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ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXIV No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 $2.00 Rada approves arrest of Onyshchenko Yatsenyuk thanks U.S. for support an hobby. He competed in two Olympics – and ‘real commitment’ to Ukraine Charges mark first major 2008 and 2012 – on behalf of Ukraine. In January 2013, at the peak of the Euro- anti-corruption case Maidan violence, the Onyshchenkos alleged- ly began organizing schemes to steal money in post-Maidan period from Ukrhazvydobuvannia, the main state natural gas extraction firm, Prosecutor by Zenon Zawada General Yuriy Lutsenko said in his report to KYIV – Ukraine’s Parliament voted on Parliament at the July 5 session. July 5 to strip political immunity from They created joint venture firms with National Deputy Aleksandr Onyshchenko Ukrhazvydobuvannia to extract gas and sell and arrest him for criminal charges related it at depressed prices to their fictitious to the alleged theft of $64 million through firms, which would then resell it at market fictitious firms set up in the natural gas prices to Ukrainian firms. In one case, a trade, which has long been plagued by cor- joint venture didn’t bother splitting the proceeds with Ukrhazvydobuvannia from ruption. its fraudulent sale, the pravda.com.ua news Mr. Onyshchenko had known for at least site reported. three weeks that he could be arrested and The use of this scheme by three joint was already in Austria by the time the vote ventures resulted in the theft of 1.6 billion came up in the Verkhovna Rada. He wrote hrv, or about $64 million (U.S.), Mr. on his Facebook page that he was prepar- Yaro Bihun Lutsenko said in his report. In addition, Mr. Prior to a preview screening at the Wilson Center of the documentary film “The ing for the Summer Olympics and contin- Onyshchenko’s firms owe 1.3 billion hrv, or ued to deny wrongdoing. Breaking Point – The War for Democracy in Ukraine,” Arseniy Yatsenyuk discusses about $52 million, in unpaid rent to extract some of the major issues Ukraine faces in achieving its positive goals as a country. Despite his evasion of arrest thus far, the the gas, officials said when they announced criminal charges against Mr. Onyshchenko the charges in mid-June. by Yaro Bihun Following his meeting on June 28 with mark the first major anti-corruption prose- These rents were not paid starting in Vice-President Biden – “ a friend of mine cution against a high-ranking official in the 2015, National Deputy Tetiana Chornovol WASHINGTON – Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the and a great friend of Ukraine” – Mr. post-Maidan period. It is widely believed to of the People’s Front party said during the leader of Ukraine’s People’s Front party Yatsenyuk stressed that “American leaders have been prompted by demands from session, implying that officials in the and – until two months ago – his country’s have done a lot for Ukraine.” Western institutions that the Ukrainian gov- Presidential Administration could have prime minister, visited Washington in the The United States, he said, was “among ernment start punishing large-scale crimes. been aware of what was happening. last week of June for talks with U.S. govern- the first who stood up to defend the territo- “It was necessary to respond to the pub- Indeed in a June 16 report, pravda.com. ment officials and organizations involved rial integrity and independence of Ukraine,” lic demand to activate the fight against cor- ua said Mr. Onyshchenko not only had fre- and interested in Ukraine’s positive devel- invested “billions of dollars” in the ruption,” said Volodymyr Fesenko, the quent phone calls with Ukrainian President opment. Ukrainian economy and supported the board chairman of the Penta Center for Petro Poroshenko during the summer of And, as did his successor, Prime Minister Ukrainian people. The main message that Applied Political Research in Kyiv. 2015, but he gained favorable rulings from Volodymyr Groysman on his first visit here he heard from the vice-president, he said, “Onyshchenko was simply the first to come key state officials. two weeks earlier, Mr. Yatsenyuk met with was that now much depends on the across their desk. This deputy’s schemes For instance, an October 2015 meeting Vice-President Joe Biden, thanking the U.S. Ukrainian leadership and politicians. were cruder and investigating them wasn’t between Mr. Onyshchenko and State Fiscal government and people for their support of “We must continue the course of so difficult. His rather high status enabled Ukraine and asking that they continue their the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and (Continued on page 5) assistance in the future. (Continued on page 5) Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office to appear successful and draw wide acclaim in the media.” The government’s prosecution of the Onyshchenko gas scheme involved the UNA mourns National Secretary Christine E. Kozak arrest of 10 suspects as of June 15. The PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Christine E. Kozak, a position in which she gained a strong total of 20 suspected accomplices includes national secretary of the Ukrainian National background in customer relations. Inessa Kadyrova, Mr. Onyshchenko’s Association since 2002, passed away on Hired as an underwriter in the UNA’s 75-year-old mother, who is alleged by June 27 at the age of 62. She was the UNA’s recording department in 1996, Ms. Kozak investigators to have organized the corrup- top life insurance professional and one of became director of its insurance opera- tion scheme with her son. three full-time executive officers. tions. She was elected in 2002 as national Mr. Onyshchenko, 47, was born in the Ms. Kozak was born in Brooklyn and secretary, a position on the UNA Russian Federation and moved to Kyiv in raised in Rutherford, N.J., where she was Executive Committee, being re-elected in the early 1990s, when he began to acquire active in the Passaic branch of Plast 2006, 2010 and 2014. She was a licensed his millions in the fuel and energy sector. He Ukrainian Scouting Organization and insurance agent for 20 years, oversaw the was elected to Parliament with the Party of attended the local School of Ukrainian staff of licensed insurance professionals Regions in 2012, before being re-elected in Studies. She later resided in Texas and at the UNA Home Office in Parsippany, 2014 as an independent candidate. Florida before moving back to New Jersey N.J., and organized insurance courses for During this time, he became vice-chair in the mid-1990s. the UNA’s branch secretaries. of the parliamentary Committee on Fuel, She graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson As national secretary, Ms. Kozak pro- Energy and Nuclear Policy. His wealth was University in Rutherford with a B.A. in duced the UNA’s life insurance illustra- estimated at $24 million by forbes.net.ua in music education. She was employed for tion software, co-created the resource June 2016. Mr. Onyshchenko used his mil- 13 years by the Orlando-Orange County lions to launch the annual Miss Ukraine Convention and Visitors Bureau in Florida, Christine E. Kozak (Continued on page 5) competition, as well as pursue his equestri- 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 No. 28

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Eastern angst: Brexit vote sends Groysman predicts EU membership with two separatist regions backed by Russia. The two allies signed a new military KYIV – Ukrainian Prime Minister cooperation agreement during Mr. Kerry’s jitters through countries on EU’s fringe Volodymyr Groysman has predicted July 6 visit to Georgia – his first to the Ukraine will join the European Union within Caucasus nation as secretary of state. The the next 10 years. In an interview with a “The European project needs now, signing came two days before a major by Claire Bigg German newspaper published on July 1, Mr. more than ever, to be reaffirmed and trust- NATO summit in Poland, where Russian RFE/RL Groysman said Ukraine’s Association ed,” he said. “Moldova will remain actions in Eastern Europe will be a major Agreement with the EU will serve as a cata- topic of discussion. “The United States The mood in Kyiv was glum after attached to its EU road, despite the result lyst for reforms in Ukraine. “We are going remains steadfast in our support of Britain’s shock decision to leave the in the U.K., because we trust the European the European way and that means for us: Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integ- European Union following a countrywide Union as a successful project.” freedom, human rights and a strong econo- rity,” Mr. Kerry said. “Russia’s occupation referendum. my,” he told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Diasporas and militarization of parts of Georgia’s ter- The city saw deadly mass protests two Zeitung. “We should bring our norms in ritory are unacceptable.” Russia has backed years ago in defense of Ukraine’s rap- There are fears in Moldova that compliance with EU norms. A lot has been the separatist Georgian territories of prochement with the European Union, Britain’s EU departure could lead to already done, especially in battling corrup- Abkhazia and South Ossetia and recognized and news of the Brexit vote met with dis- slashed funding for the impoverished tion. For example, we have created a trans- both as sovereign nations following a brief may in the Ukrainian capital. country and affect the large Moldovan parent public procurement system,” he 2008 war with Tbilisi. The U.S. secretary of Officials mostly put on a brave face, diaspora working in Britain. added. Mr. Groysman said his country still state demanded that Russia, which main- voicing confidence that the EU will remain The vote could also bolster support for believed strongly in the bloc, despite tains troops in both Abkhazia and South united despite Britain voting to leave the Moldovan politicians advocating closer Britain’s recent vote to leave. “I respect the Ossetia, adhere to the truce ending the bloc. ties with Moscow. right of a sovereign state to take such a deci- 2008 war. The memorandum signed by Their statement nonetheless betrayed Igor Dodon, the leader of the opposi- sion,” he said. “But I still think that achieve- Secretary Kerry and Georgian Prime concerns that the Brexit could weaken tion Socialist Party, was quick to hail the ments should be protected.” (RFE/RL, based Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili pledges a Brussels’ support for their country and vote. The outcome, he said, showed “the on reporting by AFP and Ukraine Today) “deepening [of] the defense and security undermine its efforts to stand up to EU has only a past, not a future.” Mr. Dodon EU officially extends sanctions relationship” between Washington and Russia. is currently leading in the polls ahead of Tbilisi by giving Georgia access to addition- “We have suffered for our European Moldova’s October presidential election. BRUSSELS – The European Union has al U.S. military equipment, intelligence, and choice and continue to pay a high price for Renato Usatii, the head of the pro-Rus- officially decided to extend its economic training. It also aims to boost Georgia’s it by defending not only our sovereignty sian Partidul Nostru party, also praised sanctions against Russia to January 31, cybersecurity and modernize the country’s but also the eastern border of Europe,” Britain’s vote and predicted the “unravel- 2017. The decision to roll over the mea- security forces to enable their greater inte- said Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman. ing” of the EU. sures was made by EU ambassadors gration with NATO, which Georgia aspires “Therefore, we will continue to fight for a In Belarus, authorities remained tight- already last week, but Italy slowed down to join. Moscow has objected fiercely to stronger united Europe and pour new lipped about Britain’s choice. the confirmation process and insisted that Georgia’s bid for membership in NATO, energy into the European integration pro- But opposition leaders voiced concerns the final decision be taken after the EU which said in 2008 that Tbilisi would even- cess.” that Britain’s exit will play into the hands summit in Brussels on June 28-29. The deci- tually join the military alliance. Progress of the Kremlin by temporarily paralyzing sion was finally taken by a so-called written Russian sanctions toward NATO ascension for Georgia has Europe and depriving it of one its most procedure in which all the EU member stalled, however, sparking frustration Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko virulent critics of Russian President states capitals had to approve the prolonga- among top officials in Tbilisi who say that turned to Twitter to voice his hopes that Vladimir Putin. tion within a specific time frame that ended alliance members are hindering the pro- Western sanctions against Russia will be “It’s bad news for us,” lamented on July 1. The decision was published in the cess due to fears of an angry Russian reac- EU official journal on July 2. The sanctions, maintained. Alyaksei Yanukevich, the head of the oppo- tion. This, Georgian officials say, essentially which hit Russia’s energy and banking sec- “Today the current challenge for the sition Belarusian Popular Front. “Over the gives the Kremlin veto power on who can tor and also target specific Russian politi- European Union is to find a way to the next few years, Britain and other join NATO. Mr. Kerry pledged that the alli- cians, were first adopted by Brussels in June ance would reaffirm its promise of hearts of Euroskeptics so as not to allow a European countries will be very busy tak- and July 2014 after Russia’s forcible annexa- Georgian membership but could not pro- single chance to the opponents of the ing care of their internal affairs, they will tion of Crimea and its intervention in east- vide a timeline for its accession. Mr. Kerry Euro-integration project and to their gen- be building a new architecture for Europe, ern Ukraine. (RFE/RL) erous sponsor,” he wrote, in an apparent and this means that outside the EU, most was to travel on July 7 to Kyiv, where he allusion to Moscow. particularly in our region, the Kremlin will U.S., Georgia deepen military ties was expected to discuss ways of ending Many in Ukraine are also worried that have more leeway.” Ukraine’s continuing war against Russia- TBILISI – The United States and Georgia the Brexit could derail the much-awaited backed separatists in the east of the coun- In the other three Eastern Partnership plan to deepen their military cooperation EU visa waiver for Ukrainian citizens. countries – Georgia, Armenia and try. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by AP and as Secretary of State John Kerry under- Reuters) Iryna Herashchenko, Parliament’s vice- Azerbaijan – reaction to the Brexit vote scored Washington’s commitment to sup- chair, warned that Europe will pay a was more serene. porting Georgia in its long-running standoff (Continued on page 14) “heavy price” for what she called “the pop- “In terms of possible political impact to ulism and the irresponsibility of politi- Azerbaijan, the EU didn’t cooperate with cians.” us so closely, so I’m not expecting any “Unfortunately, this will directly affect impact on bilateral relations,” said Rasim FOUNDED 1933 our country,” she warned on Facebook. Musabeyov, a lawmaker in Azerbaijan’s The Ukrainian Weekly “Can this delay the visa-free [regime]? 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NEWS ANALYSIS Ukraine fears political consequences of Brexit vote by Oleg Varfolomeyev ened by the British exit will encourage The U.K., along with fellow EU members Groysman reminded German Chancellor Eurasia Daily Monitor stronger aggressive behavior from Russia. Sweden, Poland and Lithuania, has been Angela Merkel that Ukraine met all of the Finally, with its preoccupation on exit nego- firmly in favor of prolonging the sanctions EU’s conditions for visa-free travel, so it was While the global media is busy discuss- tiations with London, the EU is likely to put against Russia. At the same time, several time to tear down “the bureaucratic wall ing mainly the economic consequences of the issue of granting visa-free travel to countries in Southern Europe, most notably dividing one European country from the big the Brexit vote, Ukraine is wary of the polit- Ukrainian citizens on the backburner. Italy, have expressed an inclination to ease European family.” ical ones. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko the sanctions (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, However, Ms. Merkel was noncommittal, On the one hand, the significance of the expressed his regret over the British vote April 18). Italian Prime Minister Matteo saying only that the EU was likely, by United Kingdom as an export market for on June 24. Writing on his Facebook page, Renzi visited the St. Petersburg Economic September, to approve a special mechanism Ukraine is quite small. And the ensuing tur- he said he hoped the U.K. would continue Forum in June and pledged to boost eco- to suspend visa-free travel for emergency sit- bulence in the debt markets stemming to defend common European values and nomic ties at a meeting with Vladimir Putin uations such as the migration crisis, after from the U.K.’s decision to leave the that European sanctions against “Russia, as (see EDM, June 27). The president of the which the issue of visa-free travel for Ukraine European Union is unlikely to directly affect the aggressor state,” would be prolonged. European Commission, Jean-Claude would be back on the agenda. To sweeten the Ukraine’s weak economy, which is depen- In particular, Kyiv fears that if the U.K. Juncker, also visited the forum, seen as a pill, the German leader said the mechanism dent on loans from international financial leaves the EU, the pro-Kremlin lobby in bad sign in Kyiv. With the political weight of would not be directed specifically against organizations rather than bond rates or continental Europe will become stronger; the U.K. diminishing after the Brexit vote, Ukraine, and she ruled out a connection share prices. without continued pressure from London, the influence of the likes of Mr. Renzi is set between the Brexit crisis and the Ukrainian Nevertheless, Kyiv fears that the political the EU might eventually lift the sanctions to grow. visa issue (Ukrinform.ua, June 27). consequences of the U.K.’s looming exit imposed on Russia in 2014. The Brexit campaign inside the U.K. was Mr. Poroshenko, commenting on his from the EU will be particularly negative The first vice-chair of the Ukrainian in large part dominated by nationalistic meeting with Mr. Juncker, European for Ukraine. As international focus natural- Parliament, Iryna Herashchenko, who is rhetoric and deep angst over immigration. Council President Donald Tusk and The ultimate success of the campaign could ly shifts to the Brexit, attention is diverted also a negotiator in the settlement talks on European Parliament President Martin inspire and embolden xenophobic attitudes Schulz, said that although he received posi- away from the conflict in eastern Ukraine eastern Ukraine, said on her Facebook page across the EU. Such an outcome would not tive signals, Ukraine would have to fight on and the problem of Crimea, which was (June 24) that a divided Europe was “the bode well for Kyiv’s European aspirations, the diplomatic front until the last minute annexed by Russia in 2014. golden dream of the Kremlin” (Reporter-ua. in particular for Ukraine’s immediate goal for the sanctions against Russia to stay Moreover, Kyiv fears that an EU weak- ru, June 24). of obtaining a visa-free travel regime with (President.gov.ua, June 27). the EU. While EU citizens have been travel- Regarding travel to Europe, Mr. ing to Ukraine without visas since 2005, it Poroshenko was apparently assured that, took years for Kyiv to qualify to meet the despite certain difficulties caused by the Ukrainian opera singer killed EU’s stringent free-travel requirements. Brexit vote, formal procedures will be com- Ukraine finally met all EU conditions last pleted by the European Parliament this spring, so Kyiv hoped that Ukrainians summer, and the final decision will be while fighting in eastern Ukraine would be able to travel for short stays to delayed by no more than several weeks A Ukrainian opera singer who left the the Schengen area – which incidentally (President.gov.ua, June 27). Paris National Opera two years ago to fight does not include the U.K. – as of the sum- While the possible easing of sanctions Russia-backed militants in eastern Ukraine mer holiday season, without having to against Russia would make Ukraine more was killed on June 29 by sniper fire. overcome the bureaucratic hurdles vulnerable vis-à-vis its aggressive eastern The death of Vasyl Slipak, 41, was con- imposed by the visa regime. neighbor, a further delay of visa-free travel firmed by Ukraine’s permanent representa- However, the migration crisis triggered by the EU will further weaken the pro-West- tive to the Council of Europe, Dmytro by the war in Syria caused a delay for ern government of Messrs. Poroshenko and Kuleba, in a Twitter posting on June 29. Ukraine at least until the fall. Furthermore, Groysman, making it less popular at home. Media in Ukraine cited Ukrainian soldiers Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo The U.K.’s final exit from the EU might and volunteers in the Donetsk region as Klimkin told Inter TV on June 26 that the take years to materialize, but Ukraine is saying that Mr. Slipak was killed by a sniper Brexit vote might prompt the EU to delay already coming to grips with the negative near Debaltseve. its decision by another month or so. consequences of the British vote. Born in 1974 in Lviv, Mr. Slipak was a President Poroshenko and Prime Minister member of the Dudaryk boys’ choir and was Volodymyr Groysman flew, respectively, to The article above is reprinted from considered a musical prodigy. He graduated Brussels and Berlin, on June 27, to inform the Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from from the Lysenko National Music Academy. EU bureaucracy and the bloc’s most influen- its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, He began performing in France in the late tial member state of Kyiv’s fears. Mr. www.jamestown.org. 1990s and moved there in 1996. The bari- tone was invited to join the Paris National Opera, where he sang for almost 20 years. By 2011, he was at the top of his field, Quotable notes winning the prize for best male performer at “NATO’s meeting in Warsaw next month portends to be its most significant sum- the Armel Opera Competition and Festival in mit since the end of the Cold War. No previous summit in this era has had to address Szeged, Hungary, for his rendering of the a set of challenges as complex, proximate, and forbidding and as those now present Toreador Song from the opera “Carmen.” Vasyl Slipak on the alliance’s eastern and southern frontiers. The most urgent of these challenges In 2014, Mr. Slipak returned to Ukraine is the destabilizing combination of Russia’s geopolitical assertiveness and growing gun. The sniper also shot and injured and joined volunteers fighting combined military power. The decisions NATO promulgates in Warsaw must present a credible another two soldiers.” Russian-separatist forces in the country’s deterrent to Russian aggression. ... On July 1 the coffin bearing Mr. Slipak’s east. He adopted the nom de guerre “Meph,” President Putin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine is but one element of a revanchist body was carried through the streets of a reference to the aria of Mephistopholes policy that he has articulated and exercised since taking office in 1999. His central Lviv as Dudaryk sang. A funeral liturgy was from the opera “Faust,” renditions of which objective is clear – the re-establishment of the power, territorial control, and hege- offered at Ss. Peter and Paul Garrison won him fame in France. mony of the former Soviet Union. ... Church, and burial was at the famed The New York Times cited an interview NATO leaders at the Warsaw summit should embrace Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Lychakiv Cemetery. Thousands of Lviv resi- with Hromadske TV in which Mr. Slipak European and trans-Atlantic ambitions, including their desire to join NATO. These dents came to pay their respects to the had said he was inspired to serve his coun- nations should be given a clear road map toward that goal. ... The alliance should famed singer-turned-soldier. try by the popular uprising on the Maidan. expand the security assistance it provides Ukraine. The time is long overdue for the President Petro Poroshenko posthu- “Ukraine can become a successful country United States and others to grant Ukraine the ‘lethal defensive equipment’ it has mously awarded Mr. Slipak the Order for and a major player on the political stage if requested, including anti-tank, air defense and other weapons. ... Courage. Kyiv residents brought candles we start heeding the voices of the people,” NATO should also conduct exercises and ISR [Intelligence, Surveillance and and flowers to a makeshift shrine on he said in the interview. Reconnaissance] operations in Ukraine to signal solidarity, train the Ukrainian armed Independence Square. In that same interview, Mr. Slipak, sport- forces and provide them better situational awareness. None of these actions would Memorial services were held in Paris, at ing a traditional Kozak hairstyle, is seen threaten Russia’s territorial integrity, but they would complicate Russian military plan- the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of St. singing the Ukrainian song “Misiats na ning and increase the risk that would come with further aggression deeper into Volodymyr the Great, as well as in Rome, Nebi” (Moon in the Sky), while loading bul- Ukraine. They would help erase the red line that Moscow has been allowed to draw home to a large community of recent arriv- lets into the magazine of his gun. across Europe. Failure to transform the NATO-Ukraine partnership in this way will not als from Ukraine, at Ss. Sergius and Ukrainian journalist and military expert avoid conflict with Russia, it will only ensure that Ukraine remains weak in the face of Bacchus Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. Yuriy Butusov wrote on Facebook of the Russian aggression. That is not only an enticement for Putin’s revanchist ambitions, it attack in which Mr. Slipak was killed: “It Sources: RFE/RL (based on reporting by is yet another recipe for an enduring military confrontation with Moscow.” was an attack launched from Debaltseve. hromadske.tv and depo.ua); The New York – Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Ian Brzezinski testifying on June 23 before the U.S. First, militants launched artillery attacks on Times; The Washington Post; Ukraine Today Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the hearing “NATO: Reviewing the Agenda and Ukrainian soldiers, then they used tanks (with information from Yuriy Butusov); Assessing the Potential Outcomes of the Warsaw Summit.” and infantry. Slipak had only a Kalashnikov Marta Osadtsa, writing for Svoboda. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 No. 28 No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 5

