INSIDE:• Radio Kontynent director speaks about the closure of his station — page 3. • KLK marks 50th anniversary of ski races in U.S. — page 11. • Interview: Ukrainian studies at Stanford University — page 17.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXII HE KRAINIANNo. 11 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 EEKLY$1/$2 in NationalT deputies supportU W Thousandsby Roman Woronowyczrally in forMass freedom protest by the opposition of the has become press an annual Greek-Catholic Patriarchate Kyiv Press Bureau tradition on this day over the last three years as thou- sands have marched through the downtown streets of Religious Information Service of Ukraine KYIV – National Deputy exhorted Kyiv calling for democracy and free speech in the coun- thousands of Ukrainians on March 9 to rise in massive try and the resignation of President Leonid Kuchma. KYIV – More than 150 national deputies of Ukraine civil disobedience in response to efforts by state authori- In 2001 the protests ended in violence, and tear gas signed a letter to Pope John Paul II, asking him to grant ties to shackle press freedoms by closing down mass was used to disperse the crowd after state militia and the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC) the sta- media outlets that do not toe the government political protesters battled near the Presidential Administration tus of a patriarchate. News of the move was reported on line. Building. Thousands of demonstrators had roamed the March 4 by the UNIAN news service. Fellow lawmaker Viktor Yushchenko told the throng city center throughout the day confronting and combat- According to Oleksa Hudyma, national deputy and of 10,000 to 15,000 who had gathered to commemorate ing police. Dozens of police and civilians were injured. member of the Our Ukraine bloc who initiated the col- the 190th birthday of Ukraine’s national bard, Taras While the demonstrations have remained peaceful for lection of signatures, “the atmosphere during the collec- Shevchenko, that the Ukrainian political leadership was the last two years, this year they took on renewed tion of signatures was extremely friendly, both towards slowly achieving its aim of a controlled and cowering urgency after a second recent effort by government rep- the Greek-Catholic Church and those national deputies press. resentatives to limit Radio Liberty (RL) broadcasts to who contributed the most to this endeavor.” “It is a shame that leading these columns were jour- Ukraine. Among those who signed the letter were mostly nalists whose mouths were taped shut,” stated Mr. On March 3 Ukrainian government representatives national deputies who are members of Viktor Yushchenko. unexpectedly and without a court order removed the Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine faction. In addition, He was referring to dozens of journalists who led the transmitting equipment of Radio Kontynent, claiming National Deputies Mustafa Jemilev and Refat demonstrators and carried signs that read: “Keep Your the radio station had been transmitting without a proper Chubarov, head and deputy of the Mejlis of the Crimean Hands Off the Independent Media” and “Kuchma Out!” license. The move came only five days after Radio Tatars, as well as National Deputy Yevhen – the latter now a traditional chant at any anti-govern- Liberty, a U.S.-financed, private radio broadcasting, had Chervonenko, president of the Confederation of Jewish ment rally. moved to that radio station. Communities in Ukraine, also signed the letter to the The demonstration and rally began at St. Michael’s Earlier, Radio Dovira, another Kyiv radio station, had pontiff. Square, where supporters of Oleksander Moroz and his canceled its relationship with RL, blaming the broad- According to the press service of the Ukrainian Socialist Party gathered before proceeding down caster for failing to make format changes as had been National Party, Mr. Hudyma informed Cardinal Volodymyrska Street, picking up columns of protesters demanded by Radio Dovira owners. RL officials have Lubomyr Husar, head of the UGCC, that more than 150 from the Our Ukraine bloc, which Mr. Yushchenko said they were never told what changes the station want- signatures were collected in the in sup- leads, and the Tymoshenko Bloc, and then moving to port of the establishment of the UGCC patriarchate. Shevchenko Park for a rally. (Continued on page 3)

Life of “Dmytre Z.” emerges thanks

to exhibitby Yar ,o Bihunand some journalisticrelated news, I chanced sleuthing upon an article in the Village Voice by Jennifer Gonnerman “Vichnaya pamiat...” about an exhibit that opened January 17 at When the last refrain of this simple, the New York State Museum in Albany. mournful funeral dirge we sing dies away The exhibit, “Lost Cases, Recovered into silence at the gravesite of a family Lives: Suitcases From a State Hospital member or friend, most eyes are filled Attic,” profiles the lives of 12 former with tears or, at the least, are misty. The patients of the Willard Psychiatric Center, coffin is lowered into the ground; we a century-old, state-run institution that was shower it with handfuls of dirt or flowers; taken out of commission in 1995. It was Frank Speziale linger for a while; and then regroup at the located halfway down the eastern shore of tryzna reception, where we recall his or Dmytro Zacharuk was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Norwich, N.Y., in Seneca Lake, about 50 miles southwest of her life and what they meant to us. We 2000. The small, metal temporary marker, with his first name spelled “Dymetro,” Syracuse, N.Y. As the title suggests, the mark their passing again on the 40th day still identifies his grave today. exhibit is based on the contents of patients’ and, afterwards, on the anniversary or on trunks and suitcases that had been stored the Sunday following Easter – until we and long-forgotten in the attic of one of the have other, more pressing matters to Willard buildings, and augmented with attend to, move away, or simply forget. several years of research conducted by a Rarely do we consider the meaning of team that worked with the museum’s cura- “vichnaya pamiat,” as we repeat the two tor, Craig Williams. words in our lament, beseeching God to Among the 12 patients, all now dead grant the departed “eternal memory.” God, and identified in the exhibit and in the in turn, responds in kind, rarely granting newspaper article only by their first names our request – most of the departed are and last-name initials, was “Dmytre Z.”, a remembered, but none forever, at least not post-World War II Ukrainian immigrant in this world. The reality is that few who, along with his wife, Sophia, came to among us know the names of our great- Syracuse in 1949. They were well on their grandparents, and even fewer pause to way in the pursuit of their “America remember them every now and then. dream” when, two years later, their dream I thought about the meaning of “vich- New York State Museum took a tragic turn when Sophia died. naya pamiat” as January drew to a close, It was a fascinating and heartbreaking The Willard Psychiatric Center, near Seneca Lake, was built in 1869. Before it when, browsing the Internet for Ukraine- story, but for me it left a number of ques- was closed in 1995, more that 50,000 patients were treated there, including Dmytro Zacharuk of Syracuse, whose life story is part of an exhibit at the New (Continued on page 15) York State Museum in Albany. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 No. 11

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Kuchmagate – Act III Rally for press freedom held er Hennadii Vasiliev, who was elected in March 2002 but appointed prosecutor- by Taras Kuzio President Kuchma oversees control over KYIV – An estimated crowd of 5,000- RFE/RL Newsline the “power ministries” and, therefore, general in November 2003. The 7,000 people gathered near a statue to Committee of Ukrainian Voters, a non- was likely aware of these “illegal” Ukrainian poet in Kyiv The series of scandals collectively orders, according to Gen. Kravchenko. governmental group that monitors election known as Kuchmagate first erupted in on March 9, the 190th anniversary of the campaigns in the country, said there were Gen. Kravchenko told poet’s birth, to protest authorities’ perceived November 2000 when Socialist Party he complained to SBU headquarters, but numerous violations of the law during the leader Oleksander Moroz released attacks on freedom of expression in 2002 election in constituency No. 61. In was informed by his superiors that “it Ukraine, local and international news agen- excerpts from audio recordings made in particular, the committee charged that Mr. was none of my business and that I must cies reported. The rally, under the slogan President Leonid Kuchma’s office by Vasyliev had abused his official position obey the orders from the center.” He said “Freedom to the Word,” was organized by presidential security service officer to promote his candidacy and held meet- he ignored the orders, and after he was Our Ukraine, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, Mykola Melnychenko. ings with voters at their workplace during replaced on February 16 by another SBU the Socialist Party and a number of media In September 2002, Kuchmagate II officer he decided to go public. the workday. (RFE/RL Newsline) began when the U.S. government representatives. “The authorities persecute Gen. Kravchenko showed the orders to freedom of speech even more impudently announced that the FBI had confirmed Rada backs proportional elections... Deutsche Welle, which said they appeared than the Okhrana [tsarist secret police] per- that the Melnychenko tapes revealed that to be official SBU documents. He has secuted the publication of Shevchenko’s KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada voted President Kuchma authorized the sale of offered the documents to the Ukrainian works,” the Ukrainska Pravda website 262-7 on March 5 to adopt in its first Kolchuha radar systems to Iraq in July Procurator General’s Office and the (http://www2.pravda.com.ua) quoted from reading a bill postulating a fully propor- 2000. Verkhovna Rada’s human rights ombuds- a resolution adopted by the rally. Our tional party-list system for parliamentary Kuchmagate III began a day before man. National Deputy Mykola Tomenko Ukraine leader Viktor Yushchenko told the elections, Ukrainian news media report- President Kuchma’s February 19 visit to of the Our Ukraine bloc brought some of rally that current efforts at constitutional ed. The bill calls for the election of 450 , where he met with Chancellor the documents to Ukraine on February 26, reform represent a “coup d’état” intended to lawmakers in 225 constituencies from Gerhard Schroeder. after he met with Gen. Kravchenko in install incumbent President Leonid Kuchma the lists of those parties that win at least One day before Mr. Kuchma arrived in Germany the day before. as Ukraine’s prime minister after the 2004 3 percent of the national vote, instead of Germany, Valeriy Kravchenko, an officer In his Deutsche Welle interview, Gen. presidential election. “Ukraine is living the existing 4 percent voting threshold. of the Security Service of Ukraine (known Kravchenko said responsibility for the under a criminal authority,” Mr. The adoption of a purely proportional by its Ukrainian acronym as SBU) orders lies with SBU Chairman Ihor Yushchenko added. Ms. Tymoshenko called system is a sine qua non for the assigned to the Ukrainian Embassy in Smeshko and the head of the SBU direc- on demonstrators to be ready for a “serious Communist Party and the Socialist Party , visited the offices of Deutsche torate on intelligence, Oleh Synianskyi. civic uprising” in the event that the pro- to support constitutional reforms that are Welle and gave an interview in which he SBU Chairman Smeshko is reportedly Kuchma camp pushes its constitutional being promoted by the presidential claimed he had refused to obey orders aligned with the Social Democratic reforms through. (RFE/RL Newsline) administration and the pro-government sent by SBU headquarters demanding that Party-United led by Viktor Medvedchuk. parliamentary majority. (RFE/RL he follow national deputies, especially Will opposition field one candidate? The SBU and President Kuchma were Newsline) from the opposition, and even government obviously taken off guard by Gen. KYIV – Our Ukraine leader ministers when they visited Germany. ...to the chagrin of two opposition blocs Kravchenko breaking ranks with the Yushchenko told the same March 9 rally in Gen. Kravchenko said the latest orders SBU and publicizing these purported Kyiv that his bloc has reached “complete KYIV – The Our Ukraine and Yulia he received demanded that he monitor orders. President Kuchma, who has been understanding” with the Yulia Tymoshenko Tymoshenko Bloc parliamentary caucus- preparations for an upcoming Our isolated in the West since the previous Bloc regarding joint actions by opposition es, which oppose presidentially backed Ukraine forum in Kyiv that was being Kuchmagate episodes and who may have parties in the 2004 presidential election, constitutional reforms, did not take part assisted by people in Germany. He said been hoping to use the Berlin visit to Interfax reported. “Three weeks ago we in the March 5 vote, the he refused to obey these purported orders present a reformed image of himself, was proposed a political manifesto, which gives UkrainskaPravda website reported. Our because, under the 2001 law on intelli- visibly angered when the issue dominat- an answer to how the three political forces Ukraine leader Viktor Yushchenko called gence, the SBU has no right to meddle in ed his press conference with Chancellor [Our Ukraine, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc the electoral bill a “ticket to a coup,” politics or spy on the opposition. Schroeder at the end of his visit. and the Socialist Party] should prepare for suggesting that the aim of the constitu- The SBU has issued a statement claiming the October presidential election with a sin- tional reforms currently under debate is Dr. Taras Kuzio is a resident fellow at that Gen. Kravchenko’s allegations are gle platform and a single candidate,” Mr. to shift presidential prerogatives to the the Center for Russian and East Yushchenko said. “I am telling you now prime minister and allow the pro-govern- European Studies, University of Toronto. (Continued on page 26) that we have reached complete understand- ment coalition to remain in power after ing with the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc within the 2004 presidential election. “The law the framework of this document. I hope the on the proportional election [system] that Verkhovna Rada moves Socialist Party will give the same reply.” was adopted today is a banal bribe that (RFE/RL Newsline) was offered to opposition forces to proportional election law Independent wins by-election ensure their support for the anti-constitu- tional mutiny,” Yulia Tymoshenko by Jan Maksymiuk Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the KYIV – Ukraine’s Central Election charged. “The law gives power to the RFE/RL Belarus and Ukraine Report Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Social Commission announced on March 8 that [oligarchic] clans.” (RFE/RL Newsline) Democratic Party-United, that is, from Oleksander Vasyliev, head of the State The Verkhovna Rada voted 262-7 on the parties that easily cleared the 4 per- Tax Administration in Donetsk Oblast, President sacks energy minister March 5 to adopt in its first reading a bill cent voting threshold in the March 2002 won election to the Verkhovna Rada in a postulating a fully proportional party-list KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma dis- parliamentary ballot in the nationwide Donetsk Oblast constituency (No. 61) on missed Energy and Fuel Minister Serhii system for parliamentary elections. The constituency, in which 225 parliamentary March 7, UNIAN reported. Mr. Vasyliev, document – referred to in the Ukrainian Yermilov on March 5, saying an inappro- mandates were contested under a propor- who ran as an independent, won nearly 79 priate price policy on the coal market is media as the Rudkovskyi-Kliuchkovskyi tional party-list system. percent of the vote, far outpacing 24 other one of the reasons behind the sacking, bill after the names of its main authors, This time, Our Ukraine and the candidates. The election was organized in Mykola Rudkovskyi of the Socialist Tymoshenko Bloc did not take part in the connection with the departure of lawmak- (Continued on page 25) Party and Yurii Kliuchkovskyi from Our vote. Even one of the authors of the bill, Ukraine – calls for the election of 450 Our Ukraine’s Mr. Kliuchkovskyi, did lawmakers in 225 constituencies from not support it. 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Ukraine.” Serhii Sholokh: “I fear that the closure of Kontynent Thousands rally... Reporters Without Borders, the inter- (Continued from page 1) national media watch dog and human ed to see. rights group, on March 5 called on is not the last action against freedom in Ukraine” Other Western media organizations, Ukrainian authorities to allow broadcasts including Voice of America, the BBC and by Radio Kontynent until the licensing matter was brought before the European by Vasyl Pawlowsky is not under their control off the airwaves Deutsche Welle had also used Radio Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Court of Human Rights. all at once. My decision to re-broadcast Kontynent for their transmissions. They, [Radio] Liberty was the last straw. I fear too, went off the air on March 3. Then, on March 8, the U.S. KYIV – On March 3 Radio Department of State released a second that the closure of Kontynent is not the The opposition demonstrations also Kontynent, 100.9 FM, which re-broad- last action against freedom in Ukraine. followed the death in a car crash of the statement, this one issued by Adam Ereli, cast programming of BBC, VOA, deputy spokesman of the department’s They planned to use Kontynent for them- director of a Poltava regional radio sta- Deutche Welle, Radio Polonia, and had selves and their own means, but when they tion, which occurred the same day that Bureau of Public Affairs, in which he taken on the re-broadcasting of Radio called for an official investigation into understood that they couldn’t get me they Radio Kontynent’s transmissions were Liberty on February 28, was shut down carried out their pogrom. They planned to pulled. Yurii Chechyk of Yuta Radio had Mr. Chechyk’s death. when Ukrchastotanahliad, Ukraine’s On March 10 the Ukrainian Service of lock me up in jail, and “convince” me while been on his way to Kyiv for talks with State Agency for Radio Frequencies I was locked up to cooperate with them. Radio Liberty executives on providing the BBC reported that the European Union issued an order to close down the station. them with airtime on his radio station was preparing a statement critical of the Radio Kontynent’s director Serhii Some of the local media have been when his car and an oncoming vehicle manner in which the press is treated in Sholokh had told The Ukrainian Weekly a reporting that you met with Maria collided outside Kyiv. The driver of the Ukraine. The report stated that the EU was week before fleeing Ukraine that he had Sambur and Valerii Vorotnik on other vehicle lost a leg in the incident, awaiting approval of the wording from the already agreed to start re-broadcasting February 25. The Weekly’s source told and a second passenger was hospitalized. 15 member-states and the 10 additional Radio Liberty, but added, “It will happen us they did not recognize Mr. Vorotnik Many in the opposition movement, countries that would join in May. when I am already out of the country.” In as the person who was sitting with you while acknowledging that there was no On March 9 Markian Lubkivskyi, fact, Mr. Sholokh left Ukraine for Poland on both. Was there a second meeting? concrete evidence suggesting that Mr. spokesman for Ukraine’s Ministry of February 29, a source close to the director Chechyk’s death was planned, cited a Foreign Affairs, said that Ukrainian gov- told The Weekly. No, that was the same meeting, the pattern of “death by automobile acci- ernment officials were still studying the According to local reports, Mr. fact that Vorotnik was not recognized is dent” of several political and press repre- statements issued by the United States. Sholokh had met with his former lawyer that he has been feeding at the trough. sentatives over the years, including “Knowing that the U.S. has concerns Maria Sambur of the Center for Crisis Some people have stated it is very prominent Rukh leader Vyacheslav on a wide range of sensitive issues, the Journalism, and Valeriy Vorotnik, a jour- clear why Kontynent was closed; you Chornovil. They are demanding an inde- Foreign Ministry has decided to react nalist and director of the Internet publica- were operating without a license. But pendent investigation. calmly to the statements,” Mr. Lubkivsky tion Antenna from Cherkassy, who had the problem is much more complicat- The two incidents provoked a string of said. He explained that Foreign Affairs become a consultant to National Deputy ed, and what can you do now in order harsh criticisms from various Western Minister Kostyantyn Gryschenko had Nestor Shufrych of the Social to solve the problem? governments and non-governmental met with U.S. Ambassador John Herbst Democratic Party-United. Previously Mr. to discuss the two matters. organizations over the last week. Vorotnik and his publication had a great The question regarding our broadcast- The shutdown of Radio Kontynent, The U.S. Department of State harshly deal of trouble from the authorities, ing license is under investigation by the which had long been in disfavor with gov- criticized the closing of Radio Kontynent though these problems subsided once he European Court of Human Rights, and ernment authorities over its oppositionist in a statement released on March 4. started consulting for Mr. Shufrych. until that examination is complete Radio “The shutdown of Radio Kontynent political stance, follows a pattern that has The same source told The Weekly that Kontynent had all the right to continue and silencing of Radio Liberty/Radio emerged in Ukraine over the last months. he thought it odd there was such a meet- broadcasting. Free Europe, VOA and other internation- Several large media outlets have been ing, as he saw Mr. Sholokh on February But in Ukraine rules and laws don’t exist. al news broadcasters is an assault on forcefully shutdown or threatened with 25, and did not recognized the third per- I cannot consider Mykola Veresen’s opinion democracy and is a serious concern in an closure, including the country’s largest son sitting with him as being Mr. piece in Dzerkalo Tyzhnia as the way it election year in Ukraine when the need newspaper, Silski Visti, which was closed Vorotnik, and suspected that there may transpired. I obeyed all the laws, and I paid for news from many sources is greatest,” after it printed what a Kyiv court decided have been another meeting. incredible taxes. [Veresen, in his article said Richard Boucher, spokesman for the were anti-Semitic materials. Meanwhile, Local reports claim that Mr. Vorotnik places the blame for Kontynent’s closure on U.S. State Department. Channel 5 Television, opened less than a and Ms. Sambur had tried to assist Mr. Sholokh himself – ed.] Just last December I The statement called for the year ago and owned by one of Mr. Sholokh, though the later’s mistrust of paid over 25,000 hryvnia in taxes, but in “Ukrainian leadership to act immediately Yushchenko’s closest advisors, National the two meant he would not take that step this country there is a war going on against to allow Radio Kontynent to resume Deputy Petro Poroshenko, has said that its of cooperating with them. According to everything that is democratic. It is not a broadcasting and to refrain from erecting broadcast signal had been tampered with local reports, they claimed Mr. Sholokh country in which the rule of law is followed, further obstacles to the rebroadcast of in the past and that it is under the close would not answer their calls after the and these are wars without rules. international radio broadcasts in scrutiny of Ukraine’s tax police. meeting on February 25. Neither could The only way to solve the problem is be contacted for comment. through continuous pressure by internation- Mr. Sholokh told The Weekly he had al organizations and Western governments. good reason to distrust both these people, FOR THE RECORD: State Department who he believed had sold out to forces You probably heard about Hryhorii close to the regime. Mr. Vorotnik found Chechyk’s death – the director of UTA protection with the SDPU, while Mr. Radio and Television in Poltava died in on the shutdown of Radio Kontynent Sambur, who had worked with the Institute a car crash on March 3. Now that you of Mass Information (IMI), a journalist’s are abroad, do you feel safer than Following is State Department down of Radio Kontynent, which had rights group, was the first to make public when you were still in Ukraine? spokesman Richard Boucher’s comment agreed to broadcast RL/RFE, comes sev- the letters of a former police officer who on March 4 regarding the shutdown of eral weeks after Radio Dovira terminated claimed to have known who killed Heorhii I am not going to discount the idea that Radio Kontynent. its rebroadcast of RL/RFE. Gongadze. However, Ms. Sambur had left Chechyk took my place. The regime need- We call on the Ukrainian leadership to out one little detail: the words regarding the ed a sacrificial victim in order to frighten The United States views with grave other directors from contacting Liberty. I act immediately to allow Radio president’s role in the killing of Gongadze concern recent attempts by Ukrainian had been removed. She was subsequently fled, and they chose someone else. Yes, I Kontynent to resume broadcasting and to authorities to limit public access to inde- fired from her position at IMI. feel safer here. However, there were peo- refrain from erecting further obstacles to pendent news and information. The shut- Mr. Sholokh had told The Weekly’s ple who claimed to be from the Ukrainian down of Radio Kontynent and silencing the rebroadcast of international radio source that he refused to meet with them Embassy who tried to contact me, and I of Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe broadcasts in Ukraine. Ukrainian authori- anywhere other than at a place that was have been told that the SBU [Security (RL/RFE), VOA, and other international ties must cease their ongoing campaign known and frequented by many Kyiv Service of Ukraine] knew where I was. It broadcasters is an assault on democracy against independent media, which direct- journalists, as he felt he would be safer was necessary for me to leave for another and is a serious concern in an election ly contradicts Ukraine’s stated desire to there and feared possible arrest if he were country and change my telephone. year in Ukraine when the need for news democratize and move closer to the to have met them at another venue. from many sources is greatest. The shut- Euro-Atlantic community. The Weekly contacted Mr. Sholokh on Of course we have been following March 9 by e-mail as he agreed to clarify the situation regarding the closure of a number of things regarding his last few Kontynent and the reaction in the days in Ukraine. Following is informa- West. Can you comment on this? tion from that exchange. Quotable notes I believe that the regime signed its own “President [Leonid] Kuchma made clear to me during our nearly two-hour *** death sentence, because Radio Kontynent’s meeting last month that he sees the Bush administration as giving little thought, As you know, Radio Kontynent was audience is not simple listeners – it is good or bad, to Ukraine, except to repeat what it hears from Russia. The suspi- almost an army of a million elite individu- cion within the political opposition is that Ukraine’s contribution to the coalition closed down on March 3. In your opin- als. Some time will go by and we will be in Iraq was intended to buy amnesty from the United States. This cannot be true, ion, what were the reasons for this? once again broadcast, and not just in Kyiv. but the perception discourages government opponents.” First of all this is a demonstration of The reaction of the West so far is cor- - rect. However, the West must demand real – Madeleine K. Albright, U.S. secretary of state in 1997-2001, writing in the strength and impunity and a way of test actions from Ukraine, and not limit itself March 8 issue of The New York Times, as cited by RFE/RL Belarus and Ukraine ing the West’s reaction, so further repres- Report. sive activities can be carried out. to declarations. The regime long ago Secondly, it was the actual [act of] get- began ignoring all declarations, because ting all the undesirable programming that not once were there any real sanctions. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 No. 11

