INSIDE:• President Leonid Kuchma heads for the Mideast — page 3. • Independent journalist/dissident Serhii Naboka dies — page 4. • Children’s video series now on the Internet — page 9.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXI HE KRAINIANNo. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2003 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine NationwideT surveyU reveals Verkhovna RadaW approves draft bills culture of corruption in Ukraine on the rights of diaspora Ukrainians by Roman Woronowycz service was tolerable. About 44 percent by Roman Woronowycz better chance for approval when time Kyiv Press Bureau indicated they paid bribes or made gifts in Kyiv Press Bureau comes time to vote on one of the two one form or another at least once in the proposals. KYIV – A culture of corruption is set- last year. KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada passed Speaking on Ukrainian television after tling upon Ukraine, according to a nation- “Today bribes have become the norm initial versions of two bills on January 17 passage of the first reading of the draft al survey released on January 15. for society,” explained Olha Balakirieva, that would give ethnic Ukrainians who bill, Our Ukraine National Deputy Taras The poll, developed by the Ukrainian director of the Social Monitoring Center. do not have Ukrainian citizenship special Chornovil said simplified entry proce- Institute for Social Research and the “This is one of the phenomenon of con- status and simplified entry procedures dures for diaspora Ukrainians would Social Monitoring Center in conjunction temporary Ukrainian society that we need into Ukraine. open new avenues for interaction with with the United Nations Development to research. We cannot ignore it.” The bills, which would give diaspora Ukrainians around the world. He added Program, showed that 78 percent of the Ms. Balakirieva said that a majority of Ukrainians official status and their own that it would also allow Ukraine to better respondents believed that all or most all the respondents accept the situation identification cards, are nearly identical government officials have accepted defend those ethnic Ukrainians who are because they believed their government except for almost negligible differences mistreated or denied human rights in bribes. More than 80 percent stated that was incapable of change. Nearly two- in the interpretation of the word ”foreign- corruption was prevalent within the judi- some countries across the globe. thirds responded that in their estimation based Ukrainians,” the term used in both Ukrainian American and Ukrainian cial branch of government, as well, while government actively resists popular con- documents to identify the group that falls 71 percent responded in the affirmative to Canadian community leaders have lob- trol and refuses to listen to its citizens. under the bills’ provisions. bied for some time for a law to delineate a query about whether they believed that Most citizens believe the government The version presented by National most government officials were tied to the the status of those former citizens of lacks democratic values, has little trans- Deputies Yevhen Hirnyk and Yevhen Ukraine who were forced to leave their mafia or private family business relations. parency in day-to-day activities and is all Zhovtiak of the anti-presidential Our The survey, conducted in late homeland over the last several decades but bereft of professionalism. Ukraine parliamentary faction also uti- for political or economic reasons and November and early December, included She noted that about 44 percent of lizes the term ”diaspora Ukrainians,” 3,063 respondents from 83 cities and 69 now would like a chance to be able to respondents replied that central govern- which the bill submitted by National visit freely and even do business in the villages across Ukraine. The margin of ment authorities were incapable of resolv- Deputy Andrii Derkach of the pro-presi- error was between 1.1 percent and 1.83 country. ing individual and societal problems, and dential Labor Ukraine faction and percent. Both proposed laws would allow those a like number, 45 percent, could not do so National Deputy Ihor Ostash of Our who can show a link to their ancestral The most telling finding, however, was at the oblast and local level. Ukraine does not. homeland and who apply for the special that a good portion of Ukraine’s populace Oleksander Yaremenko of the However, perhaps the biggest differ- status the ability to enter and live in seems inclined to accept bribery and cor- Ukrainian Institute of Social Research ence between the two proposals is that Ukraine for up to 120 days annually ruption as a normal part of everyday life. explained that many people tied higher one was developed by the anti-presiden- without a visa. It also would allow quali- Some 23 percent of the respondents indi- levels of government to higher rates of cated that making additional payments tial forces of Our Ukraine, while the fied foreigners to live in the country for beyond the assigned cost of a government (Continued on page 12) other bill was prepared and presented up to three years without requiring an jointly by representatives from both sides invitation from either a Ukrainian indi- of the aisle in the politically divided Financial transactions with Ukraine Ukrainian Parliament, which gives it a (Continued on page 12) now subject to stricter monitoring Kyiv marks January 22 anniversary by Roman Woronowycz (FATF), an international agency made up of Kyiv Press Bureau 29 member-countries that monitors finan- cial transactions and money-laundering KYIV – Even as Ukraine made a belated schemes, decided that Ukraine had failed to effort on January 16 to avoid implementa- pass legislation that assures it adheres to tion of a stringent regime of compliance by new Western banking standards on fighting Western countries by passing additional international money laundering. anti-money laundering measures, Germany The FATF officially blacklisted Ukraine announced it would begin strict monitoring and recommended that members closely of all financial transactions with Ukrainian scrutinize financial transactions with the commercial banks that exceeded 15,000 country. It suggested that members proceed euros ($16,000). Four days later Great from a presumption that all movement of Britain announced it had ordered all corre- money from Ukrainian banks is suspect. spondent banks to temporarily halt opera- The FATF had previously warned the coun- tions with Ukrainian partners. try about the need to pass anti-money laun- The action by FATF member-countries dering legislation and had set a deadline of comes amid claims by Ukrainian govern- December 19, 2002, some months ago. ment officials that oversight procedures, Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada had passed which are effectively economic sanctions an initial law “on prevention and counterac- because they damper financial transactions, tion of the legalization of proceeds from are not warranted. crime” on November 28, 2002, which it “There are no large-scale money laun- based on the internationally recognized dering operations in Ukraine,” said Viktor Strasbourg Convention, incorporating 40 Suslov, chairman of the State Committee on AP/Viktor Pobedinsky recommendations to prevent money laun- KYIV – Some 500 people attended a commemoration in St. Sophia Square of the Financial Market Regulation. “In the last dering. President Leonid Kuchma signed 85th anniversary of the independence of Ukraine proclaimed by the Ukrainian years there has been a drain of large the bill into law on December 7. Central Rada on January 22, 1918. Above, participants in folk dress are seen amounts of finances from Ukraine, which Western financiers, however, found the have been laundered outside the country.” legislation deficient because it failed to under the flags of various Ukrainian political parties, including the Batkivschyna The monitoring procedures come a Party and the Ukrainian Republican-Sobor Party. Also present were members and month after the Financial Action Task Force (Continued on page 15) supporters of both Rukh parties. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2003 No. 4

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Group fights public apathy over corruption Anti-monopoly body OKs gas consortium part Igor Ivanov in a telephone conversa- by Askold Krushelnycky said the organization, which has been tion on January 15 that Ukraine wants to RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report working in the country for two years, KYIV – The Anti-Monopoly postpone the introduction of new require- wants to inform ordinary Ukrainians Committee on January 21 granted Russia’s ments for crossing the countries’ mutual The public perception that Ukraine is about the rights they possess and to help Gazprom and Naftohaz Ukrainy permis- border, the UNIAN news service reported. rotten with corruption is not new. But the organize groups to fight corruption. sion to pursue the establishment of the The planned changes include requiring latest opinion poll released on January 15 Ms. Kolomayets said the PTS is not International Consortium on Management Ukrainians and Russians to present for- by Ukraine’s Social Monitoring Center aimed at eradicating corruption among and Development of Ukraine’s Gas eign-travel passports when crossing the and the Institute of Social Studies is star- the top echelons of government but rather Transport System during the pre-invest- border. The Russian side had proposed that tling because of the high numbers of peo- at the levels that affect ordinary people: ment stage of the consortium’s operations, such a regulation be introduced on July 1. ple who believe that most or all govern- bribes paid to medical personnel for treat- Interfax reported. The consortium is being Quoting the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs ment officials are on the take – 78 percent ment, to staff to admit children into high- set up on a parity basis under last year’s Ministry’s press service, the news agency of respondents – and the admission that er education, or to minor bureaucrats to agreement between the Ukrainian and reported that Mr. Zlenko said this new 44 percent personally paid bribes last issue vital documents or payments such Russian governments. The pre-investment requirement would complicate “interper- year. as pensions. stage of the consortium’s operations must sonal and cultural-educational” ties The figures paint an even more omi- Ms. Kolomayets said the PTS also end by August. During this stage the con- between the countries due to the “realities nous picture than a survey commissioned helps small and medium-sized businesses sortium’s participants will conduct a feasi- of socioeconomic development.” Obtaining last year by a non-governmental body negotiate the obstacles presented by the bility study and develop a plan for financ- foreign-travel documents in Russia and working in Ukraine called Partnership for country’s opaque business regulations ing the project. The implementation of the Ukraine sometimes runs into technical dif- a Transparent Society (PTS). That survey and erected by bribe-seekers, such as the investment stage will require further per- ficulties, since they are issued by special found that 65 percent of Ukrainians tax inspectorate, fire-department safety mission from the Anti-Monopoly centralized offices rather than local police believe corruption is very widespread. officials and public-hygiene inspectors. Committee. (RFE/RL Newsline) departments, as in the case of domestic In the latest poll, respondents accuse passports. A great many citizens in both She said the PTS has opened seven Kuchinsky is vice-chair of ECOSOC staff in Ukraine’s supposedly free med- regional offices and that another four will countries do not possess foreign-travel ical system of being the biggest bribe tak- open by the end of this month. These UNITED NATIONS – Ukraine’s passports. (RFE/RL Newsline) ers. That’s in line with the results of the function as advice centers, where individ- Permanent Representative to the United Two new lawmakers to join Rada PTS survey, which showed that more than uals can drop in for help with problems Nations Valeriy Kuchinsky on January 15 half of those receiving medical treatment linked to corruption. The centers coordi- was appointed vice-chairman of the U.N. KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada has termi- admitted to paying a bribe to receive nate with other non-governmental agen- Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), nated the parliamentary powers of Serhii service. cies also interested in combating bribery Interfax and UNIAN reported on January Tyhypko (Labor Ukraine-Party of Both polls showed that traffic police, and corruption. 16. (RFE/RL Newsline) Industrialists and Entrepreneurs) and tax inspectors and teachers in higher edu- Ms. Kolomayets said one of the PTS’s Mykhailo Papiyev (Social Democratic cation are among the most common bribe most positive achievements has been to Airline resumes North American routes Party-United) in connection with their seekers. get local government authorities involved appointment to government posts, UNIAN KYIV – The Ukrainian airline Aerosvit The PTS, funded by the U.S. Agency in the anti-corruption process. “I think reported on January 16. Mr. Tyhypko was is resuming routes between Ukraine and for International Development, is work- one of our biggest successes is that we appointed head of the National Bank of North America after a four-year break, ing to convince Ukrainians that corrup- were able to unite non-governmental Ukraine in a controversial vote in Interfax reported on January 16, quoting tion need not be an inevitable part of their organizations from various regions of December 2002, while Mr. Papiyev Aerosvit General Director Hryhorii lives. PTS Director Marta Kolomayets Ukraine that, even if they have different assumed the post of labor minister. In con- interests, want to fight the problem of Hurtovyi. The relaunch of weekend Boeing formity with Ukrainian law, they will be corruption and want more transparency 767 flights is scheduled for March 30. Mr. replaced in the Verkhovna Rada by Yulia Askold Krushelnycky is an RFE/RL Hurtovyi added that Aerosvit will begin a Chebotarova (Labor Ukraine-Party of correspondent. (Continued on page 14) trans-Atlantic route linking Kyiv with Industrialists and Entrepreneurs) and Ihor Toronto in May. (RFE/RL Newsline) Shurma (Social Democratic Party-United), Ukrainian boy sues school who were next on the lists of candidates from their respective parties in the March Hans Blix: our man in Iraq KYIV – A Ukrainian boy has taken his 31 election. (RFE/RL Newsline) by David Marples before Dr. Blix and the IAEA. school to court for exploiting children after The actions of Dr. Blix subsequently Agricultural growth slows While the world awaits the results of he was made to adhere to the Soviet prac- aroused great controversy, especially in tice of sweeping schoolyards and cleaning the investigation into weapons of mass Ukraine and Belarus, the two Soviet KYIV – Vice Prime Minister for destruction in Iraq by a United Nations school buildings to instill the work ethic, Agriculture Ivan Kyrylenko told the republics most affected by Chornobyl’s Reuters reported on January 16, quoting commission, it is worth noting the che- radioactive fallout. Dr. Blix reassured the Verkhovna Rada on January 15 that quered career of the head of this team, Dr. Interfax. The boy’s father said his son Ukrainian economic growth in the agricul- public in the USSR that there would be came home dirty and complained about Hans Blix. few significant health effects from tural sector in 2002 did not exceed 3 per- Dr. Blix, oddly enough, holds a doctor- feeling humiliated by teachers who made cent, UNIAN reported. In 2000 and 2001, Chornobyl. He continued to advocate the him clean the schoolyard instead of going ate in international and constitutional law, development of nuclear power in the Ukraine reported increases of 9.2 percent to physical education or art classes. A rather than nuclear physics. He began his Soviet Union, and partly as a result of his and 9.8 percent, respectively, in agricultur- court in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast said it career in Sweden as a diplomat, but one advice, the Chornobyl plant continued to al output. Mr. Kyrylenko also said more will investigate the unprecedented case who was outspoken in favor of Sweden’s operate with some minor modifications. than 40 percent of Ukrainian farms posted and then decide whether to pursue it. ambitious but much-criticized nuclear In 1988, however, Dr. Legasov com- losses in 2002. “The average monthly (RFE/RL Newsline) power program. In 1981 Dr. Blix became mitted suicide, and in his posthumously wage in the agricultural sector – 153 hrv ($29) – is the lowest among economic the director-general of the International published memoirs he revealed that Kyiv wants to delay new border regime Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, under Chornobyl suffered from significant branches,” Mr. Kyrylenko added. the auspices of the United Nations. 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Kuchma heads for Mideast by Taras Kuzio abroad,” used by Russia to denote the CIS RFE/RL Newsline as distinct from the “far abroad,” has fallen to promote business with Ukraine into disuse, it still reflects the general ten- Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma dency to view the CIS as a family club. by Roman Woronowycz tary foray into Iraq only after the United offered a novel response to a question posed This shared perception can become vital- Kyiv Press Bureau Nations approved it. to him on December 28, 2002, during a ly important during periods of international He also pointed out the cost of war, KYIV – Ukraine’s President Leonid press conference in Chernihiv, a town locat- isolation, such as that experienced by noting that the first Persian Gulf War in Kuchma toured several Persian Gulf ed near the Belarus-Russia border. Eleven Ukraine since late 2000, when the 1991 cost Kuwait $180 billion, which states on January 18-22 to develop eco- years after the CIS was created by the three “Kuchmagate” crisis began. At such times, only gave an inkling of what could be in nomic ties and promote business invest- eastern Slavic states to replace the USSR, Russia and the CIS become vitally impor- store if another conflict occurred in the ment. Mr. Kuchma disagreed with the description tant to President Kuchma’s survival. region. It was the first official visit ever by a of Ukraine as merely an “associate mem- Russian State Duma Speaker Gennadii For the most part, however, the Ukrainian state leader to any of these ber” of the CIS. Seleznev said on a visit to Ukraine last Ukrainian president spent his meetings Throughout the 1990s, Ukrainian diplo- four Arab countries – Saudi Arabia, month, “Ukraine has realized that the West with the leaders of the four countries by mats and officials had routinely employed Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab is not going to open its embrace. There is a presenting opportunities for business that formulation to demonstrate that Ukraine Emirates – and came as the region faces far more reliable partner and ally it should investment in Ukraine and voicing the was opposed to the integration within the stay side by side with” i.e. – Russia. an ever-increasing threat of war at its CIS that then Russian President Boris doorstep between the U.S. and Iraq. need for closer economic ties and more Russia has preferred not to formalize its trade turnover. Among the specific topics Yeltsin assiduously promoted. The logic of Soviet-era frontiers with neighboring CIS The visit gave Mr. Kuchma the oppor- the Ukrainian argument was based on the tunity to develop Ukraine’s stance with discussed were cooperation in aircraft states, agreeing only to delimit them on construction, development of satellite assumption that, as the Ukrainian Parliament maps but not to demarcate them. The Anti- regard to the prospects for peace in the systems and utilization of the Odesa- had never ratified the 1994 CIS Charter, terrorist Center of the CIS, established in region. The Ukrainian president estab- Brody-Gdansk pipeline for the move- Ukraine was not a full member of the CIS. It June 2000, is headed by Maj. General Boris lished during his first day in Riyadh, the was therefore, only an “associate member.” Mylnikov, who served in the KGB in 1975- Saudi capital, that Kyiv stands on the ment of Middle East oil. The only problem, as President Kuchma 1991 and was the first deputy head of the side of the United Nations to peacefully In Riyadh, Ukraine agreed to help has now finally pointed out, is that the CIS Federal Security Service (known by the settle the U.S.-Iraq confrontation. He Saudi Arabia develop a project for the Charter makes no mention of any “associate Russian-based acronym FSB) department also said according to Interfax-Ukraine enlargement of electricity-generation member” status with respect to the CIS. responsible for the “protection of constitu- that he agrees with the demand put for- capabilities, while in Kuwait discussions Unfortunately, Mr. Kuchma failed to bring tional order and the struggle against terror- ward by some European countries that centered on the country as a destination his point to its logical conclusion – namely, ism.” Pointedly, the center is headed and the U.N. Security Council pass a second for many Ukrainian products. Kuwait is how could a non-member (Ukraine) have staffed by the FSB, Russia’s internal intelli- resolution before any military action regarded as the major re-distributor of participated in so many CIS institutions and gence agency, not the external intelligence takes place against Iraq. European and Western goods in the signed countless CIS documents? body, the Foreign-Intelligence Service Mr. Kuchma told his Saudi host that region. Kuwaiti officials also expressed At the November CIS summit in (SVR). like them he believes a land for peace interest in Ukrainian aircraft and railroad Chisinau, Moldova, Russian President During his December visit to Ukraine, deal could resolve the Israeli-Palestinian construction. Vladimir Putin even proposed that this non- Mr. Seleznev contrasted the actions of U.S. conflict. He underscored that both sides In Bahrain on January 21, President member head the CIS Heads of State Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual, must adhere to and fulfill U.N. resolu- Kuchma and the Ukrainian delegation Council. Luckily, the proposal was opposed with those of Russian Ambassador to tions that already are in place. discussed the perspectives for coopera- by three other CIS states and, as a result, Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin. When Mr. The Ukrainian president continued to tion in metallurgy and the high technolo- failed to pass. At the upcoming CIS summit Pascual (or the U.S. Congress, as in the speak about peace in the Middle East gy sector. Bahraini officials agreed to on January 28, Ukraine will again be pro- March 2002 elections) talks about democra- send a trade delegation to Ukraine later posed for that position. But as Ukraine’s during his next stop in Kuwait. tization, human rights, free elections and “The full arsenal of options available this year. Hromadske Radio pointed out on January reform in Ukraine, this is understood by to the U.N. Security Council and the At his last stop, in the UAE capital of 15, Ukraine’s “bid for chairmanship is Ukraine and Russia as “interference” (just as global community must be utilized in the Abu-Dhabi, Mr. Kuchma continued to legally vulnerable.” in the Soviet era). When Mr. Chernomyrdin attempt to find a peaceful resolution to focus on economic interaction and trade Ukraine’s de jure non-membership in the tells Ukrainians whom not to vote for and development. The two sides agreed to CIS reflects three factors. First, there is the demands the upgrading of Russian to a sec- issues involving the situation in Iraq and general widespread legal nihilism that per- ond state language, this is seen as brotherly around it,” stated Mr. Kuchma soon after develop projects in oil and gas transport, vades the CIS. It has long been pointed out advice, Mr. Seleznev claimed. his arrival in Kuwait City. He said that shipbuilding and the high technology that documents signed by CIS members Third, Ukraine’s multivector foreign pol- Ukraine would support a U.S.-led mili- sphere. (and “non-members” like Ukraine) are icy is a reflection of the country’s history rarely implemented. A legal, contractual and and competing identities. Ukraine has jeal- political culture that would guarantee the ously guarded its sovereignty since the dis- implementation of interstate documents, integration of the USSR. Therefore it has Quotable notes whether signed within the CIS or interna- declined to join Russian-led supranational On January 9, U.S. Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow spoke on chal- tionally in general, is simply absent within institutions, such as the Eurasian Economic lenges in U.S.-Russia relations at the Carnegie Endowment for International CIS states. The same is true of the yawning Community (EEC), which Ukrainian lead- Peace in Washington. Following is an excerpt from the subsequent question and gap between domestic legislation and gov- ers believe could undermine its sovereignty. answer session: a question on developments in Russian-Ukrainian relations and ernment-executive policies. By contrast, it was a founding member in the ambassador’s response. Second, there is the very nature of the 1997 of the GUAM alignment, which also CIS. The CIS is often criticized for being a includes Georgia, Azerbaijan and Moldova, Kempton Jenkins, Ukraine-U.S. Business Council: As [Russian President moribund and ineffective structure. Why but not Russia. Similarly, Ukraine never Vladimir] Putin surveys the perimeter of his empire, how does he perceive the then does it still exist, when it was created acceded to the CIS Collective Security relationship with Ukraine unfolding today? Is this a bright spot in his mind or a in December 1991, according to then Treaty (signed in Tashkent in June 1992), troubling spot? While he’s maintaining an arm’s distance from [Belarusian Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, for although even before September 11, 2001, President Alyaksandr] Lukashenka’s embrace, he seems to be reaching out to the sole purpose of facilitating a “civilized full membership in the CIS Anti-Terrorist [Ukrainian President Leonid] Kuchma with some enthusiasm, while we seem to divorce” among the Soviet republics? Center was deemed compatible with be backing away from Kuchma. One answer to that question was given Ukraine’s sovereignty. by two Russian authors writing in Izvestia Ukraine’s involvement in the various Ambassador Alexander Vershbow: I think Russia to some degree has seen in November 2000 on the ninth anniversary CIS sub-organizations is as confusing and the current strains in U.S.-Ukrainian relations as an opportunity to tighten their of the formation of the CIS. CIS members selective as is its membership (or non-mem- links. They still consider Ukraine part of their so-called “near abroad” and have and non-members “are not so much friends bership) in that structure. In 1995 Ukraine been working even before the recent troubles in our relations to strengthen their as compelled to co-exist with one another, joined the CIS Air Defense Agreement as position, largely through economic leverage, by getting Russian companies to like divorced spouses who cannot make the an “associate member,” even though no invest heavily in the commanding heights of the Ukrainian economy. final break.” “The CIS is a communal apart- such status formally exists and no other CIS There are also very close political links between the presidential administra- ment for people who are tired of one anoth- state has claimed it. In 1998 Ukraine joined tion in Moscow and the presidential administration in Kyiv. I think Russia is not er, who no longer live together, but do not the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly, going to be entirely passive in the upcoming Ukrainian election campaigns. So yet live apart,” the authors continued. which seeks to harmonize legislation across they see their relationship with the [sic] Ukraine as important. I think they’re For most CIS states, neither option – liv- the CIS. (It remains unclear why member- focusing on economic leverage as the main way to maintain and expand their ing within the CIS or outside it – is prefer- ship in this body does not conflict with influence, and for our part we don’t see this as a zero-sum relationship. able. At the same time, living together in the membership in the Council of Europe.) We have no problem with close Russian-Ukrainian economic cooperation as CIS “communal apartment” provides psy- While refusing to join the EEC, Ukraine long as it’s based on the premise that Ukraine is a sovereign state and the chological support to CIS leaders, most of has also agreed to “observer” status in that Russians are respecting that. So because of our difficulties it’s a very fluid situa- whom hail from the same Communist Party body. Ukrainian officials argue that full tion, but the Russians are showing renewed activism in recent weeks. or KGB background and have similar politi- membership of the EEC conflicts with cal cultures and understandings of the out- Ukraine’s steps toward Euro-Atlantic inte- side world. Although the phrase “near gration. Mr. Chernomyrdin, however, dis- agrees because he knows full well that none Dr. Taras Kuzio is a resident fellow at of the six members in the EEC seeks EU the Center for Russian and East membership. Meanwhile, the EU has not European Studies and adjunct professor voiced any opinion, as Ukraine’s hypotheti- THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY with the department of political science, cal future membership in the EU is not now Visit our archive on the Internet at: http://www.ukrweekly.com/ University of Toronto. in the cards. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2003 No. 4

