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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXII HE No.KRAINIAN 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine UkraineT gearsU up for presidentialW election Observers concerned about voting abroad Two main contenders in tight race

ANALYSIS: by Roman Woronowycz by Roman Woronowycz Fraud is feared Kyiv Press Bureau Kyiv Press Bureau KYIV – With some 4 million to 7 million Ukrainians esti- KYIV – The two main contenders for the presidential seat in mated to be living and working abroad, the issue of access to Ukraine headed for the finish line practically neck and neck, their in diaspora voting polling stations abroad and the manner in which their votes will campaigns touring the country extensively and the candidates utiliz- by Taras Kuzio be secured is no small concern. ing all at their disposal to draw the Ukrainian electorate to their side. Millions of Ukrainian citizens living Some political observers are worried that the indiscriminate With just over a week to election day, Prime Minister Viktor abroad have the right to vote in the opening of polling stations abroad could open the door to vote falsi- Yanukovych continued to demonstrate his financial advantage October 31 presidential election. While fication, particularly in Russia, where the Association of Ukrainians by utilizing the power of his office to appeal to voters with provisions for expatriates have been in Russia has learned of plans to open up to 650 additional voting financial handouts and awards from the state coffers. made previously, this election marks precincts, even in places where few Ukrainian citizens live. The last opinion polls on the presidential race legally allowed the first time the opposition and elec- Representatives of two Ukrainian civic groups said at a press before the October 31 vote showed that Mr. Yanukovych had tion monitoring groups have focused conference in Kyiv on October 21 that simple math suggests that overtaken his main rival, National Deputy Viktor Yushchenko, on such ballots. On October 12 the up to 1 million votes could be falsified in Russia alone. and held a slight advantage. Most experts attributed the rise Foreign Affairs Ministry of Ukraine Valerii Semenenko, vice-chairman of the Association of directly to additional support he now had among pensioners announced that it would increase the (Continued on page 14) (Continued on page 14) number of polling stations abroad. Originally, only 113 overseas polling stations were to be opened. Germany was to have the most with 20,000 students gather in Kyiv in support of Yushchenko five, followed by four each for Poland, Russia and the United States, by Natalya Slobodyan the strong bond between Mr. Yushchenko to monitor the vote by gathering at two each for Italy and Spain, and one Special to the Ukrainian Weekly and the youth of Ukraine. polling stations across Ukraine on elec- Mr. Yushchenko thanked the students tion day. in Portugal. Now, additional stations KYIV – A meeting and rally of the are to be opened in Russia, Vietnam for risking a trip to Kyiv during a time “You are the best generation of young All-Ukrainian Students’ Council gathered people,” said Mr. Yushchenko to the stu- and Moldova. Italy has agreed to about 20,000 people before the National when ruthless attempts were being made polling stations provided they are to impede his campaign and to destroy dents. “You have the ability to raise University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine to a place among the intellectual located in diplomatic and consular any public sense of support for him. He Kyiv on October 16 to listen to presiden- leaders of the world.” missions. None of the overseas sta- tial candidate Viktor Yushchenko. It was called on them to continue to pressure the tions will have Ukrainian observers, a meeting that many here said expressed government for a free and fair vote, and (Continued on page 13) international observers, or exit polls. During the 1999 presidential elec- tion, Ukraine’s ambassadors were ordered to ensure that the votes made by diplomats under their control and Ukrainian citizens living in their country would be in the “correct” manner for Leonid Kuchma. The fail- ure to bring in the “correct” vote led to the dismissal of Anton Buteiko, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States. Other Ukrainian ambassadors may face the same fate this year. According to one recent poll, 86 percent of Ukrainians living abroad wish to take part in the election, a fig- ure that reflects the high degree of interest in this year’s race. Of those who plan to vote, 78.84 percent will vote for opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko (Ukrainska Pravda, September 29). The projected turnout abroad will far surpass the 1999 and 2002 levels. In Toronto, which has a large “Fourth Wave” Ukrainian diaspo- ra, only 3,351 people were registered to vote. Of those, only 555 (17 percent) voted in 1999. Similarly, in the 2002 elections only one-third of the small number of registered Ukrainian citi- zens in Toronto actually cast a ballot (Ukrainska Pravda, August 12). Already, overseas voting is raising concerns. In Russia, Ukrainians are the second largest national minority AP/Efrem Lukatsky (Continued on page 27) Students from throughout Ukraine rally in Kyiv on October 16 in support of Viktor Yushchenko. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 No. 43

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS A “Georgian scenario” in Ukraine? Pro-government deputies boycott session... stipulated in the European Convention on Human Rights. “Neither the relevant by Jan Maksymiuk device, 2.4 kilograms of TNT, electric det- KYIV – Six pro-government parliamen- Ukrainian legislation nor practice contained RFE/RL Belarus and Ukraine Report onators and a grenade. Prosecutors have tary caucuses – Labor Ukraine, the Social a direct eligibility requirement of ‘habitual’ opened a criminal case under articles per- Democratic Party-United, Ukraine’s or ‘continuous’ residence in the territory of Earlier this month, the coalition of par- taining to terrorism and the formation of Regions, Single Ukraine, Democratic Ukraine for parliamentary candidates,” the ties and organizations backing the presi- illegal armed groups and arrested Yaroslav Initiatives and Soyuz – did not register for court said in its ruling. The court awarded dential bid of Prime Minister Viktor Hodunok, a founder of Pora. the parliamentary session and failed to Mr. Melnychenko 5,000 euros ($6,250) in Yanukovych issued a statement suggest- According to accounts by Pora activists ing the opposition is planning a “Chestnut appear in the session hall on October 20, damages. (RFE/RL Newsline) and lawmakers from Mr. Yushchenko’s Ukrainian news agencies reported. There are Revolution” in the event that its candi- Our Ukraine bloc who were present dur- date, Viktor Yushchenko, is defeated at reportedly 248 deputies registered for the ... releases more secret recordings ing the search, the discovery of explosive session, which is a sufficient majority for the ballot box on October 31. The state- devices at Pora was quite simply a police WARSAW – Former Ukrainian presi- ment accuses oppositionists of planning adopting most bills. Pro-government law- provocation. Pora activist Yevhen makers tried to block the session the previ- dential bodyguard Mykola Melnychenko to gather half a million Yushchenko sup- Zolotarev told the Ukrainska pravda web- revealed more of his secret recordings in porters near the Central Election ous day as well. Verkhovna Rada Chairman site (http://www.pravda.com.ua) on Volodymyr Lytvyn said in Parliament on President Leonid Kuchma’s office during a Commission headquarters on election October 18 that during the first search, October 19 that pro-government lawmakers news conference in Warsaw on October 19, night to prepare for such an eventuality. which was videotaped by Pora, police “are implementing a scenario” for disrupting Interfax reported. The disclosed recording “We address the Ukrainian president found nothing. But half an hour later the work of the legislature and holding early carries an alleged conversation between Mr. with a request to take all possible measures police officers conducted another search, parliamentary elections. “After the [presi- Kuchma and Viktor Yanukovych, in which to prevent the implementation of ‘Chestnut- with no one else present, and found the dential] elections many people will need to the latter, then the chairman of the Donetsk Revolution scenarios’ and to ensure law and “terrorist implements and devices.” find [new] jobs and they are now trying to Oblast, discusses corruption in the order during the election process,” the state- The police officers also found a stock of find these jobs in the Verkhovna Rada; this Parliament and briefs the president on how ment reads, in an apparent reference to purportedly propagandistic materials and an requires a blockade of the Verkhovna Rada he muzzles the press in his region. Mr. Georgia’s so-called Rose Revolution, which issue of the organization’s satirical newspa- in order to hold new elections,” Mr. Lytvyn Melnychenko promised to pass the record- peacefully deposed President Eduard per, “Pro Ya. y tse.” (Its title is a pun best said. (RFE/RL Newsline) ing to Ukrainian lawmakers. He also invited Shevardnadze in November 2003 following translated as either “About Ya. and this” or Ukrainian TV channels to another news a disputed parliamentary ballot. “About an Egg” – presumably a reference ...but Verkhovna Rada struggles along conference in Warsaw on October 22, One of the movements with a keen to the much-publicized egg attack last promising to disclose the nature of the con- interest in a Yushchenko victory and a KYIV – Despite the absence of most month on Prime Minister Yanukovych.) tacts he maintained with current presidential subsequent power swap in Ukraine is the pro-government lawmakers in the session Kyiv Mayor Oleksander Omelchenko, who administration chief Viktor Medvedchuk youth “civic campaign” Pora (It’s Time), hall, the Verkhovna Rada on October 19 and oligarch and lawmaker Hryhorii Surkis which was reportedly modeled on Serbia’s was also present at the search of the Pora managed to pass several bills, Ukrainian in 2001-02. (RFE/RL Newsline) Otpor and Georgia’s Khmara, the youth headquarters, commented that Pora’s infor- news agencies reported. One of the bills mational materials are “even more terrible organizations that were instrumental in increased the average monthly subsistence Investigators allege terrorist activity toppling Slobodan Milosevic’s regime in than the explosives found there.” minimum in Ukraine from the current 362 October 2000 and the Shevardnadze Mr. Yushchenko commented that the hrv ($70) to 432 hrv as of 2005. The bill KYIV – Prosecutors in Kyiv have action against Pora testifies to “the growing regime in November 2003 in their respec- was endorsed by 250 out of 257 legisla- opened a criminal case under articles hysteria among the authorities” over the tive countries. On October 15, police tors registered for the session. National referring to terrorism and the formation of prospect of him defeating Mr. Yanukovych searched the Pora offices in Kyiv and, Deputy Mykola Tomenko commented that illegal armed groups in connection with in the presidential balloting. In a statement according to the Procurator General’s by passing the subsistence minimum bill, the disclosure of explosive devices and published on October 19 on the website of Office, found a homemade explosive the legislature effectively supported oppo- materials in the offices of the non-govern- Mr. Yushchenko’s political ally Yulia sition presidential candidate Viktor mental youth organization Pora (It’s Time) Tymoshenko, Mr. Yushchenko and Ms. Yushchenko’s draft decree in which he in Kyiv on October 15, Ukrainian media Jan Maksymiuk is the Belarus and Tymoshenko slam the unnamed leaders of Ukraine specialist on the staff of RFE/RL promised such a raise after being elected reported. Police reportedly found a home- Newsline. (Continued on page 21) president. (RFE/RL Newsline) made explosive device, six TNT slabs, two electric detonators and a grenade at Melnychenko wins in court the Pora headquarters. Members of the Authorities crack down on youth groups STRASBOURG – The European Court organization and some opposition law- of Human Rights in Strasbourg on October makers called the discovery a provoca- by Taras Kuzio police found nothing incriminating except 19 ruled that the Ukrainian authorities acted tion. “The authorities want to portray us as a terrorist organization,” UNIAN quot- Eurasia Daily Monitor anti-Yanukovych leaflets. But during a illegally by rejecting an application from ed Pora activist Volodymyr Lesyk as say- second search, with only the police pres- Mykola Melnychenko, a former security ing. “Such methods shows that the author- On October 15 Ukrainian Prime ent, a bomb was allegedly found. officer to President Leonid Kuchma, to reg- Minister and presidential candidate Viktor ities do not want honest elections,” Mr. The Procurator General then launched ister as a candidate for the 2002 parliamen- Yanukovych told foreign diplomats in Lesyk noted, adding that Pora is conduct- a criminal case accusing Pora leaders of tary election on the Ukrainian Socialist Kyiv that the government is taking all ing a “non-violent campaign of resist- “terrorism” and “destabilization of the sit- Party ticket, Ukrainian and international measures to ensure a free and fair election ance” against the authorities in the presi- uation in the country.” Pora was accused news agencies reported. Mr. Melnychenko on October 31 (Ukrainska Pravda, October left Ukraine in 2000 after secretly taping dential election race. (RFE/RL Newsline) 15). Officials will ensure observance of the of being an illegal “military formation – a terrorist group” (Ukrainska Pravda, hundreds of hours of conversations in Mr. rule of law, democratic principles and Kuchma’s office in 1998-2000. The court Russian envoy proposes single currency equal access to the media, he assured. October 16). The Procurator General’s said the authorities – in rejecting the appli- KYIV – Russia and Ukraine are ready Now in its fourth month, the Ukrainian Office has attempted to link the alleged cation on the grounds that Mr. to discuss currency integration and the election campaign has been dominated by bomb to the August terrorist act in a Kyiv Melnychenko had submitted false informa- introduction of a single currency, Russian widespread abuses and violations, as the market, which it had originally blamed on tion about his place of residence and that he Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor U.S. State Department warned on the same political parties allied with Our Ukraine. had not been a resident in Ukraine for five day as Mr. Yanukovych’s speech to diplo- A widespread media campaign has years – violated the “right to free elections” (Continued on page 23) mats. Mr. Yanukovych’s claims of being in linked Pora to Our Ukraine, and thus to its favor of a free and fair election are not presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, plausible, as the authorities have launched whom the authorities have been desperate FOUNDED 1933 a nationwide effort to repress opposition to portray as an “extremist” forces. To ensure that Mr. Yanukovych is (temnik.com.ua, October 18 and 19). Pora HE KRAINIAN EEKLY not confronted by opposition demonstra- members issued a statement describing TAn English-languageU newspaperW published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., tions during his campaign appearances, themselves as the “vanguard of peaceful a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. 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Ukraine’s exit polls: one may be ELECTION WATCH more accurate than the others Candidates want troops out of Iraq alleged poisoning and suggesting he has by Roman Woronowycz self in a major faux pas explained that he ties with the youth organization Pora that Kyiv Press Bureau didn’t trust exit polling because, “Exit KYIV – Opposition presidential candi- has recently been accused by the authori- polling is a new technology. We haven’t date Viktor Yushchenko has announced ties of terrorism. (RFE/RL Newsline) KYIV – There may now be four exit yet learned how to manipulate it.” polls planned for Election Day in that immediately after becoming president The three alternative exit polls that 40,000 students attend Yushchenko rally Ukraine, but the original one will be the he would sign a decree on pulling out the have been announced are being organ- Ukrainian military contingent from Iraq, most honest and most accurate, or so ized through forces that support the pres- KYIV – Tens of thousands of students asserts Ilko Kucheriv, director of the Interfax reported on October 18. “Our ser- idential candidacy of Prime Minster vicemen will be withdrawn from Iraq in a from all of Ukraine took part in a rally in Democratic Initiatives Foundation, which Yanukovych or are aligned with govern- Kyiv on October 16 to support the presi- developed the first project. quiet way, without rush,” Mr. Yushchenko ment structures, claimed Mr. Kucheriv. said. “They will be replaced by politicians, dential bid of Viktor Yushchenko and pass DIF has monitored Ukrainian public He said that one would be conducted a “no-confidence vote” in the government thought for 12 years via the regular diplomats and businessmen. Ukraine is by the Fund for Public Opinion, which is ready to participate in the restoration of of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, national surveys it performs, and it has headed by Gleb Pavlovsky, a Russian cit- UNIAN reported. Mr. Yushchenko called organized exit polling for every national Iraq’s economy.” Prime Minister Viktor izen and the person who guided the pub- Yanukovych, Mr. Yushchenko’s main rival on the crowd not to believe the pro-gov- election, both parliamentary or presiden- lic relations strategy in the presidential ernment media’s reports that the result of tial, since 1998. in the October 31 election, said at a meet- campaign of Russian President Vladimir ing with voters on October 18 that he fore- the presidential elections in Ukraine has While DIF now has to deal with three Putin. The Institute of Social Research already been determined. “All this is a lie, johnny-come-latelies, Mr. Kucheriv said sees a gradual pullout of the Ukrainian and the Ukrainian Sociology Center troops from Iraq in 2005. Mr. Yushchenko manipulation of the public opinion, politi- that his organization’s expertise and would conduct the other two polling cal speculation,” Mr. Yushchenko said. experience would assure the accuracy of stressed that the contingent cannot be with- exercises. drawn immediately as such a move would He was apparently referring to recent sur- its election day predictions. Mr. Kucheriv said his overriding con- veys showing Mr. Yanukovych to be “We have developed our exit poll only add impetus to international terror- cern is that the other exit polls, whose ism. (RFE/RL Newsline) favored by more people as the favorite in strategy to ensure that corruption or vio- results could be either simply manipulat- the presidential race. (RFE/RL Newsline) lence will not compromise the quality of ed or thoroughly contrived, would be Yushchenko on language issue the results,” explained Mr. Kucheriv. used to diffuse the integrity and believ- A warning of “Chestnut Revolution” Mr. Kucheriv, 48, who has served as ability of the DIF poll. KYIV – Candidate Viktor Yushchenko director of DIF since its inception, has promised that as president he will oblige KYIV – The coalition of parties and “The danger is that the results of the organizations backing the presidential bid explained that since it had announced its three others and not our own poll will be the state officialdom to speak with citizens intention to develop an election day exit in the language in which it is addressed, of Prime Minister Yanukovych has issued widely publicized,” explained Mr. a statement saying that the opposition is poll – a survey of voters on how they Kucheriv. “In reality, what could happen Interfax reported on October 18. Mr. voted done immediately after they have Yushchenko reportedly signed a draft planning to gather half a million support- is that the results of Gleb Pavlovsky’s ers of Yushchenko near the Central left the voting precinct – it had retained a poll could be shown on the major chan- decreed protecting citizens’ rights to use the de facto monopoly in the endeavor. Russian language and languages of other Election Commission headquarters on nels to diffuse the impact of our own the night of October 31 in order to launch Then, about a month ago, additional poll.” nationalities in Ukraine. The decree foresees projects began to spring up like mush- that in regions inhabited by large groups of a “chestnut revolution” in the event Mr. Kucheriv has turned to Mr. Yushchenko loses the presidential ballot, rooms. Ironically, the new exit polls were Pavlovsky and the other two competitors Russians and other minorities, state officials announced after Serhii Tyhypko, cam- should be obliged to know the languages of Interfax reported. “We address the and asked them to join his consortium of Ukrainian president with a request to paign manager for presidential candidate survey firms conducting the DIF poll. He these nationalities and use them for commu- Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, nication with citizens. Another draft decrees take all possible measures to prevent the suggested that had his three competitors implementation of ‘chestnut-revolution expressed distrust for exit polls and ques- had accuracy and integrity as their priority by Mr. Yushchenko provides for simplified tioned their reliability. The initiatives procedures in crossing Ukraine’s borders scenarios’ and to ensure law and order also came after the prime minister him- (Continued on page 19) with Belarus and Russia for citizens of these during the election process,” the state- countries. (RFE/RL Newsline) ment reads, in an apparent reference to Georgia’s Rose Revolution. (RFE/RL More polling stations in Russia? Newsline) The Kremlin demonstrates KYIV – The Central Election Christian Council calls for fair election Commission is considering a proposal by its support of Yanukovych the Foreign Affairs Ministry to set up 400 ODESA – The Spiritual Council of election constituencies in Russia for the Christian Denominations of southern by Maryna Makhnonos he entered the hall after President Putin and October 31 presidential election, Interfax Ukrainian Odesa has called on the resi- and Bogdana Vasylenko sat in the chair to the left of him, neglecting reported on October 18, quoting commis- dents of the Odesa region to “treat the Special to The Ukrainian Weekly protocol rules. According to etiquette, the sion member Yurii Danylevskyi. Mr. election of the new president responsibly prime minister was to sit next to his presi- and critically.” The council approved a MOSCOW, Russia – Russian President Danylevskyi said the number of dent, i.e., next to Mr. Kuchma and across Ukrainian voters in Russia will “doubt- common address to voters at a meeting on Vladimir Putin used his birthday as infor- from Mr. Putin and Russian Prime Minister October 6 in the building of the Christian mal reason to demonstrate his uncondition- less increase,” but gave no details. The Mikhail Fradkov. Journalists noticed that commission has so far set up 113 polling Open University of Economy and al support for Ukrainian Prime Minister Mr. Yanukovych hesitated before choosing Humanitarian Sciences. The council Viktor Yanukovych by inviting him and stations abroad, including four in Russia, the seat and were totally silent when they for an estimated 211,000 voters. advised voters to acquire information Ukraineís President Leonid Kuchma to his found him next to Mr. Putin. It was unclear about the candidates from various sources residence in Novo-Ogarevo outside Meanwhile, lawmaker Viktor Teren said whether Mr. Yanukovych ignored the proto- in the Verkhovna Rada on October 19 and to be active on election day. The Moscow on October 9. Some political sci- authors of the statement, supported by the col by mistake or by choice. that the authorities are planning to set up entists said the Kremlinís obvious benevo- bishops of the Roman Catholic Church, Mr. Kuchma tried to discharge the awk- “additional election constituencies” in lence toward Mr. Yanukovych may dimin- Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv ward pause in air, joking that “a change of Russia in order to provide Prime Minister ish his chances to win presidential elec- Patriarchate, Ukrainian Autocephalous terms doesnít affect the sum,” and Mr. Viktor Yanukovych with 1 million votes tions in the end of this month, because it Orthodox Church (UAOC) and United Putin supported this idea by modestly say- on October 31. There are 36.28 million may irritate Ukrainian voters instead of Methodist Church, as well as representa- ing “I hope.” These incidents were good eligible voters in Ukraine, according to stimulating of their sympathies. tives of the Evangelical Alliance and pas- reason for the local media to publish a the latest data from the Central Election The fact that Mr. Yanukovych arrived to great variety of stories with one only con- tors of other churches, reminded the Commission. (RFE/RL Newsline) greet President Putin on his birthday, which clusion: Moscow has placed its bets on heads of local election headquarters, passed some time ago, during the peak of Mr. Yanukovych and provides him with Rada wrangles over election campaign wards and all responsible for counting his presidential campaign shows how the strongest support possible three weeks votes: “Manipulating the results of the strongly Moscow’s political elite wishes before the nationwide vote in Ukraine. KYIV – Five caucuses of the pro-gov- people’s choice is not only an offense him to become President Kuchmaís succes- However, some political experts say the ernment parliamentary coalition left the against the criminal law, but a major sor. Despite the fact that Ukraine’s president Kremlin endangers Mr. Yanukovych’s victo- Verkhovna Rada session on October 19 offense against God as well.” Roman has greater importance than the prime min- ry by demonstrating such obvious sympathy in protest against what they said is turn- Catholic Bishop Bronislaw Bernacki of ister, what Russian media outlets covered toward him. The president of the Moscow- ing the legislature into a rostrum for Odesa and Symferopol affirmed his neu- was Mr. Yanukovych’s visit, not Mr. based Institute of National Strategy, “political confrontation,” UNIAN and trality: “We are only praying for the elec- Kuchma’s. Russian TV channels showed Stanislav Belkovsky, said a similar situation Interfax reported. Earlier the same day tion to go well and for an intelligent per- Mr. Yanukovych at an ethnic Ukrainians’ took place in Abkhazia, where Moscow’s lawmaker Nestor Shufrych from the pro- son with respect for the people and the forum the day before meeting with Mr. favorite candidate lost and the people of Yanukovych Social Democratic Party- state to come to power and let the people Putin, broadcast parts of his speech, and Abkhazia chose the opposition leader. United caucus said that “today’s produc- lead better lives. Every person has a heart carried stories featuring his gestures and “The same result may happen in tivity of the Parliament is nil,” and pro- and a conscience they should listen to quotes with Mr. Kuchma seen only in the Ukraine,” Mr. Belkovsky told a news posed that deputies suspend the session when voting.” Methodist Pastor Petro background. Posters with Mr. Yanukovych’s conference in Moscow on October 12. and start working in parliamentary com- Martianov, secretary of the council, portrait appeared in some places in Moscow “Russia should hush its fervor and admin- mittees. Lawmakers from the SDPU and added: “The church has to worry about on the eve of the prime minister’s visit. istrative desire to support Mr. Regions of Ukraine caucuses blocked the the spiritual and moral condition of socie- Also, Mr. Yanukovych took a very unusu- Yanukovych directly, it should do this parliamentary rostrum and displayed ty. Every person has the freedom to al step during a meeting with President more delicately if it would like not to anti-Yushchenko slogans in the session choose.” (Religious Information Service Putin, that was widely covered in all media: harm his pre-election path to presidency.” hall, accusing him of lying about his of Ukraine) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 No. 43

Crosses blessed for patriarchal cathedral of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church by Roman Woronowycz the living Church,” explained Cardinal director in Kyiv. UGCC to continue to push forward in its Kyiv Press Bureau Husar, who added a moment later that, The Rev. Petriv explained that financ- quest for official status from Rome. “The cross atop this church should be a ing for the project had failed to appear in The cardinal explained that during a KYIV – Bishops of the Ukrainian beacon for all of us.” the amount needed to have completed meeting between Pope John Paul II and Greek-Catholic Church, along with its At the beginning of his sermon, construction on time. He said that the bishops of the UGCC in June, the pontiff leader, Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, gath- Cardinal Husar thanked all those in delay was also due to the complexities had expressed very overt support for the ered at the location of its still unfinished Ukraine and within the diaspora commu- involved in building the architecturally UGCC’s intentions. patriarchal cathedral on October 11, to nities who had supported with their intricate building. “He told us specifically of the need bless the crosses that would sit atop the “prayers and contributions” the effort to During a press conference on October and importance of our wishes and our structure’s five domes. The ceremony came during a week in which UGCC bishops from across the globe were in Kyiv for their annual synod and as information came to light that Pope John Paul II had told the UGCC hierarchy back in June that he would support patriarchal status for the Church. In a homily during a liturgical service at the construction site, Cardinal Lubomyr told the 38 bishops, dozens of clergy and about 1,000 people who trav- eled to the site on the right bank of the Dnipro River that the five crosses and the cathedral atop which they would sit retained important symbolism for the faithful of the UGCC, who are spread across five of the world’s seven conti- nents. “Today is an unusually important moment for the Church. This is not just the building of another house of worship. Today we are setting a beacon,” explained Cardinal Husar. The leader of the UGCC, who is more and more often referred to as patriarch of the Church, told a story during his homi- ly about Soviet pilots stationed at an aerodrome just outside the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi, near a Roman Catholic church, upon which sat a large cross. He said that the cross had fallen to the Cardinal Lubomyr Husar and clergy bless the crosses that will be mounted atop the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic cathedral. ground during a storm, but was unex- build the patriarchal sobor. 13, three days after the ceremony before vision for a UGCC with a patriarchal pectedly ordered put back up by official- Yet the amount of those contributions, the patriarchal sobor, Cardinal Husar structure,” explained Cardinal Husar, ly atheistic local government authorities it seems, was not enough to keep the who also holds the title of the UGCC’s who added that the pope had said, “He after the pilots at the military base com- building schedule on track. Originally archbishop major, reported that the would like to be the one to make that plained that without the landmark they Synod of Bishops had concentrated its announcement.” couldn’t get their bearings straight as the UGCC had hoped that its patriarchal sobor would be ready for liturgical serv- efforts at this year’s meeting on planning Cardinal Husar said the pope had told they approached the landing strip. the appointment of new bishops and the bishops that, nonetheless he needed ices by the end of this year. That sched- “The church that will stand here is our review of the Church’s current organiza- to wait for “the right moment.” common house of worship for all the ule has now been set back for at least a tional and administrative structure, as The leader of the UGCC also com- Ukrainian Greek-Catholics around the year, if not longer, explained the Rev. well as on increasing the number of cler- mented on pre-election troubles in world and all of those who feel a part of Oleksa Petriv, UGCC external affairs gy. Ukraine and underscored that the Church The head of the UGCC and its nearly he leads does not support any particular 6 million faithful explained that drawing candidate. He pointed out that the and holding priests from among the laity Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church only was a central element of this year’s dis- wishes that the election process would be cussion, which included consideration on free and fair, and that the desires of the how to instill a desire to become a priest, Ukrainian nation would be served. how to properly train him and then how Cardinal Husar also noted that the to care for his spiritual and intellectual Synod of Bishops had visited with needs afterwards. Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma in Cardinal Husar also noted that there the Presidential Administration Building were discussions on how to further on October 11 in what he called a cour- develop the patriarchal structure of the tesy call.

