INSIDE: More news about the U.S. visit of President Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine. Plus, a special photographic report on this historic event in the centerfold.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., і щ c, a fraternal non-profit association! rainian WeeH V 50 cents Vol. LX No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1992 President Kravchuk completes Kravchuk meets secretary-general, two-day visit to Washington holds press conference at U.N. by Irene Jarosewich began his final day in Washington with Special to The Ukrainian Weekly a meeting with former National Secu­ rity Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. WASHINGTON - Leonid Krav- Dr. Brzezinski later commented: chuk's first official visit to Washington "The meeting with President Krav­ as president of Ukraine ended Thurs­ chuk and some of his top advisers day evening, May 7, at a departure covered the most important issues in the ceremony with Secretary of State James American-Ukrainian relationship and Baker at the Pentagon. With the heli­ also in the Ukrainian-Russian relation­ copter take-off from the Pentagon to ship. I was deeply impressed by the Andrew's Air Force Base, the delega­ determination of the Ukrainian leaders tion left for Houston, to be followed by to ensure Ukrainian independence and visits to Des Moines, Philadelphia and growing ties between Ukraine and New York. Europe. According to Roman Popadiuk, "I was also favorably impressed by deputy assistant to the president and the very constructive and realistic newly confirmed ambassador to attitude displayed by the Ukrainian Ukraine, "President ...Bush is. very leaders regarding the desirability of satisfied with the visit. The visit laid a close cooperation with Russia, but in a strong foundation for a partnership on setting which guarantees Ukrainian the international scene and prosperity rights and territorial integrity." worldwide." Later in the morning President Krav­ He added: "The trip also showed chuk was the guest speaker at the strong U.S. commitment to Ukraine. The National Press Club's "Morning News­ number of agreements signed indicates maker's" series. Several times he reite­ that the United States wants to help rated the theme that Ukraine is pur­ create a strong, viable, market-oriented suing a consistent path to developing Ukraine and the security for Ukraine is independent statehood and that an important for stability in the region. independent Ukraine is a stabilizing President Kravchuk was very well component in the geopolitics of the IKhristina Lew received in the White House and other region of the former USSR. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali welcomes President Leonid Kravchuk agencies. He had several high-level In response to questions that Ukraine to the United Nations. meetings, including (Secretary of State) is not pursuing economic reforms as James Baker, (Secretary of Defense) rapidly as Russia, thereby undermining by Khristina Lew press conference here on May 11 that Richard Cheney, and (Secretary of the internal political consensus for inde­ the United Nations will assist Ukraine Treasury) Nicholas Brady, all of which pendence, Mr. Kravchuk responded UNITED NATIONS - After a 30- in dealing with the aftermath of the serves to underline the commitment of that Ukraine does not see itself in minute meeting with U.N. Secretary- Chornobyl accident and will support the United States government to work competition with Russia, that a quid General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, U- Ukraine's efforts to reform its economy, with Ukraine." pro quo comparison is not the most kraine's President Leonid Kravchuk, government and military structures. While members of the official govern­ accurate, and that it is still too early to accompanied by Foreign Minister Encouraging the press to write more ment and business delegations attended predict the success or failure of any Anatoliy Zlenko and Ukraine's ambas­ frequently and more truthfully about separate meetings, President Kravchuk (Continued on page 4) sador to the U.N., Viktor Batiuk, told a (Continued on page 11) Delegation focuses on agribusiness during Iowa visit by Linda Hodges Special to The Ukrainian Weekly DES MOINES, Iowa -Undoubted­ ly the largest group of Ukrainians ever assembled in Iowa was on hand when President Leonid Kravchuk's colorful Air Ukraine plane touched down in Des Moines on Saturday, May 9. Besides the planeload of approximately 65 who accompanied President Kravchuk, seme 48 Rukh supporters from the Ukrainian community in Minneapolis chartered a bus and traveled the 250 miles to greet him. Mr. Kravchuk was in Iowa at the invitation of Pioneer Hi-Bred Interna- ШШШШш Linda Hodges (Continued on page 6) The Ukrainian delegation tours a showcase farm in Grinnell, Iowa. h± THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1992 No. 20 Ukrainian Parliament bans Crimean referendum, deems independence declaration unconstitutional Newsbriefs by Marta Kolomayets was in the United States last week when on Ukraine Kiev Press Bureau the Crimean Parliament attempted to sever ties with Ukraine, called on the KIEV - One week after the Crimean Parliament to act responsibly and 9 MOSCOW - Mikhail Vinegra- criticizes the "inefficiency and indeci­ Supreme Council issued its declaration avoid bloodshed. dov, the deputy director of the Осеапо– sion" of Ukraine's government, and of independence, the Ukrainian Parlia­ logy Institute in Moscow, said on May 3 demands a host of other things, in­ ment, deemed this act unconstitutional "This is an extremely serious ques­ that the Black and Azov Seas are on the cluding the halt of international finan­ and banned the Crimean referendum tion. I want to avoid emotions...but I brink of ecological collapse and require cial aid to Russia. (RFE/RL Daily scheduled for August 2. want to make clear that the government billions of dollars for clean-up. He said Report) After a full day of heated debates, on and the president will not allow any that the Dnipro, Dnister and Danube Wednesday, May 13, the Ukrainian infringement of Ukraine's territorial rivers wash millions of tons of industrial ^ MADRID - Spanish Foreign Supreme Council voted 340-6 to adopt integrity," said Mr. Kravchuk in his waste and pesticides each year into the Minister Francisco Fernandez Ordonez a decree stating that the Crimean address to Parliament. The Crimea's seas, and that ships dump millions of announced that Spain will grant U- actions of May 5 contradict the Consti­ secession from Ukraine could, in fact, tons of oil there. The fish catch there has kraine a credit line worth S250 million tution of Ukraine. The deputies gave set a precedent for other Russian- declined by one-third in recent years. to encourage bilateral trade on April 21, the Crimean Parliament a deadline of speaking regions to form their own (RFE/RL Daily Report) before his visits to Moscow and Kiev. May 20 to revoke their declaration of independent republics. On April 23, Radio Kiev reported independence. The decree also autho­ ^ Rukh has demanded that Ukraine that Minister Ordonez had extended an rizes Ukrainian President Leonid Krav- "I have studied the situation at suspend its membership in the CIS, invitation to President Leonid Krav­ chuk to take "urgent steps," if neces­ length," he continued, "and I cannot saying that developments concerning chuk from King Juan Carlos to make sary, to restore constitutional order on find any argument which shows that the the Crimea and the Black Sea Fleet an official visit to Spain. A treaty on the peninsula. і Supreme Council of Ukraine or the government, or the president, have in show "the Russian leadership's aggres­ friendship and cooperation between Realizing the complex situation in sive intentions regarding Ukraine... Ukraine and Spain is being prepared, the Crimea, President Kravchuk, who (Continued on page 24) Events are developing as they did over and the two countries also want to the past 70 years." The statement also develop bilateral cultural and economic relations. Minister Ordonez described Ukrainian president declines his talks with President Kravchuk as U.S. official calls "fruitful." (RFE/RL Daily Report) to attend CIS meeting Ukraine "rat hole" ^ KIEV - Playing down the Cri­ by Marta Kolomayets Also on the agenda will be the ques­ MUNICH - A Bush administra­ mean declaration of independence, Kiev Press Bureau tion of legal succession to the former tion official severely criticized President Leonid Kravchuk said that Soviet Union and the division of its Ukraine on the eve of meetings of the Kiev will provide cultural, linguistic and KIEV — Ukrainian President Leonid assets. Ukraine had to fight for the International Monetary Fund and other facilities for the 200,000 Crimean Kravchuk will not take part in the next inclusion of both matters on the agenda. World Bank for its reluctance to Tatars who have returned to the Cri­ meeting of the Commonwealth of Although originally scheduled for commit to painful economic reforms, mea, stressing that the Crimean Tatars Independent States scheduled for Fri­ discussion at the March 20 summit in reported Radio Liberty citing have chosen to remain part of Ukraine. day, May 15, in Tashkent, thereby Kiev, Russian President Boris Yeltsin Reuters. (RFE/RL Daily Report) jeopardizing the future of the six- tabled these issues. According to Reuters of April 23, ШогіЙьоШ union. 4Tt was a hard-woiv agreement. Get­ ^ SYMFEROPIL - On May 6 the an unidentified "administration Crimean Supreme Council passed the 'T'will be hosting Finnish president ting it on the agenda was very difficult. official" is quoted as saying: "We're Mauno Koivisto on Thursday, May 14. You know Russia's stand on this point,'' Constitution of the Crimean Republic, not going to throw money down a rat making Russian the official language of Even if I were to leave for Tashkent on said Mr. Tarasiuk, who attended the hole, and until they fthe Ukrainians! Friday morning at 8 a.m., the time agenda meeting in Tashkent on Sunday, the government. Crimean Tatar, Rus­ make the tough choices Russia has sian and Ukrainian were recognized as zones and travel time would put me May 10, substituting for Mr. Zlenko, made, they're a rat hole." there after 3 p.m., said the Ukrainian state languages, however. who accompanied Mr. Kravchuk on his Lack of progress with price libera­ leader upon arrival at Kiev's Boryspil weeklong visit to the United States. The vice-president of the Crimean Airport on Tuesday afternoon, May 12, lization and privatization were cited Tatar Council, the Medzhlis, announced after a successful trip to the United Other issues slated for Tashkent by Reuters as particular U.S. con­ that Crimean Tatars will hold a demon­ States. include CIS armed forces questions, as cerns. stration on May 18 to protest the "Perhaps Prime Minister (Vitold) well as the rights of deported people and Meanwhile, according to Western planned referendum on the Crimea's Fokin will go," said Mr. Kravchuk, minorities; the financial situation in the reports, a "reform manifesto" was independence. (Respublika) refusing to elaborate further. He is CIS; foreign economic relations; scien­ published on the same day in Pravda already the third head of state that will tific, technical and engineering coopera­ Ukrainy, describing a "free market" 9 KIEV - Ukraine's Foreign Minis­ not attend the Tashkent summit, join­ tion; interstate television and radio; and economic program. The report calls ter Anatoliy Zlenko said that strategical ing the Moldovan president and leader cooperation in the fields of education for the creation of free-trade zones in carrier rockets, which are produced in of Kyrgyzstan. and culture. Ukraine, simplification of regula­ Ukraine, are its property. "The republic Sixteen points are on the agenda in Mr. Kravchuk, who returned from tions and guarantees for joint ven­ has done a lot in the field of space Tashkent, according to Boris Tarasiuk, meetings with President George Bush, tures, as well as the introduction of a exploration for the former Soviet an aide to Foreign Minister Anatoliy immediately plunged into a busy sched­ .Ukrainian national currency, the Union," he said. "Ukraine possesses Zlenko. They include CFE treaty sub- ule, discussing the Crimean question in hryvnia. It was not clear, however, special resources to become a space limits. Ukraine's Parliament on Wednesday, whether this manifesto constitutes power and derive profit from the use of "We want the heads of state to sign an May 13 (see story p. 2). He was sched­ official government policy, RL space and space technology." (ITAR) agreement in Tashkent on the division uled to spend all day Thursday, May 14, noted. (Continued on page 16) of conventional forces in Europe with the Finnish president before de­ (CFE)," he said at a briefing at the parting for Poland and meetings with Foreign Ministry press center on Tues- Polish President Lech Walesa on Mon­ day, May 12. day, May 18. Ukrainian WeeUi FOUNDED 1933 Mainland China protests An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ. Taiwanese aid to Ukraine 073G2. TAIWAN - Mainland (Commu­ had paved the way for further diploma­ Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, NJ. 07302. nist) China's ambassador to Kiev pro­ tic relations between the two countries. (ISSN - 0273-9348) tested a Republic of China (Taiwan) Besides donatmg medical equipment airlift that brought S5 million in medi­ to the former Soviet republics, the Yearly subscription rate: J20; for UNA members - S10. cal aid to Ukraine. Because of this, Republic of China has shipped 100,000 Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. Taipei officials said that relations with tons of rice to the area. Ukraine must proceed carefully. Main­ The Republic of China has also The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: land China had established relations donated 5500,000 worth of medical aid (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201) 451-2200 with Ukraine shortly after the declara­ to Belarus, and is looking into a possible tion of independence, reported the Free joint venture in pharmaceuticals. Postmaster, send address Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz China Journal. A breakthrough in establishing direct changes to: Associate editor: Marta Kolomayets (Kiev) High-ranking Ukrainian officials are maritime links between the Republic of The Ukrainian Weekly Assistant editor: Khristina Lew scheduled to visit Taiwan when a China and the former Soviet republics P.O. Box 346 Editorial assistant Tamara Tershakovec Ukrainian cargo plane takes the second occurred when the first freighter flying a Jersey City, NJ. 07303 batch of medical supplies donated by Russian national flag was issued a the Republic of China. Vincent Tsai, permit to dock in Keelung on April 20 The Ukrainian Weekly, May 20,1992, No. 20, Vol. LX deputy director of the ROC Ministry of and May 11 to transport two more Copyright 1992 by The Ukrainian Weekly | Foreign Affairs, said that the airlifts shipments of rice to Russia. No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1992 3 Kravchuk delegation outlines Ukraine's withdrawal from "ruble zone' by Khristina Lew State Duma, Oleksander Yemelianov, the architect of Ukraine's new economic NEW YORK - Emphasizing that plan, stated that the hryvnia will func­ Ukraine's economy can be stabilized tion outside of the ruble zone and will only by the introduction of a national reflect world prices. Because the Ukrai­ economic policy and withdrawal from nian government has no gold to back its the "ruble zone," members of Ukrainian currency, the hryvnia will be backed by President Leonid Kravchuk's delega­ Ukraine's commodities. tion told representatives of leading In declaring its independence last Ukrainian American organizations that summer, Ukraine was forced to forge Ukraine will introduce its new currency, economic ties with other former re­ the hryvnia, on January 1, 1993. publics of the Soviet Union as well as President Kravchuk confirmed the European nations accustomed to deal­ announcement when he unexpectedly ing directly with Moscow. Having done joined the May 11 meeting at the so, explained Deputy Prime Minister Ukrainian Institute of America. Oleh Slepichev, Ukraine is now pro­ Meeting with representatives of ducing many products for other coun­ various diaspora organizations and tries, especially Russia. This produc­ joined by Ukraine's ambassador to the tion, he said, will back the hryvnia. United States, Oleh Bilorus, to discuss "Without commodities," he empha­ Ukraine's new economic plan, the sized, "we cannot have a free market Ukrainian delegation detailed various economy." aspects of the plan without revealing its Ukraine's currency, meanwhile, is specific contents. The delegation in­ being printed by the Canada Bank Note stead focused on the Ukrainian govern­ Co. Chairman of the National Bank of ment's decision to pursue an independ­ Ukraine Vadym Hetman, having re­ ent national economic policy and the turned from a visit to Canada, reported diaspora's role in assisting Ukraine's that the printing of the hryvnia is transition to a free-market economy. running smoothly, quelling rumors that Citing the need to distance Ukraine the Canadian firm is mismanaging from Russia's volatile price liberaliza­ production. tion policies and ensuing inflationary In discussing his impressions of spiral in Ukrainian markets, President Samples of a five-hryvnia note (top) and a two-hryvnia note. President Kravchuk's visit with the Kravchuk's economic advisor in the (Continued on page 19)

