INSIDE:• Ukrainian Broadcasting Network goes off the air — page 3. • Stranded freighter to leave New York harbor – page 3. • “Dity Ditiam” project helps Chornobyl victims — page 10.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXVII HE KRAINIANNo. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1999 EEKLY$1.25/$2 in overrules Election Commission, HryvniaT drops in Uvalue by 20 percent W Gas shortage seen as cause of destabilization admits more candidates into presidential race

by Roman Woronowycz ures to stabilize the market for oil prod- by Roman Woronowycz as well. A day later the court accepted Press Bureau ucts. Kyiv Press Bureau the appeal of Mr. Rzhavskyi, who leads “If we get a balanced situation in the the Single Family political association. KYIV – A gasoline shortage in market, we don’t exclude that we will KYIV – Ukraine’s Supreme Court, On August 11, Slavic Party nominee Mr. Ukraine has caused the destabilization of resort to [an intervention],” said Mr. exercising its authority and independ- Bazyliuk found salvation in another the hryvnia and a 20 percent drop in its Yuschenko on August 11. ence for the first time on the national Supreme Court decision and was regis- value against the dollar in the last two A day earlier, as the currency slightly political arena, has overturned several tered as the 13th candidate for president. weeks. rebounded, the NBU chairman said he Central Election Commission decisions The Supreme Court has been basing The Ukrainian currency, which had saw no reason to expand the corridor and not to register presidential candidates. its decision in each case on CEC’s failure held at around 4 hrv to the dollar on the that the currency would naturally, move In the last week the CEC has been to uphold its own procedures. Most Ukrainian currency exchange for most of back within it. “It has been an unpleasant forced by the Supreme Court to register notably, the court has ruled that the elec- the year, began to fall about a week after brief episode,” said Mr. Yuschenko, who four candidates whom it had rejected tion commission should have determined gas prices more than quadrupled in the has been appearing on national television after deciding that each one had gathered within five days of receiving the nomi- country almost overnight beginning on regularly to contain some of the currency less than the 1 million authentic signa- nees’ signature petitions whether the can- July 16. Although prices have fallen back damage and build trust in the hryvnia, tures that are required to get on the didates could be registered. by more than a third from a high mark of which to some degree has been propelled October presidential elections ballot. According to the Supreme Court, around 6 hrv for a liter, the currency has downward by public mistrust in the Each of the four – , when the CEC determined that any of the continued to decline. inherent stability of the currency. Mykola Haber, Oleksander Rzhavskyi candidates had gathered less than the The currency plunge became critical The hryvnia’s fall has been exacerbat- and Mykola Bazyliuk – had submitted minimum of 1 million signatures on August 9 when the hryvnia surpassed ed by a run, albeit a modest one, on cur- more than the required minimum by the required by law, with at least 30,000 the upper limit of the currency corridor rency exchange points, where July 12 deadline. The CEC had ruled that from each of at least 18 oblasts, it then set by the National Bank of Ukraine at have been changing their hryvni into dol- hundreds of thousands of those signa- was compelled to give each candidate an 4.60 hrv to the dollar for 1999. The is a lars in anticipation of further devaluation. tures gathered by the four presidential additional two days to scrape up the value parameter set by the NBU to foster Mr. Yuschenko has stated that the hopefuls and two other possible candi- needed balance. confidence in the stability of the National Bank of Ukraine would black- dates were fraudulent and rejected their In each case the court ruled that Ukrainian currency against the dollar and ball banks that have been exchanging candidacies on that basis. because the CEC failed to follow the other foreign currencies. their own hryvni for dollars; he offered a On August 6, Ukraine’s Supreme procedure as outlined in Ukraine’s presi- On August 10 the foreign exchange list of 12 such banks, among them sever- Court, to which all six of the rejected dential election law, it was now required rate for the hryvnia dropped to 5.05 to al major financial players. candidates had appealed the CEC deci- to extend a spot on the October ballot to the dollar before strengthening some. Mr. Yushchenko’s restraint has been sions, ruled against the CEC in the mat- the candidate. NBU Chairman Viktor Yuschenko has supported by President Leonid Kuchma, ter of Mr. Onopenko and demanded that The CEC has defended its actions and refrained from using any of the $1.2 bil- the CEC immediately register the who on August 7 said the fall of the hryv- stated that the court is rendering deci- lion in foreign currency reserves that the Ukrainian Social-Democratic Party nia was not totally unexpected. sions without a full presentation of the bank holds because such an intervention leader. “Look at the state of the economy,” evidence. would not support the hryvnia. He said On August 9 it decided that the CEC said the president. Do you think that the CEC Chairman Mykhailo Riabets said the hryvnia will only strengthen after the had no grounds to throw aside the candi- at an August 10 press conference that he government puts together effective meas- (Continued on page 13) dacy of Mr. Haber of the Patriotic Party, does not agree with the Supreme Court rulings, but that he is following its orders and registering the candidates in a ges- ture of respect for the rule of law. Long-lost estate of J.S. Bach’s son discovered in Kyiv “The Supreme Court has not given us by Christoph Wolff research on the musical sources of the by Carl Friedrich Zelter, presented a any documentation to explain the ration- Bach family. celebrated performance of Bach’s St. ale behind its ruling,” explained Mr. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The long- Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, an asso- Matthew Passion in 1829 under the Riabets. “They have never asked for a lost estate of Johann Sebastian Bach’s ciate of the Ukrainian Research direction of Zelter’s pupil, the young key piece of evidence: the actual signa- second son, Carl Philipp Emanuel Institute at Harvard University, who Felix Mendelssohn. Its music archive ture petitions submitted by the candi- Bach, has been discovered in Kyiv, directs a project on Russian and contains well over 5,000 items (most- dates,” he added. where it is preserved as part of the Ukrainian archives, has been searching ly manuscripts) that have been pre- The Supreme Court has said that it does not need to review the signatures music archive of the Berlin Sing- in Ukraine in connection with her served in excellent conditions. Even because it is not questioning the veracity Akademie. In order to protect it from book, “Trophies of War and Empire.” before its wartime disappearance, as a of the CEC conclusions, merely the pro- being destroyed during the war, the The close collaboration between Prof. private collection without a profes- cedures that were used. Sing-Akademie’s archive, with one of Wolff and Dr. Grimsted, together with sional archivist, the materials were Mr. Riabets said the judicial decisions the world’s most important collections Prof. Hennadii Boriak, deputy director largely inaccessible to scholars, and of 18th century music, including sig- of the Institute of the Archaeography would be appealed to the Supreme Court its provisionally catalogued holdings Collegium. nificant and largely unique Bach fami- and Source Studies of the National have never been systematically stud- ly materials, had been moved from Academy of Sciences of Ukraine led to The CEC was overwhelmed in the last ied. week before the deadline for submitting Berlin to Ullersdorf Castle, Silesia, in the recent discovery. Earlier last month The estate of C.P.E. Bach (1714- 1943. The archive then disappeared Prof. Wolff, Dr. Grimsted and Barbara petitions, when it received some 15 mil- 1788), which forms a central portion of lion signatures from candidates. Mr. and with no information available Wolff, music cataloguer of Harvard’s the Sing-Akademie archive, includes about its post-war fate, it has been Houghton Library, identified and Riabets had stated at the time that the music by his father and brothers, a col- deluge of last-minute submissions was, missing for over half a century and examined the Sing-Akademie collec- lection of works by his father’s ances- long feared destroyed. tion in the Central State Archive- in his opinion, an attempt to clog the sys- tors called “Old Bach Archive” (many tem and compromise it. This writer, professor of music at Museum of Literature and Art of in copies from J. S. Bach’s hand) and, Harvard University and dean of its Ukraine in Kyiv. The candidates, while happily accept- most importantly, the bulk of his own ing the Supreme Court rulings, maintain Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The Berlin Sing-Akademie, found- compositions in autograph or author- that they have each legally gathered far has been following several leads to the ed in 1791 by Carl Friedrich Fasch (a ized copies, among them 20 Passions, more than the minimum number of sig- whereabouts of the material for more colleague and friend of the younger natures required and that the CEC deci- than two decades in connection with Bach) and directed from 1800 to 1832 (Continued on page 11) (Continued on page 13) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1999 No. 33

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Kyiv reacts cautiously to Russian reshuffle by an eight-member group of inspectors Tilting the chessboard in Moscow: (six Canadian and two American) on a spe- KYIV – The newly appointed prime cially equipped Canadian Air Forces C- Yeltsin names another prime minister minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin, remains 130H aircraft. (Eastern Economist) by Paul Goble even more predictable reaction of interna- unknown to the Western world. Ukraine, however, seems to see few benefits from Supreme Court reinstates Kyiv mayor RFE/RL Newsline tional financial markets and Western gov- the shuffle in the Russian government. ernments. KYIV – The Supreme Court of Ukraine Once again, Boris Yeltsin has tilted the “Any changes in Russia’s government Precisely because most of Mr. Yeltsin’s on August 6 reversed the decision of the political chessboard in Moscow, giving opponents are likely to view his motives as always make Ukrainian-Russian relations more difficult,” Vice Prime Minister Vyshhorod District Court canceling himself new room to maneuver by upset- a transparent threat to themselves and Anatolii Kinakh said. Oleksander Moroz, Oleksander Omelchenko’s election as Kyiv ting the calculations of others – at the cost because the president has used similar tac- presidential candidate, former chairman of mayor. The three-judge civil affairs col- of throwing the Russian government into tics in the past, political leaders in the Duma Parliament and the head of the Socialist legium acted after a protest by the Supreme turmoil. and in Russia’s regions are likely to redou- Party of Ukraine, said on August 9 that “the Court chairman against the lower court’s On August 8, the Russian president fired ble their efforts to gain power at his resignation of Sergei Stepashin’s govern- ruling. The Vyshhorod court had annulled his prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, along expense. ment will not influence the situation in the election results after a complaint was with the entire government, and replaced The electoral coalitions that have Russia to any serious extent.” Mr. Stepashin filed by two losing candidates, Mykola him with Vladimir Putin, until now head of emerged in the last few weeks are likely to Hrabar and Hryhorii Surkis. The Supreme Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) was dismissed because he began to “make consolidate rather than crack as a result of his own political game” commented Mr. Court stated that the chairman’s protest and a longtime KGB agent. Mr. Stepashin’s departure and Mr. Putin’s “should be accepted in full.” The election In making this change, Mr. Yeltsin said Moroz. Vice Prime Minister Serhii appointment. Those involved in such coali- Tyhypko said the dismissal is an internal was the first public vote for a Kyiv mayor he wants to put Mr. Putin in a position to tions will doubtless conclude that President affair, “which may influence Russian- since Ukraine became independent in 1991. succeed him as president, thus highlighting Yeltsin’s move is directed not only against Ukrainian cooperation.” He added that (Associated Press) Mr. Yeltsin’s growing unhappiness with the their current clout but also their future “changes in Russian officials often influ- Kyiv struggles to avoid loan default political coalitions now being formed power in the Russian state. ence the work of the Ukrainian-Russian against him and hinting at his approach in That may make the confirmation of Mr. commission for economic cooperation, KYIV – The Finance Ministry on August the upcoming parliamentary and presiden- Putin more difficult rather than less. It may break agreements that were reached and 5 said some 50 percent of its Eurobonds tial elections. Further, this latest move – also lead to new demands for President personal contacts, and it’s very hard to start sold through Merrill Lynch have been con- particularly in the context of the renewed Yeltsin’s impeachment and possibly trigger everything from scratch.” (Eastern verted into new Eurobonds maturing in fighting in the North Caucasus – raises the other kinds of political maneuvers against Economist) February 2001. Ukraine sold some $400 possibility that President Yeltsin will seek to an action that many political figures, not to million in T-bills through Merrill Lynch in postpone those votes by declaring a state of mention the Russian public, are likely to Peaceshield ‘99 under way in Lviv Oblast 1997 and was to have redeemed them last emergency or will try to gain more influ- view as the latest indication of Mr. Yeltsin’s September. It needs around $3.5 billion to YAVORIV, Ukraine – Military delega- ence over the electoral process by putting arbitrariness and unfitness for office. Thus, service debts by the end of 2000, but the tions from around the world converged on himself in a position to do precisely that. once again, it is likely to be proven that the National Bank of Ukraine has only $1.3 bil- the Ukrainian military training grounds of hottest month politically in the Russian cap- lion and is dependent on the IMF’s $2.6 bil- But any short-term gains he may have Yavoriv, Lviv Oblast, for Peaceshield ‘99. ital is August. lion loan program. A government delega- made in the overheated politics of Moscow The international military computer-simu- Moreover, this pattern of domestic tion was to visit the International Monetary may be swamped both by the probable lated training officially got under way on unhappiness with Mr. Yeltsin’s move may Fund’s headquarters in Washington to seek reaction of his political opponents and the August 5. Participants include defense be compounded by the reaction of the West. new loans. “We have agreed on some ques- ministers from Ukraine, Georgia, Paul Goble is the publisher of RFE/RL Both financial markets and international tions but others demand an elaboration of Azerbaijan and Moldova, representatives Newsline. positions and wordings,” the Associated (Continued on page 16) from military institutions in Bulgaria, Press quoted Vice Prime Minister Serhii Poland, Romania, the United States, Tyhypko as saying. Ukraine is counting on Turkey and France, and the military receiving some $180 million in IMF credits attachés of Belarus, Vietnam, Greece, this month. (RFE/RL Newsline) India, China, Poland, Romania, Slovak Ukraine is succeeding in spheres Republic, the United States, Finland, Military parade slated for August 24 Switzerland, Japan, the United Kingdom of foreign policy, energy independence and Belgium. A total of 1,238 military offi- KYIV – A military parade marking the by R.L. Chomiak are dismayed by Ukraine’s refusal to return cials are participating, including 501 from eighth anniversary of Ukraine’s independ- ence will be held in Kyiv on August 24 to the fold. Ukraine and 368 from the U.S. (Eastern starting at 10 a.m. on Independence Square. Ukraine must be doing something right Shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Economist) According to the Kyiv City Administration, in the spheres of energy independence and Union, world oil producers began salivating Canadian flight inspection team visits 122 units will participate, including 36 air- foreign policy. One indication of this is the over access to the Caspian Sea reserves, July 17 article in the Kyiv newspaper craft and 14 parade battalions from the now controlled not just by the Soviet Union KYIV – A Canadian verification group Zerkalo Nedeli, an article that was summa- armed forces, National Guard, State Border and Iran, but by the “upstarts” like was in Ukraine on August 8-13 under the rized by Jan Maksymiuk of RFE/RL Guard and Internal Affairs Ministry forces. Kazakstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and auspices of the Open Skies Agreement. This Newsline (The Weekly, August 1). The Kyiv City Administration on August 3 Georgia. is the first visit of Canadian inspectors to agreed to allocate 70,000 hrv to the 72nd Generally, Zerkalo Nedeli is a serious Last December in Washington, Ukraine and is a reciprocal visit, as newspaper, but as does most of the newly Mechanized Division for helping organize Cambridge Energy Research Associates Ukrainian representatives have already vis- independent media in Ukraine, at times it the parade and feed the soldiers. The parade held a second annual international confer- ited Canada. The main aim of the inspection fumbles. The article by Sergei is being funded by the state budget. ence devoted to finding solutions for team is to make a training observation flight Goncharenko, “Ukrainian Diplomacy (Eastern Economist) Caspian pipeline construction. Ukraine was over Ukrainian territory. The flight was Myths,” resembles the temper tantrum of a represented by Valerii Shuliko, project coor- planned for August 11 and was to be made (Continued on page 4) 2-year-old rather than a serious analysis of dinator of the Eurasian Oil Transportation the political situation – with particular refer- Corridor and by Ambassador Anton ence to Ukraine’s energy supply. One of my Buteyko. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson journalistic sources in Ukraine claims the FOUNDED 1933 and Ambassador Richard Morningstar author hid behind the pseudonym of Sergei spoke from the U.S. government point of Goncharenko – hiding behind pseudonyms HE KRAINIAN EEKLY TAn English-languageU newspaperW published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., is a device from the Soviet days used for view. There also were executives of every major American oil company and partners a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. vitriolic articles that unfortunately still has Yearly subscription rate: $50; for UNA members — $40. currency in independent Ukraine – and that of Washington law firms. he must be very close to the editor if she The simplest way to transport new oil Periodicals postage paid at Parsippany, NJ 07054 and additional mailing offices. (ISSN — 0273-9348) decided to publish the piece that is clearly from the Caspian Sea would be via Iran, below the newspaper’s usual standards. with its big infrastructure built to a large degree with American know-how. Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language weekly newspaper The author’s aim was to fire a torpedo at (annual subscription fee: $50; $40 for UNA members). Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister Borys However, when it comes to oil, politics Tarasyuk for his unabashed pro-Western plays a bigger role than geography or cost The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: policy moves, and to undermine Ukraine’s effectiveness. At this time, for the U.S., Iran Tel: (973) 292-9800; Fax: (973) 644-9510 Tel: (973) 292-9800; Fax: (973) 292-0900 is not an option. deliberate (if slow) moves to seek sources Postmaster, send address Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz of energy other than those flowing from The U.S., however, has an important strategic ally in Turkey, and the U.S. was changes to: Editors: Roman Woronowycz (Kyiv) Russia. The Ukrainian Weekly Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj () I would describe it as a view of pushing for construction of a long and expensive pipeline to Ceyhan, Turkey, and 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280 Irene Jarosewich Ukraine’s “Russia lobby” – the people who Parsippany, NJ 07054 Ika Koznarska Casanova from there move on to the world markets. The Ceyhan pipeline would branch off from The Ukrainian Weekly Archive: www.ukrweekly.com R.L. Chomiak is a Washington jour- an existing one, running from Baku, nalist who for the past five years has Azerbaijan, to Supsa, a Black Sea port of The Ukrainian Weekly, August 15, 1999, No. 33, Vol. LXVII divided his time between the United Copyright © 1999 The Ukrainian Weekly States and Ukraine. (Continued on page 18) No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1999 3 Ukrainian Broadcasting Network Stranded freighter to leave port goes off the air, citing financial crisis Ukrainian veterans provide assistance to crew

