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INSIDE: • Lyzhychko speaks in Washington — page 3. • On the road to Chornobyl — page 9. • “Extreme” skiing in ’s Carpathians — centerfold. HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXXV No. 15 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2007 $1/$2 in Ukraine National University Political stalemate in Ukraine leads to talk of compromise by Zenon Zawada of Mohyla Academy Kyiv Press Bureau KYIV – Caught in a stalemate, strengthens ties with U.S. President and Prime CHICAGO – The National University Minister have begun of Kyiv Mohyla Academy recently attempts at reaching compromise in enlarged its contacts and support in the Ukraine’s political crisis, privately United States through an information exchanging lists of proposals and negoti- campaign and fund-raising drive aimed ating points. at expanding the university’s programs In the most significant effort so far, with U.S. institutions and building a Mr. Yushchenko offered on April 10 to more financially secure base for the delay pre-term parliamentary elections future. beyond the scheduled May 27 date, A total of $350,000 was raised during which is widely viewed as unrealistic. a three-week period when the Kyiv He insisted, however, that pre-term elec- Mohyla Foundation of America hosted tions were the only way out of the crisis, the university president, Dr. Viacheslav and he said he expects concessions. Briukhovetsky, at events in the Ukrainian The overture didn’t impress Mr. communities of Washington, northern Yanukovych, who maintained the presi- dent should withdraw his April 2 decree New Jersey, Philadelphia, Detroit and UNIAN/Andrii Mosiyenko Chicago. to dismiss Parliament – which the prime minister described as unconstitutional – Chairman Oleksander Moroz (left), Prime Minister Viktor Dr. Briukhovetsky also conducted Yanukovych (center) and Communist Party of Ukraine Chair meetings at Stanford University in or allow the Constitutional Court to review it and make a ruling. appear before tens of thousands of supporters on Independence Square during California, Georgetown University in an April 11 rally. Washington and Bard College in New “If the president repeals this decree, that will be the first step to calm socie- York. While Mr. Yanukovych continues to Stetsiuk, a Constitutional Court judge “We established new relationships of ty,” the prime minister said. “If he does- n’t do that, the consequences, which are stress the need for the Constitutional who was Our Ukraine’s parliamentary cooperation with these distinguished uni- Court to rule on the legality of the presi- appointment. versities. Developing personal contacts unknown, will be on his conscience.” While the president and prime minis- dent’s decree, it appeared increasingly This heavy pressure prompted Court (Continued on page 4) ter exchanged their confidential propos- doubtful the judges would issue a ruling Chair Ivan Dombrovskyi’s attempt to als, they continued rattling their swords anytime soon. resign, they said. in public and had their allies engage in Five Constitutional Court judges said The judges said they would not review further political posturing and maneuver- at an April 10 press conference that they the presidential decree until they were ing throughout government organs. were under persistent external pressure, provided with an environment enabling Yushchenko appeals Addressing more than 50,000 support- without directly identifying the source them to make an independent ruling. ers on Independence Square on April 11, but implying it was the coalition govern- They also asked the government to pro- for world recognition Mr. Yanukovych proposed that one of the ment. vide them with personal security guards. ways to resolve the crisis is to hold presi- “Brazen, public threats against the Judge Viktor Shyshkin, who was of the dential elections and parliamentary elec- judges of the Constitutional Court – cer- appointed to the court by the president, tions at the same time. criticized the coalition government for KYIV – President Viktor tain political forces pressuring them with The next day, the president said there the goal of scaring them into directing planting its demonstrators in front of the Yushchenko on April 11 called on Constitutional Court and exacerbating an currently is no constitutional basis for the court’s decisions towards politicized world leaders to recognize the Great already tense political situation. holding pre-term presidential elections, approaches and passing decisions advan- of 1932-1933 – known in Four of the five judges are western which could only take place in the event tageous for them – in our view, don’t Ukrainian as the Holodomor – as of his death, illness, resignation or , three of whom are presiden- against the Ukrainian nation. allow us to make judicial rulings on the tial appointees, which caused suspicion for crimes. constitutional submission from the He asked world leaders to act before He criticized the coalition for refusing national deputies of Ukraine,” said Petro (Continued on page 8) the 75th anniversary of the Famine, to engage in constructive dialogue and which will be marked in 2008. for further pursuing its campaign to “As , I am monopolize the Ukrainian government. calling on you to support the adop- tion of a resolution No money, no rulings to condemn Ukraine’s Holodomor At its April 11 session the Cabinet of and [I am calling on] parliamentari- Ministers issued a resolution refusing the ans from all over the world to president’s order to finance pre-term declare the Great Famine of 1932- elections, stating that the president’s 1933 an act of genocide against the decree violates Ukrainian law and that a people of Ukraine,” he said in his corresponding National Security and statement. He underscored that such Defense Council (NSDC) resolution vio- recognition would play a role in pre- lates the budget code. venting in the future. Minister of Justice Oleksander President Yushchenko said Lavrynovych said the president should Ukraine appreciates the solidarity adhere to the parliamentary ruling that and support of the international com- his decree was unconstitutional. munity. “Our state is thankful to In response, NSDC Chair Vitalii Australia, Georgia, Estonia, Canada, Haiduk said the elections will be Lithuania, , the United States financed by the state budget – an order of America and Hungary, whose par- that will be enforced by legal means. He (Continued on page 4) said the $68 million needed to conduct UNIAN/Oleksander Kosariev elections is in the budget’s reserve fund. Our Ukraine supporters march during April 11 demonstrations in Kyiv. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2007 No. 15 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS

Yushchenko radicalizes Court postpones its hearings President, law enforcement chiefs meet KYIV – The Constitutional Court of KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko as political crisis deepens Ukraine has postponed hearings on the told an April 10 meeting of the heads of by police planted explosives in the offices of dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada until Ukrainian law enforcement agencies that Eurasia Daily Monitor Pora, a youth-oriented NGO, and accused April 17, reported on April 10. “all law enforcement and security agen- April 6 them of being “terrorists.” Also on April 10, five Constitutional cies should undertake a peacekeeping • Third, the cancellation of the popular Court judges complained about pressure mission and stay away from political On Monday, April 2, President Viktor “Toloka” television program on State exerted on them and asked for the state to conflicts,” Interfax reported, quoting Yushchenko issued a decree disbanding Channel 1 brought back memories of provide them with bodyguard services. Defense Minister Anatolii Hrytsenko. Parliament and plunging Ukraine into a media censorship. Ukraine’s security services have agreed to Mr. Hrytsenko also said that participants political crisis. Elections are set for May • Fourth, there was the contract killing on provide them with temporary protection. in the meeting did not discuss whether to 27 – before the Constitutional Court will March 28 of Maksym Kurochkin, head of The judges also said that they cannot introduce a state of emergency or rule on the legality of the decree. the pro-Yanukovych “Russian Club” during decide on high-profile cases unless there whether to beef up law enforcement and Mr. Yushchenko is a highly cautious the 2004 elections. His high-profile political are conditions that would allow unbiased security agencies to deal with the situa- and moderate politician who had previous- and business ties to the regime of former rulings. “The president of Ukraine has tion. According to Mr. Hrytsenko, two ly ruled out disbanding Parliament. Until President complemented issued a decree to dissolve the Verkhovna groups are monitoring the activity of mid-March only the Mr. Kurochkin’s links to . Rada within his constitutional authority. Ukrainian law-enforcement agencies: Bloc supported a call for early elections, Finally, there is also a personal factor. Regretfully, some well-known statesmen one operates on behalf of the president which were officially not due until March Mr. Yushchenko’s decision to disband and political figures are making prema- and is led by Vitalii Haiduk, the secretary 2011. In the two weeks prior to the decree, Parliament came after repeated provoca- ture statements that the decree is uncon- of the National Defense and Security Mr. Yushchenko, the Presidential tions against him from the Anti-Crisis stitutional, whereas the says Council, and the second acts on behalf of Secretariat, Our Ukraine and former Coalition and government. that only the Constitutional Court is the government and is led by Vice Prime Internal Affairs Minister Yurii Lutsenko, On numerous occasions the coalition and authorized to decide on the constitutional- Minister . who heads the National Self-Defense, government have repeatedly and unneces- ity of the decree,” the judges said in a (RFE/RL Newsline) shifted to the Tymoshenko Bloc’s position. sarily embarrassed the president. These statement. The Constitutional Court con- Symonenko seeks president’s ouster There are at least five reasons for the included the unconstitutional dismissal of sists of 18 judges, appointed by the presi- shift. Foreign Affairs Minister , dent, the Parliament and the Council of KYIV – Petro Symonenko, leader of • First, a sense of déja vu surrounding refusal to accept the president’s choice for Judges, a nonpartisan judicial body, the Communist Party of Ukraine, is call- Anatolii Kinakh’s appointment as minister his replacement, the law on the Cabinet of which each name six. An effective ruling ing on supporters of the ruling coalition of the economy which echoes events in Ministers, the refusal to join the president’s requires the support of at least 10 judges. to demand the ouster of President Viktor 2002, when the pro-presidential majority constitutional commission to improve the (RFE/RL Newsline) Yushchenko. Speaking at a rally on bribed liberals and trade unionists to defect hastily adopted reforms, attempts at remov- Independence Square in Kyiv on April 4, from Our Ukraine. This gave President Yushchenko: court must be obeyed ing governors (oblast administration chair- he said the main slogan should be “Out Yushchenko his strongest legal argument men) and failure to implement the August KYIV – Viktor Yushchenko said on with Yushchenko and his Orange team.” that the ongoing “buying” of deputies was 2006 Universal of National Unity. April 10 that all political forces involved (Ukrayinski Novyny) altering the outcome of the 2006 elections. Threats to change the Constitution to in the Ukrainian governmental crisis Since April 2004 it has been illegal for make Russian a second state language should accept and honor, rather than dis- Rada wants presidential election… deputies to change factions. and the refusal to vote in favor of the law cuss, any future Constitutional Court rul- • Second, last month police raided Mr. KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada unani- on the 1933 Famine-Genocide damaged ing on the legality of the presidential Lutsenko’s apartment and arrested members mously adopted with the 258 votes of the relations with Mr. Yushchenko further. decree dissolving the Verkhovna Rada, of the National Self-Defense. Again, this ruling coalition an address to the These are emotional and non-negotiable Interfax reported. “I would like felt familiar, as weapons and explosives Ukrainian people on April 9 in which it issues for national democrats. Constitutional Court rulings to be obeyed were reportedly planted to incriminate them said it will agree to early parliamentary rather than discussed,” Mr. Yushchenko as alleged “terrorists.” In October 2004 the (Continued on page 14) elections if they are held concurrently said. “I am sure that this rule is applicable with a presidential election and a referen- to all sides,” he replied when asked dum on Ukraine’s accession to NATO, whether he himself will obey a ruling if Interfax reported the same day. “If elec- Compromise between President Yushchenko the Constitutional Court finds his decree tions are the only way to settle the con- unconstitutional. “Both the Constitution flict, we will insist on simultaneous pres- and its interpretation by the Constitutional idential elections and a on and Yanukovych’s coalition: is it possible? Court should be respected by all parties to Ukraine’s NATO entry,” the address read. the process. This is one of the fundamental by Pavel Korduban sial decision to restore Serhii Kivalov, The parliamentarians who participated in preconditions for resolving any conflict, the vote reiterated their stance that the Eurasia Daily Monitor who had been blamed for trying to rig the including the conflict that is under way in April 10 2004 presidential elections in Mr. Ukraine today.” (RFE/RL Newsline) (Continued on page 15) Yanukovych’s favor, as chairman of the Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko Central Electoral Commission. has rejected calls for a truce from Prime Mr. Yushchenko, however, did not bend Minister Viktor Yanukovych and ignored the to pressure, so the coalition changed its tac- FOUNDED 1933 pacifying overtures made by Mr. tics and started to send pacifying signals. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Yanukovych’s allies in Parliament last week. 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He ruled out impeachment for Communists, protesting Mr. The Ukrainian Weekly, April 15, 2007 No. 15, Vol. LXXV Mr. Yushchenko and said that he had Copyright © 2007 The Ukrainian Weekly Yushchenko’s legally doubtful decree, asked Austrian Federal Chancellor Alfred made a series of controversial statements Gusenbauer to mediate efforts to settle ranging from accusations of power the . The prime minister usurpation and calls for Mr. Yushchenko’s remained firm, however, on the point of ADMINISTRATION OF THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY AND SVOBODA impeachment to instructions to the early elections. He said that his allies Procurator General’s Office to open a would recognize them only if the Walter Honcharyk, administrator (973) 292-9800, ext. 3041 criminal case into the “abuse of office” by Constitutional Court finds that the presi- e-mail: [email protected] President Yushchenko, to threats of crimi- dential decree was legitimate. Maria Oscislawski, advertising manager (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 nal responsibility against those state offi- On April 6 the pro-Yanukovych coali- e-mail: [email protected] cials who complied with Mr. tion showed yet more readiness to sur- Mariyka Pendzola, subscriptions (973) 292-9800, ext. 3042 Yushchenko’s “criminal orders.” e-mail: [email protected] Parliament also took a highly controver- (Continued on page 16) No. 15 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2007 3 Ruslana Lyzhychko speaks at Woodrow Wilson Center in D.C. by Violetta Tutunik and expressed her commitment to preserving and pro- U.S.-Ukraine Foundation moting Ukraine’s ethnic heritage as a prerequisite to Ukraine finding its own ideology, stability and recogni- WASHINGTON – Ukrainian National Deputy tion by the international community. In addition, Ms. Ruslana Lyzhychko gave a presentation on “Leading Lyzhychko emphasized the need to mobilize the youth Ukraine into a New Era of Global and European as the future generation of progressive, pro-Western Citizenship” at the Woodrow Wilson International leaders who will be the key to a truly democratic Center for Scholars on March 30. The event was co- Ukraine. sponsored by the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, the Kennan During the question and answer session, Ms. Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center Lyzhychko was asked about her involvement in for Scholars and the Children of Chornobyl Relief and Ukraine’s anti-human trafficking campaign, her activity Development Fund. with the Children of Chornobyl Relief and Development A UNICEF goodwill ambassador and winner of Fund, and her work with UNICEF. Eurovision 2004, Ms. Lyzhychko, a member of the Our Nadia McConnell, president of the U.S.-Ukraine Ukraine faction, emphasized the need to integrate Foundation, asked Ms. Lyzhychko to explain how she Ukraine into the Euro-Atlantic community through envisions a shift in the Ukrainian government from the membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization current struggle for power to a situation where the gov- (NATO), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the ernment will be more focused on resolving the numer- (EU). She discussed issues such as ous issues that were identified by Ms. Lyzhychko. human trafficking problems in Ukraine, her involvement Ms. Lyzhychko acknowledged that strong forces of with UNICEF, her campaign against drugs, her promo- instability exist in Ukraine. Nevertheless, she reassured tion of and culture, her new “Wild the audience that President Yushchenko has played and Energy” initiative and the current political situation in is continuing to play a vital role in the efforts to stabilize Ukraine. the situation at hand. She said she believes that Mr. After introductory welcoming remarks by Renata Yushchenko will find a way to compromise with the Heidi Fancher/Woodrow Wilson Center Kosc-Harmatiy, program associate at the Kennan destabilizing forces and work on ways to resolve prob- Institute, and Dr. Oleh Shamshur, Ukraine’s ambassador lematic issues such as conflicts over NATO, energy and Ruslana Lyzhychko at the Woodrow Wilson Center. to the United States, Ms. Lyzhychko shared her vision language. Deputy Lyzhychko said that she does not of the future of Ukraine and described her efforts to pro- believe those issues are of primary concern, but that Ukraine. mote a positive image of Ukraine in the international maintaining unity in Ukraine is most urgent. She urged In regard to , Ms. Lyzhychko stated that she community as well as within Ukraine. all politicians of Ukraine to unite and find common has a positive view of Russia and that problematic It is essential for Ukraine to develop its own ideology ground to resolve the current impediments to stability. issues between the two countries should be worked out as an independent state, said Ms. Lyzhychko. In order to When asked about her view of Ukrainians’ position diplomatically and not via provocative statements of accomplish this, it is important to promote the richness on NATO and the European Union, Ms. Lyzhychko said any kind. of in Ukraine as well as abroad. Ms. there is an overwhelming need to inform the Ukrainian The entire webcast of Ms. Lyzhychko’s “Leading Lyzhychko has made many efforts in pursuit of this by people about the actual responsibilities of NATO and the Ukraine into a New Era of Global and European taking advantage of opportunities during her travels as a European Union and the benefits associated with Euro- Citizenship” is available to view online at: singer and winner of Eurovision, and has used her popu- Atlantic integration. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1424 larity to promote a political message about Ukraine as To facilitate this task, Ms. Lyzhychko has established &fuseaction=topics.event_summary&event_id=230383 well as the humanitarian efforts in which she is a committee on and currently Deputy Lyzhychko’s presentation at the Woodrow involved. Through efforts such as integrating Ukrainian chairs a subcommittee on information, which deals with Wilson International Center for Scholars was part of a culture into her music and organizing yearly expeditions informational outreach. However, funds are limited and four-day visit to the United States, which included to the Carpathian Mountains, Ms. Lyzhychko explained she doubts the proper allocation of these funds. She pro- meetings with the U.S. Department of State, the that she hopes to keep Ukrainian culture flourishing. posed that a professional approach to information out- Coalition for a Secure and Democratic Ukraine and the She reiterated her support for President Viktor reach is necessary in order to ensure that quality infor- International Organization for Migration, as well as a Yushchenko and Ukraine’s pro-Euro-Atlantic stance, mation about the EU and NATO reaches the people of performance at the Slavic Festival in Washington.

