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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXX HE KRAINIANNo. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine Controversy erupts over foreign influence on Ukraine’s elections T Ivano-FrankivskU City Council W by Roman Woronowycz would respond to such a perception and Kyiv Press Bureau addressed continued commentary from for- resolution recognizes eign capitals and politicians over the state of KYIV – Foreign influence on Ukraine’s elections in Ukraine. parliamentary elections became one of the “Either we are a nation and a state, or we Halychyna Division veterans central issues of the last week prior to the by Roman Woronowycz are a soccer field where our strategic partners March 31 vote. play,” said an exasperated President Kuchma, Kyiv Press Bureau The loudest political reverberations came according to UT-1 television. KYIV – With days left before the parliamen- after both houses of the United States The resolution was criticized also by tary elections in Ukraine, a resolution proposed Congress passed a resolution calling for free Askold Lozynskyj, president of the Ukrainian by the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council which and fair elections in Ukraine. There was also World Congress, who appeared on Ukrainian would extend combat veteran status to members much ado about perceived intrusions into the television saying that it was too harsh on of the Halychyna Division of the Ukrainian electoral process by Russian politicians, Ukraine. National Army, a World War II Ukrainian fight- including Moscow Mayor Yurii Luzhkov and Communist Party leader and candidate ing force that battled against both the Soviet Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin Petro Symonenko accused the United States Army and Nazi forces, has caused an interna- regarding the U.S. action and the elections sit- of interfering in Ukraine’s domestic affairs. tional stir. uation in Ukraine in general. Both he and Progressive Socialist Natalia The action has brought the ire of Moscow, Ukraine’s authorities responded with bewil- Vitrenko, another candidate in the parliamen- which blasted the decision as “regretful” and derment and consternation to the U.S. con- tary elections, called for the ouster of the U.S. “shameful,” along with critical statements from gressional resolution, which was passed over- ambassador. Jewish community leaders both in Kyiv and the whelmingly by both the House of Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry United States. Representatives and the Senate on March 20 responded the same day by issuing a state- The resolution, passed by the City Council of and 21. ment in which it called upon all countries to Ivano-Frankivsk on March 19, would give The document expressed support for “the “act in a sophisticated and cautious manner, Halychyna Division veterans additional pen- efforts of the Ukrainian people to promote proceeding from commonly recognized prin- sions and other government subsidies similar to democracy, the rule of law and respect for ciples of international law as non-interference what Soviet Army veterans currently enjoy. human rights in Ukraine.” It urged the govern- into domestic affairs of the state and respect However, unlike the Soviet veterans, who are ment of the country “to enforce impartially its for its sovereignty and territorial integrity” in cared for by the central government, the Ivano- newly adopted election law,” including provi- the last week before elections. Frankivsk City Council would take upon itself sions for the transparency of election proce- Moscow’s ambassador to Ukraine, Mr. the financial burden to the Ukrainian veterans. It dures, equal access to the media for all elec- Chernomyrdin, broadened the debate to a earlier had agreed to compensate from its own tion participants, multi-party representation on three-party discussion when he told Interfax- till another group of Ukrainian freedom fighters election commissions and access for interna- Ukraine that he believes Ukraine must from World War II, the Ukrainian Insurgent tional election observers. respond to the United States congressional Army (UPA). The day after the resolution was approved, resolution, especially since U.S. election pro- Before the resolution becomes law, it needs President Leonid Kuchma responded by cedures could be questioned. He said the U.S. the mayor’s signature. Before that, however, it describing the congressional action as had no right to make demands on Ukraine in must go through a process of legal and historical “unprecedented” and expressing astonishment light of the fact that the person who received analyses. If implemented it would extend bene- over what he perceived as an indication from the most votes in the U.S. elections in fits to 24 survivors who are residents of Ivano- Washington that it did not believe that democ- November 2000 had not become president. racy is developing in Ukraine. He said he was (Continued on page 9) concerned over how the Ukrainian public (Continued on page 11)

On the campaign trail: Stryi’s national deputy seeks re-election by Stephen Bandera This allegation, together with the general the fiery lady and a splash of nationalists. “mood for change” among the population, and Mr. Ostash’s personal ratings trailed those STRYI, Ukraine – At the outset of the a dismal 2001 harvest in the Lviv Oblast (the of the Our Ukraine bloc, prior to Mr. campaign, Ihor Ostash and his election team worst among all oblasts), in theory should not Yushchenko’s visit to Stryi in the last two set a goal: to visit every single city, town and bode well for the incumbent. weeks of the campaign. The visit gave Mr. village in electoral district No. 127. The 200- Western Ukraine, however, is a highly Ostash a boost, both on the emotional level, as square-kilometer district’s heart is the west- politicized place. During the town hall meet- well as in the ratings. After hearing Mr. ern Ukrainian city of Stryi (population: ings, the most frequently asked questions Yushchenko speak, and seeing him embrace 70,000), whose claim to recent historical focus on lost savings in Soviet and Ukrainian Mr. Ostash, one candidate withdrew from the fame is that the blue-and-yellow was first banks, pensions and payments to Ostarbeiters race, publicly endorsing Mr. Ostash. raised here, back in 1990. and creation of jobs. In every village, once That leaves 14 candidates vying for the Mr. Ostash is the two-term, incumbent Mr. Ostash addresses these issues, an elder Stryi seat. Mr. Ostash’s main opponent is national deputy from the district. He is also will inevitably stand up and angrily ask “Why Vitalii Antonov, a slick, young businessman the chairman of the influential Foreign Affairs do you let those Commies speak Russian in who owns a network of gas stations through- Committee in the Verkhovna Rada and the Parliament?” Independence, statehood, the out western Ukraine, by virtue of his control vice-president of the Parliamentary Assembly language issue and the “national idea” are over Halnaftohaz, a regional oil and gas com- of the Organization for Security and very important in the relatively poorer regions pany with backing from Yukos, the second Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). of Western Ukraine. largest oil company in Russia. Mr. Ostash’s high-profile international Another Mr. Ostash asset is the fact that he Mr. Antonov’s candidacy is endorsed by activities are both assets and liabilities for his is endorsed by the Nasha Ukrayina bloc, led the For a United Ukraine bloc, a combination re-election bid. by former Prime Minister Victor Yushchenko. of pro-presidential “parties of power” who His opponents charge that Mr. Ostash The NU bloc’s popularity ratings are consis- have the weighty administrative resources at spends too much time abroad, and thus is tently in the 65-70 percent range in Striy, their disposal. “Adminresurs,” refers to the unable to devote time and energy to issues that occasionally losing ground to the Yuliya affect the everyday lives of his constituents. Tymoshenko Bloc, whose party list includes (Continued on page 12) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 No. 13

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine: For a United Ukraine expects victory that the U.S. pressure on this year’s elec- tion campaign in Ukraine is the strongest KYIV – “Speaking about the future of in the contemporary history of the country, from the first Rukh to Rukh-2 the [For a United Ukraine] bloc, I can say STB Television reported. She likened the by Taras Kuzio Democratic Forces (CNDS). only one thing – it is clear that the bloc scale of Washington’s “unprecedented” RFE/RL Newsline In the second half of the 1990s, Mr. will have the largest number of seats in the interference in Ukrainian affairs to U.S. Chornovil’s Rukh had better relations with Parliament,” For a United Ukraine leader actions in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. The Ukrainian Popular Movement for President Leonid Kuchma because of Mr. Volodymyr Lytvyn told Reuters on March “We think it is necessary to demand the Perestroika (commonly referred to as Rukh) Kuchma’s support for reform in 1994-1996 25. Mr. Lytvyn added that his bloc will expulsion of U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine was established in 1988-1989 as a popular and his pro-Western orientation between form a pro-government parliamentary Carlos Pascual on the territory of our front comprising former prisoners of con- 1995-1999. By 1998-1999 though, relations majority and maintain stability in the country. We believe that this interference science from the Ukrainian Helsinki Group were beginning to sour as Rukh became country. Commenting on opinion polls that that the U.S. has allowed itself tramples and members of the cultural intelligentsia. disillusioned with the type of regime gave his bloc voters’ support not exceed- upon our national self-respect and Rukh became a catalyst for other opposition emerging in Ukraine, the rampant corrup- ing 7 percent, Mr. Lytvyn said the bloc’s Ukraine’s sovereignty,” Ms. Vitrenko said. parties and civic groups that came on the tion, and the widening gap between rhetoric popularity is increasing as voting day Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Ihor scene during the last few years of Soviet and policies. approaches. Mr. Lytvyn dismissed allega- Dolhov commented on March 26 that the rule. After the death of Mr. Chornovil in a tions of widespread violations of the elec- U.S. congressional resolution does not During the 1990s, however, Rukh suspicious car accident in March 1999, tion legislation during the campaign. constitute grounds for Ambassador became progressively marginalized within Rukh again split into two wings. One wing, “Parties and blocs are organizing the elec- Pascual’s expulsion. (RFE/RL Newsline) Ukraine’s evolving multi-party political led by former Foreign Affairs Minister tion, their representatives make up elec- system. In 1992 the movement divided into Hennadii Udovenko, maintained good rela- toral commissions. The authorities, actual- Kostenko cites ‘totalitarian terror’ ... two wings, one led by Vyacheslav tions with the government, while the other, ly, have not taken part in it,” he said. KYIV – Yurii Kostenko, the leader of Chornovil who stood in “constructive oppo- led by Yurii Kostenko, leaned toward the (RFE/RL Newsline) the Ukrainian National Rukh (a con- sition” to President Leonid Kravchuk and opposition and kept close ties with Yulia Kuchma condemns U.S. resolution stituent of the Our Ukraine bloc) has said another that supported Mr. Kravchuk and Tymoshenko’s Batkivschyna Party. the administrative pressure by the authori- created the Congress of National Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko has KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma has ties has been transformed into “totalitarian transformed the faction into Rukh-2 (Our termed as “unprecedented” the March 20 terror” in the final phase of the election Taras Kuzio is a research fellow at the Ukraine) for the current elections. That Center for Russian and East European resolution by the U.S. House of campaign, UNIAN reported on March 26. Studies, University of Toronto. (Continued on page 18) Representatives urging the government of Mr. Kostenko said the authorities force Ukraine to ensure a democratic, transpar- employees of regional state institutions ent, and fair parliamentary election on into writing letters of resignation and are March 31, Interfax reported on March 22. threatening that those requests will be “Are we a nation, or are we a football immediately acted upon in the event the Quotable notes playing field for strategic partners?” Mr. pro-government For a United Ukraine “When two thirds of Ukrainians do not believe that the Ukrainian [parliamen- Kuchma asked indignantly. The U.S. res- bloc does not obtain the “necessary” elec- tary] election is going to be fair, I welcome any steps to boost the transparency olution was also slammed as a “populist” tion results. Mr. Kostenko added that the and fairness of the election.” move and “gross interference” in authorities also intimidate voters by Ukraine’s domestic affairs by Communist asserting that it is possible to find out who – Viktor Yushchenko, leader of the Our Ukraine election bloc, commenting on Party leader Petro Symonenko. “The U.S. they voted for. (RFE/RL Newsline) U.S. congressional resolutions urging fair elections in Ukraine during a phone- has not proven in any region that it want- in at the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, as reported by the UNIAN news ed democratic elections to be conducted ... ‘double standard’ toward statements agency and the BBC Monitoring Service. there. It cynically interfered in the Yugoslav election; it tried to interfere in KYIV – Yurii Kostenko of the the election in neighboring Belarus,” Ukrainian National Rukh accused the Interfax quoted Mr. Symonenko as say- authorities of applying a “double standard” ing. (RFE/RL Newsline) to statements by U.S. and Russian politi- A comparison of “parties cians regarding the election campaign in Chernomyrdin criticizes U.S. resolution Ukraine. He pointed out that the recent U.S. congressional resolution urging a fair of power” in Russia and Ukraine KYIV – Russian Ambassador to and democratic election in Ukraine was by Nigel Pemberton political formation, whereas For a United Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin on March treated by official Kyiv as “interference in RFE/RL Newsline Ukraine is a union of five regionally based 22 expressed his indignation over the domestic affairs.” Mr. Kostenko went on mini-parties of power, some of which had to recent resolution by the U.S. House of to say that, on the other hand, Kyiv has not In mid-1999 the Russian authorities were be cajoled into supporting the bloc. Both Representatives urging a fair parliamen- concerned that Our Home is Russia had a reacted to statements by those Russian Unity and For a United Ukraine aim to cre- tary election in Ukraine, UNIAN reported. popularity rating of only several percent and politicians who openly named the forces ate pro-presidential majorities in the newly Mr. Chernomyrdin suggested that Ukraine thus set about creating a completely new they would like to see in Ukraine’s new elected Parliaments. FUU aims to imple- should issue a statement in response. “party of power” – the Interregional Parliament. (RFE/RL Newsline) ment President Kuchma’s long-term goal of “Why could Ukraine not make a state- Movement of Yedinstvo (Unity). In the ment to the effect that [people] in the U.S. Tax police accuse Tymoshenko Bloc Russian parliamentary elections on changing Ukraine into a Russian-style pres- elected one president but are ruled by December 19, 1999, Yedintsvo captured idential republic by implementing the another?” Ambassador Chernomyrdin KYIV – The State Tax Authority has 23.3 percent of the vote and 82 seats, only 1 results of the flawed April 2000 referen- asked. (RFE/RL Newsline) accused the anti-presidential Yulia percent and eight seats fewer than the dum. Unity carefully chose leaders such as Tymoshenko Bloc of using “shadow” Communist Party. Vitrenko seeks Pascual’s expulsion then-acting Emergency Situations Minister financial resources in its parliamentary Similarly, the Ukrainian “party of campaign, Ukrainian media reported on power” – the For a United Ukraine election Sergei Shoigu, who was constantly on tele- KYIV – Progressive Socialist Party bloc – was created four months prior to the vision due to his ministry’s involvement in leader Natalia Vitrenko said on March 25 (Continued on page 15) March 31, parliamentary elections. the Chechen conflict, and Aleksandr President Leonid Kuchma ordered all state Karelin, a Greco-Roman wrestler of inter- officials from the raion level upward to national fame. The two Unity leaders both FOUNDED 1933 ensure that For a United Ukraine (FUU) stressed their abilities to act decisively. Mr. obtain 30 percent in the elections. In sharp Putin, who endorsed Unity, was seen in a HE KRAINIAN EEKLY contrast to its Russian equivalent, For a similar light. 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by Roman Woronowycz two years now. The move should not only spur investment observed except for the banner 1997 year. Kyiv Press Bureau Mr. Sidenko suggested that some defla- in that country and create new businesses That year, prior to the onset of the Russian KYIV – Ukraine’s economy has contin- tionary tendencies exist in Ukraine today, and job opportunities, but it could further financial crisis, which destroyed foreign ued to grow, albeit at a slower pace, in the especially in the energy sector, but empha- dampen the investment atmosphere for the investor interest in the NIS, the Ukrainian first months of 2002 – even as skeptics keep sized that inflation would have to be Ukrainian market. economy had been on the verge of a simi- insisting that the numbers aren’t accurate or watched carefully, especially with salaries Jorge Intriago, vice president of the lar economic boom. the expansion is artificial. on the rise. European Business Association in Kyiv and Mr. Intriago said that foreign investors in Overall the economy has improved dra- In the last year, partly for political reasons a tax expert for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ukraine tend to initiate projects with bor- matically in the last two years recovering and partly because a hot economy has given said that if Kyiv doesn’t legislate serious tax rowed money instead of their own capital, a more than 50 percent of the decline of the the government more revenues, salaries have reform this year, recent economic gains byproduct of the perceived higher risk of previous eight years. Salaries have increased risen by 21.4 percent and pensions have could be lost. investing here. That type of investment does by nearly a quarter since the economy hit increased by 25 percent. While nobody is “There is a 40 percent profit tax on busi- not show up in economic figures on new bottom in 1998. expecting a surge of uncontrolled consumer nesses here,” explained Mr. Intriago. “Even investment capital. That does not mean, however, that every- spending anytime soon, mostly because the though it is more difficult to do business in However, once the companies are estab- thing is on the up-and-up and will necessari- actual salaries are still woefully below the Russia, I would prefer to build my factory lished and confidence in the market devel- ly continue in that direction. To sustain eco- poverty levels of most Western countries, the there simply because the tax rate is lower.” ops, real capital tends to follow the initial nomic growth, which has resulted in a 15 raises could increase inflationary pressure on Mr. Intriago said he believes that tax debt investment. Mr. Intriago believes that percent increase in the country’s GDP since basic food staples. An overly optimistic reform will occur in Ukraine in 2002 after within a couple of years that strategy will be 2000, Kyiv must soon get around to radical 2002 government budget also could bring the new Parliament is seated, although he reflected in higher foreign investment num- tax reform, and foreign investment must be inflationary pressure. couldn’t say for certain whether the new tax bers on Ukraine. given more incentives to enter the country. The job market, however, remains very code would be what businesses were look- The business expert also agreed with Mr. But even if all goes well, no one expects weak and improvements largely parallel the ing for. Sidenko that economic growth will continue Ukraine to reach European levels of pros- wage hikes in the sectors where they are Mr. Intriago also criticized the pace of in 2002, although at reduced levels from the perity for at least another decade or more. occurring. Mr. Sidenko explained that the structural reforms in Ukraine. He explained torrid pace of last year, and that inflation will The economic figures for the first two construction boom in Ukraine has not only that while there is much legislation on the remain under control. He concurred that months of 2002 continue to show a strident caused wages to rise, but has created a dis- books that is investor- and business-friendly, domestic capital today found in foreign economic expansion, although not as robust proportionate number of the new work much of it has not been implemented. He banks would increasingly continue to return as in previous months. In January the econo- places. He said that there is reason to believe said Ukraine also still lacks corporate gover- to the country, driving the economic expan- my rose by 3.6 percent over 2001, while the that the strong performance of the textile nance legislation, which is essential for for- sion further. February rate was even better, at an even 4 industry and food sector in the last two years eign investors looking to form companies in While both experts said they believe that percent. could lead to dynamic expansion of employ- Ukraine. Ukraine is moving towards Europe in its Volodymyr Sidenko, director of econom- ment opportunities in those areas of the “I have to send my Ukrainian attorneys to business prospects and opportunities, they ic programs at the Razumkov Ukrainian economy in the next year as well. Russia for conferences on corporate gover- also concurred that it would be difficult for Center for Economic and Political Studies, He said he is bullish also on eventual nance, a law Russia has,” explained Mr. Ukraine to reach Europe’s level of economic said the hot Ukrainian economy should strong growth in the computer industry and Intriago. “Here it is not yet even on the development as soon as state leaders in avoid the effects of world recession and that still believes that, when the investment cli- table.” Ukraine were predicting. President Leonid Kuchma recently stated that he had set a growth would continue through 2002 at mate in Ukraine finally improves multina- Mr. Intriago, like Mr. Sidenko, remains goal of about 2011 for entering the European least. tional computer hardware and software com- bullish on Ukraine, however. The Union. “I believe the overall tempo will be posi- panies would invest here to utilize the European Business Association official Mr. Sidenko said that today Ukraine’s per tive, around 5 percent for the year, but only trained and inexpensive work force that said that figures on the level of foreign capita GDP is only about 15-16 percent of if the world economy begins to grow by the exists. investment in Ukraine are misleading and the European average, and only about 25 second half of the year. If it doesn’t do so, Foreign investment, or the lack of it, is that more foreign businesses are interested percent of one of its poorest nations, Greece. which some experts are predicting, then one of the issues that still could limit the in the country than the numbers suggested. He said that to reach European levels there will be no more than 3 percent Ukrainian market from reaching its full While the official rate of foreign invest- Ukraine would need to attain a per capita growth,” explained Mr. Sidenko. potential. The other problem is the unre- ment in Ukraine fell last year, Mr. Intriago The noted economist, who previously GDP level of $12,000-$13,000 (U.S.), about solved issue of tax reform. Last year Russia said he had seen an increase in the amount where the Czech Republic stands today. He served as a presidential advisor, said the past restructured its tax system, which reduced of foreign business projects in the country, economic gains were driven by manufactur- the ceiling on taxes to merely 13 percent. which he said was the most he had (Continued on page 18) ing, and especially the metallurgy sector. He said that because the metal and steel indus- try in Ukraine is export driven, the U.S. import restrictions in world steel could help UWC statement on the Year of Patriarch Josyf Slipyj limit the growth rate of the Ukrainian econ- omy as well, but not for the apparent reason. The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church authority of the Moscow Patriarchate. George in Lviv, in independent Ukraine. He explained that the amount of has proclaimed 2002 as the Year of After 18 years of hard labor, In the midst of great enthusiasm and Ukrainian steel exported to the U.S. had Patriarch Josyf Slipyj on the 110th Metropolitan Josyf was freed from exile solemn liturgical services his re-interment fallen in the last two years anyway, due to anniversary of his birth. All people of through the efforts of Pope John XXIII took place on September 7, 1992. U.S. quotas and anti-dumping investiga- good will are called to honor this heroic and was permitted to come to Rome on To our prayer of thanksgiving to the tions. However, Ukraine’s exports to other pastor who endured 18 years of imprison- February 9, 1963. In a short time he was Lord for giving our Church and our nation countries could be affected by increased ment and suffering for his Church and his engaged in the deliberations of the Second a man of great stature and spiritual father, competition in those markets from firms faith. Vatican Council. In his first address at the we add a prayer for his beatification. He was born February 17, 1892, in the council he proposed the creation of a looking to recoup their own trade losses in Prayer for the Beatification village of Zazdrist, Ukraine, and was Ukrainian Patriarchate for Kyiv-Halych. the United States. of Confessor Patriarch Josyf Slipyj A key reason that Mr. Sidenko is bullish ordained to the priesthood in 1917. In In Rome His Beatitude Josyf founded on the Ukrainian economy is because he has 1922 he began teaching dogmatics at the St. Clement Ukrainian Catholic Most Holy Trinity, glory and honor to evidence that money hauled out of the coun- Lviv Theological Seminary. He was the University, acquired a monastery for You for the graces bestowed upon the pas- try into foreign and offshore accounts in the co-founder of the Ukrainian Theological monks of the Studite Order, revived the tor of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the 1990s is beginning to return at an increasing Scholarly Society, and the founder and publication Bohosloviia and published Servant of God Josyf Slipyj, and for giv- rate. That capital is usually immediately editor of the quarterly Bohosloviia. numerous theological works. ing us a shining example of unshakeable invested in order to assure that it is “legal- In 1925 Father Slipyj was appointed On January 25, 1965, Pope Paul VI faith and heroic perseverance of a defend- ized.” rector of the Lviv Theological Seminary, conferred upon him the title of cardinal. In er of Your persecuted Church and an There are several reasons for the return of which he reorganized as the Greek- 1969 Cardinal Slipyj built St. Sophia authentic witness of the Crucified Christ, capital, not the least of which is the fact that Catholic Theological Academy, becoming Cathedral in Rome, and in 1970 he estab- throughout 18 years of severe hardship in in the last two years, and especially since its first rector in 1928 and remaining in lished the Ukrainian Catholic parish of Ss. Siberia. Through his merits and interces- September 11, new banking laws and inter- this position until 1944. Sergius and Bacchus. He presided over sion, grant us the strength to follow Christ national standards in the fight against cor- On November 25, 1939, at the request seven synods of Ukrainian Catholic on His Way of the Cross and help us ruption and terrorism have forced shadowy of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, Pope Bishops, and received honorary doctorates obtain the grace, which we most need and banks and off-shore havens to make their Pius XII nominated him as bishop-coadju- from five universities. for which we ask....(specify). May this banking procedures more transparent. tor. He was consecrated bishop by In 1968 he began pastoral visitations, received grace lead to the elevation on the “Many Ukrainian businessmen have Metropolitan Andrey, Bishop Nykyta travelling to all the continents where the altar of the Blessed your good, strong and come to believe that it is safer and easier to Budka and Bishop Nicholas Charnetsky. diaspora flourished, and continued this faithful son of Your Church. For to You keep their money in Ukraine,” explained After the death of Metropolitan Andrey apostolic mission until 1976. belongs all glory, honor, adoration, Father, Mr. Sidenko. on November 1, 1944, Archbishop Slipyj The Lord called to himself his faithful, Son, and Holy Spirit, Amen. Inflation and an unstable currency, two succeeded him as metropolitan. On April long-suffering and deserving servant on reasons Ukrainian businesses preferred to 11, 1945, he was arrested and sentenced to September 7, 1984, in the 92nd year of his For the Ukrainian World Congress: cart their money out of the country in earlier eight years of hard labor in Siberia for life. His mortal remains were interred in Askold S. Lozynskyj days, has been brought under control as treason. The reason for his incarceration the crypt of St. Sophia Cathedral in Rome. President well. The 2001 inflation rate was 6.1 percent was that he had refused to break relations But God’s Providence ordained that this † Cornelius Pasichny, OSBM and 2002 forecasts are for a similar figure. with the Apostolic See and submit the Confessor of the Faith would finally be Eparch of Toronto The currency, once in constant devaluation, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church to the laid to rest in his own Cathedral of St. Head of the Church Council has not wavered by more than 1 percent for 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 No. 13 UACC’s executive committee Embassy of Ukraine, Washingtonians honor Shevchenko confirms recognition of UWCC

