Publishtd by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-profit association rainianWee Vol. LXI No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 18,1993 50 cents Ukraine's Parliament deliberates START pact by Borys Юутепко Special to The Ukrainian Weekly KYYIV — Ukraine's Parliament will discuss ratification of START I this month, and the issue is already being debated in that body's standing committees during closed sessions. A sec­ ond reading of the arms reduction treaty's military/political pro­ visions took place on April 9. Recognizing that Ukraine is now under constant pressure to ratify START and that parliamentary deputies are forbidden to discuss their closed deliberations with the press, Yuriy Kostenko, Ukraine's minister of the environment and the chairman of the special parliamentary committee on preparations for the ratifica­ tion of START I, held a press conference on April 10. In his opening statement, Mr. Kostenko noted that it is wrong to criticize Ukraine for delaying ratification of the pact since the United States had taken more than a year to approve START I. Meanwhile, Ukraine has been examining the pact for less than three months. That said. Minister Kostenko noted Ukraine's concern about the dismantling of nuclear weapons already transferred to Russia. Ukraine's observers are allowed to witness the dismantling process only up to the point when the nuclear material is removed from a warhead. However, they are not allowed to observe what then happens with that material, which can readily be reused in toфedoes, bombs, etc. In addition, Mr. Kostenko pointed to the prohibitive costs for Ukraine of dismantling the missile silos and mobile launchers located on its territory. Ukraine is not so wealthy that it could assume responsibihty for these costs, he explained. Varoslava Surmach-Mills (Continued on page 20) Parliament approves Ukraine's budget NEWS ANALYSIS: Christopher by Serhiy Dmytrychenko deficit is 800 billion karbovantsi smaller Special to IntelNews than projected in the govern­ ment first version. For the most part, denies refusal to meet Kuchma KYYIV — Following four days of deputies recognized these estimates are by Irene Jarosewich firmed the Ukrainian government's intense debate, the Ukrainian Parlia­ subject to radical changes in the fu­ commitment to non-nuclear status. ment, on Friday, April 9, approved ture, mostly because of variations in the WASHINGTON - Within hours of The quick exchange of allegation Ukraine's budget and work plan price of oil and gas. Of more than 400 the publication of an article in The New and denial of allegation highlights some for 1993. The budget, adopted in its deputies, 286 voted for the budget. York Times on April 8 that reported of the tensions and frustrations felt by third version, includes a projected In all, 100 deputies signed up to President Bill Clinton and Viee-Presi- those observing and involved in the : deficit of 1.2 trillion karbovantsi. This participate in the debate, but only 51 dent Al Gore refused to meet with debate regarding U.S. foreign policy had a chance to speak. Nearly all of Ukraine's prime minister, Leonid Kuch- towards Ukraine. During the visit of them had strong criticism for the ПШ, as a signal to pressure Ukraine Ukraine's- Foreign Minister Anatoliy Pynzenyk repiacei as government's proposal. to give up its nuclear weapon, Secretary Zlenko to Washington several weeks Most deputies from the Socialist of State Warren Christopher issued a ago, a Defense Department spokesman minister of economy block criticized the government for denial in which he stated that "the confirmed that the United States wants policies that, in their opinion, are ra­ United States is always anxious to meet to dismantle the world nuclear weapons KYYIV — Minister of the Economy with representatives of Ukraine." arsenal — including its own, Russia's Viktor Pynzenyk was replaced on pidly impoverishing the population. Deputy Vasyl Kozarenko said the However, he added, "Washington and Ukraine's — as niuch as possible. Tuesday, April 13, with a former mili­ current minimal cost-of-living allow­ wants Kyyiv to live up to the commit­ tary industrialist who is more likely to be In a television interview on April 8, ance provides for an inhuman living ments it has made to the previous U.S. Mr. Talbott said "the United States able to work with the Parliament of standard. administration with respect to ratifica­ government has had very close and Ukraine, reported Reuters. Right-wing deputies, on the other tion" of START I and the Nuclear Non- continuous ties with and consultations President Leonid Kravchuk replaced hand, criticized the government for Proliferation Treaty. with the Ukrainian government... the Mr. Pynzenyk with Yuriy Bannikov. a allocating too much of the proposed The New York Times story was theme has been repeated over and over close associate of Prime Minister Leonid budget's expenditures to social pro­ reportedly based on information that again from the American side: Ukraine Kuchma. Mr. Pynzenyk , however, will grams. They said even the world's came from the office of Strobe Talbott, made a promise a year ago to ratify the retain his position as deputy prime min­ richest nation could not afford U- special advisor to Mr. Christopher on START I treaty and accede to the Non- ister. kraine's social service programs. Russia and the former Soviet republics. Proliferation Treaty as a non-niiclear Reuters cited sources close to the Ivan Zayets, head of the National The Embassy of Ukraine also res­ state. And we consider it very impor­ Council parliamentary faction, criti­ government who said the move dented ponded to The New York Times report tant — and I might add very important cized the budget for "insignificant" and the subsequent State Department from Ukraine's own standpoint and the young reformer's authority, but allocations to farmers and entre­ from the standpoint of Ukrainian inter­ would generate little change in the mar- denial with a six-point statement calling preneurs. He also said the govern- the allegations in the news report ests — to giwt up those nuclear weapons (Continued on page 16) (Continued on page 16) "groundless." The Embassy also recon­ (Continued on page 10) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 18,1993 No. 16 RESEARCH REPORT: The shaping Newsbriefs of Ukrainian attitudes on nukes on Ukraine by Bohdan Nahaylo principles: not to maintain, produce or acquire nuclear weapons." This far- With the dissolution of the Soviet reaching precept was accepted without New committee on disarmament visit, "We have come to Ukraine not to Union, Ukraine became in theory, if not any major dissent and was duly en­ demand the return of territory but with in practice, the world's third most shrined in the final version of the •KYYIV — Ukraine's newly estab­ the aim of developing friendship." Mr. powerful nuclear state. Although in its Declaration of Sovereignty, which was lished National Committee on Nastase expressed support for coopera­ first assertion of the republic's state adopted on July 16 by the striking Disarmament held its first meeting here tion in helping the Romanian minority in sovereignty, the Ukrainian Parliament margin of 355 to four by a Ukrainian on April 7. Headed by Deputy Foreign Ukraine and the Ukrainian minority in had declared Ukraine's intention not to Parliament in which the conservative Minister Borys Tarasiuk, the committee's Romania. be a nuclear state, when it came to Communist majority outnumbered the main task is to coordinate the formula­ He also reportedly showed "special getting rid of the nuclear weapons democratic opposition by roughly two tion and implementation of Ukraine's interest" in President Kravchuk's initia­ stationed on its territory, the task to one.* policy vis a vis conventional and nuclear tive for "the creation of an Eastern proved far more complex and proble­ Why did the "non-nuclear" position arms control. (RFE/RL Daily Report) European security zone and holding an matic than could have been imagined. proclaimed by Ukraine's Parliament at international conference on this prob­ Since then Ukrainian attitudes a time of renewed Ukrainian national Kravchuk meets Romanian delegation lem." (RFE/RL Daily Report) toward nuclear weapons have changed, assertiveness not generate controversy? •KYYIV — Ukrainian President as idealism has been tempered by Quite simply, because at a time when Officers suggest retention of nukes political realism and economic prag­ Ukraine was only just beginning to free Leonid Kravchuk met with a Romanian matism. Today, ironically, the same itself from Moscow's control, it made parliamentary delegation headed by its •KYYIV — Members of the influen­ Parliament that overwhelmingly em­ sense both to the republic's leadership speaker, Adrian Nastase, here on April 7. tial Union of Ukrainian Officers met here braced the idea of a non-nuclear U- and to the public. The Ukrainian president said bilateral April 10-11, electing Maj. Gen. kraine appears to have serious doubts More than anything else, the trauma ties between the two countries had not Oleksarider Skipalsky the group's chair­ about the wisdom of unilateral nuclear and damage caused by the world's worst developed rapidly enough—alluding to man. The union also adopted a resolu­ disarmament and, despite considerable nuclear accident, in April 1986 at the the issue of northern Bukovyna and tion calling for maintenance of Ukraine's international pressure, is insisting that Chornobyl nuclear plant, only 80 miles southern Bessarabia— and called for the status as a nuclear power; suspension of before it can consider ratifying the north of the Ukrainian capital, Kyyiv, signing of a Ukrainian-Romanian treaty the Yalta agreement that regulates START I treaty, Ukraine's security had left a deep fear of nuclear energy, reflecting new mutual understanding. Russian and Ukrainian activities with must be guaranteed and its economic whether in its peaceful or military Mr. Nastase said of the parliamentary (Continued on page 19) interests taken into account. forms. The popular reaction had ex­ pressed itself in the rapid emergence of PARTI an anti-nuclear campaign, which had Avramenko's remains to be reinterred stimulated the growth of a broader JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Plans are krainian dance ensembles, as well as to In mid-July 1990, the tide of Ukrai­ Ukrainian environmental, or "green," nian national resurgence had become so under way for the reburial in Ukraine of those individuals who would like to take movement; this, in turn, had become an the earthly remains of the late Vasyl this opportunity to honor the late strong that the republic's Communist- important component of the movement dominated Parliament was successfully Avramenko, choreographer and popu- choreographer's memory. for democracy and national renewal in larizer of Ukrainian folk dance, founder For further information, contact pressed by the democratic opposition Ukraine. into adopting a radical Declaration of of Ukrainian dance schools and ensem­ Marian Kots, P.O. Box 33; Lexington, the State Sovereignty of Ukraine. One Moreover, at a time of growing bles, who died May 6, 1981, in New NY 12452; (516) 989-6228. of the most controversial moments in Ukrainian national self-awareness, York at the age of 86. the debate was when democratic de­ nuclear arms were associated with The reburial, which is to take place in puties, most of whom were supporters Moscow's military and imperial might. Мауг is in accordance with the choreo­ Mr. Avramenko organized many of the Ukrainian Popular Movement The nuclear weapons deployed on grapher's wishes, as expressed in his dance schools and ensei^bte^** beginning for Restructuring, or Rukh, insisted Ukrainian territory were under the testament, that upon Ukraine's inde­ at the interned Ukrainian soldier's camp that Ukraine's newly affirmed sove­ control of Moscow, and Kyyiv had no pendence, he be buried in his native vil­ in Kalisz, Poland, in 1921 and later in reignty be buttressed by an assertion of say in the matter. Indeed, the supposedly lage, Stebliv, Cherkasy Oblast. western Ukraine, Czecho-Slovakia,and the republic's right to its own mili­ sovereign Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Germany. Republic, which had a seat at the United As part of the ceremonies, there will He emigrated to Canada in 1926 and tary and security forces. This daring be the installation of a burial monu­ move was the first such challenge from Nations, was neither a signatory of the later to the United States, where he Treaty on the Non-proliferation of ment; the dedication of a museum in an founded numerous dance ensembles the non-Russian republics during the existing historic landmark building, final phase of the Soviet empire. Nuclear Weapons of 1968 nor allowed and a school of folk dance in New York. to participate directly in international which is to house the Avramenko Mr. Avramenko published the manual Yet, no sooner had this principle been negotiations on nuclear disarmament. archive; as well as a scholarly confer­ "Ukrainian National Dances, Music accepted than the leader of Rukh, Ivan ence. The event is being held under the and Costumes," (1946). He made many Drach, made another radical proposal The Declaration of the State Sov­ auspices of the Ministry of Culture and ereignty of Ukraine was also, after all, in successful appearances with the U- — that Ukraine also proclaim its in­ the Institute of Ethnography at the U- krainian dance ensemble and the tention "to become a neutral state that many respects an idealistic statement of krainian Academy of Sciences, headed intention, which, for the time being at Koshetz Choir at the Metropolitan does not participate in military blocs by Dr. Oleksander Kostiuk. Opera in New York, 1931; the Century and that adheres to three non-nuclear least, seemed more a case of wishful thinking than a blueprint for Ukraine's Taking part in ceremonies, apart of Progress Exposition in Chicago, attainment of independence. Although from dignitaries from Ukraine, will be 1933; and the White House in Washing­ at least two of the Ukrainian political clergy, scholars and guests from the ton, 1935. Copies available parties formed in the second half of diaspora. An invitation to the event is The Avramenko Fund has been 1990 (the Green Party and the De­ being extended to former instractors established in New York to preserve his Copies of the RFE/RL Research and students of Vasyl Avramenko's U- heritage. Report that contain this article may mocratic Party of Ukraine) upheld the be ordered by mail or phone from non-nuclear principles in their poli­ Brian Reed at RFE/RL in Washing­ tical programs, even the most radical of ton: RFE/RL Research Institute, Ukrainian politicians recognized that U.S. Office, 1201 Connecticut Ave. the realization of Ukraine's sovereignty FOUNDED 1933 NW, Suite 410, Washington, DC would be a gradual and complex pro­ иІ;гаіпіап1/«/ееУ] 20036; (202) 457-6912. Price: $7 per cess. Clearly, with hundreds of thous­ An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National copy. ands of Soviet military personnel sta­ Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. The special issue is dated February tioned on Ukrainian territory, it was 07302. 19 (Vol. 2, No. 8) and titled "Ne­ one thing to aspire to the creation of gotiating Nuclear Disarmament." In Ukrainian armed forces and the "de­ Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. addition to Mr. Nahaylo's article, it nuclearization" of Ukraine and quite (ISSN - 0273-9348) contains the following analyses* "In­ another to set about achieving this. This troduction: The Problem of Former was borne out by both the lack of any Yearly subscription rate: $20; for UNA members — $10. Soviet Nuclear Weapons,""Ukraine, real public discussion of the nuclear Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. Russia and the Control of Nuclear arms issue in the republic and the fact, Weapons," "Beyond START: Ukrai­ when Moscow and Washington finally The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: nian Russian Negotiations," "Ka­ signed the START I treaty in July 1991, (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201) 451-2200 zakhstan and Nuclear Weapons," after more than nine years of negotia­ and "How Much is a Warhead tions, Ukraine was left out of the Postmaster, send address Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz Worth?" all by John Lepingwell; and picture. changes to: Associate editor: Marta Koloinayets(Kyyiv) "The Impact of START 2 on the Differences emerge The Ukrainian Weekly Assistant editor Kliristina Lew Russian Strategic Forces" by Doug­ PC Box 346 Staff writers/editors: Roman Woronowycz las L. Clarke. Also included in the The Declaration!of the_State_Spyer-' Jersey City, N.J. 07303 Andrij Wynnyckyj issue is "The Control of Former (Continued on page 14) Soviet Nuclear Weapons: A Chro- The Uicrainian Weekly, April 18,1993, No. 16, Vol. LX noldgy" ^epared by Mr. Leping­ 1 See Vitally Karpenko, **Take Your Copyright by The Ukrainian Weekly well in outline form. Places...," Vitchyzna, No. 4, April 1991, pp. 149-lM. No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 18,1993

