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INSIDE: Our year-end issue, "7989: A LOOK BACK." Ukrainian Week v Vol. LVII No. 53 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31,1989 50 cents 30,000 in Kiev Catholic congregations continue to register in Ukraine many formerly Russian Orthodox and Catholic Churches. match in support Russian Orthodox Church, churches are already functioning as In Rome, Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Vatican officials to meet Ukrainian Catholic in anticipation of Lubachivsky, head of the Ukrainian of Rumanians registration. Catholic Church, issued the following ROME — The number of parishes in statement. In related news, Agence France MOSCOW — Thirty thousand Ukraine which are currently func­ Presse reported on December 27 that *** people demonstrated in Kiev, capital of tioning as Ukrainian Catholic, the the Russian Orthodox Church is to Ukraine, on Sunday, December 24, in number of congregations currently negotiate with the Vatican next month I have said before publicly that the support of the Rumanian people's without churches which are awaiting over what the ROC described as "oc­ faithful of the Ukrainian Catholic struggle for freedom, reported Agence registration, and the number of Russian cupation" of its churches by Uniates, or Church in Ukraine have not used France Presse, citing sources in Mos­ Orthodox nrtests which have joined the Ukrainian Catholics. violence in any form against Russian cow. Ukrainian Catholic Church continue to Archbishop Kirill said that a Vatican Orthodox clergy and faithful in U- AFP noted that demonstrators grow. delegation will be in Moscow on Ja­ kraine. I have received this information marched through the streets of Kiev and Ukrainian Catholic Church officials nuary 14-17 to discuss the matter. He from correspondents from the interna­ observed a moment of silence for in Rome were told in a telephone also said that the ROC would be tional news media who have been victims of the bloodshed that followed conversation the evening of December . prepared to envisage the legalization of visiting Ukraine in the past weeks and the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu. 21 that over 300 churches are currently the Uniate Church, "despite the violent from our hierarchy, clergy and faithful Anatoliy Dotsenko of the Ukrainian functioning as Ukrainian Catholic, action" of the Uniates. in Ukraine. The fact that no violence is Helsinki Union in Moscow said that a 600 to 6S0 congregations have register­ being used has also been reported message of support was sent by the ed with Soviet officials for recognition Lubachivsky responds several times on Soviet television and demonstrators to the new provisional and over 200 formerly Russian Ortho­ has been supported by the mayor of government in Rumania. dox priests have asked to become On December 19 Archbishop Kirill of L.viv, Bohdan. JCotyk« J?jJ[ringr%..$d^'On In related news, TASS reported that Ukrainian Catholic priests and have Srnolensk and Kaliningrad, the newiy this very issue, a Soviet judge in Lviv a train loaded with medical and emer­ been accepted by a Ukrainian Catholic appointed head of the Department of also found that no violence has oc­ gency supplies was waiting at the border bishop. External Church Relations for the curred. between the Moldavian SSR and Ru­ Following the recounting of these Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian I can only say that lam disheartened mania, and that a government commit­ statistics, the telephone line was cut and Orthodox Church (ROC), made public that my Russian Orthodox brothers in tee in Kishinev* capital of Moldavia, a second call to Ukraine could not be a declaration of the Holy Synod of the Christ persist in these unfounded ac­ had sent a message of support to the put through. Operators in Rome were Russian Orthodox Church and made cusations. I had hoped that a spirit of Rumanian National Salvation Com­ told by Soviet operators that the tele­ several statements about the Ukrainian Christian love would result from the mittee, which has announced an interim phone number was suddenly out of Catholic Church which were reported steps toward normalization of our government until free elections can be order, reported the Ukrainian Catholic by the Soviet news agency TASS. In the Church in Ukraine rather than the held. Press Bureau. declaration and in Archbishop Kirill's situation which is now resulting. ALP also reported that in Kiro- statement, allegations are repeated that The Council for Religious Affairs of I would like to make the following vohrad, Ukraine, the public had do­ Ukrainian Catholics are using violence Ukraine had announced on December points in response to the declaration of nated 120 liters of blood for the wound­ against Russian Orthodox faithful, are 1 that Eastern rite Catholics in the Holy Synod and in response to the ed in Rumania. Authorities were still forcing Russian Orthodox faithful to Ukraine had been granted the right to statements of His Excellency Arch­ trying to work out the logistics of sign registration requests, and are officially register their congregations. bishop Kirill of Smolensk and Kalinin­ shipping the blood to Rumania. causing enmity between the Orthodox Registration is increasing each day, and grad: 1. No violence has been perpetrated Ukrainian Canadians prepare to mark centennial by Ukrainian Catholic clergy or faithful in Ukraine in conjunction with the by Chris Guly will include a re-enactment of the in Pennsylvania two decades earlier. registration of formerly Russian Ortho­ landing of the first immigrants. It will A series of hall-of-fame dinners will dox parishes as Ukrainian Catholic. OTTAWA — Films, a summer coincide with a national meeting of be held across the country, with the 2. The re-registration of formerly musical troupe, art exhibits, a youth the Ukrainian Business and major event taking place in Toronto Russian Orthodox parishes as Ukrai­ exchange, family homecomings and Professional Federation of Canada. in March 1992. Throughout the year, nian Catholic is not an ejection of one even a forest are some of the events In September 1891, Ivan Pylypiw 100 living and 100 deceased group of parishioners from their church planned to mark the centennial of the and Wasyl Elyniak arrived in Halifax individuals will be honored for their by another group, but the declaration of first Ukrainian immigrants arriving to scout land suitable for immigrant contributions to the Ukrainian a single group of parishioners of their in Canada in 1991 to 1992. settlement. However, it's believed Canadian mosaic. true faith as Ukrainian Catholic. In an exclusive interview, that some Ukrainian fought in the The centennial commission will 3. Realizing one's right to religious Zorianna Hyworon, national co- War of 1812 and records indicate mark Canada's 125th birthday on freedom through registration with the chairperson of the Ukrainian that the first Ukrainian may have July 1, 1992, by holding regional state authorities does not constitute Canadian Centennial Commission, arrived in North America as early as celebrations from Sydney, Nova state interference in religious affairs. said that plans were introduced at the 1608 somewhere in Virginia. Scotia, to Victoria, British Rather, it is a means through which recent 16th triennial Ukrainian As an example of what the Columbia. The centenary year will believers can establish their religious Canadian Congress (UCC) held in commission means by having a officially close in October 1992 in preference and preserve their rights as Winnipeg on October 9. The year will Ukrainian connection, the Eleniak Winnipeg at the 17th triennial Soviet citizens under current few. feature "programs that are family has successfully traced 1,500 Ukrainian Canadian Congress. The 4. The Russian Orthodox Church community-based, have a grass­ people in its family tree. In 1988, first Ukrainian Canadian Youth has not decried the fact that the state roots focus and will involve every there were nearly 1 million people of Congress will be launched to has regulated religious activity until Canadian with a 'Ukrainian Ukrainian descent living in Canada coincide with the UCC meeting. now, when the Soviet government is connection." That means in-laws, — 59 percent of those living on the Based on their first meeting held in permitting Ukrainian Catholic congre­ people living in a predominantly prairies. December 1988, the 10-member gations to register. Ukrainian Canadian region of the The official launch of the commission hopes to focus on three 5. The Russian Orthodox Church country, friends, neighbors and co­ centennial year is scheduled for themes during the centennial: has taken advantage of the current laws workers." September 1991 in Edmonton, near commemorating and honoring the to register many formerly Ukrainian Hie centennial year will be Edna-Star, the site of the first past, celebrating the present and Catholic parishes as Russian Orthodox. launched on Canada Day, July 1, permanent settlement in June 1892. creating a vision for the future. Yet now, when the members of these 1991, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Similar settlements were established (Continued on page 3) parishes are choosing freely to return to (Continued on pag^ 2) Supreme Soviet member speaks Change in Polish view of nationalities by Dr. Roman Solchanyk of the national minority issue in Po­ about draft law on religion land may well raise expectations among MUNICH — The Ukrainian-lan­ Ukrainians, the largest ethnic minority by Ted Okada "The provision," Ms. Shelley con­ guage weekly Nashe Slovo, published in the country, that the Polish govern­ News Network International tinued, "of the more liberal version of by the Ukrainian Social-Cultural So­ ment will repudiate "Akcja Wisla," the law on freedom of conscience, ciety in Warsaw, reported in its Decem­ — the 1947 mass deportation of Ukrai­ WASHINGTON - In a recent un­ published in the official journal Soviet- ber 3 issue that the "coordination" of nians from their traditional homelands precedented hearing before the U.S. skoye Gosudarstvo i Pravo, have as yet the activities of Poland's national in the southeastern part of the country Helsinki Commission, a progressive to be incorporated into the legislation to minority organizations has been trans­ to the so-called recovered territories in member of the newly elected Supreme be considered by the commission. ferred from the Ministry of Internal the north and west. Such a step was Soviet testified that substantial im­ Without such changes Soviet citizens Affairs to the Ministry of Culture and recently taken by the USSR Supreme provements in Soviet human rights will still be limited in their abilitv to Art. . •? Soviet with regard to nationalities progress are inevitable. provide children with religious instruc­ Stated differently, what this means is deported by Stalin during the war. tion." that for the first time since the end of the Fyodor Buriatsky, chairman of the On the question of the legalization of war the national question in Poland will In this connection, it is interesting to Subcommittee on Humanitarian, Scien­ the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Mr. no longer be treated as a police issue but note that during a recent roundtable tific and Cultural Cooperation of the Buriatsky reiterated the view, as ex­ rather as a political problem. The discussion on Polish-Ukrainian rela­ Internal Affairs Committee of the pressed in a previous interview with announcement was made on November tions organized by the Warsaw Catholic Supreme Soviet, said on November 28 News Network International, that full 10 by Deputy Minister of Culture weekly Lad (October 29), one of the that recent acceptance of draft laws legalization of the Church will occur. Stefan Starczewski during a meeting participants, citing the influential role conforming to Helsinki agreements "The question of the Uniate Church," with the leadership of the Ukrainian, played by Soviet "advisers" in post-war "shows the measure of progress between he said, "is one of the difficult ques­ Byelorussian, Jewish, Lithuanian, and Poland, argued that the decision to the U.S. and the Soviet Union." He tions in the relationship between the Slovak cultural-educational societies. deport the Ukrainians in 1947 "was not added "Many of the violations have Orthodox and the Catholic Church." been corrected." This first step in the "normalization" made by Poles." "We as a legislative group," Mr. Mr. Buriatsky, 62, heads the Su­ Buriatsky said, "consider that we can preme Soviet committee responsible for help conduct dialogue between the two Kiev meeting honors Sakharov addressing human rights issues. As a Churches. And we have included in the LONDON — A meeting dedicated to Speakers condemned the inhumane member of the Constitutional Commis­ law the recognition of every Church the memory of Dr. Andrei Sakharov, system, which the deceased had fought sion he is also responsible for the draft­ including the Uniate." academician and human rights cam­ against. There were calls to rename ing of "new laws" on human rights Joseph Stalin forcibly dismantled the paigner and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, squares and streets in honor of Dr. which Soviet President Mikhail Gorba­ Uniate Church in 1946 through a "mer­ took place in Kiev on December 17, Sakharov. One speaker called for the chev hailed during the December sum­ ger" with the Russian Orthodox with 30,000 persons in attendance. removal of Dzerzhinsky's statue and the mit with President George Bush in Church. The Uniate Church is consi­ The London-based Ukrainian Press renaming of the square for Sakharov. Malta. dered the largest banned religious group Agency reported that at the memorial Those present called unanimously for Mr. Buriatsky defended a draft law in the Soviet Union with an estimated meeting, organized by Rukh, or the the abolition of Article 6 of the USSR on religious freedom when Rep. Chris­ membership of 5 million. Popular Movement of Ukraine for Constitution which provides for a one- topher Smith (R-N.J.), an active pro­ Perebudova, there were many Ukrai­ ponent of the right of religious educa­ Rep. Smith also questioned Mr. Bur­ party state. The meeting decided that a nian blue and yellow flags, as well as the tion in the Soviet Union, expressed iatsky on the recent crackdown on the demonstration and a procession would Israeli flag. concern over whether a newly proposed Christian Democratic Movement during be held on December 24. It was also law on religion will allow for the a time when the Soviet Union has been decided to publish Dr. Sakharov's religious education of minors by pa­ putting its best face toward the West. alternative draft constitution of the rents. Rep. Smith cited a November 7 robbery Language society is USSR. and assault on the offices of the Chris­ "The new law," Mr. Buriatsky an­ tian Democratic Union in Moscow, led officially registered swered, "will allow parents to give by Russian Orthodox activist Alexan­ MUNICH — On November 24, Ra­ Catholic... religious education to their children." der Qgorodnikov. Though Mr. Qgo- dianska Osvita reported that the Shev­ (Continued from page 1) After quoting Article 3 from a draft rodnikov was not in the offices during chenko Ukrainian Language Society the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the brought by a Soviet Embassy represen­ the robbery, a colleague and priest, has finally been officially registered. Russian Orthodox Church is opposing tative, Mr. Buriatsky said the law would Victor Grigoriev, was severely beaten. The announcement was made by their right to register. also be expanded to allow for non- The intruders, who many believe either Dmytro Pavlychko, who heads the 6. Archbishop Kirill is proposing parental figures to engage in religious were or had links to the KGB, stole society, and the writer Anatoliy Pohri- that the issue of the Ukrainian Catholic education for minors. computers, printers, a fax machine, a bny, during a republican scientific- Church be resolved only through inter- Yet, Louise Shelley, chairperson of video camera, VCRs and other office practical conference on "Ways to Im­ Church dialogue, without participation the American University Department of equipment. prove the Effectiveness of Learning of the state. However, religious liberty is Law and Society, testifying at the same In this regard Mr. Buriatsky said he Ukrainian Language and Literature in a matter of relations between Church hearing, said reform was a significant would look into the matter and "invite Schools and Professional-Technical and state. distance away. With regard to pending people from the Ministry of Internal Schools" held in Cherkassy on Novem­ 7. I am prepared to discuss the laws before the Supreme Soviet, "All of Affairs to our committee to receive their ber 14-17. improvement of the relations between the legislative commissions attached to explanation." According to Messrs. Pavlychko and the Ukrainian Catholic Church and the the Supreme Soviet are not equally Other human rights monitoring Pohribny, it is hoped that this will now Russian Orthodox Church in the con­ reform-oriented," she said. groups believe the break-in was part of a put an end to "the furious opposition" text of inter-Church dialogue, as is larger pattern of persecution. When Mr. of some local officials in Ukraine to appropriate. The Ukrainian Catholic "The commission concerning free­ Ogorodnikov returned to Moscow on efforts on the part of Ukrainian lan­ Church is always open to dialogue and dom of conscience (i.e., religion) is not October 20, he was detained, ques­ guage enthusiasts to establish primary will act in the spirit of Christian love, reformist, while those concerning judi­ tioned and authorities confiscated 79 organizations of the society. forgiveness and reconciliation. cial and criminal reforms are dominated books he was personally carrying back by those pressing for human rights to Moscow. His personal Bible and improvements," Ms. Shelley empha­ prayer book were also confiscated and sized. Most of the intended changes, she he was forced to pay excessive import added, relate to anti Stalinist senti­ duties on those items which were not FOUNDED 1933 ments rather than fundamentally chang­ confiscated. ing the nature of the relationship between the citizen and the state. Further, on October 23, Mr. Ogorod- An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National nikov's long-time assistant, Sergei Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ. But, Ms. Shelley acknowledged, "In Savchenko, a 34-year-old physicist who 07302. the area of freedom of conscience, a worked as a photojournalist for the more liberal draft than that proposed by group's publications, was killed in a Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. the Supreme Soviet commission has mysterious hit-and-run automobile (ISSN - 0273-9348) now been published and publicly dis­ accident. Mr. Savchenko was known to cussed in the hope that greater rights to Yearly subscription rate: $20; for UNA members — $10. practice and teach religion will be have taken on many risky assignments, Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. introduced in the legislation considered which included the documentation of by the Supreme Soviet." religious persecution and informal meetings of democracy activists. The The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: Citing further difficulties in "legisla­ KGB had already ordered his expulsion (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201) 451-2200 tive" maneuvering through the Su­ from the Institute of Physics of the Postmaster, send address preme Soviet, Ms. Shelley said, "The USSR Academy of Sciences because of changes to: Editor: Roma Hadzewycz proposed law on freedom of conscience his political activities. The Ukrainian Weekly Associate Editors: Marta Kolomayets is problematic. The decision on the The suspicious circumstances under P.O. Box 346 recognition of the Uniate (Ukrainian Chrystyna Lapychak which Mr. Savchenko died are similar Jersey Ciiy, N.J. 07303 Catholic) Church should not be a policy to those which surround the death of decision but the result of an existing law Mr. Ogorodnikov's brother, Rafail, 37, The Ukrainian Weekly, December 31,1989, No. 53, Vol. LVII allowing recognition of different reli­ who died an an automobile accident in Copyright 1989 by The Ukrainian Weekly gious groups '1988V •v'4* Detroit community supports Rukh Kiev to host famine conference

