INSIDE:• The case of Pavlo Lazarenko: a study in corruption — page 2. • U.S. ambassador to Ukraine sets the record straight — page 3. • More Olympic coverage from Salt Lake City — centerfold.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXX HE No.KRAINIAN 7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine T U Procurator General’sW Office charges In Olympic debut, hockey team Lazarenko with ordering assassinations is highlightby Andrew Nynka of Ukraine’splay the Russian Federation effort in the next by Roman Woronowycz members of the group, but those directly round. Kyiv Press Bureau responsible for carrying out the orders, the PROVO, Utah – Since its 70-plus ath- Belarus’ Shabanov won the tense duel killers of Vadym Hetman and Yevhen letes entered the Olympic stadium in Salt with Ukrainian goalie Simchuk, a veteran KYIV – The Procurator General’s Office Scherban, those who pulled the trigger,” Lake City to participate in Ukraine’s of four North American minor leagues. of Ukraine announced on February 7 that it said Mr. Obikhod. third Winter Games as an independent Shabanov made several outstanding had solved two high-profile murders of Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies, state, its best results thus far have been in saves in the third period as both teams’ Ukrainian political figures and officially including the Procurator General’s Office, the sport in which Ukraine this year offenses emerged from two dull periods charged ex-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko had been hounded by the press and con- made its Olympic debut: ice hockey. for an outstanding series of scoring with ordering the assassinations. founded by its inability to solve any of the With two wins and one loss in Group chances in the third, while Simchuk kept Within hours after the charges were several high-profile killings of political fig- B of the hockey competition’s prelimi- the Ukrainian side in the game with sev- announced, the Verkhovna Rada voted ures and journalists that have occurred in nary round, Ukraine’s record was equal eral acrobatic stops in the first. unanimously to withdraw Mr. Lazarenko’s Ukraine in the last few years, of which the to that of the Belarusian team that The Belarusians came out strong in the mandate as a national deputy to the murders of Mr. Scherban and Mr. Hetman emerged atop the group that also includ- first period as the Ukrainians seemed flat Parliament, which canceled his immunity were among the most prominent. ed Switzerland and France. and on their heels in front of the crowd of from criminal prosecution. Mr. Obikhod explained that the break in In the end, the deciding match-up was 6,306. However, Ukraine may have been Deputy Procurator General Mykola both cases came while the country’s chief Team Ukraine’s first game, played taking a decidedly more defensive Obikhod told journalists that Mr. law enforcement agency was investigating against Belarus on February 9. Ukraine approach, admitted head coach Anatolii Lazarenko, who currently awaits trial in the the activities of a criminal gang led by lost to Belarus 1-0. Bohdanov, pointing to several interna- United States on money laundering charges, Yevhen Kushnir, a now deceased Donetsk In that game goalie Sergei Shabanov tional competitions between the two had paid a gang of professional killers to resident who had taken Israeli citizenship. of Belarus stopped 17 shots, and Oleg teams in which Ukraine had tried to murder National Deputy Yevhen Scherban The Procurator General’s Office determined Mikulchik scored during a two-man outscore the Belarusian side but was of Donetsk in 1996 and National Deputy that Mr. Lazarenko had paid $2 million advantage with 12:11 left to play in the severely outplayed. Vadym Hetman, former chairman of the “from personal accounts under his control” third period. Ukraine’s netminder This time, however, Ukraine’s players National Bank of Ukraine, in 1998. Kostiantyn Simchuk stopped 29 of 30 took several bad penalties, putting them- “We have arrested not only various (Continued on page 12) shots on goal. The result – a one-goal dif- selves in two five-on-three situations that ference – turned out to be the key factor ultimately cost them not only the game in Belarus’ advancement to the next against Belarus, but also their shot at round and Ukraine’s relegation to play play in the next tier of competition. for ninth place against Latvia. Mikulchik, who played 37 NHL U.S. expert: Melnychenko tapes not altered by Yaro Bihun Mr. Zhyr said that the tape analysis Ukraine won its next two games games for Winnipeg and Anaheim from Special to The Ukrainian Weekly was made by Bruce Koenig, the Federal against Switzerland and France to tie 1993 to 1996, broke the scoreless tie dur- Belarus with four points at the conclu- Bureau of Investigation’s top audio ing the only effective power play offered WASHINGTON – The head of a spe- sion of Group B preliminary round com- expert, now retired and working for a pri- by either team. Sergei Stas made a pass cial Ukrainian parliamentary commission petition, which is played in a round vate company, BEK TEK. Mr. Koenig is from behind the goal line to Mikulchik, reported that an analysis by a leading robin. Belarus won its game against known widely for his work in a number who fired a wrist shot over Simchuk’s American audio expert of the tape France (3-1), but lost to Switzerland (2- of high-profile cases involving audio glove into the top corner of the net. recordings that appear to implicate 1). Thus, Belarus’ victory over Ukraine recordings, including the Linda Tripp President Leonid Kuchma in the killing allowed the Belarusians to move on to (Continued on page 13) telephone recordings of Monica of journalist Heorhii Gongadze confirm Lewinsky, which played a key role in the that they have not been edited or other- impeachment of President Bill Clinton. wise altered. Appearing with Mr. Zhyr in the radio Oleksandr Zhyr, who heads a news conference was the former presi- Verkhovna Rada panel looking into the dential guard who secretly taped the killing, made the announcement here on president, Mykola Melnychenko, and the February 7, during a live, hourlong news slain journalist’s widow, Myroslava conference program on the Ukrainian service of Radio Liberty. (Continued on page 11)

Kuchma suspends Kyiv state administration chief by Roman Woronowycz who has gathered a disproportionate Kyiv Press Bureau amount of authority in the last several years, called the action an act of reprisal KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma by his political enemies, whom he identi- suspended the duties of Kyiv Mayor fied as “oligarchic forces.” Oleksander Omelchenko as the head of “They have lately raised a clamor in the Kyiv state administration on February the mass media spearheaded against the 11 after the municipal head refused to legal authority of the capital city of temporarily step aside while he cam- Ukraine, including the bugging of phone paigns for a seat in Parliament. discussions,” said Mr. Omelchenko, who The presidential decree sharpened the chairs the Yednist Party. focus on whether government officials The latter reference was to a highly could retain their positions or must take publicized incident last month regarding leaves of absence during the seven-week an illegally taped phone conversation in period of campaigning in the run up to Andrew Nynka which Mr. Omelchenko and Viktor the March 31 parliamentary election, Yuschenko, the head of the Our Ukraine Ukraine’s Ruslan Fedotenko scores in the February 11 game against which began on February 9. Switzerland, which Ukraine won 5-2. The hugely popular mayor of Kyiv, (Continued on page 11) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002 No. 7

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS The case of Pavlo Lazarenko: Lytvyn dismisses U.S. exam of tapes (RFE/RL Newsline) KYIV – “It is a subsequent slip of Kuchma: Ukraine must join EU by 2011 a study of high-level corruption paper that does not mean anything for by Roman Kupchinsky According to information from Hryhorii Ukraine or the Ukrainian judiciary sys- KYIV – Ukrainian President Leonid RFE/RL Crime, Corruption and Terrorism Watch Omelchenko, the head of the Ukrainian tem,” Volodymyr Lytvyn, chief of the Kuchma told a government meeting on Parliament’s Anti-Corruption Committee, presidential administration, said on ICTV February 8 that Ukraine must join the PART I these metals were then purchased from Van Television on February 11, referring to a European Union by 2011, Interfax Der Ploeg & Terpstra by fugitive American recent U.S. expert conclusion that former reported. Mr. Kuchma noted that to qual- The case of Pavlo Ivanovych Lazarenko, ify for EU membership Ukraine should once one of the most powerful men in financier Marc Rich, Concord Trade presidential bodyguard Mykola Limited and Cargill. These initial dealings Melnychenko’s secret recordings are secure annual economic growth of Ukraine and now an inmate at a federal between 5 and 7 percent, join the World detention facility in California, is a classic took place when Mr. Kuchma was the genuine. Mr. Lytvyn added that the pub- Trade Organization by the end of 2003, study of high-level corruption in Ukraine. It Ukrainian prime minister. In 1993 Mr. licized conclusion is a campaign move and create a free-trade zone with Central involves not only Mr. Lazarenko, but a long Kuchma gave the Naukovyi farm 110 head by “those politicians who may be seen as and Eastern European countries by 2004, list of players beginning with the Ukrainian of cattle free of charge in order to promote outsiders in the election race.” He did not Reuters reported. (RFE/RL Newsline) president who appointed Mr. Lazarenko cattle breeding. disclose which politicians he had in Mr. Agafonov himself admitted that both mind. Meanwhile, Our Ukraine leader prime minister, to the head of the Prosecutors ready to charge Lazarenko Intelligence Service that vetted the appoint- Mr. Kuchma and Mr. Lazarenko were close Viktor Yuschenko commented on ment, to the Procurator General’s Office to his company; according to Mr. Agafonov, February 12 that the U.S. examination of KYIV – Deputy Procurator General that watched as an impoverished nation was Mr. Kuchma often visited the state farm at Melnychenko’s tapes is “a step toward Mykola Obikhod told journalists on bled dry. the time. It was also Mr. Kuchma, as prime the truth.” (RFE/RL Newsline) February 7 that prosecutors have gath- It is also the story of a lax law-enforce- minister, who had to approve the export Prosecutor rejects U.S. expert’s opinion ered enough evidence to officially charge ment system and Parliament that refused to licenses for ferrous metals from Ukraine. former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko In the so-called “Superseding investigate his dealings, preferring to let the KYIV – Deputy Procurator General with ordering the killings of prominent Indictment” of Mr. Lazarenko by the dirty work be done by the United States and Oleksii Bahanets on February 8 said the businessman Yevhen Scherban in 1996 United States, dated November 30, 2000, it Switzerland, and only afterwards becoming results of the recent U.S. examination of and former National Bank of Ukraine a minor participant. is stated: “Lazarenko, while a government Chairman Vadym Hetman in 1998, official in Ukraine, received money derived Col. Mykola Melnychenko’s recordings, The extent of Mr. Lazarenko’s activities which provoked Ukraine’s “tape scandal” Ukrainian media reported. Mr. Obikhod may never be known. The major frauds that from fraud from Mykola Agafonov, who in 2000, “have no legal force for the said Mr. Lazarenko paid $850,000 to kill have been documented in the West include was the chief administrator of Naukovyi Ukrainian investigation,” Interfax report- Mr. Hetman and more than $2 million for his dealings with the Naukovyi State Farm, State Farm ... as follows: ed. Mr. Bahanets noted that, according to the murder of Mr. Scherban. The prose- and United Energy Systems of Ukraine, and “1. Lazarenko, while a government offi- Ukrainian legislation, such an examina- cutor added that police have arrested the GHP Corp. scam. There is also evidence cial in Ukraine, exercised his official Messrs. Scherban’s and Hetman’s execu- authority to ensure that Naukovyi State tion may be made only by “a competent of his relationship with President Leonid tioners. Mr. Obikhod said his office has Farm received various benefits and privi- expert with an appropriate license.” Kuchma in the creation of a mobile-phone again asked “the competent U.S. authori- leges from the government of Ukraine, Lawmaker Oleksander Zhyr said on company in Ukraine, where Mr. ties” to extradite Mr. Lazarenko. including the right to export metal products RFE/RL on February 7 that Bruce Lazarenko’s money was used as the start-up (RFE/RL Newsline) capital of this firm. The case has been and raw materials produced by Ukrainian Koenig, a veteran FBI expert on audio and video recordings, had examined sam- plagued by constant postponements of the state enterprises. Bills passed on judicial system, elections trial date and changes in Mr. Lazarenko’s “2. Agafonov then exercised the right to ples of the Melnychenko recordings and defense team. The trial is due to begin this export metal products and raw materials by concluded that they are authentic and KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada adopted year in San Francisco. entering into a series of agreements with unaltered. The Procurator General’s a law on February 7 on the judicial sys- Van Der Ploeg & Terpstra, B.V., in Office of Ukraine maintains the tapes are tem in the country, Interfax reported. The Scientific State Farm Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, for the pur- doctored. (RFE/RL Newsline) That same day the Parliament passed a Pavlo Lazarenko began his career as a chase of cattle and other related supplies by Court rejects Melnychenko’s bid new version of the bill on television and young tractor driver on a collective farm in Naukovy State Farm, pursuant to which the radio debates during election campaigns, the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. He cattle and other related supplies were to be KYIV – The Supreme Court of which had been vetoed last month by rapidly rose in the ranks of Soviet Ukraine paid for in part with Ukrainian government Ukraine on February 8 upheld the deci- President Leonid Kuchma. The former through loyalty to his superiors and a will- funds and in part from the proceeds of the sion of the Central Election Commission bill obliged all candidates in presidential ingness to cut them in on deals that he con- sale of metal products and raw materials denying the registration of former presi- and parliamentary elections to take part trolled. At one point in his interrogation he exported from Ukraine. dential bodyguard Mykola Melnychenko, in such debates, while the current bill admitted that as prime minister he always “3. After the metal products and raw who has been granted asylum in the makes participation in them voluntary. In took 10 percent of every deal. It was also materials were exported from Ukraine and United States, as a candidate on the addition, the current bill obliges only the widely known that this 10 percent cut was sold, the proceeds from the sale of metal Socialist Party list in the upcoming par- state-controlled radio and television shared by others. products and raw materials exceeded the liamentary election, Interfax reported. channels to organize such debates, while The first documented scam that brought actual price of the cattle and other related The court said the information Mr. its previous version extended this obliga- Mr. Lazarenko fame among the elite in materials. Melnychenko supplied about his place of tion to private channels as well. The Kyiv was connected with the unlikely com- “4. Agafonov caused the preparation of residence in the past five years is “essen- Parliament also adopted a new version of modity of Angus cattle. Naukovyi false contracts in which the value of the cat- tially unreliable.” Meanwhile, earlier this the local election bill, which also was (Scientific) was a state-owned cattle-breed- tle was fraudulently inflated to account for month the commission accepted a parlia- vetoed by President Kuchma in January. ing farm located in the village of Taromsk most of the excess funds received by him mentary bid by former Ukrainian banker (RFE/RL Newsline) in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. Its from the sale of metal products and raw Viktor Zherdytskyi, who has been in a director was Mykola Agafonov. It also materials. ... German jail since 2000 awaiting trial for Kyiv seeks talks on Hungarian law “7. Of the approximately $34 million became a “Leased Research Farm” (also allegedly embezzling several hundred UZHHOROD – Ukrainian Prime headed by Mr. Agafonov) and eventually an that were deposited into the ABN-AMRO thousand dollars intended to assist agro-business of the Ukrainian Academy of accounts from the sale of metal products Ukrainian victims of World War II. (Continued on page 25) Agrarian Sciences. and raw materials, Agafonov transferred On August 10, 1992, when Mr. Kuchma approximately $20 million into personal accounts belonging to himself, his associ- was prime minister of Ukraine and Mr. FOUNDED 1933 Lazarenko was President Leonid ates, and Lazarenko, including a transfer of Kravchuk’s representative to the $1,205,000 to Account No. 502.607.03L in HE KRAINIAN EEKLY Dnipropetrovsk region, Mr. Agafonov the name of LIP Handel A.G., in Fribourg, TAn English-languageU newspaperW published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., signed two contracts with Dutch company Switzerland; a transfer of $2,972,000 and a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Van Der Ploeg & Terpstra, B.V. According $4 million to account No. 08-05785-3 in the Yearly subscription rate: $55; for UNA members — $45. name of KATO-82 at Credit Lyonnais Bank to those contracts, $11.088 million was to Periodicals postage paid at Parsippany, NJ 07054 and additional mailing offices. be deposited with ABN-AMRO Bank by in Zurich, Switzerland; and a transfer of (ISSN — 0273-9348) Naukovyi State Farm, to be used by the $6,014,000 to account No. 21383 at Banque Dutch firm to purchase 8,400 head of cattle Populaire Suisse in the name of ORPHIN. The Weekly: UNA: for the farm. Director Agafonov did not S.A. which was subsequently transferred to Tel: (973) 292-9800; Fax: (973) 644-9510 Tel: (973) 292-9800; Fax: (973) 292-0900 have the cash to buy the cattle, so he turned account No. 21768 in the name of NIHPRO to Mr. Lazarenko for help in raising cash by at Banque Populaire Suisse controlled by Postmaster, send address changes to: Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz selling ferrous metals and using part of the Lazarenko.” The Ukrainian Weekly Editors: proceeds to pay for livestock. Mr. The Kuchma-Lazarenko relationship 2200 Route 10 Roman Woronowycz (Kyiv) Lazarenko helped Mr. Agafonov obtain an continued to bear fruit in the coming years. P.O. Box 280 Andrew Nynka export license from Kyiv for the metal, Parsippany, NJ 07054 Ika Koznarska Casanova (part time) which he sold to Van Der Ploeg & Terpstra. “Everything is in order” The Ukrainian Weekly Archive: www.ukrweekly.com Mr. Agafonov sold 64,000 tons of ferrous On August 18, 1994, Mr. Kuchma was metals to the Dutch company, more than inaugurated as president of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Weekly, February 17, 2002, No. 7, Vol. LXX compensating for the amount needed to buy Copyright © 2002 The Ukrainian Weekly the Angus cattle. (Continued on page 12) No. 7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002 3 INTERVIEW: Ambassador Pascual sets the record straight on issues in U.S.-Ukraine relations

