INSIDE: • Kuchma’s state visit to Mexico strengthens bilateral relations — page 2. • U.S. Embassy announces new exchange programs with Ukraine — page 3. • Cleveland museum seeks to preserve a nation’s heritage — centerfold. HE KRAINI A N EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXV No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1997 $1.25/$2 in Ukraine Successor states to Soviet Union A rchbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk dead at 90, sign series of arms control pacts was a leader of underground Ukrainian Church by Khristina Lew The ABM Treaty was a bilateral agree- LVIV — Archbishop Volodymyr ment signed by the United States and the Sterniuk, a leading figure in the under- NEW YORK — Ukraine, Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on ground Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Kazakstan, Belarus and the United States May 26, 1972. When the Soviet Union Church during the Soviet era, died in his signed a series of arms control agree- collapsed, the only operationally deployed quarters at the Metropolitan’s Residence ments here at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel ABM system was in Moscow, while a at St. George’s Square in Lviv on on September 26 intended to remove fur- number of its early warning radars and an September 29. He was 90. ther obstacles to Russian ratification of ABM test range were located outside of A former Soviet political prisoner, he the START II Treaty. the Russian Federation. was imprisoned in the late 1940s and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright The Memorandum of Understanding early 1950s in the Arkhangel oblast of and Hennadii Udovenko, Yevgenii on Succession signed by the five countries the Russian Soviet Federated Republic Primakov, Kassymghomait Tokaev and establishes that the United States, following the liquidation of the Ivan Antonovich, the foreign affairs min- Ukraine, Russia, Kazakstan and Belarus Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in isters of Ukraine, Russia, Kazakstan and are parties to the ABM Treaty, and that 1946 at a non-canonical convocation of Belarus, respectively, signed agreements the four former Soviet republics assume the church council that declared union related to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile the rights and obligations of the USSR with the Russian Orthodox Church. (ABM) Treaty that resolve succession to under the treaty. While clandestinely ministering to his the treaty and clarify the line between The memorandum permits only a sin- faithful, the Rev. Sterniuk held jobs as a strategic (ABM) and theater ballistic mis- park attendant, a bookkeeper, a janitor sile defenses (TMD) systems. (Continued on page 13) and an assistant in an emergency ward. Later he was secretly consecrated a bish- op by another underground hierarch, Bishop Vasyl Velychkovsky. Archbishop Sterniuk became the locum tenens of the major archbishop (the primate) of the UGCC in Lviv in 1972. Bishop Lubomyr Husar, plenipoten- tiary-auxiliary of the primate of the Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk Ukrainian Catholic Church and the Patriarchal Curia in Lviv, announced that funeral arrangements were to include requiem services, scripture readings and Ukrainian Church complex continuous viewings so that the public could pay its last respects from September 20 through October 1. The funeral liturgy, seized by Russian authorities followed by a funeral procession through by Roman Woronowycz Lviv’s city center, and burial in the crypt of St. George Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Kyiv Press Bureau Cathedral, were scheduled for the first KYIV — Buildings of the Ukrainian days of October. Orthodox Church — Kyiv Patriarchate The following biographical informa- complex in the city of Noginsk, just out- Khristina Lew tion was provided by the press service of side Moscow, were seized and the arch- Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister Hennadii Udovenko (left), Russian Foreign the Patriarchal Curia. bishop of the Moscow eparchy detained Affairs Minister Yevgenii Primakov (center) and Secretary of State Madeleine Archbishop Sterniuk was born on by the Russian militia and Security Albright sign the Memorandum of Understanding on Succession to the ABM February 12, 1907, in the town of Services in the evening of September 29. Treaty at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Pustomyty near Lviv. His parents were Church leaders in Kyiv are calling the the Rev. Volodymyr Sterniuk and action the result of the new law on reli- Eugenia (nee Konovalets). His brother, gion that Russia’s President Boris SBU uncovers terrorist threat against U.S. Embassy Eustache, and two uncles also were Yeltsin signed on September 26. priests. Nearly 100 worshippers and clergy by Roman Woronowycz ate security precautions.” He attended primary school in Lviv were beaten and arrested, including Kyiv Press Bureau There is no danger to U.S. citizens and then he undertook studies at the Archbishop Adrian, the leader of the or to local offices of U.S. corpora- minor seminary of the Redemptorist UOC-KP in Russia, after militia and KYIV — Ukraine’s Security tions,” said the spokesperson. Fathers at Eskhen, Belgium, where he Security Service officers entered the Services (SBU) have uncovered a No information has been made pub- obtained his high school diploma. He grounds of the Epiphany Cathedral, potential terrorist act against the United lic by either the Embassy or the SBU entered the Redemptorist Monastery of according to the Kyiv Patriarchate’s States Embassy to Ukraine. A state- on what type of danger existed and St. Trendi in Belgium in July 1927, and press office. Archbishop Adrian sus- ment released by the U.S. Embassy said who, if anybody, was responsible. It is took his temporary vows in 1928 and his tained a broken arm in the skirmish that that on September 26 it was “notified not even altogether clear whether it perpetual (final) vows to adhere to the ensued. by Ukrainian authorities of a potential was in fact the work of the SBU that religious life in 1931. The press office said the militia seized terrorist threat against U.S. government uncovered the danger. Neither the Continuing his education in Belgium, the Church’s cathedral, its seminary, a facilities in Ukraine.” Embassy nor the SBU would affirm or he completed studies in philosophy and convent for nuns and the monastery, but A spokesperson for the U.S. deny whether the notoriously secretive theology at both Beauplateau and refrained from comment on the status of Embassy said he was not allowed to organization was responsible, but a Louvain. He was ordained to the priest- the archbishop and followers until a explain specifically what the threat spokesperson for that organization, hood by the Ukrainian Catholic Bishop press conference that was scheduled for entailed, but said that “over the week- Anatolii Sakhno, told the daily news- of Winnipeg, Basil Ladyka, in July 1931 October 2. end the Ukrainian government took paper Den that one of its functions was in Louvain. From 1932 he was a provin- However, Nikolai Marfenko, chief of steps to deal with the situation, and the cial consultor for the Order of the Most the Noginsk police precinct that includes Embassy has put into effect appropri- (Continued on page 16) (Continued on page 12) (Continued on page 16) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1997 No. 40

