INSIDE:• Scholars, community leaders discuss diaspora’s experiences — page 3. •A former nationalist underground leader returns to Donetsk — page 4. • The unique musical mix of accordionist Chango Spasiuk — page 11.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIII HE KRAINIANNo. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine International Association of Ukrainian Studies T U Verkhovna RadaW sessions in turmoil seeks reform in Ukraine’s higher education system as deputies debate WTO-related bills by Zenon Zawada Ministry of Culture and the deputy min- Kyiv Press Bureau ister for humanitarian affairs. Dr. von Hagen’s speech not only called DONETSK – A call for sweeping into question the health and relevancy of reform in Ukrainian higher education IAUS, but also exposed a rift that exists in marked the sixth congress of the the Ukrainian academic community International Association of Ukrainian between the conservative National Studies (IAUS) in Donetsk. Academy of Sciences stalwarts on one side Dr. Mark von Hagen, director of and reform-minded scholars on the other, Columbia University’s Ukrainian Studies namely Westerners and younger Ukrainians. program in New York, stirred the typical- He thanked the Ministry of Education ly placid congress in his opening remarks for providing the necessary funding for on June 29 by stating the nation’s educa- the congress, but then criticized its recent tional and cultural governing bodies need attempt to recentralize control of an Orange Revolution of their own. Ukraine’s higher education system, there- “Despite years of post-independence by “rolling back important gains in uni- reform programs and proposals, the versity autonomy and academic freedom organizations that are most critical to won since the end of Communist rule.” IAUS have failed to construct a meaning- Dr. von Hagen told The Weekly that ful agenda for Ukrainian nation-building the Yushchenko government this year and the development of civic conscious- “significantly” cut financing for the sixth ness through the support of basic scholar- congress to $97,000, revealing that for- ship and culture,” Dr. von Hagen said in mer president Leonid Kuchma’s govern- his speech addressed to more than 600 ment was more committed to financing UNIAN scholars gathered at Donetsk National the IAUS. University during the last week of June. The organization was so strapped for Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn (seated, center) struggles to keep con- Such organizations, which Dr. von cash this year that Donetsk National trol over the parliamentary session as deputies opposed to a package of bills aimed at Hagen identified as impediments to University Rector Volodymyr assisting Ukraine’s entry into the World Trade Organization disrupt the proceedings. IAUS’s progress, are the National Shevchenko had to borrow $100,000 to Academy of Sciences, the National cover remaining expenses, Dr. von by Zenon Zawada and Yana Sedova Social Research in Kyiv. “Russia as a Association of Ukrainianists, the Kyiv Press Bureau full-fledged WTO member could dictate Ministry of Education and Science, the (Continued on page 4) to Ukraine one-sided demands that would KYIV – In the biggest political con- have to be agreed to.” flict since the Orange Revolution, Deputies came to fisticuffs before the Communists and pro-Russian parliamen- first critical vote on July 6 when VP of Millennium Challenge Corp. tary deputies this week raised bedlam in Communist Party National Deputy the Verkhovna Rada as part of a frantic Oleksander Bondarchuk blared an emer- campaign to prevent Ukraine’s entry into gency siren from a megaphone just as outlines program’s goals, challenges the World Trade Organization (WTO). Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko began by Andrew Nynka the 2005 level of funding. For two consecutive days, Verkhovna to speak. Mr. Bush outlined his view of the pro- Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn tried PARSIPPANY, N.J. – As a vice-presi- The gesture so angered deputies of gram in Washington before it was official- to lead Ukraine’s Parliament in voting on dent at the Millennium Challenge Corp., Ms. Tymoshenko’s political faction that ly created. The account would be “devot- 14 bills that would allow for WTO entry a U.S. government entity created last some tried wrestling the megaphone ed to projects in nations that govern justly, by the year’s end – accomplishing one of year to fund needy countries, Ukrainian away from Mr. Bondarchuk, igniting a invest in their people and encourage eco- President Viktor Yushchenko’s economic American John Hewko is aware of the brawl in which more than a dozen nomic freedom,” the president said. priorities. great responsibility of his job. deputies traded punches, grabbed each As the chief of the corporation’s Pro-WTO national deputies outnum- Proposed initially by President other in headlocks and shoved each other Country Programs Department, Mr. bered their enemies, the Communists and George W. Bush in 2002 and created by against walls or onto the Rada’s floor. Hewko is responsible for managing the Social Democratic Party – United Congress two years later, the corpora- relationship with eligible countries and Following the brawl, about 30 tion was meant to create “a new com- (SDPU). Party of the Regions deputies Communist and SDPU deputies sur- maintaining continuous contact with remained neutral. pact for global development,” Mr. Bush them for all phases of the relationship: rounded Mr. Lytvyn and engaged in any told an audience in Washington prior to As of July 7, however, pro-WTO obstructive tactic at their disposal to pre- proposal development, proposal due deputies had managed to pass only two the program’s creation. diligence, compact negotiation and vent him from leading the parliamentary As the program’s vice-president for WTO-related bills – a result of extreme session. Bodyguards separated Mr. compact implementation. and even violent measures to prevent rat- country relations, Mr. Hewko is the man “I’m in charge of maintaining our Lytvyn from his enemies. chiefly responsible for managing the ification of the bills – in the Rada’s last WTO membership is a critical step in relationships from start to finish, work- remaining days before the summer recess MCC’s relationship with countries that ing on proposals, getting the agreements President Yushchenko’s goal to secure mar- receive funds. The program is designed to that starts this weekend. ket economy status for Ukraine and eventu- signed and post agreement implementa- The conflict revealed the serious eco- link greater contributions from developed tion,” said Mr. Hewko, who has been at al integration into the European Union. nations to greater responsibility from nomic implications involved, especially It was also the most important eco- the corporation for a year and a half and if Ukraine manages to gain WTO entry developing nations, Ukraine among them. oversees its largest sector. nomic measure that Western investors and In 2004 Congress provided $1 billion before the Russian Federation does. financiers requested from Ukraine at the He noted that Ukraine is considered Whichever nation gains earlier entry to the Millennium Challenge Account – a candidate country to receive aid from mini-Davos economic summit in June. the fund used by the corporation to will have the leverage to set favorable The Rada passed a law criminalizing the fund, as its per capita GDP income trading guidelines with new entrants, gather money for needy countries. Mr. is below $1,465, the cutoff used by the the piracy of intellectual property by a Bush asked that funding be increased to observers said. 261-44 vote on July 6. This was the most corporation to determine which coun- “Every country puts its own national $3 billion in 2006, though Congress tries are in need. important for WTO admission, and Vice responded recently by giving the MCC interests first,” said Oleksander Prime Minister for European-Integration $1.8 billion, a 20 percent increase from (Continued on page 18) Baranovskyi, the leading expert at the Razumkov Center for Economic and (Continued on page 19) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 No. 28

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Criminal charges reach 16 deputies, NEWSBRIEFS Businesses sign deals in Poland between both countries. (RFE/RL Newsline) senior leaders of opposition in Ukraine GDYNIA, Poland – The presidents of Poland and Ukraine – Aleksander Cabinet announces privatizations by Taras Kuzio Yanukovych’s Party of the Regions, Kwasniewski and Viktor Yushchenko, Eurasia Daily Monitor including Vasylii Horbal and Andrei respectively – attended the signing of KYIV – Prime Minister Yulia Kluyev. Mr. Kluyev headed Mr. two major deals at an annual Polish- Tymoshenko told journalists on June 30 Ukrainian Internal Affairs Minister Yanukovych’s dirty-tricks team (see Ukrainian economic forum in Gdynia on that her cabinet has approved a list of Yurii Lutsenko has publicly announced Eurasia Daily Monitor, September 22 June 30, Ukrainian and Polish media more than 10 enterprises that will soon be that he is seeking to strip 16 parliamentary and 23, 2004) and his voice is heard on reported. The Industrial Union of the offered for sale, the Ukrayinska Pravda deputies of their immunity from prosecu- the Security Service of Ukraine tapes Donbas finalized the purchase of the website reported. The list includes the Kryvorizhskyi Ore Enriching Combine, tion (Interfax-Ukraine, June 28). All 16 transferred to President Viktor Huta Czestochowa steel mill, following a the Odesa Port Plant, the Nikopol Pipe deputies figure in criminal cases that are Yushchenko’s coalition after the second lengthy and controversial privatization Plant, the Kyiv Motorcycle Plant and a not connected to the 2004 presidential round of the contentious 2004 presiden- duel with the Indian-Dutch-British hold- number of hotels. Ms. Tymoshenko also election. However, Mr. Lutsenko added tial election (EDM, December 3, 2004). ing LMN in 2003-2004. Moreover, predicted that the controversial that parties loyal to former President Other deputies on the Lutsenko list, Ukraine’s AvtoZAZ motor company Kryvorizhstal steel mill will be resold by Leonid Kuchma had extorted funds from although unaffiliated, are well known. signed a deal for the takeover – for a the government by October 24. Asked to businesses and then given the money to Tatiana Zasukha took control of Peasants symbolic 1 zloty ($0.3) – of 20 percent comment on Kryvorizhstal former owner charities they controlled. These charities Party in July 2004 (EDM, July 27, 2004). of the troubled Warsaw-based FSO car- Viktor Pinchuk’s words that no one will were often used to transfer funds to Viktor She is married to the former chairman of maker’s shares. AvtoZAZ has promised take part in the new privatization of the Yanukovych’s election campaign. the Kyiv Oblast, Anatolii Zasukha. Both that it will not lay off anyone from the company as its recent takeover by the This new development confirms that Zasukhas are long-time Kuchma allies, 2,000-strong work force within the fol- state is being disputed in the European corruption, election fraud and separatism reputedly involved in widespread corrup- lowing six months. The remaining 80 charges reach into the highest levels of percent of the shares in FSO belong to Court for Human Rights, the prime min- tion in the Kyiv Oblast. Mrs. Zasukha is ister said: “What Pinchuk said is psy- the Kuchma camp. All 16 names on Mr. also close to former first lady, Ludmila the South Korean company Daewoo, Lutsenko’s list, which was quickly which became insolvent in 1999. chotherapy for those who owned the steel Kuchma. mill. I know at least five large enterprises leaked to obkom.net.ua (June 29), are Since Mr. Yushchenko’s election, crim- (RFE/RL Newsline) former Kuchma allies. Eleven are from in the world that have expressed their inal charges have gradually diffused from Poland to allow Ukrainian guest workers interest in participating in a new auction.” the two main centrist opposition parties, the lower to the middle ranks of former four are unaffiliated deputies, and one is (RFE/RL Newsline) Kuchma officials. Mr. Lutsenko’s list WARSAW – Warsaw is finalizing from Verkhovna Rada Chairman indicates that charges will now spread to negotiations with Kyiv on an accord that Russia not to control pipelines Volodymyr Lytvyn’s People’s Party. the senior levels over the summer parlia- could allow up to 200,000 Ukrainian Four of the 11 are high-ranking mem- mentary recess and be driven home in the guest workers annually to work in KYIV – Naftohaz Ukrainy head bers of Viktor Medvedchuk’s Social fall. Since Parliament goes into recess on Poland, the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita Oleksii Ivchenko told journalists in Kyiv Democratic Party – United (SDPU). Two July 8, it is unlikely to strip the 16 of their reported on July 1, quoting an official on June 29 that the International are long-time Medvedchuk allies: Nestor immunity by that date. from the Polish Economy Ministry. “This Consortium for the Control and Shufrych, who faces separate criminal High-ranking former Kuchma officials is a part of the Polish strategy that Development of the Gas Transport charges of bribing voters to win his seat are uneasy because of other signals sent intends to tie Ukraine to the West as System of Ukraine will not operate in 2002, and Hryhorii Surkis, chairman by the authorities. During President closely as possible. The first stage of Ukraine’s gas-transport system, Interfax- of Kyiv’s Dynamo football (soccer) club. Yushchenko’s February visit to Donetsk, [this strategy] was the cancellation of Ukraine reported. Mr. Ivchenko was com- Seven deputies on the list are from Mr. a Yanukovych stronghold, he “spoke visa fees for Ukrainians entering menting on his talks with Russia’s with Donetsk in the language of force Poland,” an official from the Polish Gazprom in Moscow the previous day. Dr. Taras Kuzio is visiting professor at and not compromise” (glavred.info, Foreign Ministry told the daily. (RFE/RL Mr. Ivchenko said the consortium will be the Elliot School of International Affairs, February 14). He “behaved like a con- Newsline) reorganized to construct and subsequently George Washington University. The article queror who had come to a subjugated ter- operate a Bohorodchany-Uzhhorod above, which originally appeared in The ritory” (glavred.info, April 5). Simplified visa regime for U.S. citizens pipeline, a part of the Novopskov- Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily After the February visit, Mr. Uzhhorod gas pipeline. Russia and Monitor, is reprinted here with permission KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko Ukraine set up the consortium in 2003 on from the foundation (www.jamestown.org). (Continued on page 14) on June 30 issued a decree simplifying a parity basis, with an eye to operating trips of U.S. citizens to Ukraine as of the entire gas-transport system in July 1. The decree, published on the gov- Ukraine. It was Gazprom that reportedly Kyiv secures gas supplies ernment’s website (http://www.presi- asked for the liquidation of the consor- dent.gov.ua), stipulates that visas will no tium, following Ukraine’s refusal to buy for 2006 from Turkmenistan longer be required by U.S. citizens mak- 7.8 billion cubic meters of Russian gas ing a second trip within six months, pro- stored in Ukraine. Mr. Ivchenko also said vided the new stay in Ukraine does not Ukraine will be able to pay fully in cash by Jan Maksymiuk Ukraine,” the June 22 issue of exceed 90 days. 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(Continued on page 15) No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 3 Scholars and community leaders gather to discuss diaspora’s experiences by Zenon Zawada This year’s conference in Nizhen is Pedagogical University in Nizhen. the biggest.” Kyiv Press Bureau the second such event co-organized by The university is particularly proud to Nonetheless, Brazilians continued to Dr. Roman Yereniuk, director of the host the conference this year because it’s make up the largest immigrant group in NIZHEN, Ukraine – More than 80 Center for Ukrainian Canadian Studies at celebrating the 200th anniversary of its Portugal, but among the tendencies set- scholars and community leaders gathered the University of Manitoba. founding, Mr. Ponomarevskyi said. ting Ukrainians apart from other ethnic at Hohol Pedagogical University in Nizhen It follows the first conference held at Former President Leonid Kuchma groups is they have settled in many of for three days beginning on June 23 to the National University of Ostroh issued the decree in 1999 that established Portugal’s rural communities and are share their scholarly pursuits and experi- Academy last year, and it appears as the Nizhen diaspora center, which is the engaged in agricultural work. ences in the global Ukrainian diaspora. though the diaspora academic confer- only government sponsored diaspora “Almost a quarter of the Ukrainian On the quaint, wooded campus in the ences are now an official annual event in center in Ukraine, receiving its financing immigrants did agricultural work,” Dr. Chernihiv Oblast where Mykola Hohol Ukraine, Dr. Yereniuk said. from the university itself. Mendoca said. “For some of the rural The Nizhen center distinguishes itself areas, if not for the immigrants there because it has a specific emphasis on fos- would be no agriculture.” tering ties between the Western Diaspora Community leaders like Mr. Pylypchuk community with the East, particularly described how challenging it is to support those communities in the former Soviet and operate a Ukrainian-language Sunday Union, he said. school class of 28 students in Kamchatka, The conference’s other goals, organizers especially in a country as hostile to the said, were to analyze Ukrainian immigra- Ukrainian language as Russia. tion, examine educational institutions and “Russian chauvinism is present among their roles, and to recognize important indi- all officials,’’ Mr. Pylypchuk said. viduals in the diaspora, Dr. Yereniuk said. Although she does not speak Next year’s conference will occur at Ukrainian and is not ethnically Lviv Polytechnic University, Dr. Ukrainian, Svetlana Elebesova of the Yereniuk said, and will be organized by Karasaev Humanities University in its International Institute for Education, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, spoke of the need Culture and Diaspora Relation. for Ukrainian language instruction in her This year’s participants traveled from city, where it is virtually non-existent. Canada, Poland, Russia, Bulgaria, Such interaction between the Eastern Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Portugal. and Western diasporas is an achievement Among them were scholars with no for the conference, Dr. Yereniuk said. immediate Ukrainian ancestry or com- The conference was also a success in mand of the language, but who are exposing Nizhen to academics in the involved in academic pursuits dealing diaspora who might not have otherwise Zenon Zawada with the Ukrainian Diaspora. had the opportunity to visit the city, said Valentyn Pylypchuk (center), a pilot, describes his challenges and successes as a For example, Antonio Eduardo Dr. Orest Cap, professor of vocational Ukrainian community leader in Kamchatka, Russia, at the international academic Mendoca, director of the Center for Soviet technical teacher education at the diaspora conference held at Hohol Pedagogical University in Nizhen. and Post-Soviet Studies in Lisbon, University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Portugal, spent the last several years exam- Through the conference he said he was once studied, scholars from eight differ- A network of Ukrainian universities ining the burst of Ukrainian immigrants to able to recognize the deep Ukrainian cul- ent nations discussed their studies on with diaspora centers has emerged in his country in just the past five years. tural and historical roots in the Chernihiv diverse topics ranging from Ukrainian recent years and the annual conferences In 2001 Portugal had created a new Oblast, Dr. Cap said. It was his first time communities in Paraguay to the status of will rotate between them, he said. residency status called “permit of stay,” east of the Dnipro River. Ukrainian language studies in Moscow. This year, “we wanted to make a pres- which was extended to several thousand “What impressed me about Nizhen were Community leaders, such as Valentyn ence in northern Ukraine and let them Ukrainians. the pearls of Ukrainian history in the uni- Pylypchuk of Kamchatka, Russia, see there is a Ukrainian-speaking diaspo- “A few weeks after their legalization, versity’s museum,” Dr. Cap said. “The peo- offered updates and raised awareness of ra and that Ukrainian should be spoken the Ukrainian immigrant community ple were warm, receptive, and they want to their efforts to retain Ukrainian identity in northern Ukraine,” Dr. Yereniuk said. became the biggest in Portugal,” Dr. share your heritage. It’s not only western and consciousness. He organized this year’s conference Mendoca said. “It went from nothing to Ukraine, but other parts of Ukraine.” “Education is of primary importance in with Stanislav Ponomarevskyi, director of the diaspora,” Mr. Pylypchuk said. “It’s the Center for Humanitarian Cooperation the only way to fight against assimilation.” with the Ukrainian Diaspora at Hohol Quotable notes “A few months ago the Western investing community had some doubts about how much real progress was being made by the Ukrainian “Orange Revolution.” One of the most highly touted of the U.S.-backed color-coded pro-democracy, U.S. provides $2.7 million in aid pro-market political movements, the new Ukrainian government was, we were told, going to rescue the country from the reactionary past. to law enforcement in Ukraine “Ukraine had earned such a reputation for corruption and inefficiency that Embassy of the United States Judicial Academy of Ukraine, which will very few investors were willing to take a chance on developing the country’s allow Ukrainian judges to receive training resources and employing its people. KYIV – Ongoing efforts to fight cor- on complex legal and procedural aspects “Now, though, those doubts are almost entirely cleared up, and the situation in ruption and strengthen the rule of law in of trafficking in persons cases, including Ukraine is pretty clear. It’s as bad as it was before the Orange Revolution. Far Ukraine received a $2.7 million boost on new developments in international law; from establishing Ukraine’s effective independence from Russia, the oligarch- June 17, when U.S. Ambassador to • advanced drug investigations training, dominated government has, in effect, allowed it to remain an economic colony. Ukraine John E. Herbst and Ukrainian to be conducted by U.S. Drug “Mind you, there’s still quite a lot of effective spin control over the develop- Minister of Internal Affairs Yurii Enforcement Administration (DEA) train- ing mess. That’s the one American technology import that’s worked so far. ...” Lutsenko signed a protocol detailing the ers on the topics of successful investiga- allocation of U.S. law enforcement assis- tion, case development, and prosecution of – “Orange Revolution Loses Its Luster,” by John Dizard, Financial Times, tance funds to Ukraine. illegal drugs and money laundering cases; June 10. The funds will go toward technical • narcotics and explosives maritime assistance, training and equipment, as smuggling investigations training, to be “... If some of the disappointments of Mr. Yushchenko’s short tenure can be detailed below: conducted by DEA personnel in Odesa, put down to inflated expectations after last year’s drama, others stem from the • a resident U.S. legal advisor based in including training on successful investi- exigencies of the revolution. Various bits of the alliance that propelled Mr. Kyiv, who will work with prosecutors gation, case development, and prosecu- Yushchenko to the presidency had to be paid back with government offices. The and judges to develop an effective crimi- tion of maritime smuggling of drugs, result has been contradictions and cleavages, both ideological – e.g., between the nal justice system characterized by trans- weapons and people; economic liberals and the socialist who oversees the state property fund – and parency, integrity and a thorough under- • the second phase of the International personal. A sub-plot to the Tymoshenko-Yushchenko tension has been Ms. standing of new laws in areas such as Organization for Migration (IOM) Tymoshenko’s rivalry with Petro Poroshenko, a businessman-politician who combating corruption, trafficking in per- Migration Management System, which wanted to be prime minister but became head of the national security and sons, and money laundering; will enhance the capacity of relevant defense council instead. • the American Bar Association Ukrainian authorities to manage migration “Parliamentary elections next March are exacerbating tendencies to populism. Central European and Eurasian Law flows into and from the country and to Under a reform agreed last December, some powers are due to shift from presi- Initiative Criminal Reform Program more effectively operate against migrant dent to Parliament and prime minister, though this change may yet be repudiated. (ABA/CEELI), which will strengthen the smuggling and trafficking in persons; After the elections, will the president and – if she is still in office – Ms. independence of Ukraine’s courts, • the second and third phases of the Tymoshenko learn from their mistakes and vindicate the Orange Revolution? improve the professional qualifications transition of the State Border Guard Both remain popular. And Ukrainians have learned to be patient. But Mr. and skills of defense lawyers, and devel- Service of Ukraine (SBGS) to a law Yushchenko must be steelier if he is to overcome the corrupt, fractious patholo- op the skills of judges and other repre- enforcement agency compatible with gies of Ukrainian politics.” sentatives of justice authorities; international and European standards, • development of an anti-trafficking in – “The Viktor and Yulia Show,” The Economist, June 16. persons training curriculum for the (Continued on page 17) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 No. 28

