Inside: • Taras Kuzio on ’s vicious cycle – page 2. • Commentary: Canadian Museum for Human Rights – page 8. • The UNA’s 2010-2011 scholarship recipients – special pullout section.

ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal Wnon-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXIX No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 $1/$2 in Ukraine Ukraine imposes travel ban amends Constitution on former prime minister to push back parliamentary elections by Zenon Zawada Indeed the parliamentary elections Press Bureau were supposed to be held on March 27 of this year based on the 1996 Constitution. KYIV – The Party of Regions plunged What made the vote particularly outra- Ukraine deeper into legal nihilism when geous, from a legal viewpoint, was that leading Parliament on February 2 to vote the Constitutional Court had ruled on in favor of parliamentary elections for September 30, 2010, that the 2004 October 2012, ignoring the provisions of Constitution was invalid, though it left the 1996 Constitution of Ukraine that are intact the five-year terms that national currently in effect and require the elec- deputies wanted. tions to be held this year. So, the Parliament had to amend the There was even more cause for alarm, 1996 Constitution to cherry-pick those as opposition deputies alleged that the conditions of the 2004 Constitution that it parliamentary coalition – also widely favored, namely terms of five years, believed to have been formed illegally – instead of four. Meanwhile President falsified the February 2 vote by casting Viktor Yanukovych widely expanded his ballots on behalf of several deputies who authority with the cancellation of the weren’t in Parliament and didn’t give 2004 Constitution, most notably gaining their voting cards to anyone. the power to nominate the prime minister. Oleksandr Prokopenko/UNIAN The vote was held strictly out of politi- President Yanukovych is widely Supporters of Batkivschyna party leader Yulia Tymoshenko picket the cal expediency, experts said. The Procurator General’s Office on February 2, when the former prime minister was believed to have ordered the Court to Ukrainian government is currently pursu- cancel the 2004 Constitution in order to once again called in for questioning in relation to criminal cases launched against ing social and economic policies that are her under the Yanukovych administration. gain the wide authority offered by the widely unpopular, and an election this 1996 Constitution. The Party of Regions year could have resulted in the pro-West- by Zenon Zawada Kyiv. “Looking bad and getting condemna- is essentially engaged in a game of ern opposition retaking control of the manipulating any laws to its advantage, Kyiv Press Bureau tion from European politicians is a tangen- Verkhovna Rada. experts said. tial issue that doesn’t compete with their “A strong degradation of Parliament is KYIV – The Ukrainian government for- “If the 1996 Constitution is renewed, overriding concern.” occurring,” Ukrainian Barometer bid former Prime Minister Yulia then all of its clauses are supposed to be It wasn’t the only international embar- Sociology Service Director Viktor Tymoshenko to travel to Brussels on an in effect,” Viktor Musiaka told the rassment for Ukraine during the past week. Nebozhenko told the UNIAN news wire. invitation to meet with European Union UNIAN news wire. He was among the leaders, igniting sharp international criticism “The Verkhovna Rada’s voting reflects (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 14) of the administration of Viktor Yanukovych their fear of losing their seats.” and dealing Ukraine the latest blow to its international image. European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek “was disappointed to learn that he LOVING UKRAINE: Two poets collaborate won’t have the possibility to meet with Ms. Tymoshenko,” European Parliament Press Secretary Robert Golanski told the Interfax- on a book about their beloved homeland Ukraine news service. by Zenon Zawada “He was ready to meet with her during Kyiv Press Bureau her time in Brussels and discuss the situa- tion in Ukraine and the current state of “Loving Ukraine”: This is the first Ukraine-EU relations in the context of her article in a series in which The leadership of the largest opposition party,” Ukrainian Weekly highlights Ukrainians he added. doing something positive for Ukraine. Swedish Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Bildt called the ban “unacceptable, which KYIV – Myroslava Kapitanova, a wouldn’t have been possible in any Halychyna native who spent her adult European country from the conditions I can life in Kyiv, always had deep emotions tell.” about for her native Ukraine, but it was The travel ban was imposed by the only after she immigrated to the U.S. in Procurator General’s Office of Ukraine, the early 1990s that she was stirred to put which stated that Ms. Tymoshenko was them in writing. needed for further questioning that day. The Kyiv native Victoria Ivchenko, 48, opposition leader has been called in for also had much on her mind, but it was questioning more than a dozen times during only in 1997 that she adopted the the last several months. and unlocked her Experts said the Yanukovych administra- soul’s depths in the process. tion wants to send a message and is not the The two poets on either side of the least bit concerned about what Europe Atlantic crossed paths on the “KhaiVei” thinks. Zenon Zawada (Highway) website, a forum for “Pressuring the opposition and putting Ukrainian writers and thinkers. Poetesses Myroslava Kapitanova (left) and Victoria Ivchenko expressed their fences around Tymoshenko is its overriding love for Ukraine by publishing a book of poetry, “That Native Home in concern,” said Ivan Lozowy, president of (Continued on page 5) Dreams…” in December 2010. the Institute of Statehood and Democracy in 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 No. 6 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS

Ukraine must break vicious cycle Ukrainians evacuated from Egypt the negotiating positions had lost their by Taras Kuzio become Ukrainian-speaking and the last urgency. For example, Kyiv is no longer two decades would have seen a different KYIV – One hundred twenty-seven interested in some facilities that was In the last 100 years, Ukraine has political class emerge in independent Ukrainians working for Ukraine’s state oil ready to transfer to Ukraine in African coun- experienced three cycles of national re- Ukraine. In 2004 all of Ukraine would and gas company Naftohaz have been evac- tries. Mr. Yelchenko said that it was also birth and democratization followed on have supported the Orange Revolution – uated from Egypt, according to Ukrainian necessary to update the bilateral agreement each occasion by conservative not just western and central Ukraine. Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman regulating the activities of diplomatic mis- Russophile counter-revolution. The tragedy is that Ukraine’s Russian Oleksander Dykusarov. He said that on Ukrainians were deluded into thinking sions, which will help improve their work. speakers and Russian minority have January 31 it was decided to evacuate the “We will return to this subject as soon as we that the cycle had run its course in 1991 voted for counter-revolutionary political staff of the national joint stock company when the Communist Party of Ukraine understand that the parties have developed forces, whether the CPU in the 1990s or Naftohaz Ukrainy and the families of diplo- new approaches,” he said. In May 2010, the (CPU) was banned, as the party had by Viktor Yanukovych and the Party of mats who are in Egypt. At 7:20 a.m. on then shrunk to a small coterie of “imperi- Russian president’s managing director, Regions since 2004. In Eastern Europe, February 1, a Boeing-737 aircraft leased by Vladimir Kozhin, expressed hope that al Communists” who supported the national minorities have supported demo- Naftohaz was sent to Egypt to bring August 1991 putsch in . But they Ukraine would agree to transfer to Russia cratic revolutions against autocrats and Ukrainian citizens from Cairo. The aircraft were sadly mistaken. all property of the former strongly backed their country’s integra- is designed for 156 passengers. Mr. Although only 5 percent of its Soviet- abroad. “Our position was and remains tion into Europe; in Ukraine they have Dykusarov said that the Foreign Affairs era 3.5 million members re-joined the re- unchanged: Russia assumed all the debts of done the opposite. Ministry had sent to Cairo two employees legalized CPU after 1993, a more serious the former Soviet republics, and paid them From the early 1930s until the mid who speak the Arabic language in order to threat emerged eight years later in the in full. And the entire property abroad was 1950s, the height of Stalinism was provide maximum assistance to Ukrainian form of the Party of Regions. The CPU also transferred to Russia,” he said. accompanied by a massive counter-revo- citizens. He also said that the Embassy and the Party of Regions have both inher- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych lution against everything Ukrainian, with would continue to receive lists of citizens ited the Russophile, conservative “impe- said later that he supported the division of the teaching of history returning to the wishing to leave Egypt. As of the afternoon rial Communist” ideological wing of the property of the former USSR among all of glorification of imperial Russia. The of January 31, about 50 people had contact- Soviet CPU. its member-republics. Commenting on the Stalinist counter-revolution began with ed Ukraine’s diplomatic mission in Cairo. As we approach the anniversary of two position of Russia, which defends its right to the Holodomor (Famine-Genocide) that Simultaneously, citizens in Egypt for tour- decades of Ukrainian independence, it is retain all the property of the former Soviet ism, mainly in the cities of Hurghada and the Party of Regions that is Ukraine’s led to the deaths of between 3.5 million Union, he said: “We currently see no solu- Sharm el-Sheikh, did not ask the Embassy most disciplined, best financed and most and 4 million Ukrainians in 1933. tion. We will never recognize that. We of Ukraine for assist their early return home. organized political force in Ukraine. Timothy Snyder’s excellent new book believe that it [the property] should be Earlier, Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry While national democrats are fractur- “Bloodlands” calculates that 5.5 million divided among the [former Soviet] coun- had strongly recommended that tour opera- ing into ever more political parties and people died from famine in the USSR, of tries. However, there’s currently no mecha- tors take all measures and fully inform citi- unable to unite, the Party of Regions has whom 3.5 million were Ukrainian and 1 nism of how this could be done.” zens of Ukraine who have purchased or plan successfully merged with four former million were Kazakhs; Russians were in a () pro-Kuchma parties and attracted, decided minority. In addition, Prof. to purchase trips to Egypt about the minis- through various means, many defectors Snyder points out that Ukrainians and try’s recommendation to refrain from those Rada OKs amendments to Constitution from the senior ranks of the opposition, Poles living in Ukraine represented the trips due to the unstable situation in that majority of the victims in the Great country. (Ukrinform) KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada has including some who voluntarily defected, approved amendments to the Constitution, such as Taras Chornovil and Serhiy Terror. In the mid-1950s, Ukraine experienced A pause in talks on Soviet property setting the date of the next presidential and Holovaty. parliamentary elections. The bill to amend its second cycle following the death of KYIV – Ukraine and Russia have paused Is it Ukraine’s fate, therefore, to expe- the Constitution was supported by 310 Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev’s negotiations on the disputed property of the rience repeated cycles of national rebirth- members of Parliament. The Rada planned secret speech revealing the horrors of former Soviet Union abroad, Ukraine’s democratization followed by conserva- to consider the bill in its second reading at tive, Russophile counter-revolution? Let Stalin’s crimes leading to de-Stalinization Ambassador to Russia Volodymyr the plenary session on February 3. However, us hope not. accompanied by political and economic Yelchenko said at a news conference in given the high turnout, it was decided to From the 1920s until the early 1930s, liberalization. Ukrainian cultural, and to Moscow. “The negotiations on the property consider the issue on February 1. On Ukraine experienced indigenization and some extent political, elites supported the have recently come to a halt. Both sides November 19, 2010, the Constitutional Ukrainianization that facilitated a nation- de-Stalinization campaign and pushed have assumed extreme positions, and, fail- Court of Ukraine had ruled constitutional al revival in culture, the arts and drama. powerful demands for a change to the ing to find a common language, we con- the holding of parliamentary elections in Ukrainian peasants moving to the grow- manner in which history is written, the cluded for ourselves [I think the same con- October 2012. The same day, Parliament ing towns were becoming the new rehabilitation of countless murdered clusion was made by the Russian side] that approved preliminary changes to the Ukrainian-speaking working class. Ukrainian cultural figures and greater it is necessary to take a pause and think Constitution, establishing the date of the National Communists defended republican sovereignty. about what we should do with this matter,” next elections to Parliament as October Ukraine’s Ukrainianization program and Petro Shelest, who headed the CPU he said, according to February 1 news sovereignty. Ukrainianization was from 1963 until 1972, gave tacit encour- reports. Mr. Yelchenko noted that some of (Continued on page 12) accompanied by political and economic agement to the de-Stalinization process liberalization. and moderate program of If permitted to continue eastern Ukrainianization, advising Ukrainian Ukraine’s urban centers would have writers that they should defend the FOUNDED 1933 Ukrainian language. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Shelest, who came from Kharkiv – the Taras Kuzio is an Austrian Marshall center of Ukrainian national Communism An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., Plan Foundation visiting fellow, Center in the 1920s – encouraged and distributed a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. for Transatlantic Relations, School of to local party branches the hugely influ- Yearly subscription rate: $55; for UNA members — $45. Advanced International Studies, Johns ential “Internationalism or Periodicals postage paid at Caldwell, NJ 07006 and additional mailing offices. Hopkins University, Washington. The Russification?” text written by Ivan (ISSN — 0273-9348) article is a shortened draft of the intro- duction to his forthcoming book “A Dzyuba (today a fierce critic of Minister The Weekly: UNA: Contemporary History of Ukraine.” of Education Dmytro Tabachnyk). 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WINDOW ON EURASIA Moscow has fewer levers in post-Soviet space than many assume by Paul Goble these countries than many assume – an border of the European Union has some- that is beginning to change, but without imbalance that helps to explain the often what limited [their] possibilities for geo- such a policy or doctrine, Moscow is While Russia’s influence as a country internally inconsistent pattern of relations political maneuver.” “only reacting to certain events rather on Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova is very between the former imperial center and A third characteristic is the “very high than attempting to control them.” large, Moscow as a government has far these new states. level of the influence of Russia” on this And for that reason as well, Mr. fewer levers to influence the situation in In a January 30 analysis of the rela- region, influence that has grown as a Bondarenko continues, “one can say that, tions between Moscow and what he calls result of the stabilization of the European in the near abroad, there is a high level of Paul Goble is a long-time specialist “Easternmost Europe,” Valery Union’s eastern border but that only in influence of Russia but not of the on ethnic and religious questions in Bondarenko argues that “Russia and the the past “year or two” has been more or Kremlin,” a pattern that is just the reverse Eurasia who has served in various Kremlin are hardly one and the same less actively controlled by the powers of the situation in “the far abroad” where capacities in the U.S. State Department, thing.” Instead, he suggests, Russia writ that be in Moscow. “the opinon of the Kremlin is comparably the Central Intelligence Agency and the large has great influence, but Moscow A fourth characteristic – the one that is large and that of Russia as a whole not International Broadcasting Bureau, as lacks many of the levers on the regimes seldom noted – is that while “the level of so.” well as at the Voice of America and there that others have (www.imperiya.by/ influence of Russia is very high” in this In fact, he continues, “the Kremlin can Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and authorsanalytics19-9073.html). region, “the possibilities (e.g., financial) really influence the geopolitical situation the Carnegie Endowment for Easternmost Europe, Mr. Bondarenko and non-economic means and abilities for by means of Gazprom (the price for gas) International Peace. Mr. Goble writes a argues, is characterized by a number of promoting this influence are quite limited and foreign trade policy as a whole.” blog called “Window on Eurasia” special features. Its main distinguishing – or more precisely not developed.” That is something serious, but it is also (http://windowoneurasia.blogspot.com/). factor is the “very high degree of depen- “Today,” Mr. Bondarenko points out, “’a stick with two ends’” – and conse- This article above is reprinted with per- dence” on the national leaders. A second “Russia in its near abroad is represented quently, one “should not exaggerate the mission. is that “the stabilization of the eastern only by embassies [and consulates] and, level of seriousness” it represents. for example, in practice does not support Related to this lack of a policy is the any non-governmental organizations very different importance Moscow gives (NGOs) and does not have any structures, to its nearest neighbors compared to rela- U.S. says it will expand foundations, or programs like the tions with the United States and Europe. European TACIS, TEMPUS, FARE, The latter are far more important in the Euro-Regions and the like.” minds of Moscow officials, but because sanctions against Belarus Indeed, he continues, “in this regard, of this “the most complicated and con- the U.S. is also represented, defends and RFE/RL flict-ridden relations” Russia has today widespread fraud. advances its interests with more devel- are “precisely with its nearest neighbors.” Thomas Melia, the deputy assistant sec- oped means, techniques and methods” A senior U.S. State Department official Lacking a policy and lacking the net- retary of state in the Bureau of than does Moscow. As a result, “the geo- says the United States will strengthen Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, tes- work of institutions that both the EU and existing sanctions against Belarus and politics of the European Union and the tified alongside Mr. Gordon at the Senate United States is more active and directed the U.S. have, the Kremlin “in its geopo- increase its financial support for the coun- hearing and said he informed Belarusian litical influence to a great degree is ori- try’s beleaguered civil society sector in at the establishment of optimal institu- officials about the new sanctions during a tional structures for promoting its influ- ented” in the CIS as a whole “on the response to Minsk’s crackdown on democ- trip to Minsk earlier this week. political support of particular individuals racy activists. ence.” “I returned on Tuesday – less than 48 “By means of these structures direct or and not on the support of structures or U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Philip hours ago – from Minsk, where I went at principles.” Gordon, who outlined the new steps at a indirect support of specific individuals the behest of Secretar [of State Hillary] (the non-governmental press, indepen- Such an approach, Mr. Bondarenko January 27 hearing of the Senate Foreign Clinton to deliver a strong message to the argues, is “passive, without prospects and Relations Committee, said the sanctions dent journalists, NGOs and leaders of the government about the mounting outrage in opposition) is provided,” an arrangement unreliable,” if for no other reasons that will ban U.S. companies and individuals the international community and the immi- leaders do pass from the scene. But “sup- from doing business with two subsidiaries that promotes the influence of those who nence of a sharp reply, which I did in a provide such help and something that porting a personality is much easier” than of the Belarusian state oil and chemical face-to-face meeting at the foreign minis- pursuing a broader policy. In Easternmost conglomerate Belneftekhim. “forms public opinion” in these countries. try with ashen-faced officials who realized As of now, “Russia does not have such Europe, he says, Moscow thus finds itself The company is considered key to that their hopes of rapprochement with the compelled to deal almost exclusively President Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s finan- structures,” Mr. Bondarenko notes, add- international community are going up in ing that “why this is so is another ques- with the country presidents. cial control of the country. smoke before their very eyes,” said Mr. And as a result, “Russia can help and The U.S. assets of the subsidiaries, tion.” And, as a result, “today in the arse- Melia. nal of the Kremlin is only ‘individual does help [them] but in fact it cannot or Lakokraska and Polotsk Steklovolokno, Mr. Lukashenka, however, has reacted work’ with leaders – and Gazprom. And almost cannot replace them even if that were frozen under sanctions imposed in defiantly to the threat of new sanctions – a of course, the Ministry of Foreign desire arises.” Instead, Moscow can “only 2007, but that restriction was suspended threat that comes from Brussels as well. Affairs” and occasionally other bureau- offer support, but this is not one and the the following year. Referring to a possible European Union cracies with cross-border interests. same thing.” In many respects, therefore, Mr. Gordon also said the United States visa ban against him and other top govern- This lack of levers was complicated Russia’s ability to affect things or work will expand an existing travel ban on gov- ment officials, the Belarusian president until recently by the lack of an integral with the opposition is “extremely limit- ernment officials and impose “additional addressed European lawmakers from the policy for Easternmost Europe in ed,” however much some may assume financial sanctions against individuals and country’s Parliament on January 27. “You Moscow. Now with the Customs Union otherwise. entities.” have frightened me with sanctions, with Along with taking punitive measures taking away visas. May God be with you,” against Minsk, Mr. Gordon said the United he said. “I’ve already lived with visa States will expand by nearly $3 million its restrictions for 10 years [and] I’m still Quotable notes financial support for “the democratic alive and well.” “Embrace the instability,” by Anne Applebaum, The Washington Post, actors and the victims of repression.” Mr. Gordon suggested that the strength- January 31, 2011: “Last year the United States provided ened U.S. sanctions would be coordinated $11 million in assistance towards support- with an EU vote on its own sanctions “…In 1991, when Ukraine was about to declare its independence from the ing civil society, access to information and against Minsk, scheduled for January 31. Soviet Union, President George H.W. Bush made a declaration (this was the political competition, and providing [Editor’s note: The U.S. and the EU infamous ‘Chicken Kiev’ speech) in praise of the Soviet Union. For years, he opportunities for more interaction between announced sanctions against Belarus on and his advisers ran around Eastern Europe and the Balkans doing duct-tape Belarusian citizens and the outside world. January 31.] In response to the recent events [in diplomacy, trying to piece together again a fracturing world. Belarus] we will increase such assistance “Stalinist tactics” “Politicians like stability. Bankers like stability. But the ‘stability’ we have so by nearly 30 percent this year,” he said. long embraced in the Arab world wasn’t really stability. It was repression. The U.S. sanctions against Belarus, which dictators we have supported, or anyway tolerated – the Zine el-Abidine Ben Alis, Responding to the crackdown were originally imposed by President the Hosni Mubaraks, the various kings and princes – have stayed in power by George W. Bush, came in the wake of Mr. preventing economic development, silencing free speech, keeping tight control The U.S. measures follow condemna- Lukashenka’s claim of victory in the 2006 tion from Washington and Western allies of education and above all by stamping down hard on anything resembling civil presidential elections, another vote that society. … of the Belarusian authorities’ brutal crack- Western observers said was plagued by down on protesters following the disputed “…For the past decade, successive American administrations have sometimes fraud and was followed by a crackdown paid lip service to democracy and freedom of speech in the Arab world. Some December 19, 2010, presidential election. on the opposition. More than 600 people were arrested in American organizations, official and unofficial – the National Endowment for Those measures froze the property and Democracy comes to mind – have supported independent human rights activists December during protest rallies in Minsk, financial assets in the United States of including seven of the nine opposition in Egypt and elsewhere. …But to American presidents and secretaries of state of senior Belarusian government officials, both political parties, other issues – oil, Israel and then the war on terrorism – candidates running against Mr. including Mr. Lukashenka, and U.S. com- always seemed more important. … Lukashenka, who has held a 16-year grip panies and individuals were barred from “…We should speak directly to the Egyptian public, not only to its leaders. on power. engaging in transactions with the targeted We should congratulate Egyptians for having the courage to take to the streets. Official results said the man described persons. We should smile and embrace instability. And we should rejoice – because as “Europe’s last dictator” won by nearly change, in repressive societies, is good.” 80 percent of the vote, amid allegations of (Continued on page 18) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 No. 6