Ruslana meets with Coalition Quotable notes for Secure and Democratic Ukraine “ …We will never accept any ultimatums that are outside the bounds of the law and the Constitution. … If the president subscribes to the principles of democracy, and if he adheres to by Marta Matselioukh new stars in politics” by fostering them, then he should know the principles of how they work. The choice of the Ukrainian peo- U.S.-Ukraine Foundation democratic values among the ple does not depend on the point of view of the president. He should honor it. Thus he should youth of Ukraine. Quality educa- also honor the representatives of the Ukrainian people – those who were elected by the people. tion would enable new progres- WASHINGTON – Members of And the decisions made today by the government are aimed strictly at the betterment of the sive leaders to become vibrant lives of our people. the Coalition for a Secure and members of the future political Democratic Ukraine met with “Today we call upon both the president and the opposition to build our country with us, to order, she noted. Ruslana Lyzhychko, member of work for the improvement in the lives of our people, and to build a strong country. Therefore I Ms. Lyzhychko underscored the Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, to dis- call upon all of you to act in peace and unity. Only this can be our future. The unity of the importance of cultivating cuss the political, economic, and Ukrainian people, of this hard-working people, opens the way to the future. Anything else is Ukrainian culture and promoting a social issues currently facing impossible. …” positive image of Ukraine domes- Ukraine. The meeting was held on March 30 at the U.S.-Ukraine tically and abroad. She also noted – Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, speaking at an April 2 rally on Kyiv’s European Foundation’s office in how impressed she was with Square, as translated by The Ukraine List. Washington. American patriotism and said that Ms. Lyzhychko, a member of she would like to “see as many the Our Ukraine faction in flags in Ukraine as in the United “Our country has again been brought onto the brink of serious turmoil. A group of radical- Parliament, addressed a variety of States,” commensurate with the ly minded politicians, who have called themselves the united opposition, is seeking to trans- issues at the meeting, including a times. form their own internal problems and unfulfilled power ambitions into a full scale political NATO information campaign in The Coalition for a Secure and battle. Ukraine, the confrontation Democratic Ukraine is the succes- “Not thinking about the possible repercussions of their actions, they are prepared to deprive between the Yushchenko adminis- sor to the Jackson-Vanik society of stability and civil peace but also to put in question the very existence of Ukrainian tration, on the one hand, and the Graduation Coalition, and has statehood. … government and Rada majority assigned priority to promoting the “We witness how political adventurers are trying to turn President [Viktor] Yushchenko into coalition, on the other, the possi- U.S. Congress-Verkhovna Rada a hostage in this irresponsible affair. Through blackmail and undisguised threats of a new bility of new Verkhovna Rada partnership, supporting Ukraine’s maidan, he is being pushed to sign an unconstitutional decree on the dissolution of the elections, and the Ukrainian lan- integration into the Euro-Atlantic Verkhovna Rada. guage issue. community, and promoting “The Verkhovna Rada unequivocally states that there are no legal grounds to call snap elec- Emphasis was placed on the Ukraine’s market reform, demo- tions and dissolve the current Parliament that was elected in free and fair elections in accor- need to develop a strong democra- cratic development and energy dance with democratic norms. … cy in Ukraine and overcome all efficiency. The U.S.-Ukraine “The Verkhovna Rada is categorically opposed to any attempts to discredit and defame the obstacles that are currently inter- Foundation serves as the secretari- highest representative body of the people. It is opposed to the attempts to pressure the presi- fering with that goal. Specifically, at of the coalition. dent, trying to use his authority to carry out anti-constitutional acts in the interests of certain Ms. Lyzhychko highlighted the For more information, or to join opportunistic politicians in order to destabilize the socio-political situation in the country, urgent need to address the stability the Coalition for a Secure and which can cause irreparable damage. …” factor in Ukraine today and to Democratic Ukraine, readers may unify the country as a whole. contact Marta Matselioukh at mar- – The Verkhovna Rada’s April 2 address to the people of Ukraine, as translated by The In addition, Ms. Lyzhychko [email protected] or at 202-223- Ukraine List. called for the “need to cultivate 2228. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2007 No. 15

This achievement represents a major National University... recognition for Ukraine in the legal aca- Hryhorii Nestor turns 116, (Continued from page 1) demic field. Many of Kyiv Mohyla Law and establishing academic legitimacy School’s graduates are working in top enters Ukraine’s record books through the success of our students, fac- international and Ukrainian law firms, ulty and graduates is of utmost impor- and in the government and ministries. tance. It opens the doors to acceptance One of Ukraine’s former vice ministers and acknowledgment of the international of justice is a graduate of the Kyiv academic community and ensures aca- Mohyla Law School. demic freedom and autonomy in Foundation expresses gratitude Ukraine. Thanks to the support of the Ukrainian communities in the U.S., we Marta Farion, elected president at the are able to continue in this direction,” Dr. Kyiv Mohyla Foundation’s recent annual Briukhovetsky commented. meeting, said, “The fund-raising drive Accompanying Dr. Briukhovetsky to brought out hundreds of supporters in the several of the events was the founda- various communities during cold and tion’s co-chairman, Ambassador snowy winter weekends and raised William Green Miller, who said, “the $350,000 – and we are very grateful. generous response to the appeal for sup- The support of individuals, organizations port of Kyiv Mohyla Academy is proof and financial institutions in the that the key to a prosperous future for an Ukrainian community has been generous independent democratic Ukraine depends and is highly valued, and acknowledge- upon the quality of its leadership. The ment and appreciation of donations and a old leadership is passing and the future list of donors will be presented in the will be in the hands of a new leadership near future.” from the generation now in university.” She added that the funds will be trans- He continued: “Kyiv Mohyla Academy ferred for designated uses at the universi- is dedicated to the best possible education ty and a report will be issued. for the highest quality of qualified youth “The cooperation and assistance of the and its new curriculum is designed to Ukrainian National Association and the enable them to lead a new nation. Kyiv directors of Ukrainian cultural centers in each community, as well as friends made UNIAN/Oleksander Baran Mohyla Academy is already regarded as one of the best – if not the best – universi- the fund-raising tour possible,” Ms. Hryhorii Nestor, unofficially the world’s oldest man, celebrated his 116th Farion underscored. birthday on March 15 in the village of Staryi Yarychiv in the Oblast. ty in Ukraine. This position is in large measure due to the enlightened direction Ms. Farion noted that “much more of its president, Viacheslav Briukhovetsky, remains to be done, and some very excit- by Larysa Marchuk Mother of God will be your advocate. and the excellent faculty he has put togeth- ing university projects are ahead of us.” When I pass away, hold on to the icon.” Special to The Ukrainian Weekly er. Support of Kyiv Mohyla Academy is One of these is the interest of Newsweek District council members also greet- an investment in Ukraine’s future as a International, whose senior editor came STARYI YARYCHIV, Ukraine – It ed Mr. Nestor with his birthday, bring- leading democratic nation in .” to Bard College to meet with Dr. was a sunny day, and Ukraine’s oldest ing flowers and money. Briukhovetsky and also with the universi- person sat on a bench outside his house “He is indifferent to money,” Ms. NUKMA achievements noted ty’s dean of social sciences, Dr. Serhiy and basked in the first spring rays. Savchuk said. “When he receives his Kvit, who established the university’s The main purpose of the U.S. tour was “Today is a nice day,” Hryhorii Nestor pension, he simply looks at the portrait department of journalism. Newsweek to report on some of NUKMA’s remark- said. “I feel good and warm. God shines of Shevchenko and says, ‘Oh, look will be establishing an office in Kyiv and able achievements since 1991 and to light and I am alive, thank God.” how sad he is … but this one’s happi- is looking for young journalists in train- March 15 was Mr. Nestor’s 116th er!,’ he says holding the image of assure the that its ing at Kyiv Mohyla,” Ms. Farion related. birthday. But the elderly man warned his Franko on the 20-hrv bill.” moral and financial support are justified. The Kyiv Mohyla Foundation, a non- grandniece Oksana Savchuk not to set the The doors remained open as guests The university essentially remains a pri- profit organization, has been engaged in table or celebrate because he is fasting. shuffled in and out. Then suddenly the vate institution and, therefore, depends work to help Kyiv Mohyla Academy in “Our old man (didus) loves God and old man became noticeably worried. on the continuing moral and financial raising financial assistance in the U.S. observes all the holidays,” said Ms. “What’s wrong, didu (grandfather)?” support of the North American Ukrainian and also to develop relationships with Savchuk, who works as a teacher in the Ms. Savchuk said. “Maybe something diaspora and other private individual and American universities, foundations, village school. “From his youth, he was isn’t right. Say so.” corporate donors. grants, assists Kyiv Mohyla students, raised with a love for God. He is fast- “Where is my family? Strange peo- The university has had many achieve- faculty and administrators during their ing now. Every morning, he prays a ple are walking all around,” he replied. ments during its brief renaissance. Since stays in the U.S. The foundation set a long while and sings psalms.” “Where are Ilko’s grandchildren? Is it Ukraine’s re-established independence in goal of raising $1 million in 2007 from a Dozens of reporters had arrived in possible they won’t come?” 1991 the university reaffirmed its role as combination of sources - individuals, Mr. Nestor’s village of Staryi Yarychiv, “They will come later, when all the the country’s leading academic institu- foundations, organizations. The Lviv Oblast, just 16 miles (25 kilome- guests leave,” Ms. Savchuk said calm- tion and reformer in education, being the Ukrainian community contributed a sig- ters) from Lviv, for his 116th birthday. ing him. first university in Ukraine to introduce nificant portion toward the fund-raising Mr. Nestor was undaunted, having There were seven children in the anonymous admissions testing, stringent goal and provided the moral support nec- already learned how to pose for cam- Nestor family; three of his siblings died admissions criteria and instruction in essary to build the university’s national eramen and photographers and confi- early and four survived. both Ukrainian and English. Its mission and international significance. dently speak into microphones and Older brother Mykhailo served as a in educating the leaders of the future is audio recorders. church cantor; the youngest, Ilko, went to attested by nearly 4,500 graduates, most Press-office, Kyiv Mohyla Foundation He joyfully greeted everyone with- France to earn money; and sister of whom have attained leading positions out declining, asking only that they Kateryna as a young woman traveled to in the private and government sectors. speak louder. the U.S., worked in a tobacco factory, The university’s new library, named The Guinness World Records repre- returned to her native village and married. after its principal donors Omelian and Yushchenko appeals... sentative in Ukraine, Ihor Pidchibii, In 1939 the family was resettled Tetiana Antonovych of the U.S., will be (Continued from page 1) traveled from Kyiv to present Mr. from Monastyrets, a village in what is officially opened in May and will house liaments have recognized that Famine as Nestor – who was born in 1891 – with now Polish territory, to the small vil- a collection of more than 400,000 vol- genocide,” he noted. a certificate officially recognizing him lage of Partseliatsiya in the Kamianka- umes and 1,000 periodicals. In a separate statement addressed to as Ukraine’s oldest man. Buzka district of the Lviv Oblast. The academic legacy of Prof. Omeljan Ukrainians living around the world, Mr. “Hryhorii Nestor is two years older Mr. Nestor’s relatives gathered later Pritsak, founder of the Harvard Yushchenko expressed support for the Ukrainian Research Institute and a lead- than the official world record holder,” on his birthday in a tight family circle. efforts of the Ukrainian World Congress ing specialist in Oriental studies, will be Mr. Pidchibii said. “He has the right to Ilko’s grandchildren, Vira, Nadiya, and its committee for observances of the housed in a separate historical building earn the title of the planet’s oldest liv- Liubov and Oleh came, along with Ms. 75th anniversary of the 1932-1933 Great currently under reconstruction. This ing resident and write his name in the Savchuk – the granddaughter of Mr. Famine. He said its work, which is aimed building will become a museum and cen- Guinness Book of Records.” Nestor’s sister Kateryna – her husband at promoting Holodomor awareness, ter of archives that will be available to “We’ve already submitted an appli- and three children. should make each Ukrainian citizen and all scholars. cation to register our Ukrainian record. “Here is the icon that Ilko gave his sis- each citizen of the world forever remem- The latest achievement of NUKMA It’s a two-or three-month wait. May ter Kateryna when he returned from work- ber “those millions of innocent people faculty and students is related to the uni- God allow our elderly man (starozhyl) ing in France,” Ms. Savchuk said, show- tortured to death.” to live long enough to see his recogni- ing the small picture with some writing in versity’s law school, whose dean is Andrij tion,” he added. French. “The date on it is 1898. She gave A. Meleshevych. The Kyiv Mohyla Law Among Mr. Nestor’s other visitors this to Hryhorii, who gave it to me.” School won the National Championship Share The Weekly was Staryi Yarychiv Village Council The Savchuk family, with whom Mr. in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Chair Andrii Andrushko, who presented Nestor lives, is convinced he is a Moot Court Competition in Ukraine, with a colleague. him with a Mother of God of Perpetual source of happiness and wealth, and competing with the top established law Order a gift subscription by writing to: Help icon, which delighting the old man. that God sent him, because he con- schools of Ukraine. The team of Kyiv Subscription Department, The Ukrainian Weekly, “A new history begins today with stantly teaches them to find joy in Mohyla students will be coming to 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. this icon,” Mr. Nestor said. “The every living moment. 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NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Stalemate in Ukraine A tale of two men in Canada’s military by Lubomyr Luciuk into a “foul-gorged” landscape. Digging “The president has dissolved a Verkhovna Rada that was based on treachery.” deep trenches there was impossible so – Our Ukraine National Deputy Ksenia Liapina There were two of them. Both were “grouse butts,” stacked islands of sand- liars. The younger man was Stephen, age bags, provided the only shelter our troops “The Orange forces want to force us to live not in compliance with the law, or 25. His older brother, George, was 33. had, poor protection against artillery even with our beliefs, but to follow instructions from abroad.” Until August 17, 1914, they lived near bombardments of the intensity that the – Communist Party Chairman Petro Symonenko Edmonton. Within two weeks of the war 1st Battalion’s War Diary recorded on being declared, they had volunteered to May 23-24. Of George’s body no identi- The two quotations above sum up the feelings of the two warring sides in Ukraine join the Canadian Over-Seas as the political crisis that came to the fore with President Viktor Yushchenko’s dis- fiable trace was ever found and no Expeditionary Force. Then they were sent memorial cross erected. missal of the Verkhovna Rada concluded its second week. Both claim they are east, to the Valcartier Militia Camp, just defending the rights of voters and the , each claims the other And therein lies a tale. Neither George outside Quebec City. That’s where they nor Stephen should have been anywhere is guilty of usurping power, and both claim to speak for the people of Ukraine. completed their Attestation Papers, on Thankfully, all is calm in Ukraine, even as the verbal volleys continue to fly near the Western Front. They were not September 4 and 19. Both swore they had born in Russia. They came from a west- between the ruling coalition and the opposition and, we might add, despite the been born in Russia, an allied power. Mr. hysterical statements by some coalition supporters about troop movements, ern Ukrainian village, Beremiany. It still E. Pascoe witnessed their statements, pre- exists. And, on the date the Great War planned kidnappings of politicial leaders and imminent . sumably believing they were honest lads. The latest news indicates that there is some movement toward compromise, with the was declared, their hamlet was within the They weren’t. It took just over 90 years for borders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. two Viktors exchanging proposals, but thus far rejecting them. The president is stand- the truth, and me, to catch up with them. ing firm on his decision to dismiss the Rada, though he is willing to have the pre-term Technically, by Ottawa’s definition, the Stephen became Private No. 19388 brothers were both “enemy aliens.” parliamentary elections take place at a later date, while Prime Minister Yanukovych is with the 9th Infantry Battalion. George spouting the line that if pre-term elections to the Rada are held, pre-term presidential If that had been discovered they would was also a Private, No. 19361, in the 1st have been interned, along with thousands elections must be held concurrently. Mr. Yushchenko said he believes a political settle- Infantry Battalion. We know a bit more – ment may be reached to resolve the conflict, while Mr. Yanukovych said he wants the of their fellow in one but not much – about each of them. Constitutional Court to rule on the constitutionality of the presidential decree. of the 24 concentration camps set aside for Stephen was short, standing around 5 Meanwhile, according to our Kyiv correspondent, the demonstrations in Kyiv are that purpose. There they would have been feet 3 inches perhaps a bit taller as some not really being taken seriously – save for those out to earn a buck. There is good forced to labor for the profit of their jailers of his documents record a height of 5 feet news and bad on the national democratic front, as some forces are seriously looking and subjected to other state-sanctioned 5 inches. He had a dark complexion, ahead to the elections and talking about running as a bloc, while significant divi- indignities. The Dividenko brothers avoid- brown eyes and black hair but no other sions remain among others. (Don’t these folks learn the lessons of past elections?) ed all that by lying about who they were distinguishing marks. The war soon “Big brother” Russia continues to carefully watch events unfolding in Ukraine, and where they had come from. The price changed that. He picked up a venereal looking for any opportunity to “help.” The Russian Federation’s Duma passed a res- they paid for fibbing you already know. disease behind the lines, “not severe” olution calling President Yushchenko’s decree “unconstitutional” and expressing Yet George was not entirely lost to according to the March 2, 1915, note in concern over his act “dissolving a legally elected Parliament” and thus destabilizing history. His name, along with that of the his medical record. Worse would come. Ukraine. Clearly an example of foreign interference in Ukraine’s internal affairs, 11,284 other Canadian soldiers who went In May an exploding shell rendered this harkened back to Russian President ’s involvement in supporting “missing, presumed dead” in France, and him completely and permanently deaf in the candidacy of Mr. Yanukovych for president (and then twice congratulating him whose bodies were never recovered, is his left ear, partly so in the right. on his victory even as the vote was disputed). And, pro-Russian elements were in inscribed on the Vimy Memorial’s ram- full view as a flag of the “ Republic,” bearing the Russian national emblem Returned to duty, he was again hurt badly, parts. Canada’s prime minister, Stephen that depicts a two-headed eagle, was unfurled on the maidan. on June 13, 1916, with gunshot wounds Harper, was there in recent days to honor Our view from the faraway U.S.: we support the position that will most to the face and neck. But his frontline the memory of all those men. Having empower the people of Ukraine. The people deserve to have true leaders who military service continued until October spoken in Parliament of the need for care not about themselves, not about their business interests and not about their 8, 1917, when he suffered contusions to righting the historical injustices done to parties, but about the people who voted them into office and, yes, even about his hip, head and hand. Repatriated to Ukrainians and other Europeans during those who did not vote for them. In short, their loyalty must be to the nation of England, he was eventually shipped Canada’s first national internment opera- Ukraine. And, in order to overcome the current stalemate in Ukraine, the people home, arriving in Halifax aboard the tions, I trust Mr. Harper paused, if only must be allowed to pass judgement. Empress Britain on January 21, 1919. for a few seconds, to look upon the name Discharged as “medically unfit” on of “G. Dividenko.” February 19, Stephen was officially Where George lies may forever be declared to have a 15 percent disability known only unto God but who he was – as a direct result of military service. So, an “enemy alien” who died for Canada – April at 30, he was a disabled and unskilled is now known to all. Turning the pages back... laborer, with no home other than the YMCA’s Red Triangle Club in Toronto. EDITOR’S NOTE: April 9 marked the 12 He died there in 1934. 90th anniversary of the Canadian mili- Stephen endured another loss. George, It was 20 years ago that The Ukrainian Weekly reported on the tary attack on Vimy Ridge in France. 1987 also 5 feet 3 inches, but with blue eyes, According to the Canadian Broadcasting Chrysler-sponsored CBS-TV docu-drama “Escape from Sobibor.” brown hair and a fair complexion, was Based on a book by Richard Rashke, the film depicts an escape of Corp. (CBC), the battle was hailed as the killed in action, on May 24, 1915, during first allied success of World War I, and as 300 inmates during 1943 from the death camp at Sobibor. the Battle of Festubert. He fell some- The made-for-TV movie, which was released on April 12, 1987, sparked protests by “the cornerstone of the nation’s where in the vicinity of Le Quinque [Canada’s] image of its place in the the Ukrainian community in Washington, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York, due to Road, described in Lt. Edmund the repeated references to “Ukrainian guards.” According to the Ukrainian community, world.” The Vimy memorial, which was Blunden’s haunting war poem of the erected near Arras, France, lists the this made it appear as if all the guards at the death camp were Ukrainian. Some sus- same name as a “cemeterial fen,” sunk pected that the network was attempting to associate Ukrainians with . As a names of 11,285 Canadian soldiers who result of the work of the protesting organizations, the film aired with a disclaimer that died in France and whose remains were noted the film contained some “prejudicial ethnic references.” Lubomyr Luciuk is a professor of polit- never found. The rededication of the The script of the docu-drama was sent to schools nationwide that participated in the ical geography at The Royal Military restored monument took place on CBS Television Reading Program. The word “Ukrainian” appears 90 times in the College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. Monday, April 9. script, while “German” only appears three times. Dennis Doty, the film’s producer told The Weekly that, based on independent research, which included survivors’ accounts and their testimony at trials, the guard force during IN THE PRESS mid-1942 to 1943 was in fact composed of Ukrainians. “Every survivor alive today and every piece of literature tells us they (the guards) were Ukrainians,” Mr. Doty added. Dr. Taras Hunczak of the Ukrainian Research and Documentation Center refuted these assertions and said that no more than 25 percent of the guards could have been Pre-term Ukrainians. Dr. Yitzhak Arad, director of the Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memori- “Ask Ukraine’s voters,” editorial, tion in Parliament] have made a legiti- al, said that most of the guards were Ukrainians and Latvians. The Globe and Mail, Toronto, April 6: mate case for switching sides. The results In response to the film, groups such as the Ukrainian Heritage Council, the World could very well go against the president. Jewish Congress, the Ukrainian American Professionals and Businesspersons “Ukraine has been plunged into anoth- “Meanwhile, an inquiry should be Association of New York/New Jersey, the Ukrainian American Justice Committee, the er major political and constitutional crisis held to determine whether bribes or Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and the Ukrainian National Center: History because some politicians have not yet other illegal inducements were used, and and Information Network (UNCHAIN) began a letter-writing campaign targeted at grasped their obligations in a parliamen- the prime minister should stop rousing Chrysler and CBS officials. tary democracy… the divisive forces in Ukrainian society Apparently in reaction to the film’s publicity, four swastikas were scratched into “President [Viktor] Yushchenko is and start practicing the art of compro- the surface of St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in New York between right to leave it up to Ukraine’s voters to mise that underpins all healthy democra- Friday and Saturday morning, April 10-11, 1987. resolve this crisis – to decide if the prime cies. As the president wrote this week in minister [Viktor Yanukovych] and his the Financial Times: ‘Genuine democ- Source: “‘Escape from Sobibor’ Producer stands by his research,” by Roma coalition have overstepped their mandate rats should never fear the verdict of the Hadzewycz, The Ukrainian Weekly, April 5, 1987. and if the defectors [to the ruling coali- people.’ ” No. 15 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2007 7

