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ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal Wnon-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXVIII No.15 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 $1/$2 in Ukraine Ukrainian Days in D.C. promote Constitutional Court ruling OKs U.S.-Ukraine strategic partnership controversial formation of coalition Ukrainian National Information Service U.S.-Ukraine relations and their vital role by Zenon Zawada as community advocates. Press Bureau WASHINGTON – Within the frame- Remarks at the briefing session were work of programs to promote closer rela- offered by the host of the morning gather- KYIV – Ukraine’s pro-Moscow gov- tions between the Ukrainian American ing, Mark Brzezinski, partner at ernment has gained a Constitutional Court community and their members of McGuireWoods LLP and former director ruling that legitimizes the ruling coali- Congress, the Ukrainian Congress of the National Security Council Bureau tion, which legal experts had said violates Committee of America (UCCA) and its for Russian and Eurasian Affairs. the Constitution of Ukraine by allowing Washington bureau, the Ukrainian Remarks were delivered also by Lawrence the parliamentary majority to be formed National Information Service (UNIS), Silverman, director of the Office of by individual national deputies, as well as organized Ukrainian Days in Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus Affairs at deputies’ factions. Washington on March 17-18. the U.S. Department of State; Bryan President said he With the recent political changes in Ardouny, executive director of the accepts the court’s ruling, adding, “We Ukraine, the Ukrainian American com- Armenian Assembly of America (AAA); must learn to live by the law,” while munity’s advocacy of sustained and and Michael Sawkiw Jr., director of the opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko enhanced U.S. relations with Ukraine is Ukrainian National Information Service. denounced it as “unprecedentedly shame- of the utmost importance. In fact, with The State Department representative ful.” She characterized it as a political President Viktor Yanukovych’s first offi- spoke about the recent elections in cial visit to the United States scheduled ruling “made to order by the new authori- Ukraine and the work necessary to for April for the Global Summit on ties” in Ukraine that “tarnishes the foun- strengthen the two countries’ relationship Nuclear Security, Ukrainian Days orga- dations of democracy in the country.” as defined by the Charter on Strategic nizers noted that the Ukrainian communi- Opposition forces are demanding the Alexander Prokopenko/www.tymoshenko.ua Partnership, signed by Secretary of State ty can and must play an important role in establishment of a special commission to Hillary Clinton and Minister of Foreign Opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko advocating a strong strategic partnership investigate pressures brought to bear on Affairs in December delivers a statement on April 8 denounc- between the Washington and Kyiv for the Constitutional Court judges in order to 2009. ing the Constitutional Court’s ruling on betterment of the reform efforts in gain the ruling. As provided in the strategic partner- the formation of a majority coalition. Ukraine. The government’s illegal formation has ship agreement, a commission was The two-day advocacy event began been accompanied by other abuses of the formed as a mechanism to establish a as an aggressive campaign of integrating promptly at 9 a.m. on St. Patrick’s Day, law initiated by the Yanukovych adminis- greater dialogue between the United Ukraine into the Russian sphere of influ- March 17, with a briefing session held at tration, including illegally canceling elec- States and Ukraine on a wide array of ence. the McGuireWoods LLP law firm. Over a tions, derailing Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic issues ranging from energy reform and “Democracy is under threat in dozen representatives from the Ukrainian integration and intimidating Ukrainian trade to cultural affairs and security Ukraine,” said Dr. Taras Kuzio, a senior community from California, nationalists. issues. research fellow at the Chair of Ukrainian Massachusetts, Illinois, Virginia, The troubling signals, emerging within Mr. Brzezinski expressed his perspec- Studies at the University of Toronto. “It’s Maryland, Connecticut, New Jersey and a month of the formation of Ukraine’s tive for the development of bilateral rela- a mindset of anything goes, and pick and New York gathered to interact with their new Cabinet of Ministers, have caused tions between the two states and the tre- choose whatever laws you want to fellow community leaders and to partici- observers to warn of a return to authori- enforce. They’re going to keep pushing pate in a discussion regarding (Continued on page 4) tarianism in Ukraine that prevailed under former President Leonid Kuchma, as well (Continued on page 19) Communists in Zaporizhia plan to erect monument to Stalin RFE/RL brown plague of the 20th century – fas- cism – and who transformed Zaporizhia ZAPORIZHIA, Ukraine – from a provincial town into a powerful Communist Party officials in the south- industrial center.” eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia Bandera and Shukhevych are World say they are planning to erect a monu- War II-era nationalist leaders who are ment to former Soviet leader Joseph viewed by many in eastern Ukraine as Stalin in early May, RFE/RL’s traitors because they fought against Ukrainian Service reports. Soviet forces, although they are viewed Oleksander Zubchevskyi, a by many in the western part of the Communist Party deputy on the country as heroes. Zaporizhia City Council, told RFE/RL Mr. Zubchevskyi said the monument on March 29 that the idea for the Stalin to Stalin will be about three meters monument came from World War II high and mounted on granite. The veterans. Communist Party has not disclosed He said they “resent the fact that either the name of the sculptor – saying there are monuments to the criminals UNIS only that he is from Kyiv – or the exact [Stepan] Bandera and [Roman] location of the monument. Ukrainian Days participants meet with Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (standing, Shukhevych in western Ukraine, and It would be the first new Stalin mon- third from left). Among the visitors are Michael and Anna Koziupa (standing, we have no monument to the person second and third from right), the congressman’s constituents from New Jersey’s who saved the entire world from the (Continued on page 19) 11th District. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 No. 15 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Pro-Russian old guard returns Yanukovych on NATO programs as Security Service of Ukraine Chief Valeriy Khoroshkovsky also became council mem- KYIV – Ukraine should move from bers. (Ukrinform) to run Ukrainian security forces short-term to medium-term programs of by Taras Kuzio Vasyl Vartsaba served as a militia offi- cooperation with NATO, Ukraine’s President Constitutional Court rules on immunity cer and was removed in December 2004. Viktor Yanukovych said on April 6, accord- Eurasia Daily Monitor KYIV – The Constitutional Court (CC) Seven months later he was placed on an ing to presidential press-service. “Ukraine has allowed limits on the immunity from President Viktor Yanukovych and Interpol international watch list. He should organize cooperation with NATO Prime Minister are both helped to organize the first incident of and move from short-term to medium-term prosecution of Ukrainian national deputies ignoring the sensitivities of Orange west- violence that shook the 2004 elections in development programs,” Mr. Yanukovych and gave a negative response to altering the ern and central Ukraine by returning to the Mukachiv mayoral election in April said during a meeting of the newly reorga- president’s immunity, CC Chairman Andriy positions of power individuals from of that year (EDM, May 5, 2004). Mr. nized National Security and Defense Stryzhak said in a statement released on Leonid Kuchma’s second term in office. Vartsaba is to head the Galician region of Council of Ukraine (NSDC). He added that April 7. Thus, the court said that the clause Moreover, defectors from the Kuchma Ivano-Frankivsk’s branch of the MIA, a policy of non-aligned status is the most of the bill demanding restrictions on parlia- regime, who had received asylum in while his deputy in 2004, Viktor Rusyn, appropriate and fair response to the geopo- mentary immunity from prosecution com- Russia out of fear that Viktor Yushchenko will head the Zakarpattia branch of the litical situation in which Ukraine finds itself. plies with the requirements of Articles 157 would implement the Orange Revolution MIA. Mr. Rusyn spent six months in jail President Yanukovych noted that Ukraine is and 158 of the Constitution of Ukraine. At slogan of “Bandits to Prison,” are in the in 2005 for his part in election fraud and interested in developing its own concept of a the same time, the Constitutional Court process of returning to Ukraine (Eurasia violence in the previous year (Ukrayinska renewed system of European security, which ruled that a clause of a bill on the amend- Daily Monitor, April 14, May 25, 2005). Pravda, March 21). would take into account the opportunities ments to the Constitution regarding restric- On March 21 Ukrayinska Pravda Defectors currently living in Russia, and interests of countries participating in tions on the president’s guarantees of immu- reported the return of two individuals – ready to return to Ukraine, include the military-political blocs, as well as non- nity from prosecution conflicts with Article and Viktor Tikhonov – former leader of the in aligned and neutral countries. On April 2 157 of Ukraine’s basic law. (Ukrinform) involved in organizing the November Odesa, Ruslan Bodelan, and Gen. Mykola Mr. Yanukovych signed a presidential decree Tymoshenko team faces great purge 2004 separatist meeting in Severodonetsk Bilokin, who headed the MIA in 2004 to liquidate the interdepartmental commis- (EDM, November 28, 2004). Criminal (EDM, July 20, 2004). The most notori- sion on preparations for Ukraine’s NATO KYIV – Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of charges against separatists that were filed ous returnee will be the former Deputy accession. On March the president had said the opposition, intends to purge her team of in 2005, as in other prominent cases Chairman of the SBU Volodymyr Satsiuk that Ukraine would continue its cooperation unneeded people, it was reported on April 6. involving Ukraine’s elites, were never (in 2004), who owned the dacha where with NATO, but without changing its status. “I promise that this will be the biggest purge completed (EDM, June 23, 2005). Mr. Yushchenko was allegedly poisoned. (Ukrinform) in Ukrainian politics over the years of inde- Many of those returning to the security Another individual set to return is Ihor pendence... We will absolutely get rid of forces were wanted by Interpol, but had Bakai, who fled to Russia in December President approves NSDC staff those people who make our team weaker,” 2004 after misappropriating over $1 mil- Ms. Tymoshenko said, according to her offi- received asylum in Russia, ready to return KYIV – President Viktor Yanukovych on lion as head of the department that serves cial website. The opposition leader also said if and when their patron, Mr. Yanukovych, April 6 signed a decree on the staff of the senior officials. she will try to refresh her political team. “I came to power. They have returned to the National Security and Defense Council of Korrespondent magazine (March 18) will do everything to ensure that completely Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and Ukraine. In accordance with the new decree, analyzed the Azarov Cabinet and found it new people come to the team who are will- head oblast branches in Orange western a number of decrees on the NSDC that were was not only dominated by Donetsk ing to dedicate their life to the full rebuilding and central Ukraine (Ukrayinska Pravda, issued by his predecessor were declared natives and Party of Regions members, of Ukraine and feel that they know how to March 21). First Deputy Sergei Popov invalid, whereas a new composition of the but also by wealthy businessmen such as do it. …We must recognize that we do not headed MIA internal forces dispatched to NSDC was approved. The National Security Vice Prime Ministers Kolesnikov, Sergey have such a team now,” she explained. On crush the Orange Revolution on November and Defense Council includes the Ukrainian Tigipko and SBU Chairman Valerii March 9, members of the Yulia Tymoshenko 28, 2004, but were turned back by the president, who chairs the council, Prime Bloc and Our Ukraine-People’s Self- intervention of the Ukrainian Security Minister Mykola Azarov, NSDC Secretary (Continued on page 20) Defense, namely Fatherland, the People’s Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the military. Raisa Bohatyriova, Foreign Affairs Minister Movement of Ukraine, the Party of , Justice Minister Motherland Defenders, the People’s Self- Oleksander Lavrynovych, Defense Minister Defense movement, the Christian and Ukrainian government examines Democratic Union, the Reforms and Order Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn (by consent). Party, and the Ukrainian Social Democratic The head of the Presidential Administration, Party adopted a resolution establishing a Belarusian model of gas trade Serhiy Liovochkin, Procurator General unified democratic opposition. Former Oleksander Medvedko (by consent), Internal Prime Minister Tymoshenko was elected by Vladimir Socor has few takers, however, even in this Affairs Minister Anatoliy Mohyliov, leader of the opposition. (Ukrinform) Eurasia Daily Monitor Donetsk-rooted government. Moscow National Bank of Ukraine Chairman could, at most, hope to introduce a degree Volodymyr Stelmakh (by consent), as well (Continued on page 14) Ukraine’s newly elected president, of ambiguity in the Ukrainian govern- Viktor Yanukovych, and the new govern- ment’s policy deliberations and external ment clamored for low-priced Russian signals, weighing the advantages of the gas from their first day in office. 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Motyl Reform, consisting of 24 members, to affairs –– positions that give them broad rule rests on a strategic, and possibly fatal, develop a strategy of economic change. The scope to clamp down on the liberties of misunderstanding of Ukraine. As Ukraine’s recently elected president, size of the committee guarantees that it will ordinary citizens. First, the Orange Revolution and five Viktor Yanukovych, prepares to visit be a talk shop, while the incompetence of Democratically inclined Ukrainians are years of Viktor Yushchenko’s presidency Washington in April, he will aim to project the two ministers means that whatever gen- empowered the Ukrainian population, an image of stability, confidence and con- increasingly persuaded that Mr. Yanukovych uinely positive ideas the committee devel- wants to become Ukraine’s version of endowing it with a self-confidence that it trol. In reality, Mr. Yanukovych has com- ops will remain on paper. lacked before 2004 and consolidating a vig- Belarus’s dictator, Alyaksandr Lukashenka. mitted a series of mistakes that could doom His fifth mistake was to appoint the con- But Mr. Yanukovych’s vision of strong-man (Continued on page 20) his presidency, scare off foreign investors troversial as minister of and thwart the country’s modernization. education. Mr. Tabachnyk has expressed President Yanukovych’s first mistake chauvinist views that democratically was to violate the Constitution by changing inclined Ukrainians regard as deeply offen- the rules according to which ruling parlia- sive to their national dignity, such as the mentary coalitions are formed, making it belief that western Ukrainians are not real Luhansk residents look for help possible for his party to take the lead in Ukrainians; endorsing the sanitized view of partnership with several others, including Soviet history propagated by the Kremlin; the Communists. That move immediately in cleaning up industrial region and claiming that and galvanized the demoralized opposition that RFE/RL Olena Stepanets has lived in culture flourished in Soviet times. Sverdlovsk all her life and is an active clustered around his challenger in the presi- SVERDLOVSK, Ukraine – Residents dential elections, former Prime Minister Unsurprisingly, many Ukrainians have member of an environmental community of a heavily polluted area in eastern Yulia Tymoshenko. reacted in the same way that African organization. She told RFE/RL that she Ukraine say they’re hoping for help from His second mistake was to appoint as Americans would react to KKK head David doesn’t know what white snow looks President Viktor Yanukovych, a native prime minister his crony Mykola Azarov, a Duke’s appointment to such a position –– like. son, in cleaning up the area, RFE/RL’s tough bureaucrat whose name is synony- with countrywide student strikes, petitions “When a slag heap has burned, the mous with government corruption, ruinous and demonstrations directed as much at Mr. Ukrainian Service reports. snow around it is blood red,” Ms. taxation rates and hostility to small busi- Yanukovych as at Mr. Tabachnyk. The Luhansk Oblast, one of Ukraine’s Stepanets said. ness. The appointment dispelled any hopes These five mistakes have effectively most industrialized eastern regions, has Residents say they have been com- Ukrainians had that Mr. Yanukovych would undermined Mr. Yanukovych’s legitimacy more than 500 slag heaps, the result of plaining about the problem for years promote serious economic reform. within a few weeks of his inauguration. The decades of coal mining. According to without any resolution. His third mistake was to agree to a 45.5 percent of the electorate that voted local environmental organizations, 66 of Three years ago, a group of environ- Cabinet consisting of 29 ministers as against him now feels vindicated; the 10-20 the slag heaps in the area are constantly mentalists mobilized local residents to opposed to 25 before –- an impossibly large percent that voted for him as the lesser of burning. file a lawsuit demanding resettlement into number that will only compound its inabili- two evils now suspect that their fears of Liubov Talubayeva, the director of the areas with cleaner air. But the Sverdlovsk ty to engage in serious decision-making. Mrs. Tymoshenko’s authoritarian tenden- regional department that monitors the regional court returned the suit to the That the Cabinet contained not one woman cies were grossly exaggerated. And every- area’s air quality, told RFE/RL’s plaintiffs, asking for additional informa- –– Mr. Azarov claimed that reform was not one worries that Mr. Yanukovych and his Ukrainian Service that the smoking heaps tion. women’s work –– only reinforced the image band of Donbas-based “dons” are ruthlessly are releasing sulfuric anhydride, hydro- Putting out smoking slag heaps is a of the Cabinet as a dysfunctional boys’ pursuing the same anti-democratic agenda gen sulfide, nitrogen dioxide and other lengthy and costly process, say local resi- club. that sparked the Orange Revolution of harmful gases. dents. The Luhansk coal plants do not His fourth mistake was to appoint two 2004. “Such a concoction of...gases is harm- have the extra funds to cover such nonentities –– a former state farm manager Several other key dismissals and appoint- ful to humans. It’s harmful for all life,” expenses. and an economics graduate from a Soviet ments have only reinforced this view. The Ms. Talubayeva said. The local residents hope that some agricultural institute –– to head the minis- director of the Security Service archives Sverdlovsk city residents are worst help will come from Kyiv. President tries of economy and finance. Meanwhile, ––a conscientious scholar who permitted affected. Almost one-third of the smoking Yanukovych hails from coal mining coun- he created a Committee on Economic unrestricted public access to documentation slag heaps are in this eastern industrial try, they say, so perhaps he will under- revealing Soviet crimes –– has been fired. town. stand. The National Television and Radio Alexander Motyl is a professor of Company has been placed in the hands of a political science at Rutgers University- lightweight entertainer expected to toe the Newark. The article above is reprinted line. Most disturbing perhaps, several of with the author’s permission from the Mr. Yanukovych’s anti-democratically Wall Street Journal Europe, where it inclined party allies have been placed in appeared on March 30. charge of provincial ministries of internal

