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ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXIII No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 $2.00 Saakashvili, Yatsenyuk spar Corruption alleged over Ukrainian reforms at top government rungs by Zenon Zawada see what such a coalition is doing and what good is it for the country.” KYIV – When it comes to reforms, Just as the latest accusations were Ukrainians are more concerned about cor- lobbed came the latest wave of arrests of ruption than any other issue, according to allegedly corrupt officials. Among them a poll conducted in late July by Kyiv’s was Yaroslav Kashuba, the head of the Razumkov Center and the Kucheriv State Employment Service, who was Democratic Initiatives Fund. arrested – along with two of his deputies – When asked to choose five spheres of on charges of bribery and stealing state reform as most important, about 65 per- funds on September 14, just nearly two cent of the 2,011 respondents cited anti- months after the agency was created. corruption reform, about 58 percent cited Two days later, Social Policy Minister legal reforms and about 40 percent select- Pavlo Rozenko announced he dismissed all ed pension and social security reform. of the service’s central and regional direc- Yet the very leaders of Ukrainian politics tors. and business remain as engrossed in cor- In addition, the latest batch of anti-cor- ruption as ever, if the accusations they’re ruption legislation came through the The Odesa Oblast’s governor, Mikheil Saakashvili, and Ukraine’s Prime Minister flinging at each other on a weekly basis are Parliament’s pipeline this week. Arseniy Yatsenyuk, as seen in their profile photos from Facebook. to be believed. The latest such attack came Though it failed to muster enough votes on September 15 from Vice Prime Minister to accept Mr. Voshchenskyi’s resignation, ‘Oligarchic interests’ RFE/RL Valerii Voshchevskyi when alleging to the the Verkhovna Rada approved a bill on Ukraine has long been beset by political September 15 that reforms state tenders A war of words has erupted between Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s Parliament, infighting and ruthless jostling for power (auctions of state assets) to confirm with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy that the president exclusively controls the among its tycoons, a caste from which Mr. international standards, which will limit Yatsenyuk and former Georgian President energy ministry. Poroshenko, a billionaire chocolate manu- corruption risks and enhance public Mikheil Saakashvili, now governor of “The rivalry between the two heads of facturer, emerged to win last year’s presi- access. Ukraine’s Odesa Oblast, over the pace and the executive government is so obvious dential election after ex-President Viktor For instance, the bill improves transpar- depth of reforms being implemented by the that they are not only disrupting the ener- Yanukovych fled the country amid mass ency by requiring the disclosure of the final government in Kyiv. gy sphere, but all of Ukraine,” said Mr. unrest. owners of companies participating in state Mr. Saakashvili lashed into Mr. Voshchevskyi, a member of Oleh Liashko’s Tensions between Messrs. Yatsenyuk tenders. Yatsenyuk’s reform agenda during a Radical Party who submitted his resigna- and Poroshenko – as well as other oppo- Yet these measures don’t impress Mr. September 3 television interview with tion on September 1. nents of the previous regime – have sur- “In that locomotive called the govern- Oleshchuk. Very few arrested state officials Ukraine’s Channel 5 network, saying govern- faced since the Euro-Maidan protests that are put on trial or convicted, he said, “and ment institutions were suffering from “paral- ment, there are two conductors: one on helped oust Mr. Yanukovych, a Kremlin ally, Bankova, and the other on Hrushevskoho. they’re usually replaced with someone ysis” and accusing officials in Kyiv of “sabo- in February 2014. more desired.” tage” against his own reform efforts. And each is driving but that locomotive These fissures are widely seen as capa- isn’t going anywhere. It’s standing. That’s Meanwhile, transparency in tenders “Decisions about reforms are not being ble of derailing reforms and plunging the doesn’t mean much when prosecutors and made,” Mr. Saakashvili told the network the problem today.” country into further political turmoil at a [Editor’s Note – “Bankova” is a reference judges won’t do anything with this infor- owned by Ukrainian President Petro time when Ukraine continues to battle pro- mation. Poroshenko, who tapped the former to the Presidential Administration while Russian militants in the east of the country “Hrushevskoho” refers to the Cabinet of “Nothing will come of the fight against Georgian leader to head the Odesa region despite a fragile ceasefire reached in Minsk corruption without a complete overhaul of in May. “What the government is calling Ministers.] in February. It’s the failure of Ukraine’s top leaders to the entire legal system along the lines of reforms, I can’t call reforms.” Mr. Saakashvili, a longtime friend of Mr. Georgia,” Mr. Olehshchuk said. “They’re Speaking in Russian, Mr. Saakashvili deal with their own rivalries, and the cor- Poroshenko’s, is widely credited with con- ruption at the center of these rivalries, that simply using this fight against corruption added that he had heard Mr. Yatsenyuk “call ducting sweeping reforms in his native as a smokescreen for resolving their own raising tariffs reforms.” has hindered attempts to address graft on Georgia, including a harsh crackdown on all other levels of society, observers said. personal issues.” “I don’t call those reforms,” he said. “I call drugs and government corruption. that the consequences of the economic cri- “Corrupt politicians were trusted with Petro Poroshenko He has appeared committed to launch- the fight against corruption, which is at the sis, the consequences of what is happening ing similar efforts in Odesa, whose epony- root of the problem,” said Petro Oleshchuk, The Ukrainian president is under con- in the country. Tariffs indeed need to be mous main city is a notorious hub for crime a political science lecturer at Shevchenko stant criticism for pursuing his business raised. But this is not reform.” and drug trafficking and has come under National University in Kyiv. interests while serving as president, which Mr. Yatsenyuk responded sharply at a additional pressure with the arrival of is forbidden for state officials to do in most The corruption has gotten so bad that in September 4 Cabinet meeting, describing Ukrainians displaced by war to the east. developed countries. his remarks, Mr. Voshchevskyi called for Mr. Saakashvili’s criticism as “deceitful A recent petition posted on the His Roshen confectionary retail chain the government to resign, as did former accusations” that will only hamper Ukrainian president’s newly launched has swelled since he became president, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the Ukraine’s reform efforts. online initiative to court voters’ ideas pro- opening new stores in Kyiv, Kharkiv and leader of the Batkivshchyna parliamentary “I understand how difficult things are for posed appointing Mr. Saakashvili to Mr. throughout Ukraine, even reaching towns faction, just a day earlier. him,” Mr. Yatsenyuk said, according to an Yatsenyuk’s post in order to speed reforms. such as Liubar in the Zhytomyr region. The “Either this coalition ends its corruption official transcript. “They’re difficult for The petition had garnered 550 signa- company didn’t respond to a request by and dismisses this absolutely unprofes- everyone. We can all agree on this. For that tures as of September 4, well below the The Ukrainian Weekly to confirm how sional and corrupt government, and forms reason, emotions and baseless accusations 25,000 required for consideration by the many new stores have been opened. a new government with people who have play into the hands of those who are government. He’s also been exposed for pursuing against reforms in the country and those dignity, morality, honor and intellect to who are against real change in Ukraine.” (Continued on page 8) build the country,” she said. “Or we don’t (Continued on page 8) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 No. 38

ANALYSIS

Ukraine’s pro-government parties Court extends Savchenko’s detention Petition wants Saakashvili as PM MOSCOW – A Russian court on KYIV – Former Georgian President September 15 ruled that Ukrainian helicop- Mikheil Saakashvili’s supporters in Ukraine join forces ahead of local elections ter pilot Nadia Savchenko must stay in a have collected more than 26,000 signatures by Oleg Varfolomeyev popular support has hovered at just 2-3 Russian jail for at least another six months on a petition recommending him to Eurasia Daily Monitor percent among the electorate (Forbes.net. as her trial continues. Ms. Savchenko, become Ukraine’s prime minister, it was ua, August 31). already in pre-trial detention since June reported on September 9. Mr. Saakashvili, The parties of President Petro With UDAR and the People’s Front polit- 2014, faces up to 25 years in prison for who has been governing Ukraine’s Odesa Poroshenko, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko and ically neutralized, Mr. Poroshenko’s team what Russian authorities allege was partici- Oblast since May, has said that he did not Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk have can now presumably concentrate on fight- pation in the 2014 killing of two Russian see himself as Ukraine’s prime minister. joined forces ahead of the local elections ing the Opposition Bloc in the densely pop- war correspondents in eastern Ukraine. Ms. President Petro Poroshenko introduced an scheduled for October 25. This is in order to ulated Russian-speaking areas in eastern Savchenko, who denies the charges, says online petition system in August according defeat the Opposition Bloc, which is associ- and southern Ukraine. The Opposition Bloc she was captured by pro-Russian separat- to which any petition drive that collects at ated with the government overthrown in is especially popular in the Donetsk and ists in eastern Ukraine who illegally trans- least 25,000 signatures in three months or February 2014; oligarchic groups such as Luhansk oblasts, which have been most ferred her across the border into Russia. less has to be considered by the president. the Ukrainian Alliance of Patriots (UKROP), directly affected by war. This party, headed Ms. Savchenko appeared in court on The petition supporting Mr. Saakashvili’s linked to Dnipropetrovsk-based business- by former Energy Minister Yurii Boiko, is September 15 in the town of Donetsk, in candidacy for the prime minister’s post man Ihor Kolomoisky; as well as more pop- essentially heir to the Party of Regions, Russia’s southern Rostov Oblast, near the was officially submitted on September 3. ulist-leaning factions, such as the Radical which had been the ruling party until its border with eastern Ukraine for a second The same day, Ukraine’s Channel 5 televi- Party and Yulia Tymoshenko’s leader and then-president, Viktor preliminary hearing after her lawyers’ sion network, which is owned by Mr. Batkivshchyna party. The Opposition Bloc is Yanukovych, fled Ukraine in February request for the trial to be moved to Moscow Poroshenko, aired an interview with Mr. especially strong in Ukraine’s eastern areas, 2014. The Opposition Bloc scored 10 per- was denied. The court on September 15 Saakashvili, who lambasted current Prime which are affected by the war with Russia- cent of the vote in the 2014 parliamentary rejected calls to release Ms. Savchenko dur- Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s reform agen- backed militants. A recent decision by the election – more than any other opposition ing the trial on the basis of her diplomatic da. Mr. Yatsenyuk responded sharply at a Central Election Commission (CEC) not to party. And its result is likely to be about the immunity as a Ukrainian delegate to the September 4 Cabinet meeting, describing hold elections in several population centers same this year, according to opinion polls Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Mr. Saakashvili’s criticism as “deceitful may further enfeeble the Opposition Bloc. (Podrobnosti.ua, August 27; Pravda.com. Europe. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by accusations.” (RFE/RL, based on reporting Mr. Klitschko’s Ukrainian Democratic ua, June 11). Agence France-Presse, rapsinews.ru and by UNIAN and president.gov.ua) Alliance for Reforms (UDAR) formalized its Interfax) Election in the east merger with the Petro Poroshenko Bloc- Moscow: Yatsenyuk fought with Chechens EU extends sanctions on Russia Solidarity at a unification conference on The government has tried to diminish MOSCOW – A top Russian law enforce- August 28. UDAR will receive only 30 per- the Opposition Bloc’s voter base, using BRUSSELS – The European Union has ment official has accused Ukrainian Prime cent of the spots on Solidarity’s list for the security concerns as a pretext. The gover- extended by six months a visa ban and Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk of fighting local elections, with the exception of Kyiv nors of Donetsk and Luhansk, Pavlo asset freeze targeting several close associ- alongside Chechen rebels and torturing and Lviv, where lists will be divided half Zhebrivsky and Heorhii Tuka, respectively, ates of Russian President Vladimir Putin and killing Russian soldiers during and half. But as compensation, Mr. who were both hand-picked by Mr. and others involved in Russia’s annexation Moscow’s bloody war with separatists in Klitschko replaced Yurii Lutsenko as the Poroshenko, have asked the CEC not to of Crimea and the pro-Russian rebellion in the 1990s. Aleksandr Bastrykin, the power- unified party’s chairman (Rbc.ua, August hold local elections in several government- eastern Ukraine. The EU said on September ful head of Russia’s Investigative 28). UDAR’s merger with Solidarity had held areas in the two oblasts, citing securi- 14 that the “assessment of the situation did Committee, made the assertions in an been only a matter of time since Mr. ty concerns (Ukrinform.ua, August 25). The not justify a change in the regime of sanc- interview published on September 8 on the Klitschko bowed out of the presidential CEC agreed with their reasoning, ruling tions” under which 149 people and 37 enti- website of the Russian government’s offi- race in favor of Mr. Poroshenko in spring that there would be no elections not only in ties are currently listed. The 28-nation EU cial daily newspaper, Rossiiskaya Gazeta. 2014. such government-held towns as Avdiyivka has coordinated its sanctions in close coop- Mr. Yatsenyuk worked as a lawyer, a banker Also on August 28, Mr. Yatsenyuk and Maryinka, which have been regularly eration with Washington. The extension and an economist before his appointment declared that his party, People’s Front, shelled by the militants, but also in the rela- came amid continued unrest in eastern last year as prime minister following the would not field candidates in the local tively peaceful Artemivsk and Ukraine throughout the year. Despite a ouster of former Ukrainian President elections. He said that “democratic forces” Kostiantynivka. ceasefire declared in February, both Viktor Yanukovych, a Kremlin ally, amid should be united for the sake of reforms At the same time, the CEC allowed elec- Ukrainian troops and the pro-Russia sepa- mass protests. His official biography gives (Interfax, August 28). This is apparently tions in the city of Mariupol, which is closer ratists carried out regular artillery strikes no indication of military service. Mr. the first step toward the People’s Front to the frontline and is the biggest govern- until they pledged anew to implement the Bastrykin claimed in the interview that Mr. also merging with Mr. Poroshenko’s party. ment-held city in the area (Cvk.gov.ua, truce from September 1. (RFE/RL, based Yatsenyuk “participated in at least two The news portal Lb.ua reported that August 29). Mr. Poroshenko called on the on reporting by the Associated Press and Solidarity and People’s Front signed a government to do its utmost to organize Deutsche Presse-Agentur) (Continued on page 12) secret unification agreement, according to elections in Mariupol (president.gov.ua, which People’s Front representatives will August 29). The situation around Mariupol be entitled to 25 percent of posts in the has been especially closely monitored by leadership of a unified party (Lb.ua, Western powers and the Organization for FOUNDED 1933 August 26). 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Action plan to end war in Ukraine charted at Berlin meeting