House hearing PHOTO FOLLOW-UP: Congressional delegation in Kyyiv focuses on democratization by Brian Simon Ukrainian National Information Service

WASHINGTON — The House Fo­ reign Affairs Committee on March 24 held a hearing on "Democratization in the Former Soviet Union," focusing on the current power struggle in Moscow between the legislative and executive branches and the U.S. stake in de­ mocratic Russia. Four witnesses: Robert Strauss, former ambassador to the Soviet Union and Russia; Dr. Peter Reddaway, professor of political science and in­ ternational affairs at George Washing­ ton University; Dr. Paula Dobriansky, adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute; and Dr. James Billington, librarian of Congress, addressed the committee, recommending United States policy goals for the region. Mr. Strauss recognized the possibility for compromise in the current power struggle between President Boris Yel­ tsin and the Russian Parliament. The United States needs to remain involved in the post-Soviet states, he said. For example, Russia needs to have its external debt deferred. However, the debt is not exclusively a Russian issue, as Ukraine also owes a percentage of the Soviet debt. Mr. Strauss recommended that the United States could act as a mediator while Russia and Ukraine seek to resolve how much of the debt each owes. (Continued on page 18) U.S. prosecutors argue new theory of two "Ivans" CINCINNATI — The U.S. Depart­ ment of Justice is now arguing that there were two Ukrainians named 'Ivan" who took turns murdering Jews at the Treblinka death camp, reported The Plain Dealer. According to this new theory, John Demjanjuk and Ivan Marchenko (who the Demjanjuk defense claims was the real "Ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka), both ran the camp's gas chambers, with A 14-member congressional delegation headed by Marchenko filling in for Mr. Demjanjuk Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) visited Kyyiv on April when the latter had the day off. 4-6. Seen above are photos of that visit. Top: The (Continued on page 18) delegation pays a visit to a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Nazi massacre at Babyn Yar. Center: The group walks down a Kyyiv street. Below, left: The Demjanjuk meets congressmen do some sightseeing on Andriyivskyi Uzviz. Bottom, right: Rep. Steny Hoyer (left) with U.S. Ukraine's envoy Ambassador Roman Popadiuk at the Bessarabian Market. JERUSALEM — Ukraine's ambas­ sador to Israel, Dr. Yuriy Shcherbak, on Wednesday, April 7, met with John Demjanjuk at Ayalon Prison, reported the Respublika press service. Mr. Demjanjuk, who is awaiting the Israeli Supreme Court's decision on the appeal of his conviction and death sentence for the Nazi war crimes committee by ''Ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka, told Ambassador Shcherbak he is confident that the court will be objective in its decision. Mr. Demjanjuk also told Dr. Shcherbak he intends to appeal for restoration of his Ukrainian citizenship to President Leonid Kravchuk. At the same time, he is seeking a reversal of the denaturalization order issued against him in the United States. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 18,1993 No. 16 Physician speaks on Yonkers and Temopil enter info sister city relations medicine in Ukraine YONKERS, N.Y. — Through the %^^' efforts of the Westchester branch of the ^ by Maksym Pyziur Ukrainian Congress Committee of America a freedom plaque proclaiming ST. LOUIS - Dr. William Selezinka, an August 24, 1991, as Ukrainian In­ associate professor of ophthalmology at dependence Day is now prominently the Bethesda Eye Institute of the St. Louis displayed on the Freedom Shrine Wall University School of Medicine, on March of the Yonkers City Hall along with 22 14 presented a lecture titled "Medical documents of history, among them the Care in Ukraine: Present and Future" in Constitution of the U.S.A. and the Bill the institute's auditorium. of Rights. In a special ceremony hosted by The focus of Dr. Selezinka's lecture Yonkers Mayor Terence M. Zaleski in was the recent establishment of an oph­ City Hall on February 25, the Ukraine thalmology teaching program at Ivano- freedom plaque was enshrined before Frankivske University. Along with the representatives of the City Council, program, an effort has been undertaken to members of the Westchester branch of provide assistance in the development of UCCA, priests from St. Michael's more adequate vision care delivery sys­ Ukrainian Catholic Church and mem­ tems, which he also explained. These pro­ bers of the Yonkers Ukrainian com­ grams were begun under the auspices of munity. "Today we are officially ce­ the Eye Institute during the middle of lebrating an answer to our prayers for 1992 spearheaded by Dr. Selezinka. an independent Ukraine,'' said Mayor Dr. Selezinka began his discussion with Zaleski. an outline of the rapid development of UCCA Coordinator of Press and ophthalmology in the United States. He Public Relations Roman Kozicky read also discussed the mission of the Eye the inscription on the freedom plaque, Institute and its desire to place itself at which documents Ukraine's Decla­ the forefront of innovation. ration of Independence on January 22, 1918, to the restoration of indepen­ He proceeded from there to discuss the dence on August 24, 1991. The text various aspects of his initial visit to Viacheslav Nehoda (left), mayor of Ternopil, Ukraine, accepts a proclamation documents Ukraine's struggle for free­ Ivano-Frankivske: the difficulties he from the city of Yonkers, N.Y., establishing a sister city relationship, from Dr. dom and the tremendous losses in­ encountered with getting proper travel Orest Kozicky, president of the Yonkers branch of the Ukrainian American Youth curred during the 1932-1933 man-made documentation, the frustrations of seeing Association and initiator of this project. famine. World War II and in Soviet the dilapidation of facilities and apathy on concentration camps. Mayor Zaleski expressed his pleasure in Nehoda agreed to present the idea to the the part of both health care personnel and It also documents the results of the establishing the bond with Ternopil, City Council and the votes favored the patients, the inability to use basic equip­ December 1,1991, referendum and U.S. which, with a population of 225,000 is a project. ment due to the shortage of basic replace­ diplomatic recognition of Ukraine on center of industrial and commercial On his second medical relief mission ment parts such as light bulbs, and the December 25, 199 L It acknowledges the development and one of the main to Ukraine in January Dr. Kozicky lack of medical suppHes such as ban­ efforts of Ukrainians around the world educational-cultural centers of western returned with a proclajnation from dages, surgical gowns and blades (caus­ towards "securing Ukraine's rightful Ukraine. Office of the Mayor oif Yonkers and ing them to be washed and reused for sev­ place in the world community of De­ presented it to Mayor Nehoda. He eral procedures). "In the spirit of friendship and mocratic nations." It calls upon the, соорегаїІЬтЙйїШш8 ^tf ^ and present^ Dn^:Ozicbi^jv^ a peramic Dr. Selezinka concluded by saying that government and people of the U.S.A. Ternopil can learn more about each plate of Taras ShevcTWiko as' a symbol in spite of the prevailing conditions at the "to give tangible assistance and sup­ other, maximizing the application of of the union. institution in Ivano-Frankivske, he will port towards strengthening democra­ technical, business and cultural re­ Accepting the ceramic ^late from not be deterred from his pursuit of devel­ cy's hold in Ukraine." sources," said Mayor Zaleski. Ternopil during this ceremony. Mayor oping the program in alliance with the St. City Council President Vincenza The initiator of the sister city project. Zaleski proposed enshrining the plate Louis University School of Medicine: Dr. Restiano praised the Ukrainian com­ Dr. Orest Kozicky, president of the along with the proclamation on a wall in Sele-zinka's next trip is scheduled for munity of Yonkers for being a strong, Yonkers SUM-A branch, thanked the SUM-A Hall in Yonkers to give the June of this year. Although the university hard-working ethnic group of which the Mayor Zaleski for his warm acceptance youth knowledge of the special bond is very supportive of this program. Dr.' city is proud. of Ternopil as sister city to Yonkers. between the sister cities of Ternopil and Selezinka said that additional funding The second occasion for the cele­ Dr. Kozicky explained how on his Yonkers. and/or donated equipment is still neces-: bration was the official proclamation of medical relief mission to Ukraine in Mayor Zaleski said he believes Ter­ sary. Ternopil as sister city to Yonkers. April 1992 he had met with the mayor of nopil is a city with a prosperous future, Ternopil, Уyacheslav, Nejioda. Their adding that he looks forward to the discussion focused on ways to help sister city relationship. The next step is Ukraine, and Dr. Kozicky proposed the to register the designation in the Di­ Michigan congressman meets sister city project as a means of es­ rectory of Sister Cities International. tablishing industrial,. commercial, cul­ The ceremony was filmed and aired by with Ukraine's ambassador tural and educational exchange. Mayor Cablevision. WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. David spoke of his support for U.S.-Ukraine E. Bonior (D-Mt. Clemens) on March exchanges of students and parliamenta­ 16 met for almost an hour with Dr. Oleh rians to help foster better understanding Bilorus, ambassador of Ukraine to the between the two countries. United States, and discussed a wide The ambassador expressed his firm range of topics of concern to both belief that the United States and U- countries, including economic develop­ kraine will develop closer political, ment, trade, nuclear disarmament and economic and cultural ties over the next cultural issues. few years and explamed how this would "Ambassador Bilorus is a thoughtful be to the advantage of both nations. He and articulate spokesman for Ukraine," spoke of the huge untapped markets, Rep. Bonior said. "But in addition to his social stability and vast natural resour­ unquestioned expertise, the ambassador ces of Ukraine as reasons for his opti­ brings to his job a love for Ukraine that mism that trade will flourish between is unmistakable and refreshing. Our the two countries. discussions were not only productive and informative, they were also enjoy­ Rep. Bonior fully agreed with Ambas­ able." sador Bilorus that closer ties between Rep. Bonior, whose grandparents the United States and Ukraine are were Ukrainian and who, as majority needed. In fact, at a meeting this whip, is the third-ranking leader in the morning with President Clinton, Rep. House of Representatives, dicussed his Bonior personally advised the president upcoming visit this April to Ukraine to make Ukraine a high priority as the with Am|>assador Bilorus. administration prepares to assist Russia with its troubled economy. He also noted his long and close ties to the Ukrainian community of Michi­ Rep. Bonior pledged to Ambassador gan and expressed his deep regret that Bilorus his continued assistance to the he could not attend the gala banquet people of Ukraine as they continue to Terence Zaleski (left), mayor of Yonkers, N.Y., accepts a gift from the mayor of honoring Dr. Bilorus at the Ukrainian -develop their new democracy and the Ternopil, symbolizing the establishment of a sister city relationship during a Culture Center in Warreiii Rep. Bonior vast potential of their economy. televised press conference in City Hall. Dr. Orest Kozicky makes the presentation; No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 18,1993 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING Obituary

night lodgings for more than 70 Dumka Lazarchuk, executive secretary; Mr. Defro/7 members. Dr. Serafyn continued his Baziuk, treasurer; Zenon Wasylkewych, Michael MichaluK by Stephen M. Wichar report by reviewing other activities that Ukrainian-language press director; Dr. took place during his tenure, among Atanas Slusarchuk and Juryj Rub, Woonsocket activist WARREN, MICH. — Although them a UNA conference, a picnic at public relations; Olena Tatarsky and Metropolitan Detroit continues to the Dibrova Estate, preparation of Osyp Bihun, program and hospitality; Branch 206 member remain a viable UNA grouping in historical data for 1994, as well as Petro Zaluha and Dmytro Koshilows- Midwest America, there are disap­ participation in the Michigan Fraternal kyj, board members; Mrs. Fedyk, Mr. WOONSOCKET, R.L — Michael pointing local statistics that may affect Congress. Postolowky and Mrs. Maruschak, Michaluk, 73, active in many Ukrainian UNA growth in the future. The most In another special activity co- auditors. The slate was unnimously organizations and a well-known member unfavorable statistic is that there are a sponsored with the Ukrainian Self- elected. of the USS Joseph T. Dickman Alumni total of 18 branches in the Detroit- reliance Federal Credit Union of Mi­ The major presentation for the af­ Association, died late last year at the Windsor-Ontario-Toledo UNA struc­ chigan, UNA officials presented a ternoon was delivered by Mr. Oles­ Landmark Medical Center, Woonsocket ture, but less than 50 percent are active. seminar to the Ukrainian community nycky, UNA supreme vice-president. unit. He was the husband of Anne O. Despite personal letters of invitation on estate planning and life insurance. For the most part, Mr. Olesnycky's talk (Overko) Michaluk. from the UNA Home Office, along with Formal presentations followed by a was refreshingly informative because he Born November 7, 1919, in Passaic, newspaper announcements in both discussion period were made by suggested a transition to a new N.J., he was the son of the late Nicholas languages inviting district officers, Andrew W. Mychalowych, attorney methodology for the next century of and Anna (Omylanowska) Michaluk. He convention delegates and representa­ with the law firm of Haliw Associates, UNA activity. After reporting on the was a resident of Woonsocket for the tives from all branches to attend, only and Robert M. Cook, director of UNA'S financial growth, investments, last 65 years. eight branches were represented at the insurance operations for the UNA. The the UNA building, Soyuzivka, etc., Mr. Olesnycky stressed the changing times, Mr. Michaluk was employed as a and that UNA clients want the best department manager for the H&H Screw insurance for their money. Comparison Products Co. of Lincoln and Providence shopping will be the "insurance order" for 25 years, retiring in 1983. for generations to come, as opposed to "patriotism" buying, he noted. During Worid War II, he served as a seaman first class in the U.S. Coast "We must have more appearances by Guard from August 31, 1942, to October Robert Cook.in our UNA Centers," 30, 1945. he added, "because we must offer our products as competitive in the insurance He served aboard the USS Joseph T. industry." Mr. Olesnycky insisted that Dickman, an assault transport ship, in new products require new techniques in the European, African and Pacific the­ selling, and that is why the UNA must atres, participating in invasions of rely on professionals to do the job. Normandy and Okinawa. As chairman of the UNA By-Laws He was a past president of the Local Committee, Mr. Olesnycky outlined . International Association of Machinists many changes that need to be made if at Taft-Pierce. the UNA is to meet the needs of modern living. The speaker concluded He was a communicant and a member his presentation by thanking the Detroit of the mixed choir of St. Michael's District Committee for its maximum Ukrainian Orthodox Church. efforts in the Dumka project and for the continuity of activities which Detroit He was a member of the Ukrainian UNA Supreme Vice-President Nestor Olesnycky addresses participants of the fosters. National Association, the Bandura Male Detroit District's annual meeting. i. In the closing discussion, a tentative Choir, the Ukrainian Golf Association of America and the Morning Star Lodge 13 recent annual meeting of the De­ seminar was both informative and agenda for 1993 was adopted by the of Masons A&FM and the Ukrainian troit District. Twenty-seven delegates educational and should be repeated, newly elected UNA administration. The Fraternal Association. were present. According to most UNA said Dr. Serafyn. following recommendations were no­ officials in Detroit, branches 75, 110, After the chairman's report, Ms. ted: smaller branches should be conso­ Mr. and Mrs. Michaluk celebrated 235, 302, 309, 341, and 463 should be Pryjma addressed the problems as­ lidated; an annual UNA Day will be their 50th wedding anniversary on May viewed as defunct and subject to sociated with lodging choristers in the held; the Svoboda centennial will be 24, 1992, with a dinner dance at Sher- merger. Detroit community. Mr. Lazarchuk commemorated; the 60-year growth Le-Mon in Cumberland, attended by During 1992, Detroit enlisted 69 new followed with a summation of his and success of The Ukrainian Weekly many family members and friends. members with a total insurance co­ secretarial duties. will be celebrated; more UNA seminars verage of $492,000. However, only 60 A more extensive report was de­ should be held in the future; and more He also is survived by two daughters, percent of the assigned quota of 115 was livered by Jaroslaw Baziuk, district local activities should be promoted. Barbara A. Michaluk of Plymouth, fulfilled. Among UNA branches in treasurer. He reported that the Dumka The meeting was adjourned, and all Mass., and Mrs. Michael Natalie America and Canada, Detroit found concert was very successful and participants and guests were invited for Brennan of Foxboro, Mass.; and a sister, itself in 11th position. At the close of financially rewarding. Among signi­ refreshments and supper. Mrs. Mary Kosiuk of North Smithfield. 