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ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXV No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 $2.00 House of Representatives overwhelmingly passes Patients lose in battle over health care in Ukraine by Mark Raczkiewycz bill to improve a system that sees Ukrainians die 10 years earlier than their European sanctions bill KYIV – Ulana Suprun wore the blouse in Union peers, according to World Bank data. WASHINGTON – The House of which her grandmother got married at the Stiff resistance by vested interests has Representatives overwhelmingly age of 17 before having to flee Ukraine dur- thwarted Dr. Surprun’s hopes of changing passed a bill expanding sanctions on ing World War II when she was appointed how health is financed. The Soviet-era Russia on July 25 by a vote of 419-3. as first deputy health minister of Ukraine approach still allocates funds based on the The Countering America’s Adversaries on July 22, 2016. of beds and hospital infrastructure Through Sanctions Act (HR 3364) The -area native and U.S.-trained instead of the number of patients treated. sanctions Iran, Russia and North radiologist took a selfie dressed in that The country’s Ministry of Health, according Korea for their dangerous and bellig- blouse with Prime Minister Volodymyr to experts at the civil society groups Center. erent actions that undermine the Groysman upon her appointment. She wore ua and the Reanimation Package of Reforms, has not been reformed since inde- United States and its allies. it again when she got appointed as acting minister of health on August 1, 2016, and pendence was re-established in 1991. The bill has an additional North again during Parliament’s first session in Dr. Suprun, who moved to Ukraine in Korea component that the original September of that year after summer break. 2013, soon discovered the pushback to Senate bill did not have, but it is “It was a proud moment that look, ‘your change when she first addressed Parliament expected to pass in the Senate with grandmother left Ukraine and now her during a weekly government question-and- the original bipartisan support. granddaughter came back’ …and she came answer session on September 9, 2016. The Senate had passed its version back as first deputy minister,” Dr. Suprun told “I walked into Parliament for the first Health Ministry of Ukraine of the sanctions bill by a vote of 98-2 The Ukrainian Weekly in her office on July 18. time as acting minister. This is cool, you back on June 15. Dr. Ulana Suprun in her grandmother’s Now acting health minister for nearly a embroidered blouse that she wore when know, we’re going to work with our bud- Both the Senate and House ver- year, the Ukrainian American has been dies in the legislature… and it was basically sions of the bill allow Congress to she was appointed as Ukraine’s acting accused of trying to commit “genocide” minister of health on August 1, 2016. an onslaught of questions and insults and block the administration from unilat- against the Ukrainian nation for her vision of screaming from Parliament,” Dr. Suprun erally lifting or scaling back sanctions overhauling a failing health care system that pro-presidential factions – by the Prosecutor recalled. “I was a little taken aback by this. imposed against Moscow. Both bolster the Group of Seven industrialized democra- General’s Office, the Security Service of Because it was the opening session by economic sanctions imposed on cies, the World Health Organization (WHO) Ukraine and Parliament’s Audit Chamber. Parliament. They first sang the national Russia after it annexed and and the World Bank have backed. A third, unprecedented parliamentary anthem… and then I couldn’t even hear invaded eastern Ukraine in 2014. Furthermore, her ministry has, over the audit was under way when The Ukrainian myself over the speakers, nothing.” The measure, as amended by the course of a year, faced corruption probes – Weekly interviewed the acting minister this The annual budget for Ukraine’s health- based on allegations from lawmakers month. It took place when key members of (Continued on page 12) opposed to her plans, including from the the derailed a vote for her (Continued on page 9) U.S. envoy cites “astonishing” number Envoy: U.S. considering of ceasefire violations in “hot war” sending arms to Ukraine Current Time TV by Christopher Miller RFE/RL PARIS – The new U.S. special envoy for efforts to end the conflict in eastern KYIV – The new U.S. special envoy for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, says Washington is Ukraine peace negotiations said he was considering sending Kyiv weapons to help stunned by the number of ceasefire viola- government forces defend themselves tions in the country’s war-torn east after against Russia-backed separatists. making his first visit to the region. Providing lethal defensive weapons Kurt Volker, who was recently appointed would allow Kyiv to “defend itself if Russia as Washington’s point man for talks on were to take further steps against Ukrainian ending the war between Kyiv’s forces and territory,” Ambassador Volker told Current Russia-backed separatists in eastern Time TV in an interview in Paris on July 25. Ukraine, made the comment in a July 23 “Russia says it won’t do that and isn’t interview after spending the day at the doing that, so then there should be no risk frontlines of the conflict. to anybody, if that’s the case,” said Mr. “The level of ceasefire violations on a daily Volker, who was appointed on July 7 and basis is astonishing,” Ambassador Volker told visited towns near the frontlines in eastern RFE/RL by telephone from a train bound for Ukraine on July 23. Kyiv, where he was set to hold talks with President Donald Trump’s administra- Ukrainian officials the following day. tion “is now reviewing where the Obama U.S. Embassy Kyiv Mr. Volker’s assessment came hours after Ambassador Kurt Volker, U.S. (left) special representative for Ukraine negotiations, administration left it, considering whether he told a news conference in , toured Avdiyivka and Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine on July 23. Accompanied by we should provide defensive arms to the headquarters of Kyiv’s military opera- U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch (far right), he received briefs from Ukraine or not,” he said. “So that’s the state tion against the separatists, that Ukraine is Ukrainian government and military officials in order to better understand the situa- of play.” tion on the ground. Ambassadors Volker and Yovanovitch also met with civil society (Continued on page 19) groups and victims of Russian aggression in Avdiyivka. 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Overview of the Russian maritime threat Russia, EU concerned about sanctions refusal to do so would be likely to trigger political backlash in Washington, given the PRAGUE – Russia and the European ongoing FBI and congressional investiga- to Ukraine: and Odesa at stake Union are both expressing concern about tions into Russia’s alleged meddling in the proposed new U.S. sanctions against 2016 election and contacts between Trump by Ihor Kabanenko naftogaz and has begun the illegal extrac- Moscow, focusing in particular on how they campaign associates and Russian officials. Eurasia Daily Monitor tion of Ukrainian natural gas (Interfax, July might affect joint energy projects. Russian But two senior U.S. senators said on July 23 28, 2016; Epravda.com.ua, April 28, 2017). President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman and that the legislation is likely to pass the The region has for centuries Since then, Moscow has also begun lay- EU officials spoke on July 24, a day after the Senate with enough support to override a played a key role in Russia’s southwestern ing gas pipelines from Russia to Crimea via White House said that President Donald policy. In the Russo-Turkish War (1768- the Strait and has launched the first Trump is open to new legislation that would possible presidential veto. (RFE/RL, with 1774), Russia took the opportunity to create stage of its so-called “Energy Bridge” to slap fresh sanctions on Russia and limit his reporting by RFE/RL correspondent Rikard naval forces in Crimea. And during subse- connect Crimea’s electricity grid with ability to ease or lift them by himself. The Jozwiak in Brussels, Reuters and TASS) quent wars with the Ottoman Empire, the Russia’s. In addition, 15 expensive mobile U.S. Senate and House of Representatives Trump accuses Ukraine of ‘sabotage’ Russian Empire moved into Bessarabia, the gas-turbine electricity stations were reached agreement on the legislation last Caucasus and the Balkans. In 1791, the Sea of installed. Despite these efforts, problems week, and the House passed it on July 25 by WASHINGTON – A tweet by U.S. President Azov became an internal Russian waterway, with water, gas and electricity still exist. a vote of 419-3. Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Donald Trump on July 25 accused Ukraine of and the Russian state then concentrated its Hence, the threat remains high that Russia Dmitry Peskov, said that Russia is “working trying to “sabotage” his campaign, without efforts on strengthening its position along may try to create a “land corridor to with our European partners on implement- offering any evidence. Ukraine’s Embassy the northwestern part of the Black Sea. Crimea” via southeastern Ukrainian territo- ing a number of large-scale projects,” when in Washington denied Mr. Trump’s allega- This important area connects with the ry (Krymr.com, March 18). asked about the possible impact of the new tions with a tweet of its own saying, “We Danube, Dnipro and South Buh rivers; over- A strategically located city that still U.S. sanctions on projects like Nord Stream stand by our words that the government of land and maritime routes to the Balkans; as stands in the way is Mariupol – a Ukrainian 2. “It goes without saying that we and our Ukraine didn’t help any candidate” in the well as shipbuilding facilities in Odesa and metallurgical industrial center on the Azov European partners attach great importance U.S. presidential election. The Ukrainian that city’s port-industrial-agricultural hub. coast. Importantly, Mariupol is a key point to finishing these projects and we will work Embassy also said “Ukraine is proud of Moreover, the northwestern Black Sea fea- between the Ukrainian-Russian border and towards this,” Mr. Peskov said in response to bipartisan support” in the United States. tures valuable natural resources and access the Dnipro River, which feeds into the a question about the potential effects of Ukraine’s permanent representative to the to the Crimean peninsula’s narrow land Northern Crimean Water Channel. And the sanctions on projects such as Nord Stream Council of Europe, Dmytro Kuleba, also connection with Ukraine proper. city is located just 200 kilometers from the 2, a pipeline that is to carry Russian gas responded on Twitter to the U.S. presi- After the end of the Soviet era, Russia Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, which had across the Baltic Sea to Europe. In Brussels, dent’s allegations. “Trump writes that we lost the Black Sea territories it had occu- supplied Crimea with electricity until 2014. European Commission spokesman interfered in the elections in the USA, while pied or annexed during the bloody wars of Russia’s 8th Guards Army was deployed Margaritis Schinas said the EU is “activating Putin says that we threaten Russia,” Mr. the 18th-20th centuries because all the for- near the Ukrainian border, not far from all diplomatic channels to address these Kuleba said. “There was a time when we mer Soviet republics, including Ukraine, Mariupol. The 8th Guards Army has not concerns [about] the U.S. measures with our were peaceful buckwheat sowers who kept became independent states. Russian naval only a combat component but also logistics U.S. counterparts.” He added, “For us, G-7 themselves to themselves.” (RFE/RL, with bases – in particular Sevastopol – survived support units and military hospitals (Zik. unity regarding sanctions is of key impor- reporting by Reuters, AP and AFP) in Crimea, but their status was not clear. In ua, June 23). All the while, the Moscow- tance, as... is respect of the implementation New round of talks held in 1997, the Partition Treaty on the Status backed forces of the “ People’s of the Minsk agreement.” Mr. Schinas told a and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet gave Republic” (DPR) are seeking Russian boats news conference, “So we in the European KYIV – A new round of talks aimed at Russian naval forces the opportunity to to strengthen the DPR’s “Azov Flotilla” Union will have interest in this discussion fostering implementation of a ceasefire and stay in Crimea up to 2017. In 2010, this (Svpressa.ru, May 5). and we expect these interests to be peace deal for the conflict in eastern agreement was prolonged to 2042 by the Near the occupied Odeske and addressed by the... legislative process which Ukraine was held in Minsk, , on July Holitsynske fields, located within Ukraine’s Kharkiv Pact. is ongoing in the U.S.” On July 23, White 19. The talks involved representatives of exclusive maritime economic zone, Russia The illegal Russian annexation of Crimea House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for has created a mobile anti-access, area denial opened the door to the implementation of Sanders said: “We support where the legis- Security and Cooperation in Europe (A2/AD) bubble. RBSF combat ships and the Kremlin’s aggressive ambitions directed lation is now and will continue working (OSCE), which are participants in the other assets operate there around the clock. in the southwesterly direction. The Russian with the House and Senate to put those Trilateral Contact Group (TCG). OSCE The 41st Missile Boat Brigade (12 missile Black Sea Fleet’s (RBSF) offensive capabili- tough sanctions in place on Russia until the Ambassador Martin Sajdik said that there corvettes with 68 cruise and anti-ship mis- ties have doubled since 2014. This fleet has situation in Ukraine is fully resolved.” The had been some progress in implementing siles on board) was subordinated to the so- been replenished by the introduction of bill would require President Trump to send aspects of the 2015 Minsk accords, which called Crimean Naval Base, located in new Krivak V-class frigates and Improved a report to Congress outlining why the called for a ceasefire and steps to resolve Donuzlav (northern part of Crimea, 35 kilo- Kilo-class submarines. In the coming years, administration wants to suspend or termi- the conflict. In particular, Mr. Sajdik cited meters north of ), enabling the Russia plans to increase the number of nate any sanctions against Russia. progress on prisoner exchanges between these platforms and acquire new Buyan-M- RBSF’s naval strike capabilities against gas Lawmakers would then have one month to class corvettes (Svpressa.ru, January 18). fields in the northwestern Black Sea. decide whether to allow such a move. His (Continued on page 12) New Bastion and Bal mobile coastal missile Considering the missile ranges on Russian corvettes, the Donuzlav base could threaten complexes have been deployed in Crimea. Ukraine’s most important industrial-agri- These seaborne and coastal-based systems cultural ports, including Odesa, Yuzhnyi, are equipped with Kalibr-NK cruise mis- Chornomorske, Mykolayiv and he krainian eekly FOUNDED 1933 siles, as well as Yakhont and Onyx anti-ship T U W (Uspa.gov.ua, Analytica, 2016). missiles (News-front.info, March 17). 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by Christopher Miller RFE/RL KYIV – One year to the day after was killed in a car-bomb blast in central Kyiv, dozens of reporters, civil soci- ety activists, friends and colleagues demanded to know who ordered the attack and why the investigation has stalled. On July 20, after lighting candles at a makeshift memorial at the busy intersection where Sheremet was killed, a group of more than 200 people marched to the president’s office and other government buildings. At each stop, the group demanded that authorities step up their commitment to investigating the case and release all infor- mation not already made public. They stood in a solemn column, displaying signs adorned with question marks. cpj.org At the headquarters of President Petro Pavel Sheremet in a photo posted on his In this photograph taken by Olena Prytula before she realized her partner, Pavel Sheremet, Poroshenko’s administration, the marchers Facebook page in November 2013. was in the explosion on July 20, 2016, firefighters douse the vehicle in a Kyiv street. were stopped by police about 100 meters from the front door but remained for sever- He said “there is no clear suspect or sus- sures to solve this crime as soon as possi- bringing those responsible to justice.” al minutes as some activists spray-painted pects” in the killing, and urged journalists ble,” President Poroshenko said after the “We continue to support media freedom “Who killed Pavel?” on the pavement. to share any new information they may killing, which he called “a terrible tragedy.” in Ukraine and the important role of inde- At the Internal Affairs Ministry and have with the authorities. But one year on, the investigation has pendent and free media,” the ambassadors National Police office, police in riot gear But he defended the investigation, saying: come up empty, and observers, including Ms. said. guarded the building’s perimeter but “We recognize that there might have been Prytula and Sheremet’s family members, A Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) allowed Ukrainian journalist-turned-law- some mistakes, but they were corrected.” accuse officials of incompetence, negligence, report authored by this RFE/RL correspon- maker Mustafa Nayyem to affix a sign read- Sheremet, a Belarusian-born Russian citi- sabotage – or a combination of all three. dent and presented on July 12 in Kyiv was crit- ing “Who killed Pavel?” to the doorway. zen who had made Kyiv his permanent home, Tanya Cooper, Ukraine researcher at ical of the Ukrainian investigation, which thus Moments later, Artem Shevchenko, chief was leaving the apartment he shared with his , tweeted: “1 year ago far has produced no suspects and no arrests, communications officer for the Internal partner, Olena Prytula, and driving to the stu- Pavel Sheremet was killed in car explosion has not clarified the motive of the killing, and Afairs Ministry, addressed the crowd. He said dio where he hosted a morning radio pro- in Kyiv but we still don’t know who did it has raised more questions than answers. that investigators had not given permission gram when an improvised explosive device #WhoKilledSheremet.” It found that no one figure has taken to reveal new information about the case. planted under the Subaru the couple shared In a statement posted on the U.S. charge of the case since the October 2016 “Everything that would not harm the exploded at 7:45 a.m. on July 20, 2016. Embassy website, ambassadors of the G-7 resignation of former national police chief investigation, the management of the The attack brought swift condemnation countries – the United States, Canada, Khatia Dekanoidze, who cited obstruction National Police already published at a large and pledges by Ukrainian officials of a thor- Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan – in her work as the cause for leaving. press conference on February 8,” Mr. ough investigation. stressed “the importance of continuing the Shevchenko said. “It is a matter of honor to take all mea- investigation” into Sheremet’s death “and (Continued on page 15)

