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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIV HE No.KRAINIAN 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine UCCLAT kicks off finalU drive to complete 750-year-oldW Lviv suffers from neglect, installation of plaques at internment sites and abuse, of its historic landmarks QUEBEC CITY – The Ukrainian chairman, John Gregorovich. “This would Canadian Civil Liberties Association on be a remarkable legacy to the memory of October 2 kicked off its “Five Plaques to the 8,579 men, women and children who Go” campaign urging Canadians to pitch were unjustly interned during this dark in and help the association complete its chapter in Canada’s past.” most recent project to recognize the “We are a project-driven group,” he unjust internment of Ukrainian Canadians added. “Every dollar raised will go and others during World War I. towards the purchase and installation of The UCCLA wrapped up another suc- permanent bronze plaques for the five cessful annual conclave on October 1 in remaining internment camp locations.” Quebec City, where the association The UCCLA has placed plaques at 19 of placed the 18th and 19th of 24 memorials Canada’s 24 World War I internment camp – these commemorating internees who locations, from Valcartier, Quebec, to spent time at Valcartier and Beauport. Nanaimo, British Columbia. There is evi- On hand to help mark the solemn dence that the UCCLA’s bronze trilingual occasions was 15-year-old Quebecker plaques and statues are achieving their Kim Pawliw, who read aloud a poem she intended purpose of educating Canadians. dedicated to her grandmother Stephania Photographer Sandra Semchuk, who Mielniczuk. Mrs. Mielniczuk, who died attended the two unveilings, said she recently, was interned as a little girl at learned of the internment operations by Spirit Lake, Quebec, near Val D’Or. reading the UCCLA’s bronze marker in Zenon Zawada With these plaques now installed, five Banff National Park in Alberta at the foot Lviv Admirers Association Vice-President Ivan Svarnyk stands in front of a Canadian internment sites remain to be of Castle Mountain off Highway 1A. Since deteriorating 16th century building in Lviv’s central district that is now being commemorated by the UCCLA: then, she has located and photographed used as a bottle recycling station. Montreal; Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario; every internment site and plaque. Edgewood, British Columbia; Lethbridge, The Ukrainian Canadian Civil by Zenon Zawada thousands of revelers swarming the city’s Alberta; and Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Liberties Foundation, the education arm Kyiv Press Bureau ancient center. UCCLA is seeking support for its of the UCCLA, gave Ms. Semchuk a Amidst the thick crowds, 16th century UCCLA's “Five More to Go” campaign. grant to help finish her photography and LVIV – For Lviv’s 750th anniversary buildings stood dilapidated, on their way “Our goal is to have the 24 camps com- festivities, rock concerts and abundant to collapse. memorated by 2010,” said the UCCLA’s (Continued on page 11) beer amply distracted the hundreds of Graffiti marred the walls of the 14th century Armenian Church. Meanwhile, illegal construction was ubiquitous. Crusading journalist Politkovskaya remembered in Kyiv “The celebration was like a theater; it by Olena Labunka and Zenon Zawada and flowers in her hand. Shapoval in protest in front of the was a theatrical performance,” said Dr. Mykola Bevz, a top expert on Lviv’s Special to The Ukrainian Weekly She handled the murder of journalist Russian Embassy on October 10 to Anna Politkovskaya, 48, as a deep, per- honor Ms. Politkovskaya, the crusading architecture. “The main thing that I, and KYIV – A journalist by profession but all my colleagues, would say is that the sonal tragedy. “I heard about this on the Russian journalist of Ukrainian descent th now a pensioner, Hanna Shapoval came radio and I couldn’t not come and whose murder three days earlier shocked restoration work for the 750 anniver- to the Embassy of the Russian Federation express my horror,” she said. the world. sary of Lviv was not done, although this wearing a black veil, holding a lit candle More than 100 mourners joined Ms. Ms. Politkovskaya was murdered in date was known for many years before- the elevator of her own residence in cen- hand.” tral Moscow. The gunman left his gun at The anniversary festivities on the murder scene – the signal that it was September 30 and October 1 revealed an assassination. that an inefficient Soviet style of budget- Colleagues, co-workers and even law- ing and planning remains entrenched in enforcement authorities were convinced the government, officials said. Ms. Politkovskaya’s murder was related Coupled with unmitigated post-Soviet to journalistic works such as “Druha corruption, both factors are contributing Chechenska” (Second Chechen War), a to the physical deterioration of a city book that describes the horrors of the known throughout the world as “an war, exposing its absurdity, brutality and architectural gem,” as it was recently inhuman cruelty. referred to in The New York Times. Organized by Ukrainian journalists Ukraine’s own neglectful leadership, and the international information agency unable to reform its old ways, is threat- Yevropeyska Khvylia (European Wave), ening Lviv’s magnificent architectural protesters placed flowers and lit candles inheritance, experts said. at the Embassy’s tall metal fence, hold- “There is a very sluggish system in ing Ms. Politkovskaya’s photo and a Kyiv,” said Liliya Onyschenko, the assis- copy of “Druha Chehchenska.” tant director of Lviv’s Historical Activists from the Citizens Environment Defense Administration. Opposition of Ukraine unveiled a plac- “Kyiv has to realize that Lviv is a special ard that read, “Putin – Murderer” and city that can be like Krakow is for Iryna Cherepynska read aloud Ms. Politkovskaya’s works, Poland as its spiritual capital,” she said. including “Why I Don’t Like Putin” “And they need to allocate funds direct- A mourner lights a candle at a makeshift memorial for Anna Politkovskaya, a from her book, “Putin’s Russia,” pub- ly, every year, regardless of whether slain journalist from Russia, at the fence of the Russian Federation Embassy in Kyiv on October 10. (Continued on page 5) (Continued on page 10) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006 No. 42