Ukraine, characterizing that support as “a Yatsenyuk... true commitment for a free, prosperous and strong Ukraine.” (Continued from page 1) “And let me praise the efforts that have reforms we started two years ago,” Mr. been undertaken by the Ukrainians living Yatsenyuk said, adding that Ukraine will in the United States – by the Ukrainian receive help “only if it keeps demonstrating community – in your strong support and progress every single day.” your commitment to the Ukrainian people Before his stop at the White House, Mr. in our country,” he added. Yatsenyuk visited the Holodomor Memorial A lot has already been done, and much to pay his respect to the millions of more remains to be done in Ukraine, Mr. Ukrainians who died during Joseph Stalin’s Yatsenyuk said, expressing his firm belief genocidal famine in Ukraine in the 1930s. that the next administration will be as com- And that evening at the Embassy of mitted, strong, bold and supportive of the Ukraine he participated – along with Ukrainian people as was the previous. Ambassador Valeriy Chaly, U.S. Court of Mr. Yatsenyuk’s Washington visit began Federal Claims Judge Bohdan Futey and on June 27 with a meeting with U.S. leaders of Ukrainian American organiza- Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. Later that tions – in the celebration of the 20th anni- evening, he witnessed a preview screening versary of Ukraine’s Constitution. at the Woodrow Wilson Center of “The Commenting on the Ukraine’s constitu- Breaking Point – The War for Democracy in tional history, the beginning of which, as Ukraine,” a newly produced documentary Ambassador Chaly and Judge Futey noted film by the three-time Academy Award- Yaro Bihun in their remarks, predates that of the U.S. winning director Mark Jonathan Harris. Participating in the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Ukrainian Constitution Constitution, Mr. Yatsenyuk stressed that Mr. Yatsenyuk also had meetings at the at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, Arseniy Yatsenyuk makes the point that it Ukraine’s Constitution today “definitely International Monetary Fund and, as the “definitely needs to be improved.” Embassy later reported, had “friendly open needs to be improved.” affairs think thank in Washington, during programs for the Ukrainian military and “We need a real division of powers in my and practical discussions” on Capitol Hill which he responded to many questions national guard, and provided much techni- country,” he said. “Everyone is to be with Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Bob about Ukraine’s internal affairs and foreign cal support for reforming the Ukrainian accountable and to be responsible.” Corker (R-Tenn.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). relations, especially with the United States banking sector, justice and police depart- He praised the American people and Before the conclusion of his visit on June and Russia. ments. government for their support “in our fight 30, he had an open discussion at the As for U.S. relations with Russia, he said, “These are real commitments,” he against the Russian-led aggression” in Atlantic Council, a prominent international “I believe that the U.S., as the leader of the underscored. Free World, would never betray the values Mr. Yatsenyuk acknowledged that of the Free World. Never.” Washington has plenty of world issues on Rada approves... He pointed out that the United States its radar screen, among them terrorism, the has provided “unwavering support to the world refugee crisis and nuclear prolifera- (Continued from page 1) Ukrainian people,” was “the flagship in tion. “And no doubt that the U.S. will try to Service Head Roman Nasirov, widely identi- imposing sanctions against the Russian find some kind of way of communication fied as a presidential appointee, led to a Federation,” has provided $3 billion of trea- with the Russian government,” he said. “But decision by the year’s end to allow for sury guarantees to the Ukrainian financial what I am sure about,” he stressed: “It will spreading out the repayment of the 1.3 bil- sector, launched training and equipment happen not at the price of Ukraine.” lion hrv in owed rent, the report said. Such evidence was bolstered by the tes- timony of Radical Party Head Oleh Liashko ventions and annual meetings of the UNA during the July 5 parliamentary session. UNA mourns... General Assembly, Ms. Kozak often under- “Every time I went to the president as scored those unique qualities of this frater- (Continued from page 1) faction leader, I saw Onyshchenko there. nal insurance company founded in 1894. What was this corrupt man doing in the center for branch secretaries and field Ms. Kozak leaves behind her mother, president’s office? Is it a secret that his agents, created the UNA rate book tutorial Lydia Kozak; daughter, Irene Yorey, with business is shared among the president, his (on CD and online) and added new policies her husband, Mike, and their children, business partner [Ihor] Kononenko and Aleksandr Sinitsa/UNIAN (20-year term life insurance, and immedi- Justin, Connor and Tyler; and her brother, Onyshchenko? Because Onyshchenko all The Verkhovna Rada voted on July 5 to ate, short-term and mid-term annuities) to Andriy Kozak, with his wife, Chrystia, and these years carried money to Bankova [the remove political immunity and arrest the UNA’s portfolio of products. She pro- their children, Katia and Damian. She was Presidential Administration],” he said. National Deputy Oleksandr duced the “UNA and the Community: predeceased by her father, Zenon Kozak. “The task of the anti-corruption bureau Onyshchenko for criminal charges relat- Partners for Life” magazines published in Also in mourning are Ms. Kozak’s co- and anti-corruption prosecutor is to inves- ed to the theft of $64 million through 2013 and 2014 that were widely distribut- workers at the UNA Home Office, as well as tigate further because the government fraudulent business schemes in the natu- ed at Ukrainian festivals in the U.S. Under members of the UNA General Assembly, ral gas industry. allowed Onyshchenko to engage in corrup- her leadership as national secretary, the many of whom came to pay their last tion. He paid the government for his cover. mentary committee review. When it UNA’s professional sales agency grew at its respects at the M. John Scanlan Funeral At the president’s order, he tried to corrupt became apparent that he would be arrested peak to 150 contracted professional agents. Home in Pompton Plains, N.J., and to pray the deputies of the Radical Party by buying if he appeared in Parliament on the day of She prided herself on the fact that the at the memorial mass offered on July 1 at them off,” Mr. Liashko charged. Ukrainian National Association “offers per- Our Lady of Consolation Roman Catholic Political observers also raised questions the vote, he said he decided “not to allow sonal service to every member” and that Church in Wayne, N.J. as to how officials at Ukrhazvydobuvannia myself to be demonstratively arrested in the staff “goes above and beyond the call of In lieu of flowers, the family has noted and the State Tax Inspection allowed such the Rada session hall.” duty in order to satisfy the UNA member- that donations in Ms. Kozak’s memory may amounts to be stolen without any com- The prosecution of Mr. Onyshchenko and ship.” Indeed, in her reports to UNA con- be made to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. plaints or reports being filed, implying that his associates has been led by Mr. Lutsenko, they were complicit in such schemes. the prosecutor general who was brought in Mr. Onyshchenko faces up to 12 years’ by the president to undertake reforms that imprisonment. The precise criminal charg- would satisfy Ukraine’s Western lenders, es against him are: creating a criminal orga- including the U.S. government, who were Christine E. Kozak nization, committing a crime with a crimi- fed up with his predecessors. nal organization, taking ownership of prop- In the nearly two months he’s been in erty through abuse of office and creating a his post, Mr. Lutsenko has launched a 1954-2016 fictitious enterprise. crackdown on the illegal amber trade in In his defense, he claimed there was no western Ukraine and arrested four former The Executive Committee of the Ukrainian National Association regrets to evidence against him and that he’s the vic- Berkut officers involved in the Euro- announce to the members of the General Assembly and to the UNA membership at tim of U.S. government plans to privatize Maidan killings in February 2014. large that Christine E. Kozak, our dear friend and beloved colleague, who has Ukrhazvydobuvannia, which requires sell- “Lutsenko won’t stop. He has his own served as UNA National Secretary since 2002, passed away on Monday, June 27, ing or liquidating all its related companies, plan of action. Build up activity in order to 2016, at the age of 62. with proceeds going to the Ukrainian gov- hold the first court cases in the fall or by The Executive Committee and the entire UNA membership ernment. the year’s end,” Mr. Fesenko said. wish to express their condolences to her daughter, Irene After the plans to prosecute were Mr. Lutsenko has been working closely Yorey, and her husband, Mike; her mother, Lydia Kozak; her announced, Mr. Onyshchenko even with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau brother, Andriy Kozak, and his wife, Chrystia, and family; appeared at the offices of the National Anti- and Specialized Anti-Corruption and her beloved grandsons, Justin, Connor and Tyler Corruption Bureau to meet with its head, Prosecutor’s Office, both of which were Yorey. Artem Sytnyk, to prove he had nothing to launched in 2015 to help prosecute high- The entire UNA family sends condolences to the hide. Yet the meeting didn’t bear much fruit profile cases. The prosecution of Mr. bereaved family and wish Christine eternal peace in the for Mr. Onyshchenko. Onyshchenko is their first high-profile case, Lord. We have lost a very good friend and colleague. The process of removing his immunity earning them wide public acclaim, Mr. Vichnaya Pamiat! took nearly three weeks, requiring a parlia- Fesenko noted. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 No. 28 ADDRESS BY PAUL GOBLE: Ten reasons The Ukrainian Weekly why we must remain anti-communists Citizen, patriot, hero The tragic death from a sniper’s bullet of an opera singer-turned-soldier on the front line in eastern Ukraine made international headlines. Social media were filled with accounts of Vasyl Slipak’s life and death; condolences were offered by Ukrainians around the world – particularly those who knew him in France, where he lived for two decades, and in Lviv, where he was born. The Washington Post’s poignant story written by Jack Losh noted: “Amid the thud of artillery and rattle of gunfire, Vasyl Slipak’s deep, resonant voice in the trenches of eastern Ukraine was a warm reminder of humanity’s less barbaric traits. The profes- sional baritone had left his native Ukraine in the 1990s to settle in France, where he regularly sang at the Paris Opera. But after war erupted in 2014, he decided to return home and join a volunteer battalion to fight Russian-backed separatists on the country’s eastern front. …But at about 6 a.m. Wednesday [June 29], his voice was permanently silenced. As a deadly surge in violence left Ukraine’s fragile ceasefire in tatters, the 41-year-old opera singer was killed by a sniper and became yet another victim of this grinding war of attrition on Europe’s far-eastern fringes.” Mr. Slipak, known in his battalion as “Meph” (a reference to one of the arias he was known for performing, that of Mephistopholes from “Faust”), was not a profes- sional soldier, but a professional opera singer. What motivates a gifted singer to give up everything and choose to go to the front line? Those who knew him say Vasyl Slipak was a great Ukrainian patriot who wanted to defend his homeland. He told Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Hromadske TV that he was inspired by the events on the Maidan and believed fer- Paul Goble speaks at the ninth annual Roll Call of Nations held by the Victims of vently that “Ukraine can become a successful country and a major player on the Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington. political stage if we start heeding the voices of the people.” Before he headed to the war zone, he was active in diaspora rallies supporting the The following remarks were delivered by By remembering the victims of commu- Euro-Maidan and in collections of humanitarian and financial aid. In addition, he Paul Goble at the Victims of Communism nism, we help ensure that future generations enlisted his friends in the opera world to make Ukraine’s case to the French public, Memorial Foundation’s Triumph of Liberty will not live under such a system and recom- and was instrumental in organizing public conferences on the developments in reception and dinner on June 9 in mit ourselves to the defense of our own val- Ukraine for media, scholars and policy-makers. And then he headed to Ukraine’s east. Washington. The next day, in recognition of ues, which all too often get lost in the noise Mr. Slipak’s death came just days before the NATO summit in Warsaw, on the eve his decades of work advancing freedom and of political conflict. But more than that, we of which U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited Kyiv. Speaking on July 7 at a joint opposing tyranny, Mr. Goble was awarded help encourage all those who are still strug- press conference with President Petro Poroshenko, Mr. Kerry said, “Ukraine is mak- the foundation’s Truman-Reagan Medal of gling, including those in post-communist ing a good-faith effort to implement Minsk, no doubt in my mind about that,” but he Freedom during the ninth annual Roll Call of countries where some are building muse- added, “without real security in the Donbas, an end to the bloodshed on the contact Nations wreath-laying ceremony at the ums to remember the victims, while others line, the use of heavy weapons, the blockading the OSCE access, without that, Minsk Victims of Communism memorial. Twenty are gutting these institutions and making is doomed to fail.” He pledged that sanctions against Russia will remain unless embassies, including the Embassy of them into a celebration of the jailors. Moscow fulfills its Minsk obligations. Ukraine, and 27 ethnic and human rights That is not something that is happening Meanwhile, the number of casualties in this Russian-made war keeps growing. groups participated in the ceremony. only in the imagination of anti-communists, Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, while in Washington at the end as some defenders of this whitewashing of of June, made it clear that Minsk is not working. The Washington Post quoted his A quarter of a century ago with the tri- history say. It is happening today at the words about the Russian military in Ukraine’s east: “Every single day they kill umph of democratic revolutions, first in Perm-36 Museum, where exhibits showing Ukrainian soldiers, every single day the death toll is rising, every single day we’ve Eastern Europe and then in the former how people suffered in the Gulag have been got civilian casualties. There is no ceasefire on the ground.” Soviet Union, many people stopped thinking taken down and how exhibits praising such Mr. Slipak was yet another of the nearly 9,500 killed in this war, including some it was important to continue to be anti-com- noxious figures as [Soviet secret police 2,000 civilians, according to the United Nations. Among them are so many of munist. Some, especially those who had chiefs] Abakumov and Beria have gone up. Ukraine’s finest young people – those who would have been the country’s future. long fought for the end of communist rule in Only by combating this both in those coun- Also among them is one of our own, Ukrainian American Markian Paslawsky, anoth- these countries, felt they had won and tries and by erecting museums and carry- er member of a volunteer battalion. (He will be remembered next month on the sec- should now go on to other things. And oth- ing out educational programs can we truly ond anniversary of his death on August 19, 2014.) ers were seduced by the notions that the honor those who suffered and fought Journalist and military expert Yuriy Butusov described Mr. Slipak as “the epitome world had entered “the end of history,” that against communism in the past and now. of a citizen and patriot.” Ukraine’s Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelian, a ideology was no longer relevant in a time of Failure to do so is to give communism a vic- personal friend of Mr. Slipak, eulogized him: “He didn’t just sing – he was a hero of “the clash of civilizations,” and that talking tory that it does not deserve. the stage. And he fought the same way... He loved his friends and was fierce with his about communism was passé at best. • Second, we need to recognize how enemies. Ukraine flowed through his veins.” We should have learned by now that many people still live under that horrific We join Ukrainians around the globe in mourning yet another hero’s passing. none of those arguments is quite as con- system. vincing as they appeared. Many of the revo- One of the greatest myths circulating in lutions in the former Soviet bloc failed, with the world is that communism ended with Вічная пам’ять. Герої не вмирають. (Eternal memory. Heroes do not die.) old communists remaining in power with the end of the Cold War. In fact, if anything, only the party name changed. Vast num- more people live under communism now bers of people still live under communist than did then because of the population July Turning the pages back... dictatorships in China, Vietnam, Cuba and growth rate in China. Not only is mainland elsewhere. History did not end and the China still communist, but so too is North Last year, on July 13, 2015, U.S. Vice-President Joseph Biden clash of civilizations did not eliminate the Korea, Vietnam, Cuba and other countries 13 and Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk met at the importance of ideology, however much as well. If what we were fighting in the Cold White House. some hoped for that outcome. War was communism, and it was, then the 2015 The meeting was held on the sidelines of a U.S-Ukraine Consequently, talking about commu- Cold War is not over and our obligations to Business Forum in Washington – organized and co-hosted by the nism, instead of being some kind of survival continue to be anti-communist fighters U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Chamber of of a past that had disappeared, is still very have in no way lessened. Commerce – that attracted a large gathering of U.S. and Ukrainian government officials important, and this evening I would like to Beijing’s repression of the peoples of and business leaders who were focused on improving Ukraine’s economic situation and offer 10 reasons why I believe this may be Eastern Turkestan, Vietnam’s suppression its relations with the United States and the West. even more important now than it was dur- of churches of Christians, North Korea’s Vice-President Biden told the gathering at the forum, “This may be the last genuine ing the Cold War, why I remain an anti- nuclear blackmail and Cuba’s celebration of opportunity the people of Ukraine have to establish a democratic republic in a way that is communist, and why you should be too. revolutionary heroes who were responsible economically prosperous and fully integrated within Europe.” • First, we have an obligation to honor for some of the most vicious crimes in the At the White House, President Barack Obama dropped by during the meeting between all those who suffered under communism. past are not just matters of history. They are Messrs. Biden and Yatsenyuk, with Mr. Obama expressing the U.S. government’s “unwaver- No political or economic system has part and parcel of those countries today. ing support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.” claimed as many victims as communism. Many here today are fighting these criminal In a statement released following the meeting at the White House, the president and vice- Hundreds of millions of dead, and millions states, and none of us should fail to support them in their struggle. To do so ultimately is president “underscored the U.S. commitment to maintaining sanctions on Russia until it more deprived of their inherent rights and to betray not only them but ourselves. fully implements its obligations under the Minsk agreements,” with the U.S. leaders com- opportunities. We are compelled to honor We live in an age when people seem mending the Ukrainian government for steps it had taken to implement its obligations those who have suffered and died because more interested in blurring distinctions under the agreements, including the submission to Ukraine’s Parliament of “draft constitu- only in this way can be we be true to our- than in making them. Some write about tional amendments on decentralization” and the “ambitious economic reform agenda” and its selves and our values – especially at a time China as a case of authoritarian moderniza- “strong stand against populist measures that could undermine Ukraine’s financial stability” – when many people have forgotten what has tion, as if its policies were no more than which were also among the primary issues discussed at the U.S. Ukraine Business Forum. happened or seek to minimize it or even (Continued on page 9) equate communism with other systems. 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COMMENTARY Ukrainian-Polish relations

