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Click here for Ukraine tourism advertising & sponsorship opportunities The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation has launched its Travel to Ukraine Project that provides valuable information to the business and pleasure traveler to Ukraine. Click below to discover Ukraine! www.traveltoukraine.org The purpose of the Summer Work Travel Program is to provide non-U.S. post-secondary students an opportunity to become directly involved in the daily life of the people of the United States through travel and temporary work for a period of up to four months during their summer vacations. www.exchangeusa.org
Recent Events in Pictures
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.
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
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.
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 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
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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News and Recent Activities
2010 Annual Giving Campaign ReportMay 1, 2011 The 2010 Annual Giving Campaign received private gifts totaling $172,297.   The Rise of Political Repression and Ongoing Threats to Freedom of the Press in UkraineFebruary 3, 2011  Foreign
Policy Task Force Interview With Ambassador Steven Pifer Interviewed by Nataliya Khyzhnyak February 1, 2011  Keeping the Faith: Religious Challenges in Contemporary Ukraine in a Historical ContextNovember 22, 2010  Discussion
With Timothy Snyder, Author of "Bloodlands - Europe Between Hitler
and Stalin"November 15, 2010  Judge
Futey, Advisory Board Ukrainian Govt Does Not Adhere to the Spirit of Ukr Constitution October 6, 2010 
The Power of Truth: Central Europe and Russia’s Victory Day
Moderated by Janusz Bugajski May 7, 2010  President Nadia McConnell Speaksat TWG Conference - "Stop - I'm Mad as (Bleep) and I Can't Take It Any More!" February 13, 2010  USUF President Nadia McConnellSpeaks on Ukraine's Election Listen to the audio clip February 9, 2010  The Power of Cities in the Global EconomyBy Rudy Giuliani for BBCI panel Washington, D.C., Fri, Nov 13, 2009  Interview With Vladimir Bukovsky, Former Soviet
Political Dissident, Author and Political ActivistWashington, D.C., Tue, Oct 13, 2009  Presentation By Poet and Author Volodymyr Yeshkilev (in Ukrainian)Wed, Sept 23, 2009 at 12:00 noon (EST)  Medvedev Blasts Ukraine - The Bullies In The Kremlin Are At It AgainThur, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:00 noon (EST)  Interview with Oleh Shamshur, Ukraine Ambassador to the U.S.Washington, D.C., Tuesday, July 14, 2009  Rebuilding Civil Society in Ukraine: The Role of the Church by Tetiana StawnychyFriday, July 10, 2009  President Obama goes to Moscow - Implications for
the Baltic-Black-Caspian RegionWashington, D.C. June 16, 2009  Kyiv - A Winning DestinationUSUF presented Kyiv as a winning travel destination at an international destination summit in London, UK. May 29, 2009  Shifts in Belarus’s Domestic and Foreign Policies and Its Implications for the RegionFriday, May 8, 2009 at 1:00 PM (EST) Washington, D.C.  Moldova's "Twitter Revolution" and Post-election Political CrisisTuesday, April 14 at 11:30AM (EST) Washington, D.C.  American Youth Association (CYM) held their Leadership Seminar at the offices of the U.S.-Ukraine FoundationWashington, D.C., March 28-29, 2009  2009 Ukraine Mathematics CompetitionDeadline to apply: April 1, 2009 Washington, D.C. March 5, 2009  “Ukraine: Dealing With External and Internal Crises ”By Oleg Rybachuk, Former Chief of Staff to President Yushchenko Washington, DC, Feb 24, 2009 at 12pm  Discover Ukraine at Adventuresin Travel Expo Washington Convention Center Washington, DC, February 21-22, 2009  “Russian Energy and Foreign Policy: Beyond the Former Soviet Union”November 18, 2008, 12-1p.m. (EST)  Ambassador of Ukraine Oleh Shamshur and the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation signed a contract to promote tourism in UkraineWashington, D.C., October 4, 2008  Crimean Tatars Presentation at the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation
and the Future of CrimeaWashington, D.C., October 3, 2008  U.S.-Ukraine Foundation holds NATO briefing for Ambassador PopadiukWashington, D.C., October 3, 2008  Trust for Mutual Understanding awards grant
to support Lviv historical preservationWashington, D.C., October 2, 2008
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