Ontario Parliament member Levac UCRDC staffers meet with researcher receives Ukrainian Order of Merit for Canadian Museum for Human Rights BRANTFORD, Ontario – Member of recognition in Ontario of the Holodomor the Provincial Parliament (MPP) of – the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine of Ontario Dave Levac on January 22 was 1932-1933,” said Ambassador Ostash. named a chevalier of the Ukrainian Order It is estimated that as many as 10 mil- of Merit by Dr. Ihor Ostash, Ukraine’s lion people died as a result. The ambassador to Canada. “Holodomor Memorial Day Act, 2009,” The order, one of Ukraine’s highest co-sponsored by MPP Levac, establishes honors, was awarded to Mr. Levac by the the fourth Saturday of every November Yushchenko administration for his work as Holodomor Memorial Day. on increasing knowledge and awareness “It is indeed an honor to congratulate, of the Holodomor through his co-spon- applaud and thank MPP Dave Levac for sorship of the “Holodomor Memorial his efforts in sponsoring Bill 147, and for Day Act, 2009.” his championing of Holodomor “I am extremely humbled by the honor recognition and genocide education. I am presented to me today,” said Mr. Levac. proud that Canada, and in particular “The Holodomor was one of the 20th Ontario, took the lead in establishing the century’s great horrors, where millions Holodomor Memorial Day on the fourth starved to death because of the cold indif- Saturday in each November, recognizing ference of a merciless tyrant. The people the Holodomor as an act of genocide per- of Ukraine and people of Ukrainian petrated by the Stalinist regime against descent have worked long and hard for the Ukrainian people. Most importantly, this atrocity to be recognized for what it Bill 147 will help educate future genera- Bozhena Gembatiuk-Fedyna tions to condemn all acts of tyranny and was: genocide. It was important for me to At the Ukrainian Research and Documentation Center (from left) are: Dr. Clint proactively prevent them from ever hap- do what I could to help them raise Curle, Valentyna Kuryliw, Iroida Wynnyckyj, Prof. Frank Sysyn, Switlana pening again,” commented Chrystyna Holodomor awareness across Ontario; I Medwicky and Orest Zakydalsky. am incredibly grateful to receive this Bidiak, president of the League of award.” Ukrainian Canadian Women. TORONTO – Representatives of the ter about the Holodomor. The Order of Merit is one of the high- Paul Grod, national president of the Ukrainian Canadian Research and According to the CMHR’s website, “The Ukrainian Canadian Congress, stated: est Ukrainian awards that originates from Documentation Center (UCRDC) met on Holodomor will be displayed permanently “We congratulate MPP Dave Levac for the Honorary Award of the President of January 20 with Dr. Clint Curle, a research- in the ‘Mass Atrocity’ zone, immediately being recognized by the Ukrainian Order Ukraine, the first decoration of indepen- er at the Canadian Museum for Human of Merit bestowed on him by the govern- adjacent to the Holocaust zone. This zone dent Ukraine instituted in 1992. It is Rights (CMHR). The museum is scheduled ment of Ukraine. Mr. Levac has been a will feature detailed information on the awarded to individuals for outstanding to open in 2013 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. staunch supporter of human rights issues Holodomor and many other mass atrocities achievement in economics, science and Dr. Curle, whose research responsibilities and is a true friend of the Ukrainian that have taken place worldwide…” at the CMHR include the Ukrainian culture, or military or the political Canadian community. We would also like Dr. Frank Sysyn of the Canadian Institute Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933, asked to spheres of activity. to thank the members of the Legislative of Ukrainian Studies, who is a historical “With this award we would like to Assembly of Ontario for their work to meet with representatives of the UCRDC in consultant to the UCRDC, presented the demonstrate our high appreciation of order to discuss with them the archival MPP Dave Levac’s involvement in the (Continued on page 14) materials and resources available at the cen- (Continued on page 5)

than the market price – and implying theft been saved in villages if these 17 million In the prior week, the government target- Ukraine imposes... of funds. euros went towards buying vehicles for ed more of Ms. Tymoshenko’s allies for (Continued from page 1) The Tymoshenko government also rural medicine,” she added. arrest, including State Reserves Committee President Yanukovych made several shame- deprived the state budget of more than $1 She said the decals, “Tymoshenko former acting Chair Vitalii Nikitin and for- ful remarks while attending the World million in customs fees and $4.6 million in Government Program,” were bought with mer Chair Mykhailo Pozhyvanov, who has Economic Forum in late January. Most value-added taxes, prosecutors said, as a her campaign’s money, not government fled abroad. notably, he invited investors to visit Ukraine result of improperly registering the mini- funds. Mr. Nikitin was arrested on February 1 in the spring when the women’s attire is vans as medical vehicles and thereby But it’s the decision to classify the Opel on charges of stealing more than $30 mil- more revealing. (See Newsbriefs.) exempting them from the payments. Combos as “medically designated items” in lion from the state and imprisoned for two Meanwhile, state prosecutors filed more Moreover the state was left with an $18 order to avoid taxes that the former prime months. An international search warrant has criminal charges against Ms. Tymoshenko million debt with an Austrian firm for items minister is having the most difficulty been issued for the arrest of Mr. on January 27, this time for allegedly using that can’t be used for their stated purposes defending. She avoided the question during Pozhyvanov, who was charged with the as ambulances, another violation of the law. the January 28 press conference and the state funds to buy 1,000 vehicles for hospi- theft of $4.4 million. Ms. Tymoshenko denied any criminal Pravda interview on the same day. tals on behalf of her 2010 presidential cam- At least a dozen former officials who violations in an excusive interview with the At the time, in December 2009, the paign. served in the Tymoshenko government are Ukrayinska Pravda website published on Tymoshenko government was desperately The Procurator General’s Office (PGO) sitting in jail awaiting trial on criminal January 28. cash-strapped and couldn’t afford to pay the first filed criminal charges against her in charges, including former Internal Affairs She said the Opel Combos are much $5.6 million in customs fees and value-add- December 2010 for illegally transferring Minister Yurii Lutsenko. Former Minister of quicker than standard ambulances, which ed tax for the ambulances, Ukrayinska costs gained from sales of Kyoto Protocol the Economy Bohdan Danylyshyn was was a necessary consideration for Ukraine’s Pravda reported. granted political asylum by the Czech greenhouse gas quotas to Japanese corpora- vast rural areas. As a result, “hundreds of That’s what likely motivated Ms. tions in order to cover state pension debts. Republic. thousands of lives were saved” in the year Tymoshenko to make the designation, The Procurator General’s Office stated European leaders have “serious ques- though it was opposed by numerous state since they were purchased, she claimed. on January 31 that it has filed more than tions” on the criminal charges against Ms. “Medical institutions in villages are health officials, including Health Minister 1,000 criminal charges against officials who Tymoshenko, Mr. Bildt said, which he sometimes located 15 and 30 kilometers Volodymyr Kniazevych, who told the prime served in the government of former Prime described as suspicious. He made his com- (between 9.3 and 18.6 miles) away from minister during a December 8, 2009, Minister Tymoshenko. ments at the 50th anniversary celebration of sick people who need treatment,” she said in Cabinet meeting that the vehicles can’t be “A classic example is the company the European Democrat Students the interview. “Villages don’t have urban medically designated. Association in Brussels, which Ms. transport. Sixty percent of village deaths are Ms. Tymoshenko nevertheless appeared Babusyni Retsepty (Grandma’s Recipes),” Tymoshenko was supposed to address too. because a doctor can’t reach the ill in time. undaunted. State Finances Inspection Chair Petro The newest criminal charges of abuse of That’s why ambulances weren’t bought, but “The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Andreyev told a January 31 Cabinet meet- authority involve 1,000 Opel Combo mini- transportation that can get a doctor to the the procurator general and ‘American’ audi- ing. “As soon as the State Reserves vans that the Tymoshenko government sick in villages in time.” tors, and [Prime Minister] Mykola Azarov Committee paid it $57 million for meat, bought from an Austrian firm in December As for the allegedly inflated prices paid, and [President] Viktor Yanukovych person- which it claimed to have stored, this compa- 2009 as part of a government program to Ms. Tymoshenko told a January 28 press ally studied every paper I signed during the ny dissolved within three days. There’s improve medical care in Ukraine’s villages conference that she bought the mini-vans at last two years, each of my orders, all the nothing left – neither meat, nor money.” and rural areas. $18,750 each (12,500 euros), a price her decisions reached by my government and Even Ms. Tymoshenko’s campaign spon- The purchase occurred under numerous government negotiated down from $22,650 all the state budget expenditures,” Ms. sors are being targeted. suspicious conditions – mini-vans were each (15,000 euros). Tymoshenko told Ukrayinska Pavda. Armed raiders attempted on February 2 selected instead of ambulances; they were “Instead of such vehicles, the new presi- “And all they could find after this titanic to reclaim a mansion in central Kyiv that is registered with the State Customs Service as dent bought himself a helicopter for 17 mil- and very expensive work is a payment from owned by industrial oligarch Serhiy Taruta medical vehicles instead of common vehi- lion euros ($23 million) only for the sake of a single treasury account for a Pension Fund on behalf on unknown businessmen. cles; and they each bore the slogan pasted comfortably flying to Mezhyhiria,” she said loan. So their audit is in essence a rehabilita- The exchange of gunfire in broad day- along the sides, “Tymoshenko Government in the Pravda interview, referring to the state tive document as a summary of my two- light between the raiders and the property’s Program” just as the presidential campaign residential complex that Mr. Yanukovych year activity. I didn’t steal factories, guards that morning conjured flashbacks to was nearing its peak. had allegedly privatized illegally for him- UkrTelekom, budget funds, Mezhyhiria, tax the violent 1990s, when oligarchic clans The PGO alleged the mini-vans were self. administration vacation homes or mineral battled on city streets for control of assets bought for $18,000 each – 20 percent higher “I counted how many lives could have deposits. This audit confirms this,” she said. and property. No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 5

Two poets collaborate... (Continued from page 1) That Native Home Their mutual love for Ukraine and its people brought them to collaborate on a book of poetry, “Ta Ridna in Dreams Domivka u Sni…” (That Native Home in Dreams…), which they self-published in December 2010. They present- by Victoria Ivchenko and Myroslava Kapitanova ed their work to more than 40 supporters gathered at a Kyiv community center on December 4, 2010. When at times I dream of home – “Very many Ukrainians live abroad, yet their souls I recall my far-off land… remain with those at home,” Ms. Kapitanova said. “This is Where I was destined to be born, what befell upon us – that we understood each other. To see green paradise! There’s pain here and there for the lives of the people. That I spent my childhood there, all spilled out in this book.” Few nations in the world take poetry as seriously as the And my adolescence flourished like a blossom… Ukrainians. While other nations boast of kings and warriors I nourished hope in my heart, as their national heroes, the enserfed bard Taras Shevchenko For the courage of a brave flight! is Ukraine’s personified, historical icon. Forests boundlessly howled, Contemporary poets such as Ivan Drach and Lina And the river slowly flowed… Kostenko still draw crowds of thousands of admirers, who derive pleasure from sitting in an auditorium and allowing The fields boiled with wheat, their lyricisms and messages to sink into their conscious- A secret path led on – ness. To the wild will of the steppes, Zenon Zawada Writers such as Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky of the late 19th And the spirit of a live moon… Victoria Ivchenko recites her poetry. century and Vasyl Stus of the late 20th century inspired Ms. A wicked fate fell upon my land… Kapitanova and Ivchenko. family and nation. On the book’s back cover, Ms. Kapitanova asks readers This violin string still grieves my heart: “We’re not allowed anywhere,” Ms. Ivchenko said. to consider Kotsiubynsky’s words, “Life without poetry is a That native home in dreams “We’re told we need postmodernism, something hot, some- crime. Everyone understands this in his own way, as much The transparent, invisible paradise thing dirty. Then we’ll be published.” But bending values for commercial success isn’t some- as poetry exists not only in literature.” Appears to me often! For years, Ms. Kapitanova had piles of notebooks with thing that interests Ms. Ivchenko, who will continue to pur- poems stashed away in her Brooklyn apartment, waiting for sue her work through other channels. the right moment and person to help publish them. to shine beautifully, like diamonds. But most of all, I wanted Ms. Kapitanova, 62, doesn’t expect a literary career, but hopes that Ms. Ivchenko will help publish the other works It was on “KhaiVei” (http://h.ua) in 2007 that she came to support her and provide spiritual strengthening.” that remain in her notebooks, to share with those who will across Ms. Ivchenko, who shared her deepest concerns and Ms. Kapitanova’s work inspired Ms. Ivchenko to pen her listen. longings. Moreover, Ms. Ivchenko had already published own poems, six of which appear in “That Native Home in At the December presentation, she choked up with tears two collections of poetry. They began serious work in 2010 Dreams…” as she read her poem “Call Your Mothers!” before a crowd and wrote most of the collection’s 42 poems that year. “When Myroslava began to post them on the Internet, that included her own two daughters, whom she hadn’t see “We complemented each other,” Ms. Kapitanova said. my own poems emerged,” Ms. Ivchenko said. “They also for more than a decade until she was able to visit her native “She feels pain for Ukraine. I not only feel pain for Ukraine, sounded different. I touched Myroslava’s life experience Ukraine. She’s now a U.S. citizen. Ms. Ivchenko finished but also for its people abroad and in Ukraine.” and human spirit. Of course, my creativity was transformed reading for her. A graduate of Shevchenko National University in Kyiv, and that was a great marvel.” “Call your mothers more often, share your thoughts with Ms. Ivchenko also had the literary skills to edit Ms. Ms. Ivchenko is preparing to publish a work in February, Kapitanova’s poems, arrange them aesthetically and sharpen them; Our life is a short moment, which will pass well into “Ya Mavka” (I Am a Forest Nymph), consisting of two sec- eternity for your mother’s sake!” their tone. Co-authorship resulted. tions of poetry and a fictional account based on the drama “Through arranging, I was able to make the poetry more Those interested in ordering copies of “Ta Ridna “Lisova Pisnia” (Forest Song) written by Lesia Ukrainka, Domivka u Sni…” or the upcoming “Ya Mavka,” can con- distinguished, make distinct the idea of each poem and con- the 19th century writer whom she credits with inspiring her vey an idea to the reader,” Ms. Ivchenko said. “They began tact Ms. Ivchenko at: [email protected]. She reads creative spirit. and speaks English. She’s pursuing independent publishing, avoiding the Writers Union of Ukraine (created during the Stalin era), as well mainstream publishers, who indicated they’re My Pain – Ukraine not interested in poetry with traditional themes of love, Happiness by Victoria Ivchenko and Myroslava Kapitanova by Victoria Ivchenko Ukraine, my nightingale, I rush to you in my thoughts… It’s a complicated thing – happiness: There’s not enough for everyone… My heart feels… it seems like loneliness, It’s like Holy Communion, I pray for you, my land! Like sweet pie! Some cut more for themselves, I bitterly cried in childhood: And even cut a slice for a brother, Beads were lost with the necklace… Blaming heavenly paradise How now to preserve my own peace? – For a hellish, earthly lesson. I see your troubles, blue-eyed! And someone’s destiny was stolen – Seized and cut off… The evil forces grow even fiercer, And for the free person – there’s free will, Hovering as hawks… There isn’t judgment for him! Why in the once grain-producing Ukraine “There is no happiness on earth, Is there not enough bread even today? One poet would say. – There is only holy will… Some bathe in silver and gold, And calm… and free thought!” Some have nothing to eat! It spreads its wings, Myroslava Kapitanova at the boook presentation. And soars – on high and low… In angelic white clothes Committee, spoke about the educational resources available It brushes against godly vestments. UCRDC staffers meet... on the Holodomor, presented Dr. Curle with a Holodomor And some will lose their souls, (Continued from page 4) Teaching Kit and stressed the importance of using the And some will save theirs… current state of academic research on the Holodomor, and Holodomor, a Communist-perpetrated genocide, as an Yet scarier than Judgment Day – excellent teaching tool for the 21st century. stressed Canada’s leading international role in recognizing Is the uncertainty of a dark sign. the Holodomor as genocide. Switlana Medwicky, curator of the “Barbed Wire Iroida Wynnyckyj, head archivist at the UCRDC, intro- Solution” exhibit, reviewed the resources available at the As if the soul is blinded, dreams, duced Dr. Curle to the UCRDC’s archival collection on the UCRDC on Canada’s World War I internment of Searches for water in a desert, Holodomor. The UCRDC has been documenting the Ukrainians. And no cloud in the world Holodomor since 1982. An open and frank discussion followed on how the Will water its tracks. Orest Zakydalsky, UCRDC Researcher, spoke about the Holodomor might best be presented at the Canadian Wake up, lost soul, Museum for Human Rights. center’s ongoing joint project with the Ukrainian Canadian Throw away your burdens… Congress (UCC), “Sharing the Story,” which focuses on the Dr. Curle expressed his thanks to the UCRDC for mak- collection of Holodomor eyewitness testimony. ing its extenstive research materials and archives available The country – the one, which is best – Valentina Kuryliw of the UCRDC Board of Directors, to the museum, and said she looks forward to future cooper- Welcomes its toiler!” who chairs the UCC National Holodomor Education ation. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 No. 6

