INSIDE: • NATO resumes full relations with Russia – page 2. • Nalyvaichenko at the helm of Ukraine’s SBU – page 3. • Gateways to the afterlife – page 16.

THEPublished U byKRAINIAN the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW associationEEKLY Vol. LXXVII No.12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 $1/$2 in Ukraine Ternopil Oblast Council elections Experts focus on U.S. relations held despite attempts to derail them with Russia and Ukraine by Zenon Zawada PARSIPPANY, N.J. – A bipartisan Gary Hart (D-Colo.) and Chuck Hagel Kyiv Press Bureau commission of experts on March 16 (R-Neb.). Members of the panel include: released a report recommending that the Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser KYIV – In defiance of attempts by Prime new U.S. administration review its rela- to Presidents Gerald Ford and George Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to derail the tions with Russia and reconsider its sup- H.W. Bush; Robert C. McFarlane, nation- March 15 pre-term elections to the Ternopil port of NATO membership for Ukraine al security adviser to President Ronald Oblast Council, a majority of eligible voters and Georgia. Reagan; former Sen. Sam Nunn, a came to the polls and cast the most votes, or The report came a little over two weeks Democrat; and Lee H. Hamilton, a 35 percent, for the Svoboda All-Ukrainian before President Barack Obama prepares Democrat and former chairman of the Union, Ukraine’s leading nationalist force. to meet with Russian President Dmitry House Foreign Affairs Committee. Though the election held minimal conse- Medvedev on April 2 in London, during a “Engaging Ukraine” quences, even on a local level, it carried summit of the Group of 20 industrialized enormous symbolic value, drawing compar- and developing states. At about the same time, the Brookings isons with the 2004 Mukachiv mayoral elec- Brian Knowlton of The International Institution issued a report titled “Engaging tion in which the presidential administration Herald Tribune wrote on March 16 that Ukraine in 2009.” Its authors are: Steven of Leonid Kuchma sabotaged the vote as the commission recommended the Obama Pifer, visiting fellow in foreign policy at part of a dress rehearsal for the presidential administration “reach out to Russia in a Brookings’ Center on the United States election that year. number of ways, putting NATO member- and Europe; Anders Åslund, senior fel- The chaos surrounding the Ternopil elec- ship for Georgia and Ukraine on hold and low, Peterson Institute for International tion, provoked by the Tymoshenko Bloc, not taking ‘a new look’ at the planned missile Economics; and Jonathan Elkind, non- only reflected its desperation amidst falling shield in Eastern Europe, possibly even resident senior fellow on energy security popularity to win at all costs – particularly Zenon Zawada collaborating with Moscow on it.” issues at Brookings. Mr. Pifer is also a by trying to cancel the vote just 12 days Oleh Tiahnybok, leader of Svoboda. former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Dr. before it was to take place – but also signi- Not ready for NATO Aslund has served as an economic advi- fied the potential for similar mayhem in the ry election last year, but it didn’t work this Significantly, the report recommended sor to the government of Ukraine in January 17, 2010, presidential election. time because they were alone and practically that the Obama administration should 1994-1997 and has written extensively “It was a whole series of mistakes for the had no allies,” he added. “accept that neither Ukraine nor Georgia about Ukraine. Tymoshenko Bloc – starting from provoking Despite denials from the Tymoshenko is ready for NATO membership” but that The policy paper – No. 13 in the the election by blocking the work of the Bloc of the election’s legitimacy and court it should also work with NATO allies to Foreign Policy Paper Series – was pre- [Ternopil] Oblast Council, and then trying to decisions in its favor, most influential insti- find other ways “to demonstrate a com- sented on March 17 at the Washington- based public policy organization. cancel the election unsuccessfully,” said tutions have recognized its results, including mitment to their sovereignty.” It said the In its introduction and summary, the Volodymyr Fesenko, board chairman of the the Presidential Secretariat, the Verkhovna U.S. does not now have “a compelling Penta Center for Applied Political Research security interest” in NATO membership paper notes: “Ukraine and Ukrainians Rada, the Party of Regions and the will be tested over the course of 2009. in Kyiv, which is financed by political cli- Committee of Voters of Ukraine, the coun- for either country. ents. The 30-page report was pepared by a The global financial and economic crisis “They stopped the pre-term parliamenta- (Continued on page 18) panel headed by two former senators, already has provoked a deep recession and falling living standards. Kyiv will need to make a real effort to strike a bal- ance between integration into Europe and the Euro-Atlantic community and main- Yushchenko nominates Shamshur as foreign affairs minister taining stable relations with Russia. by Zenon Zawada “The coalition deputies are con- Doing so will not be easy, as Russia Kyiv Press Bureau cerned that Bankova [the presiden- regards Ukraine’s pro-Western policy as tial administration] expresses its bla- inimical to Russian interests, and KYIV – President Viktor tant disrespect to the nation’s highest Ukraine’s politics are subject to influence Yushchenko on March 17 nominated legislative organ, elected by the from Moscow. In particular, Ukraine must Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.S. Ukrainian people,” said a March 17 address its energy security situation, Oleh Shamshur to replace the ousted coalition statement, issued after where it remains vulnerable to Russian Volodymyr Ohryzko as Ukraine’s President Yushchenko ignored the pressure.” foreign affairs minister, rejecting the nomination of Mr. Tarasyuk without The paper points out that “Ukraine is de facto parliamentary coalition’s offering an explanation. the most democratic state in the post- support for Borys Tarasyuk. President Yushchenko is unlikely Soviet space, and its domestic debate is Just hours after President to nominate Mr. Tarasyuk because vibrant and open, but its politics are high- Yushchenko announced the nomina- he led the majority of the Our ly dysfunctional.” It goes on to urge the tion of Dr. Shamshur, a diplomat Ukraine parliamentary faction in Obama administration to resist the temp- who favors Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic breaking allegiance with the tation “to wait for the leadership in Kyiv integration, the pro-Russian Party of Presidential Secretariat in December to get its act together, given how divided Regions of Ukraine declared its and aligning with Prime Minister it is,” adding “Washington does not have opposition. Tymoshenko to form the de facto the luxury of waiting; absent strong U.S. It remained unclear whether Coalition for National Development, engagement, the situation in Ukraine will Ambassador Shamshur’s nomina- Stability and Order. likely worsen and require greater tion would eventually gain the sup- The coalition doesn’t have a American attention at a future point.” majority and exists only because the The paper’s authors write that port of the de facto coalition – con- president still chooses not to enforce “Washington should focus on four areas.” sisting of the Yulia Tymoshenko his September 2008 decree dismiss- Following are excerpts of the report’s Bloc, the Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc ing Parliament. outline of those areas. and a slight majority of Our Ukraine Meanwhile two days after Yaro Bihun • Structure a bilateral dialogue to have deputies – which submitted its nomi- Ambassador Shamshur’s nomina- maximum influence with Ukraine’s lead- nation of Mr. Tarasyuk, who once Ambassador Oleh Shamshuk, President Viktor held the post, on March 6. (Continued on page 19) Yushchenko’s nominee for minister of foreign affairs. (Continued on page 19) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 No. 12 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS

NATO resumes full-fledged relations SBU director cites priorities Ukraine-U.S. consultations slated KYIV – Reporting to the Verkhovna KYIV – Ukraine-U.S. consular consul- with Russia after nine-month suspension Rada on March 17, Valentyn tations will be held on March 24 in Nalyvaichenko, the chief of the Security Washington. The Ukrainian delegation by Vladimir Socor European governments have developed sep- Service of Ukraine (SBU), said prevent- will be headed by Vice Minister of arate bilateral relations with Russia that Eurasia Daily Monitor ing offenses against Ukraine’s sovereign- Foreign Affairs Oleksander Kupchyshyn, often enfeeble allied policies, particularly in ty, territorial integrity and independence the ministry’s Press Secretary Vasyl The ministers of foreign affairs of Europe’s East. A group of five countries – NATO’s 26 countries held an informal meet- are the top priorities of the SBU. The Kyrylych told a briefing on March 16. He said to be Germany, France, Italy, Spain and said the event is significant because these ing on March 5 in Brussels, following the SBU has fulfilled dozens of actions over Norway – took the lead in pushing for full consultations will be the first for the new defense ministers’ meeting in Krakow on the past two and a half years aimed at resumption of relations with Moscow (AFP, U.S. administration. Among the topics February 19 and 20 (see Eurasia Daily preventing such activities. Another priori- February 26, March 4). Meanwhile, both the planned for discussion are the state of ful- Monitor, February 23-24). Both were prepa- ty for the SBU is combating xenophobia, new U.S. administration and NATO sought fillment of provisions of existing bilateral ratory to NATO’s April 3-4 summit. The with growing urgency Russian “coopera- racism and extremism, said Mr. Nalyvaichenko. He also noted that, due to documents on the Consular Convention Brussels meeting decided to resume full tion” to extricate themselves from policy in the context of the protection of the official relations with Russia, effective soon failures on Iran and Afghanistan. the global financial turmoil, the SBU has prepared in-house plans for 2009 involv- rights and interests of citizens and legal after the summit. Consequently, NATO is inviting Russia entities of the two states. The parties will NATO had largely suspended political to resume regular official meetings at vari- ing means of countering the economic downturn. The agency also intensified also discuss the issue of international relations and fully suspended military ones ous levels, starting with a reconvened adoptions and migration visa problems. NATO-Russia Council meeting shortly after work to combat corruption; in 2008 the in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Georgia (Ukrinform) in August 2008. That event challenged the the alliance’s summit. Defending this deci- SBU drew up 183 protocols on corrupt post-1991 international order and continues sion at the March 5 ministerial meeting, actions by officials. Yet another priority Ohryzko appointed to NSDC to reverberate strongly in Europe and NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop for the SBU is countering the activity of KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko Eurasia, although its implications are not Scheffer argued, “Russia is an important foreign security services on Ukrainian on March 17 appointed Ukraine’s ex-For- being fully addressed. global player and this means that not talking territory. In a Financial Times interview eign Affairs Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko The alliance had ruled out “business as to them is not an option” (DPA, March 5; with Roman Olearchyk, Mr. as first deputy secretary of the National usual with Russia” (as the stock phrase Ahto Lobjakas, “NATO U-Turn on Russia Nalyvaichenko said that Kyiv seeks bet- Security and Defense Council of Ukraine went) in August 2008 until Russia abided by Seen as an Embarrassment,” RFE/RL, ter relations with Russia, but would con- March 9). tinue to crack down on “Russian politi- (NSDC). On March 3, the Verkhovna the French-brokered armistice in Georgia, Rada passed a resolution to dismiss Mr. withdrew its forces from internationally rec- This would imply that NATO had no cians” who interfered in the country’s option left; and that Russian military action domestic politics. “Good relations are Ohryzko from his post as foreign affairs ognized Georgian territories, and returned to minister. (Ukrinform) the “status quo ante.” is a cost-free option for Moscow outside when a neighbor does not stretch across Since then, however, Russia has intro- NATO territory, in Europe’s East. It also the fence into your yard,” he said, refer- Six Ukrainians on Forbes list duced thousands of additional troops into implies making amends for “not talking” to ring to Russian support for pro-Russia Abkhazia and South Ossetia, is building a Russia officially for a while in response to political groups in Ukraine, including KYIV – The American business maga- network of military bases there, has recog- the invasion of Georgia. That response was separatists on the Crimean peninsula, zine Forbes on March 11 released its little more than symbolic, but the alliance is nized the “independence” of the two territo- home to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. annual list of multimillionaires. The list now ruling even this symbolic option out, includes six Ukrainian citizens. Among ries, carried out ethnic cleansing of (Ukrinform, Financial Times) apparently without a substitute let alone a the Ukrainians, Rinat Akhmetov is con- Georgians, and bars United Nations, OSCE more effective one. Envoy praises Obama administration sidered to be the richest with a capital of and European Union observers from enter- The ministers agreed that the situation in $7.3 billion (U.S.). He ranks 127th on the ing the occupied areas (unless these organi- KYIV – The administration of Georgia would be discussed with Moscow list of multimillionaires. Viktor Pinchuk, zations first recognize the two territories’ President Barack Obama will support in the framework of the NATO-Russia with $5 billion, is 203rd on the list; Igor Ukraine’s independence and sovereignty “independence”). Council. This decision is meant to demon- Kolomoisky, with $4.2 billion, is 50 num- Nevertheless, NATO is now reverting to strate that the alliance is not ignoring the better than the previous administrations bers lower. Also lower on the list are business as usual and even more than usual issue and will raise it in a dialogue with of the United States, U.S. Ambassador to Hennadii Boholiubov, with $4 billion; with Russia. The reasons for NATO’s turn- Ukraine William Taylor told an audience Kostiantyn Zhevaho, with $3.4 billion; about are both structural and circumstantial. at the National Academy of the and Serhii Taruta, with $2.7 billion. The (Continued on page 22) Some of the most influential Western Procurator’s Office on March 12. He total capital of the Ukrainian oligarchs assured that his country believes Ukraine adds up to $26.6 billion. (Ukrinform) to be an exceptionally important country, enjoying the support of both Democrats Honorary consulate opens in Florence and Republicans, and both the executive NATO-Russia Council to resume KYIV – Ukraine’s Ambassador to Italy and legislative branches of the U.S. gov- meetings in the wake of April summit ernment. (Ukrinform) (Continued on page 14) by Vladimir Socor to be held on both sides of the Franco- Eurasia Daily Monitor German border, is billed as a family affair FOUNDED 1933 for NATO member-countries. NATO has THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY NATO has not invited Russia to the alli- nevertheless initiated ahead of the summit a ance’s summit on April 3 and 4. The event, normalization of relations with Russia. The An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., NATO-Russia Council and other political a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. 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(Continued on page 22) No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 3 NEWS ANALYSIS: Nalyvaichenko becomes SBU chief after two years in legal limbo by Pavel Korduban Tymoshenko or Parliament. Firtash in the media business. Eurasia Daily Monitor Unlike his predecessor Leonid Kuchma, Simultaneously with approving Mr. who had all the law-enforcement agencies Nalyvaichenko, Parliament passed a motion The Verkhovna Rada on March 6 under his control, Mr. Yushchenko, weak- urging President Yushchenko to dismiss Mr. approved President Viktor Yushchenko’s ened by the constitutional reform of Khoroshkovskyi for the raid and for arrest- nomination of Valentyn Nalyvaichenko for 2004-2006, can rely only on the SBU. The ing Mr. Shepitko (Interfax-Ukraine, March chief of the Security Service of Ukraine police are supervised by Ms. Tymoshenko’s 6). Mr. Shepitko was later released, and the (SBU). Mr. Yushchenko’s choice was ally Internal Affairs Minister Yurii Lutsenko, YTB explained its support for Mr. backed by 230 votes in the 450-seat unicam- while Procurator General Oleksander Nalyvaichenko’s nomination by the role he eral body. Mr. Nalyvaichenko was supported Medvedko and especially his deputies gravi- apparently played in Mr. Shepitko’s release by a coalition of Prime Minister Yulia tate toward the Party of Regions. In addi- (Ukrayinski Novyny, March 6). Tymoshenko’s bloc, Rada Chairman tion, the Supreme Court is chaired by Vasyl YTB caucus leader Ivan Kyrylenko said, Volodymyr Lytvyn’s bloc, and the pro- Onopenko, another Tymoshenko ally. “We gave Mr. Nalyvaichenko a chance, and Tymoshenko wing of Our Ukraine – By legitimizing Mr. Nalyvaichenko’s sta- we believe that as the legitimate head of the People’s Self-Defense (OU-PSD), as well as tus, Ms. Tymoshenko should make him SBU he will be fully controlled by and its pro-Yushchenko wing (Ukrayinska more institutionally independent from the report to Parliament.” Pravda, March 6). president. It is interesting that Mr. OU-PSD National Deputy Yurii This was a surprise vote decided by the Yushchenko withdrew Mr. Nalyvaichenko’s Karmazin offered a different explanation for Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB), which nomination on January 18 after submitting it the YTB’s change of heart. According to Mr. changed its mind overnight after threatening to Parliament on January 16 (UNIAN, Karmazin, Mr. Yushchenko was considering to reject Mr. Nalyvaichenko. He had been March 5). First Vice Prime Minister appointing Mr. Khoroshkovskyi as acting rejected by Parliament several times in the Oleksander Turchynov, who is Ms. Zenon Zawada chief of the SBU instead of Mr. past; but since President Yushchenko was Tymoshenko’s right-hand man, opined that The Verkhovna Rada on March 6 Nalyvaichenko, so by appointing Mr. adamant, Mr. Nalyvaichenko headed the Mr. Yushchenko had recalled the nomina- approved the candidacy of Valentyn Nalyvaichenko Parliament prevented the SBU as acting chief since December 2006 tion “in order to have a powerless person Nalyvaichenko to chair the Security appointment of a hard-liner (Delo, March when Parliament approved the dismissal of and not to have an officially appointed head Service of Ukraine. 10). his predecessor, Ihor Drizhchany. It was of the SBU, as the SBU head should be Another OU-PSD deputy, Ksenia probably Mr. Nalyvaichenko’s unclear status appointed and dismissed by Parliament” premises of the Naftohaz Ukrainy national Liapyna, an ally of Mr. Yushchenko, sug- that made him especially loyal to Mr. (Ukrayinka Pravda, March 4). oil and gas company and arrested customs gested that the YTB had changed its mind Yushchenko, who could have dismissed him Mr. Yushchenko submitted the official Taras Shepitko for giving Naftohaz about Mr. Nalyvaichenko because during its as acting chief of the SBU at any time, with- Nalyvaichenko nomination again on March customs clearing for gas that had earlier search at Naftohaz the SBU apparently out consulting either Prime Minister 5, a day after the SBU had stormed the belonged to RosUkrEnergo. Ms. found certain documents compromising Ms. Tymoshenko protested against the arrest and Tymoshenko’s government (www.liga.net, the search, which she alleged were orga- March 6). nized to defend the interests of It has been made clear to Mr. Russian ‘cyber-oppositionist’ RosUkrEnergo’s co-owner Dmytro Firtash Nalyvaichenko that he could lose his post if he does not distance himself from President (Interfax-Ukraine, March 4; see Eurasia Yushchenko. In addition to requesting that Daily Monitor, March 6). forced into psychiatric clinic Mr. Nalyvaichenko dismiss Mr. Russia’s Gazprom, which owns 50 per- Khoroshkovskyi, Parliament also advised RFE/RL in the Caucasus. cent of RosUkrEnergo’s shares, authorized him to change his personnel policy in gener- It has been reported that Mr. Charushev Naftohaz to take that gas from underground al (Ukrayinska Pravda, March 6). ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – An oppo- was forcibly brought to a psychiatric clin- storage facilities in lieu of payment for gas Oleksander Skybynetsky, a former SBU sition activist in St. Petersburg, Russia, who ic on March 7, where a mobile court sat- transit in 2009, according to Ms. deputy chief and current YTB deputy, gave created several online opposition groups on isfied a request by medical personnel to Tymoshenko. Mr. Firtash, however, insists more specific advice, saying that Mr. the website contact.ru was forcibly placed place him in the clinic. that the gas belongs to RosUkrEnergo and is Nalyvaichenko should hire people from the in a psychiatric clinic, RFE/RL’s Russian The leader of the United Civic Front destined for consumers in the European YTB. Mr. Nalyvaichenko is expected to Service reported on March 16. opposition movement’s branch in St. Union. President Yushchenko backed the report on his personnel policy on March 17, Vadim Charushev is an outspoken Petersburg, Olga Kurnosova, told RFE/ SBU’s actions. and it is not ruled out that Parliament will online critic of the Kremlin’s position on RL that Mr. Charushev’s current state of The raid on Naftohaz was apparently dismiss him immediately if he does not heed the Holodomor - the 1932-1933 Famine health in the clinic is very worrisome. conducted when Mr. Nalyvaichenko was Mr. Skybynetsky’s recommendation (Delo, in Ukraine that led to millions of deaths. She said he has lost a lot of weight and away from Kyiv. It was supervised by the March 10). The YTB is already prepared for He also often criticizes Moscow policies looks sick. first deputy chief of the SBU, Valerii that. Just several hours after his appoint- Khoroshkovskyi, an opponent of Ms. Tymoshenko and reportedly a partner of Mr. (Continued on page 19) Paula Dobriansky joins board of directors of Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Quotable notes “Russian officials should like what they are seeing from the Obama adminis- WASHINGTON – Paula Dobriansky is tration… But while improved ties with Moscow are desirable, the Obama team one of three distinguished foreign policy should rein in expectations and avoid the ‘grand bargain’ that some in the United professionals who have joined the board States and Europe have recommended. of directors of the Victims of Communism “The ‘bargain’ is simple: In exchange for Russian cooperation on containing Memorial Foundation (VOCMF). Dr. the Iranian nuclear threat and other strategic issues, the United States would, to Dobriansky, undersecretary of state for varying degrees, scale back its relations with Russia’s neighbors, pause on mis- democracy and global affairs from 2001 sile defense plans and stay quiet about Russia’s deteriorating human rights situa- to 2009; Dr. Aldona Wos, U.S. ambassa- tion. … dor to Estonia in 2004-2006; and Jay “Many questions are raised by such a trade-off: What price would secure Katzen, regional director of the Peace Russian cooperation on Iran? Who exactly is going to tell Ukraine or Georgia Corps in 2004-2009, were welcomed that we have returned to a ‘Russia first’ policy? Does anyone believe that saying aboard by Dr. Lee Edwards, foundation nothing about Kremlin crackdowns on domestic opponents would keep Moscow chairman. on board? And what if all this isn’t enough? Moscow is likely to keep raising the “We welcome these esteemed foreign fee for its cooperation -- in effect, extorting the United States. … policy experts to the VOCMF board,” he “Moscow sees its surroundings in revisionist, zero-sum terms. Russia has tried said. “They add wide ranging experience to maintain a ‘sphere of influence’ along its borders, regardless of neighboring to a board that already numbers recog- states’ desires to lean westward. Moscow is threatened by Ukrainian and nized authorities in every aspect of global Georgian ties with NATO, even though NATO’s eastward growth has been a affairs.” source of stability over the past decade. … Dr. Dobriansky has also been senior “Any ‘grand bargain’ the United States makes with Russia would be viewed in vice-president and director of the Moscow as a sign of U.S. desperation. A major American shift in missile defense Washington office of the Council on policy absent a real retreat by Iran would be seen as a sign of weakness and Foreign Relations and associate director would undercut friendly governments in Warsaw and Prague. Yes, the United States should work with Russia on issues including Iran, North Korea, counter- for policy and programs at the United Dr. Paula Dobriansky States Information Agency. She is the terrorism, arms control and Afghanistan. But both sides must show interest in daughter of Dr. Lev Dobriansky, former Foundation is dedicated to memorializing cooperation; above all, we must not bargain away our relations with Russia’s U.S. ambassador, Georgetown University the more than 100 million victims of neighbors or our own values.” professor and tireless advocate of free- communism and educating the public dom and democracy who founded Captive about the history, philosophy and legacy – “No ‘Grand Bargain,’ ” by David J. Kramer (assistant secretary of state for Nations Week. He was also the first of communism. The foundation will democracy, human rights and labor, and deputy assistant secretary of state VOCMF chairman. launch the first online Global Museum on responsible for Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova in the administration of The Victims of Communism Memorial Communism in June of this year. George W. Bush), The Washington Post, March 6. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 No. 12 Ukrainian Free University celebrates its 88th birthday MUNICH, Germany – At the annual Dies pher and theologian Eugen Biser. The lau- Academicus held on February 4, the datio was given by Prof. Dr. Nicolas Ukrainian Free University in Munich cele- Szafowal, who praised the Rev. Dr. Biser for brated the 88th anniversary of its founding. his groundbreaking work in philosophy and This year’s academic commemoration highlighted the key role that he plays in the took place in the Kardinal Wendel Haus. academic world in Germany. Among the 200 participants were distin- In light of the fact that Rev. Biser was guished guests from German universities unable to attend due to illness, he was repre- and academic institutions; Cardinal Friedrich sented by Marianne Kuester, head of the Wetter, recipient of an honorary doctorate Eugen Biser Foundation. from UFU; as well as bishops from This presentation was followed by the Germany and Ukraine; consular representa- celebratory lecture titled “Theology and tives, and UFU lecturers and students. Science” held by Prof. Dr. Richard The first part of the evening was com- Heinzmann, former dean of the Faculty of menced by the former rector, Dr. Albert Philosophy at Ludwig-Maxmillian Kipa, who in his inaugural speech titled University in Munich. “The Ukrainian Free University: Yesterday, The well-known historian Dr. Orest Today And Tomorrow” gave an overview of Subtelny was the promoter of the second the history of this unique academic institu- honorary doctorate bestowed that evening. A view of the annual Dies Academicus ceremonies. tion, which finds itself at the beginning of a The recipient was Ihor Orest Ian Ihnatowycz new phase of its existence in a new location. from Toronto. Prof. Subtelny praised Mr. This plan was initiated during Prof. Kipa’s Ihnatowycz for his generous deeds as a term of office and completed during Prof. benefactor of Canadian and Ukrainian- Ivan Myhul’s term. Hence, Prof. Kipa sym- Canadian institutions. bolically passed the keys to the new building In his acceptance speech, Mr. Ihnatowych to Rector Myhul, who then thanked the thanked his wife, Dr. Marta Witer, for her guests for their continued support and inter- support of their joint endeavors, and his late est in the Ukrainian Free University. father, who instilled in him a sense of Oksana Noebauer, who spoke on behalf responsibility for one’s environment. of the UFU student body, commented on the Throughout the evening, musical inter- important role the university has in integrat- ludes featuring the works of Bach, Mozart, ing Ukraine, and Ukrainian students, into Dvorak and Skoryk were provided by the European Union. She also spoke of Ukrainian musicians Vadym Sandler (vio- UFU as a unique meeting place for an lin), Svitlana Matviyenko (violin) and Alla exchange of ideas. Boborikina (piano). The highlight of the program was the The official part of the evening was con- presentations of two honorary doctorates. cluded with the singing of “Guadeamus The Senate of the Ukrainian Free Igitur,” and all guests were invited to a Ihor Orest Ian Ihnatowych (right) receives an honorary doctoral degree in philoso- University decided to bestow an honorary reception. Musical accompaniment on the phy from UFU Rector Ivan Myhul, as Prof. Dr. Albert Kipa (left) and Philosophy doctorate on the highly respected philoso- harp was provided by Silke Aichhorn. Faculty Dean Yaroslava Melnyk look on.