WASHINGTON – The executive com- In the course of the meeting, the UACC mittee of the Ukrainian American executive committee heard reports by its Coordinating Council (UACC) at its quar- president, Ihor Gawdiak, and other mem- terly meeting on February 16, reaffirmed bers of the committee. Mr. Gawdiak report- its recognition of the Ukrainian World ed on the meeting of the Presidium of the Coordinating Council in Kyiv as the main Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) on non-governmental organization represent- February 2 in Toronto and on the activity of ing Ukrainians in Ukraine and abroad and the UACC Office in Washington. established a separate fund in support of Following his report, the executive the UWCC. committee reviewed the draft of the new The UACC executive committee felt by-laws proposed by the UWC’s By-Laws that it was essential to establish such a Committee and unanimously expressed fund at this time, in view of the fact that, their opposition to the proposed definition at the urging of the Ukrainian diaspora, in of the UWC as a representative body of the West, the UWCC has become a strictly the entire Ukrainian diaspora. In the opin- non-governmental organization. The ion of the UACC Executive Committee, future development and activity of this the UWC’s mission should remain the organization will now depend to a very same as it was when the organization was large degree on the financial support of first established, namely to coordinate the Ukrainian diasporas in the West. activity of the central organizations of the WASHINGTON – This year’s Taras Shevchenko anniversary celebrations here Therefore, the UACC executive commit- Ukrainian diaspora in the West. In the began March 7 with a cultural program and reception at the Embassy of Ukraine. tee called upon central organizations in executive committee’s view, it is the The evening featured soprano Stefania Dovhan, who sang a classical program the United States, Canada and Western national umbrella organizations of the that included art songs composed to Shevchenko’s poems, and a choral ensem- Europe to give their full support, both Ukrainian diaspora in each given country ble of children of Ukrainian diplomats, who also recited a selection of his poetry. financial and moral, to the UWCC. that represent that particular Ukrainian During the reception that followed, the Embassy guests had an opportunity to view The UACC Executive Committee community. The UACC executive com- some rarely seen paintings by Ivan Yizhakevych (1864-1962), known for immortal- voted to send $1,500 to the UWCC as its mittee also expressed its reservations con- izing Shevchenko’s and other Ukrainian literary works on canvas, as well as an initial contribution to the fund. (Donations cerning the UWC’s decision to hold its exhibit of Ukrainian “rushnyky” (embroidered ritual clothes) collected by Melissa to the UWCC fund set up by the UACC 2003 convention in Warsaw. Hess while her husband was deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. may be sent to: UACC New York Office, The UACC president also gave a brief On March 9, the diplomatic children’s ensemble joined with the children of the 142 Second Avenue, New York, NY summary of the organization’s activity in Washington and Baltimore Ukrainian schools to honor Shevchenko by his monu- 10003). the U.S. capital. He informed the execu- ment in the nation’s capital. The executive committee also approved tive committee that in the last few weeks – Yaro Bihun other donations totaling $1,550 for various the UACC Washington Office has been educational and charitable organizations working within the framework of the in Ukraine and a $300 contribution for the Action Ukraine Coalition, together with Ukrainian teachers’ committee responsible other Ukrainian community organizations UUARC springs into action for developing Ukrainian language tests in Washington, to have Congress remove for secondary school students in the state of New York. (Continued on page 19) to help dying immigrant’s family by Lida Melnyk they searched the Internet, found the hos- pital, and called hospital information. PHILADELPHIA – On February 6, Within the hour Mr. Hawrysz had the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a front-page reached Mr. Lukyanenkov’s mother in story about Volodymyr Lukyanenkov, a his hospital room. Through tears, she told Ukrainian electrical engineer from Mr. Hawrysz the family’s sad story, and Sevastopol, who, against his own better he, in turn, promised to visit her. Appears May 5 in The Ukrainian Weekly judgment, had been forced to work in the Indeed, on Sunday, February 10, Mr. A Ukrainian Summer officially “cleaned-up” nuclear facility in Hawrysz along with Dr. Larissa Kyj, pres- Chornobyl. After years of punishment for ident of the UUARC, and Luba Siltesky, Travel to Ukraine to study culture ... his vocal protests that radiation there was still at unsafe levels, Mr. Lukyanenkov head of the UUARC’s Aid Committee, Rediscover Kyiv... left his family in Ukraine and came to the drove to Harrisburg, offering not only United States to try to make a better life moral support, but also financial aid for Go to summer camp... for his wife and daughter. Mr. Lukyanenkov’s wife and mother. 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For the WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – A meeting of convenience to discuss the possibility of of the Ukrainian Medical Association of first time in recent memory, the the Wilkes-Barre District of the Ukrainian a merger was offered. North America (UMANA) voted unani- UMANA, along with a host of co-spon- National Association was held on March 2 Mrs. Lysko informed the members of mously at its winter board meeting to soring organizations, was able to confer here at Ss. Peter and Paul Rectory, with the Wilkes-Barre District that a vote was support The Ukrainian Weekly’s “Copies with leaders in Washington on their own National Secretary Martha Lysko of the being taken as to whether or not a $100 fee for Congress” project. turf, and on their own terms. Home Office in Parsippany, N.J., presid- be deducted per diem from each member President Ihor Voyevidka, M.D., sum- An obvious way to keep this discus- ing. attending the UNA Convention in Chicago marized The Ukrainian Weekly’s letter sion updated and ongoing is to continue Those in attendance were: Henry and for events on the last day of the conclave. requesting donations for this project. presenting the Washington establishment Mary Bolosky, Genet and Jack Boland, Mr. Butrej, vice-chairman of the Wilkes- Since the activities of UMANA are cov- with a record of the UMANA’s accom- Bonnie Scholtis, Gisela Stafuryn and Barre District, made a motion against the ered extensively by The Weekly on a reg- plishments on a regular basis. Tymko Butrej. assessment; Ms. Scholtis seconded the ular basis, the board felt that this infor- The UMANA board of directors Mr. Bolosky, chairman of the Wilkes- motion. All members present voted unani- mation would be helpful to members of approved support for this project, in the Barre District, reported that he and his mously against the assessment. the U.S. Congress in evaluating issues form of a $1,000 check. Furthermore, the wife had attended a conference of UNA Mr. Butrej made a motion to reduce regarding healthcare of Ukrainians UMANA board stated that it “encourages district chairs at Soyuzivka, which was the present size of the UNA General worldwide. the Ukrainian community to stand behind well attended. A statement was made to Assembly from 25 members to 14: Dr. Voyevidka reminded the board of this worthwhile effort, and present con- the fact that such meetings should be President, one Vice-President, Secretary, the successful “Synergy” conference held tinuing reliable primary information held every two years, as the previous Treasurer, three auditors and seven advi- in Washington in 1999. Under the leader- about our activities to the U.S. meeting was eight years ago. sors. This motion was approved by a ship of then President Roman Goy, M.D., Congress.” Mr. Bolosky proposed the merger of unanimous vote. UMANA members were able to meet For further information, readers may two districts, the Wilkes-Barre District The district also voted against placing with and discuss items pertaining to contact the UMANA at (773) 278-6262, and the Shamokin District. The proposal an ad in the convention Booklet due to Ukrainian health care with many repre- or via the web at www.umana.org. was unanimously accepted, and it was the lack of funds in the district treasury. decided to draft a letter immediately to The meeting was adjourned and a the Shamokin District secretary, Adolph social with light refreshments was hosted Slovik. A proposal to meet at the earliest by Mr. and Mrs. Bolosky.

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RECORDING DEPARTMENT MEMBERSHIP REPORT – JANUARY 2002 Martha Lysko, National Secretary

Juvenile Adult ADD Total Total Active Members – 12/2001 6,565 13,728 3,018 23,311 Total Inactive Members –12/2001 7,451 16,919 0 24,370 Total Members – 12/2001 14,016 30,647 3,018 47,681

ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP

Elizabeth Marin Burke, daughter of Gains in 1/2002 Brendyn Everts, son of Oksana and Katherine Ann and Sean P. Burke, is a New members 14 17 0 31 Douglas Lupe, is a new member of new member of UNA Branch 147 in New members UL 1 0 0 1 UNA Branch 13 in Watervliet, N.Y. Allentown, Pa. She was enrolled by Reinstated 8 24 7 39 He was enrolled by his mother. her grandmother Dolores B. Bochnak. Total Gains: 23 41 7 71 Losses in 1/2002 Died 0 38 0 38 Cash surrender 6 15 0 21 To the UNA membership: Endowment matured 5 14 0 19 Fully paid-up 2 23 0 25 Reduced paid-up 0 0 0 0 • In accordance with the UNA By-Laws, Article 17, all branches, dis- Extended Insurance 9 25 0 34 trict committees and individual members are invited to submit their pro- Certificates lapsed (active) 5 1 27 33 posals for the good and welfare of the association to the UNA Executive Certificate terminated 1 4 3 8 Committee. These proposals will be reviewed, and approved or revised, Total Losses 28 120 30 178 by the Executive Committee, which will then recommend them to the Total Active Members – 1/2002 6,560 13,649 2,995 23,204 UNA convention’s Committee on Revision of By-Laws for its considera- INACTIVE MEMBERSHIP tion. That committee will then recommend to the convention what action should be taken. Please address such proposals to: Ukrainian National Gains in 1/2002 Association, Att’n: Executive Committee, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Paid-up 2 23 0 25 Parsippany, NJ 07054. Reduced paid up 0 0 0 0 Extended insurance 9 25 0 34 • Any proposals for amendments to the UNA By-Laws are to be sub- Total Gains 11 48 0 59 mitted to the Committee on Revision of By-Laws, which will consider Losses in 1/2002 the advisability of the change or revision suggested, and will then present * Died 1 40 0 41 its recommendation for consideration by the convention. Such proposals * Cash surrender 6 7 0 13 Pure endowment matured 0 2 0 2 are to be submitted to the chairperson of the Pre-Convention By-Laws Reinstated to active 8 24 0 32 Committee, Taras Szmagala Jr. Please address proposals regarding by- Certificates lapsed (inactive) 3 5 0 8 laws changes to: Ukrainian National Association, Att’n: Taras Szmagala Total Losses 18 78 0 96 Jr., 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Total Inactive Members – 12/2001 7,444 16,889 0 24,333 TOTAL MEMBERSHIP – 12/2001 14,004 30,538 2,995 47,537 – UNA Executive Committee (* Paid up and reduced paid up policies) 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 No. 13

NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Terms of engagement Remembering Kingston’s Moses

