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ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXVI No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 $2.00 Russian willingness to end Donbas conflict shows solidarity ‘not evident,’ says Volker across nation on Day of Unity RFE/RL BRUSSELS – The U.S. special envoy for Ukraine says the Minsk accords – the Western-backed blueprint for ending the war between and Russia-backed sepa- ratists – have not been implemented because Moscow has not shown “willingness to implement them.” Speaking in Brussels ahead of a trip to Ukraine and a meeting with his Kremlin counterpart in Dubai on January 26, U.S. envoy Kurt Volker also said that Moscow’s military actions in Ukraine have “produced the opposite” of what he called Russian President Vladimir Putin’s objective of maintaining a “Russia- friendly Ukraine” that is “part of Russia’s orbit.” Ambassador Volker was appointed in July 2017 as the U.S. special representative for negotiations to end a war that has killed more than 10,300 people and badly damaged Russia’s relations with its neighbors, as well as the European Union and the United States. He made the remarks on January 22 but authorized Presidential Administration of Ukraine their publication on January 24. President and First Lady Maryna Poroshenko pay tribute to Mykhailo Hrushevsky, president of His talks with Putin aide Vladislav Surkov two days the Central Rada of the Ukrainian National Republic. later could help Washington gauge whether Russia is Customarily on the national holiday known as Ukraine’s willing to take concrete steps to end the war and by Mark Raczkiewycz Day of Unity, human chains are formed nationwide to cele- improve relations with the West. Mr. Volker said that KYIV – Ukraine’s ages-long pursuit of stable statehood the best way for Russia to do that would be to take brate the union of all Ukrainian lands, and there was no came into focus on January 22, when the country com- shortage of augmented events to serve the same purpose steps to unblock the implementation of the Minsk memorated the Act of Unity proclaimed 99 years ago accords, which Russia signed along with Ukraine and this year. between Ukrainian lands that were part of the Austro- the separatists in February 2015. Kyiv’s Paton Bridge was the site used to symbolically Hungarian and tsarist Russian empires. “What we need is Russia’s willingness to imple- connect both banks of the Dnipro River, the country’s lon- Although short-lived, in 1919 the Ukrainian National ment them and so far that has not been evident,” Mr. gest waterway. Later in the day, activists in the city center Volker said. Republic (UNR) based in Kyiv, which stretched as far as the unveiled a one-kilometer-long Ukrainian flag bearing the “This is an issue where people are still dying every Kuban region to the southeast, united with the Western names of each oblast that was registered with the local week right on Europe’s doorstep, and it is involving Ukrainian National Republic (WUNR) that comprised most chapter of the Guinness Book of World Records as the lon- Russia conducting warfare, taking territory by force, of eastern Galicia, parts of Bukovyna and the Carpathian gest hand-made flag. which is something that really challenges the basis of Mountain region. Human chains also linked up in Dnipro, Zaporizhia, European security as a whole,” he said. Significantly, a year earlier on January 22, the UNR had Bakhmut (formerly Artemivsk), Sloviansk and elsewhere declared independence as a sovereign state, soon thereaf- throughout the country. More economic pressure ter adopting the tryzub, or trident, as the state emblem, the In Stanytsia Luhanska, 15 kilometers outside Russian- In an article published on January 22, The Wall current national anthem and the blue-and-yellow flag. The occupied Luhansk, a group of displaced Donbas residents Street Journal cited unnamed U.S. officials as saying centennial of the independence proclamation is being floated a Ukrainian flag towards the city tied to blue and that, if peace negotiations fail to make progress in the marked this year by Ukrainians around the globe. yellow helium-filled balloons. coming months, Washington plans to push for more A solemn mood prevailed in Ivano- economic pressure on Russia. Frankivsk, the regional capital based in the The United States and the EU have imposed an foothills of the Carpathians. Activists array of sanctions on Russia over its March 2014 sei- marched from the Oblast Administration zure of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and its role in the building to the memorial dedicated to the war in , where the militants it sup- founders of the WUNR without fanfare. ports hold parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. “Clearly we feel this holiday in a different In the coming days, the U.S. Treasury Department is way when the Muscovite-Ukraine war per- due to release a report that is expected to name hun- sists,” said Ivano-Frankivsk Mayor Ruslan dreds of Kremlin-connected insiders and business Martsinkiv, as cited by Halytsky leaders who could later be hit with a fresh wave of U.S. Korrespondent. “Unity is not only about an sanctions. act of joining together, it’s about bringing Mr. Volker said that he is “not expecting much new together all Ukrainians from the Sian [River] from Russia” regarding the conflict in eastern Ukraine. to the Caucasus, and this fight is ongoing. It’s “If it comes to consultations about these things, we are ready to talk with Russia anywhere,” he said. “We paramount that we work together for the are open to consultations, but the idea is that Russia sake of keeping Ukraine unified.” has got to change its actions. And if it does, then we Back in Kyiv, at an event marking the can see the Minsk agreements actually implemented, twin anniversaries of January 22, President something we haven’t seen to this point.” facebook.com/ato.news Petro Poroshenko gave a 20-minute speech Internally displaced people in Stanytsia Luhanska, 15 kilometers outside in which he compared the events during (Continued on page 19) Russian-occupied Luhansk, release a Ukrainian flag tied to helium bal- loons towards the city on January 22 to mark Ukraine’s Day of Unity. (Continued on page 22) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 No. 4

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Putin’s ‘hybrid peace’ more threatening Poroshenko, Volker discuss Donbas war Biden on new administration and Kyiv Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Former U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden has to Ukraine than ‘hybrid war,’ says Portnikov met with U.S. President Donald Trump’s praised a White House decision to supply special envoy for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, in Ukraine with more lethal weaponry, but by Paul Goble Ukrainian commentator says, but only that “the hybrid war which Putin has carried Kyiv to discuss the conflict in eastern also suggested that weaker U.S. policy Vladimir Putin’s rhetoric about Ukraine out against Ukraine for more than three Ukraine. According to a statement posted toward Kyiv was leading to backsliding on has changed in order to curry favor with years must be replaced with ‘a hybrid on the Ukrainian president’s website, the crucial anti-corruption reforms. Mr. Biden, Russians in advance of the presidential poll, peace,’ ” something “much more dangerous two men expressed “serious concern” who was the Obama administration’s point about Russia’s lack of progress in imple- but his approach on the ground has not than a hybrid war.” person on Ukraine, called Kurt Volker – the menting the Minsk agreements during the changed, laying a potential trap for On the one hand, a peace even of this current U.S. special envoy for Ukraine – a January 23 meeting. In a post on Twitter, Ukrainians and meaning that his “hybrid kind will mean that hundreds if not thou- “solid, solid guy.” But Mr. Biden suggested Ambassador Volker said he “had a good peace” is even more dangerous than his sands of people may survive the conflict that Ambassador Volker did not have conversation” with President Poroshenko, “hybrid war,” Vitaly Portnikov says. who otherwise would not. But on the other, enough authority to be tougher on adding that he will travel to Dubai later this There is the great danger that Mr. Putin’s goal now with his peace offen- Ukraine’s leadership on corruption and that week to meet with Russian diplomats. Mr. Ukrainians and their supporters elsewhere, sive, as in the past with his military moves, backsliding on the reforms could hurt the Poroshenko’s statement said that the solid- the Ukrainian commentator says, will focus is to secure “the destruction of the chances of implementing the Minsk accords, ification of the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine on what Mr. Putin says, rather than on what Ukrainian state itself.” the framework deal reached with Russia, and the “withdrawal of Russian occupation he continues to do, and thus decide that The features of Mr. Putin’s “hybrid Ukraine, France and Germany to end the forces from Ukraine” were now “absolute Kyiv should make concessions to someone peace” are already clear: willingness to end conflict in eastern Ukraine. Mr. Volker is “a priorities.” Kyiv has been fighting against who has made none – except at the level of military actions in the Donbas and even solid, solid guy. But Kurt, to the best of my propaganda (radiosvoboda.org/a/2897 Russia-backed militants in parts of the pull out Russian forces, but no willingness Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern knowledge, does not have the authority, or 3563.html). to allow any foreign peacekeepers to enter the ability, to go in and say, ‘If you don’t In the weeks between his televised Ukraine since early 2014. Although that region. Moscow will insist that Moscow denies interfering in Ukraine’s straighten this up, you’re out of here,’ ” Mr. meeting with the Russian people and his Ukrainian control will be restored after Biden said. The ex-vice-president made the more recent meeting with media editors, domestic affairs, the International Criminal Kyiv fulfills the Minsk accords – in short, Court in November 2016 determined the comments on January 23 in an appearance Mr. Putin has changed his tone in com- “not in the near future.” conflict to be “an international armed con- at the Council on Foreign Relations in ments about Ukraine in remarkable ways. Such ideas will win sympathy in Russia flict between Ukraine and the Russian Washington. The administration of He is no longer talking about the need for but more importantly in Germany, France Federation.” The conflict has left more than President Barack Obama had imposed eco- regime change in Kyiv but instead about “and possibly even in Washington.” That will 10,300 people dead and some 1.6 million nomic sanctions for Moscow’s annexation of the requirement for improving relations create problems for Ukraine, but so too will people displaced. (RFE/RL) Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and for its between the two countries. the continuing Russian influence on part of support of separatists in the war with But “nothing in the situation around Ukraine’s territory, maintaining it as “a sup- Tillerson speaks with Lavrov Ukrainian forces. But Washington has also Ukraine has changed,” Mr. Portnikov says. purating wound on the body” of the country. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and struggled to push President Petro “What has changed is Putin himself, above While this is going on, many in Western Russian Foreign Affairs Miniser Sergei Poroshenko to institute major governmen- all from the point of view of rhetoric.” The elites will begin to insist on lifting sanctions tal reforms and clean up the country’s Kremlin leader wants to present himself as Lavrov discussed the ongoing crises in Syria, against Russia: If there is no war anymore, North Korea and Ukraine by phone on endemic corruption. The Obama adminis- a peacemaker, because that is what the then they shouldn’t be maintained. Still tration was also reluctant to authorize more Russian people want given the burdens his January 24, U.S. State Department spokes- more, Ukraine should adapt itself to this advanced weapons for Ukraine’s military, military efforts have placed on them. woman Heather Nauert said. “On Ukraine, new reality. But that is only one part of the the secretary noted the upcoming meeting fearing it would antagonize the Kremlin. Mr. That does not mean Mr. Putin is interest- problem, Mr. Portnikov says. The other is between U.S. special representative Volker Biden said he and other administration offi- ed in “any peace” with Ukraine, the inside Ukraine, as Mr. Putin fully under- and Russian representative [Vladislav] cials had to work hard to persuade stands. Surkov and emphasized the need for Russia European leaders to go along with U.S. sanc- Paul Goble is a long-time specialist on “In Ukraine itself, ever more loudly are to accelerate implementation of its commit- tions on Russia. “There is no pressure that ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia sounding the voices of those who call for ments under the Minsk agreements and I’m aware of... on the present leadership in who has served in various capacities in the reaching an agreement with Russia and ‘lis- reverse the recent escalation in the fighting Ukraine to hold them together to be able to U.S. State Department, the Central tening’ to the Donbas: there is no war, and in eastern Ukraine,” Ms. Nauert said in a continue what looked like was a real possi- Intelligence Agency and the International only ‘the ineffective and corrupt Ukrainian statement. “On Syria, the two discussed bility of turning Minsk into something that Broadcasting Bureau, as well as at the Voice authorities,’ which justify their unwilling- Russia’s role in ensuring the Assad regime was doable by being much tougher than of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio ness to carry out reforms by referring to plays a constructive role in the U.N.-led Germany wanted us to be,” he commented. Liberty and the Carnegie Endowment for the conflict with Russia, are interested in Geneva process,” Ms. Nauert said. Secretary International Peace. The article above is “We were moving in that direction, but it confrontation.” Tillerson also pressed “all parties” to imple- now looks like the pressure is off and it reprinted with permission from his blog “Russia will spend enormous sums on ment U.N.-led action on North Korea,” she called “Window on Eurasia” (http://windo- added. (RFE/RL) (Continued on page 18) woneurasia2.blogspot.com/). (Continued on page 3) THE DAILY VERTICAL The Ukrainian Weekly FOUNDED 1933 An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. 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NEWS ANALYSIS: Growing submarine threat in the Black Sea by George Visan crews are battle-tested and have a high ness. Romania and Bulgaria, the other two views as the single most effective type of Eurasia Daily Monitor degree of confidence in their boats and NATO members in the region that possess surface combatant for littoral areas (MApN. weapons systems. navies, are struggling to offer up any kind ro, December 8, 2017). Bucharest is likely In the four years that have passed since A veteran of the Cold War, the Kilo die- of effective response. to purchase four such vessels in a program Russia annexed Crimea, the number of sel-electric attack submarine remains a For NATO, the writing is on the wall – it that will span seven years and is estimated Russian submarines active in the Black Sea potent weapons system to this day. It is one needs to increase its ASW capabilities fast in to be worth $1.9 billion. Furthermore, the has grown from one to seven. These sub- of the quietest conventional submarines in order to deter the Russian submarine Romanian navy plans to modernize its vin- marines pose a grave threat to the security service and one of the safest. In the con- threat. As part of the European Reassurance tage Type 22 frigates, acquired from the of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s fines of the Black Sea and of the Eastern Initiative (ERI), U.S. P-8 Poseidon aircraft United Kingdom in 2003, using the offset (NATO) eastern flank. And together with Mediterranean, these submarines can have begun patrolling over the Black Sea in agreement from the corvette purchase the Kremlin’s military build-up on the occu- strike targets with torpedoes and cruise order to track these submarines and gather (MApN.ro, December 8, 2017). A decision pied peninsula, they have shifted the bal- missiles with relative ease, while being pro- intelligence. Nevertheless, the presence of concerning the corvette program is expect- ance of forces in the region in Russia’s favor. tected by Russia’s burgeoning anti-access Russian fighter aircraft as well as sophisti- ed in 2018. Plans have also been drawn up Immediately after the annexation of and area denial (A2/AD) “bubbles” (ROEC, cated air defense systems in and around to buy submarines; but such an acquisition Crimea, Russia embarked on an ambitious July 14, 2015). Crimea makes the P-8s vulnerable to inter- process may not begin until sometime program of modernizing its Black Sea Fleet, Their capability to between 2020 and 2026 (Agerpres, based out of Sevastopol. Originally, six launch Kalibr cruise mis- January 26, 2017). Admiral Grigorovich-class (Project siles makes them extreme- NATO needs to develop regional Besides looking to obtain new ships for 11356P/M) guided-missile frigates and six ly dangerous, being able to their aging fleets, Romania and Bulgaria Kilo-class submarines were to be construct- hit targets well inside the capabilities designed to thwart have been involved, since 2014, in numerous ed and deployed in the Black Sea (Interfax, Black Sea region, as well as apparent Russian advantages U.S.- and NATO-led naval exercises in the May 13, 2014). Both frigates and subma- in Europe, Central Asia in the Black Sea region. Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Exercises rines are capable of launching Kalibr land- and the Middle East. As like Sea Breeze 2017 (C6f.navy.mil, July 25, attack cruise missiles with a range of over such, the Kilo submarine is 2017) have included not only a large num- 2,000 kilometers. an A2/AD asset as well as an offensive ception and/or interference (România ber of NATO allies, but also Ukraine and However, the ongoing war in eastern power projection platform capable of hit- Georgia, targets of Russian aggression. Ukraine has delayed the building of the ting NATO facilities in Central and Eastern a stronger NATO presence in the region, Increasing the number of NATO joint exer- Admiral Grigorovich frigates as Kyiv Europe or to threaten the Deveselu missile thereLiberă, needs September to be 9, an 2017). overall Clearly, increase besides in cises in the Black Sea sends a clear deter- stopped supplying Russian defense contrac- defense base in Romania (see EDM, regional ASW capabilities. rence signal to Moscow, while also increas- tors with the gas turbines necessary to February 16, 2017; September 19, 2017). An obvious response to the Russian sub- ing capabilities and readiness at a fraction of power them (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, Among NATO members in the Black Sea marine threat in the Black Sea is increasing the cost of new military acquisitions. January 25, 2017; The Moscow Times, June region, only Turkey has fully developed Romania’s and Bulgaria’s naval capabilities. In the short term, it seems that Russia 8, 2015). Presently, only three ships have anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities Romanian and Bulgarian navies operate has the upper hand in the Black Sea region been commissioned. and can meet the challenge posed by old ships equipped mostly with outdated due to its fast-paced rearmament drive and Nevertheless, all six of the Kilo-class Russian undersea vessels. Furthermore, Russian sensors and weapons systems. sophisticated A2/AD assets. However, NATO submarines have been delivered and com- Turkey’s control over the Bosporus and Both countries have not acquired military can overcome this threat by developing missioned. Furthermore, four of these sub- Dardanelles Straits allows for easy moni- vessels since joining NATO, mostly due to regional capabilities designed to thwart marines have fired their cruise missiles in toring of transiting Russian submarines. economic reasons. Nevertheless, the apparent Russian advantages. Smart anger in support of the Russian interven- However, Ankara’s ASW capabilities are Russian military build-up in Crimea has defense investments in critical capabilities, tion in Syria (the Rostov-na-Donu, divided between the Black Sea and the created a sense of urgency concerning such as anti-submarine warfare, combined Krasnodar, Veliky Novgorod and Kolpino). Mediterranean Sea and its readiness is naval capabilities for Bucharest and Sofia. with complex joint exercises can restore the In operational terms, this means that their being put to the test by Russia’s assertive- In 2017, Bulgaria announced plans to regional military balance in favor of NATO. acquire two multi-role corvettes (Defense News, August 29, 2017), in effect reviving a The article above is reprinted from program dating back to 2007 (Novinite, Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from October 2007). Romania is also preparing its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, NATO notes Russia’s ‘resurgence’ to acquire multi-role corvettes, which it www.jamestown.org. by Rikard Jozwiak Amid growing tensions, NATO stepped RFE/RL up its defenses in Eastern member nations near Russia. of Ukraine will go to Moscow fully ready to BRUSSELS – U.S. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, Speaking alongside Gen. Scaparrotti at Putin’s ‘hybrid peace’... sell out Ukrainian sovereignty.” This is Mr. Putin’s plan for “a hybrid NATO’s supreme allied commander in the press conference, Czech Gen. Petr Pavel, (Continued from page 2) Europe, has warned that the alliance will chairman of the Military Committee, called peace.” And it is critically important that not be “dominant” in certain areas in five Russia an “obvious security challenge.” Ukrainian politicians and the imitation part Ukraine not fall into the trap the Kremlin years if it fails to modernize and adapt to “We characterize Russia as a peer com- of ‘civil society,’” both directly and via “their leader is laying. “It is very important to the growing threat from Russia. petitor and we obviously follow closely all Western friends which live on the very same understand that peace will not be hybrid. In a “I certainly have concerns with respect to the development and modernization and Moscow means.” That could affect the next hybrid war, real people die; but in a ‘hybrid Russia,” Gen. Scaparrotti told a press confer- taking all the measures that are necessary Ukrainian elections, out of which may arise peace,’ real states are destroyed,” Mr. ence in Brussels on January 17 following a to be ready for any contingency,” he added. “a surprising bloc of open collaborationists Portnikov underscores. Moscow has no meeting of top NATO defense officials. Ahead of the meeting, NATO said the top and pseudo-patriots” committed to a deal interest in the survival of Ukraine. “I think that, as an alliance, we are domi- defense officials would discuss “the chal- with Russia, the commentator notes. What Ukrainians must remember is that nant. There are domains within this that lenging security environment on NATO’s If that occurs, Mr. Portnikov says, “then the West pays attention to Ukraine only were challenged. I think cyber is one of southern flank and the alliance’s contribu- the Minsk accords will finally be realized. when it is fighting, Mr. Portnikov says. If it those. They are very competent in that,” he tion to its stabilization” and would review The Donbas will become a state within a stops fighting to try to make a deal with Mr. also said, referring to Russia. NATO’s Resolute Support Mission in state. Crimea will disappear from the Putin, the West will ignore it. And then Mr. “There are others where because of the Afghanistan and the international coalition Ukrainian agenda. And the new president Putin will win not one victory but two. modernization you noted, while we are against the extremist group Islamic State. dominant, we will not be in five years per They also held separate talks with top se if we aren’t adapting like this to include defense officials from Ukraine and Georgia our structure but also within the nations, on “the security situations on the ground, Quotable notes our capabilities, across the military func- defense reform progress and the way ahead.” …The act declaring the independence of Ukraine would have been impossible tional areas as well as our domains.” After the meetings, Gen. Pavel told without the Fourth Universal. If our glorious ancestors hadn’t sown the seeds of the Addressing the session of the Military reporters that the defense officials “noted idea of independence in 1918, they wouldn’t have grown to almost unanimous sup- Committee, the alliance’s highest military the challenge for Ukraine of achieving secu- port in the referendum of 1991. ...The Fourth Universal and the Act of Union are authority, Gen. Scaparrotti said earlier that “a rity and defense reforms alongside re- among the most important documents of national liberation. ... resurgence of Russia as a strategic competi- establishing Ukraine’s territorial integrity.” Our independence will become 100 percent irreversible when we prove to the tor, growing unrest and instability in Africa They also “stressed their commitment whole world and, first of all, to ourselves that we have become a successful country and the Middle East, as well as terrorism, on furthering the capability and interopera- of successful people. ... [are] reshaping our strategic environment.” bility of the Ukrainian armed forces,” he Having survived the most painful shock caused by the war and economic aggres- Relations between Moscow and the added. sion of Russia, we are returning to the path of recovery and development. We have to West have been severely strained over overcome external aggression, build a European Ukraine, pass it on to the hands of issues including Russia’s seizure of Copyright 2018, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted our children and grandchildren. This is our mission. … Ukraine’s Crimea region in March 2014 and with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ its support for separatists who control Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, – President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine, speaking on January 22, the Day of Unity of parts of eastern Ukraine. Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see Ukraine, which this year was celebrated on the 100th anniversary of the Ukrainian The war between Kyiv’s forces and the https://www.rferl.org/a/nato-russia-resur- National Republic’s proclamation of independence in the Fourth Universal. (Excerpt Russia-backed separatists has killed more gence-reshaping-security-environment/ cited in the Ukrainian Canadian Congress Daily Briefing.) than 10,300 people since April 2014. 28981268.html). 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 No. 4