NEWS ANALYSIS Faces and Places Weak institutions at the root by Myron B. Kuropas of Ukraine’s political crisis by Brian Whitmore ances and competing institutions that RFE/RL characterize Western democracies. Thinking the unthinkable April 3 In Kyrgyzstan, months of stalemate led to the prime minister’s resignation on With the clash between west and east cultural center of the Ukrainian people. Here we go again. The streets of Kyiv March 29. in Ukraine accelerating, one Ukrainian is In time, -Volhynia came under the are filling up with opposing demonstra- So far, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek thinking the unthinkable. rule of the Polish-Lithuanian tors clad in orange and blue. Just another Bakiev – elected after an uprising in “After 15 years of independence, there Commonwealth. With the rise of the crisis in the new democratic Ukraine. 2005 ousted President Askar Akaev – has is not a single clear reason for Ukraine to Kozaks, Ukraine’s fortunes improved some- Ukrainian President Viktor tried to placate the opposition and work remain one country,” writes Dmitry what, especially during the time of Hetman Yushchenko has disbanded Parliament in with Parliament. Some opposition groups Koublitsky in a March 10 com- Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1648-1657). the name of the Constitution. Prime are nevertheless demanding that Bakiev mentary. A native of Lviv, he has been Independence died with the hetman’s signa- Minister Viktor Yanukovych – citing the step down. advocating full independence for western ture on the 1654 Treaty of Pereyaslav, how- very same Constitution – has declared Georgia – which in 2003 ushered in a Ukraine since 1996. ever. Other hetmans tried but failed to the move illegal and vowed to resist. new wave of democratic revolutions in Mr. Koublitsky believes that: restore Ukraine’s independence. Weary of But why exactly do political disputes the former – has so far “Secession of western Ukraine – and not Ukraine’s recalcitrance, Russia and Poland in the former Soviet Union tend to spill escaped such unrest. just Galicia [Halychyna] will allow us, formally divided Ukraine into “Left Bank out on to the streets? But analysts say Georgia’s institutions western Ukrainians, to achieve what can Ukraine” and “Right Bank Ukraine” with Alexander Rahr of the German have not yet been truly tested. no longer be achieved by ‘Greater the Treaty of Andrusovo in 1667. Council on Foreign Relations says the President Mikheil Saakashvilli, who Ukraine.’ It will make possible a smaller Independence hopes were reborn briefly problem – in Ukraine and elsewhere in was elected after the 2003 Rose Ukraine as an integral part of Europe. Our under Hetman Mazepa but perished at the the region – lies in the lack of democratic Revolution, enjoys an overwhelming small compact country will not be called Battle of Poltava in 1709. The Zaporozhian traditions. majority in Parliament – and Georgia just ‘Ukraine’ anymore, but we will still be Sich was destroyed by Russia’s Catherine II “The problem, even 15 years after the remains largely a presidential republic Ukrainians. European Ukrainians, that is.” in 1775 and Ukraine remained divided until demise of the Soviet Union, is to bring with a strong executive. Another state called Ukraine will co- the onset of the first world war. Poets like the leading politicians into a situation Mr. Saakashvilli repeatedly says that exist next door, Mr. Koublitsky argues. Its Taras Shevchenko in and where they obey the rules of the game, he intends to give up some of his presi- national capital will be Kyiv and those peo- Ivan Franko in western Ukraine kept free- which they obviously don’t do,” Mr. dential power in favor of a stronger ple will revere Taras Shevchenko just like dom hopes alive, however. Rahr says. “And second, the problem is Parliament – but has made no moves western Ukrainians. “Let that Ukraine be With the collapse of the the mentality of the elites and the broader toward actually doing so. proud of its huge industrial potential; have in 1917, Ukrainian political and organiza- population, which also favor leaders and “I don’t think we have a parliamentary Russian as a second – or first or the only – tional leaders formed a Central Rada in not law.” republic in Georgia,” Mr. Rahr says. “We state language; retain an over-regulated Kyiv and, on January 22, 1918, declared economy permanently feeding corruption; Ukraine’s independence. When Austro- Personality and politics have seen a presidential [system] replaced by a new strong leader, have laws that only deepen lawlessness; Hungary began to collapse, western Following the 2004 Orange Saakashvili, which he still is. Georgia is shout a strong ‘no’ to NATO and ‘yes’ to Ukrainian leaders met in Lviv on November Revolution, Ukraine tried to move away not moving toward a genuine democratic Moscow’s chokingly tight embrace.” 1, 1918, and established the Western from the powerful executives who have system like Ukraine was after the Orange Like many of us in North America, Mr. Ukrainian National Republic (ZUNR). The been prevalent in the former Soviet Revolution. Kyrgyzstan is also difficult Koublitsky is weary of the “everlasting two Ukrainian republics formally united on Union and build a true parliamentary because there you have local clans and a struggle for power in Kyiv between differ- January 22, 1919. Unity was short-lived. As system. The presidency’s powers were kind of split in the country [between] the ent political actors,” a struggle that “always Ukraine was besieged by Gen. Anton trimmed and Parliament’s were strength- north and the south.” consumes the involved parties entirely, Denikin’s white from the south, ened. leaving no space or time to come up with Bolshevik Russians from the east and the At the time, many observers hailed the Russia’s influence coherent reform strategies and policies that under Gen. Josef Pilsudski from the west, western and eastern Ukrainians were changes as the revolution’s most impor- Part of the problem lies in the neigh- the country so crucially needs.” unable to permanently unite their forces to tant legacy. borhood these countries are forced to live But what about the Orange fight common foes. “In the final analysis,” But President Yushchenko’s decision in – one dominated by an increasingly Revolution? Didn’t that unite Ukraine? writes Prof. Orest Subtelny in his “Ukraine: to dissolve Parliament represents the end authoritarian Russia with strong interests No, claims Mr. Koublitsky. It “was noth- A History,” “the vast cultural, psychological of this experiment. in its neighbors’ affairs. ing but a general protest against the exist- and political differences that accumulated “Ukraine is shifting away from the “There is a challenge in their region ing state of affairs in the country. It cer- between east and west Ukrainians during the idea of a parliamentary republic,” Mr. from countries like Russia, which are tainly was not a united, well thought-out centuries of living in dissimilar environ- Rahr explains. “Ukraine has failed to backsliding in terms of democracy,” says push for a new structural model.” build – the first country in the post- Nadia Diuk, senior director for Europe Dr. Ivan Katchanovski disagreed with ments were now coming to the fore.” Soviet space – a democratic system and Eurasia at the National Endowment Mr. Koublitsky in a March 21 Kyiv Post Disagreements between the two based on parliamentary leadership and for Democracy, a non-profit organization commentary, arguing that integration of the Ukraines carried over into the peace not on the leadership of one single per- that receives support from the U.S. two Ukraines is essential. At the same time, process at Versailles. Neither side could son, namely the president.” Congress. “It’s not easy for a country however, he cited a 2003 Institute of agree on a common front. When it was Mr. Rahr says that when faced with like Kyrgyzstan that is surrounded by Politics Survey that underscored deep divi- clear that a was impossible, difficulties, politicians in the former authoritarian dictatorships.” sions between the two Ukraines. According still hoped for an Soviet Union tend to fall back on what Russia, of course, had its own show- to the survey, some 68 percent of eastern independent eastern Galicia, raising some they know best – attempting to rule with down between the president and parlia- Ukrainians express favorable views of $138,000 for the Galician cause. Hope died a strong hand. mentary opposition back in 1993. At that Ukraine’s 1654 incorporation by Moscow. in 1923 when the Council of Ambassadors “If politicians recognize that it is easi- time, Russia’s pro-Western President While most western Ukrainians have posi- awarded Ukrainian Galicia to Poland. er for them to try to come to power and Boris Yeltsin solved the crisis by shelling tive attitudes towards Ivan Mazepa, Following the war, Ukraine was parti- rule the country through authoritarian what many saw as a reactionary opposi- and , tioned among Czechoslovakia, Romania, means and not through compromises and tion into submission. only a minority of eastern Ukrainians share Russia and Poland. Ukraine remained democratic choices, then they choose the At the time, many in the West cheered such views. “About half of the respondents partitioned until Stalin’s forced unifica- easiest way, the authoritarian way,” Mr. Mr. Yeltsin on and called the move a vic- in eastern Ukraine, compared to a small tion during and after World War II. Rahr explains. tory for democratic forces. minority of western Ukrainians, express a Ukraine has been partitioned for most favorable attitude towards ,” of its history. This fact plus Samuel Looking around the region Today, many view those events as the end of Russia’s democratic experiment writes Dr. Katchanovski. Amazingly, some Huntington’s 1996 contention in “Clash Ukraine is not the only country in the and the beginning of the overbearing 30 percent of eastern Ukrainians have a of Civilizations” that Ukraine is a “cleft region struggling with the checks, bal- executive that now rules the Kremlin. favorable view of Stalin! country” that “could split along its fault There are certain historical precedents line into separate entities, the eastern of for an independent western Ukraine. 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enough judges to review the presidential of having prepared and mobilized elite day, he said. Political stalemate... decree, as 12 judges constitute a quorum. army units to kidnap coalition leaders, Some coalition protesters are even (Continued from page 1) However, the possibility loomed that a including Prime Minister Yanukovych. undermining the cause of the coalition among coalition supporters that the quorum may soon be lost. “Three fighting units of 100, 150 and government, which is trying to cast itself judges made their statements to either On the evening of the judges’ state- 180 soldiers are mobilized and ready to as the political force fighting for Ukrainian threaten or denigrate the coalition gov- ment, Our Ukraine Faction Chair executing the task of seizing the Cabinet national unity and independence. of Ministers, the Verkhovna Rada, and On Independence Square itself, coali- ernment. Viacheslav Kyrylenko called on law arrest deputies, coalition members, gov- tion supporters carry Russian Federation The western Ukrainians are Yaroslava enforcement authorities to investigate the ernment officials,” Mr. Kalashnikov said. flags. Donetsk separatists led by Machuzhak, Dmytro Lylak, Volodymyr judges’ claims of pressure. “The scariest is they’re ready to kidnap Oleksander Tsurkan arrived for the Kampo and Mr. Stetsiuk; the presidential The Court has scheduled April 17 as the prime minister of Ukraine and his protests waving a Donetsk Republic flag. appointments are Mr. Shyshkin (a Moldova the day it will begin to review the presi- dential decree, its press service reported. entourage that escorts him.” Council Chair Anatolii native), Mr. Kampo and Mr. Lylak. Just two days earlier, leaders of Blyzniuk said the Donetsk separatists Indeed, the judges revealed support for Parliament at work Ukraine’s armed forces and law enforce- were a planted provocation by the Mr. Yushchenko’s dismissal decree, ment authorities said during an April 10 Yushchenko government. However, Mr. Ukraine’s Parliament kept meeting in which they said was issued within the meeting at the Presidential Secretariat Tsurkan has been a consistent, well- daily special sessions, directly violating capacity of his presidential authority and that they had no plans to call a national known Donetsk separatist for several the president’s decree and disregarding therefore, required adherence. They criti- state of emergency. years. cized coalition leaders for declaring his the authority of the Presidential To prevent any potential for concerns The scene on the maidan stage wasn’t decree unconstitutional, stressing that Secretariat. or suspicion regarding the Ministry of much better. only the court can determine its constitu- National deputies continued making Defense, Mr. Hrystenko said he ordered Reminiscent of the hysterical reaction tionality. accusations against the president from his commanders not to raise the army’s of eastern Ukrainians during the Orange In response, coalition leaders accused the podium, accusing him of dividing the level of military preparedness during the Revolution, speakers began attacking Mr. the judges of making an illegal statement. country and comparing his conduct to political crisis. He also noted he was fol- Yushchenko for having “an American Mr. Shyshkin said President that of fascists and Nazis. lowing President Yushchenko’s direct wife, and American children.” (The pres- Yushchenko didn’t pressure them or The inflammatory and destabilizing order not to involve Ukraine’s armed ident’s five children were all born in request them to appear in the Presidential conduct of coalition deputies escalated forces in a political conflict. Ukraine.) Secretariat, as had been rumored. when Party of the Regions National Mr. Hrytsenko said Mr. Kalashnikov’s A group of supporters from Belarus Even without the participation of the Deputy Oleh Kalashnikov accused statements were provocative, for which he appeared on stage calling for a of five judges, the Constitutional Court has Minister of Defense Anatolii Hrytsenko deserved to be stripped of his national the Soviet Union. deputy’s status. He asked the Party of the Coalition supporters also staged daily Regions to dismiss him from its ranks, and rallies in front of key government build- voiced regret that he wasn’t able to strip ings, namely the Presidential Secretariat, Church leaders support president him of his officer status in the military. the Central Election Commission, the The coalition government of three par- Security Service of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Catholic Church, representa- ties continued their refusal to acknowledge Constitutional Court and the Verkhovna tives of the Ukrainian Christian KYIV – Representatives of five that pre-term elections were imminent, Rada. Evangelical Church and the Evangelical even as many of Ukraine’s political parties While the pro-coalition rally is largely Churches of Ukraine, in an April 5 Christian Church of Ukraine, as well as address to the people of Ukraine, began holding congresses to determine a commercial enterprise, with observers the Conference of Roman Catholic whether they would approach the elections estimating only about 10 to 20 percent expressed their support of President Bishops of Ukraine. Viktor Yushchenko’s dismissal of the independently or as part of a bloc. idealistic supporters, the support for the Patriarch Filaret stated: “We support Verkhovna Rada Chairman Oleksander opposition forces isn’t overwhelming Verkhovna Rada. the position of the president of Ukraine – Moroz stressed the need for a decision by either. The signatories to the statement were: the guarantor of the Constitution – and the Constitutional Court, while adding An April 11 rally on , Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian we believe that what he has outlined in that only compromise would provide a just a stone’s throw from Independence Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate, his decree is the best way out of the cur- resolution to the crisis. Square, drew several thousand activists, Patriarch Lubomyr Husar of the rent situation.” In further attacks on Mr. Hrytsenko, mostly party functionaries and teenagers, Mr. Moroz asked the Cabinet of who also were cutting class. Ministers on April 10 to review his Activists from Pora, the grassroots appointment, hinting at the Parliament’s movement of energetic youth that served interest in the defense minister’s dis- as the Orange Revolution’s backbone, are missal. noticeably absent from any activities. They have set up only a handful of tents Protesters for hire in front of the Presidential Secretariat ' , The coalition government has man- and the Central Election Commission. * & * & aged to create its own version of the Instead, Pora’s leadership has been at - +! "+! maidan 2004 during the last two weeks war with itself in recent weeks, with of demonstrations. permanently parting Every day, including Easter Sunday, ways with Andrii Yusov and Yevhen coalition supporters filled Independence Zolotariov. Square to demonstrate their support for Some demonstrators have even carved the government and listen to speeches. out a part-time career for themselves, the However, the overriding sense is the coali- UNIAN news service reported, noting tion maidan lacks the historical and cultur- that some were participating in demon- al significance of the Orange maidan. strations for both the coalition govern- Protesters arriving from throughout ment and the opposition. With enough Ukraine, but mainly from eastern and creativity, a demonstrator can earn as southern oblasts, openly admit they are much as $60 a day, a very lucrative being paid for their protest services. The salary for the average Ukrainian. standard fee ranges between $10 and $30 International reaction a day, and protesters said they were able to earn a $30 bonus for the Easter holi- Both Mr. Yushchenko and Mr. day. Yanukovych met with international Seen as another sign of their lack of diplomats, including U.S. Ambassador to conviction is the fact that protesters fre- Ukraine William Taylor, assuring them quently decline to talk to the media, let that intervention wasn’t needed. alone give their names. Former Polish President Alexander The coalition parties have been partic- Kwasniewski was able to confirm that ularly aggressive in recruiting high Mr. Yushchenko has a clear plan to school students to cut class and spend resolve the crisis. time in Kyiv demonstrating. Meanwhile, Artem Herasymenko, an 18-year-old Secretary General Terry Davis endorsed resident of Alchevsk in the Mr. Yushchenko’s proposal to postpone ' ( Oblast, told The Weekly that local Party the date for pre-term elections.   ÿ ) ! " !! of the Regions functionaries offered him The Russian Federation Duma   $24 to cut class and travel to Kyiv for a weighed in on the conflict, passing a res- day, with transportation expenses cov- olution on April 6 that called the ered. In a neighboring town, the Party of Ukrainian president’s decree to disband the Regions offered as much as $30 a the Verkhovna Rada unconstititional.

SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY. "#$ %& % $ Send contributions to: The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 No. 15 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2007 9 On the road to Chornobyl: a journey to the exclusion zone by Irene Zabytko called “The Sky Unwashed.” In it, I fiction- alized the village of Opachychi and mor- In February writer Irene Zabytko phed other villages I visited in western traveled with a filmmaker to the Ukraine where my relatives come from. Chornobyl exclusion zone to visit the My fictional protagonists consist of people living in an abandoned village for Marusia, an older woman who returns to a pre-production research trip. The fol- the “dead zone” after she and her family lowing is a chronicle of their adventures. are evacuated several days after the © 2007, Irene Zabytko. Chornobyl explosion. Her family is dis- banded, and she alone finds her way PART I back to her village, “Starylis,” because Chornobyl “chic” she had no where to go. Later in the novel, a few more elderly women return, A few days before my trip to Ukraine, and together they form a fragile commu- I was shopping at Goodwill for durable nity despite the horrific radiation poison- winter coats, thick-soled boots and other ing their homes and bodies. thermal clothing. I live in Florida and On my book tour, I was always asked such things weren’t too easy to get, even by readers if I had been to Chornobyl, and in February. I was days away from my I had to answer no. Since The Ukrainian trip to wintry Kyiv, a city I hadn’t seen in Weekly article, and my novel’s publica- 11 years and only during summer, and I tion, these samosels have been in the was on a frantic hunt for anything that news, most recently on National Public would protect me from the cold blasts Radio and on the Canadian Broadcast

Irene Zabytko in front of the Chornobyl Museum in Kyiv.