ities with its educational missions. International Association... Reforming the National Academy of Yevhen Stakhiv returns to Donetsk, (Continued from page 1) Sciences has been under discussion for a Hagen reported. long time, Ms. Skrypnyk noted. where he once led nationalist underground “If Ukrainian studies is supposed to be She said she was concerned that shift- something they care about, they could’ve ing IAUS conferences abroad would limit the number of Ukrainian scholars helped,” Dr. von Hagen told The Weekly, able to attend. Keeping the congress in referring to the Ukrainian government. Ukraine also enables Western scholars to As a result of the restricted funding, re-immerse themselves in Ukrainian life Dr. von Hagen said in his speech, hold- and culture, Ms. Skrypnyk added. ing the IAUS congress every three years While Ukrainians in the academic is likely beyond the Ukrainian govern- establishment weren’t entirely receptive to ment’s financial ability and willingness. Dr. von Hagen’s criticisms, some academ- He suggested hosting the congress ics from the West welcomed his frankness. every four or five years instead, and “It’s a bureaucratized, centralized, moving it to a foreign country, such as paternalistic academic culture in Poland “whose national association has Ukraine,” said Olga Andriewsky, a pro- been the most active.” fessor of history at Trent University in Another crisis facing IAUS is its rapid Peterborough, Ontario. “Everything is growth that the congress budget cannot about pecking orders. That’s why his call accommodate, Dr. von Hagen said. for democratization is important.” Organizers received 1,300 applicants for a An area that most scholars cited as in congress that typically accommodated dire need of reform is Ukrainian acade- between 600 and 700 participants, he said. mia’s refusal to acknowledge degrees As a result, hundreds of scholars were obtained abroad, or to allow students not included in the program, particularly who achieve foreign degrees to matricu- those belonging to the heavily represent- late back into the Ukrainian system. Zenon Zawada ed Kyiv contingent. Dr. von Hagen also Scholars from 17 nations attended the Yevhen Stakhiv admires the Kyiv skyline after his trip to Donetsk, where he had singled out Deputy Minister for four-day IAUS conference and took part been involved in organizing the region’s underground nationalist movement Humanitarian Affairs Mykola Tomenko in about 125 overlapping sessions and during World War II. and Culture Minister Oksana Bilozir for roundtables.

by Zenon Zawada Holodomor – the Famine-Genocide of Kyiv Press Bureau 1932-1933, Mr. Stakhiv said. Working in the mines ensured that one wouldn’t go DONETSK – It was in Donetsk that hungry, he explained. Yevhen Stakhiv heard “surzhyk” for the During his underground activity in the first time, in 1942. Donbas region, Mr. Stakhiv said he most He also saw a Ukraine different from feared the German SS officers, who his hometown of Peremyshl, meeting asked local police to report to them any- surzhyk-speaking Russians and one speaking in a Halychyna dialect. Ukrainian-speaking Greeks. On one occasion when crossing a During his year and a half in Donetsk, patrolled bridge, local police stopped Mr. Mr. Stakhiv realized Ukraine is a land of Stakhiv, who cried out loud in German, diverse people and cultures, causing him “The Russians are swine!” to shed his staunch Banderite views to “So whenever the police stopped me, I adopt a more democratic, pluralistic spoke to them in this coarse sort of approach to Ukrainian nationalism. German,” Mr. Stakhiv said. “I recall Donetsk as my evolution from Loose networks of underground nation- totalitarianism to democracy, because alists housed and fed Mr. Stakhiv. He there they taught me how to be a democ- remembered discovering warehouses full rat,” said Mr. Stakhiv, who at 87 is still of fruits and pickled cabbage, cucumbers traveling, involved in scholarly pursuits, and tomatoes during the summer of 1942. giving interviews to Ukrainian media and, “And we ate a vinaigrette,” Mr. Stakhiv of course, still charming the ladies. said. “Every day for lunch and dinner we Zenon Zawada Mr. Stakhiv, a resident of New Jersey, ate a vinaigrette. And there were beets. Dr. Mark von Hagen sits at an outdoor restaurant in Donetsk, as he speaks about returned to Donetsk to attend the congress of But then later there were no tomatoes, the sixth congress of the International Association of Ukrainian Studies. the International Association of Ukrainian there were no pickles, there were no beets; Studies. More than a half century ago, he so then the vinaigrette just became pickled had been one of the leaders of Organization cabbage. And that was good, too.” allowing Kyiv’s Monastery of the Caves These leading Ukrainian studies aca- of Ukrainian Nationalists underground in After organizing nationalists in the (Pecherska Lavra) to deteriorate, the demics compared their research and dis- Ukraine’s industrial heartland. cities of Horlivka, Mariupol, and Staryi archival system to collapse and the cussed the intricacies of Ukrainian histo- The city is nothing like it was when he and Novyi Kramatorsk, Mr. Stakhiv was nation’s film industry to decline. ry, linguistics, culture and ethnography, arrived in February 1942 in order to organ- forced to flee Donetsk. Additionally, the Ukrainian language among other numerous subjects. ize nationalists, Mr. Stakhiv said. Back then, Under torture by the Germans, one man is weak and unstable in contemporary Receiving special recognition at the it was known as Stalino. The city center had gave Mr. Stakhiv’s name to the Gestapo. conditions, said Dr. von Hagen, who conference was Donetsk native and for- a simple grid layout, surrounded by mines. That man’s daughter, with whom he had delivered his speech in Ukrainian, which mer Soviet political prisoner Ivan When the Nazi forces retreated from Russia, struck up a romance, told Mr. Stakhiv that he began studying only three years ago Dzyuba, who was awarded an honorary they burned and ruined Donetsk, he said. the Gestapo was looking for him. when elected IAUS president. He built doctorate by Donetsk National The city center as it appears today is “She yelled, ‘Flee! The Gestapo are wait- his Ukrainian skills on his fluent Russian. University, and Bohdan Osadczuk, a pro- entirely a product of impressive post-war, ing for you. They took away my father,’ ” Mr. Tomenko delivered a speech at the lific journalist and professor at the Soviet urban planning, consisting of spa- Mr. Stakhiv said. “And I fled Donetsk at the conference’s opening session, but left Ukrainian Free University in Germany. cious, tree-lined boulevards and attrac- end of June 1942. If not for this girl ...” just before Dr. von Hagen spoke. He told At the final session of the congress on tive parks. However, Mr. Stakhiv remained in the Radio Svoboda afterwards that Dr. von July 2, Dr. von Hagen announced that When he arrived, a horrible famine had Donbas region until June 1943. Hagen does not have an adequate view astronomer Dr. Yaroslav Yatskiv of gripped the region at the time, Mr. Stakhiv During that time, his political views of Ukrainian culture and even criticized Ukraine was elected as his successor to said. His first contacts in the underground underwent a dramatic change. When he IAUS. the IAUS presidency. were with a teachers’ cooperative in first arrived in the Donbas, Mr. Stakhiv “These books of between 300 and 500 IAUS national association representa- Horlivka, a city northeast of Donetsk. said he was a staunch nationalist who volumes, which are published with budg- tives also selected Dr. Giovanna Brogi Surprisingly enough, Mr. Stakhiv said believed in a one-party dictatorship with etary funding, don’t develop the Ukrainian Bercoff, a professor of Slavistics at the Communists had not dominated the a chauvinistic program summarized by language or culture,” Mr. Tomenko said, University of Milan in Italy, as the new region at the time, or not as much as they the slogan, “Ukraine for Ukrainians.” referring to the academic journal pub- IAUS vice-president. do presently, he joked. “They told me that we’d better get lished following each IAUS conference. Current plans are for the IAUS to hold There, he met Ukrainians who spoke lost,” Mr. Stakhiv said. “There are many Hanna Skrypnyk, the IAUS vice-pres- its next congress in Symferopol, Crimea. what he assumed was Russian. He asked a nationalities here, and if you say Ukraine ident for this year’s conference and pres- Bringing the conference to Crimea will young boy named Volodia why his parents for Ukrainians, then they’ll either kill ident of Ukraine’s National Association raise Ukrainian consciousness there, Ms. spoke Ukrainian, but he spoke Russian. you, they’ll chase you away or you’d bet- of Ukrainianists, said there is no conflict Skrypnyk said. “As if I am speaking in Russian! I am ter run away yourself.” within the IAUS. Among the most visible and tangible speaking in Yasynuvatskyi,” the boy First, he got rid of the slogan, In his criticism of the National reforms to emerge from the congress is replied, referring to the Yasynuvata area “Ukraine for Ukrainians,” Mr. Stakhiv Academy of Sciences, Dr. von Hagen that IAUS will consider hosting a smaller outside of Donetsk, where a form of said. Then he let go of the idea that said it is overly concentrated in Kyiv; conference in Italy in the next year or two surzhyk was spoken. Ukrainians are a higher race, as asserted dominated by the natural and applied sci- with the purpose of fostering Ukrainian Among the people he met in Donbas ences, while ignoring social sciences; studies outside of Ukraine and providing were Ukrainians who had fled the (Continued on page 19) and unable to integrate its research activ- a more intense, academic atmosphere. No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 5

Congress ready to increase aid to Ukraine; U.S.-Ukraine Foundation cited in committee reports by Olenka Dobczanska bill will be ready for President George W. Ukraine. The committee directs USAID Ukraine Foundation are significant in the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation Bush’s signature before it becomes law. to continue to support the foundation’s context of increased federal funding for activities beyond November 2005, when projects, since both praise the USUF’s U.S. - Ukraine Foundation noted WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of funding is scheduled to end. The commit- past work. Representatives on June 29 passed H.R. On June 21 and 30 during House and tee believes the foundation has an impor- While the House language “urges” the 3057, the “Department of State, Foreign Senate Appropriations Committees mark- tant role to play in strengthening the State Department to “consider” proposals Operations, and Related Programs ups (processes by which congressional com- [Verkhovna] Rada and in increasing from organizations such as the U.S.- Appropriations Bill, 2006.” The bill appro- mittees and subcommittees debate, amend transparency and accountability at all lev- Ukraine Foundation, the Senate language priated $20.27 billion for foreign assistance and rewrite proposed legislation) of H.R. els of government. The committee is much stronger. It specifically “directs” worldwide in fiscal year 2006. Out of these 3057, the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF) expects funding levels to exceed those of the U.S. Agency for International funds, the bill designates $477 million for was included in committees’ respective prior years.” (U.S. Senate Committee on Development (USAID) to continue to the “Independent States of the former reports that accompanied the bill. Appropriations Report 109-096.) support the USUF programs beyond this Soviet Union,” which includes Ukraine. The report language read as follows: Committee reports usually accompany November. Moreover, the appropriators On June 30, the U.S. Senate Committee “The committee urges the State the legislation voted on by Congress. They “expect” the levels of funding to “exceed on Appropriations increased the $477 mil- Department to consider proposals from discuss and explain the purpose of meas- those of prior years.” lion figure to $565 million, which includes organizations, such as the U.S.-Ukraine ures (in this case, the Foreign Operations The foundation’s existing programs a specific figure of $95 million for Foundation and Ukrainian Congress of Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 2006). and new proposals are designed to Ukraine – a $7 million increase compared Armenia, with existing experience in They also refer to the action taken by a strengthen the processes of community to funding for fiscal year 2005. Ukraine in one or more of these sectors.” committee or committee recommenda- building, legislative exchange and dia- The full Senate’s vote on H.R. 3057 is (U.S. House Committee on Appropriations tions to both legislative and executive logue between key policy-makers, eco- expected shortly. After the vote, both Report 109-152.) branches of the federal government as nomic development, voter education, chambers will reconcile the numbers “The committee is aware of the work they relate to specific organizations. youth leadership and other programs ($477 vs. $565, including $95 million for of the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, and Analysis of report language directed to further consolidate and Ukraine) during House-Senate conference commends the foundation for its support expand upon the democratic achieve- meetings later this month. When done, the of democracy and the rule of law in These two references to the U.S.- ments of the Orange Revolution.

Ruslana to back OSCE Quotable notes “... For sure, the future of the European Union is now under review. ... However, I don’t think you can influence that debate in any other way then by positioning anti-trafficking campaign Ukraine as a most dedicated candidate for future EU membership, which conducts Organization for Security “I am very grateful for the chance to rigid, comprehensive and consistent reforms in preparation for membership in the and Cooperation in Europe join the anti-trafficking campaign and be EU, irrespectively whatever happens with the internal debate in the EU. involved in solving the pressing problem “After the votes in France and the Netherlands, the European Union did not KYIV – Ukrainian singer Ruslana, the of human trafficking in the Ukraine and collapse. It will continue to function on the basis of the existing treaties, while winner of the 2004 Eurovision Song the future direction of the EU is being assessed. Contest, agreed to support the campaign in other European countries,” she added. Ms. Konrad said: “Ruslana’s ability to “It is even more important that at this critical stage of debate we remind the against human trafficking at a July 5 EU citizens and their elected leaders that we need a united and strong Europe meeting in Kyiv with Helga Konrad, the reach the young people in the Ukraine and beyond makes her an asset in helping which is capable to address the challenges of the 21st century. Among them is the OSCE special representative on combat- task to promote freedom and democracy toward the countries such as Ukraine by ing trafficking in human beings. raise awareness of the risks of human trafficking – this modern form of slav- embracing them into the mainstream of the European development. “I have been looking for opportunities “This can only be achieved if you Ukrainians challenge the EU with the real ery.” to make use of my popularity for the ben- progress you make in having bureaucracy free of corruption, advancing approxi- Ruslana met OSCE Chairman-in- efit of the European community,” said mation of laws with the EU legislation in general (and in particular in intellectual Ruslana, who is already a UNICEF good- Office Dimitrij Rupel in Ljubljana earlier property rights, company law, competition rules, environmental and consumer will ambassador. this year to discuss human trafficking. protection), demonstrating sustained commitment to effective implementation of legislation; tightening of bankruptcy rules, eliminating of state interference in pricing and improving VAT administration. OSCE official visits Kyiv to promote anti-trafficking measures “In the short term perspective, this would certainly contribute toward review of the market economy status, ongoing negotiations on membership in the WTO Organization for Security fight against human trafficking.” and would show to the EU leaders Ukraine’s serious commitment towards the and Cooperation in Europe The special representative will also aspired goal of membership even in the times of uncertainty and unpredictability take part in a meeting of anti-trafficking of the EU’s future course. ...” KYIV – OSCE Special Representative coordinators from the Balkans, Turkey, on Combating Trafficking in Human – Vygaudas Usackas, Lithuania’s ambassador to the United States, speaking Beings Helga Konrad on July 4 support- Poland and the Netherlands, as well as on “Ukrainian Membership in the European Union” at the U.S.-Ukraine Policy ed the appointment of a national coordi- with Ukrainian government officials to Dialogue Exchange Program seminar, organized by the Atlantic Council of the nator in Ukraine to fight human traffick- help share experience in the field. United States, on June 7. ing. Organized by the Office of the OSCE In Kyiv on a two-day visit, Ms. Project Coordinator in Ukraine at the Konrad said: “A national coordinator is a request of the Ukrainian Ministry of Youth and Sports, the meeting of experts Need a back issue? much-needed institution in Ukraine. It is If you’d like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: very important to have a high – level will help the country set up a structure to Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. official in charge of all activities in the combat human trafficking.

