walter Duranty, "I Stand By My Statement," 1933

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 39
Wednesday, May 7, 2003

Eleven Articles: (1) U.S.-Ukraine Relationship, Warming Possible?; (2) Putin and Kuchma Meet for 5 Days; (3) Ukraine Cracks Down on CD Piracy; (4) EBRD Annual Report 2002-Ukraine; (5) EBRD & Toepfer Bringing Fair Prices to Farmers; (6) Toepfer Stockholders ADM and Intrade; (7) EBRD and Post Communist Countries; (8) NATO and Ukraine, Peace and Security; (9) New Crop Planting Record Set In Ukraine; (10) Three Vasyl H. Krychevsky Art and Archive Showings In Ukraine; (11) Cossack Pirates of the Black Sea

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 38
Tuesday, May 6, 2003

Three Articles: (1) Press Freedom Declines Worldwide, Major Setbacks in Russia, Ukraine and Venezuela, Freedom House, New York; (2) Ukraine, Annual Press Freedom Report 2003, Press Freedom Declined in Ukraine, by Reporters Without Borders, Paris; (3) Ukraine Media Circus by Yuriy Shafarenko, Transitions Online, Prague

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 37
Monday, May 5, 2003

Twelve Articles: (1) Vasyl H. Krychevsky Collection Shown At Embassy of Ukraine in Washington; (2) Press Freedom Is Important, Ireland and Ukraine; (3) Apologist for Stalin Unworthy of His Prize; (4) Ukraine May Participate in Iraq Peacekeeping; (5) Putin on World Order; (6) Ukrainians Want Pro-Stalin Writer Stripped of Pulitzer; (7) Revoke Duranty's 1932 Pulitzer Prize; (8) Ukrainians Demand Pulitzer be Revoked; (9) Ukrainian Hockey Player Holds Auction, (10) Ukraine Worst Intellectual Property Rights Offender Says USA; (11) Land 'O Lakes Receives Award for Ukraine Agricultural Marketing Project; (12) Cops Are A Threat To Westerners

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 36
Friday, May 2, 2003

Thirteen Articles: (1) Kuchma and Putin Have Discussion, Pipeline, Airplanes; (2) U.S. Says Ukraine Still Tops Global Piracy List; (3) Ukraine to Buy Bread Grain; (4) UK Helps Ukraine Orphans in Chernigov; (5) New US Ambassador Nomination Sent to White House; (6) Folk Art and Culture Tour to Ukraine 2003; (7) May Day Rally in Kyiv; (8) Strip Pulitzer Prize; (9) Canadian Doctor Gave 'Gift of Life'; (10) Fire In Kamianets-Podilskyi Destroys Historic Archives; (11) New Jersey, A Slave Trade Center; (12) Minnesota Festival of Nations Directed by Ukrainian-American; (13) British Columbia Ukrainian Cultural Festival

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 35
Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Twelve Articles: (1) EBRD Lowers Ukraine Growth Forecast; (2) Troubled Media Environment in Ukraine by US Senator; (3) Yushchenko to go to Canada for Meetings; (4) Lazarenko to Ukraine for Questioning?; (5) The New Donetsk Leadership Team in Kyiv; (6) Ukrainian World Congress Sets Agenda for Meeting in Kyiv in August 2003; (7) Back to the USSR? by Taras Kuzio; (8) Ukrainian Leader Blames Website for Low Popularity; (9) UWC Joins UN Committee; (10) Ukraine, A Decade of Independence, New Journal; (11) Ukraine Sitting on the EU Sidelines Sulking; (12) Culture, Nation and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter (1600-1945), A New Book

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 34
Tuesday, April 29, 2003

Thirteen Articles: Bush to Nominate New U.S. Amb. to Ukraine; New Name to Remember is John Edward Herbst; New Ukraine Law Prohibits Media Censorship; News Policies Change At Forum Web Site; Grain Traders are not going to be Prosecuted, Kuchma; Citigroup Invests In Eastern Europe; Kozachenko Statement At International Grain Conference, Chernobyl Legacy Lingers, East London Opera Broadcast on Volia; Ukrainian Boy Adopted by U.S. Couple; A Deal That Worked, Ukraine Gives Up Its Warheads for Destruction; Bush and the Armenian Genocide; Chinese Girl Wins Ukrainian International Dance Festival

ADOPTION: THE RANDOLPH'S ADOPT 2-YEAR-OLD UKRAINIAN "ZACKERY" WHO FINDS LOVE, HOME IN TRINITY, ALABAMA
By Clyde L. Stancil, Daily Staff Writer, The Decatur Daily News, Decatur, Alabama, Sunday, April 27, 2003

HUTSUL FESTIVAL 2003, XIII ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL HUTSUL FESTIVAL
August 30-31, 2003, Vyzhnytsya, Ukraine

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 33
Thursday, April 24, 2003

Twelve Articles: Interview with U.S. Amb. Carlos Pascual by Holos Ukrayiny; Chernobyl Aware of Russian Safety Concerns; Kuchma Pledges to European Integration in BBC Interview; UCCA Testifies Before U.S. Congress; Kuchma Asks PGO to End Media Law Suits; EBRD and Micro Finance Bank; The Good Egg, Pysanka; Op-Ed, Remembering the Chernobyl Disaster; Chicago Doctor Volunteers Work in Ukraine; Large PC Factory Starts Up; Ukraine Remembers Dynamo Legend; Social Services Through the Path of God, Interview with Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine

FOOTBALL: UKRAINE REMEMBERS DYNAMO LEGEND
Yuri Voinov was one of the Great FC Dynamo Kyiv Players of the Soviet Era

Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), UEFA.com, Nyon, Switzerland, April 23, 2003

UCCA LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO REVOKE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER WALTER DURANTY'S 1932 PULITIZER PRIZE
Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA), New York, April 22, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 32
Tuesday, April 22, 2003

Twelve Articles: Secret Chernobyl Archives Released; Ombudsman Laments Media Freedom in Ukraine; Farmers Take Land Ownership; Council of Europe Alarmed On Suits Against Media; Ag Group Wants Kozachenko Released; Ukrainian Museum In New York Pysanky Exhibition; Human Rights Abuses; Hi-Tech Market Grows; Will Regulate Market For Baked Goods; Russian Church Fights to Dominate; Adoption Problems Encountered by Canadian

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT KUCHMA PLEDGES COMMITMENT TO EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
Interview by Svitlana Dorosh and Rostyslav Khotyn, BBC Ukrainian Service Special Correspondents in Athens, Greece during the European Summit, April 18, 2003. Published by the BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English on April 22, 2003 and by The Day, Kyiv, Ukraine