Picking up where we left off last week with our editorial titled “Vital signs at a and Canada’s internment camps summit,” this week we expand on our comments on what transpired at the first by Lubomyr Luciuk a few “foreigners” ran boarding houses Summit of Ukrainian American Organizations held to explore the topic of engaging around Queen’s, those Kingston cantons the younger generation. This unique gathering was successful, first and foremost, I never met him but I know he had were turf rarely intruded upon, save for because of the open-mindedness and flexibility of conference organizers and partici- chutzpah. His name was Isaac Cohen. He occasional trips into the public space of pants alike. All had an opportunity to engage in a dialogue, and most were embold- owned a scrapyard on Montreal Street in Macdonald Park, there to clamber onto ened to speak by the overwhelmingly collegial atmosphere. The principal result was Kingston’s North End. I lived south of its sentry lion. new contacts and an obvious willingness to continue the communication begun at this Princess but played with other kids at the I never wondered why that bronze informal, yet very significant, conference and to transform it into effective interaction. Bagot Street Ukrainian Hall. Fondly, I beast was posted there, defiantly roaring Many summit participants learned new information concerning organizations about remember buying penny candies from at those living on the other side of Lake which they thought they knew all they needed to know. Several of the speakers men- the grumpy old guy who ran the long- Ontario. This most unconditional tioned that what the younger generations need is to learn what our community has to gone North Street corner store, or sneak- reminder of British Empire, a rampart offer in the way of organizational activity. Indeed, the Ukrainian National ing around the Davis Tannery, across guard, was just another in a cityscape Association’s treasurer, for example, pointed out that many of the younger set do not from Ivan and Motria Gadowsky’s home, infused with telltales of who this city’s even know they are UNA members since they were enrolled by parents or grandpar- sometimes trekking further, in odyssey to and country’s rulers were. Obviously, not ents, yet never informed about the organization and its beneficial work. During one the very gates of Cohen’s domains, us. panel spokespersons were asked to comment on the most prevalent misconceptions though never daring a venture in. An even more imposing presence regarding their organizations; the answers and comments of the audience revealed as Those North End neighborhoods were perched above. Sometimes we got a much about our individual/community biases as about our organizations. populated by all sorts of East European Sunday visit there, to Fort Henry. Clearly, even well-established organizations need to reconsider how they “market” families, by boys with surnames as odd- Running around the walls and clamber- themselves (if they do at all...). Plus, our schools and organizations could do better in sounding as mine – Polomany, Tanovich, ing into surrounding moats was a lad’s educating our kids about the value of our community life and the incredible achieve- Tarvicz, Yankovic. Not that we were delight. I did not know this fortress had ments of our diaspora. For example, we know of a least one school of Ukrainian stud- friends. Sure, they were Catholics, but been the first of 24 camps into which ies that has created a pilot project that addresses these topics, in addition to other their kind hadn’t been good to “enemy aliens” were herded during themes that are beyond the scope of the traditional curriculum of our Saturday schools Ukrainians in the “old country.” So it yet very beneficial for our high-school-age students. Canada’s first national internment opera- wasn’t until I went to high school, to tions. Although German POWs were Conferees also discussed the best methods to attract new members: one-to-one con- Regi, that we met. But they remained tact between members and prospective members, and contacts via “non-threatening,” detained, most were “second-class” civil- Polacks or Russkies, and I a Bohunk, ian internees, Ukrainians intermingled non-stressful social gatherings open to interested persons. Also noted was the impor- expletives deleted. Decades passed tance of quality, which one young professional emphasized is key to getting people with Serbs, Croats, Hungarians and other before those attitudes faded. Prejudices Eastern Europeans, categorized as interested and/or involved in an organization. “Our offerings must be on par or better are perennials. than others’,” he stated. And, yes, a student leader also mentioned the age-old method “Austrians” since most came from the And there were the Irish, lots of them. multinational Austro-Hungarian Empire. of setting an example: when parents are active in our community and demonstrate that The red-haired, much-freckled Brian they see value in its existence, it’s likely that their children also will be involved. When I began master’s research, I met O’Brien not only treated me to buttered a survivor of the fort, Nykola Sakaliuk. The youngest participants of the summit, university students and recent grads who bread, oven-toasted and powdered with are now young professionals, underlined, again and again, the potential value of men- He recalled what was done to him and cinnamon, but boasted that the Irish had toring and internships for students. (Several, we must note with pride, mentioned the others. Thousands of men, and some their own North End plot, Skeleton Park. working at The Weekly as summer or student interns as a very positive and much- women and children, were rounded up, That sounded cool. Years would pass appreciated experience – to which we add that such opportunities are mutually enrich- compelled to do heavy labor under trying before I swooned for an Irish-Canadian ing.) The students also said very matter-of-factly: maybe we haven’t become involved conditions, to others’ profit. What little lass or understood why the bones of Celtic because we haven’t been approached; come speak to us, encourage us to become they had was confiscated. Mr. Sakaliuk immigrants came to be sewn into the soil involved, use us as a resource! never learned that a portion of that looted The professionals’ groups represented at the summit took notes and made contacts. of Kingston’s working class quarter. wealth remains in the Bank of Canada’s And whether it was the medical association, the engineers’ society, or the Ps & Bs I knew nothing of the Cohens. The coffers. (professionals/businesspersons), all agreed that outreach to student groups (including only Jews I met were the family of I was never taught this. These intern- making activities more financially accessible) would now be on their agendas in addi- Harold Marans, my father’s boss at ment operations had a crippling impact tion to their networking for those already in the professional world. Brock Jewelers, a friend to the Luciuks. on Ukrainian Canadian society. Yet The summit also broached the question of how we could better structure our com- He taught my dad to drive, brought our establishment historians have ignored munity for maximum benefit to all and challenged community activists to take a good first black and white TV, helped when I evidence like an RCMP report which look at why and how they do what they do. The matter of effective communications went to Queen’s, and, for years, broke confirmed that, even decades later, many also was noted as a key to our community’s well-being, as was such synergistic activi- matzo bread with us at Passover. Ukrainians were still “in fear of the ty as co-sponsorship of events and projects. I knew that had to do with the Biblical barbed wire fence.” It was Andrew Masiuk of Washington who made perhaps the most salient observa- Hebrews fleeing bondage and being While investigating this blank page in tion about the conference goings-on: it seems ours is a virtual community, that what determined not to forget it. But why our nation’s history I, by chance, read an we have is a collection of organizations looking for a community. include us? Because, I was taught, Jews amazing story in the Daily British Whig. The truth is that our community is what we make it. It’s up to all of us to translate had been driven from their homeland, Within a few weeks of the war’s out- the energy of the first Summit of Ukrainian American Organizations into a new foun- much as my parents had been forced break, in mid-September 1914, when dation for a revitalized community. We can make it happen. from Ukraine, a country which, in those wartime xenophobia was intense, Isaac days, nobody except others like us would Cohen marched manfully up Fort Henry even admit existed. So, rich or poor, Jew hill. A Jew was held there, misidentified or Christian, we were much alike – as German. This hapless fellow, Mr. April exiles, outsiders. Cohen reassured the powers that were, Turning the pages back... We had nothing in common with was actually Russian. So he was freed. Kingston’s patricians, the “Old Stones.” While others would later be paroled, as True, some Ontario Street corners were labor shortages grew acute following the 2 rough in the 1960s. Positioning yourself slaughters in the abattoir that was the outside the Indian Room saloon almost Western Front, I know of no other 1996 In his state of the state address six years ago on April 2, 1996, guaranteed a Saturday evening’s specta- instance of anyone plucky enough to President Leonid Kuchma confirmed that “Ukraine has passed the cle, “the fights.” But those domiciled in secure an internee’s release. point of historic return, and there will be no going back. However, the more genteel reaches of this city’s My notes about Mr. Cohen’s pilgrim- the danger of attempts to return to the past cannot be excluded; in very own South, the “Blue Bloods” of age up the very same hill I so naively ran fact, both internal and external forces must be considered,” he Sydenham Ward, denizens of venues like down as a boy were discarded, long ago. cautioned in his 65-minute speech at the Verkhovna Rada. the Yacht Club, otherwise lived lives But he reportedly intervened again that Throughout his speech, President Kuchma emphasized that Ukraine would prosper only truly off limits to us proletarians. Even if winter, to deliver three more captives, if its branches of power work together and consolidate their forces. “Our future – without Galician Jews, in time to celebrate exaggeration – depends on this,” he noted. “We should begin – finally – moving not in a Prof. Lubomyr Luciuk teaches geogra- Chanukkhah. And so I have come to think direction which pulls us apart, but in one that brings us together and unites us.” phy at the Royal Military College. His of Isaac Cohen as Kingston’s Moses, a It was just minutes before President Kuchma’s first state of the state address, delivered most recent book is “In Fear of the North End Jew with the chutzpah to enter on April 4, 1995, that the Rada had issued a vote of no-confidence in Mr. Kuchma’s gov- Barbed Wire Fence: Canada’s First a Canadian concentration camp out of ernment, accusing officials of failing to act upon key social and economic questions. A year National Internment Operations and the which he led his people to freedom, dur- later Mr. Kuchma reported that “1995 will enter the annals of Ukrainian history as, in Ukrainian Canadians, 1914-1920” ing the very peculiar Passover that took general, a successful year, disregarding the economic crisis and social difficulties.” He (Kashtan Press, 2001). place in what once was the King’s Town. was referring to the Constitutional Accord reached in 1995 by the president and the Parliament that succeeded in moving these two branches of power out of a deadlock. He added, “We have reached a point in time that a fundamental law [i.e. constitution] is neces- sary for us to get united.,” [The Constitution of Ukraine was adopted on June 28, 1996.] HE KRAINIAN EEKLY He spoke of the need for a vigorous foreign economic policy, and further development Visit our archive Ton theU Internet at: http://www.ukrweekly.com/W (Continued on page 23) No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 7 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Faces and Places and my life in Ukraine. Some day I will write the complete by Myron B. Kuropas Letter re OST patch story, but here I just wanted to give a fur- ther illustration of what Ingert Kuzych brings back memories said in a letter: that some German agen- Dear Editor: cies “proposed to abolish the odious After reading Ingert Kuzych’s letter in OST symbol.” As my experience shows, not only agencies, but also some decent the March 3 edition of The Ukrainian Myron“He was Diduryk: eager and aggressive a soldier yet Diduryk once by ...Khristina and Lew young was published German individuals were opposed to this Weekly I decided to write about my own totally professional; over the next three in The Ukrainian Weekly on February 3, degrading practice. experiences with the OST patch, which days he would emerge as the finest battle- 1991. Born in Muzhliv, western Ukraine, may interest some of your readers. Assya Humesky field company commander I had ever seen, in 1938, Myron immigrated to the United In 1943 I was sent to forced labor in Ann Arbor, Mich. bar none.” States with his parents in 1950. He was a Graz, Austria, and ended up working as a Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore was member of Plast and later joined house maid for Herr Spee, the chief describing Capt. Myron Diduryk, hero of “Siromantsi,” a Plast fraternity. A beloved inspector of the Labor Administration for the Battle of la Drang Valley in 1965, the leader in Plast circles, Myron helped the District of Steiermark. He was a No UNA candidates first significant military engagement organize branches throughout northern German from Stuttgart and a highly dec- between American troops and the North New Jersey. He also worked part-time at orated Nazi. Vietnamese Army. The citation is from Svoboda and Soyuzivka. His wife was a plain country girl, not or platforms in sight Gen. Moore’s battle memoir, “We Were Dear Editor: Myron graduated from St. Peter’s particularly interested in politics. She was a Soldiers Once ... and Young,” co-authored College in Jersey City in 1960 with a kind woman, gave me some of her clothes, We are about two months away from by Joseph L. Galloway, and first published degree in physics. While at St. Peter’s he including a winter coat, and told me that I the next quadrennial convention of the as a hardback in 1992. joined the ROTC, rose to the rank of did not have to wear the OST patch. The recently released Hollywood film Ukrainian National Association and there brigade commander, and was one of the One Sunday afternoon, on my half- “We Were Soldiers,” starring Mel Gibson are no lists of candidates or their respec- few ROTC cadets in his class to be com- day off, I boarded the electric train going tive platforms and credentials in site. It is as then Lt. Col. Moore, is based on the to Puntigam, a Graz suburb where my book. Both the publication and the film are missioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. not only disturbing, it is outright alarm- Army. After serving in Europe for several mother and sister were doing forced ing that we are once again led in the dark about the 457 men of Col. Moore’s 1st labor at an airplane factory. The train Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, being years, he transferred to Vietnam. about whom we are to elect and how are Following the Battle of la Drang, he was packed, so most of us had to stand. we to make an informed decision come dropped into a small clearing in the la Next to me stood a young German sol- Drang Valley on November 14, 1965, and was promoted to major and returned for a May 24. second tour of duty. “Assigned as the oper- dier who was on leave. He picked up a A repeat of the last convention does the bloody battle that erupted when they conversation, asking me where I was were immediately surrounded by 2,000 ations officer of the 2nd Battalion, 12th not hold a promise for some miraculous Cavalry, Diduryk was killed in action on from. Jokingly I said, “You guess.” He solution. Quite the contrary. enemy soldiers under the command of April 24, 1970, in a Huey helicopter at an tried several places, then gave up and The confusion regarding leadership Nguyen Huu An, today a lieutenant gener- abandoned fire base,” write Messrs. Moore said that he was from the North. and any proposal to change the UNA’s al in the Vietnamese army. and Galloway. “The battalion commander I happened to know a song in the organizational structure from a commu- The assault raged for four days in two Northern dialect and was happy to nity-oriented body to a corporate struc- major areas of the valley, Landing Zone X- had ordered his command helicopter to demonstrate my knowledge to him by ture remains unresolved and undis- Ray and Landing Zone Albany in the land and check out a North Vietnamese singing: cussed at the branch level of the UNA. remote highlands of Vietnam near the soldier killed by the door gunner. As the Wor die Möven schrien/gell in Storm This, in itself, needs a much more thor- Cambodian border. When the smoke helicopter touched down, other NVA sol- Gebrus,/dor is mine Heimat/dor bin ick ough study by the membership than a cleared, the Vietnamese had lost some diers opened up; Myron Diduryk was zu Hus. convention can allow. In the absence of 2,000 men, the United States 234. The struck in the stomach in the doorway of (The English translation would be strong leadership, the choice of a corpo- number of Americans killed at la Drang, the chopper. Thus died one of the finest something like “Where the seagulls rate structure looks rather attractive, but according to the authors, was more than officers who fought in la Drang.” Major shriek gaily in the storm breeze, there is at the same time is doubtful because of the number killed in any regiment, North Diduryk is buried at the Fort Benning my native land, there I am at home”). too many unanswered questions regard- or South, in the Battle of Gettysburg. The cemetery. His widow, Delores, lives in The soldier was obviously delighted ing its relationship and affect on the names of the dead can be located on panel Fort Lauderdale, Fla. three of the Vietnam War Memorial in and pressed on with his query about my community aspect of a fraternal organi- Everybody who knew Myron loved Washington. place of origin. So, finally I told him that zation. If the UNA structure, as it stands him. People who worked with him in As commander of Bravo Company, I was from Ukraine. As soon as I uttered today, is too cumbersome in size to Plast, like my wife, Lesia, or at Soyuzivka, 2nd Battalion, Capt. Diduryk, called the that word I heard a voice, “And where is effectively manage the organization’s like my sister, Vera, will never forget his “Mad Cossack” in the book, and his sec- your OST patch?” The man asking this dual business and community responsi- friendliness, easy-going nature and dedica- ond command, Lt. Rick Rescola, were question obviously had overheard our bilities then that, too, needs more than a tion. intially flown in as reinforcements for sur- conversation. day of discussion of delegates in Capt. William Shucart, a medical offi- rounded U.S. troops pinned down by I had no time to give him an answer, Chicago. enemy fire. “The Ukrainian Diduryk and cer met Capt. Diduryk in Vietnam. Col. for he said, “Come with me. You will An organization of the size and promi- the Englishman Rescorla,” write the Moore describes the officer’s impressions have to answer to the Gestapo.” And so nence of the UNA is too important to go authors, “were destined, over the next 72 as follows: “One of the people Shucart we went back to Graz and there, at the down the path of some other fraternal hours to become battlefield legends in the really liked was Myron Diduryk. ‘He was Gestapo headquarters, the officers began organizations in our recent experience. wonderful. He loved military strategy. He questioning me. Being young and naive, 7th Calvary – as much for their style as for The UNA management has to face up to got me reading S.L.A. Marshall, “Men and sure of my innocence, I did not feel their fearless leadership under fire.” its responsibilities and lead the discus- Against Fire,” all that. We would talk too much fear and told them that it was Although the Americans won, the bat- sion of viable choices that the member- about what makes men in combat do what Frau Spee who allowed me not to wear tle, remembered and fully described in a ship can intelligently support. Apathy commemorative, 25th anniversary U.S. they do. He liked to talk like a tough guy the patch. The Gestapo men knew, of and inertia are frequently the result of course, who Herr Spee was, so they let News and World Report on October 29, off the New Jersey streets, but he was a confusion and lack of direction. 1990, it was a “fatal victory.” The battle very thoughtful, very clever guy. I was me go with a warning that if I didn’t It is now late March. I call for clarifi- wear the patch from now on I would be convinced Defense Secretary Robert proud of the people I knew in the officer cation of the proposals before the UNA McNamara and other Washington bureau- corps, very impressed with them.” It is punished. Convention so that I could still pass my Incidentally, Frau Spee showed me the crats that their “search and destroy” policy obvious that Myron Diduryk had an opinion onto the delegate from my local produced an acceptable 12 to one kill ratio impact on many people. There are a total instructions which she received on how branch of the UNA. For a start, many of that would eventually win the war. The of 28 references to him in the index of the to treat the Ostarbeiter such as myself. us would like to know who the candi- Vietnamese knew better. Moore/Galloway memoir. No conversations were allowed except dates are and what programs are they giving orders. The poor woman had no “The victory in the la Drang Valley In their prologue, the authors describe offering to re-energize the UNA so that degenerated into a decade of bloody frus- one to talk to all day long since the the organization may grow. their book as “a love story. We were the Austrian women avoided her company. tration that sent 58,000 Americans home in children of the 1950s and we went where So she ended up occasionally talking to Roma M. Hayda shiny aluminum Army-issue caskets, we were sent because we loved our coun- me after all, asking me about my family Easton, Conn. ruined one American president, deeply try. We were draftees, most of us, but we scarred another, and turned the nation were proud of the opportunity to serve our against itself”, concluded the authors of country just as our fathers had served in the magazine article. Capt. Diduryk’s The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters to the editor and commentaries on a World War II and our older brothers in exploits received considerable coverage in Korea.” variety of topics of concern to the Ukrainian American and Ukrainian the report. Suspecting that the Vietnamese Suggestion, dear reader: see the film Canadian communities. Opinions expressed by columnists, commentators were sneaking up on his position under “We Were Soldiers” now, while it’s still in and letter-writers are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of cover of darkness, he ordered flares to illu- a theater near you, and see if you can spot either The Weekly editorial staff or its publisher, the Ukrainian National minate the sky. “Diduryk’s men poured Myron Diduryk. Then read the book. Both Association. rifle and machine-gun fire on the attacking North Vietnames while Diduryk and Lund will make you proud to be an American Letters should be typed (double-spaced) and signed; they must be originals, [his artillery observer] directed artillery with Ukrainian roots. not photocopies. The daytime phone number and address of the letter-writer fire back and forth across the killing zone. must be given for verification purposes. The North Vietnames broke and ran.” Myron Kuropas’ e-mail address is: A biographical article about Myron [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 No. 13 No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 9 Myroslav Marynovych to lecture on religion and politics in Ukraine LVIV – Myroslav Marynovych, co- and the Papal Oriental Institute on social Mr. Marynovych recalled the founding founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group problems and ecumenism in Ukraine. He of the group: “I recall that clear night when and now director of the Institute of Religion was also invited to participate as an official we were invited to join the Ukrainian and Society in Lviv, will be lecturing on auditor at the Synod of Catholic Bishops Helsinki Group. We thought about the Ukrainian religion and politics in held in Rome on September 30 to October choice: to agree, that meant arrest, no Washington, Philadelphia, Boston and New 27, 2001. doubt; not to agree meant loss of self- York in April. The decisive moment in Prof. respect, loss of our human face. I was 28 at As vice-rector of the Lviv Marynovych’s life came 25 years ago, when the time. I said to myself ‘yes.’ And now I Theological Academy Prof. Marynovych he joined the original Ukrainian Helsinki am happy with the choice I made, because has been particularly involved this year Group to monitor human rights abuses in in fact that decision laid the foundations for with the academy’s transformation into the then-Soviet Ukraine. In August 1975 in my future.” Ukrainian Catholic University. During this Helsinki, Finland, 33 European nations, the Some of the most blatant human rights process he has frequently worked with United States and Canada signed the abuses were directed against religious political figures and government ministries Helsinki Accords, which defined new groups. During his time with the group, in Lviv and Kyiv. parameters of international relations. Mr. Marynovych reported on the liquida- In New York, on April 13 at the On November 9, 1976, in a Moscow tion of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and Ukrainian Institute, he will give his insights apartment in the presence of foreign jour- its underground activities, the liquidation on the state of human rights and today’s nalists, the creation of the Ukrainian of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox political situation following the parliamen- Helsinki Group was announced. There were Church and the persecution of the tary and local elections. In Philadelphia, the 10 members at that time; Mr. Myroslav Baptists. The Helsinki group’s members former prisoner of conscience will speak Marynovych was one of the youngest. were under constant surveillance, their Prof. Myroslav Marynovych about the current role of dissidents in As Mr. Marynovch explained, the task homes were bugged, they awaited Ukraine. of the Helsinki monitoring group was “to inevitable arrest. and glasnost in the 1980s, Mr. Marynovych Prof. Marynovych will also be hosted by follow up on how the Helsinki Accords On February 5, 1977, Mr. Marynovych was freed and in 1991 was officially reha- two major universities, speaking at Catholic signed by the Soviet Union were being was detained in Kyiv and warned that he bilitated. He continued to observe the University in Washington in the first week observed. First of all, it focused on that would be arrested if he didn’t stop his activ- human rights and religious situation in of April and at the Harvard Ukrainian chapter of the accords that spoke about dif- ities. He didn’t stop and two months later Ukraine and in 1997 founded the Institute Research Institute on April 11. ferent aspects of the rights of the human he was arrested. The Soviets gradually of Religion and Society in Lviv. In recent years, Prof. Marynovych has person, in particular freedom of speech, arrested all the other members, even 76- *** been the advisor on ecumenical issues for movement and religion.” year-old Oksana Meshko. For more information on Prof. Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, primate of the From the very start the group was up But the group was not destroyed; others Marynovych’s lectures in the United States, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. During front about its activities. Contact informa- took the place of the arrested human rights please contact the Ukrainian Catholic last year’s papal visit to Ukraine, he was tion on all its members was published with activists. A total of 41 people became mem- Education Foundation, 2247 W. Chicago involved in organizing the arrival of the the group’s first announcement. This open- bers of group. Ave., Chicago, IL 60622; telephone, (773) Vatican delegation and he was head of the ness made the KGB’s work easier, but it With the arrival of Mikhail Gorbachev 235-8462; e-mail, [email protected]. Papal Text Service. In May 2001 he gave also clearly revealed the undemocratic reports at the Papal Gregorian University approach of the Soviet government. Saskatoon artist to represent Ukraine at Sao Paulo biennale

