Inside: l A century of U.S. congressional support for Ukraine – page 9 l Dallas community remembers Holodomor with exhibit – page 12 l Candle of Remembrance ceremonies in our communities – pages 16-17

ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXVI No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 $2.00 Philanthropist/activist Ronald S. Lauder Moscow severs ties with Constantinople receives Metropolitan Sheptytsky Award over Ukraine Church’s independence by Mark Raczkiewycz KYIV – The Russian Orthodox Church is severing its relationship with the spiritual authority of the Orthodox Christian world following a Synod, or assembly of church hierarchy, that was held in Minsk on October 15. The decision could signal the widest rift in the religious world since the 1054 schism that divided western and eastern Christianity or the Reformation of 1517 when Roman Catholicism split into new Protestant divisions. It was in response to the move by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople four days earlier, after it also held a Holy Synod and announced it will proceed with UJE the process of giving Ukraine its own fully Mark Raczkiewycz 2018 Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Award laureate Ronald S. Lauder, president of self-governed church. Archbishop Yevstratiy Zorya, spokesper- the World Jewish Congress (center), with James C. Temerty, board chairman of the Moscow reacted swiftly with Russian son for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (left), and Borys Lozhkin, president of the Jewish President Vladimir Putin convening an – Kyiv Patriarchate, stands at the Confederation of Ukraine. emergency meeting of the Security Council entrance to St. Michael Cathedral in on October 12. Kyiv on October 15. by Natalia A. Feduschak his support of Ukraine’s Jewish community “In the event that the events which are ward. “This is an absolutely grounded and and his promotion of Ukrainian-Jewish developing take the course of illegal activi- NEW YORK – Ronald S. Lauder, philan- absolutely understandable position.” cooperation. He is the fourth recipient of ties, then of course, just as Russia defends thropist, activist and president of the World the award, which is conferred by the Jewish Russian vows to “protect Orthodox the interests of Russians and Russian Jewish Congress, received the Metropolitan Confederation of Ukraine (JCU) and the believers… sounds like déjà vu all over speakers – and Putin has spoken about this Andrey Sheptytsky Award for 2018 at a Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE). again, since Russia used the same pretext in many times – Russia will defend the inter- ceremony at New York’s Ukrainian Institute In presenting the award, UJE Board 2014 when it started the conflict in eastern of America on September 27. ests of the Orthodox,” Dmitry Peskov, the Ambassador Lauder was recognized for (Continued on page 12) Russian president’s spokesman, said after- (Continued on page 11) New UNA General Assembly holds first meeting by Roma Hadzewycz KERHONKSON, N.Y. – The Ukrainian National Association’s General Assembly convened its first post- convention meeting here at Soyuzivka Heritage Center on Friday through Sunday, October 12-14. It was the first meeting of the General Assembly elected for the 2018- 2022 term at the UNA convention held in May. The General Assembly comprises the UNA’s executive officers, auditors and advisors – 20 members in all. As is UNA practice, during a convention year the General Assembly holds a special meeting, not an annual meeting, whose agenda is somewhat abbreviated. An update on the UNA’s finances and activity were deliv- ered by the three executive operating officers of the UNA: President/Chief Executive Officer Stefan Kaczaraj, Chief Operations Officer/National Secretary Yuriy Symczyk and Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer Roma Lisovich. Other General Assembly members, as well as the editor- in-chief of the UNA’s official publications, Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly, submitted brief written reports and had an opportunity to address the meeting. The reports were brief, as some members are newcomers to the General Assembly, while others had recently submitted lengthier reports, covering a four-year period, at the UNA Convention on May 18-20. Roma Hadzewycz Members of the Ukrainian National Association’s General Assembly for 2018-2022 at their special meeting on (Continued on page 5) October 12-14 at Soyuzivka Heritage Center. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 No. 42

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Agreements that ended 19 killed in rampage in Crimea could find,” she said, seeming to choke back tears at times. Journalist Yekaterina Keizo Russian authorities say 19 students and told RFE/RL that when she got to the scene Cold War are disintegrating faculty members at a college in Crimea have at about 12:30 p.m. local time, “they were been killed, many of them teenagers, in a carrying the injured out of the building.” She by Pavel Felgenhauer new capabilities to deter and “take out” the bomb-and-gun attack they say was carried said that eyewitness told her that “two men” Eurasia Daily Monitor violating missiles. Her statement seemed to imply the possibility of pre-emptive strikes, out by a student who fatally shot himself had entered the college and that “one blew after the assault. It was not clear whether The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s which the U.S. ambassador later somewhat himself up in the cafeteria” while the other Nuclear Planning Group (NPG) was proba- walked back, clarifying that she only meant the death toll included the alleged attacker. “walked around the rooms and shot every- bly the alliance’s most important and secre- Russia must comply with the INF or face At least 50 others were injured in the body indiscriminately. He just shot everyone tive institution during the Cold War. the same class of weapons being deployed October 17 attack at a polytechnic college in he saw.” In other harrowing accounts, sever- Notably, it worked out NATO members’ in the West (Militarynews.ru, October 2). the city of Kerch, the only major outbreak of al students spoke of gunfire at the college joint strategy and tactics for using non-stra- U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis told violence in Crimea since Russia seized the but not a bomb blast. The Russian newspa- tegic nuclear weapons in a possible all- journalists in Brussels the NATO NPG Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. per Komsomolskaya Pravda quoted student European war with the Soviet-led Warsaw intensely discussed Russia’s “blatant viola- News of the bloodbath unfolded quickly and Semyon Gavrilov as saying he woke up to Pact. Such a confrontation seemed all too tion” of the INF. Gen. Mattis supported chaotically, with some initial reports saying the sound of shooting after falling asleep in possible – and sometimes almost inevitable Hutchison’s comments but refused to go it was a gas blast and authorities later say- a lecture and then saw a young man firing at – during acute crisis situations that brought into detail on what the US response would ing that it was a bomb and that they were people with a rifle. “I locked the door, hop- the Cold War opponents to the brink in entail if the alleged Russian INF Treaty vio- treating it as a terrorist act. But Russia’s ing he wouldn’t hear me,” the paper quoted 1949, 1956, 1962, 1973 and 1983. lations continue. According to Gen. Mattis, main investigative agency later said authori- Gavrilov as saying. He said he saw dead In the last of the aforementioned crises, all U.S. allies agreed that Russia had violat- ties believe an 18-year-old student at the bodies on the floor and charred walls, pre- tensions spiked as the United States ed the INF. He declared that he would college rampaged through the building with sumably from a fire or explosion, after deployed nuclear-tipped land-based cruise report this situation and all possible a rifle, shooting students and faculty mem- police arrived about 10 minutes later to missiles as well as medium-range Pershing responses to the White House. Russia must bers. Investigative Committee spokeswom- evacuate people from the building. The II ballistic missiles on the territory of sever- stop its cavalier attitude, the secretary of an Svetlana Petrenko said authorities regional Emergency Situations Ministry al European NATO allies to counter the defense insisted (Interfax, October 4). believe the suspect, fourth-year student declared a state of state of emergency in threat of the deployment of hundreds of Moscow angrily rejected the accusations Vladislav Roslyakov, fatally shot himself Crimea and said security was being Soviet SS-20 nuclear intermediary missiles of having violated the INF and in turn after the attack. She said investigators had increased. A three-day mourning period known in Russia as Pioneer. The Soviets accused the West of violating the treaty. recategorized the probe into the attack as a was announced by the Russian authorities produced over 800 Pioneer missiles, and Last December, President Vladimir Putin case of murder rather than terrorism. There who control the Black Sea peninsula. each carried a heavier payload than the told the media, “Russia will never unilater- was no immediate word on a possible Meanwhile, residents of Kerch started to lay Pershing IIs; but their U.S. counterparts ally abandon any treaty,” but the U.S. has motive. Most or all of the victims appeared flowers at the site of the attack and a memo- were stealthier and much more accurate. already “factually abandoned” the INF by to have died of gunshot wounds, according rial service for the victims took place in the By 1987, the Soviet military/political building an essentially dual-use missile to Ms. Petrenko, who also said that a shrap- Crimean capital of Simferopol, TASS news leadership became so terrified of the so- base in Romania: capable of launching both nel-packed bomb exploded at the college. agency reported. Russian President called U.S. Euro-missile threat, that Soviet missile-defense interceptors and interme- Interfax and state-run RIA Novosti news Vladimir Putin voiced condolences to vic- leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed with diate-range offensive missiles (RIA Novosti, agencies quoted sources as saying a second tims and their loved ones and ordered the President Ronald Regan’s “zero option” to December 14, 2017). Mr. Putin has previ- explosive device was found and defused at authorities to evacuate badly injured vic- ously denounced the INF as “one-sided.” scrap all U.S. and Russian intermediary the college by bomb-disposal crews. The tims by air to “leading” hospitals in Moscow Moreover, he has threatened, “Our missiles. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Russian-imposed head of Crimea, Sergei and other cities, the Kremlin said. Ukrainian response will be immediate and reciprocal” Forces (INF) Treaty was signed that same Aksyonov, said that the suspect acted alone, President Petro Poroshenko took to Twitter if the INF collapses because of U.S. actions year and ratified and implemented. but some eyewitnesses spoke of at least two to express his condolences to those who lost (Kremlin.ru, October 19, 2017). The Cold War ended soon thereafter, and attackers. In a video posted on the Internet, their loved ones in the tragedy. “The Crimea The Kremlin apparently believes the with it – the Soviet Union. All land-based a woman identified as college director Olga is a Ukrainian territory and Ukrainians liv- deployment of a limited number of the shorter-range nuclear weapons not cov- Grebennikova said there were “many corps- ing on the peninsula are citizens of our 9M729 Novator missiles is a fair response ered by the INF, like nuclear artillery shells, es, many corpses of children” and called it “a state,” he wrote. “When Ukrainian citizens were withdrawn. A small number of U.S. to the deployment of U.S. Aegis Ashore mis- real terrorist act.” The woman, speaking on sile defense interceptors in Romania and perish, wherever this happens, this is a trag- nuclear bombs remained stockpiled in a mobile phone, suggested that multiple edy.” (Crimea Desk, RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Europe as a token of Washington’s commit- Poland. Russia will not withdraw anything assailants attacked the college, throwing without reciprocal U.S. actions to close Service, with reporting by Christopher ment to defend the continent; but for explosive devices and firing guns shortly Miller in Kyiv, RFE/RL’s Russian Service, almost 30 years, no one was seriously pre- these missile-defense bases. In the after she left for a meeting elsewhere. “They Kremlin’s view, the Aegis Ashore bases RIA, TASS, Interfax, Mediazona, Dozhd and pared to use them in anger, and an all-Euro- ran up to the second floor with automatic Reuters) pean war seemed virtually impossible. could be used to destroy strategic targets rifles – I don’t know with what – and NATO’s NPG continued to gather for meet- and possibly physically eliminate Mr. Putin opened doors... and killed everyone they (Continued on page 14) and other top Russian military/political ings; yet, this increasingly seemed out of leaders in a surprise first strike (see step with reality. That is, until this week, Eurasia Daily Monitor, May 12, 2016). when NATO Secretary General Jens The two sides seem to be on a collision Stoltenberg told journalists the NPG will course. The Russian military appears to be he krainian eekly FOUNDED 1933 gather in Brussels at the defense ministeri- T U W intensifying the standoff with the West al level to discuss a possible joint response along various fronts, balancing on the brink An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., to the deployment of Russian missiles in of an actual confrontation. The INF may be a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. defiance of the 1987 treaty (Interfax, collapsing, and the present New START Yearly subscription rate: $90; for UNA members — $80. October 2). arms control treaty is also under threat. Periodicals postage paid at Caldwell, NJ 07006 and additional mailing offices. 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No one wants a with their aerial refueling equipment rein- new arms race, NATO officials have repeat- stalled, the renovated Backfire will have a edly said, but some response is pending. range “the same as strategic bombers.” ADMINISTRATION OF THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY AND SVOBODA The U.S. ambassador to NATO, Kay Bailey Russia officially has 100 Backfires (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 Hutchison, told journalists in Brussels that (Militarynews.ru, October 3). Walter Honcharyk, administrator the Russian violation of the INF has been and advertising manager fax: (973) 644-9510 If the Backfire problem once again e-mail: [email protected] proven; Washington will ask its allies to becomes a point of contention on how to help force Russia to rescind and comply. Subscription Department (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 e-mail: [email protected] Otherwise, the U.S. may develop and deploy (Continued on page 4) No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 3