President of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy to visit Canada in April-May WINNIPEG, Manitoba – The Canada Pennsylvania, Alabama, Minnesota, institutions of Ukraine, with particular sup- business leaders in Ukraine,” he added. Ukraine Foundation (CUF) has announced Michigan and Arizona. port on the post secondary educational level “Therefore, we have organized this cross- that Dr. Serhiy Kvit, the president of the Dr. Kvit was elected president of – and the support of KMA is one of our cho- Canada tour with Dr. Serhiy Kvit, in order National University of Kyiv-Mohyla NUKMA in 2007, succeeding Dr. sen priorities, because KMA is developing Academy (NUKMA) in Kyiv will be mak- Viacheslav Briukhovetsky, the academy’s the next generation of patriotic civic and (Continued on page 19) ing a cross-Canada tour organized by the first president subsequent to its revival in CUF from April 28 to May 5. 1991 following Ukraine’s independence. The foundation, with the cooperation of Dr. Kvit is one of Ukraine’s most respected National University of Kyiv-Myhola Academy: the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, is orga- scholars in the field of communications, nizing Dr. Kvit’s tour of major Ukrainian journalism and philology. He is the author centers in Canada that will include Toronto, of seven books and numerous other publica- Ukraine’s oldest institution of higher learning Ottawa and Hamilton in Ontario; Winnipeg, tions. WINNIPEG, Manitoba – The Kyiv Soviets, this too was liquidated and the Manitoba; and Edmonton and Calgary, Bohdan Onyschuk, chair of the Canada Mohyla Academy, or officially the National premises were taken over by a military Alberta. The aim of the tour is to promote Ukraine Foundation, explained that “the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy school. the purpose and activities of the Kyiv- foundation’s relationship with NUKMA (NUKMA), is the oldest institution of higher In 1991, with the fall of the Soviet state, a Mohyla Academy as well as to garner finan- goes back to CUF’s own creation in 1996. learning in Ukraine, dating back to the 17th new Kyiv-Mohyla Academy arose from the cial, organizational and academic support Since that time we have supported KMA century. ashes with Dr. Viacheslav Briukhovetsky as for the university’s future growth and devel- through the generous donations of Ukrainian In 1632, two smaller schools, the Kyiv its first president. The school modeled itself opment. Canadians in the order of more than Brotherhood and Lavra schools merged to after North American universities, offering The tour will include meetings with the $600,000.” form the Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium under the bachelor’s and master’s level programs, Ukrainian community, presentations on the “We are now entering into a new phase at patronage of Petro Mohyla, an influential with admissions based strictly on qualifica- university’s current activities and plans dis- CUF – more serious support of the impor- Orthodox theologian and church leader who tions. In 1992, its first year of operations, cussions with representatives from Canadian tant educational, nation-building and cultural became metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych in the school had an enrollment of 529 stu- universities and colleges, and several fund- 1633. dents. This grew in succeeding years to 873 raising banquets. Specific dates and details In 1658, under the terms of the Treaty of in 1993, 1,068 in 1994, 1,496 in 1995, 2,168 will be released within the next few weeks. Haidach between the Kozaks and the Polish- in 1996 and 2,895 in 1997. The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Lithuanian Commonwealth, it was accorded Currently, the academy admits some Academy is the oldest institute of higher official status as an academy. 1,200 first-year students each year and offers learning in Ukraine, having been founded in For the next two centuries most of the a variety of bachelor’s, masters’s and doc- 1632. It is located in the Podil district of intellectual and political elite of Ukraine toral programs under the faculties of human- Kyiv and has a current enrollment of some gained their education in its hallowed halls, ities, law, economics, natural sciences, social 3,000 students. It offers a broad array of including Hetman Ivan Mazepa, philosopher sciences and technologies and computer sci- courses in both Ukrainian and English, and Hryhoriy Skovoroda and scientist Mikhail ences. Instruction is offered in both the is particularly renowned for its business Lomonosov. Ukrainian and English languages. school, regarded as the best in Ukraine. It was acknowledged as one of the lead- One of NUKMA’s most interesting com- It has ties to numerous universities and ing centers of learning in Eastern Europe ponents is the renowned Kyiv Mohyla institutes in Ukraine and abroad, including and attracted students from Poland, Russia, Business School. Formed in 2005, it aspires an active partnership in Canada with the Belarus, Moldova, Serbia, Bulgaria and to be one of the top five business schools in University of Alberta, Grant MacEwan Greece. Central and Eastern Europe. Its MBA pro- College (Edmonton), the University of Following the break-up of the Kozak gram is recognized as the most prestigious Ottawa, the University of Toronto and the state and the imposition of Russian rule, the and valued in all of Ukraine. It has close University of Western Ontario (London), school was closed down by Russian Tsar ties to numerous business schools in Canada and the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg). Alexander I in 1817. In 1819 a smaller and the U.S. and a strong faculty of Western- It also has affiliations and partnerships with theological school, the Kyiv Theological educated teachers. several U.S. universities, among them Academy was allowed to re-open, but was The chairman of the Board of the Harvard, Columbia, Stanford and Johns limited to religious studies with greatly Business School is James Temerty, CEO of Hopkins, as well as the universities of Dr. Serhiy Kvit restricted admissions policies. Under the Canada’s Northland Power Co. 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THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM UNA Branch 13 holds annual meeting Young UNA’ers

WATERVLIET, N.Y. – Members of St. Nicholas Brotherhood Society (Bratstvo) and Ukrainian National Association Branch 13 gather around newly elected officers at the yearly meeting held at the Ukrainian American Citizens Club in Watervliet, N.Y., on Sunday, February 15. Seated (from left) are: Bratstvo Secretary Taras Myshchuk, Bratstvo President Slavko Tysiak (who also is an auditor on the UNA General Assembly), UNA Branch 13 Secretary Mykola Fil (also an advisor on the UNA General Assembly), Bratstvo Treasurer John Suchowacki and senior Bratstvo member Seman Ksenych. – Nicholas Fil Nathaniel D. Malaniak, son of Alexander and Lisa Malaniak of Boise, Idaho, is a new member of UNA Branch 360. He was enrolled by his grandparents Bohdar and Anna Malaniak. The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund: February Amount Name City Kristina Zaluckyj Hugo, MN $155.00 Jaroslav and Vera Forest Hills, NY $15.00 Doris Hladky Hollywood, FL Kryshtalsky Myron Komarynsky Kirkwood, MO $100.00 Oksana Zakydalsky Toronto, ON Wasyl and Stanislawa Stratford, CT $55.00 Raymond Badynskyj Phoenix, AZ Kovach Zenon and Dozia Cleveland, OH Christina Kowinko Stratford, CT Krislaty Zenia Kuzel Rochester, NY Victoria Malick Union Hall, VA W. Lysko Alexandria, VA Stefan Peleschuk Stamford, CT Stefan Nowozeniuk West Mifflin, PA Roman and Chrystyna New York, NY George Rub Belleville, MI Sorobay Wolodymyr Skrypka Gainesville, GA Zenon Stakhiv Fairfax Station, VA Anna Zador Las Vegas, NV Inia Yevich San Diego, CA Ann Zinich Berwick, PA $50.00 P. Luciw Davis, CA O. Zwadiuk Great Falls, VA Zenowij Majuk Capitola, CA $10.00 Michael Bilynsky Hollywood, FL Michael Mulyk Holmdel, NJ M. Chraplyvy Cincinnatti, OH Taras Proch Ellicott City, MD Christine Czyrko Farmington, CT C. Shashkewych Silver Spring, MD Malyna Dziuba West Seneca, NY $45.00 Daria Dykyj Forest Hills, NY M. Hirniak Dulles, VA Ihor and Olya Hron Osprey, FL Stephan and Daria Jersey City, NJ $35.00 Michael Sosiak Curitiba, Parana, Brazil Krawczeniuk Oleh Sydor Glen Ellyn, IL Eustachius Krawczuk North Port, FL Larysa Szanc-Smarsh Astoria, NY B. Marchuk Hinsdale, IL $30.00 Roman and Victoria Warren, MI Christine Matiash Las Vegas, NV Nicholas M. Malaniak, son of Alexander and Lisa Maksimowich Daria Mehrle New York, NY Malaniak of Boise, Idaho, is a new member of UNA $25.00 W. Balko Ledgewood, NJ M. Nazarewycz Phoenix, AZ Branch 360. He was enrolled by his grandparents Mike Bortnowsky Los Angeles, CA Natalia Ripeckyj Eau Clair, WI Bohdar and Anna Malaniak. Ihor and Natalie Columbia, MD Peter Romanyshyn Arvada, CO Gawdiak O. Rybak Berlin, MD Oleh Karawan Inverness, IL Joseph Sachno Flushing, NY Roman Knysh Ellicott City, MD Helen Sager Blairsville, GA Nickolas Kotow Bethel Park, PA M. Stawnychy Silver Spring, MD Ihor Kowalysko Warren, MI Sophie Worobec Chicago, IL D. Kozak Greenville, NC $5.00 Merle and Bonnie Toledo, OH E. Kuchta Houston, TX Jurkiewicz M. Kuzycz Chicago, IL Olga Kernitsky Midlothian, VA Eugene Lylak Rochester, NY Mary Malenczuk Syracuse, NY Oleh Mahlay Hinckley, OH Larysa Pyk Chicago, IL Bohdan Malaniak Glendale, CA Victor Rosynsky Ortonville, MI I. Sawchyn Morristown, NJ Zoriana Siokalo Newtown PA Ola Sawitsky Franklin Square, NY W. Sosiak Colonia, NJ TOTAL: $2,135.00 Gregory Tkaczyk St. Catharines, ON I. Zabytko Apopka, FL $20.00 Michael Drabyk McLean, VA Sincere thanks to all contributors to Maria Dychdala Norristown, PA The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund. Luba Melnyk Elmhurst, NY J. Panchuk Chicago, IL The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund is the only fund Helen Petryshyn Sarasota, FL dedicated exclusively to supporting the work of this Grace Anne “Meetsia” Harvey, daughter of Shawn Roxolana Podpirka Whitestone, NY publication. Harvey and Natalia Borysenko Harvey of Cape Stephan Uzzell Woodstock, MD Coral, Florida, is a new member of UNA Branch 76. Alice Yarysh Rocky Hill, CT She was enrolled by her godmother, Olena Boyko.

