Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea Volodymyr Khomenko turned to the heads of city councils and district state administration with a request to contribute to holding events dedicated to the 75th Holodomor anniversary at a proper level (special lessons on Holodomor and the Lit a Candle action).
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A memorial service to commemorate the victims of Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine (Holodomor) took place at St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral in Brussels. The service was celebrated by Bishop Michel Hrynchyshyn, Apostolic Exarch for Byzantine-rite Ukrainian faithful in France, Benelux, and Switzerland.
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“There was the Soviet Union, and there was famine, a great famine. Indeed, the Ukrainians suffered from it along with the Russians and other nationalities, including all those living in Ukraine,” Ambassador Chernomyrdin said.
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A number of national patriotic parties and public organizations call on Russian authorities to make their apologies in public for the act of vandalism by the Eurasian Union members at the exhibition commemorating the victims of the manmade famine of 1932-1933 (Holodomor) in Ukraine, displayed at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Moscow.
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“Today we know that the famine which has come to be known as the 'Holodomor' was in reality an appalling crime against humanity,” the European Parliament President’s statement reads.
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President is reassured that today’s Ukraine, its authorities and people are obliged to make everything possible to bring up to light tragedy’s scale. However V. Yushchenko is distressed by a fact that researchers speak often of the victims’ numbers rather than of the importance of the tragedy itself. “For me it is a tragedy regardless of the deceased numbers whether it is one million, hundred thousands or ten million”, he added.
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“Our generation remembers our parents telling about Ukrainian villagers and town dwellers coming to the Crimea, weakened by hunger, having broken through the NKVD cordons. Many of them had found their salvation in the Crimean Tatar families,” Mr. Dzhemiliov added.
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The First National Channel, covering national events commemorating the Holodomor and political repression victims, laying mourning wreaths and wheat ears to the memorials and burial places of the famine victims, has decided to suspend all commercials on this day, the NTCU says.
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By the data of an all-Ukrainian poll conducted by the Kyiv International Sociology Institute (KISI), 60% Ukrainians support the recognition of the Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 as genocide by the UN. At that, only 12% believe that the famine was caused by natural factors.
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Mrs. Kateryna Yushchenko Meets with Experts and Winners of the First Stage of the Grants Program for Small Cultural and Art Projects
In course of the meeting, the experts gave their evaluation of the project submitted to the contest, noting the importance of non-governmental support for cultural projects, since there are no other grant programs of this kind in Ukraine. Representatives of the winning organizations presented their projects to be implemented with the participation of Ukraine 3000 Foundation and took part in their discussion.
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