by Vladimir Socor Kyiv, ahead of the Verkhovna Rada’s August will certainly not be resolved by December. with Donetsk-Luhansk, seeking “mutually Eurasia Daily Monitor 31 vote on the constitutional status of the 3.) Halting Russian/proxy harassment of acceptable solutions,” instead of Kyiv legis- Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine’s OSCE’s monitoring mission: According to lating solutions “unilaterally.” An overall consensus, in broad outline, east. Apparently satisfied with the vote’s Chancellor Merkel at this meeting, “the On August 31, the Verkhovna Rada seems to have taken shape among the main outcome, Russian and proxy forces OSCE’s ability to operate freely is the alpha passed the constitutional amendment on European players, pre-eminently Moscow declared a complete ceasefire as of 00:00 and omega of sustaining the armistice.” the Russian-controlled territory’s self- and Berlin, to accelerate a solution to the hours, on September 1, which is holding for However, Ms. Merkel lamented, the mis- administration in the first reading conflict in Ukraine by the end of this year, now (Interfax, September 1, 2). sion’s monitors are physically threatened, (Ukrinform, August 31, September 1). on Russia’s terms. German Chancellor 2.) Pullback of light artillery and tanks: their movements and access restricted, and Whether Kyiv’s “unilateral” enactment Angela Merkel hosted a meeting in Berlin The proposed pullback would create a the mission’s unmanned aerial vehicles – would satisfy Moscow, in content and pro- on August 24, in an unprecedented “buffer zone” to a depth of 15 kilometers “which we have so painstakingly supplied” cedure, seems far from certain. Moscow “Normandy minus Russia” format, though on either side of the demarcation line. This – are being jammed (Bundeskanzlerin.de, may well encourage Donetsk and Luhansk in basic consensus with Moscow (see does not form a part of the Minsk ceasefire August 24). The chancellor’s readout did to insist on a negotiated, “mutually accept- Eurasia Daily Monitor, September 2). (February 12). It is, instead, a more recent not name the perpetrators, although the able” constitutional status. This is, almost Chancellor Merkel, Ukrainian President innovation, designed to mitigate somewhat OSCE’s reports can no longer avoid point- certainly, the main part of those persisting Petro Poroshenko and French President that ceasefire’s ineffectiveness (see EDM, ing at Russia’s proxies (osce.org, July and “differences” to which Ms. Merkel alluded François Hollande (three of the four August 14). The August 31 meeting in August 2015). Ms. Merkel’s remarks in her August 24 readout of the Berlin Normandy parties) have set out a sequence Berlin, however, could not advance this amount to an admission that Ukraine can- meeting. of steps to settle this conflict on conditions proposal, since the Organization for not have a reliable ceasefire unless it The fifth step in the sequence outlined acceptable to Moscow. They aim to com- Security and Cooperation in Europe’s accepts Russia’s terms on a political settle- in that meeting refers to holding elections plete the main work at a high tempo by (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) ment of the conflict. Russia expects further in the Russian-controlled Donetsk- December 31, the deadline imposed by the is prevented from verifying pullbacks in the decisions in the weeks ahead on the consti- Luhansk: Local elections there would go Minsk armistice Russian-controlled territory. tutional status of Donetsk-Luhansk and the hand in hand with that territory’s constitu- According to German and French read- Furthermore, Moscow wants Kyiv to holding of “elections” there. In that case, tional status in Ukraine (currently in the outs and follow-up actions, the Berlin sign the buffer zone agreement with Moscow will itself be interested in a show process of being enacted as “self-adminis- meeting has set out the sequence of steps Donetsk and Luhansk at senior levels. This of constructive cooperation with the OSCE tration”). To exercise that status, the toward that end. would exonerate Russia of its responsibili- for the duration of elections. authorities in Donetsk-Luhansk must be 1.) Ceasefire: The participants in the ty as an active belligerent, would instead 4.) Status of the Russian-controlled ter- deemed legitimately elected, in confor- August 24 meeting appealed for a full, veri- portray the war as internal to Ukraine, and ritory in Donetsk-Luhansk: Ms. Merkel and mance with OSCE standards, as part of fiable ceasefire to be in place by September could legitimize not simply the Donetsk Mr. Hollande praised Mr. Poroshenko’s Ukraine’s nation-wide local elections 1. Ukraine had all along been calling for an and Luhansk “people’s republics” (DPR- “great efforts” to enshrine that territory’s scheduled for October 25. immediate and effective ceasefire, with LPR) as such, but their military organiza- self-administration in an amendment to Moscow, Berlin and Paris in the particular urgency during August, when it tions also. In practical terms, the buffer Ukraine’s Constitution. “It is not easy,” they Normandy group, as well as Washington faced multiple attacks along the demarca- zone, or indeed the Minsk ceasefire, could conceded, “to muster a majority for pas- and the OSCE, all follow this legalistic tion line (see EDM, August 13). The August only work if the OSCE would monitor the sage of this act in the Ukrainian approach. Politically, however, Russia 24 appeal from Berlin notwithstanding, Ukrainian side of the Ukraine-Russia bor- Parliament.” Undoubtedly, they asked Mr. would recognize the outcome of elections another round of Russian/proxy attacks der. Russian and Donetsk-Luhansk forces, Poroshenko to guarantee a majority in the in that territory regardless of any stan- followed on August 26-28, killing 11 and however, control a 400-kilometer section Verkhovna Rada’s August 31 vote; which he dards. Ukraine’s Western partners suggest went on to deliver. Nevertheless, Ms. injuring 26 Ukrainian soldiers (President. of that border from what is legally the that such elections could be validated if the Merkel’s readout of the meeting hinted at a gov.ua, August 27–29). This seemed Ukrainian side, and do not allow the OSCE OSCE’s Office of Democratic Institutions deeper problem: “there are differences designed to be a demonstration effect on to operate along that section. This matter and Human Rights (ODIHR) assists with with Russia on this matter; it is imperative preparing those elections, monitors them to overcome those differences” and determines that they complied with (Bundeskanzlerin.de, Elysee.fr, August 24). the OSCE’s standards. Indeed, on August 20, Berlin had hosted Ukraine has, all along, argued that no ‘Significant progress’ reported a meeting of legal experts from all four valid elections would be possible under the Normandy countries to discuss the rule of the Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s Ukrainian constitutional amendment, as republics,” under Russian military occupa- well as “elections” to be held in the at latest Ukraine peace talks tion and with mass-scale population dis- Russian-controlled territory. In that August Mr. Steinmeier said all parties reaf- placements. Such elections could only be, RFE/RL 20 meeting, the Russians quoted the Minsk firmed that the truce “now needs to be fur- in Kyiv’s words, “fake elections.” President armistice chapter and verse. It states that BERLIN – German Foreign Affairs Minister ther consolidated and secured.” Poroshenko and the governing coalition Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said “significant Germany’s top diplomat also said there Kyiv must negotiate the constitutional progress” had been made toward a resolu- was some progress on the legal ground- amendment and the election modalities (Continued on page 8) tion of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. work toward holding local elections in Speaking after a three-and-a-half-hour eastern Ukraine. meeting with his French, Russian and Ukraine scheduled its vote on October Ukrainian counterparts in Berlin on 25, while self-proclaimed leaders of the September 12, Mr. Steinmeier said the talks rebel-controlled Luhansk and Donetsk Ukrainian National Deputy Hanna Hopko had been “less confrontational” than previ- regions said they would hold their own ous ones and that the ministers “made elections on October 18 and November 1, on the controversial decentralization vote headway in some critical things.” respectively, drawing protests from Kyiv. Mr. Steinmeier said the warring sides Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei August 31 was marked with violent clash- Today’s constitutional amendment vote were now “very close” to an agreement on Lavrov said differences remained on the es in Kyiv over a key decentralization reform is an important step towards comprehen- withdrawing weapons from the frontline issue, but “the general impression is that vote in the Ukrainian Parliament. The reform sive change in Ukraine. Decentralization, between Ukrainian government forces and these differences can be overcome.” has its proponents and critics, the main point moving the power to the localities – com- Russian-backed separatists. The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France, of contention being provisions for special munities, counties and regions – is one key Ukrainian and rebel forces have blamed and Germany are due to meet in Paris on local governance in certain Donbas counties demand of the Maidan revolution which is each other for repeated breaches of a October 2 to discuss efforts to resolve the currently occupied by Russia’s hybrid troops. now implemented via constitutional ceasefire agreement reached in Minsk in conflict in Ukraine. Hanna Hopko, a Euro-Maidan activist, front- amendments. This is why it was so impor- February, but both sides are now broadly With reporting by Deutsche Presse- runner of the pro-Europe Samopomich party tant for me to vote for these changes. This respecting a renewed truce that came into Agentur, the Associated Press, Agence during the 2014 parliamentary elections and is also the reason why those who don’t effect on September 1. France-Presse and Reuters. winner of Foreign Policy’s 2014 Global want to give away power and money from Thinkers award, voted for the decentraliza- the capital to the localities feel it’s so tion constitutional amendments along with important to disrupt those changes. Here’s four other members of the Samopomich fac- the root of the lies that the law has provi- Quotable notes tion and was expelled for going against sions on “special status of Donbas” or “rec- Samopomich’s rejection of the law. ognizing LPR and DPR.” The law’s draft has “While I do not typically monitor the elections of imaginary countries, I am grate- In a post on Facebook, Ms. Hopko none of that. The very fact that the draft ful for this unique invitation. has no concessions to Russia but just a ref- explained her reasons for supporting the “If the so-called ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’ is interested in democratic elections, I erence to a separate law regulating local decentralization bill and sharply criticized its suggest its adherents put down their weapons and participate in the next round of governance in certain counties of Donbas critics, the instigators of the clashes and elections in a free and united Ukraine.” does not give any privileges to these Samopomich’s slip into what she calls regions and also becomes Ukraine’s flexible “Bolshevik authoritarianism.” (The text – Sen. John Mc Cain (R-Ariz.) in a September 14 statement reacting to an invitation tool for returning those territories, sets to serve as an election monitor in the unrecognized “Luhansk People’s Republic.” The below, which was posted online by Moscow’s teeth on end. invitation came from the LPR’s self-proclaimed leader Igor Plotnitsky. Euromaidan Press, was translated by Kirill Mikhailov.) (Continued on page 4) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 No. 38

Ukrainian National... Crimean Tatars call for blockade of Crimea (Continued from page 3) Those who campaign against constitutional amend- Ukraine Crisis Media Center According to Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev, it is not only a question of foodstuffs. Ukraine supplies 85 ments are voluntarily or involuntarily supporting the KYIV – Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea, experts percent of electricity and about 80 percent of water, espe- aggressor in reaching several goals – provoking civic con- have come to a common conclusion that is also supported cially irrigation water, to Crimea. “Before the occupation, flict, breaking the parliamentary coalition, disrupting by the Crimean civic activists: to stop supplying any goods such costs were covered by tourism or business trips. Now decentralization reforms and removing Western support from the mainland to the peninsula and, in this way, block- Ukraine does not get anything,” said Mr. Dzhemilev. from Ukraine. This is a plan to weaken Ukraine and give ade Crimea. The only argument against the blockade is the moral Moscow a free hand in escalating the aggression, which Also since the annexation, two new laws have been aspect, as our people are still in Crimea. “This argument is could have grave consequences for our country. introduced to Ukrainian legislation. These are the law “On ridiculous, because according to all international laws, it is The most cynical part is that the attack on the amendment citizens’ rights and freedoms and legal regime in the tem- the invader who must provide food, electricity and other draft is done under patriotic slogans. In truth, it defends the porarily occupied territory of Crimea” and the law “On benefits,” said Mr. Dzhemilev. Another argument Mr. interests of several parties ahead of the local elections, the creating the ‘Crimea’ free economic zone and on economic Dzhemilev said he heard is that Ukraine supplies this food interests of the oligarchs and the aggressor country. activity on the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.” for its citizens in Crimea. “I can officially declare that is not Is there any difference between those throwing grenades According to Refat Chubarov, chairman of the Mejlis of the true. Eighty percent of those products are transferred to at the National Guard in front of the Rada and those who Crimean Tatar people, the first law ensures influence of the Russian Federation across the Kerch Bay. After all, pric- shoot at the same National Guardsmen on the frontlines? the Ukrainian Constitution over the peninsula, and thus es there are several times higher,” Mr. Dzhemilev added. The responsibility for the blood spilled and provoking provides protection and implementation of national, cul- Lenur Islyamov, vice-president of the World Congress of the conflict lies with the politicians who promoted the lies tural, social and legal rights on the temporarily occupied Crimean Tatars, shared his observations that Ukrainians on the constitutional amendment draft, instilled hatred territory. have started forgetting that last year Crimea was still a part based on those lies and keep toeing that line, undermining “Instead, every day we see evidence of pressure, deten- of Ukraine. “I often hear that we are too weak to fight for the country from within. tions, searches and pogroms organized by the occupation Crimea. However, I am sure that we must return it,” said The perpetrators of the bloody attack must be punished. authorities against the Crimean Tatars and other national Mr. Islyamov. And those who followed the provocateurs unconscious- minorities,” Mr. Chubarov said on September 8 at a press Therefore, social activists prepared a number of ly should reflect on where these games have brought the conference at Ukraine Crisis Media Center. “We have politi- demands from members of the Kyiv-based Crimea Civil country and what could happen if this doesn’t stop. cal prisoners – that is Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis Blockade: to release political prisoners; to stop interfer- Let us recall the lessons of history. Let us recall how Akhtem Chyyigoz, activists Ali Asanov and Mustafa ence in Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian media activity; to many times the Ukrainian state fell due to chaos, ambitions Dzhegermendzhy, Ukrainian patriots Oleh Sentsov and ensure foreign journalists’ and monitors’ access to Crimea; of “true patriots” deftly manipulated by foreign enemies Oleksandr Kolchenko. Besides that, people keep disappear- to stop criminal proceedings and administrative persecu- who turned them into a tool of destruction. Can’t we learn ing and two were killed.” tion of Crimean Tatars and other citizens of Ukraine; to lift from our mistakes? Haven’t we learned anything from The second law allows Ukraine to deliver goods to the the ban on entering Crimea for the Crimean Tatar leaders. what we’ve experienced by ourselves during the past one occupied territory with almost no obstacles. “According to According to Mr. Dzhemilev, these had all been previously and a half to two years? data provided by the Center for Investigative Journalism, discussed with President Petro Poroshenko and Prime P.S. Concerning the expulsion of myself and four of my col- over the last week 5,777 tons of food arrived from the Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, and will be further discussed leagues from the Samopomich faction (just for supporting mainland to the peninsula. The total estimated value of all in order not to violate any law of Ukraine. the Constitutional amendments desperately needed by local goods is 475 million dollars,” Mr. Chubarov noted. While “We believe this is the only chance to return Crimea to communities) – I feel ashamed that a party which was sup- there are daily crimes against people, Ukrainian businesses Ukraine, because no negotiations with the invaders lead to posed to be a modern, democratic alternative is sliding into keep supplying food to Crimea. a solution,” said Mr. Dzhemilev. The start date for the populism and Bolshevik authoritarianism. We remain true “We believe that this is wrong, because this way the Crimea blockade is currently unknown, but participants to the goals and principles with which we went to the 2014 Ukrainian state feeds those who occupied our land and said they plan to go to the border with the peninsula later elections, including promises of comprehensive decentral- supports Kremlin power, which now opposes Ukraine.” this month. ization and transferring power to local communities.

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The Ukrainian National Association, Inc. 2200 Route 10, Parsippany, NJ 07054 For instant quotes call General information – 800-253-9862 www.UkrainianNationalAssociation.org facebook.com/UkrainianNationalAssociation 888-538-2833 No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 5 UCRDC interviews Ludmilla Temertey, a child of Holodomor survivors by Oksana Zakydalsky piecemeal. “My father did not tell us too national costumes. Now, she says, she is much about the collectivization. Although completely retired and has bought property TORONTO – The Ukrainian Canadian they lost their lands to Stalin’s collective in Italy, in Montalcino, and is restoring a Research and Documentation Center farms, I don’t remember any really negative 700-year-old estate with a vineyard and (UCRDC), which is involved in research on stories at all. About the execution of his olive groves. Her daughter Kalyna manages victims of the Holodomor and on the father – he actually didn’t tell us about that the vineyard, while her other daughter, events of World War II in Ukraine, recently – I found all that out from my mother. My Nicola, is an art historian. launched a new oral history project: inter- grandfather did not belong to the After the family’s initial adjustment in views with the children of Holodomor sur- Communist Party, but he refused to give up Montreal Ms. Temertey’s mother became vivors – persons who did not themselves his farms, his land. He was arrested in 1930 totally engaged in the Ukrainian community live through the famine but experienced it and one of the witnesses – it’s in the execu- – she was the director of the Ukrainian through their family history. tion order I gave you – accused him of school and involved her children in the com- Something similar has been done in the being an agitator.” munity – Ukrainian school, Plast, etc. Ms. Jewish community, where it has been “My grandfather was born in Styla, near Temertey remembers, “My brother and I established that trauma can be transmitted Donetsk. I know that they did speak Greek. were very active anti-Communist protest- from Holocaust survivor parents to their Elementary school education was in Greek. ers. So every time there was a cultural offspring. Higher education was in Russian. So, my exchange with the Soviet Union, we would Under the guidance of archivist Iroida father began to speak Ukrainian only when be marching with banners down the streets. Wynnyckyj, the project is ongoing at the he met my mother. It was a community that This was exactly what my mother didn’t UCRDC. Ms. Wynnyckyj and sociologist was very, very Greek...,” she related. want. And there we were, on the front page, Vsevolod Isajiw developed a questionnaire “But our family was very, very, careful with our banners. My poor mother! It was and engaged Sophia Isajiw to implement not to tell us very much when we were only after she saw how active we were, that the interview project. A list of about a young, because they were very much Ludmilla Temertey we were marching for the liberation of dozen potential interviewees has been afraid for the family that was left behind. Ukraine... compiled and Ms. Isajiw has started her You know, we had fled the Soviet Union there were parties. It was not all tears, “When I went to Europe to study... I want- work. The interviews are being filmed by but we were the only members of the fam- because we were young.” ed to go back to Czechoslovakia, where I Andrij Holowaty. ily that had fled. So, for the family left On coming to Montreal in 1950, the was born... to my surprise I was stopped in One of the first subjects was Ludmilla behind, my father was dead – he was Temerteys initially had the typical Yugoslavia and they took my passport Temertey, who was interviewed July 30. declared dead, he didn’t exist... should they Ukrainian immigrant experience. The away... in Split, Yugoslavia. They came back She is the sister of philanthropist James [the family] have found out that he existed mother worked for five years at a sweat- with the passport and said now you can Temerty and she currently lives in Italy. they would have been blacklisted. Both shop; the father held several jobs but also leave. But I wasn’t allowed to get out in (The siblings spell their last name differ- sides were blacklisted during the Soviet updated his engineering qualifications. But Czhechoslovakia...,” Ms. Temertey recalled. ently.) The Temertey family comes from the times, so they had a hard time of it. Their within five years, they owned a house and, “When I got back, my mother was terrified. Donbas area of Ukraine, but their roots are destination was Germany – a Displaced as Ms. Temertey says, “we lived a good life She thought: now there must be a record of in the Greek community in Crimea. The Persons camp, which was a refugee-pro- in Montréal.” us being outside, somewhere safe ... They Greeks were brought to Ukraine by cessing center.” In Montreal, Ms. Temertey studied at an had been running away from the KGB all of Catharine the Great and they formed villag- After Germany, the family went to English school and then at the Royal their lives. I did not know that at first. My es around Donetsk. That is where Ms. Belgium, where Ms. Temertey’s father Academy of Art in Brussels. She worked as a parents had spared us being afraid.” Temertey’s mother, Raissa Novikov, was found work as a miner. They stayed there graphic designer, a commercial artist, then Ms. Temertey is the creator of the first born in 1921 and her father, Illya, in 1918. for three years until repatriation back to as an illustrator and portraitist, eventually Holodomor commemorative monument in Both parents lived through the Holodomor. the USSR became a threat. While in setting up a studio of her own. Her particu- Ludmilla was born August 21,1944, in Belgium, her father’s dearest friend was lar delight was documenting Ukrainian (Continued on page 9) Kosice, Slovakia, and her brother, James, in lured away by the KGB. They got him drunk 1941 in Koptivo, Ukraine. in 1944, the fami- and kidnapped him. He was deported and ly fled Ukraine during World War II in a shot. The father realized that it was danger- caravan of 200 people, and Ludmilla was ous to stay in Europe and decided they born on the way, as she said, “in needed to run. So they left Belgium and a haystack.” came to Canada. Ms. Temertey remem- Ms. Temertey found bers her time in Belgium as a out about her fami- happy one: “There were balls, ly’s history there were churches,