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 31
Monday, April 21, 2003

Thirteen Articles: Chernobyl Victims March, Want to be Paid; Grain Market Intervention; Deal for Gas Debt; Ukraine to Build Pipeline; Ukrainian Party Backs Russian Language; Ukraine Ambassador to USA Speaks In North Dakota; Pysanky; Folic Acid and Down's Syndrome; Agriculture Reform Threatened; World Bank Helps Ukraine Fight TB and AIDS; Catholics Want Their Property Back; Taras Protsyuk: Reporter in a Floating World; Low Professionalism Of Ukraine Judges

ADOPTIONS: AND BABY MAKES ONE
Bren Hoadley spent thousands of dollars trying to adopt a foreign child. Now she has an empty stroller and a message for other would-be parents Adoption agency stopped working with Ukraine out of frustration with its bureaucracy

By Margaret Philp, Social Policy Reporter The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada, Saturday, April 19, 2003 - Page F6

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 30
Friday, April 18, 2003

Thirteen Articles: EU Woos Russia and Ukraine; PM'S Program Approved by Rada; Kuchma Meets With European Leaders; Ukrainian Lady Receives Corrective Surgeries in the USA; Inflation to be 8%; Catholics and Orthodox Problems; Pysanky, Volkswagen tp be Assembled in Ukraine; USA Rotary Club Takes Hearing Aids To Ukraine; Khrushchev's Grand-daughter on Ukrainian History; Rights of the Child, Ukraine's Economy Takes Off, Good News From Ukraine

TARAS PROTSYUK: UKRAINAN REPORTER IN A FLOATING WORLD, KILLED IN BAGHDAD
By Inessa Kim, TOL correspondent in Poland, Transitions On Line, Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, 17 April 2003

KYIV TO HOST GRAIN CONFERENCE
Chaotic Tendencies In Ukraine Grain Market Has Stripped the Market of US$100 Million in Investments, Will Have Negative Effect on Harvest

Intelnews Daily, Kyiv, Ukraine, April 17, 2003

PYSANKA: UKRAINIAN EGGS LAST ALL YEAR LONG
Pysanka are her passion."Being Ukrainian is more than wearing a Ukrainian shirt and eating perogies," she says." Its a way of preserving their heritage and making it come alive for them," said Gerry Zerebecky

By Reporter Britainy Robinson, CBC Saskatchewan, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, April 17, 2003

RELIGION: CONSTRUCTION OF CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL IN KIEV DRAWS IRE OF UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH-MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE
Catholic News Service, April 16, 2003

CIRCUS PERFORMERS: UKRAINIAN SOMERSAULT CHAMPION, ANDREY BEZRUCHENKO, BREAKS HIS OWN CIRCUS WORLD RECORD IN WALES
The Western Mail, Wales, UK, April 16, 2003

MEDICAL SUPPORT: UKRAINIAN LADY RECEIVES SURGERIES IN COLORADO, USA TO MEND FACIAL DEFORMITY
Colorado doctor helps provide normalcy to Ukraine woman born with massive facial tumor

By Bazi Kanani, 9News, The Denver Post, Denver, Colorado, April 16, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Special Edition Number Four; The Bread Question in Ukraine
Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Twelve Articles: Cabinet of Ministers Statement on Private Grain Markets; Jenkins, Ukraine Grain Market--Free?; Letter from 16 Ukrainian Journalists to President Kuchma; Journalists Ask Kuchma for Objective Investigation of Kozachenko; Kuchma Takes Action on Grain Markets and Case of Kozachenko; Grain is Gain; Soap Opera on Grain Affair Motives; Governor Calls For Government Help for Farm Loans; Low Grain Harvest Forecast; Draft Regulation for Market of Bread Products; Ministry of Internal Affairs Commences Check of Grain Traders; Ukraine Lashes Out at Canada for Interference In Scandal on Ukrainian Grains Market

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT KUCHMA TAKES ACTION ON GRAIN MARKET SITUATION AND CASE OF KOZACHENKO
Interfax-Ukraine Website, Kyiv, Ukraine, April 16, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 28
Wednesday, April 16, 2003

One Article: TEXT OF UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT LEONID KUCHMA'S STATE-OF-NATION ANNUAL ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT Ukrainian Radio First Programme, Kyiv, in Ukrainian, April 15, 2003 and the BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, April 15, 2003

UKRAINE'S EUROCAR TO ASSEMBLE VOLKSWAGEN CARS
STARTING IN JULY OF 2003

by Anna Ivanova-Galitsina, Dow Jones Newswires, Moscow, April 15, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Special Ukraine Agribusiness Report
Tuesday, April 15, 2003

Open Address Letter of Ukrainian Journalists to the President of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, April 14, 2003; Journalists Ask Kuchma to Make for Objective Investigation of Kozachenko's Case, Ukrianian News, Kyiv, Ukraine, April 14, 2003

PYSANKY: THE ART OF THE EGG, CARRYING ON AN AGE-OLD UKRAINIAN TRADITION, ARTIST STEPHANIE ASTALOS-JONES
By Julie Phillips Jordan, Athens Banner-Herald, Athens, Georgia, April 14, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 27
Monday, April 14, 2003

Twelve Articles: USA Backs WTO Bid; IMF Praises Ukraine On Economic Growth; Oil and Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic Chance, A Democratic Iraq, No, Ukraine, Not Yet; Charges Against Media Not Legal; Sprinter Block Favored in World Championship; Eggs--Faberge to Pysanky--Sizzle; A Vision for Ukraine by Dobriansky; Lacking Parish Churches; Ukrainian-American Appointed to U.S. Circuit Court; James Sherr on The Future; Russia Grants 600,000 Ukrainians Citizenship

ASSETS: EGGS--FABERGE TO PYSANKY--SIZZLE
Decorated Eggs Are On A Roll; Ukrainian Folk Style Called Pysanky

By Richard Chang, Reuters, New York April 13, 2003

FAMINE: ANNUAL MENNONITE CRAFT AND QUILT AUCTION RAISES $135,000
Nebraska Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) was born in 1920 in response to hunger and related human need brought on by war and revolution in Russia and Ukraine

By Laurie Pfeifer & Steve Swazo, AuroraNewsRegister.com, Aurora, Nebraska, April 10, 2003

NOTES FROM UKRAINE: GRAIN IS GAIN
Was the arrest of a deputy minister for agriculture really an attempt to root out corruption, or the signal for an attack on the free market?