by Askold S. Lozynskyj Poland and that the Ukrainian military insurgency, predominantly the Ukrainian I attended a Lemko Vatra (literally a Insurgent Army (UPA), had been largely campfire of people from the Lemkivshchyna subdued. In any event, the Poles felt that What’s in your Ukrainian neighborhood? region of today’s Poland), an annual celebra- any remaining insurgents would not be tion of Ukrainian Lemko heritage with song able to persevere without local support. Although I am a Chicago native, I was organizations, mediating structures pro- and dance and a few serious moments. One However, the Polish estimates were incor- shocked to learn that the iconic Surma vide and reinforce our identity and sense of Book Store in New York City was soon to belonging. They are the strongest safe- of those was a discussion titled “The rect. In fact, some 200,000 Ukrainians close. I first visited the famed Ukrainian guards against an overreaching govern- Ukrainian-Polish Civil War and the remained, and this soon became apparent emporium with my mom in 1939 during ment. Totalitarian regimes despise alter- Expulsion of Ukrainians after the Second to the Polish Communist government. the World’s Fair. It was then that I met the native sources of identity. In the Soviet World War.” It was then that the Polish government without any further encouragement from elder Myron Surmach and tasted his famed Union, for example, the government con- In 1944, the USSR and the newly formed honey. During the years that followed I vis- trolled all mediating structures beginning Communist puppet government of the Stalin decided to take matters into its own hands and deal with the “Ukrainian problem” ited fairly often. Myron Surmach Jr. was with the family. Commissars strictly con- Polish People’s Republic entered into an always pleased to feature publications I trolled the church, labor unions, sports within Poland. The result was the notorious agreement delimiting their borders and had authored. How great was that? teams and so-called “voluntary organiza- “Akcja Wisla” during which some 140,000 “allowing” for the repatriation of Surma may be dying, but the old neigh- tions.” Even one’s nationality was sup- Ukrainians were deported not to the USSR Ukrainians from the Polish side to relocate borhood is not. The beautiful St. George planted by a new ideal: “The Soviet Man.” but to western Polish lands with specific to the Ukrainian SSR and similarly for Poles Ukrainian Catholic Church and School American sociologists were not the first directives that they were not to be resettled on the Ukrainian side to relocate to Poland. remains as do The Ukrainian Museum and to recognize the value of mediating struc- This was Joseph Stalin’s idea and the pro- in concentrated groups. Additionally, many the Shevchenko Scientific Society building. tures in preserving freedom. Edmund paganda went that Stalin was intent on the Ukrainians died and many, in particular, Philadelphia’s old Ukrainian neighbor- Burke, the father of political conservatism, reunification of Ukrainians within the intellectuals and clergy, were incarcerated hood is in a state of flux. Immaculate called them “little platoons.” In his classic Ukrainian SSR and the Polish side was in the Jaworzno concentration camp. Conception Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral is “Reflections on the Revolution in France” intent on a similar reunification involving The above facts are fairly well known and still there, of course, as is the convent. (1790), he observed that we begin our Poles. There were some 700,000 generally accepted by contemporary Franklin Street remains home to the public affections in our families and then Ukrainian, Polish and Western scholars, as Ukrainians in Poland at that time – most of Providence Association of Ukrainian Catholics move on to our neighborhoods. Mr. Burke well as Polish and Ukrainian government them from the Lemkivshchyna region, a and to the Ukrainian American Citizens observed that “to love the little platoon we officials. Some Polish contemporaries have large part of which had been Ukraine and Association, founded in 1905. The new belong to in society is the first principle argued as justification that this was the was now Poland. focal point of Ukrainian community life in (the germ as it were) of public affections.” work of a Communist regime and not the What was represented as a voluntary relo- Pennsylvania, however, is found in Jenkintown. In his classic study, “Democracy in Poles. Others have argued that Akcja Wisla cation quickly became a manifestly police The fading of some Ukrainian American America” (1835), Alexis de Tocqueville was payback for the killings of Polish civil- operation. Soviet forces were used. People at inner-city neighborhoods has been ongoing argued that mediating structures combat ians in Volyn by Ukrainians during 1943- first were compelled to sign a form express- for years. When I was a kid, my dad used to such evils of democratic egalitarianism as 1944. take me to Detroit to attend UNA meetings individualism, which fosters democratic ing agreement, but this process quickly dete- Whatever the argument, the fact riorated, the forms all but ignored and the at the Ukrainian American Center in the despotism and state tyranny. remains that the cleansing of Poland from Ukrainian neighborhood. That’s gone. In May of 1976 I had the honor of organiz- farce dispelled. As a result some 500,000 Ukrainians was conducted by the govern- According to Dr. Alexander Lushnycky, a ing a White House conference titled Ukrainians were deported to the Ukrainian ment of the Polish People’s Republic. larger community center has recently been “Ethnicity and Neighborhood Revitalization.” SSR. This appeared to satisfy Stalin. Collaborators in this effort were the Polish purchased in the area not far from St. John Msgr. Geno Baroni presented the major By 1947, the Poles estimated that here population and even the Polish Roman the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, paper arguing that federal urban develop- were maybe 20,000 Ukrainians left in Catholic Church. Ukrainian churches were which still stands in the old neighborhood. ment programs were a failure because they taken over by the Polish Church. This con- Hamtramck, nestled next-door, hosts a sepa- focused on cities. “Urban dwellers identify Askold S. Lozynskyj is an attorney based dition in most instances persists to this day. rate Ukrainian community. Activity centers more with their neighborhoods rather than in New York City. He is a former president of on the beautiful Immaculate Conception with their cities,” he argued. A black mem- the Ukrainian World Congress. (Continued on page 21) Ukrainian Catholic Church. The hub of ber of the panel suggested that talk of Ukrainian community life in Michigan, how- neighborhood smacked of “racism.” ever, is now in Warren, where one finds St. Speaking to the participants in the Rose FOR THE RECORD Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church, a com- Garden at the conclusion of the conference, munity center, a credit union, and President Gerald Ford declared, “…a sense “Ukrainian Village,” a residency for senior of neighborhood, a sense of belonging, of citizens, among other institutions. cultural identification is threatened. I can UCCA honors 20th anniversary Cleveland’s old Ukrainian neighborhood appreciate your deep concern for the is enjoying a revitalization thanks to the future of institutions which you work so efforts of the Szmagala family and Andrew hard to maintain – the ethnic church, the of Constitution of Ukraine Fedynsky, who have made the renovation school, the credit union, the fraternal The following statement was released on Orlyk, the drafters of Ukraine’s Constitution and expansion of the Ukrainian Museum- lodge… I believe we can have a rebirth of June 28 by the Ukrainian Congress sought to demonstrate to the world Archives a community-wide endeavor. The individual freedom and protect the diverse Committee of America. through their work that Ukraine was old Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic heritage which gives so much strength and indeed a full-fledged member of the inter- Church is still there as well. A new so much richness to our society. Working This Tuesday, June 28, marks 20 years national community with respect to its Ukrainian neighborhood emerged many together we can achieve these goals.” since independent Ukraine’s democratically principles of development and a legal years ago in Parma, a suburb of Cleveland. On June 30, 1976, the White House elected members of Parliament, working late framework based on the European model. St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, announced that formation of the into the night, delivered on the promise of Today, Ukrainians understand well the St. Pokrova Catholic Church and St. “President’s Committee on Urban Develop­ drafting and ratifying a new Constitution. Of value of that European model, as they are Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Church are ment and Neighborhood Revitalization,” the many countries experiencing indepen- the only nation to have shed its own blood located here, along with two credit unions. charged with the responsibility of develop- dence for the first time in decades, Ukraine for voicing the desire to integrate further The most enduring Ukrainian American ing an urban policy which “takes into took the longest to ratify its Constitution. into the European Union. In the coming neighborhood is Chicago’s Ukrainian account neighborhood diversity…” The com- Perhaps signifying its international impor- years, an independent Ukraine will contin- Village, formally established in 1905 when mittee, ostensibly headed by HUD Secretary tance on the world stage, agreements for ue to chart its own course – one that will St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Parish was Carla Hills, was never constituted because, founded. Today, one can find three church- as OMB director James T. Lynn later Ukraine to cooperate militarily with NATO further benefit its citizens, as well as the es – St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic informed me, the $60 billion U.S. budget def- and the renouncement of its nuclear weap- international community. Cathedral, Ss. Volodymyr and Olga icit didn’t allow for any new expenditures. ons were ratified before Ukraine took to The Ukrainian Congress Committee of Ukrainian Catholic Church and St. Vladimir Since 1976, America’s urban policy has finalizing its national system of law. America (UCCA), the largest representation Ukrainian Orthodox Church; the three-sto- remained the same. Neighborhoods aren’t Ukraine, a sovereign, secular nation with of Americans of Ukrainian descent, com- ry Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal even mentioned, let alone assisted in any a comprehensive democratic system of law mends this historic anniversary and contin- Credit Union building; two museums – The way. The irony of all this is that poor but still and an active civil society, has continually ues to support Ukraine’s sovereign right to Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art and the viable black neighborhoods were bulldozed addressed its Constitution since its enact- chart its own destiny. No nation should Ukrainian National Museum; and three and their inhabitants stored in high-rises. ment. With several amendments already ever be given a veto over another’s poten- Ukrainian restaurants – Old Lviv, Shokolad They too were eventually demolished. enacted, as well as numerous cases brought tial political alliances, nor should hostile and Trident, which opened this month. So, dear reader, if you live in or near a before its Constitutional Court, Ukrainians aggressors dictate the language of another Why are neighborhoods important? For Ukrainian neighborhood, preserve and are dedicated to improving their society for country’s constitution. For those who gave many of us they are what sociologists Peter cherish it. It is part of your unique the benefit of their citizenry as well as the their lives defending Ukraine’s sovereign Berger and Richard John Neuhaus defined Ukrainian heritage. rest of the world. Drawing upon centuries Constitution, we salute their courage and as one of the “mediating structures” that lie of Ukrainian nation-building, including the dedication to making Ukraine’s indepen- between the individual and the state. Like Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is Ukrainian Constitution of Hetman Pylyp dence a reality today. our family, parish and numerous voluntary [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 No. 28 No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 9 BOOK NOTES: George Liber’s study of the making of modern Ukraine “Total Wars and the Making of Modern before the outbreak of World War I, and on Ukrainian history in the first half of the Ukraine, 1914-1954,” by George O. Liber, compares it against the aftershocks follow- 20th century.” Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. ing the war, including the 1917-1923 politi- Prof. Liber is professor of history at the ISBN: 978-1-4426-2708-6 ($39.95, paper), cal collapse, revolution, social upheavals University of Alabama in Birmingham, Ala. 144264977-4 ($85, cloth), 9781442621442 and Ukrainian movements in Poland, Other books to his credit include “Soviet ($29.95 e-book). 416 pp. Czechoslovakia and Romania in 1918-1939. Nationality Policy, Urban Growth and Part two – the second total war, accord- Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923- In the first half of the 20th century, spe- ing to the author – examines the “social 1934” (1992) and “Alexander Dovzhenko: A cifically between 1914 and 1954, following engineering” prior to World War II under Life in Soviet Film” (2002). Born in Australia two world wars, revolutions, famines, geno- Soviet rule, including “managed diversity” in 1954, Prof. Liber and his family arrived in cidal campaigns and purges, Ukrainians liv- in 1920s Soviet Ukraine, the hypercentral- the United States in 1958. ing in East Central Europe suffered nearly ization, industrialization and the grain front “Total Wars” was made possible by the 15 million deaths, as well as numerous of 1927-1934, and the political and cultural financial support of the Shevchenko large-scale evacuations and forced popula- fronts of 1929-1941. Scientific Society of the U.S.A. and the Ivan tion transfers. Part three focuses on the second world and Elisabeth Chlopecky Fund. Readers “Total Wars and the Making of Modern war (third total war) and its consequences may obtain copies (paperback, cloth and Ukraine, 1914-1954” by George O. Liber, in Ukraine under Stalin’s rule from 1945 to e-book) at local retailers and online from presents a case that the continuous vio- 1954. major booksellers, including Amazon and lence of the world wars and interwar years Prof. Frank Sysyn of the Canadian Barnes & Noble. For more information, transformed the Ukrainian-speaking popu- Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the readers can contact the publisher, lation of East Central Europe into self-con- University of Alberta, stated about “Total University of Toronto Press, via its website, scious Ukrainians. The Holodomor, two Wars,” “George Liber makes the concept of www.utppublishing.com; telephone, 416- world wars, the Holocaust, mass killings 1914-1945 as a modern ‘Thirty Years War’ 667-7791 or 800-565-9523, or e-mail, utp- and forced modernization drives made and the fulcrum of a timely and interesting take [email protected]. re-made Ukraine’s boundaries, institution- alized its national identities and pruned its population according to various state-spon- sored political, racial and social ideologies. Prof. Liber’s book studies the terrifying scope and paradoxical consequences of mass violence in Europe’s “bloodlands,” and transforms the reader’s understanding of the entangled histories of Ukraine, the USSR, Germany and East Central Europe in the 20th century. Divided into three parts, the book begins with an overview of the Ukrainian- speaking regions of East Central Europe