The Holodomor monument in Edmonton, Alberta, designed by Ludmilla Temertey. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 No. 38

WINDOW ON EURASIA The Ukrainian Weekly So, you think you can’t write… Putin can’t annex Donbas, It’s that time of year again: September, when all activities resume within our two Russian analysts say communities and Ukrainian American community life is bustling with activity. by Paul Goble or annex them, his only alternative is “a We see this first in the myriad events submitted to our “Preview of Events” and second Transdniestria” (nv.ua/opinion/ in the many listings on our “Out & About” calendar. Plus, we feel it all around us, Vladimir Putin not only doesn’t want to oreshkin/proschet-boevikov-i-hudshij- as everyone is suddenly very busy, kids need to get chauffeured to and fro, and annex the Donbas but can’t do so, accord- koshmar-putina-67783.html). our community centers, almost eerily quiet during the summertime, are now ing to Yevgeny Ikhlov; and that means the “Russia does not have real political, dip- abuzz. region will become another edition of lomatic or economic resources to annex There are many wonderful things happening in all our communities and that’s Transdniestria, creating ongoing problems these territories,” the Russian analyst con- why we’re urging our readers to share their news with fellow Ukrainian for both Russia and Ukraine but opening tinues. “The naïve peasants in the Donbas Americans. Yes, it’s true, some communities and organizations have their own the possibility Kyiv will be able to follow supposed that, first, in Russia everything is e-mailed newsletters, but many of them don’t take the time to send in information the Baltic path to the West, according to good and it will be glad to take them in and, to this newspaper, whose goal is to unite our community. (Some of these folks Dmitry Oreshkin. second, that Vladimir Putin is a real guy have the mistaken impression that all they need to do is keep their own people in Mr. Ikhlov points out today that Mr. Putin and will not surrender them.” the loop. And then there are those who feel posting on Facebook is enough…) We faces a very different situation in the Donbas “But it has turned out,” Mr. Oreshkin urge you to extend your reach and broaden your circle of contacts, friends and than he did in Crimea. Crimea was annexed says, that “in Russia everything is bad and supporters by sending information to The Ukrainian Weekly, which we will gladly as a whole, but the pro-Moscow forces of the there is no money, and that Vladimir Putin publish in our Community Chronicle. In order to benefit from each other’s experi- Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” is indifferent to the fate of the Donbas peas- ences, we need to share them. Instead of islands of separate activity, we can have do not control all the Ukrainian oblasts of ants: he needs an instrument to influence an interconnected network! which they form a part, thus leaving the Kyiv, and the ideal instrument [or at least Think you can’t write? Think again. You don’t need to write an extensive Kremlin with no good choices (kasparov.ru/ the best available to him] is a constantly smoldering conflict like those in the style of account of each and every one of your community events. Oftentimes, a simple material.php?id= 55EEC91811752). If Moscow simply annexed what the DPR the Karabakh or Transdniestria.” caption to a good photograph is all it takes to let others know what’s happening and LPR now control, “for the first time, the Mr. Putin in no case “will take the in your community. And, if you’re not sure about your writing skills, do the best Russian border would become undefined for Donbas into the Russian Federation.” He you can in telling the story, but do get the facts right and the spellings of names hundreds of kilometers,” creating a bureau- can’t afford it at home or in terms of his correct. And give us “the 5 Ws,” as they used to teach in journalism school: the cratic, political and security nightmare for policies toward Ukraine. Thus, the Kremlin who, what, when, where and why of the event being reported. We’ll take it from the Russian state, Mr. Ikhlov suggests. leader will continue to try to force Kyiv to there; we’re happy to serve as your ghostwriters and editors – all in keeping with He argues that Moscow would in fact take responsibility for them and to get our mission to keep us all in touch and informed. And you will get the byline, or have to do one of two things if it wanted to Western governments to support him in tagline, or photo credit. (We’re sticklers about that and want to give credit where pursue Mr. Putin’s original policy of “reunit- that in the name of territorial integrity. credit is due!) ing the Russian world with Holy Russia.” That is because, Mr. Oreshkin argues, Take a look at pages 14 and 15 of this issue. Stories there range from brief Either it would “have to consider both “the worst nightmare of Russia is a captions alongside photos, to more lengthy reports aimed at telling readers all oblasts entirely the subjects of the Holy Ukraine” that will be able to form a normal the details about a particular event. All were sent in by local community activists. Russian Federation, which would mean the economy and a democratic state like the Our sincere thank you to these individuals from the Albany area (Capital District) official lodging of territorial demands three Baltic countries and thus become of New York state, Sacramento, Calif., New Haven, Conn., and Rochester, N.Y., and against Ukraine.” Or, he continues, it would part of the West. to the Saskatchewan Provincial Council of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. have to “take a decision about the volun- Of course, he says, “it is possible to con- Here are a few suggestions that will help get your information published as tary self-demolition of each of these ‘peo- tinue to tell lies about the Baltic countries quickly as possible: always put a byline (the name of the writer) atop your story; ples’ republics’ and about giving the being a fascist nest; but the people living don’t forget to write captions for each photo sent and credit the photographer(s). February 12, 2015, ceasefire line the status there, including the [ethnic] Russians understand very well that they live better Since the vast majority of news items sent to us these days come via e-mail, we of a state border, which would mean not only Russia’s withdrawal from the Minsk than their counterparts in Moscow. The also advise: send stories as simple documents (not pdfs); send only good-quality, accords but also the complete destruction average monthly pay in the Baltic countries high-resolution photos as jpgs; and label the photos and captions so they match of the mythology about ‘supporters of fed- is approximately 1,000 euros.” In Russia, it each other (either by name or number). Finally, please include your complete eralization’” in Ukraine. is just over a third of that. mailing address and daytime phone number in addition to your e-mail address. Doing either would undercut Russian And that situation exists, Mr. Oreshkin (By the way, we also welcome letters to the editor.) policy in Ukraine, exacerbate relations continues, despite the fact that “in Russia, To wrap up: there is value in community news, as there is value inherent in between Moscow and the West, which there is gas, oil, gold, timber, diamonds and our community life. By sharing your news with others, you are magnifying that would beyond any doubt impose even other things, and in the Baltic countries, value. We are your partners in this endeavor by publishing your news in print more serious sanctions, and create prob- there are not any of these things.” and online in one of our community’s most read newspapers. Join us! lems at home not only among Russian “If something similar occurs in Ukraine, nationalists who would feel betrayed but that would be a catastrophe for the Kremlin also among those who have been fighting in because, while one can still tell lies about the Donbas and would not return home. the Baltics and their oppression of [ethnic] Meanwhile, Mr. Oreshkin points out that Russians, it is far more difficult to lie about Turning the pages back... because Mr. Putin cannot either force Kyiv Ukraine – there are too many links and it is Sept. to take the territories of the DPR and the too close a country.” And that is yet another LPR back into Ukraine in a way allowing reason Moscow is trapped and cannot Last year, on September 21, 2014, the largest opposition pro- Moscow to have an effective veto over Kyiv annex the Donbas. 21 test in Moscow since President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration to a third presidential term in 2012 attracted an estimated 26,000 2014 people. Thousands also demonstrated in St. Petersburg and other Russian cities against what they said was Russia’s covert war in eastern Ukraine. September 21 is also designated by the Handing over Crimea and Donbas to Russia United Nations as International Peace Day. The slogan of the protest, as stated by Aleksandr Ryklin of the opposition Solidarity is no solution for Ukraine or the world movement, was “Putin, enough lying and making war!” Yelena Volkova, a protester in Moscow, said the Russian authorities should “stop this outrageous covert war that they by Paul Goble those two regions and could move forward don’t admit” to waging. Banners at the Moscow protest included “Putin, I’m sick of your by sacrificing them to Vladimir Putin. lies,” “Don’t shoot our brothers” and “I don’t want a war with Ukraine.” Many people, horrified by the actions of “If only everything were so simple,” The Moscow march began at Pushkin Square and ended approximately four kilometers pro-Moscow forces in Crimea and the Aleksandr Skobov writes in a commentary Donbas or unwilling to continue to resist away, and was formally approved by city officials. Some supporters for Putin’s war in for Kasparov.ru. But it isn’t, and it is time Russian aggression, have concluded that the Ukraine stood along the protest route and hurled raw eggs at the demonstrators. A few for the world to recognize that the dividing rest of Ukraine would be better off without minor scuffles were reported during the protest, but there were no reports of serious vio- line between the “two worlds” is more lence or immediate reports of arrests. complicated and that sacrificing these terri- Paul Goble is a long-time specialist on tories to Moscow would only lead to more In St. Petersburg, more than 1,000 people gathered outside the Kazan Cathedral to par- ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia Russian aggression (kasparov.ru/material. ticipate in a rally that was not approved by the authorities. In Yekaterinburg, more than who has served in various capacities in the php?id=55E5D189CAA78). 100 anti-war protesters were jeered by hecklers and agitators. U.S. State Department, the Central One of those horrified by what is going In the Siberian city of Banaul, an unsanctioned demonstration rally was the scene Intelligence Agency and the International on in Russian-occupied areas is Karina where a local activist, Artyom Kosaretsky, was reportedly assaulted and detained by Broadcasting Bureau, as well as at the Voice Orlova, who in a recent blogpost suggested authorities after he held up a sign that read, “Siberia against war.” of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio that it would be better to give Crimea and In the U.S., similar anti-war demonstrations were held on the same day in San Liberty and the Carnegie Endowment for the Donbas as well to Mr. Putin given its Francisco, New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston and Boston. International Peace. Mr. Goble writes a blog pro-Stalin people. “The normal part of the called “Window on Eurasia” (http://windo- world would only benefit from this,” she Source: “Thousands march against war in Moscow and St. Petersburg, opposition grows woneurasia2.blogspot.com/). The article to war in Ukraine,” (RFE/RL), The Ukrainian Weekly, September 28, 2014. above is reprinted with permission. (Continued on page 16) No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 7

The things we do ... by Orysia Paszczak Tracz

Th e boys of Poltava Ukraine’s ‘wormhole’ or ‘black hole’ The boys of Poltava wanted me to pass a population volunteers to feed the soldiers. As Ukraine’s Parliament debates a con- tion of basic infrastructure that provides the message on to Ukrainians in North From their friends in the field, they hear stitutional amendment giving more auton- essential public services – hospitals, water America. They are disappointed, dismayed that the soldiers feel abandoned both in omy to Donetsk and Luhansk under pres- treatment facilities, water pumping stations, and disgusted with the present govern- battle and upon their return. The returning sure from Western allies as part of the communications systems and roads. ment in Ukraine. soldiers have to fight the stubborn bureau- Minsk II ceasefire accord, it is useful to look Mr. Horbulin, in his article “Chorna Dira” We sat outside a pub (or “pab,” as they cracy for their documentation, health care ahead and examine what that would mean, (Black Hole), argues that Crimea has now say in Ukraine) at the foot of Shevchenko and any support at all. The boys repeat at least in terms of post-conflict reconstruc- become an economic black hole for Russia, Boulevard, next to the pedestal of what over and over that there is little, if any, gov- tion and economic development of the as well, especially in its current dire eco- used to hold the Lenin monument. The ernment support of the war defending Donbas. My intention is not to discuss the nomic state. Russia clearly wants Ukraine base is painted in blue and yellow, and the Ukraine. And this has been going on from political or military dimensions of this to shoulder all the economic and social bur- name “Lenin” is fading from the marble. It the beginning of the Russian invasion. issue, but to focus on what should be done dens of the Donbas conflict, and does not doesn’t look like the Communist Party is They ask: What is going on? and who ought to be responsible for want to take any responsibility for the utter about to restore it. The young men, in their Are all the ones at the top making big rebuilding the Donbas and for funding and destruction of civil society. Ukraine, which 30s, had come into Kyiv for the day. One of money on this? Why don’t they care? Who managing the reconstruction. Will that is struggling to pay off its debtors and beg- them is an artist who spent the day paint- is manipulating everything? No wonder effort end in a “black hole” quagmire of cor- ging for every dollar from the International ing a cityscape featuring the Besarabsky Pravyi Sektor is gaining supporters. The ruption and Afghan-type “warlordism,” or Monetary Fund (IMF) to stabilize its own Rynok intersection. boys understand that Pravyi Sektor is too serve as a useful economic “wormhole” for currency, is in no position to financially They could have been my sons. Each was radical, and who knows which oligarch is the future evolution of Ukraine’s economy? support the reconstruction of the Donbas. eager to bare his soul about the situation in funding it (because it seems that all parties Ukraine. They have friends at the front. and movements have someone manipulat- A recent thoughtful article by Volodymyr It is questionable whether it’s even worth Originally, so many were eager to join the ing each, they note). But people are des- Horbulin, one of Ukraine’s respected politi- the money – other than for purely humani- army, to save Ukraine. But now, some of perate for change. cal commentators, introduced the image of tarian assistance. Yet, that is what the lend- these soldiers tell them not to enlist. “You As we sat on a peaceful Kyiv street, the Donbas as an astronomical “black hole” ers are requiring of Ukraine. will be sitting in the trenches, wasting your enjoying Ukrainian beer, the war was so – that is, a region that has such strong grav- In fact, Mr. Horbulin goes a step further time,” they say. They’re upset that the gov- close and yet so far. itational effects that nothing can escape and claims that, for all intents and purpos- ernment is not supporting the war. from it. In essence, it would be a region that es, both Crimea and the Donbas no longer They say people have to supply their Orysia Tracz may be contacted at would become a bottomless pit for humani- serve the economic interests of Ukraine, own equipment and weapons, that the [email protected]. tarian aid and whatever other financial and that Ukraine has devised economic and assistance is offered by global lending insti- trade strategies that no longer depend on tutions. We have considerable evidence of the resources of those two regions. In other LETTER TO THE EDITOR such humanitarian black holes like Iraq and words, the immediate financial and capital Afghanistan, and numerous failed states, costs, as well as investments, required to where tens of billions of dollars of humani- reconstruct the Donbas to restore it as an Fayetteville group appeals to fellow Ukrainians tarian aid are spent each year without any economically viable region would not pay appreciable effects on diminishing poverty, off in longer-term economic growth poten- despair or political instability. tial. The Donbas would continue to be a Until recently, I had thought of the drain on Ukraine’s economy. Donbas as a kind of a “wormhole,” which in One can debate the socio-economic con- astronomical terms is something akin to a sequences of neglect of the Donbas, but shortcut between two separate points in what is not debatable is the immense the universe, or parallel universes. The investment costs needed to bring it back to Donbas is the wormhole that connects a viable economic state, or even to its for- Ukraine to a post-Stalinist Russian state. mer dilapidated status of regional develop- The Donbas is a region that lives by its own ment. Several recent post-conflict recon- rules, highly influenced by a corrupt struction needs assessments conducted by Russian culture, and only tangentially the World Bank and U.N. agencies have laid linked to any of the common national polit- out the huge investments required to bring ical and cultural evolutionary processes. the Donbas back to its original state – And, like Crimea, the Donbas was a net eco- which was not that advanced or desirable nomic and political drain on Ukraine – a to begin with. That is one of the basic black hole. issues: whether to rebuild the infrastruc- In reality, in its present state, the ture to modern standards or replace and Members of the Ukrainian American Group at the International Folk Festival. Donbas, which includes Donetsk and rehabilitate to prior existing conditions, (Eugene Kobisky is seen in the foreground, on the left). Luhansk, should be considered a failed which were, in large measure, deplorable Dear Editor: one: come to Fayetteville, attend this free state, equivalent to Syria, Haiti, Yemen, but at least functioning to provide very festival, have some fun and represent Somalia, Congo, Libya and at least 10 oth- basic services. Thank you very much, for assisting us in Ukraine. If you are traveling North/South ers. So the fundamental question is how The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the past, by publicly announcing our partici- on 1-95, near Fayetteville, why not stop, will political autonomy bring the Donbas providing Ukraine’s Ministry of Regional pation in the 2014 International Folk take a break and visit with us! back to normalcy. Before that question is Development, Housing, Construction and Festival in Fayetteville, N.C. It was a total suc- Volunteers should wear traditional resolved, there is the larger issue of post- Communal Services (MRD) a $200 million cess. People from nearby states came, and Ukrainian attire – at a minimum an embroi- conflict recovery and reconstruction. What assisted in promoting Ukrainian culture. loan to conduct detailed assessments and a dered shirt for men, with dark/tan pants are the priority reconstruction activities I am once again asking for assistance. pragmatic implementation strategy, as part and dark shoes; for women – an embroi- that need to take place immediately, and in Last year, 48 countries were represented, of an “Early Recovery Framework” to begin dered blouse, dark/tan skirt, dark shoes/ with 1,100 in the parade, which was the near-term? How will these decisions be reconstruction of the Donbas. The contract red boots. For single young women, a observed by over 100,000 visitors. This year made, and who will control the funding? was signed December 22, 2014. In addition, “vinok” would be awesome. If anyone can at the 37th International Folk Festival, the Already, since early 2015, important inter- the Ukrainian government established a come in full Ukrainian attire, we heartily parade will be on Saturday, September 26, at national aid and lending institutions such State Agency for Recovery of the Donbas encourage that. 10 a.m. to noon. Afterwards, vendors will be as the World Bank and the European (SARD). This agency will coordinate The festival takes place in the center of selling international foods. On the next day, Investment Bank, have been preparing a rebuilding efforts in the Donbas that are town, which will be closed to traffic. To vol- international performers will take to the plan for such an eventuality. expected to cost billions of dollars over a unteer for participation in the Ukrainian stage. Presently, the committee is negotiat- But the larger question is why should period of more than a decade. contingent, or for more information, read- ing with local hotels for discounted prices Europe or Ukraine have to pay for the Nearly 3.5 million people in the Donbas ers may contact this writer at 910-822- on rooms for out of town participants. destruction that was initiated and largely region have been directly affected by the 3177 (feel free to leave a voice message). The Ukrainian American Group chaired by caused by the Russians? For the past two The American people in our area love conflict, according to the United Nations. Of this writer is appealing to fellow Ukrainian years, there has already been a great deal of Ukrainians, and are anxiously awaiting our those, 2 million people have been displaced Americans for assistance as the Ukrainian humanitarian aid going to the Donbas presence. Our local TV station will broad- by the conflict, a third of whom left for community here is very small, consisting of region, mostly from U.N. agencies, the cast this event over the Internet. We await Russia, while the rest are greatly stressing five families, including senior citizens. European Union and the U.S. Agency for the participation of fellow Ukrainians! the social welfare capacities of local com- Our group must meet in our tent, at 9 International Development (USAID). That munities, exceeding the difficulties experi- a.m. on Saturday, September 26. Our Eugene Kobisky aid is grossly inadequate because it simply request to fellow Ukrainians is a simple Fayetteville, N.C. cannot keep up with the repeated destruc- (Continued on page 16) 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 No. 38