OSCE chairperson on visit to Ukraine discusses shared priorities, cooperation OSCE Ukraine, and the OSCE stands ready to provide further assistance as requested,” KYIV – The chairperson-in-office of Mr. Saudabayev said at the news confer- the Organization for Security and ence following the meetings. Cooperation in Europe, Kazakhstan’s The chairperson-in-office highlighted Secretary of State and Foreign Minister the fruitful co-operation between Kanat Saudabayev, on March 31 in Kyiv Ukraine’s authorities and the OSCE’s discussed key aspects of the dialogue on project coordinator acting in accordance RFE/RL European security between participating with its mandate in such areas as promot- A village next to a burning slag heap in the Luhansk Oblast. states of the Organization, and how the ing democratization and good gover- OSCE could support the domestic priori- nance, as well as combating corruption ties of the new leadership in Ukraine. and human trafficking. “This is the first high-level meeting He stressed the importance of joint Quotable notes between the OSCE and the new leader- activities, including a continuing large- ship of Ukraine,” he said. “Ukraine plays scale project to dispose of thousands of “…the United States must think strategically about its long-term relationship an important role in the region, and we tones of melange, a highly toxic obsolete with Russia and pursue a two-track policy: it has to cooperate with Russia when- intend to work together to achieve our rocket fuel component. More than 1,500 ever doing so is mutually beneficial, but in a way that is also responsive to his- common goal of strengthening mutual tonnes of melange have already been torical reality. The age of closed empires is over, and Russia, for the sake of its understanding and trust in the sphere of removed from Ukraine’s territory. “The own future, will eventually have to accept this. responsibility of our organization within OSCE-Ukraine initiative is an excellent “Seeking to expand cooperation with Russia does not mean condoning the framework of the Corfu Process.” example of tangible and effective cooper- Russia’s subordination of Georgia (through which the vital Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Mr. Saudabayev met with Ukraine’s ation that contributes to the security of pipeline passes, providing Europe with access to Central Asian energy) or its President Viktor Yanukovych, Verkhovna people living in the OSCE area,” said Mr. intimidation of Ukraine (an industrial and agricultural heartland of the former Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn, Prime Saudabayev. Soviet Union). Either move would be a giant step backward. …Yet so far, the Minister Mykola Azarov, Foreign Affairs During the meetings in Kyiv, Mr. Obama administration has been quite reluctant to provide even purely defensive Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko and Saudabayev expressed gratitude to the arms to Georgia (in contrast to Russia’s provision of offensive weaponry to representatives of political parties. Ukrainian leadership for its support for Venezuela), nor has it been sufficiently active in encouraging the EU [European “The recent presidential election in the Kazakhstan’s initiative to hold an OSCE Union] to be more responsive to Ukraine’s European aspirations …” country, which met most OSCE and inter- summit in 2010 and extended an invita- national commitments according to the tion to the country’s foreign affairs minis- – Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. national security adviser in 1977-1981, writ- international observation mission’s inter- ter to the informal ministerial meeting to ing in the journal Foreign Affairs (January-February issue), in his essay titled im report, is a victory of democracy in take place in July in Almaty. “From Hope to Audacity: Appraising Obama’s Foreign Policy” 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 No. 15

gathering to become acquainted with each Ukrainian Days... other and to discuss the day’s events. The (Continued from page 1) participants had an opportunity to share mendous amount of support that currently their thoughts about the Washington exists for Ukraine amongst Washington advocacy process and relate their experi- circles. It was suggested by Mr. ences in Congress. Brzezinski that the topic of Ukraine’s Olenka Stasyshyn, a representative strategic importance should be aired in a from the New Wave Ukrainian organiza- greater forum and publicized in the major tion of the greater Baltimore-Washington U.S. press. metropolitan area, stated that the goal of Mr. Ardouny underscored that events Ukrainian Days is to “bring forth our like Ukrainian Days are essential for concerns and issues before our legisla- expanding the community’s influence on tors. We all have a common goal before U.S. policy toward Ukraine. “Your com- us – we are all striving to integrate munity has a chance to develop closer Ukraine in Euro-Atlantic structures and relations between the new Ukrainian gov- return to its status as a prominent ernment and the Obama administration. European state. Our community looks One of your immediate tasks is to relate forward to the assistance from Congress your concerns to members of Congress to advance that reality.” and have them demonstrate support for On March 18 Rep. Quigley and the Ukrainian people and their unequivo- Congressional Ukrainian Caucus co- cal choice in favor of democracy and a chairs Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.) and Rep. free-market economy.” Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) emphasized their UNIS At the conclusion of the morning brief- support for developing closer relations ing session, the participants split into two with Ukraine as they joined Ukrainian Ukrainian Days participants in front of the U.S. House of Representatives and the groups and hit the halls of Capitol Hill. Days participants for an early morning U.S. Capitol. The afternoon was dedicated to meetings breakfast in the Members Dining Room with various congressional offices, among in the U.S. Capitol. Ukraine-related issues. A luncheon was held on Thursday them: Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.); Rep. Rep. Gerlach stated: “The success of The last day of advocacy in Washington afternoon, at which both groups partici- Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.); Rep. Luis Ukrainian Days has been tremendous, was devoted to another round of congres- pated in a discussion about the recent Gutierrez (D-Ill.); Rep. Mike Quigley and the event is truly becoming a tradi- sional meetings. Dividing into groups once presidential elections in Ukraine and how (D-Ill.); Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.); tion here in the Capitol. Ukrainian issues again, the Ukrainian Days participants they can work together to advance the Rep. Janice Schakowsky (D-Ill,); Sen. remain very relevant to our work as mem- tackled meetings with congressional offic- Ukraine’s reforms and maintain its demo- Robert Menendez (D-N.J.); Sen. Frank bers of Congress, and exchanging ideas es: Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.); Rep. Bill cratic principles. Lautenberg (D-N.J.); Sen. Kirtsen and information is extremely valuable. As Pascrell (D-N.J.); Rep. Rodney Having met with the Senate Foreign Gillibrand (D-N.Y.); and the Commission the co-chairman of the Congressional Frelinghuysen (R-N.J); Rep. John Sarbanes Relations Committee earlier in the day, on Security and Cooperation in Europe Ukrainian Caucus, I look forward to (D-Md.); Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.); and the Ukrainian Days participants also met (CSCE) – the Helsinki Commission. working with Ukrainian Americans to Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.). with the U.S. House of Representatives Rep. Quigley joined his staffer to strengthen the important partnership Rep. Frelinghuysen and Sen. Scott counterpart – the House Foreign Affairs acquaint himself with the community’s between Ukraine and the United States.” Brown greeted and met with participants Committee. During that meeting, the dis- concerns regarding U.S.-Ukraine rela- Rep. Kaptur also commented on the and discussed ways to enhance U.S.- cussion centered the strategic partnership tions. During the discussion with need for the Ukrainian community to pre- Ukraine relations, especially following agreement between Ukraine and the Ukrainian Days participants, Rep. serve its heritage in the United States and the recent presidential elections in United States and also how the Obama Quigley stated: “As a new member of promote its concerns amongst the U.S. Ukraine. administration’s “reset” with Russia Congress and a new member of the legislators. A unique opportunity presented itself might affect relations with Ukraine. Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, I am Following the breakfast, the partici- during this year’s Ukrainian Days pro- The staff assistant reassured the commu- eager to assist in helping to advance the pants were formally greeted in the Senate gram as the participants met with a visit- nity representatives that the House Foreign bilateral relationship between Ukraine Foreign Relations Committee room in the ing delegation of NGOs from Ukraine. Affairs Committee is committed to the stra- and the United States. Ukraine, having Capitol. The room is used to greet foreign The delegation was part of the Open tegic relationship between Ukraine and the undergone a recent presidential election, heads of state and government when they World program initiated by the Library of United States, as was evident from the has a lot to endure in its reform process, visit Congress. The meeting, arranged by Congress, which brings groups of Committee’s resolution prior to the and as members of Congress, we are ded- the committee staff, afforded the partici- Ukrainian NGOs to the U.S. to learn Ukraine’s January 17 presidential election. icated to enhancing that relationship for pants an opportunity to understand the about the fundamentals of the American In all of the meetings on Capitol Hill, the benefit of both nations.” complexity of the Foreign Relations legislative system, and to interact with the participants of Ukrainian Days pre- In the evening of March 17, Ukrainian Committee’s duties, as well as to discuss various American communities through- Days participants met for an informal the recent actions undertaken to address out the country. (Continued on page 20)

The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund: March OBITUARY: Anton Nakonecznyj,

Amount Name City Eugene Serba Mount Laurel, NJ $100.00 Gregory Buchai Sugar Land, TX $15.00 Irene Burke Brighton, NY Hartford community activist, 89 Lida Buniak Fayetteville, NY Alex Harbuziuk Naperville, IL HARTFORD, Conn. – Anton Nakonecznyj, an active Natalie and Ihor Lysyj Austin, TX Oleh Karawan Inverness, IL member of the Hartford Ukrainian community since (in memory of Volodymyr Ihor Kuryliw Weston, ON 1949, died peacefully on March 25 at his home in Polishuk) Alice Yarysh Rocky Hill, CT Wethersfield, Conn. He was 89. O. and L. Skubiak Oakbrook, IL Anna Zelishko Hinsdale, IL Mr. Nakonecznyj was born in Ukraine and immigrat- (in memory of Roman $10.00 Mary Decyk-Nowadly Niskayuna, NY ed to the United States in 1949. Kupchinsky) Stephen Hlynsky Rockaway, NJ He was a founding member in 1952 of the Hartford Neonila Sochan Morristown, NJ Walter Hoszko Piscataway, NJ branch of the Ukrainian American Youth Association. (in gratitude to Irena Christina Kowinko Stratford, CT He served as president of the Ukrainian National Home Klufas) Ruta Lew Brooklyn, NY of Hartford in 1988-2002 and held various positions on Oksana Zakydalsky Toronto, ON Evhen Rudakevych Leesburg, OH its board of directors over the years. $55.00 Orest Popovych Howell, NJ Marion Woloshyn Whiting, NJ He was also a member of St. Michael’s Ukrainian $50.00 Zoryslava Gojaniuk Trenton, NJ $5.00 Merle and Bonnie Toledo, OH Catholic Church, its church choir, Dibrova, the Ukrainian $45.00 Eugene Mandzy East Hanover, NJ Jurkiewicz Congress Committee of America, Organization for the John Mandzych Bay Shore, NY George Kedrowsky Hilton Head Island, SC Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine, Ukrainian Michael Sosiak Curitiba, Parana, Brazil S. Klem Troy, NY American Youth Association, Cooperative SUMA $33.00 N. Pawluk Huntsville, AL Stacey Basniak- Lunenburg, MA Ukrainian Gift Shop and Ukrainian National Association $30.00 Lieda Boyko Port Charlotte, FL Lecuivre Branch 277, all in Hartford. $25.00 Ihor and Natalie Columbia, MD Peter and Olga Prychka Stratford, NJ Mr. Nakonecznyj was employed at Underwood, East Gawdiak Philip Yankoschuk Bayside, NY Catholic High School and the Ukrainian National Home R. and D. Klodnycky Dunlap, IL of Hartford. Myron and Christina New Haven, CT TOTAL: $1,308.00 Surviving are his wife, Anna (Budnyk) Nakonecznyj, Melnyk and stepdaughter, Liudmila Galai of Wethersfield, as $20.00 Roman Cybriwsky Philadelphia, PA Sincere thanks to all contributors to The Ukrainian well as other stepdaughters and a brother in Ukraine, and Michael Drabyk McLean, VA Weekly Press Fund. nieces and nephews in Ukraine and the United States. Vera Geba S. Easton, MA A requiem liturgy was offered on March 30 at St. Roman and Victoria Warren, MI The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund is the only fund Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church; burial was at St. Maksimowich dedicated exclusively to supporting the work of this Michael’s Ukrainian Cemetery in Glastonbury, Conn. Mykola Mirchuk Livingston, NJ publication. Memorial donations may be made to St. Michael’s Paul Nadzikewycz Chicago, IL Ukrainian Catholic Church Renovation Fund or the Ukrainian American Youth Association Education Fund. No. 15 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 5

