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Theh Published U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXII-LXXXIII No. 52-1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 $2.00 Verkhovna Rada votes to abandon neutrality, Financial concerns increase as Ukraine sets sights on NATO membership aft er 2015 budget is presented RFE/RL tions with the world,” Mr. Poroshenko told foreign ambassadors in Kyiv late on KYIV – Ukraine’s Parliament voted on December 22. December 23 to abandon the country’s Before the vote, former Ukrainian Prime neutral “non-bloc” status and set a course Minister Yulia Tymoshenko described the for NATO membership, a move immediate- legislation to fellow lawmaker as “a bill ly denounced by Russia as “unfriendly.” about our place in Western civilization.” The legislative amendment submitted by The legislation approved by Parliament President Petro Poroshenko last week was says Ukraine will tighten cooperation with approved with 303 “yes” votes in the 450- NATO with the aim of “achieving the crite- seat Verkhovna Rada. ria required to attain membership” in the A note explaining the changes in Western military alliance. Ukraine’s law on domestic and foreign poli- Any accession to the Western military cy said that the “non-bloc” status codified alliance is likely to take years, but a NATO under then-President Viktor Yanukovych in spokesman in Brussels said, “Our door is 2010 had left Ukraine vulnerable to “exter- open and Ukraine will become a member of nal aggression and pressure.” NATO if it so requests and fulfills the stan- It said that “the Russian Federation’s dards and adheres to the necessary princi- aggression against Ukraine, its illegal ples.” annexation of Crimea... its military inter- Russia’s envoy to the OSCE, Andrei Kelin, vention in eastern regions” and other forms called the legislation “unfriendly” and said of pressure created the need for “more it would “add trouble and tension to our effective guarantees of independence, sov- relationship.” ereignty, security and territorial integrity.” Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Aleksandr Sinitsa/UNIAN The pro-Western leaders who came to Lavrov said it was a “counterproductive” Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in the power after Mr. Yanukovych fled in the face move that “escalates confrontations and cre- Verkhovna Rada for the presentation of the proposed budget for 2015. of protests last February have spoken for ates the illusion that the profound internal months of plans to renounce the neutral crisis in Ukraine can be resolved through the by Zenon Zawada receive the next IMF tranche of $2.8 billion status, which prevented Ukraine from seek- adoption of such laws.” expected in early February, as estimated by ing NATO membership. In a Facebook post early on December 23, KYIV – The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine’s top economists. The tranche is Kyiv and NATO accuse Russia of provid- before the vote, Russian Prime Minister Ukraine led by Prime Minister Arseniy the Ukrainian government’s only hope for ing direct military support to pro-Russian Dmitry Medvedev said the legislation to aban- Yatsenyuk on December 23 presented to survival as its international reserves have separatists who have seized parts of two don nonaligned status was “in essence, an Parliament its 2015 central budget, which dwindled to $7 billion – an 11-year low. oblasts in eastern Ukraine and fought gov- application to enter NATO, turning Ukraine decides who will carry the economic bur- Meanwhile, it has $11 billion in foreign ernment forces in a conflict that has killed into a potential military opponent of Russia.” den as the country attempts to preserve its debt obligations. more than 4,700 people since April. Moscow has frequently warned that it statehood in what is promised to be the Parliament voted to approve a calendar “Ukraine’s fight for its independence, strongly opposes Ukrainian membership in most turbulent year since independence. that would require a vote on the budget on territorial integrity and sovereignty has The 2015 budget will also determine turned into a decisive factor in our rela- (Continued on page 16) whether the government will qualify to (Continued on page 16) New York’s Dumka performs in Boston by Peter T. Woloschuk BOSTON – The famed Dumka Chorus of New York paid its first visit to Boston in its 65-year history and gave a con- cert of Christmas carols in Christ the King Ukrainian Catholic Church on Sunday, December 21, following a pon- tifical divine liturgy celebrated by Bishop Paul Chomnycky of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford, Conn., and concelebrated by the church’s pastor, the Rev. Dr. Yaroslav Nalysnyk. The hour-long concert featured 44 members of the cho- rus, under the baton of director Vasyl Hrechynsky, who made the four-hour trip from New York City that morning. They were accompanied on keyboard by Larissa Gutnikiewicz and a string quartet of local musicians (Oksana Gorokhovsky, first violin; Eve Boltax, second vio- lin; Andrew Wald, viola; and Natalie Helm, cello). The Rev. Nalysnyk briefly welcomed the ensemble and Vsevolod Petriv Dumka performs in Boston at Christ the King Ukrainian Catholic Church. (Continued on page 16) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 No. 52-1

ANALYSIS

A Donetsk snapshot: EU adopts new Crimea sanctions independent stance, for the support of its compatriots, for Crimea, for Sevastopol and BRUSSELS – The European Union on for our mere existence.” But Mr. Putin, in an Frightening rise of denunciations December 18 agreed to new sanctions address to mark the national holiday of “According to the testimony of neighbors, against Moscow-annexed Crimea as EU Employees and Veterans of Russia’s by Ilya Trebor leaders prepared to discuss a “tough and RFE/RL she supports the Kyiv junta and is set against Security Forces said: “Of course, no one will the LNR and Donbas,” the denunciation con- responsible” strategy toward Russia follow- be able to intimidate us, or contain and iso- DONETSK, Ukraine – The website of the tinues. “I request that you investigate the ing its involvement in Ukraine. The new late Russia. No one has ever been able to pro-Kyiv authorities in the eastern city of incendiary activity of Ye. V. Krasnovskaya measures ban all investment in Crimea and and no one ever will.” Mr. Putin called for Donetsk features the photographs of doz- and determine a just means of punishment, cruise ships from its ports as further pun- improvement of Russia’s secret services to ens of local residents that have disappeared including execution by shooting according to ishment for Russia’s annexation of the tackle “modern challenges and threats” and are believed to be in the custody of the the regime of martial law.” region from Ukraine in March. European amid tensions with the West over the pro-Russian separatists that control parts Last month, a businesswoman from Council President Donald Tusk said ahead Moscow’s role in the Ukrainian crisis. Mr. of southeastern Ukraine around both Donetsk named Svitlana Matushko told of a summit in Brussels December 18, “We Putin said the most important tasks for Donetsk and Luhansk. RFE/RL that she spent one week in captivi- should send a strong signal on our readi- Russia’s intelligence services were the fight There are many ways to end up in a sep- ty in Donetsk after a man she had been dat- ness to further support Ukraine, also finan- against global terrorism and the prevention aratist jail – being caught outside after cur- ing denounced her for allegedly reporting cially, as we have done politically today by of “any attempts of foreign special services few, failing to produce acceptable docu- on separatist militia positions to the making the existing sanctions on Crimea to deal a blow to Russia and her political ments, or simply arousing the suspicion of Ukrainian military. and Sevastopol more effective.” Mr. Tusk, and economic interests.” Russia’s economy one of the many masked men patrolling the Ukraine’s Internal Affairs Ministry former Polish prime minister, is chairing is expected to slip into recession next year streets with automatic weapons. recently released a statement from a his first meeting of EU leaders since taking because of Western sanctions and the fall- And, increasingly, one can end up there Donetsk resident identified only as Dmytro, over from Herman Van Rompuy as ing price of oil. Earlier on December 20, the as a result of the old Soviet-style method of who told of a 27-year-old neighbor who got European Council chief on December 1. Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry said that denunciation. More and more cases of peo- into a dispute with another neighbor over The December 18 move came after EU for- the new sanctions won’t push Russia to give ple detained “under the testimony of neigh- some money that she borrowed. eign ministers decided last month that the up Crimea since it is a “historic and integral bors” are being uncovered. The conflict led to a loud argument in EU’s non-recognition policy toward part of Russia.” The ministry referred to In October, a document appeared on front of the building one day in July, Dmytro Russia’s annexation of Crimea needed to be Cuba, where it took the United States half a social media that purported to be a denun- claims, in which the woman’s father sided bolstered with tougher sanctions. The ban century to restore diplomatic relations, and ciation form from the separatist authorities with the neighbor and asked his daughter prohibits EU citizens and EU-registered said it was prepared to wait as long as nec- of Donetsk that people could use to report to repay the debt. companies from buying real estate in essary for Washington to relent. The about “a citizen who is not worthy of occu- “On the next day, two cars without Crimea, from setting up joint ventures with Foreign Affairs Ministry also said that pying the honored position of a citizen of license plates pulled up to our building,” Crimean companies, and from buying Moscow planned to work out measures in the DNR [Donetsk People’s Republic] and Dmytro’s statement reads. “The woman got Crimean firms, their shares or other securi- response to new U.S. and Canadian sanc- needs to be isolated” and who “carried out out of the first car, and some guys from ties. It also bans the sale, export, or trans- tions against Russia. Foreign Ministry illegal activities not in correspondence with DNR got out of the second. After a little port of goods using EU-registered vessels spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich said, the general policies of the Donetsk People’s while, they brought out the neighbor and and aircraft to Crimean firms in the sectors “We recommend that Washington and Republic and the interests of our country.” the father in handcuffs, pushed them into of transport, telecommunications and ener- Ottawa think about [the] consequences of The photographed document accused a the back of the cars and drove off. We didn’t gy – including the exploration and produc- such actions. And we will explore response local whose name was obscured of insult- see them again.” tion of oil, natural gas and mineral resourc- measures.” (RFE/RL, with reporting by ing two DNR functionaries, calling for the Dmytro adds in his statement that he es. In the tourism sector, EU cruise ships Interfax and Agence France-Presse) “physical destruction” of the DNR leader- supports the DNR, although the incident in are banned from calling at any port on the ship and “offending those who support the his building disturbed him. Crimean Peninsula. (RFE/RL, with contri- Crimea has become a military base butions from RFE/RL’s Rikard Jozwiak in idea of the DNR.” Such occurrences appear to have eerie KYIV – Since the annexation of Crimea, Brussels and additional reporting by At around the same time, another echoes of the Stalin era of terror in the for- Russia has been deploying heavy troops Reuters and the Associated Press) denunciation raised eyebrows in Luhansk. mer Soviet Union, where pre-emptive accu- closer to the borders of Ukraine and other In this instance, it came from the separatist, sations were commonplace. Putin: No one can intimidate Russia European nations, the Ukraine Crisis Media self-proclaimed “culture minister,” Irina Wendy Goldman, a professor of history Center reported. Nearly 40,000 troops, 43 Filatova. at Carnegie Mellon University and author of MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin has battleships, and dozens of missile launch- “I ask you to take measures to detain “Inventing The Enemy: Denunciation and warned that no country can “intimidate” or ers and fighter jets recently deployed to the and punish according to martial law Yelena Terror in Stalin’s Russia,” argues that the “isolate” Russia. Speaking in Moscow on Ukrainian peninsula now threaten the Vladimirovna Krasnovskaya...,” Ms. Filatova tactic played a major role in intensifying December 20, he said such attempts had security of the entire European region. says in a letter. She goes on to claim that and spreading fear and repression under repeatedly been made over the centuries. (Ukraine Crisis Media Center) Ms. Krasnovskaya “performed rituals” at a Stalin. He said that currently “open calls are being city cemetery that were intended to “weak- In a 2011 interview about her book, made to make Russia pay dearly for its (Continued on page 14) en the statehood of the Luhansk People’s Prof. Goldman argued that “ordinary Soviet Republic [LNR] and bring harm to the health of its citizens.” (Continued on page 20) The Ukrainian Weekly FOUNDED 1933 Quotable notes An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. “…an agreement once heralded as a breakthrough is gradually being undermined Yearly subscription rate: $90; for UNA members — $80. by one of the very countries that signed it. 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It’s a con- ADMINISTRATION OF THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY AND SVOBODA versation that Ukraine, now more than ever, is keen to take part in.” Walter Honcharyk, administrator (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 and advertising manager fax: (973) 644-9510 – Ambassador Olexander Motsyk, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, in an e-mail: [email protected] op-ed titled “Why Ukraine is rethinking NATO relationship” that was posted on Subscription Department (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 December 12 on CNN.com. e-mail: [email protected] No. 52-1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 3 NEWS ANALYSIS: Ukraine to develop defense industry without Russia by Oleg Varfolomeyev This should be a boon to the domestic ing ammunition, explosives, engine compo- with Russia since February. Kyiv, thereby, Eurasia Daily Monitor defense industry, which has, thus far, had to nents and radar systems – Kolchuha pas- wants to undermine Moscow’s military export almost 100 percent of its products, sive sensors, in particular. Recent Russian potential, as the Russian defense industry The annexation of Crimea and the hybrid even though 53 percent of Ukrainian mili- “humanitarian convoys” reportedly carried and troops, in particular as far as missiles war with Russia that ensued have changed tary hardware was over 25 years old, and back over the border into Russia equip- and aircraft are concerned, to a large extent the Ukrainian government’s attitude toward only 1.2 percent of the military’s equipment ment dismantled from at least five Donbas- depend on Ukrainian equipment supplies the domestic military industry. was newer than 10 years (business.ua, based defense industry enterprises (forbes. and services. Consequently, Ukraine’s arms production April 21). A case in point has been the truck ua, September 1). The Ukrainian firm Motor Sich supplied sector is likely to cease being an export-ori- manufacturer KRAZ, which used to survive Following the Crimean events, the engines for Russian Mi helicopters; Arsenal ented industry that depended on Russia and mainly thanks to orders from the Middle Ukrainian government has severed links plant delivered infrared homing heads for air- exploited the fame of the Soviet military- East. Recently, however, it began supplying with the Russian defense industry. Security to-air missiles; Artem equipped Su and Mig industrial complex, while not developing newly designed military trucks to the Service of Ukraine (SBU) chief Valentyn much of its own hardware or technologies. Ukrainian army (fakty.ictv.ua, November fighter jets with air-to-air missiles; Zorya- Nalyvaichenko told a briefing in November Mashproyekt used to sell gas turbines for Indeed, President Petro Poroshenko told the 20). In January-October, KRAZ production that no military industry enterprises locat- was up 53 percent year on year, and in naval vessels; and Ukrainian experts serviced government in September that the ed in government-controlled areas were Ukrainian military-industrial complex could October alone it jumped 140 percent year Russia’s intercontinental ballistic missiles cooperating with Russia (pravda.com.ua, become one of the engines of the national on year (avrokraz.com.ua, November 5). (ICBM) – SS-18s in particular (rian.com.ua, November 18). This is natural, since economy (Ukrinform.ua September 10). Despite more than two decades of Ukraine has been in a de facto state of war “Strategy-2020,” a reform plan Mr. underfinancing, Ukraine’s defense sector (Continued on page 9) Poroshenko offered to the nation, provides remains one of the most developed local for increasing military spending to 5 per- industries. Some facilities in shipbuilding cent of GDP in 2020 from 1 percent until and missile production are unique, but now. The manpower of the armed forces Ukraine also makes more standard military Obama bans U.S. trade with Crimea will be expanded as well. Mr. Poroshenko products, such as armored vehicles, tanks, plans for Ukraine to have seven military radar systems, helicopter engines, trans- European Union and Canada also announce new sanctions personnel per 1,000 residents, up from the port aircraft, various components for mili- Minsk agreements,” President Obama said. current 2.8 (president.gov.ua, September tary aircraft, small arms and ammunition. RFE/RL The Minsk Protocol signed in September 29). Most recently, the president instructed Domestic producers also have numerous WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack led to a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine but the government to increase military spend- design bureaus. If more funds are poured Obama has issued an executive order ban- failed to stop the fighting. Ukraine and ing to at least 3 percent of GDP already in into the industry, it will likely be able to not ning U.S. exports of goods, technology or Western countries have repeatedly accused 2015 (president.gov.ua, November 5). only contribute to rearming Ukraine, but services to Ukraine’s Crimea region. Obama Russia of stoking the unrest in eastern The first steps in this direction were also to boost exports further and have also authorized the Treasury Department to Ukraine by supplying weapons and troops taken last summer, when it became clear more resources to devote to research. impose sanctions on individuals and compa- to the pro-Russian rebels. Moscow denies that the Ukrainian army was too weak to However, Ukraine lost some of its nies operating in the region. In announcing the charge despite overwhelming evidence protect the eastern industrial Donbas defense industry potential this year. With the new measures on December 19, Obama to the contrary. region (an area encompassing the Donetsk Crimea’s annexation, the state military also called on Russia to end its annexation Mr. Obama said he “will continue to and Luhansk provinces) from ill-equipped industry concern Ukroboronprom lost 13 of the region. review and calibrate our sanctions, in close and ill-trained Russia-backed militants sup- enterprises located there, mainly shipyards The Treasury Department announced coordination with our international part- and aircraft repair plants (ukroboronprom. ported by a limited Russian military contin- 17 names and seven entities blacklisted ners, to respond to Russia’s actions.” ua, accessed on November 28; business.ua, gent. Ukraine’s Parliament, therefore, under the order. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen approved a 1.5 percent war tax on personal April 21). The shipyard Morye, which Canada also announced on December 19 Harper announced the new sanctions incomes and increased other tax rates in makes naval hovercraft and speedboats, new sanctions on Russia over its actions in against Russia on December 19, including order to boost military spending. As a stands out among them. Crimea’s annexa- Ukraine. The moves come one day after the additional restrictions on the export of result, defense spending growth accelerat- tion may disrupt a Ukrainian contract with European Union banned investment in technology used in the oil and gas industry. ed to 60.4 percent year on year, even as China to build Zubr-type landing aircraft at Crimea. Mr. Harper warned that “the Putin overall state budget revenue increased by Morye (feodosia.ws, November 24). Mr. Obama signed a separate law autho- regime has continuously violated the terri- just 3.9 percent in January-October (minfin. Meanwhile, in the Donbas area, Ukraine rizing new Russian sanctions on December torial integrity, sovereignty and indepen- gov.ua, November 28). has been cut off from local plants produc- 18, but said that he would not use the dence of Ukraine.” authority at this time. That law also autho- “Canada will not accept the illegal occu- rized the president to send lethal weapons pation of Crimea and persistent, provoca- to Ukraine’s military. tive military activity in eastern Ukraine,” he Crimea has been under de facto Russian added. Microsoft and Ukraine sign control since March, after Russian-backed Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John forces took the peninsula from Ukraine. Baird also said sanctions were being applied cybersecurity agreement “I again call on Russia to end its occupation on 11 Russians and nine Ukrainians, due to and attempted annexation of Crimea, cease its Russia’s actions in Ukraine. support to separatists in eastern Ukraine, With reporting by Agence France-Presse and fulfill its commitments under the and Reuters.

