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ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXIV No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016 $2.00 Russia suspends Crimean Tatar Failed vote in Rada on top prosecutor Mejlis for ‘extremist activities’ calls into question parliamentary coalition law. If voting won’t be unified, we will con- by Zenon Zawada sistently have this problem.” KYIV – Ukrainian President Petro The main changes to the law on the Poroshenko confidently declared this week procurator general proposed in the reject- that Ukraine’s political crisis is over after ed legislation include removing the require- the new Cabinet was elected on April 14. ment that the candidate have a law degree, Yet the voting in the Verkhovna Rada at as well as 10 years of work in a legal profes- the April 21 session proved otherwise. sion. Rada Chair Andriy Parubiy asked nation- Mr. Lutsenko falls short on both criteria. al deputies to vote to include on the daily His most relevant work experience is his agenda a bill that would relax requirements two years as internal affairs minister, when for the procurator general, aimed at he led Ukraine’s police force and intro- enabling Yuriy Lutsenko, the current head duced minimal reforms, while corruption of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction, to thrived. become the president’s nominee. Mr. Poroshenko is lobbying Mr. Despite noting that the president consid- Lutsenko’s candidacy because he needs ered the bill’s approval “urgent,” Mr. someone he can trust and influence, Parubiy could muster only 177 out of the experts said, and at the same time someone who is acceptable to the West. Ukraine Crisis Media Center needed 226 votes in favor. When Mr. Poroshenko visited Refat Chubarov, chairman of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, who has been barred from The failure not only threatened the pres- entering Crimea by the occupying Russian authorities, who have now suspended the ident’s planned nomination of Mr. Washington at the beginning of the month, activity of the Mejlis. He is seen above speaking on April 21 at the Ukraine Crisis Lutsenko, but also called into question U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden told the presi- Media Center in Kyiv. whether a parliamentary coalition exists at dent that $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees all, particularly after the questionable depend on his nomination of an indepen- Amnesty International said the decision RFE/RL means that were used to form it. dent procurator general committed to signals a new wave of repression against “There’s friction so far between the dif- reforms. The Russian Justice Ministry has sus- Crimean Tatars. ferent political groups in the coalition,” said These sentiments were echoed on April pended the Crimean Tatars’ highest ruling “Anyone associated with the Mejlis could body due to what it called “extremist activi- Sergiy Taran, the director of the International 16 by International Monetary Fund now face serious charges of extremism as a ties,” marking a fresh escalation in Institute of Democracy in Kyiv. “There isn’t Managing Director Christine Lagarde, who result of this ban, which is aimed at snuff- Moscow’s crackdown against a group that any agreement on voting and they’re still has broadly opposed Russia’s forcible (Continued on page 8) agreeing on the new procurator general (Continued on page 8) annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. The ministry said in an April 18 state- ment that the Mejlis, the self-governing Crimean Tatar body legalized by the Ukrainian government in 1999, had been Holodomor featured in Boston Walk Against Genocide included in a federal list of civic and reli- gious organizations suspended due to by Paul Thomas Rabchenuk alleged extremism. BOSTON – The Ukrainian Famine- Tatars make up around 12 percent of Genocide of 1932-1933 was prominently Crimea’s population of 2.5 million. Many featured in Boston’s third annual Walk fled the Black Sea peninsula after its mili- Against Genocide held on April 10. The tary seizure by Russia in March 2014. walk, organized annually by the Others who remained have complained of Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur harassment or even disappearances under and sponsored by 12 Boston organiza- the Moscow-backed authorities there. tions involved in genocide awareness and International rights groups and Western education, selected the Ukrainian governments have issued searing criticism Holodomor for prominent recognition. of Russia’s treatment of the Turkic-speaking Other genocides represented included Muslim group since the annexation. the Holocaust and those in Cambodia, The ministry’s action now prohibits the Rwanda, Bosnia, Armenia, Congo and Mejlis from using state-owned media, hold- Sudan, as well as the genocide committed ing public gatherings, participating in elec- against the Kurds. tions, and using bank accounts for anything Following presentations by Holocaust other than paying off taxes, debts or other and Holodomor representatives at the financial penalties. Boston Holocaust Memorial, the march The ministry said the move was based proceeded to the Armenian Heritage Park on an April 13 order by Crimea’s Moscow- on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, where Duane Walzer backed prosecutor, Natalya Poklonskaya, to additional presentations took place. suspend the council. The audience, consisting of activists A somber and respectful audience listens to details about the Holodomor as described by Paul Thomas Rabchenuk, Boston Holodomor Committee chairman. Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry called and the general public, was somber and Ms. Poklonskaya’s order “a violation of fun- Conferring to the left of the speaker are Roger Brooks of “Facing History and Ourselves” and Eric Cohen, chairman of the Massachusetts Coalition to Save damental rights and freedoms on the pen- (Continued on page 15) insula,” while international rights watchdog Darfur and the walk’s organizer. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016 No. 17

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Putin’s new praetorian guard Savchenko calls off hunger strike Canadian MP speaks out for Savchenko KYIV – Nadiya Savchenko, whom Russia OTTAWA – Member of Parliament Borys by Pavel Felgenhauer he became commander of the interior has imprisoned on charges of complicity in Wrzesnewskyj (Etobicoke Center, Ontario) troops. Plans to create a National Guard in Eurasia Daily Monitor the killings of two Russian journalists, has on April 19 delivered a statement on the Russia, based on the interior troops, have stopped her hunger strike. Ukrainian floor of Canada’s House of Commons call- On April 6, without prior warning or any reportedly circulated in the Kremlin in pre- President Petro Poroshenko wrote on ing on the Russian government to release meaningful public debate, President vious years. Gen. Zolotov – a professional Twitter on April 19 that Savchenko “had Nadiya Savchenko to Ukraine. Mr. Vladimir Putin announced a massive over- bodyguard, whom Putin apparently consid- agreed” to stop the hunger strike after talk- Wrzesnewskyj said: “Nadiya Savchenko, haul of security, public order and law ers absolutely loyal – was clearly being ing to her by phone. Ms. Savchenko, 34, has Ukraine’s first female fighter pilot, was cap- enforcement in Russia by creating a special groomed to become the commander of the tured and kidnapped out of Ukraine during new internal army. Formed immediately by new joint security force (Kommersant, refused to consume water and food since Russia’s military invasion. … She is a duly presidential order (ukaz), the new “National April 5). April 6, demanding her immediate release. elected Ukrainian member of Parliament Guard” will be based on the existing Internal In an apparent move to compensate the Earlier on April 19, Mr. Poroshenko said and a member of the Parliamentary Affairs Ministry Troops – a 200,000-strong Internal Affairs Ministry, Mr. Putin Kyiv and Moscow had agreed on a possible armed force with mechanized motor-rifle announced that the anti-narcotics service, framework to free the former military pilot. Assembly of the Council of Europe. The brigades and divisions, special troops and an the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN), Mr. Poroshenko said that “it seemed” he attempt to break Ukraine’s spirit through air force, previously subordinated to the and the Federal Migration Service (FMS), and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir the farce of a trial of Ukraine’s Joan of Arc Internal Affairs Ministry, which is in charge which controls foreigners on Russian terri- Putin, had agreed in a telephone call the has in fact strengthened her resolve. As she of