by Myrosia Stefaniuk Presiding over the meeting was Roma TORONTO — An international conference was adopted at a meeting of Dyhdalo, who provided a thorough conference, "The Famine of 1933 in leaders of Ukrainian civic organizations DETROIT — Following Volodymyr explanation of the purpose and goals of Ukraine," will take place in Kiev in in Kiev on October 2. Yavorivsky's address to the Detroit the group. Olha Maruschak was record­ September 1990, reported the Univer­ The sponsors of the conference in­ community at the beginning of October, ing secretary. sity of Toronto. This will be the first clude the Popular Movement of U- many listeners responded with generous Following a lengthy discussion, at the time that scholars, writers and journa­ kraine for Perebudova, or Rukh; the donations (some donating considerable end of which everyone present express­ lists from Ukraine as well as the United Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language sums) or the needs of children who fell ed their support of the proposed asso­ States, Canada and Europe will jointly Society; Ukraine's Memorial Society; victim to the Chornobyl tragedy and for ciation, the following individuals were examine the famine that devastated the Institute of Literature at the Aca­ the Rukh fund which is to administer elected to office: Lubomyr Tatuch, Ukraine in the early 1930s. demy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR; and distribute the relief fund. The president; Mrs. Dyhdalo, executive Participants in the conference will the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian greater Detroit community favored the vice-president; Dr. Maria Baltarovych, discuss such questions as the. nature of Studies at the University of Alberta; formation of a separate group which vice-president; Mrs. Maruschak, secre­ genocide and famine, archival docu­ and the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at would organize fund-raising activities tary; Yurij Rozhin, treasurer; Myron ments, eyewitness accounts, and film the University of Toronto. in this regard. Voronovych, financial officer. The and photo material as historical sources. The organizing committee is headed auditing committee members include: This vital matter began to take on Specific topics will include the problem by Oles Honchar. Other members Zenon Wasylkevych, Mykola Tataryn, of grain exports, dekulakization and include Vyacheslav Briukhovetsky, Ivan a concrete organizational structure and Pavlo Herman. In addition to following a lecture on the recent events deportation, the connection between Drach, Mykhailo Horyn, Volodymyr elected officers three committees were the famine and the simultaneous de­ Maniak, Borys Tymoshenko, Mykola in Ukraine by Prof. Taras Hunczak on designated specifically for finances, Friday, November 17. Additional struction of the Ukrainian intelligent­ Zhulynsky and Mr. Carynnyk. fund-raising activities, public relations sia, demographic consequences, and the The organizers expect that partici­ considerable funds were raised at this and press. evening. At that time, the need for an treatment of the famine in historio­ pants will visit sites connected with the The elected officers will call together organized administrative body became graphy, literature and film. famine and that film screenings and an a separated session for finalizing the apparent. The conference is being organized at exhibit of documents, printed materials, work of the committees and outlining a the initiative of Marco Carynnyk, re­ and photographs will be held during the Wednesday, November 29, marked concrete plan of action. The associa­ search associate of the Chair of Ukrai­ conference. the founding meeting of the Detroit tion invites all people of good will to nian Studies at the University of To­ For additional information, write to: branch of the association in support of participate in this worthy cause. ronto. Mr. Carynnyk recently visited Marco Carynnyk, Chair of Ukrainian Rukh. Participating in the meeting were During the Christmas season, mem­ Kiev at the invitation of the Film­ Studies, University of Toronto, 100 St. community activists and people of good bers of the association will visit homes makers' Association and Writers'Union George St., Toronto, Ontario, M5S will who wanted not only to provide with the traditional "koliada" in order of Ukraine. His proposal to convene the 1A1. support but to help expand activities so to collect funds and to acquaint the that they would encompass the support community at large with the vital need and participation of the entire metropo­ of giving support to the events occurring Stryi woman has heart surgery litan Ukrainian community. in Ukraine today. NEWARK, N.J. — A 53-year-old and chest pains while visiting family and lifestyle trends. music teacher from western Ukraine friends. Six years ago, doctors in Ukrainian Canadians... Winnipeg composer Danny Schur visiting the United States was released Ukraine told Mrs. Chaban, who is a (Continued from page 1) has proposed a musical using on December 23 from St. Michael's member of the Ukrainian Helsinki The commission has targeted five electronic music and a traveling Medical Center following life-saving Union, that they did not have the know- different project areas on the summer performing troupe. Mr. surgery donated by physicians at that how or the technology to help her heart national, provincial/regional, local, Schur recently wrote an oratorio for Newark facility and St. Barnabas Medi­ condition, diagnosed here as critical organizational (such as youth the Millennium of Christianity in cal Center in Livingston, N.J. aortic stenosis, a contraction of a major groups) and the family (reunions, Ukraine based on the life of Crown Iryna Chab^n of Stryi, Ukraine, valve in the heart. - > homecomings and individual Prince Volodymyr of Kiev who underwent four hours of open heart For pre-operative procedures, Dr. (artists) levels. , * . introduced the' faith in 988; The surgery at St. Michael's on December Woroch requested the help of a fellow Canadian Ukrainian Opera 12 to replace a badly diseased aortic cardiologist, Dr. Mario Criscito, and Ms. Hyworon suggests that the Company has commissioned an valve with a mechanic valve, according his partners, Dr. Anthony Casella and commission's intent is to inspire and original work to coincide with the to Michele Brinkerhoff, the surgeon's Dr. Gary Rogal. challenge. As such, centennial centennial. nurse coordinator. The delicate surgery celebrations will be a departure from A video series on Ukrainian life in was performed by Dr. Philip R. Seaver Upon leaving the hospital, Mrs. the way the Ukrainian Canadian Canada, a planned TV sitcom and a Jr., a cardiothoracic surgeon, whose Chaban was reportedly feeling very community usually marks an event. visual arts exchange involving help was enlisted by Dr. Bohdar Wo- well, according to a December 24 article No standard formula featuring a Manitoba artists are other artistic roch, a cardiologist at St. Barnabas and in The Sunday Star-Ledger. banquet and concert will be used. Yet events being discussed. a leader of the New York and New Her prognosis is very good, said Ms. while the commission will entertain The commission is also hoping to Jersey branch of the Ukrainian Medical Brinkerhoff in a telephone interview. all creative ideas, she insists that it is acquire a national site at the Halifax Association of North America. Mrs. Chaban will, however, have to not a new delivery organization. dock where the first settlers arrived. Dr. Woroch took on Mrs. Chaban's take a bloodthinner for the rest of her Although, the Ukrainian Ms. Hyworon adds that a wall may case after she suffered fainting spells life, said Ms. Brinkerhoff. Canadian Commission will fund be erected where families would be projects national in scope, it will rely able to purchase markers as to when on provincial and local committees they arrived in Canada-similar to the Dudycz announces bid for Congress to sponsor regional ideas. Manitoba, model used at Ellis Island, N.Y. The CHICAGO — State Sen. Walter the Chicago Citywide College. He Saskatchewan and Alberta have al­ group is also looking to place Dudycz on December 17 announced he graduated from the Police Academy in ready established provincial cen­ markers throughout Canada is a candidate for the U.S. House of 1972 and served with distinction on the tennial commissions, while Quebec indicating Ukrainian settlements. Representatives in the 11th Congres­ Chicago Police Department for 13 and Ontario are in the process of The Canada Post Corp. has been sional District of Illinois. Mr. Dudycz, a years. He held the rank of detective establishing similar bodies. approached to launch a special Republican from Chicago, said he made during his last six years on the police Walter Bozdek, fund-raising centenary stamp. the decision to run because he wanted to force. manager, says that the commission From the solemn to the satirical, a play a leadership role for the 11th In 1983, Mr. Dudycz's career as a hopes to raise $4.6 million with 44.2 "Uke and Tuke" hockey game is District and focus on new ideas for the public servant took a new path when he percent coming from corporate planned to feature former NHL problems of the 1990s. announced his candidacy for the Illinois sponsorship and 32.5 percent from hockey stars of Ukrainian descent. Flanked by family and friends at a Senate. The Chicago Tribune endorsed the federal government. Half of A youth section was especially Chicago news conference, State Sen. (Continued on page 15) acquired funding will go towards created within the commission's Dudycz said, "The 11th Congressional staging events and exhibits. Mr. mandate. In addition to the 1992 District, along with the rest of our Bozdek is hoping that corporations youth conference, the group is or­ nation, faces many uncertainties of the like American Express and Pepsi- ganizing exchanges for rural and future. We Americans have an obliga­ Cola will underwrite certain events. urban Canada, to different regions of tion to provide quality education for That would help two proposed the country and one involving our children, a secure retirement for our museum exhibits. The new Canadian Ukraine. A family tree kit will be dis­ senior citizens and finally a return to the Museum of Civilization in Hull, tributed to schools across Canada to traditional family values for ourselves." Quebec, has expressed interest in trace lineage and children will spon­ Mr, Dudycz was born in Chicago on acquiring a prehistoric artifacts sor and possible plant trees to create March 11, 1950, Upon graduation from display from various Soviet a Ukrainian Canadian forest. Holy Trinity High School in 1968, he institutions. Ukrainians arrived in Canada in enlisted in the United States Army The Saskatoon-based Ukrainian three distinct waves: 170,000 before where he served his country for Chree Museum of Canada has agreed to the World War, 68,000 during the years, including a 12-month tour of duty sponsor the show titled, "Treasures inter-war period and close to 40,000 in Vietnam. After his honorable dis­ of Ukraine." The Ukrainian Cultural following World War II. charge in 1971, Walter Dudycz returned and Educational Center Oseredok in Ms. Hyworon sees the centennial to Chicago to continue his career in Winnipeg will present its own con­ as "a special chapter in the history of public service. He enrolled in the temporary exhibit, "Many Ways to Canada and a page in the history of Chicago Police Academy, and under­ be Ukrainian," on recent Canadian the Ukrainian people." took continuing education coyrses at Illinois State Sen. Walter Dudycz YAVORIVSKY IN WALL STREET JOURNAL A view from Canada

Suppression of Chornobyl truth by Nadia Diakun-Thibault could deprive us of a future Where are our social services? by Volodymyr Yavorivsky millions of inhabitants of this land. The catastrophe of Chornobyl, however, is You may not even have noticed it, but begin to focus on putting affairs in Below, The Weekly reprints an article destroying our soul, our land and our November was designated as National order. If the disease is diagnosed early from the Tuesday, December 12 issue of air, and even our future." Alzheimer's Disease Month in the enough, then both patient and caregiver The Wall Street Journal by Volodymyr When the Chornobyl nuclear reactor United States. It is estimated that 4 can address legal and financial ques­ Yavorivsky, a deputy of the Supreme spilled its radiation, we Soviets did not million people in the U.S. are affected tions together. Careful planning can Soviet Congress of People's Deputies, yet comprehend the poverty of our by this progressive neurological dis­ help make the task of caring for the who represents a Kiev neighborhood, state. Our government, headed at that order; it strikes one in 10 Americans patient much easier for the caregiver where many victims of Chornobyl were time by the First Secretary of the over the age of 65. In Canada, the figure (often the spouse). resettled after the tragedy of April is estimated at 300,000 in a population Ukrainian Communist Party, Volo­ All this said, what does this have to 1986. of 25 million. dymyr Shcherbytsky, refused to accept do with the Ukrainian community in Mr. Yavorivsky, who spent one help from the foreign countries that Alzheimer's affects those areas of the Canada and the United States? Among month in the United States in October, reached out to us. Mr. Shcherbytsky's brain that control memory and cogni­ those afflicted with Alzheimer's are on the invitation of Sen. Bill Bradley "pride" in refusing to admit to the tive function. During the course of the many Ukrainians. This shouldn't be a and Rep. James Florio, both Demo­ danger of the Chornobyl accident is disease, Alzheimer's patients gradually startling revelation, but odds are that crats of New Jersey, is also the Kiev costing the Ukrainian people dearly lose cognitive and motor skills until, it may be an uncomfortable one to read regional Rukh chairman. today. eventually, they become completely about. In Canada and the United unable to care for themselves. It res­ States, there are associations that are KIEV — When radiation leaked from Today, the Kiev reservoir, close to pects no ethnic or socio-economic this city of three million inhabit? .is, is equipped to assist with information and Chornobyl in May 1986, parents in boundaries, and claims men and women respite services. Ukraine placed their children onto filled with radioactive particles. The alike. It affects the patient visibly by Dnieper River, which traverses Ukraine As for the Ukrainian community, the trains, buses and airplanes. My seven- chipping away at memory, triggers status quo, sad to say, remains. For year-old daughter went to stay with from north to south, is distributing personality changes, fear, anxiety, radioactive waste from Chornobyl to example, there is no solely Ukrainian friends in the Carpathian Mountains, disrupts sleep patterns, and causes com­ nursing home in Philadelphia, which but, eventually, I learned that it was the Black Sea. Radiation levels in munications skills to deteriorate. The Narodychi, 50 kilometers west of Chor­ does have an old-age home, one which precisely there that a plume of dan- patient becomes withdrawn and some­ would be staffed by doctors, nurses and nobyl are 450 times above normal. In times hostile. Stare Sharne, a village just north of support staff that speak Ukrainian. In Narodychi, cesium contamination of Physically there may be a sudden Toronto, on the other hand, Ukrainian the soil exceeds 50 curies per square weight change due to appetite loss. In social services are more developed and kilometer. Human life is in danger at 15 the most advanced stages, the victim of Ukrainians in Canada fare a bit better. curies. In other areas of Zhytomyr Alzheimer's loses motor skills and The population is aging; the needs of province, (west and southwest of Chor­ control of bowel and bladder, and the elderly are becoming increasingly nobyl) 18,000 people continue to live in becomes vulnerable to pneumonia and more complex. It's all well and good to zones where cesium contamination is as infections of the bladder. place emphasis on language retention, high as 200 curies. As for diagnosis, there is no single test maintaining cultural traditions, and When the disaster occurred, Mr. for Alzheimer's Disease. It takes both battling for distant causes. And as the Shcherbytsky wanted to convince the medical and neurological analyses by a political canvas of Eastern Europe takes people of Ukraine, Soviet President physician experienced in the diagnosis on new definitions, and there is talk of a Mikhail Gorbachev, and the entire of dementing disorders,and the exami­ "new immigration," will we be able to world that nothing out of the ordinary nation of the patient should include a minister to its needs? Can we set aside had taken place. A nuclear plant had an detailed medical history, blood test, anachronistic attitudes and petty dif­ accident, a commonplace occurrence, urinalysis, EKG, chest x-ray, a brain ferences for the welfare of the aged, the which should not even be discussed. "imaging" evaluation by computerized young, the new immigrants from U- tomography (CT scan) or magnetic kraine? By manipulating popular ignorance resonance (MRI). and promoting disinformation in the In the coming years, it may not be press he managed to succeed for a Because the disease is slow in progres­ possible or practical for Ukrainian certain period of time. People continued sion, it's hard to recognize in the early families to care for themselves as they to live in contaminated regions. The stages. In time it takes its toll on both have in the past. We will all grow old. patient and family. Alzheimer's takes We will all die. government gave them a monthly allot­ one victim but many hostages. ment of just 30 rubles apiece for "re­ Compassion, caring, understanding cuperation" and the purchase of clean When the reality of the disease sinks are words that may seem foreign to a food. So people continued to live as in in, one cannot help but feel anger and community obsessed with politicking — the past. They gathered mushrooms and guilt for not having recognized it earlier. both internal and external — even as the berries from contaminated forests; they And when you finally accept that very '90s approach. drank milk from cows that ate radio­ little can be done beyond coping with It's not too late to change course. the situation and making life as com­ Why not call Ukrainian social services active grass. fortable as possible for the patient, you Only when horses were born with six in your city, if there is one; if there