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Ukraine in search of a regional policy No funding for Holodomor complex Church from 1901 to 1944. His cause for by Vladimir Socor with implementation. Neither of these beatification is making progress in Rome Eurasia Daily Monitor assets seems commensurate with KYIV – The draft budget for 2007 and the case has now been referred to the Ukraine’s potential, however. does not include any funding for the Vatican’s Theological Commission. Ukraine’s independence from Russia is • Moldova/Transdnistria: Undoubtedly memorial complex planned in honor of (Religious Information Service of the single largest geopolitical gain to the the most serious security challenge in the millions of victims who were killed Ukraine) free world and Ukraine’s neighbors, Ukraine’s neighborhood is Russia’s by the Soviets during the last century, resulting from what Russian President attempt to create a Kaliningrad-type reported Channel 5 TV on September 28. Ukraine to import Central Asian gas Vladimir Putin bemoans as “the 20th cen- enclave in Transdnistria; and, as a maxi- In addition, practically no funds are allo- tury’s greatest geopolitical catastrophe.” cated to the Institute of National Memory KYIV – Fuel and Energy Minister Yurii mal objective, Russian dominance of all Boiko told journalists in Kyiv on October Ukraine’s independence has trans- that was created by presidential decree Moldova through power-sharing between 6 that Ukraine will not import Russian gas formed the politics of European security last year. Human rights groups, together Chisinau and Russian-installed authori- for domestic consumption next year, generally and the international politics of with the Prosvita and Memorial organi- ties in Tiraspol. Ukrainian media reported. Mr. Boiko spec- Europe’s East directly, shielding the zations, issued an appeal (for full text, The 2005 plan for political settlement ified that Ukraine in 2007 will receive at region from Russia and enabling most of see page 9 of this issue) alerting in Transdnistria, credited to Ukrainian least 57.5 billion cubic meters of gas from its countries to join NATO and the Ukrainians to the fact that despite prom- President Viktor Yushchenko, displays Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan European Union without fear of Russian ises, the government is not following serious flaws: through the Swiss-based Russian- countermeasures. through on its plans. Roman Krutsyk of a) it fails to call for the withdrawal of Ukrainian joint venture RosUkrEnergo. None of this implies reducing the Memorial organization said that the Russian troops, ignoring their presence Two days earlier Mr. Boiko announced Ukraine’s role to that of a mere buffer or government has taken the Institute of altogether; that Ukraine has signed contracts on buy- some other function traditionally associ- b) it stipulated OSCE-supervised National Memory away from the ated with the status of an object of inter- ing 42 billion cubic meters of Turkmen “democratic” elections in Transdnistria Ministry of Culture and made it subordi- gas, 7 billion cubic meters of Uzbek gas national relations. Ukraine had variously and recognition of its Supreme Soviet as nate to the State Archive Committee now served as buffer, outpost, imperial and 8.5 billion cubic meters of Kazakh gas a democratic representative body in headed by Communist Olha Ginzburg. in 2007. (RFE/RL Newsline) periphery and battlefield during its histo- October 2005, despite the obvious (Channel 5 TV) ry as a territory without statehood. absence of conditions for such elections Top national security official appointed Sheptytsky honored for rescuing Jews Today’s geopolitical processes involv- there; ing Ukraine differ qualitatively from KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko c) while envisaging rapid adoption of KYIV – “I bow my head before the those of the past. The Ukrainian nation is a special status for Transdnistria, it says has appointed Vitalii Haiduk as secretary of now in charge of its own state, the memory of the great Ukrainian, the National Security and Defense Council nothing about disbanding the armed Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky,” who weightiest by far in Europe’s East and forces and pervasive security services in (NSDC), UNIAN reported on October 10. aspiring to close ties with the institution- saved Jews during World War II, said Mr. Haiduk, 49, was vice prime minister Transdnistria; and Moshe Fishbein, a Jewish translator and al West. All this entails commensurate d) it would empower Russia, Ukraine for the fuel and energy sector in Viktor responsibilities for Ukraine as it consid- poet, speaking on September 27 at the Yanukovych’s Cabinet in 2002-2003. Last and the Organization for Security and international forum “Let My People ers its policies in the region. Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), “possi- month President Yushchenko issued a Whether in its own name or as part of Live!” dedicated to the memories of the decree on the make-up of the NSDC, bly assisted by” the United States and the Jews who were killed 60 years ago at groupings – and in all cases as a partner European Union, to arbitrate disputes which is a constitutional body for coordi- of the EU and NATO – Ukraine can sig- Babyn Yar. In his speech at the forum, nating and monitoring the activities of over interpretation and/or implementa- Mr. Fishbein emphasized that we are in nificantly contribute to the resolution of tion of Moldova-Transdnistria power- executive bodies in the sphere of national conflicts and other security challenges in debt not only to the victims of Nazi ter- security and defense. (RFE/RL Newsline) sharing arrangements – a system clearly ror, but also to those who rescued the the region and the development of a cul- weighted in Russia’s favor, and in no ture of regional cooperation. Fulfillment Jews from death, risking their own lives. President urged to kick out Zinchenko way balanced by the doubly restrictive “I bow my head before those righteous, of this potential depends in large measure KYIV – The Our Ukraine party has codicil on “possible assistance.” those Ukrainians who, risking their own on a consistent strategic vision at the top appealed to President Viktor Yushchenko lives, rescued Jews. I bow my head and the capacity of institutions charged (Continued on page 18) to cancel his recent decree appointing before the memory of the great Oleksander Zinchenko as a presidential Ukrainian, Metropolitan Andrey adviser, UNIAN reported on October 10. Sheptytsky, who hid Jews in his house, Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine “Oleksander Zinchenko, while holding and among them there was Rabbi David the post of state secretary [in 2005], dis- Kahane. I bow my head before the mem- seminated dirty and ungrounded allega- considers opposition option ory of Greek-Catholic nuns who hid tions, including with regard to members Jewish children. I bow my head before of our party. In the final analysis, [those by Oleg Varfolomeyev component, the Our Ukraine People’s hundreds of Ukrainian families who res- allegations] created an artificial crisis in Eurasia Daily Monitor Union (OUPU), whose members place cued Jewish souls,” said Mr. Fishbein. Ukraine, split the Orange [Revolution] loyalty to Mr. Yushchenko above affilia- Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky was the The Our Ukraine bloc of six right-of- tion with the party. head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic (Continued on page 17) center parties, which supports President Talks on a grand coalition started well Viktor Yushchenko, has withdrawn from before August 3, when the national unity talks on joining the government coalition declaration was signed, and they intensi- FOUNDED 1933 with the Party of the Regions (PRU), the fied in September, when Parliament re- Socialists and the Communists. convened after summer vacation. Quite HE KRAINIAN EEKLY Roman Bezsmertnyi, the formal T U W soon it became clear that the PRU, which An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., leader of Our Ukraine (OU), announced dominates the government coalition that a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. 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On August 12, 2005, Security Service of Ukraine CONCLUSION (SBU) chief Oleksander Turchynov ordered a search of Naftohaz headquarters to investigate the corruption. The following is the second article in a two-part Our Ukraine leaders perceived the move as a direct series examining the political relationship between provocation against them, particularly because many of Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, which came them are heavily involved in the natural gas industry, to an end one year ago. including Mr. Tretiakov and Oleksii Ivchenko. K YIV – The gasoline industry is where Prime Minister Earlier on July 6 Mr. Yushchenko had sent a letter Yulia Tymoshenko earned her first big profit, and it became directly to Ms. Tymoshenko, asking her to leave the source of her first public scandal with the president. Naftohaz alone and not draw it into political intrigues. At a May 16 press conference, Ms. Tymoshenko In response to Mr. Turchynov’s investigation, Mr. declared war on Russian oil executives, accusing them of Poroshenko called the SBU “a danger to the security of conspiring to create a fuel crisis by inflating gasoline the state,” insisting on a revamping of Ukraine’s top prices as high as 15 percent. investigative agency. “Just when the new government came to power, this This was Mr. Poroshenko’s declaration of war against monopoly, or cartel conspiracy, raised prices for oil prod- Mr. Turchynov, who had long been Ms. Tymoshenko’s ucts in Ukraine significantly higher than what was agreed closest confidante, in the words of Radio Liberty jour- to,” she said. nalist Roman Kupchinsky. To deal with the situation, Ms. Tymoshenko reached Revealing his support for Mr. Poroshenko’s actions, Mr. Yushchenko personally told Mr. Turchynov in mid- agreements with three Ukrainian refineries to set prices August to stop “persecuting my men” and cease corrup- that offered them reasonable profitability, while also stabi- tion investigations, the former SBU chair later revealed. lizing the market. In yet another attempt to supplant Ms. Tymoshenko’s The agreements were reached without consulting the Volodymyr Ilchenko authority, Mr. Poroshenko traveled to Moscow in late two Russian oil companies that dominate 90 percent of August to personally negotiate with Gazprom on natural Ukraine’s market – LUKoil and Tyumenskaya Nyeftnaya Yulia Tymoshenko and Viktor Yushchenko in Kyiv gas prices and arrange a long-term supply agreement. Kompaniya (TNK). at the time of the Orange Revolution. Though not dependent on Mr. Poroshenko, President Displeased with Ms. Tymoshenko’s interference, the the Yushchenko and Tymoshenko camps angling for power Yushchenko remained fiercely loyal to him throughout companies responded by shutting down oil production in and influence against each other, said Serhii Taran of the the conflict. Ukraine and ceasing oil deliveries to Ukraine’s primary Socio-Vymir Center for Sociological and Politcal Research. “For everyone who shows him this love, Yushchenko’s refinery in Kremenchuk. The blockade lasted for a full With the lack of an opposition political force to unite immediately ready to embrace them and he’s ready to week, disrupting supplies and causing gasoline shortages against, they found their enemy in each other, he said. cooperate with them,” Mr. Doniy said. “He loves to bathe and even further price hikes. Ms. Tymoshenko’s ally Mykola Tomenko confirmed in the rays of glory, the people’s love for him, the love of Two days following her announcement, President this the morning of the Cabinet’s dismissal when he his close people, his entourage, his allies.” Viktor Yushchenko expressed his disapproval of Ms. announced his resignation, stating that two separate gov- Tymoshenko’s handling of the situation, issuing a presi- The last straw ernments were competing with each other, one led by Mr. dential decree blaming the Cabinet of Ministers, not Poroshenko and the other by Ms. Tymoshenko. Russian oil entrepreneurs, for the crisis. The Yushchenko-Tymoshenko government came crash- Meanwhile, Mr. Yushchenko grew increasingly con- “In May this year, a sharp deficit in high-octane ing down September 5, 2005, when Presidential Secretariat cerned with Ms. Tymoshenko’s growing prominence and grades of gasoline arose in the domestic market of fuel Chair Oleksandr Zinchenko called a press conference to popularity. products,” the order said. “This crisis arose because the resign and expose the government’s corruption and infight- Ukrainians began seeing the attractive, telegenic Ms. Cabinet of Ministers, in its price-setting, excessively ing. He laid full blame on the Poroshenko-Martynenko- Tymoshenko as frequently as the president, if not more regulated the gas and fuel market.” Tretiakov triumvirate that was abusing its newly acquired so, on the evening news. A master in handling the The decree forbade Ms. Tymoshenko from attempt- power for its personal gain and enrichment. media, she was holding press conferences sometimes on “Poroshenko, Tretiakov and company appoint their ing to use government mechanisms, or “excessive non- a weekly basis, without consulting the president. own people everywhere possible, intentionally put pres- market levers,” to influence or regulate prices on Mr. Yushchenko’s triumvirate of Petro Poroshenko, sure on the independent law-enforcement system and Ukraine’s commodity markets, particularly gasoline. Oleksander Tretiakov and Mykola Martynenko was keep- reign freely in privatization processes,” Mr. Zinchenko On May 19 both Mr. Yushchenko and Ms. ing close tabs on her and frequently warning the president said. “They think that if the government is ours, then it Tymoshenko met face-to-face with the Russian oil exec- of her threat. should work for us.” utives to resolve the situation. In the view of some observers, they were justified in Mr. Zinchenko painted an image in which this tri- While President Yushchenko took the approach of umvirate monopolized their influence on Mr. apologizing on behalf of his Cabinet for disrupting the doing so. Yushchenko by isolating and denying him contact with gasoline market, Prime Minister Tymoshenko insisted she “For Tymoshenko, the main goal is power, power and even his key advisors, keeping the detached president in handled the situation properly. once more, power,” said Stepan Khmara, a former ally an informational vacuum. Her assertions caused Mr. Yushchenko to lose his of Ms. Tymoshenko. “Tymoshenko is not an altruist or a Even Minister of Foreign Affairs Borys Tarasyuk had patience, according to anonymous witnesses interviewed patriot of Ukraine. She is a political player, with a lust complained that he couldn’t speak with the president for by Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, Ukraine’s weekly analytical news- for power.” three months because of Mr. Tretiakov’s interference. paper. Petro versus Yulia It was in this vacuum that political experts believe Mr. Yushchenko allegedly said he regretted appoint- the triumverate built up Mr. Yushchenko’s concern and ing Ms. Tymoshenko as his prime minister and suggest- The rivalry between the Yushchenko and fears over Ms. Tymoshenko’s rising influence and popu- ed she resign. Tymoshenko camps reached the boiling point during the larity in government. “We work as a team, therefore, discussions can only summer of 2005 as they battled over Ukraine’s natural “Using their closeness to the president, this circle take place at the discussion stage,” the president report- gas, experts said. tried to create an alternative to Tymoshenko to make it edly said. “After a decision has been made, there is no Before becoming Mr. Yushchenko’s close confidante, impossible for her to strengthen her position,” Mr. place for discussion. Those who don’t agree can Mr. Poroshenko enjoyed close ties with Mr. Kuchma Doniy said. “Poroshenko played a key role in the resign.” and Kyiv clan boss Viktor Medvedchuk. Already a millionaire, he joined Mr. Yushchenko’s process of Yushchenko’s worsening attitude toward Ms. Tymoshenko’s fiercely independent stance dur- Tymoshenko.” opposition at the end of 2001, serving as campaign ing the gasoline crisis was the first of many signals per- Reserving the most criticism for Mr. Poroshenko, Mr. manager for Our Ukraine during the 2002 parliamentary ceived by Mr. Yushchenko and his entourage as Ms. Zinchenko accused him of trying to use the National elections. Tymoshenko’s attempt to upstage him, political analysts Security and Defense Council as his own personal law Though they are close, Mr. Yushchenko isn’t all that said. enforcement agency. dependent on Mr. Poroshenko the way Mr. Yanukovych Simultaneously, another policy conflict erupted when In a scene out of a Mexican soap opera, Mr. is dependent on Rynat Akhmetov, who is the prime Ms. Tymoshenko criticized First Vice Prime Minister Poroshenko showed up unannounced, storming into the source of financing behind the Party of the Regions, Anatolii Kinakh for creating a list of 29 Ukrainian firms room packed with journalists with a furious, bullish political experts said. targeted for reprivatization, insisting that no such list glare aimed at the whistleblower. When becoming president, Mr. Yushchenko appoint- existed nor was one approved by the government. After Mr. Zinchenko concluded his revelations, Mr. ed Mr. Poroshenko secretary of the National Defense Instead, the government should conduct re-privatiza- Poroshenko barreled towards the podium and denied any and Security Council. tion of questionably obtained properties on the basis of corruption in the Yushchenko government, noting that legislation that would establish criteria for repossession Though Mr. Poroshenko was not a Cabinet Minister, Mr. Zinchenko had no documentary evidence. He sur- and subsequent auction, Ms. Tymoshenko asserted. the president gave him a free pass to maneuver through- mised that perhaps Mr. Zinchenko saw little chance for However Oles Doniy of the Kyiv-based Center for out government and even represent Ukrainian interests political advancement in the Yushchenko government, Political Values Research said he believes Ms. abroad. In turn, Mr. Poroshenko took advantage of oppor- and was looking to use a scandal to launch his own politi- Tymoshenko publicly criticized Mr. Kinakh as part of her tunities to challenge Ms. Tymoshenko’s authority and cal career. fight to manage the new government’s re-privatization staged numerous attempts to overshadow her. “I think sociological data revealed his level of populari- process. “Before she visited Georgia, he arrived there first,” ty and that it’s high time he took to Pora’s leadership,” Mr. “Whoever created the list controlled it,” he said. “There Kyiv political insider Ivan Lozowy said. “She planned a Poroshenko said. “Today, we are witnessing the beginning was a fight to create this list because whoever had the trip to France, and he goes there first. He was the proxi- of his campaign.” right to cross out factories from this list theoretically mate and long-term cause for her removal.” As it turned out, Mr. Zinchenko never became a Pora obtained bribes from owners.” Mr. Poroshenko spent the summer months defending Once again, the lack of a common strategy resulted in the president and Mr. Tretiakov against allegations (Continued on page 23) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006 No. 42 THE LAST INTERVIEW: Anna Politkovskaya speaks with RFE/RL RFE/RL Russian Service who long for more brutality. That is the interview before television cameras I link Kadyrov’s fate to the number of only difference. from state and other channels with bod- [people who want to take revenge on Anna Politkovskaya’s last interview What does that mean, to “cry about ies in the background. But in fact these him], that’s all. Of course, I don’t wish was with RFE/RL’s Russian Service, just human rights?” There is no need to sit were people whom they had seized, had death on anyone, but as far as this partic- two days before she was gunned down in and cry about human rights. One simply “disappeared” for some time, and were ular person is concerned, I think he Moscow. The date of the interview, needs to meet not only with Kadyrov, but then killed. should take serious care of his security. October 5, was also the birthday of also with those people who have suffered Journalists who don’t know this region Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya’s prime min- Some say such incidents are just a as a result of Kadyrov’s actions, and not say that he is reviving Chechen tradi- ister, and it was a particularly significant small percentage, that these are indi- just in a hypothetical way but directly – tions. That is complete nonsense. He’s birthday: now 30 years old, he is now vidual cases that are the price paid for people whose relatives died, who were destroying them. You know, I’m no sup- legally eligible to be president. improvements in the region. What is tortured and who were forced to flee. The porter of the custom of the vendetta, but Ms. Kadyrov was the target of much of your view? it did ensure some kind of stability in this Ms. Politkovskaya’s most critical report- majority of these people are truly region for many years. He has destroyed ing, and in this interview Ms. admirable; I know many of them person- I want to say here that there were more that too. Politkovskaya expresses her forthright ally. abductions in the first half of this year Right now I have two photographs on than in the first half of last year. ... And view of a man she calls “a Stalin of our Assuming Kadyrov is not killed, do my desk. I am conducting an investiga- those are figures just of those people times,” dreams of a day when Mr. you think he is likely to bring about tion about torture today in Kadyrov’s whose relatives reported abductions and Kadyrov will stand trial and talks about early elections? the subjects of much of her work – the prisons, today and yesterday. These are whose bodies were never found. I’d like victims of torture and abduction in people who were abducted by the to call attention to the fact that we talk He is a puppet, nothing depends on Chechnya. Kadyrovtsi [members of Kadyrov’s per- about “individual cases” only because him now. I don’t think he’s more power- sonal militia] for completely inexplicable these people aren’t our loved ones – it’s ful than anyone else. He’s a coward A Moscow journalist recently wrote reasons and who died. They died as part not my son, my brother, my husband. armed to the teeth and surrounded by that Ramzan Kadyrov has switched of a PR campaign. The photographs that I’m telling you security guards. I don’t think he will from the role of “destroyer” to the role I plan to say that these people who about, these were bodies that had been become president [of Chechnya’s pro- of “creator,” and that, as far as human were abducted, whose photographs are horribly tortured. You can’t reduce this to Moscow administration]. That is my rights are concerned, “all that remains on my desk, these people – one of them a small percentage – it’s an enormous strong inner belief, perhaps an intuition. percentage. for us is to cry about them.” What’s is Russian, the other is Chechen – were It’s not something rational, and nor has it Kadyrov is a Stalin of our times. This your reaction to this statement? made to look as though they were fight- been confirmed by [current President] ers who battled against the Kadyrovtsi is true for the Chechen people. Many of Alu Alkhanov. ... Alu Alkhanov himself I am even not going to comment on in the village of Aleroi. It’s a well- our colleagues have gone out of their is a very weak person. That is his particu- way to make us believe that this is a this, because it’s total nonsense. I think known story, one that was all over our lar problem and the main reason for small percentage, that absolute evil can that the new Kadyrov is the one who television screens, on the radio, in the Kadyrov’s increasingly draconian meth- triumph today so that in some hypotheti- gives a ride in his car to Moscow ladies newspapers, when Kadyrov gave an ods. cal future this evil can become good. Personally I only have one dream for This is absolutely not true. Kadyrov’s birthday: I dream of him As for the admiration felt for someday sitting in the dock, in a trial that Kadyrov, you know, the situation is as it meets the strictest legal standards, with OSCE Parliamentary Assembly president was under Stalin. If you [hear someone] speaking officially, publicly, openly, all of his crimes listed and investigated. there is admiration. As soon as you [hear By the way, no other newspaper writes condemns investigative journalist’s murder someone] speak secretly, softly, confi- anything about this, but criminal cases COPENHAGEN – The Secretary Prize for Journalism and Democracy in dentially, you’re told, “We hate him have been launched against the General of the Parliamentary Assembly February 2003. intensely.” This split is absolute in peo- Kadyrovtsi and Kadyrov personally on of the Organization for Security and As Freimut Duve, then OSCE repre- ple’s souls. This is a very dangerous the basis of three articles published by Cooperation in Europe, Spencer Oliver, sentative on freedom of the media, pre- thing. our newspaper. I myself am a witness in attended the funeral of slain Russian sented the prize in 2003, he noted that the one of these cases. These cases are about journalist Anna Politkovskaya on award was started “not only as a symbol, Do you agree with journalists who abductions, including one criminal case October 10 while the Assembly’s presi- but as an alarm clock for freedom of the say that the presidency of Ramzan about the abduction of two people carried dent, Goran Lennmarker condemned her media, which is one of the fundamental Kadyrov is linked to the presidency of out with the participation of Ramzan murder as a “tragedy that silenced brav- principles of a democracy.” Vladimir Putin? Akhmedovich Kadyrov. ery and strength.” Ms. Politkovskaya was the eighth “I utterly condemn this brutal murder. recipient of the OSCE Prize for As one of Russia’s most distinguished Journalism and Democracy, first award- investigative journalists, she was a strong ed in 1996. In her acceptance speech, force for democracy. Her loss is felt she spoke about her personal experi- Helsinki Commission reacts deeply by the Parliamentary Assembly,” ences as a reporter in Chechnya, and Mr. Lennmarker said. drew attention to human rights abuses in Mr. Oliver described today’s ceremony the region. to Politkovskaya’s murder WASHINGTON – Helsinki “Truth in journalism is a commodity as a “moving testimony to her courageous “I’m a journalist,” she said. “I’m nei- Commission Chairman Sen. Sam with an immense price tag in today’s life.” ther a politician nor a diplomat. And so Brownback and Co-Chairman Russia,” said Commission Ranking I’m not polite – I say what I think. And The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Christopher H. Smith expressed sorrow Member Rep. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.). awarded Ms. Politkovskaya, an inves- what I think about is what I see with my and outrage after learning of the killing “The assassination of Anna tigative journalist with the independent own eyes. My job is simple: to look of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya places in jeopardy the life newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the OSCE around and to write what I see.” Politkovskaya. Ms. Politkovskaya was of every journalist in Russia who found dead after being shot outside of her attempts to tell the truth about events in apartment on October 7. that country.” The 73rd remembrance “The murder of Ms. Politkovskaya, In 2003, Ms. Politkovskaya was clearly a contract killing, is a devastating awarded the Organization for Security blow to journalism and civil society in and Cooperation in Europe’s of Ukraine’s genocide Russia – an incalculable loss,” said Sen. Parliamentary Assembly Prize for Brownback (R-Kansas). Journalism and Democracy for her Ukrainian Congress Committee of America General of the United Nations; U.S. “This murder of one of the most reporting from Chechnya, where she Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.); NEW YORK – On Saturday, prominent journalists in Russia is a chill- exposed the brutal methods used by some New York City Mayor Michael November 18, the annual solemn com- ing reminder of the fragile façade of elements of the Russian military forces Bloomberg; and, Ukraine’s Ambassador memoration of Ukraine’s Famine- political and social stability in Russia. I against Chechen civilians. Genocide will take place at St. Patrick’s to the United States Oleh Shamshur. call on the Russian authorities to conduct Ms. Politkovskaya’s Helsinki Cathedral in New York City. Sponsored U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) an immediate, thorough and transparent Commission testimony can be read at by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of has confirmed his participation. investigation of this murder that will find www.csce.gov under the “Chechnya: America (UCCA), the now traditional The UCCA has also appealed to not only those who carried out the attack, Current Situation and Prospects for the observance, which begins at 2 p.m. will President George W. Bush to offer a but also those who ordered it,” added Future” hearing on September 16, 2003. statement to mark the 73rd anniversary Sen. Brownback. include an ecumenical memorial service * * * (panakhyda) concelebrated by the hierar- of Ukraine’s Genocide that will be read “Ms. Politkovskaya faced death chy of the Ukrainian Catholic and at the commemoration. threats in the past yet she bravely contin- The Commission on Security and Orthodox Churches, with the participation The UCCA urges the Ukrainian ued her calling,” said Rep. Smith (R- Cooperation in Europe, also known as of The Dumka Choir of New York City. American community of the greater N.J.). “Her testimony on Chechnya at a the U.S. Helsinki Commission, is an Following the religious portion of the New York metropolitan area to partici- 2003 Helsinki Commission hearing independent agency of the U.S. govern- commemoration, government officials pate in this solemn ecumenical obser- reflected both her professional excellence ment charged with monitoring compli- will be afforded an opportunity to offer vance of the 73rd anniversary of the and her deep commitment to humanitari- ance with the Helsinki Final Act and their remarks. Invited guest speakers Famine-Genocide that resulted in the an values. Her outstanding contribution other commitments of the 56 participat- include the Kofi Annan, Secretary- deaths of 7 million in Ukrane. to journalism and the cause of human ing states in the Organization for Security rights will be deeply missed.” and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006 5

Crusading journalist... (Continued from page 1) Clashes feared in Kyiv on UPA anniversary date by Zenon Zawada “Disregarding the fact that the leaders of this mob lished in January 2004. Kyiv Press Bureau publicly flaunt their readiness to spill blood, law No Russian diplomats addressed the protest. Similar enforcement organs haven’t reacted to these facts in the events were also held at the Russian Consulates in Lviv KYIV – Violence may once again mar the annual St. least,” said the statement released by the Svoboda All- and Symferopol. Mary the Protectress commemoration in Kyiv on Ukrainian Union, UNA-UNSO, OUN-UPA Soldiers During Vladimir Putin’s six years as Russian October 14, as, once again, the Kyiv city government is Brotherhood, Youth Nationalist Congress and the Federation president, 12 journalists have been murdered doing little to prevent it. National Alliance (a youth organization). – the last high-profile case being that of Forbes Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) veterans regard the The pro-Russian forces are calling their event the Magazine’s Moscow editor Paul Klebnikov. feast day of St. Mary the Protectress as their army’s 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials, which prose- Russia ranks third globally in the number of mur- founding date in 1942 and have marched along the cuted Nazi leaders. dered journalists, behind Iraq and Algeria, according to Khreschatyk in Kyiv for many years in commemoration Although the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union submit- the International Committee to Defend Journalists. of their anniversary – until the Orange Revolution that is. “The words ‘Russia’ and ‘freedom of speech’ are Last year, thousands of pro-Russian and protesters ted its request on September 13 to hold an event on incompatible,” said Kateryna Borysenko, 29, a literary confronted the veterans and clashed violently with their behalf of the UPA veterans, the Communist Party didn’t critic. supporters. do so until October 6, just one week before the planned Ms. Shapoval said similar murders could still take Leaders of these groups, which include the simultaneous event. place in Ukraine, and the new government isn’t much Communist Party and the Party of Putin’s Politics, When asked by The Weekly why Kyiv was allowing better than the one under Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine’s returned to the Kyiv City Administration on October 11 a potential conflict to unfold, the director of the Kyiv former president who is widely suspected of playing a to indicate they intend to do the same this year with Administration of Social-Political Issues, Valentyna role in the murder of journalist Heorhii Gongadze. their own event. Korovina, said the city government can’t deny the But not everyone agreed. Though UPA veterans and their supporters told offi- request of organizations to hold public events, so long as “At least Ukraine has freedom of speech, and this cials they are willing to hold their event at a different they don’t violate the Constitution of Ukraine. protest is proof of that,” said Natalya Makedon, 66, a location and time, the pro-Russian forces refused to A final attempt at compromise will be made, she said, professional yachtswoman. “We are here to show our move their own event, said Ihor Mazur-Topolia, a leader requesting the UPA veterans and supporters to hold their government and the Russian government that they need in the Ukrainian National Assembly-Ukrainian Self- event at St. Sophia Square, while the pro-Russian forces to learn lessons from Gongadze’s murder. This is con- Defense (UNA-UNSO). go to the Arch of Friendship Between Nations. tinuing because his murder has gone unpunished.” This reveals their intent on disrupting, the St. Mary However, both sides are unlikely at this point to accept Russian officials waited three days before making an the Protectress Day ceremonies, which include political such a compromise and both plan to be on Independence official statement on Ms. Politkovskaya’s murder. speeches and a religious service celebrated by Ukrainian Square as they have already announced to the public. Neither the Russian nor Chechen governments Orthodox priests. Last year, more than 3,000 pro-Russian protesters played any role in the murder, said President Putin dur- “The lack of punishment for last year’s criminal acts outnumbered the patriots and nationalists by three to ing an October 10 press conference in Dresden, the has led to this year’s recruitment of soldiers by Kremlin one. At Independence Square, police cordoned off pro- German city where he once worked as a KGB agent. hires with the goal of officially creating terror in Kyiv, Russian protesters on its east side, and patriotic forces to “Yes, truly, this journalist was a sharp critic of the and not even covertly,” according to a statement sent by the west. current government in Russia, but the level of influence patriotic organizations to the Ministry of Internal At least 3,000 UPA supporters are expected this year, she had on the nation’s political life was very insignifi- Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine and the State arriving from other oblasts and cities, throughout the cant,” Mr. Putin said. Committee on Nationality and Migration Issues. country organizers said. “The murder of such a person, the horrible murder of a woman, a mother, in itself is directed against our To subscribe: Send $55 ($45 if you are a member of the UNA) to The Ukrainian Weekly, Subscription Department, country, against Russia and does the current government 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 significantly more harm than her publications,” he added. Mr. Putin also assured U.S. President George W. Bush that the Russian prosecutor general would conduct an official, objective investigation. The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund: September The publishers of Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper Ms. Amount Name City Sonia Prokopetz Toronto, Ont. Politkovskaya wrote for, have promised a reward of $300.00 Leonard L. and Helena Mountain Lakes, N.J. Jaroslaw Rozankowsky Jamaica Plain, Mass. about $1 million for information leading to an arrest. Mazur Anya Shepelavey Columbia, Md. Among its owners are former Soviet leader Mikhail $250.00 Oksana Zakydalsky Toronto, Ont. Paul Shott Plymouth, N.H. Gorbachev. $200.00 George and Motria Oakbrok, Ill. P. and A. Switnicki New York, N.Y. Some of the Kyiv protesters said President Putin’s Sosenko Virlana Tkacz New York, N.Y. Russia resembles a fascist government. $155.00 Joseph B. and Martha T. Danville, Calif. $21.00 Anne Iwach Manhattan Beach, Calif. Yegor Sobolyev, a prominent Ukrainian journalist, Mazuryk $20.00 Jarema Didoszak Marina, Calif. said the murder demonstrates just how far Ukraine has $100.00 Yaroslaw and Karen Ann Morristown, N.J. Anna Tiutiunnyk Henderson, Nev. progressed ahead of Russia since the Orange Chelak Jerema Wolosenko Brookline, Mass. Revolution. Russia’s democratization “can’t be evolu- Bohdan Guran Venice, Fla. $15.00 Eugene Fedorenko Morris Plains, N.J. tionary,” he said. “It will always be revolutionary. And Bohdan Sereda New York, N.Y. Roy Gajdalo Philadelphia, Pa. revolutions in Russia have unpredictable results.” Anna and Walter Old Field, N.Y. Walter Motyka North Port, Fla. The Ukrainian government also was slow in com- Szczupak Joseph Zucofski Port Carbon, Pa. menting on the murder. $80.00 Bohdan Knianicky Ontario, Calif. $10.00 Roman and Nadia Park Ridge, Ill. Not until October 11 did the Presidential Secretariat $55.00 Halyna Breslawec Potomac, Md. Andrushko issue a statement. However, it was not directly from Christine and Alexander Randolph, N.J. Natalia Chaykovsky Morris Plains, N.J. President Viktor Yushchenko. Hladky Dr. Michael Cehelsky Bronx, N.Y. “With deep sorrow, the president of Ukraine learned Andrij Juzeniw Larchmont, N.Y. Nicholas Fil Latham, N.Y. of this murder,” said Oleksander Chalyi, a Presidential Jennie Kopystianskyj New York, N.Y. Alex Konowal Arlington Hts., Ill. Secretariat assistant chair. “He expresses sincere con- Millie Lotocka-Jones Virginia Beach, Va. Lydia Lysak Newnan, Ga. dolences to the victim’s family and friends, and S. Makar-Laudi Brooklyn, N.Y. Ihor Mirchuk Willow Grove, Pa. believes that this attack upon freedom of speech should Andrea Tomko Millburn, N.J. Andrew and Irene Mt. Clemens, Mich. be diligently investigated and the guilty brought to jus- $50.00 Lidia Bodnar-Cloherty South Boston, Mass. Petrina tice.” Andrew Cap Kensington, Md. Paul Shewchuk Latham, N.Y. Ms. Politkovskaya will always be remembered in Rostyslaw and Adriana Chicago, Ill. Philip Witenko New Milford, Conn. Ukraine as an honest and brave journalist devoted to Dekajlo $5.00 Mary Boris Wilkes-Barre, Pa. high ideals of justice, Mr. Chalyi said. Paul Dzul Grosse Pointe, Mich. Mary Hanitz West Senega, N.Y. She will also be remembered for her Ukrainian roots: Irene Hlushewsky Harrison, N.Y. Mary Horbay Oakville, Ont. her father was from a village in the Chernihiv Oblast, Julie Parabaniuk Washington, D.C. Orysia Johnson St. Petersburg, Fla. and her maiden name was Mazepa. George Pryjma Glenview, Ill. Merle and Bonnie Toledo, Ohio She was born in New York, however, to parents who Bohdan Puzyk Darien, Conn. Jurkiewicz were Soviet diplomats to the United Nations. Bohdan Steciw Palo Alto, Calif. B. and H. Kandiuk Glen Spey, N.Y. The last time Ms. Politkovskaya had visited Ukraine John Stecura Middleburg Hts., Ohio Andrew Kazewych Williamston, Mich. was exactly two years prior to her murder. She visited $45.00 Helena Mann- Owings, Md. N. Krawciw Manassas, Va. Kyiv for a presentation of the Ukrainian version of Melnitchenko John Losko Chicago, Ill. “Druha Chechenska,” published by Kyiv-based Diokor Roxolana Kashuba Durham, N.C. in 2004. Paul Thomas Rabchenuk Marblehead, Mass. TOTAL: $3,066.00 Among those attending the Kyiv protest were Ivan $35.00 Maria Polanskyj Matawan, N.J. Andrusiak, who translated “Druha Chechenska” into $30.00 Joseph and Luba Kladko Sunnyvale, Calif. Sincere thanks to all contributors to Ukrainian. Martha Lewicky Harrington Park, N.J. The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund. He remembered Ms. Politkovskaya as a gentle, frag- Mike Nebesny McCordsville, Ind. ile woman, who was simultaneously fearless. $25.00 John Kozeletz Falls Church, Va. The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund is the only fund “She absolutely didn’t fear anything, although she Alexander Kuzma Glastonbury, Conn. dedicated exclusively to supporting the work of this understood well that she could be killed at any Milas Lebedovych Savannah, Ga. moment,” he said. “There is no journalist of such cal- Oleg O. Abramov Yalta, Ukraine publication. iber in today’s Ukraine.” 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006 No. 42