Canada-Ukraine internship program OBITUARY expands reach to Ukrainian diaspora Myroslaw Prokop, writer-editor KYIV – The Canada-Ukraine and Ukrainians, even if it emanates from Parliamentary Internship Program is Georgia.” expanding to include university students Following the Kyiv meeting, CUPP and nationalist leader, 90 from the Ukrainian diasporas of graduates in Western Europe held a mini- NEW YORK – Myroslaw Prokop, a Studentsky Visnyk (Student News). In Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The reunion on February 14 at the Ukrainian longstanding member of the Ukrainian 1939-1941 he edited the Ukrainska announcement, made on February 11 at Free University in Munich. Rector Leo Academy of Arts and Sciences (known the Embassy of Canada in Kyiv by CUPP Presova Sluzhba (Ukrainian Press Rudnytzky addressed the CUPP gradu- its Ukrainian acronym as UVAN), passed Director Ihor Bardyn, was greeted with Service). From 1942 to 1944 he edited ates who are currently completing intern- away on December 7, 2003. enthusiasm by over 100 CUPP alumni Ideya i Chyn (Idea and Deed), the offi- ships or working at the Council of He was born in Peremyshyl in May who gathered to organize the CUPP cial newspaper of the OUN. Europe, the World Health Organization, 1913, where he also completed his gym- Alumni Organization. From 1957 to 1973 he edited the the European Commission and universi- nasium (secondary school) studies in In 2004 CUPP will bring to the ties in Bonn, Offenburg, Geneva, monthly journal Digest of the Soviet Canadian Parliament 52 Ukrainian uni- 1930. He then studied at the Law School Bologna, London and , about of Lviv University during 1930-1933. Ukrainian Press. In 1967 he worked as versity students, one representative from the history of the Ukrainian Free the co-editor of the Suchasnist journal, each of the three diasporas and four Because of his membership in the University and its future challenges. Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Canadian university students. The Western European CUPP alumni (Continued on page 27) (OUN), he was arrested in October 1933 CUPP was established in 1991 to mark undertook to prepare a proposal for sub- and sentenced to a seven year prison the centennial of Ukrainian group immi- mission to the Organization for Security term. He was released in 1937 under the gration to Canada and the renewal of and Cooperation of Europe (OSCE) to terms of an amnesty. Ukraine’s independence. The purpose of assist that body in preparing the instruc- He resumed his legal studies in Lviv CUPP was to give Ukraine’s students an tion manual for election observers who (1937-1938). After this, he took up gov- opportunity to observe how a democratic will travel to Ukraine in the fall. ernment policy studies, first in Berlin government and market economy func- As well, the Western European alumni (1939-1941) and then at the Ukrainian tions in an open society. To date over 300 wholeheartedly endorsed the adoption of Free University in Munich (1947-1949). university students have come to Canada the proposed charter for the registration He received a doctor of law degree from to complete an internship in the Canadian of the CUPP Alumni Organization. The the UFU on July 4, 1949. Parliament. charter provides for membership in the Between 1941 and 1944 Mr. Prokop During an interview with a Kyiv organization of CUPP alumni and CUPP took part in the anti-Nazi resistance in University newspaper, Mr. Bardyn com- scholars, whose tuition costs for graduate Ukraine. In 1942 he became a member mented that he was impressed with the studies at Oxford, Cambridge, of OUN’s leadership. In 1944 he joined English and fluency Amsterdam, Johns Hopkins, Columbia the presidium of the Ukrainian Supreme of the candidates from Georgia and and Toronto universities was made avail- Azerbaijan, as well as the patriotism of able by the CUPP program. The charter Liberation Council (UHUR) and eventu- these students. Asked why he focused on also provides for membership in the ally the council’s representation abroad. patriotism, Mr. Bardyn stated, organization by any Ukrainian university Mr. Prokop spent many years as an “Patriotism and respect for language is activist and writer-publicist. In Lviv dur- something that will not harm Ukraine (Continued on page 19) ing 1937-1938, he edited the journal Myroslaw Prokop

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With the beginning of the 20th century, the UNA and the Ukrainian American community were coming of age spiritually at the same time that the Ukrainian nation back home was engaged in a struggle for free- dom and political independence. An appeal titled “To Action, Brothers” and published in the October 18, 1900, issue of Svoboda, noted: “As everyone knows, the life of our people in

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Svoboda Press releases IN MEMORIAM 2004 UNA Almanac Olga Liteplo PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Svoboda Press July 11, 1921 – March 2, 2004 has released the 2004 Almanac of the The Executive Committee of the Ukrainian National Association, which is Ukrainian National Association dedicated first and foremost to the 110th regrets to announce to members of the anniversary of the establishment of the UNA General Assembly, members of largest and oldest Ukrainian fraternal UNA Branch 361 and to the UNA organization. The volume’s first section is devoted membership at large that Olga Liteplo, to the Ukrainian National Association secretary of Branch 361 since 1992, and includes an article by UNA President died on Tuesday, March 2, 2004. Stefan Kaczaraj, as well as anniversary The Executive Committee and the greetings from New Jersey Gov. James entire UNA membership wish to McGreevey and the editorial staffs of express their sincerest sympathy to her Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly. husband, Sam, sons Merrill and his Other sections of the 2004 UNA Almanac are devoted to the 350th wife Maya, Ronald and his wife anniversary of the Pereiaslav Treaty; the Nadia, Paul and his wife Emilia and 190th anniversary of the birth of their families. Funeral services were Ukraine’s greatest poet, Taras held on Saturday, March 6, 2004, at Shevchenko; the 90th anniversary of the St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church beginning of World War I; and the 65th in New York City. Mrs. Liteplo was anniversary of the independent state of buried at the Holy Spirit Cemetery in Carpathian Ukraine. Hamptonburgh, N.Y. Mrs. Liteplo will be remembered for her long years of service Other chapters of the Ukrainian-lan- Chief Irene Jarosewich. and dedication to the UNA. guage publication focus on The cover was designed by Stepan Vichna Yiyi Pamiat! “Unforgettable People, Unforgettable Slutsky. It features the UNA emblem and Events,” with authors writing about such the front page headline from Svoboda of notables as poet-revolutionary Oleh March 1, 1894, announcing the establish- Olzhych (1907-1944), poet Volodymyr ment of the Ukrainian National Sosiura (1898-1965), opera diva Association: “Sovershyshasia” – “It has Mission Statement Solomiia Krushelnytska (1872-1952) and come to be.” Galileo, as well as the Stalin-era mass Copies of the new 272-page almanac The Ukrainian National Association exists: graves in the Bykivnia forest, located on I have already been mailed to all current to promote the principles of fraternalism; the outskirts of Kyiv. subscribers of Svoboda in the United I to preserve the Ukrainian, Ukrainian American and Ukrainian Canadian There are chapters also devoted to States and Canada. Readers who wish to economics, the United States, health, order copies of the almanac, may call I heritage and culture; and travelogues and other diverse topics. (973) 292-9800, ext. 3042. The price is to provide quality financial services and products to its members. The almanac’s editor is Petro Chasto, $15. a member of the editorial staff of Proceeds from the sale of the almanac As a fraternal insurance society, the Ukrainian National Association reinvests its Svoboda, which is headed by Editor-in- benefit the Svoboda Press Fund. earnings for the benefit of its members and the Ukrainian community.