FOR THE RECORD: Obama on Ukraine Freedom Support act The following statement by the presi- tinue to review and calibrate our sanc- dent on the Ukraine Freedom Support Act tions to respond to Russia’s actions. We was released by the White House, Office of again call on Russia to end its occupation he Press Secretary on Thursday afternoon, and attempted annexation of Crimea, December 18. cease support to separatists in eastern Today, I have signed HR 5859, the Ukraine, and implement the obligations Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014, it signed up to under the Minsk agree- into law. Signing this legislation does not ments. signal a change in the administration’s As I have said many times, our goal is sanctions policy, which we have carefully to promote a diplomatic solution that calibrated in accordance with develop- provides a lasting resolution to the con- ments on the ground and coordinated flict and helps to promote growth and with our allies and partners. At this time, stability in Ukraine and regionally, WASHINGTON – Standing in the historic George Washington room of the Embassy the administration does not intend to including in Russia. In this context, we of Ukraine in Washington, Jamie Wylly (left), general manager of public safety and impose sanctions under this law, but the continue to call on Russia’s leadership to national security at Microsoft, shakes hands with Vladimir Zverev, head of Ukraine’s act gives the administration additional implement the Minsk agreements and to State Service of Special Communication, following their signing December 22 of the authorities that could be utilized, if cir- reach a lasting and comprehensive reso- Security Program Agreement intended to help protect Ukraine against foreign cyber- cumstances warranted. lution to the conflict which respects crime and intervention. Standing with them are Nadiia Vasylieva, Microsoft’s chief My administration will continue to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial executive officer in Ukraine; Ukrainian Ambassador Olexander Motsyk (center); work closely with allies and partners in integrity. We remain prepared to roll and Igor Kozachenko, director of Ukraine’s Science-Research Institute of Special Europe and internationally to respond to back sanctions should Russia take the Communication and Information Protection (right). developments in Ukraine and will con- necessary steps. – Yaro Bihun 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 No. 52-1 Conference in New York examines Ukraine conflict and gender violence displaced refugees. Women also have to ed lives of Indigenous Crimean Tatar cope with being the primary providers of women, Ms. Bakkalli said. The Crimean critical care for the wounded. All of this is Tatars support the territorial integrity of in addition to the dangers of gender vio- Ukraine and have marched in solidarity lence when the fabric of civil society breaks with fellow Ukrainian citizens on the down. Maidan. Dr. Mar’iana Rubchak, professor at The last speaker introduced was Valparaiso University, spoke about how the Roksolana Misilo, UNWLA vice-president feminist voice was ignited in the Ukrainian for public relations. The UNWLA, in the 90 struggle. The rebirth of Ukrainian self- years of its existence, has always been in determination on the Euro-Maidan also the forefront of providing reliable and created the rebirth of the feminist spirit in trustworthy humanitarian relief to its women. Refusing to be pigeon-holed in Ukrainians in need. traditional nurturing and caregiving stereo- In its Social Welfare program, the types, the feminist women of the Maidan UNWLA has set up an Aid to Ukrainian War created their own “Zhinocha Sotnia” Victims Fund to cover both the immediate (Women’s Brigade), she noted. Thus, they and long-term needs of severely wounded overcame the original directive of the warriors and their families. Ms. Misilo gave Maidan commander barring women from an overview of the fund and cited specific Joe Messaoud the front lines of defense. examples of how the fund has already At the conference on “The Ukraine Conflict and Wartime Gender Violence” (from The most prominent was the 39th Self- helped wounded soldiers and bereft fami- left) are: program organizer Dr. Marta Kichorowska Kebalo; speakers Prof. Mar’iana Rubchak, Ayla Bakkalli and Roksolana Misilo; and event organizers Marta Defense Squad, which actively trained lies. Burachok and Mariya Andriyovych. women in fulfilling defense duties. This led At the end of the conference, Dr. Kebalo’s to the formation of other organizations concluding remarks re-enforced the many supporting the military effort. There have ideas discussed. by Marta Burachok main representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council in New York, even been women actively fighting on the After a question and answer session NEW YORK – The New York Regional introduced the theme of the conference. eastern front, the speaker noted, adding with the audience, the conversations con- Council of the Ukrainian National Women’s She started by giving an overview of the that much more work needs to be done for tinued during a reception hosted by the League of America hosted a conference on history and politics of the current events in the full empowerment of Ukraine’s women. New York Regional Council of the UNWLA. “The Ukraine Conflict and Wartime Gender Ukraine. The war has affected women, as Ayla Bakkalli, the U.S.A. representative of All proceeds of this event were donated to Violence” jointly sponsored by the World participants, as victims and as caretakers. the Crimean Tatar Mejlis and an advisor to the UNWLA’s Ukrainian War Victims Fund. Federation of Ukrainian Women’s In the times of war, she said, we must the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the For further information on work against Organizations and the UNWLA at the lat- resist the temptation to relegate women to U.N., gave an impassioned speech about the gender-based violence, readers may go to ter’s headquarters here on December 6. secondary, support positions, but to allow plight of the Crimean Tatars since Russia’s www.WFUWO.org or contact mkebalo@ The conference explored the multitude them to more fully participate in the military invasion and annexation of Crimea. aol.com. For further information on the Aid of ways the Ukrainian war affects women. unfolding of political, military and social The current situation is deteriorating on a to Ukrainian War Victims Fund, contact Over 40 people attended the multi-genera- events. Women have already served as first daily basis, with violence, abductions, false UNWLA Social Welfare Chair, Lidia@Bilous. tional event. responders and have been trained to shoot arrests and confiscations of Ukrainian land. net. For further information on the UNWLA Program director and moderator Dr. and kill. We have yet to determine the full impact and membership, go to www.unwla.org or Marta Kichorowska Kebalo, the WFUWO’s Women dominate the ranks of internally that this invasion will have on the disrupt- contact [email protected].

WFUWO participates in Beijing +20 review GENEVA – The United Nations NGO Participants in the roundtables from Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora includ- in Geneva organized and hosted an NGO ed Natalia Karbowska of the Ukrainian Forum on November 3-5 that immediately Women’s Fund in Kyiv and Kateryna preceded the United Nations Economic Levchenko of La Strada-Ukraine, who Commission of Europe (UN ECE) confer- spoke to the themes of women in power ence November 6-7. On the agenda for the and decision-making, and women and UN ECE was the review of the implementa- armed conflict. Oleksandra Kunovska tion of the Beijing Platform for Action 1995 Mondoux, the WFUWO’s main representa- at its 20-year mark (2015). tive to the U.N. in Geneva, addressed the Close to 700 representatives of 350 non- topic of women and the media. governmental organizations from 56 coun- From the Independent Life Assistance tries of the UN ECE region convened for the Center for People with Disabilities, Meliya NGO Forum to assess progress made in Assanova, representing those living with implementing the promises made to the disabilities in Crimea, spoke at the roundta- women of the world at Beijing and to make ble “Women’s Rights: A Power to Create Change” during the first day of the NGO recommendations for the future. Ukraine, Oleksandra Kunovska-Mondoux (first from left), WFUWO representative at the U.N. and many of the countries that are home to Forum. Larysa Kobelianska, who serves as in Geneva, with other participants of the conference held to assess progress in areas of the Ukrainian diaspora (North America, the advisor on gender issues to Ukraine’s concern to women. Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Minister of Social Policy Liudmila Denisova, Asia) are included in the region embraced by also participated in the forum. the Ukrainian Women’s Fund, La Strada- Furthermore, Ms. Mondoux stated that the UN ECE. The World Federation of Ms. Mondoux provided an overview of Ukraine,” Ms. Mondoux noted. “the difficulties in implementing the Beijing Ukrainian Women’s Organizations (WFUWO) the situation of women and the media in However, she asserted that “this recent Platform for Action lie in the lack of effec- was among the forum’s participants. Ukraine during the past 20 years. Among crisis has demonstrated that there is an tive legislation. The law of Ukraine adopted The NGO Forum program of November her points were that “images of women in active citizens’ position and volunteerism in in 2005 ensures equal rights and opportu- 3-5 focused on the points of the Beijing the media were the subject of much atten- Ukraine, one that is ready to battle half- nities for both women and men, including Platform that focus on women. Sixteen the- tion by NGOs, and international and educa- truths through new technologies. A new gen- equal media access. The state programs matic roundtables were arranged that cor- tional institutions after 1991, and especial- eration of civic activists, led by women, is outlined for the periods to 2010 and now to responded to the Beijing Platform’s 12 criti- ly after 2004 when civil society organiza- using powerful global social networks to sup- 2016 include the need to raise awareness cal areas of concern for women (Poverty; tions focusing on women’s rights flourished port the people of Ukraine. Social networks of gender discrimination in the media, but Education and Training; Health; Violence in Ukraine.” such as Facebook or Twitter gathered and many state institutions fail to address this against Women; Women and Armed “It is interesting to note that the shared information, provided evidence, coor- concretely and remain unresponsive to Conflict; Economy; Power and Decision- Ukrainian group Femen, whose members dinated efforts and mobilized supporters. gender stereotyping in the media.” Making; Advancement of Women; Human protested topless with a lot of attention in The Facebook pages of Euro-Maidan, Razom She continued: “According to the Rights of Women; Women and the Media; the international media, played an invisible for Ukraine, Half of the Maidan: Women’s National Report of April 2014, media cover- Women and the Environment; The Girl role in Ukraine and was not taken seriously Voice of Protest proved the high participation age frequently reveals the incompetence of Child) and four emerging issues (Human for many reasons, most importantly because of Ukrainian women activists worldwide. Ukraine’s journalists on gender issues. The Rights and Migrant Women; Science, there are many other Ukrainian women’s Ukraine’s National Report of April 2014, simple monitoring of media content, for Technology and Innovation for the groups working through perhaps more ‘bor- however, makes no mention of this and pro- example of sexism in advertising, is alone Advancement of Women; Older Women ing means’ for gender equality, such as the vides no gender-based statistics on the use of and Men; Boys for Gender Equality). Women’s Information Consultation Center, new social media in Ukraine today.” (Continued on page 15) No. 52-1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 5

OBITUARIES Anatole Kolomayets, artist and Holodomor survivor, 87 CHICAGO – Anatole Kolomayets, a prolif- attitude toward painting. Since childhood, mourners, was held on December 14 at ic and well-respected Ukrainian American the idealization of everything that is beauti- Muzyka Funeral Home in Chicago. On artist passed away peacefully in Chicago on ful has encompassed my universe. The December 15, the funeral service took place December 9. credo ‘beauty will save the world’ inspires at St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Mr. Kolomayets was born on February me to believe that the world can be a better Cathedral in Chicago, followed by interment 12, 1927, in the “chornozem” (black earth) place for all of mankind,” he wrote in 2005. at Elmwood Cemetery in River Grove, Ill. of the Kobeliaky region of the Poltava He often said that he was inspired by Mr. Kolomayets is survived by his loving Oblast in eastern Ukraine, the oldest son of everything around him, reading newspa- wife, Luba, daughter Marta with husband Ivan Kolomayets and Maria Vasylenko. He pers or books, watching movies, talking to Danylo Yanevsky; son Andrew with wife was born at a time of great turmoil in that people. But in his art, one can see that he Zoriana; and grandchildren Damyan, part of the world; when he was 5 years old, was always vitalized by his native land and Mariana, Inessa and Maksym. Also surviving Stalin’s Famine decimated the land-holding his themes often reflect Scythian history, are his brother George with wife Aleksandra class of Ukraine. Several members of the Ukraine’s Kozak glory, the tragedies of the and family, brother-in-law Oleh Karawan immediate family perished during the Holodomor and Chornobyl. with wife Ivanka and family, in-laws Levko Holodomor, but Mr. Kolomayets’ father The late Mykola Marychevsky, editor in and Vera Remeniuk and family, as well as rel- moved the family to the big city of chief of Fine Art and Artanya, two art jour- atives in the United States and Ukraine. Dnipropetrovsk, where he spent his child- nals published in Ukraine, wrote in his pref- In lieu of flowers, the family asks that hood and first showed a talent for drawing ace to the Kolomayets’ monograph pub- donations in memory of Mr. Kolomayets be and sketching, often serving as the illustra- lished in 2005: “The creative works of made to the Ukrainian Genocide Famine tor of the school newspaper. Anatole Kolomayets Anatole Kolomayets synthesize what he Foundation – U.S.A., the Ukrainian In 1941, the family fled the second acquired and what he has inherited. His Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate or the world war and arrived in Belgium, where artist for almost 40 years, but his passion artistic skills and sense of color are the gen- Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago. Mr. Kolomayets worked in the coal mines at was always painting and during his lifetime erous gifts of his native land. And his train- night and attended school during the day, he had 42 one-man shows, spanning a ing in Western Europe allowed him to hone eventually completing two art degrees at 60-year career. More than 500 of the art- his professional skills at the very heart of St. Luke’s Institute (1948-1952) and the ist’s works – both oils and watercolors – the movement toward modern art trends. Royal Academy of Fine Arts (1952-1953), are in numerous private collections and The artist can truly be called a fortunate both in Liege, where he had the opportuni- galleries in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, man. Throughout his life, Kolomayets has ty to study European painting and under- England, France, the United States, Canada been fortunate enough to translate ever- stand the creative trends of that period. and Ukraine. changing circumstances in his life into pos- Such masters as Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin Mr. Kolomayets was recognized as an sibilities for creative enrichment. and Braque have influenced his style. Honored Artist of Ukraine in 2007. Once “The creative fire that has burned in the In 1953, Mr. Kolomayets immigrated to Ukraine became independent, he was soul of Kolomayets for more than five the United States and settled in Chicago, engaged in many causes helping his native decades, is first of all, focused on the har- where he quickly became involved in the land, including the Narodnyi Rukh of mony of the surrounding world, and this is artistic life of Ukrainian Chicago and was a Ukraine, (Chicago branch), the Friends of why his works do not singe, but warm the founding member of the Monolith Group, a the Ukrainian Consulate in Chicago and the viewer. They warm everyone who is free collective of artists and writers. Ukraine Genocide Famine Foundation - from the prejudice of consumerism and is At a group art show in 1956 he met U.S.A. able to confide the artistic manifestation of Luba Karawan and they married on “My entire life has been defined by my the artist’s will. His paintings are gifts to February 16, 1957; they had two children, deep respect for all forms of art, which I those who dare to rise above the boundar- Marta and Andrew. take seriously and with a sense of great ies of the mundane.” Mr. Kolomayets worked as a commercial devotion. This is particularly true of my A panakhyda, attended by more than 350 “Girl from Poltava,” oil on canvas, 1978. Oleh Lysheha, 65, poet, playwright, Stefaniya Shabatura, 76, artist, translator and PEN Award winner former Soviet political prisoner KYIV – Oleh Lysheha, a Ukrainian poet, KHARKIV, Ukraine – Stefaniya Shabatura, playwright and translator, the first artist, former member of the Ukrainian Ukrainian to receive the PEN Award for Helsinki Group and a former Soviet politi- Poetry in Translation, died in Kyiv on cal prisoner, died on December 17 after a December 17. He was 65. long illness. She was 76. His works are known to audiences in the Ms. Shabatura was born on November 5, United States thanks in large measure to 1938, in the Ternopil region and was very Yara Arts Group, which presented bilingual young when her father was killed in World (Ukrainian-English) versions of his poetry War II. She graduated from two art insti- in its productions. tutes in the 1960s, specializing in creative He was born in Tysmenytsia, Ukraine, on embroidery. October 30, 1949, into a family of teachers. She was also an active member of the In 1968 Mr. Lysheha entered Lviv Lviv Club for Creative Young People and University, studying foreign languages, and took part in circulating samvydav literature. during his last year there was expelled for She was arrested during the second his participation in an unofficial literary cir- wave of arrests of the Ukrainian intelligen- cle, Lviv Bohema. As punishment, he was tsia which began on January 12, 1972. She drafted into the Soviet army. After serving was charged under the standard Article 62 in the military he returned to his birthplace Part 1 of the Criminal Code – “anti-Soviet and worked at a local factory. Wikimedia agitation and propaganda” and sentenced Svoboda He later returned to Lviv and then Oleh Lysheha to five years’ harsh-regime labor camp and Stefaniya Shabatura in a file photo from moved to Kyiv, where he worked as a tech- Mr. Lysheha’s drama “Friend Li Po, Brother three years’ exile. The charges were linked the late 1980s. nical employee at the Karpenko Karyi Kyiv Tu Fu” was also included in that publica- to her circulating the poetry of Vasyl Stus days in solitary confinement and a year and Theatrical Institute. tion. In 2002, Mr. Lysheha published “To and Mykola Kholodny, as well as the article a half in PKT. In the years 1972-1988, he was banned Snow and Fire.” “Amid the Snows” by Valentyn Moroz. Ms. Shabatura was not allowed to paint, from official publication, but in 1989 his He is known also for having translated She served her sentence in women’s which led to the women political prisoners first book “Velykyi Mist” (Great Bridge) was into the Ukrainian language works by T. S. camp ZhKh-385/3 in a Mordovian labor declaring a hunger strike in protest. It was published. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and is the co-author camp at Barashevo. There she took an only in 1974 that an officer of the Lviv KGB In 1997-1998, Mr. Lysheha was a visiting of a book of translations from Chinese, “The active part in protest actions and hunger brought a painter’s case and paints, pencils, Fulbright Scholar at Penn State University. Stories of Ancient China.” strikes, demanding political prisoner status brushes and paper, after which the camp “The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha” Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps of Yara and an amnesty for all prisoners of con- administration made no more attempts to (Harvard University Press, 1999), the work Arts Group started translating Lysheha science. She was punished for this by being stop her. of Mr. Lysheha and his co-translator James works in 1991 when the group performed thrown into the punishment solitary con- At the end of 1975 Ms. Shabatura was Brasfield of Penn State, received the PEN finement or PKT (prison-type cells) and Award for Poetry in Translation in 2000. (Continued on page 15) calculated that in all she had spent 115 (Continued on page 22) 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 No. 52-1