by Roman Woronowycz matter, The New York Times printed with the EU and with the United States. the specifics of what could be done, but let Kyiv Press Bureau an article on January 13, in which you That’s also a positive thing. It’s positive me outline the basic strategy that we hope were quoted as saying effectively that for Ukraine in several ways. For those to take. While we have not completed a full KYIV – In the past few weeks several legal review of the law that was passed resonant issues have surfaced in U.S.- the U.S. has always supported Ukraine people who said that you couldn’t move developing relations eastward as well more aggressively in relations with the here, we think it is flawed. The reason we Ukraine political and economic relations, think it is flawed is because this piece of as westward. The tone of the article Euro-Atlantic community because Russia among them the imposition of economic legislation is subservient to a separate gen- sanctions by each country against the suggests that, whereas the vital inter- would object, that argument has fallen eral licensing law in Ukraine. That general other; suggestions in the mass media that a ests of the U.S. to clear Ukraine of away because now Russia itself is devel- licensing law was created to actually restrict shift may have occurred in Washington’s nuclear arms and then of the oping closer relations with the Euro- licensing and make it very, very difficult to foreign relations vis-à-vis Kyiv and get a license because of the over-regulation Moscow; and information that a U.S. spe- in this economy. But in many economies cialist has determined that the recordings there is a need for a specific licensing made by Maj. Mykola Melnychenko, a I would certainly be skeptical of anything requirement where there is a problem. former presidential bodyguard, in the Many countries have this, for example, in office of Ukraine’s president are authentic. coming out of Moscow that claims to state alcohol. Ukraine has it in alcohol. The Ukrainian Weekly turned to the When you have these two laws poten- U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Carlos U.S. policy. If anybody wants to look to a tially coming together, you get contradic- Pascual, to give the U.S. stance on these statement of U.S. policy on Ukraine, I tions. And when the other law overrides, controversial and potentially explosive you potentially get situations where the issues and to set the record straight. The would refer you to ... The Washington general licensing law will undo the good interview was conducted in the ambas- that is provided in the CD licensing law. sador’s office in Kyiv on February 8. Quarterly [winter 2002 issue]. It ... reflects Because of this potential legal confusion, Mr. Pascual arrived in Kyiv on we think there is a need to sort things out. October 19, 2000, as the fourth U.S. the Bush administration’s views on U.S. Given that that is the case, we are going ambassador to Ukraine. Prior to that he policy to Ukraine. to suggest a two-track approach. The first served as the special assistant to the U.S. track is to implement the law. A law exists president and senior director for Russia, and a presidential decree has been passed. Ukraine and Eurasia at the National Perhaps we may be wrong. Perhaps the law Security Council in Washington. Chornobyl danger kept relations Atlantic community. and the presidential decree will provide suf- Has the United States agreed to cede between Washington and Kyiv tight, The other part of this is that any linger- ficient basis to combat piracy and end pira- to Moscow a sphere of influence over now that those issues are resolved ing dividing lines that have [existed] in cy. We can detect that through seizures that will continue to take place by the interna- Ukraine? There has been reference in there was less of a pressing need to Europe are in the process of being torn tional industry. We know how to assess the Russian press to something called the maintain close ties. Has there been any away. In effect, the political and security those discs that are seized to determine “Rice Doctrine;” it was reported in discussion at all in Washington to map of Europe is being redefined yet again, whether or not they come from Ukraine. If Nezavisimaya Gazeta on December 29, loosen the political ties between in the most significant way since 1997, 2001. Is there at this time an agreement when the previous expansion took place. piracy ends, if there are no more pirated Ukraine and the United States to allow CDs coming from Ukraine, we should rec- of this sort? Kyiv to move closer to Moscow? In our view, this creates an opportunity for Ukraine because it gives Ukraine a ognize that and reflect it in our policy. Absolutely not. The U.S. policy on None whatsoever. In the article Steve chance to firmly entrench itself in these Secondly, we should also look at the law and find out where the major weaknesses Ukraine has always been that we support and I wrote what we wanted to get across evolving Euro-Atlantic political structures and problems are; where those principal a sovereign, independent, democratic, was the point, which is consistent with what and security structures. The ability to do legal contradictions might exist. Then we market-oriented Ukraine – and you have we have been saying certainly since I have that will depend fundamentally on what can work together to identify steps or provi- heard us say it for the last 10 years – and been involved with U.S. policy on Ukraine, Ukraine proposes and on the kinds of we are going to continue to say it because reforms Ukraine undertakes internally. So sions that could clarify or resolve those particularly since 1995, is that we recognize problems. Then it would again be in it is what we believe and what we are that Ukraine and Russia are neighbors; and this is an important time for Ukraine to committed to. think creatively about those kinds of rela- Ukraine’s hands to determine how it might the very fact that they are neighbors means legislatively proceed to resolve those issues I would certainly be skeptical of any- they are going to have a relationship and it’s tionships. thing coming out of Moscow that claims in a way that is legally binding. better for that relationship to be a good rela- What the United States can assure to state U.S. policy. If anybody wants to tionship rather than a bad relationship, and Ukraine is that, in this continuing evolu- Are we talking weeks, months, or is it look to a statement of U.S. policy on that reform in Ukraine and reform in Russia tion of the political and security picture in indeterminable? Ukraine, I would refer you to the article should actually be complementary to one Europe, Ukraine will not be forgotten. that [former U.S. Ambassador to How Ukraine fits into that picture overall I really can’t say. It really would be Ukraine] Steve Pifer and I wrote, which another. The big issue, particularly in my mind, depends on what Ukraine is comfortable wrong for me to predict for two reasons. was published in The Washington with and where it wants to go. that which is important to focus on right One is because I don’t know, and two, Quarterly [winter 2002 issue]. It was because it is the responsibility of the U.S. fully cleared by the administration and now, is that to the west of Ukraine virtually So there have been no changes in the all of the countries are either in NATO or Trade Representative’s Office to handle reflects the Bush administration’s views way the United States looks at Ukraine this. on U.S. policy toward Ukraine. are seeking membership in NATO. To the since September 11 and as a result of any east of Ukraine you have Russia, which has discussions between Moscow and Without an agreement on combating To delve a little bit further into this developed a closer relationship with NATO, Washington? CD piracy, is there a way out of the sanc- tions for Ukraine? None whatsoever, with the caveat that in regard to September 11 we very much These sanctions are specifically appreciate the role that Ukraine has addressing the problem of piracy and the Poland’s new prime minister played because, as I have said before, it fact that up until now Ukraine has not has been an extremely constructive one. I taken actions that would adequately stop saw some statistics the other day that indi- the piracy of CDs and the exports to the pays a visit on Ukraine’s leaders cated that there may have been since the rest of the world, which are continuing to by Roman Woronowycz During a press conference after meet- beginning of the overflights to occur. So that problem needs to be Kyiv Press Bureau ing with Prime Minister Kinakh, Mr. Afghanistan, in particular humanitarian resolved. Miller said he believes a Polish consor- airdrops, perhaps on the order of 900 Frankly, it’s not only important to the KYIV – Polish Prime Minister Leszek tium could be organized to provide some Miller, who made his first visit to Kyiv flights over Ukraine. That’s just indicative United States, it is also important for support, which he explained would be a of how important Ukraine has been. Ukraine because it is hurting Ukraine’s on February 4 to meet with his Ukrainian direct response to Ukraine’s steadfastness counterpart, Anatolii Kinakh, and Without the ability to do this, without the image and reputation internationally. It’s and determination in seeing the project ability to fly over Ukrainian air space, it reducing the willingness of investors to President Leonid Kuchma, said that through to completion. Poland would continue to back Ukraine’s would have been much more complicated come to Ukraine and put their money “This is a specific signal for the Polish to do many of the things we have been here. position on a variety of matters, includ- Ministry of Economics and to all Polish ing the transit of oil and gas from Russia doing over the last few months. Ukraine has a lot of potential; it has a entrepreneurs to move more quickly if lot of high-tech potential. We have talked and Central Asia to Europe through the they wish to participate in the project,” Turning to the issue of U.S. sanc- country. to the international recording industry, for said Prime Minister Miller. tions on Ukraine, because the example, and they are willing to sign The recently elected Polish prime min- The Odesa-Brody-Gdansk line will Parliament is getting ready for elec- ister said Warsaw fully supports comple- contracts with the Ukrainian recording receive more attention in March when tions and because it hasn’t shown any industry and to produce CDs locally here tion of the Odesa-Brody-Gdansk oil the two heads of government will meet real desire to review what it did in Ukraine and to produce them with pipeline project. The main part of the again at a session of the Ukraine-Polish approve, has the U.S. discussed with Ukrainian covers so that they could be pipeline, which goes from the Ukrainian intergovernmental commission on eco- Ukraine a way out of the current sold, in fact, in this market for probably port city of Odesa to the Ukrainian town nomic development. Prime Minister predicament, or must Ukraine still 15 to 20 hrv ($3-$4), which is very of Brody, located near the Polish border, Miller said trade turnover between the pass at this moment some sort of legis- cheap. But the only way they are going to is finished. However, the Polish portion two countries, which today stands at a lation, which will be more or less in do that is if there is an intellectual proper- of the transit line is not done, and Ukraine paltry $1.2 billion, must be increased line with what the U.S. is looking for ty regime that protects their product. has yet to find a prime oil refiner or before sanctions will be lifted? develop a consortium to provide the oil. (Continued on page 17) We are only beginning now to discuss (Continued on page 9) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002 No. 7 Bishop Losten and community leaders UCCA executive board meeting celebrate Feast Day of St. Basil the Great focuses on revitalizing community

by Tamara Gallo Additionally, an action plan was pre- Ukrainian Congress Committee of America sented by the UCCA’s Fourth Wave Committee to create a Community NEW YORK – At its first meeting of Information Center for new immigrants, 2002, the executive board of the which would be located on the first floor Ukrainian Congress Committee of of the UCCA’s building in Manhattan. America (UCCA) discussed the revital- The center is designed to provide valu- ization of the Ukrainian American com- able resources and information for the munity and the upcoming parliamentary newest Ukrainian arrivals to the United elections in Ukraine. States, such as computer training, ESL After the previous meeting’s minutes courses, (English as a Second Language), were read by Executive Secretary Marie courses for citizenship, and legal and Duplak, a moment of silence was offered medical advice, as well as a job and for longtime UCCA and community apartment databank. activists who recently passed away: The unique feature of the proposed Laryssa Szonyj, member of the UCCA’s Community Information Center is that Educational Council; Oleksiy Kalynyk, the newest immigrants primarily will representative of the Ukrainian staff it on a volunteer basis in the evening Liberation Union (SVU); Vasyl hours, as well as during the weekends. Omelchenko, one of the founders of the The detailed plan for the Community Ukrainian Youth Association (SUM) in Information Center, which was supported the United States; and Zenon Snylyk, by the executive board, is to be used as longtime editor of The Ukrainian Weekly an example for all UCCA branches to and Svoboda. incorporate in their respective communi- In addressing the Ukrainian American ties. community’s future activities in the 21st In final preparations for the March century, UCCA President Michael parliamentary elections in Ukraine, a dis- Sawkiw, Jr. stated that the years 2002-2003 cussion was held regarding the UCCA’s mark the 125th anniversary of Ukrainians, role as a non-governmental organization first mass emigration to the United States. (NGO). The UCCA applied to various Following four distinct waves of emigra- foundations and the United States STAMFORD, Conn. – Bishop Basil Losten hosted a luncheon reception on tion to the United States, the Ukrainian Agency for International Development American community is faced with revital- Saturday, January 12, here at St. Basil’s Seminary on the occasion of St. Basil’s (USAID) for funding to support its pre- izing its heritage and continuing its activi- Feast Day. It was the 24th year that this gathering was held by the primate of the election civic information campaign ties in the 21st century. aimed at educating Ukraine’s electorate Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford. Present were leaders of various The executive board was in agreement and monitoring the election process. Ukrainian community organizations and institutions that are active in the metro- that both the descendants of the post- To assist in this endeavor, the UCCA politan New York area and on the territory of the Stamford Eparchy, including World War II generation born in the opened a permanent office in Kyiv to Ukrainian credit unions in New York and Yonkers, numerous lay leaders, clergy- United States and the newest immigrants coordinate activities of the project. men and nuns, as well as a representative of Ukraine’s diplomatic corps, Vice- are crucial to the future of the Ukrainian Following the elections, the office will Consul Heorhii Shevchenko of the Consulate General in New York City, who read American community. Therefore, a serve as the UCCA’s voice in Kyiv. a special message from Prime Minister Anatolii Kinakh. A special guest was motion proposed by Andrij Szul to create Furthermore, the UCCA has issued two Archbishop Antony of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. (seen above a Heritage Subcommittee of the appeals to the Ukrainian American com- with Bishop Losten). Some 100 people attended the event, which featured the Organizational Committee, was passed munity to serve as international election presentation of a “vertep,” a traditional Nativity play, by students of the local by the UCCA Executive Board. The sub- observers, as well as to contribute to the school of Ukrainian studies (seen in the photo below), Many of the attendees committee’s goal is to devise programs Elections Fund 2002, proceeds of which came bearing monetary gifts in support of Bishop Losten’s work and his favorites aimed at re-invigorating the Ukrainian will benefit the UCCA’s civic education causes, such as St. Basil’s Seminary and the eparchy’s newspaper, The Sower. community in the United States. and monitoring projects in Ukraine. UCCA receives NYC grant for aid to new immigrants by Tamara Gallo tise the UCCA’s program, produce edu- Ukrainian Congress Committee of America cational materials and help cover copying and mailing expenses. NEW YORK – In an effort to assist According to the director of neighbor- the newest immigrants from Ukraine, the hood resources, the grant process this Ukrainian Congress Committee of year was extremely competitive, as near- America applied for and received a small grant from the One City Awards ly 200 organizations submitted proposals Program, which supports volunteer-driv- and only 53 groups were awarded fund- en community efforts that increase edu- ing. cation and economic opportunities, The Neighborhood Resources among other programs. Department offers small grants to help On February 7 the UCCA learned it neighborhood volunteers develop suc- has been awarded a $500 grant for con- cessful organizations and projects. ducting English language (ESL) and Within this department, the One City civic education courses, which will be Awards program provides small grants held in the newly remodeled Fourth (up to $2,000), skills-building workshops Wave Information Center located in the and technical assistance to volunteer- UCCA’s headquarters in New York City. driven community efforts and organiza- The funds awarded will be used to adver- tions.

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Young UNA’ers Notice to UNA members Emily Callis (photo on the left), daughter of Joe and Anne Bobeczko regarding UNA-UFA merger Callis, and Alexander Paul and In January, a news item was printed The UNA Convention is scheduled Zachary Philip Bobeczko (photo in both of the Ukrainian National to begin on May 24. In accordance below), sons of Paul and Laura Association’s weekly newspapers, with the requirements of the statutes of Bobeczko, are new members of UNA Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the Branch 102 in Cleveland. All three notifying the UNA membership and agreement of merger has to be printed are grandchildren of Gerald and the whole Ukrainian community that in the official publications not later Mary Jo Bobeczko. The children were the leadership of two fraternal organi- than 60 days before the convention, or enrolled by their great-grandparents zations, the Ukrainian National by March 24, but such a merger agree- Nicholas and Mary (Szmagala) Association and the Ukrainian ment does not yet exist. We also must Bobeczko. The three cousins joined Fraternal Association, had held a joint seek tentative approval for the merger the UNA to mark the 100th anniver- meeting in Scranton, Pa., on January from the Insurance Department of sary of Ss. Peter and Paul Branch 11. The aim of the meeting was to New Jersey, which might take a long 102, which falls on October 6, 2002. review the possibility of a merger of time to achieve, and to this day not Other members of the extended the two organizations at their sched- much has been accomplished in that Bobeczko family who were enrolled uled conventions in 2002. respect. The UFA has been notified of by Nicholas and Mary Bobeczko of This news elicited a great amount of all these requirements. Middleburg Heights, Ohio, are: interest among the membership of the Laura Bobeczko of Arlington, Va., Due to the fact that, to this date, the UNA. After reading about the possible (wife of Paul Bobeczko); Kristin merger of both organizations has not merger, members started calling the Bobeczko of Chicago, (wife of been properly prepared, we have only Home Office for detailed merger infor- Gregory W. Bobeczko, who is the son a very slim hope that the merger will of Daniel and Oxana L. Bobeczko and mation. It is our duty to inform our be on the agenda of the UNA grandson of Nicholas and Mary members that in the past month we Convention. Should the deliberations Bobeczko); Nicholas Gyure of have had no response from the leader- start anew, we will notify our member- Mentor, Ohio (husband of Andrea L. ship of the UFA in regard to matters ship in our official publications. Bobeczko Gyure, who is the daughter discussed at the January 11 meeting, of Daniel and Oxana Bobeczko and nor was any attempt made to set up Ulana Diachuk granddaughter of Nicholas and Mary another meeting. President Bobeczko); and Stacy Ann Mango of Westlake, Ohio (daughter of Cheryl Bobeczko Mango, grandniece of Nicholas and Mary Bobeczko). Mission Statement The Ukrainian National Association exists: I to promote the principles of fraternalism; I to preserve the Ukrainian, Ukrainian American and Ukrainian Canadian heritage and culture; and I to provide quality financial services and products to its members.