President Leonid Kravchuk addresses representatives of Ukrainian American organizations at the Ukrainian Institute of America. To his left is Foreign Minister Anatoliy Zlenko. Seen in the photo on the left are: Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine Vadym Hetman and People's Deputy Mykhailo Horyn. New York luncheon designed to spur investment in Ukraine by Tamara Tershakovec Much of the afternoon was spent NEW YORK - After his United lauding Ukraine's economic potential. Nations press conference on May 11, A slide show on Ukraine's economy and President Leonid Kravchuk sped to the relevant statistics was presented by Plaza Hotel for a luncheon aimed at Leonard L. Mazur, executive vice- encouraging U.S. companies to invest president of Medicis Pharmaceutical in Ukraine. Corp. The show included the Deutsche- Sponsored by Mudge Rose Guthrie bank report that rated Ukraine as the Alexander and Ferdon, a New York law most prepared country of the former firm, and Robinson, Lake, Lerer and USSR to enter a free-market economy. Montgomery, a strategic communica­ Mr. Mazur added that Ukraine is rich tions company, the luncheon attracted in both agriculture and industry, and companies from such varied industries has a highly educated, cheap labor as pharmaceuticals (Bristdl-Myers force. Converting factories from mili­ Squibb and Medicis), communications tary to civilian production is under­ (ATAT and NYNEX) and cosmetics way, he said, citing one Kiev military (Revlon). Other recognizable names transport plant that now makes 150,000 were U.S. Steel International, Tishman dishwashers and 100,000 baby carriages Construction Co., Pfizer, Minolta, The per year. Upjohn Co., Kelloggs and many others. Mr. Mazur said that there are many These are the companies that "repre­ German, Japanese and Austrian com­ sent the interests of the American panies looking to invest in Ukraine, but business, corporate and financial com­ few American ones. He said, "As munity in Ukraine and Ukraine's fu­ Richard Nixon at one time admonished pamara Tershakovec ture," according to the luncheon's the American government for not doing President Leonid Kravchuk with his translator, Dmytro Markov (left), at a master of ceremonies, Bohdan D. enough in terms of Ukraine, I also business luncheon at the Plaza Hotel. Shandor of Mudge Rose. і (Continued on page 20) No. 20 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1992

countries to follow Ukraine's lead and President Kravchuk... become non-nuclear states. FOR THE RECORD: Declaration (Continued front page 1) At a State Department luncheon strategy for economic and political attended by approximately 200 guests, reform. Secretary of State Baker offered a toast on U.S.-Ukrainian relations to Ukraine that is "most assuredly and Declaration on U.S.-Ukrainian increasing amounts of weaponry. | As for the issue of increased tension between Ukraine and Russia as a cause vibrantly alive," and hailed President fictions and the building of a Rather, security must be based oh | for concern, President Kravchuk noted Kravchuk's visit as the "cornerstone for den ocraticpartnership by President reduced levels of armaments among | that the interests of the new states are the democratic peace we hope to build GCL rge Bush and President Leonid ail nations, and on a multilateral | not 100 percent compatible, "Russia is together." Kiu\chuk released on May 6. commitment to uphold shared ргіп– | In turn, President Kravchuk offered a ciples, especially democracy, the | building its state and we are building today's talks mark a historic step ours." At the core of the issue is an toast to the "unprecedented steps ? ? he development of relations inviolability of borders and territo- f towards mutual trust" between Ukraine rial integrity, and peaceful resolu- | underlying belief in Moscow that "U- huween our two great nations. For kraine is a part of Russia and should and the United States and the "spirit of c tion of disputes. the irst time, an American president remain a part... (which) makes the mutual respect, sincerity and openness has met with the freeiy elected presi-. Working together in multilateral f situation more tense." However, he which persisted in our relations with Aa\, of a sovereign Ukraine. The institutions like the CSCE and the I added, "The differences between U- President Bush, Secretary Baker and r ^ k ainian people are now building North Altantic Cooperation Council | kraine and Russia are exaggerated," other members of the U.S. administra­ :heir own state, one whose independ- will be an important means of рго– I and (Russian President Boris) "Yeltsin tion." i av, ` dnd commitment to democracy moting these goals and values || has enough sober wits and sober The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wan make a vital contribution to the throughout the new Europe. Also f mind to understand that it is absolutely hosted President Kravchuk and mem­ crtv t`on of a new Europe truly whole important will be the development of \ impossible, impossible to return to the bers of the business delegation during лпй free. The United States places a regular bilateral dialogue on ques- I empire that existed before." There are an afternoon conference, "U.S.-U- tions of peace and security that j; лпа ial importance on the consolida- problems, but this is not the issue, he kraine Business Dialogue." Attending uv of iJkraine's democracy and would address questions of common \ said, adding that what is important is were several dozen representatives of ти petidence. Toward this end, we interest. We will use bilateral military jj working out new ways to resolve these major corporations, law firms and are agreed that we must work toge- and defense contacts to provide ad- I problems. government agencies. vice arid assistance in the develop^ | thc as friends and partners for the President Kravchuk stated that the President Kravchuk gave a brief ment of civil-military institutions. mu ual benefit of both our peoples, major result of his visit to Washington summary of the status of laws on and in і tie interests of international As a matter of special urgency and \ f was that the necessary contractual and foreign investment and, in general, peaoe and stability. concern, we also will work actively to \ legal foundation was laid for further about the economic and business cli­ t oi itically, we will strive to protect prevent the proliferation of weapons j development of bilateral relations mate and potential of Ukraine. Mem­ a`zn promote the values that bind us of mass destruction and associated j between Ukraine and the U.S. He told bers of the business delegations then together in the democratic commu- technologies. In this regard, the | the press corps that he had received took the podium and answered specific asT\ of nations, including free and United States applauds Ukraine's j word earlier that morning from Ukrai­ questions about the capabilities of fai elections, freedom of emigration, leadership, manifested in its agree- і nian Defense Minister Konstantyn Mo- various Ukrainian industries and strate­ trie rale of law, and respect for ment to ratify and implement the rozov that ail tactical nuclear weapons gies by which Western businesses can human rights, including the rights of START and CFE treaties, and its had been shipped out of Ukraine, well take some of their profits out of Ukraine. all minorities, regardless of their commitment to renounce nuclear ahead of the July deadline, and that the After a wreath-laying ceremony at nationalities and beliefs. The United weapons and join the Non-Prolifera- strategic nuclear weapons will leave by Arlington National Cemetery, Presi- Stages takes special note of Ukraine's tion Treaty as a non-nuclear-weap­ the end of the decade. He called upon all (Continued on page 10) commitment to establish its inde­ ons state at the earliest possible time. pendence in full accordance with Consistent with these commitments, these principles, and its efforts to Ukraine reaffirms its decision to buiid a just and stable society where complete the removal of all tactical fundamental freedoms of all peoples nuclear weapons from its territory by are guaranteed. July 1, 1992, and all remaining Economically, we will work to nuclear weapons in accordance with advance the values of economic her relevant agreements and ' freedom without which democracy during the seven-year period of time \ and prosperity cannot flourish. U- as provided by the START Treaty kraine will accelerate efforts to move and in the context of the statement of ` toward a market economy through the Verkhovna Rada tSupreme appropraite macroeconomic stabili- Council, or Parliament on the nu­ zation policies and structural/ тісго– clear status of Ukraine. \ economic reforms to promote re­ The United States will assist U- covery, market development, and kraine in these efforts by utilizing a . growth. The U.S., through its techni- portion of the S400 million appro­ ) cal assistance programs in areas like priated by the U.S. Congress. The '. defense conversion and food distri- U.S. will also allocate part of the S400 4 bution, will help Ukraine in these million for the establishment of an : efforts and encourage the interna- International Science and Techno­ \ tional community to do likewise. logy Center in Ukraine. This center Together, we will take steps to will help former weapons scientists and engineers in developing long- t promote free trade, investment and President Leonid Kravchuk speaks at a State Department luncheon in the Ben term civilian career opportunities W economic cooperation between our Franklin Room.Seated at the table are U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and that will strengthen Ukraine's scienti­ ^ two countries and peoples, as well as Ukraine's Foreign Minister Anatoliy Zlenko. ^ within the world economy at large. A fic research and development capa­ л critical feature of this cooperation city. In addition, the United States will be a special effort by Ukraine to will continue its support of Ukrai­ lower barriers to trade and invest­ nian and international efforts aimed ment in order to allow greater access at minimizing the tragic aftermath of ' for American firms. Ukraine and the the Chornobyl catastrophe. United States will establish joint By agreeing to cooperate to ad­ business development committees to vance these common political, eco­ achieve this objective and build a nomic and security interests, the foundation for expanded commerce. United States and independent U- We have concluded a trade agree- kraine have laid the foundation for a \ ment which will confer most-favor­ strong and special partnership. For ed-nation tariff treatment on U- while relations between our govern­ kraine, and an'OPIC agreement to ments may be new, the ties that таке available investment insurance connect our peoples are deep and for American firms investing in longstanding. We will seek to broad­ Ukraine. We have also agreed to en these contacts through expand­ expedite negotiations on bilateral ed people-to-people exchange pro­ investment and tax treaties that will grams such as the Peace Corps agree­ further promote private trade and ment we have signed to provide investment, as well as on cooperation Ukraine with assistance in small in shipping and civil aviation. business development and other In the area of security, the United areas, such as education. Working States and Ukraine will cooperate to together and with others who share promote a democratic peace across our principles, we will expand this Europe. We are agreed that interna­ partnership in pursuit of an en­ tional security can no longer be during, democratic peace that can fulfill the aspirations of our two President Leonid Kravchuk meets with the leadership of the Senate and House: achieved through the efforts of (from left) Sen. George Mitchell, Rep. Robert Michel and Rep. Thomas Foley. At nations and the entire world. individual states to acquire ever Mr. Kravchuk's side is his interpreter, Dmytro Markov. ШШжШШШШШ No. 20, THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1992 .5 La Salle University, Philadelphia community honor Kravchuk by Tamara Stadnychenko-Cornelison diversity, a world not intent on eli­ minating differences among peoples, PHILADELPHIA - An honorary but one which is eager to understand doctorate of human letters was con­ these differences and to treasure them." ferred on Sunday, May 10, on Ukrai­ The Ukrainian president also spoke nian President Leonid Kravchuk by La briefly about the dispute over the Salle University's president, Brother Crimea and about Ukraine's determina­ Patrick Ellis. tion to be a nuclear-free state. He called The commencement exercises, La the old Soviet Union "a true empire, a Salle University's 129th, marked the source of threat and confrontation," successful completion of baccalaureate and cautioned against sentimental and and master's studies by more than 1,300 nostalgic sympathy for the passing of graduates, among them many students the old order. of Ukrainian descent. Following a private reception at During the ceremonies, held at La Salle University's Peale House, Philadelphia's Civic Center Conven­ President Kravchuk was taken on a tion Hall, several of these students whirlwind tour of Ukrainian Philadel­ raised a huge Ukrainian flag in tribute phia, a tour which included drive-by to the Ukrainian president as the visits to the Ukrainian Orthodox and university band played the Ukrainian Ukrainian Catholic cathedrals, and national anthem. brief stops at Manor Junior College, the Brother Ellis, who recently accepted Mother House of the Sisters of St. Basil an appointment to the presidency of the the Great, and the Ukrainian Educa­ Catholic University of America in tional and Cultural Center. Washington, commented on the "strong That evening, at a lavish banquet held Ukrainian presence on the La Salle in the grand ballroom of Philadelphia's university campus." Hotel Atop the Bellevue, President Sponsoring the honorary degree Kravchuk was welcomed by more than candidacy of President Kravchuk was 1,000 guests who had gathered to pay ^YafoslaTkulynych Prof. Leonid Rudnytzky, a member of homage to Ukraine's first democrati­ Ukraine's President Leonid Kravchuk (second from right) during La Salle the university's foreign languages de­ cally elected president. Among the University's commencement exercises. partment. Honorary degrees were also guests were distinguished representa­ 10 as "Leonid Kravchuk Day" in the remarks at La Salle's commencement conferred upon Alberto J. Vollmer, a tives of Philadelphia's Estonian, Hun­ Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. exercises. Venezuelan businessman, and NBC garian, Jewish, Latvian and Lithuanian Eloquent addresses marking the ' President Kravchuk's address began anchorwoman Mary Alice Williams. communities. historic visit of President Kravchuk with an observation on the significance In his address to the graduates, The banquet, organized by a commit­ were also delivered by Brother Ellis and of his visit to the United States. "It is," President Kravchuk spoke of the sym­ tee chaired by Christine Kulchyckyj; by Prof. Miroslav Labunka of La Salle he noted, "the first time ever that the bolic nature of his visit to Philadelphia. was emceed by Prof. Rudnytzky. It University's history department, who presidents of Ukraine and the United "Here in Philadelphia," he said, "where opened with the singing of the Ukrai­ had translated President Kravchuk's (Continued on page 15) American democracy was born, the nian and American national anthems, president of a newly born democratic led, respectively, by Wasyl Naydan and Ukraine is being honored." Brother Ellis. The invocation by Аихі– He told those assembled that the lliary Bishop Walter Paska was follow­ people of Ukraine had overcome the ed by introductory remarks by Prof. horrors of famine, terror and tyranny Rudnytzky who subsequently presented and that they have now "embarked each of the evening's featured speakers. upon a path of freedom and responsi­ The first of the evening's speakers was bility. Mastering the art of democracy," Pennsylvania Sen. Aden Specter, who he added, "is not an easy task. But was accompanied by his wife, Joan, a within the family of free nations, it member of the Philadelphia City Coun­ should not prove impossible." He told cil. Also representing the state of the graduates that they and their peers Pennsylvania were Sen. Harris Wofford around the world could ensure a better and Congressman Peter Kostmayer. tomorrow. Next to speak was Philadelphia At a press conference at the univer­ Mayor, Ed Rendell. Mayor Rendell sity, President Kravchuk spoke to referred to President Kravchuk as "one members of the media about an era of of those who brought about the peace­ change. "Our time," he said, "has been ful dissolution of the Soviet Union" and characterized by the removal of walls, after proclaiming May 10, 1992, as physical as well as ideological. We must "Leonid Kravchuk Day" in Philadel­ strive to prevent future building of phia, presented the Ukrainian president structures that divide. Gates, fences and with a special replica of the Liberty Bell. walls will no longer bind, confine and Also representing the city of Philadel­ divide, but rather serve as structures phia was Councilman Thatcher Long- that hold together peaceful societies." streth. The mayor also read a proclamation He further commented on his vision Patriarch Mstyslav I delivers the benediction as President and Mrs. Kravchuk look of a world "in which there is unity in ' by Gov. Robert Casey designating May on.

