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ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXIII No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 $2.00 Ukraine seeks to blunt Poroshenko, Putin to address Russia’s U.N. veto power United Nations this weekend by Zenon Zawada He added, “There won’t be any results there. The main thing will be the messages voiced by the sides.” KYIV – It’s no coincidence that the warring in Donbas If they do find time to discuss Ukraine, Mr. Fesenko said, has calmed this month, with relatively few casualties and Mr. Putin will stick to his positions of forbidding Ukraine’s injuries, Kyiv experts said. NATO membership, requiring Kyiv to negotiate directly The Russian government was satisfied with the decision with the terrorists and to establish the local governments of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s Parliament, to approve of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, to be on August 31 the first reading of constitutional amend- financed by the Ukrainian budget. ments establishing a specific order in the Donetsk and He will also propose his own version of a world order, or Luhansk regions. a “New Yalta,” he said. Yet that’s unlikely to muster much Yet there’s another factor to the reduced fighting, support. In recent weeks, Russian Duma deputies went as experts said. Russian President Vladimir Putin will be far as proposing to move the U.N. headquarters to addressing the United Nations this weekend for the first Switzerland. time in 10 years and he wants to present himself as a The German publication Die Zeit reported Mr. Putin will peacemaker and open the door for more negotiations, propose creating a new global anti-terrorist alliance, with experts said. its primary target being ISIS. Russian diplomats have “Putin really wants this meeting” of the United Nations already tried to muster the support of the U.S., Jordan, (U.N.), said Volodymyr Fesenko, the director of the Penta Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, the report said. Center for Applied Political Reseach in Kyiv. In his turn, Mr. Poroshenko will meet with German On September 17, Ukraine’s Ambassador to the “He needs it more than [U.S. President Barack] Obama. Chancellor Angela Merkel, her press office said, as reported U.N. Yuriy Sergeyev tweeted that thus far 70 The majority of Russians and Western experts believe that by the Ukrinform news agency. She will leave New York the countries of the U.N. General Assembly’s 193 the Russian Federation’s recent actions, particularly in same day Mr. Putin arrives and will wait until October 2 to members are in favor of stripping Russia of its Syria, are aimed at spurring the Americans to this meeting meet with him in Paris, the report said. veto power on the U.N. Security Council. and demonstrating its necessity.” He will also meet with President Obama, Ukraine’s The U.N. Sustainable Development Summit will meet on Foreign Ministry reported on September 11. The Ukrainian RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service September 25-27, which will be attended by Messrs. Putin, president will propose introducing a U.N. peacekeeping mis- Ukraine has stepped up its effort to restrict Russia’s who is scheduled to address the U.N. on September 28, and sion to the occupied territories of Donbas, the Presidential use of its veto in the U.N. Security Council, which Kyiv Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who is scheduled Administration press service said on September 23. says has enabled the Kremlin to block international to speak on September 29. Mr. Poroshenko’s main goals will be to maintain the action to punish Moscow for “aggression.” (Mr. Poroshenko was originally scheduled to speak international coalition against Russian aggression and In a resolution unanimously adopted on September immediately after Mr. Putin, reported Ukraine’s Liga news keep the economic sanctions in place to pressure Russia. 16, the Ukrainian Parliament called for urgent reform agency.) He will also seek to restrict vetoes of permanent mem- of the Security Council, in which Russia holds veto Yet the Russian autocrat won’t meet with Mr. Poroshenko bers on the U.N. Security Council, as well as advocate for powers as one of the five permanent members. at all, reported the eurointegration.com.ua news site on Ukraine to become a non-permanent member in the elec- “There is convincing evidence of the urgency to September 24, citing an anonymous Ukrainian diplomat. tions next year, which it hasn’t had for 15 years, said reform the veto [system] to prevent its abuse,” the Additionally, Liga reported on September 23 that Mr. Putin Kostiantyn Yeliseyev, a Presidential Administration deputy Verkhovna Rada resolution said. has decided to reduce his visit to two days instead of four, head. It said the veto has too often been used to “cover up starting September 27, according to anonymous Ukrainian Yet so far, there isn’t enough support in the General the crime of aggression by a permanent member of diplomats. Assembly to amend the rules of the Security Council, Mr. the U.N. Security Council.” The Russian delegation rejected a proposal by the Fesenko said. The resolution urged U.N. member states to take Ukrainian government to hold talks in New York to resolve The president will discuss the criminal persecution and “all possible measures to stop the Russian aggression the Donbas war in the Normandy format (including human rights violations of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainian against Ukraine.” German and French leaders), probably out of concern that diplomats will meet with their counterparts to consider Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from the U.S. would join, the diplomats said. forming a tribunal to hold accountable those who shot Ukraine last year after sending in troops and staging a “The Russians said that they don’t trust not only the down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. referendum denounced by about 100 U.N. member walls, but the air and all that’s there. The Germans and Malaysia, Australia, Belgium and the Netherlands could states as illegitimate; it has supported separatists in a French shrugged their shoulders, ‘Well, okay, that means help form this tribunal, the New York Times reported on conflict with Ukrainian forces that has killed more we’ll meet in Paris,’ ” the liga.net report said, citing one of September 24, without the Security Council, where the than 7,900 people since April 2014. the diplomats who referred to the meeting planned for measure was rejected by Russia. “That could be a very In July, Russia blocked a resolution that would have October 2 in the Normandy format. important result,” Mr. Fesenko said. established a tribunal to try those suspected of So what will happen? Another topic for discussion is hybrid warfare and how responsibility for the downing of Malaysia Airlines U.S. President Obama has agreed to engage in a bilateral to counteract it by mobilizing international support, Mr. Flight 17 over Ukraine, which killed all 298 people meeting with Mr. Putin on either September 28 or 29, the Yeliseyev said. The president is also scheduled to meet aboard. Kyiv and the West suspect separatists shot the New York Times reported on September 23, citing an with Sen. John McCain, the chairman of the Armed Services jet down with a Russian-supplied missile system. anonymous source in the White House. The last time they Committee, the Presidential Administration said. Last year, Russia vetoed a resolution criticizing the met formally was June 2013. The violence in Donbas could escalate yet again after Mr. secession referendum in Crimea. Mr. Putin will likely use the visit to discuss the Syrian Putin returns from New York, Mr. Fesenko said. Sooner or Also in July, Russia blocked a resolution that would conflict with President Obama, as well as the entire politi- later, whether in New York or elsewhere, Western leaders have declared the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia- cal configuration in the Middle East. will have to face up to the fact that the Minsk accords have Herzegovina in 1995, in which some 8,000 Muslim “They will mainly talk about the Near East and possibly reached a dead end and a new tool of diplomacy will be men and boys were killed, to be genocide. organizing a large kind of conference on Syria. Taking into needed, he said. The Ukrainian campaign appears to be an effort to account that the meeting will be short on the U.N. territory, “Putin will further attempt to control this territory and he build on a French effort to persuade the other four there won’t room nor time for Ukraine,” Vadym Karasyov, will continue to be interested in removing sanctions, or at the director of the Institute for Global Research in Kyiv, told least reducing them. That’s precisely why he’s playing this (Continued on page 5) the segodnya.ua news site. game of ‘establishing peace’ in Donbas,” Mr. Fesenko said. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 No. 39

