INSIDE:• Documentary on Holocaust survivors in — page 3. • Ukrainian women’s group attends U.N. conference — page 4. • Concert marks St. Nicholas Cathedral’s centennial — page 13.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIV HE No.KRAINIAN 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine OurT Ukraine atU crossroads Embassy ofW Ukraine honors as internal crisis wracks party Ukrainian American astronaut by Zenon Zawada ing his resignation as Political Council Press Bureau chair on October 19 Though delegates were chanting KYIV – Our Ukraine People’s Union “Katerynchuk,” the young handsome (OUPU), the political party most syn- leader didn’t step up to the plate. onymous with the , is No one challenged Mr. Bezsmertnyi – at a do-or-die crossroads. not even the president himself. Winning 14 percent of the vote in the “If the triumvirate were kicked out of March elections, the Our Ukraine bloc, a the party in a public way, that would sig- six-party union in which OUPU is the nal a clean break from the past,” said key player, would now only win 6 per- Ivan Lozowy, president of the Kyiv- cent, according to recent polls, with no based Institute of Statehood and rebound in sight. Democracy, which is exclusively “I believe that the party, as a political financed by Ukrainian business dona- organism, today is going through a seri- tions. ous internal crisis,” President Viktor “That would be a good start. But Our Yushchenko, the party’s honorary chair, confirmed at the party’s third congress Ukraine has been doing the worst thing held on October 21. politically – exposing internal problems The problem is OUPU has lost its without solving them. It’s dirty laundry way, political experts said, with much of in the minds of voters,” he added. the blame falling on a detached, indeci- It’s doubtful anything will be resolved sive Mr. Yushchenko and Roman during subsequent negotiations, since Bezsmertnyi, his trusted confidante but a Mr. Bezsmertnyi and the inner circle he represents won’t surrender their power, politician who experts say lacks vision Yaro Bihun and conviction. experts said. “Our Ukraine has a leadership that Therefore, some form of a party split Cmdr. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper thanks Ambassador Oleh Shamshur for can’t form an independent policy and appears inevitable. the letter of greetings from President presented to her at the can’t form concrete positions,” said “For Our Ukraine, these will probably Embassy of Ukraine in Washington. Serhii Taran, chair of the Socio-Vymir be the last talks in such a format,” said Center for Sociological and Political Vitalii Kulyk, director of the Center for by Matthew Dubas National Aeronautics and Space Civil Society Research, which is funded Administration, the U.S. Department of Research and a member of the Pora WASHINGTON – The space shuttle political party. by French private grants, as well as State, the media and members of the donations and lectures. “After that, they crew of the Atlantis, mission STS-115, Ukrainian community were in attendance. At the party’s congress, Mr. was honored on Monday, October 23, at will either enter the (ruling) coalition and Ambassador Oleh Shamshur greeted Yushchenko called for a wholesale the Embassy of Ukraine at a special cleansing of the party’s leadership (Continued on page 3) reception. Representatives from the (Continued on page 4) cadres. While not referring to them by name, it was understood that this meant the departure of Mr. Bezsmertnyi, who is the public face of the party’s core group: Spielberg in Ukraine to promote Holocaust documentary , Mykola Martynenko by Zenon Zawada greeted his friend Victor Pinchuk when Produced on a $1 million budget and and Oleksander Tretiakov. Kyiv Press Bureau setting foot in Ukraine for the first time directed by Ukrainian Sergey Bukovsky, Mr. Yushchenko made it abundantly to promote “Spell Your Name,” a docu- “Spell Your Name” is a 90-minute testi- clear that he wanted a change in leader- KYIV – “Finally, I am in my homeland.” mentary film about the Holocaust in mony featuring the harrowing accounts ship from the old guard. “I don’t want With these words, legendary film Ukraine that they jointly produced and of Holocaust survivors and their res- the party to become some kind of pri- director Steven Spielberg on October 18 financed. cuers, employing aesthetic, visuals in vately held stock company, where the recreating the era’s mood and atmos- main stockholders can monopolistically phere. decide what is needed for the party, but “Spell Your Name’s” premiere marked in reality resolve their own private inter- a landmark step in Ukraine’s long over- ests, or the interests of those close to due process of reconciling with its past them. The party and its governing organs horrors, which includes the Holocaust are responsible for this,” he stated. and the Great Famine of 1932-1933, a OUPU’s response to Mr. genocide against the Ukrainian people Yushchenko’s call to action perhaps known as the . revealed the party’s precise dilemma. “I really believe that listening to the Firstly, Mr. Yushchenko didn’t offer stories of Holocaust survivors from all any suggestion or solution to the leader- around the world is going to change the ship crisis. world, and it already has in many ways,” Then Mr. Bezsmertnyi took the stage Mr. Spielberg told a Kyiv press confer- to adjourn the congress and declare a ence of about 100 journalists, photogra- three-week recess, jeopardizing any reso- phers and cameramen, some arriving lution to the crisis. The congress had from . lasted merely a half-hour when he called “A film like this is certainly going to the recess. bring tremendous attention to the Experts believe Mr. Bezsmertnyi Cutty Sark Co. Holocaust in the [sic] Ukraine, at Babyn called the recess as a mere delaying tac- Yar and in hundreds of towns and vil- tic in order to gain time to reinsert him- Billionaire Victor Pinchuk and American film legend Steven Spielberg talk to self in the party’s hierarchy after declar- reporters about “Spell Your Name” at an October 18 press conference in Kyiv. (Continued on page 12) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 No. 44

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Pro-presidential bloc goes into opposition PM announces gas deal with Russia Doubts about gas price, volume by Jan Maksymiuk in the 2004 Orange Revolution. Both RFE/RL Newsline blocs split in September 2005 because of KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor K YIV – Volodymyr Saprykin, an ener- their failure to co-exist in a coalition Yanukovych said at a joint news confer- gy expert from the Kyiv-based Razumkov Our Ukraine has announced that it is government. And they suffered an even ence with his Russian counterpart, Center, suggested to RFE/RL’s Ukrainian switching to the opposition and pulling worse failure while trying to form a new Mikhail Fradkov, in Kyiv on October 24 Service on October 24 that the price its ministers out of the government. Our coalition after the March parliamentary that Ukraine in 2007 will receive at least Ukraine will have to pay for imported gas Ukraine leader said elections. 55 billion cubic meters of imported gas in 2007 may be higher than $130 per in the on October 17 The YTB announced the creation of an for no more than $130 per 1,000 cubic 1,000 cubic meters. According to Mr. that his bloc's decision to go into opposi- “interfactional” opposition association in meters, Ukrainian and international Saprykin, out of the 42.5 billion cubic tion was caused by its disagreement with the Verkhovna Rada last month and made media reported. “Negotiations are con- meters of Turkmen gas contracted for policies pursued by the ruling coalition former Prime Minister Tymoshenko its cluding in Russia .... As soon as the exec- Ukraine, RosUkrEnergo will take some 16 of the Party of the Regions, the Socialist leader. So far Ms. Tymoshenko has man- utives arrive in Ukraine, they will show billion cubic meters as payment for its Party and the Communist Party, which is aged to attract only two defectors from these contracts,” Interfax-Ukraine quoted transit service, thus leaving Kyiv with a often referred to as an Anti-Crisis the Socialist Party to this opposition Mr. Yanukovych as saying. This 55 bil- resulting gas shortage. “As of today, we Coalition. alliance. lion cubic meters of Central Asian gas, lack the knowledge of the price and the “In the past two months we witnessed Meanwhile, YTB National Deputy along with 20 billion cubic meters of gas volume of Russian gas that has to be sup- a break in Ukraine's domestic and for- Anatolii Semynoha told RFE/RL’s extracted domestically, will reportedly be plied to Ukraine next year. Without eign course that was supported by the Ukrainian Service that he and his col- sufficient to meet Ukraine’s needs in Russian gas, [Ukraine] will not hold its Ukrainian people during the election of leagues will readily welcome Our 2007. All of the gas imported by Ukraine balance [between gas needs and gas President Viktor Yushchenko. Integration Ukraine lawmakers among their ranks. is supplied through the Swiss-based imports],” Mr. Saprykin said. “Therefore, with the World Trade Organization is “Our position is comprehensible. We RosUkrEnergo intermediary and is $130 is not the final and the highest price being ruined, programs of cooperation formed an interfactional opposition bought by UkrGasEnergo, point. In other words, I think it is neces- between Ukraine and the [European union, which has been joined by some RosUkrEnergo’s joint venture with sary to expect an [additional] accord Union] have actually been halted,” Mr. Socialists. We are inviting Our Ukraine Naftohaz Ukrayiny. Now Ukraine pays between Gazprom, RosUkrEnergo, and Bezsmertnyi said. as well. I think that it is necessary for $95 per 1,000 cubic meters of a Naftohaz Ukrayiny,” Mr. Saprykin assert- Mr. Bezsmertnyi called on opposition them to join [this union] and start work- Turkmen-Russian gas mix supplied by ed. (RFE/RL Newsline) parties, both within and outside the ing today without inventing a bicycle RosUkrEnergo. (RFE/RL Newsline) Verkhovna Rada, to set up a “confedera- [anew],” he said. Does deal include political concessions? tion” to support the pro-European course However, judging by Mr. Bezsmertnyi’s Russian PM talks about NATO, WTO championed by President Yushchenko. announcement on October 17, Our KYIV – Ukrainian First Vice Prime “Regarding our proposals in today's KYIV– Russian Prime Minister Minister Mykola Azarov on October 24 Ukraine is set to reformat the configura- Mikhail Fradkov said in Kyiv on October situation, we call on opposition forces in tion of opposition groups in Ukraine denied media reports claiming last week Parliament and outside Parliament to 24 that the issue of gas supplies to that the Ukrainian government was ready according to its own taste rather than join Ukraine was not discussed at his meeting form a European Ukraine [opposition the Ms. Tymoshenko-led group. to make political concessions in gas negoti- alliance] as a confederation, to work out with Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor ations with Russia, Interfax-Ukraine report- Our Ukraine National Deputy Yanukovych, adding that these talks are an action plan that would be aimed at Viacheslav Koval told RFE/RL's Ukrainian ed. “This is all nonsense. Normal talks are creating an alternative to the actions of being handled by companies, primarily in progress. They primarily focus on eco- Service that his party has not yet made a Gazprom and Naftohaz Ukrayiny, the Anti-Crisis Coalition and the current final decision on how to proceed in the nomic issues,” Mr. Azarov said. Russia's government,” he said. Mr. Bezsmertnyi Interfax-Ukraine reported. “Considering Kommersant suggested on October 25 that opposition. “There has been no decision on the advanced character of Russia's rela- did not say a single word about Our whether to create a confederation or not. Moscow had set a number of political con- Ukraine's relations with the Yulia tions with the [World Trade Organization] ditions for Kyiv in exchange for the gas Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB), its former ally (Continued on page 26) and the desire to build a strategic bilateral price of $130 per 1,000 cubic meters. economic [Russian-Ukrainian] relation- According to the Russian daily, Moscow ship, we should certainly consult with pushed for holding a referendum by Yushchenko picks Donetsk businessman each other more often and synchronize Ukraine on the country’s accession to our countries’ WTO negotiation process- NATO, which could apparently put the idea es,” Mr. Fradkov said. The Russian prime of Ukraine’s NATO bid on the back burner as national security and defense chief minister noted that “strategic coopera- for an indefinite time. Kommersant also tion” between Russia and Ukraine means alleged that Moscow demanded that Kyiv by Oleg Varfolomeyev The post of President Yushchenko’s “having a special relationship of trust should promise to continue importing Eurasia Daily Monitor chief security adviser was effectively [and] sharing mutual priorities both in Turkmen gas exclusively via Russia and to vacant after May when Anatolii Kinakh, foreign and domestic policies as well as On October 10 President Viktor keep its tariffs for Russian gas transit who had been NSDC secretary since at the bilateral level.” Mr. Fradkov also unchanged. (RFE/RL Newsline) Yushchenko appointed one of Ukraine’s September 2005, was elected to stressed that Ukraine’s NATO bid “must most influential businessmen, Vitaii Parliament. Volodymyr Horbulin, who not harm Russia.” (RFE/RL Newsline) (Continued on page 10) Haiduk, as secretary of the National had worked in this position under Security and Defense Council (NSDC). 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FILM REVIEW: “Spell Your Name” is powerful , visually beautiful , but unfocused by Larissa Babij viewed at the archives of the Shoah live in a former synagogue converted to developed enough to give a clear answer. Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Foundation Institute for Visual History apartments are interspersed throughout Films, books and museums devoted to and Education at the University of the film. These survivors invite the docu- the Holocaust have become familiar. So KYIV –A slow, aged voice spells out Southern California. mentarians into their home but refuse to Mr. Bukovsky widens his frame to look her last name, letter by letter. Then anoth- With the political sensitivity of the speak about the past. Mr. Bukovsky ren- beyond the survivors, encompassing their er begins. Questions like “Where were subject matter, the director made diplo- ders them in gray-white stop-action; they archivists and even challenging the audi- you born?” join the ensemble. “Ukraine.” matic choices, leaving a final product that appear like ghosts. ence to consider its own role as witnesses The screen fills with a gray, icy river. feels somewhat restrained. We did see In one scene, the camera pans out from to various layers of testimony. Later we see a snowy yard surrounded moments of quiet anguish and introspec- an interview subject, showing her as a Despite the arresting beauty of the by nondescript Soviet apartment blocks tive tears, but no hysterics or expressions talking image on the screen of the direc- camerawork and its variety of narrative typical in today’s Kyiv. Well-bundled, of anger toward particular groups. When tor’s laptop on a clattering train. This threads weaving in and around one colorfully masked characters prance Jews talked of Ukrainians and Ukrainians extra distance from the subject highlights another, the 90-minute film seemed to around in a circle. This is the winter cele- of Jews, each expressed sympathy for the layers of interpretation that lie drag. Near the end, Mr. Bukovsky and bration of Koliada, complete with tradi- their fellow human beings and disgust at between the survivors’ actual experiences his crew toured Babyn Yar, the mass tional caricatures. war. and what is portrayed to the audience of grave of over 150,000 Jews, Ukrainians, The camera zooms in on “the Jew” in Mr. Bukovsky tried to elicit historic “Spell Your Name.” The film does not Gypsies and members of many other eth- a wig with stringy black hair; he puts out attitudes of Jews and Ukrainians toward result from a personal relationship nic groups murdered by the Nazis. With his hands in a gesture for barter. Then he one another with anecdotes and recollec- between the documentarian and his sub- a local expert as a virtual guide over a removes his mask, revealing a big nose tions of what life was like leading up to jects, but from a close examination of cellphone, they filmed the park and adja- and a grin. “Is he a real Jew?” I wonder, and during the war. People’s stories illus- objects in an archive, even if it is a visual cent metro station. The scene was a nec- realizing the continual presence of cen- trated the genuine complexity of the rela- archive that talks and cries. essary inclusion, since last September turies-old racial stereotypes. tionships between neighbors. One sur- Emphasis is placed on the process of marked the 65th anniversary of the These images introduce the impres- vivor recalled hiding in the chimney of a making the film. Clips of interviews tragedy, but it was only loosely integrat- sionistic documentary “Spell Your Ukrainian family’s home. One day when often flow into scenes showing the tech- ed into the film. Name,” directed by Sergey Bukovsky they left for church, she snuck out to eat nical side. We watch three journalism I found myself searching for connec- and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and some food left on the stove. The mistress students in headphones transcribing the tions and meanings in the disparate Victor Pinchuk. Talking about the history of the house returned early and panicked interviews, and we also catch some of the strands of information presented rather of Ukrainian-Jewish relations always at the sight of an intruder. But when she discussions that arise from the sensitive than questioning the personal and politi- invites controversy, but the film focuses saw the hungry girl, she closed the door work. cal issues that surround remembering the on more positive examples, albeit in the to hide the child and kindly fed her. Asked whether she would like to be a Holocaust. Trying to capture the essence tragic context of World War II. Another Ukrainian woman overheard her Jew, one young woman replies, “Then or of relations between Jews and Ukrainians At the heart of the film are interviews parents arguing over the risks of shelter- now?” Now. Pausing to think, she says either historically or today is a bold with Holocaust survivors and their res- ing their Jewish neighbors; in the end, “no,” quietly but decisively. Such proposition, and Mr. Bukovsky would cuers recorded between 1994 and 1998, they reluctantly took in several entire moments are too brief and infrequent in have been more successful had he not selected by Mr. Bukovsky from 500 he families. the film; in this truncated form they are tried to address so many issues in one The interview fragments are separated easily misconstrued. The attempt to film. Rigorously following one narrative Larissa Babij, a native of Manchester, by poetic interludes of empty landscapes, include a window into contemporary thread – the survivors’ stories, the impact Conn., is a graduate of Barnard College snowy and silent. These could be the vil- Ukrainian-Jewish relations is brave, and of these stories on their young tran- of Columbia University, where she lages of those interviewed, but we never could have been elaborated and examined scribers, the archiving work of the Shoah earned a bachelor’s degree in architec- know. They serve as quiet pauses to let more closely. Foundation – with probing questions ture. She is currently pursuing a master’s the viewer reflect on what has been Who are the subjects of the film – the through all its emotional ramifications, degree in cultural studies at the National revealed, slowing the pace of the film. survivors or the transcribers? Neither of including pain and prejudice, would bol- University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Glimpses of an elderly couple who the overlapping, intertwining narratives is ster the film’s impact.