by Irene Jarosewich all the programming, as well as for the PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Ukrainian for 30 days. satellite transmissions from Ukraine, which freighter Znamia Oktiabria (Banner of The plight of these sailors aboard the F ORT LEE, N.J. – The last day of broad- over the years totaled several million dol- October) that has been waiting for new Banner of October had not gone unnoticed casts for the Ukrainian Broadcasting lars. shipping orders since April finally has been by the Ukrainian American community as Network’s satellite radio and television pro- Mr. Dlaboha cited some of the causes of scheduled to take on cargo and head to the well as the Westchester County (N.Y.) com- gramming from Ukraine and its five-day-a- UBN’s demise, among them his observation Caribbean. munity. The Ukrainian American Veterans, week morning AM radio program, “Ranok that Ukrainians in the United States do not The ship was to pick up 260 used cars the Seaman’s Church Institute and the U.S. z Namy,” which serves the New York, New exist as a marketing or commerical entity. and trucks on Thursday, August 12, at the Coast Guard took on responsibility. Jersey and Connecticut area, was August 6. There is no large, centralized databank of Howland Hook Container Terminal on The newly formed Post 301 of the Due to a severe financial crisis at names, addresses and phone numbers of Staten Island and to transport them to the Ukrainian American Veterans in Yonkers, SkyView World Media (formerly Ethnic Ukrainian Americans that vendors, advertis- Dominican Republic and Haiti. N.Y., has been a particularly strong support- American Broadcasting Company), the ers and others can tap into, no statistics For four months the ship of Ukrainian er of the assistance mission. Taras Szczur, owner of Ukrainian Broadcasting Network about Ukrainians or sailors with a crew of 23 men and three post commander, took charge of collecting (UBN), the company is undergoing a re- speakers. Therefore, he says, as far as busi- women had been stranded in New York boxes of bottled water, meat, rice, water- structuring that includes the elimination of ness is concerned, “nobody believes we Harbor without replenished food supplies, melons, cans of tomato sauce, pasta, crates its weakest networks, among them UBN. exist,” despite demographic information paychecks or further sailing orders. The of carrots and liquor which were shipped to Also eliminated were the Italian and that there are more than a million 3,900-ton vessel arrived on April 13 after its the sailors on August 3. The 1,000 pounds Filipino networks. Among those remaining Ukrainians in the United States. last delivery of cars and trucks – a routine of donated food and supplies were enough are the Russian, subcontinent Indian, Greek, Another problem is the differences with- trip it had been making every two weeks for to feed the sailors for several days. Vietnamese, Chinese, and Arabic networks. in the market - Ukrainian language speakers two years, company officials said. But the According to The Journal News, after According to Ihor Dlaboha, UBN’s gen- from previous immigrations differ greatly crew was halted because of the shipping Mr. Szczur, Mr. Skirka (vice-commander) eral manager, revenue from subscriptions, from the those in the past 20 years. Also, he company’s bureaucratic procedures and and 13-year-old Roman Mikula generously advertising and equipment sales to the only noted, many people cited disillusionment some canceled shipments. delivered these provisions, Capt. Golub ran 24-hour-a-day Ukrainian language satellite with Ukraine as a reason to not subscribe. The ship’s master, Capt. Aleksandr to the side of the ship and yelled graciously, network fell short of the projected revenue Also, for many older Ukrainian Americans, Golub, 62, had repeatedly requested suffi- “All happy. So, so happy!” required to justify keeping the network the technical aspect (UBN required installa- cient supplies and was repeatedly denied aid This dedicated post of veterans had car- going. The network provided newscasts, tion of a small satellite dish to receive the from the shipowner’s American representa- ried out a similar mission for another Azov films, as well as broadcasts of historical, transmissions) was daunting. political and cultural programs from tive, Capt. Vladimir Shamshin. Speaking ship, the Mikhail Senko on April 16 of this The Greek community, noted Mr. through the New York Times, Capt. Golub year. Ukraine on radio and television. Dlaboha, which joined SkyView later than reiterated his plea for supplies to the ship’s On August 2 yet another Azov ship, the UBN made its own direct contracts with the Ukrainian service, had three times as owners, the Azov Shipping Co., based in Viktor Talilikhin, arrived in the harbor and programming suppliers in Ukraine, having many subscribers as UBN, despite competi- Mariupol, Ukraine. Only one shipment, a is being closely watched by the Coast signed its first memorandum of agreement tion from other Greek networks; the 22-day supply of food, was received on July Guard, the Seaman’s Church Institute and in 1996 with then-Minister of Information Russian network prides itself on having 1, which the crew managed to stretch out Ukraine’s Consulate General. Zinovii Kulyk, head of the umbrella broad- more than 60,000 satellite and cable sub- cast media agency Ukrainian State scribers. (RTN, the oldest Russian-language Television and Radio Company cable network in the United States, was (Derzhteleradio). recently bought by SkyView.) The UBN then signed contracts with Vietnamese network, said Mr. Dlaboha, was BUSINESS IN BRIEF Ukraine’s radio and television companies, able to sign up more people in two months as well as Konsern RRT, the state technical than UBN did in one year. facility that handled the satellite transmis- According to Mr. Dlaboha, at present AmCham members confer with Tyhypko sion from Ukraine to the United States. SkyView Media has no plans to again con- According to Mr. Dlaboha, UBN paid for sider Ukrainian programming. KYIV – U.S. Chamber of Commerce (known as AmCham) members expressed understanding of Ukraine’s difficult economic situation and extended their positive appraisal of efforts taken by the president, Cabinet of Ministers and the National Bank of Ukraine to stabilize current economic disequilibrium. They also voiced readiness to U.S. House of Representatives further cooperate with Ukraine, especially in investment projects during a July 28 meeting with Serhii Tyhypko, vice prime minister for the economy. In describing passes foreign aid legislation Ukraine’s current situation, Mr. Tyhypko focused on indicators of socio-economic development. In the course of discussion, participants drew the minister’s attention to by Michael Sawkiw Jr. committee states: “During the past two the instability of Ukraine’s tax legislation which is a serious obstacle to investing in the economy. Mr. Tyhypko, in turn, informed the gathering that the Ukrainian National Information Service years, as an incentive for Ukraine to support had passed a law on product-sharing agreements,” changes to the laws on value-added necessary reform efforts and end harass- and income taxes, and a draft tax code. Company officials present said these measures WASHINGTON – After four days of ment of American investors, the Foreign were indeed devised to straighten out certain nuances that raise fears among foreign debate and introduction of amendments on assistance Appropriations Act included lan- investors. (Eastern Economist) the House floor, the U.S. House of guage that withheld one-half of Ukraine’s Representatives passed the foreign aid bill Assistance.” The committee recommends on August 3. In an overwhelming show of Dutch ambassador eyes Sumy investment that linking U.S. assistance to specific support for U.S. programs overseas, the investor’s problems will not change the sit- SUMY – Dutch Ambassador to Ukraine Onno Hatting van’t Sant visited Sumy Oblast members of Congress voted 385-35 for the uation in Ukraine as much as continuing on July 29-31 at the invitation of Sumy Oblast State Administrator Volodymyr Scherban. $12.6 billion foreign aid bill. support for humanitarian help, “partnerships “I’m impressed by the quantity of businessmen and investment projects I saw on the first The president has threatened to override and others forms of cooperation with non- day of my visit to Sumy,” said the ambassador. He held negotiations with three oblast state the foreign aid bill due to its low levels of governmental organizations in Ukraine ... administration vice-chairs, the mayor of Shostka, and officials from several large chemi- funding as compared to the proposal he had cal, agricultural and machine-building enterprises. Mr. Sant promised to help to carry out a submitted. and technical assistance to reform-minded local and regional governments.” tender among Dutch companies to invest in some local projects. Holland will offer its The House bill including of $725 mil- technologies in the pork, forage and dairy industries. (Eastern Economist) lion for the FREEDOM Support Act Emphasis in the House bill was also (FSA) for the Independent States (IS) of placed on private-sector development in Business booming in metals for Donetsk the former Soviet Union. This funding Ukraine. “Universal access to information,” level falls far short of the president’s states the House bill, “gives small-scale pro- DONETSK – Donetsk Oblast saw 245 objects privatized in the first half of 1999, the request of $1.032 billion, of which a siz- ducers information about market conditions target being 400, announced Volodymyr Altynnyk, head of the Donetsk regional branch able portion ($250 million) was designat- that allow their businesses or farms to suc- of the State Property Fund on July 28. According to his data, 1.414 million hrv of privati- ed for nuclear threat reduction (NTR) ceed.” Furthermore, direct U.S. foreign zation revenues have been transferred to the SPF and 1.495 million hrv to local budgets. programs in Russia. assistance to Ukraine’s central government In that period, investments in the region totaled 177.5 million hrv and $20.08 million The bill notes that it “renames the head- is frowned upon by the House appropria- (U.S.), which exceeds the amount envisaged in stocks sale contracts. The largest invest- ing ‘Assistance to the Independent States of tions committee and thus requires the coor- ment, a total of US $58,08 million (U.S.), came from the Metals Russia company to the the Former Soviet Union,’ dropping the dinator of U.S. foreign assistance to the NIS Donetsk Metals Works. Stock sales in the first half of 1999 totaled 1.95 million hrv, 277 word ‘new’ after nine years.” Like most to consult with the committee before mak- contracts were signed and 3.985 million hrv were received in rentals. (Eastern House bills, country-specific earmarks are ing any such decisions. Instead, the commit- Economist) deleted from the final version of the pro- tee proposes that “community-based initia- posed law. tives help create jobs and increase produc- Ukraine’s grain crop predicted to grow The House bill also limits U.S. foreign tion as they expose communities to demo- KYIV – Government agricultural specialists said on July 27 that Ukraine’s farmers had assistance to any one country in the IS/FSU cratic processes.” harvested 13.3 million tons of grain – 750,000 tons more than in 1998. According to gov- to no more than 25 percent of the entire Since the House and Senate versions of ernment experts, the early grain crop yield in 1999 will be much lower than in 1998, at funding level for the FSA account, or the foreign aid bills differ in their amounts 22.1 metric centners per hectare. In 1998 the yield was 23.9 metric centners per hectare. approximately $180 million. and programs, a conference committee will The government is confident, however, that the yield decrease will not affect the total crop Consideration of certification language be called in September (following the since grain areas in 1999 are larger. (Eastern Economist) for Ukraine was removed from the bill. In August congressional recess) to finalize a the bill’s report language, the appropriations compromise bill. (Continued on page 19) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1999 No. 33 OBITUARY: , Hollywood film director Newsbriefs (Continued from page 2) ENCINO, Calif. – Edward Dmytryk, a Citing his 1978 autobiography, “It’s a the Hollywood blacklisting of the 1950s versatile film director who worked with Hell of a Life, but Not a Bad Living,” at which Mr. Dmytryk was publicly Privatization of energy sector ordered some of Hollywood’s biggest stars to cre- The New York Times noted that in look- denounced by three of the original ate an array of memorable movies, and ing for a way to break the blacklist, Mr. “Hollywood 10.” KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma on whose film legacy was overshadowed by Dmytryk concluded: “I had to purge Mr. Dmytryk’s early films included August 3 signed a decree ordering the his decision to ultimately cooperate with myself: Hollywood’s right wing had to “Hitler’s Children,” “Behind the Rising sale of 26-35 percent of shares in four the House Un-American Activities have its pound of flesh. They were riding Sun,” anti-Fascist melodramas; the energy giants that control thermal power plants and are majority-owned by the Committee (HUAC) investigation into high now, and there was no way they thrillers “Murder, My Sweet?” (1944) and state, the Associated Press reported. At Communist infiltration of the film indus- were going to let anyone off the hook. It “Cornered” (1945); “” the same time, Mr. Kuchma ordered the try in the 1940s, died at his home on July was an eye-for-eye attitude, but who with John Wayne, and “Till the End of sale of majority stakes in seven regional 1 at the age of 90. could blame them?” Time,” a drama of returning soldiers. electricity distributors and of 26-45 per- As one of the “Hollywood 10,” a On the other hand, the Associated In the period of the Red Scare, he had cent of shares in another 12 such compa- group of screenwriters, directors and pro- Press reported that Mr. Dmytryk been nominated for an Academy Award nies. This attempt to privatize Ukraine’s ducers who were cited for contempt of acknowledged a Communist affiliation as best director for “Crossfire,” a power- energy sector comes three months after Congress by the HUAC for refusing to and “named names” only after he fin- ful film about anti-Semitism starring the Procurator General’s Office moved to acknowledge a Communist affiliation – ished his jail term, quoting him as having Robery Ryan, Robert Mitchum and revoke privately owned stakes in seven he served a four-and-a-half-month sen- remarked in 1988 that he hadn’t done so Robert Young. energy-distribution companies on tence at a Federal prison camp in West before “because they would call me a After recanting, he returned to a suc- charges of financial machinations. Virginia. coward; they’d say I was doing it simply cessful career directing “The Caine (RFE/RL Newsline) “When I die, I know the obits will first to stay out of jail. Mutiny” with in 1954. read – ‘One of ‘Hollywood’s Unfriendly “I had long been convinced that the In the mid-1950s and ’60s he directed President signs law raising pension 10’, not – director of ‘The Caine fight of the Hollywood 10 was political, major films including “The Broken Mutiny,’ ‘The Young Lions,’ ‘Raintree that the battle for freedom of thought, in Lance” with Spencer Tracy; Graham KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma has Country’ and other films,’” he was quot- which I believed completely, had been Greene’s “The End of the Affair” with signed a law raising the minimum ed by The New York Times as having twisted into a conspiracy of silence. I Deborah Kerr; “The Left Hand of God” monthly pension from 16.6 hrv ($4.15) said a decade ago. was being forced to sacrifice my family with Bogart and ; “Soldier to 24.9 hrv, the Associated Press reported Mr. Dmytryk was a rising young and my career in defense of the of Fortune” with Clark Gable; ”Raintree on August 3. The Parliament adopted the director at RKO Pictures when he joined Communist Party, from which I had long County” with Elizabeth Taylor and law in mid-July after failing to overrule the Communist Party of the United States been separated and which I had grown to Montgomery Clift; and “The Young Mr. Kuchma’s veto on a previous bill (CPUS) in 1944, using the name Michael dislike and distrust. Lions” with Marlon Brando, Mr. Clift that would have raised the minimum Edward. When the party changed its “My decision was made easier,” he and Dean Martin. monthly pension to 55 hrv. Under the name to the Communist Political continued, because “my experience as an He continued to make films with big signed law, those pensioners receiving Association he joined again – this time actual party member had been rather stars until his career waned in the ‘70s. less than 46 hrv a month will be paid a under his own name. meager, and I couldn’t name anybody These movies included “Warlock” with special living allowance of up to 21.1 Mr. Dmytryk was subpoenaed by the who hadn’t already been identified.” Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda; “A hrv. (RFE/RL Newsline) HUAC in 1947. Believing that the com- Dr. Myron Kuropas in a column titled Walk on the Wild Side” with Jane Fonda, Kuchma OKs peacekeeping contingent mittee was unconstitutional, he refused to “Hollywood Reds” (The Ukrainian Barbara Stanwyck and Laurence Harvey; tell the committee whether he was a Weekly, April 18), refers to the book “The Carpetbaggers” with George KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma Communist during his initial HUAC tes- “Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Peppard and Alan Ladd; “Where Love signed a law on sending 800 Ukrainian timony. Hollywood Ten,” where Mr. Dmytyrk Has Gone” with Bette Davis and Susan peacekeepers to Kosovo, the Associated After his release from prison he was describes how he came to his agonizing Hayward; and “Bluebeard” with Richard Press reported. Ukrainian officials said blacklisted by the major studios and decision. “You know they talk democra- Burton. the contingent will include a 100-bed unable to find work. cy but prepare the way for the most inhu- Edward Dmytryk was born on military hospital with 246 personnel, a In 1951 he reappeared before the man autocracy in human history ... why September 4, 1908, in Grand Forks, four-helicopter unit with 90 servicemen, panel, acknowledged that he had been a are you still protecting them? Could you British Columbia, the second of four a 108-strong logistics company with 17 Communist Party member from 1944 to still be searching for utopia? Or could sons of Ukrainian immigrant parents. His armored vehicles, and a 356-strong 1945 and confirmed other witnesses’ you still believe there is a possibility of a father, Michael, succeeded in slipping the motorized infantry battalion. The U.S. party membership. decent world through Stalinism?” family into the U.S. to avoid being has pledged financial assistance to install The motivation for his decision to Controversy continued to surround interned by the Canadian government the Ukrainian contingent in Kosovo. reappear before the panel continues to be Mr. Dmytryk for the remainder of his during World War I for having immigrat- (RFE/RL Newsline) variously ascribed by different newspa- career. In 1988 the Barcelona Film pers. Festival organized a symposium about (Continued on page 13) Inspectors arrive to certify chopper unit LVIV – A group of four inspectors from NATO headquarters arrived in Lviv on August 9 to certify the helicop- UNWLA holds “Soyuzianka Day” at Jersey shore ter unit belonging to Ukraine’s armed forces that is to make up part of Ukraine’s peacekeeping contingent in the KFOR multinational peacekeeping force in Kosovo. It is expected that the results of the inspection will be released on August 16. The unit consists of four Mi-18 transport helicopters and 90 ser- vicemen. If the inspection is successful, the helicopters will leave by August 23 for Macedonia, where they will wait for the remainder of Ukraine’s peacekeep- ers. Then, Ukraine’s peacekeepers will head for a small settlement near Skopje, where they will be based. There, side by side with U.S. servicemen under whose control they will serve, Ukraine’s per- sonnel will carry out their mission. (Eastern Economist) IMF mission mum on new tranche During “Soyuzianka Day” at the Jersey shore, seated are: (from left) Nadia Bihun, Olha Hnateyko, Joanna Ratych, Maria KYIV – An IMF mission left Ukraine Polanskyj, Iryna Kurowyckyj, Anna Krawczuk and Luba Bilowchutchuk. on August 2 without recommending the release of a new tranche of the by Anna Krawczuk among them UNWLA President Iryna atmosphere Mrs. Kurowyckyj reviewed International Monetary Fund’s $2.6 bil- Kurowyckyj, Honorary President Anna UNWLA activities, emphasizing the need lion loan program, the Associated Press SANDY HOOK, N.J. – The New Krawczuk, Honorary Member Joanna for new members and the celebration of Jersey Regional Council of the Ukrainian reported. An IMF statement summing up Ratych, New Jersey Regional Council the 75th anniversary of the UNWLA in the mission’s two weeks of work noted National Women’s League of America Honorary Presidents Nadia Bihun and the year 2000. held its annual “Soyuzianka Day” here at that so far this year tax revenues have Olha Hnateyko, (Mrs. Hnateyko is also She also reported on the UNWLA’s been lower than expected, while recent Clearwater. Not even the heat-wave pre- president of The Ukrainian Museum in sponsorship of and participation in the tax legislation changes have further vented members and guests from attend- New York current president, Scholarship Joint Conference of Ukrainian American diminished expected revenues. The IMF ing and enjoying the Jersey shore, its Chair Luba Bilowchtchuk, and Viktor Organizations in June. promised to resume discussion with fresh air, sandy beaches and saltwater and Olha Liss, who donated land in Later, an informal program was pre- Ukraine at the end of August after the bathing. Putnam Valley, N.Y. to the UNWLA for sented by the UNWLA’s New Jersey government takes steps to slash spending Regional Council President Maria a Soyuzianka Home. branches, followed by the singing of and increase budget revenues. (RFE/RL Polanskyj greeted members and guests, In an informal, friendly outdoor Ukrainian folk and other songs. Newsline) No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1999 5 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

