His Excellency Oleh Shamshur, Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, will be featured at a Global Awareness lecture at Brigham Young University Wednesday, Feb. 14, at noon in 238 Herald R. Clark Building.
Admission is free, and the public is welcome to attend.
Shamshur is slated to discuss “Ukraine-U.S. Relations.”
The ambassador received his education at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University and the Academy of Sciences in Ukraine. He received the ambassadorial appointment in 2005 after having served as deputy minister of foreign affairs, head of the European Union Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and minister-counselor at the Ukrainian Embassy to the Benelux countries.
This lecture will be archived online. For more information on David M. Kennedy Center events, see the calendar online at kennedy.byu.edu.
Writer: Elizabeth Kasper