the oligarch to monopolize international flights, he alleged Corruption... in a September 3 interview on the Channel 5 television Saakashvili... network (owned by President Poroshenko). (Continued from page 1) “Yesterday Yatsenyuk made a decision in favor of (Continued from page 1) shady business deals, such as his plans to build a snack Kolomoisky, just as he regularly made decisions in favor of In his interview with Mr. Poroshenko’s Channel 5, Mr. cake factory in Boryspil, as exposed by the Skhemy televi- Akhmetov and others,” Mr. Saakashvili said. “All the oli- Saakashvili suggested that “central structures of authority” sion news program on September 9, produced by Radio garch interests control the Ukrainian government. As long controlled by “oligarchs” in Kyiv are organizing a campaign Free Europe/Radio Free Liberty (RFE/RL) and the First as Antoniuk sits in his office, that service won’t make any of “sabotage” against him. National television network. decision against Kolomoisky.” “Authorities in Ukraine are controlled by oligarchic Instead of buying a land plot in Boryspil on an open Mr. Antoniuk has returned to his position, where he will interests,” Mr. Saakashvili said. auction, as required by law, the Roshen company decided remain in charge of setting fares for flights, after being Mr. Saakashvili told RFE/RL’s Russian Service in a to sublet it from a city-owned enterprise, thereby avoiding placed on leave pending an investigation at Mr. September 4 interview that previous cadres of “corrupt” the purchase, which would have required paying taxes and Saakashvili’s initiative. Ukrainian bureaucrats were now “playing dead” but “defi- fees to the city. The company confirmed to RFE/RL that it “This money will go to Kolomoisky’s pockets,” he said, nitely are not dead.” pursued this approach. adding, “We can only imagine with whom he will divvy “They undoubtedly will try to disrupt [anti-corruption It was the Boryspil City Council that authorized in July them up.” efforts],” Mr. Saakashvili said, adding that he and his team the transfer of 49 acres to the enterprise at the request of Mr. Saakashvili also offered the example of Economy were trying to make Odesa an example for reforms across Roshen, which also avoided several key procedures, such Minister Aivaras Abromavicius being unable to dismiss the all Ukraine. as holding a public meeting to discuss the construction directors of two state enterprises that serve the interests Mr. Yatsenyuk, meanwhile, criticized Mr. Saakashvili for and clearing inspections with environmental agencies. of mega-millionaire, fuel trader Mykola Martynenko, wide- personnel decisions and delays in presenting a plan for a Mr. Poroshenko was also exposed by the Skhemy news ly recognized as a close associate to Mr. Yatsenyuk. road to be built to the Romanian border. program in December for pursuing a construction project These enterprises have cost the state $4.9 billion in Calling Mr. Saakashvili by his first name, Mr. Yatsenyuk on 1.5 acres that he owns, situated within the territory of losses so far this year, he said. said the Odesa governor “should work” and “will work.” the St. Sophia Cathedral-Caves Monastery, a UNESCO Mr. Yatsenyuk dismissed the accusations the next day. “I don’t react to any personal attacks,” Mr. Yatsenyuk World Heritage Site, without having gained the required “I understand how hard it is for him,” he said. “It’s hard said. “This isn’t about personalities or emotions. This is permission from the Culture Ministry. for everyone. We’re all united here. Emotions, baseless about responsibility for the fate of the country. About my The work was ordered by state officials to be stopped accusations, only play into the hands of those who are responsibility before Ukraine. About Mikheil’s responsibili- in 2013 because it had ruined part of a land fortification against reforms and realistic change in Ukraine. Moreover, ty before Odesites.” for a bastion lunette that forms the Kyiv Fortress, which is it’s not suitable to rush to deceitful accusations. And I’m The prime minister added: “Any attempt to say, ‘They designated an architectural monument of national signifi- his first ally.” didn’t give it to me,’ or, ‘I wasn’t able to,’ this is not right. It’s cance by the Ukrainian government. Mr. Saakashvili’s emotional report on his anti-corrup- a sign of weakness. Strong people stand up and act. Let’s An investigation was launched by the Procurator tion efforts marked merely the latest scandal in which Mr. do that together.” General of Ukraine in early 2013 for the criminal act of Martynenko’s name surfaced alongside Mr. Yatsenyuk’s. ruining a monument of cultural inheritance. It was conve- In late April, the Cabinet of Ministers led by Mr. With reporting by Zn.ua, Rbc.ru, and RFE/RL’s Russian niently closed in November 2014, without any criminal Yatsenyuk approved the appointment of Serhii Perelom as Service charges, once Mr. Poroshenko was elected as president. head of the supervisory board of the Odesa Portside Plant, Copyright 2015, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted with the permis- The Presidential Administration declined to comment as reported by the biz.liga.net news site in late July. sion of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut on the situation, only issuing a document indicating that The plant is Ukraine’s largest producer of ammonium Ave. NW, Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see http:// the construction will go ahead as planned. nitrate. Meanwhile, Mr. Perelom is a business partner to www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-yatsenyuk-saakashvili-spar- The accusations of corruption aren’t limited to Mr. Mr. Martynenko. over-reforms/ 27227360.html). Poroshenko’s personal business. Oleh Liashko accused the After Mr. Perelom’s appointment, the plant introduced president on September 16 of orchestrating attempts to intermediaries into its ammonium nitrate and natural gas bribe the national deputies of his parliamentary faction to sales abroad that are controlled by Mr. Martynenko. remain in the coalition government, after he declared its The biz.liga.net news site conducted its investigation Action plan... exit on September 1. based on allegations of corruption made by former (Continued from page 3) He said at least one of his deputies, Artem Vitko, Presidential Administration Head Serhii Lyovochkin. informed him of his decision to remain in the coalition. Moreover, members of the Poroshenko Bloc have also have said this many times. They now feel compelled, how- “President Poroshenko brought political corruption to set up their own ammonium nitrate intermediaries, which ever, to retreat from that position under external pressure. the Parliament hall,” Mr. Liashko said, claiming the presi- are alleged to be engaged in price inflation schemes that Having yielded on the constitutional status, Kyiv must now dent personally ordered the bribery of his deputies using were common in the post-Soviet sphere, the report con- advance from A to B and accept even “fake elections” in the intimidation and incentives. firmed. A Poroshenko Bloc deputy even tried to block Mr. Russian-controlled territory. “A minimum of five national deputies with the Radical Perelom’s appointment in April. Under the Minsk armistice, elections in that territory Party faction informed me that (Poroshenko Bloc National Mr. Martynenko currently faces criminal charges from are to be held under Ukrainian law. But, under that same Deputy) Oleksandr Tretiakov personally conducted talks the Swiss government for taking a bribe of 30 million document, the “modalities” of those elections (i.e., the with them, promising money, places in the early parlia- francs from a Czech supplier of nuclear-powered electric ground rules and actual practices) are subject to negotia- mentary elections, if only they left the faction.” station equipment, according to National Deputy Serhiy tion between Kyiv and Donetsk-Luhansk for “mutually The Presidential Administration didn’t issue a response Leshchenko. acceptable solutions.” That means something other than to the accusations as of September 17. Meanwhile, it was Mr. Leshchenko who uncovered in Ukrainian law. Following the August 24 Berlin meeting, the The recent accusations from the radicals come on the late August a business link between Messrs. Yatsenyuk Minsk working group has jump-started negotiations heels of Dmytro Firtash’s admission in a Viennese court in and Akhmetov. between Kyiv and Donetsk-Luhansk on those “election April that he brokered a year earlier a political alliance The prime minister hired the Washington public rela- modalities.” In her annual end-of-summer press confer- with Mr. Poroshenko and Vitali Klitschko, who agreed to tions firm APCO Worldwide Inc. to handle public relations ence (August 31), Chancellor Merkel stated that Ukraine’s run for Kyiv mayor in 2014 instead of competing for the work for his visits to the U.S. The $35,000 bill was paid for Parliament should “formulate Ukraine’s electoral law in presidency. by a Ukrainian organization that is co-directed by such a way that the separatists [sic] could accept it” Parliament failed in June to support a request for infor- Oleksandr Kharchenko, the head of a Kyiv think tank (Bundeskanzlerin.de, August 31). mation on possible agreements Mr. Poroshenko made financed by Mr. Akhmetov. Russia and the DPR-LPR are heavily invested in staging with Mr. Firtash, the billionaire natural gas trader, during The same firm was hired to handle the U.S. visit of those local elections. They need, therefore, to halt their that meeting and any remaining obligations that he may Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko. Yet she claimed the bill military actions at least temporarily, in order for the elec- have before the oligarch. would be paid by members of the Ukrainian diaspora, not tions to proceed. It is equally in the interest of Moscow In the government’s declared “deoligarchization,” it has Mr. Kharchenko’s organization. She didn’t clarify who from and Donetsk-Luhansk to allow the OSCE to verify their been Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk who has taken the diaspora would foot the bill, which involved an hourly compliance with the ceasefire. They would not be able to action against Mr. Firtash, allowing the Internal Affairs rate capped at $75,000. stage their elections unless the OSCE’s monitoring mission Ministry to arrest 86 of his gas-related assets in June. That “If Yatsenyuk wants to have business with APCO – and I confirms that the ceasefire holds, at least for the duration. was two weeks after Mr. Firtash declared he would work welcome that choice because they have strong experts – Taking all those factors into account, the political settle- towards Mr. Yatsenyuk’s dismissal. he should have amended the legislation in such a way that ment is developing in Russia’s favor, and fast. The key the government could hire such services without a tender, dates are drawing close: local elections on October 25; the Arseniy Yatsenyuk or by making an exception,” Mr. Leshchenko wrote on his Verhkovna Rada’s second reading of the constitutional The prime minister has his own fair share of corruption blog on pravda.com.ua on August 25. amendment and its court review in late November and scandals, the most recent being the accusations flung by “Instead Yatsenyuk didn’t consider this. So an entirely early December; the deadline for Ukraine’s political com- Mikheil Saakashvili, the Odesa state oblast administration different question is posed to him: who pays your bills in pliance with the Minsk armistice by December 31. head. Washington? Western donors (who don’t identify them- While the process advances in Russia’s favor, at this Mr. Yatsenyuk was serving the interests of Mr. selves for some reason), Rinat Akhmetov or simply your accelerated tempo, and under external prodding of Kyiv as Kolomoisky when he refused to review his report alleging personal slush fund, collected from kickbacks from the has recently been the case, Moscow has no reason to re- State Aviation Service Head Denys Antoniuk was allowing management of state companies?” start hostilities. It is now reaping the political fruits of pre- vious military operations and its capacity to conduct attri- tion warfare against Ukraine as long as necessary, below Want to keep up to date on developments in Ukraine? the threshold that could provoke new economic sanctions from an already sanctions-fatigued Europe.