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NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Ternopil votes The genocidal Holodomor: The Ternopil Oblast Council elections are cause for both hope and trepidation. Where do we go from here? It was encouraging that 54 percent of Ternopil residents ignored the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc’s attempts to sabotage the election and went to their local polling by Yaroslav Bilinsky practical suggestions. First, let us sub- stations, all of which were reported to be functioning, more or less. Just as Ternopil scribe to the new Canadian journal played a critical role during the Rukh independence movement and the Orange It is eminently fit, to use the English Holodomor Studies. Second, let us agree Revolution, its residents again proved that democracy, when it works right, is neces- word, or propre, in French, that, under the in advance on the inscription on the sary for a healthy society because it places the greater need above the whims and weight of new evidence, Nicolas Werth has Famine-Genocide Memorial in desires of any single individual or interest group. changed his old judgment and in 2008 pub- Washington. Hopefully the lesson Yulia Tymoshenko gains from this experience is that she’s not licly declared that the Holodomor was The journal’s inaugural issue contains above the Constitution of Ukraine, and needs to play by the rules of the political game indeed genocide. See especially the conclu- Lemkin’s “Soviet Genocide in the instead of making them up as she goes along. sion of his keynote speech at Harvard’s Ukraine.” The article itself and the entire Like the Mukachiv mayoral election in 2004, the Ternopil election was viewed as a Holodomor conference” (The Ukrainian journal is edited by Montreal historian litmus test for the next presidential election. In a number of ways, it was quite reveal- Weekly, Sunday, March 1) “…[T]he answer Roman Serbyn. Dr. Serbyn has been ing of what lies ahead. Significantly, Ternopil was the only Halychyna oblast that the to the question, ‘Was the Holodomor a working in Ukrainian archives and has Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB) won in the 2006 parliamentary election; now it’s the first genocide?’ can only be a resounding ‘yes.’ ” inherited the role of the prematurely Halychyna oblast to reject her. Since Dr. Werth, the author or co- deceased Dr. James E. Mace. Dr. Werth, While the true result for the Tymoshenko Bloc won’t ever be known, given that the author of 14 books on the history of the in his keynote address, has been very bloc asked Ternopil residents to avoid the election, it’s clear that its support has Soviet Union, is the research director of complimentary toward Dr. Serbyn, who declined significantly, particularly in western Ukraine. Ms. Tymoshenko’s lukewarm the Institute for Contemporary History graduated from the Sorbonne. support for Georgia in the South Ossetian war, followed by deal-making with Russian (IHTP) of the highly respected National The Holodomor monument, which will Prime Minister Vladimir Putin behind President Viktor Yushchenko’s back, clearly Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in soon be built in a prime location in irritated western Ukrainians. Paris, his scholarly conversion will help Washington will, ideally, carry the In its desperation, the bloc showed a complete lack of composure and sense of per- to convince honest intellectuals in inscription: “For the 10 million victims of spective, resorting to Orwellian arguments in defending its sabotage. “Elections took Europe. But since most of the Russian the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide place in the Soviet Union,” argued YTB National Deputy Andrii Shevchenko during intellectuals, with only a few exceptions (Holodomor) of 1932-1933, from the the “Shuster Live” program. “Elections occurred in North Korea recently. The simple – as, for instance, Dr. Yelena Bonner Government of Ukraine, with the assis- fact of elections says nothing.” Sakharov, the widow of Academician tance of United States Congress and the Yes, Mr. Shevchenko, perhaps those totalitarian governments did hold elections, Andrei D. Sakharov, and Sakharov’s asso- Ukrainian American Community.” The albeit restricting the candidates to Communist Party members. But canceling elections ciate Dr. Sergey Kovalev – have opted for text in bold letters is non-negotiable, a 12 days before they’re to be held, just because the prime minister doesn’t like the Eurasia rather than Europe, they will fol- sine qua non, because it was the U.S. anticipated outcome, is a demonstration of despotism in its own right. low Dr. Werth’s path only “when shrimps Congress itself that had authorized the How far President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko have fallen will learn to whistle,” or, in plain English: building of a monument for Ukrainian from four years ago when voters were ready to give their lives on their behalf. Having never! Famine-Genocide. done nothing to fulfill the promises made on Independence Square during the Orange I was pleased that Dr. Werth cited, as The italicized word Holodomor, though Revolution, Our Ukraine is now extinct, while the Tymoshenko Bloc is far off its 2007 evidence, Stalin’s public statement that well-known to many Ukrainians in peaks. The failure of the Orange forces to provide any leadership has driven voters to “the Ukrainian peasant question... was, Ukraine, could perhaps be omitted. It the nationalists in their increasingly desperate attempt to find politicians that will rep- ‘in essence, a national question, the peas- must not however, be substituted for resent their interests and stand up to the oligarchs who have done little to improve ants constituting the principal force of the Famine-Genocide, because for many their lives. And it’s not that Ternopil residents are exceptionally keen on nationalism, national movement.’ ” Americans the word Holodomor is still a as polls revealed any party led by Arseniy Yatsenyuk would have earned many of their It was a Holodomor survivor and question-mark. It is definitely not a good votes had he competed. That’s what democracy is supposed to be about – offering new Ukrainian publicist, the late Vasyl I. idea to put question-marks on important politicians a chance to clean up government when the old ones fail. Hryshko, in his 1983 book “The monuments. Peacefully elected nationalists are certainly preferable to the gangs of thugs with Ukrainian Holocaust of 1933,” who first The figure of 10 million was suggested shaven heads that stormed Mukachiv polling stations in 2004, stealing voting proto- drew our attention to Stalin’s very reveal- by Ukrainian President Viktor cols and beating up those opposed to former President Leonid Kuchma. Thousands of ing statement. Hryshko’s book was Yushchenko himself. It was used in a votes were trashed and the new mayor was declared the next day without a proper financed by the survivors’ Bahriany very successful 75th anniversary com- tally or adherence to election procedures. Foundation. Robert Conquest then picked memoration in downtown Philadelphia by In the Ternopil elections, the most serious accusations involved falsifying votes in up Hryshko’s discovery in his minor mas- the Ukrainian community of greater favor of Single Center and the Party of Regions, which was also reported to have been terpiece of 1986, “The Harvest of Sorrow: Philadelphia and their American friends. involved in buying votes. Aside from the Friday the 13th brawl at the Zbruch printing Soviet Collectivization and the Terror Furthermore, I agree with a letter to the house, no significant incidents of physical violence or threats were reported. Famine.” So did others. Editor of The Ukrainian Weekly “Re: the If nothing else, that’s a definite sign of progress since the Kuchma days. Even more important for Dr. Werth’s number of Famine deaths” (Sunday, conversion was a posthumously published January 11, p. 4), by Myroslaw Prytulak, study written in 1953 by none other than of Windsor, Ontario. In his words: “… Raphael Lemkin. It was Lemkin who had [T]he obviously rational, credible and March coined the term genocide. Lemkin was convincing estimate of the number of Turning the pages back... also the spiritual father of the 1948 U.N. Ukrainians who were starved to death in Convention on Genocide. the 1932-1933 Famine-Genocide appears 25 Where do we go from here? I offer two to be 10 million – especially in the Ten years ago, on March 25, 1999, Vyacheslav Chornovil, a absence of other possible catastrophes Verkhovna Rada national deputy, leader of the Rukh Party and a Dr. Yaroslav Bilinsky is the author of between the censuses of 1926 and 1937 1999 former Soviet political prisoner, was killed in a collision involving the books “The Ukraine: The Second that could have resulted in such an enor- his Toyota and a Kamaz tractor-trailer truck. He was 61. Soviet Republic After World War II” mous number of deaths.” The accident occurred just before midnight near the village of (1964) and “Endgame in NATO’s In a nutshell, the estimate rests on a Horodysche, on the Boryspil-Zolotonoshna highway near Boryspil International Airport, Enlargement: The Baltic States and comparison of the number of Ukrainians outside of Kyiv. Mr. Chornovil and his driver were killed instantly, but his press secretary, Ukraine” (1999) and numerous profes- in the entire USSR in 1926 and 1937. In Dmytro Ponomarchuk, was hospitalized with serious injuries. In a separate vehicle follow- sional articles, the latest of which is “The 1926 there were 31 million Ukrainians, in ing Mr. Chornovil was Hennadii Udovenko, the former minister of foreign affairs, whom Holodomor-Genocide of 1932-1933 and 1937 there were only 26 million. Between the Rukh Party supported as a presidential candidate. Ukrainian Independence,” The Ukrainian those two censuses, the entire population Mr. Chornovil wrote the book “Lykho z Rozumu” (The Misfortune of Intellect), pub- Quarterly, Vol. LXVI, Nos. 1-2, Spring- of the USSR increased by 17 percent. lished in English as “The Chornovil Papers,” chronicling the secret trials of Ukrainian intel- Summer 2008. He is professor emeritus Had ethnic Ukrainians kept pace with the lectuals by the Soviets in 1965-1966. He was imprisoned in 1972 for his work as editor of of political science and international average population increase, their number the underground journal Ukrayinskyi Visnyk (The Ukrainian Herald). In 1979 he became a relations, University of Delaware, and in 1937 would have been 36.3 million member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, and in 1988 he became a founding member of the can be reached at [email protected]. and not 26 million. Ukrainian Helsinki Union. Mr. Chornovil was a founding member of the Rukh Party that called for Ukraine’s inde- pendence during the period characterized by the Soviet policy of glasnost and perestroika (perebudova in Ukrainian). Prior to his death, Mr. Chornovil was ousted as leader of the MAY WE HELP YOU? Rukh faction at what he described as an illegitimate congress of Rukh. But a separate sched- uled congress of Rukh reasserted Mr. Chornovil’s position as the leader of the organization. Police reported that more than 10,000 people attended Mr. Chornovil’s funeral on March To reach The Ukrainian Weekly call (973) 292-9800, 29, 1999. Ukraine observed a national day of mourning for his passing, and condolences and dial the appropriate extension (as listed below). were sent from the United States and Poland, and their respective diplomatic missions. Some have speculated that the accident in which Mr. Chornovil was killed was politically motivated. Editorial – 3049, 3088 • Production – 3063, 3069 Administration – 3041 • Advertising – 3040 • Subscriptions – 3042 Source: “Chornovil killed in car accident,” by Roman Woronowycz, The Ukrainian Weekly, March 28, 1999. No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

textbooks must be monitored” (March 1), Good news about Dr. Maria Kiciuk pointed out the persis- tent problem of negative treatment of Dr. Shevchenko Ukrainian history in English-language textbooks. Dear Editor: This problem is exacerbated by many This note brings the good news that factors. First of all, in the traditional cli- A nose for the weird Dr. Anatoliy Shevchenko had the prostate mate of American intellectual freedom, cancer surgery performed by Dr. Arnon textbooks are ordered by individual This year marks the bicentennials of not suited for this kind of writing. It was Krongrad in Miami on February 22. (See instructors, some of whom might be unfa- several remarkable men: Lincoln, Darwin, as if Rabelais had tried to become a The Weekly, February 8.) The surgery miliar or biased against Ukrainian history. Mendelssohn, Poe – and Mykola Dante. Moreover, far from criticizing was a complete success and after a few Furthermore, before any book is pub- Vasyliovych Hohol. Born on April 1, 1809, serfdom or autocracy, Gogol considered weeks more of recovery – now already lished, publishers employ anonymous in Sorochyntsi near Poltava, Gogol (as he the Russian state as the ideal socio-politi- underway back in Seattle – Dr. reviewers. In some instances those is generally known) preceded his country- cal order. The didactic “Selected Passages Shevchenko will be able to return to his reviewers clearly express pro-Russian man Taras Shevchenko by five years. from Correspondence with Friends” work in Chernivtsi and expect a long, sentiments. Unlike the serf Shevchenko, he came from (1847) elicited angry reactions from both healthy life. I agree with Dr. Kiciuk that this is a a line of gentrified Kozaks and Orthodox his Slavophile friend Aksakov and the Gifts made to the Jackson Memorial significant problem. In my opinion, it priests. He died in 1852, not quite 43 years liberal critic Belinsky. Foundation fund for Dr. Shevchenko should be considered by Harvard old, nine years before Shevchenko, who Visiting Vienna in the summer of totaled about 30 percent of the money Ukrainian Research Institute and/or the died at just 47. 1840, Gogol experienced a spiritual cri- that was needed. His daughter, Irina Canadian I nstitute of U krainian S tudies. Shevchenko, who chose to write in sis. Spiritual crises are not uncommon Snare, borrowed the second 30 percent Ukrainian and was arrested for clandestine among great artists, of course, and often Ivan Z. Holowinsky political activity, spent a decade in military lead to greater creative heights; one from a friend and financed the final 30 Somerset, N.J. percent with personal credit. While that exile beyond the Volga, forbidden to write thinks of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. But scenario is not ideal, and it will take Irina or paint. Gogol wrote in Russian, though he Gogol could not reconcile his artistic The letter-writer is professor-emeritus spoke it with an accent and apparently con- impulses with his religious convictions. many years to repay the $20,000 total at Rutgers University - New Brunswick. debt, she and her father are extremely sidered it a foreign language. He befriended Around 1847 he came under the influ- grateful for the attention and consider- Alexander Pushkin, gained lasting fame, ence of an uneducated Russian priest ation offered by everyone with whom I and spent a dozen years traveling about the who, by all accounts, deserved the over- spoke over the several weeks I tried to Another ski trip great capitals of Europe. used term of “fanatic.” He urged Gogol help them. In 1828 Gogol moved to the Russian to give up his art and may have been The fund in Dr. Shevchenko’s name at to Bukovel capital of St. Petersburg and served two responsible for the excessive fasting that Jackson Memorial Hospital Foundation years as a government clerk. In undermined his failing health. Dear Editor: remains open and we are still trying to 1831-1832 he published the two-volume On February 11, 1852, Gogol burned collect money – now to help Irina pay the The February 15 issue of The “Evenings on a Farm Near Dykanka,” most of the second part of “Dead Souls.” debt she incurred. We just could not wait Ukrainian Weekly had an interesting containing stories drawn from Ukrainian It is possible that he did not know what any longer to have the surgery take place. piece by Viktoria Varvariv-Markowicz folklore such as “Christmas Eve,” “St. he was doing and immediately regretted While prostate cancer is typically slow- about skiing in Bukovel in the Carpathian John’s Eve” and “A Terrible Vengeance.” it. Ill and tormented by second-rate phy- growing it had already been more than Mountains. She is the daughter of an old In 1834, after nearly obtaining a position sicians, Gogol continued his fasting, three months since Dr. Shevchenko’s ini- friend and fellow student of mine at the teaching world history at the new univer- which was extreme even by Russian tial diagnosis and the stress of waiting gymnasium in Kholm. sity of Kyiv, Gogol took an assistant pro- Orthodox standards, and even for Lent. and worrying was complicating his other- Ms. Varvariv-Markowicz and her fam- fessorship at St. Petersburg. In 1835 he When Metropolitan Filaret (Drozdov) of wise good health. Jackson continues to ily, who now reside in Kyiv, were skiing published two more collections: Moscow entreated him in the name of the monitor the money collected and through (or “katalys’ na lyzhakh,” as the locals “Mirgorod,” including “Taras Bulba” and Church to stop, he refused. He died on Dr. Krongrad’s office ensures that the put it) in Bukovel in December 2008, less the supernatural folk story “Viy,” and March 4. proceeds of the gifts received are used to than a year after our ski trip there in “Arabesques,” which contained the droll Ukrainians naturally tend to favor pay down the debt. It is possible to make March. yet disturbing “Memoirs of a Madman.” Gogol’s early folkloristic works. It is pre- a credit card donation through the Jackson The improvements taking place in Gogol’s experiences in the capital cisely these that novelist and critic Vladimir Memorial Foundation website: www.jmf. Ukraine are often astounding, and I won- prompted a turn away from rural Ukrainian Nabokov found utterly uninteresting. org. Please include the reference to Dr. der if the breakfast buffet also changed themes to urban motifs and the absurdities “When I want a good nightmare,” he wrote, Anatoliy Shevchenko in the section that for the better at the Kozachok restaurant. of the imperial bureaucracy. “I imagine Gogol penning in Little Russian asks for Contribution Details. Ms. Varvariv-Markowicz, who stayed In “The Nose,” a barber opens up his dialect volume after volume of Dikanka Thank you, for your outreach to your with her family in a newer and better breakfast roll to discover – well, a nose. and Mirgorod stuff about ghosts haunting readers on behalf of Dr. Shevchenko’s hotel nearby, which did not exist when The bizarre adventures of the barber, the the banks of the Dniepr, burlesque Jews situation. We are working to identify the we were there, said she preferred its nose and its owner were published in and dashing Cossacks.” (“Nikolai Gogol,” source of every gift that was received so breakfast buffet to the one they had at the Pushkin’s literary journal The 1944, pp. 31-32) Yet, Nabokov also recog- that a proper thank-you note can be sent Kozachok when they stayed at the Contemporary in 1836. That same year, nized what later critics explored more fully: personally by Irina. Bukovel Hotel the year before. Gogol’s satirical play “The Government that even these early writings bear the All donors received receipts and It would probably take someone other Inspector” premiered in St. Petersburg. stamp of Gogol’s quirky and peculiar imag- acknowledgement from Jackson, of than me to convince the management of Low-level bureaucrats everywhere can ination. course, but Irina and her dad want to Kozachok to light the food warmers on empathize with the protagonist of “The In his poem addressed to his country- thank everyone themselves as well. Irina the buffet table which, I suspect, they Overcoat” (1842), the meek government man, Taras Shevchenko says, “you laugh, told me: “I am not sure what inspired so took as an affront coming from a clerk Akakii Akakievich, who enjoys his my great friend, while I weep.” On many people to help us out, but I am very “diaspornyk.” job of copying documents (he even has Gogol’s tombstone appears the biblical thankful and my whole outlook on life his favorites among the letters of the misquotation “Through my bitter word I Orest S. Slupchynskyj has changed. My father is feeling much alphabet) and, when offered the more shall laugh.” But Gogol cannot be regard- New York better, and we never ever stop talking challenging task of putting first-person ed as simply a humorist. Nor was he just a about Dr. Krongrad and the whole experi- verbs into the third person, begs to return satirist attacking social injustice – though ence. In many ways it has inspired my We welcome your opinion to his accustomed routine. his early fame stemmed from that misper- dad to do things differently at his work- From 1836 to 1848 Gogol lived abroad, ception. Soviet critics generally followed place.” The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters visiting Paris, Switzerland and especially the views of 19th-century social reform- Irina also regularly voiced her belief to the editor and commentaries on a vari- Italy, where the sunny climate reminded ers, who considered him a realist. Russian that she would not have been able to keep ety of topics of concern to the Ukrainian him of his beloved Ukraine. In Rome you émigrés focused on Gogol’s aesthetics. going with her pursuit of the goal without American and Ukrainian Canadian com- munities. Opinions expressed by colum- can still see a commemorative plaque Modern critics have stressed the surreal the kind responses she was hearing from nists, commentators and letter-writers are where he lived on the Via Sistina. It is a and the grotesque in his works. But Gogol my contacts with the Ukrainian commu- their own and do not necessarily reflect short walk to the Spanish Steps and down eludes them all. nity in the United States. the opinions of either The Weekly edito- to the Via Condotti, where Gogol would Is Gogol Ukrainian enough for us? rial staff or its publisher, the Ukrainian Surely he was no Shevchenko. Like most Mary Lynn Potenteau mingle with foreign writers and painters at National Association. members of his class, he thought of himself Miami the Caffè Greco. Letters should be typed and signed During this time he worked on his cele- as Russian by nationality and Ukrainian by (anonymous letters are not published). ethnicity. The letter-writer is executive director brated novel “Dead Souls,” in which the Letters are accepted also via e-mail at But let Gogol be Gogol. In his “History of the Prostate Cancer Mission in Miami. hero, Chichikov, concocts a fraudulent [email protected]. The daytime phone of Russian Literature from Its Beginnings number and address of the letter-writer financial scheme rivalling the latter-day must be given for verification purposes. exploits of Michael Milken or Jack to 1900” (New York, 1958) D.S. Mirsky Please note that a daytime phone number Abramoff. The first volume appeared in concludes that no one in world literature Re: monitoring is essential in order for editors to contact 1842. surpassed Gogol’s “superhuman power of letter-writers regarding clarifications or By this time Gogol, not content to be a creative imagination” (p. 152). Read his school textbooks questions. world-famous novelist, had begun to see works. You will not be disappointed. Please note: THE LENGTH OF himself as a teacher and guide for the Dear Editor: LETTERS CANNOT EXCEED 500 moral regeneration of Russia. Tragically, Andrew Sorokowski can be reached at WORDS. In a recent letter to the editor, “School his peculiar talent and temperament were [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 No. 12 UCU Vice-Rector Myroslav Marynovych celebrates 60th birthday by Matthew Matuszak bandura and violin during a slide show of pictures from Mr. Marynovych’s life. LVIV – Like the title of one of his Then Mr. Marynovych talked about his favorite American movies, it’s been a life, often giving examples to demonstrate wonderful life for Myroslav Marynovych. his conviction that “Every element of our Like the classic movie’s hero, he also life is a prompting from God, an attempt struggled through a period of darkness to to help us.” enter a great light. Mr. Marynovych recalled how, as a At times, hope seemed very dim. For a third-year student at Lviv Polytechnic decade he labored in the gulag for daring University, he was detained by the KGB to expose human rights abuses in Soviet and accused of spreading “anti-Soviet Ukraine. In prison, however, he found lies.” The KGB told him he had two freedom in Christ. “The total conversion choices: either cooperate by informing on to Christianity in my case was caused by critics of the Communist state or be what you might call a personal revela- expelled from the university. tion,” he once told an interviewer. “After He went back to the dormitory and leaving the Gulag, I had to analyze the heard students there saying lots of bad nature of evil and its hidden dangers things about then Soviet leader Leonid while witnessing the urgency of kind- Brezhnev and decided that he couldn’t ness.” inform on them. He was expelled. In Ukraine today, he is prominent in A few years later, he was in Kyiv help- academic and political circles as a key ing found the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. Myroslav Marynovych (center), vice-rector for university mission of the figure in the ecumenical dialogue between They did not operate in secret. Ukrainian Catholic University, celebrated his 60th birthday, among other ways, Catholics and Orthodox. He does so from Soon the authorities hauled him in and by playing the role of King Herod in a vertep (Christmas play) that the staff of his post as vice-rector for university mis- gave him an ultimatum. “Either you’re UCU’s rector’s office put on for the students. sion of the Ukrainian Catholic University for us or against us,” they said in a scene (UCU). worthy of the big screen. On January 4 Mr. Marynovych turned “Then I’m against you,” he replied. poets read their works and suggested that world, but you can change the area imme- 60. He waited to celebrate this milestone “Only a young man could say that,” he too should write. Then he heard anoth- diately around you,” he reflected. “You with UCU’s students until after they Mr. Marynovych remarked. “Today, I er political prisoner, Oles Shevchenko, are an instrument in God’s hands.” returned from Christmas vacation on would say: ‘On the one hand... while on recite a poem brimming with hatred for At the end of his presentation, he February 2. The festivities included a the other hand...’ ” The audience burst out the Russians. thanked his wife, Luba, who visited him “vertep” (Christmas play) performed by laughing at his frankness. “How people offend each other with when he was in the prison camp in members of the administration and a “cre- “No one with a sound mind wants to words,” Mr. Marynovych thought. He Kazakhstan, by presenting her a bouquet ative meeting” with the students during go to prison,” Mr. Marynovych explained. came up with the title of the book he of flowers. Then he showed a brief home which he shared some lessons on life. He realized this was a possibility while would write, “The Gospel According to movie in which he, his sister and late As the UCU rector, the Rev. Dr. Borys helping forming the Helsinki Accords God’s Fool.” Throughout his talk to the mother sang a song about a cuckoo. Gudziak, explained in his introductory monitoring group. He and his fellow students he read passages from this book, Father Gudziak encouraged students speech for the “creative meeting”: “Mr. activists considered the threat but con- one of his many published works. and staff to get to know Mr. Marynovych. Marynovych agreed to share with us cluded that other things were worse than Reading from the book, he asked the As Vadym Adadurov, a history professor some lines from his biography… How to prison. They had to continue their strug- audience: “Do we have a feeling that God at UCU, noted: “Marynovych is not a stand up for something when you are gle, he said, because “otherwise we would is saying something to us?” statue on which to place flowers, but a alone... A few years after leaving school, have been ashamed of ourselves. Some Marynovych reflected on how living, breathing authority.” he made some fateful decisions. He was a day, I didn’t want to have to look back “Ukrainians and Jews were, for the first In appreciation, the university present- prisoner at the age of 27.” into the past and say, ‘I was too scared to time, on equal terms in the camps. It was ed him with a rocking chair upholstered In the presence of students and staff of do this.’” the first chance we had to listen to each in red velvet: UCU’s “Marynovych the Ukrainian Catholic University, as well Today, he can look into the mirror and other.” Chair,” the Rev. Gudziak quipped. as young men from Holy Spirit Seminary, feel justified. He then read some conciliatory lines After liturgy was celebrated in the the Rev. Gudziak noted that “there were He reflected on “radical breaks” in his that he had written about the Russians UCU chapel, Mr. Marynovych joined the significant numbers of people involved in life that made it seem “like more than one and, when Mr. Shevchenko heard these, staff of the rector’s office in putting on a the underground Ukrainian Catholic life.” He recalled the hardships in the Mr. Marynovych recalled what his fellow vertep for the students. He played King Church, the Sixties generation, the UPA gulag (1977-1987), as opposed to his rights activist told him: “You know, Herod and, among other actors, the Rev. generation. But the group defending beautiful life now. “Good and evil were Myroslav, after this, one wants to become Gudziak played the Devil. The moral human rights in the 1970s was very clearly before you in the camps,” he a better person.” incongruity between the roles and the small.” explained. “There was tension in the spir- Mr. Maryvnovych was determined that men playing them was cause for comic The Rev. Gudziak challenged the stu- itual life.” he didn’t want “to be a source of further appreciation. dents: “Young people, listen carefully. Mr. Marynovych described how “two harm to others.” Last December, Mr. Marynovych was Think: Am I ready to be a joyful, peace- promptings from God” encouraged him He recounted how, when he returned awarded the Order of Freedom by making witness of Jesus Christ?” to begin his prolific career as a writer in from the camps, the “new generation President Viktor Yushchenko. In January Two UCU students then played the many genres. In the gulag, some Russian encouraged [him] to go into politics. But he received the Vasyl Stus Prize. I never wanted to do that.” The UCU Press is now preparing to “I wasn’t successful in everything,” he publish the first of a planned four-volume admitted. “Some questions still bother me collection of Mr. Marynovych’s essays. today, like ‘How can I influence what’s *** happening in Ukraine now?’” The best we can do, however, is what Further information about UCU (in we are capable of doing where we find English and Ukrainian) is available on the ourselves. “You can’t always change the university’s website at www.ucu.edu.ua.