The Ukr a ini a n Nationa l Asso c iation For u m CONVENTION PRIMER: The UNA’s purposes and its basic structure The Ukrainian National Association will branch based in, say, Jersey City, N.J., can less than 75 members in order to elect a del- reational nature; and to conduct membership hold its 37th Regular Convention from have members from across the United egate to the convention. However, the two campaigns. Thursday, May 20, through Sunday, May 23, States. branches together must have no less than 75 Furthermore, districts also have as their at Soyuzivka in Kerhonkson, N.Y. With that Since the UNA now does direct billing, members. The by-laws note: “Unless other- goal “to strengthen activities of the local in mind, The Ukrainian Weekly is publishing which is managed by the Home Office in wise agreed by the mutual consent of the Ukrainian community in every way possi- a series titled “Convention Primer” that Parsippany, N.J., the fact that a branch’s Secretaries of these Branches, the Branch ble, by organized participation of UNA will explain the UNA’s goals, structure and members don’t live in the same city does not having the greater or greatest number of Branches in its various activities and pro- operations, as well as what UNA conven- pose a hindrance to collecting UNA dues members shall be entitled to elected the del- grams.” Thus, UNA district committees are tions are all about. (something that in the early days of the egates, and the Branch having the lesser seen as integral parts of the broader UNA was most likely to be done in person number of members, the alternate.” Ukrainian community. The Ukrainian National Association is a wherever Ukrainians gathered, be it at It is through this branch system that each District committees hold an annual meet- fraternal benefit society founded in 1894 to church or at the local national home). member of the UNA is represented at the ing at which their executive boards and provide for the well-being of “Ukrainians Nonetheless, branch secretaries are charged organization’s conventions by his/her duly auditing committees are elected. These and their descendants.” The UNA does this with keeping track of their members and elected delegate or delegates. meetings, generally held in January or by providing life insurance and annuities to keeping them informed of branch meetings The next building block in the UNA is February, are open to all UNA members. members and by using the profits earned and other developments. the district committee. As noted in the UNA The district executive board is composed from sales of these products to support fra- Branches send delegates to quadrennial By-laws, “Branches may form regional bod- of a chairperson, two vice-chairpersons, ternal activities that benefit members, as conventions of the Ukrainian National ies called District Committees for the pur- English- and Ukrainian-language secretar- well as the entire Ukrainian community. Association. Delegates are elected at branch pose of coordinating fraternal, cultural and ies, a treasurer and chairs of committees that As noted in its Charter (Articles of meetings called after the official announce- organizational activities in a given geo- deal with organizational and cultural-educa- Incorporation), “The purpose for which this ment of the UNA convention. graphical area, as provided in the Manual tional affairs, as well as the press. As well, corporation is formed are to promote unity In accordance with the UNA By-Laws, for District Committees.” there is a district auditing committee. In and social relations, to diffuse principles of each branch having 75 to 149 members is The UNA Manuals, a companion to the addition, districts may appoint chairs of benevolence and charity among Ukrainians entitled to one delegate. Branches having UNA By-Laws, further describe the role of other committees as deemed necessary, and and their descendants residing within the 150 to 224 members have two delegates; district committees. Their purposes include: they may reduce the number of officers on United States and its possessions, within those having 225 to 299 members have to coordinate work and to intensify and the board if they so choose. Canada and elsewhere, to secure their moral three delegates. Branches that have 300 or extend the activities of the UNA within the In addition to the annual meeting, it has and mental development, to educate and more members are entitled to four delegates, district; to represent the UNA in the district’s become traditional for district committees to instruct them in the principles of free gov- but no branch can have more than four dele- area among local citizens; to assist UNA hold organizing meetings once a year in ernment, American institutions and laws, gates. branches in carrying out their functions; to order to focus on the enrollment of members and for those purposes to open, organize and If a branch has less than 75 members it jointly plan and conduct activities of an into the UNA. maintain schools, libraries and other educa- can unite with another branch that also has organizational, educational, cultural and rec- – Roma Hadzewycz tional facilities, to arrange and provide for their entertainment and amusement, to pub- lish and circulate among them literary and educational publications and newspapers in the Ukrainian, English and other languages, Young UNA’ers and to provide and maintain an old-age home for its members under such conditions and in such manner as may be provided by the Rules and By-Laws of the Association, and allowed by law, and to provide recre- ational, sport, cultural and vacation facilities Do you have for its members, their families and chil- dren.” Today, the UNA is perhaps best know as a young UNA’er, the publisher of two weekly newspapers: the Ukrainian-language Svoboda and The or potential Ukrainian Weekly, published in English, and as the owner of the Soyuzivka Heritage Center in the Catskill region of New York young UNA’er state. Among its most popular fraternal ben- efits are scholarships to student members. in your family? The basic building block of the UNA is the branch. When a person enrolls into the UNA, he or she is admitted to membership in the branch to which his/her application was submitted, or to which he/she is Call the UNA Home Office, assigned by the UNA Home Office. 973-292-9800, Enrolling in the UNA means filling out an Makar Say, son of Volodymyr and Leo Georges Parent, son of Tamara to find out how to enroll. application for an insurance policy or an Maria Say of Wethersfield, Conn., is a Sztyk and Jacques Parent of Montreal, annuity certificate. new member of UNA Branch 277. He New branches may also be created. The is a new member of UNA Branch 465. was enrolled by his grandparents Yuriy UNA Manuals note that “Any 15 or more He was enrolled by Eugene Osidacz. and Halyna Say. persons qualified for membership in accor- dance with the By-Laws of the UNA being desirous of becoming a Branch of this asso- ciation shall hold a meeting and elect a tem- porary Branch President, Branch Secretary and Branch Treasurer; adopt a resolution selecting a name and authoring the officers so temporarily elected to make application for a charter.” The UNA Executive Committee must approve the new branch. Afterwards the approved branch receives a charter and official UNA materials. In the past, such branches were created by persons having a common interest – par- ticipation in a sports club or membership in a youth organization, for example – or per- sons residing in the same area. Today’s UNA branches, however, are no longer confined to a particular geographic area. Thus, a UNA

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WINDOW ON EURASIA Th e Uk r a i n i a n We e k l y Signals from Kyiv, Part 1 Moscow’s expectations for Ukraine The news from Kyiv seems to get worse each day – each day since the Yanukovych administration began. If the new leadership’s goal is to reverse the likely to be dashed, expert says positive achievements of Ukraine’s years of independence, then the administration by Paul Goble decessor Viktor Yushchenko, who and the Cabinet of Ministers are certainly on track. The reversals are evident in behaved in such a way that he guaranteed both foreign and domestic policy. This week, let’s take a look at foreign policy. Russian commentaries on the conse- he would lose. As a result, the Moscow President Yanukovych has said he would continue programs of cooperation with quences of Viktor Yanukovych’s election writer says, many in Ukraine and in NATO at existing levels, but would not expand them. He noted that, while NATO as have raised Russia are ready to award Mr. membership was not on his agenda, “partnership relations between Ukraine and expectations in Moscow to such an unre- Yushchenko the title of Hero of Russia NATO would be kept.” Then, on April 2, Mr. Yanukovych signed a presidential alistically high point that some or all of for opening the way for Mr. Yanukovych. decree to liquidate the interdepartmental commission on preparations for Ukraine’s them almost certainly are going to be And that even division explains both NATO accession. It is worth noting here that Ukraine’s existing national security dashed in the months ahead, according to why there was not an echo of the Orange policy cites NATO membership as a goal. (And, by the way, readers should be a Kremlin expert on national security. Revolution this time around and why Mr. reminded that Mr. Yanukovych, as prime minister of Ukraine, supported NATO In a comment posted online on March Yanukovych almost certainly will behave membership before he opposed it.) 22, Aleksandr Mikhaylenko, a professor very differently now that he is Ukrainian Furthermore, though the Yanukovych administration has said it favors continu- of national security at the Russian president than he said he would while he ing the U.S.-Ukraine strategic partnership (we’re sure to hear more about that when Academy of Government Service in the was engaged in a campaign to gain that Mr. Yanukovych visits Washington for the Nuclear Security Summit on April Office of the President of the Russian office. Federation, says “the idealization of the 12-13), the president stated that a non-aligned status is the most appropriate and Yulia Tymoshenko, whom Mr. post-election situation in Ukraine” is not fair response to the geopolitical situation in which Ukraine finds itself. Yanukovych defeated, clearly was think- in Russia’s interest. Though his first foreign visit was to Brussels, where he assured European ing about a repetition of the earlier events, Since the Ukrainian presidential elec- Union leaders that Euro-integration remains a key priority, President Yanukovych pointedly declaring after the vote that tions, the national security specialist says, four days later visited Moscow, where he promised to his own reset of relations “Mr. Yanukovych is not our president,” the Russian media have been filled with with Russia. Soon thereafter he did away with the position of vice prime minister but the new incumbent countered by materials which “excessively idealize the for Euro-integration. Other officials of the new government also have visited bringing in his supporters in the force situation in Ukraine,” thus creating Moscow to pursue more Russia-friendly relations, and the president himself vis- structures into the Ukrainian capital in a among Russians and the Russian political ited Russia again this past week to continue discussing prospects for Ukrainian- show of force. class “heightened expectations” about Russian cooperation. That prevented an Orange Revolution where Kyiv will go with respect to Those prospects for cooperation, we must note, include such things as joint cele- II, Mr. Mikhaylenko says, but adds that Moscow. brations of Victory Day (May 9), i.e., the Soviet victory in World War II, known by “it is not difficult [for him] to imagine But, he continues, “an analysis shows the Soviet-era term as the Great Patriotic War; giving Russia part ownership of that the next time [there is a political cri- that the elections just past were yet anoth- Ukraine’s gas transit system; protecting the rights of Russian-speaking citizens of sis in Ukraine] the opposition will call er testimonial of the fact that [Ukraine] Ukraine; and extending the lease for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea. Mr. people to come out into the streets,” Yanukovych also pledged that he would cancel the Hero of Ukraine title bestowed remains split in half.” That provides the explanation for the “transparency and something that makes predicting the by decree of President Viktor Yushchenko on Stepan Bandera. And, some in his future of Kyiv’s policies extremely diffi- entourage have spoken about Ukraine joining the Russia-Belarus union and/or the democracy” of the elections: “the forces of the competing sides [were and remain] cult. Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan customs union. And President Yanukovych clearly is The new president has been criticized by many observers in Ukraine for acting approximately equal.” Indeed, Mr. Mikhaylenko continues, aware that governing is different than like a vassal of Russia when he visited Moscow. But this behavior began even ear- campaigning. By making his first foreign lier: on Mr. Yanukovych’s inauguration day it was not Ukrainian religious leaders Mr. Yanukovych won “to a significant degree” thanks to the actions of his pre- visit to Brussels rather than to Moscow who offered a blessing for the new president, but a foreign Church leader – and by declaring that Ukrainian will Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church. remain “the single state language,” the What to make of the Yanukovych foreign policy? Taras Kuzio writes in his latest Paul Goble is a long-time specialist new president has shown that he is not article for Eurasia Daily Monitor about the Yanukovych administration’s “undermin- on ethnic and religious questions in going to change direction too far or too ing of a two-decade-old consensus on foreign policy” that “is leading to confusion at Eurasia who has served in various quickly lest he exacerbate tensions inside home and abroad as to his foreign policy goals.” Proof of that can be seen in the capacities in the U.S. State Department, Ukraine. words of a top official of the European Union, Hugues Mingarelli, director-general the Central Intelligence Agency and the There has not been and will not be a for external relations at the European Commission, who commented on April 7 to International Broadcasting Bureau, as “180 degree” change of direction under RFE/RL that the Yanukovych administration has yet to show its true colors. well as at the Voice of America and Mr. Yanukovych. “No one needs” what Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and that would entail, the Moscow analyst the Carnegie Endowment for continues, recalling that one of Mr. International Peace. He has also been Yushchenko’s first mistakes in 2005 was April director of research and publications at to replace some 18,000 government Turning the pages back... the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, employees, insisting on loyalty and get- vice-dean for the social sciences and ting “absolute incompetence.” No one humanities at Audentes University in wants a repetition. 18 Tallinn and a senior research associate For all these reasons, the Moscow Fifteen years ago, on April 18, 1995, Russian President at the EuroCollege of the University of advisor concludes, no one in the Russian 1995 Boris Yeltsin met in Moscow with Yevhen Marchuk, Ukraine’s Tartu in Estonia. Mr. Goble writes a blog capital should assume that there now acting prime minister, to resolve a dispute with the Crimean called “Window on Eurasia” (http://win- exists, after Mr. Yanukovych’s rise to peninsula over the Black Sea Fleet, among other issues. “It dowoneurasia.blogspot.com/). This arti- office, “a single scenario for the develop- will be correct to sign major political documents between Russia and Ukraine only cle above, dated March 23, is reprinted after we are convinced that the relations between Symferopol and Kyiv do not infringe with permission. (Continued on page 17) on the interests of the Crimeans,” Mr. Yeltsin was quoted as saying by ITAR-TASS. Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minster Andrei Kozyrev told the Council for Foreign Policies, which met in Moscow at the same time, that “the possibility of using direct force to protect ethnic Russians abroad is not ruled out.” Quotable notes “There is a large arsenal of means to protect our compatriots – from the expression “…In the wake of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, ‘Europe whole, free and at of mild dissatisfaction by an anonymous representative of the Russian Foreign peace’ was not just a vision; it was a successful policy leading to the consolida- [Affairs] Ministry to the application of political and economic sanctions,” he said. “In tion of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe and integration of the region certain instances, the use of direct military force might be necessary to protect our into Europe’s great institutions. … compatriots abroad.” “The same bipartisan leadership demonstrated over the past 20 years is Speaking about the Black Sea Fleet, Mr. Marchuk said, “De jure, it is a fleet owned required today to ‘complete Europe’ …However, at present, we are missing the by two countries – Ukraine and Russia; de facto, it is controlled by Russia,” vision and the policy to extend this great success story to the south and east. “If Kyiv will not meet Russia on certain issues, some economic deals with Ukraine “Russia has a strategy – unfortunately, one of rollback. The West does not yet giving it certain benefits are likely to be revised,” said Dmitri Riurikov, an adviser to have a coherent strategy, although Vice-President [Joe] Biden’s trip to Kyiv last Mr. Yeltsin on international affairs. year helped lay out excellent broad principles for U.S. policy. We cannot afford Russia called for the payment of Ukraine’s gas debt of $2.5 billion by July 1995, to put Ukraine on the back burner or accept the argument that active U.S. Mr. Marchuk told Interfax-Ukraine. “We should put things in order in our own house” engagement is somehow provocative toward Russia. We should not accept the – control gas consumption, institute energy-saving measures and schedule repayments argument that Ukraine is ‘messy’ and too divided as an excuse not to engage. If – “otherwise a catastrophe is in store for us,” he said. so, we may lose Ukraine. Ukraine’s future is in play today. While changes in President Yeltsin confirmed the wording of the draft treaty on friendship between Ukraine are unlikely to be decisive in the next few years, the trend lines could the two countries that “the two parties respect and confirm the inviolability of each take Ukraine further away rather than closer to Europe. We do not want to look other’s existing borders.” back at Ukraine’s next election and wonder what happened. …” “The Crimea will never be the source of discord between Russia and Ukraine,” said President Yeltsin during the meeting in Moscow. – Damon Wilson, vice-president and director of the International Security Program Atlantic Council, in testimony before the U.S. Commission on Security Source: “Ukraine-Russia treaty in doubt as Yeltsin cites interests in Crimea,” by and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission) on March 16. Marta Kolomayets, The Ukrainian Weekly, April 23, 1995. No. 15 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 7

