“These books remind the current and future generations on the tragedy our people came through in the last century. These are impressive accounts of the ruthless millstones of history grinding the Ukrainians’ fates under the totalitarian regime,” said Oleh Pustovhar, head of the information and PR department at the Poltava OSA.
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In pursuance of the presidential order On the Day of the Memory of Holodomor Victims, the regiments of the Naval Forces of Ukraine hold a series of events aimed at cultivating in the personnel respect for Ukraine’s historical past.
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Tonight every family in Vinnytsia oblast will light a memorial candle, which had been earlier distributed together with leaflets on Holodomor on the instructions of Vinnytsia Oblast State Administration Head Oleksandr Dombrovsky.
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Activists of the Prosvita Society, Odesa oblast organizations of the Freedom Union, Reforms and Order Party, Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, Ukrainian people’s Party, and representatives of Odesa religious communities will commemorate the victims of Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine (Holodomor) by a meeting-requiem in Soborna Square, laying out a cross of lit candles.
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In the view of the President, the monument has to be erected on the Dnipro slopes in the area where the first stage of the grove was planted two years ago.
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President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko believes that the Communist Party of Ukraine must condemn the actions of the Soviet authorities leading to the Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine (Holodomor). This was said in his interview with The Day of November 24, 2007.
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Ukraine has no official claims to Russia regarding Holodomor, while the demands for compensation are caused by the lack of knowledge, Ambassador of Ukraine to the Russian Federation Oleh Diomin said Saturday, November 24, 2007, at the events dedicated to the memory of the 1932-1933 famine victims in Moscow.
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Ceremonies of laying mourning garlands and compositions of rye and wheat heads to memorial signs and burial places of famine victims, memorial services for the dead, minutes of silence, lighting memorial candles, requiem soirees and other mourning events will take place in all Ukraine’s areas.
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