Inside: • Moscow ponders strategy in U.S. “reset” – page 3. • The Fourth Wave and language issues – page 5. • Ukrainian dancers at Texas Folklife Festival – page 13.

ThePublished U by thekra Ukrainian Nationali Association n i a Inc., a n fraternal Wnon-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXVIII No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 $1/$2 in Ukraine The first 100 days: Does Kyiv Opposition leaders visiting U.S. offer have a coherent foreign policy? assessments of changes in Ukraine by Zenon Zawada the American Institute in Ukraine, have tried by Irene Jarosewich Dr. Shcherbak then offered the opinion Kyiv Press Bureau to paint a portrait of an administration that is Special to The Ukrainian Weekly that Borys Tarasyuk was a “mature real- successfully balancing Russian and ist,” and Valeriy Chalyi, younger than Mr. The first 100 days: The Ukrainian Weekly European interests. WHIPPANY, N.J. – The presentations Shcherbak by half, was the voice of the examines the activity of the Yanukovych Yet the consensus among the experts’ of three political leaders from Ukraine at “young optimists.” administration in Ukraine’s cultural life, the community, both Western-financed and the Ukrainian American Cultural Center of Though all three speakers hold an unfa- economy, and foreign and domestic policy. independent, is that Mr. Yanukovych’s for- New Jersey (UACCNJ) here on Saturday, vorable view of recent developments in This is the third article in the series. eign policy is posing a direct threat to June 19, provided the first opportunity Ukraine, each emphasized different prob- Ukrainian sovereignty, allowing Russian since the election of President Viktor lems and their assessment of Ukraine’s KYIV – He gave up all of Ukraine’s interests to launch campaigns aimed at dom- Yanukovych for the Ukrainian American future varied. highly enriched uranium, allegedly for a inating the nation’s cultural, political and community to hear first-hand about the Mr. Tarasyuk spoke first. Twice he photo-op with U.S. President Barack economic life. profound changes under way in Ukraine’s served as Ukraine’s foreign affairs minister Obama, as opponents claimed. Little more Mr. Yanukovych is allowing the Russians foreign and domestic policies. and currently is a national deputy of the than a week later, Ukrainian President Viktor unacceptable influence in Ukrainian affairs, Dr. Yuri Shcherbak’s words near the end Verkhovna Rada, as well as the chair of of the evening best summarized the pre- Yanukovych allowed the Russian Black Sea said Ukraine’s former Ambassador to the Rukh, The Popular Movement of Ukraine. sentations by the three opposition figures, Fleet to remain on the Crimean peninsula U.S. Yuri Shcherbak, referring not only to He was Ukraine’s ambassador to Belgium, who were on a five-day visit to the United for another quarter century. the Black Sea Fleet lease extension, but also Luxembourg and the Netherlands, and he States that will take them also to New Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said his to widescale plans for Russian enterprises, continues to serve as the director of the goal was to achieve an Association York, Philadelphia and Washington. state-owned and state-financed, to buy up Referring to himself as an “old pessimist,” (Continued on page 10) Agreement and Free Trade Agreement with Ukrainian counterparts. the European Union by the end of this year. “Who counted what percent of an econo- But NATO is off the table. my’s industry, when in the hands of another Indeed the Yanukovych administration country, poses a danger to our security?” he has no coherent foreign policy strategy, in asked his fellow experts during the discus- the view of top experts attending a June 11 sion. “Do we know this? Does 80 percent roundtable organized by Arseniy need to be given to another country before Yatsenyuk’s Open Ukraine Foundation. As a we’ll be asking what’s left?” result, he’s leaned heavily on integration Such alarm was confirmed by comments with Russia as a reliable comfort zone with offered on Victory Day, May 9, by Russian proven electoral returns. Presidential Administration Chair Sergey “Some people said Ukraine has no for- Naryshkin, who attended celebrations in eign policy strategy, and everyone agreed, Sevastopol, where the Russian Black Sea and I agree with that,” Volodymyr Horbach, Fleet gained a new lease extension until a political analyst at the Western-financed 2042. Yuri Shcherbak Borys Tarasyuk Valerii Chalyi Institute of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, told Referring to the May 17-18 interstate The Weekly. commission meetings in Kyiv, he said a “But there is, in fact, a foreign policy very large program of cooperation would be strategy. The problem is it’s in Russia, not developed “literally in all directions.” Yanukovych calls on diaspora Ukraine,” he added. “The Kharkiv agreements, without a Mr. Yanukovych’s promoters in the West, doubt, are a serious landmark moment in including Adrian Karatnycky of the Atlantic to help improve Ukraine’s image Council of the U.S. and Anthony Salvio of (Continued on page 15) world. This is our common business,” the UWC leaders meet president stressed. “I have an action plan of this kind, and I am implementing it with president step by step. It can be regarded different- KYIV – President Viktor Yanukovych ly, but proceeding from the fact that I was of Ukraine has called on the Ukrainian elected by the Ukrainian people and I diaspora to cooperate to improve the received powers from them, I’m acting country’s international image. He made now, and I’m trying to act as the people those comments at a meeting on June 21 want me to act – in the interests of the with the president of the Ukrainian World Ukrainian society,” Mr. Yanukovych Congress, Eugene Czolij of Canada, and emphasized. the UWC’s secretary-general, Stefan According to the Ukrainian president’s Romaniw of Australia. website, Mr. Yanukovych also said that President Yanukovych thanked the he would like to hear the opinion of leadership of the Ukrainian World Ukrainian diaspora representatives on the Congress for their initiative to hold such a life of modern Ukraine and answer their meeting. He described the Ukrainian questions. “You know there are a lot of World Congress as a leading organization headlines in Ukraine that are interpreted of the Ukrainian diaspora, adding that the in one way or another, but it is important mood of not only the Ukrainian diaspora, that you hear my view on our future, and but also Ukraine in general could be felt what needs to be done to make Ukraine through the UWC. stronger and improve people’s lives,” he Official Website of Ukraine’s President “We need to organize cooperation in said. Presidents Dmitry Medvedev of Russia and Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine dur- order to improve Ukraine’s image in the (Continued on page 10) ing their meetings in Kyiv on May 17-18. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 No. 26 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS

“Putinization” of Ukraine’s Medvedko on Yushchenko poisoning Ukrainian Internal Affairs Ministry’s for- eign surveillance department and criminal security forces is under way KYIV – Procurator General Oleksander intelligence unit – Cols. Valerii Kostenko Medvedko has said the case of the poison- and Mykola Protasov, and Maj. Oleksander by Taras Kuzio the authorities and limited, negative cov- ing of former President Viktor Yushchenko Popovych – were found guilty of killing the will be investigated no matter what govern- Eurasia Daily Monitor erage to the opposition. journalist and were sentenced to 12 years The SBU is under the control of the ment is in power, adding that “nobody will (Kostenko and Popovych) and 13 years The “Putinization” seen in Ukraine’s president, according to the 1996 and 2006 take unlawful decisions.” At a press confer- (Protasov) in prison. Another suspect in the media policy is taking place also in Constitutions, and has been considered by ence in Kyiv on June 17, he also noted that case, Oleksii Pukach, the former chief of Ukraine’s “siloviki” (security forces). every president as his personal institution. “the operative and investigation group had the main criminal investigation department Both steps lead Ukraine closer to Leonid A lack of civilian oversight coupled with been fully replaced.” On September 5, at the ministry’s foreign surveillance unit, Kuchma’s semi-authoritarian regime and its large size (30,000 officers compared to 2004, Mr. Yushchenko, then a presidential was arrested in the Zhytomyr region on July Vladimir Putin’s “managed/sovereign a combined 6,000 in the United candidate, was taken ill after having dinner 21, 2009, as a result of a joint operation by democracy” in Russia. Kingdom’s MI5 and MI6) has led to the with the leadership of the Security Service the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and “Putinization” is occurring in both the misuse of the SBU by each president. of Ukraine. He was hospitalized in Vienna the Procurator General’s Office. On July 28, Internal Affairs Ministry (MVS) and the This includes SBU involvement under on September 10. Doctors said Mr. 2009, police found a fragment of a skull Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), fol- Chairman Leonid Derkach in the export of Yushchenko had been poisoned with dioxin. suspected to belong to Gongadze at a site in lowing the return of Kuchma-era discred- Soviet-era arms to conflict zones such as Moreover, they said the poison had been Bila Tserkva district of the Kyiv region, ited officials and those linked to the cor- Sierra Leone, the subject of the 2005 fic- administered five days before his hospital- after being given information by Mr. rupt gas lobby (Eurasia Daily Monitor, tional Hollywood film “Lord of War” based ization. An examination conducted late in Pukach. The journalist’s widow, Myroslava March 29, April 1). First Vice Minister of on the exploits of arms dealer Yuri Orlov May 2006 confirmed the presence of dioxin Gongadze, insisted that the DNA analysis Internal Affairs Sergei Popkov headed (played by Nicolas Cage). Mykola in Mr. Yushchenko’s body. President of the skull fragments be performed abroad, MVS internal troops when they advanced Melnychenko, a presidential guard in the Yushchenko later claimed a national deputy and to suspend the investigators studying on Kyiv on November 28, 2004, to sup- Directorate on State Defense (UDO), which from the Our Ukraine-People’s Self- press the Orange Revolution. the case. On November 28, 2000, Socialist was separated from the SBU in the early Defense faction, David Zhvaniya, was Party leader Oleksander Moroz publicized The “Putinization” of the MVS comes 1990’s, illicitly taped discussions revealing involved in his poisoning in 2004. Then in after the Party of Regions repeatedly in Parliament audiotapes that appeared to Mr. Kuchma’s apparent abuse of office, 2008, Mr. Zhvaniya claimed that Mr. implicate then-President Leonid Kuchma in attacked its alleged politicization under including the abduction and murder of jour- Yushchenko hadn’t been poisoned. In “Orange” Internal Affairs Minister Yurii the Gongadze murder. The tapes were alleg- nalist Heorhii Gongadze. No SBU officers September of last year reports appeared in edly recorded by former presidential securi- Lutsenko. After being elected, Mr. the mass media that challenged the results were ever prosecuted for the crime. ty officer Mykola Melnychenko. Yanukovych “demanded” that the MVS of the official investigation conducted by More importantly, the SBU continues International experts carried out a compre- become “apolitical” and told Internal the Procurator General’s Office, which had KGB-style political surveillance of oppo- hensive phonographic examination of the Affairs Minister Anatoliy Mogiliov that found that Mr. Yushchenko was intentional- nents – not just separatists, which every tapes, but their authenticity has not yet been “de-politicization of your work” is the ly poisoned with dioxin. (Interfax-Ukraine) intelligence agency would see as one of conclusively proved. Those who ordered key to your success (Ukrayinska Pravda, its areas of responsibility. Evidence pro- Gongadze’s murder have yet to be identi- March 11). vided to EDM points to President Viktor Skull fragments are Gongadze’s However, the MVS has become more fied. (Ukrinform) Yushchenko using the SBU against KYIV – Skull fragments found in the politicized and is undergoing a domestic opponents such as the Party of Kyiv region are those of murdered Gongadze’s mother expresses doubt “Putinization.” At his 100 days anniver- Regions and also Yulia Tymoshenko. Ukrainian journalist Heorhii Gongadze, sary meeting with the media, President KYIV – Lesia Gongadze, the mother of These sources also point to SBU surveil- Ukrainian Procurator General Oleksander Yanukovych was asked why the MVS the murdered journalist Heorhii Gongadze, lance of foreign political visitors, includ- Medvedko said at a press conference on prevented the opposition from protesting. says she is still not sure that the so-called ing this author. June 17. “The examination is over, [and] He responded that this was untrue and “Tarascha corpse” that prosecutors and An international scandal followed the we have received a positive answer,” Mr. that the MVS merely defended civic authorities claim to be her son’s really attempted intimidation of the Ukrainian Medvedko said. Gongadze, the late editor peace and halted attempts by a minority belongs to him, she said after a meeting Catholic University in Lviv, where the of the Ukrayinska Pravda web publication, to prevent the majority from living in with President Viktor Yanukovych. Ms. rector was asked to sign a statement went missing in Kyiv on September 16, peace. As stated in Ukrayinska Pravda Gongadze once again stressed that “she agreeing he would not permit students to 2000. Experts came to the conclusion that a (June 5), “A few more such comments could not bury someone else’s child as her become involved in protests (Kyiv Post, headless corpse found in a forest in [from Yanukovych] and one could think own.” News of her comments was provided May 28). The U.S. State Department and Tarascha district in the Kyiv region in that one was listening to an explanation by Hanna Herman, deputy head of the Canadian Member of Parliament Boryz November of the same year was likely to be by a Unified Russia party spokesman.” Presidential Administration, on June 22. Wrzesnewskyj condemned the SBU’s his body. The body remains unburied, as the Journalists pressed Mr. Yanukovych on The mother of the disappeared journalist interference in May 28 and June 2 state- journalist’s mother, Lesia Gongadze, has why the MVS stood in excessive numbers urged politicians not to speculate on the ments (Kyiv Post, June 3). refused to have it interred before the head is in full riot gear between his supporters The Ukrainian rector of UCU, the Rev. found. In 2008, three former officials of the (Continued on page 14) and the opposition? He replied that Dr. Borys Gudziak, described the SBU’s Berkut and Tytan special forces demands as a return to KGB tactics (Kyiv (“spetsnaz”) forces were there to prevent Post, May 28). SBU Chairman Valeriy conflict between the two sides. Khoroshkovsky ridiculed the complaints as FOUNDED 1933 Ukrayinska Pravda and other Ukrainian “political technology” used by “opponents Th e Uk r a i n i a n We e k l y media ridiculed these official explana- of the stabilization processes taking place in tions, saying there is a three-pronged anti- the state” (Komersant-Ukraina, May 31). An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., opposition strategy in place. Evidence of surveillance of communi- a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. • 1. 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NEWS ANALYSIS: Moscow ponders strategy in ‘reset’ of U.S.-Russian relations by Roger McDermott nuclear forces by preserving an approximate Defense Policy Review, the Cyber Security Eurasia Daily Monitor parity at a lower level. Developing an arms Among the Policy Review), Mr. Rogov described it as control regime, he asserts, paves the way to an “open presentation of the policy priorities Ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama build other “forms and methods of maintain- achievements of of the American leadership.” He considered meeting his Russian counterpart, Dmitry ing strategic stability in the multipolar world its innovations in terms of security, econom- Medvedev, in Washington on June 24, of the 21st century.” the reset, from the ic prosperity, promotion of “universal val- Moscow-based analysts have considered the • 3. The Obama administration has can- ues” and strengthening the role of the U.S. progress of the “reset.” celed or frozen the Ballistic Missile Defense Russian point of in the international order (Nezavisimoye In two recent articles in Nezavisimoye (BMD) plans advanced by the previous Voyennoye Obozreniye, June 17). Voyennoye Obozreniye, Sergey Rogov, administration and pursues a regional BMD view: the Obama Mr. Rogov identified the absence of the director of the U.S.A. and Canada Institute instead. “Consequently, the model of mutual administration term “mulipolar world,” as the document assessed the evolution of U.S.-Russian rela- nuclear deterrence, which Washington tried highlights Washington’s interest in interac- tions. Although he concluded that the “win- with fervor to break in the last decade, will listens to Moscow tion with key NATO allies (United dow of opportunity” is open, he implied that be preserved,” he suggested. Kingdom, France and Germany). It also the relationship remains virtual rather than • 4. Although NATO enlargement to and refuses to ig- refers to Japan, South Korea, Australia and real: “If the achievements of the past year include Georgia and Ukraine has not been others. He then considered the absence of are successfully nailed down and serious abandoned, it has given way to laying great- nore its concerns. any reference in the current strategy to progress is made in new spheres, the er emphasis upon building military coopera- NATO “expansion” or imparting “global Russian-American partnership can finally tion with Russia. functions” to the alliance. New “centers of turn from declarations into reality” • 5. Washington refuses to “recognize the Washington and Moscow become genuinely influence” that must become a greater focus (Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, CIS as a zone of Russia’s ‘privileged inter- stable and long-term” (Nezavisimoye for interaction were mentioned in the same June 11). ests,’ ” while avoiding confrontation over Voyennoye Obozreniye, June 11). order throughout the document: China, India However, as Mr. Rogov traced the the issue. He noted that Washington reacted Referring to the recently leaked foreign and Russia. Mr. Rogov implied that achievements of the reset, it is worth noting coolly to the change of government in Kyiv policy document in Moscow that floated the Washington has already downgraded the that his conceptual approach was to firmly and the subsequent Russian-Ukrainian rap- idea of pursuing closer relations with the strategic importance it attaches to its ties blame Washington for previous problems in prochement. West, Dmitry Trenin, director of the with Russia, and made a point of noting the bilateral ties. • 6. The U.S. House of Representatives Carnegie Moscow Center, stressed addition- other centers of “regional influence” listed In Mr. Rogov’s view, since the mid-1990s hearings to consider repealing the Jackson- al “rapprochement” indicators ranging from in the strategy: “including Brazil, Indonesia, Washington had presented Moscow with Vanik Amendment, resuming cooperation Russian-Polish relations to the reset. The South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and faits accompli at the latter’s expense. NATO over nuclear technologies and uncondition- image of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Kenya” (Nezavisimoye Voyennoye enlargement, unilateral withdrawal from the ally lifting U.S. sanctions against kneeling at the memorial to Polish officers Obozreniye, June 17). 1972 ABM Treaty, efforts to weaken Rosoboroneksport and MAI (Moscow murdered by Stalin’s regime in 1940 at While the U.S. National Security Strategy Russian influence within the CIS, and uni- Aviation Institute) has contributed to Katyn, or the presence of NATO troops on acknowledges the return of Russia to the lateral use of military force contrary to inter- improved economic relations (Nezavisimoye Red Square during the May 9 Victory Day international arena and that it is “speaking national law, were examples of U.S. unwill- Voyennoye Obozreniye, June 11). parade may have been symbolic, but indi- with a stronger voice,” Mr. Rogov said it ingness to build constructive relations with Mr. Rogov highlighted the level of coop- cated that Moscow is striving for closer rela- placed prime importance on nuclear weap- Russia. Mr. Rogov “overlooked” any eration reciprocated by Moscow over tions with the West. ons reduction and that Washington intends instances of Russian foreign and security Afghanistan and Iran. Equally, he pointed to Nonetheless, Mr. Trenin echoed Rogov’s “to build stable, substantive, multidimen- policy contributing to such difficulties. only achieving a working cooperative concern that the reset must not be allowed to sional relations with Russia, based on com- Proceeding from this stance, he delineated approach on such issues, since a common become purely virtual. He linked the real mon interests.” However, he then stressed six achievements in the reset, to date: stance on these remains a long way off. As test to the extent that Washington might sup- several ambiguities. For instance, the strate- • 1. Washington has abandoned its “pater- the reset continues, he acknowledged it port President Medvedev, in his attempts to gy asserts that the Obama administration nalistic tone towards Moscow.” Anti- faces domestic criticism from the modernize the Russian economy, while “supports efforts within Russia to promote Russian rhetoric has given way to a more Republican Party, as well as externally by identifying that the modernization agenda is the rule of law, accountable government and positive style: the Obama administration lis- Baltic and Eastern or Central European currently too narrowly focused. universal values,” which Mr. Rogov per- tens to Moscow and refuses to ignore its NATO members. “Within a few years, when it becomes ceived as implying “that Russia does not concerns. Mr. Rogov also tied the future pursuit of clear to the Russian leadership that modern- fully meet the criteria of a democratic state.” • 2. A new START Treaty was signed this the policy to practical progress on BMD ization conceived as technological innova- These issues are singled out as important, year, which imposes “no unilateral conces- cooperation: “Only if the BMD problem tion is too narrow to succeed, important since the new U.S. National Security sions on Russia,” and instead allows the turns from a source of conflict into a sphere choices will have to be made. Either the Strategy “will continue to be the fundamen- maintenance of the balance of strategic of cooperation will relations between scope of modernization will be broadened, tal doctrinal document of the U.S. at least or modernization will be aborted in favor of until 2013” (Nezavisimoye Voyennoye regime preservation. Forward-looking ele- Obozreniye, June 17). ments in Russia will require compelling Russian analysis of the reset, often only arguments if their case is to prevail,” Mr. superficially assesses its contours, while Gryshchenko calls for enhancing Trenin argued (The Moscow Times, June 4). many regard it in purely tactical or self- In an effort to tie the reset to a more iden- interested terms. Nonetheless, other than OSCE’s role in conflict resolution tifiable basis that might offer a durable arms control and finding a level of common OSCE Kyrgyzstan are yet another lesson we have understanding on the future course or limits interest on a range of international issues, to learn. Obviously, we should act now to of the policy, in a lengthy article in from a Russian perspective the reset is bereft VIENNA – Unresolved and potential of long-term meaningful strategy. Few strengthen the OSCE conflict prevention Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, Mr. conflicts pose the greatest threat to security expect these deeper concerns to be resolved function, and to ensure that early warning Rogov assessed the differences between the in the OSCE region and form a serious chal- U.S. National Security Strategy of the as a result of the forthcoming summit. and early action mechanisms work more lenge to the work of the Organization for Obama administration and his predecessor. effectively,” he said. Security and Cooperation in Europe, Noting the declarative element of the strate- The article above is reprinted from Mr. Gryshchenko also discussed Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister gy and linking it to other doctrinal docu- Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from Ukraine’s bid to chair the OSCE in 2013, Kostyantyn Gryshchenko told the OSCE ments (U.S. Quadrennial Defense Review, its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, saying the inspiration to launch this bid Permanent Council on June 22. the Nuclear Policy Review, the Missile www.jamestown.org. “Ukraine supports the strengthening of came from an appreciation of the OSCE’s the role of the OSCE in conflict settlement, role in strengthening regional and global security. in particular by ensuring its presence in con- Censorship has a long-term connection flict areas,” Mr. Gryshchenko said. “As chair of this organization, Ukraine “Putinization”... to the Putin regime. Igor Shuvalov, a “Sustainable and long-term settlement of would be guided by the principles of mutual Russian citizen, coordinates the news pol- protracted conflicts should be achieved by respect, equality, responsibility and transpar- (Continued from page 2) icies of Inter and State Channel 1 on peaceful means with full respect for sover- ency. We would act independently and Ukraine’s most viewed television chan- eignty and the territorial integrity of states in impartially in promoting the common inter- nel, Inter, the general director of which is behalf of the presidential administration. their internationally recognized borders.” ests of all 56 participating states in all three Mr. Khoroshkovsky’s wife, Olena, is Mr. Shuvalov was the main author of Mr. Gryshchenko said that Ukraine, dimensions. We would listen carefully to all mainly watched in Russophone eastern- “temnyky” censorship instructions sent which is a mediator along with the OSCE partners and would do our utmost to achieve southern Ukraine. Mr. Khoroshkovsky “is by the Presidential Administration in and the Russian Federation in the consensus on key issues of the OSCE agen- in charge of contacting other media own- 2002-2004 to television channels. Transdniestran settlement process, strongly da,” he said. ers to ensure a favorable TV coverage of “Putinization” of Ukraine’s siloviki is supported the prompt resumption of formal The OSCE chairmanship is decided by the new leadership” (Kyiv Post, May 7). an outcome of the Yanukovych adminis- negotiations in the “5+2” format, which consensus by the 56 participating States. Mr. Khoroshkovsky was accused of tak- tration learning the lessons of what made includes the two sides, the three mediators, Kazakhstan, which holds the 2010 ing control of the National Council on the Orange Revolution possible, neo- and the European Union and the United Chairmanship, will be succeeded by Television and Radio which controls the Soviet political culture that permeates the States as observers. Lithuania. Ireland will chair the OSCE in distribution of licenses (Ukrayinska administration, and inspiration from one- “Ukraine will continue efforts aimed at 2012. Pravda, April 2). A June 7 appeal to party rule in Donetsk and Russia. resolving the Transdniestrian conflict by The Permanent Council, one of the main President Yanukovych by Channel 5 jour- peaceful means,” he said. regular decision-making bodies of the nalists claimed that Mr. Khoroshkovsky The article above is reprinted from Conflict prevention also needs special Organization, convenes regularly in Vienna is aiming to take over its license and Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission attention, Mr. Gryshchenko said. to discuss developments in the OSCE area remove their channel (http://5.ua/ from its publisher, the Jamestown “Regrettably, recent deplorable events in and to make appropriate decisions. newsline/184//66570/). Foundation, www.jamestown.org. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 No. 26 Former astronaut Stefanyshyn-Piper speaks in Washington by Yaro Bihun and Space Administration (NASA), for Special to The Ukrainian Weekly which one did not have to be a pilot. She was accepted in 1996. WASHINGTON – Space missions by During her two flights aboard the ISS American astronauts begin with the thun- she would spend her spare time looking derous rocket launch from John F. out of the window into space and at the Kennedy Space Center on Merrit Island, earth. “It’s just a beautiful planet,” she Florida. And Capt. Heidemarie observed. She recalled the first time she Stefanyshyn-Piper of the U.S. Navy expe- recognized the Black Sea, the Dnipro rienced that excitement twice on the River and that they must have been flying Space Shuttle en route to the orbiting directly above Kyiv. “And I did take my International Space Station (ISS) – in ‘Ukrayinsky prapor’ [Ukrainian flag] with September 2006 and November 2008. In me,” she said. all, she logged more than 27 days in The normal five- to seven-person space, which included almost 34 hours of Shuttle crew would include a pilot, who extra-vehicular activities during her five would land the craft, a commander (also space walks. a pilot) and scientists, as well as other But the life journey that brought her to mechanically inclined specialists and pos- space travel began in 1963 in St. Paul, sibly a doctor. Minn. She spoke about her experiences – There were no philosophers or poets, on earth and in space – during a recent she said in response to a question. But evening discussion at the Washington she recalled moments of contemplative Yaro Bihun headquarters of the U.S.-Ukraine observations while looking at Earth and Capt. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper shares her experiences growing up in the Foundation. The June 11 presentation was its surrounding space. Ukrainian American community in St. Paul, Minn., and as a Space Shuttle astro- sponsored by the local chapter of the “You realize when you’re up there that naut, during a recent discussion at the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation in Washington. Shevchenko Scientific Society and The you are in a very harsh environment.” Next to her is the head of one of the evening’s sponsors, Dr. Borys Hlynsky of the Washington Group, an association of When one looks at the Earth from the local chapter of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Ukrainian American professionals, whose Space Station, she recalled, one sees the presidents, Dr. Borys Hlynsky and horizon and the thin shell of dark blue, One of the major and growing threats nately to a bay that was not pressurized – Andrew Bihun, chaired the event. which is its atmosphere. to the Space Shuttle and ISS is the grow- received a small, tenth-of-an-inch hole. Capt. Stefanyshyn-Piper was born in “And beyond that, space is pitch ing amount of debris in the Earth’s orbit. On the second flight, one of the windows St. Paul into – as she described it – “your black,” she said. “So you realize that The larger pieces are not as dangerous was a scratched by space debris. typical second-generation Ukrainian fam- there is not a lot that’s holding life on our as the smaller ones, she said, because Dangers to astronauts are not only ily.” She was the second of five children planet out there. And you realize that this they can be tracked and avoided. Indeed, found during space travels. An hour into and the only daughter. Her father, is our one planet.” the tool bag that she lost during one of the discussion, Dr. Hlynsky asked if any Michael, was from Ukraine; her mother, “So you come back with a greater her space walks entered the Earth’s atmo- members of the audience could spare Adelheid – from Germany. appreciation for our planet, for nature and sphere and burned up nine months later. some quarters for the parking meter that “Being Ukrainian has always been a what we’re doing to it. And you realize Both of her Shuttle flights came back was about to run out of time on Capt. big part of my life,” she recalled. “And it that we have to take care of this planet,” with some debris damage. On the first Stefanyshyn-Piper’s car, lest it be ticketed always will be.” she continued. flight, one of the Shuttle doors – fortu- or towed. “It was expected that you were going National identities and other notions to go to the ‘subotna shkola,’ ” the that separate people on Earth disappear in Ukrainian Saturday school, she said. And space, she said. There are no borders visi- OBITUARY since that Saturday school lasted only a ble from out there. “It’s one Earth, we’re half day, she added, “you had to fill up all humans, and we should be working the other half of the day with Plast and together.” dancing, and everything else. That was Capt. Stefanyshyn-Piper left NASA in Former legislator in Alberta just the way we grew up,” she said. August of 2009 and is now continuing She and her brothers were also expect- her Navy career with the Naval Sea ed to go to college – not so easily accom- Systems Command in Washington. and UCC activist Dave Broda plished in a family with five children, she In addition to numerous U.S. commen- EDMONTON, Alberta – Dave Broda, observed. So, after applying and being dations and decorations for meritorious a former Member of the Legislative accepted at the Massachusetts Institute of service, she is also the recipient of the Assembly (MLA) in Alberta and a former Technology, she decided to finance her Order of Princess Olha (third class), president of the Ukrainian Canadian education through the Naval Reserve which she received in 2007 from then- Council Alberta Provincial Council Officer Training Corps program. President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko. (UCC-APC), died on June 13. Mr. Broda She graduated from MIT in 1986 with She is married to Navy Lt. Cmdr. was a longtime volunteer and dedicated a master’s degree in mechanical engineer- Glenn Piper (retired), and they have one activist in the Ukrainian Canadian com- ing and entered the U.S. Navy as a com- son. missioned officer. Initially she served at As for the future of the U.S. space pro- munity. Pearl Harbor and then with the U.S. gram, Capt. Stefanyshyn-Piper said, it Mr. Broda was born in Waugh, Alberta, Atlantic Fleet as a qualified naval diving will continue, although it will not include to Ukrainian immigrants Mike and Annie and salvage officer. the Space Shuttle, which is scheduled to Broda. He resided in Redwater, Alberta, As it turned out, three of her four be terminated after two more flights to with his wife, Eileen. They have three brothers also chose military career paths, the ISS. After that, the Station will be grown daughters, Susan, Cindy and Trina. she said. supplied using the Russian Soyuz space- Mr. Broda served on numerous com- Capt. Stefanyshyn-Piper said she want- craft. mittees, including the Lions Club, Hockey ed to be a pilot, but could not pass the eye As for U.S.-Ukrainian cooperative Club, Multi Sports Club and Agricultural test needed to get into flight school. Then space programs, she said that there hasn’t Society, and was an active member of both the federal and provincial progres- she learned about and applied for the been much since 1997, when a Ukrainian Dave Broda astronaut program with the National Air cosmonaut flew aboard the Shuttle. sive Conservative associations. Prior to being elected an MLA for the Klein on mission to Ukraine in 2002; it constituency of Redwater in 1997 and was the first official visit to Ukraine made 2001, Mr. Broda was a councilor for the by an Alberta premier. town of Redwater for nine years and was In 2005 the UCC-APC presented Mr. appointed to the Lakeland Regional Broda with the Luchkovich Award, a rec- Health Authority in 1993-1997. He was ognition of outstanding public service by also a candidate for the federal riding of Beaver River in 1989 and 1993. a parliamentarian of Ukrainian origin, for For many years he held the positions his significant contribution and dedica- of president of the Ukrainian Catholic tion to the betterment of all Canadians. Church of Ss. Boris and Hlib in Redwater UCC National President Paul Grod and president of the Redwater and District stated, “On behalf of the Ukrainian Ukrainian Catholic Church Council. Canadian Congress and all its constituent Mr. Broda held many volunteer posi- member-organizations, I would like tions, including president of the Ukrainian to express our deepest condolences to the Canadian Congress Alberta Provincial family and friends of the late Mr. Dave Council (2004-2006). As an MLA he Broda.” Mr. Grod added, saying “Dave served as chair of the Advisory Council Broda will be remembered as a great on Alberta-Ukraine Relations (ACAUR). leader in the Ukrainian Canadian commu- During his tenure as ACAUR chair, he nity who loved Canada, his Ukrainian joined former Alberta Premier Ralph heritage and his family and friends.” No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 5 Fourth Wave in U.S.: Ukrainian language’s Russification or revitalization? by Oleh Wolowyna When I was analyzing 2000 census data on Ukrainians (persons who declared that they were of Ukrainian ancestry) in the United States, I made what looked like a surprising discovery: among all persons of Ukrainian ancestry, the per- centage speaking Ukrainian at home was smaller than the percentage speaking Russian, 13.4 percent and 14.2 percent, respectively. (These percentages are calculated on all per- sons age 5 or more, as the question on language spoken at home was asked of persons aged 5 and up). After revising my calculations to make sure they were correct, I called the U.S. Bureau of the Census in Washington, and told them that it looked that the language data on Ukrainians in the 2000 census may be incorrect. They reviewed the data and a few days later informed me that they could not find any mistakes. In the meantime I dug deeper into the data, including an analysis of the 1990 census data, and concluded that the results were correct. The analysis revealed that this was one of the consequences of the “Fourth Wave” immigration (also called “New Wave”) from Ukraine. (We define the “Fourth Wave” as persons of Ukrainian ancestry and born in Ukraine, who migrated to the U.S. between 1991 and 2006). Ukrainians have the unique distinction of probably being the only ethnic group in the United States with more people speaking a foreign language (excluding English) than people speaking their native ethnic language. But the linguistic situ- ation in Ukraine is complex and far from normal and, as we shall see, some aspects of this situation have been exported to the United States by the Fourth Wave immigrants. It is important to keep in mind the definitions used in this analysis. “Ukrainians” are all persons who declared ‘Ukrainian’ as their first or second ancestry. Language spo- ken is measured by the following question: “Does this per- son speak a language other than English at home?” One should also point out that these data capture mainly legal migrants, as illegal migrants in all likelihood avoided answering the census and survey questionnaires. Six years later, the situation has not improved; actually one can say that it has worsened. In 2006 the percentage of all Ukrainians in the U.S. who spoke Ukrainian at home has remained the same as in 2000 (13.4 percent), while the per- centage speaking Russian has increased to 15.2 percent. One of the objectives of this article is to explain how this happened. We will also describe the evolution of language spoken among Ukrainians in the U.S. between 1980 and 2006, and document the positive impact of the Fourth Wave on the linguistic situation of the Ukrainian diaspora in the U.S. Table 1 summarizes the language dynamics among Ukrainians in the U.S. since 1980. In 1980 almost 16 per- cent of all persons of Ukrainian ancestry spoke Ukrainian at Russian speakers among the immigrants and the large size Ukraine by country of destination and by nationality. As can home, while less than 2 percent spoke Russian. Ten years of the total number of these immigrants resulted in a total be seen in Table 2, in 1994 more than half of all emigrants to later the percentage speaking Ukrainian fell to 13 percent, number of Russian speakers that is higher than the total the United States were Jewish, and only starting in 1997 did while the percentage speaking Russian was a little over 2 number of Ukrainian speakers among all persons of Ukrainian became the predominant nationality in this migra- percent. In 2000 the percentage speaking Ukrainian Ukrainian ancestry. tion stream. During this period we see a trend of gradual increased slightly to 13.4 percent, while the percentage However, given the fact that a large proportion of these decrease in the number of Jewish emigrants and a gradual speaking Russian increased to more than 14 percent – sur- immigrants came from western Ukraine, where most of the increase in the number of Ukrainian emigrants. passing the percentage speaking Ukrainian. In 2006 the per- population speaks Ukrainian, the high proportion of Russian Moreover, according to the 1992 and 1993 Jewish centage speaking Ukrainian stayed the same, while the per- speakers among the New Wave requires explanation. The American Yearbooks, 16,300 Jews emigrated from Ukraine centage speaking Russian increased even further to more high proportion of Russian speakers among the immigrants to the U.S. in 1992 and 12,800 in 1993, and it is safe to than 15 percent. can be traced to the Jackson-Vanik Amendment voted unan- assume that during 1988-1991 these numbers were similar The changes observed in the percentage of Ukrainian and imously by the U.S. Congress in 1974, which put pressure or higher. Thus, between 1988 and 1993 most of the immi- Russian speakers among Ukrainians in the U.S. are the on the Soviet government to allow the emigration of refuse- grants from Ukraine to the U.S. were Jewish. As the great result of two very different processes: language assimilation niks and religious minorities, mainly Jews, from the Soviet majority (if not almost all) Jews are Russian speakers, this of U.S.-born and pre – “New Wave” immigrants, and the Union. This resulted in a massive emigration of Jews from large influx of Jewish immigrants between 1988 and 1997 is influx of a large proportion of Russian speakers among the Soviet Union to the United States and, as the data show, in part responsible for the large proportion of Russian speak- “new wave” immigrants from Ukraine. quite a few of those born in Ukraine declared in the U.S. ers among New Wave. The drop in the percentage speaking Ukrainian from 16 census that they are of Ukrainian ancestry. Table 3 illustrates the strong relationship between nativity percent in 1980 to 13 percent in 1990 reflects the normal The data allow us to estimate the number of persons who (born in the U.S. or immigrant) and immigration waves, and process of language assimilation of any ethnic group resid- migrated to the U.S. by year of arrival and by country of the percentage Ukrainian and Russian speakers among all ing outside its country of origin. birth. In 2006 the average yearly number of persons of persons of Ukrainian ancestry in the U.S. For all U.S.-born This decrease in the percentage of Ukrainian speakers Ukrainian ancestry born in Ukraine and who arrived in the Ukrainians, only 4 percent were Ukrainian speakers. was driven mainly by two processes. On the one hand, as U.S. between 1960 and 1975 was about 200. Thanks to the If we look at the survivors of the different immigration Ukrainian speakers tend to be concentrated in older ages, the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, between 1976 and 1981 this waves in 2006, we see that the proportion of Russian speak- mortality process has had a more pronounced effect on the annual average grew to about 1,150, a nearly six-fold ers is substantial even among pre-World War II immigrants. attrition of Ukrainian speakers. On the other hand, fewer increase. For persons who arrived before 1946, 10 percent were children in successive generations tend to speak the lan- After a significant drop in the next few years, a massive Russian speakers in 2006, compared to 18 percent Ukrainian guage, and this is further accelerated by the increasing num- exodus of Jews from Ukraine (as well as other Soviet coun- speakers. For persons arriving between 1946 and 1990, the ber of inter-ethnic marriages among Ukrainian in the U.S. tries) began in 1988 during the administration of Mikhail percentage Ukrainian and Russian speakers are very similar, The relatively small increase in the percentage of Russian Gorbachev. The total number of these immigrants was 2,000 while for the more recent immigrants (1991-2007), more speakers in 1990 reflects the beginning of the “New Wave” in 1988, it increased to about 8,000-9,000 thousands per than half of them are Russian speakers, compared to 35.5 immigration from Ukraine which, as will be shown below, year during 1989-1991, and reached close to 14,000 in 2000. percent Ukrainian speakers. actually started in 1988. Thus, one can say that the New Wave actually begun in In absolute numbers, we see that there were less than 500 The fact that since 2000 the percentage of Russian speak- 1988, three years before Ukraine’s independence. Ukrainian speakers left among the pre-World War II immi- ers has been larger than the percentage of Ukrainian speak- There are no complete data on the nationality of these grants in 2006, and about 25,000 among 1946-1990 immi- ers among all persons of Ukrainian ancestry in the U.S. is immigrants, but partial evidence shows that during the first grants. Ukrainian speakers among the most recent immi- due to two factors: the large proportion of Russian speaking years of this immigration wave the great majority of emi- grants (1991-2007) constitute by far the largest segment of immigrants (reflecting to some degree the linguistic situa- grants from Ukraine were Jewish. all Ukrainian speakers. With more than 66,000 people, they tion in Ukraine), and the large size of this immigration Between 1994 and 2001 the State Committee of Statistics wave. That is, the combination of a high proportion of of Ukraine (Derzhkomstat) registered legal emigrants from (Continued on page 21) 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 No. 26