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IN MEMORIAM THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY One hundred eight Petro Jacyk, 1919-2001,

One hundred eight years ago, the Ukrainian National Association, the oldest and builder of Ukrainian studies largest fraternal-benefit insurance society in the world, was established in Shamokin, Pa. But it’s never been just an insurance company. by Dr. Marko R. Stech the importance of this undertaking, Mr. Jacyk became the single most generous The UNA was the first organization to unite Ukrainian immigrants in the United The unexpected passing of the renowned States and strengthen their national consciousness – both as Ukrainians and as patron of the Entsyklopediia and donated Ukrainian philanthropist and Canadian close to $300,000 of his own money Americans. It was a pioneer also in Canada, where the UNA began its activity in businessman Petro Jacyk on November 1, 1904. The UNA has an illustrious history as a facilitator of community projects and a towards it, while also playing an active role 2001, marked the end of a certain era for in its fund-raising committee. leader of community causes – ready to take the lead, and the responsibility and effort Ukrainians worldwide. On that day, the that come with it, in myriad endeavors. The primary objective of the Ukrainians of the world lost the most gener- Entsyklopedia Ukranoznavstva, which was Such endeavors in the recent past included leading the campaign to erect the ous patron of Ukrainian learning, whose Shevchenko Monument in Washington, defending the Ukrainian name in the case of published in France, was to consolidate the consistent, dedicated efforts can be credited national consciousness of Ukrainians them- “The Ugly Face of Freedom” aired by CBS, and financially supporting the National for a steady and lasting growth throughout Olympic Committee of Ukraine. Nor should the UNA’s significant role as publisher of selves, to define their identity. As such, this the world in the understanding of Ukraine publication had far-reaching consequences, two newspapers, Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly, which are key to our communi- and the Ukrainian people. No one from his ty’s well-being, or its funding of our Kyiv Press Bureau, which has provided reliable which Dr. Kubijovyc and Mr. Jacyk had generation will be able to replace Mr. Jacyk counted up in advance of its appearance. and untainted news from Ukraine for more than 11 years, be taken for granted. These in this role. are priceless contributions from which all segments of our community have benefited. The next stage of this work was realized in In a narrower sense, the Ukrainian com- Canada with the publication of the English- Of course, many know the UNA also as the owner of Soyuzivka, still a favorite munity of North America lost one of its with the younger generations as hundreds flock to the resort for Labor Day weekend language Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Taking most notable personalities – an energetic Dr. Kubijovyc’s Ukrainian-language work for the annual end-of-summer ritual of seeing their friends before heading off to and authoritative individual who worked school. As one Soyuzivka-goer put it: “There’s a kind of continuous friendship here as its point of departure, the encyclopedia constructively for the good of the commu- sought to provide accurate and truthful that you’ll find nowhere else ... It’s something our grandparents had and passed on to nity and did not fear to stand in defense of our parents, who have passed it on to us. And we’ll carry it on.” information about Ukraine and Ukrainians the honor of Ukrainians, even in trying and to the entire world. Another hallmark of the UNA’s fraternal activity, the UNA Scholarship Program, controversial situations. On a more personal since 1946 has awarded approximately $1.8 million to Ukrainian American and Today the Canadian Institute of level, the family and friends have lost a per- Ukrainian Studies is working on an Internet Ukrainian Canadian youths pursuing their studies on the university level. son of great generosity, honesty and good The UNA has also attempted to help Ukraine’s youths. Last year the UNA gave 10 version of the English-language will. Nothing can replace this loss. Encyclopedia, which will be readily avail- disadvantaged rural youths a chance at a college education at one of Ukraine’s most I personally had the unique opportunity prestigious academic institutions – the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. able throughout the world to anyone with to work with Mr. Jacyk for a number of Internet access and will represent a vital tes- Through its Ukrainian National Foundation, the UNA paid the $1,000 tuition for each years as managing director of his education- of five boys and five girls from villages in central and eastern Ukraine to take part in timony to Ukraine’s heritage and present al foundation. As it turned out, these were state. Mr. Jacyk took part in the first phase college preparatory courses at the university that were aimed at helping them pass the the last years of his life. But, in the realm of school’s rigorous entrance examination. of the large undertaking and, as such, he philanthropic work, these proved to be the played a key role in laying the groundwork Throughout its 108-year-old history the UNA has lived up to the founding ideals years of his most fruitful activity. In this set down by its pioneers. In recent years those lofty founding principles were cap- essential for its subsequent success. period, Mr. Jacyk and the Jacyk Foundation The second aspect of constructing the sulized in a modern-day Mission Statement: “The Ukrainian National Association managed not only to complete the establish- exists: to promote the principles of fraternalism; to preserve the Ukrainian, Ukrainian firm “foundations” for Ukrainian studies in ment of a host of scholarly programs at the West – for Mr. Jacyk, the publication of American, and Ukrainian Canadian heritage and culture; and to provide quality finan- prominent North American universities, but cial services and products to its members. As a fraternal insurance society the an essential history of Ukraine in English – also to see through new, extraordinarily was very near and dear to his heart. In this Ukrainian National Association reinvests its earnings for the benefit of its members ambitious undertakings, such as the and the Ukrainian community.” case, several discussions Mr. Jacyk had Ukrainian Language Competition for pri- with the eminent historian Omeljan Pritsak Clearly then, the UNA is an organization with both a proud history and a promising mary school students in Ukraine. future – an organization of all Ukrainians worth supporting with your membership. strongly influenced his decision. Working alongside Mr. Jacyk, I had the Responding to a common complaint voiced opportunity to observe the practical imple- by Ukrainians that the world was generally mentation of his personal and, what proved antagonistic toward the Ukrainian people, Feb. to be, very effective strategy for philan- Dr. Pritsak noted that the world simply did Turning the pages back... thropic activity to further Ukrainian studies. not know Ukraine because, as far as it was His approach was not based on any theories concerned, Ukraine was a country without he had studied; rather, he had an intuitive its own history. 22 sense of what could work, and, fittingly, the Mr. Jacyk clearly understood that as long guiding principles of his strategy were as the world studied the history of the 1998 Four years ago, when Ukraine participated in its second Winter based on his professional experience. Mr. Ukrainian people in books written by repre- Olympics in Nagano, Japan, The Ukrainian Weekly of February Jacyk was primarily a “builder,” and in his sentatives of those nations that regarded 22 carried a front-page story that highlighted the sports feats of a philanthropic activities – just as in his busi- Ukraine as a “younger brother” or as its unique group of Ukrainian athletes. ness work in the construction industry – he own rebellious colony (or their Western stu- Our sports reporter Andrij Wynnyckyj wrote: “Ukraine’s aerial wünderkinder took the strived to erect a solid “edifice” of dents), it could be expected that the world world by storm. Rarely seen on the World Cup circuit because of their country’s lack of Ukrainian studies in the West. would neither accept the national aspira- resources to cover travel expenses, competitors from Ukraine have made a mark on the eso- From his professional experience Mr. tions of Ukrainians, nor objectively judge teric sport of freestyle aerial skiing.” Jacyk clearly understood that no structure their efforts to realize them. Following are excerpts from his story. could exist without a stable, steadfast foun- As a result of extensive consultation with * * * dation. This also held true for the “intangi- historians and other specialists, Mykhailo An astonishing contingent of four whirlers qualified for the finals of the women’s com- ble edifice” of Ukrainian studies. Therefore, Hrushevsky’s monumental “History of petition and stayed in the top 10 to the last jump. it was not by chance that one of the first Ukraine-Rus’ ” was chosen as the work Tetiana Kozachenko, Alla Tsuper and Olena Yunchyk were all born in Rivne, while projects he supported was the multi-volume which would present the history of Ukraine Yuliia Kliukova hails from Ivano-Frankivsk. They’re also teenagers. Ms. Kozachenko was Entsyklopedia Ukrainoznavstva (Encyclo- to the world in an authoritative manner. The born December 18, 1981; Ms. Tsuper on April 16, 1979; Ms. Kliukova on January 10, pedia of Ukrainian Studies) initiated and Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical 1982; and Ms. Yunchyk on September 9, 1982. headed by Prof. Volodymyr Kubijovyc. Research (based at the Canadian Institute of According to various North American TV commentators, a sage in Ukraine’s Sports Mr. Jacyk was deeply impressed by Dr. Ukrainian Studies) was established in large Ministry decided to apply principles of gymnastics and diving to freestyle aerial skiing and Kubijovyc’s straightforward argumentation: measure to deal with the translation and began bringing his country’s youth into a burgeoning new program. Ms. Kozachenko, Ms. on what basis could Ukrainians regard publication of this multi-volume work as a Tsuper and Ms. Yunchyk all signed on in 1992. Ms. Kliukova joined in 1996. themselves as a modern nation worthy of result of a $1 million donation by Mr. Jacyk being reckoned with if they did not have At Hakuba on February 16, Ms. Tsuper led the pack in the elimination rounds with a to the University of Alberta which was then their own encyclopedia? An encyclopedia is head-turning mark of 178.46. In the finals the next day, winds were gusting and treacher- matched two-to-one by a grant from the certainly not just a physical compilation of ous. Ms. Kozachenko’s conservative but near-flawlessly executed back double twist earned government of Alberta. data about a people’s history and traditions. her a 167.32 point total after two jumps. When U.S. veteran Nikki Stone fought off back Mr. Jacyk founded this now widely It is also a scholarly definition of a nation, a problems with a high-difficulty jump, followed by a technically solid effort by known scholarly center with the same clear- synthesis and summation of its various Switzerland’s Colette Brand, Ms. Kozachenko was still poised to earn Ukraine’s second minded imagination he had shown earlier facets. A practical measure of its value is the medal, a bronze. It was not to be. The last competitor, China’s Xu Nannan, soared up into and with the expectation that it would not fact that it provides a base for all manner of silver position, knocking the Ukrainian off the podium. limit itself just to its initial tasks and param- subsequent scholarly research. Believing in Ms. Tsuper was right behind her compatriot in the standings, fifth with 166.12 points, eters, but grow over time and expand its Ms. Kliukova was eighth with 153.15 and Ms. Yunchyk was 10th with 139.05 – an Dr. Marko R. Stech is former managing field of activity. How much his expectations astounding domination of the field as four of the 12 qualifiers were from Ukraine. have proven justified can be demonstrated In the men’s event, Stanislav Kravchuk took Ukraine to a ninth-place finish in a strong director, Petro Jacyk Educational Foundation. Currently he is managing by simple facts: the Jacyk Center, which in and daring field led by the classy and elegant U.S. jumper Eric Bergoust, who set a world its infancy brought on board two people to points record of 255.64. director, CIUS Press; project manager, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine Project; work on a single volume of the Hrushevsky Source: “Ukrainian teens make their mark in freestyle aerials at Nagano Games” by and project manager, Hrushevsky translation, has grown in the course of 10 Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj, The Ukrainian Weekly, February 22, 1998, Vol. LXVI, No. 8. Translation Project. (Continued on page 18) No. 7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002 7 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Faces and Places may be quiet, but we are alive and well. by Myron B. Kuropas Zenon Snylyk: Jerry Zinych leader and pioneer Venice, Fla. Dear Editor: The letter-writer is commander of UAV Post 40 in Southwest, Florida It is with great sadness that I read about Zenon Snylyk’s passing. Having played EDITOR’S NOTE: We should note that UNA conventions: a beginner’s primer soccer with him during the 1960s for the not every Ukrainian organization is men- First UNA delegate: “Is John running?” ular convention. Branch representation Ukrainian Sports Club (USC) in New York, tioned each year in our review of major Second delegate: “He says he’s not.” varies from one delegate to four, depending I was always impressed with his sportsman- developments. That does not mean that Third delegate: “Doesn’t mean a thing.” on the size of the branch. ship and leadership qualities. these organizations are inactive, but is Which of them is a veteran delegate? Does one have to be a delegate to run for Although competitive and a hard worker, merely a reflection of the fact that a survey The 35th Convention of the Ukrainian national office? No. One need only be 18 he played the game thoughtfully, as a gen- of major developments cannot repeat all the National Association will be held in less years of age, be qualified for branch office tleman with consideration for his team- news that this newspaper published during than 100 days and already there are ques- and have manifested some activity on mates and the opposing players. Zenon was the year. In fact, The Ukrainian Weekly car- tions. Many questions. How does one behalf of the UNA. Signing up new mem- become a delegate? Who is running for one of the best playmakers in the German ried at least nine stories during 2001 about bers is one such manifestation. No one has national office? How does one get elected? American League. the Ukrainian American Veterans, report- ever been elected who was not a convention Can only delegates be elected to office? While he made an important intellectual ing on both national and local develop- attendee. First, a short review for the uninitiated. contribution to us as editor of Svoboda and ments. In addition, the UAV received promi- UNA national officers include the presi- The Ukrainian National Association was The Ukrainian Weekly, he was also one of nent coverage in the Year in Review issue dent, first and second vice-presidents, the for 2000, when the issue of a Congressional founded in 1894 as a fraternal benefit socie- director for Canada, national secretary, the soccer pioneers who contributed in a ty. Fraternal benefit societies are defined as significant way to soccer’s current success Charter was most recently updated. Thanks treasurer, five members of the Auditing are due to the UAV members who have con- non-profit corporations organized in a rep- Committee – one of whom must be a in the United States. resentative branch system for the sole bene- I am sure our former teammates join me tributed articles about their valuable orga- Canadian – and 14 advisors – two of whom nization’s activity to The Weekly. fit of its members. This often includes must be Canadians. in offering sympathy and condolences to insurance benefits in accordance with spe- his family. Few delegates know who’s running for cific state laws. Becoming a UNA member office prior to the convention because it is Eugene Melnitchenko requires the purchase of a UNA insurance now a UNA tradition not to announce one’s Owings, Md. Ukrainian judge policy. candidacy in advance for two major rea- The UNA is not alone. There are many sons. The first is that candidates don’t know should be shamed successful fraternal insurance societies in how much real support they have until they Dear Editor: America today, including the Knights of arrive on the convention floor. As in all Why no mention Columbus, the Polish National Alliance, the elections, incumbents have an advantage Vladyslav Petukhov, Ukraine’s judge Sons of Norway and the Lutheran because they are visible. They sit on the of UAV activities? of the pairs skating competition at the Brotherhood. convention dais and present reports of their Dear Editor: Salt Lake City Olympics, should be According to the UNA Charter, the activities. Being a paid UNA executive is hounded and publicly shamed for having UNA’s main purpose is “to promote unity As a longtime subscriber to The even more advantageous because of the on- participated on February 11 in one of the and social relations, to diffuse principles of going relationship one has with branch sec- Ukrainian Weekly, each week I look for- most flagrant and outrageous frauds in benevolence and charity among Ukrainians ward to receiving my copy and reading retaries, most of whom end up as delegates. the history of a sport that is rife with cor- and their descendants residing in the United some of the fine articles. During most conventions little-known ruption. States ... within Canada and elsewhere, to aspirants for national office achieve visibili- When I read the “Year in Review” After Canada’s Jamie Salé and David secure their moral and mental development, ty by distributing literature announcing their (January 6), I was amazed that you men- to educate and instruct them in the princi- candidacy and being involved in conven- tioned so many organizations in the Pelletier skated a flawless version of a ples of free government ... to organize and tion discussions. In the past, another way to Ukrainian American community, some of program that had never lost on presenta- maintain schools, libraries, and other educa- gain exposure was by attending delegate them of questionable value, but failed to tion marks in competition, they were tional facilities, to provide for their enter- caucuses and announcing one’s candidacy. mention anything about the activities of the given a silver medal behind a perform- tainment and amusement, to publish and Almost all interest groups had nightly cau- Ukrainian American Veterans. It seems to ance that contained a clear error by circulate among them literary and educa- cuses. At one time there was an American- me that very little, if anything, is ever men- Anton Sikharulidze. Mr. Petukhov gave tional publications and newspapers in the born caucus, an Orthodox caucus, a tioned about UAV in The Weekly. the pair from Canada and Russia equal English, Ukrainian and other languages, to Banderite caucus, a Melnykite caucus, a As this time we are in the process of marks for technical execution. provide and maintain an old-age home for Plast caucus and various state caucuses. obtaining a Congressional Charter. Copies It is a bottomless disgrace that the day its members ... and to provide recreational, Since Pennsylvania had the most delegates, of The Ukrainian Weekly are sent to mem- which began with the Cinderella squad sport, cultural and vacation facilities for its attending its caucus was a must for a candi- bers of the U.S. Congress. Not including from Ukraine bringing their country such members ...” date. Today UNA conventions require night Ukrainian American Veterans’activities and glory in their shocking 5-2 upset of Fraternal benefits such as Soyuzivka, sessions – a development that has all but contributions sends a negative message to Switzerland in hockey should end with The Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda are eliminated time for caucuses. those in power. the ignominy of Mr. Petukhov’s kowtow- subsidized by the UNA from surplus funds A second reason for candidate reticence We, veterans, do not like to brag about ing, in the manner of the despicable garnered from insurance premiums, loans to announce early is the fear that in doing so ourselves, but we, as representatives of “khakhol,” to the Russian imperial skat- and investments. one allows one’s opposition to mobilize. our Ukrainian American community, have ing machine. Thanks to a growing membership during Some people have even gone as far as to served our country with honor and dis- a 75-year period, the UNA had been able to If that were not enough, get ready for deny their candidacy until the last minute. tinction. After all, we are the men and realize many of its professed objectives. As more. Yurii Balkov, the judge from Once all the candidates have announced, women who protected the United States membership rolls dropped, however, sur- Ukraine who was suspended in 1998 for various interest groups distribute “pre- of America, as well as Ukrainian plus funds declined and certain fraternal presenting a pre-set list to a colleague ferred” lists of candidates on the convention Americans. benefits had to be scrapped, including the prior to a competition, will be back in the floor. The best lists offer a balanced ticket. I hope that in the future The Ukrainian Svoboda Index, the Washington Office of chair for the ice dance competition. Next come the primaries. Since almost a Weekly is more objective in evaluating the UNA, the children’s magazine Veselka, fourth of the delegates run for some office, Ukrainian American organizations and Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj insurance dividends and cultural courses at the primaries elminate those with little sup- their contributions to our country. We Toronto Soyuzivka. The UNA was also forced to sell its 15-story headquarters building in port. Delegates write their preferences on a Jersey City, N.J. sheet distributed by the election committee. Between 1894 and 1898, UNA conven- The top three vote-getters who agree to run To The Weekly Contributors: tions were called annually. From 1900 in the final election for each office are on We greatly appreciate the materials – feature articles, news stories, press clippings, let- through 1914 delegates met every two the final ballot. Votes are then tabulated by ters to the editor, etc. – we receive from our readers. 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Delegates responsibilities. ® Unsolicited materials submitted for publication will be returned only when so request- and alternates are elected at a branch meet- ed and accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. ing no later than 60 days after the UNA Myron Kuropas’ e-mail address is: Executive Committee issues a call for a reg- [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002 No. 7 No. 7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002 9 United Nations report calls for new approach to Chornobyl’s aftermath UNITED NATIONS – The United Among many other measures, the report emphasis must be put on the local agricul- The report states that this group of up to Nations on February 6 called for an entirely proposes the following. tural economy. 200,000 people, spread across all three new approach to helping millions of people • A concentration of resources on main- • Improvement of environmental policy countries, is “at the core of the cluster of impacted by the Chornobyl nuclear acci- stream services that have the greatest effect planning, implementation and management problems created by Chornobyl,” and focus- dent, saying that 16 years after the incident on life expectancy and general well-being, at the local, national and transnational levels ing on their needs and helping them take those affected remain in a state of “chronic including primary health care, health educa- to build on lessons learned and develop control of their futures must be a priority. dependency,” with few opportunities and lit- tion, clean water and economic develop- innovative approaches to land use as the The second group identified for priority tle control over their destinies. ment. radiation threat diminishes over time; ongo- action includes those whose lives have The U.N. warned that populations in • Expanded health reform in the three ing and focused research on the impact of been directly and significantly affected, but Belarus, the Russian Federation and countries, ensuring that services are deliv- radioactive contamination on the environ- who are already in a position to support Ukraine would continue to experience gen- ered on the basis of medical need and that ment, including in the water, with special themselves. This group has found employ- eral decline unless significant new measures poor rural communities get improved care; attention on the impact on hunters, forestry ment, but still must be reintegrated into are adopted to address health, the environ- reformed medical services should also workers and others who rely on the land for society as a whole so that their ongoing ment and joblessness. address the effects of social and environ- their incomes. needs are addressed through the main- These conclusions are contained in a mental factors on health, including poverty, • The United Nations report – titled “The stream provision of services using criteria comprehensive study of the countries and poor diet, alcoholism, tobacco abuse and Human Consequences of the Chornobyl applicable to other members of society. populations affected by the Chornobyl dis- poor living conditions. Nuclear Accident: A Strategy for Recovery” This group includes hundreds of thousands aster, released on February 6 by the United • Special attention to the lifetime needs – recognizes the lead role that has been of individuals. Nations at a press conference in New York. of people who were infants or children at played by the respective governments The report also identifies a third group, The study, which was carried out by an the time of the accident, lived in the areas involved, and notes the enormous invest- encompassing millions of people, who have international panel of experts in July affected by the fallout of radioactive iodine ment of resources that they have made into been indirectly impacted by the stigma, through August 2001, was commissioned and may have contracted or be at risk of the humanitarian relief effort over the last uncertainty and fatalism that have become by the United Nations Development thyroid cancer, which has emerged as a pri- 15 years; it also calls on international associated with Chornobyl. This group, too, Program (UNDP) and the United Nations mary threat. donors and governments to continue to play needs to be aided through clearer informa- Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and was sup- • Attention to research showing that the an active supporting role, and sets forward a tion and more open and continuous disclo- ported by the World Health Organization psycho-social welfare of people who stayed series of proposals for moving forward. sures about the evolving situation in the (WHO) and the U.N. Office for the in their homes is better than that of those region, the report argues. The report notes A “downward spiral” Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs who were relocated, along with new studies that some 7 million people are in some way (OCHA). examining how far the present regime of The United Nations report sheds light on or another recipients of state welfare con- At the center of the report’s findings lies residency restrictions could responsibly be what it calls a “complex and progressive nected with Chornobyl. the conclusion that a fundamental shift is relaxed to enable a growing number of peo- downward spiral of living conditions” The three affected countries and the needed in the way assistance is delivered ple wishing to return to make informed affecting hundreds of thousands of people. international community need to join forces to the people still suffering from decisions about the risk. The study emphasizes the need for the in moving toward a new phase of recovery Chornobyl, emphasizing long-term com- • A long-term, independent, properly recovery phase to focus attention on two and sustainable development, the United munity redevelopment and empowerment. funded and internationally recognized pro- broad groups. Nations report concludes. The aim should The “Emergency Phase” of the response – gram of research on the lasting environmen- The first group includes some 100,000 to be to “work toward normalizing the situa- emphasizing containment, relocation and tal and health effects of Chornobyl. 200,000 people caught in the downward tion of the individuals and communities direct welfare – is now over, argues the • Intensive economic measures aimed at spiral. These are people who live in severely concerned,” using a holistic, community report, and a new 10-year “Recovery expanding self-sufficiency among those contaminated areas; people who have been development approach. Phase” must gradually replace it. The most affected, along with ongoing but resettled but remain unemployed; and those According to the report, such a transition report calls for a series of national work- more focused direct support until such suf- whose health remains most directly threat- is both long overdue and absolutely essen- shops in the three countries affected to gain ficiency is achieved; national policies that ened, including victims of thyroid cancer. tial. “Within the available budgets, it is real- consensus around new approaches that bring about an investment-friendly busi- Some 2,000 people have been diagnosed ly the only alternative to the progressive emphasize basic health services, economic ness environment, including village-level with thyroid cancer, and the report states breakdown of the recovery effort, continu- development, creative ecological measures enterprise zones, and business develop- that as many as 8,000 to 10,000 additional ing hemorrhaging of scarce resources and and focused international research on a ment incentives in towns and cities adja- cases are expected to develop over the com- continuing distress for the people at the cen- series of unresolved health questions. cent to the most affected areas; special ing years. ter of the problem,” the U.N. report states.