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Nord Stream Two One sentenced in pro-Ukraine stunt media outlets expect a new offensive soon. MOSCOW – A Moscow court on This is clearly not leadership – whether September 10 acquitted four people and from the front, behind, or anywhere else.” in Ukrainian perspective found one guilty of hooliganism and van- The expert added: “Unfortunately, dalism for taking part in a pro-Ukraine President [Barack] Obama has not learned this lesson. He and his top policy-makers by Vladimir Socor demand to recover by 2019 and thereafter. stunt. The five, including two women, went simply do not take the Russian threat seri- Eurasia Daily Monitor Ukraine’s transit revenue has declined on trial on August 17. They were accused of correspondingly with the volume decline. taking part in a stunt in which a Soviet red ously – and the idea that we can somehow At Russia’s initiative, the Nord Stream Ukraine earned some $4 billion for transit star atop a Stalin-era skyscraper was paint- elicit Moscow’s cooperation in the Middle Two natural gas pipeline project has services in 2013, some $3 billion in 2014, ed in the blue and yellow colors of the East while Putin himself stokes the fires of advanced from agreements of intent to a and expects some $2 billion for 2015 in Ukrainian flag. Four defendants were war by allowing Russian terrorists to travel binding agreement; Gazprom has formed transit fees. These revenue losses are accused of drawing attention to the painted from Russia to Syria, is incredible. How, the project consortium with several major potentially destabilizing to Ukraine’s star and a Ukrainian flag hoisted from it by ultimately, can we be partners with a European energy companies. Planned to already precarious fiscal position. Ukraine parachuting from the 176-meter building. revanchist and terrorist-sponsoring state connect Russia with Germany through the proposes to negotiate an increase in transit The fifth defendant, Vladimir Podrezov, was whose mantra is new rules or no rules?” Baltic Sea by 2019, Nord Stream Two fees as part of the current negotiations on sentenced to 27 months in jail. The court (Ukrainian Canadian Congress) would double the Nord Stream system’s the price of Russian gas supplies for 2016. found Mr. Podrezov guilty of helping Poroshenko: staying out of NATO ‘criminal’ overall capacity to 110 billion cubic meters Raising the transit fees is normal practice Ukrainian stunt daredevil Pavlo Ushyvets – (bcm) of Russian gas per year, potentially in situations when the transit volume known by the nickname Mustang Wanted – KYIV – Ukrainian President Petro replacing Ukraine as the main transit route declines. At the current level of transit fees, to paint the star and raise the flag. Mr. Poroshenko has said that staying out of the for Russian gas to Europe (see EDM, Ukraine’s transit system is expected to turn Ushyvets, who is in Ukraine, has announced NATO military alliance was a “criminal” September 10, 14, 15, 17). loss-making if the transit volume drops on Facebook that he carried out the stunt policy that his government is ready to This project is inseparable from the con- below 40 bcm per year. alone. (RFE/RL’s Russian Service) reverse. But Mr. Poroshenko said it will be text of Russia’s efforts to undermine up to a popular vote to decide on member- The current transit fee is apparently set Expert: NATO’s deterrence ‘insufficient’ Ukraine, through instruments ranging from at $2.88 per one thousand cubic meters of ship. Mr. Poroshenko was speaking on military aggression to economic exhaus- Russian gas per 100 kilometers of WASHINGTON – Writing on the Atlantic September 22 while chairing a meeting of tion. Specifically, Nord Stream aims to elim- Ukrainian pipeline. According to some Council’s “New Atlanticist” blog, Stephen Ukraine’s security council. NATO Secretary- inate Ukraine from European energy tran- reports, Kyiv proposes to raise that fee to a Blank, senior fellow at the American General Jens Stoltenberg was in attendance sit systems (strategic goal), and in so doing, range of $3.70–$5.50 per one thousand Foreign Policy Council, stated, “Since the at the meeting in Kyiv. NATO officials have to deprive Ukraine of transit revenue (col- cubic meters per 100 kilometers of pipe- Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, the world said that Ukraine must carry out political, economic, and military reforms before the lateral Russian goal). The Kremlin’s even line, apparently depending on the transit has seen precious little Western leadership country can even be considered for mem- more ambitious goal, however, is to replace volume to be agreed (Interfax-Ukraine, when it comes to confronting Russian bership. Stoltenberg told the meeting that the Ukrainian transit route, which is free June 26, September 18; Ukrinform, President Vladimir Putin[...] Even in the “Ukraine can rely on NATO” and that “NATO from Gazprom’s control, with a route to September 10; Bloomberg, September 11; face of plans to send Poland heavy weap- ons in 2016 while beefing up Baltic defens- provides Ukraine with political and practi- Europe fully controlled by Gazprom. UNIAN, September 18). es and organizing more frequent and larger cal support.” Ukraine has been fighting with Indeed, in Nord Stream, Gazprom is the Whether Nord Stream Two materializes NATO exercises, the fact remains that separatist rebels in the east since April majority stakeholder (its 51 percent stake as planned is still far from certain, given the Russia – if it chose to do so – could occupy 2014 in a conflict that has resulted in the is intangible), the sole authorized user of project’s unresolved financial and legal Nord Stream pipelines’ capacities, and the the Baltic states in two days, as Gen. Peter deaths of more than 7,900 people. Kyiv and issues. The signed agreement, however, in Pavel, the incoming chairman of NATO’s Western governments accuse Moscow of only authorized seller of gas at destination and of itself will discourage other Western points in Europe. The project’s board chair- Defense Committee, recently warned. In directly backing the rebels, something the companies from investing in the upgrade of other words, NATO’s conventional deter- Kremlin denies. (RFE/RL, AP and Interfax) man and the CEO, Gerhard Schroeder and Ukraine’s transit system, as long as the Matthias Warnig, respectively, are (formal- rent is still dramatically insufficient.” Mr. bypass threat hangs over that system. Blank also noted that “Baltic governments NATO chief: Ukraine truce ‘encouraging’ ly) Gazprom’s and (slightly less formally) For its part, the European Commission may feel reassured by Western announce- LVIV – NATO Secretary-General Jens the Kremlin’s nominees. insists that Ukraine must remain a major Thus, Nord Stream must be evaluated ments to date, but the people themselves Stoltenberg has called on Russia to with- transit route for Russian gas to Europe. The do not; in one opinion survey, for example, not only for its fiscal or other impacts on draw heavy weapons from eastern Ukraine. Commission encourages discussions about Estonians said they felt abandoned rather Ukraine but, more broadly, for its impact on Stoltenberg was speaking to reporters near an international consortium that would than reassured. Furthermore, in 1994, the the energy supply security of a number of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on buy into, and upgrade, Ukraine’s gas transit U.S. and British governments signed an European countries, and the challenges it September 21. He said the drop in fighting system, once Ukraine will have reformed its agreement with Ukraine to protect its secu- poses to the European Union’s laws and between Ukrainian government forces and natural gas sector. Last year, the Ukrainian rity and inviolability, a pact we abandoned common policies. Russian-backed rebels since the start of Parliament authorized the formation of the minute it was challenged. That encour- September was encouraging, but described The target date for completing Nord such an international consortium, and on aged Putin to believe he could invade Stream Two, 2019, coincides with the expi- April 15, 2015, the Parliament approved Ukraine with impunity; even Russian (Continued on page 12) ry of the Russia-Ukraine gas supply and the law on breaking up the Naftohaz transit agreement. As regards the transit, Ukrainy state monopoly, with a view to sep- Moscow’s public statements indicate that it arating the gas transit system from it, effec- will seek an entirely new agreement, reduc- tive October 1, 2015 (Interfax-Ukraine, he krainian eekly FOUNDED 1933 ing the transit flow through Ukraine, per- September 18). T U W haps dramatically, if Nord Stream construc- If and when the construction of Nord tion work advances as planned. 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(Continued on page 3) No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 3 U.S. envoy says: Having Putin as your only friend is not a good idea by Pete Baumgartner the egregious missteps and violations that lar reasons that people in Kyiv have protest- states have a series of commitments with RFE/RL have characterized previous elections – ed, who are protesting for similar reasons respect to free and fair trials, openness, treat- crackdowns on the press, on civil society, that people in cities in the United States ment of prisoners, as well there are commit- PRAGUE – The U.S. ambassador to the on freedom of expression, of association,” have protested in years past. People come ments related to media freedom and, cer- Organization for Security and Cooperation Mr. Baer said. out when they are fed up with something.” tainly, wherever it happens – when there is in Europe (OSCE) says there is a very But he added that “a lot of democratic The disappearance of some $1 billion an attack on an independent journalist – important lesson for former Soviet repub- development” needed to take place in order from Moldovan banks last year has angered that’s an issue of grave concern not only to lics to have learned from the devastating for Belarus to have truly free and fair elec- citizens of the poor former Soviet republic. the U.S. government, but to many other par- conflict in eastern Ukraine: Don’t be too tions. He added that the appeal to Chisinau of ticipating states within the OSCE,” he said. reliant on Russia. joining the European Union is to create a Mr. Nepeskuliev has been held incom- Separatist ‘black hole’ “Having [Russian] President [Vladimir] Moldova that “entails a future with demo- municado since being detained in or near Putin as your only friend is a terrible posi- Ambassador Baer said the recent sus- cratic institutions that are reliable, that the town of Avaza near the Caspian Sea. His tion to be in,” Daniel Baer told RFE/RL in an tained reduction in fighting in eastern don’t steal from people, that deliver servic- mother was told he was arrested on drug interview in Prague. Ukraine – the first real observance of a es, that people are able to fulfill their poten- charges and some reports said he has been “I think Moscow has proved time and February ceasefire agreement – has led to tial in a society that is governed by solid given a three-year sentence. again that it likes to use and manipulate an improvement in the ability of the OSCE’s rule-of-law institutions.” He has been detained by Turkmen political forces to its own end and has very Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to gain authorities several times before and ‘Terrible waste’ little regard for what people actually expe- access to areas in the conflict zone that warned to stop his work as a journalist. rience,” Mr. Baer said. “It doesn’t care about were previously off-limits to the unarmed Ambassador Baer rejected accusations Mr. Baer said Turkmenistan has boycot- the way citizens experience their govern- observers. that Washington has not been forceful in ted a key OSCE annual forum in Warsaw at ment – it likes to manipulate governments But he blamed Russia for the continued criticizing the steep increase in political which rights issues are discussed. He said to meet its own objectives.” refusal to allow OSCE monitors into large repression in Azerbaijan against opposition Turkmenistan should “come to that meet- Ambassador Baer suggested that parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk activists and journalists in the past year. ing and engage and to listen to the con- Belarusian President Alyaksandr regions that are controlled by separatist He said those being imprisoned on what cerns [about its human rights record].” Lukashenka’s release last month of opposi- fighters. international rights groups and Western The U.S. ambassador hinted that the tion leader and former presidential candi- “There have been massive restrictions in governments say are politically motivated OSCE’s “Moscow mechanism” could be date Mikalay Statkevich and five other activ- separatist-controlled territory that has cov- charges were “committed to the future of used in an effort to gain information about ists was motivated by a desire to improve ered about 50 percent of that area where the their country – they are patriots, they want the rights situation in Turkmenistan. relations with the European Union and not OSCE SMM has not been able to have reliable to build a stronger, more prosperous, more Moving to OSCE member Kyrgyzstan, Mr. have Moscow as its only, or best, friend. access at all,” he said. “This has been a black democratic Azerbaijan.” Baer said the United States was disappoint- “Whether [the prisoner releases by hole where who knows what’s going on.” Mr. Baer said he tells Azerbaijani officials ed with recent legislation in the Kyrgyz Lukashenka are the result of] the contin- In addition, he said that “the entire that the issue “isn’t about [the United Parliament that mirrors Russian laws that ued messaging and engagement from the Ukraine-Russia border that is not under States] – this is about you [Azerbaijanis]. labels certain NGOs as “foreign agents,” as European Union, as well as the United Ukrainian control has been effectively off- This is about the future of your country. well as one banning the promotion of States, with President Lukashenka to say: limits to the SMM.” People like [investigative journalist and homosexual “propaganda.” ‘Look, there is a different path for Belarus, “This has been a failure of Russia to RFE/RL contributor] Khadija [Ismayilova], “We see Kyrgyzstan as an important there is a European path for Belarus, but it implement the Minsk [agreements] for people like [activist] Rasul Cafarov, people player in a strong Central Asia, and we requires significant, dramatic changes’ – many months now,” Mr. Baer said. like [activist] Intigam Aliyev, people like the think that the path forward that is available whether that is happening, [whether there Mr. Baer said the cessation in fighting Yunuses [activists Leyla Yunus and Arif to them by making the right choices, by is] some appeal, only [Lukashenka] can was welcomed and that the United States Yunus] – these are people who believe in a building democratic institutions, by pre- answer,” he said. and others have been “working now for stronger future for their country and to serving fundamental freedoms – not But Mr. Baer said it was “in the interests more than a year to have an end to violent have them in prison is a terrible waste.” restricting them – is one that has a lot of of the citizens of Belarus that a [European] Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine.” Likewise in Turkmenistan, the U.S. promise for the people of Kyrgyzstan and trajectory is... the one that is taken.” He said that, although Russia signed the envoy was critical of the July 7 detention of we’ll continue to make that case,” he said. The U.S. diplomat said the October 11 initial Minsk protocol in September 2014, RFE/RL freelance journalist Saparmamed presidential election was “another test” for Moscow had “repeatedly” violated the Nepeskuliev and attempts in recent months Copyright 2015, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted Belarus and added that he was “hopeful” agreement in the past year. by the Turkmen authorities to intimidate with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ that it will be “more free and more fair” Mr. Baer said one of Kyiv’s biggest chal- several other RFE/RL correspondents via Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, than previous votes, which have been con- lenges will be to “build a strong Ukraine threats, warnings and interrogations in an Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see demned by the West as unfair and marred and to do the reforms – none of which will attempt to stop them from reporting. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-neigh- by irregularities and widespread claims of be easy, some of which will be painful – that “Turkmenistan is a participating state in bors-if-putin-only-friend-bad-idea/ vote-rigging. will set Ukraine up as a prosperous democ- the OSCE and all of the OSCE participating 27249954.html). Mr. Lukashenka – in power in Belarus racy for the long term.” for more than 21 years – is expected to eas- Commenting on the ongoing anti-corrup- ily win a fifth term in the election. tion movement and mass protests in the “I am hopeful that President Lukashenka Moldovan capital, Chisinau, Ambassador will take the opportunity to avoid some of Baer said people were protesting “for simi- OSCE training in Ukraine focuses on detecting forged travel documents and Turkey’s westernmost provinces. OSCE tate trafficking, financial fraud, espionage, Nord Stream... All those intentions presuppose the suc- people smuggling or other crimes,” said cessful completion of Nord Stream Two. (Continued from page 2) CHERKASY, Ukraine – An advanced Simon Deignan from the OSCE And that, in turn, may depend on special training course for Ukrainian border con- Transnational Threats Department. bypassing Ukraine, but those plans have arrangements on the overland pipelines in trol officers aimed at increasing their prac- “Without the ability to travel freely that a failed conclusively. Hence, Gazprom will Germany that feed from Nord Stream. tical abilities to detect forged travel docu- travel document allows, terrorists and still have to use elements of Ukraine’s tran- While Russia has decided to turn Germany ments began here on September 7. criminals can be impeded, thereby reduc- sit system in order to supply the into a privileged transit country, those spe- Two back-to-back one-week intensive ing their reach and impact.” Transnistria protectorate, Moldova itself cial arrangements have yet to be reconciled training courses, organized by the A key focus of the interactive sessions is (where Gazprom controls Moldovagaz), with the EU’s energy market legislation, Organization for Security and Cooperation on exercising practical work on original, and farther downstream Bulgaria, Greece and that will be difficult. in Europe (OSCE), are designed to update forged and false documents, as well as and sharpen the skills of 42 border control understanding and using forensic equip- officers in detecting forged travel docu- ment to identify document forgery. Quotable notes ments by disseminating knowledge on the This training course has been well security features of passports common in received by the OSCE participating states; Today, on the 15th anniversary of the disappearance of Ukrainian journalist the region, diverse visas, framework of var- the OSCE organized a similar course for Heorhii Gongadze, we pause to remember Mr. Gongadze and other Ukrainian jour- ious visa regimes and many other docu- Turkish border guards in Istanbul in 2014 nalists who have been killed, attacked or suffered intimidation, including of late in ment security features. followed by a study visit of Turkish officers eastern Ukraine. Mr. Gongadze was an intrepid investigative journalist who dedicated The first two trainings in a series of five to Vienna. his professional life to informing the public, exposing corruption and injustice, and courses aim to build on the existing skills of The courses are organized by the OSCE holding those in positions of public trust accountable to the people they serve. officers related to travel document security, Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Ukrayinska Pravda, the media outlet he founded, carries on that legacy today. The seek to complement and add to them Department/Action against Terrorism Unit anniversary of his disappearance is an appropriate time to reflect on the critical role through in-depth knowledge about the (TNTD/ATU), in cooperation with the of a free and independent media in Ukraine’s democratic development and its fur- manufacturing process, as well as the latest International Criminal Investigative ther integration into Euro-Atlantic institutions. trends in counterfeiting methods and Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) of – Statement by Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt in a statement on September 16, on the means of identifying them. the U.S. Department of Justice. They are 15th anniversary of the disappearance of Heorhii Gongadze. “Travel documents are desirable tools conducted by two document advisors from for criminals and terrorist groups to facili- the Austrian Ministry of the Interior. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 No. 39 Toronto International Film Festival screens new Maidan fi l m by Oksana Zakydalsky TORONTO – The 2015 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which runs from September 10 to 20 and features 289 films from 79 countries, again includes a film about the Maidan – “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom” by Evgeny Afineevsky. Born in Kazan, Russia, in 1972, Afineevsky had a full film making career in Israel, and now lives in Los Angeles. Although dealing with the same subject matter as the 2014 TIFF selection – Sergei Loznitsa’s “Maidan” – this year’s film has a different treatment. Whereas Mr. Loznitsa’s film was captured from one perspective (the viewer was in one place observing what was around him), Mr. Afineevsky uses 28 cameramen and women who cover various locations throughout the three months of the demonstrations.

TIFF Scenes from “Winter on Fire,” a new film about the Euro-Maidan, which became the Revolution of Dignity. The film is heavily loaded with imagery – Agreement with the European Union. At much of it quite harrowing. The images are first, a student party atmosphere prevailed, given a comprehensible narrative format by but when the Berkut special police (aided by a diverse group of people who provide hired titushky thugs) ws called in, violence explanations filmed after the events, which ensued. Mr. Yanukovych’s Parliament passed is made obvious by the winter landscape of repressive laws to stop the gatherings (there the Maidan period and the spring back- is a moment of humor: forbidden to wear ground during the explanatory parts. helmets, the demonstrators deck themselves It all started in November 2013 when out in various pots and sieves to protect journalist Mustafa Nayyem and others put their heads). Medical facilities are attacked, out a Facebook call for people to come to rubber bullets are exchanged for live ammo. Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosty (Independence By the time Yanukovych flees to Russia on Square) to protest President Viktor Yanukovych’s refusal to sign the Association (Continued on page 5) No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 5 Toronto International Film Festival screens new Maidan fi l m UCC participates in Yalta European Strategy meeting

YES Participants of 12th annual Yalta European Strategy meeting held in Kyiv on September 10-12. Yalta. For the last two years, it has been National President and Ukrainian World isters and key members of Parliament, for- UCC held in Kyiv. The theme of this year’s meet- Congress Vice-President Paul Grod. mer U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, Israeli KYIV – The Ukrainian Canadian ing was “At Risk: How New Ukraine’s Fate “I was heartened to hear from all my President Shimon Peres, former European Congress (UCC) participated in the 12th Affects Europe and the World,” and the Ukrainian, European and U.S. interlocutors Commission President Jose Manuel Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual focus was on security, economy and that Canada is providing strong leadership Barroso, and musical legend and human Meeting, held in Kyiv on September 10-12. reforms. relating to Ukraine on the international rights activist Elton John. YES is the “go to” conference for the current “The consensus among presenters and stage and strong support for economic and “Representing both the Ukrainian state of affairs of Ukraine and brings speakers was that the government of democratic reforms within Ukraine,” he Canadian Congress and the Ukrainian together many of the top political, defense Ukraine is making real progress on reforms observed. World Congress, I was able to further our and finance leaders from around the world. in a very difficult environment and that This year’s YES conference hosted many relationships and influence with Ukrainian Before the Russian invasion and occupa- Europe and the U.S. must step up their prominent participants, including Ukraine’s and global decision makers,” stated UCC tion of Crimea, the YES meeting was held in efforts to support Ukraine,” stated UCC president, prime minister, top Cabinet min- President Grod.