to interview the women living there and speaking guide who took us on an exten- seek out locations for filming. sive tour of the exhibits. We climbed up a staircase that had branches of the tree of The church-like Chornobyl Museum life painted on each stair. The signs of all Our first stop was the Chornobyl the villages in the dead zone were hung Museum in Kyiv, located in the very his- on either side of the stairs which gave us torical Podil district of Kyiv. Our cab the feeing that we were entering that for- driver couldn’t find it, and Peter and I bidden area. Going down the stairs, the found ourselves trouncing in the slushy same signs were slashed in red, indicat- sidewalks, asking people where it might ing that we were leaving the zone. I also be. We finally found the right path when interpreted the slashes as reminders that we saw signs on street corners announc- those villages no longer existed. ing that the Chornobyl Museum was up The museum is large with two huge ahead. Peter spotted the yellow church- rooms filled with many artifacts and mes- merizing blow-ups of photos taken during like brick building first since he had seen and immediately following the Chornobyl a photo on a website, and we were wel- explosion on April 26, 1986. There are comed by the evocative modernistic also several television newscasts from that black sculpture of the Madonna and time that we watched and found especially The author (right) with Dr. Anna Korolevskaya, interim director of the Child standing between what looked like riveting and poignant, like the news scenes Chornobyl Museum. a minimalist iconostasis. Inside, we were met by an English- (Continued on page 15) and maybe a bit from the radiation too. Corp. series, “Ideas.” And every time I Actually, I was shopping for a trip to heard about the returnees, I yearned to Chornobyl. I was told by my Chornobyl meet them because what they did was so contact, Pan Valerii, that if I was too wor- extraordinary and, yes, crazy, too. Did ried about radiation, I should just bring they have to be there? And did my novel along some old clothes which I could throw truly echo and mirror their lives? away after the visit there. Fine, I grimly I was also thinking what a great docu- thought when I spotted a pair of slightly mentary that would make! Why not meet worn hiking boots in my size. I will be them at last and film it all for everyone Chornobyl “chic.” And hopefully warm. to witness? How visually stunning and It wasn’t a trip I was especially looking amazing it would be to visit these real- forward to. Who wants to go to Chornobyl, life Marusias and at last talk to them really? And yet, I am fascinated by that about their lives in the shadow of part of the world, in particular the elderly Chornobyl, and to bring more awareness people who have returned to live in their about that catastrophe because the ancestral but highly contaminated villages world’s collective memory too easily for- in the “dead zone,” the 30-kilometer area gets what happened there. surrounding the Chornobyl nuclear power Seeking life in the dead zone plant. They returned to live in their irradiat- ed forbidden homes and many are still I love watching movies, but filmmak- there 21 years after Chornobyl’s nuclear ing is an entirely new art form for me. In reactor exploded and became an indivisible preparation, I took an intensive filmmak- part of Ukraine’s legacy. ing class, learned how to write a decent “The Sky Unwashed” script treatment, and from there took on the daunting task of fund-raising for the I first learned about these returnees (also documentary I christened, “Life in the called “samosely”) from an article in The Dead Zone: A Writer Visits Chornobyl.” Ukrainian Weekly written by Marta Through the immense generosity of Kolomayets (August 5, 1990) in which she many individual donors, Selfreliance and members of the Ukrainian National Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union Women’s League of America (UNWLA) in Chicago and an Artist’s Enhancement visited Opachychi, one of the forbidden Grant awarded to me last year by the state villages. While there, they met the few eld- of Florida, my director/cinematographer erly people who returned because they dis- Peter Mychalcewycz and I were able to liked being relocated and wanted to die on travel to Kyiv and Chornobyl. their own land despite the radiation. Because of time and monetary limita- I was intrigued by the idea that anyone tions, Peter and I could only be there for would choose to return and live in one of four days, so our goals were very con- the most contaminated places on the planet. centrated and focused: we wanted to visit Why would they do that and how are they the Chornobyl Museum in Kyiv for surviving? My questions were transformed archival footage and background into a novel that was published in 2000, research, and then to travel to Opachychi 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2007 No. 15 Serhii Plokhii named to history chair at Harvard University by Peter Woloschuk and its environs.” Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian “Serhii Plokhii is a superb choice to fol- History” (University of Toronto Press, CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After a two- low in the formidable footsteps of Omeljan 2005), Dr. Plokhii presents an intellectual year international search, Serhii Plokhii Pritsak and Roman Szporluk as the third biography of the Ukrainian historian was named the new Mykhailo Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Professor of Hrushevsky with a close analysis of how Hrushevskyi Professor of Ukrainian Ukrainian History at Harvard,” said his career interacted with the politics of History in Harvard University’s Faculty of Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. Dr. Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 2007. Philology and HURI Director Michael S. Plokhii shows how Hrushevsky sought to Dr. Plokhii, 49, comes to Harvard from Flier. “Grounded in Ukrainian history but replace the Russian interpretation of the the University of Alberta, where he is cur- with a broad outlook, Prof. Plokhii is not history of the East Slavs that united rently a professor of history and acting narrowly committed to a single period but Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian history director of the Canadian Institute for teaches, conducts research and publishes into a single stream by constructing a new Ukrainian Studies (CIUS). For 10 years over the entire spectrum of Ukrainian histo- model of the period. In tracking he was associate director of the Peter ry, from the days of Rus’ to the Orange Hrushevsky’s intellectual approach, Dr. Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Revolution. He connects Ukrainian history Plokhii judiciously analyzes and critiques Research at CIUS working on the with broader Ukrainian culture (religion, art, both the imperial Russian and Ukrainian Hrushevsky Translation Project, co-edit- nationality) and with other histories and cul- national approaches to early Slavic history. ing three of the four volumes of the tures, including those of Poland, Lithuania, Dr. Plokhii recently published a third History of Ukraine-Rus’ published to the Czech lands, Belarus, Russia, and the major book, “The Origins of the Slavic date. He also taught at Harvard as a visit- Ottoman and Habsburg Empires, as well as Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, ing professor in the spring of 2003 and transnational groups, including the Jews, the Ukraine and Belarus” (Cambridge the fall of 2005. In the spring of 2002 Dr. Roma (Gypsies) and the Tatars. He is a pro- University Press, 2006), which is a culmi- Plokhii was the Petro Jacyk Distinguished lific writer and one of the most active partic- nation of a decade’s work on how elite Fellow in Ukrainian Studies at HURI. ipants in the scholarly life of our field.” Dr. Serhii Plokhii, the newly appointed political discourse and history-writing cre- The Harvard appointment process for “Prof. Plokhii acquired his administra- Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Professor of ate and shape cultural identities. Examining new senior faculty involves solicitation of tive credentials through his experience at Ukrainian History at Harvard the pre-modern history of Eastern Europe, notable potential candidates on a world- the Jacyk Center,” Dr. Flier continued, “and University. Dr. Plokhii seeks to explain how and when wide basis, the screening of applications is completely familiar with the operations separate Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian by a search committee and then by the of our Ukrainian Research Institute and its identities emerged. all schema of European studies, and, full department, review of the departmen- staff. We at the institute are excited about In commenting on his appointment Dr. even more importantly, into the study of tal decision by the deans and an ad hoc the prospect of having Prof. Plokhii join Plokhii said, “I am looking forward to my Western civilization and world history.” committee, and, finally, approval by the our faculty and help shape priorities in move to Harvard. I am especially excited “Plokhii comes to us at Harvard by way president of the university. research, teaching and publication in about the prospect of working with under- of Dnipropetrovsk, Moscow, Kyiv and “Prof. Plokhii’s incisive explorations of Ukrainian studies for many years to come.” graduate and graduate students who seek Edmonton,” Dr. Szporluk pointed out. nationality and make Commenting on the appointment, Dr. to specialize in the area of Ukrainian stud- “His appointment is a recognition of his him a real asset to our history depart- Roman Szporluk, research professor, for- ies. I am most interested in developing a personal accomplishment in the world of ment,” said David Cutler, dean for the mer director of HURI and second holder new cadre of specialists and have already historical scholarship and in Ukrainian social sciences at Harvard University’s of the Hrushevskyi Chair in History, said, been involved in the selection of two new studies and it also highlights the strides Faculty of Arts and Sciences. “From his “I know that Prof. Omeljan Pritsak, graduate students who will begin their that have been made by scholars in daring writings on religion while still founder of Ukrainian Studies at Harvard, work in the fall.” Ukraine over the past 20 years. Plokhii is under the Soviet regime to his more recent would be very pleased with Prof. “Although I have spent a considerable an embodiment of the successful breaking explorations of the origins of nationality Plokhii’s appointment because it gives amount of time working on the 17th and down of the barriers that existed between and culture, Prof. Plokhii represents the continued affirmation to his vision of 18th centuries,” Dr. Plokhii continued, “I scholarship and historiography in the frontier of contemporary studies in the bringing Ukrainian studies into the over- have also been keenly interested in cultural Soviet Union and in the West.” and social history and I have begun doing “Plokhii is young, he is dynamic, and research in the 19th and 20th centuries as he will be good for Ukrainian Studies at well. I don’t want to limit myself or my stu- Harvard,” Szporluk concluded. “I believe dents to the study of a particular era. I am that he will able to reach out to our new going to be professor of the entire course of students and energize and excite them.” Ukrainian history,” he emphasized. Associate HURI Director Dr. Lubomyr “For a scholar of Ukraine, Harvard, Hajda pointed out that “Plokhii is the third with its vast resources, is a true blessing,” incumbent of the Hrushevskyi Chair. Each Dr. Plokhii pointed out. “The most impor- of the incumbents was marked by great tant, of course, is the Ukrainian Research erudition and great understanding of the Institute. I have spent time at HURI and I full sweep of Ukrainian history but each know its scholars and staff. I am excited has also had his own specialized interests: by the potential of working with them and Omeljan Pritsak concentrated on the ori- continuing my research and publications.” gins of Rus’ and the early history of the “Finally, I look forward to working Kyivan state, as well as Ukraine’s relation- with colleagues in Ukraine,” Dr. Plokhii ship with the peoples of the steppe and the added. “When Ukraine became independ- Turkish Empire. Roman Szporluk focused ent and the old barriers fell, Ukrainian on the 19th and 20th century, Ukraine’s scholars needed help from the West to get connection with Eastern and Central back to the business of real historical Europe, with a strong emphasis on intel- studies. They needed to be reintroduced to lectual history. Prof. Plokhii’s major con- the source material and they needed help tributions have been on the early modern in filling in the blank spots. Now a new period from the 16th through the 18th cen- generation of scholars has emerged that is turies, especially religious and cultural truly professional and can partner equally developments, and the Cossack [Kozak] with scholars from the West. I look for- experience, as well as the historiography ward to working with them and to under- of these developments. In a sense Dr. taking joint projects with them.” Plokhii completes the circle of coverage of Dr. Plokhii’s family comes from Ukrainian history at Harvard.” Zaporizhia but Serhii was born in Nizhni Dr. Plokhii first earned his scholarly Novgorod on the Volga in Russia. His reputation through his writings on the father, Mykola, was a graduate of early modern religious history of Ukraine Zaporizhia’s Technical Institute but was completed during Soviet times. After relo- forced to take a position in Nizhni cating to Canada, this study culminated in Novgorod with his wife, Lydia, as a result a sweeping book, “The Cossacks and of the Soviet system mandating all gradu- Religion in Early Modern Ukraine” ates to spend the first two years of their (, 2001). Drawing careers wherever the state assigned them. on archives in seven European languages, Shortly after his birth, Serhii Plokhii was Dr. Plokhii tracks the religious history of taken to Zaporizhia where he spent his the country through the emergence of the formative years. Union of the Ukrainian Church in the After the fall of Communist Party leader Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with , who was accused of Rome, the Orthodox revival in Kyiv, and , and his replacement the defense of Orthodoxy by the Kozaks by hard-liner , during the Khmelnytsky revolt. there was a crackdown in the Ukrainian In his subsequent major work, “Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo (Continued on page 17) No. 15 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2007 11 The Ukrainian Museum hosts works from the estate of Krychevsky Press Office of The Ukrainian Museum Museum and showing until April 29. Here, Krychevsky’s paintings can be viewed with- NEW YORK – An exhibition titled in the context of one of the most exciting “Works from the Estate of Vasyl and innovative periods of art in Ukraine – Hryhorovych Krychevsky” will open the period of Modernism, which is so aptly here at The Ukrainian Museum, 222 East discussed in the “Crossroads” exhibition. Sixth St., on April 13. The works – oil Krychevsky, along with such illustrious paintings and watercolors by the artist – contemporaries as David Burliuk, are from the collection of Zorya Fine Art Alexandra Exter, as well as fellow faculty gallery in Greenwich, Conn. The exhibi- members of the Ukrainian Academy of Art tion will run through June 3. – artists Oleksander Bohomazov, Abram Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky (1873- Manevych, Hryhorii Narbut, Vadym 1952) is considered one of Ukraine’s out- Meller and Kazimir Malevich among oth- standing public figures of the 20th century – ers – represented the vibrant voices in the an architect, artist, scholar and educator Ukrainian world of art of that day. whose remarkable accomplishments A 112-page, illustrated, English-and impacted greatly on the country’s cultural Ukrainian-language exhibition catalogue development in the early part of the century. published by Zorya Fine Art contains a

“Bridge, Paris,” 1947 (watercolor and pencil on paper), Zorya Fine Art collection.

describes the essence of Krychevsky’s pensive mood, and a sense of intimacy are paintings: “In both peaceful and difficult characteristic of almost all his landscapes.” times, Krychevsky returned again and Mr. Pavlovsky identifies Krychevsky’s style again to the images dearest to his heart – as close to Impressionism, but says that the tree-hugged peasant homes above quiet- artist “followed his own path.” flowing Ukrainian rivers, the changing Olha Hnateyko, president of the board colors of the sky above the open spaces of of trustees of The Ukrainian Museum, green fields, the powerful surge of said the museum “is delighted to collabo- Crimean mountains, or the boundless blue rate with Zorya Fine Art in displaying a of the sea. These small-scale harmonious selection of the vast artistic output of this works are monumental in their imagery, distinguished artist, whose pioneering perfect in their composition and color work in the name of Modernism helped scheme. In them, the artist’s soul sings change the face of Ukrainian culture in “Still life with cabbage,” 1951 (Oil on paper), Zorya Fine Art collection. like an Aeolian harp, open to the expanses the early 20th century.” and colors of his native land.” The Ukrainian Museum’s purpose is to A Renaissance man in effect, he was comprehensive essay on the life and work Krychevsky was a prolific artist. share the breadth and wealth of dynamic and innovative in his creativity. of Krychevsky by Valentyna Ruban- According to his biographer Vadym Ukrainian culture with the public. To that Pavlovsky, the artist “produced close to 200 end the museum organizes exhibitions He pioneered a distinct Ukrainian style of Kravchenko, doctor of art history, corre- large paintings, several hundred of medium from its collections or from loans, offers architectural expression and brought new sponding member of the Academy of Fine format, and several thousand small works.” educational programming, and works in trends to the art of book design. He made . Unfortunately, the bulk of his creative work concert with other museums, institutions notable contributions to scholarship, the Dr. Kravchenko divides the artist’s work was destroyed in a fire and only a small por- and organizations to provide excellence applied arts and theater production design, represented in the show into “three themat- tion of his paintings are preserved in gal- in substance, visual enjoyment and a and was distinguished as an art director in ic cycles”: paintings from before World leries, museums and private collections. learning experience in all its endeavors. the Ukrainian film industry. War I and from the years before the start of Krychevsky’s media were watercolor and In 2005 the museum relocated to its As one of the principal organizers of the World War II that project the natural beauty oil. In describing the artist’s work, Mr. newly built facility, funded in total by Academy of Arts in 1917 of Ukraine in compositions that embody Pavlovsky said, “His paintings, full of sun- generous donations from the Ukrainian (its name was later changed to the Kyiv Art joy and appreciation for the majesty of light and air, express the mood of the community in the United States. Institute), its first president and a professor nature; works the artist created during his moment at which the artist captures nature For further information readers may call on the staff, Krychevsky played a major immigration period beginning with the and recreates it with his brush. The harmony 212-228-0110 or e-mail info@ukrainian- role in educating a generation of exception- final months of World War II, during which of light and transparent hues, a joyous, rarely museum.org. al Ukrainian architects and artists. Krychevsky’s longing for his homeland is Krychevsky was a celebrated artist. The expressed poignantly in landscapes of collection of his paintings from the Zorya Ukraine, which he painted from memory; Fine Art gallery is presented in a most time- and works in which the artist evokes ly fashion – to run concurrently with the Venezuela’s natural beauty and the urban critically acclaimed “Crossroads: environment of Caracas, where he lived the Modernism in Ukraine, 1910-1930,” rest of his life and where he died in 1952. presently on view at The Ukrainian In the essay, Dr. Kravchenko best

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OBLAST – As we tossed about like We began chatting, eventually reach- potatoes in the truck bed of a military ing the point in the conversation in jeep, I desperately gripped whatever I which he explained why he dragged his could to keep from slamming about. wife and daughter onto a cramped, musty Across from me, the eyes of Orest bus at midnight for a six-hour all-nighter Antoniuk blared with exhilaration as we into the Carpathians. turbulently ascended into the After all, it’s not the type of vacation Carpathians Mountains. newlyweds fantasize about on their hon- He thrust a bottle of champagne to his eymoon. mouth, took a healthy swig, then point- “It’s a type of extreme,” he said. “To ing its mouth directly towards me. “Have stir up the blood. To stir up the adrena- some!” he cried out as I clung for my line a bit.” life. “We’re going pretty deep into the “No thanks,” I replied regrettably. “I Carpathians, huh?” I asked. haven’t adjusted to drinking at seven in “Into the very heart,” Vlodko replied. the morning.” Our destination was Drahobrat, an iso- He was visibly disappointed, but it lated ski resort with a handful of hotels didn’t keep him from polishing off the and ski slopes. Its remote location and bottle with a buddy in a minute’s time. underdeveloped infrastructure ensured Zenon Zawada The Carpathian Ski Club (KLK) is not less crowds and more skiing, compared KLK Champions Oksana Hrushynska and Bohdan Kokhan display their trophies for the delicate or the faint of heart. with swamped destinations like Slavske. at a March 17 ceremony. Founded in Lviv in 1924, forced into “Will we be able to see Hoverla from the diaspora during the Soviet era, the there?” I asked, referring to the highest KLK that revived in 1989 was a network peak in the Carpathians. the officer asked. able to bring us all together,” said Mr. of young skiers who derived no greater “Hoverla? Yurko, will we be able to “We’ve got a group going for skiing at Kubiv, himself a former KLK president. pleasure than barreling down the soft, see Hoverla?” Drahobrat,” the driver responded. “We The jeep began banging up and down, snowy slopes of the Carpathian Sitting across the aisle was former hear there’s snow up there.” jerking us left and right, as we ascended “Snow out there? Well, let’s hope so. into the heart of the Carpathians along a Where is the group from?” narrow, icy road lined with six-foot snow “Lviv.” And so we trekked onwards. banks and magnificently tall coniferous trees. * * * The two boys across from me delight- “Time to wake up!” ed in being tossed about, and I appeared Yurko glanced at his daughter and to be the only passenger startled by the smiled, “How’s life?” jeep’s violent rocking. Somehow, I had managed to fall When the door flung open some 30 asleep on this Turkish jalopy. I awoke to minutes later, I noticed the cold air con- a scenic panorama of a Carpathian town trasted sharply with the foothills down covered in the charcoal blue haze of below, and I was greeted with a postcard dawn. It was Yasynia. view of the snow-covered Carpathians As Hummer-sized army jeeps pulled under a bright blue sky. up and the driver threw open the door, I Aside from my inability to pound noticed a sharp difference in temperature alcohol at all hours of the day, another and changed my clothes after most of the way I might have disappointed the KLK passengers exited. crew was my need for at least seven I climbed into one of the jeeps, and hours of sleep to function. there sat the tall, lanky Orest Antoniuk, Perhaps it’s not in my blood, or maybe 44, first president of the revived KLK, it’s my Manhattan upbringing, but my who popped open a bottle of champagne. desire to tuck myself into a cozy bed and “Ladies?” he offered, before being rest my head far outweighed any urge to politely declined. strap on boots and skis and hoist myself “Then a toast to Halychyna sepa- atop Stih Mountain, despite the breath- ratism!” he cried out before downing a taking views. I was an anomaly, because that’s Perched in a dugout in the snow, KLK judge Orest Dubyniak calls out racers’ gulp. exactly what the KLK did upon our times at the finish line on March 17. This man has too much energy for 6:45 in the morning, I thought to myself, arrival at Drahobrat, opting to take advantage of the clear morning skies and Mountains by day and partying by night. KLK President Yurii Dubyk, 48. perhaps a bit envious. instead sleep in the late afternoon. Though its members have since mar- “Maybe if we get to the neighboring Orest was elected the first president I bid them well. ried and are raising children, the KLK mountain, Blyznytsia. Our mountain is because of his devotion to KLK from the get-go, said Oleh Kubiv, 43, his longtime spirit of gnarling at the bone of life and Stih.” * * * sucking its marrow has not waned with Stih, Blyznytsia, Hoverla. We spoke colleague. the passing of time. of these mountains as if they were It was at his Lviv apartment in early Since it was my second time in the Instead, they bring their kids along. women to be conquered. 1989 that they held their first informal Carpathian Mountains, I knew what type I knew I was in for an experience Noticing my journalist’s notepad, Yurko meeting. “He knew everyone and was of lodging to expect: a shower barely when KLK President Olena Pankiv told began to tell me the history of KLK. me to meet the club’s buses in He had dug around Lviv’s archives Petrushevych Square at midnight on some 15 years ago and found the club’s March 16. original protocols, statutes and minutes That implied an all night trek in from 1924, bearing the signature of what’s considered a standard Ukrainian founder Kost Pankivskyi. bus: a Turkish jalopy with filthy carpets, The Poles had suspected it was a front a seat that either reclined too far or didn’t for the Organization of Ukrainian recline at all, and barely any room for Nationalists. (In the versions told by my legs, despite my unimposing five- other KLK presidents, that’s exactly foot-seven frame. what it was.) The driver wore no seat belt and all After two hours on the bus, I noticed the passenger cargo was heaped into a it was moving at a snail’s pace along the fragile pile in the back corner of the bus rocky, decrepit roads of rural Halychyna. that teetered on the brink of collapse at I began thinking it’s a wonder how any- any given moment. one could sleep in this rickety tin can on As I sat in my seat on the chilly spring wheels, but glancing around, I noticed night, I braced myself for a torturous six half the bus was indeed asleep. hours. I don’t know what traffic police were Fortunately, my neighbor Vlodko doing up at 2 a.m., flagging down cars in Dubyk offered to relieve my stress. the middle of nowhere, but there they “Would you like some cognac?” he were. KLK presidents past and present: (from left) Oleh Kubiv, Orest Antoniuk, asked, whipping out a metal flask that is “Where are you heading at this hour?” Olena Pankiv and Yurii Kosarchyn. No. 15 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2007 13