The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund: May U.S. Embassy in Kyiv Amount Name City Stefan Glut Flanders, N.J. $250.00 Yuriy and Irena North Potomac, Md. Arcadia Kocybala Croton On Hudson, N.Y. marks Independence Day Deychakiwsky Deacon Yourij Flushing, N.Y. Embassy of the United States $100.00 Jaroslaw and Maria Cranford, N.J. Malachowsky Tomorug George Nawrocky Queens Village, N.Y. KYIV – United States Ambassador to Ukraine John E. $95.00 Roxana Charkewycz Park Ridge, Ill. Myron Pawlowsky Winnipeg, Manitoba Herbst and his wife, Nadezda Christoff Herbst, welcomed $55.00 Lydia Baltarowich Warren, Mich. Wolodymyr and Neonilia Lafayette, Ind. Bohdan Birakowsky College Point, N.Y. Lechman prominent Ukrainians from across Ukraine to their resi- $25.00 Roman Bohonowych Kerhonkson, N.Y. $5.00 Mykola Kril Las Vegas, Nev. dence in Kyiv as part of local American Independence Day Bohdan Hryshchyshyn Bethel Park, Pa. Petro Kulynych Yonkers, N.Y. celebrations. The guest list included members of the cur- George Lewycky Milltown, N.J. George Malachowsky Rochester, N.Y. rent and former governments, Verkhovna Rada deputies, T. Schmotolosha Livingston, N.J. Ruslan Rasiak Dulles, Va. and leaders in business, education, media and the arts. Victor and Larisa Oyster Bay, N.Y. Halyna Shepko New Paltz, N.Y. In his remarks Ambassador Herbst stated the rejec- Shevchenko Irene Stercho Narberth, Pa. Roxana Wolosenko Walnut Creek, Calif. Maria Szczebetiuk Allentown, Pa. tion by Ukrainians of fraudulent results during last fall’s Marie Zarycky Warren, Mich. election was a new beginning in Ukraine that some have $20.00 Joseph Luczka Hartford, Conn. TOTAL: $945.00 described as a second independence day for Ukraine. O. and L. Polon Penn Yan, N.Y. His full remarks follow. $15.00 Martha Jarosz Kinnelon, N.J. Sincere thanks to all contributors Steve Kohut Warren, Mich. to The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund. * * * Ted Konecky Carnegie, Pa. Ada Osinchuk Fort Wayne, Ind. The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund is the I would like to thank you all for gathering here to $10.00 Eugene Bilynsky Ewing, N.J. only fund dedicated exclusively to supporting celebrate the declaration of America’s independence Andrij Buhel Mississauga, Ontario the work of this publication. (Continued on page 19) 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 No. 28

NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Where is our synergy? Royal Canadian Legion’s Branch 360 A short six years ago, this newspaper and the vast majority of our organized community were abuzz with news of an extraordinary happening in Washington. unjustly has its charter suspended Think back. Can you remember what it was? by Lubomyr Luciuk Veterans Affairs erected a proper head- On June 23-27, 1999, more than 900 people, members of various Ukrainian pro- stone over his final resting place, in fessional societies, community organizations and institutions participated in the It was near midnight before I hailed a Ottawa’s Notre Dame Cemetery. Joint Conferences of Ukrainian American Organizations. The mega-event provided cab, heading west to Holland Park. As Then they went further afield. a venue for community members to learn what our community has to offer and to we passed through Sussex Gardens I In 2000, in Konowal’s home village of consider how all its component parts might be able to improve their cooperation and glanced, instinctively, toward No. 218 Kutkivchi, Ukraine, a monument was benefit from synergistic relationships – all, of course, keeping in mind our commu- and saw the plaque recalling Ukrainian erected off its central square, a welcome nity’s two realities: our life here in the United States and our concern for Ukraine. Canadian soldiers who established their foil to a nearby bust of Lenin. As part of the program, organizations held their individual meetings, various “London Club” there during the second Simultaneously, the branch financed pub- groups set up informative displays, vendors sold their wares, receptions were held at world war. lication of a trilingual booklet about the Embassy of Ukraine and the U.S. State Department as well as on Capitol Hill, and For thousands that building became a Konowal’s life and times as an immi- everyone came together for a huge banquet and ball. Among the participants were “home away from home,” where they grant, soldier, janitor and Canadian hero, physicians, lawyers, architects, librarians, journalists, credit union leaders, veterans, mingled socially and steeled themselves placing copies in major public and uni- for the sacrifices they knew they would engineers and, not to be forgotten, Ukrainian National Women’s League of America. versity libraries around the world. yet face. Those army, navy and air force The motto for the Joint Conferences, as explained by Dr. Roman Goy, princi- Only recently they negotiated permis- volunteers, men and women like Bohdan pal organizer, was “synergy, whereby the action of the whole is greater than that sion for another plaque to be unveiled on Panchuk, his wife, Anne Cherniawsky, of its parts”; its goal: to build teamwork for the Ukrainian community. August 22, near Lens, France, just Tony Yaremovich, Stanley Frolick, Bill It was an exciting time for our community, a time when we looked ahead to a more beyond Vimy Ridge, where Konowal’s Kereliuk, Ann Crapleve, Steve Pawluk effective hromada with a bright future. The expectation was that the Joint Conferences valor in battle earned him his VC, per- and many others, were, as Panchuk once were not just a one-time super event, but a coming together of our community’s mem- sonally presented by King George V. observed, “heroes of their day.” Most are bers and powers that would lay the foundation for a new modus vivendi. The That Konowal’s long-missing medal gone now but they are not forgotten. Weekly’s editorial hailed the endeavor as “a new model” for our community life. was recovered, after it mysteriously Before I could tell him of the role I And today, well, it seems our Ukrainian American community is unfocused, per- turned up for sale at auction in London, played in installing that marker, my taxi haps even lost. Each organization is out doing its own thing – some more successfully Ontario, last year, was also thanks largely driver, an Englishman, pointed it out and than others; many are floundering. We’ve gotta ask: Where has our synergy gone? to Branch 360’s intervention. Konowal’s told me what it says, clearly feeling it Perhaps it is time once again for a synergistic gathering at which we can take stock of VC is now permanently on display in the worthy of a tourist’s attention. Over there our community’s assets and chart a course for our hromada’s health and success. new Canadian War Museum. they still remember how Canadians A POSTSCRIPT: A concrete example of synergy’s effectiveness was this newspa- Undeniably, Branch 360 has been per’s coverage of the individual organizations’ sessions held as part of the Joint helped fight off fascism. That plaque was unveiled in 1995, on doing good Legion work, for well over a Conferences. Eleven different bylines appeared atop the news stories in a special sec- decade, even as, inevitably, most other tion of our newspaper on July 11, 1999. The Weekly had contacted all the groups hold- the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, thanks to Toronto’s Branch 360 of legion branches have faded. Why this ing sessions and proposed that they become our collaborators in presenting the com- branch revived, while others faltered, has plete story of the Joint Conferences. The plan worked wonderfully. The Weekly’s work the Royal Canadian Legion. Without a penny of support from Ottawa, much less everything to do with its having a partic- with volunteers from diverse organizations was an illustration of the meaning of “syn- ular purpose, namely furthering the ergy”: cooperative interaction among groups that creates an enhanced combined effect. from the Legion’s Ontario or Dominion commands, Branch 360’s membership, Ukrainian Canadian educational and And so, we make our offer to readers once again: Use us! Submit stories about your commemorative initiatives its founders, organization’s or community’s work and share your success so that others may benefit wedded as they are to Panchuk’s empow- ering credo – “ My gospel: do some- men like Pawluk, set a half century ago. from your experience. Consider our newspaper’s pages your pages and our editors your Thus, from its inception, Branch 360 colleagues. Remember: Together we are many, and together we are powerful. thing!” – did just that. They got the job done and remembered their beginnings in was meant to be of the Canadian Legion wartime England. but a Ukrainian branch (hence its some- And they have done even more ever what whimsical acronym, “CLUB 360”). July since. They had plans for even more good Turning the pages back... Their branch is named after Filip works. Konowal, a first world war veteran, and Then came June 7. A gaggle of the only Ukrainian Canadian to have Ontario Command apparatchiks swooped 11 down on Branch 360. Having first seized been awarded the most prestigious dis- tinction of the British Empire, the its assets, they next declared its Legion 1999 Six years ago, after the Joint Conferences of Ukrainian Victoria Cross. Charter suspended, informing its startled American Organizations had concluded in Washington, The So Branch 360 placed four trilingual executive that what was theirs had been Ukrainian Weekly ran a guest editorial by Orest S. plaques commemorating Konowal across captured, even before those doing the Deychakiwsky, then president of The Washington Group. The Canada: in Ottawa, Toronto, Richmond, taking had officially informed them of editorial was a version of his opening remarks at the TWG conference, held under the and Dauphin. They also made sure the closure, much less explained by what theme “At the Threshold,” on June 26 during the Joint Conferences. His observations authority they acted – uncomradely acts are worth recalling today as, once again, Ukraine stands at the threshold. that, no doubt, will be scrutinized care- Following are excerpts from the guest editorial of July 11, 1999. Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk is director of fully when this ambuscade’s conse- research for the Ukrainian Canadian * * * quences become a matter for the courts Civil Liberties Association and a mem- to resolve. ... Will Ukraine be positioned to become an integral part of the West, or will it be ber in good standing of Branch 360 of fated to remain on the periphery of Europe? This remains to be seen. the Royal Canadian Legion. (Continued on page 17) Unfortunately, Ukraine’s political leadership does not appear to have made the funda- mental decision to make thoroughgoing reforms conducive to joining the West. Its enlight- ened foreign policy leadership has certainly moved Ukrainian foreign policy in the direction of the West. Ukraine’s foreign policy, in my view, is a success. ... But a Western-oriented foreign policy is simply not enough when Ukraine’s internal situation remains ambivalent. ... many expectations of the West, of the diaspora and, most importantly, of Ukrainians themselves have gone unfulfilled. ... Changes will take time, but will not come until Ukraine decisively moves on a reformist path and cleans up government. Despite the rhetoric of its leadership and the progress that has occurred in some respects, Ukraine has yet to make the fundamental decision to go in the direction of the open, democratic, prosperous and progressive West. Alas, much of what transpires on the ground in Ukraine – the corruption, inadequate rule of law, stifling bureaucracy, over-regulation – belies the rhetoric and serves to neutralize the positive changes that have taken place with Ukraine’s independence and since Ukraine’s independence. ... Ukraine’s straddling the fence has not made it easy for the West, for the United States, and, indeed, for the Ukrainian American community. It has been downright frustrating at times. Perhaps the easiest course of action would be to throw up our hands in despair and write off Ukraine ... But it would not be the right course of action. Thankfully, the United States has not abandoned Ukraine ... We need to continue to support Ukraine as well through well-thought-out assistance programs, especially those designed to strengthen Ukrainian civil society. And, I might add, supporting Ukraine also includes constructively criticizing the government of Ukraine where necessary ... The two – support and constructive criti- cism – are not mutually exclusive. ... Taras Ciuriak Source: “At the Threshold,” guest editorial by Orest S. Deychakiwsky, The Standing in front of 218 Sussex Gardens, Paddington, London, are Pavlo Ukrainian Weekly, July 11, 1999, Vol. LXVII, No. 28. Pylypchuk (Lviv) and Volodymyr Muzyczka (London). No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 7