Turning... (Continued from page 6) A reception for the forum participants held at the Willard InterContinental Hotel was organized by the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council. The following day, Prime Minister Yatsenyuk was in Canada to finalize a free trade agreement between Ukraine and Canada. Also on July 14, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Andriy Pyvovarskyi and U.S. Undersecretary for Economic Growth, Energy and Environment Catherine A. Novelli were at the State Department for the signing of the Open Skies agreement. This is one of 115 such Open Skies agree- ments, among them one signed between Russia and the U.S. The State Department stated: “[The agreement] is an example of the strong bonds of friendship and cooperation between our two countries. …Open Skies agreements promote increased travel and trade, and enhance productivity, and spur high-quality job opportunities and eco- nomic growth. …They serve to eliminate government interference in commercial airline decisions about routes, capacity and pricing, allow carriers to provide more affordable, convenient and efficient air ser- vice for consumers.” Recently, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Ukraine to finalize the free trade deal between the two countries, and at the end of June Messrs. Yatsenyuk and Biden met again in Washington to discuss reforms in Ukraine in the judicial, econom- ic and technical sectors.

Source: “Obama drops by Biden’s meeting with Ukraine’s prime minister, President expressed ‘unwavering support’ for Ukraine’s sovereignty” by Yaro Bihun, The Ukrainian Weekly, July 19, 2015. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 No. 28

Borys Pawliuk Zwarych/GreyBackStudios At the lunch honoring Ukraine’s former minister of education and science (from left) Manor College President Jonathan Peri (left) and Andrij V.R. Szul (center) with for- are: Prof. Albert Kipa, Prof. Leonid Rudnytsky, former Minister Serhiy Kvit and mer Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Serhiy Kvit. Jonathan Peri. Leading Ukrainian educator visits Philadelphia’s Ukrainian community UCCA Philadelphia/ Logistics were managed by Ivan Delaware Valley Branch Yaworsky and Ihor Kusznir, executive vice- president and honorary president, respec- PHILADELPHIA – Dr. Serhiy Kvit, senior tively, of the UCCA Philadelphia Branch. advisor on education to the president of The key event was a meeting with the Ukraine, visited the U.S. during the last recently installed President of Manor week of May and had time on his itinerary College, Dr. Jonathan Peri. Manor is the only to visit only one Ukrainian American com- Ukrainian heritage college in the U.S. Dr. munity, Philadelphia, where local leaders Peri convened a special executive meeting organized a series of meetings with four to welcome the former minister of educa- institutions of higher learning and two tion and science. community events. The purpose of the meeting was to have His U.S. tour was financed primarily by Dr. Kvit, who is also a former member of the the Organization for the Defense of Four Parliament of Ukraine, speak about the Freedoms for Ukraine, led by Stepan A. political situation in contemporary Ukraine, Kaczurak. especially about how high impact events, Dr. Kvit is immediate past minister of including Russia’s war and military aggres- education and science (2014-2016) and sion on Ukrainian soil, are affecting stability, former president of the National University Borys Pawliuk developments and reforms in higher educa- of Kyiv Mohyla Academy (2007-2014). He Two presidents at the reception: Prof. Serhiy Kvit (left) with Sister Miriam Claire, tion. He described his high-level meetings in was a prominent participant in the OSBM, former president of Manor College (center). Washington earlier that week, where he Revolution of Dignity and was a member of made several presentations about the fight the Maidan Committee. Dr. Kvit was in the Prof. Kvit earned a second Ph.D. in philoso- Andrij V.R. Szul, a UCCA branch vice-presi- against corruption in Ukraine. U.S. to brief officials and relevant NGOs in phy from the Ukrainian Free University in dent, to organize a three-part program for In addition, there were consultations Washington on education reforms in Munich. Dr. Kvit on May 26. Collaborating in this about possible inter-institutional articula- Ukraine. He also conducted press confer- The Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley endeavor was Prof. Natalia I. Pazuniak, for- tion (faculty and student exchanges, dis- ences and gave an extended interview to branches of the Ukrainian Congress mer longtime professor of Ukrainian lan- tance learning, research) between Manor the Voice of America. Committee of America (UCCA), headed by guage and literature at Manor College and College and the National University of Kyiv In addition to a Ph.D. in philology in the Eugene Luciw, and the Organization for the the University of Pennsylvania, who repre- Mohyla Academy, where, prior to his specialty of hermeneutics and mass media Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine sented the Philadelphia Study Center of the appointment as Ukraine’s minister of edu- communication and journalism from Taras (ODFFU), headed by Yuri Nakonechny, had Shevchenko Scientific Society, on whose Shevchenko National University in Kyiv, tasked a special committee, headed by board she serves as an honorary member. (Continued on page 19)