By Ivan Khokhotva, TOL Correspondent in Kyiv, Transitions Online, Prague, Czech Republic, April 10, 2003

UKRAINE WARNED ON INVESTMENT PLUNGE
Ukraine must scrap plans for state controls in ag sector writes Kempton Jenkins, Ukraine-U.S. Business Council President

UKRAINIAN JOURNAL, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 10, 2003

LETTER FROM THE AGRARIAN COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN UKRAINE TO FIRST VICE PRIME MINISTER OF UKRAINE AZAROV ABOUT CENTRALIZED REGULATION OF AGRARIAN MARKET
Kyiv, Ukraine, April 9, 2003, (UMRG)

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 26
Wednesday, April 9, 2003

Twelve Articles: Five Million Ukrainians Working Illegally Abroad; Ukraine- U.S. Business Council Writes Ambassador about Agricultural Markets; Shcherbak's Term As Ambassador to Canada Ends; Foreign Trade Policy Strategy for Ukraine by Anders Aslund; Privatization and Social Welfare by SigmaBleyzer; Prosecutor Opens Case Against the Media; 1943 Massacre Commemoration; Ukrainian Easter Egg Goes to the White House; North Carolina Family Adopts Child in Ukraine; New Chief of Ukrainian Property Fund; New Sun Seed Crushing Plant to be Built; McDonald's Ukraine Makes Major Cutback In Expansion Plans

UKRAINE REPORT 2003: Special Edition Three
Tuesday, April 8, 2003

The Bread Question In Ukraine, Nine Articles: Ukrainian President Will Reinforce Regulation of Grain Market; Grain Exports Might Be Quoted: Kuchma Likely to Sign Tough Grain Market Decree; Anti-Monopoly Committee to Investigate Grain Markets; Press Release By Syngenta Ukraine; Court Refuses to Release Kozachenko; Appeal Court Affirms Kozachenko's Arrest; Kozachenko Accused of Bribes; Kozachenko Lawyer Considers As Groundless Charges of GPO About Kozachenko Taking Bribes

"A VISION FOR UKRAINE,"
Presentation by Paula Dobriansky Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, U.S. Department of State At the "Civil Society in Ukraine" Conference, Co-Sponsored by the George Washington University and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Washington, D.C., April 7-8, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Special Edition Two
Monday, April 7, 2003

The Bread Question, Ten Articles: Prices on Grain Market Stabilized; Tymoshenko Bloc Says Starvation in Ukraine Possible; 200 Criminal Cases Started in AgroIndustrial Complex; Parliament Urges Objectivity in Leonid Kozachenko Case; Lawyers For Kozachenko Challenge GPO's Criminal Case; Kozachenko Says His Arrest is Politically Motivated; Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA) Calls for Prudent Approach; Criminal Case is Warning to Executive Power Says Vice-Prime Minister Kyrylenko, State Reserve Sells High Grade Flour; Ukrainian Grain Market Analytical Report by Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA)

PYSANKY: ANNUAL EGGSTRAVAGANZA SHOWS UKRAINIAN ARTISTRY
Ninth Annual Easter Bazaar, Ukrainian Museum-Archives

Cleveland, Ohio, By John Petkovic, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio, April 6, 2003

PYSANKY: BEVERLY BOIWKA'S DECORATED EGG MAKES IT TO THE ANNUAL WHITE HOUSE EASTER EGG DISPLAY
Boiwka specializes in decorating eggs Ukrainian style

By Ethel Moyers, The Morning Journal, Lorain, Ohio, April 6, 2003

TWO UKRAINIAN ÉMIGRÉS HAVE BUILT THRIVING COMPUTER PARTS BUSINESS MICRO X-PRESS IN THE USA IN INDIANA
By Thomas P. Wyman, Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana, April 4, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 25
Friday, April 4, 2003

Twelve Articles: New Law on Censorship; Warning on Oil Deal with Russia; Kiev Helps the Allies; Catholic Churches Want Property Back; Who Will Control Agriculture; Chief Banker to Hold the Line; Kiev Youth Chorus in the USA; Lessons from Bread; Credit Union Helps Ukrainians; In Iraq Coalition, Yes or No; MacroEconomic Report; Grain Market Report

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, NUMBER 24
Friday, April 4, 2003

One Article: A FOREIGN TRADE POLICY STRATEGY FOR UKRAINE By Anders Åslund, Consultant, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), Washington, D.C., March 31, 2003

PYSANKY, EGGING US ON: UKRAINIAN DECORATOR KEEPS ART FORM ALIVE: Zoria Zetaruk is an 88-year-old folk artist born to Ukrainian parents who immigrated to Canada
By Kristen Peterson, Las Vegas SUN, Las Vegas, Nevada, Thursday, April 3, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Special Edition One
Thursday, April 3, 2003

The Bread Question In Ukraine; Five Articles: Ukraine to Face Mass Starvation, Revolts, According to Julia Tymoshenko Bloc; Kozachenko to Bear Full Responsibility; Kozachenko's Arrest Only The First Stage in Grain Market Check; Check Accounts Payable of L. Kozachenko's Firm; Authorities Process 200 Criminal Cases

UKRAINIAN PROSECUTORS LAUNCH INVESTIGATION
AGAINST 200 GRAIN PRODUCERS

Ukrainian Journal, Oleh Borsuk, Publisher, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 2, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 23
Wednesday, April 2, 2003

Eight Articles: The Bread Question in Ukraine; Appeal by Leonid Kozachenko; Zhovtiak says that Kozachenko was arrested for political reasons; Kravchuk wants Kozachenko released; BYT Deputy Turchynov comments on Kozachenko; Agrarians ask Parliment; Appeal by Ukrainian Grain Association; UGA asks for review of Grain Market; The Bread Question..article in The Day

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 22
Tuesday, April 1, 2003

Twelve Articles: New Govn't Control Over Grain Markets; Russian Missiles to Iraq?; Kuchma: Helping Iraqi Children; EU Expansion; Leonid Kozachenko Denies All Charges; Japanese Cultural Grant; Grain Traders Become Targets; Sad Church Affairs; Unify Orthodox Churches?; Pope Paul II; Costly Forged Irish Work Permits; Pro-presidential Party, USPD, Suffers Identity Crisis

THE SITUATION ON THE UKRAINIAN GRAIN MARKET, ITS CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES, ANALYTICAL REPORT
Causes of Price Increase, About the Effectiveness of the Government
Work in July-October, 2002, Conclusion

Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA), Kyiv, Ukraine, March 31, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 21
Monday, March 31, 2003