NEWS AND VIEWS Art collector Victor Pinchuk, his contacts and interests The following letter to the editor was ing $3.3 million for an Andreas Gursky sent by renowned Ukrainian jewelry photograph and then a staggering $23 Pandemonium in the pews designer Masha Archer to the New Yorker million for Jeff Koons’ “Hanging Heart,” On Wednesday evening, April 21, issues like language and the trustee sys- in response to an article in the magazine’s it makes a mockery of his pretty state- 1926, Father Onufry Kowalski tem (M. Mark Stolarik, “Slovak December 21, 2009, issue about Ukrainian ment: “Let’s just say that from the begin- approached Sacred Heart Ruthenian Immigrants Come to Terms with businessman and “influential art collec- ning I wanted to give some privilege to Greek-Catholic Church at 136 Arlington Religious Diversity in North America,” tor” Victor Pinchuk, who had arrived in Ukraine.” Street in Boston, armed with letters from Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 96, No. New York to launch his Future Generation Krychevsky and his dynastic family of Bishop Constantine Bohachevsky. 1 [January 2010]: 69-70). In the Russian Art Prize. (See http://www.newyorker.com/ artists have been so much more crucial Orthodox Church, divided between fol- talk/2009/12/21/091221ta_talk_mead.) Blocking his way was a large crowd of and important to the culture of Ukraine parishioners. Father Kowalski, alas, had lowers of émigré hierarchs and the patri- The New Yorker thanked the author for her than the artists that have received the bulk letter, but declined to publish it. The letter been preceded by rumors from arch in Soviet Russia, a parish dispute in of Pinchuk’s generosity. Had those funds Woonsocket, R.I., and Watervliet, N.Y.: New York City went all the way to the was submitted to The Ukrainian Weekly gone to pay for Ukrainian art both at for publication on our op-ed pages. Ms. that he had once hit a parishioner over Supreme Court (Kedroff v. St. Nicholas home and in the diaspora, it would have the head with an iron cross, and that he Cathedral, 1952). And in the Assyrian Archer (née Maria Muchin) resides in San done so much more to establish Kyiv as a Francisco. was, moreover, Polish (an allegation that Church of the East, controversy sur- “cultural hub,” as he purports to wish to is hard to refute when your name is rounding the former Catholicos-Patriarch do. My generation and my parent’s gen- Kowalski). In fact, the parish council had Mar Simon XXIII led to his assassination by Masha Archer eration of artists who lived and struggled already decided to reject him. Now the in San Jose, Calif., in 1975. Parish histo- our entire lives here in the United States vice-president accused him of being ry is anything but dull. Thank you for the article on Ukrainian are not interesting to these big-money Ruthenian, not Ukrainian, and of beating But if all this strikes us as strange or art collector and philanthropist Victor collectors from Ukraine and Russia. people and suing them in court. When amusing, as if we were observing some Pinchuk. I’ve spoken with administrators The same can be said for American Father Kowalski retorted that he would alien, exotic culture, it is partly because at The Ukrainian Museum, the Ukrainian philanthropists and the Ukrainian find a way to get into the church, some- we have ourselves become alienated from Institute and the Ukrainian Academy [of American potential supporters who are one in the crowd threatened bloodshed. a religious worldview. Perhaps uncon- Arts and Sciences in the U.S.] and have interested in Ukrainian culture. The fact After an hour or two Father Kowalski sciously, we have adopted the materialist, learned that they had never been apprised that there is any awareness at all in the gave up. But on Friday he changed the rationalist mindset of the surrounding of his presence in New York. Nor has he American community of Ukrainian art locks, and on Sunday he held a service. society. Consequently, we can barely expressed any desire for interaction with and culture is due entirely to lifelong For several weeks the parishioners resort- comprehend our forebears’ passionate any members of the Ukrainian art com- efforts by the émigré artists. And yet, ed to interrupting his liturgies and taking commitment to organized religion. We munity there. once their contribution has been noted, every opportunity to insult him. He cannot grasp the mentality of people for Of course, they are all offended by this the potential supporters say, “Oh this is responded from the pulpit, calling them whom the high point of the week was dismissiveness. It seems to everyone that really good, now let’s go subsidize some- “animals” and “the lowest of the low.” Sunday liturgy, and whose social life was this man is only interested in young art- thing else instead.” Interest and support When the parish officers began to remove defined by the parish (though this is the ists from Ukraine or highly established bypass us and our parents in favor of the church vessels and candles from the case with many of my Afro-American and fashionable American and European those we are not, mainly, young aspirants church, he called them “wrongdoers, colleagues today). Perhaps we have art figures. When one considers that he living and working in Ukraine, or fash- thieves and African savages.” Locks were gained civility at the expense of authen- purchased a Vasil Krychevsky painting changed again; windows were broken, ticity: better a parish packed with God- for an anemic $16,000, but paid a wallop- (Continued on page 20) boarded up and broken again. Finally the fearing hooligans, you might say, than parish took Father Kowalski to Suffolk one dependent on the desultory visita- LETTER TO THE EDITOR County Superior Court. tions of doubt-ridden intellectuals. In his report, the specially appointed In order to understand this pre-modern master noted that “The behavior of the mentality, we need to preserve the sourc- Siberia. They were given one hour to be defendant was quite devoid of tact or es: parish records, eparchial archives, Remembering ready for departure, by Red Army truck grace, and the parishioners, many of oral histories and published almanacs. five miles to the nearest railroad station, whom were ignorant and excitable, were We should then engage professional his- the year 1945 where they were loaded into cattle train completely antagonized and their conduct torians or graduate students to write our cars. After a six-week trip, they finally in consequence was not always commend- parish histories. The need is great. Dear Editor: were unloaded, never to return to their able.” Father Kowalski was enjoined from Despite the contributions of such schol- The date of February 11, 1945, is one I native village, west of Lviv. They all died entering the premises, and ordered to ars as Myron Kuropas and Wasyl Lencyk, will remember for the rest of my life. I after a few years. My family lost every- return the church property. Since the bish- our story is practically unknown. The was 22 years old in the Polish Army 2nd thing, including our farm of 98 acres. op had declined to appoint a new pastor, standard introductory text by Edwin S. Corps, 8th British Army under the British I would like to know who gave those on March 20, 1927, the council decided to Gaustad and Leigh E. Schmidt, “The command of Gen. Alexander in sunny two war-mongers and bullies, Roosevelt invite a Ukrainian Orthodox priest. The Religious History of America” (rev. ed. Italy. The shocking news came to our unit and Churchill, authority to do what they hapless Father Kowalski was left to serve San Francisco, 2002), devotes only one about the Yalta Conference held by the did to millions of people? the remnant of Boston’s Greek-Catholic paragraph to Greek-Catholics, in a mis- so-called “Big Three” - Franklin D. If Roosevelt and Churchill would have community at other premises. leading discussion of Eastern Orthodoxy Roosevelt, president of the U.S.A; minded their own business, my family Boston is but one example of the wave with no mention of Ukrainians. Winston Churchill, prime minister of and millions of others would have worked of unrest that rocked the Greek-Catholic But before we can make our history Great Britain; and Joseph Stalin of the on their own lands in their own countries Church in the United States in the 1920s, known to Americans, we need to under- Soviet Union. At that conference, - not in frozen Siberia. dividing Ruthenians from Ukrainians, stand it ourselves. This may mean con- Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to give We all know about the Jewish Ukrainians from “Russians,” parishes fronting some unpleasant facts. In Boston, Stalin Poland, the rest of Eastern Europe Holocaust, and Germany’s leaders were from pastors, and bishops from both. for example, the bitter strife of the 1920s and half of Germany. punished for that. Why does no one ever Another wave began in the 1960s, as was the genesis of today’s Ukrainian For the approximately 200,000 men mention the crimes committed by Stalin’s radical members of the Patriarchal move- Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic parish- and women - including 10,000 Ukrainians NKVD? Wouldn’t it be logical to mention ment picketed visiting prelates and epis- es. In his 1959 article on St. Andrew’s from eastern Poland, also known as Roosevelt and Churchill as Stalin’s part- copal ordinations. An archeparchial Ukrainian Orthodox Church, future histo- Halychyna - of the Polish Army in exile, ners in crime? newspaper compared them to the Viet rian Yaroslav Bilinsky treated this delicate this was a stab in the back by Churchill. The Poles, Ukrainians, Estonians, Cong. On a really hot-button issue like subject with both tact and candor, as did He had promised the Polish government Latvians and Lithuanians are all human. the 16th century calendar reform, demon- Lubomyr Hajda and Peter T. Woloschuk in exile (in London) a free Poland after And no one was ever prosecuted for the strations in Chicago prompted a call to in their contributions to the 2007 almanac the war, if the Poles would continue to crimes committed against them. I ask all the police, while one irate parishioner of Boston’s Christ the King Ukrainian fight the Germans under the British the free people of the world: Can we reportedly declared before television Catholic Church. Command. accept this injustice? Where is the equal cameras that his priest was a Communist. Delving into past mentalities may also We all knew what this meant for us justice under the law for all? At another church some 30 years later, help us define our own attitudes, caught as we are between a religious heritage and the from Halychyna. The Soviet Russian Red Soviet Russians are getting away with a concerned layman invited your colum- technological culture of the historical Army entered Poland in 1944-1945 and murdering about 50 million Eastern nist to step outside and settle a parish moment. Finally, it can help our churches forced exile to Siberia began immediately Europeans, including some of their own dispute in the traditional way. Having lit- navigate between the Scylla of assimilation - first, all intellectuals; second, well-to-do Russians, and nothing is being done. tle faith in trial by combat, not wishing to scandalize the children receiving First and the Charybdis of the ghetto. (A round- people of the middle class; third, well-to- For the sake of millions of victims, Communion that day, and furthermore table on this topic will be held in New York do farmers and large landowners. including my own family, I deserve an being ignorant of the martial arts (other on May 1.) For only a hard look at our past As a result of Roosevelt’s and answer, as a voter and loyal U.S. citizen, than fencing), he demurred. can yield a clear vision for our future. Churchill’s generosity to Stalin, in from the members of the U.S. Congress. December 1945 Stalin’s NKVD forcibly Such antics are not, of course, unique exiled my widowed father, my brother, Peter Jacynicz to Ukrainians. Slovak Roman Catholic Andrew Sorokowski can be reached at his wife and five children to southeastern North Port, Fla. parishes saw similar altercations over [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 No. 15

UAYA Youth Leadership Seminar hosted at U.S.-Ukraine Foundation by Lida Mykytyn-Voronka motivation in non-profit organizations. Speakers included Nadia Komarnytcky WASHINGTON – The imposing historic McConnell, Ihor Naumenko, Bohdan Georgetown mansion that is home to the Shevchik, Oleksa Breslawec, Nusia Kerda, Embassy of Ukraine in Washington set the Bohdan Hetmansky, Andrew Bihun (The tone for the annual Youth Leadership Washington Group), Genya Kuzmowycz- Seminar, organized by the Ukrainian Blahy, Marta Matseliukh, and UAYA American Youth Association (UAYA), as President Andriy Bihun. the participants began their two-day inten- During the two-day seminar, participants sive training meeting. A few select high were exposed to thought-provoking discus- school juniors and seniors from across the sions, challenging teamwork exercises, lec- United States who have proven their leader- tures by prominent community figures and ship potential and dedication within the even a moonlight tour of the nation’s capital. ranks of the UAYA were invited to partici- The goal of the seminar was twofold: to pate in this seminar in Washington. These equip future leaders of the UAYA and the participants were selected based on their Ukrainian community with the understand- nomination and support by their local UAYA ing of true leadership, and to help them per- branches, a very competitive screening pro- sonally evolve and grow. cess, and approval by the organizing com- The itinerary of the seminar included a mittee. tour of the Ukrainian Embassy, which has a Andriy Bihun The seminar, which was held at the offic- deep historic meaning to the American gov- Participants of the Ukrainian American Youth Association’s Youth Leadership es of the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation on March ernment from the times of George Seminar at the Ukrainian Embassy visit with Cultural Attaché Victor Voloshyn. 26-28, focused on leadership, marketing and Washington, and today to the Ukrainian public relations, project management and government. The participants had the oppor- tunity to meet with a representative of the charged with organizing a project from con- Ukrainian government, Cultural Attaché cept-building through execution. This hands- Viktor Voloshyn of the Embassy of Ukraine. on workshop, crafted by Lida Mykytyn- Following theoretical presentations and Voronka, Ms. Kuzmowycz-Blahy and Mr. discussions on Saturday, the group was Bihun, initialized target marketing, public treated to a several-hour tour of historic relations, organizing logistics, budgeting and Washington. They were enchanted with vis- financing, program development, project iting many famous architectural and historic management, etc. The participants had to landmarks under the glare of moonlight. work together, under the pressure of time, to Sunday proved to be as enriching as the formulate and present their project – a new previous day. The entire group traveled to camp. Washington’s Ukrainian Catholic National With Washington as a venue for a lead- Shrine of the Holy Family to attend morning ership seminar for today’s Ukrainian liturgy. Afterwards, the group was back at youth, the participants of the seminar left the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation for a session empowered to make a difference in their that focused on extending and applying the community and to take on the challenge principles of leadership and organization of leading Ukrainian organizations into they had earned. The participants were the future.

Lida Mykytyn-Voronka Andriy Bihun, UAYA president, works with seminar participants. UAYA members present gift to Embassy staff

Andriy Bihun, president of the Ukrainian American Youth Association’s national executive, presents the book “Red and Black” to Second Secretary Victor Voloshyn of the Embassy of Ukraine. by Lida Mykytyn-Voronka Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Stepan Bandera gave his life. WASHINGTON – A delegation of the The book, signed by all of the UAYA Ukrainian American Youth Association – members present, bore the dedication: national board members and young future “Presented to the Ambass- leaders – at the end of March visited the ador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of Ukraine, where they were greeted by Victor Voloshyn, second secre- Oleh Shamshur, and all of the representa- tary and cultural attaché. tives of the Ukrainian government to the They presented a gift to the Embassy United States, with sincere thanks for staff: a book by Svyatoslav Lypovetsky, a your warm hospitality to the participants leading member of the Ukrainian Youth of CYM’s Leadership Seminar. …May Association in Ukraine, titled “Red and the Hero of Ukraine, Stepan Bandera, Black: One Hundred Banderite always remain a shining example to Narratives.” Ukrainian youth throughout the world. The book was presented with the Ukraine’s Honor – We Stand Ready to expressed hopes that the Ukrainian lead- Defend!” ership never forget the heroic struggle for The UAYA members were in Ukrainian independence in which its Washington for a Youth Leadership leader, Hero of Ukraine and head of the Seminar held on March 26-28. No. 15 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 9 Student exchange program between Lviv and Alberta in its fourth year EDMONTON, Alberta – The student In Canada, contract law development is exchange program between the Ivan rooted in the common-law tradition, while Franko National (Lviv Ukrainian law is based on the European University) and the University of Alberta tradition. Mr. Hural was thus able to gain a entered its fourth year in the fall of 2009. different insight into the nature and theory In the 2009-2010 academic year, two of contracts. In his course on “International exchange students from Lviv University, Business Transactions,” he decided to Yuriy Kyrylych and Dmytro Hural, studied study trade between Canada and Ukraine at the University of Alberta (U of A). No and he discovered that this sector is poorly exchange students from the U of A studied developed. at Lviv University this academic year. On November 29 the two students gave Mr. Kyrylych is a fifth-year student at a joint presentation at the Plast Ukrainian Lviv University’s Faculty of International Scouting Organization building on “The Relations, where he plans to complete a Legal and Economic Situation in Ukraine: master’s degree in international finance in Challenges and Perspectives” that was the summer of 2010. He attended the sponsored by the Alberta Society for the University of Alberta in the fall 2009 Advancement of Ukrainian Studies. Mr. semester, taking three courses in the Kyrylych focused on impediments to eco- Faculty of Business: “Decision Analysis,” nomic growth in Ukraine, while Mr. Hural “Advanced Corporate Finance” and spoke largely about reforms needed to “Investments.” transform the legal system into one that is As Ukraine has only recently begun its more predictable and equitable, effectively integration into the global economy, its establishing the rule of law in the country. CIUS academic experience and expertise is still Exchange program’s success Yuriy Kyrylych and Dmytro Hural, exchange students from Lviv who studied at underdeveloped, especially in interna- the University of Alberta during the 2009-2010 academic year. tional business and market economics. After four years of the exchange pro- Taking courses at the U of A’s well-estab- gram’s existence, seven students from Higher costs include airfare and room and The short-term goal is to build up a sum lished Business Faculty was thus of great Lviv and four from Edmonton have stud- board, which are particularly onerous for of $30,000, earnings from which could benefit to this student. ied at the partner institutions. Students Ukrainian students (considering the cost fund one scholarship of $1,000 per year. Mr. Hural completed his master’s from Ukraine have generally commented of living and average incomes of The long-term goal is to reach $100,000, degree in commercial law at the Lviv positively on the professor-student rela- Ukrainian versus Canadian households). which could provide two annual scholar- University Law Faculty in 2009, after tionship at the U of A and on the opportu- When the exchange was established in ships of about $1,800 each. which he began working in a Lviv law nity to take courses not available at home 2006, the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian firm. He was attracted by the opportunity or featuring somewhat different content Studies (CIUS) launched an appeal for Studies is seeking further donations in to continue his law studies at the from those offered at Lviv University. U the establishment of an endowment fund support of the student exchange program. University of Alberta for two semesters. of A students have stressed Lviv’s rich to sustain the program. CIUS subsequent- For further information, readers may con- During the fall 2009 semester he took cultural life, the city’s architectural gems, ly received many small donations, and tact CIUS by phone, 780-492-2972, or by courses in “International Business and the improvement in Ukrainian that recently the total has surpassed $11,000. e-mail, [email protected]. Transactions,” “Public International Law” their stays brought. and “Contracts.” During the winter 2010 Challenges to the long-term viability semester he is taking “International of the exchange are the higher costs and Criminal Law,” “Intellectual Property” the relatively large amount of time need- Visit our archive online: www.ukrweekly.com and “Corporate Securities.” ed to study abroad – at least one semester.