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Ukraine: a summer of discontent Ukrainian-Russian council formed Yevrasia think-tank, which questioned by Taras Kuzio ment (hidden unemployment stands at an 730 people in eight cities. While the estimated 25.2 percent of the labor force), KYIV — President Leonid Kuchma results indicate a jaded electorate that has The resignation of Pavlo Lazarenko as a growing balance of payments, deficit said on September 29 that Moscow and little faith in its representatives, 70 per- Ukraine’s prime minister did not provide which the IMF projects will reach $4.2 bil- Kyiv have no fundamental differences in cent were still hopeful that their lives President Leonid Kuchma with the calm lion this year, and continued decline in approach to foreign policy questions. He will improve after the elections to the that he had probably hoped it would. GDP, which was 7.5 percent lower than in was speaking after representatives of the 450-seat Verkhovna Rada. (RFE/RL Valerii Pustovoitenko, Mr. Kuchma’s can- mid-1996. newly established Ukrainian-Russian Newsline, Associated Press) didate to replace Mr. Lazarenko, was the It is therefore little wonder that Mr. Consultative Council gave him a docu- safest choice the president could have Kuchma and his entourage made indirect ment calling for the two sides to raise New political group headed by Lazarenko made in the circumstances since Mr. calls to sound out Parliament’s views their “relations to the level of strategic Pustovoitenko possesses three strategic partnership.” Mr. Kuchma also said he KYIV — Former Ukrainian Prime about postponing the parliamentary elec- Minister Pavlo Lazarenko was elected on assets in view of Mr. Kuchma’s eye tions for another year. This, though, was will make an informal visit to Moscow to towards the upcoming parliamentary and meet with Russian President Boris September 27 to head a new political unlikely to ever get off the ground because movement Hromada (Community). presidential elections in 1998-1999. the left was eager to fight the elections in Yeltsin before his official trip to the First, the 50-year-old Mr. Pustovoitenko Russian capital in January. The new Approximately 1,000 delegates, claiming the middle of an economic crisis while to represent more than 17,000 members was head of Mr. Kuchma’s election team reformers understood that one year would council, which is to research and prepare in the presidential elections in 1994 and is recommendations in key areas of of Hromada, elected Mr. Lazarenko as have made little difference to the econo- their chairman. Mr. Lazarenko described regarded as one of his closest associates. my. The public would not have been too Ukrainian-Russian relations, will be con- Second, Mr. Pustovoitenko has no person- his party as social-democratic and said its happy with postponing the elections either. sidered a “public organization,” and al presidential ambitions of his own. He is main task would be to win a majority in In a recent Democratic Initiatives/Institute meetings and advice will have “unofficial therefore unlikely to use the Cabinet of the legislative elections in March. A of Sociology poll only 3.8 percent believed status.” (RFE/RL Newsline, Eastern Ministers as a springboard to launch a Hromada spokeswoman, Yulia their elected deputy represented their inter- Economist) move for the presidency in two years’ Tymoshenko, who heads United Energy ests in Parliament while nearly a third time. Third, the new prime minister is a Ukraine receives IMF credit Systems, said the group will be “in open could not remember who their elected rep- opposition to the ruling regime,” specifi- member of the pro-presidential “party of KYIV — On September 26 Ukraine resentative was. cally, President Leonid Kuchma. She power” – the Narodna Demokratychna received an initial payment of $49 mil- Mr. Kuchma, like his predecessor announced on September 27 that Partiia (People’s Democratic Party). The lion of short-term credit from the Leonid Kravchuk, has consequently deputies from the Hromada group will head of the Presidential Administration, International Monetary Fund. The total sought to back the old majoritarian elec- initiate the creation of a special investi- Yevhen Kushnariov, also is a member of available short-term credit is $542 mil- tion law (minus its turnout requirement) in gations committee set to review financial that party. Both of these state structures lion, well below the requested $2.5 bil- will prove to be invaluable in helping Mr. the fear that a mixed proportional-majori- activities in Ukraine. She added that seri- tarian system would serve to help only lion to $3 billion extended credit request- Kuchma’s likely re-election bid in 1999. ed by Ukraine. The Ministry of the ous securities violations have been com- Mr. Kuchma’s actions also show evi- well-established political parties on the left mitted and claimed that “as a result of and Rukh in gaining the bulk of seats Economy confirmed on September 26 dence of his concern about the impact of that the budget deficit increased by more financial speculation involving securities, the economic crisis upon voting behavior elected on party lists. The left meanwhile more than $800 million has been taken have sought to sabotage tax reform in than 1 billion hrv in August, the highest during the forthcoming elections. monthly increase in the deficit this year. out of the state budget in the last two Although he was the first to put himself revenge for Mr. Kuchma’s hostility to a years.” (Reuters, RFE/RL Newsline) mixed election law. Mr. Pustovoitenko The January-July period saw an average forward as a presidential candidate more monthly increase in the budget deficit of than a year ago, Mr. Kuchma now condi- was approved in office only by the Ukrainian Muslim Party formed slimmest of margins (226:91), an approval 358 million hrv. The rise has caused ten- tions that upon the future state of the sions with the IMF; further payments DONETSK — On September 28, 50 Ukrainian economy. that requires 50 percent of parliamentary deputies (225) plus one. will depend on conforming to agreed- delegates representing Islamic communi- Here there is a mixture of good and bad upon economic reforms. On September ties from 15 Ukrainian regions met in news for Ukraine. Success in launching Eleven of the 23 members of the Cabinet of Ministers remained in their 28, Vice Prime Minister for Economic Donetsk to form the Ukrainian Muslim $450 million of Eurobonds on the Reform Serhii Tyhypko stated that he Party. The as-yet unregistered party will Luxembourg securities market, approval positions from the Mr. Lazarenko govern- ment, therefore, it can hardly be described believes Ukraine will not need assistance be headed by Rashit Bragin. (RFE/RL of a $542 million IMF stand-by credit, 5.2 from the IMF and World Bank after the as a “new government.” In contrast to the Newsline) percent inflation during the first five year 2000, though the country would still Lazarenko government, new ministerial months of 1997 (lower than in most of the need advice and guidance. (Eastern President brings back campaign aide CIS and Poland) has to be tempered by appointments will allegedly be based upon Economist) KYIV — President Leonid Kuchma continued bad news. Growing unemploy- professional competence and “loyalty to the Ukrainian state.” This latter require- Available for purchase: votes on September 30 issued a decree appoint- ment clearly rules out members of the ing Dmytro Tabachnyk as an adviser. Taras Kuzio is a research fellow at the Communist Party from being considered KYIV — Basic tenets of democracy Less than a year ago Mr. Kuchma fired Center for Russian and East European for ministerial posts. may not have fully taken root in Ukraine. Mr. Tabachnyk, who was a leader in Mr. Studies at the University of Birmingham Nearly one-third of Ukrainians said they Kuchma’s first election campaign, but and editor of Ukraine Business Review. (Continued on page 19) would sell their votes to the highest bid- later was accused of corruption. Mr. der in parliamentary elections next Tabachnyk’s return suggests the presdi- March, according to an opinion poll pub- ent’s is preparing for a re-election cam- Kuchma’s state visit to Mexico lished on September 30 in the newspaper paign in 1999. (RFE/RL Newsline) Vseukrainskiye Vedomosti. Thirty-two percent of those queried said their votes Dumping investigation is stopped strengthens bilateral relations could be bought by political parties or WASHINGTON — Representatives of candidates. Those who would take Ukraine’s Ministry of Industrial Policy WASHINGTON — Ukraine’s with the mayor of Mexico City, President money quoted prices ranging from $11 to and the U.S. signed an agreement on President Leonid Kuchma paid his first Kuchma was named an honorary guest of $400, the pollsters said. No margin of state visit to Mexico on September 24-26 Mexico’s capital city. error was given for the poll taken by the (Continued on page 17) to strengthen Ukraine-Mexico bilateral In an effort to strengthen bilateral rela- and trade relations. tions, Ukraine and Mexico signed numer- During the course of his two-day visit, ous agreements: a declaration on the President Kuchma met with Mexican principles of relations and cooperation H E K R A I N I A N E E K LY FOUNDED 1933 President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon between the two countries; a memoran- T U W to discuss expanding bilateral trade and dum of understanding on creating a An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., facilitating cooperation between Ukrainian mechanism for consultation on mutual a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ 07302. and Mexican companies in the manufac- interests; an agreement on visa-free trav- Yearly subscription rate: $60; for UNA members — $40. turing and technology fields. el for diplomats; an agreement on educa- Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, NJ 07302. 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Mexico’s Ministry of Trade and (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201) 451-2200 Both presidents hailed their meeting as Industrial Development on the creation a triumph in the process of diversifying of mechanisms of consultation; and an Postmaster, send address Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz the foreign policy of both countries. agreement on friendship between the changes to: Assistant editor: Khristina Lew The Ukrainian president also held cities of Kyiv and Mexico City. The Ukrainian Weekly Staff editors: Roman Woronowycz (Kyiv) meetings with Mexico’s energy, tourism Both sides agreed to continue working P.O. Box 346 and Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj (To r o n t o ) and foreign affairs ministers, and on expanding the foundation of Ukraine- Jersey City, NJ 07303 addressed Mexico’s 64-member Senate Mexico relations. President Kuchma The Ukrainian Weekly, October 5, 1997, No. 40, Vol. LXV and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ invited President Zedillo for an official Copyright © 1997 The Ukrainian Weekly diplomatic academy. During a meeting visit to Ukraine. No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1997 3 Documents suggest Canada U.S. visa center registers lottery winners PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – The National Once the total of 55,000 visa numbers is setting immigration quotas Visa Center has registered the winners of have been used, the program for fiscal the DV-98 lottery. The Diversity Lottery year 1998 will end. Selected applicants 23,000 “final dispositions” in the docu- was conducted under the regulations of who do not receive visas by September Canadian Ukrainian agency ment published in the Globe. Section 203(c) of the Immigration and 30, 1998, will derive no further benefit concerned about flexibility “Anybody who is familiar with our Nationality Act and makes available from their DV-98 registration. Similarly, work knows that we take applicants from 55,000 permanent resident visas annually spouses and children accompanying or by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj Ukraine and elsewhere for landed immi- to persons from countries with low rates following to join DV-98 principals are Toronto Press Bureau grant status to the Buffalo office for pro- of immigration to the United States. only entitled to derivative DV status only cessing,” Mr. Duvalko said. Almost 100,000 applicants have been until September 30, 1998. TORONTO — Documents obtained The largest target for a European registered and notified and may now Only participants in the DV-98 program by Canadian immigration lawyer office was Paris, expected to issue a total make applications for immigrant visas. who were selected for further processing Richard Kurland from his country’s of 6,800 independent immigrant visas Since it is likely that some of the first have been notified. Those who have not Department of Citizenship and (with 4,650 going to Québec), followed 55,000 persons registered will not pursue received notification should assume their Immigration under the Access to by London (6,500, with all but 190 going their cases to visa issuance, this larger names were not selected. The application Information Act suggest that the govern- to the rest of Canada), Moscow (1,750, figure should ensure that all DV-98 num- period for next year’s DV-99 lottery will be ment is setting visa quotas. 300 to Québec), Bonn (1,710, 110), bers will be used. October 24 to November 24. Lila Sarick reported in the Toronto- Belgrade (1,665, 165), Bucharest (1,600, Applicants registered for the DV-98 based daily Globe and Mail’s September 700), Vienna (1,045, 45) and Warsaw program were selected at random from the 16 edition that this is the first time that (1,000, 50). approximately 4.7 million qualified entries Kyiv to charge toll “targets for the number of independent Buffalo was expected to be the busiest received during the one-month application immigrants that Canadian visa offices post worldwide, followed by Delhi, India period that ran from February 3 through around the world are to consider have (10,820, 320 to Québec), Hong Kong noon on March 5. An additional 1.3 mil- on entry into city been revealed.” (10,180, 680), Manila (7,200, 200) and lion applications received inside the mail- Eastern Economist Immigration Ministry spokesman Singapore (6,950, 950). in period were disqualified because appli- Réné Mercier was quoted as saying that The Globe article pointed out that cants failed to properly follow directions. KYIV – The Kyiv City Administration, “it doesn’t mean to say we’re limiting Canada annually sets targets for immi- The visas have been apportioned headed by Oleksander Omelchenko plans that number to that country. We feel gration and that Immigration Minister among six geographic regions with a to introduce a fee of 1 hrv for cars and 3 we’re going to get that many in [the Lucienne Robillard expected her min- maximum of 3,850 visas (7 percent of hrv for trucks for entering the city, the independent immigrant] class.” istry to acept up to 113,000 economic the 55,000 total) available to persons City Administration confirmed on August The Globe item also mentions the fed- immigrants into the country this year, born in any single country. During the 7. Toll check points will be introduced at eral government’s official line that the based on their job skills, fluency in visa interview, principal applicants must the Ovruch, Kovel, Zhytomyr, Odesa, numbers provided in the documents are Canada’s two official languages and provide proof of a high school education Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Chernihiv not quotas, but “final disposition targets” adaptability. or its equivalent, or show two years of highways leading to the capital city. for individual missions. In the September 16 item, the former work experience in an occupation that The project was proposed by the In the article Mr. Mercier goes on to chairman of the Canadian Bar requires at least two years of training or American corporation Style BANKORP, add that “targets do not single out partic- Association’s immigration section, experience within the past five years. which specializes in large investment pro- ular nationalities because some missions, Winnipeg-based lawyer David Matas, Those selected will need to act on their jects. The checkpoints will also inspect such as Vienna, handle immigration opines that “allocating levels by visa immigrant visa applications quickly. the environmental conditions of vehicles applications for a number of countries ... post was developed to help the Applicants should follow the instructions in entering Kyiv. and immigrants can apply to visa posts Immigration Department manage its their notification letter and must fully com- Style BANKORP will invest 138 mil- outside their own country.” human resources.” plete the information requested. Registrants lion hrv in the construction of checkpoints A graphic accompanying Ms. Sarick’s “The problem is the staffing at the living in the United States who wish to with the first due to be opened in 12 to 14 piece suggests that the Canadian visa visa posts in relation to the demand,” Mr. apply for adjustment of their status must months’ time. The system will include a mission post in Kyiv is expected to Matas said. “It’s favoritism by impact, contact the Immigration and Naturalization computer tracking system to monitor the process 805 cases (55 for those destined not necessarily by intent.” Service nearest to their place of residence. movements of vehicles. for Québec and 750 for the rest of Canada) out of a total of 110,860. Mason Loh, chairman of a large Vancouver-based Chinese social services U.S. announces 10 exchange programs with Ukraine agency, told the Globe reporter that he by Zenon Zawada Exchange, which, despite a 10 percent these government-sponsored exchanges was “shocked” to learn of the targets. Special to The Ukrainian Weekly budget cut, is sending 180 high school is urgent, Ms. Reed said, pointing to “It’s been the cornerstone of our students into the U.S. But while cuts recent budget cuts in the ACCELS pro- immigration policy for the last 30 years KYIV — After Roman Maxymchuk’s in the programs’ budgets have gram Future Leaders Exchange. In that people can come to Canada as long first three high school years in Lutsk, he decreased the participation of high 1995-1996, the program involved 303 as they meet objective standards in squeezed his way into a New Jersey high school students, Mr. Saum said three Ukrainian high school students, Mr. immigration rules. This thing is a com- school his senior year through an times as many Ukrainian administra- Saum said. That number has now plete departure from that concept.” exchange program called the Freedom tors and teachers will be participating decreased to 180 students, according to Support Act Future Leaders Exchange. CUIAS and UCC comment in the exchanges in the upcoming Ms. Reed. Mr. Maxymchuk is now a senior at y e a r s . “The Ukrainian American communi- Eugen Duvalko, executive director of Volyn State University, but his yearlong For example, the American Council ty should be active in supporting these the Toronto-based Canadian Ukrainian exposure to American technology and for Collaboration in Education and programs and writing to Congress in Immigrant Aid Society and Ukrainian communities have had a lasting impact. Language Study just introduced a new support for more funding,” Ms. Reed Canadian Congress spokesman on immi- As a college sophomore, he co- program called Partners in Education, said. gration issues, was more sanguine about founded the first English-language which will be initiated in fall 1998. Many of the exchanges are one- the report. newspaper in Lutsk. Just this past sum- Through this exchange, groups of sided, with Ukrainians coming to the “That the government does this kind mer he helped establish a community- teachers from four oblasts in Ukraine U.S., Mr. Saum admitted. But he of thing is something we’ve known all service non-government organization, will be placed in U.S. school districts stressed the value Americans gain as a along,” Mr. Duvalko told The Weekly. and its first project will be to establish for five-week internships, which will result of the cultural exchange. “Our concern is to what extent these an Internet center for Lutsk. include class observation, presenta- “Even though these programs bring numbers are flexible.” Mr. Maxymchuk is a perfect exam- tions, school board meetings and work- Ukrainians to the U.S., it’s the Mr. Duvalko said the Immigration ple of why American participation in shops. Americans who participate as host fam- Department’s target for the Ukrainian exchange programs with Ukraine is “Interest levels are tremendous,” ilies, as students Ukrainians meet or as capital was low. “Certainly we want to crucial, said Steven Saum, director of said Ivanna Reed, ACCELS’ Ukraine students Ukrainians teach,” Mr. Saum see Kyiv as a more robust office” in the exchanges office at the United country director. “Everyone who’s been said. terms of the number of independent States Information Service in Kyiv. to the U.S. is changed somehow, and Programs in which Americans can immigrant applications accepted. On September 17 U.S. Ambassador that’s essential for the change that’s participate include the prestigious “We certainly expect a larger number to Ukraine William Green Miller, along necessary.” Fulbright scholars program for post- because of the link our community in with Mr. Saum and other administrators Mr. Miller and program administra- doctoral researchers or those seeking Canada has to Ukraine,” he added. of several exchange programs, held a tors also took the opportunity to extol lecture grants. Mr. Saum said inter- press conference at America House, But Mr. Duvalko offered guarded the importance of the exchange pro- ested Americans could also partici- home of the USIS offices in Ukraine, to agreement with Mr. Mercier’s contention grams to both the U.S. and Ukraine. pate as host families through the announce the start of open competition about particular missions. “Moscow, for “There’s no better way to learn about Freedom Support Act high school for 10 U.S. government, academic each other then to travel and work with exchange and undergraduate college example, which has a target of 1,750, exchange programs. The programs send actually does a lot of Ukrainian busi- colleagues in fields of respective inter- p r o g r a m s . hundreds of Ukrainian administrators, ests,” Ambassador Miller said. “One of Anyone interested in an application or ness.” teachers and students to the U.S. “to the merits of these programs is that they in participating can write to: USIS, vul. The CUIAS official also pointed out develop relations and contacts on a are based on free and open competition Melnykova 63, Kyiv 254650. Further that while Canada expects to admit a grass-roots level,” Mr. Saum said. in which selections are made on information is available on the World total of 5,000 immigrants from the U.S. The largest program this fall is the demonstrated merit.” Wide Web at: http://www.ah.kiev.ua/ by origin annually, the mission post in Freedom Support Act Future Leaders Ukrainian American support for e x c h a n g e / e x c h a n g e . h t m l . Buffalo, N.Y., is listed as being allotted 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1997 No. 40 Leadership Conference to focus on Ukrainian American community TWG to honor by Orest Deychakiwsky nities, the services their organizations Robert McConnell of Gibson, Dunn and provide, how these organizations attract Crutcher and former assistant attorney gen- two arts activists WASHINGTON — The Washington new members, and how their communi- eral; and Michael Sawkiw, director of the Group is once again providing a venue ties relate to their ancestral homelands. Ukrainian National Information Service in WASHINGTON – The Washington for the Ukrainian American community The needs and aspirations of the W a s h i n g t o n . Group has announced that the winners of to look at itself and plan for its future Ukrainian American community will be The Saturday evening program con- its 1997 “Friend of Ukraine” award are development. discussed at a “town hall” discussion fol- sists of a cocktail hour reception, the Lidia Krushelnytsky and Roma Pryma- “We Can Do Better: Expanding lowing the Saturday luncheon. The pan- annual awards banquet, and a dance to B o h a c h e v s k y . Horizons for Ukrainian Americans” is the els Saturday afternoon will focus on the the music of the Tempo orchestra. The award is bestowed upon those indi- theme chosen for this year’s Leadership state of Ukrainian American organiza- Before the panel discussions resume viduals who have made a great contribu- Conference, which will be held October tions and on the influence the community on Sunday, the Federation of Ukrainian tion to the cause of Ukraine. Ms. 10-12 at the Georgetown University exercises within American society. American Business and Professional Krushelnytsky, actress and theater director, Conference Center in Washington. The second panel will include represen- Associations will hold a business meet- and Ms. Pryma-Bohachevsky, balletmaster “The basic thrust of this year’s confer- tatives of various Ukrainian American ing in the early morning hours. and choreographer, have devoted decades ence is to convey the message that if the organizations who will give their reaction Panel four, on “Building Connections to promoting Ukrainian culture – through Ukrainian American community re-ener- to the views expressed during the town with Ukraine,” will include panelists who gizes itself there are many opportunities dance and the spoken word – in the United hall discussion, talk about their organiza- have succeeded in establishing connections States as well as in their native Ukraine. for success,” said TWG President George tions’ condition and future plans. Among between the U.S. and Ukraine, among Masiuk in presenting the conference The Washington Group (TWG) is an the panelists will be long-time community them Andrew Masiuk, the former director organization of Ukrainian American pro- committee’s plans. activist, author and chronicler of the of the International Management Institute In addition to five panel discussions fessionals based in the capital of the Ukrainian diaspora in the U.S., Dr. Myron in Kyiv; Andrew Bihun, the senior com- United States. Established in 1984, it is that will develop the theme, the annual Kuropas; Roma Hajda, president of the mercial officer at the U.S. Embassy in dedicated to providing service to the three-day gathering will include a Laity Council of the Ukrainian Catholic Kyiv; Jaroslav Dutkewych, Peace Corps Ukrainian American community and to keynote address, an awards banquet and Church; the Rev. Zenchuk of St. director, Ukraine; and Marta Zielyk, State fostering close ties between the United dance, as well as a performance by the Andrew’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church; Department Ukrainian language translator. States and Ukraine. TWG has approxi- popular musician Peter Ostroushko. Bohdan Watral, CEO of the Self-Reliance As at the past few conferences, mately 400 members in the U.S., Canada As in recent years, there will be a pre- Ukrainian Federal Credit Union of Sunday’s brunch will feature a cultural conference welcoming reception on Friday Chicago; and Bohdan Vitvitsky, vice- and abroad. presentation. This year, it will be fiddler In the past TWG has given the “Friend evening, October 10, at the Ukrainian president of Ukrainian American and mandolinist Peter Ostroushko, wide- Embassy, located in Washington’s Professionals and Businesspersons of Ukraine” award to the pre-eminent ly known from his appearances on the financier and philanthropist George Soros Georgetown district, within walking dis- Association of New York and New Jersey. National Public Radio’s “Prairie Home tance of the conference and hotel facility. The third panel, on influencing American (1993) and Hobart Earle, principal conduc- Companion” program, and, more recently tor and music director of the Odessa The conference will commence society, will consist of activists with a par- for his acclaimed CD albums “Heart of Philharmonic Orchestra (1996). Saturday morning with the presentation ticular focus on governmental relations. the Heartland” and “Pilgrims on the In previous years, TWG’s “Journalist of of results of the pre-conference survey They will discuss both the mechanics of Heart Road,” which includes the song the Year” honor was awarded to the and the keynote address. (Keynote and exercising influence and what the rank-and- “My People,” a humorous reflection on Ukrainian services of Radio Liberty and featured speakers had not yet been con- file members of the Ukrainian American his Ukrainian roots. the Voice of America, to the editorial staff firmed by press time, but are expected to community need to be doing to raise the The conference will conclude with the of The Ukrainian Weekly, and to the be high-ranking U.S. and Ukrainian gov- profile of their community and of issues of fifth panel, organized by the U.S.-Ukraine renowned U.S. journalist Cord Meyer. ernment officials.) interest to their community. Chaired by Foundation. It will be a case study of a local The first panel discussion, which will Orest Deychakiwsky, staff associate at the government project, about how to build an The “Friend of Ukraine” award will be try to identify a model for a successful U.S. Commission on Security and organization that spans Washington and presented in Washington during TWG’s community, will consist of representa- Cooperation in Europe, the panel will Kyiv, wins and executes multi-million-dol- annual Leadership Conference scheduled tives of other ethnic communities – include: Laryssa Chopivsky, chair of the lar government grants. for October 10-12. This year’s conference Polish, Italian and French. They will ana- TWG Cultural Fund; Andrew Fedynsky of theme is “We Can Do Better: Expanding lyze the purpose served by their commu- the Ukrainians for Clinton-Gore campaign, (Continued on page 14) Horizons for Ukrainian Americans.” Clinton and Gore meet ethnic representatives to discuss race initiative WASHINGTON – President Bill During the meeting, the president dent and the vice-president were deeply and Arab communities. Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore met acknowledged the importance of working moved by the stories shared by the ethnic The Ukrainian American community on September 9 with representatives from together with diverse populations. representatives, which touched on over- was represented by Julian Kulas of several ethnic communities at the White Specifically mentioned was the necessity coming hardships in the quest to become Chicago. House to discuss the President’s Initiative to foster a greater sense of understanding Americans who preserve their ethnic The Associated Press reported that on Race. By calling the meeting, the presi- and trust among the various communities identity. President Clinton assured the nation’s dent sought to create an opportunity to in order to solve common problems. The White House meeting was attend- ethnic groups they will have a role in his engage the broader American community According to The White House’s ed by representatives of the Portuguese, effort to reconcile the races, in response in the dialogue on race. Office of Specialty Press, both the presi- Polish, Italian, Irish, Greek, Hungarian to their complaints that the plan is too fixated on black and white. Ethnic representatives told the president they feel left out because most of what they’ve heard about his initiative “was being put in black vs. white vs. Latino per- spectives,” said Brian O’Dwyer, represent- ing the New York-based Irish American Immigration Coalition. A major dilemma for Clinton’s initia- tive has been determining how much attention to give black-white relations without paying short shrift to other races and ethnic groups. At its first meeting in July, the president’s seven-member race advisory board – made up of blacks, whites, Latinos and Asians – split over this issue, and has not fully resolved it. “The importance here for me today was to be able to hear the president and vice-president say those (immigrant) communities are important, and ... make those people realize when we say Americans they are included,” said Carolyn Krysiak, a Polish American member of the Maryland General Assembly, told the AP. White House spokesman Mike McCurry was quoted by the AP as saying that the meeting was part of an ongoing outreach effort begun specifically to pre- vent the feelings of exclusion voiced White House Tuesday. “It’s a very inclusive process and President Bill Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore at a White House meeting with representatives of ethnic communities. will continue to be so,” Mr. McCurry said. No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1997 5 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