NEWS ANALYSIS: The Russian-Ukrainian conflict could be escalating by Pavel Felgenhauer initiative “does not comply with the Minsk Ukraine. He is a true decision-maker Ukraine to move any closer, at any cost. “I Eurasia Daily Monitor process and could be treated as a discus- (together with Mr. Putin), unlike Mr. Grizlov believe this situation will end eventually, sion point as part of information warfare or any Russian members of Parliament. On and we are interested in it ending as soon On July 18, Alexander Zakharchenko, the and a reaction to provocative statements July 19, he was reported to have actually as possible,” continued Mr. Putin (Kremlin. Russia-backed leader of the self-proclaimed coming from Kyiv.” Some Russian members supported Mr. Zakharchenko at a meeting ru, July 8). and Moscow-supported “Donetsk People’s of Parliament supported Mr. Zakharchenko, with experts in the Kremlin. Mr. Surkov The fighting in the Donbas has been Republic” (DPR), declared that a new state – while others expressed doubts, insisting reportedly said, “All this hype about the fan- increasing after the Putin-Trump summit. “Malorossiya” or “Little Russia” – must be cre- the Malorossiya idea is “impractical and tasy Malorossiya state is good – it emphasiz- According to the Special Monitoring ated to replace the present Ukrainian “failed badly thought through.” Within the es that Donbas is fighting not to separate Mission of the Organization for Security state.” According to Mr. Zakharchenko, the Russian-controlled part of Donbas, differ- from Ukraine but for its territorial integrity, and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), there regime in Kyiv has failed, and the only way to ent pro-Russia separatist leaders also for all of Ukraine and not for a part. There is has been a 20 percent increase in ceasefire stop the conflict in Donbas and to maintain expressed misgivings about Malorossiya a civil war in Ukraine between forces that violations in the week after the G-20 sum- Ukrainian territorial unity is to reinvigorate (RIA Novosti, July 18). see its future differently: Kyiv wants a pro- mit (Militarynews.ru, July 18). According to the failed state as a federalized Malorossiya An opinion seems to have formed in the European utopia, Donbas replies with the official Ukrainian military sources, on July that will have two official languages – Russian Russian media that Mr. Zakharchenko is a idea of Malorossiya” (RIA Novosti, July 19). 19 alone, nine Ukrainian soldiers were and “Malorossiyan” (Ukrainian). crazy separatist, who does not really know Mr. Surkov’s spin of the Malorossiya idea killed and five more wounded in renewed This new country would then become what he is talking about and has embar- seems to be more than just a way to cover clashes along the eastern frontline. These part of a joint union state with Russia and rassed the Russian authorities by publicly up the embarrassment of a faulty move by losses seem to indicate a dramatic increase Belarus “while continuing to be indepen- undermining the Minsk II protocols, which Mr. Zakharchenko. It is in line with the in violence (Militarynews.ru, July 20). dent and sovereign.” All attempts to join the Russia officially supports (Kommersant, Kremlin’s longstanding strategic to take Meanwhile, the cost of keeping part of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) July 20). back all of Ukraine under Russian domina- the Donbas as a Russia-controlled enclave or the European Union would be repudiated Ukrainian observers insisted the tion as part of the so-called “Russkiy Mir” is growing for Moscow, as the fighting con- by the new Malorossiya government. The Malorossiya plan was a “provocation” (“Russian World”). In essence, Mr. tinues to simmer while its social and eco- capital of the new state would be Donetsk invented in the Kremlin – it was a way for Zakharchenko followed up with what the nomic infrastructure degrades. But the instead of Kyiv. Selected delegates from dif- Mr. Zakharchenko and the Russia-backed Kremlin has been seeking to obtain all along. Kremlin does not need a “frozen conflict” in ferent regions of Ukraine will be gathered to rebels in the Donbas to remind the West Speaking to reporters in Hamburg this Donbas with an ever-growing price tag, form a constitutional assembly to inaugu- about their existence and possibly instigate month, after meeting President Donald when the real goal is to take and “integrate” rate Malorossiya (RIA Novosti, July 18). some Western pressure on the Ukrainian Trump during the G-20 summit, Mr. Putin the entirety (or most) of Ukraine. The Malorossiya declaration by Mr. authorities to make concessions. Ukrainian once again insisted: “I am absolutely sure According to Mr. Putin, the true enemy is Zakharchenko was condemned in Kyiv and experts seem to believe the provocative the interests of Ukraine and Russia, of the the regime in Kyiv and its Western backers. in the West for undermining the Minsk II statement by Mr. Zakharchenko about a fic- Ukrainian and Russian people fully match, And it seems increasingly unlikely that roadmap (signed in February 2015) to peace titious Malorossiya cannot be a prelude to a but the interests of Ukrainian leaders and these enemies can be defeated by Russia in the Donbas. France and Germany called on serious escalation in the Donbas fighting, some political forces in Ukraine are differ- simply maintaining the status quo in east- Russia to condemn the Malorossiya project “since this would destroy the Russian dip- ent.” Mr. Putin accused the Ukrainian lead- ern Ukraine, instead of going all in to end as “unacceptable” and to concentrate on lomatic game of portraying Kyiv as the bad ership of deliberately trying to separate the “this situation as soon as possible,” to quote implementing the Minsk II protocols. guy that is failing to implement Minsk II” Ukrainian and Russian people and states, Mr. Putin (Kremlin.ru, July 8). The initial reaction in Moscow was (Segodnya.ua, July 18). which need and want to be together to mixed. The Russian representative in the The situation has turned out to be more jointly develop and build a future. Mr. Putin The article above is reprinted from Minsk Contact Group – Boris Grizlov, an complicated, however. President Vladimir accused Ukraine’s leaders of “trading in Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from old-time Kremlin insider from St. Putin’s aide Vladislav Surkov is the Kremlin’s Russophobia” to please the West, which its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, Petersburg – told reporters the Malorossiya point man on everything concerning appears intent not to allow Russia and www.jamestown.org. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 No. 31 New agreement to strengthen Ukraine-Canada research networks

Shevchenko Foundation – The Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko (Shevchenko Foundation) and Mitacs, a national not-for-profit research and train- ing organization, announced a new part- nership that will allow Ukrainian under- graduate students to participate in research internships at Canadian universi- ties for the first time. The agreement was signed on June 9 at the Bahen Center for Information Technology, University of Toronto, by Shevchenko Foundation President Andrew Hladyshevsky and Mitacs CEO and Scientific Director Alejandro Adem. From June to September each year, top- ranked Ukraine students will participate in a 12-week research internship under the supervision of Canadian university faculty. Students are provided with professional skills training and gain valuable knowledge about Canadian industry and innovation. Interns interested in returning to Canada for graduate studies will be eligible for a Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship. Mitacs Globalink Research Internships are currently available at over 60 universi- ties across Canada. A generous donor will sponsor 10 stu- dents from Ukraine for the program in its Paul Hillier inaugural year. Participants at the signing of the Mitacs-Shevchenko Foundation partnership agreement at the University of Toronto. “By formalizing this partnership between Canada and Ukraine, we are range of Canadian research opportunities,” The Future Leaders Fund will comple- participate in prestigious post-secondary encouraging the exchange of research said Mr. Adem. ment the educational activities of the research projects. The new program dove- knowledge and innovation between our The Mitacs partnership is one compo- Shevchenko Foundation, which include tails with our recent ‘Shevchenko two countries. The agreement with the nent of the newly established Shevchenko raising awareness in Canada of the Foundation Youth Initiative’ to further Shevchenko Foundation will provide new Foundation Future Leaders Fund, a broad- Ukrainian heritage through traditional and strengthen our record of providing scholar- opportunities for Canadian faculty and uni- er initiative designed to identify and foster non-traditional educational programming ships to students of Ukrainian Canadian versities to benefit from students’ interna- new generations of young scholars who at all educational levels, funding the ancestry for attendance at post-secondary tional perspectives, while demonstrating a will become the leaders of tomorrow. advancement of Ukrainian Canadian stud- institutions in Canada. We have also ies and promoting Ukrainian studies in enhanced funding for Canadians studying educational institutions across Canada. in Ukraine by providing subsidies for The Shevchenko Foundation is a leader in enrollment at post-secondary institutions. advancing the Ukrainian community across With a focus on strengthening their linguis- Canada and through its partnership with tic, historical, and cultural knowledge of the community inspires the arts, education, Ukraine, students can enrich Canada upon heritage and community development. Over their return home.” 54 years, the Shevchenko Foundation has He added: “Further, our recent agree- awarded $11.5 million to projects within the ment with the Ukrainian Canadian Ukrainian community and beyond with the Students’ Union (SUSK), which represents goal of enriching a lasting cultural legacy for university student clubs across Canada, future generations. will establish a permanent endowment to Mitacs is a national, not-for-profit orga- assist in promoting programs. This will nization that has designed and delivered provide learning and mentoring opportuni- research and training programs in Canada ties to produce the next generation of lead- for 17 years. Working with 60 universities, ers – not only within the Ukrainian thousands of companies, and both federal Canadian community, but in the broader and provincial governments, Mitacs builds Canadian society. Today’s ceremony under- partnerships that support industrial and scores and advances the vision of the foun- social innovation in Canada. dation’s Youth Initiative.” Mr. Hladyshevsky of the Shevchenko For information about the Shevchenko Foundation noted: “We are pleased to sign Foundation, see www.shevchenkofounda- Alejandro Adem, Mitacs CEO and scientific director, and Andrew Hladyshevsky, this agreement with Mitacs because it will tion.com. For information about Mitacs and president of the Shevchenko Foundation, signing a partnership agreement. allow university students from Ukraine to its programs, see mitacs.ca/newsroom.

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Students of the National University of Ostroh Academy who received grants for stud- ies from the Ukrainian National Foundation. PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Ukrainian Ms. Klymchuk added, “…illness had taken National Foundation, an affiliated company away from me the opportunity to live a full of the Ukrainian National Association that life… Your charitable assistance to those who performs charitable activities, continuously yearn for an education, but are not always provides grants enabling less fortunate stu- able, due to force of circumstances, to achieve Lily Rose Plunkett, daughter of dents in Ukraine – those who come from that, allows them to fulfill their dreams.” Catherine Shatynski Plunkett and John needy families, are orphaned, or have been Similar thank-you letters were received Plunkett, and great-granddaughter of the Evelyn Ember Denysyk, daughter of displaced by the war in Ukraine’s east – to also from 15 students who hail from Rivne late John J. Shatynski, is a new member Ruslan and Kristin Denysyk of Morris pursue university studies at the National Oblast; six from Khmelnytsky Oblast; and of UNA Branch 142 in Colonia, N.J. Lily Plains, N.J., is a new member of UNA University of Ostroh Academy. A total of one each from the Volyn, Lviv, Ternopil and was enrolled by her great-grandmother Branch 37. She was enrolled by her $20,000 was donated in 2016 for this pur- Zhytomyr oblasts. Olga Shatynski née Dobriansky. grandparents Nusia and Oleh Denysyk. pose to Ostroh Academy. The rector of the National University of One of the students who received such Ostroh Academy, Prof. Ihor Pasichnyk, noted assistance from the U.S.-based foundation that, thanks to UNF funding, students were was Olha Klymchuk of Ostroh, Rivne Oblast, able to enroll in courses on English lan- Do you have a young UNA’er, who is studying toward a bachelor’s degree guage, Ukrainian history, Ukrainian lan- in psychology. guage and literature, and geography. or potential young UNA’er The third-year student recently Prof. Pasichnyk wrote to the UNF: “… expressed her thanks in a letter she sent to thank you for your philanthropy, which ben- the UNF’s president, Stefan Kaczaraj. efits Ukrainian education, as well as less for- in your family? “I, along with my parents, express sincere tunate students. I wish all the board mem- thanks to you for the assistance given me, an bers of the Ukrainian National Foundation Call the UNA Home Office, 973-292-9800, invalid since childhood, to enable me to fulfill good health and much success in all your to find out how to enroll. my most heartfelt dream: to receive an edu- endeavors, as well as God’s blessings upon cation in my chosen specialty,” she wrote. your work.” 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 No. 31