isn't Hadzewycz legs and piglets without eyes, when such an agency, help organize one. Help Volodymyr Yavorivsky The columnist is donating her ho- make a difference — one for the better children contracted illnesses, when norarium for this column to the Al­ — help assure that when you yourself gerous radioactive fallout had fallen. young women feared to give birth and zheimer's Association. need assistance, it will be there. Meanwhile the elite had their children aborted their pregnancies instead, when evacuated to safe zones on the first day our government began hiding statistics of the accident. on mortality rates and sicknesses — LETTER TO THE EDITOR Later we learned that people living in only then did we begin to fear for needy, financial benefits will also be the city of Prypiat (about 20 kilometers ourselves. Jewish Foundation granted. At the present time almost 200 from Chornobyl) had been forced to re­ During my visit to the United States re being given some financial aid. main behind for two days; that weddings in October,'I had numerous discussions helps Christians The Jewish Foundation for Christian were held, while radioactive particles about Chornobyl with members of Rescuers is eager to learn the names of fell; that they were walking on nuclear Congress. I implored America's help in Dear Editor: qualifying Ukrainians living in the U.S. fuel scattered by the explosion. Radia­ forestalling a tragedy of immense Ukrainian Jewish relationships in or elsewhere (so long as they can be tion levels in Prypiat reached 80 rems proportions. Medicines of all kinds America continue to be distant and contacted and recognized without (the standard measure of radiation medical equipment, vitamins, other sometimes sensitive. Less dialogue political jeopardy). Some reasonable dosage) per hour. The lifetime safe limit supplemental foodstuffs such as exists here than, for example, between verification of the rescuers'actions is 35 rems. powdered milk — everything that is Polish Americans and Jews. should also be submitted to: The Jewish Yet at the time Ukraine's minister of elsewhere taken so very much for Foundation for Christian Res­ public health, Mykola Romanenko, granted — are unobtainable in Ukraine. An opportunity is now at hand to cuers/ADL 823 United Nations Plaza, simply advised the people of Prypiat to I had made the same pleas to govern­ create some favorable contacts. This N.Y., N.Y. 10017; Attn.: David Szonyi, wash their hands and feet to protect ment officials in Ukraine and in Mos­ opportunity comes with the recent Director. themselves from radiation. Today, we cow but was not successful; the appara­ formation of The Jewish Foundation Church groups and Ukrainian social in Ukraine can state with bitter confi­ tus that strangles truth is still strong. for Christian Rescuers. Organized in organizations are encouraged to call the dence that the leadership betrayed its The hoarse voice of a nation ill from 1986 by a prominent California rabbi, Jewish Foundation for additional infor­ own people. radiation is not heard in offices of the Jewish Foundation is committed to mation: (212) 490-2525, ext. 343. As one elderly Ukrainian woman, bureaucrats who have their clean food the recognition of and aid to those forcibly evacuated from Chornobyl in brought in from afar, who periodically Christians who during the Holocaust Robert I. Goldman May 1986, told me: "During the second send their children to clinics for the years of World War II took significant Executive Committee world war, the Germans conquered privileged, who have access to scarce risks to save Jewish lives. And ID the The Jewish Foundation Ukrainian territory and openly killed ; (Contitniti on page it) >* > ekteht that these Yescuers are ilKa; for Christian Rescuers No. 53 I 1989: A LOOK BACK

ceded by a number of public rallies law proposed by the group of Ukraine:human rights, vox populi decrying apparent manuevers by people's deputies on October 15: local party officials against indepen­ 30,000 in Lviv, several thousands in The human rights movement in cott to protest against "undemo­ dent nominees for candidacy at Chervonohrad, Chernivtsi, Rivne Ukraine transformed into a truly cratic" electoral laws, a call it district caucuses. and Zhytomyr, 500 in Dnipropetrov- popular movement in 1989, reach­ later reversed and actively sought Such pre-elections meetings took ske. In Ivano-Frankivske 30,000 ing across the spectrum of Soviet the defeat of unpopular candidates, place in Lviv, first during four conse­ people demonstrated on October Ukrainian society, and striving for i.e. party functionaries, and support­ cutive days on April 20-23, which 10, while in Kiev an association democracy and national rights. ed the reformers and progressives. drew crowds of up to 25,000 and called Vyborets (Voter) was formed While semi-formal groups, the Stepan Khmara, a UHU activist, also included an hourlong warning on October 11 in support of the greatest of which became the Popu­ was even nominated on January 20 strike at eight local factories and alternative electoral law. lar Movement of Ukraine for Pere- in the western Ukrainian city of institutions, the first labor strike in Following an October 24 vote by budova, or Rukh, achieved the in­ Chervonohrad, but was arrested on Lviv since 1944. the all-union Supreme Soviet, credible task of consolidating a the spot by militia and given a 15- Another pre-elections meeting eliminating special seats for range of official and unofficial refor­ day administrative sentence. drew 30,000 in Lviv on May 3. Communist Party and other official mist elements and attracted wide Large public rallies protesting the Out of a total of 225 deputies organizations in national and local popular support, informal associa­ electoral laws which coincided with representing the Ukrainian republic elections, the Ukrainian SSR tions also played a key role in mo­ Soviet President Mikhail Gorba­ in the new Congress of People's Supreme Soviet passed a concur­ bilizing mass public pressure for chev's visit to Ukraine took place in Deputies, 175 were directly elected rent law "On Elections of People's change. Kiev on February 19-21, many of after four elections. Among these Deputies of the Ukrainian SSR" on which also called for the resignation Throughout the year these infor­ were such popular progressives as October 27. mal associations, often in coopera­ of then Ukrainian Communist Party Lviv writer Rostyslav Bratun, Kiev Several representatives of infor­ tion with the semi-official groups, chief Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, economist Volodymyr Cherniak, mal groups have already declared such as Rukh, Memorial and the called the "mastodon of stagnation" Kiev writer Volodymyr Yavorivsky that they are seeking nominations Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Lan­ by one Ukrainian activist. and Zhytomyr journalist Alia Yaro- for candidacy in the March 4 elec­ guage Society, focused public at­ It took special riot police and shynska. Out of these 175 deputies, tions, including UHU president Lev tention toward important political, militia three attempts before they 63 were chosen on May 26 to the Lukianenko for a seat in Ivano- social, ecological and cultural pro­ finally and violently dispersed a pre­ more powerful USSR Supreme So­ Frankivske, and another UHU leader blems and mobilized public re­ elections meeting in Lviv on March viet to represent Ukraine, and most and journalist Vyacheslav Chor- sponse to government actions. 12, organized by the local Rukh of these were conservatives. novil, who has already been organization, the UHU and the Ma­ This activity most often took the Elections were also a central issue nominated in the Shevchenkivsky rian society Myloserdia (Compas­ form of public meetings, organized this fall, this time, however, to the electoral district in Lviv. by such leading informal groups as sion). Up to 300 individuals were Ukrainian SSR People's Deputies, Public meetings were held the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, the reportedly detained, receiving either slated for March 4, 1990. Angered throughout the year and focused on Ukrainian National Democratic fines or 15-day sentences, while once again by a draft elections law other contemporary issues, as well League, the Ukrainian Association many people were injured. labelled "anti-democratic and in­ as commemorating historical and of Independent Creative Intelli­ For his participation in this meet­ tended to preserve the political cultural events, many "blank spots" gentsia, the Hromada Society, the ing, Bohdan Horyn, head of the Lviv power of the bureaucracy," people in Ukrainian history- Here is a list of Ukrainian Youth Association SUM, UHU branch, was sentenced on in cities throughout Ukraine took to these often cathartic gatherings in Plast, the Association of Indepen­ March 15 to 15 days' administrative the streets in unprecedented num­ 1989. dent Ukrainian Youth, the Lev So­ arrest. bers in rallies organized by local • Lviv and Kiev marked Ukrai­ ciety, and others throughout cities This brutal disruption and the unofficial organizations. nian Independence Day on January in Ukraine. As the year progressed arrests by local security forces In an open letter in the August 15 22 each for the first time in decades. such public activity spread from Lviv angered the population and the issue of Leninska Molod, 38 pro­ Thousands gathered for an unau­ and Kiev to other localities and leaders of the local informal groups, gressive people's deputies from thorized moleben, celebrated by gained support of local semi-official particularly since unsanctioned pre­ Ukraine called for democratization priests of the Ukrainian Catholic organizations in rallying around elections meetings were permitted of the republic's proposed elections Church, in front of St. George's specific issues. under a decree of the Presidium of law, which reserved special seats for Cathedral in Lviv. Some 60 activists, the USSR Supreme Soviet issued in By far the main issue that domi­ the Communist Party and other who could not obtain permission for February. nated public life in Ukraine last official organizations. They offered a public meeting, gathered in a Kiev winter and spring was the elections In the March 26 elections, a num­ an "alternative" law guaranteeing apartment to commemorate the to the new 2,250-member USSR ber of seats were left vacant because direct proportional elections to the historic event. Qongress of People's Deputies, no candidate won a majority, even in 450-member Ukrainian SSR People's slated for March 26. The "informals" single-candidate races where se­ Deputies "one man — one vote." • Crowds estimated at between strongly criticized the federal law on veral party officials suffered hu­ On September 2, tens of thou­ 20,000 and 30,000 people partici­ elections, which gave one-third of miliating defeats. These included sands in cities around Ukraine pated in an unsanctioned ecumeni­ the new Soviet parliament's seats to Yakiv Pohrebniak, first secretary of gathered to protest against the draft cal requiem service on February 26 the Communist Party and all-union the Lviv Oblast Party Committee, electoral law: 50,000 in Lviv, 40,000 in Lviv marking the 128th anniver­ organizations and institutions, and then Kiev party chief Konstantyn in Kiev, 10,000 in Zhytomyr, 5,000 sary of Taras Shevchenko's death. established restrictive nomination Masyk and Valentyn Zgursky, head each in Dniprodzerzhynske and Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian procedures for candidates for the of the Kiev party executive commit­ Chervonohrad, and 2,000 in Khar- Orthodox clergy concelebrated the other two-thirds of the seats, creat­ tee. kiv. service. ing many single-candidate races. Bye-elections were held on April • Some 20,000 people prayed for The Coordinating Council of the 9, May 14 and May 21 to fill these Once again record numbers the victims of the Chornobyl nuclear Ukrainian Helsinki Union began the vacant seats to the Congress of turned out for public meetings to disaster at a memorial moleben year by calling for an all-out boy­ People's Deputies, but were pre­ support the "alternative" elections concelebrated by Ukrainian Catho-

The scene at an April pre-elections m ;ng at the Druzhba stadium in Lviv. 1989: A LOOK BACK

lie clergy on April 16 in front of the UHU drew nearly 10,000 people to a 6 in Chernivtsi and sentenced to 15 • Stepan Sapeliak, head of SUM Cathedral of the Assumption of the commemoration of International days and 10 days in jail, respective­ and the UHU branch in Kharkiv, was Blessed Virgin Mary in Lviv. Another Human Rights Day on December 10 ly, on administrative charges; threatened in August with a three- 15,000 in Lviv held a mass public in Lviv. • Mr. Gel head of the Citizens' month term of Chornobyl clean-up rally to commemorate Chornobyl on • A very special public gathering Committee in Defense of the Ukrai­ work for his activities, but was let off its anniversary, April 26. took place on November 19 in Kiev nian Catholic Church, served a 15- with a fine and a warning. • For the second year in a row, this year when thousands of day jail sentence in late April, also 1989 was also the year a coordi­ the informal associations in Kiev, mourners joined family, friends and on administrative charges; nating center, called Democracy colleagues in the funerals of death and Independence, was formed by such as the Ukrainian Culturologi- • Mr. Chornovil, editor of the camp victims Vasyl Stus, Oleksiy Western representatives of USSR cal Club, the Hromada Society, the Ukrainian Herald, spent 15 days in a Tykhy and Yuriy Lytvyn, whose national-democratic movements in Kiev UHU branch, and the Ukrainian Lviv prison in late May on charges of bodies were returned for Christian Paris on May 6-11 at the written National Democratic League, held a "petty hooliganism"; commemoration in honor of Taras burial to Ukraine from unmarked request of the Coordinating Coun­ Shevchenko alongside the official graves near Perm Camp 36 in the • Dmytro Korchynsky, a UHU cil of the national-democratic move­ May 22 ceremonies at the Kiev Urals. They were buried in Kiev's and SNUM activist in Kiev, served a ments, which met in Vilnius, Lithua­ Shevchenko monument. These Baikiv Cemetery, among some of 15-day term in late July for "or­ nia, on January 28-29 and in Esto­ activists raised a great number of Ukraine's finest poets, intellectuals ganizing illegal demonstrations"; nian on April 30 to May 1. Ukrainian bfue-and-yellow flags, and historic figures. tridents and banners, including one Several of the few remaining Victims of Stalinism that said: "Long live a Ukrainian Ukrainian prisoners of conscience As in other parts of the Soviet had been killed by "the Fascist independent and sovereign state!" were freed during 1989, namelv 49- Union, many efforts were under­ occupying forces in 1941-1943." • Representatives of several year-old Serhiy Babych on June 7, 62- year-old Petro Saranchuk in Fe­ taken in 1989 to come to grips In 1989 a new government com­ semi-formal and informal groups, with the Stalinist past. According mission — the fourth to investi­ including Rukh and the UNDL, tpok bruary, and Pavlo Kampov, all three from special-regimen labor camps. to Soviet historian Roy Medvedev, gate the mass grave — released a part in a roundtable discussion on 40 million persons were killed, One known Ukrainian prisoner of report saying that the thousands the issue of national symbols with arrested or otherwise persecuted conscience remains incarcerated, buried were victims of Stalin. representatives of the Ukrainian during the reign of terror of 50-year-old Bohdan Klymchak, in TASS reported the new findings SSR Supreme Soviet on July 28 at Joseph Stalin. Perm Camp 35, Mr. Klymchak was on March 24. the Soviet Peace Committee in Kiev. In Ukraine, a Memorial Society On May 7, the Memorial Society Although the officials made conces­ placed in solitary confinement on October 30 for taking part in a was founded on March 4 in Kiev. organized a mass meeting at sions to some of the informals' Like its namesake in Moscow, the Bykivnia. After a march from Kiev demands regarding Ukrainian hunger strike marking the Day of the Political Prisoner. He is serving a 15- society is committed to honoring to the site, a requiem service was national symbols, members of the the victims of Stalinism and offered. UNDL declared a hunger strike to year-term for "treason" since he attempted to escape to Iran in cleansing Soviet society of Stali­ Meanwhile, the Soviet press pressure them into fulfillment of the November 1978. nist vestiges. Among the topics began to write about dark epi­ raised at Memorial's founding rest of their demands. The UNDL Anatoliy llchenko, a young UHU sodes of the Stalin era. One of meeting were the famine of 1932- activists held their hunger strike on activist from Mykolayiv, southern these was the history behind 1933 and the Ukrainian Insurgent July 29 on the steps of the Ukrai­ Ukraine, was placed in the Dnipro- Vinnytsia, a city 200 kilometers Army (UPA). nian SSR Supreme Soviet, attract­ petrovske Special Psychiatric southwest of Kiev, scene of ing hundreds of supporters, in­ Hospital in December 1988 for The next day, several thousand mass executions by Stalin's cluding the Kiev UHU branch. circulating a petition against people participated in a public henchmen. Some 10,000 were Although riot police moved in on the nuclear power stations in the Ukrai­ rally, seeking an honest depiction found to be buried in the mass crowd, beating and detaining some, nian SSR. He was among 27 patients of history and a rehabilitation of graves of Vinnytsia. local Rukh activists negotiated their interviewed by a U.S. State innocent victims. The founding And, the Soviet press acknow­ release for their moving to another Department-sponsored delegation conference and rally were held on ledged that there are many such location to continue the strike. of psychiatric experts during a two- the weekend that coincided with mass graves throughout Ukraine. • On July 29, members of SUM, week inspection of Soviet psychia­ the 36th anniversary of Stalin's Most recently, another mass the Kharkiv UHU branch and Rukh tric facilities in March. Mr. llchenko death. grave was unearthed in western held a protest against Russification was found to be quite sane by the A couple of months later, on Ukraine. On September 21 in in the eastern Ukrainian city. experts and was later released. May 27, the founding conference Demianiv Laz, a nature preserve • A large rally was organized in UHU activist Stepan Hura of of the Lviv regional Memorial near Pasichna, south of Ivano- Lviv by Rukh and the UHU on Kherson was placed in a psychiatric Society was held. That confe­ Frankivske, exhumation began. August 3 to counter charges in local facility after he was grabbed on his rence, too, was followed by a Some 500 bodies of victims of the media and newspapers that their way to a UHU Coordinating Coun­ mass meeting devoted to filling in great terror have been uncovered associations incited hostility be­ cil meeting in Kiev on May 6. He was the "blank spots" of history. along with documents proving tween national groups in Lviv. reportedly freed in June or July. In March, the world learned of a that they were indeed victims of • Nearly 30,000 Lviv residents Earlier this year, in March, mass grave just outside of Kiev, in the NKVD, the secret police. took part in a mass rally and two- Oleksander Bykov, the son of the Bykivnia, where up to 300,000 are A memorial service on October hour work strike on October 3 to well-known film director Leonid buried — the victims of Stalin, 29 at Demianiv Las was attended protest against the violent dispersal Bykov, held a hunger strike in Kiev not, as a government commission by thousands. The unearthed re­ by militia of several peaceful demanding that a code on his had stated as late as May 1988, mains were reburied and a tem­ demonstrations held in that city on military discharge card, designating victims of the Nazis. A monument porary marker was placed at the October 1. On that day, a column of him as "insane," are removed by erected at the site then had noted site to indicate that a monument between 10,000 and 15,000 people authorities. This code reportedly that "6,329 Soviet soldiers, parti­ to the "victims of the repressions bearing Ukrainian flags were prevented him for many years from sans, members of the under­ of 1939-1941" is soon to be dispersed violently as they staged a obtaining employment or admission ground and peaceful citizens" erected at Demianiv Laz. protest in front of Druzhba stadium, to schools and educational institu­ where a concert was officially tions. celebrating the reunification of During 1989 a number of activists Ukrainian lands. Several protesters became victims of so-called "admi­ were detained and the bewildered nistrative terror," that included crowd reportedly made its way to a fines, 10- to 15-day prison terms, militia station to inquire about the and other harassment for their acti­ detainees. There they were attacked vities. These included: by a cordon of militia with rubber • Ivan Gel, Mykhailo Horyn, Boh­ truncheons, who reportedly beat dan Horyn, Pavlo Skochok, Hry- women, children and elderly, horiy Prykhodko, Ivan Kandyba and hospitalizing five victims. Officials Iryna Kalynets, who were detained at the October 3 meeting promised for several hours during President to investigate and set up a Gorbachev's visit to Lviv on Fe­ procurator's commission. bruary 21; • Twenty factories and institu­ • Mrs. Kalynets was tried on tions in Lviv held strikes and March 9-10 on charges of allegedly meetings on October 26 again to yelling obscenities against Russian protest the local authorities' un­ Orthodox Metropolitan Nikodim willingness to prosecute those during a January 22 moleben in responsible for police brutality front of St. George's Cathedral, and against demonstrators on October sentenced to 10 days in jail; lUkraina Society 1. • Mykhailo Horyn and Valeriy Remains of Stalin victims are reburied after a mass grave was • The first ever officially sanc­ Kuzmin, head of the Chernivtsi UHU discovered in Demianiv Laz, outside of Ivano-Frankivske. tioned meeting organized by the braqch, v wepe arrested oq AprP ; 1989: A LOOK BACK