among the minority speaking Ukrainian. The KLK also pro- vides a way for par- ents to spend quality time with their chil- dren, “not at home in front of the television, but in the fresh air through sports,” Olena said. Suddenly I felt extremely thirsty. Orest offered me his flask of cognac tucked in his jacket. “No, thanks. Thirst. My throat is parched.” I went to find water, a commodity in far less abundance than cognac among the KLK crowd, and KLK members board a military jeep in the town of Yasynia at 6:30 a.m. on entered a dank, tightly March 16 on their way to Stih Mountain in the Carpathians. crammed cabin reek- ing of beer at the slope’s base. large enough to squeeze into, the clunk- The first informal meeting of the Upon quenching my ing and stomping of ski boots shaking the renewed KLK in Ukraine was held in thirst, I noticed Erko stairs and halls, and cardboard-thin walls Orest Antoniuk’s home in January 1989. nestled among his that intimately betray what the neighbors Mr. Rozhankivskyi led the KLK’s inaugu- KLK colleagues, bliss- are up to. ral meeting at the physics department of fully trading banter. To top it off, my key got stuck in the Franko State University on Drahomanov I became acquaint- doorknob each time I tried locking it. A Street in Lviv in autumn 1989. ed with three genera- manager insisted there wasn’t any prob- The renewed KLK consisted of 59 tions of KLK: Yaroslav lem. I was the one who didn’t know what founders. Most were college students or Former KLK President Orest Antoniuk communicates Hronskyi, 66; father of he was doing. in their 20s, and tight friendships and with the finish line via radio as a KLK skier prepares Olena Pankiv, and That’s Ukrainian customer service for mystical romances soon blossomed. for his race on March 17. Yaryna, 22; and grand- you. I eventually gave up and left my “Those were the best times,” Orest said. door unlocked for the two-night stay, and father of Olesia, 10, and Andrii, 8. slow the pace down, holding the bottle of * * * my $30 a night fee began to seem over- Mr. Hronskyi beamed with pride that cognac in my hand for two or three min- priced. “Feeneesh! Hotovyi!” Olena is leading the club. utes at a time. Half my meals consisted of a thick, low- Seated on a makeshift bench made of Whether a stroke of coincidence or That drew a sharp rebuke from the grade kovbasa, and my choice of beverage tree branches, perched in a cubbyhole in cosmic destiny, she married Oleh Pankiv, watchful KLK crowd. “What’s the mat- was limited to tea or coffee, all prepared by the snow, KLK senior Orest Dubyniak a fellow with the same as for- ter? You’re supposed to pass the bottle!” a staff of young village ladies who were shouted to the starting gate, signaling he mer KLK President Volodymyr Pankiv, “I’m catching my breath. Just trying to either lovely or passive-aggressive. was ready for the next racer. but no relation. slow the pace down,” I replied. “Do you have water?” I asked. The KLK is not a high-tech operation. For Oleh, 46, KLK instills a love and The idea got no support. “Yes,” the hostess replied in a poison- Ten years earlier, an electronics spe- appreciation for the Carpathians among That night, about 20 KLK members ous tone. cialist pieced together the KLK’s “elec- his children. and their children gathered in front of “Can I have a bottle of water?” tronic start/finish” gadget, essentially a “Bez Moskovschyny!,” (“Without their hotel, formed pairs and descended “Yes,” she replied, not lifting a finger. single dilapidated suitcase containing Moscowdom!”) added Yaroslav. along an icy, treacherous path to a cabin “Can you please bring me the bottle of sensor and timing devices. What was once a club for young sin- hosting the night’s celebration. water?” The suitcase is placed at the finish gles is now a family-oriented activity, Led by the moonlight and a flashlight “Where?” line, which communicates via radio to with 50 of its 70 members having two or two, we marched arm-in-arm, gripping “To me.” the starting gate. Two sensors, posted on children each, Oleh said. each other tightly and filling the sur- A morning glass of orange juice is a eight-inch tripods and positioned directly “Its like one big family,” he said, just rounding forest with the melodies of luxury item that will cost you $1.50. Yes, opposite each other, record each racer’s as members placed their food on the Ukrainian folk songs. it’s not Kansas. It’s the Karpaty. time automatically. table, sharing everything: hard-boiled When reaching the cabin, I took a seat After a delightful seven-hour nap, I As racers competed on the afternoon eggs, slices of pork fat (salo), kovbasa at the KLK seniors table, or as one fellow threw my boots on to explore Drahobrat of March 17, American KLK President sandwiches and, of course, cognac. put it, the Ukrainian geology section. as the sun was starting to set. As I mean- Erko Palydowycz arrived and was greet- It was then that I was introduced to Though a humorous remark, it was far dered between the six-foot snow banks, ed with warm embraces by the KLK “Piu do tebe!” (“I drink to you!”) from reality as 59-year old Bohdan barely retaining my balance on dirt roads crew. He is the only skier on the slope “Is declining an option?” I asked. Kokhan was awarded the KLK Cup covered with ice, I noticed a local fellow not wearing a hat, despite chilly winds. Volodymyr Hronskyi looked at me in among males for his superior perform- hauling logs with a horse. KLK is not only about skiing, Orest disgust. “Only an American would even ance in the slalom and giant slalom races. There’s something about villagers per- tells me. consider declining a ‘Piu do tebe,’ ” he said. Whoever said life begins at 40 could forming hard labor with animals that is It has the same mission now as it did The correct response, I was instructed, have been referring to Oksana particularly amusing to a city slicker like in 1924 – fostering an association of is “Pyi zdorovyi.” me. nationally conscious people who will By the third round, I stealthily tried to (Continued on page 16) As I snapped his photo from afar, he “defend the nation not only in words, but invited me closer. with the highest price,” he said. If I could understand our conversation, KLK’s current struggle, as it had been I would describe it. But he spoke some in the last century, is to defend Ukrainian mongrel mix of Russian, Ukrainian and authenticity in Ukraine, particularly perhaps Hungarian with a possible Rusyn among their children. accent, the result of which I couldn’t “Our children are raised in a Ukrainian interpret if my life depended on it. environment,” Olena Pankiv, 38, tells Nevertheless, he understood my wish me, which initially struck me as an to be photographed alongside his horse, exceptionally odd statement considering snapped the shot and wished me well. where we were. I eventually found Yurko and Vlodko “Even though this is Ukraine, the Dubyk sitting at a table in a hotel cafete- Russian influence is enormous,” she ria with their families, who discussed added. more of the KLK’s history. Any doubt that the KLK youth needed In 1989, Lviv resident Oleh a Ukrainian atmosphere, even in the Rozhankivskyi learned that his “babtsia” Carpathians, was quickly extinguished by (grandmother) Nuna was a KLK member the sound of Russian pop music echoing until 1939, when the Soviets arrived and across the slopes, even as Olena spoke to raised hell. me. She had saved the club’s statutes, and To me, hearing the upon their discovery in their home, Mr. in the Carpathians is akin to spilling Rozhankivskyi began discussing the ketchup on a wedding dress. Three generations of Lviv KLK: Yaroslav Hronskyi, 66; daughter Yaryna KLK within his circle of friends, already And the KLK skiers are easily recog- Hronska, 22; granddaughter Olesia Pankiv, 10; daughter Olena Pankiv, 38; avid skiers. nizable among the crowd because they’re grandson Andrii Pankiv, 8; son-in-law Oleh Pankiv, 46. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2007 No. 15 Yushchenko radicalizes... 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There’s the same kind of confrontation Vice-Chairman of the Security Service of which will pave the way to development NEWSBRIEFS between the Parliament and the president. Ukraine Valentyn Nalyvaichenko have of a potent and prosperous country,” he (Continued from page 2) The opponents are just as unwilling to listen been added as members of the NSDC. stressed. According to the prime minister, president’s decision to dissolve to each other’s arguments.” The daily also (Ukrinform) some politicians are working toward noted that some supporters of Mr. destabilization in Ukraine. He also voiced Parliament is based on dubious grounds. Prime minister urges unity President Viktor Yushchenko “is trying to Yanukovych, who have been bused into his conviction that the president will not blackmail the constitutional and other Kyiv from Donetsk, blame the United States KYIV – The Ukrainian nation should allow destabilization in Ukraine. “I spoke courts, disrupt the activities of the for the current troubles. One young man told make a choice in favor of unity against with Viktor Yushchenko just a few min- the Moscow daily: “Do you really think this Parliament and push the government into confrontation for the sake of the future, utes ago. He was calm and asked me to was [President Viktor] Yushchenko’s own taking unlawful steps,” the address Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych told a find mutual understanding,” Mr. idea? The Americans were involved. [Yulia] claimed. According to the national March 30 forum of national unity, organ- Yanukovych said. He stressed that the Tymoshenko [of the Tymoshenko Bloc] had deputies, the Security Service of Ukraine ized in Kyiv on the initiative of the parlia- Party of the Regions offered Our Ukraine and the armed forces are being con- her reasons for visiting Washington. Besides, why would the president keep mentary coalition. “We urge you to unite to unite with it, however, Our Ukraine strained to take unconstitutional and ille- for the sake of an important process, refused. (Ukrinform) gal actions. They also alleged that meeting with [U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine] deputies, government members, Central William Taylor?” (RFE/RL Newsline) Election Commission representatives, President warns of criminal responsibility and Constitutional Court judges are under surveillance. (RFE/RL Newsline) KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko OLGA ALICE MALISCHAK said at a session of the National Security …condemns pressure on court and Defense Council in Kyiv on April 5 86 a long-time secretary of the Ukrainian National Association KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada adopted by that the Cabinet of Ministers will face Branch 29 and an active member of the Ukrainian community a vote of 256 coalition deputies in favor and criminal responsibility if it fails to obey died Tuesday, March 27, at Wesley Village, Jenkins Twp. Mrs. Malischak his decree on the dissolution of the two abstentions a declaration on April 9 say- represented Branch 29, Transfiguration of Jesus, Nanticoke, PA at numer- Verkhovna Rada, UNIAN reported. Mr. ing that President Viktor Yushchenko is ous national conventions. Alice assumed the duties of branch secretary exerting “unprecedented” pressure on Yushchenko requested of Prime Minister after her husband, Michael, passed away in 1953. Constitutional Court judges, Interfax report- Viktor Yanukovych, who attended the ses- ed. The legislature noted that 53 lawmakers sion along with Verkhovna Rada have submitted a petition to the Chairman Oleksander Moroz, that the Alice was born on April 12, 1920 in Ansonia, CT. She was the daughter of Constitutional Court requesting that the law- government allocate funds for a campaign the late John and Paraska Astrab Hlywa. She was a resident of the Korn fulness of the president’s decree on the dis- for the early parliamentary elections on Krest section of Hanover Township and a graduate of Plains Memorial solution of Parliament be examined. “The May 27, as stipulated by his decree. Mr. High School, class of 1938. Alice was a member of the Holy Verkhovna Rada considers the president’s Yushchenko also appealed to all political Transfiguration Greek Catholic Church of Nanticoke, PA. pressure on the Constitutional Court one of forces in Ukraine to restrain from sending supporters to the streets during the current the factors toward legitimizing unconstitu- She was preceded in death by her husband, Michael, sister Mildred tional acts of the president and those politi- crisis. Meanwhile, police reported that Modresky and twin sister, Anna O’Malia. cal forces that drive him to do this,” the dec- some 6,000 supporters of Mr. Yanukovych laration read. (RFE/RL Newsline) and the ruling coalition arrived in Kyiv from the provinces in the morning of April Surviving are her nephew Martin O’Malia and his wife, Sherry, Plains, PA, Russia again offers “assistance” 5. Anti-Yushchenko demonstrators have and nephew Michael J. Modresky, Maryland. She is also survived by great MOSCOW – , reportedly pitched more than 500 tents in nieces Cindy Thomas, Amie O’Malia, Beth Ann Woolley, Dr. Michalene Russia’s ambassador to Ukraine and a for- downtown Kyiv, where they are staying Torbik and great nephew, Michael A. Modresky. mer Russian prime minister, said in Kyiv on overnight. According to police reports, an April 4 that “if questions arrive from April 4 rally on Kyiv’s Independence Funeral services were held on March 30, at Simon S. Russin Funeral Ukraine, we shall offer assistance,” Interfax Square in support of the ruling coalition Home Inc., 136 Maffett St., Plains, PA. reported. He added that “we have not been attracted some 10,000 people. Also on hired as aides, but if requests for assistance April 4, the Verkhovna Rada, which has arrive, assistance will be provided.” He did been continuing its session despite not specify what kind of help Russia might Yushchenko’s decree to disband it, adopt- ілимося сумною вісткою з родиною, приятелями і offer or at whose request. He made the ed a resolution slamming Mr. Yushchenko знайомими, що у вівторок, 27 березня 2007 р. відійшов remarks to journalists after Prime Minister for the creation of “legal chaos” in the у ожу вічність наш найдорожчий і незабутній country. (RFE/RL Newsline) Viktor Yanukovych’s meeting with foreign У!, А#Ь%О, ІО, (А# і )У*%О ambassadors. Mr. Chernomyrdin also Moroz no longer on NSDC stressed that the Ukrainians must settle their св. п. differences through negotiations. Foreign KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman Minister Sergei Lavrov has also offered Oleksander Moroz has been withdrawn “assistance.” On April 5, the Gazprom- from the National Security and Defense д-р І)А+ /А)1І3%А owned daily Izvestia wrote that “current Council via presidential decree. According нар. у с. Іванівці, !идачівського району, Україна. events in Ukraine are painfully reminiscent to the April 3 decree, internal troops com- of the October 1993 tragedy in Russia. mander Oleksander Kikhtenko and First )ідвідини і /А(А8#А8 відбулися в п’ятницю, 30 березня 2007 р. в Fletcher- Wasevich Funeral Home, Philadelphia, Pa.