1992, the Detroit District had 2,134 ficant disbursements was a $500 members. donation to the Ukrainian Embassy On Sunday afternoon, March 7, at Fund. With other normal expenditures Auditors conduct review the Ukrainian Cultural Center in War- during 1992, he noted that $3,539.05 *n, the UNA leadership of Michigan remains in the district treasury. Mr. .onvened an annual meeting to elect Baziuk also announced his retirement new officers and chart a new agenda for as financial secretary of Branch 175 and 1993. presented Les Lawrin as the new finance The meeting was called to order by officer. Dr. Alexander Serafyn, Detroit District After a short discussion on the chairman, who welcomed all officers reports, Olha Maruschak, chairperson and guests, including Nestor Oles­ of the auditing committee, confirmed nycky, UNA supreme vice-president. all assets and expenditures as being in A memorial prayer was conducted excellent order. She commended by for UNA members who died in 1992. In name all persons who had devoted time the selection of a presidium, Dr. Serafyn to district committee activities, and and Roman Lazarchuk assumed the made a formal motion for a vote roles of chairman and secretary, re­ confidence for the retiring board. spectively. Mr. Lazarchuk was then Auditors Joseph Postolowsky and invited to read the annual minutes of the Stella Fedyk concurred, and the motion March 1, 1992, meeting. was unanimously approved. Dr. Serafyn proceeded with his Mrs. Maruschak, as chairman of the annual report by outlining the problems Nominations Committee, presented a The Supreme Auditing Committee of the Ukrainian National Association and successes of the past year. He noted list of proposed candidates for 1993. conducted its review of UNA assets and operations, including those of the that the Dumka Chorus presentation The following persons were named* Dr. Svoboda Press, Soyuzivka and the Ukrainian National Urban Renewal was probably the 1992 highlight with Serafyn, chairman; Ms. Pryjma, first Corp., on March 22-26. The committee will present its report at the annual more than 700 people attending. He ap­ vice-cnairperson; btepnen M. Wichar, meeting of the UNA Supreme Assembly in May. Seen in the photo above plauded the efforts of Irene Pryjma, second vice-chairperson and English- are: (from left) Stepan Hawrysz, Anatole Doroshenko, William Pastuszek, who was responsible for finding over- language public relations director; Mr. (chairman), Wasyl Didiuk and Taras Szmagala. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 18,1993 No. 16 Ukrainian leaders discuss fate Ukrainian Weekly ef community in former Yugoslavia Strong-arming Ukraine by Marta Zielyk citizens of the newly independent Cro­ Last week we reported on the Clinton administration's apparent rebuff of atia, took arms to defend their towns, Ukraine's request for a meeting between its prime minister, Leonid Kuchma, WASHINGTON — Two Ukrainians from the former Yugoslavia visited their property and their lives. However, and either President Bill Clinton or Vice-President Al Gore. As reported by Ukrainians living in Serbia were drafted The New York Times, senior administration officials said "the rebuff is part Washington recently and spoke about the fate of the Ukrainian community in into the Serbian army and were forced of an effort to get the Ukrainians to fulfill their promises to ratify the arms to take part in the horrible battle for reduction treaty and give up nuclear weapons."The newspaper explained that that region, almost a year to the day that the brutal civil war broke out there. Vukovar, in which 104 Ukrainians died, the move was calculated to show that the administration would not "reward" several of them children. Ukrainians with high-level meetings until they ratified START I and the Even though Ukrainians are not direct­ ly involved in the present strife caused Dr. Chromysh began his presentation Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The Times added* "But some specialists by stating that Ukrainians in the former fear the move may send a signal that the Kyyiv government is important to by centuries-old ethnic hatred, they have nevertheless become victims of Yugoslavia were well-educated, belong­ Washington only to the extent that it is a nuclear power." ed to the middle class (except for those The administration denied that report when Secretary of State Warren the bloody war, the two visitors ex­ plained. living in somewhat impoverished condi­ Christopher told the press: "The United States is always anxious to meet with tions in Bosnia,) were almost exclusive­ representatives of Ukraine." But, he added, "Washington wants Kyyiv to live Julian Tamash, who was bora in Vojevodina, is professor of Ukrainian ly of the Ukrainian Catholic faith, and up to the commitments it has made to the previous U.S. administration with were fairly active in the academic, respect to ratification" of START and the NPT. A State Department and comparative literature and the head of the Slavic literature department at the financial and cultural life of their spokesperson told a Weekly editor that Mr. Christopher also said country. administration officials are willing to meet with Ukrainian officials "at the University of Novyi Sad. Dr. Tamash also is the head of the Association of He complemented the remarks of his appropriate level" — whatever that means. (Ukraine's Embassy in colleague by underlining the vast im­ Washington, it should be noted here, also issued a denial of the allegations Ukrainian-Ruthenians of the former Yugoslavia. portance of Ukraine for the Ukrainian contained in The Times report. However, many saw its reaction as nothing community of the former Yugoslavia. more than a face-saving measure.) Meanwhile, at the White House, Dr. Volodymyr Chromysh, who was born in Croatia, is a judge with 20 years We understand, he said, that the Uk­ spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers "obliquely appeared to confirm a published rainian diaspora can provide us with report that the request [for Kuchma's meeting] would be denied by both experience and specializes in civil, economic and labor law. He is an active financial and material resources, but we Clinton and Gore," reported Reuters. have but one homeland and only from All of this, of course, came in the wake of predictions by a senior U.S. member of the Ukrainian community and served on the executive board of the that homeland do we draw our spiritual diplomat, widely reported in the press, that Washington and Moscow would strength. soon begin turning the screws on Ukraine through diplomatic and economic Association of Ukrainians and Ruthen- ians of the former Yugoslavia. He went on to criticize the govern­ pressure if Ukraine did not act on its commitments to become a nuclear-free ment in Kyyiv for its inability to give aid state. And, it followed reports by columnists Evans and Novak that Mr. Prof. Tamash told a small but select audience gathered at Holy Family to Ukrainians suffering the consequen­ Christopher "gave Ukraine's foreign minister [Anatoliy Zlenko] and old- ces of the war in the former Yugoslavia. fashioned tongue-lashing during his visit here [on March 23-26], showing Church on Friday March 26, that Ukrainians have had a presence in He contrasted the inactivity of Kyyiv how much President Clinton tilts toward Russia." with the aid that Czech and Slovak To make matters even worse, informed sources have told The Weekly that Yugoslavia for the past two and a half centuries. They arrived there mainly communities received from their govern­ the Congressional delegation which visited Kyyiv on April 4-6 delivered a ments, who bused their compatriots letter from President Clinton to President Leonid Kravchuk that dealt solely from the western part of Ukraine in the early 18th century with a well developed out of war zones to safety in the Czech with the issue of nukes. Observers say that arms control "theology" is the and Slovak republics. Similar action on driving force at the State Department, and some characterize the Clinton national identity, which has helped them maintain their own language, the part of President Leonid Kravchuk's State Department as even worse than under President George Bush. government was most needed for Uk- Paul Goble has called the administration's tactics "counterproductive," customs and cultural differences. In­ deed, the two speakers can claim to be the ranians in Vukovar, said Dr. Chromysh. noting that such apparent punishment "will only lead to Ukraine's feeling He add^, however, that fierhaps both isolated and more threatened, which will lead them to think of keeping 13th generation of Ukrainians living on Yugoslavian soil. sides could be faulted for this situation. nuclear weapons," while Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski has warned that aspects of Ukraine was beset by its own internal U.S.-Russian relations imply "a green light for the reassertion of the With the aid of a map, prof. Tamash explained the complicated situation in problems, and Ukrainians in Vukovar Kremlin's dominant status throughout the territory of the former Soviet lived in hope that war would not come Union." Indeed, Ukraine's Minister of the Environment Yuriy Kostenko, which the Ukrainian community finds itself. It is divided between three to them. After the city was beseiged by who also heads the special parliamentary committee reviewing the START the Serbs, it was too late to rescue the pact, stated that Western pressure encourages Russia to bully Ukraine. nations that emerged on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. They settled in Ukrainians living there. Cleariy the Clinton administration is so blinded by the nukes issue that it Messrs. Tamash and Chromysh both can't see the forest for the trees. It continues the policy of not granting Vukovar in Croatia and in the environs of Banja Luka in Bosnia. The majority visited Ukraine last year, and Dr. Ta­ Ukraine any real security guarantees (more than just promises or assurances) mash even had a chance to speak with and then wonders why Ukraine is reluctant to immediately rid itself of all of Ukrainians of Yugoslavia, approxi­ mately 25,000, live in the northern President Kravchuk and personally tell nuclear weapons, while a currently unstable and a historically menacing him of the fate of Ukrainians in the Russia looks on. As for Mr. Christopher's denial of the administration's regions of Serbia, in the area of Novyi Sad, which to date has been former Yugoslavia. He provided the refusal to meet Ukraine's prime minister, well, his and other administration Ukrainian president with detailed infor­ officials' statements on that issue have amounted to a no-denial denial. untouched by the war. Thus, said Prof. Tamash, Ukrainians mation concerning Ukrainian losses: the have been forced by events to engage in names of those killed, the manner in I which they died, lists of property and fratricide. Hence the title of the eve­ ning's talk, "Brother against brother." land that was confiscated or destroyed, Such a situation emerged, for example, locations where Ukrainians were reset­ in the fighting for Vukovar. Ukrainians tled, the number of refugees, etc. This who lived on Croatian territory, as loyal (Continued on page 16) Yuriy "Geo" Shkurupiy was born on April 20, 1903 in FOR THE RECORD I Bendery, now in Moldova, and went on to become one of the I most original and innovative writers of prose and poetry of the Ukraninian avant-garde of the 1920s. Together with Vasyl Semenko, the other lead­ UCCA/UACC letter to Clinton ing exponent of Ukrainian futurism, he contributed greatly to the vitality of the Association of Panfuturists (Aspanfut). Following is the text of a letter sent to President Bill Clint on from the presidents of the Ukrainian American community's two central organizations, the Ukrainian Shkurupiy was first published in the Kyyivan almanac Hrono, and his first two Congress Committee of American and the Ukrainian American Coordinating collections of poetry "Psychotheses" (1922) and "The Drum" (1923) were manifestos Council The letter is dated March 30, of a radical break with Ukrainian literary traditions, a cheerful faith in the total regen­ eration of life and a hyperbolic self-confidence. He referred to himself as the "King Dear Mr. President; of the Futuroprairies," and with a relentless humor and iconoclasm, he revelled in the literary debates of the period. While the Ukrainian American community supports your efforts to strengthen Much of the irony in his works was lost on more stolid critics such as Mykola democracy and reform in Russia, we urge you to pursue a balanced policy toward Zerov (at first) and Yuriy Lavrinenko (among the emigres), but all recognized his all the nations in the region. A policy that focuses solely or even chiefly on Russia vitality, talent and facility with "new sounds" and neologisms. A contemporary critic, runs the risk of jeopardizing United States' relations and influence with other Oleksander Biletsky, wrote "Shkurupiy, quite evidently, is oriented towards Europe. nations in the area and undercutting long-term U.S. national security interests. His youth, hungering for all manner of experience, including the literary." His exu­ This is particularly the case with Ukraine, a large and geopolitically vital nation. berant style lay dormant in Ukrainian literature until the late 1980s, and has resur­ When you meet with President Boris Yeltsin, we hope that you will emphasize faced in the works of the "BuBaBu" group of poets (Viktor Neborak, Yuriy that continued U.S. support for his reform efforts are contingent on Russia's Andrukhovych, Mykola Irvanets), Dzhaveh, and Ihor Tsybulia. respect for the territorial integrity and the political and economic independence of Qeo Shkurupiy was arrested in 1934, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. In its neighbors. As Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski has pointed out, an imperialist Russia 193f, he was resentenced by a special NKVD tribunal, and shot on December 8, cannot be a democratic Russia, and a policy which supports the hope of reform in 1937. Russia while ignoring acts of Russian aggression is doomed to failure. Sources; "Shkurupiy, Yuriy" Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol. 4 (Toronto; University of Recent statements by Russian leaders raise serious questions about Russia's Toronto Press, 1993); Lavrinenko, Yuriy, ed, Rozstriliane Vidrodzhennia, (Paris; Kultura, 1959). •:.\../: (Continued on page 17) No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 18,1993 Patriarchal Paschal epistle: Paschal archpastoral letter: Our hearts are filled with joy Let us glorify His Resurrection