veterinary services that the certificate is industry is one of them. Melnychenko] stated on a Radio Liberty upheld. program yesterday [February 7] that the Ambassador Pascual... Another rumor floating – and these (Continued from page 3) We are willing to sit down with the Melnychenko tapes are authentic. Ukrainians and negotiate that and review are Ukrainian allegations regarding a Similarly with software, we have What’s the response of the U.S. govern- what is reasonable, as long as it has a sci- supposedly underhanded reason for the ment, and could this determination talked with many, many potential U.S. imposition of economic sanctions on investors, including American investors entific basis. The Ukrainians have now change the relationship between the U.S. indicated that they are willing to do that. Ukraine – is that they were conjured up and Ukraine or its leadership? who would like to do programming in to relieve the pressure the U.S. is feeling Ukraine. But they are not going to do it if It is important that we get our vets to talk from its steel industry to limit the import First of all, I don’t have a basis for deter- they feel like they are going to pay some- to one another, but this kind of case-by- of foreign steel, including Ukrainian, into mining whether the tapes were accurate or body under a contract, get a particular case review of every single American the country. Please comment? not, nor does the U.S. government. The FBI product and then – bam – it’s on the poultry manufacturer as a basis for export is simply inconsistent with inter- and the Department of Justice have not been streets and somebody is copying the It is actually not true. If you look at product. national practice, and that we cannot and involved in the analysis of the tapes, nor will not do. the sanctions that were imposed – the have they hired anybody to be involved in What about the poultry sanctions additional tariffs that were imposed on the analysis of the tapes. imposed on the U.S. by Ukraine? Does I have heard that the real reason for $75 million of exports to the United Apparently this expert must have been the U.S. consider them to be a direct the Ukrainian decision to impose poultry States – if you look at the list there are no hired independently, because we certainly response to its own sanctions imposed as sanctions on the U.S. and the way it is steel products, or if there are, there are did not do that. We, therefore, also do not a result of CD piracy in Ukraine? being presented is to clear out the market virtually no steel products on that list. have access to the information. There have and make room for their own developing Initially there was a list that was pub- also been other analyses that have indicat- We don’t think they are linked. We domestic poultry producers. Has the U.S. lished of possible products that would be ed that it is difficult to determine the have been discussing poultry issues with government heard similar rumors? sanctioned, and it did include steel, but authenticity of these recordings, because Ukraine for several months. These were the actual list that was implemented, the I have heard those rumors but have not they are not really tapes – they are digital part of the dialogue at our bilateral eco- $75 million list, does not include steel. recordings, and they are subject to manipu- nomic meeting, which took place at the seen them substantiated in any significant To be fair, there are other steel issues lation. It is virtually impossible to detect end of November. way. One of the reasons why I have a hard between the United States and Ukraine, those manipulations. The emphasis that we have placed so time fully accepting it is because I don’t and I do not want to make light of the I think that for us to get into the ques- far is to try to find a resolution that is think there is an oversupply on the fact that steel trade between the United tion of whether the tapes are authentic or consistent with WTO procedures and Ukrainian market. As far as I know there is States and Ukraine is a problem. There not is not particularly helpful or useful. practices. The problem that arose is that one manufacturer in Ukraine that is capa- are issues here, and Ukraine has been one What is important for us to continue to do the Ukrainian veterinary service wanted ble of producing frozen poultry and getting of the countries that have been involved is to stick to the very core basic values that to inspect every single American poultry it out on a wide part of the Ukrainian mar- in a broader American consideration of producer that would export to Ukraine ket, and they certainly can’t even come the international steel market and how it the United States believes in. Gongadze’s and certify those poultry producers. close to satisfying the needs, probably, affects American producers. But that’s death and the tape scandal around it have That is a level of arbitrariness that we throughout Ukraine. not a Ukraine-specific issue, it relates to highlighted two sets of issues: freedom of simply do not allow and is not consistent In fact we have provided some support many, many steel producers throughout speech and rule of law, and whether or not with WTO procedures and practices. and technical advice to that particular pro- the world. those basic principles are honored and What is normal practice is for countries ducer, because there is absolutely no threat respected in Ukraine. to negotiate between themselves a veteri- of competition in the American industry, Finally, Ukraine’s National Deputy The most fundamental way to reinforce nary certificate that specifies exactly given that there is such an unmet need in the Oleksander Zhyr [head of the ad hoc those basic principles of free speech and what vital sanitary processes are Ukrainian market. parliamentary commission investigating rule of law is to have a credible, thorough, employed in the production of a particu- We can all speculate as to what other fac- the death of journalist Heorhii transparent investigation into the Gongadze lar product, in this case poultry. And then tors may be behind this, but I don’t honestly Gongadze and the associated scandal on case. That’s where we should be focusing we guarantee and certify it through our believe that competition with the domestic digital recordings made by Mykola our attention. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002 No. 7 Australian football legend Jesaulenko Connecticut Ukrainian honored heads mission to aid Chornobyl’s victims with Martin Luther King Jr. award ANSONIA, Conn. – Long-time com- Michael J. Adanti, the president of ESSENDON, Australia – Australian “I am honored that Ukraine has munity leader Orest T. Dubno of New Southern Connecticut State University. Football League legends Alex Jesaulenko accepted me into this museum,” Mr. Haven was honored on January 12 as a Mr. Dubno is well-known for his com- and Ron Barrassi flew out to Ukraine’s Jesaulenko said. “My father would be recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. munity involvement, including service capital, Kyiv, on February 2 as a team to proud – and I am too – that I am still 2002 Brotherhood Award in recognition on the board of directors of the hand over $250,000 worth of aid to chil- regarded as a Ukrainian over there. I look of his “outstanding, distinguished and University of New Haven and the dren suffering from the effects of the forward to visit the land of my father and unselfish efforts to promote tolerance and Advocacy Council at Yale New Haven Chornobyl disaster. to retrace his steps.” understanding among all racial, ethnic Hospital. After completing a tour of duty The aid campaign spearheaded by the An Australia Day celebration was to and cultural groups.” with the U.S. Marine Corps in 1962, he Sunday Herald Sun brought out the best in be held, promoting business, sports and The award was presented during cere- received his B.S. and M.S. in public Australians; 12 tons of medical supplies Australian Ukrainian relations. The event monies marking the birthday of the Rev. administration in 1975 and completed and equipment together with children’s was expected to be attended by the lead- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Ansonia graduate studies in consumer banking at clothing and other items, were to be offi- ership of the Ukrainian Parliament, high- High School in southern Connecticut. the University of Virginia and the cially handed over in Kyiv. Lauda Air has level government officials, sports figures Mr. Dubno was praised as “an unsung University of Chicago. flown the aid free of charge. and business leaders. hero” and “spiritual giant” who exempli- He served as Connecticut’s commis- Joining Messrs. Jesaulenko and “This is a great opportunity to increase fies the principles of peace and tolerance sioner of revenue in 1975-1985 under Barrassi on the trip is Derek Ballantine, Australian awareness internationally,” espoused by the late civil rights leader. Gov. William O’Neill, and is currently assistant editor of Sunday Herald Sun, said Mr. Jesaulenko. Tony Healey of Lauda and Stefan He was cited for his work as the for- the chief financial officer with the Lex “We have an opportunity to show Romaniw, chairman of Australian mer president of the Connecticut Housing Atlantic Corp., based at the Gateway Australians are compassionate. This is an Federation of Ukrainian Organizations. Finance Authority and for his long years Terminal, New Haven Harbor. opportunity to improve Australia’s inter- During his stay in Ukraine Mr. of dedicated public service in the state of Mr. Dubno is also heavily involved in national image in the area of humanitari- Connecticut. Mayor James T. Della Volpe Jesaulenko will also be inducted into the the Ukrainian community, and was cho- Ukrainian Museum of Sports in recogni- an aid,” he added. of Ansonia issued a proclamation honor- sen Ukrainian American of the Year by a “This trip will build stronger ing Mr. Dubno and calling on all citizens tion of his achievements as an AFL play- coalition of Ukrainian organizations in er. Australian Ukrainian relations. It will to “rededicate themselves to the princi- Connecticut. He was instrumental in con- show the world that we as a nation do ples of justice and equality for all.” Mr. Jesaulenko, who traces his roots vincing the state of Connecticut to rename to the Luhansk region of Ukraine, will know how to respond to those in need,” Presented every two years, the a portion of Route 9 in New Britain as the commented Mr. Romaniw. Brotherhood Award was established by be the first Australian sportsman of Taras Shevchenko Memorial Highway. Ukrainian background to be afforded the Ukraine is also keen to develop rela- the late Rev. Loma St. Clair of Ansonia. Mr. Dubno is a member of St. honor. The idea of the museum was tions with Australia, and the recently Past recipients have included Gov. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in raised during the 2000 Sydney opened Ukraine-Australia House will be Lowell P. Weicker, U.S. Sen. Christopher New Haven. From 1993 to 1999 he Olympics with the National Olympic a focal point for humanitarian, business Dodd, U.S. Rep. James Maloney and served as the chairman of the board of Committee of Ukraine. The offer was and migration discussion, as well as directors of the Children of Chornobyl made to Mr. Jesaulenko by the information. Relief Fund. Most recently, Mr. Dubno Australian Federation of Ukrainian “We are selling Australia as a destina- helped CCRF secure three ambulances Organizations as part of the celebrations tion for tourism and investment, and as a Correction from American Medical Response and a of the 10th anniversary of Ukraine’s land of opportunity,” Mr. Romaniw A typesetting error resulted in an donation of fuel for the Great Lakes independence in 2001. explained. incorrect date for one of the Olympics expedition of the Ukrainian schooner for which the late Zenon Snylyk was on Batkivschyna. the U.S. Olympic Soccer Team. Mr. Mr. Dubno lives in New Haven with Need a back issue? If you’d like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: Snylyk was on the team for the 1956, his wife, Irene, and children, Gregory Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. 1960 and 1964 (not 1966) Games. and Bohdana.

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ations or edits to the audio data in the U.S. expert... five designated areas” on the two files. (Continued from page 1) “Based on the flow of the speech in Gongadze. The three, in Radio Liberty’s the five designated portions, no phrase- Washington Studio, answered questions ology or sentence structure was pieced posed by Ukrainian journalists in Kyiv. together by using individual phonemes, During the broadcast Mr. words or short phrases,” the report said. Mr. Zhyr noted that Mr. Koenig said he Melnychenko again denied reports that would be willing to testify about the tapes he had made his tape recordings avail- at “any court proceeding, any organiza- able to the FBI, and Ms. Gongadze indi- tion up to and including a United Nations cated that she is looking into the possibil- tribunal.” He added, however, that “with ity of filing a civil suit in U.S. courts in Mykhailo Potebenko as the procurator the matter of her husband’s murder. general, we will never be able to conduct Of the hundreds of hours of recordings a full and objective investigation of these secretly made by Mr. Melnychenko, the criminal cases” in Ukraine. Mr. Verkhovna Rada commission gave Mr. Potebenko, he pointed out, is a participant Koenig only portions dealing with the in some of the taped conversations. Gongadze case. Mr. Zhyr explained that, The Ukrainian lawmaker hinted that if dealing as they do with murder, they are the government of Ukraine does not pur- the most important in the collection. He sue this matter in Ukrainian courts, the Yaro Bihun added, however, that the commission commission may well pursue it in ultimately would like to have the others European or other international tribunals, Myroslava Gongadze discusses the tape scandal with Mykola Melnychenko follow- analyzed as well. as was done recently with other promi- ing a news conference in Washington last August. Mr. Zhyr did not release Mr. Koenig’s nent human rights violators – Augusto complete report, noting that the commis- Pinochet of Chile and Slobodan commission will decide which of the “My suit would focus on the denial of sion would release it after his return to Milosevic of Yugoslavia. tapes will be made public and when. human rights with respect to the killing Kyiv. He read only one of its conclu- Mr. Melnychenko repeatedly stressed Mentioning the possibility of a civil suit of my husband as well as the denial of sions, which stated that the “recordings that he gave the tapes – which he made in the United States, Ms. Gongadze said human rights to the aggrieved party as a are consistent with being cloned record- on a Toshiba recorder – only to the par- that, fortunately, international law provides result of the incompetent investigation of ings, and there are no indications of alter- liamentary commission and that only the for many ways to protect human rights. this crime,” she said.