FOR THE RECORD CONFERENCE PRESENTATION Ukrainians throughout the world Diaspora actions to protect mark 100 years of Ukrainian statehood the human rights of Ukrainians The statement below was released by the als who fought with either arms or pens in by Irene Jarosewich The dissident movement throughout Ukrainian World Congress on January 22. the conviction that Ukraine deserves to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union gained assume its rightful place among the inde- Adapted from the presentation given on momentum with the signing of several inter- In 2018 Ukrainians throughout the pendent nations of the world. November 10, 2017, at 50th anniversary con- national documents – the United Nations world are commemorating 100 years of On this momentous anniversary in the ference of the Ukrainian World Congress held Universal Declaration of Human Rights, first Ukrainian statehood. January 22, 1918, the history of the Ukrainian nation, we pay in Toronto. announced in 1948, was finally ratified by first Ukrainian Parliament, Ukrainska tribute to the millions who made the ulti- the U.N. in 1976. The Helsinki Final Act, with My thanks to the Ukrainian World Tsentralna Rada, proclaimed with its mate sacrifice for Ukraine’s freedom. Let us a full section on protecting and ensuring Congress for asking me to present on the Fourth Universal an independent Ukrainian always remember the difficult path that has human rights was signed in Helsinki, topic of diaspora activism in protecting the People’s Republic. Exactly one year later, on been traveled by our people and on which Finland, in August 1975 by the 35 countries human rights of Ukrainians globally with a January 22, 1919, the Unification Act joined we still remain. May we remain focused on that belonged to the Conference on Security specific focus on the past two generations. the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the the fundamental right of every Ukrainian to and Cooperation in Europe (later changed to Unfortunately, I am not able to attend this Western Ukrainian People’s Republic into live freely in a territorially whole Ukrainian Organization for Security and Cooperation in one consolidated independent state. state where the rule of law prevails and conference. Therefore I am grateful to Andriy Dobrianskiy for presenting this text Europe). Included in these 35 were the The events of January 22, 1918 and 1919, fundamental human rights are respected. United States and the USSR. were not isolated moments in history but The Ukrainian World Congress and the on my behalf. To speak comprehensively on this topic In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the the culmination of a centuries-old struggle entire Ukrainian diaspora join the people of Soviet Union underwent a brief and incon- of the Ukrainian people for self-determina- Ukraine in marking this anniversary of in a short period of time is, of course, sistent period of liberalization known as tion and freedom. Although independence Ukrainian statehood and reaffirm their impossible. It would require at least a book. the Khrushchev Thaw. One year the was short-lived, the struggle and foreign continued commitment to further strength- And that’s a good place to start. There is Kremlin would loosen restrictions on cul- occupation and repressions continued until en and protect the independence of the such a book – “Negotiating Human Rights: tural expression, then the next year begin a August 24, 1991, when Ukraine renewed its Ukrainian state. In Defence of Dissidents during the Soviet independence. Sadly, the Ukrainian people “As we mark 100 years of Ukrainian Era” – the 2014 memoir written by series of arrests for anti-Soviet activity. So, are still forced to defend the territorial integ- statehood, may the lessons of history renew Christina Isajiw, the former head of the while in 1961, writer and labor union orga- rity of Ukraine from a foreign aggressor that our strength, resolve and faith in the ulti- Human Rights Commission of the World nizer Levko Lukianenko was sentenced in refuses to recognize Ukraine’s statehood. mate victory, including the de-occupation of Congress of Free Ukrainians. Lviv to be executed for slandering the theo- Over the course of 100 years, Ukraine’s Crimea and the Donbas,” stated Ukrainian Given that today we are celebrating the ry of Marxism-Leninism and for agitating fight has been waged by countless individu- World Congress President Eugene Czolij. 50th anniversary of the Ukrainian World for Ukraine’s separation from the Soviet Congress, it is appropriate to mention the Union, in Kyiv, at the same time, poets and Human Rights Commission first, which was writers Ivan Dzyuba, Ivan Svitlychny and established by the World Congress in 1969. Yevhen Sverstiuk were able to establish the Mrs. Isajiw was well-recognized in Ottawa Kliub Tvorchoyi Molodi – the Club of 100 years of modern Ukrainian statehood and in Washington, in London and in New Creative Youth. The club organized eve- nings of Ukrainian cultural events, for The Ukrainian Canadian Congress Ukrainian National Republic and the West York City, in the world centers of human rights activism, as a relentless advocate for example, public readings of Ukrainian released the statement below on January 21. Ukrainian National Republic united in a single, poets, such as Lesia Ukrainka. independent and indivisible state. Today, this human rights and, in particular, as a pas- By the mid-1960s, with the coming of On January 22, Ukrainians all over the historic date is observed as the Day of Unity sionate advocate for dissidents in Ukraine. world mark the 100th anniversary of the And while today’s topic also asks that I Brezhnev, even this erratic liberalization came to a halt. A series of arrests began. declaration of Ukrainian statehood. On The Declaration of modern Ukrainian address the UWC’s support for the human Members of the Ukrainian cultural elite January 22, 1918, the Fourth Universal of ofstatehood Ukraine (День100 years Соборности ago continued України). a thou- rights of Ukrainians globally for the past the Ukrainian Central Rada proclaimed the sand-year history of Ukrainian state build- two generations, that would also require a that by the Kremlin’s definition included Ukrainian National Republic an indepen- ing, from the ancient state of Kyiv Rus’ to discussion on more topics than can be anyone with even a minor inkling of dent, free, sovereign state. the Kozak Sich to the Fourth Universal. addressed. For example, there is the current Ukrainian national or religious conscious- One year later, on January 22, 1919, the Ukraine’s national liberation movement situation of Ukrainians living in Vladimir ness – were detained, arrested, subjected to continued throughout the 20th century. Putin’s Russia, or the plight of Ukrainians monkey trials and sent to the Gulag. This now living in the illegally occupied territo- included dissidents such as poetess Alla EDITOR’S NOTE: The name of the inde- The long-held dream of renewed Ukrainian ries of the Donbas, the response efforts of Horska, journalist Vyacheslav Chornovil, pendent Ukrainian state proclaimed in statehood was finally achieved in 1991. In the World Congress in support of Mykhailo Horyn and Valentyn Moroz. 1918 was Ukrainska Narodna Respublika courageous resistance to foreign despo- Ukrainians defending themselves, such as While some Ukrainians in the diaspora (Українськa Народна Республікa), which tism, millions of lives were lost in the strug- gle of the Ukrainian people to exercise their Patriot Defence, or, even the work of the knew about the different individual dissi- has been translated as Ukrainian National inalienable right to live in liberty and World Congress through member organiza- dents during this time, most did not. And Republic or Ukrainian People’s Republic. choose their own common destiny. Today tions such as the World Federation of the dissidents themselves were varied. The Ukrainian Weekly prefers the term we honor the sacrifice and contribution of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations. Through Their motivations ranged from those whose Ukrainian National Republic, as used by the generations Ukrainian patriots to the their work at the United Nations in the sole goal was an independent Ukraine, to Encyclopedia of Ukraine and the Internet sacred cause of freedom. 1990s and early 2000s, WFUWO represen- those who, such as Ivan Hel, fought fore- Encyclopedia of Ukraine, published by the tatives first brought to light – and then most for religious freedom, to those such as Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. (Continued on page 20) actively worked to stop – the international , who considered himself a criminal trafficking of Ukrainian women by socialist and simply demanded that Soviet the post-Soviet mafia. I would also have to authorities hew more closely to the guaran- include work by UWC and WFUWO repre- tees of the Soviet Constitution. IN THE PRESS: Moscow’s mercenaries sentatives at the U.N. today to publicize the However, it was the mild-mannered his- current oppression of Tatars and Ukrainians torian and philologist Moroz who fully gal- “After Syria, Where Will Putin’s Secret unidentified fighters who swooped into in Crimea. All of these matters relate direct- vanized the Ukrainian diaspora into aware- Armies Go Next?” by Own Matthews, radio stations and local government build- ly to the preservation of human rights. ness and action. Newsweek, January 21 (https://www.msn. ings. Some were pro-Moscow Ukrainian So, instead of attempting the impossible, On July 1, 1974, at Vladimir Prison in com/en-ca/news/world/after-syria-where- policemen, others were local gangsters – I have chosen to limit my focus on the peri- will-putins-secret-armies-go-next/ar-AAuPm but many, according to Western analysts Perm, Moroz, who had been convicted and od of the 1970s and 1980s, generally ZC?li=AAacUQk&ocid=spartanntp): and the Security Service of Ukraine, were sentenced under the infamous Article 62 of paid mercenaries. referred to as the Helsinki Movement. the Ukrainian SSR Criminal Code – “anti- …The use of mercenaries is illegal under Later that summer, as war flared in eastern One could fairly state that the line of Soviet agitation and propaganda” – Russian law. But since at least the 1990s, Ukraine, Russia’s military intelligence agency, Ukrainian dissent – whether against Poland declared a hunger strike. His wife contact- Moscow has used them as deniable proxies for known as the GRU, began sending much larg- and Russia, or against the Nazis and the ed everyone she knew, who then contacted its military interventions abroad. … Over the er and better-organized units of ex-Russian Soviets – can be traced back for multiple everyone they knew. Word spread quickly past four years, however, President Vladimir servicemen, recruited mostly from the North generations – much more than two. Taras into the Ukrainian diaspora in North Putin has dramatically ramped up the use of Caucasus, to fight in the Donbass [sic]. Since Shevchenko, after all, was a dissident, exiled America and Western Europe and was private military contractors as a crucial part of then, mercenaries have become “a central to Central Asia, and Ukrainians comprised broadcast back into Ukraine via Voice of his foreign policy, using them to extend element of the Kremlin’s geopolitical adven- the core group that organized the 1954 America, Radio Liberty, , BBC. Russian power in eastern Ukraine and Syria. tures, whether in Ukraine or, even more Kengir uprising in the Soviet Gulag. Ukrainian students, home for summer The shift began at dawn on March 18, clearly, Syria,” says Mark Galeotti, a senior However, the modern human rights move- vacations, also responded quickly, orga- 2014, when units of regular Russian service- researcher at the Institute of International ment in Ukraine can be considered to have nized hunger strikes in solidarity, sent men, their insignia removed from their uni- Relations, a Prague-based think tank. begun in the mid-1960s, with the arrests information through networks such as forms, moved out from a base at Sevastopol Outsourcing fighting to mercenaries has that accompanied Leonid Brezhnev’s ascent SUSTA headed by Eugene Iwanciw, TUSM to occupy key military targets across the allowed the Kremlin to covertly participate to power in Moscow, and for Ukrainians, headed by Askold Lozynskyj, SUSK, Plast, Ukrainian province of Crimea. Backing in conflicts like the war in Ukraine, where it another crackdown a few years later with these soldiers was a motley group of officially claims it is not involved. … Vladimir Shcherbytsky’s arrival in Kyiv. (Continued on page 16) No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 5

2017: THE YEAR IN REVIEW Our Churches: hierarchs, institutions in the news uring 2017, two were installed in the United States, readers were updated on the Ddevelopment of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv and fund-raising efforts in the United States by the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, and learned of the repose of Cardinal , former of the Ukrainian Greek-, among other news. Benedict Aleksiychuk, M.S.U., was named bish- op of the Ukrainian Catholic of St. Nicholas in Chicago as announced on April 20 by Metropolitan- of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia. Bishop Benedict, from Lviv, succeeded Bishop , who died on August 16, 2016. The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of St. Nicholas includes most of the central and western United States, as well as Hawaii and Alaska. Bishop Benedict, born in 1968, is a Ukrainian Studite who was ordained as a priest 25 years in Lviv and was elevated to bishop in September 2010. He was enthroned as bishop on June 29 at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Chicago. UCC The enthronement was led by Sviatoslav, pri- Metropolitan-Archbishop Stefan Soroka, joined by numerous bishops and clergy, pays his last respects to Cardinal mate of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Metropolitan- Lubomyr Husar, former primate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Archbishop Stefan, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostol- Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv on June 5. ic nuncio to the United States, and Archbishop , metropolitan of Lviv, who were joined by numer- Soviet army. He lived in displaced persons’ camps near by Archbishop Cyril Vasil, secretary of the Congregation ous hierarchs and clergy. Salzburg, Austria, and in 1949 emigrated to the United for the Eastern Churches, as a personal envoy of Thousands attended the annual St. Thomas Sunday States. He studied at St. Basil’s College in Stamford, Conn., Francis, and Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, apostolic - Pilgrimage weekend on April 22-23 at St. Andrew from 1950 through 1954, and continued his studies at the cio to Ukraine. paid his final respects to Ukrainian Orthodox Memorial Church and cemetery Catholic University of America in Washington and at Cardinal Husar in a letter addressed to Patriarch grounds. Divine liturgy was celebrated by Archbishop Fordham University in New York. Sviatoslav. After his ministry as “father and head” of the Daniel on Saturday and by Metropolitan Antony on Cardinal Husar’s priestly years began with his ordina- Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, the pope said, and with Sunday. As the faithful had the gravesites of relatives tion on March 30, 1958, in Stamford, Conn., where he the onset of old age and illness, Cardinal Husar’s presence blessed by local and visiting clergy, visitors had an oppor- taught at St. Basil’s until 1969. Between the years 1966 and became “even more intense and rich.” He prayed for all, tunity to enjoy Ukrainian foods as well as the myriad items 1969, he was pastor at Holy Ukrainian Catholic and when he spoke, “everyone felt that a Christian was for sale at the Ukrainian Cultural Center. Other events dur- Church in Kerhonkson, N.Y. From there, he went to study in speaking, a Ukrainian passionate about his identity, ing the weekend included a picnic, sponsored by the Rome, he earned his doctorate at the Pontifical Urbaniana always full of hope, open to the future of God.” Ukrainian Orthodox League to benefit the St. Sophia University in 1972, where he joined the Studite Ukrainian The Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv hosted a con- Theological Seminary, and the blessing of an icon of the monastic order at the Studion Monastery and was elected ference on April 24 with U.S.- and Canada-based as well as in Kyivan Rus’ by Rem Bahautdinov, hegumen () of the monastery in 1974. In 1977 he worldwide leaders of occupational therapist organiza- in addition to six other works by Mr. Bahautdinov that was consecrated a bishop by Cardinal and Patriarch Josyf tions. With a focus on Ukraine, the conference hoped to were displayed at the Ukrainian Historical and Educational Slipyj and in 1978 was named archimandrite of the Studite highlight foreign experience in occupational therapy and Center of New Jersey. Following divine liturgy on Sunday, in Europe and North America. With the collapse of explore how it can help the development of the practice in visitors prayed for the victims of the Holodomor and the the Soviet Union, Bishop Lubomyr returned to Ukraine to Ukraine. These topics were discussed not only at the aca- Chornobyl disaster, as well as all servicemen and women re-build the Church beginning with its Holy Spirit Seminary demic level, but at the governmental level as well. At the who have fought for the United States and Ukraine. in Lviv. When Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky time of the conference, only four certified OTs in Ukraine Prayers were also offered at the crypt of Patriarch died on December 14, 2000, Pope John Paul II named had received education abroad. It was explained that stu- Mstyslav I, located in Holy Resurrection Mausoleum Bishop Lubomyr as apostolic administrator. In 2001, dents should focus on the OT standard practice to not pro- underneath St. Andrew Memorial Church. An ice cream Bishop Lubomyr was elected by the Synod as head of the pose prescriptions, and how they should be sensitive to social was hosted at the St. Sophia Theological Seminary Ukrainian Greek- Catholic Church and the following month local culture, support human rights and that they look to on Sunday afternoon to conclude the weekend’s events, was named a cardinal by Pope John Paul II, who visited prevent health issues and promote good health as these while children played on the grounds nearby. Ukraine that year. Cardinal Husar was named the first chan- relate to intervention and treatment. The entire needs of Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, major archbishop of the cellor of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Under his the patient must be considered – physical, cognitive and Ukrainian Catholic Church from February 26, 2001, to leadership, the major archiepiscopal see was moved from emotional. UCU’s School of Rehabilitation Medicine and February 10, 2011, died on May 31 following a serious ill- Lviv to Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. Ukraine’s Ministry of Health are cooperating on programs ness at the age of 85. He was revered as patriarch of the Cardinal Husar’s funeral, which was held at the in Kyiv in addition to Lviv and Dnipro. Ukrainian Catholic Church. Born in Lviv in 1933, he and Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv Pope Francis announced on August 8 the appointment of his family in 1944 fled westward, ahead of the advancing on June 5, was led by Patriarch Sviatoslav. He was joined the Very Rev. as of the

uocofusa.org Metropolitan Antony (fifth from right) and Archbishop Daniel (left of Metropolitan Antony), lead a memorial service at the Great Memorial Cross at the center of St. Photography by Stanley Andrew Cemetery during the St. Thomas Sunday Pilgrimage in South Bound Brook, Bishops, clergy and faithful in front of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in N.J., on April 22-23. Chicago on June 29 for the enthronement of Bishop Benedict Aleksiychuk. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 No. 4

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Oleksandr Laskin Oleksandr Laskin The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Center on the campus of the Ukrainian The Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv hosts a conference on occupational therapy Catholic University in Lviv that was consecrated on September 10. on April 24.

Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia. The aspergillum he used to bless the center was the same one stood on the stage during the Revolution of Dignity in Kyiv appointment came in response to the recommendation of used by Pope John Paul II during his visit to Ukraine in with Sen. John McCain) and his first to Lviv and UCU. He the Synod of the Ukrainian Catholic Bishops. Bishop 2001. The main funder of the center, James Temerty, a informed the students that he is impressed by the capabil- Andriy was assigned the Titular See of Germaniciana, and Canadian philanthropist, was honored with a symbolic ities of Ukraine’s younger generation and its impact on the was tapped to serve as vicar general and vice-chancellor key to the center, and Stefan Behnisch, the architect who transformation of Ukraine. Sen. Murphy explained how for the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy and as dean of the designed the center, was recognized for his work. the U.S. cooperates with Ukraine to stabilize the economy Lehigh-Schuylkill Deanery in Pennsylvania. Born in 1975 The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. kicked off with grants and credits, in addition to anti-corruption in Lviv, he completed his studies in Ivano-Frankivsk and its centennial celebrations with a proclamation and adver- efforts. Corruption, the students noted, had become nor- St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Seminary, in addition to tisement card. The card was distributed on August 14 as malized in Ukraine, from teachers and doctors, to parking the Catholic University of America in Washington and the part of the Great Feast of the of Ukraine, and the enforcement officers. The students underscored how cor- Dominican House of Studies in Washington. He was proclamation was made on September 12. Founded in ruption benefits Russia, as it undermines the Ukrainian ordained a subdeacon in May 1998, as in 1918, the UOC-U.S.A. will celebrate 100 years at St. Andrew government, which is defending the country from the November 1999, then as priest in 2001. He served as an Memorial Church in South Bound Brook, N.J., during the Russian invasion. administrator for three parishes in New Jersey and as pas- Feast of Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Great Prince Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, held tor of Nativity of the Blessed Mary Ukrainian Volodymyr on July 28, 2018, during the convention of the an impromptu meeting with the entire student body and Catholic Church in Reading, Pa., as well as St. Andrew the Ukrainian Orthodox League, scheduled to be hosted at the faculty of St. George Academy (SGA) in New York on Apostle Church in Lancaster, Pa. He was ordained a bishop Metropolia Center of the UOC-U.S.A. in Somerset, N.J. November 1. The cardinal was in the school to celebrate a by Patriarch Sviatoslav on September 3 at St. George The League of Ukrainian Catholics (LUC) held its 78th mass for All Day that was organized by LaSalle Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Lviv. Bishop Andriy cele- annual convention on October 6-8 in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Academy, which shares the SGA building. LaSalle brated his first divine liturgy at the Ukrainian Catholic hosted by the North Anthracite Council of the LUC. The Academy invited the students from SGA to attend the Cathedral of the in Philadelphia convention slogan this year was “Serving One’s Neighbor, mass. Following the service, the SGA students gathered in on September 24. Serving Christ,” and the delegates were joined by Bishop the library to hear an address by SGA principal Andrew The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Center of the , auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia who is based Stasiw. It was then that Cardinal Dolan entered the library Ukrainian Catholic University on September 10 opened its in Washington, and Bishop Andriy Rabiy, auxiliary bishop to surprise the students. Not only has Cardinal Dolan been first exhibit, “Ecce Homo: Sheptytsky Among Us.” Oleh of Philadelphia. During the convention, guest speakers to Ukraine twice, he explained his understanding of the Yaskiv, director of the center, recounted how the metro- presented examples of caring for one’s neighbor. perils endured during the Ukrainian Catholic Church’s his- politan from the years 1865-1944 can speak to today’s Delegates also visited St. George Orthodox Church in tory, especially during Soviet times, and his friendship youth through a non-traditional exhibit and can perhaps Taylor, Pa., to venerate the Myrrh-Streaming Icon of the with Patriarch Sviatoslav. serve as a motivator. The exhibit space itself, with its glass Blessed Mother. The convention concluded with the cele- The Ukrainian Catholic Education Fund hosted two walls, forces a modern approach toward video, audio, bration of divine liturgy, led by Bishop John and local cler- major fund-raising events in 2017 – one in Chicago on installations and artifacts. The center, Dr. Yaskiv noted, gy, which was followed by a farewell brunch. It was com- October 29 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and one in New York hopes to attract not only scholars, researchers and histori- municated that the 2018 convention is to be hosted by the City on November 5 at The St. Regis – that together col- ans, but intellectuals, the general public and youth as well. Niagara Frontier Council. lected more than $500,000 for the Ukrainian Catholic The center was blessed by Bishop on Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), ranking member of the University. In Chicago, guest speakers included Bishop September 10, with some 180 guests from the United U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Europe and Regional of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy States and Canada to witness the event and take part in Security Cooperation, and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine of St. Nicholas in Chicago (a graduate of UCU’s Lviv the celebrations. The center was made possible with Marie Yovanovich met with approximately 75 students at Business School and former member of the UCU’s board) donations during UCU’s campaign “A New Generation, A the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv on October and Adrian Slywotzky, a noted international businessman. New Ukraine” (2010-2016). Bishop Borys noted that the 21.This was Sen. Murphy’s fourth trip to Ukraine (having In New York, guest speakers included Bishop Borys

Oleksandr Laskin The Very Rev. Andriy Rabiy was installed as auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia on September 24 during a hierarchical Photography by Stanley divine liturgy at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovich with students of the Ukrainian the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia. Catholic University in Lviv on October 21. No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 7

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to Russia’s desire for a “sphere of influence” over Ukraine or other former Soviet republics, and he emphasized that Ukrainians in the U.S.: sanctions against Russia must be kept in place until Russia removes all of its troops from Ukrainian territory and politically mobilized respects Ukraine’s right to self-determination. hrough their political mobilization, Ukrainian A vigil to commemorate the heroes of the Heavenly Americans in 2017 had quite a number of achieve- Brigade was held on February 19 and 20 at the Lincoln Tments, including Holodomor resolutions in three Memorial in Washington. The ceremony began with the states on the 85th anniversary of the Famine-Genocide of singing of the Lemko song “Plyve Kacha” that had become Ukraine (most notably Oregon), as well as the passage of an anthem of the Revolution of Dignity. The event was led the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year by members of the Ukrainian community and Ukraine’s 2018, which provides funds for Ukrainian soldiers wound- Ambassador to the U.S. Valeriy Chaly, who was joined by ed in Ukraine to be medically treated in the U.S. Numerous diplomats from the Embassy of Ukraine. Also addressing organizations held conventions and conferences, and the crowd were leaders of Ukrainian American organiza- there were informative meetings with elected officials. tions in Washington, including the U.S.-Ukraine Ukrainian Americans met with Sen. Robert Menendez Foundation, United Help Ukraine and Razom. A prayer for (D- N.J.) on January 6 at his office in Newark, N.J., to voice the Heavenly Brigade was offered by Ukrainian Orthodox concern about President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination and Catholic priests, with participants singing the national of Rex Tillerson as U.S. secretary of state. The meeting was anthems of Ukraine and the U.S. A candle-lit ceremony Roman Verhnyak coordinated by Ukrainian National Association National officially closed the vigil. UCU President Bishop Borys Gudziak with Ukraine’s Secretary Yuriy Symczyk, and was attended by Ukrainian The Ukrainian organization Razom for Ukraine, in col- acting Minister of Health Dr. Ulana Suprun. The two American Bar Association (UABA) representatives Victor laboration with experts in Ukrainian policy and internation- were the main speakers at the New York fund-raiser on Rud and Myroslaw Smorodsky, as well as Tamara Olexy and al affairs, launched its report “U.S. Policy on Ukraine: November 5 for the Ukrainian Catholic University. Ronya Lozynskyj of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of Challenges and Opportunities” on February 23 in America (UCCA). The UABA submitted proposed areas of Washington on Capitol Hill. The 95-page report provided Gudziak, president of UCU, and acting Minister of Health questioning – including sanctions against Russia as well as analysis of current policy and concrete recommendations Dr. Ulana Suprun. During the Chicago event, guests viewed the territorial integrity of Ukraine and the inviolability of for the future. Mykola Murskyj, a Razom project lead for the a film that showcased the progress of the seven-year cam- independent states – for the confirmation hearing before report, described the report’s recommendations. He paign “A New Generation for a New Ukraine,” which had the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 11. The explained the need for a real and sustained ceasefire to collected $67.1 million for the development of UCU, its aca- delegation reminded Sen. Menendez that Ukraine voluntari- address security, political and humanitarian concerns. demic offerings and its campus facilities. Students from ly gave up its nuclear arsenal based on security assurances Heavy weapons, he continued, needed to be withdrawn UCU in Lviv, who were visiting the U.S. as part of gaining from the U.S., Great Britain and Russia. from the conflict line. The fact that previous ceasefires had experience on how business works, shared their experi- Sen. Menendez said that the U.S. needed to take more failed demonstrated the need for increased international ences from UCU. meaningful and effective action in response to Russia’s pressure on Russia to make it hold. Under the conditions in During the Chicago event, $230,000 had been raised for annexation of Crimea and its invasion into eastern Ukraine. the occupied Donbas, young people continued to be suscep- the support of UCU, and an additional $100,000 scholar- U.S. failure to act, he added, would corrode America’s credi- tible to radicalization to support the Russia-led fighters. ship endowment was made possible by the Selfreliance bility in the international arena, destabilize Europe and Civil society and NGOs needed more widespread support Foundation and the Selfreliance Ukrainian American greatly fuel Russian international adventurism and expan- Federal Credit Union, and the Heritage Foundation of First from the U.S., particularly local organizations that are not sionism. During the confirmation hearing, Sen. Menendez Security Federal Savings Bank. At the New York event, based in Kyiv, and U.S. support for the government in Kyiv pushed Mr. Tillerson to explain his policy on Russia, to Bishop Borys introduced the Rev. Taras Lonchyna, and should be conditioned on specified, concrete progress on which Mr. Tillerson replied that he had not yet discussed together they honored Jaroslawa Rubel and Mykola Haliv, reforms. Ukraine’s judiciary is among the most important Russia policy with Mr. Trump. members of the original New York Friends committee, for areas of reform, as corrupt courts cannot defend property Ukrainian women – Jeanne Schmolze, Mary Kalyna, their years of friendship, personal support and efforts to rights or lock in the necessary reforms, Mr. Murskyj added. Olena Mishchuk, Irina Bronshteyn, Yulia Kurka – protested build UCU. Other noted speakers included the Rev. Michael The first Ukrainian Days advocacy event of 2017 – host- at the Women’s March on Philadelphia on January 21 that Perry, who recounted his experience at UCU, and Dr. Boris ed by the Ukrainian National Information Service and the attracted 600-plus participants. They hoped to voice con- Lushniak, a childhood friend of Bishop Borys and former Ukrainian Congress Committee of America – was held on cerns of Ukrainians and Ukrainian Americans following the acting surgeon general of the United States, who intro- March 8-9 in Washington. Nearly four dozen Ukrainian presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, in particular the duced Dr. Suprun to the audience, noting that she was Americans (from New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Virginia, U.S. relationship with Russia. This group of Ukrainian women responsible for the establishment of UCU’s School of Connecticut, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Colorado, North was joined by Roman Cybriwsky. The Philadelphia march Rehabilitation Medicine. Carolina, Washington state, the District of Columbia and was part of a larger protest Women’s March on Washington Alex Kuzma, chief development officer of UCEF, thanked Michigan) visited more than 50 offices in the House of that attracted approximately 500,000 protesters. all of the donors who made it possible to raise $137,500, Representatives and the Senate. Participants were joined including from institutions such as Self Reliance New York Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) met with the Ukrainian by community leaders from the Central and East Federal Credit Union, SUMA (Yonkers) Federal Credit community of Hartford, Conn., on January 15 at St. European Coalition, as well as the Syrian American com- Union, Brody-Lew and the Kozicky family Foundation. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church to discuss concerns munity. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), co-chair of the Individual donations from major supporters were recog- about the security situation in Ukraine and to share his Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, and Rep. Gerry Connolly nized, including by George Smith and Maria Moroz-Smith, perspective on the latest developments in Washington. (D-Va.), who sponsored the Crimean Annexation Non- the Rev. Michael Perry and a large anonymous donation, Sen. Murphy said that he planned to vote against the nom- Recognition Act, were presented “Friend of UNIS” awards totaling $161,000. Awards were presented by Bishop Borys ination of Mr. Tillerson as U.S. secretary of state. He also by the UCCA. Present were UCCA President Andrew Futey, to Self Reliance New York, the Ukrainian National Women’s voiced concern about President Trump’s stated willing- Ambassador Chaly, Ukrainian World Congress President League of America, and Roma and George Temnycky for ness to lift sanctions against Russia. He said he was com- Eugene Czolij and UNIS Director Michael Sawkiw Jr. Sen. their contributions to the Comprehensive Campaign. mitted to resist any policy that might lend any legitimacy Murphy was presented the Shevchenko Freedom Award

Roman Verhnyak Ukrainian Catholic University President Bishop Borys Gudziak presents awards to Jaroslawa Rubel and Mykola Haliv, members of the original New York Charles Cherney Friends of UCU Committee, on November 5 during the ABC 7 News anchor Ravi Baihwal moderates a community meeting at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Chicago fund-raiser in New York. on March 12 with Sen. Dick Durbin and Rep. Mike Quigley. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 No. 4