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FOR THE RECORD TH E UK R A I N I A N WE E K LY President Kuchma addresses the U.N. Forum: more of the same Following are excerpts of the statement independent states, have become important Reflecting on the second World Forum of Ukrainians on August 21-24, Dr. Dmytro by President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine steps in this direction. Cipywnyk, president of the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC), told The Weekly: “We delivered on September 22 during the gen - The signing of the Joint Statement by went in apprehensive, we were certainly glad to meet Ukrainians from all parts of the eral debate of the 52nd session of the the Presidents of Ukraine and Poland on world, but now there’s still a considerable amount of work to be done to get everyone United Nations General Assembly. Reconciliation and Unity was of exception- on the same page.” From all appearances, this assessment is very optimistic. al significance for the improvement of the Just prior to these events, it was noted in this space that a raft of questions and con- Mr. President: situation in Central and Eastern Europe. cerns hung in the air — the Ukrainian World Coordinating Council’s (UWCC) cava- We consider this document an example of It is with a feeling of pride that I congrat- lier attitude about its by-laws, matters of potential conflict of interest, differing concep- a balanced and unbiased approach to the ulate you, the representative of Ukraine, on tions of relations between Ukraine and its diasporas (Eastern and Western) among the evaluation of complicated pages of history, being elected to the highest political post of as a deliverance from the burden of the past various stakeholders, etc., etc. If anything, these problems have been compounded. the international community. I am confident for the sake of development of a mutually A serious breach in views came to light when Western delegates pushed to ensure that you will use in full your rich political beneficial cooperation today and in the that the composition of Ukraine’s delegates be more directly representative of local experience and internationally recognized f u t u r e . non-governmental organizations. UWCC President Ivan Drach rejected the approach, diplomatic skills, as well as deep knowl- The resolution of the problem of the insisting on his right to select Ukraine’s nominees to the body’s executive council. edge of the U.N. system, to which you have division of the Black Sea Fleet has con- “We have about 600 NGOs in Ukraine,” Mr. Drach said, “but we aren’t ready to func- devoted more than 20 years of your life, to tributed to enhancing security in the Black tion as an umbrella body for them, nor are they ready to work in concert with one.” the benefit of mankind. Sea region as well as on the European con- Mr. Drach is seeking to completely revise the by-laws, a subject of much heated dis- I also want to address my words of grat- cussion prior to the Forum, and since Mr. Drach was re-elected for another five-year tinent as a whole. itude to the delegates from all U.N. mem- Among the latest important events I term as UWCC president, we can now look forward to another round of that debate. ber-states for supporting the candidacy of Meanwhile, the skepticism of Ukrainians in Europe and the Eastern diaspora that would like to single out is the signing in the minister to foreign affairs of Ukraine to Madrid of the Charter on a Special one world coordinating body of Ukrainians will function effectively has deepened. the honorary and responsible position of Jurij Rejt, chairman of the national council of the Association of Ukrainians in Poland Partnership between Ukraine and NATO. president of the 52nd session of the U.N. The establishment of relations of a special and president of the European Congress of Ukrainians, opposes the creation of an “arti- General Assembly. We interpret this act as ficial worldwide organization full of bureaucracy,” and believes that the UWCC partnership with the alliance has substantial- a manifestation of a high level of confi- ly strengthened confidence in Europe and should function only as a clearinghouse of information on the activities of Ukrainian dence in Ukraine’s foreign policy, its organizations worldwide. Oleksander Rudenko-Desniak, the current head of the has become one of the important elements peaceful initiatives, and commitment to in establishing a new European security Association of Ukrainians in Russia, was critical of the Forum’s work, saying that it the ideas and the objective of revival and had failed in its mandate by not following through on commitments made to the s y s t e m . strengthening of the U.N. At the same It is generally acknowledged that the Eastern diaspora at the first World Forum of Ukrainians held in 1992, notably in sup- time, we regard this as a recognition of porting the creation of Ukrainian-language schools in Russia. future of European security architecture, as Ukraine’s contribution to the maintenance an important component of global security, They’re not alone. Askold Lozynskyj, president of the Ukrainian Congress of international peace and security, nuclear Committee of America, recently told The Weekly that neither the UWC nor the should be based upon principles of compre- disarmament and non-proliferation, to pro- hensiveness, indivisibility and partnership UWCC are what the world’s Ukrainians need in the long run, but that “the UWC must moting the noble principles of democracy remain because the UWCC has been a failure” in acting as an umbrella body for and, in the long run, on collective rather in international life, respect for basic than unilateral actions. It is in this context Ukrainian NGOs and in speaking up for Ukrainians worldwide. human rights and freedoms. ... At a working meeting of the UWC’s presidium held in Toronto on September 26, that Ukraine is developing its active cooper- The recent history of the United Nations ation with European and trans-Atlantic Dr. Cipywnyk noted that the Forum’s resolutions, as read by Mykhailo Horyn on and the history of development of indepen- August 23 and published in the Kyiv-based weekly Visti z Ukrainy of September 11, s t r u c t u r e s . dent Ukraine have much in common. First In the system of Ukraine’s foreign policy “were not resolutions; they were a state of the country address, not a series of directives of all, the common feature is that both my for future action, as required. [The text] describes everything, includes everything, but priorities, an important place is allocated to state and the United Nations now experi- the development of mutually beneficial in such vague and indeterminate form that no committee or commission that could be ence the complicated process of internal struck would know what to begin with.” relations with the countries of Asia, Africa r e f o r m . and Latin America. Paradoxically, for such an all-inclusive document, Dr. Cipywnyk pointed out, “it Profound and comprehensive changes contains nothing about the UWCC as a formal umbrella body ... and, oddly, no men- Ukraine pays special attention to the prove to be an extremely difficult matter. Non-Aligned Movement, which is one of tion of the UWC, which is allegedly its major Western diaspora partner.” But the choice is final and irreversible: Some have ventured that while the UWCC might founder as an institution under the influential factors in contemporary inter- Ukraine has become a democratic state with national relations. Our observer status in the Mr. Drach’s continued leadership, there was little prospect that any grievous collateral its policy oriented to ensuring the citizens’ damage would be suffered by the diasporas (or groups in Ukraine) as a result. movement testifies to the fact that Ukraine needs and rights, to establishing a civil soci- today remains a non-bloc country. Hardly an exciting prospect, but clearly, given the re-election of Mr. Drach during ety. ... the Forum in Kyiv, everyone has decided to wait and see. All the above can be summarized in a We are aware that we still have to pay a single conclusion: due to its persistent high price for the transition from the com- efforts, Ukraine’s borders are now peace- mand administrative system to a market ful and its neighborhood is open to part- economy. And we try first of all to alleviate nership. The multidimensional foreign pol- Oct. the situation of the most vulnerable groups icy of our country has promoted the image Turning the pages back... of our population, to ensure that the assis- of Ukraine as a reliable and predictable Turning the pages back... tance reaches its addressee. ... partner. ... 6 I believe that next year we will, for sure, Events on the European continent after witness gradual economic growth in the end of the Cold War have persuasively 1881 Ukraine and the forging of a socially orient- proven that, from now on, threats to secu- One of the few playwrights of quality to have survived the ed market economy. ... Stalinist terror, Ivan Kocherha was born in the village of rity on the continent emanate not from Ukraine has consistently conducted and confrontation between military-political Novosivka, in the Chernihiv Gubernia, on October 6, 1881. is determined to continue a policy directed Having graduated with a law degree from Kyiv University in 1903, he lived in blocs, but rather from regional and local at strengthening security and stability in the conflicts. A good reminder of this is the Chernihiv and worked as a theater critic for the newspaper Chernigovskie Gubernskie whole world. Viedomosti. He also began writing plays, initially in Russian. series of tragic events in recent years in the May I recall that last year we removed Balkans, Transdniestria, the Caucasus, etc. When the first world war broke out in 1914, he moved to Zhytomyr, where he the last nuclear warhead from our territo- remained, for the most part, throughout the turbulence of the next 20 years. At the same time, discussions on the future ry and, for the first time in history, trans- of European security have been so far Kocherha’s first play, “Pesnia v Bokale” (Song in a Wine Glass, 1910) was first staged formed from a nuclear state to a non- in 1926 in his own Ukrainian translation. This was soon followed with dramas with evoca- focused mainly on the issues of NATO nuclear one. Having done that, Ukraine and European Union enlargement, the role tive and winsome titles, such as “Feia Hirkoho Myhdaliu” (The Bitter Almond Fairy, had demonstrated its good will and the 1926), “Almazne Zhorno” (The Diamond Millstone, 1927), “Marko v Pekli” (Mark in of the OSCE, etc. Having no intention to real possibility of nuclear disarmament as negate the importance of these problems, Hell, 1928) and “Svichchyne Vesillia” (Svichka’s [Mr. Candle’s] Wedding, 1930). such, made a substantial contribution to However, because of their unique style, his plays largely escaped notice until his we are certain that all-European stability is the realization of an idea “The World of impossible without strengthening regional “Maistry Chasu” (Masters of Time) won third prize in an all-union competition in 1933. the 21st Century – Without Nuclear In 1934, he moved to Kyiv, and except for the World War II period, lived out his days security and without establishing mutually W e a p o n s . ” beneficial and good-neighborly relations in the Ukrainian capital. As with most writers who survived the murderous clampdown of Of no less significance is the contribu- the succeeding years, the quality of his subsequent production was compromised, but his between individual nations. It is in this tion of our country to radical positive direction that European countries, and quirky strangeness saved him from both a Soviet bullet and the completely disfiguring changes in the region of Central and Eastern self-abasement that rendered Pavlo Tychyna’s poetry unreadable after the mid-1930s. foremost those of Central and Eastern Europe, which stipulate the creation of Europe, including Ukraine, should exert By and large, Soviet critics tended to value him less than more properly Socialist favorable conditions for a new, more stable Realist dramatists, such as Oleksander Korniichuk, but he was nevertheless accepted into the best of their efforts. It was for this very and secure geopolitical situation on the con- reason that we proposed to hold the 1999 the official canon. His experimentations with form and philosophical symbolism are in tinent as a whole. and of themselves interesting landmarks in Ukrainian drama. A 25-volume edition of his summit meeting of the Baltic and Black Ukraine’s conclusion of basic political Sea states in Ukraine. complete works (which includes over 30 comedies, satires and historical plays) was pub- treaties with the Russian Federation and lished in 1956. Kocherha died in Kyiv on December 29, 1952. By the will of destiny, we happen to live Romania, as well as of the agreement on on the threshold of two millenniums that Source: “Kocherha, Ivan,” Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol. 2 (Toronto: University of Toronto state borders with the Republic of Belarus, Press, 1988). the first such in the history of the newly (Continued on page 14) No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1997 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