NEWS ANALYSIS OSCE catches Russia bringing anti-aircraft guns, other military hardware by night to the Donbas

by Halya Coynash Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group Should the International Criminal Court at the Hague still be in any doubt as to Russia’s direct role in the conflict in the Donbas, it need only read the reports of the Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) since August of this year. Russian military trucks and other vehicles have been spotted at least five times – three in the last week – traveling by night to and from the Ukrainian-Russian border via dirt roads where there is no official border crossing. Attempts to block (or jam) the drone’s GPS signal suggest that Russia is well- aware how incriminating such evidence is. It is also likely that these are not the only illicit movements undertaken at night to avoid being detected. During the night of October 9-10, the OSCE SMM reports that its unmanned aeri- al vehicle (UAV) “spotted vehicles move north-east on a dirt road near the border with the Russian Federation where there are no border crossing facilities in a non- government-controlled area of Donetsk region.” The first spotting was at around 23:00, when the UAV detected four Ural and KamAZ covered cargo trucks, as well as four cars. All were stationary, and there were about 20 persons walking between them. Image posted on October 12 on Facebook by the OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. At 00:30, all the individuals got into the vehicles. Three Ural and the KamAZ trucks, Similar activities were observed late in of covered cargo trucks entering Ukraine direction of the border with the Russian together with three cars, headed further the evening of October 10. At around 23:00, during the night on August 7-8. Federation. towards the border with the Russian two trucks (a Ural and KamAZ), together “During the same period, the UAV spot- At 01:34, the UAV spotted a KamAZ Federation, while one Ural and a car trav- with four sport-utility vehicles, were ted two Ural trucks (one mounted with an truck with a twin-axle trailer, two Ural eled towards Manych (which is non-gov- recorded driving to a location near the bor- anti-aircraft-gun [ZU23, 23mm]), a minivan trucks and a KamAZ truck as well as a ernment controlled). der where the SMM had reported a convoy and a car in a field along the same dirt path, sport-utility vehicle traveling westward on approximately 2km from the border,” the the same road from the border with the SMM noted. Russian Federation in the direction of There is no clarity as to which direction Manych. 19-year-old woman among four soldiers killed the truck with the anti-aircraft gun had As reported, the first of such sightings been traveling in, though clearly such a during the night of August 7-8 clearly indi- in bloodiest day of Donbas war since August Russian weapon had no business being in cated that the large numbers of Russian Ukraine at all. It also seems extremely likely military and other trucks traveling by night by Mark Raczkiewycz that Russia did not want its movements to avoid detection were moving in both observed, since it was at around 23:45 that directions. Convoys moving to and from KYIV – Luhansk Oblast-native Olesya the SMM was forced to recall the UAV “due dirt tracks leading to the border passed Baklanova, 19, was one of the four Ukrainian to multiple instances of GPS signal loss each other for around five minutes, with soldiers killed overnight on October 10-11 assessed as jamming.” each separately stopping both next to a in what was the bloodiest day of the Russia- SMM has reported new sightings during vehicle parked in a field along the dirt instigated war since mid-August. Three the night of October 11-12. Between track, and then next to two trucks parked at more servicemen were wounded. around 22:20 and 01:40, two trucks (prob- the intersection of the dirt track and the The deputy commander of her unit, ably Ural) were spotted parked along an paved road. The convoy coming into which is part of the 92nd Mechanized unpaved road half a kilometer south of the Ukraine was later observed in territory Brigade, told the newspaper Kharkiv Today center of Manych. within the so-called “Luhansk People’s that a sniper fatally shot her 300 meters Three separate groups of vehicles were Republic.” from the frontline near the Butivka coal observed driving eastwards and parking During the night from September 4-5, mine in Donetsk Oblast when she started to near the border with the Russian the UAV spotted another night convoy of 10 survey the area with binoculars at around 8 Federation, at a location used by the con- Russian KamAZ trucks. The 10 canvas-cov- p.m. on October 10. voys of covered cargo trucks observed dur- ered cargo trucks were seen at around mid- She was a contract soldier who signed ing the night of August 7-8. night, together with four escort vehicles, all up at the age of 18. Comrades in arms This time the vehicles included, among parked in a single file line, with 10 to 15 called her “Leska,” according to Kharkiv others, two tractor trailers, seven KamAZ people walking between the vehicles. At censor.net Today, which quoted Vyacheslav, a soldier trucks, four Ural trucks and a heavy-equip- around 00:30 the trucks moved towards who served with her without providing his Olesya Baklanova, 19, was one of four ment KamAZ transport trailer carrying an Ukrainian soldiers killed overnight on the dirt road leading to the border with the last name. October 10-11. MT-LB armed personnel carrier. Russian Federation, while the escort vehi- More than 10,400 people have died in The UAV observed two sedans traveling cles stayed in Ukraine. the Kremlin-orchestrated Donbas war Frankivsk Oblast district center of Kolomyia. from the border which parked on the side Russia has repeatedly tried to deny that since it erupted in April 2014. As of On February 21, the mother of one child of the road, and established a makeshift the Buk missile that downed Malaysian air- October 12, a total of 115 armed forces per- was killed while providing medical care to checkpoint about 100 meters northeast of liner MH17 on July 17, 2014, came from sonnel have been killed this year, according civilians in Luhansk Oblast. the location where the three groups of Russia (or, as the Joint Investigation Team to monthly and daily counts by censor.net, a According to President Petro vehicles had parked and 3.5 kilometers has concluded, “from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Ukrainian news site that devotes coverage Poroshenko, some 55,000 women serve in east-northeast of Manych. The other vehi- Missile brigade which is a unit of the to the war. the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The country’s cles came up to this improvised check- Russian army from Kursk in the Russian The last woman to have been killed in the first female general was appointed last point in pairs, and after interacting with Federation”). It has also tried, over the last war was a medic, Sgt. Sabina Halytska, 23, of week. She is Gen. Liudmyla Shugaley, head the people present, continued traveling four and a half years to deny any direct the 10th Separate Mountain-Assault of the Military Medical Directorate of the eastward. The two sedans turned around Brigade whose base is in the Ivano- Security Service of Ukraine. at 01:22 and traveled eastward in the (Continued on page 4) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 No. 42 Ukrainian Americans attend United Nations General Assembly to hear Ukraine’s president

UCCA UNITED NATIONS – On Wednesday, September 26, 2018, a small delegation of Ukrainian-Americans attended the General Debate of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. Invited as guests of the government of Ukraine, these community representatives were able to sit in the gilded General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters to hear the addresses given by President Jorge Carlos Fonseca of Cabo Verde, King Mswati III of eSwatini (the new name for Swaziland) and President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine. During his remarks, President Poroshen­ko addressed the “85th Anniversary of the crime of Holodomor,” noting the “several millions of lives lost” and renewing Ukraine’s appeal to the world to adopt a dedicated declaration acknowledging the Holodomor as a genocide. The names of both Volodymyr Balukh and Oleg Sentsov were invoked by President Poroshenko as among “the list of hostages and victims of the Russian occupation regime” in Ukraine, noting that “the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar identities seem to be a criminal offence in today’s reality of the occupied [Crimean] peninsula.” The invited guests in attendance included: Maryna Pryhodko and Dr. Marta Kebalo from the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations, Chryzanta Hentisz from The Ukrainian Museum, Irene Rejent Saviano from Saint George Academy, Kvitka Semanyshyn from the UCCA Council on Aid to Ukrainians, Victor Rud from the Ukrainian American Bar Association, Ayla Bakkalli from the World Congress of Crimean Tatars, Julia UCCA Watters from the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee Near the entrance to the United Nations complex (from left) are: Maryna Pryhodko, Julia Watters, Chryzanta and Andrij Dobriansky from the Ukrainian Congress Committee Hentisz, Dr. Marta Kebalo and Andrij Dobriansky. of America and the Ukrainian World Congress.

Ukrainian Future Credit Union merges with Selfreliance UAFCU

Selfreliance UAFCU CHICAGO – Ukrainian Future Credit Union in Michigan merged with Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union, with branches in Illinois and New Jersey, as of August 17. In addition to its home office in Chicago, Selfreliance now has three branches in Illinois, three in New Jersey and three in Michigan. President/CEO Bohdan Watral assured new members that they as individuals and their community as a whole will prosper as part of the Selfreliance family. Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union was chartered in 1951 to pro- vide services to its members and assist the communities it serves. Over the years Selfreliance has grown and prospered, expanding the range of services it provides, the number of branches it operates and the hours it is accessible. Selfreliance UAFCU The credit union prides itself on having Representatives of the Ukrainian Future Credit Union of Michigan, the National Credit Union Administration and Selfreliance assisted in funding the construction of Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union, which is headquartered in Chicago. churches, community centers and muse- ums, helping Ukrainian youth organiza- A member-owned, cooperative financial venience of its 23,000 members. Its assets For more information about Selfreliance tions and schools, and remaining true to its institution, Selfreliance implements the exceed $550 million, with reserves of over Federal Credit Union, readers may go to commitment of “people helping people.” newest technological advances for the con- $100 million. www.selfreliance.com.

has accepted with respect to all events since Russia’s inva- OSCE catches... sion and annexation of Crimea. While the ICC prosecutor Agreements... determined back in November 2016 that Russia’s occupa- (Continued from page 3) (Continued from page 2) tion of Crimea constitutes an international armed conflict involvement in the fighting in the Donbas. falling within its jurisdiction, the prosecutor’s office is con- count strategic assets, the prospects of prolonging the New During preliminary hearings on March 7, 2017, into tinuing to assess the situation in the Donbas before decid- START treaty, which terminates in 2021, are dim. All arms Ukraine’s suit against Russia at the U.N.’s International ing whether this can be qualified as an international armed control as it was known since the 1970s could collapse into Court of Justice, a Russian representative claimed that the conflict. a nuclear free for all. Last March, Mr. Putin promoted an main source for the vast amounts of weapons and ammu- The sighting by the OSCE’s sophisticated equipment of array of new nuclear superweapons during his annual nition used by fighters of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk and an anti-aircraft gun, armed personnel carrier and other address to Parliament, insisting Russia has already Luhansk people’s republics” (DPR, LPR) “are stockpiles military hardware clearly being transported by night, and achieved full military superiority and overtaken the mighty inherited by Ukraine in 1991 from the Soviet Army,” as well on dirt roads leading to and from the Russian Federation U.S. (see EDM, March 1, 8). as “the retreating Ukrainian army.” and away from official border crossings, give a much more Could Russia’s present “cavalier attitude,” the rash At the International Court of Justice, Ukraine aims to convincing explanation for the Donbas militants’ stockpile actions of Russian military intelligence (GRU), and the demonstrate violations of two international treaties, one of – one that contradicts Russia’s repeated attempts to pres- seemingly open disregard of previous arms control agree- them the U.N.’s International Convention for the ent the fighting in Donbas as a “civil war” (or in the ICC’s ments be the result of Moscow pressing its presumed Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism through Russia’s terms, a “non-international armed conflict”). There is no advantage, daring the West to acknowledge and fall back? active arming, manning and control over the armed conflict reason for such night-time movements of large numbers of in the Donbas. trucks unless they are carrying weapons, ammunition and The article above is reprinted from Eurasia Daily Monitor Of no less importance are the findings of the other direct evidence that Russia is a direct party to the with permission from its publisher, the Jamestown International Criminal Court, whose jurisdiction Ukraine conflict in the Donbas. Foundation, www.jamestown.org. No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 5