The director, Mr. Afineevsky, was present Toronto... at the Toronto screening. He said, “For me Check out ‘Winter on Fire’ is an unprecedented cine- (Continued from page 4) matic monument in memory of the heroes, February 22, 2014, 125 people have been dedicated to the entire Ukrainian nation and killed. the true story of Maidan – [the] Revolution A lot of credit is due to the film’s chief of Dignity, 2013-2014. This movie is my ded- editor, who was able to fit so much footage ication to the heroism of the human beings, and its newly redesigned into a comprehensible narrative. Visuals to those who helped the wounded, put up are sharp and often disturbing, with a lot of the barricades, were involved in the attacks online edition at blood. The almost two-hour film was on Hrushevsky and Institutska streets, and www.ukrweekly.com shown at the Venice Film Festival (non- to those who are no longer with us.” competing) at the beginning of September, The documentary film will be available and subscribe where it was greeted, according to for viewing on Netflix beginning on for $95 for $90 reviews, with a standing ovation. October 9. for only $40 a year! Ambassador Vitaly Churkin as saying the PRINT EDITIONPRINT AND ONLINE The Ukrainian Weekly, Ukraine seeks... French initiative had a “political subtext.” founded in 1933, is published by “We disapprove of this initiative, assum- the Ukrainian National Association. (Continued from page 1) ing that the right to veto is an utmost permanent members – Britain, China, important mechanism to make the perma- Subscribe to our Russia and the United States – not to use nent members work on finding consensual ($80 if you are a UNA member). their veto when action is required to solutions, and this brings success in a great Subscribe to The Weekly in address a mass atrocity. number of cases,” said Mr. Churkin. The French initiative attracted attention Kyiv’s efforts to see Moscow stripped of ($85 for UNA’ers). after Russia and China used their veto its veto power come ahead of Russian Visit www.ukrweekly.com and click on the link for Subscriptions. power last year to block a resolution asking President Vladimir Putin’s first appearance the International Criminal Court to investi- at the U.N. General Assembly session in 10 Or contact our Subscription Department at [email protected] gate crimes committed in Syria, where years, amid persistent tension over the or 973-292-9800 ext. 3040. Moscow has backed President Bashar al- conflict in Ukraine and signs of a Russian Assad throughout a devastating civil war. military build-up in Syria. On September 4, Ukrainian President Mr. Putin is expected to speak at the Petro Poroshenko told Voice of America General Assembly on September 28, a day that Russia should be stripped of its veto before Mr. Poroshenko. power in the U.N. Security Council. Russia has criticized both the French ini- With reporting by Agence France-Presse, tiative and the Ukrainian campaign. RIA Novosti and Interfax. “We stand in favor of preserving rights Copyright 2015, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted for the five permanent Security Council with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ members,” the state-run Russian news Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, agency RIA Novosti quoted Deputy Foreign Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see Affairs Minister Gennady Gatilov as saying. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine- Interfax quoted Russia’s U.N. seeks-end-russia-un-veto/27252114.html). 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 No. 39

WINDOW ON EURASIA The Ukrainian Weekly The UNA’s commitment to youth Ukraine will be in EU within a decade, This week’s issue features the Ukrainian National Association’s student members who received scholarships for the 2015-2016 academic year. This year, there are 56 likely in NATO too, Lithuanian expert says students who received scholarship funds from the UNA – four of them recipients of by Paul Goble Ukraine can develop in its European direc- special scholarships established by individuals or entities who care deeply about the tion much as Moldova has, rather than be future of our Ukrainian American community. We salute these students and wish Vladimir Putin’s effort to block blocked by a Moscow-controlled “fifth col- them much success in their studies, and we salute the UNA, as well as donors who Ukraine’s integration with Europe by try- umn.” support this worthwhile program. ing to spark a civil war in the former Soviet To be sure, the continuing conflict in the Since the formal establishment of the UNA Scholarship Program, this fraternal orga- republic has failed, Leonidis Donskis says; Donbas is “technically” something that nization has awarded over $2 million to deserving students. (For information about and consequently, Kyiv, despite its current blocks Ukraine’s entrance into NATO, he UNA scholarships and other benefits of membership, we direct readers to http://ukrai- difficulties, can look forward to becoming a says. “I am certain that Europe will not niannationalassociation.org/our-benefits/#awards.) The scholarships are a notewor- full member of the European Union some- leave your country but will integrate it. thy benefit of UNA membership and a concrete example of the UNA’s commitment to time within the next 10 years. And certainly within 10 years, [Ukraine] our younger generations, but they are far from the only example of the UNA’s concern Moreover, the former European will be a member of the EU.” about our youth – a concern that goes back to the organization’s founding in 1894. Parliament member and scholar at “The North Atlantic Alliance can say The UNA has always supported educational, cultural and athletic activities for our Vitautas the Great University in Kaunas, that first this territorial conflict must be youth. Today, there are many camps for children and teens at the Soyuzivka Heritage Lithuania, says, he will not be surprised if resolved. That will slow the move to mem- Center, which is owned by the UNA’s Ukrainian National Foundation. What is note- Ukraine becomes part of NATO as well bership for five or 10 years, but not more,” worthy about them is that they are inclusive – you don’t have to know the Ukrainian (gordonua.com/news/society/Ex-deputat- the Lithuanian analyst argues. language to participate and benefit from these camps. UNA branches continue the evroparlamenta-NATO-poslal-Kremliu- Ukraine needs to focus on domestic time-honored tradition of sponsoring local sports teams or sports events. And, of chetkiy-messedzh.html). reforms and to recognize that it will be course, the UNA has always supported the work of our Ukrainian youth and scouting What is regrettable he says, is that able to achieve more than it expects more organizations, as well as all sorts of activities in which today’s young people are Ukraine was “not integrated into NATO and quickly. After four or five years of hard involved, whether that be Ukrainian folk-dancing or educational programs. the European Union earlier.” Had that been work, Ukraine will be a totally new place In fact, this newspaper, which you are holding in your hands or reading online, the case, “almost 7,000 people would not just as Lithuania was. Not all the problems was founded by the UNA to keep young people engaged in our Ukrainian community have lost their lives,” although their sacri- will be solved, but people will have gained life and to cater to the needs of a new generation of Ukrainian Americans – a genera- fice, Mr. Donskis says, is hardly in vain. It a sense of self-confidence that will make tion whose members perhaps were not fluent in Ukrainian and therefore could not has awakened Europe and the West to the additional reforms easier. relate to the Ukrainian-language newspaper Svoboda. The premiere issue of the threat that Vladimir Putin constitutes. NATO is critical. The Baltic countries Ukrainian Weekly (then written with a lowercase “t” in “the”) dated October 6, 1933, The Kremlin leader’s “honeymoon” with know that it is “a real force in the world” noted: “With this number we begin the publication of a regular weekly supplement the West is over, Mr. Donskis continues, and “the only thing which now saves us.” to the Svoboda, to be known as the Ukrainian Weekly and to be devoted exclusively to and Europe and the U.S. will never react as NATO has displayed its solidarity with its the benefit of the American-Ukrainian youth. The Ukrainian National Association has they did when he attacked Georgia in 2008 members in the east and “sent the Kremlin undertaken to bear the extra cost of this publication, in order to give our youth the and say that “‘Georgia was not without a very clear message: ‘don’t touch or you opportunity of having an exclusive organ of its own; written in its own style and lan- sin.’” will face an entirely different scenario.’ ” guage; wherein it can meet, exchange its thoughts and ideas, come to a better under- “Now, it has become entirely clear: As for Europe, “it prefers soft power” standing of each other, and perhaps point out those paths of endeavor which shall Ukraine is absolutely innocent, and all the and economic leverage. “That is a good lead to a newer and better life. The Ukrainian Weekly is for the youth. The youth fault lies with Russia,” he underscores. thing, but if we want to establish a real alone shall be its master.” (Since then, of course, The Weekly has matured, is no lon- Unfortunately, Mr. Donskis continues, European architecture of political life (of ger a supplement to Svoboda and has become a newspaper for all generations.) more people are likely to die in Ukraine course, together with Ukraine), this is Many of these endeavors that benefit our youth exist under the aegis of the afore- because “military actions will continue. But impossible with such approaches. Other mentioned Ukrainian National Foundation, the UNA’s charitable arm and a regis- there will not be a global war [because] institutions are needed.” tered 501 (c) (3) corporation. Established in 1992, the UNF continues the UNA’s tra- Russia does not have the economic “The West is hardly weak, but its institu- dition of promoting educational, cultural and humanitarian causes for the benefit of strength for that.” tions are really inadequate,” Mr. Donskis the Ukrainian community in the United States, Canada and Ukraine. Today, he argues, “Ukraine is a large, says. The United Nations must be immedi- We encourage those who would like to support the UNA’s commitment to our strong and consolidated country. In the ately reformed so that Russia can’t use its youth to donate to the Ukrainian National Foundation and indicate which of the Donbas, a kind of new Transdnistria, or fro- veto to block findings against it. And the EU UNF’s projects they would like to support, such as the Scholarship Fund, the zen conflict, has appeared.” That is a defeat must be transformed as well. Whenever for Russia because it means the rest of Soyuzivka Fund and/or the Press Fund, or by simply supporting the UNF’s general there is a crisis, “who solves the prob- fund. All donations are tax-deductible. lems?” Not Brussels, but Berlin and Paris. (Donations may be sent to: Ukrainian National Foundation, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Paul Goble is a long-time specialist on Ukraine can play a big role in the revival Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054.) ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia of the European Union, he argues. who has served in various capacities in the “Euroscepticism is a good that is traded in U.S. State Department, the Central France, the Netherlands and England, but Intelligence Agency and the International not in Ukraine. You believe in the EU and Broadcasting Bureau, as well as at the Voice Brussels just as we believed in 2004. This Oct. Turning the pages back... of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio faith will give a new chance for the Liberty and the Carnegie Endowment for European Union itself.” Thirty-two years ago, on October 2, 1983, an estimated International Peace. Mr. Goble writes a blog Indeed, Mr. Donskis suggests, “only 2 18,000 people gathered in the shadow of the Washington called “Window on Eurasia” (http://windo- Ukraine is capable of bringing with it the Monument to mourn the victims of the Holodomor – at the time woneurasia2.blogspot.com/). The article new energy and faith” needed to revive the 1983 known as the Great Famine of 1932-1933 – which claimed the above is reprinted with permission. aging house of Europe. lives of millions of Ukrainians in a policy set forth by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. 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COMMENTARY The chilling side to Russia’s claims about Yatsenyuk as a Chechnya fighter by Halya Coynash might otherwise take precedence. The Kharkiv Human Rights channel claims that it was Messrs. Karpyuk Surprise, surprise! Protection Group and Klykh who “testified” against Mr. Yatsenyuk, “unanimously stating that he Here we are, more than a year from the comed into SPA ranks, becoming one of 14 Russian Investigative Committee claims had taken an active part in the military presidential election and already national ethnic affiliates. Unlike the Democrats and that Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy action.” politics is taking center stage for political Republicans of the time, the SPA leadership Yatsenyuk once fought against Russia in Mr. Bastrykin never mentions any of the news junkies like me. was interested in Ukrainian aspirations. Chechnya aroused hilarity and some excel- three people in Russian detention, while Surprises abound. The blustering narcissist An UFSPA split soon developed between lent flights of Photoshop fantasy following Life News omits one crucial, albeit virtually Donald Trump is leading among 15 national the social patriots, whose first priority was publication of an interview with the head unknown, individual – Alexander Republican hopefuls. Inheriting millions from national reform in Ukraine, and the inter- of the committee, Alexander Bastrykin. It Malofeyev. ICRF mentioned him in its his father, he made millions more as an nationalists (Bolsheviks), who preached was left to the Russian propaganda channel report of August 25, including the key entrepreneur, suffering bankruptcies along class warfare and world revolution. Life News to mention one chilling detail. detail: his case has been separated out the way. The laid-back Dr. Ben Carson, world- The Bolshevik coup d’état in Russia frac- The allegations are based on “testimony” because he has agreed to “cooperate” with renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, is second. tured the SPA. “For the harassed Left in obtained from two Ukrainians held incom- the investigators, almost certainly provid- He grew up in a Detroit ghetto and was United States,” wrote one historian, helped by a tenacious mother, his religious “Bolshevism was a cool rain after a long dry municado in Russian detention for over a ing whatever testimony is required against beliefs, caring teachers and perseverance. spell... there was hardly a radical meeting, year and now accused of involvement in Messrs. Karpyuk and Klykh. Fiery Carly Fiorina, a former top executive whether Socialist, anarchist, or IWW the same fighting. There is also a third per- According to Maria Tomak from the of a Fortune 500 company, is catching up. [Industrial Workers of the World], where the son whose testimony, in turn, is likely to be Center for Civil Liberties, Mr. Karpyuk has Surprisingly, not one of these three can- mere mention of Soviet Russia did not bring used to sentence Mykola Karpyuk and still now not seen any lawyer chosen by his didates is a Washington insider. None have deafening applause.” By the spring of 1919, Stanislav Klykh to long prison sentences. family and the consul has not been allowed experience in the government. All are outli- the Bolsheviks were the party for a number There is nothing funny about torture, and to visit Mr. Klykh. The latter, as reported ers. of American Socialist party branches, as well we have every reason to believe that the here, was also held in maximum secrecy for Another surprise. Former Secretary of as for seven of the semi-autonomous ethnic men were tortured since Messrs. Karpyuk a long time, with a stream of “lawyers” State Hillary Clinton, supreme Washington federations. In 1919, some 128 SPA delegates and Klykh were not even in Chechnya. appointed by the investigators and in no insider, once billed as the inevitable gathered at Chicago’s Smolny Hall and gave The interview is very long and quite way concerned about representing the Democratic presidential choice, is fading. birth to the Communist Party of America staggeringly cynical in its distortion of the interests of the detained men. Ten months Her e-mail servers have not served her well. (CPA). At the moment of its inception, the facts about Nadiya Savchenko and repeti- after his arrest, lawyer Marina Dubrovina The biggest surprise for me is Sen. Bernie CPA had 26,680 members. With 7,000 and tion of the committee’s claim that Russia took on Mr. Klykh’s case. She spoke to Ms. Sanders, an outlier and an avowed Socialist 4,000 members respectively, Russians and has “universal jurisdiction” over crimes Tomak about the case and preliminary running as a Democrat. I thought socialism Ukrainians accounted for some 40 percent of committed beyond its borders. All of this hearing on September 15 in Grozny. as a serious political movement in the the membership. The UFSPA was now was forgotten because of the bombshell in Mr. Klykh, she says, was subjected to var- United States died decades ago. The last renamed the Ukrainian Federation of the last two paragraphs. After claiming that ious forms of torture for the first two Socialist Party candidate to mount a Communist Parties of America (UFCPA). “the majority of Ukrainian far-right nation- months after he was taken into custody. respectable run for the U.S. presidency was Anti-Communist Ukrainian socialists with- alist radicals who took part in the anti-con- These included: being beaten, suspended, Eugene V. Debs in 1912. He garnered almost in the SPA, meanwhile, established Oborona stitutional coup in Ukraine in February subjected to electric shocks, deprived of a million votes that year, running against Ukrainy (Defense of Ukraine) in 1922 and 2014, at one stage fought in Chechnya on food and drink, and given psychotropic three other serious contenders, President began publishing Ukrainska Hromada a year the side of illegal gangs…” Mr. Bastrykin substances. “He was beaten until he’d Howard Taft, former President Theodore later. With the election of Myroslav Sichynsky then announces that Mr. Yatsenyuk was memorized the caliber of the Kalashnikov Roosevelt and New Jersey Gov. Woodrow to the presidency of the UWA in 1933, among them. rifle with which they claimed he shot Wilson. Mr. Wilson was the victor. Ukrainian socialists finally had a power He goes on to cite “the investigators’ Russian soldiers.” American socialism emerged during the base. For the next eight years, the center of information” for his allegations that Mr. Ms. Dubrovina points out that Mr. Klykh Progressive Era that captured the imagina- Ukrainian socialist vigor was located in Yatsenyuk took part in at least two military is an academic who’s never held a rifle in tion of American thinkers at the beginning Scranton, headquarters city of the UWA. of the 20th century. Theodore Roosevelt Despite growing disdain among confrontations on December 31, 1994, and his hands and did not even do military ser- and Woodrow Wilson called themselves Americans for the revolutionary dictates of in February 1995. And, as if that were not vice. He has lost 15 kilograms and his progressives. Sen. Robert LaFollette of Lenin’s party platform, Ukrainian enough, he alleges that Ukraine’s future health urgently needs attention. All of this Wisconsin was another famous progres- American Communists survived. The first prime minister also tortured and shot cap- was disregarded in the medical examina- sive of the time. The American Socialist Ukrainian American daily newspaper, tured Russian soldiers in Grozny on January tion he was given at the beginning of the Party (APA) was born in 1901. Ukrainski Shchodenni Visti (Ukrainian 7, 1995. Again citing this invaluable “infor- summer which found him fit to stand trial. Have Ukrainian Americans ever been Daily News), published by the Communists, mation,” Mr. Bastrykin claims that Mr. Mr. Klykh denies all the charges and seduced by the siren song of socialism? Oh, made its debut in 1921. Yatsenyuk and other active members of recently lodged a complaint over the tor- yeah. Big time. Communists in the United States strug- UNA-UNSO were awarded the highest ture. Ms. Dubrovina describes the proce- Our early development as a community gled during the 1920s due to American dis- honor by Chechen rebel leader Dzhokhar dure they’ve gone through but acknowl- was definitely offbeat. The Roman Catholic trust of the Bolsheviks. Presidents Wilson, Dudayev in December 1994 for nothing less edges that it’s unlikely that any criminal archbishop of Philadelphia shunned Father Harding, Coolidge and Hoover refused to than the killing of Russian soldiers. proceedings will be initiated against Mr. Ivan Wolansky, a Greek-Catholic priest who recognize the Soviet Union as a legitimate Mr. Yatsenyuk was elsewhere at the Klykh’s torturers. founded our first parish in Shenandoah, government. This changed with the elec- time, and could doubtless prove it if he saw All of the evidence against Mr. Klykh is Pa., in 1884. Other Roman Catholic priests tion of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who happily the need. So too could some of the other based on testimony from this mystery indi- in the diocese soon followed suit. Father recognized the Soviet Union in 1933 – dur- people, like Dmytro Yarosh, head of Pravyi vidual called Malofeyev whom Ms. Wolansky, moreover, was the only Catholic ing the height of the Holodomor. The for- Sektor and a national deputy, who also was Dubrovina has never seen. From the file priest in America to join the Knights of tunes of Ukrainian American Communists never in Chechnya. Mr. Yatsenyuk may well material, it seems that he is a Ukrainian Labor, a left-leaning union of laborers. improved considerably during the 1930s have found the absurd accusations a pleas- national and was in Chechnya, after which The Greek-Catholic priests of the and early 1940s, especially after the Soviets ant distraction from the real fire he has he moved first to Crimea, where he com- “American Circle” who helped establish opened their Embassy in Washington and been under lately. mitted an armed robbery or something what is today the Ukrainian National provided technical and financial assistance The prime minister and all other figures similar and served a sentence. In 2005 he Association (UNA) were enamored of the to Ukrainian American Communists. nationalist and social reform ideals of Ivan Will any of the current American politi- mentioned are out of Russia’s reach, unlike moved to where his mother lives in Franko’s Radical Party. When Bishop Soter cal become the nominees of their party? It’s Mr. Karpyuk, who was abducted and taken Novosibirsk, Russia, and there committed by force to Russia in March 2014, and Mr. Ortynsky sought to take over the UNA in possible. Frustration with both American more crimes. In 2009 he was sentenced to 1910, they balked. One of them, Father Ivan political parties was palpable in 1900. Klykh, who was “arrested” after arriving in 23 years’ imprisonment. It is unclear, Ms. Russia to visit a woman he’d met in Crimea. Ardan, bolted the UNA and became the first Lewis L. Gould, author of “Four Hats in the Dubrovina adds, whether he has been sub- president of the Ukrainian Workingman’s Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Nothing at all was known about Mr. jected to physical force, but it is certainly Association (UWA) in 1911. Modern American Politics,” wrote: Karpyuk’s whereabouts until recently, and easy to exert influence on him by depriving In 1900, Svoboda urged its readers to “Political parties no longer seemed the virtually nothing about Mr. Klykh. him of medication since, in addition to reject the political platforms of the embodiment of democracy” but rather, “a Neither man has ever taken part in fight- being HIV positive, he is also suffering from Democratic and Republican parties and to means for unscrupulous leaders to frus- ing in Chechnya, and only Mr. Karpyuk has Hepatitis B and C and tuberculosis, and is vote for Socialists who, the UNA organ trate the democratic will.” Sound familiar? any link with UNA-UNSO. They are charged addicted to opium. argued, were the only people truly interest- At this point it is at least conceivable with murder and attempted murder of two The same dependence on “testimony” ed in the workingman. The first political that Messrs. Trump and Sanders could face or more people carrying out official duties, was seen in the trial of Oleh Sentsov and parties to emerge in the Ukrainian each other in the 1916 presidential elec- and could face 15-year sentences. Oleksandr Kolchenko. The fact that Oleksiy American community were socialist locals; tion. Now that would be a surprise of sur- The Life News report on September 8 Chyrniy refused to testify in court and that they came together in 1915 to establish the prises for Ukrainian Americans. confirms fears that the case is to be Russia’s Hennadiy Afanasyev not only retracted his Ukrainian Federation of Socialist Parties of next show trial with “confessions” used to America (UFSPA), which grew to 46 Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is fill in all those moments where reality (Continued on page 13) branches by 1917; it was quickly wel- [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 No. 39

