On May 6, 2012, Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) President Eugene Czolij joined celebrations marking the day in the honour of the Queen of France, Anna of Kyiv, in the city of Senlis. The event was organized on the initiative of St. Volodymyr the Great Cathedral in Paris by the Representative Committee for Ukrainians in France and the Twinning Committee for Senlis and the Pechers’k District of Kyiv.