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[1/4] European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers the State of the European Union address to the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, France, September 13, 2023. Von der Leyen, who has been at the head of the bloc's executive Commission since the end of 2019, also said she would appoint an envoy to help small and medium-sized enterprises tackle red tape to make it easier to do business. Lawmakers gave a standing ovation after von der Leyen recounted the fate of Victoria Amelina, a Ukrainian writer and activist who was killed in a Russian attack on Ukraine. An upcoming package to support Europe's wind industry would be aimed at helping the sector as renewable energy companies struggle with steep inflation, von der Leyen said. Von der Leyen also said the wealthy bloc must engage more with African countries and accused Russia of stirring chaos in the Sahel region of the continent.

Persons: Ursula von der Leyen, Yves Herman Acquire, Von der Leyen, von der Leyen, Victoria Amelina, Héctor Abad, Yves Herman, Jan Strupczewski, Marine Strauss, Foo Yun Chee, Kate Abnett, Gabriela Baczynska, Andrew Gray, Julia Payne, Philip Blenkinsop, Ingrid Melander, Nick Macfie, Alex Richardson Organizations: European, European Union, REUTERS, EU, STRASBOURG, EU Commission, Ukraine, Kyiv, Lawmakers, Thomson Locations: Strasbourg, France, Europe, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Colombian, China, Russia, Sahel, Africa, Brussels

☆ Edith Wharton Goes to War
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Anne Nelson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

On July 1, Victoria Amelina, a Ukrainian novelist and war correspondent, died of injuries sustained when a Russian missile struck a crowded pizza restaurant in the city of Kramatorsk. That senseless attack not only removed a bright literary light; it also called attention to the prominent role women have played in reporting on the war’s atrocities. From high-profile reporters like the BBC’s Lyse Doucet and CNN’s Clarissa Ward to ordinary Ukrainians writing on social media, women have been courageously covering the conflict since it began in February 2022.

Persons: Victoria Amelina, Lyse Doucet, CNN’s Clarissa Ward Locations: Ukrainian, Russian, Kramatorsk

☆ They Tried to Rally South America Behind Ukraine. They Nearly Got Killed.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Gabriela Sá Pessoa | More About Gabriela Sá Pessoa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Héctor Abad Faciolince grew up in what had been one of the most violent cities on earth. Since Colombia won its independence more than 200 years ago, it has weathered political unrest, military crackdowns and violent drug cartels. His own father, who had accused the military of sponsoring death squads, was assassinated in 1987 by paramilitary forces that had turned his hometown, Medellín, into a war zone. But his brush with death came half a world away. At least 13 people were killed, including their guide, the Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina.

Persons: Héctor Abad Faciolince, Victoria Amelina Organizations: Colombia, Russia Locations: Medellín, South America, Ukrainian

☆ Ukrainians Die as America Dawdles
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Garry Kasparov | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A woman holding a photo of Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 4. Photo: Alex Chan Tsz Yuk/Zuma PressI will speak this week in Vilnius, Lithuania, on behalf of the antiwar Russian Action Committee. President Biden will attend the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit there, along with dozens of other heads of state. My first message: Ukraine is the one nation worthy of NATO membership, because it is fighting the war the alliance was built for in 1949. My second message: While America delays, Ukrainians die.

Persons: Victoria Amelina, Alex Chan Tsz Yuk, Biden Organizations: Zuma Press, Russian, Atlantic, Organization, NATO Locations: Kyiv, Ukraine, Vilnius, Lithuania, America

☆ Opinion: The election that couldn’t happen in high school
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

CNN —In the classic 1999 film, “Election,” the high school student government vote has everything: naked ambition, campaign poster shredding, ballot manipulation, infidelity and more. But what the gifted writer Tom Perotta likely couldn’t imagine was an election in which two unpopular candidates square off for president. That doesn’t happen in high school, even in a satirical movie. The president supports stripping that state of its first-in-the-nation primary status in favor of South Carolina, the state that energized Biden’s 2020 campaign. “In the runup to the 2024 elections, Democrats plan to put the Supreme Court on trial,” wrote David Mark.