A view of the partially built patriarchal sobor in Kyiv. Cardinal Lubomyr Husar and faithful on the construction site. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 5

THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

The Weekly’s questions to the candidates Submission from Bush-Cheney campaign EDITOR’S NOTE: In late September, (November 2), the campaigns were given Following is the full text of a submis- to help the people of Ukraine share this The Ukrainian Weekly’s editorial staff pre- a deadline of October 18 by which they sion sent to The Ukrainian Weekly on vision to reach their goal. pared a list of questions on a variety of had to submit their responses. October 19 by the Bush-Cheney campaign. President Bush urged and pushed for the issues of particular concern to Ukrainian The Kerry campaign submitted its enlargement of NATO to all of Europe’s Americans. Preliminary phone calls were responses to most of the questions posed by The contributions to American society democracies, from the Baltic to the Black made to the presidential campaign staffs The Weekly. The Bush campaign chose to by the Ukrainian American community Sea, and all that lie between, so that people of George W. Bush, John F. Kerry and issue a statement, while reserving the right have been significant, and President Bush in those countries would have the same Ralph Nader in order to determine to to respond to The Weekly’s specific questions is proud to recognize their important role chance for security and freedom enjoyed by whom the final list of questions could be in our next issue, dated October 31, even in American society. In acknowledging Europe’s older democracies. Continued e-mailed for the candidates’responses. though – due to poor postal delivery of sec- these important contributions, the Bush reform within the Ukrainian government On October 3 the questions were e- ond-class mail – that issue may not reach all Administration remains committed to see- will bring that dream to a realization and mailed to all three campaigns. In hopes of our readers before they cast their votes. ing Ukraine develop as a stable, inde- President Bush fully supports these efforts. of publishing these responses in our The Nader campaign did not respond. pendent, democratic and economically Ukraine is also to be commended for October 24 issue – one that would reach Below are the unedited submissions of prosperous country, that is governed by their de-nuclearization. The United all of our readers before Election Day the Kerry and Bush campaigns. the rule of law, respects all human life, States has been proud to work with and actively strives to strengthen peace Ukrainians to pursue a strategy of non- and security, and denounce terrorism in proliferation which will bring greater the international community. security to the region and ultimately, to Responses from Sen. John F. Kerry The people of Ukraine enjoy a rich and the world. EDITOR’S NOTE; Sen. Kerry’s first 100 days as president, I will offer a colorful history, but one wrought by hard- As in Ukraine, America’s leadership responses were sent to The Weekly along reform bill that allows immigrants to earn ship, adversity, and rocked by change. Yet, knows that defending the United States against its enemies is the first and most fun- with the following preface. legalization, encourages family reunifica- Ukraine remains a hopeful nation. In little damental commitment of the federal govern- tion, and strengthens our border protections over a decade the Ukrainian people suc- ment. September 11, 2001, awakened I want to thank you for the opportunity so we are safer from those who would harm cessfully recovered from the manacles of Americans to the knowledge that we can no to answer questions about my positions us. Under my immigration plan, undocu- communism and are making the painstak- longer depend on geography to protect us and views regarding Ukraine, but also to mented workers who have lived and worked ing transition to a market economy. from the heinous acts of terrorists. We congratulate The Ukrainian Weekly for here for five years, who pay taxes, and who However, there is still more to be achieved experienced the horror of a brutal attack on 71 years of journalistic excellence and are successfully screened for security pur- if Ukraine is to become a prosperous dem- service to the Ukrainian-American com- poses will have a path to citizenship. I will ocratic state. The United States will work (Continued on page 21) munity. Mnohaya Lita! also expand opportunities to learn English and obtain civic education classes to help Sincerely, immigrants assume all of the rights and John F. Kerry responsibilities of citizenship. With respect to guest worker programs, I am open to con- FOR THE RECORD: Kerry and Bush On July 28, 2003, Helsinki sidering programs that help fill jobs not oth- Commission Co-Chairman Sen. Ben erwise filled by American workers. on Russian President Vladimir Putin Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.) intro- Now that the three U.S. presidential establish good personal relationships duced a resolution in the Senate that On April 3, 2003, Rep. Sander M. debates are over, The Ukrainian with people so that when you have dis- unequivocally calls the Ukrainian Levin of Michigan introduced in the U.S. Weekly thought it would be worthwhile agreements, you’re able to disagree in Famine of 1932-1933 genocide. S. Res. House of Representatives bill H.R. 1615, to publish excerpts of any of the a way that is effective. And so I’ve told 202, whose official title is “A resolution titled “To amend Title 36, United States debates that had to do with Ukraine or him my opinion. I look forward to dis- expressing the sense of the Senate Code, to grant a Federal Charter to the its neighbors. We found one substantive cussing it more with him as time goes regarding the genocidal Ukraine Famine Ukrainian American Veterans Inc.” The excerpt that had to do with the U.S. on. of 1932-1933,” was referred to the bill would grant the Ukrainian attitude toward Russian President Russia’s a country in transition. Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations American Veterans organization a feder- Vladimir Putin in view of his recent Vladimir’s going to have to make some the same day it was introduced. The reso- al charter. Would this resolution find actions. Following is the text of the hard choices, and I think it’s very lution, which has the bipartisan support support from your administration? And, question posed by Jim Lehrer of the important for the American president, of 33 senators, has not moved since then. what can be done to pass this resolution? Public Broadcasting Service during the as well as other Western leaders, to Where would your administration stand first presidential debate on October 1, remind him of the great benefits of on this resolution? And, what can be The contribution of Ukrainian and the responses of President George democracy, that democracy will best, done to pass this resolution? American veterans to the defense of this W. Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry. uh, help the people realize their hopes country and their love of freedom is wor- and aspirations and dreams. And I will I was an early co-sponsor and remain a thy of the status this Charter confers. I Mr. Lehrer: All right. Mr. continue working with him over the strong supporter of Senate Resolution 202. support granting a Federal Charter to the President, this is the last question next four years. It commemorates the 70th anniversary of Ukrainian American Veterans, Inc., and and two minutes. It’s a new subject, the famine-genocide in Ukraine and empha- my administration will work with Rep. new question and it has to do with Mr. Lehrer: Ninety seconds, Sen. sizes that an independent and democratic Levin and the Congressional Ukrainian President Putin and Russia. Did you Kerry. Ukraine is the best guarantee to prevent Caucus to see that this piece of legisla- misjudge him or are you – do you Mr. Kerry: such a tragedy from taking place again. It is tion is passed and ready for my signature. feel that what he is doing in the Well, let me just say regrettable that the Bush administration has name of anti-terrorism by changing quickly that I had an extraordinary put up obstacles to Senate action on this res- Worldwide, at least 600,000 to 800,000 some democratic processes is O.K.? experience of watching, up close and olution and, as president, my administration human beings are trafficked across inter- personal, that transition in Russia would be supportive of such a resolution. national boarders each year. According to Mr. Bush: No, I don’t think it’s because I was there right after the the United States government, “it is esti- O.K. and said so publicly. I think that transformation and I was probably one There have been on-and-off discus- mated that between 14,500 and 17,500 there need to be checks and balances in of the first senators, along with Sen. sions in the U.S. about various topics victims of trafficking cross [U.S.] borders a democracy. And [I] made that very Bob Smith of New Hampshire, former related to immigration to this country, every year.” According to the Department clear, that by consolidating power in a senator, to go down into the K.G.B. both legal and illegal. Please explain of Justice, U.S. law enforcement has doc- central government, he’s sending a sig- underneath Treblinka [presumably, the how your administration views the umented cases of Ukrainian girls traf- nal to the Western world and United senator meant Lubyanka – ed.] Square current Diversity Visa program (Green ficked in Los Angeles and Maryland. States that perhaps he doesn’t believe and see reams of files with names in Card Lottery): should it be continued, What should be done to stop the problem, in checks and balances. And I’ve told them. And it sort of brought home the be expanded, or be reduced? What are specifically with regard to the issue of him that. transition to democracy that Russia your feelings about an amnesty for ille- human trafficking from Ukraine? He’s also a strong ally in the war on was trying to make. gal immigrants who find themselves in terror. He is, listen, they went through I regret what’s happened in these this country? To whom should such an We have seen an alarming increase a horrible situation in Beslan where past months. And I think it goes amnesty be offered? Do you support over the past decade in human trafficking these terrorist gunned down young beyond just the response to terror. the idea of a guest worker program and, sadly, Ukraine has been a country of school kids. But it’s nature of the Mr. Putin now controls all the televi- that would bring workers from abroad origin as well as a transit point for thou- enemy. By the way, that’s why we need sion stations. His political opposition is to fill jobs for which there are no sands of victims who are forced into pros- to be firm in resolve in bringing them being put in jail. American takers, for example, home titution and domestic slavery worldwide. to justice. It’s precisely what Vladimir And I think it’s very important for care aides and nannies from Ukraine? A Kerry administration will strengthen Putin understands as well. the United States, obviously, to have a efforts to combat human trafficking around I’ve got a good relation with working relationship that is good. This I strongly support responsible reform of the world, and we will work at both the Vladimir. And it’s important that we do is a very important country to us, and our immigration laws that honors our tradi- government-to-government level and have a good relation because that we want a partnership. tion as a nation of immigrants and makes through broader cooperation with interna- enables me to better comment to him But we always have to stand up for America safer and stronger. I do not agree tional organizations such as the and to better to discuss with him some democracy. As George Will said the with critics who say that the current Organization for Cooperation and Security of the decisions he makes. I found that other day, freedom on the march, not in Diversity Visa program should be reduced. I in this world, that it’s important to Russia right now. will continue the current program. In my (Continued on page 30) 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 No. 43 MP Mark re-introduces Ukrainian and Chinese redress legislation OTTAWA – On October 12 in the Liberal Party, wrote in a letter that he tion to promote racial harmony. private member’s bill, the Ukrainian House of Commons, Member of was in favor of not only acknowledging “Today, there are over 1 million Canadian Restitution Act, asking that it Parliament Inky Mark (Dauphin-Swan the internment operations but also pro- Canadians of Chinese descent. The sac- be given unanimous consent by all of the River-Marquette) re-introduced his viding restitution to those who were held rifices and achievements of their forefa- parties represented in Parliament.” Private Member’s Bill for the Ukrainian unjustly. It is long past time for the thers must be acknowledged and com- “Given that the Conservative Party of Canadian Restitution Act, as well as the Liberals to follow through on this prom- memorated in a proper manner,” the MP Canada, the New Democratic Party of Chinese Canadian Recognition and ise,” Mr. Mark stated. explained. Canada, the Bloc Quebecois and even Restitution Act. Mr. Mark’s other bill, the Chinese Just prior to the 2004 federal election, many members of the Liberal Party of Mr. Mark’s bill on Ukrainian redress Canadian Recognition and Restitution candidates from all federal parties Canada endorsed Bill C 331 just before calls on the federal government “to rec- Act calls on the federal government to endorsed this legislation, with members the last federal election, we are hopeful ognize the injustice that was done to per- publicly recognize the circumstances sur- of the Conservative Party, the Bloc that our calls for recognition, restitution sons of Ukrainian descent and other rounding the collection of a “head tax” Quebecois, and the NDP supporting it and reconciliation will finally be heard,” Europeans who were interned at the time from Chinese immigrants and the passing unanimously. Dr. Luciuk noted. of the first world war and to provide for of the Exclusion Act in 1923. The legis- “These bills bring to the forefront two He added: “One lone survivor of public commemoration and restitution, lation would also see that some of the of the darkest moments in Canada’s his- Canada’s first national internment opera- which is to be devoted to education and money collected from Chinese immi- tory. After years of delays and excuses, tions, Mary Manko Haskett, remains alive. promotion of tolerance.” grants was returned. In turn, the money they deserve to be dealt with. It is this How remarkable it would be if this “In 1993, Jean Chrétien, leader of the would be put into an educational founda- Liberal government’s responsibility to Canadian woman, interned while still a make amends for past injustices,” Mr. child at the Spirit Lake camp in northern Mark concluded. Quebec, could bear witness to the honor- Commenting on this latest develop- able settlement Mr. Mark’s initiative would Andrey Duzyj of Warren runs ment in the longstanding issue of redress, secure. The entire Ukrainian Canadian Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, research director of community, as represented by the UCCLA, the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of for County Board of Commissioners Association, said: “Mr. Mark has consis- Taras Shevchenko and the Ukrainian by Anatoli W. Murha (née Nachwostach). Both are members of tently been the most articulate and com- Canadian Congress, wish Mr. Mark success St. Josaphat’s Ukrainian Catholic mitted supporter of justice for Canadians in the House of Commons with Bill C 331, WARREN, Mich. – Public service is Church. The couple has three children, nothing new for Andrey Duzyj. As an of Ukrainian heritage in the House of and we call upon all MPs to support it, as Christina, Mykola, and Melanie. Commons. He has now re-introduced a doing so is only right and just.” active community leader and city of If elected on November 2, Mr. Duzyj, Warren resident for 35 years, Mr. Duzyj a Democrat, will represent District 1 of is on the campaign trail for a seat on the Macomb County on the Board of Macomb County Board of Commissioners. The Macomb County Commissioners. Situated in southern Board of Commissioners serves as the Komarnyckyj’s candidacy receives Macomb County, Warren is Michigan’s legislative, administrative and policy- third largest city. making body for Macomb County. The Mr. Duzyj’s extensive background of endorsement of Arizona Republic Board is composed of 26 Commissioners by Andrew Nynka sonal history. She’s an attorney who has service, both in current and past posi- who are elected every other year for a been specializing in business formation. tions, have included chairman, vice- two-year term from 26 districts of nearly PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Arizona She has taught business practices in chairman and secretary of the Warren equal population. Republic, a daily newspaper that claims a Ukraine. She volunteers at the Osborn Planning Commission, member of the Endorsed by the Detroit Free Press circulation of nearly half a million, School District Educational Foundation. Tax Increment Finance Authority Board and The Detroit News, Mr. Duzyj is endorsed candidates for a number of state In short, she might bring to the legisla- of Directors for the City of Warren, described as follows, “He has a pragmat- and national political posts in the United ture a different kind of experience that member of the Michigan Society of ic, clear-eyed business sense along with a States in an article printed on October 8. would be useful. She is our other choice Planning Officials representing the City real passion to use government to The newspaper put its weight behind in a well-qualified field that would make of Warren, and member and guide of the improve people’s lives.” “Warren resi- Ukrainian American Oksana Kurowycky democracy smile,” the newspaper wrote. Michigan-based Blind Skiers dents have been very supportive thus Komarnyckyj, who is running for a seat The editorial also said: “Residents of Association. far,” says Mr. Duzyj, “and, if elected, I against three other candidates in the central Phoenix’s legislative District 15 Warren is home to many Ukrainian look forward to serving their interests on state’s House of Representatives. are fortunate. Quite frankly, no matter Americans. Mr. Duzyj currently serves as the Macomb County Board of In an editorial headlined “You can’t who is elected to represent them in the president of the Board of Directors of the Commissioners.” go wrong,” the newspaper wrote: state Senate and House of Ukrainian Future Credit Union, and is a For more information, please contact “Oksana Komarnyckyj (pronounced Representatives, they will be well-served. member of the Board of Directors of the the Committee to Elect Andrey Duzyj, ko-mar-nit-ski) is less politically ... But Republicans have fielded three Ukrainian Cultural Center, both based in 26511 Wexford, Warren, MI 48091, tel. schooled than the others. But she has an moderate, appealing newcomers in Senate Warren. Mr. Duzyj is married to Doris (586) 757-7304, or [email protected]. intriguing resume and compelling per- aspirant Andrew Smigielski and House candidates Tara Roseler and Oksana Komarnyckyj. The state Republican cau- cus could use the intelligence and com- mon sense these three display.” The Arizona Republic also wrote, in a separate article, that “three of the four House candidates in central Pheonix’s District 15 have something in common. They switched political alliances.” The newspaper said, “The fourth candidate in the November 2 House race, Oksana Maria Komarnyckyj, 43, is an attorney and a Republican who hasn’t changed her political affiliation.” In addition to the Arizona Republic, Ms. Komarnyckyj has been endorsed by the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, the Neighborhood Activists Inter-Linked Empowerment Movement, the Arizona State Dental Association, the Arizona Multihousing Association and the Arizona African-American Highlights from the UNA’s 110-year history Republican Committee. A special yearlong feature focusing on the history of the Ukrainian National Association. Of the endorsements, Ms. Komarnyckyj said they give “legitimacy In 1966, speaking during the opening session of the Ukrainian National to the campaign,” and they show “the fact Association’s 26th Convention about the events of the previous four years that that a Republican can win in a Democratic district.” She said she was had affected the Ukrainian community, UNA Supreme President Joseph still campaigning door-to-door with her Lesawyer stated: family and said that her parents, who were (Continued on page 21) flying in from New York, were expected to join her campaign in the coming week. Ms. Komarnyckyj said she expects to watch the election results as they come in on November 2 in her home, sur- rounded by family and friends. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 7 Ottawa radio program host’s secret to success: she connects

by Christopher Guly but Halyna Koryan, a relatively recent have made an appearance, as have mem- Special to The Ukrainian Weekly arrival from Ukraine who also freelances bers of the Ottawa branch of Plast for Radio Canada International’s Ukrainian Scouting Organization, who OTTAWA – When Irena Bell volun- Ukrainian-language service, conducts sang songs to mark the 25th anniversary teered to produce and host Ottawa’s first most of them. of the death of Ukrainian composer Ukrainian-language radio program on The “Ukrainian Program” also has Volodymyr Ivasiuk for whom the group the city’s first multicultural station last permission to run RCI interviews and has is named. fall, she did what she is renowned for done so with such celebrities as Last Christmas young children attend- doing to determine the best time slot for Ukrainian opposition politician Yulia ing Ukrainian school in the capital came her show. She connected. Tymoshenko and Ukrainian Canadian on and filled the show with carols and Relying on the e-mail list she uses to dis- pop star Chantal Kreviazuk, as well as Yuletide poems. “Months after, any of tribute Ottawa’s monthly Ukrainian events Ukrainian members of the world-famous, the kids who saw me, wave,” says Ms. calendar, which she also prepares, Ms. Bell Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil. Bell. She’s made an impact. sent messages to about 200 recipients, ask- Seniors without access to the Internet ing them when they would like to listen to Rounding out the 40-percent spoken- word content of the “Ukrainian Program” thank her for giving them access to infor- Ukrainian music and current events. mation about the homeland and Within 36 hours, she had 40 replies. are features – many of which are in English – that focus on unique Ukrainian Ukrainian Canadian activities that they Basing its decision in part on the otherwise wouldn’t receive. responses, the station chose the breakfast traditions, from Christmas celebrations to marking midsummer night’s festivities Though CHIN doesn’t measure its hour on weekends. audience, word through the grapevine Thus, when CHIN Radio Ottawa (CJLL) (Ivan Kupalo). The rest of the show is music, which has the “Ukrainian Program” on many 97.9 FM was launched last November, the car radios as people drop their kids off to hourlong “Ukrainian Program” made its ranges from the traditional to the contem- porary, and covers the gamut of estab- Ukrainian school or head for the shop- debut at 8 a.m. on a Saturday (repeated at Irena Bell, host of Radio Ottawa’s lished and emerging recording artists. ping malls on Saturdays or church on the same time on Sunday). “Ukrainian Program.” Sunday mornings. Now, the show is not only heard on Where else in Ottawa would radio lis- teners hear this year’s Euro-Vision song “I know non-Ukrainians listen, too,” the radio on weekends, but is also was involved in the Chornybyl clean-up; Ms. Bell is quick to add. played live over the web at www.chinra- Irena Makaryk, a University of Ottawa contest winner, super-hot Ukrainian diva Ruslana, the Ukrainian rock bands Okean Regardless of the number, the fact she dio.com/ottawa.asp. English professor whose English-language receives feedback from listeners is a sig- No one in Ottawa’s Ukrainian com- book, “Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Elzy and VV, or the British-based book The Ukrainians? nificant achievement, considering that munity – estimated at over 17,000 people Bourn: Les Kurbas, Ukrainian Modernism, the Ottawa market has more radio sta- On this side of the Atlantic, the – has ever had that kind of reach. and Early Soviet Cultural Politics,” was tions, on a per-capita basis, than any- “Ukrainian Program” also has a healthy While she underscores her role in recently published by the University of where else in Canada. selection of Canadian talent, including achieving that, Ms. Bell, former host of the Toronto Press; and Mykola Maimeskul, Ms. Bell’s show also joins a sizable Edmonton-born jazz pianist John Stetch, “Ukrainian Profile” Ottawa community Ukraine’s new ambassador to Canada. list of over 10 Ukrainian radio programs Winnipeg vocal sensation Alexis Kochan cable-television series, couldn’t be happier. The “Ukrainian Program” has also across the country. And, they are now and her group Paris to Kyiv, Toronto’s “What I enjoy about the program is presented a chat with Emil Baran, a for- starting to network. just being able to highlight events and mer Canadian diplomat with the polkameister Ron Cahute, and such up- Long-time producer-host Paulette people, many of whom are involved in Embassy in Kyiv, and his wife, Olena, and-coming Ottawa artists as Victor MacQuarrie, who runs “Nash Holos” in interesting activities that not a lot of peo- about their forthcoming three-year sail- Kosenko and the rock band Ukrainia. Vancouver (www.nashholos.com), ple know about.” ing trip around the world. The show Ms. Bell also involves members of the recently set up a Yahoo discussion group She’s featured interviews with Natalia plans to provide updates on the journey community on the show. on the Internet for colleagues to stay in Cmoc, who was involved in archaeological as the couple report back via e-mail. Zustrich, a newly formed group of digs in Ukraine; Mykola Ryndzak, who Ms. Bell does some of the interviews, Ukrainian Canadian federal civil servants (Continued on page 19)

THINKING ABOUT VOTING FOR BUSH? THINK AGAIN! Ukrainian Americans care about the future of both the United States and Ukraine.

Why not George Bush Why John Kerry • The Bush administration has blocked the Famine-Genocide resolu- • Kerry was an early co-sponsor of S. RES. 202 ‘Expressing the sense tion in Congress in the face of Russia’s objections, showing their of the Senate regarding the genocidal Ukraine Famine of 1932-33’, utter contempt for Ukrainians and historical truth. demonstrating his concern and respect for issues important to the • Bush’s interest in Ukraine is limited to how many Ukrainian troops Ukrainian American community. are sent to Iraq. • Kerry will reverse the Russo-centric policies of the current Bush • Bush looked into the eyes of Vladimir Putin and saw a man he can administration and restore the ones of the last Democratic one where trust. Putin has endorsed George Bush in this election. How can we Ukraine was a close ally and became the third largest recipient of U.S. trust Bush? assistance. • Bush is the first president in 70 years to create a net loss in jobs - a • Kerry will restore the fiscal discipline of the previous Democratic million and a half private sector jobs not replaced. administration with equitable, pro-American-jobs, rather than favor- • In three years, Bush turned a projected $5 trillion surplus into a $3 the-rich taxation policies. trillion deficit. Four more years of the same trend will have our • Kerry will protect our environment from self-serving, crony-based children and grandchildren paying that debt for decades to come. commercial exploitation. • Bush has done nothing about porous borders, porous ports, renew- • Kerry will repair the damage done to America’s reputation around the ing the assault weapons ban, and our overextended armed forces, world and restore unity to the transatlantic alliance. making us less safe, less secure. • Kerry will strengthen our borders and ports, and provide the necessary • The Bush administration has alienated our friends, united our ene- resources to our military forces. mies, and turned its back on fledgling democracies. • Through the use of alliances such as NATO, training of Iraqi security • Bush lied about Iraq’s possession of WMD’s, connection to Al- forces, the design and implementation of a reconstruction program Qaeda, and Iraq being an imminent threat to the U.S. Now, he has that brings more benefits to the Iraqi people and opening of the contract no exit strategy for our military. bidding process to other countries, John Kerry will make the creation of a stable and secure environment in Iraq our immediate priority in order to lay the foundations for sustainable democracy.