To their Eminences the archpastors, on the occasion of Christ's Resur­ Paschal Archpastoral Letter of Me­ obliterated by the bright light of day, in the venerable pastors and devout rection? tropolitan Constantine and Archbishop Hke manner all of our sorrows and brothers and sisters — faithful of the Above all, I want to assure you that in Antony of the Ukrainian Orthodox afflictions are extinguished in the joy of holy Ukrainian Autocephalous Or­ my prayers I beseech the Almighty that Church of the United States of America, the Resurrection and in the eternal thodox Church in Ukraine and abroad you may forever remain His faithful peace of that eternity which awaits us. as well as to all Christians on Ukrai­ children, and never come to renounce Beloved brethren! This is our behef! Let us, therefore, nian lands regardless of their religious His commandments. I also pray that lift up our hearts and rejoice in this day, Christ is risen! denominations. you will always remain faithful sons and which the Lord has made, for Christ daughters of the Ukrainian nation and arose and destroyed death! Christ rose It is with joy that we celebrate the I greet you all, my dearly beloved, that you never renounce your past — from the dead to make it clear that in the most august feast of the Christian with the joyful restorative and tra­ our blessed and wise princes, hetmans, ongoing drama of our earthly struggle, Church — the glorious resurrection of ditional Easter greeting — Khrystos great metropolitans, poets-philoso­ the spirit will conquer the flesh, eternity Christ. It was only yesteday that we, Voskres — Christ is Risen! phers who became prophetic men of will triumph over the temporal, and life with feelings of grief, approached to During these days let our hearts be wisdom such as Hryhory Skovoroda, will overcome death. Let us, therefore, venerate the Lord's burial shroud. filled with special joy, for the Lord our Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko... rejoice in the good tidings of the victory Today the resurrection of Christ is God has yet once more proven to us and The 20th century has been most of good over evil, of faith over doubt. echoed in song. Only yesterday we to the forces of evil that He will not productive in terms of inventions in the For over 1,000 years, our devout stood in sorrow before the Lord's tomb. permit anyone to eradicate from the varied fields of science and technology Ukrainian people, faithful to Christ's But today, the tomb is empty, and we hear angelic good tidings; "Why is it message, celebrate Paskha — the Great that you seek among the dead, him who Day as the most august offcasts, enrich lives? He is risen!" it with wondrous religious rites and relate the symbolism of Paskha to that of The great feast of Christ's Resur­ the Ukrainian national conviction. Our rection fills all of us with joy, for poet, Evhen Krymenko paints in mar­ through the Resurrection of Christ, the velous verse the celebration of Paskha Christian view of life and the world is in Ukraine* ''On the streets, a mass of given divine affirmation and the fullness people, colorful costumes, pysankyj A of strength. By His death on the cross choral line of young girls singing, makes and by His Resurrection from the dead, way the song of spring. / The old church Christ resolved once and for all time the problem of death, which for a long time springs to life, gold glistens in the was Hmited to only a material under­ icons, I and above all in splendor shines, standing namely, the transformation of the love of the Risen Lord!** the incorrupt into that which was Once again, in Ukraine, after many corruptibe. By His Resurrection, Christ years of its being shackled by the chains conquered death and gave to us a more of slavery, the old Church gradually subUme understanding of death, for springs to life — and above us once death as understood by the person of again, "the love of the Risen Lord in faith is only a passing over from the life splendor shines." of this world to the heavenly life. On this great and radiant day of Christ's resurrection, when the heavens So it is that at every annual cele­ rejoice, the earth is glad, and the entire face of earth those who, even when — some to the benefit of mankind, bration of the Great Day, when the world glorifies the risen Lord, let us submitted to the harshest trials, re­ others to its detriment. The 21st century Church recalls the great event of the cleanse our senses of all defilement, evil, mained faithful to Him. will undoubtedly bring even more of the Resurrection, she focuses particular hatred and untruths, so that we might Only the Lord Himself knows how same. attention on "Paskha" — the passing see Christ, who in our days bestows many such ordeals have already been Therefore, one of my most fervent over from sadness to joy, from despair upon the souls of the faithful the unap­ endured by the Ukrainian people, as well wishes is directed to those of you who to a reborn faith, from death to life as by those who share their land, and will enter the 21st century as young everlasting in the kindgom of our proachable light of the Resurrection. how many are still in store for us. adults: be both spiritually and phy­ Heavenly Father. The Great Day (Pa­ For it is He who is our God, and aside Some of these trials have been sent by sically the strongest among the strong. skha) opens for us the gates that lead from Him we know no other. Let us God Himself in order to test us; others Arm yourselves with knowledge of to eternity, the heavenly world which is therefore with an enlightened mind and were fabricated by our enemies. Suffice it science and technology. Attain pro­ to be found beyond this world, that pure heart, glorify and praise in song to recall the Ukrainian intelhgentsia ficiency in foreign languages equal to world which summons us and waits for His glorious Resurrection. that perished in great numbers at the that of your own. Be laborious, honest us all. And it is Paskha which, with We sincerely embrace you on the hands of our foes in this 20th century and courageous in all of your actions. radiant light, illumines the way which occasion of this year's Feast of feasts, alone. Our enemies surmised that there­ Do not forsake your parents — help leads to that world and to eternity. This and wish you spiritual peace and eternal after this intelligentsia would prove them, and they will help you in turn. is that eternity which every Christian is joy. incapable of regenerating itself, that it Don't ever forget that it is today that to prize above all else, to be concerned Christ is risen! would forever lose its individuahty. the foundation is laid for a new de­ about and to insure for himself/ herself However, the jubilation of our mocratic Ukraine, which means that during the course of this earthly life. It is t Constantine adversaries, who had renounced God it will be your voices that will in the quiet of Paskha night that we Metropolitan for their own glory's sake, was pre­ decide who will be at its helm; the rise or already hear "the call from beyond," mature. In the end the same fate befell fall of our nation depends on you. and in this we find the sanctity and the t Antony them that had befallen him v^ho raised Strengthen you wisdom through pra­ particular joy of Paskha — the Great Archbishop his sword against God: they died by yer to the Almighty, and proceed into Day, for we stand on the threshold of their own weapon. your future with love for one another, "eternity," and just as candlelight is Paskha — April 1993 Lately we have been witnesses to with joy, benevolence and kindness. Be лапу significant historical events; patient and do not take up weapons, others are yet to come. But let us not unless it be the last resort. Have faith in fear evil — it will not come if we God and in yourselves. Trust your continue to stand by God. We did not leaders. Do not allow for treachery to renounce Him when our entire nation re-emerge among you. Do not elect your was in shackles. We believed in Him and supreme leaders on the basis of their we believed in liberty — the liberty appearance or eloquence, but on the envisioned and foretold by our own basis of what they have accompHshed prophets, one of whom left an especially for the welfare of our nation and powerful tool to guard us: the word, fatherland. Always and everywhere that in the beginning was God. look for the truth. May there never For it is said in the Gospel that "In the again be tears of despair, but rather beginning there was the Word, the tears of joy on the faces of Ukraine's Word was with God, and the Word was people, especially its mothers. God." This refers, of course, to the Son May God's blessings — and mine. His of God Jesus Christ, Who gave His life servant's — be always with you, your for our salvation and rose from the families, our nation and our state. dead, so that we would never doubt His Let us rejoice, my dearly beloved, divinity, the divinity of His Father, and my fellow Ukrainians, let us all rejoice, that of the Holy Spirit. His Resur­ for by the will of God, Christ is Risen! rection bestowed upon us the gift of eternal life. t Mstyslav And so, what can I - having just Patriarch of Kiev observed my 95th birthday — wish you and all Ukraine THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 18,1993 No. 16

Pysanka — symbol of rebirth by Orysia Paszczak Tracz Attention, class! Today we will learn how to write a pysanka. That's correct, write one, not just make one. But before we do, let's talk about what kind of designs we'll put on that eggshell. As you heard last week, the beliefs surrounding the powers of the pysanka are practically endless. But all its powers stemmed from the image of the ultimate power, the sun, illustrated in its many variations and representations on the surface of the egg. The basic solar ornaments were the crooked cross, the triquetrum and the rosette star. The crooked cross, or swastika, is a universal symbol of the solar wheel, of the movement and power of the sun, and a symbol of good luck. An even earlier origin of the crooked cross is its representation of the prehistoric tools used to produce the first sparks of the living fire —"zhyvyi vohon"— for the family hearth. In Ukraine, this ornament on pysanky was known as the broken cross, the hooked cross or the windmill. "Sorok klyntsiv" (40 or 48 wedges) is a composite of triangles forming "windmills," covering the whole surface of the pysanka. It is a geometric wonder. Each triangle represented an incantation or prayer for a particular wish. Some forms of the triquetrum are identical to those on pottery of the Trypillian culture of the Neolithic period, 5,000 to 2,500 B.C., which covered a large area of present-day Ukraine. This "troiachok" is actually a three- legged form which looks like a crooked cross with three curved appendages. The rosette or star was usually eight-sided, infrequently six-sided. The design possibilities of each of the three basic ornaments are endless. Each can appear as a geometric, floral or animal motif, depending upon the curve or angle, the embellishment and sequence. Closely related solar ornaments were the cock — the heralder of the sun; other birds such as the swallow; and the horse — who pulled the sun across the sky. These were not necessarily realistic representations, but appeared often as parts of the given Carpathian regional designs are seen on these Easter eggs photographed for a creature's anatomy, for example, a cock's comb or a swallow's tail. card issued by Manor Junior College, Ukrainian Heritage Studies Center. Another motif from the Neolithic or New Stone Age is the meander or "bezkonechnyk," the endless line. This also appears on Trypillian pottery, wide-mouth jars (mayonnaise jars are just right) also on a layer of newspaper. pysanky and embroidery. The ornament represents eternity, the cycles of the If you're working in the dining room, or in any carpeted area, keep your dyes sun and planets, the eternal thread of life and the forces of water. in the kitchen. On the table, along with the eggs, you need a candle in a holder; Also originating in this period is the now very infrequent human female a "kistka" — which is a copper funnel or stylus attached to a wooden handle; figure, the "panianka" (lady) or "bohynia" (goddess), the representation of the pure beeswax; and paper tissues. When you're beginning, it helps to have a earth-mother fertility goddess. The remaining types of pysanka ornaments hard pencil to draw basic lines, an art gum eraser to erase any later unwanted could be classed as geometric (such as lines, grates, sieves, ladders, rakes, lines, and some sewing elastic in various widths, as a guide for parallel lines. crosses and curves); floral, which are graphic and seldom realistic The procedure is simple. You will understand why I said we will write the (such as pine and other tree branches, leaves, fruit, some vegetables, pysanka. The process is batik, wax-resist, but on an egg, not fabric. The kistka periwinkle, sunflowers, and the tree of life); animal (various birds, deer, is heated over the candleflame, its point dipped into the beeswax, then horses, rams), and a few others, such as boots and little barrels. reheated, and a line is drawn with the melted beeswax flowing from the point Not only ornamentation, but pysanka coloring had meaning; red —joy, life, of the kistka onto the egg's surface. The line does come out straight, with love, the sun; yellow — moon and stars, good harvest; blue -^ the skies, air, practice of course, but the secret is to rotate at the wrist the handJialdmg the health; green — spring, nature; brown — mother earth; black with white — egg, and to keep the hand holding the kistka still. The pinky of the hand respect for dead ancestors. Combinations of colors had their own meaning. holding the kistka supports the hand on the egg, steadying it. As in embroidery, the original pysanky were bi- and tri-colored. Younger Whatever lines are written on the white egg will remain white, because persons received pysanky with lighter, brighter colors, the old received those beeswax is impervious to dye and seals whatever it covers. The egg is then with dark backgrounds. Each region, even each village, had its own designs lowered by spoon into the jar of the lightest dye, usually yellow. When and pigments. removed, the egg will be yellow except for the preserved white lines beneath Ok. Ready? Now let's get started. First of all, be sure your hands are the beeswax. Lines are then written in the same way over the yellow surface. completely clean, with no film or cream or any oil on them. Have on hand, at These will remain yellow. The process is repeated as the pysanka progresses room temperature, raw, clean, smooth eggs. Rinse them with a very mild from the lightest to the darkest dye, for example, from yellow, orange, red to solution of water and vinegar, and wipe dry if you think there is any film on maroon, brown or black. Blue and green, cool colors, are usually applied with them. a toothpick to the white and yellow surface, respectively, because their dye Line your work area with newspaper, covered with a layer of paper towels. would adversely affect successive dyes. After the egg has been removed from Work in a well-lit area, with a good reading light over your shoulder. The the darkest dye and dried, the beeswax is melted (by candleflame or very slow good light really makes a difference. Have your cooled, prepared dyes in oven, toaster ovens are best for a small quantity), and wiped off with a soft cloth or tissue. The cooled pysanka is then varnished both for a glossy effect and to protect the dyes from smearing. Although not traditional, most pysanky are emptied at this point, after the varnish has dried, because there is a danger of a full egg oozing or exploding after a few months. The whole process of writing a pysanka can take hours. Usually you make a few at a time, working in stages from dye to dye. Do not handle a white or light-colored egg after touching a dark-colored one, because your prints will remain on the light shell. The egg and the beeswax have remained in use since ancient times. Almost everything else has been modernized. Chemical dyes, not natural ones, are now used. Electric kistkas eliminate the need of heating the wax over a candleflame. Varnish has replaced egg white or animal grease. Paper towels and tissues are disposable. All supplies are available at any Ukrainian shop. There are many, many books and cards of designs. However, be sure to learn from someone, not alone from a book, or you'll never know if you're learning a procedure. Check with local Ukrainian centers or other Ukrainian organizations about classes. And remember, pick an easy, simple design for your first attempt, and do not, repeat, do not expect your first pysanka to be a masterpiece. I can almost guarantee that it will not. Then there will be times when the raw egg falls two inches from your hand to the table, or from your hand to the floor, and that's it. It really hurts when the pysanka is almost or totally completed. One thing this hobby teaches you is patience. One very important thought. Pysanky are more than just a hobby or craft. They are a very special part of Ukrainian culture. An egg decorated by the batik process is not automatically a pysanka. If the ornaments are not traditional, it is just a decorated egg. Signs of the zodiac, flowers of the month, emblems and other untraditional symbols have no place on a true pysanka, neither do untraditional colors. Also, the most intricate pysanka is not necessarily the most difficult one. You can hide a multitude of mistakes in a busy design, but every line must be perfect in a simple one. Pysanky are a special gift to us from the deepest past Pysanky from the Sokal region of Ukraine depicted on an Easter card of our ancestors, and we are fortunate that they are still with us and enjoy such published fey Manor Junior College's Ukrainian Heritage Studies Center. popularity. Let us treasure them for the cultural heirloom that they are. No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 18,1993