controlled by the Moscow patriarchs, who A second sellout destroyed our Church tradition, our cul- ture, our language. of Ukrainian Church? Why would Patriarchs Aleksei II and by Orysia Paszczak Tracz Dear Editor: Bartholomew do such evil to another Orthodox Church, or to any Church for In reference to the article “Ecumenical that matter? patriarch calls on Russian Church to lead Therefore, I do not wish to belong to Mamyna pisnia – Mama’s song reunification of Ukrainian Churches” either of these Churches. I would be My mother, who passed away in June, then going away for a long time, and (September 28) I would like to comment happy to belong to an “uncanonical” always sang. As a child growing up in upon his return finds out that she had died on this issue. Church that doesn’t have a history of Jersey City, Newark and Irvington, N.J., pining away for him. This is one song to As a lay Ukrainian Orthodox Christian I manipulation, lies, coercion, treachery in the 1950s, I especially remember her which I don’t remember all the lyrics, consider it to be a second sellout to the and subjugation. I do not want to be a songs and her clear soprano. She sang the except for the ending. I’m guessing that Russian Church of the Ukrainian Church by voiceless member of their club and to way she must have sung back in her vil- this is more of a ballad-style song, and the Greek patriarchs. loose my self respect, self-esteem and my lage near Lviv when she was growing up, from Halychyna. Upon his return the These mighty soul traders consider backbone. whenever and wherever she felt like it, on Kozak rides to the home of his girl, and themselves to be canonical and our Church the spur of the moment, just because. her mother tells him where she is buried. Alla Lehka Heretz uncanonical because we do not want to be I think about Mama and her songs, first This one is a real tear-jerker. “... Yide Rutherford, N.J. of all because I am grateful that she Kozak dorohoiu, ta na tsvyntar vstupaie, passed them on to me, and it is because of brama sia vtvoraie, rozha sia vklaniaie, not been forthcoming. A president cannot her that I know so many melodies and yoho myla ne staie. Ustan myla, Ukraine must learn create an effective government in a democ- verses of even quite obscure songs. There chornobryva, ta do mene hovory, ia by racy alone, especially in a new one. This is are certain songs that I had not heard on hovoryla, bo ia tia liubyla, syra zemlia ne to use tools it has the reason Mr. Kuchma told Parliament to any album or stage in either Ukraine or daie” (... he rides to the cemetery, the gate cooperate with his programs or he may find Dear Editor: North America, and there are others that I opens, the rose hangs down, his girl it necessary to withdraw from seeking re- heard performed for the first time only doesn’t get up. Wake up, dear, black- The September 14 issue of The election in 1998. after the independence movement got browed one, and speak to me. I would Ukrainian Weekly contained several arti- The opportunities for structural adjust- rolling. Yet to me these songs were talk to you because I loved you, but the cles which combined provide the conclu- ment under the International Monetary already familiar, I knew them well, moist earth won’t let me). sion that Ukraine must look internally and Fund and the World Bank offered Poland, because Mama always used to sing them Another story song, this time a real bal- reduce its reliance on the diaspora and out- with its prior market economy experience, at home. lad, I think, is “Pishov vidvazhnyi haiovyi side assistance to keep its ship of state were offered to Ukraine. Poland, having For example, “Poviyav viter stepovyi,” do lisa temnoho” (the brave forester went a f l o a t . had a taste of the advantages of a market a seemingly ordinary folk/historical song into the dark forest). After many verses Poland, the Czech Republic and economy and consumer satisfaction, quick- about a young man (Kozak or Strilets, about loving his girl, it turns out that Hungary are looked upon by macroeco- ly appreciated the opportunities and took depending upon the version) dying, and something terrible happens (I don’t nomic experts as examples of economies ownership of the structural adjustment pro- his mother, sister and girlfriend mourning remember all the lyrics): “... vin vymiryv i that accepted structural adjustment pro- g r a m . him. Not even a patriotic word in it – just vystrilyv, divchyni do sertsia strilyv, tse grams and used foreign aid for the purpose Ukraine, with its long experience of that “ne odnoho Kozaka syra zemlia temna nich nevydnaia i vin yi zastrilyv” of softening the shocks of early reform. state control, looked upon these opportuni- nakryla,” or not one [i.e., many more than (... he took aim and fired, and hit his girl Poland was recently invited to join the ties for foreign aid as means of governmen- one] Kozak was covered by the cold in the heart; it was a dark night and he European Union due to its development of tal financing, rather than tools for long- moist earth. There seems to be a mystery shot her). I had never heard this one any- a viable market economy. term growth. Commitment to reform surrounding this song. where, but serendipity does happen. Ukraine has been split between the wasn’t present. A writer for the Economist, I had heard it since childhood, and Last summer I was substituting for philosophies of President Leonid Kuchma, referring to Ukrainian economic conditions always liked it. I think I heard other peo- Bohdana Bashuk on the daily Ukrainian who has been an early advocate of radical last July, stated, “it is representative of ple singing it long ago at social get- radio program on CKJS Radio in change, and Leonid Kravchuk, his prede- what an incompetent government can do to togethers. But as far as I know, it had Winnipeg. I do the programs live and cessor, whose program emphasized the destroy its programs.” never been sung publicly or recorded in leave the studio right after. As I was development of the economy eventually A recent World Bank survey of develop- Soviet Ukraine. The first time I heard it walking to my car in the studio parking through gradual acceptance and slowly ing economies surprisingly suggested that was in videos from the first marches in lot, a man looked over his fence in the building a supporting infrastructure. The even Russia, with its current alarming Lviv in the late 1980s, when it seemed to back lane and called to me. He had been two views are paradoxical. problems, will emerge as a viable economy be an independence anthem of sorts, and listening to the program and realized the The IMF and the World Bank endorsed within the first quarter of the next century. when the quartet Yavir sang it in studio was right behind his house. A Mr. Kuchma’s pragmatic approach, which The World Bank and IMF conditions Winnipeg and on their cassette. In asking third- or fourth-generation Canadian, he made the state the centerpiece of radical should be looked upon as prescriptions for many people about the origin of this song, had some tapes relatives had brought reform. The Kuchma proposals prior to the curing an ailing economy, not as intrusions I have received remarkably few answers back from Ukraine and lent me one of 1997 crisis and his July 1997 crisis-abating into home rule. so far (so here’s your chance, dear read- them. This was a home-made anthology proposals are practical and logical as goals In looking at several newly independent er). To my thinking, it could be an old of all kinds of popular songs and artists, to be attained. They represent an ambitious economies, there are those with commit- Kozak song or a Ukrainian Sich taped from radio or from other tapes. At program requiring strong state action. ment to a market economy and others that Riflemen’s (World War I) song, but it first I thought I was hearing things, but In order to attain these goals, which are ambivalent. Ukraine has the tools to doesn’t appear in any songbook at all. there stuck between two other complete could lead to eventual economic rehabilita- emerge strong. However, it has to learn to Someone suggested that it could be a songs, for a few seconds, was “Pishov tion for Ukraine, he would need the coop- pick them up. Ukrainian Insurgent Army (World War vidvazhnyi haiovyi.” Just one phrase by a II) song , but it doesn’t appear in the UPA male quartet or group, but there it was, eration of the Verkhovna Rada. During the Paul Thomas Rabchenuk songbook either. I even tried Zynovii someone else actually knew this song and last few years of his administration, this has Salem, Mass. Lysko’s 10-volume compilation of was still singing it! Ukrainian folk songs, but only “Povii “Luhom yidu, konia vedu (I am riding and Moscow vis-à-vis Ukraine in vitre na Vkrayinu” shows up. across the meadow, leading my horse) is No surprise regarding December of 1996 were perfectly logical “Kozak vidizdzhaie, divchynonka another gorgeous melody, this one about and consistent with the policies of those plache” (the Kozak is Riding Off, his girl the Kozak not even trying to send match- Vatican-Moscow talks two religious centers in effect since the is crying) is another song from my child- makers to his girl. She tells him he should Dear Editor: 16th century. History teaches us that the hood that has stayed with me. In the last attempt courting her, so that at least peo- policies of Rome and Moscow in Eastern few years, I was pleased to hear Maria ple will remember that he tried. This song I would like to comment on your “News Europe principally involve competition Burmaka’s version, as well as the one by may have been recorded once or twice by and Views” section in the September 21 for dominance without much regard for the trio Bila Krynytsia. This song does a choir – and this one does need the edition of The Weekly. the impacted population. In the case of appear in some songbooks and is definite- sweep of a choir. I think in each of these I am surprised that Ukrainian Ukraine, the policies of Rome and ly old. The Kozak is leaving for faraway songs it’s not only the lovely melody, but Catholics in Ukraine and in the diaspora Moscow were, and apparently still are, Ukraina (could be from one region to also the unbelievable beauty of harmony were astonished by the “bilateral conver- directed towards division of Ukraine into another), and his girl asks that he take her that works its charm. sations” between delegations of the Holy religious and political spheres of influ- with him. He asks what will you do there, When they listen to Ukrainian songs, it See and the Patriarchate of Moscow ence, and as such are against Ukrainian what will you eat there, where will you still amazes my non-Ukrainian friends regarding relations between Ukrainians national interests. In view of this, one sleep? She replies each time that she will that we can sing as a “choir” in multi-part of the Greek-Catholic and the Orthodox can appreciate the wisdom of the do laundry and reap rye, will eat dry flat harmony without anyone directing! To us Churches in Ukraine without the partici- Ukrainian government in disinviting the bread (sukhari) with water, will sleep in this is normal, as it should be, and I am pation or consultation of the concerned pope last year from visiting Ukraine. the steppe under the willow, “koby sertse often puzzled about how so many people parties. A simple reference to history Ihor Lysyj iz toboiu” (sweetheart, as long as I’m can be singing and not fall into harmony? books will show that the actions of Rome West Hills, Calif. with you). It has to be the combination of I remember one very strange “kolysan- simple lyrics and melody that makes this ka” (lullaby), that my mother sang for my song so special to me. The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters to the editor. Letters should be typed sister (I was 8 years old at the time) and “Liubyv Kozak divchynonku” (the for her first grandchild, my son, Boyan. (double-spaced) and signed; they must be originals, not photocopies. Kozak loved the girl) tells the story of The daytime phone number and address of the letter-writer must be given for Nina Matvienko had said that a woman him not getting engaged, even though he verification purposes. loves her (her family doesn’t want him), (Continued on page 15) 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1997 No. 40