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IN THE PRESS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Our voices, our votes Ukraine’s presidential election Excerpted below are several commen- Ukraine’s relations with Russia and with Readers of this newspaper have seen that our recent issues have contained an taries and editorials pertaining to the European Union. But in practice, Mr. extraordinary number of letters related to the U.S. presidential election. They’ve been Ukraine’s presidential election that were Yanukovich has support from Vladimir from supporters of the Democratic candidate, Sen. John F. Kerry; the Republican recently published by major newspapers Putin, who has privately ordered his oli- incumbent, George W. Bush; and even from supporters of third-party candidates – in the United States and beyond. garch to back Mr. Yanukovich. Mr. one each from readers who say they’ll vote for Ralph Nader and Michael Badnarik. Yushchenko enjoys more favor in the Bravo to our readers for sharing their views. They’ve demonstrated how much “A Crucial Choice for Ukraine,” by west. Ukrainian Americans are concerned about what the next U.S. election will bring. Sen. John McCain (R- Ariz.), The “Mr. Yanukovich stands for continuity. Frankly, it’s been an interesting couple of weeks as we received and read these let- Washington Post, October 19: Mr. Yushchenko for change. Mr. ters, and prepped them for publication. Most of the time we succeed in fixing the Yanukovich is for an oligarch-dominated grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, like Busch instead of Bush, but sometimes “... In August I traveled to Ukraine to economy. Mr. Yushchenko is for open we miss, leaving in place a letter-writer’s incorrect rendering of the last name of the talk to government officials and opposi- markets. Mr. Yanukovich is, by instinct, Libertarian candidate (see our correction on the letters page). And there were a num- tion candidates. What I found was a an authoritarian while Mr. Yushchenko ber of commentaries on the U.S. elections as well, including side-by-side opinions, sense that Ukraine was moving back- wants to foster democracy. As Hryhoriy “Why John F. Kerry?” and “Why George W. Bush?” written, respectively, by two ward, not forward, on the road to democ- Nemyria, head of the International long-time contributors to The Weekly, Dr. Bohdan Vitvitsky and Dr. Myron Kuropas. racy. Not only were the reports of intimi- We try our best to leave the writers’ ideas intact, while deleting anything libelous Renaissance Foundation, a liberal think- dation against the opposition widespread, tank based in Kiev [sic], says: ‘The or patently false. We must underscore that the editorial staff’s opinions have nothing but there was also a pervasive expecta- to do with the selection of opinions published on this newspaper’s pages. Perhaps choice is consolidating autocracy or con- tion that the October election – and the solidating democracy.’ sometimes we are a little too permissive in what we allow to be published, but we second-round runoff three weeks later — prefer to err on the side of free speech. In fact, we’ve rejected only one submission “A win for Mr. Yanukovich would will be rigged by the government. ... strengthen Russia’s influence in the that had to do with the U.S. elections, and that was because it was written under a “I believe that, if offered the choice, pseudonym by a person unknown to the editorial staff. (Pseudonyms can be allowed region and represent a big advance for most Ukrainians would choose a future the authoritarian ideas that dominate the only in certain circumstances, e.g., the writer’s life would be in danger if his identity tied to the West. But many Ukrainians were known, and only when the editor-in-chief is aware of the person’s identity.) former Soviet Union. A victory for Mr. believe that they have been denied this Yushchenko would show that democracy Some of our writers have been honest in revealing their affiliations with one cam- very choice: While the West’s door paign or another; some have not. Whenever we learned that a person was involved can survive in the unhospitable terrain of seems closed – neither NATO nor the Russia’s borderlands. ...” with a particular campaign we inserted that information in the interest of full disclo- European Union has offered Ukraine sure. Some writers, however, apparently had a less formal affiliation with a cam- much hope of joining their organizations paign (that was not revealed by our research) and chose not to reveal that to us or “Back in the USSR,” editorial, Wall anytime soon – Russia’s is always open. Street Journal, September 21: our readers, thus ignoring what we consider to be the rules of fair play. It would not be surprising if Ukrainian For the record, we published all the letters we could get in, within reason, as leaders increasingly aligned their coun- “... The West can’t afford to mince each week’s deadline came. And we tried to publish the letters in the order in try’s ambitions with those of their words in Ukraine. As in the 1990s, the which they were received here at The Weekly. (We thank our readers for their Russian neighbors. As Zbigniew strategically located country today again patience if their particular letter did not make in into the paper immediately.) Brzezinski wisely remarked, with is a ‘keystone in the arch’ – in the words The many letters and commentaries we published have clearly shown that Ukraine subordinated, Russia automati- of Ukraine expert Sherman Garnett – in Ukrainian Americans are no longer a “one issue” community. Long gone are the days cally becomes an empire. any Western strategy to stabilize the when a candidate could show up at a community function and declare simply that he “So it is incumbent upon both the region. In Belarus, dictator Aleksander or she is a supporter of freedom for Ukraine, or merely submit to our newspapers a Western democracies and the govern- Lukashenko [Alyaksandr Lukashenka] canned statement about his/her concern for developments in our ancestral homeland. ment of Ukraine to reassess where things will proclaim himself virtual president Besides serving as a forum for diverse opinions, another of this newspaper’s stand today. The Ukrainian government for life in next month’s laughable “elec- goals before the election was to provide useful information to our readers about must end its siege of democracy and tions.” All five Central Asian countries the U.S. presidential candidates, particularly as this election is projected to be a make the courageous choice to hold free, and all but Georgia in the Caucasus are close one. That’s precisely why The Weekly’s editors drew up a list of questions fair elections. ... autocratic. Mr. Putin fits right in with this on issues of concern to Ukrainian Americans (beyond the issues that concern all “Ukrainian officials must understand retro-Soviet crowd. Americans, like jobs, the economy, Social Security, health care, social issues, that more than their country’s future is at “Economic and military might gives etc.) and approached the three principal presidential candidates’ campaigns for stake in this election. Their reputations the U.S. leverage, while the EU can offer their responses. The results of our work appear on page 5: responses from Sen. and their ability to conduct business are trade ties – perhaps even membership Kerry and a submission from President Bush (nothing from the Nader camp). also at risk. If the oppression continues one day. The Kremlin was livid when And, we ask our readers to “stay tuned” as next week we hope to share the and this presidential election is stolen, George W. Bush criticized Mr. Putin last answers of President Bush. the United States and Europe should week. The U.S. needs to fill the void in And, then, Dear Readers, we urge you to get out there and vote on November 2. institute visa bans against those responsi- the public debate. The silence of the ble. These would not merely limit the German and French leaders was deafen- ability of these officials to go skiing ing in Moscow. Oct abroad; the visa bans would handicap “A clean result next month would Turning the pages back... their ability to conduct business in build on recent economic gains and make Europe and the United States. The Ukraine more politically mature. A Western democracies should also consid- Ukraine as an example for its cousins in 24 er implementing other targeted penalties. the ex-USSR would be a win-win for If Ukraine’s leaders wish to take their everyone – and a welcome bit of good 1999 Exactly five years ago, on October 24, 1999, The Ukrainian country further in the direction of news from that part of the world this Weekly published an editorial about Ukraine’s presidential elec- Belarus, then they will be increasingly year. tion titled “The voice that matters.” Following are excerpts from treated by the world like the leader of that editorial about an election in which incumbent Leonid Belarus – an international pariah.” “More Straight Talk,” editorial, The Kuchma faced his main rival, Petro Symonenko (Communist Party), as well as Oleksander Washington Post, September 17: Moroz (Socialist Party), Natalia Vitrenko (Progressive Socialist Party), Yevhen Marchuk “East or West: Ukraine’s election (aligned with the predominantly leftist Kaniv Four group) and eight other candidates. could alter relations with Russia and “President [George W.] Bush at last “Months ago, as the presidential election season began, President Leonid Kuchma Europe,” by Chrystia Freeland, Stefan has spoken out publicly against Vladimir foretold that the 1999 presidential contest would be a nasty affair. It is not for us to Wagstyl and Tom Warner, Financial Putin’s dismantling of democracy in decide here whether it was premonition or planning that led him to make such a Times, October 12: Russia, despite his personal bond with remark, but his warning has proved true. ... the Russian president and his administra- “Even before the campaign season began, the information airways were bought up by “... the principal contenders are Viktor tion’s interest in preserving him as an those who would be president and mostly by representatives of one who is. A television Yanukovich [Yanukovych], the tough- ally in the war on terrorism. For that we information blackout on opponents of President Kuchma followed, which has lifted a bit minded prime minister, and Viktor commend Mr. Bush, who has taken a lately, coincidentally or not, after rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council Yushchenko, a former central banker step toward backing up his rhetoric about of Europe filed a damning report citing incursions on freedom of the press and freedom of who also served briefly as prime minister ‘defending freedom’ around the world. speech in Ukraine... That was preceded by the ghastly attack against candidate Natalia and now leads Our Ukraine, the main And we have a follow-up suggestion: Mr. Vitrenko, who clings stubbornly to second place in pre-election surveys – polls, it must be opposition party. Bush should also talk about Belarus and said, whose validity are doubted by many. ... most recently, on October 19, Kyiv experi- “The choice is stark. Mr. Yanukovich Ukraine, two European neighbors of enced a police-state-like atmosphere as state militia and other law enforcement bodies went is backed by Mr. [Leonid] Kuchma, the Russia where popular aspirations for on the alert against a perceived threat of imminent and widespread civil disturbance. ... presidential administration, the regional political freedom are colliding with Mr. “Although a second round of voting in mid-November is almost inevitable, accord- governors, the security services, the Putin’s neo-Soviet project. ... ing to the experts, a week hence the political wailing and ravings of the candidates as biggest television networks and most of “Compared with efforts regarding they attack each other should subside somewhat. Mercifully, the time will come for Ukraine’s business oligarchs. Mr. Russia, the resources devoted by the the Ukrainian voter to speak. That, in the end, is the only voice that matters. We can Yushchenko’s supporters are liberals, United States to these two countries are only hope they do vote and make an informed decision.” nationalists and others united mainly in pitifully small. A handful of U.S. offi- their desire to drive Mr. Kuchma and his cials have visited Ukraine and pressed Source: “The voice that matters,” editorial, The Ukrainian Weekly, October 24, associates out of power. 1999, Vol. LXVII, No. 42. “Both men talk earnestly of pursuing (Continued on page 31) No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 9

COMMENTARY Is Ukraine a failed state? PERSPECTIVES BY ANDREW FEDYNSKY by Hryhoriy Tsipka whisky-sipping, foul-mouthed “good ole boy” – Leonid Kuchma. Is Ukraine a failed state? This unmen- From that moment on everything else tionable thought has crossed the minds of that followed was predictable: the mur- many people in the past month as they der of Heorhii Gongadze, the attempt to Ukraine matters watch the sleaze and dirty tricks in the sell Iraq the Kolchuha, the wiretaps, dirty ongoing Ukrainian presidential election “So that’s the agenda for my visit to ical, military, economic and diplomatic tricks and scams. Then came the rip-off Ukraine next week,” Al Gore told about support. Ukrainians, who had endured campaign reach unprecedented levels. schemes in the oil and gas business that The viciousness with which the 15 Ukrainian American leaders at a 1988 terror, famine and war, live in a danger- enriched the greedy and their protector, meeting in the Old Executive Office ous neighborhood: Russia’s just across Yanukovych/Kuchma/Putin team – and the medicine man. Ukraine began resem- nobody should have any doubts that they Building next to the White House. “Now, the border. Vice-President Gore’s visit to bling Cuba under Batista, where organ- what am I missing?” Kyiv and Chornobyl in July 1998 was are a team – attack Viktor Yushchenko ized crime used the island like al-Qaeda makes Watergate look like an amateurish Michael Sawkiw, head of the Ukrainian part of the bargain to assure the country used Afghanistan. Ukraine became a National Information Service and now pres- of America’s support. shoplifting attempt at the local drugstore sanctuary for criminals. by a 10-year-old. ident of the Ukrainian Congress Committee Unfortunately, the commitment to The best thing that happened to of America, spoke up: “This is great, Mr. Ukraine doesn’t appear to have survived By now who wins is meaningless, since Kuchma and Co. was when Mr. Putin Ukraine, as such, is the big loser. President Vice-President, but you can’t go to Ukraine into the Bush administration. Even before was elected president of Russia. With without mentioning the Famine.” 9/11, President George W. Bush, enthused Leonid Kuchma with the help of his crimi- Europe afraid to touch Ukraine with a nalized law enforcement bosses, corrupt “Okay,” he said, “but tell me more, par- over meeting President Vladimir Putin, 10-foot pole and the Americans distract- ticularly whether there’s a common denom- steered American foreign policy in a Security Service and compliant media ed by their fanatic hunt for weapons of managers have done all in their power to inator with Chornobyl.” And so we told Russo-centric direction. That’s endured, mass destruction, divine providence sent him, and for 10 minutes he listened. A week despite Putin’s systematic dismantling of discredit Ukraine as an independent state. President Putin to President Kuchma. With the help of Russian President later, the vice-president wove the Famine- Russia’s nascent democratic institutions It was a partnership made in heaven. Genocide into the speech he gave in the and ominous signs that the country is Vladimir Putin’s teams of roving “political They understood each other perfectly technocrats” sent into Ukraine as a sort of shadow of the devastated nuclear reactor. reverting to its natural proclivities, seeking well. Mr. Putin knew how Mr. Kuchma’s Vice-President Gore’s trip to Ukraine was to dominate areas it considers its historic Sonderkommando to wreck havoc and mind worked since he himself was inti- spread disinformation, the election process one of dozens that top Clinton administra- space, including Ukraine. President Bush mately familiar with bribery and corrup- tion officials took, along with an equal num- has yet to address these alarming develop- has been successfully nullified. tion – first in St. Petersburg, where he All that is needed now is to declare an ber of reciprocal visits to America on the ments. Scrupulously, he’s avoided mean- participated in a scheme know as the part of Ukrainian officials. And those were ingful contact with Ukraine – even with ex-con president and to have him ride into SPAG affair involving organized crime, Kyiv on a white Russian tank as Mr. just the tip of the iceberg, as a people once members of the Ukrainian American com- then as president when he became the closed off completely became America’s munity. Blocking the Senate Famine reso- Kuchma’s grandson greets him with bread Russian overseer of Saddam Hussein’s and salt at the Golden Gates of the city. new best friends. So why the Clinton admin- lution because Russia doesn’t like the word elaborate “oil voucher” scheme in which istration focus on U.S.-Ukrainian relations? “genocide” is particularly offensive, not Somehow, at a distance, the Georgian hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes President John F. Kennedy characterized only because it flies in the face of truth, but solution of a mass uprising is beginning were paid by the dictator to Mr. Putin’s the Cold War as a “long twilight struggle.” also because of what it portends for the to seem like the only reasonable way to closest allies and most intimate advisors Indeed it was, one administration handing broader issue of U.S.-Ukraine relations. preserve Ukrainian independence. This is in return for political protection at the off responsibility to another. For more than In justifying America’s stance toward what Mr. Kuchma is betting on and is United Nations. The only question that 50 years we maintained a military stand-off Russia and Ukraine, some have argued that actively provoking. He wants to see needs to be answered is did Mr. Putin’s at the Iron Curtain in Europe and the DMZ the world changed so fundamentally after heads roll on the streets in a battle that men pay the boss for protecting them? in Korea, all the while playing a grim game 9/11 that our priorities can no longer include would pit west against east so that he and The Putin-Kuchma partnership pro- of cat-and-mouse with the Soviets in all the Ukraine. Well, that’s half right; the world his water-carrier Yanukovych could step duced the Single Economic Space, the world’s oceans and the skies above, reach- has changed, but our priorities are still secu- in as the blessed peacemakers. Odesa-Brody pipeline pumping in ing all the way to the moon. There was also rity for the nation and stability in the world. But even this will not happen since the reverse, the election of Mr. Kuchma as Belief that a reconstituted Russian empire Ukrainian masses are too busy trying to head of the CIS and so on. Mr. Kuchma, a vast diplomatic and cultural component. with nuclear, chemical and biological make a buck and too stoned to care. The as the late Rodney Dangerfield might Every hour of every day, we beamed our weapons would be any more accommodat- fight has been taken out of them by 10 have said, was finally getting some message over the Voice of America and ing to American interests than the Soviet years of relentless criminality that has respect. But in order for the partnership Radio Liberty, and people believed. We Union, is naïve. Allowing that to happen stolen from them their sense of civic pride to really rock and roll, Mr. Putin was maintained libraries, distributed magazines truly would amount to winning the war and and belief in the democratic process. insisting that they cut to the chase – stop and books, and welcomed cultural ambassa- then, a generation later, losing the peace. All How did it come to this juncture? How the petty pretences and the “fig leaf inde- dors. We worked with our NATO allies. It the sacrifice and investment in the “long is it that a nation which overwhelmingly pendence” of Ukraine and join forces. cost trillions of dollars and countless lives, twilight struggle” will have been for naught. voted for independence and a better life This was music to the ears of Messrs. but in the end, the investment paid off. The Should Ukraine continue to drift into was hijacked by a group of slick conmen Kuchma and Yanukovych and the mob. time came when the energies of long-sub- Russia’s sphere of influence, American from Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk with Why not form one common syndicate, a merged nations burst to the surface and the efforts to stop other countries from develop- their western Ukrainian sidekicks in tow? criminal empire stretching from the Soviet behemoth was defeated. The first mistake was made by Leonid Carpathian mountains to Kamchatka? Call it nationalism, if you like; it was ing nuclear weapons, beginning with Iran Kravchuk when he permitted the pro- For some time a number of experts the key to victory and Ukraine was cen- and Korea would also be affected. Both Russian Communist Party of Ukraine to believed that Ukrainian criminal clans tral. Quite simply, the demise of the “evil countries’ development programs are real. If re-legalize itself. The second mistake was supported independence for one expedi- empire” and Ukraine’s independence they succeed, other countries will no doubt when the Rada allowed former members ent reason: to avoid being controlled by were one and the same phenomenon. pursue nuclear programs of their own. of the Communist Party of the Soviet Moscow which would step in and take President Bill Clinton, having inherited a To keep Iran and Korea from obtaining Union to stand for office. These first mis- over their scams. But Moscow, made historic triumph in the Cold War, did not nuclear arms, the next president will have takes were then capitalized on by a series them a gentlemanly offer: Why not steal want to lose the peace. He understood, to apply a mix of sanctions and incentives, of appointments of men who would be together and we’ll both make more that by merely remaining independent, diplomacy and defense. Yet how credible sitting behind bars in any civil society to money? How could they refuse? Ukraine contributes to American security. will it be if America, having extended high posts by President Kuchma. Before This, then, is what the non-elections of But that’s not the end of Ukraine’s contri- incentives and guarantees to Ukraine in anyone realized, the country was con- October 2004 are all about. They were bution to America. When the Soviet Union return for disarming, fails to honor those trolled by the wicked and greedy, on top designed not to allow Mr. Yushchenko to fell, Ukraine became the world’s third commitments from one administration to of whom sat the grand wizard, the medi- restore some semblance of dignity and largest nuclear power. All the weapons were the next? By creating the impression that cine man of Ukraine, a guitar-playing, legality in Ukraine, but to allow Ukraine aimed at the United States and its allies. By America is discarding Ukraine, the Bush to embark upon a new, higher step on the agreeing to dismantle this fearsome arsenal, administration sends the signal that Hryhoriy Tsipka is the pseudonym of a evolutionary ladder toward its transfor- President Leonid Kravchuk did more to America takes countries seriously only so Ukrainian journalist living in Central mation into an off-shore holding compa- enhance world peace than just about anyone. long as they pose a threat. Europe. ny owned by Russia Ltd. For that he deserves the Nobel Prize. Ukraine’s democracy is foundering, The disarmament deal with Ukraine has held back by the resistance of vested inter- been a real bargain for the United States, ests and Russian interference in its inter- The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters to the editor and commentaries on particularly compared to what’s happening nal affairs. But there is also a vast sector a variety of topics of concern to the Ukrainian American and Ukrainian in Iraq, where we’ve spent $120 billion and of Ukrainians who want their country to Canadian communities. Opinions expressed by columnists, commentators lost more than 1,000 young men and women succeed by remaining independent and democratic. If America has the tools to and letter-writers are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions with no end in sight, all to deny Iraq nuclear weapons they never had in the first place. bring democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan, of either The Weekly editorial staff or its publisher, the Ukrainian National With Ukraine, no one died getting rid we can certainly help to empower those Association. of nukes. Instead, the country sought and who can set Ukraine back on course. After was given American guarantees for polit- years of benign neglect, it’s time America Letters should be typed (double-spaced) and signed; they must be originals, began to play that role again. When you not photocopies. The daytime phone number and address of the letter-writer Andrew Fedynsky is a member of the vote on November 2, do consider careful- must be given for verification purposes. Steering Committee of Ukrainian ly. And remember, Ukraine matters – Americans for Kerry-Edwards. much more than you think. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 No. 43

