Ukrainians Of Buffalo & WNY

Ukraine's parliament has ended an emergency session without discussing amendments to the electoral law proposed by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

A Ukrainian woman who spent years running a kindergarten has turned her passion for rapping into a new career. The New York Times just named Alyona Savranenko, aka Alyona Alyona, one of Europe's most important pop acts, musically and socially. (Originally published November 15, 2018)

Ukrainian authorities say eight military personnel have been captured by Russia-backed fighters in the eastern region of Donetsk.

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A mural in Crimea depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin has been defaced with a profane piece of graffiti calling the Federal Security Service (FSB) a "bitch."

Ukraine’s parliament is scheduled to hold an extraordinary session on May 22, two days after the inauguration of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

The UN Security Council has rejected a Russian request to hold a meeting on a new language law in Ukraine.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman has announced his intention to resign.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy took the oath of office as Ukraine's new president on May 20 in Kyiv. In his inaugural speech, he announced that he is dissolving the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, and called for the dismissal of several top officials. Zelenskiy also said that he was ready for dialogue to stop the fighting with Russia-backed separatists in the country's east.

New Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has pledged to dissolve parliament as the prime minister and key members of his government announced they would resign as the country's new leader seeks fresh political support.

Ukraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, took the oath of office on Monday and immediately announced he was dissolving parliament and calling a snap election, aiming to win seats in a legislature still dominated by politicians loyal to his predecessor

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy aims to win seats in parliament where new party is not represented

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, took the oath of office on Monday and immediately announced plans to dissolve parliament, setting up a clash between the country’s entrenched political class and its new leader.

Zelenskiy, a comedian with no prior political experience, won a landslide victory in elections last month, amid anger over corruption and a grinding war with Russian-backed separatists in the country’s south-east.

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Mark Neville captures a moment full of symbolism on the fringes of the conflict in Donbass

Over the past three years, London-based photographer Mark Neville has been travelling around Ukraine to work on several wide-ranging projects: one about holidaymakers in Odessa, another about people at worship, and an extensive series depicting the 2 million people in the country displaced by conflict on the eastern front. His latest project saw him documenting folk songs, often sung by internally displaced Ukrainians. “What happens when a country is at war is that people tend to identify more directly with the symbolism of what their country culturally stands for,” he explains. “So that means a lot of people returning to things such as national costume, a focus on the core elements of being Ukrainian.”

Neville arrived in Orikhovo-Vasylivka last autumn, where Lina’s grandmother was putting on a folk song recital in town. Her parents then invited him to their house for tea and in their back garden he spotted Lina gathering plums in a traditional costume. “The photograph is a kind of cocktail of Ukrainian symbols,” he says. “Ukraine is a hugely abundant, fertile country; it has all sorts of minerals, vegetables, oil, sunflower fields, the most amazing pumpkins you’ve ever seen.”

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