Lviv schools begin NEWS AND VIEWS a new school year Shevchenko Scientific Society by Dr. Oksana A. Wynnyckyj Development of Teachers (Toronto). active in realm of publications In his presentation, Mr. Khobzei LVIV — In Ukraine, the school recognized the assistance provided by During the last year, The Shevchenko such documents as the Bendery year traditionally begins with a general another member of the Institute for the Scientific Society (NTSh) published Constitution of 1710 (popularly known conference attended by school princi- Professional Development of numerous new books. What follows is a as the Orlyk Constitution), The Fourth pals, early childhood education center Teachers, Nell Nakoneczny, former brief survey. Universal of the Ukrainian Central directors, superintendents and educa- senior superintendent at the Toronto • “Word. Symbol. Discourse. An Rada (1918), The Manifesto of tional administrative staff. The aim of Board of Education, in streamlining Anthology of Literary and Critical Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists the general conference is to provide all some of the administrative and consul- Thought in the 20th Century”, (in (1940), and The Manifesto of the educational personnel with a resume tative practices at the Lviv Board of Ukrainian), edited by Maria Zubrytska Ukrainian Intelligentsia (1995). of the previous year’s activities and Education. It includes articles by Mykola achievements and guidance for the with the assistance of Larissa M.L.Z. According to Mr. Khobzei, the Kostomarov, Mykhailo Drahomanov, upcoming year. To this end, formal Onyshkevych and John Fizer. Lviv: main curriculum focus for the upcom- Oleksander Potebnia, Borys Hrinchenko, presentations are made by key educa- Center for Humanities, Lviv University ing school year will be the implemen- Ivan Franko, Mykola Mikhnovsky, Bohdan tional and political figures. This year, and the Shevchenko Scientific Society, tation of the state educational stan- Kistiakivsky, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, the Lviv Board of Education held its 1996, 636 pp., $35 (paperback). dards proposed in June, by Ukraine’s Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Dmytro conference on August 28 in the Included in the Anthology are chapters Ministry of Education. These stan- Dontsov, Mykola Khvyliovy, Milena Halychyna Youth Center. such as: “Psycholinguistic Theories of dards were developed by a group of Rudnytska, Yevhen Malaniuk and Ivan Pavlo Khobzei, director of the Lviv Potebnia,” “Philosophical Basis of experts in Kyiv and mandate specific European Modernism,” “Psychoanalysis D z y u b a . Board of Education, presented an and concrete skill levels that students overview of last year’s events, and and Archetype Theory”, “ P h e n o m e n o - This anthology is the third recent pub- are expected to achieve at the end of lication af the Society in association with spoke about the innovations being l o g i c a l Theory and Criticism”, “Literary every school year. introduced in early childhood and pri- Hermeneutics, Existentialism in Literature”, the University of Toronto Press, follow- Following the general conference, mary education for children from age “Reader Response Esthetics, Structuralism ing Ukraine and Ukrainians throughout Kateryna Horokhovska, inspector of 3 to 10. and Semiotics”, “Postructuralism and the world. The first two are: “A the Lviv Board of Education, stated, In general the school system in Deconstruction”, “Feminist Criticism” and Demographic and Sociological Guide to “We will be responding to the pro- Ukraine is separated into “childhood “Post-Colonial Criticism.” Ukraine and the Ukrainian Diaspora,” posed state educational standards. institutions” (dytiachi zaklady), which The collection of essays was translated edited by Ann Lencyk Pawlichko (1994, They are written with the top 10 per- children age 3-6 attend, and “compos- from eight languages. It has an extensive 526 pp., $75, $35), and “Ukrainian cent of students in mind. The majority ite schools” (seredni shkoly), for chil- Dictionary of Literary Terminology and Literature in the Twentieth Century: A of students cannot achieve these stan- dren age 7-16. In this school year an index of names. Reader’s Guide to Ukrainian Literature,” dards. We need to rethink what we (1997-1998), new elementary schools This is the first such anthology in by George S.N. Luckyj (1992,144 pp., mean by state educational standards.” have opened their doors intended for Ukrainian, of such a scope. In order to $40, $18.95). Another curriculum focus area that children age 4-11. work on this publication, the editors and • “Ukrajinsko-Cesky Slovnik, Volume was stressed by a variety of speakers, The composite schools tend to be translators held three workshops on Il, A. Kurimsky, R. Siskova, and N. was the introduction and further devel- very large with student populations translating literary theory (at Urbana and Savicky. Prague: Academia, 1996, 1,377 opment of courses in “Christian that range between 1,000 and 3,000 Lviv). Both IREX and The Shevchenko pp; in association with the Czech Ethics.” Mr. Khobzei announced that students. Due to overcrowding, chil- Scientific Society provided grants for the Academy of Sciences and The National the course of studies for all grades Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. dren often attend school in shifts – project. approved by the Lviv Board of Volume of this Ukrainian-Czech dic- some attend the morning shift, which • “Towards an Intellectual History of Education was developed by a com- tionary was published in 1994. Both vol- begins at 7:30 a.m., and others the Ukraine: An Anthology of Ukrainian mittee comprising representatives of umes together contain 75,000 entries. afternoon shift, which begins at 1 p.m. Thought from 1710 to 1995,” Ralph both Catholic and Orthodox Churches. • “Halychyna’s Contribution to the and ends at 7 p.m. The early start and Lindheim and George S.N. Luckyj, edi- Mykhailo Bregin, president of the Formation of the Ukrainian Literary late end means that during the winter tors. Toronto: University of Toronto in community-based organization Center Language” (in Ukrainian), by George all children travel either to or from association the with Shevchenko Scientific school during the dark hours. for Educational Initiatives, spoke of Shevelov. Lviv and New York: 1996, the cooperation that exists between Society, 1996, 420 pp. $65 (cloth), $24.95 200 pp. In his presentation, Ivan Rudnytskyi, ( p a p e r ) . head of the of Lviv City Council educators in Lviv, other cities in This book contains chapters on Ukraine and in the Eastern and This compilation is another first in Halychyna’s influence until 1876, then Educational Committee, who was terms of an anthology of this type instrumental in writing and lobbying Western diasporas. during the periods until 1905, 1906-1920 For the fifth consecutive year, the about Ukraine. It includes a 50-page for the passage of city legislation that introduction by the editors, and then (Continued on page 18) provided for the creation of elementary Center for Educational Initiatives, the schools, commended their creation. He World Educational Coordinating stated, “By placing our youngest stu- Council of the World Congress of dents in separate facilities, we will be Ukrainians and the Lviv Board of Society plays leading role in conferences able to eliminate the need for two Education have co-sponsored a sum- shifts.” Primary classes at School No. mer institute for teachers. Every year The Shevchenko Scientific Society has • At the annual conference of the 96, where Mr. Rudnytskyi is principal, four to six Canadian teachers have organized, sponsored, or was associated American Association for the were the first in the city to split off volunteered to spend summer school with the following scholarly conferences Advancement of Slavic Studies in Boston from the composite school and form a holidays sharing professional expertise in 1996. (November 1996), the society sponsored separate elementary school named The with their colleagues in Ukraine. • The 16th annual conference honoring two panels: “Chornobyl: A 10-Year First Blooms (Pervotsvit). Topics have included the teaching of Taras Shevchenko (March 1996) was held Perspective,” as reflected in science In addition to issues of space and history, economics, language arts, pri- in conjunction with the Ukrainian (paper by Oleksa Bilaniuk), literature safety, by providing facilities where mary grades and English. Additional Academy of Arts and Sciences of the (Larissa Onyshkevych), health and medi- younger children are separated from courses were offered for school U.S., and the Harvard Ukrainian Research cine (David Marples), Leonid Rudnytzky; pre-teens and teens, it is anticipated administrators (see The Ukrainian Institute. Papers were read by Assya and “Problems of Current Ukrainian that the needs of childhood will be bet- Weekly, September 18, 1994). Humesky, Dmytro Shtorhyn and Anatol Orthography,” featuring Assya Humesky, ter met. The Soviet educational system Initially, the summer institute Y a r e m a . Myroslava Znayenko, Tonia Berezovenko focused on fact retention and strict dis- courses were taught by Canadian edu- • To commemorate the 10th anniver- (Kyiv), Vera Andrushkiw, Svitlana cipline, whereas the new schools will cators. In time, Lviv educators became sary of the Chornobyl nuclear accident the R o h o v y k . attempt to foster a love for lifelong course assistants; leading discussions, society sponsored Prof. Dmytro • With the National University of the learning. One such school is “School conducting workshops and presenting Grodzinky’s visit from Kyiv to deliver a Kyiv-Mohyla Academy the society co- of Joy” (Shkola Radosti), whose prin- teaching-learning materials. “This lecture on the subject at Columbia sponsored a conference held in Kyiv cipal, Luba Tchuba, received a special year, for the first time, our Lviv teach- University (April 1996) during the pro- (November 1996) on “The Functioning of commendation at the general confer- ers were course instructors and our gram sponsored by the Ukrainian commu- Ukrainian as a State Language.” The con- ence from Lviv’s mayor, Vasyl Canadian colleagues acted as consul- nity and The Harriman Institute. ference brought together over 120 schol- tants and assistants,” Mr. Bregin stat- Kuibida. • Shevchenko conferences, held in con- ars and graduate students from 27 cities of ed. Over 1,000 teachers have complet- The opening of these elementary junction with the Ukrainian Academy of Ukraine (the largest numbers were from ed the summer institute courses. schools is a direct result of seven years Arts and Sciences (May 1996), featured Kyiv, Lviv, Luhansk, Donetsk and Attending teachers have included rep- of cooperation between Canadian and Hanna Chumachenko (Kherson), Nina Kharkiv). The American Association for resentatives from all regions of Ukrainian teachers, specifically Karavanska (Maryland) and Mykola Ukrainian Studies sent Prof. Oleksander Ukraine, Kazakstan, Latvia, Poland, between the Lviv Board of Education Riabchuk (Kyiv). Tsiovkh, as its representative. Romania and the Transdniester region. and the Institute for the Professional • At the third International Congress of • The society co-sponsored with La Mr. Bregin also provided informa- tion on an English language total Ukrainists in Kharkiv (August 1996), the Salle University a conference on the Dr. Oksana A. Wynnyckyj advises immersion camp for Lviv children. society sponsored the panel on “Problems Union of Brest of 1596 (December the Lviv Board of Education under the The camp was organized by Beth of Contemporary Ukrainian Orthography.” 1996). Participating were the following Canada-Ukraine Partners Program The participants were: Lidia Kots- members: Leonid Rudnytzky, the Rev. funded by the government of Canada. (Continued on page 18) Hryhorchuk (Lviv), Olena Huzar Petro Bilaniuk, Thomas Bird and Albert (Ternopil), Oleksandra Zakharkiv (Lviv). Kipa. No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1997 9 Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies launches Hru s h ev s k y vo l u m e EDMONTON – The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian book on the bestseller list in Canada. familiarize herself with classical Greek in order to trans- Studies at the University of Alberta has launched the Vigorously researched, “The History of Ukraine- late Hrushevsky accurately and in fluent, contemporary first volume, in translation, of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s R u s ’ ” extensively documents the history of Ukraine and English. Five translators and a research team from “The History of Ukraine-Rus’.” The publication of the its people from ancient times to the mid-17th century. Canada, the U.S., Great Britain, Ukraine and Poland are life work of Ukraine’s greatest historian is an ambitious With its sweeping scope and comprehensive bibliogra- working on the other nine volumes, and the next one is project for the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies phy, the history is indispensable to the study of Eastern scheduled to go to press in April 1998. (CIUS), which has committed itself to translating and European, Russian, Balkan and Middle Eastern history. The Hrushevsky Translation Project represents a publishing Hrushevsky’s entire work in 10 volumes at It is invaluable to anyone interested in the history of the major commitment of staff and resources for the an estimated cost of $6 million. It is the largest project Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Jewish, Scandinavian, Greek Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, specifically for ever undertaken by CIUS Press, which is located at the and other peoples, the rise and fall of Kyivan-Rus’, the the Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research University of Toronto and is headed by Dr. Maxim Byzantine period, the meeting of Christianity with Islam, located at CIUS. The center was established in 1989 Tarnawsky. and the perennial problems of conquest, war and revolu- through a $1 million endowment by Toronto business- A significant event for Ukrainians in their homeland tion, and nation-building. Later volumes of “The History man and philanthropist Peter Jacyk, and matched two- as well as abroad, the translation of “The History of of Ukraine-Rus’ ” have become, in many instances, the to-one by the government of Alberta. The Ukrainian Ukraine-Rus’,” the most significant history of Ukraine only source of historic documents and writings that were community has also extended strong support by con- written to date, serves not only as a basis for developing lost during widespread destruction of Ukrainian libraries tributing nearly half of the estimated $1.5 million need- Ukrainian historical studies, but also for understanding and archives by wars and repressive regimes. ed in private funding to help cover production costs. The the new independent nation. “This is an outstanding and major work, which firmly Petro Jacyk Education Foundation in Toronto has assist- “Hrushevsky realized when he undertook the writing established the University of Alberta as the indisputable ed in raising $600,000 from individual donors, and the of Ukrainian history that this was not only a scholarly international leader in Ukrainian studies,” said Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies has con- undertaking, but an affirmation of Ukraine as a nation,” University of Alberta President Dr. Roderick Fraser, and tributed an additional $50,000. The first volume was explained Dr. Frank Sysyn, editor-in-chief, head of the “it satisfies a hunger felt by the Ukrainian people and sponsored by Petro and Ivanna Stelmach of Hrushevsky Translation Project and director of the Peter scholars worldwide for knowledge of the nation’s histo- Mississauga, Ontario, who donated $100,000. Jacyk Center. “This explains why the Soviets tried so ry and its impact on people from Ancient Greece to The translation of this historic work is timely given hard to suppress his work and why Ukrainian democrats Scandinavia.” the resurgence of Western interest in Ukraine and have tried so hard to get it republished in the late The first volume covers the history of Ukraine from Eastern Europe in general. It is an important accom- 1980s,” he added. the earliest Slavic settlements to the rise of the Rus’ plishment for CIUS and an important follow-up to the Hrushevsky’s history was banned in Ukraine by the state and the acceptance of Christianity. Preparing the $5 million, five-volume Encyclopedia of Ukraine pro- Soviets in the 1930s and the author exiled to Russia book for publication was a complex, demanding task ject completed by the institute four years ago. where he died under mysterious circumstances in 1934. involving a team of eight international scholars who had The first launch of the book was held in Edmonton on It was only after Ukraine regained its independence that to check, among other things, 1,500 bibliographic Thursday, September 18, at the Timms Center for the “The History of Ukraine-Rus’ ” reappeared. In 1991, sources in 30 different languages, and to update Performing Arts, University of Alberta. 100,000 copies of the first volume were reprinted and Hrushevsky’s scholarship and views. Translator Marta For further information, contact: Dr. Frank Sysyn, almost immediately soldout, a phenomenal response Skorupsky, a former Edmontonian now residing in New Canadian Institute Studies for Ukrainian Studies, (403) when one considers that sales of 5,000 copies puts a York, had to research the period thoroughly and even 492-2972. Journal devotes issue to current situation in Ukraine UUARC appeals NEW YORK – The most recent issue (August 1997) of National Security” by Carlos Pascual of the National Analysis of Current Events, a publication of the Association Security Council; “Kulhlra: Bridging Ukrainian-Polish for contributions for the Studies of Nationalities, was a special issue devoted Relations” by Roman Szporluk of Harvard University; exclusively to the current situation in Ukraine. and “Are the Two Partners Equal?” by Stanislav An appeal from the United Ukrainian American It was co-sponsored by the Shevchenko Scientific Lazebnyk of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Relief Committee to all federal and state employ - Society of America, and its editorial committee (Anna U k r a i n e . ees, and private industry workers. Procyk, Ivan Fizer, Wolodymyr Stojko, Martha These authors take a hard, but not pessimistic, look at Trofimenko, Swiatoslaw Trofimenko and Ivan the current situation in Ukraine. Some of their conclu- Every year in September and October all feder- Koropeckyj), coordinated by Larissa Onyshkevych, par- sions are mirrored by the editor-in-chief, Lowell al and state government employees and private ticipated in the editorial process. Barrington of Marquette University, who noted in his industry workers are encouraged to declare/donate The articles in the journal cover a broad spectrum of editorial, titled “Spotlight on Ukraine,” that “The contra- money to their preferred charitable organization problems and were written by top specialists in the dictions of Ukraine remain between its reality and its through payroll deductions. area. They include “Ukraine’s Painful Economic potential. It is one of the most important of the post- Federal government employees and members Transition” by Jeffrey Sachs and Alexander Pivovarsky Communist states, but only with serious reform (and sig- of the U.S. armed forces do this through the of Harvard University; “The Geopolitical Situation of nificant pain), will Ukraine develop a post-Communist Combined Federal Campaign, while state gov- Ukraine at Present and in the Future” by Ambassador normalcy with a viable, competitive economy.” ernment employees and private industry workers Yuri Shcherbak; “Ukraine’s Russian Minority and Copies of the issue are available from: Association for do this through the United Way. We are pleased Russia’s Ukrainian Policies” by Marion Recktenwald the Study of Nationalities, 700 Broadway, Second Floor, to announce that again this year Ukrainians and of the University of Maryland; “Ukraine and Its New York, NY 10003; telephone, (212) 824-4135. their friends may declare their contributions through payroll deduction to the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee. The UUARC has worked actively and tire- Paper highlights Peace Treaty of Zboriv lessly since 1944 to meet the ever growing AKRON, Ohio — When the Thirty Years War was be compared with the newspaper of today. The form of needs of disadvantaged Ukrainians throughout winding down in 1648, in Ukraine the Kozaks rebelled the newspaper of that time reminds us more of a book the world. Because of the present economic cri- and rose up against the Kingdom of Poland. This insur- than of a modern newspaper. The newspapers were sis in Ukraine, the needs are greater than ever. rection was an extraordinary event that had no parallel licensed and appeared with such notices as “by order,” The UUARC is now providing eyeglasses for in the rest of Europe at that time, except in Holland “by authority,” “cum privilegio,” “with license.” 10,000 needy orphans and homeless children in against Spain (1568-1648), although it was not on the Furthermore, the English press was under severe cen- Ukraine (cost: $50,000). The UUARC also is same level and took place under different circum- sorship, which was even more increased in the time of continuing to work on various other ongoing stances. King Charles I (1625-1649). No wonder that the projects in Europe, South America and the English newspapers of the time, according to Lord The Kozak insurrection aroused a great deal of inter- United States. est in Europe. It was somewhat of a sensation, especial- Thomas Macaulay (1800-1859), omitted domestic Federal government employees and members ly since the Kozaks together with the “infidel” Moslem, affairs, except for some unimportant events at home, of the armed forces can do this by filling out Christian enemy No. 1, were fighting against the preferring to publish news about foreign affairs. This their CFC Declaration form to Code No. 2943, Christian king of Poland. This insurrection was report- was another reason why such London newspapers as ed in the contemporary European press. For the most The Public Intelligencer, The Mercurius Politicus, The while state employees and private industry part it was reported in Germany, where the press was Moderate Intelligencer and A Briefe Relation of Some workers may declare contributions by filling very well organized and informed about events in Affaires reported regularly about the Kozak revolt in out their United Way declaration form under Ukraine in 1648-1649 by the German officers in the the Kingdom of Poland. Donor Choice Code No. 01838 and the Polish service. Concerning this Kozak insurrection under the leader- UUARC address: United Ukrainian American The German newspapers had correspondents who ship of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Dr. Theodore Relief Committee Inc., 1206 Cottman Ave., regularly reported from cities such as Danzig (Gdansk), Mackiw, professor-emeritus of the University of Akron Philadelphia, PA 19111. Koenigsberg, Lviv (Lemberg), Stettin (Szczecin) and gave a paper “Peace Treaty of Zboriv in the English Again, the Executive Board of the UUARC Warsaw. In general, the German newspapers, being well Press of 1649” on May 12, at the East European Section would like to thank all benefactors through informed, were used as a source of information for of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow, Poland. Combined Federal Campaign and the United many contemporary foreign newspapers and magazines. For more information about this paper, please write Way for their generous support in the past. It was practice at that time for publishers to simply copy to: Theodore Mackiw, Professor Emeritus, The We extend our heartfelt thank you in advance the news from other publications. University of Akron, Department of Modern Languages, for your continuing support in this upcoming The Kozak insurrection was also reported in Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences, Akron, OH, s e a s o n . England. Of course, the 17th century newspaper cannot 4 4 3 2 5 - 1 9 0 7 . 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1997 No. 40 Ukrainian Museum and Arc h i ves seeks to pre s e r ve a nat i o n The feature article below is reprinted triumph in the land of the moving picture from the Cleveland Free Times. The arti - and Mickey Mouse. cle published here is a slightly edited ver - And, finally, they became shadows, sion of the piece that appeared in the too, and their lives a shadow dance, des- issue dated September 11-17, 1996 (Vol. tined for rest in dove-gray boxes – a dozen 4, Issue 51). The photos reproduced on to a shelf – on dozens of shelves in room these pages are courtesy of the Ukrainian after room of the house on Kenilworth. Museum and Archives. And here’s the interesting part: more arrived every day. There would be a by John Hyduk knock on the door, and a young mother in CLEVELAND – The day was over tennis shorts and a Shooters sweatshirt and the work was ended, and now would be standing there with her chil- Andrew Fedynsky had a chance to disap- dren, their mini-van idling at the curb, pear and be a father again. Instead, he and she would hand over a box that had chose to stay a while longer in a room in been hidden in an attic or buried in a Tremont and be a son. basement, the legacy of a great uncle or a The rooms upstairs are decorated with great-great aunt whom no one remember. art: big, modern-expressionist busts of And you would look down and there, the great Ukrainian culturalist Ivan staring back at you, would be the long Franko and the immortal Ukrainian poet greyhound face of Osyp Maidanyuk or Taras Shevchenko, both the handiwork of the sad eyes of Julia Woloshyn, except Ukrainian master sculptor Alexander they’d be kid-sized old shadows on the Archipenko, and if you’ve never heard of little faces of the little bodies wearing the any of them, well, whose fault is that? Hunchback of Notre Dame T-shirts. He tapped at a computer keyboard, Mr. Fedynsky knows the shock, the wandering through a field of blue tremor, at the moment of connection. screens. “I think you’ll appreciate this,” He’d been spilling the archives out on the he says. Mr. Fedynsky is tapping as fast table for an hour, the boxes whose white as he can. labels said “Mittenwald,” “Munich,” “Look,” Mr. Fedynsky says to the “Rimini,” “Augsburg,” and “Paris, 1919,” screen full of titles. “Suppose you’re inter- all the canonical rush of history neatly ested in recorded music; we’ve got quite a separated by puny time and place, when collection of 78s. So you move to the time out popped a pasteboard document that period – the 1920s – and the kind of music looked like a cross between a bus sched- you’re looking for ... here, ‘Orchestra ule and a theater ticket. “That’s a milk Bratia’ – that’s ‘The Brothers’ Orchestra.’ ration card from a U.N. refugee camp And these are the recordings we have.” after World War ll. The Innsbruck camp,” Mr. Fedynsky sat surrounded by the Mr. Fedynsky said. “That was my card.” shadows, the archives so obsessively and And it is. Or was: the name of the 1- lovingly collected by his father, and all year-old boy receiving the daily ration is the fathers. How many things – books “A. Fedenskyi,” and although Mr. and manuscripts, photographs and fine art Fedynsky knows it’s his, he’s just as cer- – were here? Tens of thousands? tain he doesn’t remember anything about Hundreds of thousands? It depended on that time or the life he lived there, in the how you counted, and Andy Fedynsky land of detention. has counted them all. “The mission of the Ukrainian Museum and Archives,” Mr. Fedynsky * * * Jacques Babenko and his bride immediately following World War I. says, “is really two-track: to assist in the This is a story about good and evil, revival of the Tremont neighborhood, and about collecting what has been scattered, name was Jacques Babenko, and the Swedish king as a representative of the to preserve the Ukrainian community as a about reclaiming what has been lost. The interesting part,” – (here Fedynsky pulls independent Ukrainian Republic – a national, political and cultural entity.” archivist studied memories, witnessed the out a faded news story with a graying country that bloomed and died like a It’s afternoon now, and Mr. Fedynsky simultaneous compression and unfolding photo) – “is how he made his living. He summer flower after World War I, only to is giving an interview in a room filled of time, because he believed in the power became a trick rider in a Wild West blossom again in the rubble of the Soviet with silence. As he started he’d called out of memories to change the size and the show.” Mr. Fedynsky removes his glasses Union. There are political journals from “Martha and I will be in here” to some- shape of the emptiness in the heart made and bends down to the clipping, studying 1925 calling for Ukrainian freedom, and one just outside the doorway – Martha by their absence. What the archivist stud- it until he can point out Jacques – “the Mr. Fedynsky points to the table of con- being Martha Kraus, a soft-faced woman ied was also the future: he’d seen its Ukrainian Kozak known for his skill in tents, assigning fates to the authors’ in a summer dress who’d grown up a few secrets and could feel its power. acrobatic riding” – perched on a sad-look- names – “this guy was killed in the war, blocks away on St. Olga Street, before it Which is why the house at 1202 ing pony at the end of the line of perform- this one went to prison, this one was exe- was erased by I-90. Kraus had gone to Kenilworth Ave. is home to something ers, resigned Native Americans in feath- cuted ...” – until all the bloody endings Lourdes Academy, graduated Case called the Ukrainian Museum and ered headdresses and doughy faced cow- have been accounted for, the books of Western as a nurse and made a career and Archives. And why Andy Fedynsky will boys, all posed during a break on a tour of history closed out. a marriage in Syracuse, N.Y., until she tell anyone who’ll listen about its trea- the flat Midwest. There are small, happy calculations. came back home. sures, and its mission. Do you know what it must be like to be With the photo of the Ukrainian band She has a niece, Aniza Kraus, who “There’s an interesting story behind able to walk among the shadows? To be dated March 25, 1912, is a real ledger, works at the museum, and pretty soon that photograph.” able to look inside the dove-gray boxes – each date – Halloween parties, balls, wed- Martha was working here, too, making Mr. Fedynsky is wearing what he usu- some wide and flat as pizza cartons, others dings – duly noted, and the actual band her rounds. Her father had been a lawyer ally wears around the museum: a crisp big as dictionaries and sealed with a string hat that Mr. Fedynsky had once seen “in the homeland” and a steelworker in white shirt and a dark, striped tie, dark clasp – and breathe life into the past? packed away until he rescued it. And the Cleveland, but it was her grandfather creased slacks and business shoes, all of Out of a box the color of ashes come white tablecloth, with its red-and-blue who was the weekend scholar (“a pack which conspire to make him look like the Havrylo and Julia Woloshyn, stiff and border of thread flowers, which isn’t rat,” Ms. Kraus laughs) and, as a girl, consultant that he is. The neat hair and brave as soldiers facing a firing squad, linen, rather a care flour sack, embroi- she’d spend days with him, straightening the trimmed mustache and wire-framed except it’s their wedding day and they’re dered hour after hour in a 1946 refugee his papers. And now Martha was remem- eyeglasses remind you of a high school facing nothing more frightening than the camp, a labor of love behind borders that bering what she’d said to her niece on teacher (which he was), and they all ride camera lens and the prospect of a life were definitely not flowered, during years that very first day: that the archives were on a face lit from within by kind of together. And just when you think you’re when God, if not dead, was certainly not a challenge “that would take the work of amused amazement. in on the joke – and you allow yourself a taking any calls. And through this infinity more than two generations.” He’s opened these boxes before and smile – at that very grinning moment, you of artifacts was a common thread, simple “But you have to start somewhere,” laid out these photographs dozens – see another photo of the couple, thick- and elegant in the scrawl across the last Mr. Fedynsky interjects. maybe hundreds – of times, and still ened by 20 years and surrounded by their page of a passport: “Going to America.” Leonid Bachinsky believed that, too. there’s this little tremor of wonder in his children, posing again on the cold steps of And go they did: to Chicago, New York Mr. Bachinsky was the original archivist, voice at being able to show them to you a church, their youngest daughter just a and Detroit. To the mines of Pennsylvania. and he’d begun collecting, documenting, for the first time. This is a man who’s tiny bundle of white, lost forever in a tiny And to Tremont, where they built the preserving in 1952, with the help of his earned the right to tell you an interesting white coffin (shown on cover). onion-dome churches and bought the Switzerland-based brother Eugene. When story – the story behind the wedding “1918,” Mr. Fedynsky reads, nipping frame houses and walked to work at the he worked as a machinist at Warner and photo of the Kozak and his bride. over to the back. “Might have been the mills and furnaces in the smoky red morn- Swasey (and the only safe space was the “This guy fought on the losing side in influenza epidemic.” ings, and walked home under the soiled, coal bin under St. Vladimir’s Church), Mr. World War I,” Mr. Fedynsky says, “so Here lives Osyp Maidanyuk, with his red sun. And they survived. Better, they Bachinsky gathered material from naturally he wanted to get to America as long greyhound face and intense dark prospered. They became Clevelanders, Ukrainian intellectuals in Europe. Then quickly as possible. He came through eyes, forever young on the diplomatic bridging the generations from Franz Philadelphia, met a girl, got married. His passport that identifies him to the Joseph I and Tsar Nicholas and empire to (Continued on page 11) No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1997 11