A mid-year review of organizing achievements SEMI-ANNUAL ORGANIZING RESULTS: by Martha Lysko members each were enrolled by three UNA National Secretary secretaries; three secretaries enrolled five members each; six enrolled four each; JANUARY TO JUNE 1999 Andrij Skyba and Jacek Koczarski nine enrolled three each; and 18 secre- Number of districts 27 once again lead in the Ukrainian National taries enrolled one member each into the Number of branches 259 Association’s organizing activity. During UNA. Only 58 secretaries joined in our the first half year of 1999 the top organ- Enrolled new members 291 organizing campaign. Among them is Total insurance $2,867,023.00 izers were Mr. Koczarski, a professional Advisor Skyba, who seriously took on Average amount of insurance per person $9,852.31 organizer, and Mr. Skyba, a UNA advisor organizing work since he was elected to and secretary of UNA Branch 399. Since that position at the 1998 convention. He Assigned quota 1,250 January through the end of June Mr. not only represents the UNA in the Quota achieved 23.28% Koczarski enrolled 52 members insured Chicago District, but also increases our for $334,000. Mr.Skyba enrolled 23 organization’s membership. District Quota New Percentage Total members insured for $230,000. In third The Northern New Jersey District 4.5% members quota Achieved insurance place is the secretary of UNA Branch 496 Committee is in first place among dis- 1. Northern New Jersey 130 73 56.15% $684,562.00 in the state of Washington, Myron tricts, having gained 73 members out of 2. Buffalo 20 11 55.00% $173,000.00 Pylypiak. Though he is in third place its designated quota of 130 members. 3. Various 50 26 52.00% $239,000.00 during this report period, having enrolled The district has attained 56 percent of its 4. Chicago 95 33 34.74% $391,000.00 16 members insured for $105,000, he has annual quota. In second place is the 5. Boston 10 3 30.00% $9,000.00 often been the top organizer in past years. Buffalo District which, thanks to Mr. 6. Baltimore 20 6 30.00% $85,000.00 The UNA set its quota for 1999 at Hawryluk who enrolled eight of the 11 7. Connecticut District 35 10 28.57% $65,000.00 1,250 new members. As of the end of new members gained by that district. The 8. New York 85 22 25.88% $202,000.00 June the UNA gained 291 members, or Buffalo District has fulfilled 55 percent 9. Albany 40 10 25.00% $150,000.00 23 percent of the annual quota. Our top of its quota for 1999. The “United 10. Pittsburgh 70 16 22.86% $82,000.00 three organizers are responsible for 31 Branches” are in third place, having 11. Winnipeg 10 2 20.00% $50,000.00 percent of the quota attained thus far. The achieved 52 percent of their annual 12. Shamokin 45 8 17.78% $48,000.00 UNA has 259 branches in 27 districts. quota. Has your branch enrolled a mem- 13. Niagara 25 4 16.00% $31,000.00 Thus, it appears that only 22 percent of ber this year? 14. Central New Jersey 45 7 15.56% $53,000.00 branches have actively participated in A half year has already passed, and all organizing work. 15. Philadelphia 135 17 12.59% $214,461.00 districts must reactivate their organizing 16. Detroit 80 10 12.50% $98,000.00 Nine members each were successfully work so they are not left behind. Half- added by the Rev. Dr. Myron Stasiw, 17. Toronto 100 12 12.00% $61,000.00 year statistics on organizing activity are 18. Woonsocket 10 1 10.00% $50,000.00 UNA director for Canada; and our long- provided on the right. time professional organizer John 19. Wilkes-Barre 20 2 10.00% $8,000.00 Danilack. Branch 360 Secretary Joseph (Translated from the original Ukrainian 20. Montreal 30 3 10.00% $16,000.00 Hawryluk enrolled eight members. Six by The Ukrainian Weekly.) 21. Minneapolis 10 1 10.00% $5,000.00 22. Allentown 30 3 10.00% $28,000.00 23. Syracuse 35 3 8.57% $18,000.00 24. Cleveland 60 5 8.33% $46,000.00 Michael Turko retires as Branch 63 secretary 25. Rochester 40 3 7.50% $60,000.00 by Martha Lysko 26. Youngstown 10 0 0.00% $0.00 UNA National Secretary 27. Central 10 0 0.00% $0.00 TOTAL 1,250 291 23.28% $2,867,023.00 PARSIPPANY, N.J. – In the history of our organization we have had many good TOP UNA ORGANIZERS secretaries and outstanding organizers. These people through their hard work and Organizer Members Amount of Branch District dedication made this organization what it Organized Insurance Number is today. Ukrainian National Association 1. Jacek Koczarski 52 $334,000.00 777 Various considers Michael Turko one of the lead- 2. Andrij Skyba 23 $230,000.00 399 Chicago ing organizers of this great organization. 3. Myron Pylypiak 16 $105,000.00 496 Various Without constant influx of new members 4. John Danilack 9 $107,000.00 142 Northern N.J. our organization will not survive into the 5. Myron Stasiw 9 $45,000.00 49 Toronto 21st century. 6. Joseph Hawryluk 8 $155,000.00 360 Buffalo In his long tenure as secretary of 7. Barbara Bachynsky 6 $95,000.00 184 New York Branch 63 and chief organizer Mr. Turko 8. Nicholas Diakiwsky 6 $22,000.00 161 Pittsburgh assured the future survival of his branch 9. Vera Krywyj 6 $80,000.00 174 Detroit and our society. Over the 39 years that he 10. Genevieve Kufta 5 $203,000.00 171 Northern N.J. served as secretary he organized close to 11. Myron Luszczak 5 $40,000.00 379 Chicago 1,500 new members. His branch is one of 12. Andre Worobec 5 $90,461.00 127 Buffalo the largest branches in our community and 13. Joseph Chabon 4 $20,000.00 242 Shamokin thanks to his hard work and persistence. Michael Turko 14. Marguerite Hentosh 4 $28,000.00 305 Shamokin He considers organizing new members his 15. Walter Krywulych 4 $85,000.00 266 Albany have often been treated to the fruits of his chief responsibility. The secret to his suc- 16. Myron Kuzio 4 $19,000.00 277 Connecticut labors. In the fall his labors turn indoors cess is his persistence and close ties with 17. Michael Turko 4 $40,000.00 63 Pittsburgh and UNA once more profits from his hard his community. He also was eager to serve 18. George Yurkiw 4 $16,000.00 130 New York his members and would demand immedi- work. He floods the Home Office with ate action at the Home Office if the needs new membership applications. Mr. Turko was always a man of action. of his members were not met promptly. Ukrainian National Association Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure In February, when Mr. Turko announced He played basketball in high school. In his retirement as secretary of Branch 63 in World War II he served in the Air Force. After the war Mr. Turko worked for As we approach the year 2000, members of Ukrainian National Association can have Ford City, Pa., and passed the leadership of confidence that they will receive the same level of service as they have for the past 106 the branch to his son Michael S. Turko: I Pittsburgh Plate Glass until his retirement. years and that their records will be protected. reflected on the long career of this dedicat- He coached little league and officiated at basketball games. He continues to be a ed secretary. It is with great regret I had to The UNA has assembled a Year 2000 Project Team which is meeting regularly. It pre- accept his decision although he assured me man of action. He avidly pursues his great pared an assessment of exposure to possible Y2K problems. Our IBM main computer he was not riding off into the sunset. He interests gardening and the UNA. He now promised to continue doing what he does enjoys his family, grandchildren and his and personal computers as well as their operational software and administrative soft- best and organize new members. Even garden. ware are year 2000 compliant. They were tested internally but will be re-tested by out- though he has been ill, he still managed to Mr. Turko, the Ukrainian National side specialists and will be year 2000 ready. The UNA is making reasonable inquiry of its give us four new applications this year. As Association thanks you for 39 years of service providers and vendors whether they are taking all appropriate steps to become he often remarks, he works best in the last dedicated work. You left a wonderful lega- year 2000 ready on a timely basis. quarter of the year. cy and set a great example for all secre- Those who know Michael Turko also taries. We wish you well and much enjoy- Any questions or concerns in regard to the UNA’s preparedness, may be directed to the know that besides the UNA he has another ment in your leisure, but most of all we Home Office at (973) 292-9800. great interest. Mr. Turko is an avid garden- wish that you will continue helping UNA er. Our employees at the Home Office in achieving its organizing goals. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1999 No. 33

