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INSIDE: • U.S. and Ukraine sign joint action plan to spur trade — page 2. • Vancouver seminar touts Ukraine as new market — page 8. • Feature on tennis star Greg Rusedski — page 11. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIII No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1995 75 cents/$2 in Ukraine FCC rejects three petitions brought Ukraine bans use of hard currency by Ukrainian Americans against CBS as prelude to introduction of hryvnia by Roman Woronowycz gathering of facts, but not allowed in FCC by Khristina Lew brushed aside suggestions that prices of proceedings until a petition is set for a Kyyiv Press Bureau goods formerly sold for hard currency JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The FCC has hearing. "Of course I am disappointed," will rise, explaining that banks charge a rejected all three of the petitions filed by she said, "because their decision states that KYYIV - The National Bank of Ukraine commission of only .5 to 1 percent for various Ukrainian Americans against CBS we did not provide extrinsic evidence. It banned the use of hard currency as a form each currency exchange transaction. for its airing of "The Ugly Face of was David fighting Goliath." of payment in retail shops and restaurants The National Bank of Ukraine had Freedom on its "60 Minutes program. The Mr. Belendiuk said that, without an throughout the country on August 1. attempted to ban the use of hard currency latest to hear the agency's unsympathetic open hearing, how the news show segment The NBU has instructed commercial earlier, in February of this year. Until July voice is Alexander Serafyn of Troy, Mich., was put together would never be known. banks and those businesses formerly licens­ 31, Ukraine and Georgia were the only for­ whose petition to block CBS a transfer of ed to trade in hard currency to turn over all "CBS has consistently refused to supply mer republics of the Soviet Union to accept license in the Detroit viewing area was available foreign currency to the central any evidence, any documents that would U.S. dollars as payment. denied on July 17. show it was a fair and accurate broadcast. bank. Commercial banks are no longer The final decision regarding another We would like them to show us the allowed to accept hard currency for deposit. Effect on hard currency stores petition, filed by Oleh Nikolyszyn of Businesses retain the right to have hard experts that said 'kike' is a fair and accu­ Goods sold in former hard currency Providence, R.L, against CBS to block rate translation of *zhyd\ They haven't currency accounts to clear settlements. The assignment of a license from WPRI-TV in NBU guarantees mat hard currency deposit­ stores will still be priced in U.S. dollars, put out a single word of explanation," said but payment for them will be rendered In Providence to CBS, hinged on the out­ Mr. Belendiuk. ed in personal accounts will be preserved. come of the Detroit petition and also was Only "duty-free shops, hotels servicing karbovantsi. Mr. Kyreyev said the bank "If CBS told the truth, we should give will open additional currency exchange denied. CBS had been given conditional them a chance to show their evidence," foreign tourists, restaurants located in cus­ assignment of the license while the FCC toms territories, travel agencies servicing offices to supplement the 8,000 already he went on. "If it is a fair and accurate functioning in Ukraine. deliberated the Serafyn petition. statement we will back off." foreign tourists located in international Some of Kyyiv's hard currency stores The two petitions had accused CBS pri­ Attorneys for the two petitioners said ports [of entry], and transport companies have set up their own currency exchange marily of news distortion and failure to they will proceed with separate appeals engaged in international passenger carriage booths, converting dollars to karbovantsi meet public interest obligations by not serv­ to the United States Circuit Court of in zones bordering Ukraine, as well as in a at their own rate. Since early 1995, the ing the needs of the Ukrainian American Appeals in Washington. Mr. Belendiuk number of other instances" are exempt Ukrainian karbovanets has remained community. filed an appeal on behalf of Mr. Serafyn from the hard currency ban, read a press steady against the U.S. dollar, exchang­ The FCC decision said it has long ruled on July 28. Ms. Pochoday said she would release from the National Bank of Ukraine. ing at approximately 150,000 kbv to $1. that "it will not attempt to judge the accura­ file soon for Mr. Nikolyszyn. Oleksander Kyreyev, deputy chairman cy of broadcast news reports to determine The third party with grievances against of the NBU's board of directors, defended The Mekos store, a popular former whether a reporter should have included CBS because of the "60 Minutes" piece is the NBU's ban on foreign currency as an hard currency supermarket on Karl Marx additional facts." It also emphasized that the Ukrainian Congress Committee of important step in ensuring stability on the Street, exchanges karbovantsi for dollars the petitioners, Messrs. Nikolyszyn and America, which had filed a personal attack eve of Ukraine's monetary reform. On at a rate of 165,000 kbv to $ 1. Serafyn, had to show that the news distor­ complaint with the FCC on November 10, July 26, President Leonid Kuchma had Clerks at the Levi's store in downtown tion they allude to arose from the actions of 1994, that was subsequently denied, as was announced that Ukraine's currency, the Kyyiv sat behind their cash registers on CBS in preparing the segment and not from an application for review filed five months hryvnia, will be introduced in October. August 1 armed with calculators. The the contents of the broadcast itself. It ruled later and rejected on July 10. By banning the use of hard currency in Levi's store will exchange their customers that "Serafyn's broad-based speculation The FCC stated in its original decision Ukraine, the karbovanets will become dollars for karbovantsi at a rate of 150,000 derives from a single episode of a single stronger, Mr. Kyreyev told the Interfax- kbv to $1. A pair of Levi's 501 jeans, sell­ CBS program, one which... Serafyn has (Continued on page 6) Ukraine news agency on August 1. He ing for $75, now costs 11,250,000 kbv. failed to demonstrate rises to the level of news distortion." On another point, the FCC stated, "Even if the '60 Minutes' episode represented a Maria Rudensky: the pioneer U.S. consul in Kyyiv 'hateful attack,' as characterized by Mr. by Marta Kolomayets adventures and their insights, represent­ Serafyn, such an isolated instance does not, ing the red, white and blue in golden- and indeed cannot, rise to the level of 'a KYYIV — They were the pioneers: the domed Kyyiv. pattern of prejudice,' the burden required..." first ones to come to Ukraine to work for Maria Rudensky, who grew up in Arthur Belendiuk, Mr. Serafyn's attor­ the U.S. government. And, they were Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., attended ney, said he felt the regulatory body had unique because they were Ukrainian Ukrainian Saturday school and Roma wrongly decided that the issues were not Americans coming to their ancestral Pryma-Bohachevsky's Ballet School sufficiently serious for a hearing, homeland after Ukraine declared inde­ before going off to Columbia University, although he was not surprised by the pendence in 1991. where she majored in French. She went FCC decision. "Again (FCC) asked the Although there have been other on to do graduate studies in journalism at wrong question. The question is whether Ukrainian Americans who have worked Columbia, before moving to Washington we provided enough evidence to set the at the U.S. Embassy in Kyyiv, the four to work for a trade publication. matter for hearing and not whether we who will be profiled in this series over Influenced by the numerous diplomats proved our case," said Mr. Belendiuk. the next few weeks saw it grow from a and bureaucrats in the nation's capital, He said the FCC has set an impossibly small outpost to a full -scale embassy in Ms. Rudensky joined the Foreign Service stringent standard of proof of news distor­ 1992. in 1989. She was assigned to a post in tion. "The only way we could've met the Maria Rudensky, Wolodymyr Sulzhyn- Ukraine in 1991. standard is if CBS was to admit guilt." sky, Natalie Jaresko and Stephen Another attorney, Bohdanna Pochoday, Wasylko all came to work in Kyyiv during Maria Rudensky jokingly announces who represented Mr. Nikolyszyn in the the first few months of 1992, just as the that her job description includes the five second petition, explained that dealing fledgling state began emerging as a sig­ "d's" and a "u": that's the dead, the with the FCC is difficult also because nificant country on the map of Europe. detained, the deranged, the diseased, the legal procedures are different than in the As they conclude their assignments at destitute and the undocumented. As the civil or criminal judicial system. She said the U.S. Embassy in Kyyiv, leaving jobs U.S. Consul in Kyyiv, Ms. Rudensky that to gather the evidence required to they defined, and to a large degree creat­ I Marta Kolomayets prove news distortion she needed "discov­ ed, they shared their experiences, their (Continued on page 4) Washington-bound Maria Rudensky ery," a legal procedure that allows for the THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1995 No. 32 U.S. and Ukraine spur trade with signing of joint action plan Ukraine economy a mixed bag has made several new appointments to by Khristina Lew commission signal a reinforcement of the the recently named government, Kyyiv Press Bureau U.S.-Ukrainian trade agreement. "The KYYIV — Viktor Pynzenyk, former Ukrainian TV reported on July 27. Mr. Ukrainian market has extraordinary poten­ deputy prime minister for economic Kuchma appointed Vasyl Yevtukhov, a KYYIV - U.S.-Ukrainian efforts to tial," he said. "Interested U.S. investors reform, told Holos Ukrayiny on July 29 stimulate trade and business investment leader of the Union of Industrialists and represent nearly $2 billion in potential that monthly inflation in Ukraine rose from Entrepreneurs of Ukraine, as deputy prime between the two countries were given a direct investment in the Ukrainian econo­ 4.6 percent in May to 4.8 percent in June, boost on July 26 with the signing here of minister for the energy complex. Former my. A stable commercial environment and but that interest rates continued to fall, from deputy prime minister Ihor Mitiukov is a joint action plan. continued reforms will work to attract 122 percent annually to 91.9 percent in the A weeklong session of the U.S.­ special representative of the government even more U.S. investment." same period. Mr. Pynzenyk said the to the European Union in charge of coor­ Ukrainian Joint Commission on Trade Mr. Kalicki conceded, however, that National Bank of Ukraine's annual refi­ and Investment (JCTI) culminated in the dinating international financial assistance "the over-all level of trade between our nancing rate fell from a high of 300 percent to Ukraine. The president also re-appoint­ unveiling of a trade and investment two countries is remarkably low." last year to 60 percent in June. He added action plan that targets cooperation in the ed Mykhailo Kaskevych as minister of Last year, U.S. exports to Ukraine that real wages in Ukraine have risen by labor and named Mykhailo Kovalko to standards, agribusiness, aerospace, ener­ totalled $176 million and consisted main­ 6.5 percent since last September but that gy and health care sectors. head a new State Committee on Energy ly of high tech products and produce. the stabilization of the exchange rate meant Conservation. Finally, Mr. Kuchma liqui­ JCTI Co-Chairmen Jan Kalicki, coun­ U.S. imports of Ukrainian iron, steel and that the average wage vis-a-vis the dollar dated two state committees, on rare metals selor to the U.S. Department of apparel totalled $330 million. rose from $26.40 per month in January to and on the light and textile industries, by Commerce, and Andriy Honcharuk, "The 1994 pattern of a 2:1 ratio contin­ $47.90 in May. On a less positive note, merging them with various ministries. Ukraine's deputy minister for foreign eco­ ues for this year," noted Andrew Bihun, Ukrainian Radio reported recently that (OMRI Daily Digest) nomic relations, signed the agreement and newly posted commercial attache to the Ukraine's GDP declined 12 percent in the announced several initiatives, including U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. Ukraine doubled first half of 1995. (OMRI Daily Digest) Rental wall lowered Ukrainian trade missions to the United exports to the American market in 1994. States in agribusiness and energy, and "When Ukraine begins utilizing this Ukraine switches channels for Ostankino TORONTO — Avis Germany has bro­ technical standards programs in aerospace ken the rental-car barrier that replaced the plan, exports will grow," Mr. Kalicki KYYIV — Zinoviy Kulyk, director of and telecommunications. The JCTI action Berlin wall, allowing renters of cars in affirmed. Ukrainian State TV and Radio, has plan also calls for joint cooperation in the Germany to drive into Eastern Europe. U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William announced that as of August 1, Russian creation of a commercial code in Ukraine. Auto Europe, a broker that uses Avis, Green Miller praised the work of the Public TV will no longer broadcast on among other companies, is also offering "The action plan serves as umbrella commission for "taking steps to facilitate Channel 1, the national channel with the this option, as well as others for Eastern under which specific investment projects access to real property in Ukraine." strongest signal, Respublika and Reuters will be nurtured. Our role as an intergov­ "President Kuchma has made a change reported on July 27. The Russian broad­ Europe. Avis allows its cars to go into any ernmental agency is to lay the foundation in the economic system. Now Ukraine casts will be switched to Ukrainian TV's East European country except those with for these specific projects and exchange must develop and enhance the environ­ Channel 2, cutting back its potential audi­ unstable political situations. Auto Europe information," said Mr. Honcharuk, empha­ ment for this transformation," he noted. ence from 92 percent to 70 percent nation­ is renting cars in Austria, Germany, the sizing that the commission provides a During the meetings in Kyyiv, the ally. He explained the move was prompted Netherlands, Hungary, Italy and forum for overcoming obstacles to trade ambassador co-chaired the first session of by Russian Public TV's failure to pay in Switzerland that may be driven into and investment between the two countries. the JCTI Business Facilitation Working full its annual fees, around $8.8 million. Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, the Czech The JCTI was formed in March 1994 Group with First Deputy Minister for Russian Public TV is the most popular Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, to facilitate trade and investment between Foreign Economic Relations and Trade channel in Ukraine because its programs The Russian Federation, Belarus, Estonia, the United States and Ukraine. The com­ flior Podolev. The working group will meet tend to be of a higher quality than those of Lithuania and Ukraine. Neither company mission held its first meeting in periodically in Washington and Kyyiv to Ukrainian TV. Many nationalists from allows cars to be dropped off in Eastern Washington during Ukrainian President resolve specific issues faced by Ukrainian western Ukraine, as well as Mr. Kulyk Europe, although Avis cars may be Leonid Kuchma's state visit to the U.S. and U.S. businesses and enterprises. himself, have frequently complained that returned to any location in Germany or, for an added fee, elsewhere in Western last November. The third meeting of the JCTI is Russian coverage of Ukrainian affairs is Europe. Auto Europe cars must go back to According to Mr. Kalicki, the achieve­ scheduled to take place in Washington in biased toward Russian interests. In reac­ their original cities. (The Globe and Mail) ments of this second session of the joint the first half of 1996. tion to the move, the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the Civic Congress of Ukraine picketed the headquarters of Crimea politicians appeal to Kuchma Ukrainian TV, reported Respublika on KYYIV — Ukrainian Radio reported Defense minister meets policy analystsAugust 2. In turn, the Social-Democratic on July 31 that the Crimean legislature Party of Ukraine called the picketing an by Tamara Gallo In speaking about Ukraine's armed has appealed to President Leonid anti-state provocation. Valeriy Bebyk, sec­ Kuchma to rescind his decree of March Ukrainian National Information Service forces, he stated that they are the guaran­ retary of the party's leadership, said that 31 putting the Crimean government tor of Ukraine's national security. Channel 1 should belong to the national WASHINGTON - During a six-day directly under Kyyiv's control. The However, Ukraine has dramatically television company, and that airtime for visit to the United States, Ukraine's min­ Parliament leaders, who are mainly loyal reduced the number of troops on its terri­ Russian Public Television must be allotted ister of defense took time out to meet to Kyyiv, have promised not to break any tory from 750,000 in 1991 to 450,000 in on principles of reciprocity between Kyyiv with U.S. policy analysts. Speaking at Ukrainian laws in their legislative work. 1995 with the expectation of further and Moscow. Mr. Bebyk noted that ethnic the American Association for the Ukrainian authorities accused the previ­ reductions in 1996 to 400,000. Moreover, Ukrainians constitute the Russian Advancement of Science, on July 10, Ukraine will continue reducing its offen­ Federation's largest minority, as Russians ous legislature of doing so and cracked Minister Valeriy Shmarov addressed sive forces, according to Minister do in Ukraine. (OMRI Daily Digest, down on Crimean separatists in March. Ukraine's role in global security. Shmarov, because the numbers are not in Respublika) Mr. Kuchma reportedly is considering Ukraine had defined its political path line with Ukraine's peaceful military the appeal but has said the Crimean law­ in the first days of independence, when it doctrine. New appointments to government makers must retain Anatoliy Franchuk, announced its neutrality and a military Due to a scheduled meeting with U.S. the current Kyyiv-backed prime minister, doctrine based on peace, underscored Secretary of Defense William Perry, KYYIV — President Leonid Kuchma in his post. (OMRI Daily Digest) Minister Shmarov. Recent changes in the Minister Shmarov had time to answer foreign and internal political environ­ only one question: on Ukraine's position ment of Ukraine helped crystallize regarding NATO expansion. 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Canadian Heritage Department OBITUARIES questions wording on memorial David Roth, founding director of Project Ukraine by Christopher Guly CHICAGO - David G. Roth, a prominent U.S. ethnic relations activist and the founding director "...the conditions are very poor, so that we cannot go on much of the American Jewish Committee's Project longer. We are not getting enough to eat. We are hungry as dogs." Ukraine, died here at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center on July 29 of complica­ - Ukrainian Canadian internee No. 98, Nick Olinyk, tions following heart surgery. He was 55. writing to his wife in 1915. Born in Jersey City, N.J., Mr. Roth joined OTTAWA - Three historical panels scheduled to be unveiled at the Chicago office of the AJC's Project on the historic Cave and Basin internment camp site at the 110-year- Ethnic America in 1968, after completing grad­ old Banff National Park on August 12 have been delayed. uate work in industrial and labor relations at the The display recalls the 1915 to 1917 winter activity of 600 men, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. mostly of Ukrainian descent, who were assigned to split rocks at the Shortly after joining the AJC, Mr. Roth served area's quarries. The men were among 6,000 Ukrainian Canadians as founding director of the Dlinois Consultation on interned from 1914 to 1920 as part of Canada's first internment Ethnicity and Education, now known as the operations in 24 different camps across the country. Dlinois Ethnic Coalition (IEC), which became the The parks sector of the Department of Canadian Heritage agreed leading coalition on multi-ethnic understanding to construct the $15,000 memorial in the spring. However, officials and cooperation in America's Midwest. In this in the department have put a temporary halt to the planned unveiling capacity, he developed diversity training programs because of the wording used on the plaques - similar to the bone of for public primary and secondary school teachers contention that faced the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties and administrators in Chicago and across the U.S. Association (UCCLA) over another memorial. Mr. Roth was also an active member of the The UCCLA planned to unveil its own statue and plaque on IEC's Helsinki Committee in championing the August 12, at the Castle Mountain site, a 30 minute drive from Cave cause of dissidents of all ethnic backgrounds who David G. Roth and Basin, where internees spent their summers working in a hard fought for human rights in the Soviet Union. labor camp. But, before approving the text at the Castle Mountain In the early 1970s, according to the obituary Ukraine (such as Iosef Zissels and Rabbi Yaakov site, Parks Canada requested revisions. in the Chicago Sun Times, "Mr. Roth helped a Bleich) to the U.S. for an "American Seminar" 'They had a problem with the words 'Ukrainian Canadian' and Ukrainian American, Myron Kuropas, become with their counterparts, and sent two delegations 'unjust,' " says Borys Sydoruk of UCCLA's Calgary committee. the first White House ethnic liaison during the of Ukrainian and Jewish Americans (in 1994 and "They wanted the people referred to as immigrants, although many Ford administration, and [together] they helped this year) for meetings with officials of govern­ had become naturalized Canadians." Japanese Americans win repeal of [Presidential mental and non-governmental institutions in On the problem with using the word "unjust", UCCLA's research Franklin D. Roosevelt's] order that interned Ukraine. director, Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, is baffled by the federal government's them during World War II." Working with Leonid Finberg (in Kyyiv) decision. "What about the Holocaust? The extermination of the Jews In the late 1970s, Mr. Roth established the and Taras Vozniak (in Lviv), Mr. Roth estab­ was the law of Nazi Germany? And what about the internment of Heritage News Service, a features, op-ed and lished the Institute for Culture and Politics in Japanese Canadians during the second world war? Is Parks Canada news agency for the ethnic and national press. Ukraine, which is to conduct seminars and going to call these 'just' as well?" On October 3, 1984, Mr. Roth's arguments workshops that bring together community lead­ Rob Harding, heritage programs manager at Banff National Park, before the House of Representatives proved ers, educators, researchers, public officials, said that under Canada's War Measures Act (which was replaced by a decisive for the establishment of a U.S. govern­ jurists and human rights advocates for discus­ more limited emergency law in 1988), Ottawa "would have met all ment funded commission on the Ukrainian sions of public policy and ethnic relations. the requirements" to justify the forced incarceration of close to 6,000 famine of 1932-1933. At the time of his hospitalization for heart Ukrainian Canadians. "But then again, I am not a historian, so it In 1985, he was made the AJC's National trouble in mid-July, Mr. Roth was working on a would be inappropriate for me to comment on it," Mr. Harding added. ethnic liaison officer. In this capacity, he inten­ third "American Seminar," which was to have Dr. Luciuk said he would like to know who the historians are who sified his work in building coalitions between been hosted in the fall by Ukraine's Embassy in are editing the UCCLA's text. In a July 20, letter to Mr. Harding, he Jews and African Americans, Hispanics, Asians the U.S., combining the activities of the sister wrotes: "I detect a political agenda at work which has nothing what­ and white ethnic groups. city program and liaison between Jewish com­ soever to do with historical integrity or veracity. If you have histori­ Mr. Roth was an active participant in the munities in North America and Ukraine. ans who dispute or wish to comment on our proposals and materials, Chicago Ukrainian-Jewish Dialogue group estab­ Memorial services were held on Monday, July let them do so publicly and forthrightly, rather than sotto voce." lished in fall of 1989, in response to the growing 31, at the Piser-Weinstein Menorah Chapels in Nevertheless, the UCCLA bowed to Parks Canada's request for tension between Ukrainians and Jews in the wake Chicago. Before a gathering of about 200, changes. The trilingual (English, French and Ukrainian) plaque at of the John Demjanjuk trial in Israel. Maynard Wishner, a former president of the the Castle Mountain site will now recall "thousands of immigrants In 1990, he was appointed director of the AJC's National Council and currently chairman from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the majority of Ukrainian ori­ AJC's Institute for American Pluralism, the of the Council of Jewish Federations of North gin, [who] were interned as 'enemy aliens' in camps from 1914 to successor effort to the Project on Ethnic America, read a fax from Ukraine sent by partici­ 1920. This plaque is in memory to those held at the Castle Mountain America, taking on the mantle of prominent pants of Project Ukraine, expressing their deep camp from July 14, 1915 to July 15, 1917." U.S. civil rights activist Irving M. Levine. sorrow at Mr. Roth's passing and their commit­ Yet the three-panel, trilingual exhibit scheduled for Cave and Under the institute's auspices, Mr. Roth set ment to pursue the work begun. Basin remains in limbo. Although Mr. Harding says that Parks Project Ukraine in motion in 1992. The purpose of The 22 signatories included former Ministers of Canada plans to unveil it later in August, its text also is in dispute. this ongoing international program is to assist in Nationalities Mykola Shulha and Oleksander He declined to identify the problem areas, however, and neither Mr. the Jewish community's revival in Ukraine, to Yemets, former Minister of Culture Ivan Dzyuba, Sydoruk nor Dr. Luciuk have been told what they are. provide support for the country's democratic Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Yuri Shcherbak "We wanted to include some dramatic archival photographs and reforms, to build a capacity in the country's civil and the University of Kyyiv-Mohyla Academy period text, but were told in May that the production deadline would society for asserting group interests and dealing President Viacheslav Briukhovetsky. not allow any more changes," said Dr. Luciuk. "Yet on July 19, Rob with intolerance, and to foster contacts between A mass in Mr. Roth's memory will be held Harding calls to inform us that the August 12 unveiling at Cave and the Jewish and Ukrainian communities across the on August 9, at St. Ladislaus Polish Catholic Basin will be delayed because of problems with the text, to which Atlantic. Church in Chicago. we had all already agreed on." Mr. Roth's initiative twice (in 1993 and this Mr. Roth is survived by his wife, Sandra, The three-panel exhibit features three themes: "shattered dreams," year) brought leaders of the Jewish community in and daughter, Abbie. "injustices done" and " a lasting contribution." The Castle Mountain statue, designed by Kingston artist John Boxtel, and the accompanying plaque are worth $8,000. The UCCLA raised money to cover the costs Petro Bashuk, editor of Winnipeg newspaper of its production. League for Ukraine's Liberation (which later In June, the UCCLA erected a trilingual historical marker at the by Christopher Guly Kapuskasing Internment Camp in northern Ontario, where some of became the CLLU). OTTAWA - The former managing editor of Mr. Bashuk was instrumental also in estab­ the released men from the Banff sites were sent in 1917. Later this the Winnipeg-based Ukrainian-English biweek­ year, the association also plans to set up a marker at the Spirit Lake lishing the League for Ukraine's Liberation and ly newspaper, Progress (Postup), and a founder the Ukrainian Youth Association (SUM) internment camp in northern Quebec. of the Canadian League for the Liberation of Delaying the Cave and Basin dedication also poses a logistical beyond Canadian borders into the United States Ukraine (CLLU), Petro Bashuk, died in and South America. problem for the UCCLA, explained Dr. Luciuk. "How are we going Winnipeg on May 29. He was 83. to get people to go to Banff for two separate events?" Among the family he leaves behind are four Mr. Bashuk was born in Pivshchyna, Ukraine, Originally, the Castle Mountain site ceremony was scheduled to daughters, including Winnipeg radio and televi­ on November 26, 1911. As a youth he joined the begin at 9 a.m. on August 12, continue on to the Cave and Basin sion personality Bohdana and Quebec business­ dedication and complete the day's events by noon. Now, without Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). woman Oksana Bashuk Hepburn; and nephew one-half of the program, the moleben prayer service at Castle He organized student protests against the Nazis Oleh Romaniw, president of the Ukrainian Mountain will commence at Ї0 a.m. that day. and the Soviets, for which he was arrested and Canadian Congress. However, for participants like Dr. Luciuk, the solemnity of the imprisoned, serving time at Auschwitz. Funeral services were held in Winnipeg on occasion is being overshadowed by a sense of betrayal. "It is again In 1949, he arrived in Canada with his fami­ June 1 and 2. Retired Archbishop-Metropolitan another example of the federal government and [Prime Minister] ly, and, with his wife, Natalia Leontovych- Maxim Hermaniuk was among the officiants. Jean Chretien speaking with forked tongue." Bashuk, who died in Winnipeg in March, Interment was at All Saints Cemetery, just out­ helped organize the Ukrainian Canadian side Winnipeg. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1995 No. 32

evaluated Ukraine as a player in Europe and stressed that American, but when I'm on the job, I'm an American. Maria Rudensky... the U.S. had best take notice and deal with Ukraine," she There can be no conflict," she explained. (Continued from page 1) said. Upon arriving in Ukraine, Ms. Rudensky thought she Ambassador William Green Miller, who took over in could bring to her job an understanding, perhaps one gen­ works 12-hour days dealing with problems encountered by the autumn of 1993, has continued a high-visibility pol­ eration removed, of the Ukrainian mentality, an under­ American citizens and handling the requests of Ukrainian icy, regarding Ukraine as a significant player. He has standing of the language and cultural idiosyncrasies. But nationals. And what she sees runs the gamut as she deals concentrated on further developing U.S.-Ukrainian rela­ she came with her own goldeni rule: "I am an American with issues stemming from the tragically poignant to the tions, which, since President Bill Clinton's visit in May, Foreign Service officer, and I'm here to do a job." comically absurd. have reached new heights. Nevertheless, there were duys, when she felt for the Ms. Rudensky, 36, was truly a pioneer when she arrived According to Ms. Rudensky, one of the greatest achieve­ people, who had come to her vjrindow, especially people in Kyyiv in January 1992. She became the sixth officer at ments of the consular section in Kyyiv in the three and a the U.S. Embassy in newly independent Ukraine, following of her own generation, with Фпот she could identify. John Stepanchuk, Jon Gundersen, Mary Kruger, and Ed half years since it opened is the fact that a system has been "Given a different set of circumstances, I often thought and Carol Fajardo, all of whom had left Ukraine by 1993. set up: procedures and structures have been put into motion, to myself, it could have been rhe on the other side of the and the newest technology has been implemented. For window," she said. She was the first first-generation American — born to example, computer -generated visas with photos are now Ukrainian post -war immigrants who arrived on U.S. shores There have been benefits, too, to being a Ukrainian prepared in a matter of hours. in 1949 — to come to work for Uncle Sam in Ukraine. (Mr. American working here diking the first years of Stepanchuk, who left Ukraine in 1993 and now serves as "We have created these bureaucratic structures out of Ukraine's independence. Ms. kudensky recalls that she the U.S. deputy principal officer and economic officer in whole cloth. We have gone from the single, lonely con­ was able to plunge into the work, reading Ukrainian Vilnius, Lithuania, also claims some Ukrainian ancestry, sular officer to a staff of 12 in my department since documents on her own; she could even cooperate with but his roots date back to the turn of the century.) 