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COMMEMORATION IN TORONTO On the occasion of Black Ribbon Day and Ukrainian Independence Day On August 23, Yuri Shymko, president of the International negotiations of September 2014 because they are not held 298 innocent civilians, including 80 children, on Malaysia Council in Support of Ukraine, addressed the participants of under the Geneva format and are undermined by the Airlines Flight 17 downed by a Russian surface-to-air mis- the Black Ribbon Day Remembrance held in Toronto at the absence of serious military partners such as the U.K. and sile he provided to arm the pro-Russian separatists in east- Masaryktown Park, in conjunction with commemorations in the U.S., who had guaranteed Ukraine’s territorial security ern Ukraine. five other cities in Canada. under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum when Ukraine There is more than enough incriminating evidence to A Canadian day of remembrance for the victims of Nazi and gave up its nuclear weapons. have him brought before the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal in Soviet Communist crimes has been held annually on August 23 The ceasefire in the Donbas region is on the verge of a The Hague… since Canada’s Parliament in November 2009 unanimously collapse any day due to the escalating violations by Russia …continues to finance and support a wide array passed a resolution to establish “Black Ribbon Day,” which Russian troops and their separatist allies who continue to of anti-EU and anti-NATO far-right and far-left political coincides with the anniversary of the signing of the infamous receive heavy military hardware from Russia while the parties in France, Austria, Hungary and Greece. It contin- pact between the Nazi and Soviet Communist regimes. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is ues to spread lies and sophisticated disinformation Following is an edited version of Mr. Shymko’s speech. prevented from carrying out its monitoring mission in the through such agencies as Russia Today, filtering it into occupied zone. …Ironically, a disproportional number of mainstream media in many countries including Canada. … Over three decades ago we were waging a common OSCE monitors are actually Russian military personnel. Despite the non-lethal assistance and restrictive sanc- determined struggle against the then Soviet Union as we President Barack Obama still refers to the crisis in tions on Russia, Ukraine has been left to rely on its own prepared a joint resolution to the United Nations from the Ukraine as merely a regional problem and refuses to military resources to defend its territory. The current Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Belarusian and Ukrainian accept the bipartisan recommendation of the U.S. Congress peace talks in Minsk are viewed by many Ukrainians as world congresses titled “The Decolonization of the USSR.” to supply Ukraine with anti-tank and anti-aircraft lethal merely offering a temporary suspension of a pending inva- As a member of [the Canadian] Parliament I was sion. Time is on its side only because this will allow privileged to present that document on November Ukraine to strengthen its armed forces, hold a refer- 23, 1978, to the president of the U.N. General Who would have predicted that, af- endum to join NATO and seek funds to prevent a Assembly and all U.N. members, with the assistance ter a short span of 23 years of state financial catastrophe. of our Canadian U.N. Mission and the unanimous Otherwise Russia’s continued aggression may support of all the parties in the House of Commons. independence, a relatively unknown well escalate. It will be stopped only by the number Who would have predicted that 13 years later former KGB officer named Vladimir of returning body bags with Russian soldiers, mass the USSR would cease to exist, the former Soviet anti-war demonstrations in Moscow and a contin- republics and Soviet satellites would become inde- Putin would hijack Russia’s fledgling ued decline of the Russian economy due to lowering pendent states and members of the European democracy and unleash a bloody war oil prices. Union and NATO, with the exception of Ukraine and in the middle of Europe with the in- The development of future events in Ukraine is Belarus? unpredictable, just as the behavior of a psychopathic Who would have predicted that, after a short tent of renewing the very same USSR leader like Vladimir Putin remains unpredictable. span of 23 years of state independence, a relatively we had fought to eliminate? But I nevertheless believe that truth and justice will unknown former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin prevail, with victory on the side of the victims of would hijack Russia’s fledgling democracy and aggression not the aggressor. Putin’s dream of a unleash a bloody war in the middle of Europe with the defensive weapons. The White House still does not consid- Russian World will eventually end up in the garbage heap intent of renewing the very same USSR we had fought to er Russia as posing an existentialist threat to its national of history like that of his political mentor, Goebbels, and his eliminate? security, but rather views it as an expedient ally to help Third Reich. With the military occupation and annexation of 10 per- negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran. We are holding this Day of Remembrance on the eve of cent of Ukraine’s territory after staging local elections under While Russia continues to undermine Ukraine, to divide the celebration tomorrow in Kyiv of the 24th anniversary the point of a gun, we were witnessing a familiar scenario NATO and to destabilize the EU, the West is now mistaken- of the Declaration of Ukraine’s Independence. Ukrainians reminiscent of Stalin’s 1940 annexation of the Baltic states ly giving greater priority to combating ISIS, thus relegating all over the world express their gratitude for the support and Hitler’s 1939 dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. Russia’s war in Ukraine and the long-term threat to Europe that each one of you, your communities in Canada and the On the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, a to secondary importance. compatriots in your homelands have provided to the peo- war is raging again in Europe as it faces a renewed aggres- The Russian FSB had infiltrated the jihadist Islamists ple of Ukraine in solidarity with their struggle for liberty, sion by a Russian semi-police regime whose ideology of since 1995 when it allowed the Egyptian terrorist Dr. al justice and peace. I thank you on behalf of my compatriots xenophobia and ethnocentric chauvinism has transformed Zawahiri to leave Russia and join Osama bin Laden in in Canada and Ukraine. 80 percent of its population into ideologically blinded citi- Afghanistan to form Al-Qaeda. Putin’s henchman of Here in Canada we are also in the midst of a federal elec- zens bound by a straightjacket of imperial entitlement, no Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, praised the January 2015 ISIS tion. We are indeed fortunate to live in a country governed different from those under Nazi Germany. terrorist attack in Paris that murdered four members of by the force of law not the law of force. Jointly we repre- At a meeting this year with representatives of Moscow’s the Jewish community in a kosher supermarket and 12 sent a formidable electoral force of 4 million Canadians. Jewish community, Putin even had the audacity to mention journalists of Charlie Hebdo. Nevertheless Putin continues The Canadian government, whatever political party in his admiration for Hitler’s Propaganda Minister Joseph to protect Kadyrov, having honored him with numerous power, has always played a leading role in defending the Goebbels because he managed to transform an entire medals of achievement. human rights and supporting the aspirations for national nation into his vision of Germany. Yet Russia is posing at the same time as a peacemaker. liberties by the people of Central and Eastern Europe, be it Putin’s vision of a new Russian World or “Russkiy Mir” The White House is even considering Putin’s offer to have Hungary’s Freedom Fighters in 1956, Czechoslovakia’s has redrawn a European border by force, violating 10 Russia join a coalition with the U.S. to combat ISIS in order Prague Spring in 1968, Poland’s Solidarity in the 1980s, or international treaties. To date, Putin’s seizure of Crimea to save Syrian President Bashir al Assad, whom Russia has Ukraine’s state independence in 1991. and invasion of eastern Ukraine has resulted in the death supplied with a vast array of deadly weapons used to mur- The Central and East European Council (CEEC) …has set of more than 6,000, with over 20,000 wounded and 1.5 der over 300,000 Syrian civilians and cause the exodus of a series of specific demands to all the political parties com- million refugees. over 4 million refugees. peting in this election, such as increasing lethal and non- There could have been more victims were it not for the Putin’s own murderous record would require a separate lethal assistance to Ukraine. I can assure you that Vladimir galvanizing spirit of unity of the Ukrainian people, the address to list in detail, starting with his order to blow up Putin will be closely watching this election. sheer determination to defend their homeland and the three apartment buildings in Moscow by the FSB on the The Canadian government has taken a firm stand in bravery of their soldiers and volunteer battalions. pretext that it was the work of Chechen separatists. This defense of Ukraine’s territorial unity, strongly condemning Recent Russian military exercises have targeted the led to his genocide of Chechnya, with the extermination of Russian aggression and issuing the most extensive set of three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as well the entire civilian population of Grozny. sanctions of any Western country. We should make a joint as Finland and Sweden. Similar exercises and war games in Putin has not hesitated to liquidate those Russians who effort of assuring that the party forming the next govern- 2009 even had a scenario of defending a Baltic invasion of dared to oppose or criticize him as shown by the assassi- ment will not diminish the extent of that support, that it Belarus and a war with NATO, culminating with a nuclear nations of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, FSB will maintain the same level of commitment to Ukraine attack on Warsaw. defector Alexander Litvinenko, businessman Boris and will adopt all the CEEC demands. The second Minsk ceasefire negotiations of February Berezovsky and, most recently, opposition leader Boris God bless you all. God bless the communities and people 2015 are, in my opinion, doomed to fail just like the first Nemtsov. He is also directly responsible for the murder of of Central and Eastern Europe. God bless Canada.

UCRDC’s oral history project, Ms. Temertey answered: “I given my dearly departed mother and father a voice,” Ms. UCRDC interviews... understood how much I was defined by my parents’ histo- Temertey underscored. ry, even though I did not live through it. I was more than “I wanted to honor those silent victims of this heinous (Continued from page 5) happy to share our family history.” crime against humanity and in particular my family and Canada, erected in Edmonton in 1983. In 1999 Ms. “The interviewers were wonderful and really put one at their indomitable spirit ...they were survivors of the Temertey painted a portrait of President Leonid Kuchma, ease. I found myself telling stories that had long been bur- Holodomor,” she said. “It is of utmost importance to teach although he did not leave a good impression on her. Ms. ied in the deep recesses of a mind tired of the atrocities the young about these crimes and tyrannical regimes. Temertey speaks Ukrainian, French, Italian and “a little being perpetuated in every corner of the planet to this day. History will continue to repeat itself if we don’t have an bit of Russian.” Her mother died in 1997, her father in I would say that one does a disservice to future generations informed public that demands to know. The West chose to 2010. by hesitating to speak out. Future generations need to be be silent because it was an inconvenient truth at the time. Asked about her impression of being interviewed for the mindful of what the alternatives to democracy are. I have Citizens must never allow this to happen again.” 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 No. 38 No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 11

Boxing Beselia (11-0-0, 8 KO) won by TKO in the eighth round (of against Bobby Thomas Jr. (14-4-1, 9 KO) of the U.S.A. at eight) against Mahsud Djumaev (10-9-1, 6 KO) of Florentine Gardens in Hollywood, Calif., on May 30. Uzbekistan; and welterweight Ilya Prymak (9-1-0, 7 KO) Thomas retired after the first round of eight. third-round TKO against Johnny Muller (19-4-2, 13 KO) of won by third-round TKO (out of six rounds) against • Cruiserweight Alexander Usik (7-0-0, 7 KO) won by South Africa for the WBO Intercontinental Title on August Mansur Abdumamatov (6-1-0, 1 KO) of Uzbekistan. Boxing Association, Anastasiia Chernokolenko (81 kg) is 29 at the Sports Palace in Kyiv. Super lightweight Denys ranked• In thein thirdamateur place rankings and Liliya of the Durnyeva Amateur (also International 81 kg) is Berinchyk (1-0-0, 0 KO) won his first professional bout ranked seventh place; Maryna Malovana (57 kg) is ranked against Tarik Madni (19-9-1, 1 KO) of Belgium after Madni won by unanimous decision after six rounds against Michael• Light Gbena heavyweight (20-21-0, Oleksandr 20 KO) of Gvozdyk Senegal on(6-0-0, June 413 KO) at seventh. In the men’s division, Denys Poyatsyka (91 kg) is retired in the fourth round out of six scheduled rounds. th Florentine Gardens in Hollywood, Calif. Judges scored ranked in 16 place; Oleksandr Ganzulia (81 kg) is ranked Featherweight Oleg Malinovsky (15-0-0, 5 KO) won by th th 60-54, 60-54, 60-54. in 28 place; Ievgen Khytrov (75 kg) is ranked in 18 place; unanimous decision after eight rounds against Bahyt Bogdan Shelestyuk (69 kg) is ranked in 17th place; Pavlo Abdurahimov (11-9-0, 5 KO) of Uzbekistan. Super welter- Ishchenko and Dmytro Cherniak (60 kg) are ranked in 10th weight Alexander Spirko (19-0-0, 11 KO) won by first- fourth-round TKO (out of 12 rounds) against Dejan and 33rd place, respectively; Mykola Butsenko (56 kg) is round knockout (out of eight scheduled rounds) against Zlaticanin• Lightweight (21-0-0, Ivan 13 KO) Redkach of Montenegro (18-1-0, at 14 Bartow KO) lost Arena by ranked in fifth place. Eduards Gerasimovs (6-5-1, 6 KO) of Latvia. Super middle- in Birmingham, Ala., on June 13. The fight was a WBC title weight Petr Ivanov (4-0-0, 1 KO) won by unanimous deci- eliminator fight; with the win Zlaticanin holds the No. 1 53 KO) fights Tyson Fury (24-0-0, 18 KO) of Great Britain sion after six scheduled rounds against Beqa Aduashvili spot in the WBC lightweight rankings. on •October Heavyweight 24 at Esprit champion Arena Wladimirin Dusseldorf, Klitschko Germany. (64-3-0, (13-2-0, 6 KO) of Georgia. Middleweight Maksym Ponomariov (11-1-0, 1 KO) won by unanimous decision KO) lost by second-round TKO against Eleider Alvarez (17- to fight against Lucas Martin Matthysse (37-3-0, 34 KO) of after six rounds against Levan Shonia (14-8-0, 10 KO) of 0-0,• Light10 KO) heavyweight of Columbia Anatoliy on June Dudchenko 12 at UIC (19-4-0,Pavilion 13in Argentina• Super forlightweight the WBC Viktor title at Postol StubHub (27-0-0, Center 11 inKO) Carson, is set Georgia, and super lightweight Aram Faniyan (4-0-0, 0 KO) Chicago. Calif., October 3. won by unanimous decision after four rounds against Vitaliy Manuylenko (0-1-0, 0 KO). unanimous decision against Gerardo Robles (18-14-0, 8 fights Erik Skoglund (22-0-0, 11 KO) of Sweden on KO)• Lightweightof the U.S.A. Valentinat Phil Welch Golovko arena (21-0-0, in St. Joseph,14 KO) wonMo., onby September• Light heavyweight 19 in Nykopig, Oleksandr Sweden,Chervyak (15-4-1,for the 5 IBFKO) by fourth-round TKO (out of 10 scheduled rounds) against June 12. Judges scored 49-45, 49-45, 49-45. Intercontinental Title. Kerson• Heavyweight Manswell (24-12-0,Vyacheslav 18 Glazkov KO) of Trinidad(21-0-1, 13and KO) Tobago won at Basket Hall in Krasnodar, the Russian Federation, on (Continued on page 14) August 15. • Cruiserweight Dmytro Kucher (23-1-0, 16 KO) won eighth-round TKO against Nick Brinson (17-4-2, 7 KO) of the• U.S.A.Middleweight on August Evhen 7 atKhytrov Bally’s (11-0-0, Hotel 10and KO) Casino won byin Atlantic City, N.J. Middleweight Sergiy Derevyanchenko (6-0-0, 4 KO) won by unanimous decision after eight rounds against Elvin Ayala (28-7-2, 12 KO) of the U.S.A., with judges scoring 80-72, 80-71, 80-71. against Jeff Horn (11-0-1, 8 KO) of New Zealand on August 1 at• Invercargill,Welterweight New Viktor Zealand. Plotnikov Plotnikov (32-3-0, retired 15 afterKO) lostthe eighth out of 10 rounds. Judges scored 68-64, 70-63, 70-63 in favor of Horn. unanimous decision after eight rounds against Vaclav Pejsar• Heavyweight (5-2-0, 5 KO) Andrey of the Rudenko Czech (26-2-0,Republic 17 on KO) July won 31 byin Kyiv. round unanimous decision against Anthony Ogogo (8-0-0, 4 KO)• Middleweight of Great Britain Ruslan on SchelevJuly 18 at(11-4-0, Gerry 6Weber KO) lost Stadium a six- in Halle/Saale, Germany. won by fifth-round TKO (out of eight) against Sergei Melis (25-19-0,• Welterweight 10 KO) of Vyacheslav Estonia at Senchenko AKKO International (37-2-0, 25Center KO) in Kyiv on July 17. Also on the fight card, flyweight Artem Dalakian (11-0-0, 7 KO) won by unanimous decision after 12 rounds for the WBA Continental Title against Angel Moreno (8-1-2, 2 KO) of Spain, with judges scoring 118- 110, 118-110, 118-110. Featherweight Oleg Yeflimovych (26-2-0, 14 KO) won by unanimous decision after 12 rounds against Tuomo Eronen (14-4-0, 5 KO) of Finland for the WBA Continental Title, with judges scoring 120- 107, 119-108, 119-108.

12 KO) won by third-round TKO against Paul Parker (7-1- 0, 4• KO)Light of heavyweightthe U.S.A. at 2300 Vyacheslav Arena in Shabranskyy Philadelphia (14-0-0, on June 30. The fight was scheduled for 10 rounds. lost by unanimous decision to Zac Dunn (18-0-0, 15 KO) at Royal• Super Exhibition middleweight Building inMaxim Carlton, Bursak Australia, (31-4-1, on June 14 KO) 27. Judges scored 116-110, 115-111, 115-111. Dunn claimed the vacant IBO world title. by seventh-round KO against Shalva Jomardashvili (41-13- 2, 32• Heavyweight KO) of Georgia Andrey on JuneRudenko 20 in (25-2-0, Koncha 17Zaspa, KO) Kyivwon Oblast of Ukraine. The fight was scheduled for eight rounds. hosted a night of boxing on June 13 with five Ukrainian fighters• The on Budivelnik the card. CruiserweightSport Palace in Iago Cherkasy, Kiladze Ukraine,(24-1-0, 15 KO) won by unanimous decision after eight rounds against Lukasz Rusiewicz (19-20-0, 10 KO) of Poland; cruiserweight Ismayl Sillakh (22-2-0, 17 KO) won by unan- imous decision after eight rounds against Artus Kilikauskis (16-25-5, 8 KO) of Latvia; cruiserweight Serhiy Radchenko (3-0-0, 0 KO) won by majority decision after eight rounds against Murod Azimov (6-4-1, 1 KO) of Uzbekistan (judges scored 79-75, 79-75, 76-76); super lightweight Mishiko 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 No. 38