while a Ukrainian poetess, Lyubov mic shortages have increased and Ukraine: endings, beginnings Kovalevska has produced an inde­ produced a tense situation in some pendent and damning account of areas. Above all, the current lack of The year 1989 saw the end of an example of the differences between the health effects of Chornobyl, faith in the party and the Komsomol unpopular party leader in Ukraine, eastern and western Ukraine, and it parts of which were published in has reached new heights. Volodymyr Shcherbytsky. His down­ is this sort of qap that must be filled Literaturna Ukraina. To this observer, it remains un­ fall had been widely predicted since if Rukh is to find success, for Ukrai­ Concern about Chornobyl fos­ clear whether economic sovereign­ 1985 by Sovietologists and pundits, nian power has traditionally lain tered the establishment of Zelenyi ty — currently under debate — can all of whom had "discovered" rea­ with the industrialized cities of the Zvit (Green World) in December resolve Ukraine's economic dilem­ sons why his removal was inevitable: east. 1988. Chaired by Dr. Shcherbak, it mas. A republic that has been sys­ as a Brezhnev holdover; as a politi­ Rukh, like the Shevchenko Ukrai­ has focused also on the deplorable tematically shorn of its natural cal victim of Chornobyl; as a Russi- nian Language Society led by 60- environmental situation in Ukraine: resources for an economy geared to fier in a time of greater cultural year-old poet Dmytro Pavlychko, on factories in Mariupil; on the quantitative output cannot suddenly awareness; as an impediment to the has sought to make Ukrainian the unsolved hair loss of children of reverse the process. Ukraine's non­ progress of perebudova in Ukraine. state language of Ukraine. The Chernivtsi; on the steelworks of renewable resources are depleted, But it did not happen that way, and Ukrainian Supreme Soviet made Dnipropetrovske. One in four chil­ its steel and chemical industries — in fact, the Party Plenum on Septem­ this desire a reality with an October dren in some eastern cities are said and most certainly its nuclear power ber 28, attended by Mikhail 28 decree, stipulating that from to be ill as a result of environmental industry — cannot develop without Gorbachev, saw Mr. Shcherbytsky January 1, 1990, Ukrainian will be pollution. An underground film due consultation with environmen­ nudged into honorable retirement. the state language of the republic, called "Hostages," made in Zapo- tal groups and with the public. This His replacement, Volodymyr Iva­ while Russian will be used for com­ rizhzhia, provided gruesome shots is as it should be, but Ukraine-based shko, 14 years his junior at 57, munication between nationality of babies, grossly deformed as a agencies will now encounter the remains an unknown quantity. Two groups. The decree must be regard­ result of chemical releases into the same sort of problems that have Ukrainian visitors to the West — ed as a significant achievement on atmosphere. long frustrated the more ruthless Volodymyr Yavorivsky and Yuriy the part of the society, which also Zelenyi Svit held its founding Moscow-based ministries. Pokalchuk — have both commented began the year with a founding congress on October 26-28 in Kiev. Finally, as one who peruses the that they are optimistic about Mr. congress on February 11-12. There appear to be wide differences Ukrainian press on a daily basis, it Ivashko. It has to be said, however, Turning to the environment, the over future directions. One group, should be acknowledged that the that there are few logical reasons for year 1989 provided the first accurate led by Dr. Shcherbak, supports the official newspapers have become such views. Mr. Ivashko has already accounts from an official Ukrainian continuation of the organization as serious discussion sheets. Whilethe offered harsh opinions on groups source about the effects of Chor­ an informal pressure lobby; another party leadership has clung to the that he considers anti-Soviet, such increasingly obsolete Pravda U- as the Ukrainian Helsinki Union and krainy, its Ukrainian-language the Ukrainian Democratic Union, counterpart, Radianska Ukraina, and as a former party boss in Mr. has provided some excellent ar­ Shcherbytsky's "fiefdom" of Dni- ticles. Literaturna Ukraina is a qua­ propetrovske, he is unlikely to look lity newspaper, although limited by kindly toward Rukh or Popular small circulation, a factor that ap­ Movement of Ukraine for Perebu­ plies even more seriously to Kultura dova. i Zhyttia, which is to be merged with For the latter, the year marked the education newspaper, Radian- notable progress. Rukh published a ska Osvita. Having the conservative draft program in Literaturna Ukraina Mykola Shybyk as editor has not on February 16, which was instantly prevented Robitnycha Hazeta from assailed by the party leadership. highlighting a host of ecological Rukh, it was claimed, was made up problems in Ukraine; while for sheer of writers and intellectuals, divorced discussion and debate, Molod U- from the reality of factory life. The krainy has emerged as the most Initiative Group, led by Ivan Drach, readable newspaper in the republic persisted, however. A recent survey — leaving aside newspapers that are conducted in Kiev has indicated that not exported, such as Vechirniy the Rukh has widespread support Kyiv. among the population, particularly The future remains uncertain. in western and central Ukraine. Mr. Ukraine is a politically volatile re­ Drach was duly elected its president public, one in which an authentic at the founding congress held in "public opinion" has developed Kiev on September 8-10, an event belatedly. There is much catching perceived by some Ukrainians as up to do, and one perceives a frantic marking a revival of Ukraine as a nobyl. A January interview with has founded a Green Party, aimed at activity among groups. Omitted nation. Ukrainian Politburo member Borys more radical action. Such diver­ here is the spiritual development of It might be more accurate to see Kachura had suggested that few gences have characterized Ukrai­ Ukraine. Suffice it to say that along­ the congress as a starting point health effects had emerged from the nian politics this year. The Greens side the apparent moral bankruptcy rather than the fruition of such disaster. By March, the govern­ have successfully campaigned of the party in Ukraine, the simple ambitions. When Mr. Gorbachev ment's information section was against the Crimean and Chyhyryn faith of the Ukrainian Catholics and visited Rukh activists in Kiev in demonstrating the opposite. Radio­ nuclear plants, both of which were the defiance of the Ukrainian Ortho­ February, they denied that they active cesium, it noted, had conta­ shut down on 1989 (in October and dox brethren shines like a veritable were trying to establish an alterna­ minated areas of northern Ukraine as May, respectively), but they have beacon of hope. For the academic tive party. But at the same time, they far west as Rivne Oblast, and south not satisfied a thirst for more funda­ observor, it is as though an entire could hardly remain indifferent to of the city of Kiev. Milk products in mental changes. archive has suddenly been opened the vacuum left by the Ukrainian some areas were 80 times above the The year has seen the emergence up to a frustrated researcher. But Communist Party in its participation permissible norm. Three films have of a host of new informal groups, like any archive, whereas some in major events. Both the success circulated that pertain particularly many with their own newspapers roads lead to gold, others lead to and the problems of Rukh were to the situation in Narodychi Raion, and brochures, some of high qua­ unknown destinations, not all of encapsulated in the July coal miners' about 60 miles to the west of the lity. The West has been inundated which are worth pursuing. Ukraine, strike. The party leadership failed damaged reactor: "Threshold," "Mi- with visitors from Ukraine; Ukrai­ as a nation, appears to have a future, manifestly to support the miners' kro-fon!" and "Zapredel." nian society has in a very real sense, but there is as yet no clear indication demands for better provisions, In northern Zhytomyr Oblast, opened up to the outsider. At the of what that future will look like or better housing, higher pay and hundreds of children have become same time, the republic is facing who will lead the way to it. longer vacations, and Rukh to some sick with thyroid problems, cata­ major economic and social pro­ extent was able to offer material racts of the eyes and general ill­ blems that frequently take on a — Dr. David Marples support. nesses resulting from a weakening political form. Thus the summer The miners duly dispatched dele­ of their immune systems. In dis­ coal strike led to the formation of the gations to the founding congress. tricts such as Luhyny, Narodychi Regional Union of Strike Commit­ Shortly afterward, however, the and Korosten, residents have been tees of the Donbas, which has taken Voroshylovhrad branch withdrew consuming contaminated products actual power in some mining com­ from Rukh, on the grounds that they for more than three years. Moscow munities. The lack of political free­ were alienated by the national sym­ News, interviewing writers Yuriy dom led to widespread demands for bols on display. They did not com­ Shcherbak and Ales Adamovich, changes to the electoral law, which prehend the meaning of the tryzub published an article titled "The Big provides a guaranteed 25 percent of and the blue-and-yellow flag. More Lie." A Soviet reporter, Andrei I llesh, seats in a future Ukrainian Supreme seriously, they did not know Ukrai­ revealed that there have been more i Soviet to the party and its affiliates nian. One could hardly find a better than 250 Chornobyl-related deaths, (Komsomol, trade unions)! Econo­ 1989: A LOOK BACK

tional day of prayer; and on Septem­ Our Churches ber 17 when between 150,000 and Although the Millennium year, administrative step, which may be 250.000 faithful marched in Lviv to 1988, made headlines as Ukrainian granted, according to Western au­ demand restoration of their Church's Christians celebrated 1,000 years of thorities on Church matters, with legal status. This demonstration the Christianization of Rus'-Ukraine, the passage of the Soviet law on was, reportedly, to date, the largest It was 1989 that was a landmark year freedom of conscience in early demonstration of Ukrainian Catho­ for believers in the Soviet Union, as 1990. lics since World War II. the government relaxed its reins on Ukrainian Catholic bishops in On October 29, the congregation religious freedom for believers. Ukraine drew attention to the plight of the Church of the Transfigura­ The Church that perhaps won of their Church in May, when they tion in Lviv, following its priest, most media attention and made the decided to meet with the newly became a Ukrainian Catholic most progress in its demands was appointed chairman of the Council Church, changing allegiance from the Ukrainian Catholic, which is also for Religious Affairs in the Soviet the Russian Orthodox Church known as the Ukrainian Greek- Union, Yuriy Khristoradnov, who (ROC). For weeks afterwards, the Catholic (referring to the Eastern replaced longtime chairman Kon- congregation was accused of taking rite) and Uniate (a pejorative re­ stantin Kharchev. the church by force; the ROC ferring to the 1596 Union Cf Brest, They staged a hunger strike in the hierarchs, including Archbishop when Ukrainians signed allegiance reception area of the building of the Kirill, who was appointed the chair­ to Rome), Supreme Soviet until they were man of the ROC's foreign relations After the emergence of some of its granted a meeting with the chair­ department, spread this news in the underground hierarchs in August man of the Council for Religious media, however, Canadian and 1987, the Church's believers be­ Affairs. Although they did not come French broadcast crews present at came more vocal, signing petitions to any definite agreements after the events of October 29, as well as marching through streets of western their meeting with the Soviet chair­ Lviv Mayor Bohdan Kotyk acknow­ Ukrainian cities, staging hunger man, they did bring up their con­ ledged that no violence was strikes and demanding the return of cerns in regard to the Ukrainian displayed at the Church of the Ukrainian Catholic churches and Catholic Church. The hierarchs Transfiguration. the rehabilitation of the Church that went back to western Ukraine, but a Since that time thousands of was liquidated in a staged synod delegation of 400 Ukrainian Catho­ Ukrainian Catholic faithful attend inspired by Stalinist terror in March lic faithful gathered in Moscow to services at the church daily. The 1946. hold a moleben in front of the Rev. Myroslav Tataryn of St. Catha­ At one point, local Soviet authori­ Moskva Hotel. As newly elected rines, Ontario, holds the distinction ties and the KGB in Ukraine ap­ members of the Congress of of having served liturgy there in late proached Ukrainian Catholic People's Deputies filed past them to November, the first of Western bishops with an offer that they would their sessions, the faithful asked clergy to do so. On November 26, a day of prayer be allowed to hold religious services them to bring up the legalization of |WCC Photo: Peter Williams without interference if they were the Church during their meetings. and fasting proclaimed by Cardinal Lubachivsky, once again thousands A Ukrainian Catholic protester in held in Latin rite churches in U- Ukrainian Catholic hunger strikers Moscow in July. kraine. The Ukrainian Catholic Press continued staging protests in front of faithful in western Ukraine took part in liturgies and molebens on the Bureau in Rome reported on March of the Ukrainskaya Kniga bookstore lievers, gathered in late February in eve of ihe summit between Pope 15 that Church sources in U- on Moscow's Arbat through the the city center of Lviv to hold a John Paul II and Soviet President kraine dismissed the offers as a summer months, callinq attention to requiem service on the occasion of Mikhail Gorbachev at the Vatican. maneuver to divert serious discus­ their Church during a World Council the 128th anniversary of the death of sion of the UCC's legalization. of Churches session in Moscow in Just five days later they received Taras Shevchenko. By the end of 1989, Ukrainian July. Their strike continued from news that, indeed, congregations Both Ukrainian Catholic and U- Catholics were registering their mid-May through mid-September would be allowed to register as krainian Orthodox Churches found congregations with local councils until they were arrested on Monday, Ukrainian Catholic. Ukrainian Ca­ many good friends, public figures for religious affairs, in compliance September 18, and ordered back to tholics, members of the Committee both in the West and in the Soviet with a decree by the republican western Ukraine. in Defense of the Rights of the Union who spoke out in support of Council for Religious Affairs issued Ukrainian Catholics marched en Ukrainian Catholic Church, headed the legalization of both Churches. on November 28 and proclaimed on masse along the streets of western by former political prisoner Ivan Gel, Among those were the late dissident December 1, which coincided with Ukrainian cities on a number of rejoiced at the news and began and Nobel Peace Prize winner An­ the meeting of Pope John Paul II occasions over the year to call urging that congregations register. drei Sakharov who, on a number of and Soviet President Mikhail Gorba­ attention to the plight of their More than 600 reportedly registered occasions, including during visits chev at the Vatican, also on the first church, most notably on June 18 by the end of 1989. to Italy and Canada, and an au­ day of December. Now, as the new when 100,000 faithful participated in In a true spirit of ecumenism, in dience with Cardinal Lubachivsky, decade unfolds, Ukrainian Catho­ public services in Ivano-Frankivske, Lviv more than 25,000 Ukrainian called for the legalizaton of the lics continue to press for the legali­ responding to Cardinal Myroslav Catholics and Ukrainian Orthodox, Ukrainian Catholic Church. zation of their Church, a legal, not Lubachivsky's call for an interna­ as well as Russian Orthodox be- The U.S. State Department spoke out for religious freedom in Ukraine, as did the Helsinki Commission, which supported the right to free­ dom of worship on a number of occasions. At the Conference on the Human Dimension in Paris this past June U.S. Ambassador Morris Abram said: "And even when a faith is forced to accept the requirement of registra­ tion, why must some denominations be denied recognition, in violation of the Vienna Concluding Docu­ ment? For example, the Ukrainian Catholic Church and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church continue not to be recognized by Soviet authorities."