matters of historical accuracy and national KYIV – The Ukrainian presence at the A solo exhibit titled “Taras Polataiko” was Ivano-Frankivsk... reconciliation, as well as respect for veter- XXV Biennale de São Paulo to be held held at the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the (Continued from page 1) ans of liberation movements on Ukrainian March 23-June 2, will be represented by Winnipeg Art Gallery in the fall of 2001. Frankivsk, most of them disabled former territory.” Saskatoon-based artist Taras Polataiko Mr. Onuch since 1997 has been the prisoners of the Soviet gulag. In an interview with The Weekly, Ivano- who will present his project – “Bird’s director of the Center for Contemporary Art The All-Ukraine Jewish Congress, which Frankivsk City Council Press Secretary Ihor Eye View,” with Jerzy Onuch, curator of in Kyiv. Born in Lublin, Poland, he lives in has vehemently protested the decision, Pasichniak criticized Moscow for twisting the presentation. Kyiv and Toronto. Among his latest curato- organized a rally on March 27 at the the facts and turning the matter into a pre- The Bird’s Eye View” project is based rial projects are “ID” (1999), “Painting” election issue. Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Kyiv on the biennal’s curatorial concept of the (2000), and “Brand ‘Ukrainian.’ ” “This is a provocation and it is meant to to protest the city council move. Vadim “11 Metropolises.” The show will open Ukraine’s presentation at the biennale intrude on the electoral process,” explained Rabinovich, president of the congress, as an empty space with 11 mirrors and the Polataiko project is supported by Mr. Pasichniak. called the decision “a crime against the mounted on the walls of the presentation the Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, He explained that at no point were addi- Ukrainian and Jewish people.” space. At the commencement of the Saskatchewan Arts Board and The tional pensions or subsidies considered for During the meeting, held with several Biennale, 11 local workers will be con- Canada Council. members of the Waffen SS Halychyna hundred mostly disinterested looking stu- tracted to gradually cover the mirrors by Division. All references, without exception, dents in attendance, Ukrainian Jewish lead- piecing together the jigsaw pieces, made were for government pensions and subsi- of 11 infrared satellite photos of the 11 ers read a statement from the Simon dies to members of the Halychyna Division Wiesenthal Center, located in Los Angeles, metropolises. Work will proceed on a of the Ukrainian National Army, which daily basis until the puzzles are complet- Kyiv art exhibit highlights which read in part: “Those who volunteered developed from the remnants of the Waffen to fight on the side of Germany and Hitler ed, so that by the close of the Biennale SS military unit after it was, for all practical there will be eleven abstractions in the are the moral equivalent of Bin Laden and purposes, wiped out by the Soviet Army at space. Divorced from their content, these interdisciplinary approach the terrorist cells of Al Qaeda.” KYIV – The “Matrix of the Battle of Brody. Those Ukrainian abstract images will be reminiscent of It could not be determined whether the Collaboration,” an exhibition focusing on National Army division members who did pop artist Gerhard Richter’s paintings. students were forced or paid for their pres- the interdisciplinary approach to art pro- not flee to Western Europe as World War II As noted in a statement regarding the ence or whether they came voluntarily. duction, opened on March 9 at the Center ended were eventually absorbed into the presentation, it is through the images, Moscow also came out strongly against UPA. materials and process that the artist for Contemporary Art at the National the local decision. Interfax reported that the The matter of pensions and subsidies for intends to draw attention to the margin- University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the veterans of Halychyna Disivion came up at alised population created by world-wide where it was on view through March 31. move by Ivano-Frankivsk city officials on the tail end of a regular session of the urban progress, concurrently exploring Presented by CCA’s Alternate Visual March 20, calling it “a shameful act of Ivano-Frankivsk City Council on March 19. the problem of relationship between the Studies, the exhibit is curated by Ludmila betrayal” of millions of Nazi victims. The When the council addressed the last point content of the image and its formal prop- Motsiuk. The exhibition presents installa- statement said that Russia could not accept on its agenda, “Miscellany,” Councilman erties. The project will bring up the ques- tions by artists collaborating with profes- recognition of a fighting force that had mur- Zinovii Boichuk tabled the matter of the tion of the nature of the image in con- sionals from other fields, using an inter- dered thousands of “our fathers and grand- compensation, which was duly voted upon temporary culture as well as that of the disciplinary approach in their work. fathers.” and supported. artist’s relationship with the context, nar- Apart from installations by artists groups Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, With the events in Ivano-Frankivsk rative, and the agendas of the art world. from Switzerland and Estonia, who took meanwhile, responded to the charges by evolving as the election season climaxed, Mr. Polataiko is a Ukrainian Canadian part in Venice Biennale 2001 – Com & stating on March 26 that the issue is an some media outlets in the fiercely polarized artist, born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, who, Com’s Johaness Hedinger and Marcus internal matter, which should not have a and caustic Ukrainian press – and several since emigrating to Canada in 1989, has Gossolt, Ingeborg Lusher and Liis Semper, bearing on relations with other states, while Russian ones, as well – quickly labeled the been living in Saskatoon. Mr. Polataiko among participating Ukrainian artists in the underscoring that satisfying all sides in the move as representative of the “fascist ten- has had solo exhibitions at leading gal- exhibition are: Iliya Chichkan, who with matter of who should be considered dencies” of the supporters of Viktor leries and museums of contemporary art in Piter Style of Poland presents a multi-media Ukrainian veterans of World War II is not Yushchenko, the head of the Our Ukraine Canada and New York and his work has installation titled “Atomic Love,” that looks an easy task. election bloc, which has much support in been widely reviewed by leading North at prospects of human reproduction in a “The issue is not limited to the the western regions of Ukraine and the city American and international publications. radioactive environment; Dmytro Halychyna Division, but extends to the of Ivano-Frankivsk. Among his projects are “Glare” (1994), Dulphan’s light installation “Beating broader question, which includes the However, a city dweller who wished to “Mole” (1997), “Cradle” (1999), “Him” Heart”; Radio Eurasia’s Kirill Protsenko Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and its remain anonymous told The Weekly that (1999-2002). Most recently, his work was and D.J. Derbastler collaboration with role, as well,” explained Ihor Dolhov, min- Mr. Boichuk belongs to the Ukrainian exhibited as part of the “Brand musicians titled “Football Game”; and istry spokesman. “It is a deeply national, Republican Party, which is associated with ‘Ukrainian’” exhibit held at the CCA in Natalia Holibroda’s and Solomia Savchuk’s deeply moral issue, one which involves the Yulia Tymoshenko election bloc. Kyiv, December 16, 2001 – February 10. video installation “Swimming Pool.” 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 No. 13

Shevchenko Society conference features scholarly lectures and book presentations by Dr. Orest Popovych Word ‘Zhyd’ in the works of intellectual who managed to define Some worrisome closing thoughts Shevchenko.” Although “zhyd” is a neu- Ukrainians as a national entity – an idea were shared by Dr. Olexa Bilaniuk, NEW YORK – The 22nd annual tral term for “Jew” in traditional without precedence at the time. This is UVAN president, who traced the history scholarly conference dedicated to Taras Ukrainian (as well as in Polish and most why Shevchenko’s legacy is so relevant of the struggle of the Ukrainian language Shevchenko was hosted by the Slavic languages), it happens to be an today and deserving study in a multidis- for survival in the face of the imperialist Shevchenko Scientific Society of offensive term in Russian. ciplinary approach, concluded Prof. Russian onslaught. Realizing that “the America (NTSh) in its building in New One of the myriad examples of the Chernetsky. word is mightier than the sword,” said York City on March 10. The program Russification of the Ukrainian language Prof. Grabowicz of HURI spoke on Dr. Bilaniuk, tsarist Russia in the 19th was co-hosted by the Ukrainian Academy in the Soviet era was the compulsory “The Current State of Scholarly Research century banned the Ukrainian language of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. (UVAN), replacement of the word “zhyd” by the on Shevchenko: Some Thoughts on the both from print and public speech. After the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Russian “yevrey,” which Shevchenko Subject of Recent Publications and a brief rebirth in the 1920s, the Ukrainian (HURI) and the Harriman Institute of had never used. As a result, there have Presentations.” Although a multitude of language fell victim to a new wave of Columbia University. It was chaired by been critics, who in their ignorance of new publications have appeared recently compulsory Russification beginning in Dr. Anna Procyk, a vice-president of history and linguistics, have tried to pin on Shevchenko, there is a dearth of the early 1930s when, among other meas- NTSh. anti-Semitism on Shevchenko because of works of high quality. While not entirely ures, some 40,000 Ukrainian terms were In her opening remarks Dr. Larissa his usage of “zhyd” and its derivatives. devoid of value or interest, many of the specifically excluded from usage by Zaleska Onyshkevych, president of NTSh, Such allegations are groundless on the publications are amateurish and para- Moscow’s edict. Russification reached its credited the tradition of the Shevchenko basis of linguistics alone. However, Dr. scholarly, even anti-scholarly, according peak in the Brezhnev era, when the conferences to the initiatives of the late Ilnytzkyj also pointed out that to Dr. Grabowicz. unconcealed policy of the Soviet regime NTSh President Dr. Jaroslaw Padoch and Shevchenko was known to protest in A highlight of the conference was the was to mold all Soviet peoples into one his collaboration with Dr. George writing against anti-Semitism in the presentation of two quality books on Russian-speaking nation. Grabowicz of HURI, which was then Russian Empire. Shevchenko published by NTSh in 2001 “We all had expected,” said Dr. headed by Prof. Omeljan Pritsak. “Shevchenko and Post-Colonialism” (in Ukrainian). They are: “The Worlds of Bilaniuk, that upon gaining national According to Dr. Onyshkevych, this was the topic explored by Prof. Vitaly Taras Shevchenko,” Vol. 2, a collection independence Ukraine would restore its year’s scholarly lectures, complemented Chernetsky of the Harriman Institute of of articles edited by Dr. Onyshkevych, original language and orthography but, by the presentation of two new NTSh pub- Columbia University. He said the term Prof. Assya Humesky and Dr. John Fizer, sadly, this has not happened. A project of lications devoted to the works of “post-colonial” is being applied by many and “The Concordance to the Poetic the Orthography Commission of the Shevchenko, are evidence of the apparent- to today’s independent Ukraine. Works of Taras Shevchenko,” compiled National Academy of Sciences of ly inexhaustible legacy of the society’s Colonialism can manifest itself not just by Oleh Ilnytzkyj and George Hawrysch. Ukraine which proposed a partial de- patron. by racial discrimination against the sub- The Concordance is an alphabetical Russification of the Ukrainian orthogra- The capacity audience was addressed jugated majority or ethnic group, but also index of all the words used in phy has just been canceled by Ukraine’s briefly by Natalia Martynenko, a vice- by the relegation of the latter to a second- Shevchenko’s poetry, listed in a context government and the commission itself, consul of the Consulate General of class status in its own country, impeding comprising three lines of text: the line in was suddenly disbanded. Ukraine, who noted that a multi-volume its upward mobility and denationalizing which the word appears as well as the Thus, the struggle for the Ukrainian set of the works of Shevchenko was pub- its elites. What is important for a post- preceding and succeeding one. The pres- language has gone a full cycle. Dr. lished recently in Kyiv. colonial society, said Prof. Chernetsky, is ent work is the first ever concordance in Bilaniuk tried to end on a positive note, Dr. Oleh Ilnytzkyj, a professor of to regain its national dignity and culture. the Ukrainian literature. It was published expressing the hope that the words of Ukrainian literature at the University of These goals were promoted by jointly by the NTSh and the Canadian Taras Shevchenko will help preserve the Alberta, presented a lecture titled “The Shevchenko, the first Ukrainian national Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Ukrainian language after all. No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 11

Newby Jersey Anna Krawczuk UAV postReaders remembershaving this information maye- its patron and other Vietnam veterans mail:[email protected],or FREEHOLD, N.J. – Ukrainian write to UAV Post 30, P.O. Box 172, American Veterans Post 30 based in Holmdel, NJ 07733-0172. Freehold, N.J., is the only UAV Post in The New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Monmouth County. Founded in 1989 in Memorial and Vietnam Era Educational Holmdel, N.J., the membership chose Center is located off the Garden State Maj. Myron Diduryk, who was killed in Parkway at Exit 116 in Holmdel, N.J. and Vietnam on April 26, 1970, as their hon- is visible from the parkway. ored patron. In pursuit of a federal charter for the From its inception the post supported Ukrainian American Veterans that has the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ evaded the organization for many years, Memorial in Holmdel, and participated in UAV Post 30 wrote to all New Jersey con- its dedication on May 7, 1995. gressmen, seeking their co-sponsorship. On the walkway to the memorial are Most of the New Jersey Congressmen two bricks with an inscription dedicated complied. Since the prior bill had expired, a to Maj. Diduryk; his name is inscribed new bill, H.R. 818, was introduced on also on the memorial, which honors all March 1, 2001, during the 107th Congress, New Jersey residents who served in by Michigan Rep. David Bonior. It became Vietnam. The memorial especially hon- necessary for UAV Post 30 to approach all ors the 1,556 soldiers who never the New Jersey Congressmen once again. UAV activists at a meeting with their congressman: (From left): Jurij Jacus, UAV returned home, among them Ukrainian Last October post representatives had Post 30 finance officer, Bernard W. Krawczuk, UAV post commander, Rep. Rush Americans Bohdan Kowal, Mikolaw an opportunity to meet with Rep. Rush Holt and Anna Krawczuk, UAV vice-commander. Melnyk, George M. Smyrychynski, Holt in Freehold, N.J., and to thank him Nicholas Szawaluk and Julius Zaporozec for his support and present him with the (there must be others that we do not UAV history. Since that time the post has know about). exchanged correspondence with Rep. The Vietnam Era Educational Center Holt, and he has been very supportive. at the memorial includes eyewitness and Post officers have pledged to pursue this oral historical accounts, a multimedia matter, but the support of Ukrainian resource center and other educational American veterans, even those who are not material. UAV Post 30 has donated the members of the Ukrainian American book “Ukrainian American Veterans Veterans organization, is needed. Supporters 1948-1998 – Historical Analysis and are being asked to help by writing to their Evaluation” to its library. respective U.S. representatives and urging The post is compiling biographical data them to support recognition of the UAV by on the fallen heroes and is actively seeking the federal government. Details about H.R. information about Ukrainian Americans 818 are available on the Internet at whose names are inscribed on the memori- http://www.theorator.com/bills107/ al in order to submit it to the center. hr818.html.