OBITUARY: Serhii Naboka, 47, independent journalist, former Soviet political prisoner by Roman Woronowycz nants of the nearly dormant Ukrainian Helsinki Kyiv Press Bureau Monitoring Group and transformed itself into the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, a forerunner of the KYIV – Serhii Naboka, considered the last Soviet Ukrainian Republican Party, which became one of the dissident in Ukraine as well as its first prominent post- first political parties in Ukraine. Soviet journalist, died unexpectedly on January 18 in Never satisfied unless he had a full plate of pet proj- Vinnytsia alongside the prison where he spent three ects, Mr. Naboka returned to journalism in 1989. He years of incarceration in the early 1980s as a political developed one of the first independent newspapers in prisoner. The radio journalist and political activist had Ukraine, Voice of Rebirth. been putting together a report on the treatment of con- Soon afterwards he joined Radio Liberty to become victs in Ukraine and had spent the night at the hotel next its first Kyiv correspondent. He maintained a working to the prison. He was found dead in his room in the relationship with the U.S.-sponsored news agency until early morning hours. Initial reports indicated that a his death. In 1989 he also began the Ukrainian National heart attack was the cause of death. Information Agency Respublika (UNIAR). Between The 47-year-old Kyivan was buried on January 21 at 1993 and 1995 the agency produced a nightly television Baikove Cemetery in the heart of the capital city. He broadcast on the local UTAR channel. will rest a stones throw from the grave of fellow dissi- In the second half of the 1980s, Mr. Naboka began a dent and acclaimed poet Vasyl Stus and across from correspondent’s relationship with The Ukrainian Ivan Svitlychny and Ivan Honchar, two others who sac- Weekly, increasingly providing information on develop- rificed years of their lives while fighting the Soviet sys- ments across Ukraine’s political spectrum as the Soviet tem. Union continued its slow demise. Eventually he became On January 21, Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma one of The Weekly’s Kyiv-based stringers. sent a telegram to the journalist’s family, offering con- In 1994, with parliamentary elections approaching, dolences. Mr. Naboka returned to human rights activism, estab- Erudite and scholarly in appearance, Mr. Naboka was lishing an election-monitoring organization called known for his political insights and cynical wit, as well Vybory (Elections). The organization remained active in as for organizational abilities and level-headedness. The subsequent national ballots in 1998, 1999 and 2002 journalist enjoyed engaging in philosophical discussion under the name Hariacha Linia (Hotline). on religion and culture. Politics, however, was his pas- Also since 1994, Mr. Naboka chaired the independ- sion. Often the first sign of an interesting debate devel- ent Ukrainian Media Club. In addition he became an AP/Alexandr Sinitsa oping would be Mr. Naboka slowly packing and then active member of the recently formed Fund for firing up his oft-present pipe. Serhii Naboka Freedom of Speech and Information. His political accomplishments went beyond talk, More than 2,000 people paid their last respects to however. Mr. Naboka was an organizer and a builder. January 12 as the Day of Solidarity with Ukrainian Ukraine’s last dissident and top journalist at the He was responsible for many firsts in an increasingly Political Prisoners. A Soviet Ukrainian court sentenced Teachers Building on January 21. Among them were nationally conscious Ukraine. In 1980, after graduating Mr. Naboka to three years incarceration for distributing representatives of most of Kyiv’s national press and a from Kyiv State University, where he majored in jour- materials that falsified information about the Soviet slew of Verkhovna Rada national deputies, including nalism, and working for a short while for the Soviet state. It was the last major trial of a Ukrainian dissident Yulia Tymoshenko of the eponymous Verkhovna Rada publishing house Mystetstvo, he established the Kyiv on “anti-Soviet propaganda” charges. faction and Yurii Kostenko, leader of the Ukrainian Democratic Club. Later, after his release from political Upon his release, Mr. Naboka was banned from prac- National Rukh. Other national deputies on hand were detention, he founded the Ukrainian Culturological ticing his profession and so became a janitor, and later a Ivan Zaiets, Les Taniuk, Stepan Khmara and Oleksander Club in 1987. Both organizations aimed to broaden the librarian, at the Monastery of the Caves. There he had Turchynov. Funeral services took place at the St. debate on Ukrainian human rights, cultural development access to the historical archives and much information Volodymyr Sobor. and national awareness. They were the first of many on religious thought and philosophy, which allowed him At Baikove Cemetery, friends and colleagues com- organizations and groups he helped establish over the to engage these passions. mented on the loss of such a remarkable talent at such next two decades. In 1987, with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s an early age. They remembered a man of initiative and Mr. Naboka was arrested in 1981 along with three glasnost and perebudova programs in full bloom and the action, as well as one who always found understanding cohorts from the Kyiv Democratic Club, Leonid political pressure off, Mr. Naboka again began to build. for other points of view. Miliavskyi, Inna Cherniavska (later to become Mr. He gathered several other politically minded Ukrainians One mourner quite pointedly remarked: “Why is it Naboka’s wife) and Liudmila Lokhvytska, for distribut- to form the Ukrainian Culturological Club. that the best Ukrainians go at 47? At 47 we lost [Taras] ing leaflets that called on Kyivans to commemorate He guided the organization as it gathered the rem- Shevchenko, Stus and now Naboka.” In memory of Naboka, our colleague, 1955-2003

by Marta Kolomayets the “soviet” approach to something, he emphasized this newspaper, Voice of Rebirth, which was transformed into with his own brand of “surzhyk,” or twisted the vocabulary the newspaper of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, where he We at The Ukrainian Weekly introduced Serhii Naboka of the Soviet bureaucracy of the 1970s and 1980s. worked side by side with Vyacheslav Chornovil, whom to our readers in our “Dissident Sketch” column back in In the late 1980s he became a friend of The Weekly. Naboka warmly referred to as his Ukrainian language 1983; we discovered him through samvydav channels. He Having formed the Ukrainian Culturological Club, and later teacher. Naboka was also a member of the All-Ukrainian and three of his closest friends had been arrested in Kyiv on Soviet Ukraine’s first independent news agency, UNIAR- Coordinating Council of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union and January 11, 1981, for distributing leaflets about “Day of Respublika, Naboka was a source of information about an activist of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Solidarity with Ukrainian Political Prisoners” (January 12) political, religious and cultural events in the emerging envi- Church. and for writing anti-Soviet articles and poetry. They were ronment of glasnost. We would often call him at the As early as 1989, he began working for Radio Liberty, sentenced for their political activities, which included the UNIAR offices to get first-hand news on demonstrations, becoming the first commentator from Ukraine to be hired founding of the Kyiv Democratic Club. Mr. Naboka was new groups proclamations, congregations. (And I do by the then Munich-based radio station. In recent times he sentenced to a three year term, serving time in a prison believe that it is from these phone conversations that he had a twice weekly show on Radio Liberty, called “Human located in the village of Raikivtsi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast. picked up one of his favorite English-language words: Rights: Ukrainian Realities.” Several years ago, Naboka Mr. Naboka caught our attention at once. He was of our “okay.”) was the host of a late-night TV program on ERA (UT-1) generation; he was a journalist and a human rights activist. Then in the early 1990s, when The Weekly opened the where, with his signature pipe and ascot, he would comfort- And we were lucky enough to get his photo from under- first Western news bureau in then-Soviet Ukraine, Naboka ably recline in an easy chair and discuss the day’s events ground channels. He looked cool. He was a character, with and his colleagues were our office’s frequent visitors. Many with various guests. shoulder-length hair, a Kozak-type mustache, round, wire- evenings were spent discussing the future of an independent Naboka was also a staple during elections, running press rimmed spectacles, à la John Lennon, and a pipe hanging Ukraine, sharing hopes and dreams over cheap wine, crack- centers in 1994, 1998 and 1999, and hosting TV exit polls out of his mouth. And he was smart. ers and chunks of cheese. Sometimes we would sit in the during both presidential and parliamentary elections. Most He was anti-Soviet, anti-Communist, anti-establishment. dilapidated Podil courtyard offices of UNIAR, located on recently, as he shied away from politics, Naboka hosted cul- He was a hippie, born and raised in the USSR, who listened the second floor of a small wooden building, complete with tural evenings at Babuyin, a local bookstore, and taught at to the Beatles over a short-wave radio; a dissident, who squeaky stairs and shaky door handles – resembling a spy Kyiv’s theatrical institute. spoke out for truth and justice, who loved freedom and scene from a John LeCarré novel – until all hours of the Naboka considered himself “by nature, a journalist, an democracy. And he was a Ukrainian patriot, with a great night. This was Naboka’s kingdom, where he reigned, editor and a publisher,” as he told a friend during an inter- deal of integrity and an ironic wit. Naboka, as he was called teaching young journalists the tools of the trade and draw- view in November 2002. He said that by the late 1980s, during the formation of the Ukrainian Republican Party, he by all his friends, spoke Ukrainian exclusively, but when he ing from his vast life experience. (Although he never much came to the realization that he was a journalist and not a wanted to make a point about the absurdity of a situation, or talked about his three years’ imprisonment, in an interview politician. He found journalism to be more interesting, and with Den in 1999, he said that “this was a very interesting for Naboka it was vital that he be involved in something life experience, which I do not regret.”) Marta Kolomayets, a former member of The interesting. As Naboka’s biography notes, he worked as a literary Ukrainian Weekly’s editorial staff (1982-1984, 1988- Naboka always told it like it was. He was not one for 1996) was assigned to the Kyiv Press Bureau in its first editor for the publishing house Mystetsvo, and as a librari- formalities, did not take to false compliments and did not years. Today she directs a Kyiv-based anti-corruption an; served as a groundskeeper at Kyiv-Pecherska Lavra, yearn for presidential honors or government awards. He program funded by the U.S. Agency for International where he was fired for being too religious; and then took a was particularly proud to be the president of the Ukrainian Development and administered by Development job as a laborer on a loading dock. Later he became the edi- Alternatives Inc. tor of what he described as the first independent Ukrainian (Continued on page 14) No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2003 5