WINDOW ON EURASIA The Ukrainian Weekly Putin: Non-Russians must learn Russian, Soyuzivka’s Sonia Tuesday, July 25, marked the 40th day since the passing into eternity of Sonia but Russians needn’t learn their languages Semanyszyn, a loyal employee of Soyuzivka since late 1988, who was a familiar on Inter-Ethnic Issues on July 20 in the and friendly face to countless visitors at this Ukrainian heritage center in by Paul Goble Mari El capital of Ioshkar-Ola, Mr. Putin Kerhonkson, N.Y. It’s not often that this editorial space is used for a reflection on “All animals are equal, but some animals made three pronouncements on ethnic someone’s passing. But, like Soyuzivka, Sonia herself was an institution. are more equal than others,” George Orwell relations: the first on the difference in sta- Sonia (her given name was Sofia) served in various capacities during nearly 30 wrote in “Animal Farm.” Now, Vladimir tus between Russian and non-Russian lan- years at Soyuzivka, from office manager to, most recently, billing and accounting Putin has applied this to Russia by saying guages, the second on ethno-tourism and manager, working under managers John A. Flis and Nestor Paslawsky, and with that all non-Russians must learn Russian, the third on who should be running nation- colleagues such as John Kocur, Sheila Zahajkewycz, Stefko Drabyk, Andrey but that no ethnic Russian must be com- ality policy (business-gazeta.ru/arti- Sonevytsky, Marianka Hawryluk… They and many others constituted Sonia’s pelled to learn a republic language even if cle/352146). Soyuzivka family. he or she lives in a non-Russian republic. First of all, Mr. Putin told the group that Many who came to Soyuzivka for the 11th annual Ukrainian Cultural Festival Such comments are music to the ears of “the for us is the state just two weekends ago remembered Sonia, noting that it just wasn’t the same Russian nationalists, but this asymmetric language, the language of inter-ethnic com- without her… Several even caught themselves reflexively saying things like “I’ll approach is highly offensive to many non- munication, and it cannot be replaced by have to ask Sonia” or “Sonia will take care of it.” Russians, who are quite prepared to learn anything else. It is the natural spiritual skel- For us at the Ukrainian National Association’s two newspapers, The Ukrainian Russian but who believe that those who eton of all our multi-national country. Weekly and Svoboda, Sonia was someone we could always count on, whether that live among them on the territories where Everyone must know it… The languages of was for information about the annual Miss Soyuzivka weekend or the latest news they are the titular nationality should learn the peoples of Russia are also an inalien- from Soyuzivka. When Sonia said she would find what we needed, she always their languages as well. able aspect of the unique culture of the delivered. We were grateful to count her among our colleagues and friends. By coming down in this way, the Kremlin peoples of Russia.” Those who were lucky enough to get to know Sonia remember a kind person leader has guaranteed that the divide But their status is very different, the who was always willing and able to help out anyone who needed assistance – between Russians and non-Russians in the president continued. Not only are they not guests and employees of Soyuzivka, especially those who had arrived from Ukraine, republics will deepen, that nationalist pas- part of the state as Russian is, but they are and members of the local community. She was actively involved in her parish and in sions on both sides will intensify, and that the languages only of the peoples who bear the local branch of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America. more conflicts will arise as both sides see them. Studying them is “a right guaranteed That’s why some 300 people – family, friends, colleagues and Soyuzivka regu- this move as another step to the liquidation by the Constitution,” but it is “a voluntary lars – came to the local funeral home in Kerhonkson on Sunday evening, June 25, of the non-Russian republics and what’s right,” not an obligatory one, Mr. Putin for the panakhyda (memorial service). A couple hundred were there the next day left of Russian federalism. for the funeral liturgy at Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church, just down the hill At a session of the Presidential Council (Continued on page 17) from Soyuzivka, and interment at the nearby cemetery, the final resting place for many local Ukrainians. The “tryzna” (memorial repast) held afterwards in Soyuzivka’s dining room was nothing less than an outpouring of love for Sonia, who left this earth much too early at the age of 60. A fund in Sonia’s memory has been established by the Ukrainian National For the second time in Russian history, Foundation, the owner of Soyuzivka Heritage Center, and a memorial garden featur- ing a pergola, benches and her beloved sunflowers is to be established at Soyuzivka. “the fish is rotting from the head” It is evident that Soyuzivka’s Sonia is missed by many. Her colleagues cite a void at Soyuzivka, and her photo graces the back office in the Main House that was her by Paul Goble There are certainly data that support domain. Rest in peace, dearest Sonia. this argument that the problem has spread “A fish begins to rot from the head,” from a Kremlin leader to Russian society, Russians say, “and society descends into including recent polls showing that insanity following its dictator. His personal Russians rank Stalin number one as a lead- paranoia becomes that of society, and pro- er of all times and places, and that nearly paganda infects the entire country with it,” half of them think that without his harsh July Turning the pages back... Igor Eidman says. “Thus it was in Stalin’s policies order couldn’t have been preserved USSR; such it has occurred in Putin’s Russia (fedpress.ru/news/77/society/1814748). Thirty years ago, on July 30, 1987, the Soviet government as well.” Other evidence for this view comes from 30 accused United States diplomats of inciting demonstrations by There is only one principal difference, a new Levada Center survey which found calling for the return of their homeland. the Russian commentator for Deutsche that a third of Russians want their president 1987 In Washington, the State Department responded by stating Welle says. “Stalin’s paranoia was directed to be even more harsh toward the popula- that such accusations were “absurd.” inside the country. He was pathologically tion and the West than Mr. Putin has been Some 500 Crimean Tatars – mostly young people – called for the afraid of conspiracies, didn’t trust even his up to now, with only one in eight favoring restoration of their ancestral homeland during a 24-hour protest near Red Square that began closest entourage and sought to destroy all any kind of liberalization (vedomosti.ru/ on July 25, and which unexpectedly had drawn no police retaliation. The protest culminated he suspected of disloyalty” (facebook.com/ politics/articles/2017/07/05/709429- in a meeting on July 27 with Soviet President Andrei Gromyko to discuss their demands. permalink.php?story_fbid=154026913270 uzhestocheniya-vnutrennei-politiki). One of the demonstrators’ demands was to meet with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. 2727&id=100001589654713). But some experts, like Denis Volkov of Mr. Gromyko reportedly outlined the composition of a top-level commission to investi- Mr. Putin’s paranoia, in contrast, is the Levada Center, say that “it is impossible gate their cause and requested that all 21 members of the delegation explain their com- “directed abroad.” He believes that the West to say just what [Russians] understand” by plaints. The Tatar delegation expressed dissatisfaction that the authorities had offered no and, “above all, the U.S., wants to overthrow such statements or whether they are in any immediate concrete solutions. and destroy him.” Indeed, he appears to way prepared to have such harsh measures Mr. Gromyko told the delegation that the commission needed an atmosphere of calm to view himself as a Russian bear “that the apply to themselves as opposed to individ- study their problem and cautioned them that attempts to put pressure on the authorities West and the U.S. ‘never will leave in peace,’ ” uals and groups that the state has identified would not be in their best interest. but will always try to seek out and destroy. as enemies. As a result, “Putin views any world The TASS news agency said the Crimean Tatars’ problem would have to be resolved in And still others, like commentator Sergey event, be it the revolution in Ukraine or the the interests of all the peoples of the USSR, particularly the Ukrainians and Russians who Rakhmanin, argue that those who see the elections in France, through the prism of have moved into areas where the Tatars lived. Official statements by the authorities in late problem emanating from Mr. Putin and this paranoid fear”; and his propaganda July of that year indicated that the return of the pre-war Autonomous Tatar Republic was spreading downward have gotten things machine spreads this “xenophobic hysteria out of the question. exactly backward. Instead, he says, the pop- and hatred” through the population. “Thus, ulation has in Mr. Putin exactly the kind of Soviet authorities had moved to suppress the Tatars’ public protests and, according to for the second time, the illness of one man Crimean Tatar sources, police swept through Moscow, warning non-residents to leave and leader it wants (glavred.info/politika/effekt- has become the source of an epidemic of putina-zhurnalist-obyasnil-beshenuyu-pop- reminding them that the demonstration planned for July 30 would not be permitted. mass psychosis,” Mr. Eidman comments. The New York Times reported that this signaled a hardening in the official attitude by ulyarnost-prezidenta-rossii-444860.html). the Soviets toward several hundred Crimean Tatars who had held several demonstrations In his view, the commentator says, “ ‘the in Moscow at the time. “The Crimean Tatars’ activities here have presented the govern- Paul Goble is a long-time specialist on Putin effect’ is based on the fact that he is a ment with a delicate test as it attempts to cope with rising nationalist sentiment among ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia politician of a type which most completely many minorities and seeks to set new boundaries for dissent under Mikhail S. who has served in various capacities in the corresponds to the mental, political and Gorbachev’s policy of openness,” wrote Philip Taubman of The New York Times. U.S. State Department, the Central psychological needs of Russians, to their The USSR’s Foreign Affairs Ministry charged that the U.S. Embassy was guilty of Intelligence Agency and the International views of the world, their tastes, their so- improper conduct, accusing a senior political officer of fomenting the Tatar protests. The Broadcasting Bureau, as well as at the Voice called ‘mission of Russia,’ and also corre- state news agency TASS reported that the diplomat, identified as Shaun M. Byrnes, had of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio sponds to their prejudices, myths, phobias incited “Soviet citizens to commit illegal actions.” U.S. Embassy spokesperson Jaroslav Liberty and the Carnegie Endowment for and expectations.” Verner denied the charges of improper diplomatic conduct. International Peace. The article above is In short, “Russia is the way it is not reprinted with permission from his blog because Putin is president… but because Sources: “Crimean Tatars demand rights” and “USSR says U.S. incites Crimean Tatars,” The called “Window on Eurasia” (http://windo- the current generation of Russians needs Ukrainian Weekly, August 1 and 9, 1987. woneurasia2.blogspot.com/). precisely such a leader.” No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 7 IN THE PRESS: NATO membership, PERSPECTIVES assassinations, political warfare “Will Ukraine join NATO? A course for The Ukrainian authorities have been pow- by Andrew Fedynsky disappointment,” by Steven Pifer, erless to stop the trend. And that might just Brookings Institution July 25 (https:// be the point. www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-cha- It is this weakness that the perpetrators os/2017/07/25/will-ukraine-join-nato-a- of the killings – all are almost certainly course-for-disappointment/?utm_ done by or linked to agents of the Russian Summer jobs campaign=Brookings%20Brief&utm_ government – hope to highlight. … source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm It was the worst job I ever had. And it to Melbourne in 1956 and Rome in 1960, _content=54625936): “Here’s how to fight back against paid well. I was a “test carrier” at J&L Steel where he won gold medals in Olympic Russian political warfare,” by Alexander Co. Our next door neighbor was a union weightlifting. Following the visit to Kyiv by NATO Vershbow, Atlantic Council, June 21 shop steward, and he arranged for me to Me? I was the wise-guy college graduate, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg earlier (http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ be hired. I already had a job lined up in an opposed to the Vietnam War and letting this month, President new-atlanticist/here-s-how-to-fight-back- inner-city high school in September, but I my co-workers know. They, for the most said Ukraine would seek to meet the alli- against-russian-political-warfare): welcomed the opportunity to make good part, were patriotic Americans who didn’t ance’s membership criteria by 2020. … money over the summer. So, I got my hard question our leaders and invariably had Ukraine today is involved in an unde- Three and a half years ago, Russia ille- hat and safety shoes, and showed up for family members serving in the military. clared, low-intensity conflict with Russia in gally annexed Crimea and launched its work a week or two after I had graduated One of them opened my eyes. the Donbas. That is not a conflict of Kyiv’s campaign to destabilize eastern Ukraine. … from college in May 1969. “Do you know why we’re running low- choosing, but one forced upon it by Russia has also engaged in political Those who grew up in America’s indus- grade steel and why you’re not carrying Moscow. The Kremlin has organized, led, aggression against our societies, using trial sector will recognize the massive steel disks to the lab for testing?” he asked. funded, armed and otherwise supported – cyberattacks, disinformation, propaganda, coils that are bent into refrigerators, ovens, “Because we’re cutting the sheets into cas- in some cases with regular units of the and influence operations (what the Soviets car hoods, roofs and doors and other appli- ings for bombs to be dropped on Vietnam Russian army – violent separatism in called “active measures”) to affect the out- cations. Just a stone’s throw from the and Laos.” Donetsk and Luhansk of a kind that Russia come of elections and to undermine confi- Cuyahoga River and walking distance to Oh... itself would never tolerate … dence in our democratic institutions. the Ukrainian neighborhood, I felt the heat At that time, my cousin Lydia Wolczuk Even if the Donbas conflict were settled, … Russia …wants to turn back the clock from the blast and heard the roar of molten Holian, a leader in Cleveland’s there would remain the issue of Crimea to a time when Russia dominated neigh- steel being poured into huge ladles, the Ukrainian Scouting Organization, told me and its illegal seizure, occupation and boring countries through force and coer- soup then sent to another corner of the they were looking for a head counselor annexation by Russia. cion. Using cyberattacks, disinformation, plant to be rolled into coils and from there (“komandant”) for cub scouts at Pysanyi Until the simmering conflict in the economic warfare and “active measures,” it to the 56-inch shear, a big automated knife Kamin (which translates as Painted Rock Donbas and frozen conflict in Crimea are aims to weaken and divide NATO and the that every few seconds chopped the rolls and is known as PK), a summer camp an resolved, Ukraine has little prospect of European Union (EU), which it sees as the into 10- to 11-foot segments as they hour outside of Cleveland. membership. Bringing Ukraine in with the main obstacles to its expanded power in ongoing disputes would mean that NATO Europe, and to reduce their attractiveness unspooled treadmill-style, dropping the “I know it’s short notice, but could you would face an Article 5 contingency against to other European nations. … sheets to a cradle to be loaded onto a truck, take this on?” Russia on day one of Kyiv’s membership. … Our strategy for meeting the Russian which took them to whatever factory need- I was 21, had wonderful experiences …the Ukrainian government needs to challenge must begin with, but go beyond, ed them. It was quite impressive and with Plast and felt I needed to give back. manage expectations, not fan them. Setting bolstering our defense and deterrence required an army of workers, including a And so I agreed, swapping a nice income at membership as a goal with a fixed near- against potential Russian military threats. number of fellow Ukrainians. a lousy job for three weeks of summer term date sets a target that will not be met. We also need to support Russia’s neighbors My job was to cut a disk into the front, breeze, clean air, open fields, forested …Kyiv should continue to deepen its coop- in their efforts to build strong, resilient middle and back of each roll, and carry it to woods, campfires, songs and mentoring eration with NATO and incorporate the societies and defend their sovereignty. … the metallurgical lab that tested the prod- 40-some kids age 7-11. It was wonderful. reforms that it would undertake in a mem- Multilaterally, we should urge our NATO uct for quality. The camp paid me $150 for the three bership action plan in its annual action allies to support a bigger alliance role in So why was this such a bad job – the weeks – less than what I made in a week at plans with the alliance. …instead of press- countering influence operations, disinfor- worst I ever had? Well first, I was working the steel mill. I donated the money to PK. It ing NATO for an early membership signal, mation and “active measures” by Russia. … “swing shift”: from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m the first was a great investment: taken together, my the Ukrainian government should urge that defending our societies is just as important week; week two was 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.; wife, our children and I have been there a the alliance maintain its open door policy. as defending our borders. Collaboration week three was 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. the fol- thousand times over the past 50 years. Kyiv cannot get in now. It wants to ensure, between NATO and the EU would make lowing morning. Week four, you were back Summer jobs are a rite of passage for however, that “not now” does not become sense – in countering propaganda and dis- to 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and your body clock was young people. In the late 1960s, I worked “never.” … information, in sharing intelligence about wrecked. I couldn’t fall asleep when I want- in two smelly, dirty factories: Alloys and cyber and other asymmetric threats, and in ed to; I couldn’t stay awake when I needed Chemicals for two summers and J&L Steel. “Flurry of Kiev [sic] assassinations a conducting joint exercises to ensure that to. But I was cashing generous checks. Only Today, those kinds of summer jobs no lon- new Russian front in Ukraine,” by “little green men” are not able to do to our the job was even worse. ger exist. Machines have whittled thou- Hannah Thoburn, Hudson Institute, July countries what they did to Ukraine. It was 1969 and I was starting my sands of jobs down to a few hundred. 11 (https://www.hudson.org/research/ career as a teacher back when factories But summer camps at Plast and the 13757-flurry-of-kiev-assassinations-a- “The free world is still worth fighting hiring summer help like me to fill in for Ukrainian American Youth Association still new-russian-front-in-ukraine): for,” by Daniel Fried, The Washington workers taking their vacations paid better hire counselors, and the air is still fresh and Post, June 14 (https://www.washington- wages than the Cleveland Public School clean. At Soyuzivka in the Shawangunks, … Since July 2016, when the Belarusian- post.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/ System. It was understood that college kids where I’ve been dozens of times, and other turned-Ukrainian investigative journalist 06/14/the-free-world-is-still-worth-fight- hired for a few months would move on venues, I always see young people working. Pavel Sheremet was killed by a car bomb ing-for/?tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.324c0a when the permanent workforce came back At the Ukrainian Museum-Archives in detonated in the middle of a Kyiv street, … 6349c5): Big problem: On Monday, I’d punch the Cleveland, where I volunteer, the Nicholas two Ukrainian army colonels have been timeclock and see what grade steel would Suprenenko bequest, which he left for the killed by car bombs and two pro-Ukrainian …The free world order is now chal- be running that week. Below a certain education of young people interested in Russian nationals targeted for assassination. lenged by a new nationalism, which rejects quality, there was no need to test. Week Ukraine, allows us to hire summer interns On June 27, Maksym Shapoval died when a on principle an open, rules-based world; after week, the company was running low- to catalogue, prepare exhibits and events, bomb placed in his car exploded in Kyiv. His prefers zero-sum bilateral relations; and quality steel. So there I was: showing up for mow the lawn and enjoy the ambiance of colleague Lieutenant Colonel Oleksander loathes transnational solidarity and cosmo- Kharaberiush perished similarly in March politan values. The nationalist idea has an eight-hour shift with nothing to do – but the old Ukrainian neighborhood in 2017 in the southeastern city of Mariupol. power and many powerful friends in still making big bucks. Tremont. Every summer for more than 10 Both men worked in military intelligence. Moscow, Europe and even Washington. … So I brought a book to read. The foreman years now, we’ve sponsored five to 10 March 2017 also saw the assassination What then must we, who believe in the rebuked me: No reading on the job! What interns. of Denis Voronenkov, a former Russian law- free world, do? In the short run, we must job? For the next couple weeks, I skulked Me? I didn’t make as much money the maker who had absconded to Kyiv and was turn back Russia aggression. We must help around the vast plant with my books, hiding summer of 1969 as I had expected, but helping Ukrainian authorities to prepare the Ukrainians defend themselves, main- in remote corners amidst the noise, soot what I gained at PK is paying dividends to their case against former Ukrainian taining and possibly intensifying sanctions and heat, hoping not to be caught. this day. How? Times change and Ukraine – President Viktor Yanukovych. He was shot while pushing for a settlement that restores I also engaged with my co-workers: guys like America – is still a work in progress. down in central Kyiv despite having a body- Ukraine to the Ukrainians. And we must who looked to spend their working lives in There will always be the need for new tal- guard at his side. work through NATO and the European the mills and then retire in their 50s with a ent, which is why we have to engage young …The murders are rather an offshoot of Union to resist Russian leverage, both mili- comfortable pension and go hunting, fish- people in summer activities – paid and the ongoing war between Russia and tary and energy, and to expose Russian pro- ing, vacationing with their wives or pursu- unpaid. It’s a gateway to meaningful Ukraine in the eastern Donbas region of paganda, dirty money and election interfer- ing an avocation. I remember Chuck Vinci, careers and purposeful lives. Ukraine. The war has increasingly left its ence. … who operated a crane high above the plant cozy confines 350 miles away and is slowly floor, moving coils from the rolling mill to Andrew Fedynsky’s e-mail address is creeping into the calm streets of the capital. 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“It’s a huge a huge civilizational step,” Under her purview, the committee stub- price barrier at which they must use the Patients lose... Deputy Health Minister Oleksandr bornly decided to vote on each of the 800 new electronic ProZorro system for pur- Linchevskyy told The Ukrainian Weekly with amendments individually and only got chasing medicine and equipment or for (Continued from page 1) Dr. Suprun. Previously, “We had only created through about 50. Then, the committee other purchases. care system swallows up 7.6 percent of Potemkin Villages,” he explained, while now, decided to vote for them in packages while Dr. Todurov, the reputable heart surgeon gross domestic product, her deputy Pavlo “We change relations between members of Dr. Bohomolets was absent, and Mr. Musiy who heads the state-owned Heart Institute Kovtonyuk told The Ukrainian Weekly in the society. We say that life and health have the left when he realized that there was politi- in Kyiv, has been a main critic of the inter- same interview. About half comes from out- biggest value. We began to calculate the cal will for a quorum on the committee. national procurement system. of-pocket expenses in a system that consti- value of existential life.” Once Dr. Suprun had secured a positive Ms. Ustinova, Dr. Suprun and others have final assessment to send the legislation to accused him of abusing the system to make tutionally is supposed to ensure free treat- Sabotage ment to every citizen. Dr. Suprun says that Parliament’s legal department on July 12, payments for medicine at the highest legal 136,000 Ukrainians die yearly – lives a nor- It was Opposition Bloc National Deputy the chairwoman was nowhere to be found possible cost while he could have pur- mally functioning medical system would Tetyana Bakhteyeva, a member of the for the crucial signature, although her vot- chased items at a cheaper price, as seen save. Indeed, with 15.6 deaths per 1,000 Health Care Committee, who first invoked ing card was registered in the legislature. when compared to similar or identical pur- people, Ukraine last year had the third high- “genocide.” “She [Dr. Bohomolets] hid from every- chases other hospitals have made. est death rate in the world after South Africa She told journalists on June 8 and after- body and refused to sign it,” Dr. Suprun In a phone conversation with The and Russia, according to the WHO. wards, when the first of two readings of the said. Ukrainian Weekly, Dr. Todurov said he It’s also a system rife with rent-seeking health bill was voted on, that Parliament The chairwoman eventually ended up in wouldn’t have his job if he had broken the schemes that drains millions of hryvni from passed it “on its knees.” an elite state-run hospital for lawmakers law. “Law enforcement should react to alle- the state budget, according to Oleksandra As a lawmaker in the disgraced ex-Presi- that same day, after apparently losing con- gations [of wrongdoing], otherwise I Ustinova, a board member of the Anti- dent Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions, sciousness in the building, according to wouldn’t have my position,” he said. Corruption Action Center in Kyiv. Ms. Bakhteyeva headed the vital committee numerous accounts by her colleagues, Head doctors like Dr. Todurov are also Dr. Suprun’s journey to alter the status in 2007-2012. including National Deputy Hanna Hopko, accused of clientilism. quo with billions of hryvni and millions of Thus, the second and final vote never who confirmed the episode to The Since individual licensing is absent in the lives at stake highlights the daunting task took place because key national deputies Ukrainian Weekly. legal milieu of Ukraine for professionals like some reformers in Ukraine encounter. on the almighty Health Care Committee “That was abysmal for her [Dr. lawyers and doctors, and licenses are given “sabotaged” it, said Ms. Ustinova of the Bohomolets] to do that, but then again, only to clinics, the head doctors preside over Building coalitions Anti-Corruption Action Center. there is no abyss in Ukrainian politics,” Dr. miniature fiefdoms, Ms. Ustinova and Dr. To counter the resistance, she built coali- During the Rada’s last session on July Yabchanka said, adding that the absent law- Yabchanka, as well as the health minister, tions with key stakeholders in and outside 11-13 before its break, committee maker was still voting on bills based on the said in previous public statements. Ukraine that were publicized on social Chairwoman Olha Boholomets of the Petro legislature’s computer system. Patients are beholden to the local hospi- media. International organizations, local Poroshenko Bloc and Vice-Chair Oleh Instead, committee Vice-Chair Oksana tal where their domicile is registered, and patient advocacy groups and even Musiy were fundamental in ensuring the Korchynska signed the final assessment for doctors must provide kickbacks up the lad- renowned Ukrainian physicians like bill didn’t get to a vote, alleged Dr. Suprun, transfer to the legal department. der for the services they provide to Kharkiv-based pediatrician Yevhen Dr. Yabchanka and Ms. Ustinova. “The legal department took its time. patients, who should treated free of charge. Komarovsky backed the plan. By then the bill had been further diluted Parliament, meanwhile, voted for the bud- Since there is no legal requirement for It centers on changing how health care is with more than 800 amendments made by get, the pension law, for some metallurgy medical students to reach a mandatory financed – and, with it, how patients are the working group attached to the commit- law, then for prosecutorial immunity of a minimum score on their university exams, treated. tee. Also taken out were the international lawmaker,” Dr. Suprun said. corruption flourishes in education as well. University heads prefer to have subpar stu- The main principle is to have money fol- protocols that were supposed to ensure The acting minister successfully pressed dents who pay for grades, exams and, even- low the patient through a newly created treatment guidelines, as well as other mod- for an extension for the Verkhovna Rada to tually, diplomas, said Dr. Linchevskyy, National Health System like in the United ern practices. The hope was that some key work until 8 p.m. another deputy at the Health Ministry. Kingdom. Patients would be allowed to measures could have been reversed once At 7:30 p.m., the legal department finally Medical universities and departments choose which doctor at which hospital they the bill got to Parliament and lawmakers brought three bills into Parliament: on are motivated to have “more students, want to treat them. In turn, the newly creat- would have been able to vote for packages health, education and cybersecurity. None [then] more staff and more money from the ed body would conclude contracts with of amendments for inclusion. got a majority to put it to a vote and budget regardless of the quality and real hospitals for services based on “interna- National Deputy Boholomets, a derma- Parliament went on summer break. need,” the deputy health minister said. tional protocols” of clinical guidelines that tologist, did not answer four phone calls Meanwhile, during the last plenary week “They don’t care about the quality of stu- must be followed for primary care. seeking comment for this article. For years before break, the Health Ministry and dent. If the student doesn’t pass an exam or “Right now, the current system treats she headed the Health Care Committee on Parliament were picketed by independent has poor grades, they pay, they pay for medical problems, not patients,” Oleksandr Kyiv’s City Council. According to Ms. medical labor unions from across the coun- absence, and they pay for re-taking exams. Yabchanka, a pediatrician who is a medical Ustinova, her clinic leases property for her try that opposed the bill. The universities are interested in bad stu- private clinic downtown at “two to three expert for the Reanimation Package of Ms. Ustinova said the protest was staged dents because they pay.” times” below the market rate. Reforms, told The Ukrainian Weekly by and planned well in advance because it Dr. Linchevskyy added that only 3 per- National Deputy Musiy said by phone phone. involved doctors, hospital administrators cent of second-year medical intern stu- that that the acting minister’s vision only The acting minister’s vision is to have and other stakeholders from across the dents who took the internationally recog- “changes financing” and has no “relation to palliative, emergency and primary care ser- country “who had to be bused in and used nized United States Medical Licensing health care.” vices paid for by the state. According to expensive equipment for sound, the stage Examination over the past year passed. He research, these account for about 80 per- He admitted that the overall vision is and a podium.” also said surveys showed that less than 1 cent of all patient referrals to clinics. based on his strategy when he was health She posted videos on her social media percent of Ukrainian physicians speak Co-payment would be introduced for other minister following the Maidan Revolution page showing certain protesters being paid English, meaning they can’t read medical care, whereas plastic and cosmetic surgery in February 2014 – something that Ms. to be there and some who couldn’t answer journals that account for about 80 percent would be totally out of pocket. Ustinova and Dr. Yabchanka accuse of him basic questions about the purpose of the of research and advancements in their field. Those who can’t afford co-payment of opposing now because he won’t get the picket or details about the health bill. Almost as soon as Dr. Suprun was would be subsidized by private insurance, “political benefit.” Mr. Ustinova accused Dr. Todurov – a appointed, the head doctors of clinics start- local budgets, as well as the mandatory A political leftover from self-exiled for- critic of health reforms and the head of the ed to criticize the procurement system with social medicine insurance program. mer President Viktor Yanukovych’s presi- Heart Institute in Kyiv – of helping organize international groups. Dr. Todurov was one dency, Mr. Musiy had headed the public First of two readings for bill the picket and sending employees subordi- of them. advisory council within the Health Ministry nate to him to the protest by posting Whereas in 2016 Dr. Suprun said in a On June 8, Parliament narrowly – by two during his truncated term. Facebook posts from doctors from the clin- Facebook post that taxpayers saved 74 per- votes – passed Dr. Suprun’s vision, albeit Mr. Musiy believes that creating a National ic he heads. cent on purchased medicine – the equiva- already in a diluted form. A working group Health System – the nationwide insurance The heart surgeon denied the allegation lent of 917 million hrv – the heart surgeon that was formed struck out free health care program – will “funnel money into one cor- and said, “I wasn’t a co-organizer; we live in has accused her numerous times of delay- for Donbas war veterans, as well as co-pay- rupt mega structure.” He also said that, in its a democratic society… I don’t have the right ing funding to the clinic he heads. ment. She received the same treatment current form, the bill “contradicts 20 articles to ban them [my subordinates] from taking In a phone interview with The Ukrainian from lawmakers during a three-minute of the Constitution – I can’t support this.” part in protests.” Weekly, Dr. Todurov maintained his accusa- speech that the legislature’s speaker gave He did not, however, offer examples. He added that he conducted four heart tions despite numerous statistical and offi- her as she had gotten nine months earlier: According to Dr. Yachbanka, who spoke operations on the day of the picket. cial information that the Health Ministry a chorus of boos. with The Ukrainian Weekly by phone, Mr. Kremlin-friendly politicians and activists has publicly disclosed to counter them. This happened although at least four Musiy “got nothing done while he was min- like Viktor Medvedchuk – whose daughter When Parliament reconvenes on public opinion polls conducted over the ister [until October 2014)”. He was replaced has Russian President Vladimir Putin as September 5, Ms. Hopko, formerly of the past year show that Ukrainians are willing by a Georgian national whose similar ver- her godfather – have also criticized the Samopomich Party that supports health to pay up to 30 percent out of pocket of the sion also got stalled in Parliament until he Ukrainian American physician’s reform reform but today an independent, told The cost for certain medical services. resigned in April 2016. plan on social media. Ukrainian Weekly the “first thing that The vote on the bill’s first reading was should be voted on is health.” Sequence of events Rent-seeking schemes hailed as a victory by Dr. Suprun’s team, When asked who is losing out the most although she had hoped to get the final That crucial week when the bill was dilut- A consortium of international organiza- in the stalled reforms, Dr. Suprun respond- reading passed before Parliament went on ed, Dr. Suprun still tried working with the tions now conducts public health procure- ed, the “patients are, we always talk about vacation until September 5. Health Care Committee that she described as ment on the national level for medicines to them, but they [the opposition lawmakers] By changing how health care is financed, mostly “split.” Dr. Bohomolets had missed 75 treat illnesses like tuberculosis, hepatitis – they never do,” she said referring also to the Health Ministry wants to change the percent of the committee’s meetings that she and HIV/AIDS. Yet many schemes still exist the populist Radical Party and Yulia patronage-client relationship when a was supposed to chair on July 11-12 before on the local level, and some public clinics Tymoshenko Bloc parties who also have patient enters a clinic. sending the legislation to Parliament. break down their tender lots to avoid the historically voted against the bill. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 No. 31 No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 11