1992," she said. her Ukrainian counterparts, and perhaps help them out "I was very thrilled that the State Department chose to Perhaps, there are days when Ms. Rudensky wishes for with advice and recommendations on procedures. post me here. In mid- to late 1991 all Kyyiv was going to the good old early days of the makeshift Embassy when "But sometimes it was just impossible to really under­ be was a small outpost of Moscow. But, I was just plain headaches were fewer and less painful. Currently, Ms. stand the positively twisted, incredible nature of the Soviet happy that the State Department wanted to place me in Rudensky spends her waking and working hours (no differ­ power system. There are some things that I will never be Kyyiv as the sole consular officer, because when I joined ence at this point) dealing with all kinds of people, includ­ able to completely understand and I think I could have the Foreign Service in 1989, my hopes to ever be posted in ing Americans who have fallen in love with Ukrainian citi­ been in Guinea or in Paraguay — that is how foreign some Ukraine, whether it was going to be a small consulate or a zens, U.S. tourists who have lost their passports and dis­ things in Ukraine were to me," she explained. consulate general, were very, very tiny," said the pragmatic gruntled Ukrainian nationals who have been refused visas. "This was a constant battle to stay optimistic," she Ms. Rudensky, who leaves Kyyiv at the end of August to Sometimes her encounters have been quite amusing. She added. It was a challenge to remain optimistic about the begin a new challenge in Washington where she will be vividly remembers one lovely gentleman who came to the future of this country when so many truly invest all their assigned to the Belarus Desk at the State Department. consular section with stacks of beautiful color photos of energy, their connections, their money in efforts to get out Despite the fact that Ms. Rudensky was finishing up tulips, tulips in all shapes, sizes and colors, and announced by whatever means possible, by cheating, by doctoring doc­ a dangerous two-year assignment in Haiti, where she that America needed someone like him. Another one said uments," she said. served as a consular officer in Port-au-Prince (January he had to go to the States to visit Elvis Presley's grave. Yet "That remains a big disappointment to me. And the 1990-November 1991) — evacuated on a sailboat to Guantanamo, Cuba, during a politically unstable period — she was not the least bit hesitant to go to Ukraine. "I was not at all fearful coming here," explained Ms. "I grew up knowing about this fascinating enemy and home­ Rudensky, adding that one of the reasons she joined the Foreign Service was the appeal of living in foreign places. land all rolled into one, an emotional anchor, but paradoxically, She believes she caught the wanderlust from her father, who always encouraged his daughters to travel the world a safe anchor, which was part of my hyphenated identity/' and see how other people live, what they have and what they don't have. — Maria Rudensky "I also have what I consider a strong belief in God, and I felt that wherever my career led me, as long as I was some­ what prudent, that there would be protection for me, both in another said that, while watching television, he had diag­ visa process here is beginning to resemble Haiti, where the form of the State Department and in the form of the nosed President George Bush with a fatal disease and he there is a high level of fraud. I never in a million years Almighty. had to get to Washington before President Bush died expected it to happen here so soon," she explained. But what did scare her just a bit was the uncertainty because only he had the cure for this mysterious ailment Although there is nothing morally wrong with trying to of her exact role. Ms. Rudensky also had quite a few thrilling moments, as live a better life through hard work and effort, to give 'It was a time when relations were, while very positive she was able to reunite Americans with their long-lost fami­ your kids a real chance, acknowledged Ms. Rudensky, she between our two countries, very undefined. There were no lies. One heart-felt story concerns a Ukrainian who emi­ added that the Embassy must follow the laws of the set visa agreements, no procedure established for various grated during the second world war and spent the next 50 United States, and the laws as they are written require that other services, no model to follow," added Ms. Rudensky. years searching for his brother. When he finally got a lead bureaucrats look at the visa applicants worldwide as Soon after she was assigned to Kyyiv, Ukraine pro­ to his family, he enlisted the help of the consular section potential immigrants, until the applicants prove otherwise. claimed independence and the Soviet Union collapsed,—a and his local congressman in North Carolina. He requested move that forced the U.S. to redefine its role in this part of "In a country such as Ukraine at this point in time, that the consul invite his brother to the Embassy and ask his the worid. that is often very hard to do," noted Ms. Rudensky. brother three questions: what was his nickname for his After the August 1991 coup, the U.S. government But, she accentuates the positive, saying that for a six- brother, where did they go on vacation and what was Aunt upgraded its presence in Ukraine and received a new build­ month period from October of 1994 through March of Sonya' s favorite dessert. The correct answers positively ing, the Shevchenko Raion (district) Communist Party 1995, 12,365 applicants received visas, while 9,001 were identified the brother, and this led to a tearful, and happy headquarters, which was to serve as the U.S. Embassy. Ms. rejected. She offers some free advice to U.S. citizens reunion just a few weeks later. Rudensky recalls that when they started moving in, the new intending to invite Ukrainians to the United States: there U.S. officers found quite a bit of communist propaganda, Ms. Rudensky was also able to help the Americans is no requirement by law for any sort of invitation to Soviet memorabilia, including Stalin's complete works in who had been trapped in the Soviet Union for over 50 America, but the potential visitor should have a good job Ukrainian, Komsomol files, party membership cards, etc. years, the sons and daughters of Americans, who as very in Ukraine, one with which he can comfortably support devoted Communists in the 1930s, came to preach their "It's quite hilarious when you think about it, that during himself in Ukraine; show family ties, that is, a reason to the first days of woik at the embassy, the local militia were views in Ukraine, mostly in the eastern regions. When the come back home; and preferably have traveled some­ our guards. Hiey would let us into the building; we had no Iron Curtain came down, they were trapped and their chil­ where before and returned to Ukraine. badges, no Ш. cards, and sometimes we had to bang to get dren made a life for themselves in the Soviet Union. In She also says that students applying to colleges for in, since there were no phones, no doorbells. most of these cases, the children now in their 60s and 70s, undergraduate and graduate degrees also have a wide have gone to live in the United States. As the Embassy expanded, all that changed. Now, window of opportunity to study in the Untied States as with a staff of over 150 and three locations in the capital There have also been some sad moments also, for Ms. exchanges have become very popular. city, the U.S. Embassy is well-protected and secured, Rudensky, as the consul, has the painful responsibility of Ms. Rudensky, the eternal optimist, sees a bright eco­ complete with state-of-the-art equipment, and hand­ identifying the bodies of Americans —tourists and ex-patri- nomic future for Ukraine, noting that the push of some, rugged Marines, as well as a local mutt-mascot ates — who have died in Ukraine and notifying their next Western commerce has already started and its growth is guarding the premises around the clock. of kin. inevitable. She hopes that this, in turn, will have a ripple But, back in January of 1992, Ms. Rudensky recalls, She admits she has become more cynical in her effect on the people of Ukraine. the consular section of the Embassy didn't provide any work; less moved by some of the stories she comes As she concludes her final weeks in Kyyiv as the concrete services — not even visas, which Kyyiv start­ across at the interview window, where many people lie U.S. consul, she realizes that this is the end of a historic ed issuing only in August of that year. "All we could and cheat in order to get a visa to the United States — a era, one she thought she would never witness in her life­ provide was our time," she said. ticket, they are convinced, to a better life. time, moreover, in such a responsible position. That changed when Ambassador Roman Popadiuk, For her as a Ukrainian American, this has been par­ "I grew up knowing about this fascinating enemy and also a Ukrainian American, was named the U.S. envoy ticularly painful to watch. homeland all rolled into one, an emotional anchor, but to Ukraine. When he arrived in Kyyiv in June of 1992, "Sometimes it is very, very difficult to be a Ukrainian paradoxically, a safe anchor, which was part of my it took him but a few weeks to literally cut the umbilical American and do this job," said Ms. Rudensky, who hyphenated identity. I thought I could never actually make cord to Moscow, according to Ms. Rudensky. watches from the consular window as lines, often longer a commitment to it, like it had made a commitment to me. "He gets the credit for putting Ukraine in its own spot­ than the standard bread lines of the old Soviet days, form But, in late 1991, when the opportunity presented itself, I light," she said, adding that , soon after his arrival, the outside the Embassy complex. was very, very proud to be a Ukrainian American and Western perception of Ukraine began shifting away from "Almost every day a person, or a situation would present eager to work here." Moscow's prism. He began instituting policies, such as itself and the question was either verbalized or implied: Now, as she leaves, after more than three and a half issuing visas, and that gave Ukrainian citizens a sense of 'How can you, a Ukrainian, be enforcing American rules? years of service in Kyyiv, Ms. Rudensky is already pride. He also made Ukrainian and English the only two Aren't you in effect betraying your own people?' thinking she'll be back one day, with the U.S. govern­ official languages of the Embassy. "He, I think, correctly "And I have to be steadfast. My identity is Ukrainian ment — but not in the consular division. No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1995 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM Rhode Island/Southern Massachusetts UNA district marks jubilees by Andre Worobec Sarachmon introduced Mayor Lanctot, a good friend of the Ukrainian community in WOONSOCKET, R.I. - The UNA Woonsocket, who in his 30 years in politics District of Rhode Island and Southern has been a frequent participant in Ukrainian Massachusetts, most often referred to as the community events and celebrations. Woonsocket District, celebrated the 85th The mayor greeted Zaporozska Sicz anniversary of Zaporozska Sicz, UNA and the UNA on their anniversaries and Branch 206, and the 100th anniversary of presented to Branch 206 a citation that the Ukrainian National Association. officially proclaimed June 10, 1995, as The banquet and dinner dance took "Zaporozska Sicz Day" in Woonsocket. place at Woonsocket's Embassy Club He was followed by UNA President Restaurant on June 10. Diachuk, who gave an account of the The master of ceremonies and chairman UNA's many contributions to the of the event was Dmytro Sarachmon, presi­ Ukrainian community. She praised the dent of the organization. Other officers of Woonsocket and Southern Massachusetts the honored branch are Russell Hreczuk, Ukrainian community for their efforts to vice-president; Leon Hardink, financial preserve the Ukrainian heritage and their secretary (who is also the district chair­ active role in the community. man); and Eugene Teper, secretary. Guest She pointed to efforts by the Ukrainian speakers for the banquet were Francis L. National Home in Blackstone, Mass., which Lanctot, mayor of Woonsocket, and Ulana institutionalized annual scholarship awards Diachuk, UNA president. to UNA student members from this area. Entertainment featured the Odessa She also urged UNA members to recruit Woonsocket Call Ukrainian Dancers of Rhode Island, younger people and encourage them to play Woonsocket Mayor Francis Lanctot (left) with UNA President Ulana Diachuk, directed by Natalie Michaluk-Brennan, an active role in our organization. m and Alex Chudolij and his orchestra, who Dinner ended with a benediction, Leon Hardink and Dmytro Sarachmon. provided traditional music for dancing. while dancing continued into the Steven Herman, November 21, 1937; secretary; Branch 122, Taras Shevchenko Reporters from the Woonsocket Call, the evening. Nicholas Hladyk Jr., July 23, 1938; Peter Society — Stanley Wasylyk, president, local newspaper, were present. UNA secretaries from the district were Teper, October 20, 1940; John Hardink, and Michael Popowych, financial secre­ The banquet was preceded by a cock­ awarded desk clocks for 20 or more years July 20, 1941; and Eugene Teper, tary; Branch 177, Sister of Love Society, - tail hour and was followed by the Odessa of service, and plaques for less than 20 January 18, 1942. Helen Laba, president, and Mr. Laba, dancers. years of service. The Woonsocket District consists of the financial secretary; Branch 206, After an invocation and toast to For their many years as UNA mem­ following UNA branches: Branch 73, Zaporozska Sicz, - Mr. Sarachmon. presi­ Zaporozska Sicz and the Ukrainian bers the following seniors were cited as Taras Shevchenko Society headed by Alex dent, and Mr. Hardink, financial secretary; National Association on the occasion of honorary members: John Laba, member Psznowsky Jr., president, and Dmytro and Branch 241, Ivan Franko Society — their respective anniversaries, the guests since January 18, 1936; John Lisy and Wasylyk, financial secretary; Branch 93, Teodor Klowan, president, and Janet sat down to dinner. Steven Wecal, January 19, 1936; Ivan Franko Society, - Helen Trenkler, Bardell, financial secretary. After it was well under way Mr. Alexander Kokolski, January 17, 1937; president, and Michael Iwanycky, financial Zaporozska Sicz has existed since April 9, 1910. Its first officers were: Andrew Shwec, president, Peter Kuciarsky, vice- president, Theodore Magalas, secretary; UNA Seniors Association holds annual conferenceand Wasyl Turecky , treasurer. by Anna Chopek The nominating committee consisting of bought tickets for the raffle. The total The branch is proud of its service to the Anne Turchin, Ann Mellon and Myron received from these two activities plus community. It established a library in KERHONKSON, N.Y. - The 21st con­ Russnak submitted the following slate: Ms. donations amounted to $1,200. The 1912, containing works of great Ukrainian ference of the UNA Seniors Association Chopek, president; Mr. Slobodian, execu­ Donations Committee, composed of Mr. authors and poets, and founded a was held at Soyuzivka on June 11-16. tive vice-president; Sam Liteplo, vice-presi­ Woloshyn, Ms. Bobeczko and Irene Ukrainian language school. In 1916, it Activities were carried on in a relaxed and dent; Ms. Trenkler, Ukrainian secretary; Russnak, recommended that $600 each be organized a band, which gave numerous friendly atmosphere, and both the Ms. Orlan, English secretary; Olga sent to the Children of Chornobyl Relief concerts, marched in parades and won Ukrainian and English languages were Paproski, treasurer; Messrs. Bezkorowajny Fund, and the Ukrainian National Women's many trophies and prizes. It also organized used. A good time was had by all. and Prynada, controllers. Nominated as league of America fund for grandmothers a cooperative food store to provide assis­ On Sunday evening, Danylo and Anne regional representatives were: Ms. Paproski, in Ukraine. tance to members and other Ukrainiois. Slobodian hosted a wine and cheese party Connecticut; Anne Remick, New England; An exhibit and sale of photographs of During the Great Depression, 1933- outdoors on the Veselka deck. Perfect Maria Mandzij, New Jersey; Ms. Liteplo, numerous points of interest in Ukraine, 1935, its basketball team, which played weather, an orchestra playing old time New York City and vicinity; Irene Russnak, taken by the well-known Ukrainian pho­ in the YMCA league and throughout favorites, dancing, humorous stories, Rochester, N.Y., and area; Ms. Bobeczko, tographer Emile Jurchynsky of Rochester, New England and New York, won many renewal of friendships - all contributed to Ohio; and Eva Uzych, Pennsylvania. Also N.Y., took place during the conference. trophies for its sponsor and it co-sponsor a