Bezsmertnyi’s ineffectiveness as a political collapse of a pro-Western coalition. Our Ukraine... leader and negotiator, Mr. Lozowy said. However genuine his attempts to (Continued from page 1) “It’s difficult to overestimate just how clean up the corruption festering within divide or not enter the coalition and much damage Bezsmertnyi has done to Our Ukraine, experts said it may be a divide,” he said. Our Ukraine with his inept negotiations.” tragic case of too little, too late for Mr. Bringing Our Ukraine’s crisis to the Mr. Katerynchuk, a 38-year-old rising Yushchenko. fore was the recent soap opera involving star in Our Ukraine, called for Mr. Turning around its diminishing elec- Messrs. Yushchenko and Bezsmertnyi. Bezsmertnyi’s dismissal during the week torate, which has largely fled to the leading up to the party congress. Twice this month Mr. Bezsmertnyi called Tymoshenko Bloc, will be “very, very Journalists and experts criticized him upon Our Ukraine to go into the opposition difficult,” Mr. Taran said. for not seizing the moment at the party Even if any of the young Our Ukraine to the coalition government, demanding the congress to challenge Mr. Bezsmertnyi, leaders are able to take the reins, more of resignation of the bloc’s four Cabinet especially when many party delegates the same inconsistency and lack of pur- Ministers because the Universal of National didn’t agree with his call for a three- pose may persist, experts said. Unity was being violated. week recess. For example, Our Ukraine Legal Following each of Mr. Bezsmertnyi’s “If the party says they need me, then Department Chair said announcements, President Yushchenko we will have only one leader, and that’s Mr. Yushchenko is still urging Our called upon Our Ukraine to return to the Viktor Yushchenko,” Mr. Katerynchuk Ukraine to resume negotiations on join- negotiating table with the coalition gov- said afterwards. “I am not fighting for the ing the government coalition. ernment led by Prime Minister Viktor leadership.” About 31 percent of the Ukrainian Yanukovych. Mr. Yushchenko is also to blame for electorate today would vote for the Party And while the four Cabinet Ministers his lack of consistency, experts said. Zenon Zawada of the Regions, according to a poll con- reportedly submitted their resignations While he called on Our Ukraine to go Roman Bezsmertnyi, leader of the Our ducted on September 12-19 by the on October 19, they were never officially back to the negotiating table, he criti- Ukraine party. Yaremko Ukrainian Institute of Social accepted by Parliament and they remain cized the Party of the Regions for violat- Research the Social Monitoring Center, in their Cabinet posts. ing the principles of the Universal of which performs statistical and polling It remains unclear whether the dissent- National Unity. riated Mr. Poroshenko, who made public research for Presidential Secretariat and ing announcements were a deliberate “It seems strange to have heard criti- statements criticizing the president’s other government clients. political game of good cop/bad cop cisms from Yushchenko,” Mr. Lozowy decision and referring to Mr. Zinchenko About 17 percent would vote for the between Mr. Yushchenko and Mr. said. “Our Ukraine had been going as a traitor. Tymoshenko Bloc, 6 percent for the Our Bezsmertnyi in an effort to get political downhill under Yushchenko’s leadership Mr. Yushchenko didn’t seem phased Ukraine bloc, 5 percent for the concessions in coalition talks, or whether for the last year a half. Yushchenko has by Mr. Poroshenko’s disappointment and Communist Party of Ukraine and 3 per- this was a revelation of genuine discord to first and foremost blame himself.” has reportedly distanced himself from cent for the Socialist Party of Ukraine. and inconsistency within Our Ukraine’s In an attempt to clean the ranks, Mr. the confectionary magnate after his “They’re largely irrelevant at a 6 per- leadership. Yushchenko dismissed his Presidential maneuverings in July to become cent rating,” Mr. Lozowy said. “Our Certainly, Our Ukraine was attempting Secretariat Chair , largely Verkhovna Rada chair was a factor in the Ukraine is essentially a dead letter.” to bluff the Party of the Regions into regarded as part of the old boy network, believing it would enter the opposition as and brought in a fresh, young staff led by a ploy to gain political leverage and con- a 43-year-old and 32-year- cessions, experts said. old Arsenii Yatseniuk. MAY WE HELP YOU? 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Stefanyshyn-Piper titled “Cosmic Embassy of Ukraine... Seagull,” with lyrics by Oksana Makovets (Continued from page 1) and music by Volodymyr Hartman. International Ukrainian women’s group the crew members, noting, “Your work Dr. Shamshur said that with Cmdr. was remarkable.” Dr. Shamshur also said Stefanyshyn-Piper taking a Ukrainian flag, a Plast Ukrainian scouting emblem attends conference at United Nations that he looked forward to collaborations by Diana Howansky speaker, U.N. Secretary General Kofi and Ukrainian music into space with her, between Ukraine and the United States Annan, addressed the participants at the this demonstrated that “you are proud of UNITED NATIONS – Representatives conference’s closing, saying that the on new space endeavors. your Ukrainian heritage.” of the World Federation of Ukrainian United Nations during his tenure has Greetings from President Yushchenko Cmdr. Stefanyshyn-Piper thanked the Women’s Organizations (WFUFO) made a conscious effort to help civil were presented to the first Ukrainian Ukrainian community for their support attended a conference at the United society grow, because it recognizes that American astronaut, Heidemarie and spoke of her Ukrainian roots, telling Nations on September 6-8, the goal of non-governmental organizations have Stefanyshyn-Piper, a commander in the the audience that her father came from a which was to bring together non-govern- been instrumental in the global fight U.S. Navy. Dr. Shamshur presented a village outside of . “I never thought mental organizations from around the against poverty, infectious diseases, painting of Kyiv’s Pecherska Lavra and a my father’s dream (of our great successes) world and to promote partnerships genocide, war crimes and other prob- song inspired by the work of Cmdr. would come true for our family,” she said. between these groups and the United lems. Cmdr. Stefanyshyn-Piper told the Nations, as well as their home govern- “More and more, the initiative to audience that she hopes to visit Ukraine ments. improve the human condition comes in the near future. She then presented Dr. Emphasizing that such relationships Shamshur with a photo display of the from voluntary groups such as yours,” still need to be built and strengthened, said Mr. Annan, eliciting applause from crew and a picture of Kyiv from space. the conference was titled “Unfinished The crew members, Pilot Christopher the audience. “You have the capacity to Business: Effective Partnerships for push the envelope and say things that we Ferguson, Commander Brent Jett, Mission Human Security and Sustainable Specialists Daniel Burbank, Joseph cannot say, that I cannot say. And I’ll let Development – 59th Annual Department you in on a secret. I often love you for Tanner and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn- of Public Information/NGO Conference.” Piper gave a presentation about the work it,” he said. “The World Federation of Ukrainian A total of 1,879 representatives from accomplished during their 12-day mis- Women’s Organizations, even though it sion. Mission Specialist Steven MacLean, 540 non-governmental organizations and is only one of over 2,700 organizations 67 countries registered for the confer- a Canadian, was unable to attend due to accredited with the Economic and Social his earlier visit to the Canadian Embassy. ence, including 49 representatives from Council of the UN, is one of only a very Eastern European countries like Russia Lynn Klein, assistant director for few Ukrainian organizations with such NASA, underlined the importance of and Belarus. No non-governmental status and one of two (the Ukrainian organizations from Ukraine attended the these missions and said that, due to the World Congress being the other) that has Columbia disaster, there was a four-year conference, although foreign organiza- local access to the U.N.,” said Marta tions conducting programs in Ukraine – break in missions. She added that a space Kichorowska-Kebalo, one of the station partnership between the U.S. and such as Search for Common Ground, WFUFO representatives at the confer- which noted its work with television sta- Ukraine would be very beneficial to the ence. “It is important to keep current on future of the space program. tions in Ukraine and the use of soap developments at the U.N., and to main- operas to teach about diversity – shared Fellow Mission Specialist Joseph tain and even cultivate a Ukrainian pres- Tanner said of Cmdr. Stefanyshyn-Piper: their experiences and knowledge. ence at the U.N. as a platform from “It seemed that the Second World Cmdr. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper “She is a rising star in the space program. which we can interject on behalf of holds a copy of the song “Cosmic I guess you can say a new star is born. We (former USSR territories and satellites) Ukraine, as advocates for Ukrainian was pushed to the side, lumped with the Seagull” while thanking the Ukrainian look forward to many great things from women in Ukraine and in the diaspora.” community for their support. her and more missions in the future.” First World, for all intents and purposes, The World Federation of Ukrainian without addressing its unique problems Women's Organizations is an internation- in meeting the Millennium Development al federation of 23 non-profit organiza- Goals,” commented Ms. Kichorowska- tions from 12 countries spanning four Kebalo about this year’s NGO confer- continents, which supports cultural, edu- ence. “The countries that share a legacy cational, humanitarian and social pro- as Soviet republics seem to all be experi- grams, and advocates the advancement of encing a reversal of life quality. Financial the status of women, their families and and employment indicators as well as children. health indicators, especially as seen Throughout the three-day conference, through life expectancy statistics and the speakers stressed the importance of non- overwhelming threat of HIV/AIDS in governmental organizations and civil Ukraine, are of special concern. While society, underlining that people across Ukraine has had some strong socio-eco- the globe must take charge of their own nomic indicators since independence, the lives and act in areas where government above are areas in which Ukraine strug- is unable or unwilling to act. One notable gles to provide for the welfare of its citi- zens,” she explained. Diana Howansky is a staff associate Because a priority of the conference at the Ukrainian Studies Program at was to focus on the youth and teaching Columbia University. During the spring the younger generation both the signifi- 2007 semester, the Ukrainian Studies cance of the United Nations and the need Program plans to offer the course to take responsibility through civil socie- “Ukraine and the United Nations ty, the conference organizers asked each Through the Eyes of a Ukrainian of the registered organizations to invite a Crew members of STS-115: Mission Specialists Joseph Tanner, Heidemarie Ambassador: Diplomacy and Politics,” representative under the age of 25. The Stefanyshyn-Piper and Daniel Burbank, Commander Brent Jett and Pilot by Ambassador Valeriy Kuchinsky, for- World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Christopher Ferguson give a video presentation on their work on the space station. mer permanent representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. (Continued on page 19) OUR SPECIAL OFFER: $73 for two subscriptions!

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Iryna Cherepynska Iryna Cherepynska An UPA veteran holds flowers and a Ukrainian UPA supporters carry a giant Ukrainian flag as they begin their commemoration procession to St. Sophia flag in his hand at the army’s commemoration Cathedral on October 14. on St. Sophia Square.

KYIV – On October 14, the Feast Day of St. Mary the Protectress – historical- ly the patron saint of Ukrainian fighting forces – veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) gathered in Kyiv to mark the 64th anniversary of the their army’s establishment. Founded in 1942, the UPA fought both the German Nazi and Soviet Russian invaders of Ukraine. Seen on this page are photos from the anniversary day’s events.

Iryna Cherepynska Ukrainian Orthodox priests bless young initiates into Kozak organizations.

Olena Labunka Zenon Zawada Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists paramilitary soldiers line up at the A Kamianets-Podilskyi high school student holds a petition demanding government Ukrainian Insurgent Army’s commemoration. recognition of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 No. 44