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Nineteen-year-old violinist Iryna Kit, a second half in a grand and celebratory man- Merkin Concert Hall, the Ukrainian Chorus In the “Ave Maria” generally attributed to student at the Lucy Moses School of Music ner. Dumka crowned its impressive 60-year lega- Caccini (although there is some controversy and Dance and also a member of the Young The appreciative audience greeted Dumka cy with an anniversary concert. on that front), Mr. Hrechynsky skillfully Artist Program, together with the aforemen- with an enthusiastic standing ovation, and in A laureate of the Mykola Lysenko State fashioned a “role reversal,” initially using the tioned Mr. Demochko, performed Skoryk’s return, was treated to no less than two Award of Ukraine, Dumka has been at the chorus as the sonic backdrop for the soprano “Melody” for violin and piano, with a matu- encores. forefront of Ukrainian cultural life in New soloist, Tamara Vashchenko, and the violin rity and range of expression that belied her How fortunate for Dumka to be led by a York since its inception in 1949, carrying the and piano duo of Oleg Kukil and Natalia youth. conductor of the talent, skill and erudition of torch for Ukraine’s rich choral tradition, both Vashchenko. As the work progressed, he Dumka’s second half consisted entirely of Vasyl Hrechysnsky. After studies at both the religious and secular. gradually coaxed the chorus into the fore- compositions and arrangements by Ukrainian Lviv Conservatory and the Tchaikovsky The chorus has performed at some of front, melding the soloists into the overall composers, which is the chorus’ great Conservatory in Moscow, specializing in New York’s most prestigious concert halls, texture, thus creating the illusion of space strength. choral music and conducting, Maestro including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Sung by the women, Leontovych’s “Oi Hrechynsky subsequently earned a Master of Avery Fisher Hall, Town Hall, the Brooklyn and motion. Verdi’s beloved Chorus of the Hebrew Syvaya Zozulenka” was deliciously under- Music from the prestigious Westminster Academy of Music, as well as the Garden stated and clearly articulated. College in Princeton, N.J. State Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J., Slaves from “Nabucco” was rendered with the requisite elation and grandeur, and at the Compositionally, Kozak’s fluffy pastiche of His keen musicality, sensitive interpreta- Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center, and in Ukrainian folk songs titled “Nevdale tive skills and subtle technique, devoid of other major U.S. cities. In 1985, Dumka appropriately restrained and measured tempo, giving full bloom to Verdi’s timeless, Zalytsiannia” is mostly an exercise in excess. any excessive gesticulation, was evident toured Europe, and in 1990, it completed a Nevertheless, Mr. Hrechynsky and Dumka throughout, as was his impeccable taste and triumphant tour of Ukraine. sweeping melody. The first half closed with Wilhousky’s gave the work well more than its due with a craft in pacing a concert. In Maestro Since 1991, Dumka has been under the spirited reading, including a bright tenor solo Hrechynsky’s capable hands, Dumka can be musical direction of Vasyl Hrechynsky. second most famous arrangement, that of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” (The by Mykola Lutsak. This same composer’s assured of continued success for many years True to its mission, at its 60th anniversary “Vivcharyk,” performed later in the program, to come. concert, Dumka’s program featured, pre- first, of course, is his world renowned arrangement of Leontovych’s “Shchedryk,” is a much stronger work, and Dumka sang it Also noteworthy was the work of Larisa dominantly, works by Ukrainian composers beautifully, with Swiatoslawa Kaczaraj and Gutnikevich and Natalia Vashchenko, ranging from the classical period through the for which he supplied an English text and a new title – “Carol of the Bells”). The Ronald Liteplo as the soloists. Dumka’s accompanists, and fine pianists in present. The composer Anatolii Kos-Anatolsky their own right. The performance opened with a well- “Battle Hymn” arrangement is no picnic, due to its vocal demands and some unex- was a master at traversing the fine line Sunday’s concert, in all its success, is but paced and confident rendition of Part 1 of between classical and popular music. His the tip of the iceberg when assessing the Bortniansky’s Sacred Concert No. 9 (“Sei pected harmonic twists. Dumka sang it with relish, and Natalia Vashchenko was heroic haunting “Oi Ty Divchyno” was one of the importance of Dumka as one of the corner- Den Yeho Zhe Sotvory Hospod”). highlights of the second half. Mr. stones of Ukrainian culture in New York, and Sichynsky’s “Dnipro Reve” followed, and in her execution of the difficult piano accompaniment, a reduction of music usu- Hrechynsky led Dumka in an appropriately indeed, in the diaspora as a whole. The fact although some intonation problems marred sentimental, yet focused interpretation. ally performed by either a symphony that this venerable organization is still thriv- the slow section, Mr. Hrechynsky quickly Soloist Andriy Gavdanovich’s melifluous orchestra or symphonic band. ing after 60 years is nothing short of remark- righted the ship, closing the work effectively. baritone suited this Kos-Anatolsky gem able, and speaks to the dedication of the cho- A special treat was in store to open the The solo was performed by Ronald Liteplo. exquisitely. risters and the vision of its leadership. second half in the form of two young, On the other hand, Mykola Kolessa’s Bondarenko’s arrangement of “Tsvite One hopes that Dumka will continually extremely promising Ukrainian musicians. “Dumy Moyi,” by far the most challenging Teren”, was sung with a folk-like authentici- be replenished by younger singers who will Fifteen-year-old Stanislav Demochko, a work in the program, both harmonically and ty and Hnatyshyn’s “Oi Muzyku Duzhe reinforce its ranks and carry on its mission. student at the Special Music School at by virtue of the fugue to which the text “Tam Liubliu” was boisterously entertaining. In the In the meantime, our heartfelt congratula- Kaufman Center, studying in the Young Naidete Schyre Sertse” is set, was performed latter, Borys Kekish and Oleg Kukil provid- tions and a rousing, triple forte, “Mnohaya Artist Program, demonstrated his already admirably, despite the considerable degree of ed the tenor solos. Lysenko’s “Ozhyvut Lita!” difficulty. Liudkevych’s beautiful setting of formidable piano technique and keen musi- NEW RELEASE: Hutsul music from the Carpathian Mountains

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Three brothers – Yura, Mykola and Mykhailo Danyshchuk – who are pro- fessional Hutsul wedding musicians from the Ivano- Frankivsk Oblast in Ukraine, Music at the Institute have recorded “Hutsul Magic – Authentic Hutsul Music Presents the Ukrainian pianist from the Carpathians.” The musical group is known locally as the VALENTINA LISITSA Palahniuk Brothers; they are joined on the recording by their children, friends and On Saturday, April 24 at 8 PM guest musicians. The fea- tured performers are authen- Performing Chopin 24 Etudes. tic folk musicians, in the sense that the music they per- form was learned by ear from previous generations of musicians. None of the older musicians who reside in Munich, Germany. The read or write music notation, but some of physical CD was released in June 2009 in the younger ones have had some formal Ukraine through the Kyiv-based distribu- musical training. tor “Nash Format” (www.nashformat.ua). The Concert will be followed by a special reception to Song selections vary from instrumental Readers can obtain copies of the wedding music, traditional dances, Hutsul recording at: Ukrainian bookstores in the celebrate 20 years of the MATI concert series. songs as well as authentic Hutsul United States and Canada, including the Christmas songs, to waltzes and polkas Ukrainian Bookstore in Edmonton (www. that became popular in the 20th century. ukrainianbookstore.com) or Yevshan Admission: $30, UIA members and Seniors $25, Students $20 The music is performed on fiddle, tsym- (www.yevshan.com); online retailers, Tickets may be purchased by calling the Institute at 212-288-8660 baly (hammered dulcimer), fiyarka (wood including Amazon, Napster, eMusic, flute) and trembita. iTunes; and at www.hutsul-music.com. or sending a check to the Ukrainian Institute of America The recording, released online in Digital pricing varies from individual 2 East 79 Street January 2009, was made in 2007-2008 in tracks for 99 cents to the entire album for the village of Shepit, located in the Kosiv $9.99. The CD is also available from the New York, NY 10075 region of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Kyiv-based retailer UMKA Ukrainian The 20 tracks were recorded live by Online Music Store (www.umka.com.ua), Valentyn Moroz and Halyna Boitchouk, which offers shipping worldwide. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 No. 15 Braving the elements, skiers compete in annual KLK races HUNTER, N.Y. – More than 50 skiers Greetings were also extended by for- braved high winds and precipitation of all mer World champion and Olympic med- varieties (save for hail) to compete in the alist Karl Plattner, who skied for Austria. 56th annual ski races of the Carpathian Trophies and medals were presented Ski Club held here at Hunter Mountain during the dinner to the winners in each late in the season on Saturday, March 13. age group (results appear in the accompa- Competing in age groups ranging from nying chart). As noted by the masters of under 4 to under 70, the racers navigated ceremonies, Orest Fedash and Vira Popel, a fast NASTAR course slickened by the 43 of the 52 skiers who competed earned failing rain, snow and sleet. (NASTAR NASTAR medals – a remarkable 83 per- stands for National Standard Race.) cent. That evening, entire skiing families – The names of the top three female and both those who competed and those who male skiers were announced: Stephanie cheered them on – were joined by KLK Bitcon, Natalia Blyznak and Katherine supporters at an awards dinner held at Lenchur, and Yuri Kobziar, Terence Hunter Mountain’s Copper Tree restau- Filewych and Eri Palydowych. Special rant. traveling trophies recognizing the fastest The nearly 90 people in attendance times turned in by a female and a male were welcomed by KLK President Erko skier (no repeat winners are allowed) Palydowych and the ski resort’s opera- were awarded to Miss Blyznak, age 12, tions manager, David Slutzky, who and Mr. Filewych, 38. attended with his wife, Jean. Mr. Slutzky Trophies for most promising young advised the young skiers to “dream big,” skiers were presented to six-year-old emphasizing that “anyone in this room Olena Kucher and 13-year-old Yevhen can go to the Olympics.” Dubyk. The trophies are funded by Ambassador Yurii Sergeyev, Ukraine’s Ukraine’s Ministry of Youth and Sports, Andrew Moroch permanent representative to the United until recently headed by Minister Yurii Flag-bearers carry the flags of the United States, Ukraine and the Carpathian Ski Nations, noted that he and his wife, Pavlenko. Ambassador Sergeyev noted Club (KLK) during the opening ceremonies. Nataliya, were attending the races for the that the new minister of sports has been third year. The ambassador quipped that asked to continue the tradition of present- the 2010 races were a first, as they com- ing these awards to KLK skiers. bined water skiing and snow skiing, and A special KLK achievement trophy he congratulated the hearty skiers on suc- was awarded to Adriana Wojcickyj who, cessfully competing in less than ideal conditions. (Continued on page 13)

Three generations of skiers (from left): Erko Palydowych, winner among boys age 15-17, with his grandfather, KLK President Erko Palydowych, and his father, Eri Palydowych, winner among men age 45-49.

Five-year-old Olena Kucher receives a trophy from George Popel for her victo- Natalia Blyznak shows off her trophy ry in her age group. She was recognized for fastest female skier. also as the most promising female skier.

Winners in the girls age 13-14 group (from left): Stephanie Bitcon, Katherine Lenchur, Larysa Iwaskiw and Christine Lenchur.

Receiving the award for most promising male skier is Yevhen Dubyk (center). The Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.N. and his wife present recognition awards to award is presented by Ambassador Yurii Sergeyev and his wife, Dr. Nataliya Sergeyev. KLK activists (from left) Vira Popel, Adia Fedash and Christine Klufas. No. 15 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 13

KLK 2010 ski race results Girls 4 and under Boys age 11-12 Inka Bodnar Peter Lenchur

Girls age 5-6 Boys age 13-14 Olena Kucher Yevhen Dubyk Dennis Finn Girls age 7-8 Alexander Begej Lina Mojsiak Boys age 15-17 Girls age 9-10 Erko Palydowycz Diana Blyznak Adrian Iwaskiw Natalia Moroch Julia Moroch Men age 21-29 1. Adrian Rybak Girls age 11-12 2. Markian Hadzewycz Natalia Blyznak 3. Nicholas Prociuk Taisa Sorobay Darian Chornodolsky

Winners of bronze medals from NASTAR receive their awards. Girls age 13-14 Men age 35-39 Stephanie Bitcon 1. Terence Filewych Braving the elements... Katherine Lenchur 2. Mark Bodnar Larysa Iwaskiw (Continued from page 12) Christine Lenchur Men age 40-44 in addition to competing in the KLK Adriana Wojcickyj 1. Jason Taylor races, took first place in her group in 2. Oleg Hrabowsky races for adaptive skiers at nearby Women age 35-40 Windham Mountain. Marta Dubyk Men age 45-49 Ambassador Sergeyev noted that it is Mirka Moroch 1. Eri Palydowycz commendable the KLK races bring out Mariana Livcha 2. Peter Lenchur new generations of skiers who compete 3. Stefan Wojcickyj alongside their parents and grandparents Women age 45-50 Stepan Pidzyraylo – underscoring the true family nature of Natalia Fedun-Wojcickyj this annual sports event. He presented Men age 50-55 recognition awards to KLK activists Erko Chrystyna Sorobay Palydowych, Mr. Fedash, Adia Fedash, Ruth Lenchur 1.Yuri Kobziar Christine Klufas and Ms. Popel. Ariadne Bach 2. Yuriy Kucher KLK officers expressed special thanks Irene Blyznak 3. Roman Sorobay to the major sponsors of the 2010 ski Nestor Blyznak races: Self Reliance New York Federal Boys age 5-6 Peter Prociuk Credit Union, Self Reliance (N.J.) Federal Marko Wojcickyj Mark Bach Credit Union and the Philadelphia-based Ukrainian Selfreliance Federal Credit Boys age 7-8 Men age 65-69 Union. Mark Blyznak 1. Eugene Stakhiv The Carpathian Ski Club was founded Stefan Sorobay 2. Orest Fedash in 1924 in Ukraine and began its activity in the United States after World War II, Top skiers in the boys age 9-10 group, Boys age 9-10 holding its first ski races in 1954 at Matthew Bach (left) and Michael Matthew Bach Whiteface Mountain near Lake Placid, Moroch, with award presenter Michael Moroch N.Y. Christine Klufas. ULKUS holds 15th annual ski and snowboard trip to Maine