CALL TO ACTION Worldwide action to spur media coverage of Holodomor memorial dedication in D.C.

by Andrij Bilyk and Xenia Jowyk should be: Joseph Stalin’s terrorization and de facto alerting them about plans for travel to the execution of 5-7 million Ukrainian farmers nation’s• reaching capital out en masseto our for local the pressNovember and in 1932-1933 via forced starvation , i.e. the 7 event; “Holodomor,” was a heinous, premeditated crime of industrial-scale proportion – a either directly or through the Associated crime against humanity. Yet, it is not well- Press• urging (the focus them on tosyndicated provide APcoverage coverage – known outside of our community. was a key factor in the success of the 1983 The upcoming November 7 dedication commemoration’s press coverage); and of a memorial to Holodomor victims in Washington is an opportunity to, once resources and access to experts – maybe again, reach out to the news media to raise even• providing survivors orreporters the children with offact survivors sheets, awareness of this forgotten genocide. – to help journalists understand and cover By pooling our voices worldwide, reach- this big story. ing out to local news media in our home Notably, we should not view the communities and repeating key messages November 7 dedication as a one-time event, over the course of the coming year, we can but as the kick-off to a year-long campaign not only boost media interest in Stalin’s of outreach to the media, op-ed and letter- atrocity against Ukraine, but compare it to writing, and coordinated public marches Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. against symbols of the Kremlin. And, we Both are crimes for which the perpetra- should consider the weeks beforehand as a tors should be brought to justice, in Stalin’s prime time for building interest in the dedi- case, in absentia. cation – worldwide – via events in various As proof of just how effective our commu- countries, cities and towns. nity can be – when there is concentrated, Such events can include: coordinated media outreach at the local level - – consider the fact the 50th anniversary com- bol of the Putin government, such as memorative march on the Soviet Embassy in embassies• where and possible, consulates; marches on any sym Washington in 1983 generated news “hits” in more than 500 U.S. daily newspapers, as members of non-Ukrainian churches are well as major radio and TV outlets. invited;• ecumenical and prayer vigils, to which It can be done. Even more so today, with 24/7 news with appropriate signs. cycles that leave news outlets hungry for •While candlelight a strong vigils turnout on our on mainNovember streets 7 good material – especially human interest is very important, it is not enough to just stories and coverage by “citizen journalists.” “show up,” listen to some solemn speeches There is also the unprecedented, democ- and prayers, and then return home. ratizing power and reach of social media Instead, we must collectively work on channels such as Facebook, Twitter, maximizing press coverage – on getting the YouTube, etc. Witness the important role of message out. Because after all, we know the #freeSavchenko Twitter campaign and about the Holodomor. No need to “preach others like it in building and maintaining to the choir,” as they say. awareness of the plight of Ukrainian fighter There is enough material to assemble a pilot Nadiya Savchenko. press kit to give to your local news media Importantly, Ukraine is no longer isolat- that includes key points about your local ed as it was in decades past. Indeed, after commemoration of Holodomor, tied to the the uplifting images of the Orange November 7 dedication of the Holodomor Revolution, Apocalypse-like images of the memorial in Washington. (late-stage) Maidan, the downing of MH-17 Specific information about the Washington over eastern Ukraine, the drama of the dedication is contained in a flyer issued by the Ukrainian “cyborgs” defending Donetsk Ukrainian Congress Committee of America Airport, the tide of refugees fleeing war- (UCCA). The information above can be torn Ukraine, etc., there is an increased used as the basis for your press release. appetite for Ukraine-related news. Along In addition, we can supply you with with its nemesis, Mr. Putin, Ukraine is in the quotes from the late, renowned Holodomor news virtually every day. researchers Dr. Robert Conquest and Dr. There is immense power and drama in Jim Mace, as well as conservative columnist the Holodomor story – it is a shocking George Will, and others. crime, after all, and one that is still largely To fail to act on this opportunity would unknown. What’s more, it directly relates be an injustice to the millions of free to what is happening today in eastern and Ukrainians whom Stalin deliberately southern Ukraine. starved in that bleak year of 1932-1933. Thus, a key task in any outreach cam- We know this story; we just need to tell paign surrounding the Holodomor monu- it in our communities, again and again. ment is to point out the parallels between Each of us can be a leader in this quest. Stalin’s 1930s Terror-Famine – and Mr. Putin’s current war of aggression/ terror- Andrij Bilyk, now a freelance writer, is a ization of the population in eastern and former newspaper reporter, magazine edi- southern Ukraine. tor, and public relations specialist. In the We need to steer the Western press into 1980s, on behalf of three Ukrainian this part of the story. It would provide American ad hoc committees, he coordinat- important context for understanding the ed media campaigns for three separate current situation as a continuation of the marches on the Soviet Embassy. He can be Kremlin’s historical policies toward Ukraine. reached at: [email protected]. This includes the centuries-long policy of Xenia Jowyk is a business communicator attacking and undermining the Ukrainian lan- and public affairs specialist with over 20 guage – e.g., via 19th century tsarist edicts and years’ experience working with the written bans against the Ukrainian language, and the word – and images – to help shape public pol- attempted silencing of Ukrainian poet Taras icy at the national level. She was previously a Shevchenko via forced exile in Kazakhstan for chapter president of the Ukrainian National 10 years, with express orders forbidding Women’s League of America, and is active him from writing in his native Ukrainian. with the Arlington-Ivano-Frankivsk Sister To get the kind of coverage the Cities Committee in Virginia. She can be November 7 event deserves, we can and reached at [email protected]. No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 9 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 No. 39

