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ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal Wnon-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXVIII No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 $1/$2 in Ukraine Citizens’ committee launched to ensure Tens of thousands protest proper commemoration of Holodomor Ukraine’s proposed tax code by Zenon Zawada Vasiunyk said at a November 17 press con- Kyiv Press Bureau ference. “To great regret, there isn’t an official KYIV – A citizens’ committee was offi- position from the government regarding the cially launched at the National University of format of commemorating this day after 10 Kyiv Mohyla Academy on November 17 to days,” he said. “We anticipate the govern- organize and make sure that the Victims of ment will publicize its position and publi- the Holodomor and Political Repressions cize those events which the government Remembrance Day will be commemorated plans or doesn’t plan to conduct.” in Kyiv on the last Saturday of November as This year’s events will be held under two per annual tradition. themes: that the tragedy was a genocide, The committee recruited many of which is underpinned by Ukrainian law; and Ukraine’s leading intellectuals (Ivan Drach), that the memory of the Holodomor cannot performers (Nina Matviyenko) philanthro- be erased. pists (Olha Bohomolets) and spiritual lead- The logo of the Citizens’ Committee to ers (Bishop Yevstratii Zoria of the Ukrainian Honor the Memory of the Holodomor- Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate) in Genocide Victims of 1932-1933 in Ukraine planning the day’s events, which had been consists of the Holodomor symbol depicted previously organized by the Presidential at the monument on St. Michael’s Square, to Secretariat under President Viktor the left of large, bold-faced words that Yushchenko. declare, “Holodomor is Genocide ‘32-‘33.” The administration of Viktor Yanukovych Below that is written “27.11.2010 We acknowledged the Holodomor was a trage- Remember.” Olena Bilozerska dy, but denies that it was genocide against President Yanukovych outraged national- More than 30,000 people march in central Kyiv against the tax code drafted by the Ukrainian people, adopting the Kremlin ly conscious Ukrainians when he declared the government of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, which they argue will devas- view that it was a “collective tragedy of the on April 27 at the Parliamentary Assembly tate small businesses in Ukraine. nations of the former Soviet Union” that of the Council of Europe (PACE) in suffered from Stalinist persecution. Strasbourg, France, that the Holodomor by Zenon Zawada than 30,000 small-business people The committee turned to the couldn’t be considered genocide, which led Kyiv Press Bureau descended upon Kyiv from all corners of Yanukovych administration for support in to PACE rejecting a resolution that would Ukraine to voice their opposition to a KYIV – The largest protest against the organizing the events, but had yet to receive have granted recognition. new tax code they claim will ruin busi- a response after 10 days, former Vice Prime government of Prime Minister Mykola ness in Ukraine and devastate the econo- Minister for Humanitarian Affairs Ivan (Continued on page 8) Azarov erupted on November 16 as more my. The tax code will impose new layers of unaffordable regulations and new mounds of unaffordable accounting Patriarch Filaret blesses Holodomor memorial in N.J. paperwork, and will reduce transparency – all of which will enable authorities to CLIFTON, N.J. – Parishioners of Holy demand exorbitant bribes, entrepreneurs Ascension Ukrainian Orthodox Church said. Protests were held throughout greeted their primate, Patriarch Filaret of Ukraine, including Kharkiv, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Khmelnytskyi and Poltava. Patriarchate, on Saturday, November 6. “Our oligarchs and their servants, the The hierarch blessed a new memorial, national deputies, divided up all the coun- located on the church grounds, dedicated try’s property and Ukraine into personal to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932- estates,” Oleksander Dudko, president of 1933 in Ukraine. the Union of Entrepreneurs and Following the conclusion of a memori- Employers of Crimea, said at a al service dedicated to the millions of vic- November 16 press conference in Kyiv. tims of the Soviet regime, the patriarch “We won’t let them ruin small busi- made an emotional statement. He under- ness and turn the people into obedient scored that similar monuments that honor slaves, dividing them up like serfs among the memory of the victims of the Famine- each other,” he underscored. Genocide, who were targeted by the The next day, Mr. Dudko threatened an Soviet regime in its campaign to destroy armed uprising should the legislation the Ukrainian people, already stand in pass. Yet, coalition leaders weren’t intim- many countries around the world where idated, leading the Verkhovna Rada to there are Ukrainians. Ukrainians, he said, approve the first and second readings of can be found residing on all continents of the new tax code on November 18 by 253 the world, and the memory of Ukraine’s and 269 votes, respectively, amidst chants largest human tragedy of the 20th century of “Shame” by opposition deputies. is an international tragedy, an unforgetta- The Parliament’s decision to ignore the ble event that should never be allowed to demands of small business could lead to be repeated. the tax protests swelling, which observers Petro Chasto/Svoboda Patriarch Filaret reminded the faithful said pose more of a threat to the authori- Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate blesses tarian administration of President Viktor the memorial to victims of the Holodomor erected on the grounds of Holy of the atrocious acts by the Soviet Ascension Church in Clifton, N.J. (Continued on page 17) (Continued on page 3) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 No. 47 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS

Russian PM fails to resolve 30,000 protest against new tax code stronghold. (RFE/RL) KYIV – Some 30,000 owners of small Safeguarding religious sites trade differences on Kyiv visit and medium-sized businesses have pro- tested in Kyiv against a new Tax Code KYIV – An official document that being debated in Parliament, RFE/RL’s stresses the role of cooperation between Ukrainian Service reported on November the authorities and religious organizations 16. The protesters’ main objection is an in the preservation of architectural monu- amendment to the simplified tax rate. ments was adopted at an international Small and medium-sized businesses cur- seminar on “The Role of Religious rently pay a flat tax of 200-600 hrv ($20- Communities in the Management of $75) per month, depending on the nature World Heritage Sites,” which was held in and volume of their business. But the Kyiv under the auspices of the United new code incorporates these small busi- Nations Educational, Scientific and nesses into the general tax system, which Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on protesters say opens the door to corrup- November 2-5. At a press conference in tion and manipulation on the part of the on November 15 devoted to the outcome tax authorities. The simplified tax has of the seminar, the director general of the been a big success for small entrepre- Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural neurs. The tax is a onetime monthly pay- Preserve, Maryna Hromova, said the ment that allows business owners to seminar was attended by 40 delegates Official Website of Ukraine’s President avoid dealing with tax officials, many of from 16 countries. Archimandrite The Ukrainian and Russian delegations during Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s whom are corrupt. There are currently Varsonofi of the Kyiv Pecherska Lavra visit to Kyiv on October 27. some 3 million registered small-business said the seminar “received an official owners in Ukraine. Maria Kostecka, the document of UNESCO, which highlights by Pavel Korduban less than Kyiv had hoped for. Only a pro- co-owner of a small accounting firm, told the important role of religious organiza- RFE/RL that the new code would tions in safeguarding architectural monu- Eurasia Daily Monitor tocol of intention was initialed, and Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Yurii increase her taxes to some 50 percent of ments. …Only with joining efforts we Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Boiko said a final agreement should be her profits. Anders Aslund, a fellow at the can at the proper level maintain the mon- Putin’s October 27 visit to Kyiv confirmed signed within a month (UNIAN, October Washington-based Peterson Institute, uments of architecture to convey them to that the honeymoon in bilateral relations, 27). Moscow’s reluctance to provide oil says the proposed Tax Code is “good for the future generations.” According to which followed Viktor Yanukovych’s elec- transit guarantees prompts Ukraine to look big companies, bad for small ones.” Dr. Olena Serdiuk, director of the Institute tion as president last February, is over. for other partners to fill its Odesa-Brody Aslund explained, “A 5 percent dividend for the Protection Cultural Heritage at the It is clear now that members of the rul- pipeline. tax for big companies is a big advantage Ministry of Culture and Tourism of ing elite in Ukraine, although viewed by From the end of November, Ukraine and could lead to Ukraine’s leading com- Ukraine, by the end of 2010 the ministry many as pro-Russian, are tough negotia- will use Odesa-Brody for test pumping panies actually being based in Ukraine will adopt a concept about the general tors for Moscow. Venezuelan oil to Belarus. According to and not in offshore accounts.” He added, development of the territory of the Kyiv For its part, the Kremlin continues to trilateral agreements with Venezuelan “It’s good to reduce the corporate-profit Pecherska Lavra. “The concept involves say “nyet” to Kyiv’s pleas for cheaper gas. President Hugo Chavez, beginning in 2011 tax. However, the two big drawbacks are control not only over the territory of the that the simplified tax is being reduced in As a result, unlike Moscow hoped, no Ukraine will start pumping 8 million tons UNESCO monument itself, but the entire extension and another worry is that ordi- merger has taken place between the two of oil per year to Belarus from Odesa territory of Pechersk Hill with the access nary international accounting principles countries’ nuclear, aircraft, or oil and gas (Interfax-Ukraine, November 1). Until this to the Dnipro River to be regarded as a are not being introduced.” The new Tax industries. At the same time, Moscow is past summer, the pipeline had been used to sacred place, designed to meet the needs pump Russian oil in the reverse direction, Code has been controversial since it was of the Lavra as the spiritual center of the reluctant to lower its gas price, contribute introduced in July. The first version of gas wells to a joint venture with Kyiv and to Odesa, where it was loaded on tankers. eastern Slavs, as a monastery, as a pre- This fall, the pipeline has been empty as the code was returned to Prime Minister serve,” she said. Ms. Serdiuk added that pump more oil through Ukraine’s pipe- Mykola Azarov with some 6,000 changes lines. Russia provided no oil for transit. Ukraine cultural heritage in Ukraine is represented has also been in talks with Azerbaijan, and amendments. President Viktor by some 140,000 sites, 15,000 of them Very little progress, if any, was Yanukovych threatened to veto the code achieved in the oil and gas sector. Mr. whose oil Kyiv relied upon when it built are monuments of architecture and city Odesa-Brody with the original intention to if it did not reflect “national hopes.” In planning, and about 80 percent of archi- Putin preliminarily agreed to pump 25 Kharkiv on November 16, some 5,000 million tons of oil for export via Ukraine’s carry Caspian oil to Europe. Azerbaijan’s tectural monuments are religious and President Ilham Aliyev visited Kyiv on business owners rallied outside the used by religious communities. St. pipelines over the next five years. This is regional administration building; hun- October 28, but no specific agreements Sophia Cathedral became the first monu- more than the 15 million tons that Russia dreds of others gathered in the eastern pumped through Ukraine in 2009, but far (Continued on page 21) city of Donetsk, a Yanukovych political (Continued on page 14)

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(Continued on page 22) No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 3 NEWS ANALYSIS: Yanukovych and oligarchs – short or long-term relationship? by Taras Kuzio the oligarchs? with Mr. Lyovochkin and Security presidential elections (when he ran Mr. Eurasia Daily Monitor In a constitutional, legal environment Service of Ukraine (SBU) Chairman Yanukovych’s dirty tricks shadow cam- where anything can be changed and Valeriy Khoroshkovsky. Messrs. paign) and the 2010 local elections Ukraine’s October 31 local elections retracted, including by the Constitutional Khoroshkovsky and Firtash played a stra- (where he headed the Party of Regions deepened Viktor Yanukovych’s and the Court, all decisions are at the whim of the tegic role in Mr. Yanukovych’s election campaign to obtain victory at all costs). Party of Regions’ grip on power. With president. The Konrad Adenauer through their control of Inter, Ukraine’s “Pragmatic” oligarchs have readily parliamentary elections scheduled for Stiftung’s Ukraine director, Nico Lange, most popular television channel. sold their assets (Industrial Union of the September 2012, Mr. Yanukovych is on wrote in Levyi Bereg (October 20) that In addition to the marginalization of Donbas, Zaporizhstal) to unnamed the way to a rapid monopolization of legal instability will deter foreign inves- Mr. Akhmetov, other oligarchs who Russian investors. Russian Prime power that has profound consequences tors as they would be unsure about the aligned with Mr. Yushchenko (Igor Minister Putin chairs Vneshekonombank, for Ukrainian democracy. ability of Ukraine’s notoriously corrupt Kolomoisky) or Ms. Tymoshenko (Sergei which purchased Ukraine’s After his election a decade ago in courts to defend their assets. Additional Taruta, Vitaliy Haidiuk and Konstantin Prominvestbank last year. Russia, it took Vladimir Putin his entire problems exist, such as the high levels of Zhevago) have lost out. Mr. Kolomoisky, Mr. Akhmetov sent a signal through first term in office to accomplish what public distrust and frequent acts of often depicted in terms of business prac- his vote for Parliament’s establishment of Mr. Yanukovych has undertaken in less betrayal by elites of their declared princi- tices as Ukraine’s most odious oligarch, an investigation commission into the than a year. Mr. Yanukovych has taken ples and allies. is in de facto exile in Geneva, as he is RUE gas intermediary. The decision by five steps to remove obstacles to the Rinat Akhmetov, who accumulated his seen as the first likely casualty of a Putin- the Stockholm Arbitration Court in June monopolization of power. The first to go business empire when Mr. Yanukovych style attack on the oligarchs. against the Tymoshenko government’s was Parliament, which has become a rub- was Donetsk governor in 1997-2002, has The Ukrainian media analyzed the confiscation of RUE gas ruled that Mr. ber-stamp institution, followed by televi- been sidelined from the presidential divisions within the Yanukovych camp Firtash/RUE should receive $3.7 billion sion, whose oligarch owners rushed to administration and Mykola Azarov’s gov- between the so-called pro-Russian “gas plus $600 million in damages from prove their loyalty to the new regime. ernment. Meanwhile, the influence of lobby” and pro-European “pragmatists.” Naftohaz Ukrainy – an amount that The third, on October 1, was Ukraine’s Dmytro Firtash, the country’s only west- The former group is allegedly seeking would violate Ukraine’s July agreement return to a presidential Constitution, and ern Ukrainian oligarch, has grown in both to marginalize the “Donetski” (Nestor with the International Monetary Fund a month later the Party of Regions won a institutions. Shufrych and Vladimir Sivkovych), who (IMF). Insiders told EDM that re-pay- majority in local councils in a bitterly Rumors point to Oil and Energy were removed from government posts ment of the compensation could lead to contested election. Minister Yurii Boiko as a potential and sent to the National Security and conflict between Messrs. Yanukovych These four steps were followed by a replacement for Prime Minister Azarov, Defense Council (NSDC). The NSDC, and Firtash. fifth: a coordinated attack on the main who was always seen as a transitional still headed by Akhmetov loyalist Raisa Both groups – the “gas lobby” and the opposition force, the Batkivschyna party figure (Ukrayinska Pravda, October 15). Bohatyriova, has become a “museum” “pragmatists” – believe they can under- led by Yulia Tymoshenko. “October 31 Vice Prime Minister Sergey Tigipko is where the “political enemies of mine democracy at home without harm- will go down in history as the first day of also touted, as is the head of the Lyovochkin” are sent to be preserved as ing Ukraine’s chances of signing a Deep an election without Yulia Tymoshenko,” Presidential Administration, Serhiy “political mummies” (Ukrayinska Free Trade Agreement within an observed Ukrayinska Pravda (November Lyovochkin, a “reserve candidate” who Pravda, October 14). The NSDC’s mar- Association Agreement with the 1). Registration of clone, fake lists of would play a similar role to Viktor ginalization under President Yushchenko European Union. On this point they are Batkivschyna candidates removed Yushchenko in 2000-2001 as the “prime has become complete under President being naïve – as confirmed by the lengthy Batkivschyna from two key strongholds, minister-reformer” rescuing the presi- Yanukovych. Speculation of this type, negotiations over Turkey joining the EU. Lviv and Kyiv, while an “anti-corrup- dent’s international image (Serhiy however, is exaggerated and simplistic. Ukrayinska Pravda analyst (September tion” campaign unveiled financial irregu- Leshchenko in Ukrayinska Pravda, Gazprom aligned with Ms. 24) Mr. Leshchenko positively portrayed larities in the 2007-2010 Tymoshenko September 24, October 14). First Vice Tymoshenko to remove RosUkrEnergo the divisions within the Party of Regions, government that harmed her image. Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev, an (RUE) and confiscate its gas supplies, suggesting, “Maybe these will halt the One social group that still remains Akhmetov loyalist, also has designs on severely denting “pro-Russian” views final destruction of democracy in our independent is the oligarchs, but for how the post. within Ukraine’s “gas lobby.” state.” With Mr. Yanukovych having completed five stages in his political long? Will Mr. Yanukovych follow Mr. Messrs. Boyko and Firtash have long- Meanwhile, Mr. Kliuyev has few Putin in taking a sixth step and eliminate standing ties to the energy sector together “European” values, judging by the 2004 (Continued on page 10)