The Kravchuk delegation visits the Immaculate Conception Cathedral. The welcoming ceremony at the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center. б THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1992 No. 20

Continuing its mission, Radio Liberty expands operations in Ukraine by Roma Hadzewyez Eastern Europe since its inception in 1950, were merged in 1976, creating RFE/RL Inc. - A non­ NEW YORK - Contrary to media reports that profit private corporation, it operates under Ameri­ its end was near, Radio Liberty, an American radio can management and is funded by the U.S. Congress station founded in 195! to provide uncensored with grants supplied through the Board for news and information to the people of the Soviet International Broadcasting, which is appointed by Union, will continue to exist and to serve the people the president of the United States. In 1990, the of the independent states that have emerged on RFE/ RL Research Institute was founded, com­ former Soviet territory. bining the research departments of RFE and RL. As RL Director S. Enders Wimbush put it, "Our The Ukrainian Service's history dates back to job is far from finished. We cannot even develop a 1954, when it first went on the air on August 16. In basis for which to wind down our service. As the the succeeding decades, despite heavy jamming by democratic foundations have not been firmly set, Soviet authorities, its programs brought the truth we have a lot to do yet." and information unavailable in the USSR to the In fact, Radio Liberty's Ukrainian Service has people of Ukraine. recently been upgraded to the status of a broad­ Jamming was finally halted in December of 1988 casting department. The redesignation was an­ with the advent of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorba­ nounced on February 14 in recognition of the fact chev's glasnost policy. The Ukrainian Service and that the Ukrainian Service had crossed the other services of Radio Liberty continued to play operational threshold to become one of the larger an important role in disseminating information at a services of Radio Liberty. time that Soviet republics and East European Over the last four years, the Ukrainian Service states were breaking free of Communist rule. had grown by 10 to 15 percent and its live Ukraine's independence proclamation of August broadcasts had increased, Mr. Wimbush explained 24, 1991, and its subsequent overwhelming ap­ in a telephone interview with The Ukrainian proval in the December 1, 1991, referendum Weekly. provided new opportunities and challenges for Then came a major change in U.S. policy: the RL's Ukrainian Service. Thus, according to recognition of Ukraine and the subsequent opening Michael Mihalisko, currently assistant director of of a U.S. Embassy in Kiev, he continued. These S. Enders Wimbush, director of Radio Liberty. the Ukrainian Broadcasting Department, the developments led to a management decision to region thanks to leasing of a major AM transmitter service sought new approaches in its information upgrade the Ukrainian Service to a broadcasting facility. programs, emphasizing such themes as concepts of department — the second such department at Within a few months, RL's Ukrainian broadcasts nation-building, international finance and busi­ Radio Liberty. The Russian Broadcasting Depart­ will reach 75 percent of Ukraine on AM. This, of ness, and the functioning of market economies. ment, which is on the air 24 hours a day, was the course, equals a higher audience share, as all radios During a recent business trip to New York, first full-fledged department at Radio Liberty. receive AM transmissions, as well as a better signal. Radio Liberty's director, Mr. Wimbush, formerly Other RL divisions are language services. Radio Liberty already is the leading broadcaster of the Rand Corp., described the Ukrainian There are operational changes, too, at Radio of Ukrainian-language programs to Ukraine. Broadcasting Department's changing functions Liberty's Ukrainian Broadcasting Department. A (Radio Canada and the Voice of America are the and presence within Ukraine. Kiev bureau was opened January 15, and its first other two.) The department now has approximately 50 stringers who comprise "an extensive network program materials were received on February 24. RFE/RL background As of April 1, Ukrainian programs have been across Ukraine," he noted. Of these, there are transmitted not only on short wave, but also on Radio Liberty and its sister broadcaster, Radio between five and 10 regular contributors in Kiev. medium wave, (i.e., AM) to listeners in the Kiev Free Europe, which has been aimed at audiences in (Continued on page 18) The Des Moines visit was not design­ an official invitation to Mr. Kravchuk, urged the president to greet those who Delegation focuses.., ed to result in any specific substantive but he chose instead to respond to the had traveled so far to see him. Mr. Krav­ (Continued from page 1) agreements between Ukraine and Pio­ invitation of Pioneer executives. Under chuk shook hands and chatted with the neer Hi-Bred. Mr. Kravchuk and his the company's aegis, the visit was kept jubiliant group which included Bishop tional Inc., a company devoted to delegation came to witness the latest in low profile, with reporters not allowed Paisiy of the Ukrainian Orthodox developing, producing and marketing agribusiness and farm technology, and to accompany Mr. Kravchuk on his Church in Minneapolis. Showing con­ hybrids of corn, sorghum and sun­ to send signals that Ukraine - with the tour of the Pioneer facilities and the summate political skill in working flowers. The global company also input of Western agribusiness — has the private farm he visited. crowds, President Kravchuk asked develops and markets hybrids of soy­ potential to become a great agricultural every person who offered his or her beans, canola, alfalfa and wheat. Pio­ nation. "Our position is when someone of this stature comes to Iowa, you do a hand their town of origin; for some he neer was the first Iowa company to For their part, the hosts were antici­ autographed miniature Ukrainian flags, establish contact with Ukraine, accord­ highly public reception," commented pating that the favorable impressions Phil Stanhope of the state's interna­ ing to Steve Daugherty, its public the leadership of the fledging nation Walter Anastas, a lawyer in Minnea­ affairs manager, with a 1977 agreement tional development office, 'Theirs polis, said that the welcoming group would take home will result in increased (Pioneer Hi-Bred) is a different mind­ that allowed testing of Pioneer hybrids markets and ventures for lowans. wanted to show its support for the first in Ukraine. set. They want to keep it under wraps." president of a free and independent In his airport welcome address to Mr. Stanhope and Gov. Branstad had Ukraine because, despite his back­ The company increased its Ukrainian President Kravchuk, Iowa Gov. Terry led an Iowa trade delegation to Kiev last presence in a 1989 joint venture of an ground, Ukrainian Americans approve Branstad mentioned that a delegation fall to set the stage for the Ukrainian of what President Kravchuk has done operation to develop seed corn in of lowans was currently in the Kherson purchase of corn, soybean, and soybean Rivne, and following that, a plant in so far. "Some of these people have region visiting a model farm Iowa had oil from Iowa farmers. waited 75 years to see this day" he said. Cherkasy for silage. set up. The state of Iowa had extended In his response statement at the About a third of the Ukrainian airport, Mr. Kravchuk told the crowd delegation was composed of govern­ that he was satisfied with the outcome ment officials, including Ukraine's new of his official Washington visit and that ambassador to the U.S., Oleh Bilorus, he came to Iowa to see the agricultural and the chairman of Parliament's work of the people of Iowa and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Dmytro results of that work. Pavlychko. The rest of the delegation The group from Minneapolis, dress­ comprised businessmen or media repre­ ed in traditional Ukrainian costumes, sentatives. responded with loud cheers before the Two teachers and five students from interpreter's translation enlightened the Ukraine who were finishing a semester hosts whenever Mr. Kravchuk alluded of study at William Penn College in to a free Ukraine or used phrases such as Oskaloosa, Iowa, were invited to join "glory to Ukraine." the group on its farm tour. In this state with virtually no Ukrai­ After viewing the Pioneer biotechno­ nian population, the welcoming party logy facility outside of Des Moines and had to convince the bewildered or­ its data-processing and management ganizers of the reception of the Ukrai­ information systems, the entourage was nian custom of welcoming with bread taken to a showcase farm in Grinnell, and salt. Olga Antochy from Minnea­ Iowa. Eugene Lang and his son Ron polis was allowed to present a beautiful grow 1,300 acres of corn, soybeans and rich loaf of bread to the president, but in alfalfa, and sell and service Pioneer the rush to proceed with the day's products. The visitors were very much schedule, she ended up in her place impressed with the Langs'modern grain behind the barricades minus the antique dryer which dries grain to 14 percent Linda Hodges silver tray that bore the bread. moisture, thus preventing spoilage, one The Ukrainian president addresses the press and public upon arrival at the Des After the short speeches, Mykhailo of the biggest problems in Ukrainian Moines airport. Horyn, who was part of the entourage, (Continued on page 23) No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1992 7 ттіттттьЩіЧіШіт

Father's Day celebrations SUPREME ASSEMBLY OF THE planned for Soyuzivka UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The UNA Kiev. (More information about this will celebrate its eighth annual weekend will appear later in The SUPREME WALTER KWAS Soyuzivka, UNA Estate Father's Day on the weekend of June Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda.) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Kerhonkson, N.Y. 12446 20-21. There will be entertainment for guests beginning with a concert All UNA members and non-mem­ Supreme President WALTER KORCHYNSKY by Kazka, a Ukrainian song and bers are urged to attend this festival. 212 Meadowbrook Pky E. ULANA M. DIACHUK Horseheads, N.Y. 14845 dance ensemble from the anthracite UNA branches and districts are 30 Montgomery Street coal region of northeastern Penn­ encouraged to organize bus trips and Jersey City, N.J. 07302 WASYL LISCYNESKY sylvania, followed by a dance to the take advantage of the off-season 4257 Dentsler Road music of Sounds of Soyuzivka. rates at Soyuzivka. We recommend Supreme Vice-President Parma, Ohio 44134 On Sunday afternoon guests will two-day reservations for this event. NESTOR OLESNYCKY have the opportunity to attend a For further information and reser­ 17 Garthwaite Ter. PAWLO DOROZYNSKY 297 College Street Maplewood, N.J. 07040 special performance by Lybid, a well- vations, call Soyuzivka at (914) 626- Toronto, Ont. known Ukrainian women's trio from 5641. Canada M5T 1S2 Supreme Director for Canada JOHN HEWRYK VASYL LUCHKIW UNA Seniors plan exciting 327 McAdam Avenue 49 Windmill Lane Winnipeg, Manitoba New City, N.Y. 10956 Canada R2W 0B3 program for 18th conference Editor-in-Chief Supreme Vice-Presidentess of Svoboda GLORIA PASCHEN KERHONKSON, N.Y. - The exe­ which is a fast-paced documentary ZENON SNYLYK 235 N. Aldine Avenue cutive board of the Ukrainian National which will be of interest to all. Ms. 30 Montgomery Street Park Ridge, III. 60068 Association Seniors has prepared an Dmytryk enjoys a successful career in Jersey City, N.J. 07302 exciting program for the 18th seniors' Hollywood film production and it Supreme Secretary conference at Soyuzivka. President certainly shows in this video. Editor-in-Chief of WALTER Y. SOCHAN Gene Woloshyn has announced that The Ukrainian Weekly this conference will be dedicated to Any other videos that the seniors care 30 Montgomery Street Ukrainian independence. to show can be viewed after Ms. Dmy- Jersey City, N.J. 07302 ROMA HADZEWYCZ tryk's presentation. 30 Montgomery Street Jersey City, N.J. 07302 Registration will take place Sunday, Supreme Treasurer Wednesday will be a free day, which ALEXANDER G. BLAHITKA June 14, in the lobby of the Main House Director of the with Helen Chornomaz, Mira Powch gives everybody the opportunity to 30 Montgomery Street and Dr. S. Baranowska taking care of spend it as they see fit. Swimming or Jersey City, N.J. 07302 Washington Office sunning at the pool, or short trips to the details. In the evening after dinner, SUPREME EUGENE IWANCIW nearby sights. 400 North Capitol St., N.W. the seniors will celebrate the Independ­ AUDITING COMMITTEE ence of Ukraine with Anne Remick Suite 859 Thursday morning will be spent WILLIAM PASTUSZEK Washington, D.C. 20001 promising a great time for all. 9 South Chester Road listening to Dr. Moroz and Alice Orlan. P.O. Box 24Q On Monday morning the seniors will Dr. Moroz will speak on leukemia, Swarthmore, Pa. 19081 Manager of Soyuzivka participate in a divine liturgy at 9 a.m. at which is one of the problems the chil­ dren of Chornobyl are experiencing, ANATOLE DOROSHENKO JOHN A. FLIS Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic 10386 Gosport Drive Foordmore Road Church. Immediately after the service, and Ms. Orlan will speak on the "Tra­ St. Louis, MO. 63146 Kerhonkson, N.Y. 12446 the conference will be officially opened ditional Ukrainian Wedding." by the president. A presidium will be WASYL DIDIUK After lunch, UNA Supreme Presi­ elected and various committees will be 30 Allenhurst Drive, Apt. 402 HONORARY MEMBERS dent Ulana Diachuk will address the Islington, Ont. OF THE appointed. The balance of the day will Canada M9A 4Y8 be spent in listening to officers' reports, group on "State of the UNA." With her will be Robert Cook, UNA's director oi SUPREME ASSEMBLY minutes of the 17th conference and STEFAN HAWRYSZ MARIA CHUCHMAN other reports. insurance operations, who will be 155 Erdenheim Rd. Sts Peter A Paul Residence available for questions on the new Philadelphia, Pa. 19118 No. 329 certificates the UNA now has. 221 Milner Avenue After dinner, the group will partake TARAS S2MAGALA Scarborough, Ont., in an informal get-acquainted party On Thursday evening, the seniors, 10976 Tanager Trail Canada M1S 4P4 under the stars at the Veselka. Dancing dressed in their finest embroidered Brecksville, Ohio 44141 and singing will also be enjoyed by the shirts, dresses, blouses and ties, will STEPAN KUROPAS seniors. Reliable Dan Slobodian will SUPREME ADVISORS 3301 N. Newland enjoy a cocktail party and later the Chicago, III. 60634 again be in charge and that means a "Embroidery Banquet and Ball."This is TEKLA MOROZ good time for all. 345 36th Avenue always the highlight of the week with Lachine, Quebec JAROSLAW PADOCH splendor of colors throughout the hall. Canada H8T 2A5 71 East 7th Street On Tuesday morning the reports will Efforts are being made to bring a New York, N.Y. 10003 be concluded and officers for 1992- speaker to the banquet to speak on the EUGENE IWANCIW 1993 will be elected. The afternoon will independence of Ukraine. The balance 6138 N. 12th Street GENEVIEVE ZEREBNIAK Arlington, Va. 22205 239-C Portage Lakes Dr. be spent playing America's pastime — of the evening will be enjoyed dancing Akron, Ohio 44319 Bingo. The Labas and Bobeczkos will to the Soyuzivka band. ROMA HADZEWYCZ direct the activities at the Veselka. 30 Montgomery Street ANNA CHOPEK The conference will be concluded on Jersey City, N.J. 07302 678 44th Street That evening, Luba Dmytryk of Friday morning with new business and Los Alamos, N.M. 87544 Santa Monica, Calif., will screen her the report of the Resolutions Commit­ ALEX CHUDOLIJ video "Ukraine: Third Journey to tee and approval by the conference. 281 Urma Avenue WALTER ZAPARANIUK Clifton, N.J. 07013 1211 Downer Avenue Independence" at the Veselka. This Lunch will conclude the 18th confer- Utica, N.Y. 13502 hourlong film is a professional video ANYA DYDYK-PETRENKO 16050 Dorset Road MARY DUSHNYCK Laurel, Md. 20707 2 Marine Avenue Brooklyn, N.Y. 11209 UNA seminars available ANDREW JULA 15 Sands Avenue BOHDAN T. HNATIUK Ambridge, Pa. 15003 535 Prescott Rd. The UNA provides speakers to any group or organization that is interested in Merion Station, Pa. 19066 learning more about the UNA, its products and its services to members. General ANNE REMICK seminars include a brief history of the UNA and its operations, an overview of the new ANNA HARAS 10 Sunnyside Avenue products and services recently introduced by the UNA, and a more detailed discussion Canton, Mass. 02021 1930 Greenleaf Street of a specific UNA product chosen as the main topic which your group would be most Bethlehem, Pa. 18017 interested in learning more about ANDREW KEYBIDA MYRON B. KUROPAS 19 Rutgers Street 107 Mehamwood Drive Contact Robert M. Cook, CLU, ChFc at the UNA, (201) 451-2200 or l-(800) 253- Maplewood, N.J. 07040 DeKalb, III. 60115 9862, to arrange for a UNA guest speaker. HELEN OLEK-SCOTT Very Rev. STEPHEN BiLAK Seminars are provided by the UNA at no charge to groups, if located in New Jersey, 7644 W. Rosedale Avenue 1750 Jefferson St., Apt. 301 New York, Pennsylvania or New England. Chicago, III. 60631 Hollywood, Fla. 33020 8 ТИР UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MAY 17, 1992 No. 20

