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UkrInform: Nine US states have already recognized Holodomor as genocide

By UkrInform.

Published May 3, 2018 at 12:09 pm

A woman lights up a candle by a monument to Holodomor victims during Holodomor commemoration ceremony near Holodomor memorial in downtown Kyiv on Nov. 25. 2017

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

The U.S. state of New York has recognized the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as the genocide of Ukrainians.

“The Senate and the Assembly of the State of New York adopted a joint resolution dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, which recognizes this tragedy as the genocide of the Ukrainian people,” the press service of the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States reports.