Ukrainian archives and archeology – a double feature at the Shevchenko Society by Dr. Orest Popovych three documentary works dealing with the were no less victimized by the Poles. man’s palace, several churches, houses of expulsion of ethnic Ukrainians from the This would require a thorough search of NEW YORK – A treasure trove of Kozak officers as well as ordinary towns- territory of Poland in the years 1944- the pertinent archives, as well as inter- people and the town’s fortifications. The Ukrainian historical archives was recently 1947, an example of “ethnic cleansing” views with survivors, which in turn discovered in Poland by Yevhen Misilo, excavations have yielded many artifacts before that term was in vogue. The first requires considerable funding. Mr. Misilo of historical significance, attesting to the director of the Ukrainian Archive Center two volumes deal with the deportation of said his goal is not to exacerbate of Documentation and Studies in Warsaw. importance of Baturyn in commerce and some 500,000 Ukrainians to Soviet Ukrainian-Polish relations, but only to set On December 7, 2002, Mr. Misilo related culture in its day. Furthermore, they have Ukraine in the years 1944-1946. The third the historical record straight. his sensational findings to a packed house uncovered evidence of the massive documents the so-called “Akcja Wisla” of The second part of the program at the at the Shevchenko Scientific Society destruction of the town by fire as well as 1947,’ which refers to the forcible, often Shevchenko Scientific Society featured a (NTSh) in New York. a multitude of skeletons bearing signs of violent, removal of some 150,000 video and a slide show on “New Among the materials found in Warsaw violent death as Prof. Mezentsev noted Ukrainians from their ancestral lands, Archeological Discoveries in Baturyn,” were the archives of the NTSh, Prosvita that in 1708 Baturyn was turned into a which were incorporated into Poland, and presented with commentary by Prof. and Ridna Shkola societies in Lviv, those mass grave. their resettlement elsewhere in Poland. Volodymyr Mezentsev of the University of the Legion of Ukrainian Sich The Ukrainian-Canadian archeological That volume was published in 1993 in of Toronto. Riflemen, the Galician Army, the army of team has made two professional docu- Polish, but was subsequently translated the Ukrainian National Republic, the Baturyn, located in the Chernihiv mentary videos in Ukrainian about the Western Ukrainian National Republic, the into Ukrainian and published in Lviv by region of Ukraine, is today a provincial history, architecture and excavations in Ukrainian Representation to the Polish the NTSh. town with a population of about 4,000, Baturyn, adorned with picturesque views Parliament, to name just the major ones, As soon as Mr. Misilo had published but in the period of 1669-1708 and again of the area. Currently in preparation is a as well as the personal archives of a num- his book on “Akcja Wisla,” he said he in 1750-1764 it was the capital of the collection of scholarly articles dealing ber of prominent Ukrainians, among them was dismissed from his job at the Polish Kozak Hetman state and the residence of with Baturyn. Prof. Mezentsev is also Dmytro Dontsov. Academy of Arts and Sciences. Hetman Ivan Mazepa (1687-1708). At its planning a bilingual electronic publica- All of these archives were removed Decades of persistent efforts enabled peak, Baturyn had a population of about tion on CD-ROM of selected articles on from Lviv in 1944 by the retreating Mr. Misilo to access the original records 20,000, boasting some 40 churches, two Baturyn. Finally, there is a need for Nazis, who brought them to Silesia, now of the Polish concentration camp at monasteries, one hetman’s palace inside Ukrainian researchers to visit the archives part of western Poland. From there most Jaworzno (a branch of the Auschwitz- the town and another, built by Hetman and museums in Sweden that contain a of the materials were transferred to the Birkenau Nazi death camp, which Polish Mazepa, on its outskirts. plethora of historical materials from the National Library in Warsaw. In 1982 Mr. authorities utilized after World War II), In 1708, after Hetman Mazepa sided Mazepa era brought there from Ukraine. Misilo found these treasures in Warsaw, where in the years 1947-1949 some 4,000 with Charles XII of Sweden in the latter’s Realization of all of these projects, how- discarded in a dumpster. It took seven Ukrainians were imprisoned. Mr. Misilo war against Tsar Peter I of Russia, ever, depends on the further support of years of his efforts to get the Polish has compiled a reference volume with Russian troops stormed and seized donors, stressed Prof. Mezentsev. authorities to acknowledge the existence complete biographical data on each of the Baturyn. Its Kozak garrison of 8,000 and of these archives and then to make them Jaworzno prisoners, including the dates of most of the civilian population, including available for study. Since then, Mr. Misilo their arrest, conviction and sentencing. women and children, were massacred. MAY WE HELP YOU? has been researching and cataloguing this Furthermore, Mr. Misilo has been The town was razed and burned to the chunk of Ukrainian history with the part- preparing a file on the Ukrainian ground. Today a modest plaque com- time help of Halyna Svarnyk, a prominent Insurgent Army (UPA) soldiers who died memorates the estimated 21,000 people To reach archivist from Lviv. on the territory of Poland, and has been who perished in Baturyn at the hands of The Ukrainian Weekly Equally bizarre has been the fate of the assisting in the efforts to locate their bur- the Russians in 1708. smaller portion of the Lviv archive, ial sites. Under the Soviet regime, no historical call (973) 292-9800, which remained in Silesia and is now In 2003 Polish authorities are planning studies of Baturyn or of the Mazepa era stored in the Ossolineum building in to mark the anniversary of what they refer in general were permitted. Excavations in and dial the Wroclaw. To this day, the Poles deny its to as the “Slaughter in Volyn” – the Baturyn by an archeological expedition possession and won’t allow anyone to alleged killings of a large number of eth- from the University of Chernihiv began appropriate extension research it. nic Poles by the Ukrainian underground only in 1995, under the guidance of Prof. Very disappointing, said Mr. Misilo, in the Volyn region of Ukraine in 1943. Volodymyr Kovalenko. They continue (as listed below). has been the attitude of Ukrainian govern- The committee charged with the docu- today as a joint Ukrainian-Canadian proj- ment officials, who, despite his numerous mentation and commemoration of these ect with the Pontifical Institute of appeals, have refused to get involved in alleged crimes includes a number of high Mediaeval Studies of the University of Editorial – 3049, 3063, 3069 trying to gain access to or retrieving these government officials and is chaired by Toronto. The excavations, in which Prof. Administration – 3041 archives that rightfully should be returned Poland’s President Aleksander Mezentsev has also participated, are to Ukraine. Kwasniewski. It has already received financed primarily by NTSh in New York Advertising – 3040 Another major project on Mr. Misilo’s $100,000 in funding. and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian agenda has been the study of Ukrainian Mr. Misilo feels that Ukrainians must Studies in Toronto. Subscriptions – 3042 martyrology on the territory of Poland launch a counter-project that would So far the archeologists have recon- during and immediately after World War demonstrate and document the fact that structed the plan of ancient Baturyn, Production – 3052 II. Prominent within this genre are his during and after World War II Ukrainians excavated the foundations of the het-