TheThe thingsthings wewe do...do... PERSPECTIVES BY ANDREW FEDYNSKY by Orysia Paszczak Tracz All you’d want to know about woodworking Forty years seems like yesterday I am not a linguist, but I sure enjoy not all there. A barrel without even one Forty years is special; biblical some- of Ukraine, including the archives of the words, their definitions and their origins. stave doesn’t work. how. That’s how old Isaac was when he Ukrainian National Republic, were burned. Even as a kid I would wonder about why, A “kyianka” is not just a female from married Rebecca; it’s how long Moses An arsonist linked to the KGB set the fire. in both Ukrainian and English, certain Kyiv. A “kyi” is a thick staff or cudgel, and the Israelites wandered in the desert; Although the struggle for Ukraine’s exis- words were the way they were. I remem- and a “kyianka” can be a wooden mallet Saul, David and various rulers reigned tence was oriented on the future, a young ber reading dictionaries for fun. I also used in woodworking, a padded ham- for the same length of time; and so on. professor at Ohio’s Bowling Green State enjoy listening to languages, trying to mer/drumstick for the Kozak “tulumbas,” And though I claim no special status, it’s University, Lubomyr Wynar, along with the figure out what is being spoken. Just or kettledrum, and a type of wooden forty years this year since I graduated distinguished history chair at the Ukrainian recently I was pleased that I guessed a spoon from the Dnipropetrovsk region. from Rhodes High School in Cleveland. Academy of Arts and Sciences, Oleksander song playing on the radio was Turkish. I The entry for the word “lozhka” (spoon) That was no small feat for a kid born in Ohloblyn, recognized that one of the major don’t know how, I just knew. gives the names for the parts of the a DP (displaced persons) camp in war- battlefields was located in the past. That’s Books on folk art are among the many spoon, as well as the many regional shattered Europe. The credit for that, how- why, 40 years ago this year, they launched I bring back from Ukraine each year, so names and types of the utensil. ever, is not mine. It properly belongs to the another quixotic project: the Ukrainian many that I have to mail them back to In the section on the types of trees in parents who survived the crucible of Historical Association. Their goal was noth- myself. (The extra weight charges would Ukraine, there is an interesting fact on World War II and, having navigated the ing less than rescuing Ukraine’s legacy. be painful.) One of my many finds last the “tys” or “tysa” (yew – Taxus), which intrigue and bureaucracy of the refugee In 1965 Ukraine was considered “part of year was a small book, by Yevhen can live to be about 1,200 years old. camps, got a visa and a boat ride to Russia.” Objective research into Ukraine’s Shevchenko, “Narodna Derevoobrobka v “...The tree is very beautiful, but is very America where there were jobs that history was impossible in the home coun- Ukraini: Slovnyk Narodnoi poisonous; poison was made from wine allowed them to send three sons to college. try; in the West, Russian Studies programs Terminolohii” (Kyiv: Artania, 1997. 260 steeped in cups made of tysa. The poison This column, though, isn’t about my blocked Ukrainian topics as “not serious.” pp. illus. ISBN 966-95170-0-1), whose has no scent or taste. There is no antidote family or me; it’s about the institutions that Drs. Wynar and Ohloblyn were fully aware title translates as “Folk Wood Work for it. The whole plant is poisonous – the were born in Northern Ohio the year I of these circumstances. That’s why they co- (Processing) in Ukraine: A Dictionary of bark, wood, seeds and needles. The only graduated from high school. By coinci- founded the association. Within a few years, Folk Terms.” This very nicely illustrated part not poisonous is the red fruit [borne dence, Cleveland’s Ukrainian Scouting the association united Ukrainian historians book, with line drawings and 48 archival instead of true cones], which has a organization, Plast, bought 140 acres in the and scholars in the U.S., Canada, Australia, photos, covers all aspects of woodwork- mucilaginous substance that helps in gas- middle of Ohio’s Amish Country in 1965, Western and Central Europe in an effort to ing: folk wood architecture, transporta- tritis and other problems.” But poison has while the Ukrainian American Youth collect source materials on Ukrainian tion (wagons, sleighs, etc.), implements its purposes – this is the same tree from Association (SUM) bought a campsite in History, promote research and the develop- and vessels, beekeeping, carpentry, musi- which Taxol is obtained from the bark – Wellington. Over the next four decades, ment of Ukrainian academic programs at cal instruments and woodcarving. About an important drug against ovarian and thousands of young people left their foot- American and Canadian universities. 2,800 words are listed, as well as a list of other cancers. Maybe pharmacists should prints on these two campsites where they As their primary tool, they adopted the native trees, folk measurement, tools for also research the fruit. sang, played, enjoyed nature up close and scholarly journal, Ukrainian Historian, edit- woodworking, and professions in wood- I was pleased to see a section with in many cases, met their spouses. ed by Prof. Wynar since 1963. As of 2005, working. A thorough introduction word beginning with the letter “g” – Looking back, it’s clear how these there have been 165 issues in 42 volumes. explains everything you ever wanted to because in the Soviet era, and even in camps, and others like them, made a pro- Although the circulation was always mod- know about woodworking in the some post-Soviet books, this letter is found difference at a time when the est, the mere existence of the journal had an Ukrainian tradition. The definitions also missing. And the compiler almost gets it Ukrainian nation was struggling for its very enormous impact on Soviet Ukrainian his- list the region of the term (Boyko, toriography. Ironically, no one read it more right, with 18 words entered. But “grazh- existence. A quarter of Ukraine’s popula- Hutsul, Poltava, etc.). carefully than the Ukrainian Branch of the da” is not in this section, but appears as tion – as many as 10 million – had died in I have no knowledge of woodwork KGB, who instructed Soviet historians to “hrazhda.” No respectable Hutsul would 1932-1933 during the Famine-Genocide; other than liking the many Hutsul forms counter the “Ukrainian bourgeois national- live in a “hrazhda,” the Hutsul compound another 7 million were killed in World War of carving, both plain and with inlay. I II. Besides the horrific physical losses, the ist” version of history. In doing so, the battle dwelling. Also, according to Volodymyr vaguely know that certain kinds of wood nation’s language and culture were under for Ukraine’s past moved from Moscow’s Shukhevych (1908), the word is “gre- are better for this or that, that fruitwood assault from aggressive Russification in the turf to Prof. Wynar’s. When the proposal blo,” not “hreblo,” for the comb used in (pear, cherry) is often used, that woods Old Country and assimilation in the New. was made to shift the Soviet Ukrainian carding wool. come in different and subtle colors, and Those who survived the Soviets and Historical Journal from the native language My big discovery in this book solved that oak is a hard wood to carve. Nazis were happy to be alive – no doubt to Russian, proponents of Ukrainian point- the question of “kara” and “gara.” [I’m Poring over this book, I learned the about it. Still, their lives were tinged with ed to the Ukrainian Historian, and argued names of objects and implements, build- sure my MacArthur Foundation check is sadness for those they had lost. And even that doing so would give the “nationalists” a ings and modes of transportation, furni- in the mail ...] Ukrainians in Canada and as they enjoyed America’s bounty and propaganda victory. They prevailed and it ture and instruments. It should not have the United States often discuss why the freedom, they yearned for the homeland remained the only professional journal to been surprising to learn that a familiar half-na-piv term for car/automobile is that was ever out of reach and the nation resist Russification. word does not denote what you expect in different in each country. In the threatened with extinction. Resolute in Celebrating its 40th anniversary this this very specific field. And the defini- Canadian prairie provinces, you drive a their goal to eliminate nationalities like year, the Ukrainian Historical tions carry you from one idea to another. “gara,” while in America it is a “kara.” Ukrainians, Latvians, Estonians, etc. and Association boasts 10 branches in The richness of the language sure comes Well, in this glossary, the Canadians get create instead a new “Soviet” identity Ukraine and two international congress- out in all the folk terms, be it plants, folk five points – there were “garas” in with Russian as the lingua franca, the es: Chernivtsi in 2000 and Kamianets- art, or anything else. Ukraine, and most probably the term Communists arrested the handful of dissi- Podilskyi in 2003. More than 400 schol- “Baba” has very many meanings. In just got transposed to the new mode of dents who insisted on the right to express ars from many countries participated. this book, it has two: it is a large sledge- transportation. A “gara” is a large wagon themselves in their national idiom. With a The struggle for Ukraine’s existence hammer for pounding in stakes or tamp- with a carriage box; a detail of a wagon; vast bureaucracy and a ruthless secret has been waged on many fronts. These ing the ground, and it is a type of wooden a groove; a large sledge with wheels for police, the Politburo in Moscow appeared include the two beautiful campsites puppet used in the gestures of the transporting heavy freight; “polusanky” unbeatable as they steered the future Cleveland’s Ukrainian community bought “plysaky” (or “pliesaky”), the Hutsul car- – freight sleigh (Boyko and Lemko toward the direction they wanted it to go. 40 years ago. Another front opened a few olers and dancers. “Babka” (usually, old regions). The American “kara” remains Almost quixotically, Ukrainians in the miles away in Bowling Green, when a woman, diminutive of grandmother) has a “kara Bozha” if you have an old diaspora fought back, urging Western gov- 33-year-old scholar partnered with a 68- three totally different definitions here, clunker (“kara” is punishment or penalty ernments to support the dissidents. And in year-old to start an association dedicated none related to grandma. in Ukrainian). the course of becoming Americans with the to preserving Ukraine’s past. “Dido” and “didok” [usually old man, The names for the various craftsmen right to petition their government, many of 1965, the year I graduated from high grandfather] have a few, too. I did not in wood have left their mark on those who had spent their summers at the school, proved to be a significant year, but know there is a difference between “bod- Ukrainian surnames: “berdnyk,” “bod- Plast and SUM campsites became active the fact is every year is significant. People nar” and “bondar” – I thought both meant nar,” “bondar,” “dudar,” “klepach,” participants in the 1970s and 1980s lobby- make decisions all the time that prove to cooper, barrel-maker (similar inversion “kolodii,” “kolesnyk,” “skrypnyk,” “snit- ing campaign on behalf of Ukraine. be critical 40 days, 40 months, 40 years to “medvid/vedmid” for bear). Even sar/shnitsar,” “stelmakh,” “tesla,” “tokar” It’s a truism that people without a past, down the line. So, looking back 40 years, some Ukrainian dictionaries have them and “trach” are among the 60 listed. The have no future. To destroy the basis for I can’t help but wonder what the impact of as synonymous terms. But, a bodnar is a bibliography lists 284 sources, and the Ukrainian statehood, Soviet historiography what we do this year will be 40 years craftsman (“maister”) who makes archival photos are documented. minimized or denied Ukraine’s unique iden- from now. Judging by the decision to buy “bodni” (a cask or tub with a cover, also All in all, reading this book was an tity and instead emphasized elements that the campsites or start the Ukrainian a type of beehive), while a bondar is one enjoyable and educational journey claimed Russians and Ukrainians have a Historical Association, effort is rewarded; who makes vessels using “klepky” (sin- through the world of Ukrainian wood- common destiny. Evidence to the contrary faith is vindicated. Happy anniversary! gular: klepka) – staves, as used to make working. And now I will look at was suppressed, even destroyed: in May barrels. Thus the Ukrainian saying about Ukrainian carvings, fences, buildings and 1964, more than half a million books and Andrew Fedynsky’s e-mail address is: someone missing a klepka in his head – barrels with a new appreciation. manuscripts at the Central Scientific Library [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 No. 28

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col,” leading readers to believe that the The Orange Revolution and what the second meeting was in compliance with Illinois UCCA branch accomplished Kira Muratova: Why can’t we the by-laws. This was not the case. were also discussed by Mr. Baranyk. Ukrainian director have some fun? Examples of by-law violations during Contrary to Mr. Baranyk’s assertions, the Dear Editor: Dear Editor: the second meeting are too numerous to branch contributed almost nothing to the Recently the brilliant Ukrainian movie Responding to the letter (June 26) cite. More notable ones include Ukrainian efforts of the Orange Revolution in director Kira Muratova has been gaining objecting to the recent varenyky eating National Information Service (UNIS) Chicago. In fact, the Election 2004 com- donors being actively encouraged and long-overdue recognition in the West contest in New York City, I wish to reply mittee did most of the work with much allowed to vote contrary to the by-laws through retrospective showings of her “Pereproshuyu, Pani!” (Please!) I admit I financial support from Chicago’s (only donors to the Ukrainian National films. In these, unfortunately, she has do not have the May 29 issue to reread Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal Fund, or UNF, are permitted to vote), and Credit Union. been characterized as “Russian” (for the article about this event, and I am tak- 11 individuals without the right to vote The committee’s work included hold- example, at last year’s Lincoln Center ing liberties as if I know the letter writer, being elected to the branch board. Clearly, ing three demonstrations in support of retrospective in New York and the recent Orysia Tracz, from her wonderful folk- the vote and board selection were not free elections in Ukraine (the first of series in San Francisco). lore articles (yes, I’m a fan of those), but based on, as Mr. Baranyk stated, “…who which Mr. Baranyk tried to suppress even When faced with objections to this by I have to say it: if you are going to com- was qualified to vote…[and] the require- though Taras Bilozir from the Yushchenko those who feel she should be considered plain about any fun activity that easily ments of the UCCA By-laws.” campaign and Askold Lozynskyj support- Ukrainian, the organizers give as their includes marginal Ukrainians in partici- To his credit, Mr. Baranyk proposed a ed such an action), monitoring the elec- rationale for the label the fact that her pating at a Ukrainian event, pack up and solution to the by-law crisis that he and oth- tions, registering voters, busing volunteers films are in Russian and that she is con- go home. ers created – the establishment of an ad hoc and voters to and from the Consulate, pro- sidered Russian by Russians, as proven Watermelon or pizza or cherry or pie committee to review and make recommen- viding logistical support, and organizing by the prizes bestowed by them on her as or pyrohy eating contests are an accept- dations to the national by-laws committee. five buses for a demonstration in one of their own. able U.S. fun thing to do. Don’t look However, Mr. Baranyk, as a member Washington. Over $350,000 was raised in Using language spoken in a film as a down your Canadian nose and tell us we of the national UCCA board, should about three weeks for the Yushchenko criterion for categorization is bizarre. are sinning by wasting food, because we know that it is the role of the national by- campaign, mostly by recent immigrants. According to this line of reasoning, all are not. We may be guilty of gluttony, laws committee to solicit input from all The national UCCA leadership should English-language films are English – perhaps, but not of wasting food. UCCA members through branch chairs, take note of this fact. those made in Ireland, India, Hong Even though in your article “Some because each branch has unique and What did the UCCA Illinois branch do Kong, Africa, etc. – as are their directors. mak for the road” (June 26) you speak of valuable perspectives. He should also to support election activities in Chicago? Mel Gibson, then, is an Arameic director, it, will you now be shaming those who know that this committee is elected at According to Mr. Baranyk’s statement on since his “The Passion of the Christ” is say they sprinkle items with holy water each UCCA congress (the most recent May 18, it rented portable toilets for use mostly in Arameic. And directors of for good luck instead of invoking a one being held last fall). by the Election 2004 committee and vot- silent movies are stateless. I doubt that blessing as being shamefully anti- By creating an ad hoc committee, the ers, and had a few observers monitor the any sane peson would accept such Christian, or those who use the seeds process loses its transparency and elections. absurdity. from the poppies blessed on the first becomes all-exclusive – not something On the national level, why was the Films dealing with contemporary situ- Feast of the Savior (August 1/14) or the UCCA leadership should strive for. UCCA president or his deputy not includ- ations, when striving for authenticity, seeds from the herbs used on the Feast of Mr. Baranyk also mentioned a “rift” in ed on the U.S. government delegation to should have the characters in them speak the Dormition (August 15/28) as being the Ukrainian community in Chicago. To President Viktor Yushchenko’s inaugura- the language they use in daily communi- superstitious? Sounds like something what is he referring? Is he referring to tion? In my opinion, this exemplifies the cation. Ms. Muratova is right in having from a “Saturday Night Live”-style his arbitrary interpretation and applica- poor quality work of the UCCA External the people in her movies speak Russian, Church Lady. tion of the UCCA by-laws, which have Affairs Committee, which Mr. Baranyk since this is the language their prototypes Why do all Ukrainian events have to disenfranchised a substantial number of has headed for a number of years. It use in real life, even if they live in be cultural? You wrote in your letters UCCA voters, the majority of whom are appears that the U.S. government does Ukraine. In her great movie “The that people can have fun, “But not in this recent immigrants? not take the UCCA seriously. Asthenic Syndrome” only two person- manner. It’s beneath us.” When you con- Many new immigrants, including for- Mr. Baranyk also mentioned finances ages speak Ukrainian – inmates in an sider that you are speaking of those mer board members, were told during the in his article. However, he erred in com- insane asylum. In the Soviet Union, whose motherland’s immediate past president was Leonid Kuchma, how can March meeting that they were ineligible bining UNIS and UNF collections into which is what the movie depicts, you had you say anything is beneath us? to vote because they did not pay “appro- one sum of approximately $80,000. This to be crazy to speak Ukrainian. Please don’t pontificate against any- priate dues.” Yet Mr. Baranyk allowed muddies the true picture of community And as to awards given out by the thing unless you have a suitable replace- them to be on the board for almost five support for the UCCA. The branch in Russian government – as we all have ment to offer within the same parame- years without informing them what the Chicago has two major fund-raisers each read, President Vladimir Putin recently ters. Remember, if the Irish sang their “appropriate dues” were. year: one for the Ukrainian National bestowed the title of “National Artist of ballads only in Gaelic instead of the lan- Also, Mr. Baranyk failed to mention Fund, which supports day-to-day opera- Russia” on Jack Palance, which Mr. guage of the enemy, who would have in his article that during the March meet- tions of the national UCCA, and the Palance refused since he is of Ukrainian sympathized with them? Why do you ing there were approximately 300 partic- other for the Ukrainian National and not of Russian origin. Russian impe- think our Ukrainian diaspora gatherings ipants. During the May meeting, there Information Service. rialism dies hard. today look like the reviewing stand of were “nearly 80 participants,” approxi- UNIS collections are supported by a I don’t know Kira Muratova’s ethnic yesterday’s Kremlin on May Day: old mately 10 of whom later walked out in small group of people compared to the background, but she definitly is not an and wrinkled icons of orthodoxy rather disgust. The difference in attendance can UNF collection, which is more represen- ethnic Russian. She was born in 1934 in than youthful faces showing anticipation only reflect the fact that, for the first time tative of the community and its grass Moldova, in the ethnically mixed town of glory? in branch history, the meeting was held roots support for the UCCA. Last year, of Soroky (a Ukrainian name), right on midweek, a time inconvenient for the approximately half of the UNIS collec- the border with Ukraine. She was then a Michael Jula majority of members. Perhaps the shouts tion came from Selfreliance Ukrainian Soviet citizen; with the collapse of the Carnegie, Pa. of “Shame!” (“Hanba!”) directed toward American Federal Credit Union and Soviet Union, she chose to stay in Mr. Baranyk during the first meeting Julian Kulas’ Heritage Foundation, while Ukraine and is now a Ukrainian citizen. were not without merit. over a quarter of the UNF collection She has been given the title of Conversely, perhaps Mr. Baranyk’s came from recent immigrants – exactly “National Artist of Ukraine” and has About the “rift” “rift” refers to his unprofessional behav- the people Mr. Baranyk has gradually and received the Shevchenko Prize with ior. Telling people to shut up and threat- successfully alienated. Furthermore, the which Ukraine honors its finest artists. in Illinois UCCA ening to throw them out during the meet- annual UNF collection for the past five Most of her movies have been made at Dear Editor: ing is not becoming of someone who is a years has been approximately $25,000. the Odesa Film Studio, which is in I am writing in response to Orest branch president, the national UCCA But in 2004, only $19,000 was collected. Ukraine, and where Dovzhenko made his Baranyk’s article “Illinois UCCA holds president’s deputy, and the national Is this substantial drop in the UNF collec- famous movies. Many of the actors in annual meeting, hopes to heal rift within UCCA’s external affairs liaison. tion a statistical fluctuation, or is it her movies are Ukrainian as are the community” (June 12), which I read with a Or perhaps by “rift” Mr. Baranyk is indicative of a leadership problem? members of the film crew. And her work, great deal of interest. I was fascinated not referring to a topic that he and a small Finally, half of Mr. Baranyk’s article though completely original, bears the group of people insist on continually so much by his egregious inaccuracies but addressed broader UCCA concerns; stamp of Ukrainian poetic cinema. raising to the dismay of others – the sale rather by his uncharacteristically insightful namely, issues surrounding leadership, All of this makes her, without a doubt, of 1st Security Federal Savings Bank. In words about the future of the UCCA and professionalism and future directions. a Ukrainian director and her movies his article, Mr. Baranyk mentions the Mr. Baranyk uses terminology such as Ukrainian. what the UCCA needed to do to maintain sale (“merger”) twice and states that it its viability. The text of the article is not in “dialogue,” “inclusion” and “effective- “should not be forced onto the UCCA’s ness.” Is telling people who disagree Yuriy Tarnawsky keeping with Mr. Baranyk’s views and agenda.” Unfortunately, Mr. Baranyk stance over the past year, particularly dur- with him to shut up “dialogue”? Is deny- White Plains, N.Y. cannot seem to stop forcing it onto the ing people the right to vote “inclusion”? ing the recent annual branch meetings held UCCA’s agenda and continually making in March and May, which were videotaped Is alienating people effective leadership? Yuriy Tarnawsky is a Ukrainian it an issue at meetings. For example, dur- Perhaps the UCCA should follow the and tape-recorded, respectively. American writer, linguist and computer ing the May 18 meeting Mr. Baranyk example of democratically elected world In his article, Mr. Baranyk stated that scientist, and a former adjunct assis- allowed the former CEO of 1st Security leaders who are elected for finite terms so tant professor of Ukrainian literature the “regular meeting was cancelled due Federal Savings Bank to give a pro- that personal ambitions do not become and culture at Columbia University in to a lack of compliance with the by-laws longed discourse against people who New York. …” and “...flagrant disregard of proto- protested this sale. (Continued on page 9) No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 9