with the many photos of children afflict- /О:О(О++І )І/(А); відбулися в суботу, 31 березня 2007 р. в Українській On the road... ed with Chornobyl-related diseases. католицькій церкві =аря :риста у >ілядельфії, а відтак на цвинтарі св. арії (Continued from page 9) Many photos were taken well after при Fox Chase Road, Jenkintown, Pa. Chornobyl occurred. Our guide told us taken of the first group of young men sent У глибокому жалю і смутку залишилися: that some of the children have recovered to clean up right after the explosion. They дружина – #A#Я+А were told they only had to work for two and are now adults and have since returned to look at their old photos. донька – Я(О81А)А 1І з мужем (ОA(#О minutes at a shift in lieu of the mandatory “They are always surprised to see how внуки – (ОA(# з дружиною AІ two-year stint in the Red Army. Before sick they were as children,” she said. – :(;8#Я з мужем !ІО і дітьми !ІО та A)А+О they were sent out to the gaping rooftop There is one huge photo in the center of донька – А(ІЯ #А#У+3А% з мужем О(;8О where the reactor exploded, we see those the wall, and that belongs to a 5-year-old внуки – #АА(А #А#У+3А%-3ОУ з мужем !ІО young cherubic-faced boys laughing and boy named Alex, a leukemia victim from – О(;8 joking with each other, looking valiant in Belarus. He is bald with red markings on their leaden suits that resembled a – У1Я+А his head that resemble star bursts, and his донька – #АА(А /А)1І3%А medieval knight’s, and innocent to what huge soulful eyes follow you wherever they were about to experience. сестра – 8#A>А+ІЯ )А8;1Ю% – з донькою О#(ІЄЮ і дітьми you go, like a saint on an icon. :(;8#;+ОЮ та (ОА+О, There were other equally wrenching “He died,” our guide said when we із сином О(A8#О з дітьми А+(ІЄ, А+;1О і #А+AЮ and difficult exhibits to gaze on, such as asked about him. “Soon after the photo the many mementos donated by the fami- was taken, he was gone.” кузин – ;:А*1О /А)1І3%А з дітьми 8#A>А+ІЄЮ і ;(О+О та їх lies of the dead firefighters who first It was a sobering experience, and we родинами в %анаді responded to the explosion. Among those were silent after the tour when the guide шваґерка – А++А KА8;+ з мужем K(;KО(ІЄ і синами K(;KО(ІЄ та І)А+О was a white button-down shirt, one of the let us sit in front of the photos and con- свати – ОA1Я+ і +А#А1Я #А#У+3А%; з донькою )І(ОЮ А+(A*3;% з last things a liquidator wore before hur- template all that we saw. It was like мужем (ОА+О та дітьми (АL8ОЮ і сином А(%О з дружиною riedly changing into his work clothes to being at a panahykda (requiem service). Я(;+ОЮ put the fires out. There were also many After our tour, Peter and I met with the та ближча і дальша родина в 8MА і Україні. red Soviet passports of the deceased, and interim director, Dr. Anna Korolevskaya, their accompanying photos were marked who allowed us to film many of the )ічна *ому пам'ять! with the ominous radiation insignia. exhibits for our promotional DVD. I pre- ) пам’ять /окійного можна складати пожертви на: Other exhibits included a grotesque sented her with a copy of my novel, “The skeleton of a Siamese-twinned piglet, a Sky Unwashed,” for the museum. 8портовий клюб „#ризуб“; Український Освітньо-%ультурний =ентр у replica of the famous pine tree that “Perhaps it will be translated into женкінтавні, /а; Українську >едерацію Америки в Elkins Park або на TУА%. resembles a cross, and a wall adorned Ukrainian,” she said. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2007 No. 15

Chatter, laughter and song filled the air longer the second time. to get off foggy Stih Mountain as quickly “Extreme” skiing... as the KLK members partied into the night. I was determined to make it to the as possible with the goal of preserving all (Continued from page 13) Alcohol fueled the festivities, includ- very top of Stih Mountain on my third my limbs. Hrushynska, who finished with the best ing a fiercely bitter invention made from ascent. Boots and skis rented for $10 a day, time among the women. sweet grass called Zubrivka. I preferred I had never seen the weather change so and my ticket for 20 lifts cost $24. The several dozen children in atten- the samohon or home brew. drastically while on a ski lift. After When reaching the beer-reeking café, I dance cheered and encouraged each As the early morning hours spending three minutes struggling to committed another KLK faux pas by other when receiving their awards and approached, I saw some dirty dancing that keep my backside parked on that tee-bar, ordering a Zhyvchyk, a delightful fruit certificates of participation. amused even this jaded journalist. cold winds surrounded me and a thick soda produced by Obolon. “You should “We didn’t even have children’s com- Sensing I might get tempted to join in, I fog enveloped me. be drinking hot wine after a morning of petitions 15 years ago,” Orest Antoniuk called it a night at that point and stumbled I managed to hang onto that tee-bar for skiing!” Oksana scolded me. said. “Then in 1996, we had a baby home with the moonlight’s guidance. five minutes before letting go in utter But if she didn’t get to me, then the exhaustion. And I still wasn’t atop the other KLK folks did. For when I reached boom of 13 children.” * * * Hearty applause was showered upon two great Stih! their table, I heard words that I didn’t American KLK ambassadors, Erko and I felt every muscle in my body being The fog was so thick I could barely want to hear at noon: “Piu do tebe!” Zenon Stakhiv. It was his first time skiing tested on Stih Mountain, but I wasn’t see two feet in front of me. Meanwhile, In spite of such moments, the rank the Carpathians, Mr. Stakhiv told his com- even skiing. Getting up the slope was a aggressive skiers were recklessly dashing and file KLK demonstrated hallmark rades, and fulfilled a goal he’d always had. test of athleticism in it of itself. down the slope. Ukrainian hospitality (particularly when I spotted a relic, a KLK patch, on As with most Carpathian ski resorts, Enervated from the lift, I could only it came to cognac). Oleh Kubyk’s jacket, which stemmed with the exception of luxurious outfits descend Stih’s painfully steep slopes in Oksana Hrushynska deserves particu- 20-second intervals before pausing to lar credit for providing me with her from the club’s first ever contact with the like Bukovel, your ski lift is a rubber, 12- catch my breath. friendly company, hugs and kisses, all of American KLK. inch tee-bar, upon which you neatly rest Not being able to see anything also which I eagerly accepted. He received it during a 1990 visit your butt, propping it up by gripping its motivated my cautiousness, but others I’m not quite sure I’m KLK material from George Popel, and has cherished it end with your hand. Perhaps it was a sign that I’d best join didn’t necessarily share my approach. when it comes to skiing, cognac and party- ever since. a gym soon, but the task of maintaining Two-thirds of my way down, a maniac ing, but I certainly wouldn’t turn down a He and former President Yurii your balance on skis while a rubber tee- sped over my skis, almost crashing into chance to travel with them for another Kosarchyn filled in more gaps of KLK bar shoves your butt up a steep mountain me, before wiping out himself. I think I round of extreme skiing in the Carpathians. history for me. is not easy. heard him mutter, “Excuse me,” indicat- And if snow is lacking, then the cama- An informal association of skiers had I lasted two minutes the first time ing he was still alive. raderie alone will be sufficient. existed in Lviv prior to 1989, however before I abandoned ship, and 30 seconds At that point, my only hope in life was Piu do tebe! they were divided in three vertep associ- ations – Durniv, Kubiv and Masniv – which were forbidden at the time. and the Security Service of Ukraine of and early elections. The current coalition, Once Oleh Rozhankivskyi showed his Compromise... “spying” on judges and coalition leaders, hostile to Mr. Yushchenko, would likely friends the original KLK statute and they (Continued from page 2) calling Mr. Yushchenko’s April 2 decree be preserved in the next Parliament, so met at Orest’s apartment, the decision to render to Mr. Yushchenko’s demands. A illegal, and urging early presidential elec- Mr. Yanukovych should be able to stay restart the club was obvious. “We were tions and a referendum to rule out NATO on as prime minister. all Ukrainian, we were all skiers and we parliamentary session, which no support- ers of Mr. Yushchenko attended, passed membership. His PRU would get 35.3 percent, all traveled to the Carpathians,” Mr. Mr. Yushchenko’s snap parliamentary according to the Sofia pollster, and 33.5 (237-23) the president’s plan to conduct Kubyk said. election plan, meanwhile, faces serious percent, according to the Razumkov exercises involving foreign troops in difficulties. The coalition parties and Center. YTB should be second (25.1 per- Ukraine in 2007, which it had rejected their allies outside Parliament are boy- cent according to Sofia and 24.9 percent two days earlier. The coalition also SCOPE TRAVEL cotting it. As a result, local electoral according to Razumkov), followed by OU expelled from its ranks the defectors 2007 Ukraine TOURS commissions are being formed without (Sofia’s 5.4 percent and Razumkov’s 9.6 from Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine (OU) their participation. Finance Minister percent), and the Communists (Sofia’s 4.7 and the (YTB). , who is one of the PRU’s percent and Razumkov’s 5 percent). The RIVER CRUISE + Mr. Yushchenko had quoted the defec- founders, has said that no money will be Socialists may fail to clear the 3 percent LVIV MUSIC FESTIVAL tions as the legal foundation for his deci- provided for organizing the election barrier (Sofia gives them 2.8 percent, and May 10-29 sion to dissolve Parliament. because no funds for this had been ear- Razumkov 2.1 percent), but they will be MINI UKRAINE I Mr. Yushchenko, however, firmly marked in this year’s budget. Only competing for the last seats in Parliament Kyiv + Lviv rejected the coalition’s overtures. 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St. Mary’s Parish in Apopka While in Miami Patriarch Husar also was his next visit on Friday, February 23. conducted a day of recollection for The patriarch celebrated both the English priests in that area. He conducted a pon- and the Ukrainian divine liturgies at the tifical divine liturgy on Sunday, February Epiphany of Our Lord Church in St. 25, along with Bishop Basil Losten and Petersburg on Sunday, February 25. local clergy. During his six-day stay in St. The patriarch visited the Assumption Petersburg, Patriarch Husar also visited Parish in Miami on Sunday, February 18, local Latin Rite Bishop Robert Lynch celebrating a divine liturgy with and also visited the Maria Manor nursing Archbishop John C. Favalora and Bishop home in St. Petersburg, where several John A. Elya, eparch emeritus of parishioners from the Epiphany of Our Newton, Mass. Msgrs. Martin Canavan Lord parish reside. Pictured with Patriarch Lubomyr Husar (from left, front row) are: Father Michael Kouts, pastor of St. Andrew Church in Brooksville; Msgr. John P. Stevensky, pastor of the Epiphany of Our Lord Church in St. Petersburg; Mitrat research was done on the 17th and 18th Matthew Berko, retired; Msgr. Mercurio Fregapane, retired pastor from the Serhii Plokhii... century Ukrainian source material as well Harrisburg, Pa., diocese; Deacon Richard Wilhem; (second row) Father Robert (Continued from page 10) as on the Kozaks. A school of specialists Evancho, pastor of St. Theresa’s Byzantine Church in St. Petersburg; Father SSR. This was especially true in the cultural, was slowly developed and over the years Bohdan Lukie (a missionary from Canada who was preaching at the Epiphany intellectual and educational spheres, and uni- some 25 serious scholars were educated. Parish at the time); Father Ivan Kubishyn, pastor of St. Mary Church in versities in Ukraine were subjected to even Dr. Plokhii said he opted to attend the Apopka; Father Jorge Porales, pastor of the local Maronite Church; Father more rigid control. History departments history faculty at Dnipropetrovsk Michael Pytlak, pastor of St. Michael Ukrainian Orthodox Church. severely limited Ukrainian scholars from University and received his B.A. in history working on the Kyivan Rus’ and early mod- and social sciences in 1980. He continued ern periods, and restricted access to source his studies there for the “kandydat nauk” materials. Party control was especially degree, but when it came time to present CROSSROADS severe at the Kyiv and Lviv universities. and defend his dissertation he found that a The one important exception was the committee could not be assembled in MODERNISM IN UKRAINE, 1910-1930 history department of the University of Dnipropetrovsk, and no other university in Dnipropetrovsk which enjoyed the Ukraine would deal with a dissertation on patronage of Soviet leader Leonid a clearly Ukrainian topic. Last chance — Brezhnev and later Leonid Kuchma, both Dr. Plokhii said he was advised to try еxhibition closes Sunday, April 29, 2007 of whom came from the city. As a result his luck in Moscow and the history of their intervention, the school was put department at Patrice Lumumba Also this month... under the direct control of the All-Union University proved sympathetic and agreed Ministry of Higher Education in Moscow to form a committee to review his disser- Saturday, and was given considerably more latitude tation. He received his master’s degree in 3:00 p.m. than other institutions in Ukraine. Most Moscow in 1982. Owing to the liberaliza- Symposium — Ukrainian Modernism in Art of the research was published in Russian tion of the late 1980s there was a gradual but it dealt with Ukrainian material. change in the educational establishment in Dr. Konstantin Akinsha, contributing editor to ARTnews Under the leadership of Prof. Mykola Ukraine and Dr. Plokhii was able to com- magazine, Budapest Kovalskyi, who later served as the vice- plete his studies at Kyiv University, earn- Between Mythology and Scholarship: Interpreting president of the Ostroh Academy, major ing a Ph. D. in history in 1990. the Ukrainian Avant-Garde Dr. Myroslava Mudrak, Professor at Ohio State University Symbolism in Ukrainian Modernism Oksana Pelenska, art historian, Prague Ukrainian Modernism versus Tradition in Czechoslovakia: The Art of Decelerated Time Admission: $15; members and seniors - $13; students - $10 A reception will follow the symposium.