Serhiy Kvit, senior advisor to Ukraine’s president, visits Washington

by Borys Potapenko hensive and concise accounting of the role of education during the social and political transformations in Ukraine WASHINGTON – Dr. Serhiy Kvit, senior adviser to the since 2008 up to the present, at the Library of Congress. president of Ukraine on education, visited Washington, At meetings in Washington, Dr. Kvit explained that the where he held a briefing on the current state of education focus of his efforts as minister was to raise the quality of in Ukraine and discussed achievements during his tenure Ukrainian science and education to an internationally com- as minister of education and science, and prospects for fur- petitive level. Under his leadership, laws were enacted on ther progress on short- and long-term reforms. higher education and science and research; and basic draft Dr. Kvit is a distinguished leader in the field of education laws were developed on vocational education and the reform in Ukraine and is highly respected by civil society development of research and innovations. As minister, he activists and government reformers alike. oversaw the evacuation of 19 universities and 10 academic Dr. Kvit’s advocacy on behalf of education in Ukraine was institutions from the occupied territories of Ukraine. severely tested when he directly challenged the anti-Ukraini- Dr. Kvit expressed confidence in his successor, Dr. Liliya an policies of corruption and authoritarianism of the Hrynevych, who worked with him and a team of peda- Yanukovych era’s Minister of Education and Science Dmytro gogues and educators on the aforementioned laws. Tabachnyk. In November 2010, Dr. Kvit was the only univer- According to Dr. Kvit, “a seamless transition took place sity rector who dared to challenge Tabachnyk’s draft law “On from my tenure as minister of education and science to Higher Education.” The opposition movement that grew that of Dr. Liliya Hrynevych, a close friend and colleague.” around Dr. Kvit’s initiative can be considered the spark that According to Dr. Kvit, the main problem now facing led to the new progressive law on education, developed by Ukraine is not the economic crisis or even the war with the academic community and ultimately approved by the Russia. Rather, it is the systemic corruption inherited from Parliament of Ukraine in 2014. Marta Farion the Soviet era. Therefore, overcoming this legacy, and lead- During his visit to Washington in May, Dr. Kvit presented At Library of Congress, Serhiy Kvit presents his book ing to comprehensive economic and societal reforms, must his most recent book, “The Battlefront of Civilizations: “Battlefront of Civilizations: Education in Ukraine” to be grounded in qualitative changes in education and science. Grant G. Harris, head of the library’s European Education in Ukraine” (Kyiv Mohyla Press 2015), a compre- Reading Room. (Continued on page 16) No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 11 Ukrainians in the U.S.: Th e importance of voting by Oleh Wolowyna the voting district level. Such data are not available for Ukrainians (or any ethnic group), but they are available for Table 2. Counties with 5,000 or more The following quote can be found in an article recently selected counties. For example, in California we have, potential Ukrainian voters, 2013 published online in the Observer (“Trump’s Anti-NATO among others, data for Los Angeles, Orange and Potential Ukrainian voters Stance and Praise for Putin May Haunt Him,” June 7): Sacramento counties; in Illinois for Cook, Du Page and Lake % of all counties; in New Jersey for Bergen, Monmouth, Morris and State County Number Adrian Karatnycky, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council voters Somerset counties; in New York State for Kings (Brooklyn), where he is co-director of the Ukraine in Europe program, Arizona Maricopa 10,412 0.39 New York (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island) noted that…“There are approximately 9 million Americans California Los Angeles 15,356 0.26 and Suffolk counties. An interactive table on the website who identify themselves as Polish according to the U.S. Orange 5,243 0.26 allows one to select a state and see numbers of potential Census. There is a further 1 million who are Ukrainian Sacramento 10,109 1.03 Ukrainian voters in many counties, as well as the percent- American and an equally like number of Americans with Illinois Cook 20,677 0.59 age they represent of all potential voters in the county. ancestral links to the Baltic states. At a time of a mounting Michigan Oakland 7,665 0.86 The versatility of the database on Ukrainians in the U.S. threat by Russia to the countries in Eastern Europe and with allows one to make detailed analyses of Ukrainian poten- Wayne 6,409 0.50 Russian forces occupying parts of Ukrainian territory, the tial voters. Two new tables have been added to the web- Minnesota Hennepin 6,497 0.76 anxiety level in these communities is quite high… There is a site: number of Ukrainian potential voters by language spo- New Jersey Bergen 5,993 0.97 strong core of first- and second-generation voters numbering ken at home (Ukrainian, Russian, English and other) by Middlesex 5,222 0.98 in the hundreds of thousands who closely follow events in state and by major metropolitan areas. New York Kings their ancestral homelands and whose electoral choice can be 19,018 1.20 States with large percentages of Ukrainian-speaking vot- (Brooklyn) decisively swayed on the issue of NATO and a strong anti- ers (more than 30 percent) are: Iowa, Kentucky and Monroe 6,880 1.22 Putin stance… (They) are located in large numbers in poten- Washington (they also have a high proportion of Fourth Nassau 5,347 0.57 tial battleground states: Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania.” Wave immigrants). Only one state, Missouri, has more than New York 7,278 0.62 As will be shown in this article, the Center for 30 percent Russian-speakers. Among the six states with (Manhattan) Demographic and Socio-Economic Research of Ukrainian the largest number of potential Ukrainian voters, only Richmond 5,154 1.55 in the U.S. has data that can quantify more precisely Mr. Illinois has a significantly larger percentage of Ukrainian (Staten Island) Karatnycky’s observations and bring them down to state, versus Russian speakers, 22 percent and 14 percent, Suffolk 6,132 0.58 metropolitan and county levels. respectively. In New York, California and Florida the per- Ohio Cuyahoga 8,552 0.89 The dynamics of the current presidential election cam- centage of Russian-speaking voters is about twice as high Oregon Multnomah 7,014 1.27 paign have shown that the outcome of the 2016 elections is as that of Ukrainian speakers, while these percentages are Pennsylvania Allegheny 9,533 0.99 crucial for the level of support the next U.S. government approximately equal in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Bucks 8,838 1.88 will provide Ukraine. However, it is important to remember Among major metropolitan areas, Seattle and Sacramento Montgomery 9,518 1.59 that the November elections will also decide the composi- have the highest percentage of Ukrainian-speaking potential Philadelphia 11,799 1.05 tion of the House and Senate, as all representatives and 34 voters, 44 percent and 43 percent, respectively, followed by Washington of 90 senators are up for election. Thus, the kind of support Portland (Ore.) with 29 percent, Chicago 24 percent and State King 11,533 0.82 that the new government may provide Ukraine will be Cleveland 20 percent. Metropolitan areas with high percent- determined not only by who the new president is, but also ages of Russian-speaking potential voters are: San Francisco potential voters. Cook County in Illinois has more than by the winners of congressional races in each state. and Los Angeles with 32 percent each, and New York and 20,000 Ukrainian potential voters, followed by 19,000 in The Center for Demographic and Socio-Economic Portland (Ore.) with 26 percent each. Brooklyn, 15,000 in Los Angeles and 10,000 to 12,000 in Research of Ukrainians in the U.S. at the Shevchenko To illustrate the potential of the database, examples of Maricopa (Ariz.), Sacramento, Philadelphia and King Scientific Society in New York has published data on its profiles of voters are presented for selected states in Table (Wash.). In many of the counties listed in Table 2, Ukrainian website that can be useful in devising strategies for helping 1. Ukrainians represent close to 1 percent of all potential voters represent more than 1 percent of all voters. elect candidates who are favorably disposed In Table 3 we list all counties where Ukrainians repre- towards Ukraine: http://www.inform-decisions. Table 1. Profile of Ukrainian potential voters sent more than 1 percent of all voters, i.e., 21 counties in com/stat/. This data was described in detail in a for selected states, 2013 eight states. (This is the minimum number of counties; for previous article (The Ukrainian Weekly, January 17). New data has recently been added to the Ukrainian potential voters* Table 3. Counties with more than 1 percent “Voter Statistics” section on the website. We point % of % Language spoken percent potential Ukrainian voters among all voters, 2013 out here some highlights of the data on the web- all US at home** 4th site and illustrate the versatility and utility of the State Number potential Potential Ukrainian voters voters Ukrainian Russian wave database constructed by the center for making % of all State County Number voters informed decisions about the election process. Pennsylvania 91,133 0.9% 8.0% 7.7% 8.6% Tables in the section “Voter Statistics” of the California Sacramento 10,109 1.03 Connecticut 16,152 0.6% 7.0% 9.5% 8.8% website present the numbers of potential Connecticut Middlesex 1,404 1.10 Ukrainian voters (persons of Ukrainian ancestry Washington 26,066 0.5% 37.1% 19.4% 50.8% Tolland 1,421 1.20 who are citizens of the U.S. and age18 and up) by Illinois 35,706 0.4% 22.4% 13.7% 24.3% Illinois Kankakee 868 1.09 state and major metropolitan areas. Each table Michigan St Clair 1,475 1.19 presents number of potential Ukrainian voters * Potential voters: aged 18 years or more and US citizens New Jersey Monmouth 4,658 1.02 and the percentage they represent of all voters in ** Persons aged 5 years or more Morris 4,915 1.39 the respective state or metropolitan area. Somerset 2,990 1.34 Official Bureau of the Census data show that, in absolute voters in Pennsylvania, only 9 percent of them are Fourth Warren 918 1.12 numbers, New York State has 101,700 potential Ukrainian New York Wave immigrants (persons of Ukrainian ancestry born in Kings 19,018 1.20 voters, followed by 91,100 in Pennsylvania, 68,700 in Ukraine who arrived in the U.S. after 1988) and the percent- (Brooklyn) California, 49,100 in New Jersey, 36,500 in Florida and age of Ukrainian and Russian speakers is low. Potential vot- Monroe 6,880 1.22 35,700 in Illinois. In relative terms, potential Ukrainian voters Richmondn ers in Connecticut have similar characteristics to those in (Staten Island) 5,154 1.55 constitute 0.9 percent of all potential voters in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania in terms of language spoken and percentage Rockland 2,167 1.08 0.8 percent in New Jersey and New York, and 0.6 percent in Fourth Wave, but their relative size is much smaller; they Oregon Multnomah 7,014 1.27 Connecticut and Delaware. In metropolitan areas potential represent only 0.6 percent of all potential voters in the state. Pennsylvania Bucks 8,838 1.88 Ukrainian voters constitute 1 percent or more of all potential The relative size of Ukrainian potential voters in Illinois is Chester 4,677 1.28 voters in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Rochester. quite low, 0.4 percent of all voters, but almost one-fourth of Montgomery 9,518 1.59 Ukraine is not the only country affected by Russia’s poli- them are Fourth Wave immigrants; 22 percent speak cies. Other Eastern European countries are similarly Philadelphia 11,799 1.05 Ukrainian and 14 percent speak Russian. Washington State threatened by Russia, and their diasporas in the United Schuylkill 1,786 1.55 is an extreme example of the impact of the recent immigra- States also are concerned about U.S. policies regarding Westmoreland 4,835 1.65 tion wave from Ukraine. More than half of all potential vot- Russia. In a separate table on the website we present the ers are Fourth Wave immigrants; 37 percent speak numbers and proportions of potential voters of several many counties data are not available due to sampling limita- Ukrainian at home and 19 percent are Russian-speakers. Eastern European groups combined (Ukrainians, Poles, tions of the American Community Survey). States with the These examples illustrate the fact that the composition Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Lithuanians, Latvians and largest numbers of these counties are: New Jersey (four of Ukrainian potential voters can vary significantly among Estonians). In some states they constitute a formidable counties), New York (four counties) and Pennsylvania (six block of potential voters. For example, they represent more states and that different strategies for motivating and edu- counties). In the following counties Ukrainians constitute than 10 percent of all potential voters in Connecticut, cating them may be needed. Such profiles can be elaborat- between 1.55 percent and 1.88 percent of all voters: Bucks Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, ed for all states and major metropolitan areas. (Pa.), Westmoreland (Pa.), Staten Island (N.Y.), Montgomery and 8 percent in the battleground state of Ohio. Data on Ukrainian potential voters at the county level (Pa.) and Schuylkill (Pa.). Data at the state level is useful for Senate candidates; can be useful not only for the November election, but also When interacting with political candidates, one can elections for congressmen/congresswomen require data at for congressional primaries being held in the next few show them the number of Ukrainian potential voters (as months in many states. All counties for which data are well as of Eastern European voters) available in their state, Oleh Wolowyna is director of the Center for Demographic available can be found on the website. Some highlights of metropolitan area or county. The numbers are not very and Socio-Economic Research of Ukrainians in the U.S. these data are presented in Tables 2 and 3. E-mail: [email protected]. Table 2 lists all counties with more than 5,000 Ukrainian (Continued on page 19) 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 No. 28 No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 13 “Petrykivka” featured in Philadelphia Arts Festival by Mary Kalyna Ukrainian League of Philadelphia as its contribution to this year’s Arts Crawl on June 3-5. PHILADELPHIA – The colorful Ukrainian painting style The exhibit was organized in collaboration with art col- known as “Petrykivka” was on prominent display during lectors Yuri Mischenko and Natalie Pawlenko, whose pri- the Fairmount Avenue Arts Crawl, an annual festival that vate collection reflects a variety of Petrykivka styles. transforms Philadelphia’s Art Museum area into an eclectic Thirty venues took part in the event, drawing thousands showcase of the arts. of people. According to Ukrainian League board member “Petrykivka: The Soul of Ukraine” exhibited the work of Marc Zaharchuk, “The Petrykivka Art exhibit was by far the six Ukrainian artists specializing in this distinctive tech- largest and highest quality exhibition the league has pre- nique, and was presented by the Cultural Trust of the sented since the inception of the Arts Crawl, and allowed us to showcase the folk art of Ukraine to the larger Philadelphia community.” Ukrainian Self-Reliance Federal Credit Union was the principal sponsor of this year’s exhibit, continuing many years of support for the artistic and cultural programs of the league. Lucy Oleksyuk, Ukrainian League board mem- ber and artistic coordinator, helped direct the project. The Petrykivka art style has been internationally recog- nized for its uniqueness and artistic beauty. In December 2013, Petrykivka was added to the list of “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity” by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. In October 2013, an exhibition of works by Petrykivka mas- ters took place at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The art form originated in ancient decorative painting in central Ukraine, and began as painting on adobe white- washed walls, ceiling beams and hearths, as well as on fur- niture and household items. Because of its perishability and the turbulent history of Ukraine, only a few pieces pre- dating the 19th century are preserved in Ukrainian muse- Petrykivka USA ums. “Tree of Knowledge” by Ukrainian artist Halyna The Ukrainian League is one of the Philadelphia’s oldest Nazarenko. Mary Kalyna Ukrainian institutions, and in 2017 will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Located in the heart of Fairmount, one of the among others. In 2014 the league presented the first Art collectors Yuri Mischenko (left) and Natalie Philadelphia-area appearance by musical phenomenon Pawlenko collaborated with the Ukrainian League of first Ukrainian settlements in the city, the league offers Philadelphia to present “Petrykivka: The Soul of diverse cultural programming, including an eclectic music Dakha Brakha, and regularly hosts Kruno Gypsy Jazz Trio. Ukraine” on June 3-5. series, art exhibits, film programs and many literary events, For more information see www.ukrainianleague.com. 10th season of Bandura Downtown presents “Bandura Without Borders” by Ihor Slabicky to be a wonderful opportunity for the four sets of flying fingers to exchange phrases NEW YORK – The Bandura Downtown and solos. concert series at The Ukrainian Museum in “Angels” by Ray Heffernan, Robbie New York City ended it 10th season on Williams and Guy Chambers, was an ideal Saturday, May 21, with the premier concert vehicle for Mr. Petlura to explore dynamic of “Bandura Without Borders.” Under the and rhythmic changes, his playing taking musical directorship of Julian Kytasty, the the listeners on a celestial journey. concert featured four bandurists from The duo of Messrs. Petlura and Toronto, Ivan Dusanowskyj, Borys Ostapienko performed the variations on Ostapienko, Orest Chornomaz and “He’s A Pirate, written by Klaus Badelt for Oleksander Petlura. “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the All four are long-time members of the Black Pearl,” with lightning-fast string work Canadian Bandurist Capella. Mr. and dynamic flourishes. Ostapienko is the concertmaster and Mr. The quartet returned with the popular Petlura is a founding member of the capel- Steven Tyler song “Dream On” in an la. All four began playing the bandura when arrangement by Mr. Dusanowskyj that had they were still in their pre-teens. Through the bandurists play this pop song with a the years, their skill and talent developed vigor that seemingly surpassed that of and broadened; all are now instructors of Ihor Slabicky Aerosmith. the bandura. Each has taught at numerous At The Ukrainian Museum in New York City (from left) are: Ivan Dusanowskyj, The ensemble tried to end its long sec- bandura camps and workshops in Canada Borys Ostapienko, Orest Chornomaz and Oleksander Petlura, who performed ond set with the arrangement by Yuriy and the United States. Together, they found- “Bandura Without Borders.” Petlura of the “Chaika” medley composed ed the Toronto Bandura School (for more by Semen Hulak-Artemovsky and Ron information go to banduraschool.ca). dura, and together the four “voices” brought appreciation. Cahute. One says “tried” because the cheers This was their first full program as a forth a graceful intonation. The brief intermission allowed the audi- and the prolonged standing ovation that quartet. In their concert, performed in two The first solo of the evening was by Mr. ence to reflect on what they had heard and the foursome received at the end of the set sets, they omitted all vocals, instead using Ostapienko of his “Ukrainian Folk to view the ongoing “Jacques Hnizdovsky: saw them yielding to the audience’s the instrument to showcase the possibili- Melodies.” His vivid performance yielded a Content and Style, Evolving Perspectives” demand for an encore. They returned to ties of the modern bandura. prolonged round of appreciative applause. exhibit at the museum. their seats and played “Chaika – A Reprise,” They opened the first set with a spright- That was followed with the quartet per- The second set began with “Hrai which resulted in a second well-deserved ly “Stukalka,” a folk melody arranged by forming “Field, Forest and Sky” by David Kobzaryu,” preserving the exuberance of standing ovation from the audience. Danylo Pika, capturing everyone’s atten- Minnick. “Rondo Alla Turca” by Wolfgang the first set. The four players smartly inter- These four exceptionally talented musi- tion. As a counterpoint, they followed with Amadeus Mozart featured a solo perfor- preted this composition by Hryhoriy cians, brilliant composers and arrangers the contemplative “Larghetto” by Dmytro mance by Mr. Dusanowskyj with accompa- Kytasty. With a delicately phrased opening, envision the bandura as a versatile instru- Bortniansky, in an arrangement for bandu- niment by Mr. Ostapienko. The arrange- “Ukrainska Shumka” was a perfect foil for ment. In Ukrainian, the concert was titled ra by Olya Herasymenko. ment wonderfully expressed the liveliness the foursome’s flawless fingering of this “Bandura Poza Mezhamy.” Listening to the Next, they played a spirited version of of this Turkish-influenced work. The duo piece by Mykhail Zavadskyi. imaginative playing and powerful perfor- “Zaporizhian March” by Yevhen received an energetic round of prolonged Mr. Chornomaz followed with his perfor- mances, one could readily translate that as Adamtsevych that brought acclaim from the applause. mance of “Variations on Two Ukrainian Folk “Bandura Without Limits.” Their perfor- audience. In “Sorcerer’s Dance,” the four- The set closed with “Habanera,” played in Themes” by Kostyantyn Novytskyi. His mance that evening demonstrated that the some highlighted the magical shape shifting a four-bandura form that allowed the quar- solos produced a reverie that almost bandura has a voice of its own, varying of the “kharakternyk” in this piece by tet to explore the interwoven melody of this seemed rudely interrupted by the applause, timbre, a wide and beautiful dynamic Hryhoriy Kytasty. Watching their hands as piece from “Carmen” by Georges Bizet. for it was difficult to return to reality. range, and that it is an instrument that can they played the pieces was mesmerizing. Their intricate playing was not lost on the The seemingly simple “Vesnyani communicate emotion, sentiment and Each played in a different range of the ban- attendees, whose applause expressed their Dzvinochky” by Ms. Herasymenko proved imagery. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 No. 28

the final days of pro-Russia former role in Ukraine’s crisis. He said, “Today, the President Petro Poroshenko’s press service NEWSBRIEFS President Viktor Yanukovych’s rule. They current challenge for the European Union reported: “The conclusion of the agreement have been charged with abuse of power, is to find a way to the hearts of is a criterion of the plan of actions on the (Continued from page 2) attempted murder, and illegally preventing Euroskeptics so as not to allow a single liberalization of the visa regime by the EU. NATO-Russia meeting expected citizens from gathering and demonstrating. chance to the opponents of the Euro- It meets the intentions of Ukraine and the One of the suspects was also charged with integration project.” In 2014, despite pres- EU to develop relations in the sphere of jus- BRUSSELS – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg the premeditated murder of more than one sure from Russia, Ukraine signed an tice and internal affairs. The entry into says the alliance is set to hold formal talks person. More than 100 people were killed Association Agreement with the EU as part force of the agreement will create a legal with Russia shortly after a summit in in and around Kyiv’s central Independence of its bid to eventually join the bloc. framework for the use of Eurojust capabili- Warsaw this week, which is expected to Square, known as the Maidan, from Meanwhile, Moldova’s pro-EU Prime ties by Ukraine and provides real efficiency deepen tensions with Moscow. The NATO- February 18 to 20, 2014. (RFE/RL, based Minister Pavel Filip on June 24 called for competent authorities of Ukraine and Russia Council last met in April – after a on reporting by UNIAN and Interfax) Britain’s vote to leave the EU a “sad day for the EU in the investigation and prosecution hiatus of almost two years – but the talks Europe.” Mr. Filip said Moldova remained of serious crimes of transnational charac- Ukrainian soldiers reported killed ended in “profound disagreements” over committed to joining the EU, “despite the ter, such as terrorism, drug trafficking, Ukraine and other issues. “The NATO- KYIV – Ukraine says three of its service- result in the U.K., because we trust the EU human trafficking, corruption, cybercrime, Russia Council has an important role to men have been killed and 13 wounded in as a successful project.” Moldova also money laundering, fraud and other crimes play as a forum for dialogue” and could clashes in the country’s east. Military signed an Association Agreement with the involving cross-border criminal organiza- “increase predictability,” Mr. Stoltenberg spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on July 5 EU in 2014. (RFE/RL, based on reporting tions.” (Ukrainian Canadian Congress Daily told reporters on July 4, ahead of the two- that government forces suffered losses in by AP, Reuters and Unimedia.md) Briefing) day summit that starts on July 8. “That is the previous 24 hours across various parts FBI and NABU sign memorandum why we are working with Russia to hold of the 500-kilometer front line splitting the Poroshenko emphasizes security conditions another meeting of the council shortly after separatist-held areas from the rest of KYIV – On June 29, Acting Deputy OTTAWA – Addressing Ukraine’s the summit,” he added. The secretary-gen- Ukraine. Col. Lysenko said the worst fight- Assistant Director Mathew S. Moon of the eral said the alliance and Russia weren’t Parliament on June 28, on the occasion of ing centered on the separatist stronghold of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Constitution Day, President Petro able to agree to hold a meeting before the Donetsk and the southeastern government- Director Artem Sytnyk of the National Anti- summit, as NATO had wanted. Among Poroshenko stated, “A full and lasting controlled city of Mariupol. On July 1, Col. Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) ceasefire must be implemented. Russia – other issues, the Warsaw summit is expect- Lysenko had reported that one Ukrainian signed a memorandum of understanding ed to discuss the deployment of four the aggressor state, the occupying state – soldier had been killed and four wounded (MOU) to strengthen existing cooperation must withdraw its armies, weapons and 1,000-strong battalions in Poland and for- in attacks over the past 24 hours by Russia- between the agencies as they pursue anti- mer Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia, and materiel from Ukraine’s territory. The OSCE backed separatists in the east of the coun- corruption initiatives. The memorandum Special Monitoring Mission must have full Lithuania, beefing up NATO’s presence try. The conflict in eastern Ukraine has establishes that the FBI and NABU will work closer to Russia’s borders. Relations access to all territory not under Ukrainian killed more than 9,300 people since April together on crimes related to international control, and also establish complete moni- between NATO and Russia have reached 2014 and NATO warned last week that the money laundering, international asset their lowest point since the Cold War over toring of the temporarily uncontrolled sec- internationally monitored cease-fire there recovery, and Ukrainian high-level official tion of the Ukrainian-Russian border. Moscow’s annexation of Crimea from was barely holding. In a statement on June bribery and corruption. The memorandum Ukraine in 2014 and its role in the military Further, there must be a real disarming of 29, Ivan Simonovic, head of the United sets out the framework for cooperation all illegal groups on this territory.” He also conflict in eastern Ukraine. (RFE/RL, based Nations human rights chief’s office in New between the agencies in combating these on reporting by DPA and AFP) said, “An important guarantee against York, warned of a possible “re-escalation of crimes of mutual interest. The participants armed provocations and of the implemen- Ukraine arrests four Berkut officers wide-scale hostilities if urgent action is not intend to implement the MOU in the spirit of tation of a ceasefire, as well as the security taken to separate sides and remove heavy partnership and cooperation in addressing of a future election process should be an KYIV – Ukrainian authorities have weaponry.” (RFE/RL, based on reporting by the corruption problem. (U.S. Embassy Kyiv) armed OSCE police mission” and that local arrested four former officers of the Berkut Interfax and AP) elections must be held “not under the guns riot police for their alleged role in the vio- Ukraine, Eurojust sign agreement Ukraine, Moldova committed to EU of militants, but held according to lent dispersal of pro-European protesters OTTAWA – Ukraine and the European Ukrainian law and OSCE criteria.” The pres- in Kyiv in early 2014. Larysa Sarhan, a KYIV – Ukrainian President Petro Organization for Justice (Eurojust) signed spokeswoman for Ukraine’s Prosecutor Poroshenko has said in the aftermath of an agreement on cooperation on June 27. (Continued on page 15) General’s Office, said on June 24 that the Britain’s vote to leave the European Union four suspects were serving on Ukraine’s that he “expects the sanctions against national police force at the time of their Russia as a country-aggressor” to be minister of Estonia on such a tour, and we arrest on June 23. The four are alleged to extended. On June 24, Mr. Poroshenko ended up as planned in the Lincoln have used violent force to disperse protest- linked European unity to the sanctions that Ten reasons... Memorial. Because the only common lan- ers in Kyiv on February 18, 2014, during Brussels has imposed against Russia for its (Continued from page 18) guage all three of us had at that moment just with communism but with other politi- was Russian, I was translating Lincoln’s cal systems as well. words from the Gettysburg Address that That is no easy challenge, because all too are incised in marble on the left side of the often we fall into the tactical trap of making building into that language. alliances with those who are repressive in I know I wasn’t doing them justice: any TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL WALTER HONCHARYK (973) 292-9800 x3040 the name of fighting those who are even translation of such a speech about govern- or e-mail [email protected] more repressive – and then we forget what ment “of the people, by the people and for we are really fighting for. We allied with the people” can’t compare with the original. SERVICES PROFESSIONALS Stalin against Hitler, which was the right But my translation that day attracted one of thing to do, but we forgot that in that the National Park rangers at the site. He arrangement we needed a long spoon, and came running up and asked me what lan- we committed the crime of handing back to guage we were speaking because, of the Soviets people who had never been course, he had materials in various lan- Soviet citizens and whose only crime was to guages he could offer. I told him we were have fought communism during the Russian speaking Russian. He then asked whether civil war and then escaped to the West. these people were from Russia. I respond- The list of such compromises with the ed, “No, these people are from Estonia.” truth can be extended almost at will. What Without missing a heartbeat, this park is important is that it not be extended any ranger smiled and said: “Oh, I’ve heard of further. Estonia. It is just a little country that wants Let me end by sharing with you a person- to be free.” Everyone in our group teared al story that I believe sums up all that I have up, and I am quite confident that these said and involved my proudest moment as words of an ordinary American were more an American official. In 1990-1991, I important to the Estonian visitors than any worked at the State Department as the spe- they would hear from far more prominent cial advisor for Soviet nationality problems officials. I know that because both of the and Baltic affairs. One of my jobs was to play Estonians involved have told me and others host to visitors from these countries and exactly that. show them something of Washington. I can’t What being an anti-communist means is remember precisely how many times I took not only fighting communism but helping officials and activists in my car around the others to fight that system and all others that OPPORTUNITIES monuments of Washington, but I can limit human freedom and, to put it in sim- remember one time which neither I nor the plest terms, to help ensure that in the future, EARN EXTRA INCOME! others present will ever forget. there will be many more ordinary Americans WANT IMPACT? I believe that the closest thing we who will be ready to answer as the National The Ukrainian Weekly is looking Run your advertisement here, Americans have to a civic cathedral is the Park ranger did a quarter of a century ago: for advertising sales agents. in The Ukrainian Weekly’s Lincoln Memorial, and I always tried to Yes, they will says, we know about your suf- For additional information contact arrange things so that we would end our fering and we fully support your aspirations. Walter Honcharyk, Advertising Manager, CLASSIFIEDS section. tour there. On March 29, 1991, a dark and The Ukrainian Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext 3040. That is why I remain an anti-communist rainy day, I took the president and foreign and why I very much hope you do too. No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 15