Protesters at the Kyiv and Khmelnytskyi October. Tens of thousands... rallies held signs and passed out flyers that “All the business- (Continued from page 1) compared the tax code to the Soviet geno- es, beginning with Yanukovych than the protests against cides of Ukrainians in the 1920s and 1930s. Auchan [a French election falsifications that haven’t gained The term “Azarovschyna” was heard supermarket chain] momentum or reached a national scale. among the crowds, referring to Mr. and ending with the The tax protesters represent a diverse Azarov’s 15-year history of drafting tax babtsia [elderly spectrum of Ukrainians that include the legislation that is tailored toward provid- w o m a n ] a t t h e Party of Regions’ stronghold electorates ing bribes to government agents, as well bazaar, should pay in southern and eastern Ukraine. as forcing entrepreneurs to skirt the law identical taxes. While the government dispatched hun- to do business, making it easy to pursue Otherwise it’s unfair dreds of Berkut officers to manhandle criminal prosecutions when needed. competition.” Western-oriented Ukrainians attending Opposition leaders were quick to ride Small-business previous anti-government protests, the the wave of tax protests. Batkivschyna leaders said they’re police were treating the tax protesters far Party Chair Yulia Tymoshenko gave a ready to compromise more delicately, since they arrived from thundering speech encouraging the with the government regions such as Crimea, the Donbas and November 16 protests, and spent nearly on a new tax code, the Kryvbas. an hour afterwards shaking hands and but not the current They carried banner such as “Donbas chatting with the protesters. form in which big In a party statement, People’s Rukh of against tax terror,” threw rolls of toilet business gets an Ukraine Chair Borys Tarasyuk also paper at the Parliament building and unfair advantage. extended his support for the protests, started a collection for Mr. Avarov’s The new tax code declaring, “The Party of Regions is build- retirement fund by filling a metal bucket requires stacks of ing an authoritarian state, which small with their pocket change. new accounting The tax protests gained enormous business greatly interferes with since it is relatively independent from administra- paperwork that most momentum in western Ukraine as well. small-business peo- More than 30,000 entrepreneurs staged a tive levers and punitive organs.” ple can’t afford, hav- daylong strike on November 18 in Small-business leaders sent letters ing neither the time Khmelnytskyi, a popular shopping desti- requesting that President Yanukovych to take care of the nation in the Podillia region. The city’s veto the new tax code, but they weren’t 30 markets were closed as a result. optimistic. They accused the president of accounting nor the Zenon Zawada More than 4,000 entrepreneurs protest- violating his campaign slogans – “We financial ability to Opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko encourages protest- ed at the Khmelnytskyi State Oblast will listen to everyone” – and breaking a hire an accountant. ers against the new tax code gathered at the Verkhovna Administration building, which is the campaign promise of a five-year tax holi- Protesters said Rada on November 16. Behind her a sign reads: “Donbas government organ that implements the day for small business. such claims by Mr. against tax terror.” presidential administration’s policies in Coalition leaders claim they’re merely Kolesnikov – whose the Khmelnytskyi Oblast. leveling the playing field, making small wealth is valued at $231 million – are else’s hands,” said Viktor Kudlai, assis- Just two days earlier, more than 10,000 businesses pay the same taxes that large evidence the nation’s oligarchs want to tant chair of the Odesa Oblast protesters gathered at the same venue. enterprises pay. take for themselves the market share of Association of Employers of Southern After the police refused to allow the lead- “They tell us that we’re paying a tax small business in Ukraine, which the Ukraine. “We’re against that, when they ers to deliver a letter to Khmelnytskyi on profit, an income tax to the pension Association of Employers of Southern do the dirty work through someone else. State Oblast Administration Chair Vasyl fund, and all around us are 100 kiosks Ukraine estimated at about 33 percent. We see that approach everywhere, and Yadukha, the crowd lunged forward and that don’t pay anything,” Vice Prime “Our business won’t stop existing – it we’re truly against that. We’re for a sim- broke through a door. Minister Borys Kolesnikov said in will very successfully end up in someone plified system of taxation.” 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 No. 47 Antonovych awards presented in Washington to two Polish scholars by Yaro Bihun country,” he said. Special to The Ukrainian Weekly And they have done so through a num- ber of assistance projects, as well as these WASHINGTON – Two Polish scholars awards, which, he noted, could be likened were honored by the Omelan and Tatiana to Ukrainian “Nobel prizes.” Antonovych Foundation with this year’s The ambassador also noted that when awards for excellence for their work in newly independent Ukraine’s first diplo- fostering “mutual understanding in mats arrived in Washington, the Polish-Ukrainian relations in literature Antonovyches helped by providing them and culture.” with free housing. Bogumila Berdychowska and As Dr. Martha Bohachevska-Chomiak, Aleksandra Hnatiuk received the awards the chairman of the awards committee, on November 6 at the Embassy of noted before turning the microphone over Ukraine during a special ceremony that to her colleagues on the committee to included Ukrainian Ambassador introduce the honorees, this sort of recog- Olexander Motsyk and Polish nition helps. “Academic work is a lonely Ambassador Robert Kupiecki, who, in endeavor not frequently recognized,” she their remarks to the laureates, members said. of the foundation and guests, noted the Introducing the first of this year’s event’s exceptional meaning in light of recipients, Dr. Berdychowska, Dr. Roman their countries’ developing relationship. Szporluk, professor emeritus of Harvard Ambassador Motsyk also focused on University, noted also that history is cre- Yaro Bihun the philanthropic accomplishments of the ated not only by generals and diplomats. This Antonovych Foundation award laureates for 2010, Bogumila Berdychowska foundation’s Ukrainian American found- “History is also made by poets, philoso- (second from left) and Aleksandra Hnatiuk, pose for photographs in the Ukrainian ers – both now deceased – whose purpose phy professors and other ‘impractical’ Embassy’s historic George Washington Memorial Room with Ukrainian in life, he said, must have been to love individuals” – like those being honored Ambassador Olexander Motsyk (left) and Polish Ambassador Robert Kupiecki. their native Ukraine and help it advance. that evening. “To this end, in 1980 they created the Dr. Berdychowska became active in ities counselor in the Polish Ministry of “I am proud of the fact that my country foundation, which from the very begin- promoting Polish Ukrainian relations in Culture and Arts, and is the author of a was the first in the world to recognize the ning strove to support the intellectual the late 1980s. She organized Ukrainian number of books, including one she co- independence of Ukraine,” she said, “that potential of the Ukrainian people and its cultural festivals, was liaison between the authored with her fellow Antonovych we – Poles and Ukrainians – were able to elite, to develop a strong foundation for opposition groups in the two countries – award winner Alexandra Hnatiuk: “Bunt establish good-neighborly relations, that Ukraine’s progress towards building an Solidarnosc in Poland and the Ukrainian Pokolinnya” (Rebellion of a Generation). tens/hundreds of thousands of young independent, sovereign and democratic Helsinki Group – became national minor- Among those whom she thanked for Ukrainians have come to Poland to study steering her in the direction she took in on scholarships, and that for many of life was the late Vasyl Stus, the Ukrainian them it is their first venture into the out- poet, human rights activist, Soviet politi- side world.” cal prisoner and 1982 recipient of the This was the second occasion this year Dr. Boris Lushniak appointed Antonovych award. Because of him, she deputy surgeon general of U.S. became interested in Ukraine, she said. (Continued on page 10) by Roman B. Worobec WASHINGTON – The U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) announced on Orest Deychakiwsky honored October 20 that Rear Admiral Boris D. Lushniak has been appointed deputy sur- geon general of the United States. He is with Ukrainian state award currently with the Food and Drug Embassy of Ukraine president in 1998-2000. He is a leading Administration (FDA) as the assistant com- expert on Ukraine-U.S. relations. He was WASHINGTON – The Embassy of human and national rights activist during the missioner for counterterrorism policy and Ukraine on November 12 hosted a ceremo- director of the Office of Counterterrorism Soviet era, and has served as an internation- ny during which the state order “For Merit” and Emerging Threats, and will assume his al election observer in every presidential (III degree) was awarded to Orest new duties at the end of November. and parliamentary elections in Ukraine. Deychakiwsky, policy advisor at the U.S. In his new position Dr. Lushniak will On numerous occasions Mr. serve as the surgeon general’s chief advisor Commission on Security and Cooperation Deychakiwsky contributed to drafting U.S. on the nation’s public health priorities and, in Europe (Helsinki Commission). Congress resolutions and statements on as the chief operating officer, will oversee a Presenting the high state award of Ukraine, including those related to human cadre of some 6,400 uniformed officers of Ukraine, Ambassador Olexander Motsyk rights and democracy issues, Chornobyl and the USPHS. expressed his appreciation to Mr. the Holodomor. He has organized many Dr. Lushniak was born in Chicago to Deychakiwsky for his leading role in the briefings and hearings on Ukraine that have post-World War II Ukrainian immigrants, Ukrainian American community, as well as been held in the U.S. Congress by the and received his early education in for his personal contributions to the cause of Helsinki Commission. Ukrainian schools. He holds B.S. and M.D. Rear Adm. Boris D. Lushniak, who has restoration and development of the indepen- (Editor’s note: The Ukrainian state award degrees from Northwestern University been appointed deputy surgeon general dent Ukrainian state. for Mr. Deychakiwsky was announced by (Chicago), a Master’s of Public Health from of the United States. Mr. Deychakiwsky is one of the founders President Viktor Yushchenko in January of Harvard University, and is board certified in of The Washington Group and served as its this year under decree No. 53/2010.) dermatology and preventive medicine gation of the subsequent anthrax attacks in (occupational). Washington. He joined the USPHS in 1988 as a lieu- In 2004 Capt. Lushniak transferred to the tenant in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, FDA to become the chief medical officer of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the Office of Counterterrorism, rising to (CDC.) His first posting was at the National assistant commissioner of the office in 2005. Institute for Occupational Safety and Health He also headed the humanitarian efforts of (NIOSH) in Cincinnati, where he conduct- the Department of Health and Human ed epidemiologic research and completed a Services in San Antonio following residency in dermatology. Hurricane Katrina, and was the FDA’s Dr. Lushniak was promoted to captain in Deputy Incident Commander for the 2009 the USPHS in 2000, to rear admiral (lower influenza pandemic. half) in 2006, and to rear admiral (upper Rear Adm. Lushniak is a member of sev- half) in 2010. He also holds an academic eral American professional organizations, as appointment as adjunct professor of derma- well as the Shevchenko Scientific Society, tology at the Uniformed Service University the Ukrainian Medical Association of North of the Health Sciences, and serves on the America and Plast Ukrainian Scouting dermatology staff of the National Naval Organization. He has received numerous Medical Center. awards and honors from his professional Over the years Dr. Lushniak undertook peers and the USPHS, including the special assignments in Bangladesh, St. American Medical Association’s Dr. Croix, Russia and Kosovo, and voluntary William Beaumont Award in Medicine. missions in Ukraine. He was on the CDC/ He is married to Dr. Patricia Cusumano, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine NIOSH response team at Ground Zero in and they have two daughters, Larissa, 13, Orest Deychakiwsky (left) is presented the state award of Ukraine “For Merit” New York City, and engaged in the investi- and Stephanie, 11. (III degree) by Ambassador Olexander Motsyk. No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 5

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM A look back at UNA Seniors Week 2010 at Soyuzivka by Oksana Trytjak us; we will miss their interest and their warmth. KERHONKSON, N.Y. – They say The Seniors’ Club is blessed with truly “Life begins at 40.” That can very well be enthusiastic and hard-working individu- true, since all the participants of UNA als without whom the annual event would Seniors Week at Soyuzivka were well not be possible. A combination of great over 40 and were having a great time. people work together for the success of The UNA Seniors’ Week, which took the event. The helping hands, devotion place this past June, was hosted by and professional expertise of the follow- Soyuzivka for seniors of Ukrainian heri- ing participants and speakers should be tage. From far and wide, they arrived to noted. The executives, Ihor Hayda, vice enjoy Soyuzivka’s beautiful mountain president; Olia Trytyak, secretary; setting where the air is fresh, the food Marijka Tomorug, treasurer; who readily divine and the entertainment unbeatable. accepted their positions. Dionizia They also took advantage of the comfort- Brochynsky, who with good humor and able atmosphere to reconnect and remi- capable hands, ran the conference for the nisce with old friends, and to meet new entire week. Tamara Huryn, from Miami friends as well. Beach, who volunteered her expertise and This year there were 106 participants led a much needed exercise program. from Arizona, California, Connecticut, In addition, members joined these Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, committees: Nomination Committee – Oksana Trytjak New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, Alexander Serafyn, Natalka Duma and Enjoying an evening gathering are: (seated, from left) Geraldine Nadberezny, as well as Canada. Nadia Sharan; Verification Committee – Vira Staruch (standing) Bohdan Kotys, Ihor Hayda, Longin Staruch, Myroslaw Registration was held on Sunday after- Jaroslava Rubel, Irena Kurowycky and Zielyk, Myroslaw Nadberezny noon in the Main House library and con- Oksana Lopatynsky; Resolutions tinued throughout the week as guests Committee – Volodymyra Bilaniuk, arrived. In the evening, the traditional Gloria Horbaty and Eugene Kulyk; and sing-along and wine-and-cheese party Auditors Committee – Metodij Boretsky, started the week off in good spirits. It was Christine Turcheniuk and Anna wonderful to see participants meeting up Hawryliuk. All committees members exe- and sharing a year’s worth of experiences cuted their duties diligently. since their last reunion. During this week various fund-raisers Participants enjoyed sharing photos of were held to fill the UNA Seniors’ cof- their grandchildren and great-grandchil- fers. George and Marijka Soltys ran the dren. They also shared the sorrows of fun-loving traditional Bingo game. Mr. each other’s lost loved ones. Soltys’ experience in running other bingo Among the great losses deeply felt this games proved invaluable to our bingo year, by all seniors were long-time presi- success. He was also in charge of the auc- dents of the UNA Seniors Eugene tion and, due to his determination, good Woloshyn and Anna Chopek. These pio- humor and the help of his wife and Joan neers who saw the need to organize our Humsted, the auction collected over group ran the Seniors’ Club successfully $600. for decades. All were deeply touched by Most of the seniors’ evenings began the loss of Rostyslav and Ija Wasylenko with wine and cheese, some card-playing and Jaroslav Kurowycky. Mr. Wasylenko and many sing-alongs. One evening On the Veselka patio (from left) are: Ihor Hayda, Marijka Soltys, UNA President was our chief entertainer, a man filled Alexander Redko entertained the audi- Stefan Kaczaraj, Marijka Mychalczak, Mykola Mychalczak, Zenovia Serafyn with song, poetry, recitation and great ence with his good humor and anecdotes. and Dr. Alexander Serafyn. humor. Mrs. Wasylenko was our treasur- Another evening Bohdan Polansky er, a gentle woman who was always kind, shared some wonderful photographs of the upcoming Ukrainian Cultural strated how easily one can form beautiful supportive and quick to help in any Mykola Hajduk’s churches from Festival, which showcased Haydamaky, a bouquets, from the simple to the exotic. capacity. She had a great ability to wel- Lemkivschyna. He also organized a dis- Ukrainian Kozak rock band from The women enjoyed her demonstration, come one and all to the group. Mr. play of landscape drawings by Tyrs Ukraine. Mr. Paslawsky also answered and the men asked many questions about Kurowycky, though present at Seniors Venhrynovych, also from Lemkivshyna. questions about the various camps for the the flowers. week only once, left a truly positive, Seniors’ Week was filled with interest- participants’ grandchildren and listed all Mr. Hayda, UNA Seniors’ vice-presi- engaging and supportive influence on our ing and entertaining speakers. the special events that are held through- dent spoke on nutrition. He shared many group. Each and every individual touched Our host, Nestor Paslawsky, out the year at Soyuzivka. interesting specifics about the preparation Soyuzivka’s manager, welcomed the Speaker Barbara Woodruff, a local flo- of food and nutritional facts about what Oksana Trytjak is president of the UNA seniors and was eager to answer any rist and designer, greeted the group with Seniors. questions about Soyuzivka. He promoted large bouquets of flowers. She demon- (Continued on page 21)

Marianna Zajac, president of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of Inside the Veselka auditorium are: (seated from left) Olha Trytyak, Luba America, is flanked by Tom Hawrylko (left) and Prof. Alexander Motyl of Huraleczko, Ivanka Martynec, (standing) Natalia Duma, Slava Rubel and Iryna Rutgers University. Kurowycky.