Journalist's notebook -Ukrainian Weekly in Ukraine by Mart a Kolomayets Gorbymania, continued Kiev Press Bureau As President Leonid Kravchuk was in Washington for a working visit with President George Bush and various officials of his administration, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was at Westminster College in Fulton, 'The Rich Also Cry" Ivlo., delivering a much-ballyhooed speech about the end of the cold war. It's Ukraine's newest drug and it's very serious problem in Ukraine today. "History came full cycle today as Mikhail S. Gorbachev added a available to everyone, free of charge. There is no concept even of a variety postscript of global reconciliation to the 'Iron Curtain' speech by Winston Introduced at the beginning of the year, show; there simply is no entertainment Churchill here 46 years ago...," read the lead to a front-page story in The New the Mexican soap opera, "The Rich on Ukrainian television; and so every­ York Times by Francis X. Clines. Also Cry," has addicted television one gasps with joy when "The Rich Also In that same issue of the Times, the first official visit of the democratically viewers all over Ukraine, from the Cry" or "Santa Barbara," (a U.S. series) elected president of independent Ukraine was mentioned in passing, within a foothills of the Carpathian Mountains air on television. story about Congressional balkiness over an aid package for the to the coal mines of the Luhanske Most shows on Ukrainian television Commonwealth of Independent States. region. can be classified as "talking heads" Perhaps The New York Times' treatment of the Kravchuk visit versus the Shown over Ostankino, the CIS shows. Shows such as "December 1 Gorby tour was the most blatant example of the skewed American vision of channel, this soap opera made a splash Studio," or "Pleyada," or "Viche," or the world, but it was by no means the only such example. America still is in Mexico over a decade ago and today "Tyzhden," are all basically the "talk­ hypnotized by Gorbymania. The press and the public seem to just love the in Ukraine it is the subject of conver­ ing heads" format, hosted by famous sight of this former Communist traveling around in a Forbes jetliner labeled sation at dinner tables, on street cor­ deputies or personalities in Ukrainian "Capitalist Tool," wearing a Stetson hat and a red jacket emblazoned with ners, in hotel lobbies and in parlia­ politics, who hash and re-hash issues "Perestroika Futures" (the latter received from officials at Chicago's mentary cafeterias. like the budget, the military, the na­ Mercantile Exchange). They don't seem to mind that he collects SI00,000 per A fellow journalist who watches the tional symbols. speech and wants to raise S3 million for his private think-tank in Moscow. serial religiously every Sunday after­ Ivan Koval (that's our generic John Never mind that private citizen Gorbachev's message makes his audience noon (12:30 - 2 p.m.) with her husband Smith) cannot come home at night, kick out to be fools. and daughter, explains: "We've been off his shoes, grab a beer and become a New York Times columnist A.M. Rosenthal wrote the following of the oversaturated with politics and this is couch potato. The only variety show on Gorbachev tour. "Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is taking the opportunity our escape." television is of the Ukrainian folklore of his tour of the United States as the honored guest of politicians, capitalists According to another colleague, the variety: various groups from various and academics to show what he thinks of them and Americans in general. He citizens of the former Soviet Union were regions, dressed in various folk cos­ thinks they are fools, with the historical memory of fruit flies." constantly barraged with political news, tumes sing and dance across a wooden In Mr. Gorbachev's scheme of things, you see, 'Uncle Joe'(remember that interviews, parliamentary sessions over stage. term?) Stalin was a peaceful man, too tired and afraid to risk war through the last two years. There was a time "The Rich," as it is known among its aggression. Thus, it is the United States which is to blame for starting the cold when you could flip to any one of the groupies, gives Ivan Koval the oppor­ war and the arms race. Mr. Rosenthal goes on to cite the millions of Baits, three available channels to see the tunity to escape from a world that Romanians, Bulgarians, Poles, Czech, Hungarians who were conquered and Ukrainian Parliament, the Russian revolves around food lines, or gasoline colonized by Stalin and his successors. Why does Mr. Gorbachev "travel Parliament or the Soviet Parliament queues, or the hassles of a society trying about soiling history by blaming America and the West for having tried to debate social, economic or military to emerge as a democratic, independent prevent the Soviet system from imprisoning even more nations?" Mr. issues. Western nation. Rosenthal asks. There was even a study done in the Since "The Rich Also Cry" has And yety there he is again;GLorby on, the front pages of our newspapers, on f former Soviet Union which revealed become a staple in the life of almost our television screens..., meanwhile, President Kravchuk is lucky to get some that practically every citizen takes an every Ukrainian citizen, it has also major stories in the Washington press. In essence, the has-been is getting all interest in politics (whether he wants to provided comic relief in many homes. It the headlines, while a man with real power, today's president of a major or not); in normal, Western civiliza­ is an unwritten rule in Kiev: one is European nation of 53 million is a footnote. tions, the percentage of citizens interest­ forbidden to call private homes on Perhaps The Philadelphia Inquirer is on the mark when it stated in a May ed in the politics of their country ranges Sunday afternoons for fear of inter­ 13 editorial that President Kravchuk gets little coverage because he is "a in the low teens. rupting the soap. reminder of the present global untidiness," the leader of a country that needs But, even this soap opera, which deals In Lviv, a few weeks ago, I was not assistance while America "isn't in a giving mood." The Inquirer concluded: with love triangles, rich uncles and allowed to pay the bill for my room until "But Leonid Kravchuk - and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who will shady business deals, has political after the show ended. And a good friend make an official visit to the United States in June — are far more important to overtones for Ukraine's citizens. of mine went to the Carpathians for America's future than is Mr. Gorbachev. Mr. Gorbachev is making speeches, A neighbor of mine relayed a story Easter. On Sunday afternoons, every­ while Messrs. Kravchuk and Yeltsin are shaping the future of two new, about her cousin in Odessa. According one gathered in the living room and she unformed European powers, both with nuclear arms. Nostalgia and affection to this cousin, Russia purposely airs the thought she was going to witness a for Mikhail Gorbachev can't disguise the fact that his era has already passed." following episode after the Sunday Hutsul Easter ritual, long-forgotten in The point is not that Mr. Gorbachev doesn't deserve any headlines — after serial on Monday afternoon, to make the West. a.i, his policies did alter the course of history. But he is history. New leaders viewing for Ukraine's citizens difficult. Instead, in the small village of Ny- have emerged in his place — leaders who are important today, who will be It appears that Russia has designated zhniy Bereziv, everyone gathered important in the foreseeable future. Enough of this Gorbymania! Mondays as days off from work, but in around the television to watch the next Ukraine Monday is a regular working episode of "The Rich." The picture was day. But the resourceful Odessa resi­ fuzzy, but that didn't stop anyone from dents have solved their problem. The enjoying the trials of Alberto that day. factory where the cousin works has But my favorite "Rich" story hap­ Turning the pages back... given its employees a two-hour lunch on pened in Lviv. I was walking with a Mondays, provided they work an extra friend to the "Zolotyi Kolos" bt^r bar hour into the evening, giving everyone on Sunday afternoon, as two зШег an opportunity to keep up with the gentlemen staggered out of the f лош On May 14, 1984, Yermak Lukyanov was executed in the intrigues of the Mexican clan. ale establishment. They seemed to be Soviet Union for treason. His case was representative of the The fact that all, from young kids to discussing something of moF ^ntous , Soviet legal system's habit of using psychiatric hospitals as moms and dads, from doctors and significance, or so I thought. As I detention centers. deputies, from factory workers to eavesdropped on their conveisation, I A study released by Freedom House in 1985 stated that one in every five political milkmaids, are glued to their screens heard: "But why should the rich cry?" prisoners was held in psychiatric institutions. Some prisoners were held for as and fret over the fate of Diego, Alberto said one to the other, scratching his long as 10, 15, 20 and, in one case, 37 years. and Marianna also underscores another head. The case of Mr. Lukyanov was extreme. He was a Soviet soldier in World War II whc remained in Belgium after the war. In 1968 he visited the Soviet Union with his son, but was not allowed to return to the West. He was detained in various psychiatric hospitals for 15 years. He was finally executed, while still a Belgian UNA Fund for the Rebirth of Ukrains citizen, when he was 70 years old. The Home Office of the Ukrainian National Among others committed for political reasons were: a man arrested for Association reports that as of May 14,the f rafer- distributing leaflets against the war in Afghanistan and capital punishment; four nai organization's newly established Fund for journalists who wrote articles critical of the Soviet regime; a Ukrainian teacher of the Rebirth of Ukraine has received 11,137 English who encouraged Ukrainian children to use their own language instead of checks from its members with donations Russian. Valentin Sokolov, a poet, spent 31 years in confinement. The last six of these totalling 5294,855.63. The contributions were in a psychiatric hospital, where he died. include individual members' donations, as well Ludmilla Thorne, who compiled the statistics in the Freedom House report, as returns of members' dividend checks and wrote: "The American Psychiatric Association has rightly condemned this abuse of interest payments on promissory notes. psychiatry and it is no wonder that many Soviet dissidents have referred to this Please make checks-payable to UNA Fund practice as spiritual murder." She added that since the Soviet Union did not provide for the Rebirth of Ukraine. statistics, on .its prisons and psychiatric hospitals, the documented cases of abuse were only the tip of the iceberg. No. ?O THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1992

ANALYSIS: Ukraine and Russia, and the politics of independence

by Dr. Roman Solchanyk Mayor Anatoliy Sobchak. Mr. Ruts­ certainly calls into question the exis­ linking the Crimean issue to the fate of RFE/RL Research Institute koi, in particular, has made it clear that tence of Ukraine as an entity separate the Black Sea Fleet. In January the the "real" Russia should not be con­ from Russia. In a Pravda article "In Russian Parliament took an official December 1991 was in every respect a fused with the Russia defined by the Defense of Russia," Mr. Rutskoi issued stand on the two matters by voting turning point for Ukraine and its boundaries of the Russian Federation: a challenge to Mr. Kravchuk (among overwhelmingly to examine the consti­ people. Ukrainian independence, which "The historical consciousness of Rus­ others) by warning the leaders of the tutionality of the 1954 decisions and was declared by a fractious Parliament in sians," Mr. Rutskoi told readers of newly independent states, "especially urging constructive negotiations on the the aftermath of August's failed coup, Pravda earlier in 1992, "does not permit those who came to power through Black Sea Fleet. Kiev responded by gained the overwhelming support of anyone mechanically to bring the bor­ national careerism," that "no one is flatly rejecting the Russian claim to the voters in a republic wide referendum. ders of Russia in line with fthe borders going to give them even a tiny piece of peninsula, maintaining that this vio­ After more than 70 years of the Soviet of| the Russian Federation." sacred Russian land." lated recent Ukrainian-Russian agree­ experiment, Ukraine also elected its In Kiev there are no illusions that Mr. Lesser figures have been somewhat ments on the inviolability of borders as first president, Parliamentary Chair­ Rutskoi's vision of "Russia" includes more candid. Sergei Baburin, the in­ well as the agreement reached in Minsk man Leonid Kravchuk, who has made most if not all of Ukraine. At the fluential 33-year-old leader of the creating the CIS. the consolidation of an independent moment, the main point of contention Russia faction in the Parliament and the President Yeltsin, who on several Ukrainian state the sine qua non of between Ukraine and Russia is the main force behind the demand that the occasions has maintained that the policy at home and abroad. question of the division of the Black Sea Russian government officially take a Crimean question is an internal Ukrai­ Together with Russia and Belarus, Fleet and the related problem of Rus­ stand on the 1954 transfer of the Crimea nian affair, has publicly distanced Ukraine declared that the USSR no sian claims to the Crimea. In addition, to Ukraine, revealed his understanding himself from the self-styled "patriots," longer existed, and in the process the the atmosphere of distrust that has of the term "Russia" in an interview arguing that "extreme situations" a- three formed the Commonwealth of increasingly permeated relations be­ published at the end of January: "I am rising in the Russian Parliament, "for Independent States (CIS). The interna­ tween the two sides since December convinced that the history of the Soviet example, the demand for the almost tional community, albeit hesitatingly, 1991 has given rise to doubts in Ukraine Union has come to an end, although immediate return of the Crimea to reconciled itself to the new realities. By about whether unilateral nuclear dis­ unconstitutionally, illegally, and im­ Russia," only complicated the situation. mid-February more than 100 countries armament, which has been the center­ morally. But the history of the state - Yet in early April he dispatched none had recognized Ukraine and 45 of them piece of Ukraine's foreign policy, is in up to February 1917 it was called the other than Mr. Rutskoi to the Crimea, had established full diplomatic relations where the Russian vice-president re­ with it. newed Russia's claim to the peninsula: Destroying the old political and state Western observers are beginning to realize that "If one turns to history, then again structure, however, may yet prove to history is not on the side of those who have been easier than establishing a new are trying to appropriate this land. If in system of relations among the Soviet the various points of friction between Ukraine 1954, perhaps under the influence of a successor states. The key to the success hangover or maybe of sunstroke, the or failure of the CIS is the relationship and Russia boil down to one issue: whether ... appropriate documents were signed between Ukraine and Russia, which is according to which the Crimea was mired in various disputes large and transferred to the jurisdiction of U- small that have their immediate origins Russia is prepared genuinely to recognize an kraine, I am sorry, such a document in the collapse of the USSR and the does not cancel out the history of the resulting emergence of an independent Crimea." Ukrainian state. A commentator in independent Ukraine. Mr. Rutskoi went on to declare his Nezavisimaya Gazeta recently encap­ solidarity with the referendum cam­ sulated the problem as follows: "It is paign in the Crimea, which is aimed at doubtful that anyone would dispute fact such a good idea. These and other Russian Empire, then they tried to unresolved issues between Kiev and destroy it, but in 1922 it was reborn as establishing an independent Crimean that the most painful act in the collapse state, and expressed his opinion that of the former fSovietj Union was the Moscow impinge directly on the future the Soviet Union; in 1991 they tried to of the CIS and the interests of the West. destroy it again, just like in 1917, by "common sense" dictated that the separation of Ukraine." Crimea should be part of Russia. With This is no doubt true. Moreover, it dividing people according to their The "Ukrainian idea" versus the "Rus­ nationality - the history of this state regard to the Black Sea Fleet, he told a raises two very important questions. group of naval officers in Sevastopil Precisely for whom was the collapse of sian idea" continues." Somewhat earlier, Mr. Baburin had that in his view it "was a Russian fleet the USSR so painful, and from what did and will remain a Russian fleet." Ukraine separate itself? The answer in Increasingly, Western observers are been more straightforward: "Above all, beginning to realize that the various there is a tremendous difference be­ Mr. Rutskoi's remarks coincided both instances is, of course, Russia. with a blunt warning from Mr. Yeltsin, And it is this issue — namely, the points of friction between Ukraine and tween Russia and the Russian Federa­ Russia boil down to one issue: whether, tion. Russia is the former Soviet Union announced on April 3, that any attempts process of Russia's coming to terms to change the status of the Black Sea with the reality of an independent given its own crisis of identity, Russia is ... It is politicians, not the people, who prepared genuinely to recognize an want national states. As for the will of Fleet unilaterally would force Russia to Ukrainian state, a process that is still place the entire fleet under its jurisdic­ largely embryonic — that largely de­ independent Ukraine. the people and the 'referendums' on Admittedly there have been those independence — that is the biggest lie of tion, "followed by its transfer to the fines such interrelated problems as the strategic forces of the CIS." future of the CIS and more immediate who foresaw today's developments all." quite some time ago. The prominent Leaving aside the bluntly articulated Two days later President Kravchuk concerns like the disputes over the issued a decree "On Urgent Measures Crimea and the Black Sea Fleet. U- Zionist leader Vladimir (Zeev) Zhabo- view that the referendums are a hoax, the tinsky wrote almost a century ago: "One leitmotif of the so-called partriotic- regarding the Building of the Armed kraine and Russia, the two most impor­ Forces of Ukraine," which provided for tant successor states to the Soviet can say with complete confidence that statist component in today's political the solution of the argument about the spectrum in Russia, of which Mr. the formation of a Ukrainian navy on Union, have rather different views the basis of that part of the Black Sea about what the CIS is or should be. national character of Russia depends Baburin is a prime example, is that almost entirely on the position of the 30 nationality is not a legitimate principle Fleet located on Ukrainian territory. By all accounts, Russia is inclined to million Ukrainian people. Ifthey agree for the organization of the state. Rather, The following day he appointed Rear view the new arrangements as some­ to be Russified, then Russia will go in it is the state itself that is pre-eminent Admiral Boris Kozhin commander of thing in the nature of the old Soviet one direction; if they do not agree, it will and the supreme source of authority. the Ukrainian navy. Union but with one cardinal difference: have to go another way." Where that state begins and ends is a Immediately afterward, on April 7, instead of Mikhail Gorbachev, the matter of conjecture; but it is perceived the Russian president issued his "president" is Boris Yeltsin. The Rus­ In a sense, the Ukrainian referendum own decree, making good his earlier may be said to have shown that Ukrai­ as being huge, multinational, and sian leadership's nostalgia for earlier "historically justified." warning. The announcement was made times can be inferred from Mr. Yeltsin's nians had decided not to be Russified in The influence of statist themes in not by a Russian government offi­ rebuke to his CIS colleagues at the Zhabotinsky's broader sense of the cial but by Marshal Yevgeni Shapo- March summit in Kiev that it was they term: together with the majority of Russian political life is undeniable and can be seen in the democratic camp as shnikov, the commander of the CIS and not Russia that had abandoned the Ukraine's 11.3 million Russians, they forces, at the Russian Congress of Soviet Union. Russia's difficulty in opted for the "Ukrainian idea." well. Thus, it is not entirely unexpected that someone like Galina Starovoitova, People's Deputies. This detail served accepting Ukraine as an independent Thus far, there is little basis for only to confirm a suspicion already state was also reflected in a more who serves as Mr. Yeltsin's adviser on suggesting that either the Russian nationality affairs and whose liberal nurtured by many Ukrainians, that the symbolic way at the Kiev summit. To leadership or the Russian population CIS armed forces were in fact Russian the amazement of passersby on Kiev's democratic credentials are well estab­ has come to terms with this fact. lished, could nonetheless lament the armed forces in disguise. main thoroughfare, there was one state Although no responsible Russian gov­ Ukraine's response to these develop­ limousine in the fleet bringing the CIS loss of empire. "A brief glance at the ernment official has as yet publicly map," she told a Moscow newspaper at ments took the form of a note from leaders to the negotiating table that was denied the legitimacy of Ukrainian Foreign Minister Anatoliy Zlenko to not flying the official Ukrainian blue the end of 1991, "reveals the extent of independence, there is little doubt that the geographic loss. We shall have the secretary-general of the U.N. on and yellow state flag: the one occupied the reality of an independent Ukraine April 9, describing the activities of by President Yeltsin. virtually the same ports as Russia had remains a dilemma that has yet to be when Peter the Great came to power." "certain leaders of the Russian Federa­ Much more serious than this gesture resolved in Russia. tion" as "irresponsible and illegal have been the recent claims to the Among senior Moscow politicians The Crimea and the Black Sea Fleet attempts to undermine the territorial Crimea (and other regions within U- the one who has come closest to reject­ integrity of a sovereign state." Mr. kraine) advanced by such leading Rus­ ing the idea has been Mr. Rutskoi. His The Russian challenge to Ukraine has Yeltsin's decree on the Black Sea Fleet sian figures as Vice-President Аіек– perception of a historical Russia ex­ taken the form of disputing the legality was qualified in the note as a "gross sandr Rutskoi and St. Petersburg tending beyond its present borders of the 1954 transfer of the Crimea and (Continued on page 16) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1992 No. 20