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You can find UNA scholarship applications on our website www.unamember.com under MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 9 HURI conference breaks new ground in Holodomor studies by Peter T. Woloschuk with Ukraine and the northern Caucuses region. Later, a dispatch guesstimated that PART 2 more than 5 million people have already died in the country; and still later, another CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard dispatch said that approximately half of Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) held the rural population of Ukraine had died.” the international conference “The Great Prof. Wysocki stressed that in spite of Famine in Ukraine: The Holodomor and strong anti-Communist, anti-Soviet, and Its Consequences, 1933 to the Present” on anti-Russian feelings, the Polish govern- November 17-18, 2008. The event drew ment, for a number of political reasons, some 30 of the world’s most noted experts decided to maintain “normal” relations on the Holodomor and an audience of with the USSR, at almost any cost, even nearly 120 scholars, students, diplomats signing a non-aggression pact in the fall of and community representatives. Below is 1932. the second part of the detailed article on “Most telling,” Prof. Wysocki pointed the conference presentations. out, “was that official Warsaw turned a Third session blind eye to the suffering of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Poles in Ukraine. The third session of the conference, From the materials in the official state chaired by Mark Kramer (Director, Cold archive, it is clear that the government was War Studies Program, Harvard University) closely monitoring the reaction of the Prof. Roman Wysocki Prof. Karel Berkhoff looked at “The Mid-Term Aftermath of the Ukrainian leadership and Ukrainian orga- Famine: The World War Two II Period.” nizations to the news of the Famine and “All of the various reports indicated newly incorporated western regions and Roman Wysocki, assistant professor, actually moved to curtail mass protests that in every single village people would famine quickly developed there as well, Institute of History, Maria Curie- when they developed and in Lviv used the quietly talk about the Famine and the hor- resulting in some 369,000 deaths. Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland murder of an employee at the Soviet ror of what they had endured,” Prof. “The Soviet government dealt with this discussed “Reactions to the Famine in Consulate to ban all Ukrainian anti-Soviet Berkhoff said. “Invariably, the topic of new post-war famine in Ukraine in exactly Poland and Its West Ukrainian Regions.” activity. Finally, it also ordered the depor- cannibalism would come up and people the same way that it handled the Great Prof. Wysocki emphasized the fact that the tation of refugees from Soviet Ukraine would point out known cannibals in their Famine of 1932-1933. There was denial, Polish government had a very good idea of fleeing the Famine.” villages. There was never any discussion distortion and destruction of official what was going on in Soviet Ukraine in Karel Berkhoff, researcher and associ- of what caused the Famine and people had records and documents, and the refusal of spite of the sealed borders. The Poles had ate professor, Center for Holocaust and no idea of the offers and attempts to fur- outside aid. Grain exports were made to official representation in Kharkiv and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, Holland, nish aid from the West.” the newly conquered areas of Eastern Kyiv, a well-developed spy network gave an overview of “The Great Famine in “In order to stabilize the country and Europe, particularly to the Balkans and throughout the country with 46 known Light of the German Invasion and restore agricultural productivity, the Nazis Czechoslovakia,” Ms. Veselova wrote. posts, a sizable community of ethnic Poles Occupation.” He observed that the Nazis mandated that no revenge be taken for past “No one officially died of starvation, and living in Soviet Ukraine, and more than 5 knew about the Famine in Ukraine but injuries suffered and often kept the kolk- the records indicate, for example, that million ethnic Ukrainians living within the were not interested in it for anti-Soviet hoz system intact. The Soviets, upon their more than a half million people died of borders of the Polish Republic. propaganda. In fact, during the war, the return, took a similar approach,” Prof. ‘dystrophy’ within a six-month period.” He stressed that “Poles, the Polish gov- Nazis created their own famine in the same Berhoff pointed out. “As a result, the sur- “The government did such a good job ernment and the Polish media were the area, which took an additional several mil- viving rural population was completely in covering up the famine and covering its best informed people in Europe about what lion lives both to provide foodstuffs for the cowed and learned not to talk about the own tracks that no one is sure how many was going on in Ukraine.” He discussed Reich and cleanse the area for German Famine and its experience and its offspring victims there really were and estimates the attitudes of government officials, the colonization. were swept up in the propaganda of the range as high as 2 to 3 million,” Ms. country’s media and social elites, and the Obviously, the German-induced famine Komsomol.” Veselova added. “Not only don’t we know leadership of the Ukrainian minority. of 1942-1944 received no media coverage, The paper by Oleksandra Veselova, how many victims the post-war famine “Although some work has been done in and there was also no mention of a special senior research Fellow, Institute of History claimed, but we cannot even precisely Poland on the Holodomor in the last 20 famine that was engineered by the Nazis in of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences determine when it began and when it years,” Prof. Wysocki said, “only five seri- the city of Kyiv which was seen by many of Ukraine, was read by Dr. Lubomyr ended. The real problem is that the perpe- ous studies and approximately 15 articles as the “village taking its revenge.” Hajda. It dealt with “The Soviet Return trators held power long enough to destroy have been published. We still don’t even A few eyewitness accounts of the and the Famine of 1946-1947: much of the evidence.” know how much archival material exists. 1932-1933 Famine were published and Complicating the Holodomor in “The post-war famine emphasized the Much was destroyed during the second one or two newspaper articles appeared in Retrospect.” fact that the Soviet government was will- world war, but, surprisingly, both official German-occupied Ukraine, but, for the Ms. Veselova’s presentation began by ing to wage war against its own people to and private documents are still surfacing.” most part, there was very little interest looking at developments in the USSR in further its own goals and interests and that “From the material that we already shown by the Nazi-controlled media.The the years after the Holodomor. She wrote the mass starvation of the rural Ukrainian have,” Prof. Wysocki continued, “it is clear written recollections of villagers were that in the late 1930s the government population was both artificial and deliber- that the Polish government as well as the ignored. No attempt was made to inter- moved into high gear in its efforts to build ate,” Ms. Veselova stressed. elites of the country were closely follow- view either witnesses or survivors, Prof. state socialism and set incredibly high Ms. Veselova’s presentation concluded ing developments in Soviet Ukraine and Berkhoff noted. goals for its 1940 five year plan. “Stalin by pointing out that the government con- throughout the USSR. They knew of the A small number of western Ukrainians completely restored power in the [central tinued to use the same tactics in the 1950s repressions, they knew of the Famine, and serving as translators for the German army government] and then turned his attention and 1960s, and the end result was that it at lower, usually non-official levels, they made notes of what they saw and experi- to building up the military at the cost of all basically destroyed its own agricultural even taunted Polish Ukrainians about the enced in the villages of Soviet Ukraine and other sectors of society. Industrialization ability, regularly relying on imports from calamity.” several members of the Organization of was emphasized and the total Soviet econ- the 1960s on. “In early 1933 the embassy in Kharkiv Ukrainian Nationalist (OUN) operating in omy was militarized. There was no one Roman Serbyn, professor of history sent a dispatch saying that 700 people the central and eastern regions of the coun- who could or would oppose this develop- (emeritus) at the University of Quebec at were dying each day in Kyiv alone,” he try gave reports, as did one or two mis- ment,” she noted. Montreal, served as discussant for the ses- added. “Other dispatches indicated that the sionaries. This is all that is currently Ms. Veselova’s presentation then looked sion. He started by suggesting that the pre- Famine was Moscow’s way of dealing known. at conditions in Ukraine at the end of sentations immediately suggest three areas World War II as the Soviet armies swept of future research: further work on the westward. Work norms for the civilian Polish documents; a deeper look at memo- population were increased, and rations ry; and in-depth studies of the 1946-1948 were decreased. At the same time grain famine. requisitions were boosted, new taxes were He raised questions for exploration: imposed and a drought developed. The How many Poles actually fled Soviet rural population was again being Ukraine during the Famine? Why didn’t squeezed. more do so? In addition to Polish records, “Even Khruschev pointed out that there what do the government documents of would be a catastrophe in a letter to Czechoslovakia and Romania, two other Moscow,” Ms. Veselova wrote. “However, countries that bordered Soviet Ukraine, no one had the ability to fight with Stalin.” show about the Famine? What are the dif- Grain requisitions were again increased ferences in the recorded memories done in in July 1946, and within a few months the 1930s, the 1940s, and later of those there was a full blown famine. Eighteen who survived the Holodomor? Are there out of 25 oblasts in the Ukrainian SSR many records of memory of the Nazi- were impacted. At first, hundreds of thou- engineered famine? What are the exact sands of peasants fled to western Ukraine, parameters of the 1946-1948 famine? How because there was food in those oblasts many victims did it claim? What were its and many of them survived as a result. causes and what was its extent? Why did However, within a few months the govern- Prof. Roman Serbyn Dr. Jacques Vaillin ment began the collectivization of the (Continued on page 10) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 No. 12