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the curial sleight-of-hand following the unpersuasive or irrelevant. In the diaspo- About the rift... Why replace “Kh” Lviv Synod of 1891 is a notorious instance ra, for example, a married priest need no (Continued from page 8) – later some of our own bishops supported longer support his family entirely from priorities. Although Mr. Baranyk, who with letter “H”? it, too. In fact, Metropolitan Andrey his meager income. There are plenty of has been branch president for 13 years, Dear Editor: Sheptytsky favored promoting a celibate Ukrainian women in business or the pro- has asserted for several years that he does It is a bloody shame that our brethren clergy alongside the married priesthood. fessions capable of supporting a cleric. (Indeed, if there is one profession where not wish to be president any longer, the in Ukraine do not use the Ukrainian There were several arguments for mandatory priestly celibacy. Having to mandatory celibacy would be appropri- Orange Revolution has apparently made alphabet when transliterating English support not only the village priest, but his ate it is that of the scholar, who can gen- the position desirable. into Ukrainian. See the enclosed speci- wife and children could be a burden on the erally offer a spouse neither financial When given the opportunity to leave, men [a photograph of volunteers next to peasantry and an incitement to hostility. security, nor social prestige, nor even Mr. Baranyk instead chose to create a a banner of Heifer International Ukraine We tend to forget the extent of economi- much companionship!) “rift” in the community by rigging the vot- that was published on June 19 - ed.] cally motivated anti-clerical sentiment in It would be a mistake, however, to see ing process so that it worked in his favor. What happened to the Ukrainian “H”- pre-war Galicia. This argument seemed a married clergy as insurance against sounding letter that was replaced by the Assisting him was no one other than the even stronger in North America, where the sexual misconduct. Marriage is not nec- “Kh”? national president, Michael Sawkiw Jr. On Church received no support from the state. essarily easier to sustain than celibacy. Would The Ukrainian Weekly avoid May 22 Mr. Sawkiw received a letter from Furthermore, some felt that a married Neither state is immune to depravity. reprinting such ugliness? me via e-mail which raised many of the priest could not please both God and his On balance, it seems that Metropolitan issues I have outlined and the same broad- Sheptytsky’s approach was the best: Leo Wysochansky wife; those familiar with Ukrainian fami- er UCCA and diaspora issues raised by ly dynamics might lend some credence to ordain both celibate and married men. Brunswick, Maine Mr. Baranyk in his article published on this argument. Proponents of celibacy June 12. Is this mere coincidence given the thought that the burdens of a family Andrew Sorokowski disconnect between Mr. Baranyk’s article would distract a pastor from his flock, Rockville, Md. and his behavior? More on Church and in times of persecution could become In my letter, I proposed a few options a liability. Finally, there was the theologi- on how to resolve the situation in cal point that the very nature of the Chicago. It is unfortunate that Mr. and celibacy Dear Editor: priesthood required undivided devotion. The Weekly: Sawkiw appears to have chosen the easi- I would like to add some background On the other hand, opponents of com- est one – to do nothing in hopes that the to the recent discussion of celibacy in the pulsory celibacy argued that by disrupt- intellectual feast “situation” goes away. Professionalism ing the priestly family, which was the Dear Editor: Ukrainian Church. and leadership start at home. Perhaps our chief source of the Galician secular intel- Congratulations to The Weekly. It is bet- current community leaders could benefit In the West, mandatory priestly celibacy ligentsia in the late 19th and early 20th ter than ever: Kuzio, Kupchinsky, Kuropas, from a few of those seminars Mr. was part of an effort to reform and modern- centuries, it would weaken the Ukrainian Szmagala, Vitvitsky, Deychakiwsky, the Baranyk proposed on ethics, profession- ize the Church. In Greek-Catholic western nation and stunt its development. They editorials. A real intellectual feast! alism and leadership skills. Ukraine, it was resisted by the conserva- saw it as one more encroachment of We impatiently await each issue. tive, traditionalistic clergy, who formed a Polish Roman Catholicism upon Bohdan L. Bodnar, Ph.D. virtual caste. Although Rome did pressure Ukrainian religious and national identity. Volodymyr Bakum Park Ridge, Ill. the Ukrainian Church to adopt celibacy – Today, most of these arguments seem New Paltz, N.Y. Congratulations,Congratulations, Graduates!Graduates!

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¢ð‡ÚÛβπÏÓ! å‡Ï‡, í‡ÚÓ ¥ чÏflÌ We are so proud of Dearest Natalie: It was your own perseverance Craig Andryj Wilson and determination that has brought you this far. Good luck at the University of Texas - We are very proud of you Engineering Honors Program. and wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors! Love, Mama, Dad, Brian and Didi Ostap Congratulations with lots of love, Dad, Mom, Matt, Mark and Dana 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 No. 28 SUM sponsors its 46th annual Zlet at Ellenville resort by Orest Kozicky demic, artistic and athletic competitions well as a volleyball tournament. successfully coordinated the weekend’s that demonstrate knowledge about vari- Youths also had time to socialize during multiple aspects. ELLENVILLE, N.Y. – The Ukrainian ous aspects of Ukrainian history and cul- a dance and barbecue on Saturday night. The Yonkers branch took first place American Youth Association (SUM) tural traditions and command of the On Sunday morning the participants for overall points achieved, while the sponsored its 46th consecutive Zlet on Ukrainian language. It is also an opportu- took part in a liturgy celebrated by Father Irvington branch took second and May 29-30 here at the SUM “oselia” nity for youths to perform with their Bohdan Kudleychuk. Just prior to the Passaic placed third. (resort). Zlet is the annual spring festival dance, choral and drama ensembles with- liturgy, a formal review of the SUM Orysia Kozicky of Yonkers won the for the organization’s youth members that in a talent-contest-type forum. ranks arranged as individual branches first place (“pershun”) trophy for most presents the opportunity to engage in aca- The athletic competitions encompass from various cities was conducted, with points in the 13-17 age group; Oksana individual and team sports competitions scoring based on adherence to the SUM Bihun of Goshen won the trophy for the Orest Kozicky, M.D., is press secretary that include sprints and mile runs, relay uniform dress code. 6-12 age group. on the SUM national board. races, long jump, shot put and discus, as This year’s Zlet included participants In the volleyball tournament’s coed divi- sion, the Yonkers A team took first place, followed by the Yonkers B team in second and Hartford in third. In the girls’ division, first place went to Passaic, second place to Philadelphia and third to Yonkers B. Bohdan Harhaj, the head of the national executive board of SUM, closed the awards ceremonies by expressing his gratitude to Mr. Wyrsta and all the members of the Philadelphia and Baltimore contingents who assumed leadership roles at Zlet, as well as to all SUM members for their participation.

Orest Kozicky A review of the SUM ranks during the 2005 Zlet.

from 11 SUM branches located on the Eastern Seaboard: Baltimore; Binghamton, Goshen and Yonkers, N.Y.; Hartford, Conn.; Irvington, Jersey City, Passaic and Whippany, N.J.; Philadelphia; and New York. There were 365 partici- pants ranging in age from 4 through 17. The responsibility for coordinating the 2005 Zlet was undertaken by members of the Philadelphia and Baltimore branches. The komandant was Wolodymyr Wyrsta, who together with Bunchuznyi Ivan Midzak and their Philadelphia and Baltimore contingents, A view of the long jump competition.

Sumeniata, the Zlet’s youngest participants, receive their medals.

It’s a close race to the finish line. Members of the Zlet 2005 leadership (“komanda”). No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 11 Accordionist Chango Spasiuk of Argentina forges unique musical mix

by Danylo Peleschuk Mr. Spasiuk’s style is one completely of his own making, and it shows through PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Chango his music. Although chamamé, in and of Spasiuk, a third-generation Ukrainian itself, is an eccentric blend of the music Argentinean –who refers to his own of several different cultures, Mr. Spasiuk Ukrainian heritage as a source of influ- dips specifically into his Ukrainian roots ence for his music – has become known to put a European polka-type spin on in world music circles for his mastery of many of his accordion pieces. the accordion. Chamamé, a musical style native to Mr. Spasiuk plays in a lesser-known Argentina, acts as a pure representation style dubbed “chamamé,” an accordion- of the culture; it reflects the particularly based derivative of tango, which stems vast diversity of the Argentinean people. from roots originally planted in north- The musical foundation of chamamé eastern Argentina. To forge a truly is a brew of several unique cultures – unique style of music, Mr. Spasiuk mixes just like the people of Argentina itself. the key ingredients of chamamé – a more The modern-day Argentinean popula- complex rhythm coupled with a touch of tion is the result of a half-millennium’s European flavor – with various other mix of freed African slaves, who forms of South American and African brought with them upbeat rhythms, styles. along with Jesuit missionaries, who Horacio “Chango” Spasiuk was born introduced the widely popular style of in 1968 in Apostoles, in the province of baroque chamber music. Also thrown Misiones, Argentina, which is situated into the mix were 19th century immi- near the Brazilian border. His grants from Eastern European countries Ukrainian heritage can be traced to his who contributed their waltzes and grandparents, who migrated to polkas, the styles of music that Mr. Argentina from Ukraine. He spent a Spasiuk specifically calls upon in his great portion of his childhood sur- music. rounded by musical relatives; his Mr. Spasiuk’s collection of recordings father, Lucas, was a violinist who often spans seven full-length albums. His lat- played with his uncle Marcos, who est release, “Tarafero de mis Pagos,” is sang. Mr. Spasiuk cites the childhood said to be his most prominent display of memories of family-wide musical ses- Chango Spasiuk performs. talent, as well as his most encompassing sions as a source of inspiration for his effort to date. later material. It is, after all, the influ- Mr. Spasiuk first garnered public atten- before entering the studio to record Mr. Spasiuk’s albums have been noted ence of Ukrainian polka which built for tion in 1988, playing live concerts and albums. He established himself, first and by The New York Times, BBC radio, as him such a strong musical basis. festivals, and building up his reputation foremost, as an Argentinean folk virtuoso. well as other prominent news media. Young punk rockers of Flit, energized Kononenko speaks on importance by Orange Revolution, work on new CD of Ukrainian ritual cloths

by Danylo Peleschuk EDMONTON — Natalie unusual situations, such as when a Kononenko, Kule Chair of Ukrainian young soldier is killed in battle far PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Just as it marked Ethnography at the University of from home. a new beginning for Ukraine, the Orange Alberta, delivered a lecture on June 29 In Canada, rushnyky are less widely Revolution seemed to provide a fresh at the Annual general meeting of the used. Some people have them in their start for a relatively young new Ukrainian Friends of the Ukrainian Folklore homes; many use them in weddings. punk rock band, Flit (pronounced Center. The meeting was held at the Various embroidered ritual cloths are “fleet”), ushering in a chance for the band Chateau Louis, and an enthusiastic important, such as the cloths used in to embrace a new generation’s vibrant audience filled the room. Easter baskets, Prof. Kononenko noted. spirit of freedom and opportunity. Prof. Kononenko began by talking Canadians greatly value things that Hailing from Ivano-Frankivsk, the about the importance of cloth, especial- are traditional and folk, the speaker outfit has created a name for itself within ly embroidered cloth, in Ukrainian cul- continued. But with the many waves of the realm of modern Ukrainian rock by ture. She mentioned contemporary evi- immigration to Canada from many dif- touring extensively throughout the coun- dence to this effect and offered some ferent parts of Ukraine, what does try, and playing smaller local gigs such earlier parallels. “folk” mean? Prof. Kononenko showed as Plast camps and gatherings. She then talked specifically about some of the experiments conducted by According to the band members, their “rushnyky (ritual cloths)” in Central her students, using not only real rush- most prominent achievement to date is English), and are credited with providing Ukraine, the area where she does her the anthem for the world-renowned nyky, but digitally manipulated items, their participation in the well-known fieldwork and where she will be head- which are much faster and easier to “Perlunu Sezony 2004” music festival, Orange Revolution of last winter. The ing shortly. Rushnyky are used in the now-prominent rappers are local friends produce. which is held annually in Zaporizhia. home and in church. They are impor- Student experiments, she said, show Formed in 2001, the band has seen of Flit, and have assisted the band in its tant in weddings and funerals, and several member changes. As of early musical endeavors. some even have the power to help in (Continued on page 19) 2004, the band consists of Volodymyr In May 2004 Flit shot its first video Novikov (vocals), Andrii Markir (guitar), for the song “Yizhachok.” Later that year Michael Kopiyevskyi (bass) and Ihor the band saw the redistribution of “Svit Ozarko (drums). In December of 2003 Takyi...” by Ukr-Music. the band released its first full-length Flit is currently gathering material for recording “Svit Takyi...” (“The World Is its next album, which is set to be Like That...”), distributed by the Ternopil released sometime during the summer of company Grolis Records. 2005. The foursome expects to release While recording the album, the band another single, as well as an accompany- received a helping hand from fellow ing video, in the near future. musicians and producers Roman Kalyn The album “Svit Takyi...” is available and Roman Kostiuk, who dub them- online at www.ukrmusic.com.ua/eng/ selves Gryndzholy (or Greenjolly in album.php?id=365.

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most effective lyrics which stresses his patcher during the war who speaks in life’s philosophy and his exuberant opti- code, but symbolically on behalf of the Poetry by Abram Katsnelson mism; “A Ballad About A Globe (The planet earth – a lyric that could have been school was closed. In classrooms horses a propaganda piece but was saved by Mr. published in retrospective edition whinnied), a poem about a boy who saved Katsnelson’s warm humor and sincere “Liryka” by Abram Katsnelson. Kyiv: Astarta, 2002. 367 pp. port. ISBN 966- a tiny globe from the rubble of war, that is lyricism; and “A Maple Leaf On The 523-170-7. dedicated to the cosmonaut Popovych; “In Asphalt” – a brief and effective statement Our Villages Steep Obelisks” – a poem of Katsnelson’s aesthetic philosophy. about names on war monuments; “I’m Some of the best of Mr. Katsnelson’s by Marta Tarnawsky the recipient of the Maksym Rylskyi Prize Earth (Fair curls peeped from beneath the lyrics are love poems – these, unfortu- for achievement in Ukrainian poetry. saucy beret)” – about a girl-radio dis- nately, are not available in translation. Abram Katsnelson came to America Mr. Katsnelson’s love and masterly when he was already 80 years old and command of the Ukrainian language, his had an established reputation as a well- impeccable traditional poetic form, the known Ukrainian poet and a teacher of richness and originality of his rhymes, aspiring young poets. his preference for laconic miniatures, Born in 1914 in Horodnia, Ukraine, combined with the sincerity and direct- and educated at the University of Kyiv, ness of his lyricism and his optimistic Mr. Katsnelson was already the author of tone, have gained him a considerable fol- some 20 books – poetry collections as lowing among readers of poetry. well as books of literary theory and criti- A few of Mr. Katsnelson’s poems in cism. Even at an advanced age and in a Dorian Rottenberg’s translation have been new foreign language environment Mr. included in two English-language antholo- Katsnelson continues to write Ukrainian gies of Ukrainian poetry, i.e. “Anthology of poetry. Two collections of his newly Soviet Ukrainian Poetry,” published in Kyiv written lyrics have been published in Los in 1982 and “Poetry of Soviet Ukraine’s Angeles in 1996 (“Poklyk Vysoty”) and New World,” published by P. Norbury in in 1998 (“V Nimbi Syvyny”). The pres- England in the UNESCO series in 1986. No ent book “Liryka,” published in Kyiv by translation of a poet as dependent on the the author’s numerous fans and readers, beauty of language and traditional form as is a retrospective of lyrical poetry select- Mr. Katsnelson can do justice to the origi- ed from all the earlier Katsnelson books. nal, but at least the readers can gain some Mr. Katsnelson is not a modernist poet; insight into the poet’s subject matter and his his frame of reference in Ukrainian litera- life’s philosophy. These anthologies can be ture is not Antonych, but Sosiura and found in some American libraries. Rylskyi. Maksym Rylskyi, in fact, was one Among the translated poems are of Mr. Katsnelson’s revered teachers, and “Confession (I’m getting greedier and Mr. Katsnelson speaks with pride of being greedier for beauty)” – one of the poet’s The gravesite of Abram Katsnelson in Los Angeles.

Theby VikingIhor Lysyj “drakkar”died in 834. This funeral practice wasandthe Black the Sea against Kozakthe Turks in the and the“chaika” Slavs? common during the Age of the Vikings in 17th century. And Beauplan’s description Much has been written about the During my recent sails in the North the eighth through the 11th centuries. of the Kozak vessel matched, plank for Viking Age and the Vikings’ domination Sea and wanderings in the land of the Buried within clay mounds, such ships plank, the design of the Viking longship over the European continent for over four Norsemen, I came face to face with a were well-preserved over time; thus, they that I saw in the Oslo museum. Here is centuries. Norsemen from Norway “drakkar,” or Viking longship (the real provide us with a window on history. how Beauplan describes a Kozak warship entered the North Sea via the calm waters thing), and discovered a tangible overlap This Viking ship with a beautifully (in translation): of Skagerrak in their longships and, joint- of Norse and Slavic history. carved keel was approximately 71 feet “... they (the Kozaks) build a vessel 60 ly with the Danes, began to raid the pres- The drakkar in question was the long and 16 feet wide with 15 pairs of feet long, 12 feet wide, and 12 feet deep. ent-day English, Scottish and Irish coasts Oseberg longship on display at the oars and a nailed-down deck. It was con- The hull of the vessel was finished with in the eighth century. Viking Museum in Oslo, Norway. This structed using the clinker design, which wooden planks from 10 to 12 feet long and Eventually, they established major seagoing vessel was found in a large bur- means it was planked, using oak boards one foot wide, overlapping each other... Viking cities in York, England, and ial mound on Slagen farm in Vestfold, that slightly overlapped and were then Usually the vessel is equipped with 10 to Dublin, Ireland. At the same time, they Norway, and was excavated in 1904. nailed together. 15 oars on each side and their speed was occupied the north of today’s France, The ship was built around 815 to 820 Later, browsing through “Description faster than Turkish oar galleys.” establishing the Duchy of Normandy with and had been used as a sailing vessel for d’Ukranie” (Description of Ukraine) by Beauplan also included a detailed Rouen as its capital. Then they invaded many years before it was put to use as a Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan, sketch of the ship design. and defeated the Anglo-Saxons in the burial ship for a prominent woman who which was published in 1660 in Rouen, With 15 pairs of oars and overlapping south of England, establishing Norman France, I saw a detailed sketch and planks, and lengths of 60 to 70 feet, the hegemony of this corner of Europe. Ihor Lysyj is a consulting environmen- description of a Kozak warship (“chai- match between the drakkar and the chai- Not satisfied with all of this, they tal engineer and a free-lance writer who ka”; some sources also use the term ka was quite close. According to histori- sailed through Gibraltar into the lives in Austin, Texas. “baidak”) used in naval engagements in ans, the Viking Age was over by the 11th Mediterranean, converting it into a virtu- century. And yet we see their longships al Viking lake with a stronghold on quite active and doing well in the 17th Sicily. They also ventured north to century on the Dnipro River and the Iceland and Greenland, and west to Black Sea. Newfoundland in America. Where was the connection and the overlap of history between the Norsemen (Continued on page 15)