Th e Uk r a i n i a n We e k l y Wishing for “stability” The foreign policy leadership in Europe and North America was eager to declare Viktor Yanukovych the winner of the February 7 presidential run-off. The Financial Times offered insight into the West’s thinking in early January, when suggesting that a Yanukovych presidency could offer a “stable Ukraine” that “can achieve economic A linguistic encounter in Kyiv reform and recovery.” When you’re visiting Ukraine this sum- “Your address,” she said. I didn’t even Yet pro-European leaders in Ukraine posed the question, “Stability at what cost?” mer, chances are you’ll come across some- care at that point that the bank was demand- Totalitarian governments, after all, offer a significant degree of stability. one like Tetiana Rudenko. ing my home address, simply in order to Western leaders now have much to consider following the first 100 days of the She’s a teller at ProCreditBank in Kyiv, exchange currencies. No other bank had Yanukovych administration. If it’s stability they wanted, they now have it in the form of which I visited on May 21 in order to dump asked me this information, but in Ukraine an authoritarian government that is aping the neo-fascist system built by Russian Prime some of my plummeting euros in exchange you adapt to dealing with such irregulari- Minister Vladimir Putin. for the more stable Ukrainian hryvnia. ties and inconsistencies when doing busi- Opposition protesters are surrounded by police, suppressed and persecuted, while I’ve been living in Kyiv for five years ness. opposition media are harassed, attacked or shut down. Analysts report the tax code and it’s inevitable that my knowledge of Incredibly enough, demonstrating a level offered by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov taxes close to everything under the sun and Russian has become quite strong. But I still of rudeness rarely encountered during my is certain to keep economic development strangled. Furthermore, few have confidence struggle when it comes to understanding five years of living in Ukraine, Ms. that the Azarov government is committed to fighting corruption, given the tainted histo- more technical terms that are employed in Rudenko continued speaking to me in ries of the Cabinet members and reports of ongoing corruption. The Internal Affairs places like hospitals and banks. (But then Russian, even after I had informed her Ministry has brought back an alarming number of corrupt police officers from the twice that I don’t speak that language. Kuchma era. Mr. Yanukovych’s policies have enraged the country’s Western oblasts again, why should I be apologizing for not It was at this point that I came to the and alienated the moderate central regions. perfecting the Russian language if I live in conclusion that this woman is either an But nowhere is the destabilization more apparent than in foreign policy. the capital of Ukraine?) utterly rude Russian chauvinist, or she’s Mr. Yanukovych’s gesture of making his first foreign trip to Brussels has turned out When Ms. Rudenko began explaining utterly incompetent and should not be to be an empty shell. In his final press conference, former President Viktor Yushchenko something to me in Russian, I politely employed at an otherwise respectable bank. predicted the very scenario for Mr. Yanukovych that is unraveling before our eyes: “His explained to her that: A. I am an American. Once the transaction was done, I sat at dialogue with the West will be more complicated, and his circumstances will push him B. I speak Ukrainian. And, C. I don’t speak the desk of a service representative and towards one plane in forming the foreign policy course, or mostly towards one plane.” Russian. It doesn’t get any clearer than this. asked to speak with the bank manager. And that certainly has happened, most notably with Mr. Yanukovych allowing the What happened next is what many Folks, whenever you ask to speak to the Russians to dock their warships for another quarter century in Sevastopol in exchange diaspora Ukrainians face when they visit boss in Ukraine, you are almost guaranteed for cheaper natural gas for Ukraine’s oligarchs. the capital city of Ukraine. The employee, to be told that he’s either in a meeting or There’s no one in the Ukrainian diaspora who wouldn’t want Ukraine to have strong, who is supposed to be offering you some not available. healthy relations with the Russian Federation. That’s precisely what President degree of quality service, continues speak- Okay, what’s his name? “Serhii Yushchenko had wanted – on the basis of two sovereign states relating to each other as ing in Russian, utterly ignoring what you Muzyka,” she said. That response drew the equals. But, as an Austrian magazine aptly put it in mid-May, Mr. Yanukovych is stand- just have said in the clearest of terms. attention of her neighbor, another service ing on his hind legs before the Russians. That was apparent during his first visit to I am not a psychologist, so I can’t representative, who corrected her: “The Moscow, when he all but apologized for visiting Brussels first. He’s compensated for explain this phenomenon on that basis. branch manager is Muzychko, Bohdan that gesture far more than necessary. Since that first visit, representatives of his admin- Indeed there are those who switch to Mykhailovych.” istration have visited Moscow 12 times, as compared to 12 visits to all other countries. Ukrainian without difficulty. Yet every I felt I was back in kindergarten. Instead Russian business, practically controlled by the Kremlin, has been given the green month or so, I come across someone like I was the teacher, wanting to find out who light to launch takeovers of steel plants, shipbuilding factories and what’s left of Ms. Rudenko. shot the spitball behind my back. Ukraine’s nuclear industry. (However, the Azarov government has resisted the Russian They never say, “I’m sorry, but I don’t And here were the service representa- government’s repeated enticements to merge Naftohaz Ukrainy with Gazprom, which speak Ukrainian.” That would either be too tives, covering up for each other, “sovok”- would eliminate the independence of Ukraine’s natural gas transit and supply system.) embarrassing to admit, or it would be a style. In Soviet schools, it was considered Mr. Azarov has said he hopes to sign an Association Agreement and Free Trade bold-faced lie. Instead they prefer to ignore honorable to cover up for your mischievous Agreement with the European Union by the end of the year. But joining the EU is not you. Perhaps they hope you’ll just go away. friends, or help them cheat on a test. just about signing documents. As former Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Valeriy Perhaps they pretend they didn’t hear what Notions that Soviet education was equal to Chalyi pointed out, Euro-integration is a civilization choice. And the Yanukovych you just told them. the American system are unfounded, in my administration’s suppression of civil rights and media freedoms is antithetical to In any case, it’s an utterly bizarre behav- view. Western, European values. ior you wouldn’t come across in any half- But it’s a reflection of how utterly sad The first 100 days of the Yanukovych administration have demonstrated that the civilized country. the situation is in Ukrainian society, when West should have been careful what it wished for... I believe they ignore you because 350-plus years of Russian rule have incul- bank representatives are covering up for an cated in the minds of Ukrainians – not only employee that refused to acknowledge the on an unconscious level but to the extent Ukrainian language, rather than encourage that it’s imprinted in their genes – that her to act like a polite, civilized human July Turning the pages back... speaking Ukrainian is for villagers and rad- being. icals. Normal people speak Russian. It’s very sad to see the result of 300 Furthermore, Russian supremacy has years of Russian imperialism and 70 years 3 been ingrained in the minds of Ukrainians of Soviet totalitarianism still encoded in the genes of Ukrainians. Last year, on July 3, 2009, doctors in Munich declared that John that it’s natural to request service in the Russian language, or other foreign lan- So I sent my letter of complaint to both 2009 Demjanjuk was fit to stand trial. Mr. Demjanjuk, 90, was accused Serhii Muzyka and Bohdan Muzychko, not of being a guard at the Sobibor concentration camp and an acces- guages at that, but it’s utterly unacceptable to ask for in the peasant Ukrainian tongue. being sure of who the branch manager real- sory in the deaths of thousands of victims of the Holocaust. ly was. The court appearances, the doctors advised, would be limited to two 90-minute sessions Ms. Rudenko was having trouble with something, so she called a co-worker to Impressively enough, I received a call per day. just two days after sending my letter from “It is important that Demjanjuk, who actively participated in the implementation of the help figure it out. Then she continued speaking to me in Russian, at which point- Taras Omelchenko, the director of the Final Solution, finally receive as appropriate punishment,” said Efraim Zuroff of the Simon bank’s quality service division. Wiesenthal Center. ed I stated (in a much firmer tone): “I am a citizen of the U.S. and I don’t speak He apologized for the incident, stating it John Demjanjuk Jr., the accused’s son, released a statement on July 3, 2009, to the news would be reviewed at the next committee media: “We will vigorously dispute the prosecutor’s decision in the Munich court. We know Russian. I speak Ukrainian, and if you can’t speak Ukrainian with me, then I will find meeting. He acknowledged that the the German doctors have determined my father has about 16 months to live due to his incur- ProCreditBank employees acted “unprofes- able leukemic bone marrow disease, myclodisplastic syndrome. another bank.” This prompted Ms. Rudenko’s co-work- sionally.” “It took seven years to litigate an indictment on Sobibor and Treblinka in Israel, which He said the practice at ProCreditBank is resulted in an acquittal on all charges. With less than a year and a half for my father to live, a er to answer. Yet she began speaking in what’s known as “surzhyk,” which is the to serve the client in the language which he career-seeking German prosecutor is hastily pressing forward with a 100 percent politically or she address you. If the employee can’t motivated effort to blame Ukrainians and Europeans for the crimes of Germans. utterly deplorable tendency of central Ukrainians to mix their Ukrainian with speak the client’s language, he or she ought “This has nothing to do with bringing anyone to justice or fitness for trial. My father will to call an employee capable of speaking the Russian words. not live to fairly litigate the matter as he has successfully done before. They will now file language. (I didn’t ask if this rule applies to My view is, if you’re going to speak, sensational charges to make headlines that could never withstand a fair test of litigation. English, German or even Albanian for that choose a darn language and stick with it. There will be no evidence of even one specific murder because he has never harmed anyone matter.) No need to mutilate two languages at the in his life.” But then, Mr. Omelchenko ruined an same time. The statement continued that Mr. Demjanjuk was a victim of the Germans during the sec- otherwise perfect response to the situation. After recovering from the shock of a ond world war, when he was a captured Red Army prisoner of war. He offered the excuse that ProCreditBank supposedly educated person speaking to Mr. Demjanjuk was officially charged on July 13, 2009, and his trial in Munich began on has opened many branches in eastern me in “surzhyk,” I was at the end of my November 30, 2009. Since the trial began at least a half dozen sessions had been cancelled Ukraine, where the native tongue is wits, about to demand my money and leave due to Mr. Demjanjuk’s medical issues. On June 18 of this year, the regional superior court Russian, many of whose residents have the bank, when I decided to give it one last extended the final hearing, scheduled for September 14 until December 22, 2010. come to work in Kyiv. try. “Scho vam potribno?,” I uttered with Source: “Demjanjuk declared fit to stand trial,” The Ukrainian Weekly, July 12, 2009. my last gasp of breath. (Continued on page 22) No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The things we do ... because their sucess was due to the inter- by Orysia Paszczak Tracz Russia’s “return” action of the government with the private citizen – e.g., the Internet is credited to and the Churches many scientists working with the Department of Defense. Our medicine is Dear Editor: advanced, our meat is safe, and our toilets Singing the bittersweet In reference to the article by Dr. Myron flush not because of government control, Kuropas, “The Russian ‘return’ returns” but because of government regula- tion. Pharmaceuticals manufacture our So much can be said in songs. Any feel- This guy’s got it bad, and he is truly (June 13): It is obvious that Patriarch ing, any expression comes through, espe- patient and devoted. Kirill of Moscow seeks to bring the drugs, farms raise our livestock, and Kohler made my toilets. cially when the melody and the lyrics are a The song continues that not all orchards Ukrainian Churches, be they Greek- good fit. The joy, the sorrow, the melan- that are in bud later bloom, and not all cou- Catholic or Orthodox, under his authori- Mr. Obama wants control, not regula- tion; he wants to dictate, not to oversee. choly, the bitterness – any and all emotion is ples who are in love become engaged. One- ty. Moreover, he is working to wrest the reflected in one of the infinite number of There is a profound difference. Socialism half of the orchard blooms drop off before mitre from Constantinople and move that Ukrainian folk songs. has many paths and they do not all lead to fully flowering – and one couple marries, seat to Moscow, so that when it comes to I am amazed at the unbelievably beauti- the gulag. Mr. Fedynsky should be while another parts. This song is exquisitely dealing with the Roman Church it will be ful melodies of our songs – and their vari- ashamed to imply that socialism has one poignant in its lush melody and in the toe to toe as equals. This is the status and ety. It is absolutely impossible to choose main direction – this is an abuse of our directness of its lyrics. primacy he wants and is working toward. just one favorite. sorrowful history. Another song (ah, there are so many...) On the other hand, it is disappointing Recently I was listening to a wonderful Mr. Fedynsky is very clever at avoid- that is beautifully melancholy and carries that Rome continues to deny Cardinal CD, “Chary Ukrains’koho Bahatoholossia” ing Mr. Obama’s foreign policy which a message is “Iz-za Hory Kamianoyi” Lubomyr Husar the title of patri- (The Magic of Ukrainian Polyphony), a appeases the Russians while all (From Beyond the Rocky Mountain). arch. Why? Church politics. Rome does compilation of multi-part Ukrainian folk Ukrainians get are “consultation This one is universal, about (pardon the not want to stir the waters between it and songs by prominent choirs and ensembles, bluntness) aging and regretting not appre- Moscow. Now, if on his visit to Ukraine calls” from the State Department. If this produced by Volodymyr Katsan. The sing- ciating one’s youth and the past. The Pope Benedict XVI not only beatifies is all I got for supporting this man I ing, the harmony, the voices, and the melo- doves fly from beyond the rocky moun- Ukrainian martyrs and makes Cardinal would feel like a “useful idiot” (to use dies are out of this world. Most of the songs tain, the years are passing and I have not Husar patriarch as well, he would certain- Lenin’s term). are familiar and are such a joy to hear. had a luxurious life. Let us harness the ly be sending a strong and clear message Lydia Kossak Kernitsky As I listened to one of them, I thought basking horses and go chase and catch up to Moscow that the Church in Ukraine is Colts Neck, N.J. about how much is conveyed, via both mel- to my young years. just that. End of conversation! ody and lyrics. There is the basic story, in a Father Michael Fill few parts, and the symbolism and meta- éÈ ‰Ó„̇ÎË Î¥Ú‡ ÏÓª Philadelphia phors that enhance it. ç‡ Í‡ÎËÌÓ‚¥Ï ÏÓÒÚ¥, News from Ukraine “Oy u Poli Try Krynychenky” starts out éÈ ‚ÂÌ¥Ú¸Ò Î¥Ú‡ ÏÓª, with the young man loving three young ïÓ˜ ‰Ó ÏÂÌ ‚ „ÓÒÚ¥. and the diaspora women, dark-haired one, a blonde, and a Re: Obama redhead one (the ugly one). We’ll leave ç ‚ÂÌÂÏÓÒ¸, Ì ‚ÂÌÂÏÓÒ¸, Dear Editor: the problem of his three-timing and of the ÅÓ ÌÂχ ‰Ó ÍÓ„Ó, and socialism red-haired stigma for another time. The í‡ ·ÛÎÓ · Ì‡Ò ¯‡ÌÛ‚‡ÚË, Day by day, the news from Ukraine song skips to the girl he really loves, tell- goes from bad to worse. The latest is üÍ Á‰ÓÓ‚Î Ò‚Ó„Ó. Dear Editor: ing him not to go to the Crimea for salt intimidation of the Rector of Ukrainian (he’s a Chumak, a salt-trader), because he I found my youthful years I confess that I am impressed with Catholic University (UCU) in Lviv by the will return to find her a matron. He’s been On the kalyna (viburnum) bridge Andrew Fedynsky’s attempt agents by the SBU (read KGB). taking so long to decide, she’ll just marry And asked them to return to me, (“Socialism?” May 23) to influence The residents of Lviv have suffered someone else. The translation just does At least for a visit. Ukrainian readers to come to an extraor- enough from the KGB during many years not do justice to the simplicity and beauty dinarily naive and inaccurate conclusion. of Soviet occupation. Is that suffering to of his reply. He first reminds readers how greatly be continued under the pseudo-Ukrainian We will not return, Ukrainians suffered through two very dif- government of Viktor Yanukovych? ã˛·Ë‚  Ú· ‰¥‚˜ËÌÓ˛, There is no one to return to. ferent forms of socialism – communism President Yanukovych has usurped ã˛·ËÚ¸ ·Û‰Û ÏÓÎÓ‰ËˆÂ˛, You should have taken care of us and and Nazism. Using the emotion of this political power by disregarding and vio- í‡ ˘Â È ÚÓ„Ó ‰Ó˜Â͇˛Ò, respected us painful memory, he tries to manipulate lating the Constitution of Ukraine by sim- èÓÍË Òڇ̯ Û‰Ó‚ËˆÂ˛. As you would have taken care of your the reader to conclude that since President ply buying half a dozen or so national health… Barack Obama is neither a Communist deputies in the Parliament to achieve a I loved you when you were an unmarried nor a Nazi, there is no way we can call ruling majority. And then he surrendered girl, Enough said. Now if we would only listen his progressive political agenda “social- national interests to the Kremlin and is in Will love you as a matron [i.e., someone to wise eternal advice... ism.” Indeed he is “insulted” at the very the process of eradicating the Ukrainian else’s wife] thought of calling Mr. Obama a “social- national identity to please the Russians. And I will wait until it happens Orysia Tracz may be contacted at ory- ist.” It is an old story that has been played That you become a widow. [email protected]. Not every socialist country is a totali- out on steppes of Ukraine many times tarian regime. There are many social before. It starts with intimidation by democracies – most in Western Europe; goons with guns and ends with the physi- leaders of these countries are proud to cal extermination of the cultural elite as call themselves Socialists. Many parties well as the nationally conscious segment New website features petition include the word socialist in their name. of the Ukrainian population, sometimes Why, then, is he so afraid to call Mr. with help of famine. Is Ukraine on the for removal of Stalin statue Obama a Socialist? Could it be that these same track again? PARSIPPANY, N.J. – As outrage of the Interior Department.” socialist governments are failing before Somehow Ukraine has survived such continues over the installation of a stat- The petition asks Secretary Salazar our eyes and their destruction is what is assaults on its statehood, culture and dig- ue of Joseph Stalin at the National to ensure that, should the memorial spreading fear through America? nity in the past. Maybe it will survive the D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va., the park be transferred to the National Park There are many ways of implementing Yanukovych administration. Mr. Victims of Communism Memorial Service, “no bust or statue of Stalin a socialist agenda, but the main precepts Yanukovych has staked a lot on Russia, Foundation has launched a new web- will be included or allowed; in so act- remain the same: redistribution of wealth, mortgaging the national interests of site, called “No Stalin Statue: Stalin ing, the National D-Day Memorial and control of health, education and Ukraine in the process. But Ukraine is not Does Not Belong at the National Foundation and Interior Secretary financial institutions. This exact agenda Russia, and Russia is not Ukraine. D-Day Memorial.” The key feature of Salazar will safeguard the sacred mem- is the “change” Mr. Obama promised It is well-known that in Ukraine it is this new website is an online petition ory of D-Day for ourselves, our veter- America. As he is implementing his the money that controls the power, but in to remove the statue. ans, and future generations.” agenda at warp speed, most American cit- Russia it is the power that controls the As of June 23, over 1,300 people The website also includes a page of izens are realizing that these are not the money. Those are diametrically opposed have signed the petition, urging the links to recent articles about the con- principles on which this country was political systems and, in the end, Mr. National D-Day Memorial Foundation troversial statue and the protests sur- founded on and this is also spreading fear Yanukovych and his business cohorts “to remove the bust of Stalin from the rounding it, as well as a page dedicated through America. Obamacare, govern- from the Donbas are going to lose it all grounds of the memorial immediately.” to information about Stalin and com- ment takeover of the auto industry and the same way that Russian business clans The petition is addressed also to U.S. ments from visitors to the webpage. financial institutions, and heavy progres- lost it all under Vladimir Putin. Where all Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Dr. Readers may explore the website sive income tax to offset the trillions in of this will leave Ukraine, nobody knows. Lee Edwards, chairman of the Victims of and sign the online petition by visiting debt are all socialist policies. These are In the meantime, for us in diaspora, the Communism Memorial Foundation, www.stalinstatue.com. Readers may among the policies propounded by Karl preservation of Ukrainian culture, lan- explained that the foundation has choose to merely sign the petition, or Marx right in his Manifesto. guage and history again falls on our “included Secretary Salazar because the have their names and comments dis- Next Mr. Fedynsky tries to pass off shoulders. D-Day Memorial Foundation has indi- played on the website for other visitors government control as “cooperation.” If cated it wants to transfer the memorial to to read. you look at the history of his examples Ihor Lysyj the National Park Service, which is a part – Tyrssa Korduba they are all remarkable precisely Austin, Texas 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 No. 26 Ukrainian Catholic University honors its local and international donors by Petro Didula The scholarship fund is named after and Matthew Matuszak Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and “it’s not an accident that this fund originated LVIV – Local and international donors within the walls of UCU,” said Yaroslav of the Ukrainian Catholic University Kharysh, a member of the Lviv Friends (UCU) converged on Lviv over the week- of UCU. “For here breathes the spirit of end of May 29-30 both to celebrate and to the Church, which our great metropolitan be honored. On May 29 UCU held its himself lived… We have the great honor third annual charity folk-ball, “Perelaz” to join in this noble spirit of philanthro- (Neighborly Fences), and on May 30 it py.” unveiled a plaque honoring its major A divine liturgy celebrated in the donors from 1994 through 2009. Church of the New Martyrs of the According to Andriy Kurochka, senior Ukrainian Catholic Church, UCU’s wood- project manager at UCU’s Development en chapel near Stryiskyi Park, began the Department, Perelaz was a great success. ceremonies on May 30 to honor UCU’s “This year 150 people participated in the major donors from throughout the world. event,” said Mr. Kurochka, “including The guests then had a chance to become representatives from the diaspora in the acquainted with the university’s plans to U.S. and Canada. The guests enjoyed lis- build dormitories and other structures on tening to old Ukrainian songs performed the site. Then they attended the unveiling by the famous Ukrainian group Bozhychi and blessing of a plaque honoring major and had an opportunity to practice already benefactors, constructed under the motto: forgotten old folk dances.” “We were in need and you supported us. The event raised some 230,000 hrv With gratitude we pray for you.” (more than $32,000 U.S.) – more than Pavlo Khobzei, head of the Lviv twice the amount raised in 2009 for a Regional Board of Education, “UCU scholarship fund to allow “talented but shows us how it is necessary to have pro- needy students to acquire a good educa- found faith and faithfully serve Ukraine.” tion in a corruption-free environment,” as “UCU is an institution that makes Lviv The Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak, rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, blesses Mr. Kurochka put it. The event also better, that gives an example for the devel- the choir singing at the unveiling of a plaque in honor of UCU benefactors. included a charitable auction of paintings, opment of learning and of spirituality,” a lottery, “lots of entertainment for the said Oleksii Poburko, director of the within the walls of this institution with its Further information about UCU (in kids” and a reception. Department of Humanitarian Policy of the great spiritual treasures will help raise English and Ukrainian) is available on the “Our university, which has 1,300 stu- Lviv City Council. He noted the active intelligent and exemplary leaders for our university’s website at www.ucu.edu.ua. dents, and serious educational and pub- role of the university’s students in various Ukraine.” Readers may also contact the Ukrainian lishing programs, has a much greater goal social actions organized in the city. The festivities ended with a student Catholic Education Foundation, the larg- than only to be an educational or research Lubomyr Zielyk, chairman of the performance of “The Second Letter to est supporter of UCU’s annual operating institution,” said the Rev. Borys Gudziak, board of directors of Self Reliance (NY) Timothy, Online Version,” in which the budget, at: 2247 W. Chicago Ave., Ph.D., rector of UCU, as he opened Federal Credit Union, presented a gift of director and actors, on the basis of the Chicago, IL 60622; 773-235-8462; or Perelaz. “The goal of our work and prayer $25,000 for UCU. Oresta Fedyniak, chair text of the epistle of St. Paul the Apostle, [email protected]. The UEF’s website is that these interpersonal relations, for of the Self Reliance Foundation of Self modeled the hypothetical conditions of its is located at www.ucef.org. The phone which we were created in the image and Reliance Ukrainian American Federal creation, transferring the location of its number of the UCEF in Canada is likeness of God, may help conquer that Credit Union (Chicago), presented a gift activities to the modern world. 416-239-2495. fear that reigns in our society.” of $10,000, emphasizing that “instruction