Ohio Boychoir to perform ARTS: Tamburitzans'Ukrainian connection in McCartney's oratorio by Alex Chudolij but also on the availability of outside ethnic coaches to help teach the The audience begins to arrive well troupe, as well as students willing before showtime. Several smiling and capable of performing what is ensemble members greet us as we required. enter the auditorium and offer us a Ukrainians have been fortunate to program book. Each is dressed in have good local professional coach­ authentic Eastern European folk ing available to assist the "Tammies" attire. As we rush to get good seats with their Ukrainian spots. Well- for the show we hear the whispering known choreographers such as Mar- of English as well as several other kian Komichak, Dave Wosniak familiar-sounding languages around and others have generously donated us. The lady sitting next to us over­ their expertise so that the Tamburi­ hears our conversation and is quick tzans could continue to spread the to ask what language we are speaking. word about Ukrainian folk culture. As I say, "Ukrainian," she nods with Mr. Wosniak, well known for his approval and proceeds to tell me that ability to make boots ("choboty"), she was born in America but her has made numerous pairs for the mother's side of the family is of Slavic Tamburitzans. descent and she thinks her grand­ Mr. Stafura's wife, Susan, pro­ mother was Ukrainian. She tells me vided vocal and phonetic coaching that she has not missed a concert in for the non-Ukrainian-speaking 15 years and that the Tamburitzans students who performed this year's have given her a better appreciation Ukrainian folk songs. Each year the for the richness and individuality of concert program is completely new, the many cultures of the Eastern so there is a never-ending search for European nations, as well as an in­ new material to perform. dividual feeling of ethnic identity. This year finds at least two Ukrai­ What kind of performers can nian American members of the en­ command a near capacity crowd semble. Andrij Cybyk and Teodor Ohio Boychoir's Ukrainisin members are: (top row, from left) Mishko Hanych, Husij are two of the ensembles' stars Stefan Stefaniuk, Christian Dubas, (bottom) Daniel Lysyj and Andrew Didytch. wherever they tour while instilling a love of Eastern European cultures — chosen for their excellent dance PARMA, OHIO — Ohio Boychoir be included in the program. through the beauty, individuality, abilities, as well as over-all aptitude will sing in the Ohio Premiere of Paul On June 28, the choir will depart on and energy of their music, songs and and ability to learn whatever is McCartney's "Liverpool Oratorio." its Western States Tour. The boys are dances? The group is called the required in the performance. Mr. The performance will take place at the scheduled to sing at the U.S. Air Force Duquesne University Tamburitzans. Cybyk is a sophomore psychology restored Palace Theatre in Playhouse Academy Cadet Chapel in Colorado Their home base is in Pittsburgh. The major from Fairlawn, Ohio, while Square, Cleveland, on Friday, May 28, Springs on Sunday, July 4, Other "Tammies" are a group of 40 stu­ Mr. Husij is a junior pre-med stu­ at 7:30 p.m. concerts are planned in and around dents of various ethnic backgrounds dent from Duncan, Okla. Both are Mr. McCartney of the Beatles fame Colorado, including Mount Rushmore from the United States, Canada and students of the well-known Ukrai­ composed this lengthy work along with Amphitheatre in South Dakota. Europe. They attend Duquesne Uni­ nian choreographer and prima bal­ Carl Davis, resident composer and The "Liverpool Oratorio" will feat­ versity on full four-year scholar­ lerina Roma Pryma Bohachevsky. director of the Royal Liverpool Phil­ ure, along with Ohio Boychoir, world ships and perform some 80 concerts Mr. Cybyk also choreographed a harmonic Orchestra acclaimed singers Lyne Fortin, sop­ during the school year. Founded in Slovak folk dance for this year's Five of Ohio Boychoir's members rano; Christine Cairns, mezzo; John 1937 as the Slavonic Tamburitza show and had a solo spot performing come from Ukrainian backgrounds, Garrison, tenor; and Sherman Ray Orchestra, the troupe's goals were to an animated, difficult and extremely along with the chorus director, Alex­ Jacobs, bass; with a select group of perpetuate the music of the tambu­ unique routine called "The Wrest­ ander Musichuk. The choir has twice musicians from various Northern Ohio ritza instrument (similar to a small lers." In this Moiseyev staging, he is visited Ukraine, in 1989 and again in Orchestras and performing arts groups. domra) and to provide scholarships costumed to play the part of two boys 1991. The Cleveland Choral Society also will for deserving and talented students. who are wrestling with each other. Ohio Boychoir's spring concert will perform. A. Edward Battaglia II will The "Tammie" year begins in July, Andrij performs this routine acro­ be held at Cuyahoga Community Col­ direct the production. when the members of the ensemble batically and usually on all four lege Western Campus Theatre on Satur­ Although Mr. McCartney has writ­ are taught the coming year's program "legs." day, June 12, at 8 p.m. As is the choir's ten some 400 recorded songs, this is his during long hours at training camp in Next year, the Tamburitzans are custom, two Ukrainian folk songs will first classical work. Pittsburgh. They have only 24 days considering the addition of a Ukrai­ in which to learn, rehearse and nian Hopak grand finale. This may perfect the two-hour program of depend on the availability of Ms. Maria Cisyk performs at U.N. ethnic song and dance. In addition to Pryma Bohachevsky, whom the the performing duties, every member Tamburitzans are planning to con­ also has responsibilities before and tact. after the performance to insure that As you can see, it is very impor­ instruments, costumes, and props are tant that the Ukrainian community loaded and unloaded with precision and its friends support the fine work and that the lights, staging and sound done by the Tamburitzans in pro­ are set up and ready for action. moting cultural awareness of the countries of Eastern Europe. This This year's program included a can be done in several ways. medley of Ukrainian folk songs sung First of all, go to next year's by Lisa Masciola, Stefanie Serbacic Tamburitzans concert when it comes and Christine Tate, as well as an to your part of the United States and instrumental Ukrainian accordion Canada. I guarantee that if you see melody. Speaking with Paul Stafura, them once, you will become as big a managing director of the Tambu­ fan as this writer has become of this ritzans, we learned Ukrainian num­ electrifying world-class folk en­ bers have been very popular with semble which compares in discipline audiences throughout the years and, and technical excellence with the thus, are usually included in the finest ensembles in this hemisphere. annual programs. Secondly, if you know of any Mr. Stafura, himself of Croatian/ talented high schoolers of Ukrai­ Slovak descent, is quite sensitive to nian or Eastern European descent the years of Ukraine's ethnic oppres­ who would like to try out to see if sion and the importance of presen­ they could become one of the Tam­ ting its cultural richness and identi­ buritzans — complete with four ty in as authentic a manner as pos­ years of a challenging but rewarding sible. To do this, the Tamburitzans schedule of rehearsals, perfor­ Maria Cisyk, pianist, performance coach and performing arts medicine consult and utilize the services of mances and academic rigor result­ consultant, performed a concert at the United Nations Dag Hammarskjold experts to help teach or choreograph ing in a seasoned performer as well Auditorium on April 8. Her performance featured works by Mozart, Brahms, various songs and dances in the as someone who will be left with Chopin, Debussy, Ginastera and the European premiere of Jeffrey Baker's program. The decision as to which memories to last a lifetime — call the "Suite for Piano." She opened her performance with Barvinsky's "Lyre's nationalities will be included de­ Tamburitzan Cultural Center for Song" and encored with Yakimenko's "I Shumyt і Hude." On April 9 Ms. pends not only on the popularity of further information at (412) 434- Cisyk departed for Ukraine, where she was scheduled to hold master the respective folk songs and dances. 5185. classes and perform a concert at the Lviv Conservatory. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 18,1993 No. 16

works since then employ the device as a delicate tone poems, very naive and close method of achieving a meditative state. in spirit to "new age" music. Hrabovsky has also continued to further In 1990 Shchetynsky was awarded the expand the style, which in his monumen­ main prize and a special prize at the Third tal "Homeomorphia" I, 11 and III (also International Kazimierz Serocki completed in 1969) he develops to the Composers' Competition in Poland for maximum. his chamber orchestra work Less is more: In Ukraine, minimalism as such never "Glossolalie." In 1991 he won the first achieved a great many adherents, prize of the Fourth International The Kharkiv although a number of composers have Competition in Composition of Sacred used it as a seasoning. The minimalist Music in Fribourg for the cantata "The minimalists school (if one can call it that) is embodied Preacher's Word" for soprano and string There is an apocryphal story of an artis­ of the infinite mattered. Thus, minimal in three composers, all born between quartet. tic event that occurred not too long ago. music can become a search for alternative 1960 and 1961. All studied at the Kharkiv His compositions, as those of Gugel and The curtain rose on a stage decorated with meanings and configurations. It is Institute of the Arts, and all three share Grinberg, have been performed at a num­ objects of significance to the author. The because of this quality that certain com­ the first name Oleksander. The three com­ ber of European festivals. Shchetynsky's curtain stayed open for a certain period of posers, such as the Estonian Arvo Part posers are Grinberg (born in 1961 in works were included into the programs of time, then descended. The next day, the and the Ukrainian Valentyn Sylvestrov Kharkiv), Gugel (bom in 1961 in Vilnius, the Almeida Festival in London (1989), review came out. Over the byline developed their own style of repetitive Lithuania), and Shchetynsky (born in "Europhonia" in Zagreb (1990), Warsaw appeared a certain amount of blank space, music, better known as "meditative." 1960 in Kharkiv). Grinberg studied with Autumn (1990, 1991), Fribourg Festival the amount normally given to the review­ The passport to minimalism for I. Kovach, Gugel with V. Bibyk, and of Sacred Music in Switzerland (1992), er. That was the sound of the second hand Ukrainian music was acquired by Leonid Shchetynsky with V. Borisov. Lerchenborg Music Days in Denmark clapping. The above is actually an event Hrabovsky, when in 1969, at the request Grinberg's output has been primarily in (1992), as well as in Holland, Italy, Latvia scripted by Samuel Beckett. But analo­ of the world-renowned oboist and com­ chamber music. His principal works are and Russia. His music is the most varied gous stories can be told about music, art, poser Heinz Holliger, he composed "Polyphonic Games" for piano in 12 of the three Kharkivites, showing the film and various multi-media presenta­ "Ornaments" for oboe, viola and harp. It movements (1980), "Carillon" for small minimalist tendencies in more exuberant tions. is an absolutely startling piece: a series of orchestra (1990) Seven Etudes for and less didactic settings. The concept of "less is more" is not phrases of different lengths, covering a Clarinet Solo (1990), "Shimmering" for Each one of the composers will receive new. What is new, is the highly systemat­ narrow pitch range, each phrase treated string quartet (1991) and Mantras for individual attention in future columns. ic use to which it has been brought, com­ just slightly differently, with different Seven Recorders (1992). His music is But I cannot close without mentioning.a monly known as "minimalism." The con­ lengths of silences in between. Each very rational and carefully crafted. It Canadian Ukrainian composer who very cept is very famous in art, where the main phrase seemed to begin somewhere in the tends to accumulate sonorities gradually much fits into this same stream. His name practitioners were Carl Andre, Mathias middle and end just as unexpectedly. A and in a manner that reminds me of is Lubomyr Melnyk. Writing music Goeritz, Donald Judd, John McCracken, minimal piece of sorts, undeniably show­ Vyacheslav Artyomov's music. almost exclusively for the piano in a style Richard Serra, Tony Smith, Frank Stella ing some influence of Morton Feldman, Gugel is a composer whose music that he calls "the continuous mode," he and Katsuo Yoshida. The term "minimal­ one of the pioneers of minimalism. closely resembles that of Part. His com­ has since 1974 developed a sort of maxi­ ism" emerged in the writings of critic By the early 1970s, Sylvestrov also position include a symphony (1984/1987, mal-minimal style that uses elaborate Barbara Ro.se during the mid-1960s. Its became interested in repetitive systems, 1991), a trio for violin, cello and piano configurations made up of chordal har­ goal was to reduce painting and sculpture which he combined with polystylisticism. (1980, 1986), "Music for piano" (1980- monies that, sustained through time, form to a "minimum." Minimalism is the first Although one can trace the path through a 1987), "Three Lithuanian Songs" for a continuous flux between each other. art and music movement of international number of works, it is in his Symphony piano (1989) and "Two Choral Postludia" His principal works that have been significance pioneered by American-bom No. 4 (1976) that the repetitive principle for violin, violoncello and contrabass recorded include KMH for piano solo artists. reaches full development. All of his (1991). The works of his that I know are (Continued on page 18) The pioneers of minimal, or "repeti­ tive," music were four American com­ tactics are needlessly alienating Ukraine posers. La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Christopher denies... president of the AFL-CIG and co­ and that there is a genuine lack of Steve Reich and Philip Glass. They were author of "Hidden Nations: The People (Continued from page 1) sensitivity to Ukraine's legitimate secu­ the first to systematically apply the princi­ Challenge the Soviet Union," also so that there is only one nuclear weapon rity concerns regarding Russia. There cautions that in discussing U.S. rela­ ple of extended reiteration (or repetition) state in the region." are also expressions of deep frustration of a motif or group of motifs in their tions with Ukraine, not only does Paul Goble, a senior associate with that the U.S. seems disinterested in works. Each developed his own method Ukraine need to look closely at the the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and sending a stronger signal to counteract of repetition: Glass, for instance, by pro­ message the U.S. is sending, but Uk­ an expert on non-Russian nations of the the perception that the United States raine needs to look at the message that it gressive iengthening of repeated material, former Soviet Union, said he has no and Russia have joined forces against is sending in return. and Reich by moving from simultaneity Ukraine in regard to nuclear policy — a dispute with the administration's goals, "It is wrong, according to Mr. Karat­ to discrepancy, a sort of "things gradually perception that is not only of concern to however, he feels the tactics adopted vis nycky," to say simply that Clinton has a moving out of sync." Ukraine but adds tension to relations a vis Ukraine are "counterproductive." one-dimentional focus on nuclear weap­ The work that made "minimalism" with other East European countries. Instead of encouragement and incen­ ons and Russia." Besides promoting more than a cult movement was Riky's According to one senior defense tive, the U.S."seems to be punishing military down-sizing, "Clinton has "In C" (1964). It became a bona-fide analyst, an advocate of a more "nu- Ukraine, which will only lead to Uk­ stated numerous times that America's movement when "Einstein on the Beach" anced and diverse" policy towards Uk­ raine's feeling isolated and more threat­ foreign policy interest is to support (1975) by Glass was staged at the raine, intimidation, or the perception of ened, which will naturally lead them to democracy and free market reform. The Metropolitan Opera (although only as a intimidation, of Ukraine runs the risk of think of keeping nuclear weapons, U.S. supports Yehsin because Yeltsin special event), and arrived in the large provoking a defensive, pro-nuclear which is precisely what we do not want has proven time and again that he is concert hall forever with John Adam's' posture from Ukraine. them to do," he said. willing to take risks to make funda­ "Harmonielehre" (1984). In 1970s the And just as the Bush administration "Treating Ukraine with disdain," he mental political and economic changes." movement began to flourish in Europe as added "will create the impression that prior to it, the Clinton administration well. they have no friends, should rely only State Department still seems to be Furthermore, prior to and after the For Western, essentially middle-class, on themselves," and will turn Ukraine, a dominated by arms control specialists Vancouver summit. President Clinton listeners the initial response to a work country he feels is still "fundamentally who continue to view arms control stated that the U.S. wants to see a that is based on repetition can be bore­ anti-nuclear," into a nuclear state. treaties such as START 1 and the NPT "democratic Russia, satisfied within her dom. In minimalism we are invited to par­ In a commentary last week in a as foreign policy in themselves, and not own boundaries, bordered by other ticipate in creating the meaning of the nationwide newspaper, former head of simply as elements of a foreign policy. peaceful democracies... (a Russia) work by suspending dramatic sense of the National Security Council Zbigniew There is a basic "just sign the papers, which freely let go of other countries time. This means listening to each pattern Brzezinski warned that, although most then we'll talk" approach. once under its control and now freely respects their integrity. "This, according as it slowly unfolds and changes. Americans may find strong U.S.