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY More on our partnership A response About supporting Two weeks ago our editorial was devoted to the 73rd anniversary of The to Kuzio’s blog our own causes Ukrainian Weekly – 73 years of service to our Ukrainian community, a commu- Dear Editor: Dear Editor: nity we’ve grown up with and changed with. Our editorial of October 1 focused Taras Kuzio has a reputation of writing I read with interest, and some consterna- on our newspaper’s beginnings and its raison d’etre, and concluded that through widely and frequently about events in and tion, Yaro Bihun’s debut column “Where the years The Weekly always was a partner to our community. around Ukraine. But on the evidence of were you when ...?” (September 17). This week we’d like to expand on the idea behind that partnership. his comments about me (“Are Ukrainian It’s hard to find fault with the idea of The Ukrainian Weekly can best be viewed as a network that connects our com- politics to be taken that seriously?” Ukrainian Americans or Canadians sup- munity members far and wide, that lets readers in, say, North Carolina, know what October 1), his output comes at the porting other people’s causes – and I their fellow Ukrainians are up to in Michigan and vice versa. We pride ourselves on expense of accuracy. Simply put, Mr. daresay that over the years many have, if our relationship with our readers and our role as an intermediary in uniting disparate Kuzio gets almost all of his facts wrong in quietly and without fanfare. and distant elements of our community, from Newark, N.J., to Quebec City. We the course of a brief paragraph about me. However, neither can I find fault with characterize our newpaper’s functioning as a partnership with our community. First, I was not on my way to Poland those diligent and dedicated Ukrainian Why a partnership? Because for decades this paper has worked with our com- to an energy conference financed by activists who, rather than marching in munity activists by providing a forum for their ideas and opinions, serving as a Rynat Akhmetov. A search of the Internet Selma, helping blacks register to vote or venue where various concerns and causes could be addressed, and galvanizing will show there was no such conference protesting the internment of Japanese community action on issues of the day. The Weekly has been a crusader working in Poland at that time. I was on my way Americans, chose to focus on “other” alongside our community organizations to promote such grand projects as to meet the Speaker of the Polish Senate, (i.e., Ukrainian) priorities. Ukrainian studies chairs at Harvard University, the Shevchenko monument in the minister of defense and the secretary Furthermore, I consider it utterly pre- Washington, redress for the World War I internment of Ukrainian Canadians, a of state of the economy, to discuss a posterous to suggest that the Ukrainian U.S. government commission on the Ukrainian Famine and international recog- prospective energy diversification con- community “didn’t seem to mind” Nelson nition of the Holodomor as a genocide. The Weekly has been our community’s ference under the patronage of Presidents Mandela’s imprisonment or genocide in voice in Washington and beyond since our newspaper is read by members of Viktor Yushchenko and Lech Kaczynski. Darfur. So Ukrainian American protests at Congress and other leading decision-makers, analysts and scholars. Second, I was not defending anyone the Shevchenko monument don’t end at the To be sure, there are other Ukrainian community newspapers that serve our before a Western journalist known for his South African or Sudanese embassies. hromada. However, many of them serve a specific geographic area (newspapers in professional reporting. I was discussing That’s hardly an indication that the Philadelphia and Chicago come to mind). Yes, it’s nice that Ukrainians in a partic- political events in Ukraine. My basic point Ukrainian community approves of racism ular city can read about their neighbors and issues close to home. But isn’t it nicer was that President Yushchenko had steered and genocide! (By the same token, South to share that information with Ukrainians in other parts of North America? the country toward economic growth, vig- African and Sudanese protests rarely end at And, sure, there is a lot of information available on the World Wide Web. But, orous free media, a dynamic private sector the Shevchenko monument.) If our com- you’d be hard-pressed to find online in one place everything that you find in an and open political competition. I also said munity doesn’t focus on Ukrainian causes, issue of The Ukrainian Weekly – from news of our community here in the United Mr. Akhmetov has an interest in integra- who will? And, are ours less worthy? States to information about prominent Ukrainians in all walks to life, from analy- tion into the West, as attested by his Nor do I agree that, just because ses of current issues and commentaries to reports from Ukraine presented for our investment patterns and interest in launch- Ukrainians were interned in Canada during North American readers by a Ukrainian American correspondent who under- ing an IPO of shares in his companies. World War I, Ukrainian Americans had a stands our community’s needs and writes specifically for them. Third, Mr. Akhmetov is not financing moral responsibility to “protest” the World The Ukrainian Weekly, at age 73, strives to continue being a good partner to our conference. The Warsaw energy confer- War II internment of Japanese Americans. all its readers and our community at large. In order to continue in that role, how- ence will be funded by an array of corpora- Such public “protesting” wasn’t exactly ever, The Weekly also needs the support of its partners – after all, a partnership is tions, including major investment banks, commonplace before the 1960s. Besides, based on the cooperation of both sides – in the form of subscriptions. Thus, we law firms and energy companies from Canadian internment victims were too are announcing an anniversary subscription drive and asking our loyal sub- Europe, Great Britain, Poland, the U.S. and ashamed and intimidated to broadcast their scribers, and readers who are not subscribers, to pitch in. Ukraine. 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To celebrate this newspaper’s 73rd anniversary, for conference we co-organized in Houston in spectacle of themselves, much less believe $73 you can now purchase two subscriptions to The Ukrainian Weekly. May. After the costs of the conference, that doing so would “make a difference.” That’s a cost of $36.50 per year – a substantial savings over the regular annual including travel, meals, interpreters and the Instead, our community activists made cost of $45 for members of the Ukrainian National Association and an even like, The Orange Circle received approxi- a difference by quietly slogging away on greater savings for non-members who pay $55 per year for The Weekly. mately $ 3,000 from DTEK, an amount that Ukrainian priorities, refusing to squander You can take advantage of this special offer only by phoning our Subscription pales when compared to hundreds of thou- our meager financial and precious human Department at 973-292-9800, ext. 3042. (If a representative of our administra- sands of dollars in donations from corpo- resources on the latest cause célèbre. tion is not immediately available to answer your call, please don’t hesitate to rate donors and from generous members of So here’s a different message for leave a message. We will call you back.) the Ukrainian diaspora. them: Thank you! Won’t you act to expand the scope of our partnership? Given all the facts Dr. Kuzio has got- Thank you for your vision, your convic- Please hurry, our special offer expires on November 15, 2006. ten wrong, I suspect he may have over- tion and your steadfastness. You have kept heard bits of conversation, or badly mis- alive the memory of millions of Ukrainians interpreted what was said at Baraban, a whose genocide the world chose (and still Oct. beer hall with a notoriously high decibel prefers) to forget, so that humanity may, level. perhaps, one day learn from the past. Turning the pages back... But there’s a more important point During the 1960s and ’70s, you were strug- than accuracy. My conversation with Dr. gling to raise awareness of Soviet oppres- 23 Kuzio and the Western journalist was sion with courage and perseverance, while private. I am not sure Dr. Kuzio would the rest of the free world was “raising its 1971 It was 35 years ago this week, on October 14 through the want me to reveal any of the confidences consciousnesses” with flower power, drugs 17, 1971, that then-Archbishop Mstyslav, as reported by The he has uttered to me about politics and and rock ’n’ roll. You have preserved our Weekly, was unanimously elected metropolitan of the life over the course of many years of heritage and our history as a legacy for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. at its seventh what I thought was friendship. He 21st century sons and daughters of Ukraine. Synod held in Philadelphia. Archbishop Mstyslav had been acting metropolitan of the shouldn’t worry. I respect his privacy. I have no argument with individuals Church since the death of Metropolitan John Thedorovich on May 3. Nineteen years But he should learn to respect the pri- trying to be cosmopolitan and worldly, and later, in 1990, Metropolitan Mstyslav was named Patriarch Mstyslav I, the first patri- vate conversations of others. helping other worthy causes. But I believe arch of Kyiv and all Rus’-Ukraine of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Regrettably, Dr. Kuzio’s recent blog- that if Ukrainian American and Canadian The 1971 Synod also elevated Bishop Mark to the rank of archbishop and named ging is neither news nor analysis, which communities are to be of any practical use him vicar of the metropolitan, moving him from Washington to New York. happily remains the fare of the normally to other oppressed peoples, we need to Additionally, the Rev. Theodore Buggan, a third-generation Ukrainian American, was excellent The Ukrainian Weekly. offer more than bodies at rallies, sophisti- elected bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. Given Dr. Kuzio’s recent performanc- cated rhetoric and self-recriminations. As part of the Synod, a set of resolutions called for a hierarchical unity of all es, I urge everyone to be wary of what I can’t help but wonder whether our Ukrainian Orthodox Churches in the free world and the convocation of a joint Synod they say to him at parties, family occa- community would have more to offer of Bishops. It was agreed by a resolution to convene a Synod of the Ukrainian sions or over a late-night Chernihivske in other causes if, rather than denigrating Orthodox Church of North and South America and the Ukrainian Autocephalous a Kyiv bar. those who have dedicated themselves to Orthodox Church in Europe and Australia. building and strengthening our commu- Greetings were sent to the Synod by Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of the Adrian Karatnycky nity’s resources, more individuals rolled Orthodox Church and by President Richard M. Nixon. New York up their sleeves and gave them a hand.

Sour ce: “Archbishop Mstyslav is Named Metropolitan of Orthodox Church; Seventh The letter-writer is founder and presi- Paulette MacQuarrie Synod of the Church Convenes in Philadelphia,” The Ukrainian Weekly, October 23, 1971. dent of The Orange Circle Inc. Coquitlam, British Columbia No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006 7