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Weightlifting event and Iuliia Prokopchuk and Oleksandr won silver in the junior women’s C1 200- Tsjakadoea of the Netherlands in the third- Goroshkovzov won silver in the team event meter race (50.084 seconds). place match. that included 3-meter springboard dives bronze in European Weightlifting and 10-meter platform dives. Lolita Judo Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, on July Championships• Yevhenii Nykonenkoin Landskrona, (77 Sweden, kg) won on Annansova and Anna Voloshyn won bronze 3-5,• Ukraine At the won Cadet three Europeanmedals – one Judogold August 1-8. In the snatch his best was 107 kg medals in the women’s duet free routine. for third place with Adam Okruashvili of (Daria Bilodid, 44 kg), one silver (Hanna and in the clean and jerk his best was 126 kg. Olena Fedorova finished in fourth place in Georgia• Ukraine’s at the IakivWorld Khamo Judo Championships (+100 kg) tied Kukharuk, 63 kg) and one bronze Alina Shevkoplyas (63 kg) won gold in the the women’s 1-meter springboard final; in Astana, Kazakhstan, on August 24-30. In (Oleksandr Cherkai, 73 kg). U-17 division, with 89 kg in the snatch and Kvasha and Oleksandr Gorshkovozov fin- the third-place match, Khamo won against 106 kg in the clean and jerk. Dmytro ished in fourth place in men’s 3-meter syn- Sung-Min Kim of South Korea after scoring Budapest Grand Prix on June 13-14. Sukhotskyi (56 kg) won gold in the U-17 chronized springboard event; Viktoriya ippon within 40 seconds. • Ukraine won three medals at the division after a first-place finish in snatch Kesar and Anastasiia Nedobiga finished in Georgii Zantaraia (66 kg) won bronze and with a best result of 102 kg; he scored fifth in fourth place in the women’s 3-meter syn- World Cadet Championships in Sarajevo, OleksandraSvitlana Iaromka Starkova (+78(52 kg) kg) won won bronze. silver, In the clean and jerk with a best of 120 kg. The chronized springboard event; Maksym Bosnia-Herzegovina,• Daria Bilodid (44 on kg) August won 5-9.gold at the the final, Iaromka lost to Megumi Tachimoto competition was sponsored by the Dolgov and Goroshkovozov finished in International Weightlifting Federation. fourth place in the men’s 10-meter syn- medal standings with nine medals (three Tachimoto defeated Iryna Kindzerska of Basketball chronized platform dive; Voloshyna fin- gold,• Ukraine two silver finished and in four second bronze) place atin the Ukraine,of Japan. andIn the Iaromka womne’s defeated +78 kg Larisa semifinal, Ceric ished in fourth place in the women’s solo Junior European Judo Cup in Prague on July of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the men’s technical synchronized swimming event 25-26. Artem Khomula (-73 kg), Rezo semifinal, Zantaraia lost to Kengo Takiaichi Group D of the FIBA EuroBasket 2015, fin- and fourth in the women’s solo free event; Mesablishvili (81 kg) and Sergei Zvieriev of Japan, who went on to win first place. In ishing• Ukraine with a finished record ofin twolast winsplace and(sixth) three in Voloshyna and Ananasova finished in the 52 kg repechage, Starkova won against losses. Ukraine lost 69-68 against Lithuania fourth place in the women’s duet technical tive divisions. Silver medalists included Annabelle Euranie of France. on September 5, won 64-78 against the Alexander(+100 kg) won Koshliak gold medals (73 kg) in their and respec-Anton synchronized swimming; Ukraine’s wom- Archery Czech Republic on September 6, lost 71-78 en’s synchronized swimming team Savitskiy (-100 kg). Bronze medal winners against Estonia on September 7, won 74-75 (Ananasova, Voloshyna, Daria Iushko, included Bogdan Iadov (66 kg), Viktor against Latvia (Group D host) on Olena Grechykhina, Oleksandra Sabada, Makukha (81 kg), Liudmyla Drozdova (70 Shkolna (17), Viktoriya Dyakova (21) and September 9 and lost 71-79 against Anastasiya Savchuk, Kateryna Sadrska and Olena• Ukraine’s Borysenko women’s (19) – won team gold – Mariya at the Belgium on September 10. Ukraine quali- Kseniya Sydorenko) finished in fourth place archery World Outdoor Championships at fied by finishing in sixth place at the in free combination and team free routines. medalskg) and Vasylyna(two gold, Krychenko three silver (+78 kg).and two Christianborg Palace in Copenhagen, EuroBasket 2013. Spain won the final bronze)• Ukraine’s at the juniorJunior Europeanjudo team Judowon Cupseven in Denmark, on August 1. In the final, Ukraine against Lithuania 80-63. Ukrainian referee Russia, on August 5-16. Georgiy Chizhevskiy Wroclaw, Poland, on July 18-19. Asim bested the Netherlands after trailing the Borys Ryzhyk co-officiated the final match. (Gavrylych• At the Swim 2015 Club) FINA won Masters first place in Kazan, in the Mameidov (60 kg) and Sergei Zvieriev first round by three points, and cutting the Ukraine’s Kyrylo Fesenko was one of the men’s 200-meter breaststroke (5:46.95 sec- Netherland’s lead by one point for the final leading rebounders for the tournament, onds), finished in second place (2:40.31 sec- six arrows. Ukraine was on the attack, with averaging 8.8 rebounds per game. onds) in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke in (+100 kg) won gold; Yelyzaveta Kalanina two 10s it was the first time the Ukrainian the 90-94 age group, second place in the and(+78 Artem kg), ArtemPliyev (73 Khomula kg) and (73Mariia kg) Skora and team led at 189-188. This was the first out- fourth place in Group A in the EuroBasket men’s 50-meter freestyle (59.33 seconds), (57Nodar kg) Machutadzewon bronze. (+100 kg) won silver; door win for Ukraine, with many titles won Women• Ukraine’s 2015. Ukrainewomen’s lost team 55-79 finished against in second place in the men’s 50-meter breast- for indoor competitions. “This is a very France on June 11, lost 79-80 against the stroke (1:09.26 seconds), and second place in Paks, Hungary, on July 11-12 Ukraine’s Oleh important medal for Ukraine, especially for Czech Republic on June 12, won 78-714 the men’s 50-meter butterfly race; Iurii Ovcharenko• At the Junior(60 kg) European won the bronze Judo Cupmedal. in compound archers in our country,” said against Romania (tournament co-host with Matkovskyi won third place (8:31.24 sec- Ovcharenko won against Tornike Borysenko. Hungary) on June 13, and lost 71-84 onds) in the men’s (75-79 age group) 400- against Montenegro on June 14. Serbia won meter medley and third place in the men’s the final against France 76-68. (3:34.52 seconds) 200-meter backstroke; Wrestling Nataliya Khudyakova of the No Stars Swim Club (30-34 age group) won second place in standings (2 gold, 1 silver, 6 bronze) at the the women’s 100-meter butterfly with a time 2015• Ukraine UWW is in sixthWorld place Wrestlingin the medal of 1:08.50 seconds, and finished in third Championships at Orleans Arena in Las place in the women’s 50-meter butterfly race Vegas, Nev., on September 7-12. Zhan (29.06 seconds); Valeriy Krishtal (NO Stars Beleniuk (85 kg) won gold in the men’s Swim Club) won second place in the men’s Greco-Roman competition; Armen (50-54 age group) 100-meter backstroke Vardanyan (71 kg) won silver after Rasul (1:08.12 seconds) and third place in the Chunayev of Azerbaijan won gold in the men’s 50-meter backstroke (31.58 seconds). weight division; Dimitry Timchenko (98 kg) Chess tied for bronze against Islam Magomedov of Russia; and Oleksandr Chernetskyi (130 kg) tied with Bilyal Makhov of Russia. In men’s Junior U-20 Championships in Khanty- freestyle, Pavlo Oliynyk (97 kg) tied for Masiysk,• Nataliya Russia, Buksa, on September 19, won 1-16. the World In the bronze with Khetag Gazyumov of final, Buksa defeated Gunay Mammadzada Azerbaijan; and Vasyl Shuptar (61 kg) tied of Azerbaijan finishing with 10 points. The for bronze with Vladimir Dubov of Bulgaria. tournament was sponsored by the World In women’s freestyle, Oksana Herhel (60 kg) Chess Federation (FIDE). In the open divi- won gold against Sukheeglin Tserenchimed sion, Egor Bogdanov represented Ukraine. of Mongolia; Tetyana Kit (55 kg) tied for Canoeing bronze with Evelina Nikolova of Bulgaria; and Yuliya Tkach (60 kg) tied for bronze with Taybe Yusein of Bulgaria. In team com- Mandziak, Einyr Akhadov and Taras petition for Greco-Roman Wrestling, Mishchuk• Canoeist won Dmytrofirst place Ianchuk, in the men’s Mykhailo U-23 Ukraine is ranked in third place with 35 C-4 Canoe Sprint (500-meters) with a time points. The annual tournament has been of 1:39.260 seconds during the hosted since 2003 and attracts wrestlers International Canoe Federation’s World from more than 100 countries in freestyle, Canoe Sprint Championships in Montemor- women’s and Greco-Roman. In women’s o-Velho, Portugal, on July 23-26. Boryslav freestyle, Ukraine’s women’s team finished Byzu, Viktor Svyrydiuk, Bohdan Chaban and in fourth place with 30 points; Ukraine’s Oleksii Koliadych won second place in the men’s Greco-Roman team won third place junior men’s C4 500-meter race. Ukraine’s with 35 points and Ukraine’s men’s free- junior competitors won seven medals (one style team finished in ninth place. gold, three silver and three bronze) and the Under-23 team won three medals (two Swimming gold, one silver). Liudmyla Luzan won first place in the junior women’s 500-meter C1 medal standings with two silver medals race (2:20.380 seconds), Daniyil Kuzmin and• Ukraineone bronze finished at the in 2015 19th FINAplace Worldin the and Ivan Semykin won second place in the Championships in Kazan, Russia, on July 24 men’s 200-meter K2 race (33.268 seconds), through August 9. 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her political opponents of running a U.S.- ages for her imprisonment and harm to her Probe for Putin, Berlusconi wine drinking NEWSBRIEFS based racketeering enterprise that led to her reputation. Ms. Tymoshenko was convicted imprisonment. The court said Ms. in October 2011 and sentenced to seven KYIV – Ukrainian prosecutors are pre- (Continued from page 2) Tymoshenko failed to show that industrial- years in prison for abusing her power in pared to file charges against the director of a winery in Russian-occupied Crimea for the situation as “very fragile.” “Russia con- ist Dmytro Firtash laundered money in the connection with the 2009 gas transaction. uncorking a 240-year old bottle for Russian tinues to support the separatists and pro- United States to help pay Ukrainian prosecu- She was freed in February 2014 after Mr. President Vladimir Putin and former Italian vide them with weapons, with different tors and supporters of Viktor Yanukovych, Yanukovych was ousted as president. (RFE/ Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Messrs. kinds of equipment, with training, with who in 2010 narrowly defeated Ms. RL, Reuters and Courhouse News Service) Putin and Berlusconi spent last weekend in forces,” he said. Kyiv and the West say Tymoshenko to become Ukraine’s presi- NATO chief to visit to Ukraine next week Crimea, touring ancient ruins and visiting dent. Ms. Tymoshenko claimed that Mr. Russia has sent troops and weapons to fuel the peninsula’s prized Massandra winery. BRUSSELS – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg the separatist conflict that has killed more Firtash, who partially owns Ukrainian ener- Massandra, which was nationalized follow- will next week make his first visit to Ukraine than 7,900 people in Ukraine’s east since gy company RosUkrEnergo, “skimmed” mil- ing Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, April 2014. Russia denies the charges. Mr. lions of dollars from natural gas contracts to hold talks with top officials and launch a has rare wine and sherry dating back more Stoltenberg started a two-day visit on and laundered them through bogus joint disaster-management exercise, the alli- than 200 years in its collection. Russian September 21, his first trip to Ukraine as Manhattan real estate transactions. She said ance says. He will travel to Lviv and Kyiv on television showed Berlusconi examining a NATO chief, in a show of support for Kyiv’s the campaign was payback for her 2009 September 21 and September 22 to hold bottle of 1775 Jerez de la Frontera wine pro-Western government. (RFE/RL based agreement with Russia to eliminate talks with Ukrainian President Petro from the cellars and asking the director – on reporting by dpa, AFP and Reuters) RosUkrEnergo as an intermediary in natural Poroshenko, Prime Minister Arseniy Yanina Pavlenko – if he could try it, and she gas sales. In dismissing the complaint, the Yatsenyuk, and the Parliament speaker. He U.S. court dismisses Tymoshenko’s lawsuit uncorked the bottle for him and President court said Ms. Tymoshenko failed to estab- will also attend a meeting of Ukraine’s Putin. Ukrainian media quoted Ukraine’s WASHINGTON – A U.S. court judge has lish a direct relationship between Mr. National Security and Defense Council. Deputy Prosecutor-General for Crimea, dismissed a lawsuit by former Ukrainian Firtash’s conduct and the harm she suffered. Ukraine is a key Western partner, but not a Nazar Kholodnytskiy, as saying embezzle- Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko accusing Ms. Tymoshenko had sought punitive dam- member of the 28-nation military alliance. ment charges against Pavlenko will be filed Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin soon. Massandra winery had five bottles of said last week that “a number of strategic 1775 Jerez de la Frontera wine before the documents” would be approved, notably annexation. Two other bottles of that wine paving the way for NATO to open an embas- were sold at Sotheby’s auction in 1990 and sy in Ukraine. The “Ukraine 2015” exercise 2001. One bottle of the wine costs TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 will be based on “a technological disaster $100,000-$150,000. (RFE/RL, AP, UNIAN or e-mail [email protected] scenario, which will also affect the civil pop- and Investigator.com.ua) ulation and critical infrastructure elements” throughout Ukraine, NATO said on Russian hackers found spying on U.S., Europe SERVICES PROFESSIONALS September 18. NATO has responded sharply HELSINKI – Russia has been cyberspy- to the Ukraine crisis and Russia’s annexation ing extensively on the United States and of Crimea by increasing its readiness pos- countries throughout Europe and Asia for СТЕФАН ВЕЛЬГАШ ture and rotating troops and equipment seven years, Finnish data security firm Ліцензований Продавець through its ex-communist eastern members Страхування Життя F-Secure said in a report published to ease their fears that Moscow might September 17. The report warns that a STEPHAN J. WELHASCH encroach on them. (RFE/RL, AFP and dpa) Licensed Life Insurance Agent large and “well resourced” hacking group Ukrainian National Assn., Inc. 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Two Spanish journalists, Information Center on NATO, Georgia’s Antonio Pampliega and Angel Sastre, who Defense Ministry, the foreign ministries of disappeared in Syria in July and are believed Turkey, Ukraine and Poland, and other gov- kidnapped by the Islamic State group, were ernment institutions and political think also taken off the ban list on September 18. tanks in the United States, Europe and Mr. Poroshenko on September 16 had signed Central Asia. “All the signs point back to a decree to ban about 400 people, including Russian state sponsorship,” said Artturi dozens of foreign journalists, from entering Lehtio, F-Secure’s researcher heading the PERSONAL Ukraine on the grounds that they posed a investigation. Other reports have also threat to national security. Most of the jour- found the Kremlin behind cyberespionage Single Ukrainian male looking nalists on the list were Russian, and the mea- attacks in recent years. A report by the U.S. for a Single Ukrainian lady to sure was widely seen as a response to cover- security firm FireEye last year said a long- correspond, date and perhaps age of pro-Russian separatists in the coun- running effort to hack into U.S. defense con- marry! Please e-mail me: try’s east, whom the government has out- tractors, Eastern European governments, [email protected] lawed as terrorists. The BBC called the mea- and European security organizations was my name is Vasyl sure a “shameful attack on media freedom.” “likely sponsored by the Russian govern- Mr. Poroshenko had assured British ment.” U.S. security firm Symantec reported Ambassador Judith Gough in a meeting on in 2014 the discovery of a highly sophisti- Run your advertisement here, September 17 that he would remove the cated cyberspying tool called the Regin, in The Ukrainian Weekly’s CLASSIFIEDS section. BBC journalists from the list. 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Greece – also facing debt negotiations with September 16 that the “long-term blockade” smearing a statue of Vladimir Lenin in the NEWSBRIEFS creditors – “could only dream of such a will start at noon on September 20. He called Siberian city Novosibirsk with Ukraine’s deal.” However, some Ukrainian lawmakers on other Ukrainian citizens to join the move. national blue and yellow colors and writing (Continued from page 12) voiced dissatisfaction with the deal, which Mr. Chubarov said that trucks carrying food “Glory to Ukraine” on it. Novosibirsk’s which had been used since 2008 to steal aims to cut Ukraine’s debt to 71 percent of and other goods will not be allowed to enter Leninsky District Court said on September information from governments and busi- annual economic output by 2020 from an Crimea, while individuals and private vehi- 16 that the men also vandalized the local nesses. The largest number of Regin infec- estimated 100 percent now. “We have to cles will not be stopped. Mr. Chubarov said offices of the pro-Kremlin United Russia tions – 28 percent – were discovered in vote for this disgrace through tears,” former the blockade will be coordinated from the and Communist parties, along with a World Russia, with Saudi Arabia the next highest Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said. town of Chonhar, which lies close to Crimea, War II monument. The two monuments with 24 percent. The Dukes hacking group (RFE/RL, AFP and Interfax) and that three major roads will be targeted. were found painted in December 2014. is likely run by professional software devel- Ukrainian authorities have not commented Vandals had also written “Azov,” the name Kremlin condemns media sanctions opers, is based in Moscow, and works on on the Crimean Tatar initiative. The de facto of a volunteer battalion fighting on the side behalf of the Russian Federation, F-Secure MOSCOW – The Kremlin says Ukraine’s head of annexed Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, of Kyiv in eastern Ukraine, and spray-paint- said. Patrik Maldre, a junior research fellow decision to sanction many media represen- said that the planned blockade will be coun- ed Azov’s Wolfsangel symbol. For vandal- with the International Center for Defense tatives is “totally unacceptable.” Spokesman terproductive. (RFE/RL) ism and desecration of a monument, Mr. and Security in Estonia, said the report Dmitry Peskov said on September 17 that Korzhavin was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in Russia to analyze Ukrainian sanctions showed that Russia has invested “heavily” Moscow strongly condemned the move, a penal colony and Mr. Shipovalov to two in cyber-capabilities and views those capa- saying “it does not correspond with the MOSCOW – A Russian official says years. Two other defendants, Sergei Belov bilities as “an important component in principles of freedom.” On September 16, Moscow will analyze the possible conse- and Ivan Kollektsionerov, who was a minor advancing its strategic interests.” “The con- Ukraine barred a few dozen reporters, quences of new sanctions introduced by at the time of the crime, were not given jail nections identified in the report have sig- including three BBC journalists, from enter- Ukraine. Deputy Prime Minister Arkady sentences but instead subjected to tight nificant international security implications, ing the country as an unspecified security Dvorkovich made the comment to the RIA restrictions on their movements. (RFE/RL, particularly for states in Eastern Europe threat. The media representatives were news agency on September 17. Ukraine AFP, International Business Times) part of a sanctions list signed by President and the Caucasus,” he said. “Smaller coun- extended or applied sanctions on more than Separatists plan their own elections tries, such as Sweden and Finland, are par- Petro Poroshenko barring nearly 400 indi- 400 individuals and 90 legal entities on ticularly vulnerable to this kind of espio- viduals from entering Ukraine, including September 16 in response to a decision by DONETSK, Ukraine – The self-proclaimed nage,” said Mika Aaltola, a program director BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg and separatist rebels in the east to set a date for leader of Ukraine’s breakaway Donetsk at the Finnish Institute of International producer Emma Wells, both British, and “illegal elections.” Donetsk separatist leader region, Aleksandr Zakharchenko, has signed Affairs. “Nordic and Baltic countries are Russian cameraman Anton Chicherov. Also Aleksandr Zakharchenko signed a decree to a decree that schedules elections for local always trying to balance Russian and west- on the list of banned journalists are Antonio hold the elections starting on October 18. self-government bodies on October 18. ern interests, and Russia uses its cyberat- Pampliega and Angel Sastre, two Spanish Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Elections in territory under the control of tack capabilities to find ways to tip the bal- reporters who disappeared in Syria in July the rebels’ action threatened the Minsk pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine’s ance in its favor.” (RFE/RL, AFP, Computing and are believed to have been kidnapped by peace agreement signed in February. Luhansk region are planned for November and ComputerWeekly.com) the Islamic State militant group, and two Ukraine is set to hold local elections on 1. The scheduled dates do not coincide with reporters for Russian news agencies in October 25. Under the Minsk agreement, elections scheduled in parts of Ukraine. Rada backs debt restructuring deal South Africa and Turkey with no clear links local elections were meant to be held in sep- Ukrainian government officials in Kyiv have KYIV – The Ukrainian Parliament has to Ukraine. The New York-based Committee aratist regions in the east along with the rest indicated that holding the votes on a differ- given its backing to a debt restructuring to Protect Journalists said in a statement of the country. The list of sanctioned individ- ent date than local elections in the rest of deal that aims to save Kyiv billions of dollars that it was “dismayed” by Mr. Poroshenko’s uals posted on the Ukrainian presidential the country would be considered a violation and bolster its financial stability. The speak- actions. “While the government may not website mentions members of Russia’s of the Minsk peace agreements. Denis er of Parliament, Volodymyr Groisman, like or agree with the coverage, labeling Parliament and senior rebel figures. Pushilin, the separatist Donetsk region’s called it a “victory for Ukraine,” after law- journalists a potential threat to national Companies affected include Russian airline envoy to the so-called Contact Group on makers approved three laws needed to pass security is not an appropriate response,” Aeroflot, security company Kaspersky Lab, Ukraine’s crisis, said on September 16 that the deal. There was heated debate before said the committee’s Europe and Central and banks Gazprombank and Bank of the Minsk agreement calls on Kyiv to coordi- the vote on September 17, but in the end Asia program coordinator, Nina Ognianova. Moscow. (RFE/RL, Reuters, TASS) nate with separatist leaders about elections the bills passed with more than 300 “yes” (RFE/RL, Interfax and Reuters) in eastern Ukraine. He said the separatists Jail sentence for pro-Ukraine graffiti votes for each law compared with the 226 Blockade of food, goods flow to Crimea decided on “yet another unilateral imple- minimum needed. Prime Minister Arseniy NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia – A Russian court mentation of the Complex of Measures [for Yatsenyuk told Parliament that a “yes” vote KYIV – Crimean Tatars say they will start has sentenced two young men to two years Fulfilment of the Minsk agreement]” meant a vote for “economic growth, foreign blocking Ukrainian shipments of food and in prison for painting Soviet statues in the because Kyiv has never coordinated on the investment, increasing the number of jobs, other goods to the Crimean Peninsula, which colors of the Ukrainian flag and daubing issue. Voting for representatives of other and a rise in social standards.” Finance was annexed from Ukraine by Russia in them with pro-Ukraine graffiti. The pair – local self-government bodies in Ukraine are Minister Natalie Jaresko – who led negotia- March 2014. The head of the Crimean Kirill Korzhavin and Vladislav Shipovalov – scheduled for October 25. (RFE/RL, Interfax tions with Ukraine’s commercial leaders to Tatars’ self-governing body, the Mejlis, Refat were among four men found guilty of and Rossiya 24) secure the deal – also addressed parliament Chubarov, who is also a Ukrainian lawmaker, ahead of the vote. She later tweeted that said in the Ukrainian Parliament on