The Ukrainian Weekly A thank you to our supporters Each month, without fail, The Ukrainian Weekly publishes a list of donors to The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund. Perhaps you don’t pay much attention to these lists, but we do. These donations, no matter their amounts, make a big difference for a community publication like ours that never was a profit-making venture. The Our hopes for Ukraine Weekly, you see, has always been published as a community service. During my January visit to New York, I free-market economics, some balance As we write these words, the listing of donors for January 2011 is on our desk. was most often asked about the political with socialism, or a dangerous form of The total is a very significant $7,052 – that’s well above our average total of situation in Ukraine and what hope is national socialism, as the party’s former monthly donations, when you consider that during all of 2010 we received a there for the near future. name alludes to (it was founded as the grand total of $32,182 in contributions to our press fund. (But, it should be I am careful in responding to such Social Nationalist Party of Ukraine.) explained that the January list also includes the donations earmarked for The questions, because the fulfillment of one’s To his credit, Mr. Tiahnybok has Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund that came in with payments for the Christmas referred to enhancing the ability of aver- cards issued by our publisher, the Ukrainian National Association. And, that list “hope” depends on what is being hoped age Ukrainians to acquire and trade pri- includes several major donors.) for. For some, it’s Ukraine’s integration vate property, as well as the need for a What is most heartening to us on the receiving end of the donations is that we into the European Union and the North judiciary with reduced corruption. Yet see a lot of familiar names – people who’ve sent in stories and letters, folks that Atlantic Treaty Organization. This would these platforms are not much developed have been mentioned in stories published in The Weekly, and, of course, personal give Ukraine stronger democratic institu- and take a back seat to the party’s call for acquaintances and colleagues in community activism. Among them are many sup- tions and protection of individual rights. “poriadok” (order) and Ukrainianization porters from the younger generation. That, too, speaks volumes. And, there are Some are also hoping for cultural and policies. repeat donors, of larger and smaller amounts, including a couple from Toledo, linguistic Ukrainianization policies, which Like the Party of Regions, Svoboda is Ohio, whose donations appear each and every month! We see all these donations as were tested by the administration of for- more concerned with the ends of achiev- tangible expressions of support for the work of this community newspaper. mer President Viktor Yushchenko but ing its goals than the means by which By regularly publishing the lists of our donors, we acknowledge our supporters never fully implemented. they’re achieved. That’s dangerous, as and offer them a very sincere thank-you. And we do so in a prominent spot in our My six years of reporting have led me we’ve witnessed during the last year. newspaper in order to show how much we appreciate your assistance. to hope for three key goals to be achieved At first glance, the Front of Change Turning to a related matter, if you read the section of our “2010: Year In in Ukraine: seems like the party for the diaspora throw Review” titled “Another year at The Weekly,” you know that during 2010 we com- (1) a republic with strong checks and its support behind. Its January 22 meeting pleted an enormous task: all of our newspaper’s issues published since it was balances between the judicial, legislative to commemorate the Act of Union demon- founded in 1933 have been digitized and are now available online on our website, and executive branches of government; strated that it’s likely to become the politi- www.ukrweekly.com. That’s nearly 4,000 issues! We couldn’t have done any of the 2) a strong, independent judiciary to cal force to fill the void left by Our work on the digital archives of The Ukrainian Weekly, and its (older) sister-publi- uphold individual and private property Ukraine, which is no longer competitive. cation Svoboda, without the generous support of major donors. rights; and To succeed in Ukrainian politics, a The Shevchenko Scientific Society was the first to offer support to this project, (3) a sharp reduction in the state’s party needs two things: a charismatic giving us a $15,000 grant in December 2007. Self Reliance New York Federal Credit bureaucracy, particularly its role in offer- leader and an oligarch sponsor. The Union provided a very generous $50,000 in April 2008 – becoming (and remaining) ing social payments and benefits to those our largest donor. During 2009 the Heritage Foundation of 1st Security Savings Bank below retirement age. appearance of Petro Poroshenko at the contributed $5,000; Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union, $10,000; Euro-Atlantic integration is worth pur- January 22 event means the Front of a donor who wished to remain anonymous, $10,000; and the Bahriany Foundation, suing only because it would spur signifi- Change will have the funding it needs to $2,000. In 2010 the SUMA (Yonkers) Federal Credit Union donated $10,000. (We cant progress towards these ideals. compete in the 2012 parliamentary elec- are always seeking additional grants to support our newspapers’digital archives proj- If this is what we’re hoping for, then tions. ect, which is something that is constantly expanding.) we’re not likely to make any progress It was Mr. Poroshenko who provided To all of our supporters – both individuals and institutions – let us hereby extend anytime soon. None of Ukraine’s leading Viktor Yushchenko with the financial fuel an enthusiastic and heartfelt thank-you. Diakuyemo! politicians are genuinely willing to take pump to compete in the 2004 presidential the difficult steps in cutting bureaucracy, election and ultimately triumph. The reforming the bankrupt judicial system, Poroshenko business empire is currently making the country more investment- estimated to be worth $384 million. friendly and protecting individual rights. Additionally, several national-demo- Many are not the least bit interested in cratic parties indicated they’re willing to Feb. Turning the pages back... these goals, most notably the Party of merge with Front of Change and make it Regions of Ukraine led by President stronger. Among them is the For Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and the Batkivschyna party, led by Viacheslav Kyrylenko, which is Ukraine’s most reliable political force 9 Five years ago, on February 9, 2005, the Manitoba Liquor party led by Yulia Tymoshenko. When taking power, both these political forces for Euro-Atlantic integration. 2005 Control Commission (MLCC), responding to a complaint by Yet, Mr. Yatsenyuk looks very much the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association, showed no interest in progressive reforms. Judicial corruption thrived when Ms. like a repeat of Mr. Yushchenko. They’re announced that it would remove Crimean wines bearing an both bankers with weak wills who are image of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin from its shelves. Tymoshenko was prime minister in 2005 and 2008-2010, largely because the chief unwilling to challenge the oligarchs that The wines, 1998 vintage port and sherry, depicted the meeting of Stalin, U.S. are interested in maintaining corruption. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winton Churchill at Yalta, justice of the Supreme Court, Vasyl Onopenko, was among her closest politi- After all, introducing a strong judiciary Crimea, in February 1945. At the meeting it was decided to forcibly repatriate “Soviet isn’t in the interests of oligarchs because it citizens” to the USSR, which resulted in the execution of many of those unfortunates cal allies and sponsors. Mr. Onopenko’s Social Democratic Party of Ukraine was would enable their smaller counterparts to and the internment of millions in the gulag. The 60th anniversary of the meeting at be able to compete better with them on a Yalta was marked on February 11, 2005. among the three parties to form the Tymoshenko Bloc. level playing field. Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, director of research for the UCCLA, commented on the A strong judiciary would also introduce MLCC decision: Ms. Tymoshenko has become too polarizing a figure. While the tort law to Ukraine, which currently “This is very good news, and we commend the Manitoba Liquor Control doesn’t exist. That would bring devastat- Commission for acting promptly and removing these offensively labeled wines from Batkivschyna party is the largest in the opposition, it simply doesn’t have enough ing lawsuits against the oligarchs’ facto- their shelves. No mass murderer’s mug should grace a wine label. We hope that noth- ries and mines, which violate labor laws, ing like this will ever happen again and although we are not aware of who the import- public support to dislodge the authoritari- an government on its own. If it’s ever dis- as well as safety and environmental stan- ers of these wines are, we suggest they alert the winery about how unconscionable it dards. was to commemorate a conference that resulted in the enslavement or extermination of lodged, too many Ukrainians would oppose her presidency. More than 74 per- Mr. Yatsenyuk is just as wishy-washy many innocent men, women and children. as Mr. Yushchenko, if not more so. Earlier “Stalin should not be glorified or exalted. It’s time we came to recognize that the cent of Ukrainians distrust Ms. Tymoshenko, according to a December on he supported Ukraine’s NATO integra- Stalinist dictatorship was responsible for more suffering that any other regime in 20th tion. He then backed off from that plat- century Europe. We hallow the memory of those many hundreds of thousands of poll conducted by the Yaremenko Ukrainian Institute for Social Research form when running for the presidency in Ukrainians who survived the genocidal Great Famine (Holodomor) of 1932-1933 in 2010, revealing his vision of a Greater Soviet Ukraine, then found themselves in Western Europe at war’s end and probably and the Social Monitoring Center. And rightfully so. Europe as an alternative to the European thought themselves safe, only to then be forced back to the USSR at bayonet point, to Union, with Ukraine at its center. That leaves us with two political parties a horrid fate. Hiring Russian political scientists for to consider – the Front of Change led by “That is what happened as a consequence of the Yalta Agreement, the mass enslavement his campaign only confirmed that he’s an and the Svoboda of witnesses to genocide, with the West’s complicity. We cannot tolerate that being ignored empty shell. nationalist party led by Oleh Tiahnybok. or diminished by the use of Stalin’s image on a wine label for sale in Canada. Ukrainians At a roundtable discussion last year, I Nothing in the Svoboda party platform have just recently, with their Orange Revolution, rejected the legacy of Communism. We watched in amazement as Mr. Yatsenyuk would indicate that it supports strong don’t want Stalin exalted here in Canada, even if only on a wine label.” declared his support for the United checks and balances, individual rights and This particular topic was covered by two additional articles in the February 20, Nations becoming the governing body for reducing the state bureaucracy. 2005, issue of The Weekly, including one by Dr. Luciuk and another by Orysia the world’s countries. That would sacri- Unfortunately, Svoboda appears to admire Paszczack Tracz. fice Ukrainian sovereignty on behalf of a form of authoritarianism similar to what world government. Source: “Manitoba takes Stalin off the Shelves,” The Ukrainian Weekly, February the Party of Regions has pursued. 20, 2005. It’s not clear whether Svoboda supports (Continued on page 16) No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 7