THE UNA: 116 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 No. 47

FOR THE RECORD The Ukrainian Weekly Giving thanks Russian-Ukrainian relations: As the quintessentially American holiday of Thanksgiving approaches, we Ukrainians here in the United States should take a moment to give thanks for all Assessing their present status we have and all we have achieved – often against great odds. No doubt we have Following are remarks by Borys from building a sound partnership with the much to be grateful for on a personal level, but there are also things that we as a Tarasyuk, chair of the Committee on Ukrainian leadership, which was pursuing community must treasure. Just by perusing recent issues of this paper, we can European Integration in Ukraine’s its twin goals of democratic development point to myriad examples. Verkhovna Rada, delivered on October 21 and European/Euro-Atlantic cooperation. First there are our parishes, the cornerstones of our community life – many of in Washington at “Ukraine’s Quest for However, after the election of Viktor which have already celebrated their centennials and the oldest of which is 126 Mature Nation Statehood Roundtable XI: Yanukovych as president of Ukraine, years old. And there are scores of younger parishes, including those in areas Compelling Bilateral Ties/Germany- Russian-Ukrainian relations visibly inten- where new Ukrainian communities have sprung up, that also play leading roles Ukraine and Russia-Ukraine.” sified. By displaying active enthusiasm, in our hromada. regular visits and joint initiatives, the Then there are our fraternals, foremost among them the Ukrainian National Sadly, it has become obvious that the Kremlin praised and promoted “the loyalty Association, founded back in 1894. The UNA today continues to provide for the current process of Ukrainian “mature to cooperation” visible on the side of the needs of its members through its insurance products and financial services and to nation-building” has embarked on a faulty new Ukrainian leadership. For the new care for the well-being of the community at large through its fraternal activities path. In recent months, Ukraine has rapid- Ukrainian authorities, highlighting (such as its newspapers and the Soyuzivka Heritage Center). Not to be forgotten ly reversed its course towards democracy “improving” Russian-Ukrainian relations is the UNA’s charitable arm, the Ukrainian National Foundation, which promotes and alarmed the international community became an easy way to offset its failure to educational, cultural and humanitarian endeavors, among them the very success- with breaches of the rule of law and viola- provide economic and social improve- ful Ukrainian Cultural Festival at Soyuzivka. tions of democratic principles. ments promised during the election cam- Our community is rich when we consider the diverse organizations it encom- The current political situation in paign. passes. A very fine example is the Ukrainian National Women’s League of Ukraine has been reflected in the several Today, the Ukrainian policy towards America, which just recently marked its 85th anniversary. That translates into 85 stern resolutions issued by such organiza- Russia has become nothing else than a years of uniting women of Ukrainian descent in this country and 85 years of cul- tions as the Parliamentary Assembly of the consistent surrender across the whole tural, educational and charitable projects implemented by dedicated and hard- Council of Europe, the European People’s political, security, economic and humani- working volunteers. Party and the Parliamentary Forum of the tarian spectrum of Ukraine’s national Our credit unions, in addition to providing financial services to members, col- Community of Democracies. The con- interests in favor of the Russian lectively provide huge amounts of money in support of community groups and cerns raised have pertained to democratic Federation. projects, whether that’s the Ukrainian American Youth Association branch in backsliding, curtailment of fundamental In the foreign policy and security sec- Palatine, Ill., or the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Indeed, credit unions freedoms such as freedom of speech and tor, Ukrainian authorities, bowing to are our financial backbone. peaceful assembly, the undermining of the Russia, in April swiftly approved prolon- There are also institutions such as the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural independence of the judicial power gation of a lease for the Russian Black Sea Center in Jenkintown, Pa., which was founded 30 years ago to preserve and pro- branch, harassment against representatives Fleet in Sevastopol until 2042. Besides mote awareness of the Ukrainian heritage in the Philadelphia area, and the much of the opposition, intimidation of violating the Constitution and discarding younger Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey (our neighbor), Ukrainian civil society and international national legislation, as well as ignoring located in Whippany, N.J., which this year put Ukrainians on the map of Morris NGOs, among other matters. decisions presented by various parliamen- County with its well-attended inaugural Ukrainian Festival. Although somewhat Such a severe assessment by the inter- tary committees and neglecting the voice similar to the Ukrainian national homes of the past, these new types of centers national democratic community broadly of civil society, Ukrainian authorities have become regional forces within our communities and venues around which featured and reiterated by a number of for- introduced a dangerous factor of intoler- local organizations unite in common purpose. eign leaders, however, has failed to ance and instability onto Ukrainian soil. We should also be thankful for the local branches of our organizations, say the impact the actual policies and deeds on the Having locked in the presence of Russian Boston branch of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, which recently side of the Ukrainian authorities. Instead, troops on Ukrainian territory, the govern- marked its 60th anniversary, or local branches of Plast Ukrainian Scouting the current Ukrainian government hails the ment rushed to fulfill the other ultimate Organization, many of which are also celebrating six decades of success. These establishment of what it calls political sta- Russian goal: termination of Ukraine’s and many other local organizations (dance ensembles, seniors’ groups, veterans’ bility, pragmatic economic policy and Euro-Atlantic integration, as enshrined in posts, Ukrainian schools, etc.) are what keep Ukrainian Americans of all ages improvement of relations with Russia. the official Russian Foreign Policy Concept engaged and involved in our community. The panel at which I am honored to framework. The bill titled “On the Giving thanks for all the blessings we Ukrainian Americans enjoy should lead speak focuses on the current stage of Fundamentals of Domestic and Foreign to giving of another sort, just as Thanksgiving leads to Christmas. When we pres- Ukrainian-Russian relations. These cru- Policies,” passed on July 1, failed to offer ent gifts to those nearest and dearest to us – our families and friends, we should cially important relations have been recog- any conceptually innovative approaches to also remember the institutions, organizations and groups near and dear to our nized as entering a new stage after the domestic and foreign priorities, but did hearts. Let us give a little something back to those who offer us so much. Presidential elections in February and exempt or exclude provisions on Ukraine’s have been labeled by many in Kyiv and Euro-Atlantic integration – that is, NATO Moscow as the “Russian-Ukrainian membership – from the legislation. Reconciliation.” Instead, the new regime took to promot- I would like to state that this term is ing the enshrinement of a “non-bloc sta- Nov. Turning the pages back... persistently applied by the Kremlin in tus,” which for Ukraine implies the role of order to demonstrate its loyalty to and a buffer zone on the European periphery accord with the new Ukrainian authorities exposed to growing global challenges such 22 and to bully their predecessors, who are as arms proliferation, human trafficking, Six years ago, on November 22, 2004, the Organization for blamed for worsening relations between smuggling, terrorism and human rights 2004 Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) stated in a pre- Ukraine and Russia after the Orange abuses. liminary report that the second round of the presidential elec- Revolution. Another dangerous courtesy towards tion in Ukraine did not meet a considerable number of OSCE However, I would like to dismiss this Russia was an obscure decision to return commitments, Council of Europe and other European standards for democratic elec- notion by shortly quoting several figures. to Sevastopol the Russian counterintelli- tions. The statement by the International Election Observation Mission concluded that Somehow, it is rarely mentioned that the gence units that were previously removed state authorities and the Central Election Commission displayed a lack of will to con- trade turnover between Ukraine and Russia from Ukraine in 2009. In the meantime, duct a genuine democratic election process. has continuously grown since 2005. For the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) The mission reported incidents of public-sector employees and students being pres- instance, Ukraine’s export to Russia decided to terminate the work of sured to support Viktor Yanukovych, who was prime minister in 2004. “The deficien- increased by 27 percent in 2005, 15 percent Ukrainian counterintelligence activity in cies have not been addressed,” said Bruce George, president emeritus of the in 2006, 46 percent in 2007 and 24 percent Russia. This untied the hands of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE and the special coordinator for the short-term in 2008, according to the Ukrainian State Russian security services to freely operate observers. “The abuse of state resources in favor of the prime minister continued, as Statistical Committee. And it was only in in Ukraine, thus exposing the country to well as an overwhelming media bias in his favor.” the midst of the global economic melt- numerous security risks. “The figures and reports about the unjustified increase in the use of absentee voter down, when exports fell by 24 percent. In the economic dimension of bilateral certificates and the even higher increase of mobile voting, cast a shadow over the gen- And the same with imports, which grew relations, Ukrainian authorities managed uineness of the results,” said Lucio Malan, head of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly by 5 percent, 7 percent, 22 percent and 15 to keep the same pace of subordination. delegation. “Moreover, the turnout in some territorial election commissions in percent in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 Donetsk, exceeding 98.5 percent, and increasing by 21 percent after the first round, are The current Russian economic agenda pur- respectively; and fell by 32 percent in the sues a goal of modernization and techno- unrealistic and highly suspicious.” crisis year of 2009. At the same time, it Observers noted more serious violations, including some isolated incidents of vio- logical breakthrough to be achieved by was Ukraine that was subjected to several benefitting from the strategic and geo- lence, and a pattern of intimidation, including acts directed toward the observers, poll- bans on its dairy and meat products and ing commission members and individual voters. In some instances commission mem- graphical potential of neighboring coun- experienced a “gas confrontation” imple- tries, particularly and extensively from the bers had been dismissed from polling stations, or unauthorized persons were interfer- mented by Russia in 2006 and 2009. ing in or directing the process, or otherwise attempting to influence the voters. Ukrainian energy, aviation and heavy The assumption to be drawn from the industries. The ballot-counting process, observers assessed, was worse than in the first round mentioned facts is that perhaps Russia was of elections on October 31, 2004, with reports of poorer overall organization, and In the atomic energy sector, the previous- not seeking mutually beneficial coopera- ly established cooperation with U.S.-based tion in its relations with Ukraine at the (Continued on page 10) time. On the contrary, Russia abstained (Continued on page 10) No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 7

COMMENTARY Differences on Holodomor: Harper vs. Yanukovych by Lubomyr Luciuk Where is our Stephen Harper? I witnessed an odd event recently. A states- By any standard you choose, the recent “But approval.” he writes, “required una- man stood hallowing a visit of Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen nimity, and both Angela Merkel and Nicolas genocide’s victims in Harper to Ukraine was a triumph. Sarkozy, the new president of France, were the country where it “The message to Ukrainian President skeptical. They knew Georgia and Ukraine occurred while its presi- Viktor Yanukovych was unmistakable,” had tense relationships with Moscow, and dent ignored the cere- wrote John Ibbitson in the Toronto Globe they worried NATO could draw [them] into mony, insisting there and Mail. “Canada wants closer ties with a war with Russia. They were also con- was no genocide. Ukraine, but only if Ukraine is free.” cerned about corruption. I thought the threat Canada’s prime min- Mr. Harper’s trip “contained some sub- from Russia strengthened the case for ister, Stephen Harper, stance,” wrote Mr. Ibbitson, but much more extending MAPs to Georgia and Ukraine,” showed respect for symbol, tying the pain Ukraine has endured Mr. Bush concludes. Ukraine’s dead. Viktor to the new trials the young democracy faces “Russia would be less likely to engage in Yanukovych, Ukraine’s at the hands of its current president. “The aggression if those countries were on a path president, did not. most poignant moment came as Mr. Harper into NATO. As for the governance issues, a Reportedly, he has never honored the dead of Holodomor at a memo- step toward membership would encourage entered the Kyiv muse- rial built to commemorate the millions of them to clean up corruption. We agreed on a um to the Holodomor, Ukrainians killed through starvation by compromise. We would not grant Georgia the Great Famine of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in 1932-1933. and Ukraine MAPs... but we would issue a 1932-1933 in Soviet A somber-looking Mr. Harper laid a pot of statement announcing that they were des- Ukraine. grain at the ‘Sad Memory of Childhood,’ a tined for future membership in NATO,” he Yet Mr. Yanukovych’s statue of a wraith-thin young girl.” writes. behavior was all but A substantive consensus was reached Unfortunately, Mr. Bush is no longer ignored, while Mr. between Canada and Ukraine regarding president, and Ms. Merkel and that pathetic Harper’s words became increased free-trade and “a youth mobility poltroon Mr. Sarkozy have apparently adopt- the story. When he said agreement that will make it easier for young ed the “Vichy” mentality currently paralyz- “almost” 10 million peo- Canadians and Ukrainians to travel and ing Western Europe. ple starved, roughly work in each other’s country,” Mr. Ibbiton So, where do we go from here? I was Canada’s population in explained. “But Mr. Harper kept circling pleased to read that Democratic Central 1933, his critics accused back to the question of human rights – and Committee Chairman Tim Kaine met with him of poppycock. by implication, the threat of their loss – in members of the DNC’s National Democratic Scything several million Ukraine.” Ethnic Coordinating Committee. off the death toll they According to the Vancouver Sun, Mr. Representing Ukrainians were Democrats insisted only a few mil- The Candle of Remembrance at the entrance to the Harper announced “$36 million in aid for Julian Kulas, Andrew Fedynsky and Ulana lion perished, a lesser Holodomor Memorial Museum in Kyiv. projects to improve Ukraine’s customs ser- Mazurkevich, architects of the successful booboo. vice, job training, municipal economic Ukrainian 2008 vote-getting campaign for Scholarly estimates of Holodomor- In “Stalin’s Genocides,” Prof. Norman development, regional governance and juve- Mr. Obama. Unfortunately, nothing in the related deaths do vary. A credible study Naimark of Stanford University writes: nile justice system.” DNC press release mentioned anything about by Jacques Vallin, one of France’s lead- “The bottom line is that Stalin, Molotov, Significantly, Mr. Harper met with Ukrainian Democrats bringing up Ukraine’s ing demographers, concluded that 2.6 Kaganovich and their ilk were convinced Ukrainian Catholic University rector Father current slide toward authoritarian rule. I look million died of hunger. To this he added a that the Ukrainian peasants as a group Borys Gudziak, who was recently warned forward to hearing from Ukrainian Democrats on this issue in the future. crisis birth deficit of 1.1 million and were ‘enemies of the people’ who by an SBU agent regarding UCU students At least the Democrats have an ethnic about a million more transported to the deserved to die. That was enough for the protesting Yanukovych’s policies. Speaking coordinating committee. The Republican Gulag – 4.6 million lives lost to Soviet Soviet leadership; that should be enough to UCU students later, Mr. Harper, a National Committee (RNC) had one many Ukraine over a year. Even this conserva- to conclude that the Ukrainian famine Conservative, called the Terror-Famine a years ago called the Heritage Groups tive figure places the Holodomor along- was genocide.” genocide – not surprising since he was prime Council, which included the Ukrainian side the Shoah as one of history’s greatest Dr. Raphael Lemkin, the “father of the minister when the Canadian Parliament for- [U.N.] Genocide Convention” thought so mally designated Stalin’s 1932-1933 starva- National Republican Federation overseeing crimes against humanity. 20 Ukrainian GOP state organizations. That From a Canadian perspective, think of too. In 1953 he spoke of this famine as tion of Ukraine a genocide. part of a genocidal Soviet campaign tar- Other important visits by Mr. Harper all ended during the “Bush 41” era when the everyone in Toronto starving between GOP disbanded the group in response to today and next Thanksgiving. Or, using geting the Ukrainian nation. were to Lviv’s National Memorial Prison Given President Yanukovych’s servile Museum and with Yulia Tymoshenko, leader assorted leftists and Jewish agitators who Prof. Robert Conquest’s calculation of 17 launched the scurrilous claim that certain of people dying every minute, 25,000 per catering to the Kremlin’s Holodomor- of the opposition. denying yarn, I might have quit Ukraine Perhaps the most significant aspect of the the “heritage groups,” especially Ukrainians, day at the Famine’s height, reflect on were “anti-Semitic.” Jewish influence on the how 17 men, women and children died of in despair but for an encounter at a popu- trip was that the Harper delegation to lar Ukrainian-cuisine restaurant. A young Ukraine included Ukrainian Canadian orga- GOP, it seems, lingers until the present – an hunger between the time you began this astounding fact given that recent statistics article and got to this line. At that rate of mother and daughter, visiting from nizational leaders such as Paul Grod, presi- France, were taking lunch with an 8-year- dent of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress; indicate that the vast majority of Jewish mortality my hometown of Kingston, Americans are Democrats. Ontario, would be emptied of souls in a old lad, their Kyiv cousin. We shared a Eugene Czolij, president of the Ukrainian table. The boy was practicing French but, World Congress; Bohdan Onyschuk, presi- I applaud Ukrainian Canadians for their week. towering accomplishments. We Ukrainian Every serious student of the Soviet overhearing us, tried his English. I asked dent of the Canada Ukraine Foundation; and what he wanted to do: “Study at Zenon Potichnij of the Canada Ukraine Americans can never hope to achieve that Union accepts that a famine occurred in kind of political success primarily because 1932-1933 – a consequence of Cambridge!” What subjects? “History Chamber of Commerce. and mathematics.” Had he been abroad? Ukrainian Americans: I ask you. Where is Ukrainians there enjoy a much larger per- Communist policies, not a bad harvest – centage of the total Canadian population and that millions could have been saved “Yes, to Paris.“ Which city did he prefer? our Stephen Harper? Has President Barack Obama visited than Ukrainians do here compared to the but were instead left to die. “Both are nice but I’ll take Kyiv. I’m Ukraine? No. Vice-President Joe Biden, the American population. But was it genocide? Ukrainian, after all.” reset-with-Russia guy, did, but all I remem- In addition, Ukrainian Canadians are bet- Given the blockade of Soviet I’d bet he gets to Cambridge. There’s ber him saying was that Ukrainian women ter organized. The November conclave of Ukraine’s borders to prevent aid coming hope. No matter what Moscow’s men still are beautiful. I agree, but that is not exactly a the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) is in, or anyone leaving, the significant attempt, millions of Ukrainians are now living, working and studying abroad. geopolitical declaration of note. Secretary of testimony to that. Unlike the Ukrainian grain exports that continued despite offi- More leave daily. Some will learn State Hillary Clinton was a little more forth- Congress Committee of America (UCCA), cial knowledge of catastrophic famine Ukraine’s history better in the diaspora right during her visit to Ukraine when she proudly dominated by leaders of one politi- conditions, the wholesale confiscation of than they are today permitted to in their confirmed America’s continued commitment cal ideology, the UCC is far more inclusive all foodstuffs from Ukrainian lands, and own homeland. Many will return and to America’s strategic relationship with in its membership. UCC influence, more- how the Soviets and their shills orches- over, stretches from the Pacific to the won’t be fooled again. Ukraine, a program initiated by President trated a campaign of Holodomor-denial Atlantic oceans while the UCCA holds sway So Mr. Yanukovych is slated for the George W. Bush. for decades, the answer is certainly yes. from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Michigan. dustbin of history while Mr. Harper can Mr. Bush mentions Ukraine – part of his When it comes to inclusiveness and orga- stand proud. He placed Canada in the “Freedom Agenda” – in “Decision Points,” nization, we Ukrainian Americans can learn Lubomyr Luciuk is a professor at the ranks of the righteous few among nations his recently published memoir. Mr. Bush much from our brethren north of the border. Royal Military College of Canada and who recognize the Holodomor as geno- reveals that he was “a strong supporter” of co-editor of “Holodomor: Reflections on cide and thus confound those who won’t approving NATO Membership Action Plans the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Soviet – the perpetrators and their issue, who (MAPs) – the final step prior to NATO Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is Ukraine” (Kashtan Press, 2008). remain unclean, perhaps forevermore. membership – for Ukraine and Georgia. 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UKRAINE’S LOCAL ELECTIONS: Systemic violations, falsifications by Zenon Zawada Regions to spend the following weekend Kyiv Press Bureau appointing its loyal commissioners to the election commissions, alleged the Svoboda The Ukrainian Weekly’s Kyiv Press party. No precinct election commission had a Bureau decided to collect a comprehensive Svoboda representative, despite the fact that list of the major systemic violations and fal- Svoboda is the most popular party in the sifications that transpired during the Lviv Oblast. The party filed a criminal com- October 31 local elections in order to offer plaint against Svitlana Alyeksadrova of the evidence that they didn’t meet international Party of Regions for pressuring the commis- democratic standards. While the list is exten- sion to reach its ruling. sive, it doesn’t contain all the major inci- The Organization for Security and dents and techniques involved. Those inter- Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) requires that ested in further details are encouraged to election commissions be formed on a politi- consult the sources The Weekly used in com- cally and professionally balanced basis, piling this list. which was not done for the October 31 elec- Anti-democratic conditions tions, Opora reported. The lack of balance on territorial and precinct election commissions The Verkhovna Rada voted on February was laid down in the law, while unclear cri- 16 to postpone the date of local elections teria for selecting the chairs, deputies and beyond May 30, in violation of the secretaries of these election commissions led Constitution of Ukraine. President Viktor to an unjustified advantage to the parties in Yanukovych requested this legislation in power, Opora stated in its November 4 state- Victor E. Glasko order to ensure that his political chain of ment on the elections. Election commissioners in the Cherkasy Oblast ask elderly voters to wait until command – including the police, courts and The Party of Regions secured for itself 26 they enter voting booths to mark their ballots. Long lines caused hundreds of state administration network – would be in percent of the positions of chair, vice-chair elderly to cast their votes outside of booths. place for the elections, enabling a nationwide and secretary of precinct election commis- system of falsification, charged a November sions, Opora found when analyzing 52 per- and the U.S. government. The law’s passage Council, Ternopil City Council, Luhansk 3 statement signed by 10 opposition parties. cent of the commissions. The election law within months of election day violated the City Council and Oleksandrivka City On July 1 the Verkhovna Rada approved was supposed to award 20 percent of seats to standards of the Venice Commission of the Council. Batkivschyna was also denied the the first reading of the local elections law, the Party of Regions, and distribute the Council of Europe, which recommends no ability to compete in elections to eight dis- which failed to meet international, democrat- remaining posts evenly among the four changes to election legislation within a year trict councils and six city councils in the ic standards and tilted control of the elections remaining parliamentary factions (three of of a vote. Opora confirmed the law was Kyiv Oblast. Batkvischyna was the victim of process in favor of the Party of Regions of which consist of competing parties). changed with “political motivations.” a new election technology of party cloning, in which rogue factions within the party gain Ukraine, on all government levels. Most Batkivschyna earned 12.5 percent of seats, Election observers concluded the 50-day recognition as the official party from the notably, the legislation gave the parliamenta- the People’s Party of Ukraine had 8 percent, campaign period was too short a time to hold courts, Justice Ministry and election com- ry coalition the majority of seats on all elec- the Communist Party had 6.5 percent, the elections that conformed to international missions, all of which are controlled by the tion commissions, creating “an uncontrolled Regions-satellite Strong Ukraine had 3.7 standards. “Some favorable amendments Party of Regions. This way, the falsification mechanism in commissions at percent and Our Ukraine had 3 percent. were made in August in response to domes- Batkivschyna party that appears on voting all levels,” the November 3 statement said. The law’s second reading was approved tic and international concerns, but serious ballots is in reality a clone party loyal to the For example, 13 of the 18 commissioners on on July 10 and signed by President problems related to timing and content Party of Regions. Lviv’s main territorial election commission Yanukovych on July 27. The Verkhovna remained, which combined with a shortened Cloning also involved recruiting candi- were Party of Regions members. Meanwhile Rada approved amendments to the law, as campaign period to foster confusion,” report- dates with identical names as the leading none of Donetsk’s 420 precinct election ed the U.S.-based National Democratic concessions to the outraged opposition and contenders. Serhii Odarych, the Cherkasy commissions had a Batkivschyna party rep- Institute. international community, on August 30. City Council chair running for re-election, resentative. Nevertheless “the approval of the new law Evidence of systemic violations of law was challenged by a 23-year-old with the The Lviv Territorial Election Commission on local elections on the eve of voting day same name and initials. Meanwhile precinct violated election law on October 15 when it without wide public discussions worsened its The Batkivschyna party, led by opposi- election commissioners marked candidate reached a decision forming precinct election quality,” reported the Opora civic network, tion leader Yulia Tymoshenko, was denied for city council chair Roman Scherbyna of commissions without approving their mem- Ukraine’s largest election-monitoring organi- the ability to compete in elections for the bers, as required. That enabled the Party of zation, which is financed by Western grants Lviv Oblast and City Council, Kyiv Oblast (Continued on page 9)

