Friday marks one year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which triggered the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. And it’s had worldwide impacts, all the way to Arizona.The state’s growing Ukrainian-American community is marking the solemn occasion with events designed to raise awareness of the dire situation that continues in their home country.“We were a quiet,
Zuzana Kolinkova isn’t Ukrainian. But she grew up not far away in the former Czechoslovakia, a neighboring country that also suffered in the Soviet bloc under the thumb of communist Russia.“The communist era was just for 40 full years, but the imprint is there still," Kolinkova said. Kolinkova, whose family still live in what is now the Czech Republic, says she learned at an
On today’s episode of The Confluence: Timothy Tomson, a pastor at St. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in McKees Rocks, shares how his parish is feeling and reacting to Russia’s invasion; and Spotlight PA’s Ed Mahon explains his latest investigation into misleading and possibly dangerous claims some Pennsylvania dispensaries are making about the ability to treat opioid use disorder with cannabis.