FOR THE RECORD THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Getting it wrong Scholars write to Kuchma It’s amazing, with all the historical resources available, that somebody could get on state of Ukrainian language something so wrong – especially a general readership publication such as U.S. News & World Report, which this week published a double issue dedicated to “The Year Below is the text of a letter dated July 7 Ukrainian language as the language of 1000: what life was like in the last millennium.” sent to President Leonid Kuchma by the the majority population of Ukraine natu- In the section called “Heroes: fearless, devout and terrifying,” the following caption American Association for Ukrainian rally fills that role. jumps out: “In converting Kievan Rus, Vladimir made Russia what it is today.” Studies and members of the Association We appeal to you to adopt government Unfortunately, there’s more. for the Study of Nationalities gathered at measures that will strengthen the status The sidebar on Grand Prince Vladimir (referred to as “king” in another sidebar) is the recent World Convention of the of the Ukrainian language in the media, titled “A trader in theology; The mercantile origins of Russian orthodoxy”; it incor- Association for the Study of Nationalities. in the government, in the publication rectly notes that Volodymyr converted his subjects “to the Eastern Orthodox branch of industry, in educational institutions, in Christianity” and in the next paragraph informs readers that his “choice was by no D ear Mr. Kuchma: scholarship and in research. means a foregone conclusion” as “there were Catholics among Vladimir’s ancestors.” Don’t the magazine’s editors know the distinction between Rus’ and Russia? The executive committee of the Dr. Michael M. Naydan, President Doesn’t anybody at the newsmagazine know history or know how to consult good American Association for Ukrainian American Association historical sources? Doesn’t anyone realize that there was no Orthodoxy or Catholicism Studies, and 30 members of the of Ukrainian Studies yet, that Volodymyr the Great adopted Christianity before the schism? Association for the Study of Nationalities A timeline in the first millennium issue gives the following information: “980 – at the fourth annual World Convention of For the undersigned: Olga Andriewsky, With the help of Vikings, Vladimir establishes the first Russian dynasty in Kiev.” And the Association for the Study of Vera Andrushkiw, Antonina Berezovenko, then there is a fold-out map that identifies what should properly be called Kyivan Rus’ Nationalities (The Harriman Institute, Michael Bociurkiw, Jose Casanova, as Kievan Russia, followed by the description, in parentheses, “Viking descendants,” Columbia University, April 15-17), Natalia Chechel, Vitali Chernetsky, Anna leading one to think there were no people on those territories before the Vikings express deep concern with the status and Chumachenko, James Clem, Robert De arrived. A fact box on “Viking Kingdoms” notes that the Vikings “went ... east to set- current rapidly deteriorating conditions Lossa, Marta Dyczok, Daria Dykyi, tle in Russia.” of the Ukrainian language in Ukraine. Liliana Hentosh, Alexander Hryb, Halyna Oh, boy. Kind of makes your head spin, doesn’t it? This, unfortunately, is what It is because we fully respect the ideal Hrybowych, Alexandra Hrycak, Jaropolk passes for history on the pages of our magazines. There’s just no way this can be con- of Ukraine as a multinational homeland Lassowsky, George Liber, Jaroslaw sidered educational, or informative, or even useful. Furthermore, such “reporting” can for a variety of national and ethnic Martyniuk, Askold Melnyczuk, Alexander only be perceived as a disservice to readers. groups that we firmly believe this goal Motyl, Larissa Onyshkevych, Yves And, there’s more. can be achieved only if there is a single Plasserand, Anna Procyk, Roman Serbyn, Next we took a look at the on-line version of the magazine, which included lists of common state language enabling all of Yuri Shevchuk, Natalia Shostak, Orest sources for more information – all of them, you guessed it, Russian: the Russian Ukraine’s citizens to communicate effec- Subtelny, Frank Sysyn, Myroslava Embassy in Washington, the Russian Studies Program at Bucknell University (which tively and to interact harmoniously. The Znayenko. is linked to the site of none other than the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church), something called Russia.Net., and others. Need we say more? We thought we’d fought this battle back in 1988, when Ukrainians around the NEWS AND VIEWS world marked the Millennium of Christianity in Kyivan Rus’, the first state of the Eastern Slavs, located on the territory of present-day Ukraine. Now, 11 years later, comes this reprehensible article in a major U.S. newsmagazine. It’s as if there were no New Jersey’s Ukrainian Festival: Ukrainian connections to Kyivan Rus’, as if there were no Ukrainian sources (what about the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute’s Millennium Project?), almost as if there were no Ukraine. In fact, the only reference to Ukraine is this snippet: “Even UCCA Coordinating Council’s view today citizens of Kiev, now the capital of independent Ukraine, make pilgrimages to a monument commemorating Vladimir’s deed.” by John Burtyk and Joseph Jacus under the new management of PNC Our advice: Save your $3.95 (that’s the newsstand price), borrow a copy of the Bank, refused us the use of the main The article published in The Ukrainian August 16-23 issue of U.S. News & World Report from someone, go to the library or stage. In 1998 they suggested that we check it out on line (www.usnews.com). Read it, get angry, and write letters to the Weekly of June 6, “Reasons for the doom participate in a multi-ethnic festival con- magazine for getting so many things so wrong and, most importantly, incorrectly of Ukrainian Festival U.S.A” written by sisting of five different nations, which attributing the history of Rus’ to Russia. The address of the editorial offices: U.S. Stan Jakubowycz created more confusion was to be restricted to the park grounds. News & World Report, 1050 Thomas Jefferson St. NW, Washington DC 20007-3837; than explanations. The writer attributed After careful consideration, the e-mail: [email protected] the demise of the festival to selfishness, Committee opted to move the festival to Maybe, just maybe, they’ll get it right in time for the next millennium. greed, stupidity and petty Ukrainian poli- Cedar Knolls Park. tics on the part of the Festival The loss of thousands of dollars in Committees and the New Jersey revenue from the Ukrainian community Coordinating Council of the Ukrainian did not go unnoticed. The Arts Center August Congress Committee of America (NJCC- quickly presented a new offer in 1999, Turning the pages back... UCCA). which is under the consideration for the By this unfounded allegation he not next year. 17 only distorted the truth, but also offended In his article, Mr. Jakubowycz falsely all the hard-working people who are still accused the NJCC-UCCA of being inter- trying to keep the Ukrainian heritage Toma Kobzey, a lifelong indefatigable defender of workers’ ested only in taking profits from the 1883 alive. Unfortunately, he failed to say that and peasants’ rights, was born in the village of Kniazhe in Sniatyn Ukrainian Festival. The UCCA never for last 13 years he did nothing to help County, in on June 30, 1895. He immigrated to Canada in received any money from the festival, 1911, settled in Winnipeg and joined the Ukrainian Social the Ukrainian Festival. He was too busy nor did it make any collections. The sole Democratic Party. The party was banned in 1918 for organizing anti-war protests, and with the international festivals. source of income came from the evening reconstituted itself as the Ukrainian Labor-Farmer Temple Association (ULFTA) that year. Luba Siryj, the festival’s chairper- dances, which the UCCA organized and Kobzey was among its leading activists, serving as secretary through the 1920s and into the son, thoroughly explained why the fes- paid for. And as rule, at every UCCA 1930s. He rose to the Politburo of the Communist Party of Canada. tival was renamed and changed its general meeting, money is appropriated As the civil war raged overseas in 1918-1921, pitting, in part, Symon Petliura’s location in an article published in The for Ukrainian youth organizations and Ukrainian National Republic forces against the Bolshevik Red Army, Kobzey made a fate- Ukrainian Weekly last year. As she other community needs. ful choice in favor of the eventual victors. In January 1922, writing in the ULFTA’s organ, noted, after 1990 attendance at all of Despite unfounded criticism and Robitnychi Visti, he attacked the nationalist camp in Canada for turning the Winnipeg- the festivals including ours, gradually unhealthy publicity, we are planning based Mohyla Institute from a facility dedicated to secular education to a “nursery for declined. It is not true that profession- another great Ukrainian Day, to be held priests” and a “boarding house for lawyers” – exploiters of the working people. alism was replaced by amateurism. on September 25 in Cedar Knolls Park. Following the establishment of a Soviet Ukrainian state and its adoption of a Over the course of 23 years, virtually There will be plenty of music, good food Ukrainization policy, he and many in the ULFTA had reason to feel triumphant. However, every professional group in the United and monetary rewards for participants in in 10 years he would begin a journey that was to describe a full circle. Kobzey was, as his- States and Canada participated in our a young talent competition. And there torian John Kolasky wrote, “a man of integrity,” and not among those blinded by “a crusad- festivals. will certainly be an evening dance at the ing ideology and a faith that gave promise of a proletarian millennium.” News of the geno- In 1996 and 1997 the Arts Center, Ramada Hotel on Route 10 in East cidal artificial famine of 1932-1933 shook his beliefs, and when Canadian activists Hanover, N.J. Myroslav Irchan and Ivan Sambei disappeared in Stalin’s gulag in 1934, he’d had enough. John Burtyk is president and Joseph Everybody is invited, including our The following year, when the ULFTA convention refused to condemn the mass deporta- Jacus is secretary of the New Jersey critics. Come and see for yourself. tions, terror and famine in Ukraine, Kobzey joined Danylo Lobay, editor of Robitnychi Coordinating Council of the UCCA. Ukrainian Day is for all of us. Visti, in a demonstrative walk-out which became known as “the Kobzey-Lobay revolt.” They broke away to form a non-Communist labor and cultural organization, the Workers’ and Farmers’ Educational Association, later merging with other like-minded organizations to establish the Alliance of Ukrainian Organizations (AUO). In Pravda a newspaper established with Lobay in 1936 (it ceased publishing in 1938), HE KRAINIAN EEKLY Kobzey attacked Stalin, his murderous famine and purges, his duplicitous nationalities poli- Visit our archive Ton theU Internet at: http://www.ukrweekly.com/W (Continued on page 9) No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1999 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Most of you are aware that Ukraine is TheThe thingsthings wewe do...do... An indispensable an extremely harsh place to live in, and many leave it for the same reason and by Orysia Paszczak Tracz source of information under similar circumstances as the previ- Dear Editor: ous waves of immigrants – out of despair and the hopelessness of their situation. I would like to commend you for your So please don’t look down your noses at excellent coverage of the “Synergy” con- recent arrivals, while you ostensibly Beyond the smoke ference in Washington. have an exclusive right to live in the So what’s the big stink about cannabis “in our family [i.e., her formerly wealthy Also noteworthy was Mykola comfort and safety of your American anyway? I have it in my home year-round, family in Ukraine] we wore only the white Ryabchuk’s recent insightful analysis of homes and love Ukraine vicariously. and bring it out for our most important linen cloth, never the greyer hempen cloth the cultural and political crossroads in Isn’t it time for the North American family occasions. To me it is special, but [which poorer families wore]. Don’t wear Ukraine: “One Nation, Two Languages, Ukrainian community to stop acting like not in the way you think. Because of the that blouse again!” Over half a century Three Cultures.” an exclusive club and try to help and permeating, lingering aroma and the later, family status still mattered to her. The Weekly is indeed an indispensa- involve the new arrivals in Ukrainian life effects of marijuana smoke from the These are my tangible connections to ble source of information on current in America? This is going to be a diffi- 1960s, many North Americans panic at hemp. The plant has been around in developments in Ukraine and the cult challenge, because the new arrivals even the mention of the hemp plant, no Europe since the beginnings of agriculture Ukrainian American community. are not organized and not used to active matter what its benefits. But while mari- back in the Neolithic (New Stone Age). involvement in social life. But a lot is at juana and hemp are the same species, As a textile plant, for Ukrainians it has Roman Wolchuk stake here – like the future of North cannabis, they are not the same. The fear been an important source of fabric, bags Jersey City, N.J. American Ukrainian community. Will it of the hallucinogenic effects of cannabis and rope. It has male and female plants, grow and become a powerful voice in the blinds both the general population and the with the male plant producing the finer United States and Ukraine, or will it just authorities to its practical and medicinal fiber for fabric, the female plant producing linger on without the influx of fresh uses, which are prevalent in other parts of seeds and the rougher fiber for cord and sacks. As a food source, hemp oil was and Let’s boycott CBS blood? the world. While marijuana and its effects remain is regarded as absolutely the best veg- because money talks Sergey Chikakov in the headlines, more and more Canadian etable oil around. Mention hemp oil to Dear Editor: Brooklyn, N.Y. fields are being sown with hemp. In mid- Ukrainian old-timers (either from the April, Consolidated Growers and Canadian prairies or from Ukraine), and I read The Ukrainian Weekly each their eyes light up and their faces beam – week and enjoy all of it. However, the Processors of Canada Ltd. announced the construction of the largest hemp process- the pampushky (filled doughnuts) fried in letter by Oles Cheren, titled “60 Minutes Congratulations ing plant in the world in Dauphin, this oil are out of this world. Back in the continues its bias,” has me upset. Mr. . The first hemp processing plant 1960s, there were news reports of Cheren is quite correct in his complaint in Canada since the 1930s, it will be an Ukrainian farmers in Alberta being up in about CBS’s bias against Ukrainians. to Helen Smindak Dear Editor: enormous economic boost to Dauphin, arms over the RCMP prohibiting them However, it will do little good because creating at least 100 permanent jobs. The from growing “konopli” [hemp] – why, the exposure is not in the “mainstream” I want to congratulate and thank two-operation (fiber and seed) plant will everyone knows that it is the best-tasting of events. Helen Smindak for her many years of be built on about 60 hectares of land and and healthiest food oil with the lowest I have been boycotting CBS since the service. Her “Dateline New York” and will process hemp grown on 20,000 cholesterol level! What do you mean peo- original broadcast, even though I also other in-depth articles have enlightened hectares in the region. The plant will cost ple smoke it?! No kidding? Why would wrote letters to the producers without us all. What a delight to have read about about $25 million, and will be operational they do that?! any responses. Now is the time to “hit the success of so many Americans of by the spring of 2001. Ukrainian and other In Ukrainian tradition, hemp has both a them where the money is,” so to speak. Ukrainian descent succeeding in the vari- Eastern European advisors have been practical and a ritual significance. As the Every Ukrainian, Ukrainian American, ous fields of entertainment. involved in the stage of plant cultivation. two earliest fibers used by humans, flax all Slavic people and others should boy- Her research and talent combined Because the black-soil-rich Manitoba and hemp are more than just sources of cott CBS until they see their “bottom have produced pages of cultural informa- Parkland region in which Dauphin is food and cloth, they are symbolic. line” affected. tion that have enriched my background located has a very large Ukrainian popula- Christmas customs celebrated in every When CBS complains about the boy- and helped to instill in me an apprecia- tion from the first settlements over a cen- Ukrainian Canadian home on Christmas cott affecting them, then, and only then, tion of my heritage. Mnohaya Lita to tury ago, hemp in a way, hemp is return- Eve originated in prehistoric times, and shall we be in a position to direct terms. you, Mrs. Smindak! ing to its traditional Ukrainian roots. the now sometimes incongruous rituals In the United States this is what really Mary (Danyluk) Plaskonos Even though I am a baby boomer, I reflect that antiquity. We no longer sprin- matters: the bottom line. It is up to us, Hamden, Conn. must be culturally deprived, because I kle hemp, flax and poppy seeds under the the , to start fighting smoke neither grass nor tobacco. Yet I am tablecloth to symbolize fertility, and we no for our due recognition in society. It will quite comfortable with hemp. I inherited a longer present the carolers with “povis- not be easy but it will be worth it! tablecloth from my mother-in-law that she mo,” hanks of hempen and flax fibers Ihor P. Petrenko Koropeckyj’s reaction made over 60 years ago in her village of ready for spinning. These traditions are no Springfield, Va. Rybnyky, Ternopil region, Ukraine. This longer practiced, because of our mostly was unwarranted is not an ordinary store-bought table cloth. urban lifestyles, and because these fibers Dear Editor: She made it from scratch, real scratch: are not cultivated as frequently in North America. Nowadays, a check for a charity Re: “Column’s rationale was question- sowed the hemp seeds, cultivated and or for an organization and some refresh- able,” the letter by Roman Koropeckyj weeded the plants, harvested and soaked What about wave ments are the norm for carolers. In (June 13). them, retted, swingled, braked them, spun Ukrainian tradition, the earliest “gifts” to As a longtime reader of The the fibers, wove the threads and embroi- of new immigrants? mankind are still celebrated at Christmas: Dear Editor: Ukrainian Weekly I appreciate very dered the fabric once it was woven. The the first everyday grains, the gathered much the articles written by Dr. Myron tablecloth is in remarkable condition, with As a subscriber I have been reading foods and fibers for clothing. The pre- Kuropas, who is very knowledgeable in the embroidery still vibrant, and the slight- this newspaper for seven months now. Christian koliadky sing about the first Ukrainian history and also very objec- ly off-white-with-a-touch-of-grey fabric While the paper seems to attempt to golden threads being spun and the fabrics tive in his work. still smooth and strong. Reverently I bring cover everything Ukrainian from the being woven. Throughout Europe, includ- I find the “questionable” column by this tablecloth out only for Christmas Eve North American perspective, it and the ing England, there are remnants of ancient Dr. Kuropas to be very informative, and Easter, and for special family celebra- community it speaks for apparently have rituals celebrating hemp. based on well-documented material tions such as christenings. a huge blind spot. This spot has to be Sure, sure, all this is interesting, but get without any anti-Semitic remarks, which I also have a hempen embroidered huge if they don’t see the current wave to the smoking part! Sorry to disappoint I assume exist only in Mr. Koropeckyj’s blouse from the Yavoriv region, near Lviv, of immigration from Ukraine involving you, dear reader, but in Ukrainian tradition imagination. in western Ukraine, that is 60 to 70 years tens of thousands of people. there is little to report on the hallucino- There is no reason at all to call the old, homespun, hand-sewn, and embroi- Ignoring a phenomenon has always genic front, and no mention of smoking at column questionable. No one in his right dered. My mother brought it back in the been the worst way of dealing with it. all. Herodotus does mention that the mind would suspect every Jewish neigh- 1970s from her only visit to Ukraine since I also am a recent arrival and I would threw hemp seeds on the hot bor of working for the Israeli Mossad. I leaving home involuntarily during World rocks in their saunas, and then emerged like to say a few words through this War II. In addition to the lavish embroi- paper to the North American Ukrainian am old, but not paranoid. laughing. They lived on the territory of dery, the seams and gathers themselves Ukraine and may have been some of our community and, with some luck, to open Jaroslaw Kaczaj are the result of fine, fancy handiwork. I a dialogue. Cheltenham, Pa. ancestors, but in all my research I have doubt I could handsew a garment with found no mention of hemp products being such attention to both strength of con- used by Ukrainians to get high (except in struction and finery of detail. I was The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters to the editor and commentaries on a recent times, under influence from the thrilled to receive this antique shirt, and West). When I ask old-timers about smok- variety of topics of concern to the Ukrainian American and Ukrainian wore it on the next Sviat Vechir Canadian communities. Opinions expressed by columnists, commentators ing the stuff, they look at me strangely. “It (Christmas Eve). However, when I sent stank! Who would want to smoke that?!” and letter-writers are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of our family Christmas photograph to my “We wouldn’t even feed it to the geese!” either The Weekly editorial staff or its publisher, the Ukrainian National mother, her response was unexpected. She “After it soaked in the pond for two Association. was upset that I wore this blouse, and to my bewildered questioning replied that (Continued on page 12) 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1999 No. 33 Celebration of Ivan Kupalo ritual benefits Chornobyl relief efforts by Alex Kuzma emony, which incorporates ancient courtship rituals with the feast of St. John CANTON, Conn. – A consortium of the Baptist. Dating back to pre-Christian musical groups on June 26 presented a re- times, Kupalo has been celebrated for cen- enactment of the ancient Ukrainian mid- turies as a commemoration of the summer summer ritual of Ivano Kupalo in a special solstice, and a celebration of the power and benefit performance for the Children of enchantment of nature. Chornobyl Relief Fund. Ms. Jamahian traced Kupalo’s common The performers included a number of Connecticut-based artists, including the threads with Celtic, Scandinavian and Yevshan Chorus, the Zolotyi Promin other European festivals, including the Dance Ensemble, a bandura quartet and mythical figures and stories made famous recording artist Olya Chodoba-Fryz. by Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s The outdoor concert was hosted by Lou Eve.” and Judi Friedman, well-known as envi- Following this introduction, the ronmental activists in New England and Yevshan Chorus sang “Tsarivna,” an long-time supporters of the Chornobyl evocative chant describing the mystical relief mission. The Friedmans’ home, courtship between the forces of spring and located near the Roaring Brook Nature summer. Center in Canton, Conn., provided an ideal After several more folk songs rendered setting for the Kupalo ceremonies, with by Yevshan and Ms. Fryz, the choir led the picturesque woodland trails, meadows, audience on a half-mile walk along a ponds and cattail marshes. woodland path lined with ferns and hem- Before an audience of over 200 guests, locks. Along the way the group encoun- the ritual unfolded on an upland meadow tered a wood nymph (“mavka,” played by nestled between tall stands of white spruce Melanie Bonacorsa) who greeted them On a platform overlooking a shaded pond, the bandura quartet of Olya Chodoba- and oak. Soloists Ms. Fryz and Christina with traditional promises of secret treas- Fryz, Daria Richardson, Christina Jamahian and Irene Kuzma accompany the Jamahian began the ceremonies with an ures, enchanted love and magical spells Yevshan Ukrainian Choral Ensemble. incantation to the summer solstice, singing hidden among the ferns. “Ivanku, Ivanku” from an outdoor balcony. The woods echoed with the calls of of Orlando Pagan (an alumnus of the Roma helicopter inventor Igor Sikorsky who As they finished their duet, members of the thrushes and catbirds mingled with human Pryma-Bohachevsky School of Dance in emigrated from Kyiv in the 1920s and later Yevshan Choral Ensemble emerged from voices as the choir, occasionally joined by New York) performed a suite of Hutsul and established the Sikorsky Aircraft manufac- different corners of the outdoor theater members of the audience sang “Tuman Bukovynian dances. The Yevshan Chorus turing plant in Connecticut. Mr. Sikorsky behind the audience, singing a haunting Yarom,” “Soloviyu” and other Ukrainian continued with a series of love songs, made a special presentation of historic arrangement of a Kupalo chant by the folk songs as the nature walk continued. including “Verbovaia Doschechka” with photographs of his father’s pioneering Canadian musicologist Edith Knock. The Eventually the choir and guests emerged soloist Daria Richardson. flight from St. Petersburg to Kyiv. He singers converged at the center of the from the forest and gathered around a small In keeping with Kupalo tradition, the thanked the Friedmans for hosting this meadow and continued to sing the Kupalo pond where the “mavka” invoked the puri- women’s ensemble from Yevshan lit can- event, and he expressed his support for the round until they had all assembled on a ty of the water, reciting an old Ukrainian dles and set them on wreaths of flowers Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund and its knoll overlooking the audience. blessing translated by playwrights Virlana that were cast adrift on the water. The relief mission to Ukraine. Next, dancers from Zolotyi Promin, Tkacz and Wanda Phipps. The choir sang wreaths were retrieved by several male Earlier CCRF Executive Director Nadia dressed in folk costumes from the Poltava “Oi, Hyllia,” a favorite love ballad from the vocalists and the symbolism of the ritual Matkiwsky had presented Ms. Friedman region, greeted the audience with a tradi- villages of Ukraine, and moved on to a sec- was explained. with a richly embroidered Ukrainian tional welcoming dance (“Pryvit”). ond pond where the Zolotyi Promin In one of the more remarkable moments blouse from the Ternopil region as a token Ms. Jamahian welcomed the guests and dancers waited on a large deck overlooking in the program, the chorus sang the of her esteem for the Friedmans’ strong gave a brief explanation of the Kupalo cer- the water. The dancers, under the direction Avdievsky arrangement of the love ballad commitment to the protection of the global “Whose horse is this” (“Oi chyi to kin environment. Mrs. Matkiwsky thanked the stoyit?”). Simultaneously, along the shore- hosts not only for their work on behalf of DISPATCH FROM SOYUZIVKA: Dumka line of the pond, hostess Ms. Friedman the Chornobyl children, but also for their escorted a chestnut-colored horse adorned tireless efforts to raise public awareness of with bells and flowers braided into its environmental hazards. performs during sold-out weekend mane. Sitting astride the horse was dancer The Kupalo fund-raiser resulted in over Larysa Oprysko, who dismounted and per- $6,000 for the CCRF. Plans are under way formed a slow pas de-deux with Stephen for similar programs next year. The CCRF by Tanya Singura been affecting the area. A fire on the Dmyterko in response to the verses of the is an award-winning charity that recently Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Lundy Estate, approximately 10 miles song. completed its 23rd airlift to Ukraine. The from Soyuzivka, broke out on The program concluded with a grand fund is planning a training conference for KERHONKSON, N.Y. – The July Saturday. Smoke could be seen over finale on the deck of the pond featuring the neonatal specialists this fall and is devel- 31-August 1 weekend was sold out at the mountain from the Veselka Patio Soyuzivka. Our summer concert series principal dancers from Zolotyi Promin and oping long-term hospital partnerships with during Monday night’s Steak Night a rousing rendition of “Susidka” by Ukrainian medical facilities in eight continued with the Dumka Chorus on and was finally brought under control Saturday night, July 31. The choir, Yevshan. provinces. later in the week. Lake Minnewaska, The artistic program was followed by a Contributions to CCRF are fully tax- which has gotten a large following, only 10 minutes from Soyuzivka, has sang some new songs as well as old pot-luck reception on the patio of the deductible and may be sent to: Children of also been suffering from the lack of Friedman home. Among the guests was Chornobyl Relief Fund, 272 Old Short favorites. As concert-goers exited the rain. They have been battling a root hall, they headed upstairs toward the Igor Sikorsky Jr., a Rocky Hill attorney Hills Road, Short Hills, NJ 07078. For fur- fire for over three weeks. who is the son of the aviation pioneer and ther information call (973) 376-5140. sounds of Crystal. Crystal, making its Soyuzivka was spared what could second appearance at Soyuzivka this have been a disaster had one of our summer, kept everyone on Veselka workers not been quick to spot smoke patio dancing until dawn. while pulling into the parking area This week’s Hutsul Night also near Sich (the worker’s dormitory). A brought back a favorite duo at smoldering log was found to be the Soyuzivka. Greg Hrynovets along with cause of the smoke and was quickly Stepan Ben, back from Ukraine, were extinguished. It was a reminder to all once again entertaining the crowd. that we must be extra careful and cau- Although the duo hasn’t played togeth- tious in these dangerously dry condi- er for more than five years, they sound- tions. ed better than ever singing their new The lack of rain has also become a summer hit “Kurka z Mayonezom,” widespread concern. Wells have been which brought the Trembita Lounge running low, including ours here at audience to their feet following Hutsul Soyuzivka. A total of 60,000 gallons of Night. water was trucked in on Wednesday to We finally got a respite from the hot fill up our reserves; 18,000 gallons humid weather here at Soyuzivka. were brought in the week prior to fill Although the temperatures are still in up the swimming pool. Some guests the mid to upper 80s during the day, have been happy to help by conserving the drier, cooler air is a welcome water. Another guest suggested we change. allow 15 people at a time to shower in A lack of rain, however, also has the water fountain. If we don’t get rain soon, we’re going to have to ask each Tanya Singura is activities director of our guests to bring two or three gal- at Soyuzivka. lons of water with them. Pray for rain! CCRF staffer Ksenia Salewycz embraces Alina Kytasta-Kuzma, a “mavka”-in-the- making at the Kupalo fund-raiser. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1999 9