The third annual charity folk-ball “Perelaz,” held in Lviv on May 29, included lots of enthusiastic dancing.

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SS. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church Ambridge, PA. (16 miles NW of Pittsburgh) Contact Nadine Palichat for details—724-601-1877 www.ukrainianheritagefestival.org No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 9 Voices of the laity: The present and future of U.S. Ukrainian Catholic Church by Anisa Handzia Sawyckyj important to hear in the future are those of the “C & E Christians,” who attend church NEW YORK – For more than a century, only on Christmas and Easter, or those as waves of Ukrainian immigration to the who for various reasons have drifted away United States have ebbed and flowed, the from the Church, whether through conve- Ukrainian Catholic Church in the U.S. has nience, preference for another faith, inter- always adapted to the changing nature of marriage, indifference to religion, or a the Ukrainian American communities it spiritual quest that, for whatever reason, served. As the Church moves into its sec- could not be satisfied in the Church of ond century of existence in the U.S., ques- their birth. tions arise: How is the Church doing Hopefully, the time will come for shar- today? How will it deal with the challeng- ing all these untold stories and points of es that it may face in its second century on view. The Ukrainian Catholic Church in this continent? the U.S. needs to hear the voices of all her Today, after all, in addition to ethnic children. assimilation, which it already had to face in earlier decades, the Church must also deal PART I with the reality of an increasingly secular As a member of the Ukrainian Catholic culture. Also, with the establishment of Church in the U.S., what do you think are Ukraine’s independence and the creation of the major challenges facing the Church a Patriarchal structure de facto (not yet rec- today? What needs to be done to help it Myron Melnyk Maria Olynec ognized as de jure by the Vatican), Ukrainian survive in the future? (Asked of members Catholic Churches on all continents must of the audience who attended the May 1 adjust to a new dynamic, realigning their Roundtable in New York City on “Eastern relationships with each other and with the Churches in North America: Between patriarchal center in Kyiv. Ethnocentrism and Assimilation.” An additional challenge for the Ukrainian Catholic Church today is jug- gling the sometimes competing needs and Church must adapt tastes of its multi-layered congregations: Myron Melnyk, consulting business the descendants of the second immigration owner, New Haven, Conn. has been a (“stari imigranty”) of the 1920s and 1930s; parishioner at St. Michael’s Ukrainian the political émigrés of the post-World Catholic Church in New Haven, for 39 War II period and their progeny; and final- years. He has also served as Director of ly, the new immigrants of the most recent the School of Ukrainian Studies in New Fourth Wave. Haven for over 30 years. In the midst of these developments, the voices of the Ukrainian Catholic laity reg- The future of the Ukrainian Catholic ister loudly and clearly. What emerges Church in the U.S. does not look positive from the interviews here are the thought- except for those parishes experiencing a ful, measured opinions of the dedicated large influx of new Ukrainian immigrants. faithful, whose love for their Church and Of the post-World War II immigration, my decades of service speak for themselves. parents’generation, a very large proportion Svitlana Makhno Svitlana Andrushkiw Statistics or concepts tell an important – let’s say 75 percent – were active in story, but sometimes the individual experi- Church life. For my generation, that rate is The Church will survive into the future, spiritual sustenance. ence can give special meaning or sub- well under 50 percent. For future genera- but it will be a very different institution. There are great opportunities out there stance to the numbers and, in the process, tions, the numbers will continue to decline. My hope is for the Ukrainian language to for learning more about the spirituality of bring insight and understanding of both The forces of assimilation and globaliza- be maintained in church services as long our Eastern Church. For example, in addi- the individual and the whole. tion are unrelenting. as possible but it will become increasing tion to a weekend cantors’ program, the In a two-part series of interviews Myron The Church has been slow to adapt to difficult to do so. There inevitably will be Stamford Diocese offered a weekend sem- Melnyk looks at past history, present trends this changing environment. Part of the more English and also more non-Ukraini- inar on Eastern Christian Studies at St. and future projections; Maria Olynec points problem is that the newer priesthood itself an parishioners. On the positive side, in Basil College Seminary in March which to courses and texts on the Eastern Christian seems less committed to building my direct experience these parishioners was open to the public. Also, there are cat- tradition; Svitlana Makhno explains the Ukrainian community and parish life. They have proven to be quite an asset to our echetical workshops taking place through- Church experience of many Fourth Wave perform their pastoral functions efficiently, local parish here in New Haven. out the eparchy, with excellent books immigrants from Ukraine; Svitlana but their work is more perfunctory than the While the patriarchal structure is cur- available for viewing or purchase. Another Andrushkiw suggests what is needed for work of the older generation of priests, rently largely in place in our Church in option is the annual Sheptytsky Institute mixed-marriage couples. whose very heart and soul lay in their both form and practice, communication Study Days at St. Paul University in Natalie Gawdiak, a former Roman priesthood and with their people. between the different levels of authority Ottawa, Ontario, at the end of June, which Catholic, urges a return to the Ukrainian As we all know, a good priest can make could be improved, especially with the in 2009 drew more than 200 people of all Catholic Church’s Eastern traditions; Jurij a world of difference. One way to develop laity, who have traditionally played an ages to this foremost center for Eastern Dobczansky shows one parish’s path to and expand a talent pool of excellent priests active role in Church affairs. A more open, Christian Studies in North America. religious renewal; Iryna Zaluzhna Lencyk is to actively permit a married clergy, a engaged, and autonomous patriar- In addition to education, good commu- recalls the dynamism of the Church in longstanding tradition within our Church. chal Church could more effectively minis- nication among laity, priests and bishops is Lviv; and Dr. Leonid Rudnytzky cites the To properly minister to an increasingly edu- ter to the disparate needs of its faithful also very important in helping the Church benefits of an active laity and a strong cated and professional laity, it goes without even as they become more widely dis- to stay strong and to grow. I think we laity patriarchal structure. saying that the clergy needs to continue persed around the world. Official recogni- of the Stamford diocese are fortunate to The interviewees here represent a cross- educational and spiritual development tion by the Vatican of a Ukrainian have access to our Bishop Paul section of the audience attending the May through in-service training programs. Patriarchate would be a strategic gain for Chomnycky, who often visits various par- 1, roundtable in New York City on the Spiritual and religious education for our Church and would be beneficial to its ishes of his diocese, worships with us and topic of the Eastern Churches in North children and adults at the parish level is long-term survival. wants to be with his people. He is very America, an event sponsored by the another area that needs significant approachable and involved. Patriarchal Society in the U.S.A. in keep- strengthening. Beyond the basics, we need Learning about our faith Our faith offers answers to many ques- ing with its goal of promoting discussion to learn more about the richness of our tions in our lives, but we have to make an of important Ukrainian Catholic Church Eastern spirituality, our distinctive Maria Harasymowycz Olynec, music effort to seek out these answers. A cate- issues. Ukrainian Catholic identity, and the differ- teacher, Floral Park, N.Y. has been a parish- chism by the Synod of Bishops of the This is obviously a group of laity that is ences between Eastern and Western ioner at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Ukrainian Catholic Church called “Christ self-selected for high involvement with the Church traditions. Church in Hempstead, Long Island, since Our Pascha” is soon to be published. A Church. Out of the eight interviewees, six The Church can also do a much better 1971 and its choir director since 1986. In good start now can be the Eastern Catholic were from the post-World War II immigra- job in leading its followers to live out their 2007 she graduated from University of Bishops’ catechism for adults called “Light tion, and two were relatively recent arriv- faith on a daily basis, by actively engaging Ottawa/St. Paul University with a Certificate for Life,” (God With Us Publications, als from Ukraine. its members in helping those most in need of University Studies in Theology, focusing 1994), which is approved and widely used A different sample, focusing more spe- amongst us – whether it is recently arrived on Eastern Christian Studies. in our Church. Do not feel you are alone in cifically on descendants of the first and Ukrainian families, orphanages in Ukraine your quest. Your parish priest is there to second immigrations, or on the Fourth or other countries, or its own parishioners. I think that religious education is a key help you along. Wave, would no doubt produce a different The fast-growing evangelical churches in factor in helping Church members to stay Sometimes answers are available to us array of views. the U.S. are successful because they are committed and involved with their Church, but we are not ready to hear them. Spiritual However, the stories that are no less tapping into a vast reservoir of spiritual as well as in bringing new members into growth is a very individual thing, involv- idealism – they are promoting social jus- our Church to insure its future growth. ing timing, circumstances, and most of all, Anisa Handzia Sawyckyj writes on tice and Christian love, thereby more Teaching about our faith is important not divine grace. community affairs from New York City. effectively communicating Christ’s teach- just for children of the parish. Adult church Her e-mail address is [email protected]. ings by practicing what they preach. members at all stages of their lives need (Continued on page 18) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 No. 26

Verkhovna Rada. Dr. Shcherbak was the Ukraine, it automatically becomes one.’” they will. Opposition... first chair of the Green Party in the late In the event that anyone has any doubt as Furthermore, he added, members of the (Continued from page 1) 1980s and is a published author. He con- to Russia’s intentions, Dr. Shcherbak cited Yanukovych administration, deep in their Kyiv-based Institute for Euro-Atlantic tinues to write and recently published a the recent statements made by the new souls, are afraid of another Orange Integration. lengthy political analysis in the newspaper Russian ambassador to Ukraine, in which Revolution and, Mr. Chalyi surmised, fear In his opening statement, Mr. Tarasyuk Den in which he described a strategy by the ambassador claimed, “Russia and the electorate more than they fear offered an analogy between the UACCNJ Moscow that he calls “Operation Destroy Ukraine are not fraternal peoples, rather, the Moscow. and the situation in Ukraine. “Here, in this Ukraine.” same people, with only some slight histori- As he answered questions, Mr. Chalyi wonderful center, you have united the “This operation,” Dr. Shcherbak stated, cal variances and nuances between them.” commented that everyone is feeling beauty of tradition with a modern building “was instigated by then-President Vladimir In all the years and places that he and Moscow’s hard pressure in Ukraine. “The and services. Ukraine, too, needs to unite Putin in 2005 and for the past five years Mr. Tarasyuk have served as ambassadors, reaction will not come only from average its tradition with modern approaches. has been implemented by the security and noted Dr. Shcherbak, neither remembers folk,” he said, “since people such as [oli- Moreover, what unites you, our friends intelligence services of Russia. Putin’s any other incident as outrageous and in garch Rinat] Akhmetov are feeling strong here, with us in Ukraine is our mutual love fury at the Orange Revolution and the violation of all diplomatic protocol. This pressure, as well.” and deep concern, even fear – for what is thwarting of his well-laid plans was obvi- complete lack of respect for Ukraine’s More than anything, he said, polls show happening in Ukraine. You have heard us ous then and, with the current blitzkrieg sovereignty and flaunting of diplomatic that Ukrainians want stability, and for that thank you before, but I must say it again, from Moscow against Ukraine, is very protocol with no reaction from the there must be some sort of unity. we bow before the diaspora in our thanks clear now.” Yanukovych government should be heeded “However,” he added, “the opposition for your efforts – everything from support Speaking with intensity, Dr. Shcherbak as fair warning of Moscow’s position with must avoid strategies such as regressing of human rights, the fight for indepen- said he feels that U.S. government officials regard to Ukraine, he emphasized. into a narrow cocoon or perpetuating an dence and the struggle to make our inde- seem not to comprehend or are unwilling As a final point to underscore Moscow’s us/them divide. Ukraine will not lose its pendence complete.” to comprehend that there is a major power influence, Dr. Shcherbak pointed out that language or its culture. However, Ukraine shift under way in Europe, away from U.S. He continued: With your help we all three speakers were Ukrainian diplo- genuinely is very pluralistic. We really interests. “We understand that Ukraine obtained embassies in many places world- mats, all have worked for European and must embrace this.” does not rate any attention in the U.S. at wide. Ukraine did not have the money to North Atlantic integration for years, and He said his biggest concern is that the moment, and that would be fine,” he establish representation internationally. then “in a day, we saw what happened – an Ukraine is losing its tempo regarding stated, “if we were, let’s say, Denmark, Your help was essential and, therefore, it announcement that Ukraine would no lon- European integration. “Yanukovych has which also does not rate much attention must be said again – thank you. … In 19 ger be pursuing this direction.” effectively ended the two-vector strategy from the U.S. government. However, our years, we have much of which to be proud. The final speaker, Mr. Chalyi served in to which Ukraine’s foreign policy has situation is not Denmark. These past 100 We have created an infrastructure of power the administration of President Leonid adhered for two decades,” he said. days have turned around the situation in and governance, transformed our military, Kuchma and until recently had been a Furthermore, Prime Minister Mykola Ukraine 180 degrees.” which participates in international peace- vice-minister of foreign affairs in the Azarov has the largest government in Answering questions, Dr. Shcherbak keeping efforts, invigorated civil society – administration of President Yanukovych. Europe, with 27 ministers, seven vice- stated that he cannot understand how the even to the point where the Orange However, he resigned his position in May ministers, and not a single woman in a United States does not see that Russia is Revolution was possible. These are great because he does not agree with the new Cabinet position. “This absolutely sends exerting all efforts to push American influ- direction of Ukraine’s foreign policy. Now the wrong message,” stated Mr. Chalyi, achievements.” ence out of Europe and is re-establishing a As he continued, Mr. Tarasyuk’s tone Mr. Chalyi is the deputy director general “the message that Ukraine is a backward Russia-Germany power axis that will com- of the Razumkov Center, a highly regarded country, which is completely untrue.” then changed and he spoke with a tinge of pletely change geopolitical and geo-eco- controlled anger in his voice about the policy and research institute in Kyiv. Ukraine’s roadmap of the past 20 years nomic relations. Mr. Chalyi said he agrees that current has suffered a detour, commented Mr. missed opportunities during the past five “I am a student of history,” said Mr. years to consolidate Ukraine. He criti- changes are dramatic and not necessarily Chalyi, “however, I am convinced that we Shcherbak, “and I remember the war. We in Ukraine’s interest, but remains uncon- have not lost our way, and within five cized the former president, Viktor have seen this kind of German-Russian Yushchenko, stating, “I completely lack vinced that Ukraine’s statehood is pro- years we will return to the right direction.” power axis before, and we know what it foundly threatened. Rather, he emphasized The presentation in northern New the capacity and logic to comprehend the can do. Russia and Germany have had actions of this man.” there is an entire new generation that grew Jersey was the first of several meetings strategic partnerships in every recent cen- up with only an independent Ukraine. with the Ukrainian American community He accused the opposition of being little tury, and it has never been good for Europe “hetmanchyky” and this factionalization “Personally, I believe that we will not in New York City and Philadelphia on or Ukraine. As for Germany, the worst bat- return, because we cannot return, to the June 20, followed by several days of meet- extended to lack of support for Yulia tles, the longest occupation, was on Tymoshenko. “I am convinced she would previous state of affairs,” he said. ings with government and business repre- Ukrainian territory. Eight and half million “However, we are at fault, all of us, for the sentatives in Washington, as well as a pre- have won if it were not for the so-called dead, and now Germany has completely ‘support’ of her fellow democrats,” he current state of affairs in Ukraine, which I sentation by Dr. Shcherbak at the forgotten about Ukraine. And this relation- admit, is very difficult,” he admitted. Ukrainian Museum-Archives in Cleveland said. “Now no one is willing to take ship between Putin and [German According to the results of polls con- on June 24. responsibility for their actions and for their Chancellor Angela] Merkel, it is a clear ducted by his institute, the divide in Prof. Emeritus Taras Hunczak of failures and all the multiple little opposi- attempt to push the U.S. out of Europe.” Ukraine is not, as many claim, primarily Rutgers University moderated the event tions still do not comprehend their enor- Russia now considers Europe to be the between the so-called Russian east and and the guests were welcomed by Dr. mous, enormous mistake.” near abroad. “Furthermore,” added Dr. Ukrainian west, rather, the largest divide Marta Lopatynsky, representing the center. Russia, claimed Mr. Tarasyuk, is taking Shcherbak, “Russia knows it’s losing the felt across the entire country is between The visit of the three political leaders to the opportunity to fully exploit this new eastern territories. They cannot control the the tiny number of very rich and the large the United States was organized by the situation with a calculated attack on all the local protests. They need to bind in the number of very poor people in Ukraine; it Washington-based American Foreign democratic progress made in Ukraine and Ukrainians, which will be disastrous for us. is this divide that causes the most resent- Policy Council, in conjunction with the is re-creating the power vertical, with They will pull us in to fight their battles. ment. There is also a strong divide in con- Center for U.S.-Ukraine Relations. Moscow in charge. The disinformation Russia is on the verge of crisis, on the verge sciousness between the young and the old, Walter Zaryckyj, director of the New being disseminated about the progress of a deep, systemic crisis. This is why with 20 percent of the population continu- York office of CUSUR, said: “We felt that made during Ukraine’s independence is Moscow pushes the ideology of Russian it was crucial to invite well-known and ugly. Particularly rancorous, said Mr. chauvinism, of the Great Patriotic War, to ing to identify themselves as “Soviet peo- respected political leaders of Ukraine, Tarasyuk, are the claims made by certain cover the lack of unity. But it is an ideology ple” – neither Russian nor Ukrainian. those who feel that the country stands government ministers that Mr. based on falsehoods, and it will fail.” Mr. Chalyi noted that the people who Yanukovych’s arrests by Soviet authorities In reaction to what many in Ukraine’s supported Mr. Yanukovych did so because before political peril, to come and share for criminal activity are the moral equiva- political leadership see as a full threat to he promised economic reforms, which he with us their perspectives before the situa- lent to former Soviet political prisoner and Ukraine’s statehood, Dr. Shcherbak will not be able to deliver. The euphoria of tion in the country worsens. It is important Rukh leader Vyacheslav Chornovil’s explained, the People’s Committee for the victory in the Yanukovych administration both for the United States and Ukraine that arrests, since both men broke Soviet laws. Protection of Ukraine was established in and in Moscow will fade when the elector- officials in Washington, D.C., understand Moscow’s advance is obvious on all May with several hundred signatories rep- ate realizes that they have been fooled yet the dramatic changes under way in fronts, he said, and the next big moment of resenting the intellectual and political elite again and will begin to express its dissatis- Ukraine since the election of Viktor vulnerability in Ukraine is the upcoming of the opposition forces. (See: www.nkzu. faction, which, Mr. Chalyi is convinced, Yanukovych.” October elections, first to municipal and com.ua and www.nkzu.org ). oblast positions of power and then to the He appealed to the audience to support Verkhovna Rada in 2012. “Moscow can- this committee and even establish local Ukraine; installation of monuments to Stalin not be allowed to win any more elections,” committees here. The leadership of the Yanukovych calls... in Ukraine; violation of the rights of he stated emphatically. committee are all elder statesmen, he noted, (Continued from page 1) Ukrainians in Russia; and unfounded accu- Later, in response to questions, Mr. familiar figures such as Dmytro Pavlychko Mr. Czolij passed on to the president a sations against the Organization of Tarasyuk noted that, regardless of the “cur- and Levko Lukianenko, none of whom can memorandum on important issues concern- Ukrainian Nationalists under the leadership rent regime, our relationship with Europe be accused of trying to make a new name ing Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora, of Stepan Bandera in a resolution of the continues.” He added, with a bit of irony, for themselves as opposition leaders. including: the threat of losing control of European Parliament. that only recently, after five years of back “Our careers are behind us,” he said, The president and the UWC leaders Ukraine’s strategically important industries; and forth, had the European Union and added emphatically, “but now we can- agreed to continue their dialogue. Mr. the Black Sea Fleet agreement that extends announced that Ukraine can apply for not sit back and allow the efforts of the Yanukovych said he would provide an offi- membership in the EU – a bitter moment past 19 years – our efforts, as well as the the stay of Russia’s military base in Ukraine cial response to the memorandum, and the since the current president has no interest earlier efforts of others to build Ukraine – through 2042; the importance of Ukraine president and the UWC leaders agreed to in EU membership. we cannot sit back and watch this enor- joining the European Union and NATO; the continue their dialogue. Speaking after Mr. Tarasyuk was Dr. mous success be destroyed. And we well introduction of a de facto second state lan- Shcherbak, a physician by training, a for- remember the credo that Zbigniew guage in Ukraine; reports of violations of Sources: Ukrinform, Official Website of mer ambassador to Israel, Canada and the Brzezinski often stated: ‘without Ukraine, human rights and fundamental freedoms in Ukraine’s President, Ukrainian Canadian United States, and a former member of the Russia cannot be an empire and with Ukraine; the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Congress. No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 11