by a staffer, greeted the concert-goers, stat- Turning... ing, “…On this occasion, we acknowledge the terrible suffering and death that took (Continued from page 6) place during the farm collectivization and subsequent forced famine and severe Ukraine, and we decided this is as close as repression. That attempt to crush the life, we can get.” will and spirit of a people by a totalitarian The commemorative events were government still holds meaning for people capped off with a memorial concert at the Ukrainian Medical Association of around the world today. In a time when the Kennedy Center in Washington that was entire world is outraged by the senseless attended by a sell-out audience of 2,800 North America (UMANA) murder of 269 passengers on Korean people, where the program included orches- Airlines Flight 007, we must not forget that tral, choral and solo works primarily by this kind of action is not new to the Soviet With great sadness we announce to our members Ukrainian composers. The Fairfax Union.” Symphony Orchestra, the Dumka Ukrainian the death on September 9, 2015 of Rally participants were urged to contact Chorus of New York, the Ukrainian Chorus their local media and to submit follow-up of Washington, the Ukrainian Bandurist reports about the events in Washington. Chorus were the headlining performers, George Truchly, MD who were joined by mezzo-soprano Renata Source: “18,000 attend famine memorial (1922-2015) Babak and bass Andrij Dobriansky. events in D.C.,” The Ukrainian Weekly, President Ronald Reagan, in a letter read October 9, 1983. Past President of UMANA, 1967-1969 torture. Mr. Litvinov has since explained Past President of UMANA NYMetro Branch The chilling side... that he was prepared to confess to any- Member of JUMANA Editorial Board thing to stop the torture. (Continued from page 7) Yurii Yatsenko, who is back in Lviv after testimony but described in detail the tor- one judge at least issued a short sentence, The Directors express their sincere ture that he had been subjected to, was has described the same measures applied condolences to the family. ignored by the court that sentenced Mr. to get him to “confess.” Sentsov to 20 years and Mr. Kolchenko to All of this is terrifyingly reminiscent of 10 – for nothing. Soviet political trials, in which any “confes- Board of Directors ICRF has given graphic accounts of the sions” – to spying for multiple countries supposed murders and rape of multiple simultaneously, “Ukrainian nationalism,” Ukrainian Medical Association unidentified people which Serhiy Litvinov, plots to overthrow the regime and more – of North America a Ukrainian cowherd “confessed to” under would be given, and nothing else mattered. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 No. 39 UNA congratulates 56 scholarship recipients for the 2015-2016 school year