Persons: Reese Witherspoon, Tracy Flick, ” Matthew Broderick, Jim McAllister, Tracy, Tom Perotta, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Trump, Harry Enten, “, Julian Zelizer, ” Biden, Biden, specter, … ” Dana Summers, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, — Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, George H.W, Bush —, Kennedy, ”, MAGA, Sen, Lindsey Graham’s, Trump’s, Dean Obeidallah, Graham, Michael Flynn, Flynn, Peter Bergen, Erik German, Bill Bramhall, ” “ Flynn, ‘, America’s, …, Geoff Duncan, Drew Sheneman, Roe, Wade, David Mark, … ” Lisa Benson, GoComics.com, Biden romped, Jack Ohman, Kara Alaimo, Coles Whalen, ’, Alice Driver, Clay Jones, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Meta, David Zurawik, Victoria, Olesya Khromeychuk, Victoria Amelina, Andrei Kartapolov, Sharp, ” Khromeychuk, ” Don’t, Sheikh Mohammed Al, Issa, David A, Nicole Hemmer, Jill Filipovic, Sonia Pruitt, Lynda Lin Grigsby, Sara Stewart, Jharrel Jerome, Boots Riley, Holly Thomas, Phoebe Waller, Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford, He’s, goddaughter Helena, Archimedes, Jones, Waller Organizations: CNN, Capitol, Trump, Biden, Agency, Republicans, RFK Jr, New, ”, FBI, Economic, Republican National, Republican Party, GOP, Democratic, McKinsey & Company, Twitter, Facebook, Russian Duma Defense, Hollywood, “, Indy Locations: New Hampshire, South Carolina, ” Bergen, German, Davos, Georgia, California, “, Russian, Ukrainian, Kramatorsk, Ukraine, New York, Donetsk, Auschwitz, Here’s, Oakland , California

☆ Opinion: Victoria Amelina, the sharp and witty Ukrainian writer whose story must be told
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Opinion Olesya Khromeychuk | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —“I really wanted to be the founder of a literature festival in New York,” Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian writer and activist, once told a roomful of Londoners. Her life of late was dedicated to documenting Russian war crimes. Documenting stories of people she met in liberated territories, Victoria found a diary written by the writer and poet Volodymyr Vakulenko. A woman mourns the death of Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina during her memorial service at St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Kyiv. “Ukrainian manuscripts burn all too well.”Many Ukrainian manuscripts have already burned in the fires caused by Russian shelling.

Persons: “, Read, CNN — “, Victoria Amelina, Olesya, Sharp, Victoria, Andrei Kartapolov, ”, Volodymyr Vakulenko, Volodymyr, Kyiv’s, Michael's, Mikhail Bulgakov, Bulgakov’s Stalin, Margarita, ” “, Volodya Organizations: Ukrainian Institute London, CNN, Russian Duma Defence, New York Literature, Ukrainian Armed Forces, Arsenal, PEN Ukraine, Twitter, Facebook Locations: Central Europe, Khromeychuk, New York, Ukrainian, Donetsk, Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Russian, York, Yorks, Victoria, Kharkiv, Paris, Soviet, St, Kyiv, London, Popasna

☆ Ukrainian Writer Victoria Amelina Dies After Kramatorsk Strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Cassandra Vinograd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

KYIV, Ukraine — Victoria Amelina, one of Ukraine’s best known young writers, has died from injuries sustained in a Russian missile strike on a crowded restaurant in eastern Ukraine. Her death brought to 13 the number of civilians killed in the attack on the Ria Lounge restaurant in the city of Kramatorsk on June 27. Ms. Amelina was dining with a Colombian delegation when the missile ripped into the restaurant. “Doctors and paramedics in Kramatorsk and Dnipro did everything they could to save her life,” the writers’ group PEN Ukraine said in a statement late Sunday. Days before the attack, Ms. Amelina had attended the Kyiv Book Arsenal, a large literary festival in Ukraine’s capital.

Persons: Victoria Amelina, Amelina Organizations: Victoria, Ria, Colombian, PEN, Arsenal Locations: KYIV, Ukraine, Russian, Kramatorsk, Dnipro, PEN Ukraine, Kyiv

☆ A Russian missile strike killed a Ukrainian author who began documenting Russia's war crimes after the invasion
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Victoria Amelina died July 1 following a Russian missile strike in the city of Kramatorsk. Amelina wrote two novels throughout her life and began writing poetry soon after the Russian war in Ukraine began. "But I document Russia's war crimes and listen to the sound of shelling, not poems." She received a grant in 2022 from Documenting Ukraine — a research project dedicated to documenting personal stories during the Russian war in Ukraine, according to their website — to complete the project. The work records the stories of female civil society leaders amid the war, according to Documenting Ukraine.

Persons: Victoria Amelina, Amelina, —, Amelina —, Sergio Jaramillo, Colombia's, " Jaramillo, Volodymyr Vakulenko — Organizations: Service, BBC, Financial Times, Twitter, Victoria, Irish Times, Kharkiv Literary Locations: Russian, Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Ukrainian

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