archives dealing with the Famine, as well HURI conference... as current archival research. (Continued from page 9) Dr. Boriak began with an overview of the Soviet Union refuse aid from the the surviving archival material and empha- Marshall Plan when dealing with the sized the fact that the Archives of Ukraine Ukrainian famine? Was it a sin of omission had already declassified more than 99 per- or commission? cent of its holdings and has made these Prof. Wysocki responded that as far as holdings available to the international he could determine all of the official scholarly community online. records showing border crossings and He focused on the materials dealing with migration from Soviet Ukraine, both legal the period from the mid-1920s to the onset and illegal, into Poland were destroyed of the second world war, describing what during the war. He added that it was clear has survived and what can be used with the Polish government was willing to turn some credibility. He also noted that in some a blind eye to the 1932-1933 Famine in its cases it is known how documents were dis- effort to normalize relations with the torted and corrections can be made for that. Soviet Union and also because it wanted a Finally, he stressed that much material is free hand in its own efforts to pacify and available in the all-union statistical records assimilate Poland’s very large Ukrainian kept in Moscow; in addition, in Moscow, populace. there is an unknown quantity of material Prof. Berkhoff discussed the fact that that is still classified and thus unavailable. Dr. France Meslé Dr. Oleh Wolowyna archival evidence shows that right from “Ukrainian census figures for the the beginning both victims and witnesses 1927-1928 census, as well as figures from tions can now be made of direct popula- tility rate from the 1970s onward, which believed the 1932-1933 Famine was a number of national ministries are very tion losses totaling some 3 million to 4 has only slightly begun to turn around in caused by the authorities. However, accurate,” Dr. Boriak said, “and give us a million. the last few years.” good baseline for making comparisons. because of government prohibitions Dr. Boriak also pointed out that the situ- “The picture is further complicated by The records for the first half of the 1930s, against even mentioning the Famine and ation has been further complicated by the the fact that the size of the territory, as well including the period of time covering the the fact that the Soviets remained in power fact that the perpetrators of the Famine as the population base of Soviet Ukraine Famine, are fragmentary at best and are for the next two and a half generations, stayed in power long enough after the fact changed in 1940 with the annexation of highly suspect. The 1937 census figures at even the terms “Holodivka,” “Holodovka” to shape the evidence as they wanted. lands from Poland, in 1945 with the annex- the end of the period are also problematic and “Velykyi Holod” initially used to “Stalin and the ruling elite of the ation of lands from Romania and because they were systematically inflated. describe the Famine slowly passed from Communist Party deliberately destroyed Czechoslovakia, and in 1954 with the However, it is known that the [census was and altered records in an attempt to general use and the popular lexicon. annexation of the Crimea,” Dr. Meslé falsified by adding] just over a million reshape the historical record and the future Prof. Berkhoff further observed that the pointed out. “Soviet apologists, for exam- people so that these figures can also be writing of the history of the period and long-term consequences of the Famine ple, have consistently argued that the pre- used for making comparisons.” they did so for psychological rather than were a general passivity on the part of the World War II population figures show no Dr. Boriak then talked about the recent pragmatic reasons,” Dr. Boriak concluded. rural population, a lowering of expecta- major impact as a result of the Famine but discovery of some 3,500 death registers Dr. Jacques Vallin, research director, tions and a constant fear of future famines. they fail to take [consideration] the addi- for the period of the Famine in the archives National Institute of Demographic Studies He concluded that this was further rein- tion of the lands and populations taken of the Justice Ministry and said that they in Paris, spoke on the topic “The Crisis of forced by the Soviet prohibition of men- from Poland.” contained information for 4,800 settle- the 1930s: Population Losses in the tioning the Nazi famine, the special famine “It is clear that the population of Soviet ments, or roughly 48 percent of the cities Aftermath of the Famine,” examining the in Kyiv and the post-war famine. Ukraine at the end of 1929 and 1939 is and towns accounting for one-third to one- impact the Famine had in the late 1930s “Even today,” he said, “no one in almost identical yet almost 5 million peo- half of the population. The bulk of the reg- and the immediate pre-World War II peri- Ukraine is looking at the Nazi famine or ple were added to the population base with isters cover the northern and eastern sec- od. the annexations of the Polish territories,” the famine in Kyiv, and very little work is tions of the country, and preliminary inves- “We tried to look at all of the existing Dr. Meslé explained. “Even without any being done on the post-war famine.” tigations show that they list some 650,000 archival statistical data for births and natural increase there should be a differ- Prof. Serbyn concluded the discussion deaths from causes that could be consid- deaths, and using various statistical models ence in the figures of at least 5 million. It by citing a speech given by Rafael Lemkin, ered Famine-related. based on existing archival material from is clear that something catastrophic hap- who developed the definition of genocide He also said that investigations had the 1926 Soviet census, as well as surviv- pened during the decade of the 1930s.” that is currently accepted and used by the begun into the surviving registers for ing records from the Famine period,” Dr. Dr. Meslé then employed a number of United Nations. The speech was given to a births, marriages and divorces to extrapo- Vallin explained, “and we came to the con- standard statistical models used in calculat- Ukrainian audience in New York City in late material from them and said that based clusion that if Soviet Ukraine’s population ing population growth and applied them to 1953. In that speech Lemkin emphasized on the material currently at hand a mini- had developed according to the accepted the figures available for the Soviet that the 1932-1933 Famine was a genocide mum of at least 3 million people died as a European models by 1939 it should have Ukrainian population at the beginning of against the Ukrainian nation undertaken by direct result of the Famine. had a population of 35.5 million. However, the 1930s. She came to the conclusion if the Soviet government. He stated that orders from Moscow the adjusted census figures for the period Ukraine had had a history similar to any of Soviet officials first attacked the intel- ordering the falsification of birth and death show a real population of 30.9 million the countries in Western Europe in the 20th ligentsia, then went on the offensive registers for the period of the Famine, and, which reflects a global population loss of century, Ukraine’s population today should against the Church and organized reli- later for their confiscation and destruction some 4.6 million inhabitants.” be slightly over 80 million inhabitants. gion, and aimed a mortal blow at the have been unearthed in the Vynnytsia and “We found that the existing records She pointed out that, although the gen- farmers and rural population which the Kharkiv oblasts. A March 1934 secret show a spike in the mortality rate in eration impacted by the Holodomor is rap- Soviets viewed as the repositories of folk- Odesa Oblast order warns party officials 1932-1933 as well as a precipitous decline idly disappearing, there are still clear signs lore, tradition, language, literature and that in many cases record-keeping is being in the birth rate,” he said. “Life expectancy of the population anomalies caused by the culture. Finally, the government diluted done by enemies of the people who are for males dropped to 7.3 years in that time events of 1932-1933, and that they were and fragmented the Ukrainian people by deliberately overestimating deaths and period and to 10.9 years for females, and exacerbated by the Terror of the late 1930s, introducing other, primarily Russian, ele- underestimating births, and instructs them the infant and child mortality rates were World War II, the deliberate post-war fam- ments into their ethnographic territories to keep all statistical records for 1932 and incredibly high. We also noted that the ine, and by the ongoing agricultural and and by scattering the Ukrainian populace 1933 secret. Similar instructions have mortality rate for males doubled that of health policies pursued by the Soviet gov- throughout the Soviet Union and Eastern come to light for the periods preceding and females. Finally, we also had to adjust our ernment in the last 40 years of its exis- Europe. By doing so Soviet officials were encompassing World War II, during the figures because we noted a decline in the tence. trying to eliminate a culture and a nation. mid-1950s and again in the 1960s, Dr. fertility rate beginning in the late 1920s In conclusion Dr. Meslé emphasized the They were successful in either eliminat- Boriak added. that coincided with the government’s fact that the 1932-1933 Famine had a ing or suppressing the most significant Many records were deliberately increasing pressure on the rural population greater impact on the Soviet Ukrainian elements of distinctiveness but did not destroyed when the government moved in its efforts to take control of agricultural population than World War II. achieve complete success because they from Kharkiv to Kyiv in 1934; the move production and implement various forms The discussant, Dr. Oleh Wolowyna, could not deal with the total number of was used merely as the excuse for the of collectivization.” President of Informed Decisions, Inc., Ukrainians in the population. destruction of these records. Although the His colleague, Dr. France Meslé, pointed out that, as the picture of the Fourth session archives continued to be purged right up to research director, National Institute of impact of the Famine on the Ukrainian the collapse of the Soviet Union, the bulk Demographic Studies in Paris, followed up population begins to be filled in, additional Session 4 started off the second day of of the records dealing with the Holodomor his presentation and looked at the long- studies need to be carried out to look at its the conference by looking at population had been deliberately destroyed by the end term demographic impact of the impact on education, health and health losses resulting from the Famine and the of the 1930s. It should be pointed out that Holodomor. She began by pointing out the care, labor force, pensions and pensioners. ongoing demographic impact of the trage- these destruction orders were also top colossal challenges faced by demographers Dr. Boriak said that other archival mate- dy. The session was chaired by Dr. Hajda, secret and should have been destroyed. in trying to come to terms with population rial exists which would be useful in further associate director, Ukrainian Research In spite of all these attempts to eradicate changes in Ukraine in the 20th century. research, including the 1927 and 1937 cen- Institute, Harvard University. all recorded evidence of the massive scale “First of all there is the famine and suses of urban areas, as well as the agricul- In the first presentation of the day, of the starvation of the Ukrainian peasant- slight decrease in fertility rates in the mid tural tax records, while Prof. Serbyn sug- “Population Losses in the Holodomor: ry – which Dr. Boriak characterized as to late 1920s, closely followed by the great gested that another area for research was New Archival Evidence,” Hennadii deliberate “archivocide” – archival materi- Famine and the purges of the late 1930s,” the Ukrainian population in the Russian Boriak, head of the Department of al has been found among the all-union sta- Dr. Meslé said, “and these were followed Federation which numbered 8 million in Historiography and Special Historical tistical records in Moscow, in the reposito- by World War II, the collapse of the Soviet 1927 but only 4 million in 1936. Disciplines, Institute of History of Ukraine, ry of the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice and Ukrainian health care system in the 1960s National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in the archives of the impacted oblasts. and ’70s with a precipitous drop in the rate Next week: The conference’s concluding discussed the current state of government Based on these materials, statistical projec- of life expectancy, and the drop in the fer- sessions. No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 11

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Ukrainian Heritage Day Camp Session 1: July 19 to 24 $160 per week per child staying on premises Session 2: July 26 to 31 $200 per week per child staying off premises A returning favorite for children age 4 to 7. Campers will be exposed to the Ukrainian heritage through daily activities such as dance, song, storytelling, crafts and games. Children will walk away with an expanded knowledge of Ukrainian folk cul- ture and language, as well as new and lasting friendships with other children of Ukrainian heritage.

Discovery Camp July 19 to 25 $400 UNA member $450 non-member Sleep-away camp for children age 8-15 filled with outdoor activities, sports, and arts and crafts designed to enhance the Ukrainian cultural experience.

Ukrainian Chornomorska Sitch Sports Camp Session 1: July 26 to August 1 Session 2: August 2 to 8 40th annual sports camp run by the Ukrainian Athletic-Educational Association Chornomorska Sitch for campers age 6- 17. The camp will focus on soccer, tennis, volleyball and swimming, and is perfect for any sports enthusiast. Please contact Mrs. Marika Bokalo at 908-851-0617 or e-mail [email protected] for application and additional information.

Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Ukrainian Dance Camp Session 1: July 26 to August 8 $950 UNA member Session 2: August 9 to 22 $1,000 non-member Directed by Ania Bohachevsky-Lonkevych (daughter of Roma Pryma Bohachevsky), this camp is for children and teens age 8-16, and offers expert instruction for begin- ning, intermediate and advanced students. Each session ends with a grand recital. Attendance will be limited to 60 students. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 No. 12

Don’t miss the Ukrainian Cultural Festival at Soyuzivka July 17-19, 2009

with Special Guest Stars RUSLANA Eurovision winner 2004 in her first North American Festival Performance

GEORGE DZUNDZA of Grey’s Anatomy and Law & Order fame

MASTER OF CEREMONIES*

Stay tuned for more information...

Call 845-626-5641 or visit www.soyuzivka.com Soyuzivka Heritage Center 216 Foordmore Rd PO Box 529 Kerhonkson, NY 12446 Email: [email protected]

* schedule permitting No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 13 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 No. 12 NEWSBRIEFS (Ukrinform) CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS (Continued from page 2) Customs officers seize paintings Heorhii Cherniavskyi opened the KYIV – Officers of the Hremiach cus- TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI (973) 292-9800 x 3040 Honorary Consulate of Ukraine in toms checkpoint of the Novhorod- OR E-MAIL [email protected] Florence that will serve the regions of Siverskyi Custom House found smuggled Tuscany and Umbria, the press service of paintings by modern Italian artists, the Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs State Customs Service press service SERVICES reported on March 6. This is Ukraine’s reported on February 25. An Iveco vehi- fourth honorary consulate on the cle, driven by a Belarusian citizen, travel- Apennine peninsula. The consulate will ing from Italy to Russia via Ukraine was serve as an auxiliary center for the more transporting “furniture and its parts.” than 30,000 Ukrainian citizens living in Among the furniture, customs officers Tuscany and Umbria. (Ukrinform) found 56 paintings, information about which was not indicated in the shipping Japanese to build Ukrainian subways documentation. (Ukrinform) KYIV – A working group considering Wage arrears at state enterprises the prospects for the construction of sub- ways in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk by KYIV – Wage arrears at 280 state Japan’s Sumitomo Corp. has been set up enterprises totaled 104 million hrv, at Ukraine’s Transport and Industrial Policy Minister Volodymyr Communications Ministry. Agreement to Novytskyi told a meeting of the Cabinet this effect was reached during the meet- of Ministers on February 25. He under- ing of Transport and Communications scored that 99 percent of these enterprises Minister Yosyp Vinskyi with representa- are from the defense-industrial complex, tives of Sumitomo. Japan showed the aircraft-building and shipbuilding greatest interest in the construction of spheres. (Ukrinform) subways in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk. The Cabinet of Ministers promised to Lviv most financially stable open the first subway line in Donetsk in KYIV – Lviv has been assigned the time for the 2012 European soccer cham- highest rating of financial and credit sta- pionships. (Ukrinform) bility among all regional centers of Wind power plants in Crimea Ukraine, the city’s press service reported on February 25. According to research KYIV – Ukraine’s PLAN-ECO scien- conducted by Standard & Poor’s, Lviv tific production enterprise, together with was assigned uaA on the National Scale. experts from Germany and Denmark, is The city therefore has a moderately high planning to build two wind power plants ability to implement, in a timely and com- on the territory of the Autonomous plete fashion, its debt securities. Republic of Crimea. This was announced (Ukrinform) PROFESSIONALS on March 10 during a presentation of the company’s program to the administration Banks to undergo diagnostics and experts of the Crimean Council of Driver with a 6-passenger KYIV – The National Bank of Ukraine Ministers. The enterprise is planning to (NBU) on February 25 obliged medium- minivan for hire. locate the stations in the Krasnoperekopsk sized and small banks to undergo a diag- Reasonable rates. and Zhankoi districts. PLAN-ECO was nostic examination with the aim of deter- set up in 2003 for the development and Tel. 973-919-9582 mining their viability under crisis condi- operation of energy-saving technologies, tions. The NBU decided “to oblige banks and the design and construction of energy of the third and fourth groups to carry out facilities using non-traditional and renew- a diagnostic examination at their own able sources of power. Earlier PLAN- expense with the attraction of an auditing ECO was authorized to build three wind firm that has no agreement relations with power plants in the Kherson and Odesa this bank regarding an audit of annual regions. (Ukrinform) financial reporting for 2008, and in com- 300 M hrv for AIDS prevention pliance with the Ukrainian legislation, has a right for carrying an audit of banks.” KYIV – The board of the International The NBU approved a program for HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine (Alliance appraisal of the current and prospective Ukraine) has confirmed its intentions to solvency of banks: medium-sized and invest over 300 million hrv in a national small banks should conclude agreements AIDS prevention program for 2009-2013. with an auditing firm about a diagnostics The alliance will receive around $60 mil- audit as of March 1 and submit a report to lion (U.S.) at the Global Fund to Fight the NBU by April 15. (Ukrinform) AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as part of the sixth round of grants, said Alliance New airlines fly to Ukraine Ukraine Executive Director Andrii KYIV – With introduction of the sum- Klepikov. He stressed the need to spend mer schedule of regular flights, at least the funds, first and foremost, on the MERCHANDISE two new airlines will enter the Ukrainian development of HIV/AIDS prevention air carriers market. As the Transport and programs, because their state financing is Communications Ministry press service under threat, especially amidst the eco- reported on March 12, in 2009 the State nomic crisis. Mr. Klepikov said that the Aviation Administration has approved a GEORGE B. KORDUBA status of the International HIV/AIDS flight schedule for the German small bud- Alliance in Ukraine has been changed Counsellor at Law get air carrier Germanwings to carry out and added that this organization has Emphasis on Real Estate, Wills, Trusts and Elder Law flights on the Cologne-Kyiv-Cologne become independent and has formed its route. In March British Midland Airways Ward Witty Drive, P.O. Box 249 own management bodies – a board and a MONTVILLE, NJ 07045 received permission to conduct flights on supervisory council. He said that Alliance Hours by Appointment Tel.: (973) 335-4555 the London-Kyiv-London route. Ukraine’s strategy would now be deter- (Ukrinform) mined by Ukrainian, rather than foreign, OPPORTUNITY experts. (Ukrinform) 25.4 million visit Ukraine Clinton urges NATO to keep door open KYIV – During 2008, Ukraine was visited by 25.4 million foreigners – 2.3 EARN EXTRA INCOME! KYIV – U.S Secretary of State Hillary million more than a year earlier. The Clinton on March 5 called on the NATO The Ukrainian Weekly is looking increase in travel to Ukraine took place allies “to leave open the door for acces- both due to tourism and to foreigners hav- for advertising sales agents. sion of Ukraine and Georgia.” Speaking ing business interests. The highest num- For additional information contact at an informal meeting of the foreign ber of tourists came from neighboring Maria Oscislawski, Advertising ministers of the alliance’s member-states Russia; over 663,000 Russians tourists in Brussels, she said, “We should contin- Manager, The Ukrainian Weekly, visited Ukraine in 2008. The number of ue to open NATO’s door to European people who came to the country on busi- (973) 292-9800, ext 3040. countries such as Georgia and Ukraine and help them meet NATO standards.” (Continued on page 15) No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 15

his moves, 2.9 percent found it difficult NEWSBRIEFS to say, and 0.7 percent said they do not (Continued from page 14) know. The activity of opposition leader ness trips reached 1 million. (Ukrinform) Viktor Yanukovych of the Party of Regions is not supported by 63.9 percent 78 percent do not support president of Ukrainians; Prime Minister Yulia KYIV – A total of 78.5 percent of the Tymoshenko is not supported by 60.6 It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing on March 3, people polled by the Razumkov Center percent, Verkhovna Rada Chairman 2009, at the age of 55, of our beloved son, father and brother said they do not support President Viktor Volodymyr Lytvyn by 46.9 percent, and Yushchenko’s activity, as reported on ex-chair of the Verkhovna Rada Arseniy March 12. Only 2.5 percent of respon- Yatsenyuk by 43.8 percent. The poll’s Wolodymyr Krywulych dents expressed full support for the presi- sampling error does not exceed 2.3 per- dent’s work, 15.5 percent support some of cent. (Ukrinform) In deep mourning: parents Theodosia and Myron son Michael brother Myron with wife Oksana and son Roman aunts Nadia Bubniw, Theopolda Burka, Xenia Deresz, and Tania Krywulych cousins Luba and Ihor with their families as well as relatives in Ukraine

Memorial contributions may be sent to: St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church 24 Pulaski Street Amsterdam, NY 12010

ВЛОДКО, ВІЧНА ТОБІ ПАМ’ЯТЬ!

Wolodymyr Krywulych

June 16, 1953 – March 3, 2009

The Executive Committee of the Ukrainian National Association regrets to announce to the members of the General Assembly, to members of Branch 266 and to the UNA membership at large that Wolodymyr Krywulych, died March 3, 2009. Mr. Krywulych held the position of branch secretary for over 13 years.

The Executive Committee and the entire UNA membership wish to express their deepest sympathy to son Michael, parents Teodosia and Myron, brother Myron with wife Oksana and son Roman, and the With great sorrow we announce that our beloved husband, entire Krywulych family. Mr. Krywulych will be remembered for his father and grandfather dedication, loyalty and many year of service to the UNA. Dr. JACOB PYSARIW Vichna Yomu Pamiat

passed into eternity on March 3, 2009. He was born October 30, 1910 in the village of Hrushiv, Ukraine.

Funeral services were held on Saturday, March 7, 2009 in Rhode Island

In deep sorrow:

wife – Judy

daughters – Irene Romanelli, Esq., with her husband, Paul – Dagmar Comer – Alena Golding with her husband, Ernest

5 grandchildren – Karina, Mark, Laryssa, Roman, Ernest

extended family in Ukraine

Вічна Йому пам’ять!