Voloshyn, the head of President Vladimir Controversy erupts... Putin’s administration, also had some- (Continued from page 1) thing to say about Ukrainian elections, Mr. Chernomyrdin made his statement specifically which political organizations he wanted to see in the next Verkhovna Bricks with an inscription dedicated to Maj. Myron Diduryk on the walkway to before a meeting with leaders of the Party the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Holmdel, N.J. of the Winter Crop Generation, one of the Rada, among which he named the 33 political organizations vying for seats Communists, the Social Democratic Party (United) and the pro-presidential For a in the Ukrainian parliamentary elections. United Ukraine bloc. He had previously met personally with Moscow Mayor Luzhkov made his most of the other political candidates, as semi-regular appearance in Crimea on he and Russian authorities in Moscow Diduryk cited in “We Were Soldiers ...” March 25 to remind residents of that PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Readers are no scene during the battle. The similarly continued to keep close tabs and comment doubt familiar with the movie “We Were titled movie is based on the book, which autonomous region of Ukraine that he had extensively on the Ukrainian elections, Soldiers,” starring Mel Gibson as Lt. Col. was originally published in 1992 and not forgotten about them. Instructed by which he and other Russian officials were Harold G. Moore, which documents the whose paperback edition is now on the Ukrainian authorities to stifle his opinions first major battle fought by the U.S. best sellers’ list, attracting renewed atten- loathe to consider interference into on Russian citizenship for Crimeans or forces in Vietnam: the November 1965 tion thanks to the box office. Ukrainian elections on their part. face revocation of his visa, Mr. Luzhkov battle of the Ia Drang Valley. Though there are numerous citations On March 20, he had told ITAR-TASS quipped with Sevastopol residents only In Ia Drang, U.S. troops, outnumbered for Capt. Diduryk in the book, as well as that he was worried about the Our half in jest that, “Crimea is a Russian seven to one, withstood a relentless a photograph of the young soldier and a Ukraine Bloc’s expected victory in the home, err, I mean Ukrainian home,” attack by the People’s Army of Vietnam diagram of the battle on November 16, elections. “Yushchenko says that he reported Novyi Kanal’s Reporter pro- favors broad democracy and supports over three days and two nights. It was a 1965, titled “Diduryk’s Men Hold the gram. costly victory, as 234 Americans and Line,” movie-goers will not see a President Leonid Kuchma, but when we Boris Nemtsov, a member of the look at the structure of his bloc we see 2,000 North Vietnamese were killed. Diduryk character. There is a reference to Russian State Duma from the Union of “Fatal Victory,” the October 29, 1990, Capt. Diduryk, however, in a line in the who is in it and what statements they Rightist Forces, traveled to Ukraine as make and it begins to worry us,” said special report in U.S. News & World movie, as Lt. Col. Moore addresses the well, spending a day in Kyiv on March 23 Report noted that the victory “helped departing troops and notes that the unit Ambassador Chernomyrdin, according to “to walk the streets of the city and speak RFE/RL. convince the generals in Saigon and the includes “a captain from the Ukraine.” with the people to assess the mood of vot- policymakers in Washington that U.S. Maj. Myron Diduryk was born in Making light of Mr. Chernomyrdin’s ers,” as he explained. seemingly full involvement in the pre- soldiers, using the air cavalry’s search- 1938 in Ukraine and emigrated to the Ukraine’s Central Election and-destroy tactics, could hunt down the United States at age 12 with his family. election campaign process in Ukraine, the Commission, responding to Mr. Russian newspaper Sevodnia last week enemy, grind him up and win the war Locals remember him as a member of Nemtsov’s visit, finally reacted to the var- that America’s South Vietnamese allies the Plast Ukrainian Youth Organization. called the Russian ambassador “the ious moves and comments by the Russian biggest expert on the elections.” were losing.” He entered the ROTC at St. Peter’s politicians and issued a statement on The U.S. forces at Ia Drang com- College, Jersey City, N.J., and was com- “Those with whom he has met, have March 25 that non-Ukrainians have no prised the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the missioned a second lieutenant in 1960. been guaranteed seats in the Parliament,” right to campaign or to take part in the 7th Cavalry Regiment. Among those He completed paratrooper and Ranger noted the newspaper on March 26, general pre-election debate. who fought in “the valley of death,” training, and served in Germany and at according to the Kyiv daily newspaper The same day, during a visit to St. was a Ukrainian American, Capt. Fort Benning, Ga., before Vietnam. Den. Petersburg, Russia, Verkhovna Rada Myron Diduryk, 27, leader of the Bravo Capt. Diduryk survived the battle of Mr. Chernomyrdin was not the only Chairman Ivan Pliusch also reacted and Company of the 2nd Battalion, who Ia Drang and returned to fight in the Russian voice directed at Ukrainian elec- said that the statements by the Russian was later described by Lt. Gen. Moore Vietnam War as major with the 1st Air tions in the last week, however. officials “could be construed to be inter- as the best battlefield commander he Cavalry Division. Assigned as opera- National Deputy Dimitrii Rogozin, the ference in Ukraine’s domestic affairs.” had ever known. tions officer of the 2nd Battalion, 12th head of the Russian State Duma On March 26 Russia’s Minister of Capt. Diduryk’s key role in the battle Cavalry, he was killed by a sniper dur- International Relations Committee, Foreign Affairs Igor Ivanov added his is noted in the best-selling book “We ing his second tour of duty on April 26, echoed the envoy’s views, though his thoughts to the mix when he told journal- Were Soldiers Once ... And Young,” writ- 1970, as the Huey helicopter he was in comments were harsher, comparing ists in Moscow that “Russia has never ten by Lt. Gen. Moore (ret.) and Joseph landed at an abandoned fire base near Ukrainian nationalism to Chechen and never will intrude in the internal L. Galloway, the only journalist on the the Cambodian border. extremism. affairs of a country, more so when it is a From his perch in Moscow, Oleksander friend,” reported Novyi Kanal. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 No. 13 Batkivschyna on the move again as it prepares for its next adventure

by Natalka K. Pollock Guard upon entering the main channel in Tampa Bay – the one used by major FARMINGTON, Conn. – It had oceanliners, the one leading to MacDill always been his dream to travel down Air Force Base, which, after September the Mississippi River in his own boat 11, was being used to launch B52 and see with his own eyes the country bombers into flight to Afghanistan. For described by Mark Twain. Even though several hours, we had no contact with the he was advised that the Mighty boat. The Coast Guard, now on high Mississippi was too swift and wide and alert, was not very happy to find this highly trafficked to allow a small tall unannounced foreign vessel in the way. ship safe passage, Capt. Dmytrii They asked The Victory team of boat Birioukovitch persisted and realized people for a stateside contact for The his dream unscathed at the end of last Batkivshchyna, and by default, that summer. became me. Getting into Tampa Bay and finding So the Coast Guard began calling me dockage, after crossing the Gulf of on a regular basis, requesting informa- Mexico from New Orleans, was another tion and giving instructions. I must say, challenge that required the help of despite the fact they are essentially gov- friends, old and new, to surmount. All ernment employees, they were good to along his travels throughout the United work with – educated, professional, well- States the helmsman of the Batkivschyna mannered, and with their priorities ulti- has depended on the kindness of mately in the right place – to ensure the strangers and the help of new friends. safety of our boat and the people on it. Despite the obstacles, he has never lost Meanwhile, the Batkivschyna was his optimism and his faith in the good- Capt. Dmitrii Birioukovitch and Natalka R. Pollock are welcomed by Ukrainian required to remain anchored far offshore ness of his fellow man and woman, as he community members in St. Petersburg, Fla. and out of the flight path of our country’s often relates. fighter planes until a suitable location He called me on the eve of his depar- can-do attitude and a straightforward settled at least temporarily until more could be found for them. The temporary ture from Louisiana, asking for the coor- manner, both of which come in handy in permanent space could be located. dockage was rejected by the Coast Guard dinates for the dock that he had been a crisis situation. He became my adviser, Five days came and went, and my con- because it would become too shallow promised alongside the ship Victory in during low tide and the boat would list, Tampa. I called the museum ship and my mentor and my support system tacts in Tampa Bay reported no sighting through the next 10 days that it took to of the schooner. Another day and then endangering its crew, so they said. Now dutifully wrote down the information, so the Coast Guard began calling me more that I could pass it on to him when he resolve the ensuing logistical morass. another, and there was still no word of its The Victory had a pilot, ship’s agent whereabouts. I was getting worried. My frequently. The help promised by the called back at the pre-arranged time. He Victory seemed to be evaporating and no thanked me and told me he expected to and port director at its behest. Doug phone calls to Tampa were becoming knew one of the vessel’s board members more frequent. Surely they were not lost other alternatives for dock space were arrive at his destination in five days. materializing. I know next to nothing about boats. who owned a private dock as part of an at sea as they had been for two weeks on exclusive waterside condominium proj- the way to OpSail 2000 in New York? Doug called on a contact within the The little I know I learned from having Office of the Tampa Mayor. I sent out an ect. The dock owner was prevailed upon Should we ask the Coast Guard to search helped to organize a few welcoming emergency e-mail to as many Ukrainians to offer free dockage for a few days, and for them now as they did then? These events for the Ukrainian schooner, on in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area as I then it seemed that, with the team of pro- thoughts were running through my mind. behalf of the Children of Chornobyl could find, asking for information and Relief Fund. The partnership seemed fessionals we had assembled onsite, we Finally, they sailed into view, and perfect for both groups last summer – the would be able to get the Batkivshchyna were abruptly stopped by the Coast (Continued on page 14) captain had an opportunity to further his mission of raising the awareness of Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians about his Russians and other non-native groups in an around from village to village, and begin fatherland, and CCRF benefited from effort to control the independence-minded catcalling when Mr. Ostash starts his talk. rallying Ukrainian communities along On the campaign trail ... (Continued from page 1) population. Secondly, the local population In most of the villages the locals chase his route to organize fund-raisers and was not impressed with flashy advertising them out themselves, but the atmosphere create marketing opportunities. levers of power, including organizational in 1998. In those elections, Mr. Ostash’s remains tense and confrontational I did not count on becoming close and financial resources, available to the main opponent was Bohdan Puzhak, also a throughout the meetings. friends with the captain and his crew vertical national-to-local governmental net- successful businessman with lots of nice Mr. Ostash’s campaign is further com- when I began working with them as a work of the president’s administration. Throughout the campaign, Mr. Antonov posters. In those elections, Mr. Ostash beat plicated by the appearance of a “twin” on CCRF volunteer. So when they turned to the election ballot – Ivan Ostash. This has been throwing around money, cars and Mr. Puzhak by 4 percent in a field of 18 me for help, I knew I could not dismiss “political technology” has been imported computers to hospitals, schools, charities candidates. Mr. Ostash won with nearly them. That connection to Ukraine and to from Russia, and is intended to confuse and churches. His generosity, although 43,000 votes, while Mr. Puzhak secured my upbringing through my friendship voters, particularly the elderly, and split legally questionable, has been gratefully just over 37,000. with them was too strong to ignore. A votes between the “twins.” Mr. Ostash’s accepted by most recipients. Some influen- According to the conservative estimates few days after my call to Florida, The people see Mr. Antonov behind the tial local leaders have joined the Antonov of Mr. Ostash’s own public opinion polls, Victory’s marketing director called me scheme; Mr. Antonov charges that Mr. campaign, because he is a successful, fresh he leads Mr. Antonov by some 10 to 15 back. “What do you mean by free dock- Ostash is trying to draw attention to him- face, who has financial resources the other percent. With less than ten days to go in the age next to us? What boat? What self. As it turns out, Antonov and the other candidates can only dream of. Mr. election campaign, some 10 percent of vot- arrangement?” she said to me. Mr. Ostash studied together at Professional Antonov’s campaign literature is full-color ers still were undecided – thus, the lead was I was stunned. I pictured the captain, Technical Institute No.8. and looks expensive. His smiling, Ken-doll far from comfortable. his wife and crew sailing into Tampa Voters are further confused by both can- Bay in a few days and finding out that face adorns every second storefront in A local journalist, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, notes some differ- didates claiming to be responsible for the they had no place to tie up. I could not Stryi. single largest investment in Stryi by the imagine what they would do. They had Yet the connection between Mr. ences between the 2002 and 1998 cam- paigns. First off, Mr. Antonov is spending German firm Leoni AG. The investment of neither the contacts nor the funds to Antonov and For a United Ukraine is 80 million DM that will create over 5,400 arrange for alternate space at the public absent from the propaganda. far more money than Mr. Puzhak did in 1998. Secondly, it seems Mr. Ostash is jobs has become a central issue in the cam- dock. And I knew next to nothing about Acknowledging Mr. Yushchenko’s popu- paign. In reality, both Mr. Ostash and the boats. larity, the Antonov campaign team has spending less. “Money is playing too important a role in these elections,” the members of For a United Ukraine lobbied I pleaded their case, and the woman deliberately distanced the candidate from for the building of a state-of-the-art auto- journalist said, “Ostash may be spending from the Victory reluctantly agreed to the “parties of power,” and is trying to motive wiring factory. too little, too late. When Mr. Antonov help. I was not convinced that her efforts jump on the Yushchenko bandwagon by It is too soon to call a clear winner in began his campaign in December, the con- would be enough. I had to tap all my associating the successful, young busi- district No. 127. The results will answer sensus was that his chances were minimal. resources. I found out through the nessman with the successful, young some interesting questions: Can an ethnic Now it’s anyone’s race – Stryi has never schooner’s network of U.S. friends that banker that is Mr. Yushchenko. “We stud- Russian win a seat in Western Ukraine? seen this kind of public relations.” the reason for the captain’s interest in ied at the same university,” Antonov told Have the priorities for the electorate there docking in Florida was to spend the win- an audience of potential voters. “I will The journalist’s demand for anonymity changed from “national idea” issues to be ter and participate in the Americas’ Sail work with Mr. Yushchenko and support also is telling – Mr. Antonov has practically more about money? Regatta in 2002. his course.” Mr. Antonov also claims the bought out all the local newspaper, radio Thus far, one thing is clear: the cam- So I also called a Connecticut board support of the local organization of Mr. and TV outlets. “He pays us, we print it,” paign in district No. 127 has proven member of the regatta organization, Ostash’s own Reforms and Order Party – the journalist explained. When asked why President Leonid Kuchma’s pre-campaign Doug Brown. Doug is the former direc- a member of the Our Ukraine bloc. he prefers to remain anonymous, the jour- prediction that these elections will be a very tor of the Port of New London, now Mr. Antonov faces some hurdles of his nalist explained that he is not sure what will dirty affair, to be very true. enjoying early retirement in Norwich. He own. First, he is an ethnic Russian be after election day. had met the captain when the (although his Ukrainian language skills are Mr. Antonov’s campaign has resorted Stephen Bandera is the editor of RCC Batkivschyna had sailed into New impeccable), whose parents arrived in Stryi also to tactics such as sending a group of Political Review, a free e-publication from London for OpSail 2000. As do most in the 1950s, when the Soviet Union delib- four teenagers to sabotage Mr. Ostash’s Romyr Consultants Corp., produced in port personnel, I have found out, he has a erately settled western Ukraine with ethnic town hall meetings. They follow him Kyiv. No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 13

