Russia has occupied the Crimean peninsula, a part of Ukraine, for more than seven years. Today, Nasha Kasha explores the bonds between Tatars and Ukrainians.  And how both peoples again and again must grapple with an expansionist Russia.

Thursday, February 25th 2021 is the 150th birthday of Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka. Her significance for Ukraine and for Europe is this week's story on Nasha Kasha.

 Rule of Law restricts the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating power to well-defined and established laws.  Nasha Kasha presents two judges talking about rules, fairness and life.

 Zirka is Ukrainian for a heavenly body.  The one you are about to encounter was smelted in a Sudbury Inco mine.   That's where a foreman named Slawko Hucal worked.  Slawko and his wife raised four musicians.    Today, the band they inspired shines on. 

Around the time of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians united around an independence movement.  The military arm of that drive was the UPA, an insurgent army.  Today, Nasha Kasha tells the story of these partisans, who first formed ranks 78 years ago.

Promoting our heritage for a greater understanding among all peoples is at the heart of what it means to be a multicultural nation.  Multiculturalism has been Canada's official policy for close to 50 years.  

97 million people have been stricken with COVID worldwide.    More than 2 million have died.  Nasha Kasha hears from patients and front line practitioners, who know Covid up close.

 Odessa Ontario is 26 kilometres west of Kingston.  It is in the very heart of British Loyalist country.  Why then, in the mid-1850s, would residents accept the name of a Ukrainian port as their own? This week's episode of Nasha Kasha- a Ukrainian Almanac offers some answers.

Two days before Ukrainian Christmas, a priest, living alone in Val D'or Quebec, turned 98.  Father Lev Chayka has served mining families in three languages in northern Quebec and Ontario for almost half a century. This is his story. 

Each New Year promises renewed hope; 2021 perhaps more so than any in recent memory. Ukrainians honour an ancient feast of rebirth at this time. Today's story is about new beginnings, new lands, regeneration, and joy.