Contents tagged with Holodomor
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Canada allocates $750,000 to organizing educational tours about the Holodomor in Ukraine
The Canadian province of Ontario allocated $750,000 to support the National Education Tour on the Holodomor, MP of Ontario provincial parliament Yvan Baker reported.
"Proud to announce this afternoon that the Canada Ukraine Foundation received a $750,000 grant to promote awareness about the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33 through the Holodomor Mobile Classroom," he wrote on Twitter.
The project created a “mobile auditorium,” a bus equipped with special interactive equipment that will travel to …
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Ukraine urges Macedonia to recognize Holodomor as the genocide of Ukrainian people
The press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement on the visit of Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo Klimkin to Macedonia. "Klimkin has requested [Talat] Xhaferi to consider the recognition of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as the genocide of Ukrainian people," the statement said.
During the meeting with the Speaker of the Assembly (Parliament) of Macedonia, Talat Xhaferi, the parties discussed issues of inter-parliamentary cooperation between the Verkhovna Rada and the …
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Another US State recognizes the Holodomor in Ukraine as genocide
On Thursday, March 29, the US state of Massachusetts announced through its Ukrainian Embassy the state’s decision to recognize the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as genocide of the Ukrainian people.
“Another American state joined the recognition of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as a genocide against the Ukrainian people,” Massachusetts Governor Charles Baker stated in a corresponding proclamation.
Currently, the Holodomor in Ukraine is recognized as genocide in the US states of Washington, …
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Russia warned Israel against recognizing Holodomor as genocide
A Russian diplomat warned Israel about approving a proposed bill on the official recognition of the Holodomor in Ukraine as genocide, as indicated in a comment to a local radio station by the Deputy Russian Ambassador to Tel Aviv, Leonid Frolov, Radio Liberty reports.
"This is not the best time to discuss this proposal ... It will be bad, it will be a wrong step," he said.
Earlier, a bill to recognize the Ukrainian Holodomor as genocide was filed for consideration by the Israeli parliament ( …
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Ukrainian President calls on Israel to recognize Holodomor as genocide
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko held a meeting with Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu during the 48th annual session of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
"The President of Ukraine drew attention to the commemoration of the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor (Stalin-era man-made famine) of 1932-1933 in Ukraine in 2018, and noted that Ukraine expected Israel to recognize that tragedy as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people. In view of observing the International …
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Ukrainian President calls on Russia to ‘repent’ for the Holodomor
President Petro Poroshenko called on Russia to repent for the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Ukraine that took place from 1932-1933, during which at least 4 million Ukrainians were killed.
“I wish that at least our children (though better if it were we) witness the incredible. I wish there would be such changes in Russia that its new elite will also recognize the Holodomor as a genocide. Or at least repent for it," said Poroshenko at a commemorative event at the Kyiv National Museum " …
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Ukrainian Ambassador: We will seek for US to officially recognize the Holodomor as genocide
The Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States, Valeriy Chaly, promised to request that Congress adopt the resolution recognizing the Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people, as he wrote on Facebook.
"Now we know that it was Ukrainians who rose up against this crime in defense of their families - and were deliberately destroyed. Today, in my speech before the witnesses of those tragic events, I stressed: it's time to officially recognize the Holodomor against the Ukrainian people as …
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Draft bill to recognize Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainian people submitted to US Congress
US Congressmen introduced a draft resolution in the House of Representatives on recognizing the Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people, as announced on Tuesday by the Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States, Valeriy Chaly, Ukrinform reports.
"Today we, as the Embassy of Ukraine and the diplomatic service, promote this idea in different countries of the world, particularly in the US, so that a resolution on recognizing the Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people will be …
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The US Congress will speed up recognition of the Holodomor
The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, said at a press conference in Washington that the US Congress would speed up the consideration on the resolution on recognizing the Holodomor (a man-made famine) of 1932-1933 as the genocide of the Ukrainian people, the Presidential Press Service reports.
“First of all, the result of the meeting is that I raised the issue of considering in Congress of the Resolution on recognizing the Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people,” said …
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Groysman discussed the Israeli Knesset’s recognition of the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people
During his visit to Israel, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman met with the Speaker of the Knesset, Yuli-Yoel Edelstein and discussed the issue of Israel's recognition of the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people.
Groysman wrote the following on Facebook on Monday evening.
"I informed the Knesset Speaker that mourning events dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor tragedy will be held in Ukraine in 2017-2018. For Ukraine, understanding of Israel in this issue is …