Why not? Let’s talk Faces and Places by Myron B. Kuropas BY YARO BIHUN

“Testing, testing, one, two, three ...” Does Ukraine need more Russian speakers? At times I muse that somewhere in some program disclosures followed later. In his Washington Post commentary of As I wrote in my 1991 book, “The musty corner of an old KGB archive there is Two months after the attack, the president October 5, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Ukrainian Americans: Roots and a recording of this standard microphone issued an order that foreigners accused of Viktor Yanukovych affirmed Ukraine’s Aspirations,” as well as in my 2006 book, level test, in English and repeated in terrorism would be tried by special military commitment to Europe. Well duh! “The Ukrainians of Chicagoland,” our Ukrainian. It would be a recording of me as tribunals and that he would be the official Ukraine is in Europe, Mr. Prime early immigrants arrived in the United I entered my room in the Hotel Lybid in determining who was to be considered an Minister, and needs no affirmation from States believing they were Rusyns, Kyiv in October 1989. It was my tongue-in- accused terrorist. Since then, we have had the leader of the Party of the Regions, Russians, Poles, Austrians – everything but cheek way of acknowledging Soviet reality Guantanamo, indefinite detentions without especially one who, despite past actions, Ukrainians. Thanks to the work of early in the electronic presence of whoever was what a normal American would consider wants us to believe that supporting Ukrainian religious and fraternal leaders, it listening and recording me somewhere due process, secret arrests, secret prisons for Russian as Ukraine’s second language was here that some 40 percent of them dis- down the hall or in the building’s basement. “high-value” terrorist suspects, “renditions,” doesn’t mean that his party is pro-Russian. covered (or reconstructed) their national Or maybe I was a few years late. This a “program” of “alternative” interrogation Really? You could have fooled me! identity and became “Ukrainians.” There was the “new” Soviet Union, with Mikhail techniques by CIA “professionals” who are Mr. Yanukovych’s analogy of Spanish- was little U.S. pressure toward structural Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika in full being forgiven any past transgressions of speaking individuals in America’s two polit- Anglo-conformity. Most European-born bloom. Still, much of the “old” USSR, I sus- U.S. and international laws against torture. ical parties not being pro-Spanish prompted Ukrainians remained Ukrainian. Their chil- pect, had not yet made it to the dustbin of During the recent debate in Congress and a response from University of Toronto dren either assimilated freely and totally, or history, such as the recording of hotel-room in the press over the administration’s Research Fellow Stephen Velychenko, who became bicultural Ukrainian Americans, and telephone conversations, checking for request that it legitimize the use of “alterna- wrote that “his (Yanukovych’s) analogy Americanized members of an ethnic group, forbidden literature at the Moscow interna- tive” interrogation techniques among other between Spanish-speaking Americans and benefiting from the best of two cultures. tional airport (where they held “for further things, Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Russian-speaking Ukrainians is … superfi- This is not happening with Hispanics evaluation” many Western-published Watch suggested in the Washington Post cial and far-fetched. The United States was today. Most, according to Prof. Ukrainian books and periodicals from the that the president should familiarize himself never ruled by Spain or Mexico for 200 Huntington, remain mono-cultural. They crateful I tried to bring in), the casually with two authoritative books that describe years, and there never have been nor could have no need to Americanize because the dressed young men mingling around the their use in the past: Robert Conquest’s there have been, among Spanish speakers, a current multiculturalist establishment Hotel Lybid parking lot who would break “The Great Terror” and Aleksander minority advocating restoration of the U.S. deems it oppressive. Call a company or a off and follow us as we went about the city, Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago.” to the Spanish Empire.” government office and what do you get? and many other measures the “security Are there other things our country is “The problem of restoration,” contin- “Dial 1 if you want English, dial 2 if you organs” felt were necessary to safeguard the doing secretly that we, our Congress and ued Dr. Velychenko, “is a problem today want Ukrainian?” In your dreams! Soviet way of life from foreign – and our courts may not know about? I don’t for Ukraine, which was part of the School textbooks have changed so that domestic – enemies, including “bourgeois know. What’s worse, I’m not sure anymore. Russian Empire for 200 years. The point diverse racial, ethnic and social-class Ukrainian nationalists” like us. Hearing official statements, watching is that a vociferous Russian-speaking groups can experience “equality” as Those Kyiv episodes came to mind again the debates in Congress and observing pub- minority advocating renewed Russian demonstrated by less Americanism and when we learned from leaked classified lic reaction to much of what I see and hear rule over Ukraine compromises and dis- more ethnic profiling in textbooks. In information that the U.S. president secretly suggests that our old vision of what this credits the majority of Ukraine’s practice, this means more Hispanic, authorized the National Security Agency to country stands for and its values are chang- Russian-speakers who support their Native-American and Afro-American monitor our phone calls and electronic mail ing, or, more accurately, are being changed country’s newly won independence.” stories, and fewer white ethnic stories. without any court warrants. I had presumed by those who, despite the flag pins in their Dr. Velychenko is absolutely right when Ukrainians, again, need not apply. that our government intensified foreign and lapels, fail to appreciate what is being lost it comes to Russian dominance of Ukraine. Despite countless surveys showing that domestic surveillance as part of its expand- in their preoccupation with security. He is partially right when it comes to the most Hispanic parents want their children ed countermeasures to what it calls the Maybe Presidential Press Secretary Ari U.S. Although the entire U.S. was never fluent in English, the bilingual lobby in “asymmetrical” threat to our security from Fleischer simply misspoke when he cau- part of the Spanish Empire, certain territo- American education insists that proficiency terrorism following the 9/11 attacks on New tioned Americans to be careful about what ries – now Florida, Texas, New Mexico, in Spanish must precede mastery of English. York and Washington. I never expected, they do and say in these times, when he Arizona and California – were ruled by Prof. Huntington believes that it is the however, that it would be based solely on a asked about a TV comedian’s questioning Spain, later, Mexico. And there is today a dominance among mostly Mexican decision of the executive branch without President George W. Bush’s characteriza- vociferous Spanish-speaking minority in immigrants of a single non-English lan- any judicial branch involvement. tion of the terrorists who flew the planes America (La Raza comes to mind) that guage (a phenomenon without precedent I understood the necessity of waging into the buildings as “cowards,” suggest- wants to return these sections to their “right- in American history) that is leading to war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in ing, instead, that his description would bet- ful owner,” namely Mexico. “the transformation of America into a Afghanistan and the tightening of securi- ter fit those who launched cruise missiles It all began with the hijacking of multi- bilingual, bicultural society.” ty at our airports and other entry points, from 2,000 miles away. culturalism by America’s radical Left dur- The new multiculturalists have been as well as intensifying our vigilance Maybe the senator from Texas, John ing the late 1980s. The idea that we’re all joined by what Prof. Huntington calls domestically against those who were Cornyn, also simply misspoke when he “Americans first” was replaced with the “transnational” intellectuals, America-hating planning to do our country and its people stressed during a recent debate on legisla- concept that Western Civilization (as exem- academics who condemn the “evil of a harm. Early on, however, things were tion dealing with the treatment of suspect- plified by America) was imperialist, tyran- shared national identity” and who urge alle- said and done that made me uneasy. ed terrorists that they should not be afford- nical and the source of the world’s ills. giance to the “worldwide community of On the day following the September ed habeus corpus and other “privileges” In his 2004 book “Who Are We? The human beings.” A recent content analysis by 11, 2001, attack, Secretary of Defense reserved for U.S. citizens. Challenges to America’s National Paul Vitz of 22 readers for third and sixth Donald Rumsfeld held a short press And, again, maybe the president’s cur- Identity,” Samuel P. Huntington graders in California and Texas demonstrat- briefing, the main thrust of which – quite rent press secretary, Tony Snow, made a described the “new multiculturalism” as ed that only five out of 670 stories and arti- out of the blue – was to caution U.S. poor choice of words when he suggested “basically an anti-Western ideology” that cles had a patriotic American theme. government employees against revealing that, come Election Day in November, the advances “several propositions”: Finally, there is dual citizenship. In his classified information and to be on the American people will cast their ballots not “First, America is composed of many book, “The 50 Percent American: lookout for those who would and thus on the basis of the latest scandal in different ethnic and racial groups. Second, Immigration and National Identity in an “frustrate our efforts to track down and Congress but on something that’s more each of these groups has its own distinctive Age of Terror, Stanley R. Renshone writes deal with terrorists.” If, as he admitted in important: “safety, security and prosperity.” culture. Third, the white Anglo elite domi- that some 151 countries recognize dual citi- response to a reporter’s question, no Personally, I prefer political discourse nant in American society has suppressed zenship with the U.S. When push comes to release of classified information played a without warnings about being careful about these cultures and compelled or induced shove, where will their loyalties lie? role in the 9/11 attack, why was he what we say, even if irreverent; I also find those belonging to other ethnic or racial America’s national culture will survive underscoring this point? it “self-evident” that habeus corpus, and groups to accept the elite’s Anglo- because it is strong and pervasive. A possible answer came a year later similar constitutional safeguards, are rights Protestant culture. Fourth, justice, equality Ukraine’s culture is fragile. After hundreds when it became known that the Defense and not privileges of U.S. citizenship; and and the rights of minorities demand that of years of foreign rule, Ukrainians need Department initiated the Total Information that all men, regardless of citizenship, “are these suppressed cultures be liberated and an ambitious Ukrainianization policy. A Awareness System for collecting, process- created equal, that they are endowed by that governments and private institutions dual-language approach undermines such ing and sharing vast quantities of data, their Creator with certain unalienable encourage and support their revitalization.” an effort. Ukraine’s emerging national including personal information about U.S. Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty I enthusiastically endorse the first two ethos is still a work in progress. It needs citizens. Following that, I would tell my and the pursuit of Happiness.” propositions. I vehemently oppose the last careful nurturing. During Soviet times, computer-savvy friends – in jest, of course Given the choice, I hope to continue two propositions which, in my opinion, are Russia’s eventual dominance of Ukrainian – that the best way to back up their impor- casting my ballot for “Life, Liberty and based on a divisive, Marxist-Leninist culture began slowly, incrementally, and tant computer files was to attach them to e- the pursuit of Happiness” rather than for approach that divides the world into oppres- for most, imperceptibly. It could happen mails that included a few key words the “safety, security and prosperity.” sors and the oppressed. Multiculturalism again if Mr. Yanukovych has his way. TIA System may be focusing on; the files today is all about the “oppressed,” i.e., might be difficult to retrieve later, but they Yaro Bihun’s e-mail address is blacks, Hispanics, women and whoever else Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is certainly would be secure. The secret NSA [email protected]. our academic elite elect. 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FORFollowing THE are excerpts RECORD: of the address ForeignInability to agree Affairs on a set of commit- MinisterAssembly Borys of the new itemTarasyuk “Protracted sustainableaddresses development the and U.N.increase of by Borys Tarasyuk, Ukraine’s minister of ments in the area of disarmament and conflicts in the GUAM area and their their peoples’ well-being. foreign affairs, at the general debate of non-proliferation has become one of the implications for international peace, Black Sea Economic Cooperation is the 61st session of the General Assembly major setbacks of the 2005 World security and development.” It is an another promising model of multilateral of the United Nations on September 25. Summit. More than a decade ago important step that will help to draw the political and economic initiative. In 14 Ukraine made a historic contribution in attention to the need for more active and years of its dynamic existence, the …We need to unite our efforts so that this area when it unilaterally renounced effective steps of the international com- organization has proved its value as a the United Nations – that is, all of us the third largest nuclear weapons arsenal munity in order to achieve progress in framework of regional cooperation. together – can adequately respond to the in the world. Therefore, we call on mem- settlement of conflicts on the territory of Considering that issues of energy securi- whole spectrum of existing and future ber-states to strive for achieving progress Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova. ty are among the most important for challenges in the areas of security, devel- in the areas of disarmament and non-pro- We, in particular, call for realization of Europe today, the Black Sea-Caspian opment and human rights. liferation in the U.N. and other fora for the initiative by the president of Ukraine, region takes on special significance for Recent commemorations of the fifth the sake of future generations. Mr. Viktor Yushchenko, on Transdnistria providing secure, stable mining and anniversary of the heinous terrorist attack Lately the international community “To settlement through democracy,” a transportation of energy resources. in this city, as well as growing number of has been concerned with the nuclear pro- plan of peace settlement of the conflict in Ukraine is ready to take active part in terrorist acts in many parts of the world gram of Iran. Ukraine supports the efforts South Ossetia offered by the president of promotion of energy projects in the should leave no doubt that terrorism con- of those countries who aim for Teheran’s Georgia, and also implementation of the BSEC framework. We are also con- tinues to remain one of the most danger- return to close and full cooperation with resolutions of the Security Council and vinced that the BSEC should render ous threats of the present time. the IAEA [International Atomic Energy decisions of the OSCE [Organization for effective support to the efforts of the Ukraine welcomes the recent adoption Agency]. The appropriate level of coop- Security and Cooperation in Europe] on world community directed at combating by the General Assembly of the United eration and transparency from Iran on the conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh and terrorism, resolving so-called “frozen Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy this issue would help to lift concerns of Abkhazia. conflicts” in the region and combating and is ready to make its important contribu- the international community. Ukraine These conflicts are among the main trans-border crime. It is necessary to tion to its effective realization. This impor- stands for the right of all nations to use obstacles to full-scale democratic trans- coordinate BSEC activity with corre- tant step has become another strong signal nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. formations in the region, which is among sponding programs supported by the that terrorism will not be tolerated. The However, while realizing this right, it is the core elements of the regional policy U.N., OSCE, EU [European Union] and strategy has also testified to the readiness of necessary to fully adhere to commitments of Ukraine. NATO. the international community to strengthen in the field of non-proliferation. … Having gained a new level of integra- The Forum of the Community of coordination and increase effectiveness of As the representative of Ukraine, pre- tion during the Kyiv Summit last May, Democratic Choice, held in Kyiv in measures to combat this hideous phenome- siding in the Organization for Democracy GUAM member-states set as their main December 2005, is yet another example non within the framework of a concrete and Economic Development – GUAM, I purposes strengthening the values of of cooperation for strengthening action plan. On its part, Ukraine has recent- would like to thank those countries which democracy, the rule of law, human rights European democratic values in Eastern ly ratified the Council of Europe supported the inclusion into the agenda and fundamental freedoms, deepening of Europe. The CDC united the states of Convention on Prevention of Terrorism. … of the 61st session of the General European integration, achievement of Baltic-Black-Caspian seas area and the Balkans in their aspirations for higher democratic standards required for suc- The Board of Directors of the UACCNJ cessful movement toward full-scale European integration. and … Strengthening of democracy, rule The Parish Community of Saint John the Baptist of law and respect for human rights and Ukrainian Catholic Church fundamental freedoms are imperatives of the internal and external policies of in Whippany, New Jersey Ukraine. That is why we are proud to joyfully and cordially invite you to the have been elected to the Human Rights Council. As a member of this body, Ukraine is ready to work with other SOLEMN DEDICATION and GRAND OPENING states in order to bring real change in promotion of human rights worldwide. of the new The international community is responsible for protection of people UKRAINIAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER under the threat of genocide or other vio- lations of fundamental human rights. In OF NEW JERSEY two years we will mark the 60th anniver- sary of the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime which will be held on Saturday, November 11, 2006, of Genocide. One and a half decades at 60 North Jefferson Road, Whippany, New Jersey before its adoption and yet before the tragedy of the Holocaust, the Ukrainian people had become victims of genocide. 4:00 p.m. – Dedication and Grand Opening Deliberately organized by the 5:00 p.m. – Cocktail Hour (Cash Bar) Communist totalitarian regime with the 6:00 p.m. – Banquet purpose of destroying the vital core of the freedom-loving Ukrainian people – 8:30 p.m. – Grand Ball its peasantry, the artificial Holodomor in Ukraine of 1932-1933 led to the death of and to the 7 million to 10 million innocent men, women and children, which constituted up to 25 percent of Ukraine’s population BLESSING OF THE NEW TEMPORARY at that time. Having committed this inhuman SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH crime, the Communist regime tried to conceal its scale and tragic consequences which will be held on Sunday, November 12, 2006 from the world community. And they succeeded for a long time. After regain- at 60 North Jefferson Road in Whippany, New Jersey ing the independence of Ukraine, many new appalling and horrifying facts have 9:00 a.m. – Final Service at the old Church been revealed. The parliaments of a number of countries took decisions rec- 9:30 a.m. – Procession to the new Church ognizing the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as 10:00 a.m. – Blessing of the new temporary Church an act of genocide. 10:30 a.m. – Pontifical Divine Liturgy Ukraine calls upon the United Nations as the collective voice of the internation- 12:30 p.m. – Banquet al community to contribute to the com- memoration of the 60th anniversary of the convention by recognizing the Tickets for Saturday only – $100; Tickets for Sunday only – $50; Holodomor as an act of genocide against Tickets for both events – $125; Students – $50 the Ukrainian people. Such a step would For information and reservations, please phone 973-887-3616. contribute toward making genocide and mass abuse of human rights impossible This ad was paid for by The Ukrainian National Association. in the future. (Continued on page 18) No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006 9 STATEMENT: On the destruction of the historical memory of the Ukrainian people

Below is the text of a statement issued could unite the nation on the basis of its Bykivnia burials was declared a State side should organize an objective investi- by civic human rights organizations and fundamental values. Historical-Memorial Preserve in keeping gation of the circumstances surrounding the Ukrainian intellectual community in The task placed before the Ukrainian with Resolution No. 546 of the Cabinet their deaths and a search of burial places, Ukraine and the world in connection Institute of National Memory is to metic- of Ministers of Ukraine of May 22, 2001, relying on newly opened KGB archives with the destruction of the historical ulously restore the backbone of our and which was granted national status by and based on international agreements memory of the Ukrainian people. The nation with historical consistency and the decree of the president of Ukraine, and European laws. Under other circum- statement was released at a press confer- objectivity. this has not stopped the architects of stances, the actions of the Polish side ence in Kyiv on September 28; an English However, the formation of its structure these unsanctioned exhumations. The may be viewed as instigating an interna- translation prepared by Marta Olynyk is being impeded by the rise to power of Specialized State Enterprise “Memorials tional conflict, an example of which was was faxed to The Ukrainian Weekly on openly anti-Ukrainian officials of the of Ukraine” has not reacted to either the the incident at the Polish Orliata war October 9 by Bohdan Fedorak, honorary new-old government. The institute had bill of indictment about these violations cemetery in Lviv. consul of Ukraine in Detroit. not even begun its work when, as a result or the instruction issued by the Main Preventing a similar situation could be of various officials’ efforts, the budget Administration for the Protection of the possible only if the Ukrainian side on the We are living in a time when each was reduced out of existence. Cultural Heritage of the Kyiv City State state level were represented by the nation seeks to master its history as pro- Furthermore, in contradiction to the Administration to put an immediate halt Institute of National Memory, which foundly as possible, no matter how tragic it above-mentioned resolution of the to the arbitrary exhumations. would prohibit illegal acts on the territo- is. It is crucial to learn one’s past without Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, respon- Furthermore, one of the initiators of the ry of the National Preserve at Bykivnia prejudice in order to step more confidently sibility for the Ukrainian Institute of excavations, Andrzej Pszywoznik, who is and direct the excavations within the toward the future. This is perfectly under- National Memory has been transferred to the secretary of the Council for the legal purview of Ukraine’s legislation. stood by the wise Jewish nation, which the officials in charge of the State Protection of Monuments to the Struggle The circumstances of jointly experi- devoutly preserves every trace of its mil- Archives of Ukraine. This move, in fact, and Martyrdom of Poland, is spreading enced tragedies, when various nations lennial history. An example of this is the liquidates the very status of the inaccurate information in the Polish press fell victim to the Soviet totalitarian arrival in Kyiv a few days ago of hundreds Ukrainian Institute of National Memory that 103 burial sites containing the regime, should lay the foundation of of Jews from around the world to mark the as the principal manager of budget funds remains of Polish officers have been completely different, good-neighborly 65th anniversary of the tragic events that granted by the Cabinet resolution. found in Bykivnia. relations. The bones of our victims and took place in Babyn Yar. One hundred and This deliberate or ill-advised destruc- Even the following fact is ignored: the foreign victims should not reside in joint fifty soldiers came from Israel to serve as tion of a state institution that was initiat- previous investigation designated the graves. an honor guard detail at the site of the ed by a decree of the president of Bykivnia burials as a crime site and, mass burials. The president and govern- Ukraine and confirmed by a resolution of therefore, any exhumations must be car- D mytro Pavlychko, head of the ment of Ukraine were the patrons of these the previous government prompts serious ried out after a new criminal case is Ukrainian World Coordinating Council actions aimed at honoring the memory of questions regarding the continuing for- reopened and in the presence of an inves- Pavlo Movchan, head of the All- the victims of the Jewish Holocaust. mulation of Ukrainian state policy on the However, for the sake of objectivity, it tigator charged with conducting a foren- Ukrainian Prosvita Society preservation of national memory. Ivan Drach should be recalled that at least half the sic medical examination. , head of the executive of One example of the cynical attitude A similar attempt to conduct unsanc- the Ukraine-World Society victims at Babyn Yar (if not more) were toward the victims of political repres- Gypsies and Ukrainians, who were tioned excavations took place in 2001, Roman Krutsyk, head of the Vasyl sions in Ukraine is the site of the mass when symbolic graves appeared in the Stus Kyiv City Organization of the viciously destroyed by the Nazis. secret burials that took place in the 1930s Among the victims were also entire National Preserve at Bykivnia, complete Memorial Society and 1940s in Bykivnia Forest. According with the crosses and symbols of a foreign Anatolii Pohribnyi, head of the Kyiv crews of ships of the famous Dnipro to various experts, the number of victims state. What next? branch of the Union of Writers Flotilla, as well as the defenders of Kyiv in Bykivnia is equal to the number of Without denying the possibility that of Ukraine – soldiers and commanders of the victims buried in Babyn Yar. All the data remains of Polish citizens who were Volodymyr Serhiichuk, Ph.D. (history), Southwestern Front. Here is the grave of point to between 100,000 and 150,000 repressed by the Stalinist regime may be professor and head of the scholarly the unvanquished Olena Teliha and other victims. But neither agencies of prosecu- found in Bykivnia Forest, the Ukrainian division of the Memorial Society Ukrainian patriots shot by the Gestapo in torial supervision nor state officials are 1942, whose memories are for some rea- showing any interest in the objective dis- son not being honored on the state level. closure of the crimes of the past or in At the same time, we express dismay at establishing their true scale. As Andrii the encroachments on the holy of holies – Amons, the investigator from the the destruction of the memory of the Military Prosecutor’s Office, stated in the Ukrainian nation. We are troubled by the final resolution “On the Closure of the fact that the disputes around the tragedy of Criminal Case,” the Bykivnia burials the artificially engineered Holodomor of have not been thoroughly investigated 1932-1933 are intensifying. Increasing in because the deadline for investigative frequency are provocative statements by actions has lapsed and because of lack of pro-Communist forces whose goal is to turn time –meaning, the Ukrainian govern- the commemoration of the Holodomor ment has neither the time nor the desire tragedy into a farce. After the end of the to deal with the excavations. competition to decide the layout of the Who should take on this work memorial complex in honor of the victims throughout Ukraine, to conduct searches of Ukraine’s holocaust, the Holodomor, in the Solovky Islands, Mordovia, the political forces from the pro-government camps of the former gulag – everywhere coalition launched a campaign to stop the that Ukrainians were destroyed – if not construction. As a result, the draft of the the Ukrainian Institute of National 2007 state budget of Ukraine has not allo- Memory? cated a single penny for the building of this Meanwhile, in the last few months memorial. The state has terminated its unsanctioned excavations ordered by financial support of the museum exposition unknown organizations in Poland are “Not To Be Forgotten” (on the crimes of being conducted on the territory of the communism in 1917-1991) at the Memorial National Historical-Memorial Preserve Society, which hosts up to 10,000 students “The Graves of Bykivnia.” and pupils free of charge every year. It has been learned that individuals can Based on international experience and hire a special team in Kyiv and, ignoring in accordance with a presidential decree, Ukrainian laws, exhume and bury what- on May 31 the Cabinet of Ministers of ever they want. Witnesses to this were Ukraine passed Resolution No. 764 “On the participants of the World Forum of the Creation of the Ukrainian Institute of Ukrainians, who visited Bykivnia on National Memory.” The institute was August 20. There they saw 15 new burial granted appropriate status as a central sites connected to the search for the organ of the state executive power with remains of executed Polish officers. its range of posts and special responsibil- Here, in the presence of representatives ities. After all, the victims of the of Poland, who after examining bones Holodomor, Communist repressions and and skulls and not finding anything of Hitler’s genocide are scattered through- interest to those who ordered these illegal out the Ukrainian lands. The destruction exhumations, hired workers to calmly of the Ukrainian ethnos lasted for cen- dump all these remains in sacks designed turies. Ukraine’s tragedy is such that no for waste and without following accepted one has yet succeeded in grasping its procedures, place them in pits and cover scale, causes or consequences. Thus, the them up with earth. What other state in young generation of Ukrainians is not the world would countenance such van- able to fathom its nation’s past, formulate dalism and mockery of the memory of a clear-cut vision of the national idea, or innocent executed people? develop a state-building strategy that Despite the fact that the territory of the 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006 No. 42