Roma Hadzewycz Members of the UNA Executive Committee: (from left) Director for Canada Ewhen Osidacz, Second Vice-President Eugene Serba, First Vice-President Gerald Tysiak, President/Chief Executive Officer Stefan Kaczaraj, Chief Operations Officer/National Secretary Yuriy Symczyk and Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer Roma Lisovich. New UNA General... (Continued from page 1) Present at the meeting in addition to the executive operating officers were three other executive officers, First Vice-President Gerald Tysiak, Second Vice-President Eugene Serba and Director for Canada Ewhen Osidacz. Also attending were Auditing Committee members Luba Walchuk and Andrij Skyba, and Advisors Olya Czerkas, Nicholas Fil, Gloria Horbaty, Irene Jarosewich, Oksana Koziak, Michael Luciw, Bohdana Puzyk, Oksana Stanko, Lubov Streletsky and Andrij V.R. Szul. Auditor George Fedorijczuk and Advisor Julian Pishko were unable to attend. Editor- The General Assembly in session. in-Chief Roma Hadzewycz also participated. The annual meeting began with an open- in place at the Home Office, as well as steps On Saturday, Advisor Szul reported on the the UNA Home Office). ing ceremony during which a prayer was being taken to move the UNA forward tech- work of the five-member UNA By-Laws The Publications Committee is com- offered for the success of the meeting and nologically speaking. Already available on Working Group and explained its planned posed of: Mss. Jarosewich (chair), Puzyk, the American, Canadian and Ukrainian the new UNA Agent Portal are e-illustra- timeline, in accordance with which dele- Horbaty, Czerkas and Hadzewycz, and national anthems were sung. A moment of tions for UNA products; in the works are gates to the previous UNA convention will Messrs. Kaczaraj and Szul. silence was observed in honor of UNA forms and documents used by agents and be voting on the organization’s new By-Laws The final agenda items were the presen- activists who had recently passed away. branch secretaries that will be download- in January of 2020, with the expectation that tation of a marketing plan by Mr. Symczyk, First on the agenda was an orientation able from the UNA’s redesigned website. the revised By-Laws will take effect in March a session on strategic planning led by Ms. session for new members of the General Mr. Symczyk also reported on the activity of of that year. (The executive officers, auditors Lisovich and Mr. Tysiak, and participation Assembly, which was followed by reports National Organizer Myron Kolinsky, who and advisors elected in 2018 will continue by all in a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, prepared for the special meeting. was appointed in July, and noted that the to serve until the 2022 convention.) opportunities, threats) analysis. In his report, President/CEO Kaczaraj UNA would like to see advisors become Members of the Working Group are: Mr. Szul Ukrainian National Foundation noted that the UNA is doing well and mov- more engaged and play a greater role in the (chairman), Ms. Lisovich, Mr. Symczyk, Ms. President Wasyl Szeremeta was welcomed ing forward. He pointed to the growth of fraternal organization’s activities. Koziak and Ms. Hadzewycz. as a special guest during the final session. the UNA’s surplus by nearly $407,000 as of Advisor Puzyk, who chairs the special A five-member Standing Committee on Dr. Szeremeta took advantage of the oppor- the end of the second quarter of 2018 and committee established to plan celebrations the UNA By-Laws is charged with vetting tunity to welcome General Assembly mem- said the surplus has now grown to over $11 of the UNA’s 125th anniversary in 2019, as the Working Group’s draft and reviewing bers and to report on renovations and new million. well as the 125th and 85th anniversaries, the by-laws section by section. Voted to projects at Soyuzivka Heritage Center, CFO/Treasurer Lisovich underscored respectively, of Svoboda and The Ukrainian serve on the Standing Committee were: which is under the aegis of the UNF (an that the UNA finds itself in a “very good, Weekly, reported that a gala anniversary Messrs. Tysiak (chair), Osidacz and Skyba, affiliated company of the UNA that per- healthy stance”: for the sixth straight year event is planned in New Jersey, where the and Mss. Walchuk and Streletsky. forms charitable activities on its behalf). the fraternal organization has enjoyed net UNA is headquartered, and smaller region- Three other standing committees of the After the date of the next annual meeting profits, its capital surplus is steadily al events are being discussed. General Assembly were established: was set for fall 2019, the General increasing and the organization has an Editor-in-Chief Hadzewycz noted that Financial, Membership Outreach and Assembly’s special meeting was adjourned. extremely strong portfolio of investments. the UNA’s two weekly newspapers are now Publications. That evening, General Assembly mem- The UNA’s total net admitted assets are printed in Lancaster, Pa. The decision to Financial Committee members are: Ms. bers enjoyed an elegant dinner prepared by close to $185 million. Conducting a com- switch print shops was motivated by finan- Lisovich (chair), and Messrs. Tysiak, Serba, chef Andrey Sonevytsky and staff. parison of the UNA with similar-sized fra- cial considerations. Though the print quali- Skyba, Fedorijczuk and Luciw. The next morning, the 125th ternals, Ms. Lisovich noted that the UNA’s ty is good, timely postal delivery is an issue. The Membership Outreach Committee Anniversary Committee met to plan its next performance is better than average. She assured General Assembly members comprises: Messrs. Symczyk (chair), Fil, steps for celebratory events in 2019. The COO/National Secretary Symczyk updat- that the publications’ administration is Luciw and Kolinsky, and Mss. Stanko, committee includes members of the ed General Assembly members on the new working on the issue and has seen some Streletsky, Horbaty, Walchuk and Nina General Assembly, as well as community security and cybersecurity measures now progress. Bilchuk (insurance operations manager at activists and specialists.

Seen during the special meeting (from left) are: Advisor Andrij V.R. Szul, Auditor Andrij Skyba, Advisor Michael Luciw, Advisor Gloria Horbaty, Auditor Luba Walchuk, Advisor Bohdana Puzyk and Advisor Oksana Koziak. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 No. 42

WINDOW ON EURASIA The Ukrainian Weekly Constantinople pulls in Ukraine, Russia pushes back Autocephaly for Ukraine expected The “first among equals,” Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, and the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Holy Synod made history on October 11 when they issued to transform Russian Orthodox Church an announcement regarding restoration of canonical status to the hierarchs of the by Paul Goble That is because none of the other Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (Patriarch Filaret) and the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches in the world is going to Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Metropolitan Makariy) and their respective faith- The impact of autocephaly on Ukraine is follow Moscow and break with ful flocks. receiving widespread attention, but many Constantinople. They will instead remain in Regarded as the prime hierarch of world Orthodoxy, Patriarch Bartholomew had Russian commentators are focusing instead communion with it, leaving the Russian previously met in April with President Petro Poroshenko to discuss the expressed on how that action will affect the Russian Church isolated and forced to go its own hope of the Verkhovna Rada and the people of Ukraine for the creation of an Orthodox Church and Russia more general- way rather than be in a position to create Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Ukraine under the omophor (canonical jurisdic- ly, with suggestions ranging from predic- “an Orthodox Vatican” in Moscow. tion) of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. tions of the final degradation of both to Moscow’s isolation from the Orthodox At the time of the announcement, it was clear that the Ecumenical Patriarchate claims that it sets the stage for a reforma- world will only grow with Orthodox was not bowing to demands by the Russian Orthodox Church and the ROC’s calls for tion in Russia. Churches on the territories of former Soviet a pan-Orthodox Council to discuss the matter of autocephaly for Ukraine. Such speculation comes on top of two republics increasingly pursuing autocephaly. James Marson of the Wall Street Journal explained: “The decision by Patriarch other developments worth noting. That process is now under way even in Bartholomew is a striking assertion of his status as the foremost Orthodox leader, a On the one hand, ever more Russians are Belarus, Mr. Kurayev says; and although it position that Moscow has sought to challenge in recent years with its size, wealth and political clout.” blaming Patriarch Kirill and his ecumenism has relatively few supporters at present, Fostering this renewed relationship between Ukraine and Constantinople for Ukraine’s success, an indication that he their numbers will only grow as the Moscow (Istanbul), Patriarch Bartholomew sent two exarchs, Archbishop Daniel of the may be forced out soon in favor of Vladimir Church reduces itself to a national one. Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. and Bishop Ilarion of the Ukrainian Orthodox Putin’s favorite Metropolitan Tikhon And on the other hand, Mr. Kurayev says Church of Canada, whose efforts in Ukraine have born the fruit of reconciliation. (Shevkunov) (realtribune.ru/news/peo- the new “isolation” of the Russian Church However, not everyone is pleased by the correction of the historical mistake per- ple/1173). will open the way to its reformation by petrated by the Russian Orthodox Church against Ukraine, which dates from 1686 And on the other, Russians are learning reducing the way in which the Moscow when the Patriarch of Moscow usurped the independence of the Kyiv that autocephaly for Ukraine will have real Patriarchate has been intertwined with the Metropolitanate by installing the Metropolitan of Kyiv, rather than having him be consequences for them, including restric- Russian state and by allowing the Church to elected by a clergy-laity assembly. (More historical information can be found in the tions on which churches they can attend function as a Church rather than as the ide- document “The Ecumenical Throne and the Church of Ukraine; The Documents while traveling and the circulation of ological department of the state domesti- Speak,” September 2018, Ecumenical Patriarchate. https://www.goarch.org/-/the- church relics from abroad (spektr.press/ cally (mk.ru/social/2018/10/15/razryv- ecumenical-throne-and-the-church-of-ukraine/.) pravoslavnyj-razvod-chego-lishilis-pri- otnosheniy-rpc-s-konstantinopolskim- Patriarch Kirill of the ROC has condemned the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s decision, hozhane-rpc-iz-za-raskola-s-konstantino- patriarkhatom-ocenil-andrey-kuraev.html). calling for an end to Eucharistic communion with Constantinople, and ROC bishops polem-i-pri-chem-tut-ukraina-vsya-istori- Others agree that the Moscow claim that there is no longer one center of world Orthodoxy in Constantinople. The ya-korotko/). Patriarchate’s actions will lead to the fur- UOC-KP press secretary issued a statement in response, saying: “Patriarch Kirill has Andrey Kurayev, a dissident churchman, ther isolation of the Church and of Russia, personally been an architect of the schism in the Ukrainian Church since 1991” and reflects the full range of views. On the one but they put a far less positive spin on that his conduct has “pulled all of Orthodox Christianity into conflict.” hand, he says that the actions of the in terms of what the Church is likely to do Ominously, President Vladimr Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that Russia Moscow Patriarchate in breaking with in the future – and consequently on its con- would protect the interests of the faithful of Ukraine if the historic split leads to ille- Constantinople will reduce Russian tribution to the future development of gal action or violence, without going into details, claiming that “exclusively political Orthodoxy to a national Church rather than Russia as a whole. and diplomatic” means to do so. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty noted on October to one aspiring to be the leader of the Igor Eidman, a sociologist who serves as 13: “Russian officials have sought to justify Moscow’s interference in Ukraine by cit- Orthodox world (newizv.ru/article/gener- a commentator for Deutsche Welle, argues ing what they said was the need to protect ethnic Russians and Russian–speakers.” al/16-10-2018/andrey-kuraev-rpts-zhdet- that Moscow’s break with Constantinople Archbishop Yevstraty (UOC-KP) said the ROC was “repeating the Kremlin’s policy of degradatsiya-do-urovnya-tserkvi-odnoy- means that the Russian Orthodox Church self-isolation in response to the legitimate decisions of the international community.” natsii). can no longer credibly present itself as a Patriarch Filaret has called on the Orthodox bishops and faithful in Ukraine to Christian Church. Instead, it is following in make preparations for the election of the new prime hierarch of the Autocephalous Paul Goble is a long-time specialist on the track of the Kremlin’s Manichean Orthodox Church of Ukraine. These are the last major steps that need to be taken ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia worldview (facebook.com/permalink. before the Ecumenical Patriarchate grants full autocephaly. Patriarch Filaret has who has served in various capacities in the php?story_fbid=2073448429384792& stressed the need to maintain peace as external forces attempt to disrupt Ukraine’s U.S. State Department, the Central id=100001589654713). chosen path of independence from Moscow. In that world, Russia represents the forc- President Poroshenko in a statement said: “…This is the fall of the ‘Third Rome’ as Intelligence Agency and the International the most ancient conceptual claim of Moscow for the global domination. …Tomos is Broadcasting Bureau, as well as at the Voice es of light and the West the forces of dark- actually another Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine. The empire is losing of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio ness. To the extent the ROC promotes that one of the last levers of influence on its former colony.” Mr. Poroshenko also noted Liberty and the Carnegie Endowment for idea, Mr. Eidman says, it will change but that a group of bishops from the UOC-MP that supported autocephaly for Ukraine International Peace. The article above is only by becoming even more the hand- were targeted with pressure, blackmail, threats and intimidation, yet had appealed reprinted with permission from his blog maiden of the Kremlin that it has been with their signatures to the Ecumenical Patriarch. The president vowed to protect called “Window on Eurasia” (http://windo- since Joseph Stalin re-established the them as well as those who seek to remain with the ROC, so as to prevent violence woneurasia2.blogspot.com/). Moscow Patriarchate during World War II. and the threat of Russian intervention in Ukraine. The religious divorce between Russia and Ukraine is as significant as the political divorce that was initiated on August 24, 1991, with Ukraine’s declaration of inde- pendence in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The ROC since 2014 has Quotable notes demonstrated its forceful take-over of churches and monasteries in occupied Crimea “We must never forget the atrocities committed against the Ukrainian people at and in the occupied areas of eastern Donbas, targeting those elements that would the hands of the Soviet Union during the Holodomor. This important resolution hon- resist Russification. Given the chance in Ukraine, the ROC would likely do the same ors the memory of the millions of Ukrainians who suffered under Joseph Stalin’s as it has in Crimea. cruel policy of using starvation as a weapon to try to break Ukraine’s yearning for And still, Ukraine maintains its peaceful course, as it asserts its independence, independence from Soviet oppression. Ukraine continues the fight to this day to both politically and now religiously. As many experts have stated, it is a matter of defend its independence and sovereignty in the face of Russian aggression, and this when, not if, Ukraine will be granted a Tomos of Autocephaly by the Ecumenical resolution serves as an important reminder of the horrible atrocities inflicted upon Patriarchate, while the ROC further isolates itself as it fails to come to terms with its Ukraine and the perseverance of a people whose spirit cannot be broken.” own past. – Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), reacting on October 4 to the Senate’s passage of his bipartisan resolution on the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor. Oct. Turning the pages back...