perfect beginning of a memorable week. on the board are Honorary Past President Proceeds of the sale were donated by Mr. St. Michael's Ukrainian Society. In all 117 UNA seniors registered for Stepan Kuropas, Honorary UNA Member Jurchynsky to The Ukrainian Museum in During World War II the branch par­ the conference. Stefania Baranowska and Ms. Chopek and Past President Mr. New York, Soyuzivka and the UNA ticipated in the U.S. War Bond Drive, Mary Bobeczko handled the registrations. Woloshyn. Seniors Conference. netting $52,000 in one day. Many branch On Monday morning, members par­ A brainstorming session on "Where A cocktail party, banquet and dance members served in wars and gave their ticipated in a liturgy at the Holy Trinity Do We Go From Here," conducted by ended the conference. Members wearing lives for their country. In 1950 the Ukrainian Catholic Church for deceased Ms. Chopek, brought forth an exchange Ukrainian shirts and blouses made for a col­ branch procured homes'for many UNA seniors. of ideas on future programs for the UNA orful evening. The speaker at the banquet Ukrainian immigrants from Europe During the week, sessions were held to a Seniors Conference. A lively session was an outstanding Ukrainian woman In the 1970s, thanks to Zaporozska minimum, from 10 a.m. to noon each day, regarding Ukraine and its problems, led activist, Iryna Kurowyckyj, president of the Sicz's activity, students were encouraged with a free day on Wednesday. President by Dr. Roman Baranowsky, brought National Council of Women of the U.S.A. to participate in Soyuzivka's cultural Eugene Woloshyn opened the conference courses; scholarships were established many participants into the discussion. and vice-president in charge of public rela­ with the singing of the national anthem. for college-bound students; and the orga­ The conference was honored by the visit tions for the UNWLA. Her talk, describing The program proceeded with the election nization of Ukrainians of Rhode Island of Ulana Diachuk, UNA president, who her work and the great work done by of Anna Chopek, conference chairperson, Heritage was formed. discussed problems involving Svoboda, Ukrainian women in the international rela­ Helen Trenkler, Ukrainian secretary, and To this day, the society presents many The Washington Office and the UNA tions area, was very well received. Alice Orlan, English secretary. events and cultural performances. headquarters building. A question and During the banquet, Mr. Slobodian Minutes of the 20th conference were Among the organization's prominent answer period followed. paid tribute to the late Dr. Moroz who read by Ms. Bobeczko, secretary. Reports members was the late John Kokolski, Afternoon and evening activities includ­ had died the previous year. Dr. Moroz were given by members of the executive ed line dancing; Ukrainian videos presented noted local activist, branch financial sec­ had attended many conferences, and had board: Mr. Woloshyn, president, Mr. by Yury Trenkler; bingo run by Nicholas retary and president, who also served as been available to the seniors for consulta­ Slobodian, executive president; John Laba, and Mary Bobeczko, and Helen and John supreme advisor and supreme treasurer tion on health matters. vice-president, Ms. Trenkler, Ukrainian Laba; an auction conducted by Mr. * * * of the UNA. secretary; Ms. Bobeczko; English secre­ Woloshyn, assisted by Estelle Woloshyn, The society celebrates its anniversary tary; the report of Regina Dziubaniuk, trea­ Ms. Orlan, Ann Polewchak and many oth­ The UNA Seniors Conference is usu­ every five years. It promotes activities surer, who was unable to attend because of ers; and a raffle conducted by Marie ally held the week before Father's Day in such as choral groups, dance ensembles, injuries due to an accident, was submitted Prucknicki, assisted by Nellie Yavarrow, June, but a definite date will be trips to the annual Garden State by Marie Prucknicki. Controllers Bohdan Olga Paproski, Eva Uzych and others. announced in The Ukrainian Weekly Ukrainian Festival, trips to Soyuzivka, Bezkorowajny, Bohdan Prynada and Not only did the UNA seniors donate the soon after the first of the year. A special and other tours. It contributes to charita­ Miroslawa Powch, reported that the trea­ articles with Ukrainian motifs for the auc­ rate is given to senior UNA members for ble functions, the youth league and chari­ surer's report was in order. tion, they had fun bidding on them, and then' accommodations at Soyuzivka. ties sponsored by the UNA. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1995 No. 32 NEWS AND VIEWS: Letter from Kharkiv THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY by Lubomyr Luciuk protesters lament the demise of the com­ munist regime which once nurtured them. Seven women sit behind the check-in Complaining about today's Ukraine, and Its loss will be felt counter of the Hotel Kharkiv. All avoid eye their place in it, they gathered in the very contact. Just-delivered chocolate bars and Seven years ago, on July 1, 1988, the Ukrainian National Association opened same Kharkiv square where thousands of Pepsodent are more enticing than US dol­ corpses from the politically-engineered its Washington Office, which was to serve as a liaison between Ukrainian lar-paying customers. At least the ladies Americans and U.S. government officials. Meant to give all Ukrainian Americans famine of 1932-1933 were once stacked put on a show. One nibbles at chocolate before being carted off and flung into mass a voice in Washington, the office was considered yet another fraternal service pro­ and sniffs her toothpaste. Mint chocolate vided by the UNA, which then saw itself as a leader of community life. graves. aficionado, perhaps? Or is it that you don't The bureau was seen as a two-way conduit of information. It prepared informa­ I went to one of those burial pits. A tion packets on Ukraine and Ukrainians, established contacts with members of have to brush your teeth if you take your childrens' playground now. Dozens of Congress and the administration, and kept Washington informed on issues of con­ toothpaste and treats together? I never do kids scrambling around in dirt impreg­ cern to Ukrainians. It served as an information service for the UNA's two newspa­ find out. She doesn't speak to me. When I nated with the blood and bones of pers, Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly, and through them informed readers finally hear her, singing praises to choco­ Stalinism's victims. I tried not to recoil about both domestic and foreign policy issues. It also worked with other Ukrainian late, she's chortling in Russian, which I in disgust. This generation, I remem­ organizations as well as other ethnic groups — most notably via the Central and don't understand. What I do know is that bered, does not know what happened East European Coalition, of which it was a founder and leading player. most Ukrainians this far east were here. Maybe even their parents don't. The office existed at a most exciting time for Ukraine and Ukrainians. It wit­ Russified in Soviet times. A lone wooden cross to the famine vic­ nessed the declaration of Ukraine's sovereignty, its proclamation of independence Can people like her ever return to the tims does exist, far removed from the and the disintegration of the USSR. It worked for U.S. diplomatic recognition of Ukrainian fold? (Assuming they want to. benches and the slides and the swings. Few Ukraine as an independent state and then, once the Embassy of Ukraine began oper­ It's difficult to predict. She's not interested people notice it. Even in independent ations in our nation's capital, it helped that fledgling office as it took its first steps as in politics or the new Ukraine. Like many Ukraine the schools don't teach students Ukraine's representation. Countless visitors from Ukraine — government ministers, others, she's self-interested, not nationally their country's past. History in the USSR Parliament deputies, democratic bloc activists — entered the UNA Washington conscious. Meanwhile, in neighboring was always used according to the needs of Office's doors knowing that the dedicated and talented staff inside would do its Russia, people like her are counted as the state. That hasn't changed. Ukraine's utmost to secure them entree to important government officials, policy-makers and members of a persecuted "ethnic Russian" past is still prostituted to the state's needs. opinion leaders. But the Washington Office's major accomplishment, according to minority. So, when U.S. President Bill Clinton visited its director for the duration, Eugene Iwanciw, was obtaining significant U.S. assis­ From Moscow's perspective that's con­ Kyyiv recently, he was not led to pay tance for Ukraine and, furthermore, having it earmarked for Ukraine. venient. The world press can be fed stories respects to the victims of Stalinism at the Unfortunately, the UNA was forced to take a long, hard looVat its expenses about how Russians are suffering discrimi­ killing fields of Bykivnia. Instead the and came up short. Closing the office was so sensitive a matter that it was the sole nation at Ukrainian hands. Yesterday's vil­ President and Hillary went to Babyn Yar, a issue at the UNA General Assembly's session decided via secret ballot. lains transformed into today's victims. mass grave for victims of Nazism. Very Apparently, the way most General Assembly members saw it, the UNA simply Presto. When you're out here you learn it's politically correct. Remembering the holo­ could not afford the $250,000 per year cost of the Washington Office. not true. You also know that Moscow's caust the communists wrought isn't. Not But, in all fairness, it must be noted that there were some misconceptions, too. men make their claims in order to turn yet. Foremost among them was the idea that the Washington Office cold be replaced world attention away, even if briefly, from Why? Have the Ukrainians forgotten by the Embassy of Ukraine. Some simply did not understand that the roles of an their butcher's boy work in Chechnya. their greatest persecutors? Don't those pen­ American lobby and a foreign diplomatic representation are completely different. Of course, the Kharkiv lady's indiffer­ sioners remember? After all, this was their Another misconception was that the UNA is merely an insurance company and ence to hotel customers is a reminder not past. In Kharkiv at least some of those I saw that things like funding a Washington Office (and, we suppose, by extension, pub­ only of how little the locals earn - "when were loyal minions of the Stalinist regime. lishing newspapers, running a resort, giving out student scholarships and donating you pay me in real money I will do real They remember. They thought their system to various Ukrainian causes) are not what an insurance company should do. work" is a popular saying - but that they would last forever. Bad call. Now their pen­ Persons who believe this forget that the UNA always was more than an insurance have deeply ingrained, Soviet-era notions sions are nearly worthless. They aren't company; that it is a fraternal organization that always had the interests of the about what "working" in the "service sec­ happy. Even so, they are better off than entire community, indeed, the entire Ukrainian nation, in mind. tor" entails. It means serve yourself, first those they butchered. Let the dead bury the As the UNA Washington Office closed its doors on July 31, it is only appro­ and foremost. Which was, and remains, a dead. That is what they would have us do. priate to give thanks to the office's stalwarts, Director Iwanciw and his admin­ cardinal rule. All others can queue. But can we agree with those in today's istrative assistant, Maria Lischak, as well as to those who served as assistant There are, it is true, exciting distractions Ukraine who want to focus only on the directors, John Kun, Adrian Karmazyn and Xenia Ponomarenko. Their work while you linger. Walking out of the hotel, here and now, who do not want the next was much appreciated, and it shall be sorely missed. I mixed with a rowdy bunch of pensioners, generation to learn what once was? As readers will recall upon reading the letters and column on the next page, many Red Army veterans, chests sagging For the former, any reminder of what there is another Ukrainian American office in Washington, the Ukrainian National with medals portraying Stalin, the great the Soviet system did to Ukraine - that is Information Service. So, there is some entity to carry on the work of a Ukrainian generalissimo. Hoisting banners proclaim­ what they did - must be kept buried. They American lobby. And, there is some talk of joining forces (but, to put it bluntly, ing undying allegiance to the now-defunct don't want to hear about the Great Famine. we've all heard that song before...). In the meantime, however, there's much work Soviet Union, to the "great Lenin," these They don't want to be reminded of the to be done now. Alas, we have just lost our most effective voice. Gulag. They haven't forgotten. After all it Lubomyr Luciuk is a professor of politi­was they who made, who were, the Terror. cal geography at the Royal Military In their "good old days." College of Canada in Kingston and is But if the younger generation does not August author of "Welcome To Absurdistan: learn that unhappy history, and who the Turning the pages back... Ukraine, the Soviet Disunion and the West" villains were, I doubt whether Ukraine 8 (Kashtan Press, 1995). has much of a future at all. Ukrainian Americans were not only emo­ Exactly a week after the signing of the Helsinki Accords, Rep. FCC rejects... tionally affected by watching the program Millicent Fenwick (R-N.J.), led an 18-member congressional dele­ (Continued from page 1) but that we were outwardly affected. One gation to the USSR. One of the stated aims of the mission was to example he gave was being called anti- meet with Ukrainian political prisoner Valentyn Moroz, whose plight was the focus of an that "persons of Ukrainian ancestry" was international campaign. too broad a group to be sufficiently iden­ Semitic by individuals at some time after tifiable as a legal person. In rejecting the the program appeared. The delegation arrived in Leningrad on August 8, 1975. Two days later, they met appeal, the FCC said it agreed with the with 18 Jewish dissidents in the lobby of the Moscow hotel where they were staying. * * * original decision and agreed that the CBS In related matters, Rep. Sander Levin (D- Afterwards, in a statement carried by The New York Times, Rep. Fenwick said: "To broadcast in question referred to persons know the pain of these people is very different from the abstract figures and abstract sto­ Mich.) joined his Michigan Democratic residing in Ukraine and not to Ukrainian counterpart, Rep. David Bonior, calling on ries we hear in the U.S." She added, "It is different to see and listen to women who have Americans. husbands in prison and are frightened, and men who haven't seen their children for years." the FCC to hold public hearings in the mat­ The UCCA is now preparing a petition On August 12, the congressional delegation held talks with members of the ter of the CBS "The Ugly Face of for reconsideration of the FCC rulings, but Supreme Soviet, and handed the latter a list of about 1,000 Ukrainians and Jews who Freedom" broadcast. In a July 13 letter to Askold Lozynskyj, president of the organi­ had been jailed and/or refused permission to emigrate. FCC Chairman Reed E. Hundt, Rep. Levin zation, is not very optimistic anything will said he was "so outraged," he spoke on the Rep. John Brademas (D-Ind.), a member of the contingent, warned the Soviets to change. "I'm not expecting to win it in the abide by the Helsinki Final Act, particularly with regard to its human-rights provi­ FCC, because they have pretty much made House floor to express his protest. He called sions, or risk straining relations with the U.S. up their minds," he said. "We have issues the CBS segment "highly irresponsible In typical style, the USSR's "parliamentarians" accused Rep. Fenwick of damaging we want to raise which we do not want pre­ broadcasting." U.S.-Soviet relations with her constant prodding about repression of human and civil rights. cluded at the Circuit Court appeal level." Also, the IBM Corp. has joined AT&T "It's an obsession with you, isn't it?" one exasperated official said. She averred that it was. He said that the UCCA is also preparing to in announcing that it will not advertise on Rep. Fenwick was denied permission to meet Mr. Moroz during that foray into the file an appeal with the Federal Circuit Court a "60 Minutes" broadcast that would rerun Soviet world, but the two crusaders met four years later, after Mr. Moroz was released of Appeals. "The Ugly Face of Freedom." Marianne to the U.S. along with four other dissidents. During Upsala College's commencement The UCCA is requesting that individuals Caponneto responded on July 11 to several ceremonies on May 25, 1979, Mr. Moroz received the Meritorious Award. Rep. who were "negatively impacted" by the air­ Ukrainian Americans who had written in Fenwick, who was the commencement speaker and recipient of an honorary doctor of ing of "The Ugly Face of Freedom" contact protest to IBM advertising on the pro­ laws degree, finally encountered the man whose cause she had championed. the Ukrainian National Information Service. gram, stating "that we will not be airing Source: The Ukrainian Weekly, August 16 and 23, 1975; June 3, 1979. Mr. Lozynskyj said, "We have to show that during a repeat of this program." No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1995