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New officers of the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America (from left): Dr. Rep. Peter J. Roskam (center) meets with Ukrainians during a roundtable meeting on Andriy Ripecky, president; Dr. Peter Lenchur, president-elect; Dr. Leo Wolansky, vice- April 18 at St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral – Kyiv Patriarchate in president; and Dr. Liza Plich, treasurer, during the UMANA convention held on June Bloomingdale, Ill. 14-18 in Arlington, Va. for his support of Ukraine-related issues and his active Hope at the Institute of Psychiatric Health at the Ukrainian camp in Ellenville, N.Y. role in shaping policy toward Ukraine. On March 9, partici- Catholic University in Lviv; medical equipment for a mili- Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) met with Ukrainian pants gathered at the Taras Shevchenko monument to tary hospital in Zhytomyr; the care of children with Down American leaders from the Philadelphia area at a roundta- mark the poet’s birth date and lay flowers at the foot of syndrome with the Children of the Sun in Zhytomyr; a chil- ble meeting on March 18 at the Ukrainian Educational and the monument. dren’s camp “Don’t Be Afraid! Be Free”; a robot simulator Cultural Center in Jenkintown, Pa. Rep. Boyle, a member of Sen. Dick Durbin and Rep. Mike Quigley, both for medical educational training of the 80th Brigade; the the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Democrats representing the state of Illinois, met with the visitation to Lviv of six physicians and two nurses from Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, explained the current Ukrainian American community on March 12 at the Massachusetts General Hospital to treat children and pedi- legislation related to Ukraine, the ongoing impact of Ukrainian Cultural Center in Chicago. They described their atric burn victims free of charge; the purchase of 240 beds Russian interference in U.S. domestic policies, as well as recent trip to Ukraine and their meeting with President and mattresses for the Ivan Bohun military high school in the deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situa- Petro Poroshenko. Rep. Quigley has returned to Ukraine Boyarka (Kyiv region). Also noted was the UNWLA’s visita- tion in eastern Ukraine. The Ukraine Cybersecurity numerous times since his 2014 visit to the Revolution of tion to injured soldiers in hospitals in Kyiv, Dnipro, Cooperation Act, co-introduced by him and Rep. Brian Dignity. Sen. Durbin, who is of Lithuanian heritage, showed Zhytomyr, Lviv and Zaporizhia; its ongoing aid to orphan- Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), aimed to increase cooperation his keen awareness of Russian aggression and President ages and orphans in Ukraine as well as aid to the aged, between Ukraine and the U.S. on cybersecurity threats Vladimir Putin’s ambitions during the meeting. The two needy and families; humanitarian aid as part of the “Aid to and methods to protect against those threats. described their efforts to supply Ukraine with lethal weap- Victims of the Ukrainian War of Dignity”; 250 scholarships Rep. Peter J. Roskam (R-Ill.) met with the Ukrainian ons, bolster Ukraine’s military upgrades, and to support for 2016 through the UNWLA Scholarship Program; and community during a roundtable meeting on April 18 at St. Ukraine’s chosen path toward Euro-integration. Rep. five Christmas camps for children from the ATO. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral – Kyiv Patriarchate Quigley and Sen. Durbin urged the audience to contact St. George Academy in New York has undergone a in Bloomingdale, Ill. During the community meeting, Rep. their representatives with requests for aid to Ukraine. renaissance during the last few years thanks to the Roskam explained that he had written to U.S. Secretary of In a March 22 letter to U.S. Secretary of State Tillerson, school’s principal since 2015, Andrew Stasiw. Mr. Stasiw is State Tillerson about the need to support Ukraine. the UCCA urged him to visit Ukraine during his upcoming an active member of the Ukrainian community in the East A memorial service was held on April 23 during the St. European trip in April. The letter called on the U.S. to take Village and his reforms have included technological Thomas Sunday Pilgrimage at St. Andrew Cemetery in a leadership role with definitive action to stabilize the updates to the classrooms and a high-tech security system, South Bound Brook, N.J., to honor the memory of the fall- security in the trans-national and trans-Atlantic frame- as well as a revitalized sports program. New opportunities en soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). The work. Such a visit would, the letter argued, reaffirm have been made available to the students, including visits year 2017 marked the 75th anniversary of the founding of America’s steadfast commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty by First Lady of Ukraine Maryna Poroshenko and Mamuka UPA, the 70th anniversary of Akcja Wisla and the 70th and territorial integrity. The letter reminded him of the Mamulashvili of the Georgian National Legion fighting in anniversary of the Great Raid of the UPA. The prayer ser- passage of the Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014, and Ukraine. The school has been a welcoming place for stu- vice was led by the Rev. Andriy Dudkevych of St. Nicholas the U.S. stance on non-recognition of Russia’s annexation dents from Ukraine as well as other parts of the world, Ukrainian Catholic Church in Passaic, N.J. of Crimea and Russia’s continued violations of interna- with a strong English as a Second Language program. The UCCA hosted an initiative meeting of Ukrainian tional law. The letter also underscored the role of a demo- The Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna national community organizations on March 4 at its offic- cratic and prosperous Ukraine as a U.S. national security (OOL) and the Ukrainian American Youth Association es in New York to plan commemorative events marking interest, as well as Ukraine’s longstanding partnership (UAYA) held an educational presentation about Akcja the aforementioned three anniversaries. The meeting with NATO operations and missions during the past 20 Wisla that was led by OOL President Mark Howansky and included the Society of Veterans of the Ukrainian years, despite its non-member status. Diana Howansky Reilly, national board member of the Insurgent Army Inc., the Organization for the Defense of The Ukrainian National Women’s League of America OOL, on April 12 at the Ukrainian Center in Passaic, N.J. A Lemkivshchyna (OOL) and Former Members of Ukrainian (UNWLA) was recognized by the Association of Charities coordinated effort to have survivors of Akcja Wisla meet Insurgent Army-UPA. Commemorative events including a of Ukraine as the best provider of Aid from Abroad during with the youth of the UAYA has been ongoing, with multi- cultural evening and an academic conference were sched- an award ceremony on March 29 in New York. In 2016, the ple presentations within the Ukrainian American commu- uled for October 13-14. Planning was coordinated by the UNWLA sponsored or supported: two summer camps in nity. The official Akcja Wisla date is commemorated on Ukrainian National Committee, comprising Ukrainian Yaremche and Lviv for families of soldiers serving in the April 18, when in 1947 nearly 140,000 Ukrainians were community members who are active in numerous organi- ATO; training courses related to the assessment and treat- forcibly relocated to Poland. A number of commemorative zations. ment of traumatic injuries, in cooperation with Dr. Ulana events were hosted in 2017, including the annual UAYA The 70th anniversary of the founding of the New York Suprun acting minister of health of Ukraine; the Center of Zlet competition on Memorial Day weekend at the UAYA branch of the Selfreliance Association of American

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Ukrainians was marked during the organization’s regular general meeting on April 2 in New York. Founded in 1947 by Ukrainian immigrants, the association has been com- mitted to providing social service programs for the elderly and newly arrived immirgants, as well as sponsoring the Self Reliance School of Ukrainian Studies. The association is also an initiator of young professional organizations in the U.S. as well as the Self Reliance (New York) Ukrainian Federal Credit Union. Natalia Duma, branch president, opened the meeting, which included reports on the vari- ous activities throughout the year. Social services are a key aspect of assistance the provided by the association; this is made possible by grants from the City of New York, which are coordinated by Irene D’Alessio. The city has been providing funds for Selreliance Association pro- grams for the past 20 years. United Help Ukraine is a charitable non-profit that aids those who have been affected by the war in the Donbas, including displaced persons, soldiers who return wound- ed or families whose soldiers do not come home at all. The organization is focused on medical aid, defender’s aid, humanitarian aid and raising awareness. Having raised more than $245,000 since its founding, UHU has been able to supply a 3-D scanner for the Nodus rehabilitation clinic Presidential Administration of Ukraine in Kyiv, massive shipping containers filled with medical Ukrainian American community leaders and Crimean Tatar representatives at The Ukrainian Museum in New supplies (with cooperation from the ’s Brother York in September during a meeting with President Petro Poroshenko during his working visit to the U.S. on Foundation); it has coordinated rehabilitative therapy and September 18-21. equipment in addition to fund-raising for medical treat- Assembly of Delegates on June 14-18 at the Key Bridge cluded before the Senior and Junior UOL bodies elected ments. First-aid kits that were prepared by UHU were sent Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Va. The biennial convention’s their respective executive boards. It was announced that to the frontlines, as were uniforms, socks and insulating theme was “Rehabilitation and Reintegration – Helping the 2018 convention would be hosted at the Metropolia layers of clothing. On the homefront in Ukraine, UHU has Ukrainians Help Themselves.” Conference participants Center of the UOC-U.S.A. in South Bound Brook, N.J., to sent children’s clothing and toys, as well as adult clothing heard presentations on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine coincide with the centennial celebration of the founding of and medicine. Events in 2017 included a rally on the and the associated health challenges, including the need the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. National Mall in Washington in February, a charitable con- for rehabilitation and reintegration services. Noted guest During a working visit to the United States on cert at the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington and a classi- speakers from Ukraine included acting Minister of Health September 18-21, President Petro Poroshenko and the cal piano concert on April 22 to benefit Ukraine’s wound- of Ukraine Dr. Ulana Suprun and Vadim Sviridenko, com- first lady of Ukraine met with Ukrainian American com- ed soldiers. missioner of the for rehabilitation of munity leaders and Crimean Tatar representatives at The The 36th annual meeting and spring conference of the ATO (anti-terrorist operation) wounded veterans. Various Ukrainian Museum in New York. They were joined by Ukrainian National Credit Union Association (UNCUA) was fields of medicine were represented during the presenta- Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev, who is commis- held in Washington on June 8-10. The event was hosted by tions as were specialists in humanitarian relief work and sioner of the president of Ukraine for the affairs of the Ukrainian Selfreliance Federal Credit Union in researchers in population response to trauma and dis- Crimean Tatars. Mr. Poroshenko expressed thanks for the Philadelphia, which marked its 65th anniversary. The meet- placement. support Ukraine has received from the Ukrainian diaspora ing and conference attracted 33 participants representing During the conference banquet, numerous U.S.-based and from the U.S. Congress. He said that technological 13 Ukrainian American credit unions. They had an oppor- humanitarian organizations showcased various projects developments and partnerships with the U.S., Canada and tunity to meet with legislators at their offices on Capitol in Ukraine, including; United Help Ukraine, United the United Kingdom can be used on the battlefield to con- Hill, to hear presentations on current topics of interest to Ukrainian American Relief Committee, Revived Soldiers firm Russia’s violations of the Minsk agreements and credit union leaders and to elect a new board of directors. It Ukraine, Razom for Ukraine (Co-Pilot Project), National other crimes that will be pursued in the International was announced that on July 23, the UNCUA would be pre- University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukrainian Catholic Criminal Court, underscoring that “it is not just weaponry sented the 2017 Distinguished Service Award by the World Education Foundation (Ukrainian Catholic University in [that is important], but a legal instrument of protecting Council of Credit Unions at its conference in Vienna. During Lviv), Fulbright Program in Ukraine, Andrey Sheptytsky the Ukrainian position.” Mr. Poroshenko also highlighted the convention in Washington, Brian Branch, CEO of Hospital Charities, UMANA Foundation and the World the plight of the Crimean Tatars in light of Russia’s annex- WOCCU, noted this was the highest honor of the global Federation of Ukrainian Medical Associations. ation of the Crimean peninsula, and the need for unified credit union movement. Mr. Branch also updated delegates The 70th Convention of the Ukrainian Orthodox League support for them. The 85th anniversary of the Holodomor on the credit union movement in Ukraine. A roundtable (UOL) was held on July 26-30 in Woonsocket, R.I., where it was also cited by the president, and he stressed the was led by Tamara Denysenko of the Ukrainian Federal was hosted by Holy Archangel Michael Ukrainian importance of its international recognition as genocide. Credit Union in Rochester, N.Y., and presentations were Orthodox . Metropolitan Antony and Archbishop Mr. Futey, president of the Ukrainian Congress Committee made by Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), Ambassador Chaly and Daniel actively participated in the daily sessions, with cler- of America, said that a united community can influence President Czolij of the Ukrainian World Congress. gy and laity presenting on various topics related to the the decisions of the U.S. government and Congress regard- Selfreliance FCU in Philadelphia was presented a plaque in UOL. Presentations focused on the work of the Church in ing Ukraine and thereby help bilateral efforts. Areas of fur- recognition of its 65 years of service to the Ukrainian supporting the Znamianka Children’s Orphanage, with ther cooperation include not only weapons for Ukraine, American community. Andrew Horbachevsky (SUMA mission trip participants explaining their experiences, as but greater funding for defense, energy, humanitarian Yonkers, N.Y.) was elected chair of the UNCUA. Orysia well as the challenges of the modern world and how the assistance and necessary reforms. Burdiak was elected as president of UNCUA and the Church responds to them, the charitable work of St. Ukrainian American Veterans called on members and Ukrainian Cooperative Insurance Agency in Chicago. Andrew Society and the summer events at All Saints Camp Ukrainian Americans to action to urge congressional sup- The Ukrainian Medical Association of North America in Emlenton, Pa. The UOL Essay Contest Awards were pre- port for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal (UMANA) held its 44th Scientific Conference and 37th sented by Teresa Linck. Reports and formal business con- Year 2018. The 2018 version of the act includes funding

At Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s office in Washington on April 18 (from Representatives of the Ukrainian National Association, the Ukrainian National Foundation and left) are: Col. Sergiy Panchenko of the Embassy of Ukraine, and Soyuzivka Heritage Center with Ukraine’s departing consul general of New York and his wife on Michael Hrycak, Myron Melnyk and Ihor Rudko of Ukrainian September 28 (from left): Yuriy and Nataliya Symczyk, Natalia and Igor Sybiga, Roma Lisovich, American Veterans. Stefan and Swiatoslawa Kaczaraj, and Nestor and Petrusia Paslawsky. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 No. 4

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Stefan Slutsky Christine Syzonenko Ukrainian American Veterans lead the solemn March of Remembrance from St. Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox hierarchs and clergy officiate at the George Ukrainian Catholic Church to St. Patrick’s Cathedral on November 18 in requiem service for the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 at St. Patrick’s New York. Cathedral on November 18 in New York. for treatment, transport, lodging and meals for those provisions in the amendments the Senate passed were not the state. The legislation was introduced – also a first in the wounded from Ukraine who are being treated at U.S. facili- included in the House version. The reconciliation of the two history of the state – at the request of the local Ukrainian ties. The act also supports education and training for bills was resolved during a conference of appointees from American community. The legislation was passed unani- Ukrainian health-care specialists, including continuing the House and Senate Armed Services Committees that mously by both houses of Oregon’s legislature – the Oregon care and rehabilitation services for wounded Ukrainian began its work on October 16. Senate and the House of Representatives. It was filed with soldiers. These amendments were added thanks to the The UAV had partnered with the Ukrainian National the Oregon secretary of state on June 26, 2017. The advocacy efforts of Ihor Rudko, UAV Connecticut Information Service in Washington, together with the Ukrainian American Cultural Association of Oregon (UACA) Department commander, Michael Hrycak, UAV New Jersey Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, to rally support. Ukrainian met with legislators, beginning with Sen. Laurie Monnes Department commander, and Myron Melnyk of UAV Post soldiers themselves came to Washington for the Marine Anderson, who introduced the legislation at the request of 33 in New Haven, Conn. They were joined by Col. Sergiy Marathon in Arlington, Va., on October 22, and meetings Ukrainians in the Gresham area of Oregon. Legislators Panchenko (air attaché, Office of Military Cooperation, were scheduled in Congress to include those soldiers. Other were then educated by the UACA about the Holodomor to Embassy of Ukraine in the United States) during a meeting assistance had come from singer Hanna Cheberenchyk build support. Sen. Jeff Kruse acted as sponsor of the legis- with key staff at the office of Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Anychka) from Lviv, who had raised more than $100,000 lation, with an additional 13 legislators signing on as spon- (D-Conn.). Other meetings with staff on Capitol Hill includ- for the Revived Soldiers Ukraine project in support of the sors. Sen. Chris Edwards from Eugene, Ore., introduced the ed Oleksandr Kosopalov, who was receiving medical treat- UAV initiative. Sen. Blumenthal announced on November 8 legislation. In the House, the legislation had the support of ment at Navy Inn hospital in Bethesda, Md. The meetings that the final version of the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2018 had Rep. Mitch Greenlick, whose ancestors came from Ukraine. succeeded also in gaining the support of Sen. John McCain been adopted. A co-sponsor of the legislation was Sen. Rob A special signing ceremony was held on September 20 in (R-Ariz.) and the amendment passed in the Senate Armed Portman (R-Ohio), co-chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus the Oregon Senate Chamber. Services Committee. and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A A lively panel discussion that was hosted by the non- During a community meeting on July 16 at St. Michael press release from Sen. Portman noted: “…For the first time, profit volunteer organization Razom on September 23 at Ukrainian Catholic Church in New Haven, Conn., Sen. the amendment authorizes assistance to bolster Ukraine’s the New York Civic Hall in New York focused on contem- Blumenthal announced progress on the NDAA, “…to bring naval capabilities, which were severely degraded following porary Ukraine and associated issues related to journal- [these] bravest soldiers to the United States to obtain the Russia’s seizure of Crimea. The amendment also conditions ism, cultural diplomacy, medicine, civic engagement and best treatment that our military hospitals can provide.” U.S. aid on progress toward key reforms, including institut- manufacturing of backpacks. The event was part of Thanks to the efforts of local doctors (Dr. Alla Vash and Dr. ing civilian control of the military, cooperation and coordi- Razom’s annual meeting that attracted 100 people, who Lesia Kushnir), four Ukrainian soldiers had received treat- nation with Ukrainian parliamentary efforts to exercise heard about the organization’s projects. Panelists included ment at Connecticut hospitals. Other groups, the senator oversight of the Ministry of Defense and military forces, and Andrii Suslenko (a journalism fellow at the United noted, included Revived Soldiers Ukraine, which had helped improvements in sustained capabilities, inventory manage- Nations), Daria Sipigina (Penn State University), Luke 30 soldiers to receive treatment at medical facilities in the ment and security of foreign technologies.” Mr. Melnyk Tomycz, M.D., Mariya Soroka (Razom co-founder and pres- U.S. The senator also acknowledged the work of UAV mem- noted the work of Reps. Rosa DeLauro and Joe Courtney, ident), and Igor Gudz, entrepreneur. bers and of New Haven-based activists, Mr. Melnyk, Halia both Democrats from Connecticut, as well as Reps. Kaptur, Ukraine’s consul general in New York, Igor Sybiga, and Lodynsky and Carl Harvey, UAV Post 33 commander. Mr. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.). his family were bid a fond farewell on September 28 at the Melnyk informed everyone that the Senate passed the NDAA President Donald Trump signed the act into law on Consulate General. Joining the well-wishers were amendments 89-8 on September 18, and prior to that the December 12, 2017. Ukrainian religious leaders, diplomats and members of Senate Armed Services Committee passed the amendments The Oregon state legislature, for the first time in its his- the Ukrainian American community of New York, New unanimously. The renewed focus was on the parallel legisla- tory, designated the fourth Saturday in November – Jersey and Pennsylvania. Mr. Sybiga, who had served as tion proposed in the House of Representatives, as the new November 25, 2017 – as Holodomor Remembrance Day in consul general in New York since 2012, was previously

Doug Gross Andrea Zharovsky Michael Sawkiw Jr. (right) presents a Friend of UNIS Award to State Sen. Stewart The new leadership of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization in the U.S.A. is sworn into Greenleaf (second from left) of Pennsylvania on November 15 in recognition of the office during the 35th convention at Soyuzivka Heritage Center on October 20-21 in passage of the “Holodomor Remembrance Month” resolution at the Pennsylvania Kerhonkson, N.Y. Senate Chambers in Harrisburg, Pa. No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 11