Donations in memory of the deceased can be sent to: Orphans’ Aid Society 129 Ridge Road Douglaston, YorkNew 11363 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 No. 12 Gateways to the afterlife: check-ins and carry-ons by Adrian Bryttan When a Scythian king was buried, 50 horses were bludgeoned to death and 50 Who really knows what lies waiting for servants/slaves were strangled. All were us in The Great Beyond? Hovering at the gutted, stuffed and impaled on poles and doorstep to eternity, most of us would prob- arranged better than a window-display at ably deem it prudent to cover all the bases, Macy’s, while mourners howled as they got including some created by our adept fore- stoned inhaling fumes of burning cannabis. bears. In one cemetery on the outskirts of The Greek “father of history” claimed Lviv, modern-day Scythians have been qui- Scythians never bathed in water, but etly but dramatically updating the almost cleansed themselves after funerals in the 3,000-year-old farewell routines of their steam created by throwing cannabis seeds ancestors. It’s no small feat to outshine onto blazing-hot stones. Archaeologists Herodotus’ jaw-dropping histories of these have uncovered over 400 horse skeletons at fierce nomads who traditionally had them- one such large burial mound or “kurhan.” selves buried with their horses, household Intricate gold ornaments and treasures were servants, wives and favorite concubines – buried with the departed, tempting Indiana all freshly killed to spice up the ceremonies. Jones wannabes to plunder and sell many priceless artifacts on the black market. Massive “stone baba” grave markers were erected on the 20-meter-high kurhans. At the Andrew Bryttan archaeological museum in “Stone baba” grave markers outside the Historical Museum in Dnipropetrovsk. Dnipropetrovsk I was assured these nearly seven-foot-high Kharkiv, a park pavilion canonizes Soviet length Mercedes SL 320 two-door open female statues with buff limbs of heroes, including the grim-jawed Lialia convertible. It’s all there in glorious photo- granite like pro wrestling divas Ubyjivovk (Dolly Wolf-killer), with curly etched detail: the gleaming silver metallic on steroids were actually carved locks frozen for eternity and jutting bronze body with five-lug alloy wheels, complete to the true-life proportions of our breasts that could easily pierce the 150-mil- down to the Bosch wiper blades. The lady predecessors. After all, in limeter frontal armor of a German King remarkable background landscape depicts Book Four of his “Histories,” Tiger tank. I rest my case. stylized mountains and delicately leafed Herodotus detailed the peculiar Fast forward to the present. In the trees, along with a dotted highway line on way Scythians met and interbred Holoskivskyi cemetery near Lviv, custom- an engraved winding road that evaporates with a race of Amazons, proba- designed gravestone art is “breaking new into the distance. High-tech Baroque! The bly somewhere near the Donetsk ground” in more ways than one. ultimate apotheosis! Rumors persist that the basin. It seems as if every other recent monu- deceased’s beloved Benz was lowered into Quaint urban legends? Well, ment features a photo-quality engraving of this very plot with Petr sitting straight up in very tall Scythian women have the departed, sometimes in the most unex- the fully adjustable, Nappa leather uphol- in fact been found buried in the pected poses. Artistic flights of kitsch have stered, heated bucket seats... safety belt fas- same riding gear and clothes, and resulted in intricate 3-D sculptures, and you tened, one hopes. bearing the same swords and would be hard-pressed to spot two grave- They say you can tell a lot about a cul- hunting bows as their male war- stones that resemble one another. (The new ture by observing its rituals for the dead. Contemporary monuments from Holoskivskyi riors. Furthermore, facing the monuments are a striking contrast to many How we immortalize our nearest and dear- cemetery near Lviv. Opera Theater in present-day older memorials like that of tenor Vladyslav est is often our final legacy for the living. V. Vladyslavskyi who left his entire head- Our ancestors were the first to domesticate stone blank except for his name and a mere the horse and probably the first archers on THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION eight notes of wordless melody from horseback. The fact that Scythians included Rodolfo’s poignant aria in “La Boheme.”) equines in their burials shows their high Awards and Scholarship Program for UNA student-members By far the most creative Holoskivskyi regard for these animals. As a result, the monument glorifies a Borat look-alike. attending college in academic year 2009-2010 kurhans also served as our first animal buri- Nearly the size of a small barn, this detailed al grounds. mural is embedded with more codes than Animals have always held a special place The UNA Scholarship program for UNA student members offers two programs: ever dreamed by Da Vinci. Well... almost. an Awards Program and a Scholarship Program. in Ukrainian hearts and imaginations. The memorial to Petr Bolatovich Ohli, who Folklore, songs and literature celebrate shed his mortal coil in 1996, is expertly many of them. And, there is more symbol- UNA Awards Program: these awards are assigned by the Scholarship Committee, desig- engraved on both sides. The back depicts a nating a set amount to each year depending on the total amount assigned for the awards. ism, for instance, in the popular song about pastoral scene with a lake, two swans, a The applicant must comply with all rules and qualifications. the marriage of the fly and mosquito than willow tree and a life-size portrait of Petr UNA Scholarship Program: offers special scholarships to active UNA members complet- first meets the eye. When Wolodymyr himself, flashing his Rolex and toasting ing freshman, sophomore and junior years in college. These special scholarships are: (Vlad) Tytla was the chief artist at Walt passers-by, champagne glass in hand. Joseph and Dora Galandiuk; Maria, Demetrius and Olha Jarosewycz; Vera Stangl; Disney for many animated films, one of his But it is the bravura front face of Ohli’s Joseph Wolk; and the Ukrainian National Home Corp. of Blackstone. Each of these most memorable creations was the beloved monument that really takes one’s breath scholarships has special requirements that student applicants must meet. away. Petr proudly stands next to his... full- (Continued on page 22) • Scholarship awards will be granted to UNDERGRADUATE students attending accredited colleges or universities, studying towards their first bachelor’s degree, and to high school graduates entering college.

• Applications for UNA SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIPS or UNA AWARDS will be accepted from students who have been ACTIVE UNA MEMBERS for at least TWO YEARS by June 1st of the filing year.

• Applications and required enclosures must be sent to the UNA in ONE MAILING and be postmarked no later than June 1, 2009.

• Incomplete and/or late entries will automatically be disqualified.

UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC., Scholarship Committee 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054

Please send me a scholarship application for the 2009/2010 academic year.

Name (in English) ______

Name (in Ukrainian) ______

Address ______

City ______State ______Zip Code ______

Tel. ______E-mail ______Petr Ohli and his Mercedes SL 320 memorial at Holoskivskyi cemetery.

Web: ______I am a member of UNA Branch No. ______No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 17

Soccer Portuguese website Futebol Finance. Kyoto Challenger tennis tournament in Figure skating Japan on March 15. This was the first title • Ukraine is in third place in Group 6 of • Andriy Voronin was named by voters for Bubka, who won $35,000. Stanislav Pertsov finished in second the World Cup 2010 qualifiers with seven in a Sport-Express poll as the best soccer place at the ninth Winter European Youth points, behind England (12 points) and player of the month among players of the Universiade Olympic Festival in Cieszyn, Polnad, on Croatia (seven points). Other teams in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Ukraine’s athletes finished in 13th February. Pertsov’s final score was 146.45; group include Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Baltic states. Voronin is a forward for place with seven medals at the 24th he finished in first place in the short pro- Andorra. After three games played, the Ukrainian National Team and plays Harbin Winter Universiade in China. Oleh gram and third place in the free skating portion. In ice dance, Ruslana Yurchenko Ukraine has two wins, one draw, no loss- for the German club Hertha BSC Berlin. Berezhnoy won the gold medal in men’s and Alexandr Liubchenko came in second es, and four goals for and one against. 12.5 km pursuit biathlon and a silver Chess place in the free dance, original dance and Ukraine will play against Croatia on June medal in men’s 10 km sprint; Maria compulsory dance programs, to finish with 6, Kazakhstan on June 10, Andorra on • Yuriy Kuzubov finished in third place Loseva, Maryna Maltes-Lysohor and 128.04 for second place. September 5 and England on October 10. at the Pfalz Open International Chess Tetiana Zavaliy won silver in women’s Ukraine’s last group-stage match will be Tournament in Neustadt, Germany, on 3x5km relay. Figure skaters Ala Biathlon on October 14 against Andorra. February 22. The tournament attracted Bejnazarova and Volodymyr Zuyev won Vita Semerenko and Serhiy Sednev won 323 players. Ukrainians Vladyslav the bronze in the ice dance competition. two silver medals in pursuit races at the • In UEFA Cup matches, FC Metalist Borovikov and Yuriy Drozdovsky finished Serhiy Semenov won the bronze medal in Kharkiv defeated Italy’s UC Sampdoria in fourth and fifth place, respectively. Open European Biathlon Championship in men’s 20 km biathlon. In the mixed biath- Ufa, Russia, on March 2. Sednev also won 1-0 on February 18. A lone goal headed lon relay, Lyudmyla Zhyber, Valentyna by Denys Oliynyk from a crossing pass by a bronze medal in the 20 km race and sil- • Serhiy Bilosheyev won the world Shestak, Anton Yunak and Oleksandr Olexandr Rykun in the third minute of ver in the 15 km race. Olena Pidhrushina, chess championship in Chelyabinsk, Kolos won the bronze medal for Ukraine. stoppage time in the first half secured the Russia, on March 2. The 22-year-old Valentyna Semerenko, Inna Suprun and win for Metalist. grandmaster won by a deciding match. Water polo Vita Semerenko won the gold medal in the Shakhtar Donetsk defeated England’s women’s 4x6 km relay, beating their near- Ukraine will host the Under-20 Tottenham Hotspurs 2-0 on February 19 • Spartak Vysochin won the open chess est competitors by more than two minutes. European Water Polo Championship qual- in freezing temperatures at RSC tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia, on ifiers in Dniprodzerzhynsk on May 1-3, as Strongman Olympiyskiy Stadium. Yevgen Selesznov March 3. The grandmaster scored 10 out confirmed by the European Swimming headed in Jadson’s free kick in the 79th of 13 points to win the tournament. Oleksandr Pekanov finished in ninth minute and Jadson scored in the 88th min- Federation on February 13. The finals will place at the 2009 Arnold Strongman be held in Greece on September 20-27. ute. • Vasyl Ivanchuk finished in second Classic on March 6-7. Dynamo Kyiv tied with Spain’s place at the Linares Chess Tournament in Judo Hockey Valencia CF on February 18 at Valeri Linares, Spain, on March 10. Ivanchuk Lobanovskyi Stadium. David Silva scored tied with Russia’s Alexander Grischuk • Vadym Syniavsky won the bronze in Yegor Bezuglyy, who played for the in the eighth minute for Valencia, but (eight out of 14), but additional results put the 90 kg division at the 2009 Judo Grand Under-18 Ukrainian National Team in Artem Milevskiy deflected a free kick by the Russian ahead. Prix in Hamburg of February 22. 2008 and the Druzhba ’78 team, hopes to Florin Cernat in the 63rd minute to tie the play for Ukraine at the International Ice match. Milevskiy received a second yel- Fencing • Roman Hontiuk defeated Japan’s Hockey Federation World Championship low card and was dismissed one minute Olympic champion Olha Kharlan Kazuma Katabuchi in the 90 kg division in Minsk, Belarus. The 17-year-old, origi- later in the game. In the first leg of the defeated Russia’s Sofia Velikaya 15-13 and won the New York Open Judo nally from Kharkiv, plays left wing for Round of 16 for the UEFA Cup CSKA and won the Moscow Grand Prix in wom- Championship on March 12. Needham High School in Needham, Mass. Moskva defeated Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 en’s sabre on February 16. In team com- on March 12 and Dynamo Kyiv defeated petition, Ukraine’s women’s team finished Metalist 1-0 on with a score from Ognjen in second place. Vukojevic. Tennis • The Union of European Football • Alona Bondarenko was ranked in 30th Associations (UEFA) ranked Ukraine’s place by the World Tennis Association. national futsal team among the top three Also ranked by the WTA were Kateryna in Europe. The Ukrainian national team is Bondarenko (56th) and Maria Korytseva competing in the UEFA Futsal (90th). In doubles, the Bondarenko sisters Championship and its group includes were ranked 37th (Kateryna) and 43rd Romania, the Netherlands and Andorra. (Alona), and Korytseva was ranked 67th, Olha Savchuk 77th and Tetiana Perebyinis • Andriy Shevchenko, with an annual 94th. salary of 6.5 million euros, is in a five- way tie for ninth place of the 50 highest- • Tennis player Serhiy Bubka defeated paid soccer players, as ranked by the Japan’s Takao Suzuki 7-6, 6-4, to win the 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 No. 12

rounds of political talk shows to plead their under the administration of the Ministry of unexpectedly strong result of 14 percent Ternopil Oblast... case the night of Friday the 13th, local oper- Internal Affairs, which is currently led by (second place), earned by the Single Center (Continued from page 1) atives, led by the bloc’s oblast division head Yurii Lutsenko, a close ally of Ms. party, launched just one year ago by Mr. try’s most reputable election monitor. Vasyl Derevlianyi, attempted sabotage by Tymoshenko. Baloha after he became chief of the Earning 14 percent of the votes and fin- using their cars to block trucks from deliver- “The election commission repeatedly Presidential Secretariat and manipulated ishing in second place was the Single Center ing freshly printed ballots. turned to the internal affairs organs to ensure government resources, known as “admin- party founded by Presidential Secretariat More than 10 trucks were delayed for at security during the transport and storage of resurs,” to create a party. Chair Viktor Baloha, who has managed to least two hours from leaving the Zbruch ballots,” Mr. Chyzhmar said. “But, unfortu- Critics of the vote alleged Mr. Chyzhmar launch a political party based solely on his state printing house because of the blockade, nately, we didn’t receive an answer from the played a critical role in the use of “admin- access to government resources. leading to brawls between Tymoshenko police. I will insist that such behavior by the resurs” in falsifying the vote, citing numer- leadership of the internal affairs administra- The Party of Regions of Ukraine won 10 Bloc supporters and their opponents from ous opportunities such as the transport of tion is reviewed on the highest level.” percent, the Tymoshenko Bloc won 8 per- Svoboda, Single Center and Pora. ballots without escort and the excess number Denying the necessary police escort cent, the Ukrainian People’s Party earned 8 Tymoshenko Bloc oblast deputies “not of ballots resulting from a depressed turnout. enabled critics of the election to claim it was percent, Our Ukraine People’s Union won 6 only blocked the exit from the printer, but Mr. Berezovets, whose past clients have illegitimate. percent and the Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc applied force against members of political included the Tymoshenko Bloc, said Single Mr. Romankiv of the Tymoshenko Bloc earned 4 percent, according to final results parties, as well as law enforcement authori- Center’s poll ratings were no higher than 1 complained the original ballots were trans- released on March 17 by the Ternopil Oblast ties,” said Nazar Zelinka, the chair of the percent prior to the election. ported from the printer to a district state Election Commission. executive committee of the Ternopil Oblast “From the political science point of view, administration building and afterwards to (That commission is recognized by all organization of the Pora party. For quite a the growth of the Party of Regions’ rating by polling stations without police escort. except the Tymoshenko Bloc. Two election while the police were impotent because the four to five times and the growth of Single “The biggest of falsifications involved commissions emerged after the Ternopil Tymoshenko Bloc deputies shielded them- Center’s rating by 15 times can be achieved 200,000 ballots which were transported Oblast Council, led by the Tymoshenko selves behind their badges, which give them primarily by applying network technologies from the Zbruch printing house without Bloc, dissolved the election commission immunity, he added. and vote-buying, which we saw in the Kyiv “Neither pleas from the election commis- police oversight,” said Taras Berezovets, loyal to the Presidential Secretariat and cre- election,” he said. sion nor the explanations of police influ- director of the Polittech political consulting ated a new one, which hasn’t been recog- The Party of Regions also gained a sur- enced them,” Mr. Zelinka said. “Based on and public relations firm in Kyiv. nized by local judges.) prisingly strong result. Though never earn- the information available to us, it was a “Where were these ballots, and where did Though the Tymoshenko Bloc was pro- ing more than 2 percent of the vote in the planned scenario of undermining the elec- they end up finally? The oblast’s population jected to lose votes, the Ternopil Oblast Ternopil Oblast, it earned 10 percent in the tion led by National Deputy Vasyl consists of little more than a million people. Council vote would have drawn little atten- March 15 election, Mr. Fesenko said. Derevlianyi, who was present and led the And we know that a large number of these tion if the Tymoshenko Bloc hadn’t led the Some of these voters were deserters of provocation.” people are working abroad. Accordingly, the effort to cancel it during the March 3 parlia- the Orange camp, experts said. Megaphones were smashed and the number of voters who could have participat- Mr. Tiahnybok pointed out that a “red mentary session. It marked the first time blocking cars were either pushed aside or ed in the voting was half a million, at maxi- belt” exists in the Ternopil Oblast consisting Parliament nullified a pre-term election. flipped over before the local police managed mum. So 200,000 is almost half the voters.” of the Pochayiv region, where villages are “An attack on rule of the people and to establish order and clear the way for bal- Following the election, a Tymoshenko loyal to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - democracy is happening now,” Oleh lot delivery, according to Ukrayina Moloda, Bloc deputy admitted anonymously to the Moscow Patriarchate and its politics. Tiahnybok, the Svoboda leader, told the the pro-presidential daily newspaper. daily newspaper Segodnya that his bloc was Observers confirmed those communities “Shuster Live” national television program In their defense, local Tymoshenko Bloc trying to derail the vote in anticipation of were a strong source of votes for the Party on March 13. “Those political forces that leader Yurii Romankiv said the transport of electoral losses. of Regions. said they believe in democratic principles voting ballots must take place under the At the same time, the Tymoshenko Bloc The results are evidence that “since 2004, and values are practically destroying them supervision of three election commission issued official statements claiming the the western Ukrainian electorate has become today. They fear the nationalists coming to representatives from various political forces, Ternopil election was the “dirtiest in entirely disappointed in the Orange leaders power. They fear the example that national- which was not ensured. Ukrainian history.” – the president, as well as the prime minis- ists can show in government. That’s the “The Tymoshenko Bloc’s local leader- It also gained a March 18 decision from a ter,” said Ivan Popesku, a national deputy of main reason for the attempt to disrupt the ship was absolutely unskillful,” Mr. Fesenko Kyiv district court in its favor, forbidding the Party of Regions. election.” said. “They ought to get rid of Derevlianyi the oblast’s main election commission from However vote-buying doesn’t hurt either, The cancellation vote occurred two and a and others who led the bedlam in the region. publishing the election’s results, which as observers reported at least one case of half months after the Tymoshenko Bloc’s In essence, they handed a gift over to all would make them official. Party of Regions workers offering 50 hrv parliamentary faction led others in approv- their opponents and are responsible for However, Ternopil election officials said ($6) per vote in a village. ing pre-term elections of a new Ternopil everything that happened.” the results had already been published in Svoboda’s strong result primarily came Oblast Council, which was gridlocked and It was downhill from there for the newspapers and widely accepted. The first from Ukrainians seeking new politicians to not functioning largely because of the Tymoshenko Bloc as last-minute rulings on oblast council session met on March 19, vote for outside the Orange forces they sup- Tymoshenko Bloc’s own refusal to work in March 14, issued by a Kyiv district court with Svoboda lawmaker Oleksii Kaida ported in 2004, political observers said. the council. and a Lviv appellate court, re-affirmed the selected as chair of its temporary presidium. Had Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s political project After a Ternopil court ruled in the sum- election’s legitimacy for the next day. The Tymoshenko Bloc also announced competed in the election, it could have mer of 2007 that 10 deputies illegally left In fact, all 1,163 polling stations opened, on March 16 that its deputies wouldn’t par- earned as much as 18 percent of the vote, the Our Ukraine faction to form the Oblast according to the oblast election commission. ticipate in the new Oblast Council and said Maria Kasian, a pollster at the Research Council coalition led by the Tymoshenko Yet that didn’t stop ongoing attempts at dis- wouldn’t accept the 12 earned mandates. and Branding Group in Kyiv. Bloc and deprived them their mandates, the ruption. “We don’t recognize the fact of the election Mr. Fesenko agreed, noting that Tymoshenko Bloc refused to allow their The Tymoshenko Bloc instructed its or the figures offered as their result,” Mr. Svoboda’s strong performance would have replacements to take their oaths and stopped members not to serve on local election com- Shevchenko said. “What we saw was an significantly diminished in Mr. Yatsenyuk’s attending. missions, with the goal of denying their attempt at the scenario of ‘everyone against favor had his political force competed. Leading up to the election, the legitimacy for lack of quorums, the CVU Yulia.’ ” Observers said Mr. Yatsenyuk didn’t run Tymoshenko Bloc ordered its Ternopil lead- reported. In the case of the village of Alongside the Tymoshenko Bloc’s indis- because he hasn’t had enough time and ers to boycott the election and make sure Shumliany, the local election commission putable underhandedness, some election resources to form a national network and that others did so. Meanwhile, its lawmakers chair submitted her resignation. observers cited numerous election violations party organization for his political move- appeared on national television telling Meanwhile, Tymoshenko Bloc members committed by Mr. Chyzhmar, a longtime ment, the Change Front. Ternopil voters not to show up to the polls in the Lanivetskyi District confiscated rub- associate of Mr. Baloha. Most notably, the Mr. Yatsenyuk would have offered west- because the election was illegitimate. ber stamps and voter lists, Ukrayina Moloda ballots were printed merely two days before ern Ukrainians a more moderate alternative “These won’t be honest elections,” reported. Numerous other polling stations the election, instead of the 10 days required to the Svoboda nationalists, who have con- Tymoshenko Bloc National Deputy Andrii refused to accept ballots, as well as hid rub- by law. troversial political platforms. Svoboda Shevchenko warned voters on “Shuster ber stamps and voter lists, the newspaper Critics and observers alike also pointed boasts that its ranks consist exclusively of Live,” a popular political talk show. “They reported. Several local election commission out that figures for voter turnout accelerated ethnic Ukrainians, and proposes that can’t be held or organized normally. chairs denied wages to its members or unusually sharply throughout the voting day. Ukrainian citizenship be extended only to Moreover, two parallel election commis- threatened prosecution. Investigative reporter Yurii Sheliazhenko, those born on Ukrainian soil or who can sions are working in Ternopil. All deadlines Despite all this, “the common efforts of who has ties with the Tymoshenko Bloc, prove their Ukrainian ethnicity. are ruined. According to the law on local election commission members, political reported that turnout in the city of Ternopil Svoboda never hides the fact that it start- elections, there isn’t a single deadline that forces and the citizenry didn’t allow for the was 11 percent at 3 p.m., jumping to 25 per- ed out as the Social-National Party of can be adhered to. There isn’t a single dis- election’s disruption,” reported the CVU, cent by 8 p.m. Meanwhile, turnout was Ukraine before changing its name and image trict in the Ternopil Oblast where election which is financed by the National between 30 and 50 percent outside the city at in February 2004. Our Ukraine booted Mr. commissions will fully function.” Endowment for Democracy and other 3 p.m., and more than 50 percent by 8 p.m. Tiahnybok from its parliamentary faction The confusion was aimed at preventing Western sources, including some related to Political scientist Viktor Nebozhenko, soon after he gave a speech in July 2004 the turnout needed to legitimize the vote. billionaire financier George Soros. president of the Ukrainian Barometer sociol- alleging the “Muscovite-Jewish mafia is Despite warnings from the Tymoshenko Perhaps the most underhanded tactic ogy service, said overall voter turnout running Ukraine.” Bloc and the Party of Regions that only a involved denying police escorts for the elec- climbed from 35 percent at 3 p.m. to 51 per- The Russian-language daily newspaper minority of Ternopil voters were interested tion ballots as they were being transported cent by 9 p.m. Segodnya, owned by Donbas businessman in the election, 54 percent of those eligible from local polling stations to election com- “Everyone understands the price of this Rinat Akhmetov and popular among voted, according to the Ternopil Election missions. scandalous percentage point,” he said, refer- Russophile Ukrainians, splashed Mr. Commission. The oblast police chief was suspiciously ring to 51 percent as opposed to 50 percent. Tiahnybok’s photograph on its front page on “It was a fairly high turnout, considering in Kyiv that weekend, and his first assistant “The interested parties and political forces March 18 under the alarming headline, not more than 30 to 40 percent of voters par- was on sick leave, said Yurii Chyzhmar, simply divided the votes among each other “Tiahnybok, Fear and Division in Ukraine.” ticipate in pre-term local elections,” the chair of the Ternopil Oblast State due to the falsified quorum and the fact that Some critics allege that Svoboda is Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) Administration, the local government body Tymoshenko Bloc observers and commis- financed by the Party of Regions in order to reported on March 16 that serves the interests of the Presidential sion members didn’t show up.” As Tymoshenko Bloc deputies made the Secretariat. All of Ukraine’s policemen fall Drawing even more criticism was the (Continued on page 19) No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 19