DATELINE NEW YORK: Ukrainian stars on Broadway by Helen Smindak

At 23, Jeremy Kushnier is Broadway’s youngest leading man. His work in the musical “Footloose” has brought him nominations for two awards: the Helen Hayes Award and the Theater World Award. He is described by reviewers as “a high-spirited hero, coming across as a sweet guy with just enough edge to be interesting” (Michael Sommers, The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.) and “hugely appealing” (David Patrick Stearns, USA Today). When “Footloose” premiered last October, Casper Citron of WOR-Radio declared: “Jeremy Kushnier bursts onto Broadway with the kind of fresh exuberance that strives to please everyone in the audience no matter what their age.” Roma Torres of NY1 News, who liked his “James Dean good looks,” said he is “a terrible threat: he acts, dances and sings like a seasoned pro.” Syndicated columnist Liz Smith called him “the dancin’ boy who comes to town from wicked Chicago and shakes things up” and gushed: “Talk about charisma – this kid’s going places. Hollywood will knock any minute.” The commendations don’t appear to have turned this young Canadian head. When we met in the midtown office of the musical’s press representatives, just after a Wednesday matinee performance, Mr. Kushnier was poised but unpretentious. Dressed in T-shirt and jeans, a backpack slung over one shoulder, he apologized for keeping me waiting, though he was only a few minutes late. Fielding questions, talking enthusiastically about his first Broadway role and his plans for the future, he radiated a dynamic per- Joan Marcus sonality, a charm heightened by large expressive eyes set in Jeremy Kushnier in a scene from the Broadway musical “Footloose.” a handsome face. Mr. Kushnier has an extremely busy schedule these experience, because it’s been amazing,” Mr. Kushnier “Footloose” tryout being held the next day in New York. days, one that keeps his 5-foot 10-inch frame at a lean and admits. Scrounging together some money, he boarded a bus at 7 slim 145 pounds no matter how much he eats. He appears “I get a little bit of celebrity, I get a little bit of financial p.m. and arrived in Manhattan the following morning, in eight times a week in a high-energy musical with a contem- stability, and at the same time I get to do what I love, so I’m time for the audition. A follow-up audition a day later porary pop-rock score, playing Ren McCormack, the high- truly excited about it,” he sums up. turned the trick – he was engaged to perform in “Footloose” school kid who moves from Chicago to stodgy Bomont Things are buzzing for him offstage as well. Mr. and participated in a five-week workshop. (somewhere in the heartland of America) and sets the whole Kushnier says he has “a million things going on” – he’s During the year between the workshop and the begin- town “footloose” to discover the joy of music and dancing. doing some pre-production work on “a little independent ning of rehearsals for the Broadway run of “Footloose,” Mr. The action unfolds through sensational, show-stopping movie that I might be doing later on” and he’s working on a Kushnier returned to Toronto to perform in the original numbers, including a schoolgym scene, a number at the reading of a new musical. There are press interviews and Canadian company of “Rent.” In October 1998 “Footloose” Burger Blast Restaurant featuring fun on rollerblades, a numerous public appearances at malls, schools and parks, premiered at the Richard Rodgers Theater in New York, Wild West scenario and a knockout musical scene – “Let’s including a performance at Macy’s July 4th fireworks dis- and Jeremy Kushnier became an overnight sensation. Hear It for the Boy” – that brings the house down. play seen live by spectators and viewed by many more on He sees “Footloose” as an important benefit for the the- Standing in contrast to all the high-flying youths tum- TV. ater community, drawing young people to the theater and bling, leaping, trampolining, rope-climbing and flipping The Winnipeg native has been dancing since the age of giving them an opportunity to “see something that doesn’t about are subdued tableaux centered around the town’s 3, when his parents, Craig and Gail Kushnier, enrolled him talk down to them, doesn’t belittle them or make fun of apprehensive preacher and his sympathetic wife (Stephen in sadochok (pre-school). He went on to dance for several them, that isn’t so high and mighty that it goes over their Lee Anderson and Dee Hoty) and a romantic interlude years with the Rozmai and Rusalka ensembles in Winnipeg, heads.” He hopes these young people will be the next gen- between Ren and the preacher’s daughter (Jennifer Laura and he recalls learning about Sviatyi Mykolai and eration to support live theater, which he feels is necessary Thompson). Ukrainian holiday customs during Sunday School classes at for theater to be sustained. “I couldn’t ask for a better vehicle to show people what church. Where does he go from here? His answer: “I’d like to do I’m capable of. I get to sing, I get to dance and to act. I’m “I’m a pure-bred Ukrainian,” he says proudly, “except a film, even though I love theater – and I really like New extremely thankful every day for this opportunity and this for a little bit of Polish on my great-grandfather’s side, York, I feel at home here.” which he never admitted to.” His Ukrainian lineage comes “I hope this show will run for a long, long time, and I’m from grandparents Anne and Nicholas Kushnier and Anne going to stick with it for a while because I really enjoy Turning the pages... and Henry Mycan. doing it,” the star enthuses. “But my heart is really in act- Artistic talent seems to run in the Kushnier family: ing.” (Continued from page 6) brother Serge, 17, is a dancer who was recently accepted to We parted on that note, and he was off for “a quick bite the Canadian national tap team, while his brother Bryce, a cy, and the Russian chauvinism of the Soviet Communist to eat and a quick nap” to re-energize him for the evening 19-year-old university student, leads a rock band. Mr. performance before another packed house. Party. From 1938 to 1940, he took up the task again as con- Kushnier’s comment on this topic: “I think there’s a natural tributing editor of the periodical Vpered. tendency in our family to perform. My mother has always In 1940, Kobzey was among the leaders who prompted loved theater, and we (kids) grew up watching musicals and the AUO to reconstitute itself as the Ukrainian Workers’ Tony awards on TV. One of my grandfathers says he used League and join with other non-Communist organizations to tap.” in the country to form the Ukrainian Canadian Committee Staging “little shows around the house and imitating (now Congress). Michael Jackson” for his parents led to enrollment in a In 1966, Kobzey published a monograph on the writer musical theater class for young people offered by the Royal Vasyl Stefanyk, “Velykyi Rizbar Ukrainskykh Selianskykh Winnipeg Ballet. After five or six years of jazz, tap and bal- Dush” (The Great Sculptor of Ukrainian Peasant Souls). As let classes, he moved on to the Winnipeg School of the literary scholar Danylo Struk noted in his own study of Performing Arts to study musical theater and dance for a the writings and criticism about the writer, “Whereas any couple of years. He also trained with private voice teachers Soviet Ukrainian work on Stefanyk would or could contain for two or three years, but vocal studies were not a high pri- the appellation ‘Sculptor of Peasant Souls,’ Kobzey inserts ority, he says, since “I’m a person who learns by doing the adjective ‘Ukrainian,’ to make sure the point is not rather than schooling.” missed that these peasants are Ukrainian.” Knowing from age 10 that he wanted to be in theater Prof. Struk added: “Kobzey [portrays] Stefanyk as a work, he was ready to attempt professional stage work after fighter for peasant rights, but with a nationalist conscience.” completing high school, but attended the University of Kobzey had come full circle. Winnipeg for a year for his parents’ sake. “They’ve always He managed to complete his detailed memoirs, “Na been supportive in what I’ve done, and they wanted to Ternystykh ta Khreshchatykh Dorohakh” (On Thorny Paths make sure I didn’t close off any doors,” he explains. and Ways of Crossroads), which were published soon after Truly convinced that his future lay in the theater, he his death. headed for Toronto, auditioned for several shows and was Toma Kobzey died in Winnipeg on August 17, 1972. hired for “The Who’s Tommy” and then the Canadian tour of “Tommy.” He remembers the years in Toronto as a Sources: “Kobzei, Toma,” Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol. 2 happy time when “I was very content to be doing good (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988); John Kolasky, “The work that didn’t necessarily run forever but that I enjoyed.” Shattered Illusion” (Toronto: PMA Books, 1979); Danylo Struk, There was a “hard, devastating eight months” when he “A Study of Vasyl Stefanyk” (Littleton, Colo.: Ukrainian wasn’t doing anything. That slow period ended abruptly Academic Press, 1972). when his agent informed him about an audition for a Jeremy Kushnier 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1999 No. 33 Youngsters from Ukraine bring “Dity Ditiam” project to the U.S.