ESSAY: Illumination: A perspective by Larissa Kosmos steel mills of Cleveland and my “baba” cleaning office buildings. Years later, It’s a fiercely cold night in January she’ll tell me how she was instructed to 2009, but the atmosphere indoors is polish spittoons until she saw in them warm. I’m in New York City, at a party her own reflection. at the top of Rockefeller Center, cele- Waiters circulate with trays, offering brating the 75th anniversary of Bride’s me champagne and an assortment of From images to interests magazine, where I occasionally work hors d’oeuvres. I mingle with my col- as a freelance editor. The mood is fes- a disdain for manners. leagues, yet increasingly I am drawn to Ethnic stereotypes, like ethnic jokes, tive; the company is lively; and in this But if Ukraine was similar to America, the birds’-eye view in our backdrop; I are out of fashion. If we want to demonize space which is 70 floors above ground, and America was similar to Russia, then a want to experience it closer, unfiltered people, we are more likely to use political enclosed in floor-to-ceiling windows, detached observer would have to conclude by glass. Despite my lack of a coat, I categories: liberals or conservatives, the view of the city lights is spectacu- that Ukraine was similar to Russia. An step outside onto the observation deck. Democrats or Republicans, rednecks or lar. absurd conclusion! Yet if Ukraine was so The cold is startling. After a lone smok- elitists. If they are foreigners, it all On another January night, in 1949, different from Russia, how could the U.S. er walks past me to rejoin the party, I depends on whether they support Ukraine. the steam ship Marine Marlin heads for be so similar to both? enjoy the space to myself, admiring the And if they are Ukrainians, we tend to the New York Harbor, carrying approx- Obviously, such stereotypical compari- dense milky way of lights. divide them into supporters and opponents imately 900 people displaced by the sons have their limitations. Furthermore, Looking out toward the harbor, I of President Viktor Yanukovych or Yulia second world war, among them my Tymoshenko. In other words, since it is no ethnic or national stereotypes easily lend imagine the formidable S.S. Marine grandparents – Natalia and Ivan longer politically correct to stereotype themselves to abuse, becoming mere Marlin coming within sight of the Baczynsky – my aunt and my then people by nation, race or ethnicity, we excuses for bias. Like the partisan political American shore. I envision my grand- 7-year-old mother. pigeonhole them by their politics. profiling of today, stereotypical images are parents, in their 20s, during the final After fleeing Ukraine in a covered In some ways, the demise of ethnic ste- a convenience for the superficial thinker, a night of their two-week voyage, watch- wagon and journeying west for nearly a reotypes is unfortunate. For one thing, substitute for analysis. ful of their little girls. They do not year, surviving a bombing en route that they are usually based on some truth – So what terms of analysis will help us know that they have parted with loved killed two family members and living though there may be other, more important understand current relations among ones whom they will not see for for four years in the refugee camps of truths which they ignore or obscure. For Ukraine, Russia and the United States? decades or ever again. They do not , they boarded the ship in another thing, they keep us alert to cultural One useful concept is that of national know that they will remain in this Bremerhaven, headed to the U.S. differences that today’s monotone global interest. What are these countries’ several country for life. Traveling across the Atlantic, my culture tends to blur. Not all ethnic stereo- interests? This will surely come up at The Sixty years separate these two grandparents do not come with an types are negative – think of the level- Washington Group’s Leadership January nights, but what they have in American dream. Instead, they will headed English, the easy-going Dutch, the Conference in D.C. on Saturday, February common is the cold – pure, uncompro- accept an American reality. Not know- romantic Italians, the exuberant Greeks. 19. Speakers from government and aca- mising – and the lights, the multitude ing English, they, like masses of other And, of course, stereotypes make good demia will help us understand the coincid- of lights. Gliding on the sea, even at a immigrants, will be limited to manual propaganda. There was a time, indeed, ing or conflicting national interests of distance, the lights of New York City labor, my “dido” first working in the when we in “the emigration” used to play Ukraine, Russia and America. would have been visible, those of ethnic stereotypes for all they were worth. To be sure, “national interest” is no Rockefeller Center among them. In the Larissa Kosmos of New York is a When talking with Americans, we would easy matter. There are a nation’s real inter- sleeping hours, not long before a young first-generation Ukrainian American try to convince them that Ukrainians were ests, its interests as perceived by its cur- family sets foot into a new life, the and freelance writer. Her essays have really very similar to them. The Americans rent leaders, and what they want others to lights bear witness to the night, reveal- repeatedly appeared in The New York had rebelled against Britain; the believe those interests to be. Thus, for ing nothing, promising nothing, but Times Magazine’s online column Ukrainians had rebelled against Russia. example, Russia’s real interests may certain, steady, persistent in their “Motherlode” and on the parenting America had honest, straight-shooting require a strong defense of its Chinese site Babble. brightness. cowboys; Ukraine had sincere, truth-lov- border, and therefore security on its south- ing Kozaks – freedom-loving individual- ern and western flanks – but not necessari- ists in either case. Ukraine was a land of ly outright annexation of Ukraine. But its LETTER TO THE EDITOR independent small farmers, just like the leaders may see those interests differently. early American republic. Our national poet And by repeatedly rattling the saber over Taras Shevchenko (a friend of Afro- their southern neighbor, are they threaten- The area Emanuel is describing is American actor Ira Aldridge) once asked ing attack, or merely trying to propitiate Mayoral candidate Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia). In 1917, no rhetorically when Ukraine would have its their chauvinists at home while warning part of Zakarpattia was Russia. In fact, Washington – a quotation inscribed on the the West to keep its distance? What do Rahm Emanuel Zakarpattia only came under Soviet con- Shevchenko monument in the city named they want the world to believe about their trol in 1945. Even then, it was not part of after America’s most famous founding intentions in Ukraine? Dear Editor: Russia, but was the westernmost oblast of father. As Voltaire remarked in his The same analysis can be applied to the U.S. Officially, America’s interests in Chicago, as some may have heard, is the Ukrainian SSR. Today, it is proudly “History of Charles XII,” Ukraine had Ukraine include security, trade and invest- having a mayoral election. The frontrun- and firmly part of Ukraine. always aspired to freedom. ment, freedom, democracy and human ner is former White House Chief of Staff Mr. Emanuel’s description of the area Today, all this makes it difficult to rights. That, of course, is also what the Rahm Emanuel. as “Russian-Romanian border” may be explain to our American friends why so U.S. wants Ukraine (and its diaspora) to Speaking about his residency, Mr. many Ukrainians voted for a presidential simply the result of ignorance, or of con- think. Do these represent America’s real Emanuel described valued family items candidate who curbs civil liberties and fusion between the terms Ruthenia and interests? Perhaps – Americans, let us he left in his house in Chicago. Among seeks closer ties with his country’s former Russia. Regardless, the 50,000 plus remember, are honest, straight-shooting those items were his maternal grandmoth- oppressor. As one observer recently Ukrainians in Chicago should not have a cowboys. But how far, for example, would er’s coat, the only object left that remarked, it is incredible that a people mayor who makes such a fundamental the U.S. go to protect human rights in belonged to his grandfather. In describing should voluntarily return to slavery. mistake. Ukraine, especially given its lukewarm his grandfather’s history, Mr. Emanuel Perhaps Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor defense of these rights elsewhere? Would said that he “came to Chicago in 1917 Vasyl Markus Jr. knew something that Voltaire did not. it rebuff a determined Russian attempt to from the Russian-Romanian border.” Chicago In fact, all that talk of Ukrainian American resemblances sounds less con- isolate Ukraine economically, diplomati- vincing when we remember the impas- cally, politically? What if Russia threat- sioned claims, then current in Soviet- ened U.S. interests in Central Asia and the IN THE PRESS: The Demjanjuk case American discourse, about the similarities Middle East – would America pay the between the “Soviet people” (or the price to keep Ukraine in the West? “The agonizing pace of the last Nazi single witness still alive who remembers “Russian people,” which was considered Obviously, a nation’s various global inter- trial; The final chance to get justice for having seen Mr. Demjanjuk in Sobibor. the same thing) and the Americans. After ests must be weighed relative to each 27,900 Jews murdered at Sobibor has … all, both Russians and Americans had other. descended into farce,” by Tony “The court must also decide whether to founded new nations based on ideas, not Then there is the Ukrainian diaspora. Paterson, The Independent & The accept an argument put forward by the “blood and soil.” Both were working to Are its interests identical with those of the Independent on Sunday, January 9: prosecution, which has no legal precedent create a just society – one through socio- United States? A host of Ukrainian in post-war death camp trials. This propo- economic equality, the other through American civil servants have doubtless “…The proceedings have been slowed sition, backed by historians’ research, equality of opportunity. In the previous wrestled with this question. And can we to a snail’s pace by the aged and appar- maintains that simply by being employed century, both had abolished human bond- assume that the interests of the diaspora coincide with those of today’s Ukraine – ently ailing defendant’s state of health. … as an SS guard in Sobibor, Mr. age, defeated southern separatists (that’s or of its leaders? Do those leaders even They [doctors] are by no means certain Demjanjuk would automatically have us!) and settled a vast frontier. In World have a conception of national interest as that he will live long enough to witness taken part in the mass murder of prison- War II, they had fought together to defeat distinct from their private concerns? the end of his own trial. … ers. The defense argues that such claims fascism. Russians, like Americans, were “But Mr. [John] Demjanjuk’s health is simple, down-to-earth folk, focused on Come to the TWG conference and find are ridiculous, and that the prosecution out! far from being the only barrier in the way must prove not only that he was there but this world, not the next. Russia, like of justice being done and being seen to be that he also murdered. …” America, was a land of the common man, done. The prosecution case is severely with a distrust of European aristocratic Andrew Sorokowski can be reached at hampered by the fact that there is not a (Continued on page 16) culture, a suspicion of intellectualism and [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 No. 6

Canadian Museum of Human Rights Is the CMHR truly committed to telling Canadian stories? by Lubomyr Luciuk Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have boasted of being the party that reached out to Canada’s minorities – particularly in the person of Jason Kenney, the minister of citizen- ship and immigration – strategically undercutting a “traditional” source of political support for the Liberals. There’s truth in this claim. They certain- ly secured broad-based gratitude in Ukrainian Canadian circles for settling issues arising out of Canada’s first national internment operations – a file the Liberals, for all their pretensions to being the party of social justice, never- theless ignored, for decades. That said, the Conservatives are about to be reminded that it’s not just about a first date going well. You’ve got to nurture nice feelings if you don’t Front (left) and back (above) of a postcard issued by the Ukrainian Canadian want them to blow away. Civil Liberties Association in early January to press Canadian officials to create If the Canadian Museum for Human an independent advisory committee to determine the content of the Canadian Rights were truly committed to telling Museum for Human Rights, ensuring that the body is truly representative of the Canadian stories or those less well- Canadian population, inclusive and fair-minded. known, there could be no principled objection to it. Sadly, it’s not. For example, Likewise ignored were the results of the galleries (or zones) to be thematic, compara- consequences of The War Measures Act the final report of its Content Advisory public survey Arni Thorsteinson submitted tive and inclusive. upon several different Canadian communi- One zone, for example, could deal with ties during the course of the 20th century Committee recommended the allocation of a on March 31, 2008, to the Member of Parliament Josée Verner, then minister of Canada’s internment operations. Those highlights the need for vigilance in defense disproportionate share of permanent exhibit afflicted not only Eastern Europeans in of civil liberties in times of domestic and space to Jewish suffering in the second Canadian heritage. Reportedly, Canadians rank-ordered themes they wanted addressed 1914-1920, but Japanese, Italian and international crisis. world war. German Canadians in 1939-1945 and some That partiality was demonstrated by the at the CMHR as follows: Aboriginal (First Nations), 16.1 percent; genocides, 14.8 per- Quebecois in 1970. Explaining the baneful (Continued on page 16) 48 references to the Holocaust this docu- cent; women, 14.7 percent; internments, ment includes, compared to only one about 12.5 percent; war and conflicts, 8.7 percent; the genocidal Great Famine of 1932-1933 in holocaust, 7 percent; children, 5.9 percent; Soviet Ukraine, the Holodomor. sexual orientation, 4.9 percent; ethnic minorities, 3.8 percent; slavery, 2.9 percent; How to avoid turning the CMHR Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk is director of immigration, 2.6 percent; charter of rights, research for the Ukrainian Canadian 2.3 percent; disabilities, 2 percent; and into a symbol of inequality Civil Liberties Association (www.uccla. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1.8 by Oksana Bashuk Hepburn presence in Winnipeg where the museum ca) and a recipient of a 2010 Shevchenko percent. is to be located. Ukrainian Canadians Medal. We’ve asked for all 12 of this museum’s Perhaps the best that can be said about have been fighting an uphill battle for the the stand taken by the decision-makers of recognition of the some 10 million – the Canadian Museum of Human Rights according to Joseph Stalin, who should (CMHR) – to accord preferential treat- know – of their own who were starved ment to some groups in its exhibit space while the world was ignorant then or – is the public debate around this un- chose to whitewash this human calamity Canadian approach. for decades in order to serve its own A little history first. agenda. During the conceptual stages, the The Canadian Museum of Human Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC), the Rights must be based on values we can umbrella entity for some 1.2 million all be proud of. And that is the reason Canadians, was asked by museum initia- UCC agreed to support the CMHR, hav- tors, led by Gail Asper, the daughter of ing understood that the Holodomor Canada’s media mogul Izzy Asper, to would have parity. lend support. And this was for good rea- Apparently this is not the case. The son: the government wished to avoid con- CMHR approach calls for two permanent troversy. exhibits along national lines. Ms. Asper Several years earlier, a Holocaust com- et al cleverly married the Holocaust with ponent was proposed to the yet-to-be- Canada’s own shame – the persecution of built Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. the Native peoples – hoping, perhaps, to Veterans’ organizations and others object- avoid criticism of exclusivity or preferen- ed. The UCC Ottawa – I was then presi- tial treatment of one group. dent – sent letters seeking “equitable” The Ukrainian Canadian community is and “inclusive” representation, arguing up in arms against this clever but unfair that recognition of one people’s tragedy tactic, while the question to fair-minded was discriminatory and un-Canadian in taxpayers is this: Should the museum value. The War Museum was built with- receive government funding to highlight out the Holocaust or other human rights exclusively and permanently two selected components. The Aspers tried again. human evils? Their request for government funding The issue is gathering main street for the CMHR was predicated on the media attention. The discussion on the condition that other groups be on side; in Internet is heavy; the dominant view particular former critics of unilateralism appears to support Canadian values of like the Ukrainian Canadians, a strong fairness and inclusivity. With the physical structure of the muse- um already taking shape in Winnipeg, the Oksana Bashuk Hepburn is a former center of Canada’s Ukrainian settlement, it Ukrainian Canadian Congress board is important for its approach to get back on member and director of the Canadian track and avoid further angst. The require- Human Rights Commission. Her father, ment now is to make a decision that will Petro Bashuk, was a political prisoner in not tarnish Canada’s image as a global Auschwitz. She and her mother, Natalia human rights leader, a backward slide for A second postcard released in early February by the UCCLA and Friends calls Leontowych Bashuk, escaped Stalin’s for the CMHR’s galleries to be inclusive. evil empire. (Continued on page 18) No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 9 Rochester community welcomes reps of National University of Ostroh Academy by Christine Hoshowsky (UNWLA), a staunch supporter of The Ukrainian Museum in New York, and a sup- ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A fierce winter porter of the Ukrainian Research Institute at storm delayed the arrival of Dr. Ihor Harvard. For the last three years, she has Pasichnyk, rector of the National University been a donor to Ostroh Academy. of Ostroh Academy in Ukraine, and his Another guest, Dr. Evhen Lylak, profes- associate, Eduard Balashov, the head of its sor at the National Technical Institute for the Foreign Relations Department, to Rochester, Deaf at RIT, gives generously of his time to N.Y., as they toured several Ukrainian com- the Ukrainian community and the Ukrainian munities in the U.S. and Canada during the Federal Credit Union, currently as its holiday season. Supervisory Committee chair. He organized To the disappointment of all concerned, teachers’ workshops on Ukraine at RIT and this delay forced the cancellation of planned worked with the Irondequoit-Poltava Sister meetings on December 13, 2010, with Prof. Cities Committee in support of the Open Randall Stone, director of the Skalny Center World international exchange program. for Polish and Central European Studies; The Pylyshenkos were the gracious hosts Peter Lennie, senior vice-president, and for the evening. Mrs. Pylyshenko, who is of Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Dean of the German descent, is nonetheless a supporter Faculty of Arts, Sciences and Engineering; of Ukrainian culture. The Pylyshenkos and Jackie Levine, director of the study retired from teaching and administrative abroad program, all of the University of work at the State University of New York at Rochester; as well as with William W. Brockport and now volunteer much of their Destler, president, and Dr. James DeCaro, time to the Ukrainian community. At a meeting with officials from the National University of Ostroh Academy on director, of PEN International at the Mr. Pylyshenko is the director and head December 13, 2010 (from left) are: Mirko and Irma Pylyshenko, Irene Russnak, Rochester Institute of (RIT). librarian at the Ukrainian Federal Credit Rector Ihor Pasichnyk and Christine Hoshowsky. Nevertheless, a community dinner orga- Union’s community library. Most recently, nized to welcome Rector Pasichnyk and Mr. he compiled the Rochester Ukrainian Yet another guest that evening, Dr. organizing the events of this visit. Mrs. Balashov proceeded on December 12, 2010, Archives Collection, which is housed in the Christine Hoshowsky, is a recently retired Denysenko, the retired CEO of the as planned at Olga’s Restaurant with good Rush Rhees Library at the University of teacher and former department head of his- Ukrainian Federal Credit Union, currently food, good wishes and good spirits but, alas, Rochester. Mr. Pylyshenko shares an inter- tory and economics at Irondequoit High serves on the UFCU board of directors. She without the honored guests. Dr. Pasichnyk est in and has a discourse with scholars at School in Rochester. She serves on the is a founder of the Irondequoit-Poltava and Mr. Balashov extended their apprecia- the National University of the Ostroh scholarship committee of the Ukrainian Sister Cities, and serves on the Ukrainian tion and regrets by phone from Minneapolis. Academy on the subject of the Ukrainian Federal Credit Union and is an active mem- World Congress executive committee and When the two guests finally arrived at diaspora. ber of Irondequoit-Poltava Sister Cities the World Council of Ukrainian Rochester International Airport the follow- Ostroh Academy established the Institute through which she coordinates activities as Cooperatives. In the future, she looks for- ing evening, they were met by Walter and of Ukrainian Diaspora Studies in January ward to working more closely with Dr. Tamara Denysenko, who drove them to the 2002 and is the only university in Ukraine to part of the Open World international exchange program. She, too, is a long-stand- Myron B. Kuropas and the many Friends of home of Wolodymr and Irma Pylyshenko operate such a subdivision. The institute’s Ostroh Academy in North America. for a dinner meeting that was attended by an mission is to study and document the every- ing member of the UNWLA. Dr. Hoshowsky used the occasion of the meet- The Ostroh Academy, founded in 1576, intimate group of supporters of Ostroh day activity and the creative and scientific was constituted as an institution of higher ing with Dr. Pasichnyk and Mr. Balashov to Academy. achievements of Ukrainians who live learning. In 1994, it was re-established by make a generous donation to Ostroh Irene Russnak, one of the honored guests, abroad, thereby spreading and developing presidential decree, and in 2000 it was ele- is an honorary member of the Ukrainian the scientific and cultural connections Academy. National Women’s League of America between all Ukrainian societies. The Denysenkos took responsibility for (Continued on page 18) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 No. 6 GENERATION UKE

Edited and compiled by Matthew Dubas University students inform community about Holodomor via exhibit , Ontario – The Ukrainian Lyuba Lytvyn, and first-year representative Students’ Club at the University of Western Diana Stepczuk. Ontario (UWO) is growing in members and One particular project the club began in activity each year. Since its rebirth in 2008, November 2009, with thanks to past the club has become more well-known to President Illina Frankiv and her executive London’s Ukrainian community through its team, is the annual commemoration of the initiative to uphold the Ukrainian Canadian Holodomor of 1932-1933. On Friday, culture and Ukrainian language. November 5, 2010, the UWO Ukrainian Founded in the 1970s, it continues to Students’ Club brought awareness to the organize and represent students, particularly UWO community with the exhibit of Ukrainian descent, at the university level. “Holdomor: Famine by Genocide” from the The club provides a balance of social events League of Ukrainian Canadians, which was such as varenyky dinners, sport tourna- displayed in the main forum of the ments, pub nights and caroling, but also University Community Center. commemorates historically significant This exhibit includes 100 factual and events, such as the Holodomor. visual posters. Students and staff of various It is led this year by: President Deana ethnicities visited the exhibit and were eager Drozdowsky, Vice-President Ana to learn more. With the help of Elizabeth Ostapchuk, finance – Danylo Kostruba, Mantz, librarian at UWO’s Weldon Library, events – Gleb Naboka, communications – the majority of the posters were also dis-

Members of the Ukrainian Students’ Club at the University of Western Ontario.

played at the library on November 19-30, Branch President Daria Hryckiw. 2010. In addition, Ms. Ostapchuk and Mr. The students were deeply impacted by Kostruba were interviewed by Western their stories and greatly appreciated the Radio about the Holodomor. opportunity. The club thanked the guest This public exposure enabled the club to speakers, Ms. Mantz and the donors who continue spreading knowledge about this contributed to November’s events com- genocide. Also, club members had the memorating the Holodomor. This event opportunity to hear four guest speakers pres- would not have been possible without assis- ent their perspectives about the Holodomor. tance from the Buduchnist Credit Union, The speakers included Prof. Marta Dyczok Peter Kryworuk, Mykola Wasylko, Jim of the history and political science depart- Kozak and the Ukrainian Credit Union. ments at UWO, London high school teach- For more information about the UWO ers Lily Hopcroft and Ola Nowosad, and Ukrainian Students’ Club you can contact Students with members of the League of Ukrainian Canadians. Ukrainian Canadian Congress London the executive at [email protected]. DakhaBrakha from Ukraine to perform at world music fest in Australia