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On the other hand, we must add that The unspeakable tragedy in our ancestral sometimes we get news from our communities so late that we wind up running sto- “Three Angels” (1983) by Vitaliy Lytvyn Ukraine has left us reeling in the face of of Toronto. From a Christmas card pub- ries about events that took place a couple of months earlier. We don’t like to do that, evil. It is in this context that we, the bishops but we also realize it’s for the historical record and, thus, important not only to the lished by the Ukrainian National of the Holy Church, address you this sacred Association. sender, but for our community as a whole. Sometimes the news is just so old – sever- Nativity season. We must stand together in al months old – that we simply have to reject a story. We don’t like to do that either, the Love of the newborn Christ Child to Love. 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The praise and thanksgiving; the holy innocents God-Child born at Bethlehem is the Word of of our own time cause us to question the Twenty-five years ago, on December 31, 1999, Boris Yeltsin God made flesh, the true Light that enlight- values of a world where one person’s 31 resigned as president of the Russian Federation and shifted ens all who are born into this world. choice trumps another person’s life! power to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Paul A. Goble of Radio The Nativity of Christ is the Feast of The Nativity of Jesus Christ is a time to 1999 Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), analyzed the significance Peace. The angels from heaven proclaimed rejoice and give thanks for the gift and of the transition of power. it so as they announced the birth of the Son blessings of life. It is also a time to be gener- Russia’s relationship with the West, Mr. Goble explained, had of God and sang in the very first Christmas ous toward others who may not be so been based more on personal rather than political levels – with individuals meeting with carol: “Glory to God in the highest and blessed – so that the life of each and of all the leader in Moscow. It was a practice that could be traced to Soviet times and continued peace to his people on Earth.” Every might be nurtured and supported. Together under Mr. Yeltsin. Nativity season, the words “Sleep in heav- we turn to the Author of Life in profound The reliance on a personality in Moscow and the inevitable change requires Moscow to enly peace” are sung in our churches, in our gratitude. May your prayer, worship and establish new personal ties that take time and energy, especially the intense deliberations homes, in the streets and at Bethlehem. acts of charity to those in need at this about what kind of relationship it should be. President Putin, Mr. Goble noted, would have The Nativity of Christ is the Feast of Nativity celebration lead you to a profound a tough time as a former KGB officer and due to actions in Chechnya. Western leaders will Love. It is a mystery for which we need eyes encounter with Christ that you, perhaps, have to answer to politicians and analysts who see Mr. Putin as an openly authoritarian wide-open and hearts renewed to adore never considered possible! It is the power figure opposed to many Western goals. Love Incarnate. We are compelled to share of giving one’s “self” away – as Jesus Christ, “Moscow’s opposition to the NATO campaign in Yugoslavia and its moves to seize that Love with our brothers and sisters, Who is and always has been One with God Pristina ahead of allied forces, its increasing ties with Iran, Iraq and other radically anti- especially those who suffer most the conse- the Father and the Holy Spirit gave of Him Western countries, as well as its war in Chechnya and open discrimination against people quences of disaster and economic crisis, “self” – that transforms us as the human from the Caucasus are all policies that many in the West disagree with and oppose,” Mr. those who suffer loneliness, pain and infir- creation, that transfigures each of us as Goble explained. mity. Remember, the Nativity experience With Mr. Yeltsin gone, it was expected that Western leaders would more frequently cannot exist when we block or ignore such (Continued on page 7) raise their voices against Russia’s aggressive actions. The fact that Mr. Yeltsin was unable to complete his term and that a new democratic election did not take place immediately OUR NEXT ISSUE (the election was held within 90 days) had raised speculation that his exit was due to pressure from Mr. Putin, who likely guaranteed that the outgoing president would not face This week’s issue of The Ukrainian Weekly is a double issue dated criminal charges for his past actions if he resigned quietly. December 28, 2014/January 4, 2015. Our next issue will have a publication date of January 11, 2015. (Continued on page 16) No. 52-1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 7

The things we do ... PERSPECTIVES by Orysia Paszczak Tracz

by Andrew Fedynsky The peacock and Christmas 2014-2015: Living in historic times “Pavochka khodyt’, piriachko hubyt’” – face. Not just your face, but all of you. You At New Year’s, we reflect on the year could be, Ukrainian leaders concluded: the peahen is walking and is losing her are like a painting on paper, with your fine gone by and look to the next. “Because we don’t have a country of our feather. These are the beginning lyrics from black brows [a sign of beauty].” Of course, For Ukraine 2014 – which for all practi- own.” Building one had been the principal a number of Ukrainian koliadky [carols] so much gets lost in translation. cal purposes started at the end of project for the nation throughout the 20th and shchedrivky [New Year’s songs] on the The historical song/ballad “Bondarivna” November 2013 – was fraught with histo- Century. Sustaining it is the challenge it courting/romantic theme, one very com- begins with “in the town of Bohuslav, ry: peaceful demonstrations, which fea- faces for 2015. mon in these ritual songs. belonging to Lord Kan’ovsky, there danced tured guitars, religious services and an Looking forward, the country, despite its But why the pava [peahen] or pavochka Bondarivna, as proud as a peacock.” A endless flow of speakers, attracted hun- obvious military and economic weakness- [peahen, diminutive], especially when it is humorous song sings: “I will go to the fair, dreds of thousands over the course of es, has never been stronger. Thanks to the the male peacock [pavych] with the fancy where there are forty girls, a blonde one, many months, along with millions more in Maidan, the nation is consolidated. plumage, not the dowdy pava? Even in the and a dark-haired one, wherever you look, scores of cities and towns around the coun- Illusions about Russia have been discarded. pre-Christian era of Winter Solstice ritual each one is a pava.” try and tens of millions participating in the Eviscerated by President Viktor songs, poetic license was prevalent. The The metaphor of young woman and movement online. Like the Orange Yanukovych’s regime and infiltrated by pava is the female (the human one), the pava can be understood on a few levels Revolution, the Euro-Maidan continued Russian agents, the Ukrainian army is now one who is being courted, who is preparing (remembering that it is the beauty of the well into the cold of winter. By their mas- rebuilding. With the help of volunteer mili- sive presence, Ukrainians affirmed their tias, it’s been in the field against Russian- for marriage, who is picking up the peacock and not the peahen that is in resolve to orient their country on Europe backed forces for more than half a year. dropped feathers to plait into a beautiful mind): as beautiful as a peacock, as proud and its standards and values, and away Internationally, over 100 countries backed wreath for her wedding. Convoluted, but it as one, or as haughty as one. In the from Russia and the moral rot and corrup- Ukraine in the United Nations General makes sense, and serves a purpose. “In the Ukrainian ritual and folk songs, the beauty tion it’s associated with. Assembly, condemning Russian aggression; green woods, on the yellow sand (refrain: and pride are prominent, rather than the On a February night, government snip- Russia couldn’t even get a dozen to its side. Shchedryi sviatyi vechir Bozhyi – God’s haughtiness. A young couple all dressed up ers turned a demonstration for Europe into The U.S. and Europe have been steadfast generous holy eve!) the pava walked, losing strolling together is “as proud and lovely as a revolution as the smoke and fire of a in their support, imposing and maintaining her feathers. In the green woods, on the two peacocks.” For older generations, the Maidan turned violent generated yet sanctions against Russia while welcoming yellow sand, the young woman walked, peacock had a negative connotation of van- another hero-martyr story: the Heavenly Ukraine’s government leaders to gathering the feathers. She collected the ity and immodesty but, as shown in the Brigade (Nebesna Sotnia). They’re now Washington, Brussels, Paris, etc.; Vice- feathers into her apron, and plaited a songs, this did not carry through to young- enshrined in Ukrainian history with the President Joe Biden has racked up frequent- wreath from them, and went into a dance”. er people. students who died at Kruty in January flyer miles to Kyiv; President Petro In some regions of Ukraine, peacock feath- If anyone is still confused about what 1918; World War I-era Ukrainian Sich Poroshenko addressed a joint session of ers were used in the wedding wreath for these carols has to do with the Birth of Riflemen; the Ukrainian Insurgent Army Congress where Ukraine has many friends – the bride, so the songs continue the court- Baby Jesus, this is another very clear indi- (UPA), fighting both the Wehrmacht and in December, a bill to support Ukraine mili- ing/wedding theme. The feathers were cation of the dualism of Ukrainian tradi- the Soviets in World War II and for a tarily, economically and politically passed often part of the decorations on a bache- tions, the blend of the pre-Christian and decade following; the dissidents of the unanimously. The International Monetary lor’s festive hat. Christian themes. The addition of the 1960s and ‘70s; the Helsinki Group and Fund is providing support, while also The same theme that appears in the rit- refrain “Sviatyi Vechir” or “Oy, dai Bozhe” to Rukh in the ‘80s and ‘90s; and going back demanding badly needed reforms. And ual winter cycle songs, is also sung about in a song about a girl as beautiful as a pea- centuries, the Kozaky and the Haidamaky. throughout all this, the Ukrainian diaspora ritual wedding songs, and in Kupalo cock, plaiting a wreath for her wedding Throughout it all, there have been heroic on several continents has stepped up, lobby- [Midsummer’s Night] songs. “O, the kalyna makes perfect sense. clergy – men and women – serving day-to- ing its elected representatives on behalf of is lush and beautiful in the grove, but more And this koliada shows that peacocks day, year after year, generation after gener- Ukraine and working with the media locally beautiful is the father’s daughter (refrain: can’t be all bad: “The peacocks are strolling ation for a thousand years. and nationally to rebut Russian propaganda, Sviatyi Vechir! – Holy Eve!). She walks in around the garden, and are losing their The Euro-Maidan coincided with the serve as election observers in Ukraine, etc. the garden like a star rising, she carries feathers for God’s people. The Virgin Mary bicentennial celebration of Taras Less than a year after the showcase water like a pava floating.” “Groomsmen, is in the parlor, as beautiful as a white rose. Shevchenko, the orphan peasant whose Sochi Olympics, Vladimir Putin must be walk lightly, do not stir up the soil, so that The angels flew in from Paradise and are poetry roused his enslaved countrymen, wondering what his campaign to restore no dust falls on our pava-bride!“ “O, on diligently collecting the peacock feathers. reminding them that they were a nation Russia’s greatness and garner international Ivan’s [feast], on Kupailo, Maria came out There will be a big vinok [wreath] for the and exhorting them to throw off their respect has gotten him. He’s routinely com- like a pava. The young men are gazing at Mother, and a little one for Jesus.” chains and sprinkle liberty with the vile pared to Adolph Hitler; his name attached her but are too shy to greet her. But Ivan blood of their oppressors. to a vulgar refrain is chanted with derision; was not shy, took her hand and greeted Orysia Tracz may be contacted at As we end 2014 and enter into a new his provocative foray accompanied by four her: my Mariyko, my soulmate, I love your [email protected]. year, euphoria over the Maidan has faded warships to the G-20 meeting in Australia to the grim reality of Crimea and military ended with him fleeing in humiliation after conflict in Ukraine’s east, where ample one world leader after another either COLUMNIST’S NOTE: In my Christmas article “Ukrainian Christmas: A New Old Idea” blood is shed by new heroes and age-old rebuked or ignored him. Instead of respect, (December 21), I inadvertently erred in the information about the origins of the Ukrainian enemies. Over the past several months, as his actions have evoked global contempt Recipes Group on Facebook. Oksana Tarnavsky had the initial idea for the concept of a Russia invests vast military and propagan- and resulted in a stronger, more resolute Ukrainian Recipes group and created it with the help of Luba Petrusha. The two are co- da resources into its hostile response to NATO and a Russian economy in shambles. administrators and share the daily work of running the group and keeping the recipe files Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity, I’ve heard 2015 is sure to be active – many events we updated. more than a few comments which begin can predict: old-style Christmas, Malanka, the with the phrase, “Well, who knows if blessing of Jordan water and a cross of ice, Ukraine will survive, but…” Saturday language schools, weekly youth † Antony, Metropolitan Such fears are understandable, based as meetings, concerts, summer camps, fall fare- wells to college students, Thanksgiving, St. Light! Peace! Love! Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. they are on concerns about the country’s Nicholas, new-calendar Christmas, New Locum Tenens of the Ukrainian Orthodox difficult reality, but they are also unfound- (Continued from page 6) Year’s. And so the cycle repeats itself, with Church in Diaspora ed. Ukraine will survive. As long as there are Ukrainians, there will be Ukraine. It’s in us a year older. We’ll greet new babies and individuals of that creation and brings us no doubt bid farewell to relatives and closer to true unity with God. † Ioan, Archbishop the national anthem and in the collective Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Diaspora unconscious. As they have for millennia, friends; hopefully attend a wedding or two Beloved clergy, brothers and sisters in and enjoy a relaxing vacation. Christ, we send you our sincere Nativity families have been sitting down to “Sviat † Jeremiah, Archbishop Vechir” (Sacred Evening) dinner to observe In the meantime, history will march for- Lord greetings and we pray that the Light, Ukrainian Orthodox Eparchy of Brazil and ward with events inevitably demanding a Peace and Love of that first Nativity shine the time when the Earth starts returning South America toward the sun and every day gets longer. response. It’s essential to remain steadfast in your lives and through you into the lives with Ukraine, to help the country realize its of all who cross your path, for when we † Ilarion, Bishop The ritual, now identified with the birth of Jesus, is celebrated in good times and bad. enormous potential within the European bear witness to that Light, Peace and Love, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada framework, a transformation that will ulti- we are on the path leading to the realiza- In 2014, we also commemorated the centennial of the outbreak of World War I. mately benefit not only its own citizens but tion of what we were created for and to our † Andriy, Bishop Heartbreakingly, it was on January 6, 1915, also those in the rest of Europe and, yes in ultimate goal for eternity Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada when homesick soldiers in the Austro- Russia too. We must remain not only inter- May you have a loving and holy Nativity † Daniel, Bishop Hungarian and Russian imperial armies on ested but engaged. It’s both a blessing and a and a blessed New Year in our Lord! Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. the Eastern Front sang Ukrainian carols curse: may you live in historic times – we do. With prayers and hierarchical blessings, across no man’s land on Christmas Eve and † Yurij, Metropolitan Feast of the Nativity of our Lord and God then proceeded to kill each other on Andrew Fedynsky’s e-mail address is Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada and Savior Jesus Christ 2014/2015. Christmas Day. Asking themselves how this [email protected] 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 No. 52-1