Russia’s police forces. tory, will be merged with the Ministry of day before on a formula that will allow Ms. stated at the conclusion of her show trial The National Guard will include not only Internal Affairs. Bribes from illegal immi- Savchenko to be returned. The comments which sentenced her to 22 years: ‘Russia the interior troops that are mostly manned grants and narcotraders make the FSKN came a day after a Ukrainian court sen- will return me to Ukraine…dead or alive,’ by conscript soldiers, but also special para- and FMS prime illegal moneymakers within tenced two Russian citizens to 14 years in and declared a hunger strike. She is close to military police units known as OMON and Russian law enforcement. Both the FSKN prison each on charges of fighting along- death, another in the long list of victims of SOBR, as well as the interdepartmental gov- and FMS will be transformed into director- side Russia-backed separatists in eastern Putin’s regime. I call on our Parliament to ernment security guard service (Vnevedom­ ates within the Internal Affairs Ministry; Ukraine. Shortly after the sentencing of show our support for Nadiya and demand stvenaya Okhrana). These units of contract their present staff will be cut and rotated. Aleksandr Aleksandrov and Yevgeny of Putin that she be returned to her beloved servicemen number some 200,000 and will, Russia’s entire police force is being reboot- Yerofeyev, the Kremlin said Presidents Ukraine. …” (Office of MP Borys thus, boost the National Guard to around ed, and officers will be reinstated into new Poroshenko and Putin discussed by phone Wrzesnewskyj) 400,000 (Interfax, April 6). structures (Kommersant, April 5). In the “fate” of the two Russians and The creation of the National Guard Russia, obtaining a good moneymaking Savchenko. Mr. Poroshenko said on April 19 Dutch Parliament upholds EU-Ukraine deal requires major changes to existing legisla- position traditionally requires paying a that the sentencings open up “certain AMSTERDAM – The Dutch Parliament tion. The Kremlin has introduced a package substantial bribe, in advance, to the deci- opportunities for using the exchange mech- has defeated a motion calling for the coun- of bills to the Duma to make the National sion-making superiors. anism.” (RFE/RL, based on reporting by AP, try to pull out of a treaty establishing closer Guard a legal entity with sweeping powers Mr. Putin has declared the National TASS and Interfax) European Union ties with Ukraine. The to arrest, interrogate and use deadly weap- Guard’s prime task to be fighting terrorists Repatriation papers requested for Savchenko EU-Ukraine deal was rejected by a majority ons against Russian civilian suspects or and organized crime, but the force seems of voters in a nonbinding referendum earli- “troublemakers.” Mr. Putin expressed full too big and too heavily armed with new MOSCOW – The Russian Justice Ministry er this month. Seventy-five Dutch lawmak- confidence the Duma would approve the tanks and other heavy weapons for such a says Ukraine has requested documents ers voted against the motion – brought by National Guard legislative package without mission. The Federal Security Service required to repatriate Nadiya Savchenko, the Euroskeptic Socialist Party – with 71 in any delay “so there could be no possible (FSB), the Investigative Committee and the whose imprisonment in Russia has drawn favor in the 150-seat lower house. On April misunderstandings”; but the overhaul is Ministry of Internal Affairs will continue to international condemnation. Russian news 6, more than 4 million people, accounting going ahead before the legislators have time work organized crime and terrorist threats, agencies on April 20 quoted the ministry’s to even consider the changes. By separate and it is not clear how the National Guard for about 32 percent of some 12.8 million press office as saying that the Ukrainian ukaz, Mr. Putin appointed an army general, could be the leading anti-terrorist or anti- eligible voters, cast their ballots in a non- Justice Ministry asked for paperwork relat- Viktor Zolotov, 62, as the commander-in- crime force. In Soviet times, the Internal binding referendum with 61 percent reject- chief of the National Guard. Gen. Zolotov Affairs Ministry troops were a heavily ed to Ms. Savchenko’s possible transfer to ing the pact with Kyiv. The deal has already will be subordinated solely and directly to armed internal force created to deal with serve out her 22-year sentence in Ukraine. been ratified by 27 other EU states, and the president and have the administrative domestic enemies – the people of Russia The ministry said a court would consider was being provisionally implemented even rank of a Cabinet member (Interfax, April primarily, whom the Communists always the issue of repatriating Ms. Savchenko, in the Netherlands after being approved 6). considered an inherent threat. Today, Mr. who was sentenced on March 22 on charg- last year by both houses of Parliament. Gen. Zolotov is Mr. Putin’s long-time Putin apparently believes the internal es that included complicity in the killing of (RFE/RL, based on reporting by AFP and close associate from St. Petersburg and the threat to his regime is rising rapidly, two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine Interfax) president’s chief bodyguard and sparring although all opinion polls continue to put in 2014. (RFE/RL, with reporting by TASS, partner in boxing and judo. Born in St. Mr. Putin’s approval ratings at record highs. Interfax, RIA Novosti, Reuters and AP) (Continued on page 14) Petersburg, he served in the KGB body- Of course, the Russian economy is in the guard 9th Main Directorate. From 2000, doldrums, mass poverty is on the rise, and when Mr. Putin became president, until social unrest is possible in the future. But 2013, he was the chief of the presidential the consensus opinion of social scientists he krainian eekly FOUNDED 1933 security service. 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NEWS ANALYSIS Belarus-Ukraine relations beyond media headlines by Yauheni Preiherman that Minsk is ready to provide all of the 19, 2013; Zn.ua, May 17, 2013). And such access the Eurasian Union market, and in Eurasia Daily Monitor logistical, secretariat and protocol func- disputes also occur now, in most cases Ukraine, with an eye toward selling to the tions to the Trilateral Contact Group (Mfa. resulting from protectionist policies. EU (Naviny.by, January 6). Belarus-Ukraine relations are often gov.by, February 11). In fact, the Belarusian A fresh such dispute involved mutual The military sphere is another topic in ignored as a crucial factor for regional Foreign Affairs Ministry already unofficially threats to introduce extra duties on each Belarus-Ukraine relations that the media developments in Europe’s East, as well as performs most of these functions and, thus, other’s goods. It broke out in August 2015, often misrepresent. Since the war in the for each country’s foreign policy. For exam- has an indirect influence on the flow of the after the Belarusian government adopted a Donbas broke out, Belarus has been work- ple, the recently released study “Ukrainian peace process, according to a Ukrainian decree subjecting all foreign goods, includ- ing on securing its border with Ukraine. On Prism: Foreign Policy in 2015” does not diplomat who spoke on condition of ano- ing Ukrainian but excluding those originat- February 3-5, a large-scale military drill mention Belarus among Ukraine’s key for- nymity (Author’s interview, February 11). ing from the Eurasian Economic Union, to with the use of artillery and missiles took eign policy partners (Ukrainian Prism, This fact alone makes Belarus a crucial mandatory sanitary and hygienic certifica- place. In particular, Belarusian forces March 21). Also, the media tend to present partner for Kyiv. tion (Thinktanks.by, January 14). Kyiv retal- employed Tochka-U tactical missile com- a chaotic and contradictory picture of the At the bilateral level, Belarus-Ukraine iated by proposing a special 39.2 percent plexes, Smerch, Uragan and Belgrade multi- relationship. In reality, however, there is a relations sometimes appear shakier than duty on certain Belarusian goods (Nasha ple launch rocket systems, as well as long- great deal of coherence and strategic signif- they truly are. Public disagreements on Niva, January 14). After long discussions range cannons (Belinstitute.eu, March 14). icance in Belarus-Ukraine relations, despite minor issues happen often, and these and public arguing, the parties announced However, Ukrainian experts and diplo- multiple difficulties. become exaggerated in the media. A recent that they would abstain from any counter- mats did not express much concern about Minsk has become the main venue for case has to do with Minsk’s refusal to allow