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NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Assault on the media and Ukraine’s future Russians go to the polls,

“Whenever people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government.” – Thomas Jefferson but Putin cannot lose by Bohdan Klid selective. While he has gone after those We needn’t remind our readers that this year, 2004, is a critical year for Ukraine as tycoons who supported opposition politi- On March 14 Russians choose a presi- in October the country’s voters are to elect a president. That, of course, is why the cal parties or owned media outlets criti- dent in an election which the incumbent, pressure on Ukraine’s media – as well as outside sources of information that target cal of his regime, privately, Mr. Putin has Vladimir Putin – with 70-80 percent Ukraine’s citizens – has been ratcheted up. advised the oligarchs that they can keep approval ratings – cannot lose. These Pressure on the news media, unfortunately, is nothing new in Ukraine. First came their assets as long as they stay out of astronomical ratings reflect his masterful the “temnyky” – the almost polite (in retrospect) directives of what should be covered politics (and, implicitly, support the pres- ability to exploit the Russian people’s on the news and how. These first appeared in the second half of 2001 as the political ident). yearning for order, which many Russians atmosphere heated up in advance of the parliamentary elections of 2002. The temnyky Inasmuch as major privatizations believe would come with a leader who worked quite well along with so-called “administrative resources” – the materials and under President Yeltsin were largely rules with a strong hand (in colloquial power at the disposal of the authorities, whether it was finances, or manpower, or fraudulent, and most Russian companies Russian, khoziayin; literally, master), and physical accommodations, to guarantee that the authorities’ chosen candidates kept two sets of books to avoid paying nostalgia for empire, following the received special consideration, while those in disfavor would find it difficult to cam- ruinous taxes, they were breaking the chaos, wild capitalism and loss of territo- paign and get their message across to the electorate. law. However, the selective use of state ry following the ’s collapse. Next came the more overt pressure to cover the news as the Kuchma regime and its power against businessmen who are also Mr. Putin was first elected president in supporters want it to be covered. Such pressure was exerted by various entities, such political opponents of the regime is what March 2000 at the height of Russia’s sec- as state tax authorities, and by such means as tax audits, freezing of bank accounts, one researcher has aptly called the tactics ond war to crush Chechen independence. confiscations of newspapers’ print runs, license revocations and libel suits, as well as of a blackmail state, not actions based on Following a series of apartment bomb- that old stand-by, outright harassment and intimidation of journalists. the rule of law. ings in September 1999 – blamed on the Now Ukraine has entered a period during which the media outlets that do not toe Since becoming president, Mr. Putin Chechens – Mr. Putin, who was then the Kuchma administration’s line are simply shut down. Brazen is perhaps the best has often said that he aims to restore prime minister, launched what he called description of this approach. It’s a quick and simple solution that yields immediate Russia’s greatness and power. In practice an anti-terrorist operation. While the results. That’s what happened most recently when Ukrainian authorities seized the this has meant, first of all, regaining bombings provided a pretext, the aim of transmission equipment of Radio Kontynent, forcing it off the air – and along with it Chechnya. In the still ongoing second the second military campaign was to the broadcasts of the BBC, Deutsche Welle, Voice of America and Radio Liberty, campaign perhaps as many as 100,000 reverse the settlement following Russia’s independent sources of information on which the regime’s pressure had no influence. Chechen civilians have been killed defeat in the first war (1994-1996), when Radio Kontynent, it should be noted, had already been under the watchful eyes of (80,000-100,000 died in the first war), Chechnya gained de facto independence. authorities due to its pro-opposition stance. Its decision to carry the broadcasts of and at least several thousand Russian sol- The failed first war was symptomatic Radio Liberty, freshly pushed off the air at Radio Dovira, thanks to new management diers and much treasure have been of the presidency of Boris Yeltsin, during that supports the Kuchma machine, seemed to be the last straw. squandered. which post-Soviet Russia lost its status To be sure, on top of all this there are also the murders of journalists under strange Mr. Putin’s greater aim, however, is to as superpower and rival to the United circumstances by unknown assailants – cases that never seem to get solved, as well as re-establish control over the republics of States. Little Chechnya rubbed salt on to the growing number of deaths via vehicular accidents that seem to strike most often at the former Soviet Union which gained those less than favorably disposed toward the regime. The most recent victim of such wounded Russian pride when it defeated independence upon the empire’s col- an accident (or not) was Yurii Chechyk of Yuta Radio, who was on his way from the much better armed and far more lapse. In a recent speech he lamented the Poltava for talks with Radio Liberty executives concerning affiliation opportunities. numerous Russian army. Soviet Union’s demise as “a national Speaking in an exclusive interview with one of our freelancers in Ukraine, the The Yeltsin administration also over- tragedy” which in his view benefited director of Radio Kontynent, Serhii Sholokh, said of the authorities: “They planned to saw the collapse of the Russian economy. only the “nationalists and elites” of the lock me up in jail, and ‘convince’ me while I was locked up to cooperate with them.” The remedy his administration prescribed newly independent countries, like Of Mr. Chechyk’s death, he said: “The regime needed a sacrificial victim, in order to for Russia’s ailing, state-run industries Georgia and Ukraine. frighten other directors from contacting [Radio] Liberty.” (It must be noted that Mr. was “shock therapy.” In practice, this Mr. Putin’s words and actions have Sholokh was speaking from an undisclosed location as he has fled Ukraine.) As for consisted of the rapid, and mostly rigged, resulted in astronomical approval ratings. the West’s reactions to the latest examples of the Kuchma administration’s assault on privatization of state assets, which result- To the people of Russia, many of whom press freedoms, Mr. Sholokh underscored: “The reaction of the West so far is correct, ed in the instant enrichment of a small however, the West must demand real actions from Ukraine, and not limit themselves lived miserably under Soviet rule but group of insiders, christened “oligarchs,” became further pauperized under to declarations. The regime long ago began ignoring all declarations, because not once who further looted state assets in 1996 in were there any real sanctions.” President Yeltsin, his assault against what became known as the loans for some of the oligarchs is popular, and has Clearly, then, without strong and unambiguous reaction from the West, the Kuchma shares scandal. Another result of shock regime will simply continue its efforts to ensure that the people of Ukraine are not given them a sense of satisfaction and therapy was the liberalization of prices revenge. Yet, most Russians today are well-informed and, therefore, are not able to make the right decisions regarding the and hyperinflation, which wiped out the kind of government and leaders they want to lead Ukraine. still poor, while government and business savings of the Russian populace and led practices remain corrupt. to the collapse of their already low living By promising to restore Russia’s standards. greatness, President Putin has applied March Although Mr. Putin became president balm to the Russian people’s bruised Turning the pages back... with the blessings of Mr. Yeltsin and hubris over lost empire. In a highly sym- allied oligarchs, his previous career in bolic act, he has partially rehabilitated the KGB and its successor, the FSB, indi- Joseph Stalin, whose criminal and geno- 15 cated support from this murky and cidal policies resulted in the deaths of blood-stained organization as well. Soon many millions. For Mr. Putin and most Six years ago, The Weekly reported on a special program 1998 after assuming office, President Putin Russians, however, Stalin is fondly held by the Embassy of Ukraine to the United States and the began re-establishing centralized control remembered for his leadership during Ukrainian American community to honor the memory of Ivan over Russia’s regions – given autonomy Svitlychnyi, the literary historian, critic and poet who was at the World War II and expansion of Soviet under Yeltsin – symbolized by the territory to its greatest size ever. Under center of the 1960s “Shestydesiatnyky” national movement in Ukraine. appointment of former KGB and military Our Washington correspondent, Yaro Bihun, filed a report on the event. Leading the Stalin, as well, there was order. officers to key government posts. While President Putin is not Stalin rein- remembrance was Ukrainian Ambassador Yuri Shcherbak,who focused on the meaning and Russia’s Parliament, the Duma, has now importance of the movement of the young writers and artists of that period who came to be carnated, he has brought back strong-man, been transformed into a rubber-stamp authoritarian rule to Russia, albeit with a known as the Shestydesiatnyky and of Mr. Svitlychnyi’s role in it. Ivan Svitlychnyi’s sister, body. In parliamentary elections held last Nadia Svitlychna, recalled the human, personal side of her brother and his circle of friends. veneer of democracy. Although he projects December, the Unity Party, which was the image of a modern, Western-oriented The evening was unique in that it did not coincide with any anniversary or particular created to support President Putin, date relating to the poet, who died in 1992, noted Mr. Bihun. “And it is fitting that we leader, he governs more in the Soviet tradi- gained a majority. Two of the largest tion, without, however, the utopian ideolo- need not frame our love and respect for Ivan Svitlychnyi in the context of an anniver- opposition parties in the new Parliament sary,” Ambassador Shcherbak said. “In today’s murky, politicized atmosphere, without gy and its baggage. In today’s Russia, are ultranationalist, adding shrill voices Vladimir Putin is its master. faith and direction, we have a spiritual need to connect with the source of our rebirth to the choir of Putin sycophants. Russia’s and yearn for a symbol of faith, morality and selflessness.” president has also moved against the Svitlychnyi was arrested in 1965, during the KGB’s first wave of arrests of the more independent-minded oligarchs: two Want to reach us Shestydesiatnyky, and again in January 1972, during the massive crackdown against the have been driven into exile, while a third, Ukrainian intelligentsia, and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment and five years of the oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, is by e-mail? exile. Ambassador Shcherbak said that, even by Soviet standards, Svitlychnyi’s trial and in jail awaiting trial. Editorial materials: conviction were dubious. He was punished not for anything he did, but simply for being Mr. Putin’s campaign against the oli- [email protected] a leading Ukrainian intellectual, the “soul” and hub of the Shestydesiatnyky in Kyiv. garchs has been popular, but also highly “It was the Shestydesiatnyky who laid the groundwork for the rebirth of Ukraine that Advertising Department: came in the 1980s and 1990s,” continued the ambassador. “Without them, the historic break that followed would have been impossible.” Dr. Bohdan Klid is a research scholar [email protected] and assistant director at the Canadian Source: “ ‘Soul of Shestydesiatnyky’ Ivan Svitlychnyi remembered in D.C.,” by Institute of Ukrainian Studies, based in Preview of Events: Yaro Bihun. The Ukrainian Weekly, March 15, 1998, Vol. LXVI, No. 11. Edmonton at the University of Alberta. [email protected] No. 11 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 7 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Faces and Places Ukraine, which is barely waking up from brutal repressions of 70 years of by Myron B. Kuropas Suitable models Russian Soviet domination can be for our community excused from rational thinking or acting, Dear Editor: but what is the excuse of the political Third Wave immigrants of our diaspora? Recent events have given us the impe- Recently Dr. Osyp Moroz in a letter to tus and opportunity to react, such as: the editor of Svoboda, your sister publi- Back to square one • The New York Times Pulitzer Prize cation, expressed his concern about the Ukrainian Catholics have been waiting could do what some of our pioneer priests scandal of 2003, which we utilized for future of the Ukrainian community in the for a very long time for the Vatican to rec- and laity did in the United States in 1905. protests against Walter Duranty’s 1933 United States. He proposes to call a “con- ognize the establishment of a Ukrainian Upset with the abuse married clergy were award for his lies about the Holodomor; gress” for the construction of one central Patriarchate in Kyiv. Unfortunately, the experiencing from Roman Catholic prelates • “The Passion of The Christ” movie institution that would represent all exist- Vatican is – my pastor will never forgive and priests, they convened a conference and Mel Gibson’s mention of the ing organizations in the Ukrainian com- me for writing this – “playing politics.” under the banner “Away with .” This Holodomor in an interview with Peggy munity which would assure the future of When Ukraine was under Soviet rule, the got Rome’s attention. A Ukrainian Catholic Noonan in Reader’s Digest and the reac- its longevity, and at the same time be a Vatican informed us that a patriarchate was was sent here in 1907, thanks in tion of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. good example of a democratic process so not possible because Ukraine was not an large measure to the political pressure put We read about it in the American much needed in Ukraine. independent nation. There was no “home- on Rome by Metropolitan Andrey press, saw it on television and became He proposes that the organizers of land” for Ukrainian Catholics. Sheptytsky. indignant for a week or two. Then we such an event should consist of the open- When Ukraine finally became an inde- Accepting this option might mean sever- receded back into slumber. minded people, preferably younger dele- pendent nation, the Vatican informed us that ing all ties with Rome and recognizing We do not react sufficiently to a con- gates, because for them the future is we couldn’t have a patriarch because our Ukrainian Orthodox Metropolitan Filaret as tinuous barrage of lies and insults direct- more important than the past. Well, it were not in agreement on who the true patriarch, a dream nurtured by ed against us such as: genetic anti- looks good at the first glance, but it is should be the patriarch. Two bishops were some Ukrainian Orthodox. Few Ukrainian Semitism, collaboration with Nazis, our past – our ethnic roots that unite us reportedly coerced by a Vatican hierarch to Catholics, however, support this idea. reduction of the 1932-1933 Holodomor and divide us. Without the knowledge oppose Cardinal Josyf Slipyj’s election. A better option was recently suggested to a “natural agricultural disaster,” past and appreciation of the past there is no Pope Paul VI offered to make Cardinal by Father Robert Taft, S.J., of the Pontifical and recent “pogroms” in Ukraine, block- future. We must learn from past failures Slipyj an “honorary patriarch” but the cardi- Oriental Institute, who told Ukraine’s ing and opposition by Jewish organiza- and achievements. He recommends that nal refused, saying that the title was not for prelates to take two steps. “First, publicly tions in New Jersey of studies of the we take The Washington Group (TWG) him personally but for the Ukrainian declare the patriarchate. Second, request 1932-1933 Holodomor to be included in organization as a model. Very good! Catholic Church. Roman recognition, but even if it doesn’t the New Jersey schools curricula, the cur- come, refuse all mail that doesn’t come In addition, I suggest that we should Now that our Ukrainian Catholic bishops rent efforts of representatives of Russian addressed to the patriarchate. Don’t pretend, also consider the Ukrainian American have agreed that Cardinal Lubomyr Husar government in the United States to block but really do it. The secretary of state sends Veterans (UAV) organization as an addi- should be the patriarch, the Vatican is telling the passage of the Senate Resolution 202 a letter addressed to the archbishop? We tional model. The UAV in its constitution us that the Orthodox world is opposed, which states that the 1932-1933 don’t have any archbishop, we’ve got a states, among other things, the following as specifically Russian Patriarch Aleksei and Holodomor was a genocide, etc. patriarch. Send it back unopened, its objectives: “...to aid the Ukrainian peo- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. We desperately need to stimulate work ‘addressee unknown.” You gotta love those ple in promoting the growth of democracy On February 22, Pope John Paul II said in this field on a serious professional Jesuits! in Ukraine..., to maintain the Ukrainian that pontiffs have a “singular ministry” of basis, such as the writing of books, the Father Taft has a wonderful plan, except identity in a status of high esteem and “confirming and guiding the Church in the contribution of articles and letters to for one problem. Ukrainian bishops outside respect in these, our United States.” unity of faith.” This “indispensable mis- newspapers and members of our govern- of Ukraine may be united, but Ukraine’s UAV membership consists of individ- sion,” the pope said, comes from God and ment, the production of videos and films bishops may not be. Some resent the so- uals of various religions and political he has been called to “render this particular for educational purposes, teaching about called “American” presence in Ukraine preferences, and includes all those who service to the entire Christian people.” the Holodomor in schools, and so on. (priests trained in the United States) and the served in World War I to those who serve I, too, yearn for Christian unity, but I We cannot permit these serious events “Brazilian presence” (mainly now in Iraq, from privates to generals. know it won’t happen in my lifetime, espe- in our history to be relegated to a “foot- Redemptorists who are establishing them- What unites us is our past and present, cially between Catholics and the Russian note” in the discussions of issues that are selves throughout Ukraine). Like many and our hope for a better future. Orthodox Church. While America is vital to us in the United States, Canada involved in the Middle East, Vladimir Putin Ukrainian-born priests, especially those and Ukraine. who served in the underground Church, Dmytro Bodnarczuk is resurrecting the old and It is time for the diaspora to wake-up, Ukrainian bishops aren’t accustomed to the Albuquerque, N.M. the Russian Orthodox Church is an integral think, reflect and react! part of his strategy. Both the old Russian kind of Church discipline and order that exists in the United States and Brazil. Some The letter-writer is past national com- empire and the Soviet empire were depend- Bozhena Olshaniwsky even grumble about Patriarch Husar, “the mander of the Ukrainian American ent on three essential clements: Orthodoxy Newark, N.J. American,” often behind his back, occa- Veterans. – religious or Marxist; autocracy; and “nar- odnichestvo” – a kind of mystic Russian sionally publicly. Expecting Ukrainian The letter-writer is president of oneness similar in concept to the German unity on anything, let alone religious mat- Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine. Volk. Patriarch Alexei views the lands of ters, is always a risky proposition. Time for diaspora “Mother Russia” – which include Belarus, So what’s left? Our patriarch has a sug- Ukraine and Russia – as “canonical lands” gestion: prayer and fasting. What better way not to be sullied by Catholicism, especially to commemorate Lent? We should pray and to think and react Sports Illustrated fast for the pope and for Cardinal Kasper Dear Editor: Ukrainian Catholicism. I want to believe that a Polish pope understands this but is who apparently has great influence over the misidentifies Klitschko pope. We can emulate our Catholic brothers Why do we have to wait until some- Dear Editor: being constrained by others around him. Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the and sisters in Ukraine. One they have over thing or someone of note outside of the us is prayer. They pray more. They attend Sports Illustrated’s, February 16, 2004, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Ukrainian community addresses issues church more. We can learn from them. issue carried a story on the retirement of Unity, traveled to Moscow recently to meet which cause us to react? Are we, as a We should also pray for the Ukrainian Lennox Lewis, in which they referred to with Russian Patriarch Aleksei. Discussed, group, in a somnambulistic trance that Orthodox Church, which also needs to unite Vitali Klitschko as “the Russian.” I wrote to of course, was the Ukrainian Catholic precludes us from acting in a rational, in order to better serve the Ukrainian people. them pointing out their error and canceling Patriarchate, which Cardinal Kasper made purposeful way? I am referring to the Finally, we can respond as the Body of my SI and Time subscriptions and swiching clear would never be sanctioned by the Holodomor issue which is everpresent in Christ. As the catechism of the Catholic from Time-Warner cable to Direct TV. pope. This satisfied Patriarch Aleksei only our subconsciousness and which we temporarily. He then expressed his anger Church reminds us, “lay Christians are regard historically as the most horren- She wrote back advising me that they entrusted by God with the apostolate by had referred my complaint to their over the establishment of Catholic con- dous crime against humanity in general vents, churches and orphanages on sacred virtue of their Baptism and Confirmation; and the people of Ukraine in particular. research department. To date, to the best they have the right and duty individually or of my knowledge, no correction has been Russian soil. The Russian patriarch wants Until now there have been no state- them removed and all proselytization in grouped in associations, to work so that the ments of apology or asking of forgive- published. I urge other Ukrainians to divine message of salvation may be known cancel/switch Time Inc. and Time- Russia, Catholic and Protestant, to cease. ness from the perpetrators: neither the and accepted by all men throughout the Warner subscriptions. These demands by the Moscow Soviets nor Russians nor Jews who were Patriarchate are not surprising. If the earth.” No Church has a more authentic right to spread the Good News throughout instrumental in the implementation of the Askold S. Lozynskyj Vatican folds again, more objections to Holodomor. Even, the pope, who apolo- the world than the martyred Church of New York, N.Y. unity will be forthcoming. Patriarch Aleksei gizes to all for everything, failed to apol- believes that it is Moscow, not Rome, that is Ukraine. ogize to Ukrainians for the Vatican’s the true center of Christianity. Moscow As usual, the Stamford Ukrainian silence during the Holodomor. The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters declared itself the third and final Rome after Catholic Eparchy has a game plan. We sporadically remember this horrific to the editor. Letters should be typed (not Involved with this initiative is Roma handwritten) and double-spaced. Letters the fall of Constantinople. Once the Vatican event (e.g., on the 50th or 70th anniver- accepts this view, Christian unity will be Hayda, who plans to inaugurate her idea may be mailed or faxed; they may also be soon, very soon. saries) and go to churches, march on Fifth sent via e-mail to [email protected]. achieved. Avenue in New York, hold conferences and The daytime phone number and address So, dear reader, we Ukrainians are back symposia that are poorly attended; then we of the letter-writer MUST be given for ver- to square one. What do we do now? Myron Kuropas’ e-mail address is: go back to sleep for another decade or two. ification purposes. A number of options are open to us. We [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 No. 11