COMMENTARY Why don’t Ukrainian Americans write? by Alexander J. Motyl opinions still get expressed all too fre- Perhaps people don’t have the time to does one learn to write for a general pub- quently and remain unanswered. Well, not write? But if they have the time to write lic? By trying to write for a general public. A few weeks ago a Ukrainian journalist quite unanswered. As the furious listserv extended diatribes on the Internet, surely Over and over again until you finally suc- asked me just why so few Ukrainian debates and blog commentaries attest, a they have the time to write measured arti- ceed. Americans write for the U.S. press and poli- very large number of people actually take cles. Besides, how long does it take to write Which raises an interesting question. cy journals. Why don’t they try to affect the the time to write rebuttals to views they a 600-word op-ed piece? Perhaps the Ukrainian American educated policy debates? Why don’t they try to influ- consider wrong or offensive. So, in fact, Perhaps people don’t know where to class is afraid of rejection? As someone ence the discourse? Ukrainian Americans do write, but they write? That can’t be it, as they religiously whose manuscripts have repeatedly been I’m rarely stumped in interviews, but write for the wrong places. Instead of writ- follow debates in the U.S. press. And turned down, I can attest to the unpleasant- this time I was. To tell the truth, I have no ing articles for the American press and besides, you can easily find information on ness of the feeling. And yet, that, too, is no idea why the number of people who regu- thereby trying to affect policy, they confine journals, newspapers and websites and excuse. We’re all adults. We can surely take larly contribute to American op-ed pages their efforts to fora that have absolutely no their submission policies on the Internet. a string of no’s – especially for the sake of a and policy journals can be counted on the impact on what transpires in the real world. Perhaps people don’t know what to good cause. fingers of one hand. After all, the vast In a word, Ukrainian Americans under- write? That, too, doesn’t wash, since they Consider the following. There may be majority of Ukrainians born in the United stand that affecting public opinion is criti- follow the debates and surely know that 500 educated Ukrainian Americans out States have higher educations, speak cally important and they have all the objec- the U.S. media are happy to run interesting there with the ability to write for the public. English fluently and say they’re concerned tive abilities to do so. And yet they don’t. articles about everything ranging from poli- Imagine that each of them wrote just one by events in Ukraine. They certainly know Instead, they waste their time on intra- tics to culture to literature to economics to article per year. The mind boggles. how to write. They certainly have opinions communal commentary or electronic mud- gender. Meanwhile, those of you who are not in worth expressing. And, with unrestricted slinging. Personally, I despair. Several times Perhaps they don’t know how to write the business of writing can make a differ- access to the Internet, they certainly know I’ve suggested via listserv discussions that for the press? That may be it. Most academ- ence by asking those of your friends who a great deal about Ukraine. Moreover, they their readers stop talking to one another ics, regardless of ethnic origin, are dreadful are: Just what have you written lately? fully understand that the last year has been and start talking to the world. To no effect writers incapable of escaping the structure critical to Ukraine’s survival and that the whatsoever. and logic of academic jargon and writing Alexander J. Motyl is a professor at next few years will continue to test Ukraine. So what might the reasons for this reti- for broad educated audiences. Of course, Rutgers University-Newark and has a weekly They also appreciate that anti-Ukrainian cence be? the inability to write is no excuse. How blog on worldaffairsjournal.org.

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the Donbas Battalion. He is an artist and paints patriotic graphics on T-shirts that How to show solidarity they sell to provide funds for the battalions. He told me that he came from Donetsk a with volunteer battalions year ago, when the Maidan started, and has Dear Editor: stayed to help with the war effort. He fur- When I was in Ukraine for the parliamen- ther informed me that volunteers go to tary elections of October 26, I observed a schools and have children create graphics Kyiv that was quiet and somber with on T-shirts which they deliver to the sol- reminders of the war everywhere, patriotic diers at the front as a show of support from billboards calling for the support of the mili- the children of Ukraine. The graphics tary, billboards proclaiming, “Glory to drawn by the children are quite telling: one, Ukraine” and “Glory to her heroes,” trans- with a heart in the center, says “Return alive,” another says “Glory to Ukraine,” still parent plastic boxes asking for donations for another says “Death to the enemy.” the military placed at restaurant entrances, I was invited to attend a special press Ukrainian television stations constantly run- conference where the battalion command- ning news on the war in the east. ers Semen Semenchenko, Yurii Bereza and The barrage of coverage of the war on Andrii Teteryk , who had just returned from the Ukrainian stations is never-ending. In the battlefields in the east spoke about the keeping with the patriotic fervor, Ukrainian war. The room was packed with TV cameras Ulana Mazurkevich TV stations post on the side of their screen and reporters. Prior to the start of the press Graphics on T-shirts drawn by schoolchildren. the blue-and-yellow flag of Ukraine with conference the moderator spelled out the the motto “One country.” rules. He did so in Russian, so I raised my Semenchenko and Teteryk in Russian. The Committee, 203 Bainbridge St., People are constantly signing up to join hand and asked if they can run the press questions from the media are in Ukrainian. Philadelphia PA 19147; we will purchase the all-volunteer battalions. My taxi driver conference in Ukrainian since I do not After the press conference I met with Mr. and send the items to the battalions. bemoaned the fact that he was rejected understand Russian. One of the command- Teteryk to ask some more questions. He Ulana Mazurkevich because of his age – he is 60. I met a young ers says, “ah, diaspora.” The three panelists spoke in a mixture of Ukrainian and Philadelphia girl, Dasha Mikailyuk, and her boyfriend, then proceed to talk about the war in the Russian (I had to keep reminding him that I Ivan Gogiyl. Ivan volunteers at the office of east. Mr. Bereza speaks in Ukrainian, Messrs. don’t understand Russian), he told me The letter-writer heads the Ukrainian there are 43 battalions fighting in the east, Human Rights Committee of Philadelphia. with 200 to 600 members in each. He also She may be contacted at [email protected]. informed me that three times a week a con- voy of cars comes to the Ukrainian Home in Kyiv to pick up supplies. Then the convoy delivers the supplies to the central commit- We should be grateful tee in Donbas, and from there they are dis- tributed to the various battalions. He said for The Ukrainian Weekly people drop off food and clothing. I ask him Dear Editor: what is desperately needed other than We in the Ukrainian “hromada” may Kalashnikovs, and he replied: “Thermal sometimes take The Ukrainian Weekly for underwear because now we wear three granted, so it is important that the editors sweaters and its difficult to maneuver.” and staff be congratulated for consistent When I commented that, if these items are good reporting, for helping to keep us sent by boat, it will be a while before they abreast of events both here and in Ukraine, get here, he looked me straight in the eye and for providing a forum that celebrates and said: “We will be fighting a long time.” and publicizes Ukrainian culture. The You too can help. Show solidarity with December 14 issue was a stellar example. Ukraine’s volunteer battalions! These are difficult days and journalism, Prepare a small package containing and journalists are under fire around the thermal underwear, gloves and socks and world. We should be grateful and recognize send it to Volunteer Battalions, Ukrainian what we have in The Weekly. Home, 2 Khreschatyk St., Kyiv 01001, Ulana Mazurkevich with members of the Donbas Battalion, who proudly told her that Ukraine. Or send a check (contributions are Natalka and Ihor Gawdiak “Franko” (Marko Paslawsky) served with them. tax-deductible) to: Ukrainian Human Rights Columbia, Md. No. 52-1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 9

COMMENTARY NEWS AND VIEWS NATO security for Ukraine UCCA Kyiv Office begins program by Askold S. Lozynskyj ber wanted to disappoint the ultimate to unite Ukraine’s regions guarantor of its security. Nevertheless, on Questioning the significance of security the other hand, the theater of operations through NATO membership has become a was not the North Atlantic area, which is tactic of Russia appeasers. The purported the geographic location named in the NATO logic for this argumentation is twofold: treaty. Article 5 provides “the use of armed nothing has disturbed Vladimir Putin more force, to restore and maintain the security than NATO expansion; and nothing would of the North Atlantic area.” Coming to the exacerbate the current Ukraine-Russia crisis aid of the U.S. brought other NATO mem- more than NATO membership for Ukraine. bers under fire on their own territory. In any event, the appeasers suggest, NATO NATO expansion and Russian aggression membership is hardly an absolute security are not a cause-and-effect phenomenon, as guarantee since each NATO member coun- suggested by the Russia appeasers. try acts at its own discretion. Thus, Ukraine Moldova was not a serious candidate for should relinquish its NATO membership NATO membership in 1992 when the 14th aspirations. So the argument goes. Army decided to secure the borders of the Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty Russia-inspired breakaway state of provides that an armed attack against one Transdniester. Georgia’s NATO member- shall be considered an attack against all ship aspirations had suffered a severe blow and each will assist the one attacked. at the Bucharest NATO summit in April Journalists (from left) Oleh Sholokh, Olena Kyiashko, Alexander Piddubny, Vasyl Detractors of this article point out that the 2008, before Russia decided to invade Chepurny, Volodymyr Boyko and Yuri Hromushyn. all for one and one for all language is fol- Georgian territory (Abkhazia and South lowed by “such action as it deems neces- Ossetia) four months later. Ukraine’s very by Viktoria Hubska them to create stable partnerships in the sary,” thereby rendering any assistance dis- tangible NATO aspirations were also region in order to combat long-existing ste- cretionary for each member. dashed in Bucharest, and Ukraine certainly Thanks to a grant from the U.S. Embassy reotypes or those that have been circulated There are currently 28 NATO members. had not revived its NATO aspirations or in Ukraine, the UCCA Kyiv Office has begun by politicians with the intent of dividing To assume the extreme that all will “deem solicitation when Russia invaded Crimea in a 10-month long civic education program Ukrainians. necessary” to do nothing or next to noth- February of 2014. titled “Uniting Our Country by Breaking The UCCA Kyiv Office, which has long- ing is to suggest that the members will To the contrary, Russian history is Down Stereotypes.” term experience in conducting similar proj- decide that NATO is no longer needed. replete with Russian aggression – mostly, The purpose of the program is to build ects and works closely with regional TV More importantly, that logic assumes that not when its victim was particularly secure confidence in interactive communication and radio stations in 10 cities throughout all member countries will feel so certain of in its defense, but rather when Russia saw between citizens of different regions of Ukraine­ – Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, their own security that by doing nothing or its victim at its weakest. The Russian Ukraine and the government at both the Chernihiv, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Lviv, very little they are prepared for a reciprocal Federation today spans 10 time zones; 150 local and regional levels, and to encourage Uzhhorod, Mykolayiv and Zaporizhia – is action in the event their own security is in nations live within that federation, not holding a series of live radio broadcasts. peril. The question, then, is why did those because Russia is a country of immigrants, Viktoria Hubska is director of the Kyiv The UCCA will invite community activists countries join NATO if not because they but because Russia even today is an ill- office of the Ukrainian Congress Committee sought collective security? acquired empire. of America. (Continued on page 22) The reality is very different. In fact with Ukraine’s Russia problem dates back to Russia attacking Ukraine, Poland – as 1654, when Ukraine was besieged by Poland Ukraine’s close neighbor and a NATO mem- and the Tatars and needed an alliance with ber – invoked Article 4, seeking NATO con- Russia. Russia exploited Ukraine’s security sultation. NATO responded by convening a issues at that time by simply overrunning summit and deploying special units to Ukraine’s territory. Frankly, Ukraine has Poland and the Baltic countries. Several never recovered from that alliance. NATO members currently are providing Removing the Ukrainian, Georgian and military equipment to Ukraine itself. Moldovan possibility of NATO membership The only example of an attack on a NATO has a serious deleterious effect on the secu- country since NATO’s formation was the rity of those countries. They are significant- terrorist attack on the United States on ly weakened because Russia is embold- September 11, 2001. The U.S. invoked ened. Why? Because that’s what bullies do. Article 5. Following a determination that Furthermore, the security of NATO mem- the aggressor was based in Afghanistan, bers neighboring those countries is affect- NATO led an International Security ed. Ultimately global security is at risk. Assistance Force against the aggressor If the events of the 20th century regard- there. According to NATO sources, all 28 ing Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union have NATO countries participated. Only taught us anything, it’s that appeasement Luxembourg did not provide troops. Even only serves to embolden the aggressor. such smaller NATO members as Slovenia, Estonia, Iceland and Albania did. Askold S. Lozynskyj is an attorney based Granted, this was an attack on the in New York City. He is a former president of United States and perhaps no NATO mem- the Ukrainian World Congress.