Last year, on October 27, 2017, the U.S. State Department released a targeted list of Russian defense and intelligence com- 27 panies that were placed under a new U.S. sanctions law, restrict- The Ukrainian Weekly : 2017 ing business transactions with them and further ratcheting up pressure against Moscow. The new list came after weeks of 85 YEARS OF SERVICE AND COMMITMENT mounting criticism by members of Congress who accused the White House of missing an October 1 deadline. The sanctions officially went into effect on TO OUR UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY. January 29 of this year. (Continued on page 7) No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 7

OPEN LETTER Save the Council of Europe Kharkiv Human Rights tion, stripping itself of the only tool which Protection Group could motivate an offender of the CoE’s declared values - democracy, human rights With the annexation of the Crimea and and rule of law - to correct its policies. the unexplained war in eastern Ukraine, the Russian leadership has trampled on the prin- organization. Colonizing ourselves ciples of the European peace order. As a We call upon the ruling elites of all CoE • It could trigger a full-scale crisis in the Colonialism comes up repeatedly in cul- democracy, we subverted and then result, Russia was deprived of voting rights Member States not to allow the demise of tural as well as socio-political and econom- annexed the archaic Kingdom of Hawai‘i. in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council the organization. History will judge harshly ic discussions. We consider it a bad thing, For Ukraine, historical colonialism has of Europe (PACE). This is a matter of self- those who give in to blackmail from respect for this body, which should ensure undemocratic societies where the rule of but we rarely ask ourselves what it really meant the Russian or Polish kind. Both respect for human rights, the mutual renun- force is above the rule of law. means. In fact, there are different kinds of Poles and Western Ukrainians who experi- ciation of violence and the equal sovereignty colonialism, and their effects vary consider- enced the Soviet occupation of 1939-1941 of all European states. Now, the Kremlin, in SIGNED BY: ably. Today, we may even find it where we used to tell stories about the “culture-bear- least suspect. association with its political friends, is trying Toomas Hendrik Ilves, fourth president ing” Russians, who prided themselves on to get rid of this sanction without in the least of Estonia (2006-2016) Literally, colonialism is the practice of introducing public steam baths and changing its policy. This would mean that settling people from one country in anoth- Marxism-Leninism to the unenlightened er, in the form of communities known as Leopolitans, but wore nightgowns to the the Council of Europe would give up its nor- European Parliament, Lithuania mative foundations. colonies. It is bound up, however, with opera and washed their hair in bidets. EitvydasPetras Auštrevičius, Bajarunas, ambassador-at- member of the The following open letter was released on imperialism, that is, the construction of While imperial Russia did provide talented large for hybrid threats, Lithuanian MFA October 2. empires. Ukrainians with career opportunities Andrius Kubilius, member of Parliament, Colonialism can be divided into several (Prokopovych, Yavorsky, Bortniansky, We, the undersigned, are strongly con- prime minister of Lithuania (1999-2000, types. Hohol), and erected some fine buildings in 2008-2012) cerned about the possible demise of the There is sea-based colonialism such as its own peculiar style, it lowered the educa- Council of Europe, which can take place Beatriz Becerra, member of the that of Britain, an island nation that found- tional level of the masses and stunted very soon. European Parliament, vice-chair of the ed vast colonies in and beyond the Ukrainian culture. In response to Russia’s illegal annexa- European Parliament Subcommittee on Mediterranean, Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Polish colonialism presents a more Human Rights, Spain tion of the Crimea and military aggression oceans. Spain, too, established an overseas ambiguous face. We have grown up with in Eastern Ukraine the Council of Europe Rebecca Harms, member of the empire; its smaller neighbor, Portugal, may the image of the rapacious Polish landown- suspended the voting rights of the Russian European Parliament, Germany have saved itself from Spanish encroach- ers who for six centuries robbed our peas- delegation. In its turn, Russia has turned to Anna Maria, Corazza Bildt, member of ments by doing likewise. In the early mod- ants of their labor. While this is true, gentry blackmail, having suspended membership the European Parliament, Sweden ern period, these empires expanded fees to the Council of Europe and boycot- Poland also brought concepts of law and Ana Gomes, member of the European through trade. The Dutch and Portuguese ting participation in the Parliamentary representative government, as well as no Parliament, Portugal were more interested in setting up trading Assembly. mean accomplishments in art and architec- posts with docks and warehouses than set- In order to triumphantly return to the ture, literature, mathematics, music, philos- tling vast inland territories. PACE in January next year without imple- Party, representative to PACE, Czech ophy and science. We are loath to acknowl- menting demands contained in a number RepublicFrantišek Kopřiva, Deputy, Czech Pirate Then there is land-based colonialism edge it, but to a striking degree, Ukrainian of PACE resolutions, Russia and its support- Jan Lipavsky, member of the Parliament, such as that of Russia, which expanded to nationalism borrowed Polish forms. ers decided to act by the principle: if you Chamber of Deputies, Czech Republic Siberia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Ukraine Today, we speak of post-colonialism. can not change the policy of the Council of Werner Schulz, former MP and MEP, and part of Eastern Europe. Russia moved Mykola Riabchuk, probably the most astute Europe, change its rules. Germany sizeable populations into these areas, Ukrainian political commentator, has pub- If changes to the current sanctions rules Hanne Severinsen, Danish Helsinki imposing its own forms of government and lished a collection of essays on the “post- are made, it will be virtually impossible to Committee, former MP and PACE, Denmark social organization. colonial syndrome.” One manifestation of There is controversy on whether colo- apply sanctions in the future against any Marieluise Beck, former Bundestag this is self-colonization. This is the psycho- nialism can be benign. Many British lead- member state. Member, Germany cultural phenomenon by which a subject Such changes, resulting in the uncondi- ers, for example, believed they were bring- Danylo Lubkivsky, former deputy foreign people internalizes colonialism and, long tional return of Russia to PACE, will have ing a higher civilization to lower ones. After after the colonizers have left, perpetuates the following negative impact on the minister, Ukraine all, it was the British who brought modern Markus Meckel, former foreign minister its subordinate status by “colonizing itself.” Council of Europe and situation with medicine, sanitation, education, the rule of The Cantonese-Canadian scholar Justin Tse human rights in Europe: of the GDR; Vors. Stiftungsrat law, self-government, and the very con- Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung, Germany has detected this phenomenon among both - cepts of human rights and nationalism to his own people and ours. Self-colonization mailing, the CoE will compromise and dis- the peoples of Asia and Africa. Those peo- is characterized by self-loathing, an inordi- credit• By itself. allowing A weak Russia Council to succeed of Europe in black will European Parliament, Poland ples then used these tools against the nate admiration for (and imitation of) the lose its authority and influence in those ALSOPaweł SIGNED Kowal, BY former 99 OTHERS: member scholars, of the British themselves. Mohandas K. Gandhi, colonizing culture (e.g., Russophilism) and parts of Europe where it is needed the most. analysts, researchers, political scientists, trained in British law and influenced by a denigration of one’s own (for example, journalists, philosophers, rights activists, Christian teaching, contrasted the spiritual presuming that everything Ukrainian is the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council civil society leaders, businesspeople, jurists, and cultural wealth of India with the mere- of Europe• Without will the become capacity a toothless to apply sanctions,organiza- educators and others. inferior, or reducing our folk culture to ly material benefits of Western civilization. hopaks and pierogies). In the religious Leftist thinkers like Frantz Fanon and Ho sphere, self-colonization can take the form Chi Minh used European Marxism against and partners to help them avoid engaging of an exaggerated reverence for Russian the Europeans. It seems that one of colo- in potentially sanctionable activity while theology. As Dr. Tse (a Ukrainian Greco- Turning... nialism’s gifts was to sow the seeds of its strengthening military capabilities used for Catholic) has noted, it is also manifest in own destruction. (Continued from page 6) cooperative defense efforts. “uniatism,” characterized by the unreflec- At the same time, the detrimental effects The law was reluctantly signed by The sanctions allow for asset seizures of tive insertion of forms, practices and spiri- of colonialism were felt not only by the President Donald Trump in August 2017, individuals and companies that “knowingly tuality from the Latin tradition into Greco- subject countries, but by the colonizers despite widespread support by Congress. engage in a significant transaction” with Catholic church life, even when there are themselves. These effects included not only The law seeks to punish Russia for what people or firms on the list. Byzantine-rite analogues that would serve economic exploitation and distortion, but the U.S. intelligence community concluded Moscow had remained mostly quiet in the same purposes. This, in fact, offends psychological demoralization. Today, the was its meddling in the 2016 U.S. presiden- its reaction to the sanctions list, which had Roman as well as Byzantine sacred aesthet- influx of immigrants from Asia and Africa tial election, among other things. not come as a surprise. Russian Federation ics. to Europe, itself a new type of colonization, Among the companies listed in the new Council member Viktor Bondarev said that Have we also become victims of new is sometimes seen as the revenge of the sanctions: Rosoboronexport, the Russian sanctions would damage political coopera- types of colonization – a neo-colonialism of colonized. state-owned arms exporter; Almaz-Antey, a tion between Russia and the U.S. in Syria. which we are not even aware? Can there, The United States of America, which major missile manufacturer; United A State Department official explained that for example, be forms of cultural coloniza- the delay in issuing the sanctions list was not arose from a confederation of British colo- Shipbuilding Corp., Russia’s biggest ship- tion that do not depend on territorial con- caused by reluctance to enforce the law. He nies, itself colonized lands to its west. building firm; Sukhoi and Tupolev airplane quest? Defenders of ethnic or indigenous underscored that the Trump administration Emulating European successes, at the end manufacturers; Rostec, a technology holding cultures might agree, pointing out that cul- shared Congress’s goal of responding “to of the 19th century we undertook our own company; and the FSB (Federal Security tural power follows economic power. True, Russia’s malign behavior with respect to the brand of imperialism and colonialism, seiz- Service) and GRU (Main Intelligence whether commercially borne cultural influ- crisis in eastern Ukraine, cyberintrusions ing Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Directorate), Russia’s main security agencies. ence is an imposition or a contribution is a and attacks, and human rights abuses.” Cuba from the dying Spanish empire. The sanctions list had impacted Russian matter of dispute. Today, the Ukrainian lan- arms contracts that U.S. allies Turkey and Source: “Russian defense, intelligence Under the banners of free trade and guage is being “enriched” by terms like Saudi Arabia had signed for Russian weap- companies targeted by new U.S. sanctions “brending,” “mesedzh,” and “feik.” ons systems. The State Department said list,” by Mike Eckel (RFE/RL), The Ukrainian Andrew Sorokowski can be reached at that the U.S. intended to work with its allies Weekly, November 5, 2017. [email protected]. (Continued on page 15) 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 No. 42 No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 9 Ukraine in Congress: A century of U.S. congressional support for Ukraine