He concluded: "We hope that the new laws and regulations regarding religious practices promised by the Soviet authorities —- which we will carefully look at in Copenhagen — will eliminate the requirement for registration and other restrictive practices. We also hope that the Soviet authorities will incorporate into these laws and practices their commitment in the Vienna Con­ cluding Document regarding the right to give and receive religious Lviv residents march on September 17, in the largest demonstration of Ukrainian Catholics since World War II. education for all ages, including the 1989: A LOOK BACK liberty of parents to ensure the The Ukrainian Churches were Also, Bishop Michael Kuchmiak, historical review of the availability of religious and moral education of also active in the diaspora, as their auxiliary to Archbishop-Metropoli­ Bibles in the territory that is now the their children in the language they leaders and faithful spoke out for the tan Stephen Sulyk, was named the Soviet Union, he noted, that from choose..." rights of the faithful in Ukraine. new apostolic exarch for Ukrainian the beginning of this century In a letter dated August 2, the full Such committees as the Committee Catholics in Great Britain in July. through 1917, only 1 million copies membership of the U.S. Commis­ for the Defense of Religious Free­ Also in 1989, Bishop Vsevolod of of the Scriptures were available to a sion on Security and Cooperation in dom in Ukraine and the Campaign the Ukrainian Orthodox Church population that exceeded 190 mil­ Europe (CSCE) called upon Soviet for Legalization of Ukrainian under the jurisdiction of Constan­ lion. From 1917 to 1986, he noted, President Gorbachev to allow un­ Churches, based inSimsbury, Conn., tinople called for ecumenism be­ 4.1 million Bibles were made avail­ restricted freedom of worship for wrote letters to U.S. government tween Ukrainian Catholic and U- able in the Soviet Union, but most of Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox officials demanding that rights be krainian Orthodox Churches during these were either smuggled into the believers. restored to Ukrainian Churches in a historic conference in Toronto in country, printed clandestinely, or The U.S. Congress responded to Ukraine. early December which coincided secretly imported. Only about an appeal by U.S. Catholic Bishop The Ukrainian Catholic Press with the pontiff's historic meeting 450,000 were government-sanc­ Basil Losten, who argued for the Bureau, based in Rome, opened in with Mr. Gorbachev. tioned via the Russian Orthodox legalization of the UCC. Since Sep­ February, keeping close contact with Church. Prof. Eliott "guestimated" Probably the book that most often tember 15, more than 100 members Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk, that between 1987 and 1988 about crossed the border into the Soviet of Congress have written individual metropolitan locum tenens of Lviv, 1.3 million Bibles were imported to Union this year was the Bible, as letters to President Gorbachev. and tracking events for the western the USSR by legal means, and his Soviet authorities relaxed restric­ Even Soviet publications brought media in regard to the Ukrainian tions on sending religious literature projections for 1989 based on re­ up the issue of the Ukrainian Catho­ Catholic Church. to believers. And many of the Bibles ports from various Western-based lic Church, as Ogonyok and Mos­ NKM Associates, a Washington- sent were Ukrainian-language Bible societies, Churches, mission cow News acknowledged in late based lobbying group, was also Bibles, thanks to the diligent efforts groups and religious organizations 1989 the right to existence for the hired by Bishop Basil Losten of of such organizations as the Ukrai­ amount to anywhere between 5.5 Ukrainian Catholic Church. Stamford to lobby U.S. senators and nian Family Bible Association, the million and 6 million Bibles for the Sixteen prominent academics, representatives on behalf of the Ukrainian Catholic eparchy of Stam­ Soviet Union. writers and cultural leaders from Ukrainian Catholic Church. ford, the Philadelphia Ukrainian It is such spiritual hunger that western Ukraine, including four de­ Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs Catholic diocese, the St. Sophia inspired a 59-year-old resident of puties from the Supreme Soviet, made headlines in The Weekly this Religious Association of Ukrainian the Dnipropetrovske Oblast in U- wrote a letter to President Gorba­ year, as a controversy developed Catholics in Canada and the Ukrai­ kraine to write: "For the t»rat time in chev in September, urging legaliza­ surrounding Bishop Isidore Bo- nian Catholic eparchy of Toronto, my life I am reading the holy scrip­ tion of the Ukrainian Catholic recky of the Toronto eparchy, who as well as the Ukrainian Evangelical tures... People come every day to me Church. was asked to resign, supposedly Baptist Fellowship. to take a look at the Bible and today The Ukrainian Autocephalous because he had reached retirement there is already a line of 30 persons. Orthodox Church also began age (75). The controversy, which Dr. Mark Elliott, the director of the Some ask to borrow it for one night making headway for its legalization reportedly also developed because Institute forthe Study of Christianity in order to copy down a passage. in mid-February, announcing the the bishop of Toronto had sent and Marxism from Wheaton College, Here (especially in eastern Ukraine) formation of the Initiative Commit­ married candidates for priesthood spoke at a seminar sponsored by Ke- there has been a constant hunger tee for the Renewal of the Ukrainian to be ordained in Ukraine, saw the ston College in April. Giving a brief for religious literature." Autocephalous Orthodox Church, bishop holding his own, as he re­ which included as members the Rev. ported he would not resign because Bohdan Mykhailechko, Taras An- the age issue did not affect bishops East-West relations foniuk, Anatoliy Bytchenko, Mykola of the Eastern-rite, although he did Budnyk and Larysa Lokhvytska. add that he would step down if he The year began on a not-too- tal freedoms." were to receive a co-adjutor to take By August one Russian Orthodox positive note when the Reagan Richard Schifter, assistant secre­ parish in Lviv, Ss. Peter and Paul, his place as the hierarch of Toronto. administration announced on Ja­ tary of state for human rights and had announced that it was switching (In May, he celebrated 40 years as nuary 4 that it would support the humanitarian affairs said the agree­ to Ukrainian autocephaly, with bishop of Toronto and 50 years as a holding of a human rights meeting ment provided the most significant parish priest Volodymyr Yarema priest.) in Moscow in 1991 as part of the new guarantees of human rights leading the way. He also said that a The issue was to be resolved at the Helsinki Accords review process. since the Helsinki Accords them­ number of UAOC communities had synod of Ukrainian Catholic bishops Adoption of the proposal, one of the selves were signed in 1975. formed in cities and villages around in Rome. However, to date Bishop last sticking points at the Vienna First in a series of 10 special Ukraine. Borecky still heads the Toronto Conference on Security and Coope­ meetings mandated by the Vienna On October 20, the Ukrainian Au­ eparchy; he has no named co-ad­ ration in Europe meeting since No­ Concluding Document was the Lon­ tocephalous Orthodox Church's jutor. (According to Bishop Losten, vember 1986, was long sought by the don Information Forum held April 16 faithful and clergy participated in a Ukrainian Catholic bishops did Soviets. to May 12, which focused on the free sobor in Lviv, the first of that Church decide at their synod to make 75 the The administration's decision was flow of information. since its forced liquidation in 1930s. mandatory retirement age for bi­ criticized by those who felt that Next came the Paris Conference During this sobor a hierarch of the shops). The Ukrainian Catholic there had not been enough progress on the Human Dimension. The Russian Orthodox Church, loann bishops in diaspora held their on human rights in the USSR to Paris meeting, held May 30 to Bodnarchuk of Zhytomyr, re­ two-week sixth synod in Rome from justify holding a human rights meet­ June 23, succeeded in advancing nounced his position as a member late September through October 8. ing there. Among the critics were human rights proposals which will of the ROC and became the spiritual Their sessions were closed and, as a members of the U.S. Helsinki Com­ be further discussed at the next two leader of UAOC faithful in Ukraine. result, little was reported in the mission. However, the U.S. did place CHDs, in Copenhagen in 1990 and He was later excommunicated from press about their meetings. How­ certain preconditions on the hold­ in Moscow in 1991. Several Ukrai­ the ROC, ever, according to Bishop Losten, ing of a CSCE meeting in Moscow, nian non-governmental organiza­ The sobor allowed the UAOC who acted as spokesperson for the including the release of all political tions played a role in Paris by raising faithful to form brotherhoods. This synod, the Ukrainian Catholic hi­ prisoners, resolution of divided Ukrainian concerns through de­ sober was followed by a meeting of erarchs discussed the situation in families cases, an end to jamming monstrations, press conferences, UAOC representatives in Kiev on Ukraine and hoped to hold eucha­ of Radio Liberty and easing of emi­ meetings with delegations and December 9, which discussed future ristic congresses in Winnipeg in gration restrictions. similar activities. Among these steps for the renewal of theUAOC in 1992, 1994 in Poland and 1996 in Twelve days later, the 35 states groups were the World Congress of Ukraine, as the conference's main Lviv. (If the Church is indeed le­ meeting in Vienna agreed on a Free Ukrainians and Americans for objective was to discuss how to galized and the planning for the concluding document to that full- Human Rights in Ukraine. Local spread the concept of a Ukrainian eucharistic congress can be moved scale Helsinki Accords review con­ Ukrainians also participated, as did variant of Orthodoxy in Ukraine. up, it is indeed possible that Ukrai­ ference. U.S. delegation chief War­ Lev Lukianenko, head of the Ukrai­ Probably the biggest roadblock nian Catholic hierarchs will visit Lviv ren Zimmermann was quoted as nian Helsinki Union. for the Ukrainian Churches was the as part of the eucharistic congress saying that the Vienna document Also as part of the Helsinki pro­ Russian Orthodox Church, which, at an earlier date.) was "by far the strongest set of cess, a meeting on protection of the to date has not undergone any kind According to Bishop Losten, the commitments on human rights that environment was held in Sofia, of perebudova, as evidenced by hierarchs discussed at length the we have ever had in any East-West Bulgaria, on October 16 to Novem­ statements made throughout the situation of Ukrainian Catholics in document." ber 3. The 35 states were unable to year by Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev, Poland, as well as the beatification Among its provisions were the reach consensus on a final commu­ Russian Orthodox exarch of U- process for Metropolitan Andrey creation of a formal mechanism via nique due to the intransigence of a kraine. Whereas, the state has been Sheptytsky, which has been un­ which countries may complain to lone participant, Rumania, prepared to make concessions to necessarily prolonged. others about human rights abuses However, the proposed final com­ the Ukrainian Catholic Church, It was in 1989 that Ukrainian and recognition that signatory states munique co-sponsored by all other hierarchs of the ROC, among them Catholics in Poland got their first must "respect the right of their states did acknowledge "the impor­ Filaret and Nikodim, as late as hierarch, when Pope John Paul II on citizens to contribute actively, indi­ tance of the contributions of per­ December wrote that "there is no July 20 named the Rt. Rev. Ivan vidually or in association with sons and organizations dedicated to such Church as the Ukrainian Ca­ Martyniak auxiliary bishop for U~ others, to the promotion and protec­ the protection and improvement of tholic Church." >• r?./v,w;>--..•*/• . krainian Catholics in Poland. tion of human rights and fundamen- the environment" and reiterated the 1989: A LOOK BACK participating states' willingness to ton Group to assess developments promote "greater public awareness in Ukraine, Rep. Steny Hoyer, co- The Demjanjuk case and understanding of environmen­ chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Com­ tal issues." It recommended the mission, focused his remarks on the As the year drew to a close, there because it said the attack was pre­ exchange of information and coor­ achievements of the Helsinki pro­ was a major victory for the John meditated and had caused bodily dination of efforts "to achieve closer cess and the principle of self-deter­ Demjanjuk Defense Fund in its harm. harmonization concerning the ma­ mination, saying that the latter is Freedom of Information Act suit On November 16, Israel's High nagement of hazardous chemicals" "one of the most pressing political against the Office of Special Inves­ Court of Justice ruled that one of the and proposed adoption of interna­ problems facing the Soviet leader­ tigations. On December 14, a federal country's largest newspapers, Ye- tional conventions on "prevention ship today." He emphasized: "Just judge ruled that two former govern­ diot Aharanot, had violated the "sub and control of transboundary ef­ as we have stood forthrightly within ment prosecutors must submit to judice" principle because its stories fects of industrial accidents" and the Helsinki process on the question depositions regarding their roles in contained elements that in fact "protection and use of transboun­ of human rights generally, we must questioning two prosecution wit­ incriminated Mr. Demjanjuk of dary watercourses and international stand forthrightly on the issue of nesses in the denaturalization case being "Ivan the Terrible." Coverage lakes." self-determination in particular. filed by the OSI against Mr. Demjan­ of the case, the court's majority NGO access to the meeting was ...Our obligation is to support their juk. Norman Moskowitz and John opinion said, could be construed as facilitated by the host country, an (the USSR peoples') right to deter­ Horrigan were to submit to depo­ an attempt to influence the court. East-bloc state, which set an impor­ mine their own destiny." sitions, respectively, on December The High Court also ordered the tant precedent for the 1991 Moscow During 1986 there were also a 27 and 28. police to investigate to what extent meeting on the human dimension. number of developments in Wash­ Meanwhile, Mr. Demjanjuk, who criminal charges could be filed Represented among the NGOs ington that affected Ukraine and was convicted in April 1988 of Nazi against the newspaper's reporter. was the WCFU Ecological Com­ Ukrainians. war crimes and sentenced to death, For the record, Mr. Demjanjuk mission. On November 3, the House and continued his long wait in Ayalon turned 69 on April 3. Senate Conference Committee on Prison, as his final appeal to the The Soviet Union was readmitted, the Foreign Aid Appropriations Bill Israeli Supreme Court was twice conditionally, to the World Psychia­ adopted language which includes postponed this year. The appeal, tric Association on October 17 after Ukrainian Catholics and Ukrainian which was to have been heard be­ its delegation had acknowledged Orthodox as Soviet groups pre­ ginning on May 4 was first post­ publicly that psychiatry in the USSR sumed to be subject to persecution poned to November 1 after his chief had indeed been abused for politi­ and, therefore, eligible for refugee defense attorney, Yoram Sheftel, cal purposes. The move was con­ status. The bill also provided for an sought the delay due to his own ill demned by many observers who allocation of 1,000 slots for admis­ health following a December 1988 noted that such abuses continue, sion into the U.S. of these Ukrai­ attack by a Holocaust survivor who people under whose leadership nians. The adopted amendment hurled acid in his face. Mr. Sheftel Soviet psychiatry had been abused replaces an amendment proposed suffered an eye injury, in addition, in the past remain in power in the by Sen, Frank Lautenberg which Mr. Sheftel cited continuing difficul­ Soviet psychiatric community and failed to recognize the two groups ties in finding a defense lawyer to have not been censured, and that as persecuted. In the end, following replace Dov Eitan, who apparently