However, the construction contractors 750-year-old Lviv... hired by the Lviv government began their (Continued from page 1) work without any such preparation, there’s an anniversary, or this president quickly drawing the alarm of Opora, a or that prime minister.” citizens’ activist group. For years, Lviv officials were aware of “When we began to demand that they the looming 750th anniversary, an event show us how Market Square would look that would have provided the ideal plat- after reconstruction, it was revealed that form on which to base restoration efforts. there wasn’t any project plan at all,” said In the view of local architectural Volodymyr Viatrovych, an Opora leader. experts, it was then that city officials “Beyond that, the preservation depart- should have begun planning architectural ment in Kyiv prohibited reconstruction restoration of key structures and monu- until a plan was prepared. But the work ments, particularly the centuries-old continued and the main argument was: buildings that form Market Square and Lviv got the money and has to use it,” he the blocks surrounding it. said. “It was necessary to start thinking When attempts at negotiating a com- about this five years ago,” Dr. Bevz said. promise failed, the young protesters of “The main problem is we still do not Opora chained themselves to construc- have a strategy.” tion equipment to prevent further activi- In Lviv’s case, strategy is severely ty. constrained by the government’s system City officials agreed to negotiate of financing, experts said, which hampers again, but it turned out to be a bluff. any comprehensive, well-planned Once Opora activists removed the chains, approach to restoring Lviv’s architecture. construction started up again. Every year, Ukraine’s Parliament In late May, a preservation department determines how much financing it will official in Kyiv informed the city govern- allocate to a particular city’s budget ment that the construction work was ille- when drawing up the national budget. gal, an order also ignored. Therefore, such funds can vary from Attempts to block reconstruction in year to year, and sometimes may not be the courts failed as well. available at all. The district judge overseeing the mat- In January 2005 the Verkhovna Rada ter merged five complaints into one and announced it would allocate $10 million then engaged in a phone conversation for Lviv restoration efforts, but it wasn’t with Mayor Sadovyi, said Yaryna until September 2005 that the city Yarosevych, an Opora activist. received the funds, Ms. Onyschenko The judge would later announce she said. didn’t view the construction work as ille- In October, workers began fixing gal, without having listened to any wit- roofs, and performed other structural ness testimony or depositions. The end repairs. However, most of the work result was an utter mess, critics said, and ceased for the harsh winter. “We lost the Lviv officials can only point the finger of Zenon Zawada whole summer season and weren’t able blame at Kyiv for lack of financing or Construction workers perform illegal work on October 2 in Lviv’s historic central to do much work,” she said. limitations. district, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Another problem is that Kyiv bureau- “It seems to me that there wasn’t any crats have retained the Soviet tradition of plan at all,” Dr. Bevz said. “It was chaotic.” Perhaps the most irresponsible deci- and contractors. demanding the return of those funds that While the city’s architectural authori- sion, critics said, was to replace the clas- Even during the 750th anniversary cel- a city hasn’t used by the end of the year. ties believe Market Square’s classical sic stone-paved roads of Market Square ebration, construction workers were Such a system prevents a city govern- appearance from the 18th century should with standard concrete plates with similar adding a floor to a building at ment from being able to save funds have been restored, construction contrac- stones embedded in them. Staroyevreyska Street, flagrantly violat- beyond a year in order to plan and exe- tors made up their own guidelines as they ing the law that forbids any additions to cute long-term projects, such as Lviv’s went along. With the aesthetic appearance of its roads ruined, restoration of Market existing buildings within the UNESCO restoration. Facades facing Market Square were th As a direct result, Lviv was faced with painted with new colors they never bore Square to its 18 century appearance zone. an “avral,” the Russian word referring to before. The new street lamps were built won’t be possible, they said. Mr. Sadovyi was elected Lviv’s new a large, last-minute job that had to be with globe glass covers, instead of the The concrete also prevents archeolo- mayor in March, three months after the done quickly. metal boxes that the 19th century lamps gists from performing excavations under- City Council removed his predecessor, “For the anniversary of Lenin’s birth- had to shield light bulbs. neath the Market Square roads, where an Liubomyr Buniak, for incompetence. Mr. day, this and that had to be done,” Ms. “There is a big glass ‘pot’ that can abundance of artifacts have previously Buniak was known for his outright Onyschenko said. “And it was done in break in winter because falling ice will helped illuminate Lviv’s history. denials that many of Lviv’s buildings such a way that everything could have crack it open,” said Ivan Svarnyk, the “They had sensational findings – were in a catastrophic state. fallen apart the next day, but at least it vice-president of the Lviv Admirers Slavic dwellings from the fifth and sixth During the campaign, in which he ran was ready for the anniversary. It was Association. “These lamps are nonsensi- centuries,” Mr. Svarnyk said. against former Mayor Vasyl Kuybida, done by the same Soviet method in this cal and everybody admits they don’t con- The concrete plates will also inhibit Mr. Sadovyi promised a more efficient instance.” form to the surrounding buildings. So moisture from evaporating from Lviv’s and responsive government. Historical restoration became quick why buy them and waste the money?” underground river, experts said. Instead, Months later, some are disappointed reconstruction. Developers also made the decision to it will evaporate in the surrounding while others aren’t surprised that it’s Amidst the panic of the avral, Lviv’s broaden Ruska Street – one of Lviv’s old- buildings and ruin their exteriors. business as usual in the Lviv govern- city government led by the new mayor, est and historic – to allow for more traffic, Corruption plagues many aspects of ment, and little has changed. Andrii Sadovyi, made a conscious deci- without consulting any authorities. urban planning and development in Lviv. “He said: we are an open society, we sion to violate local laws on planning and Ultimately, the Verkhovna Rada desig- The city commission that is supposed have to have dialogue, we have to under- construction. nated between $20 million and $24 mil- to oversee and challenge any projects stand each other, so I am listening to you Specifically, Lviv’s entire central dis- lion for a restoration effort that ended up being carried out has been inactive, very attentively, and so on,” Mr. Svarnyk trict belongs to the World Heritage List becoming a shoddy reconstruction, offi- despite the fact that its members collect said. “But once a person gets into the of UNESCO (United Nations cials said. salaries, according to architectural experts. mayor’s chair, he can hardly hear the Educational, Scientific and Cultural “Many facades were painted and much “In this country, there is an absence of public.” Organization). Any plan for restoration was paved, but nothing was done from structures that are responsible for the Mr. Sadovyi didn’t hold a press con- had to be approved by the State start to finish,” Ms. Onyshchenko said. preservation of historical heritage,” Mr. ference during the anniversary weekend Department for Historical Heritage “In such a short time, no project can be Svarnyk said. “They are created formally, when national and international reporters Preservation in Kyiv, according to laws fully carried out. Buildings in a critical but they are stillborn. They are not func- were present. dealing with a UNESCO site. state remain that way.” tioning. They don’t force anyone to pay By the time the anniversary celebra- fines, and they don’t stop work.” tions were over on Monday morning, the Without an enforcement body, Lviv’s streets of central Lviv were clean of bro- achievement of the UNESCO designa- ken beer bottles and candy wrappers. tion in 1998 has been ignored and bears Lviv had gained its 15 minutes on tel- little legal value, Dr. Bevz said. evision, and perhaps millions of tourist The illegal broadening of Ruska Street dollars. But the buildings of historic Lviv serves as a perfect example. remained crumbling. “The UNESCO designation has to be “This city is our heritage,” Mr. promoted,” Dr. Bevz said. “The govern- Svarnyk said. “We got it from our ances- ment has to set aside funds in its budgets. tors and we will have to give it to our But nothing has been done to this day.” descendants. We will come and go, but In fact, UNESCO conditions are vio- the city will stay. And what it will look lated daily by local real estate developers like will depend on us.” No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006 11

BOOK NOTES

The injustice of internment operations “Without Just Cause: Canada’s First National Internment Operations and the Ukrainian Canadians, 1914-1920” b y Dr. Lubomyr Y. Luciuk. Kingston: The Kashtan Press, ISBN: 1896354408. Paperback, 69 pp. $20 (USD).

In this book, Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk living survivor of the internment opera- examines a dark chapter in Canadian his- tion, and expressed the commitment to tory during World War I by sharing the secure the memory of those who lived stories, memoirs and recollections of var- and died during times of intolerance. ious people on both sides of the barbed Dr. Luciuk acknowledges the work of the wire. The book contains copies of origi- Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Ukrainian nal documents and photographs that help Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko, the reader to see what was on the minds the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties of officials at the time and provide a Association, along with the Canadian gov- glimpse into the lives of the internees. ernment toward a final Ukrainian Canadian In the first part of the book, Dr. Luciuk Reconciliation Accord. He also recognizes introduces the reader to the internment the initiative by Member of Parliament Peter operation and points out that many Milliken, who was the first to call for a Ukrainians were targeted due to misunder- righting of this historic wrong in 1991, and standings about their ethnic identity the initiative of Inky Mark, whose Bill C331 because they were identified as “Austrian,” – The Ukrainian Restitution Act continues to “Austro-Hungarian,” “Ruthenian,” further that cause. “Bukovynian” or “Galician.” A copy of the Ukrainian Canadian director of research for the Ukrainian by contacting the publisher directly at: In the second part of the book, Dr. Restitution Act is included in the book and Canadian Civil Liberties Association. The Kashtan Press, 22 Gretna Green, Luciuk presents “An Agreement-in- it clearly states that ongoing negotiations Readers can obtain copies of this book Kingston, ON, K7M 3J2 (Canada). Principle,” an official document between between the Ukrainian Canadian commu- the Canadian government and the nity and the Canadian government are Ukrainian Canadian community that rec- focused on recognition of this injustice via Besides members of the UCCLA from ognizes the injustices committed during measures such as plaques at the places of UCCLA kicks off... across Canada, more than 50 citizens attend- this period, but does not bind the internment, public education initiatives on (Continued from page 1) ed the unveilings in Valcartier and Beauport, Canadian government to reparations or the operations and the contributions made publish a book on the topic. including Quebec City's Michael Reshitnyk, the admission of guilt. by Ukrainians to the development of who acted as the master of ceremonies, During its conclave, the UCCLA also Another piece included in the book is Canada, and commemorative postage Anne Sadelain of Descendents of Ukrainian pledged to continue its search for Soviet titled “No Longer in Fear of the Barbed stamps will also be issued. Canadian Internee Victims' Association, Wire.” Written by Dr. Luciuk, it was read “Without Just Cause” has a detailed war criminals who evaded detection and Ukrainian Canadian residents of Montreal at the signing of the “Agreement-in- source list of films, books, music and currently reside in Canada. Time is run- and the Quebec City area, the youth groups Principle” on August 24, 2005. The arti- teachers’ guides included for those inter- ning out to bring such criminals to jus- Plast and SUM, representatives of the cle was also featured in Canadian publi- ested in pursuing more information. tice, and the association vowed to redou- Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Quebec cations, including the Winnipeg Sun, the The author, Dr. Luciuk, is a professor ble its efforts in locating them and bring- chapter, President Andrew Hladyshevsky of National Post and The Whig Standard. of political geography at the Royal ing them to the attention of the Royal the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras The text recognized Mary Manko, the last Military College of Canada and serves as Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Shevchenko and others.