AN APPRECIATION THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY A thank-you to our partners , April 7, 1919-May 29, 2006 by Roman Szporluk respected the work of Ukrainian scholars As this anniversary month for The Ukrainian Weekly winds down, it is only in France, Germany and Canada. But he A proper appreciation of the life and fitting to conclude with a thank-you to our partners during the course of this understood that regardless of the objec- work of Prof. Omeljan Pritsak would newspaper’s 73 years of service to our community. tive value of individual diaspora scholars require a team of experts from several Without these partners, The Weekly simply would not be, well, The Weekly. and their work, only institutions func- departments and research centers from First off, we must acknowledge all those who served as editors through the tioning within leading Western universi- more than one university and more than more than seven decades that The Weekly has been published, beginning with ties – in this case an American university one country. His interests were not limit- the pioneering Stephen Shumeyko. The list of the paper’s top editors is relatively – would be able to secure a future for ed to the variety of fields in philology short (Shumeyko’s successors were: Helen Perozak Smindak, Walter Prybyla, Ukrainian studies, from generation to and history, in which he was recognized Walter Dushnyck, R.L. Chomiak, Zenon Snylyk, Ihor Dlaboha and the current generation, and win international recog- as an authority, but extended also to the editor-in-chief), but the list of assistant editors, associate editors, editorial assis- nition. theory and philosophy of history. tants and student interns is considerably longer. Add to that those who worked as The chairs would be responsible for The following remarks are personal layout people and typesetters, and those who worked in the print shop, and you training a new generation of scholars have quite a list! All of them played an important role in getting this paper into reflections which focus on just one side who eventually would enter the world of the hands of its readers. And all of them deserve a huge thank-you. of Pritsak's life and work – the connec- academia in their own right. The insti- Since The Weekly’s inception, free-lance writers and community activists tion (as I see it) between Pritsak's ideas tute would hold seminars and confer- have been major contributors to its content. And that is why we continue to on Ukraine in world history, on the one ences and publish scholarly editions of encourage community members to submit articles, photographs and other infor- hand, and their relation to his institution sources, in the original languages and in mation to our paper. (One of our in-house advertisements reads “Want to see building, on the other. English translation, and the journal your name in print?” in an attempt to get readers to send in info from their “cor- I first met Omeljan Pritsak some 40 Harvard Ukrainian Studies would be ner of the diaspora.”) So, we hereby extend thanks to all our past, present and years ago, and remember how he told me open to scholars from all over the world, future collaborators. They work hard to share the news from their communities about his great project, a study of the ori- including, of course, those from with the community at large, and their dedication benefits us all. gins of Rus’ that was to be a work in sev- Harvard, to share the results of their cur- Our subscribers also deserve thanks. Without them, of course, there would be eral volumes (six, as I recall) and in rent research. no Weekly. Many of these loyal readers have been with The Weekly for decades. which the beginning of Ukrainian history Among Pritsak’s other remarkable ini- We appreciate their support in the form of paid subscriptions and their input in the was to be presented in a setting of uni- tiatives, and, we need to stress this, in col- form of letters to the editor, e-mails, phone calls, etc. Please keep them coming. versal history. It would examine the rele- laboration with his colleagues and associ- Not to be forgotten are our benefactors – those folks whose names appear in vant events taking place in Scandinavia, ates, were an international conference to monthly reports on donations made directly to The Ukrainian Weekly Press Byzantium, inner Asia, the , commemorate the Millennium of Fund, as well as those whose donations via the Ukrainian National Foundation and Western and Central Europe, and Christianity in Rus’, held in Ravenna, also help us publish this paper. Frankly, we don’t know where we’d be without would use the sources originating in Italy, and the establishment of the them since subscription prices do not come close to covering the costs of produc- those areas that were indispensable for an International Association of Ukrainianists. ing this newspaper. Thus far this year they have contributed a total of $20,256 to understanding of the emergence of Rus'. The latter took place in Naples in 1989 The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund. We are genuinely grateful for their largesse. In short, Pritsak treated the history of and would have been impossible, like the A word of thanks goes to those institutions, organizations, businesses and Ukraine as part of world history. Later I other event, without the support and par- individuals who support this paper and its mission with their advertising dollars. understood why on many occasions he ticipation of Italian scholars. The meeting They support us and, by extension, our community. And that’s why we urge our referred to the work of the Hungarian in Naples was also able to bring in partici- readers to, in turn, support them. That is indeed the best way to say thanks to this historian Johann Christian Engel, pub- pants from several countries, including group of our partners. lished in Halle in 1796, as Volume 48 in Ukraine, when it was still the Ukrainian Finally, there is one major partner without whom there would be no such thing a series of books on “general world his- SSR, thereby helping it to break out of its as The Ukrainian Weekly. That is our publisher, the Ukrainian National tory” (Algemeine Welthistorie), a series Moscow-imposed isolation. Association. This fraternal benefit insurance company has played a key role in our that had been created by German and Pritsak’s last engagement in institution community life since its founding in 1894, spearheading and sponsoring countless English historians. That work, about 700 building was in Kyiv, where he helped to community projects and endeavors as diverse as the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, the pages long, consisted of two parts: the establish the Institute of Oriental Studies Taras Shevchenko monument in Washington and the Famine-Genocide curricu- first was titled “Geschichte der Ukraine at the Academy of Sciences, reviving a lum for secondary schools. Thus, The Ukrainian Weekly – and our sister publica- und der Cosaken” (there was a portrait of field of study that had been banned in tion, the Ukrainian-language newspaper Svoboda – are yet another example of the facing the title page) and Ukraine since the 1930s. UNA’s fraternal care for its members and the Ukrainian community. the second “Geschichte von Galizien und Now that the 1970s and 1980s are his- So, as we conclude our 73rd anniversary month, we at The Ukrainian Weekly Lodomerien.” Pritsak believed no histo- tory, it is easier to appreciate the long- know that we have excellent partners within our hromada – partners we know we ries after Engel had treated Ukraine as term political significance of his scholar- can count on. Thank you all! part of world history and he wanted to ly initiatives. Without implying that they place it in that framework again. were of equal historical importance, I am Pritsak was not only a research schol- reminded in this connection of Pritsak's ar, and a teacher of generations of stu- Polish contemporary, Jerzy Giedroyc, Nov. dents and scholars, he was also the initia- whose work is currently being commem- Turning the pages back... tor and builder of academic institutions, orated not only in Poland but also in most notably the Ukrainian Research Ukraine on the occasion of the 100th Institute at Harvard. anniversary of his birth. 3 The story of the Harvard project is Several years after the end of World well known. Everybody who knows any- War II, when it had become clear that 1956 It was 50 years ago, on Sunday, October 28, that The Weekly thing about the “Ukrainian Harvard” Poland would be under Communist rule reported the opening of the Ukrainian Institute of America, knows about the hundreds and thousands (and Soviet control), Giedroyc and his located on East 79th Street in . William Dzus, a of people, retirees and students, rich and closest associate, Juliusz Mieroszewski, Ukrainian American inventor and industrialist, purchased the poor, in the United States and in Canada, launched Kultura, a monthly journal in building in 1955 to move the Ukrainian Institute of America from the Parkwood mansion whose contributions made possible the which they put forward the idea that the in West Islip, Long Island, to the Fletcher mansion in New York City. endowment of three chairs and then of struggle for the freedom of Poland Isaac Fletcher, a banker and railroad investor commissioned C.P.H. Gilbert in 1898 to the institute. required the to accept the loss of build a house based on William K. Vanderbilt’s neo-Loire Valley chateau as its model. But not everybody in the community Lviv and Vilnius, and to support the In 1920 Harry F. Sinclair of the Sinclair Oil Co. bought the mansion and sold it in 1930 understood that the Harvard project was Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Belarusians to August Van Horne Stuyvesant, a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, governor of New to be an institutional application of in their own struggle for independence. Amsterdam, as New York was originally called. Mr. Stuyvesant lived there until 1953. Pritsak's philosophy, and, I will suggest, When it was first formulated, the At the UIA’s opening ceremony, Mr. Dzus said, “the dedication of this building of his broader political vision. “Giedroyc Plan” met with virtually unan- enhances the value of Ukrainian contributions to American culture and sciences.” Decades ago some people reasonably imous condemnation among the Polish Entertainment was provided by Stephanie Turash, Ukrainian American opera star, questioned whether the Harvard plan exile community in the West; by the and by the Bandurist Quartet directed by Roman Levitsky. revealed a lack of appreciation for what 1980s, it had been accepted by most An exhibit of Ukrainian art was on display at the time, arranged by the Association such respectable institutions as the Poles in the West and by the democratic of Ukrainian Artists of America. Among the sculptures on exhibit were pieces by the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences opposition in Poland itself. It was in the world-renowned Alexander Archipenko, who was present at the dedication cere- spirit of Giedroyc that a delegation of monies. (UVAN) and the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) were doing. That was Solidarity attended the founding con- In his closing remarks, Mr. Dzus said: “American culture is like a huge river into gress of Rukh in Kyiv (September 1989) which the streams of many European cultures flow as tributaries. It is important that not the case: Pritsak was a member of both NTSh and UVAN, and he also and that the government of a newly free the full stream of traditional Ukrainian culture make its contributions to America. It is Poland recognized Ukrainian independ- my hope that this headquarters building will become a center for Ukrainian learning, ence a day after the referendum of science, art and music so that it will be preserved for posterity, so that it will be fur- Roman Szporluk, Ph.D., was the December 1, 1991. ther encouraged and developed and so that its full benefits will become available to Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of The Giedroyc story reminds us that America.” History at Harvard University in 1991- after great historical turning points 2004. He is currently the Mykhailo sometimes the poets, writers and schol- Source: “Ukrainian Institute of America Home in New York Formally Opened,” Hrushevsky Research Professor of The Ukrainian Weekly, November 3, 1956. Ukrainian History. (Continued on page 16) No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 7 NEWS AND VIEWS Faces and Places

Old surprises, new realities by Myron B. Kuropas in the by Oksana Bashuk Hepburn will no doubt lose more if it continues to associate with the PRU which its elec- The announcement by President Viktor toral base does not. Ideologically, OU is Happiness comes with security In his Ukrainian Weekly column of that there have been no attacks on Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine (OU) party to a much better fit with the Yulia October 15, Yaro Bihun strikes an ominous American soil in five years suggests that go into opposition to the government does Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB) than with the note. He suggests that under President the Patriot Act is working. not surprise. The greater surprise hap- PRU. It might distinguish itself once George W. Bush our country might well be The Patriot Act authorizes vital infor- pened a few weeks ago when the presi- again by joining forces with her to raise on the eve of a long, dark night. mation-sharing between law enforcement dent called on Viktor Yanukovych to form Ukraine to a new level of democratic His litany of administration “evils” and intelligence officials. As we learned a coalition government comprising the evolution: a two-party system; one in includes “Guantanamo, indefinite deten- during the 9-11 Commission hearings, Party of the Regions of Ukraine (PRU), power and one in opposition. tions, without what a normal American this activity was forbidden during the pre- the Socialists (SPU), the Communists Democracy, as defined by ancient would consider due process, secret vious administration. The Patriot Act also (CPU) and OU. Now OU is leaving. , is a society in which citizens take arrests, secret prisons for ‘high-value’ ter- permits law enforcement agents to pursue In reality, the coalition is untenable. It turns in being rulers and the ruled. Rulers rorist suspects, ‘renditions,’ a ‘program’ terrorists with the same tools traditionally has no ideological base, no common are those who win control of Parliament of alternative interrogation techniques by used against organized crime and drug policies and no cohesion. Yesterday’s in a fair election; the opposition is those CIA ‘professionals’ who are being forgiv- dealers. Makes sense to me. Also allowed enemies artificially forced a relationship who lose but want to win and rule next. en any past transgressions of U.S. and is the reformatting of secret tracking of designed to achieve immediate political There were times in history when criti- international laws against torture.” terrorist financing. The original format, imperatives. The OU wanted to regain cism of the government – the main role of Mr. Bihun cites a September 18 you will recall, was leaked by The New some power and get appointed to head the opposition – was considered treason, Washington Post article by Tom York Times. The Canadian Anti-terrorism ministries after forfeiting a viable Orange punishable by prison or worse. This was Malinowski, advocacy director for Act of 2001 helped foil an al-Qaeda- forces coalition; the PRU was anxious to the reality in the USSR, a one-party dicta- Human Rights Watch, suggesting that inspired plot by 17 home-grown terrorists neutralize opposition. torship with no opposition. And death for President Bush read Robert Conquest’s to bomb Canadian institutions and behead To cover up major political fault lines, some 30 million who dared! “The Great Terror” to learn how the the prime minister last June. Canada the parties signed the Universal of Such pathological paranoia may Soviets obtained confessions through allows police to secretly arrest suspects National Unity. To her credit, Yulia explain the loathing and scorn that many sleep deprivation, a technique employed and hold them for up to 72 hours if Tymoshenko refused to join the coalition politicians who come from the by the CIA against Islamic terrorists. they’re suspected of planning terrorism. It and formed an opposition to the govern- Communist formation heap on opposi- Two observations: 1) Mr. Malinowski also permits electronic surveillance (wire- ment. Nor did she sign the document. tion to their “correct” way. Such people is a former special assistant to President taps) in their investigation of suspected Now, it appears, the “poyedynok z are clearly identifiable. They hurl invec- Bill Clinton, the man who let Osama Bin terrorists. Should we do less? We are at diyavolom” – the alliance with the devil tives at those not inclined to support Laden slip away when our CIA had him war, dear reader, with a fanatical, merci- – as the Ukrainians call unsavory unions, them, be it coalitions or other political in its sights; 2) Mr. Malinowski is on the less gang of cut-throats who despise our is in jeopardy. Last week Roman views. The appalling animal name-call- Bezsmertnyi, the party leader, announced board of Human Rights Watch and way of life and seek nothing less than ing hurled by Mr. Yanukovych at the conversion to or our total destruc- that OU is joining the opposition and Orange forces protesting the falsified Americans for Informed Democracy, two pulling ministers from the government. organizations founded and heavily funded tion. If they become martyrs in the presidential elections come to mind. process, so much the better. Can we The immediate kicker was the prime These are yesterday’s people who do not by George Soros, the man who, according minister’s negative stand on NATO in to the Center for Public Integrity, spent afford to treat them as ordinary criminals? understand the indispensable value of an What President Bush is doing is hard- Brussels; however, OU accuses him of opposition and the need for Ukraine to $24 million of his own money to defeat wider disregard for the universal. George W. Bush in 2004. ly new. Past U.S. presidents have always go forward in its political evolution. taken measures to protect our national No surprise here. Once the universal What does the opposition do? It Mr. Soros is the Daddy Warbucks of had served its purpose and once he was leftist causes, funding such anti-Bush security during wartime. President debates and criticizes; asks embarrassing Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas cor- firmly in power, Mr. Yanukovych was questions and makes statements to the organizations as the Open Society less bound to its principles like European Institute (which funnels millions of dol- pus rights during the Civil War. Like press about the government’s question- President Bush he was reviled and con- integration, quick move toward the World able dealings. When the public good is at lars to groups opposed to the war on ter- Trade Organization, promotion of nation- ror), MoveOn.org, the Center for stantly attacked by the media and the cut- stake, it has the right and duty to oppose and-run crowd (called Copperheads then) al Ukrainian symbols, freedom of the the government’s policies and actions. American Progress, Media Matters and press, and, of course, NATO membership. others of similar ilk. Mr. Soros has also during his presidency. President By doing so, it is convincing the elec- Woodrow Wilson signed the Espionage, Such principles never comprised his torate to give it power to govern in the contributed heavily to the defense fund party’s political ideology to begin with. of New York City attorney Anne Stewart, Sabotage and Sedition Acts of 1917 and next election because it, the opposition, 1918 during World War I. Slandering the Moreover, it appears, the universal is not can and will do a better job. who was convicted of supplying material enforceable by law; it’s not worth the aid to terrorists during the trial of Sheik Constitution was considered an act of In democracies, the evolution from sabotage. Wilson promised the American paper it’s written on. In reality, the prime multi-party to two- or three-party systems Omar Abdel Rahman. Ms. Stewart minister can sign it, then disregard it as recently received a light sentence from a people that he would not involve our clarifies the role of the opposition. The nation in the European war. Did he lie? much as he likes without political conse- opposition arises from a party whose Clinton-appointed judge for her treach- quence. His position is secure as long as ery. Given Mr. Malinowski’s past and He also established internment camps for elected members do not support the gov- immigrants from Austro-Hungary includ- he controls the majority in the Verkhovna ernment and who offer themselves to the present associations, can we believe that Rada, Ukraine’s Parliament, or until the his recommendation is truly an honest, ing an occasional Ukrainian. Socialist voters – not just as individual candidates, Party leader Eugene V. Debs was sen- people have had enough of these shenani- but as an organized and alternative gov- goodwill attempt to be helpful? gans and demand a new election. Personally, I have no problem with the tenced to 10 years in prison in 1918 for ernment. This is exactly what Ms. opposing the war effort. During World It looks like OU has been outmaneu- Tymoshenko did when she declared that way we treat terrorists captured in battle vered. No surprise here. It has a history of or while in the process of committing War II President Franklin D. Roosevelt YTB would not join the PRU but sit in established internment camps for inno- political ineptness. Consider the follow- Parliament as the opposition. If Ukraine is crimes against humanity. Should these ing. Its forerunner, and still an influential murderers now be read their Miranda cent Japanese Americans and the U.S. to continue its transformation into a mod- Supreme Court approved. component, Rukh championed the inde- ern state it is imperative that it move in rights on the battlefield? Are they entitled pendence movement in 1991. Over 90 to due process? Is sleep deprivation so Yaro Bihun believes that “Life, this direction. The OU’s decision to join Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” are percent of the population supported them. the opposition is a good step forward. awful when it yields information that Since then, its force has disintegrated into saves American lives? Islamists behead more important than “safety, security and What might be some others? What is prosperity.” In reality, the former is several parties, including OU. The result? in Ukraine’s best interest? their prisoners. We retaliate by depriving Failure to capture political control of them of sleep. Who are the bad guys here? impossible without the latter. Ukraine needs what every democracy Psychologist Abraham Maslow devel- Ukraine. Reunited in the 2004 presidential Despite years of effort by the major needs – a strong, forceful opposition, oped a hierarchy of needs gratification. election, what is now called the Orange media to smear our Guantanamo deten- ideologically united to fight policy bat- He believed that human needs are satis- forces again rallied tremendous popular tion center, Islamic prisoners there tles on important issues with the govern- fied in sequential order, beginning with support. They surprised and earned receive good treatment. They get a ment on behalf of the citizens, and in so our physiological needs (food, water, respect from most of Ukraine, and the Koran, prayer-time, visits by imams, doing get itself ready for the next elec- shelter), followed by safety needs (order, world, with this success. Not two years Islamic-correct meals and superb health- tion. And victory. security, predictability), needs of love later, with the Orange Revolution’s politi- care, including colonoscopies. Upon To win the next election, Ukraine’s and belonging (family, friends), recogni- cal capital squandered by its leaders, par- release most quickly re-rejoin the Jihad. opposition, like those throughout the tion and esteem needs (prestige, accept- liamentary power had been handed over to The ACLU demands that all of them be world, needs a winning strategy. To ance) and the need for self-actualization Russia’s preferred man, Mr. Yanukovych. tried in American courts or released begin, here are six key steps the opposi- (transcendence and ecstatic happiness). The reinvention of OU as the opposi- immediately. The USA Patriot Act, ini- tion should take: Think about it. Is it possible to be tion may be its political salvation. It has tially passed by the Senate 98-1 and 357- • Decide that it is an “Orange opposi- happy and free without first being safe lost much support among the people and 66 by the House, was renewed on March tion,” understanding that the greater the and secure? I think not. integration and movement toward a sin- 9, despite partisan brickbats and ACLU Oksana Bashuk Hepburn, president of gle party, the greater its chances of galva- lobbying. Since its initial passage, the the consulting firm, U*CAN is writing a Patriot Act has helped uncover terrorist Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is: book about her experiences in Ukraine. (Continued on page 9) cells and disrupt terrorist plots. The fact [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 No. 44

