In 1979, the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) at Justice, goaded and guided by Yuri Andropov's KGB, was persuaded that Demjanjuk was "Ivan the Terrible," a huge, brutal, sadistic guard at Treblinka ...

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His family, friends and lawyers did not give up. They scoured Europe and, in the last days of the Soviet Union, struck pay dirt. In Moscow's files on Treblinka they discovered a photo of the real "Ivan," a far bigger, more mature man than the 23-year-old Demjanjuk in 1943

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M.R. KROPKO

The return of alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk to Germany for trial on war crimes was delayed again Tuesday by a federal court, shortly after six immigration officers removed the retired autoworker from his suburban Cleveland home in a wheelchair.

A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay until it could further consider Demjanjuk's motion to reopen the U.S. case that ordered him deported, in which he says painful medical ailments would make travel to Germany torturous.

By SPIEGEL Staff

John Demjanjuk is not an isolated case. German investigators have set their sights on other presumed Nazi war criminals, raising the question of how the law should deal with the aged accessories of the Holocaust.

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The failures of the German judiciary have been the most grievous, however.

By Paulette MacQuarrie

This recent article in the Edmonton Sun (Multicultural groups under attack again) makes me wonder if Canada will ever get a multiculturalism minister who understands the appeal to a lot of Canadians of the 'cultural" aspect of multiculturalism?

Not to all, granted, but to a lot of us.

Unfortunately, all too many of our politicians bend over backwards to mollify those to whom it doesn't appeal. So struggling ethno-cultural groups like the Shumka Dancers get the shaft.

By Mike Blanchfield

OTTAWA -- Canada is reassured that Russia respects international law in the North, but Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon still wants Moscow to give advance notice of future flights close to the Canadian Arctic boundary.

Cannon's remarks indicate a lingering antagonism between the Kremlin and Ottawa as he spoke for the first time Thursday of his meeting last week with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

By Sheldon Alberts

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday said the Obama administration is "committed" to ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, touting the decades-old treaty as the best way for Arctic powers to resolve competing territorial claims over the Far North's resource-rich seabed.

Moldova's democratic transformation is in danger. Street protesters have accused the government of falsifying recent election results and called for the resignation of the ruling post Communists. The mass protests have been accompanied by acts of violence, hundreds of people have been injured and arrested. The authorities have limited the freedom of media and have introduced special security measures.

Roman Kupchinsky

For over a decade the proliferation of so-called "Gas Trading" companies in Europe has destabilized the EU energy market and possibly criminalized it as well. The appearance of such companies as RosUkrEnergo, the Centrex group of companies, Gazprom Germania, YugoRosGas, Eural Trans Gas, Overgas, and others, all linked in some fashion to Russia's state-owned gas monopoly, Gazprom, have not added any value to gas transactions in the EU. Furthermore, these companies have been linked to numerous scandals and conflict of interest cases involving high-level officials in the EU.

Carol J. Williams

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko's conviction on money-laundering and conspiracy charges was upheld by a federal appeals court Friday, a judgment that will keep the long-incarcerated politician in U.S. prisons for at least several more years.

By Peggy Walsh-Sarnecki, Freee Press Education Writer
ANDRE J. JACKSON, Detroit Free Press

At Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic School in Warren, eighth-grader Liliya Kulyk, 14, and others read over a presentation in language class March 10. The feeling of community and focus on academics and faith draw families from across metro Detroit.

Many of the parents of students at Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic School in Warren are generations removed from Ukraine, but they want their children to know the language, customs and history of their ancestors.

POPULIST WRITERS IN RUSSIAN-RULED UKRAINE (LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY) (April 2009)

Populist ideals, which began to crystallize in Russia and Ukraine following the Crimean War during the reign of the Russian tsar Alexander II, had a profound impact on Ukrainian literature in the second half of the 19th century. The main tenets of Ukrainian populism (narodnytstvo) were federalism, the emancipation of the peasantry, and the recognition of the cultural distinctiveness of the Ukrainian people. Study of the Cossacks induced romantic visions of rebellions against landlords and national oppressors and of the existence of a Cossack republic based on equality and brotherhood.

Ukrainian music is beautiful. We have all grown up with it; listening to and performing songs, operas, instrumental music, enjoying the acrobatics and gracefulness of the dance, and by passing on the traditions of our parents and grandparents to our children.

Many Ukrainian music groups from Ukraine and the West have for many years successfully attracted our youth with their modernised versions of folk songs, and with their own interesting compositions.