Ukrainian pro sports update: Soccer by Ihor Stelmach Shevchenko’s career swan song with Dynamo: kickin’ it in Kyiv Like most professional athletes, star Advancement in age and maturation has led the strongest club in the country,” he assert- national stadium at the European soccer players who return to their original to times of reflection and Sheva has men- ed. “Beyond that, I am Ukrainian and I Championship in July 2012 is not likely. clubs risk undoing their great prior tioned a potential heir. Wayne Rooney has would like to play in the European Yet, despite the lengthy list of players who achievements. That’s why some say the been identified as a Shevchenko mirror Championship we are hosting. I’m still very besmirched their legacy by not knowing past is past, and it should remain there. image player. Talking of Rooney, it is obvi- hungry. After missing the World Cup finals when to leave the game, who can blame Attempting to relive the past risks altering ous Shevchenko sees himself in the 24-year- by losing in the playoff to Greece, Euro Sheva for grabbing the penultimate opportu- those memories making the past such a old up-and-coming British star. 2012 for me would be the perfect swan nity for a perfect curtain call? comfort in today’s present. Witness many “He’s not a typical center-forward,” song.” But first, the Ukrainian super striker has a famous footballer with the later-in-career Shevchenko says. “He has probably the big- Soccer, or any professional sport for that to survive two more seasons. Let us hope option to return home to where he made gest working area in the modern game. He matter, seldom doles out mental victories, so there is never a day when a Dynamo fan his name, petrified by the thought of soc- moves constantly to try to fill the channels the odds are good some that disappointment looks out at a player slogging around a field cer dads telling their sons: “See that fat in attack, at the same time creating spaces awaits Shevchenko. A victorious swan song in a No. 7 jersey and says: “That used to be guy out there huffing and puffing? He used for his teammates. It’s true to say he can do ending to his wonderful career in the new Andriy Shevchenko.” to be a great player.” The aging star passes anything on the pitch. I’ve been very on the return option, selecting a new club impressed by his progress this season.” to play out his twilight years. The in-depth scouting report on a British Andriy Shevchenko is hoping for the per- player is a bit surprising due to Shevchenko’s fect ending to a super-star career back with own disappointing tenure in England. Yet he Dynamo Kyiv. For it was Dynamo that still keeps tabs on the Premier League. made Shevchenko one of the world’s top “The chase for the title this year was very strikers. He does not feel he is gambling his intense. But I believed in Chelsea, not only soccer legacy for the possibility of a senti- because I played for them, but because I mental farewell. A return to Kyiv for think they have been more consistent than Shevchenko was almost destiny. their rivals. I have good memories of my “I always knew that one day I would time at the club and I wish them luck,” be return to my native club,” he said in an inter- noted. view with guardian.co.uk. “How could I for- Indeed, Sheva admitted he continues to get when I was the ball boy at Dynamo support all of his former clubs. In an inter- games and saw the goals scored by my idol, view with goal.com he professes his loyalty Oleh Blokhin? Now I’m 33, and I’d like to to his previous organizations: “All the teams spend my final years at the club where I I played for will stay in my heart forever. I started my career. When I agreed to my wish them all the best, follow their results departure from Chelsea, I had a choice of and will always support them. That goes not five or six quite well-known European only for Milan, but for Chelsea as well. I am clubs, but I didn’t really think seriously a Chelsea fan for life.” about them because I’d already decided the Back home, Shevchenko sees much journey that began in Kyiv would end in potential with Dynamo Kyiv’s talent both Kyiv.” for now and the future. “There are some very promising gradu- New coach plays key role ates of the academy,” he says. “Many of Dynamo Kyiv’s hiring of new coach them won the Under-19 European ONGOING SURVEY Valery Gazzaev last year only added to the Championship. I’m sure Dynamo has bright sense of destiny. prospects. It’s also important that Gazzaev is regarding postal delivery “That was very significant for me,” said a coach who can build the team in the best Shevchenko. “Gazzaev wanted to sign me of traditions of Dynamo. Under him of The Ukrainian Weekly 12 years ago, when he was the coach of the Dynamo plays as a team, combining indi- Dear Subscribers: Russian club Alania Vladikavkaz. I respect vidual and collective pressing, keeping pres- him very much. With him, training isn’t bor- sure on the opponents and relying on a In response to the increasing number of complaints about poor delivery of our ing. He has some interesting ideas and ambi- strong and deep game on the flanks.” newspapers, The Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda are continuing their customer tions to fulfill.” Way back when, Shevchenko was survey. Please take the time to fill out the following form for a period of four con- One of the more interesting ideas pro- thought of as a potential contributor of a secutive weeks in June in order to document delivery of our newspaper. And, posed by Coach Gazzaev is to play promising generation when Coach please do so again, even if you filled out our April survey. The information col- Shevchenko outside on the forward line, a Lobanovskyi’s last great Dynamo squad lected will be used along with the responses received to our earlier survey to track strategy “Sheva” did not greet with total made it to the Champions League semi- down where in the postal service delivery chain problems may be occurring. agreement. finals in 1999. The team spirit, dedication Please help us secure better delivery of The Ukrainian Weekly to you! “That was quite unexpected,” he said in and zest that fired him up back then still his conversation with guardian.co.uk. “It burn inside. However, the wear and tear took some time to adapt because playing on showing up in his legs and back have begun • 1. Please note the following information exactly as it appears on your address label for The Ukrainian Weekly: the flank requires more physical work and to limit him physically. tackles. Throughout my career I’ve never In order to fulfill his dream of ending his Name ______complained about a coach’s decision, and it fabulous career back where it started in didn’t take me long to get used to the Ukraine, Sheva must fly to Germany twice Address ______scheme.” monthly for back treatments. Early in 2010 City, State, Zip ______Not complaining publicly is one thing – he spent three hours in an uncomfortable returning to Dynamo Kyiv only to discover position on a flight to Kyiv and felt an • 2. Please write down the date of delivery for each of four consecu- his position of center-forward already filled abrupt pain. The next several days he could tive issues of The Ukrainian Weekly published in June. by another player had to disappoint not walk normally. A fellow Ukrainian play- Shevchenko and make him unhappy. In a ing for the German club Bayern told him Issue date Date delivered prior home match against Vorskla Poltava, about a really good doctor in Munich. June 6 ______Sheva tallied his 100th goal for Dynamo. “There are some medical issues, but the One of Shevchenko’s major assets was doctor says they are not serious, and I can June 13 ______his well-rounded skill set and his willing continue playing as usual at the moment,” June 20 ______adaptability to fill more than just the central Sheva told goal.com. striker role on his team. This is why Valeriy June 27 ______Lobanovskyi referred to him as the closest The swan song plan he’d ever known to his definition of the per- Based on these words, there is no thought fect “universal player.” Shevchenko’s wide or talk of retirement even though Ukraine • 3. Once you have filled in the information on delivery of these four issues, array of soccer skills was the reason many was eliminated early on from both European please mail the completed form to our Subscription Department at: international football pundits acknowledged competition and the 2010 World Cup. him as Marco van Basten’s successor as The Ukrainian Weekly Shevchenko’s priority shifted to winning his 2200 Route 10 Europe’s most complete striker. country’s Premier League. (Dynamo fin- P.O. Box 280 Recalling the past, ished the season in second place, behind Parsippany, NJ 07054 foreseeing the future champion Shakhtar Donetsk.) “We have an army of faithful fans, and Thank you for your cooperation! Talk of Shevchenko’s successor? we’d like to confirm to them that Dynamo is 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 No. 26 No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 13 Houston’s Zhuravli dancers perform at Texas Folklife Festival SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Attendees of the 39th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, on Saturday and Sunday, June 12-13, enjoyed four stunning perfor- mances by the Zhuravli Ukrainian Dancers of Houston. The Texas Folklife Festival invites top performing cultural groups, musicians and artisans from across the state to participate at the festival each year. The festival takes place on the grounds of the Institute of Texan Cultures on the UTSA HemisFair Park campus, and features 250 cultural groups during the three day event. Despite the 95 degree temperature on both days, the Zhuravli dancers performed four different exciting shows on outdoor stages to the waiting crowds that gathered at each show. Introductions and greetings were extended by the group’s director, Martha Noukas, and each show began with a “Pryvit” (Welcome dance) and presenta- tion of the traditional bread and salt. On Saturday, the dancers performed Vlodko Drobots Ukrainian folk dances from the Poltava The Zhuravli Ukrainian Dancers of Houston perform the “Hopak” at the Texas Folklife Festival. and Zakarpattia regions, ending each pro- gram with a fabulous “Hopak.” The Texas gunfighters grabbed one of the crowds delighted in the exceptional solos female Zhuravli dancers (Juliana Noukas) performed by Andrij Lytvynchuk, Kostya Lytvynchuk, Constantine Noukas and and held her against her will. It took a little Austyn Slavych. Many members of the muscle by the male Zhuravli dancers (John audience came backstage to share their Pederson and Constantine Noukas) and the compliments with the group after each intervention of the local sheriff, to set her show. free. All of this, of course, was done in The Sunday performances highlighted good fun, and in the lively Texas spirit that dances from the Zakarpattia, Bukovyna permeates at the festival. and Carpathian regions which included the This year was the third time that the group’s famously fast “Kolomyika No. 1.” Zhuravli performed at the Texas Folklife The Zhuravli Ukrainian Dancers invited Festival, and they were delighted to be a volunteers to join them on stage to learn a part of this great annual cultural festival. lively “Kartoshka” and a polka, during The Zhuravli celebrate their ten year each of the Sunday shows, which proved anniversary this year and are looking for- to be very enjoyable and well received by ward to performing at several scheduled the audience and volunteers. Texas shows in the fall of 2010. (More While visiting the Texas Frontier sec- information about the group is available at tion of the festival on Sunday afternoon, www.zhuravli.org). Dressed in their Hutsul costumes, dancers pose for a group photograph in front of a log cabin at the festival.

The Zhuravli perform “Rakivchanka.”

The Zhuravli demonstrate a polka, after which they invited volunteers to join Olha Seniw and Juliana Noukas pose with the traditional Ukrainian greeting of them on stage. (Audience participation is encouraged at the festival.) bread and salt. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 No. 26

PGO to investigate Kyiv police Appeal in Bandera case rejected meeting on June 23 criticized the Cabinet NEWSBRIEFS of Ministers and the Ministry of Foreign KYIV – The Procurator General’s DONETSK – The Donetsk Affairs (MFA) for their failure to fulfill (Continued from page 2) Office (PGO) of Ukraine has announced Administrative Court of Appeals on June memory of her son. Procurator General his order to open economic departments the creation of a special group of prosecu- 23 issued a ruling rejecting all 20 appeals at Ukrainian Embassies. “The govern- Oleksander Medvedko said that a foreign tors to review several detentions by Kyiv lodged against a Donetsk District ment is currently delaying the implemen- examination had proved that fragments of a police, RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service Administrative Court ruling of April 2 that tation of the order on the economization skull found near the village of Sukholisy reported on June 22. Ukrainian Deputy declared illegal and cancelled President of our country’s foreign policy,” the pres- near Kyiv belong to Gongadze. He also Prosecutor General Yurii Udartsov said Viktor Yushchenko’s decision to award the ident said. “Our embassies and interna- promised that he would report on the com- the decision to review the cases was made Hero of Ukraine title to Stepan Bandera, the tional offices should deal with economic pletion of the pre-trial investigation on the in light of “some irregularities” by police leader of the Organization of Ukrainian issues, rather than politicking and spread- Gongadze case in July-August. (Ukrinform) in Kyiv’s Shevchenko district, particular- Nationalists. Lawyer Volodymyr ing various rumors about the country,” Olentsevych said, “Thus, the ruling of April Yanukovych on media pressure ly the death last month of 20-year-old Mr. Yanukovych said. “This is unaccept- student Ihor Indyla while in police custo- 2 remains unchanged.” In October 2009, able,” he underscored, saying that the KYIV – President Viktor Yanukovych dy. The student died at the police station Mr. Olentsevych, on behalf of Dr. Anatolii order to open economic departments at has said that cases of pressure being placed shortly after being taken there by police, Soloviov, filed a lawsuit at Donetsk District Ukraine’s Embassies was given three on the media are unacceptable and who said Indyla was drunk and that he Administrative Court to declare the presi- months ago. Foreign Affairs Minister described them as “a temporary phenome- suffered a head injury after falling. The dential decree on awarding the Hero of Kostyantyn Gryshchenko did not attend Ukraine title to Bandera illegal. On April 2 non.” Speaking with reporters in Sumy on Shevchenko District prosecutor’s office the government meeting as he is currently the court satisfied the lawsuit, as Bandera June 17, he said, “I think that [pressure on opened a criminal investigation into on an official visit to Italy. He said in a was not a citizen of Ukraine. (Interfax- the press] is unacceptable... It’s necessary Indyla’s death on May 28. Several police June 18 interview with the Segodnya Ukraine) to respond to such cases.” He added, “I department employees have been charged newspaper that the structure of the believe that this is a temporary phenome- with abuse of power resulting in man- PRU, YTB top rating of parties Foreign Affairs Ministry had changed. He non. Everything will be fine.” (Interfax- slaughter in connection with Mr. Indyla’s said that trade and economic departments Ukraine) death. (RFE/RL) KYIV – A rating of political parties that had been formed at Embassies to replace may win seats in the Verkhovna Rada of trade and economic missions. Ukraine in the next elections, is topped by (Ukrinform) the Party of Regions of Ukraine (PRU) and CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB), accord- Ivano-Frankivsk, Alberta to cooperate ing to the survey “The Hundred Days of the KYIV – Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast New Government” presented by the Governor Mykhailo Vyshyvaniuk and TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI (973) 292-9800 x 3040 Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach recently or e-mail [email protected] Razumkov Center for Economic and signed an agreement on cooperation Political Studies. The poll found that if the between the Ukrainian region and the elections to the Verkhovna Rada were held Canadian province at a Ukrainian-Canadian SERVICES PROFESSIONALS this month, the Party of Regions would win business forum held in Canada. The press the highest percentage of votes – 41.2 per- service of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast State cent of those who said they would take part Administration reported on June 16 that in voting. The YTB would be in second participants of the business forum had dis- place with 16 percent, followed by Sergey cussed key issues of Ukrainian-Canadian Tigipko’s Strong Ukraine party (11.1 per- relations, innovation and investment activi- cent) and Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s political ties, and visited a number of enterprises and grouping (5.3 percent). It is likely that the agricultural lands in Alberta. The organizers Verkhovna Rada would also have members of the business forum were the Canada- of the Svoboda all-Ukrainian union (3.1 Ukraine Chamber of Commerce, the percent) and the Communist Party of Canadian Embassy in Ukraine and the gov- Ukraine (2.9 percent). The poll also ernment of Alberta. Mr. Vyshyvaniuk noted revealed that 2.6 percent of respondents that next year the Canadian city of would vote against all, and 12.5 percent Edmonton would celebrate the 120th anni- were undecided. The poll was based on versary of its founding by Ukrainians who interviews with 1,611 Ukrainians conducted are natives of the village of Nebyliv between June 5 and June 10 in 113 locali- (Rozhniativ district in the Ivano-Frankivsk ties. (Ukrinform) Oblast). On that occasion, a delegation from Six OU-PSD deputies join coalition Edmonton will visit the village in Zakarpattia and pay tribute to their country- KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman men whose relatives were pioneers on Volodymyr Lytvyn opened the June 18 Canadian soil. (Ukrinform) morning session of Parliament, with 377 Pysanka becomes coin of year GEORGE B. 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KYIV – The political council of the ing, has a 20-hrv face value and is made of The Ukrainian Weekly is looking People’s Self-Defense Party on June 23 silver. It was designed by Anatoliy for advertising sales agents. announced the dissolution of the People’s Demianenko and Volodymyr Atamanchuk. Self-Defense parliamentary group, part of For additional information contact Maria The coin “International Year of Astronomy” the Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense was declared the winner in the unique idea Oscislawski, Advertising Manager, The Bloc. The announcement came in a state- category, and the coin “According to Ukrainian Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext 3040. ment made by the political council of PSD Mykola Gogol’s Work ‘Evenings on a Farm that was headed by former Internal Affairs near Dykanka’ ” won in the in best artistic Minister Yurii Lutsenko. The official reason decision category. (Ukrinform) Run your advertisement here, for the dissolution of the parliamentary in The Ukrainian Weekly’s group was the switchover of a number of its Deadly accident in Donetsk CLASSIFIEDS section. national deputies to the Stability and DONETSK, Ukraine – Three miners Reforms Coalition formed by the Party of died as a result of the sudden release of a Regions, the Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc and mixture of coal and methane gas at the the Communist Party. PSD described its Skochinsky mine near Donetsk on June 6. members joining the majority coalition as Ukraine’s Ministry for Emergency “a serious moral blow to the party” and said Situations informed journalists on June 9 that the reason for this was the imperfection that three units of the state paramilitary res- of Ukrainian legislation that “does not allow cue service of the Coal Industry Ministry a party to recall its former representatives in were involved in the rescue efforts. Twenty- Parliament.” (Ukrinform) three miners were in the mine at the time of President slams government, MFA the incident, 18 of whom were hospitalized with injuries. The Donetsk Prosecutor’s KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor Office launched an investigation into the Yanukovych at an extended government accident. (Ukrinform) No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 15