those formerly held in psykhushky vocal Ukrainian American commu­ committed suicide in December of for political reasons have not been nity protests, a new amendment was last year. - rehabilitated. r negotiated by representatives of Then on September 13, the Su­ The WPA's vote at its interna­ Sen. Lautinberg, Rep. Bruce Morri­ preme Court permitted another tional congress in Athens was ho son, several Jewish organizatibns postponement when Mr. Sheftel surprise, as previously the WPA's and the Washington Office of the argued that this was necessitated by six-member executive committee Ukrainian National Association. The newfound evidence in the United had voted for provisional readmis- accepted amendment was based on States, sion of the Soviet All-Union Society legislation originally introduced by The evidence consisted of perti­ of Psychiatrists and Neuropatholo­ John Demjanjuk Rep. Morrison. nent documents found in a garbage gists. President George Bush signed bin at the Justice Department. Mr. In related developments, a day­ In a related development, the the measure into law on November Sheftel said the OSI was guilty of long seminar called "Ten Years of U.S. psychiatric team that visited the 21, along with another appropria­ "concealing important evidence on the OSI: Current Trends and Future USSR earlier this year released its tions bill, the Commerce, Justice, the one hand and falsifying other Solutions," was sponsored in Wash­ report at the July 12 hearing of the State and Judiciary Appropriations evidence." The Israeli court granted ington by Americans for Due Pro­ U.S. Helsinki Commission. The Act, which provided, among other a postponement and the appeal is cess on April 29. Its participants delegation, which had interviewed things, $100,000 for the work of the now slated to be heard beginning on were lawyers, representatives of Soviet psychiatric patients and citi­ U.S. Commission on the Ukraine May 14, 1990. ethnic organizations and activists zens formerly hospitalized, noted Famine. Dr. James E. Mace, staff In Washington, an Ohio congress­ concerned with due process. The that Soviet psychiatry has a long director, stated that the famine man, James Traficant Jr., charged seminar focused on the OSI's cur­ way to go before it can be consi­ commission would now be able to that the Justice Department may rent cases, procedural and legal dered reformed. complete its study of the famine of have deliberately withheld informa­ shortcomings, and use of Soviet- On October 7, in his keynote 1932-1933 and to publish its find­ tion that shows a key witness for the supplied evidence. ings along with appropriate suppor­ address before the Leadership Con­ prosecution of Mr. Demjanjuk lied. ference sponsored byTheWashing- tive materials. In mid-October, U.S. Attorney Speaking at a press conference on General Thornburgh signed an August 2, Rep. Traficant said excul­ agreement on joint prosecution of Consulates in Kiev patory information turned up among Nazi war criminals with Procurator discarded documents in the Justice General Alexander Sukharev. The On November 23, Canadian basis." Department trash and called upon memorandum formalized the exist­ the department to reopen the case Prime Minister Brian Mulroney About a week earlier, the French ing practice of cooperation in in­ against Mr. Demjanjuk. In a letter to announced in Kiev that Canada daily newspaper Le Monde re­ vestigating and prosecuting sus­ Attorney General Richard Thorn- will open a consulate in the Ukrai­ ported that the Soviet Union and pects. burgh, the congressman asked him nian capital in recognition of "the France rjad agreed on the open­ to authorize "an objective review" of In Britain, a war crimes inquiry close ties of family and friendship ing of reciprocal consulates in the work done by the OSI on the recommended on July 24 that Bri­ that bind the peoples of Canada Kiev and Strasbourg. Demjanjuk case. tish law be amended to provide for and Ukraine." The announce­ As well, the United Kingdom prosecution of Nazi war crimes in ment was made during the prime and the United States have plans Previously, Rep. Traficant had that country. minister's five-day trip to the for consulates in the Ukrainian raised the Demjanjuk case twice on In late November, the Christian USSR, which also took him to capital. the floor of the House of Repre­ Science Monitor reported that Ca­ Moscow and Leningrad. In the United States, concerns sentatives, on June 20 and on July nada was investigating more than During his trip to Kiev, Mr. about security in the wake of the 18, citing various'lrregularities" 200 war crimes suspects, and that Mulroney became the first We­ Moscow Embassy bugging stall­ in the case. Australia was looking into over 600 stern leader to meet Volodymyr ed the Kiev consulate. However, Back in Israel, Mr. Sheftel's at­ cases. Ivashko, the recently named first the Congress and administration tacker, Yisrael Yehezkieli, was con­ secretary of the Communist Party now lean toward the opening of a victed on March 13 of aggravated The Ottawa Citizen reported on of Ukraine. non-secure small consulate in the assault and was subsequently sen­ December 6 that a team of investi­ Although no date has been set Ukrainian capital, and the issue is tenced to three years in prison, two gators from the RCMP and the for the consulate opening, the expected to be taken up again in years' probation and $11,000 in Canadian Justice Department was Office of the Prime Minister is­ 1990. compensation to Mr. Sheftel. Mr. in Lviv, Ukraine, searching for war Yehezkieli appealed to the Supreme sued an official announcement Thus far, Kiev is home to two crimes evidence. The group was Court to reduce his sentence, ar­ which stated that the Canadian consulates, those of West Ger­ reported to be one of several that guing that it was excessive in view of government "will be proceeding many, opened on August 1, and have made regular trips to the USSR his a^anced TOe^-.bMt.thQopourt on with 4his matter on a pW^rvity &f$Rlartift • m-* <:• ov^the last^eari?r spjn^ryiewlns,. September 25 rejected the appeal witnesses and researching records. 1989: A LOOK BACK

Our community in diaspora supplies, worth approximately to be called the Children of Chor­ $100,000 was donated by Union nobyl Relief Fund; its management The World Congress of Free U- The convention was noteworthy due Hospital, on the initiative of its chief and functions remain the same as krainians declared 1989 as the Year to the appearance of guests from of surgery, Dr. Zenon Matkiwsky, as before. of the Ukrainian Language, with a Ukraine, including Mykola Horbal of well as several pharmaceutical Meanwhile in Canada, a massive special focus on retention of the the Ukrainian Helsinki Union's companies, and shipped at no rally for Rukh was held in Toronto Ukrainian language in diaspora. executive committee, and Volo­ charge to the USSR by Swissair at on December 10 to launch a fund- Then, in April, the world body dymyr Yavorivsky, a newly elected the end of October. In Moscow, raising drive through an initiative asked Ukrainian communities Ukrainian representative to the however, Aeroflot airlines charged group called Canadian Friends of throughout the world to mark the USSR Congress of People's De­ for transport of the packages from Rukh. The group aims to assist third anniversary of the Chornobyl puties. Vnukovo Airport to Kiev. According Rukh's charitable endeavors, help nuclear disaster by bringing to light In Canada, the Ukrainian Cana­ to Mr. Yavorivsky, who spoke at a finance its administrative structure the Soviet government's callous dian Committee also held a con­ press conference in Kiev, the fee and projects, and inform the news disregard for the welfare of the gress, re-electing Dr. Dmytro charged was "exhorbitant." media about Rukh activities. people and demanding a halt to the Cipywnyk as president. The con­ On December 10, a community Finally, a Toys for Children of construction of nuclear power sta­ clave focused on the upcoming meeting in New York resolved to Chornobyl drive was launched be­ tions in Ukraine. centennial in 1991-1992 of the extend the CCRF's organizational. fore Christmas by schools of Ukrai­ Following up, the WCFU's Chor­ arrival of the first Ukrainians in framework by including more repre­ nian studies in the United States in nobyl Commission issued a state­ Canada, the proposed Canadian sentatives of community organiza­ order to collect toys and money to ment about nuclear power in U- consulate in Kiev, and increased tions in a parent organization to be purchase toys and books for ailing kraine along with a petition that it immigration to Canada from called National Fund to Aid Ukraine. young victims of the Chornobyl nu­ asked Ukrainians to circulate. The Ukraine. The actual fund, however, continues clear disaster. petition sought a halt to expansion The UCC met with Prime Minister of nuclear energy, improved safety Brian Mulroney and two senior measures and abandonment of cen­ Cabinet ministers on September 19 Ukrainian National Association tralized decision-making in Mos­ to discuss the centennial, as well as This was the Ukrainian National Song and Dance Ensemble from the cow, as regards siting of nuclear other issues, including the Kiev Association's 95th anniversary year, Lemko region in April and the Ukrai­ reactors. consulate, Ukrainian refugees and and various events across the United nian Chamber Choir of Warsaw in Next the WCFU joined forces with defamation of ethnic groups by the States marked the jubilee. Foremost October. Baltic organizations and the Inter- media in stories about alleged Nazi among them was a concert of Ukrai­ The Association of UNA Seniors Religious Task Force for Human war criminals. nian music and dance at Lincoln held its annual conference at Soyu­ Rights and Religious Freedom in the On November 10, a roundtable Center's Avery Fisher Hall on Sep­ zivka in late May-early June and Soviet Union to protest criminal meeting on the issue of Canada- tember 17. The concert also marked elected Eugene Woloshyn presi­ code revisions in the USSR on Ukraine relations was held among the 40th anniversary of the Qumka dent. "crimes against the state" which did representatives of the UCC and the Chorus of New York. Soyuzivka, now in the capable not conform with international stan­ Department of External Affairs and At the beginning of the year, the hands of manager John A. Flis, had dards of justice and human rights. International Trade Canada. The UNA donated $10,000 for relief a successful 36th summer season The April 24 statement also called unprecedented meeting focused on efforts aimed at assisting Armenian and in August, Lida Zaluckyj, 23, of on the Helsinki Accords signa­ four major areas of concern: the earthquake victims. The donation the Bronx, N.Y., was selected as tories to hold off attendance at the Kiev consulate, immigration and was made in memory of the victims Miss Soyuzivka 1990. 1991 Moscow Conference on the human rights issues, cultural of the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear dis­ Also new at the upstate New York Human Dimension unless the law exchanges, and cooperation in aster, since, as UNA Supreme resort were two buildings; the Sich was amended. industry and trade. President John O. Flis pointed out, building housing summer emplo­ The WCFU president, Yuri In other community develop­ "We could not help our brothers in yees and the luxurious Karpaty Shymko, and the executive director ments during 1989, a Shevchenko Ukraine in 1986, but we can assist lodge (formerly Yasinnia). Both of its Human Rights Commission, Jubilee Committee, comprising the our brother Armenians today." The were dedicated during the annual Christina Isajiw, were among the Shevchenko Scientific Society, USSR, it should be recalled, had Father's Day festivities at Soyu­ contingent of Ukrainians active in UACCouncil and UCCA, celebrated refused to accept the Ukrainian zivka. promoting Ukrainian issues at the the 175th anniversary of the birth of community's offers of assistance to As the year drew to a close, all Paris Conference on the Human Ukraine's greatest poet, Taras Shev­ Chornobyl victims. eyes were on the upcoming UNA Dimension. Mr. Shymko held a chenko, in Washington on October In 1989, the UNA paid out $1 convention scheduled to.be held in press conference under the auspices 7. Some 2,000 persons attended the million in dividends to its members, May-June 1990 in Baltimore. A of the Canadian delegation to this moleben, march and concert held and assets topped $64 million. The Convention Committee headed by conference. that day. Among the speakers were UNA Supreme Assembly at its an­ Supreme Advisor Eugene Iwanciw In October, the WCFU sent Dr. Volodymyr Mokry of the Polish nual meeting in May voted to give and encompassing some 45 volun­ David Marples, author of two books Parliament, and Mr. Horbal. $67,000 in donations to Ukrainian teers from the Baltimore-Washing­ on the Chornobyl nuclear accident, In March, the formation of the causes and community groups. ton area, was busy preparing the to the special meeting on the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Lan­ And, the UNA's Scholarship Com­ way. protection of the environment held guage Society in the U.S. was mittee awarded $118,200 in scholar­ The UNA's Washington Office, within the framework of the Confe­ announced. It followed on the heels ships to 214 college and university with its three-person staff of Mr. rence on Security and Cooperation of the formation in Kiev of a society students throughout North Ame­ Iwanciw, director, John Kun, assis­ in Europe in Sofia, Bulgaria. Dr. by the same name, which held its rica. tant director, and Maria Lischak, Marples, sent as a representative of founding conference in February. During the year, the UNA spon­ secretary, began the year by distri­ the WCFU's Ecological Commis­ The U.S. body announced that it sored U.S. tours by two groups from buting packets of information about sion, distributed copies of his wanted to assist efforts to revitalize Poland: the Oslaviany Ukrainian Ukraine and Ukrainian Americans to analysis of the ecological situation the Ukrainian language in Ukraine in Ukraine to delegations at the con­ and that it would send T-shirts with ference and met personally with the slogan "Do your children speak delegates and environmentalists. Ukrainian?" as well as postcards of In the United States, the Ukrai­ Taras Shevchenko to Ukraine to nian American Coordinating Coun­ help promote national identity. cil at the beginning of the year held In response to the establishment more talks with the Ukrainian in September of the Popular Congress Committee of America Movement of Ukraine for Perebu- and the Conference of Neutral Or­ dova, community activists in the ganizations on re-establishment of a U.S. set up a Rukh Fund, in affilia­ single Ukrainian American central tion with the Taras Shevchenko organization. These did not fare Ukrainian Language Society, to very well, and in March the help support Ukraine's Rukh. Later UACCouncil issued a communique the fund was incorporated under the stating that negotiations had been name Children of Chornobyl Relief suspended due to the intransigence Fund, whose aim is to provide of the UCCA on certain provisions humanitarian, educational and and, most importantly, due to a charitable aid to Ukraine by working UCCA resolution published in with volunteers from the Rukh February in the press which stated organization in Ukraine. Thanks in that the UCCA was unilaterally large measure to the U.S. appea­ halting further negotiations until the rances of Mr. Yavorivsky, who is also next UCCA congress in 1992. head of the Kiev regional Rukh, the The UACCouncil held its second fund had more than $400,000 by convention on October 21-22, re­ mid-November. electing John O. Flis as president. The first shipment of medical View of the UNA's 95th anniversary concert at Avery Fisher Hall. 1989: A LOOK BACK all members of Congress on January The Washington Office was also 3, the first full day of the 101st involved in myriad issues concern­ Doing business with Ukraine Congress. Soon afterwards, to un­ ing Ukraine and Ukrainians in the derscore the democratic traditions Congress and the executive branch Even in the realm of business, • The Ukrainian SSR held its first of Ukraine, the office distributed of the U.S. government. Most no­ there were important developments trade show and exhibition outside copies of the historic Third Univer­ table among these was the issue of as regards Ukraine. As businessper- the USSR in Edmonton at the Klon­ sal of the Ukrainian National Re­ refugee status for Ukrainian Catho­ sons around the world began to take dike Days Exposition in July. public — which was officially pub­ lics and Ukrainian Orthodox from an interest in trade with the USSR • Biznex, a Kiev-based coopera­ lished in four languages, Ukrainian the USSR seeking admission into and its individual republics, Ukrai­ tive with activities in market re­ Russian, Polish and Yiddish — to this country, as well as in securing nian businessmen, primarily in the search, business education and each member of Congress. funding for the U.S. Commission on United States and Canada, too, statistical publications, sent a dele­ When the United States Informa­ the Ukraine Famine (see section on expressed their interest. gation to the United States in July tion Agency was planning an exhi­ East-West Relations). Meanwhile, the Ukrainian SSR as and August. Led by Sergiy Berezo- bit tour of the Soviet Union, the UNA well demonstrated that trade and venko, the six-man delegation made office spearheaded efforts aimed at In addition, the office coordi­ business were a top priority. numerous business contacts. The ensuring that information and per­ nated the schedule of Volodymyr group addressed the New England- sonnel for the Ukrainian leg of the Yavorivsky, Rukh activist and mem­ The listing that follows provides a Soviet Trade Council as well as an tour used the Ukrainian language. In ber of the USSR Congress of chronological glimpse into the all-day seminar on opportunities July, the office briefed the 24 USIA People's Deputies, when he twice burgeoning activity in this field. and problems of conducting busi­ guides who were to travel with the visited the nation's capital. • "Doing Business with Ukraine," ness ventures in Ukraine, spon­ "Design U.S.A." exhibit. And, finally, the office provided a two-day conference on the new sored by the law firm Baker and The Washington Office also work­ up-to-date information on all the possibilities in U.S.