museum, the details changing only slight- Ukrainian Museum... ly in each retelling: a visitor from (Continued from page 10) Ukraine, a woman, a dignitary was mak- the collection moved to the attic of the ing a call more out of courtesy than inter- house on Kenilworth, and came under the est. As a member of some reconstituted tending hand of Mr. Fedynsky’s father and political entity-or-other, she was allowed later, Stepan Kikta, who served as director to wander the archives. It was Martha from 1981 to 1987. And then something Kraus who’d gotten curious and gone to happened. The mission changed. check on her. And it was Ms. Kraus who “The older generations,” Mr. Fedynsky found her sitting, weeping. “Nothing like says, “saved and collected and preserved this exists at home,” the visitor said, her their history because they had every inten- tears dotting the table. “You’ve no idea tion of going back. They intended to what you have here.” make a life here, gather some wealth and “Credibility,” Mr. Fedynsky says, then return home. And this collection was again and again, “is what we’re building going to be the record of their lives here. t o w a r d . ” But we – the children, the grandchildren – And how do you get there? With joint we’re totally Americanized. And we lived projects with the Natural History Museum in fear that we’d ever have to leave!” and ties with the Slavic studies department Some did go, but most didn’t. And the at Ohio State, and as a stop on the Tremont lessons learned in the New World became Art Walks, and most recently as a destina- their new inventions, even as the home- tion of the Bicentennial Caravan. With the land they remembered was disappearing. aid of grants, including one from the “You’ve got to realize that to, say, Stalin, Cleveland Foundation, the museum had an educated Ukrainian – someone who even started cataloguing the collection, could read and write and was aware of putting it just a computer tap away, for use their history and identity – was a threat. by scholars and researchers. And wouldn’t And threats were dealt with in one of two it be ironic if what had been hidden could ways: by exile, or by death. Any history be set free, and thereby achieve in scholar- except the official was something to be ship and thought what had not been won in destroyed. So what we have here” – Mr. six centuries of fire and blood – namely, a Fedynsky lets his hand sweep across the lasting peace for a free and independent room – “is unique. It literally doesn’t Ukraine? And wouldn’t it be justice, if exist, especially not in Ukraine. Imagine.” Jacques and Julia and Havrylo and the rest He continues, “right now there’s a could realize as spirits what they had not country, one part of the Soviet Union, try- been able to accomplish as mortal flesh – ing to reconstitute itself as an indepen- namely, to return home, and be heroes? dent, democratic entity, and there’s no This is a story about good and evil, history! No model! There’s just this ... about hope hidden in shadow, about faith gap ... in time. Three generations of mem- lost in the light. It is about the past and its ories, just gone.” Mr. Fedynsky smiles. “I mysteries, and the future and its promis- think there’s a role we can play.” es, but mostly, this is about the work: Havrylo and Julia Woloshyn at their child’s funeral in 1918. Of course there was a role to play. But about getting up every day because there what makes Mr. Fedynsky interesting – are fine and miserable lives to resurrect, Ukrainian Easter egg – a real art form.” He As if on cue, a dozen schoolchildren, and the Ukrainian Museum more than just and disappeared streets waiting to be is standing in a downstairs room of the the oldest maybe 16 the youngest maybe another temple to ethnic pride, a wee walked, and ruined onion-dome churches museum, in front of a glass wallcase filled 10, enter the room, their sneakers creak- voice on the low-end of our collective FM to raise and destroy, and shattered bell with dozens – no scores – of eggs, all bril- ing the wooden floorboards as they dial – is that he’s absolutely convinced of towers to set chiming and then silence, liantly colored: some red as blood, others assemble in front of the case. Some are that role, and of his stewardship. And who and frail daughters in white and hand- blue as sky, all splashed with gold or green standing on tip-toe to get a better look; could deny him, or question his vision, some diplomats in uniform to be lost, and until they glow from within, illuminated their faces are reflected in the glass, and seeing how far he’d come? saved, and lost again. This is a story like the pages of some lost manuscript. the patterns on the eggs are reflected back This was, you’ll remember, the same about the past, and our response to the And there’s a story here, if you have the into the wide eyes and then you see ... boy who’d begun his adventure 40-odd pattern left there for safekeeping by our eyes to see – a code that identifies some as That maybe, just maybe, the story of a years ago in a refugee camp, in Innsbruck, fathers and all the fathers – a pattern as coming from Kyiv, while others are people can be hidden in one face. And Austria, and who’d come to Cleveland, intricate as the design on an Easter egg. Lemkos and still others are painted in a that history might be written on an and graduated Rhodes High, and studied “Pysanky,” Mr. Fedynsky says. “The style that recalls the region of Podillia. eggshell, in a room in Tremont. and worked and earned his way into Notre Dame (and how much more American than that can you get?). And when he’d returned to Europe, it was as a visiting scholar-in-training, studying at, well, Innsbruck. And he’d earned a master’s degree in Soviet history from John Carroll University ... and learned five languages ... and taught at West High School ... and tucked in amongst all that ink, all that resume, was foreign policy work for Sen. Bob Dole and domestic policy work for Rep. Mary Rose Oakar, and his own firm, North Shore Consulting ... This was a boy who’d more than made good: he’d been absolutely redeemed by opportunity, in a land where opportunity was as perva- sive and incontrovertible as a force of nature, and as celebrated as any folk myth. Mr. Fedynsky became his own walking testament to the miracles avail- able for a work-in-progress. And then his mission changed. It start- ed when he was a grad student, driving his father – an old man with a failing heart – to the house on Kenilworth, where old men could he young and strong again for a few hours, lost in the stories. Mr. Fedynsky had seen the archives outgrow- ing the attic space, seen the boxes march- ing down the narrow stairs like the bewitched broomsticks in Fantasia. And it occurred to him what his life had been pointing toward. “I decided to take over the work,” Mr. Fedynsky says. “I decided to finally be a son to my father.” And by being a son change the world. You could hear this story around the A Ukrainian band in Cleveland in 1912. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1997 No. 40

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Udovenko said Ukraine “considers its par- Successor states... ticipation in the ABM Treaty as one of the (Continued from page 1) important components of its foreign poli- gle ABM deployment area and 15 ABM cy,” emphasizing that “transparency and launchers at ABM test ranges among the partnership will become determinants of four former Soviet republics. Russia will our further cooperation aimed at strength- ening international security and preserving continue to operate existing early warn- strategic stability in the world.” ing radars, as well as the ABM test range He pointed out, however, that the docu- located within the other states with the ments signed on September 26 do not permission of their governments. remove all problems related to the demar- In addition, representatives of the five cation between ABM and TMD systems, countries signed documents clarifying the and that “intensive work” still remains to demarcation between anti-ballistic missile be done. and theater ballistic missile defense sys- The agreements will enter into force tems: two Agreed Statements Relating to when the parliaments of all five signatory the ABM Treaty that deal with lower- and states ratify them. higher-velocity TMD systems, which are In a separate ceremony at the Waldorf not limited by the ABM Treaty; and an Astoria Hotel, Secretary Albright and associated Agreement on Confidence- Foreign Affairs Minister Primakov signed Building Measures. a protocol to the START II Treaty that They also signed an agreement on new extends by five years, until the end of regulations that will govern multilateral 2007, the date by which Russia must dis- operations of the Standing Consultative mantle its launching systems. The proto- Commission to which all five countries col also extends the date by which Russia belong, and initialed a Joint Statement that must disable its systems, from 2001 to provides for an annual exchange of infor- 2004. mation on the status of TMD plans and The START II Treaty was signed by programs. the United States and Russia on January 3, Russian Foreign Affairs Minister 1993. The extension of deadlines for dis- Primakov hailed the signing of the agree- mantling and disabling Russian launching ments as a major success that “will deter- systems is seen as a means to overcome mine the course of arms control for many the Russian Parliament’s reluctance to rat- years to come.” ify START II. The U.S. Senate ratified Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister START II on January 26, 1996. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1997 No. 40

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It is true that Yugoslavia. Since then Ukraine has partici- the organization has not been able to com- pated in more than 10 U.N. peacekeeping pletely cure all social evils. However, it is operations. In addition our military contin- equally true that the United Nations has gent takes part in operations of the multina- always sent a timely signal about the emer- tional Stabilization Force in Bosnia. THE MICHAEL AND ORSON SKORR ORCHESTRAS gence of new hazards and united the world From this high rostrum I reaffirm community to address urgent global prob- Ukraine’s readiness to directly participate lems. ... in the settlement of the Georgian- At the same time we must admit that the Abkhazian conflict, to join the activities of United Nations has not always been able to the group of countries called “Friends of the Don’t let your subscription lapse! adequately respond to a number of prob- Secretary-General on Georgia,” as well as lems it faced. 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together to resolve the various conflicts Ukrainian Church complex... that surround the religious denomina- (Continued from page 1) tions of Ukraine and to jointly celebrate the Epiphany Cathedral, said there were the 2000th anniversary of the birth of no violent altercations and that the cathe- Jesus Christ. The Kyiv Patriarchate is saying that dral itself was left alone. He told the the Moscow Church has used the memo- Associated Press that a bailiff with 10 randum to further its agenda, which is to policemen sealed off several buildings retake control over the Orthodox faithful occupied by the Kyiv Patriarchate on of Ukraine. A statement issued by the orders of the Moscow regional arbitra- Kyiv Patriarchate on September 30 read: tion court. He explained that he did not “Is it only a coincidence that this crimi- know the reason for the order. nal action took place after the killing of In Kyiv, the Rev. Dymytryi, secretary Volodymyr Katelnytsky, the head of the to Patriarch Filaret, said the action is a Kyiv organization, the Brotherhood of direct result of the new law on religion the Apostle St. Andrew, after the so- that President Yeltsin just signed, which called Aleksei-Bartholomew rendezvous severely limits the activities of any in Odesa, after attempts to blow up St. Church or religion that has not been reg- Feodosius Monastery in Kyiv and the istered with Russian authorities for at seizing of parishes that have occurred least 15 years. after the signing of the memorandum on Father Dymytryi said the Russian the non-acceptance of the use of force in Orthodox Church is using the new law to inter-confessional relations?” settle scores with the Kyiv Patriarchate, Mr. Katelnytsky, the director of the which broke with the Russian Church St. Andrew Brotherhood, was found not long after Ukraine declared indepen- murdered in Kyiv in August, a crime that dence in 1991. “That law allows them to has not been solved. Four kilograms of act this way because under the law explosives were found on the grounds of nobody but the Moscow Patriarchate has the St. Feodosius Monastery, which is a place in Russia,” said Father Dymytryi. the only church in the Pecherska Lavra Gleb Yakunin, a prominent Russian complex in Kyiv that belongs to the Kyiv religious activist and a defrocked Russian Patriarchate. The Moscow Patriarchate Orthodox priest, issued a statement on retains control over the rest. September 30 that supported Father Dymytriy’s assertion. According to a report filed by the Associated Press, the SBU uncovers terrorist... critic of the Russian Orthodox Church said the aim of the law is “to pressure the reli- (Continued from page 1) gious competitors of the Moscow to monitor and uncover potential threats P a t r i a r c h a t e . ” to foreign embassies. Relations between the Ukrainian The official U.S. spokesperson said Orthodox Church — Kyiv Patriarchate that security officers had implemented and the Ukrainian branch of the Russian appropriate measures in and around the Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian Orthodox Embassy. However, he explained that he Church — Moscow Patriarchate, have had observed no visible increases in been strained since the Kyiv Patriarchate security manpower around the Embassy broke with Moscow in 1992. They have compound in Kyiv and that guards Re: Mail delivery of The Weekly been characterized by fights, sometimes remained unarmed. He underscored that It has come to our attention that The Ukrainian Weekly is often delivered late, or irregularly, or that our sub- physical, over church property and parish- those were his observations and that the scribers sometimes receive several issues at once. es, and verbal sparring. security office of the Embassy had We feel it is necessary to notify our subscribers that The Weekly is mailed out Friday mornings (before the The two sides seemed to have released no information on what specific Sunday date of issue) via second-class mail. reached a truce in July when the two, new procedures had been introduced, as If you are not receiving regular delivery of The Weekly, we urge you to file a complaint at your local post office. along with other confessions in is there policy. This may be done by obtaining the U.S. Postal Service Consumer Card and filling out the appropriate sections. Ukraine, signed a memorandum of “We are functioning as normal,” said agreement in which they agreed to work the spokesperson.