sanctions. Moreover, Belarus did not intro- the drill. Military expert Dmytro Tymchuk, a diplomatic negotiations aimed at resolving Ukrainian citizens to enter Belarus with duce trade restrictions on Ukrainian goods Ukrainian national deputy and coordinator the crisis and war in Donbas. It held two top- new plastic ID cards; referring to the visa- after the free trade pact between Ukraine of the “Information Resistance” blog, opined level summits – in August 2014 (European free agreement between the two countries, and the European Union entered into force that, “at the moment, Ukraine cannot consid- Union-Ukraine-Eurasian Economic Union the Belarusian authorities require that on January 1of this year. er Belarus as a source of potential military format) and in February 2015 (Normandy Ukrainian visitors carry their paper pass- Yet, the Belarusian authorities watch the threat” (Obozrevatel, February 5). According format) – and it hosts regular meetings of port booklets (Tut.by, March 5). In turn, implementation of the EU-Ukraine free to him, his team had conducted an analysis the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine. The Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry adheres trade agreement with caution. The inflow of a hypothetical scenario whereby Belarus implications of the Minsk peace process for to a different interpretation of the agree- of European goods to the Ukrainian market is used as a base of attack by the Russian Ukraine’s interests remain hotly debated ment (Tut.by, March 6). Even though this (about 70 percent of EU goods are now military. They came to the conclusion that (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, February 19, 23; dispute will almost certainly end after a duty-free) is often seen as a potential chal- this is improbable. In Mr. Tymchuk’s words, Ukrayinska Pravda, January 29), yet, the round of diplomatic consultations, it has lenge to low-competitive Belarusian pro- the dense forests and swamps of Belarus’s Minsk talks have undoubtedly become a already been presented as a row by some ducers (Naviny.by, January 6). Together southern Polesie region, which borders on central factor for the Ukrainian govern- media (BelTA, March 6). with the problem of small arms trafficking, Ukraine, would make such an invasion cor- ment’s internal and foreign policies. Where bilateral relations really become it makes the Ukrainian border, in President ridor extremely difficult for Russian forces Moreover, Belarus’s diplomatic role in difficult from time to time is in the economic Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s opinion, a major to utilize. For that very reason, that area the protracted Ukrainian peace process is, realm. Public disagreements and even mini- source of threat to Belarus’s national secu- was not affected by large-scale fighting in in fact, more meaningful than just offering scandals repeatedly erupted before the out- rity (BelTA, December 16, 2015). World War II. The aforementioned coffee and a round table for discussions. At break of the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity A governmental working group was set Ukrainian diplomat expressed similar the February conference of the Minsk dia- and consequent replacement of Viktor up to monitor imports from Ukraine during views (Author’s interview, February 11). logue track II initiative, Belarusian Foreign Yanukovych’s government in February 2014 the first quarter of 2016. However, the Media narratives often distort the reality Affairs Minister Uladzimir Makei stated (Obolon, January 14, 2011; Onliner, April Belarusian authorities, unlike their Russian of Belarus-Ukraine relations. Some observ- colleagues, do not perceive the situation as ers explain this and the fact of recurring strictly black and white. Rather, they are economic disputes by the absence of a “stra- considering new opportunities that might tegic vision for a long-term relationship” be available as a result of the EU-Ukraine (Inosmi, November 30, 2015). To a certain Ukrainian court sentences two Russian citizens trade deal and Ukraine-Russia sanctions. degree, they are right. But this is also a typi- One such potential opportunity is to fill the cal feature of inter-state relations in the for terrorism, setting up possible prisoner swap share of the Russian market formerly held post-Soviet space, where politics is mainly by Ukrainian producers. In 2014, Ukraine’s about tactics, and fighting protectionist Ukrainian military pilot who was recently RFE/RL main exports to Russia consisted of trade wars is part of the political culture. sentenced by a Russian military court to machines and equipment, metal, chemical A Ukrainian court has sentenced two more than 20 years in prison. products and food. Here, only the food sec- The article above is reprinted from Russian citizens to 14 years in prison each The court in Russia’s Rostov region last tor is promising for Belarus. Another Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from on charges of fighting alongside Russia- month found her complicit in the deaths of opportunity is to create joint companies its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. two Russian journalists covering fighting in with Ukraine – in Belarus, in order to www.jamestown.org. The sentencing on April 18 of Aleksandr eastern Ukraine in June 2014. Aleksandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev opens Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko the door for a potential prisoner exchange said prior to the decision that he would be with Moscow for Nadiya Savchenko, a willing to make a prisoner exchange with Quotable notes Ukrainian pilot whose prosecution by a Russia to secure Ms. Savchenko’s release. At Russian court has been closely watched in the time the Kremlin didn’t reject the possi- “… the Kremlin appears to have made the calculation that time in Syria was not on Ukraine and elsewhere. bility, but said no decision would be made its side. Continuing its military engagement would have brought increased costs and The Holosiyiv District Court in Kyiv before Savchenko’s verdict. risks, and so it was time to exercise leverage not just on the Syrian opposition and its found the two men guilty of conducting ter- At least 11 other Ukrainians, including supporters, but on President Bashar Assad. ...Moscow appears to be effectively back- rorist acts and aggressive military activities filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, have been prose- ing the U.N.-brokered peace talks in Geneva. ...If that is indeed how Moscow sees and sentenced them the same day. cuted in Russian courts related to Russia’s things, there may be some lessons for how we deal with Ukraine. The two, who pleaded not guilty, retract- forcible annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean “...in Ukraine, increasing our military support may also be the way to ensure ed video confessions made earlier in which Peninsula. Moscow has signaled that it implementation of the Minsk agreements and what should be a critical early step in they admitted they were active-duty might also consider releasing them as part doing so – a Russian military withdrawal. ... Russian military personnel when they were of a possible prisoner swap. “The United States should also use the opportunity now – before any new Russian captured in Ukraine’s Luhansk region in An uneasy truce in the two-year-old con- surprises in Ukraine – to provide anti-tank missiles to Ukraine. The possibility that May 2015. Both said the statements were flict has held since a ceasefire was negotiat- greater numbers of Russians could die fighting in Ukraine could deter the Kremlin made under duress. ed in February 2015, although internation- from further military action against Ukraine, especially in light of the government’s Russia has said neither Mr. Yerofeyev al observers have recorded an uptick in shameful efforts to hide Russian casualties from the public. This wouldn’t change the nor Mr. Aleksandrov was employed by the fighting in recent months. course of any conflict, given the balance of forces and for this reason Russia is not military when they were captured by a vol- More than 9,100 people have been killed likely to have a military response to such assistance; but this assistance would very unteer Ukrainian militia. in the fighting; some 21,000 have been likely make Russia think twice about renewed military operations. Moscow has repeatedly denied that it has wounded. “Perhaps just as important, anti-tank missiles would demonstrate a firm as-long-as- provided weapons, training and personnel it-takes commitment to support Ukraine’s territorial integrity. The Kremlin will under- to support separatists fighting government With reporting by Interfax, the Associated stand that militarily, it cannot wait out Ukraine and its allies; over time, Ukraine will forces in eastern Ukraine. Indepen­dent Press and Reuters. become stronger militarily and the military costs and risk for Russia will rise. observers, journalists and official monitors, Copyright 2016, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted “Only if we stick firmly with Kyiv, maintaining sanctions and increasing our mili- however, have gathered a substantial body with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ tary assistance, will Moscow realize that time in Ukraine is also not on its side. …” of evidence to the contrary. Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, – Evelyn N. Farkas, former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense (2012-2015) Many observers believe the sentencing Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see and non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, writing in Defense News on April of Messrs. Yerofeyev and Aleksandrov http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-rus- 2. The full article is available at http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/commen- paves the way for them, and possibly oth- sian-soldiers-guilty-waging-war/27681865. tary/2016/04/02/lessons-russian-drawdown-syria-ukraine/82393444/. ers, to be exchanged for Ms. Savchenko, a html). 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016 No. 17

Human rights developments U.S. warns of ‘accelerating’ in Ukraine Following are excerpts from the section on Ukraine in “Country rights abuses worldwide Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2015,” which was released on political freedoms and bureaucratic measures April 13 by the State Department, Bureau of Democracy, Human RFE/RL aimed at stifling opposing voices. Rights and Labor. (The full report may be read at: http://www.state. The U.S. State Department says in a new report gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/index.htm#wrapper). Russia’s repression that the world faces a “global governance crisis” The most significant human rights developments in the country as both governments and non-state actors It criticizes the Kremlin for “a range of mea- during the year were: increasingly infringe on human rights. sures to suppress dissent,” including “new repres- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in the sive laws” and selective prosecution “to harass, continued to control parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions by force of State Department’s human rights report, released discredit, prosecute, imprison, detain, fine and arms,• First, as self-proclaimedseparatists, supported “people’s by Russian republics.” military The and United civil officials,Nations on April 13, that Washington saw “an accelerating suppress individuals and organizations engaged reported that, as of November 15, more than 9,000 persons had died trend by both state and non-state actors to close in activities critical of the government.” and approximately 18,000 had been wounded as a result of Russian the space for civil society, to stifle media and The report also accuses Russia of “especially” aggression in these regions, including civilians, members of the Internet freedom, to marginalize opposition voices targeting individuals and organizations that have Ukrainian armed forces and Russian-backed separatists, since fighting and, in the most extreme cases, to kill people or opposed the Kremlin’s forceful and illegal annexa- began in 2014. More than 2 million persons have fled the region. drive them from their homes.” tion of Ukraine’s Crimea region and Moscow’s Separatists systematically engaged in abductions, torture and unlaw- ful detention. To a lesser extent, there were also reports of these prac- Mr. Kerry also denounced governments for support for separatists who are fighting Kyiv’s tices by government forces. Separatists also employed child soldiers cracking down on freedom of expression by “jail- forces in eastern Ukraine. and restricted humanitarian aid. Additionally, the government ing reporters for writing critical stories” or tar- Russian authorities controlling Crimea, the imposed restrictions on freedom of movement. Internally displaced geting non-governmental organizations (NGOs) report adds, have subjected Ukrainians and persons (IDPs) faced difficulties obtaining legal documents, educa- “for promoting supposedly ‘foreign ideologies’ Crimean Tatars on the peninsula to “systematic tion, pensions, and access to financial institutions and health care. such as universal human rights.” harassment and discrimination.” Mr. Kerry said non-state actors like Islamic Moscow has repeatedly rejected such accusa- numerous human rights abuses, targeting ethnic and religious com- State militants and Boko Haram in 2015 commit- tions by Western governments in the past and munities,• Second, particularly in Crimea, Crimean Russian Tatars, occupation as well authorities as independent committed jour- ted “crimes against humanity,” including geno- typically responds angrily to criticism it faces in nalists and anyone perceived as opposing the Russian occupation cide. He said such groups “flourish in the absence the U.S. State Department’s human rights report. regime. Russia’s occupation of Crimea displaced more than 20,000 of credible and effective state institutions.” The report says citizens of Belarus continued Crimeans. In its annual human rights report, the U.S. State to face human rights violations in 2015, including Department says that “authoritarian govern- an inability to “change their government through the administration of justice. Human rights groups and the U.N. ments” are reacting against an increasingly strong elections,” restrictions targeting former “political noted• Third, there the were country few investigations suffered from into corruption human rightsand deficiencies abuses com in- “civil society” throughout the world “because they prisoners,” and a failure to account for long- mitted by security forces. In particular, the Security Service of fear public scrutiny and feel threatened by people standing cases of politically motivated disappear- Ukraine (SBU) and Ministry of Internal Affairs operated with impu- coming together in ways they cannot control.” ances.” nity. Corruption in the Prosecutor General’s Office and the judiciary “In 2015, this global crackdown by authoritari- was of particular concern. an states on civil society deepened, silencing Copyright 2016, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted with the … Investigations into the 2014 Euro-Maidan shootings in Kyiv independent voices, impoverishing political dis- permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and riots in Odesa remained incomplete more than a year later. course and closing avenues for peaceful change,” 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington DC 20036; Investigations into human rights abuses related to the Russian occu- the report says. www.rferl.org (see http://www.rferl.org/content/ pation of Crimea and the conflict in the Donbas region were also incomplete. … The report accuses governments across the us-report-accelerating-rights-abuses-world- former Soviet Union of both overt repression of wide/27673237.html). Freedom House says economic troubles threaten stability in ex-Soviet ‘dictatorships’

by Antoine Blua energy-based economies that are depen- seen this imitated in a number of countries to seven and a half years in prison. RFE/RL dent on Russia through subsidies and in Eurasia. In Belarus, President Alyaksandr migrant labor, with Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, “You have in Tajikistan quite similar leg- Lukashenka freed political prisoners and In a new report, Freedom House warns Uzbekistan and Tajikistan “also facing pos- islation that’s been applied somewhat arbi- allowed “mild criticism” ahead of a presiden- that economic woes are threatening the sible recession in 2016,” the report says. trarily and unevenly – but has been tial election in October, in an effort to “court stability of “entrenched dictatorships” in Nate Schenkkan, project director of applied,” he said. “In Kazakhstan, you have the EU and replace the patronage that Russia the former Soviet Union, the migration cri- Nations In Transit, told RFE/RL that these a different kind of NGO restriction… that’s can no longer provide,” the report says. sis is fueling populism in Eastern Europe, states now have to face the consequences also having very, very pernicious effects Opportunity for Democracy and reforms in the Balkans are in retreat. after years of failing to diversify their econ- now that it’s being applied in 2016. And in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “naked omies or create transparent and account- Kyrgyzstan, a ‘foreign agents’ law has been Ukraine “remains the single most impor- embrace of autocracy” deepened in 2015, the able systems of government. debated in Parliament now for over a year.” tant opportunity for establishing democra- U.S.