“The Maidan does not accept 'Black Hundred' slogans. And those who attempted to use them were quickly taken out of this space of freedom,” said the Head of the 'Batkivschina' party Political Council Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Obama's State of the Union address will focus mainly on domestic issues. But on foreign policy, the president will have to make his case on Iran to skeptical lawmakers
International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Yad Vashem educators and historians participate in events in Paris, London, Myanmar, Singapore, Vietnam, Ghana, Cape Town, Geneva, Vienna, Auschwitz and Jerusalem
Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament: ‘’Holding a memorial ceremony cannot undo the atrocities that happened to so many families but it can serve as a warning, it can serve as a tribute and it can serve as a lesson,’’
Mikhail Frenkel, a veteran Jewish journalist from Kyiv, explained how Jews relate to the mass rallies in Ukraine and stressed three important points while speaking at the Israeli radio channel REKA.
On January 22, 2014, a member of the leadership of the united opposition of Ukraine, Mikhail Livinskiy, made a proposal to VAAD Ukraine Chairman Josef Zisels to organize a patrol and guards for the Kyiv synagogues by Maidan’s self-defense forces.
On January 24, 2013, a solidarity rally took place near the Ukrainian embassy in Tel-Aviv. Over 70 activists from different cities of Israel came to state their protest against the dictatorship and police oppression.