-Russia A defense expert who has been to Mr. Karatnycky, is a message to the Undeniably, there is a certain threshold relations to be benign, "to most non- following Soviet nuclear weapons capa­ Ukrainians that the U.S. does not want beyond which the motivated meaning of Russians, and unfortunately to some bility for over 15 years believes the border tensions on the part of Russia. the repetition is exhausted. If the pattern Russians, it implies a green light for the U.S. роИсу is overly-simphstic and the refuses to leave, the listener may (and reassertion of the Kremlin's dominant approach not effective in achieving U.S. "Ukraine," continued Mr. Karatny­ often does) feel impatience and annoy­ status throughout the territory of the goals of reducing military threat. He cky, "is not doing enough to project ance. If the pattern still remains, then the former Soviet Union." said he hopes, however, that Ukraine itself as a democratic alternative, a listener may move to another stage, a so- In numerous discussions over the last understands that, regardless of U.S. country committed to fundamental called "digres-sive search," which is week with U.S. defense and foreign policy,in the long term the best interests economic reform. ...The Kuchma go­ caused when oul expectations are deliber­ policy experts in the government and at of Ukraine for the future lie in being a vernment has a good reputation in ately confounded and the listener must private institutions, it was confirmed non-nuclear state. Washington, yet, as of late, President begin to supply his or her own variation that there are high-level individuals who He suggests Діїе Ukrainian govern­ Kravchuk and Parliament have been and meaning into the process. disagree with U.S. policy and tactics in ment initiate some action towards speaking out against him.... At present, The move into a mantra-like frame of regard to Ukraine. That dissent, how­ denuclearization that does not require the government is stable, but everybody mind does perceptively slow the time ever, is off the record. It can be noted the Ukrainian Parliament's ratification in Washington knows they could be down and plays havoc with the dramatic that officials with defense/security of START I, such as the demiUtariza- thrown out in May. Kravchuk and the ebb and flow that is such a cornerstone of administration's policy short-sighted, tion of a small number of liquid propel- Parliament need to get behind Kuchma." Western musical tradition. But it was not while those with foreign policy expertise lant missiles, missiles least useful to always so. In the Gregorian chant, as in lean toward supporting it. Ukraine and ones that would reduce the Irene Jarosewich is a special corres­ almost all religious chant, the dramatic There is a solid, though by no means strategic threat to the U.S. pondent for the Kyуiv-based newspaper was of no importance, only the expression predominant, opinion that current U.S. Adrian Karatnycky, assistant to the Holos Ukrainy. No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 18,1993 DRAMA REVIEW: Yara's beautiful multicultural brushstroke, "Blind Sigbt"

by Andrij Wynnyckyj matic labeling of the world is gently remade by a child, then reappears as a NEW YORK — Until May 2, audi­ mother sorceress in the hilarious ences at the main space of the La Mama "Kabuki Sologub," and then spins in a Experimental Theater Company will be whirlwind of poetry and passion during privileged to witness the Yara Arts the "women's quartet." Mr. Wen is Group's production of "Blind Sight," good both as a stolid and reproving which opened on April 15. Co-authored Englishman and as the gentlemanly and by Wanda Phipps, Virlana Tkacz and artistic Ujaku. Watoku Ueno, the play is based on the early life and travels of Vasyl Ms. Leverett is engaging in the Yeroshenko, a blind world-traveling Kabuki scene, and her striking emotional writer, virtually unknown in his own presence gave life to the dialogue country or by his people, but celebrated between Agnes and Yeroshenko and the in the Far East. women's quartet. Ms. Kato as Ichiko gives similar resonance to her scenes as Bom in Obukhivka, a village north of Ichiko and the "Paper Lantern." Ms. Kharkiv, Yeroshenko played by Andrew Abrams also gives depth to Colteaux led a turbulent life, to say the Yeroshenko's Russian mentor Anna and least. He went blind as a result of an the "women's quartet." unknown illness at age 4, and then, as he The shifting moods of the play are put it, he became "a tumbleweed, blown ably shepherded by the lighting of Mr. from one country to the next." He Ueno and the music of Vincent Katz, moved to Moscow to attend a school for who has extensive experience in scoring the blind in 1899, where he showed a Greek tragedies and settings for poetry. great aptitude for music and languages. During Yara's visit to Ukraine, many As a result of an acquaintance with Anna elements were added by Kateryna (played by Richarda Abrams), a woman Slipchenko, playwright at the with strong connections in the burgeon­ Molodizhnyi Teatr in Lviv; the poet ing Esperanto movement, Yeroshenko Attyla Mohylny, who adapted passages traveled to Japan (after a brief but tumul­ from Yeroshenko's works in Ukrainian tuous stay in England) where, he had translation; and for the actors Mykola heard, "the blind are respected." Shkaraban (as a nameless kobzar who As luck would have it, he arrived in initiates the young Yeroshenko into the Tokyo in 1914, during the so-called traditions of the duma) and Olia Taisho period, when the latest wave of Radchuk of Kyyiv's Teatr Budmo. infatuation with things foreign was None of these had been seen by this sweeping the country. Yeroshenko reviewer at press time. became a writer of poetry and prose and something of a cultural celebrity. In The blind Vasyl Yeroshenko (Andrew Colteaux) is fed by Toshiko (Shigeko), a As Virlana Tkacz, Yara's director, 1916, he modeled for two famous young girl who introduces him to a world of Japanese objects and textures. expressed it in an earlier interview, painters, Tsunei Nakamura and Goro "Yeroshenko's experience of blind sight "For Colored Girls Who Have Tsurata, whose portrait of him still hangs isms of the blind. He cuts a striking fig­ into another culture is a perfect topic for Considered Suicide..." It is also overlaid in the entrance of the National Gallery of ure in the lead role. He is tall, bony, and all members of the group." It was obvi­ with excerpts from Yeroshenko's travel Painting in Tokyo. with a bristling head of hair, which gives ous throughout the production that diaries and letters as he ranged through­ him the air of a comered fledgling eagle That year, he left for Siam, Hong everyone in this multicultural out the Orient. with a damaged wing. He presents a Kong, Singapore, Burma, India, return­ (Ukrainian, Ukrainian American, While "Blind Sight" was still in compelling mixture of the curious, play­ ing to Tokyo in 1919 after being arrested Japanese, African American, Jewish) rehearsal, (this reviewer has not seen it ful, indomitable, defiant but crippled. in Calcutta for socialist activism. As the cast and crew had brought something since it was modified during Yara's climate soured in Japan, he left in 1921, At other times, he softens marvelous- into it. recent visit to Ukraine), the action began arriving in China, where he met Lu Zhin, ly, as in the magical scene in which with Yeroshenko's incantative musing, Happily, multiculturalism is a fact a leading figure in modem Chinese liter­ Toshiko, the young daughter of taken from his diaries, about his exclu­ within this play, not a doctrine. All of ature. He left in 1923 for a continuing Yeroshenko's hosts in Tokyo, guides sion from the light of day and what he the characters in it, including Vasyl odyssey worthy of Rimbaud, throughout him through the tactile world of the has learned from the night. Elsewhere, Yeroshenko, are not alchemical giants Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Tajikistan and Japanese. This, according to Mr. Ueno, this might have been a prelude to an who transformed the world, they are other points in the former Soviet Union. one of the co-authors, is one of the cen­ exploration of the dark side. In this play, simply gusts of spirit, arriving simulta­ It all ended in his native village, where tral conceits of the play and one of the it is the point of departure for his joumey neously and captured in Yara's graceful he returned in 1952, dying of cancer, main facets of Japanese culture — the in search of the land of dreams: lands he theatrical moment, as if by a brush after many years of incarceration in texture of things and feelings. read about in Braille; lands his stroke on rice paper. Stalin's concentration camps. The dignity of character that lifts Esperantist friends told him about; the Yeroshenko above pity infects the entire Yeroshenko's early life and travels The play runs until May 2 at La land envisioned by millenarian and opti­ cast, who spin about Colteaux in a con­ (up to about 1924) provide the basic, but Mama E.T.C., at 74A E. Fourth St. in mistic socialists whose causes he stellation of roles. They all join in to complex, structure for "Blind Sight." New York City. Performances are embraced and whose movement was play the chain of Esperantists who, like a The blind writer's growing love for an Thursdays through Sundays at 8 p.m., about to shake the world; and the land human cyclotron, speed Yeroshenko ambitious Japanese journalist and femi­ with matinees on Sundays April 25 and Yeroshenko literally dreamt of, "the across the continents. nist Kamichka Ichiko (Jennifer Kato) May 2. Tickets are $12/TDF and may Island of Bliss in the sea of eternal Shigeko gives warmth to the beauti­ be ordered at the La Mama E.T.C. box grows into a graceful and soulful adapta­ love," possibly, but not certainly, Japan. tion of Yeroshenko's story, "The Paper ful scene in which Yeroshenko's trau­ office: (212) 475-7710. Before the journey is undertaken, Lantern." however, the audience is confronted with Yeroshenko meets a down-on-his a tour-de-force: a staging of the 4 year- luck theater director, Akita Ujaku (Ian old's first paradoxical revelation of Wen), and they decide to attend a hilari­ blindness. Young Vasyl approaches a ous staging of a play by Russian shuttered window, heedless of the furtive Symbolist Fedir Sologub, done in the voices seeking to shield him from Kabuki style. Yeroshenko, perhaps a bit knowledge about his condition. When homesick and hoping to witness some­ he opens the shutters, the crushing real­ thing Western, is quite disappointed to ization that he feels the sun's warmth find it entirely Nipponized. For his part, without seeing its light seems to physi­ Ujaku is mystified that Yeroshenko cally push him to the floor and squeeze could have found anything so glaringly him into a ball. As he lies curled up, a foreign to be Japanese. whirlwind of cautions about sharp As Yeroshenko rebuffs Agnes, an objects, stoops, stoves, falling crockery, emotionally brittle Bahai English teacher drive him across the room, onto a bench (played by Candace Dian Leverett), and and to a scream of anguish. then prepares to leave Japan, the scene Then, in a moment that encapsulates grows into a beautiful women's quartet the man's stubborn resolve throughout (Ms. Abrams, Ms. Kato, Ms. Leverett, his life, Yeroshenko proceeds with the and Shigeko) in which they archly com­ painstaking mathematics of navigation ment on the ways and manners of egotis­ among markers unseen. "Nine steps to tical men. The latter scene in particular the door, 15 steps to the window, four betrays the handiwork of one of the steps to the chair...." The "women's quartet" scene, (from left) with Richarda Abrams, Dawn Saito play's co-authors, Wanda Phipps, and is Mr. Colteaux, who plays Yeroshenko, (since replaced by Jennifer Kato), and Candace Dian Leverett from the fall reminiscent of Ntozake Shange's play has a convincing grasp of the manner­ workshop production of "Blind Sight." 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 18,1993 No. 16 Professionals/businesspersans discuss forming federationChicag o Group organizes job fair by Roman Golash

CHICAGO — On Saturday, March 27, The Chicago Group (Ukrainian - American Business Professional Orga­ nization) sponsored a job fair ''Manag­ ing Your Career in the 1990s'Vat the Cultural Center of Ss. Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church. The job fair targeted new arrivals looking for contacts and positions, as well as anyone in transition from one career to another. Anna Mostovych, president of The Chicago Group, opened the daylong series of presentations. Hyatt Hotels kicked off the morning session with a presentation on careers in the hospita­ lity industry given by Andrew Hibbard and translated by Peter Taborr (board member). Simultaneously, Nadia Go­ During a meeting of representatives of Ukrainian professionals and businesspersons associations from left are: (front row) lash and Basil Hodczak gave a brief Areta Pawlynsky, Lida Marchuk, Lydia Chopivsky Benson, Eugene Zalucky, Christine Hoshowsky, Roxana Heretz Hayda, outline of some new medical procedures Tymish Holowinsky, (back row) Mykola Babiak, Andrew Horbowy, Bohdan Vityitsky, Yarko Stawnychy and Rosalie The mid-morning session included a Kapustij. presentation by Oleh Skubiak, dean of the Keller Graduate School of Manage­ EAST HANOVER, N.J. — Represen­ • Philadelphia, Ukrainian profes­ sources, and cooperating on special projects. ment, titled "Should You Invest in an tatives from seven Ukrainian American sional Society of Philadelphia: Andrew MBA?" Also, a panel discussion took professional and/or business associa­ Horbowy; Eugene Zalucky, president of the Ukrainian Canadian Professional and place on "Rewards and Challenges of a tions throughout the U.S. gathered in • Rochester, Rochester Ukrainian Sales Career." Mr. Taborr of Wine East Hanover, N. J., on April 3 to discuss American Business and Professional Business Federation, described the Canadian model (which links 17 clubs) Classics discussed telephone sales, the possibility of forming a federation. Association: Christine Hoshowsky; and Dmytro Nastiuk of Forplax/Nan Ya The following organizations were as a national body with muscle that exercises only limited jurisdiction over Plastics discussed industrial sales, and represented: • Washington, The Washington Roman Golash of Roche Biomedical • Boston, Ukrainian Professionals Group: Mykola Babiak, Lydia Cho­ its member groups. The Canadian Federation also initiates and admini­ Labs represented the medical sales end of Association of Boston: Tymish Holo­ pivsky Benson. the spectrum. winsky; The meeting was hosted by the sters high-profile projects, such as a federal government grant of $775,000 The afternoon session was started by • Chicago, The Chicago Group: Lida UAPBA of N.Y./N.J. and chaired by Roman Marushka of Building Options, their vice-president. Dr. Vitvitsky. (Canadian) for "technical assistance to Marchuk; Ukraine,'' he added. who delivered a seminar on "Making a • Detroit/Windsor, The Ukrainian Initially, representatives described Living in Construc^Qi^l|und Basil Graduates of Detroit and Windsor: their organizations' framework, activi­ An open discussion of methods and Hodczak who discussed "Opportunities Rosalie Kapustij; ties and membership. Dr. Vitvitsky sum­ approaches to a possible federa­ in Hospitals". Both sessions approach­ • New York/New Jersey, Ukrainian marized the need for and potential tion followed with representatives ed the practical side of getting a job American Professionals and Business positive aspects of an American fede­ voicing issues of concern for their with a step by step approach. Anna Sha- Persons Association of N.Y./N.J.: ration: strengthening representational organizations. The group decided to leva (board member) of Trans Union Bohdan Vitvitsky, Areta Pawlynsky, capacity at the national level, increasing present the topics discussed to the Corporation gave a presentation in Yaroslaw Stawnychy, Roxana Heretz Ukrainian American impact in the U.S., respective organization's boards and to Ukrainian on "How to Give Great Hayda; exchanging information sharing re- make a joint decision on how to proceed Answers to Tough Interview Questions." by June 1. 