“Retro Lviv” benefit at Soyuzivka raises funds to help Ukraine’s soldiers KERHONKSON, N.Y – A full house of 160 people attended the “Retro Lviv” gala on Friday evening, July 14, at the start of the annual Ukrainian Cultural Festival at Soyuzivka Heritage Center, to raise funds for humanitarian aid to Ukraine, which continues to suffer the consequences of Russia’s war in the Donbas. The event was organized by the Ukrainian National Foundation, an affiliated company of the Ukrainian National Association that performs charitable activities. The charitable partner of the 2017 gala was the International Alliance for Fraternal Assistance, a respected and highly awarded Kyiv-based NGO. Viktoria Voronovych, assisted by her husband, Roman Woronowycz, spoke about the work of the IAFA, including its latest focus on establishing a career center to help Ukraine’s soldiers returning from the frontlines. The elegant evening featured a gourmet dinner of old Lviv cuisine. Chef Andrey Sonevytsky and his staff prepared Ukrainian hors d’oeuvres and a four-course meal that included a choice of entrees: braised beef short ribs in a blend of wild mushrooms, boiled baby potatoes in butter and dill; slow- cooked pork loin wrapped in bacon and served on a bed of braised cabbage with onion, garlic, green apples and a hint of caraway; or broiled filet of salmon in caviar cream sauce with “kulesha.” Lviv’s famous coffee and a classic torte capped off the meal. A highlight of the evening was performances in an intimate setting by the Ukrainian Cultural Festival’s top stars: the a capella group Pikkardiyska Tertsiya, vocalist Oksana Mukha, violinist Vasyl Popadiuk and the band Kozak System. Adding to the atmosphere that evoked Lviv of the 1930s-1940s were special appearances by singer Erko Palydowycz, and a pair of dancers from the Syzokryli Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, Dianna Shmerykowsky and Lev Iwashko, who performed a classic tango. Previous gala fund-raisers held in conjunction with the annual Ukrainian Cultural Festival at Soyuzivka supported: the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee’s aid to families of the fallen, injured and missing victims of terrorist aggression against Ukraine (2014); the establishment by the International Alliance for Fraternal Assistance of a rehabilitation center for the victims of the war to be named in honor of Markian Paslawsky, a West Point graduate who died during fighting in Ukraine (2015); and, via the Markian Paslawsky Fund, the Ukrainian Catholic University’s new rehabilitation center (2016). Seen in the photos (beginning from the top and going from left to right) are: singer Oksana Mukha; Pikkardiyska Tertsiya; Erko Palydowycz, joined by Vasyl Popadiuk on violin; guests Oles and Olya Kuzyszyn with Bishop Borys Gudziak of Paris; Viktoria Voronovych of the IAFA; Syzokryli dancers Dianna Shmerykowsky and Lev Iwashko; UNF Treasurer Roma Lisovich; Igor Sybiga, consul general of Ukraine in New York, with his daughter; and two musicians from Kozak System with Nataliya and Yuriy Symczyk, national secretary of the Ukrainian National Association. Photos by Christine Syzonenko. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 No. 31