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

And he lives well because, well, his par- on Social Security. That is huge. A reader’s vote ents have made him rich – every busi- Why I’m voting A third-party candidacy of Ralph ness he’s run has been unsuccessful. Hey Nader helps re-elect President Bush for John F. Kerry – just like Mr. Kerry! for John F. Kerry besides providing schadenfreude (feel- Dear Editor: Unlike Mr. Bush, I read the newspa- Dear Editor: good from mischief). Although in tune I guess after reading Myron Kuropas’s pers, and I refuse to vote for a guy who In his October 3 column, Myron with Mr. Nader more than with Sen. latest column (“Wealth, power and privi- doesn’t. Because the price of democracy Kuropas wrote that the GOP-controlled Kerry, I would rather take what Sen. lege”) we can surmise that only conser- is vigilance. Foreign Relations Committee is blocking Kerry can deliver, instead of enjoying the vative Republicans are allowed to be Remember that on November 2. Senate Resolution 202 on the Ukrainian righteous satisfaction of voting for Mr. wealthy and influential in American poli- Famine-Genocide, because of pressure Nader and watching America going tics. However, unlike Dr. Kuropas, I am Andrew Cherney from Turkey, which fears that such a res- down the tubes under Mr. Bush. delighted Sen. John Kerry has five hous- Los Angeles olution would pave the way for a similar For some, prognosticating which can- es and is married to a billionaire. It may resolution regarding the Armenian geno- didate for U.S. president may be best for level the playing field a bit. cide. As much as I respect and admire Ukraine seems to be the main factor in Perhaps, as Dr. Kuropas notes, Sen. A clarification Dr. Kuropas for his many years of bril- casting their vote. Such prognoses have a Kerry has “never run a business, met a liant contributions on Ukrainian 50-50 chance of being wrong, except in payroll nor administered anything.” I just American issues, in this case, I feel he is rare cases of a flash warning, as in the wish the readers of The Ukrainian on Reserve service simply wrong, perhaps more influenced “Chicken Kiev” fiasco. Dear Editor: Occasionally the Ukraine line is Weekly were provided with details of Permit me as a 31-year veteran of the by his position as an organizer for President George W. Bush’s brilliant Ukrainian Americans for Bush-Cheney stretched even when its connection to a U.S. Army Reserve who just retired last U.S. candidate for president is rather ten- business career. year with the rank of master sergeant, to than by the facts. Finally, Dr. Kuropas bangs out the Although Turkey may not be thrilled uous. For instance, Dr. Jaroslaw Sawka add a clarification to the ongoing debate in his letter (October 3) lambasts the tired old “culture war” slurs against on the presidential candidates’ military by such a resolution, the killer voice on same-sex marriage, etc. to smear the S. Res. 202 comes from the Bush White IMF as bad for Ukraine, and will vote for service. A reservist/guardsman is Mr. Nader, no fan of the IMF. The IMF’s Democrats. I write from the belly of the required to earn a minimum of 50 retire- House itself. As Ranking Member of the liberal beast of San Francisco, where last Senate Foreign Relations Committee relevance for Ukraine today is rather aca- ment points per year. There are times demic, pro or con. Dr. Sawka also finds February I had the privilege to interview when he earns much more than that, Joseph Biden told The Ukrainian Weekly in the driving rain outside City Hall earlier this year, the White House is fault with the Republicans for peripheral based on his active duty time. reasons, and is dismissive of Sen. Kerry newly married gay and lesbian couples. As Taras Wolansky correctly notes in blocking the Famine-Genocide Let me assure you they also, just as Dr. Resolution in deference to Russia, above for reasons based on false disparagement his letter (October 10), George W. Bush’s of Kerry’s Vietnam service in Dr. Myron Kuropas, believe in “the sanctity of the military records clearly show that he all. Trying to shift the blame to Turkey American family.” After all, these cou- (does that make it OK?) is just sucker Kuropas’s column (September 12). always made more than the minimum, ples are trying to create a family and bait. This is just one more small favor It is now common knowledge that the especially in his early years when he per- why should they, just as one daughter of that President George W. Bush has elect- Kerry Vietnam smear campaign was formed extensive active duty. In fact Mr. the current vice-president, be denied ed to deliver to Russian President financed in the heart mof Texas by a Bush logged 336 flight hours on the F- their rights in this worthy endeavor? Vladimir Putin after their infamous Houston tycoon Bob Perry, a major con- 102 jet fighter in 1972 alone. It is not at We must be grateful for Dr. Kuropas’s meeting at Mr. Bush’s ranch in tributor to Republican campaigns. all unusual for a reservist/guardsman to many years of public service to the Crawford, Texas, when Mr. Bush looked Benjamin L. Ginsberg, the legal adviser occasionally skip his monthly weekend Ukrainian American community through into Mr. Putin’s eyes and liked what he to the veterans group that was used as a duty if he has enough retirement points his anti-defamation and Famine educa- saw. conduit to pay for advertisements con- for the year or if he makes up the lost tion efforts. However, he has stumbled My deep concern is that President demning Sen. Kerry was serving at the time by performing administrative duties badly in these forays into election com- Bush saw himself in President Putin’s same time as national counsel for the at a different time. mentary and his increasingly frantic ful- eyes. I am concerned that they agreed Bush re-election campaign, and was Once a reservist/guardsman receives minations against Sen. Kerry and the not to hinder each other as they try to forced to resign in the aftermath. But the his annual statement of retirement points Democratic Party cannot obscure the divide the world between them. This president personally refused to distance and verifies that it is correct, there is real- domestic and foreign policy failures of would explain the mealy mouthed himself from the group. ly no need to keep detailed records of the the current administration. U.S.A. response to Russia’s attack on the This scam was widely condemned by completed year for the next three decades. Island of Tuzla and the midnight switch Sen. John McCain among others, a Similarly, in the civilian world, once an Peter Bejger (or back stab) on the Odesa-Brody Vietnam veteran himself who was a vic- employee receives an accurate annual San Francisco Pipeline – just two of a long litany of tim of a similar “am-Bush” – in the statement of earnings from the Social disappointments in the Bush-Cheney Republican primary election campaign in Security Administration, there is no need policy on Ukraine. year 2000, and by former Sen. Max for him to keep that year’s weekly pay The Bush administration’s only interest Cleland of Georgia, a Vietnam War triple A suggestion: stubs for the next 30 years. To expect that seems to be keeping Ukrainian troops in amputee shamelessly savaged by right- employee to recall in 2004 why he had Iraq. Beyond that, Russia has a blank wing activists in his failed re-election some absences in 1972 is just as ridicu- check to do what it wants. I am concerned bid. But Dr. Kuropas, true to his form, elect Boris Danik lous as to expect a reservist/guardsman to Dear Editor: that another four years of this blank check apparently could not resist pasting the explain in 2004 why he may have had a Elect Boris Danik – only because it’s will see the destruction of Ukraine as a same smear on Sen. Kerry in his column, brief lapse in his duties back in 1972, become an embarrassment to read The viable independent nation. Ukraine will after the mainstream media backed off. especially if he had earned the required Ukrainian Weekly. Between Myron not survive another term of Bush-Cheney Dr. Sawka, in general, has valid number of points for that year. Kuropas’ constant shilling for the rule in Washington. That’s why I’m vot- insights about Ukraine, which appear to The liberal media’s unsuccessful be his main focus in the U.S. election Republican Party and perpetual apolo- ing for Sen. Kerry for president. attempts to find fault with President campaign. My point is that election of the gies for the Bush administration’s sense- Bush’s military service culminated in the U.S. president affects our lives and our less policies in the rest of the paper, I’m Charmian Carl “Memogate” scandal, where a crude for- children’s lives as Americans in a very afraid The Weekly’s become a one-note, Los Angeles gery was blindly accepted by a [Dan] real sense, whereas splitting hairs about right-wing rag. In this election year, the Rather-biased CBS in a desperate The letter-writer is a member of its fallout on another country (when there Weekly is somehow fine with the neocon attempt to smear the president. is no pressing connective issue) can agenda. Only Mr. Danik’s eloquent, California Ukrainian Americans for In contrast, the same media eagerly Kerry-Edwards. become an end in itself. Although Ukraine informative letters shine a welcome light embraced Sen. John F. Kerry’s “report- can expect no favors from the Bush into the slanted muck. To which I’d like ing for duty” slogan. However, too many dynasty, President Bush is not nearly as to add a few (non-partisan) words. living veterans have stepped forward, bad for Ukraine as he is for America. When Dr. Kuropas distorts history in tarnishing his medals (the ones he A reader’s reasons order to slam Sen. John Kerry, as in the claimed to throw away, then denied Boris Danik last few issues (October 3 and 10), doing it). Even so, the fact remains that to not elect Bush North Caldwell, N.J. it’s beyond irresponsible. References to both men were honorably discharged Dear Editor: the so-called “evil Vietnamese” fail to from the service. The problem with Sen. One of the comments l received in acknowledge U.S. arrogance in that war, Kerry is his sworn testimony before response to my opinion about President which Mr. Kerry addressed then – with Correction Congress, branding all American service- George W. Bush (letter, September 6) Last week’s issue (October 17) carried a good reason. I suggest Dr. Kuropas view men in Vietnam as war criminals at a suggested that Sen. John Kerry is a good letter to the editor written by a supporter of the excellent Errol Morris film “The Fog time when American POWs were being candidate for president. Sen. Kerry has a the Libertarian candidate for U.S. president, of War” and listen to McNamara come tortured in North Vietnam. The words of Michael Badnarik. The candidate’s last name shot at unseating Mr. Bush and, if elect- clean about that whole debacle. Also, I Sen. Kerry and other leftists of that time was misspelled as Bednarik. suggest a thorough perusal of Pulitzer were then used against the POWs by ed, will most likely “not mislead us into Prize-winning, “A Bright Shining Lie,” their Communist captors. In the words of war”; will scrap Mr. Bush’s tax cuts for The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters by Neil Sheehan. Oh, and “The Pentagon Sir John Harrington: “Treason doth never the upper class (doing so will revive the to the editor. Letter-writers must provide a economy and cut the deficit, as it did daytime phone number and mailing Papers.” Ho Chi Minh came to America prosper, what’s the reason? For if it pros- address for verification purposes.Please first and we turned him away. “American per, none dare call it treason.” when Bill Clinton took similar action in note that a daytime phone number is moral fiber”?! Please... 1993); stop the environmental devasta- essential in order for editors to contact let- Oh, by the way Dr. Kuropas, George Leo Iwaskiw tion perpetrated by deregulated industrial ter-writers regarding clarifications or W. Bush is a wealthy Yale graduate, too. Philadelphia polluters, and halt the Republican assault questions. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 11

CONFERENCE ADDRESSES: “Ukraine’s Transition to a Stable Democracy” Third, Ukraine needs institutions that do you know who is making money, who operate within conditions of transparen- is losing money, who is wasting it, and Ukraine and the culture of democracy cy. At its most elemental level, trans- who is stealing it? A friend of mine work- Following is the text of the speech The fundamental problem in Ukraine parency is the ability to see. This means ing in another large Russian business, co- delivered by James Sherr, Conflict is the gap between state and society. In the ability to see who people are. When located in Ukraine, had this to say: “We Studies Research Center, Defense more commonplace terms, it is the pow- Ukrainian citizens vote for a Communist, have three tiers of management: junior Academy of the United Kingdom, at the erlessness of ordinary people. This pow- Socialist or a member of Nasha Ukraina management, who are insecure; senior conference “Ukraine’s Quest for Mature erlessness is something that is experi- [Our Ukraine] to sit in Parliament, they management, who are involved in high Nation Statehood – Roundtable V: enced on a daily basis – or, at least, on expect them to advance the programes of politics (and whom we never see) and Ukraine’s Transition to a Stable any day when people have to deal with these factions and not appear inside middle management. And what they do is Democracy” on September 13. The text is an institution, a “structure of power,” another faction within weeks of taking up steal.” from the October 5 release of the Action even if it is local or small. This, too, was their seats. Today, not only in politics but Some years ago, another friend negoti- Ukraine Report. the core problem of the Soviet Union. in business, there is very little ability to ated with the regional authorities to lease Since the Soviet collapse, some things know who people are. During the next land for development. Not surprisingly, Is Ukraine a democracy? This simple have improved, some things have wors- major privatization, try asking who the the negotiations were difficult and pro- question is not so simple to answer, and it ened, and much has remained the same. leading contenders are – who are the real tracted, but at last a contract was con- is impossible to answer with a “yes” or In Ukraine today there has been some, owners? what is their citizenship? What cluded. Over the next year, he invested “no.” The short answer is that Ukraine is but far too little, devolution of political are their resources? Where are they most of his capital in this enterprise, and a new and flawed democracy: limited in power. There has also been little devolu- invested? – and see what kind of answers the following year his business became scope and legitimacy, oligarchic, tion of economic power. To a distressing you get. very profitable. At that point, the very unhealthy and now under strain. degree, the networks of privilege that But transparency also means the abili- authorities who had so carefully negotiat- But it is a democracy with long-term existed before are the networks of privi- ty to know what decisions are taken, ed every detail of his contract told him promise, and the promise stems from the lege that exist now. Some of the excep- where they are taken, by whom they are that it was invalid. They presented him fact that Ukrainians as a people are quite tions are not very flattering to the post- taken and, preferably, why. Was the with a list of the “laws” he had supposed- democratically minded, certainly by com- Soviet order: criminal networks, who Melitopol accident in May (which ly violated and threatened to issue crimi- parison to their eastern and northern once operated apprehensively and in the destroyed an enormous quantity of muni- nal charges unless he transferred the land neighbors. Today, ordinary Ukrainians do shadows but who, despite being termed tions and millions of dollars in property – back to them. Since that point he has not believe that they are living in a “shadow structures,” now operate with and which, by a few months, preceded spent a third of his time negotiating, a democracy, and that is a good thing. It is impudence and near impunity. And on the the dismissal of Ukraine’s minister of third of his time in court and a third of one of several indications that citizens other end of the spectrum, there is the defense) really an accident or the result his time in hospital. Who can have faith put a value on democracy, that they have decline in privilege of the very people of a decision? To be sure, Ukraine has in entrepreneurship if entrepreneurs end a set of standards about it, and they know who under the old system deserved it: the had bigger scandals than Melitopol. up in these straits? Who can have faith in that the current state of affairs does not scientifically, technically and intellectual- After nearly all of them, it has proved political rights if no economic rights measure up to them. ly skilled – skilled, that is, in every art impossible to answer these basic ques- exist? There is also promise in the attitudes except finance. tions. Without credible facts, rumors The second area that tends to be of a large number of Ukrainians who are To be sure, there has also been real become credible, even the most incredi- ignored in discussions of democracy is not ordinary. Not only in the Verkhovna progress. In recent years, there has been ble rumors, particularly if they are based the culture of administration. It, too, Rada, but in any number of state struc- solid economic growth (albeit less than on conspiracy. People who put their trust tends to be authoritarian, compartmented tures – not just the Ministry of Foreign official statistics suggest), there has been in conspiracies rarely put their trust in and opaque. In most advanced democra- Affairs, but the Cabinet of Ministers, the emergence of a real (but still vulnera- other people. It is unlikely that such peo- cies, the administrative culture values presidential administration and armed ble) middle class, a surge of property ple will “pull together at a crucial hierarchy, but it also values two antidotes forces – one also meets respectable num- ownership (but without firm contractual moment.” to it. bers of individuals who are democratical- rights) and signs of honest (but hampered The absence of transparency not only The first antidote is the devolution of ly minded, and whilst this includes peo- and harassed) entrepreneurship. Yet, produces an absence of accountability, authority and initiative: the so-called ple who are inclined to support the oppo- Ukraine remains a country of people who which is essential to democracy, but cyni- “bottom-up” culture. The second is an sition, it also includes people who are feel alienated from their political order. cism, which is poisonous to it. It also emphasis on horizontal integration, both not. This crossing of political lines is of The West has been slow to face these threatens national security, and this was within institutions and between them: in critical importance, because it means that realities, and for several critical years, it clearly stated by the authors of the 1997 short, the opposite of the “administrative there is an evolutionary path forward for damaged its standing by appearing to National Security Concept and re-echoed vertical” exalted in Russia and, very Ukraine. It means that whilst the growth praise any practice pursued in the name by the authors of the 2003 Law on the often, in Ukraine. Both depend on the of civic instincts is sharpening the divide of profit, privatization and the free mar- Foundations of National Security. The sharing of information. This is what a between state and society, it is also creat- ket. With good reason, many people in good news is that these are official docu- senior British general meant when he ing points of friction within the state and Ukraine have failed to see the difference ments. But they won’t have a practical explained to a group of Ukrainian gener- a dynamic of evolution inside it. between privatization and plunder, or influence until someone implants the als how he made a decision: “I communi- Will an undemocratic president between free markets and rigged markets. notion that information, like air, is a cate one level up, one level down, one reverse this dynamic or will he simply Therefore, we should not be surprised by “public good” rather than a strategic level to the left and one level to the retard it? Perhaps we will have a chance the fact that Western ideas are not domi- commodity and an instrument of power. right.” to see. If we can be optimistic about the nating discussion. We need to change the Ukraine’s political culture is not comfort- By “communicate,” he meant that he future, we also need to be realistic about discussion. able with this notion. Nor is its business listened before giving instructions and the present, and the present is defined by If the relationship between state and culture, which operates less according to that he made recommendations before his a well-entrenched and increasingly society is the core issue, then institutions the conventions of Western competitive- superiors gave instructions to him. aggressive status quo. Can the character are the bridge between them. What kind ness than according to the conventions of Do these practices not explain why the of this status quo be explained purely by of institutions does Ukraine need? “finansovaya-informatsionnaya borba” most motivated and productive Western the interests of people in power? Or is its First, Ukraine needs institutions that (financial-informational struggle). This institutions are lean and why so many endurance and “maturation” not equally a operate within a culture of authority last point leads to two areas that are Ukrainian institutions are underproduc- result of a misunderstanding of how a rather than a culture of power. Authority rarely discussed when democracy is dis- tive and overstaffed? Can a democratic healthy democratic political order differs is power that is codified and limited to cussed. The first, indeed, is the culture of political system co-exist with an authori- from Ukraine’s – and why it is needed in legitimate and openly articulated purpos- business. Today, there are two cultures of tarian system of administration? Yes it the interests of the country? es. And it is not codified by the authori- business in Ukraine, and two cultures of can, and there are examples to prove it. Today there are a number of misunder- ties themselves, but by the people’s elect- business are drawing a line across But the co-existence creates an incon- standings and, paradoxically, the demo- ed representatives. Today, all manner of Europe. In one a business transaction is gruity in a country’s authority structure cratic West has contributed to them. This “authorities,” beginning with the “milit- designed to benefit both buyer and seller. which is damaging to democracy. is because, with some distinguished sia,” have become very entrepreneurial In the other, it is part of a Darwinian rela- Finally, there is the area we dare not exceptions, Western governments and with the powers they have. That is not tionship, a form of bor’ba za vlast’ (the ignore, Ukraine’s force structures: not international organizations have tended authority, but it’s abuse. struggle for power). In the latter, business just the armed forces, but the Security to emphazise the mechanics of democra- Second, Ukraine needs institutions that norms are conspiratorial: inbred, collu- Service, Interiornal Affairs forces, border cy rather than the culture of democracy. operate within a proper framework of sive, opaque to outsiders and based upon service, customs and, of course, police. Free elections and a free press are law. A system of “codified arbitrariness” networks rather than markets – networks To transform these structures – to train mechanics of democracy: very important (to quote the French authority Françoise that straddle the spheres of business, poli- people according to today’s values rather mechanics, but they are neither the core Thom) is not law. Laws derive from a tics and, far too often, crime. These than yesterday’s, to inculcate decent of democracy nor the soul of it. coherent and comprehensible legal sys- norms are not only a threat to democracy norms of professionalism, to make these “Democracy” describes a relationship tem founded on Hart’s principle: “the and Ukraine’s EU integration prospects, professionals feel they are part of society between the state and society, and the key unity of primary and secondary rules.” but to good business. – it is necessary to respect those who try to this relationship is the character of And law enforcement must be separate Two examples will suffice. When the hold onto their professionalism in institutions. Even if elections are “free from politics. This means that the institu- blue-eyed genius of Russian capitalism, adverse circumstances, and it is neces- and fair,” there will be no real democracy tions which enforce the law must be Anatolii Chubais, became chairman of sary to understand the work that they do. if state and public institutions continue to politically neutral. In the United States, United Energy Systems, he discovered Governments of former dissidents in behave in an arrogant, autocratic, arbi- as in Ukraine, no one likes the tax author- that this vast enterprise – by any reckon- Central Europe have often failed to do trary and self-serving manner. If they do, ities. But they trust the tax authorities ing one of the largest in the world – did this, and the result is that these most the vast majority of people will continue irrespective of which political party or not possess a budget. He should not have to feel that their country is not theirs. interest is in power. been surprised. If there is no budget, how (Continued on page 23) 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 No. 43 Over 2,300 election observers Rada majority stages walk-out by Roman Woronowycz tives [for the future],” Mr. Lytvyn noted. in Ukraine, with more on the way Kyiv Press Bureau The majority coalition, which had held together for more than two years, principally KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman over the issue of political reform and loyalty by Roman Woronowycz observers, including teams from the Volodymyr Lytvyn accused members of to President Leonid Kuchma, disintegrated Kyiv Press Bureau United States, Canada, the Netherlands, the crumbling majority coalition in rather quickly after the former failed to Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Parliament of succumbing to the manipu- KYIV – More than 2,300 international Armenia, Georgia, Germany and Great muster the votes needed for passage and the observers were already working in lations of pre-election strategies on latter came to the end of his term in office. Britain. Among the other organizations October 12 and contributing to the political Ukraine on October 20, with up to anoth- sending observer groups are: the Council The parliamentary session hall was er 1,000 expected in the country in the 10 chaos that has descended upon the country awash in politicized banners mostly aimed of Europe, the National Democratic two weeks before election day. days before to the October 31 vote. Their Institute, the International Republican at National Deputy Viktor Yushchenko, job was to review the current electoral “When will you stop letting your- the prime minister’s main opponent in the Institute, Freedom House, the interna- selves be manipulated by your handlers?” process and observe the vote on election tional human rights group For Free vote scheduled for October 31. Most of day to assess to what extent the presiden- asked a frustrated Mr. Lytvyn. Elections, the Ukrainian World Congress the banners, hung by the members of the tial vote in Ukraine – in a campaign As he spoke, members of the six par- and the Ukrainian Congress Committee majority, expressed disdain for Mr. already filled with many ugly moments – liamentary factions that make up the Yushchenko. Only one, hung by the mem- of America. would be free and fair. Yet, even as the monitors arrived, their remnants of the majority – Regions of bers of the candidate’s Our Ukraine coali- As the international monitors arrived, foreign governments were voicing their Ukraine, the Social Democratic Party- tion showed support. It read simply, leaders in their home countries were issu- gravest concerns on the ability of United, Democratic Initiative, Labor “Yushchenko – the People’s President.” ing warnings to the state leadership in Ukraine to pull off a free and fair presi- Ukraine, the National Democratic Party The pro-Yanukovych forces demanded Kyiv that if vote manipulation and falsi- dential election. and the Party of Industrialists and that Mr. Yushchenko apologize for “mis- fications occur, this could lead to dire The U.S. Embassy released a state- Entrepreneurs – abandoned the session leading the country into believing that he consequences for the country, including ment on October 14 via Richard hall, stating that they would not be back had been poisoned” after he became ill with sanctions. Boucher, spokesman for the U.S. until after the presidential election. a mysterious ailment, which doctors in Meanwhile, the respected Committee Department of State, expressing those Earlier, the remnant of the majority coali- Vienna have still not been able to diagnose. of Voters of Ukraine in its last report concerns. tion had adopted the often-used tactics of the A team of biological warfare experts is before election day stressed on October “We are deeply disappointed that the opposition: surrounding the main micro- awaiting the results of tests to determine 19 that 20 percent of voting precincts in campaign to date has fallen short of inter- phone and presidium dais at the front of the whether a bacteriological agent may have the country were effectively or literally national standards. The disruption of hall to paralyze the work of the legislative poisoned Mr. Yushchenko. not working. opposition rallies, muzzling of independ- body, which they did for several hours while With the demand of his legislative force “They were supposed to be working ent media, misuse of ‘administrative calling for a parliamentary recess until unsatisfied, the majority’s coordinator, by October 1 to allow voters to review resources,’ and other serious violations December 7-10, when the newly elected Stefan Havrysh, who is also an official on the ballots and to make sure that they and cast doubt on the Ukrainian govern- president will have been sworn in. the Yanukovych campaign team, submitted their families were properly listed on the ment’s commitment to its democratic The unique situation – with the majority a request from two of the majority factions rolls,” explained Ihor Popov, head of the obligations,” he said. working to paralyze the body it ostensibly that a 30-minute recess take place. It later civic organization. A day later, the European Union’s controls – occurred in the final week of turned out that this was an effort to organ- Mr. Popov said that part of the reason Vice-President of the European parliamentary work before the presidential ize a vote to have the Verkhovna Rada for the failure to open the voting Parliament Janusz Onyszkiewicz vote. It marked a widening rift between stand in recess as the majority wanted. precincts could be traced to a large prob- declared in Kyiv that if international Rada Chairman Lytvyn, who has increas- Mr. Lytvyn summarily rejected the lem the precinct electoral commissions observers were to judge the elections to ingly distanced himself from the formerly proposal, noting that one of the two fac- were having in filling commission posi- be unfair or if they were deemed invalid, pro-presidential and now pro-Yanukovych tions, the Social Democrats-United, had tions. He said people were reluctant to the EU would take “appropriate meas- majority coalition that he helped found and not registered for that day’s session and, take a job that undoubtedly could be ures.” which elected him chairman in 2002. therefore, could not demand a recess. stressful on October 31. The deputy head of the presidential Mr. Lytvyn expressed his frustration “No, one of the factions that submitted The head of the civic organization also administration, Vasyl Baziv, responded to with the way the Parliament had become the request is registered today, but the said that there are extensive problems the threats coming from the West by not- even more politicized in the last months other is not. Therefore, no, you must with the accuracy of the voter rolls, where ing on October 15 that the West was prior the national vote than even the most rewrite the request,” responded Mr. evidence suggested that up to 5 percent of expressing a high level of interest in the cynical predictions had forecast. He Lytvyn to the request of the majority the names of the lists were inaccurately or Ukrainian elections because of the voiced his opinion that the parliamentary coordinator, eliciting outrage among the falsely listed, while another 2 percent had “unprecedented openness of the state and majority no longer exists as a united force. lawmakers from the majority, who then not been properly removed, which its preparedness to cooperate with a large He added that those lawmakers closest to charged to the front of the session hall. amounts to more than 2 million of number of international observers and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych would Mr. Lytvyn said the majority was playing Ukraine’s 36.2 million eligible voters. organizations.” like to see the Parliament dismissed soon out the two-pronged scenario that many He gave as an example a precinct in Mr. Baziv underscored that state offi- after their candidate is elevated to head of political observers earlier had suggested the city of Melitopol, where CVU moni- cials had taken steps “to secure the free state so that a new body – one that would might occur within the Rada in order to tors found that soldiers of two military will of citizens” and to make sure that better reflect the new president’s own manipulate the elections: first, the legisla- bases were registered to vote even violence did not occur during the elec- philosophies and aims, might be elected tive body would become overtly and unac- though the bases no longer existed. Also tions. Mr. Lytvyn told the deputies that they ceptably politicized before election day; in Melitopil, 205 people on the rolls no “Any attempts to unilaterally influence should keep in mind that in such a sce- then, it would be deemed “unable to func- longer lived in the precinct, 146 did not the election process in Ukraine, wherever nario many of them might not be re-elect- tion” by the “powers that would be” and live at the address that was given in the they may come from, do not whatsoever ed, inasmuch as some studies indicate that dismissed by the president. rolls, 16 were long dead and 28 who did promote normal conditions for the elec- voters could throw out 70 percent of them. “The attempt to place a lock on the live in the precinct were not registered. tion process,” warned Mr. Baziv, accord- “You need to consider your perspec- Parliament will not succeed,” he said. The CVU has prepared nearly 10,000 ing to Interfax-Ukraine. election day observers to monitor the The presidential administration vote throughout all of Ukraine’s oblasts spokesman also noted that authorities and raion villages, as well as in more were checking allegations by representa- Baltimore voters organize for Ukrainian election remote villages, where most experts tives of the presidential campaign team by Oleh Voloshyn this number did not justify such an open- believe the ability to falsify the vote of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych Special to The Ukrainian Weekly ing as far as the Embassy was concerned. count would be easiest. The CVU that supporters of presidential candidate The two parties were able to meet in the observers would be registered as journal- Viktor Yushchenko, his main opponent, BALTIMORE – Registration of middle, when it was agreed to conduct ists for the CVU newspaper, Tochka were preparing for street violence on Ukrainian voters in the upcoming presiden- the registration by Embassy staff in Zoru, because again this year, as in the election night should their candidate suf- tial election by election committee officials Baltimore, and that free transportation previous elections, the Verkhovna Rada fer defeat. from the Embassy of Ukraine in the United sponsored by Selfreliance would be pro- rejected a proposal to have representa- Meanwhile, President Leonid Kuchma States took place on Saturday, October 16, vided to Washington on election day. tives of civic organizations act as election dismissed as “fantasy” rumors that state in Baltimore at the Selfreliance Federal According to Ivan Korz, the credit observers – even while the international authorities were preparing to introduce a Credit Union building. union’s president, one-third of credit community had pressed it to do so. state of emergency in Ukraine beginning In all, 95 persons have registered to vote union membership are new members The CVU observers will join some on October 28, when Ukraine would cel- in Baltimore in an effort to save a trip to recently arrived from Ukraine: Green 600 observers from the Organization for ebrate the 60th anniversary of victory Washington for the mandatory registration Card lottery winners, religion-based Security and Cooperation in Europe over Germany in World War II. A mili- before the vote, in accordance with the immigrants, visitors, scientists and work- (OSCE), which will have the largest tary parade is planned for Kyiv that day recently changed election law of Ukraine. ing visa holders. “We are part of Ukraine, international election-monitoring contin- with Russian President Vladimir Putin The initiator of this unprecedented event, by heart, by soul and by birth. It was gent. The Commonwealth of Independent scheduled to be present. Xrystyna Horbachevska, persuaded the right thing to do for us, because we are States already has an extensive observer To ensure the peace during the elec- board of directors of Selfreliance Baltimore, hoping for change, and for a better future group on the ground in Ukraine, as does tions, the Ministry of Internal Affairs as well as officials at the Embassy of for Ukraine,” he said. Russia, which has sent representatives announced that it had assigned 200,000 Ukraine, to conduct the registration. On Sunday, October 31, several buses from its State Duma. state militia officers and cadets to patrol Over 170 members of the Ukrainian will travel to Washington from 2345 Additional representatives from many the offices of the country’s 225 territorial community in Baltimore expressed their Eastern Ave. in Baltimore for voting in the other official and non-governmental commissions and 33,485 election desire to vote in Baltimore and requested presidential election. For more information organizations of many Western countries precincts a round the clock from October that a voting station be opened here – but readers may call (410) 327-9841. will be on hand also as official elections 29 to November 2. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 13 Students say explosive devices discovered Two Luhansk students detained, then expelled during militia raid were planted by authorities for political theater lampooning Yanukovych by Tatiana Matychak Yanukovych on the city’s main square by Roman Woronowycz itself Pora, which means It’s Time, may Special to the Ukrainian Weekly before the concert. They put on traditional Kyiv Press Bureau have had links to a Serbian student organ- prisoners’ garb, and using prison jargon ization, that had led violent demonstra- KYIV – Two students of Luhansk and mannerisms said that they, too, want- KYIV – Ukrainian state militia officials tions which resulted in the downfall of National Agrarian University (LNAU) ed to be president as a rap beat played in said on October 15 they had discovered an Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. were detained on September 18 by local the background. Behind them, a banner explosive device at the offices of a rela- The Procurator General’s Office stated state militia and expelled from the uni- proclaimed, “I, too, want to be president.” tively new and unknown student group, on October 18 that it had not excluded versity two days later for campaigning The statement was full of spelling located not far from where a large student the possibility that members of the stu- against presidential candidate and Prime errors. The prison garb and the mis- demonstration in support of presidential dent organization were also responsible Minister Viktor Yanukovych. The inci- spellings were a spoof of Mr. candidate Viktor Yushchenko took place for the explosion that rocked a local mar- dent was another on an ever-increasing Yanukovych’s criminal past and his pen- the next day. Two student activists were ket in Kyiv in August in which one per- list of charges of the illegal use of admin- chant for misspelling Ukrainian words. arrested and charged with being terrorists. son died and several were injured. istrative resources by the Yanukovych The members of the group who were Four Pora members, speaking during a campaign in the final days before the Within several minutes of the beginning in the office and members of the Our press conference in Kyiv on October 21, presidential election in Ukraine. of their performance, as Mr. Kirilov Ukraine faction in Ukraine’s Parliament acknowledged that they had consulted on The two individuals, Oleksander explained, they were detained by the police, beaten and imprisoned for two days. who were present as the bomb search was how to promote student activism with Kirilov and Kostiantyn Kosenko, now conducted stridently maintained that no ex-students, said on October 12 during a “The policemen did not immediately former members of the Serbian student tell us the reason for our detention,” said bomb was found other than what the law group Otpor, which today is a member of press conference in Kyiv that they were enforcement officials themselves planted. detained and then kicked out of the uni- Mr. Kosenko, “but we are sure that it the Serbian non-governmental organiza- was a political one.” They said it was yet another attempt to tion the Center for Non-Violent versity for doing a parody of the current discredit organizations and individuals prime minister. The state militia post of the Lenin Resistance. They also freely admitted to District in Luhansk, where the ex-stu- tied to the Yushchenko campaign. having been in contact with the Georgian During what has become a traditional “This event was ordered, and there is no pre-election concert organized in Luhansk dents were held, told The Weekly that student group Khmara. the two students were charged with substance to the charges, which we will Ukrainian Border Guard officials and by local authorities in support of the prove in court. It was obvious the militia standing prime minister’s presidential “petty hooliganism,” because they had the Security Service of Ukraine have main- disturbed the organization of the concert. was carrying out orders,” stated Taras tained that they denied Aleksander Marich, campaign, on September 18 two students Stetskiv on October 16. He was one of sev- of LNAU did a parody of Mr. They were made to pay a fine of 51 hrv. a worker for the human rights group The chief at the police station denied that eral lawmakers who arrived on the scene Freedom House, re-entry into Ukraine after any beating had taken place. after the students in the office called to tell a visit to his home in Belgrade, even him that state militia officials were present. At their press conference in Kyiv though he held a valid Ukrainian visa, Law enforcement officials said they Statement by (Continued on page 26) had evidence that the group, which calls (Continued on page 26)