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Communist forces that were so deter­ The shaping,,. mined to preseve the Soviet Union that they were prepared to stage a coup (Continued from page 2) Tne pediatric eye clinic at Ivano Frankivsk University was d'etat and risk civil war and national eignty of Ukraine had also proclaimed rebellions at home and a heightening of roundea in 1922. Since tnen, centralization has stripped it the republic's right to enter into direct international tension. During the dra­ diplomatic relations with other states matic few days before the attempted ot its signt-saving equipment. and to participate directly in interna­ coup was foiled by the Russian de­ tional structures (such as the Helsinki mocratic forces loyal to President Boris Two years ago, we undertook a mission to restore Ivano process) and in negotiations concerning Yeltsin, the fate not only of the peoples of the USSR but also, in a broader Frankivsk to its former status as tne finest optnalmic care "peace and international security." Basing its efforts on this document, the sense, of peace and security in the world facility in Ukraine. But wkile we've gotten some of tbe Ukrainian leadership, from the second hung in the balance. After all, the half of 1990 on, actively sought to chart plotters had included USSR Minister of an independent foreign policy and to Defense Marshal Dmitri Yazov and claim a place for the republic in the Commander-in-Chief of Soviet Ground international community of states. Forces General Valentin Varennikov. Ukraine's efforts to achieve interna­ The involvement of senior military tional recognition were complicated, leaders in the attempted coup and the OUR GOAL Is IN SIGHT. however, by various problems, espe­ ease with which Soviet President and cially the unclear future of the Soviet Commander-in-Chief Gorbachev had AND WE NEED YOUR HELP. Union and the unresolved question of been placed under house arrest in his Ukraine's place in it. Western leaders, Crimean dacha inevitable also raised including U.S. President George Bush fears about control over Soviet nuclear and British Secretary Douglas Hurd, weapons. made it clear during their visits to Kyyiv Thus, on August 26, Russian Vice- in the spring and summer of 1991 that President Aleksandr Rutskoi told a needed equipment and materials tkrougk donations from they preferred to deal with a single news conference that the Russian Soviet Soviet state led by President Mikhail Federative Socialist Republic was manufacturers and suppliers, tkere is still muck tkat can Gorbachev than face the risks and seeking joint control over the use of dangers, including the possible pro­ Soviet nuclear weapons. He proposed^ only be bougkt. And our funds are severely limited. liferation of nuclear arsenals, that were that from now on the approval of the Russian president be required before So please open your kearts and give wkatever you can. increasingly associated — and Soviet representatives were at pains to rein­ such weapons could be used.^ Don't turn a klind eye to your ancestral kome's suffering. force these fears — with the collapse of the USSR. Coup highlights insecurity Send your tax-deductikle* gifts to: Tke Eye Institute Ukrainian The Western attitude aroused much For Ukrainians, the attempted coup disappointment among advocates of an suddenly exposed how fragile and Project at SLU c/o Uk rainian MeJical Association of N.A., independent, democratic and non- vulnerable their newly proclaimed nuclear Ukrainian state who had as­ 2247 West Chicago Ave., Ckicago, IL 60622. sovereignty really was. It emerged that sumed that they could count on the Gen. Varennikov had arrived in Kyyiv support of the Western democracies. For more information, please contact on August 19 and issued an ultimatum Typically, as early as November 20, William SelezinU M.D. at 314-577.8267 or Max Pyziur at 314-773-1696 to Ukrainian leaders. Either they 1990, in a speech delivered in Munich at *AII benefactors may use WFUMA IRS number 36-3797978 complied with the instructions of the the Franz-Josef Strauss Symposium, plotters — the State Committee for the Ugl St. Louis University Medical Center one of the leaders of Rukh and a State of Emergency in the USSД — or member of the Ukrainian parliament­ the army would be sent in. The chair­ ary Commission on Foreign Affairs, man of the Ukrainian Supreme Coun­ Serhiy Holovaty, denounced what he cil, Leonid Kravchuk, who came under described as Moscow's "imperial policy considerable criticism for his apparent Teaching position available in September 1993 at a of making the Western countries temporization, told journalists* "I Ukrainian Catholic residential boy's high school & minor afraid... that instead of one nuclear state realized that I had no one to defend me, — the USSR — there will be 15 new [and] sensed that armed people could seminary located in Roblin, Manitoba. Maximum ones." It was not the "break-up of the walk in at any time and take me away."^ enrollment of 50 students. Responsibilities include Soviet Union" that posed "a threat to The first deputy chairman of the peace and security in Europe and in the Ukrainian Council of Ministers, Kon- teaching Physical Education 105, 205 & 305; coaching world at large," he argued, but the stantyn Masyk, who was present at the school teams; Biology 200 & 300; Geography 100 or existence of the "only remaining to­ meeting with Gen. Varennikov and who talitarian empire" — the USSR — and confirmed Mr. Kravchuk's account in French 100; Computer Awareness 105; Law 302. the "suppression of the yearning of more detail, stressed that subsequently, Contact: nations for freedom and independence." while military helicopters hovered over Father Director Mr. Holovaty went on to venture that the Ukrainian capital and a Soviet while the West's "concerns about se­ special forces unit flown in from Brest St. Yladimir's College - Roblin, MB - ROL IPO curity" were understandable, it was stood poised on the outskirts of Kyyiv Ph.# (204) 937-2173 - Fax# (204) 937-8265 "amoral and illegal... to wish to safe­ to seize government buildings, the guard one's own security at the expense Ukrainian government had to face up to of the rights of nations to self-determina­ the fact that it had no troops at its tion and independence. "2 disposal and had only the police to During the following year it was to defend it.^ Position available in September 1993 for a music become more and more apparent that After this sobering experience, and advocates of Ukrainian independence even before the national democratic teacher/choir director at a Ukrainian Catholic residential and Western governments not only had forces in the Parliament successfully fjoy's high school & minor seminary located in Roblin, a different understanding of the si­ forced a vote on August 24 on the tuation in the Soviet Union and declaration of Ukraine's independence, Manitoba. Maximum enrollment of 50 students. different approaches to its mounting Responsibilities include teaching music fundamentals and problems, but ultimately also rather (Continued on page 15) different interests. heory, directing the choir and various instrumental music Whereas Ukrainian democratic ac­ 2 Serhiy Holovaty, "The Peaceful Disinte­ roups as well as all aspects of a unique music and tivists (and, for that matter, Andrei gration of the USSR as a Guarantee of Sakharov) considered that the dis­ Security and Freedom in Europe," Franz- erforming arts program. Understanding of Ukrainian solution of the Soviet empire and the Josef Strauss Symposium, Munich, No­ vember 20, 1990. establishment of democratic states, ulture and religious traditions is essential. Contact: 3 See Barton Gellman, "General With­ Father Director including a democratic Russia, was the drew Missiles to Shelters During Coup," only way to secure stability in Eastern The Washington Post, August 28, 1991. See St. Vladimir's College - Roblin, MB - ROL IPO Europe and end the military and also, "Weekly Record of Events," Report on Ph.# (204) 937-2173 - Fax# (204) 937-8265 nuclear threat to the West, the Western the USSR, No. 36, 1991, p. 82. states preferred, as President Bush told ^ See the report on the press conference the Ukrainian Parliament on August 1, given by Kravchuk for foreign journalists on 1991, that the Ukrainians and others August 30, 1991, in Robitnycha hazeta, back Gorbachev's efforts to keep the September 4, 1991. Soviet Union together. 5 "Behind the Scenes of the Coup d'Etat," і Computer Graphic Design T^^ Vechirnyi Kyiv, August 26, 1991. This Less than three weeks after Presi­ interview with Masyk is also included in a dent Bush's "Chicken Kiev" speech (as valuable collection of materials dealing with KYOUT • DESIGN • PACKAGING • DISPLAYS the U.S. press dubbed it),the deathblow what happened in Ukraine during the -JiblMENSIONAL DISPLAYS • ADVERTISING УкраІНСЬКи I ^Days 718281-6283 to the Soviet system was delivered, ^^MOGUES- INVITATIONS • LABELS • LOGOS attempted coup. See Khronika oporu (Ky­ paradoxically, by the same conservative yiv :"Vik"-Driipro, 1991.) No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 18,1993 15

this issue were apparent almost im­ their status as fully independent ac­ under the control of the United Na­ The shaping... mediately. tors. »5 tions. "^^ That same day the Ukrainian am­ At the press conference that fol­ (Continued from page 14) bassador to the United Nations, Gen- lowed the signing of the Ukrainian- 6 See Vitally Portnikov's report of the nadiy Udovenko, told a news con­ Russian communique, the first dif­ press conference that Kravchuk gave on Mr. Kravchuk began stressing the need ferences over what to do with Ukraine's August 22, in Molod Ukrainy, August 24, ference that there was no need to 1991. for Ukraine to have armed forces of its nuclear arms surfaced among Ukrai­ own.6 The sense of peril was reflected in "dramatize" the question of the nuclear 7 Literaturna Ukraina, August 29, 1991. arms on Ukrainian territory, as Ukraine nian politicians. Mr. Kravchuk told 8 Reuters, August 26, 1991. the opening words of the Ukrainian journalists that although the USSR had declaration of independence* "Proceed­ remained committed to the non-nuclear 9 Fred Hiatt, "Soviet Official Questions principles and "did not want its own "ceased to exist," President Gorbachev Nuclear Arsenal's Security," The Wash­ ing from the mortal danger that threat­ would continue to control nuclear ened Ukraine as a result of the coup nuclear weapons." It was ready, he said, ington Post, August 28, 1991. forces until the repubhcs had decided on 10 Ibid. d'etat in the USSR."7 to place the nuclear arms deployed on its territory under "central control," al­ a new command structure. The Ukrai­ Ч Reuters, August 28, 1991. The Declaration of Independence, though precisely how this would be nian leader said he was in favor of ^bid, which was made subject to endorsement done would have to be worked out removing nuclear weapons from U- •3 Peter Maass, "Ukrainian Leader Wants by a referendum on December 1, 1991, between Kyyiv and Moscow. Mr. Udo­ kraineand was "not worried" if they all Soviet Nuclear Weapons Out," The Wash­ was accompanied by a resolution that venko also confirmed that Ukraine ended up in Russia. He stipulated, ington Post» August 30, 1991. '^ On these developments, see Roman asserted the Ukrainian I^arliament's intended to create its own ministry of however, that they should come under right to control all military units on the Solchanyk, "Ukraine and Russia* Before defense and armed forces.^^ some kind of joint control regardless of and After the Coup," Report on the USSR, territory of the republic, thus paving the where they were based. By contrast, Mr. way for the creation of national armed It is unclear what went on behind the No. 39, 1991. Chornovil "voiced concern about Rus­ 15 For the text of the communique, see forces. scenes, but on August 29 one of the sian possession of nuclear weapons, Molod Ukrainy» November 30, 1991. The very first days after Ukraine's leaders of the democratic opposition, suggesting that they should be placed 16 Maass, "Ukrainian Leader Wants. ...'' declaration of independence, however, Vyacheslav Chornovil, told The brought fears of a new threat — this Washington Post that he had received time emanating from Russia's victo­ information that after Ukraine's de­ rious democratic leaders. 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In the Ukrainian National Association On August 27, not claiming to speak on interests of security and of avoiding onnowncei that th» behalf of the Soviet president, he called economic dislocation, the two states for the international community to play declared that they considered it "neces­ ANNUAL DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING a role in controlling the USSR's nuclear sary to create temporary interstate arsenal at this precarious juncture. The structures that interested states — will be held resolution of "the question of control subjects of the former USSR, regardless over nuclear weapons," he maintained, of their current status — could join on Saturday, April 24, 1993 at 1:00 p.m. required "a special study by a body the basis of representational parity." at St. Michaers Ukrainian Orthodox Church Parish Hall which the international community would appoint and which would also be The Ukrainian-Russian communique 74 Harris Avenue, Woonsocket, R.I. approved by our society."^* stated that both sides acknowledged the Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members ore District Commtttee "special significance of military-strate­ Officers, Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches: Initial Ukrainian responses gic problems" and the need for **a reform of the armed forces of the USSR 73,93, 122, 177,206,241 In Ukraine, the first response to the and the creation of a system of col­ All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. issue of control over nuclear weap­ lective security." The two states also AGENDA: agreed "not to adopt unilateral de­ ons came from leaders of the parHa- 1. Opening and acceptance of the Agenda cisions on military-strategic issues." mentary opposition. According to The 2. Verification of quorOm Washington Post, they called for all But the communique contained a 3. Election of presidium Soviet republics in which nuclear further provision, the significance of 4. Minutes of preceding annual meeting weapons were based "to sign a treaty which for Ukraine seems to have been 5. Reports of District Committee Officers prohibiting the use of those weapons missed by some observers. The second 6. Discussion on reports and their acceptance without the approval of all other 7. Election of District Committee Officers^ part of Point 7 affirmed the adherence 8. Address by UNA Supreme Advisor, ALEXANDER CHUDOUJ signatories."^® of both states "to commitments by the 9. Adoption of District activities program for the current year On August 28 Mr. Yeltsin, who had USSR in international relations, in­ 10. Discussion and Resolutions already moved to take over significant cluding agreements on arms reduction 11. Adjournment elements of the Soviet central govern­ and arms control"; it also, significantly, Meeting Will be attended Ьу: ment apparatus, announced that, "In emphasized the right of both Ukraine view of the fact that Ukraine had declared and Russia to deal with matters "stem­ itself a nuclear-free republic, its nuclear ming from previously made interna­ Alexander Chudoiij, UNA Supreme Advisor tional commitments" through direct weapons will be moved to the Russian DISTRICT COMMITTEE: Federation."її It is not known whether negotiations with "members of the international community." In fact, the Leon Hardink, ChairmCm the Russian president consulted the Theodor Klowan, Secretary English Helen Trinkler, Secretary Ukrainian Ukrainian leadership before making entire document seems to have been, Janet Bardell, Treasurer this announcement; at any rate, dif­ prepared in such a way as to under­ ferences between Kyyiv and Moscow on line the equality of the two states and THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 18,1993 No. 16