2017: THE YEAR IN REVIEW posted at the Consulate General in 2002-2004. Mr. Sybiga was honored for his many years of service and assistance to the Ukrainian American community, and was presented a plaque of appreciation by Stefan Kaczaraj, president of the Ukrainian National Association. Roma Lisovich, trea- surer of the Ukrainian National Foundation, and Nestor Paslawsky, general manager of Soyuzivka Heritage Center, presented an honorary “key to Soyuzivka,” following the many summers the Sybiga family had spent there, includ- ing the Heritage Camp attended by the Sybiga children. Mr. Sybiga thanked everyone in attendance, especially the Ukrainian credit unions – Self Reliance New York Federal Credit Union, the SUMA Yonkers Federal Credit Union and the Ukrainian National Federal Credit Union – that had aided the Consulate General in its work. The Ukrainian National Information Service, the Washington-based bureau of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, marked its 40th anniversary with an evening reception on Capitol Hill on October 11 in Washington. The reception attracted 100 people and coin- cided with the conclusion of the third Ukrainian Days advocacy event for 2017. During the reception, Friends of UNIS Awards were presented to: Rep. Boyle of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ambassador Chaly and Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevicius. Rep. Yuri Boyechko Boyle thanked Mr. Sawkiw and the Ukrainian community Members of the Ukrainian American community of Oregon look on as Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney for the recognition, and said he was proud to represent a signs the state’s Holodomor resolution on September 20 in the Oregon Senate Chamber, designating the fourth community of strong, vibrant and proud Ukrainian Saturday in November as Holodomor Remembrance Day. Americans from his congressional district in Pennsylvania. Ambassador Chaly thanked UNIS and its network of orga- mer directors of UNIS, shared their experiences and well the Black Sea Fleet. George Huk was re-elected as chair/ nizations and volunteer members, and in a surprise move wishes. U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovich sent chief corporate officer of the Plast National Board of presented a state award, the Order of Prince Yaroslav the greetings via video message; quoting Taras Shevchenko, Directors and Dr. Christine Kochan was re-elected as chair Wise (fifth degree) to Mr. Sawkiw for his work with UNIS she said, “Keep fighting – you are sure to win.” of the Plast National Council. and UCCA in strengthening U.S.-Ukraine relations. Mr. The 35th annual national convention of Plast Ukrainian The New Jersey State Senate and the General Assembly Linkevicius was unable to attend, but the ambassador of Scouting Organization was held on October 20-21 at on November 7 in Trenton, N.J., adopted a joint legislative Lithuania to the U.S., Rolandas Krisciunas, accepted the Soyuzivka in Kerhonkson, N.Y. Reports were presented on resolution that recognized November 2017 as Ukrainian award. Mr. Linkevicius sent a letter of thanks, read by the various activities of the previous year, and there were Genocide Remembrance Month. The resolution was intro- Ambassador Krisciunas, noting that Lithuania will contin- discussions to determine goals for the organization in the duced by Sen. Anthony R. Bucco and co-sponsored by ue supporting Ukraine. coming year. The convention delegates also learned that Assemblymen Anthony M. Bucco and Michael Patrick Other members of Congress who congratulated UNIS the organization is expanding in New York state and Carroll. The resolution noted the commemorative events in included Reps. Kaptur and Paul David Tonko (D-N.Y.), as across the U.S. The year 2018 was declared the Year of Sea Washington on November 7 at the Holodomor Memorial did John Lansing, CEO of the Broadcasting Board of Scouting, as it was on April 29, 1918, that Ukrainian sail- and in New York on November 18 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Governors. George Nesterczuk and Tamara Olexy, both for- ors hoisted the Ukrainian national flag on all the ships in The resolution named the Soviet regime under Joseph UCCA President Futey looks back on first year in office Including a half dozen trips to Ukraine ed dues-paying members and the credit meetings, ask questions [about] where by Mark Raczkiewycz in 2017 where, according to Mr. Futey, he unions for helping fund projects and pro- the candidates stand on Ukraine.” KYIV – Almost every week last year, enjoys “an open door policy,” this year, his grams. The UCCA leader also has been reach- Andriy Futey found himself on the road, itinerary includes trips to see older com- To get more supporters, he helped ing out to student organizations and whether in California, Georgia, North munities in Minnesota, and newer ones in establish a finance committee to assist wants the group’s internship program Carolina or Ukraine. Seattle and Portland. with fund-raising. To cut costs, a recently “revitalized” in New York and at the He wasn’t job or house hunting. The reason being that the latest immi- formed real estate committee has been Ukrainian National Information Service in The president of the Ukrainian gration of Ukrainians lives in these areas, reviewing vendor and maintenance con- Washington. Congress Committee of America (UCCA) but the “activists, if you ask them what tracts. Insurance and workers’ compensa- If unity in the U.S. is a priority of Mr. was using his first year in office doing UCCA is, they look at you with a blank face tion are also being looked at. Futey’s term, he wants to see the same outreach. It’s part of a plan to “revitalize” and say, ‘I don’t know,’ ” he told The Another reason for logging air miles is come out of Ukraine. the country’s biggest advocacy group for Ukrainian Weekly in Kyiv on December let communities know that the UCCA is Speaking of the political scene in Kyiv, Ukrainian Americans. 19, 2017, before a private meeting with there to assist with their advocacy cam- he said some politicians “continue to put The trips, albeit exhausting and costly, President Petro Poroshenko. paigns, all the while ensuring that the their personal agendas ahead of unified are what Mr. Futey, 52, says were He also said he wants to utilize the group speaks for America’s 1.5 million national interests.” designed to bring former member organi- Internet and social media to communi- Ukrainians “with a coordinated message.” He continued: “That’s why I’m calling zations back into the fold, establish new cate more effectively. Thus, the UCCA “There’s so much potential in our com- them to unify to find some common chapters and enlist new groups, to get the website will be revamped in the first munity and if there’s some way to coordi- ground. It seems like they’re constantly youth more involved, and re-discover the quarter of this year. nate our messages, our activities, we on the defensive putting out forest fires UCCA’s core mission of advocacy starting Two former member organizations, could be so much more successful,” Mr. and only reacting. They need to go on the at the local level. the Ukrainian American Veterans and the Futey said. “We have to find the ways to attack, and clearly identify what they’ve Asked what his preliminary findings Ukrainian Medical Association of North communicate that… and say, ‘Use us as a done and accomplished.” were, the native Ohioan said: “we are, and America, rejoined the UCCA last year. Two resource. We are a resource for you, and In Washington, Mr. Futey said he has have been since our inception, the stron- additional organizations will soon have we could help assist you with what you witnessed certain visiting Ukrainian poli- gest unifying voice to represent the com- their applications reviewed by the UCCA. want to do.’ ” ticians (he did not name them) who only munity in front of U.S. government struc- Negotiations are ongoing with Plast Already, communities in complain “how bad things are in Ukraine,” tures… and we still need to organize local- Ukrainian Scouting Organization, which is Massachusetts, Michigan and Ohio have yet never “provide a solution” when ly wherever we are, and I want to help considering the UCCA’s overtures to started the process of getting state resolu- speaking to lawmakers. those communities do that.” rejoin the umbrella body. “I very much tions passed to designate the Stalin-era “I take great exception to that,” he said, Just by appearing at a local chapter look forward to continued conversations Famine, or Holodomor, as genocide. The adding that, “there’s no Ukraine fatigue meeting in Atlanta, Mr. Futey saw its paid with them… having them as part of our three states are also pushing to make the yet in Washington, but there is ‘stop com- membership double after his visit. organization is important,” Mr. Futey said. Holodomor part of public school curricu- plaining fatigue’… Do something, I say.” Following a visit to Texas, the UCCA joined Plast was among the over 20 national la. Three main priorities for Ukraine this forces with local Ukrainian parishes there organizations that walked out of the 13th Perhaps, most of all, Mr. Futey would year, according to Mr. Futey, are to “clean to help with Hurricane Harvey relief congress of the UCCA in 1980. They did so like to see more Ukrainian Americans up the court system,” which is where the efforts. A visit to Yonkers, N.Y., to meet in protest against violations of the organi- elected to office. main anti-graft problem lies, “stop the with Ukrainian American Veterans was zation’s by-laws, procedural irregularities “The year 2018 is going to be a perfect infighting between law enforcement agen- “important for them to hear that we rec- and intolerance for differing viewpoints opportunity, so I tell community mem- cies,” and do a better job of communicat- ognize their efforts and also tell them during that congress. bers to get involved, don’t hide from your ing to the public what’s been achieved what we’re doing,” he said. On the financial side, Mr. Futey credit- Ukrainian heritage… go to town hall over the last years in terms of reforms. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 No. 4

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Also that month, the UNA supported Ukrainian Heritage Day at the New Jersey Devils hockey game at the Ukrainian National Association: Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., on March 19. The UNA information table had booklets about the UNA’s offerings, marking 123 years of service and copies of Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly. n February 22, the Ukrainian National Association Ukrainian flags were distributed to all interested. celebrated the 123rd anniversary of its founding On April 22, the spring meeting of the UNA’s Oback in 1894, when its first convention was held in Connecticut District Committee was preceded by a pre- Shamokin, Pa. It was there that 10 brotherhoods with a sentation by Dr. Petrusia G. Kotlar on “Wellness and total membership of 439 people and assets of $220 Nutrition as a Means to Healthy Longevity” that was open resolved to form a fraternal association as had been sug- to the public. gested by an editorial published in the Ukrainian-language There were other examples of community outreach. In newspaper Svoboda on November 1, 1893. Today the UNA Los Angeles on April 2, during the annual Pysanka continues to live up to its founding principles, succinctly Festival, Zoryana Keske, secretary of UNA Branch 257, and described in its mission statement: “In accordance with its Luba Poniatyszyn-Keske, UNA adviser and president of the charter, the Ukrainian National Association exists: to pro- branch, hosted a UNA table that provided information mote the principles of fraternalism; to preserve the about the UNA, its two newspapers, and Soyuzivka Ukrainian, Ukrainian American and Ukrainian Canadian Heritage Center. In addition, UNA coloring books and min- heritage and culture; and to provide quality financial ser- iature maps of Ukraine with historical information were vices and products to its members.” handed out. Meanwhile, in New Haven, Conn., on April 9, The Ukrainian Weekly reminded readers that by joining UNA Branch 414 hosted its 14th annual Easter Egg Hunt the UNA (that is, by purchasing an insurance policy or an Andrij Dobriansky on the grounds of St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church. annuity), members support the continuation of many Rep. Brendan Boyle receives the Friend of UNIS Award The event was coordinated by Gloria Horbaty, a UNA advi- from Michael Sawkiw Jr., UNIS director and UCCA worthwhile programs, including the publication of two sor and financial secretary of the local branch, and her vice-president. weekly newspapers, Svoboda (in Ukrainian) and this husband, Donald, who is treasurer of Branch 414. newspaper. “And that’s what separates a fraternal organi- On May 18, the Home Office of the UNA celebrated Stalin as responsible for the forced starvation of millions of zation like the UNA from a commercial insurance compa- International Vyshyvanka Day as staff came dressed in Ukrainians. It noted: “This Legislature …remembers the vic- ny. As the UNA’s mission statement underlines: ‘As a frater- Ukrainian embroidered finery on a day aimed as express- tims of the Ukrainian Holodomor Genocide, salutes all those nal insurance society, the Ukrainian National Association ing the unity of Ukrainians worldwide. involved in the memorial services taking place throughout reinvests its earnings for the benefit of its members and As always, the UNA during 2017 demonstrated care for our country to commemorate this dark chapter in history, the Ukrainian community,’ ” our February 19 editorial its members of all ages. Seniors of the Ukrainian National and urges the citizenry of the Garden State to participate fit- pointed out. Association and friends enjoyed a special week at tingly in these observances…” Speaking of membership, the UNA Organizing Report Soyuzivka Heritage Center from Sunday, June 11, through The 85th anniversary of the Famine-Genocide of for 2016 was published on July 16. Prepared by new UNA Friday, June 16. UNA members who are attending college Ukraine of 1932-1933 was marked in the United States National Secretary Yuriy Symczyk, it included various in the United States and Canada received scholarships for with events across the country. membership initiatives that were undertaken during the the 2017-2018 academic year. The 42 scholarship recipi- The U.S. Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide tenure of his predecessor Christine Kozak (who passed ents were featured in a special section of The Weekly pub- Awareness organized several major events to honor the away on June 27, 2016). Among the highlights of the lished on September 3, published just in time for the victims. In Washington, a requiem service was held on report was praise for UNA Advisor Lubov Streletsky, who Labor Day weekend festivities at Soyuzivka, which are November 7 at the Holodomor Memorial that was officiat- is also secretary of UNA Branch 10 and chairs the attended by many young people, and as the fall semester ed by Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic clergy. Philadelphia District Committee. Ms. Streletsky was was getting under way. Over $11,000 in scholarship aid Honored guests addressed the gathering before a congres- deemed the champion of the “Club of UNA Builders,” hav- was distributed in 2017. sional briefing at the Capitol Visitor Center. During the ing enrolled 17 new members for life insurance coverage The year 2017 was a pre-convention year for the UNA, briefing, experts and members of Congress noted the his- totaling $865,500. Other top organizers were Eugene and the last pre-convention meeting of the UNA General torical, political and social ramifications of the Holodomor. Serba of Branch 173, a UNA auditor, and George Assembly was convened on November 17-18 at Soyuzivka. On November 18, more than 1,000 people representing Fedorijczuk of Branch 162. Ms. Symczyk also cited the The meeting’s business sessions were marked by good various Ukrainian American organizations participated in work of the three district committees that brought in the news about the UNA’s continued progress, as for the fifth the March of Remembrance that began at St. George most new members: Philadelphia (31 members), New straight year the fraternal organization enjoyed net prof- Ukrainian Catholic Church on Seventh Street to 51st Street, Jersey (29 members) and Chicago (16 members). its. Reports on the UNA’s finances and activity were deliv- concluding at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where a commemora- The UNA continued its community outreach program in ered by the full-time executive officers of the UNA, tive event was held that included a requiem service led by 2107. “The World of Garlic,” a presentation by Roman President Stefan Kaczaraj, National Secretary Symczyk Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs, with Osadca, was hosted by the UNA’s New Jersey District and Treasurer Roma Lisovich. All other General Assembly responses and the recessional prayer sung by the Committee at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Parish in members – executive officers, advisors and auditors – as Ukrainian Chorus Dumka, under the direction of Vasyl Passaic, N.J., on March 5. Besides learning about the health well as the editor-in-chief of the UNA’s official publica- Hrechynsky. The service was followed by remarks by hon- benefits of garlic, attendees learned about the UNA and tions, Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly, had the oppor- ored guests, including Ms. Olexy of the UCCA, Ambassador the benefits of membership in our community’s oldest and tunity to deliver addenda to their written reports. Chaly, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Jenifer Rajkumar, rep- largest fraternal association. Mr. Kaczaraj underscored that the state of the UNA is resenting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City Councilwoman-elect Carlina Rivera, Steven Kashkett of the U.S. Department of State, Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko and Mr. Sawkiw, chairman of the U.S. Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Awareness. In addition to the above-mentioned events, the U.S. Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Awareness, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, as well as the United Ukrainian American Organizations of New York had organized conferences and exhibits, and requested that governors issue executive proclamations honoring the victims of the Holodomor, in addition to developing Holodomor education curricula for high schools and col- leges. The Pennsylvania Senate on November 15 approved Senate Resolution 244, designating November as “Ukraine Genocide Remembrace Month.” The resolution notes that the Ukrainian population was deliberately targeted for starvation due to their will to not live under the Soviet yoke of Moscow. Following the unanimous passage of the resolution in the Pennsylvania Senate Chambers in Harrisburg, Pa., State Sen. Stewart Greenleaf was recog- nized for his work for Ukraine and was presented a Friend of UNIS award by Mr. Sawkiw of the U.S. Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Awareness. Also present in the Ukrainian delegation were Eugene Luciw, president of the Philadelphia branch of the UCCA, and Ulana Baluch Chris Bytz Mazurkevich, head of the Philadelphia Holodomor The Ukrainian National Association and its two newspapers were major partners of the Ukrainian Heritage Day Committee. The delegation met with Lt. Gov. Mike Steck in held on March 19 at the Prudential Center during a National Hockey League game between the home team, the his chambers to encourage trade between Ukraine and the New Jersey Devils, and the visiting Columbus Blue Jackets. Seen at the UNA information are: (from left) Ola Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Bihuniak, UNA National Secretary Yuriy Symczyk, Maria Drich and Tanya Bihuniak. No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 13

2017: THE YEAR IN REVIEW strong as its surplus has been consistently going up for the past four years. In 2017, he said, the surplus grew by $850,000 as of September 30; it was anticipated that the surplus would grow by $1 million by the end of the year. National Secretary Symczyk noted that the UNA had visit- ed more districts in 2017 than in recent years – even those that were previously inactive. Mr. Symczyk cited the “very positive responses we’ve received from communi- ties visited” and the eagerness of people to become involved and sell UNA products. Treasurer Lisovich stated that the UNA’s biggest accomplishment of the year was reaching $10 million in surplus. Other highlights of the “solid financial performance” noted by this executive offi- cer were: five consecutive years of net profit of $1 million annually; total net admitted assets of $186 million; expenses that were below projections; and a strong investment portfolio. General Assembly members also heard a presentation by Advisor Andrij Szul, a lawyer, who updated them on the corporate governance structure that is to be implemented by the UNA. He provided details on the General Assembly that, if the proposed by-laws changes are enacted, would be composed of a Corporate Board of Directors, an Audit Committee and a Fraternal Advisory Board. There was news also about the Ukrainian National Foundation (an affiliated company that performs charita- ble activities on behalf of the UNA). The UNF continuously provides grants enabling less fortunate students in Ukraine – those who come from needy families, are orphaned, or have been displaced by Staff at the Ukrainian National Association’s Home Office in Parsippany, N.J., attired in Ukrainian embroidered the war in Ukraine’s east – to pursue university studies at finery, pose for a group photo on the occasion of International Vyshyvanka Day, marked in 2017 on May 18. the National University of Ostroh Academy. One of the stu- dents who received such assistance from the U.S.-based with Lydia Kulbida), and singers Ruslan (he uses only his was held on August 12. Ukrainian-born Isabella White foundation was Olha Klymchuk of Ostroh, Rivne Oblast, first name) and Hanna Daczko. Also featured that week- was crowned as the new Miss Soyuzivka for 2018. The who is studying toward a bachelor’s degree in psychology. end were: a film festival; workshops in folk crafts and daughter of Sherry and Morgan White of Mainesburg, Pa., The third-year student recently expressed her thanks in a Ukrainian singing at the Ukrainian Village; vendors’ and she was adopted at the age of 13 from Odesa, Ukraine. The letter she sent in 2017 to the UNF’s president, Mr. food courts; a varenyky-eating contest; and dances to the first runner-up was Natalia Muzyka of Kerhonkson, N.Y., Kaczaraj. “I, along with my parents, express sincere thanks music of the Zabava Band. and Andrea Wasylyk of Cottekill, N.Y., was the second run- to you for the assistance given me, an invalid since child- A Friday evening fund-raising gala, “Retro Lviv,” attract- ner-up. hood, to enable me to fulfill my most heartfelt dream: to ed nearly 160 people. Held under a decorated tent on the At the end of the year, scouts from the Kerhonkson receive an education in my chosen specialty,” she wrote. Lviv lawn, the event included a cocktail hour reception, a branch of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organizations shared Thank-you letters were received also from 15 students four-course meal and a performance by some of the head- with readers of The Ukrainian Weekly the story of how who hail from Rivne Oblast; six from Khmelnytsky Oblast; lining acts. It was sponsored by the UNF with proceeds they had cleaned up and blazed trails at Soyuzivka and one each from the Volyn, Lviv, Ternopil and Zhytomyr going directly toward a career center for soldiers in Heritage Center during the spring. Led by scoutmasters oblasts. Ukraine. The charitable partner of the 2017 gala was the Roman Hrab Sr., Roman Wasylyk and Nadia Maczaj, the The UNF’s Soyuzivka Heritage Center held its 11th International Alliance for Fraternal Assistance, a respected team included Roman Hrab Jr., Vera Hrab, Julianna Maczaj annual Ukrainian Cultural Festival on July 14-16. and highly awarded Kyiv-based NGO. Viktoria Voronovych, and Pavlo Mysak, all members of the Plast scout patrol Thousands of guests, hailing from venues as diverse as assisted by her husband, Roman Woronowycz, spoke about named Pumas. To complete the project, the scouts California and Ukraine, came for the festival, whose head- the work of the IAFA, including its latest focus on establish- designed and installed trailhead signs for each of the five liners were the a capella group Pikkardiyska Tertsiya, the ing a career center to help Ukraine’s soldiers returning trails. rock band Kozak System and vocalist Oksana Mukha from from the frontlines. The evening gala transported guests to “Since completing our project, we have heard that visi- Ukraine, the women’s vocal ensemble Lanka Halychanka the 1930s and 1940s, and featured a gourmet dinner of old tors have enjoyed the newly marked trails. We are proud of Connecticut and the Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Lviv cuisine, including Lviv’s famous coffee, prepared by to know that our work has been noticed and appreciated. Ukrainian Dance Workshop. Other performers during the Chef Andrey Sonevytsky and his staff . We plan to keep up on maintenance of the trails and to course of the weekend were the Ukrainian folk band Hurt Later in the summer, the annual Miss Soyuzivka con- add more trail blazes in the spring of 2018 where needed,” Udech, violinist Vasyl Popadiuk (who also served as emcee test, sponsored by the Ukrainian National Association, the Plast scouts wrote.