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by Peter T. Woloschuk The twelve post-doctoral fellows are: Prose.” Dr. Andryczyk will study the Muscovy was becoming more closely • Konstantin Akinsha, a correspondent depiction of the Ukrainian intellectual familiar with Ukrainian religious prac- CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard for ARTnews magazine in Budapest, throughout the history of modern tices and falling under their influence. Ukrainian Research Institute’s (HURI’s) Hungary. Mr. Akinsha earned his candi- Ukrainian literature. As part of his work, • Johannes Remy, lecturer in Russian director, Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of date of sciences degree in 1990 in art his- he will look at the re-engagement of the and East European Studies at the Renvall Ukrainian Philology Michael S. Flier has tory. He will spend four months at Ukrainian intellectual in society during Institute for Area and Cultural Studies at announced that 12 international post-doc- Harvard (February-May 2007) working the Orange Revolution, the emergence of the University of Helsinki, who received toral scholars will be doing research at on the topic “The Bohdan and Varvara a new generation of writers and the his Ph.D. in history in 2000 from the HURI during this academic year. Khanenko Museum: The Fate of the recent new scholarship that has been same institution. Dr. Remy will come to Eleven of the research fellows have Dispersed Collection.” He will study the published. Harvard for four months (February-May received Eugene and Daymel Shklar history of one of the most significant pri- • Elvis Beytullayev, a junior research 2007) to work on the topic “Ukrainian Research Fellowships and one has been vate collections of West European art fellow at Wolfson College, University of Nationalism and Russia from the 1840s awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. The 12 ever assembled in Ukraine and will trace Cambridge, who earned a Ph.D. in inter- to the 1870s” which will comprise two come from the United States, Ukraine, the dispersal and destruction of that col- national studies at the University of major parts: first, the formation of Finland, Germany, Great Britain and lection from the Bolshevik Revolution Cambridge in 2006. Dr. Beytullayev will Ukrainian national mythology; second, Russia. through the end of World War II. spend four months at Harvard the political programs of Ukrainian In making the announcement Prof. • Jessica Allina-Pisano, assistant pro- (September-December) working on the activists, their positions on the Polish Flier said, “When I joined the institute in fessor in the department of political sci- topic “The Crimean Political Scene in the insurrection (1863-1864) and the govern- 1991, I became engaged in a long-stand- ence at Colgate University, who earned Post-Soviet Era and Its Implications for ment’s policies in relation to the ing dialogue with my colleagues about her Ph.D. in political science in 2003 Ukraine’s Relations with Turkey and Ukrainian movement. the desirability of establishing a fellow- from Yale University. During her four Russia.” Dr. Beytullayev will examine • Olena Rusina, a senior research asso- ship program that would permit us to months at Harvard (September- how domestic Crimean politics have ciate at the Medieval History Department bring promising younger scholars in December 2006), Dr. Allina-Pisano will affected relations between Ukraine and of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian studies to Harvard to use our research the topic “The Last Barbed Wire Russia since Ukraine’s independence Ukraine in Kyiv, who received her candi- libraries, consult with our scholars, and Fence in Europe: State Power and from the Soviet Union. date of sciences degree from the Taras exchange ideas on their work and the Economy in a Divided Village of • Jerzy Macków, a professor of com- Shevchenko National University of Kyiv work of others with colleagues, students Zakarpattia, 1945-2005.” She will study parative government at the University of in 1991. The recipient of a fellowship and the larger Ukrainian community. Ten how “policies intended primarily to Regensburg. Dr. Macków earned his doc- funded by Dr. Jaroslav and Nadia years later, Eugene and Daymel Shklar secure state sovereignty reached beyond torate in 1992 at the University of Mihaychuk in 2003, Ms. Rusina is cur- made that dream possible by underwrit- political life to drive or limit economic Hamburg, followed by his Habilitation in rently at HURI as a Fulbright Scholar. ing the Shklar Fellowship Program. The opportunities” by looking at the effects of 1998 at the Armed Forces University in She will spend her time researching results of their generosity have been state control on the access of rural peo- Hamburg. He will spend four months “Trends and Contexts in Pre-Modern nothing short of spectacular.” ples to the means of capital reproduction (September-December) at Harvard Pseudo-History in Post-Soviet Ukraine.” “The fellows come from a wide vari- in two villages, Kisszelmenc and researching the topic “Has the Orange Ms. Rusina hopes to fill a gap in ety of countries in Eastern and Western Nagyszelmenc, located next to each other Revolution Changed the Ukrainian Ukrainian scholarship by writing a book Europe, Asia, and North America,” Prof. but separated by the Ukraine-European Political System? The Democratization under the working title “Atlantis in the Flier pointed out. “The presence each Union border. of Post-Communist Authoritarianism.” Heart of Europe: New Visions of semester of some five to seven young • Tarik C. Amar, who received his His work will investigate whether the Ukrainian Past.” post-doctoral fellows from a variety of Ph.D. in history from Princeton Orange Revolution brought about signifi- • Steven Seegel, who earned his Ph.D. disciplines, including history, political University in 2006. Dr. Amar will spend cant democratization to the authoritarian- in history in 2005 at Brown University science, literature, linguistics and art, has four months at Harvard (February-May ism that has been characteristic of and for the past year has held the position energized the institute, creating an atmos- 2007) working on the topic “The Making Ukraine’s government since independ- of lecturer at the University of phere of excitement and discovery that of Soviet Lviv, 1939 to 1963.” His study ence. In doing so, he will focus on two Tennessee. Dr. Seegel will come to has had a positive impact on the work of will address the question of the making questions: 1) whether in the wake of the Harvard for four months (February-May the fellows themselves and all those of a distinct Soviet western Ukrainian Orange Revolution new aspects of 2007) to research the topic “Cartography scholars at HURI who have come into identity by looking at how a Soviet national identity emerged that have facil- and the Representation of Modern contact with them. They have benefited Ukrainian Lviv was fashioned out of the itated the implementation of a democratic Ukraine.” His work looks at the strategic considerably from exposure to different prewar Polish-dominated and multi-eth- reform agenda in Ukraine; and 2) use of the discourse of historical/geo- ways of analyzing the same phenomena. nic city. whether the political elite has altered its graphic science and racial/ethnolinguistic Armed with new knowledge of fact and • Mark Andryczyk, an instructor in attitude to law and politics regarding the categorization to represent a modern approach, these scholars have returned to contemporary Ukrainian literature at opposition in order to create a function- Ukraine between the Russian and their home bases and in turn have invig- Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, ing constitutional state. Habsburg empires, as well as the lands of orated scholarly interchange there.” who holds a Ph.D. (2005) in Ukrainian • Vladimir Melamed, who completed the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. “We at HURI are delighted with the literature from the University of Toronto. his graduate studies in modern East- • Ihor Zhuk, the director of the success of the Shklar Fellows Program Dr. Andryczyk will spend four months at Central European history at the Leopolis Project and the curator of the and look forward to working with anoth- Harvard (September-December) conduct- Ukrainian Studies Institute, National Collection of Visual Materials at er group of dynamic young scholars in ing research on “A Community of Academy of Ukraine, Lviv, in 1995. Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Ukrainian studies again this year,” Prof. Others: The Identity of the Ukrainian Currently he is an independent scholar He received his candidate of sciences Flier concluded. Intellectual in Post-Soviet Ukrainian based in California and is a consultant for degree in art history in 1989 from the the Los Angeles Museum of the Moscow School of Industrial and Holocaust. He will spend four months at Applied Art. A longtime colleague of SHEVCHENKO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY Harvard (September-December) studying HURI, Mr. Zhuk will return to the insti- “Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Interwar tute for four months (February-May DETROIT CHAPTER Eastern Galicia, 1918-1939: Ukrainian 2007) to conduct further work on the Perspective, Jewish Perspective.” Mr. and Leopolis Project. During his stay at Melamed plans to investigate a number Harvard, he will draw on material housed of aspects of Ukrainian-Jewish relations at Harvard to assemble blocks of textual DISTRICT COMMITTEE OF UNA BRANCHES within the context of the interwar Polish and visual data, and compile new e-docu- of DETROIT,MI state. The topics include the Lviv pogrom ments for this complex hypertext and of November 1918; the Jewish-Polish visual resource of valuable art objects compromise of 1925; anti-Semitism in invite you to attend a meeting with and historically significant architecture Polish institutions of higher learning and found in Ukraine and dating from the the editor-in-chief of The Ukrainian Weekly similar topics, and the reaction to these Neolithic period to the present. Mr. events within Ukrainian and Jewish soci- Zhuk’s work at Harvard will result in a eties in accordance with their percep- thoroughly elaborated art history data- ROMA HADZEWYCZ tions, stereotypes and past experience. base of over 2,500 objects to be used as a • Tatiana Oparina, associate professor teaching and research tool by mid-2007. in history at Novosibirsk Pedagogical The Eugene and Daymel Shklar who will speak on the subject: University, where she has been on the Research Fellowships in Ukrainian faculty for the last 15 years. Ms. Oparina “The Ukrainian Press in America – Do We Need It?” Studies bring distinguished scholars from will spend four months at Harvard around the world to the Ukrainian (February-June 2007) working on Research Institute for research on impor- Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 4:00 p.m. “Russian-Ukrainian Ecclesiastical tant projects concerning Ukrainian histo- Contacts and the Problem of the ‘True ry, politics, literature, linguistics and cul- Faith’ from the End of the Time of ture. Ukrainian Cultural Center Troubles (1613) to the Treaty of Established in 2001, the Shklar 26601 Ryan Road, Warren, MI Pereiaslav (1654).” The project will Fellowships have created exciting schol- investigate the views of the Moscow arship and unprecedented research Sweets, coffee and tea to follow. Patriarchate on Kyiv-style piety, Kyivan opportunities in Ukrainian studies in the theology, the problem of “heresy” in United States. Since their inception, two Donations welcomed. Ukrainian texts, and divergences in canon law practices in a period when (Continued on page 21) No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006 13 Ukraine’s 2005 Europa issue wins Narbut Prize by Ingert Kuzych Museums” series. This issue featured Perhaps present-day citizens have just exhibitor who currently serves as the two of the priceless paintings from the had enough of hearing about the Great society’s president. Below are the win- The greatest number of voters this National Museum in Lviv, flanking a Patriotic War. This is the title the ners of the Narbut Prize since its incep- year for the Narbut Prize – reflecting label showing the façade of the museum Communists pinned on World War II in tion. Ukraine’s best-designed stamp(s) of the (Figure 2). The left stamp depicts an order to create the pretense of a united 1993A – Larysa Koren; “150th previous year – chose their favorite not early 14th century icon of the Archangel struggle “against the Fascist invaders.” only with their eyes, but also with their In reality, many guerrilla organizations in stomachs. The winner was last year’s Michael by an unknown artist, while the portrait on the right is that of a the former Soviet republics fought Europa theme of gastronomy, and against their Communist occupiers. Ukraine’s se-tenant depiction of its deli- “Dalmatian Woman” painted by Teophil Prominent among them was the UPA, the cious beet soup – borshch. Kopystynski in 1872. Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought The design on the two-stamp set In third place, garnering just under 8 on against the Red Army well into the depicts a colorful table spread: a bowl of percent of the ballots, was Ukraine’s first 1950s. the beet soup on the left (2.61 hrv value) commemorative stamp of 2005, which and a covered, decorated serving dish on honored the Orange Revolution of * * * the right (3.52 hrv value). Spread before November-December 2004 (Figure 3). both dishes are the myriad ingredients This stamp was quickly prepared and The Narbut Prize is sponsored by the that go into creating borsch. Helping to released in January 2005 upon the inau- U.S.-based Ukrainian Philatelic and unite both stamps is the red-embroidered guration of President Viktor Yushchenko. Numismatic Society (UPNS); it contin- Figure 3. The “Orange Revolution” tablecloth, which underlies the entire Originally, I believed this stamp might ues to be recognized as the premier phil- issue showing part of the immense scene (Figure 1). take the Narbut Prize, but disillusion- atelic art award in Ukraine. Past winning designs and their artist creators have all crowds that gathered for this weeks been prominently featured in Filatelia long demonstration. Ukrainy, Ukraine’s leading philatelic periodical. Anniversary of the Birth of Composer The Heorhiy Narbut Prize honors Mykola Lysenko.” Ukraine’s outstanding graphic artist of 1993B – Oleh Snarsky; “National the early 20th century. Mr. Narbut pre- Flag and Trident Emblem of Ukraine” pared the three high-value stamps (30, (Note: there was a tie in voting in 1993). 40, and 50 shahy) from Ukraine’s first 1994 – Yuriy Lohvyn; “75th postage stamp issue of 1918. He also Anniversary of Ukraine's First Postage designed about a dozen of Ukraine’s first Stamps” banknotes. 1995 – Serhiy Bieliaiev; “160th Figure 1. The se-tenant “Gastronomy – Borshch” issue showing the popular Readers wishing to examine all of last Anniversary of Kyiv University.” Ukrainian beet soup and its ingredients. year’s stamps (or the issues from any 1996 – Yuriy Lohvyn; “Hetmans of year) in full color, may do so online at Ukraine” series. In addition to the 200,000 se-tenant ment with the president, one of the pairs of stamps that were printed, 15,000 heroes of the Orange Revolution, has set booklets (each with two pairs of stamps) in over the past year or so and likely a were also prepared. It is on the selvage fair number of voters deliberately chose of the booklets that the ingredients for a to overlook this issue. typical Ukrainian borsch are listed. They Fourth place was claimed by another are: pork, red beets, cabbage, haricot “Treasures of Ukrainian Museums” se- (kidney beans), potatoes, carrots, parsley, tenant set of stamps, this time honoring onion, lard, garlic, tomatoes, red pep- the National Landscape Gallery of Ivan pers, spices, dill, salt and sour cream. Aivazovsky in Crimea. Aivazovsky spe- Figure 4. Another “Treasures of Ukrainian Museums” issue, this time featuring In reality, there are dozens of ways cialized in seascapes, and two of his the Ivan Aivazovsky Gallery in Crimea. that borshch can be prepared, and meat paintings on stamps flank a photo label or meat broth is not even a requirement showing the front of the gallery and a 1997 – Serhiy Bieliaiev; “150th (although it can add considerably to the statue of the artist (Figure 4). The left Anniversary of the Kyiv University flavor). The ingredient that is common painting from 1853 is titled “Sea at Astronomical Observatory” (stamp trip- to all recipes, and which imparts the Koktebel”; the other, “The Tower on the tych). characteristic color, is the red beets. Rock Near the Bosporus,” dates from 1998 – V. Taran and O. Kharuk; “The Once cooked, borshch can be served hot 1859. This release claimed 7.5 percent of Founding of Kyiv” (Europa souvenir or cold. the ballots. sheet). The designer of the gastronomy 1999 – V. Taran, O. Kharuk, S. A notable issue ignored stamps is Svitlana Bondar, who based Kharuk and V. Kozachenko; “350th her work on a photograph by Oleksander While most of the stamp issues of Anniversary of the Beginning of the Kostiuchenko. They will receive Narbut 2005 received some votes in the Narbut Ukrainian Struggle for Freedom Under Prize awards and share the $250 hono- Prize balloting, one prominent issue was Bohdan Khmelnytsky” (souvenir sheet). rarium with a third person, Maria Heiko, distinguished by its complete lack of 2000 – Oleksiy Shtanko; “Yaroslav who also participated in this issue by votes; this was the “60th Anniversary of the Wise” (souvenir sheet). designing the Europa booklet. Victory in the Great Patriotic War” 2001 – Kateryna Shtanko; “Wildflowers of Ukraine” (souvenir Other major vote-getters issue. The stamp-with-label (Figure 5) and sheet). Once again this year, a record number souvenir sheet (Figure 6) that made up 2002 – Oleksiy Shtanko; “King of votes was received in the Narbut Prize this release hearkened back to the old Danylo” (souvenir sheet). balloting. The borshch stamps were pre- Soviet-style stamps issued in such abun- 2003 – Mykola Kochubei; “Ukrainian ferred by almost 12 percent of the partic- dance during the existence of the USSR. Folk Costumes” (stamps and souvenir ipants in the voting. The next three issues This issue was created as a sop to some Figure 5. A stamp issue honoring the sheet). selected were very closely bunched. of the octogenarians in Ukraine who still “60th Anniversary of Victory in the 2004 – Jaan Saar and Oksana Finishing in second place with 8 per- fondly recall their Soviet background Great Patriotic War” was very remi- Ternavska; “Route From the Varangians cent of the vote was a release from the and have difficulty adjusting to the cur- niscent of the types of stamps created to the Greeks” (Ukraine-Estonia joint ongoing “Treasures of Ukrainian rent reality of a dissolved Soviet Union. in the old Soviet Union. issue). 2005 – Svitlana Bondar, Oleksandr the Ukrainian Electronic Stamp Album Kostiuchenko, Maria Heiko; (www.ukrainian-philately.info). Click on “Gastronomy – Borshch” (Europa issue). 2005 or on any other year’s issues you may wish to check out. Past Narbut Prize winners as well as runners-up may be viewed on the website of the UPNS: www.upns.org A list of past winners The Narbut Prize has been awarded annually since 1993 for the best- designed stamp of the previous year (Ukraine resumed stamp production only in 1992). The award was estab- Figure 6. The souvenir sheet for the Figure 2. “The Treasures of Ukrainian Museums” issue highlighting two of the lished by Dr. Ingert Kuzych, well- “60th Anniversary of Victory in the paintings from the Lviv National Museum. known philatelic author, editor, and Great Patriotic War.” 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006 No. 42

The Ukrainian Museum hosts Borys Tarasyuk and high-ranking diplomats by Marta Baczynsky economic welfare. Although The Ukrainian Museum on NEW YORK – The meeting of world East Sixth Street is located downtown leaders at the United Nations during the and is somewhat removed from the epi- last weeks of September once again center of this bustling activity, we too brought happy chaos to New York City. The predictable traffic snarls and the partake in the excitement of the annual seemingly never ending cacophony of convention of heads of state in a very big police sirens escorting dignitaries from way. Last year at this time the museum one place to another were somehow bal- was honored by a memorable visit of anced out by the high drama emanating Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko from the General Assembly sessions, and and First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko. a rise in tourism that such an occurrence This year the museum was pleased to always brings about. host Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign The business of world politics is good Affairs Borys Tarasyuk, who arrived on both for the spirit of the city and for its Saturday, September 23, with his staff Bowery Poetry Club hosts Ukrainian reading