PARSIPPANY, in Kyiv by the band’s artistic director N.J. – Ukraine’s Vladyslav Troitskiy, and its name derives multi-instrumental from the old Slavonic words for give and band DakhaBrakha take. will be performing The band has released four albums, “Na at Australia’s World Dobranich,” “Yahudky,” “Na Mezhi” and of Music, Arts and “Light” that have earned critical acclaim Dance (WOMAD, from World Music lovers. Yuri WOMADelaide) Andrukhovych, a contemporary poet from festival in Adelaide Ukraine, named them among the most sig- on March 11-14 at nificant bands in Ukraine at the moment, The Botanic Park. and regards DakhaBrakha’s “Light,” as the The group spe- best album of 2010. cializes in “ethno- DakhaBrakha explains its mission: chaos,” which “… We thank God and all the genera- combines elements tions of people who have fought for our of order and struc- independence and took part in keeping of ture found in tradi- tional folk music our songs, language and our traditions. The with the chaos of task we set ahead of us now is to reveal free-form experi- Ukraine to the world and more importantly mentation and to ourselves – Ukrainians. improvisation. The “The basis of our music are songs of our DakhaBrakha of Kyiv. music is centered ancestors, some of which have pre-historic around the ritualis- roots. In these texts and melodies lies the tic songs of Ukraine and other Slavic identification of our nation. At the same nations, incorporating the rhythms and time, we dare to experiment with art, com- BUG seeks photos for 2012 calendar sounds from Asia and Africa. bining our ethnic style with various instru- Band members include Marko ments, rhythms and melodies of other music PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Brooklyn need to submit their photos by February Halanevych, Iryna Kovalenko, Nina cultures of he world, giving new sound and Ukrainian Group (BUG) is collecting 25 to Maya Lew, mayalew123@yahoo. Garenetska, Olena Tsibulska, who are all life to the old songs.” photographs taken at Soyuzivka for its com. If sending group photos, photogra- graduates of the Ukrainian Folklore and For more information about 2012 calendar that feature the natural phers are asked to get permission from Culture Faculty at Kyiv University. The DakhaBrakha, visit www.dakhabrakha.com. scenes but also group photos of camp- each person. Also, photo credits must be group was formed in 2004 at the avant- ua. For concert information, visit www. ers, dancers, musicians and friends. provided and photos should be sent in garde Dakh Theater for Contemporary Arts womadelaide.com.au. The BUG calendar program (2007- the highest resolution possible (suitable 2009) has generated more than $7,000 for 8x10). toward the Soyuzivka Heritage Center. BUG calendars will be available for Based on its previous success, the pro- purchase at the Ukrainian Cultural gram has returned for 2012. Festival at Soyuzvika, scheduled for BUG members, who have first priori- July 15-17. The price of the calendars Visit our archive online: www.ukrweekly.com ty since this is a BUG initiative, will is to be announced. Special insert to The Ukrainian Weekly 2010-2011 UNA SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS 1­ Congratulations, UNA scholarship and award recipients of 2010-2011!

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Ukrainian school he volunteers at the Ukrainian $2,000 $1,000 $750 National Association continues its American Cultural Center of New annual tradition of recognizing academ- Jersey. As a life-long member of Plast, ic achievement as well as community Paul has completed the path from pre- involvement by its student members, school “ptashata” to eagle scout. Every who receive monetary awards to be summer during vacation Paul is a coun- used toward their college studies. selor at Plast camps, working with the This year, at the recommendation of next generation of scouts. Paul is study- the Scholarship Committee, the UNA is ing economics and political science, awarding scholarships totaling $16,825 and is learning Russian. to 81 students who are UNA members. Scholarships of The Ukrainian The highest award, the Joseph and National Home Corp. of Blackstone, Dora Galandiuk Scholarship, in the Mass., in the amount of $500 each, Larissa Kobziar, (UNA Maria Haras, (UNA Paul Hadzewycz, (UNA amount of $2,000, went to Larissa were awarded to Ian Eichorn and Kobziar, member of UNA Branch 489, Branch 489), is a student Branch 47), is a student at Branch 287), is a student Alexandra Teper. at Fordham University. Yale University. at Lafayette College. and an honor student studying psychol- Ian is a freshman studying biology at ogy at Fordham University in New the University of Massachusetts, and is $500 $200 York. Larissa is very active in the member of UNA Branch 206. He is an Ukrainian community, and developed a active parishioner at the Ukrainian love for all things Ukrainian, having Orthodox church in Woonsocket, R.I., attended Ukrainian School on where he sings in the church choir and Saturdays in New York. She graduated is a member of the church’s youth with top grades in Ukrainian language, group, which organizes various special literature and history. During the sum- events and picnics at the church. mers, she attended Plast Ukrainian Aleksandra, member of UNA Branch Scouting Organization camps at Vovcha 206, is a freshman psychology student Tropa and progressed from a scout to a at the University of Vermont. She grew troop leader to a counselor. Larissa also up in a family that promoted and culti- fondly recalled seeing the daily presen- Ian Eichorn, (UNA Natalie Belkairous, vated Ukrainian traditions. She per- Branch 206), is a stu- Alexandra Teper, (UNA (UNA Branch 452), is a tations of Ukrainian folklore and folk formed with the Ukrainian dance group art in Hunter, N.Y., where she learned dent at the University of Branch 206), is a student at student at North Western at her church and would collect items Massachusetts at Amhesrt. the University of Vermont. University of Maryland. Ukrainian folk dances and songs, read for shipping to the needy in Ukraine. Ukrainian poetry, and participated in Aleksandra is active in sports, playing many concerts by renowned Ukrainian soccer and basketball. She hopes to artists. Larissa, a senior, hopes to pur- eventually earn a master’s degree in sue a master’s degree in psychology, psychology. while perfecting her Ukrainian and The remaining 76 student-members French language skills. of the UNA won standardized awards, The Drs. Maria, Dmytro and Olha based on their year of study. The Jarosewych Scholarship, in the amount awards were broken down as follows: of $1,000, was won by Maria Haras, 23 freshman-year students were award- Branch 47, a junior and honor student studying history at Yale University in ed $125 each; 19 sophomores, $150 each; 18 juniors, $175 each; and 16 New Haven, Conn. Maria’s application Ryan Conroy, (UNA seniors, $200 each. demonstrated her intellectual side, as Branch 242), is a student Jennifer Finley, (UNA Sean Halligan, (UNA well as her curious nature. Maria grew The Ukrainian National Association at Pennsylvania State Branch 777), is a student Branch 39), is a student at up in a family where books were seen congratulates all the students, winners University. at Kutztown University. Utica College. as the key of knowledge. So it is not of this year’s scholarship awards, and strange that at the age of 7 it was wishes them great success for the Maria’s dream to read all of the books future. May the eternal words of Taras that she could find in the local library Shevchenko “learn the what others in Seattle, where the Haras family lived have to offer, but do not forsake your at that time. She says she still hopes to own,” become an epigraph for each achieve her goal. Maria spends a lot of one’s life. And the UNA, with its long- time at the university library, where she standing history, will serve for them as researches information on history and a piece of Ukraine on American soil. geography. She is proud of her The younger generation is urged to Ukrainian heritage and is thankful to support the UNA by purchasing its her parents for fostering the continua- financial products and insurance; by Michele Henderson, tion of Ukrainian traditions. subscribing to its newspapers, The (UNA Branch 112), is a Roman Kaploun, (UNA Nick Kobryn, (UNA student at Appalachian Branch 269), is a student Branch 130), is a student The Joseph Wolk Scholarship, in the Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda; and by State University. at Rutgers University. at Manhattan College. amount of $750, was awarded to soph- visiting the beautiful Soyuzivka omore Paul Hadzewycz, UNA Branch Heritage Center, which is owned by the 287, an honor student and Marquis UNA. As UNA members, they can take Scholar at Lafayette College in Easton, advantage of all of the fraternal benefits Pa. Paul is very active in the Ukrainian the UNA offers its members and can community of Morris County, N.J. He play a role in the promotion of graduated from the Lesia Ukrainka Ukrainian culture and heritage. School of Ukrainian Studies in For more information about the Whippany, N.J., with top grades. From UNA’s Scholarship Program, readers a young age he danced with the Iskra can phone 973-292-9800, ext. 3011, or Ukrainian Dance Ensemble. 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voted with the pro-government majority, make reform less painful for the society. the energy sector, housing and utility servic- NEWSBRIEFS yielding to pressure,” Ms. Tymoshenko (Ukrinform) es will also continue. At the same time, (Continued from page 2) said. After the expulsion of seven lawmak- reforms in the energy sector should not be a Yanukovych on his first year as president 2012 and the presidential elections as March ers from the faction, the YTB-Batkivschyna burden for the population. Therefore, with- 2015. The amendments also established that faction now comprises 105 national depu- KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor out clear financial and economic feasibility all authorities will be elected for a term of ties. (Ukrinform) Yanukovych said that political and econom- and a number of countervailing measures, ic stability is the main achievement during tariffs on energy for the population will not five years. In addition, it is envisaged that President calls for ceasefire in politics the Parliament of the Autonomous Republic his first year as president. In his opinion, increase. Reform of the housing and utility of Crimea, local councils and chairmen of KYIV – At the opening of the eighth ses- the “mad” resistance to some of his reforms services will be supported by a number of settlements shall be elected for five-year sion of Ukraine’s Parliament on February 1, was triggered by the old bureaucratic sys- national projects, like “Affordable terms only at regular elections. (Ukrinform) President Viktor Yanukovych called on all tem and it will soon end. He announced this Housing,” “Clean City,” “New Life,” political forces to “put aside corporate inter- in an interview with the BBC’s Ukrainian “Quality Water” and “City of the Future.” YTB-Batkivschyna faction reduced ests and start a constructive dialogue that Service in Davos. “I think that the impor- The plan also provides for continued sys- focuses on national interests rather than pri- tant thing is that political and economic sta- temic reforms in education. This year, the KYIV – Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia government will develop new state stan- Tymoshenko, while commenting on the vate ambitions.” He added, “We must do bility was established in Ukraine. In other everything to improve the efficiency of par- words, the result of this work is positive dards for primary, basic and general second- expulsion from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc ary education. Information and communica- liamentary work and withdrawal of political statistical data in virtually all spheres,” Mr. (YTB) faction of seven deputies who sup- tion technologies will be introduced in the forces from the state of confrontation.” He Yanukovych said on January 28. In particu- ported constitutional amendments on educational process of secondary schools. In noted that politicians may have different lar, he said that Ukraine’s gross domestic February 1, said that she does not condemn addition, the 2011 National Action Plan pro- views on ideology, the political system or product had grown by 4.5 percent in 2010, them, but she also does not want them to vides for the continuation of social reform, economic policy, “but there are problems inflation had slowed from 13 percent to 9 remain on her team. A statement posted on particularly pension reform. (Ukrinform) the politician’s official website reads that that have no party affiliation.” Solving these percent, the state budget deficit had decreased from 15 percent to 5 percent, the Ms. Tymoshenko recalled that the pro-presi- problems, the president said, “is a joint task Memorial march for Kruty heroes exports of Ukrainian goods had increased dential majority in the Verkhovna Rada had for all political forces, without exception, by nearly 30 percent, and industrial produc- extended its own powers for one and a half who consider themselves patriots of their KYIV – The Congress of Ukrainian tion in Ukraine had grown by 11 percent. years. “Our faction has decided to vote country.” Those who do not share this view Nationalists (CUN) and the Ukrainian According to Mr. Yanukovych, the govern- against such amendments to the just “should not interfere,” the president People’s Party (UPP) on January 29 held a ment apparatus was reduced, and the econ- Constitution, because we believe that [par- stated. Mr. Yanukovych reminded national march in central Kyiv on the occasion of omy was deregulated. “Almost 92 percent liamentary] elections should be held in deputies about the course of reforms pro- Kruty Heroes Remembrance Day. About of various permits and licenses in the state accordance with the Constitution – in March claimed in 2010, which are aimed at com- 200 people marched to Askold’s grave, have already been reduced,” he said. of this year... But, contrary to the decision of prehensive modernization of the country, where they laid flowers at the monument to Speaking about reform in Ukraine, which, the faction, several members of our faction and underscored that it is a joint task to Kruty heroes and honored the victims. in his opinion, had not been conducted for Participating in the march also were repre- 20 years, he said: “We need to activate the sentatives of the Union of Officers of mechanisms in the economy and in differ- Ukraine and the People’s Movement of CLASSIFIEDS ent spheres of life in our country, which are Ukraine (Rukh). In 1918, the village of CLASSIFIEDS close to European standards and which give Kruty (currently in Chernihiv region) was people a chance to defend their rights and TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI (973) 292-9800 x 3040 the cite of a battle between superior raise living standards.” (Ukrinform) Bolshevik troops and 300 Kyiv students and or e-mail [email protected] cadets, who fought to defend the Ukrainian Yanukovych announces Polish roots National Republic. Later, the remains of the KYIV – President Viktor Yanukovych some of the deceased were reburied at SERVICES has said that he has Polish roots on his Askold’s grave in Kyiv. (Ukrinform) father’s side. “My grandfather and great- grandparents were Lithuanian Poles. It was President’s address on Kruty heroes only my father who was born in the Donbas, KYIV – Speaking on January 29, on where he married a woman from Russia – Kruty Heroes Remembrance Day, President all of my other ancestors came from . Viktor Yanukovych delivered a brief My grandmother told me that she was born address. Here is the full text, as provided in in Warsaw. Her mother died, and her father English on the president’s website: “Today, got married again to a Lithuanian Pole who we honor the feat of Ukrainian students, lived in . After the October who died defending their country. Courage Revolution, my family moved to Vitebsk, and sacrifice of several hundred military where my grandmother married my grand- cadets, students and gymnasium students father, who lived in Dokshytsy, near the vil- have become a real example for future gen- lage of Yanuki. And only from Belarus [did erations of fighters for independence. The my family move] to the Ukrainian Donbas, events of the distant 1918 are an important where I was born,” he said in an interview lesson for modern Ukrainian. This is the les- with Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper son of courage, but also the lesson that we published on February 1. Mr. Yanukovych should be careful in our decisions, and think told Polish journalists that Warsaw remains well, when it comes to life of young people. a strategic partner for Kyiv. In addition, he So let us remember by a Christian tradition noted that he wanted, above all, to develop the victory and fearlessness of all those, economic cooperation between the two who have been sacrificing their lives for countries, as well as establish historical centuries for the independence of Ukraine, unity in the spirit of the formula “We for- for our future.” (Press Office of President give and ask for forgiveness,” the newspa- Viktor Yanukovych) per wrote. The Ukrainian president is to travel on a state visit to Poland on February Court rules out Gongadze probe 3-4. (Interfax-Ukraine) KYIV – A Kyiv court on January 31 Cabinet adopts economic plan blocked any attempt to investigate allega- OPPORTUNITIES tions that top political figures were behind KYIV – Pursuant to the order of the murder of journalist Heorhii Gongadze. President Viktor Yanukovych, the Cabinet The court ruled that the investigation con- PROFESSIONALS Earn extra income! of Ministers on February 1 adopted the cluded by prosecutors was complete and National Action Plan for 2011 on imple- that there were insufficient grounds to pur- The Ukrainian Weekly is looking mentation of economic reforms in 2010- sue allegations linking his death to former for advertising sales agents. 2014, called “Rich Society, Competitive President Leonid Kuchma and former For additional information contact Maria Economy, Effective Government.” The plan Internal Affairs Minister Yurii Kravchenko. Oscislawski, Advertising Manager, The provides for deregulation in all spheres of Col. 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Mr. Run your advertisement here, national projects “Grain of Ukraine” and Counsellor at Law in The Ukrainian Weekly’s Kuchma has consistently denied any “Effective Husbandry” will be developed. involvement in the Gongadze killing. Emphasis on Real Estate, Wills, Trusts and Elder Law CLASSIFIEDS section. The strategic action plan provides for the Ward Witty Drive, P.O. Box 249 Kravchenko committed suicide in 2005 just continuation of land reform, which aims at before he was scheduled to speak to prose- MONTVILLE, NJ 07045 development and enactment of land market Hours by Appointment Tel.: (973) 335-4555 bills, the state land cadastre, etc. Reform of (Continued on page 13) No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 13