by Maria Drich $2,000 $1,000 PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Fifty-six student members of the Ukrainian National Association were awarded scholarships by the UNA for the 2015-2016 school year. The scholarship awards totaled $12,475, of which $4,250 were designated for special scholarships in higher dollar amounts. The UNA Scholarship Committee reviews applications in light of financial needs of the student, academic achievement, field of study, as well as each applicant’s activity level within the Ukrainian community. The Joseph and Dora Galandiuk Scholarship in the amount of $2,000 was awarded to Alexander Zelez, a mem- ber of UNA Branch 277, and an honors student at Wagner College studying to be a physician’s assistant. Alexander is active in his student life at college as a member of the Physician’s Assistant Association, where he spends many hours volunteering his time; he is vice-presi- dent of the newly formed Catholic Club at the college, where he organizes various programs for students. In the Ukrainian community, Alexander is a graduate of the St. Micahel School of Ukrainian Studies in Hartford, Conn., and since the age of 7, he has performed with the local Ukrainian dance ensemble. An active member of the Alexander Zelez (UNA Branch 277) Katarina Sokol (UNA Branch 414) Ukrainian American Youth Association, Alexander worked Wagner College Hofstra University as a counselor at the UAYA sports camp and recreational camp. $750 $500 The Drs. Maria, Dmytro and Olha Jarosewycz Scholarship in the amount of $1,000 was awarded to Katarina Sokol of UNA Branch 414, and an honors student majoring in biology at Hofstra University. As with many children in Ukrainian families, Katarina was raised with Ukrainian traditions. She is a graduate of the local Ukrainian school, where she studied the Ukrainian lan- guage, literature and history. Katarina also took lessons on how to play the bandura – the national instrument of Ukraine – and performed with the Zolotyj Promin Ukrainian Dance Ensemble. The Joseph Wolk Scholarship in the amount of $750 was awarded to Natalie Ginn, a member of UNA Branch 247, who is an honors student majoring in neuroscience at the University of Delaware. Natalie grew up in a Lemko family with a deep respect for Ukrainian traditions – Ukrainian language, embroidery, Ukrainian folk music and dances, as well as the Ukrainian holiday traditions and foods. Having grown up with so many traditions, Natalie is clearly proud to be Ukrainian. The Blackstone Scholarship, founded by the Ukrainian National Home Corp. in Blackstone, Mass., in the amount of $500 was awarded to Andrea Zelez, a member of UNA Natalie Ginn (UNA Branch 247) Andrea Zelez (UNA Branch 277) Branch 277, who is an honors student studying finance University of Delaware Bryant University and analytics at Bryant University. Since her youth, Andrea has been active in the Ukrainian community. From the age distributed as follows: 20 freshman-year applicants increase the UNA membership with family members, of 10, she was a member of the local Ukrainian dance received $125 each; seven sophomore students received acquaintances, friends and others to strengthen our grow- group. She also has been an active competitor at the $150 each; 13 junior-year students received $175 each; ing Ukrainian family. As the future of the UNA, you can take Ukrainian American Youth Association’s (UAYA) annual and 12 senior-year students received $200 each. advantage of all of the fraternal benefits that are made pos- competition known as Zlet, where she won numerous The Ukrainian National Association congratulates all of sible by the UNA and to contribute to the preservation of medals and trophies. Andrea also worked as a camp coun- this year’s scholarship winners. We wish them all great Ukrainian culture and heritage. selor at the UAYA sports camp for two years and has been a success in the future! For more information about the Ukrainian National member of the UAYA since the age of 4. The UNA calls on students to remain active members of Association, readers may visit our website, www.ukraini- The remaining 52 student members of the UNA were the UNA, subscribe to our newspapers, Svoboda and The annationalassociation.org or telephone, 800-253-9862, awarded regular scholarships. The amounts are based on Ukrainian Weekly, and to visit the fantastic Soyuzivka ext. 3011. year of study as well as academic achievement, and were Heritage Center. Also, student members are encouraged to Translated by Matthew Dubas.

$200

Nicholas Demczar Larysa Droczak Andrew Drozd Kristina Hayda Zoryana Kaspruk Alexandra Nagurney (UNA Branch 13) (UNA Branch 283) (UNA Branch 240) (UNA Branch 59) (UNA Branch 234) (UNA Branch 777) Hofstra University Rutgers University The Ohio State University Boston University Berkley College Lafayette College No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 15

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Lynn Nemeth Nataliya Pavlishyn Allison Sweeney Alexander Syzonenko Andrei Tabatchouk Katria Tomko (UNA Branch 83) (UNA Branch 130) (UNA Branch 42) (UNA Branch 76) (UNA Branch 269) (UNA Branch 37) Philadelphia University Hunter College Georgetown University Rutgers University Rutgers University Lafayette College

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Peter Chudolij Christina De Bruin Jessica Demczar Roman Duchnycz Adam Ginn Luke Macios (UNA Branch 42) (UNA Branch 8) (UNA Branch 13) (UNA Branch 76) (UNA Branch 247) (UNA Branch 161) Rutgers University University of Connecticut Ithaca College Rutgers University University of Delaware Duquesne University

$175

Tatiana Matejko-Lima Taissa Michel Oksana Palczynski Derby Pochtar Ivanka Temnycky Anastasia Vandermark (UNA Branch 234) (UNA Branch 42) (UNA Branch 368) (UNA Branch 42) (UNA Branch 39) (UNA Branch 137) Marymount Manhattan College Rowan University Eastern Michigan University University of Rhode Island Hamilton College Kansas State University

$175 $150 The UNA announces Scholarship and Awards for students attending college in the 2016-2017 academic year.

Students wishing to apply for a UNA scholarship award must meet the following criteria: • Have been an active, premium-paying UNA member for at least two years by June 1st of 2016 Matthew Yatison Anastasiya Kaspruk John Klaczany • Have had a single premium policy or an annuity, (UNA Branch 282) (UNA Branch 234) (UNA Branch 182) valued at minimum of $50,000 during the last two years Wilkes University Duquesne University Rutgers University • Be enrolled as full-time students in an accredited college $150 or university , studying towards their first bachelor’s degree

The application for a UNA scholarship or award must be postmarked no later than June 1, 2016.

For the compete details and applications, please call the UNA headquarters or visit the Our Benefits page on the UNA website at: www.UkrainainNationalAssociation.org

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Andrew Uzdejczyk Christina Vosbikian Daniel Cybyk Matthew Handzy Gordon Kilarsky Maria Kowalchuk (UNA Branch 8) (UNA Branch 83) (UNA Branch 15) (UNA Branch 88) (UNA Branch 240) (UNA Branch 367) Boston College Princeton University The Ohio State University Rutgers University Cleveland State University University of Pennsylvania

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Yaro Kulchyckyj Peter Lenchur Teya Lucyshyn Brendyn Lupe Konstantin Martynyuk Zachary Matejko-Lima (UNA Branch 83) (UNA Branch 325) (UNA Branch 360) (UNA Branch 13) (UNA Branch 388) (UNA Branch 234) Syracuse University University of Pennsylvania Hobart and William Smith Colleges American University, DC St. Joseph University Kean University

$125

Arkadia Pereklita Ellice Platz Hayley Pochtar Carolyn Poston Mariana Pylypiw Kyra Senchyshak (UNA Branch 94) (UNA Branch 161) (UNA Branch 42) (UNA Branch 112) (UNA Branch 86) (UNA Branch 120) Marymount Manhattan College Pennsylvania State University Lehigh University Franciscan University of Steubenville Rutgers University University of South Florida

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COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Priest ordained in Edmonton Eparchy by Lidia Wasylyn their son’s great achievement caused every- Throughout his youth and student years, one to pause and contemplate the impor- the pull of serving the Ukrainian Catholic EDMONTON, Alberta – The Ukrainian tant role all parents can play in their chil- community was nurtured and continued to Catholic Eparchy of Edmonton celebrated dren’s accomplishments. grow and Father Jim discerned that his the ordination of Deacon Jim Nakonechny However, the most poignant and personal vocation would best be developed as an into the holy priesthood on August 8 at St. moment of all, was when Father eparchial seminarian. From 2002 to 2005, Basil Ukrainian Catholic Church. The ordi- Nakonechny revealed an icon he had written he lived at the Holy Spirit Ukrainian nation took place during Divine Liturgy by himself during his final weeks of prepara- Catholic Seminary in Ottawa and studied at the laying on of hands by Bishop David tion for the ordination. The Icon of Christ the St. Paul University and the Metropolitan Motiuk, eparch of Edmonton. This was the Pantokrator, a gift of thanks from a grateful Andrey Sheptytsky Institute. In 2005, he first ordination in the eparchy in five years. son, was dedicated to his parents. As his first achieved a Bachelor of Theology Degree in In the presence of well over 500 friends, col- religious act as a priest, he blessed the icon Eastern Christian Studies. leagues, family, parishioners and faithful, and and presented it to his parents. Tears of joy Upon returning to Edmonton, Father some 30 Ukrainian Catholic priests, deacons filled most everyone’s eyes. Nakonechny secured employment as the and acolytes from the Edmonton Eparchy and Father Nakonechny’s journey to the Heritage Conservation Specialist for the beyond, along with Bishop Emeritus Joseph priesthood began early in life, as he himself Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, a Neil McNeil of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese stated it took him “41 years to prepare” for renowned open-air museum, directing the of Edmonton, Deacon Nakonechny was the day his dream of becoming a priest in on-site restoration program. He has always Roman Petriv ordained into the priesthood. God’s Vineyard was realized. Originally had a passion and an eye for beautifying Newly ordained Father Jim Nakonechny Following the Ordination, a banquet from the small rural Alberta community of God’s Churches. His many projects include celebrates his first divine liturgy at the took place at St. Basil’s Cultural Center with Mundare, the eldest of five children, Father the interior ornamentation program at Christ historic St. Nicholas Church at the over 460 people in attendance. The master Nakonechny stated that he felt a call to the Savior Orthodox Church in Ottawa; orna- Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village near of ceremonies for the event was family serve the Ukrainian people virtually his mentation of the interior walls of St. Vladimir Edmonton. friend Barbara Hlus. It was a genuine trib- whole life. At the young age of 16, he left Ukrainian Catholic Church in Red Deer, ute to Father Nakonechny to see so many in home to complete high school at St. Alberta, and the Dormition of the Most Holy for the last 10 years. He was extremely attendance; guests came from throughout Vladimir’s Ukrainian Catholic College/ Mother of God Church in Edmonton, and inte- proud to be attired in hand-made embroi- Alberta and out of province. From the very Minor Seminary in Roblin, Manitoba. From rior restoration work at St. Josaphat dered vestments he received as a gift from young to the very senior, Canadian-born about the same time he served as a cantor Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Edmonton. It his relatives in Ukraine. and recent immigrants from Ukraine – all in many parishes around Edmonton and was at this cathedral that he had been The Rev. Nakonechny married his lovely were drawn together to rejoice in the sacra- East Central Alberta. ordained a deacon in November 2009. He wife, Olya, in 2007 before he was ordained ment of the priesthood. He earned a bachelor of arts at the served three years at four different Alberta a deacon. They are blessed with two Greetings were read from friends and University of Alberta in 1996, majoring in country parishes in the rural communities of charming sons, currently 3 and 4 years old. colleagues in Ukraine, Australia, the U.S. political science with a minor in Ukrainian Borschiw, Krakow, New Kiew and St. Michael. On behalf of the priests’ wives, Dobrodiyka and Canada. A heartfelt presentation was language and literature. He later studied For the last two years, he has served at St. Maria Wojcichowsky made a special pre- made by Martin Hryniuk from Saskatoon, architecture at the University of Manitoba Josaphat Cathedral in Edmonton. sentation to Dobrodiyka Olya, warmly wel- Father Nakonechny’s closest friend and for- and in 1996 earned a bachelor of environ- On Sunday, August 9, the newly ordained coming her into the supportive sisterhood mer schoolmate. Elizabeth and John mental design with a focus on Byzantine priest celebrated his first divine liturgy at of priests’ wives. Nakonechny, parents of the newly ordained church design. Between 2000 and 2002, he the historic St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Lidia M. Wasylyn is secretary of the St. priest, delivered a very touching greeting. studied at St. Josaphat’s Basilian Monastery Church at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Josaphat Cathedral Parish Council in Their expression of love and admiration for in Glen Cove, N.Y. Village where he has directed restoration Edmonton.

UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Inc. Christmas Card Project Last year’s Christmas Card Project with The funds received from this project are 7. Artists must be advised that entry into this children between the ages of 6-18 was very assigned to Soyuzivka with other donations contest constitutes (1) a waiver of all copyrights successful. And thus the Ukrainian National to the UNA publications – Svoboda and The artists have in their entries, and (2) permission to Association will again hold a contest to select Ukrainian Weekly and the UNF general fund. All republish entries without compensation. young artists to participate in the project. participants will have their art work published in 8. Winners will be notified by October 24, 2015. We hope to inspire younger artists to use both Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly. their creative talents in a meaningful way. As To enter the contest, please read the contest 9. All entries must be received at the Ukrainian always the theme of the Christmas card will be rules listed below: National Association, 2200 Route 10, Parsippany, “Ukrainian Christmas”. Please check details: NJ, 07054, Attn. O. Trytjak or oksana.trytjak@ 1. The cards selected will best reflect the verizon.net by Saturday, October 17, 2015; late Children between the ages of 6-12 (Group theme of a Ukrainian Christmas 1) and between 13-18 (Group 2) are invited entries will not be considered. Tel. 973 292-9800 to participate in the UNA’s annual Christmas 2. The young artist’s name, age and city, x3071. state will be printed on the backside of the card. Card Project. Each child is encouraged to 10. Judges’ decision will be final. enter the contest by creating one (1) original 3. One (1) original art work may be entered 11. All proceeds are dedicated to educational color artwork to be considered by our judges. per artist. Art work must be no larger than The artists should depict their idea of a and cultural programs for children at Soyuzivka. 8.5” x 11”. When printed the art will be Ukrainian Christmas. The winning designs 12. Donations are tax exempt as permitted by reduced to card size. will be reproduced and used by the UNA in its law. annual Christmas Card Project Fund-Raiser. 4. Drawings must be properly labeled on The winning designs will be recognized on the reverse of the art entry: PRINTED - name Please Print the reverse side of the card with the name, of artist (IN BOTH LANGUAGES), full address, age, city, state of the artist. Over 150,000 including telephone and e-mail, attach Name: ______ДРУКОВАНИМИ ЛІТЕРАМИ В УКРАЇНСЬКІЙ МОВІ cards are mailed each year to members in completed entry form. the community. The proceeds from the sale Name: ______5. Artists may use any medium: watercolors, of these cards are allocated to support the PRINTED IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE markers, oils, crayons, on white paper. Bold renaissance of Soyuzivka, the cultural center of address: ______colors reproduce best in the printing process. our community. Over the years the community Tel: ______E-mail: ______has been very supportive especially when the 6. Entries will not be returned to the artists, community’s youngest talents are recognized. they will be the property of the UNA. DatE of birth ______NamE of school______18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 No. 39

UNITED UKRAINIAN AMERICAN RELIEF COMMITTEE, Inc. (UUARC) IS AGAIN LISTED IN THE COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN, AS WELL UACCNJ and Chornomorska Sitch AS STATE AND LOCAL CAMPAIGNS. to hold golf tournament and outing

UUARC’s Federal Campaign # 11187 UUARC’s United Way of Southeastern PA Campaign # 1838

In this time of increased social responsibility and the presidential call for volunteerism, employers from small corporations to the federal government, are presenting guidelines to their employees for suggested charitable donations and publicly praising their generosity. There are built-in avenues for charitable giving, including, but not limited to, the Combined Federal Campaign for federal workers, State Employees’ Charitable Campaigns, the United Way and other local drives. Employers routinely process payroll deductions for charitable contributions and at times, even match them.