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NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY “A culture of corruption” Plast Orlykiada in Ukraine promotes On the front page of this issue, our Kyiv Press Bureau chief writes that “A culture of corruption is settling upon Ukraine.” His story is about the disturbing results of a poll conducted by the Ukrainian Institute for Social Research and the Social Ukrainianby Renata Maria Kosc-Harmatiy studies, communitymatched by an extremely service high level of Monitoring Center in conjunction with the United Nations Development Program. activity within Plast and an extraordinary It was troubling to learn that fully 78 percent of the survey respondents – who KYIV – For Plast National Scouting effort at raising the membership and pro- hailed from cities and villages throughout Ukraine – said they believe that all or most Organization of Ukraine the year 2002 file of Plast in Donetsk. Her work was Ukrainian government officials have accepted bribes. It was troubling to read that 44 marked many anniversaries, including highly commended, given that she is percent of those answering the survey said they themselves in the past year had paid the 10th anniversary of Orlykiada – an working in a society that is not con- bribes or offered “gifts” of some sort to ensure that they got some service or treatment. all-Ukrainian academic and creative ducive to Ukrainian-language organiza- But it was most troubling to read that nearly a quarter of the respondents accept competition, which includes youths age tions, as well as unaccustomed to volun- bribery and corruption as a “normal” part of everyday life. 14-18. The participants are required to teer-based organizations, especially of a “Today bribes have become the norm for society,” Olha Balakirieva, director of the conduct a community service project scouting nature. In her proposal of how Social Monitoring Center, told our Kyiv correspondent Roman Woronowycz. “This is related to the topic, which is evaluated to improve certain drawbacks of Plast, one of the phenomenon of contemporary Ukrainian society that we need to research.” prior to and during Orlykiada. Ms. Lysenko suggested that the organiza- Oleksander Yaremenko of the Ukrainian Institute of Social Research observed that This year, over 150 children, instruc- tion strive for greater cooperation with “corruption is so widespread that it is becoming institutionalized” – so much so that tors, parents and guests traveled to the local and national governments in order the people of Ukraine can no longer determine what is a bribe. And, what’s worse, capital of Ukraine for the three-day com- to support the activities of children, these bribes are paid to everyone: government employees, medical workers, traffic petition. Over 50 volunteers, media and increase its organizational efficacy at the police, educators. Want to make sure you get good medical care? A little “gift” will local guests, also supported the Plast local levels to increase the exchanges help. Want your child to get good grades? Try a token of appreciation for the teachers. children. Finalists that passed through between Plast groups in eastern and Need to have something fixed in your apartment? A little extra something for the two rounds of competition arrived in western Ukraine and increase awareness handyman ought to do it. Trying to get some sort of government document with the Kyiv from Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, of Plast in regions that lack a strong ever-necessary “pechatka” (stamp)? Don’t forget to bring a small reward. Uzhhorod, Rachiv, Kosiv, Lutsk, standing of the organization. Ms. It is, indeed, a warped society – perverted and debased by decades of Soviet com- Donetsk, as well as from Kyiv itself. Lysenko will have the opportunity to munism, a system in which the party controlled all aspects of life and party favorites This year’s topic was poetry and poets bring her ideas to life as she serves as an got all the benefits. And, the people believe the government is incapable of change. in civil society. Children identified poets ambassador of Plast in her region as well At least one U.S.-government-funded entity is trying to change this grim reality. who used poetry as a tool for change and as throughout Ukraine. The Partnership for a Transparent Society is trying to teach Ukrainians that corruption increasing awareness of important issues, Visited by the well-known Ukrainian- does not need to be part of their everyday lives. The Weekly’s former colleague, Marta and demonstrated how they as children language singer from Kharkiv, Maria Kolomayets, who is director of the program, said her group seeks to inform citizens could use poetry to address ills in their Burmaka met with Orlykiada partici- about their rights and to organize groups that fight corruption. PTS has already opened community. This was yet another way to pants. Her sung poetry was already in the seven regional offices (with another four soon to come), whose task is to help the pub- realize their personal potential and be hearts of many of the youths who sang lic with advice on how to deal with problems related to corruption. active as scouts in the greater non-scout along with her, and posed many ques- Ms Kolomayets sounded a hopeful note when she told Askold Krushelnycky of community. Projects were diverse, and tions regarding the sources of her inspira- RFE/RL: “...we have been able to work as partners with local and state government many children conducted their own com- tion and her career. bodies and their departments. I think that this shows something is changing and that munity project for the first time. The primary coordinator of the com- officials are prepared to listen to the opinions of the community, to people’s thoughts, Among the more original was the petition was this writer, a member of the and to incorporate them in their work.” Svetlana Yaremenko from Donetsk said it “is team from Uzhhorod, which identified co-ed Plast fraternity Orlykivtsi since important to instill that everyone personally should do something [about corruption] teenage smoking as a serious problem. 1994, who initiated the Orlykiada com- and that only through a united effort can we defeat this phenomenon.” They organized education and awareness petition in Ukraine while an exchange What is most important, according to Ms. Kolomayets – and we most emphatically seminars using poetry as their mode of student at Lviv State University. concur – is for the people of Ukraine to understand that they do have power and that communication. Many children also had Orlykiada had already been a 35-year tra- with this power they can fight the system, they can change Ukraine for the better, they fund-raisers, others visited orphanages, dition begun by Orlykivtsi, whose pur- can put an end to the “culture of corruption.” and some were inspired to even write pose was to emulate the patron of their their own poetry in order to reach their fraternity, by spreading knowledge and audiences. The teams learned the value awareness about Ukraine through intel- Jan. and difficulty of raising awareness of lectual endeavors. Turning the pages back... issues and sensitive topics in communi- The success of Orlykiada in Kyiv this ties. year was due to the many volunteers, The teams also competed in an aca- including Andriy Harmatiy, and members 28 demic game-show-type challenge, per- of Kyiv’s Plast groups. Indispensable to formed 10-minute skits, and gave visual the competition were the judges, includ- 1996 Six years ago, The Ukrainian Weekly’s Toronto correspon- presentations in which they presented ing: poet, literary critic and professor dent, Andrij Wynnyckyj, reported that Canada’s Justice and their social projects, as well as the life Rostyslav Semkiv; poet Roman Skyba; Immigration ministries were seeking to deport two more indi- and works of their favorite poet. U.S. Embassy representative and long- viduals suspected of war crimes. According to the Toronto First place in the overall competition time Plast member Marta Pereyma; and Star of January 23, 1996, the government had informed one went to a team from Lviv, Troop No. 30, art historian and museum director Hanna Canadian citizen and one permanent resident that proceedings had been initiated which also won the academic challenge. Oliinyk. against them. Second place went to an enthusiastic and Orlykiada had many sponsors, individ- Jim Mathieson, acting director of the country’s federal war crimes unit at the Ministry outgoing team from Ivano-Frankivsk that uals, organizations and corporations. In- of Justice, refused to elaborate. “They [the two cases] are not at the point where we can managed to organize the publication and kind donations were received from release any details of the situation,” he told the Star. Officials from the Justice Ministry presentation of a collection of Yurii among others, Ukrzaliznytsia, which pro- did not return The Weekly’s calls. Andrukovych’s works together with vided train transportation for all of the In 1987 the federal government had passed a law allowing for a “made in Canada” Lileia NV Publishing House. Third place solution: prosecutions in the country’s courts of war crimes committed elsewhere. In participants and volunteers who came went unexpectedly to a rookie team from 1994 the first case under the law ended in an acquittal upheld by a Supreme Court deci- from outside of Kyiv. Numerous televi- Rakhiv. Honorable mentions also went to sion that critics said made obtaining convictions difficult. sion and radio stations covered teams from Uzhhorod, Kosiv and Kyiv. However, in January 1995, Canada’s Liberal government decided to depart from the Orlykiada, including four national net- The most prestigious of awards at policy of its predecessor. It was announced that the ministries of Justice and Immigration works and two local networks. Orlykiada goes to the up-and-coming would act in concert to seek to strip accused individuals of their citizenship or other sta- The organizers of Orlykiada are leaders who receive the titles of tus, and deport them. In April and May 1995 papers were filed at the Federal Court in always looking for additional funds, as Ottawa, accusing four individuals of concealing their Nazi past when applying for citi- Hetmanych and Hetmanivna. Candidates the competition is growing, and resources zenship – this was grounds for denaturalization and deportation. What the policy change prepared separate projects prior to and are needed for the growing electronic meant was that persons accused of participation in war crimes would not actually be tried during the competition, and were evalu- database of Ukrainian-language informa- for those crimes but for lying on applications for entry into Canada and/or citizenship. ated for their work and leadership in tion in the field of Ukrainian studies. A The Ukrainian Canadian Congress and the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Plast academic achievements and intel- scholarship fund will be set up for the Association voiced their continuing opposition to the use of deportation proceedings. lectual development, as well as for par- winners of the Hetmanych and John B. Gregorovich, chairman of the UCCLA, said Canada is the only country in the ticipation in their local community. Hetmanivna titles once they enter univer- world to have adopted an aggressive and permanent statute on prosecuting war criminals Judges determined that none of the male sity, in order to encourage and reward from any conflict and any time caught within its borders, but is now fudging its “moral candidates deserved such an honor, while intellectual achievements. responsibility.” He reaffirmed the UCCLA’s belief that war criminals caught in Canada, among the females there were many very Donations can be received through the no matter what their background, when or where their crimes were committed, should be qualified girls, and the selection process non-profit, tax-exempt 501 (c) (3) organ- prosecuted to the full extent of the country’s criminal law. was difficult. ization Plast Conference Inc. For more UCC President Oleh Romaniw’s reaction was terse. “We have always opposed and Olena Lysenko from Donetsk became information on donations, write to P.O. will continue to oppose the use of administrative measures to deal with criminal matters,” the victor. Her independent thinking was Box 303, Southfields, NY 10975. For Mr. Romaniw said. more information on Orlykiada in Renata Maria Kosc-Harmatiy was Ukraine send e-mail to: Orlykiada@hot- Source: “Canadian government pursues deportation option for war crimes,” by coordinator of Plast’s Orlykiada in mail.com, or write to Plast-NSOU, P.O. Andrij Wynnyckyj, The Ukrainian Weekly, January 28, 1996, Vol. LXIV, No. 4. Ukraine. Box 395, Kyiv Ukraine 01001. No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2003 7 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Faces and Places removal of religion from the public square. Or they may conclude that, inasmuch as by Myron B. Kuropas Re: religion, rights religion belongs in the cultural sphere, the state has not only the right, but the obliga- and state support tion, to protect and even promote religious Dear Editor: knowledge – though not religious belief or One can only sympathize with Myron institutions. Kuropas’ nostalgia for Christian America Whatever direction their efforts may Muddled multicultural mandarins take, they will be aided, I would hope, by Multiculturalism deserves an early death a Special Assistant for Ethnic Affairs, and and his distaste for militant secularizers (see in America – the earlier the better. It is a the Ford Foundation funded a number of his recent column “The war on Christmas”). those like Dr. Kuropas who can bring to bear the experience of other countries. divisive concept that has consistently under- organizations – the National Project on But while the U.S. Constitution’s prohibi- mined American core values, revised Ethnic America, the Center for Urban- tion of federal laws “respecting an establish- Andrew Sorokowski American history and confused young Ethnic Affairs, the Center for the Study of ment of religion” was designed to protect Rockville, Md. Americans regarding their heritage. American Pluralism – to examine the nature minority churches in a Christian society, in “‘Multiculturalism’ is an ambiguous and depth of the ethnic factor in American today’s philosophically diverse society it term,” writes Daniel J. Flynn in his best- life. In his 1971 book, “The Rise of the forbids the state to endorse any religion, or seller, “Why the Left Hates America.” “To a Unmeltable Ethnic,” Michael Novak wrote religion itself, so that the rights of non- Who’s to blame university apparatchik, it is a code word for that “To ethnics, America is almost a reli- Christians and non-believers may also be anti-Americanism. To a political leader, it gion ... ethnics believe that they chose one protected. Whatever its ulterior motives may may simply mean an appreciation for our route to moderate success in America, be, on this issue the ACLU is merely push- for secularization? Dear Editor: diverse ethnic backgrounds. To a job appli- namely, loyalty, hard work, family disci- ing the constitutional scheme to its logical cant passed over because of his fair skin, it pline and gradual self-development.” He conclusion. (This could even lead to limiting In his recent article “The war on is euphemism for reverse racism. To a was right on that score. That description federal “holidays” to strictly civic obser- Christmas,” Myron B. Kuropas rails scholar, it may mean a pursuit of the best certainly applied to Ukrainian Americans vances like the Fourth of July and Veterans’ against the “left” in its “battle to diminish that foreign cultures have to offer.” and many other ethnic groups with which I Day, with religious believers free to choose Christmas.” Yet, who allowed the secular Surely, you say, Ukrainian Americans was associated during the 1970s. We identi- days off for Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or world to hijack this holy season if not have no objection to multiculturalism. We fied ourselves as “Americans Plus.” other holy days. Note that this scheme Christians and the church itself? The blame are American ethnics, proud of our Dr. Novak predicted that the 1970s would allow those who celebrate Christmas does not necessarily lie with organizations Ukrainian heritage. Absolutely true. But the would be the decade of the white ethnic, a on January 7 to take that day off instead of such as the ACLU and other “demonic” multicultural model of today does not time when ethnic contributions to America December 25.) forces he mentions. In this city, the See would be recognized and celebrated. Here, The survival of religious traditions does include Ukrainian Americans. Nor does it City for two bishops, there is not a whim- he was partly right. Americans participated not depend on state support. On the con- embody Polish Americans, Norwegian per that the Jaycees bring in Santa well in ethnic festivals, ate ethnic food and trary, state-sponsored religions often lan- Americans, Italian Americans or any other before Thanksgiving Day. On the other respected ethnic holidays. But that’s about guish. In Europe, at least, this may be part white European group that has bought into hand, St. Michael’s Ukrainian Orthodox as far as the “celebration” went. More pro- of the gradual detachment of Western cul- the American dream and has taken on Church sponsors an authentic St. Nicholas found white ethnic contributions were ture from its Christian roots – perhaps American ideals. On the contrary, we are program at one of our cultural museums. the bad guys. We have all the advantages. largely ignored and gradually replaced with symptomatic of a more general dissolution Although the attendance is very good, out- We should be paying reparations. a focus on the travels of “preferred minori- and decline. Be that as it may, the appropri- side of St. Michael’s pastor not one priest The multicultural ideal is separatism, not ties,” primarily African Americans, ate response of American Christians to from other Orthodox or Catholic churches integration into mainstream American life, Hispanics and other groups that have been creeping secularization is not to call on the was present. explains American historian Arthur M. exploited by the West. Integration was no state to support religion, but to heed Dr. Although it was nice that we had Schlesigner Jr. in his monograph “The longer a goal for America’s Afro-American Kuropas’ call for a vigorous revival of Christmas programs, decorated windows Disuniting of America: Reflections on a leaders. Separatism is the elixir that will Christian traditions. and trees in our classrooms, Bible reading Multicultural Society.” Instead of a trans- help black Americans define themselves. Those interested in reviving Ukrainian and carols in my schools, these are not the formative nation with an identity all its own Today, multiculturalism is dominated by Christianity, however, should look to essence of the faith. We are not primarily ... a struggle is taking place to redefine the two groups, both of which have wandered Ukraine. Having experienced Western secu- known because we have a lighted tree or a national identity...” We see it everywhere, far from the original precepts of cultural larization in the concentrated and accelerat- manger in the city square. We are known “in our politics, our voluntary organizations, pluralism. The first group is Afro-Centrists, ed form of applied Marxism pushed beyond because we visit the sick, those in prison, our churches, our language – and in no area primarily black academics who are busily the ACLU’s wildest dreams, that country care for the orphaned and widowed; more crucial than our system of education.” deconstructing American and European his- has seen the dead end of irreligion and may because we “love mercy, do justice and be ready for a spiritual re-birth. Yet the Since 1776, four models have arisen to tory in the erroneous belief that African walk humbly with our God.” How often did Americans will acquire self-esteem only received wisdom is that in Ukraine, as in Jesus rail against the externals of religion explain how the United States, a nation with when white Americans are debased. Here the United States and elsewhere, religious which so often covered a shallow faith? roots in Great Britain and Western Europe, we find such commentators as Marimba freedom requires a strict separation of I am always amazed as to how the “reli- has incorporated groups of people from Ani, who declared that “racism is endemic Church and state. This principle has, in fact, gious right” wish to portray us as victims to around the world. to European history,” and Leonard Jeffries, been enshrined in Ukraine’s 1991 law on whip us up into a frenzy against those per- The first model was Anglo-conformity, who informs us that “Blacks are sun people, religion and in its 1996 Constitution. ceived to be taking Christ out of Christmas the goal of which was to assimilate new whites are ice people.” This kind of think- While American separation of Church yet cannot mobilize its own forces to wage immigrants and inoculate them with certain, ing is divisive because it strengthens both and state reflects our continuing concerns and win the war against poverty in the clear-cut democratic ideals. Even then, the victimhood complex and the “we-they” with minority rights and equality, in Europe wealthiest nation in the world. Yet they will becoming an American was more about syndrome among blacks. Worst of all, it it arose in reaction to the kind of Church- fight to the death to keep God in the pledge political assimilation than cultural amalga- exacerbates racial tensions. state symbiosis that Ukrainians experienced to the flag. mation. This model lasted from approxi- Multicultural studies in the elementary under Austrian and Russian rule. But Dr. Kuropas points to some “cultures” mately 1776 to 1865. grades have largely become monocultural Ukrainians may not be entirely comfortable that “sanction conversion by the sword and Following the Civil War, when thou- studies with revisionist history books that with such a strict separation of the civic death to infidels.” Perhaps these “cultures” sands of immigrants arrived in America focus on blacks almost exclusively. “The from the sacred – or indeed, the schizo- learned well from us. Has he forgotten the from Southern and Eastern Europe, it African American Baseline Series,” a phrenic division of society and culture into Inquisition? And what of the words we became clear that assimilation within one teacher’s manual used as a guide for teach- sacred and secular spheres. They may find used until recently in Good Friday liturgies generation was unrealistic. A second model, ers in Detroit, the District of Columbia and that an exaggerated emphasis on individual in reference to Jews and other so-called the melting pot, was offered as an alterna- Atlanta, for example, informs us that black and minority rights can harm a nation’s col- non-believers. The Church does not walk tive. Emphasis was on the second genera- Africans invented energy-generated batter- lective cultural values. They may question, away in honor from some of the most terri- tion, the sons and daughter of immigrants, ies and flew around the ancient Egyptian for example, whether protecting the rights ble actions it inflicted on others in the name who were urged to forget their ethnic her- pyramids in primitive airplanes. of atheists and of the percent of the popula- of our God and His Church. itage and to assimilate culturally as well as A second, far more dangerous group tion that is Jewish or Muslim, would And so far as celebrating Kwanzas, politically. “Americanization” became the associated with multiculturalism is require the state to disown Ukraine’s rich Hannukah, Bodhi Day, Ramadan. So what? buzzword in the schools and in various set- religious heritage (which has Jewish and As the Jesuits taught us, there is some good tlement houses in big cities. American university professors of the left Muslim as well as Christian components). in everything. Perhaps we can even appre- As it became clear that various ethnic who promote the notion that most of the They may even fear that a secular state will ciate our own after knowing more about groups preferred to stay together, to pre- world’s ills are the result of Western civi- lead to a secularized society. In short, they them. Dr. Kuropas and others would do serve aspects of their culture and to create lization. When a donor offered $20 million may find that American-style strict separa- well to recall and heed the words of that “Little Italies,” “Ukrainian Villages” and to Yale University to implement a program tion does not suit them at all. Instead, they great English mystic, Julian of Norwich “Germantowns,” a third model, cultural in Western civilization, for example, the may conclude that more recent European (1342-1416?): “God does not hate, God pluralism, made its debut. First to articulate faculty rejected it. “Western civilization?” arrangements (such as those worked out in cannot hate, God will not hate what he has this ideal was Jewish American philosopher asked an English professor, Sara Suleri, Spain and Italy) balance the interests of made.” Horace Kallen, who wrote: “Men may “why not a chair in colonialism, slavery, Church, state and society more equitably. As we continue the celebration of the change their clothes, their politics, their empire and poverty?” Having adopted church-state separation birth of Jesus, the Savior of the world, the wives, their religions, their philosophies, to The mandarins of multiculturalism will in principle, Ukrainians must still elaborate familiar hymn proclaims and prays for a greater or lesser extent; they cannot tell you that all cultures are equal. What this concept. How they do so will depend Christ to “... be born in us today.” I don’t change their grandfathers.” they really mean, of course, is that some on the ingenuity and creativity of their see a reference to the courthouse square. Cultural pluralism as a popular model cultures are more equal than others. legal, cultural and religious thinkers. They reached the peak of its acceptance during may decide, for instance, that separation of Father Michael Fill the 1970s, when Congress passed the Myron Kuropas’ e-mail address is Church and state does not require the Scranton, Pa. Ethnic Heritage Act, the White House hired [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2003 No. 4

Cincinnati organization receives federal grant for business development in Ukraine by Jan Sherbin Under three previous USAID grants tionships with industry, agriculture and The Center for Economic Initiatives since 1997, CEI has brought more than government leaders in Ukraine and is well models its study tours after those conduct- CINCINNATI – Cincinnati’s Center for 200 Ukrainian businesspeople to the respected there,” he continued. “CEI has ed for Western European businesses after Economic Initiatives (CEI) has received a United States on 13 study tours. These more knowledge of Kharkiv industry than World War II under the Technical major grant from the United States Agency study tours have had a measurable positive any other American aid provider.” Assistance Project of the Marshall Plan. It for International Development (USAID), impact on Ukraine’s economy. For exam- CEI’s 2003 tours will continue in the is the only organization offering a Marshall making it possible for four groups of ple, tour participants have initiated new same format as before: Each three-week Plan-type program. Ukrainians to come to the United States marketing programs, introduced new prod- tour includes 16 Ukrainian decision mak- In fact, the man who proposed and during 2003 for study tours. The four tours ucts and made manufacturing more pro- ers who visit U.S. companies in their implemented this component of the – all with the main objective of increasing ductive. Government officials in the industry, government agencies and trade Marshall Plan in 1948, James M. productivity – will cover farm equipment Kharkiv region report that 60 percent of associations. Focus areas for all groups are Silberman, is an active consultant for the manufacturing and the production of grain, the firms represented on CEI study tours marketing, technology and management. Center for Economic Initiatives. Under his livestock and edible fish. have doubled their efficiency. Participants are required to share their direction, more than 24,000 Europeans All four groups will be from Kharkiv, “People come to understand the func- study tour knowledge when they return to studied American industry during the late Cincinnati’s sister city. tioning of a market economy best by see- Ukraine. They reach thousands of their 1940s and the 1950s, resulting in a quick “Conveying standard productivity and ing for themselves what works,” Mr. Cole colleagues via technical reports, lectures, closing of the technology gap. The results marketing technology to Ukrainian man- explained. “For this reason, productivity media interviews and articles in profes- can be seen today in Western Europe’s pro- agement is essential to improvement in study tours are an effective mechanism for sional journals. For example, CEI esti- ductivity and standard of living. Ukrainian living standards and the avail- rapidly exposing people to new ideas they mates that its 2002 tour participants have Mr. Silberman was among 24 people ability of low-cost consumer goods,” said can use to great advantage.” reached more than 30,000 other honored in October 2002 by the U.S. State CEI President Leland Cole. “CEI has built productive, trusting rela- Ukrainians. Department for their Marshall Plan work.