President Kuchma has pledged that this year’s parlia- “The observers of the Committee of Ukrainian Voters Kuchma suspends... mentary elections would be transparent and untainted. were troubled by the fact that the leadership of the com- (Continued from page 1) He and his prime minister have also said that they missions consists disproportionately of representatives electoral bloc, were heard discussing a parliamentary would not allow government administrative resources to of parties that are part of the For a United Ukraine bloc, vote to remove their common political opponent, Social be used illegally to give any political party or bloc an which can be considered a violation of the notion of the Democratic Party (United) Chairman Viktor undue advantage in the elections. evenhandedness of the electoral process,” stated the Medvedchuk, from his post as first vice-chairman of the Nonetheless, leading candidates have already com- CUV in its January report. Verkhovna Rada. plained that government officials are impeding their The CUV also specifically cited the For United campaign plans. President Kuchma has insisted that all regional and Ukraine electoral bloc for improper use of municipal Mr. Yuschenko told journalists after returning from a central government officials take vacations during the government posts held by its supporters. campaign swing through the central oblasts of Ukraine course of the campaign season. About half of the on February 12 that he had trouble securing sites for Cabinet of Ministers, including Prime Minister Anatolii appearances, which were earlier agreed to, and that his Kinakh and Presidential Administration Chief of Staff electoral bloc’s television ads were frequently not Volodymyr Lytvyn, are running for Parliament. In mid- appearing as ordered. Yuschenko bloc gains January President Kuchma went so far as to suggest that KYIV – A survey released by the Ukrainian Sociological National Deputy Mykhailo Brodskyi, chairman of the he retains the right to dismiss the Cabinet and the prime Service, a private firm that is partially owned by the govern- Yabluko Party, said that his party had similar problems minister if he believes the government has become par- in Kharkiv during a campaign stop there, while National ment, showed Viktor Yuschenko’s Our Ukraine Bloc to be alyzed by the electoral process. Deputy Natalia Vitrenko, head of the Progressive gathering steam with two months to voting day. The poll, Mr. Omelchenko, who is a popularly elected mayor, Socialist Party, said she could not get television airtime taken between January 22 and January 31, gave Our but serves in the post of state administration head for in Dnipropetrovsk. Ukraine 20.6 percent voter support. The Communist Party the city of Kyiv at the pleasure of the president, had In its monthly summary, the Committee of Ukrainian was several points back at 15.8 percent. resisted giving up the administration position temporari- Voters, a civic organization whose mandate is to moni- Most significantly, the Our Ukraine Bloc had gained six ly, but then agreed to do so if the president replaced him tor how the elections are being held, said that campaign points since November, while the Communist Party had with a person of his own choice. When the president violations and improprieties continued in January. It lost nearly five points. refused, Mr. Omelchenko withdrew his leave of noted six major types of violations, consisting of: gov- Following them was the surprisingly strong Women for absence. President Kuchma replied by removing him ernmental pressure on the mass media; extension of the Future of Ukraine electoral organization at 8.1 percent from the post until after the elections via executive cost-free goods and services by political organizations and Mr. Lytvyn’s For a United Ukraine Bloc at 7 percent. order, delivered personally to the mayor by Prime and candidates to influence political viewpoints; disin- Also getting past the 4 percent barrier needed to lay Minister Kinakh. formation campaigns that smeared competing candi- claim to parliamentary seats were the Green Party of President Kuchma, who was in western Siberia visit- dates, commonly known here as “black PR”; pressure Ukraine with 6.8 percent and the Social Democratic Party ing the Ukrainian community in that Russian region on individual voters to support specific candidates; and (United) with 4.4 percent voter support. when the decree was issued, said that although he is violations of procedures in developing electoral com- The Ukrainian Sociological Service poll, which sur- ready to discuss the situation with Mr. Omelchenko, he missions. veyed 2,800 respondents and has a 2 percent margin of is not about to withdraw the order. The CUV particularly criticized the way in which error, predicted that the Socialist Party, the Yabluko Party, “I issued an executive order that must be carried out. district electoral commissions were formed, which it the Vitrenko Bloc, the Yednist Bloc, the Tymoshenko Bloc It cannot be any other way,” said the president, accord- called “chaotic,” and the fact that the For a United and the Democratic Party/DemUnion Bloc – all of which ing to Ukrainian Television News. Ukraine bloc had taken 23.7 percent of the leadership currently have representatives in the Verkhovna Rada – While strictly insisting that Mr. Omelchenko step posts of district electoral commissions. could fail to take any seats in the March 31 elections. aside, the president has been far more accommodating with regard to Mr. Lytvyn, his chief of staff, and Mr. Kinakh, the head of his government. The president has had little in the way of comment THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY PRESS FUND: about the status of his own chief of staff, but on January 11 he told journalists that he had granted Prime Minister Kinakh permission to continue to perform his duties. He A SPECIAL REPORT explained that he warned the prime minister to limit his $35.00 $5.00 activities and avoid using government resources or his Paul Dzul Grosse Pointe, Mich. Charles Bush Woodridge, N.J. own post to give him or his political bloc an electoral Stefan Maksymczuk Jersey City, N.J. advantage. Mr. Kinakh is on the slate of the For a $25.00 United Ukraine Bloc, which is considered the pro-presi- George Chomyn Weston, Ontario Total: $160.00 dential electoral organization. The chairman of that bloc Myron Sochaniwsky Mississauga, Ontario is Mr. Lytvyn. $20.00 ... 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two men regarding Mr. Lazarenko: in On October 21, 1996, President Kuchma The case... December 1994 and April 1995 Mr. appointed Mr. Lazarenko the country’s Procurator General’s Office... (Continued from page 2) Omelchenko had given the president docu- prime minister. Less than one month later, (Continued from page 1) Standing in front of the Parliament building mentary evidence of Mr. Lazarenko’s crimi- in a televised ceremony on November 14, for the hit on Mr. Scherban and $850,000 and assembled guests, he swore on the nal activities and asked Mr. Kuchma to President Kuchma awarded Prime Minister for Mr. Hetman’s murder. Bible (the New Constitution of Ukraine request that the Security Service of Ukraine Lazarenko the Order of Yaroslav the Wise, The investigation had concluded that Mr. had not yet been adopted) to uphold the (known by its Ukrainian-language one of Ukraine’s highest honors. Lazarenko had paid to have Mr. Scherban law of the land. Nine days later, in one of acronym, SBU) investigate the charges. In December 1996 Mr. Omelchenko killed to get access to business opportuni- his first official acts, he signed a presiden- According to Mr. Omelchenko’s version went to the procurator general at the time, ties in the Donetsk region the national tial decree aimed at combating corruption of events, published in his 1999 book Hryhorii Vorsinov, with a stack of docu- deputy either controlled or influenced. ments hinting at Mr. Lazarenko’s possible in Ukraine. “Corrosion of Power,” during the Many here believe that Mr. Scherban had illegal activities. Upon seeing the docu- In September 1995 President Kuchma September 1995 meeting President ordered the failed assassination attempt ments, Mr. Vorsinov refused to accept announced that he would appoint Mr. Kuchma told Mr. Omelchenko that against Mr. Lazarenko earlier in 1996. them. In the ensuing conversation he men- Lazarenko as first vice prime minister of Volodymyr Radchenko, the head of the Mr. Hetman was murdered “to clear tioned that Pavlo Ivanovych “had many Ukraine. At the time, the head of the parlia- SBU at the time (and the current head of obstacles to resolving issues in the financial friends in very high places from mentary commission on combating corrup- the service following Mr. Kuchma’s dis- sector of Ukraine,” explained Mr. Obikhod, Dnipropetrovsk.” Mr. Omelchenko argued tion, Mr. Omelchenko, met with President missal of Leonid Derkach, who headed the referring to Mr. Hetman’s work as chair- that it was Mr. Vorsinov’s duty to investi- Kuchma to protest the Lazarenko appoint- service during the “tape scandal”) had con- man of the Ukrainian Interbank Currency gate this matter, but the latter steadfastly ment. ducted the investigation and had found Exchange and his huge influence in refused, according to Mr. Omelchenko’s It was not the first meeting between these “everything to be in order with Lazarenko.” Ukraine’s banking sector. book. The investigation has implicated Mr. Having few options left, Mr. Kushnir’s organization in a total of 26 mur- Omelchenko went to see the president at ders for hire. Eight individuals are currently The Ukrainian Engineers’ Society of America noon on January 3, 1997. He handed him a under arrest and awaiting trial, while sever- (UESA) - New Jersey Branch packet of almost 300 pages of documents, al others are dead or remain at large. Mr. outlining in detail the prime minister’s Obikhod said that 15 members of the allegedly corrupt activities. He asked that Kushnir gang planned or took part in the these documents not be made public, for slaying of Mr. Scherban, who was gunned they were sensitive and their misuse could down along with his wife by men in police invites its members jeopardize the case against Mr. Lazarenko. uniforms as he disembarked from a plane at and the community to a Mr. Kuchma appeared amazed and angry. Donetsk Airport. A son who hid under the He ordered Mr. Vorsinov, the procurator limousine that was awaiting them on the general, and Mr. Radchenko, the head of tarmac survived. the SBU, to conduct an “objective investi- Mr. Hetman was fatally shot as he Branch Meeting and Presentation. gation.” entered his apartment building in Kyiv in a That same day, according to Mr. murder planned by seven members of the Omelchenko, this entire packet of docu- gang. ments found its way onto Mr. Lazarenko’s On February 5 officials turned over the Saturday, February 23, 2002 desk. materials of the completed investigation to Hanover Ramada Inn On April 16, 1997, Mr. Omelchenko the Kyiv District Appellate Court, which received a phone call from an investigator will consider all 26 murder charges. Rt. 10 West, East Hanover, NJ from the Procurator General’s Office who Because Mr. Lazarenko will not stand trial said he needed to see him about the ongo- in Ukraine until his return from the United ing investigation. Mr. Omelchenko told him States is arranged, the materials regarding 1:00 p.m.: Meeting for UESA - NJ members that he was leaving for Germany three days Mr. Lazarenko will be separated out. 3:00 p.m.: Presentation (open to the public) later and did not have time. That same Mr. Obikhod said the Kushnir criminal evening the investigator called again and organization, which consisted of some 25 said that it was an urgent matter. They met people and was most active in the Donetsk Featured Speakers: and, from Mr. Omelchenko’s description of and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, had an the meeting, the only topic that was of arsenal of firepower at its disposal that Oksana Maziar, President, Friends of Lviv University, Inc. importance to the investigator was where included high-powered rifles, automatic Mr. Omelchenko had obtained his informa- weapons, high-caliber machine guns, “Assisting the Lviv Minor academy of Sciences” tion about Mr. Lazarenko’s accounts and grenades and various types of explosives, activities abroad. much of it from Chechnya, the Czech Dorian Yurchuk, Walter Melvin Architects Mr. Omelchenko left for Germany on Republic and Slovakia. He said that law “Kyiv and Beyond” (an architectural review) April 17, two days earlier than he had told enforcement officials also found Ukrainian the investigator. On April 19 Procurator state militia uniforms, bulletproof vests, powerful scopes and night vision during Refreshments will be served. General Vorsinov announced that he had begun a criminal investigation – of Mr. their investigation of the Kushnir gang. Omelchenko. Mr. Obikhod said that two other promi- For more information What transpired between Mr. nent Ukrainian businessmen/oligarchs – contact Andrij Wowk at (908) 725-9733, Lazarenko’s appointment as prime minister National Deputy Oleksander Volkov, one e-mail [email protected] and the start of a criminal investigation of President Leonid Kuchma’s closest con- against Mr. Omelchenko can be found in fidantes, and Ihor Bakai, ex-chairman of or visit the UESA Website at www.uesa.org the United States Superseding Indictment the Naftohaz Ukrainy – had been targeted of Mr. Lazarenko. for assassination before the group’s activi- ties were curtailed by the death of its leader and the beginning of the criminal investi- gation. Mr. Lazarenko, who formed and headed the Batkivschyna Party and became a prime critic of President Kuchma after the head of state sacked him as prime minister, has been the subject of a string of criminal charges in the last three years. He was arrested in December 1998 at the French- Swiss border while trying to enter Switzerland with an illegal Panamanian passport. He was subsequently convicted in absentia by a Swiss court on money laun- dering charges and given a suspended sen- tence. Mr. Lazarenko, once considered the rich- est man in Ukraine, has been in a detention facility outside the city of San Francisco since February 24, 1999, after being detained when he attempted to enter the country with an illegal passport, after which he requested political asylum. That request was rejected by U.S. authorities, who then arrested the Ukrainian politician while they investigated money laundering allegations. Those charges were eventually formally handed down and he now awaits trial. No. 7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002 13

Vadym Shakhraichuk and Oletskyi In Olympic debut... padded Ukraine’s lead to the final score (Continued from page 1) of 5-2. Shots on goal in the game were Coach Bohdanov commented after the almost even, with 26 for Ukraine and 29 game: “The Belarusian side smothered us for Switzerland. in the first period and did not allow us to Ukraine vs. France use our speed,” and “there were several times where we were short-handed and Continuing its physical play, Ukraine this hurt us.” jumped out to a 2-0 lead over France on The teams’ most recognizable NHL February 13 in front of a 6,019-strong players weren’t with their respective crowd, capitalizing on power-play oppor- sides for that first match. Anaheim tunities, and held on for a 4-2 win. Mighty Ducks defenseman Ruslan Salei The game started somewhat tentative- didn’t join Belarus until February 11, ly, with only one shot taken in the first while the Washington Capitals’ Dmitri five minutes, and the opening goal came Khristich missed Ukraine’s first two at the 12:00 minute mark by Ukraine’s matches and played only on February 13 Ihor Chybirev, with assists posted by against France. Ruslan Fedotenko of the Roman Salnikov and Valerii Shyriayev Philadelphia Flyers and Sergei Varlamov during a power play. of the St. Louis Blues played in Salnikov added his second assist on a Ukraine’s match against Switzerland. power-play goal by Washington Capital Khristich at 18:36 of the first. Khristich Ukraine vs. Switzerland said before the game that, even though Team Ukraine scored a 5-2 upset of Ukraine was already out of the medals Switzerland on February 11 in front of race, he had decided to play that night 8,387 spectators, with Valentyn Oletskyi because he’s never played in the scoring two of Ukraine’s goals. Olympics and was proud to represent his Andrew Nynka Looking completely changed from the country. undisciplined team that had been shut out Team France turned up the heat at the Ukraine’s Alex Ponikarovsky on the offensive during the February 11 game by Belarus in its first game, Ukraine start of the second period, during which against Switzerland. relentlessly hit and attacked in a victory it outshot Ukraine 12-6 in the first 10 that also eliminated the Swiss, the pre- minutes and scored both of its even- tournament favorites in Group B. strength goals. In perhaps the most physical game of Four-time Olympian Philippe Bozon the tournament, Ukraine and scored an unassisted goal at 2:42 of the Switzerland played tight-checking, bad- second period. Ukraine answered almost tempered hockey, with several minor immediately, however, as Shakhraichuk skirmishes and even a first-period fight found the net at 3:39 with Andrii Sriubko with punches thrown – a rarity in inter- and Bohdan Savenko adding the assists. national play. However, Ukraine managed to keep Ukraine got a boost with the addition of pace, scoring its third power-play goal of two NHL players – St. Louis’ Varlamov the night at 4:38 of the second period, and Philadelphia’s Fedotenko, who played when a shot from Salnikov was deflected through a sprained knee he suffered into the net by Ponikarovsky, with the Saturday night but nonetheless managed other assist credited to Shyriayev. to score Ukraine’s second goal of the A veteran of five professional leagues game at the 14:20 mark of the first period. including the NHL, Bozon scored his Varlamov, speaking at a press confer- second goal as he beat two defenders to ence following the game, said: “The team gain a breakaway and shot at 5:59 of the talked about the physical aspect of the second to keep France seemingly within Belarusian game. We knew we needed to reach of victory as it trailed Ukraine 4-2. hit more. I mentioned it to the guys on That turned out to be the end of the my line, and we knew that if we’d come game, however, as France outshot Ukraine out strong and physical that they’d start 10-5 in the third period but was unable to missing checks.” get anything more past the superb play of Switzerland had been thought most goaltender Simchuk, who tallied 29 saves likely to advance from the weaker of the for the game. Shots on goal were 32 for two groups because of its commitment to Ukraine and 31 for France. team play, but the Swiss, who had tied France had a huge advantage with a France 3-3 in their first game, simply total of 12 power play minutes, compared couldn’t match Ukraine’s physical play. to Ukraine’s 5:57, but was unable to Oletskyi got the lead for Ukraine just make them pay off. Ukraine, however, 2:08 into the game on a short-handed capitalized on its chances, scoring three goal when he put his own rebound past power-play goals, with Salnikov provid- Colorado Avalanche back-up goalie ing the assists on all of them. David Aebischer, who posted his second straight dismal game. A final game Varlamov and Fedotenko skated Ukraine was to determine its final stand- together with Toronto minor leaguer Alex Team Ukraine players celebrate a goal just scored against Switzerland. Ponikarovsky, a six-foot-one-inch, 196- ing in its first Olympic hockey competition pound heavyweight, on an active line. It by meeting Latvia at 8 p.m. on February 14 was Ponikarovsky’s pass to Fedotenko to decide the ninth and 10th places. late in the first period that set up the 23- Group B’s Belarus and Group A’s year-old Ukrainian-turned Philadelphian Germany will join Canada, the United for Team Ukraine’s second goal. States, the Czech Republic, Russia, Sandy Jeannin, scored Switzerland’s Finland and Sweden in the final round, first goal at even strength 16:02 into the which was to begin February 15. first period. He later commented that Commenting on his team’s failure to “Ukraine played very physically and put make it to the next round of Olympic us under pressure – this gave us prob- hockey competition, Khristich said: lems.” “Obviously, everyone on the team is Swiss goaltender Aebischer was pulled disappointed about the situation and that early in the second period after he lost the guys from the NHL couldn’t help the sight of the puck and never saw team. But they knew that was what was Varlamov’s weak backhand as it slid going to happen [that the NHL players slowly over the line for Ukraine’s third wouldn’t be able to make all of the pre- goal. Martin Gerber, who plays for the liminary games]. And they lost the game Swedish club Farjestad BK, replaced and everyone wasn’t happy about it. Aebischer, who allowed six goals on 31 “In the last game against Switzerland shots in slightly more than four periods of with the guys from the NHL it gave the action in two successive games. guys a better feeling about themselves Switzerland pulled to 3-2 midway and it showed in the end result. And the through the second period when Ivo same thing happened in this game A member of the Ukrainian cheering section celebrates as she correctly answers Ruthemann scored on a power play, but [against France].” a quiz question during the hockey game. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002 No. 7

Team Ukraine’s results Following are the results achieved by athletes of Ukraine’s Olympic Team during the first five days of competition in Salt Lake City.