NEWS AND VIEWS: The Bush administration and Ukraine UWC statement by Ihor Gawdiak and where the process of joining the NATO alliance is An appeal to our brothers under way.” Unfortunately, this statement alone raises In a recent op-ed piece in The New York Times, the question to what extent Mr. Tomlinson and other Secretary of State Colin Powell indicated that the Bush and sisters in Christ BBG members are familiar with the situation in administration’s first foreign policy resolution in 2004 is Ukraine. Although Ukraine has voiced its intention of Below is the text of an appeal from the Ukrainian “to expand freedom,” and to “support [its] consolidation joining NATO, its record on free speech is dismal World Congress (release date: March 2). in many new but fragile democracies. Surely the admin- indeed. istration’s list would include Ukraine, a country that is Apparently, the BBG has either not read or does not Recent events surrounding the creation of the Ukrainian vital to the strategic interests of the United States and believe our own State Department’s Annual Human Catholic Patriarchate are a cause for grave concern. The Europe. This former Soviet republic of 48 million, once Rights Report or any of the countless other resources salient facts are as follows: The Vatican prepared and for- the world’s third largest nuclear power, now stands at a that describe Ukraine’s severely restricted media envi- warded to the Moscow Patriarch a memorandum on the most critical crossroads, but judging by the recent ronment and that rate President Kuchma among the top problem of creating a Catholic Patriarchate in Ukraine. The actions of a crucial U.S. government agency, the U.S. is 10 enemies of the press. The BBG also either doubts or Vatican’s representative then met with a representative of about to make a big foreign policy mistake. has chosen to ignore the urgings of Ukraine’s opposition the Moscow Patriarchate to discuss this matter. In the Just how fragile the situation is in Ukraine was clear- leader, Mr. Yushchenko, who during a visit to meantime, Moscow circulated this document among the ly explained last month in a Washington Post editorial Washington last February pleaded with administration autocephalous Orthodox Churches. Patriarchs and primates which cautioned that the country’s president, Leonid officials to leave U.S. government radio broadcasts to from Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Georgia, Serbia, Kuchma, “appears to be looking for ways to curtail Ukraine intact. Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Albania, Poland, the Ukraine’s democracy so that he can prolong his own One of the U.S. government’s broadcast services Czech Republic, Slovakia and America expressed a nega- hold on power when his term expires this year.” Linking affected by the cuts is the Voice of America (VOA). tive opinion (if not violent opposition) on the subject. Mr. Kuchma to “corruption,” “strong-arm tactics,” “seri- VOA director David Jackson sent a (BBG-inspired?) The central question that needs to be asked is: why was ous human right violations” and running an “economy memo that calls for reducing VOA Ukrainian broadcasts this issue presented by the Holy See to the Moscow warped by clans of oligarchs,” the Post further wrote by half, beginning March 1, 2004. The service is to Patriarchate? The response often given is that, in the spirit that his aim is to “neutralize the country’s most popular “retool its programming and expand its multimedia of Christian ecumenism, the Vatican seeks the opinion of leader, Viktor Yushchenko, who, polls say, would win capabilities,” presumably to include television and the Moscow regarding the creation of a Catholic Patriarchate the next presidential election if it were fairly held.” Internet. in Ukraine. This response has been reiterated off the As the Post concluded in its editorial, “[f]reedom While catch words like “retool” and “multimedia” record by many of the Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs since could be consolidated this year in Ukraine or slip away,” might have an attractive ring to them, Mr. Jackson and the Ukrainian Bishops’ Synod of 2002 when the and that the outcome very much depends on the actions apparently the BBG have ceased to take into account the Patriarchate was formally declared subject to ratification of this administration. fact that in a country where the average monthly salary by the Vatican. The U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is still around $60, few people have access to the The Ukrainian World Congress believes that the oversees all of the U.S. government’s non-military inter- Internet. Moscow Patriarchate is an outspoken enemy of Ukrainian national broadcasting activities. On February 3 it Similarly, in order to get television programming on Christians and the Ukrainian state. We cannot accept became known that the BBG decided to implement an the air in Ukraine, the U.S. must depend on Ukrainian attempts by the Holy See to accommodate this quasi-reli- earlier decision to cut U.S. international radio broad- State TV or channels owned by oligarchs aligned with gious, politically motivated structure, in particular, by dis- casts to Central and Eastern Europe. However, it is diffi- President Kuchma. Given this reality, it is therefore regarding the ecclesiastical needs and the merited aspira- cult to understand why the BBG chose at this critical highly unlikely that the U.S. will get any TV program tions of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. The Holy See’s time to reduce broadcasts to Ukraine, where they are on the air in Ukraine that, even if balanced, could in any approach seems to us as either naive or disingenuous. considered by many to be a much- needed counterbal- way be critical of the country’s government. The reactions of the other Orthodox Churches, while ance to the country’s mostly government-controlled And what would be the point of VOA doing a TV not surprising, are disquieting. In particular, in view of media. program if it could not include any opposition voices or the special relationship that exists between many Last February when the cuts were originally a healthy debate of Ukraine’s problems? Whom would Ukrainian Orthodox Christians and the Constantinople announced, BBG Chairman Ken Tomlinson wrote that our efforts – funded by U.S. taxpayers – be serving? As Patriarchate, we would have expected Ecumenical broadcasts will be eliminated or curtailed to “democra- Patriarch Bartholomew to have eschewed voicing an cies of Eastern Europe where free speech is practiced opinion, merely stating that this is an internal matter of (Continued on page 27) the Ukrainian people. Furthermore, our friends, patri- archs and primates from Georgia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund: January 2004 and America should have responded similarly. At this time, we feel it important for Ukrainians Amount Name City Helen Jensen Forest Hills, N.Y. $250.00 Anna Harmarty Chatham, N.J. Oleh Mahlay Hinckley, Ohio worldwide to manifest unity and purpose. The Ukrainian $145.00 Bohdan Kraynyk Pond Eddy, N.Y. Roman and Victoria Catholic hierarchy should again intervene with the Holy $100.00 Mary Giza Tamarac, Fla. Maksimowich Warren, Mich. 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generated by Roman Iwasiwka.” With they love the trip. the help of his wife, Tita, and sons, Groups of ULKUS members ski Petroosh and Marchyk, Roman recorded throughout the day, break for lunch at the the ULKUS song. Andriy, “Vuyko mountain’s pub, and regroup in the after- ULKUS,” Tytla, burned it onto CDs and noon for more skiing, sometimes with the by Khristina Lew DoubleDouble ExposurExposuree mailed to everyone so they had some- same group, sometimes with a new one. thing to listen to on the long ride North. The entire mountain is connected by walkie (Sugarloaf Mountain is a stone’s throw talkies. Some evenings have planned activi- from the border of Canada – from New ties, like a welcoming party and the awards York the trip takes eight hours.) ceremony, and some have impromptu gath- A winter’s tale Gogo, “Dido ULKUS,” Slupchynskyj, erings. This year nine former members of It has all the makings of summer many on skis for the first time. The a veteran skier and a fixture of Ukrainian Plast New York’s 21st Kurin held a reunion camp – a song, a motto, an awards cere- smallest ones, like my son, Hryts, spent ski camps and ski races, designed in the mountain’s hot tubs. ULKUS’s T-shirts and buttons. Jerry This was my first ULKUS experience, mony, a guy playing the guitar – but the the day in sleds, being dragged back and Kurowyckyj, co-founder of ULKUS, and I loved it – because it’s great skiing, motto is “Ski Hee,” the guy is a 45-year- forth at the bottom of the mountain. old photographer, and the place is signed each of the awards presented to all because it brings families together, ULKUS has evolved into an institu- Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine. the children, including the ones that have because it informally gathers Ukrainians ULKUS – “Ukrayinskyi Leshchetarskyi tion, and its spirit, says Motria Shuhan, yet to get on skis – theirs reads “Best of all ages for the love of skiing. Can you Klub in Sugarloaf” (Ukrainian Ski Club in an ULKUS member for five years, “is Future Skier.” People chip in because tell that I’ll be going back next year? Sugarloaf) – is a weeklong annual ski trip organized by Roman Iwasiwka of Naples, Fla. (If you got married at Soyuzivka in the past 20 years, Roman was probably your photographer.) The trip began as a family outing of the Iwasiwkas and the Kurowyckyjs in the early 1990s. This year the group topped 95, with participants ranging in age from 11 months to 80-plus. The trip is organized by one man – “by sheer will he pulls it together,” says Dr. Taras Odulak, an ULKUS member for three years. There are no organiza- tional squabbles, no internal politics. ULKUS is a trip for Ukrainians and non- Ukrainians alike, and was created by Roman, “Batko ULKUS,” for his son Petroosh. “When I was growing up on Seventh Street [in New York City] we couldn’t afford to go skiing. I wanted my son to have that opportunity. I wanted to inspire a generation of kids to love ski- ing,” he said. Participants of the 2004 ski trip organized by ULKUS – “Ukrayinskyi Leshchetarskyi Klub in Sugarloaf” (Ukrainian Ski This year 36 kids hit the slopes – Club in Sugarloaf).

The Organizing Committee for FOCUUS 2 FRIENDS OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY UKRAINIAN STUDIES

Cordially invites members of the public to attend the GALA BANQUET

On Saturday, May 8, at 6 p.m. in the Low Library Rotunda - at Columbia University

Speakers: Prof. Mark von Hagen and Dr. Bohdan Vitvitsky Special Guest Speaker: The Honorable Carlos Pascual, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine

Musical interlude: Prof. Chris Washburne and the SYOTOS band

Tickets $250; Students and Senior Citizens $125 Contact Maria Sonevytsky at 212-854-4697 or at [email protected]

The Organizing Committee: Alexandra Baranetsky, Oksana M. Bauer, Chris Bonacorsa, Inya Chehade, Walter Chudowsky, Larysa Melnyk Dyrszka, Orest Fedash, Roma Hayda, Adriana Helbig, Stefan Kaczaraj, Lydia Kossak Kernitsky, Volodymyr Kurylo, Iryna Kurowyckyj, Nadia Kihiczak Kuzycz, Roman Kyzyk, Ihor Laszok, Roma Lisovich, Nadia Matkiwsky, Leonard Mazur, Adrianna Melnyk, Miriam Mychalczak, Areta Pawlynsky, Roman Procyk, Andrew Rak, Petro Rybchuk, Maria Sonevytsky, Stefan Tatarenko, Oksana Trytjak, Bohdan Vitvitsky, Andrij Wowk, Myroslava Tomorug Znayenko, Ihor Zwarycz. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 No. 11 No. 11 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 11

KLKWINDHAM, holds N.Y. – The Carpathian 50th Ski anniversary ski races in upstate New York Club held its 50th anniversary ski races here at Ski Windham on Saturday, February 28, with racing in age groups ranging from 6 and under to 55 and over. Indeed, the annual ski races have now evolved into a true family event with kids and adults of all ages participating, as youngsters cheer on their parents and sib- lings, and parents root for their children. Ninety-nine competitors signed up for the jubilee races – the vast majority of them skiers, although there was a sprin- kling of snowboarders among the partici- pants. It was the third year that snowboard- ers competed in separate categories. Known by its Ukrainian acronym as KLK, the club held its first races in the United States in 1954 at Whiteface, near Lake Placid, N.Y. KLK was founded in Ukraine in 1924 and then transported to Europe and the United States, where it grew and flourished; it was re-established in Ukraine in 1989. Yuriy Kucher (right) accepts the traveling trophy for the KLK President Erko Palydowycz presents the trophy for The races at Windham took place on a fastest time posted by a male skier from Juri Kobziar. fastest female skier to his granddaughter, Tania Ripnick.

NASTAR-sanctioned course, specially Ukraine – attended the awards banquet reserved that morning for the Ukrainian held at nearby Hunter Mountain Ski Lodge. skiers. (NASTAR is the acronym for the After KLK President Erko Palydowycz National Standard Race, the largest public welcomed one and all to the anniversary KLK 2004 recreational grass roots ski program in the dinner, a short overview of KLK history world.) In the afternoon, KLK race partici- was provided by George Popel, who noted pants and their families had the opportunity SKIING race resultsBoys 7-8 that many past winners of KLK races were to enjoy a gloriously sunny day on the Adrian Temnycky, 45.22 present at the festive evening. Girls age 6 and under Paul Temnycky, 49.79 slopes. Special guests at the KLK festivities Adriana Terleckyj, 51.61 That evening, approximately 180 people included several “old-timers” who came to Andreya Pencak, 55.93 Boys 9-10 – athletes of all ages, their families and celebrate the 50th anniversary of ski racing, Laryssa Terleckyj, 61.10 Adrian Iwaskiw, 40.99 friends, as well as supporters of KLK who including George Kupchynsky and Roman Luka Zacharczuk, 41.45 had traveled from near and far, including Girls 7-8 such cities as Reno, Nev., and Ternopil, (Continued on page 13) Christine Lenchur, 42.63 Boys 11-12 Katerine Lenchur, 43,76 Erko Palydowycz, 33.32 Larysa Iwaskiw, 48.59 Alex Hryhorowych, 33.95 Nicholas Siokalo, 36.08 Girls 9-10 Mark Kochan, 38.50 Natalia Hryhorowych, 34.65 Paul Hadzewycz, 40.39 Katya Palydowycz, 35.66 Mark Temnycky, 43.31 Sofia Sydoriak, 42.49 Ivanka Temnycky, 43.20 Boys 13-15 Ivanka Misilo, 50.87 Marc Kostrubiak, 30.80 Christina Temnycky, 59.59 Dan Paslawsky, 31.41

Girls 11-12 Boys 16-17 Tania Prymak, 31.58 Adrian Kostrubiak, 30.20 Maria Sydoriak, 43.79 Adrian Rybak, 30.47 Sofia Zacharczuk, 44.59 Andrew Hrubec, 34.25 Alexandra Fylopov, 50.81 Nick Stasiuk, 50.94

Girls 13-14 Men 18-21 Tania Hryhorowych, 33.69 Markian Hadzewycz, 34.09 Larissa Kobziar, 34.42 Darian Fedash, 35.26 Melanie Siokalo, 35.99 Yura Onyshkiv, 43.78 Orysia Kucher, 38.19 Men 22-35 Damien Vena, 28.88 Girls 15-17 Askold Sandursky, 31.10 Tania Ripnick, 26.62 Roman Dolinsky, 32.29 Roxanna Kobziar, 31.31 The youngest skiers receive medals for their achievements from Orest Fedash. Andrea Fylypovych, 37.24 Men 36-45 Natalia Temnycky, 41.89 Peter Strutynsky, 29.35 Yuriy Kucher, 29.50 Women 19-30 Peter Lenchur, 31.50 Melanie Doll, 34.05 Wanda Vena, 36.49 Men 46-55 Dianna Shmerykowskyj, 38.98 George Temnycky, 30.17 Peter Siokalo, 32.33 Women 31-44 Volodymyr Temnycky, 33.79 Natalia Fedun-Wojcickyj, 38.12 Ruth Lenchur, 41.09 Men over 55 Roma Temnycky, 48.34 Orest Dubynyak, 33.55 Eugene Stakhiv, 35.68 Women 45+ Andrei Kachala, 37.83 Zoriana Siokalo, 35.18 Roma Hadzewycz, 41.79 Darka Temnycky, 43.18 SNOWBOARDING Boys 11-12 Boys 6 and under Julian Chernyk, 41.46 Peter Lenchur, 46.22 Oliver Chernyk, 47.73 Boys 16-17 Ronin Kmeta, 57.76 Greg Homick, 43.51 Danylo Peleschuk, 44.63 Happy winners in the group of girls age 9-10. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 No. 11 No. 11 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 13

Irenaeus Isajiw, vice-president of the Ukrainian Sports Federation of the U.S.A. KLK(Continued holds... from page 11) and Canada, extended congratulations on Hawrylak, two KLK stalwarts who were behalf of the umbrella organization, of presented special jubilee awards in recogni- which KLK is a member. tion of their contributions to the sports club. Trophies were awarded for first place in Two other designated recipients of the each age group; while second- and third- awards, Orest Slupchynskyj and place finishers received medals. Special Wolodymyr Hnatkiwsky, were unable to traveling trophies, which are passed on attend. from year to year to each successive winner Also among those in attendance were (no repeat winners are allowed), were pre- VIP guests from the Embassy of Ukraine sented for the fastest time posted among who traveled to upstate New York from men and women competitors. This year’s Washington specially for the KLK races. winners of the highly coveted trophies Yurii Panasiuk and Serhii Svyryba are both were Yuriy Kucher, who turned in a race deputy chiefs of the Trade and Economic time of 29.50, and Tania Ripnick, who Mission at the Embassy. came in with 26.62. Another special guest was a representa- Top skiers also received gold, silver and tive of KLK in Lviv, Orest Dubynyak, who bronze medals awarded by NASTAR based briefly addressed the gathering, extending on the course time posted by pacesetters, as greetings from KLK activists in Ukraine and well as the gender and age of each racer. presenting honorary membership in KLK KLK President Palydowycz and officers Top finishers in the group of boys age 16-17 after being congratulated by the repre- Ukraine to the sports club’s U.S. president, Orest Fedash and Vira Popel conducted the sentative of KLK Ukraine who attended the 2004 races. Mr. Palydowycz. In turn, Mr. Dubynyak evening’s program, assisted by other KLK received a special award from KLK U.S.A, leaders and activists who were called on to recognizing his work for the club. present awards.