First exchange students arrive at universities in Lviv and Alberta by Bohdan Klid Ms. Dudych is currently taking an accounting course, which she probably EDMONTON – A recently negotiated would not have been able to do back exchange agreement between Ivan home. She is also taking courses in Franko National University of Lviv (Lviv advanced German, second language University) and the University of Alberta acquisition, linguistics and political sci- went into effect this academic year, when ence during her first semester. one student arrived in Lviv and another in Edmonton to begin their academic Another benefit that Ms. Dudych programs. pointed to was that the exchange opens a Lviv University student Olena door to another part of the world for Dudych, who is majoring in English Ukrainian students. In her view, it is philology at the Faculty of Foreign important for Ukraine’s students today to Languages, is planning to spend the experience study at a university abroad, whole academic year at the University of especially a North American one. Alberta. Although she said she has found it Ms. Dudych gave a number of reasons somewhat difficult to adapt to the differ- why she applied for the exchange. She ent assignment and examination systems noted that students entering university in in Alberta, as well as to the faster rhythm Ukraine are required to follow an educa- of life, Ms. Dudych has also said that tional plan approved by the country’s people she has met at the University of Ministry of Education that restricts their Alberta have been very helpful and choice of courses. At the University of friendly in solving problems and answer- Alberta students can pick courses and ing questions. She also observed that the even change programs. border between professor and student did Olena Dudych Tim Starchuk

not really exist at the University of Alberta. Therefore, Ukrainian students thinking of applying for the exchange to the University of Alberta from Lviv University should not be concerned, as there will always be someone available to ask for advice and explain procedures. Tim Starchuk, a University of Alberta student majoring in marketing in the School of Business, is spending the 2006 fall semester at Lviv University. He attended a Ukrainian bilingual elemen- tary school in Edmonton, but did not do much reading or writing in Ukrainian thereafter. While Mr. Starchuk did take a course at the University of Alberta to refresh his skills, he admitted before leaving for Lviv that his Ukrainian language skills are weak. Mr. Starchuk said that he jumped at the opportunity to apply for the exchange, as friends had told him that going on an international exchange had been one of their best experiences while at university. Mr. Starchuk chose to study at Lviv University because he wanted to improve his Ukrainian language skills. He also noted that the cost of living in Lviv is quite low, compared to other European cities. At Lviv University Mr. Starchuk is taking courses in laws of the European Union, Ukrainian history, Ukrainian and world culture, and the fundamentals of tourism. Although he is having a bit of trouble understanding everything that is discussed in class, Mr. Starchuk notes that everyone is patient with him and that his Ukrainian has been improving rapid- ly. While some things in day-to-day life are different in Ukraine, Mr. Starchuk stressed that he has been able to find everything to satisfy his daily needs. Settling into the normal rhythm of life in Lviv has also been quite easy, he noted. He attributes this in part to his observa- tion that people in Lviv are friendly to foreigners, which makes it conducive to meeting people and making friends. He also noted that living accommoda- tions for foreign students were very good at Lviv University and are actually better than some of his friends’ dormitory rooms at the University of Alberta. He has also found that his fellow students in Ukraine are very similar to their Canadian counterparts. In addition to the benefits mentioned by the first two exchange students, the exchange agreement offers other advan- tages. Both universities have agreed to waive tuition fees for exchange students: participants pay tuition at their home (Continued on page 19) No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 9

National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy launches professorships to promote research by Oksana Zakydalsky three years, but must be re-applied for every year). The amount paid out to each recipient TORONTO – “In the eyes of profes- can be up to three times the base salary sionals and society, the National which is 1,100 hrv per month for a lecturer University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and will enable the recipient to devote time (UKMA) is a place of innovation and the to the research instead of looking for ways freedom to explore,” said Dr. Mychailo to augment the modest basic pay. Wynnyckyj, a professor of sociology at The first recipients of NUKMA profes- the Business School of the UKMA. sorships are: Maksym Antoniuk, lecturer, In 2005 NUKMA celebrated 390 years department of biology; Oleksander of its founding. It was the first university in Vynogradov, lecturer, department of sociolo- Eastern Europe and remained the only such gy; Myroslava Antonovych, lecturer (consti- institution in the until the second half of the 18th century. It was tutional law), department of law; Roksolana closed by the Russian government in 1817. Hanyk-Pospolitak, lecturer (commercial Since its rebirth in 1991, NUKMA has law), department of law; Margarita gained a reputation for openness, incorrupt- Chabanna, senior lecturer, department of ibility and the creation of an environment politics; and Dr. Natalia Yakovenko, profes- that promotes good teaching and good sor, department of history. scholarship. According to Dr. Wynnyckyj, Volodymyr Morenets, first vice-presi- NUKMA has embarked on many reforms of dent of NUKMA, said: “The establish- higher education on its own without expect- ment of the research professorships by our ing financial aid or support from the govern- Canadian colleagues is a very important ment and often motivating the Ministry of and serious undertaking. Although the Education to act in new directions. Ministry of Education understands the One of its current goals is to get on value of research, it uses yesterday’s stan- the list of the 500 best universities in the dards to evaluate it. Whether that research world by 2015. has any influence or resonance does not In a world characterized by competi- concern the ministry. The professorships tion, the comparison of the relative mer- obligate the recipients to make public its of universities has led to ranking lists. their research from a world platform Objective and weighted criteria have where it can be evaluated by their peers been developed to measure the quality of anywhere in the world. The project is university education. aimed at the development and nurture of Most people are familiar with the pop- scholars of a new generation.” ular Newsweek (in the U.S.) and The first NUKMA professorships were awarded to (top row, from left): Maksym Dr. Wynnyckyj hopes that the first six Macleans’ (in Canada) lists of best uni- Antoniuk, Oleksander Vynogradov, Myroslava Antonovych, (second row) professorships will provide an example and versities in the respective countries. In Roksolana Hanyk-Pospolitak, Margarita Chabanna and Dr. Natalia Yakovenko. that other such funds will be set up by spon- the United Kingdom, The Times Higher sors in Canada and the United States. The Education Supplement publishes a list of their fields and actively continue to teach The winner of each professorship has minimum amount for a fund is $10,000, the 200 best universities in the world, students at the university; the number of committed to prepare a scholarly mono- and tax receipts can be issued, both in while an annual list of the 500 best in the highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject graph and submit it to a peer-reviewed pub- Canada and in the U.S. It is also possible to world, developed by Shanghai Jiao Tong categories; the number of articles in jour- lisher or an article to a peer reviewed publi- add to existing funds. More information on University, is highly regarded and widely nals Science and Nature; number of articles cation, during the year of the professorship the professorships is available on the circulated in Europe and Asia. The list of referenced in Science Citation Index- (which can be extended for a maximum of NUKMA site: www.ukma.kiev.ua. the top 500 uses criteria emphasizing expanded, Social Science Citation Index, research performance. and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. After the fall of the USSR, Ukraine went The professorships are sponsored through a shock of realization that its schol- funds and, so far, six have been set up: arly research was not comparable to the • the Julian Wynnyckyj professorship synergetic and dynamic university scholar- ($10,000 Can.) – department of biology, ship in the West. Nevertheless, according to Faculty of Natural Sciences; Dr. Wynnyckyj, who is Canadian, Ukraine • the Club Cosbild professorship did not change a stagnant old system into a ($20,000 Can.) – department of law (in more flexible and adaptable one. constitutional law); In Ukraine, research work done by • the Rev. Marian and Dr. Roman academics is evaluated by the Higher Curkowskyj professorship ($27,000 Can.) Certification Commission (Vyshcha – department of law (in commercial law); Atestatsiina Komisia), which grants • the Marta Turchyn professorship higher academic degrees and reports to ($10,000 U.S.) – department of sociolo- the Cabinet of Ministers. Cultivating gy and social sciences; scholarship for domestic circulation only • the Maria and Roman Wynnyckyj marginalizes Ukrainian higher education professorship ($15,000 Can.) – depart- in relation to the international scholarly ment of politics; and community, Dr. Wynnyckyj pointed out. • the Mykhailo Lebid professorship As the best universities stand on the rep- ($15,000 Can.) – department of History. utation of its professors in scholarly The first awards were made for 2006- research, NUKMA has embarked on a pro- 2007. The competitions were announced gram of faculty development and estab- in January-March, committees were lished a series of funded professorships for formed (separate for each professorship), its active teaching and research staff. The interviews were conducted and the professorships are awarded on the basis of names of the recipients were announced the following criteria: the number of staff at the 14th Academic Conference in who have achieved the highest awards in April. The grants began in September.

ent and deal with inadequate perform- Old surprises... ance. Develop winners. (Continued from page 7) • Provide solid debate on issues facing nizing the electorate’s support. Ukraine – energy and the Russia factor; • Distance itself from losers, former foreign affairs; despicable social inade- political lights that have disgraced them- quacies. The budget is an excellent time selves. The people do not forget. to query spending and financial account- • Seek models of how other opposi- ing. Use the media as much as possible. tions do it – the Poles, the Brits, the • Be fearless in criticizing the govern- Americans. Use what fits. Learn quickly, ment in Parliament, the media, in meet- elections are but a few years away. ings with the electorate, but be fair. • Establish a shadow Cabinet using the Remember, their turn to criticize will best people for the job-sharing positions come when they are in the opposition. among the various factions to strengthen Finally, the opposition needs to sur- cohesion. Reallocate portfolios periodi- prise Ukraine again by leading it to a cally to broaden experience, reward tal- new political reality. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 No. 44

beginning of a new political plan of the knowledge about this tragedy of the Holocaust Museum cites cooperation NEWSBRIEFS Ukrainian president aimed at finding a sta- Ukrainian nation,” Mr. Tarasyuk said. In (Continued from page 2) ble competitive force rather than an oppo- his speech to the General Assembly on WASHINGTON – The Holocaust Will OU return to coalition talks? sition,” Ms. Bohatyriova added. The Our September 25, Mr. Tarasyuk called on U.N. Memorial Museum in Washington and Ukraine People's Union is expected next member-states to recognize the Holodomor the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) KYIV – Justice Minister Roman month to hold a second round of its last as a act of genocide directed against the have prolonged their cooperation agree- Zvarych from the pro-presidential Our week’s congress to elect new leaders and Ukrainian nation. (Ukrayinski Novyny) ment for another five years. During the Ukraine bloc said on October 23 that revise its statute. (RFE/RL Newsline) signing ceremony, the director of the Law on Famine-Genocide to be proposed President Viktor Yushchenko’s speech at museum, Sara Bloomfield, thanked Tarasyuk expects U.N. to act on Famine the Our Ukraine People’s Union party con- KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko Ukraine for bringing cooperation in the gress last week made him believe that the KYIV – Foreign Affairs Minister Borys plans to propose that the Verkhovna Rada field of exchange of historic documents bloc might decide to resume its talks on Tarasyuk said on October 24 that he pass a law recognizing the Famine of to a “truly stellar level.” Ukraine can forming a ruling coalition with the Party of expects the United Nations to recognize the 1932-1933 as an act of genocide directed serve as a showcase for other European the Regions, the Socialist Party and the Famine of 1932-1933 as a genocide and against the Ukrainian nation, according countries, she said. The SBU’s archive Communist Party, Ukrainian media report- that the recognition should come during the to the president’s press service, which director, Serhii Bohunov, and the head of ed. “From what I heard [from the presi- General Assembly session in the fall of released an announcement on October the SBU Information Department, Valerii dent], I realized that he doesn’t rule out the 2007. Speaking at a press conference, he 23. The president’s intention is to pro- Holod, stressed that over the last five possibility to find points of mutual under- said that Ukraine expects an appropriate pose this law before November 25, when years Ukraine has shared with the United standing with the political forces of the resolution to be adopted by the U.N., Ukrainian will observe a Day of Memory States more than 150,000 files on the Anti-Crisis Coalition. Consequently, I adding that the Ukrainian delegation is cur- for Victims of Famines and Political history of the Holocaust. Both sides think these decisions might occur this rently working on preparing a document for Repressions. On October 12 it was expressed their hope of maintaining the week,” Mr. Zvarych said. On the other the General Assembly to review in the reported that the president had set up an current level of cooperation in years to hand, Raisa Bohatyriova from the Party of coming year. He said he expects the majori- organizational committee to prepare and come. (Embassy of Ukraine to the the Regions told journalists the same day ty of states to approve Ukraine’s proposal, conduct commemorations of the memori- United States) that the ongoing “process of crystallization but noted that there will be some delega- al day. The committee is headed by Ivan Hrytsenko, Tarasyuk stay on and purification of [Our Ukraine's] politi- tions that will be against recognizing the Vasiunyk, first assistant head of the cal platform” may lead to renewed coali- Famine as a genocide. “The Foreign Affairs Presidential Secretariat, and Vice Prime KYIV – Defense Minister Anatolii tion talks between Our Ukraine and the Ministry prepared a whole series of actions Minister . (Ukrayinski Hrytsenko said on October 18 that he ruling parties. “We may be seeing the in order to broaden the world community’s Novyny) and Foreign Affairs Minister will remain in Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych’s Cabinet, Ukrainian media reported. Mr. Hrytsenko was speaking shortly after President Viktor Yushchenko’s meeting with the ministers delegated to the government by Our Ukraine and appointed by him personal- ly. Under the Constitution of Ukraine amended in December 2004, the presi- dent is obliged to appoint the defense and foreign affairs ministers. “The two ministers appointed by the president are working and will continue to work. There will be no resignations,” Mr. Hrytsenko said. (RFE/RL Newsline) Lutsenko to remain in Cabinet KYIV – Internal Affairs Minister Yurii Lutsenko told a news conference in Kyiv on October 19 that, due to a request from President Viktor Yushchenko, he decided to remain in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian media reported. Mr. Lutsenko confirmed Our Ukraine leader Roman Bezsmertnyi's announcement earlier the same day that he, following an earlier request from the president, tendered his resignation along with four other ministers belonging to the Our Ukraine quota in the Cabinet. “My decision [to remain in the Cabinet] has been supported by the prime minister and the Verkhovna Rada head,” Mr. Lutsenko added. That same day, Mr. Yanukovych assured journalists that the withdrawal of the four Our Ukraine ministers will not provoke a government crisis. “The resig- nation procedure for the ministers repre- senting the Our Ukraine bloc requires this question to be discussed in Parliament. I think in the next few days we will select candidates for future ministers from members of the [ruling] coalition,” Mr. Yanukovych said. (RFE/RL Newsline) Reforms and Order joins Yulia’s bloc KYIV – The Reforms and Order Party has decided to join the Bloc, which remains in opposition to the ruling coalition, Interfax-Ukraine report- ed on October 20, quoting party leader . Mr. Pynzenyk was finance minister in the previous Cabinet of Yurii Yekhanurov. The Reforms and Order Party, formed in 1997, joined the Our Ukraine bloc after the 2002 parlia- mentary elections but went into the March 2006 parliamentary elections in a bloc with the Pora Party. The ROP-Pora Party bloc failed to overcome the 3 per- cent voting threshold that qualifies for parliamentary representation, gaining only 1.47 percent of the vote. (RFE/RL Newsline) No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 11