KM Foundation “Yes!” bandanas as a sign of appreciation Following is the full text of the for this nation and this country,” said Mr. statement on police tactics used at 20,000 students... for their solidarity. Yushchenko. the National University of Kyiv (Continued from page 1) “My mood has started to rise here The presidential candidate said that Mohyla Academy which was The All-Ukrainian Students’ Council because to be in Donetsk before these among his first steps as a president he released on October 19 by the U.S.- brought thousands of Ukrainian students elections is terrible,” said Mykhaylo would include redress of social problems based Kyiv Mohyla Foundation. from many regions of the country to Zhylin, a student at Donetsk National pertinent to students and youth, including Kyiv to express their desire for change University. “Only here have I seen so raising by a factor of 10 initial maternity The Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of according to members of Student Wave, many people showing support for our can- leave payment, and also higher student America condemns the unlawful the imitative group that organized the didate.” stipends, better compensation for young activities of a group of Ukrainian event. Student Wave, in turn, was organ- Before Mr. Yushchenko addressed the specialists and the shortening of required militia, which occurred on Sunday ized by the youth coalition of Our crowd, several student representatives military service. morning, October 17. A group of Ukraine in order to protect students’ spoke about the problems they had The crowd responded several times to uniformed and armed militia rights and in support of the Yushchenko encountered with local authorities in try- the presidential candidate’s words with demanded to enter the premises of candidacy. ing to get to Kyiv to express their support chants of “Yushchenko!” and “Freedom the University of Kyiv Mohyla Mr. Yushchenko’s campaign said in a for their presidential choice. A student can’t be stopped” – the latter the rally’s Academy in order to locate allegedly press release dated October 14 that the from the Vinnytsia Oblast explained that official slogan. undocumented foreigners conducting idea for the public rally before the state militia prevented students at one “Viktor Yushchenko is the only person building repairs, and then to inspect NUKMA, considered the foremost insti- university from leaving their dorms the who can change the power system. And the premises. Security personnel of tution of higher learning in Ukraine, had night they were to leave for Kyiv. Ukraine will finally get a chance to the university refused entry to the been spurred as well by “the huge pres- Another student organizer said that in develop normally,” said Mykola Kireev militia and contacted the university’s sure put on students by state authorities Dnipropetrovsk a university rector – who from Nizhyn State Pedagogical three vice-presidents, who came to on the eve of the election.” was authorized to do so by Prime University in the Chernihiv Oblast, who the scene within minutes. The uni- Students began arriving in Kyiv on the Minister Viktor Yanukovych, Mr. came to express support for Mr. versity’s president was away on trav- morning of Saturday, October 16, and by Yuschenko’s chief competitor for the Yushchenko along with 500 other stu- el at the time of the incident. the afternoon four separate columns, rep- presidential seat – sent for students and dents from his oblast. Confronting the militia, the universi- resenting students from the eastern, west- threatened them if they should travel to After Mr. Yushchenko’s speech, organ- ty’s First Vice-President M. Bryk ern, northern and southern oblasts of Kyiv. izers read resolutions that came from the demanded to see documentation Ukraine, were marching from four differ- Mr. Yushchenko, who looked much student meeting. The daylong rally ended authorizing such an inspection, but ent areas of the city to the downtown healthier after his most recent round of with a concert by two of Ukraine’s most militia officials were unable to pro- area, where they joined together for a medical treatment, started his address by famous groups, V.V. and Okean Elzy, duce legal documents, claiming their united march down the Khreschatyk – paying his respects to the university stu- which toward evening drew even more instructions from superiors were ver- Kyiv’s main thoroughfare – and then to dents of Sumy, his hometown, who people, including many who weren’t bal. the Podil district and Kontraktova protested during the summer against ready to support Mr. Yushchenko. Several deputies of the Ukrainian Ploscha (Contractors Square) located combining three universities into one. He “First, I came to see the concert, and Parliament were called and came to directly before the NUKMA complex, noted that it was an example of how stu- then to listen to Yushchenko,” said Iryna the scene, where they also demanded where the meeting and rally took place. dent activism could bring results. Korobko, a Kyiv student. “I’m not a to see proof of the militia’s legal As the students walked the streets of He also noted that pressure from state Yushchenko supporter. To my mind, he authority to search academy Kyiv, they carried orange flags and wore authorities was being felt particularly by would not be the best president for grounds. Again citing “verbal orders orange bandanas tied around their heads, the students who were part of the Chysta Ukraine.” from their superiors,” the militia arms and legs, emblazoned with the Ukraina (Clean Ukraine) and Pora (It’s Nonetheless, Mr. Yushchenko and entered and confiscated internal Yushchenko campaign slogan “Yes!” Time) movements, as well as the Student most of his supporters are sure of his vic- passports of several workers. Due to They marched behind banners imprinted Wave initiative. tory. the insistence from the members of with political slogans like “Students “In this country we don’t have any “I give you my word that if only one Parliament present at the academy against obtuse and heavy objects!” and problems with our resources or mineral cell of my body was unsure of our victo- grounds, the militia finally left. The others with the names of the oblasts and wealth or industry. There is a single prob- ry on October 31, I wouldn’t be here with workers’ passports, which were in universities from which they hailed. All lem – it’s a problem with the authorities,” you,” Mr. Yushchenko asserted. proper order, were returned later in the while they chanted “Yushchenko!” Mr. Yushchenko asserted. Although the event was aimed at stu- the day. Some passers-by seated at sidewalk He called the current authorities ban- dents, people of all ages were present, In a statement issued by the uni- cafes and in cars blocked by the march- dits and expressed assurance that his beginning with babies in their parents’ versity the same day, the event was ing columns, expressed solidarity and nation and his students would make the arms and ending with the elderly. summarized as follows: support for the students and Mr. right choice on Election Day. “My heart belongs here, with Mr. “In evaluating the circumstances Yushchenko’s campaign by waving or “On October 31 you will see a differ- Yushchenko. That’s why I came,” said and motivation of this surprise inter- honking their horns and returning the ent country, a different authority, an Kyiv pensioner Lyudmyla Makarivna. “I chant “Yushchenko!” The students authority that you will not be afraid of, (Continued on page 26) love him very much, and I’m sure he will responded by giving them Yushchenko that you will respect because it will work win. And I’m sure that we will live better.” 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 No. 43

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of One Ukrainian citizen residing in Mr. Semenenko explained further that Observers concerned... Ukraine, announced on March 12 that in Cleveland questioned in a letter to The when he contacted the Embassy of Ukraine (Continued from page 1) response to calls from Ukrainians abroad Ukrainian Weekly why the decision to in Moscow he could not get a definitive Ukrainians in Russia and chairman of the the number of polling stations located in consider a voting precinct for that U.S answer on how many new precincts would Ukrainians of Moscow, said that even if foreign countries where Ukrainians city, which has its own honorary consul be added and where they would be located. only 400 precincts were established reside would increase by 114 precincts and a large Ukrainian population, came so He noted that the idea of 650 additional over the levels of previous elections. late, effectively giving reason to doubt throughout Russia, that would leave open precincts, or even 420, which was the latest Mr. Lubkivskyi noted that Russian, that Ukrainian citizens residing in or near number he had heard, was absurd. the possibility to gather 2,000 to 3,000 Vietnamese and Italian officials had that city would have the right to vote. An “We see no reason for 400 or even votes in each precinct. Mr. Semenenko already agreed to open additional polling overwhelming number of Ukrainians liv- 200 election precincts,” explained Mr. questioned why so many precincts were precincts on their territories, although the ing there today are from the western Semenenko, who noted that his organiza- needed when no more than 20,000 numbers had not yet been specified. regions of Ukraine and in all likelihood tion had formally turned to both Ukrainian citizens reside beyond Moldovan officials had given the okay would support National Deputy Viktor Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Moscow and its outlying areas, which for a polling station in the region of the Yushchenko rather than his main competi- and the Central Election Commission to meant that no more than several dozen self-declared Trans-Dniester Republic, tor, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. limit the number of polling stations. Ukrainian citizens would be available to where many Ukrainians still live. In Russia, the matter is more compli- Mr. Semenenko said he believed that utilize the polling station, even if all To allay fears of vote fraud and falsifi- cated, inasmuch as the Russian govern- no more than 1,000 Ukrainians living in decided to vote. cation, the Foreign Affairs Ministry ment and President Vladimir Putin have Moscow would vote and pointed out that The Association of Ukrainians in spokesman noted that 1,457 Ukrainian cit- effectively expressed their endorsement only 100 or so had officially turned to Russia is an umbrella organization that izens would work at the elections commis- for the presidential candidacy of the the Ukrainian Embassy to request voting coordinates the work of more than 80 sions abroad, including 153 official repre- Ukrainian prime minister. What has ballots. regional Ukrainian organizations. sentatives of the presidential candidates. increased concern over how fairly ballots “I talk to them and have asked many of Mr. Semenenko’s colleague, Vasyl There is concern, however, that the open- from Russia would be counted is the them whether they will vote and the Antoniv, head of the Moscow-based ing of precincts abroad could give those inexplicable rise in polling stations and answer is invariably no,” Mr. Semenenko Ukrainian language organization counting the results of the October 31 vote the seemingly secretive manner in which said. “Either they are scared, or are not Slavutych, said he hadn’t heard and did- the ability to manipulate the election results. the additional polls are being organized. legally registered, or do not have time. But n’t see an objective reason for such an The complaints have included charges that “We received information from the immediately the thought arises: their elec- increase in voting stations. manipulation could occur by withholding Kobzar Ukrainian organization of tion ballots will be filled out for them.” “These are the fourth presidential elec- the right to vote to Ukrainian citizens resid- Bashkorstan that they had obtained infor- tions in Ukraine and those [living in ing in areas abroad whose vote might not mation from the [Ukrainian] Embassy Russia] with Ukrainian passports earlier result in benefit to the pro-government pres- that they would have 11 voting precincts, had no problems voting at the six idential candidate. Others have voiced con- even though the number of Ukrainian cit- Two main contenders... precincts that were established each cern that by saturating specific countries izens there does not exceed 2,900,” (Continued from page 1) time,” explained Mr. Antoniv. with precincts, the count in support of cer- explained Mr. Semenenko of the after he had utilized his authority as head Markian Lubkivskyi, spokesman for tain candidates could be boosted. Association of Ukrainians in Russia. of government to raise pensions by some 30 percent at the end of September. In Sumy, speaking before a crowd of Meet Ukrainian Catholic University Rector war veterans, Mr. Yanukovych continued to show the extent of his largesse by announcing that disabled World War II veterans who years ago had been prom- Fr. Borys Gudziak, Ph.D. ised specially outfitted automobiles – some 30,000 veterans in all – would finally receive them, and within days. It was a day full of gift giving for Prime Minister Yanukovych who also presented computers to several schools and ambu- lances and medical equipment to hospitals. While Mr. Yanukovych has effectively used the government budget to gain popu- larity with the voting public, his moves have also caused him some problems. The hike in pensions has resulted in an increase in consumer prices, most notably in the cost of meat and other food commodities. To offset the potential political damage, the Yanukovych government initiated a public relations campaign through the news media to explain that the meat price hikes were a direct result of price increases in Poland, caused there by the European Union’s membership requirements. November 14, at 1:00PM In Nizhyn, a town outside of Chernihiv, Mr. Yanukovych said on in Chicago October 18 that he would introduce price controls to restrain inflation and limit profit taking by commodity sellers who Ukrainian Catholic Bishop Richard Seminack of the Chicago Eparchy invites the public he said had unjustly raised prices after the increase in pensions. He promised to to a Rector’s Luncheon for Fr. Borys Gudziak. The luncheon is to benefit the university put the businessmen “in their place.” and will be held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Chicago, 2247 W. Chicago Ave., on “We will limit profitability for all who raised prices and trade charges, and will Sunday November 14 at 1 p.m. Tickets are available for $25.00 per person, though control the situation on the markets,” Mr. additional gifts are encouraged. To order tickets or for further information, contact the Yanukovych stated in Nizhyn. Mr. Yanukovych also took advantage Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, (773) 235-8462 of the opening of a fourth reactor at the Rivne nuclear power station, which had been years in the building and in the cen- Credit Card Ticket Orders Accepted On Line ter of much debate with the European Union over how it should be funded. He told workers and guests that he would Designate Ukr. Cultural Center 11/14/04 In Comments Section now lead the move to turn Ukraine into a www.chi-cash-advance.com/sforms/appeal228/contribute.asp net exporter of electricity. Without the benefits of government Can't attend? largesse and administrative resources, Mr. Yushchenko could only offer promis- Those who are unable to attend but would like to make a contribution can send checks to es to his voters in the final days of cam- the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, 2247 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL, 60622 paigning. He continued to maintain that his administration would govern honest- or donate online at: www.chi-cash-advance.com/sforms/appeal228/contribute.asp . ly and stop corruption, and would work to increase the well-being of society. He also went out of his way to appeal to the www.ucu.edu.ua www.ucef.org voters from eastern Ukraine by stating (Continued on page 26) No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 15 Ukrainian Athletic-Educational Association Chornomorska Sitch celebrates 80th anniversary

by Omelan Twardowsky Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Whippany, N.J. EAST HANOVER, N.J. – The 80th During the dinner, the festive program anniversary celebrations of the Ukrainian proceeded as planned. Short speeches Athletic-Educational Association were delivered by Omelan Twardowsky, Chornomorska Sitch culminated here at the president of Chornomorska Sitch, in the Ramada Hotel on October 2. Ukrainian and by Andrew Panas, a The jubilee program consisted of two young Sitch activist, in English. stages. The first was a series of jubilee In his speech, the Sitch president sports events: the chess championship of referred to this celebration as unique, as the Ukrainian Sports Federation of the very few diaspora organizations have U.S.A. and Canada (USCAK); the managed to remain active into such an USCAK-East soccer championship host- advanced age. “The fact that our Sitch ed by Sitch; and the USCAK swimming chapter is the only one in America and tennis championships held at among the multitude of Sitch chapters Soyuzivka. In the summer months there that were active in 1930s that has was also a three-week jubilee training remained active to this day should be

Award recipient Gene Chyzowych (center) with MCs Roman Holowynsky (left) and Stephan Kolodiy. credited to the Sitch founder and its first ence, Sitch leaders have made important president, Ivan Hrynyk, a veteran of the contributions toward the processes of the Ukrainian War of Liberation, a former rebirth and the Ukrainization of sports in officer of the Ukrainian Galician Army, Ukraine. The organization Americans for who adopted for this chapter a very flexi- Human Rights in Ukraine, which was ble and dynamic doctrine,” Mr. created by leading Sitch activists, has Twardowsky underscored. carried out numerous political actions at In addition to intensive work with diverse political forums for the good of Ukrainian youths in the field of physical Ukraine, Mr. Twardowsky continued. culture and sports, Sitch throughout its Over the decades, young Sitch mem- history has devoted significant attention bers have successfully represented the to Ukraine, on behalf of which it has con- Ukrainian name in the American sports ducted both charitable work and political world. The hundreds of trophies, cups activity as was appropriate at a given and certificates that adorn the Sitch home time. in Newark, as well as the USCAK Self Reliance staffers receive thanks for their support from Sitch representatives Since the time of Ukraine’s independ- Section at the Museum of the Sports camp for Ukrainian youth at the Chornomorska Sitch Sports School. The jubilee celebrations were topped off with a banquet and ball attended by some 200 guests, including representatives of other Ukrainian sports organizations, as well as individual sports activists. This stage of the celebration was introduced by younger Sitch members who co-chaired the Jubilee Committee – Yaroslav Twardowsky and Greg Serheev, who spoke respectively, in Ukrainian and English. They greeted all present and then asked them to honor the memory of the departed Sitch members with a moment of silence. They also introduced the two masters of ceremonies, also young Sitch members, Roman Holowinsky and Stephen Kolodiy. The Rev. Leonid Malkov of the St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Newark, N.J., conducted the prayer. Also present was the Rev. Mitred Roman Mirchuk of the St. John the Women supporters and activists of Sitch receive awards in recognition of their support. Glory of Ukraine in Kyiv, attest to the fact that Chornomorska Sitch has boast- ed of such Olympians as Zenon Snylyk (in soccer) and Ron Karnaugh (in swim- ming), both of whom represented the U.S. in the Olympics. Members of Sitch also took part in three Ukrainian Olympiads in the U.S.: in 1936, 1988 and 2000, as well as two International Free Olympics in Canada. In conclusion, the Sitch president noted the positive development that a new generation of Sitch members has started to take over the baton from the older activists. He expressed his hope that they will guide Chornomorska Sitch to its centennial. Next on the program was the recogni- tion of distinguished officers and athletes who have been active in the last five years, as well as the medalists of the Olympiads mentioned above. Jubilee Recipients of Sitch awards presented during the 80th anniversary banquet. (Continued on page 20) 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 No. 43

Works of composer Bohdana Filts to be performed in New York and Washington NEW YORK – The works of contem- duets) to words by such Ukrainian poets maternal uncle, Nestor Rudnytsky, and porary Ukrainian composer and musicolo- as Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, his wife, Hanna. gist Bohdana Filts, laureate of the Viktor Oleksander Oles, Volodymyr Sosiura, Bohdana Filts completed the Lviv Kosenko (2003), Lev Revutsky (2003) and Pavlo Tychyna, Maksym Rylskyi and Music School, studying piano with I. the Mykola Lysenko (1993) prizes, will be Dmytro Pavlychko, among others, as well Krykh (1951) and later graduated from presented in the United States for the first as more than 30 arrangements of the theoretical (1956) and composition time in two upcoming concerts this fall: in Ukrainian folk songs. (1958) departments of Lviv New York on Sunday, November 7, at the The composer’s large body of choral Conservatory, where she studied with Ukrainian Institute of America and in work – more than 150 – written mostly composer Stanislav Liudkevych. Washington at The Ukrainian Embasssy on for children’s and youth choirs, include She earned her graduate degree in Thursday, December 9. such popular works as “Liubymo Zemliu 1962 from the Institute of Fine Arts, The New York concert, titled “An Svoyu” (We Love Our Land), which has Folklore and Ethnography of the Afternoon with Composer Bohdana become a standard part of the repertoire Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Filts,” will offer a program of art songs of most children’s choirs. SSR in Kyiv, where she studied with Lev to words by Ukrainian poets, works for Ms. Filts was awarded the Viktor Revutsky. That same year she became an piano and violin, as well as Ukrainian Kosenko Prize for her significant contri- associate of this institute and remains folk and ritual songs in arrangement by bution to the field of children’s music as such in a senior position to this day. the composer. Featured performers will author of three collections of choral She is the author of five monographs, be Oleksandra Hrabova, soprano; music for children: “Zhyva Krynytsia” including “Fortepianna Tvorchist V.S. Oleksander Abayev, violin; and Maryna (The Wellspring), which includes two Kosenka” (The Piano Works of V. S. Rohozhyna, piano. (The concert begins at choral cycles on words to the poetry of Kosenko, 1965), “Khorovi Obrobky 3 p.m. Donation: $15. Tickets may be Lina Kostenko as well as compositions Bohdana Filts Ukrainskykh Narodnykh Pisen” (Choral obtained by sending a check payable to set to the poetry of Lesia Ukrainka, Arrangements of Ukrainian Folk Songs, UIA-MATI, 2 E. 79th St., New York, NY Teodora Savchynska and Mykola in the Lviv region. Her father, Mykhailo 1965), “Ukrainskyi Radianskyi Romans” 10021 or by calling (212) 288-8660.) Synhaivsky; “Svite Tykhyi” (A Peaceful Filts, was a prominent Galician lawyer (The Ukrainian Soviet Romance, 1970), World), comprising sacred music based and civic and cultural activist; her moth- and “Harmonia Solospivu” (The Harmony * * * on canonical texts and additional compo- er, Yaroslava née Rudnytska, was a of the Vocal Solo, 1979) and of numerous Ms. Filts is one of Ukraine’s most pop- sitions set to words of various poets; and teacher at the pretigious Sisters Servants studies and articles about Ukrainian music. ular contemporary composers, whose style “Sontse v Zhmentsi (The Sun in the Palm of St. Basil the Great Women’s Academy A member of the Composers’ Union is deeply rooted in national traditions. The of Your Hand), which offers seven choral in Lviv and the Lysenko Institute of since 1961, she is especially active in the tonal and rhythmic characteristics of works set to the poetry of Y. Fyshtyk. Music in Yavoriv, of which the Filtses field of music education and apprecia- Carpathian folklore, transmitted through Ms. Filts is also the author of numerous were founders. Her maternal grandmoth- tion, as well as adjudication. the composer’s own lyrical perception of works for the piano (including such cycles er, Olha Rudnytska, was the cousin of Ms. Filts bears the title of Merited the world and modern compositional tech- as “Zakarpatski Novelety” [Transcarpathian the famed opera singer Solomiya Worker in the Arts (1999) and is a laure- niques, give her works a distinctive Novelettes] and “Muzychni Prysviaty” Krushelnytska. ate of the All-Ukrainian Composers’ melodic quality that is highly appealing in [Musical Dedications]), violin, and chamber With the invasion of western Ukraine Competition “Spiritual Psalms” (2001). its freshness of harmonic effects. ensembles. Her children’s pieces for the by Soviet forces in 1939 and subsequent Two recent publications on the com- The composer works in various genres: piano have been published in numerous col- Stalinist repressions, including the perse- poser and her work include: “Bohdana symphonic (Piano Concerto in A Major lections, including in Canada and the cution of Ukrainian intelligentsia, Filts: Tvorchyi Portret” (Bohdana Filts: and “Verkhovynska Rapsodiya” [Highland United States. Mykhailo Filts was arrested by the A Creative Portrait, 2003) by Maria Rhapsody]), instrumental, choral, vocal A concert dedicated to the work of the NKVD and sent to a labor camp in Zahaikevych, and, “Art Songs to the solos and children’s songs. She is perhaps composer was held in Kyiv under the Pechora. He died during his term; his Words of Shevchenko by Bohdana Filts” best known for her vocal works, which aegis of the Ministry of Culture of place of death is unknown. In 1940 his (2004), with O. Smoliak, editor. Included display her great gift for melody and mas- Ukraine at the Philharmonic Hall on wife and three of their four children, in the book is the composition for solo terly ability to make use of the expressive December 16, 2002, in celebration of the were deported to Kazakstan, where voice “Syritka” (An Orphan), which has possibilities of the human voice. 70th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Bohdana’s mother died of hunger. The become one of the most popular of the orphaned Bohdana and her two sisters composer’s works. Ms. Filts is the composer of more than * * * 50 romances and songs, a number of vocal returned to Lviv in 1945, where they The works have appeared as publica- cycles, and 17 vocal ensembles (trios and Ms. Filts was born in 1932 in Yavoriv were taken in and brought up by her tions of Aston press, Kyiv-Ternopil.