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

and the Ukrainian Embassy. faces and Places Community still has Significantly, over the course of the by Myron B. Kuropas seven years of the existence of the UNA a voice in Washington Washington Office, UNIS and the UNA Dear Editor: office have worked together in a cooper­ ative atmosphere. Through joint efforts We are saddened to hear that at the many important issues were coordinated recent UNA General Assembly meeting and successfully addressed. Gimme a break! it was decided to close the UNA I support the UNA office and believe Given the hue and cry over the UNA Where is the money for all these good Washington Office. Yet we must recog­ that the UNA should continue to main­ decision to close the Washington Office, works supposed to come from? nize that, despite protests by faithful tain its representation in Washington. At one would think that Batko Soyuz had Simply because the UNA has been UNA supporters, the decision was made the same time, I believe that advocates just shot Ukraine's ambassador. around for over 100 years doesn't mean it for good and sufficient reasons and will for the retention of the UNA office "A shortsighted decision," began one will always be around. Where are our not be reversed - the office has closed. should not engage in misrepresentations commentator who concluded her letter with young UNA "activists"? It's easy to rip off We all wish the UNA success as it grap­ or omissions. the ominous words: "The biggest threat to a letter claiming "outrage." But can any of ples with the budgetary issues that peri­ UNIS has been working in Washington the advancement of the Ukrainian commu­ these so-called activists do what their odically beset community institutions, for two decades, where it continues to suc­ nity is the Ukrainian community." elders did? When Svoboda was in danger large and small. cessfully defend and promote the rights "Ukraine's survival and its sovereign­ of becoming a weekly, the older genera­ Rather than bemoaning the decision, I and concerns of the Ukrainian American ty have always been our raison d'etre, tion, many of them on pensions and of lim­ believe we as concerned members of the community nationwide. It, too, deserves and today it requires our zealous, inex­ ited means, voted to more than double their Ukrainian community should address the the recognition and support of all haustible defense," another commentator own subscription rates. Are those who issue at hand: further support for the sole Ukrainian Americans. wrote. "By closing the Washington demand the UNA reverse its decision remaining Washington office, UNIS. Office, the UNA sends all the wrong sig­ regarding its Washington Office willing to One major incorrect assumption of the Borys Potapenko nals to Ukraine's friends and enemies." put their money where their mouth is? How recent letters is that by closing the UNA Warren, Mich. The closing of the UNA Washington about it? Raise $250,000 among yourselves office we will no longer have a represen­ Office "has long-term implications on the if you have the courage of your convic­ tative voice in the nation's capital. This effectiveness of Ukrainian representation in tions. If only 250 of you were willing to is far from the truth. The Ukrainian Don't forget about our nation's capital and on Ukraine's future donate $1,000 annually, you could save the National Information Service has been relationship with the United States," wrote office. Raise half that amount annually and representing the interests and concerns of the work of UNIS the president of the American Latvian As­ you'll find many on the UNA General the Ukrainian American community Dear Editor: sociation in a letter to our UNA president. Assembly who will support your demands. since 1977, before the UNA office Gimme a break! But where is it written that only the UNA opened its doors. The disappointment of those protest­ If our community's only reason for exis­ should subsidize an office in Washington? In recent years the congressional work ing the UNA office closing is readily tence is to help Ukraine, then we might as What about our credit unions, other frater- of UNIS has dovetailed harmoniously understandable. However, another office, well pack it in now. Many a Ukrainian nals, various Ukrainian professional, with that of the UNA; as a result UNIS the Ukrainian National Information leader - from Leonid Kravchuk to women's and youth organizations? Haven't has the experience and capacity to take Service, has been representing the com­ Oleksander Moroz - have told the diaspora they benefited from the UNA office? up where the UNA, regrettably, is leav­ munity in Washington since 1977, and in no uncertain terms, "cheer but don't Shouldn't they be willing to help out? ing off. its non-partisan efforts have done much interfere." They don't want our advice. Does shutting down the UNA In addition, there have been several to give Ukraine a respected place in the They want to see us, but not hear us. To Washington Office mean the end of efforts which UNIS has pursued inde­ world community. suggest that the people of Ukraine can't Ukrainian American lobbying efforts? pendently: a successful nationwide cam­ Concerning UNIS's successful cam­ handle themselves without our help is Hardly. Ukrainians in America have been paign to upgrade President Leonid paign to upgrade President Leonid insulting, the result of an exaggerated sense lobbying Washington long before the UNA Kuchma's 1994 visit to an official state Kuchma's visit to the U.S. to a state of our own importance. had an office there. Among many, many visit; a successful campaign to persuade visit, the Washington Times wrote on If the long-term relationship between lobbying accomplishments we can point to President Bill Clinton to upgrade his November 22, 1994: "The Ukrainian the United States and Ukraine is depen­ are: President Woodrow Wilson's procla­ visit to the Ukrainian capital in May Congress Committee of America swung dent on the UNA Washington Office, mation of April 21, 1917, as "Ukrainian 1995 and address the Ukrainian people into action in mid-October... Soon the then both Ukraine and America are in Day" in the United States, which resulted in from the grounds of the Shevchenko administration had changed its mind and even greater trouble than I thought. the collection of $200,000 for Ukrainian University; a major role in the effort to was repeating many of the same argu­ Don't get me wrong. As the only war relief; the Captive Nations proclama­ persuade Eximbank to open in Ukraine ments [the UCCA] made in urging that Ukrainian American who has worked in tion establishing the third week in July as an under favorable terms; successful grant the visit be upgraded." both the White House and the U.S. Senate, I annual condemnation of Muscovite imperi­ applications to U.S. AID for commercial During the 1994 elections in Ukraine, am intimately familiar with the importance alism; the monument to Taras Shevchenko law reform and televised civic education UNIS played a key role in the first U.S.- of ethnic lobbying in Washington. and the unveiling which brought some in Ukraine. based civic education program - produc­ Executive and convention minutes will 100,000 Ukrainians to Washington in 1964 The Ukrainian American community ing a manual and videotape on show that during the 12 years I served as and some 40,000 in 1976; two "Ukrainian is fortunate to have a voice in the Ukrainian elections law which were the UNA supreme vice-president, I was a Days" during which dozens of UNA'ers nation's capital, and should do every­ used throughout Ukraine, and organiz­ strong advocate of a UNA office, pointing visited their senators and congressmen and thing possible to assure that voice is ing U.S. dignitaries to travel there as out that Jews, Armenians, Poles, the Baits feted them at receptions in the capital; the heard. election monitors. In all, 40 UCCA and others had offices in Washington that Ukraine Famine Commission; activities Marko Suprun observers monitored Ukraine's elec­ were relatively effective. I was delighted by associated with the Myroslaw Medvid affair Astoria, N.Y. tions, making UNIS's coordination of the UNA decision to establish one in 1988. and numerous congressional resolutions observers a highly significant and his­ Nor do I have a problem with Eugene related to Ukrainian independence, the toric achievement. Iwanciw, a person I have lauded on these famine and other significant events in UCCA's D.C. office: Such accomplishments were in addi­ pages many times for his efforts on behalf Ukrainian history. tion to UNIS's efforts with the U.S. of our community. I have first-hand know­ Let's remember that Dr. Lev working for 18 years Congress, where UNIS has used its ledge of his work because, among other Dobriansky never had his. own formal nationwide influence to promote eco­ things, he was able to obtain funding for Dear Editor: office in Washington while he was work­ nomic aid to Ukraine, and with U.S. the continuation of the U.S. Commission ing with Congress. Nor did Andrew I would like to join those who have funding agencies such as the Eurasia on the Ukraine Famine, of which I was a Michniak who lobbied on behalf of written letters expressing their disap­ Foundation and the AID, which have public member during a critical time. Valentyn Moroz while working out of pointment over the decision of the UNA made significant grants to the UCCA in But that was then, and this is now. the Ukrainian Orthodox church basement to close its Washington Office. The response to UNIS's urging. Today we face new realities. The UNA in Washington. authors laid out many compelling rea­ Given the importance of U.S. assis­ can no longer afford to dish out $250,000 What is the answer? The best solution sons for retaining the office, with many tance, Ukraine's future could depend annually because our membership has is for the UCCA and the UACC to both of which I fully concur. upon the community's ability to support dropped from a high of 88,000 to less declare a victory in their 15-year war and However, what I cannot agree with is a representative office in Washington. than 62,000 today. I realize that this is to store their weapons. Neither organiza­ that some of the letters also stated or UNIS is that office and deserves the probably of little significance to our self- tion has benefited from the estrangement, implied that without the UNA office the community's unqualified support. proclaimed "activists," but it is a matter so let's get real. We can no longer afford Ukrainian American community would of grave concern to the UNA leadership the kind of segregation that requires two Patience T. Huntwork be left with no representation in the and to the various state insurance com­ Washington offices. We can begin the Phoenix, Ariz. nation's capital. missions that monitor our work. healing process by merging the staff of The Ukrainian National Information How many of the letter writers are UNA the UCCA's Washington office, the Service (UNIS), the Washington office The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes secretaries? How many know the names of Ukrainian National Information Service, of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of letters to the editor. Letters should be their UNA secretaries? How many are even and the UNA office. America, has been representing the inter­ typed (double-spaced) and signed; UNA members? How many realize that the Who knows, perhaps these develop­ ests of Ukrainian Americans for nearly they must be originals, not photo­ UNA has and continues to subsidize ments within the UNA are a wake-up call 20 years. To its credit, The Ukrainian copies. Svoboda, The Ukrainian Weekly, that will help restore the unity we once Weekly has carried reports on UNIS and The daytime phone number and Soyuzivka, annual almanacs, scholarships, enjoyed as an integrated community. It's its effective work on Capitol Hill, with address of the letter-writer must be books, concerts throughout the country and time to let Ukraine be Ukraine and to the president's~ administration, the media English language courses in Ukraine? start renewing ourselves. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6,1995 No. 32

Vancouver seminar promotes Ukraine as new market BOOK NOTES by Paulette MacQuarrie predecessor, Leonid Kravchuk. The best areas of opportunities for Despite the negative aspects to business are in technology transfer, pulp VANCOUVER - Almost overnight, Ukraine's legacy from the former Soviet and timber (and associated equipment), How-to handbook Ukraine has become one of the world's Union, particularly the burden of cleaning and consumer products and services, said hottest new markets, according to govern­ up after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, Ms. Bashuk Hepburn. ment officials and business professionals there are positives, said Mr. Onyschuk. Ukrainian workers are highly educated on doing business addressing a recent breakfast meeting at Prior to the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine and skilled, but are held back by outdated by Nestor Gula the Hotel Vancouver. The presentation was produced nearly 40 percent of the GDP, technology. Ukraine's national parks are one of a series of breakfast meetings across with a mere 17 percent of the population protected, so Ukraine currently leases TORONTO - Finally, the newly cre­ Canada organized by the Canada-Ukraine occupying only 2.7 percent of the land forests from Russia to harvest (part of the ated class of Ukrainian businesspersons Chamber of Commerce to promote busi­ area. That leaves Ukraine today with a bet­ lease condition is a commitment to refor­ can consult a reference book on the man­ ness opportunities for Canadian investors ter skilled work force (Ukraine has the estation). But by far the area with the most ners of conducting business. in Ukraine. highest per capita rate of engineers of any potential is consumer goods and services, Dr. Ann Sirka's business handbook "There are a number of Canadian gov­ country in the world), better machinery an industry and a concept incompatible "Doing Business with Americans and ernment initiatives aimed at working and more advanced technology. with the communist system. Canadians" is written in Ukrainian and with Canadian companies in Ukraine," Although production has declined since Some of the companies currently stak­ guides the reader through the intricacies of Ian Rutherford, trade commissioner for 1990, Ukraine remains in the top dozen ing a claim in Ukraine include Pepsico, productive business meetings, correspon­ British Columbia and the Yukon, told his countries in the world as far as output per Siemens, Boeing and Rockwell, Magna, dence, oral and non-verbal communication audience on May 12. These include capita in iron, steel, electricity, rolling Ault Foods, Seagrams, Teleglobe and business hospitality. There is a separate grants for feasibility studies and training stock, cement, shoes, fertilizer, meat and Canada, Northland Power, Canadian chapter for women in business, as well as a for mutually beneficial joint ventures. sugar. It has a space industry larger than Banknote Co., CAE, and increasing num­ chapter on negotiations and contracts. But Canadian investors should think that of France, and is still among the top bers of smaller investors. The appendices include 50 pages of about moving fast. The European Bank for five shipbuilding countries in the world. Canadian entrepreneurs and business sample business letters (in English) and Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Canada enjoys a very high - if not the professionals interested in taking advantage an example of a business proposal. has already approved $120 million (U.S.) highest - prestige among Western nations of the exciting opportunities in Ukraine are The book is based on research into for small business loans through a group of in Ukraine, said Mr. Rutherford. Canada welcome to join the Canada-Ukraine accepted standards of business behavior, Ukrainian banks, and investors and gov­ was the first country to recognize Ukraine's Chamber of