Fifteen Articles: Amb. Hryshchenko on Ukraine-USA Trade; The Great Gamble in Iraq by the USA; Financial News; Is Ukraine A Member of the Anti-Iraq Coalition, Yes or No?; A Candle Lit In Memory and Hope (Famine); EU Member Status; LNM Steel Group; Medvedchuk and Russia; Large Agricultural Machinery Co. in Russia; Taking Iraq Private; Kozachenko Case Can Harm Grain Markets; Take Duranty's Pulitizer Prize From Him; Ukraine and the Oil-For-Food Program, Yushchenko Running For President

UKRAINIANS: REVOKE FAMINE DENIER'S PULITZER
Walter Duranty of the New York Times and his Pulitizer Prize

By Natalia A. Feduschak, The Washington Times, Washington, D.C.
Saturday, March 29, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 20
March 27, 2003

Major Crisis Developing In Ukraine, Private Agriculture Under Attack; Twelve Articles: Large Business Union Condemns Arrest; Leading Private Agriculture Leader Leonid Kozachenko Arrested; Reduction in Investments in Ag Predicted; Allegations Called Unjust; Case is Politically Motivated; Probe Scares Grain Trade; Premier Defensive; Grain Stock are Adequate; 2003 Grain Crop Will Be Poor; Harsh Winter Ruins Crop; Kuchma Blames Cabinet for Grain Shortage, Orders Investigation

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 19
Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Twelve Articles; Diplomats Pin Hopes on UN; No Iraqi Bank Accounts in Ukraine; Iraqi Amb. Thanks Ukrainians; Ukrainian Pianist Debuts at Philharmonic in NYC; Ukrainian Workers In Russia Face New Law; New Railway Passenger Car; Polish Company to Invest in Ukraine; U.S. Says No Fertilizer Import Duties; Ukraine Folk Art Ensemble Wins Top Award; Gillette Funds IESC Program in Ukraine; U.S. Wants Ukraine's Vote for UNESCO; Book Review By Robert Conquest about new Nikita Khrushchev biography

A CANDLE LIT IN MEMORY AND HOPE
The ashes of the Holodomor Manmade Famine tug at our hearts

By Tetiana Nykytiuk, The Day, Kyiv Ukraine, March 25, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 18
Monday, March 24, 2003

Twelve Articles: Kuchma on NBC Battalion to Kuwait; Ukrainians Go To Poland to Find Work; Russians Sell Arms to Kuwait; Yushchenko And His Wooden Bicycle; Bush vs. Saddam; Ukrainian Pysanky in the USA, No Third Term for Kuchma Ukrainians Say; Prime Minister wants Prosperity for Ukraine; Protest Against McDonald's and Bush; Ukrainians in Canada and World War One; Interview With U. S. Ambassador Carlos Pascual; Why send the Radiological, Chemical and Bacteriological Defense Battalion (NBC) to Kuwait?

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 17
Friday, March 21, 2003

Twelve Articles: Rada Condemns Iraq War; Parliament Against US and UK Aggression in Iraq; Ukrainian Muslims Against War; In Praise of Populism by James Mace; 1933: Famine or Genocide?; 2002 Year Grain Crop Totals Inflated; AGCO Selects New Distributor for Ukraine; Women Sold As Sex Slaves; Ukrainian Radio Station Cries Persecution; Swiss Urged to Invest More in Ukraine; DaimlerChrysler and Lviv Bus Plant May Do Joint Venture

US EMBASSY KIEV WARDEN MESSAGE, ARMED CONFLICT WITH IRAQ
Embassy of the United States of America, Kiev, Ukraine, Thur, March 20, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 16
Wednesday, March 19, 2003

Fourteen Articles: Iran Keen On Expanding Ties With Ukraine; EU and Ukraine Boost Ties But No Membership Yet; Human Rights Group Chastises Ukraine; Hungary and Ukraine Links; Canada Supports Ag Dev. in Ukraine; 13% Flat Tax; USAID Supports Business Education; Rotary Supports Child in Ukraine; Ukraine Orphans In Mississippi; Challenges Facing Journalists; Ukraine May Benefit from Iraq Campaign; News Web Cries Censorship, UMC to Invest Another US$400 Million in Ukraine, U.S. Poultry to Ukraine, Will The Ban End?

1933: FAMINE OR GENOCIDE?
By Peter Borisow, Co-Founder and President, Hollywood Trident Foundation, Los Angeles, California, March 20, 2003

IN PRAISE OF POPULISM
Ukraine Needs A Healthy Dose of Populism to Bring Government Closer to the People, to Create New Structures to Support the Little Guy

Prof. James Mace, The Day, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 18, 2003

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL MILES PROGRAM PROVIDES TICKET FROM UKRAINE TO CHICAGO, USA FOR UKRAINIAN GIRL OLHA SHELEMEKH WHO NEEDED SPECIAL HEART SURGERY
Washington, D.C..March 18, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 15
Monday, March 17, 2003

Twelve Articles: Bush Admin and Ukraine, Industrial Output Expands; IMF and Economic Growth, Kuchma and Electing Governors, Zhanna Block Wins Gold Medal, A Report on WNISEF by Natalie Jaresko, Foreign Minister and the EU, Forbes Magazine and the Atlas of Evil Article; Small States are Sometimes the Best, Internet Brides, Yuschenko and the Presidential Elections, Amb. Carlos Pascual Interview

BUSH ADMINISTRATION STATEMENT ON U.S. RELATIONSHIP WITH UKRAINE
U.S. State Department Official Beth Jones Testifies Before the U.S. Congress About U.S. Relations With Europe, Including Ukraine and Russia, Special Ukraine Report 2003, ArtUkraine.com, Washington, D.C. March 14, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 14
March 14, 2003

Twelve Articles: Germany's Metro Cash & Carry Expands; AVK Chocolate Sales Rise; Swedish Oriflame Cosmetics to Ukraine; German Ohken Dairy Producer to Ukraine, Ukrainian Oil and Texas, Ukrainian World Congress and Iraq; US-UF to File Suit Against Monks; Ukraine, Europe and Albania; 9-11 Wengerchuk Memorial Foundation; Funding for RFE/RL-VOA for Ukraine; Chernobyl Children Project USA, Deathtrap Mines in Ukraine

U.S. AGENCY TAKING MONASTERY TO COURT IN PROPERTY DISPUTE
By Daniel MacIsaac, Kyiv Post, Kyiv, Ukraine, March 13, 2003

"UKRAINE REPORT 2003," Number 13
Wed., March 12, 2003

Ten Articles: EU Free Trade Area; U.S.Ukrainian Caucus Protests RFE/ RL-VOA Cuts; EU Faces Dilemma Over Human Organs; Kuchma Faces Two Ways; Russian Economic Integration; Duranty: A Liar For A Cause; Orphans New Life; Gareth Jones Famine Stories; Drug Trafficking; Interview with Viktor Medvedchuk