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At first she videos to provide support and encourage- Since June 2002, the wide-eyed, round- choose a letter, which Boomchyk then attempted to convince others to develop a ment to the young viewers. faced puppets of the “Ukrainian Power” pronounces. Parents can also test their Ukrainian language learning video. But The videos contain segments on video series have found a second home on children while playing the game. then she had a self-revelation. Ukrainian folk dancing and pysanka-mak- the Internet. In the Zoo Animal Game, children Flying home after a visit with the ing. The children also learn body parts, The stars of the four video cassettes, learn the names of animals both in nieces, Natalia and Emily – today age 4 colors and numbers in the Ukrainian lan- produced by Ukrainian Power Videos Inc., and 2, respectively — in the summer of guage. a production company based in Milford, Ukrainian and English, while in the last Mich, successfully made the transition to interactive game, the Zoo Animal Quiz, 2000, Ms. Halaburda realized that because Just because Boomchyk and his friends its very own website after owner Olga Boomchyk questions visitors to the web- she worked in broadcast journalism she are now rising stars on the Internet does Halaburda went looking for a wider audi- site on the names of the various animals. was uniquely situated to fill the void she not mean that they have abandoned their ence for her group of young puppets Another unique aspect of the website is perceived in the video market. first home and their fans from their days yearning to learn Ukrainian. By this that each interactive game is privately After obtaining business loans from the in videoland. In fact, the group is planning January the website had received tens of sponsored. In fact, the Ukrainian National Future Credit Union and Selfreliance a return to videotape with a program dedi- thousands of hits. Association, the publisher of The Credit Union, both located in Warren, cated to slightly older children, 10-and-11- “I have received so much positive feed- Ukrainian Weekly, sponsored the Alphabet Mich., she used her connections to draw year-olds, to include a bit more advanced back from parents and teachers on a week- Game, the second game in the series. together a 47-person production team. To Ukrainian lessons. ly basis who tell me they appreciate the Other sponsors include the Ukrainian assure the project the highest professional- But the key, said Ms. Halaburda, is the videos and how interesting they are,” Future Credit Union, the Ukrainian ism and quality, she also sought and response from the parents. After all, she is explained Ms. Halaburda. Selfreliance New England Credit Union obtained the services of Sesame Street in a business, and sales are the bottom line. Since summertime she has made the and Travel Ukraine Agency. puppet maker Rick Lyon and his fellow “It is up to the Ukrainian community to “Ukrainian Power” characters even more Ms. Halaburda explained that she is puppeteers. decide whether it wants more Ukrainian readily available to children through interac- ready to develop additional games if spon- By Christmas, the first video, Power’ videos,” explained Ms. Halaburda. tive games and several puzzles found on the sors become available. She said that either “Learning the Alphabet: Volume One,” If it were up to her youngest niece, new website (Ukrainianpower.com), in addi- a company or an individual could offer a was out and people quickly grabbed the Emily, however, more adventures of tion to the four videos she has produced. Ms. sponsorship, which costs only several initial thousand printings. In the last two Boomchyk and his friends would be Halaburda said the website is a unique serv- hundred dollars. years, three other videos have followed: inevitable. ice offered to Ukrainian children. “If they want to provide input or have a “Songs and Games: Volume Two”; “Emily watches ‘Boomchyk’s Birthday “It is the first Ukrainian-language inter- game in mind, I will listen,” explained the “Calendar Fun: Volume Three”; and Party’ so much that my sister told me one active website on the Internet,” explained young entrepreneur. “But I also have ideas “Boomchyk’s Birthday: Volume Four.” night she heard her singing ‘Mnohaya Ms. Halaburda. based on what is in the videos.” For exam- The videos take place in Alphabet Lita’ in her sleep,” explained Ms. The four interactive games, which are ple she said that next she would like to Village, where letters grow on trees and Halaburda. nicely drawn and have vivid colors, develop a game based on the days of the the river flows of alphabet soup. Not a bad beginning for a Ukrainian 2- prompt involvement from the youngsters week. Boomchyk acts as the host as he takes year-old. who play them. In the Color Game, Ms. Halaburda, who doubles as a tele- kids through the village and meets his To order a video or for more informa- Boomchyk, the purple-skinned, heavy- vision reporter in Greenbay, Wis., said she friends, Natalka, who desperately wants to tion call toll-free 866-898-6208 or visit browed main character of the “Ukrainian first came up with an idea to develop a learn Ukrainian, Yurko, who wants to the website at www.ukrainianpower.com.

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Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute announces program for 2003 by Yuri Shevchuk ed did not happen, but that the particular the associate director of the Harriman ism, the various social and artistic mani- set of connections and omissions that Institute at Columbia University. festations of nationalism and commu- CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For most peo- they constructed as Ukrainian history Prof. Motyl noted that “Theorizing nism, the uses of ideology and cultural ple summer is a quieter season associat- was not necessarily something that exist- Ukraine” is about using social science politics, and the range of articulations of ed with vacations, travels, leisure and a ed independently of their mental struc- concepts and theories in the study of post-modernism and post-colonialism. much slower pace. Not so for the ture.” Among some of the central themes Ukraine. The course is premised on the In her message to students posted on Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute of the course are, for example, the devel- view that how the researcher chooses to the new HUSI website, Halyna Hryn, (HURI). For eight weeks from late June to mid-August the usually quiet, and dig- opment of the Ukrainian idea since 1800, conceptualize a topic is the single most Ukrainian Summer School director, nified HURI transforms into the noisy its metamorphoses as a result of the inter- important step toward studying it. The writes, “We are particularly fortunate this and bustling HUSI, shorthand for the national crises of 1914-1920 and influ- next most important step is forming a year to welcome a select and distin- Harvard Ukrainian Summer School, the ences exerted on it by the Central theory. The course challenges both guished faculty. Language instructors world’s oldest continuously operating European discourse of the inter-war peri- hermeneutic and historical approaches to Volodymyr Dibrova, Alla Parkhomenko university-accredited summer program in od, the Stalinist terror and the famine of Ukraine, claiming that the self-under- and Yuri Shevchuk all trained at Ukrainian studies. The summer is still 1933, Ukraine and the second world war, standings of historical actors are far less Shevchenko National University of Kyiv four months away but HUSI-2003 course the emergence of independent Ukraine important than the understandings of and have over 20 years of experience in offerings have already been announced and the state of the Ukrainian idea in the researchers, and that the question of second-language pedagogy; Volodymyr so that everybody interested can plan North American diaspora. Against the “what really happened” in history can Dibrova and Yuri Shevchuk presently their studies at Harvard well in advance. backdrop of this description, Prof. only be answered with, and through, a work for the Ukrainian Research Institute This coming summer the Harvard Himka’s endnote – “Not a course for conceptual framework and theory devel- at Harvard, while Alla Parkhomenko Ukrainian Summer Institute – June 23- intellectual sissies,” – sounds more like a oped by the researcher. The focus, in develops modern approaches to assess- August 13 – will offer seven courses: challenge than a dissuasion. other words, will be on how you think ment and communicative teaching tech- three content courses (literature, history, Prof. Motyl’s interest in politics goes about Ukraine and not about how niques for the British Council in Ukraine. politics), a new advanced graduate semi- back at least as far as the early 1970s, Ukrainians think about Ukraine.” Their participation in this year’s nar, and three levels of intensive lan- when he was a founding member of the In keeping with its commitment to Ukrainian Summer Institute cannot but guage. Students will have a unique New York-based Committee in Defense innovation and the expansion of its cur- maintain HUSI’s position as the premiere opportunity to work with three senior of Soviet Political Prisoners and editor of ricular offerings, the HUSI will offer for intensive Ukrainian-language program in faculty who are scholars in the forefront the radical (for that time) student maga- the first time an interdisciplinary North America.” of their respective fields: George zine Novi Napriamy. Since then Prof. advanced graduate seminar “Studying For application materials, contact Grabowicz teaching “20th Century Motyl has established himself as a lead- Twentieth Century Ukraine: Theory, Patricia Coatsworth, Harvard Ukrainian Ukrainian Literature: Rethinking the ing political theorist of Ukraine and other Methodology, Identity,” co-taught by Summer Institute, 1583 Massachusetts Canon,” John-Paul Himka – the history post-Soviet states, authoring seven Professors Grabowicz, Himka and Motyl. Ave., Cambridge MA 02138; phone, course “Modern Ukraine,” and monographs on the subject. His theoreti- The seminar will focus on the present (617) 495-7833; fax, (617)495-8097; e- Alexander Motyl – the political science cal writing is augmented by practical state of literary theory, cultural studies, mail, [email protected]. course “Theorizing Ukraine: Politics, experience in the field and with a keen history and political science, their inter- For detailed information on the pro- Theory and Politcal Theory.” interest in Ukrainian history, particularly action and the problems such an interdis- gram, course descriptions, faculty bios, Prof. Grabowicz has held the Dmytro the ideological origins of Ukrainian ciplinary approach raises. Topics treated cultural events, course syllabi, alumni’s Cyzevskyj Chair of Ukrainian Literature nationalism. Prior to accepting a political will be the uses of history and the tools opinions and much more visit HUSI’s at Harvard since 1982. His provocative, science professorship at Rutgers we have for the recovery of the past, the brand new website located at groundbreaking studies – whether on the University, Prof. Alexander Motyl was nature of historical and cultural revision- http://www.huri.harvard.edu/husi.html. poet Taras Shevchenko as mythmaker or the re-examination of literary historiog- raphy in general – promise to challenge students’ assumptions and indeed make them “rethink the canon” of Ukrainian literature. His present position as editor- in-chief of the leading Ukrainian intel- lectual journal, Krytyka, has placed him in a position to observe current develop- ments at close range. “Modern Ukrainian literature,” explained Prof. Grabowicz, “has always been a barometer of cultural and political life. Arguably, this was most pronounced in the 20th century where under the impact of Soviet totalitarianism – and the various responses to it – Ukrainian litera- ture was split into several competing, and to all appearances incompatible, canons and historical narratives: the pre- (or non-) Soviet, the Soviet and the anti- Soviet (émigré and dissident).” This course will pose some new questions, and give some tentative answers, as it reconsiders the major Ukrainian literary Prof. John-Paul Himka Prof. Alexander Motyl Prof. George Grabowicz phenomena of the 20th century. Prof. Himka assumed the Ukrainian History professorship at the University of Alberta in 1984, following the death of renowned historian Ivan Lysiak- Rudnytsky. Just as his predecessor did Prof. Himka has examined a broad range of issues related to Ukrainian nation- building, producing three monographs and numerous studies on late 19th centu- ry Galicia. More recently, he has directed his attention to the complex picture of Ukraine under Nazi occupation and stands as an insightful and erudite ana- lyst of Ukrainian-Jewish relations during that period. “We are going to toy with a new approach to Ukrainian history,” said Prof. Himka.” Instead of looking at the Ukrainian movement of the 19th century as the product of the previous historical development of the Ukrainian people, we will do an epistemological inversion and imagine that all previous Ukrainian his- tory is the product of the 19th century Ukrainian movement. Not that the things that the great Ukrainian historians narrat- Alla Parkhomenko Yuri Shevchuk Volodymyr Dibrova No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2003 11

DATELINE NEW YORK: Tradition! Tradition! It’s still strong by Helen Smindak

While upcoming events of the spring 2003 season are ty activist and author of “Traditional Ukrainian Cookery,” beckoning, traditional caroling and Malanka festivities Mr. Stechishin would be expected to have Ukrainian spirit have been a significant part of community activities during in his make-up. That spirit has indeed shown up in compo- the past month. sitions such as “Kolomeyka Fantasy” and in CD’s like The age-old custom of koliada – of groups trekking “Carpathian Blues,” based on an old Ukrainian folk song from house to house blending voices in beloved old carols that he used to play at weddings. – is still followed by a few small groups in the East Village Now he has a new all-ethnic CD titled “Ukrainianism,” which go caroling to raise funds for the Plast Scouting which he introduced during a North American tour last fall Association, the School of Bandura or the Ukrainian and at a Ukrainian Institute of America concert. His latest Cultural Center in Hunter, N.Y. The custom is faithfully concert was given at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on observed by the Dumka Chorus of New York, which January 10. brought its repertoire of Ukrainian Christmas and New Mr. Stetch says the reaction to his new CD has sur- Year carols to the United Nations and, as in past years, to passed all expectations – the CD and his public perform- parishes in New Jersey and New York City. ances of that music have been received “really well” by With artistic director Vasyl Hrechynsky at the helm, audiences and critics alike, as well as by non-Ukrainians. Dumka began its annual Christmas concerts early – and “A few years ago (when I would just insert one auspiciously – with an appearance at the first Ukrainian Ukrainian piece during a show), I felt a bit timid and some- Day celebration at the United Nations on December 19, times afraid that I was forcing something ethnic onto peo- 2002. As is customary with carols, the chorus sang a ple. But gradually, as I saw positive reactions, I eventually capella. got to a point where now I can play a full set of mostly Since then, the ensemble has given a concert of carols at Ukrainian material,” he says wonderingly. St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Passaic, N.J., Cover of John Stetch’s new CD, “Ukrainianism.” Dan Ouellete of Downbeat magazine says of where the program included English and Ukrainian rendi- “Ukrainianism: Canadian pianist John Stetch embraces his tions of the Christmas classic “Silent Night.” At St. George and Olena Filipeva, as was mentioned in the January 12 roots with remarkable results. Not only is it one of the best Ukrainian Catholic Church in Manhattan on December 12 “Dateline.” solo piano recordings in recent years, but it also ushers in and St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Church the fol- Produced by Michael H. Sulyma of Sulyma Productions new songs based on Ukrainian traditional music to the jazz lowing Sunday, the chorus sang traditional Christmas car- in Edmonton, Alberta, and performed to Tchaikovsky’s table.” ols and included Handel’s “Messiah.” Every program, dramatic score in a digital recording by the National Opera “Stetch plays with passion and brio in a refreshing mix without fail, included the New Year carol “Schedryk” Orchestra of Kyiv, the ballet featured the Pas de Deux of melody and atonality –splashing/etching colors, build- (Carol of the Bells). Battle Scene of Act I, with Shumka dancers performing as ing drama and expressing joy as he tumbles across the The ensemble’s vitality is as noteworthy as its beautiful mice, and the Waltz of the Flowers Grand Pas de Deux keys,” writes Mr. Ouellette. sound. Dumka has had a very busy year that included con- from Act II, when Shumka dancers in Ukrainian national JazzWeek editor Ed Trefzger likes the combination of certs for special occasions in Ellenville and Rochester, N.Y., costumes performed the Trepak and Hopak dances. At jazz and classical sounds: “from playful folk-dance at Soyuzivka, and in Passaic, N.J. The chorus took part in each presentation, Shumka and Kyiv Ballet dancers joined melodies, to lush, thundering, lower-octave textures. (The New York City events marking the 11th anniversary cele- the show’s stars on stage for the finale presentation and pianist’s) touch can be lilting or ponderous, and his har- bration of Ukraine’s independence and the first anniversary many bows. monic forms simple or adventurous.” of 9/11, as well as the commemmoration of the Great At the BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn, Ukrainian tra- There are rave reviews from Geoff Chapman of The Famine in Ukraine at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. There was ditions surfaced in a showing of films (December 5-17, Toronto Star, Irwin Block of The Montreal Gazette, Peter also a very happy occasion – the annual Malanka at the 2002) by the legendary film director Oleksander Hum of The Ottawa Citizen and other critics. Ukrainian Sports Club on Second Avenue, where Dumka (Alexander) Dovzhenko, particularly in the silent film “Ukrainianism” opens with an up-tempo flirting song choristers assemble for Friday night rehearsals. “Zvenyhora” (1927). It is the first film in which “Rye, Not Wheat!” There are medleys of Ukrainian The Mayana Gallery’s January 17 program, presented Dovzhenko combined poetic visuals with his love of melodies in seamless arrangements, including the festive by the Ukrainian Art and Literary Club and the New York Ukrainian folklore, cross-cutting between centuries and “Kolomeyka Fantasy” and the playful “Zabava,” where Mr. Bandura Ensemble, focused on “Our Christian Land: magical realism. “Zvenyhora” and two other silent films – Stetch reached in to the piano to play strings directly, Songs of the Turkish Invasion of Ukraine.” Featuring ban- his 1930 film “Earth” (Zemlia) and “Arsenal” (1929) – scratching them or dampening them with his hands. The durist Julian Kytasty and his stirring performance of the were presented with live piano accompaniment by Donald strikingly beautiful “Savella” is a homage to Ukrainian duma “Marusia Bohuslaska,” it also took in a series of his- Sosin. Also shown were the films “Ivan” (1932) and grandmothers and their cuisine. “Famine,” referring to Stalin’s man-made famine of 1933, opens with an ominous, torical and ritual Christmastide songs offered by Lavrentia “Battle for Our Soviet Ukraine” (1943). Turkewicz. Ms. Turkewicz explained the historical content ““UUkkrraaii nnii aannii ssmm”” extended atonal passage that builds to a clattering climax. of the songs and discussed the common themes that run “Children of Chornobyl,” an improvised tone poem, through the various genres. commemorates the young victims of the 1986 nuclear acci- Pianist John Stetch upholds tradition by doing it his way dent in Ukraine. The ballad “Harmony in the Family” has a During the evening, eyes as well as ears were gratified, – through jazz music. for guests had the opportunity to scan an exhibit of work distinct atmosphere achieved by the use of a tetramerous A native son of Canada’s prairie country, the stronghold left hand, while “Sitting By the Window,” traditionally a by a host of artists, including sculptor Mykhailo of Ukrainian settlement in Canada, and grandson of the Czereszniowsky, ceramic artist Slava Gerulak and pysanka late Savella Stechishin, who is remembered as a communi- (Continued on page 18) decorator/ceramic artist Sofiya Zielyk. St. George School children’s choir (Grades 3 to 8), directed by Anna Bachynska, assisted Grade 1 and 2 youngsters in presenting a traditional Vertep (manger scene) in St. George’s auditorium last month, under the direction of Lydia Andrusyshyn and Oksana Ivasiw. Assistants for the annual Christmas presentation, directed by Sister Chrysostom, included Anastasia Antoniw (music), Daria Genza (choreography) and Taras Hirniak (set decoration). Mykola Leontovych’s arrangement of the New Year carol “Schedryk,” known in the Western world as “Carol of the Bells,” was among the Christmas and New Year car- ols offered by the Ukrainian Colors (Ukrainian Barvy) ensemble in their January 5 concert at St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The Kyiv-based quartet of Oksana Stebelska, Roman Kuka, Denys Boyev and Serhij Tsukhaj, combining vocals and instrumental work on vio- lins, woodwinds and accordion, included Ukrainian folk songs as well as some classical and neo-classical works in its concert. The ensemble is currently on a U.S. tour to pro- mote its latest CD, eponymously titled “Ukrainian Colors.” (For CD info, contact [email protected] or call 202- 462-3491.) Our world-renowned traditional folk dance, the Hopak, and a lively Trepak dance were brought to the stage of Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, Long Island, on December 18, 2002, by Canada’s famed Shumka Ukrainian Dancers. Shumka joined forces with the Kyiv Ballet and principal dancer Oksana Storozhuk to present excerpts from a spec- tacular ballet, “The Nutcracker,” as part of the touring show “A Royal Christmas,” headlined by Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Welsh soprano Charlotte Church. (Contrary to Nassau Coliseum’s publicity depart- Producer Paul Maslak (center) with the late screenwriter Robert Easter (left) and producing partner Neva ment, the show did not include ballet dancers Ivan Putrov Friedenn in Austin, Texas, on the set of “Just Sue Me.” 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2003 No. 4