An illustration of a Viking drakkar. A sketch of a Kozak chaika from Beauplan’s “Description d’Ukranie.” No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 13 Detecting extra-solar earths: NASA’s Terrestrial Planet Finder mission by Ruslan Belikov herald a new era, an era in which Earth- like planets, be they barren or teeming “I should disclose and publish to the with life, are known to exist elsewhere in world the occasion of discovering and the universe. observing four planets, never seen from Such a discovery may very well take the beginning of the world up to our own place as early as 2015. If funding per- times, their positions, and the observa- sists and everything goes on schedule, tions...about their movements and their that year will see the launch of a NASA changes of magnitude; and I summon all space telescope called the Terrestrial astronomers to apply themselves to Planet Finder Coronagraph (TPF-C). examine and determine their periodic This telescope will survey the nearest times...” few hundred stars that are most likely to harbor an Earth-like planet. It is unlike- – Galileo Galilei, March 1610 ly that we will actually find an Thus spoke Galileo Galilei, the first advanced civilization on those neigh- person in history to point a telescope up boring worlds (if one existed, we would at the heavens and record his observa- surely have picked up their radio broad- tions. The four planets he spoke about are casts by now), but that is not the goal of the four largest moons of Jupiter, subse- the mission. The primary goal is to find quently named Galilean moons. The planets, life or no life, so that we can impact of seeing these objects was learn more about our own Earth, just as greater than this quote alone would sug- a psychologist needs to study many gest. Galileo’s observation has dethroned people, big and small, young and old, the Earth from being unique: here are, for man and woman, before he can truly understand one. How common are the first time in history, heavenly bodies Earth-like planets? How do they form that are manifestly orbiting something and evolve? How diverse are they? Do other than the Earth, which was held to they harbor the conditions for life? Is be the center of the universe in those life unique? If not, how common is it, times. Roman Belikov (in front of screen) after his presentation at the Shevchenko how diverse, and how does it form? Fast-forward four centuries. Scientific Society with (from left) Roman Andrushkiw, Svitlana Andrushkiw, Ultimately, where did we come from? Since the humble beginnings of tele- Volodymyr Petryshyn and Roman Voronka. These are the questions we hope to shed scopic astronomy in Galileo’s hands, light on with TPF-C, appropriately a 10 humanity has built telescopes 10 meters directly at it from a distance of 2,600 10 contrast in the desired regions part of NASA’s Origins program. The in diameter on the ground and put sever- miles, or roughly New York to Los around the star where a planet may price of getting those answers? An esti- al smaller ones in space. Not only has Angeles. As hard as it is to imagine, there reside. mated $2 billion. An eyebrow-raising the Earth been dethroned as being the are already instruments that meet each of It turns out that in order to maintain number, but yet it is less than a dollar 10 center of the universe, but so has the the two requirements separately. Meeting the 10 contrast provided by the corona- per year per American for the next 10 sun, and the Milky Way galaxy. In fact, these two requirements simultaneously is graph, all the telescope mirror surfaces years. Think about that the next time the very matter that comprises us and the main technological challenge of the need to be precise to at least 1 angstrom. you buy lunch! everything we observe is not even the mission. That is less than the size of an atom! How can we answer these questions main “stuff” of the universe – the major- The terrestrial planet finder mission Furthermore, the reflectivity uniformity simply by looking at an image of a plan- ity is the puzzling “dark matter” and TPF-C is being pursued by NASA’s Jet of the mirrors has to be better than 1 part et? To make matters worse, we will not “dark energy.” Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in in 1,000. The state-of-the-art mirrors even get a resolved image of a planet, Surprisingly, one of the last things Pasadena, Calif., along with a few sub- today can only achieve surface varia- just a single blurry speck, the best our that was dethroned is the uniqueness of contracted teams in academia and indus- tions of about 100 angstroms and reflec- feeble instruments could do. try, our team at Princeton University tivity uniformity of only about 1 part in our sun’s planetary system. To be sure, Nonetheless, there is a wealth of infor- there was little doubt other stars have being one of them. The TPF-C telescope 100. mation that can be teased out of that sin- will have an elliptical primary mirror that In order to bring these figures down planets, but there was no factual proof gle speck. One obvious parameter we is roughly 8 by 3 meters, which provides to the required levels, corrective so- of this until quite recently. The first will be able to measure is its brightness, the necessary resolving power, and will called Extreme Adaptive Optics (EAO) definitive extra-solar planet (around a from which we can infer an estimate of image in visible and near-infrared wave- systems are being developed. These rely main-sequence star) was announced the planet’s size. We can also measure lengths. It will be placed in space to on so-called deformable mirrors (DMs), only in 1995 by Michel Mayor and the orbit and distance from the star, eliminate the effects of atmospheric tur- or mirrors whose surface can be actively Didier Queloz, University of Geneva. which would let us estimate the average bulence. (The reason the mirror is ellipti- controlled, to precisely cancel out the Since then, the last decade has seen an temperature of the planet. If different cal is so it would fit into the launch rock- aberrations of all the optics in the tele- explosion of new extra-solar planet dis- sides of the planet reflect different et!) coveries: over 150 have been found to amounts of light (as they do on Earth scope. The JPL team headed by John However, even though the large mir- date. due to the varying distribution of land- Trauger has demonstrated a 109 contrast However, all these planets are big, mass), we will be able to measure peri- ror size lends the required resolution, a after EAO corrections (albeit for just Jupiter-like gas giants (excepting per- conventional telescope design will not one wavelength) for its type of corona- odic variations in brightness as the plan- 10 haps some pulsar planets and one very et rotates and thus measure the length of provide the required 10 contrast. The graph. As of this writing, our Princeton recent find), necessarily so because the day. reason for this is that in conventional tel- group has not yet tested our Shaped- humanity’s feeble instruments can only A wealth of further information can be escopes, the star image is not a tightly Pupil Coronagraph with an EAO sys- detect the largest of worlds. These behe- revealed from the spectrum of that single confined dot or a circle, but, well, a tem, but we are getting 105 to 108 con- moths are incapable of sustaining life as speck, such as the presence of the atmos- “star” shape: it is an extended pattern trast (depending on the distance from we know it and seem just as alien and phere and its pressure, as well as the with glare and perhaps four or more the star) before any corrections. Many barren to us as our own Jupiter. The abundance of various compounds such as streaks. An object not much dimmer than challenges remain, such as how to con- Earth is still the center of the universe in the star could be seen through this glare, trol for wavelength-dependent aberra- oxygen and water. If there is plant life 10 the sense that, as far as we know, it is the and if it is anything like that on Earth, it but a planet that is 10 times dimmer tions, but we feel confident they can be center of life. At present, any analogue will manifest itself via a characteristic will be completely obscured. In order to resolved. to Earth can be found only in the pages increase in reflectivity at infrared wave- reduce the glare, the back of the tele- The Terrestrial Planet Finder of science fiction. The ultimate discov- lengths called the “red edge.” In short, scope will contain a special high-con- Coronagraph is surely to be but a first of ery of another Earth-like world would we will be far from bored with that one trast system called the coronagraph (so many future missions to detect and study speck. called because these were initially con- Earth-like planets. A follow-up mission, Dr. Ruslan Belikov was born in Kyiv However, the actual detection of an ceived for observations of our sun’s TPF-I (I standing for Interferometer) is and came to the United States in 1991. Earth-like world is very difficult. There corona). being planned for a launch in 2020 and He received his Ph.D. from Stanford are two reasons for this. The main reason However, conventional coronagraphs will conduct further science on Earth-like 10 Univeristy in 2004, and was awarded the is that the star is many times brighter are not powerful enough to achieve 10 planets in the infrared. Eventually, tech- Michelson Fellowship in 2005 from than the planet. As viewed from far away, contrast, and new designs are being nology will advance enough for us to be NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to our sun would be almost 1010, or 10 bil- developed. One promising design is the able to resolve features on planets, and conduct research at Princeton lion times brighter than Earth. This is Shaped-Pupil Coronagraph being pur- several (still prohibitively expensive) University’s Terrestrial Planet Finder about as bright as a powerful searchlight sued by our group at Princeton missions have been conceived to do just Laboratory. This article is based on a would appear next to a firefly. The sec- University. The basic principle is this: that. lecture he delivered recently at a meeting ond reason is that the stars are so far the image of a star in a telescope is the Alas, vast interstellar distances will of the Mathematics-Physics-Technical away, so that one needs very fine resolv- so-called Point Spread Function (PSF), prevent anyone from making the journey Section of the Shevchenko Scientific ing power in a telescope. From one of which is the Fourier Transform (FT) of to any extra-solar planets in the foresee- Society, of which he is a member. He may our neighboring stars (say, 10 parsecs the telescope opening, the pupil. able future, at least not within a single be reached at [email protected]. away), our Earth would appear only 0.1 Typically, the PSF is not tightly local- lifetime. However, there is one thing we For more information on TPF, please go arc seconds, or 0.0015 degrees away ized, causing glare. The idea behind our can foresee with almost certainty. In 10 to http://www.princeton.edu/~tpf/ or from the sun. This would be equivalent Shaped-Pupil Coronagraph is to shape or so years, Earth will have gained a sib- http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/TPF/tpf_i to trying to see the firefly buzzing within the telescope opening, or pupil, so that ling, “never seen from the beginning of ndex.html. 6 feet of our searchlight while staring its PSF is tightly localized, providing the world up to our own times.” 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 No. 28

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goods to Turkmenistan in July 2005- bat services of Atamurat Niyazov, whose store for the Kremlin? Because Ukraine, Kyiv secures... December 2006; and on increasing the immortal image personifies the heroism which consumes annually some 24 billion (Continued from page 2) supply of the so-called “investment” of the 740,000 Turkmen heroes who sac- cubic meters of Russian gas obtained as pay- Kazakhstan and Russia. “Since we pay Turkmen gas to Ukraine from the previous rificed their lives on the battlefields of ment for transit of Russian gas across 37.5 percent of the [Turkmen-gas] transit 4.5 billion cubic meters to 5 billion cubic the Great Patriotic War,” Mr. Ivchenko Ukraine to Europe, is now facing tough talks cost with gas itself, we will economize an meters in 2005 and 6 billion cubic meters reportedly said while presenting the with the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom. extra sum on the transit,” Mr. Ivchenko in 2006. The “investment” gas, in contrast award to the Turkmen president on Mr. Gazprom executives announced earlier explained on the 1+1 television channel on to the above-mentioned “commercial” gas, Yushchenko’s behalf in Ashgabat in May. this month that the price of Russian gas June 26. “It is because 37.5 percent of the is delivered by Turkmenistan in exchange And on June 21, turkmenistan.ru for Ukraine might soar from the current previous price of $58 [per 1,000 cubic for services of Ukrainian companies in that reported that President Yushchenko con- $50 for 1,000 cubic meters to $160 in meters] is certainly more than 37.5 percent country, which are provided primarily in gratulated Mr. Niyazov on the 13th 2006, in connection with switching to of the current price of $44 [per 1,000 cubic road and industrial construction. anniversary of his presidency, paying cash payments under European-level tar- meters]. Thus, we will economize not just Mr. Ivchenko announced on June 24 homage to the “wise policy of Saparmurat iffs. Mr. Ivchenko said that Ukraine, $14 but as much as $20 to $22 [on each that President Niyazov accepted Niyazov,” thanks to which Turkmenistan which prices Russian gas transit at $1.09 1,000 cubic meters of Turkmen gas].” Ukrainian President Yushchenko’s invita- “has won great respect and taken a wor- per 1,000 cubic meters per 100 kilome- However, according to the June 27 tion to visit Kyiv in September, when thy place in the international arena.” ters, does not intend to revise the current Kommersant-Daily, Mr. Ivchenko’s cal- both countries are planning to sign a 25- Has Mr. Yushchenko any such moves in payment arrangements with Gazprom. culations should not be taken for granted. year accord on Turkmen gas supplies to The Russian newspaper argued that after Ukraine. Mr. Ivchenko said Mr. Niyazov switching to cash settlements for made a statement to the Turkmen press Museum claimed with sadness that the Turkmen gas, Ukraine will actually have denying the reports in Russian newspa- The Viking... Age of the Vikings came to an abrupt end to pay more than before. The newspaper pers that last week he slammed Ukraine (Continued from page 12) in the 11th century. Some historians even quoted Ukrainian National Deputy for “fooling” Turkmenistan in payments The Swedish branch of the Vikings give the precise date of 1060 for the end Oleksander Hudyma, a member of the for gas. According to Mr. Ivchenko, the sailed to the east, establishing a trade of this era. Why, then, were longships of parliamentary Committee for the Fuel and Russian newspapers utilized pronounce- route on the Volga River and the Caspian Viking design raiding the Turkish coast Energy Complex, as saying that under the ments made by Mr. Niyazov “a few years Sea to Baghdad in Mesopotamia, now in the 17th century? previous contract, because of overpricing ago.” And, Mr. Ivchenko revealed that Iraq, and a separate trade route to It was biology, more than anything its goods shipped to Turkmenistan as pay- Russia did not allow his plane on the way Constantinople along the Dnipro River, else, that led to the end of the Viking Age ment for Turkmen gas, Kyiv actually paid back from Ashgabat to Kyiv to enter its in present-day Ukraine. In the process, as we know it in the 11th century. The $30 to $32 per 1,000 cubic meters. airspace, which was the first such occur- they laid the foundations for the powerful Vikings’ war and trade ships left Kommersant-Daily did not specify the rence in the history of Ukrainian official state of Kyivan Rus’ with its capital in Scandinavia without women on board. new real price of Turkmen gas for Ukraine delegations’ flights to Turkmenistan. “I present-day Ukraine. The warriors and traders married or oth- but predicted that the price of gas for think this was connected with the docu- The secret to the success of their con- erwise engaged native women in con- Ukrainian corporate consumers could soon ments we signed today in Turkmenistan,” quests was the drakkar, the ultimate war quered lands. Their descendants on the be increased from $65 to $90 per 1,000 Mr. Ivchenko noted. machine of the age. It was a superb prod- shores of the Seine and Dnipro rivers cubic meters. The increase would reported- Some Ukrainian commentators have uct of naval design and engineering, and were brought up by their mothers in the ly be due to the fact that Ukrainian enter- speculated that Mr. Niyazov’s apparent a weapon of mass destruction of its day. local culture, speaking local languages. prises are sold exclusively imported gas, goodwill in signing the new gas contract With an average length of 28 meters (85 Within a few generations, Thor while cheaper, domestically extracted gas with Ukraine was cunningly cajoled by feet) – the largest being 70 meters (210 became Ihor, Hilda became Olha, Olaf is provided to individual consumers. Mr. Yushchenko, who without making feet) – they were unstoppable war became Oleh and Valdimar became Mr. Ivchenko announced that he also much publicity in Ukraine, awarded machines. The key to their design was Volodymyr. And the Vikings in Rouen signed three other agreements with the Atamurat Niyazov, the president’s father, their seaworthiness on the high seas and became Normans, while the Vikings in Turkmen president: on Ukraine’s repay- with the Yaroslav the Wise Order of the their ability to function as amphibious Kyiv became the people of Rus’ who ment of a commodity debt for Turkmen Fifth Degree to mark the 60th anniver- craft capable of landing on beaches and raided the Turkish coast in the 17th cen- gas supplied in the first half of 2005; on a sary of the victory over Nazi Germany in navigating the shallow waters of rivers. tury much the same way their ancestors supply of $500 million worth of Ukrainian World War II. “Ukraine honors the com- Historians and our guide at the Viking did six centuries earlier. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 No. 28 No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 17

UCARE/‘Pryiateli Ditei USA’ The Ukrainian Museum-Archives receives elects new executive board $50,000 donation from Cleveland Selfreliance CHICAGO — Ukrainian Children’s program for older orphans that “age-out” CLEVELAND – The Ukrainian tant documents. Aid and Relief Effort, Inc. (UCARE), of orphanages; continued surgical and Museum-Archives in Cleveland recently The Ukrainian Museum-Archives in known by its Ukrainian name, “Pryiateli medical support for orphans; and goals for announced that it has received a $50,000 Cleveland contains “rare and priceless Ditei USA” held its seventh annual 2006. grant toward its capital campaign from artifacts reflecting upon our heritage and national executive meeting in May. The The newly elected president, Ms. the Cleveland Selfreliance Federal Credit culture, and deserves our support,” said meeting was attended by members of Kosogof, thanked members for their par- Union. This significant gift, to be paid Dr. Bohdan Czepak, chairman of the UCARE, representing all U.S. chapters ticipation and support, and expressed her over a five year period, will assist in board of directors of the Cleveland credit of the organization. The Chicago chapter desire for continued cooperation and financing a new archives facility current- union. Dr. Czepak noted that the credit hosted the meeting, held at the Ukrainian growth for the organization. ly under construction. union’s gift is particularly appropriate Cultural Center in Chicago. The meeting was well attended by With over 20,000 books, more than given that its first office, opened 50 years The meeting was chaired by Vera UCARE members and guests. After the 1,000 different newspaper and magazine ago next year, was located in proximity Petrusha, president of UCARE, Detroit meeting was officially adjourned, pro- titles, more than 2,000 records, tapes con- to the archives’ current location. chapter. All chapter representatives pre- longed discussions among members con- taining 10,000 minutes of recorded music, “We are deeply grateful to Cleveland sented reports. tinued into the evening. and tens of thousands of posters, post- Selfreliance for their support,” said the Elections were held with the follow- UCARE is a non-profit 501(c)(3) cards, stamps and the like, Cleveland’s museum’s director, Andrew Fedynsky. ing result: Alexandra Kosogof (Chicago), organization. It is a 100 percent volun- Ukrainian archival collection is one of the “For the past 50 years, Cleveland president; Ms. Petrusha (Detroit), vice- teer organization whose mission is to most significant in North America. Selfreliance has been a cornerstone of president; Peggy Lynch (Detroit), improve the quality of life and health of In an effort to protect and preserve this our community. The assistance they are English secretary; Luba Petrusha children residing in the Ukrainian collection, archive officials launched a providing us will help us preserve our (Detroit) Ukrainian secretary; Robert orphanage system and to create opportu- capital campaign in 2003 to raise funds collection for generations to come.” Hoffman (St. Louis), treasurer; Marta nities for these children to reach their for a new archival facility. This new The Ukrainian Museum-Archives is Kolomayets (Kyiv), Nadia Haywas maximum potential. building, which will be fire-resistant and located at 1202 Kenilworth Ave. in (Oceanside, Calif.), Olia Liskiwskyi More information about UCARE can climate-controlled, was designed specifi- Cleveland; telephone, (216) 781-4389; (Detroit) and Ross Felling (Detroit), be found at http://www.ucareinc.org. cally to protect and preserve these impor- website, www.umacleveland.org. members. An open discussion preceded the elec- tions. The discussion centered on topics pertinent to the work being done to help orphans in Ukraine and the future of UCARE’s work, specifically the upcom- ing mission to Ukraine titled “Hearts for Art”; the growth of the scholarship/stipend RETIREMENT? U.S. provides... (Continued from page 3) which will include curriculum revision at the SBGS Academy and Training ARE YOU READY? Centers, and improve the government of Ukraine’s institutional capacity to improve border security and combat the trafficking of drugs, weapons and people across Ukraine’s borders. At the signing ceremony, Ambassador Herbst said that the protocol “is an important step forward in the cooperative effort of our governments to increase the efficiency of Ukrainian law enforcement and improve the level of communication and exchange of experience between our law enforcement agencies.” Minister Lutsenko underscored the protocol’s importance, given “the special attention paid by the government of Ukraine to the fight against organized crime, drug smuggling and trafficking in persons.”