• Saturday, February 9

ICE HOCKEY – MEN’S Belarus vs.Ukraine, 1-0

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING – WOMEN’S 15 K 10. Iryna Terelia, 40:39.4 22. Valentyna Shevchenko, 42:16.0 45. Vitalina Yakymchuk, 45:26.7

X-COUNTRY SKIING – MEN’S 30 K 52. Roman Leibiuk, 1:18:52.3

• Sunday, February 10

SKIING – MEN’S DOWNHILL 49. Mykola Skriabin, 1:47.65

SPEEDSKATING – WOMEN’S 3,000-METER 31. Olena Miahkykh, 4:24.64

AP/Elaine Thompson • Monday, February 11 Ukraine’s delegation to the 19th Winter Olympic Games marches in the opening ceremonies on February 8. ICE HOCKEY – MEN’S Ukraine vs. Switzerland, 5-2 Athletes welcomed at Olympic Village with flag-raising ceremony FIGURE SKATING – PAIRS by Andrew Nynka said the ceremony highlights the Olympic ideal of peace 15. Olena Savchenko/Stanislav Morozov and harmony between various nations “no matter how 16. Tetiana Chuvayeva/Dmytro Palamarchuk SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Members of the Olympic distant from each other or how different their cultures Village community and organizers of the 19th Winter may be.” BIATHLON – MEN’S 20 K Olympic Games welcomed the Ukrainian delegation The 21 members of the Ukrainian delegation present 23. Viacheslav Derkach, 55:01.3 (1 penalty) with a flag-raising ceremony on February 7. were led at the ceremony by their chief of mission, 24. Ruslan Lysenko, 55:02.1 (2) The ceremony took place on the University of Utah Vasyl Karlenko. campus in the Olympic Village’s international zone – an 27. Andrii Deryzemlia, 55:14.8 (1) Representatives of the Navajo nation led all those area intended for the interaction of athletes, media, fam- 68. Oleksander Bilanenko, 59:34.4 (4) assembled with what they described as “the happy ily and friends, but yet separate from the athlete’s per- song” – a dance and song intended to welcome and BIATHLON – WOMEN’S 15 K sonal quarters. Also taking part in the same ceremony were delega- bless the athletes. 24. Olena Petrova, 51:05.7 (1) Serhii Bubka, former Olympic pole vaulter and multi- 27. Oksana Yakovleva, 51:22.2 (2) tions representing Hong Kong-China, Monaco and Spain. ple world record holder, also was present at the Olympic 29. Oksana Khvostenko, 51:34.4 (0) The mayor of the Olympic Village, Spencer Eckles, Village ceremony. Commenting on Ukraine’s chances at 34. Olena Zubrylova, 52:10.7 (3) as well as Norma Matheson, former first lady of the state of Utah, welcomed the four national contingents to the Salt Lake City Games, he said, “I can’t give you my the Olympic Village with gifts presented separately to idea of how many medals Ukraine will win. I just want • Tuesday, February 12 each delegation from the Navajo Indian nation and the our teams to compete well.” state of Utah. The complete delegation of nearly 145 – athletes, SPEEDSKATING – MEN’S 500-METER After the gifts were presented, the national anthems coaches, trainers and officials – marched together in the 29. Andrii Fomin, 1:12.64 (36.26, 36.38) of each individual Olympic delegation were played opening ceremonies on Friday, February 8, at Rice- while the countries’ flags were raised in the Olympic Eccles Olympic stadium led by biathlete and 1998 CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING – MEN’S 15K Village. Nagano Winter Olympic Games silver medalist Olena 32. Roman Leibiuk, 39:50.9 Prince Albert, member of the International Olympic Petrova. Many of them, however, are staying outside of Committee (IOC) and president of the National Olympic the Olympic village, closer to their respective sports CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING – WOMEN’S 10K Committee of Monaco, later welcomed all present. He venues due to logistical considerations. 13. Iryna Terelia, 29:38.5 14. Valentyna Shevchenko, 29:42.7 43. Olena Rodina, 31:07.4

• Wednesday, February 13

ICE HOCKEY – MEN’S Ukraine vs. France, 4-2

BIATHLON – MEN’S 10 K SPRINT 36. Viachevslav Derkach, 27:05.3 38. Andrii Deryzemlia, 27:11.1 53. Ruslan Lysenko, 27:43.1 76. Roman Pryma, 29:16.1

BIATHLON – WOMEN’S 7.5 K SPRINT 31. Tetiana Vodopianova, 23:03.8 47. Nina Lemesh, 23:37.4 48. Olena Petrova, 23:40.9 59. Olena Zubrylova, 24:33.2

LUGE – WOMEN’S SINGLES 6. Lilia Ludan, 2:54.499 20. Oryslava Chukhlib, 2:56.281 At press time: • Ukraine, after not making it to the next round by virtue of its defeat to Belarus (whose record of four points – two wins and one loss – was equal to Ukraine’s), was to play Latvia in a game to deter- mine who would take ninth place in men’s hockey. Andrew Nynka The hockey teams of Ukraine (right) and Belarus line up for the beginning of their game on February 9. No. 7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002 15

Highly touted biathlon team collapses;

Ukraine’sby Andrew best Nynka showingvery is much in from women’s the team, which luge placed fifth at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. MIDWAY, Utah – One of Ukraine’s In the interim, the women’s biathlon greatest medal hopefuls at the 19th Winter squad will be led by the Ukrainian delega- Olympiad, Olena Zubrylova, came crashing tion’s chief of mission, Vasyl Karlenko, and down when the women’s biathlon team the head of the Ukrainian Biathlon failed to medal on Feburary 11 and 13 in the Federation, Volodymyr Brynzak. 15-kilometer individual and 7.5-kilometer In the 15 K biathlon Olena Petrova, sprint, respectively. Ukraine’s 1998 silver medalist in the event, The results caused the stunning and finished 24th with a time of 51:05.7 (one immediate release of the highly respected target missed), Oksana Yakovleva finished and very popular team leader and chief 27th with a time of 51:22.2 (two targets coach Roman Bondaruk, as well as contro- missed), and Oksana Khvostenko finished versial biathlon trainer Roman Zubrylov. 29th with a time of 51:34.4 (zero targets In the 15 K event, where she has cap- missed). tured several top-five World Cup finishes, Andrew Nynka Zubrylova’s 34th place finish came with Zubrylova finished 34th. She then finished Olena Zubrylova competes in the first of her biathlon events, the 15-kilometer individual. a time of 52:10.7 and three missed targets. 59th in what is arguably one of her The fact that Zubrylova finished behind all strongest events, the 7.5 K sprint. of her Ukrainian teammates also seemed to Zubrylova would not answer or be a reason for her lack of comment to the acknowledge repeated questions from the press. press, choosing to quickly pass through In the 7.5 kilometer event Ukraine’s best “Olympic mixed zones” – areas intended to finish was that of Tetiana Vodopianova, allow the press to interact with and question who took 31st with a time of 23:03.8, fol- competitors right after their competitions. lowed by Nina Lemesh in 47th who fin- Athletes are required to pass through ished in 23:37.4, Olena Petrova in 48th with these zones following their events, although a time of 23:40.9, and Zubrylova again they are not required to stop or answer rounding out the pack at a disappointing questions. 59th with a time of 24:33.2. Zubrylova’s results sparked renewed questions among sources closely associated Other Ukrainian results with the team about Zubrylova’s use of her husband as her trainer. Ukraine’s best finish to date came in the Although Zubrylova did stay with her women’s single luge where 32-year-old teammates in Sun Valley, Idaho, she trained Olympic veteran Lilia Ludan bettered her on her own and was introverted in the 16th place performance in Nagano, earning weeks leading up to the 19th Winter Games. sixth place by compiling a time of 2:54.499. Following the biathlon events, questions She was followed by teammate Oryslava arose also about Zubrylova’s health. Chukhlib, who finished in 2:56.281, good Valentyna Shevchenko completes the 15-kilometer cross-country ski race. According to her husband and trainer, Mr. enough for 20th place. Zubrylov, Zubrylova has been suffering As The Weekly was preparing to go to recently from possible heart palpitations and print the official results of the men’s 10- was expected to see doctors during the past kilometer classic cross-country event were week; no results of those exams have been posted, listing Ivano-Frankivsk native made public. Roman Leibiuk in eighth place with a time The fact that the 19th Winter Olympiad of 5:51.8. was Zubrylova’s third without an Olympic In the women’s 15-kilometer cross-coun- medal may also have added to the stress of try Iryna Terelia took 10th place with a time being Ukraine’s strongest medal contender. of 40:39.4, Valentyna Shevchenko took However, experts and analysts of 22nd in 42:16.0, and Vita Yakymchuk took Ukraine’s biathlon squad commented that 45th in 45:26.7 one of the greatest reasons for Zubrylova’s In the men’s 30-kilometer cross-country disappointing performance could be attrib- Leibiuk took 52nd place with a time of uted to her husband’s refusal to let anyone 1:18:52.3. but himself train the soon-to-be 29-year-old In men’s 15-kilometer cross-country ski- Kyiv native. Apparently Mr. Zubrylov made ing Leibiuk finished 32nd with a time of it known that only he would be Zubrylova’s 39:50.9. coach and trainer. Terelia took 13th place with a time of Mr. Bondaruk seemed willing to acqui- 29:38.5 in the women’s 10-kilometer cross- esce in order to allow Mr. Zubrylov to country event, followed by teammate prove himself. Since Mr. Zubrylov joined Valentyna Shevchenko, who took 14th in the squad over a year ago his wife’s World 29:42.7, and Olena Rodina, who finished Mykola Skriabin checks out his score in the men’s downhill. Cup results have been steadily slipping. 43rd in 31:07.4. Asked about the decision of Ivan Men’s downhill saw Mykola Skriabin Fedorenko, president of the National finish 49th with a time of 1:47.65. Olympic Committee of Ukraine (NOC-U), Olena Miahkykh took 31st place in the and Marina Bulatova, president of the State women’s 3,000-meter speedskating event Sports Committee of Ukraine, to release with a time of 4:24.64. Mr. Bondaruk, Laryssa Barabash-Temple, In the men’s 500-meter speedskating attaché for the NOC-U, as well as a board event, Andrii Fomin finished 29th with a member of the Ukrainian World Congress time of 1:12.64 (36.26, 36.38). and chair of its Sports Commission, said she In pairs figure skating Olena Savchenko was shocked and disappointed and was and Stanislav Morozov earned 15th, while hoping that cooler heads would prevail to Tetiana Chuvayeva and Dmytro keep Mr. Bondaruk on board. Palamarchuk took 16th. According to Ms. Barabash-Temple, Viacheslav Derkach finished 23rd in the who stays with the athletes in the Olympic men’s 20-kilometer biathlon event with a Village, the women’s biathlon team was time of 55:01.3 (one target missed), while brought to tears with the news that Mr. his teammates came in as follows: Ruslan Bondaruk was being released and was Lysenko – 24th in 55:02.1 (two targets expected to fly back to Kyiv on February 14 missed), Andrij Deryzemlia – 27th in – one day after the 7.5 K event. 55:14.8 (one target missed), and Oleksander Mr. Bondaruk commented before he was Bilanenko – 68th in 59:34.4 (four targets scheduled to return to Kyiv that the missed). women’s biathlon team would still compete In the men’s 10-kilometer biathlon sprint in the 4 x 7.5-kilometer relay, but he also Derkach finished 36th in 27:05.3, while made it clear that, due to the recent develop- Deryzemlia finished 38th in 27:11.1, Ruslan Fans of Ukraine, (from left) Jane Brynzak, Leonid Solovii of Kyiv and Melanie ments and the team’s performance thus far Lysenko finished 53rd in 27:43.1, and Lebedowicz, at the women’s 15 K biathlon competition. in Salt Lake City, fans should not expect Roman Pryma finished 76th in 29:16.1. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002 No. 7 CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS New York state exam TO PLACE YOUR ADVERTISEMENT CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI, (973) 292-9800 x 3040 offers credit for Ukrainian

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New computer systems company utilizes CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS ( ) pool of talented programmers in Ukraine TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI, 973 292-9800 x 3040 SAN MATEO, Calif. – Lohika ness school in the world. Systems Inc., a company established by a Mr. Riabokon, Lohika’s president and group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs chief operating officer, has eight years of ATTORNEY Meeting of UNA Br. 47 with close ties to Ukraine, announced investment-banking and business-devel- Sunday, March 3, 2002 that it has completed its Series A Round opment experience with JP Morgan, JERRY Bethlehem, PA of equity financing from a premier group Chase, the International Finance Corp., Branch 47, will hold the annual Branch meeting at of private investors, raising a total of and NHK. 11:30 a.m. at St. Josaphat’s Ukrainian Catholic $1.25 million. Mr. Jasinskyj, Lohika’s chief technical KUZEMCZAK Church hall, 1826 Kenmore Ave. On the adgenda, The funding will be used to expand officer, has 16 years of software-develop- accidents at work branch officers will submit their reports. Also, an the company’s sales, customer service, ment and management experience with a • election of the delegate and the alternate to the and development operations in the variety of companies in California, • automobile accidents 35th UNA Convention. All members are required United States and Europe. Employing including NASA. • slip and fall to attend. computer programmers in Ukraine, Lohika’s outsourcing services com- • medical malpractice Anna Kedyulych, President Lohika provides high-quality, cost-effec- bine high-level on-site project manage- FIRST CONSULTATION IS FREE. Anna Haras, Secretary tive outsourced software development, ment in the United States with a large integration and maintenance services to pool of highly skilled, cost-effective pro- Fees collected only after the higher-education and utilities markets fessional programming talent in Ukraine. personal injury case is successful. in the United States at significantly lower Ukraine is home to several major soft- Meeting of UNA Br. 180 prices than internal informational tech- ware development centers and is now ALSO: Sunday, March 3, 2002 nology (IT) staffs or other outsourcing successfully competing with India for • DWI Akron, Ohio vendors. outsourced IT services. real estate While the business climate in Ukraine “Ukrainian programmers usually have • Branch 180, Ivan Franko Society, will hold the annual Branch meeting at 2:30 p.m. at the home of continues to improve, the shortage of advanced degrees, a solid knowledge of a • criminal and civil cases traffic offenses Natalie Miahky rewarding employment opportunities variety of computer technologies, and • 647 Garnette Rd. means that the best and brightest young extensive experience in complex projects • matrimonial matters Akron, Ohio 44313 minds in the country continue to look to in the military and scientific fields,” said general consultation (330) 864-9425. the West for jobs, despite the desire of Gene Shklar, a member of Lohika’s • Following the meeting, there will be the elections of many to live in Ukraine. This has fueled board of directors. “The company is WELT & DAVID new officers and a delegate to the 35th UNA a “brain drain” through emigration that well-positioned to spearhead the early Convention. We invite all members to attend. 1373 Broad St, Clifton, N.J. 07013 hurts future economic-development trend to take advantage of this rich pool Natalie Miahky, Secretary prospects for Ukraine. Through its close of programming talent in Ukraine,” he (973) 773-9800 ties to Ukraine, Lohika serves a very explained important social mission by providing an External members of Lohika’s Board immediate workforce-development of Directors include Mr. Shklar, a found- HELP WANTED opportunity for workers in Ukraine. The ing employee and former executive of Meeting of UNA Br. 25 company will provide jobs that prevent Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN) and Sunday, February 24, 2002 “brain drain” and promote the continual Siebel Systems (Nasdaq:SEBL); Adrian Newark, NJ development of cutting-edge high-tech- Slywotzky, vice-president and member of nology skills in Ukraine. the board of directors of Mercer Looking for caretaker for an elderly Branch 25 will hold the annual Branch meeting at Lohika has established a software Management Consulting, a global strate- woman of Ukrainian descent. 11:00 a.m. at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian development center in Lviv, and is gy consulting firm (one of the Marsh and Housekeeping, cooking involved. Catholic School in Newark, N.J. On the adgenda, already generating revenue from a select McLennan Companies [NYSE:MMC]), References required. Live-in required. elections of new Branch officers and a delegate to group of customers in California. and the author of several books on busi- the 35th UNA. We invite all members to attend. Lohika was co-founded by Nataliya ness strategy, profitability and competi- Call (917) 971-7261 or (212) 721-4010. Oksana Trytjak, Secretary Riabokon, Volodymyr Riabokon and tion; and Lore Harp McGovern, a Silicon Lonhyn Jasinskyj. Valley entrepreneur, active international Ms. Riabokon, Lohika’s chief execu- venture investor, director of numerous tive officer, has several years of business startups and director of the McGovern American Ukrainian senior gentleman, experience with Ernst & Young. She is a Institute for Brain Research at the Meeting of UNA Br. 358 native of Boryslav, Ukraine, and was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. looking for a live-in housekeeper/cook. Please write to : first woman from Ukraine to graduate For more information about Lohika Sunday, March 10, 2002 William Korecky with an M.B.A. degree from Stanford Systems, visit the company’s website at Parma, Ohio Business School, the most selective busi- www.lohika.com. 2493 Louis Road Palo Alto, California 94303 Branch 358, “Lviv Society,” will hold the annual or call (650) 251-9311 Branch meeting at 2:00 p.m. in the Seniors’ Room was unequivocal in his denunciation of in the Astrodome of St. Josaphat Ukrainian Poland’s new prime minister... the Russian plan. He said Ukraine would Catholic Cathedral, 5720 State Road, Parma, Ohio (Continued from page 3) use all necessary means to defend its 44134. Following the meetings there will be the interests in the transit sphere, including PERSONALS elections of two delegates to the 35th UNA considerably. To that end, the commis- Convention. All members are urged to attend. sion meeting would consider further lib- turning to the European Union to demand eralization in the trade regime between that Ukraine’s current interests be main- the countries and the removal of addi- tained and that it be fully included in any Two career-minded American men, aged 34 and 50, tional barriers, including simplification new bypass project. wish to correspond with Ukrainian women for possi- Meeting of UNA Br. 397 of customs procedures, development of Russia has accused Ukraine several ble friendship and marriage. Prefer attractive and physically fit women between Sunday, February 24, 2002 an effective system of insurance and times of illegally siphoning off natural the ages of 18 and 40 with reasonable English skills. credits for trade operations, and the deep- gas from the current pipeline as its needs Please include photo. Lehighton, PA demanded. Ukrainian politicians have Branch 397, “St. Olha’s Society,” will hold the ening of investment cooperation. Mail to: Jon and Dan The two prime ministers also dis- generally denied that the government is 7600 SW Oleson Rd. #36 annual Branch meeting at 2:00 p.m. cussed a controversial Russian plan to doing so. Portland, Oregon 97223 Oleh Olzhych Estate The future of the natural gas bypass USA 1230 Beaver Run Dr. build a natural gas pipeline that would 503-803-2956 circumvent Ukraine. During his recent became still more clouded when Lehighton, PA 18235 On the agenda, election of a delegate to the 35th visit to Warsaw, Russian President Gazprom announced a day after the Polish-Ukrainian talks that its board of UNA Convention. We invite all members to attend. Vladimir Putin appeared to obtain UNA NOTICES Poland’s approval for the project, in directors had voted to cancel the project which a transit route through Belarus as part of a decision to reduce invest- would allow Russia to avoid sending its ments. gas through Ukrainian territory. Earlier The friendly talks between Mr. Miller and Ukrainian state leaders also included Poland had said it supported Ukraine’s Meeting of UNA Br. 39 Meeting of UNA Br. 70 demands and would not accede to the discussions on how Warsaw might help Russian plan. Kyiv achieve closer ties to the European Sunday, February 24, 2002 Sunday, February 24, 2002 Mr. Miller, however, indicated in Kyiv Union, including associate membership. Syracuse, NY Jersey City, NJ President Kuchma has indicated he that he had not committed to the plan and Branch 39 will hold the annual Branch meeting at Branch 70 will hold the annual Branch meeting at would like to see Ukraine obtain associ- explained that he was waiting to see the 1:00 p.m. at the Ukrainian National Home, 1:00 p.m. at the 244 1/2 Fourth Street, Jersey City Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom’s ate membership in 2004, the same year Syracuse, NY. Following the meeting there will be N.J. On the agenda, elections of new Branch offi- concrete proposal before taking a position that the EU has indicated that it would be the election of the delegate to the 35th UNA cers and a delegate to the 35th UNA. We invite all members to attend. on the matter. He is to meet with ready to accept Poland as a full partner. Convention. We invite all members to attend. Gazprom Chairman Aleksei Miller in the Mr. Miller said that Poland would fully Marian Haluszczak, Secretary next several weeks. support Ukraine’s entry into the Mrs. Joyce Kotch, Secretary For his part, Prime Minister Kinakh European organization. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002 No. 7