NEW YORK – The Bowery Poetry played by radio stations in at least 12 Club hosted a Ukrainian reading before countries, including Ukraine, and is a sold-out audience on Sunday, available at www.svitanya.org. September 24. The evening of music, Vasyl Makhno, a poet and playwright poetry and fiction in English and known for his love of language and Ukrainian – held as part of the wordplay, came next. He recited four Balaklava! Eastern European Reading poems in Ukrainian and their English- Series – was organized by fiction writer language translations (by Dr. Orest Irene Zabytko and Prof. Alexander Popovych, president of the Shevchenko Motyl of Rutgers University in New Scientific Society). Dr. Makhno’s latest Jersey. They had previously organized book is “38 Poems about New York and an equally successful Ukrainian evening Other Things.” Several of his poems at the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich have just appeared in translation in Village in the spring. Kerala, India. Performers included the Svitanya Dzvinia Orlowsky followed with a Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister Borys Tarasyuk signs the Visitors’ Book at Eastern European Women’s Vocal bravura performance. The Pushcart The Ukrainian Museum as board of trustees President Olha Hnateyko looks on. Ensemble, Ukrainian-language poet Prize-winning poet and author of “A Vasyl Makhno, English-language poet Handful of Bees,” “Edge of House,” Dzvinia Orlowsky and fiction writer “Except for One Obscene Brushstroke” and distinguished members of Ukraine’s Ukrainian art history and introduce Prof. Motyl. Although the evening would and the forthcoming “Convertible Night, diplomatic corps. Accompanying the Ukrainian avant-garde artists and their not have happened without Ms. Flurry of Stones” combined humor and minister were Ukraine’s Ambassador to work to American audiences. The Zabytko’s initiative, the PEN Award-win- razor-sharp observations of human nature the United States Oleh Shamshur, Consul Ukrainian Museum in New York City is ning fiction writer and author of several in her poems. Ms. Orlowsky recently General of Ukraine in New York City looking forward to presenting this excit- highly acclaimed novels was unable to published a translation of Alexander Mykola Kyrychenko, former Permanent ing exhibition. Mrs. Hnateyko pointed attend. Dovzhenko’s novella, “The Enchanted Representative of Ukraine to the United out that both Ambassador and Mrs. The evening began with Ukrainian and Desna” (which readers may acquire from Nations Valeriy Kuchinsky, Spokesman Kuchinsky were very helpful in the Bulgarian songs by Susan Anderson, her at [email protected]). of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Andrii process of bringing this show to The Kim Fedchak, Sibelan Forrester, Laura Prof. Motyl completed the program Deschytsia and Consul Andrii Olefirov. Ukrainian Museum. Howson, Maryka Kalyna and Christine with a reading from his latest work of The museum’s board of trustees In view of the distinguished group of Steele of Svitanya, accompanied by fiction, “Who Shot Andrei Warhol,” President Olha Hnateyko, Director Maria visitors, Mrs. Hnateyko also indicated Jimmy Mora, a classical guitarist based which depicts the imagined encounter Shust, members of the board and muse- that shortly the museum is looking for- in New York City. between Andy Warhol and a Soviet um staff assembled in front of the muse- ward to presenting another exhibition One of their most memorable numbers Ukrainian journalist who comes to New um and greeted the minister and his party from Ukraine. The exhibit, organized was “Oy u Lisi,” an ancient Kupalo song York City in early 1968 to report on the as they arrived in a cavalcade of gleam- from the private collection of President full of dissonant harmonies and sung in impending American revolution. Prof. ing black limousines. Yushchenko and other collectors, will the “bilyi holos” style, which they Motyl is a political science professor Reading a short welcome statement feature Ukrainian religious sculpture and learned from the renowned Ukrainian and painter, and author of “Whiskey Mrs. Hnateyko said that The Ukrainian icons. singer Mariana Sadovska. Svitanya also Priest,” a thriller set in post-Soviet Museum was honored by the minister’s During the capital fund-raising cam- dedicated a song about displacement to Ukraine. visit and expressed her pleasure at the paign in the museum’s promotional liter- the victims of the Chornobyl nuclear dis- Ms. Zabytko and Prof. Motyl said they presence of Ambassador Shamshur and ature, it has always been underscored that aster and “to the victims of displacement intend to continue with staging Ukrainian Consul General Kyrychenko, who had one of the goals of the institution in its and war everywhere.” cultural programs in American venues in visited the museum on previous occa- new building will be to host exhibitions Svitanya’s CD, “First Light,” has been the years ahead. sions. A former ambassador to the U.N., from Ukraine. Since the new facility Mr. Kuchinsky, was also warmly greeted opened in 2005 this aim is being realized. by the board president. During his long A tour of the museum’s second inau- tenure as ambassador, Mr. Kuchinsky gural exhibition “The Tree of Life, the and his wife, Alla, were ardent propo- Sun, the Goddess: Symbolic Motifs in nents and supporters of the museum. Ukrainian Folk Art” was on Minister Mrs. Hnateyko briefly spoke about the Tarasyuk’s agenda. In her inimitable way, work of the museum, especially citing Lubow Wolynetz, the curator of the the upcoming exhibition “Crossroads: museum’s folk art collection and curator Modernism in Ukraine 1910-1930” of the exhibition, explained the signifi- scheduled to open at the museum on cance of the objects on display, injecting November 4, following its run in interesting details from her repertoire of Chicago. This is the first major exhibition folklore and traditions. At the display of of early 20th century Ukrainian art in Easter breads in answer to a question by New York City. Ms. Wolynetz, the minister was heard to Organized in Ukraine, with works say that he leaves the matter of baking in from the National Art Museum of the capable hands of his wife. Ukraine and other museums in the coun- Minister Tarasyuk also toured the try, the show came to the United States exhibition “Jacques Hnizdovsky – in under the auspices of the Foundation for Color and in Black & White,” which fea- International Arts and Education in coop- tures paintings, woodcuts and ceramics eration with the National Art Museum of by the noted Ukrainian artist. Director Ukraine. Shust provided commentary and infor- There is great importance attached to mation. this exhibition, explained Mrs. Hnateyko, Time for leisurely activities is meas- Vasyl Lopukh Vasyl Lopukh since its objective is to highlight this Dzvinia Orlowska Vasyl Makhno immensely creative and prolific period in (Continued on page 15) No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006 15 Actress Vera Farmiga: reaching for stardom by Helen Smindak Set in the South Boston organized Farmiga prefers this method of Special to The Ukrainian Weekly crime scene, the movie spotlights police acquainting directors with her force attempts to rein in the increasingly ability to fill a role rather than NEW YORK – Actress Vera Farmiga powerful Irish mafia. Billy Costigan a live audition; she feels that has been playing diverse roles in a vari- (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a young cop the home video provides her ety of films and television series for over looking to make a name for himself in with “comfortable space and a 10 years. Until 2004, she was not well- law enforcement, Colin Sullivan (Matt suitable environment” for her known to the public or to movie critics. Damon) is a street-smart criminal who own artistic vision. (After see- Last weekend opened an important has infiltrated the police department, and ing the actress in “Down to the phase in her acting career – her ambition Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) is the Bone” and watching her home to make a studio film has come to ruthless syndicate head to whom video for “The Departed,” Mr. fruition. She has the leading female role Sullivan reports. Scorsese was sold – he wanted in the Martin Scorsese-directed film Also being released this fall is the film Ms. Farmiga for the role of “The Departed,” which opened in the- “Breaking and Entering,” by Academy Madolyn in his movie.) aters nationwide on October 6. Award-winning director Anthony In the 15 or so films Ms. Like many other gifted actresses look- Minghella, in which Ms. Farmiga has a Farmiga has made, she has ing for demanding roles, she has concen- supporting role as a Romanian prostitute. appeared alongside such stars trated on work in independent films, as Adrien Brody and Milla A career-making role where she can find the original character Jovovich (“Dummy,”) John roles she likes to portray. Unfortunately, Ms. Farmiga’s performance in “The Heard and the late Alan King independent films usually run for a week Departed” may prove to be the career- (“Mind the Gap”), Richard or two in one theater and do not draw making role she’s been hoping for. Gere and Robert De Niro (“15 large audiences. Evidence of her increasing presence in Minutes”), Christopher Last year, Ms. Farmiga’s achievement the film world is the recent New York Walken (“The Opportunists”), in the movie “Down to the Bone,” a film Times Magazine story, “A Film of Her and Denzel Washington, that created a sensation at the 2004 Own,” featuring her film work, work Meryl Streep and Liev Sundance Film Festival, brought her the methods and way of life. Penned by Schreiber (“The Manchurian L.A. Film Critics Association Best Lynn Hirschberg, editor at large for the Candidate”). Actress Award. In addition, for her por- magazine who writes regularly about Warner Brothers She has been on location in trayal of a working-class mother of two Hollywood and film, the feature article Vera Farmiga as Madolyn in “The Departed.” Australia, Canada, France and who is a drug addict, she won the Special appeared in the Sunday magazine on Germany, and recently spent Jury Prize awarded at the festival, was September 3. The lengthy story gives a comedy to dialogue and drama.” several weeks in St. Petersburg, Russia, nominated for the Independent Spirit sympathetic portrayal of Ms. Farmiga, Reached by phone at her home in filming an independent film, “In Award (Best Actress) and named runner- her career and her ambition to work in a upstate New York, not far from Tranzit,” which takes place after World Soyuzivka, the Ukrainian National War II. Starring in the lead role, she Association estate in Kerhonkson, N.Y., plays a doctor who is overseeing a Ms. Farmiga concurred with Ms. Russian prison camp housing German Hirschberg’s findings. She feels that prisoners of war. inconsistencies do indeed exist in the Because of her fluency in Ukrainian – film industry. she did not speak English until she was 5 Although she had not read Ms. – she is particularly well-suited to portray Hirschberg’s story (she avoids reviews Eastern European characters and their and stories about herself), she said Ms. mannerisms, speech and accents, as in Hirschberg has written about her before. “15 Minutes” and “In Tranzit.” She also “I’m extremely grateful to Lynn for her speaks some French and Spanish, all of unprecedented article; she sheds light on which is helpful in her acting endeavors. problems in the film industry in a way Ms. Farmiga comes from a Ukrainian you can’t believe,” Ms. Farmiga com- family of seven children (the offspring of mented. Luba and Michael Farmiga), attended St. Ms. Farmiga said she was “absolutely John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic thrilled to work with Marty; working School in Newark, N.J., was a member with him is really invigorating. Every of Plast Ukrainian Scouting actor’s dream is to work in a Martin Organization, and attended dance camps Scorsese film; he’s a very passionate, and workshops directed by the late Roma direct and generous man.” Pryma Bohachevsky. The family lived in “My partners in the film were fantas- the New Jersey town of Irvington and tic, and I truly enjoyed working with later in Passaic. Warner Brothers these stars. All the actors were warm and Speaking of Ms. Farmiga back in Vera Farmiga in a scene from the new movie “The Departed.” giving, and I felt very close to them,” she 2000, Ms. Pryma Bohachevsky recalled added, in the exuberant, eager voice that her student’s talent and diligence, noting up for the Best Actress award presented studio production. echoes her off-camera personality. that “she was always acting and was very by the National Society of Film Critics. Ms. Hirschberg reveals that Mr. She said she had just completed her expressive.” Her performance in “Down to the Minghella believes Ms. Farmiga is “of sixth film in one year, mostly independ- Ms. Farmiga, on her part, said: “Ms. ent films, leaving her quite exhausted. Bone,” described as “extraordinarily the quality of Meryl Streep – her charac- Bohachevsky gave me help, and encour- But, she pointed out, each film was dif- complex” and considered to be her best ters have the same sense of depth and aged me to take up acting, to follow my ferent, with radically different characters, heart – I’m very grateful to her.” work so far, caught the attention of Mr. commitment.” and each filmmaker was a first-time The actress got her start in theater Scorsese and led him to choose her for In her article, Ms. Hirschberg explores experience. “And my hair was a different work in a high school melodrama, “The “The Departed.” the complexities of today’s film industry color each time, all the colors of the rain- Vampire,” after being benched from soc- The Warner Brothers film, a crime and the difficulties faced by many talent- bow,” laughed the 5-foot-6-inch actress. cer, and went on to study acting at drama starring big box-office stars ed actresses in finding demanding roles “My natural hair color is light brown,” Syracuse University. Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack in studio productions. She says she added. She appeared in several stage produc- Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg and co- Hollywood has stopped creating big, dra- A country girl tions as a member of the Barrow Group starring Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin, matic roles for ambitious actresses, since theater company in New York, then has Ms. Farmiga playing a police psychi- major studios prefer to select well- Ms. Farmiga shuns the glamour and embarked on TV work – as a Celtic war- atrist named Madolyn who is romantical- known actresses for their films, aiming glitter of city life, preferring country life rior in the TV series “Roar,” a star in the ly linked to two of the men (DiCaprio specifically to “entertain a vast global in rural Ulster County, where she lives in NBC series “UC: Undercover” and Snow and Damon). audience that prefers action and broad a small colonial house with her White’s mother in ABC’s “Snow White.” boyfriend, Renn Hawkey. In between She guest-starred in “Law and Order” film assignments, she raises two pet and other television series. Her film work Taras Shevchenko coin, minted and goats, mows the lawn with a tractor, and began in 1998 with the movie “Return to The Ukrainian Museum... issued in 2004 by the National Bank of pores through scripts sent to her by her Paradise.” (Continued from page 14) Ukraine. In the Visitors’ Book, in elegant manager, Jon Rubenstein. At 33, Vera Farmiga is on her way to ured in very small doses in the life of a script, the minister wrote that his wish is Once she’s found a role that intrigues stardom. The blue-eyed Ukrainian high-ranking state official and all too for The Ukrainian Museum to have inter- her, she makes an audition video of her- American actress is striving hard to soon Minister Tarasyuk’s staff members esting exhibitions, grateful supporters self acting out the character. Dressed in reach her goal: major roles in studio pro- reminded him of pending obligations. At and beautiful Ukrainian works of art. costume, wig and make-up appropriate ductions that will test her acting skills parting, the museum presented the minis- As he departed, Minister Tarasyuk cast to the character, she acts the role as Mr. and virtuosity. If innate artistry, intensity ter with several exhibition catalogues. a last look at the interior of the building Hawkey films a scene or two, reading and vitality are requisites for success in In turn, as a memento of his visit, and said to no one in particular, “It is a lines opposite to hers. the film world, she will surely reach her Minister Tarasyuk gave the museum a beautiful museum.” According to Ms. Hirschberg, Ms. objective. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006 No. 42

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Yushchenko pursue policies that are at ment condemning Russia’s “imperial for- Rada cancels utilities moratorium variance with each other, while just 13 eign policy” aimed at “weakening the sov- NEWSBRIEFS K YIV – The Verkhovna Rada on (Continued from page 2) percent said their policies are coordinat- ereignty or territorial integrity of the October 5 revoked the moratorium on util- camp, delivered a painful blow to the ed. The poll was conducted by the Georgian state,” Ukrainian media report- Razumkov Center for Economic and ities-payment hikes it had endorsed last international image of the state, and ed. Our Ukraine criticized Russia for bans month. The revocation was supported by affected the results of the parliamentary Political Studies among 2,005 adult on Georgian imports and “an entire range Ukrainians. (RFE/RL Newsline) 340 votes. The motion to cancel the mora- elections in 2006,” Our Ukraine said in a of economic sanctions” against Georgia, torium – backed on October 5 by 249 statement. Mr. Zinchenko stepped down Fund to facilitate Lviv’s preservation as well as for the holding of military exer- deputies – was submitted by the Cabinet of on September 2, 2005, from the post of cises close to Georgia’s maritime borders. Ministers, which argued that the imple- head of the presidential staff, accusing K YIV – President Viktor Yushchenko “We express our solidarity with Georgia mentation of the moratorium would place then National Security and Defense of Ukraine and his Lithuanian and Polish and its people at a time when Russia is an onerous burden on the state budget. The Council Secretary Petro Poroshenko as counterparts, Valdas Adamkus and Lech taking a provocative, impulsive and emo- opposition Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc well as several other presidential aides of Kaczynski, are planning to initiate the tional style in interstate relations and announced that it will question the legality corruption. Mr. Zinchenko’s allegations, creation of a fund for facilitating the returning to imperial rhetoric,” the state- of the October 5 vote in the Constitutional which have not been confirmed in court, development of Lviv. The presidents ment read. (RFE/RL Newsline) Court. (RFE/RL Newsline) triggered the dismissal of Yulia signed a joint declaration at their Tymoshenko’s Cabinet by President September 30 meeting in Lviv during the Yushchenko. (RFE/RL Newsline) celebrations of Lviv’s 750th anniversary. In the document, the signatories Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Synod ends addressed the peoples and presidents of L VIV – A session of the Synod of those countries that contributed to the Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic formation of Lviv’s cultural traditions, as Church (UGCC), which discussed the well as international organizations, the education of priests, was held in public, cultural activists and business Briukhovychi, near Lviv, on September representatives concerning the develop- The Ukrainian Research Institute 13-20. Three metropolitans and 33 bish- ment and preservation of Lviv’s cultural at Harvard University ops, members of the Synod from Ukraine heritage and the city’s architecture. The announces and the diaspora, participated in the ses- meeting participants are confident that sion headed by Patriarch Lubomyr Husar, the declaration will essentially contribute A memorial celebration of the life and career head of the UGCC. The bishops listened to safeguarding Lviv’s uniqueness. to Patriarch Lubomyr’s speech about the (Ukrainian News Agency) of strategy of the UGCC and reports on Presidents want to resolve Georgia crisis activities of synodal committees, work on Professor Omeljan Pritsak writing the catechism of the UGCC, and KYIV – Presidents Viktor Yushchenko preparation for the 2007 Patriarchal Sobor of Ukraine, Lech Kaczynski of Poland and Friday, 20 October 2006 (assembly) dedicated to youth issues. In Valdas Adamkus of Lithuania on October 2:00 p.m. addition, the hierarchs considered the 5 released a statement on international appointment of new leaders to sees that efforts aimed at constructively resolving lack ruling hierarchs and to places where the Russia-Georgia crisis. “We appreciate Appleton Chapel auxiliary bishops are needed. On the efforts by the OSCE chairman-in- at the Memorial Church of Harvard University September 19 voting for specific candi- office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karol De One Harvard Yard Gucht, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki dates for bishops of the UGCC was held. Cambridge, MA 02138 The hierarchs invited the pope to visit Tuomioja, whose country presides in the Ukraine. The next synod is planned for European Union, as well as by other repre- late September 2007 in Philadelphia, sentatives of the international community, Tributes will be delivered by Michael S. Flier (Director, Ukrainian marking the 100th anniversary of the to resolve the problem. We are convinced Research Institute and Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian arrival of the first Greek-Catholic bishop, that their involvement can be the major Philology), Edward L. Keenan (Director, Dumbarton Oaks Soter Ortynsky, in the United States. factor in the settlement of conflicts in Research Center), George G. Grabowicz (Dmytro ýy•evs’kyj (Religious Information Service of Georgia to ensure its sovereignty, security Professor of Ukrainian Literature), Roman Szporluk (Mykhailo Ukraine) and territorial integrity,” they said in a Hrushevsky Research Professor of Ukrainian History) and Richard joint statement. The presidents said they Frye (Aga Khan Professor of Iranian, Emeritus). They will be Yanukovych urges more coalition talks were worried about the situation in joined by former students offering remembrances: Lubomyr Hajda KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor Georgia and called on Russia and Georgia “to refrain from mutual accusations and to (Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute), Frank Sysyn Yanukovych said in Mykolaiv on (Director, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research) October 5 that despite Our Ukraine’s start negotiations.” They added, “Every declared intention to withdraw its minis- conflict can be settled through negotia- and Rev. Borys Gudziak (Rector, Ukrainian Catholic University). ters from the government and join the tions, in which we are ready to participate opposition, his Party of the Regions as mediators.” (Official Website of the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University insists on the need to create a broad President of Ukraine) 1583 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel.: (617) 495-4053 | Fax: (617) 495-8097 coalition with the pro-presidential bloc, OU slams Russia’s imperial policy Ukrainian media reported. “I’m sure that Web: http://www.huri.harvard.edu we have not yet completed this process KYIV – The Our Ukraine parliamen- [of building a broader coalition] and that tary caucus on October 4 released a state- President [Viktor] Yushchenko, with whom we reached agreements, remains and will continue to be Our Ukraine’s leader, and that the de facto representa- tives of Our Ukraine in the government are working in accordance with our agreements,” Mr. Yanukovych said. In turn, President Yushchenko said in a press release later the same day that par- ticipants in the failed coalition talks “still have the chance to reach agreement on key issues,” adding “I do not consider the negotiating process to be exhausted.” Mr. Yushchenko said that a potential agreement between Our Ukraine and the ruling coalition should be based on the Universal of National Unity signed by Ukraine’s major political forces in August. (RFE/RL Newsline) Poll says Yanukovych most influential KYIV – According to a poll conducted in late September, 44 percent of respon- dents said Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych is the most influential politi- cal figure in Ukraine, while 19 percent said President Viktor Yushchenko is the most influential, Interfax-Ukraine report- ed on October 5. Three-fourths of respon- dents stated that Messrs. Yanukovych and 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006 No. 42