Church designs by Radoslav Zuk Musical culture in southern Ukraine exhibited at Embassy of Ukraine discussed at Shevchenko Society by Dr. Orest Popovych form the famous Fifth Symphony by Beethoven. With Dr. Lassowsky as the con- NEW YORK – Performances of both ductor, the college orchestra, consisting of classical and folk music in contemporary 60 students and five faculty members, southern Ukraine were demonstrated managed this novel, (for them) task just with the aid of videorecordings, and their fine, as demonstrated by the video excerpts. cultural context was discussed by the Another piece performed by the college husband-and-wife duo of Dr. Jaropolk orchestra was Mykola Lysenko’s overture Lassowsky and Dr. Hanna Chumachenko to the opera “Natalka Poltavka,” as orches- at the Shevchenko Scientific Society trated by Dr. Lassowsky. The NTSh audi- (NTSh) building here on September 18. ence was treated to an unabridged version The program was introduced by NTSh of the overture on video, as it was played president Dr. Larissa Zaleska at a concert in Kherson before some 1,200 Onyshkevych. listeners, with Dr. Lassowsky conducting. Dr. Lassowsky, a professor of music at The conductor-composer was rewarded Clarion State University in Pennsylvania, with well-deserved applause both in who is also a violinist, conductor and com- Kherson and here. Also shown were exam- poser, has recently returned from his stint ples of vocal performances by the students as a Fulbright fellow at the Kherson State and faculty, which attested to the high University in sourthern Ukraine, where he level of competence at the Kherson taught music history and the application of Regional College of Music. computers to music. He also conducted In addition to conducting the college three different orchestras in Kherson. In orchestra, Dr. Lassowsky appeared also his lecture, Dr. Lassowsky shared with the as guest conductor with two local profes- WASHINGTON – A traveling exhibition of modern Ukrainian churches audience his recent experiences there. sional ensembles, the Kherson designed by Radoslav Zuk opened September 16 at the Ukrainian Embassy Kherson, a city of about 400,000 inhabi- Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kherson of Ukraine. The monthlong exhibit, organized by The Washington Group tants (comparable to Pittsburgh) is home to Chamber Orchestra. Of the excerpts of Cultural Fund in cooperation with the Embassy, features photographs and the Kherson Regional College of Music, their performances, particularly memo- drawings of nine of his Ukrainian churches in North America – including the attended by some 800 students (not part of rable was the “Elegy” composed by Dr. one adjacent to Soyuzivka – as well as a church under construction in Lviv the university). Although this college is rich Lassowsky in memory of Mykola Kulish, and Prof. Zuk’s plans for the expansion of the National Museum of Ukrainian in tradition, dating back to Mykola the Ukrainian playwright who was mur- Art in Kyiv. The architect launched the exhibit with a lecture on the stylistic Lysenko, Dr. Lassowsky said he detected a dered by the Communists in 1937. Mr. transformation of Ukrainian architecture. In the photo above, he is accompa- certain lack of confidence there, based on a Kulish was a native of the Kherson nied by two Washington-area architects, Larysa Kurylas (left) and Ulana self-perception of provincial status. Finding region and Dr. Lassowsky got the inspi- Baczynskyj, who helped organize the event. this attitude unjustified, Dr. Lassowsky – Yaro Bihun challenged the students to prepare and per- (Continued on page 20) No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 17 Art from collection of Alexis Gritchenko Foundation on view at UIA

NEW YORK – A commemorative gained Hryshchenko recognition in the Lavelaine de Maubeuge, settling in exhibition titled “Alexis Gritchenko art world of the 1920s. Cagnes in southern France. (1883-1977), Travels in Europe: From While in Turkey, 66 of his watercolors Hryshchenko became known in the Cubism to Expressionism,” is currently were acquired by the American United States in 1923, when the presti- on view at the Ukrainian Institute of Byzantologist Thomas Wittemore (1871- gious Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., America. 1950) of Boston, known for the restora- near Philadelphia, acquired 17 of his The exhibition, which draws on the tion of the mosaics at Hagia Sophia in works. The acquisition was realized collection of the artist’s paintings that Istanbul. through Mr. Guillaume, who was also comprise the holdings of the New York- When Hryshchenko returned to Paris foreign secretary for the foundation. That based Alexis Gritchenko Foundation, in 1921, 12 of his Constantinople paint- same year Hryshchenko’s work formed opened on October 22 and will be on ings were included in the Salon part of the Barnes Foundation exhibition of 75 paintings featuring the work of such artists as de Chirico, Matisse, Modigliani and Picasso held at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Hryshchenko’s work was first exhibit- ed in Ukraine in 1937 in Lviv, then under Polish rule, in an exhibition of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists and in a one-man show. Oleksa Hryshchenko (1883-1977). After the war his work was exhibited in Paris in the galleries of André Weil dation, with 72 works on display. (1950) and Bernheim Jeune (1957), and Hryshchenko’s works are found in at the Galerie d’Art Moderne (1962). A many museums, including Le Musée retrospective exhibition of National d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Hryshchenko’s work was held at the Paris; Royal Museum, Copenhagen; Salon d’Automne in 1973. Musée Royal, Brussels; Museo Nacional Hryshchenko had several one-man Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; shows in New York, including at the Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow; National Ukrainian Art and Literary Club (1953), Museum, Lviv; Barnes Gallery, Merion, and a retrospective exhibition at the Pa.; and the Montreal Museum of Fine Ukrainian Institute of America (1958). Arts as well as in private collections, The Ukrainian Museum of New York, with more than 300 works in North which has over 21 works by the artist in American collections. Notable private its fine arts collection, held an exhibition “Crete,” watercolor, 1923, 17 x 23 cm. (Continued on page 23) of oil paintings and watercolors by the view through November 14. d’Automne. His subsequent trips to artist (along with an exhibition of graph- On exhibit are over 40 works, includ- Greece resulted in works that brought ic works by Alexander Archipenko from ing oil paintings, watercolors and him into contact with leading art dealers the museum’s collection), as part of its gouaches. A 15-page catalogue, featuring and distinguished collectors, Leopold “In Celebration of Private Collectors’” FOR THE RECORD: 63 works, has been published in conjunc- Zborowski and Dr. Albert C. Barnes. exhibition series in 1998. tion with the exhbition. Among select exhibitions of his works Hryshchenko’s last exhibition in New After the close of the exhibition, the was an exhibition at the Byzantine York took place in 1967 at the Peter An open letter Alexis Gritchenko Foundation collection Museum in Athens in 1923. Deitsch Gallery. will be transferred to Ukraine, in accor- During the 1920s, the golden age of An exhibition of the artist’s work was from Hryshchenko dance with the artist’s wish that his work the art dealer, Hryshchenko’s works were held in Philadelphia at the Christina In an open letter written in Paris return to his homeland upon Ukraine’s exhibited in the galleries of leading Czorpita Gallery (at La Salle College) in in 1963 on the occasion of the cre- independence. Parisian art dealers and collectors with 1972. ation of the Alexis Gritchenko The exhibition is a joint presentation international connections, among them: In Canada Hryshchenko’s work was Foundation and the opening of an of the Ukrainian Institute of America and Paul Guillaume, Ziegfried Bing, Katia exhibited at the Edmonton Art Gallery exhibition of his work at the the Alexis Gritchenko Foundation. The Granoff and Eugène Druet, as well as at (1976) and at the Focus Gallery in Ukrainian Institute of America institute is located at 2 E. 79th St.; the Galerie de L’Elysée and in exhibi- Toronto (1977). (UIA) to mark the event, Oleksa gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday, noon- tions at the Salon des Tuilleries and In 1963 the artist established the Hryshchenko speaks movingly of his 6 p.m. For additional information call Salon d’Automne, of which he was a Alexis Gritchenko Foundation, to which rationale for establishing the founda- (212) 288-8660 or visit the UIA website, member from 1930. After he donated over 70 works. The collection tion, expresses his sincere gratitude www.ukrainianinstitute.org. Hryshchenko’s exhibition at the Bing was housed at the Ukrainian Institute of to all who have contributed to the Gallery in 1926, Parisian art critic Louis America in New York. An exhibition of realization of the project, especially * * * Vauxcelles wrote that “the young Hryshchenko’s collected work was held his numerous friends and colleagues, Oleksa Hryshchenko (Alexis Ukrainian colorist conquered Paris.” at the institute on April 9-28, 1963, on as well as to the trustees of the foun- Gritchenko) was born on April 2, 1883, In 1927 Hryshchenko married Lilas the occasion of the creation of the foun- dation and the officers of the UIA. in Krolevets in the Chernihiv region of He also extends a special word of thanks to the editors of Svoboda for Ukraine. After initial studies of biology the paper’s consistent coverage of at the universities of Kyiv and Moscow, his work and exhibitions. he turned to art, going on to study at the The letter, which was addressed to Moscow Art School. Among his teach- the general public, appeared in the ers were Serhiy Svitoslavsky in Kyiv and April 12, 1963, issue of the K. Yuon in Moscow. While in Moscow, Ukrainian-language Svoboda daily. he was involved in the modern art move- Referring to the creation of the ment and developed close ties with two foundation as a major milestone in important art collectors: S. Shchukin and his life, Hryshchenko notes that, I. Morozov. given all of life’s vagaries, it was not During a brief stay in Paris in 1911, easy to safeguard and collect his where he met Alexander Archipenko, work, but that he believes that the André Lothe and Henri LeFauconnier, he collection of his work which he became interested in cubism. In 1913- bequeaths “to his native land” is a 1914 he was in Italy, where he was par- “good legacy.” ticularly drawn to early Renaissance art. He expresses the hope that the After the 1917 revolution, collection of his art work will remain Hryshchenko taught at the State Art intact and that his work will not pass Studios in Moscow and was a member of into oblivion but will be well the Commission for the Protection of thought of in the countries where his Historic Monuments. He fled Russia in fellow countrymen reside, as well as 1919 and settled in Istanbul, where he in his homeland. lived from 1919 to 1921. Hryshchenko ends by expressing Works from this period, which the hope that his artistic legacy may emanate from the artist’s stay in Turkey be shared, studied and enjoyed by and visits to Greece, mark the beginning future generations throughout the of a distinctive and inspired period of world, but most especially in his watercolor painting. The exhibition of native land. these works in leading galleries of Paris, “Hagia Sophia in the Rain,” oil on canvas, 1920, 72 x 76 cm. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 No. 43

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and “about 10 of those didn’t know a Ukrainian Canadian Professional and had the right stuff. Ottawa radio... word of English, including Mario at the Business Association (UCPBA), vice-pres- “The course was meant to build up (Continued from page 7) back who was 17,” recalled Ms. Bell. ident of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress some loyalty among a clientele who have touch with one another. The group hopes Soon, however, she would begin a jour- Ottawa branch, and recipient of the Ottawa large art collections,” explained the ele- to meet one day for a huddle to share ney filled with serendipity and connections. UCPBA’s first Filip Konowal Lifetime gant-looking blonde. ideas and strategies. After three years of teaching, Ms. Bell Achievement Award for long-term volun- “I told them I was interested in African Though she’s the new kid on the block returned to school and received a bachelor’s teer service to the community, Ms. Bell and Byzantine art, neither of which they and a neophyte when it comes to radio, degree in English literature from Loyola was the obvious choice for the job. said they covered. But I said I want to put Ms. Bell has the mettle to help make College (now called Concordia University) And, she’s still at it. things into context and it turned out that I such a mini-conference happen. in Montreal, and a bachelor’s degree in Amid her part-time duties at the uni- used phrasing that one of the interviewers Industry and a zest for life are in her library science from the University of versity, the silken-voiced, fluently bilin- had used in a children’s book he had just genes. Toronto, where she worked as a librarian at gual (Ukrainian and English) radio per- written. So I lucked into saying some- Born in Krakow as her parents were the College of Education Library. sonality has to, as producer, also find thing that was similar,” she recalled. fleeing Communist Ukraine at the end of There she met English-born geologist advertisers (she has a few loyal support- Once accepted, Ms. Bell joined a the second world war, she spent her early and volcano expert Keith Bell, who was ers from Ottawa’s Ukrainian community) group of about 120 students. years in Germany, where the family lived pursuing post-doctoral studies after for the “Ukrainian Program.” Then “One-third were Brits with a lot of in one room above a dairy. receiving his doctorate from Oxford there’s all the prep work of scouring money, another third were titled Before they arrived there, her father, University. Ottawa for Ukrainian community current Europeans like dukes and so forth, and the late Jaroslaw Zajszlyj, who had They married in 1971 and soon after- events and news, and listening to the lat- the other third were rich Americans and obtained a degree in agronomy from wards moved to Ottawa when Mr. Bell est Ukrainian music CDs that is required Asians. I was the token proletariat,” she Krakow’s prestigious Jagiellonian was hired as a professor at Carleton to broadcast exciting and fresh radio. laughed. “You couldn’t joke about hav- University, served as director of the University. “Being connected in the community ing a Renoir hanging over your mantle Silskyi Hospodar agricultural associa- Ms. Bell, meanwhile, landed a job at certainly helps,” she said. because these people had them.” tion, which also promoted Ukrainian the National Library, where she worked in But Ms. Bell is of that erudite and rare Socializing with greyhound racetrack national awareness. subject cataloguing. Within two years she breed whose curiosity of the world is con- owners, women who had Mercedes-driv- In 1951 the Zajszlyjs left for Canada was brought on board to a new division, tagious enough that she could easily slip ing chauffeurs deliver their lunches, and and settled in Montreal, where they once called the Multilingual Biblioservice, behind a microphone, start talking and barons who had as many castles as the again shared a single room. Eventually, which distributed written works in 32 lan- mesmerize her audience – about, perhaps, fingers on her hand, Ms. Bell also got to Ms. Bell’s mother, the late Olha Nahirna, guages to libraries across Canada and the 10-month course in fine arts she com- visit country estates with massive private who had worked as her husband’s secre- served as a model for similar programs in pleted at Christie’s in London in the early art collections and to see London’s finest tary in Ukraine, ran a grocery store. The the United Kingdom and Australia. 1980s while her husband was on sabbati- exhibits up close behind the velvet rope. family of the three lived at the back. Ms. Bell served as assistant chief until cal pursuing a diploma in gemology. Saucer-eyed at times by the opulence sur- After completing high school in 1995, when the division closed and its Getting enrolled in the Christie’s rounding her, Ms. Bell still managed to Quebec in a system where graduates are function was devolved to the provinces. course was itself a challenge. leave an impression in her inimitable style. much younger than their Canadian coun- That year the University of Ottawa inau- Ms. Bell had to first travel to New “I made friends with Americans and terparts in other parts of the country, Irena gurated a Chair of Ukrainian Studies and York for an interview and convince the Europeans who didn’t mix too much.” Once Zajszlyj obtained her teacher’s diploma. was in search of a coordinator to run the elite of the world-famous art house she again, she had connected. At the tender age of 18 she was office and organize conferences and lectures. plunked into a school and handed a class A long-time community organizer, who of 35 pupils, 30 of whom were Italian had served two terms as president of the MAY WE HELP YOU?

watchdog organization for economic and To reach The Ukrainian Weekly call (973) 292-9800, social marketing. and dial the appropriate extension (as listed below). Ukraine’s exit polls... Additionally, DIF agreed to cooperate (Continued from page 3) Editorial – 3049, 3063, 3069; Administration – 3041; they would have eagerly joined in a single, in a project of the Institute of Mass extensive effort – especially since most of Information, which received a grant from Advertising – 3040; Subscriptions – 3042; Production – 3052 the survey companies with a national reach the International Renaissance Foundation were already working on the DIF poll. Mr. to research and monitor all public opin- Kucheriv said that thus far the three other ion polling during the presidential cam- projects had declined his offer. paign, including exit polls, to make sure To assure that the exit poll remains free the process was objective. DIF also has of corruption and manipulation, DIF and its allowed independent international audi- partners in the project instituted a multi-lev- tors from Poland and Russia to pick and eled strategy. First, the consortium of five prod the process right up to and through respected survey organizations with nation- Election Day. Finally, the consortium has wide reach – consisting of DIF, Socis, the given the Union of Journalists and the Razumkov Center for Economic and Sociological Association of Ukraine open Political Research, the Kyiv International access to all its informational materials. Institute for Sociology (KMIS) and Social “We want to be maximally transparent Monitoring – agreed to divide the polling and public,” explained Mr. Kucheriv. responsibilities among themselves. The DIF director said that after the To check and balance one another, each group’s experience in the Mukachiv may- of the five groups would essentially con- oral elections this year, in which at least duct its own exit poll, presenting the same one of their surveyors was threatened question to 12,500 voters each (50,000 in with violence, they had developed a spe- total) in all oblasts of the country to devel- cific strategy for their workers should op a representative sample of the demo- they encounter problems. Those gather- graphic make-up of Ukraine. The five sep- ing the data in the presidential exit poll arate results would then first be compared would have the option of moving to to determine that they were more or less another pre-fixed voter precinct should similar and within the margin of error. they meet with threats or should attempts Then the five results would be com- be made to impede their work. bined into one very large sample, allow- This year’s exit poll is being funded by a ing the margin of error to be reduced to donor’s club of eight foreign embassies, less than 1 percent and making for a high Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, level of accuracy. Ireland, the United Kingdom, the U.S. and While admitting that anything could Canada; and four international foundations, be possible in the current pre-election the Charles S. Mott Foundation, the Soros atmosphere in Ukraine, Mr. Kucheriv Foundation, the Eurasia Foundation and the underscored that the five companies, National Endowment for Democracy. which are competitors in the market- Mr. Kucheriv said that he would like place, would not find it in their best inter- to have the Russian Embassy become est to produce compromised or fixed poll part of the club as well, but had yet to results because they also had to worry receive an answer from Ambassador about their public image and need to Viktor Chernomyrdin. retain a trust factor if they expected to The DIF director said the first prelimi- continue to do business. nary exit poll on the results of the Mr. Kucheriv pointed out that all the October 31 presidential vote would be members of the exit poll project had also posted on the consortium’s website at agreed to live by international codes of 8:01 p.m. Ukrainian time (1 p.m. EST) ethics, one by the World Association of on election day. The final results would Public Opinion Research and another one be on the site two hours later. The exit by ESOMAR, an international business poll website is: www.exitpoll.org.ua. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 No. 43

group called Oleshshya from the village stay in Kherson: the Kherson Regional of Kardashynka in the Kherson region, College of Music (Director Olena Lypa, which has appeared at folk festivals else- Vice-Director Natalia Drobot, Orchestra where as well. Featured also were jocular Director Dmytro Siryi); Kherson State contemporary songs about present-day University (Rector Yuriy Belyaev, Vice- situations. At folk festivals it is not Rector Oleh Mishukov, Dean of the uncommon for the audience to join in the School of Arts and Culture, Mykola performance. Dr. Chumachenko summed Levchenko); the Department of Culture up by observing that the folk music of of the Kherson Regional Administration southern Ukraine reflects its people’s “art (Vasyl Ryleev, chairman); Director of the of survival.” Kherson Philharmonic Yuriy Ivanenko; Dr. Lassowsky said he was very grate- the Kherson Philharmonic Orchestra ful for the enthusiastic cooperation of all Hilea (Music Director and Conductor the institutions he worked with during his Yuriy Kerpatenko).

wives of the Sitch activists who over the Ukrainian Athletic... years have supported their husbands in (Continued from page 15) their Sitch work or those who performed medals were presented to: Myron carious duties for the society themselves; Stebelsky, Alexander Napora, Dr. Orest Lesia Stebelsky, Anna Twardowsky, Ola Napora, Daria Rudakewych, Slava Dr. Hanna Chumachenko and Dr. Jaropolk Lassowsky. Popovych, Omelan Twardowsky, Nicholas Hordynsky, Wasyl Ciurpita, Dr. Hordynsky, Luba Lapychak-Lesko, Taissa Turiansky, Anna Chyzowych, Oleh Kolodiy, Roman Pyndus, Bill providing the necessary ethnocultural Bozhena Olshaniwsky, Olenka Kolodiy, Vincent, Walter Hywel and Eugene context. She showed videos of the land- Stefka Brencyh, Yevhenia Markus, Adia Musical culture... Chyzowych. (Continued from page 16) scapes and houses along the southern Fedash, Ms. Twardowsky-Vincent, Also awarded were the following ath- ration for this composition by visiting banks of Dnipro River, related what kind Natalka Sygida and Tiffany Twardowsky. letes and members of the governing Mr. Kulish’s native village. In apprecia- of people – mostly fishermen and veg- In the course of the banquet, the guests tion, the Kherson Philharmonic accorded etable farmers – live there and shared board: Yaroslaw Twardowsky, Mr. Panas, were greeted by Mr. Stebelsky, president of Dr. Lassowsky the title of resident com- snippets of their experiences under com- Mr. Serheev, Stephan Kolodiy and Mark USCAK; Marko Howansky, president of poser and guest conductor. munism. Although there is some local Hordynsky. SUM Krylati, Yonkers; Taras Kozak, head In the future, Dr. Lassowsky said he is Kozak tradition in the region, most of the In the category of the benefactors of of the Sports Section of Tryzub, planning for Kherson a comprehensive population of southern Ukraine had Sitch, jubilee awards were presented to the Philadelphia; and Volodymyr Hnatkiwsky, program of presentations of Lysenko’s migrated there from other regions of Self-Reliance Ukrainian-American Credit delegate of the Carpathian Ski Club (KLK). works, orchestral as well as choral. Ukraine – Poltava and Vinnytsia were Union in Newark-Parsippany; the Newark A greeting from the executive of the Popularizing Ukrainian music in Ukraine mentioned – and even from as far away Chapter of the Self-Reliance Society; and Ukrainian Fraternal Association was read may sound paradoxical, but it is neces- as the Carpathian mountains. This diver- Orest Fedash, executive general manger of by Mr. Napora; Dr. Kolodiy offered sary, concluded the speaker. sity is reflected in their music and attire, the Ramada Hotel in East Hanover, N.J. greetings on behalf of the Verkhovyna Next to speak was Dr. Chumachenko, a Dr. Chumachenko noted. Also honored were the following resort. Written felicitations came from philologist specializing in Ukrainian Subsequently, she showed a video medalists from the Olympiads mentioned the Ukrainian National Association, as ethnography and folklore, and a professor at from a festival of folk music at Hola above: Andrew Bakun, Marian Hamulak, well as Sen. John Corzine, New Jersey Kherson State University, a position she has Prystan, near the delta of the Dnipro, Bohdan Kucyna, Yaroslaw Twardowsky, State Sen. Ronald Rice, Essex County retained even after emigrating to the U.S. where many village ensembles showed Mr. Panas and Mr. Serheev in soccer; Sheriff Armand Fontura, New Jersey During her husband’s visiting professorship off their songs and dances – a mélange of Zenia Matkiwsky-Olesnycky in tennis; Gov. James E. McGreevey and others. there, she taught in its graduate division. spring songs, songs of the Ivan Kupalo Dr. Popovych in chess; and Daria The celebrations ended with a jubilee As an ethnographer, Dr. Chumachenko rituals and others. Renowned among the Twardowsky-Vincent in volleyball. ball to the sounds of the Luna orchestra prefaced her musical presentation by first folklore ensembles is a women’s singing Also honored were the ladies – the conducted by Oles Kuzyszyn. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 21