NEWSBRIEFS OSCE PA resolution on sanctions TBILISI – At the Tbilisi Session (July We regret to announce with (Continued from page 14) 1-5), the Parliamentary Assembly of the great sadness the death of our ident stated: “Only when these conditions Organization for Security and Cooperation sister, niece, cousin, and great aunt are met will I be ready to appeal to the in Europe (OSCE) adopted resolutions in on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 Parliament to vote for amendments [to the which it: “Underlines respect for the princi- Constitution on decentralization] in second ples of the inviolability of frontiers and ter- ritorial integrity, peaceful settlement of dis- VERA ZUBALSKA reading. And I want to reassure you – this putes, equal rights and self-determination will not be today, not tomorrow, ...but when of peoples as stated in the Helsinki Final born on February 3, 1940 in Konin. all security conditions are met.” Mr. Act, and calls on the Russian Federation to Poroshenko also made it clear that in addi- restrain its aggressive practices and reverse Surviving are: tion to the de-occupation of the Donbas, the illegal annexation of the Autonomous “the issue of the return of Crimea is on the sister: Yaryna Zubalska Republic of Crimea. The OSCE PA also said agenda.” (Ukrainian Canadian Congress it: “Recognizes that the duration of political uncle: Teo l Zubalskyj and his wife, Ivanna Daily Briefing) and economic sanctions imposed against cousins: Nadiya Danchak and her husband, Petro, Putin hints at troop movements the Russian Federation for its illegal occu- and son, Marko pation and attempted annexation of the MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin has Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the Nadiya Tkacz and her husband, Ivan indicated that Russia would move troops city of Sevastopol, and armed intervention Maria and Ihor Pryshlak toward its border with Finland if the in certain areas of the Donetsk and Nordic country became a member of NATO, Luhansk regions of Ukraine, is directly Eva, Dorota, Ivanna, and Marko Kochan whose eastward expansion since the fall of related to an end being brought to the ille- and families the Soviet Union has long angered the gal occupation of the Crimean peninsula of Roman Orzelskyj and his wife, Anna Kremlin. “Finnish forces would cease being Ukraine and full implementation by the independent, cease being sovereign in the Russian Federation of its commitments Ange Iwanczyk full sense of that word,” Mr. Putin said after under the Minsk Agreements.” (Ukrainian grand nieces: Olha Tkaczenko with her husband, Serhiy, a July 1 meeting in Finland with President Canadian Congress Daily Briefing) and daughter, Ira Sauli Niinisto. “They would become part of NATO’s military infrastructure, which over- Ukraine receives counter-battery radars Halyna Khlibkevich and her husband, Roman, night would be at the borders of the KYIV – The United States delivered 14 and sons, Serhiy and Marko Russian Federation.” Mr. Putin added: “Do counter-battery radars to the armed forces Oksana Hryb and her husband, Petro, you think that we will continue as before by of Ukraine on July 2. Attending the transfer and daughters, Christina and Marta keeping our troops 1,500 [kilometers] ceremony, Ukraine’s President Petro away?” His comments came ahead of next Poroshenko stated: “Today’s event is an Olha Tkacz week’s NATO summit in Warsaw that Mr. additional step towards the enhancement Yaryna Slyvar and her husband, Ivan, Niinisto has been invited to attend. Alliance of our interaction with American partners and sons, Maxym and Vitalij members are expected to endorse a larger the purpose of which is to improve deployment of alliance military forces to Ukraine’s defense capacity. This step is only The panakhyda was held at Mandziuk Funeral Home in Sterling Heights, Eastern Europe. NATO says the planned a small part of military-technical assistance Michigan on April 27, 2016. The funeral Mass was celebrated at the increase of forces on its eastern flank is in provided by the U.S. government to Ukraine Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Hamtramck, response to Russian aggression in Eastern this year.” He added, “We sincerely hope Michigan on April 28, 2016. Europe, including its 2014 seizure and that our cooperation will be further Вічна Їй пам’ять! annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula increased. I am confident that investment and the ongoing war between Russia- in security and defense of Ukraine is an backed separatists and Kyiv’s military in additional investment in European security eastern Ukraine. Finland has said it will and defense. For we are defending not only continue to participate in NATO exercises our territorial integrity and independence, and decide for itself whether or not to join but also freedom and democracy of the the alliance. (RFE/RL, with reporting by entire European continent.” (Ukrainian RIA Novosti, Interfax, Reuters and Yle.fi) Canadian Congress Daily Briefing)

We regret to inform you that our beloved mother, grandmother, great grandmother and sister This June 30th marked the one year passage of Valentina Roman Bodnar BURACZOK NAHORNY of Rochester NY at the age of 93. passed away June 22, 2016. Born in western Ukraine, near Lviv, in 1922, She was born April 25, 1929 to Anna and Wasyl Buraczok in Korostyshiv, Roman always had dreams of becoming an Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. actor. His father was an accomplished musician After eeing Ukraine, she lived in Munich, Germany, for many years and singer. World War II destroyed that dream. until she immigrated to the US In 1952 where she eventually married Yurij Roman and his brother Ivan were in the Ukrainian Nahorny (+2003). Valentina was a staunch member of the New Jersey underground and spent much of the war in Ukrainian community. German slave labor camps. He met his wife, Anna Halyna in a Ukrainian displaced persons In deep sorrow: camp in Acha enburg, Germany, where their children Olga Brozyna with husband Nick daughter, Olha was born. The young family was sponsored into the US Victoria Chomut by a group of Episcopalian ladies from Alexandria, Virginia, where Roman Irene Potter with husband Neil perfected his skill as a master tailor. The family moved to Rochester after Katia Savyckyj with husband Danylo the birth of their son, Bohdan. Though born a Ukrainian Catholic, Mr. grandchildren Peter Brozyna, Bodnar converted to the Orthodoxy. He devoted his years to the church Christine Rakowsky, and Ukrainian national matters. An avid reader, he was very informed Alexandra Brook, on all Ukrainian matters. He continued his family’s musical tradition by Nick Chomut, singing in the church and national choirs. He was instrumental in the Stephen and Melanie Potter building of the Ukrainian Orthodox church in Rochester. In his travels Alexander, Juliana and Adriana Hirniak back to Ukraine he helped build a church in his own town and his wife’s great granddaughters: Natalia Brook and Larissa Rakowsky town in Chernihiv. Roman received a medal from Patriarch Filaret during Panakhyda and Parastas were held Monday, June 27, 2016 at Hagan his excellency’s visit to the US due to his work for the church in Ukraine. Chamberlain Funeral Home, Bound Brook, NJ. His laughter and wonderful rich storytelling will be missed by those who knew him. Funeral Services were held Tuesday, June 28, at 11 a.m. at St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church in South Bound Brook, NJ. He was laid to rest in St. Andrew Ukrainian Cemetery in South Bound Brook, NJ. May Her memory be eternal! Despite many years living in the US, she always had Ukraine in her Mr. Bodnar is survived by his daughter,Olha,( Olga Talyn) a Broadway actress/singer, his wife Anna Halyna,94 and his son Bohdan. heart. Donations in her memory can be made to: United Ukrainian American Relief Committee May His memory be eternal. 1206 Cottman Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19111. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 No. 28

Serhiy Kvit... (Continued from page 10) Dr. Kvit stated, “An educated nation is able to think critically in order to establish civic mechanisms to compel progressive policies and thereby effectively and demo- cratically govern the country.” He added that accelerating reforms of science and education in Ukraine within the context of the current state of Ukrainian society, as well as the new post-Maidan political situa- tion are the main challenges Ukrainian edu- cators are working on, and these are the areas where they need focus and assistance from friends and colleagues in the U.S. Dr. Kvit’s visit coincided with that of a delegation of three members of the Verkhovna Rada: Victor Halasiuk, chair of Marta Farion the Committee on Industrial Policy and At the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (from left) are: Borys Potapenko, Victor Chumak, Anatoli Business, and co-chair of the Parliamentary Pinchuk, Orest Deychakiwsky (CSCE senior staff), Victor Wowk, Victor Halasiuk and Serhiy Kvit. Group on Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the United States; Victor Chumak, first Parliamentary Committee on Veterans and ent trajectory in education and science. Dr. during their presentations was opposition in vice-chair of the Committee on Combatting a veteran of Ukraine’s armed forces. Kvit noted that overwhelming majorities in the Verkhovna Rada and society to the Minsk Organized Crime and Corruption, and co- Together with Dr. Kvit, they held a number Parliament have supported the passage of protocols that are being interpreted by chair of Parliamentary Group on Inter- of joint briefings with governmental and the Ministry of Education’s reform agenda. Russia, and incongruously even by Ukraine’s Parliamentary Relations with the United NGO representatives. The parliamentary delegation discussed partners, to require local elections and auton- States; Dr. Victor Wowk, vice-chair of the Dr. Kvit’s focus was on priorities for edu- the economic, humanitarian, military and omy in the occupied territories of the Donbas Committee on Foreign Relations; and cation in Ukraine, gains made during and political situation in Ukraine, including the before all troops leave; before Russia’s local Yevhen Rybchynsky, member of the after the Revolution of Dignity, and the pres- fight against corruption. An important focus surrogates are disarmed; before criminal acts, including foreign war crimes against the Ukrainian people are investigated and the perpetrators called to justice; and before rep- arations are established for Russia to pay for its military aggression and wanton acts caus- ing death and destruction. Moreover, Crimea cannot be separated from any peace negotia- tions to restore Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over its internationally rec- ognized borders. As the national deputies noted, there can be no elections held under the shadow of the guns of Russian aggressors or their surrogates. The Ukrainian representatives held briefings, collectively and separately, at the Atlantic Council, Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Library of Congress, American Foreign Policy Council, National Democratic Institute, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, and U.S.- Ukraine Business Council. On Capitol Hill they met with leaders of the Ukraine Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, House Democracy Partnership, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Consultations were conducted with senior advisers to Vice-President Joe Biden, and officials at the departments of State, Commerce, Treasury and others. Over the Memorial Day weekend, Dr. Kvit visited the Ukrainian American Youth Association’s annual “Zlet” gathering in Ellenville, N.Y. Dr. Kvit joined over 500 young people age 6-18 and thousands of their parents, family and friends from 15 UAYA chapters in the U.S. and Canada for two days of friendly competition in sports and knowledge of the Ukrainian language, culture, history and current events. Dr. Kvit held separate town hall meetings with grade school and high school age UAYA youth, as well as with their parents and other adults. The highlight was the pre- sentation of medals by Dr. Kvit to the first-, second- and third-place winners of the Ukrainian language, culture, history and current events competition. Dr. Kvit’s par- ticipation was made possible by the good offices of UAYA National President George Mykytyn and ODFFU National President Stepan Kaczurak. Dr. Kvit’s visit to the U.S. was organized by the International Council in Support of Ukraine, Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of America (KMFA), Center for U.S.-Ukrainian Relations, and Organization for the Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine (ODFFU), with the participation of Mykola Hryckowian and Marta Farion. Sponsors included KMFA, ODFFU, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America – Illinois Division, BCU Foundation and League of Ukrainian Canadians. No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 17