ernment has enough votes to approve Citizens' committee... them. (Continued from page 1) He said he’s periodically threatened “This was a consequence of the with prosecution for punishment for vio- Stalinist totalitarian regime and its attitude lating the law, which states that public towards people,” Mr. Yanukovych said. denial of the Holodomor as genocide dis- “But to recognize the Holodomor as a fact honors the memory of millions of victims of genocide against this or another people, of the Holodomor and degrades the digni- we believe isn’t correct and unjust. This ty of the Ukrainian people. was a tragedy, a general tragedy of states At the November 17 press conference of the new citizens’ committee, The which were part of the USSR.” Ukrainian Weekly asked whether the His Holodomor policy marked a com- committee would cooperate with the plete reversal of that of his predecessor, Yanukovych administration in organizing Mr. Yushchenko, who made the recogni- events under the condition that the tion of the Holodomor a central theme of Holodomor would not be referred to as his presidency. President Yanukovych genocide, and instead a collective tragedy even removed materials about the of Soviet peoples. Zenon Zawada Holodomor from the presidential website Former Director of the Institute of Former Vice Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs Ivan Vasiunyk (left) and the day he was inaugurated. National Memory Ihor Yukhnovskyi Ukrainian World Congress General Secretary Stefan Romaniw are co-coordina- After his remarks in Strasbourg, scores avoided the question, underlining that the tors of the Citizens’ Committee to Honor the Memory of the Holodomor- of criminal lawsuits were filed against the Holodomor was genocide against the Genocide Victims of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. president complaining that he violated Ukrainian people. Soviet dissident Yevhen Ukrainian law, which forbids public denial Sverstiuk stressed that the main focus of pretext to argue with the opposition. dictator Joseph Stalin in which millions of the Holodomor as genocide. the event involves lighting a candle of These days will come, and we will hold died as a result of the forced collectiviza- Nevertheless the pro-Russian govern- memory and remembering the casualties. the appropriate events.” tion of agriculture, the seizure by the state ment of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov is “It’s not necessary to politicize this event,” Among those participating in the com- of crops, food and food-preparation tools, intent on reversing any gains achieved in he said. mittee is Hennadii Ivanuschenko, the the sealing of Ukraine’s borders to prevent Holodomor recognition during the The Presidential Administration will director of the Sumy State Archives who starving people from leaving the country Yushchenko presidency. honor the memory of the Holodomor at has been pressured by local government in search of food, and the blacklisting and Valerii Soldatenko, director of the the highest level, its first deputy chair, officials to resign his post. targeted destruction of villages that resist- Institute of National Memory, told a Hanna Herman, told the Komersant- Mr. Ivanuschenko is among the leading ed the authorities. September 30 gathering of the Ukrainian Ukrayina newspaper in a story published Holodomor archivists in Ukraine, having The Institute of Demography and diaspora in Moscow that the law passed on November 18. digitized more than 57,000 documents Social Research of the National Academy by the Ukrainian Parliament in November “We share the world opinion that con- related to the Holodomor in the Sumy of Sciences of Ukraine estimated in 2006 recognizing the Holodomor as demns the Stalinist regime which led to Oblast. November 2008 that there were about 3.7 genocide could be amended. He assured horrific casualties,” she said. “But honor- The Holodomor was a genocidal fam- million direct casualties from the them the amendments were already regis- ing the memory of victims isn’t supposed ine organized against the Ukrainian people Holodomor, as well as 1.1 million lost tered in Parliament and the coalition gov- to become an advertisement or the latest in 1932-1933 by the government of Soviet births. No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 9

administration in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast Systemic... reportedly met with government workers – (Continued from page 8) such as teachers and doctors – in the the Front for Change party “excluded” from Yarmolynetskyi District to instruct them to election ballots, instead of marking the name vote for the Party of Regions. of Oleksander Scherbyna, who had dropped Yarmolynetskyi District State Administration out of the election. Chair Ivan Kyryliuk campaigned on behalf Ukraine’s election commissions systemi- of the Party of Regions during his working cally denied hundreds of opposition candi- hours. dates the ability to register their candidacies Other opposition candidates and election while scores of competitors had their candi- commission members were threatened with dacies illegally removed weeks after regis- job dismissals, particularly those employed tering. For example, the Batkivschyna party by the state. A Zhytomyr school principal in had 219 candidates removed from compet- the Kovel district was threatened in late ing for their respective single-winner, sin- September with dismissal because her son gle-mandate districts. Strong Ukraine, led was running with the For Ukraine party. by Sergey Tigipko, was denied the chance Eight candidates from the Front for Change to compete for the Luhansk Oblast Council. party in the Zhytomyr Oblast, all of them Meanwhile Volodymyr Hrytsyshyn of the government-employed, were told to cam- Progressive Socialist Party was removed paign with the Party of Regions or the People’s Party of Ukraine, or else face dis- from competing for the city council chair of Victor E. Glasko missal. A similar threat was posed to more Sieverodonetsk three days before election than a dozen Zhytomyr entrepreneurs, who Verkhovna Rada Vice-Chair Mykola Tomenko assists Cherkasy Oblast Council day. were threatened with tax inspections. The candidate Olena Lystopad in complaining about her mandatory candidate post- The majority of wronged candidates were director of the Kononivskyi educational- ings being missing from polling stations. able to appeal the violations in courts, but developmental complex in the Cherkasy territorial election commissions throughout Oblast in late September forced all his teach- 190,000 fake ballots at the Kubeks print same, with the names of opposition candi- Ukraine selectively adhered to court deci- ers to join the Party of Regions. The director shop in Ivano-Frankivsk. dates either missing or represented as com- sions, or dragged out the process in doing so, of the Kirov mine in Makiyivka, Donetsk (For the first time, the Party of Regions peting for the wrong political seat. For Opora reported. “In this way, candidates reg- Oblast, threatened to dismiss three employ- has a faction in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast example, 10 percent of the ballots in the city istered themselves in the last minute but ees planning to compete with the Council after earning 7 percent of the vote in of Nizhyn in the Chernihiv Oblast had mis- weren’t able to conduct a quality election Batkivschyna party. these elections.) takes. campaign,” Opora said. The creation of Systemic violations are apparent when it’s The Yanukovych administration failed to A study performed by the Batkivschyna obstacles in order to derail election cam- the president himself who flaunts the elec- properly prepare for the printing of ballots – party revealed the government contracted paigning was a deliberate, systemic govern- tion law. President Yanukovych delivered a a process that was implemented without 487 printing shops to print the ballots, only ment strategy, opposition candidates said. national television address on October 30 in strict controls as required by the 1990 30 of which claimed to have the proper The Yanukovych administration which he repeated his campaign slogans sev- Document of the Copenhagen Conference of licensing. “At the same time the Finance employed the Security Service of Ukraine eral times, calling upon Ukrainians to “build the Human Dimension of the Commission Ministry confirmed only four printers with (SBU) to arrest and imprison key candidates a new country.” Electioneering/campaign- on Security and Cooperation in Europe, such licenses, which is less than 1 percent of during the election campaign, denying them ing, it must be noted, is forbidden on the Opora reported. Ballots were usually trans- the total printers that prepared ballots,” the bail and the ability to register their candida- Saturday before election day, thus, the presi- ferred to precinct election commissions November 3 statement said. cies from prison. Kamianets-Podilskyi City dent’s speech was a clear violation of the directly from printers, in violation of the As part of the “managed chaos,” between Council Chair (Mayor) Anatolii Nesteruk law. It came as no surprise that Party of election law which requires their delivery to 20 and 30 percent of polling stations didn’t was arrested on September 20 and impris- Regions campaigners followed the example the central territorial election commission. open in time, “an unprecedented occurrence oned three days later – weeks before he was set by their leader. Supporters in the city of The Odesa Territorial Election in the history of Ukraine’s elections,” report- expected to win re-election handily. He left Izmail, Odesa Oblast, were campaigning for Commission ordered the printing of about 1 ed the November 3 statement. At the same the Batkivschyna party and the city’s territo- the Party of Regions on election day itself at million election ballots, which exceeded time, 128 polling stations opened early on rial election commission denied attempts to various polling stations, the November 3 Odesa’s voting population by about 25 per- election day, Opora reported, denying candi- register him under the Party of Industrialists statement said. cent, reported Brian Mefford of the dates and observers the ability to witness the and Entrepreneurs. The city council chairs The chair of the Sumy territorial election Committee for Open Democracy, which safe’s opening and confirm the presence of the necessary documents. (mayors) of four Crimean towns – commission, Ivan Samsonenko, submitted fielded 96 observers from 14 countries. The While thousands of polling stations didn’t Volodymyr Scherbyna in Alupka, Andrii his resignation nearly two weeks before the committee also reported excess ballots print- receive enough ballots, as witnessed by Kharytonov in Alushta, Anatolii Mamykin in elections, reportedly because he was asked ed in the city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, observers from the Ukrainian Congress Livadia and Viktor Gamal in Gurzuf – were to remove several candidates from the com- Odesa Oblast. Committee of America (UCCA), others also arrested during the election campaign. petition, Opora said. “My blood pressure has The polling stations of the Volyn Oblast received excess amounts, offering systemic Andrii Ambrosonko, candidate for the risen and I still want to live,” he reportedly had more than 100,000 excess, unregistered evidence of ballot-stuffing. More than 4,000 Donetsk City Council from the Single told his co-workers before leaving. voting ballots, reported Ihor Huz, the chair ballots were delivered to a rural tuberculosis Center party, was arrested on October 22 by Law enforcement organs and government of the Volyn oblast organization of the For clinic in the Kherson Oblast where only 700 the SBU and remains imprisoned, as do the authorities reacted inadequately to reports of Ukraine party. Scores of election commis- were registered to vote, while more than other mentioned candidates. “adminresurs,” threats and intimidation sion protocols (documents that summarize 6,500 ballots were brought to a rural A national system of “adminresurs” against candidates, as well as acts of physical election results) reported at least 100 to 150 Kherson psychiatric hospital where 3,000 (abuse of government resources) was and moral violence against candidates and fewer ballots than were circulated, amount- were registered to vote. employed to intimidate the opposition. The commissioners, Opora reported. “At the ing to 10 percent of all ballots. Observers in the cities of Kharkiv and Yanukovych administration used law same time, incidents of attacks on candi- The widespread confusion in printing bal- Mariupol reported mass ballot-stuffing of enforcement organs – police, prosecutors dates, destruction of offices and intimidation lots offered the first evidence of what elec- voting urns. A Front for Change observer at and the SBU – to threaten businessmen from of participants in the election process were tion observers in Kyiv deemed a system of a Mariupol (Donetsk Oblast) polling station the opposition with random and repeated considered as everyday conflicts by the “managed chaos,” through which the gov- counted 430 voters at 5 p.m. when the elec- inspections, revocation of licenses and other police, without taking into considering politi- ernment enabled vote falsification nation- tion commission chair reported 700 votes. methods of ruin should they pursue a candi- cal motives,” said the November 4 Opora wide by intentionally depriving polling sta- He recorded on video the difference in bal- dacy. Volodymyr Tereschenko, a district report. tions of proper conditions in which to hold lots being thrown into the pile of ballots as council candidate from the Batkivschyna Government workers, such as postal elections, whether through supplies, staffing the urns were emptied onto tables for tally- party in Poltava, was forced from the race workers, in Kharkiv were mobilized to dis- or even a legible election law that meets ing. Batkivschyna observers caught a pre- after being threatened with losing the lease tribute campaign flyers for Hennadii Kernes, international standards. cinct election commission chair stuffing bal- to the property where he operated a store. the Party of Regions candidate for city coun- “Representatives of the government, lots in the Donetsk town of Dymytriv by The government used illegal inspections to cil chair. Meanwhile a post office director in attempting to explain themselves, got con- Batkivschyna observers. The Front for pressure candidates to the Pidhayetskyi the town of Yarmolynetskyi in the fused with different versions of events,” the Change reported ballot-stuffing in the Sumy District Council in the Ternopil Oblast to Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Maria Chmunevych, November 3 statement said. “The illegal Oblast as well. abandon the Batkivschyna party. required her subordinates to campaign for printing of ballots was explained away as The falsification technology of ballot- In some cases, officials in the oblast the Party of Regions. printing test samples, mistakes in the text stuffing was enabled by a sharp rise among and district state administration system – a and the need to prepare ‘back-up copies’. Evidence of systemic vote falsification those opting to vote at home, which grew by national network of government organs The Kharkiv prosecutor’s office declined to 2.5 times in the Autonomous Republic of employed to implement the president’s file criminal charges in relation to fake bal- A national system of vote falsification Crimea, increased twofold in the Vinnytsia policies in Ukraine’s regions – directly lots uncovered there. City prosecutor Yehen began before the elections, when print shops and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts, and rose 60 per- threatened opposition candidates. Popovych claimed this ‘special printing’ is a were ordered to print hundreds of thousands cent in the Zakarpattia Oblast and 50 percent Mykhailo Shumeiko, the director of the of extra, uncounted ballots, the November 3 ‘reserve, which was necessary to print in the Luhansk Oblast. The Party of Regions Agroprogres company and deputy in the statement of 10 opposition parties alleges. according to the law.’ ” tried to illegally register more than 100 at- Chernihiv Oblast Council, was ordered to “Representatives of different political forces Those ballots with mistakes – amounting home voting requests in Symferopol, abandon the Batkivschyna party by and observers in various regions – Kharkiv, to hundreds of thousands – were hastily re- Batkivschyna observers reported, noting that Chernihiv Oblast State Administration Odesa, Khmelnytskyi, Ivano-Frankivsk – printed on the eve of elections, resulting in all of them were written in the same hand- Chair Volodymyr Khomenko. Oleksander discovered piles of forgeries several days widespread delivery delays and failures on writing. After attempts to contact the media, Hurchenko, a district council candidate before election day, which leaves no doubt election day. About 50,000 ballots for the the voting request vanished, reducing total from the Sumy Oblast, quit the race after that this technology has a national charac- Chernihiv Oblast Council elections were home-voters at that polling station from 150 being pressured by the chair of the local ter,” the statement said. Election commis- reprinted on the night of October 29 because to 22. In the Mykolayiv Oblast and the city district state administration. sioners with the Svoboda party reported on of reported mistakes. Nevertheless, ballots Representatives of the district state October 25 the discovery of more than with mistakes reached polling stations all the (Continued on page 18) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 No. 47