Finally, having donated funds for the lay- Jubilee Diocesan Pilgrimage Petro Jacyk... ing of these “foundations” of Ukrainian (Continued from page 6) studies in the West, Mr. Jacyk could now Celebrating the Silver Anniversary of begin – in the last years of his life – build- years into the most important center of ing what might be called the “walls and Ukrainian historical research in the West. The Episcopal Service of the Most Reverend roof” of this “edifice.” Specifically, he now Several scholars and editors work full-time sought to create programs which, leaning on on the center’s projects and numerous other Basil H. Losten, D.D. the previously built “foundations,” seek specialists work with the center on a con- concretely to form world opinion about tractual basis. The published volumes of as Bishop of the Diocese of Stamford Ukraine and Ukrainians. The discussion Hrushevsky’s history won international here concerns the programs for the study of acclaim for their high standards of transla- With Spiritual Directors Right Reverend Mitrat Monsignor John Terlecky, contemporary Ukraine that he established: tion and editing. Rector, St. Vladimir Cathedral, Stamford Connecticut, In addition to the history, the center pub- the Peter Jacyk Ukrainian Studies Program and Very Reverend Archpriest Edward Young, lishes two series of scholarly monographs – at Columbia University in New York, the Pastor, St. Josaphat Church, Rochester, New York. one in the West and the other in Ukraine, Peter Jacyk Distinguished Fellowship pro- deals with archival research, supports the gram at Harvard, and finally, the remainder work of young historians and grants schol- of the program (which is particularly close arships. It is one of the principal scholarly to my heart because I worked on its creation France, Spain & Portugal institutions whose work can be credited under the supervision of Mr. Jacyk during with integrating Ukraine and Ukrainians in the last three years of his life), the Petro June 17-29, 2002 Western eyes into the fabric of the world Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at 13 Days / 12 Nights community. the University of Toronto. It was on these “foundations” – an essen- Mr. Jacyk passed away four days before tial history which would represent the the official ceremonial opening of the $2495* Ukrainian people before the world and a newest program he established. national encyclopedia which defined the Nevertheless, the Jacyk Program for the heritage of Ukraine – that Mr. Jacyk fore- Study of Ukraine is already active in its Visit two of the Great Pilgramage sites in the World... Lourdes and Fatima. saw the further building of the “edifice” of pursuits. Like all the Ukrainian studies pro- Celebrate the Divine Liturgy at the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Lourdes and the Ukrainian studies in the West. grams established by Mr. Jacyk, this pro- Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Madrid. Also visit the spiritual splendors and He also understood that for these “foun- gram will disseminate objective knowledge about Ukraine throughout the world, serv- cultural highlights of Barcelona, Zaragoza, Madrid, Avila and Lisbon. Join us for dations” to withstand the test of time, they would have to be laid on stable ground. ing at the same time as a living testimony the experience of a lifetime! Hence, he created all his programs at presti- to the work and generosity of its founder. Services included: gious universities: Harvard, Alberta, The contribution of Mr. Jacyk to the Still time for a summer to remember! Columbia, Toronto. 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Accordingly, in addition to his research thropic work in Ukraine (particularly, the • Passport cases and luggage tags and teaching programs, Mr. Jacyk funded a well-known Ukrainian Language permanent position in Ukrainian bibliogra- Competition) during the final stages of his phy at Harvard University, as well as library life underline how much of a constructive and microfilm collections and the Central influence he might still have had in his first and East European Resource Center at the (and most dearly loved) homeland. His ATTENTION ATTENTION University of Toronto Robarts Library. memory will live on in his achievements.

DISTRICT COMMITTEE OF UNA BRANCHES OF ALLENTOWN, PA World Federation of Ukrainian Medical Associations announces that its (WFUMA) ANNUAL DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING invites Ukrainian physicians in the USA and Canada to participate will be held on in the IX congress of WFUMA, which will be held in the city of Friday, February 17, 2002 at 3:00 p.m. Luhansk, Ukraine, August 19-22, 2002. at the St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church 1826 Kenmore, Bethlehem, PA

Scientific Program of the IX Congress: Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches: 1. Public health at the beginning of the XXI century. 44, 47, 48, 137, 147, 288, 318, 369, 438 2. Perspective developement of medical technology in modern medicine 3. Bio-ethics as base of modern medicine. All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. MEETING WILL BE ATTENDED BY: 4. Paths for integration of scientific medicine and traditional medicine. Martha Lysko, UNA National Secretary 5. Diagnostics, treatment and prophylaxis of diseases of civilization. Anna Haras, Honorary member of the UNA General Assembly 6. Present state of family medicine in Ukraine. 7. Medicine of disasters and it’s present stage of developement. DISTRICT COMMITTEE 8. Public health and medical societies. Anna Haras, District Chairman Katherine Sargent, Secretary Additional information is available on following websites: Maria Kolodrub, Treasurer www.sfult.org.ua and www.umana.org Stephan Kolodrub, Dmitry Mushasty, Honorary District Chairmen

Abstracts of papers should be sent to: DISTRICT COMMITTEE of UNA BRANCHES OF SHAMOKIN, PA WFUMA, P.O. Box 36305, Grosse Point, MI 48236 announces that its For transportation and hotel reservation please call: ANNUAL DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING Scope Travel Agency, 1605 Springfield Avenue, Maplewood, NJ 07040 will be held on Tel.:(800) 343 -7267 or (973) 378-8998, Fax: (973) 378-7906 Saturday, February 23, 2002, at 1:00 p.m. at the St. Michael’s Church Hall The Scope Travel Agency is offering the following tours: W. Oak St., Frackville, PA 17931 Tour A Tour B Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, August 9-25, 2002 August 16-25, 2002 Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches: 1, 7, 9, 78, 98, 242, 305, 382 Lviv August 10-17 Kyiv August 17-18 Kyiv August 17-18 Luhansk August 18-22 All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. Luhansk August 18-22 Kyiv August 22-25 MEETING WILL BE ATTENDED BY: Kyiv August 22-25 Martha Lysko, UNA National Secretary WFUMA Executive Council DISTRICT COMMITTEE Guests Welcome! for North America Joseph Chabon, District Chairman Helen Slovik, Secretary and Adolph Slovik, Treasurer No. 7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002 19

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2001 Minor league recap

showsSome 122 pucksters 122 of Ukrainian of Ukrainian ori- in the East Coast descentLeague. The United gin earned their living in professional League saw 23, while another 10 found hockey’s seven minor league circuits last employment in the ranks of the West Coast season. Twelve of them were fortunate League. The Western Pro League (15) enough to also see action with their par- went on to merge with the Central League ent NHL clubs, either as promotions for (18) heading into the current 2001-2002 jobs well done or to replace a vacant ros- campaign. Industry consolidation! ter slot, usually due to injury. Seventeen Top minor league Ukrainian goal-scorers players skated in two different leagues. were Peter Ambroziak/ Christian Skoryna Breaking down the Ukes by position, (39), Jason Duda (38) and Jarred Dumka there were 11 goaltenders, 38 defense- (36). Assist leaders included Brent Gretzky men and 73 forwards. Of the 73 for- (66), Jay Mazur (60) and Duda (52). The wards, 30 skated on left wing, 22 on the top three scorers were Duda (90), Mazur right side and 21 down the middle. (83) and Skoryna/Gretzky (82). Marty Greg, Jeff and Sergei tied for most popu- Melnychuk was the most penalized Uke lar name for Ukrainians in the minors with (437 minutes), ahead of Brad Domonsky five each. The five Sergeis graphically (411) and Garry Gulash (386). Among underline the continued influx of Ukraine- Ukrainian goalies, Jeff Salajko was tops in born players to North America. Mike and all netminding’s major categories: games Mark were next with four each, followed (58), wins (28), minutes (3,398) goals by Alex, Dimitri and Steve with three. against (2.69) and save percentage (.921). There were four sets of brothers in the From Maine (Portland) to Alaska Ukrainian minor league ranks: David and (Anchorage), the roster of minor league Mikhail Nemirovsky, Jeff and Ryan Ukrainian hockey stars spans the full alpha- Pawluk and Jody and Tobin Praznik. Oh, bet: from A (Alex Alexeev) to Z (Jarret and there were three Shmyrs: Dean, Zukiwsky). There truly is a team and a Jason and Ryan. It’s a family sport with player for every Ukrainian hockey fan. For major sibling rivalry! the religious fans (Metropolt and Boh), tall As for league breakdowns, 20 players of fans (Dowhy), the budget conscious Ukrainian descent were found in hockey’s (Deshevyy), food gourmets (Gulash), thrifty top minor league circuit, the American domestic types (Szmata) and even for those Hockey League. Seventeen Ukes graced Ukrainian party animals (Zabawa). the rosters of the now defunct International Hockey League, while 19 worked on rinks (Continued on page 21) No. 7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002 21

RW Denis Smakovsky Birmingham ECL 22 8 4 12 26 2001 Minor league recap... D Jamie Sokolsky Greensboro ECL 72 19 29 48 66 (Continued from page 20) D Andrei Srubko Syracuse AHL 70 1 6 7 169 D Pat Stachniak B.C. Icemen UL 74 3 20 23 144 Pos Player Team Lge GP G A PTS PIM RW Jeremy Stasiuk Columbus CL 8 4 5 9 17 D Alex Alexeev Tacoma WCL 26 1 8 9 18 D Mark Strohack Wichita CL 25 4 13 17 20 LW Peter Ambroziak New Mexico WPL 59 39 39 78 107 C Joe Suk Macon CL 39 13 17 30 48 LW Vitali Andreev Macon CL 21 3 8 11 31 C Sheldon Szmata Oklahoma City CL 66 15 21 36 47 D Greg Andrusak Kentucky AHL 58 5 14 19 63 F Chris Szysky Grand Rapids IHL 70 15 13 28 108 C Jeff Antonovich Elmira UL 61 23 36 59 38 D Joey Tetarenko Louisville AHL 29 1 4 5 74 C Yuri Babenko Hershey AHL 71 17 18 35 80 RW Mike Bodnarchuk Arkansas ECL 24 12 11 23 28 LW Oleg Timchenko New Orleans ECL 64 12 19 31 16 D Aaron Boh San Antonio CL 12 3 4 7 61 C Daniel Tkaczuk St. John AHL 50 15 21 36 48 D Steve Cheredaryk Lowell AHL 3 0 0 0 2 F Stanislav Tkatch Memphis CL 2 0 1 1 0 New Orleans ECL 57 5 24 29 219 C Jeff Trembecky San Antonio CL 68 18 30 48 56 C Andy Doktorchik Baton Rouge ECL 56 19 20 39 89 D Evgeny Tsybouk Utah IHL 61 4 12 16 157 D Sergei Deshevyy Topeka CL 68 0 4 4 141 C Josh Tymchak Huntsville CL 59 11 18 29 177 RW Brad Domonsky Knoxville UL 67 18 21 39 411 D Dmitry Ustyuzhanin Knoxville UL 74 9 33 42 61 C Steve Dowhy Ft. Worth WPL 44 15 15 30 30 D Rene Vydareny Kansas City IHL 39 0 1 1 25 Bakerfield WCL 13 2 1 3 8 C Joe Wassilyn Fayetteville CL 1 0 0 0 0 LW Jason Duda Wichita CL 70 38 52 90 68 LW Trevor Wasyluk Peoria ECL 21 8 15 23 36 LW Jarred Dumba Oklahoma City CL 70 36 39 75 54 C Shawn Yakimishyn Border City CL 43 10 11 21 144 RW Brad Federenko Greenville ECL 65 21 31 52 34 D Dimitri Yakushin St. John AHL 45 2 0 2 61 LW Todd Fedoruk Philadelphia AHL 14 0 1 1 49 LW Dariusz Zabawa Flint UL 42 6 14 20 8 RW Ruslan Fedotenko Philadelphia AHL 8 1 0 1 8 LW Alex Zinewich Albany AHL 61 10 17 27 20 D Jayme Filipowicz Milwaukee IHL 68 0 13 13 101 LW Steve Zoryk New Mexico WPL 64 30 31 61 70 F Ben Gorewich Ft. Worth WPL 66 24 23 47 67 C Brent Gretzky Ft. Wayne UL 70 16 66 82 40 RW Jarret Zukiwsky Anchorage WCL 35 7 18 25 154 LW Stanislav Gron Albany AHL 61 16 9 25 19 GOALTENDERS: D Garry Gulash Hershey AHL 14 1 2 3 92 Player Team Lge GP MINS W L T GAA PCT Quad City UL 61 14 38 52 294 Mike Buzak Long Beach WCL 42 2,495 23 12 7 2.81 0.895 LW Dave Hnatiuk Lubbock WPL 4 0 0 0 10 Rob Galatiuk Corpus Christi CL 4 172 0 2 0 5.58 0.754 LW Darcy Hordichuk Orlando IHL 69 7 3 10 369 San Antonio WPL 8 406 4 2 1 2.66 0.896 LW Phil Husak Tacoma WCL 47 5 10 15 43 Dieter Kochan Detroit IHL 49 2,606 13 28 2 3.55 0.894 C John Kachur Knoxville UL 7 4 4 8 4 Greg Naumenko Cincinnati IHL 39 2,078 20 12 3 2.91 0. 909 RW Alex Kholomeyev Corpus Christi WPL 63 23 29 52 63 Randy Petruk Cincinnati IHL 8 419 4 3 0 3.29 0. 910 RW Dimitri Kirilenko Long Beach WCL 70 26 32 58 40 Florida ECL 13 742 5 7 1 3.31 0.898 D Sergei Klimentiev Houston IHL 7 0 0 0 6 D Zenith Komarniski Kansas City IHL 70 7 22 29 191 Cody Rudkowsky Worcester AHL 25 1,476 13 8 3 2.68 0.915 D Kyle Kos Detroit IHL 46 0 9 9 165 Jeff Salajko Manitoba IHL 11 620 4 5 1 2.51 0.917 C Mark Kotary B.C. Icemen UL 26 6 8 14 24 Arkansas ECL 47 2,778 24 13 8 2.79 0.923 RW Rick Kowalsky Trenton ECL 12 7 10 17 22 Kendal Sidoruk Idaho WCL 42 2,338 23 12 3 3.62 0.876 D Evgeny Krivomaz Rockford UL 71 11 23 34 76 Konstantin Simchuk Ft. Wayne UL 26 1403 14 5 3 3.12 0.893 LW Dustin Kuk Worcester AHL 7 0 1 1 13 San Diego WCL 15 888 8 6 1 2.84 0.891 Peoria ECL 63 22 26 48 119 Eddy Skazyk Corpus Christi CL 41 2142 21 12 3 3.19 0.905 D Greg Kuznik Cincinnati IHL 73 0 7 7 72 Sergei Tkachenko San Angelo WPL 33 1,845 11 15 3 4.06 0.886 D Corey Laniuk Phoenix WCL 68 0 8 8 245 LW Andrew Luciuk Muskegon UL 72 29 44 73 96 League Abbreviations: D Jeff Lukasak Johnstown ECL 12 1 2 3 17 AHL – American Hockey League Kalamazoo UL 59 3 7 10 86 IHL – International Hockey League C John Maksymiuk Flint UL 62 9 11 20 28 ECL – East Coast League LW Don Malko Fresno WCL 72 11 25 36 118 LW Mike Maneluk Chicago IHL 10 2 2 4 11 UL – United League D Roman Marakhovski Johnstown ECL 50 2 5 7 38 WPL – Western Pro League D Greg Martinuik San Angelo WPL 16 0 1 1 8 WCL – West Coast League RW Jay Mazur New Haven UL 64 23 60 83 22 CL – Central League LW Brad Mehalko Hartford AHL 27 4 7 11 60 Charlotte ECL 26 8 11 19 47 D Marty Melnychuk San Antonio CL 55 5 3 8 437 C Glen Metropolit Portland AHL 51 25 42 67 59 LW Chad Michalchuk Amarillo WPL 23 2 11 13 72 D Rick Mrozik St. John AHL 76 5 11 16 26 D Jeremy Mylymok Idaho WCL 71 15 48 63 208 D Yevgeny Namestnikov Milwaukee IHL 56 7 22 29 36 D Nick Naumenko Cleveland IHL 77 5 45 50 60 RW David Nemirovsky St. John AHL 9 1 2 3 10 LW Mikhail Nemirovsky Pt. Huron UL 10 2 3 5 12 El Paso WPL 10 5 10 15 6 Colorado WCL 5 0 2 2 2 D Mike Nikolishen Lowell AHL 5 0 0 0 4 South Carolina ECL 48 5 10 15 74 LW Chad Onufrechuk Mobile ECL 71 19 42 61 51 RW Keith Osborne Macon CL 16 6 3 9 24 C Rob Palahnuk Syracuse AHL 1 0 0 0 0 RW Greg Pankewicz Houston IHL 74 22 24 46 231 D Jeff Pawluk Bossier-Shreveport WPL 70 7 17 24 52 LW Ryan Pawluk Pt. Huron UL 64 21 39 60 61 F Bobby Pochyly Ft. Worth WPL 18 2 2 4 10 C Mark Polak New Orleans ECL 27 2 13 15 38 D Jody Praznik Corpus Christi WPL 10 0 3 3 8 LW Tobin Praznik Corpus Christi WPL 39 13 21 34 26 RW Tyler Prosofsky Asheville UL 70 21 28 49 187 RW Boris Protsenko Wheeling ECL 48 15 11 26 42 D Sergei Radchenko Ft. Wayne UL 62 3 11 14 116 LW Jason Rapewicz Mohawk Valley UL 14 0 1 1 30 Flint UL 7 0 0 0 0 D Peter Ratchuk Louisville AHL 64 5 13 18 85 D Gennady Razin Quebec AHL 69 3 19 22 25 LW Russ Romaniuk Houston IHL 35 5 7 12 29 RW Bogdan Rudenko Asheville UL 43 28 18 46 122 RW Ben Schust Providence AHL 8 0 1 1 2 Roanoke ECL 64 18 30 48 14 C Mark Shalawylo Dayton ECL 7 1 0 1 4 Fayettville CL 25 11 9 20 8 RW Dean Shmyr Knoxville UL 21 0 0 0 148 LW Jason Shmyr Portland AHL 32 0 0 0 141 Utah IHL 25 0 1 1 167 LW Ryan Shmyr Lubbock WPL 71 8 14 22 292 RW Denis Shvidki Louisville AHL 34 15 11 26 20 D Vladimir Sikac Orlando IHL 33 1 3 4 15 RW Christian Skoryna Fresno WCL 67 39 43 82 88 D Sergei Skrobot Philadelphia AHL 5 0 1 1 0 Trenton ECL 65 7 18 25 48 C Fred Slukynsky Ft. Wayne UL 59 9 19 28 69 Macon CL 2 0 0 0 0 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002 No. 7

