Marta Kolomayets, American director of the Fulbright Program in Ukraine for seven years, died Sunday

Marta Kolomayets, American director of the Fulbright Program in Ukraine for seven years, died Sunday at the age of 61 after a long illness. As the local head of Fulbright, she helped more than 300 Ukrainians pursue Masters and Doctorate degrees at US universities. The daughter of Ukrainian emigres, Kolomayets first visited the Ukrainian SSR in 1985, but was kicked out for filming interviews with Soviet dissidents. She returned in 1990s, opening the Kyiv bureau of the Ukrainian Weekly, the first foreign media bureau in modern Ukraine.