duction of cruise missile engines being pro- Ukraine to develop... duced for Russia to Belarus (antikor.com. ua, November 16). Most recently, Motor (Continued from page 3) Sich denied reports that it continued sup- June 19; business.ua, April 21). plying engines for Russian military helicop- Russia has been one of the main markets ters (ukrinform.ua, November 24). for the Ukrainian defense industry. It will Due to the war, the Ukrainian defense likely be easy to enforce a ban on coopera- industry urgently has to replace Russia tion with Russia on the state-owned behe- with other export markets. But thanks to moth Ukroboronprom, whose first deputy the war, Ukraine’s domestic market is also CEO, Serhy Pinkas, insists that all coopera- expanding, especially as the West continues tion with Russia had stopped (ukroboron- to dither on supplying the embattled coun- prom.com.ua, October 23). try with lethal weapons. It thus seems like However, it may be trickier with inde- high time for Ukraine to seize the opportu- pendent players. A case in point is the nity. Zaporizhia-based company Motor Sich. Russia had been the main market for its The article above is reprinted from engines for decades. It has been rumored Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from that Motor Sich was trying to circumvent its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, the ban, in particular by moving the pro- www.jamestown.org. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 No. 52-1 A future after 50? The first half-century of the Ukrainian Catholic patriarchal movement1 by Andrew Sorokowski agitated for Church reform. They also internal exile in the wake of the Soviet liq- ly influential Ukrainian emigration begin- resisted the union with Rome. Despite its uidation of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic ning in the late 19th century had been PART I anti-union stance, the early modern church Church. replenished during the 1920s and 1930s. Does a movement dedicated to recreat- brotherhood served as a model for the On October 11, 1963, at the second ses- Retaining its language and customs was ing a Church institution that arose in the patriarchal movement. sion of the Second Vatican Council, easier in the rural prairie environment of middle ages have a future in the 21st centu- With the liquidation of the union in Archbishop Slipyj called for creation of a the western provinces. At the same time, ry? And if by some miracle it does, how can Russia after the Polish partitions in the late Ukrainian Catholic Patriarchate. In this he Church leaders were less inclined to intro- it understand that institution, present it to 18th century, Ruthenian Uniates remained was supported by all the Ukrainian Catholic duce Latinizing innovations like the the general public and win support in only in Austria, which in 1806-1807 had bishops present at the Council. His speech Gregorian calendar, and more supportive of today’s world? revived the Metropolitanate of Halych as a was greeted with a standing ovation, but no the patriarchal idea, than in the United Those are the challenges that face the successor to that of Kyiv. This “Greek- formal decision followed. Metropolitan States. Hence, the movement in Canada was Ukrainian patriarchal movement after 50 Catholic” Church became associated with Slipyj was appointed major archbishop in marked by less strife and hardening of years. For if the first impetus for this move- the 19th century Ruthenian revival, which December 1963, which gave him legal pow- positions. ment was the arrival of the widely revered took on a Ukrainian identity at the turn of ers equivalent to those of a patriarch.3 The patriarchal movement received a Soviet captive, Metropolitan Josyf Slipyj, in the 20th century and persisted into the In June 1964 the church historian decisive impetus on November 21, 1964, Italy in 1963, and his appearance at the interwar period, when Galicia was under Nicholas Chubaty published a series of arti- when, at the Second Vatican Council, the Second Vatican Council later that year, the the Second Polish Republic. During this cles in the Ukrainian Catholic newspaper Decree on the Catholic Churches of the beginnings of the patriarchal movement in time a number of Catholic organizations Ameryka setting out the historical bases for Eastern Rite declared that the patriarchate North America can be traced to 1964. Fifty such as the student group Obnova and creation of a patriarchate. Meanwhile, how- is a venerable institution, defined the years later, the movement’s achievements Catholic Action were formed. The example ever, it was reported that the Ukrainian Eastern patriarch (No. 7), specified patriar- are ambiguous. On the one hand, neither of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky (1865- Catholic metropolitan of Philadelphia and chal rights and privileges and called for the pope of Rome nor a council of the 1944), a supporter of the Byzantine orien- two bishops had withdrawn their support their restoration (No. 9), and declared that Catholic bishops has recognized the tation in the Greek-Catholic Church and the for Archbishop Slipyj’s call for a patriarch- the council “ardently desires that new Ukrainian Catholic Church as one of the de facto leader of the Ukrainian national ate. In early August 1964, on Prof. patriarchates should be erected where patriarchal Eastern Catholic Churches. On movement, contributed to the formation of Chubatyi’s advice, an initiative group was there is need, to be established either by an the other hand, Ukrainian Catholic bishops, the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic lay mentality. formed in New York and set up a National ecumenical council or by the Roman pon- clergy and laity generally recognize the Meanwhile, large numbers of Greek- Committee for the Creation of a Patriarchate tiff” (No. 11). In doing so, the council cited major archbishop who heads their church Catholics from Austrian Galicia and of Kyiv and Halych. The first task of the earlier precedent, particularly the motu as a patriarch. Hungarian Transcarpathia – and after World group was to organize the collection of sig- proprio of Pope Pius XII “Cleri Sanctitati” of This article will seek to trace the path of War I, from what had become Poland and natures on petitions for a patriarchate, June 2, 1957. the movement from the initial call for a Czechoslovakia – had emigrated to North which were then sent to Rome. The decree also declared that the patriarchate to the current re-evaluation of America, many settling as farmers in In September 1964 Metropolitan Eastern Churches are equal in dignity to the this concept. We will not attempt to Canada, or miners and industrial workers in Ambrose Senyshyn, OSBM, publicly Western Church (No. 3) and have the right explain the patriarchate in theological the United States. The laity contributed from opposed this action. Together with Bishops and duty to rule themselves in accord with terms (a vast subject that would require a their meager savings to acquiring property Jaroslaw Gabro of Chicago and Joseph their own discipline (No. 5). It called on separate article by a specialist), but simply and building churches. In the United States Schmondiuk of Stamford, Conn., he issued a Eastern Catholics to deepen their knowl- to outline its main features. after 1924, Bishop Constantine declaration stating that they had never edge of their own church traditions, and to The Ukrainian patriarchal movement is Bohachevsky’s incorporation of church given anyone permission to collect signa- revive and preserve them (No. 6)(The properties into the eparchy provoked con- dedicated to the establishment, recognition tures. On two occasions in September the Sixteen Documents, 219-231). Nearly a siderable resistance from both clergy and and development of a patriarchal structure metropolitan orally condemned the initia- year later, on November 18, 1965, the coun- parishioners, some of whom transferred to for the Ukrainian Catholic Church. As in tive, warning against “Bolshevik agents” cil promulgated the Decree on the the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Lay con- other Eastern Churches (both Catholic and pretending to work for the good of the Apostolate of the Laity, which naturally pro- cerns about church property persisted, Orthodox), such a structure would involve church. vided further support for the patriarchal eventually contributing to the founding of not only recognition of the head of the par- In October, the Church’s press bureau in movement. the Saint Sophia societies in the 1970s. ticular Church as patriarch, but also a con- Rome announced that the Conference of In 1965 the Society for a Patriarchal Large numbers of Ukrainian Greek- ciliar form of governance and considerable Ukrainian Bishops had decided to continue Order of the UCC in the U.S.A. (known from Catholics displaced by Soviet occupation at internal autonomy (Code of Canons title IV, efforts for the creation of a patriarchate. It 1979 as the Ukrainian Patriarchal Society) the end of World War II settled in Western Canons 55-150). Paradoxically, while this was later reported that Bishop Gabro had was formed, with headquarters in New Europe, or went on to emigrate to North movement can be seen as a lay challenge to withdrawn his earlier statement, and that York (later Philadelphia and Detroit), and South America and Australia in the episcopal and curial power, it is dedicated he now supported the collection of peti- adopting a charter on April 23, 1966. early 1950s.2 Meanwhile, in Soviet western to reviving tradition and strengthening tions by the laity, directing, however, that Pamphlets, bulletins and books on church Church authority. Ukraine the 1946 “Synod” of Lviv liquidat- topics began to appear without prior epis- ed their Church, joining its faithful to the they should be sent to Rome by way of his There is no tradition of a patriarchate in episcopal ordinariate in Chicago. copal approval. On April 24, 1966, an arti- the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. The state-sponsored and state-controlled cle in Shliakh (The Way), the official news- Russian Orthodox Church. It was this “third In an interview published in Svoboda on idea was raised, however, in the 16th and November 20, 1964, Bishop Schmondiuk paper of the Philadelphia Metropolitanate, especially in the 17th century when, in the wave” of the Ukrainian diaspora that, com- condemned the patriarchal movement. mitted to preserve in the emigration what clarified that he supported the patriarchate, wake of the 1596 Union of Brest, both but did not approve of the method and While acknowledging that a patriarchate Uniates and Orthodox attempted a recon- was lost or threatened in the homeland, was a splendid idea, the anonymous author created the patriarchal movement. approach of the lay committee. The commit- ciliation through the creation of a joint tee received support, however, from warned that Communist agents were using patriarchate. A Greek-Catholic patriarchate Mobilizing the movement Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk of Canada it to fool the laity and attack the hierarchy. was proposed in Austrian Ukraine in the and from Archbishop Ivan Buchko of Comparing the patriarchal activists to the 1840s. The immediate predecessor to the Viet Cong, he contrasted them with a list of Ukrainian patriarchal movement was the Western Europe, as well as from As a form of lay activism, the Ukrainian Metropolitan Josyf himself. They were individuals and institutions that had made Catholic patriarchal movement traces its Ukrainian Christian Movement formed in 4 generous donations for the construction of Brussels, Belgium, on an ecumenical basis joined by Bishop Ivan Prashko of Australia. roots to the Ruthenian Orthodox church At a meeting of laity in New York on the new cathedral in Philadelphia. in 1955. The patriarchal movement, how- The patriarchal movement spread from brotherhoods active in Poland-Lithuania October 4, 1964, it was stressed that the ever, was sparked in February 1963 by the North America to other countries of the during the 16th and 17th centuries. These actions of the Committee for the “bratstva” challenged their bishops, appeal- arrival in Rome of Metropolitan Slipyj, who diaspora, notably Australia, Belgium, Patriarchate proceeded from the spontane- ing to the patriarch of Constantinople, and had spent nearly 18 years in prison and France, Germany and Great Britain. On ous desire of Ukrainians and were not November 13, 1967, 200 participants from inspired by the Church authorities. Indeed, 1 11 countries took part in a World A previous version of this paper was presented at the 88th meeting of the American Catholic in that year several committees for the Conference of Ukrainian Laity in New York. Historical Association on January 4, 2008, in Washington, DC. defense of the rite and traditions of the 2 On April 10, 1971, a European Association Between 1947 and 1957, some 80,000 Ukrainians emigrated to the United States from Austria Ukrainian Catholic Church arose in Chicago, of Patriarchal Societies was formed at a and Germany, and another 30,000 to Canada, and 20,000 to Australia and New Zealand. Cleveland and Toronto. Their aim was to conference in Louvain. In that same month, Encyclopedia of Ukraine‚ Vol. 1 (Toronto, 1984) p. 823. Another source states that more than 80,000 oppose the assimilation and Latinization of emigrated to the United States between 1948 and 1952, mostly from the western part of Ukraine. the World Patriarchal Society invited their faithful by their own hierarchy, which Only 45 percent of these were “peasants.” The rest were skilled laborers, tradesmen and profession- Bishop Prashko of Australia to be its spiri- in turn was allegedly pressured by the als. Markus, Daria p. 379. Most of them were Greek-Catholics. They joined an emigration that had tual patron, and he accepted. originated in the 1870s and was almost entirely of rural origin. In 1990, the Ukrainian Catholic Roman Curia and the Latin-rite hierarchies The movement received new encourage- Church in the U.S. had some 250,000 members organized in 198 parishes. Id. 384. of Canada and the United States. At the ment when in 1968 Cardinal Slipyj5 trav- 3 See the motu proprio “Cleri Sanctitati” of June 2, 1957, restated in the Decree on the Catholic same time, these committees joined the eled to North and South America, Australia Churches of the Eastern Rite, No. 10, and in the CCEC Title V, Canon 152, which applies to both patri- general movement for establishment of a and New Zealand. In Chicago the parish of archs and their churches. He could not, however, exercise these powers in his own jurisdiction; Ukrainian Catholic Patriarchate of Kyiv and Ss. Volodymyr and Olha – the first “patriar- whether he could do so in exile proved to be a matter of contention. Halych. This entailed supporting the per- chal” parish – came directly under his 4 “V.K.” (probably Vasyl Kachmar) states that the three bishops published their declaration in sonal jurisdiction of Cardinal Slipyj, as authority, bypassing the bishop. Similar four diaspora newspapers, including Shliakh, on September 8. This may, however, be the date of the patriarch, over all members of his Church parishes followed in Cleveland, declaration rather than of its publication. No issue of Shliakh appeared on September 8, 1964, and throughout the world. Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. the issue of September 6 does not carry the declaration. Although the movement originated in A World Federation for the Erection of 5 Metropolitan Archbishop Josyf Slipyj had been named Cardinal in January 1965 and formally the U.S. diaspora, it encountered less resis- joined the College of Cardinals in February, though he had been a cardinal in pectore since 1960. tance in Canada. There, a large and relative- (Continued on page 11) No. 52-1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 11 Sheptytsky Institute sponsors international conferences by Lorraine Manley OTTAWA – The Sheptytsky Institute of St. Paul University in Ottawa sponsored an international confer- ence at the University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. The conference “Religion in the Ukrainian Public Square: An Analysis of the Euro-Maidan and Its Aftermath” brought together scholars of Orthodox, Greco-Catholic, Roman Catholic and Jewish backgrounds. Observers have noted the prominence of religious fig- ures and practices during the uprising that began in Kyiv last year. More striking has been the thoroughly ecumeni- cal and interfaith dimension of this religious presence. The presenters analyzed this phenomenon and reflected on possible future trends in the Ukrainian religious and politi- cal scene. The high point of the conference was the lecture by the renowned public scholar George Weigel, the author of more than 20 books. Mr. Weigel is the famous biographer of Pope John Paul II and a frequent commentator regarding Catholicism on network TV. He stressed the importance of Westerners learning from the Maidan and, conversely, Ukrainians learning from the experience of the West. The conference was a fitting follow-up to a May 2 Participants in the conference, “Religion in the Ukrainian Public Square” (from left): the Rev. Prof. Peter Galadza, orga- nizer and moderator; the Rev. Prof. Andriy Chirovsky, Sheptytsky Institute; the Rev. Dr. Cyril Hovorun, Yale University; Sheptytsky Institute event at which Patriarch Sviatoslav of Dr. Igor Shchupak, director of the Tkuma Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies in Dnipropetrovsk; George Weigel; the Ukrainian Catholic Church spoke of the under-reported Prof. Victor Ostapchuk, University of Toronto; the Rev. Dr. Roman Zaviyskyy, Ukrainian Catholic University. religious dimensions of the Maidan and noted how the movement had been transformed from a pro-European pro- the Sheptytsky Institute. The event was attended by lead- the evolution of the Eastern Churches during the last 50 test into an incubator of human dignity. He said that reli- ers of the Ukrainian community and university officials, as years. Among the speakers were noted Jesuit scholar Brian gious leaders of various Christian communities, as well as well as the chief patron of the evening, philanthropist Daley of Notre Dame University; Bishop Nicholas Samra of Jewish rabbis and Muslim imams, led the people in prayer James Temerty.] the Melkite Eparchy U.S.A.; Archpriest John Erickson, for- and the transformations that occurred on Kyiv’s Maidan. On October 17-18, the Sheptytsky Institute sponsored mer dean of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Seminary in New York; [The occasion for the patriarch’s remarks was a fund- another international conference at the University of and Prof. Thomas Bird of the City University of New York. raising banquet for the Sheptytsky Institute held on May 2 Toronto. This one marked the 50th anniversary of the The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of at St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. He was Second Vatican Council’s Decree on the Eastern Churches. Eastern Christian Studies is an academic unity of the introduced by Dr. Andrew Bennett, ambassador of the Five plenary lectures were each followed by three papers Faculty of Theology, St. Paul University in Ottawa. All of the Canadian Office of Religious Freedom, who is the former for a total of 18 presentations. presentations from both conferences can be viewed at the vice-president of the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Catholic and Orthodox scholars reflected on the contin- Sheptytsky Institute’s website: www.sheptytskyinstitute. Institute Foundation and, like the patriarch, an alumnus of ued relevance of the Vatican II decree. They also analyzed ca.

Peter’s celebrated by Cardinal Slipyj and 14 1992 a World Congress of Laity took place Archbishop Lubomyr announced his resig- A future... bishops, and attended by some 4,000 faith- in Lviv, and diaspora laity participated in nation due to old age and infirmity, and on ful, three priests acclaimed him as patri- the Patriarchal Councils of 1996 and 1998. March 23 the 40-year-old Bishop Sviatoslav (Continued from page 10) arch, one of them using the full title of Kyiv- In 2002 the journal Patriiarkhat was trans- Shevchuk was elected in his place. the Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Catholic Halych and All Rus’. From this point on, ferred to Lviv, to be edited and published by The first decade of the 21st century saw Church was formed in July 1969, only to be both Metropolitan Josyf and his followers a young and innovative group connected further changes in the patriarchal move- dissolved when on December 28-29, 1974, treated the Patriarchate as established, and with the Ukrainian Catholic University. ment. With the passing of its president, a Ukrainian World Patriarchal Federation sought only recognition from the Holy See. The election by the Ukrainian bishops of Wasyl Kolodchin, on August 14, 2006, the (UPSO) was organized in Washington. It Although the accession of Pope John Paul II Archimandrite Lubomyr Husar as succes- Ukrainian Patriarchal World Federation included the patriarchal societies of the in October 1978 promised a more favor- sor to Cardinal Lubachivsky on January 25, practically ceased to exist. On October 5, United States, Australia, Argentina, able reception for his efforts, and brought 2001, was a victory for the patriarchal 2013, the Ukrainian Patriarchal Society in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany and an end to the Ostpolitik of previous pontifi- movement, inasmuch as Father Husar had the U.S.A. adopted new by-laws, which Great Britain, as well as other organiza- cates, Metropolitan Josyf died on long supported it. On June 23 of that year eliminated the elaborate system of mem- tions. Although full membership statistics September 7, 1984, without papal confir- Pope John Paul II arrived in Kyiv, and on bership and local branches in favor of a are not available, from the available docu- mation of the patriarchate. June 27 he beatified 27 martyrs and the board of seven directors. mentation it would appear that with the In the following years, changes in the founder of the Sisters Servants of Mary In a sense this streamlined form, while exception of Great Britain, the movement USSR prompted a resurgence of the Immaculate in Lviv. It was believed by some prompted by dwindling membership and did not gain nearly as many members in Ukrainian “catacomb Church.” During the that during his visit, the pope would pro- activity, pointed to the fact that lay activism Europe, Latin America or Australia as it did observances of the Millennium of the claim a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic was no longer the province of a discrete in the United States and Canada. Baptism of Rus’ in July 1988, a congress of Patriarchate. However, given the adamant organization, but of the entire laity. While lay delegates from the diaspora met in Patriarch by acclamation opposition of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Society may concentrate on publishing Rome. Some of them joined the pilgrims at other Orthodox Churches, and repeated the journal Patriyarkhat and organizing In the meantime, it became apparent Russian Orthodox threats to break off ecu- conferences, thus providing a degree of that despite Cardinal Slipyj’s repeated year, where they were able to meet their menical dialogue, there was little surprise leadership, the patriarchal movement, as a requests, Rome would not recognize a Częstochowa,counterparts Poland,from Ukraine. in September The legaliza- of that when recognition failed to materialize. general revival of the Church, is now a mat- patriarchate anytime soon. On July 7, 1971, tion of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in On February 10, 2011, Major ter for all the faithful. Pope Paul VI wrote to him that a patriarch- 1989-1991, permitting the return of Major ate could not be established, at least not at Archbishop and Metropolitan Myroslav the present time. The main reason was Ivan Lubachivsky to Ukraine on March 30 canonical: he did not exercise jurisdiction (Holy Saturday), 1991, appeared to remove on his Church’s territory. The major arch- the final canonical obstacle to Vatican rec- Are you a supporter bishop maintained, however, that establish- ognition of a Ukrainian Catholic patriarch- ment by Rome was not necessary, for in the ate (Code of Canons canon 146, sec. 1). of our Publication Eastern Church patriarchates arose as a Meanwhile, in the diaspora the patriar- manifestation of a church’s maturity and chal movement was fading as activists grew capacity for autonomous existence.6 In old and passed away. The membership of Endowment Fund? March of 1975, he signed two circular let- the movement appears to have been limit- In May 2014, the Ukrainian National Association established the Publication ters as “Patriarch and Cardinal.” Pope Paul ed largely to the two generations born in VI warned him not to use the patriarchal western Ukraine between about 1915 and Endowment Fund, thus taking a step toward ensuring the continuing good work title, for that would constitute an attempted 1940, coming of age between the 1930s and service to the community at large of its two most important fraternal benefits: fait accompli in a canonical matter. On July and, in the diaspora, the early 1960s. As the The Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda. 10-15, 1975, some 4,000 to 5,000 younger generation showed little interest To contribute to the endowment and secure these newspapers’ future, donors Ukrainian pilgrims, mostly from North in the patriarchal cause, some members of should make checks payable to the Ukrainian National Foundation, the UNA’s chari- America and Western Europe, converged the movement concluded that its future table arm, with the notation in the memo line: FBO (that’s short for “for the benefit on Rome for the observances of the Holy must lie in Ukraine. Attempts were made to of”) Publication Endowment Fund. Checks should be mailed to the UNA Home Office Year. On July 12 at a pontifical liturgy at St. transplant the movement. Thus, in August at 2200 Route 10, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Thank you for your anticipated support! 6 See, for example, his Testament, which he began drafting in 1970, and signed in December 1981. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 No. 52-1 No. 52-1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 13