KLK President Erko Palydowycz (second from left) with KLK activists (from left) Girls in the age 13-14 group with awards presenter Irene Kupchynsky. Orest Dubynyak (KLK-Ukraine), Roman Hawrylak and George Kupchynsky. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 No. 11 No. 11 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 15

found that a Sophia Zacharuk, born in Dmytro Zacharuk was born on October Life of “Dmytre Z.”... 1923, died there in November of 1951 and 28, 1916, in the heart of Hutsulschyna in (Continued from page 1) was buried in the parish cemetery. the Carpathian Mountains – in Utoropy, the tions unanswered, the first among them: An Internet search of Social Security oldest village in the region. It lies within 10 death records confirmed that a Dmytre miles of Kolomyia, which is located to the Who was “Dmytre” – or, more accurately, Zacharuk, was born in 1916 and died in north, and such Hutsul jewels as Kosmach, Dmytro – Z.? 2000 – the dates noted in the exhibit. Sheshory and Kosiv to the south. This is his story, so that we, too, can Additional phone calls to the New York His father, a poor farmer, died when remember him. State Museum’s press office, exhibit cura- Dmytro was 2, and after a few years of pri- The initial “Z” stands for Zacharuk. The tor Craig Williams, and various sources in mary schooling, Dmytro worked the poor Rev. Ivan Kaszczak, pastor of St. John the Norwich, N.Y., where he was buried, as mountainous land as well. During World Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in well as Internet searches, filled in most of War II he was rounded up and sent to a Syracuse, checked the church records and the remaining gaps in the story. German slave labor camp. Following the war, he passed the time in the Hellbrunn displaced persons camp in Augsburg, where he met and married Sophia. He was in his early 30s; she – in her mid-20s. In 1949 the Zacharuks emigrated to New York State Museum the United States, settling down in Syracuse, with its large Ukrainian com- Sophia and Dmytro Zacharuk in a 1940s wedding portrait taken while they were (Continued on page 21) at the Hellbrunn DP camp in Austria.

Lisa Rinzler/New York State Museum The attic of one of the Williard Psychiatric Center’s buildings, where hundreds of New York State Museum old trunks and suitcases of former patients were recently discovered. The owners of 12 of these suitcases are the subject of the exhibit “Lost Cases, Recovered Lives: Dmytro Zacharuk at work during an art therapy session at the Willard Psychiatric Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic,” at the New York State Museum in Albany. Center. The painting is of a Hutsul church in his native village of Utoropy. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 No. 11

COMMENTARY: Kyiv conference on “Ukraine in Europe and the World” by Marta Farion A parallel theme in much of the con- ference’s discussion centered on the role KYIV – After more than a decade of of Europe in facilitating Ukraine’s march Ukrainian independence, and in the toward democracy. Pavol Demes of shadow of Ukraine’s upcoming presiden- Slovakia and the Transatlantic Center for tial election, 17 European experts in poli- Central and Eastern Europe noted, tics, economics and social issues and “Europe should open up its borders. three Americans – former Secretary of There should be no iron curtain on State Madeleine K. Albright, former U.S. European borders.” And Hennadii Ambassador to Ukraine William Miller Udovenko, national deputy and former and current U.S. Ambassador John Ukrainian minister of foreign affairs, Herbst – convened in Kyiv on February said: “People say the Berlin Wall is 20-21 to assess Ukraine’s future relation- down, that there are no more walls. That ship with its European neighbors and the is not true. There is a curtain, a wall larger democratic world. around Europe. Europe needs to open its This was to be the first time that borders to Ukrainians.” Ukraine’s opposition forces gathered at Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine the same forum to discuss their differ- Miller noted, “When our countries ences through dialogue rather than con- (Ukraine and the United States) were frontation, an approach that has long engaged through numerous visits of the been missing in the political culture of president, the secretary of state, the min- the country. isters, and other government officials, The conference, titled “Ukraine in there was much more success in rela- Europe and the World,” was co-sponsored tions. There is very limited exchange and backed financially by a collection of between our countries now. We in the European and American think tanks and West have not done our work in engage- NGOs, including the Adenauer Fund of ment fully.” Dr. Aslund added, “The Germany, the German Marshall Fund of West’s media should pay more attention the United States, the Center for to Ukraine. There is no full-time corre- International Relations of Poland, the spondent of the major media in Kyiv, and Euro-Atlantic Institute of Ukraine, the Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright with Dr. Viacheslav this must change.” Kyiv Mohyla Academy of Ukraine and Briukhovetsky of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. A related event that resulted from the others from France, the Czech Republic conference was the visit of various and Romania, and was billed as another “Why, after 13 years of Ukrainian inde- Most of the conference’s discussion, European leaders and Secretary Albright round of discussions about Ukraine’s stag- pendence, are there more problems now however, focused on which positive and to the National University of Kyiv- gering path toward European integration. than then? He noted, “New people will affirmative steps will be required by Mohyla Academy, where they participat- The conference’s not so subtle subtext someday write the history of this period, Ukraine to be fully accepted by and inte- ed in an open discussion with students, was that this year’s presidential election and they will have to write about our bru- grated within the community of demo- scholars and alumni in a free debate and would constitute the nation’s choice tal reality.” cratic nations. Advice to Ukraine was exchange of ideas. Secretary Albright point about its own future – to take the Along these lines, Anders Aslund, pro- freely given. For one thing, the impor- noted that she had followed NUKMA train going East or the train going West, fessor and economic advisor to the tance of political dialogue was empha- through the years. She continued, “I am a choice between going backward or Ukrainian government, said, “Ukraine is sized. Polish President Aleksander very concerned about what is going on in going forward. now a repressive state. The main election Kwasniewski stated in his written mes- Ukraine for those who want democracy. Secretary Albright’s opening address question is corruption.” Ivan Pliusch, sage, “Dialogue is fruitful only when all Democracy is not an event, it is a set the discussion’s agenda in bold lan- national deputy and former chairman of parties participate and the media and the process.” guage. “Democracy is not a gift. It has the Verkhovna Rada, said, “Let us not kid press are not closed. It is not enough to Secretary Albright commented: “there to be built by millions of people, and ourselves and our guests. We all know that listen – what is needed is to hear.” And are problems in the United States also, each person must take responsibility for ministers are already selected and appoint- Viktor Yushchenko, former prime minis- but we have a system of checks and bal- leadership with wisdom, respect for the ed before elections. Deals are made before ter, head of the Our Ukraine faction and ances. But in Ukraine the system is not rule of law and free and fair elections,” elections, and we know who the producer presidential candidate said, “Perhaps this checked and it is not balanced. The she said. “The people of Ukraine must of this show is.” And Anatolii Grytsenko conference is a first step toward having future of Ukraine is in your hands, to make a full commitment to democracy. of the Razumkov Center for Economic the political elite come together in a joint help Ukraine join the community of Ukrainians must stand on the shoulders and Political Studies in Ukraine, observed, conversation on its own land and not democracies. The issues about joining of the dissidents, the non-people of the “Elections in the times of Gorbachev were somewhere else. A political dialogue in the EU are not simple. There are require- past, and not accept the theft of liberty,” cleaner than elections in Ukraine now. Ten our country is a first brick in building a ments and great consequences. That is she warned. years ago, there was more freedom of the democratic political system.” why it is important for young Ukrainian The conference provided the press than now.” Anatolii Grytsenko added, “The cur- people to shine a light and speak out. Ukrainian government with its most Opposition leader and member of rent situation is the fault of the govern- Make sure that the process this election recent report card, delivered openly and Parliament Yulia Tymoshenko spent con- ment, the fault of the opposition and the year is an open one.” unvarnished by diplomatic ambiguities. siderable time in discussions with fault of the people. We are all guilty of The conference was well-organized Borys Tarasyuk, Ukraine’s former minis- Secretary Madeleine Albright and former neglecting democracy.” And Sasha and professionally managed, but it was ter of foreign affairs and now the chair- speaker of Parliament Ivan Pliusch. Vondra of the Czech Republic observed, not without moments of genuine man of the Euro-Atlantic Institute, Many conference participants noted “It is not what the world can do for Ukrainian intrigue, surprise and humor. presided over the proceedings. Ukraine’s recent crackdown on the press, Ukraine. The question is what can For one thing, the Ukrainian government Viacheslav Briukhovetsky, president of and Tom Dine of Radio Liberty talked Ukraine do for itself?” Dr. Briukhovetsky was a reluctant and tepid participant, and the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla openly about his recent experiences: pointed to the significant role to be conference organizers were not notified Academy, opened with the question “Kuchma attacked Radio Liberty and the played by Ukraine’s younger generation, until hours before its convening that gov- mass media. He got his knee into our reciting Hemmingway’s observation that ernment officials would participate. Prime Marta Farion, attorney and chair of body, but this is a general media prob- “man is not made for defeat; man can be Minister Viktor Yanukovych, Justice the Chicago-Kyiv Sister Cities Committee, lem. Any independent voice in Ukraine is destroyed, but not defeated,” and he Minister Oleksander Lavrynovych and attended the international conference held under attack, but we are going to fight to called for the nurturing of the intellect of Foreign Affairs Minister Kostyantyn in Kyiv on February 20-21 titled be on the air. We are looking for new the young generation to lead Ukraine to a “Ukraine in Europe and the World.” partners.” better future. (Continued on page 19)

Alexander Vondra, former deputy foreign minister of the Czech Republic. Carl Bildt, former prime minister of Sweden. Pavol Demes, former foreign minister of Slovakia. No. 11 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 17 INTERVIEW: Prof. Nancy Kollmann on Ukrainian studies at Stanford U.

Last year, The Ukrainian Weekly was it to work toward establishing sure of broad numbers of undergraduates reported that Stanford University had Ukrainian studies at your university? to Ukrainian studies by integrating inaugurated a drive to expand teaching And when did this initiative move Ukraine in courses across the curriculum. and research in the field of Ukrainian from the discussion and planning stage We would like to see, for example, studies. The renowned university, which to the current fund-raising and imple- Ukrainian topics represented in courses has been teaching undergraduate and mentation stage? on contemporary politics, social change graduate students in East European and and culture in departments such as soci- Russian studies since the 1920s and has The initiative came simultaneously ology, anthropology, political science and a strong commitment to international from members of the community who Slavic languages and literatures. studies, boasts significant resources in have been active in encouraging more We will try not to duplicate the efforts Ukrainian studies. Ukrainian activities. Here at Stanford of other centers of Ukrainian studies. We In February through June 2003, more directly the initiative has been led do not have ambitions to develop a publi- Stanford presented a series of distin- by myself and Prof. Amir Weiner, whose cations program, for example, since guished lecturers to kick off its program- research focuses on Ukraine in the 20th Harvard does that so well. Similarly, we building effort for Ukrainian studies. century. Both of us have been involved in will not aspire to create a Summer Sponsored by the Center for Russian, Ukrainian studies since our graduate School, since the Harvard Ukrainian East European and Eurasian Studies school days, and found that we now have Summer School does an excellent job. (CREES), the “Ukraine: Emerging at Stanford a small, but dedicated, cohort We will not focus as much on post-doc- Nation” series featured political scien- of scholars who are interested in Ukraine toral grants as Harvard does, with its tists, historians and public figures speak- and would support such an initiative in recent Shklar Fellowships, but we hope ing on various aspects of Ukraine’s cur- their teaching, research and mentoring of to invite scholars from Ukraine and else- Prof. Nancy Kollmann rent development. The response to the students. where as postdoctoral scholars to some series was good, and attendance was This broader group of faculty includes extent. administration of federal fellowships for high and included a broad mix of mem- Prof. Michael McFaul of political sci- We will probably not be as active in academic year study at the M.A. and bers of the community, faculty and stu- ence, Associate Director of CREEES public outreach as Columbia can be, Ph.D. levels and summer language dents. Mary Dakin, Senior Research Fellows given that it is located on the Eastern grants, an endowed lectureship in post- This year Stanford University is Robert Conquest and John Dunlop of the Seaboard, in New York, on the flight path Soviet studies, etc. embarking on a serious fund-raising Hoover Institution, Prof. Norman for any scholar or public figure headed to The current public lectures and sym- effort to support the expansion of Naimark of the history department, Prof. Washington or other East Coast loca- posia in Ukrainian studies that we do Ukrainian studies. Roma Hadzewycz of Coit Blacker of Stanford Institute for tions. offer are sponsored by CREEES as part The Weekly interviewed Nancy Shields International Affairs. But, of course, we hope to offer a live- of our commitment to broad representa- Kollmann, a professor in the department We moved into the fund-raising mode ly program of lectures and conferences, tion of the East European and FSU area. of history at Stanford University and a this academic year. for specialists and for the general public, A Ukrainian studies program would com- fellow at the Stanford Institute for on a wide range of Ukrainian topics. plement and enrich our array of current What does the Ukrainian studies International Studies, about new devel- activities. program at Stanford envision as its opments at the university regarding How would your program be differ- focus? Will it be teaching or research? How will the program make use of Ukrainian studies. ent, or similar to, programs at Will it focus on undergraduates or the resources that already exist at Prof. Kollmann received her Ph. D. in Canadian universities? graduates, or perhaps both? Stanford, for example the Hoover 1980 from Harvard University, where she We will always be smaller in scale – Institution? specialized in early modern East Our focus will be on teaching and Stanford is small as major research uni- European and Russian history and had research; we are particularly interested in versities go – and we will dedicate our- Our resources are incredible. For the opportunity to work with scholars at broadening the curriculum by including selves to training, mentoring and sup- research, Green Library is a world-class the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Ukrainian topics in undergraduate cours- porting the research of students and collection of books and current journals, such as Omeljan Pritsak, Ihor Sevcenko, es across the curriculum, in fields such as scholars of Ukraine. We are not aspiring and the Hoover Institution’s archives are Edward Keenan, Richard Pipes and history, culture and literature, political to have the sort of broad-based program very rich. Students at the undergraduate Wiktor Weintraub. science, economics and sociology. We that is so successful at the University of and graduate levels will be able to use She has been the recipient of numerous hope to do this initially by sponsoring Alberta, for example. There they sponsor these wonderful collections in their national grants, including research fellow- visiting professors, and in the long run by an active publications program, outreach coursework with Stanford professors on ships from the Guggenheim Foundation, endowing a chair. to Canadian public schools, graduate Ukrainian themes. Our students will ben- National Endowment for Humanities, We are also quite committed to the training and cultural activities. efit from consultations with affiliated American Philosophical Society and the idea of training graduate students in research scholars in such institutions as Fulbright Scholars Program. Her Ukrainian studies in the fields of history What areas of study will it encom- Stanford Institute for International research and publications focus on the or political science. We have internation- pass? Will there be a Ukrainian studies Studies as well as the Hoover, the political and social history of Muscovite ally recognized faculty, as well as library major and/or minor? Graduate Schools of Business or Law, or Russia, including her most recent book, and archival resources, and there is a wherever there are affiliated scholars. “By Honor Bound: State and Society in need for well-trained scholars as the cur- Since Stanford is a small university What other types of institutional Early Modern Russia” (1999). rent senior generation of Ukrainianists at that has not historically attracted large support for the development of the At Stanford Prof. Kollmann regularly American and Canadian universities numbers of Ukrainian heritage students, Ukrainian studies program do you teaches a survey course on early modern looks towards retirement. and since Ukrainian studies is not well Eastern Europe, in which Ukrainian his- known to the average undergraduate – at have, or expect to have at Stanford? tory plays a central role. She also trains How do you envision the establish- least not yet – we will not rush to create a Are there any notable scholars, univer- graduate students in Ukrainian and East ment of the program? Is there some major or minor in Ukrainian studies. That sity officials who are prime supporters European history. sort of phased-in approach that is would require the kind of depth in per- of this endeavor? What faculty For the last three periodic reviews of being considered? manent faculty positions that only a few strengths can be utilized by the pro- the Harvard Ukrainian Research schools, such as Alberta and Harvard, gram? Institute, in 1993, 1998 and 2002, she Yes, we hope at first to raise expend- currently offer. But we have current has been a member of the Committee to able funds to inaugurate some programs, strength in history and political science, I have mentioned the faculty who are Oversee HURI, chairing the committee such as visiting professorships and grad- and would work to create visiting posi- interested in this field and are actively for the last two reviews. uate fellowships. Then, we hope to turn tions so that Ukrainian studies would be working with us. Other institutional sup- to the longer task of establishing an taught in departments such as Slavic lan- port comes from CREEES, which can What has taken place at Stanford in endowment to make sure that Ukrainian guages and literatures, cultural anthropol- offer matching funds to support regard to the Ukrainian studies pro- studies becomes a permanent part of ogy, economics and sociology. We also Ukrainian initiatives from its endowment gram since the lecture series that kicked Stanford’s curriculum and activities. intend that students could earn our inter- (The Wayne S. Vucinich Fund for off the program-building efforts? Such an endowment would include funds disciplinary M.A. in Russian, East Russian and East European Studies) and for programs, guest teachers and ulti- European and Eurasian studies with a from its federal funds. This winter and spring we have initiated mately perhaps a chair. focus on Ukraine. CREEES is a “National Resource our third lecture series on contemporary Center” in area studies of the Department Ukraine, with a monthly lecture through How will the Ukrainian studies pro- How will the program fit in with the of Education, and receives annually a May. We sponsored a public symposium on gram at Stanford differ from those at, university’s existing Center for grant of almost $300,000 for fellowships the Ukrainian Famine last autumn, with say Harvard, where the Ukrainian Russian, East European and Eurasian and program development. Ukraine is featured guest Robert Conquest. This year Research Institute is an established studies? one of the many fields to which we dedi- our outreach program for high school presence, and at Columbia, where cate our Title VI Federal funds. teachers – a daylong symposium on Ukrainian studies are now being heavi- The program will fit in well. CREEES CREEES also works with departments “Stalinism” – included significant attention ly promoted? How would it be similar? is an umbrella organization that oversees on an ad hoc basis to gather funding for to the Famine in Ukraine. We continue to a wide range of activities across the sponsorship of events such as public lec- offer courses that include Ukrainian materi- We would be similar inasmuch as we broad range of Eastern Europe and the tures and visiting professors. Our current als, such as Prof. Amir Weiner’s survey will all be offering coursework at the Former Soviet Union (FSU). Among the visiting professor in economics, Prof. course on “The Soviet Union in the 20th graduate and undergraduate levels and free-standing programs that our staff Roy Gardner of Indiana University, a Century” and my lecture course on “Early training students. However, we at oversees are an interdisciplinary M.A. specialist on the economy of contempo- Modern Eastern Europe.” Stanford really want to focus on the program in Russian, East European and rary Ukraine, is jointly sponsored by training of a strong generation of schol- Eurasian studies, outreach programs for To backtrack a bit, whose initiative ars in Ukrainian studies, and in the expo- K-14 teachers, a Video Lending Library, (Continued on page 18) 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 No. 11