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es reported. UNIAN on January 20 quoted a NEWSBRIEFS diplomatic source from Moscow as saying (Continued from page 2) that some CIS presidents objected to meet- New party seeks Slavic union ing in Ivano-Frankivsk, citing insufficient transport and accommodation infrastruc- MOSCOW – A new coalition of national ture. Earlier, the radical nationalist “patriotic” parties has emerged called the Ukrainian National Assembly-National Union for Our Fatherland, Interfax reported Self-Defense Organization announced it on January 16. The organization comprises would stage protests against holding the Andrew Czorniak the People’s Will Party of National Revival, CIS summit in western Ukraine. (RFE/RL Andrew Czorniak, a resident of Naples, FL, for the past 10 years and Glastonbury, Russia’s Union of Patriotic and National Newsline) Conn., also a former resident of West Hartford, Conn. for 30 years died January 12, 2003, of com- Organizations, Russia’s Slavic Party, the plications from cancer. He was born on December 14, 1913, in Ukraine, graduated from art school Great Brotherhood of Cossack Troops, For Miensk, D.C. agree on Nazi hunting in Lviv, Ukraine, specializing in icongraphy and painting of churches with Professor Malalewsky Holy Rus, and other movements. Nina later becoming his partner. World War II changed his life; trying to escape the communists he left Zhukova, deputy head of the People’s Will MIENSK – Representatives of the his home and country traveling through numerous countries including Hungary, Yugoslavia, Procurator General’s Office and the U.S. Romania, Austria and Switzerland, he was captured and became a prisoner of war in Germany Party of National Revival, said among the until the liberation by the American Forces in 1944. After the war, he worked in Germany for the goals of the new public organization are Justice Department on January 20 signed a memorandum of cooperation and coordina- U.S. Air Force and later as an art editor for Ukrainian publications until 1949. “reuniting Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, He immigrated to the U.S. in 1949 and later graduated from Pratt Institute in New York and improving Russia’s internal and exter- tion regarding efforts to prosecute Nazi war City in graphic arts, studying advertising. He worked for the Prelle Advertising Agency as an assis- nal security.” Ms. Zhukova is the former criminals, Belapan reported on January 21, tant art director and then at the Albee Trieber Advertising Agency as an art director. He then head of the Union of Realists. (RFE/RL quoting the Belarusian Foreign Ministry’s became art editor, until his retirement, for the Aetna Life and Casualty Insurance Company in Newsline) press service. Under the memorandum, the Hartford, Conn. During his retirement, he devoted his time to his first love - the fine arts and pro- parties are to be granted access to each duced many paintings. Lytvyn denies presidential aspirations Andrew Czorniak was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Advertising other’s archives concerning crimes perpe- Club of Hartford, Wadsworth Athebeum, Ukrainian Art Association of USA, American Art trated by the Nazis or their allies during KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman Association, and Ukrainian National Home of Hartford. After Ukraine gained it’s independence, his World War II. (RFE/RL Newsline) biography appeared in three books; Art of Ukraine, Ukrainian Artisits, and Ukrainian Art Volodymyr Lytvyn told journalists on Encyclopedia published in Kyiv, Ukraine, 1997. His biography appears in World’s Marquis “Who’s January 17 that he is not going to run for Belarusian-Russian summit held Who” in the 2001 edition. president in the 2004 elections, Interfax Andrew Czorniak is survived by his wife, Mary Solecki Czorniak, after 50 years of mar- reported. Mr. Lytvyn speculated that candi- MIENSK – Belarusian President riage; his son Michael A. Czorniak, MD, his wife Dawn and four grandchildren, Michael, Lea, dates might include Our Ukraine leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka and his Russian Patrick, and Lauren of Hingham, MA; his daughter Elizabeth A. and her husband LCDR Mark Viktor Yushchenko, Communist Party counterpart, Vladimir Putin, took part in a Malsick of Severne Park, Md. He also leaves two nephews in Lviv, Ukraine. He was a devoted and leader Petro Symonenko, Yulia meeting of the Russia-Belarus Union loving person to his wife, children and grandchildren. He will be greatly missed especially his sense of humor, wit and great personality. Tymoshenko, Socialist Party leader Supreme Council in Miensk on January 20, There will be no calling hours. A memorial mass was held at St. Michael’s Ukrainian Oleksander Moroz, Prime Minister Viktor Belarusian and Russian media reported. The Church, Wethersfield Ave., in Hartford, at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, January 25. Donations in his memo- Yanukovych, and presidential administra- meeting reportedly focused on socioeco- ry can be made to the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund, P.O. Box 340278 Hartford, CT 06134. tion chief Viktor Medvedchuk. (RFE/RL nomic matters of the union and brought no Burial will be at St. John the Baptist Cemetery, New London Turnpike, Glastonbury, Conn. Newsline) new decisions. Presidents Lukashenka and CIS summit relocated to Kyiv Putin stressed their commitment to intro- duce the Russian ruble as the sole Russian- DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS KYIV – Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Belarusian currency as of January 1, 2005, as previously agreed. 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from the United States – they were not authorities is essential to foster reform. In memory... available in Ukraine in the early 1990s. Group fights... The mayor of the western Ukrainian (Continued from page 4) Instead of selling out to a political party, (Continued from page 2) town of Drohobych, Mykhailo Luzhetskyi, said the PTS has demonstrat- Media Club, an alternative organization to Naboka left the arena of political journalism from local government. I also think that ed a more open way for the town’s func- the official Union of Journalists. He was a to concentrate on reporting on human rights it’s important that we have been able to tionaries to work. He said important deci- nonconformist, who found comfort in being and social conditions. But he always said work as partners with local and state gov- sions are now made following public “anti anything that wreaked of Lenin, Stalin that he was an optimist and things could not ernment bodies and their departments.” meetings, where the views of townspeo- and the Soviet Union. He continued to be get much worse. He thought that one day he “I think that this shows something is ple are heard. very critical of today’s Ukraine, as it was would return to political reporting, but that changing and that officials are prepared to Mr. Luzhetskyi said an office has been not the democracy he had envisioned, sore- at this point in life, it was better to wait it listen to the opinions of the community, provided where citizens can receive clear ly lacking in such values as freedom of out. to people’s thoughts, and to incorporate explanations about what is happening in speech and protection for human rights. Naboka died of a heart attack, while on them in their work. That means that soci- the town and get advice from lawyers and So, it was quite the paradox that he spent assignment for Radio Liberty, doing a series ety is turning into a more democratic other specialists about problems they may most of his adult life in an apartment on of reports on the living conditions of prison- society,” she said. be encountering. He said that he and Kyiv’s Enthusiasts’ Street, a roadway ers in the Vinnytsia Oblast. His next stop PTS coordinator Svetlana Yaremenko, other officials regularly appear on televi- named for a Stalinist march that sang the was scheduled to be the prison in Raikivtsi, from the eastern city of Donetsk, said a praises of Lenin and the glory of the com- sion and radio phone-in programs, where Khmelnytskyi Oblast, to which he had often vital ingredient of the work is informing they answer questions about official mat- munist philosophy. [The newly formed referred affectionately as his “native” people of their rights and letting them Trade Union of Journalists on January 20 ters. prison, the place he spent three years of his know they can come to the project’s The mayor underscored that the com- appealed to Mayor Oleksander life in 1981-1984. offices for advice. Omelchenko to change the name of the bination of transparency and the involve- Fittingly, Naboka was laid to rest at She said the Donetsk office operates a ment of the public in decision-making is a street to Naboka]. But that was Naboka, Baikove Cemetery, across the aisle from the telephone hotline, which is often used by whose ironic wit found humor in the fact good recipe for fighting corruption. “This graves of Vasyl Stus, Yurii Lytvyn and small and medium-sized businesses. transparency is one of the ways we can that he wore a “kuchma” on his head in the Oleksa Tykhy, and not far from Ivan Yaremenko explained what she believes winter months – a kuchma being a tall, fight corruption, because all matters to do Svitlychny – the men whom he defended is the project’s greatest value: “Many white hat made of sheep’s fleece.) with privatization, questions of renting that cold winter day in 1981 as he dis- people acknowledge that corruption And this short remembrance of a good out facilities, [or] questions about con- trubuted leaflets to tell of their plight and exists in Ukraine today, but unfortunately friend would not be complete if it did not struction projects are resolved transpar- human rights abuses in Ukraine. they are unwilling to fight against it. ently with the participation of the com- tell of Naboka’s charm, his flirtatious style Most say, ‘Yes, there is corruption, but with the girls, his kind words to his col- *** munity before we make the final deci- The Ukrainian Weekly expresses its con- we’ll wait to see what happens.’ Only a sion,” he explained. leagues. In a profession where relations are small portion say they will try to fight often strained, tensions run high and emo- dolences to Kateryna Zelenska, Serhii “Decisions are not made by just one or Naboka’s mother, who inspired her son’s against it. That shows that people accept two officials but after consultation with tions take over what can be classified as civ- the existence of corruption but are not journalism career and worked with him on the community. The scope for corruption ilized behavior, Naboka never fought with prepared to fight against it. Therefore, I many projects in the 1990s, his wife Inna, diminishes, as it’s not just one or two his colleagues, but held them in high think the work of our coalition is impor- esteem. He was a decent man, who became who also was a human rights advocate, was bureaucrats making the decision.” tant to instill that everyone personally Mayor Luzhetskyi said the PTS as distraught as a little boy losing his arrested with him in 1981 and worked tire- should do something and that only favorite toy when he lost the gold trident lessly with him on his first publications, and inspired him to take another practical step through a united effort can we defeat this to lessen corruption: “We’ve also imple- that he wore around his neck. He made his two daughters. phenomenon.” arrangements to get a new one right away Vichna Yomu Pamiat! mented our project combating corruption The project coordinator from the by rotating 70 percent of all our town southern Mykolaiv region, Anatolii officials into different jobs. This move- Ivanychenko, said that bribery – whether ment of people who have worked for a money or gifts – is so prevalent that many long time in the same office has snapped DNIPRO CO. officials do not consider it wrong. “They many of the links that lead to corruption, DNIPRO CO. don’t understand at all that receiving a and today we have a fairly positive Parcels, money transfers and airline tickets to different countries. Visas to present, a gift of gratitude, is not really a result.” Ukraine, video Transfer PAL/SECAM-NTSC, Calls to Ukraine 8 cents per sign of thanks but that it’s something cor- The PTS’s Mr. Ivanychenko said one minute. Large selection of CD’s, video’s, kerchiefs and Ukrainian souvenirs. rupt. They don’t understand that just of the biggest problems facing Ukraine is because an official has issued a document that young people seem to accept the without delay or has done what the law necessity for bribery. That sentiment also NEWARK, N.J. CLIFTON, NJ PHILADELPHIA says he should do, that receiving a reward emerged from the most recent poll, which 688 Sanford Ave. 565 Clifton Ave. 1801 Cottman Ave. is corrupt,” he added. shows nearly one-quarter of respondents (973) 373-8783 (973) 916-1543 (215) 728-6040 His colleague, Orest Pasichnyk, project nationwide – and nearly half in the capi- (888) 336-4776 coordinator in the western city of Lviv, tal, Kyiv – believe that paying bribes is a agreed. He said he believes many officials normal part of life. who would like to run honest operations “In our experience, most of the people feel helpless to root out corruption. “I’m we work with are more than 50 years old. SCOPE TRAVEL ADDITIONAL TOURS for 2003 sure that some of the heads of [govern- The younger generation prefers to resolve ment] departments are dismayed at having matters speedily, even if this means mak- New itinerary for New Tour to work in places where such negative ing illegal payments, to save time. But things are happening, that is, corruption this returns like a boomerang to affect KSENIA and so forth. That’s natural. And some of that same person,” Mr. Ivanychenko said. RIDNA MANDRIVKA these heads of departments cannot deal PTS Director Ms. Kolomayets said the 10 – 21 July 2003 with the problem, because the junior staff latest poll once again shows the impor- 04 – 25 August 2003 cover up for one another, and it’s possible tance of demonstrating to ordinary people All-inclusive Escorted All-inclusive Escorted that the chief doesn’t even know about that they are not powerless and that, with via Malev Airlines from New York via Malev Airlines from New York many of the goings-on,” he said. enough determination and information, Both men say that working with local they can combat corruption. 22 Day Student Tour Kyiv, Frankivsk, Lviv New Tour Dr. Blix frequently states that his sup- LOURDES Hans Blix... port for nuclear power cannot be linked to (Continued from page 2) any nuclear weapons program. 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dures in the first days after the FATF Artist’s works on exhibit in Short Hills, N.J. Financial transactions... announcement on December 20, 2002. (Continued from page 1) Washington said at the time it would limit address criminal penalties for those violat- financial transactions between Ukraine and ing its provisions. Ukraine also had yet to the U.S. to $50,000 and would scrutinize all pass a law on banks and banking that bank accounts in the U.S. held by Ukrainian assured that financial institutions would be citizens. more transparent in identifying clients that On January 22, the National Bank of transferred large sums of moneys abroad. Ukraine requested that all commercial On January 16 the Verkhovna Rada banks under its jurisdiction promptly inform changed the Criminal Code to make money it of any foreign banks that close correspon- laundering a criminal offense punishable by dent accounts, refuse to carry out financial three to six years of incarceration, with an transactions, block assets, or request addi- additional two-year ban on a convict return- tional information on the financial institu- ing to the type of work that led to the tion or its clients. The NBU also urged charges, as well as confiscation of money Ukrainian commercial banks to contact and property associated with the laundering their correspondent banks in the West to operation. request clear information on what anti- The same day, the Parliament also passed money laundering procedures they needed the initial version of an addendum to the to implement to continue normal relations. banking law that would force commercial The same day, the European Bank for banks to name their clientele and require the Reconstruction and Development, which National Bank of Ukraine to carry out has extensive financial dealings with the inspections of its client banks at least once Ukrainian government, told Interfax- annually. Ukraine it believed its current anti-money SHORT HILLS, N.J. – Christina Saj is seen above at the opening of her new Interfax-Ukraine reported that Ukraine’s laundering policy to be sufficiently effective exhibit at the Lippman Art Gallery. Titled “Words and Images,” the exhibit high- VA Bank and Credit Bank both stated on and therefore was not planning to institute lights new work on paper based on old testament and secular subjects. The exhib- January 20 that they had received informa- special measures to monitor Ukraine. it is on view January 10 through February 28. Also on exhibit is the work of Frank tion that at least one British clearing bank In the wake of the Western banking quar- Levi. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., and Sunday, 9 a.m.-noon. would close its correspondent accounts with antine placed on the country, the Ukrainian The gallery is located at Temple B’nai Jeshurum, 1025 South Orange Ave., Short Ukrainian banks because the financial flow government remained optimistic that the Hills, NJ 07078. was sufficiently insignificant to make it not economically stifling measures would be worth performing the additional monitoring short-lived and temporary. Minister of required by the FATF. Foreign Affairs Anatolii Zlenko issued a Also on January 20, the British Treasury statement on January 22 in which he said issued a directive on a severe regime of the government expected the problem to be control over financial transactions with resolved in mid-February. SOYUZIVKA Ukraine in which it recommended that: “We need to cooperate to find a way out “UK financial institutions should take addi- of this complicated situation and need to do tional measures to ensure that transactions everything to have the FATF remove its rec- PACKAGES involving Ukraine domiciled institutions ommendations,” stated Mr. Zlenko. 216 Foordmore Road • P. O. Box 529 and persons are fully scrutinized. 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F Alex Kholomeyev Corpus Christi CL 51 13 19 32 65 Ukrainian pro hockey update F Colin Kobza Corpus Christi CL 35 1 3 4 50 D Zenith Komarniski Manitoba AHL 77 5 20 25 153 bbyy IIhhoorr SStteellmmaacchh D Kyle Kos Pensacola ECHL 38 5 8 13 88 F Rick Kowalsky Roanoke ECHL 70 35 48 83 112 F Jordan Krestanovich Hershey AHL 68 12 22 34 18 F Viktor Kubenko New Orleans ECHL 47 7 3 10 43 116 minor leaguers active last season F Dustin Kuk Peoria ECHL 18 4 6 10 63 D Greg Kuznik Lowell AHL 58 3 8 11 40 At least 116 known players of Ukrainian Alex Andreyev, Alex Kholomeyev, D Corey Laniuk Flint UL 64 0 4 4 224 descent claimed professional hockey as Viktor Kubenko, Igor Bondarev and F Alexei Lazarenko New Haven UL 33 11 11 22 95 their primary means of employment in the Ruslyn Dolyny. F Yevgeny Lazarev Hershey AHL 50 11 11 22 56 sport’s five minor leagues last season. The To conclude the name survey, the letter F Andrew Luciuk Manitoba AHL 1 0 0 0 0 pro hockey minor league circuits continued ‘S’ was the most common for surnames Muskegon UL 71 22 37 59 52 their consolidation in 2001-2002, as still (18), while the letters ‘K’ and ‘M’ were D Jeff Lukasak Muskegon UL 48 3 4 7 44 another league, the Western Pro Hockey second best with 12. D Ross Lupaschuk Wilkes-Barre AHL 72 9 20 29 91 League, merged into the expanding East Top minor league Ukrainian snipers F Brett Lysak Lowell AHL 53 6 8 14 26 Coast Hockey League. This on the heels of were Greg Pankewicz (39 goals), Jason Florida ECHL 16 2 7 9 14 the International Hockey League being Duda/Rick Kowalsky (35 each) and Jeff F John Maksymiuk Adirondack UL 9 0 0 0 2 absorbed by the American Hockey League Antonovich (33). Assist leaders included F Don Malko Indianapolis CL 64 1 8 9 86 a year earlier. Wayne’s little brother Brent Gretzky (55 F Denis Martynyuk Manitoba AHL 15 1 2 2 0 Nine of the above mentioned 116 helpers), Duda/Kowalsky (48 each) and Columbia ECHL 52 14 8 22 42 Ukrainian pucksters also skated on Pankewicz (46). The top overall scoring F Alex Matvichuk Greensboro ECHL 28 4 7 11 6 National Hockey League rinks this same Uke was Pankewicz (85 points), fol- F Scott Matzka Grand Rapids AHL 4 1 0 1 2 season. Most were on the cusp of finding lowed by Duda/Kowalsky (83). The Atlantic City ECHL 63 17 35 52 97 permanent jobs with their parent clubs, dubious distinction of trips to the sin-bin D Chad Mazurak Roanoke ECHL 2 0 0 0 0 but still required a bit more seasoning was won by Ryan Shmyr (344 penalty F Brad Mehalko Hartford AHL 41 6 11 17 72 down on the farm. One up and coming minutes), a full minute better than Aaron D Marty Melnychuk Missouri UL 36 1 1 2 192 prospect, Alexei Ponikarovsky, played the (time to change his last name) Boh (343 F Glen Metropolit Portland AHL 32 17 22 39 20 bulk of his year with the AHL’s St. John’s minutes) and in third place was Justin F Aaron Miskovich Hershey AHL 3 0 0 0 0 Maple Leafs, while also getting a quick Ossachuk (339 PIM’s). Quad City UL 39 12 16 28 20 cup of coffee with Toronto and ably rep- There are 93 professional franchises cur- D Rick Mrozik St. John’s AHL 55 2 5 7 57 resenting Team Ukraine in the 2002 rently active in hockey’s minor leagues. D Jeremy Mylymok Idaho WCL 52 8 33 41 176 Winter Olympics. From major venues like Providence, D Nick Naumenko Portland AHL 75 15 35 50 40 A positional breakdown of the Ukes in Albany, Houston, Cleveland, Chicago and D Mike Nikolishen Colorado WCL 31 6 11 17 18 the minor leagues shows 11 goaltenders, 36 Philadelphia – to off the beaten path locales F Chad Onufrechuk Johnstown ECHL 49 9 17 26 22 defensemen and 69 forwards. Along with like Flint, Idaho, Shreveport, Macon, F Justin Ossachuk Tulsa CL 53 12 11 23 339 Toronto’s Ponikarovsky, there are about 15 Laredo and Amarillo – the odds of finding F Robb Palahniuk St. John’s AHL 9 1 2 3 20 rock solid, for-sure future NHL’ers from a team with a Ukrainian puckster are pretty Memphis CL 57 9 18 27 102 among the total 116 minor leaguers. A few darned good. F Greg Pankewicz Pensacola ECHL 63 39 46 85 306 may make the big show as emergency call- Fan favorites all over. For history buffs, F Doug Pirnak Oklahoma City CL 34 5 4 9 94 ups or role players. The vast majority will there’s a Bayda (Ryan) in Lowell - a true Tulsa CL 7 2 1 3 5 toil away as career minor leaguers, getting Kozak warrior on skates; the medical pro- F Ryan Pisiak Corpus Christi CL 32 5 8 13 195 paid good bucks to play a game. fession can rout for Andy Doktorchik (he’s F Jaroslav Polak Tacoma WCL 29 033 10 Alex/Alexei is the most popular first a Johnstown Chief); those who are fleet F Alexei Ponikarovsky St. John’s AHL 72 21 27 48 74 name for Ukrainian minor league pros, afoot will cheer for Denis Shvidki to make F Kelly Popadynetz Springfield AHL 1 0 0 0 0 with six of them. Steve, Greg, Ryan, it back to Florida (from San Antonio); love- New Haven UL 68 16 40 56 50 Peter and Sergei are the second most birds attending hockey games will pray a F Tobin Praznik Anchorage WCL 53 22 19 41 10 common names, with three each. Alexei’s certain Aeros goalie (Dieter Kochan) will D Sergei Radchenko New Mexico CL 45 5 5 10 90 and Sergei’s continue to reflect the influx spin a shutout; feline pet owners will D Peter Ratchuk Wilkes-Barre AHL 75 16 23 39 55 of European imports migrating to North undoubtedly be drawn to Cleveland D Gennady Razin Quebec AHL 75 2 7 9 14 America to pursue dreams of profitable Lumberjacks netminder Seamus Kotyk. D Matt Ruchty Toledo ECHL 8 0 1 1 54 careers. Notable newcomers in the past Ukrainian minor league hockey players F Bogdan Rudenko Jackson ECHL 66 18 16 34 117 campaign included Dmitri Tolkunov, ... they’re everywhere... D Dean Serdachny Charlotte ECHL 55 2 1 3 100 F Mark Shalawylo Baton Rouge ECHL 2 0 0 0 0 Position Player Team League GP G A PTS PIM Tulsa CL 3 0 0 0 0 D Alex Alexeev Tacoma WCL 66 4 35 39 92 F Jason Shmyr Houston AHL 74 3 3 6 169 F Nikita Alexeev Springfield AHL 35 5 9 14 16 F Ryan Shmyr Rochester AHL 34 1 2 3 170 F Peter Ambroziak New Mexico CL 40 17 21 38 60 Johnstown ECHL 29 2 3 5 174 D Alex Andreyev British Columbia UL 28 2 3 5 41 F Denis Shvidki Utah AHL 82462 F Jeff Antonovich Rockford UL 74 33 43 76 86 F Christian Skoryna Fresno WCL 16 7 13 20 17 F Yuri Babenko Hershey AHL 67 7 22 29 95 F Rob Skrlac Portland AHL 35 0 3 3 109 F Jay Banach New Mexico CL 60 7 9 16 169 Mississippi ECHL 29 1 3 4 161 F Ryan Bayda Lowell AHL 3 1 1 2 0 D Sergei Skrobot Greensboro ECHL 64 2 5 7 20 F Graham Belak Bridgeport AHL 7 0 0 0 5 Johnstown ECHL 15 0 2 2 4 Trenton ECHL 60 6 6 12 305 Pensacola ECHL 11 011 2 D Aaron Boh Colorado WCL 69 16 31 47 343 F Fred Slukynsky Cleveland AHL 2 0 0 0 0 D Igor Bondarev Ft. Wayne UL 25 3 14 17 10 Dayton ECHL 69 17 30 47 53 D Steve Cheredaryk St. John’s AHL 6 1 1 2 13 D Jamie Sokolsky Long Beach WCL 67 14 40 54 67 New Orleans ECHL 67 2 12 14 218 D Andrei Sryobko Syracuse AHL 58 0 10 10 181 D Peter Chvojka Columbus ECHL 3 1 0 1 0 D Pat Stachniak Rochester AHL 2 0 0 0 0 D Sergei Deshevyy Kalamazoo UL 68 1 6 7 130 Lubbock CL 64 4 26 30 135 F Andy Doktorchik Cincinnati ECHL 37 7 6 13 20 D Darren Strilchuk British Columbia UL 5 0 0 0 2 F Ruslyn Dolyny Milwaukee AHL 1 0 0 0 0 F Damian Surma Lowell AHL 1 0 0 0 0 Muskeqon UL 70 30 25 55 48 F Sheldon Szmata Wichita CL 54 18 33 51 81 F Brad Domonsky Oklahoma City CL 53 9 16 25 225 F Chris Szysky Grand Rapids AHL 42 4 6 10 80 F Jason Duda Wichita CL 64 35 48 83 34 F Daniel Tkaczuk Worcester AHL 75 10 27 37 37 F Jared Dumba Oklahoma City CL 39 20 14 34 38 D Dmitri Tolkunov Norfolk AHL 51 1 18 19 20 F Jeff Ewasko Long Beach WCL 63 8 24 32 259 F Oleg Tsirkounov Wichita CL 12 4 2 6 16 F Brad Federenko Baton Rouge ECHL 63 13 21 34 32 F Igor Valeev Worcester AHL 29 3 6 9 72 F Todd Fedoruk Philadelphia AHL 7 0 1 1 54 D Rene Vydareny Manitoba AHL 61 3 11 14 15 D Jamie Filipowicz Quebec AHL 63 0 7 7 107 Columbia ECHL 10 2 1 3 9 F Ben Gorewich Memphis CL 44 13 18 31 22 F Trevor Wasyluk Baton Rouge ECHL 61 19 9 28 102 F Brent Gretzky Ft. Wayne UL 73 21 55 76 35 D Chad Wilchynski Rochester AHL 6 0 0 0 2 F Stanislav Gron Albany AHL 76 13 15 28 34 Toledo ECHL 60 6 17 23 114 D Garry Gulash St. John’s AHL 3 0 0 0 19 F Brendan Yarema Houston AHL 77 18 13 31 150 Adirondack UL 39 2 16 18 175 F Dariusz Zabawa Wichita CL 48 13 23 36 10 D Steve Halko Worcester AHL 43 3 5 8 15 F Alexander Zinewich Reading ECHL 71 19 27 46 107 F Jeff Haydar Odessa CL 62 14 13 27 26 F Steve Zoryk New Mexico CL 28 3 13 16 10 F Darcy Hordichuk Chicago AHL 34 5 4 9 127 Tacoma WCL 24 4 7 11 18 D Mike Josefowicz Cincinnati ECHL 61 9 13 22 32 F Jarret Zukiwsky Baton Rouge ECHL 11 3 2 5 16 Macon ECHL 25 3 1 4 12 F David Kaczowka Chicago AHL 1 0 0 0 0 Corpus Christi UL 16 3 3 6 58 Greenville ECHL 32 1 1 2 182 (Continued on page 17) No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2003 17