and the leaders of France, Germany and Malorossiya, or Little Russia. The talks came recent deaths of eight Ukrainian soldiers in NEWSBRIEFS Russia discussed a fraying plan to end the as the newly appointed U.S. envoy to Ukraine, its eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, three-year conflict. The July 24 telephone Kurt Volker, traveled to Kyiv in an effort to where Moscow-backed separatists have (Continued from page 2) conversation among the four leaders lasted revitalize the Minsk deal. (RFE/RL) intensified shelling of Ukrainian forces. Mr. Poroshenko told reporters in Kyiv on July the Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian around two hours, and was the first for …agree on “immediate measures” government forces. Officials in Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron since his election as 21 that “Ukraine will adequately respond to Russia and the West said that the July 18 dec- France’s president. The February 2015 peace BERLIN – The German government says the death of every Ukrainian citizen,” with- laration by separatists in the Donetsk region plan known as the Minsk accords has failed Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine have out being specific. Mr. Poroshenko said he of a new state called Malorossiya, or Little to stop fighting in eastern Ukraine, which has agreed on a number of “immediate mea- planned to raise the issue of Russia’s Russia, ran counter to the Minsk accords and killed more than 10,000 people since erupt- sures” to push forward with a peace deal actions during July 24 telephone talks of could jeopardize the already slow movement ing in April 2014. The Kremlin said in a state- brokered in 2015 to end the bloody fighting the Normandy group consisting of leaders to implement them. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian ment that Putin “presented in great detail in eastern Ukraine. The government in of Ukraine, Germany, France and Russia. Service, RFE/RL’s Belarus Service) Russia’s approach on all key points of the... Berlin said late on July 24 that the so-called The Ukrainian president called Russia “an agreement.” Mr. Poroshenko’s office said in a Normandy Group called for the immediate aggressor country,” and claimed that Four leaders hold telephone talks… statement that President Macron criticized halt to all violations of the ceasefire in east- “11,000 Ukrainians were killed” in the ern Ukraine, where Russia-backed separat- KYIV – President Petro Poroshenko the previous week’s announcement by a sep- ongoing military conflicts in Luhansk and ists are fighting forces of the central gov- Donetsk, where some districts have been demanded that Russia stop sending weapons aratist leader who said he wanted to estab- ernment in Kyiv. A statement after a two- controlled by pro-Russia separatists since to separatists as the Ukrainian head of state lish a new state in Ukraine called hour phone conversation by the leaders of April 2014. Mr. Poroshenko said he will the four countries said separating “demand the immediate and genuine provi- Ukrainian troops and Russia-aligned fight- sion of a ceasefire along the entire front- ers and the withdrawal of heavy weapons line” on the terms of the so-called Minsk also are priorities. Details on specific mea- agreements. A deal brokered by the leaders sures were not immediately provided. 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that we forcefully respond.” House... Speaking about Ukraine and Russia, Rep. Royce stated: “Under Vladimir Putin, Russia (Continued from page 1) has invaded its neighbor Ukraine, seizing House, now goes back to the Senate for its its territory and destabilizing its govern- SERVICES action. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman ment. It poses a threat to our NATO allies in of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Europe, as Moscow works to undermine said he expects the expanded bill will be democratic values with determination and LAW OFFICES OF passed by the Senate. sophistication. As U.S. intelligence agencies ZENON______B. MASNYJ, ESQ. The Washington Post quoted House have made clear, this former KGB agent Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), as attempted to interfere with our own elec- In the East Village since 1983 saying: “This is critical at a moment when tion. Left unchecked, Russia is sure to con- Serious personal injury, real estate our allies are uncertain about where this tinue its aggression.” for personal and business use, administration stands with respect to Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.) said of the representation of small and mid-size Russian aggression.” Rep. Hoyer pointed passage of H.R. 3364: “This tough package businesses, securities arbitration, out that Congress could pursue additional strengthens the ability of Congress to over- divorce, wills and probate. sanctions targeting the Russian energy see the implementation of critical sanctions OPPORTUNITIES on some bad actors. Congress is sending a (By Appointment Only) industry if Russian President Vladimir Putin and allies “fail to heed the message of clear message to the world that we will not Earn extra income! 140 Second Avenue this bill that their business as usual cannot stand idly by as North Korea, Iran and New York, NY 10003 and must not continue.” Russia threaten their neighbors and contin- The Ukrainian Weekly is looking 212-477-3002 The Ukrainian National Information ue to undermine American interests at for advertising sales agents. [email protected] Service (UNIS), the Washington public home and abroad.” For additional information contact affairs bureau of the Ukrainian Congress Rep. 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As mentioned in previ- retaliation against the new U.S. sanctions, and nancial requirements: con dentiality, good organizational skills, accuracy, ous e-mails, we were not alone in our and it quoted Sergei A. Ryabkov, the and reliability are important quali cations for this position. A solid knowledge endeavor as a broad coalition of organiza- Russian deputy foreign minister, as saying of QuickBooks is necessary;  uency in English required, knowledge of Ukrainian tions actively joined the campaign to that the new sanctions would bury any helpful. impose sanctions against Russia for its prospect of improving relations, calling the Duties to include: pay vendor invoices, track bank account balances, monitor aggression.,” UNIS noted. measures “beyond common sense.” o ce expenses, balance & maintain accurate QuickBooks ledgers, coordinate On the House floor prior to the vote, “The authors and sponsors of this bill bank deposits, prepare quarterly payroll tax returns; report nancial results on a Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), chairman of the are making a very serious step toward regular basis to the Treasurer, work with auditors in completion of annual audit. 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saw $788 million transferred to private Saakashvili stripped of Ukraine citizenship impede the activities of the party. “Ukraine NEWSBRIEFS companies and then spent on luxury apart- is on the brink of survival and preserving ments, cars, and office and retail premises, KYIV – Ukraine’s migration agency says itself as a state,” Mr. Sakvarelidze said in a (Continued from page 12) Mr. Matios said. Ukrainian Internal Affairs Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian Facebook post on July 26. “The man who Pavel Filip opened a joint border check- Minister Arsen Avakov wrote on his president who later served as governor of had spoken about that louder than anyone point whose Moldovan side is in the break- Facebook page that “nine of the main sus- Ukraine’s Odesa region, has been stripped else was left without Ukrainian citizenship away region of Transdniester. Mr. pects are under arrest in a temporary of his Ukrainian citizenship. In a statement and the right to enter Ukraine today. But it Poroshenko said after the ceremony at the detention facility.” He said that Mr. posted on July 26 on its website, the State will by no means stop us... We will coordi- Kuchurgan-Pervomaisk checkpoint on July Klymenko’s assets would be “frozen until a Migration Service said the decision to nate with the established headquarters in 17 that Kyiv is ready to contribute to “the final court decision that I expect will confis- revoke a person’s citizenship could be made terms of further joint actions and go for- full restoration of Moldova’s territorial cate them for the benefit of the state.” In only by Ukraine’s president. It also explicit- ward, taking all necessary measures.” Mr. integrity.” Separatist authorities in mainly May, law enforcement agents arrested 23 ly mentioned Mr. Saakashvili, and suggested Sakvarelidze also said Mr. Poroshenko’s Russian-speaking Transdniester and former high-ranking tax administration offi- that paperwork received from Georgian decision would “bring the end of the regime Russian lawmakers have condemned the cials in the same investigation. (RFE/RL, officials had been included in the decision. under his leadership closer.” (RFE/RL, with plans to open the joint Ukrainian-Moldovan based on reporting by AFP and Interfax- Ukraine’s TSN news agency quoted reporting by RFE/RL’s Mike Eckel, Interfax, border checkpoint alleging it is a step Ukraine) unnamed officials in the migration agency Strana.ua, TSN and RIA) toward an economic blockade. Mr. Filip as saying that Mr. Saakashvili gave false rejected the allegation calling it “mere spec- Siemens fallout downplayed by Moscow information when he filled out application Kyiv cuts electricity to separatists ulation.” Moscow-backed Transdniester, MOSCOW – Russia’s energy minister forms to obtain citizenship in 2015. There KYIV – Ukraine’s state power company which borders on Ukraine’s Odesa region, downplayed any risk to the country’s oil was no comment or announcement by says it has terminated electricity supplies declared independence from Moldova in sector following the disputed delivery of President Petro Poroshenko about the to the parts of the Donetsk region that are 1990. The two sides fought a brief war in gas turbines built by Siemens to the Crimea migration statement, or Mr. Saakashvili in controlled by Russia-backed separatists. 1992 that ended when the Russian military peninsula. The German industrial giant said particular. Mr. Saakashvili also did not Vsevolod Kovalchuk, acting head of the intervened on the side of Transdniester, last week it would stop delivering power immediately offer any public comment power distributor Ukrenergo, said on which is not recognized as an independent plant equipment to Russia after the four about the development. But officials with Facebook on July 26 that “the power supply nation by any country. Russia maintains a turbines were shipped to Crimea against the Ukrainian political party he headed, to the districts in the Donetsk region that 1,200-strong military force in the region the company’s policy and in violation of a called the Movement of New Forces, said in are temporarily not controlled [by the gov- despite Moldova’s repeated calls for it to be contract with a Russian partner. Asked by a post to Facebook that “Poroshenko, in the ernment] was cut” overnight. According to withdrawn and replaced with international reporters in St. Petersburg on July 24 spirit of his predecessor, has irrevocably Mr. Kovalchuk, the districts controlled by peacekeepers. (RFE/RL, based on reporting whether the Siemens decision could affect gone down the path of unconstitutional pro-Russia separatists in the region by UNIAN and Interfax) Russia’s oil industry, Aleksandr Novak said action for usurpation and holding onto stopped receiving energy produced by Semena trial resumes in Symferopol it would not. “We have a competitive mar- power at all costs.” Davit Sakvarelidze, a for- power stations located in Kyiv-controlled ket in the country. So what Siemens sup- mer deputy prosecutor-general and a rep- regions of Ukraine. Earlier in April, Ukraine KYIV – Russian-appointed judges at a plies can be delivered by other companies,” resentative of the Movement of New Forces, cut electricity supplies to the districts con- court in Ukraine’s occupied Crimea region he was quoted as saying. “As for electricity said Mr. Poroshenko’s decision to revoke trolled by Moscow-backed separatists in have conducted a new hearing in the trial of generation, we... have now learned to pro- Mr. Saakashvili’s citizenship would not another eastern region, Luhansk. (RFE/RL) Mykola Semena, an RFE/RL contributor duce the necessary equipment,” he added. who is fighting what he says is a politically Germany has urged the European Union to motivated separatism charge. Witnesses add four more Russian individuals and “If the issue here is the safety and securi- and experts called by the defense testified at companies to the EU sanctions list over the Envoy... ty of all of the people – Russian speakers, Ukrainian speakers – this conflict is not the trial on July 18. The judge agreed to dispute. Russia annexed Crimea from (Continued from page 1) include the U.N. General Assembly’s Ukraine in 2014, prompting the EU and the providing that; this conflict is killing that,” December 2016 resolution on human rights United States to impose a series of econom- Mr. Volker said he did not think arming he said. “And so we’ve got to do a better job in Crimea – which was seized by Russia in ic sanctions. (RFE/RL, based on reporting Ukraine with lethal defensive weapons of stopping the conflict, getting the forces 2014 – in the case documents. The trial in by Reuters and Interfax) would “provoke Russia to do more than out, and then providing a basis of gover- the Crimean capital, Symferopol, has been they are already doing, and it also isn’t going nance going forward.” EU adds sanctions over Siemens case delayed several times since it started in late to change any kind of balance that way.” Progress toward implementation of March. Mr. Semena faces up to five years in BRUSSELS – RFE/RL has learned that “I hear these arguments that it’s some- Minsk II has been slow, and fighting has prison if convicted. The charge against the the European Union has added four how provocative to Russia or that it’s going flared up in recent weeks. Ukraine’s 66-year-old Semena stems from an article Russian individuals and three Russian enti- to embolden Ukraine to attack. These are Defense Ministry said on July 20 that eight he wrote for RFE/RL’s Krym.Realii (Crimea ties to its sanctions list after revelations just flat out wrong,” Mr. Volker told Current Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 10 were Realities) website in 2015. The Kremlin- that four gas turbines from the German Time, the Russian-language network run wounded amid intense shelling in the pre- installed prosecutor in Crimea charged that company Siemens were illegally diverted by RFE/RL in cooperation with Voice of vious 24 hours, one of the highest tolls in the article had called for the violation of from Russia to Ukraine’s occupied Crimean America (VOA). months. Russia’s territorial integrity. Mr. Semena peninsula. Sources in Brussels on July 26 “First off, Russia is already in Ukraine, “We see as many as 1,500 or more contends that the accusation is baseless and told RFE/RL that EU ambassadors had they are already heavily armed,” he said. ceasefire violations every night,” Mr. Volker, politically motivated, and that Russian backed a push by Germany for the addi- “There are more Russian tanks in there a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, told authorities have based the case on an inac- tions to the EU’s existing sanctions list. than [tanks] in Western Europe combined. Current Time in the interview in Paris. “So curate Russian translation of his original Those sources told RFE/RL that the fresh It is a large, large military presence.” this is a very hot conflict that’s going on, Ukrainian text. Activists say Mr. Semena’s sanctions will likely go into force next But the Kremlin said any decision to and it has a terrible cost.” trial is part of a systemic Russian clamp- week. The identities of the individuals and supply Ukraine with lethal weapons would Sanctions imposed by the United States down on independent media and dissent in entities have not been released, but a per- set back peace efforts and raise tensions. and European Union have not prompted Crimea since Moscow’s armed occupation son familiar with the matter told RFE/RL “We have already said more than once Russia to abandon its support for the sepa- and takeover of the peninsula. (RFE/RL’s that they are likely to include Russian firms that any action which escalates tension... ratists or fulfill its commitments under Ukrainian Service) and corporate leaders responsible for and further aggravates the already compli- Minsk II. transferring the Siemens turbines from cated situation will only move us further Mr. Volker said that is “not a reason to Raids in $800M corruption probe Russia to Russia-occupied Crimea. Crimea and further away from the moment of set- reverse course – it’s a reason to think about KYIV – Ukrainian law enforcement has been subjected to EU sanctions on tling this internal issue of Ukraine,” Kremlin what else we can do to get to a point where agents on July 14 raided property allegedly energy technology since Russian military spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a confer- we can actually solve this.” controlled by a former official under top- forces seized control of the Ukrainian ence call with reporters on July 25. He also said that Washington and its pled pro-Russian President Viktor region in March 2014 and the Kremlin Ukrainian leaders have urged the United allies needed to increase their information Yanukovych as part of an $800 million cor- staged a referendum that has been deemed States to send weapons and have asked, in campaign to counter what he described as ruption investigation. Ukraine’s chief mili- as illegitimate by most countries in the particular, for portable Javelin anti-tank Russian “propaganda.” tary prosecutor, Anatoliy Matios, said inves- world. The EU has 150 people and 37 enti- missiles, which soldiers in the conflict say “We need to be... making clear that the tigators carried out 183 raids in the capital ties on a current sanctions list that has been are needed to fend of attacks from tanks Ukrainian people are suffering, making Kyiv on property owned by former Income in place since 2014. That list was renewed and self-propelled artillery. clear that people in the Donbas are suffer- and Tax Minister Oleksandr Klymenko, who in March 2017 for six months and is expect- Mr. Volker said that ending the fighting ing, they are cut off from services and sup- now is believed to live in Moscow. ed to be extended again in September. in Ukraine’s east will require agreement by plies from the rest of Ukraine, from Kyiv, Investigators carried out raids in the Siemens has said the turbines were “illegal- all sides on two major principles – the “ter- they are being blocked by the armed Gulliver shopping mall and the pro-Russian ly” diverted “against our will” to Crimea and ritorial integrity of Ukraine, security of all groups that are there led by Russia,” Volker Vesti media holding, of which Mr. Klymenko that it was cutting some of its ties to Russia the people” – and a change in Russia’s said. is a beneficiary. Mr. Klymenko on Facebook following revelations of the illegal ship- approach. He suggested the United States is described the raids as “banal banditry” by ments. It said the turbines originally had stepping up its efforts. With reporting by Reuters and the government, while saying they had a been sold for use at the Taman power plant “What we need to do is bring this to a Christopher Miller. “political rationale.” The military prosecu- in southern Russia. Siemens on July 21 said higher strategic – getting more U.S. involve- Copyright 2017, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted tor accused Mr. Klymenko of registering a it would halt deliveries of power-generation ment and engagement, which is partly why with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ number of offshore companies in the equipment under its existing contracts with I was named; getting Germany and France, Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, British Virgin Islands and Cyprus between Russia’s state-controlled entities “for the the partners in the Normandy process... Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (for 2011 and 2013, and using offshore time being” in response to the revelations. and, frankly, getting Russia to make a differ- full text, see https://www.rferl.org/a/ accounts to launder money stolen from the (Rikard Jozwiak of RFE/RL, with reporting ent strategic choice – that it wants to solve ukraine-volker-sending-arms-russia-con- Ukrainian state budget. The illegal scheme by AFP) this conflict too.” flict/28637079.html). 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 No. 31