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: Olympic moments with Ukraine’s TV journalists by Andrew Nynka and every night he’d ask the meaning of hill to take turns barreling down the warning to slow down. various English-language hockey slang foot-deep powder winded by the thin, Their humor was often dry, but cre- PARSIPPANY, N.J. – I had never met he had overheard that day. “Glove dry Idaho air. atively full of wit and sarcasm. Fima, in or spoken with cameraman Oleksandr save?” he would ask me wondering if We took side trips when the time particular, although in his early sixties, (Sasha) Berezhnoy or commentator his pronunciation was right. “Stack the allowed. It was on one such outing, still had the vigor and vitality to charm Yukhym (Fima) Sharpansky prior to my pads” seemed a favorite. searching for buffalo on a small island most any woman he spoke with. He arrival in Salt Lake City, Utah, on But we had our opportunities to play on the eastern shore of the Great Salt also seemed the most respected and February 1. Through a mutual contact, as well. Sasha seemed much more Lake, that local police officials gra- well-informed among the group, having I agreed to make the six-hour trip from comfortable and happy with the small- ciously notified me that my rate of covered six Olympics dating back to the Salt Lake, taking the two Ukrainian TV town feel of Sun Valley versus the speed was slightly above the legal level. 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona, journalists to the quaint snow-covered rustling, always busy atmosphere of the I had barely stopped the car when my Spain. mountain ski town of Sun Valley, Idaho, Games in Salt Lake City. It was in Sun Ukrainian passengers came flying out, In the end, my time with the to report on Ukraine’s preparations for Valley, with a beautifully bright blue cameras in hand, turning my traffic Ukrainian national television crew creat- the Winter Olympics. sky, that Sasha and I grabbed a neigh- ticket into a memorable photo opportu- ed some of my most memorable Looking back, it was one of the best bor’s snow sled left propped against our nity. The officers were thrilled enough Olympic moments, and I look forward decisions I made while covering the condominium and trekked up a local ski to ask questions and leave me with a to meeting them again in the near future. Olympic Games – and one of the most educational. The trip, along with the ensuing stay in Sun Valley, brought the three of us close together. So close, in fact, that when the rest of their 13-member crew arrived back in Salt Lake City for the start of the Winter Games, they suggest- ed I stay with them for the duration of the Games – an offer I quickly agreed to. As representatives of Ukraine’s national television station, UT-1, they enjoyed access and manpower I could only dream of. However, I provided them with knowledge of a foreign cul- ture and guided them through daily inconveniences potentially mind-numb- ing without the advice of someone familiar with the local culture – from shopping and translating to, more importantly, finding a reasonable substi- tute for salo. Common needs brought us together, but the deeper bond that keeps us in contact grew from our personalities. They lacked the stereotypical character traits with which recent generations of Ukrainians seem burdened among them, a self-serving motivation usually tinged with ulterior motives. Sasha, like only a brother watching over his younger sibling could do, would frequently drape an arm around my shoulder, lean in close to my ear and remind me that I Andrew Nynka had my work to do. “Sometimes they Members of the UT-1 television crew: (standing from left) Vadym Plachynda, Olena Stepanyshcheva, Oleksandr don’t realize it,” he would say of his Hlyvynsky, Mykhaylo Revenko, Valeriy Kostinov, Serhiy Derepa and Kostyantyn Dupak; (seated) Yukhym Sharpansky, colleagues, “but they may ask for your Andriy Kovalenko and Oleksandr Berezhnoy. help without realizing there’s 13 of them and one of you. Make sure they understand you also have your work to do,” he would say. They allowed my entrance into their circle and treated me with a respect and hospitality our diaspora grandparents frequently spoke of when reminiscing about the “old country.” It seemed a nightly occurrence – after work came the onions, tomatoes and the raw bacon used to substitute for salo. There was also the “horilka” (vodka) they brought from home, along with cans of Kyivan shproty and cheese. No matter how hard I tried, however, there seemed to be no substitute for the black bread of home. As professionals, however, they’re struggling to walk a fine line between their belief in journalistic responsibility and a government-controlled, but com- fortable, job where high-level bureau- crats impose opinion onto reportage. On several occasions 25-year-old Lviv native Oleksandr Hlyvynsky, found himself in this situation. His minor rebellions in refusing to read question- able text during cross-county commen- tary inevitably resulted in reprimand and a loss of commentary duties for several days. The crew worked hard. Often Sasha and Vadym (Vadyk) Plachynda, the group’s ice hockey expert, (the two I shared a room with) would rise by 5 a.m. only to return to the hotel by 11 After having been pulled over by Utah police officers, members of the Ukrainian national television station UT-1 pose for a p.m. Vadyk loved the game of hockey group photo. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 No. 13

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response,” the U.S. Embassy stated on for discrediting Mr. Yushchenko has actual- would have felt, say, in alliance with former NEWSBRIEFS March 20. The statement also noted: “U.S. ly been implemented. (RFE/RL Newsline) Vice Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko,” he (Continued from page 2) engagement with Ukraine is and always added. (RFE/RL Newsline) Was Gongadze killing planned abroad? March 25. The administration said a pub- has been based on specific policy goals: support for an independent, democratic, Court reinstates two candidates lishing company controlled by the bloc is KYIV – Procurator-General Mykhailo involved in money laundering, adding market-oriented Ukraine, integrated with Potebenko assured journalists in Donetsk on KYIV – The Supreme Court has rein- that prices for the bloc’s printed cam- the Euro-Atlantic community. Our engage- March 26 that the murder of independent stated former Soviet dissident Stepan paign materials were kept artificially low. ment is not focused on support for individ- journalist Heorhii Gongadze will be solved, Khmara from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc “This conscious lie is made for only one ual leaders or blocs. That is a choice for the Ukrainian people to make. U.S. election UNIAN reported. Mr. Potebenko said as an election candidate, UNIAN reported reason – to withdraw the bloc from the investigators are now working on a version elections, or to issue compromising assistance in Ukraine, provided at the invi- on March 25. The court also reinstated tation of the Ukrainian government, is according to which the kidnapping of Mr. materials taking into account that we Viktor Chaika, a leader of the right-wing focused on supporting a free and fair elec- Gongadze was “planned abroad.” have no time to tell the truth,” the populist Yabluko Party, as an election tion process that allows Ukraine’s citizens Answering a question about why he is run- Associated Press quoted Oleksander candidate. The Central Election to select its leaders. The United States does ning for the Parliament on the Communist Turchynov of the Yulia Tymoshenko Commission disqualified Messrs. Khmara not support individual leaders, parties or Party’s election list, Mr. Potebenko said this Bloc as saying. (RFE/RL Newsline) and Chaika last week, saying they sub- blocs in any of its assistance programs. ... list includes “no bribe-takers or those who mitted false declarations on their income Duma deputy cites ‘nationalist forces’ The United States does not support opposi- are responsible for embezzling government and possessions. (RFE/RL Newsline) tion forces or rallies in Ukraine. When a properties,” ITAR-TASS reported. “In this MOSCOW – Dmitrii Rogozin, the Ukrainian TV program aired such allega- respect I feel more comfortable than I (Continued on page 16) head of the Russian State Duma’s tions in April 2001, allegations that were International Relations Committee, sug- repeated in ‘Pi Ar,’ the U.S. Embassy gested on March 20 that if “nationalist immediately made clear that U.S. officials Ñ¥ÎËÏÓÒfl ÒÛÏÌÓ˛ ‚¥ÒÚÍÓ˛, ˘Ó Û ‚¥‚ÚÓðÓÍ, 19 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl 2002 ð. forces” win the upcoming parliamentary cover political events in Ukraine in accor- ‚¥‰¥È¯Ó‚ Û ‚¥˜Ì¥ÒÚ¸ ̇ 76-ÏÛ ðÓˆ¥ ÊËÚÚfl ̇¯ ̇ȉÓðÓʘËÈ election in Ukraine, Moscow and Kyiv dance with the Geneva Convention to åìÜ, ÅÄíúäé, ÅêÄí, äìáàç ¥ Çìâäé may face problems in bilateral relations, ensure that we portray events accurately Interfax reported. “Ukrainian nationalism and to be able to advise American citizens has similar roots to Chechen extremism,” of any dangers. ...” The statement conclud- Mr. Rogozin said, adding: “We have ed by underlining: “Political intrigue has no encountered Ukrainian nationalists in the role to play in advancing core Ukrainian or Chechen mountains. They are not taken American interests.” (Public Affairs prisoner as they have committed especial- Section, U.S. Embassy) ly cruel atrocities against Russian service- 600 non-existent voters listed in Kyiv men.” (RFE/RL Newsline) ·Î. Ô. Moscow worried about Our Ukraine KYIV – The electoral commission of constituency No. 90 in Kyiv has found KYIV – Russian Ambassador to out that the number of voters on a list íÖéÑéê üñäßÇ Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin said on supplied by the district authorities èÄêÄëíÄë ‚¥‰·Û·Òfl ‚ ÔflÚÌˈ˛, 22 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl Ó „Ó‰. 7:30 ‚˜. March 20 that Russia is with those parties exceeds the actual number of voters liv- and election blocs in Ukraine that call for ing in the constituency by 561 persons, ÔÓıÓðÓÌÌÓÏÛ Á‡‚‰ÂÌÌ¥ åÛÁËÍË Û óË͇£Ó, ßÎ. the development and deepening of rela- the Our Ukraine press service reported on èéïéêéççß ÇßÑèêÄÇà – ‚ ÒÛ·ÓÚÛ, 23 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl Ó „Ó‰ 10:30 ð‡ÌÍÛ ‚ tions between the two countries, ITAR- March 26. Our Ukraine campaign coordi- ˆÂðÍ‚¥ Ò‚‚. ÇÓÎÓ‰ËÏËð‡ ¥ éθ„Ë Û óË͇£Ó, ßÎ. nator Roman Bezsmertnyi warned that TASS reported. Mr. Chernomyrdin noted á‡Î˯ËÎËÒfl Û „ÎË·ÓÍÓÏÛ ÒÏÛÚÍÛ: that there are also forces in Ukraine that listing non-existent voters may be one of ‰ðÛÊË̇ – éãúÉÄ do not pursue such a goal, adding that the methods used by the authorities to rig “this cannot but worry us.” According to the March 31 ballot. (RFE/RL Newsline) ‰ÓÌfl – ïêàëíü him, Viktor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine is Ú‡ ·ÎËʘ‡ ¥ ‰‡Î¸¯‡ ðÓ‰Ë̇ ‚ ÄÏÂðˈ¥, ä‡Ì‡‰¥, Nearly 1,000 observers in Ukraine a cause for such concern. “Yushchenko ìÍð‡ªÌ¥ ¥ èÓθ˘¥. himself says that he favors broad democ- KYIV – The Central Election racy and supports President Leonid Commission (CEC) has registered 944 Kuchma. But when we look at the struc- international observers to monitor the ture of [his] bloc, we see who is in it and March 31 presidential election, UNIAN what statements they make, and this is reported on March 23, quoting CEC beginning to worry us,” Ambassador Chairman Mykhailo Riabets. Mr. Riabets á Ì‚ËÏÓ‚ÌËÏ Ê‡ÎÂÏ ¥ ÒÏÛÚÍÓÏ ‰¥ÎËÏÓÒfl ÒÛÏÌÓ˛ ‚¥ÒÚÍÓ˛, Chernomyrdin said. (RFE/RL Newsline) ˘Ó ‚ ÒÂð‰Û, 13 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl 2002 ð. ‚¥‰¥È¯Ó‚ Û ‚¥˜Ì¥ÒÚ¸ added that it is the highest number of ̇¯ ̇ȉÓðÓʘËÈ åìÜ, ÅÄíúäé, ÅêÄí, Çìâäé ¥ áüíú Documentary says ‘tapegate’ was set-up international election monitors in Ukraine’s 10-year history of independ- ·Î. Ô. KYIV – On March 17, the private ence. (RFE/RL Newsline) ICTV Television, which is part owned by Yushchenko: officials aim to split society ßÇÄç éãÖÉ Åéêàë President Leonid Kuchma’s son-in-law Viktor Pinchuk, aired a 75-minute docu- KYIV – Our Ukraine election bloc äãûîÄë mentary called “Pi Ar” (PR) dealing with leader Viktor Yushchenko said on March Ukraine’s tape scandal and the murder of 22 that the current authorities are working ̇ð. 14 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl 1943 ð. journalist Heorhii Gongadze. The docu- toward splitting society in Ukraine, the ◊燉Á‚˘‡ÈÌËÈ ëÎÛÊËÚÂθ ë‚. èð˘‡ÒÚfl“ ‚ ˆÂðÍ‚¥ Ò‚. ß‚‡Ì‡ ïðÂÒÚËÚÂÎfl ‚ 粇ðÍÛ, ˜ÎÂÌ Ô·ÒÚÓ‚Ó„Ó ÍÛðÂÌfl ◊óÓÚ‡ äðË·ÚËı“. mentary, written and produced in the West Our Ukraine press service reported. by former Financial Times journalist According to Mr. Yushchenko, the authori- Charles Clover, suggests that the tape èÄêÄëíÄë ‚¥‰·Û‚Òfl ‚ Ô’flÚÌˈ˛, 15 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl 2002 ð. ‚ ˆÂðÍ‚¥ Ò‚. ß‚‡Ì‡ ties “have paralyzed the election proce- ïðÂÒÚËÚÂÎfl. scandal was used by the United States, dures” and are hindering Our Ukraine’s èéïéêéççß ÇßÑèêÄÇà ‚¥‰·ÛÎËÒfl ‚ ÒÛ·ÓÚÛ, 16 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl 2002 ð. ‚ ˆÂðÍ‚¥ Ò‚. ß‚‡Ì‡ NGOs and figures like financier George campaign and repressing its supporters. ïðÂÒÚËÚÂÎfl, ‡ ‚¥‰Ú‡Í ̇ ˆ‚ËÌÚ‡ð¥ Ò‚. Ä̉ð¥fl èÂð‚ÓÁ‚‡ÌÓ„Ó ‚ ë. Ň‚̉ ÅðÛÍÛ, ç.ÑÊ. Soros to exert pressure on Mr. Kuchma in Meanwhile, Yurii Kostenko, the leader of order to depose him and install Western- the Ukrainian National Rukh, which is a ÉÓðÂÏ ÓÔ˜‡ÎÂÌ¥: leaning Prime Minister Viktor constituent of the Our Ukraine election ‰ðÛÊË̇ – ïêàëíü Á èßçäéÇëúäàï Yushchenko. Mr. Kuchma, who was inter- bloc, said the same day that Our Ukraine is ‰Ó̸͇ – åÄêíÄ viewed in the film, said the crisis connect- counting on 120-140 mandates in the new ÒÂÒÚð‡ – äëÖçü ÑêÄÉÄç Á ðÓ‰ËÌÓ˛ ed with former bodyguard Mykola Parliament. (RFE/RL Newsline) Ú¢‡ – çÄÑü èßçäéÇëúäÄ Á ðÓ‰ËÌÓ˛ Melnychenko’s tapes was effectively over Ú‡ ˜ËÒÎÂÌ̇ ðÓ‰Ë̇ äÎ˛Ù‡Ò¥‚, ë‡ÈÍ‚˘¥‚, ñË·ð¥‚Ò¸ÍËı, SDPU discrediting front-runner? ÑÓ·Âð˜‡Í¥‚, 뇂ˈ¸ÍËı, ñ‡ðËÍ¥‚ Ú‡ ç‡‰ð‡£¥‚ ‚ ëòÄ, ä‡Ì‡‰¥ when Mr. Yushchenko was sacked as Ú‡ ìÍð‡ªÌ¥. prime minister by the Parliament in April KYIV – The Ukrainska Pravda website Ç¥˜Ì‡ ßÇÄçéÇß Ô‡Ï’flÚ¸! 2001. The film suggests that Russia used –––––––––––––––––––––––––––– the tape scandal to provide support for the on March 25 accused the election staff of the Social Democratic Party (United), led Ç Ô‡Ï’flÚ¸ ·Î. Ô. ß‚‡Ì‡ ðÓ‰Ë̇ ÔðÓÒËÚ¸ ÒÍ·‰‡ÚË ÔÓÊÂðÚ‚Ë embattled President Kuchma, thereby by Viktor Medvedchuk of implementing a ̇ Á‚ÛÍÓ‚Û ÒËÒÚÂÏÛ ‚ ˆÂðÍ‚¥ Ò‚. ß‚‡Ì‡ ïðÂÒÚËÚÂÎfl, securing better relations with Ukraine to ‡·Ó ̇ ◊ÑÓÎflð ̇ ìÍð‡ªÌÛ“ – ‰Îfl ·¥‰ÌËı ‰¥ÚÂÈ. plan to discredit Viktor Yushchenko, whose the detriment of the United States. Our Ukraine bloc is tipped by opinion polls (RFE/RL Newsline) to win the March 31 parliamentary ballot. 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being a link in siphoning funds from the NEWSBRIEFS bankrupt bank Ukraina. “It is hardly a The Ukrainian Institute of America (Continued from page 15) coincidence that Ukraina paid for [Mr. Anti-American Front created Yushchenko’s daughter] Vitalina Yushchenko’s education, and that funds KYIV – The Organization of Ukrainian from this bank ended up in Petro SYMPOSIUM Nationalists (OUN) on March 26 gathered Yushchenko’s accounts,” Inter TV com- 65 delegates from western Ukraine (the mented on March 21. (RFE/RL Newsline) Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Ternopil, Chernivtsi and Volyn oblasts) and Kyiv to launch an Court reinstates Yabluko candidate Ukraine at the Polls: organization named the Anti-American KYIV – The Supreme Court on March 21 Front of Ukraine, UNIAN reported. complied with a complaint from Yabluko The March 2002 Parliamentary Elections According to the news agency, the main Party leader Mykhailo Brodskyi and rein- goal of the new organization is to counter- stated him as a candidate in the parliamen- and the Future of Democracy act “the U.S. expansion into Ukraine,” and tary election, UNIAN reported. Last week, to prevent “the transformation of Ukraine the Central Election Commission disquali- into an American ghetto.” The delegates fied Mr. Brodskyi, saying he provided a elected Vitalii Tsapovych, the editor in false declaration on his income and posses- A discussion with: chief of the OUN press organ Neskorena sions. (RFE/RL Newsline) Natsiya, as the head of the Anti-American Professor Paul d’Anieri, University of Kansas Front of Ukraine. (RFE/RL Newsline) Moscow mayor supports Hrach Tymoshenko bloc appeals to world SYMFEROPOL – Moscow Mayor Yurii Dr. Taras Kuzio, University of Toronto Luzhkov on March 21 visited Symferopol KYIV – The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc has Prof. Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University and expressed his support for Crimean sent an open letter to the Organization for Parliament Chairman Leonid Hrach, who Security and Cooperation in Europe, the was disqualified from the election to the Council of Europe, and the embassies of Crimean Supreme Council by a court deci- Moderated by: the United States, Canada, Japan and a sion last month. Mr. Luzhkov said he views number of European countries, as well as the court decision on Mr. Hrach as a politi- Adrian Karatnycky, President of Freedom House international election observers in cal, not a legal, action, STB Television Ukraine, appealing to them to ensure that reported. Mr. Hrach met Mayor Luzhkov in the March 31 parliamentary election is the Crimean Parliament and introduced fair. “We are forced to appeal to you for him to the public as the mayor of the capi- Wednesday, April 10, 2002 help and ask that you make a real estima- tal of the formerly common motherland. tion of Ukraine’s situation, [and] inter- Mr. Luzhkov noted that the 10 years of at 7:00 p.m. vene in the process to the extent of your Ukraine’s independence have ruined authority not to allow total unlawfulness Russian-Ukrainian relations. “The Crimean Ukrainian Institute of America during the election campaign,” the Republic is a special Russian region,” the Associated Press quoted from the appeal. Moscow mayor said, but then corrected 2 East 79th St., New York, NY “We have been informed by confidential himself and said it is “a special Ukrainian sources that in the near future, following region.” Mr. Luzhkov’s slip of the tongue an instruction from the administration of provoked stormy applause in the parlia- President Leonid Kuchma, a [politically mentary hall. (RFE/RL Newsline) motivated] court resolution will be pre- pared to disqualify the Yulia Tymoshenko Potebenko comments on candidates OCHESTER Bloc from the election,” UNIAN quoted R from another passage of the appeal. KYIV – “Half of those running for (RFE/RL Newsline) Parliament could be jailed today for what is UKRAINIAN FEDERAL CREDIT UNION going on at the moment. Just take a look at MAIN OFFICE Our Ukraine cites provocations the election lists!” Ukrainian Procurator General Mykhailo Potebenko told the pro- 824 Ridge Road East, Rochester NY 14621 KYIV – The Our Ukraine press service on presidential daily Stolichnie Novosti on March 21 said provocative actions against March 19. Mr. Potebenko himself is run- Tel. (585) 544-9518 Toll free (877) 968-7828 Viktor the Our Ukraine bloc and its leader ning on the election list of the Communist Yushchenko have become more frequent Fax: (585) 338-2980 Party. (RFE/RL Newsline) www.rufcu.org in the last weeks of the parliamentary election campaign. The press service cited Complaint filed against Tymoshenko bloc Audio Response: (585) 544-4019 incidents in Kirovohrad Oblast and Kyiv APITAL ISTRICT RANCH where some individuals, who had nothing KYIV – Central Election Commission C D B Chairman Mykhailo Riabets on March 20 1828 Third Ave., Watervliet, NY 12189 to do with the bloc, disguised themselves said the commission received a complaint EL AX as campaigners for the bloc and offered T : (518) 266-0791 F : (585) 338-2980 alcoholic drinks to passers-by to drink “to that the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc has violat- www.rufcu.org Yushchenko’s health.” The press service ed the election law in the campaign by AUDIO RESPONSE: (585) 544-4019 added that such actions were recorded by using resources other than those in its offi- television crews to be broadcast by televi- cial election fund, UNIAN reported. CREDIT UNION SERVICES: sion channels controlled by Our Ukraine’s Meanwhile, Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc REDIT ARDS EHICLE OANS ORTGAGES IGNATURE OANS C C • V L • M • S L rivals in order to accuse Yushchenko’s activists, including lawmaker Oleksander BUSINESS & COMMERCIAL LOANS • SHARE DRAFTS & CHECKING bloc of violating the election law. Turchynov, warned media earlier the same CD’S & IRA’S • INVESTMENTS • YOUTH ACCOUNTS (RFE/RL Newsline) day that the presidential administration has CONVENIENCE SERVICES: issued an “instruction” to disqualify the HOME BANKING • AUDIO RESPONSE SYSTEM Our Ukraine candidate is arrested bloc from elections. According to the activists, the reason for the disqualification DIRECT DEPOSIT • ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSFER KYIV – Police on March 21 arrested for- may be a book about Ms. Tymoshenko that NIGHT DEPOSIT BOX • WIRE TRANSFERS: DOMESTIC, INTERNATIONAL mer State Reserve Committee head was published several months ago. They UTILITY PAYMENTS • NEWSLETTER, MAGAZINE • NOTARY SERVICE, TRANSLATIONS Yevhen Chervonenko, who is running for suggest that the bloc will be charged with CHOLARSHIPS EMBER EDUCATION SEMINARS IBRARY ND MUCH MORE the Parliament as Our Ukraine’s candi- S •M • L • A . sponsoring this publication and subse- date. Deputy Procurator-General Yurii quently ousted from the election race by a Haisynskyi said recently that Mr. court resolution. (RFE/RL Newsline) Chervonenko was wanted by the UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERS!!! Prosecutor’s Office because he had failed Ukraine has 36.8 M eligible voters to appear there for questioning. Mr. Looking for a First Mortgage? Chervonenko denied receiving any sum- KYIV – Central Election Commission Need to refinance? mons from prosecutors. The same day, Chairman Mykhailo Riabets on March 14 the Central Election Commission rejected said 36.8 million people have been entered Looking for – a motion to oust Mr. Chervonenko from on the lists of voters to participate in the the race on charges that he allegedly is an parliamentary election on March 31, Israeli citizen and has failed to inform the UNIAN reported. Mr. Riabets said that this GreatGreat RatesRates commission of this fact. Mr. figure may be corrected, but not signifi- Chervonenko commented that Our cantly. He said there are 33,055 polling sta- Low Fees Ukraine rivals, by playing “the card of tions in the country, including four in mili- Low Fees anti-Semitism,” intended to sow discord tary units, 132 in prisons and 730 in sanato- in the bloc. Meanwhile, the National riums. Also, 58 polling stations have been PromptPrompt ApprovalApproval Movement of Ukraine (led by Bohdan set up on ships that will be at sea on the day Boiko) has accused Petro Yushchenko, of the election, and there are 89 polling sta- CALL (800) 253-9862 EXT. 3036 the brother of Viktor Yushchenko, of tions abroad. (RFE/RL Newsline) No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 17 Palatine’s Ukrainian American Youth Association gets a huge surprise: $100,000 state grant

