Krynytsya (The Well), your wellspring for Ukraine and Ukrainians

Serhii Plokhii, author, historian and director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, offers his perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine war. He discusses Russian President Vladimir Putin and his motives for the invasion. Prof. Plokhii also talks about nuclear power plants in Ukraine and the global risks from repeated attacks by the Russians. https://huri.harvard.edu/

The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine is playing a key role in the country's defense in the Russia-Ukraine war. Deputy Minister Alexander Bornyakov talks about the creation of a volunteer IT Army of Ukraine and efforts to encourage major Silicon Valley tech companies to stop doing business with Russia. He also reviews the use of crypto currency for helping to raise funds for the army o...

The situation with nuclear power plants in Ukraine during the current war with Russia poses a significant global risk. Sergii Mirnyi is a Ukrainian international expert on nuclear accidents who was commander of the radiation reconnaissance platoon at Chernobyl in 1986 when the nuclear disaster occurred. He talks about what is happening now with nuclear power plants in Ukraine and the potential for...

Ukraine is now in its 10th day of the Russian invasion and war. Ukrainian member of parliament Kira Rudik talks about the current situation in Ukraine and its efforts to defend its independence.

Mykhailo Veselsky, a businessman, philanthropist and the founder of the Radowell Project, talks about his efforts to improve the lives of all the citizens of Radowell, Ukraine. The Radowell Project includes activities in education, medicine, the local economy and the encouragement of entrepreneurship. https://radowell.org.ua/en/

Natalya Poshyvaylo-Towler was born near Poltava, Ukraine. She left for New Zealand in the late 1990's and eventually settled in Melbourne, Australia. She is a regional vice president with the Ukrainian World Congress, an organization focused on the global Ukrainian diaspora. Natalya discusses her family history, her travel to the southern hemisphere and her life there and offers her observations a...

Bohdan Shandor is a Ukrainian American who is very active in the community in the U.S. He is President of Shandor & Co., LLC, a management consulting firm. His father was Dr. Vincent Shandor, a Ukrainian activist in Zakarpattia and head of the Carpatho-Ukrainian Representation to the Prague (Czechoslovakia) Federal government preceeding and at the beginning of World War II. Bohdan himself was a wi...

Author Oleh Iwanusiw discusses how he put together and published his book, "Church in Ruins", 1987, Shevchenko Scientific Society. This book describes the history of the Ukrainian churches of the Eparchy of Peremyshl, which is currently within the borders of Poland. It includes an extensive collection of photographs, most of which were taken by the author himself during his travels to this region....

Adrian Karmazyn is a Ukrainian American who spent 27 years with the Voice of America Ukrainian Service based in Washington, D.C., including as chief of the service from 2005-2015. He talks about his family background, education and career. To read about the VOA collection at the Ukrainian Museum-Archives in Cleveland visit http://uaas.org.ua/VOAs-Ukrainian-Window-on-the-1996-Democratic-Convention-...

Andrew Nynka is the Editor-in-Chief of The Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda, two newspapers published by the Ukrainian National Association for the global Ukrainian community. Andrew talks about his own family history and educational and professional background. He also discusses the history of the two newspapers and his plans for their future development. http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/ http://svoboda...

OOL press secretary and author Diana Howansky Reilly talks about her lifelong involvement with the Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna and the Lemko Research Foundation (LRF). She discusses some of their current programs as well as new directions. https://lemko-ool.com/?lang=en

Mike Dowhan, a board member who is responsible for communications with the Ukrainian Genealogy Group National Capitol Region in Ottawa, Canada, discusses his own interest in genealogy and how his group serves the cultural interests of Ukrainian Canadians.

The Ukrainian History and Education Center is located in Somerset, N.J. Its mission is to offer stories about Ukraine and the Ukrainian American experience and connect generations through exhibitions, archives, and educational programming. Natalia Honcharenko, director of the UHEC, and Michael Andrec, its archivist, talk about the history of the center, its programs both in-person and online and f...

Olia Hercules is a British Ukrainian and an award-winning author and cooking celebrity in the UK. She discusses her latest book, "Summer Kitchens", about regional cooking in Ukraine. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/summer-kitchens-9781408899090/

The Ukrainian Institute of America is located in New York City. Its mission is to develop and promote through various programs a greater awareness, understanding, knowledge and appreciation of the art, culture, history and traditions of Ukraine in the U.S. Dr. Walter Hoydysh has been the director of its Art at the Institute program for more than 20 years. In this interview, he talks about his own...

Elona Voytovych, a multimedia journalist with the U.S. Voice of America Ukrainian service, talks about her early career and current job as a social media specialist. She was born in Lviv, Ukraine, and emigrated to the U.S. at an early age. Elona is now based in Washington, D.C.

British post-punk musicians Peter Solowka and Len Liggins founded the folk-rock group The Ukrainians in Leeds, England, in 1991. They have produced and played more than 150 distinctly unique tracks and several albums since then and traveled to perform in concerts in many places including the UK, Canada, Poland and Ukraine. https://www.the-ukrainians.com/ Here are three of their music videos. Chere...

Prof. Thomas Prymak, Research Associate at the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, the University of Toronto, discusses the origin and history of Ukrainian and Slavic surnames. For additional background about him: https://utoronto.academia.edu/TPrymak.

An interview with Val Bogattchouk, the CEO of Nova UA federal credit union headquartered in Clifton, N.J. Since the 1960's Nova UA (originally Self-Reliance) has offered banking and other financial services to the local Ukrainian-American community in the Clifton-Passaic area of New Jersey. It has also actively supported various community cultural and social institutions. https://novafcu.com/

Uliana Skits'ka is a Ukrainian broadcast journalist based in Lviv. She started her journalism career in 2014 working at “24 News channel” preparing the infotainment programs “Made in Ukraine” and “Ours”. For these programs she researched biographies of people of Ukrainian descent. The result of this work was a book "#Ours on the world map" ("#НАШІ на карті світу"). The book covers 80 Ukrainians or...

Christian Raffensperger is professor of history at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and an associate with the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI). He discusses his scholarly exploration of dynastic relations in Kyivan Rus' and the impact on genealogy for Ukraine and Eastern and Western Europe. The Harvard University Ukrainian Research Institute's Rus' Genealogy Project. http://g...

Anatoli Sienczenko is President of the New Kuban Education Welfare Association in Buena Vista, New Jersey. He is also the ataman of the New Kuban Kozaks. He tells the story of the Kuban Kozaks and how his family emigrated to the U.S. and to this southern New Jersey community of Kozaks and their descendants.

British Ukrainian journalist Askold Krushelnycky talks about his family history and his 40-year career as a journalist. He is currently the U.S. correspondent for the Kyiv Post. He is also the author of the 2006 book, “An Orange Revolution – A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History”. https://www.kyivpost.com/author/askoldyk?cn-reloaded=1

Chicago expat Areta Kovalsky who now lives and works in Lviv, Ukraine, talks about her experiences and discusses her Galicia history web site Forgotten Galicia. https://forgottengalicia.com/

Roman Brygider is the producer and director of the documentary film "Our Ukrainian American Legacy". He talks about his own Ukrainian ancestry and why he decided to make a documentary film about the Ukrainian-American community.