-based human rights group says. “It’s certainly likely that there’s going to The report says Tajikistan’s government cy” in the region, the report notes. Freedom House made the assessments be considerably more social protest in this pursued “one of the harshest crackdowns The government achieved “some prog- in its annual Nations in Transit report, year,” he said. “There was probably more in the region has seen in years,” banning the ress” in reforms in 2015, but continuing which monitors the democratic develop- 2015 already.” main opposition party and imprisoning its Russian occupation of Crimea, the separat- ment of 29 countries in the former Soviet “Anecdotally, we know that there are large leaders. ist conflict in the country’s east, wide- Union, the Balkans and Central Europe. It numbers of labor migrants returning, espe- The country “began prosecuting lots and spread corruption and impunity for crimes was published on April 12. cially to Tajikistan,” Mr. Schenkkan added. lots of civil society activists as well as peo- during the political upheaval of 2014 are The report assigns each country a score “This then creates a large class of unem- ple like the lawyers of those members who holding back further progress.” to measure democratic progress. Weighted ployed young men… and that of course is a were arrested as well as the lawyers of the “Ukraine is really at a pivot point where for population, the average Democracy very potent potential protest group.” lawyers,” Mr. Schenkkan said. they have to go forward,” Mr. Schenkkan Score in the 29 countries covered has Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev warned. “And if they don’t, there’s a real sig- Harsher crackdown declined for 12 years in a row. held early elections to reaffirm his mandate nificant threat that Ukraine falls back and Mr. Schenkkan said that leaders in the while signing a new law to “increase con- continues a tradition of very, very corrupt On the brink region had responded with measures trol over civil society,” he said. governance.” The situation is particularly grim in the intended to “reaffirm their control.” Mr. Schenkkan also said that govern- Balkan retreat former Soviet Union, where seven coun- In Russia, the report says, Mr. Putin’s ments were increasingly prosecuting peo- tries are led by “dictators” who have been “naked embrace of autocracy since his ple for speech on online platforms, and that In the Balkans, Serbia and Montenegro in power for at least 10 years – Russia, return to the presidency in 2012 deepened the “charge of inciting ethnic or social have begun the EU accession process, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, in 2015 with an ever-harsher crackdown hatred is now being applied more widely.” Albania and Macedonia are official candi- Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. on civil society and political organizing.” In Kyrgyzstan, he said, the government dates, while Bosnia-Herzegovina and Freedom House says the collapse in global It says Russian “innovations in authori- had been “using the tools of the state, espe- Kosovo are potential candidates. commodity prices, especially oil, combined tarianism,” such as restrictions on non-gov- cially the security services, to blacken the But Freedom House says reform “has with U.S. and European sanctions on Russia ernmental organizations, spread further names of the opposition and to put its slowed and now retreated,” with the region’s and Russian countersanctions, has driven within the region. opponents on the back foot and try to pre- average Democracy Score back to where it economies of the region “to the brink.” “One of the foremost among those [new vent them from organizing rallies or orga- was in 2004, as the European Union strug- Economic troubles have pushed Russia tactics] is the ‘foreign agents’ law, the nizing expressions of discontent.” gled to find a balance between ensuring into recession and triggered similar curren- branding of NGOs as foreign agents, which The Nations in Transit report says short-term stability in the Balkans and cy crises and budget shortfalls in other oil- in Russia has been frankly very effective in Azerbaijan “continued a crackdown that pressing for convergence with European and gas-producing countries, including driving NGOs underground or forcing them began in the summer of 2014,” citing last norms. Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. to leave the country or to cease their activi- year’s sentencing of investigative journalist The crisis has also rippled through non- ties,” Mr. Schenkkan explained. “And you’ve and RFE/RL contributor Khadija Ismayilova (Continued on page 22) No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016 5

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EASTER PASTORAL LETTER The Ukrainian Weekly No more games! The Feast of Feasts The Verkhovna Rada on April 14 approved the composition of a new government led by Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman. Immediately, fears were expressed that The Paschal Epistle of the Permanent these can often cause troubles for others the new prime minister is the president’s man, a crony that will do Petro Poroshenko’s Conference of Ukrainian Orthodox Bishops and may even lead to self-destruction. The bidding and consolidate his control over various government entities. Our biggest fear Beyond the Borders of Ukraine in the Year of loss of a sense of sin and holiness leads to stems from the fact that reshuffling the Cabinet does not guarantee much-needed our Lord 2016. tragedies in people’s personal and public reforms in Ukraine. Without a true commitment to reform and rooting out corruption, life. People do not know what they live for the formation of a new government and a new parliamentary coalition is meaningless. To the Reverend Clergy, the Deaconate in and often do not see the meaning of life. Indeed, that was the message conveyed in no uncertain terms by the United Christ, Venerable Monastics and all the The meaning of life for every Christian is States and other allies in the West, even as President Poroshenko proclaimed faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church found in the words contained in the joy of Ukraine’s political crisis to be over. beyond the borders of Ukraine and on her Pascha: “Christ is Risen from the dead, Vice-President Joe Biden spoke with President Poroshenko on the very day the native soil: trampling down death by death and upon new government was announced. According to a readout of the phone call released Christ is Risen! those in the tombs, bestowing life.” (Paschal by the White House, “The vice-president stressed that Ukraine must use the There is no event and no greater news Tropar) “The Risen Lord is the way, the renewed political stability to move forward on the reforms required to secure that is more joyful in the life of the truth, and the life for all of us.” (Jn 14:6) Ukraine’s future – including fulfilling Ukraine’s IMF commitments. The vice-presi- Christian than the news of the Resurrection God has granted us the right to choose to dent also stressed the urgency of putting in place a new prosecutor general who of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Resurrection live with Him or without Him. He is the would bolster the agency’s anti-corruption efforts and strongly support the work of of our Lord Jesus Christ for the Orthodox way. Let us not doubt for a second, but its reformers.” Mr. Biden followed up with a call to Mr. Groysman, telling the new Church is the Feast of Feasts and the choose the road that leads to Him. He is the prime minister that his new team “should move forward quickly” on reform in order Festival of Festivals, because the Truth. Let us know that our heart can find to maintain international support for Kyiv. Resurrection of our Lord is the victory of peace only in Him. He is the life. Let us Similarly, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, speaking at the Odesa life over death, of love over hatred, of truth know that through His death on the Cross Security Forum, which was held on March 24-25, had underscored that Kyiv’s slow over falsehood, of good over evil, of humili- and His Resurrection, He grants immortali- movement on reforms is weakening Ukraine in its struggle against Russia’s ongoing ty over pride, of faith over hopelessness ty to all of us. invasion and occupation. “Ukraine’s best response to Russian aggression is to con- and of holiness over sin. We, the episcopate of the Ukrainian tinue firmly on its European trajectory, to continue to implement real reforms that St. Paul says: “If Christ has not been Orthodox Church Beyond the Borders of