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institutions he lived in. A few remained at Life of “Dmytre Z.”... the Willard museum and are now on dis- (Continued from page 15) play at the New York State Museum exhib- munity. Things were looking up. He it in Albany, along with the other contents worked in the home-building trade; she of his suitcase – photographs, books, let- worked as a nurse; and they were plan- ters, postcards, mementos and the like. ning to get a home of their own. I didn’t tell Mr. Speziale the story about Mr. Zacharuk when I asked him to photo- In gratitude to the United States for giv- ì „ÎË·ÓÍÓÏÛ ÒÏÛÚÍÛ ÔÓ‚¥‰ÓÏÎflπÏÓ, ˘Ó Û ‚¥‚ÚÓðÓÍ, ing them and other immigrants a chance at a graph his gravesite and the mural for this new life, Mr. Zacharuk built a wooden repli- story. But, not unlike my first feelings 9 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl 2004 ð. ‚¥‰¥È¯Ó‚ Û ‚¥˜Ì¥ÒÚ¸ ̇¯ ̇ȉÓðÓʘËÈ ca of his village church in 1950 and brought when I saw the Village Voice article, he ÅÄíúäé ¥ ÑßÑé it to Washington to present it to President sensed something about his subject. ·Î. Ô. Harry S. Truman. His large, 3- to 4-foot- “As I photograph the site, I begin to feel high replica remained on display at the for this man,” he wrote as he e-mailed me Displaced Persons Commission headquar- the first photographs. “I do not know why. ‰-ð éãÖÉ åàêéëãÄÇ Çéãüçëúäàâ ters in Washington for a number of years. It seems to have come alive. ... I know I Then, in 1951, their world was turned should not get involved with my subjects, „Âð·Û ◊Ämicus“ upside-down. Sophia Zacharuk died dur- (but) who was Dymetro that lived so close ̇ð. 15 Í‚¥ÚÌfl 1914 ð. ‚ äÓÎÓÏ˪, ìÍð‡ªÌ‡. ing a miscarriage, and shortly thereafter to me?” he asked. (The small, metal “tem- Dmytro began showing signs of mental porary” marker on the gravesite says èÄçÄïàÑÄ ÇßÑÅìãÄëü ‚ Ô’flÚÌˈ˛, 12 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl Ó „Ó‰. 6-¥È ‚˜. ‚ ÔÓıÓ- instability. He claimed that he was being “Dymetro Zacharuk. 1916-2000.”) persecuted, just as Jesus Christ had been, According to the Fahy Funeral Home in ðÓÌÌÓÏÛ Á‡‚‰ÂÌÌ¥ Humiston Funeral Home Û äÂð„ÓÌÍÒÓÌ¥, ç.â. and on a subsequent visit to Washington Norwich, which handled the funeral èéïéêéççß ÇßÑèêÄÇà ‚¥‰·Û‰ÛÚ¸Òfl ‚ ÒÛ·ÓÚÛ, 13 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl Ó „Ó‰. 10-¥È he claimed to be married to President arrangements, there was no family involve- ð‡ÌÍÛ ‚ ˆÂðÍ‚¥ Ò‚. íð¥Èˆ¥ Û äÂð„ÓÌÍÒÓÌ¥, ç.â. Truman’s daughter, Margaret. He was ment during the arrangements and the í¥ÎÓ èÓÍ¥ÈÌÓ„Ó ·Û‰Â ÔÓıÓ‚‡Ì ̇ ˆ‚ËÌÚ‡ð¥ Ò‚. ÑÛı‡ Û ÉÂÏÔÚÓÌ·Ûð£Û, ç.â. detained by the Secret Service, returned funeral, and the county covered the costs. to Syracuse, where he was committed to The only evidence of family is found ì ÒÏÛÚÍÛ Á‡Î˯ÂÌ¥: in letters from the late 1950s written to the Syracuse Psychiatric Hospital and, in ‰Ó˜ÍË – ãßãÖü Á ÏÛÊÂÏ ÄçÑêß∏å ÉéêçüíäÖÇàóÖå 1953, transferred to Willard. him and the administrators of Willard by – ÅéÉÑÄççÄ For his first 10 years there, the staff at Mr. Zacharuk’s brother and two sisters Willard apparently had a difficult time com- from Utoropy. It is not known if they ÒËÌË – íÄêÄë municating with him, and their attempts at have been notified about his death. – ßÉéê Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ åéêßç treating him did not produce results. In When the Rev. Kaszczak asked his – ãÖÇ Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ åÄêßâäéû 1963, however, when they brought him into parishioners about Dmytro and Sophia ‚ÌÛÍË – éãÖÉ, ëíÖîÄç, ãÖÇ, ßÇÄç an art therapy class and placed a paintbrush Zacharuk, no one could recall them. It ‚ÌÛ˜ÍË – ãÄÑÄ ÅÄëÄ in his hand, Mr. Zacharuk was transformed. was, after all, some 50 years ago, and – çßçÄ Á ÏÛÊÂÏ êéÅ äÖããß They were amazed at the change it brought even then, they were part of the commu- – ãÖëü about in him. Painting became a great nity for only a couple of years. ðÓ‰ËÌË – Çéãüçëúäàï, ÇàíÇàñúäàï release for him, they said, and he was prolif- The Rev. Kaszczak will conduct a ic, oftentimes producing a painting a day. panakhyda memorial service at St. John’s in Ú‡ ·ÎËʘ‡ ¥ ‰‡Î¸¯‡ ðÓ‰Ë̇ ‚ ÄÏÂðˈ¥, ä‡Ì‡‰¥, ìÍð‡ªÌ¥ ¥ èÓθ˘¥. Mr. Zacharuk was released from Syracuse on Monday, March 15, the fourth Ç¥˜Ì‡ âÓÏÛ Ô‡Ï’flÚ¸! Willard, after 24 years, in 1977 and trans- anniversary of Dmytro Zacharuk’s death. –––––––––––––––––––––––– ferred to a nearby country home. Ten years Frank Speziale said he would place later he was transferred again, to Preston some flowers on his grave on that day in á‡Ï¥ÒÚ¸ Í‚¥Ú¥‚ êÓ‰Ë̇ ÔðÓÒËÚ¸ ·‡Ê‡˛˜Ëı ÒÍ·‰‡ÚË ÔÓÊÂðÚ‚Ë Ì‡ Manor in Norwich, N.Y., some 50 miles Norwich. è·ÒÚ ‡·Ó ̇ ÙÓ̉ ◊Ñ¥ÚÂÈ óÓðÌÓ·ËÎfl“. southeast of Syracuse. When his condition If you happen to be driving by Norwich, worsened in 1996 he was sent across the stop by Mount Hope Cemetery and look in Pennsylvania border to the Ellen Memorial on Dmytro Zacharuk. (The cemetery is Healthcare Center in Honesdale, northeast located just south of town on the city lim- Ñ¥ÎËÏÓÒfl ÒÛÏÌÓ˛ ‚¥ÒÚÍÓ˛, ˘Ó ‚ ̉¥Î˛, 7 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl 2004 ð. of Scranton, and that is where he died on its. The gravesite is in section 40, plot 326, ‚¥‰¥È¯Ó‚ Û ‚¥˜Ì¥ÒÚ¸ ̇ 60-ÏÛ ðÓˆ¥ ÊËÚÚfl β·ËÈ Ì‡¯ March 15, 2000. just to the left of a large stone marker for óéãéÇßä, íÄíé, ÑßÑé For some reason, he was returned to Clarence Dollaway.) You may well be the Norwich for burial at Mount Hope first Ukrainian American to do so. Tell him ·Î. Ô. Cemetery. No one I spoke to could tell me we remember him, albeit belatedly, and his why, but circumstantial evidence suggests wife, Sophia, as well. ‰-ð üêÖåÄ çÖëíéê that for Mr. Zacharuk, Preston Manor had And let him hear a refrain of become his second home. His mural of the “Vichnaya pamiat...” institution adorns its entry hall, and the staff ÉÄçÑáßâ still remembers him with fondness, accord- The exhibit, “Lost Cases, Recovered ̇ð. 11 ÒÂðÔÌfl 1943 ð. Û ã¸‚Ó‚¥, ìÍð‡ªÌ‡. ing to Frank Speziale, a local photographer Lives: Suitcases from a State Hospital who helped me on this story. Attic,” will remain on display at the New èÄêÄëíÄë ‚¥‰·Û‚Òfl Û ÒÂð‰Û, 10 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl 2004 ð. Ó „Ó‰. 7:30 ‚˜. Û ÔÓıÓðÓÌÌÓÏÛ Mr. Zacharuk gave away most of his York State Museum in Albany through Á‡‚‰ÂÌÌ¥ Lytwvyn & Lytwyn ‚ ûÌ¥ÓÌ, ç. ÑÊ. paintings to staff members of the various September 19. èéïéêéççß ÇßÑèêÄÇà ‚¥‰·ÛÎËÒfl Û ˜ÂÚ‚Âð, 11 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl 2004 ð., Ó „Ó‰. 9:30 ð‡ÌÍÛ ‚ ÛÍð‡ªÌÒ¸Í¥È Í‡ÚÓÎˈ¸Í¥È ˆÂðÍ‚¥ Ò‚. ß‚‡Ì‡ ïðÂÒÚËÚÂÎfl, Whippany, NJ, ‡ ÓÔ¥ÒÎfl ̇ Pine Bush Cemetery, Kerhonkson, N.Y.

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secure an “electable place” on some Verkhovna Rada... party list in 2006. (Continued from page 2) UNIAN reported on March 5 that ing the voting threshold will fragment the nearly 60 deputies elected primarily in legislature even further than it is now, single-mandate constituencies have thus making it very problematic to form a addressed President Leonid Kuchma with viable pro-government coalition consist- an appeal to initiate a referendum to learn ing of six to eight factions. the electorate’s opinion about an all-pro- Ms. Tymoshenko said her bloc refused portional election system. They reported- to support the proportional election bill ly pledge their support for the constitu- for reasons of principal. “The law on the tional reform promoted by the pro-presi- proportional election [system] that was dential camp but simultaneously warn adopted today [March 5] is a banal bribe that an all-proportional election system that was offered to opposition forces to will be a “step back under today’s cir- ensure their support for the anticonstitu- cumstances” and will lead to “monopo- tional mutiny,” she charged. “I am stating lization of the country’s political life.” that we have never accepted bribes and The appeal also warns that a fully pro- will never vote for laws that are demo- portional election law will deform the cratic by name but in essence do not representation of regions in the leave a stone standing in the people’s Verkhovna Rada and slacken the power. The law on the proportional elec- accountability of lawmakers to the local tion [system] gives power to the clans .... electorate. Pretending to be witty and worrying It is not clear if the signatories of the about election innovations while the appeal are sufficiently resolved to vote independent press is being destroyed in against the fully proportional election bill this country is the same as worrying in its second reading. If they did so, then about the temperature of tea in a train of course the passage of the constitution- that is going off the rails.” al-reform bill would be thrown into Could Our Ukraine and the Yulia doubt. Tymoshenko Bloc prevent the final adop- Therefore, it is not out of the question tion of the proportional election bill and that now, when the preliminarily thus block constitutional reform as a approved election bill is being reviewed whole? It seems that the chance to per- by the parliamentary Constitutional suade the Socialists, let alone the Committee, the committee may introduce Communists, into voting against the pro- some “regional modifications” to the portional election bill in its current form fully proportional electoral procedure in has been lost once and for all. But there order to address the fears of deputies is still a glimmer of hope that the support elected in single-mandate constituencies for the bill will be dropped by some and thus stifle their potential rebellion. deputies from the pro-government parlia- That, in its turn, could raise objections on mentary coalition who were elected in the part of the Communist Party and the 2002 in single-mandate constituencies Socialist Party, whose ability for compro- under a first-past-the-post system. mise on the election bill seems to have Reportedly, far from all of them are been exhausted by their consent to the happy with the all-proportional election lowering of the election threshold to 3 system, fearing that they may fail to percent. No. 11 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 23 Opera diva Renata Babak recalled with special program at Embassy