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Current to May 12 Art exhibit, “In Search of Ukrainian Symbolism and April 23 Lecture by Michael Moser, “Movo ridna, slovo ridne: Detroit Motifs,” The Scarab Club, 313-831-1250 Cambridge, MA How the Galician Were Taught to Become Ukrainians,” Harvard University, 617-495-4053

April 15-29 Art exhibit featuring works by Alexander Motyl, April 23 Film screening, “Orange Revolution,” by Steven York, Toronto “Elusive Elements,” Ukrainian Canadian Art Foundation Toronto The Royal Ontario Museum Theater, 416-586-8000 Gallery, 416-766-6802 or 484-995-0601 April 24 Mayfest International, featuring performance by April 16 Lecture by Tatiana Oparina, “The Issue of the Syracuse, NY Odesa Ukrainian Dancers, Syracuse University, Cambridge, MA ‘True Faith:’ Some Problems in Russian-Ukrainian 315-443-3133 Ecclesiastical Contacts in the 17th Century,” Harvard University, 617-495-4053 April 25 Wine, spirits and beer tasting fund-raiser for Whippany, NJ Ukrainian American Youth Association (SUM), April 16 Lecture by Laada Bilaniuk, “Language and Politics in Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey, Washington Ukrainian Popular Culture,” Woodrow Wilson 973-479-8715 or 973-713-6956 International Center for Scholars, 202-691-4140 April 25 Film screening, “The Orange Chronicles,” by Damian April 18 Meet the Filmmakers, Ukrainian Film Club, Columbia Washington Kolodiy, George Washington University, 202-994-6240 New York University, [email protected] April 26 Lecture with Denis Hlynka and Robert Klymasz, April 18 Lecture by Michael Moser, “Far From Yazychiye: The Winnipeg, MB “Chornobyl: As Commemorated in North American Toronto Galician Ukrainian Written Language, 1831-1849,” Popular Songs,” Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Munk Center for International Studies, 416-978-8669 Center, 204-942-0218

April 19 Lecture by Kirill Shevchenko, “Interwar Czechoslovakia April 27 Concert, “An Evening with Young Bandurists: The Toronto and the Development of Rusyn Identity,” Munk Center Chicago Bandura, Unplugged,” Ukrainian National Museum, for International Studies, 416-978-8669 312-421-8020 April 20 Film screening, “Orange Revolution,” by Steven York, April 28 Art exhibit and sale, sponsored by Ukrainian National Toronto The Al Green Theater, 416-924-6211 Washington Women’s League of America Branch 78, The Field School, 703-271-9672 or 301-854-2062 April 20-22 Ukrainian Dance Workshop, Copper County Community Hancock, MI Arts Center and Laurium Ballroom, 906-337-5529 or [email protected] April 28 “Celebrating Les Kurbas,” presentations by Dr. Irena New York Makaryk and Virlana Tkacz, with a concert by Julian April 20-22 Art exhibit featuring works by Bohdan Soroka, Kytasty and Bandura Downtown, The Ukrainian New York Ukrainian Congress Committee of America building, Museum, 212-228-0110 212-260-4490 April 28 60th anniversary of “Akcja Wisla,” Ukrainian Cultural April 21 Lecture by Theodor Kostiuk, “How Unique is Earth in Toronto Center, [email protected] New York Our Solar System?” Shevchenko Scientific Society, 212-254-5130 April 28 Presentation by Sophia Kachor, “Ukrainian Ritual Winnipeg, MB Breads and Korovai (wedding bread) Workshop,” April 21 “Ukrainian Modernism in Art,” discussion with Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Center, New York Konstantin Akinsha, Myroslava Mudrak and Oksana 204-942-0218 Pelenska, The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110

April 21 Benefit Cabaret Night, featuring Vasyl Popadiuk and Jenkintown, PA the Papa Duke band, Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center, 215-663-1166 CYA BR. 75 IS PLEASED TO SPONSOR AND

April 21 Fund-raiser “Casino Royal, An Evening in ,” CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO JOIN US AT A PREMIERE New York Ukrainian Institute of America, 212-288-8660 ART EXHIBIT, SALE AND SILENT AUCTION April 21 Volleyball tournament, to benefit Yonkers branch of UKRAINIAN AMERICAN. CULTURAL CENTER OF NJ Yonkers, NY the Ukrainian American Youth Association (SUM), 60 N. Jefferson Rd Sacred Heart High School, 914-709-0435 WHIPPANY, NJ SUNDAY, APRIL 29TH, 2007 AT 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM April 21 Dance, featuring music by Vechirka, Ukrainian Home, PRESENTING Webster, NY 585-872-0240 “AN ARTFUL AFTERNOON” April 21 Ukrainian students (SUSTA) conference, Rutgers Piscataway, NJ University, 609-240-5227 or MEET WITH THE ARTISTS www.ukrainianstudents.net BID AT OUR AUCTION Mykhaylo Barabash WELCOME COCKTAIL Bohdan Borzemsky April 22 Concert featuring Solomia Soroka and Arthur Greene, & HORS D’OEUVRES Ryan, MI Ukrainian Arts Society, St. Josephat Parish Center, INCLUDED Ivan Bratko 734-354-6517 Christyna DeBarry DONATION $25.00 Dora Homann April 22 Concert, “Bandura – The Soul of Ukraine,” Ukrainian Featuring: Gregory Hywel Carnegie, PA Bandurist Chorus, Andrew Carnegie Free Library Jarema Kozak Music Hall, 412-331-6724 WE LOOK FORWARD TO Borys Patchowsky SEEING YOU AT OUR Taras Schumylowych EXCITING EVENT THIS SPRING Bohdan Tytla ORTHODONTIST Halyna Tytla For more information contact Olha Lukiw Lidia Piasecka Dr. Daniel A. Kuncio Offices in Queens and Manhattan: 973-376-4829 or [email protected] Wolodimyra Wasiczko

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Mishanyna On Easter Sunday, many of our readers probably had an opportunity to see a performance of HAHILKY, or SPRING ritual dances, also known as VESNIANKY. Many youth groups perform hahilky after the EASTER litur- gies at their churches. Such ritual dances can be traced back to the days before Christianity was accepted in Ukraine; they are an ancient custom. According to “Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia,” “The dance and the SONG have become deeply rooted in the way of life of the Ukrainian people, and even now they play an important part in RITUAL festivities …” Ancient Ukrainian dances were actually dance GAMES, called KHOROVODY, and their basic form was the CIRCLE, the encyclopedia notes. Some forms of the hahilky and vesnianky that we see performed today belong to this category of circular dances. You probably know some of them: “KRYVYI TANETS,” “Podolianochka,” “Yahilochka.” The earlier hahilky were about the awakening of nature and springtime. Later hahilky incorporated themes of family life and love, as well as social trends of the day. New circular DANCES were created also to mark Easter. Hahilky are known for their LYRICAL character; with movements that are soft, TRANQUIL and restrained, notes “Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia.” They are performed from early spring until the Feast of the A glasspainting (painting in reverse on glass) by Yaroslava Surmach Mills Holy Trinity – and particularly at Easter. Today they remain part of the called “Easter Games” depicts hahilky and other Easter rituals on the Easter TRADITIONS observed by Ukrainian communities around the church grounds. GLOBE.

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS Soyuzivka’s Datebook Wednesday, April 18 Sunday, April 22

MONDAYS, June 25-August 27, 2007 NEW YORK: The April event of the DETROIT: The Ukrainian Arts Society in Steak Night w/music by Soyuzivka House band located on Veselka Patio Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia Detroit presents world-renowned violinist University will feature a screening and a Solomia Soroka and pianist-laureate personal meeting with the filmmakers of Arthur Greene in concert, performing WEDNESDAYS, June 27-August 29, 2007 “The Unnamed Zone,” a 2006 full-length works by Lysenko, Ropslawec, Skoryk, Hutsul Night w/music by Soyuzivka House band located on Vorochta Lawn documentary film about the aftermath of Hubay, Chopin and Hartman. The concert the Chornobyl nuclear power plant acci- is at 4 p.m. at St. Josaphat Parish Center. FRIDAYS, June 29-August 31, 2007 dent. Three children and their families, liv- Tickets: $20, adults; $15, seniors; $5, stu- Odesa Seafood Night w/music by Soyuzivka House band located on ing close to the exclusion zone around the dents age 15 and up; no charge for chil- Veselka Patio destroyed station, recount their fears, dren up to age 14. Tickets are available at dreams and hopes for the future. The film the Ukrainian Selfreliance Credit Union, SATURDAYS, June 30-September 1, 2007 (80 min.) will be shown in its original the Future Credit Union and at the door. Ukrainian Zabavas (dances) featuring a live Ukrainian band Ukrainian version with English subtitles, For information call 734-354-6517. at 7:30 p.m. in Room 717 Hamilton Hall, 1130 Amsterdam Ave., Columbia Wednesday, April 25 April 20-22, 2007 June 17, 2007 University. It will be introduced by Yuri Shevchuk, director of the Ukrainian Film WHIPPANY, N.J.: A Wine, Spirits and BUG (Brooklyn Ukrainian Group) Father’s Day Luncheon and program Club, and followed by discussion with the Beer Tasting, sponsored by the Ukrainian Spring Cleaning/Volunteer featuring Syzokryli Ukrainian film’s director, Carlos Rodriguez, and pro- American Youth Association (SUM), Weekend Dance Ensemble, tenor Roman ducer, Asun Lasarte. The screening is free Whippany Branch, the Morris County Tsymbala and band Vidlunnia with and open to the public. For more informa- Volleyball Club (MCVC) and Liquor April 21, 2007 Marian Pidvirnyj, 1 p.m., $20++ tion call 212-854-4697 or see Outlet Wine Cellars of Boonton, N.J., will Alpha Kappa Sorority Semi-Formal http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ufc/. take place at 6-9 p.m. at the Ukrainian Dinner Banquet June 21-24, 2007 American Cultural Center of New Jersey UMANA Convention Saturday, April 21 (UACCNJ), 60 N. Jefferson Road. Tickets April 27-29, 2007 are $40 per person (over 21, please); Plast Sorority “Shostokryli” Rada June 24-July 6, 2007 NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific includes hors d’oeuvres, food stations and Society invites all to a lecture by Dr. Tennis Camp prizes. For ticket information call 973- Theodore Kostiuk, astrophysicist, NASA 479-8715 or 973-713-6956, or e-mail April 28, 2007 Goddard Space, Greenbelt, Md., titled [email protected]. Information is TAP New York Beer Festival at Hunter June 24-July 1, 2007 “How Unique is the Earth in Our Solar available also on the website www.uacc- Mountain – 10th Anniversary! Plast Camp – Tabir Ptashat, System?” The lecture will take place at the nj.org. Proceeds will benefit SUM, MCVC Round-trip bus from Soyuzivka, Session #1 society’s building, 63 Fourth Ave. and UACCNJ. special room rate $60/night (between Ninth and 10th streets) at 5 p.m. Alpha Phi Delta Fraternity Semi- June 25-29, 2007 For additional information call 212-254- Saturday, April 28 Formal Dinner Banquet Exploration Day Camp, Session #1, 5130. ages 7-10 WASHINGTON: Ukrainian National May 4-6, 2007 PISCATAWAY, N.J.: The national con- Women’s League of America (UNWLA) ference of SUSTA – the Federation of Ukrainian Language Immersion July 1-8, 2007 Branch 78 invites the public to the Ukrainian Student Associations of “Choose Your Muse” spring art exhibit Weekend offered at SUNY Plast Camp – Tabir Ptashat, Session #2 America – will consist of a wide variety of and sale featuring the works of 11 New Paltz lectures, films and panel discussions relat- women artists. Choose from oils, water- July 1-15, 2007 ing to contemporary Ukrainian issues and colors, pottery, tiles, mixed media and May 13, 2007 Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Ukrainian the role of Ukrainian students. Along with photography. Participating artists: Mother’s Day Luncheon 11:30 a.m.- Dance Workshop, Ages 16 and up the conference there will be a summit of Krystyna Marchak-Baransky, Andrea 2 p.m., $15++ SUSTA leaders and elections in order to Cybyk, Irene Fedyshyn, Natalia July 2-6, 2007 further expand the organization. The con- Gawdiak, Chrystyna Kinal, Natalia May 19, 2007 Exploration Day Camp, Session #2, ference will be an opportunity to learn Kormeliuk, Marta Legeckis, Christina Tri Valley High School Prom ages 7-10 more and to network with other Saj, Natalia Sluzar, Ilona Sochynsky and Ukrainians, as well as to help preserve and Martha Hirniak-Voyevidka. The one-day May 25-27, 2007 build the Ukrainian community. The only exhibit, sale and reception will be July 6-8, 2007 SUSTA conference will be held at Rutgers Memorial Day Weekend BBQ, held at 2-8 p.m. Address: The Field Fourth of July Festivities University in Piscataway, N.J., hosted by School, 2301 Foxhall Road NW, Orchidia Patrons’ Reunion, Tiki Bar Entertainment, Concerts, the Rutgers Ukrainian Students Club. For Washington, DC 20007. Admission: Summer kick-off and zabava Zabavas more information contact Nick Prociuk, donations welcomed. Proceeds will ben- 732-718-8240, or log on to ukrainians.rut- efit the charitable, educational and cul- June 1-3, 2007 July 8-10, 2007 gers.edu. tural endeavors undertaken by the Ukrainian Language Immersion Discount Days, 25% off all room rates UNWLA Inc. For information call Tania Weekend offered at SUNY NEW YORK: In conjunction with the Terleckyj, 703-271-9672, or Sophia New Paltz July 11-15, 2007 widely acclaimed exhibition “Crossroads: Caryk, 301-854-2062. Modernism in Ukraine, 1910-1930,” The Ukrainian Film & Cultural Festival – Ukrainian Museum invites the public to the NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Museum June 4-8, 2007 featuring Roma Pryma Stamford Clergy Days – “Symposium on Ukrainian Modernism in invites the public to attend two special Bohachevsky Ukrainian Dance Art,” with presentations by Dr. Konstantin Spring Seminar events in conjunction with its exhibition Workshop, Ukrainian films Akinsha (correspondent for ARTnews “Crossroads: Modernism in Ukraine, 1910- coordinated by Yuri Shevchuk, magazine, Budapest), Dr. Myroslava June 9, 2007 1930.” At 3 p.m. a mini-festival will cele- founding director of UFCCU, Mudrak (professor of art history, Ohio brate Les Kurbas with Dr. Irena Makaryk Wedding Ukrainian arts and crafts, and more State University) and Oksana Pelenska (art (University of Ottawa) presenting “On the historian, Prague). Join us at 3 p.m. at The World Stage: The Berezil in Paris and New June 10-15, 2007 July 13-15, 2007 Ukrainian Museum, 222 E. Sixth St. York,” and Virlana Tkacz, artistic director UNA Seniors Week Ukrainian Language Immersion Refreshments will be served. Admission: of Yara Arts Group, giving a presentation $15; members and seniors, $13; students, and slideshow titled “A Light: Kurbas and June 15, 2007 Weekend offered at SUNY $10. For reservations call 212-228-0110 or New Paltz His Theater Productions.” Admission: $15; Wallkill High School Retirement Party e-mail [email protected]. For members and seniors, $13; students, $10. additional information about the exhibition At 7:30 pm., in “Echoes of Ukrainian June 15-17, 2007 July 15-20, 2007 visit www.ukrainianmuseum.org. Modernism,” Julian Kytasty and the New 4th Annual Adoptive Parents Ukrainian Heritage Day Camp, York Bandura Ensemble will feature con- Weekend Session #1, ages 4-7 JENKINTOWN, Pa.: The Ukrainian temporary compositions and improvisa- Educational and Cultural Center (UECC), tions, interspersed with poetry in transla- 700 Cedar Road, invites the public to June 16, 2007 July 15-21, 2007 tion inspired by the great explosion of Discovery Camp, ages 8-15 attend a benefit concert featuring violin modern Ukrainian culture in the 1920s. Party virtuoso Vasyl Popadiuk and his band Admission: $15; members and seniors, Papa Duke. The evening begins at 7:30 $13; students, $10. Join us at The p.m. in the Main Hall of the UECC. Enjoy Ukrainian Museum, 222 E. Sixth St. the unique sounds of Gypsy World Fusion Refreshments will be served. For reserva- and experience an exciting show in an inti- tions call 212-228-0110 or e-mail mate cabaret style. The show features a [email protected]. blend of traditional and original songs in a fusion of jazz, classical and pop styles Sunday, April 29 with incredible musical performances by Mr. Popadiuk and his superbly talented ALEXANDRIA, Va.: The Washington To book a room or event call: (845) 626-5641, ext. 140 players. This one-of-a-kind performance Group Cultural Fund, under the patronage 216 Foordmore Road P.O. Box 529 by Mr. Popadiuk kicks off the UECC of the Embassy of Ukraine, invites the Kerhonkson, NY 12446 building renovation and reconstruction public to a “Sunday Music Series” con- E-mail: [email protected] fund-raising campaign. Tickets are $30. cert: “Igor Leschishin and Friends.” Mr. For additional information contact the Website: www.Soyuzivka.com UECC office, 215-663-1166. (Continued on page 18)