air on Channel 5 TV, he said this is proven just a warning. They say that if the bill is before Mr. Erdogan’s departure, a source at NEWSBRIEFS by the fact that the Ukrainian lunch during voted into law, they will launch mass the administration of President Viktor (Continued from page 12) the World Economic Forum in Davos was actions across the country. (RFE/RL) Yanukovych confirmed the visit had been attended by over 100 representatives of upgraded to an official one. (news.am, pan- cutors about the murder case. The court Tymoshenko can’t go to Brussels decision confirms a September ruling by a business circles, the majority of them from armenian.net) Western companies. According to February lower court. Gongadze’s wife, Myroslava, KYIV – The leader of the Batkivschyna Ukraine joins Energy Community had challenged the lower court decision. 1 news reports, Mr. Kaskiv also noted that, party, Yulia Tymoshenko, who is under (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) in the autumn, Ukraine is planning to pres- recognizance not to leave Kyiv in connec- KYIV – As of February 1, Ukraine is a ent 15 to 20 investment projects and that tion with criminal cases brought against her, member of the Energy Community, Yanukovych on Ukrainian women these will be showcased at 25 world finan- was denied the opportunity to travel to which is based in Vienna. “Today offi- cial centers. Kirill Dmitriyev, a managing KYIV – President Viktor Yanukovych Brussels at the invitation of the president of cially marks the second enlargement of partner of the Icon Private Equity Fund who the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek. The the Energy Community – upon comple- delivered a speech during a January 28 is attending the Davos forum, said that lunchtime session at the annual International Procurator General’s Office (PGO) reported tion of all legal procedures, on this date “many Western investors show a serious that the refusal is due to the fact that on Economic Forum in Davos. He focused on Ukraine will become a full-fledged mem- interest in the agricultural sector; there is January 31-February 2 investigative actions the “Switch On Ukraine” PR-campaign, ber of the Energy Community,” the state- less and less food in the world and the prices in her case were planned. In addition, the which promotes the upcoming Euro-2012 ment from the Energy Community reads. are growing. And Ukraine can seriously PGO said it has information that Ms. soccer tournament that Ukraine is co-host- The European Commission (EC) wel- advance there.” In addition, there exists Tymoshenko intended to use a trip abroad to ing with Poland. “In order to ‘Switch On comed the new status of Ukraine. “We “great demand for metal, gold and therefore leave Ukraine and evade investigation. Ukraine’ it is enough to look at it with your welcome the accession of Ukraine to the there are serious perspectives in metallurgy. (Ukrinform) Energy Community, which represents a own eyes when chestnuts start blooming in In particular, with taking into consideration major step for this organization and for Kyiv and Ukrainian women start undress- Turkish PM and Holodomor demand in .” (Ukrinform) the new member. We are confident that ing. To see this beauty is amazing,” the Ukraine’s active and responsible mem- Ukrayinska Pravda newspaper quoted Mr. Students protests draft law on education KYIV – The protocol departments of the bership of the Energy Community will Yanukovych as saying. The luncheon’s host, Ukrainian president and the Turkish prime KYIV – Some 100 university students bring Ukraine’s citizens and businesses Reuters journalist Chrystia Freeland, reacted minister had a conflict in preparing Turkish picketed the Ukrainian Parliament build- closer to the European Internal Energy to the sexist comments. “Political correct- PM Recep Erdogan’s visit to Kyiv, it was ing on January 31 to protest a draft law Market,” said Fabrizio Barbaso, deputy ness has yet to reach Ukraine,” said Ms. reported on January 26. The Turks flatly on higher education that could lead to director general for energy at the Freeland, who is of Ukrainian descent. “But refused to visit the memorial to victims of higher tuition fees, RFE/RL’s Ukrainian the Holodomor, which is obligatory for all European Commission. According to the nevertheless it was nice to learn about the Service reported. The demonstrators said officials visiting the country. On January 24, director of the Energy Community’s beauty of Ukrainian women.” In the same the draft “would kill equal and fair the conflict reached its climax, when Ankara Secretariat, Slavtcho Neykov, the acces- speech, the Ukrainian president repeatedly admission to Ukrainian universities.” demanded that the trip be downgraded to a sion of Ukraine grants the Energy could not pronounce the Ukrainian word for They also said the draft, put together by working visit lest the Turkish PM find him- Community completely new dimensions. “switch on” – “uvimkny” – in the slogan the ruling Party of Regions parliamentary self near the memorial. , which is The geographical concept of Western “Uvimkny Ukrainu.” Instead he said faction, would force students to cover the accused of having committed genocide Balkans, with which the process was “uvikny” and “viknit,” causing the cost of tuition themselves. The protesters against the Armenians in 1915, is very sen- linked initially, is no longer valid. “Thus Ukrainian media to once again report on his added that the draft would lead to dis- sitive to similar historical events in other referring to the Energy Community malapropisms. (RIA Novosti, Ukrayinska mantling the current system whereby the countries. “Viktor Yushchenko’s request for Treaty, the focus is on expanding the EU Pravda) state guarantees jobs in certain fields for Turkey to recognize the 1930s Holodomor [European Union] energy policy through- Investors interested in Ukraine a specified number of students. Vice- as genocide considerably aggravated bilater- out Europe on the ground of clear legal Minister of Education Yevhen Sulima al relations,” Kommersant Ukraine cited a basis. Being an important gas transit KYIV – Foreign investors have shown said the new law would allow university local diplomat as saying. The Ukrainian side country, the accession of Ukraine will considerable interest in Ukraine, according rectors to raise tuition fees in line with exerted efforts to convince the Turkish for- have a positive impact on the European to the chairman of the State Agency for inflation and/or the average increase in eign office and the prime minister’s office security of energy supply, which is a win- Investments and Management of National the minimal monthly wage. The demon- that Kyiv assigns a different meaning to the win situation for all participants in the Projects, Vladyslav Kaskiv. Speaking on the strators told RFE/RL that the protest was term “Holodomor.” A couple of hours process,” he stated. (Ukrinform) 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 No. 6 BOOK NOTES: Stalin’s and Molotov’s files on the Ukrainian resistance “‘Osobye papki’ Stalina i Molotova struggle, which was particularly fierce in Soviet rule. The documents are published pro Natsionlno-Vyzvolnu Borotbu v the period from 1944 to mid-1945, as the in the original Russian, with an introduc- Zakhidnii Ukraїni u 1944-1948 rr.,” well-known historian Vladyslav tion and commentary in Ukrainian. Every [The “Personal Files” of Stalin and Hrynevych notes in his introduction. Prof. document is supplied with a title specify- Molotov on the National-Liberation Hrynevych asserts that the thesis advanced ing its ordinal number, type, addressee, Struggle in Western Ukraine (1944- by some Ukrainian historians concerning a author, content, date and registration 1948)], compiled by Yaroslav “civil war” in western Ukraine in this peri- number. The exhaustive personal and Dashkevych and Vasyl Kuk. Lviv: od has no basis in fact. geographical indexes (almost 100 pages) Literaturna agentsiia “Piramida,” 2010. He argues that the documents in help guide the reader through the many 594 pp. “Osobye Papki” show that Stalin’s names and locations related to these his- empire took control of western Ukraine torical events. Published by the Lviv branch of the by force of arms against the will of its “Osobye Papki” is available in hard- Institute of Ukrainian Archaeography and inhabitants. In one year alone, the NKVD cover for $54.95 (plus taxes and ship- Source Studies (National Academy of conducted as many as 10,000 military ping; outside Canada, prices are in U.S. Sciences of Ukraine), the Canadian operations against the UPA with the use dollars). Orders can be placed via the Institute of Ukrainian Studies, and the of artillery and aviation. They led to huge secure online ordering system of CIUS Lviv Institute of National Memory, “The ‘Personal Files’ of Stalin and Molotov” is casualties among the civil population, Press at www.utoronto.ca/cius or by con- a collection of 131 Soviet documents pre- deportations and forced conscription into tacting CIUS Press, 430 Pembina Hall, served in the State Archives of the the Red Army. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Russian Federation in Moscow that deal This book is an invaluable resource for Canada T6G 2H8; telephone, 780-492- with various aspects of Ukrainian resis- historians and readers interested in World 2973; fax, 780-492-4967; e-mail, cius@ tance to the Soviet occupation of western War II and the Ukrainian resistance to ualberta.ca. Ukraine in the years 1944-1948. Soviet forces and anti-Soviet insurgents These formerly unpublished secret that took place on Ukrainian territory in documents, collected and prepared for the last stages and after the conclusion of Parliament on medical leave. Joseph Stalin by the Soviet commissar of World War II. Verkhovna Rada... Tymoshenko Bloc Deputy Faction Chair internal affairs, Lavrentii Beria, were These documents also contain exten- (Continued from page 1) Andrii Kozhemiakin said it was meant to provide the Soviet dictator with sive statistical data that reveal the stag- lawyers who drafted the 1996 Mykhailo Polianchych of the Single systematically organized information gering proportions and scope of this war. Constitution. Center group that voted on Mr. concerning the struggle of the armed They illuminate both the major opera- “They ripped out of context their term Movchan’s behalf. Ukrainian anti-Soviet resistance, espe- tions and tactics used by the insurgents in of five years in office from the 2004 On the day of the vote, the cially the Ukrainian Insurgent Army their military, and sabotage activities and Constitution, voted in favor and are cele- Tymoshenko Bloc expelled seven depu- (UPA), and the repressive measures of the scope and methods of the Soviet cam- brating. Yet how do you have five-year ties from its parliamentary faction for the the Soviet government, army and secret paign of terror against the fighters of the terms when those clauses that gave you betrayal, among them Messrs. Babayev police (NKVD) against the Ukrainian UPA and the Ukrainian civilian popula- five years were recognized as unconstitu- and Movchan. insurgents and population. tion. tional? [Special] interests are ruling the A commission was formed on In essence, this collection of docu- The data on the Ukrainian underground country, not the law,” he stated. February 2 to investigate how a vote was ments is a summary of the ferocious and campaign against Soviet rule presented in The February 2 vote also set the presi- cast on behalf of Mr. Ariev without his voting card. insufficiently studied conflict between “Osobye Papki” show the dynamics of this dential term at five years and set those Tymoshenko Bloc leaders also com- elections for March 2015. Parliamentary plained that at least 25 of the 310 national elections will be held on the last Sunday deputies who allegedly voted for the con- in October of the term’s last year, or Ukrainian National Museum stitutional changes were absent – a viola- October 28, 2012, while the presidential tion of the Constitution, which requires vote is set for the last Sunday in March of that deputies cast their ballots in person. seeks artifacts for DP exhibit the term’s final year, or March 29, 2015. “It’s merely the latest instance in The vote gained the support of 310 by Orest A. Hrynewych These items should be sent to: which the Parliament, when voting for deputies – 10 more than is needed to the Constitution, violates the very same Ukrainian National Museum, Attn: Anna amend the Constitution. CHICAGO – The Ukrainian Chychula, Administrator, 2249 W. Constitution,” said Serhii Soboliev, a National Museum (UNM) of Chicago Another controversy arose when it was national deputy of the Tymoshenko Bloc. Superior St., Chicago, IL 60612; tele- learned which deputies had contributed to is organizing an exhibit about phone, 312-421-8020; e-mail, info@ However, experts pointed out that the Ukrainian displaced persons titled the constitutional majority. The list ukrainiannationalmuseum.org Tymoshenko Bloc had allowed absentee “From DP to DC: Resettlement of included unexpected names, including voting when it formed the parliamentary The exhibit will present a broad WWII Refugees.” UNM is asking the Pavlo Movchan of the Yulia Tymoshenko coalition between 2008 and 2010 and has sweep of the DP experience in an inter- Ukrainian community to support this Bloc, who also leads the patriotic no grounds to complain this time around. active setting. Topics covered will effort by loaning DP camp artifacts to Prosvita organization, and Volodymyr Absentee voting has long been accepted range from the reasons for displaced be used in the exhibit. Ariev of the pro-Western Our Ukraine- in the Verkhovna Rada, though the law persons, locations of DP camps, the The exhibit will start on November 5 People’s Self-Defense bloc. forbids it, experts said. organizational and cultural aspects of and continue through the end of the year. Mr. Ariev found out that he voted for Those interested in extending terms the camps and accomplishments of the To make the exhibit a success the UNM the constitutional changes when receiving were the Party of Regions, the is seeking DP camp related items. The camps’ Ukrainian administration, to the text-messages while he was visiting Communist Party of Ukraine, the items being sought include: ultimate destinations and accomplish- Washington as a part of delegation from Bloc and a majority • work permits and other documents; ments of the refugees in their new Ukraine that apparently intended to meet of the deputies of the Our Ukraine- • cooking utensils and other household homeland. with U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden. He People’s Self-Defense Bloc. items; The objectives of this exhibit are to had his voting card on him, prompting The latter two political blocs – the • DP camp luggage, including trunks, inform and educate the Ukrainian com- him to accuse the parliamentary majority Lytvyn Bloc and Our Ukraine-People’s suitcases and portfolios; munity, especially the Fourth Wave of falsifying the vote. Self-Defense won’t be re-elected to • handcrafted objects made in DP immigrants, the general public and the “I flew to America on Tuesday morn- Parliament, experts said. Meanwhile the camps, including art and carvings; youth in our community about this chap- ing and, at the moment of voting to coalition forces bought more time to • books, bulletins, magazines, pro- ter of post World War II history. amend the Constitution, I was on the extend their persecution campaign grams or materials published in DP The UNM is anticipating a large turn- plane,” Mr. Ariev told the Ukrayinska against the Tymoshenko Bloc. camps; out for this exhibit. We will attract local Pravda website. “My card was with me.” “The government’s logic is: ‘Keep her • educational items including note- media and educational organizations that Similar statements came from other outside of Parliament longer and we’ll books, letters, etc.; and will use our exhibit as a teaching national deputies. Kremenchuk City get a case against her. We’ll discredit her • political, athletic or religious flags or resource. This exhibit will showcase the Council Chair Oleh Babayev of the before the elections whether or not we pennants of camp organizations. progress and contributions of the World Tymoshenko Bloc wasn’t in the put her in jail,’” said Olexiy Haran, a pro- The items received may be included in War II immigration wave that continues Verkhovna Rada at the time of the vote, fessor of political science at National the exhibit, as well as documented in an to enrich Chicago and the nation. news reports said. University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. exhibit monograph. Full credit will be The Ukrainian National Museum’s Meanwhile Mr. Movchan claimed he Ms. Tymoshenko sacrificed her seat in given to owners of the items. All items resources, as well as the participation of gave his voting card to another national Parliament when becoming prime minis- submitted will be returned to the donors. Ukrainians in Chicago, are sure to make deputy while he was absent from ter in late December 2007. Each item must be fully described to this exhibit a resounding success. establish its origin, date and the DP camp Ukrainian refugees must be recognized from which it came, as well as a descrip- and their contributions acknowledged. especially like to recognize the League of tion of how it was made and used, who All Ukrainians who endured the hard- Ontario Parliament... Ukrainian Canadians and the League of made it and why it was saved. ships of DP camps are encouraged to par- (Continued from page 4) Ukrainian Canadian Women, two of the ticipate, and their input is welcome. The UCC’s constituent member-organiza- Orest Hrynewych is first vice-presi- UNM believes they have stories that ensure that the tragedy of the Holodomor tions, for their tireless efforts in educating dent of the Ukrainian National must be told and experiences that must is recognized and will no longer be Canadians and in working with the Museum in Chicago. be shared. whitewashed by apologists for the Soviet Legislature of Ontario to ensure this system that created this genocide. I would important legislation was passed.” No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 15