Commerce, noted Roman as well as an analysis'of interpersonal ernments around the world are looking at independence in 1991, the first to extend an Herchak, vice-president for British business behavior emphasizing cultural Ukraine with growing interest. official line of credit, the first to lend assis­ Columbia. The organization offers support differences. "Any opportunity available today will tance through the G-7, the first country in the form of translation services, network­ Dr. Sirka has incorporated anecdotal be gone a year from now," said Mr. President Kuchma visited, and the first to ing opportunities, advice regarding accom­ data on U.S. and Canadian businesspeo- Rutherford. host an economic conference on Ukraine. modations and services in Ukraine, and ple doing business in Ukraine and Over the past nine months, economic And, of course, there are the strong social information tnat saves time, trouble and Ukrainian businesspersons attempting to reforms have progressed and there's no ties: 1 million Canadians (4 percent of even face. do business in the West. going back. Since his election to office Canada's population) trace their roots back The Canada-LIkraine Chamber of Dr. Marko Slusarczuk, co-author of sec­ in July of 1994, President Leonid to Ukraine. Commerce was formed in November of tions on "Capitalism, Value and its Many Kuchma (who was head of the former "Ukraine is interested in buying from 1993. The 26 founding members include Aspects," the "Business Meeting" and Soviet Union's largest missile factory, Canada first," said Oksana Bashuk prominent individuals such as Marc "What Makes a Contract," provides a busi­ the proverbial "rocket scientist") has rid Hepburn, president of U.Can Ukraine- Lalonde; Diane Francis, editor, The nessman's perspective to the reference the country of its nuclear arsenal inherit­ Canada Relations Inc., a brokering firm Financial Post; Frank Stronach, chairman, handbook. ed from the former Soviet Union, signed dedicated to the development of Canada- Magna International Inc.; Kevin Smith, A scientist, lawyer and entrepreneur, Dr. the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Ukraine relations. However, Canada could president, Seagram Canada; Arthur Slusarczuk has been vice-president and and pushed through reforms despite lose some of that prestige to other coun­ Sawchuk, president and CEO of Dupont general counsel of USP Holdings Inc., a opposition from conservative hold-overs tries, such as the United States and Canada; Gerald Fedchun, president, ITT corporation whose purpose is to identify from the old regime. In a very short Germany, who are now more willing to Canada Ltd.; and highly placed representa­ and commercialize technologies that have space of time, Mr. Kuchma has earned back up their moral support with dollars. tives of professional firms and corporations been developed at research institutes in respect and admiration abroad, and very As well, Ukrainian money, which had fled including the Canadian Imperial Bank of Ukraine. importantly, the trust of his own people. the country in the 1991-1994 period, is The target audience for "Doing Business "The population is now psychologi­ now starting to come back, she said. (Continued on page 16) with Americans and Canadians" is the cally prepared for reforms," said growing class of Western-style managers in Anatoliy Baluk, director of the Ukraine who now have to deal with Department of Foreign Economic Western businesses. Although the title sug­ Relations for the government of Ukraine. Helsinki Commission holds briefing gests that the book is focused on business Mr. Baluk went on to outline some of with North America, the lessons contained the changes that have already taken place, on trade and investment in NIS in this compendium are universal in scope. the most dramatic being the dropping infla­ It fills a void in Ukrainian business/eco­ tion rate. In January inflation was 23 per­ by Marta Kunasz business life and, therefore, Western nomic literature because there is no compa­ cent and by April had dropped to 7.5 per­ Ukrainian National Information Service investors depend on them, she noted. rable book, easy to understand and practi­ cent. By the end of 1995, inflation is "Business and government must work cal, in print at the present moment. WASHINGTON - The Commission on expected to be down dramatically from an together to stabilize our economy and the "Doing Business with Americans and Security and Cooperation in Europe astonishing 10,000 percent in 1993. world's economy," said Ms. Peterson. At Canadians" dispels many myths of con­ (Helsinki Commission) held a briefings on the economic forum in Prague, the repre­ ducting business and underlines the So far this year, the GDP is up by 5 per­ "Trade and Investment in Central and East sentatives of 10 nations attending signed a amount of work it really takes to preside cent, a drastic change from the 4-5 percent Europe and the NIS." The panelists, statement recognizing the interdependence over a successful business. drops of the past few years. (Meanwhile, including Assistant Secretary of of the private and government sectors. "Doing Business with Americans and Russia's GDP has suffered a 9 percent Commerce for International Economic Canadians" is available for delivery to drop so far this year.) The Ukrainian Policy Charles F. Meissner, spoke about On the home front, Ms. Peterson spoke Ukraine, Canada and the U.S. Make Parliament has approved a tough govern­ the need to develop better market relations about her difficulties as a small business checks ($15 per copy includes shipping ment budget with a deficit target of 3.3 between the U.S. and emerging democra­ owner in receiving funding from the U.S. and handling, as well as tax) payable to: percent of the GDP by the end of 1995. cies of former Soviet bloc countries. government. Most grants are for much more money than a smaller business will Ann Sirka, 802-151 La Rose, Weston, "These figures are all the more astound­ Mr. Meissner, who is also a member apply for, which excludes them from avail­ Ontario, M9P 1B3; (416) 614-1783. ing because Ukraine does not enjoy the of the Helsinki Commission, had recently advantages of countries such as Poland returned from an economic forum in able government monies. She was told the and Hungary, who had been Western mar­ Prague, Czech Republic. The focus of the reason small- and medium-size businesses ket economies and countries in their own forum was regional cooperation in trade, rarely get grants is because it is too costly right prior to World War II," said Bob investment and infrastructure. to administer many small grants, as Onyschuk; president of the Canada- Assistant Secretary Meissner said the opposed to administering a few large ones. Ukraine Chamber of Commerce and a key to sustained, long-term economic So, the U.S. government advertises senior partner at Smith, Lyons, Torrance, growth is private sector investment in that $20 million is available, and rather Stephenson, Mayer of Toronto. those countries, and increased trade with than accepting several $500,000 applica­ Like the rest of the former Soviet Union, the West. "The private sector" he stated, tions, it accepts two $10 million applica­ Ukraine (particularly the eastern region) has "brings in capital, technology and market tions. Ms. Peterson added that those who a faint concept of what constitutes a free skill," which are particularly important to do get the grants then turn to her because market system. Some think it's a "free-for- these developing countries. they are having difficulties finding use all" system, he said, and consequently, of The second panelist to speak was for such a large sum of money. those former Soviet republics considered Hariette Peterson, founder and president In conclusion, Mr. Meissner said this "most likely to succeed" after the collapse of Cornerstone In:ernational Group. Ms. is an unfortunate problem because most of the USSR, Ukraine had dropped from Peterson spoke about her business in the entrepreneurial talent is in the area of first to last place under President Kuchma's NIS and what those countries still need to small and medium business and it is criti­ do to attract Western investors, including cal to have an opportunity to work with Paullette MacQuarrie is vice-president the need for stability and the opportunity small and medium businesses in the of the British Columbia Provincial Council to make a fair profit. Government offi­ countries of Central and Eastern Europe of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee. cials have control over many aspects of and,the new independent states, . No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6,1995 INTERVIEW: Peter Jacyk, patron of Ukrainian education by Andriy Wynnyckyj The "Entsyklopedia Ukrainoznavtsva" (Encyclopedia Toronto Press Bureau of Ukrainian Studies, 10 volumes) project based in Sarcelles, France - not only was I its leading supporter, Outspoken and blunt, Peter Jacyk is not a self-effacing I also fund-raised for them. patron. One of his most-often-voiced complaints is that I funded the publication of Prof. [Maria] Dejko's Ukrainians fail to give due recognition to those who give. reader for children, [John] Kolasky's book that divided However, if Mr. Jacyk's name has a limited currency the Communist Party ["Education in Soviet Ukraine," (to his taste) in the community as a whole, it is certainly 1968], Paul Yuzyk's book, "Ukrainian Canadians." visible in the academic world. Thanks to his largesse, In Sen. Yuzyk's book it was proven that 500,000 Ukrain­ there is a Peter Jacyk Center for Historical Research at ians contributed more to the cultivation of Canada's prairies the University of Alberta; a Peter Jacyk lectureship in than 5 million English or French Canadians. This was statis­ Ukrainian studies at the School of Slavonic Studies at tically proven, demonstrated before government, and has the University of London, England; and a Peter Jacyk since given us standing among the people of this country. Information Center at the University of Toronto's And this was a book [Sen. Yuzyk] had difficulty publish­ Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies. ing. If it hadn't been for me, he would have never published Mr. Jacyk has also made significant contributions that it. There was a meeting of a businessmen's and profession­ have ensured the survival and development of Ukrainian als, group, and people were dragging their feet. "Why pub­ bibliographic studies at Harvard, and for the purchase of lish another book?" they said. "We have stacks of books in a large microfilm collection of Ukrainian periodicals at our basements. Nobody will ever read this stuff," they said. the University of Toronto Robarts Library. So I told them, "Look people, why don't we give it a In total, Mr. Jacyk has given over $4 million to vari­ chance? At least read the manuscript." I read it, phoned ous institutions of Ukrainian publishing, research and Yuzyk and told him, "All right, I'll pay for publication, but scholarship in Europe and North America. then all the proceeds from the sale of the book go to me." Mr. Jacyk was contacted on July 18 by telephone at the That shamed them all a little when they found out. Some­ headquarters of his industrial land development firm, how they all put together about $1,500 and published it. P rombank Investment Ltd. in Toronto. It also serves as Let's not go overboard. I didn't have all that much base of the Peter Jacyk Educational Foundation. published, but I did support a number of things that have Peter Jacyk (This interview was translated from Ukrainian.) proven very valuable for the Ukrainian cause. Let me begin by saying that Ukrainians are often said Are there really so few major Ukrainian patrons Other than that, what have they done? of education? to have an inferiority complex. The problem is that But even present-day Ukrainian officials compli­ many Ukrainians have one because it is justified, that is, People like me are exceptions. But there are reasons ment the diaspora for having preserved its language they are somewhat lacking. for this. First of all, we're poor. Secondly, our priorities and identity, and the support for institutions such as Perhaps the best way to overcome this is to better are skewed. Take the case of [Toronto-based lawyer Ihor] the new embassies and ... themselves in a field which the world considers to have Bardyn. When he became president of the businessmen's This was done by Ukrainians, not by Ukrainian groups the highest value: education. association, he changed the charter and the name of the Not education of children, and the basic instruction of or organizations. Ukrainians, not groups of Ukrainians. organization to "Professional and Business Association." For 40 years they've collected money for their vari­ reading and writing as we have done to date, but higher Even though he was raised in a capitalist society, he is still education, at the university level. ous parties in the name of Ukraine. But who has pub­ apparently a product of the Ukrainian environment. lished a single important work, in the name of Ukraine, What is the best way for Ukrainians to rise above He puts professionals ahead of business. In this capitalist a single book? world, business is first. He still didn't understand this, even this "Prosvita" mode of education? Who was it who supported the work of the Encyclopedia though he was raised here and has a higher education. Through work. Work at self-improvement. Also, parents of Ukraine? Of the Ukrainian Institute at Harvard? The We don't have many people that are that wealthy. We must insist that their children get as much education as pos­ translation [into English] of Mykhailo Hrushevsky's don't think that way. sible, and monitor what courses of study they follow. "Istoria" (History). Ukrainians, not Ukrainian organizations. Show me one company Ukrainians control or own at Our children, even my own, have taken subjects like psy­ The Shevchenko Scientific Society tried to take on the level of General Electric. Show me a company on chology. Practical people have their children enter fields the translation of Hrushevsky and where did that get the level of a corporation such as East Woodbridge, in like medicine, law, architecture, accounting - concrete them? Nowhere. Who's getting it done? Peter Jacyk. which about 2,000 Italian shareholders work together things. This is an area where we are absolutely behind. So please don't measure me according to any and have development projects numbering into the bil­ Ukrainian yardstick, by yardsticks used by Banderites, Why have you chosen Ukrainian studies at the uni­ lions of dollars. Not millions, billions. Melnykites and all the others. I don't wish to be includ­ versity level as the focus of your largesse? Given what In the first place, our history has affected us. We only ed in any such categories. you've just said, would it not have made sense to focus took examples from the poor. We disparage wealth. on business administration, or some "practical" field? Ukrainians have always disparaged wealth. I know this How are you different from that kind of Ukrainian? from personal experience. Everything in life has its reason. When I began to sup­ I'm a Ukrainian, and those people are party members. You always hear people say, "He's got money, let port Ukrainian studies, the discipline was virtually non-exis­ That's the difference. I'm a Ukrainian, and they're peo­ him give." But nobody considers how much I worked. tent here. I wanted to see such studies established, and for ple who live in groups. How much I learned, how many sleepless nights I spent them to be conducted on the same high level as other fields. in order to learn, how wet I got, how cold, how many Do you think that more people will begin following I could have set up my own medical or physics labo­ unpleasant things had to be endured in order to earn this your example with respect to patronage, or will this ratories, but that would not have been practical, because money, nobody takes this into account. always be the domain of exceptions? Will Ukrainians these things can be studied at existing institutions, with Once you earn the money, nobody shows any appre­ mature in this respect? the use of other languages. ciation. There was also the special consideration of the Soviet Well, you've cast your net fairly wide there. Will regime's teaching of history. Everything was taught I'm in a good position to make such an assessment, Ukrainians mature? If they haven't matured in a thou­ from the perspective of [the Revolution of] 1917. Most and let me tell you why. When I make donations to sand years, they probably won't in the course of one features of Ukrainian history were obscured or obliterat­ strengthen Ukrainian studies, I enrich institutions such man's lifetime. ed. They destroyed artifacts, burned libraries. as Harvard, Columbia