ULKUS International Headquarters SUGARLOAF, Maine – The 15th annual ULKUS Ski and Snowboard Trip was held on March 21-26 at Sugarloaf, Maine. There were 69 participants, including 45 adults, 19 kids between the ages of 6 and 12, and five wee ones 5 and under (the youngest of which was 8 months old). Participants for the annual trip came from far and wide this year: New York City, Westchester, Long Island and Rochester, N.Y.; the Catskills of upstate New York; the Berkshires of Massachusetts; New Jersey; and Toronto. ULKUS stands for “Ukrayinskyi Leschetarskyi Kliub u Sugarloaf.” The founders of the club are Slavko Kurowycky and Roman Iwasiwka, and Roman Hrab organized this year’s ski trip. (Readers may check out ULKUS on Facebook.) – Roman Iwasiwka 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 No. 15 CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS Pro-russia groups want

TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI (973) 292-9800 x 3040 Crimean Tatar bodies disbanded OR E-MAIL [email protected] RFE/RL and the Mejlis-Kurultai structure was revived. SYMFEROPOL, Ukraine – Several Ali Khamzin, an active member of the SERVICES pro-Kremlin political groups in Crimea Mejlis, told RFE/RL that the statements are calling on Ukrainian President Viktor by Crimea’s pro-Kremlin organizations Yanukovych to ban the Crimean Tatars’ are provocations. He said the Mejlis func- autonomous bodies, RFE/RL’s Ukrainian tions within the framework of Ukrainian Service reported. law. Oleg Rodivilov, a member of the Mr. Khamzin said pro-Russian groups Crimean Parliament and the leader of in Crimea are destabilizing the situation Crimea’s Russian bloc, told RFE/RL on on the peninsula with their statements April 6 that he considers the Crimean about abolishing the Crimean Tatars’ self- Tatars’ Mejlis (Parliament) and its governing organs. Kurultai (Congress) to be organized crim- PROFESSIONALS “They are trying to create a situation inal groups and said their activities are similar to the South Ossetian scenario in unconstitutional. Georgia,” Mr. Khamzin said. He said both bodies should be disband- “The closure of the Mejlis will only ed in order to prevent terrorist attacks lead to destabilization in the region. It similar to those taking place in Russia will not frighten the Crimean Tatars, just from occurring in Ukraine. as the Soviet repression did not frighten Other pro-Russia groups in Crimea, them. The abolition of the Crimean including the Russian Community of Tatars’ self-governing system would Crimea and the Tavria Union, have also mean that Ukraine is creating a racist sent open letters to Mr. Yanukovych urg- regime similar to the Communist sys- ing him to ban the Mejlis and the tem,” Mr. Khamzin added. Kurultai. The Crimean Tatars first established Copyright 2010, RFE/RL Inc. Irene D. Rogutsky, D.D.S. their own Mejlis and Kurultai in 1917. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Restorative and Cosmetic Dentistry But they were abolished by Soviet leader Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Joseph Stalin, who ordered the mass Invisalign Premier Provider Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington DC deportation of the Crimean Tatars to 20036; www.rferl.org. (See http://www. 29 West 57th Street Central Asia in May 1944. rferl.org/content/ProRussia_Groups_ New York, NY 10019 In 1991, the Crimean Tatars received Want_Crimean_Tatar_Bodies_ 212-947-1665 official permission to return to Crimea Disbanded/2004234.html.) [email protected] TRAVEL open an additional three or four consulates NEWSBRIEFS in Ukraine to ensure the interests of Russian (Continued from page 2) citizens, according to the director of the Tymoshenko wants oath of loyalty ministry’s consular department, Andrei Karlov. Speaking at a roundtable at the State KYIV – Opposition leader Yulia Duma on April 5, Mr. Karlov said this Tymoshenko has said that everybody who would depend on additional financing. wants to join the opposition created by her Currently, Russia has a consular department eponymous bloc will be obliged to take an at its Embassy in Kyiv, as well as Consulates oath of loyalty to Ukraine and their political General in , Odesa, Lviv and cronies. “It’s an absolutely clear and trans- Symferopol. (Ukrinform) FOR SALE parent instrument that will unite us and make the opposition whole,” she said, add- Semynozhenko explains his remarks Beautiful contemporary chalet - 8.5 pri- ing that in such a way it will be possible to vate acres in Kerhonkson, NY, near get rid of political ballast and “viruses” of KYIV – Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Soyuzivka. Year-round or vacation home. discord in the ranks of the opposition. The Volodymyr Semynozhenko, who was Electric heat or wood stove heats entire leader said that the accused by the opposition of making anti- house. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, huge kitch- oath-taking procedure should be conducted constitutional public statements, commented en, new appliances, pantry/laundry room, in public. The text of the oath of an opposi- on his remarks about a union of Russia, above ground insulated basement, wide tion member contains his or her commit- Ukraine and Belarus, which he made on the 2nd floor indoor balcony with unique cop- ment “to give up all forms and kinds of “Shuster Live” show on March 26. per railings. Plenty of windows and natu- cooperation with the illegitimately elected According to April 2 news reports, he said ral light. 32x38 Trex synthetic deck, under President [Viktor] Yanukovych, his Cabinet that “unquestioning respect, thorough obser- deck new construction. 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a citizen of Ukraine. He said Bandera is NEWSBRIEFS not a citizen of Ukraine, since he died in (Continued from page 14) 1959, before Ukraine gained independence Donetsk court cancels Bandera decree in 1991. The judges agreed with the plain- tiff and confirmed that “those who died KYIV – The Donetsk District before 1991, could not be citizens of Administrative Court on April 2 declared Ukraine.” The court said it “decided to unlawful and subject to repeal the January uphold a complaint against the Ukrainian 20 decree of President Viktor Yushchenko president’s decision to award the title of that conferred the Hero of Ukraine title on Hero of Ukraine to Bandera, recognize his Stepan Bandera. The plaintiff in the case, decree as unlawful and cancel it.” The lawyer Volodymyr Olentsevych, said that court’s ruling can be challenged at the under the Ukrainian legislation the title of Donetsk Oblast Appeals Court within 10 Hero of Ukraine may be conferred only on days. (Interfax-Ukraine)

With deep sorrow we announce that Bohdan Czajkowskyj our father and grandfather, passed away on April 2, 2010. He was born on June 22nd, 1915 in Liezen, Ukraine.

Funeral services were held on April 6th at the Morocco Memorial Chapel in Clifton, NJ, and interment on April 7th at St. Andrew’s Cemetery in South Bound Brook, NJ.

He left behind in great sorrow: Daughter Daria with husband Daniel Bouadana and children Ghilaine and Matthieu. Daughter Melanie with husband Roman Kudela and sons Damien and Gabriel. Lydia Ihant, Myroslava Tershakovec, Tatiana Vanderheyden with their families and other family in USA and Canada.

In lieu of flowers contributions could be made to the Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th St. New York, NY 10003. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 No. 15 No. 15 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 17

NOTES ON PEOPLE

for him. Shevchenko museum The twice invited Wyoming baker Mr. Gregorovich to participate in has new president Shevchenko celebrations in 1989 and 2006 specializes in korovai honoring the great poet and artist of TORONTO – The Taras Shevchenko CODY, Wyo. – Lisa McDonald Ukraine. Museum’s board of directors on Saturday, learned how to make korovayi, Ukrainian He established the Internet site for the March 6, elected Andrew Gregorovich as wedding bread, from her Ukrainian Shevchenko Museum on Infoukes, which is president and chairman. The museum was grandmother. “My babtsia was one of the the world’s major Shevchenko site. This originally founded in 1952 in Oakville, premier korovai bakers in Edmonton. For website has had over 225,000 visitors. He is Ontario, and after a fire was relocated to a university project I videotaped her the author of the Shevchenko Bibliography Toronto in 1995. making a korovai. It has helped immense- on the Internet, and organized the acquisi- The board of directors unanimously ly,” Ms. McDonald recalled. tion of the Shevchenko postage stamp col- elected Vice-President Gregorovich to suc- Babtsya Malania Hontaryk, at 94 lection for the museum. The Ukrainian ceed the long-serving William Harasym. years old, no longer makes korovayi, so Canadian Congress awarded Mr. Mr. Gregorovich is a librarian emeritus of Ms. McDonald decided to take over the Gregorovich the prestigious Shevchenko the University of Toronto and is an editor, family business. Her first korovai was for Medal in 1988. bibliographer and historian. His Shevchenko a friend’s wedding in Toronto five years Mr. Gregorovich is the editor of credentials are substantial. ago. “I baked it in Edmonton, carried it “Shevchenko: Poet and Artist of Ukraine” He has visited all of the eight Shevchenko on the plane and decorated it with ‘barvi- (Scranton-Toronto: Ukrainian Fraternal museums in the world, including the nok’ [myrtle] from my friend’s backyard. Association, 1989), which marked the 175th National Shevchenko Museum in Kyiv, the The bride and groom were thrilled,” she House Museum in Kyiv, and museum in anniversary of the bard’s birth. He was cura- said. Lisa McDonald with a korovai. Cherkasy, Moryntsi (the town where tor of the major Shevchenko exhibit at the Ms. McDonald moved to Cody, Wyo., Shevchenko was born on March 9, 1814), University of Toronto Library in 1989. where she has continued the tradition. “I the dough doves out of non-rising dough. and Shevchenkove (Kyrylivka) where he The Taras Shevchenko Museum and get orders through my website and word lived as a serf boy. Library are located at 1614 Bloor St. W., Day 2 involves decorating the korovai of mouth,” she related. “My first couple with barvinok colored ribbons to match He also visited Shevchenko’s Studio Toronto ON M6P IA7; telephone, of korovayi fell while they were baking, Museum at the Academy of Arts in St. 416-534-8662. It is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. the wedding colors, an arch with a hand so I called the experts at Martha Stewart embroidered cloth and the dough doves. Petersburg, where the poet died on March Monday to Friday and by special arrange- radio. It did not dawn on me that my 10, 1861, and which was opened especially ment on weekends. She packs it up carefully, says another move from Edmonton to Cody added prayer for safe delivery and ships it. almost a mile of altitude. I had to really “In 2008, I baked four korovayi, and in adjust Baba’s recipe to suit high-altitude 2009 I baked eight. Each year I expect baking.” business to double. I never thought busi- Ms. McDonald has shipped her koro- ness would be so good, but there are few vayi all around North America and has people who know how and have time to recently had a request from Brazil. She do it. I love keeping my family’s tradi- explained: “I ship my korovayi via two- tions alive,” she said. day air so that they arrive as fresh as pos- Ms. McDonald also teaches the people sible; they have gone to the East and of Montana and Wyoming how to write West Coasts, Colorado, Las Vegas and to pysanky. “As you can tell, I love the craft Canada. I even shipped one close to traditions of the Ukrainians. Most people home, just outside Edmonton recently.” around here are very receptive to learning Baking a korovai takes Ms. McDonald new things. My classes are very well two days. The first day she bakes the attended.” bread, which involves having the dough To contact Ms. McDonald or to see rise two times, decorates the bread with more pictures of her korovayi or pysanky various traditional dough ornaments and readers may visit her website at www. places it in the oven with a little prayer nazdorovya.com. For information they for it to turn out all right. Then she makes may call 307-250-4633.

“Notes on People” is a feature geared toward reporting on the achievements of members of the Ukrainian National Association and the Ukrainian community. All submissions should Andrew Gregorovich with Taras Shevchenko’s engraved self-portrait (1860). be concise due to space limitations and must include the person’s UNA branch number (if applicable). Items will be published as soon as possible after their receipt.

Russia as many in Russia expect, not only Moscow's... because of its internal divisions but (Continued from page 6) because of Russian and Western actions. ment of the political situation in Ukraine” And at the very least, the Kremlin and that that scenario points to a complete advisor says, there is going to be in the rapprochement between Kyiv and Ukrainian capital “a lengthy struggle” Moscow. among the various contenders – none of “Alongside these excessively opti- whom has left the scene. Moscow, Mr. mistic prognostications,” Mr. Mikhaylenko says, must “construct its Mikhaylenko argues, “one must keep in policy” toward Kyiv not only reflecting mind other possible variants as well.” It Russia’s interests but also Ukraine’s real could be that Ukraine will not turn toward situation.