Soccer heavyweight champion; Andriy Kotelnik of Ukraine and the Ukrainian-Japanese Saleh Al-Attiyah of Qatar and Timo (52nd), former WBA light welterweight humanitarian relations,” the presidential Gottschalk of Germany, driving a • Ukraine’s first international match of champion; and WBO junior middle- press service reported. Born in 1940 on Volkswagen Touareg. 2011 will be a friendly match against weight champion Sergei Dzindziruk the island of Sakhalin, Koki is generally Swimming Romania in Cyprus, as part of an interna- (65th). The list is topped by Manny regarded as the greatest sumo wrestler of tional tournament on February 7-10. The Pacquaio of the Phillipines, followed by the post-war period, having won 32 tour- • Andriy Hovorov won the gold medal tournament will include teams from the American Floyd Mayweather and Sergio naments between 1960 and 1971. in the men’s 50-meter freestyle at the host country and . Martinez of Mexico. Arm wrestling Vladimir Salnikov Cup in St. Petersburg, Russia, on December 30, 2010. The • Shakhtar Donetsk and Karpaty Lviv • Wladimir Klitschko confirmed on Siblings Ruslan (85 kg), Rustam (85 Ukrainian defeated seven Russians with a reached the semi-finals of the Copa del January 6 that he will fight WBA champi- kg) and Snizhana Babayeva (50 kg) won time of 21.77 seconds. Andriy Kovalenko Sol tournament in Elche and La Manga, on David Haye of Britain on July 2. The medals at the World Arm Wrestling won the gold in men’s 200-meter breast- . The tournament, which ends on date was delayed in being announced to Championship in Las Vegas on December stroke. Hovorov won a bronze in the February 7 has a prize of 200,000 euros. avoid conflict with the British royal wed- 6-12, 2010. Rustam won gold in the 50-meter butterfly and Valery Dymo won Karpaty Lviv is matched against ding of Prince William and Kate men’s left and right arm events, while bronze in the 200-meter breaststroke. Norway’s Aalesund on February 3 and Middleton at the end of April. There is younger brother Ruslan won silver in the Shakhtar Donetsk was to face Norway’s speculation that Haye will balk at some men’s left arm event and bronze in the • Ukraine’s swim team won third place Rosenburg on February 4. Teams from of the details of the fight, causing further right arm event. Snizhana, 21, won a gold in team classification with 381 points at Poland, Sweden, Russia, Romania, the delays to a title unification bout. medal in the women’s left arm event. the fifth International Amateur Czech Republic and competed. Martial arts Swimming Federation (FINA) (Results, as of press time, were unavail- Synchronized Swimming World Trophy able but will appear in the next • advanced to • Ukraine’s judo team collected five in Moscow on December 5, 2010. Sportsline.) the quarterfinals of the medals at the International Judo Competition included solos, duets, teams on January 17-30 in Melbourne. The Federation World Cup, held in Tbilisi, and combination events. • Shakhtar Donetsk goalkeeper Andriy Ukrainian was eliminated by Andy Georgia, on February 1. Vadym Athletics Pyatov was voted the best player for the Murray of Great Britain, (5-7, 3-6, 7-6, Syniavsky (90 kg) won gold, Nhabali team by a poll conducted on the team’s 3-6). was eliminated Quedjau won a silver medal in the same • Serhiy Lebid became a nine-time website in December 2010. The poll in the third round by Tommy Robredo of weight division. Serhiy Drebor (66 kg) champion of the European Cross Country results: 47.29 percent voted for Pyatov, Spain (7-5, 2-6, 4-6, 2-6). won the silver medal, and bronze medals Championships in Albufeira, Portugal, on 19.83 percent for Yaroslav Rakitskiy and went to Volodymyr Soroka (73 kg) and December 12, 2010. Lebid, 35, finished 14.98 percent for Dmytro Chygrynskiy. A • defeated Alexandre Artem Bloshenko (100 kg) Ukraine won the 10-km race in 29.15 minutes; he has total of 5,714 people participated in the Renard of France 6-4, 6-3, and won the third place in the team classification. competed in the championships since vote. Turkey F1 Futures tennis tournament they were established in 1994. held on January 10-16 in Antalya, • Oleksiy Koshkin, Kostiantyn • Valeriy Lobanovsky (35th), Oleg Turkey. Smirnov and Tryshyn and Oleksandr Oliynyk won • Serhiy Lebid, 35, a cross-country Blokhin (79th) and Jozsef Szabo (213th) defeated and Dino gold medals at the World Thai Boxing runner, was elected by the European were named by the International Marcan, both of , and won the Championship in on December Athletics Association (UAA) as the best Federation of Football History and men’s doubles tournament, 6-2, 6-2. 9, 2010. The team won second place athlete for December 2010. On December Statistics (IFFHS) among the best coach- behind host Thailand, earning 14 medals 12, 2010, Lebid won the gold medal at es over the past 15 years, 1996-2010. • Alexandr Dolgopolov was eliminated for Ukraine. the 2010 SPAR European Cross-Country Shakhtar Donetsk coach Mircea Lucescu by Gilles Simon of France (4-6, 3-6) and Paralympics Championships in Albufeira, Portugal. and Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro manager Sergiy Stakhovsky was eliminated by This was Lebid’s ninth title; he is the Juande Ramos shared 46th place. Ernests Gulbis of (4-6, 4-6), in the Hanna Tovsta, a member of Ukraine’s only runner to have competed in every Shakhtar Donetsk was ranked up two quarterfinals of the ATP Medibank national deaf Olympic swimming team, single SPAR European Cross-Country positions to 27th place among the Club International tennis tournament held on was named the best female athlete of the Championship since they were estab- World Ranking for 2010 by the IFFHS. January 9-15 in Sydney, Australia. world in 2010 by the International lished in 1994, winning gold at the Dynamo Kyiv jumped 10 points to 42nd Committee of Sports for the Deaf. The majority of events. place. The IFFHS also ranked the • Anna Shkudun advanced to the semi- 19-year-old from Kirovohrad won six Biathlon Ukrainian Premier League the 10th stron- finals of the ITF tennis tournament in gold and one silver medal at the 10th gest soccer league, out of 125 countries. Pune, India, on December 20-26, 2010. European Swimming Championship in • The National Olympic Committee of Shkudun was eliminated by the champion Dortmund, Germany, and holds four Ukraine elected biathlete Serhiy Sednev • Yuriy Semin of Russia signed a of the tournament, Bojana Jovanovski of European records. Tovsta is to receive the was named the best athlete of Ukraine in three-year contract to coach Dynamo Serbia (2-6, 3-6). award later this month at the 17th Winter December 2010. Sednev earned a silver Kyiv. Semin replaces acting head coach Deaflympics in Slovakia. Andriy medal in the men’s 10-km sprint at the Oleh Luzhny, who replaced Valery • Sophia Kovalets, 16, won the ITF Zurgalidze, also a swimmer, was named 2010 World Cup in Hochfilzen, Austria, Gazzayev. Semin, 63, was Dynamo’s tennis tournament in Ain Elsokhna, among the top five. and a silver medal in the men’s mixed head coach from January 2008 to May Egypt, on December 6-12, 2010, in both Chess relay and a bronze medal in the men’s 2009. singles and doubles events. In singles she 20-km individual race at the World Cup Futsal defeated Ana Jovanovic of Serbia (6-0, • Grandmaster Vasyl Ivanchuk won the in Pokljuka, Slovenia. 6-2). In doubles, she was paired with Trtadewise Gibralter Chess Festival, held Ukraine’s women’s futsal team was Chanel Simmonds of South Africa to beat on January 24 through February 3. The • Artem Prima won the 10-meter sprint ranked fourth and the men’s futsal team Galina Fokina and Marina Melnikova of tournament attracted 231 players from 45 and Serhiy Semenov won the silver in the was ranked seventh, according to Russia (6-1, 6-2). countries. same event at the 25th World Winter European rankings. In world rankings, in Erzurum, Turkey, on the women’s team is ranked sixth and the • Marianna Zakarlyuk, 14, is the • Alexander Areshchenko won the February 1. men’s team 13th. youngest tennis player in the Women’s ninth Parsvnath International Open chess Triathlon Boxing Tennis Association singles rankings, at tournament in New Delhi, India, on 837th place with 17 rank points. Other January 18. Yuriy Kuzubov won third • Danylo Sapunov (56th), Oleksiy • Poland’s Tomasz Adamek has agreed Ukrainians rated by the WTA include place. The tournament attracted 400 play- Syutkin (62nd), Andriy Glushchenko to fight either of the Klitschko brothers in Alona Bondarenko (36th) and her sister ers from more than 20 countries. (93rd), Rostyslav Pevtsov (99th) and September in Poland. Adamek (43-1, 28 Kateryna at 99th place. Yuliya Sapunova (42nd) are ranked KO) has to win his April 16 fight in Wrestling • Grandmaster Martyn Kravtiv won the among the top 100 triathletes, as ranked Katowice, Poland. Vitali Klitschko (41-2, Chennai Open chess tournament in India by the International Triathlon Union for 38 KO) will defend his WBC title against Kostiantyn Vakhniuk (63 kg) and on January 26, with 9.5 points out of a 2010. mandatory challenger Odlanier Solis of Shakir Kurbanov (76 kg) won the 15th possible 11. The international tournament Cuba on March 19 in Cologne, Germany. Shamanovsky Memorial International attracted 320 players. • Olesya Prystayko was ranked third Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO) will Greco-Roman Wrestling Tournament in Motorsports for 2010 by the European Triathlon defend his IBF, IBO and WBO titles Belarus on January 28. Vladyslav Union with 1,602.1 points. In the men’s against England’s Dereck Chisora on Komarynsky (76 kg) won the bronze Ukraine’s 2011 Dakar Rally team, division, the highest ranked Ukrainian is April 30 in Mannheim, Germany. If both medal. SIXT Ukraina, led by Vadim Nesterschuk Danylo Sapunov in ninth place (1,067.4 Klitschko brothers lose, the deal would Sumo wrestling and Konstantin Meshchenryakov, fin- points). be dead, but if both win, the Klitschkos ished the race held in Argentina and Chile will decide who will face Adamek. President Viktor Yanukovych awarded on January 1-16 in 35th place. This was Pentathlon sumo wrestler Taiho Koki, who was born the first time that a Ukrainian team fin- Pavlo Tymoshenko and Dmytro • Ring magazine published its list of to a Japanese mother and an ethnic ished the race, as the previous year Kirpuliansky are ranked 11th and 15th, the world’s top 100 boxers, including Ukrainian father, with the Order of Merit mechanical failure eliminated the team respectively, among the top 20 by New four Ukrainians – Wladimir Klitschko (third degree) on January 20. The award after the eighth stage. The Ukrainian Balance Pentathlon World Rankings for (8th) IBF, IBO and WBO heavyweight was presented for “personal contribution team drove a Mitsubishi L200. The champion; Vitali Klitschko (12th) WBC into strengthening the international image 9,030-kilometer race was won by Nasser (Continued on page 17) 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 No. 6

Even if a revolt were to be successful, The two exceptions where education Our hopes... it’s not clear who would replace Mr. Ukraine must... did not experience Ukrainianization were (Continued from page 6) Yanukovych. Ukrainians are not willing to (Continued from page 2) Donetsk and Crimea – the two regional On top of all this, Mr. Yatsenyuk’s ties risk their lives for Ms. Tymoshenko. She’s As the person in charge of ideological strongholds of the Party of Regions. to Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk are been exposed as too opportunistic and control, Mr. Kravchuk must have worked Throughout most of these two decades, too close for comfort. Mr. Pinchuk has incapable of leading critical reforms. alongside the KGB and Moscow in Ukraine experienced democratization and demonstrated little interest in improving There’s no other current leader that repressing Ukrainian dissent and stagnat- a liberal political and media environment. the lot of the Ukrainian people, and it’s Ukrainians are willing to rally around. ing Ukrainian culture. Viktor Yushchenko The exception to this liberalization doubtful he’ll allow Mr. Yatsenyuk to pur- The valuable lesson from the disastrous and Yulia Tymoshenko, born far later, was during President Kuchma’s second sue that lofty task. Orange Revolution was that the ideals to emerged as economic personalities and term in office, when Ukraine experienced So I can state with confidence that there’s improve society are more important than politicians only in the late 1980s and the emergence of authoritarian tenden- no hope – for at least the next 10 years – for any single political party. And it’s the fight 1990s. cies. The major difference between for the ideals of strong democratic institu- improving living conditions in Ukraine By the late 1970s, the human rights Messrs. Kuchma and Yanukovych is that tions, an independent judiciary, individual through its political system. It’s locked up organization Amnesty International cal- the former could only possibly build a rights and private property rights which by Ukraine’s oligarchs, who continue to culated that the Soviet Union had 10,000 semi-authoritarian regime in Ukraine (for must be unwavering. deprive average Ukrainians of the keys to political prisoners. Of these political pris- example, he never fully controlled Those organizations at the forefront improving their economic condition. oners, 40 percent were Ukrainians, repre- include the Center for Legal and Political Parliament). He even failed in building The biggest hope lies in Ukraine’s civic senting a far higher proportion than their semi-authoritarianism as seen in the Reforms led by Ihor Koliushko, the numbers in the Soviet population. movements and grassroots organizations, Ukrainian Human Rights Union sweeping victory of the opposition and which have the ability to pressure political Russians accounted for far fewer political the 2004 Orange Revolution, which over- led by Volodymyr Yavorsky, the Kharkiv prisoners than their share of the popula- parties to adopt some of the reforms and Human Rights Group led by Yevhen turned an election rigged for Mr. principles that are necessary to improve tion. Yanukovych, in his last year in office. Zakharov, the Committee of Economists The harshest sentences handed down life in their country. of Ukraine led by Andriy Novak, the The third cycle’s Russophile counter- Because, ultimately, it makes no differ- to dissidents in the Soviet Union were in revolution took place after the election of Institute of Mass Information led by Ukraine, and Ukrainian political prison- ence whether the Party of Regions, which Viktoria Siumar, the National University Mr. Yanukovych in 2010 as he, and the serves billionaire oligarchs, and the ers continued to die in the gulag right neo-Soviet political culture of Donetsk of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy led by Dr. through to the mid 1980s. Batkivschyna party, which serves mega- and Crimea, are far more likely to build a Serhiy Kvit, the Ukrainian Catholic OUN and UPA (Organization of millionaire oligarchs, introduce even one University led by the Rev. Dr. Borys full Eurasian authoritarian regime. In Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian or two systemic reforms that would bene- Gudziak and Dr. Oleh Soskin of the 2011, only a year after Mr. Yanukovych Insurgent Army) nationalists convicted in fit the average Ukrainian citizen. Institute of Society Transformation. the late 1940s and early 1950s for armed was elected president, Ukraine was What about Ukrainian language and A new youth movement for democracy resistance to Soviet rule were sentenced downgraded by Freedom House to the culture? I think these matters won’t be a and individual rights emerged at a meeting to 25 years, released (if they survived) Kuchma-era designation of “partly free.” priority when the average Ukrainian can’t in central Kyiv on January 28. In 1991 and then often either executed or re-sen- If this took place only one year into earn a decent livable wage, buy real estate, there was Rukh (the Popular Movement of tenced for another term. Soviet execu- Mr. Yanukovych’s five-year presidency, it gain a fair court decision or have access to Ukraine), and in 2004 there was Pora (It’s tions of Ukrainian nationalists continued is obvious that by 2012, following inevi- quality health care. Education and medi- Time). Now there’s Opir (Resistance) to until 1987. table election fraud in Ukraine’s parlia- cine first, culture afterwards. challenge the authoritarianism of Viktor In 1972, a Russophile counter-revolu- mentary elections, or 2015, following We won’t see any revolts in Ukraine, as Yanukovych. tion removed Shelest and replaced him fraudulent presidential elections, we’re seeing in Egypt and Tunisia – at least All these organizations need support with Shcherbytsky, who ruled Ukraine Freedom House will reduce Ukraine’s not until the 2012 parliamentary elections – from abroad to make a difference. Some for the next 17 years. The Shcherbytsky position even further – to “not free.” because the opposition currently has no get their financing from Western govern- era Russified Ukraine to a greater extent A category of “not free” would be the leader to unite around. It’s highly splintered ments, as well as funds created by the than the Stalin era, and led to cultural first time Ukraine has been defined as and disunited thanks to the Yushchenko- world’s biggest oligarchs, such as the stagnation and massive political repres- such and reflect the fact that the Tymoshenko battles of the Orange era. Renaissance Foundation established by sion with further arrests of opposition Yanukovych regime is far more of a The tax protests of November 2010 also George Soros. leaders in the late 1970s and early 1980s. demonstrated that Ukrainians are only Others rely on the Ukrainian diaspora threat to democracy than that of Mr. Nevertheless, Ukrainians remained willing to protest in the streets on narrow for support. Offering help to these institu- Kuchma ever was. Over the last weekend stoic. With 40 members, the Ukrainian issues, such as an oppressive tax code. Yet tions is the best way we can influence con- of November 2004, it was Prime Minister a revolution demands unity on a far wider ditions in Ukraine for the better. The polit- Helsinki Group became the largest of the Yanukovych who allegedly instructed level, drawing support from different ical scene for the time being is a certified Helsinki Accords Monitoring Groups Internal Affairs Ministry special forces to interest groups. dead end. established in Soviet republics, twice the advance on Kyiv to violently crush the size of the Moscow Helsinki Group. In Orange Revolution; President Kuchma western Ukraine, the Ukrainian Catholic refused to issue the order. Church was the largest underground phe that befell many millions of non-Jews President Yanukovych and the Party of Church in the world. enslaved or murdered by the Nazis – includ- Regions represent the biggest threat to Is the CMHR... The third cycle emerged in the late ing the Roma, Catholics, the disabled, Poles, Ukrainian democratic and national rights (Continued from page 8) 1980s, during Soviet leader Mikhail Ukrainians, Soviet POWs, homosexuals and since the Shcherbytsky-Brezhnev era. Another gallery could compare the many Gorbachev’s perestroika and glasnost. In others – will be obfuscated if only one com- This is not surprising, as they are the genocides that have befouled human history. 1989, Shcherbytsky was replaced by munity’s suffering, great as it was, is elevat- inheritors of the conservative-russophile Placing the Shoah in context, as Prof. another CPU conservative, but the tide ed above all others. wing of the Soviet Communist Party in Timothy Snyder does in his much-applaud- was already turning and the CPU was Responding to mounting criticism, the Ukraine. ed book, “Bloodlands: Europe Between beginning to split between “imperial museum’s boosters have insisted that the This commentary is not meant to be an Hitler and Stalin,” would remind us that Communists,” on the one hand, and “sov- committee’s submission, while important, is indictment of eastern Ukrainians, but of while the word “genocide” was invented ereign (i.e. national) Communists” and only one of many sources being considered during World War II the act itself is neither the CPU’s democratic platform (mainly the deep-seated, inherited Soviet and as the museum’s final contents are devel- modern nor, sadly, unlikely to recur. Doing within the Komsomol, or Communist Eurasian political culture found in that oped. Alas, they speak with forked tongues. that has considerable pedagogical value. Youth League) on the other. region of Ukraine. Indeed, eastern For while it may be true that the contents How to explain that the crimes of com- Ukrainians suffered the most from of the museum are “not set,” the fact is that In addition, that same year Rukh held munism – which the Tories have claimed a Russophile counter-revolution during the two of its 12 galleries are permanently and its inaugural congress and the Democratic special interest in commemorating – weren’t Stalin era. prominently giving privileged space to the Bloc went on to win a quarter of seats in referenced by the advisory group? Stalin the March 1990 elections to the Threats to Ukrainian national identity, recounting of aboriginal history and the language and culture and the crushing of and his satraps murdered millions more than Shoah. All other crimes against humanity – Verkhovna Rada. Hitler, a point underscored in Prof. Norman During the next two decades, indepen- Ukraine’s hopes for democracy have like the Holodomor – are thrown together in always come from the east during the Naimark’s outstanding new book, “Stalin’s a “Mass Atrocities” gallery, consigned to a dent Ukraine experienced the flowering 1930s-1950s, 1970s-1980s and once Genocides.” Yet that Soviet dictator is not spatial inferiority. Funding such partiality is of Ukrainian national identity, the pursuit again today. named – not once. Nor are Mao Tse Tung’s simply not acceptable in a taxpayer-funded of a Ukrainophile educational policy and It is time to seek to break out of this atrocities acknowledged, even though the national institution for which the national identity, and moderate state sup- Chinese Communists slaughtered about the Conservatives first provided public funding. port for the Ukrainian language, which vicious historic cycle. Ukrainians – east same number as Hitler and Stalin did com- Until the controversy over this museum’s grew in the educational system. and west – deserve far better. bined. And what about Imperial Japanese contents is resolved, and the composition of barbarities, like the infamous “Rape of its appointed board members made more Nanjing”? It’s left out, as it is in most truly representative of Canadian society, years. The other five were acquitted. At Japanese textbooks, even as the Holodomor Prime Minister Harper’s government should The Demjanjuk... scores of similar trials during the same is currently being excised from Ukraine’s. reject calls for increased public funding of (Continued from page 7) era, defendants had charges against them Should a Canadian museum, even indirect- this boondoggle and initiate a truly inclusive dropped simply because they could argue ly, succour deniers? consultation process with the many commu- “… Germany’s post-war legal system that they were only obeying orders and Being equitable takes nothing away from nities who want the Canadian Museum for was often massively short on justice. that not to have done so would have hallowing victims of the Shoah. As over two Human Rights to meet its stated goal of Back in 1966, 11 former Nazi SS men meant their own certain deaths. dozen well-supported museums and educa- “contributing to the collective memory and were tried by a West German court for “The Demjanjuk trial, as today’s forty- tional programs dedicated exclusively to sense of identity of all Canadians.” the genocide at Sobibor. Only Karl something state prosecutors and lawyers this Jewish tragedy already exist in Canada Otherwise all this national institution will Frenzel, the camp commandant, was sen- put it, is an attempt by a ‘new generation (and hundreds more internationally). this do is provoke further divisiveness and con- tenced to life imprisonment for his within the German judicial system’ to tale is already told, often and well, in no troversy, for which the Conservatives will crimes. … other defendants were given make amends for the gross shortcomings danger of being forgotten. But the catastro- someday pay. jail terms of between three and eight of the past. …” No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 17 Columbia conference to focus on nonconformism and dissent in the Soviet bloc