or the University of London, or There have been patrons like Yevhen Chykalenko, Long ago, when nobody thought there would be an Alberta or Toronto. I get much more recognition for my but who knows about them? There have been others like independent Ukraine, I said, "What they destroy over contribution to the general good from non-Ukrainians Metropolitan [Andrey] Sheptytsky, like [Hetman Ivan] there, we'll rebuild here." than from Ukrainians. Mazepa. But they were exceptions, and such people will However, now that there is a Ukrainian state, I was What does this mean? Simply, that Ukrainians are continue to be for some time. the first one to have published a Ukrainian guide to incapable of appreciating this kind of contribution. Then again, I do believe that if you sow good grain, in Western universities. This guide has been widely dis­ Nobody ever gave money for nothing, and when the good earth, in a good climate, you'll get a good result. tributed in Kyyiv and the rest of Ukraine. community is miserly with even the slightest "thank For example, the book that Mykhailo Slaboshpytsky I paid Ukrainian students' fees for TOFFL, GRE, you," then obviously people are going to give less. wrote about me, "Ukrainets, Yakyi Vidmovyvsia Buty GMAT and other qualifying exams. And when they passed I've observed how the University of Toronto grooms Bidnym," (The Ukrainian Who Refused to be Poor, 1993) these tests., they've used the guide to Western universities and pampers those who can help them. Ukrainians don't was published in Ukraine and is selling well there. even understand this. and are now able to go out into the world to study. You mentioned the right climate for success. Is Just last week, I received a letter from a man who'd Why don't Ukrainians show this appreciation? North America, Canada, a better climate for been accepted, with a $14,000 scholarship, by the Ukrainians? University of Alberta to study computers or physics. But In part because our approach to life is completely he couldn't pay his way over, so he asked me to help him. impractical, and in part because Ukrainians are so divided In my book, I've tried to pinpoint those elements of I keep track of such requests, evaluate them, and help into little groups. Of course, our enemies have always our national culture that are unrealistic and impractical. where I can and believe it's necessary. So now I've helped foster these divisions, but look at all of our little Take the national anthem for instance, "our enemies will moved on to support higher education as a whole, in groups, Catholic, Orthodox, Banderite, Melnykite, what perish like the dew." No need to fight, they'll just all addition to Ukrainian studies. Before, this would not have you. So in the end, when an individual stays in his lit­ fade away, and we'll be able to rule. have been practical. tle camp and supports those in it, support for the Ukrainian What incredible self-delusion! And there are count­ cause in general is fragmented, or ineffectual. less songs like this. They demonstrate that we often live How long has your Educational Foundation been We complain about our enemies, but actually, we're the in the realm of pious wishes. operating? ones to blame. Our groups don't support things Ukrainian. In the Western capitalist world, which is more solidly Since 1986. But as an individual, I've funded things Take any group in Toronto, any group at all, what have grounded on material concerns, on dollars and cents, things for a very long time now. I'm one of the leading sup­ they accomplished? Other than help preserve Ukrainian are much more realistic. As a result, I think that Western porters of Ukrainian studies at Harvard University. identity, of course. culture is much more practical than that of the East. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1995 No. 32 12-year-olds "401 Goofy Jokes" encourages global unity " 'Mickey, tell me honestly, who wrote for Kids," a book translated and edited by been established to take orders. this report for you?' asked a teacher. 12-year-old, freckle-faced Mark Semotiuk Mark, who is fluent in Ukrainian, started 'Honestly, I don't know! I went to bed of Edmonton. the book project two years ago as part of a early.' " On July 27, the Ukrainian Canadian pre­ Grade 6 Junior Achievement business pro­ — Tamara Soldatenko sented the book to the United Nations at a ject at St. Martin's elementary school in by Christopher Guly news conference, at the invitation of Edmonton. He placed an ad in a Ukrainian Canada's Permanent Mission to the U.N., newspaper inviting kids to send him jokes. OTTAWA - Need a laugh? How's and in cooperation with the American and The budding publisher received more this? "A lady was visiting her friend. Ukrainian missions to the assembly. That's than 2,000 from Ukraine, the United States During supper the hostess asked, 'Don't after he attended the National Speakers and Canada, which he and dad waded you like your food?' 'Yes, everything is Association convention in Minneapolis. through and translated to come up with the great. But why is your dog staring at Media moguls, after all, have busy final 401. Joke authors received $1 for me?' 'Don't pay attention to him. He schedules, and tend to attract attention. their wit. "401 Goofy Jokes for Kids" is always stares like that when somebody is "Some people saw Mark on the television divided into 16 children-related categories, eating out of his bowl.' " program, 'Kontakt,' in New York City, including parents, school, pets and friends. That comedic turn, written by a and decided to call a news conference pro­ Mark told The Edmonton Journal last Ukrainian boy, Ihor Chyzhuk, is among a moting the book," explains Mark's father, November that his initial foray into pub­ collection featured in "401 Goofy Jokes Andriy, a lawyer in Edmonton, who pub­ lishing made him "happy to be giving lished his son's literary achievement. back to the community." That communi­ Pushing the joke book is a way ty might want to keep an eye on this Canada's Mission to the U.N. will encour­ young entrepreneur. Contrihati by vmtdtu'H fwm ifw age global children's unity through laugh­ The same newspaper recently detailed ter. But, for the often staid world assembly, perhaps Mark's next pursuit. Maybe a ski it also comes with a serious turn. As resort...which, of course, requires a Мшк ЯтШх&к Alberta Report described it, the book pre­ mountain. sents "goofy jokes for a good cause." Don't worry. Mark knows how much it Proceeds from the sale of Mark's will cost. After discussing the issue with global hub initially made him nervous, he book, of which 10,000 copies were print­ his father, he picked up the phone and says he has now "calmed down." ed, will go toward the Children of called Disney. "First of all, it's $300,000 to Besides, he need not worry. Apart from Chornobyl project, Ukrainian-English get a person to scout out a mountain," peddling his publications, dad is an experi­ bilingual schools in western Canada and Mark told The Journal. "Then it's $3 mil­ enced coach when it comes to the United the non-profit educational group, Junior lion for the mountain. We still have to get Nations. Two decades ago, Mr. Semotiuk Achievement in Canada. the lifts in, the condos in, all the various set up the WCFU Human Rights Office in Copies sell for $4.95, plus $2.50 for services in - that kind of stuff." New York, which was located near the shipping and handling, in both Canada Yet, given the international summit he United Nations. His role was to raise and the United States, and Mr. Semotiuk is climbing at the U.N., it appears that human right issues with delegates to the says that a special toll-free telephone there ain't no mountain high enough for U.N. and to work toward non-governmen­ number, 1-800-HA-HA-FUN (1-800- Mark. Although the Grade 8 student tal organization status for the WCFU Mark Semotiuk 424-2386), based in his law office, has admits traveling to New York City's Human Rights Commission. Plast camp honors benefactors with tree-planting ceremonies by Yarema A. Bachynsky sports field at the site's center. The commemorative pro­ York branch, soon turned its attention to the material and gram commenced with a speech by George Huk, head of financial needs of the Wolfs Trek site. Over the years, the EAST CHATHAM, N.Y. — The Plast Ukrainian the camp administrative board. Mr. Huk directed his words foundation has donated many thousands of dollars to youth organization Wolfs Trek Camp honored some of to the memory of the late Rev. Bohdan Smyk, longtime Wolfs Trek and the administrative board of the camp. its longtime supporters and benefactors with a tree- chaplain of Plast, who passed away the previous year. At the dedication, foundation President Bohdan planting ceremony held at the upstate New York com­ The first of the two young oaks was dedicated to Rev. Mychajliw recalled the time, effort and energy put in by pound on Sunday, July 23. Smyk, who had worked tirelessly in support of the such past and present members as Petro Darmohraj, This year marks the Wolf Trek's (Vovcha Tropa) Wolfs Trek campsite, serving as chaplain to Ukrainian Bohdan Sobolta, Mychajlo Sawicky, Andrew Camp's 41st season hosting summer camps for members Catholic campers since the early days of the site's oper­ Lastowecky and Bohdan Kuzyszyn. Also cited for their of Plast. The fete was part of the annual "Den Plastuna" ation. Echoing Mr. Huk's words, the Rev. Kashchak many years of work on behalf of the Wolf's Trek Camp festivities, when parents and visitors are treated to artis­ recounted the Rev. Smyk's spiritual guidance and stead­ were Dmytro and Stefania Kosowych, longtime Plast tic programs reflecting the themes of the four camps and fast strength of character. supporters from New York City. presented by the campers. The second oak tree was dedicated to the members of In his brief remarks Mr. Mychajliw recounted some Following a liturgy celebrated by the Rev. Ivan the Plast Foundation of New York City. The group, found­ of the foundation's achievements vis-a-vis the Wolf's Kashchak, campers, parents and guests moved to the large ed in December 1963 to support the needs of the New Trek site and noted that the foundation stands ready to continue lending financial assistance as may be neces­ sary. In Mr. Mychajliw's view, the younger generations are doing a good job in continuing the endeavor initiated by those who established the camp. After concluding his remarks, Mr. Mychajliw presented a $5,000 check from the Plast foundation to Wolf's Trek. The commemoration concluded with the blessing of the young oaks by the Rev. Kashchak, and a parade of campers past the assembled representatives of the National Plast Command of the U.S.A., head counselors and special guests. The rest of the day was spent by campers and parents alike just relaxing as they saw fit. Taking advantage of the sunny weather and generally upbeat mood of those present, this writer spoke with a few of them about their impressions of the Wolf s Trek and its program. Mr. Huk of Clifton, N.J., head of the Wolfs Trek administrative board, remarked: "This year's camps are the best-run camps I have seen in my eight years up here." According to Mr. Huk, the over-all preparation of the site, combined with superb counselor cooperation, were resulting in a great time for all. Steve Kowaliw of Pleasantville, N.Y., of the "Kontakt" Ukrainian television program, whose daugh­ ter was participating in the camp, said the campsite seemed well prepared and that, all in all, "Things look pretty good around here." Yaryna Ferencevych of Jersey City, N.J., assistant head counselor at the camp for "novachky" (younger girls), noted the outstanding caliber of this year's coun­ selors, their willingness to put aside personal time for the good of the program. Ms. Ferencevych also praised The Rev. Ivan Kashchak blesses a young oak in memory of the Rev. Bohdan Smyk. (Continued on page 13) No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6,1995

Canadian-turned-Briton plays Canadian Open Rusedski comes by Christopher Guly Canadian, and especially Quebec-based reporters, want­ ed to know why he did it. "I understand some people in OTTAWA - Greg Rusedski, the 21-year-old, over 6- Canada were upset, and I'm sorry," Mr. Rusedski home to boos foot-3-inch Ukrainian Canadian-turned-Ukrainian Briton explained. "It was a spontaneous gesture, and I didn't think tennis player has become anathema in the country of his about how it would upset some people. The flag was given by Christopher Guly birth. In May, Mr. Rusedski, whose paternal grandparents to me by a journalist [from the Sun newspaper]. It's not OTTAWA - He came, they booed. But that was emigrated to Canada from Ukraine (they live in like I planned it. I didn't bring it on the court with me. If I Montreal), received permission from the International what Greg Rusedski expected anyway. offended people in Canada or Quebec, I'm sorry." Although the 21-year-old former Montrealer of Tennis Federation to defect from Canada and play for Still, Mr. Rusedski, who recognized that "the people Britain. Ukrainian descent won his doubles match with part­ of Canada have been very good to me," insisted that he ner, Kenyan Paul Wekesa, with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 against The tennis star, ranked 60th in the world when he was now a Brit. "I still feel partly Canadian," he offered. made the switch, obtained a British passport because his Canadians Sebastien Lareau and Sebastien Leblanc, mother, Helen, was born there, in Yorkshire. The Ukrainian connection Mr. Rusedski succumbed to 22-year-old American Having shone at Wimbledon, before falling to eventual Michael Joyce in their July 25 encounter at the du But not much Ukrainian, it seemed. Six years ago, Mr. champion, Pete Sampras, the four-year pro's appearance at Maurier Ltd. Canadian Open men's tennis champi­ Rusedski played his last Soyuzivka tournament in upstate the Canadian Open was expected to be a barn-burner. onship in Montreal. New York. Earlier this year, the left-handed Mr. Rusedski, now ranked As he recently told Maclean's, Canada's weekly Zenon Snylyk, editor-in-chief of Svoboda, remembers 50th, had set a tour record with a 137 m.p.h. service. newsmagazine, "I'll probably get booed out of the 14-15 year-old Mr. Rusedski playing at the annual tour­ Three years ago, Mr. Rusedski, while still a existence. But it should be entertaining." nament of the Ukrainian Sports Federation of the United Jarry Tennis Stadium was not Center Court at Canadian, had advanced to the third round at the du States and Canada in Kerhonkson, N.Y., in 1988 and 1989. Maurier LTD Canadian Open men's tennis champi­ Wimbledon, where, weeks before, Mr. Rusedski Both times, Mr. Rusedski lost in the semifinals, a result of a shone before losing to the eventual champion, onships before losing to American Andre Agassi, who recurring problem, said Mr. Snylyk, who admits he would also took last year's singles title. In 1993 and 1994, Mr. American Peter Sampras. like to see the British boy-wonder take on Ukraine's top- Mr. Rusedski's weak backhand was no match for Rusedski's showing improved, placing him in the sec­ ranked Andrei Medvedev. "He hurries all the time," he ond and first rounds, respectively. Mr. Joyce, ranked 91st on the Association of Tennis explains, "and doesn't give himself time between serves. Professionals' list, who beat the former Canadian, Facing hostility in the media Boom, boom, boom, he's like Steffi Graff." ranked 50th, in straight sets, 7-6 (7-2), 6-3. When asked whether his son plans to become more But if crowd support is any indication. Mr. Even before the Canadian Open, Mr. Rusedski entered involved in the Ukrainian community in the future, Mr. Rusedski had more to deal with than Mr. Joyce's a July 23 news pre-tournament conference at Montreal's Rusedski shrugged and shook his head, "I don't think upper hand. Jarry Tennis Stadium, the reception was vitriolic. In a so." Added his father, "Greg just doesn't have the time." No sooner did he set foot in Jarry, the now- July 4 letter to the editor in the city's French-language British tennis player was greeted with a chorus of daily newspaper, La Presse, Dr. Michel Bechard suggest­ Top-dog in British tennis boos, and the familiar chant, "na-na-na-na, good­ ed that Mr. Rusedski's former Canadian junior teammate, The toothy-grinned Mr. Rusedski has become top dog in bye," after he lost his first-round match. A court- Sebastian Lareau of Quebec - who has also been critical Britain's tennis world. Never mind that the Pointe-Claire, side banner read, "Rusedski: Le Fou De La Reine," of Mr. Rusedski's decision to play for Britain - could Quebec, native failed to advance at the prestigious tourna­ or "Rusedski: The Queen's Pawn." have also played across the Atlantic. ment - in which a Brit last captured the men's title in 1936 Two days before the match, Mr. Rusedski told Dr. Bechard wrote that Mr. Lareau could have changed - most of England is agog with the ethnic Ukrainian wun- reporters at a pre-tournament news conference that he his name to "Larrow," and added that Lareau — and per­ derkind. hoped Montrealers would welcome him home. They haps not a Rusedski — is "unvrai Quebecois, issue de par­ "For an evening at least, the left-hander bom in Canada did not. However, he appeared undaunted. At a ents Quebecois" (a real Quebecker, born to Quebec par­ 21 years ago was happily accepted as being British through post-match news conference, he told journalists, "It ents). and through," declared The Times after Mr. Rusedski's didn't bother me at all. I was kind of expecting it." With that preamble, by the time the tennis player June 27 defeat of No. 16-seed, France's Guy Forget - who Mr. Rusedski claimed the less-than-warm home­ faced the sensation-seeking media pack prior to the start twice beat Brit Jeremy Bates in the past three years. 