PALATINE, Ill. – Everyone had a great time on Saturday, February 23, at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Palatine, Illinois, home of the Dmytro Vitovsky Branch of the Ukrainian American Youth Association, as the youth organization had planned the evening as a social event for members and their families. The evening would have been a great hit just by virtue of the unbelievably tasty spaghetti dinner prepared by Mychajlo Jareckyj, Myron Wasiunec, Ihor Fedaj and Petro Tokarczyk, fathers who know how to cook. Nevertheless, the big surprise of the evening was yet to come. The guests of honor at the evening where Illinois State Sens. Walter Dudycz and Wendell Jones, both familiar figures in the local commu- nity. The senators joined everyone for dinner and chatted among friends. The evening continued as Dr. Alex Strilchuk greeted everyone present and introduced Olya Fedaj, president of the SUM organization, who thanked every- one for such enthusiastic participation. She introduced Fedir Stupen, a longtime Dmytro Vitovsky Branch member who recently returned from Ukraine after a SUM members with State Sens. Walter Dudycz and Wendell Jones, who sponsored a state grant of $100,000 for the two-year stint in the Peace Corps. building fund of the youth group’s branch in Palatine, Ill. Mr. Stupen briefly introduced both senators to the gathering and reminded Dudycz’s Ukrainian heritage. tive by Gov. George Ryan which puts pleasant surprise that will rank among the everyone that Sen. Jones was instrumen- Both guests addressed the membership funds into the hands of legislators to dis- biggest events in this community. tal in helping secure the building permits and quickly had everyone on their feet as burse to worthy causes in their communi- Mr. Luszczak closed the evening by for the Cultural Center. Sen. Jones rela- they revealed a facsimile of a check in ties as they see fit. Each of the senators underlining Sen. Jones’ close relationship tionship with the Ukrainian community the sum of $100,000 from the Illinois was sponsoring $50,000 designated for with the Ukrainian community in was enhanced when he learned of Sen. First Member Initiative Fund, an initia- the building fund. The donation was a Palatine.

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Liberal (SLON) alliance during the 1998 Yushchenko’s... elections, is now supporting Our Ukraine. (Continued from page 2) The hard-line national-democratic and nationalist parties have joined transformation has been so thorough that Tymoshenko’s bloc, not Our Ukraine. A the only similarity left between the old comparison of public opinion polls con- Rukh-1 and Our Ukraine is that pop singer ducted by several organizations in mid- Taras Petrynenko continues to close all of March by the Internet publication Our Ukraine’s rallies with Rukh’s unofficial Ukrainska Pravda gave Our Ukraine a pop- anthem “Ukraine, Ukraine!” ularity rating of between 24 and 33 percent, ANNUAL MEETING “Our Ukraine is more popular than far higher than pro-presidential blocs or the Rukh-1 for a number of reasons. Unlike CPU and an increase from 18.8 percent a Rukh-1, Our Ukraine has a socio-economic month earlier. Some observers predict that The 36th Annual Meeting program, and about two-thirds of Mr. this could reach as high as 29.3 percent, Yushchenko’s typical campaign stump due primarily to Mr. Yushchenko’s personal speech is devoted to laying out this pro- popularity. Unlike Rukh-1, Our Ukraine’s of the Membership of gram. more pragmatic program has generated The Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) support in eastern and southern Ukraine, and the oligarchs voted no-confidence in albeit far less than in western Ukraine, Yushchenko’s government in April 2001, where polls give it 50 percent support. UKRAINIAN NATIONAL despite his record as prime minister in Mr. Yushchenko has refrained from criti- 1999-2001, when he paid back wages and cizing the government, and his bloc’s only FEDERAL CREDIT UNION pensions and presided over Ukraine’s first criticism is directed at oligarchic groups period of economic growth in a decade. such as the Social Democratic Party This track record seems to be working in (United) [SDPU] and former Prime Our Ukraine’s favor. Minister Valeriy Pustovoytenko’s NDP, Will take place on Sunday, April 7, 2002 In Mr. Yushchenko, Our Ukraine has a which is one of five parties that make up charismatic leader who is able to bridge the For a United Ukraine bloc. at 2:00 p.m. gap between citizens and rulers – a gap that “The SDPU is as likely to evolve into was already large during the Soviet era and social democrats as sea lions into lions,” that grew wider in the 1990s. Our Ukraine Mr. Yushchenko tells his supporters at ral- Ukrainian National Home has managed to reunite the two wings of lies. Mr. Yushchenko has also ridiculed the Rukh and the successor to the CNDS, the claim that the 1997-1999 Pustovoitenko Christian Republican Party. Our Ukraine government laid the foundation for 142 Second Ave., New York, NY. now includes 25 political parties, including Ukraine’s economic revival, claiming that liberal, patriotic and Christian-democratic Ukraine was on the verge of bankruptcy factions, as well as the Federation of Trade when Mr. Yushchenko became prime minis- Registration begins at 1:00 p.m. Unions. ter in December 1999. It has also broadened Rukh-1’s old social It is also wrong to consider Our Ukraine base by incorporating pragmatic bankers “nationalist” because its support for radical Refreshments will be served. and others from the financial sector, as well economic and political reforms and for as representatives of business and state offi- Ukraine’s integration into European and cials. Roman Bezsmertnyi, political coordi- trans-Atlantic structures are hardly tradi- nator of Our Ukraine, is still the president’s tionally nationalist positions. Our Ukraine representative in Parliament and is a former simply seeks to take back from the oli- MARK T. OLESNICKY, M.D. member of the Republican Party and of the garchs control of a country that was pro- National Democratic Party (NDP). Mr. pelled to independence by Rukh-1 in 1989- Internal Medicine Bezsmertnyi resigned from the NDP after 1991. That is what Mr. Yushchenko means 135 Columbia Turnpike, Suite 203 he joined Our Ukraine and the NDP aligned when he tells supporters at rallies, “This is with For a United Ukraine. Florham Park, NJ 07932 your Ukraine! This is your Ukraine!” Pragmatists have been attracted to Our Our Ukraine argues that the national rev- Telephone (973) 822-5000 • Fax (973) 822-3321 Ukraine because it defines itself as an alter- olution successfully launched by Rukh-1 native – rather than an opposition – in a By Appointment needs to be completed now by a democratic country where optimism for a better future revolution led by Rukh-2. One of the priori- has all but evaporated. If Rukh-1 could be ties for Ukraine is to overcome its “crisis of described as romantic, Rukh-2/Our Ukraine power” and change its “momentocracy” is purely pragmatic, Ukraine’s first real from a medium- to long-term plan. “Over Ukrainian Melody Hours alternative to either a sort of return to the the last 10 years, no system has been creat- past, as envisioned by the CPU, or contin- ed that would guarantee Ukrainian democ- by Roman Marynovych ued muddling along with no clear strategy, racy,” Mr. Yushchenko wrote in the weekly as favored by the oligarchs. Zerkalo Nedeli/Dzerkalo Tyzhnia. Easter Radio and TV Programs It was always a mistake for Western and Our Ukraine has entered Ukraine’s polit- Russian commentators to categorize post- ical arena during a generational change sim- 1992 Rukh-1 as “nationalist,” a holdover ilar to that experienced by Russia in the late New York: Sunday, March 31, and Sunday May 5, 2002 from the Soviet era, when a “Ukrainian 1990s. Our Ukraine is a young bloc, with an 10:00 p.m. – WNXY-TV, Channel 39 nationalist” was by definition from western average age of 40 among its candidates. Ukraine, spoke Ukrainian and supported The generation represented by former Wednesday, May 1, 2002 center-right parties. It is also a mistake to President Boris Yeltsin in Russia and 8:30 p.m. – WNYE- 91.5 FM define Our Ukraine as “nationalist.” Our Messrs. Kravchuk and Kuchma in Ukraine Ukraine supports the Jewish former mayor will go into retirement in two years’ time. Philadelphia: Sunday, March 31, and Sunday May 5, 2002 of Odesa, Eduard Hurfits, who is now run- The generation following them, represented ning on the Our Ukraine party list. In mid- by Vladimir Putin in Russia and Mr. 8:30 p.m. – WYBE-TV, Channel 35 March, Our Ukraine condemned anti- Yushchenko in Ukraine, is now taking their Semitic leaflets that had been circulated places. Chicago: Monday, April 1 and Monday May 6, 2002 against Mr. Hurfits. Our Ukraine’s party list If Our Ukraine does well in the elections, 7:00 p.m. – WFBT-TV, Channel 23 also includes Crimean Tatars and ethnic it could serve as a powerful launch pad Russians. Volodymyr Hryniov, a Kharkiv- should Mr. Yushchenko decide to run for based former head of the Russophile Social- the presidency in 2004. Sacramento: Saturday, May 4, 2002 7:00 p.m. – KVIE-TV, Channel 7 halfway out of the hole.” Ukraine’s economy... Mr. Intriago, meanwhile, agreed that Happy Easter to all my viewers, listeners, sponsors, sup- (Continued from page 3) even 2015 was an optimistic date and porters; civic and Church organizations, associations, said that to reach that mark by 2011 would said that today Ukraine was at least a require a 400 percent increase in Ukraine’s decade behind its western neighbor, and all Ukrainian people. Poland, in economic development and current GDP, which amounted to an average five years behind Russia. He added, how- Roman Marynovch and Family annual increase of approximately 10 per- ever, that Ukraine would have an advan- Ukrainian Melody Hour cent, or an economy on fire for a decade at tage over Russia in future development P.O. Box 2257 world record levels. because it could count on more direct “I think that the rate of growth needed to Washington, DC 20013 support from Europe and the West. get to Europe by 2011 is a fantasy,” said “This is the last frontier. Russia will Tel: (202) 269-1824; 529-7606 Mr. Sidenko. “I believe that until 2015, per- always be Russia, and Ukraine is strategi- Fax: (202) 638-5995 haps a bit earlier, we will still be climbing cally important to Europe,” explained Mr. out of the depths. We are currently only Intriago. No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 19

UACC’s executive... (Continued from page 4) Credit union’s N.J. Advisory Board donates $10,000 to Newark school the restrictions imposed by the Jackson- Vanik Amendment that prevent Ukraine from receiving a permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status. The Action Ukraine Coalition is also presently involved in setting up contacts in Ukraine for an upcoming congressional delegation to Ukraine and in the prepara- tion of a conference in the fall of this year with the participation of U.S. business firms to stimulate greater U.S. investment in Ukraine. Mr. Gawdiak also informed the execu- tive committee that a new organization, the Association of American Friends of Ukraine, headed by a former Pennsylvania congressman, Charles Dougherty, had just joined the Action Ukraine Coalition. Finally, Mr. Gawdiak underscored UACC’s and Action Ukraine Coalition’s continued close and friendly cooperation with the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington on issues of common interest to Ukraine and the Ukrainian American community. The February meeting of the executive committee was the first to be attended by NEWARK, N.J. – The New Jersey Advisory Board of Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union recently donated Dr. Vasyl Lopukh, the newly elected head $10,000 to St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic School in Newark, N.J. Seen above during the presentation of the dona- of the Association of Ukrainians in tion at an assembly of students are credit union representatives and parochial school representatives (from left): Michael America and, therefore, a statutory mem- Szpyhulsky, Joseph Trush, Executive Vice-President Ihor Laszok, Principal Sister Evelyn, the Rev. Bohdan Lukie, Orest ber of UACC Executive Committee. It Ciapka, New Jersey Advisory Board Chair Andrew Hrechak and Antin Tymkewycz. was also the first meeting for Roma Shuhan, the new manager of the UACC’s New York office, who has replaced Damian Lishchynsky, whose resignation was necessitated for reasons of health. Both newcomers were warmly welcomed Throughout the AAyeartt Ukrainiantention,tention, student clubs plan Students!TheStudents! Weekly will be happy to help you publicize by the committee. and hold activities. The Ukrainian Weekly urges stu- them. We will also be glad to print timely news sto- In closing, the committee commended dents to let us and the Ukrainian community know ries about events that have already taken place. Mr. Lishchynsky for his longtime dedica- about upcoming events. Photos also will be accepted. tion and hard work for the UACC.