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Albany-area Ukrainian Americans host delegation of Verkhovna Rada deputies

by Slavko Tysiak for-profit federal grantee selected to devel- op and implement a professionally oriented WATERVLIET, N.Y. – This year, as we cele- foreign exchange program for the visiting brate the 25th year of Ukraine’s renewed delegation together with a network of local independence, the Ukrainian American organizations to provide family hosting community of the Albany, N.Y., area received opportunities. The Ukrainian American a rare visit by four members of Ukraine’s Cultural Center was asked to arrange home Verkhovna Rada, as part of a leadership pro- stays with local Ukrainian American fami- gram created by the U.S. Congress in 1999. lies that would showcase U.S. values and This was the first time four sitting mem- further the delegates’ exposure to demo- bers of the Verkhovna Rada visited the local cratic ideals. Ukrainian American community in the Working diligently with little advance Albany area. notice and during a busy time of the year The Ukrainian-American Cultural for families with summer vacations starting Center Inc., located in Watervliet, N.Y., a hub and school ending, the Ukrainian-American for the local Ukrainian American communi- Cultural Center, together with the Slavko Tysiak ty, worked with the International Center of International Center of the Capital Region, Delegates at the meet-and-greet event at the Ukrainian American Citizens Club (from the Capital Region, the Albany-based not- headed by Executive Director Diane left): Alyona Shkrum, Viktoriya Ptashnyk, Krystyna Dobrovolska, Anna Romanova and Taras Pastukh. Conroy-Lacivita, found host families for the and Cynthia Tysiak, Gregg Sagor, and Dan four Verkhovna Rada elected-deputies plus and Mary Berry. their program tour guide and translator. The delegates arrived in Washington on The four Verkhovna Rada deputies Sunday, June 19, for a one-week, whirlwind included: Viktoriia Y. Ptashnyk, member of visit with members of the U.S. Congress fol- the Samopomich party; Anna A. Romanova, lowed by a visit to New York State’s capital. also of Samopomich; Alyona I. Shkrum, a They departed from Albany on Sunday, member of the Batkivshchyna party; and June 26, returning back to Ukraine. Taras T. Pastukh, a member of Samopomich. The delegation arrived in Albany on the Accompanying the four national depu- evening of Wednesday, June 22, to a warm ties was Krystyna V. Dobrovolska, a U.S. welcome by their host families at the Embassy-assigned government liaison and Albany International Airport. The next translator who escorted the delegates from morning the delegation started extensive Kyiv during their visits to Albany and visits with state legislators, Albany Mayor Washington. Kathy Sheehan, state agency officials, and Mykola Fil The five members of the visiting delega- other not-for-profit civic and advocacy Ukrainian community members with the visiting Ukrainian national deputies at the tion stayed in the homes of: Mykola and Ukrainian American Citizens Club in Watervliet, N.Y. Maria Fil, John and Nancy Uruskyj, Yaroslaw (Continued on page 20) Ukrainian school celebrates end of academic year WHIPPANY, N.J. – On Saturday, June 4, The Lesia Ukrainka School of Ukrainian Studies in Whippany, N.J., celebrated the end of another successful academic year. The school’s near- ly 200 students and their teachers started the day by attending liturgy at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church celebrated by the Rev. Stepan Bilyk. Afterwards, the teachers, students and their families enjoyed themselves at the school’s annual year-end picnic on the grounds of the Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey. The school provided the hamburgers and hotdogs, Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization (the Newark, N.J., branch, which is based in Whippany) supplied the drinks, and parent volunteers provided additional sweets and treats and the manpower to ensure that a good time was had by all. – Anya Tershakovec Tomko 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 No. 28

societies where these values are celebrat- Ten reasons... ed; we must make sure that we live in soci- eties where these values are increasingly (Continued from page 6) realized in the lives of all people and where perhaps an extreme form of that practice we are strong enough and confident elsewhere. That is nonsense, and it must be enough to promote them rather than sacri- labeled as such. Communism is based on ficing them for short-term gains. the denial of the value and rights of the This is a difficult challenge. There will individual human person and, as such, it is always be those who will sacrifice free- and will forever remain antithetical to the doms for something else. But, as one of the principles of free societies. founders of the United States pointed out, • Third, we must acknowledge how “those who would sacrifice essential free- hard it is to purge it from those places doms for a little temporary safety deserve where it once existed. neither liberty nor safety.” We should Perhaps the best evidence of how insidi- recommit ourselves to our values so that ous communism is has been provided by we do not fall into that trap. post-communist countries which in all too Those who are anti-communists are in many cases have found it difficult to purge the best position to know what threats to this horror from their social and political freedom look like. We should be modest in life. In rushing to proclaim a triumph over advancing our case, but we should remain communism, many of those in these coun- Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation proud to do so – because if we do not carry tries and in the West as well were prepared Ambassador Valeriy Chaly and his wife, Liudmyla Mazuka, place a wreath from the this fight forward, who will? And if we fail to accept as non-communists communists Embassy of Ukraine at the Victims of Communism memorial, which honors the mem- to see the challenge now, we may soon suf- who simply changed the name of the parties ory of the more than 100 million victims of communism. fer our own Pastor Niemoeller moment, they said they represented. Some of these one in which when the threats to our own transformations were real: people can times the reverse is true. And it is our obli- selectively in the way that they often are. values intensify there will be no one left to change. But many of them were superficial gation as citizens of a democratic and free One infamous example of this was a book defend them or us. and hid some fundamental continuities. society to ensure that the necessary dis- that argued Stalin deserved credit for • Ninth, having prosecuted the Cold As Lithuania’s Vytautas Landsbergis has tinctions are made in our own countries as increasing social mobility but ignored the War, we must reassemble the alliance taught us, communism can operate under well as elsewhere. fact that he did so by killing again and again that allowed us to fight and win that con- many guises. It can even be called, he • Fifth, we must recognize the ways in many of those who were nearer the top of flict, an alliance that is now in disarray writes, “the new world order.” If it is to be which the evils of communism have the social and political pyramid. but that can be restored. overcome, it must be fought regardless of metastasized into other evils, including One wise reviewer of that book One of the most remarkable but least what it calls itself through lustration, edu- Islamist fundamentalism. observed that it was very much like a study remarked qualities of the Cold War, some- cation and a commitment not only from the One of the most disturbing realities of the of the shoe factory at Auschwitz in which thing that communism produced and that peoples who have suffered its ravages on contemporary world is the rise of Islamist the author decided in advance to ignore all allowed the democratic West to fight for so themselves, but also by those who say they extremism, but one of the most frightening survivor accounts as being inevitably long, was the alliance between democratic are anti-communists but are all too willing aspects of that is that the Islamist threat biased and to consider only the inputs of and human rights activists who were horri- to cooperate for profit or out of geopolitical grew out of communism rather than being leather and labor and the outputs of shoes. fied by the ways in which communism calculation with those who are in fact still something entirely new. Many know from “All the facts,” he said, “are correct, but it denied these values to the peoples of the communist in everything but name. movies like “Charlie Wilson’s War” that misses the point.” That would not be countries where that system existed and That has led to tragedies in Central Asia Muslims fought and defeated the Soviets in allowed in the case of studies of Nazi businesspeople who recognized that com- and the Caucasus, and it is producing an Afghanistan and assume that the anti-com- Germany, but it is routinely allowed and munism was an existential threat to free even greater tragedy in the Russian munism of the jihadists there means that even encouraged in the case of commu- markets and free people. Federation, where the failure to extirpate the jihadist movement is inherently anti- nism. It is something that must be fought During the Cold War, this alliance kept communism is allowing it to return. While communist. That is not the case and, in fact, and can be. together and ensured that we would con- few in the West are paying attention, the is a dangerous self-deception. • Seventh, we must avoid the trap of tinue to be united. But when some decided KGB is being restored, collective farms are Not only have communist ideas pene- adopting communist tactics to oppose the fight against communism had been now going back up, those who think differ- trated the Islamist cause by the actions of communism. won, this alliance broke down, with each of ently are being imprisoned or exiled and communists and “former communists” who One of the real dangers during the Cold its components pursuing its own goals sep- freedoms of all types are being curtailed. viewed this movement as close to them and War was that some in the West were pre- arately rather than together with the other. Now is not the time to turn away from the a useful ally against democracy and free- pared to adopt the tactics of communism, Many democratic and human rights activ- fight. It is the time to recognize how hard dom – no one should forget that Vladimir be they repression or censorship or any- ists continued to talk about their issues, but and difficult the fight is – and to recommit Putin has said that Islam is closer to thing else in the name of defeating commu- no longer about those of the business com- ourselves to winning it. Russian national culture than Western nism. That is not a danger that has entirely munity, and many in business decided that • Fourth, we must ensure that people Christendom – but the Islamist challenge passed. We cannot fight communism with they could exploit the new reality without in democratic societies know what com- could not have emerged without the active censorship, we can do so only by providing being concerned about the way in which munism is and what it isn’t. help of the communists and “former com- better information. Likewise, we cannot the absence of freedom in the political sys- We also have an obligation to ensure munists” who operate today as they have fight it by repression, we can do so only by tem would ultimately lead to the restriction that people in our own societies know what operated throughout their existence on the making freedom more fully available. of freedom in the economic realm. communism was and is, and what it is not. basis of the principle that “the enemy of my It is always tempting, especially given Some nominally post-communist gov- There are twin dangers out there. On one enemy is my friend.” the short-term thinking that dominates ernments have exploited this division. It hand, all too many of our fellow citizens do The history of the interpenetration of much of our political systems, to turn to must be overcome, and both sides must not today know why communism repre- communism and Islamism is a long and what looks like the quick fix. But one of the come together because freedom is truly sented a unique form of evil and see it as complicated one – far too long and compli- reasons to remain an anti-communist is, indivisible. If there are not free elections simply one system among many. They cated for me to discuss today. But it is a his- not to support such efforts, but to fight and free speech, there will not be free mar- accept the arguments of those who say that tory we need to learn if we are to cope with them because those who know about com- kets because there will not be a serious sys- Stalin may have killed some people, but he the current challenge, which is in large munist systems know that such compro- tem of rule of law on which markets should be celebrated because he helped measure the same existential threat to free- mises have the effect of compromising depend. And if there are not free markets, defeat Hitler. There is even a bust of the dom that communism was in the past. That democracy and freedom, and must be there soon will not be free elections or free- Soviet dictator at the D-Day Memorial in is something some communists and “for- opposed lest communism gain a victory dom of speech. Consequently, we must my home state of Virginia. mer communists” know very well as we that it in no way deserves. reassemble the old alliance rather than act- And on the other hand, there is a danger- have seen in Syria; it is something we had Right now, we are all talking about fight- ing on the basis of falsely narrow interests. ous tendency to portray other social and better learn before the upsurge in Islamism ing lies emerging from the mouths of “for- • And tenth, we must always remem- economic systems as gateways to commu- leads to a resurgence of communism. mer communists” and about the need to ber that we weren’t and aren’t fighting a nism. Democratic socialism in Sweden, • Sixth, we must combat revisionist combat disinformation. Those are noble word: we’re opposed to what stands however much some may not approve of it, history of what communism did. goals. Let us fight them in the best way pos- behind that word. is not communism and the Swedes are not One of the most important battlefields in sible by providing more information and by Finally, and in a way to repeat, we need about to become communists. Instead, they this continuing war is against revisionist recognizing the shortcomings of our own to remember that we weren’t and aren’t are likely to join NATO to defend them- treatments of communism. My children media, which all too often give a platform fighting a word: we were and are fighting selves against the resurgence of the have been told by their professors that for lies because of its increasing tendency the actions that those who publicly or not Russian threat. And those who call for Stalin raised the standard of living and to confuse balance with objectivity. Again, are carrying out. I am an anti-communist greater state support of the poor and made lives better and happier for the Soviet we wouldn’t do this if it was fascism; but because I value freedom – not because the despised in their own countries are rarely population – with the story of the Gulag we are all too willing to do it in the case of people who suppress such freedoms call the communist radicals some of their oppo- and other repressions conveniently forgot- communism and “former communists.” themselves communists. If we are truly nents seek to portray them as. ten or cast aside as not really the most • Eighth, we must recommit ourselves anti-communists, we must recognize and We need to fight on both fronts, ensuring important thing that was going on. And I to the values of freedom and democracy. communicate to others that the victory that new generations will know the truth am sure that in this room tonight there are In order to do these things, we must over communism will be possible only if about communism, so that they can combat others with a similar experience. recommit ourselves to the values of free- there is a victory over all the forms of it and so that they will not see communism Obviously, Stalin did many things and it dom and democracy. These values repre- human oppression that are associated not where it does not exist. Sometimes the one is important to study them all. But they sent a constant goal and constant goad for threat is greater than the other, and some- must be put in context rather than treated us to do more. We are privileged to live in (Continued on page 14) No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 19

Leading... (Continued from page 10) cation and science, for seven years Dr. Kvit served as president and earlier as founding director and professor of its School of Journalism. The university is among the highest rated Western-style schools in Europe, with Ukrainian and English being its official teaching and research languages. The participants at the Manor College meeting included senior officials from the three-partner consortium of regional uni- versities that form the University Center @ Manor College: Widener University’s asso- ciate provost for global engagement and former dean of its School of Human Service Professions, Prof. Paula Silver; and the director of Alvernia University’s Philadelphia Center School of Graduate and Zwarych/GreyBackStudios Adult Education, Dana Baker. Representing The audience at а reception after the town hall meeting with Dr. Serhiy Kvit. Immaculata University was Chris Shoemaker, director of its Division of conflict with the ideals of Ukrainian inde- Attending also were three representa- Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center LifeLong (Extended) Learning. Ms. pendence. The people of Ukraine seek to tives of the founders of Manor College, the in Jenkintown was conducted by Dr. Kvit. Shoemaker attended in behalf of Sister Ann coalesce around what is right and just, Order of Sisters of St. Basil the Great in Fox The well-attended event included a contin- M. Heath, IHM, Ph.D., the university’s vice- which is why we see revolutions. Chase, Pa.: Sister Miriam Claire Kowal for- gent of non-Ukrainians. Dr. Kvit provided president for academic affairs, who was out Simultaneously, outside influence is pres- mer provincial of the Jesus, Lover of an overview of circumstances in Ukraine of the country at the time. ent, and it is no secret that Ukraine suffered Humanity Province, in the U.S. and former which particularly affect higher education The University Center @ Manor College recent invasion. If Manor College can be a general superior of the order worldwide; reform, described his meeting earlier that is a focal point in the Southeastern force of influence to enhance educational Sister Ann Laszok, Manor College alumna day with officials of Manor College’s Pennsylvania/Metro Philadelphia region for opportunities in Ukraine, then the endeav- and former Manor administrator who cur- University Center and then proceeded to a undergraduate and graduate degrees, as or for peace set forth in Manor’s mission rently is director of religious education for bilingual general question and answer well as accelerated learning, where each statement grows in its fulfillment.” the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of St. period, with simultaneous translation pro- program (from bachelor’s degrees in more Dr. Pazuniak added: “Given its unique Josaphat in Parma, Ohio, and also a council- vided by Mr. Potapenko. than eight majors to a doctoral degree in associations with area institutions of high- or of the order’s U.S. province; and Sister Later that same evening, Dr. Kvit also educational leadership, Grades K-12) is er learning, the Philadelphia Ukrainian Joann Sosler, vice-provincial of the order recorded two radio interviews. He was geared to adult learners studying with regu- American community is excited about the and, together with Sister Ann, co-director of interviewed in Ukrainian by Osyp Roszka lar university professors in a planned opportunity to assist Dr. Kvit in his endeav- the Basilian Sisters’ annual Summer English and in English by Lew Iwaskiw for the sequence on Manor College’s campus in ors to establish additional collaboration Language (ESL) Program for children in “Ukrainian Hour” of the Philadelphia/ Jenkintown, Pa. and partnerships between U.S. and four regions of Ukraine. Sisters Ann and Delaware Valley Branch of the UCCA, and Participating in the meeting from Manor Ukrainian colleges and universities.” Joann were departing for Ukraine on the fol- the “Ukrainian Hour of the UECC.” The pro- College were: President Peri; Chrystyna That afternoon, a by-invitation dinner lowing day to direct this year’s month-long grams, which are broadcast every Saturday Prokopovych, curator of the Ukrainian with Prof. Kvit at Marco Polo Ristorante program, which was founded more than 10 on WWDB-AM 860 and via its website, Heritage Studies Center; Kelly Peiffer, asso- and Bar in Elkins Park, Pa., was attended by years ago by Sister Bernarda Arkatin, OSBM. together have aired in Philadelphia for ciate director of marketing communica- Manor President Peri, 20 leaders of At 7:30 p.m., a town meeting at the almost 50 years. tions; Daniel Perez, assistant director of Philadelphia’s Ukrainian community and admissions; and Nick Zwarych, senior board members from the Shevchenko financial aid counselor. Society in Philadelphia. Accompanying Dr. Kvit to this executive In attendance also were five university meeting at Manor were: Dr. Pazuniak; Dr. and college presidents: Dr. Kvit; President Szul, a former professor at Manor College; Peri; Sister Miriam Claire Kowal, OSBM, for- and Borys Potapenko of Detroit, president mer president of Manor College; Dr. Albert of the International Council in Support of Kipa, president of the Ukrainian Academy of Ukraine (ICSU), who had escorted Dr. Kvit Arts and Sciences in the U.S., based in New throughout his travels in Washington and York; and Dr. Leonid Rudnytsky, president of the Philadelphia region. the World Council of Shevchenko Scientific Of the meeting, President Peri said: Societies, with headquarters in Lviv, and a “Minister Kvit shared with us that in Member of the National Academy of Ukraine, there are concerted and noble Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv. Profs. Kipa and efforts for reform and progress. These Rudnytsky have both served as presidents efforts are often compromised by a system of the Ukrainian Free University. In fact, that cannot untie certain leaders from ide- Prof. Kvit was once a post-doctoral student als that are historically and presently in of Prof. Rudnytsky in Munich.

pared to the general voting population, Ukrainians... they have an older age structure. Older per- sons tend to have higher voter registration (Continued from page 11) and higher voting participation rates. high in many places, but evidence shows Political influence on U.S. foreign policy that many elections have been decided by is one of the most effective ways for very small margins. It is important to point Ukrainian Americans to help Ukraine. out that these are reliable data. They are These data can be used to help achieve official Census Bureau data and cannot be electoral results that may contribute to labeled as self-serving. Ukrainian potential more positive actions regarding Ukraine by voters have the added advantage that, com- the next administration and Congress.