Ambassador Shamshur flew to Kyiv to meet while avoiding a crisis with Russia. The Yushchenko... with the leading parliamentary deputies. Experts report... administration should encourage the (Continued from page 1) The main advantage of the ambassador’s (Continued from page 1) European Union to accelerate conclusion tion, Verkhovna Rada Chair Lytvyn said the candidacy is his non-involvement in domes- ers. The Obama administration should of the negotiation under way with de facto coalition would consider his candi- tic Ukrainian politics, said Valerii Chalyi, establish a regularized, tough-minded dia- Ukraine on an association agreement, dacy only if the president appeared before the director of international programs at the logue with Kyiv. It needs to send an early including a free-trade arrangement. Parliament to deliver his annual address and Razumkov Center think-tank in Kyiv. Dr. high-level message, perhaps delivered by Washington should lead in shaping answer questions from national deputies. Shamshur is also unlikely to upset the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, of sup- NATO-Ukraine relations. Given the “It would be nice if the president present- Kremlin, he said. port and the need for Ukraine’s leaders to impossibility of securing Alliance con- ed his candidate for the minister’s post, “Shamshur is well-known among his col- cooperate with one another… The admin- sensus for a membership action plan leagues for his ability to find common which is required by the [parliamentary] istration should revive the binational (MAP), U.S. officials should assist ground,” Mr. Chalyi said. “The key issue regimen,” Mr. Lytvyn said on March 19. commission that operated between 1996 Ukraine in developing an annual national will be preserving, at minimum, Ukraine’s “Though it’s understood the president’s regi- and 2000… U.S. officials must be blunt: program that contains most, if not all, of image abroad.” men isn’t legally binding, it would be a testi- if Yushchenko and Tymoshenko cannot Dr. Shamshur was appointed as Ukraine’s the content of a MAP, and work within mony of respect for the Verkhovna Rada.” work together, U.S. efforts to help ambassador to the U.S. in December 2005. the Alliance to secure approval of the The president has little support in Ukraine cope with the economic crisis, The 52-year-old envoy was born in Kyiv program. Washington should be clear Parliament nowadays, having alienated strengthen its energy security, or develop and earned a candidate’s degree in interna- with Kyiv on how much support it can almost all its members who have either closer relations with Europe will yield tional law from Shevchenko State University expect in a stand-off with Russia while allied themselves with Prime Minister Yulia minimal results. in Kyiv. cautioning Moscow that Russian efforts Tymoshenko or remain firmly committed to • Assist Ukraine in dealing with the He served as a diplomat in Switzerland to destabilize Ukraine will risk its rela- the pro-Russian course. financial/economic crisis. Ukraine needs before he was appointed in 1993 as an advi- tions with the West. … Nevertheless, former Verkhovna Rada to be and stay in compliance with its Chair Arseniy Yatsenyuk said he expected sor to Ukraine’s Permanent Representative In a later section of the report, “An International Monetary Fund (IMF) pro- Parliament would approve Dr. Shamshur’s to the United Nations. He was Mr. Agenda for U.S. Engagement with gram. Even with help from the IMF, nomination as part of a legislative package Tarasyuk’s vice-minister of foreign affairs Ukraine,” the authors write: “In the run- Ukraine will likely face a financing gap or trade with the Presidential Secretariat. between February 2004 and December up to the April NATO summit, U.S. offi- in 2009 of about $5 billion. The U.S. gov- The day after the president’s nomination, 2005. cials should seek language for the summit ernment should work with partners such statement that reaffirms the Bucharest as the European Union, IMF, World Bank language that Ukraine will be a member and others to address this as a matter of Nalyvaichenko... esting that in his official biography Mr. priority, with the objective of a donors’ of the Alliance. U.S. officials should also Nalyvaichenko does not mention the fact conference that would provide $5 billion press for language that makes clear that (Continued from page 3) that he graduated from the KGB school in in additional financing this year. … the Alliance does not accept the notion of ment, four YTB deputies, who ostentatious- Moscow in the early 1990s (Ukrayinska • Promote serious actions to strengthen a sphere of influence in the post-Soviet Pravda, March 6; Segodnya, March 10). ly did not vote for Mr. Nalyvaichenko, sub- Ukraine’s energy security. Ukraine’s lead- space or that Moscow’s claimed ‘privi- Speaking in an interview with Ukrayinska mitted a motion to Parliament calling for his ers know what they need to do to improve leged interests’ allow it to determine the Pravda on February 17, he admitted to hav- the country’s energy security situation but foreign policy courses of other post-Sovi- dismissal (Ukrayiinska Pravda, March 6). ing been “the last Ukrainian to be trained have steadfastly refused to act. Senior et states, in order to reassure countries Before coming to the SBU, Mr. there.” Nalyvaichenko had been a diplomat. He U.S. officials now must impress on them such as Ukraine.” served at the Ukrainian Embassy to Finland The article above is reprinted from that there is no alternative but to push * * * in the mid-1990s, was consul-general in Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from through reforms that have been thwarted Washington from 2001 to 2003, and then its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, by entrenched vested interests. … To view the entire report, readers may served as ambassador to Belarus. It is inter- www.jamestown.org. • Help Ukraine deepen its relations log on to http://www.brookings.edu/ with the European Union and NATO papers/2009/03_ukraine_pifer.aspx.

Mohyla Academy has always identified President of... with, and stood for, a free and independent (Continued from page 4) Ukraine. Its graduates have over the centu- ries been the prominent and patriotic leaders to raise the public awareness of KMA and to of Ukraine. Its revival in 1991 has run in raise some funds for this important national parallel with the rebirth of an independent institution.” Ukraine, and its fortunes are inextricably Mr. Onyschuk underscored: “The Kyiv tied to the future of Ukraine.”

councils serve largely as a rubber stamp Ternopil Oblast... without their own income sources, he said. (Continued from page 18) Though oblast councils are formally respon- draw votes away from the Orange forces, sible for planning socio-economic develop- and its success plays right into the strategy ment, these programs are financed and of the Party of Regions and its leader, Viktor developed by Kyiv. Yanukovych, who has a strong chance of “Oblast councils have minimal amounts becoming Ukraine’s next president. of state property,” Mr. Matviyenko said. (Mr. Tiahnybok has repeatedly denied “They don’t influence the division of land, taking money from the Party of Regions.) which is done by city and village councils. “I am very fearful that the nationalists Instead Ternopil marked the symbolic launch of the campaign for the 2010 presi- can take over all the power in the country,” dential elections, drawing frequent com- Donbas resident Natalia Pavlovna told the parisons to how the election in the small Segodnya newspaper.” I will convince city of Mukachiv became symbolic of the everyone that they need to go the elections. corruption that surrounded the historic We can’t sit at home. Then all kinds of 2004 election. Tiahnyboks will undoubtedly take advan- What was unique about the 2004 tage of the situation, after which everyone Mukachiv election, in which the presidential will cry bitter tears.” administration led by Viktor Medvedchuk Among Svoboda’s other political posi- dispensed violence and sanctioned vote falsi- tions are renewing the functioning of fication, was a sincere desire by pro-Western Ternopil’s airport, halting raider attacks on forces to hold a fair election regardless of the state and private property, establishing a outcome, said Serhii Hrabovskyi, a veteran “Clean Product from Ternopil” label on Kyiv political observer and journalist. local products, banning baby food made Meanwhile, the Ternopil election became from genetically modified products, and for- a nasty fight for power between those same bidding the sale of alcohol and tobacco Orange forces, including Mr. Baloha, who products near schools and churches. was the candidate in the Mukachiv election However the Ternopil Oblast Council that had victory stolen from him by Mr. election won’t affect conditions in the oblast Medvedchuk and his corrupt network. to a large degree because much of the rest In Mr. Hrabovskyi’s view, “There was no political power rests with the state oblast Ternopil election, because no political force administration, said Kostiantyn Matviyenko, that took part and no state institution even director of the Hardaryka Strategic thought about the idea and the need to con- Consulting Corp. in Kyiv. duct democratic elections for the sake of The Cabinet of Ministers, with the discerning the will of the citizens and form- approval of the Presidential Secretariat, allo- ing state organs on the basis of the law and cates the budget for all the oblasts, and the that will.” 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 No. 12

tickets (which include gallery admission BOOK NOTES: Pictorial review Preview of events... plus reception following concert) call the museum, 212-228-0110. (Continued from page 24) dedicated to Regensburg Gymnasium Cambridge, MA 02138. This event is free WASHINGTON: At 6:30 p.m. Prof. Michael Naydan will speak on “Googling and open to the public. For more informa- “The Ukrainian Gymnasium tion call 617-495-4053 or e-mail huri@fas. Gogol” (in English) and Prof. Ostap harvard.edu. Stromecky will speak on “The How of Regensburg, Germany, 1945-1949: Our Hohol” (in Ukrainian) at the Embassy of Reunions and Legacies,” Bohdan Z. Thursday, April 2 Ukraine, 3350 M St. NW. The event is spon- Malaniak, editor-in-chief. Clifton, N.J.: NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Congress sored by the Ukrainian Embassy and the Computoprint, 2008. 471 pp. Committee of America New York Branch, Shevchenko Scientific Society, District of together with Moksha Films and Tomkiw Columbia branch. Admission is free; contri- The newly released book “The Entertainment, cordially invites you to a butions are welcome. RSVP is mandatory by Ukrainian Gymnasium Regensburg, fund-raiser event – an archival photo exhibit March 30 via e-mail to both Oleksander Germany, 1945-1949: Our Reunions and of the Holodomor and the screening of the Mykhalchuk, [email protected], and Victor Legacies” is dedicated to the students, Voloshyn, [email protected]; or by 20-minute short film “Holodomor: Ukraine’s faculty and family of this Ukrainian sec- Genocide of 1932-1933.” This short docu- phone to 202-349-2977. For further infor- mentary film has already been screened at mation call 240-205-1889. ondary school (gymnasium) and presents what it calls a “pictorial review of past over 10 film festivals around the world, and Wednesday, April 8 the feature-length version currently in pro- and present.” duction will be the first feature length docu- NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Studies Its publication became a reality due to mentary about the Ukrainian Holodomor Program at Columbia University will host a the generosity of former students of the produced in the United States. Following the lecture by Dr. Vita Susak titled “Ukrainian Ukrainian gymnasium, former residents screening there will be a question-and- Artists in the Context of the Paris School of the Regensburg displaced persons’ answer session with Nestor Popowych, (1900-1939).” Dr. Susak is curator of the camp. In many ways, this publication is executive producer and Maya Lew, co-pro- Department of European Art (19th-20th cen- an extension and expansion of the earlier ducer. The event will take place at the turies) at the Lviv Gallery of Arts, Ukraine. UCCA, 203 Second Ave., second floor, at 7 This year she is a visiting Fulbright scholar book “Regensburg 1945-1949,” published p.m. Suggested donation: $20 (as additional at the Harriman Institute at Columbia. The in 1986. funding is needed to complete this film). All lecture will be held at noon in Room 1219, The idea for this particular publication donations are 100 percent tax-deduct- International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th was born decades earlier. It remained ible. RSVP to [email protected] or St. The event is free and open to the public. under consideration and underwent many 212-228-6840 as space is limited. For additional information call changes, until it finally became a com- ences. 212-854-4697. Friday, April 3 mitted undertaking. Under the aegis of a The publication of historic memoirs Thursday, April 16 newly formed editorial board, the project serves as a valuable resource, as a source NEW YORK: The Center for Traditional was finally brought to fruition. of firsthand information about an entire Music and Dance, the Ukrainian Museum, NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Studies The book portrays the life experiences generation of Ukrainians in the diaspora. and New York Bandura Ensemble/Bandura Program at Columbia University will host a It contains vivid descriptions of the town Downtown present “A Bandurist and His lecture by Dr. Tetiana Stepykina titled of a relatively small group of young peo- Legacy: Hryhory Kytasty (1907-1984)” with “National Mapping of the World as a ple caught up in the circumstances of of Regensburg itself, a brief history of the Julian Kytasty, a musical retrospective on Problem of Modern Ukrainian Studies.” Dr. World War II. These then-adolescents and Ukrainian Gymnasium in Regensburg, the life of the bandurist, composer and Stepykina holds the English philology chair teenagers found themselves snatched accounts of the academic and social activ- teacher who remains the greatest single at Luhansk State University. This year she is away from their native Ukraine and ities of its students, remembrances of influence on bandura players in North a visiting Fulbright scholar at the Harriman placed into a Displaced Persons’ camp in gymnasium reunions, a few dozen biog- America. The event will be at 7 p.m. at The Institute at Columbia. The lecture will be the town of Regensburg, Germany. raphies of students and faculty members, Ukrainian Museum (222 E. Sixth St., held at noon in Room 1219, International Regensburg was a temporary transition some reflections on the past, and a bit of between Second and Third avenues). Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th St. The event point in their lives, before they were scat- creative poetry, prose and drama. Tickets: $15; discounts available for muse- is free and open to the public. For additional tered throughout the world. Here they The book contains both English and um/CTMD members and seniors. To reserve information call 212-854-4697. formed values and worldviews, and Ukrainian sections. The English version forged lasting friendships. The book is a is abbreviated, not containing some pas- repository of their stories and a record of sages that were deemed too difficult to their experiences. translate from the Ukrainian without los- The timeless value of the book, how- ing the sentiment and poetry of the origi- ever, lies beyond any specific narrative. nal. Nonetheless, English and Ukrainian Its importance lies in its whole, in its readers alike will find this collection of capacity to provide inspiration and guid- memoirs very engaging. ance to other young people in similar cir- For more information about the book, cumstances. In recognition of this, the readers may write to its editor-in-chief, editorial board sincerely wants the book Bohdan Malaniak, at 1020 Camann St. to reach a wider audience and capture the Glendale, CA 91208; or e-mail him at interest of all who share similar experi- [email protected].