WELSHMAN'S STALIN WORK STILL INFORMING WORLD
Gareth Jones Travelled Through Russia and Ukraine in the early 1930's

David Williamson, The Western Mail, Cardiff, Wales, March 10, 2003

"UKRAINE IS VERY MUCH A COUNTRY" A REPLY TO NINA KHRUSHCHEVA'S ARTICLE "STALIN AND MEMORY" BY PROF. JAMES MACE
Kyiv, Ukraine, March 10, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 12
Monday, March 10, 2003

Ten Articles: Kuchma Says EU Must Decide, The Next Iraq, Belarus-Ukraine?; Appeal for Support, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation; Stalin and Memory, Is Ukraine A Country, Does It have a History?; Ukraine is Very Much A Country, James Mace Replies; Grain Shipment Bottleneck; Opposition Protests; India and Offshore Outsourcing; American Families Adopt in Ukraine; Protesting Against Russification in Ukraine

OPPOSITION MEETING IN KYIV BY THE TARAS SHEVCHENKO MONUMENT
ArtUkraine.com, Sunday, March 9, 2003

ORTHODOX (UOC-MP) MONKS OCCUPY BUILDING IN KYIV
Where U.S.-Ukraine Foundation Rents Space for Their Office In Kyiv

RISU, Lviv, Ukraine, March 7, 2003

FACT SHEET: ISSUED BY THE U.S. UKRAINE FOUNDATION, CONCERNING THE PROBLEM THEY ARE HAVING WITH THE OFFICE SPACE THEY HAVE RENTED IN KYIV SINCE 1992
Washington, D.C. and Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 6, 2003

PROTEST AGAINST THE RUSSIFICATION OF UKRAINE
Regarding Adoption of the Russian Language in Ukraine and Year of Russia in Ukraine

by Presidium of the World Scholarly Council (WSC) of the Ukrainian World Congress
Kent, Ohio, March 6, 2003

RUSSIAN ACADEMIC OUTRAGED BY EVENTS MARKING ANNIVERSARY OF STALIN'S DEATH
"the 50th anniversary of Stalin's death sounds the alarm that Russian society has failed to grasp the essence of what was going on in Russia in the Stalin era."

Interfax, Moscow, Russia, March 5, 2003

NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN
A Chronicle of the Communist Inquisition in Ukraine 1917-1991, a Museum Exposition Featuring 70 Large Panels about the chronicle of crimes (including famines) of the communist regime in Ukraine to be Displayed in the United States in Spring of 2003. Exposition is also on Display in Kyiv, Ukraine

UKRAINE REPORT 2003 Number 11
Thursday, March 6, 2003

Stalin Died 50 Years Ago, Crimes Against Ukraine, Part Two; Ten Articles: Ruthless Master of Deception; Kuchma on Famine and Repressions; Were Ukrainians Silent; Tyrant's Death Recalled; A Lesson for the West, Human Rights Activists Decry Hullabaloo; A Crippling Legacy; Gareth Jones Reports on Famine In Ukraine; Stalin Still Gets Russian Flowers; Not to be Forgotten Exhibition: A Chronicle of the Communist Inquisition in Ukraine 1917-1991

UKRAINE REPORT 2003 Number 10
Wednesday, March 5, 2003

Joseph Stalin Died 50 Years Ago Today, March 5, 1953, Thirteen Articles: Fifty Years After Stalin; Enemy of the People; The Spring of our Mourning About Famine; Robert Conquest; The Dutiful and the Damned-Stalin and his Murders; Still Mourning Stalin?; I was Chosen by your Dead: Legacy of the Famine, Ukraine as a Postgenocidal Society; Stalin's Forgotten Victims Stuck in the Gulag; World Wrestles With Stalin Legacy 50 Years On; 50 Years On Stalin Casts a Shadow Over Russia; In Russia Stalin Still Carries Clout; Remembering a Monster; Man of Steel-Heart of Stone

STALIN'S REPUTATION AS A RUTHLESS MASTER OF DECEPTION REMAINS INTACT
by Robert Conquest, The Guardian, London, UK, March 4, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003 Number 9
Monday, March 3, 2003

Thirteen News Stories: Ukrainians leave in search of jobs, Need to develop strong market economy and jobs, Winter crops killed, EU urges more reforms, Ukrainian communist leader visits Iraq, Fertilizer imports to the U.S., Export of arms, Opposition urged to unite, Political terror campaign, Lashes out at journalists, U.S. Amb. term likely to end, Macro-economic report, new Bandura Chorus CD

WALTER DURANTY: A LIAR FOR A CAUSE
by Taras Hunczak, Professor of History, Rutgers University, The Ukrainian Weekly, March 2, 2003

UKRAINE MACROECONOMIC SITUATION-March, 2003
By Dr. Edilberto L. Segura, Chief Economist and Director of Kyiv Office
SigmaBleyzer, Kyiv, Ukraine

UKRAINE REPORT 2003" Number 8
Thursday, February 27, 2003

Seven News Articles: Ukraine Amb. to U.S. Gryshchenko, Canadian Wheat Farmers, Agribusiness leader Kosachenko in Canada, Eastern Europe Produces More Grain, Winter Damages Crops, World Famous Ukrainian Soprano Maria Guleghina Performs in "AIDA" in Washington, UCCA Sponsors Activities for 70th Anniversary of Great Famine-Genocide, Ukraine Losing Key Industries to Russia

UKRAINE AMBASSADOR TO U.S., KOSTYANTYN GRYSHCHENKO SPEAKS IN WASHINGTON ON UKRAINE-U.S. RELATIONS
The Washington Group, Washington, D.C., ArtUkraine.com, February 27, 2003

70th ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION OF THE UKRAINIAN FAMINE-GENOCIDE 1932-1933, ACTIVITIES IN 2003 BY THE UKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA
Feb.26, 2003

"THE EFFECT OF PRIVATIZATION ON SOCIAL WELFARE IN UKRAINE: The Practical Experience of SigmaBleyzer"
A paper by The Bleyzer Foundation and SigmaBleyzer, Kyiv, Ukraine, February, 2003

RISE OF EASTERN EUROPE GRAIN TO LOWER WORLD PRICES
Ukrainian Agri-Business Leader Leonid Kozachenko Speaks in Canada to Canadian Wheat Board Conference

Financial Post, Feb. 25, 2003

CANADIAN FARMERS FACE NEW THREAT
Ukraine, Russia Cut Into Wheat Market

by Bill Redekop, Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Feb. 25, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2002, Number 7
Monday, February 24, 2003