-Ukrainian eco­ McKenzie. They also met with U.S. ed at length with the Immigration doings in Washington. nomic ties, was held by the Ukrai­ government officials who deal in Soviet trade matters, including re­ and Naturalization Service to ac­ Also in 1989, the UNA mourned nian American Professionals and presentatives of the agriculture, quaint officials there with the plight the passing of some of its most Businesspersons Association of commerce, state and treasury de­ of Ukrainians in the USSR and active members, among them, UNA New York/New Jersey on April 15- partments. As well, the Biznex-men Poland. In addition to submitting Supreme Advisor Roman Tatarsky 16. sought out Ukrainian American briefing papers, Mr. Iwanciw ad­ (October 28), Wilkes-Barre District • In May, the SVIT Group of businesspersons as valuable con­ dressed INS personnel during a Chairman Wasyl Stefuryn (April 2), Companies based in Winnipeg tacts. weeklong training program in Sep­ and Fraternalist of the Year for 1988 signed major agreements with the tember. Lev Blonarovych (January 27). Ukrainian Foreign Trade Associa­ • From September 30 through tion (UKRIMPEX) and UKRINTOUR, October 15, a 68-member delega­ the newly established Ukrainian tion of Canadian, as well as some The scholarly world Association of Foreign Tourism. American businesspersons of U- SVIT will help identify trade partners Ukrainian descent, and several Ca­ for companies in Ukraine, market The major development in the (UVAN) and the Harvard Ukrainian nadian government officials jour­ and promote trade activities of world of academia, as far as Ukraine Research Institute, was held in New neyed to Ukraine on a fact-finding UKRIMPEX, and promote tourism to and Ukrainians are concerned, was York on March 25. trip aimed at examining business the establishment in June of the Ukraine. opportunities. Consisting of many International Association of Ukrai­ • At the University of Illinois • The first international joint- members of the Ukrainian Canadian nian Studies at a worldwide confe­ (Urbana-Champaign) in June, the venture management school in the Professional and Business Federa­ rence of scholars in Naples, Italy. Ukrainian Research Program's an­ Soviet Union was established in tion, the group wanted to assess the Dr. Vitaliy Rusanivsky, director of nual weeklong conference this year Kiev, capital of Ukraine, in early effects of glasnost and perestroika the Potebnia Institute of Linguistics focused on "Glasnost, Perestroika July. The International Manage^ in Ukraine, as well as to determine at the Ukrainian SSR Academy of and Ukraine" and brought together ment institute-Kiev was created as how the Ukrainian Canadian busi­ Sciences, was elected the lAUA's more than 150 scholars and specia­ a result of an agreement between ness community could help in U- first president. Elected as vice- lists from North America, Ukraine, the Geneva-based IMI and the Insti­ kraine's restructuring. The delega­ presidents were: Dr. George Grabo- West Germany, England, Australia, tute of Economics of the Ukrainian tion also attended a joint venture wicz (U.S.), Mykola Zhulynsky Israel and China. Academy of Sciences. Dr. Bohdan conference on October 3-5 in Kiev, (USSR), Dr. Riccardo Picchio (Italy) • The Shevchenko Scientific So­ Hawrylyshyn was chief negotiator and held business meetings in the and Dr. Ryszard Luzny (Poland). Dr. ciety was re-established in Lviv on for IMI-Geneva. Dr. Oleh Bilorus Ukrainian capital, Odessa and Lviv. Olexa Nyshanych (USSR) is the October 23 at a special meeting was named acting director of the The trip resulted in some 30-35 joint academic secretary of the associa­ convened by an organizing commit­ Kiev institute. IMI-Kiev held its venture proposals and the signing of tion. tee of leading scholars. Prof. Oleh inaugural meeting in October. some 26-27 agreements. Romaniv was elected president of trx Ukraine, the Association of the renewed society, which had Ukrainian Studies was founded existed in Lviv from 1873 through Visitors from Ukraine during a conference held on Octo­ 1940. ber 19. Ivan Dzyuba was elected During 1989 an unprecedented people's deputy representing a president of the association, which • Dr. David Marples'second book number and variety of Ukrainians Kharkiv district, was sponsored by is a member-organization of the on the nuclear accident that shook from the Soviet Union visited North The Washington Group of Ukrainian International Association of Ukrai­ Ukraine in 1986, titled "The Social America, Europe and Australia, American professionals. nian Studies. Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster," apparently as a result of loosened • Four high schools from U- was featured on the front page of the travel restrictions and a strong and kraine, including three from Kiev In the United States, the founding January 1 issue of the Los Angeles long-repressed interest in the West. and one from Lviv, participated in meeting of the American Associa­ Times Book Review and hailed as "a These visitors that filled our pages U.S. student exchanges in 1989: in tion of Ukrainian Studies was held shining example of the best type of with memorable words and images, February, students from Kiev School December 8-9 at Harvard University, non-Soviet analysis into topics that were indeed of a various sort: from No. 155 visited aTuscon, Ariz., high its president is Dr. John Fizer of only recently were absolutely taboo individuals seeking medical treat­ school; in March, students from Rutgers University. in Moscow official circles." In June, ment to prominent and lesser- Kiev's School of Intensive English There were other developments in Dr. Marples traveled to the Chor­ known figures in the worlds of art, Language No. 51 spent a month at the realm of scholarship as well. The nobyl area and Kiev on a fact­ scholarship, literature, theatre, Detroit area schools; also in March, following are a sampling of the most finding mission. music, politics; many participants in Lviv School No. 76 sent 12 students important. • The Canadian Institute of Ukrai­ the national renaissance, former to a Glastonbury, Conn., high • The first scholarly conference nian Studies, in association with political prisoners, USSR people's school; and nine teenagers from held specifically to address the Macmillan published "Chernobyl: A deputies; groups ranging from Kiev School No. 125 visited a Chi­ changes taking place in Ukraine in Documentary Story" by physician, schoolchildren to soccer teams to cago school in November. the context of glasnost and pere­ writer and environmental activist ballet troupes. • Prominent composer Myroslav stroika was held January 28-31 at Yuriy Shcherbak of Kiev. Here is a chronological list of Skoryk of Kiev and world-cass violi­ York University, just outside of • Dr. George G. Grabowicz, these visitors, who came for confe­ nist Oleh Krysa of Moscow arrived in Toronto, bringing together experts Dmytro Cyzevskyj Professor of U- rences, exchanges, private visits, the United States in early February in various fields from Canada, the krainian Literature at Harvard Uni­ medical treatment, speaking tours at the invitation of the Las Vegas United States, England and Ukraine. versity, was appointed director of and family visits. Symphony Orchestra and Virko • Three scholars from Ukraine — the university's Ukrainian Research • While on assignment (January Baley, its music director and con­ Ivan Dzyuba, Raisa Ivanchenko and Institute. He assumed his new duties 12-26) covering President George ductor. The orchestra commission­ Mykola Zhulynsky — participated in on July 1. Bush's inauguration as the 41st ed a violin concerto from Mr. Skoryk, a historic scholarly conference • Dr. Frank Sysyn was appointed president of the United States for which was premiered on February 6 dedicated to Taras Shevchenko on on July 1 as director of the newly the Chicago Tribune, Ogonyok edi­ by Mr. Krysa. After a spring concert the occasion of the 175th anniver­ established Peter Jacyk Center for tor Vitaliy A. Korotich addressed a tour of Ukrainian American and sary of his birth, The conference, Ukrainian Historical Research at the Ukrainian American audience in Canadian communities, Mr. organized by the Shevchenko Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Washington on January 25. The Krysa and Kiev virtuoso pianist Scientific Society, the Ukrainian Studies based at the University of evening featuring Mr. Korotich, who Alexander Slobodyanik each signed Academy of Arts and Sciences Alberta in Edmonton. later in the year was elected a USSR a two-year contract effective in mid- 1989: A LOOK BACK

August with the Ukrainian institute diences throughout North America of America to do a series of solo with extensive concert tours in 1989. recitals, chamber concerts and Three Ukrainian soloists, Lviv's Ihor master classes under the title "Music Kushpler and Marian Shunevych, at the Institute " (MATI). and Kiev's Lidia Mykhailenko, Among the classical musicians known collectively as Svitlytsia, and composers from Ukraine who toured the U.S. East Coast in June. appeared in North America this year The Zoioti Kiiuchi trio — Nina Mat- were Kiev's Leontovych String vienko, Marusia Mykolaychuk and Quartet, composer Ivan Karabytz Valentyna Kovalska — appeared at and pianist Mykola Suk. The latter the annual Kvitka Festival in Lon­ two participated in the MATI series don, Ontario,in late June and early this autumn. July. Bandurist Halyna Menkush • Forty-year-old Stepan Sape­ and actress Nila Kriukova, both of liak, former political prisoner, poet Kiev, performed Lina Kostenko's Ivan Dzyuba, Raisa Ivanchenko, Mykola Zhulynsky and Ihor Rymaruk during and activist of the Ukrainian Asso­ "Marusia Churay" in Canada in one of their numerous speaking engagements. ciation of independent Creative August. Lviv's popular Ne Zhurys theater-studio concertized in cities the United States for some three several weeks in October. He took Intelligentsia, arrived on January 30 months this summer, taking part in part in The Washington Group's for a three-month visit to Canada throughout Canada and the United States in October and November. various conferences, lectures and leadership conference in Washing­ and the United States in an effort to theater performances. These in­ ton on October 7-8. establish contacts with youth • The Dnipro soccer team from cluded a conference of the Cana­ • Volodymyr Yavorivsky, USSR groups. The Kharkiv resident's trip Dnipropetrovske made its first ever dian Association of Slavists on June people's deputy and chairman of the was highlighted by an April 19 tour of the United States in August, 2-4 in Quebec City, Quebec, the Kiev regional branch of Rukh, went meeting with Canada's Prime Mi­ playing a number of top-rated Ame­ formation of the International Kur- on a whirlwind speaking tour of the nister Brian Mulroney and visit to rican teams. bas Society, a "Giasnost, Pere­ United States in October on the the House of Commons in Ottawa. • Prominent Kiev literary critic stroika and Ukraine" conference in invitation of Sen. Bill Bradley (D- • In its first North American tour Ivan Dzyuba, author of "Interna­ late June at the University of Illinois, N.J.) and Rep. James Florio (D- in late February and early March, the tionalism or Russification?" and a theater workshop at Harvard's N.J.). In addition to raising funds for Donetske Ballet entertained au­ three other cultural figures, Mykola Ukrainian Summer Institute and a Rukh Chornobyl fund, Mr. Yavo­ diences along the U.S. Eastern Zhulynsky, literary critic and deputy with Toronto's Avant-Garde Ukrai­ rivsky, a writer, met with a number of Seaboard and met with many Ukrai­ director of the Institute of Literature nian Theater. Traveling with them members of Congress, press, and nian Americans in Baltimore, Wash­ at the Ukrainian Academy of Sci­ most of the time also was Kiev poet other government officials in Wash­ ington, New York, New Jersey and ences; Raisa Ivanchenko, novelist Pavlo Movchan, a Rukh activist, who ington. and historian, an authority in 19th- Philadelphia. was invited for the Ukrainian Re­ • This year Kiev poet and Rukh century Ukrainian political thinker • The arrival of individuals for search Program's conference at the president Ivan Drach became the Mykhailo Drahomanov; and Ihor medical treatment in the United University of Illinois. first writer from Ukraine to be in­ Rymaruk, Kiev poet and poetry and States began with Oksana Hlebkyna, • Hryhoriy Syvokin, a senior aca­ vited to the International Festival of drama editor of the Dnipro publish­ a 17-year-old from Stryi, Ukraine, demician from the Institute of Litera­ Authors in Toronto in October, ing house, all arrived in North Ame­ who came on January 16 and still ture at the Academy of Arts and where he read his poetry. He also rica at the end of February for a awaits a donor for a heart and lung Sciences in Kiev, took part in the addressed a public meeting in that Shevchenko lecture tour of major transplant at the Arizona Heart annual weeklong seminar spon­ city organized by York University's Canadian cities. In mid-March they Institute. Others who arrived were: sored by the Ukrainian Academy of Ukrainian Studies Committee. crossed into the United States, Ivan Yonyk of Sniatyn," western- Arts and Sciences in Hunter, N.Y. in • Popular writer and translator visiting the major Ukrainian Ameri­ Ukraine, in September for artificial late August. He also lectured at Yuriy Pokalchuk of Kiev visited can communities on the East Coast limbs; Oksen Duda, 11, of Lviv, in Harvard's Ukrainian Summer Insti­ Canada and the United States for — in Newark, Philadelphia, New October for open heart surgery at tute. three months this fall on the invita­ York, Washington and Boston. Deborah Hospital; and Iryna Cha- • Mykola Horbal, 48-year-old tion of the Canadian Institute of ban of Stryi, on a yearlong visit, for • Fifty-one-year-old Vitaliy Kaly- former Perm Camp 36 inmate, exe­ Ukrainian Studies in Edmonton, open heart surgery on December 12 nychenko, a former Perm Camp 36 cutive secretary of the Ukrainian Alberta. at St. Michael's Medical Center in inmate and Ukrainian Helsinki Helsinki Union and a leader of • Renowned Kiev literary critic Newark, N.J. Group member, and his wife, Yaryna, Rukh's Kiev organization, and his Yevhen Sverstiuk traveled to Wes • Olha Horyn, a former political emigrated to the United States from wife, Olha Stokotelna, paid a three- Germany, Italy, Canada and the prisoner and wife of Mykhailo Horyn, Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 6. They month-long visit with family in the United States, beginning in Novem­ a leader of the Popular Movement of now reside in suburban Maryland. United States from late September ber and extending into the be Ukraine for Perebudova, came to • Dr. Yuriy Shcherbak, a 55-year- through mid-December. A