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Patriarch Sviatoslav visits Tucson by Athanasius Holub TUCSON, Ariz. – A day after installing Bishop Benedict Aleksiychuk as the new bishop of Chicago’s Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of St. Nicholas, Patriarch Sviatoslav was off to visit one of the farthest parishes, located in Tucson, Ariz., of this vast eparchy. Upon disembarking from a four-hour, nearly 2,000-mile flight to Tucson, the patriarch was moved by the dedication of a group of about a dozen stalwart parishioners singing “Mnohaya lita,” who waited in their Ukrainian embroidered clothing, with a large “Welcome, Patriarch” banner, despite the fact that the flight was two hours late, making it mid- night at the time of arrival. The next day, July 1, Patriarch Sviatoslav was greeted at the door of St. Michael Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church with bread, salt and flowers by Pastoral Council Chair David Maciborski and Joanna Cole, president of the Sisterhood of Ss. Mary and Martha, as well as children of the parish. After introductory prayers before the iconostasis, the patriarch was vested in the center of the church. This was a Chloe Lerew powerful moment that spoke to those present of the fact Parishioners and visitors crowd around Patriarch Sviatoslav to fix a moment in history at little St. Michael that the hierarch draws his strength from his people, just Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church in Tucson, Ariz. as they rely upon him, in a relationship of mutuality. Concelebrating with the primate were Father Andriy manding presence and mellifluous voice. America (former Dean of St. Vladimir’s Seminary, Father Chirovsky, pastor of St. Michael’s, Father Hugo Soutus, pas- Because Bishop Gerald Kicanas of the Roman Catholic John Erickson). tor of Dormition of the Mother of God Parish in Phoenix Diocese of Tucson was spearheading a Catholic Relief ser- Visitors from other churches in Tucson, from the (the nearest parish –– 125 miles away); Father Hanibal vices trip to Egypt, the diocese was represented by Msgr. Ukrainian community in Phoenix/Scottsdale, from San Soutus, brother of Father Hugo and an eminent canon law- Jeremiah McCarthy, vicar general, and Kathy Rhinehart, Diego and Fresno, California, came for the chance to meet yer; as well as the Rev. Dr. Gregory Zubacz from Fresno chancellor, with her husband, Richard. The Knights of Patriarch Sviatoslav. The church was full to the brim, and Pacific University in California, whose wife Melita Mudri- Columbus escorted Patriarch Sviatoslav as a color guard. the congregational singing was full-bodied and joyful. Zubacz and three daughters helped to sing the responses of Byzantine Ruthenians were represented by Father Many remarked on the joyfulness of the occasion. the hierarchical liturgy. Robert Rankin. Three local Orthodox Churches were also After the conclusion of the liturgy, people gathered at Protodeacon Nazariy Yaruniv from St. George Cathedral represented: Greek Orthodox (Father Earl and Presbytera the front of the church for a historic photo. in Lviv accompanied Patriarch Sviatoslav and masterfully Carol Cantos), Antiochian Orthodox (Father Phillip and coordinated the complicated proceedings with his com- Khouria Theodora Nixon) and the Orthodox Church in (Continued on page 16)

Boston Holodomor activists unite behind Genocide Education Bill

Greater Boston Committee He is the sponsor of the bill in the to Commemorate the Famine-Genocide Massachusetts House; Sen. Karen Spilka is of 1932-1933 sponsoring the Senate version. Twenty- seven additional senators and representa- BOSTON – The Massachusetts State tive had also signed the bill as co-sponsors. Legislature Joint Committee on Education Ms. Walzer commented about the cohe- on June 27 heard testimony on House Bill siveness of the Boston activists in joining 314, which incorporates genocide educa- together to promote the success of the bill. tion into the Massachusetts curriculum for “We have been very lucky to have people in secondary schools throughout the state. this state such as attorney Paul Rabchenuk Presenters providing testimony included who has given us the legal support in this attorney Paul Thomas Rabchenuk, chair- endeavor; Hania Kurniawka, who has spo- man of the Greater Boston Committee to ken at numerous meetings at the Board of Commemorate the Famine-Genocide of Education and collected thousands of sig- 1932-1933, the Holodomor. Mr. Rabchenuk natures and also met with representatives discussed the 41 genocides that have and senators at the State House,” she stat- occurred in the past century, emphasizing ed. “Others who also did the same were the many that were not properly addressed Orest Fedan, Marianne Hrindra and the late by the educational system. John Chopek, a retired engineer who col- Father Yaroslav Nalysnyk, pastor of lected many signatures and letters from Christ the King Ukrainian Catholic Church legislators from his district and the sur- in Boston, told the committee how sur- rounding area.” Duane Walzer prised he was while working on his doctor- Boston Holodomor activists gather on the steps of the State Capitol following the June Ms. Walzer also cited the efforts of ate in theology to find that many of his col- 27 hearing on the Genocide Education Bill. Father Nalysnyk, who gave many presenta- leagues were totally unaware of the tions at the Northeast Regional Conference Ukrainian genocide. monument to committee members. month during the school year. This site con- (NERC) on Social Studies and spoke at Father Roman Tarnowsky, pastor of St. Activist Marianne Hrinda, displaying the tains curriculum guides, history, bibliogra- hearings, as did Father Tarnowsky; Ostap Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church in volumes of the Report of the Commission phies and many other features of value to Nalysnyk, the pastor’s son, who started a Jamaica Plain, Mass., told the committee on the Ukrainian Famine, spoke of the hor- educators. Ms. Babij is the content manager website to collect signatures and posted how it was punishable to speak about the rors reported by the survivors. She also for the site. articles on Facebook that included the Holodomor in the schools when he was a told the Joint Committee on Education Maria Walzer presented the committee times and dates of the hearings; the late young student in Ukraine. about the thousands of signatures of sup- with a hard copy of materials available via Anna Raniuk, a Holodomor survivor, who Michael Sawkiw, chairman of the U.S. port for the study of the Holodomor that Dropbox that were e-mailed to all school dis- went from school to school and told stu- Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor the Boston committee had received during tricts in Massachusetts, as well as the dents what she had endured, testified at Genocide Awareness 1932-1933, related its petition drive. Department of Elementary and Secondary hearings, spoke at NERC conferences and the terror of the Holodomor to the terror Lana Babij, a retired librarian from the Education. Ms. Walzer reviewed the contents met with Rep. James Vallee at his office; and experienced by the citizens of Boston fol- University of Connecticut and a notable in detail as the hard copy was passed among Bill Stan, another Holodomor survivor, who lowing the Boston Marathon bombings in Holodomor educator, advised the commit- the committee members for their review. did the same. 2013. He also described the Holodomor tee of the 20,000 to 25,000 visitors who State Rep. Jeffrey Roy, who had spoken in “May God bless them all for their endeav- Memorial and its premier location in logged onto the Connecticut Holodomor previous years in support of a similar bill, ors to help Ukraine and its people,” Ms. Washington, and gave photographs of the website (www.holodomorct.org) each told the committee about the bill’s merits. Walzer said at the conclusion of her remarks. No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 15