fundamentally and irreversibly destroy the corrupt practices of the past,” said Mr. raised, then our preaching is in vain, and Ukraine, prayerfully appeal to the Risen Pyatt. The Verkhovna Rada, he added, “must continue to represent the people’s our faith is in vain.” (1 Cor 15:14) Lord that He grant peace, joy and spiritual interests and not the parochial interests of individual members or oligarchic clans.” The Lord’s Resurrection fills our lives renewal to our God-loving Ukrainian peo- Fear for Ukraine’s future is compounded by the fact that some of the country’s with meaning and purpose for which we ple in Ukraine, in the North and South most effective ministers are now gone, among them the foreigners who had been can even forsake all that is temporary so Americas, in Western Europe, and in brought in because they were not part of the old system and were seen as incorrupt- that we may attain that which is eternal. Australia and New Zealand. Beloved in the ible, for example Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius, who resigned in protest Whatever we are suffering, whatever ill- Risen Christ “on this chosen and holy day, against corruption and the blocking of reforms, and Finance Minister Natalie ness and misfortune we endure, whatever the Feast of Feasts, and the Festival of Jaresko, who oversaw Kyiv’s negotiations with the IMF and succeeded in restructur- cross we bear to our personal Golgotha, we Festivals, we bless Christ to all the ages.” ing Ukraine’s debt (and for a while was seen as the next prime minister). Speaking in must know that our resurrection awaits us (Paschal Matins, Canticle 8) Washington on the day the new Cabinet was formed, Ms. Jaresko, who arrived in if we believe in the Lord, if we love Him and Truly, Christ is Risen! town as a minister and left as an ex-minister, described the IMF bailout package as a if we hope in Him. He rose from death for With Archpastoral Blessings, “huge asset” and a program that “fosters the reform agenda,” and said the new gov- us. With His death, He conquered death for ernment “must stick to the IMF program and implement it fully.” each of us. He opened the way to eternal + Yurij, Metropolitan, Ukrainian We fervently hope that President Poroshenko, Prime Minister Groysman and the life for each of us by His Resurrection. Orthodox Church of Canada new Cabinet will heed the words uttered by Ukraine’s staunch supporters. As The The darkness of the tomb is illuminated, + Antony, Metropolitan, Ukrainian Washington Post noted in its most recent editorial on Ukraine, Messrs. Poroshenko and in the words of St. John Chrysostom: “… Orthodox Church of the U.S.A., Ukrainian and Groysman “talked a good game,” saying they are committed to the IMF program, for pardon has shone forth from the grave. Orthodox Church in Diaspora to fighting corruption and rejecting economic populism. “But neither man has a Let no one fear death, for the Savior’s death record of supporting the radical steps Ukraine needs, including a sweeping reform of + Ioan, Archbishop, Ukrainian Orthodox has set us free. He that was held prisoner of Church in Diaspora the judiciary, big increases in energy prices for consumers, and an uncompromising it has annihilated it. Death, where is thy assault on corrupt oligarchs and vested interests.” sting? Christ is Risen, and life reigns. Christ + Jeremiah, Archbishop, Ukrainian Unfortunately, the news from Kyiv this week was not good. President Poroshenko is Risen, and no dead remain in the grave.” Orthodox Eparchy of Brazil And South was promoting the candidacy of Yurii Lutsenko for procurator general despite the (Paschal Epistle of St. John Chrysostom) America fact that he does not have the necessary credentials. Why? Observers say Mr. God not only grants us a life here on + Ilarion, Bishop, Ukrainian Orthodox Lutsenko was seen as someone whom the president could trust and influence. To his earth, but today we celebrate and praise Church of Canada credit, after it became clear that the powers of the top prosecutor would be curtailed God’s unfathomable grace and love for us + Andriy, Bishop, Ukrainian Orthodox and the procuracy would not be reformed, Mr. Lutsenko stated that he does not all, because through the power of the Risen Church of Canada want to be a ”decorative prosecutor.” Lord “corruptible mortality has put on It is our sincere hope that Kyiv does not think it is fooling anyone by reshuffling incorruption and mortality has put on + Daniel, Bishop, Ukrainian Orthodox the Cabinet and continuing business as usual. It’s time to stop the games and move immortality.” (1 Cor 15:54) Immortality is Church of the U.S.A. expeditiously on reforms in Ukraine. A good place to start would be with the granted to us by the Lord, the appointment of a truly independent and reform-minded procurator general – some- source of the boundless joy of one who will actually fight corruption, not abet it. our faith because no one in our life can grant us anything more valuable and more important than the immortality given to us Turning the pages back... by the Risen Lord. April We live in the 21st century. It would seem that humanity has Two years ago, on April 28, 2014, the White House, Office of achieved much and has actually the Press Secretary, released a statement that announced U.S. made great strides in scientific 28 and technical progress. Many sanctions against seven Russian government officials and 17 2014 companies in response to “Russia’s continued illegal intervention people and nations live in mate- in Ukraine and provocative acts that undermine Ukraine’s rial abundance. And the world democracy and threaten its peace, security, stability, sovereignty should have also become wiser and territorial integrity.” based on its historical experi- The following day, on April 29, the European Union also announced a list of 15 people ence. Unfortunately, war, hatred targeted for new sanctions, including Russian officials and Russia’s proxy leaders in and violence continue. Those Ukraine’s east, bringing the total individuals sanctioned by the EU to 48. Their bank with greater strength dominate accounts and assets in the EU countries were frozen and they were no longer to be over those who are weaker. allowed to travel to EU countries. Individuals and entire nations U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew also released a statement which underscored that ignore God and His Command­ “Russia’s dangerous and inflammatory actions against Ukraine and illegal and illegiti- ments and show that we are liv- mate.” Secretary Lew explained: “Since Russia has refused to follow through on its Geneva ing in eschatological times. commitments, today the United states is following through on its statements – we are Material wealth or the desire imposing additional costs against Russia, including sanctions on individuals in the Russian to acquire material wealth does leadership’s inner circle and 17 entities closely linked to previously sanctioned members not always provide a guarantee for people that they will have a (Continued on page 22) quiet and happy life. Instead, A Ukrainian Easter card (artist unknown). No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016 7

FOR THE RECORD From a Canadian Angle U.S. Mission to the OSCE cites by Oksana Bashuk Hepburn worsening situation in Donbas, Crimea Following are excerpts of the statement Russian side of the Joint Center for Control delivered by U.S. Ambassador Daniel B. Baer and Co-Coordination has thus far failed to to the Permanent Council of the investigate or ensure disciplinary action Going forward: Th ree steps Organization for Security and Cooperation was taken against those responsible. It has The two-year battle to defend Ukraine Orthodox patriarch. The horrors of more in Europe, meeting in Vienna on April 14. also failed to pursue accountability for the from Russia calls for an assessment. than 9,000 Ukrainian dead, tens of thou- 41 other times the SMM was delayed or High marks go to Ukraine’s ATO forces. sands wounded, nearly 2 million homeless …Regrettably, the worsening security denied access by separatist forces in the Originating with the young protesters from and displaced by Russia in Ukraine, were situation in the Donbas, precipitated by past week, or for previous attacks on the the Maidan, the fighters had little but their missing from the final message of rap- ceasefire violations from combined SMM, including the firebombing of SMM bare hands to repel the invader. Not only prochement. It was nothing less than a vic- Russian-separatist forces, has constrained vehicles last summer. have they withstood Russia, virtually on tory for the criminal. Ukraine’s capacity to move forward on the The United States reminds the Russian their own, but their endurance is accumu- So was the vote in Holland to keep political aspects of Minsk