District Committee of UNA Branches of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania announces that its ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING will be held on Saturday, October 25, 1997 at 12:00 noon

at UNA Branch 161 Meeting Hall 600 Glenwood Avenue, Ambridge, Pa.

Obligated to attend the meeting are District Committee Officers, Branch Officers, Organizers and Convention Delegates from the following Branches:

53, 56, 63, 96, 113, 120, 126, 161, 264, 296, 338, 481

All UNA members are welcome as guests of the meeting. The Fall District Meeting will be devoted to organizational matters and will update the infor- mation about UNA’s various insurance plans.

Meeting will be attended by: Nestor Olesnycky, Esq., UNA Vice President Nicholas Diakiwsky, UNA Advisor

District Committee: Nicholas Diakiwsky, Chairman Osyp Palatajko, Vice Chairman Slava Komichak, Ukr. Secretary Angela Honchar, Eng. Secretary Elias Matiash, Treasurer No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1997 17

Mikhailov and the governor of Chukotka, HERE’S ANEW, COST-EFFECTIVE WAY FOR YOU TO NETWORK Newsbriefs Aleksandr Nazarov, on September 10. The new nuclear station is intended to (Continued from page 2) A Directory of Services September 24 to stop the anti-dumping replace the aging coal-powered electrici- investigation being conducted by the U.S. ty plant in the remote Chukotka town of involving three Ukrainian steel producers. Pevek. The nuclear station is expected to krainian usinesses be operational by 1999. (ITAR-TASS, B These companies supplied the U.S. mar- U ket with metal plate. The agreement will RFE/RL Newsline) There are thousands of Ukrainian-owned businesses in North America. last five years. These companies have Lviv celebrates birthday Shouldn’t your company be featured in The Ukrainian Weekly? agreed not to sell more than 158,000 tons of plate in the U.S. per year. The anti- LVIV — The city of Lviv celebrated its 1,303rd birthday on September 21 as DR U G S &ME D I C A L SU P P L I E S dumping investigation was started in PU B L I C I T Y • AD V E R T I S I N G • MA R K E T I N G November 1996, following a claim filed guests from the U.S., Canada, Japan, and FO R FR I E N D S & FA M I L Y I N UK R A I N E by two American steel companies, and neighboring countries took part in numerous celebrations on the city’s HE R I T A G E VI L L A G E PH A R M A C Y led to preliminary anti-dumping duty BAZAAR BUILDING, S O U T H B U R Y , CT. 06488 effectively price Ukrainian steel makers streets, and oblast officials greeted inhab- 3 GU A R A N T E E D DE L I V E R Y TO TH E I R DO O R S T E P out of the U.S. market and negatively itants and guests of the city. (RFE/RL DV E R T I S I N G 3 FA S T & EF F I C I E N T SE R V I C E & AV A I L A B I L I T Y Newsline) 1 0 5 1 B L O O M F I E L D A V E N U E , influenced the allocation process of U.S. 3 U.S. PR E S C R I P T I O N S / G U A R A N T E E D LO W E S T PR I C E S aid to Ukraine. (Eastern Economist) 2 N D F L O O R , S U I T E 1 5 , VAT approved by Parliament JA R O S L A W & LE S I A PA L Y L Y K , PR O P R I E T O R S C L I F T O N , NJ 07012-2120 Bad weather caused fatal Bosnian crash CALL TOLL-FREE 1-800-798-5724 OR A KYIV — Parliament approved changes 1 - 8 0 0 - R X - U K R A I N A Call Tom Hawrylko 201-773-1800 UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. and additions to the law on the Value- Aviation Technical Commission investi- Added Tax (VAT) on September 26, with gating the crash involving the Ukrainian 252 deputies in favor. Among the provi- CR U I S E TO BE R M U D A MI-8 MTV-2 helicopter in Bosnia sions: the sale of electricity, gas and coal Reach O N C E L E B R I T Y’S Z E N I T H September 17, in which 12 passengers to the public and industrial consumers will AP R I L 25 - MAY 2, 1998 died, concluded on September 26 that the be free from the VAT until January 1, SA I L F R O M NE W YO R K Ukrainian crew members took “the only 1999; certain imported goods deemed 3 2,0 0 0 vital are exempt; companies located in the $ correct” course of action. Commission 1, 0 5 0 I N S I D E C A B I N member Giorgio Bendoni pledged to Syvash free trade zone will also be Readers Of $50 per person deposit due by 10/1/97. uphold this conclusion, saying experts exempt. Operations involving circulation The Ukrainian Weekly who carried out an investigation at the of national and foreign currencies and pri- D U N W O O D I E T R A V E L scene concluded the aircraft was in good vatization of state property in exchange For Just $24 Per Ad. 7 7 1 - A Y O N K E R S A V E , Y O N K E R S , NY 10704 technical order and that the main reason for privatization certificates are not sub- 1 - 8 0 0 - 5 5 0 - 4 3 3 4 for the accident was a sudden deteriora- ject to the VAT. Since foreign trade is tion in weather conditions. Mr. Bendoni conducted on a barter basis, the Cabinet praised the courage of the Ukrainian signaled its intentions to limit the amount crew. (Eastern Economist) of barter trade in Ukraine by limiting VAT credit and exemptions on barter. Lucrative deal made with Iran Special consideration was given to Ukrainian producers that rely on imported KYIV — Ukraine has signed a con- products. According Economy Minister tract to supply Iran with Antonov-74 Viktor Suslov, the regulations are a “com- transport jets and is waiting for interna- promise reached by the Cabinet of tional safety clearance for a new passen- Ministers, the Parliament and the ger plane it plans to build for Tehran. Ukrainian Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Ukraine, dependent on Russian oil sup- Union.” (Eastern Economist) plies, views Tehran as an important eco- nomic partner and potential energy Boryspil opens business-class lounge provider. Ukrainian officials stress that such cooperation does not violate any KYIV — A lounge serving business international agreements on rocket tech- lunches to passengers traveling on busi- nology or nuclear proliferation. (Reuters, ness-class flights was opened at Boryspil Eastern Economist) Airport on August 8. The total cost of the project is $380,000 (U.S.). Borys Leaders back regional summit plans Shakhsuvarov, the airport’s deputy gen- eral director, said the money invested in KYIV — President Leonid Kuchma said this project will be repaid within 18 several European countries have backed his months. The lounge is equipped with all call for a 1999 Baltic-Black Sea summit in types of communication equipment and Yalta. His remarks came on September 29 computers. There are bars and shops, as during a visit to Kyiv by Latvian President well as a room for business negotiations. Guntis Ulmanis, who said he too supports The value of services provided in the the idea. The 1999 meeting would be a fol- business lounge is included in the price low-up to the European security conference of an airline ticket. The Kyiv-based com- held in Vilnius in early September. pany AeroBud built the business lounge. (RFE/RL Newsline) A VIP lounge also will be opened at Russia to build floating nuclear plant Boryspil Airport. Implementation of these new services is expected to be start- MOSCOW — Russia plans to build a ed before the annual meeting of the floating nuclear power station off the European Bank for Reconstruction and Chukotka peninsula to provide electricity Development scheduled to take place in to remote areas of northern Siberia. A Kyiv in May 1998. The 21 foreign air- decision to build the power station, lines operating from Boryspil had which will be based on a submarine, was demanded that a business-class type reached in a meeting between the lounge be constructed at Kyiv’s interna- Minister for Atomic Energy Viktor tional airport. (Eastern Economist) 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1997 No. 40 Shevchenko Scientific... Ukrainian National Association (Continued from page 8) and 1921-1941. Individual chapters deal Monthly reports with the lexis, stress, syntax, phonetics and morphology of the Ukrainian lan- guage. There is also an article on the RECORDING DEPARTMENT DISBURSEMENTS FOR JULY 1997 Chernihiv area’s influence on the Paid To Or For Members: Ukrainian language. An index of words MEMBERSHIP REPORT Annuity Benefits And Partial Withdrawals $ 32,795.97 and names is included. JUV. ADULTS ADD TOTALS Cash Surrenders 43,594.59 Death Benefits 135,953.00 • “The Poetry of Vasyl Stus” (in TOTAL AS OF JUNE 1997 16,027 37,121 4,641 57,789 Dividend Accumulations 2,350.98 Polish), edited by Agnieszka Korniejenko. GAINS IN JULY 1997 Dues And Annuity Premiums From Members Returned 80.24 Krakow: Universitas, 1996, 175 pp. Total new members 27 31 0 58 Endowments Matured 53,170.00 Indigent Benefits Disbursed 250.00 Translations of over 50 poems by Stus New members UL 2 4 0 6 from 1958-1979 are included in this col- Canadian NP 1 27 0 28 Interest On Death Benefits 108.01 Reinstated 1 5 1 7 Reinsurance Premiums Paid 12,369.16 lection as are articles on Stus’ poetry by Transfered in 5 31 2 38 Total $ 280,671.95 Marko Carynnyk, Marko Pawlyshyn, Change class in 5 0 0 5 Operating Expenses: Bohdan Rubchak, Leonid Rudnytzky and Transfered from Juvenile Dept. 0 1 0 1 Real Estate $ 282,869.45 Yuriy Sherekh. TOTAL GAINS: 41 99 3 143 Svoboda Operation 135,880.35 LOSSES IN JULY 1997 Organizing Expenses: Three publications, in Ukrainian, Advertising 3,659.63 honor the Shevchenko Scientific Suspended 15 13 11 39 Commissions And Overrides On Universal Life 5,117.89 Transfered out 5 31 2 38 Medical Inspections 537.34 Society’s former activists. Change of class out 5 0 0 5 Refund of Branch Secretaries Expenses 51,934.45 • “Hryhorii Luzhnytskyi (1903- Transfered to adult 1 0 0 1 Reward To Organizers 7,956.75 1990).” Wolodymyr T. Zyla, Oleh Died 2 66 0 68 Reward To Special Organizers 15,164.94 Cash surrender 24 42 0 66 Supreme Medical Examiner's Fee 1,500.00 Kupchynskyi, Leonid Rudnytzky, Wasyl Endowment matured 15 29 0 44 Traveling Expenses-Special Organizers 1,247.70 Jaszczun, editors. Lviv: 1996, 360 pp. Fully paid-up 16 48 0 64 $ 87,118.70 This book is in the style of a Reduced paid-up 0 0 0 0 Total $ 505,868.50 Certificate terminated 0 2 5 7 festschrift (a scholarly tribute), with arti- Payroll, Insurance And Taxes: cles by Bishop Lubomyr Husar, Jaroslaw TOTAL LOSSES 83 231 18 332 Employee Benefit Plan $ 52,976.90 INACTIVE MEMBERSHIP Padoch, Ostap Tarnawsky, Natalia GAINS IN JULY 1997 Salaries Of Executive Officers 18,730.46 Pazuniak, Yaroslav Rozumny and others. Salaries Of Office Employees 82,305.66 Paid-up 16 48 0 64 Taxes-Federal, State And City On Employee Wages 111,003.73 • “Vasyl Lev (1903-1991),” Oleh Extended insurance 3 7 0 10 Total $ 265,016.75 Kupchynskyi, Maria Ovcharenko, TOTAL GAINS 19 55 0 74 General Expenses: Leonid Rudnytzky, Eugene Fedorenko, LOSSES IN JULY 1997 Actuarial And Statistical Expenses $ 2,822.84 Bohdan Chopyk, editors. Lviv: 1996, Died 2 36 0 38 Bank Charges 5,175.29 316 pp. Cash surrender 19 25 0 44 Bank Charges For Custodian Account 2,691.83 This is a festschrift with articles by Reinstated 1 5 0 6 Books And Periodicals 8,285.69 Lapsed 0 0 0 0 Dues To Fraternal Congresses 3,287.46 such authors as Leonid Rudnytzky, TOTAL LOSSES 22 66 0 88 Furniture & Equipment 20,000.00 Mykhailo Lesiv, Oleksa Horbach, TOTAL UNA MEMBERSHIP General Office Maintenance 2,351.90 Natalia Pazuniak, Yaroslav Rozumnyi, AS OF JULY 1997 15,982 36,978 4,626 57,586 Insurance Department Fees 24,599.60 Legal Expenses-General 10,715.00 Osyp Kravcheniuk and others on linguis- MARTHA LYSKO Operating Expense of Canadian Office 175.00 tics, literature, as well as on Dr. Lev. Secretary Postage 4,176.60 • Roman Osinchuk Medical Committee Printing and Stationery 1,826.42 Rental Of Equipment And Services 23,177.94 Series, Volume 4. “The Medical World of Telephone, Telegraph 4,960.85 Lviv.” Oleh Kupchynskyi, editor-in-chief. FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT Traveling Expenses-General 452.86 Lviv: 1996, 158 pp. Total $ 114,699.28 INCOME FOR JULY 1997 This book is a compilation of articles Miscellaneous: by Dr. Osinchuk about medicine in Dues From Members $ 201,792.05 Donation From Fund For The Rebirth Of Ukraine $ 3,409.37 Annuity Premiums From Members 37,268.49 Disbursements From Ukrainian National Heritage Defense Fund 310.59 Lviv at various periods since 1883, Reinsurance Allowance-Canada 12,190.49 Exchange Account-UNURC 233,730.68 under both the Bolsheviks and Nazis, Income From "Svoboda" Operation 111,079.23 Fraternal Activities 97.18 about medical studies at the Ukrainian Investment Income: Investment Expense-Mortgages 4,410.94 Banks $ 659.17 Loss On Bonds 2,732.51 Secret University (1920-1924); about Bonds 164,919.69 Professional Fees 14,131.12 Drs. M. Panchyshyn and M. Muzyka, Certificate Loans 2,511.97 Rent 7,759.68 and Lviv hospitals. There is also an Mortgage Loans 41,142.07 Transfer Account 1,340,000.00 Real Estate 279,659.08 Youth Sports Activities 500.00 article on Dr. Osinchuk’s life. Short Term Investments 1,447.75 Total $ 1,607,082.07 Biographical data about the honoree Stocks 1,323.02 $ 491,662.75 Investments: and 14 pages of photographs are Total $ 853,993.01 Certificate Loans $ 11,511.97 included in the volume. E.D.P. Equipment 3,721.69 Refunds: Mortgages 316,000.00 Advertising $ 191.90 Real Estate 3,221.16 Employee Benefit Plan 1,232.11 Short Term Investments 1,422,778.95 Insurance Department Fees 67.30 Stock 4,187,863.72 Lviv schools... Investment Expense 508.50 Total $ 5,945,097.49 (Continued from page 8) Postage 12.36 Rent 422.65 Disbursements For July, 1997 $ 8,718,436.04 Cieselski, director of Bridges for Reward To Special Organizer 1,838.62 Education, a non-profit organization Taxes Federal, State & City On Employee Wages 101,989.81 BALANCE Telephone 13.19 based in Buffalo, N.Y. All the camp Total $ 106,276.44 ASSETS LIABILITIES instructors were teachers and student- Miscellaneous: Cash $ 4,360,673.87 Life Insurance $ 64,238,775.81 teachers from the United States. Annuity Surrender Fees $ 120.56 Short Term Roman Bodnar, a city official and Investments 92,537.58 Donations To Fraternal Fund 525.00 principal of School No. 13, spoke of the Donations To Fund For The Rebirth Of Ukraine 1,438.98 Bonds 41,252,114.25 Exchange Account-UNURC 231,730.68 Mortgage Loans 7,132,235.78 need to decentralize certain aspects of Profit On Bonds and Stocks Sold or Bonds Matured 142,377.08 Certificate Loan 742,128.95 the education system. He proposed that Sale Of "Ukrainian Encyclopaedia" 201.12 Real Estate 3,149,339.73 Accidental D.D. 2,244,310.80 textbooks and teaching-learning materi- Transfer Account 1,323,501.00 Printing Plant & E.D.P. Total $ 1,699,894.42 Equipment 476,759.26 Fraternal 0.00 als be developed and published at the Stocks 2,493,197.50 Orphans 435,981.08 Investments: local level. During the Soviet period, Loan to D.H.-U.N.A school materials were developed central- Bonds Matured Or Sold $ 75,734.61 Housing Corp. 104,551.04 Old Age Home 0.00 Mortgages Repaid 94,776.16 Loan To U.N.U.R.C. 7,163,051.81 Emergency 47,522.08 ly in Moscow. Presently, Kyiv has taken Short Term Investments Sold 1,772,046.62 Total $ 66,966,589.77 $ 66,966,589.77 over the role of central planning and cur- Stock 3,710,502.19 riculum development. Total $ 5,653,059.58 ALEXANDER BLAHITKA In a statement following the general Income For July, 1997 $ 8,313,223.45 Treasurer conference, Mr. Bodnar said, “Teachers at my school have been experimenting TO ALL MEMBERS OF UNA BRANCH 28 A T T E N T I O N A T T E N T I O N with a variety of materials. 