poet and ginning of the new year. While or New Jersey on December 16 for old USSR people's deputy from Kiev musicologist, Mr. Horbal also spoke speaking engagements, the forme breast cancer treatment. Rep. Louise and leader of Zelenyi Svit, visited at a number of community events in political prisoner is visiting with hi Slaughter (D-N.Y.) gave her visa Edmonton, Alberta, in May as a the U.S. and Canada. son's family in Philadelphia. request a boost with a letter signed by guest of the Canadian institute of • Oles Berdnyk, a science fiction • Lina Kostenko, distinguished 104 members of Congress to Soviet Ukrainian Studies. writer and founding member of the Ukrainian poet laureate from Kiev President Mikhail Gorbachev. • Former political prisoner Boh­ Ukrainian Helsinki Group, spent arrived in the United States in eari • Formerly repressed artist Feo- dan Rebryk, a Ukrainian Helsinki several weeks, beginning in Sep­ December for at least two months at dosiy Humeniuk of Leningrad visit­ Union activist and editor of the tember, in the United States and the invitation of the University cv ed Canada for the first six months of unofficial Karby Hir journal, visited Canada, on a private invitation. Michigan at Ann Arbor, where she 1989, beginning with a solo exhibi­ Great Britain and West Germany in • Sviatoslav Dudko, secretary will serve as poet-in-residence, an* tion in conjunction with York Univer­ June on a speaking engagement. j and founding member of the ecolo­ then will go on to Pennsylvania sity's symposium on "Giasnost in Another former political prisoner, gical association Zelenyi Svit (Green State University, where she will be a Soviet Ukraine," January 29-Fe- Yuriy Badzio, also traveled to Eu­ World), was in the United States for Woskob fellow in the humanities. bruary 10. Mr. Humeniuk also exhi­ rope this fall, as did UHU president bited at New York's Ukrainian Mu­ and longtime political prisoner Lev seum, June 3-25. Lukianenko who arrived in June as a Noteworthy events and people Several other non-conformist guest of Amnesty International in artists from Soviet Ukraine visited Brussels, Belgium, Mr. Lukianenko, In this section we annually list all national minorities within Ukraine. North America in 1989. Lviv artist who also made appearances in those noteworthy events and people • The Ohio Boychoir, directed by Andriy Humeniuk, 32, held several Great Britain and West Germany, that defy classification under the Alexander Musichuk, journeyed for exhibits in Canada during a six- held a press conference and met other headings of our year-end the first time to Ukraine with a new month stay. He was featured in an with delegates during the Confe­ review of events. Ukrainian repertoire in June. The rence on the Human Dimension, exhibit in New York in March, which Thus, among the events of 1989 choir has been invited for a return part of the Conference on Security included works by his twin brother that should be noted are the follow­ tour in 1991. and Cooperation in Europe, in Paris. Petro, and Volodymyr and Liudmyla ing. • A group of 14 Canadian Ukrai­ Loboda of Lviv at the Ukrainian • Kiev writer Dmytro Pavlychko, • The Ukrainian Museum-Ar­ nian high-school students primarily Artists' Association of America head of the Taras Shevchenko U- chives of Cleveland on January 10 from the Toronto area journeyed to Gallery. Ivan Marchuk of Kiev and krainian Language Society, visited released full-size reproductions of Lviv in July for a joint summer Volodymyr Patyk of Lviv have ex­ Australia in late July and early the Third Universal, the Ukrainian program with their peers from the hibited at the Canadian Ukrainian August as a guest of the Ukrainian National Republic's proclamation of Minor Academy of Sciences (Mala Art Foundation in Toronto, in Octo­ Professional and Business Associa­ the same individual freedoms found Akademiya Nauk). Next year, the ber and December, respectively, tion. in the American Bill of Rights and Lviv students are to pay a visit to while Mr. Marchuk's works are on • Les Taniuk, a noted theater the French Declaration of the Rights their newfound friends in Canada, display through January 14 at New director, and his wife, Nelli Kor- of Man, The document is unique in • A trio of bandurists from tto York's Ukrainian Museum. nienko, a-theater historian and an that it was published in four lan­ West — Pavlo Pysarenko and Julian • Popular performers from U- editor of UNESCO Courier in Mos- J guages: U*r2!nian, Russian, Polish . .KytastyUQt the United. States ;> kratne deJigfrtv- V;>krsmia^v-au- cow, trave'ed around Oanrlb i ! and Yidciisft, In necbgrtlifon 'of-tfref ^'Victor: Wshaid# o? Australia": • 1989: A LOOK BACK toured Ukraine for 10 weeks in the fall. Earlier, in the summertime, Deaths in the community Messrs. Kytasty and Pysarenko had gone on a 10-day concert tour of During 1989, the Ukrainian com­ nian-Japanese Relations, 1903- Ukraine. munity mourned the passing of 1945" (in Ukrainian) — March 8. • The Chervona Ruta Music Fes­ several notable leaders and acti­ • Helen Lapica, co-star with My­ tival in Soviet Ukraine dedicated vists. Among them were the follow­ kola Novak in the 1938 Ukrainian exclusively to Ukrainian music, was ing. film "Marusia" —- March 9. • Millie Osenenko, 71, director of held in Chernivtsi, western Ukraine, • Joseph Hirniak, 93, leading St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Dancers of on September 19-23. Held on the Ukrainian stage actor and director Long Island for nearly 20 years — 10ih anniversary of the death of who worked with theater companies April 8. noted composer Volodymyr Ivasiuk, in Ukraine, Austria and the United • The Rev. Dr. Isidore Nahaiev- in his home town, the festival also States, including the famed Berezil sky, 80, historian and author, pro­ included competitions in the musical Theater directed by Les Kurbas — fessor at the Ukrainian Catholic genres of pop, rock and ballads. January 17. ; Some 200 bands and individual University in Rome, chaplain of the • Ivan Bazarko, 78, former presi­ 1st Division of the Ukrainian Na­ singers from Ukraine, Eastern Eu­ dent of the World Congress of Free rope and the West performed at the tional Army, political prisoner in Ukrainians and former executive Polish and Soviet prisons — May 7. festival — among them Darka and director of the Ukrainian Congress • Mykola A. Livytsky, 81, presi­ Siavko (U.S.), bandurists Julian Committee of America — February 10. Kytasty, Pavlo Pysarenko (U.S.) and dent of the Ukrainian National Re­ Victor Mishalow (Australia), and Luba iRcma Hadzewycz • Bishop Joseph Martenetz, 86, public in exile, statesman and jour­ Bilash and the Solovey band (both Polish Parliament member Dr. Volo­ exarch of the Ukrainian Catholic nalist — December 8. of Canada). A pivotal role was played dymyr Mokry. Church in Brazil from 1958 until his • Olya Dmytriw, 67, leading acti­ retirement in 1978 — February 23. vist of the Ukrainian Youth League by the Toronto-based Kobza Inter­ and professor at Krakow's famed • Ivan Svit, 90, historian, econo­ of North America, pianist and choir national, which was one of the Jagiellonian University, success­ mist, journalist, researcher on U- director — December 21. festival's sponsors. fully ran as a Solidarity candidate for krainian settlements of the Far East, • The appearance of three spea­ the Polish Parliament (Sejm) from • Aleksander Deyneka, 74, an editor of Manchurian Visti (1932- kers from Ukraine —Mykola Horbal Gorzow Wielkopolski in western officer of the Ukrainian Insurgent 1937) and author of the book "Ukrai- of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, Poland, on June 4. He later visited Army — December 26. Volodymyr Yavorivsky, newly elect­ the United States on the invitation of ed member of the USSR Congress the Shevchenko Scientific Society, Meanwhile, at The Weekly of People's Deputies and chairman participating in Taras Shevchenko of the Kiev regional branch of Rukh, jubilee celebrations in Washington. If we at The Weekly were to pro­ advertisements for a movie we and Sviatoslav Dudko of the ecolo­ • Dr. Mykola Mushinka, a specia­ claim 1989 as the year of some­ thought was The Weekly staff's gical association Zelenyi Svit — list in Ukrainian folklore from Pre- thing, most assuredly we would collective biography. If you haven't made The Washington Group's 1989 sov, Czechoslovakia, visited North have to declare it "Year of the Visitor guessed, the film was "Women on Leadership Conference devoted to America in late summer. Among his from Ukraine." the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." an assessment of developments in stopovers was the Erast and Lydia Our kinfolk from Ukraine (both in (This was especially apropos as we Ukraine a major event. The confe­ Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture the literal and figurative senses), tried to keep up with all the develop­ rence was held October 7-8. and Ethnography at the University were everywhere. Many stopped by ments in Ukraine and the USSR.) • The International PEN Club, of Alberta. our offices as well. We were paid With all the news that had to be meeting at its 54tti congress on • Chicago attorney Julian Kulas, visits by scholars, writers, artists, reported this year, we found it September 22-29 in Toronto, voted best known as the lawyer of Walter musicians, human rights activists, difficult to find room for other items, to admit a Ukrainian chapter based Polovchak, the "littlest defector," people's deputies, students, en­ for example, our Notes on People in Kiev. The chapter includes mem­ received the U.S. Army's Meritori­ gineers, journalists, families of rea­ feature. We're hopelessly behind in bers of the official Ukrainian Writers' ous Service Medal, one of its most ders and UNA members, and others. this category (for which we Union. Another group of Ukrainian significant peacetime awards. Mr. apologize to our dear readers), but This, of course, made it easier to writers, those belonging to the Kulas, a colonel in the U.S. Army the only solution at this point seems bear the fact that here we were, Ukrainian Association of Indepen­ Reserve, was cited for directing his to be to expand the size of the news­ stuck in our office at The Weekly, dent Creative Intelligentsia, had re­ unit in "providing the Defense In­ paper (or decrease the size of the while momentous, unprecedented quested membership in PEN as the telligence Agency with strategic print to, say, 6-point type). Perhaps events were happening in Ukraine. organization's Ukrainian chapter. intelligence research on Soviet with a little bit of help from our Thanks to all our information Among the unofficial writers are ground forces." devoted readers, who can spread sources/regular correspondents, nine honorary members of PEN • Michael Metrinko, the Ukrai­ the news about The Weekly, our free-lance contributors, inter­ previously persecuted for their nian American diplomat who was subscriptions will increase substan­ viewees, etc., we informed our writings. among the American hostages held tially and we will be able to con­ readers about the news in Ukraine. • Ukrainian students in Poland for 444 days in Iran, was named in vince the powers that be that we must on October 14 held their first post­ August to serve as consul general of A major development at The increase the number of pages. war political demonstration in the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel. Weekly in 1989 came in June with As the year and decade come to a Gdansk in support of increased Previously, Mr. Metrinko served at the addition of a new paste-up per­ close, we would like to thank our freedom In Ukraine. The studer the U.S. Consulate in Krakow, Po­ son, Dana Wojtowycz. Thus, The publisher, our readers and our also founded the Association of land, and as deputy director of the Weekly became a five-woman correspondents for all they have Ukrainian Independent Youth and State Department's Office of North­ operation (three editors, one type­ done to make The Weekly what it is. elected a five-member governing ern Gulf Affairs, dealing with Iran setter, one paste-up person). We wish you all the best in the 1990s council. and Iraq. On a lighter note, this year we saw and beyond. • Roman Hnatyshyn, former member of Canada's Parliament and former minister of science and tech­ Individuals, too, made headlines nology, minister of energy, and during 1989. Among them were the minister of justice and attorney following. general, was named by Queen Eliza­ • Dr. Richard Hanusey of Phila­ beth II as governor-general of Ca­ delphia was named by Pennsylvania nada. He is the first Ukrainian Cana­ Gov. Robert P. Casey and Lt. Gov. dian to be named the throne's re­ Mark Singel to represent the Ukrai­ presentative in Canada and will nian community on the newly re- serve as head of state for the next strucfed Pennsylvania Heritage Af­ five years beginning in January fairs Commission. 1990. • Dr. Lubomyr Kuzmak, surgeon • Paul Plishka, renowned bass of t St. Barnabas Medical Center in the Metropolitan Opera, sang the ivingston, N.J., was recognized for title role in Modest Moussorgsky's humanitarian services to the Ukrai­ "Boris Godunov" in his debut per­ nian community" by Americans for formance In Ukraine, at the Kiev Human Rights in Ukraine on y'arch Opera in late September. ,2. Among his patients were Marko • Illinois State Sen. Waiter VV. luban, formerly of Ukraine, Rostyk Dudycz of Chicago held a news iylupa of Poland, the late Gen. conference on Sunday, December Tom Kostiw Petro Grigorenko, former Soviet 17, announcing his Republican can­ Though The Weekly's staffers didn't visit Ukraine this year, they ware there in political prisoner. /_ * didacy for the U.S. House of Repre­ spirit. Seen in the foreground at a public rail n Lviv are (from left) Marta , • Dr. Volodymyr Mokry, a literary sentatives from the 1.1th Congres­ Kolomayets, Awilda Arzola, Chrystyna Lapych* a, Dana Wojtowycz and Roma historian of Ukrainian backgrouna sional District. e% - 4s4\!- * . . * Hadzewycz. * * « *w*\**v* Dudycz... Bayonne Millennium Committee thanks mayor for support (Continued from page 3) him as "an unusually bright, aggressive challenger," who offered "hope of giving Republicans a voice in Chicago politics." In addition, the Chicago Sun-Times endorsed Dudycz, "whose entry in politics could infuse the city GOP with fresh talent. His landslide victory in 1984 gave him the distinction of being the first Chicago Republican in the Illinois State in over a decade. In November 1988, State Sen. Walter Dudycz was overwhelmingly re­ elected with over 66 percent of the vote to his second four-year term in the State Senate. Mr. Dudycz has served in the Illinois State Senate since 1985, where he has played a leadership role in legislation addressing family values, holding the Mayor Dennis P. Collins of Bayonne, N.J., recently renamed East 25th Street in his city "Ukrainian Way" in line on taxes and vote fraud. He has permanent commemoration of 1,000 years of Ukrainian Christianity. The Bayonne Millennium Committee presented won numerous state and national the mayor with a special gold-plated Millennium medallion in gratitude for his act. 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THE UKRAINIAN MUSIC SOCIETY, INC. Suppression... (Continued from page 4) AND MUSIC AT THE INSTITUTE vitamins and medicines. present Meanwhile, ordinary people have to wait in line for months for a check-up at a clinic. One hundred thousand people have been evacuated from a 30-kilo­ OLEH KRYSA meter radius around Chornobyl. A much larger number still live in dan­ gerous regions and conditions. It is only WORLD-RENOWNED VIOLINIST now, thanks to the pressure of mass meetings organized by the Popular Movement for Perebudova in Ukraine CARNEGIE HALL and speeches in the Soviet Congress of People's Deputies, that a second, ago­ Sunday, January 21, 1990 at 3:00 p.m. nizingly slow evacuation has begun. What will become of us? This silent TATYANA TCHEKINA, pianist question can be seen in the eyes of hun­ dreds of thousands of children of all Works by Schubert, Brahms, Lyatoshynsky. Schnittke and Szymanowski. nationalities who live in Ukraine — Ukrainians Russians, Jews, Crimean Tickets: $20, $16, $14, $11 at Box Office or call Carnegie Charge Tatars. Radiation does not discriminate (212) 2477800 when choosing its victims. We are ready to suffer economic shortages, to wait in To order tickets by mail, make checks payable to Carnegie Hall and mail to- lines for necessary goods, but not to Roman Stecura remain indifferent to the danger that hangs over our heads. The suppression 100 Montgomery Street (Apt. 17 D), Jersey City, NJ. 07302 of the truth about the consequences of Chorriobyl could deprive us; of § future.