Ukraine down in global competitiveness ranking Miss Ukraine World Economic Forum reforms need to be implemented to Competitiveness Report, which was improve the country’s institutional envi- released on September 26. GENEVA – Ukraine has seen deterio- ronment and the investment climate, “The Ukrainian government has to compete in Kyiv ration in its competitiveness over the past according to the forum’s report on com- expressed a desire to be eventually con- year, dropping from 68th down to 78th sidered as a possible candidate for EU place in the World Economic Forum’s petitiveness. Ukraine suffers from dys- for Miss Europe crown accession. This makes good economic and Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) functional property rights, perceptions of political sense. It is to be hoped that, as in rankings for 2006-2007. abuse and arbitrariness at all levels of Poland, Hungary and the rest of Central The economy has grown at a healthy government, including in the courts. and Eastern Europe, this could act as a pace during the last couple of years but While levels of corruption appear to have disciplining mechanism for better policies for this growth to be sustained it will be come down from early 2004, they are and the modernization of the country’s necessary to tighten policies to improve still high by international standards. institutions. Without doubt, Ukraine the outlook for the public finances, slow The country does better in terms of belongs in Europe. Now it must start down inflation and create room in the indicators that capture aspects of its walking in that direction, to meet the chal- budget for higher outlays for upgrading human capital potential (for instance, the country’s infrastructure, noted the high university enrolment rates), but this lenges of eventual EU membership,” said World Economic Forum. is not enough to prevent an overall low Augusto Lopez-Claros, chief economist More importantly, a number of competitiveness rank, said the Global and head of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Network. Switzerland, Finland and Sweden are the world’s most competitive economies according to the report. Denmark, Quotable notes Singapore, the United States, Japan, “… Like Moldova and the western Balkans, Ukraine also suffers from the ten- Germany, the Netherlands and the United dency of both Washington and Brussels to isolate what they do not understand. Kingdom complete the top 10 list, but Since the early 1990s the United States has pursued a manic-depressive policy the United States shows the most pro- toward the largest country in Eastern Europe – and for that matter toward the nounced drop, falling from first to sixth. country with the largest Jewish population remaining in Europe. The rankings are drawn from a combi- “At first, in the infamous ‘Chicken Kiev’ speech, delivered by President George nation of publicly available hard data H.W. Bush in 1991, we advised Ukraine to remain part of the . and the results of the Executive Opinion “We then celebrated Ukraine's independence and its common-sense president, Survey, a comprehensive annual survey Leonid Kuchma – until we decided that Kuchma was an autocrat who sold radars ille- conducted by the World Economic gally to Saddam Hussein. It turns out that this did not happen, but you get the point. Forum, together with its network of part- “The same unpredictable volatility characterizes the ups and downs of our ner institutes (leading research institutes response to the coalition government in Kiev [sic] today. and business organizations) in the coun- “Seventeen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States and Europe tries covered by the report. Cutty Sark Co. cannot maintain a consistent policy toward Ukraine from one day to the next. … This year, over 11,000 business lead- KYIV - Alyona Avramenko will repre- “The problem of Europe’s East is simply the loss of political vision in ers were polled in a record 125 sent Ukraine at the Miss Europe Washington and Brussels and the failure to keep the commitment to a Europe economies worldwide. The survey ques- beauty pageant, which for the first that is whole, free and at peace. …” tionnaire is designed to capture a broad time ever will be held in Kyiv. The range of factors affecting an economy’s pageant will take place on October – Bruce P. Jackson, president of the Project on Transitional Democracies and business climate that are critical determi- 27. Ms. Avramenko was crowned at the U.S. Committee on NATO, in an op-ed titled “Our Failure in Europe’s East,” nants of sustained economic growth. The an October 8 ceremony after com- The Washington Post, October 8. peting against 200 other women for (Continued on page 19) the Miss Ukraine title. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 No. 44

and it will be distributed,” he said. around the world. Journalist Olena Bilozemska of the Spielberg... “Today, I received a phone call from a “When the survivors are no longer newspaper Zamkova Hora pointed out (Continued from page 1) famous Ukrainian businessman who said, with us, their stories will be with my that Ukrainian President Viktor lages throughout the [sic] Ukraine where ‘Victor, I want to buy the rights to this children and they’ll be teaching my chil- Yushchenko is trying to get recognition Jews were rounded up and liquidated.” film and I want to show it in my city, and dren about the consequences of not of the Holodomor as a genocide against Mr. Bukovsky said he made the film the city’s schools.’ I said, ‘Okay, we will reaching out and attempting to better get the Ukrainian people, just as the under two conditions set by Douglas do it for you, but free-of-charge’.” to know each other,” he told the Kyiv Holocaust was directed against the Greenberg, the executive director of the Distribution will begin sometime dur- press conference. Jewish people. ing the winter season, said Mr. Pinchuk, University of Southern California’s Mr. Pinchuk said he suggested to sev- She asked: “Do you believe the polar- a billionnaire who is Ukraine’s second eral citizens’ organizations that they Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual ization of these two tragedies can have a wealthiest man. begin gathering the memories of witness- History and Education. negative effect because enemies of both For example, 520,000 schools in es who lived through the Holodomor and nations can consider that these nations First, the film had to be based on the Bavaria, Germany, teach tolerance using the Chornobyl disaster using the same are weak and can be destroyed without Shoah Foundation’s archive of testi- the Shoah Foundation’s education cur- archiving technology that Mr. Spielberg consequence?” monies from Holocaust survivors in riculum, Mr. Spielberg noted. and the Shoah Foundation used. Mr. Spielberg responded: “No, I don’t Ukraine, which total close to 3,500 – Many such educational projects have When asked by BBC reporter Marta agree that people of the world will per- more than any other European country. been undertaken by the Shoah Foundation, Shokalo whether he wants to or will pro- ceive the Ukrainian people as being weak Second, Mr. Bukovsky was free to which was created by Mr. Spielberg with duce a film about Ukraine’s Holodomor, for wanting to bring to the attention of the make the film however he wished. the profit he earned from “Schindler’s Mr. Pinchuk revealed that he supports the world something that happened here that “I appreciate that our producers, List,” his film about Oskar Schindler, an idea, but doesn’t necessarily believe he was of tragic and terrible proportions.” Victor Pinchuk and Steven Spielberg and industrialist who rescued 1,200 Jews by should be the torchbearer, as was the case “But I also don’t believe in comparing Doug Greenburg, kept their word and enabling them to work in his factories. with “Spell Your Name.” one holocaust to another. I think that only gave us full freedom of activity with such The British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) “I thought about how there should be gets you in trouble if you start to com- complicated, not simple materials,” Mr. has reported that Mr. Spielberg earned a a trilogy of the three main tragedies in pare holocausts to say that my holocaust Bukovsky said. $60 million profit from the film. Ukraine’s history – the Holodomor, the was worse than your holocaust,” Mr. “Spell Your Name” (Nazvy Svoe Imia) “I didn’t take a single dollar from the Holocaust and Chornobyl,” said Mr. Spielberg continued. is among the best documentaries on the profits I received from ‘Schindler’s List’ Pinchuk. “I am not sure that I should take “The Holocaust that I’ve devoted my Holocaust, Mr. Spielberg said, and Mr. because I did consider it blood money,” part in the realization of this trilogy, but I life to is the Shoah that took place Bukovsky is a great documentarian who Mr. Spielberg said in a 2004 interview believe such films should be made.” between 1935 and 1945 and that’s the conceived and arranged the film’s con- with Katie Couric. In his remarks, Mr. Pinchuk referred to Holocaust that I’m trying to bring to the tent on his own. “When I first decided to make the Holodomor as a “tragedy,” not genocide. world’s attention,” he said. The film uses visual watercolors to ‘Schindler’s List,’ I said if this movie Mr. Pinchuk said he met Mr. Spielberg “There were many other disasters that paint a mood and set a tone that is very makes any profit, it can’t go to me or my while his family was visiting New Jersey have happened to people all around the similar to the survivors’ stories, he said, family. It has to go out to the world and two years ago. The director invited Mr. world, that have happened to the through the use of interstitial visuals such that’s what we try to do here at the Shoah Pinchuk and his family to the set of “War Ukrainian people, that should have docu- as rain, leaves and views from windows. Foundation. We try to teach the facts of of the Worlds,” where the two billion- mentaries produced about those stories, Producing “Spell Your Name” is merely the past to prevent another Holocaust in aires began discussing the Holocaust. and I think that’s very important. And I the first phase of the Shoah Foundation’s the future,” he said. “He probably told me more new things think those documentaries will find project, said Mr. Pinchuk, a Jew who is Since its inception in 1994, the Shoah about Babyn Yar than what I told him,” instant access to schools all around the active in Ukraine’s Jewish community. Foundation has recorded and archived Mr. Pinchuk said. countries,” Mr. Spielberg added. The second phase, into which Mr. more than 52,000 testimonies of “I learned from him during our first When the press conference drew to a Pinchuk said he will invest at least $1 Holocaust survivors and their rescuers. meeting that Babyn Yar was the first close, The Weekly directly posed a ques- million, will involve distributing the film Mr. Spielberg created the Shoah example of the Holocaust during the sec- tion to the filmmaker: “Mr. Spielberg, do to Ukraine’s television networks, as well Foundation (the Hebrew word for catas- ond world war, and practically in human you believe the Famine of 1932-1933 was as schools and universities. “The film is trophe) in order to create the largest history. I learned that from him. I didn’t a genocide against the Ukrainian people?” merely a starting point for this project, archive of survivor testimonies from all have to interest him because he knew A spokesman for the Victor Pinchuk more than I did.” Foundation, Nikita Poturaev, interrupted any Mr. Pinchuk decided a film had to be potential response, preventing Mr. Spielberg done about the Holocaust in Ukraine. from answering The Weekly’s question. They met again, and though Mr. “This question was already posed, and I am Pinchuk wanted a creative film, Mr. going to decline it,” Mr. Poturaev said. Spielberg insisted on a documentary “Nobody asked this question yet,” The based on the Shoah archives. Weekly responded. “Mr. (Spielberg) said ‘I am ready to “Sorry,” Mr. Poturaev said. produce this film and I will go to Ukraine “Nobody asked this question,” The because I want to,’ ” Mr. Pinchuk said. Weekly repeated. “And today when he stepped off the air- “We had some questions about the plane steps, his first words were, ‘Finally, Holodomor during the press conference I am in my homeland.’” so unfortunately … last question, All four of Mr. Spielberg’s Jewish please,” Mr. Poturaev said, moving the grandparents were from the Odesa region press conference along. of Ukraine, he said, and they spoke only After Mr. Pinchuk met Mr. Spielberg Russian and Yiddish. “I kind of felt that I at the airport, the first thing they did was had a piece of the [sic] Ukraine in my visit Babyn Yar. They placed stones at home, especially around dinner time,” each of the monuments and paid their Mr. Spielberg said. respects in what Mr. Spielberg described Though professing to being “very, as a moving moment. very familiar” with Ukrainian culture, Mr. Pinchuk said he was imagining Mr. Spielberg revealed he, in fact, could what it would have been like to have stood use some brushing up. He repeatedly in line, facing an inevitable execution. He referred to his grandparents’ homeland as said he felt lucky that his grandparents “the Ukraine,” a term once widely used managed to avoid execution. One grandfa- to refer to what was once considered a ther was an economist in a military factory, region of Russia. while another was a Red Army officer. Mr. Spielberg did acknowledge the Both were able to evacuate their families. Famine of 1932-1933. However, in his “My grandfathers, grandmothers left response to a question posed to him about and, had they not left, they would have the Holodomor during the 50-minute been here,” Mr. Pinchuk said of Babyn press conference, Mr. Spielberg carefully Yar. “And I would not be here. So I had avoided referring to it as genocide. such thoughts.”

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by Maria Kulczycky rently with the St. Nicholas Cathedral Choir and formerly with the Ukrainian CHICAGO – An audience of more Opera of Lviv, sang Andrij’s aria from than 800 enthusiastically applauded the the opera, praising and thanking God for performance of 120 choristers and a 40- the return of the Kozaks from exile. member orchestra, assisted by four “This concert comes towards the end soloists, as the “Hallelujah” chorus from of a year of celebration marking 100 Handel’s “Messiah” brought the St. years since the founding of St. Nicholas Nicholas Cathedral Centennial Concert Parish. We welcome everyone from our to a thunderous conclusion. community here, because the founding of “The music being performed includes St. Nicholas Parish launched the birth of some of the best and most loved liturgical this Ukrainian Village community. This works of revered Ukrainian composers. It parish is the mother church to many other is used by both Catholic and Orthodox churches in the Chicago area, and I faiths, which has unified us for genera- tions,” observed Bishop Richard Seminack applaud this demonstration of the spirit of of St. Nicholas Eparchy, as he welcomed unity,” noted Father Bohdan Nalysnyk, the audience and performers to the concert. rector of St. Nicholas Cathedral. On a bright and warm Sunday in early The six performing Ukrainian choirs October, with all the doors of the cathe- included Slavuta, the St. Nicholas dral open to the light and breeze, the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral Choir, capacity crowd listened appreciatively to Volodymyr Duda, conductor; Surma members of six Ukrainian community Choir, Zeonid Modrytzkyj, conductor; choruses accompanied by the Northwest Ukrainian American Youth Association Chicago Symphony Orchestra under its Choir, Wolodymyr Popowycz, conductor; St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Bass Stefan Szkafarowsky headlines the St. Nicholas Cathedral Centennial longtime conductor, Michael Holian. Concert of Liturgical Music, with Michael Holian conducting. Metropolitan Opera bass Stefan Church Choir, Mr. Popowycz, conductor; Blahovist, Sts. Volodymyr and Olha Szkafarowsky headlined the cast of per- Maestro Holian spearheaded the effort The success of this event was due largely Ukrainian Catholic Church Choir, Olena formers, thrilling the audience with a to include a musical component in the to the efforts of the many members of the Novyk, conductor; and St. Andrew moving rendition of the “Psalms of Centennial Celebration. He also arranged Cultural Committee chaired by Mr. Holian David,” music by Ihor Sonevytsky and Ukrainian Orthodox Church Choir, Taras and orchestrated several of the works per- and the support of the choral directors. lyrics by Taras Shevchenko; “Ella Rudenko, conductor. The six combined formed, managed the musical and organi- The long ovation at the end reflected the Giammai” from “Don Carlo” by Giuseppi into the Centennial Choir for the first and zational efforts, and conducted the com- appreciation of the audience for the months Verdi; and “Boundless Glory” by last numbers of the concert. bined choruses and orchestra. Mr. Holian of planning, preparation and rehearsals Oleksander Koshets. Mr. Szkafarowsky In addition, Father Deacon Mychajlo is emeritus professor of music at Wilbur such an ambitious endeavor represented, as also sang a duet with Myroslava Kuka, “O Horodysky and Myroslave Kuka were Wright College and director of the well as for the artistry and talent so ably God, Through Endless Trials,” by Mykola soloists with the Slavuta choir for “O, the Northwest Chicago Symphony Orchestra. demonstrated by the performers. Fomenko. His deep bass, accompanied by Star is Risen,” the hymn about the orchestra, resonated to the rafters of the Pochayiv miracle written by Mykola acoustically perfect cathedral. Leontovych. In addition, a quintet from St. Before the “Hallelujah” finale, the Volodymyr and Olha consisting of Iryna Winnipeg artist unveils website combined choruses and orchestra per- Dichij, Chrystyna Kosach, Olena Novyk, formed the familiar hymn “Lord of Vadim Dubovsky and Bohdan Hyrjavenko WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Well-known www.iskryart.com. Heaven and Earth,” from the opera performed Dmytro Bortniansky’s “Blessed Winnipeg artist Orysia Sinitowich- Ms. Sinitowich-Gorski will be partici- “Zaporozhets za Dunayem” (Kozak is the Man.” The ensemble was joined by Gorski successfully launched her website pating in a group exhibit and sale at Beyond the Danube) by Semen Hulak- Halyna Hyrjavenko for a lyrical rendition on October 15. Her art is always featured Winnipeg’s Gallery Oseredok (Ukrainian Artemovsky. Yaroslav Lemishka, cur- of Andrew Hnatyshyn’s “Hail Mary.” under the name iskryart as is the website. Cultural and Educational Center) on The new website is devoted to provid- October 26-November 25. Upcoming ing information about the artist and her exhibits are planned in various cities in craft. The website may be found at Canada and the United States for 2007.

Yaroslav Lemishka sings “Lord of Heaven and Earth” from “Zaporozhets za Dunayem” with the Centennial Choir and Northwest Chicago Symphony Orchestra. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 No. 44 Moving to Ukraine: a personal narrative of a dream fulfilled

by Bohdan Hodiak some UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) soldiers. And, yes, there were people CONCLUSION walking around in embroidered shirts. There are signs of hope. Recently a But, despite all this, publishers of fine newspaper called Young Ukraine Ukrainian books are having a difficult listed a couple of hundred notable books time. The country is flooded with cheap that had been published in Ukrainian in Russian books, and the government, the past 15 years. Many of the books despite lip service to Ukrainian culture, were translations, and I was surprised at gives almost no support to the publishers. the quality of the books – many the There seems to be a “University cream of modern European thought. It Press” mentality among Ukrainian pub- was as if Ukrainians were catching up lishers. Much of their readership is the with the rest of the world. Ukrainian intelligentsia, so they publish

Lada Bondarenko Mothers with babies stroll past the Mariinskyi Palace – one of the signs of a rising birth rate in Ukraine. Four years ago the birth rate was in the 20s per day in Kyiv; today it is in the 70s and often higher.