by Orest Deychakiwsky rations for human rights, freedom and rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki Final Many of these activities were initiated or independence. Act – especially the plight of political pris- abetted by especially active lobbying cam- oners, including the Helsinki Monitors. paigns not just by diaspora community PART I The post-World War II era These courageous men and women called organizations like the UCCA, the Ukrainian It has sometimes been difficult for So, what happened in Congress between upon the Soviet government to live up to its National Association (UNA) and the Ukraine to find international support, but a 1918 and 1991? The inter-war period saw freely undertaken Helsinki human rights Ukrainian National Women’s League of strong argument can be made that Ukraine relatively little congressional activity on commitments. America (UNWLA), but also by numerous has had few better friends over the course Ukraine. A notable exception was the 1934 The largest and most repressed of the grass-roots groups of community activists of the last century than the United States Congressional resolution on Stalin’s man- five groups in the USSR was the Ukrainian who would pepper their congressmen and Congress. This was especially true in the made Famine (Holodomor) introduced by Helsinki Group. Its members peacefully senators with phone calls, letters, face-to- decades leading up to the dissolution of the Rep. Hamilton Fish (R-N.Y.). advocated not only for greater individual face meetings, faxes. (This was before the Soviet Union when Ukraine was a captive Post-World War II saw an uptick. The rights and freedoms, chronicling many indi- rise of the Internet). These groups included nation and a relative unknown in the Displaced Persons Act of 1948 and follow- vidual violations, but also for greater cul- Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine United States. on legislation – while not Ukraine-specific, tural and linguistic freedoms as well as self- (AHRU), Philadelphia Human Rights for It is impossible to take a detailed, com- did allow for the admission of some 80,000 determination for Ukraine. Not surprising- Ukraine Committee, Smoloskyp organization prehensive look at Congress’s historic role post-war refugee Ukrainians living in ly, they were considered to be a particular in defense of human rights, and various ad- in one article, but I hope to at least give you Europe into the U.S. While previous threat to the Soviet regime and were harsh- hoc human rights committees in cities with a sense of the scope of congressional Ukrainian emigrations had done much to ly repressed. Four of them died in the Gulag Ukrainian populations across the U.S. Also, engagement on Ukraine. Congressional establish the infrastructure of the Ukrainian as late as 1984-1985, right before the era of key roles were played by offices such as the efforts could be distilled to one word: free- American community, this highly politicized glasnost and perestroika. Many members of UCCA’s Ukrainian National Information dom. It is the unifying theme. In this over- emigration and their American-born chil- Congress, often working closely with the Service (UNIS), the World Congress of Free view, I will try to briefly give readers some dren gave the impetus for greater political Ukrainian American community, vigorously Ukrainians (WCFU) Human Rights Bureau sense of the what, when, where and why of activity, especially with respect to Congress. rose to the Ukrainian Helsinki monitors’ and during the critical years of 1988-1995 – Congressional activity vis-à-vis Ukraine. During the late 1940s, through the defense. After their release, many became the lead-up to and immediate aftermath of Introduction: Independence 1960s the Ukrainian Congress Committee involved with Rukh, Ukraine’s movement independence – the Ukrainian National 1918 and 1991 of America (UCCA), especially under its for independence, including its co-founders Association’s (UNA’s) Washington Office, President Lev Dobriansky, took the lead in Mykhailo Horyn and Vyacheslav Chornovil. which employed professional staff. In addi- A century ago, in 1917, a Congressman Congressional activity on Ukraine. This Institutionally, the creation of the tion, committees in support of Rukh and named James Hamill [D-N.J.] introduced a included lobbying on behalf of a Ukrainian Commission on Security and Cooperation Ukraine 2000 played vital roles. As an exam- joint resolution to proclaim a nationwide section within the Voice of America and in Europe (popularly known as the Helsinki ple, Ukraine 2000’s international affairs Ukrainian Day. And even though Ukraine was presenting testimony in front of various Commission) shortly after the signing of director, Robert McConnell, testified or sub- then a terra incognita in the United States, the congressional committees on issues con- the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, whose man- mitted testimony on Ukraine to more than resolution passed and President Woodrow cerning Ukraine. date included pressing the Soviet govern- 40 congressional hearings in less than a two- Wilson proclaimed April 27, 1917, as a day to Two pieces of legislation were of special ment on human rights, brought greater year period. An essential role was also collect funds for the aid of the “stricken significance. One was was the 1959 Captive attention to Ukrainian issues. This interest played by Ukrainian American media, first Ruthenians (Ukrainians).” As a result of the Nations resolution, authored by Dr. was manifested through numerous resolu- and foremost The Ukrainian Weekly, which collection, $85,000 – which is $1.75 million in Dobriansky, who had many connections in tions on behalf of individual Ukrainian consistently informed the community and today’s dollars – was collected. both parties in Congress and who played a political prisoners, hearings on human encouraged advocacy efforts. Later, a Ukrainian information bureau critical role in undermining the legitimacy rights in Ukraine (occasionally with the The bottom line is that the Ukrainian was established in Rep. Hamill’s office, and of the Soviet Union. The other was the 1960 participation of former political prisoners), American community was especially he was active in trying to obtain U.S. recogni- bill authorizing the erection of the Taras frequent congressional statements, press engaged during those years. Without it, tion for Ukrainian independence, including Shevchenko Monument in Washington. The releases, Capitol Hill events and direct con- there would not have been all the consider- through his subsequent December 1918 res- memorial dedication ceremony in 1964 tacts with Soviet officials in Washington or able activity that took place in Congress, olution on the eve of the Versailles confer- saw the largest gathering of Ukrainian at international conferences. especially in the pre-independence era. ence. But this measure was defeated, given Americans ever – some 100,000. The congressional interest in human Keep in mind that prior to independence, U.S. policy at the time which decidedly did Both of these pieces of legislation and, in rights went beyond the Helsinki Commission many Americans were ignorant of Ukraine, not support Ukrainian national aspirations. particular, the Captive Nations resolution, and the issues went beyond the political often confusing Ukrainians with Russians An excellent source on this is Dr. Myron B. infuriated the Soviet government. This was prisoners or condemnations of human rights or conflating Russia and the Soviet Union. Kuropas’s book “Ukrainians in America.” also a time when the January 22, 1918, inde- violations. The 1980s saw Holodomor reso- As mentioned earlier, before the restora- Fast forward 72 years later to the fall of pendence of Ukraine was commemorated in lutions in connection with the 50th anniver- tion of its independence, with the exception 1991, when a resolution introduced by Congress annually with events and numer- sary in 1983 and, very significantly, the cre- of Congress, Ukraine was largely a terra Helsinki Commission Chair Sen. Dennis ous congressional statements. To take just ation of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine incognita on the overall political landscape in DeConcini (D-Ariz.) and Commissioner one illustrative example – I came upon a few Famine. This commission did much to study the U.S. The executive branch paid relatively Rep. Don Ritter (R-Pa.) calling for recogni- January-February 1956 issues of The and publicize this hitherto largely unknown little attention to Ukraine, as it was essential- tion of Ukraine’s independence garnered Ukrainian Weekly reporting on the genocide. Efforts of the Helsinki Commission ly a colony, and the focus, not surprisingly, significant support. It was adopted – as an Independence Day activities, and they were and many others in Congress – especially was on the capital, Moscow, and not on the amendment to a larger piece of legislation – filled with various congressional statements, members of the Ad Hoc Committee on the “periphery.” Nevertheless, Ukraine was not despite a lack of support from the adminis- prayers for a free Ukraine in the Senate and Baltics and Ukraine – focused on the plight of completely ignored and there certainly tration of President George H.W. Bush. House, and a report on the introduction of a the suppressed Ukrainian Greek-Catholic were people who were advocates for Although the first Bush administration was resolution condemning Russian Communist Church, calling for its legalization, especially Ukraine within the executive branch, not opposed to Ukraine’s independence per oppression of Ukraine by Sen. Hubert in connection with a resolution on the including several Ukrainian Americans. se – in contrast to Wilson – and certainly Humphrey (D-Minn.), later vice-president of Millennium of Christianity in Kyivan Rus’- This relative lack of attention changed had an appreciation for Ukraine’s national the U.S. Clearly, the focus during this period Ukraine. Encouraged by the Ukrainian dramatically following independence and aspirations, for various reasons it under- was on the national rights of Ukrainians. American community, specifically the the establishment of formal relations with took a cautious approach. The peak of activity: 1975-1991 Committee to Commemorate the an independent Ukrainian state. At that In a little over a month, over a quarter of Millennium of Christianity of Rus’-Ukraine, point, quite logically, the executive branch/ the Senate and a fifth of the House joined But it was the decade and a half prior to an unprecedently large number of senators State Department, with the U.S. Embassy in the resolution as co-sponsors – which was independence, starting from late 1970s, and congressmen wrote individual letters to Kyiv, took the lead on Ukraine policy. Still, no small feat and a tribute to various orga- that saw the most intensive period of con- Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev calling for Congress has continued to be very active nizations and individuals in the Ukrainian gressional activity on Ukraine. And it is the legalization of the Ukrainian-Greek and supportive, on a bipartisan basis – both American community. In some respects, here that there was somewhat of a shift in Catholic Church. The 1986 Chornobyl disas- Republicans and Democrats. It is important this resolution represented a culmination emphasis – from national rights to individ- ter also brought considerable Congressional to underscore that this bipartisanship on of longstanding efforts by the Ukrainian ual rights – although these, of course, were attention to Ukraine, with resolutions, hear- Ukraine existed before Ukraine regained its American community and its many friends not mutually exclusive. A key reason for ings, statements and exhibits. independence. in the U.S. Congress prior to independence this transition was the newfound attention Sometimes too, congressional efforts to assist the Ukrainian people in their aspi- placed by the United States on the human were geared toward our own government – Post-independence: 1991-2013 for example, encouraging the State Since independence, we have seen legis- Orest Deychakiwsky worked at the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Department to raise individual cases of lation, hearings and briefings, direct meet- (the U.S. Helsinki Commission), a U.S. government agency composed mostly of U.S. senators human rights abuse or related issues with ings with Ukrainian legislators and officials, and House members, from 1981 to 2017. His many responsibilities throughout his more than the Soviets or calling for the establishment especially diplomats from the Ukrainian 35 years of service included Ukraine. He served as a member of numerous official U.S. dele- of a U.S. Consulate in Kyiv (with the pur- Embassy in Washington, and visits to gations to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (and its predecessor, the pose of reducing Ukraine’s international Ukraine by members of Congress. The driv- Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), and was an OSCE election isolation). There was also much congressio- ers of most of the activity are the Helsinki observer in Ukraine and other countries. nal unhappiness with the 1985 denial of Commission, the Congressional Ukrainian He currently serves as vice-chair of the Board of Directors of the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, U.S. asylum to Ukrainian seaman Myroslav Caucus, the Senate Foreign Relations on the Advisory Board of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council and writes a monthly column for Medvid, who jumped a Soviet ship near The Ukrainian Weekly called “Washington in Focus.” New Orleans. 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exarchs were dispatched to Ukraine as emis- Moscow severs... saries who “are objective catalysts who facil- itate the process of granting a Tomos” for (Continued from page 1) self-government, religious expert Oleksandr Ukraine,” said Margo Gontar, co-founder of Sagan told The Ukrainian Weekly. Stop Fake news, in a commentary written Anathemas were lifted for Filaret for the Washington-based Atlantic Council Denysenko, patriarch of the Ukrainian on October 13. Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC- The Ecumenical Patriarchate, which is KP), and Metropolitan Makariy Maletych, based in Istanbul, has essentially laid the head of the Ukrainian Autocephalous groundwork for granting Ukraine ecclesias- Orthodox Church (UAOC). tic self-rule. It revoked a canonical letter As a result, it makes it “impossible for us dating to 1686 that led to Moscow annex- to continue Eucharistic communion with ing Ukraine’s Orthodox jurisdiction. its [Ecumenical Patriarchate’s] hierarchs, After a Synaxis, or consultative meeting clergy and laity,” the Russian Orthodox of hierarchs, in early September, Ecumenical Church said in its post-Synod statement. Patriarch Bartholomew, known as the “first The Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) is current- among equals” among all Orthodox pri- ly the only canonically recognized mates, said his predecessor – Patriarch Igor Palkin Orthodox Church in Ukraine. It is subordi- Dionysios IV – under “great political pres- The Russian Orthodox Church’s Patriarch Kirill (left) addresses an assembly of hier- nate to the Russian Orthodox Church but sure” was forced to give Moscow permission archs, or Synod, in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on October 15. has rights of autonomy. to ordain the metropolitan of Kyiv that year. There are about 250 million to 300 mil- in a new Church leader,” the archbishop Ukraine, including the easternmost regions A Stavropegia was established in Kyiv to lion Orthodox believers worldwide. The said, adding that Ukraine “is in an extraor- of Luhansk and Donetsk in a war that has represent the Ecumenical Patriarch. Two most reside in Russia, followed by Ukraine. dinary situation.” killed more than 10,400 people, nearly 100 “More than 12,000 of the Russian Archbishop Yevstratiy said that auto- UOC-MP parishes switched over to the Kyiv Church’s almost 35,000 parishes are in cephaly is “not a question of ‘if’ but ‘when,’ ” Patriarchate, Archbishop Yevstratiy said. Ukraine, and losing even a small number of noting that the remaining steps should be “More people individually have simply left these would be a terrific blow to Russia and done by the end of the year in order to with their feet and attend UOC-KP churches,” to Vladimir Putin’s concept of a ‘Russian avoid the “political turbulence” when he said citing recent survey findings. world’,” said English historian Andrew Ukraine will hold presidential elections in Other reasons include the fact that the Wilson in a commentary for the European March 2019 and parliamentary elections UOC-MP treats the Donbas war as a civil Council on Foreign Relations that was pub- seven months later. war and not an act of Russian aggression, lished on October 11. “So catastrophic, in He also warned that Russia could try to the archbishop said. fact, that the Russian Church is hardly likely interfere with the ecclesiastic elections. The UOC-MP has also been accused of to acquiesce quietly in the loss.” “If Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. supporting or abetting separatism. Nearly two-thirds of Ukrainians identify presidential elections and the referendum Former Russian Federal Security Service with the Orthodox faith, and nearly half of in the United Kingdom to leave the Col. Igor Girkin, who led the takeover of those as parishioners of the UOC-KP, European Union, what makes you think it Donetsk Oblast city of Sloviansk in April according to a nationwide poll conducted won’t try to disrupt these?” he asked rhe- 2014, admitted that monks from the UOC- on August 30-September 9 jointly by the torically. “We must understand these dan- MP-controlled Sviatohirsk monastery Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, the gers, so should society… it should be vigi- fought with him against Ukrainian forces. Razumkov Center and the SOCIS Center for lant.” Speaking on the Russian Independent Social and Marketing Research. Seventeen Potential provocations are also expected Studio television program on October 12, percent said they identify with the UOC-MP. with regard to church properties being Mr. Girkin added that his personal security Moscow’s move to sever ties is a form of forcibly taken over. detail was made up of monks from the self-imposed sanctions, UOC-KP spokes- The October 11 Holy Synod in Istanbul monastery located 30 kilometers (18.6 man Archbishop Yevstratiy Zorya told The appealed to “all sides involved that they miles) north of Sloviansk. Ukrainian Weekly on October 15. avoid appropriation of churches, monaster- A “lay brother from the monastery led “Moscow is behaving in a way that it is ies and other properties, as well as every one of our Sloviansk brigade subunits,” he isolating itself as it has done politically ever other act of violence and retaliations, so that said, adding that “clerics from the since it annexed [the Ukrainian territory of] the peace and love of Christ may prevail.” Sviatohirsk Monastery blessed” the armed Crimea in 2014,” he said. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko units that he led. Two principal steps remain before also promised to ensure that violence doesn’t UOC-MP spokesperson Archbishop Ukraine could be granted autocephaly, he ensue at church properties. The Internal Klyment has said that “not once” has the said, outlining a road map. Affairs Ministry has already increased securi- Church supported separatism in Ukraine, “A Sobor [council] of bishops must be ty nationwide at places of worship. or given Russian-led forces shelter or logis- held, and elections must take place to vote Since 2014, when Moscow invaded tical support. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 No. 42