by Bohdanna Wolanska ELLENVILLE/GLEN SPEY, N.Y. – We wait in the hot summer evening, 3-year-old Teodor and I. Finally the van rolls in, its many windows full of small, eager faces and large suitcases. Peering through the darkness, the lad riding my hip asks: – “To nashi dity?” [“Are those our children?” “Nash,” best translates as “one of us.”] – “Tak,” I smile, surprised at the question, “To nashi!” [Yes, they’re ours.] Out of the tangle of arms and legs in the van tumble 15 people of various sizes and ages: one caretaker, one young driver, and 13 kids age 10 to 11. They are artists, they are winners of children’s competitions in Ukraine. They are also healthy children from Chornobyl, and they come on an errand of mercy: to help save their less fortunate brothers and sisters. They are performing all over the U.S. to help repair the Children’s Hospital at Bila Tserkva, where their families were resettled from Chornobyl’s Fourth Zone. They call themselves “Dity Ditiam” (by the children, for the children). The children spend a few days at the Ukrainian American Youth Association (SUM) camp, catching their breath, tending to their instruments and costumes, adjusting their biological clocks, getting acquainted with their Ukrainian American counterparts. But the hospital is not nearly large enough to accommodate the Bohdanna Wolanska needy, so the concerts must begin. The “Dity Ditiam” ensemble on the Verkhovyna stage. Natalia Scherban (center) performs the solo. First, a dress rehearsal for the camp participants. The children weave a story made of poetry and song, remembering the nuclear explosion, recounting the macabre assurances that all was well – little voices, lit- tle people dressed in the graceful and colorful tradition- al garb of their motherland, seeing the horror through a child’s eyes. But there is hope, too. After all, the Chornobyl catastrophe forced the country to face down its oppressor, to “arise and break the chains,” as Taras Shevchenko, the bard of Ukraine, bade them do. There is the seasoned conviction of a veteran actor spilling poems from 10-year-old lips. There is the amaz- ing, gutsy verve of folk-style singing from a 13-year-old who sometimes accompanies herself on bandura. There is a poetic, heart-stopping routine by a young gymnast, perching swan-like above the stage on one leg, or one hand. There is the stylish Hutsul duo of dancers with “topirtsi,” the traditional axes-cum-walking sticks of the Ukrainian mountain men. There is the sweet nightingale song from a little 10-year-old diva, blond as the sun, with all the other children singing the chorus, and a pert solo folk dance from her older sister, equally blond. There is the masterful. sonorous violin of a 12-year-old virtuoso, going well beyond words, where only music can take you, playing hypnotic compositions written by his older brother, who accompanies on keyboard or gui- tar (he plays standing, with the guitar slipping ... I pres- ent him with my guitar strap after the next number). There are scenes depicting a mother’s grief as she Present and future virtuosos: Vasyl Popadiuk (left) and Dmytro Demidov. clutches her baby, willing to make it well by the strength of her love and dedication, but unable to do so. matically correct sentence in Ukrainian – the heartfelt The concert resumes, and the audience, melting We forget the sweltering heat and pesky insects of appeal of “Dity Ditiam” has transcended thousands of under the sun of the record heat wave, nevertheless this extraordinary summer. I am not surprised to find miles of separation and decades of “Russification” on one reacts just like the summer camp kids did. We open our myself wiping tears away, as do other camp counselors side of the ocean and “Americanization” on the other. hearts to these children, “our” children, and our pockets. and stray adults in the audience. I am not even very sur- Two days later, a mini-version of the concert is pre- We take up a collection for the hospital. We buy them prised that little music-loving Teodor, at first expectant- sented at the Verkhovyna Youth Festival, and the road fruit for their long journey to the next city. ly sitting alongside to watch “nashi dity” perform, in trip has begun in earnest. Violin star Vasyl Popadiuk, These children have retold us the terrible tale that we time climbs onto his mother’s lap for comfort, later dis- the “world’s fastest fiddler,” is on the program and are to remember forever; they have wrung our hearts solves in tears beyond his comprehension, and eventual- strikes up a friendship with our shy young violinist, with images of young children forced to become adults ly has to leave the hall, unable to regain his composure. Dmytro Demidov. The two quietly intense virtuosos, before their time. But this is not merely another pathetic But I am surprised to find the teens from the camp sit- present and future, play an impromptu duet backstage hardship case bidding for our overtaxed attention and ting spellbound, totally silent for perhaps the first time between numbers (oh, for a video camera!). Mr. overspent wallets. What they especially have shown us since camp began. A few sniffles and even the occasional Popadiuk graciously recognizes his future competitor. is the formidable depth of their artistic talent, their sob escape their efforts at suppression. No matter that The other children approach, shyly at first, then sur- unquenchable desire to become all they can be, their many of them have trouble putting together a single gram- round him for autographs. inexhaustible strength and optimism in the face of seem- ingly overwhelming obstacles. They are not only a sym- bol of the hardships Ukraine suffers today, they are also a symbol of what glories her future may bring tomorrow. To The Weekly Contributors: The “Dity Ditiam” tour is still in progress. Go, see We greatly appreciate the materials – feature articles, news stories, press clippings, letters to the editor, and the like – we receive from our readers. In them, hear them, be amazed and moved. 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Dr. Pushkar and his wife owned important art works, both in NEW YORK – “Collectors’ Bounty: Selections the Ukrainian fine arts and folk art category. In of Paintings and Drawings from the Fine Arts 1990 he donated a valuable collection of ceramics Collection of The Ukrainian Museum” is currently from Pistyn and Kosiv to the museum, also in the being shown at the museum, offering a rich palette memory of his wife. These donations have a very of art works of some of the most important, best special significance to the museum, due to the fact known, admired and beloved Ukrainian artists. that Mrs. Pushkar has played a role in the history The exhibition was developed from paintings of the institution. and drawings that were recently donated to the As a community activist, Mrs. Pushkar had two museum from the collections of Dr. Wolodymyr vital interests in her life: the woman’s movement Pushkar, and the estate of Bohdan and Oksana Rak. and the arts, to the welfare of which she devoted a The exhibit is scheduled to close on September 26. great deal of time, expertise and energy. While still Eleven artists are represented: Mykola Azovsky in Lviv, she was the co-founder of the popular (1903-1947), Mykola Butovych (1895-1961), women’s journal Nova Khata and the director of Alexis Gritchenko (1883-1977), Liuboslav the Ukrainske Narodne Mystestvo cooperative. She Hutsaliuk (1923), Fedir Konovaliuk (1890), Borys organized the Ukrainian pavilion at the World’s Kriukov (1895-1967), Mykhailo Moroz (1904- Fair in Chicago in 1932-1933, with an exhibition 1992), Oleksa Novakivsky (1872-1935), Myroslav of a collection of Ukrainian folk art. Many decades Radysh (1910-1956), Ivan Trush (1869-1941) and later this collection, which had been cared for by Ivan Izhakevych (1864-1962). the Ukrainian National Women’s League of The timeframe encompassed by this exhibition America (UNWLA) through the years, became the is the second half of the 19th century to the present nucleus of the Folk Art Collection of The time. The 32 paintings exhibited reflect the styles Ukrainian Museum in , which was that dominated certain periods, such as impression- founded by UNWLA in 1976. Mrs. Pushkar was ism and expressionism. also the president of UNWLA in 1966-1971 and The artists were born in different parts of the co-founder of the World Federation of Ukraine and are of various generations. Although Ukrainian Women’s Organizations. they were all nurtured and sustained by their com- Guided by their love and appreciation of mon cultural heritage that is so strongly evident in Ukrainian art, Bohdan and Oksana Rak were able the works of several of these artists, the creative to build an impressive collection of works of noted output of each is mostly a reflection of that individ- Ukrainian artists, among them Novakivsky, Moroz, ual’s specific journey to find artistic fulfillment. Hryshchenko and others, total of 26 paintings. The This exhibition is part of a series of exhibitions collection also included a remarkable drawing by titled “In Celebration of Private Collectors.” Novakivsky, which was revealed to be one of a Through these the museum would like to acknowl- series of sketches that the artist had made for a edge the important role that private collectors have monumental painting for a church. While both played in the formation of significant collections, were still alive, Mr. and Mrs. Rak had willed their which they in turn shared with the general public, much prized collection to The Ukrainian Museum, whether through loans for special exhibitions or which the museum received following the death of outright gifts to cultural institutions. It is mostly Mrs. Rak in February this year. through the generosity of several such private col- Both Mr. and Mrs. Rak were community lectors that the museum has been able to build its activists, and toward that end they gave, freely and Fine Art Collection. generously, both their time and financial support. Dr. Pushkar has donated several of the paintings Mr. Rak was the co-organizer of the Ukrainian on the exhibit to the museum in memory of his Sports Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada, “Blessed Mother with the Child Jesus” by Oleksa Novakivsky wife, Stefania. Among them are several rare paint- which he headed for several years. He was also the (1872-1935), paper, ink, pencil (Fine Art Collection of The ings by Ivan Izhakevych. These may be the only Ukrainian Museum, gift from the estate of Bohdan and works of the artist to be seen in the United States, (Continued on page 13) Oksana Rak).

Dresden Art Gallery of valuable albums of Long-lost estate... drawings and lithographs found in Kyiv (Continued from page 1) and the return of three drawings to the 50 keyboard concertos, and many other Bremen Kunsthalle from private sources in 1997. Ukraine has simultaneously vocal and instrumental works. Most of received from Germany some important the compositions, including all the cultural treasures that had been seized by Passions, more than two-thirds of the the Nazis during the war. keyboard concertos, many chamber The over 5,000 music scores from the works, and are unpublished and have Sing-Akademie archive identified this never been available for performance or summer in Kyiv undoubtedly represent study. the most valuable trophy collection to In addition to important 17th and 18th have surfaced in Ukraine. The Main century manuscripts, the Sing-Akademie Archival Administration of Ukraine and collection also contains substantial hold- the Central State Archive-Museum of ings (in part stemming from the Bach Literature and Art are closely cooperating estate) of works by Georg Philipp with the Harvard specialists and agreed Telemann (220-plus cantatas), Carl to plan a collaborative project with Heinrich and Johann Gotdieb Graun Harvard University and the Packard (more than 150 vocal and over 420 Humanities Institute to make these instrumental sources), Johann Adolf uniquely important materials available Hasse (about 130 vocal and 80 instru- for research and performance. mental sources), Franz and Georg Benda A catalogue of the Bachiana in the (about 120 works), and compositions by Sing-Akademie archive is projected as many musicians from 18th and early 19th part of the Bach Repertorium series, a century Berlin, most of them associated research project on the music of the Bach with the Prussian royal court. Goethe’s family jointly undertaken by the Harvard letters to Zelter, from the famous Goethe- Music Department and the Leipzig Bach Zelter correspondence, also form part of Archive. It is hoped that the Academy of the archive. Music in Kyiv will be able to participate. Trophy art, library books and archives The project will also be closely coordi- from Western Europe transferred to the nated with the Sing-Akademie of Berlin, former USSR after World War II were, for one of Germany’s oldest continuing per- the most part, kept hidden throughout the forming organizations, and there is hope Soviet period. However, since its inde- that the priceless musical sources will pendence, Ukraine has led former Soviet eventually be returned to their original republics in restitution efforts and signed a home. cultural agreement with Germany provid- ing for the mutual return of wartime cul- Christoph Wolff is William Powell tural trophies. A number of symbolic acts Mason Professor of Music and dean of “Flute Player” by Ivan Izhakevych (1864-1962), oil on canvas (Fine Arts of restitution have taken place in recent the Graduate School of Arts and Collection of The Ukrainian Museum, gift of Dr. Wolodymyr Pushkar in memory years, including the 1996 return to the Sciences, Harvard University. of his wife, Stefania). 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1999 No. 33

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he believed “the hand on the tiller” should rise in oil prices into dollars. He said that Edward Dmytryk... be “gentle, but firm – and undivided.” He Hryvnia drops in value... it was better to have let the hryvnia float, (Continued from page 4) said a director should also be a film’s pro- (Continued from page 1) which deflated the added income the ed from Austro-Hungary. The family first ducer; the dual assignment “eliminated the exchange rate that we had was realistic traders could have made. lived in San Francisco and then in Los need for compromise,” which he deplored given our situation?” The same day the NBU and the gov- Angeles. as “the single most difficult problem fac- But several days later the government ernment issued a joint statement in Edward began selling and delivering ing any creator.” was ready for a limited intervention. which they detailed a plan to keep oil newspapers at age 6 and left home at 14, In later years Mr. Dmytryk taught film Both Vice Prime Minister of price instability from affecting the becoming a messenger at Paramount theory and production, first at the Economic Reforms Serhii Tyhypko and strength of the national currency in the Pictures for $6 a week while attending University of Texas in Austin, then at the the president’s chief economic aide, future. The plan calls for governmental Hollywood High School. He rose to pro- University of Southern California. He Pavlo Haidutsky, called for the NBU to non-interference in price formation and jectionist at 19, film editor at 21 and also wrote several books on filmmaking, intercede to keep the hryvnia within the oil distribution, and incentives to lure oil director at 31. He studied at the among them “On Screen Directing.” currency corridor after it had strength- and gas traders back into the Ukrainian California Institute of Technology for a Mr. Dmytryk’s first marriage, to ened to 4.50 hrv against the dollar the market. year, but dropped out to learn about Madeleine Robinson, ended in divorce in morning of August 11. The government has said the acute oil movie-making. 1948. The director is survived by his “Today, when the turmoil on the oil and gas shortage that hit Ukraine in mid- As noted in The New York Times obit- wife, Jean Porter, an actress whom he product market is subsiding, an oppor- July was caused by a drastic depletion of uary, he said his most valuable training married in 1948; two sons, Richard and tunity has appeared to use the potential in-country reserves after the harvest sea- was tightening scripts for maximum effect Michael; two daughters, Victoria and of an intervention to improve the situa- son went into full swing. The market- and minimum dialogue. As for directing, Rebecca; and three grandchildren. tion on the foreign currency market for place would have replaced the stocks nat- supporting the hryvnia,” said Mr. urally, but many of the trading companies Court Chief Justice Vitalii Boyko is Haidutsky. were leery of the Ukrainian market after using his position to throw wide open the He explained that 90 percent of the the government had stopped subsidizing Supreme Court overrules... import tariffs. (Continued from page 1) election process that the presidential hryvnia’s drop in value can be attributed to the sharp rise in oil products. He said In addition, many of the firms that had sions were politically driven from above. administration has attempted to quietly craft. that had the NBU intervened earlier, oil supplied Ukraine with oil and gas, most None of them is yet ready, however, to and gas traders could have made even Russian-based, lately have been turning identify specifically who handed down A press secretary to one of the origi- nal candidates registered for the presi- more money by converting their already to other markets, where they can demand the command. usurious profits from the astronomical a higher price for their product. “I can state frankly that the CEC deci- dential elections, who wished to remain sion was a political order,” said Mr. anonymous, explained to The Ukrainian Rzhavskyi after the Supreme Court ruled Weekly that Mr. Boyko and the president in his favor. He would not state who had been at political odds since Mr. gave it, however. Boyko was recalled as ambassador to A successful fellow appellant, Mr. Moldova not long after Mr. Kuchma took Onopenko, would only say that the office. orders came from “the gang on According to the press secretary, Mr. Bankivska Street” (where the presiden- Boyko’s loyalties lie with Oleksander Moroz, one of president’s chief rivals in tial administration buildings are housed). We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of “Riabets would not have broken the the upcoming elections, who as chairman law if he had not received orders from of the Verkhovna Rada supported the above. What scares me is not that it was nomination and election of the former IVAN BOHDAN SIMON ZAYAC ordered on Onopenko, but the whole ambassador to head the nation’s highest principle behind it,” explained Mr. appellate court. on Thursday, August 5, 1999 Onopenko. Because the six candidates who were He said what was surprising to him as not registered by the CEC are given Born in Lviv, Ukraine, on October 6, 1910. he watched the court proceedings was almost no chance of winning the elec- Came to the United States in 1948. Citizen of the U.S. since 1955. that the CEC lawyers could not explain tions, they will most likely eventually why they had thrown out signatures, and throw the little support they have to one Studied music, law and architecture in Poland, Ukraine, France and the United States. did not even describe the signature veri- of the front-runners in exchange for B.Arch. degree, Cooper Union School of Architecture, NY; fication process. political consideration. In this case the M.Arch. degree, Columbia University, NY; Mr. Onopenko, who until 1995 was recipient of the added support could be President Leonid Kuchma’s minister of Mr. Moroz. Architect for I. M. Pei & Partners, Edward Durrell Stone, Mies van der Rohe, justice and has been associated with the Not everyone agrees, however. Philip C. Johnson, Edward Larrabee Barnes. Supreme Court in the past, gave high Mykola Tomenko, a political analyst for Building projects include: IBM Building, Seagram Building, and GM Building, NYC; praise to the judicial body’s assertion of the Institute of Politics, said that State University, Albany, NY; National Gallery of Art, JFK Center for Performing Arts authority over the election process. although there may be some merit to and Kennedy Center, Washington, DC; John Hancock Building, Boston; “The third branch of power is finally such a conspiracy theory, he could not Museum of Ukrainian Art, Hunter, NY; Ukrainian Cultural Center; getting on its feet and beginning to make agree that such overt political maneuver- numerous private houses. the decisions required of it,” said Mr. ing is taking place. Onopenko. “It is far from clear who will benefit Survived by his wife, Stephanie Dorosh Zayac, of Forest Hills, NY, There has been speculation among politically from a large field of candi- daughter, Maria Falina Zayac, of Rome, Italy, political observers, however, that the dates,” explained Mr. Tomenko. “If step-daughters, Daria Dorosh of Forest Hills, NY, Supreme Court ruling also is entrenched [Vitalii] Kononov [the Greens Party can- and Christine Schaefers of Englewood, NJ, in politics. didate] and Rzhavskyi throw their votes and his beloved grandchildren, great-grandchildren and family members. One theory suggests that Supreme to Kuchma in the end, then it will be for his benefit. They have both supported Viewing was held from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Friday, August 6, him in the past.” with the Panakhyda at 7:30 p.m. at Peter Jarema Funeral Home, As The Weekly was going to press, 129 E. 7th St., New York City. “Collectors’ Bounty”... Interfax-Ukraine reported that the Supreme Court had ordered that Mr. (Continued from page 11) Interment was at St. Andrew’s Cemetery, South Bound Brook, NJ Kononov be registered as the 14th candi- president of the Dumka Chorus. For after a Mass at St. Andrew’s Chapel at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, August 7, 1999. many years Mrs. Rak was an active date in the presidential elections. Still member of UNWLA, holding many undetermined is the appeal filed by the posts in the organization, among them sixth candidate who was rejected by the president of the New York Regional CEC, Yurii Karmazin of the Defenders of Council during the years 1966-1970 and the Homeland Party. 1974-1975. The immediate question is whether DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS Both were members of the museum the elections themselves are now under since 1978 and its generous supporters. threat. If Mr. Riabets and the election to be published in The Ukrainian Weekly – in the Ukrainian When Mr. Rak died, his wife opened an commission are forced to resign, which or English language – are accepted by mail, courier, fax, phone or e-mail. endowment fund in his name, donating several of the latest candidates are call- $25,000 to the institution. ing for, it would be nearly impossible to Deadline: Tuesday noon before the newspaper’s date of issue. On exhibit also are various publica- elect a new commission in time to still (The Weekly goes to press early Friday mornings.) tions (monographs of the artists.) hold the vote at the end of October. Rate: $7.50 per column-inch. The Ukrainian Museum is open to the For now, Mr. Riabets is refusing to public Wednesday through Sunday, 1-5 consider even the possibility of his Information should be addressed to the attention of the Advertising Department p.m. Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for departure. and sent to: The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280 (NB: please senior citizens and students. Admission “The Central Election Commission do not include post office box if sending via courier), Parsippany, N.J. 07054; for museum members is free. and its chairman are not preparing to fax, (973) 644-9510; telephone, (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040; For further information, call the muse- offer their resignations and will continue e-mail, [email protected]. um office, (212) 228-0110, or visit the to execute their responsibilities in full website at http://www.brama.com/ until the elections are completed,” said Please include the daytime phone number of a contact person. ukrainian_museum. 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SSPPOORTSRTSLLIINENE by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj

BASKETBALL County Player of the Year honors, and drawing recognition from Street & Smith’s Ukrainian in top 10 in NBA draft magazine as an All-American. The reason? It’s in his blood — his On August 2, Wally Szczerbiak, 22, a father, Walt Szczerbiak, 49, starred with SUMMER PROGRAMS 1999 Ukrainian native of Madrid, Spain, who Real Madrid (obviously not just a soccer Saturday, August 21 UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS now hails from Cold Spring Harbor (Long team) in the 1970s, after playing for the ~8:30 p.m. CONCERT – SOYUZIVKA DANCE WORKSHOP RECITAL Island), N.Y., was signed to a three-year American Basketball Association’s Director: ROMA PRYMA BOHACHEVSKY $6.47 million contract by the Minnesota Pittsburgh Condors. 10:00 p.m. DANCE – music provided by TEMPO Timberwolves of the National Basketball The new Minnesota Timberwolf was EXHIBIT – works of DARIA “DYCIA” HANUSHEVSKY Association’s Western Conference. born in Madrid during his father’s sojourn According to a report by Tim Klobuchar in Spain, where Walt led Real to three Sunday, August 22 UNWLA DAY of the Minnesota Star Tribune, the value of European Championships and set the the contract is “the maximum amount Spanish pro league’s single-game scoring allowed ... under the league’s collective bar- Saturday, August 28 record (65). His grandparents Maria and gaining agreement. Szczerbiak will make Michael Szczerbiak were displaced persons ~8:30 p.m. CONCERT – Soprano OKSANA CHARUK $2.01 million this season, $2.16 million in Pianist THOMAS HRYNKIV who immigrated to the U.S. after the war, the second year and $2.31 in the third. The 10:00 p.m. DANCE – music provided by NA ZDOROVJA settling in Pittsburgh. EXHIBIT – works by TARAS BILTCHUK team holds an option for a fourth year at Then again, maybe it was nurture, not $2.9 million.” nature. The NBA draftee told the New York Earlier this summer, on July 1, Mr. Post: “I played ball all the time growing up. Friday, September 3 LABOR DAY WEEKEND Szczerbiak became a top-10 pick in the first ~8:30 p.m. CONCERT – “VESELI CHEREVYCHKY,” I love the game, I study it. I think I’m a CHILDREN’S FOLK DANCE BALLET from Lviv, Ukraine. round of the NBA draft. He was taken sixth smart player. I play it with a sane head. My 10:00 p.m. DANCE – music provided by LUNA, over all by the Timberwolves, the decision dad schooled me well.” “Midnight Bigus” in Trembita Launge made by the club’s vice-president, former Boston Celtic star and recent Basketball BASEBALL Hall of Fame inductee Kevin McHale. Saturday, September 4 In the Associated Press story about the Konerko finds “sweet home” in Chicago ~8:30 p.m. CONCERT – Encemble “VITRETS” (Winnipeg) draft, Marty Blake, the NBA’s scouting Vocal Instrumental Ensemble “VIDLUNYA” Yes, Virginia, there is a Ukrainian in the 10:00 p.m. DANCE – music provided by TEMPO, ZOLOTA BULAVA director, was quoted as saying: “Wally was the best shooter in college basketball [in the majors. In fact, he’s been in and out of “The 1998-1999] season.” Show” for three years, struggling to make Sunday, September 5 Minnesota Head Coach and General good on the raves he earned in minor ~2:00 p.m. CONCERT – “VESELI CHEREVYCHKY,” Manager Flip Saunders said: “We are leagues. After two difficult seasons with the CHILDREN’S FOLK DANCE BALLET from Lviv, Ukraine. pleased to have Wally on board. He’s a Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cincinnati ~8:30 p.m. CONCERT – Vocalist IVAN POPOVYCH Reds of the National League, Paul Konerko 10:00 p.m. DANCE – music provided by FATA MORGANA smart player and a solid shooter. We feel he can contribute immediately.” appears to have found himself a home with the American League’s Chicago White Sox. Every Friday evening, beginning at 10 p.m., on the Veselka patio – music by Vidlunnia Earlier this year, the New York Post’s sports columnist Anthony Gargano wrote And he’s platooning with one of base- that the “Next [Larry] Bird looks like ball’s best — the awesome first baseman Szczerbiak.” Frank Thomas. Mr. Szczerbiak has turned pro spectacu- As of July 30, the 23-year-old from larly after an impressive four-year career at Providence, R.I., had already played more Attention, Students! the University of Miami in Ohio. games (82) in the bigs than with the Reds Throughout the year Ukrainian student clubs plan and hold activities. The 6-foot-8-inch 240-pound-plus giant and Dodgers combined. His batting average The Ukrainian Weekly urges students to let us and the Ukrainian com- (by average human reckoning) is the stood at a healthy .302 and he’d swatted 15 home runs for 39 RBI, with an impressive munity know about upcoming events. Miami RedHawks’ career three-point per- centage shooting leader (43.1), ranks sec- .522 slugging percentage. ond on Miami’s career list in scoring with As Jason Beck, reporter for CBS The Weekly will be happy to help you publicize them. We will also be SportsLine put it earlier in the season, “All 1,847 points (trailing only NBA star Ron glad to print timely news stories about events that have already taken Paul Konerko needed was a trade to the Harper’s 2,377 points), and is second in American League to hit himself out of a place. Photos also will be accepted. field goals made (671), and three-pointers corner.” made (204) and attempted (473); third in MAKE YOURSELF HEARD. In 1994 Mr. Konerko was the L.A. field goals attempted (1,310); fourth in Dodgers’ first round draft pick, 13th over field goal percentage (51.2), free throw per- all. In 1997, playing for Triple-A centage (80.9) and blocks (79); sixth in Albuquerque as a catcher, he repaid their scoring average (17.6 points per game); confidence by hitting 37 homers (tops in the seventh in minutes played (3,290); and Pacific Coast League, PCL), driving in 127 10th in rebounds (666). runs, while posting a .327 batting average He averaged just over 24 points per and a .621 slugging percentage (also tops). game over his final two college seasons This earned him the Taylor J. Spink Award (third in the entire U.S.), and in this last as Minor League Player of the Year and the campaign led the team in a stunning run to PCL’s Most Valuable Player award. As the National Collegiate Athletic ESPN’s scouting report put it, “Paul Association’s round of 16. In the NCAA Konerko was being touted as the next in a Tournament opener against Washington, he long line of Dodgers who became Rookie scored a career-high of 43 points (72.9 per- of the Year.” cent of his team’s total, an NCAA Unfortunately, what followed was a Tournament record), lifting the RedHawks series of struggles and reversals. In part to a 59-58 win. because the Dodgers’ carousel involving Mr. Szczerbiak led all NCAA catcher Mike Piazza, rookie sensation Eric Tournament scorers with a 30 points-per- Karros and the arrival of outfielder Bobby game average and was named to the Bonilla sent him careening from position to Midwest Regional All-Tournament Team. position, Mr. Konerko went into a profound In 1998, he led Team USA’s march to the slump, got demoted to Triple-A, was traded gold medal at the Goodwill Games with a to the Reds, slumped again and got sent squad-high 17.8 points-per-game average. back down to the minors. This July, he was allowed to join a Team In the off-season he requested a trade and USA roster bursting with NBA superstars got it. The change obviously did him good. that won gold at the Tournament of the In spring training this year he hit for a Americas (albeit for limited action). Thus, whopping .379 average with 17 RBI. Mr. Szczerbiak qualified along with this In the season’s opening series in April, in edition of the “Dream Team” to play with an away game against the Seattle Mariners, the red-white-and-blue in the 2000 the Chisox let him bat out of the DH spot to Olympics in Sydney, Australia. make him feel fully at home in the Mr. Szczerbiak was already doing this American League. Mr. Konerko responded kind of thing in high school in Cold Spring by belting a two-run homer then blew open Harbor, where he scored a school-record of an 8-2 victory. 1,709 career points (28.9 per-game aver- age), earning 1995 Long Island and Nassau (Continued on page 15) No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1999 15

put him over the 139-point cut-off to Sportsline qualify for further play. (Continued from page 14) According to an article in the USA Today’s July 9 issue, Mr. Kuchar’s game On August 8 against Oakland (in a 7-5 has suffered in part because of the heavy heartbreak ninth-inning-loss), he went 2 for course load he undertook in order to be able 4 (two hits in four plate appearances), and to receive his diploma in 2000. At the Loch sent another ball into the seats, giving him Lomond tournament in Scotland in early 16 home runs for the season. July, the 21-year-old from Lake Mary, Fla., HOCKEY just made the initial cut, recovering from a first-round 74 three over par to shoot a 69 in Shvydkyi first round NHL pick the second round. He either did not qualify or chose not to enter the British Open held S portsline’s last installment introduced the following week. readers (and finally assuaged those who’d known all along) to the Kharkiv-born for- SOCCER HOLIDAY ANYONE? ward of the Barrie Colts, Denys Shvydkyi. Rabid Ukrainian sports patriots (those On June 26 in Boston’s Fleet Center the gazing all the way down to the end of this 18-year-old was in the news again, picked column qualify automatically) will be inter- 12th over all in the first round of the NHL ested in the offer being made by the MSW entry draft by the Florida Panthers. At press Travel Group. Team Ukraine will be play- time, the team had made no announcements ing Iceland in Reykjavik on September 8, on whether Mr. Shvydkyi will be signed to and you can be in the land of sweaters and a contract to play in the NHL this year. volcanoes to watch the blue-and-yellows in Other news out of the draft included the European Cup qualifying. Phoenix Coyotes deal of Oleh Tverdovsky The package provides for departures on to the Anaheim Mighty Ducks for their 15th the trans-Atlantic flight to Keflavik spot in the first round. International Airport from New York’s JFK, Boston, Baltimore or Minneapolis on GOLF September 6 or 7 (depending on whether you want the three-or four-day package), Kuchar still an amateur two to three nights accommodation, and Thanks to golfer Matt Kuchar’s grandfa- daily Scandinavian buffet breakfasts. ther, Maurice Kuchar, Sportsline wishes to The cost of the trip ranges from a four- correct an error made in the last installment day single room package at $932 (US) to and provide some further information. Mr. three-day shared triple package at $654. Kuchar has not yet turned pro, as was erro- Airport taxes and airfare are not included. neously mentioned. His grandfather wrote We thank Walter Hywel for this tip. Mr. on July 20: “[Matt] is still an amateur until Hywel can be reached (for information he graduates next year from Georgia Tech ... only) at (973) 751-5866. The MSW Travel He will be playing as an amateur ... at the Group can be reached at the Rockefeller Greater Hartford Open on a sponsor’s Center, 630 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10111; telephone, (212) 332-8933; fax, exemption.” (212) 399-6277; e-mail, tbigler@mswtrav- At the Greater Hartford in Cromwell, elny.com Conn., held July 25-August 1, he shot a first-round 76 six over par, then Sportsline can be reached by e-mail: improved to 71 in the next round, but this [email protected]. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1999 No. 33

The Department of Recreation of the City of Philadelphia National Credit Union Association and the Ukrainian Festival Committee elects Denysenko to chair board of the Ukrainian Community of Metropolitan Philadelphia

Presents ROCHESTER, N.Y. – At its annual meeting and convention in Washington on June 27, the Ukrainian National Credit UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL Union Association elected Tamara Denysenko as chairman of its board of OF MUSIC, SONG AND DANCE directors. The UNCUA, a trade association of 22 Ukrainian American credit unions, serves over 75,000 members nationwide with assets exceeding 1.25 billion. “Echoes“Echoes ofof Ukraine”Ukraine” “For over 45 years, the association’s FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1999 credit union filled a special niche in the 8:00 PM fabric of their respective communities.” Ms. Denysenko said. “ Each credit union Robin Hood Dell East not only provided unique and beneficial Ridge Ave., at 33rd and Dauphin Streets personal and business financial services, in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park but also sustained its membership’s com- mon bond – their Ukrainian heritage and Dedicated to the roots.” Independence of Ukraine and the As the first woman to serve as chair- Welcome America celebration man, Ms. Denysenko’s mission is to facilitate the development of credit Featuring prominent artists: unions for a new wave of immigrants from Ukraine in the states of Washington Tamara Denysenko OLEKSANDRA HRABOVA, soprano, Lviv Opera, Ukraine and California. She plans to focus on VICTOR ZDYRKO, bass, opera soloist, Prague, Czech Republic strengthening the effectiveness of credit unions, provide humanitarian aid VOLODYMYR VYNNYTSKY, concert pianist, laureate of international competition UNCUA as a trade association in the and strengthen the sister cities relation- OLEH CHMYR, baritone, Lviv Opera, Ukraine new millennium. Her goal also is to help ship between Irondequoit, N.Y., and UKRAINIAN INTERNATIONAL BALLET THEATRE position member-credit unions to suc- Poltava, Ukraine. “VOLOSHKY” Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, Philadelphia cessfully compete in the technologically In addition to her professional and cred- evolving financial services industry, it union activities, Ms. Denysenko co-pro- Mistress of Ceremonies: ORYSIA HEWKA while fulfilling their social, cultural and duced and co-hosted the first Ukrainian Stage Manager: Nick Rudnytzky educational missions in their respective cable TV program in the Rochester area communities. for seven years. She served in various The Ukrainian Festival Committee invites all Ukrainian Americans, friends, neigh- Ms. Denysenko is the general manag- community, church and professional bors, and all Philadelphia area residents to come and enjoy an evening of the finest er/CEO of the Rochester Ukrainian organizations in Irondequoit, N.Y. Ukrainian music, song and dance performed in the beautiful outdoor setting of the Federal Credit Union. She has been In recognition of her achievements Dell East Theatre in Fairmount Park. actively involved in the credit union she received a Silver Award from the movement for over 20 years. 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are being closed for lack of money, it Berwick activist helps would be to no exaggeration to say that you are the only one who came forward orphans in Ukraine and gave us friendly support. You can’t PARSIPPANY, N.J. – During a recent even imagine to what exent we needed visit to his homeland, Tymko Butrej your help,” she noted. granted Ukrainian orphans a better learn- The letter also thanks Mr. Butrej in ing environment. He generously spent advance for his intention to purchase din- $3,000 in the purchase of 100 double- nerware and utensils for 200 orphaned seat desks for his former schoolhouse in children. Turka, Lviv Oblast. Mr. Butrej also sends packages con- The Weekly recently received a letter taining clothes, shoes, school supplies from Emilia Kalishovka, a teacher at the and books to his relatives who, in turn, Turka orphanage, expressing the grati- distribute them in surrounding areas. tude of the orphans, the teaching staff, Mr. Butrej is the secretary of and the headmaster for Mr. Butrej’s kind- Ukrainian National Association Branch ness. 164 in Berwick, Pa., and is a former “At a time when a great number of longtime chairman of the Wilkes-Barre children’s health centers and hospitals District of the UNA.

Named fitness manager at new student center PHILADELPHIA – Alex Pastuszek has been appointed the fitness/recreation man- ager of the newly built Student Activities Center at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. PCOM, one of the top five osteopathic medical schools in the nation, is celebrat- ing its 100th anniversary this year. The new Student Activities Center will open in late August and will be the new training center for the Philadelphia 76ers, as well as a fitness center for students, faculty and staff of the college. Mr. Pastuszek is the former owner of Illinois Division Alexander R. Pastuszek Contractors, an of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America 18-year-old paving and concrete company that served the Delaware County area presents until 1998. Alex Pastuszek A “fitness personality” for more than 10 years, Mr. Pastuszek is the former to joining the staff of PCOM, he was a UKRAINIAN FEST 1999 owner of Total Body Works and a former personal trainer and group fitness UKRAINIANThe Midwest’s premier Ukrainian FEST Festival 1999 instructor at The Sports Club in instructor at the Crozer-Keystone Woodlyn. Mr. Pastuszek is also the Healthplex in Springfield. strength and conditioning coach of the Mr. Pastuszek is a member of UNA Saturday and Sunday, 11th and 12th of September Delco Phantoms Ice Hockey Club. Prior Branch 231. in the heart of the Ukrainian Village – Smith Park Featured at the Fest will be Ukrainian arts and crafts, Realtors, presented certificates to Mr. Pastuszek of Swarthmore and Arthur G. cultural exhibits, musical entertainment, dancing and food. Recognized as Wagner at a recent membership luncheon To obtain a vendor application contact Bohdan Bodnar meeting of the Delaware Valley Realtors “Realtor Emeritus” Association at the Radnor Valley Country at 1-630-979-1185 SWARTHMORE, Pa. – William J. Club. Pastuszek was one of two realtors in The Realtor Emeritus designation is Delaware County recently designated presented to those who have been relators Realtor Emeritus” by the National and association members for 50 years. Association of Realtors. Mr. Pastuszek is an auditor of the Stanley J. Lesniak Jr., a past president Ukrainian National Association and a EASTERN ECONOMIST of the Pennsylvania Association of member of UNA Branch 231.

