Poet and editor Randall Maggs has been named the recipient of the $25,000 Kobzar Literary Award for his acclaimed hockey saga Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Brick).

LVIV, Ukraine - Here’s a recipe for overnight international fame if you happen to be an obscure local politician: Come to a kindergarten class unannounced, and tell a group of 5-year-old kids that their names are all wrong because they sound too Russian, then try to teach them how to say them in Ukrainian. Tell those who disagree to pack their suitcases and go to Moscow. Oh, and make sure you have a TV crew with you, so that the video ends up on YouTube quite soon.

Iryna Farion during her memorable visit to a kindergarten class in February. She caused an international stir by advising kids with Russian-sounding names to pack their suitcases and go to Moscow.

Romanian Institute of Earth Physics reported on the activity of the area in the Carpathian Mountains on the border with Ukraine. The strength of quake may reach 8 - 9 points. As the channel 1 +1 reports, the massif muss on the border with Ukraine has almost the same activity, as in Chile, a strong earthquake may strike here at any time.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY — Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission and the Folklife Program for New Jersey present Pysanky, Traditional Ukrainian Egg-Decorating Workshop with Master Artist Olga Kobryn, on Saturday, March 20, at East Jersey Olde Towne Village, 1050 River Road, Piscataway. Two sessions will be offered from 10 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Ukraine - a country that is central to the security of Europe - has returned to the Kremlin fold.
A divided Ukraine.