minutes, 2.4 seconds, Norway’s Bente Argentina, which took the gold medal. Skari finished in 26:39.5, giving her the The team from the Netherlands took the SSPPOORTSRTSLLIINENE gold medal. Estonia’s Kristina Smigun silver medal while China captured the took the silver medal with a time of bronze. BBooxxii nngg 26:42.3 and Italy’s Gabriella Paruzzi Team Ukraine began the first round, finished behind gold medalist Ashley took the bronze medal with a time of played in a round robin format, by beat- Postell of the United States and silver 27:01.4 ing Scotland, 2-1, on November 24, With his 10th round win on November medalist Oana Ban of Romania. Shevchenko then took a seventh place 2002, but followed up their victory with 23, 2002, against Larry Donald, Vitalii Roman Zozulia of Ukraine tied Ioan finish at another world cup race, this time a loss to tournament favorites Argentina, Klitschko seemed to have put himself in Silviu Suciu of Romania for sixth place in Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech 5-1, on November 26, 2002. Team precisely the right spot for a spring 2003 in the men’s finals of the floor event, fin- Republic, on December 7. Competing in Ukraine then tied Korea, 2-2, and Russia, fight with World Boxing Council (WBC) ishing behind Marian Dragulescu of the women’s 10-kilometer freestyle event 3-3, before losing to China, 4-1, and New title holder Lennox Lewis. Romania, who took first place, Gervasio she finished 31.9 seconds behind gold Zealand, 3-0. Ukraine lost its final match Lewis, who hasn’t fought since stop- Deferr of Spain, who took second place, medal winner Bente Skari of Norway. of the first round to Germany, 5-2, before ping Mike Tyson on June 8, said Dec. 1 and Jordan Jovtchev of Bulgaria who Skari’s time of 25 minutes, 11.8 seconds he was planning to fight Klitschko in edging Ireland out in the next round of took third place. beat out silver medalist Gabriella Paruzzi single elimination play by a score of 4-3 March, and would follow that fight with Ukraine’s Alyona Kvasha took eighth by 7.3 seconds and bronze medalist a rematch against Mike Tyson and then a on December 6, 2002. Ukraine then fell place in the women’s vault, finishing Kristina Smigun by 10.8 seconds. in the third round to South Africa, 3-1, on bout against Klitschko’s younger brother, WWeeii gghhttll ii ffttii nngg behind Russians Elena Zaolodchikova, December 7, 2002, to finish the tourna- Volodymyr. However, on Saturday, who took the gold medal, and Natalia December 14, 2002, flanked by promoter ment with a record of two wins, five loss- Ziganshina, who took the silver medal. Denis Gotfryd of Ukraine won the Don King, Lewis dismissed Vitalii es and two ties. Oxana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan took gold medal at the World Weightlifting SSwwiimmmmiinngg Klitschko’s talents and said he may look the bronze medal. Championships on November 25, 2002, elsewhere for his next fight. Iryna Yarotskaya of Ukraine took in the 105-kilogram category with a total “Vitali Klitschko at this time doesn’t Ukraine’s Oleh Lysohor took three eighth place in the women’s uneven bars deserve a chance to fight me,” Lewis said. lift of 420 kilograms. Bulgaria’s Alan gold medals at the second FINA World while American Courtney Kupets took “Who has he fought?” the Associated Cagejew took second place by lifting a Cup meet of the season, held in New the top spot in the event. Finishing Press reported Lewis as saying. total of 417.50 kilograms. Russian York, on November 22-23, 2002. behind Kupets were Ioana Petrovschi of HBO executives have said that negoti- Vladimir Smorchkov’s total lift of 417.50 Lysohor won the 100-meter breast stroke Romania and Lyudmila Eyova of Russia ations for a much anticipated fight kilograms, although equal to Cagejew’s in 59.30 seconds on November 23, 2002, who took the silver and bronze medals, between Klitschko and Lewis were still total lift, was only good enough for third by beating American David Denniston, respectively. under way. The network had hoped to place because of a disappointing 220 who took second place with a time of SSkkii ii nngg kilogram clean and jerk. carry the fight in April. Klitschko, who FFiieelldd hhoocckkeeyy 59.83, and Australian Brenton Rickard, holds the World Boxing Organization who took third place with a time of 1 championship belt, is the No. 1 contender Ukrainian Dimitri Marushchak came minute, .94 seconds. for Lewis’ WBC title, the only belt Lewis in fifth place at a World Cup freestyle At the 10th Women’s World Cup of The previous day Lysohor won the 50- still holds. aerials event in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Field Hockey in Perth, Australia, Team meter breast stroke in 27.19 while South SSaaii ll ii nngg January 19. His teammate Enver Ablayev Ukraine finished 14th in the 16-team Africa’s Christoph Stewart took second came in eighth place while Canada’s tournament, beating out Ireland and Australia’s Minister for Citizenship Ryan Blais took first place. Blais was fol- Russia but finishing behind Team (Continued on page 19) and Multicultural Affairs, Gary lowed by silver medalist Dmitri Hardgrave, conferred Australian citizen- Dashinski of Belarus and bronze medalist Jeff Bean of Canada. ship upon Ukrainian-born Victor BBii aatthhll oonn Ukrainian pro hockey... Kovalenko, a world-renowned and (Continued from page 16) Olympic gold medal sailing coach, in Melbourne on January 17. Team Ukraine took 10th place in the GOALTENDERS: Kovalenko helped guide Australia to men’s 4x7.5-kilometer relay at a world Player Team League GP MINS W GAA PCT two gold medals at the 2000 Olympic cup event in Ostersund, Sweden, on Games and coached the Ukrainian men’s December 7, 2002. Teams from Norway, Mike Buzak Long Beach WCL 40 2357 23 2.39 .909 470 class to Olympic gold in 1996 and Russia and Germany took first, second Jeff Dudych Knoxville UL 8 307 0 8.40 0.803 has had numerous other significant inter- and third places, respectively. Team Rob Galatiuk San Antonio CL 26 1533 16 3.13 0.894 national results throughout the 1999 and Ukraine, composed of Oleksander Brad Guzda Knoxville UL 35 1958 9 4.05 0.895 2000 seasons, helping to earn him the Bilanenko, Alexi Korobeinkov, Roman Dieter Kochan Springfield AHL 45 2518 21 2.67 .910 title “medal maker.” Pryma and Ruslan Lysenko, finished in 3 Seamus Kotyk Cleveland AHL 24 981 6 3.73 0.893 The Australian Yachting Federation minutes, 49.1 seconds, behind Norway’s Gregg Naumenko Cincinnati AHL 7 364 2 2.47 0.928 named Kovalenko a national coach in time of 1 hour, 24 minutes and 20.6 sec- Augusta ECHL 10 546 3 3.96 0.88 late 1997 and in November 2000 the 52- onds. Russia finished just 8.7 seconds Dayton ECHL 33 1893 17 2.98 . 901 year-old Kovalenko, who hails from behind Norway and was followed by Randy Petruk Florida ECHL 51 3087 27 2.72 0.912 Dnipropetrovsk, was named the Germany, 1 minute, 53 seconds later. Cody Rudkowsky Worcester AHL 21 1108 6 2.71 0.907 Australian Yachting Federation and Team Ukraine took ninth place in the Peoria ECHL 12 709 5 2.03 .919 Australian Institute of Sport head coach men’s 4x7.5-kilometer relay at a world Jeff Salajko Manitoba AHL 1 40 0 9.00 0.727 for sailing. cup event in Oberhof, Germany, on Reading ECHL 23 1325 8 2.94 0.899 Stefan Romaniw, chairman of the January 11. Russia took first place with a Peoria ECHL 4 244 3 2.46 .911 Australian Federation of Ukrainian time of 1 hour, 32 minutes, 38.9 seconds. Arkansas ECHL 5 286 1 3.35 0.887 Organizations, said, “The AFUO and the The team from Belarus finished 11 sec- Eddy Skazyk Corpus Christi CL 20 1127 8 3.94 0.885 Ukrainian community in Australia salute onds behind the Russians while the Victor Kovalenko for his achievements French team finished 32.1 seconds League Abbreviations: and on becoming an Australian citizen.” behind the Russian foursome. The AHL – American Hockey League “Ukraine will benefit through ... the Ukrainian quad, composed of Bilanenko, ECHL – East Coast Hockey League opportunities afforded to Kovalenko to Andrii Deryzemlia, Lysenko and WCL – West Coast League speak about his heritage. This is a great Viacheslav Derkach, finished 2 minutes, CL – Central League win-win situation for all concerned,” Mr. 41.4 seconds behind the Russian team. UL – United League Romaniw added. CCrroossss--ccoouunnttrryy SSkkii ii nngg GGyymmnnaassttii ccss Ukraine’s Valentyna Shevchenko took Ukraine’s Iryna Yarotskaya took the fourth-place in the women’s 10-kilometer bronze medal in the women’s balance freestyle event at a world cup meet in beam event at the 36th Gymnastics Davos, Switzerland, on December 7, World Championships in Debrecen, 2002, missing a bronze medal by one Hungary, on November 26, 2002. She second. While Shevchenko finished in 27 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2003 No. 4

