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With protest and policy, New Yorkers back Ukraine

March 20, 2022 by Bennett Garcia

On the afternoon of Saturday, March 5, a sea of blue and yellow clothing blanketed Times Square from 45th to 47th streets. Chants of “Slava Ukraini” and “Heroyam Slava” — “Glory to Ukraine” and “Glory to the Heroes” — echoed throughout the busy intersection. Countless signs reading “No Fly Zone,” “Stand with Ukraine, Stand with […]

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Documenting Ukraine: A Conversation with Activist Oleksandra Al Zakhran

March 16, 2022 by Hamad Bin Essa

Social media activist Oleksandra Al Zakhran, 26, has been cataloging the lives of her family and other Ukrainians as they try to survive under the constant bombardment of Russian military attacks. Born in Kyiv and currently residing in Canada, Al Zakhran is a Ukrainian-Lebanese activist and business owner, who has been  sharing stories and educating […]

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Biden Administration Grants Temporary Protection to Ukrainian Refugees as War Continues

March 10, 2022 by Charlotte Farrell, Katherine Cook, William Xie, Camilla O Keefe

A woman and child peer out of the window of a bus as they leave Sievierodonetsk

Victoria Carchietta, a second-generation Ukrainian American and a junior at New York University, can only imagine her grandmother as she watches the mass exodus of Ukrainians fleeing their country after Russia invaded more than two weeks ago.   “It feels like history is repeating itself,” said Carchietta, who recalled how her grandmother described escaping Ukraine from […]

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NYU’s Student Government Assembly Rushes to Support in Wake of Ukrainian Conflict

March 10, 2022 by Gillian Blum

A hand holds up a small Ukrainian flag, which has a blue top half and a yellow bottom half

New York University’s Student Government Assembly has leapt into action in the immediate wake of the crisis in Ukraine. From providing funding, to creating a safe space for any and all to learn or grieve, they have sought ways to provide support to members of the community affected by the conflict.  Two days before Russian […]

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Amid Historic Conflict, NYU Students Reflect on Families Past and Present Fleeing Ukraine

March 10, 2022 by Farheen Khan, Gabriela Bernal, Charlotte Farrell

Kat Koopman at The Bean

In the wake of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, New York University students reflect on the costs of war on their own families and friends back home, fiercely held family traditions, and stories of their own grandparents fleeing their home country decades earlier.  As they watch history once again repeated, here are some […]

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LGBTQ Ukrainians Face Persecution In Russian Invasion

March 10, 2022 by Grace Symes

New Yorkers rally outside the Stonewall Inn in support of Ukraine and its LGBTQ community on Saturday, Feb. 26

Yevhen Trachuk left Kyiv on Feb. 28. After a week of hiding in metro stations at night to avoid bombs and spending his days drinking and smoking in his Kyiv apartment, Trachuk got on a train and went west, to the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk. Trachuk is a 25-year-old LGBTQ rights activist and works with […]

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Thousands gather in Times Square in support of Ukraine

March 9, 2022 by Asher Fields

A woman holds a sign written in both English and Ukrainian

NEW YORK — “We’re not angels, Russia’s not the devil, but what they’re doing is wrong,” said Karen Cahn, a protester in Times Square on Saturday, March 5. Cahn, like thousands of others, showed up for a rally organized by Razom for Ukraine, a nonprofit dedicated to the betterment of Ukraine. The rally, one of […]

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NYU Russian Faculty and Students Discuss Russian-Ukrainian Conflict

March 7, 2022 by Rubin Yu-Cheng Wong

Panelists and students at the Q&A session.

Russian New York University faculty and students on Friday expressed opposition and disappointment over President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine. Speaking after a panel discussion hosted by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, Anastasia Vlasova, a freshman student from Moscow with friends and relatives in Ukraine, said she’s “incredibly disappointed in […]

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The Ukrainian Crisis: What You Need to Know About the Invasion

March 7, 2022 by Agne Tolockaite, Allie Leeds

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a damaged logistic center after shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 3, 2022. Kyiv was a Russian defeat for the ages. It started poorly for the invaders and went downhill from there. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Russian President Vladimir Putin began a full scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 after months of troop buildup and failed diplomatic efforts by the United States and its European allies to avert a conflict.  Since then, the Ukrainian people under President Volodymyr Zelensky have been courageously fighting to defend their freedom and their independence […]

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Solidarity Amidst Crisis, NYU Community Gathers in Support of Ukraine

March 2, 2022 by Samantha Ngai

Days after President Vladimir Putin’s military invasion, hundreds of New York University students, faculty and alumni on Monday gathered at the steps of Kimmel Center for University Life to recognize the innocent victims of the historic crisis in Ukraine.  “We condemn Putin’s words, actions and the attempt to question the right of statehood in Ukraine,” […]

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