Royal Canadian... (Continued from page 6) More important than the legal wran- gles that will come are the more funda- mental questions Ontario Command’s ill- considered deeds raise. Whom does the legion still serve, and how well? Did the veterans who pooled their resources to buy their Queen Street property, who established by-laws that gave their branch a particularly Ukrainian Canadian mandate, who then worked hard over several decades, do all that so that what they created would be seized by complete strangers, whose intentions remain unknown, whose authority is questionable and whose tac- tics were loutish? Is that how Ukrainian Canadians UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC. should mark 2005, officially the Year of the Veteran? I think not. For I knew Mr. 2200 ROUTE 10, PARSIPPANY, NJ 07054 Pawluk and I knew Mr. Panchuk. In fact, I was privileged to meet many Ukrainian 800-253-9862 Canadians who fought for this country. They’d tell you, without hesitation, that FAX: 973-292-0900 what was done to their branch, No. 360, is wrong. It is not what they fought for. It EMAIL: [email protected] is what they fought against. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 No. 28

UKRAINIAN BUILDERS OF CUSTOM HOMES above on the corruption indicator,” he VP of Millennium... said, noting that new rankings are WEST COAST OF FLORIDA (Continued from page 1) expected to come out this summer and However, Ukraine is not currently eli- will be used to make decisions for 2006. TRIDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP. gible to receive funding from the MCC “Based on those, our board will meet in • Over 25 years of building experience because it has received a failing grade on the fall to determine which countries will • Bilingual a corruption indicator, one of 16 indica- become eligible in 2006, so Ukraine may or • Fully insured and bonded tors used by officials to determine a may not become eligible,” Mr. Hewko said. • Build on your lot or ours country’s eligibility. But steps taken “If a country got its act together, we could • Highest quality workmanship recently to combat corruption there mean sign something in eight or nine months.” The Ukrainian government has shown Ihor W. Hron, President Lou Luzniak, Executive V.P. Ukraine could receive funding in the interest in presenting a proposal to the future, Mr. Hewko said. (941) 270-2411 (941) 270-2413 MCC. “Mr. Yushchenko mentioned it sev- “Ukraine did very well on 14 of the 16 Zenon Luzniak, General Contractor eral times when he was in Washington dur- indicators,” Mr. Hewko said. ing his visit and their government has been Serving North Port, Venice, South Venice and area “Now, even if Ukraine, or a country, interested in finding out how they can doesn’t formally pass the indicators, the become eligible,” Mr. Hewko said. “And board can still use its discretion and make the answer is quite simple, do well on the a country eligible because there’s data lag indicators and have a great story to tell.” Ukrainian Sitch Sports School on the indicators,” Mr. Hewko said. An Unforgetable Learning Experience The corporation, created on January “Very often the indicator results come out 23, 2004, is managed by a chief execu- LEARN SOCCER, VOLLEYBALL, SWIMMING, TENNIS FROM AN OUTSTANDING STAFF in the summer and they may not accurate- tive officer appointed by the president THAT HAS BEEN HAND-PICKED TO WORK WITH ALL AGES AND ABILITY GROUPS. ly reflect the latest trends in the country.” and confirmed by the Senate and over- The indicators used are not created or Place: “Verkhovyna” Resort, Glen Spey, N.Y. seen by a board of directors. The secre- When: July 24 - August 14, 2005 maintained by the U.S., but by the World tary of state is the chairman of the board. Boys and girls ages 6-18 Bank, Freedom House and Transparency The board meets once a year and International. determines what countries are eligible to Register now — Capacity is limited — For information write to: Mr. Hewko explained that countries Ukrainian Sitch Sports School provide proposals. The board will likely are ranked among their peer group. meet again in the fall and evaluate which 680 Sandford Avenue, Newark, NJ 07106 “You have to be above the median on http://www.Oleh.net/sitch/ countries, including Ukraine, will be eli- half of the indicators, and you have to be gible in 2006 to provide proposals. “The beauty of the MCC is that if a country is chosen as an eligible country it gets to come to us with its proposal, and we’ll fund anything,” Mr. Hewko said. “It could be health, education, infrastructure. The only thing we ask is that, first of all, the proposal reflects a consultative process, so that the proposal is not so much the govern- ment’s proposal but a country’s proposal. And, second, we will fund in any area, but it has to lead to poverty reduction through sustainable economic growth.” The corpo- ration must also foresee measurable results. The corporation has recently under- gone criticism from members of Congress who say the fund has not acted quickly enough to disperse funds. To date, the cor- poration has signed compacts with Honduras, Madagascar, Cape Verde and Nicaragua. On June 15, CEO Paul Applegarth announced that he was resign- ing “at a time of mutual convenience in order to ensure a smooth transition.” A nominee for Mr. Applegarth’s spot has not yet been named and Mr. Hewko said he had no indication of who would be nomi- nated for the position, though his placement as a vice-president at the corporation would appear to make him a candidate. Prior to joining the MCC, Mr. Hewko was an international partner with the law firm Baker & McKenzie, specializing in international corporate transactions in emerging markets. An adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School, he most recently worked with Baker & McKenzie in the Czech Republic and previously in Ukraine and Russia. He also served as an advisor to the Ukrainian Parliament. While working in Prague, Mr. Hewko was responsible for overseeing 13 attor- neys and over 500 multinational and Czech clients. He established Baker & McKenzie’s office in Ukraine and worked on mergers and acquisitions, joint venture negotiations, technology transfer, privatization and other issues. Mr. Hewko’s international experience includes assignments with U.S. and for- eign law firms in Washington, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Ecuador. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School, his master’s degree from Oxford University in England, and his bachelor’s degree in government and Soviet studies from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. Mr. Hewko is a member of Ukrainian National Association Branch 174 and in his youth was active in the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization. He speaks Ukrainian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Czech. No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 19

sessions and did not engage in the physi- vote until all 23 moonlighters resigned branches of government. Verkhovna Rada... cal confrontations. their positions as national deputies. The situation was an embarrassment (Continued from page 1) Socialist Party leaders said they were Among them were National Security for Mr. Yushchenko and his government, Oleh Rybachuk said Ukraine could join concerned that WTO entry could become and Defense Council Secretary Petro who often criticized the practice when the WTO even if the Rada didn’t pass all shock therapy for Ukraine, but agreed Poroshenko, Finance Minister Viktor they were in the opposition. President 14 bills. that it would open new markets and Pynzenyk and State Property Fund Chair Yushchenko ordered his government to “For a long time, Ukraine led the ensure access to new technologies. Valentyna Semeniuk. prepare an order to fire those ministers blacklists of nations violating intellectual “In order to prevent a decline in produc- Ukrainian law prohibits officials from who do not resign, which included 16 rights,” Mr. Rybachuk said. “Piracy ers and jobs, to defend agriculture and to holding seats simultaneously in two officials, as of July 6. exists all over the world, but only in ease losses, we need a transition period and step-by-step implementation of WTO Ukraine did the government ... refrain freedom and the prosperity of the country. from passing laws that would demon- requirements,” said Oleksander Moroz, the leader of the Socialist Party. “Ukraine is U.S. Embassy... I certainly hope that is true. But for strate the nation’s desire to fight piracy.” (Continued from page 5) that to happen, it is essential for the gov- Under the newly passed law, illegal not a place for experiments. It’s our home.” Their voting on the bills proved incon- nearly 230 years ago. ernment to craft policies that truly pro- production and sale of laser-read discs, mote economic growth, that ensure free- equipment and raw materials for their sistent and disappointed Economics Life is full of new beginnings and Minister Serhii Teriokhin, who said on Ukraine this past seven months has just dom of political action, that enhance production are now criminal violations. unity throughout the country and that On July 7 the Rada passed a second July 6 that he blamed the Socialist Party experienced another. The Ukrainian peo- find a place for all Ukrainians, including law that reduces import duties on meat for the failure of several bills to pass ple’s refusal to accept fraud in last year’s those associated with and supportive of and other products, except for wine, pure their first reading. elections led to a new vote and the presi- the previous government, who did not alcohol and tobacco. Of 404 deputies, The party should leave the Our dency of the man who received the major- 263 voted to pass the bill that Ms. Ukraine coalition government, Mr. ity of votes in a basically honest election. vote for the current administration. Tymoshenko said would eliminate the Teriokhin added. Some people have described this elec- That is quite a task, requiring wisdom, deficit of meat products in Ukraine. Mr. Yushchenko appeared before the tion as the real or the second independence forgiveness and persistence. But it is one During two days of parliamentary Rada on July 5 and delivered a speech day of Ukraine. This presupposes that the well within the capabilities of the people chaos, Communists and Social urging the Rada to ratify the necessary new government will be quite successful in who made Kyiv over 1,000 years ago one Democrats blared emergency sirens, WTO laws. The Ukrainian president implementing an agenda assuring both the of the shining lights of civilization. blew soccer horns and shouted in called upon the deputies to put aside Russian into their megaphones to drown political self-interests, consider Ukraine’s national interests and vote for the bills one year ago to be the first occupant of out other deputies. the Kule Chair. Since her arrival, she has On the second day, pro-WTO deputies with Ukrainian citizens’ interests in mind. Kononenko speaks... WTO membership would add $1.6 (Continued from page 11) been active both as a teacher and a schol- formed a protective barrier around Mr. ar, organizing the graduate student lunch Lytvyn in order to prevent his opponents billion to Ukraine’s annual budget and an interesting mix of preserving tradition, seminar and publishing widely on from getting close enough to disturb or improve GDP growth by 1.9 percent, Mr. adopting new traditions from Ukraine, Ukrainian folklore topics. intimidate him. Yushchenko said. Canceling the current and adapting to the new Canadian setting government tax breaks and benefits She said she is looking forward to As a result, yet another brawl broke in which Ukrainian Canadians now find extended to Ukrainian enterprises would out in which fists flew and deputies tack- themselves. The existence of this mix, she gathering more data for her research dur- grow the nation’s tax base and add about led each other to the ground. asserted, is indicative of a vital and thriv- ing her trip to Ukraine. She also noted $500 million annually, he said. Communists brought more mega- ing tradition. that she is anxious to extend her field- To fully prepare Ukraine’s economy for phones on this day and handed them to Prof. Kononenko came to Edmonton work to include Ukrainian Canadians. WTO admission, 350 laws need amending, their female deputies with the likely 150 government regulations need review expectation that their opponents would- and 1,300 laws require cancellation. “One immediately spoke in Ukrainian, n’t fight a woman in front of television “This road for any nation takes three and her name was Halia,” Mr. Stakhiv cameras. Yevhen Stakhiv... to four years,” Mr. Yushchenko said, (Continued from page 4) said. “And one nurse referred to her as Mr. Lytvyn spent at least six hours while stressing the need to pass the laws ‘Galia.’ And I asked her, ‘are you Halia shouting above the deafening sirens and by Dmytro Dontsov. Finally, he said he as soon as possible to allow an increase or are you Galia?’ And she said, ‘No, I horns in an attempt to lead the adopted the belief that Ukraine is for all of Ukrainian exports by $300 million. don’t want to be Galia!’” Parliament. Ukrainians, regardless of ethnicity, and Mr. Rybachuk said Ukraine should not Eastern Ukrainians clearly want to be “I am very much pleading with you to that Ukraine must be democratic. drag out WTO entry because it might part of Ukraine because they rejected the calm down,” Mr. Lytvyn said. “You are As for the current state of the Donbas, face more rigid requirements in the proposals for secession that arose during normal, intelligent people ...” Mr. Stakhiv said he believes that Kyiv future. “Every new WTO member sets the Orange Revolution, Mr. Stakhiv said. But the “normal people” carried on has ignored the region since Ukrainian up new demands to its followers,” he Things will change as the influential their antics. independence, allowing the local oli- noted. older generation of Communists slowly Twice, Mr. Bondarchuk tore Mr. garchs to seize power and influence. Domestic producers will undergo a dies away, Mr. Stakhiv said. Lytvyn’s microphone off its stand to pre- transition during which new rules would “The Donbas was in the hands of As for his own life, it was apparent vent him from speaking. Communist and be implemented during a course of four Akhmetov and he ruled it with an iron that Mr. Stakhiv appears quite content SDPU deputies heckled those speaking to five years, Mr. Baranovskyi said. hand,” he said. “Now, after the Orange with the political legacy he will leave in support of a WTO bill. WTO entry would ensure Ukraine’s fur- Revolution, I see the people of Donbas behind. At the interview’s end, he picked Imitating the crowds during the ther exit from the shadow economy and feel freer and no longer fear. I think that up “Freedom and Terror in Donbas” by Orange Revolution, they repeatedly the decline of corruption, he said. the Donbas is going through an evolution Hiroaki Kuromiya, a history professor at chanted, “Shame!” – “Hanba!” in Delaying tactics on behalf of pro- from Akhmetov-style totalitarianism to Indiana University in Bloomington. Ukrainian. The Russian-allied deputies Russian deputies began as early as July 5 democracy.” “To this day, Stakhiv is thankful to the ceased their cacophony only to allow when they protested the presence of Before the IAUS congress, Mr. Stakhiv Donechchany [residents of Donetsk] for their own political allies to speak. moonlighters, or “sumisnyky,” those high- was hospitalized for three days in Donetsk. this change in his convictions,” Mr. Stakhiv Besides Prime Minister Tymoshenko, er-ranking government officials who had Every day he met three nurses, so he met read from the book through his thick glass- the president of the Parliamentary neglected to give up their deputy posts. nine in all. They each allowed him to speak es. He then looked up with a smile. Assembly of the Council of Europe, The Communist Party, SDPU and to them in Ukrainian because they under- “Isn’t this nice to read at the end of my Rene van der Linden, was also supposed Party of the Regions refused to allow any stood it, even if they couldn’t speak it well. life?” he said. to address the Rada. He did not get the opportunity to do so until the next evening, when calm was restored. It was his first visit to Ukraine. Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko led the WTO opposition, railing against transnational corporations that will “destroy domestic producers, ruin the Ukrainian village, create mil- lions of unemployed, destroy Ukraine’s agriculture as well as Ukrainian inde- pendence.” Mr. Symonenko accused the Yushchenko government, nationalists and socialists of selling out Ukraine to American interests. “In this hall today, under pressure from the United States Embassy, the national interests of Ukraine are being betrayed,” Mr. Symonenko said. “To please American interests, Ukrainian producers are being destroyed.” Party of the Regions deputies, who largely defend eastern Ukrainian busi- ness and oligarchic interests, refrained from voting throughout the tumultuous 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 No. 28