United Ukrainian American Relief Committee, Inc. (UUARC), now in its Organizers of the 2014 golf outing. 71st year of humanitarian aid to Ukrainians in need, receives and investigates more and more requests for assistance each year, and, due to by Jarema Kochan Challenge Cup the premier golf event for the generosity of the Ukrainian-American community, has been able to golfers of Ukrainian descent in North allocate and distribute approx. $5,000 per month to individuals in need, in WHIPPANY, N.J. – The Ukrainian America. We recognize that many organiza- addition to funding many other long-term programs, such as soup kitchens, American Cultural Center of New Jersey tions in the U.S.A. and Canada have been wheelchair distributions, summer camps for orphans and children of needy (UACCNJ) and the Chornomorska Sitch organizing golfing events for many years. families, emergency relief aid in cases of accidents, aid to the elderly and to Sports Club, both based in Whippany, N.J., What we hope to establish is a unifying the infirmed, and aid to orphanages and internats. UUARC is affiliated and will hold a fund-raising golf outing and tournament, that will bring together golf- listed with Chornomorska Sitch Challenge Cup golf tour- ers from throughout North America, and Human Care Charities of America (HCCA) or Independent Charities of nament on Saturday, October 10, at the perhaps other parts of the world,” said Mr. America (ICA) in the Combined Federal Campaign, Beaverbrook Country Club in Annandale, N,J. Kochan. the NJ and NY state employee campaigns, Organizers of the annual UACCNJ golf The 2014 awards ceremony was held at the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania, outing and Sitch, a member organization of Beaverbrook. The winning team comprised and can be written-in in any United Way Campaign by just listing UUARC’s the UACCNJ Center in Whippany, intro- Bohdan Anniuk, Andrew Kasian, Myron name and address (1206 Cottman Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19111). All duced a new concept several years ago, by Kasian and Mykola Salata. They were pre- this information is also available on the UUARC web-site at www.uuarc.org. challenging other Ukrainian sports clubs to sented with the Chornomorska Sitch form four-man teams and compete in a Challenge Cup Trophy by Bill Vincent of If an employer calls for charitable giving, please don’t forget that UUARC best ball foursome tournament. Sitch. helps Ukrainians who desperately need our charity, and that by giving Golf committee members – Ihor The “B” Flight was won by the team of through your employer, you give not only funding to help them, but Zwarycz, Michael Zawadiwsky, Jarema Tony Brown, Bo Kucyna, Roman Kuzan and recognition of UUARC as an international PVO (private voluntary Kochan and Stefan Nahorniak – agreed that Mr. Vincent. The longest drive competition organization), a Non-Governmental Organization. they wanted to establish a Ukrainian was won by Myron Kasian, while the closest American golf tournament where players to the pin was won by Mr. Zawadiwsky. who may not compete on a regular basis There were numerous door prizes and raffle against each other can come together once prizes. Everyone was a winner, and no one a year in a tournament format. Mr. walked away empty handed. Twardowsky, president of the Sitch sports Previous winners were: Boris Bereza, club, endorsed the idea of expanding into Marko Lonkevych, Myron Bojko and what are non-traditional sports for Roman Cikalo in 2011; Michael Gudzy, Mr. Ukrainians, including golf. Nahorniak, Nestor Olesnycky and Walter Last year, 60 golfers, grouped into four- Wilczak in 2012. man teams, competed at the Beaverbrook This year’s golf outing will be held on Golf Club in Annandale, N,J. The players Saturday, October 10, starting at 8 a.m. at the Beaverbrook Country Club. pers who arrived from various parts of the To register for the 2015 golf outing, rangedUnited from States low 5 andto high Canada, 30+ handicap- from readers are advised to contact Mr. Philadelphia to Toronto. Zawadiwsky ([email protected]) “We hope that in future tournaments we or Mr. Kochan ([email protected]). The will make the Chormomorska Sitch registration deadline is October 4. No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 19

October 2 Social evening, “Girls Night Out,” Dnipro Ukrainian October 4 Annual pilgrimage, Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Buffalo, NY Cultural Center, www.ukrainiansofbuffalo.com Jenkintown, PA Great monastery, [email protected]

October 2- Art exhibit, “all.go.rhythm,” Ukrainian Institute of October 4 Oktoberfest pig roast, Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic November 29 Modern Art, www.uima-chicago.org or 773-227-5522 Kerhonkson, NY Church, 845-647-6911 Chicago October 6 Book presentation by Iryna Vushko, “The Politics of October 2-3 68th annual national convention, Ukrainian American Somerset, NJ Veterans, Holiday Inn, www.uavets.org New York Cultural Retreat: Imperial Bureacracy in Austria Galicia 1772-1867,” 212-854-4697 or [email protected] October 3 Ukrainian Festival, Ukrainian American Cultural Center Whippany, NJ of New Jersey, www.uaccnj.org or 908-759-1771 October 6 Presentation by Lyuba Shipovich and Natalia Shyrba, New York “Using Technology to Transform Government: a Case Study October 3 Potato bake and pig roast, Ukrainian Homestead of of Odesa, Ukraine,” Civic Hall, http://eventbrite.com Lehighton, PA the Organization for the Rebirth of Ukraine, 215-657-1758 or 215-235-3709 October 7-10 Philadelphia Ukrainian Festival, Ukrainian Educational Jenkintown, PA and Cultural Center, www.ukifest.com October 3 Ukrainian American Veterans National Monument blessing S.Bound Brook, NJ and dedication ceremony, St. Andrew Cemetery, Ukrainian October 9 Performance, “Kaleidoscope of Ukrainian Dance,” Cultural Center, 201-919-5233 or Glenside, PA featuring Syzokryli Ukrainian Dance Ensemble (New York) [email protected] and Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Company (Edmonton), October 3 Film screening with Tetiana Rudenko, “Alexander Exter Keswick Theater, www.keswicktheatre.com New York and World Scenography” and “Vasyl Yermilov, The Constructor,” The Ukrainian Museum, October 10 Lviv Coffee in Passaic, with Serhiy Fomenko, www.ukrainianmuseum.org or 212-228-0110 Passaic, NJ Ukrainian Center, lvivkavapassiac.tumblr.com

October 3 90th anniversary celebration, Carpathian Ski Club, Soyuzivka October 10 Performance, “Kaleidoscope of Ukrainian Dance,” Kerhonkson, NY Heritage Center, [email protected] or 732-991-1095 New York featuring Syzokryli Ukrainian Dance Ensemble (New York) and Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Company October 3 Symposium, “All.go.rhythm: Communities of Practice,” (Edmonton), Symphony Space, Chicago Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, www.symphonyspace.org www.uima-chicago.org or 773-227-5522

October 3 Performance featuring violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv and October 10 Golf outing, Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New New York pianist Angelina Gadeliya, “Ukraine: Journey to Freedom,” Annandale, NJ Jersey, Beaver Brook Country Club, 973-257-1857 or Ukrainian Institute of America, 212-288-8660 or [email protected] www.ukrainianinstitute.org Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events October 3 Roundtable discussion with members of Razom, “Human advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions New York Rights on Occupied Territory: The Case of Crimea,” from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors Shevchenko Scientific Society, 212-254-5130 and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected]. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 No. 39

PREVIEW OF EVENTS Saturday, October 3 Saturday, October 10 WHIPPANY, N.J.: The Ukrainian American NEW YORK: The Syzokryli Ukrainian Cultural Center of New Jersey, located at 60 Dance Ensemble from New York City and N. Jefferson Road. Whippany, NJ 07981, Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Company of will hold its annual Ukrainian Festival at Edmonton, Canada present “Kaleidoscope 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Spend a wonderful day of Ukrainian Dance”. Over 60 dancers join with family and friends at the sixth annual forces to showcase their diverse styles and festival, featuring two fabulous stage unique interpretations of traditional shows spotlighting six Ukrainian dance Ukrainian folk dance. The dancers’ beauty, ensembles, Iskra Ensemble, Barvinok, grace, strength and acrobatics create an Chornobryvtsi, Horlytsia, Iskra Academy amazing kaleidoscope of color, movement and Tsvitka; singers Ania Kosachevich, and energy sure to delight the audience. Oksana Telepko and Halya Leskiw, and Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, New more. Enjoy home-made Ukrainian foods, York, NY. Tickets at 212-864-5400, www. symphonyspace.org or see Mrs. Oksana desserts and Ukrainian beers. There will Lopatynsy at Self Reliance Association of also be a pig roast and live music all day. NY, 98 Second Ave. 212-777-1336. For For children, there will be two bounce more information call 201-787-9524. houses with a giant slide and inflatable obstacle course, face-painting and games Friday, October 16 of chance. Shop our numerous vendors TORONTO: The Ukrainian National offering jewelry, clothing, crafts, music and Federation and the Holodomor Education ethnic foods. Admission and parking are Committee of the Ukrainian Canadian free. For more information contact Oksana Congress Toronto branch present the Krywulych at 908-759-1771 or visit the launch of Prof. Lubomyr Luciuk’s new website uaccnj.org. Like the Ukrainian book “Tell Them We Are Starving: The American Cultural Center on Facebook. 1933 Soviet Diaries of Gareth Jones.” The book provides facsimiles of the three pock- NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific et notebooks, as well as a transcription of Society invites all to a roundtable “Human their contents, that Welsh journalist Gareth Rights on Occupied Territory: The Case of Jones wrote during a three-week stay in Crimea,” prepared by international lawyers the USSR during March 1933, when famine from Ukraine, Austria, Brazil and the was devastating areas of the USSR, particu- United States, on behalf of the NGO Razom. larly Ukraine, the Kuban region of North Participants include Olena Sharavan, Victor Caucasus and the Lower Volga. The event C. Okpara and Ajitha Pichaipillai. Emceed takes place at 7 p.m. at the Ukrainian by Ivanna Bilych, the event will be held in National Federation, 145 Evans Ave., English and will take place at the society’s Toronto, Ontario M8Z 5X8. building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth Saturday, October 17 and 10th streets) at 5 p.m. For additional information call 212-254-5130. New Britain, Conn: A Ukrainian Harvest Festival will take place from 9:00 a.m. to Tuesday, October 6 2:00:p.m. at St Mary’s Ukrainian Orthodox NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Studies Church, 54 Winter Street (behind Program at the Harriman Institute, Newbrite Plaza). Featured will be the Columbia University invites you to attend a church’s famous bread and nut and poppy- presentation of the monograph The seed rolls. The Ukrainian kitchen will offer Politics of Cultural Retreat: Imperial holubtsi, varenyky, borshch, halushky and Bureaucracy in Austria Galicia 1772-1867 hot dogs with the church’s delicious chili (Yale University Press, 2015) by its author and sauerkraut. A cake and dessert table, Dr. Iryna Vushko (Hunter College, City tag sale, Christmas items, large collection University of New York). The lecture will of costume jewelry, and raffle will also be take place at 12PM in the Marshall D. featured. All food is made from scratch by Shulman Seminar Room (Room 1219 the church’s St Olga’s Sisterhood. Free parking is available behind the church. For International Affairs Building, 420 West further information, call 860-229-3833 or 118th St). The event is free and open to the 860-677-2138. public. For additional information, please call 212-854-4697. Saturday, October 24 Friday, October 9 SOMERSET, N.J.: The Nashi Predky-Our Ancestors Family History Group of the GLENSIDE, Pa: The Syzokryli Ukrainian Ukrainian Historical and Educational Dance Ensemble from New York City and Center of New Jersey presents its annual Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Company of full-day fall conference. Expert speakers Edmonton, Canada present “Kaleidoscope will present talks on a variety of topics of Ukrainian Dance”. Over 60 dancers join related to Ukrainian genealogy, including forces to showcase their diverse styles and deportations of Lemkos from Poland, the unique interpretations of traditional U.S. Census, DNA testing, and methods for Ukrainian folk dance. The dancers’ beauty, researching Central and Eastern Ukrainian grace, strength and acrobatics create an ancestors. The conference is at 8:30 a.m. to amazing kaleidoscope of color, movement 4:30 p.m. at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, and energy sure to delight the audience. 135 Davidson Ave., Somerset, NJ 08873. The Keswick Theater, 291 N. Kewick Ave., Cost: $65 (early bird registration of $55 Glenside PA 19038. Tickets 215-572-7650, available until October 3), lunch is includ- www.keswicktheater.com. For more infor- ed. Register online at www.nashipredky. mation call 201-787-9524. org or call 732-356-0132.

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