'The coming did not affect his game. "I had fun," he said. of this year's tennis championships, Mr. Rusedski was controversy over [Rusedski's] changed allegiance melted in "How often do you see that much excitement at a prepared. the burning sunshine..." tennis tournament?" Several times throughout the 25-minute question-and- For the Daily Express, Mr. Rusedski, now ranked During the match with Mr. Joyce, who played dou­ answer session, this year's Korea Open winner was asked 50th, "was their new ace guy!" bles with Mr. Rusedski in the 12-and-under category, about his jump across the pond. Each time, whether he For The Independent, he "is the darling of Center the Surrey-based expatriate Canadian had 14 aces, answered in French or English, Ms answer was almost the Court, truly Greg Briton - at least for the moment." including one that equalled his year's fastest at 137 same. Indeed, Mr. Rusedski's former Canadian associates miles an hour. Although he had 22 unforced errors off "I made the decision for myself, it was a lifestyle deci­ probably wonder how long those moments will last for his backhand in the match, Mr. Rusedski saved a dou­ sion," he said. "I don't think I was a traitor." Again, Mr. the expatriate tennis player. They cannot help but rue ble break point to tie the opening set at 5-5. But, by Rusdeski emphasized that his mother holds British citizen­ the day that Canada missed the opportunity of having the third game of the second set, Mr. Joyce took over. ship and his girlfriend, actress Lucy Connor, lives there. one of their own guys perform as well at Wimbledon. The Montreal crowd loved it, and cheered the Although Canada's Financial Post recently reported Frank Tutvin, who made it to the third round, was the American on, which left him somewhat perplexed. that he is in line for British promotional deals worth last to shine there in 1967. "I wasn't sure if I should wave to the crowd close to $2 million, Mr. Rusedski laughed, "If that's because they [were not] cheering for me," Mr. true, maybe I should ask [my father] where my cut is." Financial motives cited Joyce told reporters. "They were cheering because So far, the 1991 Wimbledon Junior doubles title holder Instead, the anti-Rusedski vitriol from his one-time asso­ he's Public Enemy No. 1." has won more than $460,000 in prize money. ciates is palpable. In a recent issue of Canada's weekly But Mr. Joyce, who made it to the fourth round at Having advanced to the round of 16 at Wimbledon just newsmagazine, Maclean's, Mr. Rusedski's former coach, Wimbledon earlier this month, said that despite Mr. weeks earlier, Mr. Rusedski's meteoric rise in Britain's Louis Cayer, said he believed that his one-time protege "left Rusedski's frosty welcome back in Canada, his grin­ sports circles has been eclipsed back home in Canada — for financial reasons, and a lot of people are bitter about ning opponent made the right decision to play the especially when the athlete was seen on millions of tele­ that." vision sets across the world parading around with a Union (Continued on page 19) Jack, which he had earlier worn as a bandanna. (Continued on page 19)

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He left Horowitz and violinist David Oistrakh. The behind his wife, Chrystia (Wolynec); chil­ Lviv Conservatory is proud to claim com­ dren, Marko and Marusia of Arlington, and poser Myroslaw Skoryk, pianist Emmanuel Bohdan of Greenville, S.C., and brother, Ax and violinist Oleh Krysa as its own. Dr. Dior Sonevytsky of New York;. Mr. Sonevytsky began his music educa­ Mr. Sonevytsky, a Columbia University tion at the Mykola Lysenko Conservatory graduate in economics, worked for the in Lviv. His love of music was undoubted­ IBM Corp. in Westchester County, N.Y., ly fostered in the Sonevytsky home, where until his early retirement. His great interest, as a young child he grew up surrounded by love and knowledge of operatic and sym­ music performed by his uncle, operatic phonic music resulted in the establishment tenor Myroslav Skala Starycky; his aunt, of an impressive music library of literature, operetta singer Evhenia Lassowska; and his records, audio tapes, CDs, operatic and older brother Ihor, who at an early age Soyuzivka Photo Contest symphonic scores. It is the anticipated sale showed promise as a pianist and composer. Amateur photographers only of this valuable collection that will enable Donations may be made to: The the scholarship fund to be established. Rostyslav Sonevytsky Memorial Scholar­ Rules and regulations: The scholarship will enable gifted ship Fund c/o The Ukrainian National 1. Only non-professional photo buffs can participate. youths who are U.S. citizens to pursue a Association Inc. 30 Montgomery St., Jersey 2. 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The Carpathian Ski Club of New York (Continued from page 8) under the auspices of the Commerce, Alcan, Inco Limited, KPMG, and Deloitte and Touche Chartered Ukrainian Sports Association of USA and Canada (USCAK) Accountants. will hold Mr. Rutherford suggested entrepreneurs join the chamber's trade mission planned for this fall. He said the Canadian govern­ the annual ment (among other world governments) recognizes the increasing opportunities in Ukraine due to the fast pace of reform, and actively encourages joint ventures and TENNIS and SWIMMING COMPETITION partnerships between Canadian and Ukrainian companies. at Soyuzivka Some advice for doing business • Form consortiums. Combine forces, SEPTEMBER 1 - SEPTEMBER 4, 1995 (LABOR DAY WEEKEND) pool resources and expertise. "If you can bring in a system, everyone benefits down the road," noted Oksana Bashuk Hepburn. Tennis Tournament Swim meet • Don't expect to do well in Europe if for individual CHAMPIONSHIPS OF USCAK Saturday, September 2,1995,10:30 a.m. you haven't achieved success at home, and trophies of the Warm-up at 9 a.m. for individuals championship of USCAK said Ian Rutherford. This is not the place to cut your entrepreneurial teeth. East and Ukrainian National Association trophies & ribbons Ukrainian National Association, Soyuzivka, (including the B. Europeans may be cash poor, but they're TABLE of EVENTS well-educated and discerning consumers. Rak, Dr. V. Huk, J. Rubel, and Dr. P. Charuk memorial tro­ Boys/Men INDIVIDUAL Girls/Women • Treat your target market with respect. phies), Svoboda, The Ukrainian Weekly, the sportsmanship "Put a local face on your product and 1 13/14 100m im 13/14 ...... ? Trophy of Mrs. Mary Dushnyck, the Constantine Ben trophy 3. ... 15 & over 100m im 15 & over.. . 4 employ locals. Pay them well and offer and prize money. 5. . 10 & under 25m free 10 & under . 6 them a future," said Stan Szary, president of 7 11/12 25m free 11/12 8 C.E.L. Industries, Mr. Szary is planning to 9 13/14 50m free 13/14 .10 expand into Ukraine with his Pan Smak Qualifications: This competition is open to any player whose club 11 . ... 15 & over 50m free 15 & over.. . 12 pizza chain, which is enjoying phenomenal 13. . 10 & under 50m free 10 & under . 14 success in foland. (Pan Smak translates is a member of USCAK. - Singles matches are scheduled in the loosely as Mr. Tasty in both Polish and following division: Men, Women, Women (35 and over), Junior 15 11/12 50m free 11/12 16 17 13/14 50m back 13/14 18 Ukrainian.) He attributes much of his suc­ Vets (35-44), Senior Men (45- 55), Junior (Boys and Girls). 19. ... 15 & over 50m back 15 & over.. .20 cess to his people, many of whom left the Juniors are persons aged 18 and under, while seniors are those 21 . . 10 & under 25m back 10 & under .22 big players in the fast-food industry which over 45 years of age. 23 11/12 25m back 11/12 24 pay poverty-level wages, maintain a dis­ 25 13/14 50m breist 13/14 26 tinctly foreign presence, and take most if Registration for tennis matches, including name, age divisions 27. ... 15 & over 50m breast 15 & over.. .28 not all of their profits out of the country. and the fee of $15.00 should be sent to: 29. . 10 & under 25m breast 10 & under .30 • Have a Ukrainian connection. You'll 31 ...... 11/12 25m breast 11/12 32 enjoy a distinct advantage if you under­ Mr. George Sawchak 33 13/14 100m free 13/14 34 stand the language and culture of your 7828 Frontenac, Philadelphia, PA 19111 35. ... 15 & over 100mfree 15 & over.. .36 target market, or work closely with 37. . 10 & under 25m fly 10 & under .38 someone who does, said Mr. Rutherford. Registration should be received no later than August 28,1995. 39 11/12 25m fly 11/12 40 • Persevere. If you expect dramatic No additional applications will be accepted before the competi­ 41 13/14 50m fly 13/14 4? returns within a year, look elsewhere. tions, since the schedule of matches will be worked out ahead of 43 .. 15 & over 50m fly 15 & over.. .44 "This is not a market for the faint of time. heart," said Roman Herchak of Global RELAYS Opportunities Inc., but for astute 45. . 10 & under 4 x 25m free 10 & under .46 investors with an eye to the future. 47 11/12 4 x 25m free 11/12 48 TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE: Expect to take four to five years to 49 13/14 4 x 50m free 13/14 . 50 develop your European market. 51 . ... 15 & over 4 x 50m medley 15 & over.. . 52 • Be creative and willing to work G. Sawchak, R. Rakoczy, Sr., Z. Snylyk, G. Popel, G. Hrabec. around current problems. Opportunities Schedule of matches: Swimmers can compete in three (3) individual and one (1) abound for innovators with vision. "If relay events. Relay teams will be established by team coaches or there's an interest, there's an opportuni­ representatives. Friday, September 1, Soyuzivka, 1 p.m. Men's preliminary round. ty," said Ms. Bashuk Hepburn. Entry deadline: Entry forms, provided below, must be submitted Players who must compete in this round will be notified by by August 23. There will be no registration at poolside. Registration August 29. fee is $5.00 per swimmer. \\Ukrainian dance ensemble] of Philadelphia PA Saturday, September 2. All players must contact the Tournament Name: (English) seeks an Artistic Director Committee: they will be informed of the time and place of their (Ukrainian) Candidate must haue strong background in ballet first matches, as well as matches in subsequent rounds. In case and Eastern European character dance. Send of rain, all players meet in the Main House. Address resume, references and cover letter to: James K. 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Kyyiv marimbist to perform in NJ LEHIGHTON UKRAINIAN HOMESTEAD 1230 BEAVER RUN ROAD ASBURY PARK, N.J. - On August 9- Poland, Brazil, Japan, United States, United LEHIGHTON, PA 12, exceptional young professional marim- Kingdom, France, Austria, Canada, presents bists and master performers, including Taiwan, Mexico, Denmark, Puerto Rico, ^ 5>> Vasyl Poliakov of Kyyiv, will converge on Mexico, Germany, Holland and Belgium. The Third Annual Asbury Park, N.J.. Eighty-one young con­ The competitors will perform from 9 testants (under 35 years of age) from 23 a.m. until dusk on August 9 through August Ukrainian countries throughout the world have been 12, at Trinity Church at Asbury and Grand selected to participate in the Leigh Howard avenues in Asbury Park. The grand finale Stevens International Marimba Competition winners' concert will take place on Freedom Festival and festival. 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Atlantic. Though officially listed as a resi­ Canadian-turned-Briton... dent of Pointe Claire, Quebec, as of last (Continued from page 11) December, he insists that he has lived in Britain for four years. Include Tennis Canada in that group, who, according to the organization's direc­ Mr. Rusedski has also always cited tor of player development, Robert Bettauer, health problems or prior commitments suggested that if Mr. Rusedski "felt so when it came time to represent Canada at strongly that he was British, he shouldn't the Davis Cup. As a result, he is now eligi­ have accepted anything from us." ble to do so for Britain, when he will repre­ According to Maclean's, the player once sent the Union Jack at the playoff against poised to become Canada's greatest men's Monaco this month in Eastbourne, England. single player ever, paid back a $37,500 But not every Brit has embraced Mr. grant to Tennis Canada last December. Rusedski, who won his first three matches And in May, Mr. Rusedski's father, at Wimbledon. Fellow teammate Chris Tom, who managed his son's career until Wilkinson refused to play - and was later 1993 when the International Management dropped by his coach - on the Davis Cup Group took over, denied that the British team with the former Canadian. "I don't see Lawn Tennis Association had sweetened how a person can be Canadian one week his son's deal financially. "He's looked at and English the next," he wondered sarcas­ his career down the road, and he has come tically. "The whole principle is wrong. I to his own conclusions, right or wrong, to have gone through the system from the make the move," said the elder Mr. junior ranks for 13 years to get to this stage. Rusedski. Then someone comes along and gets there Over the years, Mr. Rusedski and his automatically." father have grumbled over the lack of sup­ Chided Robert Crampton, a columnist port they received from Tennis Canada, and for The Times: "Greg Rusedski won't Darka & Slavko are back! the family is reported to have mortgaged its wash. How are we supposed to champion Pointe-Claire home, outside of Montreal, to a man so clearly revealed as a foreigner support Mr. Rusedski's tennis career. both by his superb dental work and his with their long-awaited, third Neither father nor son were available ability to win games of tennis?" for comment. But clearly, Mr. Rusedski Still, Mr. Rusedski remains undaunted. album "Believe" did not make a snap decision to cross the "I feel British," he replied to the media. This brand new release from international recording artists Darka & Slavko includes 10 new songs produced in New elder Mr. Rusedski added, "Just look at York and London, England. It features musicians from all Rusedski comes... him, what you see is what you get." over the world and styles ranging from rock & pop to folk & (Continued from page 11) But if waxing philosophical is Mr. blues. You, too will soon believe that this is the most original open. "I think Greg did a smart tiling by Rusedski's way of fending off newsy gos­ and creative Ukrainian record ever made! A simply coming [to Montreal]," said Mr. Joyce, who sip, he might be interested in Canadian unforgettable listening experience! Andrew Sznajder's recent observations. hails from Los Angeles. "I think he needed CD's $15.00 Cassettes $10.00 +Shipping $2.50 to get it over with." Ranked No. 238, Sznajder was beaten by In fact, Mr. Rusedski waded right into Czech Daniel Vacek, ranked 78th, the day Send check or M.O. (in US funds) payable to: the lion's den, signing autographs and Mr. Rusedski lost. However, when asked BeSharp Records 30-80 33rd Street Astoria, NY 11102 distributing pre-autographed photo cards by The Globe and Mail about national alle­ or call toll free (800) 626-7664 printed by his clothing sponsor, Nike. giances, the 28-year-old Canadian volleyed Losing to Mr. Joyce, suggested Mr. a better verbal response than any, it seems, You've got to hear it to BELIEVE! Rusedski, was also part and parcel of the he could muster with a racquet. game. "I've had a very good year," win­ "I could have played for Poland [his ning 28 matches and losing 14. You're parents' birthplace], England [he was born - Now in English - going to have bumps in the road, so you in Preston], or Canada," said Mr. Sznajder. try to learn from it," he told reporters. "I chose Canada because this is where my Two days before his son's game, Tom home is and because I competed in all the s Rusedski told The Weekly that his son junior national tournaments and programs. was handling the pressure well. 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