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July 13 Golf outing, Ukrainian Sports Club Chernyk, August 1-5 Drama technique instruction with actress Halyna Macomb, MI Cracklewood Golf Club, 586-781-0808 Jewett, NY Stefanova, Grazhda Music and Arts Center of Greene County, 518-263-4670 or www.grazhdamusicandart.org July 16 Cultural Show, “Miss Ukrainian Canada 2016,” Living Mississauga, ON Arts Center, www.livingartscentre.ca August 1-12 Folk-singing course for children, with Anna Bachynsky and Jewett, NY Melanie Serbay, Grazhda Music and Arts Center of Greene July 16 Concert, featuring violinist Anna Rabinova, cellist Andrey County, 518-263-4670 or www.grazhdamusicandart.org Jewett, NY Tchekmazov and pianist Margaret Kampmeier, Grazhda Music and Arts Center of Greene County, 518-989-6479 August 6 Memorial concert, dedicated to Grazhda founder Ihor or www.grazhdamusicandart.org Jewett, NY Sonevytsky, featuring baritone Oleh Chnyr, violinist July 17 Fund-raiser concert with Lynne Jordan and the Shivers and Anna Rabinova, cellist Natalia Khoma, pianist Chicago Oleg Skrypka, to benefit Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Volodymyr Vynnytsky and composer Myroslav Skoryk, Centers in Kyiv, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy Grazhda Music and Arts Center of Greene County, Foundation, City Winery, 773-490-9797 or [email protected] 518-989-6479 or www.grazhdamusicandart.org July 17 Captive Nations Week events, Central Park, August 6 Softball tournament, Ukrainian American Youth New York Belarusian-American Alliance, [email protected] Ellenville, NY Association camp, www.cym.org/us-ellenville

July 20 Lecture by Jessica Zychowicz, “Gender and Arts in Post- August 8-12 Gerdany (bead-stringing) and embroidery courses, Cambridge, MA Maidan Ukraine,” Harvard University, www.huri.harvard.edu Jewett, NY with instruction by Lesia Lasiy and Lubow Wolynetz, Grazhda Music and Arts Center of Greene County, July 22 125th anniversary of Ukrainian settlement in Canada, 518-263-4670 or www.grazhdamusicandart.org Ottawa with performance of “Golden Harvest” by Larysa Kuzmenko, the Gryphon Trio and the Ewashko singers, August 10 Ukrainian folk music performance by accordionists Dominion Chalmers, www.chamberfest.com/concerts New York Jaroslaw Palylyk and Walter Syzonenko, Accordions July 23 Golf tournament, Ukrainian American Youth Association, Around the World, Bryant Park, www.bryantpark.org Accord, NY Rondout Golf Club, 914-310-8207 or [email protected] August 13 Children’s recital, with Anna Bachynsky, Grazhda Music and July 25 Concert, Vesnivka Ukrainian Canadian Women’s Choir, Jewett, NY Arts Center of Greene County, www.grazhdamusicandart.org Ottawa Dominion-Chalmers United Church, www.dc-church.org August 13-14 Uketoberfest, St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian July 28-29 USCAK Youth Olympiad, at Soyuzivka Heritage Center Chicago Catholic Church, www.stjosephukr.com/uketoberfest Kerhonkson/ and the Ukrainian American Youth Association camp, Ellenville, NY www.uscak.org August 14 Meet the filmmaker and screening “Aquarium in the Jewett, NY Sea” by Oleksander Fraze-Frazenko, Grazhda Music July 29-30 Syracuse Ukrainian Festival, St. John the Baptist and Arts Center of Greene County, Syracuse, NY Ukrainian Catholic Church, www.stjohnbaptistucc.org www.grazhdamusicandart.org July 30 Theater performance with Halyna Stefanova, “Marriage” Jewett, NY based on correspondence between Ivan Franko and his Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events wife, Olha Khoruzhynska, Grazhda Music and Arts advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions Center of Greene County, 518-989-6479 from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors or www.grazhdamusicandart.org and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected].

were very much impressed by the energy Albany-area... and thoughtfulness displayed by these young and newly elected national deputies (Continued from page 17) (all were elected in 2014), and for the love leaders. The official visits arranged through they have for a united Ukraine. the Open World Leadership Center in The national deputies said the Ukrainian Washington went morning until evening on American community’s activities and reso- Thursday and Friday, June 23-24. luteness in support of Ukraine was an The Ukrainian-American Cultural Center inspiration for them. They pledged to hosted a dinner for the visiting delegation return home more determined than ever to and host families on Friday evening, fol- reform and rebuild Ukraine. lowed by a community meet-and-greet On Sunday, June 26, the host families bid event at the Ukrainian-American Citizens the entire delegation a fond farewell at Club, also located in Watervliet. Albany International Airport, wishing them The Rada national deputies addressed safe travels back home and future success the gathering by giving individual opening in their work in Ukraine. remarks, noting the warm welcome The U.S. Congress established Open received and the surprise of finding so World in 1999 to enhance understanding many Ukrainian Americans in the diaspora. and capabilities for cooperation between They uniformly commented that this visit the United States and Russia. In 2003, gave them one of the first opportunities Congress made all post-Soviet states eligible they’d had to meet anyone from the diaspo- for the program. Open World is managed by ra. They were very much impressed by the the Open World Leadership Center, a sepa- diaspora’s retention of Ukrainian language, rate entity within the U.S. legislative branch culture and traditions, while creating a host with offices at the Library of Congress that of institutions to hold the community aims to enhance understanding and capa- together. bilities for cooperation between the people The deputies commented on current of the United States and the countries of conditions and challenges that face Eastern Europe, Eurasia and the Baltic Ukraine. They explained how they held a states, by developing a network of leaders number of discussions with congressional in the region who have gained significant, leaders to explain the need for the U.S. to first-hand exposure to democratic govern- change its policy and release more modern ment, the free-market system and nongov- armaments to employ against the better ernmental sector in the U.S. equipped militants in eastern Ukraine. Open World focuses both on assisting They said the congressmen with whom the Congress in its oversight responsibili- they spoke encouraged all in the communi- ties and on conducting exchanges that ty to contact their local congressional rep- establish lasting relationships between the resentatives to voice their support for up-and-coming leaders of Open World equipping the Ukrainian army with up-to- countries and Americans dedicated to date weaponry. showcasing U.S. values and democratic Community members in attendance institutions. No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 21

Ukrainian-Polish... (Continued from page 7) There is little doubt that what happened with the Ukrainians in Poland was an attempted genocide as clearly defined by the subsequent convention on this subject at the United Nations. Today, Ukraine and Poland are allies by necessity. Many Ukrainians and Poles are genuine friends by choice. For a long time there has been much inter-marriage. I myself am a Ukrainian American of both Ukrainian and Polish ancestry. Most Ukrainians, even the Lemkos, have learned to move on – although not necessarily to forget. The Lemko Ukrainians are a special people in this regard. No one has suffered more at the hands of the Poles. Most Lemkos consider today’s Ukraine their country despite the fact that it does not include their ancestral lands. Lemkivshchyna is within Poland’s borders. The president of the Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna, the organiz- er of the Lemko Vatra, told me: “We Lemkos are very hurt by the Soviet/ Polish actions after World War II, but we are a peaceful people with Christian princi- ples. So, we have found a way to move on and survive. We are proud of our heritage, and we are proud to be a part of the Ukrainian nation. And we will defend the Lemko-Ukrainian position, but we prefer to do it without hate. The Lemko Vatra will burn eternal.” Still there remain shameless Polish voic- es that speak of being aggrieved by Ukrainian aggression, singularly citing the Volyn mutual tragedy when, in the midst of World War II, Volyn was a battlefield for the Nazi regular forces, Soviet forces, the Polish Armija Krajova, the UPA, and various partisan groups. Perhaps they should take a page from the Lemkos to whom they have never apologized. There is a lesson to be learned here. For the people who trace their roots to Lemkivshchyna, their country today is the independent and democratic Ukraine, which is simultaneously celebrating the 25th anniversary of its renewed indepen- dence and fighting a war on behalf of Europe and the global civilized community against Russian aggression. I suspect that it was very difficult for any Lemko to for- give the Poles. But many have, even as they recall and honor their many victims. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 No. 28

Nancy Dries Nancy Dries U-10 finalists: Ukrainian Nationals Zoriany Black. U-12 finalists: Ukrainian Nationals Zirka White. 195 teams compete over Memorial Day weekend in Ukrainian Nationals Youth Soccer Tournament

by Eugene A. Luciw HORSHAM, Pa. – Over the Memorial Day weekend, the Ukrainian American Sport Center Tryzub hosted its 15th annual Ukrainian Nationals Soccer Tournament. Youth teams from throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and five other mid-Atlantic states entered the competition along with teams from the Toronto-based Ukrainian soccer club Karpaty. Tournament play in age brackets, from Under-8 (U-8) through Under-19 (U-19) boys and U-8 through U-18 girls, progressed over the weekend on not only the Ukrainian Nationals’ six home fields at its sport center, which is known as Tryzubivka, but also on many more pitches in the area. The competition began on Friday night under the lights of two Tryzubivka fields, progressed throughout the day on Saturday and culminated in a long sequence of Sunday finals, all of which took place on Tryzub’s home fields. The weather was simply brilliant, with a challenging heat throughout most of the weekend. A soccer moms and dads appreciation night featuring a popular rock band, Fake Uncle Jack, also highlighted the event. Hundreds of parents and competitors gathered in the Victoria Buynevich Ukrainian American Sport Center’s clubhouse, lighted festi- U-15 champions: Ukrainian Nationals Chornomorets Red.

2016 Ukrainian Nationals Memorial Day Tournament val grove and pavilions. The evening culminated in a special salute and ceremony honoring America’s fallen heroes. Champions Finalists As a further tribute to America’s war veterans, to all of u8 Gold Boys PA Rush Academy 07 Lower Southampton Dynamo United those who paid a price for our freedom, Tryzub lined its u9 Gold Boys Ukrainian Nationals Shakhtar Black Upper Dublin Black Vipers pk’s driveway with a sequence of historical U.S. flags, from the u9 Silver Boys Northeast Optimist FC PA Rush Academy Blue original 13-star version to the current standard. A gener- u10 Gold Boys Ukrainian Nationals Bohatyri Black Hulmeville Berzerkers ous donation was made to the Travis Manion Foundation, u10 Silver Boys Ukrainian Nationals Bohatyri Red Deep Run Valley Arsenal White by points which supports thousands of veterans and their families. u11 Gold Boys Ukrainian Nationals Metalurh Red Ukrainian Nationals Metalurh Black Dedicated to sharing the stories and carrying on the lega- cies of fallen heroes, the foundation’s website notes: u11 Silver Boys Salisbury United 04 Maroon Ukrainian Nationals Metalurh Gray “Travis Manion Foundation honors the fallen by challeng- u12 Gold 8v8 Boys Eastern Northampton Red Ukrainian Nationals Zirka White ing the living: We assist our nation’s veterans and service u12 Silver 8v8 Boys Clarkstown 04 White Lower Macungie Fury by points members, and support families of fallen heroes.” u12 Gold 11v11 Boys Ukrainian Nationals Zirka Black Stronghold Attack by points UASC Tryzub presented the champions and finalists u13 Gold Boys Salisbury United 02 Gold Montgomery United Rovers OT with trophies depicting the Ukrainian tryzub (trident) u13 Silver Boys Ukrainian Sports Club Karpaty (Toronto) Salisbury United 02 Maroon against the protective background of the American flag. u14 Gold Boys Salisbury United 01 Gold Hunter Rangers The awards ceremony emphasized the dedication of the u14 Silver Boys Eastern Northampton Red Deep Run Valley United FC Black OT tournament to the memory of all of those who established, u15 Gold Boys Ukrainian Nationals Chornomorets Red Rancocas Valley Attack defended and protect America’s freedom. Parallel mention u16-17 Gold Boys Stronghold Dynamo Ukrainian Nationals Lightning Black by points was also made of the Ukrainian people’s ongoing struggle u18-19 Gold Boys Montgomery United Celtic Whitpain Rockets U18 for freedom and human dignity. u8 Gold Girls Clarkstown 08 White Deep Run Valley Spirit All of these messages were extremely well received by u9 Gold Girls Perry Hall White Marsh City Premier Perry Hall White Marsh City Classic the many hundreds of players, their families and friends. u10 Gold Girls Deep Run Valley Blue Wave Ukrainian Nationals Zoriany Black u10 Silver Girls Fishtown Elite Fusion 06/07 Ukrainian Nationals Zoriany Red u11 Gold Girls Methacton United Liberty PA Rush ‘04 by points Wherever you are, u11 Silver Girls Montgomery United Juventus PA Rush Nero 04 u12 Gold 8v8 Girls Central Susquehanna Strikers Moorestown Force by points The Ukrainian Weekly u12 Silver 8v8 Girls North Union United 03 Lady Cannons Yardley-Makefield Warriors u12 Gold 11v11 Girls Ukrainian Nationals Napadachi Black U11 FC Bucks North Vipers can be there with you u13 Gold Girls Ukrainian Nationals Helios Black Perry Hall White Marsh Fury u13 Silver Girls Horsham Dynamite Perry Hall White Marsh Patriots Check out The Ukrainian Weekly u14 Gold Girls North Union United 01 Lady Cannons PA Rush Nero 01 by points online at u15 Gold Girls Ukrainian Nationals Vorskla Black Salisbury United 00 Gold u17-18 Gold Girls Warminster Warriors U17 Salisbury United 97 Gold www.ukrweekly.com No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 23 UKELODEON For The Next Generation Passaic Plast member earns rank of maritime eagle scout

by Ruta Odulak PASSAIC, N.J. – Before the sum- mer begins, branches of Plast Ukrai- nian Scouting Organization look back at the accomplishments that they made over the past year. Plast Troop 31, based in Passaic, N.J., was lucky to have one of its members, Matej Handzy, lead by example this year when he received one of the highest specialized ranks in Plast: maritime eagle scout. At his first Morskyi Tabir (Plast Sea Scouting Camp) in 2013, Matej did not quite know what to expect when he began working on the first of the 39 Andrew Zwarych Andrew Zwarych Matej Handzy is flanked by the U.S. national director of maritime and aviation scout- tasks and projects that are required in Matej Handzy sports his new badge. ing, Markian Kuzmowycz (left), and his father, Damian Handzy. order to receive this rank. The re- quired tasks varied from simple ones, the amount of work that is involved the rank and presented the patch to Passaic’s Plast branch, of which I such as learning various sailing knots in this journey. “My father said it was that Matej now wears proudly on the am a proud member. I can say with and the history of sea scouting, to very difficult to complete, and while sleeve of his Plast uniform. confidence that Matej has inspired more difficult projects, like building a many start [work this rank], most do For me personally, it was a very and will continue to inspire young mast and a fully functioning dock. not finish. And while he may have special moment to see Matej be- members of Plast to take pride and After three summers of hard work, hyped up how special it was to receive ing congratulated by his father, who work towards going above and be- Matej became the 27th recorded re- such a distinction, I can’t say it has wears the same patch. His huge yond within Plast Ukrainian Scouting cipient in the world of the Plast rank disappointed,” Matej commented. accomplishment truly brought honor Organization. of maritime eagle scout. Over the course of the three sum- One could say that becoming a mers spent at Morskyi Tabir, dur- maritime eagle scout runs in the fam- ing which Matej worked on various Mishanyna ily. Matej’s father, Damian Handzy requirements, he did encounter a few became the seventh recorded re- roadblocks. He said that although July is a month that sees many of our young readers attending cipient of this distinguished title 30 there was a sense of excitement for summer camp. Whether you go to dance camp or sports camp, years earlier. the end result, it was hard to con- Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization or Ukrainian American But this not the first time that a stantly stay motivated with such a Youth Association, you will need at least some of the items below. father-son duo have both achieved daunting list of projects. “I would say this rank. In fact, George Kuzmowycz that it is self-driven, but you do get BATHING SUIT JACKET TENNIS RACKET and his son, Markian, as well as his some encouragement on the way,” he BUG SPRAY PILLOW TOWEL two daughters, Tatiana and Katria, noted. “It is different from the eagle DANCE SHOES RAIN BOOTS UNIFORM all earned the maritime eagle scout scout process, where you have lead- SLEEPING BAG VYSHYVANKA rank. Markian Kuzmowycz is Plast’s ers working with you; for [maritime FLASHLIGHT SNEAKERS (Ukrainian shirt) current national director for maritime eagle scout] you have to be very self- and aviation scouting in the United sufficient and self-motivated.” States, and also the one who worked After all of his hard work, this past with Matej to achieve this rank. January Matej recited the “Oath of the Mr. Handzy was able to offer Matej Sea Scout,” and Markian Kuzmowycz, positive encouragement throughout U.S. national director for maritime the process, but was sure to express and aviation scouting, awarded him

Darka Temnycky Markian Kuzmowycz, U.S. national director for maritime and aviation scouting, con- gratulates Matej Handzy. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 No. 28

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