John, who is gay and a veteran campaigner condemn the “blatant violation of the terri- carry out military tasks. (Ukraine Crisis NEWSBRIEFS on gay rights, spoke on September 12 to torial integrity of Ukraine and Estonia Media Center) business and political leaders at the annual through the illegal kidnapping of citizens of (Continued from page 2) Yalta European Strategy forum in Kyiv. both countries.” Mr. Kohver was kidnapped Separatist leader released by rebels armed conflicts” in Chechnya’s capital, “Accepting people regardless of age, race, in Estonia in September 2014 and was MOSCOW – Rebels in eastern Ukraine Grozny, in late 1994 and early 1995, “as gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation is recently sentenced to 15 years in prison in have released a separatist leader from well as in torture and executions of Russian today the measure of an open, tolerant, and Russia. Messrs. Sentsov and Kolchenko detention after holding him captive for four army servicemen” in January 1995. He also democratic society,” he said. The singer were sentenced to 20 and 10 years, respec- days. Andrei Purgin told the Reuters news claimed that the late Chechen leader urged Ukraine’s business leaders to accept tively, after being arrested in Crimea in May agency that he was freed by rebel gunmen Dzhokhar Dudayev, who declared Chechen LGBT people in the workplace, saying poli- 2014. The resolution says Russian courts on September 8 in the Donetsk region. He independence from Russia in 1991 and led cies “designed to repress LGBT citizens ... are not “competent to judge acts committed said he was kept in a cell at a “security min- separatists in the first Chechen war until hinder economic development.” In an inter- outside the internationally recognized terri- istry” since being taken at gunpoint on his death in a Russian missile strike in view with the BBC, Mr. John also criticized tory of Russia.” It also calls on European September 4 while travelling in a car after 1996, awarded Mr. Yatsenyuk and other what he called Russian President Vladimir Council President Donald Tusk and EU for- returning from Russia. Mr. Purgin – who alleged Ukrainian volunteers medals for Putin’s “ridiculous” attitude to gay people. eign-policy chief Federica Mogherini to was reportedly dismissed on September 4 “killing Russian servicemen.” Mr. Russia in 2013 passed a law banning so- come up with “a comprehensive policy as head of the self-declared parliament of Yatsenyuk’s spokeswoman, Olha Lappo, called “gay propaganda.” Last year, Mr. strategy which would enable the EU to the Donetsk People’s Republic – said he did Putin said gay people have nothing to fear responded to the allegation on social media regain the initiative and to pursue a more not understand why he was detained. “I in Russia as long as they “leave kids alone” by “encourag[ing] the Russian regime to clear-cut policy towards Russia.” (RFE/RL) haven’t figured out what they wanted,” he – suggesting that gays might prey on chil- undergo psychiatric evaluation.” During the said. Mr. Purgin has been a prominent rep- dren. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by NATO trust funds launched in Ukraine time period indicated in Mr. Bastrykin’s resentative of the rebels since fighting Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press KYIV – The Ministry of Defense of erupted in some parts of eastern Ukraine in allegations, Mr. Yatsenyuk was studying in and the BBC) the western Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi, Ukraine will launch five NATO trust funds April 2014. He was also involved in peace near the Romanian border, according to the EuroParliament urges prisoners’ release in Ukraine for the total sum of 5.4 million talks in Minsk involving France, Germany, Ukrainian premier’s official biography. euros. NATO states will help the armed and Russia. But Mr. Purgin was reportedly STRASBOURG, France – European Union (RFE/RL) forces of Ukraine in the following sectors: considered a hard-liner among the separat- lawmakers have urged Russia to immedi- upgrade of connection and automation sys- ist leadership and opposed to some of the Elton John urges support for LGBT ately release the Estonian police officer tem (2.09 million euros), reform of armed key points of the Minsk cease-fire agree- Eston Kohver, Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg forces logistics and standardization system ment. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by KYIV – British singer and composer Sentsov, and civil activist Oleksandr (1.195 million euros), physical rehabilita- Reuters) Elton John has called for Ukraine to give Kolchenko. In a resolution backed by the tion and prosthesis for troops wounded in Yatsenyuk warns against illegal elections stronger support to the lesbian, gay, bisexu- European Parliament’s major political the anti-terrorist operation (845,000 al and transsexual (LGBT) community. Mr. groups on September 10, the lawmakers euros) as well as troop retraining and WARSAW – Ukraine’s Prime Minister social adaptation (410,000 euros), a Arseniy Yatsenyuk, while visiting Warsaw spokesperson of the Ministry of Defense of warned that any attempt by Russia to hold Ukraine, Col. Viktoriya Kushnir, said on illegal elections in the occupied Donetsk September 8. According to Col. Kushnir, the and Luhansk territories “means a complete Ministry of Defense, supported by interna- failure of Minsk agreements.” Meeting with TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 tional councils, the armed forces of Ukraine the Prime Minister of Poland Ewa Kopacz, or e-mail [email protected] and NATO experts, developed a draft Mr. Yatsenyuk stated: “We ...demand that National Security Strategy of Ukraine, a the Minsk agreements be implemented – new version of the Defense Sector stop shooting and killing Ukrainians, with- SERVICES PROFESSIONALS Development Concepts, the Defense draw Russian armies and renew control Doctrine and a number of other strategic over the border. Then this crisis, which was СТЕФАН ВЕЛЬГАШ documents in this sphere, the majority of created by Russia, and this military aggres- Ліцензований Продавець which had already been approved by the sion will cease.” (Ukrainian Canadian Страхування Життя government. 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including showing satellite imagery that European Union and Ukraine. He said after tlement. The Ukrainian firm was involved in NEWSBRIEFS shows Russian troops, command and con- a day of meetings in Brussels that the talks what U.S. authorities say was the biggest trol on the ground in eastern Ukraine. ... had been “positive” though “difficult,” and insider-trading scheme to date involving a (Continued from page 12) we’ve seen continued destabilizing actions “there is a chance of [success], although I sophisticated cybercrime network operated start to provide credit again. The recent on the part of Russia in eastern Ukraine. wouldn’t say it’s very great.” Mr. Ulyukayev out of Kyiv. “Today’s settlement demon- debt restructuring agreement is a vital We now have this ceasefire in place, but we said Russia was considering putting the strates that even those beyond our borders complement to economic reforms and an remain concerned about further ceasefire same kind of sanctions on Ukraine that it who trade on stolen nonpublic information essential step toward creating fiscal space, activities.” (Ukrainian Canadian Congress) has applied to the EU. Moscow has banned and use complex instruments in an attempt external sustainability and improved confi- the import of food from the EU in retalia- to avoid detection will ultimately be caught,” France proposes summit on Ukraine dence. Significant reforms have been tion for EU sanctions imposed over Russia’s said SEC director of enforcement Andrew launched to bring energy prices to cost PARIS – French President Francois annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. Mr. Ceresney. In a 21st-century twist on insider recovery levels, with due protection of vul- Hollande has proposed a meeting of the Ulyukayev said Russia expects it could min- trading, officials say that two Ukrainian nerable citizens. There has also been prog- leaders of Germany, Russia and Ukraine imize the damage to its own economy from hackers allegedly broke into the computers ress towards strengthening the social safe- later this month as a ceasefire appeared to such a food embargo to about 100 billion of PR Newswire and other leading financial ty net and restoring the social contract in be largely holding in eastern Ukraine. Mr. rubles ($1.4 billion) a year. Talks about a news services and stole some 150,000 cor- Ukraine. In addition, an independent and Hollande told reporters on September 7 that possible compromise are expected to con- porate press announcements before they capable anti-corruption agency with broad the talks could take place in Paris before the tinue in November. (RFE/RL, based on were released to the public. The hackers powers has been launched and judicial United Nations’ General Assembly opens on reporting by Reuters, TASS and Interfax) then sold quarterly earnings figures and reform has been initiated. It is crucial that other sensitive, potentially market-moving September 28 “so that we can evaluate the Firm to pay $30 M in securities case efforts in this area continue. Significant [peace] process, where it’s at.” He noted, information they culled from the press challenges remain. It is essential to stay the “There has been progress in the last few WASHINGTON – A Ukrainian company releases to dozens of investors, who netted course of reform and, indeed, deepen the weeks. The cease-fire has almost been and its chief executive will pay $30 million more than $100 million trading on it. Mr. effort. As Ukraine moves forward, it has the respected.” A truce agreement reached in to settle charges in a $100 million securities Supranonok, 33, resides in Kyiv and holds full support of the IMF.” (Ukrainian Minsk in February has been regularly violat- case that U.S. authorities describe as the 30 percent of Jaspen, which “purports” to be Canadian Congress) ed, but Ukrainian President Petro largest ever involving a sophisticated cyber- “a full service investment bank,” the SEC crime operation. Jaspen Capital Partners said in its complaint. The parties are the Berlusconi visits Russia-annexed Crimea Poroshenko said on September 5 that the deal had been observed for the first time for Limited and chief executive Andriy first to settle since U.S. authorities YALTA, Ukraine – Former Italian Prime an entire week. (RFE/RL, based on report- Supranonok agreed to pay back “ill-gotten announced the case in August. Litigation is Minister Silvio Berlusconi has met with ing by Agence France-Presse and Reuters) gains” they allegedly accrued from 2010 to continuing against the remaining 32 defen- Russian President Vladimir Putin in the 2015 through profitable trades they made dants in the case, the SEC said. In a parallel Russians banned from broadcast companies criminal case, the U.S. Justice Department Ukraine Black Sea region of Crimea, which using information they stole from corporate press releases through a computer hacking also has indicted nine of the same defen- was annexed by Russia in March 2014. Mr. KYIV – Ukraine’s Parliament has passed network based in Ukraine, the U.S. dants from the United States and Ukraine Berlusconi arrived on September 11 in the a measure banning Russians from estab- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on criminal charges – including securities resort city of Yalta for a “private visit.” He lishing or being involved in the business of said on September 14. The accused neither fraud, computer fraud and conspiracy – in had spent the previous two days in the television or radio stations in the country. acknowledged nor denied wrongdoing, but courts in New Jersey and Brooklyn, New Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. He met The measure that passed on September 3 they did agree to refrain from future viola- York. (RFE/RL, with reporting by Agence with Putin at a memorial to soldiers who says no one involved in the broadcast busi- tions of the securities laws as part of the set- France-Presse and the Associated Press) died during the Crimean War outside of ness can be from a country regarded by Sevastopol, home port of the Russian Black Ukraine as an aggressor. The Ukrainian Sea Fleet. On September 9, Kremlin spokes- Parliament earlier this year declared Russia man Dmitry Peskov said such a meeting to be an aggressor state. Ukraine has With great sadness, we inform you was likely, noting that the two men have already banned Russian television channels of the repose in the Lord in his 91st year of life “longstanding business and personal rela- from its cable systems. The measure also our dear father and grandfather. tions.” Mr. Berlusconi is expected to return calls for broadcast outlets to publish full to Italy on September 13. Earlier this sum- information about their ownership struc- Jaroslav Sichynsky mer, a delegation of French parliamentari- ture on their websites and to provide this ans visited the annexed peninsula. The information to the national broadcasting on the 28th of August, 2015. United States, the European Union, and council. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by Son Andrew Sichynsky with wife Teresa, and children Tanya and Alexander. most of the rest of the world do not recog- the Associated Press and Interfax) nize Crimea as part of Russia. (RFE/RL, The funeral was held on Tuesday, September 8, 2015 based on reporting by Interfax and TASS) Moscow warns of trade embargo at St. Andrew Cemetery, S. Bound Brook NJ. State Department on ‘destabilizing actions’ MOSCOW – Russia has warned that there’s only a slim chance of averting a Those wishing to honor his memory are invited to make a donation to WASHINGTON – U.S. State Department trade embargo against Ukraine when Kyiv’s the Museum Fund of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA or the Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner stated free-trade pact with the European Union Orphanage Fund of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA, both on September 3: “There would be no con- takes effect in January. Russian Economy at Ukrainian Orthodox Church of USA, PO Box 495, S. Bound Brook, NJ flict in eastern Ukraine if Russia were not Minister Aleksei Ulyukayev said he hasn’t 08880-0495; or the UNWLA War Victims Fund at UNWLA, 203 2nd Avenue, providing tanks, armored vehicles, heavy entirely given up hope of reaching a deal 5th Floor, New York, NY 10003-5706 artillery, military personnel to the separat- that would satisfy Moscow’s objections to ists. I think we all understand that. We’ve the trade pact and avert sanctions through May he rest in peace. made that very clear over many months, three-way talks between Russia, the

The Board of Directors of the Ukrainian Institute of America regrets to announce that our longest serving Member and Friend Dr. GEORGE TRUCHLY Ділимося сумною вісткою, що 31 серпня 2015 року, проживши passed into eternal rest on September 9, 2015. 97 років, спокійно відійшла у вічність наша найдорожча Мама

Dr. Truchly had been a Member of the Institute since 1951. He dedicated св. п. Надія Сеник a signifi cant amount of his time and resources to the Ukrainian Institute (1918-2015) of America and served many years as a member of the UIA Board of Directors. У глибокому смутку залишилися: донька - Оксана Dr. Truchly was a steadfast benefactor of our organization and his зять - Jimmy contributions and input into the success of the Ukrainian Institute have ближча і дальша родина в Україні. been invaluable. The footprints that he leaves behind will have a lasting eƒ ect. Похоронні відправи відбулися 4 вересня 2015 року в Церкві- пам’ятнику св. Андрія та на українському цвинтарі в Савт Бавнд- Our heartfelt condolences go out to his family, in particular, to his Бруку, Н. Дж. surviving wife, Nancy, and brother, Vasyl, as well as to all of his friends. Для вшанування пам’яті Покійної просимо складати пожертви на In lieu of fl owers, the family has asked that donations be made in Український Історично-Освітній Центр: George’s memory to the Ukrainian Institute of America. Ukrainian Historical and Educational Center PO Box 495, South Bound Brook, NJ 08880 May our dear, departed Member, George, Rest in Eternal Peace. tel: (732) 356-0132; • www.UkrHEC.org Вічная пам’ять! Вічна Їй пам’ять! 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 No. 38

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE UCC Saskatchewan welcomes ‘Ambulances for Ukraine’ project SASKATOON, Saskatchewan – The “Saskatchewanians – individuals, volun- democratic society.” Dutchak, the humanitarian project Ukrainian Canadian Congress Saskatchewan teers, professionals, businessmen and poli- Ms. Trischuk said, “UCC Saskatchewan “Ambulances for Ukraine” was made possi- Provincial Council welcomes the announce- ticians, alike – continue to demonstrate was pleased to be able to participate in this ble by the devoted efforts of many volun- ment by MD Ambulance that four ambulanc- their support for the people of Ukraine by important initiative with the Battlefords teers over the last 18 months. es from Canada were to arrive in Kyiv in late providing much-needed humanitarian aid Ukrainian Canadian Cultural Council, UCC MD Ambulance was established by Mr. August. The equipment will be sent to hospi- and other forms of assistance,” said UCC Canora, UCC Regina, UCC Saskatoon and UCC Dutchak’s late father, Mike Dutchak, who tals and used in treating those wounded in Saskatchewan President Mary Ann Yorkton. A total of $7,500 will be donated.” was a recipient of UCC Saskatchewan’s the armed conflict with Russian-backed Trischuk. “We will continue to support Under the leadership of MD Community Recognition Award for creativi- forces in eastern Ukraine. them in their aspirations for a free and Ambulance’s past president and CEO, Dave ty, innovation and leadership in 2009.

Ukrainian hero celebrates Sacramento picnic raises his birthday in New Haven funds for aid to Ukraine

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – On Sunday, August 30, after the second divine liturgy, parishio- ners of St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church celebrated Roman Lutsiuk’s birthday. Mr. Lutsiuk has been in Connecticut since January. He was injured as a soldier in Ukraine and transferred to Yale New Haven Hospital because of his serious injuries. On this special day Mr. Lutsiuk’s wife, Tetiana, hosted the parishioners with a delicious birthday SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A picnic conducted by the Ukraine Relief Organization was cake and wine. Father Iura Godenciuc wished Mr. Lutsiuk all the best and everyone held here on Saturday, August 22, with the aim of raising funds for aid to Ukraine. sang “Mnohaya Lita.” The parishioners also gave him a nice gift. It was a joy for parish- Thousands of people attended, including members of Sacramento’s Knights of ioners to be there on this special day, knowing how much Mr. Lutsiuk had gone through Columbus Council 953. Grand Knight Lewis Munoz (left) presented a donation to this year and seeing him smile. His two young daughters came to visit in August and Vladimir Skots (right), treasurer of the Ukraine Relief Organization. The money was col- had to return to Ukraine recently. lected at the council’s meeting on August 14. – Halia Jurczak-Lodynsky – Alex Kachmar