Fifteen News Articles: Plans for CIS Free Trade Zone, Kolchuga in a Box, Bleyzer Initiative, Chumak Signs Agreement, Sex and Slavery, Russian Oil, Inflation, Privatization, Banking Expands, Famine 1932-1933 and Silence, Moldova and the Communists, Yushchenko and the Opposition, Visit Lviv, Greco-Catholic Leader In Canada

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 6
Friday, February 21, 2003

Recent Economic Developments: Ukraine in the Regional and World Context, A Major Presentation by John Odling-Smee, Director, European II Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv. The entire text of the presentation is posted here

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, Number 5
Thursday, February 20, 2003

Fifteen News Articles: Cong. Curt Weldon In Ukraine, Iraq Crisis, Foreign Ministry and Kolchuga, Missing Link in EU Grand Plan, Electricity, IMF Statement, Investment Climate One of the Worst, Poland and Visas, Candle in the Window and Famine, Yushchenko's Run for President, Nuclear Power, Italy Intends to Support Ukraine, Britain Receiving Gas From Ukraine

KOBZAR CONTEST: KYIV HOSTS FIRST NATIONWIDE KOBZAR CONTEST, NAMED AFTER HRYHORY KYTASTY
By Tetiana Polishchuk, The Day, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 18, 2003

WERE ALL UKRAINIANS SILENT ABOUT THE FAMINE?
By Fedir Shepel, Kirovohrad, The Day, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 18, 2003

UKRAINE REPORT 2003," Number 4
February 18, 2003, Fifteen Articles;
Ukraine Market Reform Group, Market Economy Initiative, ArtUkraine.com

i.e. Pres. Kuchma, Amb. Pascual, Poland, Canada, Amb. Pifer, Denmark, Money Laundering, Viktor Yushchenko, Dr. James Mace, the Rada and Famine of 1932-1933, Atonov Airfreighter, Ukrainian Sailors, Historical Books

A CANDLE IN THE WINDOW: ERECTING MONUMENTS IS AN OFFICIAL ACT, LIGHTING A CANDLE IS A PERSONAL ONE
Prof. James Mace The Day, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, February 18, 2003

I WAS CHOSEN BY YOUR DEAD, LEGACY OF THE FAMINE: UKRAINE AS A POSTGENOCIDAL SOCIETY
By James Mace, The Day, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, February 18, 2003

U.S. CONGRESSMAN CURT WELDON CALLS FOR CLOSER TIES WITH THE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT IN MEETING WITH PRESIDENT LEONID KUCHMA
Interfax, Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 18, 2003

UKRAINIAN MADE AIRLINER, ANTONOV AN-124-100, HAULS U.S. PERSONNEL, EQUIPMENT FROM FORT SILL, LAWTON, OKLAHOMA
News Channel 8, Tulsa, Oklahoma, February 15, 2003

UKRAINIAN SAILORS SAYING GOODBUY TO US PORT CITY
By Sam Scott, Staff Writer, The Wilmington Star,Wilmington, North Carolina, Saturday, February 15, 2003

PEACE MARCH IN KYIV: NO-THE WAR IN IRAQ
ArtUkraine.com, Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb15, 2003

UKRAINIAN CHESS GRANDMASTER GOLD MEDAL SOLD ON EBAY
Family of the late Leonid Stein Issued a statement condemning the sale

Malcolm Pien, Daily Telegraph, Long, February 14, 2003

THE U.S AND UKRAINE: LOOKING TO MOVE FORWARD
How to Move Forward? What is the Way Forward? Briefing by Ambassador Steven Pifer at CSIS, Washington, D.C.

ArtUkraine.com Information Service, February 14, 2003

PARLIAMENT COMMEMORATES UKRAINE'S FAMINE 33
ForUm Website, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 13, 2003

PARLIAMENT TALKS OVER UKRAINE'S FAMINE OF 1933
ForUm Website, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 12, 2003

TERRORIST ACT COMMITTED IN UKRAINE IN 1932-1933
Rada Famine Hearing

"Obozrevatel," Internet-newspaper, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 12, 2003

COMMUNIST LEADER SIMONENKO HISSED AT IN PARLIAMENT DURING HEARINGS ON FAMINE 1932-1933
"Obozrevatel" Internet- newspaper, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 12, 2003

PARLIAMENTARY HEARING ON COMMEMORATION OF VICTIMS OF THE UKRAINIAN FAMINE 1932-1933
Communist Leader Symonenko Denies Famine Was Artificial. Ivan Pliushch blamed the "cruel and godless Bolshevik regime."

ArtUkraine Informaton Service, February 12, 2003

DR. JAMES MACE DISCUSSES UKRAINIAN FAMINE DURING AN INTERNET CONFERENCE HELD IN KYIV, UKRAINE
Maidan.org, ArtUkraine.com, February 12, 2003

"UKRAINE REPORT 2003," Number 3
Thirteen Articles, by Ukraine Market Reform Group, Market Economy Group and ArtUkraine.com

February 11, 2003. Yushchenko, VOA, RFE/RL, World Bank, EU, Destroy Land Mines, Money Laundering, Interest Rates, Children's Safety, Historical Archives in Poland, CIS Inflation, Lebanon-Syria Gas Pipeline

UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 2
Thirteen Stories about Ukraine

ArtUkraine.com Information Service, Monday, February 10, 2003

UKRAINIAN SPRINTERS ZHANNA BLOCK AND ANATOLIY DOVGAL WIN IN TWO TRACK MEETS IN EUROPE
ArtUkraine.com, February 9, 2003

YUSHCHENKO: UKRAINE HAS TO FIND WAY TO DEMOCRACY
By E. Morgan Williams, ArtUkraine.com Information Service
Washington, D.C., Friday, February 7, 2003

WEDDINGS: UKRAINIAN TRADITIONAL WEDDING ACCESSORIES EXHIBITION IN KYIV IS A HIT
By ArtUkraine.com, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 6, 2003

CANADIAN-AMERICAN SLAVIC STUDIES TO PUBLISH SPECIAL EDITION TO COMMEMORATE THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UKRAINIAN FAMINE (HOLODOMOR), 1932-1933
Invitation to submit new articles, documents, book reviews, archival material

ArtUkraine.com, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 6, 2003

MALAKHOV, VLADIMIR (UKRAINE); A MACHO SPIN ON BALLET, 'DANCE IN AMERICA' FOLLOWS 4 STARS' PATHS
Angel Corella (Spain), Jose Manuel Carreno (Cuba), Vladimir Malakhov (Ukraine) and Ethan Stiefel, (USA)