President Kravchuk... The agreements (Continued from page 4) During President Leonid Krav- dent Kravchuk met with the Congres­ chuk`s visit to Washington, several sional leadership: Senate Majority agreements were signed between the Leader George Mitchell (D-Maine) United States and Ukraine. Presi­ Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole dent George Bush signed three agree­ (R-Kansas); Speaker of the House ments with President Kravchuk at Thomas Foley (D-Wash.); House Ma­ the White House: jority Leader Richard Gephardt (D- ^ United States-Ukraine OPIC Mo.); and House Minority Leader Agreement: Under this agreement, Robert Michel (R-Ill). the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) will be able to Congressional reception operate its investment insurance and loan guarantee programs for private investors in Ukraine; The previous evening, President ь Agreement on Trade Relations Kravchuk had been on Capitol Hill as between the United States and U- well, at a congressional reception hosted kraine: Under this agreement, Presi­ by Brown and Williamson Tobacco dent Bush announced that he would Corp., the law firm of Squire, Sanders approve a waiver of the Jackson- and Dempsey, Mars, Inc. and Rep. Martin Frost (D-Texas), chairman of Vanik amendment which would І Eugene Iwanciw allow for most-favored-nation the Special Task Force on the Develop­ (MFN) status for Ukraine and re­ ment of Parliamentary Institutions in A view of the Kravchuk delegation's meeting with the Congressional leadership. ciprocal tariff treatments for the Eastern Europe. Seated third from right is Sen. Robert Dole. products of both countries; In his greeting, President Kravchuk ^ Agreement on Establishing a noted the long and complicated road of Peace Corps Program between the democratic reforms upon which U- United States and Ukraine: Under kraine has embarked and paid tribute to this agreement, a separate Peace the U.S. Congress as the model of a Corps program will be established in democratic institution toward which Ukraine that will focus on small ail civilized nations aspire. enterprise development and will supply volunteers with expertise in He added: "The people of Ukraine the areas of business planning, pri­ are grateful for the many years of sup­ vatization, economics, management, port that the United States Congress credit and banking. has provided for the independence of Two agreements had been signed Ukraine. We especially extend our earlier, on the opening of a Science appreciation to Sens. Dennis DeCon- and Technology Center in Ukraine cini and Alfonse D'Amato and to and expanded Technical Assistance Congressmen Don Ritter and Dennis Program, and President Bush made a Hertel for sponsoring legislation urging commitment to their rapid imple­ the president of the United States to mentation. The Science and Techno­ recognize the independence of Ukraine logy Center is expected to open as after the December 1 referendum. We early as this summer. An agreement also appreciate the support of the 100 was also reached that Ukraine and members of Congress who co-spon­ the other nuclear states, Belarus and sored that legislation. We are well aware Kazakhstan, will join the START that without strong congressional sup­ negotiations. port for Ukraine, the road to independ­ President Leonid Kravchuk meets with Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney ence and recognition would be far more (center) at the Pentagon. On the right is interpreter George Sajewych. Other agreements signed by the difficult. On behalf of all the citizens of representatives of the two govern­ Ukraine, 1 thank you." ments include: e United States-Ukrainian Me­ In addition to the approximately morandum of Understanding on 150 guests from Washington's business Unrestricted Diplomatic Travel; and legal community, several dozen Signed by Secretary of State James members of Congress attended, in­ Baker and Foreign Minister Anatoly cluding Reps. Matthew J. Rinaldo (R- Zlenko, this memorandum of under­ N.J.), Mary Rose Oakar(D-Ohio), Don standing signifies the intentions of Ritter (R-Pa.), Dennis M. Hertel (D- both governments to eliminate travel Mich.), David E. Bonior (D-Mich.), restrictions for diplomats, in particu­ Sander M. Levin (D-Mich.), Dana lar, the system of "open" and "closed" Rohrabacher (D-Calif.), Frank J. Gua- areas that existed under the USSR. rini (D-N.J.), Douglas "Pete" Peterson e Agreement between the United (D-Fla.), Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), States and Ukraine Regarding Hu­ Thomas J. Bliley Jr. (R-Va.), Thomas manitarian and Technical Economic M. Foglietta (D-Pa.), W. G. "Bill" Cooperation: Signed by Secretary of Hefner (D-N.C), Robert K. Dorman State James Baker and Deputy Prime (R-Calif.), Bill Green (R-N.Y.), William Minister Oleh Slepichev, this agree­ J. Coyne (D-Pa.), and Sen. Alan Crans­ ment provides certain legal protec­ ton (D-Calif,), as well as former Con­ In the Oval Office: President George Bush welcomes President Leonid Kravchuk. tions in conjunction with humanita­ gressman Charles Vanik, co-author of Seen from right are: National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Secretary of rian assistance programs for U- the Jackson-Vanik Trade Amendment. State James Baker. kraine, including tax and customs exemptions, criminal immunity for technical assistance personnel, and standardized procedures for inspec­ tions and audits. 9 Agreement between the United The official delegation from Ukraine States and Ukraine on Cooperation in the Field of Environmental Pro­ Following is a list of the members of the official Mykhailo Horyn, people's deputy tection: Signed by Environmental government delegation from Ukraine. Vadym Hetman, chairman, National Bank of Ukraine Protection Agency Administrator Oleksander Melnyk, chief adviser to the president Leonid Kravchuk, president Borys Sobolev, deputy minister of foreign economic relations William K. Reilly and Minister of Oleh Slepichev, deputy prime minister Environmental Protection Yuriy Maj. Gen. Ivan Hnidenko, chief, administrative operations, Oleksander Yemelianov, chairman of the State Duma, Ministry of Defense Shcherbak, this agreement recog­ adviser on economic matters nizes the need for a new framework Anatoly Zlenko, minister of foreign affairs Anton Buteyko, presidential adviser for foreign affairs; of bilateral cooperation on issues of Dmytro Pavlychko, chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee of Yuriy Bogayevsky, director, Division of the United States air, soil, water pollution; control of the Supreme Council and Canada, Ministry of Foreign Affairs toxic substances; monitoring envi­ Oleh Bilorus, ambassador to the United States ronmental quality; radiation expo­ Yuriy Shcherbak, minister of environmental protection Serhiy Kulyk, first secretary, Embassy of Ukraine sure and environmental emergencies. Oleksander Maselsky, presidential representative, Kharkiv Antonina Kravchuk, wife of the president Oblast Larysa Bilorus, wife of the ambassador - Irene Jarosewich No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1992 11

Kravchuk meets... (Continued from page 1) Ukraine at a time when Ukraine is undertaking significant reforms, Mr. Kravchuk spoke boldly of Ukraine's position on the Black Sea Fleet and the resulting relationship with Russia. "Ukraine has absolutely no territorial, claims against Russia," declared the president, "but we will not accept Russia's position that the entire Black Sea Fleet should be under Russian command." In signing agreements of the Com­ monwealth of Independent States, all republics on whose territory Soviet armed forces were located were to choose how many and which arms were to be turned over to unified CIS com­ mand. Russia has claimed that the entire Black Sea Fleet should belong to the CIS, "but in reality," said Mr. Kravchuk, "this means belonging to Russia. Russia has proclaimed itself the successor to the Soviet Union, and unfortunately, the nations of the world have accepted its claim as legitimate."

With the creation of Russian armed President Leonid Kravchuk meets with former President Richard Nixon at the Ukrainian Mission to the United Nations. In forces, said Ukraine's president, "the the center is the interpreter. concept of CIS armed forces became in the hryvnia will be authoritative and my mind more symbolic than realistic." convertible.

And with Russia claiming that the Responding to a question about the fleet should be under a unified CIS Crimean Tatars, Ukraine's president command but fly the Russian flag, announced that the Ukrainian govern­ Ukraine's juridical claim to the fleet as ment will take full responsibility for provided by CIS agreements has been returning the Crimean Tatars to their largely ignored. "This does not comply homeland and guaranteeing that their with our internal tCISJ agreement nor interests are represented in the Crimean with international agreements, and we government. Because the peninsula is plan to persuade Russia of this fact, as inhabited primarily by Russians, Mr. well as the commands of the CIS armed Kravchuk also said that the Ukrainian forces and that of the Black Sea Fleet," government will assist the Crimean he said. Tatars and the Ukrainian minority in establishing Crimean Tatar- and President Kravchuk also commented Ukrainian-language schools and thea­ on the recent signing of a treaty of tres. friendship and cooperation between Ukraine and Turkey, the two countries The press conference, moderated by with the longest Black Sea coastlines. Eugeniusz Wyzner, U.N. undersecre­ Ukraine and Turkey also signed agree­ tary general for public information, ran ments on trade and transport, and will for 30 minutes. sign a declaration of cooperation among states bordering the Black Sea in June. | Khristina Lew Both countries are proponents of the President Leonid Kravchuk and Foreign Minister Anatoliy Zlenko at the U.N. eventual creation of a peaceful, nuclear- press conference. free Black Sea basin, and are actively President Kravchuk's itinerary on the pursuing U.N. support for the idea. final day of his working visit to the United States included meetings with The Ukrainian Weekly: President Kravchuk also announced Henry Kissinger, former secretary of that Ukraine's currency, the hryvnia, state under the Nixon and Ford ad­ The Ukrainian perspective on the news will be introduced on January 1, 1993, ministrations, former President Ri­ and that the Ukrainian government will chard Nixon, leading businessmen, the turn to the International Monetary press and representatives of the Ukrai­ Fund for assistance in guaranteeing that nian and Jewish communities. The Ukrainian National Association: Hello, Endeavour useful phone numbers, addresses

In Houston, Kravchuk visits space center UNA Home Office UNA Washington Office WASHINGTON - On Friday, second, through space communica­ 30 Montgomery St. (third floor) 400 N. Capital St. NW - Suite 859 May 8, President Leonid Kravchuk tions." Jersey City. NJ. 07302 Washington, D.C. 20001 Commander Brandenstein: "Well, was at the Johnson Space Center in (201) 451-2200 (202) 347-UNAW thank you, Mr. President. It is a Houston and as part of his tour, had FAX (202) 347-8631 a quick conversation with U.S. pleasure to have an opportunity to astronaut and mission commander speak with you and I am sure you are Dan Brandenstein, who is aboard the getting a very informative tour of the space shuttle Endeavor. Below are space center and the American space Svoboda Ukrainian Daily UNA Estate Soyuzivka excerpts from the exchange, which program. We are looking forward 30 Montgomery St. (mezzanine) Foordemoore Road was broadcast live around the world very much to the completion of this Jersey City, NJ. 07302 Kerhonkson, N.Y. 12446 over the NASA Select Satellite mission. Hopefully, at the end there (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (914) 626-5641 Channel: will be another communications President Kravchuk: "I would like satellite available to the world to better help communications around to wish you a very successful flight... The Ukrainian Weekly our globe." and I would like to wish you success in 30 Montgomery St. (mezzanine) President Kravchuk "I wish you a your mission that you are carrying Jersey City, NJ. 07302 out... We signed a number of very very good landing, a safe landing." (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 important documents with President Commander Brandenstein: "Thank Bush yesterday. That was my first you very much, Mr. President." encounter with America at an official level. I think today we have the — Irene Jarosewich IL THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1992 No. 20

Seen during the opening reception at Ukraine's Embassy are: Foreign Ministi A . л шш . . WT1 . . A . , Jm. n. L „ . . f л . .A Anatoliy Zlenko; Susan Baker, wife of the secretary of state; and Roma At the Des Momes airport, Ukrainian Americans led by Bishop Paisiy welcome the visitors Popadiuk, then ambassador-designate to Ukraine, from Ukraine.

Sisters greet the Kravchuks during a stopover at Manor Junior College and the Mother The official welcoming ceremony at the Pentagon: President Leonid Kra` House of the Sisters oi St. Basil. on the platform. On the right are members of the Ukrainian delegation;) No. 20: THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1992 13

E KRAVCHUK VISIT: photographic report

A toast to U.S.-Ukrainian relations is offered by: (from left) Secretary of State James Baker and President Leonid Kravchuk, and their spouses. Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Anatoliy Zlenko looks on. resident Richard Nixon meets with Leonid Kravchuk at the Ukrainian Mission to the United Nations.

President Leonid Kravchuk arrives at the West Wing of the White House, where he was met by the chief of protocol and escorted inside for his Oval Office meeting with President George Bush.