Christina Bytz Christine Syzonenko Fans in the stands with a huge Ukrainian flag. Dancers of the Iskra Ukrainian Dance Academy show off their moves. N.J. Devils host second Ukrainian Heritage Night

Christine Syzonenko Christina Bytz Opera singer Stefan Szkafarowsky, who sang the American national Korinya performs on the main concourse of Prudential Center. anthem before the start of the game, with the New Jersey Devils mascot.

by Christina Bytz This year, in addition to receiving a Children, as well as many adults, waited During the first intermission, Maksym T-shirt, designed by Roman Shumansky, a patiently in line to get their faces painted Lozynskyj, 17, dressed in his Kozak best NEWARK, N.J. – Ukrainians demonstrat- native of Ukraine currently residing in with either a blue-and-yellow flag or a try- and draped in the Ukrainian flag, made his ed their Ukrainian pride by donning hockey Prague, anyone who purchased tickets zub (trident, the Ukrainian national entrance seated on the Zamboni, waving jerseys, embroidered shirts and blue-and- through the New Jersey Devils website emblem), some adorned with sparkles. A his arms and beaming with pride. yellow garb of all sorts, and heading to an using the code word “Ukrainian” also “face in the hole” that enabled visitors to Meanwhile, out on the concourse, the danc- ice hockey game on Saturday, December 6, received a tote bag donated by the seemingly pose in Ukrainian costumes was ers once again delighted the audience with here at the Prudential Center. Ukrainian National Association and a a new addition this year, built by Mark their acrobatics and fancy footwork. The second Ukrainian Heritage Night Ukrainian flag donated by Selfreliance Mazuretz and hand-painted by Linda At the first stoppage of play in the sec- took place during the game between the Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union Kleban. ond period, the “Heroes Among Us” seg- New Jersey Devils and the Washington of Newark and Whippany, N.J. (the credit Stefan Szkafarowsky, world-renowned ment was announced. During games when Capitals. Even before the puck dropped at 7 union is headquartered in Chicago). The Metropolitan Opera bass, sang a moving the hero is introduced, all in the arena rise p.m., the melodic sounds of Ukrainian UNA was also a sponsor of the event, via rendition of the American national anthem from their seats to give the hero, normally music echoed through the main concourse advertisements in its two newspapers, with his booming voice. At the first puck present, a standing ovation. This time was at “The Rock,” which opened to the public Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly, and drop, Ukrainian flags were waved enthusi- not much different, except that Jim at 5:30 p.m. In a cordoned-off area of the the printing of programs. astically. Leonard, senior vice-president of Devils concourse, young Ukrainian dancers were Entertainment, presented the Paslawsky seen jumping and twirling in a variety of family with a plaque in appreciation of Ukrainian folk dances. their late son, brother and uncle, Mark Andrij Cybyk, artistic director of Iskra Paslawsky. Col. Paslawsky, a graduate of Ukrainian Dance Ensemble and Academy of West Point, moved to Ukraine, joined the Whippany, N.J., emceed the pre-game and in- Ukrainian army and was killed earlier this between-periods shows. He introduced each year during a battle in eastern Ukraine. As ensemble and explained each regional the entire audience responded with a thun- dance. Taking part and showing their skills derous standing ovation, the Paslawsky were: Iskra, showcasing both its Academy family, through tearful eyes, thanked the and professional-level Ensemble; Tsvitka Devils for their thoughtfulness. Ukrainian Dance Academy of Rockland When the hockey game concluded – the County, N.Y.; and Reechka Dance Group, a Capitals won 4-1 – hundreds of Ukrainians part of Assumption School in Perth Amboy, and non-Ukrainians flocked to the main con- N.J., under the direction of Yarko Dobriansky. course for the after-game concert. Andrij Strolling among the throngs of hockey fans Dobriansky, the emcee of the concert, intro- were accordionists Alex Chudolij, Matthew duced Joshua Malakoff, spokesman for the Dubas and Walter Syzonenko, who played Devils, who greeted the audience and popular Ukrainian songs. Theo Bodnar, a sing- thanked them for their support. Mr. er with Ukrainian Bandurist Capella, Dobriansky introduced 14-year-old Anna enthralled the audience with his playing of the Kosachevich, who sang “God Bless America.” Christina Bytz bandura. Some had never seen the bandura Mr. Dobriansky and his brothers Yarko and Jim Leonard (left), senior vice-president of the New Jersey Devils, presents the “Heroes and had many questions, which Mr. Bodnar Yurij sang the Ukrainian national anthem, Among Us” plaque recognizing the late Mark Paslawsky to Olena and Irene Paslawsky answered. Many had asked to pose for pho- (his sisters), Orysia Paslawsky (mother) and Juliana (niece) and Nestor Paslawsky tos with Mr. Bodnar and his instrument. (brother), as Myron Bytz, co-founder of Ukrainian Heritage Night, looks on. (Continued on page 23) 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 No. 52-1

December 22 also produced agreements on nical cooperation in full volume.” He did not Ukraine and Georgia had a chance to get NEWSBRIEFS deliveries of Kazakh coal to Ukraine and give details, but suggested that meant visa liberalization at the Eastern the revival of a bilateral trade talks mecha- Ukrainian defense enterprises helping Partnership summit in Riga in May next (Continued from page 2) nism, as well as talk of defense industry Kazakhstan bolster its defenses rather than year. He noted, “in my ideal world there is Bill seeks to void Crimea’s 1954 transfer cooperation – pointed messages to Moscow Kazakhstan supplying weapons to Ukraine, at least one or maybe even more than one that Kazakhstan is unhappy with the con- which is fighting the pro-Russian rebels in a Eastern partner where the visa-liberaliza- MOSCOW – The chairwoman of the flict at the heart of the former Soviet Union. conflict that has killed more than 4,700 tion program is enhanced and introduced,” Russian Federation Council says the upper “I am appealing to Russia and Ukraine to people in eastern Ukraine since April. noting that Ukraine is lagging a bit behind house of Parliament is drafting legislation think about finding a compromise in order (RFE/RL, with reporting by Interfax, TASS, for purely technical reasons. The countries that would proclaim the Soviet Union’s to get out of this conflict and preserve RIA and UNIAN) have to undertake several reforms, such as 1954 transfer of Crimea to Ukraine as Ukraine’s territorial integrity, because this increased judicial cooperation with the EU, “legally void and nonbinding” since the situation is nonsense and should not be Leaders agree on more peace talks before being granted visa-free travel. moment of its enactment. Valentina taking place,” President Nazarbaev said KYIV – The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Moldovans in April were granted visa-free Matviyenko made the announcement at a after talks with Ukrainian President Petro France and Germany have agreed to call travel to the Schengen zone, which consists December 22 meeting of lawmakers from Poroshenko. Mr. Nazarbaev’s remarks sug- another round of Ukraine peace talks this of 22 of the 28 EU member states and non- both chambers of Parliament that also was gested he is concerned about the effects of week. Ukrainian President Petro EU Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and attended by President Vladimir Putin. She the Ukraine crisis on Kazakhstan, which is Poroshenko’s office said on December 22 Switzerland. (RFE/RL, with reporting by said a legal analysis shows the transfer of a partner of Russia in trade and security that the negotiations will be held in the Rikard Jozwiak in Brussels) Crimea to Ukraine under the Soviet leader- groupings cultivated by President Vladimir Belarusian capital, Minsk, on December 24 Tusk: EU needs long-term strategy ship of Nikita Khrushchev was “unlawful” Putin but is also pursuing close ties with and 26. The announcement was made after and violated the Constitution of the USSR the West. Russia’s ban on most Western President Poroshenko, Russian President BRUSSELS – European Council President and legal procedures of the time. Russia food imports – part of its response to Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Donald Tusk says the European Union annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March European Union and U.S. sanctions Hollande and German Chancellor Angela needs a strategy for dealing with Russia after deploying Russian troops across the imposed to punish the Kremlin for its inter- Merkel spoke in a telephone conference that lasts for years, not months. “The big- peninsula and carrying out an indepen- ference in Ukraine – has led to trade dis- call. The talks will involve Ukraine, Russia, gest challenge today is the Russian dence referendum that has been con- putes between Russia and Kazakhstan. Mr. pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine approach, not only to Ukraine but also to demned around the world as a violation of Nazarbaev said confrontation and sanc- and the Organization for Security and the EU,” said Mr. Tusk, a former Polish Ukrainian and international law. (RFE/RL) tions were “a dead-end street.” He said that Cooperation in Europe. The Kremlin said prime minister. Speaking at a news confer- Kazakhstan and Ukraine had agreed on Kazakh president calls for compromise Messrs. Putin, Poroshenko and Hollande, ence on December 19 at the end of a sum- supplies of coal from the resource-rich and Ms. Merkel “noted with satisfaction mit of EU leaders in Brussels, he called for a KYIV – Kazakh President Nursultan Central Asian nation to Ukraine, which that the warring parties have generally strategy that is “tough and responsible” for Nazarbaev, during a visit to Kyiv, has relies on Russian gas for about half its enforced the ceasefire in past days.” Both dealing with Russia and its president, reportedly called on Russia and Ukraine to power and digs much of its own coal in the Kremlin and Poroshenko’s office said Vladimir Putin, and resolving the Ukraine seek compromise in order to end the con- regions now held by the pro-Russian reb- the leaders agreed on the need to respect crisis. Mr. Tusk said “Russia is our strategic flict in eastern Ukraine and preserve its ter- els. President Poroshenko said that the the ceasefire, draw a separation line problem, not Ukraine.” Earlier, EU leaders ritorial integrity. Mr. Nazarbaev’s visit on countries would “revive our military-tech- between the warring sides, pull out troops adopted new sanctions as further punish- and heavy weapons, and quickly release ment for Russia’s annexation of Crimea war prisoners. The Kremlin also stressed from Ukraine in March. The new measures the importance of providing assistance to ban all investment in Crimea and stop the population of the east and taking steps European cruise ships from traveling there. to normalize the economic situation there. However, EU leaders said they were ready TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 The German government said the four to ease sanctions if Mr. Putin was deemed or e-mail [email protected] leaders discussed “concrete proposals for to be implementing a peace plan reached solutions,” in particular regarding the with Ukraine in Minsk in September. British exchange of prisoners. The Elysee Palace Prime Minister David Cameron said “the SERVICES PROFESSIONALS said the leaders called for urgent and “con- door is always open if Russia changes its crete progress” in the peace efforts and for behavior.” He added, “If it takes Russian the ceasefire to be “fully respected.” (RFE/ troops out of Ukraine, and it obeys all the RL, with reporting by Reuters, the strictures of the Minsk agreement, these Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, sanctions can go.” But German Chancellor Deutsche Presse-Agentur and Interfax) Angela Merkel stressed: “Sanctions... can only be lifted if the reasons for them Ecumenical patriarch, pope sign declaration change.” Earlier, EU foreign policy chief ISTANBUL – Pope Francis and Federica Mogherini said she derived no sat- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, meet- isfaction from the economic woes of Russia, ing at the Phanar on November 30, signed a partially the result of sanctions action by joint declaration with consequential impor- the EU and United States. But Ms. tance for Christian unity and momentous Mogherini said President Putin and other impact on the suffering of Christians in the senior Russian officials needed “a radical Middle East. The two leaders recalled with change in the attitude toward the rest of joy and gratitude their recent encounter in the world and to switch to a cooperative Jerusalem to commemorate the 50th anni- mode.” (RFE/RL, with reporting by Reuters versary since the meeting there of their and the Associated Press) predecessors, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras. They also referred to visits to CPJ: Journalist deaths soared in 2014 the Phanar by their predecessors, Popes NEW YORK – The Committee to Protect John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. Journalists (CPJ) says at least 60 journalists However, two-thirds of the statement was have been killed in 2014 in connection with dedicated to the crisis in the Middle East, their work. In a report on December 23, the the “ecumenism of suffering” especially in media watchdog said an “unusually high Iraq and Syria, as well as the conflict in proportion” of international journalists Ukraine. The two primates expressed their were killed this year while covering con- concern about the ongoing crisis in flicts in places like the Middle East, Ukraine Ukraine: “We also remember all the people and Afghanistan. With at least 17 journal- who experience the sufferings of war. In ists killed in 2014, Syria remained the particular, we pray for peace in Ukraine, a world’s deadliest country for the third OPPORTUNITIES country of ancient Christian tradition, straight year, CPJ said in the report. Among while we call upon all parties involved to them were American journalists James pursue the path of dialogue and of respect Foley and Steven Sotloff, whose beheadings Earn extra income! for international law in order to bring an by Islamic State (IS) militants were shown The Ukrainian Weekly is looking end to the conflict and allow all Ukrainians in videos released by the militant group in for advertising sales agents. to live in harmony.” (Ukrainian Orthodox August and September. In total, some 79 For additional information contact Church of the U.S.A.) reporters have been killed in Syria since Walter Honcharyk, Advertising Manager, Georgia, Ukraine may get visa-free regime the country’s bloody conflict erupted in The Ukrainian Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext 3040. 2011. Of the five reporters and two media BRUSSELS – Latvian Foreign Affairs workers killed in Ukraine this year, six were Minister Edgars Rinkevics has said that the international journalists, the New York- European Union might grant both based CPJ said. They were the first journal- WANT IMPACT? Georgians and Ukrainians visa-free access ism-related deaths CPJ has confirmed in Run your advertisement here, to the EU’s Schengen zone next year. Mr. Ukraine since 2001. In Afghanistan, Anja in The Ukrainian Weekly’s Rinkevics, whose country takes over the Niedringhaus, a German photographer for CLASSIFIEDS section. EU’s rotating presidency in January 2015, told RFE/RL on December 16 that both (Continued on page 15) No. 52-1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 15

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Montreal community marks Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev 81st anniversary of Holodomor speaks at University of Scranton