Meanwhile, Russian publishers are Happily, young Ukrainians are being assigning writers to churn out or translate reached through wonderful singers and romance, science-fiction and detective songwriters such as Taras Petrynenko, stories, and distributing such books all Ruslana, the rapper Tartak, Maria Burmaka over Ukraine. I heard a Ukrainian author and others. Their songs and actions reflect in a radio interview say she cannot find pride in being Ukrainian, a wish for a Ukrainian books for her teenage son. It national identity. They have taken rock also must be true for teenage daughters. I music and added their own genius and don’t have any doubt that thousands of interpretation, and often have produced young people read Harry Potter in songs that really reach the young. Ukrainian simply because it came out Kyiv’s monument to Hetman against the backdrop of a We went to two Independence Day cele- before the Russian translation and there modern hotel. The St. Sophia Sobor is reflected in the hotel’s glass facade. brations – one at our local Victory Park and was so little for the mid-teenagers. the other, the big one in the “Big Chestnut” At the book fair I also bought a maga- on Independence Square. Both were won- A few days after this article appeared books of literary and scholarly quality. zine that began publishing this year called derful. The Kreshchatyk, closed to traffic, a book fair of Ukrainian books opened at All well and good, but it does not pay the Terra Ukrainiana, with text in English and had a festive Christmas air to it. The city the grand Ukrainian Home located at the bills or reach the mass readership that Ukrainian. It is a handsome magazine, had hung decorative lights high across the end of the Kreschatyk. There were hun- can speak Ukrainian. After all, aren’t beautifully designed. Its theme can be seen boulevard with symbols of the city: hun- dreds of books from a dozen publishers, these the people who are speaking from the introductory words of its editor, dreds of neon chestnut blossoms lighting up and we bought a beautiful children’s Russian on the streets of Kyiv? Tamara Palyonko: “After one of his bril- this grand boulevard. Independence Square encyclopedia, an audio CD of Ukrainian Perhaps as Ukrainians become more liant victories Garibaldi said: “We have cre- that night was totally packed, almost exclu- tales, several beautiful children’s books, confident and increase their feeling of self- ated Italy. Now it is time to create Italians sively with young people. And despite the two fine maps of Ukraine and the poetry worth they will value their language more. ...” This magazine also is struggling. crowding they would let you through and of Vasyl Symonenko. The poetry book After all, only 17 percent of the population A few days later we went to the Lesia people were careful not to push. It was a was specially prepared to teach is ethnically Russian, as reported recently in Ukrainka Theater to see a performance of civilized crowd of more than 15,000. Symonenko to high school students. One the Kyiv Post. It would be wonderful if “The Good Soldier Schweik,” performed As a newcomer I was surprised at how of the maps of Ukraine had illustrations more Ukrainian writers appeared whose in Ukrainian, with the best seats at $14. patriotic the celebrations were. Now of Symon Petliura, Stepan Bandera and work everyone wants to read. I am not talk- The play was quite different from the these were officially sponsored celebra- ing about writers for the Ukrainian intellec- novel and at one point Schweik was tions and yet their theme was love of Bohdan Hodiak was born in Slovakia tual ghetto, but books for the tired shop girl asked “Why do you speak Ukrainian all Ukraine and pride in independence. It’s and arrived in the United States with his who wants some romance and the auto the time?” He answered: “Because I’m a as if many leading officials have finally parents when he was a pre-teen. He attend- mechanic who wants to get away from it all Ukrainian,” and the audience clapped. understood that you cannot have a nation ed Stuyvesant High School in New York with a good detective story or thriller. That same night at this theater we also without real Ukrainians: citizens who City and the City College of New York. For It is not so much that such novels do bought tickets for a play on the life of love their country and its traditions. most of his professional life Mr. Hodiak not exist in Ukrainian – Andrii Vasyl Stus, which will have its premiere Ukraine doesn’t have to worry about was a reporter and an editor at The Kokotiukha and others have written fine in October. There is now a street in Kyiv losing its independence. The people, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in Pennsylvania. thrillers – but publishers don’t have the named after Stus. And, only last month, a whether Russian-or Ukrainian-speaking, He also worked for the Associated Press, money to advertise and market them so plaque was unveiled in in honor won’t stand for it. They don’t want was the editor-in-chief of two weeklies in that Ukrainian readership grows. They of Symon Petliura. Moscow’s boot on their necks again. Miami, and was senior editor at a boating can’t even keep most good Ukrainian You can find radio stations in The real challenge is, to paraphrase magazine in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. books in print. Ukrainian, television stations and pro- Garibaldi: “We have created Ukraine. Now grams in Ukrainian and fine newspapers it is time to create Ukrainians.” And, really, in Ukrainian, filled with interesting mate- you don’t have to create Ukrainians because rial. In fact, the Ukrainian press is having the Ukrainian soul is there, buried, encrust- a revival. I confess that I am now reading ed and covered by the Soviet personae that 10 times more material in Ukrainian than face the world. It is the job of artists and I did living in the States. journalists and teachers to water it and then So Ukrainian, in many facets, is avail- step aside and let it grow. People need their able in abundance in Kyiv, but it must be myths and dreams. They help them feel admitted that the diaspora cares much connected. At the Independence Square cel- more about this than many native ebration there was a huge banner that said: Ukrainians. The teacher in my son’s “It’s Better United.” school told us that of her 17 students, she During the start of World War II the has only one family that speaks Communists were smart enough to Ukrainian at home. understand this. Their propaganda to It seems that the parents send their their citizens was not to fight to save the children to the school because they feel it Soviet Union but to fight for the mother- provides a better education and perhaps land. That is why that huge statue astride Ukrainian will be useful to their children the war museum in Kyiv is of “Rodyna later if they enter government service or Mat,” the nation’s mother, rising up and tourism, but that may be all. They speak holding a defiant sword. Russian because they spoke it all their When I first arrived in Kyiv I would lives and they feel comfortable with it. sometimes needle the Russified store This is not a political statement. These clerks – “I can’t purchase a Ukrainian Kyiv now has shopping malls, stores and boutiques that rival any in Paris or same people would fiercely resist London. This is one of 10 elegant shopping malls in the city. Ukraine becoming a satellite of Russia. (Continued on page 26) No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 15 “Modernism in Ukraine” exhibit to arrive in New York City Press Office of The Ukrainian Museum experts, tracing Ukrainian artistic expression and experimentation over the NEW YORK – “Crossroads: years 1910-1930 while contextualizing Modernism in Ukraine, 1910-1930,” the the works that emanated from this peri- first major exhibition of early 20th cen- od of prolific creativity. Prof. John E. tury Ukrainian art to be shown in New Bowlt of the University of Southern York City, opens on November 5 at the California served as editor of the cata- new Ukrainian Museum, a state-of-the- logue. art, 25,000-square-foot facility located at As volatile as Ukraine’s politics were 222 E. Sixth St. The exhibition will be in the months leading up to the recent on view through March 11, 2007. Orange Revolution, so too was the cul- Featuring the best of high modernism tural exuberance beginning with the from Ukraine, the exhibition includes turn of the century. This exhibition more than 70 rarely seen works by 21 offers a taste of the electrifying energy Ukrainian artists; each of the works is of that period that soon ended with the being shown for the first time in the Stalinist purges that decimated Ukraine. United States. Examples from the Avant- A majority of the artistic output of this Garde, Art Nouveau, Impressionism, extraordinarily prolific period was Expressionism, Futurism and destroyed, and most of the artists forced Constructivism movements are presented underground, exiled or executed. in a fresh, new light. Through this show, examples of modern “Crossroads: Modernism in Ukraine” Ukrainian art offer a rare glimpse into a includes the works of well-known artists long-neglected area of modernist such as David Burliuk, Alexandra Exter endeavor, of cultural endurance and cre- and Kazimir Malevich, as well as those ative freedom. of many artists still unknown to The exhibition’s national tour is spon- American audiences. Although the for- sored by The Boeing Company and mer are commonly associated with the Konstantin Grigorishin. Financial sup- Russian Avant-Garde, one of the revela- port has also been provided by AeroSvit tions emerging from the exhibition is that Airlines, Chadbourne & Park LLP, Nour much of what has been regarded as USA Ltd., Mykola M. Shymone, Russian modernism was in fact incubat- Oleksandr Tabalov and The Trust for ed in Ukraine. Mutual Understanding. Additional sup- The works in the show range from port has been provided by the Mission of huge oil canvases and graphic arts to the- Ukraine to the United Nations; the ater and opera design. The first impres- Embassy of Ukraine in Washington and sion is of an abundant use of color. the Consulate General of Ukraine in Another striking aspect of the works is New York. the way they mesh the past and the pres- The Ukrainian Museum, an institution ent, bowing to the influences of cultural showcasing Ukrainian culture and histo- “City,” 1917, oil on canvas by Issakhar Rybak, from the National Art Museum of traditions, but expressing them through ry, has been serving its constituency and Ukraine, Kyiv. modernism. The abstract works are root- ed in the principles of Ukrainian folk art; new facility with a dynamic retrospective they also resonate with Byzantine aes- exhibition of the works of Alexander thetics, with medieval ecclesiastical art Archipenko, a leading voice of Ukraine’s and with the tensions inherent in classic modernist era. 17th century Ukrainian . To provide additional information and According to one of its organizers, Nikita Lobanov-Rostovsky, the exhibi- expand on the topic of the exhibition, the tion is designed to show American audi- Ukrainian Museum will present lectures ences the talent and unique nature of and films. On Monday, November 6, at Ukrainian Avant-Garde artists. “Viewers 6:30 p.m. Prof. Horbachov, an authority will be able to observe that not only on the avant-garde period in Ukraine and Moscow and St. Petersburg were breed- contributor of an essay on Malevich to ing grounds of new, non-objective art of the exhibition catalogue, will deliver a the 20th century,” he explained. “Form lecture (in the Ukrainian language) titled and color were combined also in Kyiv “Formula for the Ukrainian Avant-Garde and , where these ideas pros- – Europe + the Village.” Prof. pered and succeeded since 1908. Many Horbachov will also present his newly ‘founding fathers’ of this art in the published book “He and I Were Russian Empire of that time were Ukrainian: Malevich and Ukraine.” Ukrainians born and bred.” On Sunday, November 12, at 2 p.m. The works on exhibition are from the Dr. Myroslava Mudrak, professor of art National Art Museum of Ukraine, the history at the Ohio State University, an Theater Museum and the Museum of expert on Ukrainian modernism in art Folk Art of Ukraine in Kyiv, the Art and contributing author to the exhibition Museum of Dnipropetrovsk and private catalogue, will deliver a lecture about collections. They were selected by Prof. “Color and Its Dynamics in Ukrainian Dmytro Horbachov and Mr. Lobanov- Modernist Painting.” Co-lecturer, Dr. Rostovsky, who are dedicated to preserv- Oleh Ilnytzkyj, professor of Ukrainian ing and disseminating knowledge about language and literature at the University the Ukrainian Avant-Garde. of Alberta, in Edmonton, whose expert- The show was organized by the ise is Ukrainian modernism and avant- Foundation for International Arts and garde, will speak about “The Verbal and Education with the National Art Museum Visual Arts in Ukrainian Futurism.” Both of Ukraine. The foundation, a non-profit lectures will be in English. organization, was created to help pre- Dr. Yuri Shevchuk, founder and direc- serve and protect artistic and cultural tor of the Ukrainian Film Club of legacies in the countries of the former Columbia University, will introduce a Soviet Union through exhibitions, finan- selection of short contemporary Ukrainian cial support and education. The National films by Ukrainian filmmakers. The Art Museum of Ukraine was founded in event, presented in conjunction with the 1904 and has grown into a prestigious film club, will be held at the museum on national institution whose collections Friday, November 10, at 7 p.m. reflect the history of art in Ukraine. For further information readers may The Ukrainian Museum will be the “The Executioners,” costume design, 1928, watercolor and gouache on paper, by call 212-228-0110; e-mail info@ukraini- second stop for this exciting exhibition, Anatole Petritsky, from the State Theater Museum of Ukraine. anmuseum.org; or log on to www.ukraini- which opened this summer at the anmuseum.org. Chicago Cultural Center. A richly illus- the public since 1976 through exhibi- heritage of and to Hours are Wednesday through Sunday trated, bilingual catalogue accompanies tions, educational programs and public document the contributions of Ukrainian 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission: $8 for the exhibition. The catalogue includes events. immigrants to America’s cultural treas- adults; $6 for seniors and students; chil- essays, written by leading international Its purpose is to preserve the cultural ury. In 2005 the museum inaugurated its dren under 12, free. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 No. 44

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„ілимося болючою вісткою, що з волі ‚севишнього We are deeply saddened to announce that 17 жовтня 2006 р. відійшов від нас у вічність наш найдорожчий on October 22, 2006, ŒУ†, А’ЬŠО, „І„У‘Ь і А’ св. п. Dr. Jaropolk Lassowsky, age 65, Professor on the faculty of Clarion University of Pennsylvania, д-р О‹ ƒ ‘‚Я’О‘‹А‚ ‘О•А нар. 28 лютого 1922 р. у •одорові, Україна. composer, conductor, violinist, translator, loving husband, father, and grandfather, passed away after a brief battle with cancer. „иректор атології у St. John's Riverside Hospital у ‰онкерсі, .‰. Jaropolk Lassowsky, son of the late artist Volodymyr Lassowsky, and the „овголітній дириґент хору української католицької церкви late writer Yaroslava Lassowsky Kulish (née Harashchak), was born on ‘в. Архистратига Œихаїла. October 17, 1941, in L’viv, Ukraine. He died in Clarion, Pennsylvania, USA. У невимовному смутку залишились: Jaropolk is survived by his immediate family, wife Hanna дружина – ‹ЮА Chumachenko and their young son, Andriy; his daughters by his late wife син – Оƒ„А з дочкою А‚ООЮ Lida Lassowsky (née Skoczylas), Oksana Lassowsky and Darka дочка – ‡О ‘‹А‚А з сином О‹ Š‘А„ОŒ Lassowsky Nebesh; sons-in-law Boyan Onyshkevych and Danko Nebesh; дочка – ‚ІА Œˆ‘ЬŠІ‚ з мужем ‚О‹О„ˆŒˆОŒ and six grandchildren, Lukash, Ruslan, and Roman Onyshkevych, and та дітьми „ІЯОЮ і ŒАŠОŒ Solomia, Dmytro, and Nina Nebesh. син – О ‘’ з дружиною ŒІ˜ ‹ та дітьми ˆŠО‹ОЮ, ’ОŒОЮ та А’ООŒ He also leaves behind brothers Mykola Kulish with family, and his chil- брат – ІƒО з дружиною ‹І‹ Ю та дітьми dren Maxim and Maya; Zhdan Lassowsky and his wife Lina; and Levko ŒАІ‰ŠОЮ ’ˆŒ –Ь з мужем Оƒ„АОŒ Lassowsky and his wife Carmen and their children; stepfather Volodymyr і О‹ ƒОŒ з дружиною О‹ Ю та сином  ‘’ООŒ Kulish and his wife Svitlana Kvitchenko; stepmother Myroslava Lassowsky- братова –  ОІ‹Я ‘О•А з сином ’АА‘ОŒ Kruk; parents-in-law Antonina and Anatoly Chumachenko with family. і дочкою ОŒОЮ ƒА„‡ ‚ˆ— з мужем А„ІЄŒ та синами ŒАŠІЯОŒ і А‚‹У‘ Œ Their grief is shared by his sisters-in-law by his first marriage Elehie сваха – ОŠ‘АА Œˆ‘ЬŠІ‚ Skoczylas and Roma Dockhorn, with husband Robert, and their sons кузинки – ІˆА „А‹ ‘ІО з мужем Œˆ•А‰‹ОŒ Iwan, Julian and Michael, and Iwan's wife Jessie; and extended families – ƒ ‹ЬŒА ‰О’І˜ŠІ з чоловіком ‹А‡‹О і родиною Lassowsky, Chumachenko, Onyshkevych, Nebesh, Vitoshynsky, лижча і дальша родина в ‡‘А та Україні. Stepaniuk, Staruch, Sonevytsky; and students, friends, colleagues. ‚ічна ‰ому пам'ять! A prayer service will be held on Friday, October 27th, 2006, at 7:30 p.m. at the Hines-Rinaldi Funeral Home, with viewing from 6:00 p.m. through 9:00 p.m., 11800 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20904 tel. 301-622-2290. DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS The Funeral Mass will be on Saturday, October 28th, at 10:30 a.m., at the to be published in The Ukrainian Weekly – in the Ukrainian Holy Trinity Particular Ukrainian Catholic Church, 16631 New Hampshire Ave, or English language – are accepted by mail, courier, fax, phone or e-mail. Silver Spring, MD, 20905 tel 301-421-1739 Deadline: Tuesday noon before the newspaper’s date of issue.

