President Viktor Yushchenko issued an edit entitled “On Additional Measures to Honor the Memory of the 1932–33 Holodomor Victims in Ukraine.” The edit was published on June 12, reports the president’s official website www.president.org.ua.
Under the edict, a monument to James Mace, a noted researcher of the Holodomor who was the first to lift the veil of ignorance over this tragedy, is to be erected in Kyiv. Even though the precise deadline is not specified, the Cabinet of Ministers and local government agencies received an instruction to complete the entire program by the end of 2010. On Dec. 2, 2005, the president already issued one edict ordering the construction of the James Mace monument by Feb. 18, 2007, which was the 55th birth anniversary of the researcher.
The readers will remember that Mace moved to Kyiv from the USA and taught in Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Since 1998 and until his untimely death in 2004 he worked with The Day. He is buried at Baikove cemetery in Kyiv.