Roma Hadzewycz The front page of the UNA scholarship section pub- Members of the Ukrainian National Association’s General Assembly at the 2017 annual meeting at Soyuzivka lished in The Ukrainian Weekly on September 3. Heritage Center on November 17-18. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 No. 4 No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 15

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Dzherelo children’s theater celebrates 25th anniversary by Christina Ostashevsky EDMONTON, Alberta – The Edmonton Ukrainian com- munity came together on December 16, 2017, at the Ukrainian National Federal Hall to celebrate the 25th anni- versary of the Ukrainian Children’s Studio Theater Dzherelo. Originally established by a group of Ukrainian mothers from Poland – Alexandra Cybulsky, Stefania Pik, Irena Prystasz and Slava Yopyk, and Ukrainian Women’s Organization member Olga Yaremko – as a Ukrainian lan- guage-learning meeting place for their own children, it has since developed into a full-fledged children’s drama group. Dzherelo means “water spring,” a name chosen by Iryna Zavadska, a former actress from the renowned Maria Zankovetska Theater in Lviv, and the first artistic director of Dzherelo. Olga Myc took over from Ms. Zavadska for 10 years (1994-2004), to be followed by Alla Semenko, who has been artistic director for 13 years. Run by the Edmonton Society of the Ukrainian Women’s Organization of Canada (UWO), Dzherelo holds an impor- tant place in the life of its members, some as young as 5. Every Friday evening the children get together to sing to a Roman Petriv A scene from the play “Once Upon a Dog,” as performed by the Ukrainian Children’s Studio Theater Dzherelo. wonderful accompaniment by music instructor Dmytro to all children, artists and audience members alike. Rusnak, recite poems and learn lines for the upcoming The opening act of the 25th anniversary celebration was plays. the Ukrainian female folk singers’ ensemble Ruta, compris- Ms. Semenko says that, although the amateur theater ing Dzherelo alumni and current high-school and universi- exposes children to Ukrainian literary, music and cultural ty students. Their beautiful singing helped beat the pre- traditions, it also develops the little artists’ team spirit and show jitters of the little artists performing “Once Upon a creates a sense of accomplishment. Ms. Dog,” a well-known Ukrainian folktale that found interna- Semenko said she has seen some timid tional acclaim as an award-winning 1982 animated film. children develop into great public speakers The plot centers on an old incapable guard dog who is and community leaders. For this reason, banned from home and ends up in a forest, face-to-face instructors Khrystyna Pikh and Olga Fediv make with his old enemy, the wolf. The two are able to put aside sure that every child out of the 26 current Dzherelo mem- their differences and stage a baby kidnapping that guaran- bers has a speaking role in each production. tees the dog’s return to his family, hailed as a hero. The Newly arrived immigrant children often find their first wolf’s reward is a place at the lavish Ukrainian wedding Ukrainian-speaking friends at Dzherelo, and it’s an extra- table (or rather under it, to not scare off the guests). The curricular activity that their parents can actually afford, play highlighted the value of true friendship and the impor- thanks to the generous sponsorship by the UWO. tance of collaboration in face of obstacles. The highlight of the year for all little Ukrainians is a visit After their well-deserved Christmas break, Dzherelo art- by St. Nicholas. This year’s anniversary production was ists and instructors will be back doing just that – fostering held in conjunction with the St. Nicholas celebration, which their friendships while collaborating on another theater The protagonists, the dog and the wolf, in “ Once Upon a Dog.” saw a very generous and patient St. Nicholas give out gifts production. Syracuse community celebrates trifecta of anniversaries

by Patricia A. Burak by the parish on the occasion of his 75th birthday. The Rev. Mykhaylo Dosyak, pastor SYRACUSE, N.Y. – The local Ukrainian of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Catholic community came together to cele- Church, not only inspired and orchestrated brate a trifecta of joyful events on Friday, the celebrations of both the retirement and November 17, 2017. birthday of Father Piso, but also enjoyed The Very Rev. Mitred Archpriest recognition of his own birthday and 20 Volodymyr Piso was honored for his 45 years of faithful service as a priest. years of faithful service in the priesthood The formal celebrations began at 4 p.m. (which includes 20 years in the Stamford in the church, with a presentation of special Eparchy and almost eights years at St. John gifts: the miter, which was a gift from the the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in priests of the deanery, new blessed vest- Syracuse after ordination as a priest in ments from St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Ukraine in 1973). He was also recognized Catholic Parish, and a Ukrainian hand-dec-

Denys Vasylevsky The Very Rev. Mitred Archpriest Volodymyr Piso and his wife, Nadia, cut the ceremo- nial “korovai.” orated cross, which was a gift from Andy Andrushkiv. The choir of St. John’s Church and Ted Melnyk, in memory of their par- sang the responses. ents, the late Oksana and Theodor Melnyk. At the Holiday Inn not far from the The divine liturgy followed, concelebrat- church, almost 200 parishioners, family ed by Bishop , the Very Rev. members, community dignitaries and Roman Sydorovych, dean of the Central friends joined the clergy and family mem- New York Deanery, Father Dosyak, the Rt. bers of Father Piso to reflect upon and cele- Rev. Mitred Archpriest Philip Weiner, the brate a life well lived and to express grati- Rev. Vasile Colopelnic, the Very Rev. Michael tude well deserved. Bundz, Father Illia Bobota, Father Michael This sold-out event was led by masters Mishuk, Father Marian Kostyk, the Rev. The Kalyna singers: Natalia Trut, Liudmyla Osiv, Svitlana Bidna and Lesia Piso. Teodor Czabala and Father Mykola (Continued on page 23) 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 No. 4

grasped the importance of this document self-published texts. Outside of prison, in Beginning in 1989, many now former Diaspora actions... and began to monitor and report Soviet order to own a typewriter in the USSR, the Ukrainian dissidents began to travel to the violations of the Helsinki Accords. This typewriter would need to be registered and West, on trips sponsored by Western gov- (Continued from page 4) information was smuggled out of Ukraine. approved by local authorities. Of course, in ernments and often with the help of the SUM, ODUM, branches and chapters of the In the West, the Human Rights Commission the Gulag, there were no typewriters. diaspora. Myron Waslylyk, a former direc- Ukrainian National Association, Ukrainian in Toronto, with organizations such as Therefore, texts were handwritten in tiny tor of the UNIS office in Washington, was Congress Committee of America, Ukrainian Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine letters on small pieces of paper to be passed working at the U.S. State Department in Canadian Congress. Hunger vigils were held (AHRU) from New Jersey and the Ukrainian along from one reader to another. When a 1990 for Assistant Secretary for Human in front of the Canadian Parliament in Human Rights Committee, established by samvydav made it out of Ukraine and into Rights Richard Schifter and recalls the Ottawa, at the United Nations in New York, in Ulana Mazurkevich and based in the West, whether in paper format or on meeting between his boss and Chornovil: “I front of the Soviet Embassy and the White Philadelphia, would bring this information to small pieces of film, two publishers were remember feeling so proud that the mes- House in Washington. A lobbying effort of the U.S. Congress, to the Canadian available to reprint the materials – Prolog, sages Chornovil was delivering at the meet- elected representatives was begun demand- Parliament, to foreign policy officials in order which published the journal Suchasnist, or ings were so much in sync not only concep- ing the release of Moroz. Free Moroz com- to keep them informed of Soviet violations. the publishing house Smoloskyp, run out of tually but also in terminology with the U.S. mittees were established throughout com- The financial commitment of the diaspora Baltimore by the recently deceased and human rights narrative at the time. These munities in Canada, the U.S., England. in support of the dissident movement in deeply dedicated Osyp Zinkewych. universal concepts had taken root in two Maria Proskurenko recalls her participa- Ukraine at this point must be noted. Many Zinkewych’s network of contacts among very different societies.” tion in the Moroz defense action: “I was in Ukrainian communities organized full-scale the members of the Ukrainian Helsinki When they traveled to the West, Winnipeg working at a Ukrainian Culture volunteer efforts – everything from demon- Group was extensive. Some in the Ukrainian dissidents, who were familiar Camp ... young Winnipegers with some out- strations, to petitions, to resolutions, to lob- Ukrainian diaspora involved in human with such documents as the U.S. of-towners decided to hold a hunger strike bying elected officials and, later, providing rights activism fondly referred to him as Constitution and the Helsinki Accords, in a park in front of the Manitoba room and board in their homes, as well as “Zink the Link.” In February 2016, in Kyiv, could comfortably relate to and discuss Parliament building, near the Taras medical treatment for dissidents and their Western political concepts with political Shevchenko monument. The hunger strike families. However, having salaried staff at the leaders. In many ways, they were Ukraine’s went on for 13 days ... What stands out most Ukrainian World Congress headquarters led (DefenseSmoloskyp of Ukrainianpublished Political the book Prisoners), “Оборона a best representatives prior to independence. in my mind was the participation of the by Ms. Isajiw, staff at the UCC and UCCA collectionУкраїнських of excerpts Політичних from Zinkewych’s В’язнів” They sent a message to our leaders in the greater Ukrainian community. We had a PR headquarters, representative offices in diaries from the 1960s and 1970s. Like the West that in Ukraine there were people group working with the media, a medical Washington of the Ukrainian National Isajiw book, this publication is another who understood and admired the West, group that monitored our health, communi- Association, then headed by Eugene excellent resource on diaspora activities in and were willing to be partners. ty activists interceding with elected officials Iwanciw and the UCCA’s representative defense of Ukrainian political prisoners. Another positive outcome of diaspora in the Parliament building right behind us. office, UNIS – headed in those years by In the late 1970s, Moroz was part of a work with dissidents was when Rukh, the They could look out their windows and see George Nesterczuk, Kateryna Chumachenko, U.S.-Soviet exchange – two Soviet spies for Popular Movement of Ukraine, was estab- us. People brought us tents, sleeping bags; Myron Wasylyk, Irena Chalupa and Tamara five political prisoners – Russian, Ukrainian lished in 1989. Ukrainians in the diaspora they did our laundry. We gave press inter- Gallo, and then in 1987-1989, paid staff at and Jewish. In the early 1980s, the Soviet already had almost two decades of work views, held daily meetings that attracted the U.S. Committee to Commemorate the Union began to allow certain dissidents to with the dissident movement to develop other young people, held prayer vigils. Even Millennium of Christianity of Rus’-Ukraine – emigrate West with the double goal of skills, networks, contacts and gain experi- the Ukrainian Canadian Communist Party was essential to the successful involvement somewhat improving their international ence. These attributes were then trans- got involved. They sent out anonymous let- of the diaspora in support of the dissident image while at the same time getting rid of ferred to the establishment of Rukh sup- ters to people in the community, ‘gently’ movement. trouble. Among the Ukrainian dissidents port committees throughout North warning them that these sorts of actions These administrative costs for offices, released through the 1980s were Mykola America. Support was also provided to the could have negative effects on family mem- staff and travel expenses provided continu- and Raisa Rudenko, Nina Strokata and Ukrainian Republican Party, which had bers in the ‘old country.’ At the time, this ity of action and a backbone of support. Sviatoslav Karavansky, Nadia Svitlychna been founded in Kyiv in 1990 by former was a common intimidation tactic of the Cumulatively, over the years (approximate- and Petro Grigorenko. Grigorenko estab- political prisoners such as Stepan Khmara, Communist Party in Canada.” ly 1975-1990), this financial support was in lished the External Representation of the Lukianenko and Horyn. Moroz was force-fed and after 145 days the millions of dollars. Ukrainian Helsinki Group in 1980. That As the 1980s ended, Moscow began to ended his hunger strike. His jailers had The constant monitoring by the group became an integral link between release political prisoners from the Gulag relented a bit and eased the conditions of Ukrainian Helsinki Group, and other region- diaspora organizations and dissidents in under a general amnesty announced by his confinement, although he would remain al Helsinki monitoring groups, recorded a Ukraine. In turn, back in the Soviet Union, Gorbachev. One of those prisoners released in prison for the next five years. pattern of repression that not even hard- during this period four Ukrainian political in 1987 was the dentist and author While Moroz was in prison, the final ened Soviet apologists could defend. This prisoners would die as a result of the foul Khmara. In November 1990, the same approval of the Universal Declaration of monitoring information trickled up to the conditions of their confinement: Valeriy month during which he became a co-found- Human Rights was completed and the willing ear of U.S. President Ronald Reagan Marchenko (1983), Oleksa Tykhy (1984), er of the URP, he was again arrested on Helsinki Accords came into force. This par- who often, in his remarks attacking the Yuriy Lytvyn (1984) and (1985). criminal charges of assault, attempts to ticular document inspired the immediate Soviet Union, would cite actions reported by Ukrainians have often been acknowl- seize state property and abuse of authority. establishment of Helsinki monitoring the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. In May 1988, edged as having been the largest group of These were charges that observers from groups in Eastern Europe and the Soviet during a trip to the Soviet Union, President dissidents imprisoned in the Soviet Gulag. Amnesty International, who had come to Union. The first one was in Moscow, quickly Reagan insisted on meeting Soviet dissi- In the West, however, knowledge of the watch his trial, stated were obviously followed by the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. dents, despite Mikhail Gorbachev’s claim struggle of Ukrainian dissidents, along with trumped up simply to stop and silence In November 1976, the founding members that these dissidents were not “the finest the struggle of dissidents from the Baltic Khmara, a very outspoken opponent of the in Kyiv included Mykola Rudenko, Oles examples” of Soviet citizens. Of those invit- states and republics such as Georgia, was Communist Party. Berdnyk, Petro Grigorenko, Ivan Kandyba, ed, 96 attended an afternoon tea at Spaso overshadowed by publicity about the His trial, which began in January 1991, Levko Lukianenko, Myroslav Marynovych, House in Moscow. Among the 96 were Russian dissidents based in Moscow, who was dragging into its eighth month when Mykola Matusevych, Oksana Meshko, Nina Vyacheslav Chornovil and his wife, Atena had direct access to foreign correspon- the coup began on August 19. When Strokata and Oleksa Tykhy. Within a short Pashko, Petro Ruban, Mykhailo and Olha dents, and Jewish refuseniks, who staged Ukraine declared independence on August time, all were arrested, convicted and sen- Horyn, and Ivan Hel. Only months earlier protests outside foreign embassies. While 24, he was still in prison. Immediately after- tenced for seven to 10 years. In defiance of both Chornovil and Horyn were still impris- almost every Ukrainian dissident would wards he was released and given amnesty. the crackdown, 19 new members joined oned in the Soviet Gulag. U.S. government acknowledge warm, even deep, relation- Stepan Khmara, in fact, was the last and the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, among them estimates were that there were still approxi- ships with fellow dissidents regardless of final Soviet Ukrainian political prisoner. Mykola Horbal, Vasyl Stus and Vyacheslav mately 35,000 Soviet political and religious nationality or religion, information present- Chornovil, and seven already in prison, dissidents being detained, exiled or impris- ed in Western media at the time made little In 1991, at the invitation of former dissi- among them Yuriy Shukhevych, Vasyl oned in 1986-1987. The fact that these four note of dissent in Ukraine. On the part of the dent and then member of Ukraine’s Romaniuk and Irena Senyk. Ukrainian dissidents were among the 96 Ukrainian diaspora, an enormous amount of Parliament Mykhailo Horyn, Irene Orest Deychakiwsky, a long-time staff was a bit remarkable. That success can be effort on the local and national levels was Jarosewich arrived in Kyiv to manage for- member of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, attributed to an intense and coordinated put into publicizing the efforts of Ukrainian eign media relations for Rukh – the Popular noted during his presentation last month at lobbying effort by the Washington office of dissidents, usually with little success. Movement of Ukraine. Her two-year tenure the Ukrainian World Congress conference the UCCA, board members of the U.S. Among the negative aspects for the included the August 1991 coup, the declara- in New York City, “A critical vehicle for Millennium Committee, which was being Ukrainian diaspora of support for tion of Ukraine’s independence and the dis- advancing freedom, human rights and funded by the Ukrainian National Ukrainian dissidents was the absolutely solution of the USSR. Afterwards, she democracy, the Helsinki process would play Association, and Ukrainian Americans who relentless disinformation, lies and genuine remained in Ukraine for several years, serv- an essential role in the dissolution of the had connections inside the White House, threats of violence and harm perpetuated ing as the director of public relations for the Soviet Union and restoration of Ukraine’s the executive branch and Congress. Despite by the Kremlin – all of which drained hrom- AT&T subsidiary UTEL. She is the former edi- independence.” longstanding tensions between certain dias- ada energy and resources. tor-in-chief of Svoboda (2000-2007) and a That was because at the core of the pora groups, in this instance a full effort was In the United States, maybe one of the former editor of The Ukrainian Weekly Helsinki process is a concept that was made to make sure that several Ukrainians most, if not the most, important positive (1996-2000). Since 2009, she has been anathema to the Soviet regime: individual met with the U.S. president while he was in consequence of the activist network that accredited as an NGO representative with dignity. The entire system of human rights Moscow. evolved from the first Free Moroz commit- the U.N. Department of Public Information empowers the individual, puts the dignity Lists of violations were not the only tees was the strong relationships devel- from the World Federation of Ukrainian of each individual in the center of political information smuggled out of the Gulag and oped with elected representatives in Women’s Organizations. She extends deep reality. In contrast, the Soviet system out of Ukraine. An entire system of under- Congress. These relationships of trust later thanks to colleague Orest Deychakiwsky for focused on suppression of the individual. ground writing – letters, diaries, poetry and led to a bill to establish the U.S. Commission his insights on this topic and for identifying Dissidents in Ukraine immediately books – were transformed into samvydav – on the Ukraine Famine in the 1980s. oversights in this presentation. No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 17 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 No. 4

annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region. The NEWSBRIEFS EU imposed economic sanctions that hit Russia’s oil and military industries in (Continued from page 2) response to the annexation of Crimea as requires day-to-day-to-day” reinforcement. well as Moscow’s backing of militants in TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL WALTER HONCHARYK (973) 292-9800 x3040 Reached by RFE/RL by e-mail, Mr. Volker fighting against Ukrainian government or e-mail [email protected] declined comment. The Trump administra- troops in eastern Ukraine. Speaking to the tion policy toward Ukraine had been in European Parliament’s Subcommittee on SERVICES PROFESSIONALS doubt early on in his presidency, amid Human Rights on January 24, Mr. Umerov Donald Trump’s repeated calls for a more told EU lawmakers that no economic sanc- conciliatory approach toward Russia. Last tions on Moscow should be lifted and that year, the White House signaled it was mov- “there should be new reports and resolu- ing forward on a long-delayed plan to sup- tions, cultural events should be banned and ply Ukraine with more advanced weaponry, boycotted, and we should expand economic to bolster its forces fighting Russian-backed sanctions so that Russia is so affected that separatists. (Mike Eckel of RFE/RL) they leave Crimea and the Donbas.” The bloc has also introduced asset freezes and Kazakhstan offers to host peace talks visa bans on more than 200 people in Kazakhstan has responded to Belarusian Crimea and Russia and enacted an EU criticism of Kazakh President Nursultan investment ban for the peninsula. Although Nazarbaev’s offer to move the venue of sanctions have been renewed on a regular peace talks on Ukraine from Minsk to basis, some EU member states have ques- Astana. Kazakh Deputy Minister of Foreign tioned the bloc’s sanctions policy, arguing SERVICES Affairs Erzhan Ashyqbaev told reporters in that their removal would improve Astana on January 22 that his country does EU-Russia relations. Mr. Chiygoz said the not doubt the importance of the Minsk EU sanctions regime had been “mild” and negotiating platform and “respects” the asked the EU to “be united just like when peace accords inked in the Belarusian capi- you helped us... help other prisoners, save tal. Ceasefire deals announced as part of the our people and our motherland.” Messrs. Minsk accords – September 2014 and Chyigoz and Umerov were released from February 2015 pacts aimed at resolving the Russian custody in Crimea in October 2017 SERVICES conflict – have failed to hold. “We are not after being sentenced by Russian- interfering in this [Minsk] process,” Mr. controlled courts a month earlier. Mr. Ashyqbaev said. “However, Kazakhstan is Chiygoz had been convicted of organizing always ready to give full support to find an illegal demonstration and was sen- LAW OFFICES OF solutions.” The Kazakh minister added that tenced to eight years in prison, whereas Mr. ZENON______B. MASNYJ, ESQ. Astana would do its best to offer a new plat- Umerov received two years for “separat- form for the talks if such a request comes ism” for his opposition to the Russian In the East Village since 1983 from the warring sides. On January 19, annexation of Crimea. 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cases of measles in the country in the first said. According to him, about an hour after guards who did not follow Mr. Yanukovych NEWSBRIEFS two weeks of this year – including 856 chil- departure, State Guard Department employ- passed their weapons to the State Guard dren. There were a total of 4,782 measles ees were informed that an Ukraerorukh dis- Department branch in Miskhor and left for (Continued from page 18) cases registered in Ukraine in all of 2017. A patcher had contacted them and proposed Kyiv by train the next morning. (Interfax- Ms. Kocijancic said. The European total of five people, including three chil- returning to Kharkiv. Mr. Riznychenko said Ukraine) Parliament in March 2017 called on Russia dren, died of measles in Ukraine last year. “it was Turchynov’s order.” However, since Kyiv to resume membership in tourism group to free more than 30 Ukrainian citizens who Marthe Everard, the WHO’s representative there was not enough fuel to return to were in prison or otherwise detained in in Ukraine, said in a statement this week Kharkiv, helicopters landed at Donetsk air- Kyiv intends to resume membership in Russia, Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine that at least twice as many children were port. The witness noted that immediately the World Tourism Organization of the controlled by Russia-backed separatists. In vaccinated against measles in 2017 com- after arrival in Donetsk, the head of the United Nations (known as UNWTO), which her January 19 statement, Ms. Kocijancic pared to the previous year. But she said security service of the Ukrainian president, currently comprises 158 countries. The also cited the case of Crimean Tatar activist “the continuing spread of measles in Kostiantyn Kobzar, gave an order to board director of the Tourism Development Bekir Degermendzhi, who was detained in Ukraine demonstrates that more must be two Falcon-type aircraft. However, the staff Center, Volodymyr Tsaruk, told Interfax- November 2017 in the Crimean city of done to vaccinate all those who have fallen of the State Border Service of Ukraine Ukraine this topic was discussed at a meet- approached them and said they were for- Symferopol on what the spokeswoman behind.” (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service, with ing of UNWTO Secretary General Zurab bidden to fly due to the fact that some docu- called “dubious charges” related to alleged reporting by AFP and Interfax) Pololikashvili with the head of the tourism ments had not been filed. Then Mr. extortion. Mr. Degermendzhi, who remains and promotions department of Kyiv City Witness: Russia helped Yanukovych flee Yanukovych and his entourage moved to in custody, suffers from asthma, a condition State Administration, Anton Taranenko, A serviceman of the State Guard cars and proceeded to a big house in during the 38th International Tourism his lawyers say has worsened since his Donetsk. Later, answering the questions of detention. “In view of the critical medical Department of Ukraine, Viktor Riznychenko, Exhibition FITUR in Spain. “The capital of who was guarding former President Viktor lawyers, Mr. Riznychenko said that staying Ukraine, when it obtains membership, will condition he suffers, it is essential that he is in this house, together with Mr. Yanukovych, Yanukovych, said he does not have informa- be able to organize one of the international immediately granted access to appropriate were his son, Oleksandr, and businessman tion about any threats to the life of the for- events with the support of UNWTO on its medical care,” Ms. Kocijancic said. She added Rinat Akhmetov. He said that on February mer president in the winter of 2014. During territory and participate in international that the EU “remains committed to fully 22, the motorcade of the ex-president and his interrogation as a witness in the conferences and congresses under the aus- implementing its policy of non-recognition his companions left for Crimea. According Yanukovych treason case in the Obolonsky pices of this tourist organization,” Mr. of the illegal annexation of Crimea and to him, they stopped in a field near District Court of Kyiv on January 18, he said Taranenko said. During the 38th Sevastopol.” (RFE/RL, with reporting by the Berdiansk, where three Mi-8 helicopters that on February 21, 2014, the ex-president International Tourism Exhibition FITUR, Crimean Desk of RFE/RL’s Ukrainian landed. Mr. Riznychenko said there were red was first in his administration and in the held in Madrid on January 17-21, Kyiv pre- Service) stars on the fuselages of the helicopters and afternoon, at about 5 p.m., he left for his res- sented its tourist opportunities, as well as that pilots were in special equipment. “I the most important sport event in the Measles outbreak kills eight in Ukraine idence in Mezhyhiria. At about 10 p.m. Mr. think that these were helicopters of the Riznychenko heard over the radio that Mr. world of European football – the Ukraine’s top health official says eight Russian Federation,” he said. Mr. Champions League final, which will be held Yanukovych had left his residence and a few Yanukovych and those who accompanied people have died of complications from hours later he had been ordered to leave for at the Olympiysky Stadium in Kyiv on May measles amid a recent outbreak in the him flew on these helicopters in an 28. The World Tourism Organization is the Kharkiv. For this reason, employees of the unknown direction and flew “over the sea.” country, which the World Health State Guard Department met on the Kyiv- leading international organization in the Organization (WHO) has ranked last in The witness said, “After a certain period of field of tourism, engaged in the develop- Kharkiv highway. The witness said that time, we landed on the airfield, where we terms of measles-vaccination coverage in ment of sustainable and generally accessi- early on February 22, he was already in were met by Russian servicemen. We stayed Europe. Acting Minister of Health Ulana ble tourism. (Interfax-Ukraine) Kharkiv, where the former president gave until the morning in trailers on the airfield.” Suprun told lawmakers on January 19 that an interview to the media and was to partic- On February 23, the ex-president, his secu- OSCE monitor killed in car accident a child who had not been vaccinated ipate in a Party of Regions congress, which rity guards and a “group of unknown armed against measles died the previous day. later was canceled. “In the afternoon of A member of the Special Monitoring men” flew farther on an An-26 military Mission of the Organization for Security “This is the eighth fatal case since the onset February 22, in the presidential motorcade, transport plane and then landed on another of the outbreak, and this is a tragedy for our I left for Kharkiv airport, where there were and Cooperation in Europe was killed in a unknown airfield, because “it was impossi- road accident in Kramatorsk in the Donetsk society, in which people die from diseases two helicopters with several security ble to continue flying for technical reasons.” that are preventable by vaccinations,” Dr. guards, in one of which was Yanukovych, region on January 18, the OSCE said. Vitalie They stayed there for about an hour and a Zara was a citizen of Moldova who had Suprun said. The Ukrainian Health Ministry and in the other were his family and several half and, according to the witness, a techni- on January 16 said it had registered 1,285 other security officers,” Mr. Riznychenko been working for the Luhansk Monitoring cal vehicle with the inscription “Anapa” was Team since July 2015, serving in seen on the airfield. “I assume that it was Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk and Kadiivka, the the city of Anapa in the Russian Federation,” In a post on Twitter, Mr. Volker said he organization said in a posting on Facebook said Mr. Riznychenko. Then there was a Russian willingness... “had a good conversation” with the on January 19. Mr. Zara was traveling in a flight on another plane to another airport, Ukrainian president. taxi in Kramatorsk when the car accident where they were again met by Russian mili- (Continued from page 1) In his comments in Brussels, Mr. Volker took place. He died at the scene, Russian tary and their vehicles. Later, the witness Mr. Volker said the Minsk process is very said he believes Mr. Putin ultimately wants news agency Interfax reported. “He is realized he was in Crimea. “We came to clearly set out in the accords: “ceasefire, “a Ukraine that is pro-Russian, part of remembered as a trusted, hard-working Yalta, to a sanatorium or a recreation center, withdrawal of heavy weapons, elections, Russia’s broader family.” friend and colleague, always with a smile, which most likely belonged to the Russian amnesties, special status, returning [con- “That’s the irony because they have cre- and will be missed and mourned,” the OSCE Federation,” he said. He noted that on the trol over] the border [with Russia in sepa- ated the opposite” by “invading and taking said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with evening of February 23, they left for ratist-held areas] to Ukraine, re-establish- over... territory” in Ukraine,” he said. his family.” Kurt Volker, the special U.S. Sevastopol and arrived at a Russian military ment of Ukraine’s sovereignty.” “It has produced a Ukraine that is more uni- envoy for Ukraine, also offered “condolenc- unit. They were addressed by Mr. es to the family, friends, and colleagues of He said one possible step forward, but fied, more nationalist, more Western-oriented Yanukovych, who proposed that security Vitalie Zara” on Twitter. It was the second “by no means the only option,” for advanc- than ever before,” Mr. Volker said, adding that guards make a choice “to move with him death of an OSCE monitor in eastern ing the implementation of the Minsk agree- the Kremlin does not “need to have this ter- further” or stay if anyone does not want to Ukraine in the last year. An American ments, would be to send a U.N. peacekeep- ritory to pursue Russia’s objective.” move. He said that at about 11 p.m, the ex- observer was killed last April when the car ing force into eastern Ukraine that “could “The occupation of this territory is actu- ally setting that back,” he said. “So even president continued on with his compan- he was traveling in drove over a land mine. control the territory, including the Ukrainian ions. Mr. Riznychenko and other security (RFE/RL, with reporting by Interfax) side of the Russian border.” though their talking points are something else for public consumption, I think they do “That would create time and space understand” that the intervention “has not where the other pieces of Minsk could be gone very well.” implemented,” Mr. Volker said. With sorrow we announce that However, Mr. Volker also said sanctions The deployment of international peace- imposed against Russia by the United keepers on Ukraine’s border with Russia Iwanna Czerniczenko States and EU since 2014 are no longer would be aimed in part to prevent Russia inflicting the “new pain” he suggested was née Bratach from sending fighters, weapons and ammu- needed to pressure Russia. age 95, of West Milford, NJ, passed away on Sunday, January 21, 2018. nition into Ukraine to support the separat- “Most of the businesses that have been Born in Buchach, Ukraine, Iwanna immigrated to the United States in ists – something Moscow denies doing affected by that have adjusted, so you are 1951, settling in Paterson and later moved to West Milford. She had been a despite what Kyiv and NATO say is incon- not having new pain attaching to business parishioner of St. John Ukrainian Catholic Church in Newark. Iwanna was the trovertible evidence. interests,” he noted. beloved wife of the late Dmytro Czerniczenko (1985). Loving mother of Oleksa Inflicting ‘new pain’ Chernichenko and his wife Lidia of Chester, NJ, and Stephen Czerniczenko and With reporting by RFE/RL correspondent his wife Andrea of Hewitt, NJ. Loving grandmother of Danusia Panas and her Between Brussels and Dubai, Ambassador Rikard Jozwiak in Brussels; Bloomberg husband Andrew of Mount Olive, NJ, Kendra Corrado and her husband Frank Volker traveled to Ukraine and met with Business News, The Wall Street Journal, of Kinnelon, NJ, and Lisa Papienuk and her husband Je of West Milford, NJ. President Petro Poroshenko in Kyiv on Kommersant, and Interfax. Dearest sister of Eugene Bratach of West Palm Beach, FL, and sister-in-law of January 23. Copyright 2018, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted Marlene Bratach of Bound Brook, NJ. Mr. Poroshenko’s office said they dis- with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ A funeral mass was celebrated on Wednesday, January 24, 2018, at 10 am cussed ways of “boosting international Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, 60 North Je erson Road, efforts to restore Ukraine’s sovereignty and Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (for the Whippany, NJ 07981, followed by cremation. In lieu of  owers, memorial territorial integrity” and voiced concern full text of this story, see https://www.rferl. donations may be made to Plast Camp, c/o Danylo Bojcun, 3640 Stanton Street, about Russia’s failure to fulfill obligations org/a/ukraine-volker-russia-willingness-end- Unit 205, Philadelphia, PA 19129 (browningforshay.com). under the Minsk agreements. conflict/28994196.html). 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 No. 4 Geraschenko receives Global Trailblazer Award Georgetown Institute across notoriously divisive political lines and for Women, Peace and Security pushed for legislation on domestic violence, equality in the workforce and increased WASHINGTON – Iryna Geraschenko is women’s political participation. Prior to the highest-ranking woman in the ongoing being appointed deputy speaker, she served process to reach a peaceful solution to the on the parliamentary Committee on conflict in eastern Ukraine. European Integration and began her career She is the deputy speaker of the as a journalist. Ukrainian Parliament and serves as the For her ongoing efforts to bring about a Ukrainian president’s commissioner for the peaceful resolution to the conflict in east- peaceful settlement of the situation in war- ern Ukraine, and for using her place at the torn Donetsk and Luhansk. table to advocate for marginalized groups, Ms. Geraschenko has traveled repeated- Georgetown University’s Institute for ly to conflict areas in Ukraine’s east, and Women, Peace and Security presented her continues to shine a spotlight on the with the 2017 Global Trailblazer Award. impact of violence on the most vulnerable Ms. Geraschenko received the award on communities, including children and inter- October 30, 2017, at a ceremony in nally displaced persons. She has also recog- London. Also honored were Monica nized the differential impact conflict has on McWilliams of Northern Ireland and May women, and the crucial role women have Sabe Phyu of Myanmar. played in Ukraine during since the Maidan Revolution in 2014. Ms. Geraschenko also co-chaired the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security 100 years... Ukrainian Parliament’s Equal Opportunities Iryna Geraschenko (center) with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary William Hague (Continued from page 4) Caucus, one of few cross-party coalitions in (keynote speaker at the 2017 Global Trailblazer Award event) and Ambassador Melanne Ukrainian politics. The caucus worked Verveer, director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. As so many times throughout history, today Ukraine’s independence is again under threat from Russian imperialism. Russia wages a brutal war of aggression against Ukraine, and illegally occupies sovereign Ukrainian territory in Crimea and the Donbas. The Ukrainian people are once again forced to defend their homeland from foreign tyranny. They have responded with unity of purpose, determination and courage. On the battlefields and in the trenches of eastern Ukraine, the valiant men and women of Ukraine’s Armed Forces continue the historic battle in defense of Ukraine’s liberty. The price of this liberty is extraordi- narily high. Today we mourn the thousands of Ukrainian heroes who have given their lives so that Ukraine may remain free. They will never be forgotten. May their memory

Today, on this momentous anniversary, we bereaffirm eternal. our Вічная commitment пам’ять. to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. Because justice always tri- umphs over evil, we are certain in the knowl- edge that one day soon, the blue-and-yellow standard will again fly over the cities and towns of Crimea and the Donbas. To our sis- ters and brothers in Ukraine, we pledge to do all in our power to support their righteous struggle in defense of their freedom. And we ask God to protect Ukraine. No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 21