implementation Federation that the conduct of the forces it lating other benefits for Ukraine. Ukraine out of the EU. True, Russia funds and Ukraine’s reform program. The United backs is in complete contravention of the Primarily, it’s the image. Ukraine is seen the extreme left- and right-wing elements States expresses grave concern over the SMM’s mandate and the Minsk agreements, as a country determined to stand up for its there – and elsewhere – that organized the escalating cycle of violence that has taken and joins other participating States in rights. Volunteer battalions forced the referendum. True, it is nonbinding. It is, hold in the Donbas and notes, once again, demanding an immediate end to the overhaul of Ukraine’s military and exposed however, an anti-Ukraine position and a clear and incontrovertible evidence that obstruction of OSCE monitors and to all Russia’s aggressiveness. The West is biting propaganda tidbit for Russia. military provocation threats against back with economic sanctions. In Canada, the new Liberal government remains the policy them. The SMM On the negative side, Ukraine’s human is anxious to make its own mark on foreign of combined The U.S. Mission must have unre- and property losses are considerable. NATO affairs: to distance itself from former Prime Russian-separatist to the OSCE notes stricted access is not providing military support nor have Minister Stephen Harper who considered forces. No fewer throughout Ukraine, any member states sent lethal weapons to Ukraine “family.” than 37 outgoing “clear and incontro- up to and along the aid Ukraine. Russia’s ongoing intransigence The current minister of foreign affairs, grad rockets were vertible evidence that Russia-Ukraine and further escalation have failed to get it Stephen Dion, seeks re-engagement with launched out of sep- military provocation international border, barred from the international banking sys- Russia primarily as a response to pro-Putin aratist-controlled and jamming of tem known as SWIFT or to place President lobbyists parading as pro-business inter- Donetsk city on remains the policy of SMM UAVs Vladimir Putin on the sanctions list. ests, as well as because Russia is an Arctic April 8, in blatant combined Russian- [unmanned aerial Instead of giving Russia a response that neighbor. The minister hopes that by talk- will make it pay attention, NATO and the disregard for the vehicles] must ing, or “reasonable accommodation” as he separatist forces.” West are guided by Russia’s threats of a withdrawal lines cease. While com- calls it, Russia will be convinced to play by broader war. Meanwhile, Moscow views and in violation of bined Russian- the rules. Good luck. non-intervention as a green light to the September 1 ceasefire. As confidence in separatist forces jam OSCE UAVs, they fly In recent Arctic maneuvers, Russia advance its territorial and political inter- the ceasefire regime erodes, the tit-for-tat their own UAVs over Ukrainian territory. On employed some 30,000 military personnel, ests worldwide. Its hate propaganda mocks while Canada had 250. It is building 14 exchange of fire has grown into sustained April 8, Ukrainian forces shot down a the West’s lack of resolve and levels accu- combat in key hotspots, with over 2,800 Russian Orlan 10 drone near government- new icebreakers to Canada’s one. It seems sations, especially against the United States more prudent for Canada to talk to the U.S. ceasefire violations occurring on April 8 controlled Avdiyivka. Moreover, on April 6, and NATO, as if they, not Russia, were the alone. The OSCE Special Monitoring the OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian and NATO about its north than Russia. world’s aggressor. Despite Ukraine’s courageous efforts, Mission (SMM) has recorded the highest- Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk spotted, Russia’s propaganda masks its rogue ever use of heavy weapons since the cease- yet again, a van driving from Ukraine into disturbing signs point to a collapse of the image. Its lies and misrepresentations free world’s will to stand up to Russia. fire began. Russia marked with the phrase “Cargo manipulate and lead global opinion. Democratic values – sovereignty, rule of Maintaining this intense level of fighting 200,” indicating it was being used to trans- Moreover, EU states, primarily those that law, human rights – are being traded in for requires, as the SMM has previously noted, port Russian military casualties. This is fur- did not experience Russia’s rule during its political, ecclesiastic and business expedi- a “sophisticated supply chain” to keep sepa- ther evidence that Russia remains deeply Soviet era – Holland, France, Germany – or encies. They are pursuing their definition ratist forces well-stocked with weapons and directly involved in the conflict. … are sequestering Russia oligarchs’ money – of self-interest. Ukraine must do likewise. and ammunition. The Russian Federation Colleagues, the freedoms of expression, Austria, Great Britain, Switzerland – are Going forward Ukraine must: should fulfill its commitments under the association, and peaceful assembly remain keen to re-engage with Russia. Minsk agreements and stop providing sup- concerns not only in separatist-controlled They pressure the victim, Ukraine, to a national emergency-preparedness strate- plies to separatist forces; those supplies territory but in Russia-occupied Crimea. At fulfill one-sided demands of the Minsk gy •that Maintain turns everyindependence. citizen into This a calls battle- for only fuel the conflict in eastern Ukraine. an event last week in the Hofburg on the agreements. They push for elections in the ready warrior on the front, in politics, the Full and unfettered access to SMM moni- occupied Donbas, even though Russia is situation in Crimea, experts reported on media, business and the diplomatic arena. tors is crucial to restore the ceasefire and the widespread use of torture by police and not meeting requirements, including the ceasefire and the total withdrawal from allow the demilitarization of hotspots in so-called “self-defense forces,” threats and political power. Form a political party com- Ukraine’s territory. Many states cite cor- the security zone. Unfortunately, not only pressure placed on the families of dissi- prising• Recognize patriots that who there understand is no substitute that revo- for ruption as a reason for distancing them- have combined Russian-separatist forces dents, and political prisoners “lost” in lutions start on the streets – Ukraine’s have selves from Ukraine. stepped up their obstruction of SMM moni- detention. They also discussed Russia’s been brilliant through the ages – but are This pro-Russia diplomatic position is tors, they have also attacked the monitors efforts to compel military-age males in won by obtaining and holding presidential, dangerous and gathering steam. as well. Crimea to serve in the Russian military as a parliamentary and judicial power. There is Apparently, in the latest Minsk discus- On April 7, an SMM vehicle came under strategy to silence the Crimean Tatar com- no time to waste; elections are looming. small-arms fire when driving deep in sepa- munity, and the systematic targeting of the sions, France and Germany badgered Ukraine to meet the Minsk demands with- ratist-held territory – only 20 kilometers Tatar and Ukrainian-language media. which is interested in doing business, will out equally pressuring the aggressor. This from the Russian border. The same day in The United States condemns Russia’s assist• Push in exerting for reforms. constant Here pressure the West, to allowed Russia’s representatives to sit back separatist-controlled Luhansk, a fighter failure to uphold its obligations and com- remove corrupt officials and change laws and observe the charade with amusement. cocked his rifle and pointed it directly at an mitments under international law and the that enable crime. President Poroshenko Similarly, it was hard to find a balance in SMM monitor who had stepped out of his Helsinki Final Act through its occupation of must do his job or go. the document summarizing the meeting vehicle to try to negotiate passage after Crimea and by allowing impunity for abus- Every day since the Maidan marks prog- between the Catholic pope and Russia’s separatist forces had blocked their patrol. es there. We remind the Russian Federation ress in Ukraine, and every day there are On April 9, the SMM came under small- that the lifting of sanctions related to setbacks that erase achievements. This arms fire originating from a separatist posi- Crimea is tied directly to Russia ending its Oksana Bashuk Hepburn may be con- must stop. Successful states move forward tion on the contact line. We note that the occupation there. tacted at [email protected]. rather than vacillate. So must Ukraine.