clear that the CDC was poorly conceived File No. 988-06 Ukraine in search... in that it divided the region into approved SURROGATE’S COURT – WESTCHESTER COUNTY (Continued from page 2) and less-approved countries, doing so, THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK In March, at the European Union’s moreover, on questionable criteria. The By the Grace of God Free and Independent insistence, Ukraine joined Moldova and color revolution’s end in Ukraine and the the EU’s Border Assistance Mission way it ended has brought a new apprecia- tion of evolutionary political and institu- To: Walter Verheles, Katherine Verheles, Paul Zitko, Natalia Zitko, (EUBAM) to implement border and cus- toms regulations in line with EU norms tional development and stability. Tanya Zitko, Larissa Volosyena, Svetlana Kornienko, Walter Luhova, President Yushchenko’s September visit Tamara Luhova and Katherine Oleniak, whose whereabouts are on the Ukraine-Moldova border, includ- ing the Transdnistria sector. However, to Azerbaijan has signaled, however unknown, and if deceased, to all the unknown distributees, heirs at law following the August change of govern- belatedly, the end of the exclusionary and next of kin, of Barbara Pregon, their guardians, committees, conser- ment, some Ukrainian diplomats criticize approach toward friends in the region. vators or assignees, and if any of them survived the decedent but have the customs regime for cutting the rev- • Kosovo: Officially Kyiv takes the since died or become incompetent, their successors in interest, execu- enues (even if illicit ones) of the port of position that international recognition of tors, administrators, legal representatives, devisees, legatees, spouses, Odesa and other entities, while the the independence of Kosovo (which is anticipated) could create a “precedent,” distributees, heirs at law, next of kin, committees, conservators, guardians Ukrainian state railways company has re- triggering chain reactions by secessionist or any person having any claim or interest through them by purchase, routed some traffic that was circumvent- ing Transdnistria. forces in other areas and because it could inheritance or otherwise. jeopardize political settlements in A petition having been duly filed by Russell Kantor, who is domiciled at Any erosion in the post-March cus- toms and border regime must be avoid- Transdnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia 188 Rockne Road, Yonkers, NY 10701. ed; if anything, that regime needs to be and Karabakh. Ukrainian Minister of YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s strengthened further. The EU regards Foreign Affairs Borys Tarasyuk has Court, Westchester County, at 140 Grand St., White Plains, New York, on Kyiv’s position on this issue as one of argued along these lines for some time, November 22, 2006 at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why a the credibility tests of Kyiv’s aspirations most recently in his speech to the U.N. decree should not be made in the estate of Barbara Pregon lately domi- to draw closer to the EU. General Assembly (Interfax-Ukraine, September 22). ciled at 375 Marlborough Road, Yonkers, NY 10701, admitting to probate • GUAM: Officially Kyiv has intermit- This view may be termed a “negative” a Will dated Jan. 15, 2001, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of tently and rather fleetingly focused on the GUAM group of countries (Georgia, precedent, as distinct from Moscow’s Barbara Pregon deceased, relating to a real and personal property, and and the four secessionist leaderships’ directing that Letters Testamentary issue to Russell Kantor (State any fur- Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova) as a pos- sible format for exercising Ukrainian view that Kosovo’s independence would ther relief requested). regional leadership. Created in 1997 at constitute an immediately usable, “posi- Azerbaijan’s initiative as a four-country tive” precedent or model. Both of those Hon. Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. caucus in negotiations on the Treaty on views posit a direct linkage between the Dated, Attested and Sealed September 21, 2006 Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE), outcome in Kosovo and outcomes in the Surrogate John W. Kelly, Chief Clerk GUAM never found a wider role and was post-Soviet conflicts and invoke formal vegetating by 2002 for want of a mission. logic to rationalize the purported linkage. Fear of a “precedent” on Kosovo could Stephan Wislocki, Esq. 914-347-7197 At that point, then-President Leonid Kuchma took the initiative of holding a turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy regard- PO Box 129, Hawthorne, NY 10532-0129 ing the post-Soviet conflicts. The United 29 Taylor Rd., Valhalla, NY 10595 GUAM summit in Ukraine, drafting a charter and other basic documents, creat- States (which favors independence for ing a Secretariat based in Ukraine, and Kosovo) and most of its allies insist that Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not announcing a start to GUAM’s institu- the vastly different characteristics of these required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not tionalization, with Ukraine as presiding conflicts rules out any linkage between object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear country. The results were almost nil, Kosovo and the post-Soviet conflict. Using for you. again, for want of a wider plausible linkage to sound the alarm only reinforces rationale for GUAM. Mr. Kuchma’s rap- Moscow’s thesis that linkage exists. prochement with the Kremlin in 2003- The most effective defense against the 2004 ruled out any development of use of a Kosovo “precedent” is building GUAM and brought the group to the a conceptual and political firewall, verge of extinction. declaring the Kosovo outcome in The 2005 Chisinau summit, anticipat- advance to be wholly irrelevant to the ed as a “GUAM Revival,” led nowhere post-Soviet conflicts. in the absence of any guiding concept or The article above is reprinted from funding from member countries. Finally, Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission the GUAM summit hosted in April by from its publisher, the Jamestown President Yushchenko in Kyiv reached Foundation, www.jamestown.org. back to the 2002 institutionalization The Ukrainian National Association will mail scheme of forms without content. Christmas greeting cards to Moreover, the Ukrainian president instructed his relevant officials to intro- Foreign Affairs Minister... Ukrainian American service people! duce legislation on a GUAM free-trade (Continued from page 8) zone within a few weeks. Nothing fur- With the same aim, a number of events The UNA will be mailing Christmas greetings to Ukrainian ther seems to have been heard about any of these initiatives since then. will take place in Kyiv tomorrow to com- American service people presently serving their country in Meanwhile, GUAM continues playing memorate the 65th anniversary of the many parts of the world. a useful, if limited, role, pooling the four Babyn Yar tragedy. Mass executions by the Nazis there became among the first sad The UNA wishes to solicit your help in getting names, address- countries’ efforts within the OSCE regarding implementation of the adapted pages of the evolving tragedy of the es and ranks of any Ukrainian you may know who is serving in CFE Treaty and unfreezing negotiations Holocaust. In the memory of the the armed forces. Help make this project successful! on the “frozen” conflicts. The group Ukrainian people it also marks the death (minus Moldova) met in August to con- of tens of thousands of Soviet prisoners of sider the possibility of creating a peace- war of different nationalities. This event is The UNA will mail Christmas and New Year’s greetings keeping unit. designed to become yet another important to our service people by December 25, 2006. Last month, GUAM registered an reminder of the lessons of history and the unprecedented diplomatic-symbolic suc- need to prevent any manifestations of anti- cess at the United Nations, garnering a nar- Semitism, xenophobia and intolerance. We wish to contact all of our service men and women. row majority in favor of including a debate … For over 60 years after its creation With your help we will reach most of them! on frozen conflicts and the unlawful sta- the United Nations has grown both in tioning of foreign troops on three of the numbers – from 51 states up to 192 – and GUAM countries’ territories. The group in quality. Our organization has gained Name: intends to continue such efforts at the invaluable experience in changing the Rank: United Nations, OSCE and other interna- world so that every person could enjoy tional organizations irrespective of institu- more security, justice and dignity. Address: tionalization projects or leadership issues. 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Ukrainian activists meet with new mayor and Municipal Council of Newark NEWARK, N.J. – During its regular which a good number of Newark citizens Mayor Booker joined the Municipal recent events in Ukraine and also offered meeting on September 6, the newly elected had an opportunity to speak and have Council in the presentation of the best wishes to the crew of the NASA space Municipal Council of Newark issued a res- their voices heard on numerous issues Ukrainian resolution and gave a short shuttle Atlantis, whose crew included a olution commemorating the 15th anniver- such as crime in the city, police brutality, speech praising his Ukrainian con- Ukrainian American woman, U.S. Navy sary of the independence of Ukraine. This sanitation problems, youth problems, stituents. Cmdr. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper. event was sponsored by Americans for housing problems, taxes, etc. West Ward Councilman Ronald Rice Jr. The evening ended on a high note Human Rights in Ukraine (AHRU). A surprising event occurred at the end personally read the text of the resolution with the mayor, the nine members of Several of its members and members of the of the session when Mayor Cory Booker before handing it over to Bozhena the Municipal Council and the public of Ukrainian community were called to the arrived at the meeting. He is a newly Olshaniwsky, president of AHRU. She, in Newark congratulating and wishing council platform to formally receive the elected dynamic young mayor who has turn, thanked the entire presidium of the Ukraine well on this auspicious occa- signed and framed resolution from the City promised to make major reforms in meeting, gave a short presentation about sion. of Newark. Newark. He recently hired Garry The ceremony took place at the end of McCarthy, a crime-righting specialist íéÇÄêàëíÇé ìäêÄ∫çëúäé∫ åéÇà ¥Ï. òÖÇóÖçäÄ a business session of the council during from New York for this purpose. Ú‡ ìäêÄ∫çëúäàâ ßçëíàíìí åéÑÖêçéÉé åàëíÖñíÇÄ

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aware of the corruption surrounding him cal to the techniques Mr. Kuchma had used to Ukraine’s cities, traveling a total of 80,000 The political divorce... and it didn’t faze him. “Political interests five years ago in repressing her. kilometers and speaking in front of 4.5 mil- (Continued from page 3) aren’t so important to him; moral cleanli- “Throughout her political life, lion people, according to her website. candidate, nor was he acting on behalf of ness is not so important nor are ties to cor- Tymoshenko has clung to him desperate- Entering the elections, most polls Ms. Tymoshenko, as widely suspected. ruption,” Mr. Doniy said. ly, even when all hope was lost,” Mr. either predicted Our Ukraine would fin- Whatever his true motive might have “The most important thing is whether a Lozowy said. ish neck-and-neck with the Tymoshenko person directly serving Yushchenko is play- been, the Zinchenko press conference trig- Yulia’ s revenge Bloc, or ahead. gered a three-day verbal war between Ms. ing his or her own separate game ... If the However, there were polls that indicat- Tymoshenko and Mr. Poroshenko. game turns against Yushchenko, he immedi- By all indications, the Our Ukraine ed as early as Septemer 2005 that the After the dismissal, President ately distances the person from him. leadership believed it had maintained the Tymoshenko Bloc had more than 20 per- Yushchenko said he spent those three days Yushchenko only likes people who demon- support of the Orange electorate, march- cent of the electoral support, compared to trying to hold the government together, and strate love, flattery and kindness,” he added. ing confidently toward the March 2006 about 15 percent for Our Ukraine. it was an experience he never wanted to Mr. Yushchenko went beyond the parliamentary elections. On the night of March 26, the nation’s repeat again. Nikopol scandal in his attempt to discredit Its advertising campaign belied the top exit poll was already able to declare He acknowledged that he was aware Ms. Tymoshenko, accusing her of abusing bloc’s hubris, frequently employing the that the Tymoshenko Bloc had pulled off Mr. Poroshenko had been battling with Ms. her position as prime minister to erase $1.5 slogan “Don’t Betray the Maidan” in the elections’ biggest surprise. Tymoshenko for months, even admitting to billion in government debt owed by her radio and television advertisements. Days later, the final results confirmed feeling like a baby-sitter when trying to defunct gas-trading company, Unified It never occurred to Our Ukraine’s that 22 percent of the Ukrainian elec- deal with them. Energy Systems of Ukraine. He also accused leadership that many Ukrainians believe torate, or 5.7 million voters, opted for On the eve of the government’s dis- her of hatching an impeachment plot. it was the leaders themselves who Ms. Tymoshenko and her bloc, compared missal, Mr. Yushchenko said he put forth a Despite the attacks upon her credibility betrayed the Orange Revolution, with with the 14 percent, or 3.5 million voters, proposition to the warring sides in which and character, Ms. Tymoshenko never their ongoing corruption scandals and who supported Mr. Yushchenko and Our either everyone resigned, or that only par- retaliated against Mr. Yushchenko himself, Mr. Yushchenko’s decision to make Ukraine. tial resignations occur – namely Mr. reserving her biting criticism instead for the peace with Ukraine’s businessmen, for- The Ukrainian people had lifted the Poroshenko’s and Mr. Turchynov’s. triumvirate in his entourage. merly known as oligarchs and criminals. Orange Revolution’s torch out of Mr. It was during these discussions that Mr. All she would say is that Mr. Rather than investing in advertisements, Yushchenko allegedly complained about Yushchenko’s tacks against her were identi- Ms. Tymoshenko took her bloc’s campaign (Continued on page 25) Ms. Tymoshenko’s need for the spotlight. “Look at Putin or Lukashenka,” Mr. Yushchenko allegedly said. “They have brilliant prime ministers. No one ever sees them on television.” Though she allegedly agreed to partial resignations, Ms. Tymoshenko called a late-night meeting at her dacha that very night, according to the president. Inviting the procurator general and the minister of internal affairs, she suggested that they hold their own press conferences in the morning to reveal corruption. In the view of Mr. Khmara, this was the last straw for Mr. Yushchenko. “It appeared as a subtle strike against the president,” he said. At 12:30 p.m. on September 8, 2005, Mr. Yushchenko appeared on live, national television to announce he was dismissing Ms. Tymoshenko and most of her Cabinet of Ministers, as well as Mr. Poroshenko. He acknowledged corruption in his gov- ernment, naming as the last straw Ms. Tymoshenko’s alleged attempts to steer control of the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant from Viktor Pinchuk into the hands of his Dnipropetrovsk rival Ihor Kolomoyskyi. Mr. Yushchenko claimed Ms. Tymoshenko wanted, in exchange, shares in 1+1, the second-highest-rated television network in Ukraine. Just three weeks earlier, Mr. Kolomoyskyi declared his intention to buy a 40 percent stake in 1+1, however, Ms. Tymoshenko has denied she was involved in secret agreements with him or his part- nership, Pryvat Group. Mr. Yushchenko called the Nikopol scandal “a fight between two gangs” in his September 8 address. What Mr. Yushchenko didn’t reveal is that Mr. Poroshenko was also allegedly angling for a stake in a Ukrainian televi- sion network. Russian businessmen Oleksander Abramov and Viktor Vekselberg wanted to “purchase the Inter channel and then trans- fer it to Mr. Yushchenko’s inner circle in exchange for the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant,” Russian Communist Deputy Viktor Iliukhin alleged. Mr. Poroshenko was reportedly interested in the deal. “I agree with the president,” Ms. Tymoshenko said afterwards. “This was the gang of Pinchuk fighting the gang of Poroshenko and a Russian businessman who was linked with Poroshenko.” Ms. Tymoshenko’s defenders believe that she selected Mr. Kolomoyskyi to receive shares in the Nikopol reprivatization only because he already had a 25 percent stake in the factory, which he obtained legitimately. She viewed Mr. Kolomoyskyi as a partner the government could work with. In the view of Mr. Doniy, the Nikopol affair was merely a pretext for dismissal. 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Yushchenko’s hands and passed it on to “They wanted to complicate the situa- Rada chairmanship – a position he had While not a foregone conclusion, politi- Ms. Tymoshenko, who walked away tion,” Mr. Doniy said. “It was immediately desperately wanted after losing it in April cal experts believe it would take a miracle from the political divorce as the victor. obvious that the negotiations were conduct- 1998 – in order to force him to defect to for Mr. Yushchenko to be re-elected presi- The scenario in which Our Ukraine ed in such a way so that the coalition was- the Party of the Regions and thereby dent in 2009 – a battle that will likely pit found itself resembled the Greek tragedy n’t formed. Many forces didn’t want it, and destroy the coalition. Ms. Tymoshenko against Mr. Yanukovych. of Oedipus fleeing his worst fear. it meant that they wanted a coalition in a It can even be said that Mr. Yushchenko For the co-pilots of the Orange different format. They simply didn’t want It was their fear of Ms. Tymoshenko’s and Our Ukraine’s leadership were secretly Revolution, it was their difference in per- Tymoshenko as prime minister.” hoping that Mr. Moroz would defect rising popularity that caused Our Ukraine’s sonalities – the moderate compromiser In the view of Mr. Khmara, Ms. because they wanted to work alongside Mr. leadership to fire her from government. But versus the radical reformer – that served Tymoshenko made a mistake by immedi- Yanukovych and the Party of the Regions in trying to prevent their fear from becom- as the bedrock for their success, as well as ately lobbying for Oleksander Moroz to instead, Mr. Doniy said. ing reality, they only realized it. The plan to become Verkhovna Rada chairman, even “Tymoshenko wants redistribution, so for their relationship’s ultimate demise. eliminate her only strengthened her. though his Socialist Party finished fourth she represents a war for them,” he said. What Ms. Tymoshenko characterized “Yushchenko doesn’t have anything to in the parliamentary elections behind Our “The Party of the Regions and Our as Mr. Yushchenko’s political betrayal in fear from Tymoshenko anymore because Ukraine. Ukraine are parties of peace. They want uniting with Mr. Yanukovych, the presi- the difference in ratings between them is “She provoked the incident by inflam- to expand further, in the same style. They dent prided as his strength. such that she’s no longer a threat,” Mr. ing the immense ambitions of Moroz,” he want calm in order to enlarge profit, to “Through this document, we will think Taran said, tongue in cheek. said. “There wasn’t any logic to it – he control the situation in Ukraine and to more of the nation’s wholeness and unity, Easier to slay a dragon had 5 percent into the elections. She fell rule in the state in which it is now. On the and I am convinced that we will be thank- in a trap and suffered the damage.” other hand, Tymoshenko in power repre- ful to God for such a position,” he said Humiliated by Our Ukraine’s third-place Once again, Mr. Poroshenko began lob- sents a review of what currently exists.” referring the Universal of National Unity. finish in the March elections, President bying for power, expressing his desire to If this was indeed the wish of Our Ms. Tymoshenko offered reporters a dif- Yushchenko faced a no-win scenario. lead the Verkhovna Rada as its chairman. Ukraine’s leadership, it came true on July ferent view. Given that the Party of the Regions Some believe President Yushchenko 6 when Mr. Moroz announced he was Political betrayal is a contagious disease and the Tymoshenko Bloc had won the was willing to allow Ms. Tymoshenko to abandoning the democratic coalition and that spreads quickly from one politician to most votes, it meant that he would have return as prime minister, as long as Mr. forming an Anti-Crisis Coalition with the the next, she said. “It’s unknown how it to select as his next prime minister one of Poroshenko was in place as the Verkhovna Party of the Regions and the Communist spreads, but it affects men exclusively. his two most threatening enemies – Mr. Rada chair to offset her influence. Party of Ukraine. The respective leaders Women don’t suffer from this disease.” Yanukovych or Ms. Tymoshenko. Other observers said the mere sugges- signed a 12-page pact in a matter of hours. In the end, the reason Mr. Kuchma dis- In the view of some political tion was purposefully laying the ground- In Mr. Moroz’s defection, Our Ukraine missed Mr. Yushchenko half a decade earli- observers, Mr. Yushchenko immediately work for yet another government conflict benefited by appearing as the victim of a er was quite similar to the motivation ruled out the option of allowing Ms. and collapse. political betrayal rather than the catalyst for behind Mr. Yushchenko’s firing of Ms. Tymoshenko to return as prime minister. When Ms. Tymoshenko, Mr. Moroz and a Russian-oriented government, which Tymoshenko, experts said. She, on the other hand, immediately Our Ukraine Political Council Chair would have destroyed the bloc politically. called for a renewal of the Orange coalition. Roman Bezsmertnyi called a June 22 press Despite a public campaign led by Ms. The young, dynamic reformer had Leaders of the Tymoshenko Bloc, Our conference to announce the formation of a Tymoshenko to demand that Mr. stepped on too many toes and had become Ukraine and the Socialist Party spent four democratic coalition, it appeared the parties Yushchenko dismiss the Parliament and too popular. months drawing up a 120-page coalition involved had agreed to allow Mr. call for new elections, Mr. Yushchenko Once out to slay Ukraine’s dragons along- agreement. Poroshenko to become chairman. opted for stability. side Ms. Tymoshenko, Mr. Yushchenko Judging by how long and tedious the The night before, Our Ukraine legal On August 3 he accepted Mr. began to grow his own tail, observers said. process was, Mr. Doniy said he believes it advisor Roman Zvarych said Our Ukraine Yanukovych as his new prime minister – a “It is easier to kill a dragon, but much more was merely a labyrinthine delaying tactic would nominate Mr. Poroshenko. move that nevertheless began the likely dis- difficult not to turn into one yourself,” wrote aimed at keeping Yurii Yekhanurov as Meanwhile, political observers watched integration of the Our Ukraine bloc and the one disappointed Orange Revolution activist, prime minister for as long as possible, in disbelief, wondering why those involved Our Ukraine People’s Union political party. citing a Chinese proverb. 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