NATO membership] were held tomor- said. “At first people thought that calling Conflict reported over Ternopil church NEWSBRIEFS row, the majority of the population in for questioning was nearly tantamount to (Continued from page 2) Ukraine would not support it,” he said. conviction. Today people have got used TERNOPIL – Ivan Stoiko, chairman of the Ternopil Oblast Administration, signed last week. The new contract, “As things stand in 2005, NATO mem- to this practice and know, for example, bership is not on the agenda.” Touching that the police have asked [former issued a decree to temporarily close the according to Mr. Ivchenko, will allow Church of the Exaltation of the Cross in Naftohaz Ukrainy to save $754 million on upon the well-publicized reprivatization Internal Affairs Minister Mykola] Bilokin of the Kryvorizhstal steel mill, Mr. for interrogation. Where should we send the village of Zazdrist, Terebovlia dis- Turkmen gas supplies in comparison with trict, until the conflict between the local the old contract. (RFE/RL Newsline) Poroshenko said the government expects a notice to him if he has 12 dachas in to obtain no less than $2.4 billion for the Ukraine as a minimum? Where should I communities of the Ukrainian Greek- Catholic Church (UGCC) and the Poroshenko pessimistic on NATO company at a repeat auction, that is, three send a notice to [former Prime Minister Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv times as much as paid by Ukrainian oli- Viktor] Yanukovych, who now can be Patriarchate (UOC-KP) is settled. This KYIV – National Security and garchs Rynat Akhmetov and Viktor seen more often in Moscow than Kyiv, news was posted by zik.com.ua on June Defense Council Secretary Petro Pinchuk in 2004. (RFE/RL Newsline) even though he has a multitude of houses Poroshenko said in an interview with in Donetsk and Transcarpathia? 24. The conflict between the UGCC and Interfax on June 29 that Ukraine may Summonses still issued via media [Therefore] we invite him through the the UOC-KP communities over the hold a referendum on NATO membership media.” (RFE/RL Newsline) church building in Zazdrist, which is also in the future, as the current Constitution KYIV – Internal Affairs Minister Yurii the home village of the former head of does not allow the country to belong to Lutsenko said in an interview with Ukrainians, Poles seek reconciliation the UGCC, Patriarch Josyf Slipyj, has any military alliance. Mr. Poroshenko Interfax on June 29 that his ministry is lasted since the early 1990s. According to LVIV – More than 500 priests of the admitted that at present no more than 35 doing the right thing in summoning for- Yurii Zarutskyi, press secretary to the Polish Roman Catholic Church and the percent of the population supports the mer and current officials for questioning oblast chairman, Mr. Stoiko suggested Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church partic- idea of NATO membership. “Public opin- through the media. “Frankly speaking, I that the two communities take turns ipated in a ceremonial liturgy in Lviv on ion polls indicate that if a referendum [on see no problems here,” Mr. Lutsenko using the church. Mr. Stoiko assigned the June 26, at which they appealed to Terebovlia district and village adminis- Ukrainians and Poles for mutual forgive- trations to prepare a schedule and get it ness and reconciliation, Polish Radio approved by the two communities. The reported. The bishops of the two church- schedule was to be completed and es made a similar call in Warsaw a week approved by July 1. (Religious earlier. (RFE/RL Newsline) Information Service of Ukraine) Pora wins its court case Lutsenko supports religious education KYIV – A Kyiv court on June 29 PETRIVTSI, Ukraine – At a training ordered the Ukrainian Justice Ministry to seminar for the police forces of Ukraine backdate the registration of the Pora stu- held in Petrivtsi, Kyiv region, on June 16, dent movement as a political party. In the- Yurii Lutsenko, Ukraine’s minister of inter- ory at least, the decision allows Pora, nal affairs, stated that spiritual education is which played a key role in last year’s an important factor in the preparation of Orange Revolution that brought President police officers. “Today I had a talk with Viktor Yushchenko to power, to take part Orthodox priests. And if in the past we used in the upcoming parliamentary elections. to say that spiritual education won’t harm The Pecherskyi District Court ruled that police officers, today we emphasize that the Pora should be retroactively registered as knowledge our trainees receive during the a political party as of March 24. Yuriy pastoral talks is absolutely necessary,” Poliukhovych, the leader of Pora’s Kyiv pointed out Mr. Lutsenko. “Today’s experi- branch and a member of Ukraine’s ence proves that we do not have the right to Popular Party, hailed the court ruling. protect people without the blessing of God. “This is a renewal of justice and people That is why I am particularly pleased that are beginning to believe that common our officers have an opportunity to train sense can prevail,” he said. “This ruling both their bodies and souls,” he stressed. shows that the 10,000 signatures that Pora (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) had collected to register as a party were a fair decision.” The court decision puts an Church most trusted institution end to a two-month struggle between Pora and the Justice Ministry. Pora had KYIV – The Church remains the most been seeking registration since March 24, trusted institution in Ukraine. This was when it held its founding congress as a revealed in a survey conducted by the political party. Arguing that only one- Institute for Social and Political third of the signatures of support collect- Psychology at the Academy of Pedagogy ed by Pora activists could be authenticat- of Ukraine on May 3-10. Interfax- ed, the Justice Ministry first refused to religion.ru posted the news on June 16. register the student movement, but did so According to Mykola Sliurevskyi, director on June 1. The belated decision came too of the institute, the survey covered 1,217 late for Pora, which was effectively respondents in 370 locations in Ukraine. barred from taking part in the March Approximately 63.7 percent of respondents 2006 election. Pora leaders have blamed stated that the Church was the most trusted Justice Minister Roman Zvarych for the institution. Last year this figure was 57.4 delay and organized street protests to percent. Among other institutions with a demand his resignation. Mr. Zvarych positive support ratio were the armed eventually voiced support for Pora forces of Ukraine, the system of education, against his own administration. (Radio and the Cabinet of Ministers. (Religious Free Europe/Radio Liberty) Information Service of Ukraine) No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 21

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Dr. Sydor graduated from NAUU with Awarded Ph.D. honors and became an assistant forest manager at the State Forestry Service in in forest economics Ukraine. He also spent one year as an ATHENS, Ga. – On May 15, 2005, assistant instructor in forestry at NAUU. Tymur Sydor, a native of northwestern In 1999 Dr. Sydor received his master Ukraine, was awarded a Ph.D. in forest of science degree in forest economics economics from the University of from Purdue University. He spent two Georgia in Athens. years as a research specialist in forest Dr. Sydor was born in Lutsk, Ukraine, economics at the University of Arkansas. in 1973 and graduated from Lutsk High He currently works as a forest ana- School No. 4 in 1990. He studied lyst/economist at FORISK Consulting in forestry at the Ukrainian Agricultural Athens, Ga., providing risk management Academy, now the National Agricultural and market analysis to forest businesses. University of Ukraine (NAUU) in Kyiv. Dr. Sydor lives in Athens with his wife In 1993 Dr. Sydor participated in an of eight years, Oksana Korolchuk, also a eight-month study abroad program at forester. The couple met in Kyiv when Purdue University in Indiana. In 1996 both were students at NAUU.

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Kyivan maidan (Independence Square). Presents program Dr. Cehelska, who was catapulted into action by inaccuracies in the presentation ‘Echoes of Ukraine’ of Rus’-Ukraine’s history even prior to VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Dr. Olga the 1988 celebrations of Kyivan Rus’ M. Cehelska, director of “Echoes of Christianity, has since that time commit- Ukraine,” presented Ukrainian piano and ted herself to presenting no less than 12 bandura music of the 19th, 20th and 21st Ukrainian programs per year. centuries at Prince of Peace Lutheran To date, having performed on radio, tele- Church on May 15. vision and in person, Dr. Cehelska has edu- This hands-on, one-woman show was cated well over 100,000 school-age children presented with humor, artistry and great about Moscow’s falsification of the histories pride in the historical achievements of a of Rus’-Ukraine and Muscovy-Russia. country once called “The bread basket of Surviving a near fatal auto accident Europe,” but which lost millions to the causing severe head trauma in 2003, Dr. Famine Genocide orchestrated by Joseph Cehelska has since then doubled her Stalin in 1933. efforts, by presenting twice as many pro- The focus of the evening was the story grams as before the accident. of the Orange Revolution, and the music Prior to the Orange Revolution, her of the masses born in the very heart of the programs were billed as “Echoes of Ukraine – Songs of a Forgotten Nation.” Currently, the programs are titled “Echoes of the Orange Revolution – Songs of a DoDo youyou knowknow whywhy Nation Reborn,” and that is the program Dr. Cehelska has been asked to perform at the we’rewe’re soso happy?happy? next Virginia Music Teachers Association Convention in Our parents and grandparents invested in our future by the fall of 2005. purchasing an endowment and life insurance policy for Dr. Cehelska shares a uni- versal message through her each of us from the Ukrainian National Association, Inc. music, and no one who has ever heard her speak of ancient They purchased prepaid policies on account of the low Rus’, listened to her perform- ances of the piano repertoire of premium rate for our age group. If you’d like to be Ukrainian composers, or watched her program on smiling like us, please have your parents or grandpar- Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, ents call the UNA at 1-800-253-9862. ever leaves quite the same. For more information, readers may They will be happy to assist you! Olga Cehelska performs “Echoes of Ukraine.” log on to www.thetuca.org. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 No. 28 UKEUKELLODEONODEON FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

Passaic Plast troop showcases Orange Revolution by Christina Temnycky vote their conscience; a yellow Pora Flag; a “Tak” headband worn PASSAIC, N.J. – Our troop by one of the Pora students during “Konvaliyi” from Plast’s Passaic the rallies; official Yushchenko branch – Marta Lewko, Alexa and Yanukovych platform posters; Patti, Christina Temnycky and our buttons, keychains, wristbands, counselor Christine Kotlar – ribbons, bumper stickers and wanted to share with our neigh- other items sold during the revolu- bors all the things we collected tion. during the Orange Revolution. We also printed photographs from We filled three glass cases at both the revolution at the maidan the Clifton Public Library with (Independence Square in Kyiv) and memorabilia from Ukraine. In the from rallies around the world in cases were: an orange “Tak” flag support of Viktor Yushchenko. which was used and tattered dur- This exhibit will be on display ing a caravan through the oblast of for a few weeks. We are proud to Sumy, close to the Russian border, be able to share the beginnings in an attempt to get the people to of true independence for Ukraine. The Konvaliyi Plast troop with their display at the Clifton Public Library. 150 Plast campers descend on “PK” for “Sviato Vesny” by Mykhas Fedynsky The Lisovi Mavky took on the task kids busy, informed and entertained. run the campsite with a democratic MIDDLEFIELD, Ohio – On May of planning and running the campo- The weather was almost perfect: dictatorship where a dictator is 28, over 150 Plast campers descend- ree. Komendantka Anya Maziak, mostly sunny with a brief shower on elected but then has absolute power, ed on the 140-acre Pysanyi Kamin Bunchuzhna Larissa Hotra and the first day. In a talk on Monday, to have dances 40 hours a week for campsite – known to regulars as Pysar Katria Kuzmowycz had the the representatives from different those 18-20, to replace Ukrainian “PK” – in Middlefield, Ohio, for the help of other Lisovi Mavky, along kureni encouraged the campers to school teachers with our grandmoth- annual “Sviato Vesny” (literally, cele- with representatives from the join their respective groups. ers, and have bigger uniforms for bration of spring) camporee, the cul- Buryverkhy, Chervona Kalyna, As the theme was based on the bigger people. It was all in good fun. mination of weeks of preparation on Chornomortsi, Khrestonostsi, Lisovi Orange Revolution and Plast’s 2005 Another part of the program was the part of many dedicated people. Chorty and others. They did a great maxim “Razom nas bahato – a “lysiachyi bih,” basically a scav- The campers came from all over job, with a program based on the Together we are many,” part of the enger hunt, which gave campers an – Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit and theme of the Orange Revolution. program was for the campers to get opportunity to explore PK using Washington. The counselors also The campers created their own tent together in groups representing one orienteering skills learned at camp. came from different cities, repre- city, complete with orange decora- of the 25 oblasts in Ukraine and cre- Later that afternoon the oblast senting various Plast sororities and tions, reminiscent of the one on the ate their own theoretical revolution. groups once again got to compete in fraternities (“kureni”). maidan in Kyiv. The program kept the Some of the winning ideas were to sport activities and fun and games. During Sunday’s bonfire a number of important ceremonies took place: several scouts received first rank and pledged their allegiance to Plast’s ideals, and one received third rank. After these ceremonies, inter- woven with many Plast songs, each kurin presented its “Orange- themed” skit in a contest. Washington boys received first prize, and Cleveland boys received second. At the end of the weekend, no one wanted to leave, because they’d had such a good time. Everyone had so many wonderful memories of adventures at Sviato Vesny and they now wait in eager anticipation of getting together with their friends at summer camp. This Sviato Vesny – a kickoff for the 40th anniversary of the pur- chase of PK – was a great success. Mykhas Fedynsky is a member of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organi- Participants of the 2005 Sviato Vesny at Plast’s Pysanyi Kamin campground. zation’s Cleveland branch. No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 23 Varsity volleyball team places second CHICAGO – St. Nicholas always tough Lakeview team. The Cathedral School now has two great games between the two teams con- girl’s volleyball teams; the Junior sisted of long volleys, great leaping Varsity Angels (grades 5 and 6) and saves, excellent serves, hard hits and the Varsity Angels (grades 7 and 8). terrific defense. The quality of play On April 24, the Junior Varsity was extraordinary, and the competi- Angels placed second in the tive spirit was evident. In both games Northwest Junior Varsity Volleyball the lead changed hands several times League (see May issue of with the excitement and tension UKELODEON) and on May 24, the building in the crowd. However, the Varsity Angels wrapped up the Angels lost both games, 25-21 and Eagle Invitational Tournament host- 27-25 and took home second place. ed by St. Viator School, by taking Several days after the playoffs, home another second place. coach Bohdan Wruskyj received an Twenty-seven teams signed up for email from the administrator of this the Eagle Invitational Tournament tournament. She wrote: “Your girls held in May, with the St. Nicholas were the most pleasant and respect- The Varsity Angels: (back row, from left) Ulana Moroz, Assistant Coach Varsity Angels going to the playoffs ful players in this entire league and Oleh Sajewych, Araceli Herrera, Yekaterina Fishchuk, Roksolana on Tuesday, May 24. The playoffs it was a pleasure to host such a Zaderetskii, Andrea Sajewych, Lesya Shoorgot, Assistant Coach Melanie began with a convincing win over wonderful group of girls.” Ruiz, Coach Bohdan Wruskyj; (front row) Alexandra Savoia, Solomiya Queen of All Saints. In the second The Angels expressed thanks to Grushchak, Kellie Ruiz and Darina Yakimec. round of the playoffs the Angels everyone who came out to support took the lead early and never them during the playoffs and looked back as they won 25-12 and throughout the year. Special thanks Mishanyna 25-17 facing St. Josaphat, a very went to the Savoia family, who pur- To solve this month’s Mishanyna, find the capitalized words below hidden good team in this league. This win chased new uniforms for the team, within the Mishanyna grid. put the Angels into the finals. and to MB Financial for 10 new In the finals, the Angels faced the volleyballs. During JULY Ukrainians recall one of their greatest leaders. She – yes, she – was Princess Olha of KYIVAN RUS’. Olha was born sometime around 890. OLHA was the wife of Prince IHOR, mother of SVIATOSLAV Ihorevych Parma dance students and grandmother of Prince VOLODYMYR the GREAT. She was also the first Rus’ ruler to become a CHRISTIAN. (Some present yearend recital sources give the date of her baptism as 955 in Constantinople, while oth- ers say it was in 957 in Kyiv.) Though her son chose to remain a pagan, he allowed a Christian community to develop in Kyiv. It was Olha’s grandson Volodymyr who Christianized the REALM. After her husband was killed, Olha avenged his death and subdued the rebellious tribe of DEREVLIANY. She is known for expanding Kyiv’s cen- tral power and for strengthening relations with CONSTANTINOPLE. Olha ruled Kyivan Rus’ as her son’s REGENT in 945-957, while he was not yet of age to assume the THRONE and while he was away on military campaigns. PRINCESS Olha died on July 11, 969, in Kyiv. Prince Volodymyr the Great had her remains buried in the Church of the Tithes (DESIATYNNA Tserkva) in Kyiv. Olha was canonized during the first half of the 13th century. Today we celebrate St. Olha’s FEAST day on July 11 (or July 24 accord- ing to the old-style, or Julian, calendar).

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Saturday, July 23 midnight, August 13 at noon-midnight Soyuzivka’s Datebook and August 14 at noon-10:30 p.m. This HUNTER, N.Y.: “Music at the Grazhda” three-day event will feature amusement July 10-July 16, 2005 August 1-5, 2005 presents Virlana Tkacz, artistic director of rides, traditional Ukrainian food, ethnic Discovery Camp – Session #1, Golf Week Yara Arts Group – a resident company at dancing in traditional costumes, plus for ages 8-12 La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New exhibitions and demonstrations of August 5, 2005 York City, and poet Wanda Phipps – in a Ukrainian folk crafts, especially embroi- July 13, 2005 Cabaret Show with Ron Cahute & program of Ukrainian poetry in the origi- dery and ceramics. Festival entertainment Hutsul Night with a special company nal and in translation, titled “In Verse.” includes performances by the Ukraina, performance by Ivan Popovich Venue: Grazhda, Route 23 A. Time: 8 p.m. Echoes of Ukraine and Barvinok dance with Vidlunnia and Olga August 5-6, 2005 Tickets available at the door for $15, gen- ensembles, and music by bands including eral admission; $12, members and seniors; Barabash-Turgineva Exhibit - Dycia Hanushevsky’s Dunai, Ephyra Band and Foghat, an students, free. Profiles of Grazhda per- American band. The parishes of two ceramic art formers as well as general information – July 15, 2005 Detroit area Ukrainian Catholic churches, performance schedules, changes and Immaculate Conception Church in Tiki Bar Entertainment featuring August 5-7, 2005 updates, driving directions and member- Sonia Tratch Hamtramck, and St. Josaphat Parish in Sports Jamboree Weekend ship information – are available online at Warren, began the festival during the www.GrazhdaMusicandArt.org. 1980s to bring Ukrainian communities July 17-July 22, 2005 Information is also available by calling August 6, 2005 together, and to share the beauty and (518) 263-4335 (July 13-September 3). Chemney Day Camp – Session #1, Afternoon Barabolya Show with importance of the Ukrainian heritage, cul- for ages 4-7 Ron Cahute and company, Friday-Sunday, August 12-14 ture and traditions with other Americans. followed by entertainment by The Ukrainian Sunflower Festival raises July 17-July 23, 2005 band HRIM Saturday Zabava WARREN, Mich.: The 19th annual funds in support of Immaculate Discovery Camp – Session #2, with Burya on Veselka Patio and Ukrainian Sunflower Festival, which will Conception Ukrainian Catholic Schools for ages 8-12 DJ in Veselka Hall be held at 26401 St. Josaphat Drive, is located in Warren. Please come and sup- Adventure Camp – Session #1, among the most popular and largest ethnic port us in our mission. For more informa- for ages 13-16 August 7, 2005 summer festivals in Michigan, attracting tion please call Andrew Zeleney, (586) UNWLA Day and Sunday concert 25,000 people every year. The festival 427-7795, or visit the festival website at July 20, 2005 will take place on August 12 at 5 p.m.- http://www.sunflowerfestival.org/. Hutsul Night featuring Olya Fryz & August 7-20, 2005 idlunnia with Olga Barabash- V Traditional Ukrainian Folk Turgineva Dance Camp PREVIEW OF EVENTS GUIDELINES July 22, 2005 Preview of Events is a listing of Ukrainian community events open to August 12, 2005 the public. It is a service provided at minimal cost ($20 per listing) by Odessa Seafood Night featuring The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian community. Olya Fryz & Vidlunnia with Tiki Bar Entertainment featuring Olga Barabash-Turgineva and Vidlunnia with Olga Barabash- Listings of no more than 100 words (written in Preview format) plus Chemney Camp Performance Turgineva payment should be sent a week prior to the desired date of publication to: Preview of Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box July 22-24, 2005 August 13, 2005 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054; fax, (973) 644-9510. Ukrainian Language Immersion Miss Soyuzivka Weekend Items may be e-mailed to [email protected]. Weekend offered at SUNY and Zabava with Tempo New Paltz August 19, 2005 July 23, 2005 Tiki Bar Entertainment featuring Zabava with Oberehy, 10 pm Zuki & friend, 10 pm

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