Shipbuilding Corp. (USC) is considering on many issues it’s not advantageous for us government loses the opportunity to charge The first 100 days... acquiring a dozen Ukrainian shipbuilding to dissolve into the Russian economy,” Mr. the Russians market prices for the real (Continued from page 1) companies which would fit in the produc- Fesenko said. “Russians are proposing estate. Instead it’s Ukrainian oligarchs who our cooperation,” Mr. Naryshkin said. tion chains of Russian shipbuilders, reported acquisitions, not mutually advantageous exclusively stand to gain the estimated $40 “Surely it can be said that a new stage of Andrey Kurasov, the deputy chair of the cooperation, therefore large-scale initiatives billion in savings gained in the 10-year natu- relations and cooperation between our coun- shipbuilding department of the Ministry of that Putin spoke of won’t be realized. At the ral gas agreement, experts said. tries is approaching.” Industry and Trade. same time, the penetration of Russian capi- Common Ukrainian citizens consume Mr. Naryshkin’s expectations were ful- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in tal into Ukraine will continue.” Ukrainian-mined natural gas, while it’s the filled during Russian President Dmitry early May urged USC Chairman Roman While the scale of business activity factories and industry, owned by oligarchs, Medvedev’s two-day visit to Kyiv in May. Trotsenko to begin pursuing the acquisitions remains uncertain, Russia’s military pres- that rely on Gazprom for their gas supplies. of two Ukrainian plants – More Shipbuilding ence in Ukraine is guaranteed until 2042 (Ukrainian oligarchs gained discounts of up “In those issues where we see that a Co. in Feodosiya and Zoria-MashProyekt in following the April 21 Kharkiv agreements, to $100 per 1,000 cubic meters of natural merger creates a synergy effect, we will sup- Mykolaiv, which builds the world’s largest which extended the lease of the Russian gas, experts said.) port the creation of joint enterprises, hold- gas-turbine engines for shipbuilding. Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, which was to The Kharkiv agreements are an “unprec- ings and corporations which will increase These projects are taking place in the expire in 2017, by 25 years. edented, asymmetrical political-economic the scopes of our economies and made them shadows of Russian attempts to acquire A few weeks later, the Russian Federal barter – an exchange of conditional Russian competitive,” Mr. Yanukovych said at a some of Ukraine’s largest steel plants, Security Service announced that 19 Russian economic preferences for strategic, geopo- May 17 press conference. He specifically including confirmed acquisitions of the military counterintelligence agents will litical concessions from Ukraine,” stated a mentioned the shipbuilding, aviation build- Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant and the return to Sevastopol through an agreement report released June 17 by the Razumkov ing, space and energy industries. Dzerzhinskyi Metallurgical Plant in reached with the Security Service of Ukraine Center, the Institute of Economic Research Most notably, Mr. Medvedev announced Dniprodzerzhinsk. (SBU). and Political Consultation and the Center for the possibility of creating a joint enterprise Zaporizhstal, Ukraine’s sixth largest During his May 17-18 visit to Kyiv, Political and Legal Reforms in Kyiv. between the Russian state-owned United plant, is currently involved in a legal battle Russian President Medvedev assured stu- Similar views reverberated throughout Aviation Building Co. and Ukraine’s against anonymous Russian investors, who dents at Shevchenko National University the experts’ community. Antonov. A month later, the board of direc- are also attempting a corporate raid on the that his government would plan no attacks “Yanukovych manifestly failed to negoti- tors of the Russian firm approved the cre- Illich Mariupol Metallurgical Plant, on neighboring countries using ships based ate on Ukraine’s behalf,” wrote Dr. David ation of a partnership enterprise with Ukraine’s second-largest steel plant. in Sevastopol. Marples of the University of Alberta, evalu- Antonov, which builds the world’s largest In spite of the buying spree, Gorshenin Yet Ukrainian experts cited other threats ating the treaty. “It is inconceivable why his airplane, the AN-225 Mriya. Institute Director Volodymyr Fesenko said to security that the Sevastopol base intro- starting point was not a five-year extension Additionally, the two firms decided to Dr. Shcherbak’s concerns about 80 percent duces, including the return of counterintelli- of the existing lease, which was stipulated as form a joint enterprise to buy materials and of the nation’s assets being bought by gence agents and Russia’s ongoing propa- an option according to the 1997 (Black Sea parts for the sale and repair of Antonov Russians are exaggerated and not in the ganda campaign convincing Crimean resi- Fleet) agreement.” planes. interest of Ukrainian businessmen. dents that the peninsula is Russian territory. Meanwhile, Russia’s state-owned United “Yanukovych and Azarov understand that With the 25-year lease, the Ukrainian To be continued in next week’s issue.

Timeline of the foreign policy of the Yanukovych administration • February 25 – Viktor Yanukovych Moscow to discuss natural gas distribu- U.S. President Barack Obama and agrees • April 13 –Yanukovych declares that inaugurated as president. He announces tion and consumption. He tells Putin to to surrender Ukraine’s remaining stock of the Obama administration’s policy of his first foreign trip will be to Brussels on forget the last five years and start highly enriched uranium, drawing praise resetting relations with the Russia pro- March 1, followed by a visit to Moscow Russian-Ukrainian relations with a blank from Western leaders. The two leaders re- motes the creation of new mechanisms on March 5. page. affirmed their intentions to build relations for cooperation between Ukraine and • February 25 – The European • March 25 – Yanukovych says Ukraine on the basis of the Ukraine-U.S. Strategic Russia. Parliament grants Ukraine the right to shouldn’t choose any collective system of Partnership Charter and the Strategic apply for European Union membership. security and instead should pursue maxi- Partnership Commission. (Continued on page 18) Led by Polish and German MPs, it asks mum cooperation with NATO without that Yanukovych cancel the decree grant- integration. He says a “Ukrainian ing Hero of Ukraine status to Ukrainian Initiative” should be launched for a new liberation leader Stepan Bandera, libeling security architecture in Europe. him a “Nazi collaborator.” • March 25 – U.S. Ambassador to • February 26 – Presidential Ukraine John Tefft announces the U.S. Administration First Deputy Chair Iryna government will grant the Ukrainian army Akimova announces Ukraine won’t enter $11 million in aid as part of the FMF pro- a customs union proposed by the Russian gram. government for post-Soviet states, includ- • March 28 – Vice Prime Minister for ing Belarus and Kazakhstan. Humanitarian Affairs Valentyn • March 1 – While in Brussels, Semynozhenko says he supports consid- Yanukovych pledges to do everything to ering a union with Russia and Belarus, ensure Ukraine’s EU integration is “real which the majority of Ukrainians alleged- and efficient.” ly support. “No one expects Ukraine in • March 5 – In his first visit to the EU in the next 15 years,” he says. Moscow, Yanukovych promises to pass • April 1 – The parliamentary coalition laws to defend Ukraine’s Russian- declines to review a resolution calling for speaking population. He early apologizes Ukraine to join the Single Economic for visiting Brussels before Moscow, Space with Russia, Belarus and assuring Russian journalists, “All roads Kazakhstan, and declines consideration lead to Moscow.” of joining a customs union with those • March 5 – Russian Federation Prime states. Minister Vladimir Putin proposes to • April 3 – The Russian government Yanukovych that Ukraine join its customs submits documents to the State Property union with Belarus and Kazakhstan. They Fund laying claim to 78 sites that Ukraine agree to joint commemorations of the inherited from the Soviet collapse. 65th anniversary of Victory Day and the • April 4 –Yanukovych signs a decree 200th anniversary of the birth of Taras eliminating the Joint Committee on Shevchenko in 2014. Preparing for NATO Admission and the • March 11 – Mykola Azarov elected National Center for Euro-Atlantic prime minister by illegally formed coali- Integration Issues. tion. Ukraine’s Ambassador to Russia • April 6 –Yanukovych signs a decree Kostyantyn Gryshchenko is appointed keeping Raisa Bohatyriova as the chair of foreign affairs minister. the National Security and Defense • March 19 – First Vice Prime Minister Council. She’s a close associate of indus- Andrii Kliuyev says the Azarov govern- trial tycoon Rinat Akhmetov. ment will pursue transferring ownership • April 8 – Azarov declares his goal of of Ukraine’s natural gas transit system to securing an Association Agreement and a consortium involving the European Free Trade Agreement with the European Union and Russian Federation. Union by the end of the year. • March 23 – Russian Duma Deputy • April 10 – Azarov travels to Moscow Sergei Markov says his government won’t to meet with Putin in order to lower pric- lower the price of natural gas for Ukraine es for natural gas. Russian Foreign Affairs in exchange for granting the Russian lan- Minister Sergei Lavrov says they will guage official status. consider any proposal to extend the lease • March 25 – Azarov meets with of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Gazprom Chair Aleksey Miller in • April 11-14 –Yanukovych meets with 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 No. 26 UMANA Foundation now in its 15th year of activity by Maria Hrycelak Ukrainian American Youth Association (UAYA) have already completed their CHICAGO – The Foundation of the basic training and received certificates of Ukrainian Medical Association of North competency in Cleveland, Detroit and America (UMANA Foundation) has Philadelphia. All training costs were entered its 15th year of existence and underwritten by the UMANA Foundation, efforts to improve medical knowledge and with local community organizations gra- health awareness of Ukrainians world- ciously providing space for the training wide. courses. This year the board of directors – con- The UMANA Foundation and the Dr. sisting of Maria Hrycelak, M.D., president; Walter and Olga Prokopiw Scholarship Nestor Popowych, secretary; George Fund continues to give financial support to Domino, treasurer; Ariadna Holynskyj, qualifying medical students in the form of M.D., Paul Kulas, Jerome Maryniuk M.D., $1,000 per year per student. This year the Andrew Melnyk, M.D., Wayne Tymchak, recipients were Stephen Ros, a fourth-year M.D., and Ihor Voyevidka, M.D., – is student at Mount Sinai M.D./Ph.D. pro- funding four major projects, two in North gram in New York City, and Adrienne America and two geared to Ukraine. Victor, a third-year student at the In North America, the foundation is University of Illinois at Urbana- expanding the free cardio-pulmonary Champaign. resuscitation (CPR) and first aid training Mr. Ros’s interests are biomedical engi- for camp counselors of various Ukrainian neering and orthopedics, and he hopes to American youth groups. This successful study tendon injuries and methods of project was introduced last year in repair. He is an active member of the Whippany, N.J., and Chicago, and met UAYA, who volunteers his time and medi- with and appreciation from the Ukrainian cal knowledge at camps whenever time American community. permits. He is an avid runner and has suc- This year, over 70 counselors from Plast Philadelphia Plast participants of a first aid class hold complimentary first aid cessfully completed the New York Ukrainian Scouting Organization and the kits presented to them by the UMANA Foundation. Marathon. Ms. Victor has volunteered at a local free clinic for the last two years, first as an administrator and now a clinical aide. Last summer she completed a rural medicine preceptorship. She continues to mentor a Ukrainian American student who also plans to attend medical school. Reaching out globally, the foundation awarded $1,000 to the Ukrainian Diabetes Project (UDP) based in Santa Rosa, Calif. The UDP was founded in 1990 by regis- tered dietician and certified diabetes edu- cator Andrea Skrypka, herself a diabetic. The UDP has provided diabetic supplies and concomitant education to hundreds of newly diagnosed diabetics, primarily chil- dren, all over Ukraine. The grant will help in the printing of (Continued on page 22)

