Location details will be sent out approximately 30 days prior to the roundtable. Please take the time to mark your calendar and register now to reserve your place.

How did this medal come to be in Russia? Who owns it? Is Ukraine concerned?

The Ukrainian Film Club proudly announces the premiere showing of "Maty Machukha" and "Nash Lviv" in Toronto

MATY MATCHUKHA
МАТИ МАЧУХА

(In Ukrainian - no English subtitles)

(a documentary film by Yulia Tymoshenko)

Ukraine is often said to be a country torn between east and west. Gabriel Gatehouse explores the political rifts still keenly felt today

Streetmarket in Lviv

I was browsing through a street market in the western city of Lviv recently and, on a bric-a-brac stall, among the usual busts of Stalin and the hammer and sickle lapel badges, I caught sight of a German Iron Cross.

It had a swastika emblazoned in the middle of it, and as I picked it up - it was black and surprisingly heavy - a shiver literally ran down my spine.

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.

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.

By Charmaine Smith-Miles

Anderson artist Kelly Milko holds her first ostrich egg Pysanky. Milko has
made hundreds of the geometrical art pieces on egg shells, mostly chicken eggs.

ANDERSON -- The place where the magic of her creativity happens isn't big.

By Michelle Sathe
Signal Senior Staff Writer

Olga Kaczmar displays two of her finished Russian pysanky eggs at an egg decorating class she taught at the Senior Center on Thursday.

Every Easter, Olga Kaczmar puts all her eggs in one basket.

These are no ordinary eggs, however. They are works of art decorated in a traditional Ukrainian technique known as pysanky, where intricate patterns are etched in layers of dyes and wax and given to friends and family on Easter.