The main exhibit in the library. People coming to see the exhibit. Dallas community commemorates 85th anniversary of Holodomor with exhibit by Daria Mociuk Zaluckyj Marta Petrash narrated a very informa- and Liz Moroz Harper tive PowerPoint presentation outlining the historical injustices and statistics of the DALLAS – The North Texas Holodomor Holodomor. Committee (NTHC), in partnership with the Veselka Folk Singers of Dallas sang “A Dallas Public Library, on September 23 Hymn for Ukraine” as a part of its perfor- opened a Holodomor 85th Year mance. North Texas Food Bank spokesper- Commemoration Exhibit on the fourth floor son Talia McAllister then shared how the of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in canned food drive sponsored by the North downtown Dallas. The exhibit will run Texas Holodomor Committee will battle through November 9. hunger in the local community. Two tradi- Display cases exhibited the hunger, hor- tional folk selections by bandurist Mark ror and history of the artificial famine Krasij concluded the program. imposed on the Ukrainian population by Books about the Holodomor were avail- the Soviet regime. Personally directed by able for purchase and, wheat, symbolizing Joseph Stalin, this genocide resulted in the its importance to Ukraine as the “Bread death and starvation of millions of Basket of Europe,” was displayed in various Ukrainians in 1932-1933. areas of the exhibit. Showcased in the exhibit were two black The exhibit includes a series of docu- breads baked with wheat imprints (donat- mentaries about the Holodomor that are ed by Hania Prochko); candles, represent- scheduled to be shown at the library week- ing eternally shining flames of hope; and ly through November 4. Committee members and library coordinators: (from left) Herman Cardona, white paper cut-out bones, inscribed with Roxolana Karmazan, Tiffany Bailey (Library), Joan Karascvich, Marta Petrash, Sponsors who helped make this exhibit the names of 85 Holodomor victims, sym- Daria Zaluckyj and Chrystya Geremesz. possible included the Dallas Public Library, bolic of the 85th anniversary of the the Ukrainian American Society of Texas, Holodomor, lying on black fabric. Dance Ensemble of Dallas silently wel- flags. The Rev. Pavlo Popov of St. Sophia’s Dnipro Valley Transport, Ben Yager Designs NTHC Chair Chrystya Geremesz emceed comed the audience. Holding black bread Ukrainian Catholic Church of The Colony, and Moxie Graphic Productions. For more the commencement program, which began and sheaves of wheat, the dancers were Texas, then recited a prayer for the detailed schedule information, readers can when senior dancers from the Zorya flanked by the Ukrainian and American Holodomor victims. visit www.UAST.org/Holodomor.

receiving the medal and paid homage to the “although there are persistent anti-Semitic established for contributions to the cause of Philanthropist... Metropolitan. acts in Ukraine, as is the case in most nations, Ukrainian-Jewish understanding and coop- “What makes this award special is that it I’m happy to note that the predominant eration and is awarded to people who have (Continued from page 1) is named after Metropolitan Andrey tenor of Ukrainian-Jewish relations there and dedicated themselves to fostering relations Chairman James C. Temerty called Ambas­ Sheptytsky, archbishop of the Ukrainian in the diaspora is one of mutual respect and between the Ukrainian and Jewish peoples. sador Lauder, “a great leader of the global Greek-Catholic Church during World War II. regard. To strengthen this process, we must Metropolitan Sheptytsky is a model wor- Jewish community and a friend of Ukraine The archbishop had to strike an unusual both honestly address the past and build a thy of celebration and emulation, providing and of the Jewish community in Ukraine.” balance to deal with Nazis who occupied future together focused on cooperation and a basis for building trust and bridges Borys Lozhkin, JCU’s president, said it his country, and to save Jewish lives.” rooted in the fact that a huge proportion of between communities. was appropriate the award was presented In saving 150 Jewish lives, the metropol- Israelis and the Jewish diaspora can trace Born in 1865 to a prominent aristocratic during Sukkot, an important Jewish holiday itan “saved 150 worlds,” Ambassador their roots to the territory of Ukraine.” family, he was the spiritual leader of the of celebration. Lauder said, referring to the Jewish precept Ambassador Lauder is the fourth winner Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church from “Thanks to Ambassador Lauder’s philan- “Whoever Saves a Life Saves the World.” of the Sheptytsky Award. In 2016, the 1901 until his death in 1944. During World thropy and commitment, our community is “Although I may have educated many recipient was Ukrainian writer and former War II, he helped save more than the 150 now coming from a place of strength,” he thousands of Jewish children, I don’t know Soviet dissident Ivan Dzyuba, recognized Jewish lives. The metropolitan sheltered said. “Ambassador Lauder’s deeds have if I saved one Jewish life,” he said. “But the for his decades-long commitment to human Jews in his own residence at great personal helped bring the entire Ukrainian Jewish fact is, this man had courage, unbelievable rights, speaking out against xenophobia risk and arranged for Church monasteries community together through the establish- courage, at a time when so few people had and anti-Semitism, and working for nation- to protect well over 100 Jewish children. ment of Jewish educational institutions that courage and so few people raised up, al reconciliation. Not one of them was betrayed or lost. such as the Ronald Lauder Camp Shuva, particularly in the religious world, and this In 2014, the award was presented to Metropolitan Sheptytsky also publicly Jewish Day Schools and kindergartens in man deserves all the credit. And my only Ukrainian businessman Victor Pinchuk for protested against Nazi Germany’s murder- Ukraine, as well as a modern security sys- sadness is that his name is not better his work in fostering Ukrainian-Jewish rela- ous policies towards Jews, alerted Pope tem to protect the Jewish community.” known. I do believe much more should be tions and advancing his homeland’s Pius XII in personal reports about the mass Dr. Leon Chameides, who survived the written about him, spoken about him. He European aspirations. murders taking place, and issued the pasto- Holocaust thanks to Metropolitan deserves everything we can give.” A year earlier, the award was given by ral letter “Thou Shalt Not Kill” in November Sheptytsky’s efforts, said it was appropriate “We must remember the Jewish people the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine to 1942, urging the faithful of his Church not that Ambassador Lauder received the award have been tied to Ukraine for over a thou- James C. Temerty, Canadian Ukrainian busi- to participate in Nazi atrocities. as the two men shared three characteristics: sand years,” Ambassador Lauder noted. nessman, philanthropist and founder of the Throughout his life, the metropolitan a deep and abiding faith, evidence of coura- Although the relationship between Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. was dedicated to preserving Ukraine’s cul- geous independence and the saving of Jews. Ukrainians and Jews has not always been The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter has tural heritage. He collected icons and “I am here with you only because positive, he credited Ukrainian President dedicated significant efforts to advance objects of art, and as a patron of the arts Metropolitan Sheptytsky and the brothers Petro Poroshenko for insisting that anti- international recognition of the legacy of and philanthropist, supported many promi- of the Studite Order had the conviction and Semitism would not be tolerated in Ukraine. the legendary Ukrainian Greek-Catholic nent Ukrainian artists. Today, his collection the moral courage to answer the Biblical “For that we are very grateful,” he said. Church leader Metropolitan Sheptytsky, is the basis of the Andrey Sheptytsky question ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ in the Mr. Lauder noted that everything possible one of the towering Ukrainian leaders of National Museum in Lviv. affirmative,” Dr. Chameides said. “Theirs needed to be done to bring the Ukrainian the 20th century. was a lonely beam of light on an otherwise and Jewish people together, and he wel- UJE’s efforts were advanced when the Natalia A. Feduschak is director of com- dark and bleak horizon.” comed UJE’s efforts in that direction. Jewish Confederation of Ukraine created the munications, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Mr. Lauder noted he was humbled in In his remarks Mr. Temerty said that Andrey Sheptytsky Medal. The award was (www.ukrainianjewishencounter.org). No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 13 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 No. 42