Andrew Lewycky. Akhmetov and Firtash to learn their strat- Antonovych awards... Since its founding in 1980, the Yanukovych... egies and plans for Ukraine, (they very (Continued from page 4) Antonovych Foundation has honored 60 (Continued from page 3) rarely give interviews to the media). that Dr. Berdychowska was receiving an laureates, among them – in addition to monopolization of Ukraine, the sixth – Western policy-makers are operating in award in a Ukrainian Embassy in the Stus – writer Lina Kostenko, literary crit- removal of oligarchs – could be his next the dark, as they do not know the views presence of Ambassador Motsyk. In ic Ivan Dzyuba, scholar Zbigniew target. The next two years will likely of the two main financiers who brought February she received the Ukrainian gov- Brzezinski and Robert Conquest, the decide whether Ukraine becomes a Putin- President Yanukovych to power. ernment’s Princess Olha Award (third author of “The Harvest of Sorrow” about style managed democracy without oli- degree) for her work in fostering Polish- the Holodomor in Ukraine. The award list garchs or if the oligarchs fight back The article above is reprinted from Ukrainian relations from him, then also includes one Ukrainian newspaper, (EDM, September 22). Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission Literaturna Ukrayina. Ukraine’s ambassador in Warsaw. A first step for Western governments from its publisher, the Jamestown The foundation has also helped finance Introducing the other honoree, nomi- would be to interact with Messrs. Foundation, www.jamestown.org. the development of academic and cultural nating committee member and literary institutions in Ukraine. These projects – scholar at the Ukrainian Academy of at an estimated cost of some $3 million – Sciences Tamara Hundorova noted that include the reconstruction the National Mission included 563 observers from the Prof. Hnatiuk, an honored scholar, writer University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’s Turning the pages... OSCE’s Office for Democratic and translator, is a proponent of the study main library, the renovation of Lviv’s (Continued from page 6) Institutions and Human Rights (ODHIR), of Ukrainian literature in Poland, as well Vasyl Stefanyk Library and Artists more questions were raised about the the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the the building of closer ties between the Palace, and the building of the accuracy of the reported results. Other Parliamentary Assembly of the Council two countries. Prof. Hnatiuk established a Boykivschyna Museum in Dolyna, west- questions concerned ballot security and of Europe, the European Parliament and school for students interested in this field ern Ukraine, where Omelan Antonovych counting procedures. Nearly 40 percent the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. of study and is an “organizer of creative was born in 1914. of polling stations reported unauthorized people, a originator of ideas and projects Mr. Antonovych was active in the persons present, including police and Source: “OSCE says second round of that attract and brings them together.” Ukrainian nationalist movement in his local government officials. election did not meet European standards,” In her remarks, Prof. Hnatiuk spoke youth and later was a political prisoner in The International Election Observer The Ukrainian Weekly, November 28, 2004. about the importance of maintaining a Poland and Nazi Germany. He earned a dialogue. “Dialogue is everything,” she law degree from the Ukrainian Free said. “It’s a process to knowledge, the University in Prague in 1943, and after road to truth, to understanding.” format; the World War II married Tatiana Russian-Ukrainian... • a consequent alliance with Russia in its She was attracted to the emerging Terlecky, a physician who became a (Continued from page 6) security projects, such as the Collective human rights and freedom movements in world-renowned kidney specialist. They Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and Ukraine early on, she said, adding that immigrated to the United States, settling Westinghouse has been halted in favor of a the participation in the Russian initiative on the initial fears were overcome as the in the Washington area, where she new deal with Russia’s TVEL. At the cur- the European Security Treaty, which mainly Polish-Ukrainian dialogue and coopera- became a scholar and teacher in medical rent stage, the Ukrainian and Russian atom- aims to push the United States out of the tion evolved. The question today, she schools, and he went into ranching and ic agencies have finished talks between their European security space; said, is: Can this dialogue be expanded to real estate. She died in 2001; he passed working groups and have entered a stage of • Ukraine’s economic integration into the include the rest of Europe? away in 2008. A year later they were asset evaluation in order to integrate the Russian and Eurasian economic space Also participating in awards ceremony posthumously awarded Ukraine’s Order Ukrainian atomic sector into its Russian were members of the Antonovych of Yaroslav the Wise (fifth degree) during counterpart. through a Customs Union or the resumption Foundation board of directors: Ihor their foundation’s 2009 awards ceremony In the aviation industry, a key Ukrainian of a Common Economic Space, which in Voyevidka, Roman Sloniewsky and at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington. company, Antonov, is on Russia’s wish-to- turn would totally terminate Ukraine’s integrate list, as are, incidentally, several European integration plans; other lucrative objects: the chemical giant • subordination of the Ukrainian strategic Stirol, the critical Kremenchuk Oil Refinery, gas transportation system to Russia and the the equally critical Odesa Port Plant. The consequent Russian vise grip over European conditions for the Antonov deal, such as a energy security; and 50 percent +1 share of common stock and a • the dismantling of the democratic prog- requirement for a Russian citizen to chair ress achieved after the Orange Revolution in the board of directors, permit the inference 2004 and the emergence of a satellite/puppet that such integration will mean the absorp- regime of the authoritarian nature operated tion of the Ukrainian aviation industry by by Russia. Russia. Ukraine, in its turn, would lose con- In my opinion, this grave scenario will trol over one of its strategic sectors. come true if rule of law continues to be The Russian-Ukrainian reconciliation is undermined, civil society threatened by the also marked by rapid shifts in the Ukrainian security services and the political system humanitarian sphere. The Russian fifth col- unbalanced with a skew towards strong umn involving efforts of the current presidential powers. The latter was installed Security Services and frank anti-Ukrainian by the recently “annulled constitutional antagonists, including an open hater of reform” and the return to the pre-2004 polit- western Ukrainians, Minister of Education ical system, which was regarded by all ele- Dmytro Tabachnyk, are fulfilling the ments of the Ukrainian opposition as an Russian agenda in Ukraine. This has result- unprofessional politically motivated deci- ed in the withdrawal of the Holodomor sion, in which the Constitutional Court issue from the national and international exceeded its competence and violated the agenda, the reconsideration and rewriting of Constitution. In this respect, I strongly urge Ukrainian history, and the intimidation of the international community not to ignore Ukrainian historians. the continuous undemocratic processes that Equally critical, education reform – one are systematically taking place in Ukraine. of the most progressive and successful In conclusion, I would like to say that I efforts of the previous government – aimed remain optimistic, as the democratic ideas to establish transparency in Ukrainian that millions of Ukrainians stood for in 2004 schooling and combat corruption, was can- are embedded in our national identity and celled right away. convictions. In sum, what is called “improvement in I hope that Ukraine, particularly through Ukraine-Russia relations” is constantly pre- efforts of Ukrainian civil society, the demo- sented to the West – and particularly to the cratic opposition and with support of the European Union – as a way to convince the democratic world will prevent any further international community that all is on the surrender of Ukrainian national interests. road to “stability” as well to dispel fears of I am convinced that an independent and renewed disruptions in energy supplies. But, strong Ukraine is crucial for building securi- often these “stability” assurances pursue a ty and prosperity on the European continent goal of distracting the attention of the inter- and in the world. national community from the actual situa- And last, but far from the least, I would tion – the rollback in democracy, the rule of like to stress that I am a dedicated fan of law and fundamental freedoms. fostering Ukrainian-Russian relations, built If the current dangerous pace in main- on mutual respect to each other’s sovereign- tained, I predict the following trends will ty, territorial integrity and national interests. result in: In the 21st century, aspired-to moderniza- • the blurring of Ukraine’s national iden- tion and technological breakthrough have to tity and the weakening of its position as a be realized not through antagonism and “democracy promoter” in the region; oppression, but through joint work, commit- • a full refusal to pursue the Euro- ment to democratic values and goodwill that Atlantic integration and the gradual margin- generates innovations, mutually beneficial alization of the Annual National Program trade and public prosperity. No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 11 Ukrainian performers prominent on music scene in Washington by Yaro Bihun projections of artistic photographs by Petra Lisiecki on the huge screen behind WASHINGTON – Classical music the performers on stage. This added a lovers in the capital area had the rare unique visual aspect to the musical appre- good fortune in early November to hear ciation of the program. two highly acclaimed Ukrainian pianists Neither pianist is a newcomer to the in concert here within the same week. Washington stage. This was Dr. And before the year ends, they can avail Osinchuk’s third appearance at the themselves of the opportunity to attend National Gallery, and she has performed performances by two more Ukrainian pia- on other stages as well. Most recently she nists as well as an organist. was here at the September 28 memorial Mykola Suk gave a recital on concert at the Kennedy Center honoring November 7 at the Lyceum in Old Town, Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska following his Virginia, as part of the Sunday Music burial earlier that day. She and Sen. Series organized by the Cultural Fund of Stevens were no strangers; he attended The Washington Group, an association of her TWG Cultural Fund Music Series Ukrainian American professionals. concert at the Lyceum in 2005. Neither Three days later, on November 10, was this her first performance at the Juliana Osinchuk, joined with soprano Kennedy Center; she played on its Kate Egan and mezzo-soprano Marlene Millennium Stage as far back as in 1997. Bateman in concert at the National As for reviews of her past performanc- Gallery of Art. es, Dr. Osinchuk receives her share of Mykola Suk Juliana Osinchuk Mr. Suk’s program, which began with critical acclaim, as was noted in her bio- three fantasies – by Beethoven, Johan graphical sketch in the latest National the Post-Classical Ensemble in an all- Morozov, will be at the Lyceum in Nepomuk Hummel and Sigismond Gallery program: The Los Angeles Times Liszt “Angels and Devils” program at Alexandria, performing works by Thalberg – and concluded with has praised her “superior technique, dis- Georgetown University’s Gaston Hall, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata, includ- cipline and talent” that have dazzled The Washington Post’s music critic wrote in a program titled “The evolution of the ed the Partita No. 5 Fantasies “in modo audiences and critics in solo and orches- that he sided with the angels. “If the genre of classical piano sonata.” Retro” written for and dedicated to him tral appearances; “Musical America” angels ultimately won the evening,” Joe • The following Sunday, November 28, by his Ukrainian musical colleague selected her as a “Young Artist to Watch” Banno wrote, “that was due in large part organist Pavlo Stetsenko, will be play Myroslav Skoryk. The audience reaction after her solo debut recital at the Lincoln to pianist Mykola Suk.” Bach’s Vespers in Alexandria’s to his performance that afternoon – exu- Center; The Washington Post has called Earlier, after a performance of Liszt in Westminster Presbyterian Church. berant and unyielding – was rewarded her playing “spectacular;” and The New Canada, the music critic of the Toronto • And on Sunday, December 19, with two Liszt etude encores. York Times characterized her as a “skill- Star underscored his “enormous digital Stanislav Khristenko, a prize-winner of The Osinchuk-Egan-Bateman concert ful and scrupulous ensemble player.” control” and “impressive technique,” many international piano competitions, at the National Gallery included songs by Nor is Mr. Suk a stranger to adding: “Suk never used the piano to will perform selections from what is con- Beethoven, Schumann, Saint-Saëns and Washington. He, too, has performed a show off; he made it the servant of sidered to be one of the most challenging Fauré, as well as by the more contempo- number of times at the National Gallery Liszt’s expressive ideas.” and exciting works written for the piano, rary Lawrence Moss and George Beldon. and other venues, including the TWG As for the rest of this year’s musical Liszt’s “Transcendental Etudes,” at the But the program was presented in a way Cultural Fund’s concert series at the calendar in the Washington area featuring Phillips Collection in Washington (just not normally experienced in a classical Spectrum. Ukrainians: around the corner from the Taras music concert. It was accompanied by Earlier this year, when he played with • On Sunday, November 21, Serhii Shevchenko monument).

Artist Anya Antonovych Metcalf exhibits works at Chicago’s UIMA CHICAGO – Emerging artist Anya 1980 to Borys and Irene Antonovych. Antonovych Metcalf was featured in the She studied English literature and the his- exhibit “Antonovych / Petersen / tory and philosophy of science at McGill Niepodziewana” at the Ukrainian Institute University in Montreal, and recently of Modern Art in Chicago, which ran from completed a post-baccalaureate certificate September 17 through October 31. at the Maryland Institute College of Art The theme of the exhibition, curated in Baltimore. by Stanislav Grezdo, is decay and weath- Travel drives her creative practice. ering of the self. It comprised acrylic “Art and travel are about learning to see,” paintings by Ms. Antonovych, ceramic remarks Ms Metcalf. Some of her forma- sculptures and wall pieces by Chicago tive experiences include living in artist Corinne Peterson, and prints and Scotland for a year at age 16, working for drawings by Polish artist Malwina a year with polyhandicapped adults in Malgorzata Niezpodziewana. France at age 19, and extensive travel in The exhibit invites introspection, and the United States, Eastern and Western is especially relevant given today’s tenu- Europe, Africa and Asia. ous economic and sociopolitical condi- In 2007 Ms. Metcalf, her husband, Jon, tions, organizers noted. and their son Adam relocated to the “America will eat you up, she loves you so” (mixed media on BFK, 34 by 74 inch- Ms. Metcalf was born in Chicago in Bahamas. She maintained a studio at the es, 2010). Popopopstudios Center for the Visual Arts, and was part of the burgeoning decay, the Bahamas suggest Nassau art scene. The paintings featured nature’s abundance, London an at UIMA were culled from a series shown aged history. They couldn’t be in the one-woman exhibit “There is A more unlike […] The longer one Crack in Everything” at Nassau’s Hub. stays in any given location, the The name of the exhibit was taken greater the personal shift from from Leonard Cohen’s song, “Anthem”: tourist, to witness, to resident. In There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in. Ms. Metcalf said her desire to understand her bicul- she takes this to mean that imperfection tural identity and her Ukrainian can be a form of revelation. The 56 by heritage Antonovych Metcalf 56-inch acrylic paintings are based on transplants herself, similar to every close-up photographs of distressed sur- immigrant’s situation.” faces in Nassau – rusted garbage cans, In her current work, Ms. burnt-out buildings, old machinery. The Metcalf has shifted her focus resulting images have an abstract expres- from a contemplation of place to sionist feel, even while they are transla- an examination of the journey. tions of photographic subjects. These large mixed-media works In her introductory essay to the UIMA on paper are not so much exhibition catalogue, art historian Adrienne abstracted landscapes as sto- “Baltimore Street Study” (acrylic and tape on Kochman writes: “Antonovych Metcalf’s ryscapes, and she considers them canvas, 12 by 12 inches, 2009). travels offer the experience of displace- research into the narrative poten- Anya Antonovych Metcalf at the exhib- ment. Each destination’s environment is tial of abstraction. The artist is preparing the fall of 2011. More of her work may it opening at the Ukrainian Institute of noticeably unique –– urban, tropical, rural, for a three-month residency in Beijing, be viewed online at www.anyaantonovy- Modern Art on September 17. medieval, modern. Baltimore evokes urban and will commence her MFA studies in chmetcalf.com. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 No. 47 No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 13 Northern New Jersey celebrates glory of Ukraine’s Kozaks

Christine Syzonenko The large cast of “Kozak Glory” at the conclusion of the dramatic presentation.