NEW YORK – The Ukrainian Studies cultural legacies of these movements in Beinek, Ksenya Kiebuzinski, Michael Program, Harriman Institute at Columbia today’s Ukraine, Russia and Poland. Bernhard, Jeri Laber, Mark Andryczyk, University, is presenting a conference Among the questions the conference Orest Deychakiwsy, Catharine titled “Nonconformism and Dissent in the aims to address are: Where are the dissi- Nepomnyashchy, Anna Procyk, Christina Soviet Bloc: Guiding Legacy or Passing dents and cultural leaders of the Soviet- Isajiw, William Risch, Anna Frajlich- Memory?” on March 30-April 1. era underground today? Are they in posi- Zajac, Yuri Shevchuk, Timothy Frye, The conference is being presented 20 tions of power? Are they influential polit- Tarik Amar, Frank Sysyn and Victor years after the fall of the Soviet Union, a ical figures or gurus in contemporary cul- Morozov. ture? Do they represent their people in The conference will conclude with a time of continued uncertainty in Eastern the world as they once did? What media special North American concert by Victor Europe. forums are available for their voices? Do Morozov, a legendary nonconformist cul- The conference will focus on political Ukraine, Russia, Poland and the world tural figure in Soviet Ukraine and a major and cultural nonconformism in Ukraine, need them today? recording artist in Ukraine today. Russia and Poland in the 1960s to ‘80s. It The conference will examine these The conference is free and open to the will bring together an international issues through a series of scholarly panels public. assemblage of scholars studying that and roundtable discussions featuring All conference panels and roundtables, period of time, as well several notewor- prominent Soviet-era dissidents and non- as well as the keynote address, will be thy dissidents and artists. conformist artists. held in Room 1501, International Affairs The conference will offer a historical The three-day conference will begin Building, 420 W. 118th St., Columbia overview of the period and will present with an evening keynote address by Dr. University, New York, New York 10027. the latest research conducted on the sub- Myroslav Marynovych, former Ukrainian The keynote address and reception will ject. Additionally, the conference will dissident and prisoner of conscience and, take place on March 30 at 8 p.m. The Dr. Myroslav Marynovych provide an analysis of the political and currently, vice-rector for the University panels and roundtables will begin at 9:30 Mission of the Ukrainian Catholic a.m. on March 31 and at 10 a.m. on April University (Lviv); the address will be fol- 1. mitted Vinson (4,897 meters), the highest lowed by a reception. The film presentation will be held on Sportsline... peak on the continent. Climbers visited Days two and three will include panels March 31 at 8 p.m. in Room 717 (Continued from page 15) the South Pole on December 11, 2010. and roundtables followed by cultural pro- Hamilton Hall. 2010. In women’s rankings Viktoria Badminton gramming in the evenings showcasing The concert by Mr. Morozov will be Tereshchuk of Ukraine ranked in 38th place. achievements in nonconformist film, held on April 1 at 8 p.m. at The Ukrainian Maria Ulitina and Natalia Wojciech music and literature of this era. Museum, 222 E. Sixth St., New York, NY Shooting won the bronze medal in the women’s “Nonconformism and Dissent in the 10003. • Olena Kostevych won the gold medal doubles event at the Turkiye International Soviet Bloc: Guiding Legacy or Passing The conference is organized in collab- in women’s 10-meter pistol at the IWK Challege held in , Turkey, on Memory?” will feature presentations by oration with the East Central European International Air Weapon Competition in December 20-23, 2010. Olena Prus and over 20 individuals: Dr. Marynovych, Center (Columbia University), the Polish Munich, Germany, on January 27. Sergiy Valeriy Atrashchenkov won the bronze in Pavel Litvinov, Henryk Wujec, Vitaly Cultural Institute (New York), and The the mixed doubles event. Komar, Ewa Wójciak, Volodymyr Ukrainian Museum. Kasper won the silver medal in the junior Dibrova, Mykola Riabchuk, Peter For more information readers may rifle competition. Strongman Reddaway, Ann Komaroni, Benjamin contact Mark Andryczyk at 212-854- Nathans, Alexander Motyl, Justyna 4697 or [email protected]. • Olena Kostevych and Serhiy Kudria Lt. Vitaliy Hersimov of Ukraine’s Air Force for the second time was named the won the gold medals in women’s and world’s strongest man (105 kg) at the men’s events, respectively, at the World Herculean Strength Festival in Kyiv International Air Pistol and Rifle on December 28, 2010. Herasimov won Competition in Bialystok, Poland, on the distinction in 2009 at the competition. Self Reliance (NJ) Federal Credit December 6, 2010. Dmytro Melnyk, Union in Clifton, N.J. Natalia Kalnysh, Daria Sharipova, Top athletes Tetiana Tarasenko and Serhiy Kulish won The Association of Sports Journalists gold medals in rifle competition. Other in Ukraine named the best 10 athletes for will hоld its medalists included Oleh Omelchuk, 2010. Among them were: Olha Kharlan Olesia Shcherba, Dmytro Ivanov and (fencing), Wladimir Klitschko (boxing), Daria Tykhova. Andriy Pyatov (soccer), Inna-Osypenko- ANNUAL MEETING Mountaineering Radomska (rowing), Vitali Klitschko (boxing), Olha Saladukha (track and On Sunday, February 27, 2011, at 12:30 PM Donetsk climbers summitted a 3,126- field), Serhiy Sednev (biathlon), Artem meter unnamed peak on Antarctica on Ivanov (weightlifting), Olha Sukha January 5. The climbers named the point, (judo), Oleh Stepko (rhythmic gymnas- At the Ukrainian Center the Peak of Donbas, said Olena Esaulova, tics). The ASJU also named the top spokesperson of the Federation of coaches of 2010, including Artem 240 Hope Avenue, Passaic, NJ 07055 Mountaineering and Climbing of Skorokhod (fencing) and Mircea Lucescu Donetsk. While at the summit, the climb- (soccer, Shakhtar Donetsk), and ers unfurled the Ukrainian flag and the Ukraine’s best teams – women’s saber Donetsk regional flag, and placed a cross fencing and Shakhtar Donetsk. Board of Directors made of Artemivsk salt. Earlier in the Antarctic expedition, the climbers sum- – compiled by Matthew Dubas

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them, sending phone calls their way that Ukrainian American communities in the U.S. says... are bogus, alleging certain things, if they Rochester... United States and in Canada are doing to (Continued from page 3) cooperate, will happen,” he said. “It’s the (Continued from page 9) support the university and encouraged even Meanwhile, RFE/RL’s Belarus Service old Stalinist tactics that are still alive and vated to the status of national university. Its greater participation to grow this historically reports that since December’s election, the well in Belarus.” goal is to educate high-caliber professionals significant institute of higher learning in country’s KGB security service has con- of good character and strong national Ukraine. The story above was written by He thanked Mr. Pylyshenko for his many tinued to target opposition activists, their awareness. Richard Solash with RFE/RL’s Belarusian years of dedicated work in support of the family members and supporters. Today, Ostroh Academy comprises six Service. colleges that embrace the studies of law, Diaspora Studies Institute at Ostroh U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), who Copyright 2011, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted Academy, and recognized Ms. Denysenko’s was also present at the Senate hearing, economics, political science, international with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ relations, languages and humanities. The outstanding achievement as CEO of the said he had seen the truth behind such Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, university boasts a strong international Ukrainian Federal Credit Union and her reports first-hand. Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org. See department, which includes student work with Ukraine, adding that he looks “[The Belarusian KGB] are systemati- (http://www.rferl.org/content/us_says_it_ forward to her more active participation exchange programs with Poland and cally searching [activists and their fami- will_expand_sanctions_against_belarus_ with the Friends of Ostroh. Canada, and visiting professors from lies’] homes, detaining them, harassing lukashenko/2289835.html.) As dinner came to a close, Dr. Pasichnyk Europe and North America. acknowledged Dr. Hoshowsky, Mrs. Ostroh Academy is undergoing an Russnak, Mr. and Mrs. Pylyshenko, Mr. and extensive building program. In addition to Mrs. Denysenko, the Ukrainian Federal the main buildings already in place, it has Credit Union and the Ukrainian West Side a new state-of-the-art library, modern Club for their contributions to the National computer laboratories, a foreign language University of Ostroh Academy. resource center, and an art and cultural Tax-deductable donations may be made center. It also sports a new football stadi- to: Ukrainian National Foundation/Friends um and tennis courts. Work is continuing of Ostroh Fund, c/o Dr. Myron B. Kuropas, on a theater-size media center; an educa- 107 Ilehamwood Drive, DeKalb, IL 60115- tion complex and new dormitories may be 1856. in the offing. Dr. Pasichnyk commented on the finan- cial and administrative challenges facing Ostroh Academy and on the topic of inter- national outreach. He praised what the How to avoid... (Continued from page 8) most Canadians. The museum has three choices: • focus on human rights violations committed exclusively in Canada as the driver of the museum’s message with examples of global abuses highlighted on a rotational basis. (This approach would give prominence to another abuse Ukrainians have been championing and which has failed to make the grade – the illegal World War I internment of Canadians, predominantly of Ukrainian decent, as ”enemy aliens.”); • make all exhibits rotational; or, • take a non-event focused approach. The third option would be an innova- tive, made-in-Canada solution. Exhibits would be presented by “violations” be it by power, majorities (race, religion, eth- nic) dictatorships or any of the other human conditions that when perverted or abused lead to the disregard of human rights expounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948. Indeed, Ms. Aper’s suggestion to stay away from “one depressing gallery after another” may be the way. Construct “… a permanent gallery in which mass atroci- ties will be studied,” she says “…include the Ukrainian Famine clearly and perma- nently.” To which I add: Include there as well the Holocaust exhibit and show that all victims of genocide are equal. This approach would underscore the museum’s mandate to educate in order to prevent abuses from happening again, allowing viewers to go beyond the evils of Hitlers or Stalins, a majority persecut- ing a minority, or a victor suppressing the vanquished. It would highlight a funda- mental truth: when conditions are ripe, humans are capable of performing horrif- ic crimes against other humans. Surely that is the key lesson of the museum: to prevent conditions that pre- cipitate crimes against humanity. “Never again” must apply universally not selec- tively; genocide is not exclusive to one group. The tragedy is that even those who were once victims are capable of making victims of others. Of course, Ms. Asper would like to give prominence to the Jews’ suffering. However, by making this a national Canadian museum, the dominant values must be ours – inclusivity rather than exclusivity. It would be a regressive step for Canada, a global leader of human rights, to side with the Aspers’ generous but limiting motives. No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 19 OUT AND ABOUT

February 7 Roundtable discussion, “Undoing Ukraine’s Orange America – Branch 56, St. Mary Ukrainian Catholic Cambridge, MA Revolution? The First Presidential Year of Vktor Church hall, 941-45-5746 Yanukovych,” Harvard University, 617-495-4053 February 12 Lecture by Petro Potichnyj, “The Chronicle of UPA February 8 Presentation by Volodymyr Ariev, “Democracy in New York as a Source of Information about the Ukrainian New York Ukraine,” Ukrainian Congress Committee of Liberation Movement during World War II,” America – New York Branch, [email protected] Shevchenko Scientific Society, 212-254-5130

February 10 Film screening, “Three Stories of Galicia,” February 13 Film screening, “Folk!” by Roxy Toporowych, Ottawa Ukrainian Canadian Professionals and Sacramento, CA Sacramento Public Library – Carmichael Branch, Businesspersons Association – Ottawa Branch, www.kinorox.com Ukrainian Community Center, 613-596-8188 February 13 Film screening, “Ukrainians in Quebec 1891-1945,” February 10-11 Film screenings, hosted by Yuri Shevchuk, “New Montreal by Yurij Luhovy, St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Stanford, CA Films and New Names from Ukraine,” Stanford Church hall, 514-481-5871 or www.yluhovy.com University, http://creees.stanford.edu February 14 Lecture by Viktor Ostapchuk, “Toward the February 12 Valentine’s Day dance, featuring music by Anna- Cambridge, MA Roksolana / Hurrem Sultan Quincentenary, In Perth Amboy, NJ Maria Entertainment, Assumption Ukrainian Search of Roksolana / Hurrem’s Origins: The Catholic Church, 732-826-0767 Source of Evidence,” Harvard University, 617-495-4053 February 12 Valentine’s Day dinner and dance, Ukrainian Lehighton, PA Homestead, 610-377-4621 February 18 Presentation, “Imagining Mazeppa: From Byron to Philadelphia Broadway to Hollywood,” Ukrainian League of February 12 Valentine’s Day dance, featuring music by Mike Philadelphia, 215-684-2180 New Britain, CT Platosz, Trinity on Main, 860-775-8570 or 860-299-2072 February 19 Winter ball, featuring music by Hrim, L’Enfant Washington Plaza Hotel, [email protected] or 800-635-5056 February 12 Valentine’s Day dinner and dance, featuring music Whippany, NJ by Grupo Yuri Jazz, Ukrainian American Cultural February 19 Lecture by Volodymyr Maazentsev, “Architectural Center of New Jersey, 973-867-8855 New York Reconstructions of the Zaporozhian Host, Chyhyryn and Baturyn of the 17th -18th Centuries,” February 12 Valentine’s Day dance, St. Mary the Protectress Shevchenko Scientific Society, 212-254-5130 Bridgeport, CT Ukrainian Catholic Church, 203-550-5359 February 20 Concert by the Dnipro Choir of Edmonton, Knox February 12 Valentine’s Day dinner and dance, St. Michael Ottawa Presbyterian Church, 613-238-4774 New Haven, CT Ukrainian Catholic Church, 203-865-0388 or [email protected] Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions February 12 Ukrainian embroidery dance, featuring music by from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors North Port, FL Merena, Ukrainian National Women’s League of and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected]. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 No. 6

j PREVIEW OF EVENTS Alex E. Ky Saturday, February 12 (retired) is campaigning for a high school Financial Advisor board seat in District 211. The district is LEHIGHTON, Pa.: The Ukrainian responsible for five high schools and Homestead is sponsoring a Valentine’s Financial Planning Specialist 12,800 students. Col. Golash plans will Dinner and Dance beginning at 8 p.m. For hold town hall meetings to discuss district $15 per person or $25 per couple guests will issues and answer questions. Meetings One Liberty Place enjoy an appetizer, buffet dinner, dessert and will take place at the Palatine Library on 1650 Market Street, 42nd Floor dance to the music of Slavko Kosiv. Seating February 12 at 2-4 p.m. and February 22 is limited; for tickets call Ulana Prociuk at at 7-8:30 p.m. All members of the com- Philadelphia, PA 19103 610-377-4621 or reserve at www.ukrhome- munity are invited. Col. Golash is the stead.com. Skiing enthusiasts may ski that commander of the Ukrainian American (215) 854-6284 (800) 233-1414 day at beautiful Blue Mountain (20 minutes Veterans 1st Lt. Ivan Shandor Post 35. from the Ukrainian Homestead). To reserve, For more information go to www.golash- please call Larissa Andrejko at 610-377-0412 fordistrict211.com. www.fa.smithbarney.com/robertskyj or e-mail [email protected]. [email protected] Sunday, February 20 NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific LEHIGHTON, Pa.: Mike Buryk, a Society invites all to a lecture by Dr. Petro Ukrainian American family researcher, Potichnyj on the subject “The Chronicle of will offer a workshop on Lemko and UPA as a Source of Information about the Ukrainian genealogy focused on the Sanok Ukrainian Liberation Movement during region of Poland. The talk will cover local World War II.” Dr. Potichnyj is professor historical background, how to research emeritus of McMaster University in your family tree, archives, online resourc- Hamilton, Ontario, a former member of es, and software and hardware tools. This the UPA and the U.S. Marine Corps, as session takes place at 1-4 p.m. at the well as editor-in-chief of the UPA Ukrainian Homestead on Sunday, Chronicle (Litopys UPA). The lecture will February 20. Snow date is February 27. take place at the society’s building, 63 For travel directions: http://www. Fourth Avenue (between Ninth and 10th ukrhomestead.com/directx.html. For a streets) at 5 p.m. For additional informa- flyer: http://www.buryk.com/our_patch/ tion call 212-254-5130. docs/ukrlemkogentoolkit022011.pdf . An exhibit of books and maps is included. Saturday, February 12, There is a $10 workshop fee. For addition- and Tuesday, February 22 al information contact michael.buryk@ PALATINE, Ill.: Col. Roman G. Golash verizon.net.

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St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Jewett Center, N.Y. announces its LOGO CONTEST

on the occasion of the parish’s 50th anniversary to be celebrated in the summer of 2012.

The winning design will appear on all jubilee materials. Deadline for submissions is April 1, 2011. Please send designs to: [email protected] or mail to: St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church (50th Jubilee), P.O. Box 284, Hunter, N.Y. 12442. Please visit our website: http://ukrainianmountaintop.org