cally shortened by a chronic back injury that had developed over time due to the never- Islanders superstar ending pounding/cross-checking he received from the over-aggressive opposition. His Mike Bossy was named one of the NHL’s became a valuable two-way stud in the pros. last season saw him score a mere 38 goals – 100 – the top-100 players in the history of Difficulties adjusting in the pro ranks? the only year he failed to notch 50. the ’s 100 years of How about scoring a then-rookie record, an Later in a self-assessment of his phenom- existence. This is the third in a series featur- unbelievable 53 goals while winning Calder enal, yet short, career, Bossy referred to his ing the six Ukrainian hockey stars selected to trophy top rookie honors? Word was he 38-goal year as his biggest letdown. Truth this elite group. promised general manager he be told, he possibly had no business even would score 50 goals in his rookie season – playing that final year due to his bad back. When hockey pundits discuss late-20th a first in league history. Being the “true” hockey player he was, how- century dynasties, the team that first comes His rookie season’s production was sim- ever, a chronically bad back would not deter to mind is the . Ranking ply a prequel to his career. Bossy would him from playing the game he loved. right up there with Gretzky’s Oilers are the score 50 goals in every season he played Not tough enough, eh? Hah! This was the of the , often except for his final year when he was ham- ultimate hockey warrior, true superstar, referred to as one of the greatest teams of pered by chronic back problems. He amaz- one of the top pure goal scorers of all time, all-time. One of the main men on the Isles’ ingly tallied 50 goals in 50 games during playing with ultimate pain. Pundits be top line was Ukrainian right wing Mike the 1981 campaign – the second time in damned. Bossy, in his own inimitable way, Bossy, partnered with center NHL history a player accomplished this proved what a tough competitor he truly and left wing . The line was momentous achievement. (Hall of Famer was in his final season. feared by opposing forwards, defensemen Maurice Richard netted 50 in 50 in 1945.) No doubt Bossy retired from pro hockey and for nearly a decade, and way too early. This super-sniping goal pro- Career achievements N.Y. Islanders was a primary reason for the success ducer dedicated himself to rounding out his Mike Bossy enjoyed on Long Island. The Ukrainian’s phenomenal career game in the defensive end, making himself The Islanders were fortunate to find totaled 573 goals and 553 assists for 1,126 championship. even a more valuable asset to the Islanders Bossy still available at No. 15 in the 1977 points in only 752 regular season games. Bossy took a stand about violence in dynasty. Oh, and this goal scorer could set up NHL Entry Draft. In later years, many orga- Post-season action saw him score 85 goals hockey during and after his pro career. He his linemates with a quick look and a deft nizations questioned themselves and their and 75 assists for 160 points in only 129 found himself a target of opposing team’s pass. Yes, the ultimate team player, to boot. scouting staffs for overlooking a pure goal- games. He tallied 60 goals five times, 100- grinders and tough guys in an effort to limit BOSSY BITES: At 6’0, 185 pounds, scoring machine who averaged 77 goals per plus points seven times. He won four Stanley his scoring prowess, a common strategy Bossy’s preternatural ability to score was season during a four-year junior career. In Cups, scoring the series-winning goals in the against highly skilled stars. Bossy took it, based on a lightning-quick release and a those days, the Quebec Major Junior Hockey 1982 and 1983 finals and but never gave it back, never lowering him- knack for always being in the right place at League had a reputation for graduating becoming the only player in league history self to dirty play. His minimal 210 career the right time. Teammate/defenseman smallish forwards who could score goals, to net winning goals in consecutive years. minutes was highlighted by win- claimed Bossy was always the but weren’t well versed in physical or defen- Bossy won the ning the three Lady Bing Trophies. Some player the Islanders looked to set up for a sive play. The prevailing scouting decision (playoffs MVP) and the Lady Bing Trophy experts labeled him a weakling, and he was shot. He dabbled with television work in was too much risk on investing a high first- (most gentlemanly player) three different regularly panned for not defending himself studio at MSG Network. He retired at age round pick on a potential bust result. times. He made the league’s first All-Star when challenged. Instead he would make 30. The Hockey News rated him fifth-best There were no such doubts at the team five times and second All-Star team his overly aggressive opponent pay on the right-winger all time, behind guys named Islanders, who were pleasantly surprised to three other years. He was elected into the ensuing power play with still another goal. Howe, Richard, Lafleur and Jagr. He was the grab Bossy at 15. It didn’t take long for him to Hall of Fame in 1991. The New York Islanders’ No. 1 line of only NHL player to record four game-win- ning goals in one series (1983 Conference prove his worth to his new club. Many hock- In international play he was a member Trottier, Gillies and Bossy put the “power” final). Born in , he played juniors ey pundits consider him to be the best pure of Team Canada in the 1981 and 1984 into power play. The Ukrainian right-wing- in Laval, Quebec. The Islanders retired his sniper in NHL history. Not content in being a Canada Cup tournaments. His overtime er was a powerful force with the man No. 22 in March 1992. great goal scorer, Bossy proceeded to work goal in the 1984 sudden-death semifinal advantage, registering an astounding 181 diligently at becoming a totally rounded eliminated the and sent of his 573 career goals on the power play. Ihor Stelmach may be reached at iman@ hockey player. The no-defense junior leaguer Canada to the final and its eventual second Bossy’s Hall of Fame career was dramati- sfgsports.com.

eral occasions. His Belarusian cameraman said at the graveside gathering that there is In a Facebook post ahead of the July 20 A year after... Dzmitry Zavadski was abducted and killed no transparency in the investigation of commemoration, journalist Yekaterina in 2000 after the two returned from a Sheremet’s death. Sergatskova described the chilling effect (Continued from page 3) reporting trip in Russia’s region. “Since the information regarding the the killing of her friend and colleague In a July 11 meeting with CPJ represen- Sheremet was stripped of his Belarusian investigation is given in restricted form, it is Sheremet has had on journalists in Ukraine. tatives and members of Sheremet’s family, citizenship in 2010 while he was living in time to demand an international investiga- “This whole year I’ve felt cornered, as if Mr. Poroshenko said he was “dissatisfied” Russia, where he had moved in 1997 to tion of the case,” Ms. Litvina said. the murder was a loud message to me and with the investigation so far and proposed avoid persecution following his reports Sheremet and Ms. Prytula, co-founder my colleagues that the same could happen incorporating an internationally recog- criticizing Belarusian President Alyaksandr and owner of independent news site to anyone who investigates corruption, crit- nized investigator into the Ukrainian team Lukashenka’s government. , had reported being icizes the authorities, publicly denounces investigating the killing in hopes of reinvig- President Lukashenka started a two-day under surveillance in Kyiv in the months criminals, or just knows too much. A year orating the probe. visit to Ukraine on July 20 and held talks leading up to his murder. Ukrainian authori- ago, together with Pasha [Pavel’s nickname], RFE/RL asked U.S. Ambassador Marie with President Poroshenko on July 21. ties have denied being behind the surveil- independent journalists were blown up.” Yovanovitch, who came to the place where Mr. Nayyem criticized Mr. Poroshenko lance and said they do not know who had Sheremet was killed to lay flowers and pay for hosting Mr. Lukashenka on the anniver- been watching the pair. They could not clari- With reporting by RFE/RL’s Ukrainian her respects, whether Mr. Poroshenko had sary of Sheremet’s death, calling it “absurd” fy whether they were looking into the sur- and Belarus Services. followed up with U.S. law-enforcement in a Facebook post that was followed by veillance as part of the murder investigation. Copyright 2017, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted agencies about his proposal. Ambassador numerous comments expressing similar The brazen killing of Sheremet, 44, came with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ Yovanovitch said she was unaware of any contempt (https://www.facebook.com/ amid a spate of attacks and hostility against Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, such request. Mustafanayyem?fref=ts). journalists who covered the government Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see During its visit, the CPJ underscored “The same Lukashenka who destroyed critically or questioned its handling of the https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-sheremet- Ukraine’s poor record of solving the killings freedom of speech in his country, under conflict with Russia-backed separatist forc- anniversary-journalists-commemo- of journalists. Seven Ukrainian journalists whom hundreds of journalists have disap- es in eastern Ukraine. rate/28628060.html). have been killed for their work since 1992, peared or been jailed and the rest, like and in five of those cases no one has been Sheremet, have had to emigrate,” Mr. convicted, according to the New York-based Nayyem wrote. “The very same Lukashenka Most important, we need to recommit to watchdog group. under whom Pavel was sent to pretrial In the press... the ideals of the free world. We must make Sheremet, who was honored by the CPJ detention and his friend and cameraman... the case that our interests are best served (Continued from page 7) with the International Press Freedom was brutally murdered.” when our values advance; that these values Award in 1998, was well-known as a hard- Dozens of relatives, friends and col- We must also challenge the new nation- include the rule of law at home and a rules- hitting reporter and commentator who had leagues came to Sheremet’s grave in Minsk alism with a new patriotism. … The West based world, human rights and democracy; worked at prominent media outlets in on July 20, placing flowers and lighting can- needs to make room for patriotism in this that our nations’ successes depend on the Belarus, Russia and Ukraine during his dles in his memory. Zavadski’s widow, liberal form, bound to higher principles. success of others; and that the nation state, decades-long career. Svyatlana Zavadskaya, was among them. And we should define the nation based on and the free world itself, are not ends in Often critical of political leaders, he had A former chairwoman of Belarusian cultural, linguistic and civic, not ethno-trib- themselves but earn legitimacy as they received threats and been harassed on sev- Journalists’ Association, Zhanna Litvina, al, terms. … serve these higher purposes. … 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 No. 31

Chloe Lerew Patriarch Sviatoslav vests in the midst of the congregation. as it is, as an example of precisely what the Patriarch... Synod of Bishops meant when speaking of “The Vibrant Parish: A Place of Encounter (Continued from page 14) with the Living Christ.” He emphasized that Father Chirovsky introduced Patriarch his own presence in Tucson was partly Sviatoslav as a young priest with a pure meant to send the signal that even the heart who was his student during the sum- remotest parishes of the now global mer program of the Metropolitan Andrey Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church are not Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian forgotten. Studies in 1997 and whom he now recog- Afterwards, an informal, Southwest- nizes as his own teacher. style reception was held at the rectory, with Patriarch Sviatoslav made reference to a delicious barbecue and a relaxed, familial this in his homily, claiming that he did not atmosphere in which parishioners and visi- pass Father Chirovsky’s exam, although the tors could approach the patriarch and have pastor said he remembers things a little the chance to converse with him and per- differently. The patriarch spoke about the haps get a memorable snapshot taken. importance of each of our names pro- During the reception, a surprise visit by nounced at Holy Communion, since these a Mariachi band regaled all, and Patriarch are the names of those inscribed in the Sviatoslav spoke to them in Spanish. Father book of Life. Chirovsky introduced them as “Hariachi” He also referred to the Tucson commu- (Hot) Mariachi, as it was 109 degrees that nity as gifted by God, necessitating that it day. Luke Miller, a bandurist from San keep sharing this gift, and held it up, little Diego, sang an ancient Ukrainian duma, and Patriarch Sviatoslav sang along. The following day, many from Tucson made their way to Phoenix for another hierarchical liturgy celebrated by Patriarch Sviatoslav, this one in observance of the 60th anniversary of the city’s Dormition of the Mother of God Parish. On Monday, July 3, Patriarch Sviatoslav travelled back to Kyiv.

Overview... (Continued from page 2) southwestern direction, where most essen- tial threats to our national interests are con- centrated.” He called the Mediterranean an important area for Russia’s national inter- ests as well (Redstar, February 22, 2013). Later, in May of this year, Mr. Shoigu called Ukraine a “strategically important [region] for Russia” (TASS, May 24). Ukraine’s maritime sovereignty has been repeatedly violated as a result of these “important interests.” In this insecure situa- tion, Ukraine urgently needs to improve its naval capabilities – including developing an asymmetric response, building small but fast and capable naval platforms, amphibi- ous forces or mine-countermeasures capa- bilities.

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Putin... (Continued from page 6) noted. “To force someone to study a lan- guage which is not his native tongue is impermissible.” Indeed, it is “just as impermissible as reducing the level of instruction in Russia. I call on the heads of the regions of the Russian Federation to devote particular attention to this.” That is, to pay attention to any cutbacks in the number of hours of Russian language instruction in favor of required courses in other languages. Second, Mr. Putin, like many leaders of a multi-national state in which one ethnic community is dominant, reduces the ethnic issue to one of festivals and tourism. On July 20 he talked about the need for “branding” the regions and republics so that they could attract more tourists and be better known to others. He did not mention anything about strengthening them. Specifically, Mr. Putin said that “the development and popularization by munici- palities of ethno-cultural brands” is critical because Russia “is unique in the multiplicity of its nature and national traditions.” But unfortunately, “access to their study is limit- ed not only by insufficient infrastructure but by the lack of initiative at the local level.” And third, Mr. Putin talked about the extraterritorial national communities, about municipalities and about his plenipo- tentiaries to the regions. He did not talk about the non-Russian republics, a silence that spoke more loudly than any of his dec- larations about where he plans to go next. Not surprisingly, this Russian-centric vision has attracted enthusiastic reviews from Russian nationalists and centralizers. (For a sampling of their praise of Mr. Putin’s latest moves, see politikus.ru/v-rossii/ print:page,1,97010-putin-ukazal-na-nedo- pustimost-sokrascheniya-chasov-izucheni- ya-russkogo-yazyka-v-respublikah-rf.html, idelreal.org/a/28630266.html, ruskline.ru/ news_rl/2017/07/21/polozhitelnye_ podvizhki_v_nacionalnoj_politike_sovpade- nie_ili_tolko_nachalo/, and stoletie.ru/na_ pervuiu_polosu/putin_russkij_jazyk_ nichem_zamenit_nelza_998.htm.) But it has also generated a lot of negative reaction as well from non-Russians who can see the handwriting on the wall and have turned to the Internet to share their con- cerns. (For reviews of their comments, see turantoday.com/2017/07/russia-republics- indigenous-languages.html, idelreal.org/a/ sotsseti-o-viskazivanii-putina-pro-russkiy- yazik/28630274.html and idelreal.org/a/ reaction-tatarstana-na-slova-putina-o-russ- kom-yazike/28630471.html.) 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 No. 31