The hetman (Michael Koziupa, holding aloft a “bulava”) leads a meeting of the Kozak council. A Kozak “chaika” heads to battle.

WHIPPANY, N.J. – Morris County Ukrainians celebrated “Kozak Glory” with a special dramatic presentation on Saturday, October 23, at the Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey (UACCNJ). The show highlighting the life of the Kozaks of Ukraine featured music and dancing, as well as an elaborate set of deco- rations that included a Kozak vessel known as a “chaika” and a Ukrainian village. The cast of approximately 60 people comprised local community members of all ages who were directed by Roksolana Leshchuk, who also authored the script. Among the highlights were performances by bandurist Michael Stashchyshyn, a female choir led by Oksana Telepko, the Iskra Ukrainian Dance Ensemble and Bohdan Savchuk, who played the Kozak kettle drums known as “lytavry.” The evening also featured a dinner, and was followed by a dance to the music of the Oberehy band. Proceeds of the event went Meanwhile, in the UACCNJ’s Hoverlia toward St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Social Club, bartender Marko Bura was The director of the program and author Nazar Gavrysh reads a message from Catholic Church Building Fund. appropriately attired for the evening. of the scenario, Roksolana Leshchuk. the Kozaks’ Sich.

Kobzar Michael Stashchyshyn sings a duma about the Zaporozhian Sich. Girls of the Iskra Ukrainian Dance Ensemble perform. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 No. 47

of Kyiv and All Ukraine Volodymyr Metropolitan Volodymyr’s jubilee. In the reported. The crew of the Ukrainian ship, NEWSBRIEFS (Sabodan). The program of the commemo- morning on November 23 divine liturgy in collaboration with the Espero frigate of (Continued from page 2) rative events was released on the website of will be served in the Refectory Church of the Italian navy, will carry out a survey ment of architecture in Ukraine to join the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow the Pecherska Lavra. (Ukrinform) and, if necessary, inspection of civil ves- the UNESCO World Heritage List; the Patriarchate on November 15. Patriarch sels according to NATO standards. During Chernovetskyi relieved of some duties preparations for the mission, an operation- entire Pecherska Lavra complex was later Kirill will arrive in Kyiv on November 22 and will bring the Tenderness Icon of the al briefing was held aboard the Italian frig- added to the list. (Ukrinform) KYIV – Kyiv Mayor Leonid Virgin for the believers to worship. The Chernovetskyi has lost part of his authori- ate for prior approval of joint actions, to Patriarch Kirill to visit Ukraine icon will stay in Ukraine until December 6. ty in Ukraine’s capital city. Via a presiden- identify areas of future patrols and discuss On November 22 the Russian Orthodox tial decree he was dismissed from his post the rules for information management of KYIV – Russian Orthodox Patriarch Church leader will take part in prayer to the as head of the Kyiv City State the operations and application of weapons. Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will take Tenderness Icon at the Kyiv Pecherska Administration, which he held concurrent- Italian experts have also equipped the part on November 22-23 in celebrations to Lavra and participate in events at the ly with his office as mayor. Now the exec- Ternopil with a special automatic system mark the 75th birthday of the Metropolitan National Opera of Ukraine marking utive branch in Kyiv will be chaired by a for data transmission. This system is representative of the Party of Regions, installed only on the ships of NATO part- Oleksander Popov. Mr. Chernovetskyi, ner-countries, and it is intended for the who was re-elected in the summer of 2008 timely and efficient exchange of informa- CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS during early elections of the mayor and tion among task force ships. The Ternopil Kyiv City Council deputies, stands a departed from Sevastopol for the chance of staying on as mayor until the Mediterranean Sea on November 7. The TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI (973) 292-9800 x 3040 next elections in the capital, it was report- campaign is likely to take 45 days. or e-mail [email protected] ed on November 16. 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Events being Kostyantyn Matviyenko told RFE/RL that organized on both the local and national by appointing a new city administration levels are dedicated to this anniversary. head, the president was showing “who is President Viktor Yanukovych and Prime boss” in Kyiv. (Ukrinform, RFE/RL) Minister Mykola Azarov on November 5 Baloha appointed emergencies minister participated in the presentation of new metro stations: Demiyivska, Holosiyivska KYIV – President Viktor Yanukovych and Vasylkivska. The Kyiv Metro cur- has signed a decree appointing Viktor rently consists of three lines and 46 sta- Baloha as Ukraine’s emergencies minis- tions. The total length of track is about 60 ter. The decree was posted on the official kilometers. It is the most popular type of website of the head of state on November transport in the city and transports 1.5 12. Mr. Baloha is the leader of the United million to 2 million passengers a day. Center Party. 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(Ukrinform) Ukrainian corvette embarks on mission Architect Horodetsky and Tehran KYIV – On November 14 the corvette KYIV – Ukrainian diplomats took part Ternopil of the Ukrainian naval forces left in a memorial service in Tehran at Dulab the Greek naval base at Suda Bay and took Catholic Cemetery at the grave of famous up duty in the framework of the Active Ukrainian architect Vladyslav Horodetsky Endeavor anti-terrorist operation, the press center of the Ukrainian naval command (Continued on page 15) No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 15

primarily for the youth who are outside Black Sea region and implementation of correspondent what Ukraine is doing to NEWSBRIEFS Ukraine, as well as for popularization of the Euro-Asian Transport Corridor project, ease the concerns of European partners (Continued from page 14) Ukrainian culture around the world. On other initiatives on the way of integration about the state of democratic develop- (1863-1930), Ukrinform reported on September 7 Ukraine’s Ambassador to into the global economy. Ukraine consid- ment in Ukraine, Mr. Gryshchenko said November 5 based on information from Russia Volodymyr Yelchenko stated that a ers it necessary to immediately begin a the authorities in Ukraine are doing the Ukrainian Embassy in Iran. The music-entertainment channel for the youth comprehensive analysis and synthesis of everything possible so that there are no memorial service celebrated by is “vitally necessary” for the Ukrainian previous experience in organizing, devel- such concerns at all. “For that, certainly, Archbishop Ignacio Bedini of Tehran was diaspora. “There is demand for such a oping recommendations for the further it is necessary to clearly follow the pro- attended by the ambassadors of Poland, product. But there is no such a channel prospect that could be considered and cess that occurs within the country, and Italy and France. The diplomats paid trib- now; there are news channels, but they are adopted at the anniversary summit in this is what the president of Ukraine calls ute to Poles who died in Iran during World not so interesting for the general public,” 2012,” said Mr. Lytvyn. (Ukrinform) on all state agencies and authorities to do. War II. Ukrainian diplomats in Tehran, he said. (Ukrinform) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has only Gryshchenko: Kyiv ready to cooperate a certain area of responsibility - inviting along with Iranian experts are now study- EU countries’ visa refusals ing the little-known architectural heritage KYIV – According to news reports of international observers to assist in carry- of Horodetsky in that country. In 1928, KYIV – The percentage of visa refusals October 27, Minister of Foreign Affairs ing out their work. We should help and Horodetsky, who emigrated after the revo- to Ukrainians by the European Union of Ukraine Kostyantyn Gryshchenko said not interfere in their activities,” Mr. lution to Poland, was offered by an countries is close to 3 percent, Deputy at a meeting of the European Parliament Gryshchenko said. (Ukrinform) Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin told a American company the post of chief archi- Committee on Foreign Affairs in Brussels Mandatory dubbing of films abolished tect of the syndicate constructing Persian roundtable called “Schengen Consulates in that Ukraine is ready to cooperate with all railways. He designed the Tehran railway Estimates and Ratings.” According to him, political groups in the European KYIV – A decree obliging film distrib- station, a theater, a hotel and one of the the visa situation for Ukrainian citizens Parliament to achieve the objectives of utors to dub or subtitle foreign films dis- Shah’s palaces. In Kyiv Horodetsky, the has considerably improved over recent European integration. He noted that the tributed in Ukraine has been abolished, owner of a cement plant, built a series of years, in particular, thanks to an agreement Ukraine is disposed to conduct a dialogue Culture and Tourism Minister Mykhailo unique buildings made of a new type of on simplification of the visa issue. Mr. with its European partners. That is why Kuliniak said at a press conference on concrete. Among his buildings is the well- Klimkin noted that in 2007 Ukrainians the Ukrainian president, during his visit October 29. “We have abolished the known House with Chimeras, the National received about 435,000 Schengen visas; in to Brussels on October 13, proposed a Ministry’s decree and now we use provi- Art Museum, the Church of St. Nicholas 2009 such visas were received by 1.125 meeting with European People’s Party sions of the Law on Cinema,” the and the Karaim Kenesa in Moorish style. million Ukrainians. He paid special atten- (EPP) President Wilfried Martens to dis- Minister said without specifying when One of the central streets of Kyiv is named tion to the number of refusals of visas to cuss the political situation in Ukraine. exactly the decree was abolished. after Horodetsky and the city has a monu- Ukrainians. “On average, in the EU in Mr. Gryshchenko invited members of the (Ukrinform) ment to the architect. (Ukrinform) 2007, the level of visa refusals was 12 per- European Parliament to visit Ukraine and cent. It was 4 percent in 2009. But I would Mexico OKs free visa regime Over $1 B in money transfers hold fruitful meetings with all political like to say separately that, according to forces from both the government and the KYIV – Mexico is introducing a free KYIV – The total amount of money results of nine months of 2010, this has opposition. Mr. Gryshchenko said that he visa system for some categories of transfers, which came to Ukraine through been reduced. In other words, we have a represents no political party of Ukraine in Ukrainian citizens as of November 1, the 22 international money transfer systems, in real figure of refusals reaching 3 percent the European Parliament, but acts as a press service of Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs or even less,” he underscored. Mr. the first half of 2010 totaled $1.15 billion government official. In this context, he Ministry reported on October 31. A Klimkin underscored that the number of (U.S.), up 13 percent from the correspond- called “prudent” the decision to postpone fourth round of Ukrainian-Mexican polit- visa refusals is one of the key unwritten ing period last year, according to the the vote of the European Parliament ical consultations at the level of deputy criteria for consideration of the possibility National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). regarding the resolution on political situ- foreign ministers was held on October of implementing a visa-free regime. However, the central bank said that ation in Ukraine for the period after the 29. The Ukrainian delegation was headed “There is a 3 percent criterion; if it is less, Ukrainians sent out less than one-seventh local elections. “We understand that this by Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs the state is considered a real candidate in a of that – only $163 million. The five largest decision does not cancel the assessment Oleksander Horyn, and the delegation of visa-free dialogue. I would like to say that systems through which Ukraine got 79.5 of the events [by the European Mexico was headed by Deputy Foreign we are on the threshold of reaching this percent of the total amount of transfers are Parliament], and do not think that we Minister Lourdes Aranda Bezaury. important criterion,” he said, according to Western Union (42.5 percent market share), have answered all the questions that are During the talks, the sides agreed to step news reports of October 27. (Ukrinform) Unistream (12 percent), MoneyGram (11 raised there [in the resolution]. We are up the political dialogue between Ukraine percent), Migom (8 percent) and Contact (6 Facebook audience to exceed 1 M convinced that it is first necessary to and Mexico at the highest level, as well percent). The leading country from which interact before making judgment, conduct as to deepen cooperation in the frame- money is sent to Ukraine continues to be KYIV – Ukrainians are still in first the debates, have deep knowledge of the work of the United Nations and other Russia. Ukrainians received 47 percent of place in terms of Facebook audience situation, listen to different sources of international organizations. Mr. Horyn all money transfers from Ukraine. Next in growth. During a period of 18 days information and different voices. We are thanked Mexico for the introduction of an line is the United States, with 10 percent; (October 12-30), the Ukrainian audience open, ready for this and are interested in electronic system for receiving visas free Italy, 7 percent; Spain, 5 percent; and of Facebook added 87,000 (an increase of this kind of debate that, I am convinced, of charge for Ukrainian citizens, busi- Portugal, 3 percent. The distribution of 14 percent), and as of October 30 stood at reflects the European parliamentary tradi- nessmen, tourists and transit passengers, countries receiving money sent from 712,000, according to inmind.com.ua. If tion,” the Ukrainian foreign affairs minis- for a period of up to 90 days starting Ukraine is a little bit different: Russia, 41 such growth rates continue, the Ukrainian ter underlined. Asked by an Ukrinform November 1. (Interfax-Ukraine) percent; Georgia, 6 percent; Armenia, 4 Facebook audience will soon exceed 1 percent; the U.S., 4 percent; and million. The largest social networking Uzbekistan, 4 percent. (Ukrinform) site, Facebook was founded in 2004. In the spring of this year, the number of Diaspora requests music channel Facebook users worldwide reached 470 KYIV – The Ukrainian diaspora in million – doubling in just over a year. Russia has said it needs a music channel. The greatest number of Facebook mem- The Association of Ukrainians in Russia bers are in the U.S. (100 million), Great approached Ukraine’s Culture and Britain (23 million) and Indonesia (18 The children of Tourism Minister Mykhailo Kuliniak, million). (Ukrinform) Chairman Yuriy Plaksiuk of the State TV Ukraine chairs BSEC Assembly Oksana Lenec (née Tarnawska) and Radio Broadcasting Committee, announce in deep sorrow that their mother, surrounded by the family, passed into eternity Chairman Yuriy Bohutsky of the State KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman on September 14, 2010, after a short illness. Committee on Nationalities and Religion, Volodymyr Lytvyn has assumed the chair- as well as Education and Science Minister manship of the Parliamentary Assembly of Oksana Lenec was born on January 27, 1925 in Lviv, Ukraine. In 1949 emigrated to the Dmytro Tabachnyk with a relevant pro- the Black Sea Economic Cooperation United States. She completed her primary education in Ukraine and music conservatory posal on the eve of a meeting of the (BSEC), Ukrainian parliament‘s press in Salzburg, Austria. Her long musical career as a violinist included many years with Subcommittee on Humanitarian office reported on November 3. “For Hudson Valley Philharmonic Orchestra. Besides her professional career, she gave pri- Cooperation of the Ukraine-Russia Ukraine, and for me personally it is a great vate lessons and played with few bands in Hudson Valley. Intergovernmental Commission. An honor to assume the chairmanship of the Oksana was predeceased by her husband Dr. Wolodymyr Lenec. Ukrinform correspondent reported these Parliamentary Assembly of the BSEC – an developments on October 25. “Ukrainian organization that for nearly two decades In deep sorrow: music is a real property of Ukraine, not has proven its effectiveness as a reliable Children - Dzvinka Markevych with husband Zenon subject to time, conjuncture or the political and mutually beneficial mechanism for - Lydia Bilynsky with husband Michael situation,” the Association of Ukrainians political, economic, social and intercultur- - Andrew Lenec with wife Tala Seven grandchildren in Russia said. Back on March 5, Russian al dialogue at the regional level,” Mr. Sister -Dagmara Boyko President Dmitry Medvedev had promised Lytvyn said during the ceremony held in with children Bohdanka and Askold to provide “one to two Ukrainian chan- Trabzon, Turkey. He stressed the impor- Extended family in the US and Ukraine nels” with the use of Russian satellite tance of improving at the legislative level capacities on the territory of Russia. On activity in such sectors as transport, com- Funeral services were held on Saturday, September 18, 2010, at Holy Trinity Ukrainian May 13, Ukrainian public organizations of munications and energy with their grow- Catholic Church in Kerhonkson, N.Y., followed by interment at Pine Bush Cemetery in Russia approached President Viktor ing role. This, he said, will provide the Kerhonkson, N.Y. Yanukovych of Ukraine to request his legal basis for better coordination and In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Hospice of Dutchess and Ulster Counties, or assistance in setting up a special channel greater cooperation among the BSEC to the American Cancer Society. in Ukraine that would broadcast Ukrainian member-states in these areas, implementa- music to Russia and other countries. In tion of a new energy policy in the region, Вічна Їй память – Eternal memory their opinion, such a channel is necessary the full use of the transit potential of the 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 No. 47 No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 17

The monument in Clifton is a copy of Among the guests were: Patriarch Filaret... the memorial that stands on St. Michael’s U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (Continued from page 1) Square in Kyiv, near St. Michael Golden- (D-N.J.), Clifton Mayor regime, which sought to destroy the Domed Cathedral. Carved into the stone James Anzaldi; Ukraine’s Ukrainian people though massive starva- monument in Clifton, engraved in Consul Bohdan Movchan, tion, even during one of the biggest English and Ukrainian, are the words: who delivered greetings wheat harvests in Ukraine at the time. “Memory eternal to the millions of from Consul General Even now, after the Security Service of Ukrainians starved to death by the Serhiy Pohoreltsev of New Ukraine under President Viktor Moscow regime in the Genocidal York; and Kostyantin Yushchenko declassified archival docu- Famine.” On the reverse side of the mon- Vorona, vice-consul of ments about the Holodomor and revealed ument are the words of the French philos- Ukraine. the direct involvement and organization opher Voltaire, “Ukraine will always Members of the local of the starvation by the Stalin regime, yearn for freedom.” Ukrainian community Russia’s current leadership – democratic After the blessing of the monument included: Kenneth Wanio, in name only – has repeatedly ignored the and the memorial service, a reception was representing the Clifton historical truth, as did its Soviet prede- held in the church hall to mark these two branch of the Ukrainian cessors. It is important that this truth great events: the visit of Patriarch Filaret Congress Committee of swiftly spread across the world, under- to the parish and the dedication of the America; Bohdan Harhaj scored Patriarch Filaret. Holodomor memorial. of the Ukrainian American Yo u t h A s s o c i a t i o n ; Michael Koziupa of the Organization for the Defense of Four Freedoms Petro Chasto/Svoboda for Ukraine; and Roma Patriarch Filaret with Volodymyr Mohuchy of Holy Lisovich of the Ukrainian Ascension Ukrainian Orthodox Parish and Roma National Association. Lisovich of the Ukrainian National Association.