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on NGOs to take care of certain parts of stantly listened for ideas that might be said she was reminded of the WFUWO’s International Ukraine... their social plans.” applicable to Ukrainian conditions, they member-organizations’ work on provid- (Continued from page 4) The conference not only provided said. For example, while listening to a ing scholarships to schools in Ukraine. Organizations invited Roman organizations with the opportunity to discussion about a partnership between “These programs not only bring Tabatchouk, a political science and eco- cooperate more closely with the United 35 schools in Zimbabwe and 35 schools resources, they also connect people to nomics student at Rutgers University. Nations, but also encouraged the non- in Brooklyn, which provided not just learn about reality of others in the world, “Some important points that I came to governmental organizations to share supplies but new methods of alleviating build self-esteem, and help people to realize during the conference were that information and form personal contacts poverty, Nadia Shmigel, the WFUWO’s build a new perspective,” said Mr. governments of nations and NGOs need with one another. main NGO representative to the U.N., Shmigel. to work together more closely,” said Mr. “I believe that Ukrainian Americans Tabatchouk. “Governments should incor- and Ukrainians need to work much more porate NGOs into their budget plans and closely than they do now. Ukrainian considered to be the most prominent com- their fiscal policies. It would relieve a lot NGOs here not only can but should part- Ukraine down... petitive advantages and competitive disad- of stress for the government if they relied ner up with NGOs from Ukraine and (Continued from page 11) vantages of each. Also included is an other regions to work on joint ideas. World Economic Forum annually deliv- extensive section of data tables with global Ukrainian NGOs from around the world ers a comprehensive overview of the rankings covering over 100 indicators. can work to promote social and econom- main strengths and weaknesses in a large * * * ic improvement in Ukraine,” Mr. First exchange students... number of countries, making it possible (Continued from page 8) Tabatchouk noted. The World Economic Forum is an to identify key areas for policy formula- institutions. This is especially important The World Federation of Ukrainian independent international organization tion and reform. for Ukrainian students, who are general- Women’s Organizations also took the committed to improving the state of the For further information readers may ly less likely to be able to afford opportunity to co-sponsor one of the world by engaging leaders in partner- University of Alberta tuition fees. NGO-sponsored workshops – titled log on to www.weforum.or. ships to shape global, regional and indus- Moreover, earning credits for courses “Migrant Families as Agents of The Global Competitiveness report con- try agendas. taken at the partner university is easily Development: Conflicting Priorities” – tains a detailed country/economy profile Incorporated as a foundation in 1971, arranged and counts toward a degree at that were held in between the official for each of the 125 economies featured in and based in Geneva, Switzerland, the one’s home institution. conference roundtables to promote dis- the study, providing a comprehensive sum- World Economic Forum is impartial and The University of Alberta cussion. mary of the overall position in the Index not-for-profit; it is tied to no political, International has facilitated this first Representatives of the WFUWO con- rankings as well as a guide to what are partisan or national interests. exchange by granting scholarships to both Mr. Starchuk and Ms. Dudych to help defray their expenses. However, in the long run, to sustain the academic exchange, a dedicated endowment fund needs to be established. A capital base of $200,000, for exam- ple, would provide two scholarships annually of about $4,000 each – enough to pay for international travel and help defray other expenses. As the University of Alberta has committed itself to match donations for scholarships, the sum of $100,000 would be enough to establish such an endowment. This amount could be reached with one donation by an indi- vidual or organization – in which case the endowment would be created in their name—or it could be the result of the sum total of numerous donations given over a period of time by many. Offering a room to a Lviv University student would also help support this exchange. Readers my contact the director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Dr. Zenon Kohut, by phone, 780-492- 2972, or e-mail, [email protected], for more information. University of Alberta students can access information on the study abroad program at Lviv University by visiting the website of the University of Alberta International at http://www.internation- al.ualberta.ca/studyabroad.php. The seventh annual Lviv Summer Course organized by the Ukrainian Culture, Language and Literature Program at the University of Alberta will be held May 14-June 27, 2007. It is open to all students in North America and Europe. Information can be obtained at http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/%7eukraina/ LvivCourse.html.

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Ukrainian American Veterans award scholarships to six students YONKERS, N.Y. –The Ukrainian Two applicants, brothers Austin James degree program. Additionally, students arship program should make their checks American Veterans (UAV) Scholarship Smith and Adam Charles Smith, received from accredited trade schools or institutions payable to UAV National Scholarship Fund Committee awards scholarship money to $250 each. Both attend Shawnee that have degree programs are eligible. and mail them to: National Scholarship college students who are descendants of Community College and are majoring in Students can apply while in their sen- Officer Nicholas Skirka, 109 Windsor Ukrainian American veterans. education. ior year of high school; college atten- Terrace, Yonkers, NY 10701. dance will be verified before the awards Applications for the scholarship should are given in the fall semester. be sent to the same address. For addition- Applications are accepted year-round, al information readers may e-mail n.skir- and the deadline for each year is at the [email protected] or call 914-965-3707. end of August. Moreover, students may The UAV National Scholarship reapply for the scholarship awards. Committee consists of John Tkachuk, Organizations and/or individuals wishing Peter Olijarczyk, Peter Matthews and to make a tax-exempt donation to the schol- Russel Olijarczyk.

Our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, OLHA SMORODSKY, passed away on Saturday, June 17, 2006, at the age of 98.

Funeral services were held on Tuesday, June 20, 2006, from Lakeview Funeral in Clifton followed by the Liturgy at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Passaic. Burial took place at St. Andrew’s Cemetery, South Bound Brook, NJ. Alexander Prysiazniuk John William Orem Olena Stefania Borkowsky We would like to thank all our family, relatives and friends for their support, presence at the funeral services and personal condolences.

Our special thanks to Rev. Ihor Roiko, pastor of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic parish in Passaic, NJ for his spiritual support, prayers, visitations to the nursing home where she resided, and all the funeral services.

We thank the Sisterhood of St. Mary the Protectress in Bound Brook for prepar- ing such a wonderful “tryzna” after the funeral.

We extend our sincere gratitude for all the Liturgy offerings and charitable dona- tions in memory of Olha Smorodsky.

Liturgy offerings: Total $110.00 – Maruszczak Family, Helen Bobylak, Ulczak Family, H. and O. Motschurad, I. and M. Durbak, St. Nicholas Ukr. Senior Club, Mr. and Mrs. Rudakewycz, A., O., and I. Paluch, Ukrainian Women’s League Branch 70, D.T. Pochoday-Stelmach, O. and J. Krupka.

The Ukrainian Museum in New York City: Total $1120.00 – Dr. Y. and O. Austin James Smith Adam Charles Smith Victor William Cannuscio Stawnychy, Dr. I. and M. Voyevidka, Dr. J. and O. Trytjak, Dr. B. and M. Woroch, Dr. B. and V. Nowakiwsky, M. and O. Hnateyko, M. Helbig, K. Kuzmycz, J. and I. Zinycz, S. and A. Tatarenko, S. and M. Welhasch, M. Bakalec, H. Bobylak, W. Maruszczak, Students are required to write an essay Finally, Victor William Cannuscio of L. Cholhan, I. Capar, S. Marchenko, A. Moczula, M. Borbycz, H. Djatchenko. (400-500 words) about a current military West Palm Beach, Fla., who attends the topic. The topic this year was “What role or University of South Florida and is major- Children of Chornobyl Relief and Development Fund (CCRDF): Total $545.00 – strategy should the United States take in its ing in environmental policy, received $200. Dr. Z. and H. Matkiwsky, M. Dorota, P. Smiley-Andrews, O. and A. Fedash, L. continued efforts in the war on terrorism?” Students interested in applying for the Ihnat, W. and D. Rudakewycz, O. Putykevych. Six students were selected as recipi- UAV scholarship awards should fillout ents of the 2005-2006 scholarship an application, include their transcript, “Volynske Bratstvo”: Total $1210.00 – M. and Z. Smorodsky, E. and O. awards. Alexander Prysiazniuk from write an essay on this year’s military Matkiwsky, C. and T. Rakowsky, Drs. J. and C. Rakowsky, Dr. R. and M. Kozyckyj, Warren, Mich., who is majoring in civil topic, and send a picture. Applications B. Kulba, B. Pochoday-Stelmach, MA Civello, P. and L. Paluch, Rev. M. and A. engineering at Wayne State University, are available on the UAV website: Kudanovych, J. and M. Fedorko. received $500 for having one of the two www.uavets.org. best essays. The UAV National Ladies To be eligible for a UAV scholarship, We sincerely thank you. May the Lord always keep you in his graces. Auxiliary donated the money to make applicants must be descendants of this award possible in memory of past Ukrainian American veterans and be full- Myroslaw and Zoriana Smorodsky, son and family president Anne Berkorowajny. time matriculated college students in a The other best essay was by John William Orem from Clifton, Va., who is attending Virginia Tech and majoring in music. He also received $500. This award was made possible by a donation from Cpl. Roman G. Lazor Post 40, Ukrainian National Federal Credit Union located in North Port, Fla. Additionally, Olena Stefania Borkowsky from Elizabeth, N.J., who is majoring in psychology at Northeastern University of Massachusetts received $300. This sum was received from dona- tions made in memory of Walter Money Market Account Demetro. up to apy* Want to reach us 4.08% by e-mail? Manhattan Brooklyn So. Bound Brook, NJ Carteret NJ Editorial materials: [email protected] Preview of Events: [email protected] *Minimum balance to open Money Market Account – $50,000.00 Subscription Department: 1-866-859-5848 Annual Percentage Yield based on 4.00% apr [email protected] Rates subject to change without notice. Other restrictions apply Advertising Department: [email protected] 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 No. 44 OHIO NATIONALITIES FOR DEWINE

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ed, taken by Mr. Yushchenko in order to Yushchenko picks... beef up his team to withstand Prime File No. 988-06 (Continued from page 2) Minister Yanukovych’s growing appetite SURROGATE’S COURT – WESTCHESTER COUNTY when he opposed two big projects pro- for power. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK moted by Russia: the reversal of the On October 9, Mr. Yushchenko By the Grace of God Free and Independent Odesa-Brody oil pipeline, originally built appointed the former head of his office, for carrying Caspian oil to Europe, and Oleksander Zinchenko, as his adviser. This provoked a stormy reaction from To: Walter Verheles, Katherine Verheles, Paul Zitko, Natalia Zitko, the formation of a Russia-dominated gas Tanya Zitko, Larissa Volosyena, Svetlana Kornienko, Walter Luhova, transportation consortium. Mr. Yushchenko’s party, Our Ukraine, which issued a statement asking Mr. Tamara Luhova and Katherine Oleniak, whose whereabouts are Unlike Mr. Akhmetov, who backed Yushchenko to drop Mr. Zinchenko from unknown, and if deceased, to all the unknown distributees, heirs at law Mr. Yanukovych during the Orange his team. It was Mr. Zinchenko whose and next of kin, of Barbara Pregon, their guardians, committees, conser- Revolution in 2004, Mr. Haiduk’s ISD sensational accusations of corruption was rather on Mr. Yushchenko’s side. Mr. vators or assignees, and if any of them survived the decedent but have against several key members of Our Haiduk clashed with pro-Russian inter- since died or become incompetent, their successors in interest, execu- Ukraine provoked a political crisis in ests again in December 2005, when Mr. tors, administrators, legal representatives, devisees, legatees, spouses, September 2005, which triggered the dis- Yushchenko was about to appoint him distributees, heirs at law, next of kin, committees, conservators, guardians missal of Ms. Tymoshenko as prime min- or any person having any claim or interest through them by purchase, vice prime minister in charge of fuel and ister and Petro Poroshenko as NSDC sec- energy. Mr. Yushchenko unexpectedly retary. inheritance or otherwise. changed his mind on Mr. Haiduk, and on President Yushchenko also appointed A petition having been duly filed by Russell Kantor, who is domiciled at January 4 the accords on gas trade with Oleksander Semyriadchenko as head of 188 Rockne Road, Yonkers, NY 10701. Russia, which Mr. Haiduk had opposed, his information policy service and Ihor YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s were signed. Later on, ISD unsuccessful- Pukshyn as deputy head of the Court, Westchester County, at 140 Grand St., White Plains, New York, on ly disputed the gas accords in Ukrainian Presidential Secretariat. Mr. November 22, 2006 at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why a courts. Semyriadchenko shaped news coverage at decree should not be made in the estate of Barbara Pregon lately domi- Predictably, Mr. Yanukovych’s team the private ICTV television company dur- has not been very happy with the news of ciled at 375 Marlborough Road, Yonkers, NY 10701, admitting to probate ing the Orange Revolution, when ICTV a Will dated Jan. 15, 2001, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of their rival’s appointment to supervise strived to remain professional and neutral Barbara Pregon deceased, relating to a real and personal property, and national security. Fuel and Energy amid the political passions of the period. Minister Yurii Boiko, whom Mr. Haiduk Mr. Pukshyn’s legal firm, Pukshyn and directing that Letters Testamentary issue to Russell Kantor (State any fur- confronted over the Odesa-Brody Partners, reportedly has been helping the ther relief requested). pipeline several years ago, did not con- Yushchenko administration in a continu- ceal his emotions at a recent press con- ing property dispute with Victor Pinchuk Hon. Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. ference. He said that Mr. Haiduk is a bil- over the embattled Nikopol Ferroalloys Dated, Attested and Sealed September 21, 2006 lionaire and recalled Mr. Yushchenko’s plant. Mr. Pukshyn should strengthen the Surrogate John W. Kelly, Chief Clerk promises to separate business from gov- Yushchenko legal team, which has been ernment, apparently hinting that Mr. widely seen as quite weak. Stephan Wislocki, Esq. 914-347-7197 Haiduk may continue to pursue his busi- PO Box 129, Hawthorne, NY 10532-0129 ness interests in the new position. 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TryzubHORSHAM, Pa. – For hosts nearly 20 years, fallplete feed-in tennis for the main draw tournament, losers. honors Sawchak every spring and fall, tennis players from Ivan Durbak of New Jersey, long-time many parts of the East Coast gather at champion of the Ukrainian Sports Tryzub’s Ukrainian American sports facili- Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada ty, to compete against each other in a spirit (USCAK), won his fourth consecutive title of camaraderie. This year the fall event at Tryzubivka. In the finals of the tourna- was held on September 23-24 and attracted ment he overcame Stephan Sosiak of a number of highly competitive players. northern New Jersey, many times a winner The tournament was played in the of Ukrainian tournaments, 6-0, 6-1. men’s group only and the format was a In the semis, Mr. Durbak beat Jerry single-elimination main draw with a com- Tymkiw of Philadelphia, with a score of

New Hope for Children to hold breakfast benefiting Odesa orphans MILFORD, N.J. – New Hope for mattresses, clothing, beds and cribs, floor Children is a non-profit organization ded- covering and furniture have been given icated to providing aid and relief services to make the lives of these less fortunate for orphaned and abandoned children of children a little more comfortable. During trophy presentations (from left) are: Stefan Sosiak, Ivan Durbak, George Ukraine. Its belief is that “giving children Medical supplies have been sent through Petrykevych, Tryzub President Ihor Chyzowych, George Hrabec, George Sawchak the chance to succeed is our best hope for the United Nations for the hospitals treat- and Tania Sawchak with her daughter Ariadna. a better world tomorrow.” ing the children of the Chornobyl disas- In an effort to raise funds and aware- ter, and more are awaiting shipment. 6-2, 6-2, and Mr. Sosiak won over ed Mr. Dziwak 8-3 and Mr. Tymkiw 8-4 to ness to support this organization, a Each Christmas, hundreds of toys, new George Sawchak of Rydal, Pa., 6-2, 6-3. get to the feed-in final round. “Breakfast of Love and Caring” will be warm clothing, and soft Beanie Babies In the quarterfinals Mr. Durbak defeat- During the closing ceremonies this held November 5, at the Knights of are sent as wrapped presents, so that ed Ihor Buhaj of Bethlehem, Pa., 6-2, 6- year, Mr. Sawchak, the tournament direc- Columbus Hall in New Milford, N.J. every child can have a present to open. 2, Mr. Tymkiw overcame George Hrabec tor, a player and organizer, was honored Seating to enjoy this “all you can eat” First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko has of Danvers, Mass., 6-4, 6-4, Mr. for initiating and coordinating these ten- buffet will be from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. recognized Maryanne Olsen’s work for Sawchak won over Walter Dziwak of nis tournaments throughout the years. Tickets are only $6 for adults and $3 for the children of Ukraine and her belief that Lake Hiawatha, N.J., 6-0, 6-4, and in the “We wish you and the tournaments con- children. A 50-50 raffle drawing, a to create a better future world we must closest quarterfinal match of the day Mr. tinued success in the years to follow and Tricky Tray auction and a performance care for children who will be the future. Sosiak outlasted George Petrykevych of health and happiness on and off the by the Pavlishyn sisters singing songs of Ms. Olsen will be available at the West Hartford, Conn., 6-4, 5-7, 6-1. courts,” said Mr. Hrabec, member of Ukraine will round out the program. fund-raising breakfast to answer any First-round matches paired George USCAK’s tennis committee, as he Throughout the breakfast, videos of questions about New Hope for Children. Popel against Mr. Buhaj, Boris Tatunchak awarded Mr. Sawchak the congratulatory the children in the orphanages of Odesa To purchase advance sale tickets, against Mr. Dziwak and Andrew trophy, an original tennis ball from 1988, will be shown, along with photos of the and/or to buy 50-50 raffle tickets, readers Wapowsky against Mr. Petrykevych. and an album filled with memories from work projects that have been supported may contact Ms. Olsen, 201-262-7544. In a very close pro-set match in the all the past tournaments. through these efforts. New Hope for Proceeds from the breakfast and the raf- finals of the feed-in tournament, Mr. Ihor Chyzowych, president of Tryzub, Children, an American non-profit aid and fle will be used to cover the costs of ship- Hrabec outlasted Mr. Petrykevych 9-7, thus welcomed everyone and congratulated relief organization, has been providing ping winter items and Christmas presents winning third place in the overall tourna- the winners while Mr. Sawchak’s grand- basic necessities for the Odesa orphan- for the orphans, and to meet the continu- ment. He also had a very tough match with daughters, Ariadna and Yulia, dressed in ages since 1999. ing need for beds at the Orphanage for Mr. Buhaj in the previous round, winning Ukrainian outfits, presented their “Dido” Over the years, blankets, bedding, Mentally Challenged Children in Odesa. that match 10-8. Mr. Petrykevych eliminat- (grandfather) with flowers. No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 25