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Transformation. “This court is bought by Constitutional Court... the Party of Regions, and we don’t need a (Continued from page 1) court of sell-outs.” this until Ukraine becomes unstable, In terms of its offensiveness, the ruling which is what a constitutional majority can only be compared with one allowing could bring.” then President Kuchma to run for presi- In a ruling made on April 6 but formal- dent a third time in 2003, reported Serhii ly released on April 8, the Constitutional Leshchenko of Ukrayinska Pravda, one of Court said: “Individual national deputies Ukraine’s top political reporters. of Ukraine, in particular, those who are President Yanukovych had nothing not members of parliamentary factions against such a verdict, he reported, that initiated the creation of a coalition of because in 2007 he nominated Vasyl parliamentary factions in the Verkhovna Nimchenko to the Constitutional Court, a Rada of Ukraine, have the right to partici- judge who interpreted Mr. Kuchma’s sec- pate in the formation of a coalition of ond term as president as his first. “The parliamentary factions in the Verkhovna Constitutional Court’s new decision prac- Rada of Ukraine.” tically opens the road toward restoring The Constitutional Court had ruled as the Kuchmist model of organizing power recently as September 2008 that only par- in Ukraine, meaning the creeping return liamentary factions, reflecting the parties of a presidential republic,” Mr. Leshchenko wrote. and blocs that competed in elections, can Web-Portal of Ukrainian Government form the parliamentary coalition that in The formation of a new government on turn forms the Cabinet of Ministers. March 11 came on the heels of a February Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and President Viktor Yanukovych at an April 4 On March 9 the Verkhovna Rada 16 parliamentary vote to cancel oblast, meeting of the Coordinating Council on Commemorations of the 65th adopted a law on parliamentary rules of city and village council elections – anoth- Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (World War II). procedures which provided – in contra- er illegal act with far-reaching conse- vention of the Constitution of Ukraine – quences. its place a Euro-Integration Bureau within in February. that a majority coalition could be formed Canceling the elections enables the the Cabinet of Ministers. The move was Their interrogation came three days by deputies’ factions and individual depu- Party of Regions to form in local councils widely interpreted as the latest step in the after police, bearing warrants, searched ties. On that basis, the Stability and so-called “carcass coalitions” – imitating new government’s intent to cease any their apartments and examined the con- Reforms Coalition was formed on March the parliamentary coalition’s acceptance NATO integration efforts. tents of their computers. 11 by the parliamentary factions of the of expelled rogue deputies – or to change “Without a doubt, the resolution has an “We deplore the way these two jour- Party of Regions, Communist Party and legislation to eliminate closed list voting illegal character,” Dr. Soskin said. nalists have been treated as suspects, not Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc, and 21 individu- in local elections, delayed until 2011, said “Azarov doesn’t have the right to act in as witnesses, although they just did their al national deputies. Volodymyr Fesenko, a Kyiv political contradiction to international agreements job by covering a news event,” stated an The court ruling released on April 8 expert. and the laws of Ukraine, which require April 3 press release issued by Reporters was such a blatant violation of the law Open-list voting, or single-winner vot- appropriate subdivisions within the Without Borders. “The confiscation of that experts said only pressure from the ing by geographic districts, could enable Cabinet and other executive branch struc- journalists’ files is a violation of government, and bribes from the Party of the government to form majority coali- tures to directly address the Euro-Atlantic Ukrainian law. We urge the police to Regions, could have produced it. The tions in most local councils, he explained. integration issues of our state.” respect the law and to put a stop to prac- decision decimated the court’s credibility, The Yanukovych government is also Mr. Yanukovych’s goal is “to form tices of this kind, which endanger media Ukraine as a component of the Russian they said. violating Ukraine’s foreign policy laws, freedom.” empire and to create a so-called single “I hope this coalition will collapse experts said. On March 31 Prime Minister Meanwhile, nationalist activist Mykola Russia-Belarus-Ukraine state,” he said. because it’s anti-constitutional and ille- Mykola Azarov issued a Cabinet decree Kokhanivskyi, known for chiseling the The new government has also brought gal,” said Dr. Oleh Soskin, chairman of liquidating the European and Euro- Vladimir Lenin statue in central Kyiv, the Kyiv-based Institute of Society Atlantic Coordination Bureau, creating in with it hints of the Kuchma-era repres- sions that were unheard of during the was arrested and imprisoned for two Orange era. months for assaulting Viktor Voronin, an Internet journalist Olena Bilozerska assistant to Education Minister Dmytro Semynozhenko said: “When we receive reported that her home was searched on Tabachnyk. Communists... initiatives from the public, we will not March 27 by local district police, who The victim held a sign that said, (Continued from page 1) suppress them.” He added that there is confiscated two discs of photographs “Ukrainian Nazis – Hands Off ument erected in Ukraine since it gained nothing wrong with plans to hold May 9 which are widely available on the Tabachnyk,” said Mr. Kokhanivskyi, who independence from the Soviet Union in Victory Day parades in Ukraine that will Internet. Police also searched the home of explained that he grabbed the placard 1991. involve both Soviet Army veterans who photographer Oleksii Furman. from his hands. Zaporizhia residents told RFE/RL that fought during World War II and veterans Ms. Bilozerska and Mr. Furman were The activist also acknowledged that he it will probably be placed near the local of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the dep- summoned to a police station on March punched Mr. Voronin in the face during Communist Party offices, not far from the uty prime minister said. “The east [of 30, stated Reporters Without Borders, and the ensuing brawl. He said the two-month city center, where it will be easy to guard. Ukraine] should respect the ideas of the questioned about certain demonstrations jail term is excessive and reflective of west [of Ukraine] and vice versa,” he by opposition activists that they covered political persecution. “Suffering of millions” said.] Like many Zaporizhia residents, Mayor The Communist Party did not ask the Yevhen Kartashov is against glorifying Zaporizhia City Council for permission Stalin. for the monument, explaining that it will The local Party of Regions faction, appear on a private plot of land and which has a majority on the City Council, doesn’t need the council’s approval. said that it will not object to the plans if As a result, lawyer Tetiana Montian they are enacted legally. But Justice believes it will be difficult to stop their Minister Oleksander Lavrynovych, a plans. “All European countries have laws senior Party of Regions member, is con- which envision what a person can and cerned by the monument. cannot do on private territory,” she said. Mr. Lavrynovych said in Kyiv on “In Ukraine this branch of law is not March 29 that “it is inappropriate to developed at all.” return to the pages of history that brought The nationalist Svoboda Party has suffering to millions of people. Tyrants already warned that it will destroy the should be in history as a lesson to later Stalin monument in Zaporizhia if it is generations, and not the subject of glorifi- erected. cation.” In the meantime, Communist Party Critics have called on the central gov- officials say the Zaporizhia monument to ernment to intervene. Stalin is only the first of several. Stepan Khmara of the Ukrainian Mr. Zubchevskyi said the next one People’s Party told RFE/RL that the should be located in western Ukraine to Security Service of Ukraine should act to remind nationalists that it was Stalin who prevent the erection of the monument. He united Ukraine within its present borders pointed to the January decision by a Kyiv in 1939. court that ruled Stalin was guilty of geno- cide for engineering the Ukrainian Copyright 2010, RFE/RL Inc. Famine of 1932-1933 in which millions Reprinted with the permission of Radio of people died. Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 [Interfax-Ukraine reported on March Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington DC 31 that the Ukrainian government is not 20036; www.rferl.org. (See http://www. going to stop an initiative to put up the rferl.org/content/Ukrainian_ monument to Stalin in Zaporizhia. Vice Communists_Determined_To_Erect_ Prime Minister Volodymyr Stalin_Monument/1998182.html.) 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 No. 15

Regions list in the 2007 elections. At present, Russian gas deliveries to Pro-Russian... Messrs. Yanukovych and Azarov have Ukrainian government... Ukraine and gas transit via the country (Continued from page 2) claimed they would prioritize the struggle (Continued from page 2) are covered by agreements signed in Khoroshkovskyi (EDM, March 18). against corruption but this, as in the annual installments of 12.5 percent each. January 2009, amended in November Another factor that Korrespondent Kuchma and Yushchenko eras, is very On March 31, Gazprom completed 2009, and valid until 2019. The Ukrainian exposed was that 12 out of 29 members likely to become a “virtual” struggle. A officially the acquisition of 50 percent government of Yulia Tymoshenko negoti- of the Azarov government had been real campaign against corruption requires ownership in Beltransgas, and changed ated these agreements with Mr. Putin and implicated in criminal cases or were wit- political will demonstrated by the accordingly the composition of Gazprom. Under the sale-and-purchase nesses to them. Nearly half the Cabinet Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Beltransgas’ oversight board and board of agreement, Ukraine paid $210 per 1,000 but which Mr. Yanukovych lacks. The cubic meters of Russian gas in 2009 – a are former high-ranking members of the directors. Gazprom now proposes to German think-tank Transparency 20 percent discount from what Gazprom Soviet Ukrainian nomenklatura or the increase its stake beyond 50 percent in International assigned both Ukraine and defined as its netback price in Europe. KGB. Among the 29 Cabinet members, the near future, as part of its overall pro- Russia the 146th ranking last year and In 2010, and thereafter, the discount is 13 were former KGB officers or had col- gram of investment in export pipelines. It Georgia 66th in their annual corruption removed, aligning Ukraine’s purchase laborated with the Soviet security depart- index (www.transparency.org). also proposes to switch from the U.S. price with that netback price, pegged to ments (http://chykulay.livejournal. In the past two decades, Ukraine has dollar to the Russian ruble in the Russian- the oil products basket on a quarterly com/11787.html). The best known exam- adopted and passed seven laws, two crim- Belarusian gas trade, ostensibly to reduce basis. Thus, Ukraine pays $306 per 1,000 ple is Vice Prime Minister Volodymyr inal codes, 16 presidential decrees, 10 currency risks for both Belarus and cubic meters of Russian gas in the first Sivkovych, who has responsibility for government resolutions, two instructions, Russia. However, the dollar-denominated quarter of 2010, and will pay $320 in the overseeing the security forces. two Supreme Court resolutions, and two oil products basket makes such a switch second quarter (Interfax-Ukraine, March Foreign Affairs Minister Kostyantyn orders from the Finance Ministry and difficult for gas transactions (Interfax, 19-25). Gryshchenko, Ukraine’s ambassador to civil service (Natsionalna Bezpeka i Belapan, March 31). The new government’s first reflex Russia under President Yushchenko, had Oborona, no.97, 2009, http://www.uceps. The Ukrainian government hopes to per- seems to prefer sacrificing national assets high-ranking ties to the communist org/ukr/journal.php). Despite one of the suade voters to accept a loss of control over for price relief, rather than proceeding to nomenklatura. Mr. Gryshchenko’s career largest and most rapid transfers from state the national gas transit system, if Russian reform the energy sector with EU assis- was developed in Moscow during the to private control of any economy, the gas can be bought at $200 per 1,000 cubic tance, as the predecessor government had Soviet era. Although he has a reputation SBU and Procurator General’s Office has meters in the cash component of the price. resolved to do before the recent elections. as a professional diplomat, the political never convicted a single member of the The barter component of the price in the expert Oleh Medvedev pointed out that Ukrainian elites for abuse of office or form of assets would in that case become The article above is reprinted from Mr. Gryshchenko had admitted that the corruption. less visible; and the issue of transferring Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission Russian leadership lobbied for him to Half of Ukraine’s 14 wealthiest oli- additional assets to pay for Russian gas in from its publisher, the Jamestown receive the post (Ukrayinska Pravda, garchs are national deputies, and most of the future could be postponed. Foundation, www.jamestown.org. March 22). On March 21, Mr. these were elected as members of the Gryshchenko said on Inter channel that Party of Regions. An opinion poll quoted “Ukraine will never allow any organiza- in Natsionalna Bezpeka i Oborona (No. 7, may soon face default, and mass discontent tion she remains within to be used against 2009) asked which parliamentary politi- Ukraine's democracy... among his working class constituency in Russia.” cal forces are most prone to corruption the southeast is likely. If Mr. Yanukovych After the Orange Revolution, (Continued from page 3) and which most seek to combat it. The does embark on serious reforms, that same Hrushchenko joined the Republican Party orous civil society consisting of profession- Party of Regions was considered to be constituency will suffer and strikes are cer- (RPU) established by the “godfather” of most prone to corruption, cited by 14.3 als, intellectuals, students and businesspeo- ple with no fear of the powers that be. Mr. tain. So negotiating the crisis will require the opaque gas intermediary percent of respondents, and only 5.1 per- popular legitimacy –– which Mr. RosUkrEnergo and now minister of fuels cent believe that the party actively com- Yanukovych’s efforts to establish strong- man rule already are, and will continue to Yanukovych is rapidly squandering; a and energy, Yurii Boiko (Ukrayinska bats the phenomenon. The Yulia strong government –– which he does not Pravda, March 13). Mr. Gryshchenko was Tymoshenko Bloc scored 13 percent and be, resisted and ridiculed by the general population. have; and excellent judgment, which is also No. 18 on the Ne Tak! election bloc orga- 14.9 percent, respectively – the only missing from the equation. Second, Ukraine’s shambolic govern- nized by the Social Democratic United political force believed by more people to Indeed, if Mr. Yanukovych keeps on ment apparatus cannot serve as the basis of Party (SDPU) for the March 2006 elec- be combatting corruption as opposed to making anti-democratic mistakes, he could an effective authoritarian government. tions. being prone to corruption. very well provoke a second Orange Ne Tak! stood on a virulently anti- Messrs. Yanukovych and Azarov have Tough talk alone will fail to whip a bloated Revolution. But this time the demonstrators NATO platform and failed to enter not implemented cadre policies that bureaucracy into shape. Worse, Ukraine’s would consist of democrats, students and Parliament after receiving only 1 percent would unite Ukraine, as the former prom- Security Service and army are a far cry workers. The prospect of growing instabili- of the vote, thus ending the SDPU’s ised in the election campaign, and the from those in Belarus. Mr. Yanukovych ty will do little to attract foreign investors, hopes of re-entering post-Kuchma poli- government cannot in any shape or form may try to emulate Mr. Lukashenka, but, while declining legitimacy, growing incom- tics. Mr. Boiko, who was on the verge of be considered reformist. without a strong bureaucracy and coercive petence, and tub-thumping will fail to mod- arrest in summer 2005 for abuse of office apparatus, he will fail. ernize Ukraine’s industry, agriculture and when he was head of Naftohaz Ukrainy The article above is reprinted from Third, with an ineffective Cabinet, all education. Mr. Yanukovych could very well in 2002-2004, switched to the stronger Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission decision-making will be concentrated in be an even greater failure as president than Party of Regions with which the RPU from its publisher, the Jamestown Mr. Yanukovych’s hands. Even if one Mr. Yushchenko. merged in 2007. He was on the Party of Foundation, www.jamestown.org. ignores his deficient education and poor Although the outlook is grim, it is not yet grasp of facts, Mr. Yanukovych’s appoint- hopeless for Ukraine’s new president. He ment of Mr. Tabachnyk demonstrates that could still grasp a modest victory from the wrong people to receive acknowledge- Ukraine’s president is either completely out jaws of an embarrassing defeat by ruling as Art collector... ment or support. of touch with his own country or arrogantly the president, not of Donetsk, but of all (Continued from page 7) Of course, I feel that there’s more to this indifferent to public opinion. Ukraine. All he has to do is restrain his ionable and established non-Ukrainian issue than just what someone like Victor Fourth, Ukraine is still in the throes of a appetite for power and learn to rule with the artists. Pinchuk knows about or wishes to know deep economic crisis. If Mr. Yanukovych opposition and with the population. It’s not Never mind that the Ukrainian Ministry about. It seems that he ought to be intro- does nothing to fix the economy, Ukraine so complicated –– it’s democracy. of Culture in Kyiv requested that I turn duced to some of the things that exist in over my father, Bohdan Muchin’s entire this sphere of his interest, Ukrainian art and culture, that is. He seems to be inac- output of sculpture as a rightful legacy to long-term commitment to their respective cessible to any of us, although if he were the people of Ukraine, even though every- Ukrainian Days... homelands,” stated Ms. Gallo-Olexy. to be a responsible curator of our culture, thing I have of his had been done in post- Members of Congress resolved to he would need to and want to know exact- (Continued from page 4) examine this issue and assist Ukrainian war Germany and the United States, none ly the things he doesn’t know, the things of sented Members of Congress with various in Ukraine (the sculptures done in which we (the artists, museums, libraries, policy papers on issues of importance to American civic organizations, as well as Ukraine had, of course, to be left behind institutes, etc.) are the custodians. the Ukrainian American community. other ethnic organizations. when we fled in 1942). Mr. Pinchuk seems to have avoided Topics covered included: foreign assis- Understanding that not everyone was Nevertheless, I decided to make a gift contact with any of this, and instead has tance to Ukraine, the Ukrainian Genocide able to attend Ukrainian Days, Mr. Sawkiw to the people of Ukraine from my family handed himself, his mind and his resourc- and the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus. of the Ukrainian National Information of three major marble pieces and was left es over to others for guidance and instruc- Tamara Gallo-Olexy, president of the Service noted that everyone in the with the task of finding someone to tion. This leaves us with this question: Ukrainian Congress Committee of Ukrainian American community “should underwrite the cost of their shipment to Which oligarchs/entrepreneurs/celebri- America, pointed out that USAID bypass- make an effort to meet with their elected Ukraine. This makes it quite clear to me ties/philanthropists will have the insight es ethnic organizations when considering officials in their respective district offices that we (émigré artists) are considered to and interest to preserve what we in the grant applications. “Our organizations and advocate the same issues that were be the right people to make gifts, but the diaspora have contributed? have been involved in Ukraine since the broached in Washington. This would com- early 1990s and have a wide network of plete the circle that was initiated in contacts, know the language, as well as Washington and help to strengthen the ties [have a] deep understanding of cooperate between the community, its district liaisons with Ukrainian partners. Our community and Washington congressional offices.” is very upset that the money intended to Copies of the policy papers presented To subscribe to The Ukrainian Weekly, help Ukraine is not used more effectively at Ukrainian Days can be obtained at the when the opportunity to achieve better UCCA National Office ([email protected]), results is readily available by providing at the Ukrainian National Information call 973-292-9800, ext. 3042 an even playing field when distributing Service ([email protected]) or on the UCCA grants, as ethnic organizations have a website at www.ucca.org. No. 15 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 21 OUT AND ABOUT

April 14 Lecture by Anna Fournier, “Ukraine: From April 24 Volleyball tournament, Ukrainian American Youth Winnipeg ‘Borderland’ to ‘Heart of Europe,’” Pony Corral, Yonkers, NY Association, Yonkers High School, 914-844-3606 240-474-7374 or 240-453-4041 or [email protected]