The newly unveiled memorial in Clifton, N.J., to the victims of the Holodomor. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 No. 47

thousands of complaints about votes being recount because it violated the law. The Systemic... cast on behalf of citizens abroad. lawsuit was filed by Svoboda. (Continued from page 9) Systemic removal of ballots from polling Party of Regions Ternopil Oblast center, more than 6,000 citizens asked to stations was reported in the Sumy, Kherson, Organization Chair Orest Muts openly decla- vote at home on the eve of elections, Lutsk and Odesa oblasts, among others. red blackmail at a November 8 press confe- accounting for 5 to 6 percent of the total Election protocols were filled out ahead rence, insisting his party get the positions of electorate. of election day on a systemic level in cities first vice-chair and secretary of the city Thousands of polling stations were denied such as Kherson, reported Batkivschyna. council “if you don’t want the city thrashed.” enough voting booths and ballot boxes, as National Deputy Yurii Odarchenko reported At that time, more than a week after the elec- reported by numerous election-observing the falsifications to the Procurator General’s tion, the Regions-controlled election com- organizations, including UCCA. “At many Office, the Central Election Commission and mission still refused to declare the election polling stations, by noon urns were over- the Kherson Oblast Procurator. “Obtained results, blocking the start of the new city filled and there wasn’t any place to throw materials indicate that election results were council session. ballots,” the November 3 statement said. already figured out by polling station and In another scandalous vote recount, the “Enormous lines formed as a result of the include all data necessary for completing the Vasylkiv City Council (Kyiv Oblast) can- poor organization of voting, particularly the final protocols, including even the number of didate from the Party of Regions, Serhii inadequacy of polling stations and ill prepa- faulty and unused ballots,” reported the Ivaschenko, gained 1,234 votes to over- ration of commission members. Voters wait- Kherson Oblast Organization of come his contender, Anatolii Borovyk of ed two to three hours in line and often went Batkivschyna. “Even the number of manda- the People’s Trust party, who was original- tes for each party was planned.” ly reported by the city election commissi- home without voting, not having waited,” Zenon Zawada the statement said, reflecting similar obser- Commissioners in Ladyzhynsk (Vinnytsia on to have won the contest. After the A campaign tent in Ternopil for Party of recount, Mr. Ivaschenko defeated Mr. vations made by election-observing organi- Oblast), Kirovohrad, Symferopol, Krasnoarmiysk (Donetsk Oblast) and Regions City Council Chair candidate Borovyk by 58 votes, instead of losing by zations. National Deputy Yurii Prokopchuk Mariupol (Donetsk Oblast) signed blank Petro Hoch promises voters: “I guaran- 1,176 votes, or a 59 percent margin. The of the Batkivschyna party reported standing protocols, which were filled out afterwards tee each Ternopil resident 10,764 square large swing in votes indicates “brutal, in line for an hour in order to vote in the city with the necessary data, various parties feet of land for construction.” widescale specially organized falsification of Korets. In the same district, observers reported. Precinct election commissions in of the elections on behalf of the Party of found empty protocols that were signed and the Rivne and Chernihiv oblasts filled out were about to sign protocols, providing an Regions candidate,” said Mr. Borovyk, stamped. protocols before the polls closed, said Front opportunity for ballot-stuffing and destruc- who led protests in front of the The lack of the necessary number of for Change observers. tion. Meanwhile the majority of precinct Presidential Administration. Letters writ- booths at polling stations and large num- Voting results were changed after ballots election commissions in the Kyiv Oblast ten to the Presidential Administration, the ber of ballots became the reason for wide- were counted at the precinct level, Opora city of Vyshnevyi didn’t perform vote Procurator General’s Office, local prose- spread violations of secret balloting, the reported. The Communist Party in Luhansk counts for the city council chair election at cutors and the SBU have been ignored, a filling out of voting ballots by third parties alleged the Party of Regions simply rewrote all. Vote counting had yet to begin the mor- consistent trend reported throughout and long lines that dissuaded voters from scores of protocols in the city’s central elec- ning after election day at two precinct elec- Ukraine’s cities. casting ballots, Opora reported. “The situ- tion commission, which was cordoned off by tion commissions in the Kyiv Oblast city of Widespread reports of vote-buying came ation with lines is convenient for the gov- police officers. On November 3 city prose- Irpin, reported Yevhen Zhovtiak, the Kyiv as no surprise, as pre-election polls indica- ernment because that offered the chance cutors confirmed that the protocols of three Oblast Organization chair of the For ted every fifth Ukrainian was ready to sell for its representatives on election commis- Luhansk polling stations were falsified by Ukraine party. “They tried to wait for the his vote. The Party of Regions distributed sions for total falsification – the less citi- the Zhovtnevyi District’s territorial election moment when observers would leave the flyers in Ternopil offering $18.75 for votes, zens who vote, the more unused ballots, commission after it received them. The For polling stations of exhaustion,” he said. instructing those interested to make a back- after which it’s easier to manipulate the Ukraine party reported rewriting of protocols Considering the commissions were domi- wards slash in the ballots. In the Kyiv election results,” the November 3 state- in the Nedryhailivskyi District of Sumy, nated by the Party of Regions, and the law Oblast city of Irpin, six of 15 candidates ment said. Both Opora and UCCA observ- where election commissioners arrived at the allows for establishing vote totals without a offered to buy votes for prices ranging bet- ers reported numerous incidents of voters central territorial election commission with quorum, commissions intentionally ween $25 and $50. Prices reached as high as marking their ballots outside of booths in stamps to affix on protocols after the falsi- dragged out the procedure to falsify the $62.50 in Kremenchuk, the industrial hub of the Kyiv and Cherkasy oblasts. fied results were documented. necessary results for the Party of Regions, the Poltava Oblast. Opora observers said In Sumy, the residents of a 10-story, The Kyiv District Administrative Court he alleged. ballots at all of Ternopil’s polling stations 80-apartment building found out on election recognized on November 8 that the Bila The territorial election commissions of were marked with various shapes for the day they weren’t included on voter registers, Tserkva (Kyiv Oblast) city election commis- the Volyn Oblast simply rejected protocols Party of Regions, including slashes, circles, even though they received invitations from sion altered protocols, depriving the bearing “technical inaccuracies,” sending diametrical lines and periods. In Odesa, the the polling station with their correct informa- Svoboda party of votes. Precinct election them back to precinct election commissions Party of Regions offered residents $6 to tion. commissions counted 6,500 votes for the for “correction,” reported the chair of the hang the party flag on their balconies. Candidates also found out they were Svoboda party for Kyiv Oblast Council race, Batkivschyna Oblast Organization, Anatolii Students at Mechnykov National University excluded from the elections at the last minu- while the final tally was altered to 1,729 Hrytsiuk. Volyn State Oblast were offered $3.75 per day to attend te. The Ivano-Frankivsk City Election votes. They counted 4,796 votes for the Bila Administration Chair Borys Klymchuk demonstrations in support of various parties. Commission ruled on 7:30 a.m. on election Tserkva City Council race, which was alte- pressured territorial election commissions Election observers and opposition candi- day to exclude four candidates from the red to 3,823. to do this. “Three political forces are given dates reported the most hostile and secreti- single-winner, single-mandate oblast council Rubber stamps were removed from pre- additional percentage points in districts and ve atmosphere since the 2004 presidential elections. Yet the ballots were already deli- cinct election commissions at a significant towns with large numbers of voters,” he vote. Scores of observers and reporters vered to polling stations, with the commissi- rate, and commission heads signed protocols reported, claiming that the beneficiaries were forced to leave numerous Kyiv Oblast on unable to indicate that those candidates at the central territorial election commission were the satellite parties of the Party of polling stations once they closed and were were excluded. By law, all the ballots contai- – both practices being gross violations of Regions or Single Center, Strong Ukraine forbidden from observing the vote count. ning the names of candidates that were election law, Opora reported. The Bila and People’s Party of Ukraine. Observers and reporters were also evicted excluded are invalid. Tserkva falsifications involved commissio- A similar technique was alleged by from Symferopol polling stations. Besides “managed chaos,” tried-and- ners taking their stamps and protocols to the Svoboda activists in Ternopil, where the Observers from opposition parties were for- true falsification techniques were reported, territorial election commission for “correc- central territorial election commission bidden to enter a polling station in the Kyiv such as “carousels,” in which a group of tion” and finalizing the results there, reported conducted a recount on November 6 in Oblast village of Sofiyivska-Borschahivka voters travels to different polling stations Opora, whose observers were denied access those districts where only a small diffe- while Party of Regions observers freely to repeatedly cast votes for a particular to the process. The Svoboda party reported a rence separated Svoboda and Party of entered. Most of the polling stations of candidate or party. Such groups of as territorial commissioner spending at least Regions candidates for single-winner, Sumy were off limits to election observers, many as 100 pensioners and students three hours by himself in a room with voting single-mandate seats on the city council. reported the Front for Change. More than traveled from Kyiv to towns on the city ballots, four days after election day, with The Party of Regions requested the 100 individuals blocked access for oppositi- outskirts such as Boryspil, Irpin, Boyarka, journalists and candidates forbidden from recount, despite no complaints being on observers to a Donetsk polling station. Obukhiv and Vasylkiv, reported observers observing his actions. registered by party members or commis- When observers noticed unauthorized with the Front for Change party. They gai- Numerous precinct election commissions sioners during the first two days after people entering the central territorial ned the ability to vote multiple times from in Odesa refused to make their protocols elections when protocols were accepted. election commission in Ternopil on pre-selected election commissioners public to observers, reported Anatolii Boiko, The complaints arose only on the third November 3 and informed Chair Ivan whom they recognized and who gave them the chair of the Odesa Oblast Organization day after the vote, at which point it was Chornozub, he allegedly responded with the ballots, the party reported. Carousels of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine illegal for the election commission to nasty language and physical threats, the were reported in the city of Oleksandriya, (CVU). “The precinct election commission consider them. Svoboda leaders alleged Svoboda party reported. with voters bused from the oblast center of heads are refusing to give copies of protocols the election commission was not just re- Ukraine’s major political parties – ran- Kirovohrad, as reported by Batkivschyna. to official observers from various political counting votes behind closed doors, but ging from the far-right to the far-left and The party’s chair in the Luhansk town of parties,” he said, noting that they insisted on stealing votes from its candidates and tal- those in between – alleged systemic vote Stakhaniv reported carousels to the police, transferring the counted ballots to the central lying them in favor of the Party of falsification extensive enough to disqua- resulting in at least one arrest. He learned commissions before making the protocols Regions. During this process, Svoboda lify the results of the entire Kyiv Oblast, that four cars were driving around the public. reported an increase in the number of dis- the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, the Kharkiv town with ballots and money. The Front Another systemic technology consisted qualified ballots because commissioners Oblast, the Luhansk Oblast and the for Change confirmed that carousels of ceasing ballot-counting. The central terri- allegedly employed a tactic of adding a Autonomous Republic of Crimea. occurred in Luhansk too. Yurii Solovei, torial election commission in Zaporizhia second checkmark to ballots cast in the The For Ukraine party reported 1,153 candidate for Ivano-Frankivsk City called upon precinct commissions to stop nationalist party’s favor, in order to inva- election violations, while the Batkivschyna Council chair (mayor) said carousels their vote counts for a break until 2 p.m. the lidate them. These ballots didn’t have a party filed more than 2,000 complaints accounted for 3,000 to 5,000 false ballots next day, citing their exhaustion, Opora second mark when they left the local pre- demanding recounts or nullifications of being cast for pro-Russian parties. His reported. The break came just as most com- cincts, the party reported. A Ternopil results tallied by more than 2,000 election campaign headquarters also received missions had finished counting votes and court ruled on November 11 to forbid the commissions. No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 19

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Ukrainian credit union in Montreal reaches out to youth by Stefan Fydyshyn-Macdonald This was followed by a wine and cheese reception. MONTREAL – University students In addition to the evening’s focus on from Montreal’s Ukrainian community banking, a photo exhibit by Concordia were invited by Yourko Kulycky, general University Communications graduate manager of the Caisse Populaire Desjardins Adriana Luhovy featured a collection of 21 Ukrainienne de Montreal, to the prestigious photographs taken in Ukraine. Some of the Le Windsor Hotel in downtown Montreal, many striking photographs were of Famine- for a presentation on stock markets on Genocide survivors; others focused on Friday, October 1. This was the credit architectural details and village scenes. union’s first effort in reaching out to youth Also present were credit union board and informing them about the workings of members Marta Mayer, Gregory Kowryha, the financial world. Steven Spilkin and their staff youth repre- Students in attendance from Concordia sentative, Adrian Kowryha. and McGill Universities, and the University This event, called L’Art de la Bourse of Montreal were treated to a very enjoy- (The Art of Stock Markets), was conceived able evening in elegant surroundings, over- and organized by Anastasia Kyva, law stu- looking the traders’ floor. dent and current board of directors intern. The evening began with a brief history This highly successful event provided uni- of the historic Windsor Hotel, followed by versity students with the opportunity to a very informative overview of the multi- meet and learn from members of tude of services provided by Caisse Desjardins administration about financial Populaire Ukrainienne de Montreal. planning, and view a wonderful and inspir- As the evening progressed, Louis- ing photo exhibit. Bank manager Yourko Kulycky (center-left) and Louis-Etienne Fortin (bottom) Etienne Fortin, Desjardins Securities broker This event represented and demonstrated surrounded by members of Caisse Populaire Desjardins Ukrainienne credit union. provided a broad overview of markets, the important and multi-faceted involve- measures and indicators, while responding ment of the Caisse Populaire Ukrainienne evening was intended as one of several Desjardins Ukrainienne to involve young to all technical questions from the students. de Montréal in the local community. The upcoming efforts of Caisse Populaire people.

Students listen to a financial presentation during an event organized by Anastasia Concordia University communications graduate Adriana Luhovy at her photog- Kyva. raphy exhibit.

SUAFCU’s Palatine branch moves to new premises by Dora Turula ribbon, as other SUAFCU board mem- bers, branch staff and community repre- PALATINE, Ill. – The new Palatine sentatives applauded. Office of Selfreliance Ukrainian As is traditional, the first official task American Federal Credit Union was offi- cially opened on Sunday, October 24. within the new office was its blessing. The SUAFCU Palatine Office is at 136 The Rev. Michael Kuzma, pastor of East Illinois Ave., Suite 100, on the first Immaculate Conception Ukrainian floor of the renovated Ukrainian Cultural Catholic Church, accompanied by the Center of the Ukrainian American Youth Rev. Victor Poliarniy, pastor of St. Association of Palatine, Dmytro Vitovsky Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Branch, and the Organization for the Bloomingdale, and Father Mykola Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine Fediuk, pastor of St. John Ukrainian (ODFFU). Orthodox Church of Wheeling. Board Chair Michael R. Kos and Following the homilies and greetings President/CEO Bohdan Watral cut the by the clergy, Mr. Watral cited the close

Blessing the office (from left) are: the Revs. Mykola Fediuk, Michael Kuzma and Victor Poliarniy.