Verniaiev won six medals – gold medals in Sych and Yurii Taranenko) also won silver. women’s long jump (6.42 meters); and Sportsline the individual all-around, men’s rings and Ukraine’s men’s athletics team (Igor Nataliya Strohova won second place in the (Continued from page 11) parallel bars, silver in the men’s floor exer- Glavan, Nazar Kovalenko, Ivan Banzeruk), women’s 200-meter race (23.40 seconds) cise, and bronze in the men’s vault, and the won gold in the men’s team 20-kilometer men’s team won bronze in the team event walk. in the men’s high jump (2.3 meters) at the 6 KO) fights Javier Castro (27-7-0, 22 KO) of (with Verniaiev, Igor Radivilov, Mykyta Weltklasse• Bohdan BondarenkoZurich meeting won secondof the IAAFplace Mexico• Super on welterweightSeptember 18 Ivan at Claridge Golub (8-0-0, Hotel Yermak, Arseniev and Volodymyr Rizatdinova won gold in the clubs event, Diamond League Meetings on September 3 in Atlantic City, N.J. Okachev). Verniaiev’s six-medal tally was silver• Inin ball, rhythmic bronze in gymnastics, ribbon and silver Ganna in in Letzigrund, Switzerland. Bondarenko the highest for any individual competitor. Youth Olymp ad the individual all-around. Ukraine’s rhyth- earned four points from the second-place i Radivilov won silver medals in men’s rings mic gymnastics team (Olena Dmytrash, finish. and men’s vault. In judo, Dmytro Kanivets Yevgenia Gomon, Oleksandra Gridasova, Olympic Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia, on July (73 kg) won silver and Tetiana Lvytska (52 Valeriia Gudym and Anastasiia Mulmina) women’s 100-meter race (11.15 seconds) 28-August• At the 1, Summerin judo, Ukraine’s European Gievorg Youth kg) won bronze; Ukraine’s men’s judo team won gold in the group event for six clubs at •the Natalia IAAF PohrebniakWorld Challenge won silver Meeting in the in Maukian (66 kg) won the silver in the (Bogdan Iadov, Mykhailo Iltchuk, Dmytro and two hoops, silver in the five ribbons Madrid on July 11. men’s division; Iryna Khryashchevska (70 Kanivets, Denys Tolkach, Artem Gulyayev, group event and silver in the group all- kg) won silver in women’s; Vladyslav Dmytro Luchyn, Fedir Panko and Anton around. In volleyball, Ukraine’s men (Pylyp men’s long jump (7.7 meters) at the TNT Berezka (+90 kg) won silver; and Oleksii Rudnyk) won bronze. Ukraine’s women’s Harmash, Yurii Synytsia, Dmytro Bogdan, Express• Oleksiy Meeting Kasyanov as part won of firstthe IAAFplace Worldin the Babenko (+90 kg) won bronze. Eduard coxless four-man rowing team (Daryna Oleksiy Klyamar, Mykola Moroz, Maksym Combined Events Challenge in men’s Yermako won silver in men’s artistic gym- Verkhogliad, Ievgennia Nimchenko, Drozd, Dmytro Shorkin, Yuriy Tomyn, decathlon on June 12-13 in Kladno, the nastics in the parallel bars. Oleksandr Nataliia Kovalova and Nataliia Dovgodko) Sergiy Tyutlin, Dmytro Teryomenko, Oleg Czech Republic. Kasyanov scored 985 Moroz won silver in the men’s 50-meter won gold, and Ukraine won silver in wom- Shevchenko and Olekhsandr Dmytriiev) points with the jump. He finished in fourth freestyle swimming race. In athletics, en’s double sculls (Verkhogliad and and women (Ganna Lisieienkova, Anna place in Group A in men’s shot put (14.27 Ukraine won five medals – one gold in Nimchenko) and women’s singles sculls Stepaniuk, Diana Karpets, Kateryna meters, 745 points), fourth place in men’s hammer throw, Mykhailo Havryliuk (75.2 (Dovgodko). Ukraine’s men’s team (Andrii Kalchenko, Anastasiia Chernukha, high jump (1.99 meters, 796 points), sec- meters); one gold in boy’s high jump, Mykhailov, Yurii Ivanov, Anton Bondarenko, Viktoriya Delros, Maryna Degtiarova, ond place in heat 3 of the men’s 400-meter Dmytro Nikitin (2.12 meters); one gold in Vladyslav Nikulin, Oleksandr Nadtoka, Svitlana Dorsman, Angelina Dubianska, race (48.67 seconds, 877 points), first place girl’s shot put, Marharyta Lukachenko Artem Verestiuk, Ivan Dovhodko, Igor Kateryna Dudnyk, Oksana Madzar and in heat 3 in men’s 110-meter hurdles (16.30 meters); one silver in boy’s pole Khmara and Dmytro Mikhai) won silver in Nadiia Kodola) won silver medals in their (14.09 seconds, 963 points), first place in vault, Taras Shevtsov (4.60 meters); and the eight-man race and men’s lightweight respective divisions. discus throw (50.85 meters, 888 points), one silver in triple jump, Sonia Da Knseisao double sculls (Igor Khmara and Stanislav and was in a three-way tie for second place Kussekala (13.3 meters). Kovalov). Swimmer Sergei Frolov won gold Athletics in the pole vault (4.65 meters, 804 points). Kasyanov did not complete the decathlon. Un vers ade in the men’s 800-meter freestyle and silver i i in the men’s 1,500-meter freestyle, and the women’s 800-meter race (2:01.94 sec- Mariia Liver won gold in women’s onds)• Anastaiia at the IAAF Tkachuk World wonChallenge first placeMeeting in women’s triple jump (14.46 meters) at the medal standings with 31 medals – eight 50-meter breaststroke. Ukraine’s men’s in Rieti, Italy, on September 13. Yulia Exxon• Olga Mobil Saladuha Bislett won Games third as place part ofin the gold,• Ukraine 17 silver finished and six inbronze eighth – placeat the in 2015 the saber team (Bogdan Platonov, Dmytro Chumachenko won first place in the wom- IAAF Diamond League Meetings in Oslo, Gwangju Summer Universiade (student Raskosov, Ievgenii Staasenko and Yuriy en’s high jump (1.88 meters) and Yulia Norway, on June 11. Bohdan Bondarenko youth games) on July 3-14 in Gwangju, Tsap) won silver and Ukraine’s epee team Levchenko won third place (1.78 meters); finished in fifth place in the men’s high South Korea. Artistic gymnast Oleg (Valeriy Zharskyy, Volodymyr Stanke, Yan Krystyna Hryshutyna won first place in the jump (2.33 meters). No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 15

Our community celebrates Ukrainian Independence Day 2015

The Independence Day celebra- tion was organized by St. Nicholas TROY and WATERVLIET, N.Y. Brotherhood Society (Bratstvo)/ Ukrainian National Association by Slavko Tysiak bration consisted of prayers for peace and remembrance, and a flag- Branch 13 and the Ukrainian TROY, N.Y. – The Capital District’s raising ceremony. American Cultural Center, both Ukrainian American community Troy is the birthplace of the earli- located in Watervliet, N.Y., across members gathered here at Taras est immigration to New York State’s the Hudson River from Troy. Prior Shevchenko Place on Sunday, Capital District, surrounding Albany, to the celebration, Bratstvo mem- August 23, to celebrate Ukraine’s in the late 1800s. Taras Shevchenko bers cleaned the monument to 24th Independence Day. The cele- Place is a park in the City of Troy. Shevchenko and the surrounding park. The cultural center purchased a new flag that was raised at the cel- ebratory event. Prayers were led by the Revs. Vladimir Marusceac of Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church in Cohoes, Mikhail Myshchuk of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Watervliet and the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church in Troy, and Vasyl Dovhan of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Troy. The next day, August 24 Ukrainian clergy and leaders of Ukrainian American organizations based in Watervliet met with Mayor Michael Manning. Konstantyn Vorona, vice-consul of Ukraine in New York City, joined local organi- Ukrainian Americans at City Hall in Watervliet, N.Y., for a flag-raising zation leaders at the flag-raising Ukrainian Americans of the Capital District gather at the ceremony. next to Watervliet City Hall. Taras Shevchenko Place in Troy, N.Y.

ROCHESTER, N.Y.

by Christine Hoshowsky ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Michael Sawkiw Jr., director of the Ukrainian National Information Service (UNIS), was the keynote speaker at the Rochester-area community’s cele- bration of the 24th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence here on August 23. The event took place beside the Ukrainian Centennial Monument on the grounds of Irondequoit Town Hall. Mr. Sawkiw, speaking in both English and Ukrainian, praised the efforts of Ukrainian Americans who rallied in support of Ukraine during this crisis-riddled year. His mes- sage was on the importance of being politically active. Political advocacy stoked the passage of the Ukraine Freedom Support Act and its signing into law, although the provision on lethal weapons aid to Ukraine requires addi- tional attention for full implementation. Mr. Sawkiw explained that Ukrainians need to conduct Olena Dilai conversations with members of both political parties – The Rochester community at the Ukrainian Centennial Monument near Irondequoit Town Hall. Democrats and Republicans – and to hold elected officials dent, territorially sovereign Ukraine as a priority of community initiated and supports. In her proclamation she accountable for their ideas, actions and legislation on American foreign policy in Eastern Europe, he underscored. declared August 23, 2015, to be Ukrainian Independence Ukraine. Ukrainian Americans should impress upon govern- His message was reinforced by the one delivered by Dr. Day in Monroe County. ment officials the importance of championing an indepen- Christine Hoshowsky, president of the Rochester Ukrainian New York State Sen. Richard Funke sent a proclamation Group Inc. (RUG), who asked Ukrainian community members which referred to the human chain for Ukrainian to reach out to the general population in order to increase Independence of over 300,000 Ukrainians which stretched knowledge of Ukrainian history and culture. To that end, RUG between Kyiv and Lviv on January 21, 1990, and noted made a donation to the new Irondequoit Public Library. Ukraine’s declaration of independence the following year. Stephanie Squicciarini, president of the Irondequoit Public State Sen. Michael Nozzolio, who has ancestral ties to Library Board, and Elaine Cole, president of the Irondequoit Ukraine, sent a letter of good wishes and reflected on the Library Foundation, were present to accept the gift. incredible adversities Ukrainian people suffered in the Irondequoit Town Councilman John Perticone greeted “name of freedom,” while State Sen. Joseph E. Robach issued the Ukrainian community by presenting a proclamation a proclamation on the 24th anniversary celebration of that stated: “…we must not forget those who continue to val- Ukraine’s independence and “the role of Ukrainian culture in iantly defend Ukraine’s independence and human rights, Rochester, Monroe County and the State of New York.” and we empathize with the thousands of uprooted and dis- Dr. John Carbone and Joseph Morelle, Jr., both Monroe placed families and those still fighting for freedom.” The County legislators, presented a certificate of recognition to document also recognized the Rochester Ukrainian Group the Ukrainian community. for many years of service to the Irondequoit community. Maritza Buitrago, who is running for Monroe County Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) sent good wishes, noting Family Court, shared her good wishes with the Ukrainian that she had been privileged to be on the welcoming com- community, as did Tony Proietti, a candidate for the mittee for President Petro Poroshenko on Capitol Hill last Irondequoit Town Council. year. Irena Skrobach, the chair of the ROC-Maidan Zorianna Dombchewsky shared her personal reflection Advocacy Committee and until recently a member of the on Ukrainian President Poroshenko’s speech to the joint ses- Irondequoit Town Council, lauded Congresswoman sion of Congress on September 18, 2014, which was excep- Slaughter for her support of the Ukrainian community and tionally well received, with many standing ovations from the Ukraine Freedom Support Act, as well as her recent Dr. Christine Hoshowsky, president of the Rochester Congress. Later in the day, Mr. Poroshenko joined the Ukrainian Group, and Michael Sawkiw Jr., director of efforts to send secure radios to Ukraine. Ukrainian rally a short distance from the White House. There the Ukrainian National Information Service, at the Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks praised the Ukrainian Cultural Center. Sister City Poltava exchange relationship that the Ukrainian (Continued on page 18) 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 No. 38

ing Stalin now have “forgotten everything ilizational membership. In any nation or Sacrificing territory won’t end this fight, Handing over... and learned nothing. But what is most civilization there are brothers of those who he says, and “the normal part of the world important: they do not want to learn any- protested in Tianamen Square and also will not be able to sleep peacefully even if (Continued from page 6) thing, they do not want to understand any- brothers of those who suppressed those its opponent will be thrown back beyond suggests (echo.msk.ru/blog/karina_ thing.” who took part in those demonstrations the Urals.” It will only be able to do so when orlova/1613042-echo/). “It is possible to argue about which of with tanks.” regimes of executioners “from Minsk to She is hardly alone in feeling that way, the two totalitarian regime-twins – the “These are two worlds, the struggle Pyongyang” are defeated and replaced by the Russian commentator says, given that Stalinist or the Hitlerite – brought the between which has a universal character regimes who don’t celebrate killers. pro-Moscow forces in in the Donbas have greater evil. It is possible to argue about and reconciliation is impossible. And those Because Mr. Skobov is right, one can called for destroying all memorials to those which of them is worse. But those who glo- who rise under the song ‘Bring Back Stalin’ only agree with Ukrainian President Petro who suffered political repression in Soviet rify Stalin today,” Mr. Skobov argues, “are and wipe out the memory about his victims Poroshenko’s call today for “the peoples of times and to the victims of Joseph Stalin’s worse than Nazis.” That is because “to justi- are not my brothers,” Mr. Skobov says. the free world to stand up against Russian terror famine (vlada.io/vlada_news/boevi- fy Stalinist terror is the same as justifying “They are my enemies” and the enemies of aggression in Ukraine” (http://echo.msk. ki-dnr-snesli-pamyatniki-zhertvam-golodo- the Holocaust.” all those who care about human rights, ru/news/1614764-echo.html). What is at mora-i-politicheskih-repressiy/). The Nazis “didn’t promise all peoples freedom and dignity. stake is far more than just two plots of land. If only this problem could be resolved so freedom, equality and brotherhood. They “Today,” he continues, “such people are The international order and human rights easily by yielding territories and building didn’t present themselves as humanists,” he being cynically used as cannon fodder” by are at risk if the West does not. walls, Mr. Skobov says, even if one made says. “The Stalinists, on the other hand, the Kremlin kleptocracy, “which is seeking provision for those living on each side of always lied, to others and to themselves. with their help to rearrange the contempo- this line who preferred to live on the other And if, during the life of the regime, some of rary world according to [their] criminal to move. But the problem isn’t that simple, them were themselves deceived by these understandings.” In brief, “contemporary Ukraine’s ‘wormhole’... and this “solution” is no solution. lies, present-day idolizers of Stalin lack that neo-Stalinism” is a criminal agenda that (Continued from page 7) Not only would such a handover sacri- ‘mitigating circumstance.’” would be marginal if it did not enjoy the fice the rights of the Crimean Tatars and “Today, no one can say that he didn’t support of the Kremlin. enced by European countries that are others to self-determination, he continues, know about the victims of Stalin’s regime,” Consequently, he argues, “Ukraine is not struggling to cope with the migration of what is “the most important thing is that Mr. Skobov argues, and those who want to fighting for parts of its territory seized by displaced Syrians. [those to whom the territories would be restore his regime and to tear down the an aggressor. Simply, it is on the line of the Most of the major industrial sectors given] would never be satisfied.” They monuments to his victims are thus “worse front between two parts of the world: the (coal, metallurgy, the chemical industry) in would simply take what was offered and than Nazis.” normal one in which human life is valued the Donbas are operating at 70 percent demand or try to seize more. Mr. Skobov points out that “this is not a and the abnormal one” in which the execu- below capacity, while small and medium The pro-Moscow forces who are glorify- question of ethnic, linguistic, cultural or civ- tioners seek to impose their will. commercial enterprises are operating at 10-20 percent of capacity. There has been a comparable breakdown in social and health services, as well as basic public ser- vices such as transportation, wastewater treatment, municipal water supply, bank- ing services and communications. It is com- parable to the deplorable state of public services in Iraq two months after the end of the second Gulf War in 2003. The proposed financial loan package is based on a “Recovery and Peacekeeping Assessment” (RPA) commissioned in 2013 by the EU, the U.N. and the World Bank. The first phase focuses on priority short-term recovery needs and social services, and rehabilitating critical infrastructure in the Donbas, such as hospitals, clinics, electrici- ty, heating systems, water supply and wastewater treatment plants. In reviewing this report, I believe that the RPA’s preliminary estimate of $1.5 bil- lion for immediate recovery and recon- struction costs for Donbas seems very low, based on my experience conducting similar estimates for replacing critical infrastruc- ture in similar situations in Iraq, Haiti and Afghanistan. In addition, there will be lon- ger term infrastructure renovation costs in the tens of billions of dollars to bring them up to European standards, if Ukraine is to ultimately join the EU. Understandably, the RPA study was accomplished under difficult conditions of constant ceasefire violations and in under three months. The report acknowledges that estimates are likely to rise as teams get better access to the damaged sites. Transport (roads, rail lines, bridges, com- muter services), energy and health services alone will require well over $1 billion. Water and sanitation, social services, schools and other public buildings will require at least another $1 billion. The key points, buried in the RPA docu- ment, are that the government of Ukraine is responsible for the recovery and recon- struction of the Donbas, and is expected to use its own financing, in addition to loans from international lending institutions. These are not grants, though. The loans, however generous the terms may be, must be repaid. No contributions or reparations are required of Russia, however. There is no talk of a Russian “Marshall Plan” to assist the Donbas. Under the terms of the European Investment Bank loans, the Donbas will continue to be a wormhole, channeling cor- rupt Russian practices, and serve as a per- petual black hole for Ukraine’s scarce finan- cial resources. No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 17

UKRAINIAN DANCE CLASSES with Orlando and Larisa Pagan

For over 22 years, Orlando and Larisa Pagan have shared their love and passion for Ukrainian dance by teaching countless students from the New York and the tri-state areas. The inspiration behind the schools and foundation, Roma Pryma Bohachevska, encouraged them to continue the tradition of Ukrainian dance so that the art and culture of folk dancing would never be lost. Fresh from teaching a summer fi lled with successful camps and workshops at Soyuzivka in Kerhonkson, NY, Orlando and Larisa are back in session at their schools in the New York and tri-state areas. If you are interested in enrolling your child or if you have any questions regarding the schools and their programs, please feel free to contact them by phone or email. SCHEDULE OF CLASSES RPB School of Ukrainian Dance (Manhattan N.Y.) Begins Saturday, September 19th; 440 Lafayette, NY, NY 10003 Contact: Emilia Liteplo - [email protected] (917)-301-8355 Contact: Orlando Pagan - [email protected]. (917)-495-0020 Suzyria School of Ukrainian Dance (Passaic, NJ) Begins Tuesday, September 22nd; 223 Presidents St, Passaic, NJ 07055 Contact: Orlando Pagan - [email protected]. (917)-495-0020; *First class free Mryia School of Ukrainian Dance (Long Island N.Y.) Begins Monday, September 21st; 226 Uniondale Ave, Uniondale, NY 11553 Contact: Ewa Jedynak - [email protected] (516) 770-5117 Zolotyj Promin School of Ukrainian Dance (Hartford, Connecticut) Begins Thursday, October 1st; 961 Wethersfi eld Ave., Hartford, CT 06114 Contact: Daria Budas- [email protected] (860) 930-0089 Trembita School of Ukrainian Dance (Yonkers, N,Y) Begins Wednesday, September 9th; 301 Palisade Ave., Yonkers, N.Y. Contact: Orlando Pagan - [email protected]. (917)-495-0020; *First class free

UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Inc. Christmas Card Project Last year’s Christmas Card Project with The funds received from this project are 7. Artists must be advised that entry into this children between the ages of 6-18 was very assigned to Soyuzivka with other donations contest constitutes (1) a waiver of all copyrights successful. And thus the Ukrainian National to the UNA publications – Svoboda and The artists have in their entries, and (2) permission to Association will again hold a contest to select Ukrainian Weekly and the UNF general fund. All republish entries without compensation. young artists to participate in the project. participants will have their art work published in 8. Winners will be notified by October 24, 2015. We hope to inspire younger artists to use both Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly. their creative talents in a meaningful way. As To enter the contest, please read the contest 9. All entries must be received at the Ukrainian always the theme of the Christmas card will be rules listed below: National Association, 2200 Route 10, Parsippany, “Ukrainian Christmas”. Please check details: NJ, 07054, Attn. O. Trytjak or oksana.trytjak@ 1. The cards selected will best reflect the verizon.net by Saturday, October 17, 2015; late Children between the ages of 6-12 (Group theme of a Ukrainian Christmas 1) and between 13-18 (Group 2) are invited entries will not be considered. Tel. 973 292-9800 to participate in the UNA’s annual Christmas 2. The young artist’s name, age and city, x3071. state will be printed on the backside of the card. Card Project. Each child is encouraged to 10. Judges’ decision will be final. enter the contest by creating one (1) original 3. One (1) original art work may be entered 11. All proceeds are dedicated to educational color artwork to be considered by our judges. per artist. Art work must be no larger than The artists should depict their idea of a and cultural programs for children at Soyuzivka. 8.5” x 11”. When printed the art will be Ukrainian Christmas. The winning designs 12. Donations are tax exempt as permitted by reduced to card size. will be reproduced and used by the UNA in its law. annual Christmas Card Project Fund-Raiser. 4. Drawings must be properly labeled on The winning designs will be recognized on the reverse of the art entry: PRINTED - name Please Print the reverse side of the card with the name, of artist (IN BOTH LANGUAGES), full address, age, city, state of the artist. Over 150,000 including telephone and e-mail, attach Name: ______ДРУКОВАНИМИ ЛІТЕРАМИ В УКРАЇНСЬКІЙ МОВІ cards are mailed each year to members in completed entry form. the community. The proceeds from the sale Name: ______5. Artists may use any medium: watercolors, of these cards are allocated to support the PRINTED IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE markers, oils, crayons, on white paper. Bold renaissance of Soyuzivka, the cultural center of address: ______colors reproduce best in the printing process. our community. Over the years the community Tel: ______E-mail: ______has been very supportive especially when the 6. Entries will not be returned to the artists, community’s youngest talents are recognized. they will be the property of the UNA. DatE of birth ______NamE of school______18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 No. 38

noted. Mychailo Babchuk and Yaroslav Rochester, N.Y. Kirik secured, refurbished, outfitted and UNWLA Philadelphia Regional Council to feature dispatched the vehicles to Ukraine. (Continued from page 15) The celebration of Ukraine’s indepen- haute couture collection of Oksana Karavanska he spoke with Ukrainian Americans, ges- dence began as the honor guard stood and tured unity and strength by crossing his saluted the American and Ukrainian flags. PHILADELPHIA – A gala fashion show “go-to designer,” she is sought for her inspi- raised hands, and then joined the group in Ihor Hoshowsky represented the John showcasing the “Vyshyvanka Couture” rational unique creations featuring folk art singing the Ukrainian national anthem. The Onufryk Post 1590 of the American Legion, trademark line of Ukrainian designer and motifs combined with modern tech- moment was electric, Ms. Dombchewsky and Walter Denysenko represented the Oksana Karavanska, who is known for her niques and panache. recalled. Ukrainian American Veterans. impeccable style in intermingling tradition- Among her many accolades, is the Master of ceremonies Olena Dilai, presi- The American and Ukrainian National al Ukrainian folklore with modern couture, grand prix at Crystal Silhouette dent of Branch 120 of the Ukrainian anthems were sung by Lydia Dzus, a mem- will be held on Sunday, October 25, at 1:30 Competition for the “best dress of the year.” National Women’s League of America, an ber of the Ukrainian Centennial Committee p.m. at the Tryzub Ukrainian American A member of the prestigious Fashion assistant professor of mathematics at and former Town Council member and Sport Center, Lower State and County Line Council of Ukraine for many years, Ms. Monroe Community College and treasurer receiver of taxes in Irondequoit. She is also roads in Horsham, Pa. Karavanska has also presented her award- of RUG, introduced the following presenter, the president of the Church Council at St. The fashion show is being presented by winning collections in New York City, Tamara Denysenko. Mary the Protectress Ukrainian the Philadelphia Regional Council of the Chicago, Washington, and Denver, as well Ms. Denysenko, board member of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Ukrainian National Women’s League of as Milan, and Toronto. In 1997, her name- Ukrainian Federal Credit Union (UFCU), pres- The Rt. Rev. Mitred Archpriest Philip America (UNWLA), which is celebrating 90 sake boutique was opened in Kyiv, where ident of the Ukrainian-American Community Weiner, pastor of St. Josaphat Ukrainian years of service and support to the she continues her trademark line in design- Foundation Inc. and president of Rochester Catholic Church, and the Very Rev. Ihor Ukrainian American community in con- er fashions. Global Connections, informed the community Krekhovetsky, pastor of St. Mary the junction with the Tryzub organization. To make reservations, readers are of the “Hands and Hearts for Ukraine” event Protectress Ukrainian Autocephalous Proceeds from this fund-raising event are advised to call Dana at 954-245-1622. at the Ukrainian Community Center in Orthodox Church, together led the assem- allocated for humanitarian aid in Ukraine, Tickets ($50) will not be sold at the door. Webster, N.Y., on October 17. There will be a bly in the “Our Father.” specifically for the widows and orphans of Light refreshments and complimentary dinner meeting with Ihor Pasichnyk, rector, Yuriy Denysenko, Markian Dwulit and fallen soldiers combating the Russian champagne will be served. and Dr. Eduard Balashov, director of interna- Luckash Lewyckyj, members of Plast invaders in eastern Ukraine. For more information or tickets readers tional studies, both from the National Ukrainian Scouting Organization, laid flow- Ms. Karavanska was born in Lviv, gradu- may contact Halyna Henhalo, president, University of Ostroh Academy in Ukraine. At ers at the foot of the monument and a ated from the Lviv Academy of Applied and UNWLA Philadelphia Regional Council at the end of October, Rochester Global moment of silence was observed in honor Decorative Arts, and is regarded as one of [email protected] or 267-401- Connections will host an exchange with an of the Heavenly Brigade and the victims of the top designers in Ukraine. Hailed as the 5935. Open World delegation from Ukraine. the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Greetings were also conveyed by Barbara Two songs sung by Julia Pavlyuk, Oksana Gutierrez, UFCU treasurer of and a member Andreiko and Petro Andriyaschuk provided The Ukrainian Ski Club of its board of directors; and Yaroslav a musical interlude to momentarily soothe Fatyak, also a member of the UFCU board, the sorrow of the long struggle for an KLK sent a letter written in Ukrainian commem- Independent Ukraine. cordially invites you, your family and friends to our orating Ukraine’s independence. The UFCU The event came to a close when Ivan is a co-sponsor of the event. Tymchyshyn, the music director of the 90th Anniversary Celebration Wolodymyr Pavlyuk, chair of the ROC- church choir of the Ukrainian Catholic Maidan Humanitarian Aid Committee, fol- Church of the Epiphany, directed the audi- Fall Gala Weekend lowed up with a summary of donations ence in singing the spiritually uplifting that the Ukrainian community in Rochester “Prayer for Ukraine.” being held at Soyuzivka Heritage Center has made to wounded soldiers, orphans, Guests adjourned to the Ukrainian and internally displaced persons in Community Center in Webster for a tradi- Saturday October 3, 2015 Ukraine. This assistance – together with tional Ukrainian dinner prepared by several Schedule of events: Golf 9:30 am medical supplies and equipment, including volunteers. Walter Wirlo, the center’s presi- Tennis Doubles 11:30 am three ambulances now en route to Ukraine dent, greeted the guests as the celebration of A ernoon Social 2:30 pm – reflects the generosity of our people, he Ukraine’s Independence Day continued. Cocktails 6:30 pm Banquet Dinner Dance 7:30 pm Tickets: $150.00 per person for all day activities including evening celebration $100.00 per person for Cocktail hour, Banquet-Dinner Dance Black Tie Requested Please RSVP by September 18, 2015 [email protected] or Text /call 732-991-1095 For accommodations please call “Soyuzivka” at 845-626-5641. Please mention KLK

Olena Dilai The Rochester community beside the ambulances en route to Ukraine that were pur- chased with humanitarian aid funds.

38th UKRAINIAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONVENTION Friday, October 23, 2015 – Sunday, October 25, 2015

THE ROOSEVELT HOTEL 45 E 45th Street, New York, NY 10017 For Program Information, go to WWW.UABA.ORG The general public is invited to the Friday and Saturday daytime sessions No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 19

Through Art exhibit, featuring works by Oleh Savytski, Ukrainian September 26 End of Summer White Party, with music by DJ Stas, September 27 Canadian Art Foundation Gallery www.kumfgallery.com New York Ukrainian National Home, 212-614-3283 Toronto September 27 Luncheon and performance by Victor Morozov, “Lviv for Through October 4 Art exhibit featuring works by Russel Yuristy, Cube Chicago Coffee,” Ukrainian National Museum, Ukrainian Cultural Ottawa Gallery, www.cubegallery.ca Center, www.victormorozov.com

September 21 Lecture and book presentation by Gene Fischel, September 27 Ukrainian Independence Day Celebration, SNPJ Lodge, Cambridge, MA “Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It,” Imperial, PA 412-343-0309 Harvard University, 617-495-4053 September 27- Art exhibit featuring works by Nicholas Bervinchak, September 22 Presentation by Gene Fishel, “The Russia Factor in U.S. October 27 Ukrainian Lemko Museum, Lemko Research Cambridge, MA Policy toward Independent Ukraine: Three Case Stamford, CT Foundation, Ukrainian Museum and Library of Studies,” Harvard University, 617-495-4053 Stamford, [email protected]

October 24 Presentation by Volodymyr Kulyk, “Ukrainian Identity September 27-28 Protest, American European Solidarity Council, Dag New York Under the Impact of Euro-Maidan and the War,” New York Hammarskjold Plaza to Permanent Mission of the Columbia University, 212-854-4697 Russian Federation to the United Nations, www.ucca.org

September 24-25 Ukraine in Washington Forum, “The Neglected Crisis in September 28 Presentation by Anton Kotenko, “The Ukrainian Project Washington Ukraine: West Risking Failure in Political, Economic and Cambridge, MA in Search of National Space: Internalizing Ukraine, Humanitarian Assistance,” House Ukraine Caucus and 1905-1914,” Harvard University, 617-495-4053 Senate Ukraine Caucus and the Embassy of Ukraine, www.saveukrainenow.org or www.usukraine.org September 30 Fashion show and performance, “Pantelyk” by Ira Lysa, New York Razom for Ukraine, Ukrainian Institute of America, September 25 Concert by DakhaBrakha, Royce Hall, www.eventbrite.com Los Angeles www.facebook.com/events/78990981461567 September 30 Ivan Franko Memorial Lecture by Frank Sysyn, September 25-27 Annual general meeting, Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Ottawa “Religion, Civilization Spheres and Churches in the Ottawa Lord Elgin Hotel, 613-232-8822 or Ukrainian-Russian Conflict,” Sheptytsky Institute, St. [email protected] Paul University, [email protected] September 25- Exhibition, “Paintings,” by Ganna Kryvolap, Ukrainian October 2 Social evening, “Girls Night Out,” Dnipro Ukrainian October 10 Institute of America, 212-288-8660 or Buffalo, NY Cultural Center, www.ukrainiansofbuffalo.com New York www.ukrainianinstitute.org October 2 Performance, “Testament: Poetry, Scenes and September 26 50th anniversary banquet and dance, Ukrainian National New York Communiques from the Ukrainian Avant-Garde,” The Hartford, CT Home of Hartford, www.ukrainiannationalhome.org Ukrainian Museum, www.ukrainianmuseum.org or 212-228-0110 September 26 Golf tournament, St. Elias Church, Mayfield Golf Club, Caledon, ON 905-843-1626 or [email protected]

September 26 Concert by DakhaBrakha, The Neptune Theater, Seattle www.stgpresents.org

September 26 Film premiere, “Made in Winnipeg: The Terry Sawchuk Origin Winnipeg Story,” Terry Sawchuk Arena, [email protected]

September 26 Lecture by George Walczuk, “Energy Outlook Through New York 2040,” Shevchenko Scientific Society, 212-254-5130

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Thursday, September 24 chief curator of the Museum of Theater, NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Studies Music,, and Cinema Arts of Ukraine in Kyiv, Program at the Harriman Institute, will present two documentary films: Columbia University, invites you to attend a “Alexandra Exter and World Scenography” presentation titled “Ukrainian Identity (2005, 30 minutes, Ukrainian/English subti- Under the Impact of Euro-Maidan and the tles) and “Vasyl Yermilov, The Constructor” War” by Dr. Volodymyr Kulyk (National (2015, 60 minutes, dubbed in Ukrainian Academy of Science of Ukraine). Dr. Kulyk with English subtitles), in conjunction with will examine recent changes in Ukrainian the exhibition “Staging the Ukrainian Avant- national identity under the impact of the Garde of the 1910s and 1920s,” which will Euro-Maidan protests and the subsequent close October 4. Admission (includes gallery Russian aggression. He will demonstrate access and reception): $15; members and that national identity has become more seniors, $10; students, $5. The Ukrainian salient vis-à-vis other territorial and non- Museum is located at 222 E. Sixth Street; territorial identities. The lecture will take telephone, 212-228-0110; website, www. place at noon in the Marshall D. Shulman ukrainianmuseum.org. Seminar Room (Room 1219 International Friday-Sunday, October 16-18 Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th St). The event is free and open to the public. For additional LANSDALE, Pa.: The 77th annual conven- information call 212-854-4697. tion of the League of Ukrainian Catholics will be held at the Holiday Inn - Lansdale, Saturday, September 26 1750 Sumneytown Pike, Kulpsville, PA. On NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Friday, a 6:30 p.m. welcome dinner party Society and the Ukrainian Engineers’ Society will follow the general meeting. Violinist of America invite all to a lecture, “Energy Innesa Tymochko Dekajlo and Kruno Spisic Outlook through 2040” by George Walczuk and his Gypsy Jazz Band will entertain. On (senior research engineer for Mobile/ Saturday, a guided mobile (bus) workshop Exxon). The lecture will take place at the will tour the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of society’s building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between the Immaculate Conception, the Jesuit Ninth and 10th streets) at 5 p.m. For addi- Church of the Gesu (a Baroque church built tional information, call 212-254-5130. in 1888) and St. John Neumann Shrine (for veneration of the remains of St. John HARTFORD, Conn.: You are cordially invit- Neumann). The Saturday evening banquet ed to the Ukrainian National Home of will begin at 6 p.m. Ms. Dekajlo and the Hartford 50th anniversary banquet and Voloshky School of Dance will entertain; a dance. The evening begins at 5 p.m. with a “zabava” will follow. The convention con- social hour and slide show. The cultural pro- cludes on Sunday with an 11 a.m. liturgy at gram featuring the Zolotyj Promin nearby Presentation Ukrainian Catholic Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, Yevshan Church and a brunch. Discounted room Ukrainian Vocal Ensemble, Halychanky rates are available (call 215-368-3800); dis- Choir and the Women’s Bandurist Ensemble count room and registration deadline: is at 6 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 p.m. and September 28. For more information or reg- dancing to Svitanok beginning at 9 p.m. The istration contact Gene at 267-664-3857 or Ukrainian National Home is located at 961 [email protected]. Wethersfield Ave., Hartford CT 06114-3137. For more information call 860-296-5702 or Saturday, October 24 visit www.ukrainiannationalhome.org. 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