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were a shortage of tankers in the world. The Carpathian Ski Club of New York Ukraine is succeeding... The author criticized Foreign Affairs (Continued from page 2) Minister Tarasyuk for getting Ukraine into under the auspices of the Georgia. For oil-starved Ukraine this is a GUUAM (a loose regional arrangement comprising Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Ukrainian Sports Association of USA and Canada (USCAK) neat source of new energy, because Ukraine, too, is a Black Sea country, and Azerbaijan and Moldova), because, accord- will hold could get the Caspian oil delivered by ing to Mr. Goncharenko, they’re all “los- tankers. ers,” without influence in world politics and To this end, Ukraine – despite crass inter- trade. But he made no mention of what the annual ference from the “Russia lobby” – has been Georgia’s parliamentary leader, Mr. doing two things: building an oil terminal Zhvania, said about the Baku-Supsa SWIMMING COMPETITION near Odesa, and a pipeline from Brody, near pipeline project. Lviv, to the Odesa terminal. Brody is where He then criticized Mr. Tarasyuk for not at Soyuzivka two big Soviet-era pipelines called Druzhba dealing with Kazakstan, without mention- (Friendship) carry energy to European mar- ing that since 1992 Kazakstan has been try- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1999 kets. Concurrently, Ukraine is modernizing ing to find ways for its Caspian oil to reach a refinery in Drohobych, a short hop from world markets by means other than through Brody, to process the higher quality crude the existing network, because Russia con- that would come from the Caspian. trols its valves and decides how much oil Swim meet All this would indicate, that things are will flow. And he didn’t mention another Saturday, September 4, 1999, 10:30 a.m. moving along in the sphere of Ukraine’s fact: Ukraine already has received Kazak oil Warm-up at 9 a.m. for individuals championship of USCAK hoped-for energy supply diversification. – by rail. and Ukrainian National Association Trophies & Ribbons The U.S., while still pushing for a big The author even criticized Mr. Tarasyuk pipeline to Turkey’s Ceyhan, has no objec- for not making a deal with Russia’s old ally TABLE of EVENTS Iraq to buy its oil, somehow forgetting that Boys/Men INDIVIDUAL Girls/Women tion to Ukraine getting some of the vast Caspian oil reserves. he had already written Ukraine has no 11 ...... 13/14 100m im 13/14 ...... 12 Poland and Hungary are boosters for the tankers, and Iraqi oil would have to reach 13 .... 15 & over 100m im 15 & over .... 14 Odesa-Brody pipeline, because they have Ukraine by sea. He also omitted the fact that 15 .. 10 & under 125m free 10 & under .. 16 access to the Druzhba pipeline and need Turkey is limiting tanker traffic through its 17 ...... 11/12 125m free 11/12 ...... 18 more oil for their growing economies. narrow straits to the Black Sea. 19 ...... 13/14 150m free 13/14 ...... 10 The countries of the southern tier of the And then the mysterious Mr. 11 .... 15 & over 150m free 15 & over .... 12 former USSR see this route as an element Goncharenko shed crocodile tears over the drop in Ukraine’s international trade after 13 .. 10 & under 150m free 10 & under .. 14 of their independence. Mr. Tarasyuk took over the Foreign Affairs 15 ...... 11/12 150m free 11/12 ...... 16 Last April, when oil started to flow from Ministry from Hennadii Udovenko, but 17 ...... 13/14 150m back 13/14 ...... 18 Baku to the Georgian port of Supsa on the didn’t mention that there were several glob- 19 .... 15 & over 150m back 15 & over .... 20 Black Sea, Georgia’s youthful parliamen- tary speaker Zurab Zhvania called it a al economic crises in that period that 21 .. 10 & under 125m back 10 & under .. 22 wrecked many countries’ trade balances. 23 ...... 11/12 125m back 11/12 ...... 24 “vitally important project for the entire region, defining the region in the broadest Mr. Goncharenko also pooh-poohed 25 ...... 13/14 150m breast 13/14 ...... 26 Ukraine’s good relations with Poland by 27 .... 15 & over 150m breast 15 & over .... 28 sense as stretching from Ukraine all the way to Uzbekistan and Kazakstan. It gives us a saying, “Unfortunately we have already 29 .. 10 & under 125m breast 10 & under .. 30 chance to connect ourselves to each other convinced the Poles of our inferiority. They 31 ...... 11/12 125m breast 11/12 ...... 32 and to the world in a way that keeps us free have begun to speak increasingly about 33 ...... 13/14 100m free 13/14 ...... 34 from political pressure or influence or Poland’s special role in promoting Western 35 .... 15 & over 100m free 15 & over .... 36 manipulation.” values in Ukraine, about assisting us in 37 .. 10 & under 125m fly 10 & under .. 38 And Speaker Zhvania said more, as building democracy, about supporting 39 ...... 11/12 125m fly 11/12 ...... 40 reported by Stephen Kinzer in the April 13 Ukraine in international organizations ...” 41 ...... 13/14 150m fly 13/14 ...... 42 issue of The New York Times: “[This proj- Some Washington officials are compar- 43 ... 15 & over 150m fly 15 & over .... 44 ect] means a great deal to us, which is why ing the change in Ukrainian-Polish relations to the one that occurred between France and RELAYS not everyone around us likes the idea. I’m talking about Russia, but also about Iran. Germany in the early 1950’s. They are seri- 45 .. 10 & under 4 x 25m free 10 & under .. 46 They are not happy and I can understand ously promoting, the Poland-America- 47 ...... 11/12 4 x 25m free 11/12 ...... 48 why. Actually, I think our enemies under- Ukraine Cooperation Initiative, PAUCI. But 49 ...... 13/14 4 x 50m free 13/14 ...... 50 stand the importance of this project better this is yet another affront for the “Russia 51 .... 15 & over 4 x 50m medley 15 & over .... 52 that our friends.” lobby.” So it reacts in a temper-tantrum like Russia is unhappy, because Russia is los- that thrown by Mr. Goncharenko in Zerkalo Swimmers can compete in three (3) individual and one (1) relay events. Relay teams will ing control over assets it feels belong to it Nedeli: Why can’t these Ukrainians make be established by team coaches or representatives. and it is unhappy because this is yet another do with what oil and gas Russia sends Entry deadline: Entry forms, provided below, must be submitted by August 23, 1999, to indication that the cozy arrangement it them? Why aren’t they satisfied with Russia Marika Bokalo, Swim Meet director. There will be no registration at poolside. Registration fee enjoyed in the Soviet Union is crumbling. guiding them to the world? It’s all Mr. is $5.00 per swimmer. So its lobby attacks. Tarasyuk’s fault. Get rid of him, President The author of the article in Zerkalo Kuchma, or else you’ll lose the election. Nedeli chose the favorite tactic of the But Mr. Goncharenko and Zerkalo Name: (English) “Russia lobby” – to ridicule Ukraine’s Nedeli picked the wrong time for this tem- moves as simply stupid and childish and per tantrum. It came out just as the effect of Name: (Ukrainian) doomed to failure. purposely decreased world oil production The author brought up the fact that the became evident at the gas pumps and the U.S. government is pushing for the Baku- drivers of Ukraine’s 5 million automobiles Address Ceyhan route from the Caspian oil fields, were finding that it cost much more to run but didn’t mention that it has no problem them. Perhaps some of them will realize 4. Date of birth with some of the oil going to Brody; after that there’s something wrong with Mr. all, the proven Caspian reserves are huge. Goncharenko’s arguments in the usually Zip He warned that Ukraine has no tankers to respectable Zerkalo Nedeli and realize that ship the oil across the Black Sea, as if there more sources of oil are better than one. Telephone Age

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Business in brief (Continued from page 3) Vodka production begins in Kirovohrad KIROVOHRAD – The spirits and vitamins plant at Mezhyrich, Kirovohrad Oblast, has created 140 new jobs and will supply over 800,000 hrv to the state budget because of a new automated line for manufacturing and bottling the vodka Viktoria. Now the plant will be producing three vodkas: Viktoria, Haidamatska and Ukrainska z Pertsem, or Ukrainian pepper vodka. (Eastern Economist) Donetsk steel plant enters new markets KYIV – Donetsk Steel Plant General Manager Oleksander Ryzhenko said on July 27 that the plant has been successful finding new markets for its pipe billets in the United States, Romania and the United Kingdom. According to Mr. Ryzhenko, deliveries of pipe billets have been proceeding apace for the past three months. According to the DSP head, until recently most of the plant’s steel went to Asian markets. In the first half of 1999, DSP made approximately 600,000 tons of steel products. Although sales were unsatisfactory in the first two quarters of 1999, Mr. Ryzhenkov said that prospects for the second half of the year are much better, especially when a new modernized electric furnace begins to operate at full capacity. (Eastern Economist) 45 percent stake offered in steel plant KYIV – Ukraine’s State Property Fund is going to trade a 45 percent stake in the Dzerzhynskyi Steel Plant via a non-commercial tender for cash by November 1. Two more stakes, of 10 percent and 13.83 percent, are to be traded for cash via stock exchange by October 1 and November 31, respectively. The state retains a 25 percent stake in DSP. The plant’s managers are entitled to 4.97 percent of stock which they can buy for cash. Until now, 1.2 percent of shares has been sold, of this 0.52 percent on favorable terms to plant employees and 0.66 percent for privatization certificates. (Eastern Economist) PREVIEW OF EVENTS

(Continued from page 20) For more information contact Nick Fil, Saturday, September 25 (518) 785-7596. CHICAGO: The Ukrainian American WASHINGTON: The Washington Group Veterans (UAV) and the Ukrainian (TWG) invites the public to a Ukrainian American Military Association (UAMA) Independence Day Picnic at Fort will hold its national convention banquet at Washington National Historical Park, the Chicago Marriott. The banquet keynote Picnic Area “A” from noon to 6 p.m. Take speaker will be Maj. Gen. Nicholas Capital Beltway (I-495/1-95) to exit 3A Krawciw (Ret.) of Washington. Tickets (Indian Head Highway), continue south will be sold at Ss. Volodymyr and Olha for four miles and turn right onto Fort Ukrainian Catholic Church at 11 a.m.-1 Washington Road. Bring your own food p.m. for $45 per person on Sundays August and beverages (National Park policy does 22, 29 and September 19. For more infor- not permit alcoholic beverages). Field mation contact Roman G. Golash, conven- Artillery demonstration is scheduled as tion chairman, (847) 963-0102, or e-mail well as fort tours. Admission is free. For him at [email protected]. more information contact Oles Berezhny, NEW NON-STOP JOINT SERVICE (703) 534-0309, or Orest Deychakiwsky, Thursday, August 26 (301) 937-0492 (evenings). ALBANY, N.Y.: A broadcast of the NEW YORK - KYIV - TASHKENT Tuesday, August 24 Music Mountain concert which took place July 18 featured the Leontovych String JENKINTOWN, Pa.: Philadelphia’s Quartet and pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky Community Committee to commemorate in a program of works by Weber, Brahms, the eighth anniversary of the independence and Franck, may be heard on Northeast of Ukraine invites all Ukrainians to join Public Radio, WAMC-FM (90.3) at 10:15 the commemoration that will be held in a.m. the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center at 700 Cedar Rd. at 7 p.m. The pro- Friday, August 27 gram will include a keynote address by SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J.: The Sviatoslav Karavansky, selections by the central New Jersey branch of the Prometheus Chorus, a performance by the Committee for Aid to Ukraine is celebrat- dance ensemble Voloshky, the youth choir ing the Independence Day of Ukraine at of the Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist the Ukrainian Cultural Center on Davidson Church, Kyiv opera singer Lyuba Avenue, at 7 p.m. The main address will be Shchybchyk, Lviv opera singer Oleh delivered by Oleksij Shevchenko. The Chmyr and pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky. artistic program will be presented by the At 6 p.m. a film about a military parade ensemble Ukrainska Rodyna. Admission is and a concert held on the occasion of the UZBEKISTAN $10. Proceeds will be dedicated to help Air Ukraine airways seventh anniversary of the independence orphans in Ukraine. For more information, of Ukraine in Kyiv will be shown. please call S. Gecha, (908) 755-8156, Rev. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for stu- Lyszyk, (212) 873-8550, or I. Pawlenko, dents from age 13-18, and children under (732) 548-7903. age 12, free. For more information call BOEING 767-300 (215) 663-1166. ONGOING HORSHAM, Pa.: The Ukrainian QUEENS, N.Y.: The Romanian Ripensia American Sports Center Tryzub will com- men’s soccer team, with the support of on TUESDAYS, FRIDAYS and SUNDAYS memorate the eighth anniversary of the Western Union, is launching a new tourna- independence of Ukraine at Tryzubivka on ment, The Western Union Cup. The partici- County Line Road and Lover State Road. pants of this competition are teams from from JFK International Airport The program will feature the Voloshky Hungary, Japan, Poland, Romania, Serbia, dance ensemble, Lviviany music ensemble Turkey and Ukraine. The competition began INFORMATION AND RESERVATIONS and the Prometheus Chorus. Dancing to this weekend at Grover Cleveland High the music of Lviviany and special attrac- School field in Ridgewood located on tions such as a moon walk and a fun slide DeKalb and Seneca Aves. and will continue UZBEKISTAN AIRWAYS for children, sale of arts, crafts, souvenirs, with semi-finals on August 14-15 and finals food and refreshments will be offered. on the weekend of August 21-22. Saturday 1-212-489-3954 (office) Stage show will begin at 2 p.m. Admission games will start at noon and at 2 p.m. and on is $10 for, adults; free for children under Sunday at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Ukraine plays 1-212-245-1005 (ticket reservation) age 13. Proceeds will benefit the Tryzub Hungary at noon on August 14. For more 1-800-820-2891 (cargo) expansion fund. For more information call information contact Anghel Popa, (203) 622- (215) 663-1166. 6258 or e-mail, [email protected]. 1-718-244-0251 (fax cargo) 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1999 No. 33

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Saturday-Sunday, August 21-22 TORONTO: The Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Toronto Branch will hold a cel- LEHIGHTON, Pa.: The Ukrainian ebration of the eighth anniversary of the Homestead is sponsoring its seventh annu- independence of Ukraine at St. Volodymyr al Ukrainian folk festival, to celebrate the Cultural Center, 1280 Dundas St. W. and eighth year of the independence of Fourth Line in Oakville. The celebration Ukraine. The festival includes Ukrainian will include guest speaker Mykhailo arts, crafts, foods, vendors and refresh- Horyn of Ukraine. An Ecumenical service ments. The Saturday stage show begins at is at 11 a.m.; concert begins at 2:30 p.m. 2 p.m. with performances by Dnipriany, Included in the festivals are a yarmarok Holubka Trio, the Kazka folk ensemble, (bazaar), barbecue, hot lunches and drinks. the Voloshky and the Soniashnyk dance Admission is $10 per person (including ensembles. The Sunday stage show begins parking). Children under age 12 are admit- at noon. The zabava on Saturday begins at ted free. For further information call (416) 9 p.m., with music by Dnipriany. 323-4772. Admission to the festival is $5 per person for a one-day pass or $7 for a two-day BALTIMORE: The Ukrainian American pass. Children age 14 and under are admit- community of Greater Baltimore under the ted free. Admission to the zabava is $10 auspices of the UCCA and UACC branch- per adult, $8 for seniors and $5 for stu- es will celebrate the eighth anniversary of dents. Campsites are available, and the the independence of Ukraine at 5 p.m. in pool is open for the season. The St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church Homestead is located at 1230 Beaver Run at 2401 Eastern Ave., with a special ecu- Drive. For more information, call Alex or menical moleben. Following the church Uliana Prociuk, (610) 377-4621 or (610) celebration, the banquet will be held at 6 377-2557. p.m. in the church hall. Dr. Anton Buteiko, ambassador of Ukraine, has been invited Sunday, August 22 to deliver the keynote address. All are invited to attend this special celebration. HARTFORD, Conn.: Commemoration Donations for the banquet will be $20 per of the eighth anniversary of Ukrainian person. For more information call (410) independence, sponsored by the Council 276-1908. of Ukrainian American Organizations – Greater Hartfort, will take place at 2 p.m. COHOES, N.Y.: A Ukrainian Field Day- in J.B. Williams Park, Glastonbury. (Route Picnic will be held at Ukrainian Club 2, exit 9 at Neipsic Road). The program (Park). Gates will open at noon. Ukrainian will include songs performed by Ukrainian food will be served all day. At 3 p.m. there choir Yevshan, under the direction of will be a short program commemorating Alexander Kuzma, and recitations of Ukrainian independence. Games for chil- poems by the School of Ukrainian Studies. dren will begin at 4 p.m. Everybody is Traditional Ukrainian food will be served. welcome. Admission is $1. This event is There will also be music and other enter- sponsored by the Ukrainian Congress tainment for children and adults. Committee of America, Albany region. Admission and parking is free. For more information call (860) 563-2717. (Continued on page 19)

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CITY: ______STATE: ______ZIP CODE: ______Soyuzivka Dance Workshop directed by Roma Pryma Bohachevsky PHONE (optional): ______on Saturday, August 21, at 8:30 p.m. o o UNA member subscription price — $40.00/yr. Non-member subscription price — $50.00/yr. Veselka Hall

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