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tect the local population. Ukraine has been proposed this, Ukraine supports it, the threat to block Ukraine’s accession to the NEWSBRIEFS pressing for the introduction of United Normandy group [of foreign affairs minis- European Union and NATO. In a Facebook Nations peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine ters from Germany, France, Russia and post, Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister (Continued from page 14) as long as they are placed along the border Ukraine] supports it, the European Union, Pavlo Klimkin warned on October 3 that Russia has said it wants Ukraine to take with Russia to monitor and ensure Russian NATO, Canada, and Britain, everyone is in “the events around the distribution of steps in the direction of implementing a troops and weapons do not come over the favor of sending in a U.N.-mandated peace- Hungarian citizenship in Berehove, let’s say, special status for the region, Kyiv can’t do border to aid the separatists. Mr. Volker keeping mission. Only Russia is really do not add joy.” He added, “They only com- that as long as Moscow “occupies the terri- said the idea of having a peacekeeping blocking this,” said Mr. Volker. He pointed plicate the already not perfect relationship tory.” He said a peacekeeping force could force deployed in the region “is very via- out that Moscow’s argument is that a between the two countries.” In its state- establish security, create conditions of ble” and would facilitate the implementa- peacekeeping force should be negotiated ment, the Foreign Affairs Ministry freedom of movement and peace, and pro- tion of the Minsk agreements. “We have with the de-facto separatist authorities, expressed hope that the Hungarian side but since those authorities are there “only “will refrain from any unfriendly steps by Russia’s hand, we need to be negotiat- toward Ukraine in the future, and that its Ukrainian authorities, it is important to ing with the Russians, that’s how we see officials will not violate Ukrainian legisla- Ukraine in Congress... underscore that often in Washington – both it.” (Current Time TV) tion.” It said that Kyiv considered Ukrainian within and outside of Congress – Ukraine’s citizens of Hungarian origin as a “unifying (Continued from page 9) Ukraine, Hungary in diplomatic tit-for-tat biggest critics are often Ukraine’s strongest factor” in the two countries’ relations, and Committee and the House Foreign Affairs supporters – people who genuinely care Ukraine has declared a Hungarian con- called on Hungary “to do the same.” There Committee. This included hearings on the about the country and want it to succeed as sul persona non grata and demanded he are almost 200,000 ethnic Hungarians liv- political situation in Ukraine, sometimes a secure, thriving European democracy. leave the country within 72 hours. The ing in Ukraine’s Zakarpattia region, where with the participation of high-ranking There were also important pieces of leg- Foreign Affairs Ministry on October 4 Berehove is located. Speaking during a visit Ukrainian officials; successful legislation islation like the Nunn-Lugar Act, which pro- accused the diplomat, who is based in the to Moscow, Mr. Szijjarto on October 3 authorizing the establishment of the vided $1.3 billion to help safeguard and dis- western Ukrainian town of Berehove near accused Kyiv of “constantly” violating the Holodomor Memorial near the U.S. Capitol; mantle weapons of mass destruction, and the Hungarian border, of “activities incom- rights of the country’s Hungarian minority. Permanent Normal Trade Relations for numerous broader appropriations bills patible with the status of a consular officer.” The expulsion is the latest in a series of dip- Ukraine (i.e., lifting restrictive Jackson- that provided nearly $5 billion in bilateral The move comes after Kyiv accused lomatic rows between Ukraine and Vanik trade provisions); resolutions calling assistance alone to Ukraine between 1991 Hungary’s Consulate in Berehove of illegal- Hungary, an EU and NATO member. The lat- for Ukraine joining the NATO Membership and 2013. This assistance included mili- ly issuing passports to ethnic Hungarians in est tensions were triggered by a video that Action Plan; and resolutions congratulating tary/security as well as projects focusing Ukraine. In response to Ukraine’s decision, surfaced last month allegedly showing eth- Ukraine for democratic successes. There on economic growth, energy security, Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter nic Hungarians being handed Hungarian were many Congressional resolutions, health, agriculture, and democracy, human Szijjarto told a press conference that his passports in the consulate in Berehove. statements and briefings in support of free rights and good governance. Clearly much country was expelling a Ukrainian consul in (RFE/RL, with reporting by Reuters, AFP, and fair elections in Ukraine, on the of this was designed to assist Ukraine in Budapest. Mr. Szijjarto also reiterated a and TASS) Holodomor, Chornobyl and other issues. becoming a more secure, democratic, pros- Congress also raised, when necessary, perous, safer and healthier country. human rights or democratic deficits. Keep in mind that Congress has the minds and souls of Ukrainians. Of course, Congressional attention was especially power of the purse – the U.S. Constitution Colonizing... Russia has been using the media in the manifested immediately before, during and grants Congress exclusively the power to same way for decades, and in the occupied (Continued from page 7) after the Orange Revolution, with Congress appropriate funds. Sometimes Congress Donbas it has no competition. strongly supporting the democratic aspira- has appropriated additional funding for International media conglomerates thrust One may speak, indeed, of “ideological tions of the Ukrainian people. Thus, it read- Ukraine beyond the administration’s for- American films and television series into colonization” – and self-colonization. Is ily called out human rights abuses and mal request or supported the work of spe- millions of Ukrainian homes. In this way, Russian-style conservatism colonizing the democratic deficits, especially in the late cific organizations such as the U.S.-Ukraine American values and sensibilities – includ- American Right? Is American-style liberal- Kuchma period and during the Yanukovych Foundation. Indeed, for several years in the ing individualism as well as a penchant for ism colonizing Eastern Europe? Are we the years. For instance, Congress was very mid-1990s, Ukraine was the third largest violence and vulgarity – penetrate the colonizers, the colonized – or both? active in defending the politically motivated recipient of bilateral U.S. assistance in the imprisonment of Yulia Tymoshenko and world. This funding encompassed not only others. military and security aid, but also assis- Regarding resolutions, hearings or tance in the economic, energy, humanitari- With deep sadness and love, Congressional statements that sometimes an, health, democracy and good gover- we share that our dear constructively criticize the actions of the nance realms. Mary Bass Shpikula passed away lovingly cared for by family On the  rst anniversary of passing into eternity in Lena, Wisconsin of our beloved mother on October 2, 2018 Daria Masnyj Genza of blessed memory Born in Chicago, Illinois, on January 11, 1916, Mary lived a long and vibrant life. She was a daughter, wife, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, great- Born in Skole, Lviv Region, Ukraine grandmother, sister, aunt, cousin and friend leaving a mark of generosity, Our mother was a zealous dancer and kindness and thoughtfulness to all who knew her. She was a devoted choreographer, who from the time she advocate and tireless worker for many Ukrainian-American organizations came to USA in 1952 performed with the in partnership with Taras, her dear husband. Predeceased by Taras, her dance ensemble “Verkhovyntsi” which husband of 40 years; Jacob and Barbara Bass, her parents and Stella Bass was a liated with the Ukrainian Youth Williams and Anna Bass Burdosh, her sisters, Mary lived for over 102 years. Organization (SUM), and later became a soloist in the group. After the death of Left in sadness are: its leader our father Oleh, our mother Her children: Taras Wolodymyr Shpikula, D.D.S, Donna Shpikula Wayner, assumed the role of leading the ensemble. Ph.D. and her husband Peter Charles Wayner, Jr., Ph.D and Myron Victor She also instructed youth in the art of Shpikula. Ukrainian folk dance at the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization in New York and in Her grandchildren: Peter Charles Wayner III. Ph.D. and wife Caroline SUM as well as dance groups at St. George McKeldin, Taras Jon Wayner and wife Joanna Tomallo and Elizabeth grade school and Academy. She was a Wayner Boham, M.D. and husband Eric Tismark Boham. longtime Education Committee Chair of the Ukrainian National Women’s League Her great-grandchildren: Isabel Morgan Wayner, Claire Calvert Wayner, of American Branch 83 and enriched the Ama Elizabeth Boham, Sophia Leigh Wayner, Eric Tismark Boham, Jr. and curriculum of the branch-run svitlychka, Peter Charles Wayner IV. a preschool at the Selfreliance School of A funeral liturgy was held on October 10 at Holy Trinity Catholic Church Ukrainian Studies, by enticing the children in Oconto, Wisconsin. Mary was laid to rest beside Taras, at St. Nicholas to dance. Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois on October 11. Divine Liturgy for the repose of her soul Memorial donations may be made to: will be held on Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 6 a.m. at the St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, 835 North Oakley Blvd., Chicago, IL 60622 Please remember her in your prayers. May her memory be eternal. Vichnaya Pamiat’. May she rest in eternal peace. Bereaved daughters, Vichnaya Pamyat. Darka and Olia Genza 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 No. 42

CANDLE of REMEMBRANCE 85th anniversary of Holodomor marked with Candle of Remembrance in Washington

by Yaro Bihun consent on the previous day of Senate Resolution 435 commemorating the 85th WASHINGTON – As the sun was setting anniversary of the Holodomor and recog- on October 4 in the nation’s capital, a large nizing that it was a genocide. group of Ukrainians and friends of Ukraine The U.S. position on the Holodomor gathered in front of the Holodomor issue was further discussed by George Memorial here for the Candle of Remembr- Kent, deputy assistant secretary of state for ance observance marking the 85th anniver- European and Eurasian affairs, who earlier sary of Stalin’s genocidal starvation of mil- had served as deputy chief of mission at the lions of Ukrainians in 1932-1933. U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. Organized by the Ukrainian Embassy During the ceremony, Michael Sawkiw, and the U.S. Committee for Ukrainian chairman of the U.S. Holodomor Committee Holodomor Genocide Awareness as part of and director of the Ukrainian National the two-month long commemoration of Information Service, was honored by that tragedy, the evening observance began Ambassador Chaly for his dedication and with prayers led by the pastors of the area’s work in Ukrainian affairs in Washington. three Ukrainian churches, the official light- Also participating in the ceremony was Larysa Kurylas, who designed that “Field of ing of candles in front of the memorial, the Wheat” Holodomor monument, which was placing of symbolic dry wheat bouquets at Yaro Bihun dedicated in Washington in 2015 at a cere- the foot of the memorial and the singing of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent discusses the importance of recogniz- mony attended by Ukraine’s First Lady the traditional funeral song “Vichnaya ing the crime and tragedy of Stalin’s infamous Holodomor genocide that killed mil- lions of Ukrainians in 1932-1933. Standing beside him during the Candle of Maryna Poroshenko. Pamiat.” The most moving segment of the cere- Addressing the gathering, Ambassador Remembrance ceremony in front of the Holodomor Memorial in Washington are: Ukrainian Ambassador Valeriy Chaly, Ilona Doerfler (with the Ukrainian flag on her mony came when a Ukrainian American Valeriy Chaly also expressed Ukrainian shoulders, who later read the names of some of the children that starved to death), activist, Ilona Doerfler, with a Ukrainian flag President Petro Poroshenko’s appreciation members of the Spiv Zhyttya choir and Michael Sawkiw, chairman of the U.S. for the U.S. Senate’s passage by unanimous Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor Genocide Awareness. (Continued on page 19)

panakhyda for Holodomor victims. SOUTH FLORIDA Responses were sung by members SOUTHWEST FLORIDA of the church choir, led by Donna Maksymowich-Waskiewicz. The by Oksana Piaseckyj choir sang “Bozhe Velykyi,” and then the MIAMI – On October 4, South Florida names of 85 children who perished from Ukrainians joined the worldwide communi- hunger were ready by Deacon Galadza, ty in commemorating the victims of the Karyn Wilk, Marijka Karachun and Patty Holodomor in the “Light a Candle of Krysa. The commemoration ended with the Remembrance” project. The decision of singing of the Ukrainian and American cooperating organizations – Ukrainian national anthems. National Women’s League of America During the month of November, several Branch 17, the parish of the Assumption of other events will focus on the Holodomor. the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic On November 1, two classes of students at Church and the Ukrainian-American Club Miami Dade College at the Wolfson campus of Miami – was to present this event in a will hear a lecture/discussion on the public place where non-Ukrainians could Holodomor given by Michael Sawkiw Jr., observe and learn about the Holodomor. chairman of the U.S. Committee for The location chosen was the Torch of Ukrainian Holodomor Genocide Awareness, Chrystyna Czajkowskyj Friendship in downtown Miami. with the participation from Ukraine via Nellia Lechman lights the Candle of Remembrance. Standing behind her (from left) Prior to the event, mayors of Miami and Skype of Prof. Myroslava Antonovych of the are: Roman Czajkowskyj, Daria Tomashosky, Bohdan Bodnaruk, Lesia Popel, Nestor the county of Miami Dade issued proclama- National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Olesnytsky, Vira Bodnaruk, Halia Lisnyczyj and Oleh Sawkiv. Academy and Prof. Myroslav Marynovych of tions citing the Holodomor as a genocide chapter of the U.S. Committee for Ukrainian the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. by Vira Bodnaruk against the Ukrainian nation. During the Holodomor-Genocide Awareness, opened On November 18, there will be a com- Candle of Remembrance program, Patty NORTH PORT, Fla. – The Ukrainian the commemoration by lighting the first can- memorative concert at the Koubek Center Krysa read the proclamation of Miami Dade. American community of southwest Florida dle, to be followed by all present. Members After Oksana Piaseckyj, organizer of the in Miami, featuring the Women’s Bandura joined Ukrainians around the world in of Ukrainian American organizations then event, lighted the symbolic candle, Father Ensemble of North America. Finally, on commemorating the 85th anniversary of read the names of 85 children, ranging in age Andrii Romankiv, pastor of the Assumption November 24, the commemorations will the Holodomor of 1932-1933 by lighting a from 2 months to 14 years, who died from Church, with Auxiliary Bishop Peter culminate with a special Miami Tower Candle of Remembrance on October 4, starvation in 1933 in Luhansk region. Baldacchino of the Catholic Diocese of lighting in blue and yellow lights shining before the entrance to St. Mary’s Ukrainian A requiem service for Holodomor victims Miami and Deacon Paul Galadza, led a over the city of Miami. Catholic Church in North Port. was led by the Revs. Vasyl Petriv, Ivan From September 1 to November 24, Fatenko and Oleh Saciuk. At the end, all pres- Candles of Remembrance are being lighted ent sang “God Hear our Prayerful Request” by Ukrainians around the world in memory and the Ukrainian national anthem. of the innocent victims of the genocidal fam- Further commemoration of the Ukrainian ine created by Joseph Stalin and his regime. Genocide will be held on November 1, at Roman Czajkowskyj, head of the Florida North Port City Hall, where a proclamation will be presented designating November 24, 2018, as Ukrainian Holodomor- Genocide Remembrance Day. A commemorative concert titled “An Artistic Tribute” will take place on November 17 in Venice and will feature per- formances by renowned Ukrainian artists: violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv, pianist Volodymyr Vynnytskyj, cellist Natalia Khoma, soprano Zoya Roszko, baritone Oleh Chmyr and the Women’s Bandura Ensemble of North America. Organizers of the events are Mr. Czajkowskyj, Nellia Lechman, Vira Oresta Hamersky Bodnaruk, Daria Tomashoky, Lesia Popel, The Candle of Remembrance ceremony, which marked the 85th anniversary of the Fathers Oleh Saciuk, Vasyl Petriv and Katia Steciuk, Bohdan Bodnaruk and Holodomor, at the Torch of Friendship in downtown Miami. Ivan Fatenko lead the prayers. Chrystyna Czajkowskyj. No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 17