ring William Baldwin, Lee Majors and Around town New York Times (“Stuffed Everything,” Brigitte Bako, focuses on an undercover January 5). Dumplings, pirogi [sic] and Dateline... Andrij Cybyk, assistant director of the (Continued from page 11) cop (Baldwin) who must go outside the law blintzes are among the specialties of this Syzokryli Ukrainian Dancers, has returned to bring his wife’s killer to justice. Ukrainian cafe in the East Village. waltz, is reminiscent of “Carol of the Bells.” from a tour of China with the AllNations Another Maslak production is “Kiss Eberhard Mueller, the chef of Bayard’s With a “Ukrainianism” CD in your play- Company – just in time for Syzokryli’s Toledo Goodbye,” a black comedy that Restaurant at One Hanover Square, told er, you can enjoy the distinctive stylings of eagerly awaited appearance at Town Hall satirically attempts to examine the meaning New York Post food writer Pia Cotton John Stetch. When you remove the disc on January 31. The ensemble will present a of family. Starring Christopher Walken, Nordlinger that he and his wife would be from its case, you’ll find a whimsical touch program of dances choreographed by direc- on the inside; six (incomplete) borsch Michael Rapaport, Robert Forster, spending Christmas Eve with his wife’s tor Roma Pryma Bohachevsky and Mr. family. “They’re Ukrainian, and they have recipes are displayed there, from standard Christine Taylor and Nancy Allen, the Cybyk. Andriy Milavsky’s vibrant Cheres borsch to spring beet borsch, all from his movie centers on a young Ohio investment a very specific way of celebrating, which ensemble is appearing on the same bill. includes unseasoned food.” (Unseasoned grandmother’s cookbook. advisor who discovers that he is really the Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall The disc, released by Justin Time heir to a Mafia don. food?) recently hosted two concerts featuring A group show in Chelsea, scheduled to Records, is available at Tower and other “Red Sun Rising,” a martial arts police Ukrainian performers. Pianist Volodymyr music stores; if not in stock, it can be action film starring Don “The Dragon” run through January 31, exhibits the work Vynnytsky and violinist Yuri Kharenko of seven contemporary artists from Ukraine ordered via catalogue number JUST 187-2. Wilson, Terry Farrell and Michael Ironside, appeared as guest artists with the Forte FFoouunndd –– aa ffii ll mmmmaakkeerr and two emerging American artists. tells the story of a Japanese cop teaming String Quartet in its January 17 concert at with a female Los Angeles counterpart to Included are oil and gouache paintings, Weill Hall, in a program including works etchings and sculpture by these Ukrainian “Dateline New York’s” radar is constant- stop a Japanese mobster from fomenting by Shostakovich, Chausson and Forte artists: Serhij Bratkovsky, Oleh ly on the alert seeking and researching gang war. In its capsule review of the member Rumiana Petrov. In the “Dreams Denysenko, Natalia Pukchinda, Volodymyr Ukrainians in New York who are actively movie, TV Guide said that Mr. Wilson Come True” concert of January 20, flutist Kostyrka, Jurij Lesiuk, Roman Demko and engaged in the arts and entertainment “fights skillfully and vigorously and is pho- Borys Bakum of Wilberham, Mass., played Bohdan Hirny. Photographs by Bohdan fields, or whose work appears on TV and tographed well, benefitting from dramatic a solo piece in this modern version of the Hoshovsky of New York and sculpture by a movie screens. lighting.” Miss Terry was described as a “Magnificat.” Mr. Bakum’s wife, Devon, a non-Ukrainian artist, Steven Weisenreider Once in a while, a live subject comes very attractive, no-nonsense detective with soprano, also took part in the production. of Brookyn, are also in the exhibit at into view without any effort, and that’s how a sense of humor and a warm, feminine Actor Kirk Douglas, 86, whose Jewish International Curatorial Space, 504 W. “Dateline” discovered producer/filmmaker side, while rising martial arts star James antecedents came from Ukraine, his son, 22nd St. (between 10th and 11th Avenues). Paul Maslak of Berkeley, Cali. Mr. Maslak Lew was an imposing and formidable vil- actor Michael Douglas, 58, and grandson An exhibit of work by Winnipeg-born, contacted The Ukrainian Weekly with a lain with “maenacing but graceful moves.” Cameron, 23, are appearing together in a now California-based, artist Jan Pylypchuk, question, the question was forwarded to me Though no longer playing at movie film for the first time. The movie “A Few which opened last Thursday at the (and answered), and “Dateline” hooked the houses, the films can be found at Good Years” (its working title) is scheduled Friedrich Petzel Gallery, 535 W. 22nd St., filmmaker for some questions of its own. Blockbuster stores in New York and for release later this year. The Ukrainian will run through March 1. Mr. Pylypchuk’s Mr. Maslak’s company has produced Hollywood Video stores. Institute of America’s elegant building at imaginative collages, consisting primarily several films, the latest being “The Right Mr. Maslak says he and his partners are Fifth Avenue and 79th Street served as the of scrap plywood, wallpaper remnants and waiting to hear from a recent Oscar nomi- Temptation,” starring Kiefer Sutherland, locale for some scenes. various fabrics, to which he glues sand, nee who’s been invited to star in a small Rebecca DeMornay and Dana Delany. A Olympic figure skating champion glitter and matchsticks, are also on view in film about a rock band. Once that film is suspense thriller in which a wife (Delany) Oksana Baiul played a cameo role in a a group show at the Royal Art Lodge, 35 completed, the company will try to make hires a private detective (DeMornay) to recent segment of the HBO series “Arlis.” Wooster Street (between Broome and the leap from producing HBO cable premi- investigate her husband’s fidelity, the The Veselka Restaurant, at 144 Second Grand), through March 8. movie explores the line between personal um movies to studio-distributed theatrical Ave. (at Ninth Street), was one of seven and professional ethics. features, a process that may take a couple New York restaurants chosen for a listing Helen Smindak’s e-mail adress is “Primary Suspect,” a police thriller star- of years to achieve and will slow output. of Eastern European restauants by The [email protected]. No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2003 19

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Minneapolis parish proud of its school by Dr. Michael J. Kozak Potichko, Taras Tataryn, Bohdan Billy, Andrea Drush, Daniel Grove, Andrew MINNEAPOLIS – The local Hodynsky, Alexander Husak, Petro Ukrainian Catholic parish can be proud Kolomeychuk, Kristina Kramarczuk and of its Saturday School of Ukrainian Tanya Nalavana. The stars were: Studies. Elizabeth Drush, Sophia Hutsal, Aria Beside classroom studies, each year Kramarczuk, Taras Pawlyk, Mary Shaw, the students prepare a St. Nicholas pro- Hadley Sloccum and Alexa Tataryn. The gram as well as a program honoring Taras devils were portrayed by Dmytro Hutsal Shevchenko. The St. Nicholas program and Mykhailo Kolomeychuk. was presented on Sunday, December 15, Piano accompaniment was provided 2002, after a tasty brunch preapred by the by Bohdan Billy and Andrew Hodynsky. school’s Parents Committee. Much variety was added to the program The program was directed by teachers by the singing of traditional Ukrainian Lesia Hucal and Ola Navalana, both carols by the students and their mothers. recent arrivals from Ukraine. Music and Thanks were expressed to the program choreography was prepared by Yaroslav directors and choirmaster, and it was Billy, while the singing parts of the pro- noted that the children’s performance and gram were directed by Jurij Ivan, also a singing were exceptionally good. Special recent immigrant from Ukraine. thanks go to soloists Tanya Navalana, 12, Portions of the program were adapted and Mary Shaw, 5. A special thank-you is from the play “Concert of Angels” writ- also due to the Parents Committee; Katia ten by Katherine Hutsal. The first scene Drush, who supervises the school, and shows the heaven and the stars where the teachers and the performers who angels greet St. Nicholas, and offer him organized and staged this traditional help on his good will mission. The sec- Christmas program. Special mention ond scene shows two “chortyky” (devils) should be given to those parishioners of who are trying to divert St. Nicholas St. Constantine’s parish who attended the from that mission, but fail in their program and thus showed their support attempt. The third scene shows the happi- for the school, its students and their ness of all those who prepared gifts and teachers. those who expected to receive them. The Despite the fact that lately there are main point of the play: Goodness triumps fewer students than in the past, gratitude over evil. and recognition is due to the parents and The role of St. Nicholas was played by teachers who care about the continuation George Lucyk. The angels were: Kristina of Ukrainian studies.

ing the 19th Winter Olympic Games in Sportsline Salt Lake City, a temporary system of (Continued from page 17) judging is being used until a cumulative place with a time of 27.87. Russia’s version is worked out. Out of a 10-judge Roman Sloudnov took third place with a panel, only seven marks count but no time of 27.92. one knows which judges’ scores are Lysohor’s third gold medal came in used. the 100-meter individual medley. His The cumulative system, where the time of 54.68 narrowly beat-out individual elements such as jumps and America’s Michael Phelps, who finished spins will be marked, is being developed and tested this season. It is expected to second with a time of 54.99. Poland’s be in place before the 2006 Olympic Bartosz Kizierowski took the third place Games. spot with a time of 55.59. FFii gguurree sskkaattii nngg In the women’s singles competition, Olena Liashenko finished in fourth place behind gold medalist Sasha Cohen, an Ukraine’s Halyna Maniachenko took American with a Ukrainian background, fifth place at the NHK Trophy in Kyoto, and Japan’s Yoshie Onda, who took the Japan, on November 30, 2002, in the silver medal. Finland’s Alisa Drei took women’s figure skating event. Yoshie the bronze medal. Onda became the first Japanese skater to win the NHK Trophy in 11 years by defeating the world champion, Irina Slutskaya of Russia, who took the silver medal. Olena Hrushyna and Ruslan Honcharov of Ukraine won the ice dance competition at the Lalique Trophy figure skating meet held in Paris on November 14-16, 2002. The win, their third this season, qualifies the pair for the Grand Prix final in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the beginning of March. Isabel Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder of France took sec- ond place while Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto of the Unites States took the third spot. As a result of the judging scandal dur-

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