eties continued their educational and membership. Actually in some ways we tinue to forge ahead. Highlights from the UNA’s... social programs at a stepped-up pace. were hampered in our organizational (Continued from page 6) Every group was on the move. ... duties because so much time and energy Source: Introductory remarks by UNA “The Shevchenko monument project “It was against this backdrop that our was expended on extracurricular affairs. Supreme President Joseph Lesawyer at [the monument was dedicated in 1964], association, the largest Ukrainian frater- “Nevertheless, I personally feel that the opening session of the UNA’s 26th Cardinal [Josyf] Slipyj’s return to freedom nal society in the word, carried on its we will benefit in the long run because Convention in Chicago on May 16, 1966, [1962], and our political successes [in the organizational work for the past four we are building our community life on a “Minutes of the 26th Regular Convention realm of U.S. support for Ukraine’s inde- years. It would seem that with so much solid base that will help us carry on our of the Ukrainian National Association.” pendence] all bordered on the sensational. going on in our Ukrainian community traditions and culture for generations to The border used for this special feature is But this was not all that was happening. there would be little difficulty in main- come. Under such circumstances the reproduced from a UNA membership cer- “In community after community, a taining a steady and rapid growth in Ukrainian National Association will con- tificate dated 1942. boom was on in improving our physical facilities for making life more pleasant ed Vice-Minister of Internal Affairs Mikhail On October 16, some 20,000 students and productive. Cathedrals, churches, A “Georgian scenario”... Korniyenko as saying. “There will be no from all over Ukraine turned up for a colleges, schools and community centers (Continued from page 2) Georgian scenario in Ukraine.” pro-Yushchenko rally in Kyiv, during were being constructed or planned. In law enforcement bodies for “serving the There were also more threatening, and which they passed a mock “no-confi- Philadelphia, construction was started on criminal authorities” as well as intimidating simultaneously enigmatic, warnings from dence vote” in Prime Minister two cathedrals, Catholic and Orthodox. and staging provocations against democrat- the Internal Affairs Ministry. “There Yanukovych’s Cabinet. On October 18, Colleges were constructed or expanded in ic forces and supporters of Mr. won’t be any revolutions here,” the police arrested 15 students in Chernihiv; Stamford, Conn., Winnipeg, Canada, and Yushchenko’s presidential bid. “We will October 19 issue of the Financial Times all of those arrested had participated in Fox Chase, Philadelphia. New churches fight for human rights and will not give quoted Kyiv police chief Oleksander the Kyiv rally the previous day. On in dozens of cities, ranging in cost from up,” Mr. Yushchenko and Ms. Tymoshenko Milenin as saying. “We are ready for the October 19 a pro-Yushchenko student $50,000 to over a million dollars, were say on behalf of their campaign coalition, unexpected. We even have our ninjas – a activist was arrested in Poltava. being built or planned. Parochial schools Power of the People. “Also, we reserve the recently formed subdivision – trained in The atmosphere of the presidential to accommodate all elementary full-time right to a civic protest, within the frame- special measures. We have also new campaign in Ukraine has become classes were built. Luxurious national work of the legislation in force and the means, which for now I won’t speak increasingly tense in the wake of the homes and modern community centers Ukrainian Constitution.” about. I’ll only say that their use has been October 19 disappearance of the press were completed in cities stretching from The reaction of the authorities to the state- approved by the Health Ministry. I assure secretary for the Yushchenko regional one end of the continent to the other. ment was immediate. “The Internal Affairs you, the health of citizens won’t suffer.” campaign headquarters in Mykolayiv. “In the more populated areas, organi- Ministry pledges to forestall a change of Meanwhile, the police have embarked The press secretary claimed via mobile zations encompassing all strata of our political power in the country through civil on a campaign of arrests targeting phone to have been kidnapped – appar- community life increased their ranks. disobedience actions after the presidential Ukrainian student activists who support ently by plainclothes police – after which Professional groups such a doctors, engi- election on October 31,” ITAR-TASS quot- Mr. Yushchenko’s presidential ambitions. the contact with him was lost. neers, lawyers, journalists, educators and artists became more directly and actively involved in community affairs. Student associations and youth leagues expanded MEET THE RECTOR OF THE their activities and constantly kept striv- ing to develop a stronger youth participa- UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY! tion in community life. Women’s soci- Where: St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church in New York City Submission from Bush... When: Saturday, November 6 (Continued from page 5) 5 p.m.: Divine Liturgy concelebrated by Bishop Basil Losten and our own soil, and with this experience came Fr. Borys Gudziak, Rector a better realization of the struggles borne Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv every day by the people across the ocean – in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. We 6:30 p.m.: Rector’s Dinner St. George School Auditorium, developed an even stronger determination to th defeat terrorism and to eliminate the threat it 215 E. 6 Street poses to free people everywhere. 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America is grateful, and America will not forget their contributions.” The partnership between Ukraine and the United States was first formed by the Cold War and is strengthened by our commitment to winning the war on ter- ror. Built on a foundation of strong lead- Fr. Gudziak is a native of Syracuse and now the spiritual successor of ership by President Reagan to protect Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and Patriarch Josyf Slipyj as rector of Eastern Europe, President Bush has rein- UCU. He will share the dream and the reality of our Church’s major forced the policies of freedom and educational inst itution. Bishop Basil Losten heartily encourages all to democracy in Eastern and Central Europe in the new century. greet and support Fr. Gudziak. In establishing a partnership for peace, Americans reached out across to Central For those who are unable to greet Fr. Gudziak personally, donations and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and we can also be sent to the: are pleased to see that many Ukrainians The Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, are meeting our efforts. President Bush 2247 West Chicago Ave., continues to appreciate the contributions of Ukraine and the Ukrainian American Chicago, IL, 60622. community here in the United States and Phone: 773-235-8462. will continue to work to build peace and prosperity that will benefit all. * * * Due to the notification process of the spe- cific questions outlined in the questionnaire, we ask that we respectfully reserve the right to provide detailed answers to the requested questions next week for The Ukrainian Weekly released on the 31st [of October]. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 No. 43 No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 23

ebrate the 60th anniversary of the libera- a diplomatic source said. The nations from Battle resumes for constitutional reform NEWSBRIEFS tion of Ukraine from German invaders, the north and east of the 25-nation bloc (Continued from page 2) will feature no other military hardware who met on Sunday, October 10, agreed KYIV – National Deputies Oleksander Moroz and Stepan Havrysh have submit- Chernomyrdin told a roundtable meeting except one World War II-era tank. “It is on “the need to develop contacts with our duty to pay tribute to those who gave Ukraine” and that pro-European political ted a draft bill to the Verkhovna Rada pro- “Russia and Ukraine: Prospects of posing that constitutional-reform Bill No. Ukraine and the nations of the world an forces in the country should be strength- Cooperation in the Banking Sector,” the 4180 be adopted in its entirety, RFE/RL’s BBC reported. On the initiative of the opportunity to live in peace for many ened, the source said. Participants included years,” the president added. Commenting Ukrainian Service reported on October 13. Russian Club in the Ukrainian capital, the three Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and The bill, which was approved in the first bankers of the two countries discussed on dirty techniques used in the presiden- Lithuania – northern EU members tial election campaign, Mr. Kuchma said reading by the Verkhovna Rada in June, measures to step up business cooperation Denmark, Finland and Sweden, and the proposes transferring a significant part of in creating a free trade zone and solving they “exceed the framework of human four Visegrad Group countries, the Czech decency.” (RFE/RL Newsline) presidential powers to the Parliament and the problems of deposit insurance, money Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, the prime minister. The Constitutional transfers and legal unification. Gennady PM blames profiteers, opponents plus Austria. The talks which took the Court ruled on October 14 that the bill Melikyan, deputy chairman of the Central form of an informal dinner held before an does not contradict the Constitution of Bank of Russia, who attended the forum, KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor EU foreign ministers’ meeting also agreed Ukraine. To become law, the constitution- said Mr. Chernomyrdin’s initiative was ill- Yanukovych charged on October 14 that it necessary to give a “European perspec- al-reform bill must be approved by a two- timed. “At this time, Russia and Ukraine profiteers and “some political forces” tive to Ukraine” so that it moves closer to thirds majority (at least 300 votes) in the are not ready for that,” he stressed. In his wishing to destabilize the situation on the the EU. (Action Ukraine Report) second reading. (RFE/RL Newsline) opinion, a smaller problem should be set- food markets are responsible for recent tled first: the problem of money transfers food-price hikes in Ukraine, Ukrainian between Russia and Ukraine. According media reported. Mr. Yanukovych report- to Mr. Melikyan, tens of thousands of edly ordered that the law enforcement LEAGUE OF UKRAINIAN VOTERS – LUV Ukrainians working in Russia have to bodies intervene and keep food prices in send U.S. dollars to their families. (BBC) check. Meanwhile, National Deputy Petro Poroshenko of the Our Ukraine bloc said Knowing the mistakes made by Kuchma denies rumors of emergency the primary reason for the price hikes is President George W. Bush KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma on Mr. Yanukovych’s recent decision to raise pensions for more than 11 million people in foreign and domestic affairs, October 15 described as “mere fantasy” in Ukraine. (RFE/RL Newsline) the rumors claiming that the military it is time for a change! parade in Kyiv on October 28 will be EU states urge stronger ties with Ukraine used as an excuse to bring troops to the capital and introduce a state of emer- BRUSSELS – Eleven European Union Vote for for President gency before the October 31 presidential countries have called for stronger relations John Kerry ballot, Interfax reported. Mr. Kuchma with Ukraine and underscored the need for said the parade, which is intended to cel- a more uniform EU policy toward Russia, and

Natysku” (Years of Storm and Stress, Art from collection... 1967). for Vice-President (Continued from page 17) Monographs of Hryshchenko’s art John Edwards collectors include V. Sechyshyn, Oslo works include: P. Kovzhun, “Hryshchenko-Gritchenko” (Lviv, 1934); (270 works); Ye. Sumyk, Neptune City, They deserve your support on November 2, 2004 N.J., (75 works); and Ye. Dovhan, Jean René, “Alexis Gritchenko: Sa vie, Montreal (28 works). Son Oeuvre” (Alexis Gritchenko, His Among Hryshchenko’s theoretical Life, His Work, Paris, 1948); and writings are: “O Sviaziakh Russkoi Raymond Charmet et al., “Alexis For Executive Board of LUV Zhivopisi s Vizantiei i Zapadom” Gritchenko” (Paris, 1964). (Russian Painting and Its Ties with Hryshchenko enjoyed a long and dis- Byzantium and the West, 1913); and tinguished career spanning more than 60 Walter Bodnar Bozhena Olshaniwsky “Russkaia Ikona kak Iskusstvo years. The artist’s travels deeply influ- Zhivopisi” (The Russian Icon as enced and to a great degree affected the Painting, 1917). style of his work. Initially an enthusiast His memoirs include the following: of cubist painting, with its characteristi- “Deux Ans à Constantinople (Two Years cally geometric forms and initially limit- in Constantinople, 1930, includes 40 ed color palette, he changed his style to a reproductions of his watercolors; vibrant expressionism, in which reality or Ukainian edition, 1961, without repro- nature is transformed to communicate an ductions); “L’Ukraine de Mes Jours inner vision. Bleus” (The Ukraine of My Blue Days, His watercolor paintings convey the 1957; Ukrainian edition, 1958); “Moyi immediate expression of a visual experi- Zustrichi i Rozmovy z Frantsuzkymy ence, rendered in muted, at times bright, Mysttsiamy” (My Encounters and diaphanously transparent colors. Conversations with French Artists, 1962; Hryshchenko died in Vence, France, English edition, 1968); and “Roky Buri i on January 28, 1977.

tures, subcultures, resources and Ukraine and the culture... resourcefulness have broken the power of (Continued from page 11) presidents, no matter how fairly elected democratic of people have contributed to or popular. the democratic deficit in their countries. So, if there is a proper election in Ukraine and the opposition succeeds in Governments must also provide these winning it, only the first challenge will services with money. This is not an alter- have been surmounted. The more serious native to spending money on social wel- challenge will be to hold power and not fare. It is part of social welfare. If milit- simply hold office. The worst scenario sionery (police) are paid wages inconsis- for Ukraine is not that [Viktor] tent with life, it is inevitable that they Yushchenko loses the election. Far worse will cheat rather than die. Here as else- is that he wins and then fails. This, too, where, the goal is not to “eliminate cor- may be decided by cultural factors. ruption” – a goal which is as unrealistic The current authorities are not the in Britain as it is in Ukraine. The goal is product of a democratic culture, but a to create a state of affairs in which cor- Leninist culture. The opposition might ruption is a matter of choice, rather than consider this an amoral culture, but it a matter of survival. If the state cannot would be perilous to despise it. Leninists afford to fund force structures, somebody understand organization, time-keeping, else will, and democracy, welfare and planning, pragmatism and power. Let us national security will suffer. hope that enough members of the opposi- In conclusion, the point is not to criti- tion understand the same. cize the world, but to change it. We will not change it unless we recognize that The views expressed above are the institutions matter. Perhaps they matter author’s and not necessarily those of the more than presidents. Institutional cul- U.K. Ministry of Defense. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 No. 43 No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 25 Ukrainian American Veterans present scholarships for 2004

Markian Andrew Hadzewycz Juliana Sophia Wynohradnyk Marta Natalie Kunynskyj Victor William Cannuscio by Dr. Nicholas Skirka all Ukrainian organizations under one for writing the best essay. The best essay UAV Scholarship Awards should fill out umbrella. award is made possible by the National an application, write an essay on this YONKERS, N.Y. – The Ukrainian Each year at the convention the Ladies Auxiliary. The other three recipi- year’s military topic, and send a photo- American Veterans (UAV) held their 57th Ukrainian American Veterans organiza- ents were awarded $300. Juliana Sophia graph. Applications are available on the annual convention on Saturday, tion announces and awards scholarships Wynohradnyk of Stony Point, N.Y. UAV website: www.uavets.org. September 18, in Dedham, Mass. Anna to college students who are descendants attends Sacred Heart University in To be eligible for a UAV scholarship, Krawczuk was elected the national com- of Ukrainian American Veterans. One of Fairfield, Conn., where she is majoring in applicants must be descendants of mander, becoming the first woman ever the requirements is to write an essay (400 communications. Marta Natalie Ukrainian American Veterans and be full- to hold this position since the inception to 500 words) about a current military Kunynskyj of Detroit attends Wayne time matriculated college students in a of the UAV in 1948. topic. The topic this year was “What role State and is majoring in physical therapy. degree program. Moreover, students from The installation of newly elected or strategy should the United States take Victor William Cannuscio of West Palm accredited trade schools or institutions that National Executive and Ladies Auxiliary in its continued efforts in the war on ter- Beach, Fla., attends Palm Beach have degree programs are eligible. Students Boards was guided by Past Commander rorism?” Four students were selected as Community College and is studying to can apply while in their senior year in high Eugene Sagasz. recipients of the 2003-2004 scholarship become a professional pilot. school, as college attendance can be veri- Michael Sawkiw Jr., president of the awards. The UAV sent congratulations to all fied before the award is given in the fall. Ukrainian Congress Committee of Markian Andrew Hadzewycz, a histo- the recipients and wished them continued Applications are accepted from November America, was the keynote speaker and ry major from Morristown, N.J., who success in their college careers. through August for each year. Additionally, spoke about the significance of uniting attends Drew University, received $400 Students interested in applying for the (Continued on page 31) VOINOVICH for U.S. Senate Vote Tuesday November 2nd for George V. Voinovich Experience We Can Trust

George Voinovich consistently supported the independence and self-determination of Ukraine. He actively supports the development of a free market economy and interna- tional trade with Ukraine.

Senator Voinovich supports and recognizes the vital importance of private parochial schools, like St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral School in Parma, Ohio. The State of Ohio leads the country in terms of state support for our private schools.

Senator Voinovich led the fight to preserve the Ukrainian radio program on Cleveland’s public radio station.

Senator Voinovich has appointed Ukrainian-Americans to senior administration positions and various state boards and commissions and judgeships. Endorsed by the Ukrainian Civic League and the American Nationalities Movement

“You show me someone who is proud of their ethnic heritage, and I’ll show you a great American” Paid for by the Voinovich for Senate Campaign Committee 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 No. 43

region, who has become a consultant for closed-door bomb search, the explosive Two Luhansk.... the two students in their fight to get rein- Students say... device was discovered, allegedly in a (Continued from page 13) stated at the university, said that the (Continued from page 13) trash can in the main room, which Mr. Messrs. Kirilov and Kosenko cited several school authorities are now scared. because they had linked him to both the Zolotariov maintained had already been reasons for their acts of September 18. They “As soon as Ms. Tkachenko’s secretary Georgian and Serbian student groups. searched twice before. said they wanted to express their distrust of told her about my issue, the rector ran out The four Pora members, however, said The national deputies from Our Ukraine the current Ukrainian political establish- through another entrance,” he explained at their aim was not violent uprising but to present at the scene noted that it was strange ment; to prove that officials of their univer- the press conference. “She became fright- organize student activists in an anti- that the five-story building was evacuated in sity were subordinate to the local political ened by the possible sequences.” Yanukovych campaign. a haphazard and laconic way, with the build- authorities; and to determine whether the The next day the ex-students and Mr. “Beyond our heartfelt belief that we ing residents not forced to leave their prem- ises but told that they could leave if they militia would adhere to the laws on such Putintsev came to the university together are right, we carry no other weapons,” wished to do so. They also observed that public displays, which are not illegal. and took a person with a video camera explained one of the members of Pora. dozens of law enforcement officials freely Their prison detention was followed with them. Vice-Rector Matveev met The female student, who did not wish to entered and exited a building that could by expulsion from the university. Mr. them in the entranceway with security identify herself, noted that the majority surely have contained other bombs if one Kirilov claimed that the reason was that guards and refused to let them in. of Pora members are female. had already been discovered. National they had supported Mr. Yushchenko. “You will not come in, because you have She also said that some 150 of its mem- Deputy Stetsko added that he was denied a “The dean told me, ‘You will be come to campaign for Mr. Yushchenko,” he bers had been detained in the last four request to have fingerprint tests done on the expelled if you do not take down the por- said – words that were caught on tape. months since the organization began to explosive device in his presence. trait of Yushchenko in your dormitory Then, Mr. Mateev told the security actively develop its campaign and dissemi- men to take the threesome out by force, Two Pora activists were arrested at the room,’ ” explained Mr. Kirilov. “That nate anti-Yanukovych propaganda. Some an act that also was caught on tape and scene of the incident and charged the fol- threat was followed by a series of others had been charged, albeit falsely, said the shown during the press conference. Mr. lowing day with conspiracy to perform ter- by professors and vice-rectors.” unidentified Pora member, with carrying Kosenko said that after the incident his rorist acts and membership in an illegal mil- Vice-Rector for Academic Performance counterfeit money or having bomb-making university group was disbanded and his itary formation, reported Interfax Ukraine. Vadym Matveev responded to the asser- equipment in their possession. Pora was friends were now being threatened. Subsequently, the state militia also arrest- tions made by the students by noting that: organized in Lviv in March of this year. LNAU Rector Tkachenko refused to ed Yaroslav Hodunok, owner of Western “Our educational establishment supports Another Pora member at the press comment on any of the issues related to Service, the company that leased the office the candidacy of Mr. Yanukovych. That is conference said that law enforcement the circumstances in which the two stu- to Pora. Mr. Hodunok, ironically himself a the reason we try to persuade our students officials had confiscated another explo- dents now find themselves. former militia officer, is also a member of of the advantages he brings. However, we sive device in the organization’s Mr. Kirilov said he assumed the rector the Ukrainian National Party, which is part do not threaten them and do not use Chernihiv office on October 19, which had to act in such a way because there was of the Our Ukraine coalition. Mr. Hodunok administrative methods.” she maintained had also been a plant. pressure being brought to bear on her by was jailed in the detention facility of the Valerii Rudenko, the dean of the The incident in Kyiv began the evening local authorities. When Mr. Yushchenko Security Service of Ukraine while the intel- Veterinary Faculty where Mr. Kirilov of October 15 when a state militia squad traveled to Luhansk on October 17 during ligence agency’s anti-terrorist division studied, said his student was expelled car arrived at the Pora offices in the Podil his pre-election campaign, he appealed to investigated his involvement with Pora. because of his habit of missing class. district of Kyiv, not far from the National the oblast chairman to help the students, Two days after the incident, and the “I am not a truant,” Mr. Kirilov coun- University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, which he explained at a campaign rally on day after the large pro-Yushchenko stu- tered at the press conference. “I am an A where some 10,000 students would gather Teatralna Square in the city. The local pros- dent rally held before the university, state student and I was preparing to graduate in support of Mr. Yuschenko’s presidential ecutor is currently looking into the matter. militia officers entered the compound with honors.” candidacy the next day. Mr. Kirilov was a member of the Nevertheless the situation at the universi- and buildings of the National University According to Yevhen Zolotariov, a Regional Student Council and winner of ty remains strained. Most of the professors of Kyiv Mohyla Academy unannounced Pora activist who was present, at first the the regional Student Leader contest the who told The Weekly that they do not sup- and proceeded to search the premises, law enforcement officers said they were previous year. That is why, he said at the port the position of the LNAU officials ostensibly in pursuit of illegal aliens responding to a report of a fight in the press conference, he was quite sure he regarding the students, nonetheless said they working on a remodeling project taking basement of the offices, reported Moloda would not be expelled from the university. did not want their names cited in the press. place within the university’s buildings. Ukraine. When the students would not When Messrs. Kosenko and Kirilov One professor who wished to remain University officials said that the law open the office doors, the officers then discovered that they had been expelled unidentified said that at the last meeting enforcement officials could not produce and evicted from the dormitory, they with the academic body on October 18, changed their story and said they had to documents authorizing their search. They asked Mr. Putintsev to talk to LNAU the rector said: “Yanukovych has to check a dangerous situation with an elec- dropped the effort only after lawmakers Rector Valentyna Tkachenko and to figure become the president. If Yushchenko gets trical short circuit in the building, The from Ukraine’s Parliament arrived, but out the true reasons for their expulsion. power, civil war will break out. The student activists still refused to allow the not before they had confiscated several Anatolii Putintsev, head of the Yushchenko campaign team is pressuring militia officers to enter, but then higher passports, which were later returned Yushchenko campaign in the Luhansk me, but I will get what I want.” ranking officials arrived and somehow a without incident. spare key appeared and entry was gained. The university issued a statement the Now citing a bomb threat, the state same day noting that: In evaluating the cir- police had earlier confiscated the docu- militia called in a team of experts with cumstances and motivation of this surprise ments, including test analyses for possible search dogs and went through the premis- intervention of the militia at the University Two main contenders... es but found nothing. Mr. Zolotariov (Continued from page 14) chemical poisoning. Afterwards, Mr. of Kyiv Mohyla Academy it is clear that the Yushchenko said that he would make explained that next a state militia general demands of the militia to inspect the entire that he would simplify procedures for now present on site ordered Berkut spe- premises of the university were unfounded. border crossings into Russia and Belarus, public all his medical documents from the Austrian hospital so that the Ukrainian cial forces to clear the office of all those There were no direct written orders given and underscoring that had no intention of present, including the group of national for the entry, and there were no legal direc- ignoring the needs of the Russian-speak- law enforcement agency could not misin- form the public about the true results. deputies from Our Ukraine and other law- tives presented, which leads the administra- ing portion of the Ukrainian citizenry. makers who were part of the entourage. tion of the university to conclude that this But while Mr. Yanukovych was on the Meanwhile Mykola Melnychenko, the notorious former member of President When a group of unidentified plain- act was one of provocation and harassment, ground distributing government gifts, Mr. clothed individuals conducted a second aimed to discredit the university.” Yushchenko was too often quite literally Leonid Kuchma’s security detail until he stuck in the air in Ukraine trying to find a fled to the West after revealing that he place to land his campaign plane. had digital recordings implicating the tion in questioning the militia’s legal On October 19 the plane that was carry- Ukrainian president in the murder of a Statement by... authority to enter the university without a ing him back to Kyiv from a campaign Ukrainian journalist, said on October 19 (Continued from page 13) proper warrant and in rejecting the mili- that he would reveal more recordings, appearance in Luhansk was denied approval vention of the militia at the University of tia’s entry. The foundation fully agrees these containing conversations between to land at Boryspil Airport due to inclement Kyiv Mohyla Academy. ... it is clear that with the manner in which the administra- Mr. Kuchma and Mr. Yanukovych. weather, although it was a partly sunny day. the demands of the militia to inspect the tion of Kyiv Mohyla Academy opposed Mr. Melnychenko said the new frag- The campaign team then decided to fly entire premises of the university were unlawful police actions. The foundation ments of recordings were from July directly to their campaign stop of the next unfounded, there were no direct written joins with other members of the world’s day, the city of Zaporizhia, but was turned 2000, when Mr. Yanukovych was the academic community to condemn and chairman of the Donetsk Oblast. They orders given for the entry and there were no away at that airport as well. Apparently the legal directives presented, which leads the protest such illegal acts on the part of the weather there had turned bad, too. They involved conversations in which the cur- militia to disrupt and prevent free and rent presidential candidate asks for per- administration of the university to conclude finally landed in Lviv, on the other side of open political discourse, which is a cen- mission to form “a political force in the that this act was one of provocation and the country from where they had started. tral requirement for an independent uni- Ukrainian Parliament from Donetsk” harassment, aimed to discredit the universi- On October 20 Mr. Yushchenko’s plane versity and a democratic Ukraine. because the Communist national deputies ty.” was again not allowed to land near a cam- The Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of paign destination, this time at the airport “to whom he paid money did not always The university’s statement states that America is a non-profit organization that outside Mariupol. The plane was finally follow his orders.” the incident took place the day after a stu- supports the development of Kyiv Mohyla cleared for arrival in Donetsk, which result- Mr. Melnychenko also noted that in dent rally in support of Viktor Yushchenko, Academy as a world-level university. ed in a two-hour commute by car back to the recordings Mr. Yanukovych tells the the opposition candidate for president, in the city’s central square. The rally had Mariupol to meet with voters in that city. Ukrainian president that “all newspapers Ambassador William Green Miller been attended by a large number of Kyiv Mr. Yushchenko received bad news of are under control” in Donetsk and dis- Co-Chairman, KM Foundation another sort on October 19 when an obedient journalists were “being backed Mohyla Academy students, many of whom Austrian Appeals Court rejected his claim against the wall.” spoke openly about the Ukrainian govern- Borys I. Tarasyuk that his medical records from his treat- The former security service employee ment’s attempt to thwart their rally. Co-Chairman, KM Foundation ment at Rudolfinerhaus Clinic in Vienna said he would turn the recordings over to The Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of should not be made available to Ukraine’s the Verkhovna Rada through National America fully supports the position of Ihor Wyslotsky Procurator General’s Office. Viennese Deputy Hryhorii Omelchenko. the Kyiv Mohyla Academy’s administra- President, KM Foundation No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 27

ments” and “likely to lead to a split in western Ukraine, claimed he witnessed vot- Nedeli, September 11-17). Fraud is feared... Ukraine” (Ukrainska Pravda, September 2). ers showing five or six passports in the To block proxy votes, the authorities are (Continued from page 1) Chas Ukrainy is not registered as a newspa- 2002 elections. “They voted for themselves planning to send 4,000 eastern Ukrainian after the Tatars. Prime Minister Viktor per in Russia, so there is no information and those who had left those parts in search “observers” to western Ukraine to halt a Yanukovych’s election team collected about its financing. of jobs. You can guess whom they voted for repeat of what they claim was fraudulent more than 560,000 signatures from On October 8, a congress of Ukrainians [Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine]. Such tricks voting in the 2002 elections. Their presence Ukrainians living in Russia and planned to in Russia was held in Moscow with the worked in 2002, but they won’t work in could spark violence and confrontation on submit these, together with signatures col- obvious patronage of the Russian authori- 2004,” Mr. Kravchuk predicted (Zerkalo election day (Lvivska Hazeta, October 7). lected in Ukraine, to the Central Election ties. Participants included Dmitry Commission by the mid-September dead- Medvedev, head of the Russian presidential line. The initiative group that collected the administration, Moscow Mayor Yuri Ukrainian Ski Association is organizing a SKI TRIP to signatures claimed, “Yanukovych has the Luzhkov and Russia’s Ambassador to Club Med – Crested Butte, Colorado highest support within the Ukrainian dias- Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin. The con- March 26 - April 2, 2005 pora in Russia, among Ukrainian citizens gress, again not surprisingly, came out in who live on Russian territory” (Ukrainska support of Mr. Yanukovych. Yosyp Kobzon, • one of the congress organizers, called upon Roundtrip airfare on Continental – Newark-Houston-Gunnison Pravda, September 13). • The opposition began to question the sig- Ukrainians to not vote for Mr. Yushchenko, Roundtrip airport transfers natures from Russia, and it is not clear if as this would lead to “at a minimum desta- • 7 nights slopeside all-inclusive lodging: ski-in, ski-out Mr. Yanukovych ever submitted them. In bilization and at a maximum to civil war” • Lift tickets, lessons included addition, doubts surfaced about the 562,000 (temnik.com.ua, October 11). • The congress itself appears a rather Gourmet dining, all meals, including snacks are included Ukrainians who allegedly signed, as only • 200,000 Ukrainians living in Russia are reg- murky event. The ruling council of the Full open bar including premium alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks istered to vote (Vysokyi Zamok, September Federation of National-Cultural Autonomy • All tips, gratuities, taxes and membership fees 16). According to the Central Election Ukrainians in Russia as well as the Union Commission there are only 215,000 voters of Ukrainians in Russia, which consists of $1,599.00 per person for 1st and 2nd in room. $1,099.00 for 3rd and 4th in room. registered to vote abroad, although it is not 80 organizations from the Ukrainian dias- clear if this includes the 200,000 Ukrainian pora in Russia, denounced the congress $300.00 deposit is due by October 25, 2004. Credit cards accepted. For and condemned the attempt to mobilize all registered voters in Russia. more information, please call Lesia Kozicky at Dunwoodie Travel Bureau, Ukrainian election regulations do not Ukrainians living in Russia on behalf of Ltd., 125 Corporate Blvd., Suite 300, Yonkers, NY 10701 permit the collection of signatures outside Mr. Yanukovych. The statement by both Ukraine, as such signatures can only be umbrella groups was later supported by the (914) 969-4200 (800) 550-4334 email: [email protected] collected at the request of proxies. But, Republican National-Cultural Center of there are no proxies registered abroad. If Ukrainians in the Bashkir autonomous the Ukrainian Embassy or Consulates in republic, the Union of Ukrainians in UKRAINIAN BUILDERS OF CUSTOM HOMES Russia collected the signatures, it was ille- Moscow and the Moscow-based Ukrainian WEST COAST OF FLORIDA gal. If it was undertaken by Russian state Cultural Center Slavutych. agencies, as many in the Ukrainian opposi- The actual number of Ukrainians liv- TRIDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP. tion suspect, “This raises even more ques- ing abroad, or even in Russia, is impossi- • Over 25 years of building experience tions” (Vysokyi Zamok, September 16). ble to determine. Official and unofficial • Bilingual A new Russian-language newspaper, figures range from as low as 2 million to • Fully insured and bonded Chas Ukrainy, began publication in as high as 8 million. Most Ukrainians are • Build on your lot or ours September, and is directed toward the large abroad “temporarily,” although this • Highest quality workmanship absence could last many years. numbers of Ukrainians living in Russia. Ihor W. Hron, President Lou Luzniak, Executive V.P. Not surprisingly, it has not attempted to be Often family members remain behind (941) 270-2411 (941) 270-2413 objective and came out in support of Mr. and vote for them using their domestic pass- Yanukovych. Mr. Yushchenko, on the other ports, also left behind. Former President and Zenon Luzniak, General Contractor hand, was described as “anti-Russian,” Social Democratic Party–United faction Serving North Port, Venice, South Venice and area “pro-Western,” “a threat to existing agree- leader Leonid Kravchuk, himself from 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 No. 43

UKRAINIAN-AMERICANS FOR KERRY-EDWARDS/2004

A NATIONWIDE COMMITTEE TO ELECT THE NEXT PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT

ND ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 OUR VOTES WILL BE FOR JOHN KERRY & JOHN EDWARDS John John

Kerry Edwards for for Vice President President

TIME FOR A CHANGE!