cooperation between our Ukrainian reli- between SUAFCU and the center would gious community and the credit union, become even stronger, now that they which has brought benefits to the entire occupy the same building. community. Branch Manager Oksana Dobrianska Myron Vasiunec, president of UAYA concluded the short dedication ceremony Palatine thanked SUAFCU for the finan- by welcoming all present and inviting cial support it has provided to organiza- them for coffee. tion and the cultural center in Palatine. The Ukrainian community in Palatine Olga Soroka, president of the and the northwest suburbs of Chicago is Women’s Association for the Defense of active and quite large. The Ukrainian Four Freedoms for Ukraine, congratulat- Catholic parish was established in 1961, ed the credit union on its success and SUAFCU board members and dignitaries in front of new Palatine office. expressed hope that the cooperation (Continued on page 22) 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 No. 47 No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 21

large consumer. However, Moscow con- Khmelnytsky and Rivne, but it is not A look back... Russian PM... tinues to stand its ground. Gazprom’s clear when and how much Moscow will (Continued from page 5) (Continued from page 2) spokesman, Sergey Kupriyanov, told the lend. we eat, and he explained specific diets for were reached (UNIAN, October 28). Russian channel RT on November 1 that Another agreement signed in the frame- seniors. Kyiv continues to reject Moscow’s calls the gas contract concluded with the previ- work of Prime Minister Putin’s visit to Lidia Prokop Artymyshyn shared her for a merger of Naftohaz Ukrainy with ous government in January 2009 suited Kyiv set up a joint venture to sell Antonov mother’s memoirs published in the book Russia’s Gazprom, but it expects Russia to Gazprom. passenger and transport aircraft. Antonov “Scratches on a Prison Wall” by Luba contribute its gas deposits to a joint ven- More progress has been reached on will also borrow $300 million to $400 mil- Komar Prokop. She read some excerpts ture planned between Gazprom and nuclear energy, but the agreements thus far lion from the Russian state-controlled that included her mother’s experiences Naftohaz. concluded are far from the full-scale merg- Vnesheconombank (UT1, October 28). with imprisonment, torture, death row However, Ukrainian Prime Minister er of the two countries’ nuclear sectors Unlike Moscow suggested earlier this and finally escape and freedom. Mykola Azarov complained in a TV inter- which Mr. Putin offered last spring. year, the agreement provides for no asset Dr. Adriana Ros, a young dermatologist view after meeting Mr. Putin that the joint Ukraine signed a contract with the Russian merger. The Ukrainian state-controlled from New Jersey, informed the audience venture talks were stalled as Moscow had TVEL to set up a joint venture to make Antonov will remain formally independent about skin problems, serious or cosmetic, not decided which assets it would contrib- nuclear fuel for Ukraine’s four nuclear from Moscow, although it continues to related to aging of the skin and the treat- ute to the venture. Mr. Azarov also said plants. Ukraine will have 50 percent plus depend on Russia as the main market for ments and techniques for rejuvenating and there was no progress on gas prices, one stake in the venture, which should be its aircraft. improving the general look of the skin. although Mr. Putin agreed to set up a launched by 2013 (Kommersant-Ukraine, In Kyiv, Mr. Putin apparently did not UNA’s medical director, Dr. Bohdar working group to study the issue. Mr. October 28). raise the issue of Ukraine’s membership in Woroch, a cardiologist and internist, Azarov said Kyiv would continue to insist However, it is not clear whether TVEL the customs union of Russia, Belarus and addressed the seniors and with the aid of that the price formula according to which will fully finance the project, as the gov- Kazakhstan. Kyiv previously made it clear one of our workers demonstrated the Gazprom sells gas to Naftohaz should be ernment apparently expected in that a free trade agreement with the newest and best techniques in CPR. This revised, despite the discounts granted to September when it chose TVEL over European Union was its priority, while was truly life-saving information that Ukraine as a result of the gas-for-naval Westinghouse in a tender for a company membership in the customs union would each one of us took to heart. As always, base accords signed this past April (Inter to build a nuclear fuel factory. The make such an agreement impossible Dr. Woroch gave generously of his time TV, October 29). Ukrainian daily Ekonomicheskie Izvestia (EDM, November 1). and answered many questions relating to The discount amounts to $100 per reported on November 1 that TVEL health and seniors. 1,000 cubic meters of gas, but Kyiv wants would finance only 60 percent of the The article above is reprinted from Our last speaker of the week was Dr. cheap gas without discounts, arguing that project. Ukraine also hoped to receive Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission Alexander Motyl, author, historian and it deserves special treatment as the key Russian loans to complete several new from its publisher, the Jamestown professor of political science at Rutgers transit partner and geographically closest reactors at its nuclear plants in Foundation, www.jamestown.org. University – Newark. With the ongoing exhibit “Ukraine-Sweden: At the “Crossroads of History (XVII- XVIII Centuries)” at The Ukrainian Museum in New York City, Dr. Motyl provided examples in world literature in which Hetman Ivan Mazepa is mentioned, the foremose being in Lord Byron’s writings. It was interesting to learn about Mazepa’s influence on various European and American authors. One of the week’s favorite events is the Thursday evening banquet, to which most participants wear Ukrainian embroi- dered clothing. UNA President Stefan Kaczaraj greeted the participants and gladly mingled with all the guests. There was an array of beautiful embroidered dresses, gowns and shirts, and partici- pants were encouraged to take a stroll down the “unofficial” catwalk to show off their “vyshyvanky.” The evening began with a group photo and cocktails on the Veselka patio. Oleh Chmyr charmed the audience not only with his wonderful baritone voice but also with some delightful anecdotes. During the banquet, there was a talented recitation by Mr. Redko of Leonid Hlibov’s poem “Homeless.” Both per- formers were applauded gratefully. The evening continued to the music of Stefan Ben. There were many seniors who enjoyed dancing, reminiscing and singing throughout the evening. Raffle tickets were sold by Gloria Horbaty for a beauti- ful Trypillian vase hand delivered from Toronto by Ivan Skrypukh, who donated the vase in memory of his beloved wife, Lydia. Over the years a total of over $1,000 was donated from the sale of these vases. The following were elected to lead the UNA Seniors: Ms. Tomorug, treasurer; Ms. Trytyak, secretary; Mr. Hayda, vice president; and Oksana Trytjak, president. We are all looking forward to working together to promote next year’s Seniors’ Week. A big thank-you to all the seniors who not only participate every year, but who also bring along their friends, enriching our group and growing our membership base. In the last few years, Seniors’ Week has grown from 40 to 110 participants. Next year’s program is already in the works. To all those who do not feel like seniors, but are over age 55 years of age, we extend an invitation to join us in 2011 on June 12-17. We promise you a good time at a very reasonable price. (P.S. Don’t forget to bring your friends.) 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 No. 47 Alexander Motyl’s “Unknown Soldiers” at Chelsea gallery NEW YORK – Alexander Motyl will be exhibiting 12 paintings from his “Unknown Soldiers” series at the Icosahedron Gallery in New York’s art capital, Chelsea, on December 3-23. The “Unknown Soldiers” series repre- sent a radical departure from Motyl’s more familiar, highly colorful, abstracts. The new paintings are all black-and-white por- traits of participants of the 1919 Winter Campaign, led by General Mykhaylo Omelianovych Pavlenko, against the Soviet forces occupying Ukraine. “I saw a photograph of the group and realized that they all probably perished and that we have no idea who they are,” said Prof. Motyl. “The expressions on their faces range from sadness to determi- nation to defiance to confusion.” The Icosahedron Gallery is located on the ground floor of 606 W. 26th St., just west of 11th Avenue. The opening recep- Paintings from Alexander Motyl’s “Unknown Soldiers” series. tion will be held on December 10, at 8 p.m. For more information call 212-966- solo and group shows in New York, Warhol,” “Flippancy” and the forthcom- his fiction and poetry at the Cornelia 3897 or go to http://www.icosahedrongal- Philadelphia and Toronto — most recent- ing “The Jew Who Was Ukrainian”; his Street Café and the Bowery Poetry Club. lery.org. ly as part of the 2010 High Line Open poems have appeared in Counterexample Prof. Motyl teaches at Rutgers Prof. Motyl studied painting with Leon Studies event. Poetics, Istanbul Literary Review, Orion University-Newark and lives in New Goldin at Columbia University in the He is also the author of four novels, Headless, 34th Parallel and New York York. His website is: www. 1970s. His artwork has been exhibited in “Whiskey Priest,” “Who Killed Andrei Quarterly. He has done performances of AlexanderMotyl.webs.com.

Ukraine to Europe, as Moscow redirects Ukraine to Belarus (Interfax-Ukraine, pation, had expected to import oil Odesa-Brody... oil volumes for shipment by tankers via October 21). through this pipeline ever since Ukraine (Continued from page 2) the Baltic Sea. Also on October 12, the Ukrainian completed it in 2002. The Polish refiner- tion, south-north. The Odesa-Brody pipeline has been government approved the test-pumping ies at Plock and Gdansk were the desig- On October 17 in Minsk, the Belarus underutilized continuously since 2004. of a consignment of 80,000 tons of nated customers, pending an optimal Oil Co. (BNK) and Petroleos de TNK-BP and other Russian oil compa- Venezuelan oil through the Odesa-Brody transport solution from Brody onward. Venezuela (PDVSA) signed an agreement nies, using this pipeline in reverse, sup- pipeline, and onward through a section of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk for the delivery of 10 million tons of plied far less than its capacity volume of the Druzhba pipeline, to the Mozyr refin- recently urged the visiting Ukrainian Venezuelan oil to Belarus per year, from 9 million to 12 million tons per year. This ery in Belarus. Proposed by Ukraine’s Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, to con- 2011 through 2013. President Alyaksandr prompted suspicions that commerce was Fuel and Energy Minister, Yurii Boiko sider this issue again (PAP, September Lukashenka and his visiting counterpart, only one reason for Russian reverse-use, and scheduled for November, the move 30), as did the Sarmatia consortium chief Hugo Chavez, witnessed the agreement’s the other presumed reason being denial of necessitates “batch-pumping” – a method in a statement to the Ukrainian govern- signing (Interfax, October 18). access to non-Russian oil supplies for to forward oil of different densities ment (UNIAN, October 14). Belarus plans to access about half of Ukrainian refineries. Meanwhile, the oil through a pipeline in separate batches, These countries had intended to import flow to Odesa has further declined in the that annual volume via Odesa and the without mixing them. The amount of Caspian oil through the Odesa-Brody second quarter of 2010 for unclear rea- remainder via Baltic ports. Belarus has 80,000 tons corresponds with the capaci- pipeline and a northbound continuation sons, and is said to have practically already started significant imports of ty of tankers being handled at Odesa’s route. From 2002 onward, however, stopped in October (Nezavisimaya Venezuelan oil, with a planned volume of Pivdenny terminal (Interfax-Ukraine, Russia blocked the access of Kazakhstani Gazeta, October 20). 4 million tons in 2010 (Belapan, October UNIAN, October 12, 14; BELTA, oil via Novorossiysk to Odesa. Deliveries 13). This situation allows the Ukrainian government to prepare for using this October 13). of Azerbaijani oil would have been feasi- Among Baltic ports, Lithuania’s Russian Energy Minister Sergei ble via Georgia’s Black Sea coast to Klaipeda is the leading option for Belarus pipeline for inflow of oil from Odesa, instead of outflow. Once that happens, Shmatko, however, warned publicly, Odesa, but Russian companies blocked to import Venezuelan and other non-Rus- while in Kyiv, that pumping Venezuelan the inland access into Ukraine through sian oil. Lithuanian President Dalia however, there is no optimal transport solution yet from Brody to Belarus. oil via Odesa-Brody-Druzhba to Mozyr the Odesa-Brody pipeline, by using it in Grybauskaite and accompanying offi- would necessitate Russian approval. Mr. reverse. Venezuelan oil deliveries inland cials, visiting Minsk on October 20, Oil is being moved from Odesa by railroad at present. Belarus started Boiko retorted also publicly that Ukraine by railroad, or batch-pumped by pipeline, reached preliminary agreement with their has a right to act in its national interest are temporary, emergency-dictated solu- Belarusian counterparts on oil transporta- imports of Venezuelan oil from Odesa’s Pivdenny terminal in April of this year. and that of its partner Belarus (Interfax- tions. A real solution would have to start tion from Klaipeda. The agreement is Ukraine, October 14, 15). The main tech- with the Ukrainian government regaining expected to be finalized by November These imports hit the 1 million ton mark nical issue is almost certainly the compo- sovereignty over the Odesa-Brody pipe- (Interfax, October 20). by mid-October and are planned at 1.5 sition of Venezuelan oil. line, for northward use. On October 18 in Kyiv, President million tons for 2010. The Ukrainian Using the Odesa-Brody pipeline south- Viktor Yanukovych held talks with the government has reduced taxes on oil north, as originally intended, is also a The article above is reprinted from visiting President Chavez regarding transportation of oil bound for Belarus at Venezuelan oil transportation via Ukraine the Pivdenny port and on Ukrainian rail- matter of interest to Poland. The Sarmatia Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission for Belarus. According to Mr. roads (Interfax-Ukraine, October 21). consortium, last restructured in 2007 with from its publisher, the Jamestown Yanukovych, Ukraine has considerable On October 12 in Kyiv, First Vice Polish, Ukrainian and Lithuanian partici- Foundation, www.jamestown.org. spare capacity in its oil transit pipelines Prime Ministers Andriy Kliuyev of (Druzhba system) and is also keen to use Ukraine and Uladzimir Syamashka of Belarus signed an inter-governmental the Odesa-Brody pipeline for in-flow into over a hundred eager dancers into the the country (Interfax-Ukraine, October agreement on oil transportation for the years 2011-2015. The agreement envisag- SUAFCU's... building every week. There are also other 18, 21). Mr. Yanukovych was alluding to activities both for children and for the the decline in Russian oil exports via es transit of 4 million to 5 million tons of (Continued from page 19) oil per year, from Odesa/Pivdenny via with the UAYA branch and the ODFFU Ukrainian community as a whole. center opening within the next few years. It was this constant hubbub of activity The Palatine Branch of SUAFCU that necessitated expansion and renova- began operations in 1975, so that tion of the center. SUAFCU leaders say The Winding Path Ukrainians living in this area could more they are delighted that an appropriate conveniently benefit from membership in space was carved out for its Palatine to Freedom their own Ukrainian financial institution. office within the new building. The first branch manager, in the days Photos of the dedication ceremony, as when the credit union was only open on well as a YouTube video, can be accessed A perfect gift for anyone Sundays, was Fred Stupen. from the credit union’s website, selfreli- The Ukrainian Cultural Center in ance.com. (Click on the “Community Top seller on Amazonbooks.com Palatine is a busy place. UAYA youth Photos” or “YouTube” Videos links.) group meetings are held weekly. The The new office of SUAFCU is at 136 “Ridna Shkola” Ukrainian Saturday E. Illinois Ave., Suite 100; phone number, See the website: School is administered by the UAYA, as 847-359-5911. The office is conveniently Thewindingpathtofreedom.com is the School of Dance and Iskra located just off Route 53, not far from its Ukrainian dance ensemble, which bring intersection with I-90 at Woodfield. No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 23 OUT AND ABOUT

November 24 Concert with Stefan Stawnychy, Hoverlia Social December 1 Book launch by Myrna Kostash, “”Prodigal Whippany, NJ Club, Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Ottawa Daughter: A Journey to Byzantium,” Sheptytsky Jersey, 973-585-7175 Institute, St. Paul University, 613-236-1393 ext. 2651 November 26 Paintball tournament, Bobrivka, www.bobriwka.org Colebrook, CT or [email protected] December 2 Literary evening with Serhiy Zhadan, “Gospels and New York Spirituals,” Columbia University, 212-854-4697 November 26 Dance featuring music by Svitanok, Chornomortsi Whippany, NJ Plast Fraternity, Ukrainian American Cultural December 3-23 Art exhibit, “Unknown Soldiers” by Alexander Center of New Jersey, www.chronomortsi.org New York Motyl, Icosahedron Gallery, 212-966-3897 December 5 Thanksgiving dinner, Ukrainian American Sports November 28 Christmas bazaar, Assumption of the Blessed Horsham, PA Center Tryzub, 215-343-5412 Ottawa Virgin Ukrainian Orthodox Church hall, 613-728-0856 December 5 Folk art workshop, The Ukrainian Museum, New York 212-228-0110 November 29 Lecture by Tetyana Dziadevych, “World War II Cambridge, MA through Women’s Eye and Experience: Literary and December 5 St. Nicholas program, Immaculate Conception Memoiristic Discourses,” Harvard University, Hillside, NJ Ukrainian Catholic Church, 908-289-0127 617-495-4053 or www.byzcath.org

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS Thursday, December 2 language event is free and open to the public. For more information call Dr. NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Studies Mark Andryczyk at 212-854-4697, or Program at Columbia University presents write to [email protected]. 216 Foordmore Road “Gospels and Spirituals,” an evening with 1-845-626-5641 writer Serhiy Zhadan. Mr. Zhadan is one P.O. Box 529 [email protected] of the best-known literary figures in Saturday, December 18 Kerhonkson, NY 12446 today’s Ukraine. The presentation will be held at 7 p.m. in Harriman Atrium, WASHINGTON: The Taras Shevchenko International Affairs Building, 420 W. School of Ukrainian Studies will host a Nov 25 – Thanksgiving Nov 27 – High school reunion 118th St. The event is free and open to the “Sviatyi Mykolai” (St. Nicholas) show public. The Contemporary Ukrainian and holiday bazaar. Students will present Literature Series is co-sponsored by the “Mykolai – Superhero” at noon. Sviatyi Ukrainian Studies Program at the Mykolai will then meet with each grade/ Harriman Institute, Columbia University age group (non-students welcome). The and the Kennan Institute. For more infor- Heavenly Office will be open 9:15-11:45 mation call Dr. Mark Andryczyk at 212- a.m.; please bring only one item per child 854-4697 or write to ukrainianstudies@ ($2 fee), clearly labeled (child’s full name, columbia.edu. grade/age). The bazaar and bake sale is at 9:30 a.m.-noon and will feature torte slic- es, fancy cookies for your holiday cookie Tuesday December 7 tray, kolachi, makivnyky, medivnyky, chil- NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Studies dren’s sweets, varenyky and vushka (fro- Program at Columbia University invites zen), books, CDs, gift items. Note the new you to an illustrated talk and book presen- location this year: Ukrainian Catholic tation of the book “Ukrainian Artists in National Shrine of the Holy Family, 4250 Paris, 1900-1939” (Rodovid, 2010) by its Harewood Road NE, Washington, DC author Dr. Vira Susak (Lviv Art Gallery). 20017. For further information visit http:// This event will take place at noon in www.ukieschool.org/events.htm or contact Room 1219, International Affairs Lada Onyshkevych, [email protected] or Building, 420 W. 118th St. This English- 410-730-8108.

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