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Ç ÑêìÉì çÖÇàåéÇçé Åéãûóì êßóçàñû ëåÖêíà Ridna Dusha Trio preserves çÄòé∫ çÄâÑéêéÜóé∫ åÄåà, ÅÄÅìëß, ëÖëíêà Ukrainian heritage through song ·Î. Ô. ëíÖîÄçß∫ ãÖòäé CLEVELAND – The 10th anniversary and they eventually became bandura celebrations of Ukraine’s independence instructors at bandura camps in Ontario Á ‰ÓÏÛ ÅéãúéÇëúäÄ in Kyiv last year brought together vari- and Pennsylvania, as well as their home- ·Û‰ÛÚ¸ ‚¥‰Ôð‡‚ÎÂÌ¥ ous artistic ensembles from all corners of towns. the globe to celebrate Ukrainian culture. Throughout the years, these female ëÇüíß ãßíìêÉß∫ Among them was the trio Ridna Dusha musicians continued to cultivate their Û ÒÎ¥‰Û˛˜Ëı ˆÂðÍ‚‡ı: (Native Spirit), a female vocal group individual bandura skills, develop their formed in 2000. The trio had the privi- voices and experience the richness of ‚ ÒÛ·ÓÚÛ, 16 βÚÓ„Ó 2002 ð.: lege of being one of only three groups Ukrainian songs. They have had the ‚ ˆÂðÍ‚¥ Ò‚. ûð‡, ‚ 縲-âÓðÍÛ, Ó „Ó‰. 9-¥È ð‡ÌÍÛ; from the United States invited to perform opportunity to work with musicians such ‚ ˆÂðÍ‚¥ Ò‚. íðÓȈ¥, ‚ Ñðӄӷ˘¥, ìÍð‡ªÌ‡; at the Third World Forum of Ukrainians. as singer Alexis Kochan-Budyk, ban- ‚ ˆÂðÍ‚¥ Ò‚. ß‚‡Ì‡ ïðÂÒÚËÚÂÎfl ‚ ëËÌ‚ˉҸÍÛ ÇËÊÌ¥Ï, ìÍð‡ªÌ‡; The members of the Ridna Dusha Trio durist Julian Kytasty, conductor Halyna ‚ ͇Ú‰ð¥ Ò‚. ûð‡, Û ã¸‚Ó‚¥, ìÍð‡ªÌ‡. are Roma Konecky of Pittsburgh, Kvitka Kondracki (music director of the Michelle Schidowka of Cleveland and Vesnivka female choir in Toronto), and ëËÌ – üêéëãÄÇ Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ Äããéû Natalia Basladynsky-Mahlay of teacher Oleh Mahlay (artistic director of ‚Ì͇ۘ – ÄÑêßÄçÄ ÒÂÒÚð‡ – åÄêßü äêìóÄâ Cleveland. the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of At a gala concert at the Ukraina Palace Detroit). Mr. Mahlay currently acts as the of Culture on August 18, 2001, over 40 trio’s vocal coach. vocal and dance groups from around the Ms. Konecky, 23, is currently conduct- DISTRICT COMMITTEE OF UNA BRANCHES OF CONNECTICUT world took to the stage to celebrate ing research under the neuroscience pro- announces that its “Ukrainian Song in the World.” The trio gram at the University of Pittsburgh. Ms. performed a moving rendition of an old Mahlay, 24, is enrolled in a joint degree ANNUAL DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING folk song “In the Green Grove” and was program in law/master of business admin- will be held on greeted with exuberant applause. The istration at The Cleveland Marshall College Saturday, March 9, 2002, at 2:00 p.m. next evening the trio performed at an out- of Law. Ms. Schidowka, 24, is pursuing a at Pokrova Ukrainian Catholic Church door concert on St. Michael’s Square. master’s degree in speech-language pathol- 6810 Broadview Road, Parma, OH Both of these performances were tele- ogy at Cleveland State University. Despite Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, vised live throughout Ukraine with re- their respective career aspirations, their Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches: broadcasts the week of independence cel- intense love for Ukrainian music plays a ebrations, giving millions of viewers the pivotal role in their lives. 102, 112, 166, 180, 222, 233, 240, 291, 358, 364 opportunity to see this new trio. The repertoire of Ridna Dusha con- The formation of Ridna Dusha finds sists of a capella Ukrainian folk and clas- All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. its roots many years ago as Mmes. sical music. The trio has performed at MEETING WILL BE ATTENDED BY: Konecky, Mahlay and Schidowka met in various concerts and festivals in Martha Lysko, UNA National Secretary Taras Szmagala Jr., UNA Advisor 1992 at a summer bandura camp, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Taras Szmagala, Honorary Member of UNA General Assembly Kobzarska Sich, in Emlenton, Pa. Their For more information about the Ridna interest in the bandura and Ukrainian Dusha trio contact Ms. Mahlay at DISTRICT COMMITTEE music drew the women back each year, [email protected]. Luba Mudri, Secretary Natalie Miahky, Treasurer

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Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches:

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All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. MEETING WILL BE ATTENDED BY: Ulana Diachuk, UNA President DISTRICT COMMITTEE Ihor E. Hayda, District Chairman Myron Kuzio, Assistant District Chairman Stepan Tarasiuk, Secretary Taras Slevinsky, Treasurer

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tion blocs, UNIAN and Interfax reported. intends to revoke the agreements on visa- cy in the country in a move aimed at halt- Newsbriefs This was done to ensure their rights to free traffic with Russia, Ukraine and ing $75 million of U.S. trade sanctions, (Continued from page 2) state-financed election advertising on Belarus “late in summer or in autumn” in Interfax reported on January 30. The Minister Anatolii Kinakh and Hungarian nationwide Ukrainian Television (First 2003, the PAP news service reported on decree orders the government to desig- President Ferenc Madl on February 7 vis- Channel), Ukrainian Radio (First February 6, quoting an anonymous gov- nate state officials to monitor CD produc- ited the Zakarpattia Oblast, which is Program), and in the governmental ernment official. The official added that tion and sales, and requires that every inhabited by a Hungarian ethnic minori- Uriadovyi Kurier and parliamentary Poland will stick to this pledge even if CD be stamped with a special identifica- ty. Hungarian Radio reported that Holos Ukrainy newspapers. CEC European Union enlargement does not tion code. Meanwhile, Deputy Procurator Messrs. Madl and Kinakh spoke about Chairman Mykhailo Riabets told journal- take place precisely on January 1, 2004. General Oleksii Bahanets has said that an the opportunities of bilateral cooperation ists that the commission registered 4,113 Eneko Landaburu, the director general investigation of five Ukrainians plants and the effects of Hungary’s Status Law candidates running in the March 31 par- for enlargement with the European determined that those plants did not have on Ukrainian Hungarians. The Ukrainian liamentary elections on party lists, and Commission (EC), said EC experts pro- the facilities to produce the large number prime minister said the implementation 3,107 candidates in single-seat con- pose that Poland introduce visas for citi- of pirated CDs claimed by the United of the law regarding Ukrainian stituencies. Mr. Riabets added that 268 zens of its three eastern neighbors around States. (RFE/RL Newsline) deputies of the current Verkhovna Rada a year prior to its EU entry. He made it Hungarians must be based on European Russian Bloc HQ firebombed standards and Ukrainian laws. Mr. are seeking re-election. (RFE/RL understood, however, that if Poland sug- Kinakh proposed to set up a Ukrainian- Newsline) gests a period of a little less than a year and presents “credible guarantees,” the KYIV – The headquarters of the Russian Hungarian intergovernmental committee Crew die in plane crash in Morocco Bloc in Kyiv has been subjected to an to deal with the issue. Asked by journal- EC will accept it, the agency reported. (RFE/RL Newsline) arson attack, Ukrainian media reported ists whether Kyiv will ask Budapest to KYIV – A Ukrainian AN-12 cargo on January 30. Unknown attackers broke find work in Hungary for Ukrainian citi- plane crashed on February 7 in southern Yuschenko, Symonenko meet on RFE/RL the windows of the headquarters, which zens of Hungarian origin, Mr. Kinakh Morocco, killing eight crew members on is also the site of the newspaper Russkii replied that, given the Zakarpattia board, Interfax reported, quoting a gov- KYIV – RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service Mir, and threw Molotov cocktails into Oblast’s good economic performance in ernment official. (RFE/RL Newsline) on February 4 broadcast live a discus- the premises. The fire destroyed some 2001, the government will do everything sion between former Prime Minister furniture and a computer. The Russian Hungarian president meets with Kuchma possible to provide jobs for those people Viktor Yuschenko, the leader of the Our Bloc has appealed to President Leonid in their native region. (RFE/RL KYIV – Hungarian President Ferenc Ukraine election bloc, and Communist Kuchma and law enforcement bodies for Newsline) Madl on February 6 met with his Party Chairman Petro Symonenko. It protection, saying the attack was an was the second high-profile political UOC-KP parish in Crimea threatened Ukrainian counterpart, Leonid Kuchma, attempt at “intimidating the Russian- Ukrainian media reported. Mr. Madl debate aired by RFE/RL during the elec- speaking population in Ukraine and SYMFEROPOL – Authorities of the urged Ukraine to develop closer ties with tion campaign in Ukraine, following a depriving it of moral support” in the Crimean Eparchy of the Ukrainian the European Union and NATO. Mr. meeting between Yulia Tymoshenko and ongoing election campaign, Interfax Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate Kuchma took advantage of the meeting Viktor Medvedchuk two weeks ago. Mr. reported. (RFE/RL Newsline) (UOC-KP) on February 6 addressed the with President Madl to slam Ukraine’s Symonenko slammed the reforms under- Ukraine to get $60 M to fight AIDS, TB state and the general public asking for party system. “The Republic of Hungary taken by all governments of independent Ukraine, including Mr. Yuschenko’s, as help. They stated that reactionary groups passed the stage of political forces’ struc- KYIV – The World Bank is ready to are attempting to take possession of the turing long ago. Today there are virtually detrimental to the interests of the people. Mr. Yuschenko stressed the importance allot $60 million to Ukraine to combat only UOC-KP parish in Crimea. Bishop only two forces vying for the right to AIDS and tuberculosis, New Channel Clement of Symferopol (UOC-KP) have a majority in the future Parliament. of a democratically elected parliamen- tary majority in pursuing changes to the Television reported on February 1, quot- asserted that the Property Fund of the Those political forces have no differ- ing unnamed World Bank officials who Autonomous Republic of Crimea is try- ences concerning the country’s main economy and society. (RFE/RL Newsline) spent two weeks in Ukraine studying the ing to expropriate the premises of the lines of development. To my deep regret, situation pertaining to those illnesses. only UOC-KP church on the peninsula, I cannot say the same about Ukraine,” Kuchma tightens CD production The money will be primarily channeled the parish of Ss. Volodymyr and Olha. 1+1 Television quoted President Kuchma into diagnosing AIDS and tuberculosis, The Property Fund has refused to abide as saying. “The cloning of political par- KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma has supplying medicines and monitoring by the Crimean Supreme Council’s deci- ties and blocs has reached the point of issued a decree intended to curb CD pira- infected people. (RFE/RL Newsline) sion of last year to transfer the building absurdity in Ukraine,” he added. to the UOC-KP for a term of 50 years (RFE/RL Newsline) and is preparing to overturn the ruling. Bishop Clement said he believes that the Latvian, Ukrainian ministers meet persecution of everything Ukrainian is RIGA – Foreign Affairs Ministers still continuing in Crimea. (Religious Indulis Berzins of Latvia and Anatolii Information Service of Ukraine) Zlenko of Ukraine meeting in the Lukashenka thanks Communists Latvian capital on February 6 discussed bilateral relations and agreed to continue MIENSK – Belarusian President working on several draft agreements, Alyaksandr Lukashenka met on February including those on protection of classi- COME,COME, JOINJOIN USUS 6 with Ukrainian Communist Party head fied information, cooperation in culture, Petro Symonenko, who headed a group and the fight against economic and HIGH INTEREST RATES ON CDs of Ukrainian lawmakers visiting Miensk. financial violations, the BNS news “First of all, I want to thank you for your agency reported. 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HUNTER,26th N.Y. annual – The Chornomortsi ski senior clinic men’s fra- ternity of the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization held its 26th annual ski clinic in preparation for the annual ski races being sponsored by the Carpathian Ski Club (KLK) on February 23. This year’s clinic, held February 7-11, was attended also by members of the Pobratymy, Burlaky and Chervona Kalyna fra- ternities of Plast, as well as a representative from the Ukrainian American Youth Association (SUM), Jerry Kuzemczak. Among the guests of this year’s ski clinic were Dr. Oles Kryskiv from Lviv, organizer of Chornomortsi in newly independent Ukraine and cur- rent head of the Plast National Command in Ukraine. Also participating were several diplomats from the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington: Dr. Yaroslav Voitko, chief of the Trade and Economics Mission, and his deputy, Yurii Panasiuk; Col. Alexander Sadovskyi, military attaché; and Yurii Ladnyi, second secretary. All four are expected to compete in the KLK meet at Ski Windham. Attendees were instructed by Karl Plattner, former world downhill champion. The group of over two dozen participants skied at both Ski Windham and Hunter Mountain. The ski clinic was organized by Erko Palydowycz; accommodations were arranged by Orest Fedash.

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Sunday, February 17 and on “Kyiv and Beyond” (a review of Kyivan architecture), by Dorian Yurchuk, NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Museum will Walter Melvin Architects, New York City. present a lecture/slide presentation (in Refreshments will be served. For more Ukrainian) at 2 p.m. with Lidia Lykhach information contact Andrij Wowk, (908) from Kyiv on the themes: “The Veneration 725-9733; e-mail [email protected]; or visit the of the Female Image in Ukrainian Folk UESA website, www.uesa.org. Icons” and “Ukrainian Folk Icons: Research and Collecting in Ukraine.” Admission: $10 Sunday, February 24 per person. Refreshments will be served fol- lowing the lecture. The event is organized in TORONTO: Pianist Volodymyr conjunction with the exhibition “Ukrainian Vynnytsky will appear in concert in a pro- Folk Icons of the 18th-19th Centuries” from gram of works by Mozart, Skoryk, the collection of Ms. Lykhach. The exhibit, Revutsky, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Chopin. currently on view at the museum, will close The concert, sponsored by the Ukrainian on February 17. For information contact Canadian Art Foundation, will be held at 3 The Ukrainian Museum, 203 Second Ave.; p.m. at the UCAF Gallery, 2118-A Bloor telephone, (212) 228-0110; e-mail, St. W. Tickets: $25. For tickets and addi- [email protected]; website, tional information call Luda Pawliw, UCAF www.ukrainianmuseum.org. Gallery, (416) 766-6802. Saturday, February 23 Monday, February 25 NEW YORK: Dr. Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, senior research associate, CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) will author of “Trophies of War and Empire” present a lecture by Stephen Shulman, (Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies, assistant professor of political science, at 2001), will discuss the archival heritage of Southern Illinois University and Shklar Ukraine vis-à-vis Russia, World War II Fellow at HURI, on “Nationalism and and international politics of restitution. Foreign Policy in Ukraine.” The lecture The presentation will be held at the will be held in the institute seminar room, Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth 1583 Massachusetts Ave., at 4-6 p.m. For Ave. (between Ninth and 10th streets), at 4 more information contact the institute, p.m. For more information call (212) 254- (617) 495-4053, or [email protected]. 5130. Thursday, February 28 EAST HANOVER, N.J.: The New Jersey branch of the Ukrainian Engineers’ CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Society of America (UESA) invites its Ukrainian Research Institute will present a members and the public to a branch meet- lecture by Amir Weiner, assistant professor ing and presentation to be held at the of Soviet history, Stanford University, titled Ramada Hotel, Route 10 (westbound). The “Wild West, Window to the West: The branch members’ meeting will begin at 1 Soviet Frontier, 1939-1989.” The lecture p.m. and will be followed at 3 p.m. by will be held in the institute seminar room, talks on “Assisting the Lviv Minor 1583 Massachusetts Ave., at 4-6 p.m. For Academy of Sciences,” by Oksana Maziar, more information contact the institute, president, Friends of Lviv University Inc., (617) 495-4053, or [email protected]. SPUTNIK GLOBAL TELECOM REMINDER REGARDING REQUIREMENTS: A UKRAINIAN-AMERICAN OWNED INDEPENDENT AGENCY There is a $10 charge per submission for listings in Preview of Events. CONTINUES The listing plus payment must be received no later than one week before DIAL ALL DAY FOR THE UNA! the desired date of publication. There is also the option of prepayment for a series of listings. Support The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund with your long distance phone calls. Listings of no more than 100 words (written in Preview format) plus pay- Every time you make a call using our service, Sputnik makes a donation to the press fund. ment should be sent to: Preview of Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Discounted domestic and international calling plans for residential and business clients. Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Information sent by fax No monthly fees, no minimums, no contracts. should include a copy of a check, in the amount of $10 per listing, made out to The Ukrainian Weekly. The Weekly’s fax number is (973) 644-9510. 1-888-900-UKIEFor more information( call847 toll-free) 298-5900 OR Sputnik speaks Ukrainian

The KLK Ukrainian Ski Club WHAT? invites its members, friends and their guests to their Annual Ski Weekend/Ski Races YOU DON’T HAVE YOUR OWN featuring, for the first time ever, separate races for SNOWBOARDERS.

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Race with lift ticket: $50 (adults); $40 (juniors). Race only: $10. PHONE (optional): ______Discounted lift tickets will also be available at the KLK registration table. J J UNA member subscription price — $45.00/yr. Non-member subscription price — $55.00/yr. For more race information please phone: Orest Fedash at 210-387-8061, or Erko Palydowycz at 518-263-4866, UNA Branch number ______or send e-mail to: [email protected]