Pobratymyby Oleh Skubiak Plast Open in Illinois attracts 44 golfers CHICAGO – The Pobratymy Foundation hosted its eighth annual Plast Open at the Renwood Golf Club in Round Lake, Ill., on Saturday, September 10. The event included 44 men and women golfers for the tournament and the post-tourney festivities. As in previous years, the proceeds from this very successful and enjoyable event will be dedicated to sup- port the ongoing activities of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization. Proceeds from last year’s event were donated to sup- port the exchange of camp counselors between the U.S. and Ukraine, and to support the Chicago and Newark Plast chapters. Using a scramble format, participants enjoyed 18 holes of golf on a beautiful fall day and afterwards joined family and friends at the Self-Reliance Resort down the street for awards, camaraderie, music, steaks and refreshments. The following prizes were awarded: • Best men’s team score – George Domino, George The winning women’s team (from left): Katrusia Lytwynyshyn, Nestor Popowych and Wasyl Wowchuk; Saldan, Luba Skubiak, Olya Popowych and • Best women’s team score – Christine Hryhorczuk, Chrsitine Hryhorczuk. The winning men’s team (from left): George Domino, Nestor Popowych, George Lytwynyshyn and Wasyl Wowchuk. Two-day commemoration to conclude parish centennial Olya Popowych, Katrusia Saldan and Luba Skubiak; CHICAGO – St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic will be concelebrated by the patriarch, Metropolitan • Longest drive – Peter Cho; • Closest to the pin – Taras Proczko. Cathedral Parish will mark the end of its yearlong centen- Stefan Soroka of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, arch- The Pobratymy Foundation, a 501(c) (3) tax-exempt nial celebration with a two-day commemoration, empha- bishops, bishops and clergy. corporation, was established in 1992 by members of the sizing the theme of the celebration to “Renew, Reflect and St. Nicholas Parish was founded by 51 families that Plast Pobratymy fraternity for the purpose of supporting Commit.” The festivities will be hosted by the cathedral’s emigrated from western Ukraine to the near northwest the developmental activities of Plast. The Pobratymy pastor, Bishop Richard S. Seminack, with the assistance of area of Chicago at the turn of the century. Buoyed by Foundation is limited to making contributions to Plast the St. Nicholas Centennial Committee. the freedom they found in the United States and guided and other 501 (c) (3) organizations that support the stat- On Saturday, November 4, there will be a grand banquet by the love of their Church and heritage, they combined ed purposes of the fraternity: to renew and strengthen at the Grand Ballroom of Navy Pier. With a capacity crowd their savings and mortgaged their homes to purchase a Plast; to encourage excellence and self-improvement; to of over 1,000 in attendance, this will be the largest event of small wooden Protestant church at Superior and encourage identification and cooperation among this nature ever held by the Ukrainian community in Bikerdicke (now Armour) in 1906. Ukrainian youth; and to inform others about Ukraine. Chicago. Among the dignitaries who will be participating Soon, others inspired by this congregation’s dedication Plast Chicago and the Pobratymy Foundation are Patriarch Lubomyr Cardinal Husar, head of the to religious, educational and community pursuits joined thanked all volunteers and the individual and corporate Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, and Cardinal Francis this parish and a new place of worship was constructed in sponsors for their generous contributions to the event. George, O.M., Roman Catholic archbishop of Chicago. 1913 at Oakley Boulevard and Rice Street The new church The ninth annual Plast Open is scheduled for On Sunday, November 5, a pontifical divine liturgy was modeled after the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Kyiv. September 8, 2007. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 No. 44

want. Cellphones are easy to get, and the software problem was fixed for $12. I of your suitcases is more than 50 pounds Moving to Ukraine... metro is fast and costs 10 cents a ride. just signed up for Ukrainian emergency you will be fined $50 per suitcase. (Continued from page 14) Financing your stay can be a bit of a medical insurance at $60 for six months. My plans are to finish my book about magazine at your newsstand? What is problem because personal checks are not We sold or gave away all our furniture, Christianity and Christ’s teachings and this, Moscow?” – but I have toned that accepted and you can’t pay for every- except for two beds, and almost every- publish it in Ukraine next year. I hope it down. The late James Mace once thing with your credit card. We found a thing that had an electric plug, because will be useful to Ukrainians and even raise described Ukrainian society as a “post- German bank in Kyiv that said it would the voltage here is 220. Even so, shipping their spirits. My wife will teach economics, genocidal society,” and this is true. The accept an American bank’s cashier’s our clothes, books, personal and house- using her American experience. Our son is traumas – the Great Famine, World War check, but when I presented the check it hold items cost $6,400 and would have speaking better and better Ukrainian every II, Communist criminality – may be gen- was rejected. I had the check made out to been triple that with furniture. People day. We plan to adopt a little girl next year. erations old, but they still reside in the the bank but they said I should have moving to Ukraine will want to bring as So, I am beginning to find my Ukraine. psyches of Ukrainians. The healing is made it out from me to me because oth- much as they can on the airplane, since It is rising like the mythical Phoenix, and still going on. erwise how did they know to whom it their household goods may not arrive for it cannot be stopped. It is an exciting time Living in Kyiv is never boring. I can was supposed to go? weeks. But, one warning: you may be to be in Ukraine. We have come full circle imagine a young man, who has captured Social Security payments can also be allotted 100 pounds per person, but if any and look forward to tomorrow. a good job in Kyiv, to be totally delighted sent to Ukraine, though the American citi- with the city. It has a lively nightclub and zen is supposed to report once a month to music scene; it has wonderful restau- the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv to prove resi- of the Orange Revolution camp to form a rants. There are fascinating places to see dence in the country. But the Embassy is Pro-presidential bloc... ruling coalition after the March elections and enjoy. It is a majestic city. And, as far not strict with this because they know that (Continued from page 2) could spell big trouble for Mr. as the interests of young men go, some of if someone lives in Lviv, for example, it is Yushchenko. Mr. Yanukovych is firmly a hardship to make monthly trips to Kyiv. But perhaps [such a confederation] is a way the women are sensational. They have a for attracting parties outside Parliament and set to take away as many prerogatives So they’ll let you skip a few months. lovely femininity that is a delight to be creating a powerful opposition. However, from the president as constitutional loop- Since I have been talking here about near. If a man is lucky here he will find a this needs to be discussed,” he said. holes will allow him. finances it’s obvious that the cost of liv- woman with a warm and honest heart, as But the chances that Our Ukraine Mr. Yanukovych has recently refused ing is a lot lower in Ukraine. A pound of I did. might get together with the YTB once to implement several presidential tasteless tomatoes was $3.95 in I don’t know the statistics on crime in again, let alone recognize Ms. decrees, arguing that they were not co- Bethesda, Md. Here good-tasting toma- signed by him, as stipulated by the Kyiv but based on what I have seen and Tymoshenko’s leading role in the opposi- toes cost the equivalent of 28 cents a Constitution. He is also questioning in read, and on my intuition, I will be will- tion, are very slim. pound. Summer fruits and vegetables are the Constitutional Court President ing to walk alone on any Kyiv street in Where do these opposition maneuvers 20 percent or less of Bethesda prices. In Yushchenko's right to appoint oblast the middle of the night. This is something leave President Yushchenko? Mr. administration chairs without coordina- I wouldn’t want to do in Washington. the States, whenever I drank beer my Yushchenko said on October 18 that the tion with the government. Kyiv is also good for expatriates prostate would protest. Here it keeps five ministers delegated to the In addition, pro-Yanukovych oblast because it has those two marvelous quiet because, I think, Ukrainian beer Yanukovych Cabinet by Our Ukraine councilors reportedly passed no-confi- inventions: cable TV and high-speed has fewer additives and preservatives – should step down in order to be consistent dence motions against more than 70 Internet. We can watch BBC and CNN and it tastes a lot better. with the position of their bloc. They sub- oblast or district administration heads. news, the Bloomberg financial channel, A few months ago I had a root canal mitted their resignations to the Verkhovna Mr. Yanukovych is demanding their dis- Oprah’s talk show, many Ukrainian-lan- done in Bethesda for $1,400 and a filling Rada on October 19, but later the same missal, arguing that under the guage channels and films from all over replaced for $233. Competent dentists day Internal Affairs Minister Yurii the world. Russian films are often subti- here, using modern equipment, will be Constitution a no-confidence vote sup- Lutsenko changed his mind and said he ported by two-thirds of lawmakers is suf- tled into Ukrainian. We were able to glad to do it for one-fifth that cost. will remain in the Cabinet. watch live on TV the opening proceed- Borys, considered a first-rate private ficient to oblige the president to sack the If Prime Minister Yanukovych head of a district or oblast administration. ings of the World Forum of Ukrainians. clinic which has doctors in every medical replaces these ministers with people from With the Internet you can access your specialty, charges $28 for a consultation. Thus, having taken a firm grip on the his party, President Yushchenko will lose central government, Mr. Yanukovych credit card and checking account, pay I had my glasses repaired for $6 and my a considerable leverage tool in the gov- your bills online and e-mail anyone you Minox camera for $10; my computer now appears to be determined to disman- ernment. In such a case there will be only tle the network of presidential loyalists two pro-Yushchenko ministers in the in the regions. Cabinet: Foreign Affairs Minister Borys Could such a turn of events push Our Tarasyuk and Defense Minister Anatolii Ukraine and the YTB toward reassessing Hrytsenko, who were appointed directly their positions regarding each other? YTB by the president. National Deputy Semynoha believes that But Mr. Yanukovych may decide it may. “Regarding the opposition and its against such a solution. There have future, I am convinced that there is no already been proposals from the Party of other scenario for Our Ukraine than actu- the Regions to give President Yushchenko ally joining the united opposition in the the right to fill these five ministerial posts Verkhovna Rada and jointly building with “non-party professionals.” democracy in our state,” he said. “If they The Ukrainian National Association will mail This seems to be a coldly calculated fail to do it today, they will do it later. Christmas greeting cards to gesture of goodwill toward the president Time, voters and necessity in our situa- whose powers have been significantly tion will simply force them to do it.” Ukrainian American service people! trimmed in favor of the legislature and But Ukrainian voters will have the the prime minister by a constitutional chance to discipline their politicians no The UNA will be mailing Christmas greetings to Ukrainian reform enforced in January. earlier than in 2009 and 2011, when the American service people presently serving their country in The Anti-Crisis Coalition falls 60 country will hold presidential and parlia- votes short of the 300 votes required to mentary elections, respectively. many parts of the world. override a presidential veto over legisla- Therefore, in the short term, Ukraine The UNA wishes to solicit your help in getting names, address- tion. Therefore, by giving President will most likely witness confrontation not es and ranks of any Ukrainian you may know who is serving in Yushchenko the right to nominate more only between the government and the ministers to the Cabinet, Prime Minister the armed forces. Help make this project successful! opposition represented by the YTB and Yanukovych may want the president to Our Ukraine, but also between the oppo- share responsibility for the cabinet’s sition blocs themselves. The UNA will mail Christmas and New Year’s greetings decisions, despite the withdrawal of the pro-presidential Our Ukraine from it. RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service con- to our service people by December 25, 2006. In other respects, however, the failure tributed to this report.

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Monday, October 30 Dr. Lushniak will present a lecture on Soyuzivka’s Datebook “Pandemic Influenza – Preparing for the WASHINGTON: T he Washington Group Unknown.” He will review the basic October 27-29, 2006 N ovember 22-26, 2006 presents the Business Development Forum biology of influenza, the conditions nec- H alloween Weekend with children’s Family Reunion proposed roundtable on “Trade and essary for a pandemic and the prepared- costume parade, haunted house, Investment in Ukraine: Current Prospects ness planning that is being undertaken at costume zabava and more November 23, 2006 and Challenges – Viewpoints from the the federal level to protect the public’s Club Suzie-Q Fall Weekend Thanksgiving Feast United States and Canada.” The roundtable health in the event of a pandemic. The will consist of a moderator and eight pan- luncheon and conference will take place November 4, 2006 November 25, 2006 elists – four from the United States and in The Signature Room at the 95th of 90th Birthday Party four from Canada. Topics include: priority The John Hancock Center, 875 N. Wedding sectors, legislative obstacles (e.g., related Michigan Ave., at 2 p.m. Reservations December 1-3, 2006 to WTO accession), trade promotion are required; call UMANA headquarters, November 10-12, 2006 Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization efforts (missions and exhibitions), invest- 773-278-6262. Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization “KPS Vidprava Stanychnykh” ment facilitation mechanisms, anti-corrup- “Orlykiada” tion campaigns, dealing with central and NEW YORK: A benefit luncheon for the December 24, 2006 local governments, growth of trade associ- Ukrainian Catholic University featuring November 19, 2006 Traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve ations in Ukraine, civil vs. commercial Father Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., rector, will code problems, sufficiency and effective- be held at the Ukrainian National Home, Family Reunion Supper Ellenville Co-op Nursery School ness of business-related foreign technical 140 Second Ave. For more information Fund-Raising Auction assistance, and other topics as requested by call the Ukrainian Catholic Education December 31, 2006 the panelists. The purpose of this round- Foundation, 773-235-8462. N ew Year’s Eve Extravaganza table is to yield proposals for further Ukraine business-related conferences, sem- Sunday, November 12 inars, visits, trade exhibits and other events in the United States, Canada, Ukraine or NEW YORK: The Plast Ukrainian scout- other venues. Time: 7-9 p.m.; venue: Johns ing sorority Verkhovynky invites you to a Hopkins University, School of Advanced commemorative program for Nadia International Studies, 1619 Massachusetts Svitlychna at 2 p.m. at the Shevchenko To book a room or event call: (845) 626-5641, ext. 140 Ave. NW, Rome Auditorium. For more Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Ave. 216 Foordmore Road P.O. Box 529 information contact Andrew Bihun, direc- (between Ninth and 10th streets). The pro- tor, Business Development Forum of The gram will include poetry reading, musical Kerhonkson, NY 12446 Washington Group, 301-873-2035 or numbers and a slide show. For information E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]; or Adrian Pidlusky, call 732-225-6865 or 212-254-5130. Website: www.Soyuzivka.com TWG president, 240-381-0993 or presi- [email protected], or log on CHICAGO: A benefit luncheon for the to www.TheWashingtonGroup.org. Ukrainian Catholic University featuring Father Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., rector, will Sunday, November 5 be held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, 2247 W. Chicago Ave. For more informa- ALEXANDRIA, Va.: The Washington tion call the Ukrainian Catholic Education Group Cultural Fund, under the patronage Foundation, 773-235-8462. of the Embassy of Ukraine, presents pianist Jim Allison performing Bach, Friday, November 17 Beethoven, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff in the second concert of its "Sunday Music CHICAGO: The Ukrainian National Series" for 2006-2007. Mr. Allison is well- Museum of Chicago in cooperation with known to classical music listeners in the district committee of the Ukrainian Washington as program director of National Association invites the Ukrainian WGMS 103.9 and 104.1 FM radio sta- community to a book launch for tions. Meet the artist at a brief reception “Ukrainians of Chicagoland” at 7 p.m. at immediately following the program. The the museum, 2249 W. Superior St. Copies concert will take place at The Lyceum, of the new book, authored by Myron B. 201 S. Washington St. in Old Town Kuropas and published by Arcadia Alexandria at 3 p.m. Seating is unreserved Publications, will be available for pur- on a first come, first served basis; suggest- chase. For further information call Maria ed donation: $20. For more information Klimchak, 312-421-8020. call 703-241-1817 or The Lyceum, 703- 838-4994. Sunday, December 3

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