Works by Kyiv artist Ola Rondiak on exhibit at Delaware Contemporary KYIV – Ola Rondiak, known for her stunning and unique Ukrainian values. Ms. Rondiak also drew on traditional depictions of Ukraine’s Maidan, or the Revolution of symbols, such as wreaths and embroidered shirts, without Dignity of 2014, will exhibit her works – including paint- slipping into kitsch. Instead, the traditional was contempo- ings, mannequins, sculptures and a video installation of rized, reflecting the harshness of the post-Soviet abyss that interviews with Ukrainians about the ongoing war in the Ms. Rondiak felt surrounding her. Several works feature a country’s east – at The Delaware Contemporary in thought-provoking pose of a woman with her hands placed Wilmington, Del., on August 15 through October 15. behind her head and arms and elbows outstretched to the The opening reception is on Wednesday, August 16, at widest. The ‘freedom pose,’ as she refers to it, is so striking 5-7 p.m. that it could become Ms. Rondiak’s unique contribution to Ms. Rondiak, a graduate of Hunter College, grew up in Euro-Maidan iconography that will inevitably emerge.” Ohio in a Ukrainian family. She studied art in both Ukraine Ms. Rondiak’s “motanka” sculptures are inspired by the and Hungary. Her paintings stem from her family’s experi- ancient Ukrainian dolls that were typically passed down ences of living in Ukraine, the events of World War II, from mother to daughter, as a talisman of good health and Stalin’s Iron Curtain, the and the fortune. The motanky are faceless, as the eyes are windows Revolution of Dignity in 2014. to the soul, and the soul can be bad or good. Ms. Rondiak’s These events shaped Ms. Rondiak’s worldview, and sculptures have embraced the ancient aura of the motanka, emotional experiences began to surface in her paintings. tied it in with her personal experiences and history, all the Her iconographic portraiture of Ukrainian women depicts while maintaining a contemporary art presence. their “determined and indomitable spirit.” The catalogue for her exhibit, titled “Behind the Lines,” Writing in The Ukrainian Weekly’s issue of July 13, at The Delaware Contemporary, notes: “Lines create order, 2014, Zenon Zawada described the artist’s depictions of stability and even comfort, but not without the risk of nar- faces from the Revolution of Dignity: “The expressions are rowing our perceptions of reality. They can make us feel those seen in Byzantine iconography, reflecting Slavic sto- safe by creating borders or threatened when enemy lines icism and the unmoved patience that forms the bedrock of draw near. Lines of words in the media can educate us or brainwash us. In this exhib- it, the artist explores the connection between what lies on the surface and what lies behind the lines.” Ms. Rondiak “has Ola Rondiak at work. observed first-hand how the line between peace and results of 70 years of Soviet propaganda and brainwashing. war is a fragile one,” the cat- Ola’s background as a psychotherapist has immersed her alogue continues. “Having into human psychology, which gives her an understanding lived over 20 years in Kyiv, of how the lines of perception directly impact one’s beliefs Ukraine, as well as being a and identities.” first-generation American, Ms. Rondiak has had solo exhibitions in Ukraine, Europe the artist has seen and and the United States at such venues as America House and heard these lines crossed the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv; the Ukrainian ambassador’s resi- many times. In her child- hood, she heard countless Hungary; the Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago; the stories of the enemy lines Ukrainiandence in Berlin,Museum-Archives Germany; in The Cleveland; Castle in the Fertőrákos, Ukrainian moving and her family Educational and Cultural Center in Philadelphia; and escaping the brutality of the Soyuzivka Heritage Center in Kerhonkson, N.Y. Soviet regime. Living Ms. Rondiak’s giant icon-style patriotic portraits can be through two revolutions in seen in Kyiv’s historic Podil district. Peter Dickinson of Ukraine she watched riot Business Ukraine wrote in July 2016: “An instinctive artist police lines, military lines with a professional background in psychotherapy, Rondiak and even country border- recently created one of her signature icon-style Ukrainian lines move. Over the years, “Together We Stand” by Ola Rondiak (2017, acrylic collage on canvas, 39.4 x 47.2 inches). she has encountered the (Continued on page 19) Ukrainian culture to be celebrated in Lehighton, Pa. by Paula Holoviak Lviv, the famed Dobriansky Brothers vocal trio from , ban- LEHIGHTON, Pa. – The Ukrainian durists Oksana Telepko and Halya Homestead in the Pocono Mountains Leskiw of New Jersey, and a local of Pennsylvania will hold its annual favorite, the Kazka Ukrainian Folk Ukrainian Folk Festival on Saturday, Ensemble from Schuylkill County, Pa. August 19, and Sunday, August 20. The On Saturday evening, the festivities festival gates open at noon on both continue with a dance at 8 p.m. with days, and there is plenty of free park- music provided by Walter Syzonenko ing. Admission to the festival is $5 per and the Chary Orchestra. On Sunday, person and free for children age 14 Metropolitan Stefan Soroka, will cele- and under. brate divine liturgy at 11 a.m. at St. An array of Ukrainian foods will be Andrew’s Chapel on the Homestead available, including pyrohy, holubtsi, grounds. potato pancakes, shashlyky, borshch, This is a rain or shine event. The kovbasa and sauerkraut, as well as Homestead has both indoor and out- American favorites and a huge selec- door facilities, including an Olympic- tion of sweets and refreshments. size swimming pool, a performance Ukrainian vendors from throughout hall, a motel and a restaurant. the Eastern Seaboard will feature The Ukrainian Homestead is located embroidery, pottery, wood crafts, jew- at 1230 Beaver Run Drive, Lehighton, elry, music and video recordings, reli- PA 18235. The Homestead is owned gious items and pysanky. and operated by the Central Executive The highlight of the festival is the Committee of the Organization for the stage performances. Shows begin at 2 Rebirth of Ukraine (known by the p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, and at Ukrainian-based acronym ODWU). 2 p.m. on Sunday. Guest performers For more information on the festival include the Gerdan Trio of folk musi- or the Ukrainian Homestead, readers cians from Washington, virtuoso vio- may visit www.ukrhomestead.com or linist Innesa Tymochko-Dekajlo from The Gerdan Trio from Washington. contact Ulana Prociuk at 215-235-3709. No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 19

August 2-3 Chamberfest, featuring “The Gamuts: Carissa Klopouschak August 6 Religious Education classes (ages 3-18), Immaculate Ottawa and Edwin Huizinga,” La Nouvelle Scene Gilles Desjardins, Hillside, NJ Conception Ukrainian Catholic Church, www.byzcath.org/ and the Gryphon Trio, featuring Roman Borys at Dominion- immaculateconception or 908-322-7350 Chalmers United Church, www.chamberfest.com/concerts/ 2017-0726-05/ August 6-19 Folklorama Folklore Festival, Spirit of Ukraine Winnipeg, MB Pavilion at Soul Sanctuary and Ukraine/Kyiv Pavilion at August 2-3 Petrykivka folk painting course, with instruction by Maples Collegiate, 204-982-6210 or www.folklorama.ca Jewett, NY Olena Martyniuk, Grazhda Music and Art Center, 518-989-6479 or www.grazhdamusicandart.org August 7-10 Workshop on hand-made Ukrainian folk Christmas Jewett, NY decorations, with instruction by Lubov Wolynetz, Grazhda August 4 Art exhibit, “Domestic Disturbances,” Ukrainian Institute Music and Art Center, 518-989-6479 or Chicago of Modern Art, www.uima-chicago.org or 773-227-5522 www.grazhdamusicandart.org

August 4-6 Canada’s National Ukrainian Festival, Selo Ukraina Festival August 7-10 Writing Ukrainian Easter eggs, Grazhda Music and Art Dauphin, MB Grounds, www.cnuf.ca Jewett, NY Center, 518-989-6479 or www.grazhdamusicandart.org August 11 through Exhibit, “The Courageous: Our Heroes,” Ukrainian August 4-6 Ukrainian Festival, Pokrova Ukrainian Catholic Church, September 30 National Museum, 312-421-8020 or Parma, OH 216-524-0918 or www.pokrova-church.com Chicago www.ukrainiannationalmuseum.org

August 5 Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Ukrainian Dance Camp recital, August 12 Miss Soyuzivka pageant, Soyuzivka Heritage Center, Kerhonkson, NY Soyuzivka Heritage Center, www.soyuzivka.com Kerhonkson, NY www.soyuzivka.com

August 5 President’s Cup soccer championship, Ukrainian Sports August 12 Softball tournament, Ukrainian American Youth Horsham, PA Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada, Ukrainian American Ellenville, NY Association camp, www.cym.org/us-ellenville Sports Center Tryzub, www.uscak.org or www.tryzub.org August 12 Hamilton Ukrainian Day on the Bay, Ukrainian Canadian August 5 Concert featuring the Cheres Ukrainian Folk Orchestra, Hamilton, ON Congress – Hamilton, Hamilton Waterfront Dock, Jewett, NY Grazhda Music and Art Center, 518-989-6479 or www.ucchamilton.ca www.grazhdamusicandart.org August 12 Golf tournament, Ukrainian Golf Association of Canada, August 5-6 Annual Parish Feast Day Festival, St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Halton Hills, ON Glencairn Golf Club, 905-876-3666 or Glen Spey, NY Catholic Church, 917-664-0755 or 845-496-5506 www.glencairn.clublink.ca

August 5-6 Lemkivska Osin festival, Polonyna Resort, August 12 Ukrainian Picnic, featuring the Odesa Ukrainian Dance Ellenville, NY 914-439-2481 Warners, NY Ensemble and a traditional bonfire, www.stlukesuoc.org

August 5-7 Servus Heritage Festival, Ukrainian Pavilion, William August 12-13 Uketoberfest, St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Edmonton, AB Hawrelak Park, www.heritagefest.ca or 780-488-3378 Chicago Catholic Church, [email protected]

August 6 Concert, “Heritage Sunday: From Triana to Tashkent,” Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events New York featuring the Cheres Ukrainian Folk Orchestra and Iskra advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, Center for Traditional Music and from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors Dance, Hearst Plaza at Lincoln Center, www.lcoutofdoors.org and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected].

Mr. Volker told RFE/RL that the recent Ambassador Volker would “meet with Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama. U.S. envoy cites... spike in hostilities, in which at least nine those who have been affected by Russian The Obama administration hit Russia Ukrainian soldiers were killed over the pre- aggression” and “discuss the importance of with several waves of sanctions over its sei- (Continued from page 1) vious 72 hours, were of particular concern. security and safety for all Ukrainians.” zure of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and locked in a “hot war” whose origins he Earlier on July 23, Mr. Volker visited the He was set to meet Ukrainian officials in subsequent backing of the separatists. blamed on Moscow. government-controlled town of Avdiyivka Kyiv on July 24 “to discuss the path to Republican and Democratic lawmakers “This is not a frozen conflict, this is a hot near the frontline, wearing a tan bullet- restoring Ukraine’s sovereignty and territo- in Washington, meanwhile, said they have war, and it’s an immediate crisis that we all proof vest and helmet for part of the trip. rial integrity,” the State Department said. reached agreement on legislation that need to address as quickly as possible,” the He told RFE/RL that it was “shocking” to Following his stopover in Kyiv, Volker would allow new sanctions targeting envoy told reporters in the government- see the walls of apartment buildings where was to travel to Paris to meet with French Moscow – as well as Iran and North Korea – controlled eastern city. civilians still live “blown out” by direct artil- and German officials on the Minsk accords, and would limit any possible effort by Asked later during the news conference lery strikes. which were brokered by German President Trump to ease sanctions against whether the United States understood that He said he was most shocked by the Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Russia. Russian “aggression” was to blame for the human cost of the war, which he discussed French President Francois Hollande. The Republican-led House of situation and not a “civil war,” Mr. Volker with schoolteachers who have endured From there he heads to Brussels to meet Representatives passed the bill by a vote of answered in the affirmative. years of fighting, and a man who “lost his European Union and NATO officials to dis- 419-3 on July 25. The legislation would “We’ve seen what’s happened, we legs and had his hands blown off” when a cuss resolving the Ukraine conflict. require the White House to obtain permis- understand the way this conflict has begun, shell exploded on the street where he was Mr. Volker told RFE/RL that his appoint- sion from Congress before easing or lifting we understand the way it is being managed walking. ment, his visit to eastern Ukraine, and his sanctions against Russia. today, and that’s why it’s important that the Mr. Volker said he also talked about the upcoming visits to France and Brussels are United States become more engaged,” Mr. impact the war has had on the local econo- “a response to the need” for the United With reporting by Reuters and AP. Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, my, meeting with a man whose business States to play a greater role in the Ukraine Copyright 2017, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted said. was taken over by Russia-backed forces in peace process. with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ Mr. Volker’s visit to eastern Ukraine was the eastern city of Donetsk, forcing him to Despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, his first to the region since his appointment flee. stated desire to improve ties with Moscow, Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see in early July as Washington’s special repre- In a video released by the Ukrainian mil- his administration has maintained the https://www.rferl.org/a/us-special-envoy- sentative on negotiations to bring an end to itary on July 23, Ambassador Volker was punitive measures targeting Russia for its blames-russia-for-hot-war-eastern-ukraine/ the conflict, which has killed more than shown arriving by helicopter at its opera- actions in Ukraine that began under Mr. 28633649.html). 10,000 since April 2014. tions in the east and speaking with military Kyiv, the United States, the European officials there. Union, and NATO accuse Russia of backing Asked if he plans to visit the other side with Ukrainian femininity. Her choice of the separatists with weapons and person- of the frontline, he told locals and the Works by... subject matter is no accident – it reflects nel. Moscow rejects the accusation despite media on July 23 that he plans “to meet a Rondiak’s admiration for what she terms as (Continued from page 18) substantial evidence of such support. Russian counterpart at some point.” ‘the determined and inspirational women A ceasefire deal signed in February 2015 “I think that meeting with the Russians pop art portraits in Podil. Her art is heavily of Ukraine’, and the indomitable national in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, has failed is what we need to do in order to gain the influenced by Ukrainian folklore themes spirit they represent.” to end the violence, which has recently perspective – the strategic perspective – and focuses on portraits of Ukrainian The Delaware Contemporary is located flared up. Ukraine and the Russia-backed over how to resolve this,” he added. women produced in a funky, contemporary at 200 South Madison St., Wilmington, DE separatists accuse each other of violating The U.S. State Department said on July style featuring plenty of the bright colors 19801; telephone, 302-656-6944; website, the deal. 21 that during his visit to eastern Ukraine, and floral touches traditionally associated www.decontemporary.org. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 No. 31

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Friday, August 25 at noon. The outdoor summer concert in the WILDWOOD, N.J.: The Khmelnychenky park will begin at 1:30 p.m. It is an integrat- Plast fraternity is sponsoring a fund-raising ed, dynamic program titled “United Ukraine; dance in support of Plast campsites at the United,” a collaborative effort of prior per- Wildwood VFW, 3816 Pacific Ave. Doors formers: Voloshky Ukrainian Dance open at 8 p.m. with dance music by DJ Orest, Ensemble, Iskra Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, followed by EMCK – live in concert – at 9:30- violinist Innesa Tymochko Dekajlo and Vox 11 p.m., followed by DJ Orest until midnight. Ethnika orchestra. Special guests include Admission is $20 for adults age 21 and over singer-songwriter Iryna Lonchyna from only. (Includes open beer/soda bar at 8-12 Ukraine and the Efsane Crimean Tatar p.m. Mixed drinks also will be available.) Ensemble. A social dance to the live music of Valid IDs are required for pre-sale wrist Vox Ethnika will follow at 4:30 p.m. bands that will be available at the beach and Delicious Ukrainian foods and baked goods, at hotels. For more information visit the picnic fare, cool beverages and refreshments “zabava” Facebook page at https://www. will be plentiful. Vendors are welcome. An facebook.com/Xmeli/, or e-mail Orest. arts and crafts bazaar and a children’s fun [email protected]. area will be open all day. Admission: $15; students, $10; children under 15, free. Sunday, August 27 Parking is free. For further information call HORSHAM, Pa.: The Ukrainian American 267-664-3857, e-mail [email protected] or Sport Center – Tryzub – will host the 26th visit www.tryzub.org. The sponsor is a annual Ukrainian Independence Folk 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit charitable Festival and Outdoor Summer Concert at organization; proceeds benefit youth and Tryzubivka, County Line and Lower State adult amateur sports, and cultural, fraternal roads, Horsham, PA 19044. Doors will open and community programs.

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