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to the 600,000 whose lives ended SYRACUSE, N.Y. before they could be born. The candlelight vigil at Hendrick’s Chapel was dedicated to by Olga Boichak these children – a bell tolled as participants SYRACUSE, N.Y. – On October 3, the local read the names of 85 children who never Ukrainian community came together on the made it back to school that year. The event Syracuse University campus to commemo- was co-organized by the head of the rate the victims of the Holodomor, the arti- Syracuse branch of the Ukrainian Medical ficially created famine during which mil- Association of North America, Dr. Borys lions of people were starved to death for Buniak, the Ukrainian American Youth their refusal to comply with Soviet collec- Association and the Ukrainian Club of tivization policies. Syracuse University (whose faculty advisor Lighting many candles on the steps of is Pat Burak). Hendrick’s Chapel, Syracuse Ukrainians This year marks the 85th anniversary of took part in the 85-day journey of the the Holodomor and – after the decade-long Holodomor remembrance flame that is trav- efforts of the Ukrainian World Congress eling across five continents and concludes in and the U.S. Committee for Ukrainian Kyiv in November this year. Nearly every Holodomor Genocide Awareness – the U.S. Ukrainian lost a family member in the long Senate recently passed a resolution to rec- winter of 1933, many of them young chil- ognize this tragedy as a deliberate act of Borys Buniak dren: according to demographic estimates, genocide perpetrated against Ukrainians by Members of Syracuse’s Ukrainian community on the steps of Hendrick’s Chapel at the Holodomor took the lives of over a mil- the Soviet regime. Syracuse University, where they commemorated the victims of the Holodomor. lion children under the age of 10, in addition Without adequate nutrition, the human body can sustain itself for up to 70 days, Dr. daily output flour to the newly appointed Buniak explains in a new Holodomor docu- superintendents. Knowing he would not be mentary, “When We Starve.” Watching oth- able to feed his family of 10 through the ers die of hunger is also an immensely trau- winter, Lida’s father was able to salvage matizing psychological experience that some of the grain by digging a makeshift often gets transmitted onto the next gener- storage space underneath their house. By ations. Long surrounded by the culture of night, the family would grind a few handfuls silence, it is imperative to remember the of grain by hand, and bake an improvised Holodomor by paying tribute not only to bread to get the family through the day. That those who perished, but also to the survi- winter, Lida found her neighbors, a family of vors, whose testimonies of this unspeak- nine, unable to leave their house, dying of able crime will forever keep this event in starvation – so, she visited them every day our collective memory. to share some of the bread. Two of the neighbors had perished, but seven others A grandmother’s recollections gradually regained their strength and made Growing up, this writer associated the it through the winter. In the most precarious Holodomor with her great grandmother of circumstances, people were helping each Lida – my only living relative who survived other survive – leaving a legacy of coopera- it while being a college student. Coming tion and care that could not be destroyed by from a small village in Poltava Oblast, she the Soviet regime. never talked about it; she agreed to share Bread is not only a staple food – it has her daunting memories of collectivization enormous symbolic importance in the only once, at my father’s request. Ukrainian culture. Just like the vyshyvanka, Adriana Buniak (left) reads the names of the 85 children who perished in Holodomor, In the fall of 1932, her father, who owned as Pat Burak (right) tolls the bell. a mill, was made to surrender all of their (Continued on page 19)

Mazurkevich, chair of the Philadelphia Holodomor PHILADELPHIA Committee, spoke about the horrors of the Holodomor. Msgr. Peter Waslo led the attendees in by Ulana Baluch Mazurkevich prayer and mournful song for the victims. The dramatic part of the commemorative ser- JENKINTOWN, Pa. – On Thursday, October 4, vice began when the president of Manor College, the Philadelphia community joined the global Jonathan Peri, lit the Candle of Remembrance. The Ukrainian community in lighting a candle to assembled guests and students then laid stalks of remember the victims who perished in the geno- wheat by the candle and solemnly proceeded to cidal Famine of 1932-1933. This year’s commem- read 85 names and ages of children who perished orative action was dedicated to the children who in the Holodomor. died in the Holodomor. The event was covered by the TV station WPVI, The commemoration took place at Manor an affiliate of ABC. College at the Ukrainian Heritage Museum. Dean of The commemoration was organized by Manor Academic Services Nicholas Rudnytzky welcomed College and the Philadelphia Holodomor Emily Carroll the assembled guest and students. Ulana Committee. Participants of the Candle of Remembrance ceremony.

Jonathan Peri, president of Manor College, lights the Candle of Remembrance. Stalks of wheat with attached names and ages of children who perished in the Holodomor. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 No. 42 No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 19

October 24 Docent-led tour of Ukrainian Heritage Center of October 28 Fund-raiser, Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, New Haven, CT New Haven, Ethnic Heritage Center, St. Michael the Chicago Ukrainian Cultural Center, 800-599-3671 or Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church, 203-269-5909 or [email protected] [email protected] October 28 Commemorative program, “Holodomor: Our History, October 25 Presentation by Richard Cooke, “Aging in Place,” Habitat Minneapolis, MN Our Stories,” with keynote speaker Sophia Isajiw, Whippany, NJ for Humanity, Carpe Diem Club, Ukrainian American Ukrainian American Community Center, 612-71-2024 Cultural Center of New Jersey, [email protected] or [email protected]

October 26 Performance, “Variaty” Ukrainian American Cultural November 1 Presentation by Bohdan Vitvitsky, “The Rule of Law, Whippany, NJ Center of New Jersey, www.moloko.us New York Corruption and Ukraine,” Columbia University, 212-854-4697 or [email protected] October 26-28 Halloween weekend festivities, Soyuzivka Heritage Kerhonkson, NY Center, www.soyuzivka.com November 3 85th anniversary celebration, Syracuse Ukrainian National Syracuse, NY Home, 315-478-9272 October 27 70th anniversary banquet, World Federation of Jenkintown, PA Ukrainian Women’s Organizations, Ukrainian November 3 Fund-raiser gala, Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center, [email protected] Palatine, IL Byzantine Catholic Church, [email protected] October 27 Halloween masquerade dance, with music by The Pulse Warren, MI Band, Ukrainian Cultural Center, 585-757-1278 or November 3 Fund-raising dinner and show, Iskra Ukrainian Dance [email protected] Whippany, NJ Ensemble, with musical guests Lilia and Alex Chudolij, Innesa Tymochko Dekajlo and Oles Kuzyszyn, Ukrainian October 27 Concert, “Crossroads of Song,” Canadian Bandurist American Cultural Center of New Jersey, 201-317-8518 or Sudbury, ON Capella, S. Andrew’s Place, [email protected] or www.iskradance.weebly.com http://banduristy.com/upcoming-events November 3 Ukrainian Harvest Dinner and Dance, Knights of Columbus October 27 Halloween celebration, Ukrainian Institute of America, Ottawa St. Vladimir the Great Council 9557, St. John the Baptist New York 212-288-8660 or www.ukrainianinstitute.org Ukrainian Catholic Shrine hall, 613-830-7787

October 27 Presentation by Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, “Letters from November 3 Ukrainian Brazilian Festival, “Vesillya Festival,” Barnsdall New York the ‘Old Country’: Understanding Ukrainian Trans-Atlantic Los Angeles, CA Art Park, 323-644-6296 Family Correspondence in the 20th Century,” Shvechenko Scientific Society, 212-254-5130 November 4 Fund-raiser, Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, New York Lotte New York Palace, [email protected] or 800-599-3671 October 27 Gallery talk with Alexander Motyl and James Warchola, New York “Andy Warhol: Endangered Species,” The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 or www.ukrainianmuseum.org Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions October 28 Commemorative literary evening honoring poet Bohdan from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors New York Rubchak, Shevchenko Scientific Society, 212-254-5130 and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected].

85th anniversary...  e Ukrainian American Bar Association (Continued from page 16) is proud to announce its on her shoulders and tears in her eyes, slowly read the names of a selected small group of 85 children from the millions of 41st Annual Conference Ukrainians killed during the Holodomor. to be held in the The evening ceremony concluded with the Washington area Ukrainian choir Spiv Zhyttya singing “Svicha” and a moment of Longworth House O ce Building silence. The Washington ceremony was 15 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. part of an 85-day remembrance journey that began September 1 in Kyiv at the Friday and Saturday, November 9-10, 2018 National Museum Holodomor Victims Memorial and is planned to conclude there – after crossing five continents – on US-UKRAINE: November 24. Yaro Bihun NEW POLICIES, STRATEGIES AND LESSONS FROM THE PAST The Ukrainian Embassy noted that in Standing in front of the Holodomor the days preceding the Washington cere- Memorial in Washington during the e public is invited to attend this critical conference focused on mony, similar commemorative ceremonies Candle of Remembrance ceremony with Ukraine and the interplay with U.S./Western security needs in the face were conducted on October 2-3 in Hartford a Ukrainian flag on her shoulders and of unrelenting Russian aggression. American and Ukrainian experts on Conn.; Albany, Kerhonkson, Syracuse and tears in her eyes, Ilona Doerfler slowly diplomacy, economic development, international law and history will Yonkers N.Y.; Miami; and Seattle. reads the names of some of the children provide multi-dimensional perspectives on Ukraine’s current challenges who died along with millions of other and options. Holodomor events in Philadelphia; Passaic, Ukrainians during Stalin’s Holodomor Whippany and South Bound Brook N.J.; genocide in Ukraine. As she was reading and Boston were held on October 4 and those names, a few raindrops started fall- later. ing from the sky. A Banquet will be held Saturday evening, November 10, 2018.

by on the street, wishing them and their KEYNOTE SPEAKER Syracuse, N.Y. families that they never again experience hunger. Some of us are here today because Congressman Andy Harris (R-MD 1st District) (Continued from page 17) somebody once chose to share their bread it accompanies a person through life, being so our grandparents could make it through. Co-Chair of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus. the centerpiece of births, weddings and It is now up to us to preserve this legacy of deaths. Every Ukrainian child knows bread cooperation and care, and not turn a blind All details, including scheduled conference speakers, topics and reserved may not be thrown away – a tribute to those eye to the present-day atrocities committed tickets are available on-line at www.uaba.org. is is more than a who were once denied it in the name of a in the name of the future, no matter how networking event for lawyers. It is an exceptional opportunity for all seemingly bright it may be. “bright future” they would not live to see. concerned members of the public to hear--and contribute--to a vital In my hometown of Ternopil, we remem- bered the Holodomor in November by shar- Olga Boichak is president of the discussion on a burning topic for all. ing a homemade loaf of bread with passers- Ukrainian Club of Syracuse University. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 No. 42

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Saturday, October 27 Chicago. The event will take place at the soci- NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific ety’s building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth Society invites all to a lecture, ”Letters from and 10th streets) at 2 p.m. For additional the ‘Old Country’: Understanding Ukrainian information, call 212-254-5130. Trans-Atlantic Family Correspondence in the Saturday, November 3 20th Century,” by Dr. Natalia Khanenko- WHIPPANY, N.J.: Iskra Ukrainian Dance Friesen (head of the Department of Religion Ensemble invites all to its “Dinner and a and Culture at St. Thomas More College). The Show, Cabaret-Style” fund-raising evening at lecture will take place at the society’s build- 6:30 p.m. at the Ukrainian American Cultural ing, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and 10th Center of New Jersey, 60 N. Jefferson Road, streets) at 5 p.m. For additional information Whippany, NJ 07981. The evening will call 212-254-5130. include a delicious buffet dinner and enter- Saturday, October 27 tainment by Iskra, along with musical guests Lilia and Alex Chudolij, Innesa Tymochko NEW YORK: Join us at 7 p.m. for a gallery Dekajlo and Oles Kuzyszyn. There will also be talk in conjunction with the exhibition “Andy a basket raffle. Tickets are $65 for those age Warhol: Endangered Species.” Alexander 16 and older, $25 for children age 6 to 16, and Motyl, Professor of Political Science at free for children age 5 and younger. Tickets Rutgers-Newark and author of the novel will not be sold at the door. To order tickets “Who Killed Andrei Warhol” (2007, 2018), e-mail [email protected], visit www.isk- will be joined by James Warhola, author and radance.weebly.com or call 201-317-8518. illustrator of the children’s book “Uncle Andy’s: A Faabbbulous Visit with Andy Saturday-Sunday, November 10-11 Warhol” (2003), for an informal talk about ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.: The 38th annual the artist Andy Warhol, who, as it happens, Ukrainian AutumnFest will be held at was James’ uncle. Tickets should be ordered Epiphany of Our Lord Ukrainian Catholic in advance online. Admission (includes gal- Church at 434 90th Ave. N., St. Petersburg, FL lery access and light reception): $15; $10 for 33702 on Saturday from noon to 7 p.m. and museum members and seniors; $5 for stu- Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The festival dents. The Ukrainian Museum is located at will feature authentic Ukrainian food (bor- 222 E. Sixth St.; telephone, 212-228-0110; shch, holubtsi, varenyky and potato pan- website, www.ukrainianmuseum.org. cakes – all available for take-out), Ukrainian Sunday, October 28 beer, Ukrainian arts and crafts, vendors, church tours, children’s rides and games, NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific music for dancing both days by Cathy and Subscribe to Society invites all to an event commemorating the Lorelei Band, and dance performances Bohdan Rubchak (1935-2018), a well-known by the Kalyna Ukrainian Dancers. A silent Ukrainian poet, scholar, literary critic, member auction and raffle will be held on Sunday. For of the New York Group of Poets and professor- information call 727-576-1001 or 727-576- The Ukrainian Weekly emeritus at the University of Illinois at 0400, or e-mail [email protected]. $90 per year For an additional $5 get an online subscription PREVIEW OF EVENTS GUIDELINES $80 for UNA members as well. Preview of Events is a service provided at minimal cost ($20 per listing) by The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian community. Items should be no more than 100 words long. Preview items must be received no later than one week before the desired date of publication. Please include payment for each time the item is to appear and indicate date(s) of issue(s) in Please contact Subscription Dept. Tel.: 973-292-9800 ext. 3040 which the item is to be published. Information should be sent to: [email protected].

ukrainian national Association inc. will host a presentation “OppOrtunities with unA” Thursday November 1, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center 700 N. Cedar Rd. COFFEE Jenkintown, PА 19046 HOUR sponsored by UNA The presentation will be attended by Philadelphia district Yuriy Symczyk UNA National Secretary UNA Philadelphia District fall organizing meeting Myron Kolinsky will follow the presentation UNA National Organizer