By Sarah Kaufman, The Washington Post, Monday, February 3, 2003

"UNIAN-Culture," UNIAN NEWS AGENCY LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE
ArtUkraine.com Information Service, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 3, 2003

MALAKHOV, VLADIMIR: UKRAINIAN BALLET DANCER TO BE FEATURED ON USA'S PBS ON FEBRUARY 3, 2003
By Fletcher Roberts, The New York Times, February 2, 2003

KIEV CITIZENS PROTEST AGAINST WAR IN IRAQ
By Andrei Lubensky, Translated by Vera Solovieva, PRAVDA.RU, Moscow, Russia February 1, 2003

UKRAINE MACROECONOMIC SITUATION-February, 2003
By Dr. Edilberto L. Segura, Chief Economist and Director of Kyiv Office
SigmaBleyzer, Kyiv, Ukraine

VALENTINE'S DAY: POST LOVE MESSAGES FROM THE UKRAINIAN SPACE CENTRE AT EVPATORIA, ON THE CRIMEAN PENINSULA, FOR FEBRUARY 14
By Agence France Presse, January 31, 2003

UKRAINIAN VETS WILL STRENGTHEN CONTROL OVER MEAT IMPORTS
ArtUkraine Information Service, Kyiv, Ukraine, January 31, 2003

DENMARK SIGNS CLIMATE AGREEMENT WITH ROMANIA, WORKING ON ONE WITH UKRAINE AND OTHER COUNTRIES
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service, Kyiv, Ukraine, January 31, 2003

UN SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES UKRAINE AND RUSSIA ON NEW BOUNDARY AGREEMENT
ArtUkraine.com Information Service, Washington, D.C., January 31, 2003

UKRAINIAN SPRINTER: BLOCK A NAME TO BE RECKONED WITH
By Stuart Bathgate, The Scotsman, Scotland, Jan. 31, 2003

BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN POLAND, RUSSIA AND UKRAINE: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
February 20, 2003, Toronto, Canada

www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service
Washington, D.C.
Friday, January 31, 2003

UKRAINIAN RELIGIOUS OFFICIAL SAYS NEW LEGISLATION
ON FREEDOMS NECESSARY

RISU, Lviv, Ukraine, January 29, 2003

UKRAINE'S MEMBERSHIP IN THE WTO IS THE TOP PRIORITY FOR THE NEW MINISTER OF ECONOMY
By E. Morgan Williams, ArtUkraine. com Information Service, Washington, D.C.
Jan. 29, 2003

Ј2-A-MONTH AWARD TO PACIFY STALIN'S RUSSIAN VICTIMS
By Julius Strauss in Moscow, The Telegraph, London, England, UK January 28, 2003

RUSSIA NEED NOT APOLOGISE FOR 1933 UKRAINE FAMINE
Russian Culture Minister Mikhail Schvydkoi Stated In Kyiv

Ukrainsky Novyny News, Reported by AFP, Agence France-Presse, January 28, 2003

U.S. BASED TREZAC CORPORATION WANTS TO BUY NON-CYCLICAL CONSUMER BUSINESSES IN UKRAINE, MOLDOVA AND ROMANIA
ArtUkraine.com Information Service Washington, D.C., January 28, 2003

A TOP UKRAINIAN POLITICIAN, VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO, HEADS TO U.S. TO REBUILD MUTUAL TRUST
By Tim Vickery, AP World, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, January 28, 2003

THE STATE OF US-UKRAINE ECONOMIC COOPERATION
RFE/RL Briefing by Ukraine's Minister of Economy

www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service, Washington, D.C., Jan. 28, 2003

POLAND PROPOSES NEW EASTERN POLICY FOR EUROPEAN UNION
Streamlined aid programmes and the establishment of a 'European democracy fund."

By John Reed in Warsaw, Financial Times, London, UK, January 28, 2003

500 SUPPORTERS OF UNCP, NRU, UPP, SOBOR, AND UNA-UNSO PICKET UKRAINA PALACE IN PROTEST OF RUSSIA IN UKRAINE
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, January 27, 2003

MEDICAL RESEARCH: BILL GATES PLEDGES $200 MILLION
....for malaria, tuberculosis, bacterial meningitis, and childhood diarrheal illness....these conditions are responsible for much of the global burden of disease

By David Brown, Washington Post, Washington, D. C. January 27, 2003

UKRAINIAN EQUITY FUND CHIEF BLEYZER TOUTS GLOBAL REFORM
Ukrainian-American Bleyzer inspired by Marshall plan

By Steve Gelsi, CBS.MarketWatch.com, New York, Jan 27, 2003

VIKTOR YUSCHENKO, MEMBER OF UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT AND FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF UKRAINE WILL SPEAK IN THE US IN EARLY FEBRUARY
ArtUkraine Information Service, Washington, D.C. and Kyiv, Ukraine, January 27, 2003

UKRAINIAN VALENTINA SHEVCHENKO WINS 15KM FREESTYLE CROSS COUNTRY SKI PROGRAM
By Piero Rauber, Tarvisio 2003, Tarvisio, Italy, January 26, 2003

UKRAINE'S LEBID WINS AGAIN, AS EXPECTED!
FOURTH WIN IN A ROW

By Carole Fuchs for the IAAF, Monaco, Sunday 26 January 2003

STEM CELL TREATMENT IN UKRAINE BY EMCELL CLINIC DID NOT STOP DISEASE, TRACY SHEEDAN, STRUCK BY ALS, DIES
By Cathy Mong, Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, January 25, 2003

SADOVSKA, MARIANA: UKRAINIAN BORN SINGER, ACTRESS AND MUSICIAN PERFORMING CONCERTS AROUND THE UNITED STATES
ArtUkraine.com Information Service, January 24, 2003

MEETINGS IN WASHINGTON SET FOR HIGH LEVEL UKRAINIAN ECONOMIC AND FINANCE DELEGATION
By E. Morgan Williams, ArtUkraine.com Information Service Washington, D.C.
January 24, 2003

ICONS & IMAGES: Inheriting a Tradition, Constructing a Tradition
Lyda Lykhach, Rodovid, Kyiv, Ukraine and others

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, January 24-25, 2003

USDA FORECASTS UKRAINE TO DROP TO FOURTH PLACE AMONG WORLD'S WHEAT EXPORTERS IN 2003
January 23, 2003

VIKTOR ZARETS'KYI AND ALLA HORS'KA ART EXHIBITION
TO BE HELD IN KYIV, UKRAINE BY ARTEast GALLERY
"Their World Was Not Saved By Their Beauty"

By E. Morgan Williams, ArtUkraine.com Information Service, Kyiv, Ukraine
January 23, 2003