could serve as a funnel for aid to the Parliament approves... continue in Ukraine and the other CIS Ukrainian leaders... beleaguered Ukrainian community of countries as the inevitable resuU of an (Continued from page 6) the_former Yugoslavia, he added. (Continued from page 1) atrophying Communist economic sys­ information was also supplied to the Dr. Chromysh also had harsh words ment's allocation of only 650 billion tem, Mr. Kuchma said. appropriate organs of the United Na­ for the Russian batallion within the karbovantsi for privatization demon­ In comparison with Russia and tions and to the leaders of all sides in the forces of the United Nations, whose strates its weak support for this process. Belarus, however, Ukraine's economic civil war. mission is to protect the population Mykola Porovsky, a deputy be­ decline has showed signs of stabiliza­ Prof. Tamash expressed his surprise from unsanctioned action by army longing to the rightist Congress of tion. Over the rest of the year, the at the fact that despite having made units of all the warring sides. Russian National Democratic Forces, criti­ government will follow a strict policy of plans for the Association of Ukrainians soldiers were present when the local Uk­ cized the government for policies that privatizing bankrupt state enterprises. and Ruthenians of the former Yugo­ rainian population was forced by the are destroying Ukraine's heavy-in­ Mr. Kuchma said the government slavia to join the World Congress of Serbian army to leave their homes in dustrial potential. He called it "cri­ favors privatization through selling Free Ukrainians (he had conversations the towns of Petrovci and Miklosevci in minal" that the space conglomerate shares rather than free distribution of concerning this with the head of the the area around Vukovar in Croatia, Yuzhmash is currently producing trol­ property. WCFU, Yuri Shymko in Ukraine in the but did not intercede, said Prof. ley buses instead of satellites and space Prime Minister Kuchma said U- summer of 1991), to this date the Chromysh. In his estimation, the Rus­ ships. kraine's transition into the world mar­ WCFU has been dragging its feet on this sian army units fully integrated with h Appearing before Parliament, Pre­ ket makes Ukrainian products un­ question. Membership in the WCFU the Serbian armed forces. sident Leonid Kravchuk said no one competitive. The government needs $13 present was satisfied with the proposed billion (U.S.) to pay for imported fuel budget, because it does not accurately and $600 million (U.S.) for imported reflect Ukraine's current problems. medicine, he said. The negative trade More efficient tax collection and better balance totals $500 million (U.S.). order in Ukraine's economic activity are Kuchma added that energy resourses required to increase the government's should be used more sparingly; this XPiCTOC eOCKPEUKPIllHO income, he said. Many of the country's could mean that enterprises requiring 3 нагоди Святого Воскресення valuables, such as precious metals, are large quantities of fuel will be closed. simply stolen and sold abroad dirt At the end of the plenary session,the бажаємо всім cheap, he said. Further monetary emis­ Parliament ratified agreements on sions must not be allowed, whatever the friendship and cooperation with теперішнім і майбутнім клієнтам circumstance, the president added. Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan ВЕСЕЛИХ СВЯТ! 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Minister Pynzenyk decrees being introduced." Our Specialty: himself told reporters, "It's all right, Engraved wedding invitations with Ukrainian designs. everything's fine." The new minister of the economy We Ship — U.S. and Canada The appointment of Mr. Bannikov, heads Orizont, a modern factory in 58, could help speed^ passage of bills by Cherkasy that produces fnilitary elec­ «^ Canadian Offices ^ the Supreme Council, where the tronic equipment. The plant was one of Trident Associates Printing Trident Associates Printing entrenched conservatives more readily the first to be privatized earlier this year. <:. r S? ^°''«''°''« ^«"f^ ,.,^ TORONTO OFFICE accept the senior engineer who worked Government officials said Mr. Kuchma St. Catharines, Ontario L2T 2T6 for five years in Soviet ministries. "His had been trying to entice Mr. Bannikov - BY APPOINTMENT - - BY APPOINTMENT - appointment will strengthen the tech­ into his Cabinet for some time. 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Ivan Saliy is dismissed Russia seeks Ukraine's bombers THE UNA'S TAX DEFERRED ANNUITIES 0F№R LOW RISK WITH •KYYIV — President Leonid A COMPETITIVE • MOSCOW — Gen. Peter Deneikin, Kravchuk dismissed the head of the *6.25% INTEREST RATE GUARANTEED FOR ONE FUU YEAR. Kyyiv city administration, Ivan Saliy, on commander of the Russian Air Force, April 12, for his refusal to move the claims that Ukraine must turn over its PLUS: administration out of its headquarters to Tu-95 Bear and Tu-160 Blackjack — No Sales Charges — 100% of your money goes to work for you right away. make way for the Foreign Ministry of bombers to Russia. In an article pub­ — Ability to withdraw up to a maximum of 10% of your total account balance Ukraine. Observers say Mr. Saliy was lished in Izvestiya on March 23, Gen. per year — each year after first year. Deneikin argued that the bombers should known for his rebellious, populist cam­ *6.25% interest rate applies to deposits of $5,000 or more. On sums less than be withdrawn before they become paigns against authority. President $5,000 the interest rate is 6.00%. Kravchuk and Mr. Saliy, whom he had unflightworthy due to insufficient main­ For more information call the Financial Service Department of The UNA.of: appointed as presidential representative tenance. He also said that Ukraine claims for Ukraine's capital city, had clashed ownership of the bombers and has (201) 451-2200 — in New Jersey epeatedly on how Kyyiv was run. requested Uiat Russia either pay 2 billion (800) 253-9862 -^ outside NJ. rubles for each aircraft or transfer an (Financial Times) (215) 821-5800 — in Pennsylvania equivalent value of conventional military Ukrainian Student Union meets aircraft to Ukraine, a request Russia has refused. Although the bombers are count­ • KYYIV — The third congress of the ed under the START treaties, START I Г Ukrainian Student Union took place here and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty on March 27-28 with delegates deciding Introducing DIRECT flights do not specifically call for the bombers in that the organization would devote its Ukraine to be destroyed. Previous reports energies to social, not pohtical problems. indicate that Ukraine is considering con­ N Kostiantyn Dudenko was elected USU ЇШШШ verting some of the bombers into envi­ president; Vasyl Boychuk and Taras I ronmental monitoring aircraft. (RFE/RL Pososhenko were elected vice-presidents. шил Daily Report) The congress adopted an appeal to on Balkan Airlines via superb Boeing 767-200ER President Leonid Kravchuk and the Chief of staff named ^ Monday departures from JFK Лот + $21 procurator general of Ukraine in which it • Excellent service, perfect connection was noted that repressions against stu­ • KYYIV — Col. Gen. Anatoliy ROUND dents had not yet ended. As well, the stu­ Lopata was named chief of the main staff Call your travel agent or: TRIP dents approved a statement in defense of and a first deputy defense minister of the 720 John Demjanjuk, the former U.S. Ukrainian armed forces, reported Ukr- ONE-WSfe AVAILABLE auto worker now awaiting decision on his inform-TASS on March 25. Mr. Lopata Balkan appeal of a death sentence for the Nazi has been serving as acting chief on the HOLIDAYS Same rates to Moscow war crimes committed by "Ivan the main staff since February; earlier he 41E. 42nd St., #508, New Y)rk, NY 10017 and from Kyyiv (Kiev) Terrible" of Treblinka. In his report to. served as deputy defenseminister. Fax: (212) 573-5538 • Tel: (212) 573-5530 Tickets issued in NYC the congress, outgoing USU president (RFE/RL Daily Report) 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 18.1993 No. 16

Saturday, April 24 Studies — Ridna Shkola will hold its PREVIEW OF EVENTS second annual childrens' art axhibit at NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific the Ukrainian Cultural Center, Chicago Society invites the public to a lecture by Information Transfer Inc., a non-govern­ and Victoria de Jesus, as well as marble Avenue at Oakley Street. Hours: Satur­ Prof. Roman Szporluk of Harvard mental organization associated with sculptures by Апуя Farion will open May day, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-3 University, who will speak on the topic U.N./DPI, and co-sponsored by the 2 at 1 p.m., at the Gallery of the Ukrainian p.m. For additional information, call "The Question of State and Civil Society Government of Egypt. The program of Artists Association, 136 Second Ave., Christina Taran, (708) 439-8499. in Contemporary Ukraine," at the so­ the daylong conference consists of four fourth floor. There will be a preview ciety's building, 63 Fourth Ave., at 5 p.m. panels in two sessions, with medical reception on May 1 at 6-8 p.m. Gallery experts participating as panelists. There hours: Tuesday-Friday, 6-8 p.m; Sa­ Sunday, May 2 PHILADELPHIA: The Ukrainian Pro­ will be a luncheon and a closing re­ turday and Sunday, 1-6 p.m. The exhibit fessional Society of Philadelphia is ception in the Delegates Dining Room. runs through May 16. NEW YORK: Branch 113 of the Ukrai­ hosting an insurance and financial plan­ The conference is free of charge, but nian National Women's League of Ame­ ning seminar at the Ukrainian Edu­ registration is required and should be WASHINGTON: The Chornobyl Com­ rica and The Ukrainian Museum in New cational and Cultural Center, 700 Cedar submitted before April 17. Tickets will be mittee of Washington invites the public York invite the public to a jointly Road. The seminar will begin at 10 a.m. available in the U.N. lobby (Visitors to a seventh anniversary of Chornobyl sponsored "Student Art Exhibition," to and will conclude at 1 p.m. Keynote Entrance). For information call WIT in commemoration program at the "Chor­ be held at The Ukrainian Museum, 203 speaker Robert M. Cook will discuss New York, (212) 696-2037; fax, (212) nobyl tree" site in Lafayette Park on Second Ave. The exhibit opens May 2 at annuities, disability income insurance, 532-1775. Pennsylvania Avenue NW, across from 2 p.m. and will run through May 16. using a life insurance policy as a tax the White House, at 2-3 p.m. Also shelter, and what's new in the area of Saturday, Mary 1 participating in this program are the CHICAGO: Ambassador Oleh Bilorus insurance. The seminar will be generic; Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian School and will speak on Ukrainian-American there will be no attempt to sell any NEW YORK: Composer Leonid Hra- the Plast Ukrainian Youth Organization. relations at a public meeting, sponsored products. The seminar is open to all bovsky will hold a master class at the For additional information, call (301) by Friends of Consulate General of members of the Ukrainian Professional Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. 79th 652-3938. Ukraine in Chicago — Club 500 , at the Society of Philadelphia and to the St., 11 a.m.-I p.m., as part of the Ukrainian Cultural Center, 2247 W. general public. "Music at the Institute" series. Free CHICAGO: A benefit ball, sponsored by Chicago Avenue, at 1 p.m. admission. Friends of Consulate General of Ukraine in Chicago — Club 500, with guests of Sunday, April 25 NEW YORK: A traditional students' honor Ambassador Oleh Bilorus and Saturday, May 8 concert, featuring Kalyna Cholhan, Ana- Mrs. Bilorus, will be held at the Ukrai­ NEW YORK: Vara Arts Group will hold SCRANTON, Pa.: The Ukrainian He­ a reading of Ukrainian poetry, both in stasia Khytruk, Petro Krysa, Taras nian Cultural Center, Chicago Avenue at Krysa, Victor Markiw and Borys Skal- ritage Council of Northeastern Penn­ the original and in English translation by Oakley Street, starting at 7 p.m. For sky, will be held at the Ukrainian In­ sylvania is sponsoring a benefit dinner- Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps, in­ additional information and reservations, stitute of America, 2 E. 79 St., at 8 p.m. dance at Genetti Manor, Dickson City to cluding the prize-winning translation of call M. Ozda, (708) 983-8693, or N. Tickets; $10; senior citizens, $5; students, raise funds for desperately needed medi­ "May," a poem about Chornobyl by Pawliuk, (708) 527-0178. free. cal supplies for children of the Cho­ Natalka Bilotserkivets of Kyyiv, to be Saturday, May 1 - Sunday, May 2 rnobyl region. The council invites the held at La Mama Galleria, 6 E. First St., public to attend the event, and in ad­ (between Second and Third avenues), at NEW YORK: An exhibition of col­ laborative paintings by Taras Lewycky CHICAGO: The School of Ukrainian dition asks to consider a donation on 6 p.m. behalf of a designated organization PREVIEW OF EVENTS, a listing of Ukrainian community events open to towards this important fund. All cor­ Sunday, April 30 porate donations will be designated in the public, is a service provided free of charge by The Ukrainian Weekly to the their entirety for the purchase of me­ NEW YORK: The Second International Ukrainian community. To have an event listed in this column, please send dical supplies. Plase make checks pay- Conference on ^'Health and the En­ information (type of event, date, time, place, admission, sponsor, etc.) — ably to; UHCNP-Children of Chorno­ vironment; Global Partners for Global typed and in the English language — along with the phone number of a person byl. Public recognition will be given for Solutions" will be held at the United who may be reached during daytime hours for additional information, to: each generous gift. For further infor­ Nations headquarters, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The Preview of Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, mation, call Crest T. Macina, Chorno­ conference is sponsored by the World N.J. 07302. byl Fund chairman, (71^) 342-8897. Chornobyl telethon slated NEW YORK — The Permanent World Famous Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations has announced that as part of commemorations of the seventh anni­ UKRAINIAN SHUMKA DANCERS versary of the Chornobyl nuclear di­ saster, there will be a telethon, "The Bells of Chornobyl," on Ukrainian DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND television's Channel 1, with proceeds to We've EXTENDED our SPECIAL, benefit the victims of Chornobyl. so until further notice, you can get tlie The Kyyiv-based organizing commit­ tee asks that donations for this worthy AWARD WINNING dance video of SHUMKA'S cause be sent to: State Export-Import historic Concert Tour to Ukraine, at a Bank of Ukraine, Account No. 700200 40% reduced price of $24.95. (USD) ($29.95 CDN) MFC 322313. The committee's tele­ (Plus Shipping & Handling) (Reg.$39.95) phone in Kyyiv is: (044) 229-2162. Experience the excitement of tlieir spell binding show, which drew Ukraine's Parliament... standing ovations from sold out audiences at the most prestigious (Continued from page 1) theatres in Ukraine, and captured the attention of Virsky and tlie Kiev Ballet. RETURN OF THE WHIRLWIND presents three original dance The minister of the environment also stories as well as meeting the dancers back stage and meeting the reported that members of Parliament are reviewing a proposal that Ukraine sign audiences in Ukraine, undergoing profound transitions. on to the Nuclear Non-Proliferatior Treaty as a non-nuclear state. According "SHUMKA a NATIONAL TREASURE" Toronto Star, 1991 to Mr. Kostenko, this creates a situation "(SHUMKA)...one of the most exciting and technically brilliant dance troupes in whereby Ukraine would immediately Canada today." Frank Augustyn, National Ballet of Canada Shumka lose the right to own any nuclear "...well crafted, emotional and balanced,...it brought a tear to my eye." weapons as well as any control of how Alan Kellogg, Arts & Entertainment, Edmonton Journal they are disposed of. Thus, one of the "I saw the video - it's fantastic! You people did an excellent job! It is the best video I've ever seen." OIha Rudakevych, Pennsylvania most complex matters in this issue is "You captured the energy, color and emotion of the Shumka Dancers tour and blended the backstage and performance elements with whether Ukraine should ratify START I great skill. It is a fine production." Roman Меіпук, Director of Network Television, CBC, Toronto "We saw the program on T.V. and enjoyed it so much, we would like to buy one." МагуНегЬащ, New York as a nuclear or a non-nuclear state. It is "I saw your film and it was wonderful, it brought back memories of Ukraine ." ivan iwacMw, Colorado very possible that Ukraine will opt to "It's of such a high quality, that it's a pleasure to show it off to all walks of life." Mr and Mrs. F. Tkachenko, Niagara Falls, Опіагю approve the agreement as a nuclear state, "I thoroughly enjoyed the performance. I especially sensed the courage, spirit and skills of the performances and in the making of the given that the cost of dismantling the performances." Barry Marchand, Winnipeg, Manitoba nuclear weapons still on its territory is "Your organizational effort in its production and resultant release for distribution to the Ukrainian public merits the h ghest of praise." some $2.8 billion (U.S.). Irene and Stepfien Zdan, Northville, Michigan Referring to the pressure being exert­ ed on Ukraine by Western states, Mr. To order call TOLL FREE (24 hours, USA or Canada) Kostenko said such tactics merely encourage Russia to bully Ukraine. 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