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COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Boston Parish hosts two speakers as part of ongoing series by Peter T. Woloschuk service in the Far East. “Ukrainians and Ukrainian Americans JAMAICA PLAIN, Mass. – Christ the have served in the armed forces in ever King Ukrainian Catholic Parish of Boston increasing numbers since then and have (Jamaica Plain) welcomed U.S. Army been conspicuous in World War II, Korea Brig. Gen. Leonid Kondratiuk and and Vietnam. Numbers have also seen Ukrainian Army Col. (ret.) Leonid service in the war against terrorism and Polyakov as speakers on Saturday, March the Gulf,” Gen. Kondratiuk pointed out. 7, for its new monthly series “Saturday Among the little known incidents of Night at the Parish.” World War II, Gen. Kondratiuk said, “are Gen. Kondratiuk spoke on “Ukrainian the fact that Col. Kalakuta was in charge Americans in Defense of the Nation” and of American forces in northern Luzon and Col. Polyakov spoke on the “Role of since the commander of the invading Ukraine in Europe’s Security.” The event Japanese forces could not speak English drew more than 60 participants. but knew Russian all negotiations by the Parish choir director Igor Kowal wel- Americans were conducted in Ukrainian comed everyone and then turned the and the document of surrender by the podium over to the two guests. Gen. American forces to the Japanese is writ- Kondratiuk began by saying that as an ten in Ukrainian. Also, the sergeant com- American military historian he was manding the group that raised the flag at responsible for covering the entire span Iwo Jima was of Ukrainian descent and is of U.S. military history from 1636 to the portrayed in the famous monument. He is Vsevolod Petriv present. He then gave an overview of the one of the two soldiers holding the base U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Leonid Kondratiuk (right) and Col. Leonid Polyakov of history of Ukrainians and Ukrainian of the flagpole.” Ukraine’s armed forces. Americans serving with the American Col. Polyakov began by giving an military and filled out his talk with a overview of the current state of the number of anecdotes, several of which Ukrainian armed forces, pointing out that director of militia affairs for the Mr. Kowal in February and featured a dealt with service rendered by members Ukraine still has one of the largest stand- Massachusetts national guard, as well as showing of the classic film “Tini of the Boston community over the years. ing armies in Europe. “Ukraine is not National Commander of the Ukrainian Zabutykh Predkiv” (Shadows of “The first confirmed record of Georgia,” he emphasized, “and is capable American Veterans. Forgotten Ancestors) for its first event. Ukrainians serving with the American of defending itself. Even the Russians Col. Polyakov is a former Ukrainian Due to the Easter celebrations at the par- Army occurred during the Civil War, will think long and hard before they vice minister of defense who is presently ish according to both calendars, the next when a small number of immigrants from attempt any direct military actions.” at Harvard University, where he holds a event will be held on Saturday, May 2, western Ukraine served with a Polish bri- Col. Polyakov then discussed the cur- joint fellowship from the Ukrainian and will feature Adrian Slywotzky, a part- gade organized in New York State,” Gen. rent state of Ukrainian military hardware Research Institute and Harvard’s ner of Oliver Wyman, a global manage- Kondratiuk said. “Interestingly enough, and armament, and pointed out that it was Weatherhead Center for International ment company. there are unconfirmed reports of rapidly becoming obsolete. “Our govern- Affairs. He is also a consultant to the For further information on the speak- Ukrainians fighting with Washington’s ment,” he said, “needs to budget major Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on National ers’ program readers may e-mail igor_ armies in the Revolutionary War and capital outlay to bring our military up to Security and Defense. [email protected], yaroslavnalysnyk@ there are confirmed reports of Ukrainians date. We also need to pay our military a The new monthly speakers’ series at aol.com, or boston-ukrs@yahoogroups. fighting in the Texan Army during their living wage and we need to improve the the Boston area parish was initiated by com. war for independence from Mexico in quality of our recruits. However, given 1836.” the current economic situation it is diffi- “Several dozen Ukrainians from cult to envision this happening.” Pennsylvania served with American forc- Col. Polyakov concluded by looking at es during the Spanish-American War in Ukraine’s military and its activities dur- 1898,” Gen. Kondratiuk continued, and ing the Georgian war, during the various between 20,000 and 30,000 enlisted dur- Russian provocations in Crimea and dur- A Ukrainian Summer ing World War I. Twenty-four of them ing the ongoing hostilities in Appears May 3, 2009, in The Ukrainian Weekly won the Distinguished Service Cross for Transdnistria. Valor. Theodore Kalakuta, who graduated Gen. Kondratiuk hails from Boston from West Point in 1923, was the first and serves concurrently as the director of Ukrainian American to do so, and he saw historical services for the U.S. Army and Travel to Ukraine and learn about your heritage... Ukrainian American Center Foundation Focus on Ukrainian studies, and earn college credit... Or relax and enjoy the activities funds $8,000 in scholarships and grants at the ever-popular Soyuzivka... 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the working levels during this period. locked on that issue, without affecting the NATO-Russia... Official resumption accelerated with the NATO resumes... situation on the ground in one way or anoth- (Continued from page 2) change of administrations in Washington, (Continued from page 2) er. The alliance (as well as the United States affecting NATO directly. particularly with a new U.S. administration Russia. Moscow also wants this issue in a national capacity) will undoubtedly The alliance has yet to devise effective hard-pressed to act on the protracted con- referred to the NATO-Russia Council in uphold the legal principle of Georgia’s terri- responses to these actions or at least con- flicts inherited from the old. order to criticize NATO for, in Russia’s torial integrity and right eventually to join sensual approaches in the run-up to this Moscow sounds delighted with the view, abetting Georgia’s “aggression.” NATO; but the allies and Russia will agree summit. resumption of institutional relations with Moscow even wants NATO to “restore to disagree with each other on these issues U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, NATO. Formally, the move restores Russia’s [Russia’s] trust” in the NATO-Russia and move on with the NATO-Russia attending her first NATO ministerial meet- equality of status with the alliance, a prize Council through a “joint assessment of why Council’s agenda. NATO will be going into ing in Brussels on March 5, criticized Russia that NATO has conceded for nothing in NATO blocked this mechanism” and mea- that forum to encourage Russian coopera- publicly on some of those counts on behalf return. Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs sures to prevent a recurrence (Interfax, tion on Afghanistan and Iran as the top allied Sergei Lavrov and his spokesmen hailed of the United States, and certainly in harmo- ITAR-TASS, March 5, 6). Russia’s Minister priorities. Those will probably relegate the NATO’s move as a “victory for common ny with some NATO countries. She rejected of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov, his minis- Georgia issue and other festering issues in sense.” Moscow seems to feel confirmed in “Russia’s claims to spheres of influence try’s spokesmen, and the envoy to NATO Europe’s East to the back burner in the its calculations that invading Georgia was a over unwilling nations” and “any Russian Dmitry Rogozin have repeatedly aired this NATO-Russia Council soon after the low-risk affair and that a strategically dis- veto right on countries’ aspirations to join position in recent months, down to the very resumption of that process. tracted West would soon reach out to Russia NATO or the EU.” day of NATO’s Brussels ministerial meeting again (Interfax, March 6, 7). She pledged “in no way to withdraw our (they had earlier sought outright self-criti- The article above is reprinted from At NATO in Brussels, Russian envoy support for Georgia,” and recalled that “my cism from NATO). Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from Dmitry Rogozin taunts and insults the alli- country strongly condemned Russia’s its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, ance on an almost daily basis, irrespective Thus, it seems almost certain that the actions in Georgia”; and borrowing from of the state of relations. When NATO NATO-Russia Council will become dead- www.jamestown.org. then-Vice President Richard Cheney’s 2006 announced the NATO-Russia Council’s phrase about Russia, she expressed “serious reconvening for next month, Mr. Rogozin concern over the use of energy resources as warned, “Russia is in no hurry [to help] on vice when your pet is lowered into the tools of intimidation.” the issue of Afghanistan. But NATO could Gateways... ground. Winter blankets are $900. At the same time, however, Ms. Clinton hurry. Delaying by a month does not look (Continued from page 16) One tombstone yearns “Would that I called with some urgency for renewing very patriotic to its soldiers who are spilling elephant “Dumbo.” And who has not been could lie beside you under the gentle night NATO-Russia and U.S.-Russia relationships blood in Afghanistan” (Interfax, March 5). sky.” Not to worry. A wish to be buried next to work together in areas of common inter- enchanted by Ivan Franko’s “Mykyta the The next day he went on: “The debate Fox” (inspired by Goethe’s retelling of the to your little friend can also be realized at est, listing: Afghanistan, Iran, nuclear prolif- within the alliance was fraught with scandal. Hartsdale. As one administrator told me, eration, and terrorism and its associated medieval “Reineke Fuchs”) or his novella We know who spoke against cooperation “When Animals Talked”? “There’s always room for more ashes.” threats and challenges (AFP, March 5, 6). with Russia. ... Those states with Ukrainian officials are loathe to dis- More crowded than a third-world city, The notion that the United States and NATO Russophobic policies are simply afraid of cuss pet cemeteries because they are the Hartsdale is nonetheless better maintained need Russia’s help to resolve those conflicts disappearing among the big powers. Old source of many problems. Grieving own- than many cemeteries for humans. As you remains an insufficiently examined assump- Europeans, however, as well as the new ers cross swords with local district admin- stroll through the grounds (“Here sleep our tion on both sides of the Atlantic and is part- U.S. administration, need good relations istrations over sanitation, space, and lifetime friends”), a kaleidoscope of pet ly responsible for tying Western hands in with Russia; they don’t need this small trash, architecture issues. Currently, the only names greets the eye: Goldie, Pebbles, Europe’s East. they could resolve issues together with official pet cemetery in Ukraine is in Pumpkin, Othello, Romeo, Hamlet, Tristan, At the outset of the Brussels meeting, Russia in an serious way, an adult way” Kharkiv, and it is quite a profitable busi- Siegfried, Khayam, Nero, Atticus, Charlie Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs (Interfax, March 6). ness. A few other cities and towns have Chan, Valentino, Pinocchio, Mickey Mouse, Vygaudas Usackas suggested that it would NATO leaders have tolerated such treat- only makeshift burial grounds with small Bambi, Maximum Joy, Penelope the be premature to reconvene the NATO- ment in the alliance’s own house from the tombstones dotting the landscape. Some Good... even Satan. Miniature monuments Russia Council so soon, in view of Russia’s Russian ambassador on a quotidian basis for four-legged friends are even buried with carved in English, Chinese, Spanish, recent conduct. A few other ministers shared the last two years. crosses and prayerful observances of Portuguese and other languages honor the that view, but the majority felt that recon- High-profile, political dialogue with Christian traditions. If this is not an seeing-eye dogs, the horses who served in vening the council would encourage Russia Russia, now about to resume, would have option, a few bigger cities may offer dis- World War I, and several canines from the to become more cooperative. The been unexceptionable as part of a coherent posal services to perform cremations, the 9/11 Emergency Task Force. Lithuanian move did, however, help NATO NATO policy on manifold contentious ashes to be kept in an urn or scattered in a Heart-rending inscriptions paint a vivid Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer issues. Without such a policy, however, garden or park of your choice. picture of pet owners: “Loving you has strengthen the language on allied support Moscow will undoubtedly continue using Near Kyiv, the town of Rusanivka has changed the person I have now become,” for Georgia’s territorial integrity in his con- the NATO-Russia Council and other forms been a popular site for pet burials. The “My beloved guardian angels,” “Here rests cluding statement (BNS, March 5; RFE/ of institutional dialogue as it has done in Canine Training Association of Ukraine a part of our hearts,” and most tenderly: RL, March 9). recent years: as propaganda platforms and recently reported on hygiene and sanitation “Sunshine – my little girl, keep a warm spot When the North Atlantic Council sus- opportunities to gain a voice in NATO’s problems, as decomposing remains mix in your red chair for mommy. I’ll see you pended official meetings with Russia in own deliberations. Moscow will also offer with groundwaters and drain into the nearby soon.” August 2008, it pointed out that Russia putative “help” to NATO allies involved in Dnipro river, further spreading bacteria. In Perhaps the most famous Hartsdale resi- had breached fundamental principles of the protracted conflicts in Afghanistan and response, the Rusanivka District dent is Goldfleck, the young lion who jointly adopted NATO-Russia documents, with Iran, if NATO will in turn defer to Administration erected signs for owners to crossed the finish line in 1912. His mistress including those of the NATO-Russia Russian geopolitical priorities in Europe’s rebury their pets elsewhere, because this was the eccentric Hungarian Princess Vilma Council. Those breaches multiplied in the East and Eurasia. improvised cemetery is to be bulldozed. Lwoff-Parlaghy, an accomplished portrait ensuing months even as the alliance con- So what happens after Rex or Burko, painter, who had previously encountered tinued informal meetings with Russian The article above is reprinted from Rover or Topik, your constant friend and opposition to housing her dogs at the officials and began preparing for full Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from recipient of your love and attention, finally Waldorf Hotel in New York. Acquiring the resumption of institutional relations. its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, buys that one-way ticket on the Stygian lion cub from Ringling Brothers Circus, NATO-Russia dialogue never stopped at www.jamestown.org. ferry? Throughout the world, many pet own- Princess Parlaghy cuddled Goldfleck in an ers have spared no effort to express their expensive wool blanket and chauffeured profound sense of loss. In modern-day him by limo to the Plaza Hotel, where she America, this has developed into an artform. was allowed to keep him in a separate room A few stone’s throws from Yonkers, N.Y., in her apartment. Goldfleck behaved well. rising on a fastidiously landscaped hillside That is, until a photographer’s flashing light flanked by pink and white dogwood trees, bulb galvanized him to charge into the hall lies the historic Hartsdale Pet Cemetery. and up and down the corridor. After he died Each spring more than 3,000 chrysanthe- of an illness, the princess held a formal mums are in bloom, and every summer wake, with Goldfleck lying in state encir- 20,000 begonias grace the grounds. cled by his feeding dishes, favorite toys and Established in 1896, America’s first and vases of flowers. most prestigious pet cemetery is now the Currently, the Internet hosts a blog site – final resting place not only for dogs and “Orange Revolution: Pet Cemeteries Come cats, but also for horses, rabbits, ferrets, to Ukraine.” But other than Kharkiv, today’s rats, mice, birds, turtles, lizards and even a residents of Ukrainian cities still don’t have lion cub, “Goldfleck.” lots of options to suitably say farewell to A new plot that can accommodate pets their beloved pets. Oh well... Neither Rome (in the 41- to 100-pound range) will set nor Lviv were built in a day. However, you back $1,812, excluding annual main- don’t be surprised when a pet cemetery like tenance which tacks on an additional $47 Hartsdale pops up somewhere in the land of per year. But a one-time payment of the Scythians before too long. $1,400 for “perpetual care” or $2,000 for On the other hand, given today’s econo- the optional “perpetual flower care” will my, surviving family members and benefi- guarantee peace of mind for all the com- ciaries in Ukraine must be pleased that the ing eons until our sputtering sun finally bury-me-with-my-sports car attitude has not implodes down to the size of your cat’s yet become the latest rage... Maybe it’s all last hairball. A sum of $150 provides for for the best – just one less item to lug to the a non-denominational religious burial ser- Happy Hunting Grounds. No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009 23 OUT AND ABOUT

March 27, 29 Film screening, “Folk” by Roxy Toporowych, March 29 “An Artful Afternoon,” art exhibit and sale, New York The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 Whippany, NJ Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Branch 75, Ukrainian American March 27 through April 12 “Er Toshtuk,” performed by artists from Cultural Center of New Jersey, New York Kyrgyzstan and the Yara Arts Group, La MaMa Experimental Theater Company, [email protected] 212-475-7710 or www.lamama.org March 29 26th annual Pysanka Workshop and Bazaar, March 28 Pyskanka Workshop by Ukrainian Heritage Washington Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine, Lehighton, PA Studies Center at Manor College, Ukrainian 202-526-3737 Homestead, 215-235-3709 or 610-377-4621

March 28 Pysanka Workshop, The Ukrainian Museum, March 29 Duo concert, violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv and New York 212-228-0110 Toronto pianist Marianna Humetska, Glenn Gould Studio, 416-240-8403 or 416-762-7988 March 28 Bandura Workshop, Ukrainian Homestead, Lehighton, PA 570-708-1992 March 29 Concert with soprano Solomia Dutkevych March 28 Film screenings, “Pysanka: The Ukrainian Alexandria, VA and violinist Solomia Gorokhivska, The Arlington, VA Easter Egg” and “Sheep in the Wood” by Washington Group Cultural Fund, Slavko Nowytski, Arlington Sister City The Lyceum, 301-229-2615 Association Ivano-Frankivsk Committee, Shirlington Library, March 29 Open House, St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic www.arlingtonsistercity.org/events Passaic, NJ School, 973-779-0249 March 28 Syzokryli Ukrainian Dance Ensemble 30th New York anniversary concert, New York University’s March 30 Lecture by Moshe Taube, “Jewish-Christian Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, Cambridge, MA Cultural Contacts in Late Medieval Kyiv,” with guest artist Vasyl Popadiuk, Harvard University, 617-495-4053 [email protected] or 718-435-0190

March 28 Taras Shevchenko concert, St. Michael April 5 Easter Bazaar, St. John Ukrainian Catholic San Francisco Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Whippany, NJ Church, Ukrainian American Cultural Center 415-861-4066 of New Jersey, 973-476-1970

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Program at Columbia University will host a lecture by Prof. Anna Procyk titled NEW YORK: The Syzokryli Ukrainian “Independence or Federation: Ukraine and Dance Ensemble will celebrate its 30th Russia during the Revolution and the Civil anniversary with a concert at New York Easter Greetings 2009 War.” Dr. Procyk is professor of history at University’s Skirball Center for the Kingsborough College of the City Performing Arts at 7 p.m. The Syzokryli University of New York. This year she is a will perform traditional Ukrainian folk visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute at dances, a modern fusion of Ukrainian folk Columbia. The lecture will be held at noon dance and hip-hop dance, and Roma Continue your tradition. at the Harriman Institute, International Pryma Bohachevsky’s moving choreo- Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th St. graphic creation, “Fight for Freedom.” (between Amsterdam and Columbus ave- Famed violin virtuoso Vasyl Popadiuk will nues) in Room 1219. This event is free and appear as a guest artist to entertain the Send best wishes to your family and open to the public. For additional informa- audience with his vibrant interpretations of friends, colleagues and clients on the tion call 212 854-4697. classical Ukrainian music. NYU Skirball Friday, March 27 Center for the Performing Arts is located occasion of Easter with a greeting in at 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington NEW YORK: All are cordially invited to Square South). Tickets may be obtained by The Ukrainian Weekly. the short Ukrainian and American film calling NYU Skirball Center at night at 7 p.m. at the Shevchenko 215-352-3101, by e-mail at www.skirball- Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Ave., New center.nyu.edu or at the box office at 566 York, NY 10003. Suggested donation: $10 LaGuardia Place Tuesday through and up; wine and cheese reception to fol- Saturday, noon-6 p.m. Contact Emilia low. 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For information Military College of Canada, in Kingston, call 301-229-2615. Ontario, will discuss how the Anglo-Saxon Monday, March 30 world has viewed Ukraine and its history in the early to mid-20th century and how CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard presents these views continue to color current per- Ukrainian Research Institute will host a ceptions of Ukraine. A specialist in refugee lecture given by Moshe Taube, professor studies, Canada’s immigration history and of linguistics at Hebrew University of VIRKO BALEY the political geography of Eastern Europe Jerusalem; and Jaroslaw and Nadia and the former Soviet Union, Dr. Luciuk is Mihaychuk Research Fellow at the 70th Birthday Celebration Concert author, co-author and co-editor of numer- Ukrainian Research Institute. His lecture, ous books, booklets and editorials. “Jewish-Christian Cultural Contacts in “Holodomor: Reflections on the Great Late Medieval Kyiv,” will be held at 4 p.m. Famine of 1932-1933 in Soviet Ukraine,” in Room S-050 (Concourse Level), CGIS Building South, 1730 Cambridge St., on Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 2 pm edited by Dr. Luciuk, will be available for purchase after the event. The program will be held at the American Ukrainian Youth (Continued on page 20)

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