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prime minister, Mr. Pustovoitenko repeat- Ukraine: a summer. . . ed the standard phraseology meant for (Continued from page 2) both Western and domestic consumption The Lazarenko government was about his government continuing to pro- Air Ukraine accused of arrogantly not attempting to mote centrist reform based upon five “pil- cooperate with Parliament, a pitfall that lars” (industry, agriculture, finance, social National Airlines Mr. Pustovoitenko wishes to avoid. But it welfare and culture). All eyes on the is difficult to see how Prime Minister approaching elections were also evident in Pustovoitenko can avoid coming into con- the government’s emphasis upon repaying non-stop flights flict with a Parliament that includes the wage arrears, which now amount to $2.6 left, which is disinterested in reform, and billion (4.7 billion hryvni). Mr. Kuchma is centrists, who are more interested in main- particularly concerned that growing social NEW YORK - KYIV taining Ukraine in an economic no man’s tension in eastern Ukraine will be capital- land where rent-seeking remains highly ized upon by the left in the elections. NEW YORK - LVIV profitable. Mr. Pustovoitenko’s other policies of Almost as soon as Mr. Pustovoitenko accelerating privatization, tax reform, only 8 hours stepped into his new position, the legisla- reduction in subsidies and industrial restruc- ture and executive were dueling over two turing were the standard pledges spoken by Great service and most affordable prices on the market issues. Parliament attempted to launch all new prime ministers. Also, it is not at all impeachment proceedings against clear that the newly created Economic For information and reservations, please call: President Kuchma under Articles 94 and Council will be able to accelerate economic 111 of the Constitution because he had on reforms because it is a heterogeneous body 1-800-UKRAINE three occasions vetoed the law “On Local devised to generate political consensus from Self-Administration,” but these proceed- those who hold opposing views about the (1-800-857-2463) ings are unlikely to command sufficient scope and pace of reform. Although Messrs. Pustovoitenko and support. Cause for impeachment is ill or our corporate offices: Kuchma have both criticized Mr. defined and it is not clear how Mr. New York - (212) 557-3077 Lazarenko since his forced resignation, Kuchma’s actions in disagreeing with the this seems more for public show than New York - (212) 599-0555 law that grants greater autonomy to the actual outright displeasure. After all, regions and ends the prerogative of the Chicago - (312) 640-0222 Ukrainian politics has again reverted to its executive in appointing governors consti- retinue of musical chairs. Mr. Lazarenko tutes either “state treason or [some] other Arrival and departure information: JFK - (718) 656-9896 now occupies the post of head of the crime.” Parliament also failed in what Mr. Arrival and departure information: JFK - (718) 632-6909 Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council, which Kuchma denounced as an attempted “con- Mr. Pustovoitenko himself previously stitutional coup” when it attempted to occupied in 1991-1993. The replacement Air Ukraine muster two-thirds support for constitution- of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Chairman 551 Fifth Ave., Suite 1002, 1005 al changes that would have clearly tipped Mykhailo Derkach by Victor Zabara is an New York, NY 10176 the balance of power in favor of the attempt by Mr. Kuchma to place his man Verkhovna Rada. in place as a counterweight to Mr. In addition, two other problems will Lazarenko in that strategic oblast. continue to bedevil the new prime minister. Mr. Lazarenko therefore could only First, outgoing Justice Minister Serhii have risen from obscurity as head of a Air Ukraine - Cargo Holovatyi has pointed to how the Cabinet Dnipropetrovsk raion to higher positions leadership and apparatus, the majority of with the patronage of those such as Mr. Tel. 718-376-1023, FAX 718-376-1073 which is inherited by Mr. Pustovoitenko, Pustovoitenko. The Unity parliamentary blocked the creation of a legal basis for a faction that Mr. Lazarenko heads had 2307 Coney Island Ave. (Ave.T), Brooklyn, NY 11223 market economy. Although administrative always been a bedrock of support for both reform is now recognized as vital to Mr. Kuchma and the Dnipropetrovsk clan Ukraine’s reform strategy, it is unclear how (although Mr. Kuchma is now attempting committed the Ukrainian leadership is to to distance himself from Unity). such a policy and whether it can produce The political party recently created by Field & Olesnycky results in the short term. A presidential this faction, Hromada, is also likely to Attorneys at Law edict on administrative reform issued on stand on the same centrist platform in the July 10 did not give grounds for optimism forthcoming elections as that created by 11 Eagle Rock Ave., Suite 100 when it appointed former President Leonid the pro-presidential NDP. Although Mr. Kravchuk as its head. The major failings of Kuchma was visibly irritated by Mr. East Hanover, N.J. 07936 the Kravchuk era, he himself admits, were Lazarenko assuming control over the (201) 386-1115 precisely in the field of cadres. Unity faction so soon after losing his post, Fax (201) 884-1188 Secondly, the removal of Mr. Holovatyi they are unlikely to see each other as (Three Miles North of Ramada Hotel, at Ridgedale Ave.) does not bode well for the struggle against rivals unless Mr. Lazarenko decides to corruption. Since being effectively sacked stand as a candidate in the 1999 presiden- Representation of Small Businesses, and replaced by an unknown quantity loyal tial elections. to the president, Mr. Holovatyi has spoken Both Hromada and Unity have close Wills, Estates and Asset Protection, Commercial and Corporate Law, out about how the “Clean Hands” program financial connections to United Energy Real Estate and Family Law. he was told to draft “came completely out Systems (UES), a British-Ukrainian joint of the blue.” In other words, its purpose venture, which can readily provide the (By prior appointment, on selected Fridays, between the hours of 5:00 P.M. and 7 P.M., Mr. Olesnycky was less to clean out the stables, than to estimated $10,000 to $20,000 required to reduce international criticism while lead- elect a national deputy. After all, as a joint will hold office hours at Self-Reliance Ukrainian Federal Credit Union, 558 Summit Ave., Jersey City, NJ. ing to the justice minister’s own downfall venture UES paid only $12,000 in taxes on Please call (201) 386-1115 to make such appointments in advence) by infringing upon a wide-ranging array of its $11 billion turnover last year, a tax corrupt interests. loophole that may have been instrumental Nestor L. Olesnycky Robert S. Field The demotion of Hryhorii Vorsinov as in winning parliamentary support in favor prosecutor general, an ally of Mr. of canceling this tax privilege in July. Mr. Lazarenko, is also unlikely to lead to the Lazarenko has been accused of protecting implementation of the “Clean Hands” UES from investigations into its de facto UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERS !!! campaign. monopolization of fuel imports and metal- Upon his confirmation by Parliament as lurgical exports. Looking for a First Mortgage? Need to refinance? 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PREVIEW OF EVENTS Friday, October 10 research assistant in medieval art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.: Adrian Bryttan, presentation will be held at the Ramada Inn, conductor of the Vassar Orchestra at Vassar Route 10. Cocktails begin at 7:30 p.m., fol- College, will perform a solo violin recital to be lowed by the presentation at 8 p.m. held at Skinner Hall, at 8 p.m. Admission: members, $8; non-members, $10; NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Art and students, no charge. Literary Club, Human Rights in the 20th Sunday, October 19 Century, and Mayana Gallery invite the public to “An Evening with the Horbal Brothers” in a NEWARK, N.J.: St. John’s Ukrainian program of art, poetry and song. Introductory Catholic Church parish will be celebrating its remarks are by Nadia Svitlychna, followed by 90th anniversary with a divine liturgy at St. a poetry reading, and a song recital by John’s Church, 719 Sanford Ave., at 9:30 Lavrentia Turkewicz. There will also be an a.m., followed by an anniversary program and exhibit of drawings by Bohdan Horbal, which luncheon at the school gym. Admission: $12; will be on view through October 12. The event tickets must be purchased in advance either in will be held at the Mayana Gallery, 136 the church vestibule on Sunday or by sending Second Ave., at 7 p.m. For more information a check to: St. John’s Church, 719 Sanford call (212) 777-8144. Ave., Newark, NJ 07106 (Attn: 90th Anniversary). For further information contact Saturday, October 11 the parish office, (201) 371-1356. NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Monday, October 20 Society is holding a lecture by Oles Smolansky, professor of Lehigh University, EDMONTON: The Canadian Institute of Bethlehem, Pa., who will speak on the topic Ukrainian Studies is holding a lecture by “Ukraine and the Near East.” The lecture will Bohdan Nahaylo, senior policy officer, United be held at the society’s building, 63 Fourth Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Ave., at 5 p.m. titled “Ukraine’s Declarations of Sovereignty and Independence in Retrospect.” The lecture NEW BRITAIN, Conn.: The Postava will be held in the CIUS Library, 352 Ukrainian Dance Ensemble is sponsoring a Athabasca Hall, at 3:30 p.m. dance featuring the Nove Pokolinia band of Toronto, to be held at the Ramada Inn, 65 Saturday, October 25 Columbus Blvd., beginning at 9 p.m. Cash bar HARTFORD, Conn.: The Ukrainian only. Tickets: $20, adults, $15, students under National Home invites the public to its annual 18. For tickets, table reservations, or informa- dinner/dance, with music by Svitanok, to be tion contact Chris Iwanik, (860) 667-9317. held at 961 Wethersfield Ave., at 6 p.m. The CARNEGIE, Pa.: Ss. Peter and Paul evening’s program includes a performance by Ukrainian Orthodox Church will hold its sev- the Zolotyi Promin Dance Group. Donation: enth annual fall festival at the Ukrainian Hall, $20, adults; $10, students. Tickets may be Mansfield Boulevard, at 11 a.m.-4 p.m. reserved by calling (860) 296-5702. Rooms Featured will be the Kyiv Ukrainian Dance may be reserved at the Suisse Chalet Inn, Ensemble of the parish under the direction of (860) 563-7877, or Motel Six, (860) 563- Natalie and Beverly Kapeluck. There will also 5 9 0 0 . be a sale of arts and crafts, religious items and MONTREAL: The Trembita marching band ethnic food, with games and fun for all. Take- of the Montreal branch of the Ukrainian Youth out orders will be available. There is no charge Association (SUM) invites members and the for admission. For more information call (412) community to its annual zabava/dance featur- 2 7 9 - 3 4 5 8 . ing Montreal’s Burlaky. Tickets: $15 in Saturday-Sunday, October 11-12 advance; $20 at the door. Location: SUM hall, 3260 Beaubien East. For tickets and informa- HOUSTON, Texas: A Ukrainian Festival tion call (514) 721-3182. NEW YORK SCHOOL OF BANDURA will be held on the grounds of Protection of ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: JULIAN KYTASTY the Mother of God Ukrainian Catholic Sunday, October 26 BRANCHES: NEW YORK, YONKERS, ASTORIA, UNIONDALE Church, 9102 Meadowshire, at 11:30 a.m.-6 OTTAWA: Community Dialogue, a plan- p.m. on both days. This year’s festival will Individual and group lessons at all levels. ning process for Canadians of Ukrainian feature: live entertainment by Greg Harbar and heritage and newcomers in the capital The Gypsies, who will provide dance music region, is holding a seminar titled “The Parents interested in founding a branch of the NYSB on both days, and The Uzori Folk Ensemble, in their area are encouraged to contact us. Role of the Church in Social Services, which will perform on Sunday at 2 p.m.; cul- Immigrant Aid, and Aid to Ukraine and tural exhibits in the Ukrainian Hall, featuring Nick Czorny, administrator, (718) 658-7449 Other Countries,” with presentations by the displays of traditional Ukrainian costumes, Julian Kytasty, artistic director, (212) 995-2640 Rev. Maxym Lysack, University of Ottawa, needlework, wood-carving, ceramics and and the Rev. Peter Galadza, Sheptytsky musical instruments; a pysanky demonstration Institute, with Natalka Mychajlyszyn, mod- and sale; arts and crafts by local artisans; as erator, and Yiota Karaiskos, introductions. well as Ukrainian food and pastries, and out- The seminar will be held at the All Saints door activities for children. There will be tours Westboro Anglican Church Hall, 347 SELF RELIANCE (NEWARK, NJ) of the parish church, and the church gift shop Richmond Road (at Churchill Avenue.), at will be open to visitors during festival hours. Federal Credit Union 7:30 p.m. There will be discussions and Free parking is available. Admission: $2; chil- refreshments after the talks. The seminar is 734 SANDFORD AVENUE, NEWARK, NJ 07106 dren age 16 and under, free. Proceeds from hosted by the Parish Council of Christ the Tel (201) 373-7839 • http://www.selfreliance.org • Fax (201) 373-8812 this year’s festival will benefit the Pokrova Savior Orthodox Mission, with partial pro- BUSINESS HOURS: Building Fund. For additional information call motional support by The Metropolitan Tue & Fri - 12:00 noon to 7 PM • Wed & Thurs - 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM • Sat - 9:00 to 12:00 noon • Mon. - Closed Martha, (713) 973-8848. Andrey Sheptytsky Institute. For additional Sunday, October 12 information call Marta Pavliv, (613) 736- 7063. DETROIT: The Olena Teliha Branch of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of Thursday-Friday, October 30-31 America will celebrate its 50th anniversary WASHINGTON: The National Geographic with a banquet to be held at the Stephenson Society presents, as part of its fall film-lecture Haus, 25000 N. Chrysler Drive, Hazel Park, series, a travelogue on Ukraine, narrated and Mich., at 2 p.m. For reservations call (313) produced by Bob Willis. The screening will be 8 9 8 - 0 3 4 5 . held at the society’s headquartrs, 1600 M St. Wednesday, October 15 NW; on October 30, at 7:30 p.m. and on October 31 at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. For ticket PHILADELPHIA: The Monique Legaré prices and more information call (202) 857- International Dance Company presents The 7 7 0 0 . Chamber Orchestra of Lviv University, (Serhiy Burko, conductor) in a concert to be O N G O I N G held at the Chestnut Hill Library, 8711 CHICAGO: The Ukrainian National Germantown Ave., at 7:30 p.m. Museum of Chicago, 721 N. Oakley Blvd., is Saturday, October 18 holding an exhibit titled “Unique Shirts for Women Dating from the Turn of the Century.” EAST HANOVER, N.J.: The Ukrainian The collection is presented by Tania American Professionals and Businesspersons Reynarowych. The exhibit, which opened Association is holding an evening titled October 1, runs through October 31. For fur- “Preparations for and Responses to the Kyivan ther information contact the museum’s art Rus’ Component of the ‘Glory of Byzantium’ director, Olha Mrochko Kalymon, (312) 421- Exhibit at The Met,” with Olenka Z. Pevny, 8 0 2 0 .