PHOTO CREDITS: Andrews Air Force Base - Natalie Sluzar and Tanya Terleckyj; Iowa - Linda Hodges; Philadelphia - Yaroslav Kulynych; White House, Pentagon, Ukrainian Embassy - Roma Hadzewycz; CNN - alph Begleiter, international affairs correspondent for CNN, greets President Eugene Iwanciw; New York - Khristina Lew. Leonid Kravchuk during their interview.

and Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney stand left secretaries and officers of the U.S. military. Presidents Leonid Kravchuk and George Bush during a press conference in the East Room of the White House. 14^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1992 No. 20 ART REVIEW: Dolya Art Group from Ukraine exhibits in Midwest by Yuri Myskiw the 20th. Time is, of course, on the side of the younger members who have an After successful exhibitions in opportunity, now in freer circum­ Staughton, Wise, and Chicago, the stances, to explore the whole gamut of Dolya Art Group from Ukraine, conti­ contemporary world art. nues its tour with a showing at Eko Most of Dolya's artists are immersed Gallery in Warren, Mich., beginning on in the landscape, in the representation May 15 and continuing for two weeks. of time-worn cultural symbols, in the "Dolya" (Fate) is a group of 20 deification of religious themes. Two of artists, teachers and students from the its older members, Petro Kravchenko town of Rava-Ruska, near Lviv, in and Mykhailo Tkachenko, both profes­ western Ukraine. Bound by a strong sors and distinguished artists of U- feeling of "the universality of human kraine, reflect in their canvases the old character," a respect for Ukraine's social-realist ideal of landscape. "Wil­ history and culture, these artists hold lows" and "Evening in Sednev" by exhibits in painting, drawing and deco­ Kravchenko and "A Sunny Day" and rative and applied arts in the exhibition "The Silence of Night" by Tkachenko hall of their local town. United by these are reminiscent of much that has been aesthetic beliefs, the Dolya Group tries done in the same way by many artists. to manifest through its creativity a This does not make their work invalid, "connection between spirit and matter it simply classifies them into a much- about the everlasting values of earthly overworked genre that has followed a being." long historic tradition. Viewed with a According to art critic and member, skeptical eye, divorced from the emo­ "City II" by Yuriy Skorupsky. Yaroslav Kravchenko: "Fate is a notion tional approach that these are views of what is now called the "elephant's foot." new world order on a planet now being comprising a reality of human and the "homeland," under the microscope The Great Famine of 1933 and the slowly poisoned by its indifferent social being. At all times, man was eager of Western art, Messrs. Kravchenko Chornobyl nuclear disaster await some children. And at this point Bezpalkiv's and Tkachenko offer nothing new in to know what awaited his own self, his great artist to fully augment them into art makes a strong universal statement their canvases. kin and humankind. Any man is the mythos of civilization. Yet Bezpal- about an earth dominated by artificial, concerned about the future, irrespective A much more innovative and original kiv's art manages to express this black unnatural events that isolate human of his ethnic or religious status, or his artist is Prof. Mykhailo Bezpalkiv. His drama of death by showing figures — beings from each other and eventually mode of life. The notion of fate is of isolated figures and landscapes reveal a anonymous, helpless — standing in from nature. But Bezpalkiv's canvas universally human character." more original technical style and ap­ subdued color, dwarfed by the immen­ also vivifies life — the green hues of proach to color. Prof. Bezpalkiv has To approach this exhibit the viewer, sity of this event. It is a monumental landscape in spring, the circular parts of mastered the basic elements of craft and tempered by modern standards of art in isolation that not only suggests the the seasons suggest regeneration, a way adapted them to his own individual the West, must somehow suspend his worthlessness of human life sacrificed out of the wasteland. The faces of expression. Several of his Chornobyl judgement. Too much has happened in to the silent, invisible menace of nuclear Bezpalkiv's beings reflect, in their pieces capture the scope of this heinous the free world in art, while Ukraine was power but also the minuteness of anonymity, a hope of rebirth through catastrophe without pathos, devoid of bound by the standards of the union, existence in a world of conflict, ecolo­ suffering. cliche, without the banality of several now dissolved. Forget Picasso and gical breakdown and spiritual pollu­ Senior lecturer Halyna Zubchenko's dozen "Chornobyl madonnas" in image Warhol or the dozen experimental tion. These tiny ant-like figures in religious cold painting on silk suggest or verse. Chornobyl as a tragedy for artists of the day. Dolya reaches back to Bezpalkiv's Ukrainian landscape reveal experimentation with iconography. The interpretation through the arts is totally, the 19th century, while trying, in some the fragility of the newborn state, with canvases are full of vibrant color framed elusive. It became so when buttons with instances to grasp the new expression of all of its historical wounds entering a human skulls and nuclear symbols were (Continued on page 15) Yuri Myskiw is an art critic who worn by people or when PBS-"Nova" heads the audio-visual department at presented the surreal-horrific documen­ the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art tary of the scientists descending into the in Chicago. sarcophagus and making their way to

Wolf Club. No future," by Ishtvan Molnar. "Meditation" by Hryhoriy Kudlayenko. No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1992 15

Mirtala Bentov (see her publications Dolya Art Group... "Mandalas" and "Thought-Forms"). THE ART SCENE (Continued from page 14) Geometric figures in groups or alone by the majesty of gold in which religious suggest spiritual and reflective states. figures are faceless, the torsos blank in They are done in tinged chamotte or Catalogue of "Spirit of Ukraine" white. Both "Goodness Will Save the terra-cotta. Bentov, of course, does it World" and "Motherhood" offer this with more finesse and artistry. features 118 color reproductions spectral vision, as if the Virgin and Son Erika Komoni's black-lustred cera­ were ghosts — absent from the atheist by Orysia Paszczak Tracz did not mean that Ukrainian painting mics are interesting in design and shape. began only in the 15th century. The environment - but whose glory in the Komoni appears to have mastered this The "Spirit of Ukraine" exhibit icon awaits their return to veneration, essays on the avant-garde and early 20th process and instilled a unique stamp of catalogue is now available, published by century painting in Ukraine reclaim to the gold of majesty, to the vivid her own, as evident in the group of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Included are spontaneity of religious life. The geo­ internationally renowned artists pre­ vessels, "Harmony." Oleg Tatarintsev's 118 full-color reproductions, from the viously identified as "Russian." metric shapes that frame the figuresar e porcelain worked with salts attracts the 15th century icon of the miracle of St. like a fine tapestry, they stand out, The exhibition drew over 20,000 eye with its muted colors and almost George (village of Zvyzhen, Halychyna) visitors to the Winnipeg Art Gallery attracting the eye. It is hard to judge abstract designs. "Still Life" and "Fa­ to Adalbert Erdeli's "Group Portrait of Zubchenko's efforts — somehow they between August 2 and November 18 of mily" reveal artistry in what must be a the Artists of Uzhhorod" (1947). Re­ last year, then traveled to the Edmonton lie between art and craft. They are difficult medium to work in. grettably, because they were from the reminiscent of the kind of work much- Art Gallery, and is now at the Hamilton private collection of Ihor Dychenko of Art Gallery. evident throughout Mexico — the The rest of Dolya's output can only Kiev and not the property of the mu­ Virgin of Guadalupe rendered in tem­ be termed as arts and crafts. No doubt (For those in eastern North America, seum, certain paintings (including those the Art Gallery of Hamilton is present­ pera on black velour. this will please a large portion of the by Malevych) on loan for this exhibi­ Ukrainian viewers of this exhibit. ing the exhibition through June 15.) Dolya's student artists offer degrees tion were not reproduced in this catalo­ At the WAG, the Gallery Gift Shop of development in their many respective Judging from the large amounts of gue. "pysanky" sold at Eastertime, the and a special kiosk at the entrance to the media of expression. Ishtvan Molnar in This fine book could be used as a text exhibition sold "Spirit of Ukraine" wall "Cats" and "Wolf-cub. No Future" voluminous sets of embroidery and book on Ukrainian art, as the contents calendars, t-shirts, cards and posters of echoes, in his dark, heavy-bordered ceramics in our homes, the thirst for indicate: Forewords by Carol A. Phil­ selected paintings from the show, along Munch-like figures, a world of anxiety incrustated boxes and candleholders, lips, director of the Winnipeg Art with the catalogue. Throughout Winni­ and menace. Valeriy Nesterenko in there is an attraction to this type of Gallery, and by Mykhailo Romany- peg, billboards and bus shelter posters "With Us" offers another view of expression. shyn, director of the State Museum of displayed the exhibition symbol, the Shevchenko in several guises with the The viewer can examine Vira Shytik's Ukrainian Art; "The Development of horse from Burliuk's painting "Ca­ predictable ancient kobzar in the corner Ukrainian Painting" by Daria Zelska- rousel" (1921). strumming the bandura or a more "Scythian motif" jewelry created from porcelain treated with salts and glazing. Darewych; "Ukrainian Art of the 15th- On the last day of the exhibit in stylized figure, with almost abstract 18th century" by Larysa Chlenova; Winnipeg, the Winnipeg Free Press elements, in "Requiem." Ihor Khomiak presents "leather wares" — boots, purses and belts stamped in "The Ukrainian Icon" by Sviatoslav carried an ad from the Winnipeg Art Yuriy Skorupsky beckons with leather. Bohdan Voitovych renders Hordynsky; "Ukrainian Art of the 19th- Gallery. Accompanied by the carousel "Field," or a life-like "Christ," or a nude "Autumn" through glass beads. Oles Early 20th Century" by Iryna НогЬа– horse, the text read: "Thank you, in front of the Chicago skyline as an chova; "The Inconsequential in Ukrai­ Winnipeg." In turn, the Ukrainian "Urban Contemporary Magdalene," or nian Painting: In Defense of Genre" by community is very grateful to Ms. a more abstract piece done in America, Myroslava M. Mudrak; "The Avant- Phillips and the Winnipeg Art Gallery "City I." Oleh Tsoy presents well-orna­ Garde in Ukraine" by Liudmyla Koval- for this extraordinary way of marking mented watercoiors from fairy tales, the ska; "Ukrainian Art and the 20th Cen­ the centenary of Ukrainian settlement mastery of the medium rivals the best tury International Avant-Garde" by in Canada. It was an educational, illustrators of children's books any­ Gerald Needham; "Mykhailo Boichuk cultural and emotional experience for where in the world. and His School" by Liudmyla Kovalska Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians alike. and Nelli Prystalenko; "The Boichuk Taras Kravchenko and Andriy Midyk The Ukrainian Weekly readers living School: Theoretical Underpinnings" by in the eastern provinces of Canada and explore landscape painting. Yuriy Hush- Myroslav Shkandrij, the concise bio­ chenia shows another image of St. in the northeast U.S. should not miss graphical sketches accompanying the the opportunity of visiting Hamilton for George in "The Serpent Fighter" or a full-color reproductions. figure in stark dark color in "Awaken­ the sole purpose of viewing "Spirit of Especially important is the essay by Ukraine." It is an aesthetic, spiritual ing." Victoria Dubovek and Olena Zvir Dr. Darewych, because it gives an and cultural experience. play with color in "Spring Dews," overview of the history of Ukrainian "Pysanka," "Portraits from the Street" The "Spirit of Ukraine" catalogue is art, not just of the past 500 years, but available for S45 (U.S., includes postage and "Ivana Kupala Festival." All four from its prehistoric beginnings. It was are done on silk. and handling) from: Spirit of Ukraine important to emphasize to the general Catalogue fUWJ, 300 Memorial Blvd., Yaroslav Danyliv layers oil paints on public that just because this exhibit is Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3C canvas in "Temple" and "Drunk-Dry" subtitled "500 years of painting," this 1V1. revealing a surreal religious world — "Angel" by Mykola Bahan. full of sanctity and sin. Vladyslav La Salle University... He invited Ukrainian Americans Zvir creates "Figures" in free-blown to come to Ukraine and to participate in Zubarev's architectural-like drawings glass. of churches through mixed-media create (Continued from page 5) Ukraine's rebirth. "We have opened our a gothic, sombre mood because those For the discriminating viewer or one States are meeting as equals, as presi­ doors to the world. We have invited structures appear to be abandoned or who is immersed in "haute monde" dents of two independent states." businessmen and bankers and others to vandalized. there are embroidered costumes by He spoke of Ukraine's importance as come. But we hope that the firstt o come Zenovia Tkanko and Taira Ketcherdgi. a great European nation with an old and will be you, our compatriots." The above-mentioned examples all The campiest of these being redesigned powerful culture and a strategic geo­ share a striving by these young artists to formed "Red Army" uniforms that pro­ President Kravchuk's address was political place in Europe and in the followed by a performance by the develop and perfect their art, to explore bably would appeal to nostalgic collec­ modern world. He referred briefly to themes and express them through their tors of this period, now gone into Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus, conduct­ the agreements signed with President ed by Wolodymyr Kolesnyk.,After the individual creative process. There is no history. Bush, calling them an important step in question of their being students, of their performance, the president presented There is a disparity between art and the role Ukraine would play among the the Bandurist Chorus with the highly molding of raw effort into something world's free nations. stamped by unity and coherence, of craft here. For the future the group coveted Taras Shevchenko State Prize, their fascination in the visual medium. should strongly consider what it wants The president then spoke of Ukrai­ a symbol of Ukraine's recognition of What is evident is their need to look and should exhibit. The groups of nians in the diaspora: "Your grand­ those who have contributed to deeper into universal symbol, to sepa­ artists and artisans should remain fathers first came here over a hundred Ukraine's stature in the world by rate the chaff from original thematic separate. They should redefine the years ago from Zakarpattia, from Lviv, exemplary activities. expression, to develop a truly individual definition of art to themselves. There is from Bukovyna, to work in Pennsyl­ system of visual language. What is nothing wrong with exhibiting crafts. vania's coal mines. Now there are The benediction was delivered by most encouraging about them is that They serve their purpose by informing a politicians and scholars and business­ Patriarch Mstyslav I of the Ukrainian they have not abandoned, like many wider audience of the characteristics of men of Ukrainian ancestry. And through Autocephalous Orthodox Church. The young artists in the United States, the a specific culture. But true art, even with your efforts and talents, people in the frail nonagenarian's prayers for the absolute need to train one's basic provincial characteristics, operates on a world learned about Ukraine and the success of Ukraine and Ukraine's new knowledge of the craft, by "going higher level because it is formed by Ukrainian people. But the freedom of president were a moving and eloquent aesthetic values that give it a higher Ukraine was discussed here more than conclusion to this momentous event. abstract" or "avant-garde" or following plane of both subjective and objective the latest artistic trend of the moment. in Ukraine itself. Now it is a fact, here President Kravchuk's visit to Phila­ meaning. and there. We can speak of freedom delphia was covered by local affiliates of Sculptors Pavlo Kalynychenko and g^y^^Mi^g together and our voices will be heard ABC, CBS and NBC; articles on the Hryhoriy Kudlayenko again underline everywhere. It took a long time, but visit were published in the Philadelphia the same argument. It is difficult to today Ukraine is recognized by the Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily judge Kalynychenko's "Granny" and entire world." News.,^ .^^ "Strange Shores" because of his untime­ ly death. There is no way of guessing where his efforts may have led him. Both Do your children enjoy Veselka magazine? he and Kudlayenko ("Meditation" and For information call the Svoboda Press, (201) 434-0237. "Reflection") remind one of the work of i^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1992 No. 20