April 16 Film screening, “Bereza Kartuzka” by Yurij Luhovy, April 24 Art exhibit and sale, Holy Trinity Ukrainian Houston, TX French Alliance of Houston Center, Silver Spring, MD Catholic Church, 410-884-9025 www.yluhovy.com April 24 through Exhibit, “Ukraine-Sweden: At the Crossroads of April 16 Film screening, “Bereza Kartuzka” by Yurij Luhovy, October 31 History (17th through 18th Centuries),” The Whippany, NJ Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey, New York Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 973-585-7175 April 25 125th anniversary of Transfiguration of Our Lord April 17 Spring Flea Market, St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Shamokin, PA Ukrainian Catholic Church, pontifical divine liturgy Baltimore, MD Church, 410-870-1720 followed by dinner, 570-648-9898

April 17 Fund-raiser, “Casino Royale,” St. Nicholas Ukrainian April 25 Lecture by Hanna Kapustian, “Building Stages in Passaic, NJ Catholic School, 973-471-0303 New York the Construction of Ukrainian Statehood,” Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences, April 17 15th Bulba Cup curling tournament, The Royal 212-222-1866 Montreal Montreal Curling Club, 514-744-9648 April 26 Seminar by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, “World War April 17 through Embroidery workshop, The Ukrainian Museum, Cambridge, MA II and Cultural Heritage in Ukraine: Questions June 12 212-228-0110 or [email protected] Remain?” Harvard University, 617-495-4053 New York April 30 Ukrainian Sacred Music and Choral Workshop, St. April 19 Seminar by Rostyslav Melnykov, “The Godfather of South Bound Brook, NJ Sophia Theological Seminary, 610-882-2488 Cambridge, MA the Red Renaissance: Serhiy Pylypenko and Ukrainian Literature in the 1920s,” Harvard May 1 Workshop, “Baking Traditional Wedding Breads,” University, 617-495-4053 New York The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 or [email protected] April 19 Workshop, “Internationalization of Higher Toronto : In Search of Effective May 1 Presentation by Alxander Motyl and Vasyl Makhno, Partnership Paradigm,” University of Toronto, New York “Imagining Mazepa: From Byron to Broadway to 416-978-8669 Hollywood,” The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110

April 20 Literary evening with Taras Prokhasko, “FM New York Galicia,” Columbia University, 212-854-4697 Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events April 23-25 Pysanka Workshop, St. Basil College, 203-356-0770 advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions Stamford, CT or 203-324-4578 from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected]. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 No. 15 UKELODEON FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

Plast’s “Ptashata” create pysanky Goshen UAyA members raise NEW YORK – On Saturday, their favorite “krasky,” or colors. March 27, the “Ptashata” of Plast As the ptashata created their over $1,000 for mazepa exhibit Ukrainian Scouting Organization of individual pysanky, along with with by Orysia Woloszyn Dmytrenko wise men visiting the newborn Jesus New York participated in the beau- Sestrychka Chrystia (their counsel- with a twist. In this case the three wise NEW YORK – Members of the tiful Easter tradition of writing or) they sang spring songs and men were three important figures from Goshen, N.Y., branch of the Ukrainian pysanky. “hahilky,” such as “A vzhe vesna Ukrainian history, one of which was American Youth Association (UAYA), With kistky (styluses) in hand, skresla.” Also, the pre-Christian Hetman Ivan Mazepa. The vertep was visited The Ukrainian Museum in heating the wax against the candle, and Christian origins of the pysanka presented in the Ukrainian communi- New York City on Sunday, March 21, the “ptashatka” drew a symbolic were explained and discussed. ties at Soyuzivka and in Hamptonburg, sun, cross, deer or flower onto their The children’s finished pysanky to present the museum’s director, Glen Spey and Kerhonkson, N.Y., with eggs. Then they dipped their eggs and krashanky were put carefully Maria Shust, with a $1,352.00 check 100 percent of the donations collected into various colors –such as yellow, into small egg cartons to be brought representing funds they raised for the going to toward the Mazepa exhibit. orange, red and black. Some to church in a basket to be blessed upcoming exhibit, “Ukraine-Sweden: Khrystia Bihun, Goshen’s chief ptashata also made krashanky – for Easter. At the Crossroads of History (XVII- counselor who organized the project, dipping the entire egg into one of – Christine Gorski-Makar XVIII Centuries).” said: “Our kids love to perform – Director Shust welcomed the group and for a cause, even more so.” She and thanked them for their initiative said the goal was to raise $1,000, and community service, adding: “Your but this was surpassed due to the hard work is very much appreciated by generosity of the Ukrainian commu- the museum, and we look forward to nities they visited. seeing you all at the opening.” “Ukraine-Sweden: At the The members of Goshen UAYA Crossroads of History” opens at the spent their winter school holidays Ukrainian Museum, 222 E. Sixth St. rehearsing and performing a “vertep” New York on April 25 and is sched- – a recreation of shepherds and three uled to run through October 31.

Ptashata of the New York branch of Plast with counselor (sestrychka) Chrystia Gorski-Makar. The children (from left) are: Maria Chrystyna Kardash, Lianka Chapin, Alexandra Cuttler, Marko Eliyashevskiy , Severyn Khomyak, Katia Chapin, Slava Lew, Oriana Makar and Ihor Shkvarok. (Two other The Ukrainian Museum’s director, Maria Shust, accepts a donation from members of the group, Matejko Hapij and Halyna Bowley, were absent). the Goshen, N.Y., branch of the Ukrainian American Youth Association.

Ukrainians well represented at school’s Multicultural Day

Christine Syzonenko MORRISTOWN, N.J. – The Iskra Ukrainian dance ensemble performed as part of Multicultural Day at Hillcrest School in Morristown, N.J., on Saturday, January 23. The troupe was invited by Bohdanna Stelmach, whose son Andrijko is a second grader at the school. Iskra is seen above performing “Pryvit” (Welcome); the Stelmachs are seen on the right at the Ukrainian table they set up and manned. No. 15 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 23 Plast patrol explores Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA – The Plast After filling up on the delicious patrol “Pumy” (Pumas) took a trip cheesteaks, we walked over to the into the city of Philadelphia on Old City, where we visited the Liberty Saturday, February 27. We started Bell. Our Druh (counselor), Andrij our trip by visiting the Ukrainian Zwarych, gave us a brief presentation Catholic Cathedral of the about the history of the bell. Immaculate Conception, where a Our hurtok then walked over ano- replica of the Shroud of Turin is ther block to visit a memorial for being displayed. Afterwards, we the fallen soldiers of the continued to Center City to Reading Revolutionary War. This was a fun Terminal Market, where there are trip and we’re looking forward to many interesting food venues. Of our next one into the city. course, we ate Philadelphia chee- – submitted by Evan Klos, sesteaks, since this is a tradition of Thomas Klufas, Paul Shatynski, Philadelphia Plast Troop 1 when Nicholas Stefurak and counselor yunaky go to visit the city. Andrij Zwarych.

The Pumas of the Philadelphia branch of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization in front of the Liberty Bell (from left): counselor Andrij Zwarych, Paul Shatynski, Nicholas Stefurak, Evan Klos and Thomas Klufas. Mishanyna This month, continuing our challenge from March, readers are tasked with finding the names of the capitals of the remaining 12 of Ukraine’s 24 oblasts, plus the capital of the Crimean Autonomous Republic. Lviv Rivne Uzhhorod Mykolaiv Sumy Vinnytsia Odesa Symferopol Zaporizhia Poltava Ternopil Zhytomyr 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 No. 15

PREVIEW OF EVENTS Friday, April 16 the need for vigilance on the home front and elaborates on the goals of the jihad- HOUSTON: The Ukrainian Cultural Club of Houston will present the premiere of ists. The presentation will be held at the A Ukrainian Summer Palatine Public Library, 700 N. North Appears May 2, 2010, in The Ukrainian Weekly award-winning documentary film “Bereza Kartuzka 1934-1939” (English version). Court, at 2-4 p.m. The event is free and The documentary is produced and directed open to the public. For additional informa- by Montreal filmmaker Yurij Luhovy. This tion call Roman Golash at 847-910-3532. Learn about your heritage in Ukraine or North America ... is the first film regarding the Polish con- Sunday, April 25 centration camp Bereza Kartuzka; it is Enjoy Ukrainian camp experiences near and far... based on extensive research, vintage stock FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.: The shots, commentaries by pre-eminent aca- Ukrainian Dancers of Miami Inc., celebrat- Or just relax and enjoy the activities demics and eyewitness testimonies. The ing their 60th anniversary, present a whirl- at the Soyuzivka Heritage Center... premiere will be held at French Alliance of wind afternoon of Ukrainian folk dance, Houston, 427 Lovett Blvd. Entrance: $15, song and art in their 18th annual “A students, $10; proceeds will go toward off- Ukrainian Montage” concert, featuring the What are you planning for your Ukrainian summer? setting the making of the documentary. Ukrainian Dancers of Miami and Trio Read our special section for information from those The film is a Remi Winner at the 43rd Maksymowich. The concert begins at 2 Houston-International Film Festival. The p.m. in the Amaturo Theater at the in the know on the things to do and the places to go! director will be present. For more informa- Broward Center for the Performing Arts, tion visit: www.yluhovy.com. 201 SW Fifth Ave. Admission is $20. d v e r t i s i n g e a d l i n e p r i l Saturday, April 17, Tickets are available at the Broward Center A D : A 15 through Sunday, May 2 Box Office. To charge tickets by phone call 954-462-0222; to charge online log on Ed i t o r i a l De a d l i n e : Ap r i l 20 NEW YORK: La MaMa Experimental Theater and Yara Arts Group present to www.browardcenter.org. e i n v i t e r e a d e r s a n d c o m m u n i t y o r g a n i z a t i o n s “Scythian Stones,” a world music theater W piece featuring Nina Matvienko, Tonia NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Academy of t o s u b m i t a r t i c l e s , p l u s p h o t o s , Matvienko and Kyrgyz artists Kenzhegul Arts and Sciences in New York will host a o n u p c o m i n g s u m m e r c a m p s , c o u r s e s , Satybaldieva and Ainura Kachkynbek lecture by Dr. Hanna Kapustian, professor w o r k s h o p s a n d o t h e r e v e n t s . kyzy. The journeys of two women become of history at the Mykhailo Ostrohradskyj epic descents into the Great Below, where Kremenchuk State University. The lecture, Se n d e d i t o r i a l c o p y t o : songs, skills and languages vanish. “Building Stages in the Construction of Th e Uk r a i n i a n We e k l y “Scythian Stones” was created by Virlana Ukrainian Statehood,” will be held in the Tkacz, with direction/design by Watoku Academy’s building, 206 W. 100th St., at o u t e o x 2200 R 10, P.O. B 280, Ueno, movement by Katja Kolcio, music 3 p.m. All are invited. For more informa- Pa r s i p p a n y , NJ 07054 by Nurbek Serkebaev, Julian Kytasty and tion contact the academy, 212-222-1866. o r e-m a i l i t t o : [email protected] Debutante Hour’s Susan Hwang and Maria Sonevytsky. Shows are Thursdays- Saturday, May 1 Fo r Ad v e r t i s i n g Ra t e s & In f o r m a t i o n : Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2:30 p.m. NEW YORK: “Between Ethnocentrism La MaMa is located at 74 E. Fourth St. Ca l l 973-292-9800 (Ex t . 3040) o r e-m a i l : [email protected] and Assimilation: Eastern Churches in Tickets are $18. For information call North America,” a roundtable discussion 212-475- 7710 or log on to www.lamama. with the Rev. Prof. Petro Galadza, the Rev. org. Dr. Ivan Kaszczak and Dr. Lubomyr Sunday, April 18 Hajda, will take place at 2 p.m. at The Ukrainian Museum. The Ukrainian and NEWPORT, R.I.: The Yevshan Ukrainian Th e Uk r a i n i a n We e k l y Vocal Ensemble based in Hartford, Conn., English presentation will be followed by a will present a concert of classical liturgical general discussion. Moderator: Andrew and folk/secular music at the historic Sorokowski. The Ukrainian Museum is Trinity Episcopal Church, 1 Queen Anne located at 222 E. Sixth St. The event is Square (GPS: 141 Spring St.) at 3 p.m. sponsored by the Ukrainian Patriarchal The choir and bandurists, conducted by Society. Admission is free; donations are Alexander B. Kuzma, will perform pieces welcome. For further information call Being Ukrainian means: composed by Bortniansky, Honcharov, 203-261-4530 or e-mail hayda.art@snet. Vedel, Koshetz, Kytasky and others. net or [email protected]. Suggested ticket donation is $15 for indi- o Two Easters in springtime, sometimes together. Sunday, May 2 viduals age 13 and up. Yevshan asks for o “Zlet” and “Sviato Vesny” in May. your support by attending and encouraging CHICAGO: The Ukrainian American others to attend, as the choir strives to Veterans 1st Lt. Ivan Shandor Post 35 in o Soyuzivka’s Ukrainian Cultural Festival in July. share the beauty of Ukrainian music with Palatine, Ill., invites all veterans, youth diverse audiences. For more information o “Uke Week” at Wildwood in August. groups and members of the community to contact Christina Kowinko, 203-380-2892 a presentation in Ukrainian by Prof. Peter o Back to Ukrainian school in September. (evenings) or [email protected] For Potichnyj on his experiences as the young- more information about the church, visit est member of the Ukrainian Insurgent o “Morskyi Bal” in New Jersey in November. its website, trinitynewport.org. Army (UPA) and later a member of the o Tuesday, April 20 United States Marine Corps that included Christmas in December. duty in Korea. Prof. Potichnyj obtained his NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Studies in political science from o Christmas in January. Program at Columbia University invites you to “FM Galicia – An Evening With Columbia University, where he studied on o Deb in February. Writer Taras Prokhasko.” The award-win- the G.I. Bill; he taught at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, for over o A subscription to The Ukrainian Weekly ning Mr. Prokhasko has published six books of prose. His works have been trans- 30 years. He recently published his autobi- ALL YEAR ROUND. lated into various languages, including ography, “My Journey,” which will be English. This event will take place at 7:30 available for purchase, and he continues to p.m. in the Harriman Atrium, 12th floor, work on the UPA “Litopys” (Chronicle). To subscribe to The Ukrainian Weekly, fill out the form below, clip International Affairs Building, 420 W. The presentation and discussion will be it and mail it to: Subscription Department, The Ukrainian Weekly, 118th St. This English-language event is held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center of 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. free and open to the public. The Ss. Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Catholic Church located at Oakley and Or simply call 973-292-9800, ext. 3042. is co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Studies Chicago avenues starting at noon. There is Program at the Harriman Institute, no charge for this event. Donations will be Columbia University and the Kennan accepted. For additional information call Institute. For more information call Dr. Col. Roman Golash (ret.) at 847-910-3532. Mark Andryczyk, 212-854-4697, or write to [email protected]. ALEXANDRIA, Va.: The Washington Saturday, April 24 Group Cultural Fund Sunday Music Series presents Toma Hrynkiw, piano, and Nestor PALATINE, Ill.: The Ukrainian American Cybriwsky, cello, in a program showcas- Veterans 1st Lt. Ivan Shandor Post 35 and ACT for America invite veterans and ing their recent collaboration focusing on members of the community to a viewing Ukrainian composers and featuring works of a documentary “The Third Jihad.” This by Revutsky, Kosenko and Barvinsky. is radical Islam’s vision for America. Dr. Meet the artists at a reception immediately Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim American and for- following the program. The concert is at mer physician to the U.S. Congress nar- the Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St., at 3 rates the film. Interviews are conducted p.m. Seating is unreserved; suggested with Rudy Giuliani, Joe Lieberman and donation, $20, free for students. For infor- Tom Ridge. The documentary underscores mation call 301-229-2615.