Svitolina defeated Carla Suzrez Navarro of Spain (6-2, 6-4), Ana Konjuh of Croatia (6-3, 6-1) and of Svitolina captures Brisbane title Great Britain (1-6, 7-6, 3-2, retired) leading into her semifi- nal victory over Pliskova (7-5, 7-5). The semi was a stun- has made it very clear she intends to be worked really good during this week. ning turnaround after the defending champion raced out to the woman to beat in 2018 after her resounding disman- “I just try to take this as one step that’s forward. If I’m a 4-0 lead in the first set, looking to duplicate her 2017 tling of surprise qualifier of Belarus there with my game, I have a good chance to play well [at win. Somehow Svitolina flicked the switch, winning the to win the Brisbane International tournament on January the ]. I don’t have any pressure that I have next four games before holding a shocked Pliskova to love 6. The lopsided triumph with a 6-2, 6-1 score got the young to play well there. I am on the right path, and we can see to take the set. Pliskova staged her own recovery in the sec- Ukrainian star her 10th career title – five of which that the things we’ve been working on are the right ond set, clawing back from 2-5 down, but couldn’t stop her came last year – at Pat Rafter Arena. things…and we will continue on that.” opponent from wrapping up a 97-minute victory. Her upset of defending champion Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic in the semifinal was enough to catapult her back up to a No. 4 ranking in the world heading into the seeding for the Australian Open. Landing the silver- Svitolina eliminated in the quarterfinal of the Australian Open ware in Brisbane served to boost her confidence on the way to Melbourne with her eyes fixed firmly on her maiden by Matthew Dubas ond round 7-6, 6-3, 6-4 against Matthew Ebden of grand slam trophy. Australia, and lost 7-6, 2-6, 3-6, 3-6 in the third round The third-seeded Svitolina took advantage of the 88th PARSIPPANY, N.J. – At the in against Diego Schwartzman of Argentina. In the first ranked Sasnovich playing an eighth match in nine days and Melbourne on January 15-28, Elina Svitolina lost 4-6, round, Dolgopolov won 7-6(3), 6-3, 6-4 against Andreas her first top-level final. Any brief resistance from the 0-6 against of Belgium in the quarterfinal. Haider-Maurer of Austria. Belarusian was countered with Svitolina’s superb ball Along the way, Svitolina won 6-3, 6-0 against Denisa In women’s doubles, and Anastasia striking, wrapping up the final match in a mere 65 minutes. Allertova of the Czech Republic in the fourth round, won Rodionova of Australia were eliminated in the third After a quick 3-0 lead to start the rout Sasnovich found 6-2, 6-2 against in the third round, won round after a 1-4 loss in the first set before retiring some range with her strong backhand, briefly attempting 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 against Katerina Siniakova of the Czech against Irina-Caelia Begu and , both of to make it a contest. Svitolina unleashed a backhand bar- Republic in the second round, and won 6-3, 6-2 against Romania. Bondarenko and Aleksandra Krunic of Serbia rage of her own to break again, seal the first set and pro- Ivana Jorovic of Serbia in the first round. lost 6-7, 2-6 in the second round against Viktoriia ceeded to run away with the second set, earning the crown Kostyuk, 15, won the first-round qualifier of the Golubic of Switzerland and Nina Stojanovic of Serbia. with her name engraved on the Evonne Goolagong trophy. Australian Open after winning 6-2, 6-2 against Shuai and Raluca Olaru of Romania won 6-3, 6-3 “I want to say congrats to Aliaksandra, coming through Peng of China (ranked No. 27). In the second round, in first round against Kozlova and of the qualifiers is always very tough and challenging,” Kostyuk won 6-3, 7-5 against Olivia Rogowska of Kazakhstan. Savchuk and Olaru lost 2-6, 2-6 in the sec- Svitolina said in a post-match interview. “On behalf of the Australia. Kostyuk won the 2017 Australian Open ond round against Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova, players I want to say thank you because it’s always very junior girls title. She set a record as the youngest female both of the Czech Republic. Lyudmyla Kichenok and special to play in front of this crowd, it’s amazing.” player to win straight sets in 22 years of the Australian Makoto Ninomiya of Japan lost 6-7, 2-6 in the first Svitolina shined on serve in the final, never facing a Open. round against Lesley Kerkhove of the Netherlands and break point and dropping only four points behind her Lesia Tsurenko lost 6-2, 5-4, 3-6 against Agnieszka Lidziya Marozava of Belarus. serve in eight games. Two of her 10 aces, along with a ser- Radawanska of Poland in the second round. In the first In mixed doubles, Kichenok and Marcel Granollers of vice winner, came in the final game of the match. round, Tsurenko won 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 against Natalia Spain lost 2-6, 5-7 against Andrea Sestina Hlavackova of “There is not only one serve that I’m working on. Vikhlyantseva of Russia. the Czech Republic and Edouard Roger-Vasselin of There’s lots of things,” Svitolina said after the match. “To be lost 5-7, 6-3, 1-6 against France in the second round. a good, consistent player you have to work on everything Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia in the third round, In girls’ singles, Viktoriia Dema lost 3-6, 4-6 against and to be confident with all parts of your game. Of course, won 6-2, 6-3 against of Mananchaya Sawangkaew of Thailand in the second the serve is one of them because you can get free points off Russia in the second round, and won 7-6, 4-6, 6-2 round, after winning 6-4, 6-3 against Park So-hyun of that.” against Viktorija Golubic of Serbia in the first round. South Korea in the first round. She continued: “It was very important to use what I was Kateryna Kozlova was eliminated in the first round In girls’ doubles, Dema and Kostyuk lost 6-0, 4-6, working on during the offseason, a tough offseason, and it by Pavlyuchenkova 6-3, 4-6, 3-6. 5-10 against Loudmilla Bencheikh of France and Mana was working. One match at a time, I was improving in some In men’s singles, Alexandr Dolgopolov won the sec- Kawamura of Japan in the first round. parts. I was playing better and better and, you know, serve 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 No. 4

Nashi Predky goes virtual Szkafarowsky to appear as for spring conference the Bonze in “Madame Butterfly” by Michael Buryk by Olia Rudyk SOMERSET, N.J. – Nashi Predky, the Ukrainian family history NEW YORK – Stefan Szkafarowsky, known for group of the Ukrainian History and Education Center, has been help- his beautiful bass voice and his impeccable vocal ing families discover their Ukrainian ancestral roots since 2014. To technique, returns to the Metropolitan Opera date most spring and fall conferences have taken place in person in House in New York this season to portray the role Somerset, N.J. Now for the first time, the spring 2018 Ukrainian of the Bonze in the opera “Madame Butterfly” on genealogy conference will be completely online. The event will take February 22 and 26 as well as March 3, 8, 13 and place on Saturday, March 17, from 8:20 a.m. through 2:30 p.m. 16. Presentations will include: “Greek-Catholics in Poland and Family “Madame Butterfly,” is one of the world’s best Research”; “Introduction to Ukrainian Genealogy”; “Introduction to loved operas in three acts by composer Giacomo DNA and Genetic Genealogy”; and “A Historical Overview of Puccini and librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Ukraine.” Giacosa. The setting is Nagasaki, Japan, in the early Using the GoToWebinar online conferencing platform, attendees 1900s. The opera is centered upon a love affair can view the presentations from anywhere in the world on their between an American and a Japanese girl, and is own computer with a web connection. They can also actively partic- notable for exotic period stage settings. ipate in the talks and ask questions through a special chat feature. Mr. Szkafarowsky has sung not only at the Met, Presentations will be archived for a 72-hour period after the event but at many well-known opera houses in the closes at 2:30 p.m. on March 17. United States and abroad, including such venues Registration is $40; members of the Ukrainian History and as the LA Opera, Virginia Opera, Seattle Opera, Education Center get a 10 percent discount. There are less than 100 Dallas, Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera seats available for the online conference, so readers are advised to Colorado, Florida Grand Opera, Sao Paulo Opera in register early. Kevin Rawlings Please follow this link for a speaker schedule with biographies Brazil, Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Italy, Savonlinna Music Festival in Finland and the Lviv Opera in Stefan Szkafarowsky as the Bonze in “Madame and access to online registration: https://www.ukrhec.org/nashi- Butterfly.” predky-online-workshop-2018. Ukraine. The main bass roles that he has performed have Lammermoor” and “Aleko.” Mike Buryk is a Ukrainian American writer whose research and been from world-renowned operas such as “Aida,” Mr. Szkafarowsky has had the great honor to articles have covered a wide variety of topics. He is co-founder of the “Macbeth,” “Nabucco,” “Don Carlos,” “The Marriage of share the stage with wonderful artists as Placido Nashi Predky Family History Group and is a trustee of the Ukrainian Figaro,” “The Barber of Seville,” “Eugene Onegin,” Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Paul Plishka, Sherill History and Education Center. He may be reached at Michael.buryk@ “Rusalka,” “Boris Godunov,” “The Magic Flute,” Milnes, Maria Ciara, Piero Cappuccilli and many of verizon.net. “Rigoletto,” “Il Trovatore,” “La Boheme,” “Lucia di today’s fantastic artists.

Ukraine shows... (Continued from page 1) the nation’s short-lived statehood of 1917- 1921 to Ukraine’s current situation. In that span, control over Kyiv “changed hands more than 10 times until it finally went to the Kremlin for 71 whole years,” the president noted. Like today, Russia used information war- fare to its fullest advantage, Mr. Poroshenko said. The former UNR Prime Minister “Isaak Mazepa wrote that the Bolsheviks were right when they boasted having con- quered [Ukraine] not so much with military force, but with ‘the might of their propa- ganda among the disoriented Ukrainian masses,’ ” Mr. Poroshenko explained. He asked rhetorically: “For us now, is it not important to find a way to counteract the spread of Russian fake [news] in the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Ukrainian information space?” Map of Ukraine in 1918 by M. Dyachyshyn. But unlike at the time of the UNR, Ukraine today is more united, has a strong Mr. Poroshenko concluded: “We must over- ters announced that one Ukrainian soldier Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the army and the support of “international come the external aggression, build a was killed near the Luhansk Oblast town of armed resistance of the Ukrainian partners to withstand the aggressor… and European Ukraine, and pass it down to the Troyitske. By January 24, this year’s mili- Insurgent Army during and after World this is the principal, positive difference in safe hands of our children and grandchildren.” tary death toll had risen to 13. War II, and by the dissidents at the height the current situation from what existed 100 Moscow’s aggression continued to be Russian-commanded and -controlled of the USSR’s rule, up to the 1980s when years ago,” the president added. felt that very day, as the military headquar- forces occupy more than 7 percent of the Rukh movement emerged.” Ukraine’s territory in an unprovoked war Another long-term perspective was that has killed more than 10,330 lives and given by Serhii Plokhii, director of the displaced up to 2 million people – the larg- Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard est internal migration of people in Europe University. since World War II. Speaking to Radio Liberty on January 23, Aside from leaving behind the legacies of he said: “During the 20th century, in Ukraine’s national symbols – the national Ukraine, independence was declared five anthem, the coat of arms and the national times. But only the fifth time in 1991 was flag – the Ukrainian National Republic estab- successful. And a stable Ukrainian state was lished the governing institutions upon which formed that given [Russia’s] war, indepen- Ukraine is still building, said Volodymyr dence has withstood. But the intellectual Viatrovych, head of the government-run genesis of this state, of course, is in January Ukrainian Institute of National Memory. 1918, and this intellectual momentum He said those institutions – starting from remained throughout the 20th century… the legislature and extending to cultural And in this sense… Ukraine of 1991 is a and film-making centers as well as continuation of the act of 1918.” Ukrainian educational institutions – “were Disgraced ex-President Viktor all eventually destroyed by the Bolsheviks.” Yanukovych had cancelled the official com- In a phone interview with The Ukrainian memoration of Day of Unity on December Weekly on January 24, he emphasized: “Yet 30, 2011, with a decree. His successor, Mr. UNR’s spirit inspired attempts to re-estab- Poroshenko, reversed the decision on The Fourth Universal of 1918 that declared Ukraine’s national anthem, as translated lish independence: in the inter-war period, November 13, 2014, with his own presi- independence. by The New York Times in 1918. marked by the emergence of the dential order. No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 23

February 1 Presentation by Jane Buchanan, Natalie Koch, Gabriele February 5 Seminar by Marlene Laruelle, “Fashisty! Russian New York Marcotti, “Russia Hosts the World Cup: Sports and Cambridge, MA Nationalism and the War in Ukraine,” Harvard Politics in 2018,” Columbia University, 212-854-4623 University, www.huri.harvard.edu or 617-495-4053

February 1 Meeting with Dr. Ulana Suprun, acting minister of health February 6 Book talk, “Ukraine’s Quest for Identity: Embracing Ottawa of Ukraine, Embassy of Ukraine in Canada, New York Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991-2011” [email protected] by Maria Rewakowicz, Columbia University, 212-854-4697 or [email protected] February 2-11 Art exhibit, “Paintings/Moving Forward” by Les New York Panchyshyn, Ukrainian Institute of America, www.ukrainianinstitute.org or 212-288-8660 February 7 Book presentation, “The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate Stanford, CA History of Revolution” by Marci Shore, Stanford February 2-25 Art exhibit, “World Through the Eyes of the Artist,” University, 650-725-2563 Chicago featuring ballpoint pen art of Andriy Poletaev, Ukrainian National Museum, 312-421-8020 February 8 Book presentation by Jordan Gands-Morse, “Property New York Rights in Post-Soviet Russia: Violence, Corruption and February 3 64th Presentation of Debutantes, Ukrainian Engineers’ the Demand for Law,” Columbia University, Philadelphia Society of America, Hyatt Regency Hotel at the Bellevue, 212-854-4623 610-277-1284 or [email protected] February 8-9 Conference, “The Communist Century: New Studies in February 3 Presentation of Debutantes, Plast Ukrainian Scouting Stanford, CA Revolution, Resistance and Radicalism,” Stanford Independence, OH Organization in Cleveland, Embassy Suites Hotel University, 650-725-2563 or [email protected] Cleveland-Rockside, [email protected]

February 3 Performance, “Martin Luther’s Deutsche Messe of February 10 Debutante Ball, Ukrainian American Youth Association, New York 1526,” featuring Ensemble Origo under the direction of Parsippany, NJ Sheraton Parsippany Hotel, www.cym.org/us/deb Eric Rice, with elements of Polish/Ukrainian composer Marcin Leopolita, Ukrainian Institute of America, February 10 Dinner and trivia night, League of Ukrainian Canadians, www.ukrainianinstitute.org or 212-288-8660 Ottawa Ukrainian Cultural Center, [email protected]

February 3 Family pierogi night, Knights of Columbus St. Vladimir February 10 Spaghetti Dinner, Ukrainian National Home, Ottawa the Great Council and the Ukrainian Catholic Women’s Syracuse, NY [email protected] or 315-478-9272 League of Canada, St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Shrine, 613-830-7787 or 613-224-3551 February 10 Malanka celebration, Hearts on Fire Dance, with music Norwood, MA by Zapovid, Four Points by Sheraton, February 4 Pre-Lenten dinner, St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic [email protected] or 714-600-9199 Scranton, PA Church, 570-503-1514

February 4 Commemorative event honoring the Heroes of Kruty, Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events North Port, FL Ukrainian Community Committee, St. Andrew Ukrainian advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions Religious and Cultural Center (Oseredok), from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors [email protected] and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected].

troupe, which together with Father Dosyak Syracuse... and Kalyna performed several more favor- ite Ukrainian songs. (Continued from page 15) Father Piso and his wife provided a spe- of ceremonies Dr. George and Roma cial musical performance for the apprecia- Temnycky, in both Ukrainian and English. tive audience. Performances of the Odesa Many members of Father Piso’s family Ukrainian Dance Troupe were enthusiasti- were introduced, and the pride and love cally received by all. felt both by Father Volodymyr and his wife, After the convocation and dinner, Father Nadia, was tangible. Children and grand- Piso was presented with a specially baked children included: son, Volodymyr, and his “korovai,” a blessed ritual bread tradition- wife, Nadiya, with their two children, ally made for Ukrainian weddings, but Yaroslav and Viktoriya; daughter Nataliya, always recognized as a celebration of life. her husband, Petro Trut, and their children, The korovai was cut and distributed to all Volodymyr and Nazar; and son Yaroslav, in recognition of the honoree’s sacrifice his wife, Nataliia Bosa, and their children, and success as a priest in our church. Daniel and Alexander. Individual tributes were taken from The Piso family also includes niece both the podium and the floor. All in the Svitlana Bidna, who leads the vocal ensem- hall expressed appreciation and respect for ble Kalyna, which sang several folk songs. the history and years of service of Father Ms. Bidna also is part of the Piso family Piso.

NOTIFICATION OF SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING Attention Shareholders The Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of the Ukrainian National Home 140 2nd Ave., New York, NY 10003 will take place Sunday, February 4, 2018, at 2:30 p.m. in the Main Auditorium. Meeting will include annual reports and the election of a new Board of Directors. Phone: (212) 529-6287 Attendance limited to registered shareholders. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 No. 4

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Tuesday, February 6 Building, 420 W. 118th St). The event is free and open to the public. For additional infor- NEW YORK: Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, mation call 212-854-4697. Columbia University, for a presentation by Saturday, February 10 Maria Rewakowicz of her book “Ukraine’s Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural NEW YORK: Join us at 7 p.m. for “Bohdan Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991- Boychuk (1927-2017) in Life and Poetry,” 2011” (Lexington Books, 2017). In her book, an evening of remembrance of the poet, Ms. Rewakowicz examines major works of writer, literary critic and the founding literature produced in Ukraine during the member of the New York Group on the first first two decades after independence, situat- anniversary of his passing. Stash Luczkiw, ing the post-independence literary process Askold Melnyczuk, Dzvinia Orlowsky and within a grid of specific contexts, focusing Maria Rewakowicz will share their person- especially on how regionalism, gender and al recollections of the poet and commemo- language issues, as well as social marginal- rate his life through readings of his poetry, ization and popular culture, are reflected in as well as excerpts from their own works. literary works following the collapse of the Admission (includes light reception) is $10. Soviet empire. This event will take place at The Ukrainian Museum is located at 222 E. noon in the Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Sixth St.; telephone, 212-228-0110; web- Room (Room 1219, International Affairs site, www.ukrainianmuseum.org.

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