57 percent of Ukraine's tactical nuclear Pre-School Music's director Ukraine and Russia... weapons had been transferred, a fact (Continued from page 9) that clearly set off alarm bells in the to he feted on 20th anniversary violation of the sovereignty of Ukraine Western capitals. and interference in its internal affairs. Soon afterward it was announced that by Teresa Rakoczy was also professionally videotaped and The Ukrainian Parliament took a Kiev and Moscow had reached agree­ is in the process of being released, but similar stand in a statement adopted on ment and that the weapons shipments IRVINGTON, N.J. - This year more funding is necessary to complete April 10, which criticized Vice-Presi- would resume. Nonetheless, it would be marks the 20th anniversary of "Muzy- production of this video. dent Rutskoi by name and argued that, naive to assume that the nuclear arms chne Doshkillia," or Pre-School Music, This year's kazka, "The Adventure of if it wished, Ukraine could lay claim to issue has been settled. On the eve of of Irvington, N.J. Associated with the a Young Shepherd Boy and His Goat," its share of the Baltic, Northern, Pacific Kravchuk's May 5 visit to Washington, Ukrainian Music Institute of America will be staged on Sunday, June 21, at and Caspian fleets as well as to territo­ he told La Stampa that although U- and founded and directed by Marta 3 p.m. at St. John's gymnasium on ries in Russia settled by Ukrainians. kraine wanted to be nuclear-free it also Shlemkewych-Sawycky in 1972, Pre- wanted its security guaranteed. Who Sanford Avenue in Newark, N.J. This is However, the statement said, Ukraine School Music has graduated several would provide such a guarantee, he a new version of the first tale staged in had made no territorial claims on hundred students from its two-year, asked sarcastically: Russia? 1972, the opening year of Pre-School anyone and it did not recognize such half-day program. This theme was repeated at a Kiev Music. claims made by others. Earlier a similar In sincere appreciation for Ms. press conference on April 28, where Mr. Ms. Sawycky has also developed a statement had been made by the Presi­ Sawycky's outstanding educational and dium of the Ukrainian Parliament. Kravchuk referred specifically to Rus­ musical contributions to the Ukrainian half-hour music theory program called Although this Ukrainian-Russian sia as a neighbor seen as posing a threat community, parents of this year's class "Notky" (Little Notes), which includes "war of decrees" was subsequently to Ukraine's security because of its have invited current students, graduates learning notes, rhythms and music suspended as part of an agreement claims to the latter's territory; he once and friends to celebrate the occasion at terminology. The children experience establishing government commissions again raised the question of securing a luncheon in Ms. Sawycky's honor, playing various instruments and direct­ empowered to resolve the dispute over outside guarantees for its security. The which will be held on Sunday, June 7, at ing their own orchestra. the Black Sea Fleet, it remains to be implication of these remarks is that 3 p.m. at the Ramada Hotel on Route 10 Due to the tremendous success of seen what these negotiations will bring. Ukraine might rethink its policy on (westbound) in East Hanover, N.J. Pre-School Music, the State Repertory The preparations for the negotiating nuclear arms and move closer to the process have been very difficult and position already taken by Kazakhstan marked by unexplained delays. U- (that it would be advisable to retain kraine, moreover, has taken a hard line some nuclear capability). on the fleet issue. Such a scenario cannot be excluded, Addressing the Ukrainian Parlia­ given the pressure on President Krav­ ment on April 8, Mr. Kravchuk main­ chuk from certain political forces in the tained that, according to the agreements country arguing that unilateral nuclear reached at the CIS summit in Minsk disarmament in the face of a hostile and signed by eight of its members, each Russia would be a dangerous mistake. CIS member-state has the right to A forceful advocate of this position is decide for itself which military units, People's Deputy Gen. Volodymyr To- including naval forces, it considers to be lubko, who recently told his parliamen­ "strategic." "Therefore," the Ukrainian tary colleagues that no one took a non- president asserted, "the problem of the nuclear country seriously. This position Black Sea Fleet status will be decided by is apparently shared by Ivan Pliushch, the state of Ukraine and not by Kasato- chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament nov and Chernavin fCIS commanders and one of Mr. Kravchuk's closest of the Black Sea Fleet and the navy, associates. respectively!, Shaposhnikov or Rus­ sia." Conclusion On the eve of the resumption of the The Ukrainian-Russian relationship Opera of New Jersey has selected its Ms. Sawycky's tireless dedication to talks scheduled for April 29 in Odessa, clearly has major implications that go students to act out various roles in teaching Ukrainian children is well the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign beyond what might be termed local CIS several of its opera performances, the deserving of this honor. A gifted concert Affairs asserted that it would be pro­ issues. This was succinctly expressed by first being "The Merry Wives of Wind­ pianist and music educator, Ms. Sawy- ceeding from the principle that every former U.S. Secretary of State Henry sor" in 1988. In 1989 the children cky has successfully passed on her love state had the right to inherit the pro­ Kissinger: "If one does not address the participated in "The Barber of Seville," for music to her young students by perty located on its territory. question of the relationship between the creating a unique, Ukrainian-language and in 1990 in "The Marriage of Fi­ The Crimean issue, in the meantime, Russian state and its neighbors, one is program, whose primary goal is to teach garo." Ms. Sawycky choreographed also remains unresolved. The campaign sowing the seeds of the sort of crisis we children to truly listen and respond to and directed the students'performances to hold a referendum has been success­ are now seeing in Yugoslavia, except on music. in these operas. ful, in that reportedly about a quarter of a continental scale." To what extent this The critic's review of "The Merry a million signatures were collected in In this two-year program, the chil­ is understood in Russia remains a major Wives of Windsor" was highly lauda­ `favor of holding a referendum, far question. dren spend one year studying the tory, stating: "The Opera's Great Finale exceeding the 180,000 required by law. The Nezavisimaya Gazeta commen­ principal instruments of the symphony came off well, thanks to Marta Sawy- Accordingly, the President of the Cri­ tator cited above seemed convinced that orchestra and have hands-on expe­ cky's choreography for the young mean Parliament decided to convene if Kiev were to be designated the capital rience with each instrument. The second students and graduate dancers of Pre- the Parliament on May 5, with the of what he termed "a soft federation (or year is devoted to some of history's most School Music of Irvington, N.J. ... The referendum as the main item on the famous composers (including Ukrai­ at least a confederation)" the Ukrai­ necessary magic was provided." (Mi­ agenda. Kiev, however, came out very nians would, as it were, return to their nian composers) and their best known chael Redmond, The Star-Ledger, May strongly against the referendum. compositions. Throughout the program senses. 16, 1988) This took the form of an appeal by Ms. Sawycky uses the piano as the Of "The Marriage of Figaro," critic primary instrument of instruction. President Kravchuk to the population Newsbriefs... Michael Redmond stated: "In the of the Crimea and to all people's (Continued from page 2) At the conclusion of each school year, theater, kids are by definition cute, but deputies and political forces on the ^ MUNICH - CIS economic ex­ Ms. Sawycky traditionally stages a the students and graduates of Pre- peninsula condemning the referendum perts reached an agreement on intro­ pantomime fairy tale, or "kazka," which School Music of Irvington, directed by campaign and painting the conse­ ducing national currencies, Radio demonstrates the discipline, self-confi­ Marta Sawycky, transformed cuteness quences of the Crimea's separation Russia reported on May 11. According dence and music interpretation that the into an art form. What an amazing from Ukraine in the darkest colors. Mr. children learn during the year through group of little troopers these kids turned Kravchuk also made it clear that U- to the agreement, countries that want to various musical games and exercises. out to be." (The Star-Ledger, May 7, kraine would not permit any change in drop the ruble in favor of their own Their achievements are acknowledged 1990) its territorial boundaries, saying that he currency must notify the other CIS with a diploma given at a graduation It is very difficult to completely would never sit down at a negotiating countries six months before the new ceremony following the presentation. describe the important role that Ms. table to discuss the division of Ukrai­ currency is introduced. The govern­ During the past 20 years, Pre-School S"awycky and her Pre-School Music nian territory. ments must also establish fiscal and Music has presented 14 different fairy Program have played in the lives of so monetary systems for their countries, and provide for payment of internal and tales, some being repeated with a many Ukrainian children. Besides The nuclear arms issue different cast. incorporating a unique approach external debt in the new currency. to teaching, Pre-School Music has been (RFE/RL Daily Report) In 1988 "The Most Beautiful Place in Recent developments in Ukraine's the longest running daily program the World," a fairy tale created by Ms. policy with regard to the nuclear arsenal ^ MUNICH - The next round of available to Ukrainian children in the Sawycky and performed by her stu­ located on its territory also reflect the the Black Sea Fleet talks will begin on metropolitan tri-state area. Parents dents, was the first professionally sensitivity of Ukrainian-Russian rela­ May 20 in Dagomis, a Russian town have brought children from as far away produced, live-action, full-length tions. This was shown in the decision near Sochi, Russian TV announced on Ukrainian videotape made in the United as southern New Jersey, Connecticut, announced by Mr. Kravchuk in the May 11. Western agencies quoted States. It is available in both Ukrainian Yonkers, and parts of upstate New course of a press conference on March President Leonid Kravchuk as saying and English versions, and is a valuable, York in order for them to take advan­ 12 to suspend the delivery of tactical that Ukraine has a "historical and enjoyable learning tool for all children. tage of this learning experience. nuclear arms to Russia for destruction juridical right" to its own fleet, and he Tickets for this 20th anniversary until Ukraine had been given guaran­ hopes to persuade Russia to change its Гп 1989, Ms. Sawycky staged a celebration may be purchased by calling tees that such weapons were in fact mind about the fleet. (RFE/RL Daily , second fairy tale, "A New Doll," which Roksolana Halibey, (201) 895-4470. being destroyed. At the time, only about Report) No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1992 17