• John Kerry has a knowledgeable foreign policy team who share his commitment to Ukraine’s independence and prosperity. • John Kerry was among the first to co-sponsor the Senate Resolution on the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine • John Kerry, as president, will continue the practice of John Kerry the candidate and consult the Ukrainian- American community on U.S.-Ukraine issues and policy. • John Kerry will rescind the blank check George Bush issued to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. • John Kerry will work to resolve issues important to Ukraine such as NATO and European Union member- ship, World Trade Organization, Jackson-Vanik.

Honorary Former Congressman David Bonior (Mich.) National Julian Kulas, Chairman National Congressman Maurice Hinchey (New York) Officers: Andrew Fedynsky, Vice Chair Officers Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (Ohio) Mary Wasylyk, Secretary-Treasurer Former state representatie Myron Kulas (Illinois) Congressman James R. Langevin (Rhode Island) State representative Peter Wasylyk (Rhode Island)

State Leadership Committees: California: Peter Borisow Massachusetts: Stephen Kostecki Ohio: Al Baldwin Charmien Carl Olga Kun-Santos George Bilokonsky Eugenia Dallas Walter Majkut Walter Bubna Bohdan Futala Stephanie Majkut Ihor Hunko Mary Wasylyk Andrew Fedynsky Myroslava Kosykh Dr. George Kalbouss Dr. Marika Kuzma Michigan: The Honorable David Bonior The Honorable Marcy Kaptur Iryna Kwasny Alexander Fedynsky Paul Micevich Elaine Woloshyn Missouri: Mr. Peter Jarosewycz Roman Solchanyk Marko Tarnawsky New Jersey: Mr. Eugene Hrycak Pennsylvania: Peter Czuczman Dr. Andrew Ripecky & Family Ms. Maria Proskurenko Ulana Mazurkiewycz Mr. Stephan Welhasch Connecticut: Orest Dubno Andre Michniak Walter Bodnar Roma Hayda Boshena Olshaniwsky Ms. Anneliese Juergensen Anna Krawczuk Rhode Island: The Honorable James Langevin Daria Juergensen The Honorable Peter N. Wasylyk New York: The Honorable Maurice Hinchey Illinois: Julian Kulas Yuri Hreshchyshyn Myron Kulas Hanya Krill Washington George Panczyszyn Julian Kytasty D.C.: Dr. Oles Lomacky Ivan Oleksyn Maryland: Ihor Gawdiak Max Pyziur Natalie Gawdiak Nadia Shmigel Wisconsin: Dr. George Ripeckyj PLEASE JOIN US ON NOVEMBER 2ND AND VOTE FOR JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT Paid for by Ukrainian-Americans for Kerry-Edwards/2004 No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 29

Plast golf outing raises funds to support Ukrainian scouting organization’s activities by Oleh Skubiak Kuritza; • longest drive (female) – Olya CHICAGO – The Pobratymy Popowych; and Foundation hosted the sixth annual Plast • closest to the pin – Marion Open at the Renwood Golf Club in Round Lake, Ill., on Saturday, September 11. The Abramiuk. event attracted 72 men and women Congratulations also were given also golfers for the tournament and over 100 go to Vince Piagentini, a member of the participants at the post-tourney festivities. men’s winning team, who scored a hole- As in previous years, the proceeds in-one on the eighth hole of the course. from this very successful and enjoyable The Pobratymy Foundation, a 501(c) event will be dedicated to support the (3) tax-exempt corporation, was estab- ongoing activities of Plast Ukrainian lished in 1992 by members of the Plast Scouting Organization. Proceeds from last Pobratymy fraternity for the purpose of

The winning women's team: Olya Popowych, Christine Hryhorczuk, Roxolana Tymiak-Lonchyna and Katrusia Saldan. year’s event were donated to the Vovcha supporting the developmental activities Tropa and Pysanyi Kamin campgrounds of Plast. The Pobratymy Foundation is and the Plast chapter in Sambir, Ukraine. limited to making contributions to Plast Using a scramble format, participants and other 501 (c) (3) organizations that enjoyed 18 holes of golf on a beautiful support the stated purposes of the frater- fall day and afterward joined family and nity: to renew and strengthen Plast; to friends at Self-Reliance Resort down the encourage excellence and self-improve- street for awards, camaraderie, music, ment; to encourage identification and

The winning men's team: Vince Piagentini, Ron Gillespie, Volodymyr Kosohor, and Nick Semitka. steaks and refreshments. cooperation among Ukrainian youth; and The following prizes were awarded: to inform others about Ukraine. • best men’s team score – Ron Plast Chicago and the Pobratymy Gillespie, Volodymyr Kosohor, Vince Foundation expressed thanks to all vol- Piagentini, Nick Semitka; unteers and the individual and corporate • best women’s team score – Dr. sponsors for their generous contributions Christine Hryhorczuk, Olya Popowych, to the event. Katrusia Saldan, Dr. Roksolana Tymiak- The seventh annual Plast Open is Lonchyna; scheduled for September 10, 2005, at the • longest drive (male) – Dr. George Renwood Golf Club. 30 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 No. 43

reasons, in its efforts toward integration world. As president, I will carefully review ceed on the path toward full democracy? Responses from Kerry... with the West. Would your administra- all of America’s foreign aid commitments (Continued from page 5) tion be inclined to help Ukraine join the in light of the needs of the recipient country EDITOR’S NOTE: Sen. Kerry did not answer this question. in Europe (OSCE), the European Union World Trade Organization, the as well as America’s own security, econom- European Union and NATO? Would (EU) and the International Organization for ic, political and humanitarian priorities. The * * * your administration be willing to take Migration (IOM). We will put trafficking on readers of The Ukrainian Weekly and all on the role of an advocate for Ukraine’s our bilateral agenda with Ukraine and look friends of Ukraine can be assured that U.S. EDITOR’S NOTE: Sen. Kerry append- membership, as Poland has done? for opportunities to assist the Ukrainian assistance to Ukraine will receive thorough ed the following comments on Ukraine’s consideration under a Kerry administration. presidential election, though a question on government to identify and go after those Ukraine’s liberation 13 years ago was individuals and criminal groups involved in There are a number of ways in which that topic was not posed by The Weekly. a victory for democratic forces after three U.S. assistance can benefit Ukraine. Today, this despicable trade. Finally, a Kerry quarters of a century of communist rule. for example, Ukraine has an increasingly As Ukraine prepares for its upcoming administration will work with the Ukrainian Today, Ukraine is a strategically impor- acute AIDS crisis with an estimated presidential elections, Ukrainians have the government to develop programs in Ukraine tant country in the heart of Europe and is 250,000 of its citizens now HIV-positive. opportunity to demonstrate the power of that raise public awareness and understand- an important ally for the United States. As the author of the most comprehensive democracy in Eastern Europe by selecting ing of the dangers posed by traffickers, as Unfortunately, for far too long now, the HIV/AIDS bill ever to pass the Senate and their future leader through free and fair well as those that help the victims of human Bush administration, with its short-sight- a proven fighter to expand funding for trafficking return to the native countries and ed and Putin-centric policies, has effec- elections that reflect the will of the people. American bilateral and global AIDS pro- receive the counseling and assistance they tively turned its back on Ukraine. I reject I am concerned about developments in need to move ahead with their lives. such one-sided policies and vow to grams, I understand that the HIV/AIDS Ukraine in the lead-up to election day. reverse course to build a strong and epidemic has implications for the life and There is a consistent pattern of government On March 13, 2003, Rep. Bob vibrant partnership with Ukraine, one that death of millions of men, women and chil- abuse and intimidation against opposition Schaffer (R-Colo.), who was a co-chair- will actively support Ukrainian democra- dren across the globe, as well as for global political candidates and their supporters. man of the Congressional Ukrainian cy, as well as Ukraine’s full participation security. I have proposed a comprehensive While Ukraine is at a critical turning Caucus, introduced legislation in the in the trans-Atlantic community. plan to combat the global spread of point, the Bush administration has done too House of Representatives to perma- For over a decade, I have been an advo- HIV/AIDS, which includes doubling U.S. little too late to challenge the Ukrainian gov- nently lift U.S. government trade cate of NATO expansion. I supported the funding to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and ernment on these democratic reversals and restrictions against Ukraine based on first two rounds of NATO expansion and I malaria to $30 billion by 2008. to work with the European community to provisions in the old Jackson-Vanik formulate a common approach to support am committed to maintaining the strength of Millions of people in Ukraine con- Amendment that restricted trade with the NATO alliance. In a Kerry administra- democracy in Ukraine. In these remaining countries that did not allow free emi- tinue to suffer the ill effects of the days before the Ukrainian election, President tion, America will give careful consideration Chornobyl nuclear disaster. Vast areas gration. The law, a vestige of the Cold to each and every proposed new member. Bush should challenge the Ukrainian leader- War, has yet to be retracted in the case have been contaminated, hundreds of ship to ensure that all candidates are granted I applaud the expansion of the thousands of people are ailing, includ- of Ukraine, even though it is commonly European Union in recent years which equal access to state media. ing children suffering from birth agreed that no such restrictions exist in has served to unite former foes under a In addition, the Bush administration defects. How would your administra- the country today. Where would your common calling. As president, I would should work with the Organization for tion help Ukraine and its people deal administration stand on this issue? fully respect the processes that the Security and Cooperation in Europe with the aftereffects of Chornobyl, And, should Jackson-Vanik restrictions European Union employs to evaluate (OSCE) to significantly increase the whose 20th anniversary will be marked still apply to Ukraine? Where do you potential new members. number of international observers sent to stand on granting Ukraine Permanent in 2006? Ukraine for the elections, and to ensure Normal Trade Relations status? In FY 2004, Ukraine received that they remain available in the likely $143.47 million in foreign aid. Under EDITOR’S NOTE: Sen. Kerry did not event that a run-off election is necessary I will conduct a comprehensive review your administration, how much for- answer this question. at the end of November. of all of our trade agreements and poli- eign aid could Ukraine expect to Ukraine’s gifted, diverse society is cies in my first 120 days in office. I will receive from the U.S.? What types of In general, what would your adminis- capable of continuing on the path its citi- very seriously review our current trade programs would your administration tration’s policies be toward Ukraine? zens chose in 1991, if given a fair choice stance towards Ukraine to determine support for Ukraine and its people? What would define U.S.-Ukraine rela- in free elections. A Kerry administration whether or not it is still appropriate. tions under an administration headed by will never compromise the commitment I believe deeply in the critical role that you? What do you believe should be the of the United States to an independent Ukraine has been stymied, for various U.S. foreign assistance plays around the role of the U.S. in helping Ukraine pro- and democratic Ukraine. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 31 Virsky Ukrainian Dance Company to perform in Morristown in November

by Ika Koznarska Casanova may always maintain the highest level of technique together with a harmonious MORRISTOWN, N.J. – The beauty of presentation” (Kyiv, 1966). renowned Virsky Ukrainian Dance Virsky noted that the operative princi- Company, a premiere professional dance ple informing his work was not the sim- troupe known for the virtuosity and tech- ple copying of ethnographic patterns of nical brilliance of its choreography, will Ukrainian folk dance but rather the appear here at the Community Theater on enrichment of existing forms “by means Saturday, November 13, at 8 p.m. of creative interpretation.” Conceived of as a celebration of the spirit of a people through dance, the com- Mr. Vantukh, as Mr.Virsky’s disciple, pany of more than 80 dancers, who are pro- sees his main objective as the preservation fessionally trained in ballet, as well as tra- and development of folk choreographic ditional folk dance, presents a diverse pro- art. Apart from such signature Virsky gram that draws on Ukraine’s rich heritage. pieces as “My z Ukrainy” (We’re from Founded in 1937 by Ukrainian ballet Ukraine) and “Zaporozhtsi” (Zaporozhian master and choreographer Pavlo Virsky, Kozaks), as well as such playful and whose choreography still forms the essential humorous works as “Povzunets” and core of the repertoire, the company has been “Under the Cherry Tree,” and the lyrical directed by Myroslav Vantukh since 1980. “Verbychenka” (The Weeping Willow), the By combining brilliant ballet tech- concert program will include new dances nique with traditional Ukrainian folk choreographed by Mr. Vantuch that have dance, Virsky, who headed the ensemble become part of the troupe’s repertoire. from 1955 to 1975, created a company Tickets for the performance range in that gained worldwide acclaim of audi- price from $30 to $42. Tickets, including ences and critics alike, for its technically group discounted tickets, for the event superb and innovative choreography. may be purchased online at www.com- Virsky attributed the style of the com- munitytheatrenj.org, at the Community pany to “the close ties we (Ukrainians) Theater box office, 1100 South St., or by have with our national folk art and with calling (973) 539-8008. Box office hours the achievements in classical dance which are Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. is part of our heritage ... Both elements Please call the box office to confirm pric- are combined in our approach so that we ing and availability.

UAV National Scholarship Fund should UAVeterans... send contributions to the National (Continued from page 25) Scholarship Officer, Nicholas Skirka, 109 students may reapply for the scholarship. Windsor Terrace, Yonkers, NY 10701. The Ukrainian American Veterans Applications for the scholarship expressed thanks to all those who made should also be sent to this address. For donations to the scholarship fund to additional information, readers may e- make this program possible. A special mail [email protected] or call thank you was extended to the UAV (914) 965-3707. National Ladies Auxiliary for raising and The National Scholarship Committee donating $500 each year. consists of John Tkachuk, Peter Organizations and/or individuals wish- Olijarczyk, Bohdan Mykitschak and ing to make a tax-exempt donation to the Russel Olijarczyk.

countries, such as Sweden, Poland and Ukraine’s presidential... Slovakia, to support the cause of democ- (Continued from page 8) racy; it can work with the European for free elections – but Mr. Putin has met Union to press for international election with Mr. Kuchma 10 times this year observers, and make it clear that a rigged alone and recently asserted that relations election will bring a united and firm with Ukraine were ‘the first priority’ of response. Finally, Mr. Bush can say his foreign policy. directly to Ukrainians and Belarusans “Yet the Bush administration can still [Belarusians] that he supports real have an influence. It can promote the for- democracy for their countries – and that mation of a contact group of neighboring in that respect, he differs with Mr. Putin.” PREVIEW OF EVENTS

(Continued from page 32) and sale of paintings and prints by Orest $25 per person; additional donations are Poliszczuk. Vividly flowing figures and encouraged. Tickets may be ordered by con- vibrant colors are the signature style of the tacting the Ukrainian Catholic Education artist whose work has been exhibited Foundation, (773) 235-8462. throughout the U.S. and Canada. An open- ing reception with the artist will be held Saturday, November 20 on Saturday, November 13, at 7 p.m. Admission: $10 (includes refreshments). PARMA, Ohio: The Ukrainian Bandurist The exhibit/sale will be held at the Chorus and the Ukrainian Museum- Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Archives invite you to enjoy the afternoon Holy Family, 4250 Harewood Road NE. with friends watching one of college foot- For more information contact Tania ball’s best rivalries on the big screen: the Terleckyj, (703) 271-9672. University of Michigan Wolverines vs. the Ohio State University Buckeyes. Join us at Sunday, November 14 noon-5 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, Upper Back Hall, 7700 CHICAGO: Bishop Richard Seminack, Hoertz Road. A $40 donation includes open Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Chicago, bar, hor d’oeuvres, etc. Proceeds from the invites the public to a Rector’s Luncheon for event go to assist the programs of the the Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak, rector of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus and the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. The Ukrainian Museum-Archives. For ticket luncheon, which is to benefit the university, reservations contact Nick Schidowka, (216) will be held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, 534-4777 or [email protected]. 2247 W. Chicago Ave., at 1 p.m. Tickets: Visit www.bandura.org for more details. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2004 No. 43

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Saturday, October 30 part of the Studio Montclair “Meet the Soyuzivka’s Datebook Artist Series.” The solo exhibit, featuring October 29-31, 2004 November 25-28, 2004 NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific over 40 works, will be on view through Society invites the public to a presentation November 29. An artist’s reception and a Halloween Weekend with children’s Thanksgiving Weekend Packages of the book “Pro Vchora i Siohodni” gallery talk will take place at the Library costume parade, costume zabava Available (About Yesterday and Today, Lviv-New Gallery at 6-8 p.m., with a presentation by and more York, 2003) by Olha Kuzmowycz, journal- the artist at 7 p.m. Library hours: Monday, December 4, 2004 ist and writer since 1981, editor and Wednesday, Thursday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; November 5-7, 2004 Accord Fire Company Banquet columnist at the Ukrainian-language news- Tuesday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Friday and Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization, paper Svoboda. The program will include Saturday, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.; and Sunday, 1-5 Orlykiada Weekend December 11, 2004 readings from the book by Ivan Bernadsky, p.m. Admission is free. For further infor- Ulster Correctional Facility merited artist of Ukraine and director of mation e-mail [email protected] November 12, 2004 Christmas Party the Ukrainian Studio of Drama, New York; Saturday, November 6 Kripplebush Fire Company Banquet remarks by the author; and introductory remarks by Vasyl Makhno. The presenta- tion will take place at the society’s build- NEW YORK: Bishop Basil Losten, November 21, 2004 ing, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford, Ellenville Co-op Nursery School 10th streets) at 5 p.m. For additional infor- will host a dinner for the Rev. Dr. Borys Auction mation call (212) 254-5130. Gudziak, rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in Lviv. The UCU NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Medical Rector’s Dinner, which is to benefit the Association of North America, New York university, will be held at 6:30 p.m. at St. Metropolitan Chapter, in cooperation with George School Auditorium, 215 E. Sixth the Self Reliance Association of American St. Admission: $100; additional donations Ukrainians, New York Branch, will hold a are encouraged. Tax-deductible checks community-based lecture, featuring Dr. should be made out to the Ukrainian Viktor Gribenko who will speak on the Catholic Education Foundation (UCEF). topic “Rehabilitation Medicine – Joint and Ticket requests should be made by Spine Problems.” The event will take October 30 and sent to St. George place at 98 Second Ave., at 2 p.m. Ukrainian Catholic Church, 30 E. Seventh Admission is free; refreshments will be Street, New York, NY, 10003. served. For further information contact Dr. Ihor Magun, (516) 766-5147. EAST HANOVER, N.J.: The Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, PHILADELPHIA: The Ukrainian Branch 75, invites the public to their annu- Federation of America invites the public to al fall dance, the theme of which will be a meeting with Taras Kuzio, visiting pro- “Going Down Memory Lane.” The dance fessor, Institute for European, Russian and will be held at the Ramada Inn, 130 Route Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of 10 (westbound) starting at 9 p.m., with International Affairs, George Washington music by Tempo. Advance tickets: $35; University, who will speak on the topic of $40 at the door; admission includes enter- “Presidential Elections in Ukraine.” The tainment program, canapes and Viennese presentation will be held at 3 p.m. at the Table. For table reservations and more Ukrainian Educational and Cultural information call Slavka Hordynsky, (973) Center, Alexander B. Chernyk Gallery, 376-7956. Part of the proceeds from the 700 Cedar Road, Jenkintown, Pa. evening will go to The Ukrainian Museum Admission: $10, adults; students, free. For in New York. more information call (610) 539-8946. SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J.: A NORTHVILLE, Mich.: Continuing its Ukrainian Fall Festival will be held at the outreach program, the Ukrainian Bandurist Ukrainian Cultural Center, 135 Davidson Chorus will showcase its program of Ave., at 11 a.m.- 7 p.m. The festival will Ukrainian folk and sacred music at Ward feature music and performances by Alla Evangelical Presbyterian Church, 40000 Kutsevych, Inna Sydorak, the Obriy Folk Six Mile Road, at 8 p.m. For tickets, call Dance Ensemble and the Barvinok Dance Ward Presbyterian (248) 374-5928 or visit Group. There will be children’s activities, a www.bandura.org for more details. food court and a raffle, as well as tours of the center’s museum. The marketplace will Sunday, October 31 feature amber and beaded jewelry, Ukrainian embroidery, crafts, ceramics, WASHINGTON: The Shevchenko pysanky, glass art, scarves, CDs, DVDs, Scientific Society, Washington, D.C., videos, t-shirts and athletic gear. The mar- Branch, and the Ukrainian Academy of ketplace offers a great opportunity to Arts and Sciences group present a lecture acquire unique gifts and do one’s by Taras Kuzio, visiting professor, Christmas shopping early. Festival admis- Institute for European, Russian and sion: $5, adults; free for children. For more Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of information contact Raisa Chejlyk, (908) International Affairs, Geroge Washington 647-6211 or [email protected]. University, on “Ukraine’s 2004 Elections: Dead Souls or a Democratic Polity?” The ADVANCE NOTICE lecture will take place at Holy Family Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine, 4250 Sunday, November 7 Harewood Road NE, at 1:30 p.m. (metro: Brookland/CUA). The lecture will be in CHICAGO: The Parish Council of St. English, with bilingual discussion. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral Admission is free; contributions are wel- invites the public to its “grand opening” of come. For further information call (301) the newly constructed elevator in the 230-2149 (evening) or (202) 5134-1822 cathedral’s auditorium at 2250 W. Cortez (day). St. Please join us in celebrating another milestone in the history of the parish. As Monday, November 1 part of the progrm, at 9:30 a.m., there will be an official welcoming of Metropolitan CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Constantine and Archbishop Vsevolod, Ukrainian Research Institute will host a followed by a hierarchical divine liturgy at lecture by Hiroaki Kuromiya, professor of 10 a.m. At noon, the blessing and grand history, Indiana University, on the topic opening of the elevator will take place and “The Political Leaders of Ukraine, 1938- will be followed by a luncheon and pro- 1989.” The lecture will be held in the gram. Proceeds are designated for the ele- HURI Seminar Room, 583 Massachusetts vator project. Donation $50. For reserva- Ave., at 4-6 p.m. For additional informa- tions contact Oksana Tschaikowsky, (847) tion contact the institute, (617) 495-4053 256-4299. or [email protected]. Saturday-Sunday, November 13-14 Thursday, November 4 WASHINGTON: The Ukrainian National MONTCLAIR, N.J.: An exhibition of Women’s League of America, Branch 78, sculpture by George Thaddeus Saj titled invites the public to a two-day exhibition “Head Games” will open at the Montclair Public Library, 50 South Fullerton Ave., as (Continued on page 31)