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July 13, 2011 - At the JFK Library in Boston,
U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler (center) is flanked by Ukrainian
Judges Oksana Zavydovska-Marchuk, Judge Taras Bahriy, Oleksandra Litvinova,
Iryna Bondaryeva and Lyubomyr Bytkivskyy (from left to right). USUF
administered the Boston Judges program, sponsored by the Open World
Leadership Center.

July 5, 2011- Meeting with Andriy Fialko, Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Ukraine (from left to right): Dmytro Senik -Second Secretary, Embassy of Ukraine in Washington, DC, Andriy Fialko, Nadia McConnell - USUF President, and John A. Kun - USUF Vice President/COO)

June 30, 2011- Meeting with Father Sheremeta (from left to right: USUF Vice President/COO John A. Kun, Senior Program Director of Ukraine's Independence Committee Iryna Teluk, Summer Work and Travel Program Manager Bogdan Kovalchuk, Father Sheremeta, USUF President Nadia McConnell)

March 18, 2011 - Ukraine Banking Delegation visits USUF to discuss current
financial regulations. From left to right are Alex Tsiovkh - translator,
Andriy Klymchuk - President CFA Ukraine Society, Anatoly Volok - President
of Region Bank & Kharkiv Banks Union, USUF President Nadia McConnell
and Dmytro Vilenskyi - President of StaroKievski Bank.

February 26, 2011 – Holodomor Resolution
is adopted by the Democratic National Committee.
Andrew Fedynksy, member of the NDECC, Alexandra Chalupa, DNC Director
of Party Leaders, Dr. James Zogby, Co-Chair of the DNC Resolutions Committee
and Founder and Secretary of the NDECC, and Julian Kulas, member of the
NDECC (from left to right). Mr. Fedynsky and Mr. Kulas spearheaded
the Resolution efforts, working closely with Ms. Chalupa. To
read more, click here >>

January 28, 2011 - Ukrainian American Coordinating
Council President Ihor Gawdiak presents USUF President Nadia K. McConnell
with a $5,000 check for UACC’s sponsorship of a Ukraine 2020 Task Force. USUF
Vice President/COO John A. Kun (left) and UACC’s Executive Committee
Member Ros Chomiak look on. To
read more, click here >>

October 28, 2010 - U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John F. Tefft (left) shakes hands with U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Bohdan Futey, a member of USUF’s Board of Advisors, who participated in the Judicial Reform Roundtable in Kyiv on October 28, 2010. To
read more, click here »

May 19, 2010 - Former First Lady of Ukraine,
Kateryna Yushchenko, with Olya Onyshko and Sarah Farhat, filmmakers
of Three Stories of Galicia (formerly, Land of Dilemmas), at the Ukrainian
Reception at the Cannes Film Festival. The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation
is a sponsor of this film. Click here to follow Olya
and Sarah at Cannes!

March 29, 2010 - USUF President Nadia K. McConnell and other Ukrainian-American leaders meet with Ambassador Oleh Shamshur for a briefing on the latest developments in Ukraine's government.

February 26-28, 2010 - Attending the NY Times Travel were (from left to right): USUF Board Member Iryna Kurowyckyj, Consul General of Ukraine in New York Serhii Pohoreltsev, USUF President Nadia McConnell and USUF Program Assistant Oksana Yakovenko. To read more, click here »

January 2010 - USUF VP John A. Kun, Olexander Danyleiko, Consul General of Ukraine in Canada, and Bohdan Onyschuk, President of the Canada Ukraine Foundation, (left to right) appeared at the Discover Ukraine exhibit at Toronto's Ultimate Travel Show. To read more, click here »

January 27, 2010 - Edvins Snore, director of the documentary The Soviet Story pictured with members of Congress at a screening on Capitol Hill organized by the Foundation (from left to right). Rep. Bob McEwan, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtnin, Edvins Snore, Rep. Joe Pitts. To read more, click here.

November 14, 2009 - USUF Board of Directors Meeting (from left to right). Seated: Iryna Kurowyckyj and Renata A. Zajac. Standing: William Green Miller, James O’Beirne, Nadia K. McConnell, Jack Heller and John A. Kun.

November 4, 2009 - USUF hosts the U.S. Department of Commerce
Destination Tourism Delegation from Crimea, Ukraine (SABIT Program)

October 2009 - Members of the Open World delegation from Odessa, Ukraine, hosted by the Baltimore-Odessa Sister City Committee from October 23, 2009 through October 31, met with Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) during their visit. The program is sponsored by the Open World Leadership Center of the Library of Congress and program administration is conducted by U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, the grantee.
From left to right: Anna White, Iryna Yakovleva, Mark White, Anastasiya Andronova, Serhiy Artemenko, Senator Ben Cardin, Olha Zelinska, Anzhela Smokvina, Anna Ursol, Doug Raaum (host family)

USUF staff members and 2009 Summer Interns (left to right): Staff members John A. Kun, Oksana Yakovenko, & Nadia K. McConnell; Interns Elizabeth Saam, Larissa Levine, & Caitlin McNeil; Staff member Oleksiy Synelnychenko. 
February 8, 2009 - U.S.-Ukraine Foundation's Team with Mykola Kyrychenko, Consul General of Ukraine, at the New York Times Travel Show, New York, NY

November 3-5, 2008 - USUF attends Youth Summit in Istanbul, Turkey
U.S.-Ukraine Foundation’s Vice President Markian Bilynskyj attended the first Black Sea Youth Summit in Istanbul, organized by the Turkish ARI Movement.
As a co-organizer, USUF was responsible for identifying the Ukrainian participants on the basis of an essay competition where the contestants were asked to identify their priority concerns for the future development in the Black Sea region from a youth perspective. The Ukrainian participants were Maryna Burdun from Kharkiv, Maryna Andreeva from Khmelnytsky, and Vsevolod Samokhvalov from Odesa, who won the first prize of 500 Euros for the best essay.

October 4, 2008 - Ambassador of Ukraine Oleh Shamshur and US-Ukraine Foundation President Nadia McConnell signed a contract to promote tourism in Ukraine

Nadia McConnell with President Yushchenko at the USUBC meeting
September 29, 2008

Scotty Colson (right), Assistant to the Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama and long-time community partnership coordinator for USUF, is named Honorary Consul by Ukraine's Ambassador to the U.S., Oleh Shamshur (center), on Friday, June 20, 2008 at a ceremony in Birmingham's City Hall. Mayor Larry P. Langford (left) welcomed guests, including USUF VP John A. Kun, who attended and presented Scotty Colson with an award from the Foundation.
Photo by Bonnie M. Fountain
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May 29, 2009
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The Ukrainian Weekly,
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Presentation by the Leaders of the Verkhovna Rada’s Ukraine-U.S.
Caucus
April 27, 2007 CSDU
meeting with Oleh Bilorus – Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko; Oksana Bilozir – “Our
Ukraine”; Leonid Kozhara – Party of Regions
Ruslana Lyzhychko meets with the Coalition for a Secure and Democratic Ukraine
March 30, 2007 CSDU met with Ruslana Lyzhychko, Member of Ukraine’s Parliament, to discuss the political, economic, and social situation in Ukraine.
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Howard Berman Supports Ukraine and USUF Before the House Committee
on Foreign Affairs
March 8, 2007
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Washington, D.C. (in Ukrainian)
March 1, 2007
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