At the Montreal community’s commemoration of the Holodomor (from left) are: Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev is flanked by Malcolm L. MacKinnon (left), president of Famine survivor Volodymyr Polonskyj, Bohdanna Klecor-Hawryluk, Zorianna the Lackawanna Bar Association, and the Rev. Myron Myronyuk, pastor of St. Hrycenko-Luhova and Arsen Hnatiuk. Vladimir Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Scranton, Pa. MONTREAL – Joining communities Church, together with the Revs. Ihor SCRANTON, Pa. – On November 5, mem- Honorable T. Linus Hoban Memorial worldwide, Montreal marked the 81st anni- Oschipko and Yaroslav Pivtorak of the bers of the Ukrainian community of Forum, was co-sponsored by the University versary of the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine Ukrainian Catholic Church, and held at St. Northeastern Pennsylvania attended a pre- of Scranton and the Lackawanna Bar on Saturday, November 22, remembering Sophia Cathedral. sentation by Ukraine’s ambassador to the Association. Previous Hoban Forum speak- the millions deliberately starved to death in Among the 100 attending the solemn United Nations, Yuriy Sergeyev. Mr. ers have included: William H. Rehnquist, 1932-1933 by Stalin and his regime. remembrance were Famine survivors and Sergeyev spoke about the “Ukrainian- U.S. Supreme Court chief justice; Alexander The program was organized by the children of survivors, as well as members Russian Conflict and Global Security,” out- M. Haig, Jr., former U.S. secretary of state Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC), of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization lining effective steps that should be taken and supreme allied commander of NATO; Montreal branch. It followed a requiem ser- and the Ukrainian Youth Association, stu- against Russian imperialism in order to Helmut Schmidt, former chancellor of West vice officiated by the Rev. Wolodymyr preserve Ukraine’s sovereignty. Germany; and Yitzak Rabin, prime minister Kouchnir of the Ukrainian Orthodox (Continued on page 22) The event, known as the Annual of Israel.

two tranches by the end of the 2014. The on July 11 of a series of European Union dec- NEWSBRIEFS first tranche of $1.45 billion was trans- WFUWO... larations that pertain to the question of ferred in early November. Russia started achieving gender equality in Europe. (Continued from page 14) (Continued from page 4) pumping gas to Ukraine in December after Minister Denisova made a special point The Associated Press, was shot dead by a Kyiv transferred a prepayment of $378 mil- insufficient if gender equality is not a true of describing Ukraine’s current challenges, police officer while covering elections in lion to state-controlled Russian gas compa- priority of government.” especially as they relate to safeguarding April. Around a quarter of the journalists ny Gazprom for gas shipments in At the conclusion of her talk, Ms. Ukraine’s most vulnerable citizens, women killed in 2014 were international corre- December. Russia wants Ukraine to pay for Mondoux offered a list of recommenda- and children, many of whom are suffering spondents, roughly double the usual pro- gas in advance. Russian gas supplies to tions for improving the situation of women from complex life circumstances in the con- portion, the report said. However, despite Ukraine were halted six months ago due to in the media. flict zones of the country’s southeast terri- the high casualty rate of international jour- a dispute over prices and unpaid debts. The Geneva NGO Forum on Beijing +20 tories controlled by illegally armed groups. nalists, the report points out that the “over- (RFE/RL, based on reporting by Reuters UN ECE Review published its Declaration She made note of the internally displaced whelming majority” of journalists at risk and TASS) and Recommendations on November 5 persons, including those from the occupied for their work around the world continue with the motto “Every Woman, Every Right, MFA concerned about Savchenko territory of Crimea. to be local. The study found that about nine Every Minute: Everyone is Responsible and One result of the violence inflicted upon of every 10 journalists killed are local peo- KYIV – Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign the Time is Now” (http://beijing20.ngoc- Ukraine by Russia’s invasion of Crimea and ple covering local stories. Five journalists Affairs (MFA) expressed its deep concern sw-geneva.ch/) the occupation of eastern regions is the have been killed in Iraq this year, including over the continued illegal detention of The UN ECE Beijing +20 Regional ever-increasing problem of displaced per- three reporters who lost their lives while Nadia Savchenko in Russia. A Russian court Review began on November 6, after the sons. Recent estimates by the Internal covering clashes between government decision on December 22 extended her ille- conclusion of the NGO Forum, and Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC, troops and the IS militants. Three local gal detention. The MFA noted: “Despite the Ukraine’s governmental delegation includ- founded in 1998 as part of the Norwegian journalists have been killed in Pakistan this deterioration of her health, and the evi- ed Minister of Social Policy Denisova. On Refugee Council, an independent non-gov- year, a decline from previous years, but vio- dence collected by the defense that con- November 7 she spoke frankly during her ernmental humanitarian organization) lence against reporters persisted. Pakistani firms her innocence and also agreements presentation about the conflict in Ukraine, puts the number of internally displaced television anchors Hamid Mir and Raza on freeing all illegally held persons, on as well as the current Ukrainian govern- persons (IDPs) in Ukraine at over 430,000 Rumi were serious wounded in separate December 22, 2014, the Russian side did ment’s commitment to gender equality. as of October (http://www.internal-dis- attacks by gunmen, and Rumi’s driver was not change its decision on her continued Ms. Denisova confirmed that Ukraine’s placement.org/europe-the-caucasus-and- killed. CPJ says it is still investigating detention in custody. In connection to this, current state policies are dedicated to the central-asia/ukraine/figures-analysis). whether the deaths of at least 18 other the Ukrainian side repeats its demand creation of a legal, social and political foun- The dire situation in Ukraine evoked journalists this year were related to their regarding the release of N. Savchenko and dation for the fullest realization of the poten- sympathetic references from Nyaradzayi work. (RFE/RL, with reporting by Agence all citizens of Ukraine, illegally detained on tial of women and men in all spheres of Gumbonzvanda, president of the NGO CSW France-Presse and the Associated Press) the territory of the Russian Federation.” Lt. employment, community and personal life, Geneva, and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Ukraine pays part of gas debt Savchenko, a Ukrainian air force pilot who and to the eradication of all forms of gender undersecretary general and executive direc- was serving in eastern Ukraine, was discrimination. Ms. Denisova reminded her tor of U.N. Women, as well as overt support KYIV – According to December 23 news abducted by Kremlin-backed terrorists in audience of Ukraine’s recent endorsement from the participants of the conference. reports, the Ukrainian state energy firm mid-June and taken to Russia, where she Naftohaz said it has transferred $1.65 bil- has been illegally detained and imprisoned lion, the second tranche of a debt repay- since that time. She was elected to Harvard’s summer workshops she staged ment, to Russia’s Gazprom. In October, Ukraine’s Parliament in October. She is cur- Oleh Lysheha... fragments from Mr. Lysheha’s play “Friend rently on a hunger strike in protest against Li Po, Brother Tu Fu,” and several of his Moscow, Kyiv and the European Union (Continued from page 5) reached a deal under which Russia would her illegal imprisonment. (Foreign Affairs poems. restart flows to Ukraine over the winter in Ministry of Ukraine, Ukrainian Canadian bilingual versions of his poems “Song 212” In 1998 Yara presented “A Celebration of return for Ukraine paying $3.1 billion in Congress) and “Song 2” at the Ukrainian Institute of the Poetry of Oleh Lysheha.” In 2003 Ms. America in New York. That summer Ms. Tkacz staged “Swan” as a full production at Tkacz staged Mr. Lysheha’s prose poem La MaMa Experimental Theater in New “Mountain” at Yara’s Theater Workshop at York. Visit our archive online: www.ukrweekly.com Harvard Unviersity. For several years in Source: Wikipedia 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 No. 52-1

loan more money, the IMF wants to see adversely affected. Kyiv economist, said the budget will also Financial... more structural reforms that will make the The proposals that drew the most con- tax the oligarchs, “who won’t suffer any less Ukrainian economy more stable, Mr. troversy were increases in the pension eligi- than the general public,” a point that Mr. (Continued from page 1) Boyarchuk said. bility age to 65 for both men and women Yatsenyuk and Finance Minister Natalie December 30, with three sessions and two The most fundamental of these require- (when the average life span of Ukrainian Jaresko tried to make while being bom- committee hearings before then. Already ments is a realistic 2015 budget that males is 62 years old), and eliminating sti- barded with expressions of moral indigna- National Deputy Oleh Liashko said his dep- ensures economic stability and develop- pends for university students. Student lead- tion in the Verkhovna Rada. uties from the Radical Party won’t vote for ment. Yet the government demonstrated ers were threatening nationwide strikes Ms. Jaresko pointed out that natural gas the budget, despite the party being a coali- on December 23 that it has failed to should their state stipends – cash payments extraction rents would be increased to 70 tion member. Mr. Oleshchuk said he achieve that, economists said. that average $45 a month and can be used percent on some firms that cooperate with expects the Self-Reliance and Besides what’s described as an unrealis- for any expenses – be eliminated. state operators and royalties would remain Batkivshchyna parties won’t support it tic benchmark of 475 billion hrv ($29.0 bil- A week and a half after they were leaked in place for others. Many of these firms are either, which will threaten the stability lion U.S.) in revenue, which raises the risk to the media from within the Finance controlled by Ukraine’s top oligarchs. of the coalition government. for a swelling deficit, the budget plans for Ministry, as part of its recommended bud- Nevertheless, the identified burden on Based on what was revealed in the bud- 200 billion hrv ($12.2 billion) to be printed, get cuts, Vice Prime Minister Viacheslav the oligarchs – described as a caste of 10 get presented to the Verkhovna Rada, the which raises the risk of destabilizing Kyrylenko announced on December 22 that percent who control 90 percent of the nation’s leading economists said they’re money supply flowing into the market, Mr. these two measures were not included in nation’s wealth – wasn’t enough to lend pessimistic about the future of Ukrainian Boyarchuk noted. the proposed spending cuts. optimism to economists, who didn’t shy statehood. Most notably, the budget calls The budget doesn’t even assume that Petro Oleshchuk, a political science lec- away from apocalyptic forecasts. Mr. for a 30 percent revenue increase, which is the hryvnia will be further devalued; it is turer at Taras Shevchenko National Boyarchuk said hyperinflation is “very pos- unrealistic even for prosperous times, and based on an exchange rate of 17 hrv per University in Kyiv, said, “The scare could sible,” while Dr. Oleh Soskin of the Institute extensive money printing to finance its def- U.S. dollar, which is close to the current offi- have been one of two things, namely an of Society Transformation said he expects icit, which raises the risk of hyperinflation. cial rate and what’s being offered on the unfriendly act from within the Cabinet, as economic collapse in 2015. “Maybe the government has an unwrit- black market in Kyiv. the coalition lacks unity,” or, a continuation Indeed, their sentiments echoed the pes- ten agreement with the IMF, but based on Then there are the hidden deficits of the of “a long tradition from Soviet times – first simism expressed earlier this year by The what I know about what the IMF wants and state natural gas monopoly Naftohaz raise fears and then reduce the threat to Economist and the Financial Times, leading what the government has proposed, they Ukrainy and the Pension Fund, said Andriy demonstrate that the government is offer- global publications that both cast doubt are suggesting entirely different things and Novak, the head of the Committee of ing compromises and reducing tension.” upon the Ukrainian government’s ability to the prospects of another tranche are ques- Economists of Ukraine. The term “hidden The lack of unity within the coalition remain solvent and avoid default in 2015. tionable,” said Dmytro Boyarchuk, the exec- deficits” means that these state bodies bear government was apparent in the weeks Without financial aid in addition to $17 utive director of the CASE Ukraine Center the burden of incurring deficits that truly leading up to the budget’s presentation. billion stand-by agreement, “Kiev [sic] for Socio-Economic Research. belong to the central state budget, and they Yurii Lutsenko, the parliamentary faction would have to massively slash its budget or “The IMF wants to see realistic figures eventually have to be financed. head of the Poroshenko Bloc, described the be forced to default on its sovereign debt and remedies. It certainly doesn’t want to There’s also the state foreign debt, Cabinet’s program in mid-December as an obligations,” the Financial Times reported. see money printing. So either this govern- which is projected to grow 30 percent to “ABC book with pictures” and “student The 2015 budget deficit is projected at ment is behaving utterly insolently and 1.2 trillion hrv ($73 billion) by the end of slapdash.” 63 billion hrv, or 3.7 percent of GDP, a irresponsibly, or it knows something that 2015 (despite payments of $11 billion to be During the budget’s parliamentary dis- decline from 88.4 billion hrv projected for we don’t,” he added. made in the same year). cussion on December 23, former Finance this year, yet a number at great risk of The Ukrainian government became “The government hasn’t satisfied the Minister Viktor Pynzenyk, also a national swelling. dependent on the International Monetary main demand of the IMF, which is balanc- deputy of the Poroshenko Bloc, offered his In fact, the Standard & Poors rating Fund (IMF) after the collapse of the admin- ing the budget with a low deficit and reduc- own scathing attack. agency estimated the deficit will swell to istration of President Viktor Yanukovych, ing, or at least not increasing, the state In a populist, made-for-TV harangue, he 8.5 percent of GDP, far above IMF require- which bled dry the state’s international debt,” Mr. Novak said. “Instead, the govern- dismissed it as a “sad” document that shifts ments, and even that figure would require reserves (foreign currency and precious ment went down the deficit-debt path. I economic burdens on society’s poorest by “considerable effort at fiscal consolidation.” metals) and left behind budget-draining don’t understand why the government isn’t postponing inflation adjustments for the Ukraine’s financial situation is “precari- corruption schemes. Not only were the tightening belts while cutting the deficit minimum wage and minimum living stan- ous,” the agency stated, assigning it its schemes not eliminated, but they were and keeping the debt under control. dards – upon which many social payments worst rating of 10 on a scale of 1 to 10, taken advantage of by successors, several Instead, it’s tightening belts but gaining are based – until December of next year. with 10 being the riskiest. economists said. nothing in the way of the deficit and debt. This notion that the belt-tightening will “The IMF program itself remains at risk So far this year, the IMF has loaned So what’s the point?” come at the expense of the poor has also of not going ahead,” as there “have been Ukraine $4.6 billion (as part of a $17 billion It’s the belt-tightening that raised public been fueled by Kyiv’s pro-Putin media, significant deviations from its base-case stand-by loan program), owing to reforms alarm, in the two weeks leading up to the which remain active. assumptions,” S&P said in the report organized by Mr. Yatsenyuk. But in order to budget’s release, about who would be most But Borys Kushniruk, an independent released on December 19.

including performers, the audience, Bishop Cooperation in Europe – aimed to end to New York’s Dumka... Chomnycky and guests, including the Very Verkhovna Rada... the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Rev. Roman Tarnavsky, pastor of St. After a four-way telephone call between (Continued from page 1) (Continued from page 1) Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and Presidents Poroshenko and Putin, German then chorus president Paul Liteplo gave intoned a “Mnohaya Lita,” which was NATO and has called for formal assurances Chancellor Angela Merkel and French brief remarks introducing the program, immediately picked up by the chorus. that this will never happen. President Francois Hollande, Mr. which included a number of the most rep- The concert attracted an audience of President Vladimir Putin has suggested Poroshenko’s office said the negotiations resentative traditional Ukrainian carols some 300 and was several months in the that the main reason Russia annexed will be held in the Belarusian capital, including “Boh Predvichnyi” (God Eternal), planning. It was coordinated by Christ the Crimea from Ukraine in March was the Minsk, on December 24 and 26. “Khrystos Narodyvsia” (Christ is Born), “Try King’s choir director, Ihor Kowal; he was prospect of NATO forces being deployed on More than 1,000 people have been killed Slavni Tsari” (Three Kings), “Schedryk” assisted by Vasyl Liteplo, whose father and the peninsula. in eastern Ukraine despite a September 5 (Carol of the Bells) and “Ne Plach, Rakhyle” brother are members of Dumka. Russia used troops and a referendum deal on a ceasefire and steps toward peace, (Weep Not, Rachel), as well as a number of Dumka was founded in New York City in denounced abroad as illegal to annex Crimea but fighting has abated this month. carols traditionally sung in the United 1949 as a male chorus to preserve and cul- after Mr. Yanukovych was driven from power States including “Silent Night,” which was tivate the rich religious and secular musical by protests over his decision to scrap plans With reporting by Interfax, the Associated sung in German, English and Ukrainian, and heritage of Ukraine. In 1959 it became a for a landmark treaty with the European Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse. “The First Noel/Pachelbel’s Canon.” mixed chorus. It has performed extensively Union and instead tighten ties with Moscow. Copyright 2014, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted The group concluded its performance in major cities throughout the United States The vote in Ukraine added to tension with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ with a rendition of Handel’s Hallelujah and Canada and has toured Europe twice. ahead of a planned new round of talks – Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Chorus from the “Messiah” and received a In 1990 it visited Ukraine, performing to involving representatives of Ukraine, Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see prolonged standing ovation. packed concert halls in Lviv, Kyiv and Russia, the Russian-supported rebels and http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-parlia- Father Nalysnyk then thanked everyone, Poltava. the Organization for Security and ment-abandons-neutrality/26758725.html).