Address by President Leonid Kuchma to the Ukrainian People on the Day of Unity of Ukraine and the 85th Anniversary of the Declaration of the Ukrainian People's Republic's Independence
Kyiv, Ukraine, January 22, 2003

UNITY DAY: NATIONAL VICHE IN LVIV TO CELEBRATE DAY OF UKRAINE'S UNITY, INDEPENDENCE
Obozrevatel, January 22, 2003

INDEPENDENCE: UKRAINE MARKS UNIFICATION AND INDEPENDENCE DAY OF JANUARY 22, 1919
Public Radio, Kyiv, Ukraine, January 22, 2003

WESTERN NIS ENTERPRISE FUND SELLS ITS STAKE IN VITANTA-INTRAVEST BEVERAGE COMPANY IN MOLDOVA
Chisinau, Moldova, January 22, 2003

UKRAINE TIES ARE PRAISED IN BAHRAIN
President Kuchma Visits His Majesty King Hamed in Bahrain

Gulf Daily News, 22 January 2003

UCCA INTERNET CHAT REGARDING 70th COMMEMORATION OF THE UKRAINIAN FAMINE-GENOCIDE IN 2003
on February 5, 2003

UCCA, New York, January 21, 2003

A BILLIONAIRE IN RUSSIA IS MORE THAN AN OLIGARCH
Viktor Chernomyrdin is Russia's ambassador to Ukraine; There are two billionaires in Ukraine - Rinat Akhmetov with (Euro)1.7 billion and Viktor Pinchuk with (Euro)1.3 billion

Author: Andrei Savitsky, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Russia, January 20, 2003

UKRAINE'S SERGIY LEBID TAKES HIS THIRD CONSECUTIVE WIN OF 2003
Men's Cross Country Race

By Diego Sampaolo, International Association of Athletics Federation, Monaco
20 January 2003

"JANUARY 22 LIVES ON," INDEPENDENCE UNITY DAY OF UKRAINE
EDITORIAL, The Ukrainian Weekly, Parsippany, New Jersey, January 19, 2003

FAMINE, AGAIN
About 30 million people are in danger of starvation

EDITORIAL, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Jan19, 2003

MARRIED BUT NOT JUST TO MEDALS!
Ukraine's European Cross Country Champion Sergiy Lebid

By Bob Frank, International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF), Monaco
19 January 2003

STARVATION IN ZIMBABWE MALICIOUSLY ENGINEERED
Stalin's....resulted in seven million people dying in one winter was the most pitiful."

By Ben Freeth, OPINION, Zimbabwe Independent (Harare) January 17, 2003

IVAN PUTROV: THE KID FROM KIEV
Born in Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine, he is the Royal Ballet's fastest-rising star

by Paul Webb, TheatreNow, London, UK, January 17, 2003

DONETSK, UKRAINE TO IMMORTALIZE IOSIF KOBZON AND EPHIM ZVYAGILSKIY
OBOZREVATEL Internet Newspaper
Kyiv, Ukraine
January 17, 2003

UKRAINE GIVES THUMBS UP TO BALTIC-UKRAINE HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY LINE
Rosbalt News, St. Petersburg, Russia, January 17, 2003

UKRAINE TO INTRODUCE OFFICIAL STATUS FOR FOREIGN-BASED UKRAINIANS
Public Radio Online, Kyiv, Ukraine, 17 January 2003

LOOKING EASTWARDS TO BRIDGE THE TRADE DIVIDE
Moldova and Ukraine have fallen victim to EU protectionism. Europe's new divide must not become permanent

Anders Aslund, Financial Times, January 16, 2003

UKRAINE..MACROECONOMIC SITUATION..YEAR END 2002
Key Achievements and Shortfalls in 2002

By Dr. Edilberto L. Segura, Chief Economist and Director, Kyiv Office, SigmaBleyzer, Kyiv, Ukraine, January 15, 2003

PROCTER & GAMBLE FACTORY TO CLOSE IN UNITED KINGDOM
P&G is to shed 330 staff in the UK as it moves production to factories in Borispol, Ukraine and Budapest, Hungary

By E. Morgan Williams, ArtUkraine Information Service (ARTUIS), Kyiv, Ukraine, January 15, 2003

UWC TO PROCEED WITH THE GREAT FAMINE MEMORIAL PROJECT IN KYIV AND OFFER JOINT PARTICIPATION TO THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT
The UWC's VIII Congress will be in Kyiv on August 18-21, 2003, will include a special observance of the Great Famine anniversary

Newsletter, Ukrainian World Congress, Toronto, Canada, January 15, 2003

A NEW SPRINTING NAME TO START ON THE 'BLOCK,'
Ukraine's World 100m Champion Zhanna Pintusevich-Block

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), Monaco
Tuesday 14 January 2003

UKRAINIAN REFORMER'S WIFE WINS LIBEL APPEAL
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, January 14, 2003

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT SETS UP BODY FOR EURO-ATLANTIC INTEGRATION
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, January 12, 2003

BASEBALL: HOLLAND, MICHIGAN LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAMS
HELPING TO OUTFIT UKRAINE YOUTH

By Gary Brower, The Holland Sentinel On Line Holland, Michigan, January 10, 2003

Health Issues In Ukraine and Other Former USSR Republics
STRESS, LIFESTYLE BEHIND LIFESPAN PLUNGE IN EX-USSR

By Ned Stafford, Reuters-Health, Hamburg, Germany, January 10, 2003

CENTER FOR LAND REFORM POLICY IN UKRAINE
National Competition of Journalistic Publications on the Land
Reform Issues "My Land" in Ukraine

Kyiv, Ukraine, January 10, 2003

U.S. AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE CARLOS PASCUAL SPEAKS ON US-UKRAINE RELATIONS
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, D.C., January 9, 2003

MUZZLED MEDIA IN UKRAINE
By Oleg Varfolomeyev, Russia and Eurasia Review, Jamestown Foundation,
Washington, D.C. January 7, 2003

POSTCARD WITH NEW YEARS GREETINGS SENT OUT BY
UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT KUCHMA TO THE ENTIRE NATION

January 6, 2003

IN HUNGRY ZIMBABWE, FOOD USED AS POLITICAL WEAPON
By Michael Grunwald, The Washington Post, Wednesday, January 1, 2003

BOOK REVIEW OF BOHDAN HARASYMIW'S BOOK "POST-COMMUNIST UKRAINE"
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, by Taras Kuzio, January, 2003

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND CHRISTMAS GREETINGS 2003
Photographs from Kyiv, Ukraine with Music from ArtUkraine


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