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Sundays or feast days or when we went into adults – these and other options may hope- services together. Voices of the laity... the church office to request a liturgy, or to fully bind them more closely to that Church For young people (and not just for young (Continued from page 9) make arrangements for a baptism, wedding in the future. people), churches could organize special The Fourth Wave or funeral. programs, such as discussion groups or films on the Eastern Rite or on other spiritual top- This may perhaps explain why Fourth Need special programs Svitlana Makhno, administrator, Staten Wave churchgoers in the U.S. seem to keep ics. These events have to be promoted and Island, N.Y., is a parishioner of Holy Trinity their distance from active involvement in Svitlana Andrushkiw, librarian, presented in an interesting way in order to Ukrainian Catholic Church on Staten organized parish life here. For some, it is Maplewood, N.J. has been a parishioner at make them appealing, because there is so Island. the only way they have ever related to the St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic much competition in today’s world for the Church. It takes some time for them to Church in Irvington, N.J. for more than 30 attention of young people. At the same time, I grew up in Ternopil, Ukraine, popula- become more involved, and this often years and a member of its parish council we know that there is a hunger for spiritual tion about 500,000 – and came to the U.S. occurs through their children’s participation for 10 years. life out there, otherwise you would not see in 2000 as a young adult. So I will try to in the sacraments, such as baptisms, first the burgeoning of various evangelical move- give a perspective of how I, and perhaps communions, or through membership in In order to serve its parishioners and ments in the U.S. and even in Ukraine. other “new” Ukrainian Americans, relate to Ukrainian community youth organizations. potential parishioners well, the Ukrainian So much depends on the parish priest. the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the U.S. For many newcomers to the U.S., the Catholic Church should concentrate on His role is key: he sets the tone and level of in light of where we came from and what style of Church life here is a kind of culture attracting young families, especially with expectation in the parish. At the same time our Church experience has been. shock. For the first time, they can talk to children, to its parishes. The best way to do it is really important for people who just Of course, the Church in Ukraine has their parish priests and can relate to them as this is by offering special programs for fami- occasionally come to church to actually join probably changed since 2000. I was there human beings. Also, they discover that the lies, starting with kindergartens or Sunday the church as parishioners so that the parish when it had just come out of the under- economic well-being of a parish depends on schools. can function normally. It’s very hard for the ground in 1989-1991 and the freedom to the parishioners and their financial contri- With increased numbers of mixed mar- priest to run a parish organization if he can’t attend church was a new thing. Also, I saw bution to the parish. riages (Ukrainian with non-Ukrainian), count on his parishioners. There will have things through the eyes of a teenager and On the issue of celibate vs. married clergy, the Church should also be sure to offer to be close cooperation between the priests young adult. many see it as a purely practical issue and some English-language liturgies so that and the laity in order to make the Church In Ternopil there were huge numbers of will say that celibate priesthood is better both partners can participate in church flourish in the future. people coming to church every Sunday. because it requires a smaller financial com- They did not choose a parish, basically they mitment from the parishioners. Some also went to whatever Ukrainian Catholic see the celibate priest as someone for whom Church was in the neighborhood. There priesthood is a calling or vocation, as Yulia Tymoshenko states “this isn’t unit- was no sense of church community. They opposed to a married priest for whom it is a Timeline... ing efforts based on partnership, but a not only did not have a personal relation- profession, a means to provide for his family. (Continued from page 15) complete takeover of Ukraine by Russia.” ship with the pastor, they often didn’t even On the issue of language, children of • April 15 – Ukraine’s Ambassador to • May 4 – Putin urges no delays in the know each other. I do not recall that there new immigrants learn English immediately the U.S. Oleh Shamshur is nominated to complete integration of Ukraine’s atomic were any church committees, coffee hours, and they will prefer the English language in become first vice-chair of the Foreign energy sector with Russia. special parish events, youth groups or even the church very quickly. They relate to it Affairs Ministry. • May 9 – On the 65th anniversary of a parish enrollment system. There were no better, especially as teenagers. I see this • April 21 –Yanukovych signs the the Bolshevik defeat of Nazi Germany, church membership fees, nor the weekly happening already, especially if there are no Kharkiv agreements with Russian Russian Presidential Administration Chair “kopertky” (envelope system) that exists in Ukrainian-speaking grandparents nearby. President Dmitry Medvedev, in which he Sergei Naryshkin declares “a very wide the U.S. When the collection basket came As soon as immigrant families get on extends the lease of the Russian Black program of cooperation, literally in all around, you put in whatever amount you their feet economically, develop friendships Sea Fleet in Sevastopol for 25 years more directions” between the two states. The felt you could afford and that was it. and move further away, their inclination to to 2042 in exchange for reduced natural Kharkiv agreements of April 21 were a The priest was seen as a distant figure, a drive to a now distant church declines. So gas prices of up to $100 per 1,000 cubic “serious, landmark moment” in bilateral breed apart from the laity, on a kind of the Church should try its best to engage meters. The discount will only benefit relations, he says. higher plane. We did not socialize with him them now, while their numbers are high. Ukrainian industry, economists said. • May 12 – Russian Federal Security nor exchange views with him on religion or Free coffee hours after liturgies, children’s • April 22 – NATO officials state the Service Chair Aleksander Bortnikov any other topic. We only saw him on activities, family or crisis counseling for Russian Black Sea Fleet is a matter announces it will sign a document with between the Russian and Ukrainian gov- the Security Service of Ukraine allowing ernments to resolve, and won’t affect for Russian military counterintelligence Ukraine’s prospects for future member- agents to return to posts in Sevastopol, ship. EU Enlargement Commissioner where the Russian Black Sea Fleet is Stefan Fule says the Kharkiv agreements based. won’t affect Ukraine’s Euro-integration • May 13 – Fuel and Energy Minister efforts. Yurii Boiko travels to Moscow to meet • April 23 – During his three-day visit with the chair of Gazprom to discuss the to Kyiv, Fule gives the Ukrainian govern- possible merger of Gazprom and Naftohaz ment a list of key, urgent reforms with set Ukrainy, the state-owned natural gas sup- deadlines, calling it the “matrix of coop- plier and distributor. eration” with Ukraine. Reforms on mobil- • May 14 – Foreign Affairs Minister ity are required within six months for Kostyantyn Gryshchenko announces Ukrainians to gain a visa-free regime. Ukraine doesn’t recognize the indepen- About 470 million euros is pledged. dence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. • April 24 – More than 1,500 protesters • May 17 – Medvedev travels to Kyiv arrive at the Verkhovna Rada for the for a two-day visit, signing an agreement opposition’s first mass demonstration. demarcating the states’ common border, Coalition deputies barricade the session gaining Ukraine’s participation in the hall. The next day, a protest in Lviv draws GLONASS satellite system, and ensuring more than 4,000 demonstrators. cooperation between the two countries’ • April 25 – Crimean Ministers Council education and culture ministries, among Chair Vasyl Dzharty says Yanukovych other agreements. and Medvedev signed an agreement to • May 18 – The European Parliament build a bridge between Kerch and Kuban approves 500 million euros in aid for by 2014. Ukraine to deal with its financial crisis. • April 27 – Confronted by more than • May 18 – The Verkhovna Rada 3,000 protesters in a raucous demonstra- approves a law allowing foreign soldiers tion, Parliament votes to approve the to conduct nine training exercises on Kharkiv agreements amidst flying eggs, Ukrainian territory in 2010, including smoke bombs and brawls in the Rada ses- NATO’s Sea Breeze and Rapid Trident. sion hall. • May 19 – Ukrainian government offi- • April 30 – The EU submits a docu- cials announce they’re not considering ment to the Organization for Security and membership in the Commonwealth of Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) express- Independent States or the Collective ing its concern about violence and repres- Security Treaty Organization, both led by sions against journalists in Ukraine. the Russian Federation. Azarov says • April 30 – Meeting with Putin in Ukraine will consider membership in the Sochi, Azarov approves plans for intensi- Single Economic Space led by Russia. fied economic cooperation, including a • May 27 – Gryshchenko announces possible consortium for the transit and the removal of accession to NATO from supply of natural gas, joint aviation proj- his ministry’s agenda, though plans ects, as well as infrastructure projects remain to develop activities. such as a new Moscow-Kyiv highway. • June 1 – The parliamentary coalition Putin suggests merging Naftohaz Ukrainy registers a bill, “The Foundations of with Gazprom Domestic and Foreign Policy,” which • April 30 – Learning what the prime excludes NATO integration but calls for ministers discussed, opposition leader joining the EU. No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 19

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Boston Ukrainians present seminar Basilian Sisters collecting on Holodomor at teachers’ conference memories for their centennial STURBRIDGE, Mass. – At the es for printing the copies. The request for FOX CHASE MANOR – From memories of time spent with the sisters, Northeast Regional Conference for the copies should be sent to: Maria Walzer, 11 Philadelphia to New York City, Chicago to photographs, or other mementos – we Social Studies (NERC), held on March 23 Green Valley Road, Medway MA 02053. Newark, N.J., Hamtramck, Mich., to would not only like to hear from you but at Sturbridge Host Hotel and Conference Ms. Walzer, an activist of the Boston Chesapeake City, Md., the Sisters of the would like to tape your memories. Or if Center, Ukrainian activists from the UCCA, suggested that those who order Order of St. Basil the Great have been a you are bashful, and have pictures or old Boston area gave a seminar on the the information packet make copies for major component of numerous lives movies (regardless of the format i.e. Ukrainian genocide, the Holodomor of themselves and bring them to the local through schools, orphanages and parishes. 16mm, 8 mm. etc), please share them 1932-1933. high school history department, encour- In preparation for their 100th anniver- with us for the Centennial DVD,” said The Very Rev. Yaroslav Nalysnyk spoke age their children to write a history proj- sary of ministry in the United States since Sister Dorothy Ann Busowski, OSBM. about the religious impact of the Famine- ect at school using the materials, and 1911, the sisters are collecting memories Sister Dorothy Ann may be contacted Genocide, attorney Paul Rabchenuk gave bring the packet to state legislators and of the many people whose lives are inter- at: 215-379-3998, ext. 35, dabusowski@ a presentation regarding his family’s expe- ask them to sponsor a bill that stipulates twined with the sisters. riences during the Holodomor – he had an the educational department in their state “If you, or someone you know, has (Continued on page 22) uncle who witnessed what was happening has to include the Holodomor in the – and the legal ramifications of the school curriculum. Holodomor, and Tamara Nary of Harvard According to Ms. Walzer, the Ukrainian University presented the historical back- presenters at the NERC gave out a total of ground to the events of 1932-1933. 102 copies of the information packet about The Northeast Regional the Holodomor to teachers who attended Conference Social Studies ( NERC) the Holodomor seminar, as well as others encompasses the states of Maine, New they met at the conference. The comments Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, New from the teachers were very positive. Ms. Jersey, New York and Massachusetts. Walzer added. There were 20 teachers present at the con- The Ukrainian group has already been ference from various states. invited to apply to make its presentation Besides hearing the presentation, the about the Holodomor at next year’s teachers were given part of the report NERC. issued by the U.S. Commission on the In related news, the Boston branch of Ukraine Famine, a bibliography, a letter the UCCA is busy promoting a bill in the from President Barack Obama regarding Massachusetts House of Representatives: the Ukrainian Famine, an article from Docket No. 4833, “An act relative to the Newsweek and a speech by Rep. Sander teaching of the Ukrainian Genocide Levin before the House of Representative. Holodomor.” In the state Senate, the bill is Readers who would like a copy of the now in the Educational Committee. Ms. this handout may send a check for $3, Walzer said she encourages those who live made payable to the UCCA (Ukrainian in the state to go to their local representa- Mykola Yaremko and Sister Ann Laszok, OSBM, videotape former students of Congress Committee of America), which tive and senator and ask them to sponsor the Sisters of St. Basil in Jenkintown, Pa., for the upcoming Basilian centennial covers the UCCA Boston branch’s expens- the bill. documentary. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 No. 26 No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 21

Fourth Wave... (Continued from page 5) encompass more than half of all Ukrainian speakers and 72 percent of Ukrainian speakers among all immigrants. Table 4 provides a more detailed analysis of the latest wave of immigrants from Ukraine (here we limit the data to Fourth Wave immigrants, that is, persons born in Ukraine). First we see that the great majority of Ukrainian speakers among 1991-2007 immigrants are Fourth Wave immigrants: 66.600 among all immigrants (Table 3) and 62,400 among Fourth Wave (Table 4). Second, the percentage Fourth Wave of Ukrainian and Russian speakers has specific dynamics. For immigrants arriving between 1991 and 1995, there were more than twice as many Russian as Ukrainian speakers (62 percent and 28 percent, respectively). For immigrants arriving dur- ing 1996-2001, this gap narrows significantly, with 49 per- cent Russian speakers and 36.5 percent Ukrainian speakers. In the last seven years (2000-2007) the percentage of Ukrainian speakers has surpassed the percentage of Russian speakers, 44 percent to and 41 percent. The strong relationship between the ethnic composition of the new immigrants and the percentage of Ukrainian and Russian speakers is further illustrated in Graph 1, which shows the yearly progression of the number of Fourth Wave Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking immigrants between 1991 and 2006. Between 1991 and 1997 there were, on average, twice as many Russian- as Ukrainian- speaking immigrants. Between 1998 and 2001 these num- bers become roughly equal, and after 2001 the number of Ukrainian-speaking immigrants became consistently higher than the number of Russian-speaking immigrants. In spite of the very high number of Russian speakers among Fourth Wave of immigrants, with the negative result of a higher percentage of Russian versus Ukrainian speak- ers among all Ukrainians in the U.S., the large number of Ukrainian speakers in this migration wave has had a very positive effect on the Ukrainian community in the U.S. Over all, the Fourth Wave more than doubled the num- ber of Ukrainian speakers among all Ukrainians in the U.S. As indicated earlier, in 2006 there were a total of 118,076 Ukrainian speakers, of which 62,426 were of the Fourth Wave. The full impact of this contribution can be better assessed by looking at the age-sex distribution of all (Continued on page 22) 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 No. 26

portal (CITKA LIKAPIB e-Zustrich) where UMANA... Ukrainian physicians anywhere in the world (Continued from page 16) who have access to the Internet conduct 2,500 copies of the easy-to-understand grand round-type teaching sessions, with Ukrainian-language version of Luther audio and video available to approximate Travis’s “An Instructional Aid on Insulin face-to-face learning experiences. Dependent Diabetes Mellitus.” These In Ukraine several hospitals and clinics books will be distributed to children actively participate in the conferences. throughout Ukraine with the help of diabe- Thirty of these e-grand rounds sessions, tes centers in Kyiv and Kherson. The chil- under the capable leadership of Roxolana dren also receive instruction and education Horbowyj, M.D., vice-president of the on how to live with their diabetes. World Federation of Ukrainian Medical (Readers may visit the UDP website www. Associations, have been completed so far, sonic.net/updandy to learn more about this with the foundation defraying some of the worthwhile undertaking.) significant costs of this cutting-edge project. In the virtual global realm, the UMANA To support these efforts or to learn more Foundation continues to support the about the UMANA Foundation readers Internet-based Ukrainian-language learning can log on to www.umana.org.

tion can be seen in many areas. Fourth Wave... New Wave immigrants have strengthened (Continued from page 21) Sunday schools and youth organizations, Ukrainian speakers and compare it with replenished and energized many Ukrainian respective numbers of non-Ukrainian speak- Catholic and Orthodox parishes, increased ers (Graph 2). the readership of our dying Ukrainian news- As New Wave immigrants tend to be papers and started publishing new ones. younger than the general Ukrainian popula- They have revitalized the cultural life of the tion in the U.S., Ukrainian speakers among community by either joining or creating new them tend to be more concentrated in the choirs, dance groups and music ensembles, younger ages. This has had the effect of as well as contributing to Ukrainian art and adding large numbers of Ukrainian speakers literature. Over all, the positive effects of the to younger age groups. Among all large influx of Ukrainian speakers compen- Ukrainian speaking children age 5-9, close sate by far the negative effects of even larger to 50 percent are Fourth Wave immigrants, numbers of Russian speakers. and these new immigrants make up between Thus, the effects of the linguistic 70 and 80 percent of all Ukrainian speakers Russification of Ukraine are not just some- age 10 to 39. thing Ukrainians from the U.S. have to deal The massive influx of Ukrainian speakers with when they visit Kyiv, Odesa or in these critical ages has great potential for Kharkiv. As one of the effects of the Fourth revitalizing the Ukrainian community in the Wave, the linguistic Russification prevalent United States. If we consider that among in Ukraine has also hit home in a big way. It U.S.-born Ukrainians only 4 percent were may not be too noticeable because many of Ukrainian speakers in 2006, one can safely these Russian-speaking immigrants are not say that the Fourth Wave saved the active in the Ukrainian community for obvi- Ukrainian diaspora in the U.S. from practi- ous reasons, but it would be unwise to cally total language assimilation in the not ignore them or reject them. They are part of too distant future. Although only a fraction Ukraine’s reality and now, for better or for of them have become active in the organized worse, some of them are part of our reality community, tangible effects of this contribu- as well.

nated against?) or claiming that you can’t A linguistic... speak the Ukrainian language after (Continued from page 6) you’ve yelled discrimination to ensure Now we see the nation-destroying strate- that you don’t study it in school! gy of the Party of Regions of Ukraine in But I didn’t want to get into a political action. discussion with Mr. Omelchenko, nor point One the one hand, their provocateur dep- out the flaws in his explanation. uties, like Vadym Kolesnichenko, yell and He repeated that the incident didn’t scream about discrimination against the reflect the type of customer service Russian language and the closure of ProCreditBank seeks to give its clients. My Russian schools and “ethnocide” (this is his final question was what should diaspora insane, Orwellian claim that he promotes Ukrainians, like myself, do in similar situa- on a daily basis). tions? Yet when their sons and daughters go to He said the client has the right to speak work in Kyiv, and have to serve us annoy- with the branch manager. If he or she hap- ing diaspora people who speak that peasant pens to be “busy at the moment,” the client Ukrainian tongue, they’re allegedly incapa- ought to contact the customer support ble of speaking it themselves. hotline of the business. You won’t find any logic to the linguistic In standard neo-Soviet fashion, he hysteria of the Party of Regions, stirred up asked that our discussion not be pub- on a daily basis in order to harness votes lished, even though I indicated in my let- instead of ensuring stability and consolida- ter of compliant that I am an American tion in Ukraine. journalist and I’ll be writing about the Its single goal is the supremacy of the incident in my newspaper. Russian language at all costs, whether it He assured me that the bank’s public requires yelling about discrimination relations director, Carmen Geil, would con- (Scholars estimate that 70 percent of tact me instead. She never did. Ukrainians use the Russian language in But then again, I doubt Carmen speaks their daily life, so who’s being discrimi- much Ukrainian.

the Great are a worldwide religious com- Basilian Sisters... munity. In leading uniquely effective and (Continued from page 19) innovative ministries in education, spirit- stbasils.com, or 710 Fox Chase Road, ual direction, evangelization and lay col- laboration, they bring the rich traditions Fox Chase Manor, PA 19046. and mysteries of the Eastern Church to Alternately, Sister Ann Laszok, OSBM, those they encounter. For more informa- may be contacted at 412-260-1607 or tion about the Basilian sisters readers [email protected] may call 215-379-3998 or visit www. The Sisters of the Order of St. Basil stbasils.com. No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 23 OUT AND ABOUT

July 2-5 Lemko Vatra, Organization for the Defense of Ellenville, NY Lemko Western Ukraine, Ukrainian American Youth Association resort, 845-647-7230

July 2-4 Pysanka Festival, Vegreville Cultural Association, Vegreville, AB Festival Grounds, 780-632-2777 or www.pysankafestival.com

July 2-4 Independence Day weekend, Bobrivka, Colebrook, CT www.bobriwka.org or 860-883-1391

July 9-11 Volleyball tournament, Ukrainian American Youth Ellenville, NY Association resort, 845-647-7230

July 16 Western pub night, Ukrainian American Youth Ellenville, NY Association resort, 845-647-7230

July 17 Concert with Natalia Khoma and Volodymyr Jewett, NY Vynnytsky, Grazhda Concert Hall, 518-989-6479 or www.grazhdamusicandart.org

July 19 Music Festival, featuring performance by the Stratford, ON Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus, Stratford Summer Music Festival, www.stratfordsummermusic.ca

July 23-24 Seafood pub night, featuring music by Zuki and Ellenville, NY Mike, Ukrainian American Youth Association resort, 845-647-7230

July 23-25 Ukrainian Festival, Ukrainian Cultural Institute and Dickinson, ND Dickinson State University, 701-483-1486 or www.ukrainianculturalinstitute.org

July 26-30 Ukrainian Folk Art Courses, pysanka writing with Jewett, NY Sofika Zielyk and embroidery with Lubow Wolynetz, Grazhda Music and Art Center of Greene County, 212-533-6419 or 518-989-6218

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