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A presentation by Dr. Karl Zaininger on WASHINGTON – Malcolm Leith and Michele Suzanne Lewis accept the warm "Lecturing in Kyiv on Global Technology Management" applause of the audience following their performance of the popular Odarka-Karas duet from Hulak-Artemovsky’s opera “Zaporozhets za Dunaiem.” Their duet was part of a memorial concert held on February 19 at the Embassy of Ukraine in On Saturday, March 27, 2004 Washington in honor of the internationally known mezzo-soprano Renata Babak. at 7.30 p.m. The program featured eight soloists, former students of Ms. Babak, performing oper- atic arias, duets and art songs, and included reminiscences about the singer by her held at daughter, Natalia Kouzmina, and the noted discographer, Stefan Maksymjuk. Born in Kyiv, Ms. Babak pursued her early operatic career in the Soviet Union. She The RAMADA HOTEL defected to the West in 1973 while on tour with the Bolshoi Opera in Milan, Italy. She Rt. 10 West, East Hanover, NJ died in Silver Spring, Md., on December 31, 2003, at the age of 69. – Yaro Bihun Dr. Karl Zaininger is president and CEO of Global Technology Management Partnerships, with extensive experience in manage- Pianist Roman Rudnytsky ment strategies and technology innovation for global enterprises. journeys to Southeast Asia KOTA KINABALU, SABAH, Borneo – someone other than their music teacher. She Concert pianist Roman Rudnytsky, who was said they had never seen or heard piano on a concert tour in Southeast Asia between playing of this level before. February 27 and March 13, performed on Mr. Rudnytsky noticed that one note on Sunday, February 29, a short recital for the Kawai grand was inoperable – it was members of the royal family of the Islamic jammed. Ms. Azra told him that apparently Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam. This took the young prince likes to “bang” and place one day after his regular recital for the “pound” on the piano and that this likely Brunei Music Society in the capital, Bandar was the cause. Seri Begawan. Afterwards, Mr. Rudnytsky and Ms. Azra Mr. Rudnytsky received the invitation to were treated to a nice lunch in another room do this through a local piano teacher, Ms. of the palace. Siti Azra, with whom Mr. Rudnytsky has been acquainted for over 20 years during past Brunei recital visits. Ms. Azra, who maintains a thriving piano studio in Bandar Seri Begawan, also teaches the children of the ruling Sultan’s brother. She wanted Mr. Rudnytsky to accompa- ny her to the palace of the Sultan’s brother to play for the children: a prince, age 12, and two princesses, age 11 and 13, since she said they are somewhat lazy in their piano prac- ticing. She also wanted him to perform for them so that they would hear “what a piano really can sound like.” This palace of the Sultan’s brother stands on the grounds of the main palace of the rul- ing Sultan – the Istana Nurul Iman – which is the largest residential palace in the world (about 1,700 rooms). Mr. Rudnytsky and Ms. Azra were ush- ered into the very large Music Room and this is where the performance took place, on a Kawai grand piano situated there. Mr. Rudnytsky performed Gottschalk’s “The Banjo” and Chopin’s Etude in C sharp minor, Op. 10, No. 4. He then spoke to the royal children about the necessity of hard work and discipline in practicing. The children were very attentive and enjoyed the performance and appeared to take these comments to heart. Ms. Azra explained that it was good for the children to hear these comments from 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 No. 11 No. 11 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 25

backed by just 206 deputies, 20 votes short NEWSBRIEFS of the number required for approval, (Continued from page 2) Interfax reported. (RFE/RL Newsline) Interfax reported. Mr. Yermilov was a Kyiv, Warsaw at odds over steel mill staunch supporter of using the Odesa- Brody oil pipeline in accordance with its KYIV – Ukrainian Economy Minister original design – that is, to transport Mykola Derkach told Polish Ambassador to Caspian oil to Europe. (RFE/RL Newsline) Ukraine Marek Ziolkowski on March 4 that Ukrainian-Polish cooperation will be placed Rada fails to approve World Bank loan at risk if Ukraine’s Industrial Union of Donbas is discriminated against when the KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on March Polish steelworks Huta Czestochowa is pri- 3 fell 24 votes short of endorsing an agree- vatized, Interfax reported. The Ukrainians ment on a World Bank loan to assist the lost a tender last month for a state stake in issuance of deeds to land and the develop- Huta Czestochowa to the Indian-Dutch- ment of a land registry in Ukraine, Interfax British holding LMN and charged that the reported. The agreement envisages that the winner was selected based on political World Bank lend $195 million to Ukraine rather than economic considerations. Mr. until 2012. (RFE/RL Newsline) Derkach added that Poland’s rejection of the Broadcaster’s closure elicits concern Ukrainian bid is seen by Kyiv as a “mani- festation of ‘Ukrainophobia’ and discrimi- WASHINGTON – U.S. State nation against Ukraine.” The Polish daily Department spokesman Richard Boucher Rzeczpospolita recently reported that the on March 4 criticized Ukrainian authorities’ Ukrainian bid was turned down after decision to halt FM broadcasts by Radio Poland’s Internal Security Agency warned Kontynent, which retransmitted RFE/RL, the government that the Industrial Union of BBC, Voice of America and Deutsche Welle Donbas might be involved in money laun- programming. “The shutdown yesterday of dering, the accumulation of capital from an Radio Kontynent and the silencing of unknown origin and the promotion of RFE/RL, Voice of America, and other inter- Russian interests in Poland. (RFE/RL national broadcasters is an assault on Newsline) democracy,” Mr. Boucher said. “It is very Lazarenko trial gets under way serious in an election year in Ukraine, when the need for news from many sources is at SAN FRANCISCO – The trial of for- its greatest.” The move was also con- mer Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo demned by a number of international organ- Lazarenko began here on February 19. izations, including the London-based Mr. Lazarenko is charged with launder- Association for International Broadcasting, ing $114 million – money that he the -based Reporters Without Borders, allegedly looted from Ukrainian indus- and the Brussels-based International tries in 1994-1999 – through U.S. banks. Federation of Journalists. Meanwhile, First on the agenda was selection of Ukrainian opposition lawmaker Mykola jurors. Next, U.S. District Judge Martin Tomenko on March 4 submitted a draft res- Jenkins was to sift through videotaped olution that proposed a moratorium on all depositions by Ukrainian witnesses and checks and inspections of mass media dur- consider motions by the defense to nar- ing the forthcoming presidential election row the charges against Mr. Lazarenko. campaign in Ukraine. The measure was (San Francisco Chronicle)

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SBU, would attempt to shadow the opposi- • ÑËÚË̇ ÏÛÒËÚ¸ χÚË ÛÒ¥ ÔðËÔË̥҇ ˘ÂÔÎÂÌÌfl. Gen. Kravchenko told Deutsche Welle tion. “This is absolutely absurd,” the presi- • ÑËÚË̇, fl͇ ÒÍ·· á‡fl‚Û ÇÒÚÛÔÛ ‰Ó ÌÓ‚‡ˆÚ‚‡, Ì ÏÓÊ ·ð‡ÚË Û˜‡ÒÚË ‚ Ú‡·Óð‡ı ‰Îfl ÔÚ‡¯‡Ú. that all state institutions are being used to dent said at the press conference. “compromise the opposition and to obtain However, it is notable that the information about it.” Bohdan 퇷¥ð ‚¥‰·Û‰ÂÚ¸Òfl ̇ ëéûáßÇñß Û ‰‚Óı „ðÛÔ‡ı: Ukrainian authorities denied all of the Sokolovskyi, a former adviser to the ‚¥‰ 27 ˜Âð‚Ìfl ‰Ó 4 ÎËÔÌfl 2004 ð., Ú‡ ‚¥‰ 4 ‰Ó 11 ÎËÔÌfl 2004 ð. allegations that surfaced during the first Ukrainian embassies in the United States and second acts of Kuchmagate, and those and Germany, partially confirmed Gen. ì ÒÔð‡‚¥ Í¥ÏÌ‡Ú ÔðÓÒËÏÓ ÔÓðÓÁÛÏ¥‚‡ÚËÒfl ÔðflÏÓ Á ĉϥ̥ÒÚð‡ˆ¥π˛ ëÓ˛Á¥‚ÍË. denials were then contradicted by the Kravchenko’s allegations in an interview revival of Soviet-era jamming of Western SOYUZIVKA with Ukrainska Pravda. He said that, while radio stations that broadcast the allega- serving as a diplomat in those countries, he Ukrainian National Association Estate tions. In the wake of the latest scandal, was followed by individuals he believes P.O. Box 529, Kerhonkson, NY 12446 • (845) 626-5641 Deutsche Welle’s Ukrainian FM rebroad- were SBU agents. Mr. Sokolovskyi char- caster, Radio Kontynent, issued a state- acterized Gen. Kravchenko, whom he • 퇷ÓðÓ‚‡ ÓÔ·ڇ: — $85.00 ¥ $5.00 ðÂπÒÚð‡ˆ¥ÈÌ (ÌÂÁ‚ÓðÓÚÌÂ); ÓÔ·ڇ Á‡ ‰‚‡ ment claiming that the station was knew while serving in Germany as “with- ÚËÊÌ¥ 175.00 ‰ÓÎ. jammed on February 19 through the use of out doubt a conscientious and patriotically • á„ÓÎÓ¯ÂÌÌfl ¥ Ú‡·ÓðÓ‚Û ÓÔ·ÚÛ (˜ÂÍ ‚ËÔËÒ‡ÌËÈ Ì‡ Plast — Pershi Stezhi) ̇‰ÒË·ÚË “methods that were used in Soviet times” inclined Ukrainian citizen.” After this ‰Ó: when it aired Kravchenko’s interview. interview he was released from his duties Mrs. Oksana B. Koropeckyj, 1604 Forest Park Ave., Baltimore, MD 21207. Gen. Kravchenko’s allegations, if true, by the Foreign Affairs Ministry. Tel. (410) 744-0644 (7:30 ‰Ó 9:30 ‚˜.) would not come as a surprise. Western Ironically, the latest development in the • ê˜Â̈¸ Á„ÓÎÓ¯Â̸: èÂ𯇠„ðÛÔ‡: 24 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl 2004 ð. NGOs working in Ukraine have claimed Kuchmagate saga coincides with the pur- ÑðÛ„‡ „ðÛÔ‡: 31 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl 2004 ð. that they are routinely followed by the ported promulgation on February 18 of an • óËÒÎÓ Û˜‡ÒÌËÍ¥‚ Ó·ÏÂÊÂÌÂ. SBU. The International Republican as-yet-unpublished presidential decree Institute told the Kyiv Post in January that that Mr. Kuchma has described as ensur- äÄêíÄ áÉéãéòÖççü çÄ íÄÅßê èíÄòÄí- 2004 its staff believed they were being tailed as ing the “de-KGB-ization” of Ukrainian they traveled around Ukraine and suspect- state structures through the removal of ßÏ’fl ¥ Ôð¥Á‚ˢ ‰ËÚËÌË ...... ed their telephones were tapped. During SBU officers. This step, according to the ÔÓ-ÛÍð‡ªÌÒ¸ÍË ¥ ÔÓ-‡Ì„Î¥ÈÒ¸ÍË elections, Ukrainian drivers and inter- чڇ ̇ðÓ‰ÊÂÌÌfl ...... president, will contribute to the process of preters used by foreign OSCE observers, democratization in Ukraine. ĉðÂÒ‡...... who are officially invited to Ukraine, are It is, however, widely believed to be rou- íÂÎÂÙÓÌ...... regularly questioned as to whom the tine practice for such decrees to be ignored observers meet and what they talk about. or even countermanded by secret instruc- K ‚¥‰ 27 ˜Âð‚Ìfl ‰Ó 4 ÎËÔÌfl 2004 ð. K ‚¥‰ 4 ‰Ó 11 ÎËÔÌfl 2004 ð. Western intelligence services have also tions (such as the “temnyky” through noticed that SBU officers working out of ÇÂ΢Ë̇ Ú‡·ÓðÓ‚Óª ÒÓðÓ˜ËÌÍË ‰ËÚËÌË: K 6-8, K 10-12, K 14-16. which the presidential administration con- embassies abroad have begun to collect trols state and private television coverage) K á‡ÎÛ˜Û˛ ˜ÂÍ Ì‡ ÒÛÏÛ $...... K êÂÁÂð‚Û˛ Í¥Ï̇ÚÛ Ì‡ ëÓ˛Á¥‚ˆ¥ information on members of the Ukrainian or Soviet-style “telephone law.” The scale diaspora who make a habit of criticizing of the deception can be seen when secret ...... the present leadership in Ukraine. instructions issued by the presidential ßÏ’fl ¥ Ôð¥Á‚Ë˘Â Ï‡ÚÂð¥ (ÔÓ‰‡ÚË ‰¥‚Ә Ôð¥Á‚ˢÂ) Since President Kuchma was re-elect- administration to undermine the opposition ᇂ‚‡„Ë...... ed in 1999, Ukrainian oppositionists and or media freedom are leaked. Only after former diplomats have also complained complaints are made are decrees issued to ...... that they are followed by the SBU and investigate the very same infringements ...... their telephones are tapped. that the leaked instructions ordered. Parliamentary deputies have found listen- If Gen. Kravchenko’s claims pan out, 襉ÔËÒ ·‡Ú¸Í‡ ‡·Ó χÚÂð¥ ing devices in their offices. When he has revealed the degree of legal Ukrainian parliamentarians went to nihilism that pervades the very top of the Prague to meet Mr. Melnychenko in late Ukrainian leadership. No. 11 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 27

The BBG’s own website (www.bbg.gov) The Bush administration... notes that one of its members “helped (Continued from page 8) launch Fox News Sunday” and worked as for the Internet, a better approach for Mr. a vice president for a cosmetic, toiletries Jackson and the BBG to take would be to and fragrance association foundation- complement, and not supplant, existing such “qualifications,” frankly, pretty VOA radio programming, which remains much speak for themselves. more widely accessible to Ukrainians. Under current law the BBG exists an independent body, but its decisions should As Mr. Jackson and presumably the at least be in line with the administration’s BBG assure us, however, VOA’s New Year’s resolutions. If anything, U.S. Ukrainian Service “will be well posi- radio broadcasts to Ukraine should be tioned to provide full multi-media cover- increased rather than diminished. age of this year’s presidential elections, Should anyone still doubt the gravity both in the United States and Ukraine. ...” of the situation in Ukraine, the state- What does “well-positioned” mean in this ments made by Mr. Yushchenko on context? By the looks of it, it means that February 18, are well worth noting: the BBG would like to be able to report “Ukraine has turned into a lawless and back to Congress that VOA’s Ukrainian undemocratic state. ... I think that only Service has gone “multi-media.” the people who do not know what the However, what the BBG probably Voice of America is and how important won’t mention is that in order to be able the position of this radio station is for to experiment with political television providing objective and timely informa- and the Internet it will have to decimate tion to the people of Ukraine can make VOA Ukrainian radio programming, such [a] decision, ... taking the latest which happens to be the one vehicle that developments at Radio ... into considera- has proven itself effective in penetrating tion, it becomes clear that this is how Ukraine’s restricted media environment. independent mass media are [currently] The BBG might counter that VOA is being pressured and persecuted.” not the only U.S. media outlet that broad- casts to Ukraine. The other one is Radio Liberty (RL), but that service also has sus- tained some cuts. More unfortunate, how- ever, is that its programming has just been dropped from its FM affiliate network in Ukraine, relegating its presence mostly to shortwave. Coincidentally, the network that carried RL programming on FM in Ukraine had just come under new manage- ment. Its new boss is said to be an associ- ate of President Kuchma’s chief of staff. VOA’s FM affiliate network in Ukraine, unlike RL’s, is somewhat more diversified in that it consists of stations that are not under a central management structure. This might help it survive on FM airwaves a little longer, but as opposition forces in Ukraine point out, efforts to muzzle the country’s remaining independent media outlets ahead of the presidential elections in October, have really just begun (the campaign does not start until May). And, if VOA, like RL, ends up getting kicked off FM airwaves in Ukraine, there will all the more reason to strengthen the presence of both broadcasters on shortwave – a medium that has proven it can go far in penetrating the high walls built by regimes afraid of a free and open press. Cutting back on U.S. international radio transmis- sions like VOA only helps rulers like Mr. Kuchma to keep those walls in place. The fact that the BBG seems to have somehow missed all of this and that it is currently investing monies and human resources into projects that, unlike radio, will have little or no impact in a restricted media environment like Ukraine’s raises some serious questions as to whether an appointed, part-time body of what appears to be a group of domestic media executives with limited foreign policy backgrounds can effectively run the U.S. international broadcasting establishment.