their goal in forming Druha Kimnata Retired professor was to combine their American musical teaches in Ukraine Notes on people influences with the Ukrainian back­ ground both grew up with. DEKALB, 111. - Retired professor Edge: Manuel Alvarez Bravo 1991." He The band's name, according to Mr. Jaroslaw Komarynsky taught econo­ Conservatory of Music. Mr. Mahlay is has also written for the Journal of also a member of the Ukrainian Ban- Wowk, stems from the summer of 1990, mics in Ukraine, and will be back to Contemporary Art, Flash Art and Art when both he and Mr. Podoliuk worked teach there this spring, reported Nor­ durist Chorus of Detroit, where he Papers. serves as the assistant conductor. at the UNA estate Soyuzivka and thern Now, the newspaper of Northern shared room No. 2 in the worker's Illinois University. After graduating from the University Oleh Mahlay is a member of UNA of Wisconcin in Milwaukee in 1984, Mr. Branch 358, and was a recipient of UNA dormitory. Prof. Komarynsky, who taught at While both members of Druha Kim­ NIU for 20 years and retired in 1990, Doroshenko was awarded a Helena scholarships. Rubinstein Fellowship to attend the nata have been involved in music for a taught financial management in Lviv large part of their lives, it wasn't until last November. He spent most of his Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New band blends 1987 that the two decided to pool their trip, however, teaching at the Ternopil talents. The band then went through a Institute of National Economy. The New York in 1986. He held a graduate dual backgrounds internship at the Whitney Museum of number of personnel and name changes, faculty of the institute sat in the front CRANFORD, N.J. - Living in two arriving at its current line-up after row for most of the classes, since it American Art during 1986-1987. In 1987-1988 he was the permanent different states didn't keep cousins guitarist Ksenia Kyzyk's departure in needed to learn more about Western Roman Podoliuk and Andrij Wowk 1989 to form the "IKA" ensemble with business as well. collection coordinator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and in from starting a band; in fact, it may vocalist/keyboardist Inya Bonacorsa. This spring. Prof. Komarynsky will have helped them. While Mr. Wowk also is a member of teach as part of an MBA program with 1988-1989 he was the curator of exhibi­ tion at the Albany Museum of Art in "I wrote the words to one of our first IKA, he stressed that the ensemble's the Lviv Institute of Management, songs on a train, while traveling to which will prepare students to operate Albany, Georgia. style, with its emphasis on tight har­ He also has completed graduate Roman's house on Long Island. He monies and folk-like arrangements, is and manage businesses in a free market came up with the music totally separate­ economy. studies and is a master's degree candi­ completely different from Druha Kim­ date in modern art history, theory and ly," explained Mr. Wowk. "When we put nata's up-tempo approach. One problem, aside from the usual the two together, I knew we had some­ lack of textbooks, was the lack of criticism from the School of the Art Druha Kimnata is currently looking Institute of Chicago. thing pretty good going." . for female vocalists. To receive a free modern business terminology. Prof. Five years later, their band, Druha Komarynsky urged his students to find Mr. Doroshenko is a member of copy of the band's demo tape, or for UNA Branch 103. His father, Anatole Kimnata (Room 2), is ready to release a more information: write to: Andrew a word in Ukrainian, or the class used demo tape of several of their original the English word. Doroshenko, is a UNA supreme audi­ Wowk, c/ о DAM, 12 Commerce Drive, tor. Ukrainian songs. Cranford, NJ 07016-1101. Prof. Komarynsky and an associate Calling their music a cross between "provost" are now writing a book on the British band Erasure and con­ Mr. Podoliuk is a member of UNA financial management and analysis in Musician to conduct temporary rock bands in Ukraine, Mr. Branch 327, while Mr. Wowk is a Ukrainian. Podoliuk ?O, and Mr. Wowk, 25, said member of UNA Branch 287. He also consulted with businesses on season finale the changeover to a free-market system. PARMA, Ohio - Oleh Mahlay will One of his recommendations was that conduct the Parma Symphony Orches­ employees be given stock options to buy tra in its final concert of the 1991-1992 common stock, making them part- season. Mr. Mahlay is the assistant owners of a firm. conductor of this Greater Cleveland Prof. Komarynsky is a member of orchestra under the direction of Rand UNA Branch 222. Laycock. In recent concerts with the PSO, Mr. Mahlay has directed works Appointed curator by von Suppe and Brahms. The sea­ son-ending concert of the Parma Sym­ at Houston museum phony Orchestra will take place on HOUSTON - Peter Doroshenko Sunday, May 3. recently became the new Engelhard Mr. Mahlay will graduate in May Curator at the Contemporary Arts from Case Western Reserve University Museum in Houston, reported the in Cleveland, with a bachelor of arts museum's newsletter, CAM News. degree in music history and literature, Formerly the curator of paintings and an emphasis in conducting. He has and sculpture at the Everson Museum studied at the Cleveland Institute of of Art in Syracuse, N.Y., Mr. Doro­ Music and at the Bolzano International shenko has organized many exhibitions Institute of Music in Bolzano, Italy. which received international recogni­ He currently holds the post of violin tion, including "Gretchen Bender: instructor in the preparatory depart­ Roman Podoliuk (left) and Andrij Wowk of the band Druha Kimnata. Works 1981-91" and "Living on the ment at the Baldwin-Wallace College \ - FIVE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD Don't let your subscription lapse! SUPPORT JOHN DEMJANJUK Help yourself and the Subscription Department of 1. " I must say I am more than ever convinced that the decision of the judges in їчйй The Ukrainian Weekly by keeping track of your sub­ 5 Israel was unjust.." scription expiration date (indicated in the top left- - Rt Hon. 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stringer network in Ukraine and "took note of the One thing is certain, though, Radio Liberty's role Continuing its mission... new realities in emerging Ukraine," Mr. Wimbush will continue. Mr. Wimbush emphasized that (Continued from page 6) commented. In particular, Mr. Nahaylo made the leaders in the emerging republics and Eastern broadcasts "more up to date on current affairs." Europe agree that the broadcasts of both RL and The radio's office in Kiev is located downtown, Radio Free Europe should continue. Ukraine's an ideal location in the building housing Ukraine's "How-to" broadcasts Prime Minister Vitold Fokin, he noted, has said Ukrinform news service. "Extensive studio equip­ that the how-to programming especially is essen­ ment is to be installed, as the Ukrainian Broad­ Building on his predecessor's work, Mr. Kup­ tial. Poland's Lech Walesa and Czecho-Slovakia's casting Department plans to do full-blown produc­ chinsky "is now developing a university of the air, Vaclav Havel are among the radio's strongest tion programming from Kiev," he continued. featuring how-to-programs on economics, busi­ supporters. "They have stressed its important role Currently the Kiev office is staffed by RL ness, politics and history," said Mr. Wimbush. at this time of transition." That is why, he Ukrainian Department employees from Munich. In Among the topics covered are the stock market, continued, "it is pretty evident to all of us that there the future, RL staffers will work out of Kiev for banking and small business. Such programs are is a great deal to do." three- to six-month stints. Their work will be augmented by that of a regular group of free­ prepared in cooperation with Ukrainian specialists So, regardless of all the media speculation that lancers in Ukraine. (In addition to Munich and in the United States and Canada, and, of course, RFE/ RL is doomed, a special bipartisan presiden­ Kiev, Radio Liberty's Ukrainian Broadcasting experts in Ukraine. Thus, Mr. Wimbush noted, tial commission on international broadcasting Department has staffers in Washington and New "there is a synthesis between expertise here and reported in November 1991 that it still is needed York.) there." and serves an essential function at this point in Roman Kupchinsky, director of the Ukrainian In addition, he noted, "A democracy in action history. Broadcasting Department, has been spending series begun by Bohdan Nahaylo is continuing. weeks at a time in the Ukrainian capital to devote These are how-to programs on advisory councils, True, Mr. Wimbush said, RFE is the focus of talk his full attention to making the Kiev bureau fully elections and a national security service,"as well as that sometime before the end of the century, or operational. other bodies of a democratic system. possibly sooner, it will be scaled back or shut down. "Roman Kupchinsky is a most remarkable asset However, Radio Liberty's role will continue "The Ukrainian service is one of our best," said in developing all this; he is the force behind the Kiev beyond that as states once a part of the Soviet the RL director. "It has a very good staff." The bureau and the AM arrangement," Mr. Wimbush Union lay the foundations of a democratic society fact that a bureau was established in Kiev before commented. "He is extremely well-known in Kiev and free-market system. other parts of the former Soviet Union is because and, thus, is extremely effective." this was easier to accomplish in the Ukrainian Mr. Kupchinsky, formerly of Newark, N.J.- Therefore, while he was in New York, Mr. capital. "It is also a testimony to Ukrainians there based Prolog Research, joined RL in September of Wimbush also spent time promoting the activities and the trust they have in the United States. There is last year as director of the Ukrainian Service. of the RFE/ RL Fund, a private, independent, non­ a can-do attitude that is so remarkable and He replaced Bohdan Nahaylo, who transferred profit organization dedicated to promoting a unusual," he continued. This is due, no doubt, to from the Ukrainian Service to the RFE/RL greater awareness of developments in the former the fact that they "have a focus and are proud of Research Institute, where he assumed the position Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Part of the their statehood," he commented. of assistant director of the Analytic Research fund's mission is to foster an understanding of Department. Radio Liberty is planning a Moscow bureau as Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty and to Mr. Nahaylo, who had been director of the well, with the opening now slated for the end of support projects of the RFE/RL Research Insti­ Ukrainian Service since 1989, had established the June, Mr. Wimbush added. tute. BOOK NOTES СОЮЗІЄКА Children's book takes inspiration from Kozaks WINNIPEG - "Young Cossack" is a ^ ^ ^ new book for children set in a Ukrainian settlement on the frontier near Tatar- Young Cossack SOYUZIVKA controlled areas, based on stories that the author, Michael Ewanchuk, heard from his father as a child. 1992 CAMPS 8. WORKSHOPS The story centers on the adventures of a young boy, Matthew, and his new at SOYUZIVKA horse. It is also a "coming of age" story as Matthew becomes a young kozak. 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Kravchuk delegation... (Continued from page 3) Bush administration, Mr. Hetman stated: "Mr. Kravchuk has met with the president of the United States, with businessmen. He discussed Ukraine's need for technical assistance. The IMF has accepted our economic plan. Now we need to educate our people in the faculty of economics, open embassies and missions, so that people know what Ukraine is." President Kravchuk later echoed Mr. Hetman's statement by emphasizing the need to educate the American public about Ukraine. In discussing the diaspora's role in assisting Ukraine with its reforms, Walter Baranetsky, president of the Ukrainian Institute of America, an­ nounced that the institute would do­ nate its building on 2 E. 79 St. on the I Khristina Lew corner of Fifth Avenue in New York UNA Supreme Secretary Walter Sochan distributes copies of Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian City to accommodate Ukraine's Mis­ delegation. From left are: Oleksander Yemelianov, UIA board member Andrew Paschuk, Vadym Hetman and Mykhailo sion to the United Nations. Mr. Вага– Horyn. netsky's offer was repeated to President Ukraine's image should be such, he Supreme Council's Committee on Association, the Ukrainian National Kravchuk when he arrived during the said, that the international community Foreign Affairs Dmytro Pavlychko, Credit Union Association, the Ukrai­ latter part of the meeting. would want to turn to Kiev instead of and People's Deputy Mykhailo Horyn. nian National Women's League of President Kravchuk urged the dias­ Moscow. Organizations represented at the America and the Shevchenko Scientific pora community to support Ukraine's Mr. Kravchuk also spoke briefly of May 11 meeting included: the Coordi­ Society. actions during the upcoming reforms, his visit with President Bush, stating nating Committee to Aid Ukraine, the calling on unity among all diaspora that when he met with Mr. Bush at Ukrainian American Coordinating I Everyone can use help \n 1 organizations. He encouraged the com­ Camp David he made sure that the Council, the Ukrainian Congress Com­ | defraying the cost of | munity's support in helping to create a president understood that "Russia is mittee of America, the Ukrainian Insti­ I HIGHER EDUCATION I favorable image of Ukraine as a demo­ Russia, and Ukraine is Ukraine." tute of America, the Ukrainian National I COLLEGE BOUND J cratic, peaceful nation, "a stabilizing The remaining members of the Ukrai­ I is a financial availability service, і force in Europe." nian delegation were Chairman of the FOR RENT I matching students with | 3 ROOM APARTMENT I scholarships and grants | in Astoria, N.Y. 1 block from subway to I RESULTS ARE GUARANTEED I N.Y.C. S650.00 mo, inc. utilities and use | 1-800-USA-1221 X2633 І of laundry room. I or write to: Bohdan Prypin 1 (718) 274-9144 or (718) 956-1530 I P.O. Box 930 J after 7:00 p.m. I Marstons Mills, MA 02648 , j

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Ambassador Bilorus commented that he feels Ukraine's economy will under­ go a "big economic explosion" and will "demonstrate a new economic miracle" within the next five years. In his keynote address, President Kravchuk told his audience, "I regard this meeting as the first step toward the practical implementation of the agree­ ments and treaties which have been The members of four troops of Plast Ukrainian Youth Organization were recently presented at the traditional Plast discussed and signed in the White Malanka at the Crown Plaza Holiday Inn in Winnipeg. Seated (from left) are the debutantes: Larysa Stolarska, House," referring to the trade and Nadya Horbay, Tyrsa Gawrachynska, Ivanka Dmytryshyn, Taisa Nosyk, Larysa Klymkiw, Natalia Lebedin, Olenka Overseas Private Investment Corpora­ Noseworthy, Irena Zablochka, Daryca Matwychna, Andriana Choptiany and Tanya Matwychna. Standing (from tion agreements signed on May 6. left) are their escorts: Andrei Halkewycz, Andri Iwanchuk, llyan Iwanchuk, Ivan Baluta, Zdan Shuiakewych, "There is a paradox which exists Markian Shuiakewych, Roman Petryk, Markian Saray, Adrian Hawaieshka, Demyan Hyworon, Volodymyr Nosyk regarding Ukraine," President Krav­ and Maxim Choptiany. chuk said. "We have enough resources, sssssssssssssssss enough manpower, but we deal with a UKRAINIAN MEET NEW FRIENDS, RENEW OLD severe deficit of many goods. This ACQUAINTANCES! paradox is not the fault of the Ukrai­ DANCE CAMP A WORKSHOP 1992 nian people — the economy of Ukraine NINTH ANNUAL was built as part of a Soviet mecha­ Roma Pryma Bohachevsky, Director nism. Now that the Soviet Union has at Verkhovyna, Glen Spey, N.Y. CLUB SUZIE-Q crumbled, we are suffering as part of that huge mechanism." July 26th - August 8th VACATION WEEK President Kravchuk noted the new For intermediate and advanced dancers ages 8 and up. 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Only with your assistance will it be sonally conducted. cultural links, and other life-sustaining possible to unveil this monument on the 1st Ш Funerals arranged throughout Bklyn, contacts between East and West," it can Anniversary of the Rebirth of an Independent Bronx, New York, Queens, Long Island, serve as "a bridge for winning over other Ukraine. etc. m Holy Spirit, St. Andrews Com. 8t all markets in other countries" of the Donations of (25.00 or more will receive former USSR, he suggested. an official receipt for tax purposes. Donors others international shipping, names on COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUES will a Pre-need arrangements. 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New York youngsters stage "Cinderella" in annual masquerade FLOWERS by Halyna Kuzyszyn

NEW YORK - The youngest mem­ bers of Plast (ages 5-11) staged the well- DELIVERED known fairytale "Cinderella" at the St. TO FRIEND George School auditorium on March 1. 8c FAMILY The play was open to members of Plast and the general public. IN UKRAINE The traditional masquerade (or "kos- tiumivka"), which includes the staging Send a of tales by the youngsters, has become a beautiful popular attraction for children from arrangement New York City and the tri-state area. of flowers along with a personal. This year's staging of "Cinderella" message in Ukrainian, ("Popeliushka" in Ukrainian) was especially effective, since the decora­ English or Russian tions designed by Sofia Zielyk gave an to someone special aura of fairytale magic. Ms. Zielyk,the in Ukraine girls' head counselor, was responsible for the whole production, while Orysia LANDMARK, LTD Dmytryk (head counselor of the boys), Toll Free 1-800-832-1789 supervised the children's dances. The original "Cinderella" was adapted for Washington D.C. area: this occasion, and read by Halyna 1-703-941-6180 Kuzyszyn. Some additional characters FAX 1-703-941-7587 were added and the storyline somewhat altered to suit the cast members. Each group of young Plast members took part in the production by doing a short dance, choreographed by each group's counselor. There were little white mice, a fairy godmother, a wicked stepmother, her two daughters, forest animals, clowns, ladies-in-waiting, soldiers and, of course, the prince. Cinderella and her prince, Chrystyna Salabaj and Mykola Kendal, at New York After the prince (Mykola Kendal) Plast's annual masquerade. was reunited with Cinderella (Chry- styna Salabaj), through the perfect fit of finally found happiness. York Plast-Pryiat, i.e., the parents of the slipper, he invited everyone to cele­ The Plast masquerade also consisted Plast members. Also, the "Verkhovy- brate and take part in a pageant in his of games for the children, organized by nky" Plast sorority had a large selection castle. The play participants and all the the Lisovi Mavky Plast sorority. A of Ukrainian children's books, videos children in the audience marched raffle and buffet were organized by New and tapes for sale. around the hall in their costumes, celebrating the fact that Cinderella had .|.^HH'-M'Hh^4'4M''fr4'.M'^Hh4'HM'HM''i^Hh4'^ HUCULKA Icon St Souvenir's Distribution 2860 Buhre Ave. Suite 2R Bronx, N.Y. 10461

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Tickets are the Ukrainian American Veterans is nianJNational Women's League of Ame­ May 25 S40 per person and may be obtained from hosting its annual Installation Dinner rica will hold a Ukrainian Children's Anne Banansewycz-Miele, (908) 699- Dance at the Ukrainian Hall, 16 Twin Spring Dance at 3-6 p.m., at St. Josa- PHILADELPHIA: Post No. 4 of the 9144. Ave. The installation will begin at 7 p.m. phat Cathedral's Sheptytsky Hall, 5720 Ukrainian American Veterans is or­ Music will be provided by Nick Dackow, State Rd. The program will include a ganizing memorial services for deceased PHILADELPHIA: The senior and ju­ and donations are S20 per person. For Ukrainian puppet show, a children's veterans of Ukrainian descent and Ukrai­ nior Ukrainian Orthodox League chap­ tickets, call Teddy B. Dusanenko, (914) performance, games, refreshments and nian American veterans of the Philadel­ ters at St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Ortho­ 634-5502, Michael Wengrenovich, (914) surprises. Admission is S2 for children phia area. The services will be held at St. dox Cathedral, 6740 N. Fifth St., are 735-5241, or Joseph Brega, (914) 268- and S4 for adults. Partial proceeds will be Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery at hosting a "Chowdown at the Hoedown" 6523. donated to the children's page in Our Life 9:15 a.m. and at Oakland Cemetery at 11 western evening at 6-11 p.m. The "Rene­ magazine. a.m. For further information, call Dmy- gade Cloggers," square dancing, a June 5 - March 31, 1993 tro Bykovetz, (215) 635-2527, or E. western-style dinner and a variety of June 22-24 Zetick, (215) 663-0212. music will be featured. The dress is TORONTO: The Ontario Branch of the SASKATOON: A three-day conference Ukrainian Museum of Canada, 620 and seminar on doing business in U- As the situation between the Crimea Spadina Avenue, will present an exhibi­ kraine will be held at the Park Town Ukrainian Parliament... and Ukraine grew strained over the past tion of furniture made between 1890 and Hotel, sponsored by the Extension Divi­ year, the Ukrainian Parliament passed a 1930 by early Ukrainian immigrants to sion's Center for Second Language (Continued from page 2) law granting Crimea more rights, in­ western Canada, illustrating the peasant Instruction, University of Saskatchewan. some way limited the actions of the baroque forms and styles of the Ukrai­ cluding the right to develop independ­ The program includes two days on Russian-speaking population, or have nian folk tradition as adapted to life on ently in the spheres of social, economic banking and finance in Ukraine, struc­ in any way violated the human rights of the Canadian prairies. For further infor­ and spiritual development. turing the new monetary policy, law, these people, infringing on their free­ mation, call (416) 923-3318. regional diversity in Ukraine and its doms." In the Supreme Council decree issued implications for doing business, joint "If this is indeed, so, let's turn to the on May 13, the Ukrainian deputies note June 6 ventures, and more. The third day is for United Nations to intercede here," said that the actions of the Crimean Republic ABINGTON TOWNSHIP, Pa.: The Ukrainian-speaking people who wish to Mr. Kravchuk, noting, any one it is the destabilize the situation not only on the Ukrainian Heritage School of Philadel­ learn new business terminology in Ukrai­ Ukrainians and the Crimean Tatars peninsula, but in Ukraine as a whole. phia's parents committee invites all nian. For information regarding regis­ tration fees and procedures, contact the who have been treated unfairly on the members of the Ukrainian community to Among the people's deputies who a banquet at the Ukrainian Educational Center for Second Language Instruction, peninsula. addressed the session were some radi­ University of Saskatchewan, (306) 966- But Mykola Bahrov, chairman of the and Cultural Center, 700 Cedar Road. cal reformers, including Serhiy Holo The dinner begins at 6 p.m. and the dance 4351, or conference coordinator Darlene Crimean Supreme Council and a strong vaty, who proposed that a two-chamber is at 9 p.m. - 2 a.m. The evening will Clarke, (306) 652-5850. supporter of the Russian chauvinist Parliament be created in the Crimea to include the introduction of the gra­ RDK, said that two-thirds of the Cri- equally represent the interests of the duating class and a keynote address by June 27 man's citizens are Russian-speaking. He Russians, the Ukrainians and the Cri­ Maj. 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