West’s efforts to end the bloodletting in presidential election. He was re-elected in nearly one-third of the shrinking population Turning... Kosovo.” 2004, then switched roles with Prime of Russia living below the poverty line. Mr. Many Western governments, he added, Minister Dmitry Medvedev, with the latter Yeltsin described his decision to send the (Continued from page 6) would be certain to view the transition of taking the presidency in 2009. The two Russian army into Chechnya – which had “Even if such speculation is baseless,” Mr. power from Mr. Yeltsin to Mr. Putin as evi- then reversed their positions in 2012 at the cost hundreds of thousands of lives – as his Goble noted, “it seems certain to become dence that Russia had not made as much time of another presidential election. greatest mistake. part of the internal debate as Western progress toward democracy as they had Prior to Mr. Yeltsin’s resignation, the countries decide how to deal with the new hoped or even claimed. ruble had been devalued nearly 70 percent Source: “A transforming resignation: president of Russia, a man who has defined Russian parliamentary elections in early in 1998 against the dollar. Russia’s financial Boris Yeltsin leaves the scene,” by Paul A. himself only to the extent of launching a December 1999 gave Mr. Putin the support collapse was blamed on the failed policies of Goble (RFE/RL), The Ukrainian Weekly, war in the Caucasus and denouncing the he needed to succeed Mr. Yeltsin in the Mr. Yeltsin and widespread corruption, with January 9, 2000. No. 52-1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 17

Екзекутивний комітет Українського Народного Союзу, редакції тижневиків „Свобода“ і  e Ukrainian Weekly та адміністрація „Союзівки“ складають найкращі побажання первоієрархам українських церков, українським організаціям, членам УНСоюзу, управам відділів та окружних комітетів, передплатникам і читачам видань УНСоюзу та українській громаді в діяспорі й Україні з нагоди Свят Різдва Христового та Нового Року!

Радісних Свят May the miracle of Christmas
ll your hearts Різдва Христового і with joy, laughter and wisdom. Щасливого Нового Року родині, приятелям, знайомим, Merry Christmas! Головному Урядові УНСоюзу, працівникам та всім секретарям Відділів Julian Pishko and family щиро бажають СТЕФАН і СВЯТОСЛАВА КАЧАРАЇ з родиною

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Luba Poniatyszyn Keske - UNA Advisor, З радісним празником Pres. Branch 257 Zoryana Keske - Branch Secretary Різдва Христового Walter Keske - Member Крайова Пластова Старшина в Америці вітає Начального Пластуна, проводи Головної Пластової Ради і Головної Пластової Булави, Крайову Пластову Старшину в З Різдвом Христовим і Новим Роком Україні та в усіх країнах, де діє Пласт. Рівнож вітаємо усіх пластунів, розкинених по світі, пересилаю сердечні поздоровлення усім та весь український народ на рідних землях і в діяспорі. моїм друзям, приятелям та знайомим, усьому дорогому українському народові Нехай зоря, що над Вертепом сяє в Україні та у всьому світі. Ваші серця любов’ю зігріває! Добра і миру Вам! Бажаю кріпкого здоров’я, щастя, сили і світу всьому! та Божого благословення у праці на добро і процвітання рідної України. ХРИСТОС РОДИВСЯ! СЛАВІМО ЙОГО! МИРОСЛАВА МИРОШНИЧЕНКО КРАЙОВА ПЛАСТОВА СТАРШИНА США 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 No. 52-1

Веселих Свят Різдва Христового та Головна Управа „Самопоміч“ Щасливого Нового Року Об’єднання Українців в Америці родині, приятелям і знайомим б а ж а ю т ь вітає АННА і СТЕФАН МАКУХИ Відділи і все членство з наступаючими Святами і бажає Merry Christmas Веселих Свят and a Happy New Year Різдва Xристового to all out family and friends та Luba and George Walchuk щасливого і повного успіхів Нового Року ХРИСТОС РОЖДАЄТЬСЯ! СТАНИЧНА СТАРШИНА ПЛАСТОВОЇ СТАНИЦІ В НЮ-ЙОРКУ За дирекцію ОУА, Олег Лопатинський, голова бажає УКРАЇНСЬКІЙ ГРОМАДІ, ПЛАСТОВІЙ ФУНДАЦІЇ, СВОЇМ ЖЕРТВОДАВЦЯМ ТА УСІМ ПЛАСТУНАМ І ПРИЯТЕЛЯМ ПЛАСТУ

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broadcast, together with journalist UCCA Kyiv... Alexander Piddubny, was Olena Kiyashko, professional radio journalist from Chernihiv Щиросердечні побажання (Continued from page 9) Radio. Volodymyr Boyko (Chernihiv as well as well-known individuals, includ- Training Center), Vasyl Chepurny РАДІСНИХ СВЯТ ing journalists, bloggers and influential (Chernihiv Oblast Center Education Society) leaders to participate in the broadcasts. and Yuri Hromushyn (award-winning jour- РІЗДВА ХРИСТОВОГО Leading journalist Alexander Piddubny nalist from Luhansk) were invited to be та serves as moderator, fielding calls from guests during the broadcast. participants and questions from the audi- Many listeners phoned in to the studio; ЩАСЛИВОГО НОВОГО РОКУ ence, and posting the information on social they were particularly interested in the fol- media. Each broadcast is conducted with a lowing questions: Why has the Ukrainian regional co-host, either a journalist or an government done practically nothing in the для української громади activist who is familiar with the current sit- last 20 years to break down stereotypes uation within the particular region where between east and west? How are we to з а с и л а є the broadcast is being aired. break the stereotypes of people in Donetsk From the name of the project it is clear and Luhansk in order to encourage them to that the main theme of the broadcasts is become patriots of Ukraine and take up DNIPRO LLC. stereotypes. What stereotypes exist about arms in defense of their homeland? Many Ukrainians in general, or Ukrainians in a of the questions were aimed at Mr. Tel.: (908) 241-2190 • (888) 336-4776 particular region? How do stereotypes Hromushyn, who resettled from Luhansk, affect our perception of others? Do stereo- and has now found a new home and new types divide or unite people? These and friends in Chernihiv. other questions are being addressed in the The UCCA believes that such projects are broadcasts on regional radio stations extremely timely and necessary. People in throughout Ukraine in the hopes of finding eastern and western Ukraine want an hon- an answer to the question: How can we est dialogue; they want their government ХРИСТОС РОЖДАЄТЬСЯ! unite all of Ukraine? and their representatives to hear them and The broadcasts are interactive – they are understand that, despite regional differenc- open to anyone in Ukraine who has access es, Ukraine is, in fact, one united nation. Веселих Свят та Щасливого Нового Року to a telephone, the Internet or FM radio. In These civic education broadcasts encour- the Chernihiv region alone the broadcast age participation and help journalists to б а ж а є reached 300,000 people. focus more on the needs of the audience, The first program in the series was not in a mentoring way, but rather in an УКРАЇНСЬКОМУ ГРОМАДЯНСТВУ broadcast on November 17, 2014, on open dialogue about issues and concerns Chernihiv regional radio. Co-hosting the affecting Ukrainian society today. ЛИТВИН І ЛИТВИН УКРАЇНСЬКЕ ПОХОРОННЕ ЗАВЕДЕННЯ making sure that you don’t leave this camp Stefaniya Shabatura... alive.” Ms. Shabatura declared a hunger UNION FUNERAL HOME strike that lasted 12 days. (Continued from page 5) A wave of protests swept through the 1600 Stuyvesant Ave. (corner Stanley Terr.), Union, NJ 07083 taken to Lviv for “re-education.” On Mordovian political labor camps over the (908) 964-4222 • (973) 375-5555 December 10, Human Rights Day, as in pre- wanton destruction of her work, and that of vious years, she declared a hunger strike to others. protest violations of human rights in the In February 1979 a group of political USSR. Despite intense pressure from an prisoners and those in exile, including Ms. officer of the Lviv KGB, Ms. Shabatura did Shabatura, declared their support for – and not abandon her strike. She was warned membership in – the Ukrainian Helsinki that she would “live to regret it.” Group, whose founding members by that Immediately following her return to the time were almost all in labor camps. camp, directly at the guard point, Ms. At the end of the 1980s Ms. Shabatura Shabatura was officially informed that 150 of became actively involved in the national her paintings, taken away before her depar- and political revival in Ukraine. She was an ture, had been burned either as “abstract active member of the Lviv chapter of works” or because the camp was depicted. Memorial and of Rukh, the Popular To protest the action, in February 1976 Movement of Ukraine, and took part in the she refused to work. She was initially struggle to re-establish the persecuted thrown into the solitary confinement cell, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. then in April she was put in a prison-type Ms. Shabatura died on December 17 in cell for six months. The head of the camp Lviv, where she had lived for many years. cynically told her: “We don’t shoot people Source: Kharkiv Group Human Rights anymore, but we still have other ways of Protection Group.

ВЕСЕЛИХ СВЯТ Vizerunky under the direction of Ivan Montreal... Gutych, bandurist Arsen Hnatiuk and others. та Ms. Hawryluk mentioned how Montreal (Continued from page 15) has been in the forefront of raising public ЩАСЛИВОГО НОВОГО РОКУ dents from the Metropolitan Sheptytsky awareness of the Holodomor with the orga- Ukrainian Saturday School and other com- nization of the first international confer- бажають munity members. ence on the Famine-Genocide in 1983 by The guest speaker was historian Roman Prof. Serbyn at the University of Quebec in Serbyn, a specialist on the Holodomor. He Montreal (UQAM). The conference was stressed the importance of recalling the filmed by Yurij Luhovy and the tapes of the ДАНИЛО БУЗЕТА – директор pivotal contribution made by Raphael conference are being restored. Lemkin in coining the term “genocide” and The evening concluded with the singing of та Родина ДМИТРИК applying it to include the 1932-1933 the Ukrainian national anthem and the pass- Famine. Prof. Serbyn noted how attempts by ing of blessed pieces of bread as a reminder Russia to destroy Ukraine as a nation date of how precious this life-sustaining food is back to the times of Tsar Peter I and contin- and how confiscation of food was used as a PETER JAREMA ues today “with Putin, a Russian imperialist, weapon in the breadbasket of Europe to try intent in destroying Ukraine as a nation.” and destroy Ukraine as a nation. Pavlo Chornous shared recollections A display of books about the Holodomor Funeral Home passed onto to him by his grandmother, written over the decades in the diaspora who barely managed to live through the and more recently in Ukraine was orga- Holodomor, losing many family members nized by the president of UCC Montreal, 129 EAST 7th STREET – NEW YORK, NY through forced starvation. Zorianna Hrycenko-Luhova. (Between 1st & Ave. “A“) The program, organized by UCC-Montreal As part of the Holodomor commemora- 212 674-2568 cultural chairperson Bohdanna Klecor- tion in Montreal, the McGill Ukrainian Hawryluk, also included moving perfor- Students’ Association (MUSA) showed Mr. МОДЕРНI Й ОХОЛОДЖУВАНІ КАПЛИЦІ mances by the vocal trio Rosa under the Luhovy’s award-winning documentary direction of Vera Turko-Kulycka, vocal duo “Genocide Revealed” at the McGill Music Anna and Yurij Konevych, vocal ensemble Library during the annual Ukrainian Week. No. 52-1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 23

January 16 Malanka Pub Nite, Ukrainian American Citizens’ January 31 Ottawa Malanka, “Midnight in Kyiv,” with music by Zirka, Philadelphia Association, 215-284-0185 Ottawa Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral hall, 613-277-4664 or January 16 Online art sale, Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church, [email protected] (reserve by January 27) Silver Spring, MD www.holytrinityartshow.com or 716-903-5485 February 7 Chervona Kalyna Debutante Ball, with music by Fata January 17 Malanka celebration, with music by Zvook, Ukrainian Pearl River, NY Morgana and Svitanok, Plast Ukrainian Scouting Jenkintown, PA American Youth Association, Ukrainian Educational and Organization, Hilton Pearl River Hotel, www.kalynadeb.org Cultural Center, 215-620-7462 or [email protected]

January 17 Malanka celebration, with music by Fata Morgana, St. February 7 Chervona Kalyna Debutante Ball and Winter Zabava, Scranton, PA Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church, Rochester, NY with music by Zvook, Ukrainian Cultural Center of [email protected] Rochester, Radisson Riverside Hotel, 585-662-3751 or 585-507-1395 January 24 Presentation of debutantes, Plast Ukrainian Scouting Whippany, NJ Organization – Newark branch, Hanover Marriott, February 14 Presentation of debutantes, Ukrainian American Youth 973-809-758 or [email protected] Parsippany, NJ Association, Sheraton Parsippany Hotel, www.cym.org/us/2015-deb-tickets or January 30 Pub Night, featuring music by Svitanok, Ukrainian League [email protected] Philadelphia of Philadelphia, www.ukrainianleague.com or 215-684-3548 February 14 Presentation of debutantes, Ukrainian Medical Chicago Association of North America, Palmer House Hilton, January 31 Presentation of debutantes, Ukrainian Engineers’ Society [email protected] Philadelphia of America, Hyatt Regency Hotel at Penn’s Landing, 610-277-12814 or [email protected] Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events January 31 New Britain Malanka, to benefit Zolotyj Promin Ukrainian advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions New Britain, CT dance group, featuring music by Hrim and Klooch, St. from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors George Greek Orthodox Church hall, 860-452-4023 and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected].

singers/musicians from upstate New York, gave their lives for Ukraine’s freedom, The evening ended with an appearance N.J. Devils host... who performed traditional Ukrainian folk “Christmas’ Quiet Night” and “Prayer for by St. Nicholas, who greeted the children songs, a medley of Ukrainian dance songs Ukraine.” Ms. Oksana Telepko entered the and adults, passing out a secret confection- (Continued from page 13) primarily from the Carpathian Mountains; a stage area with her bandura and enthralled ary treat to all the good people. adding a few more verses from the original Christmas carol wishing good tidings. the listeners with “Blowing Winds,” a selec- The evening was organized by Myron version that many had not heard before. The Next was Maksym Lozynskyj, who played tion about a boy who leaves for war and the and Christina Bytz under the auspices of brothers also sang two more numbers. guitar and sang “Almost Spring,” “The Wall” girl who misses him; “Motherland” about the planned Ukrainian Sports Hall of Fame Following was Korinya (Sana, Zoya and and “Rise Up” – songs full of hope for the Ukraine; and a Christmas song, “Where Are and Museum. An additional co-partner for Stefan Shepko, Lexi Hamilton, Alina Kuzma future. Miss Kosachevich followed with You Going, Three Wise Men,” joined by her this year’s event was Lys Sports Academy and Maria Pleshkevich), a family of folk “Svicha,” a song dedicated to the heroes who daughter Katrusia. of Whippany, N.J. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 No. 52-1

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Wednesday, January 7 brated at 7:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve, Tuesday, January 6.) PARMA, Ohio: St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral will sponsor its 27th Saturday, January 17 annual Christmas radio program for its JENKINTOWN, Pa.: Come celebrate the sick and elderly shut-in parishioners and New Year with family and friends at the the entire Ukrainian community of annual Philadelphia Malanka. This year Greater Cleveland. The Christmas Divine the popular Canadian zabava band Zvook Liturgy will be broadcast live at 9-11 a.m. will provide entertainment, while a com- on WJMO, 1300 AM. It can also be heard plimentary champagne toast, hot buffet online across the United States at dinner and cash bar will also be offered. PraiseCleveland.com. Go to the radio sta- The event begins 9 p.m. at the Ukrainian tion website for Praise 1300 AM, click on Educational and Cultural Center, 700 “Listen Live” on the right-hand side, or go Cedar Road, Jenkintown, PA 19046. to the parish website, www.st.vladimirs. Discounted advance tickets are available org at the above-mentioned time. The lit- until January 10 for adults at $40 ($45 at urgy will be celebrated by the clergy of door) and for students at $25 ($30 at St. Vladimir Cathedral, with responses door). Hotel rooms are available at the sung by the Ukrainian and English choirs Days Inn Horsham. For ticket information of the cathedral. (Also at St. Vladimir’s contact Dan at 215-620-7462 or Great Compline and Matins will be cele- [email protected].

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