Myroslaw Prokop... (Continued from page 4) and in 1973 he became the head of the Prolog Research Institute. Dr. Prokop was a true Ukrainian patri- ot whose compassion and comradeship was respected by all. He leaves behind his wife and soul-mate of 57 years, Luba, and two daughters, Chrystyna and Lida. Burial services were held on December 12, 2003, at St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery in South Bound Brook, N.J. Donations in memo- ry of Dr. Prokop have been requested for: the Patriarchal Sobor in Kyiv, Litopys UPA or The Ukrainian Museum in New York. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 No. 11 No. 11 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 29

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A trip to Ukraine: learning about my heritage, and myself by Roxanna Kobziar grandmother had assigned them. They know no other life. The She twirled the wool with her Ukrainian people do not have many wrinkled hands, straightening and options. flattening each piece. She reached The woman smiled proudly, as I for another piece from the heap and took a few pictures. I should have did the same thing, placing it onto a asked her more questions, or told pile of flattened wool. Two of her her that I have a few rugs like hers granddaughters were working the at home. spindle, while another child took I should have asked her where I the pile of flattened wool and began could find some perogies [varenyky]. to sort through it. If you don’t know how great a pero- The elderly woman stood up from gie tastes, I suggest you drive right the chair, stretched her arms, and down to your local Ukrainian sat back down. She must have been kitchen and try one. Those deli- about 90 years old and nearly blind. cious, dumpling-type morsels were However, her eyes were wise and the original reason I agreed to go on full of knowledge, and her hands a camping trip to Ukraine. I was were wrinkled and sore. She squint- hoping to eat them everyday. ed at the wool which she started to My grandparents played a key An elderly woman weaves wool in Ukraine. smooth again; her hands shook as role in my decision to go, talking rate them into a menu of an ordinary they didn’t seem to be unhappy. she handed it to her granddaughter. about “going to see the mother restaurant. Where in America could And, as I sit here typing on my I sat there in silence, as I country” and “seeing the land of you go and not find a hamburger? computer, listening to music, with watched her granddaughter begin to your ancestors,” words that I have *** the TV blaring in the background, I feed the wool through the loom, and been familiar with since I was a can’t help but think that the majori- manually stitch each intricate knot. child. I contemplated for days My grandparents had instilled in ty of the Ukrainian population has I watched the older woman as she whether or not I had made the right me an idealized vision of Ukraine, none of these things. I suppose it calmly and methodically went choice. I was worried that I would and that vision was nurtured over doesn’t matter to them, the material about her job. I couldn’t help think- disappoint my family if I didn’t see the years by the influences of my things are not as important as most ing that she would have been Ukraine in the glorified way that Ukrainian school teachers, and even Americans would seem to think. placed in a nursing home if she had was expected of me. my parents. When I finally arrived, Families, love, laughter, friendship, lived in America. I kept coming back to one single my fears became a certainty when are important. I was really able to I questioned my own work ethic thought. If I was going to Ukraine, my impression of Ukraine was sure- see what was significant in life, and as I watched the woman, doubting I’d be eating the trademark of ly not that glamorous image every- what really matters to me. that I would ever work so hard and Ukrainian food, right? But when I one had hoped I would find. I left home thinking about pero- long on something. Wool weaving got there, I found no perogies. I met many different people gies. However, I left Ukraine think- was, is, and will continue to be her Apparently Ukrainians are not as along the way, who taught me so ing about who I was. Perogies didn’t life, until she is able to pass on her fond of perogies as I am, and not much about who I am as a seem to matter anymore. responsibilities to her granddaugh- only have they failed to construct Ukrainian American. They made What did matter? It was me trying ters. They are youthful and ener- perogie restaurants in Ukraine, but me question my priorities in life to go on with this trip by taking in getic, carrying out the tasks their they have even neglected to incorpo- and who I was going to become everything I saw and heard. I felt as when I grew up. My heritage is if I understood my heritage better, incredibly full of wonderful tradi- and finally understood why my tions, which I still uphold, and plan grandparents taught me to be so to continue to do so. proud of who I am. Perhaps I had Though the world around her is interpreted that whole idealized view changing, the elderly woman contin- incorrectly – the view was not about ues the tradition of rug making. We as the country itself, but more about the Americans have become so influ- values and attitudes of the people. enced and consumed by television I may have left Ukraine not eat- that it has taken priority over the real ing a true Ukrainian perogie, but I backbone of our country – the tradi- left knowing myself. tions and culture that make Americans different from the rest of Roxanna Kobziar is a senior at the world. In Ukraine I had peered Pelham Memorial High School and a into the true Ukrainian lifestyle. I saw member of the New York branch of the poverty in the cities and the rich Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organiza- gardens of the cottages in the country tion. In the fall she will be attend Roxanna Kobziar (second from left) and friends during the International Plast Jamboree which brought her to Ukraine during the summer of 2002. villages. I saw suffering people, yet Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. No. 11 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004 31 Iskra Dance Ensemble performs Mishanyna To solve this month’s Mishanyna, find the words capitalized in the follow- at 13th annual International Dinner ing text in the grid below. by Karen Chelak “vinky.” It was pointed out to the MARCH is traditionally celebrated by Ukrainians around the globe as crowd before the dance that the LIVINGSTON, N.J. – The Iskra the month of Taras SHEVCHENKO. This year’s celebrations are particu- central region of Ukraine, from Ukrainian Dance Ensemble of larly noteworthy as it was 190 years ago that Ukraine’s greatest POET, was which the dance originates, was one Whippany, N.J., under the artistic born. of the hardest hit by the Famine- direction of Roma Pryma Shevchenko was born on March 9, 1814, in MORYNTSI, in the Kyiv Genocide of 1932-1933, but the region of UKRAINE, which was then under the rule of the Russian Bohachevsky performed at the 13th dance’s joy and vitality shows that EMPIRE. He was born a serf – basically a slave who was owed by a annual International Dinner held at the spirit of the Ukrainian people landowner just like property – and grew up in POVERTY. Newark Academy on January 30. has survived. When his owner noticed Shevchenko’s artistic TALENT he sent him to The gymnasium of the school, a The crowd responded with thun- be an apprentice to an artist in St. Petersburg, Russia. As a result, private institution for children from derous and prolonged applause Shevchenko met other artists and writers, including fellow Ukrainians. His the sixth to the 12th grades, was after the performance and many new friends bought him out of serfdom, and Shevchenko was able to enroll bedecked with flags from all over in the Academy of FINE ARTS in St. Petersburg. members of the organizing commit- the world, including that of In 1840 Shevchenko published his first collection of poetry, the tee asked Iskra to please return Ukraine. Iskra opened the enter- KOBZAR. Other works followed, for example, the EPIC poem tainment portion of the program next year. “Haidamaky” and the BALLAD “Hamalia.” with the fast-paced “Bukovyna.” As The entire Ukrainian community Shevchenko was able to travel back to Ukraine and these visits had a the dancers entered the gym, peo- should be proud of these dancers great influence on him as he saw the suffering of his NATION. He began ple’s mouths dropped at the beauty for helping to enlighten other to write more satirical and politically sensitive works. of the unusual costumes. The head- Americans about the beauty of In 1846 he joined a SECRET society called the Brotherhood of Ss. Cyril pieces, with their fringe and grass Ukrainian culture and its unique and Methodius and soon thereafter he was arrested by authorities of the coming out of the top, dazzled the place in world history. Russian tsarist regime. The discovery of his poems, many of which were crowd. Participating senior Iskra troupe critical of the TSAR, resulted in him being sentenced to serve military DUTY in a REMOTE area near the Caspian Sea. But worst of all was the After the crowd was entertained members were: Nicole Berezny, tsar’s ORDER that Shevchenko be prevented from writing or painting. with Scottish bagpipes and African Anna Chelak, Lara Chelak, Deanna Nonetheless, Shevchenko continued to do both, although in secret. Rakowsky, Katya Syzonenko and drum rhythms, Iskra returned to Shevchenko was finally released in 1857, but he was not allowed to Danny Walchuk. Special thanks to perform a rousing rendition of the return to his native Ukraine. He was allowed to make one visit to Ukraine “Hopak” in beautiful costumes guest artists Yarko Dobriansky and in 1859, but was once again ARRESTED and sent back to St. Petersburg, from the Poltava region: royal blue Christopher Kovalchick, members where he remained under police watch until he died on March 10, 1861. velvet korsetky, billowing “shar- of Syzokryli, who performed in the Taras Shevchenko INSPIRED his contemporaries and those who came avary” and brightly beribboned “Hopak.” after him with his ideas about an INDEPENDENT Ukraine. He is known as the GREAT awakener of the people of Ukraine as his works raised the national consciousness of his people. That is why, each year in March we remember Shevchenko as the NATIONAL BARD of Ukraine.

S S E C R E T A R A N O N D E H E I R D E T S E R R A I E M E P O V E R T Y O U T R I R P E V R O N O U T S I D R E I I T O A R A S T I O F O D S P R N G Z A P I A N U R R I O S E E U B M O D L E R O D E L N T Iskra dancers: (front row, from left) Christopher Kovalchick, Daniel Walchuk, D E O O K N E H C V E H S I S Yarko Dobriansky, (back row) Katya Syzonenko, Anna Chelak, Deanna Rakowsky, Nicole Berezny and Lara Chelak. N U K R A I N E G E G E A T I E U R Y I R T E T R B W R O D P R E N I D I S B A B A A L T E D M T I V A I L L E Y T O N D R O S L I V L A N O R T H E N A T I O N A L I U R U G U E I B E E N D E F E A T E D O D

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Thursday, March 18 the public to attend the “International Conference on Polish-Ukrainian Relations: Soyuzivka’s Datebook SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J.: The Past, Present, Future.” The conference will Committee for Aid to Ukraine, Central New March 20, 2004 April 19-21, 2004 feature scholars and politicians from Poland, Jersey branch, invites the public to a meet- Grace Church Men’s Retreat Spring Clergy Days Ukraine and North America. Presentations ing with Prof. Oleksandr Pronkevych, dean April 21-23, 2004 will begin at 2 p.m. on Friday and 12:30 p.m. of Petro Mohyla Mykolaiv State University March 27-28, 2004 SUNY New Paltz on Saturday in Room 1501 of the of Humanities, who will address the topic International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th “Cooking in the Ukrainian Tradition” – Migrant Special Education “Spiritual Apathy in Ukraine.” The meeting – sponsored by Kurin Spartanky. Program St. For the schedule see the online calendar will be held at 7 p.m. in the small Parish www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/REGIONAL/H, Open to parents and children Hall, adjacent to St. Andrew’s Memorial 15 and older. May 7-9, 2004 e-mail [email protected] or call (212) Church, off Main Street. For information 854-4697. 2nd Annual call (908) 534-6683 or (908) 755- 8156. March 27-28, 2004 Friday-Sunday, March 26-28 Cinco De Mayo Festivities Saturday, March 20 Brooklyn Ukrainian Group SLOATSBURG, N.Y.: The League of – Spring Cleaning Volunteer May 14, 2004 NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Ukrainian Catholics is sponsoring its 26th Weekend Ellenville High School Junior Prom Society invites the public to a roundtable on annual Lenten Retreat at St. Mary’s Villa “Ukrainian-Spanish Relations in Liter- Retreat Center. The retreat theme is “The April 10, 2004 May 15, 2004 ature.” Prof. Oleksander Pronkevych of the Eucharist: Our Lives Being Transformed.” Petro Mohyla Mykolaiv State University of The retreat director is the Rev. Dr. Mark Easter Celebration and Easter Brunch Wedding – Stephan Kowalczuk Humanities and a Fulbright Fellow at the and Alex Raut Morozowich, Catholic University of University of Michigan, will be the featured America, Washington. The Rev. Morozowich April 17, 2004 speaker on the subject “Spanish Literature Wedding – Nancy Medwid May 28-31, 2004 recently completed his doctorate at the and the Formation of the Ukrainian Nation.” Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome under and Jonathan McFall Memorial Day Weekend He will be joined by Dr. Yuriy Tarnawsky the direction of the Rev. Robert Taft, S.J. The BBQ & Dance and Prof. Vasyl Makhno as the discussants. nominal fee of $110 covers accommodations The roundtable will take place at the soci- from Friday night through Sunday, and meals ety’s building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between on Saturday and Sunday. For additional Ninth and 10th streets) at 5 p.m. For addi- information and/or reservations contact tional information call (212) 254-5130. Marion C. Hrubec, 400 Dewey Ave., Saddle Brook, NJ 07663-5902 or call (202) 843- CHICAGO: The Shevchenko Scientific 3960. Checks should be made payable to the Society (Ukrainian acronym, NTSh), Chicago League of Ukrainian Catholics. Branch, invites the public to a conference on the occasion of 130th anniversary of the Sunday, March 28 scholarly organization. The conference will HOLLYWOOD, Calif.: The Ukrainian take place at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, Arts Studio presents the “Ukrainian Spring 2247 W. Chicago Ave., beginning at 10 a.m. Festival” to be held at noon- 5 p.m., at 4315 The program will include opening remarks by Melrose Ave. Featured will be pysanky Dr. Larrysa Z. Onyshkevych, president, demonstrations, exhibits and sale; a display NTSh-America; and presentations by Drs. of Ukrainian regional crafts; and a Ukrainian Daria Markus, Myron Kuropas, Bohdan church architecture photography exhibit. Rubchak, Dmytro Shtohryn, Oleksiy Performing at the festival will be the Konoval, George Hrycelak and Pavlo Pundy. Chervona Kalyna folk dance ensemble, An exhibit of NTSh publications will be on under the direction of Andrij Bachynsky. display. Admission: $10, (fee includes lunch). There will be live folk instrumental music; To attend, call 1-773-777-0905 by March 13. traditional Ukrainian fare will be served for CHICAGO: The Chicago Business and lunch. Suggested donations: $5, adults; $3, seniors and children. The Ukrainian Arts Professional Group is sponsoring a presenta- Studio is a non-profit organization, operating tion by Anne Applebaum titled “The Gulag: under the auspices of the Los Angeles-based What We Know Now and Why It Matters.” A Ukrainian Culture Center Inc., that provides columnist and member of the editorial board folk arts programs for interested youth. For of The Washington Post, Ms. Applebaum is information contact Linda Mudlo at (310) author of “Gulag: A History,” the first up-to- 505-0286 or [email protected]. date scholarly study of the central terror insti- tution of the Soviet regime. Ms. Applebaum Saturday, March 27 will discuss the experience of individuals and EAST HANOVER, N.J.: The Ukrainian national groups in the forced labor camps and Engineers’ Society of America (UESA), New examine the disturbing question of why the Jersey Chapter, and the Ukrainian American Gulag has remained relatively obscure in the Professionals and Businesspersons West. The presentation will be held at the Association of New York and New Jersey Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 2320 W. invite the public to a presentation by Dr. Karl Chicago Ave., at 7 p.m. Books will be avail- Zaininger titled “Lecturing in Kyiv on Global able for purchase at the event. Refreshments Technology Management.” The presentation and socializing will follow. Admission: $10, will be held at the Ramada Inn, 130 Route 10 members; $15, non-members and guests. For (westbound) starting at 7:30 p.m.; telephone, Easter Greetings 2004 information call (847) 359-3676. (973) 386-5622. Dr. Zaininger is president Monday, March 22 and CEO of Global Technology Management Partnerships, and has extensive CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard experience in management strategies and Ukrainian Research Institute will host a lec- technology innovation for global enterprises. SendContinue best wishes toyour your family tradition. and friends, ture by Liliana Hentosh, research associate Refreshments will be served. For more infor- colleagues and clients on the occasion of Easter and deputy director, Institute for Historical mation contact Andrij Wowk at (908) 240- Research, Ivan Franko National University, 4192 or by e-mail at [email protected], or with a greeting in The Ukrainian Weekly. Lviv, and Fulbright Visiting Scholar, HURI, visit the UESA website at www.uesa.org. titled“The Vatican and Nation-Building in Eastern Europe, 1914-1922.” The lecture ONGOING will be held in the institute’s Seminar Room, Thursdays-Sundays, March 5-21 Holiday Issue Publication Date Advertising Deadline 1583 Massachusetts Ave., at 4-6 p.m. For information contact HURI at (617) 495- NEW YORK: La MaMa Experimental 4053 or [email protected]. Theatre and Yara Arts Group present “The Friday, March 26 Warrior’s Sister” – a new theater piece based a Buryat epic song about the sister of a leg- CHICAGO: The Ukrainian National endary warrior who puts on his armor when April 4 March 22 Museum in Chicago presents the Northwest he is killed. This piece is created by director String Quartet, in an inaugural performance Virlana Tkacz with Sayan and Erzhena under the direction of Michael Holian. The Zhambalov; designer is Watoku Ueno; 1/16 page – $35; 1/8 page – $50; concert program will feature works by Kos- music is by Emilio China, performed by 1/4 page – $100; 1/2 page – $200; full page – $400 Anatolskyj, Lysenko, Barvinsky and Eunice Wong, Andrew Colteaux Bayarto Mendelssohn as performed by Daria Endonov, Hettienne Park, Meredith Wright All advertising correspondence, reservations and payments should be directed Horodyskyj and Vera Chytra Mucha, violin; and Victor Zhalsanov. The piece is per- to Mrs. Maria Oscislawski, advertising manager, tel. 973-292-9800, ext. 3040, Michael Holian, viola; and Jurij Yatsynych, formed in English in a translation by Ms. cello. The concert will be held at the muse- Tkacz, Mr. Zhambalov and Wanda Phipps. or Walter Honcharyk, administrator, tel. 973-292-9800, ext. 3041. um, 2249 W. Superior St., at 7:15 p.m. For Tickets; $15. Performances are Thursday- Kindly make checks payable to The Ukrainian Weekly. information call (312) 421-8020. Sunday at 8 p.m., with matinees on Sunday Please send payment to: at 3 p.m. La MaMa is located at 74 E. Fourth Friday-Saturday, March 26-27 The Ukrainian Weekly, Att’n Advertising Department St.; telephone, (212) 475-7710; website, P.O. Box 280, 2200 Route 10, Parsippany, NJ 07054 NEW YORK: Columbia University invites http://www.brama.com/yara.