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cent, meaning it would not get through the 4 Mr. Kuchma’s son-in-law, has failed to tors would go to other left-wing parties, A comparison... percent barrier in the half of seats elected attract popularity. Pure reformist blocs (in not to FUU. Yedintsvo manipulated (Continued from page 2) proportionately. Mr. Lytvyn explained away contrast to those combining national and Russian state and ethnic nationalism at a to back FUU, and by proposing that he these low ratings for FUU by saying that democratic agendas, such as Our Ukraine) time when Russia felt affronted by have little public support. NATO’s unilateral military action in would be prepared to head For a United “sociology, just like academia, prostitutes itself (in Ukraine).” Unity and FUU both had or have unri- Kosovo and a new Chechen conflict had Ukraine after it is transformed into a party. Another major difference between the valled access to “administrative resources,” begun. It is impossible for FUU to manip- But while Mr. Kuchma’s presidency will situations of Russia in 1999 and Ukraine privileged access to the media and the sup- ulate state nationalism in Ukraine. come to an end in two years’ time, Mr. Putin today is that in Ukraine there is a strong port of regional state administrations con- For a United Ukraine, therefore, more was seen as an up-and-coming candidate to alternative to the “party of power.” Our trolled by the executive. Both aim to trans- closely resembles an earlier Russian fill the political vacuum left by the retire- Ukraine occupies the same space on the form their election blocs into political par- “party of power,” Our Home is Russia, ment of President Boris Yeltsin. In addition, political spectrum as both Russia’s liberal ties after the elections, and both had vague rather than Russia’s Choice, which pre- President Putin never stated his intention to Yabloko and the Union of Rightist Forces “centrist” programs that emphasized “stabil- ceded it, or Unity, which succeeded it. lead Unity. – which includes Russia’s Choice, the ity” and stood for a corporatist status quo. Our Home is Russia received only 10.3 According to Article 103 of the country’s first “party of power.” Our The similarity in ideology ends there. percent of the vote in the 1995 elections. Constitution of Ukraine, the president can- Ukraine is different also because it can be Appealing to Russia as a “great power,” Polls commissioned by FUU have given not head any party, and President Kuchma’s more clearly understood as “Rukh-2” with Unity lamented the demise of the Soviet it an inflated popularity of 10 percent, suggestion that he would head FUU flew in an economic platform and a charismatic Union, something FUU or any Ukrainian although its true popularity is only some the face of the president’s well-known nega- and popular leader, Viktor Yushchenko. oligarch group would never do. The 4 percent, according to other polls. For a tive attitude toward the role of parties. This The combination of national and demo- largest group of voters to switch to United Ukraine may obtain as much as trial balloon, therefore, was more a product cratic ideologies within one program was Yedintsvo, therefore, was from the Our Home is Russia did in 1995 because of internal problems and panic in the presi- peculiar to the non-Russian republics of the Communist Party of the Russian of President Kuchma’s backing and elec- dential administration than of the low popu- former USSR, but not to Russia. The Winter Federation (KPRF), a party whose ideolo- tion malpractice, but this would still be larity of FUU. This became clear after a Crop Generation bloc, a Ukrainian attempt gy links Russian nationalism and far less than the 30 percent that FUU January poll by the Center for Economic to emulate Russia’s Union of Rightist Marxism. The CPU is hostile to leaders optimistically predicted the bloc and Political Studies gave it only 3.9 per- Forces funded by oligarch Viktor Pinchuk, Ukrainian independence and any defec- would obtain when it was formed. No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 21 UNWLA members in Florida busy preparing for national convention

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(Continued from page 24) 793-2285, or Iko Labunka, (773) 680-2637. Resort, 1230 Beaver Run Drive, (610) 377- 4621. This get-together of East Coast philate- CHICAGO: The University of Illinois at lists (some of whom stay all three days) is Chicago, the University of Illinois at Urbana- open to anyone interested in acquiring, sell- Champaign and Cook County Hospital will ing, trading or just learning more about be celebrating the 25th anniversary of their Ukrainian stamps, banknotes and coins. The Great Lakes Centers for Occupational and Ukrainian Weekly’s own “Focus on Environmental Safety and Health. The cen- Philately” columnist Dr. Ingert Kuzych will ters are currently engaged in many research be on hand with some of his interesting and and training programs in Ukraine. The unusual acquisitions, and to answer ques- evening gala will commence with open tions. For further information call Mike exhibits, a strolling international buffet, and Matus, (610) 927-3838, or e-mail entertainment by the Chicago Children’s [email protected]. Choir, Hromovytsia and jazz band. The Great Lakes Center’s Director, Dr. Daniel ADVANCE NOTICE Hryhorczuk, will present corporate and labor leadership awards in occupational and envi- Sunday, April 21 ronmental health. Gov. George Ryan, Mayor Richard Daley, and Cook County Board RINGWOOD, N.J.: “Stride and Ride to President John Stroger are the honorary Build” – a walk/bike-a-thon for The Ukrainian Museum Building Fund, will be chairs of this event. Tickets for the evening 100 gala are $150; proceeds will be used to sup- held in Ringwood State Park. Registration: port the education, research and service pro- 9 a.m. The walk covers an easy three-mile course. The mountain bike route is a chal- Çßáà grams of the Great Lakes Centers in their role ß áÄèêé as the Chicago-based World Health lenging seven-mile ride. Bikers must be at éòÖçç ‰Ó ìäê ü Collaborating Center in Occupational and least 14 years old. A picnic will follow with Ä∫çà Environmental Health. To reserve tickets, call a visit from Ron Cahute and Pan Barabolya. (312) 996-7887 or reserve online at Participants are asked to raise $150 per indi- www.uic.edu/sph/glakes. vidual and $250 per family. There will be terrific prizes for top fund-raisers. Non-par- Sunday, April 14 ticipants are welcome to join the picnic and entertainment. Suggested donation: $50 per CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Institute of family. More information at www.ukraini- Modern Art presents the concluding concert anmuseum.org or call Olenka Terleckyj, of its 2001-2002 classical music series, fea- (973) 771-1156. turing pianist Mykola Suk in a program of works by Mozart, Liszt, Revutsky and Wednesday-Friday, August 21-24 Kolessa. The concert will take place at the institute, 2320 W. Chicago Ave., at 2:30 p.m. YAVORIV, Ukraine: The organizing com- (Please note that this is a change from our mittee for the third world meeting of both for- customary 2 p.m. performance time). mer and present inhabitants of Yavoriv and environs will be held August 21-24 in YONKERS, N.Y.: The Ukrainian National Yavoriv, Ukraine. The 2002 meeting is the Women’s League of America Branch 30 is first to take place in Ukraine. Interested par- èéÇßÑéåãÖççü holding its annual Easter bazaar and bake ticipants are asked to register their presence sale at St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic by contacting the organizing committee in Church at 8 a.m.-noon. This is a wonderful Yavoriv by May 31: telephone; 380-3259-21- opportunity to purchase unique gifts, contem- 1254; fax; 380-3259-21-369; e-mail, E- áÇàóÄâçß êßóçß porary art from Ukraine, greeting cards, [email protected]. For more infor- pysanky, honey and supplies for making mation in the United States, contact Mykola áÄÉÄãúçß áÅéêà pysanky – wax, dyes and kistky for the Jejna by calling (585) 544-1549, or e-mailing Easter season. There will also be a raffle for [email protected]. ìÍð‡ªÌÒ¸ÍÓª î‰Âð‡Î¸ÌÓª äð‰ËÚÓ‚Óª äÓÓÔÂð‡ÚË‚Ë a woodcut created by Vitaliy Lytvyn as well as work by featured artists from Ukraine: CORRECTION ◊ëÄåéèéåßó“ Feodosii Humeniuk, Ivan Micyk, Mykola Thursday, April 4 Û î¥Îfl‰Âθ٥ª, è‡. Tytov, Katia Havrylenko, Maryna Sochenko, ‚¥‰·Û‰ÛÚ¸Òfl Oleksander Kropko, Svitlana Berdnyk, Ivan CHICAGO: The day for the Julian Kytasty Baldukha and Rochester, N.Y.-based artist concert, featuring music from Mr. Kytasty’s ‚ ̉¥Î˛, 7 Í‚¥ÚÌfl 2002 ð., Ó „Ó‰. 2-¥È ÔÓ ÔÓÎ. Darka Hanushevska. For more information new CD, “Black Sea Winds – The Kobzari of contact Nadia Cwiach, (203) 975-8388. Ukraine,” was incorrectly listed in the March ‚ Á‡Î¥ ìÍð‡ªÌÒ¸ÍÓ„Ó éÒ‚¥Ú̸Ó-äÛθÚÛðÌÓ„Ó ñÂÌÚðÛ, Friday-Sunday, April 19-21 24 issue of The Weekly as taking place on 700 Cedar Road, Jenkintown, PA Saturday. The concert, sponsored by the LEHIGHTON, Pa.: Ukrainian Artistic Center, will take place on The Mid-Atlantic êÂπÒÚð‡ˆ¥fl ˜ÎÂÌ¥‚ ÔÓ˜Ë̇πÚ¸Òfl ÚÓ˜ÌÓ Ó „Ó‰. 1-¥È ÔÓ ÔÓÎ. Chapter of the Ukrainian Philatelic and Thursday, April 4, at the Ukrainian Institute Numismatic Society will hold its 15th annual of Modern Art, 2320 W. Chicago Ave., at èðÓı‡ÌÌfl ‰Ó ˜ÎÂÌ¥‚: Ó·Ó‚’flÁÍÓ‚Ó ÔðËÌÂÒÚË ˜ÎÂÌÒÚÍÛ ÍÌËʘÍÛ. Zustrich-Meet at the Ukrainian Homestead 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $10; students, $5.

Turning the pages... (Continued from page 6) of trade and economic relations, with CIS members and Russia in particular. A top pri- ority is increasing foreign investment in Ukraine, said Mr. Kuchma, who urged the Parliament to create a favorable climate for foreign investors. He also scolded the Ukrainian Parliament for the slow pace of privatiza- tion, urging deputies to reduce the list of enterprises they had disqualified – over 6,000 objects, and he noted that another top objective in the sphere of economics is the formulation of a new tax policy. He also promised that Ukraine’s officials would continue to aggressively fight organized crime. “Today Ukraine and its people need not prophets, but people who are willing to Upstate NY: 6325 Rte 209 Kerhonkson, NY 12446 Tel.: 914 626-2938, Fax: 914 626-8636 roll up their sleeves and work,” Mr. Long Island: 226 Uniondale Avenue Uniondale, NY 11553 Tel.: 516 565-2393, Fax: 516 565-2097 Kuchma underscored. Queens: 32-01 31st Avenue Astoria, NY 11106 Tel.: 718 626-0506, Fax: 718 626-0458 Source: “Kuchma reaffirms determina- tion to stay the course on reforms” by Marta Kolomayets, The Ukrainian Weekly, Vol. LXIV, No. 14, April 7, 1996. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 No. 13

PREVIEW OF EVENTS FLORIDAFLORIDA Friday, April 5 University. The event will be held at the Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth WASHINGTON: The Catholic University Ave. (between Ninth and 10th streets) at 5 of America will host a lecture by Prof. p.m. For more information call (212) 254- Myroslav Marynovych, vice-rector of the 5130. Lviv Theological Academy, titled “Religious Freedom in Ukraine: Obstacles and NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Medical Encouraging Signs.” Prof. Marynovych, who Association of North America (UMANA) spent 10 years in the Soviet gulag as a found- National Office will hold a regular meeting ing member of the Ukrainian Helsinki of its board of directors in conjunction with Group, is a leading commentator and author the New York Metropolitan Chapter of on human rights and ecumenical affairs in UMANA at 4 p.m. at the Ukrainian Institute Ukraine today. He is the founding director of of America, 2 E. 79th St. At 6 p.m., all New the Institute of Religion and Society at the York Metro members are invited to a get- Lviv Theological Academy, the basis of the acquainted reception to meet the officers and new Ukrainian Catholic University. The pres- learn about the activities of UMANA’s other entation will take place at 4:30 p.m. in 17 chapters. For more information call (773) Caldwell Lounge on the campus of the 278-6262 or visit the website Catholic University of America. For more www.umana.org. information contact Jurij Dobczansky, (202) 707-3080, or Iko Labunka, (773) 680-2637. PHILADELPHIA: The Philadelphia Regional Council of the Ukrainian National NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Art and Women’s League of America cordially Literary Club and Mayana Gallery invite the invites the public to attend a spring reception public to “Oleksa Novakivsky (1872-1935): celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Commemorative Exhibits in Lviv (1985, Ukrainian Museum in New York. The cock- 1997),” a videofilm featuring art historian tail-buffet reception and musical program Vasyl Hlynchak (film director) and his inter- will be held at 4 p.m. at the Ukrainian views with members of the Novakivsky fam- Education and Cultural Center, 700 Cedar UNWLA CONVENTION ily, composer Mykola Kolessa and painter Road, Jenkintown, Pa. Donation: $25 per Volodymyr Patyk. Donation: $7. The exhibit, person. Proceeds to benefit The Ukrainian PECIAL which includes painting reproductions and Museum Building Fund. For reservations call S photographs of members of the Novakivsky (215) 884-8140. Art School, will be on view in the gallery +tax +tax +tax Monday, April 8 LAKELAND$85.00 SARASOT$49.00 A V$65.00ENICE through April 7. The evening begins at 7 p.m. at the Mayana Gallery, 136 Second Ave., CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Best Western Best Western Best Western fourth floor. Gallery hours: Friday, 6-8 p.m.; Ukrainian Research Institute will present a Saturday-Sunday, 1-5 p.m. For more infor- special roundtable discussion, “Ukrainian Diplomat Inn Golden Host Resort Ambassador Suites mation call (212) 260-4490 or (212) 777- www.BestWestern.com/ www.BestWestern.com/ www.BestWestern.com/ Parliamentary Elections of March 2002: 8144, or e-mail [email protected]. Some Preliminary Assessments.” The sched- DiplomatInn GoldenHostResort AmbassadorSuites Website: www.brama.com/mayana. 1-800-237-4699 1-800-722-4895 1-800-685-7353 uled speakers are: Dominique Arel, assistant Friday-Sunday, April 5-7 professor (research) of the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; TORONTO: The Ukrainian Bandurist James Clem, executive officer of the Harvard Call for reservations and package information. Chorus (UBC) of Detroit will hold a bandura Academy for International and Area Studies, workshop for male bandura players in Harvard University; Volodymyr Kulyk, sen- Toronto, focusing on Kharkiv bandura play- ior research fellow, Institute of Political and ing and musicianship skills and introducing Ethnic Studies, National Academy of the players to challenging new repertoire. Sciences of Ukraine; and Stephen Shulman, The workshop will also feature repertoire the assistant professor of political science, UBC is preparing for its concert tour of Southern Illinois University and Shklar Western Europe in 2003, and at the same Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research time give participants an opportunity to Institute. The symposium will be held in the audition for the UBC. The workshop will institute seminar room, 1583 Massachusetts work in three stages: beginning Friday, Ave., at 4-6 p.m. For more information call workshop participants will have an opportu- the institute, (617) 495-4053, or e-mail nity to work one-on-one with Oleh Mahlay, [email protected]. artistic director and conductor of the UBC. Saturday, April 13 That evening, all workshop attendees will rehearse together; they will continue rehears- NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Institute of ing Saturday morning. Joining the workshop America, in cooperation with the Ukrainian attendees on Saturday afternoon will be the Catholic Education Foundation, invite the current UBC instrumental ensemble. The public to a presentation by Prof. Myroslav workshop will culminate Sunday afternoon. Marynovych, former dissident and prisoner For more information contact Anatoli W. of conscience and currently, vice-rector of Murha, UBC president, at (734) 358-6452 or the Lviv Theological Academy, who will e-mail [email protected]. Visit deliver a lecture titled “Ukraine after the www.bandura.org for schedule and location Elections: Old Concerns and New information. Aspirations.” Prof. Marynovych was co- founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, Saturday, April 6 which recently marked its 25th anniversary, NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific and at age 28, one of the youngest members Society is sponsoring a presentation by Dr. of the group to be arrested, incarcerated, Osyp Moroz, former director of business tried and sentenced to hard labor and exile in affairs and chief fiscal officer, State the Soviet gulag in the Perm region of University of New York at Purchase, N.Y., Russia. Upon release, Mr. Marynovych and consultant to the Cabinet of Ministers of returned to his homeland and founded Ukraine (1994-1995), titled “Leonid Amnesty International in Ukraine. The pres- Kravchuk’s Doctrine.” Also taking part in the entation will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the presentation will be Prof. Taras Hunczak, Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. 79th St. Rutgers University, and Dr. Anatolii Refreshments will follow. For further infor- Rusnachenko, University of Linguistics and mation contact Jaroslav Kryshtalsky, (718) Law, Kyiv, and Fulbright Scholar, Columbia (Continued on page 23)

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