by the publication of the “Panama Papers,” to weaken Russia from the inside, to “split while a U.S.-led and financed revolutionary Putin’s new... which disclosed corrupt offshore financial society and undermine trust in the govern- regime change has been commenced, with schemes that involved, among others, some ment.” Mr. Putin added: “They will pit us the Panama Papers as a declaration of war. (Continued from page 2) of Mr. Putin’s closest acquaintances. The one against another, like it was done during A massive praetorian National Guard, head- authorities; they have never trained togeth- Kremlin has accused the U.S. State the tragic time of World War I” (Interfax, ed by an absolutely loyal bodyguard, is seen er and do not know other cities (Novaya Department and the Central Intelligence April 7). Apparently, Mr. Putin is referring as the only means to stop the onslaught. Gazeta, March 2, 2012). Agency of being instrumental in their publi- to the Bolshevik revolution led by Vladimir Mr. Putin’s sudden decision to create a cation – allegedly aimed at Mr. Putin Lenin, which was partially financed by the The article above is reprinted from joint massive praetorian National Guard by (Interfax, April 4). German General Staff. Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from merging together all the OMON units and According to Mr. Putin himself, the It seems that Mr. Putin considers himself its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, the interior troops may have been triggered release of the Panama Papers is an attempt as some besieged emperor in the Kremlin, www.jamestown.org. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016 No. 17 Ukraine’s reshuffled Cabinet of Ministers Continuing the listing from last week, fol- alleged to be in cahoots with Kyiv’s illegal four-year terms. Among his main responsi- Anti-Money Laundering Specialists and lowing are the Cabinet ministers approved construction industry. bilities is the efficient distribution of social served as a deputy of the Kirovohrad on April 14 by the Verkhovna Rada. (The Finance Minister Alex Danylyuk: After payments and subsidies. Oblast Council between 2002 and 2010. brief profiles were prepared by Kyiv corre- earning his M.B.A. from the Kelley School Ecology and National Resources Energy and Coal Production Minister spondent Zenon Zawada.) of Business at the University of Indiana, he Minister Ostap Semerak, 43: He earned a Ihor Nasalyk, 53: He was elected to built a career in finance in the private sec- master’s degree in political science from Parliament in 2014 under the Poroshenko Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak, tor, working in London for eight years. He the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Bloc. Before serving as mayor of Kalush in 51: He has served for 18 months, largely joined the public sector in 2010 when Academy. He was a leading anti-corruption the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast between 2006 responsible for managing finances and agreeing to serve as an economic advisor crusader against the Yanukovych adminis- and 2014, he was a national deputy in personnel rather than developing military to former President Viktor Yanukovych tration before getting elected to 2002-2005, serving as head of the parlia- strategy. He is currently leading a recertifi- before also becoming an advisor to Parliament in 2014 with the People’s Front mentary Subcommittee on Oil Production cation process that will result in two-thirds President Petro Poroshenko. He said his party. He served as minister of the Cabinet and Storage. He is widely expected to fulfill of the ministry’s leadership being dis- main priority will be to renew Ukraine’s of Ministers in the post-Euro-Maidan tem- Mr. Poroshenko’s will in this key position, missed, as well as departments being cut. cooperation with the IMF, which was halt- porary government and deputy infrastruc- following in the footsteps of his predeces- Monthly reports of corruption still emerge ed owing to the February corruption scan- ture minister in the Yatsenyuk Cabinet. sor, Volodymyr Demchyshyn. from the Defense Ministry, indicating it’s dal and collapse of the coalition. After his Agrarian Policy Minister Taras Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr being exposed yet at the same time con- appointment, he claimed that he hasn’t Kutovyi, 40: He built his career in the Omelian, 37: A Lviv native, he built his tinuing in a time of war. been involved in business since 2010, Renaissance and Step by Step foundations, career serving in numerous government Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo when he became Mr. Yanukovych’s advisor. followed by financial work in the private ministries, with the most years spent in the Klimkin, 48: He has served for nearly two Then on April 21, he admitted that he’s sector. After getting elected to Parliament Foreign Affairs Ministry. He was appointed years, leading the effort to challenge still a director of three foreign companies, in 2012 with the Ukrainian Democratic deputy minister of infrastructure in the Russian diplomacy and well-financed infor- which he claimed he didn’t know and said Alliance for Reform (UDAR), he served as Yatsenyuk Cabinet. He and his family have mation wars. His successes include galva- was only a formality. the first vice-chair of the parliamentary been identified by news reports as being nizing global support for holding the Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko: An Agrarian Policy and Land Relations involved in Ukraine’s waste management Russian government responsible for the acquaintance of Arseniy Yatsenyuk from Committee. He became the committee business. attack on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, as their native Chernivtsi and common alma chair in December 2014 after his election Culture Minister Yevhen Nyshchuk, well as world support for imprisoned pilot matter Yurii Fedkovych National with the Poroshenko Bloc. 43: A professional actor most famous for Nadiya Savchenko. His shortcomings University, he has led reforms such as Education Minister Lilia Hrynevych, his leading role in inspiring both Maidan include failing to deter this month’s Dutch opening access to state registers of private 50: A native of Lviv, she worked as a teach- protests, the Ivano-Frankivsk native was referendum rejecting the Ukraine-EU property and real estate, imposing a mora- er and director of local schools. She was a rewarded for his key role in the Euro- Association Agreement, as well as failing to torium on inspections of small and medi- co-founder of the Ukrainian Center to Maidan with the culture minister’s post in convince Western leaders of the dangers of um-size business and reducing the time Evaluate Education Quality, helped to the transition government. With his establishing de facto autonomy in the required to register a business to a single develop standardized testing on the return, Ukraine’s arts and culture commu- Donbas. day. In addition, he claims credit for cutting national level and helped draft the law on nity is hoping that Mr. Nyshchuk will pro- Internal Affairs Minister Arsen staff by 20 percent, and by 30 percent in higher education, which ensured the vide the vision and organizational skills to Avakov: An active participant and sponsor the central office, and dismissing 47 out of autonomy of universities. She was first promote Ukrainian art and culture abroad, of the Euro-Maidan, he took over the 85 administrators during the ministry’s elected to Parliament in 2012 and appoint- which they claim Vice Prime Minister nation’s police force and led the biggest recertification process. In a unique reform, ed head of the parliamentary Science and Viacheslav Kyrylenko has failed to do. reforms in its history, dismissing dozens of he has proposed auctioning jails in city Education Committee. She serves as an Information Policy Minister Yuriy commanders through recertification, liqui- centers to developers, requiring that they honorary senator of the Ukrainian Catholic Stets, 40: He remains the director of a min- dating the notoriously corrupt traffic police build new ones built on city outskirts with University and supports teaching Christian istry that is widely believed to have been and in its place, introducing police patrols the centrally located land as their reward. ethics in schools. created for him personally, largely because in the major cities with newly hired offi- Mr. Petrenko is criticized for playing a role Temporarily Occupied Territories of his close ties to the president, whose cers. They became so popular that the pub- in the lack of progress in prosecuting and Domestically Displaced Persons wife is the godmother of his daughter. The lic in Kyiv rallied at a February protest in Yanukovych officials and preventing them Minister Vadym Chernysh, 44: A lawyer ministry has few accomplishments, with support of an officer who was placed under from retrieving and accessing their assets. by training, he was appointed in June as much Russian and anti-Ukrainian propa- house arrest after killing a teenager in a Social Policy Minister Andriy Reva, the head of the State Agency to Renew the ganda entering the Ukrainian mass media high-speed chase. Nonetheless, critics 49: A close associate to Prime Minister Donbas and worked closely with Vice and reaching the global audience. Mr. Stets argue that too much corruption still Volodymyr Groysman, he served as his Prime Minister Hennadii Zubko. He’s a submitted his resignation before recalling plagues the police force, which is still deputy mayor in Vinnytsia during his two member of the Association of Certified it in February.

Since November 2013, the Mejlis has been president for more concessions in Russia suspends... led by Refat Chubarov. Failed vote... exchange for their support. Messrs. Dzhemilev and Chubarov, both The president might need to reach (Continued from page 1) (Continued from page 1) Ukrainian lawmakers, have been barred agreement with them for lack of support ing out the few remaining voices of dissent from entering Crimea for five years by indicated that the new IMF tranche of $1.7 among his own forces. in Crimea,” Denis Krivosheyev, Amnesty Crimea’s Moscow-backed leadership. billion also depends on an acceptable The de facto coalition that emerged on International’s deputy director for Europe The Organization for Security and procurator general. April 14 between the Poroshenko Bloc and and Central Asia, said in an April 13 state- Cooperation In Europe issued a report in “Appointing Lutsenko as procurator gen- the People’s Front party has only 222 depu- ment. September saying that, since Russia’s land eral means the very same [Viktor] Shokin ties officially registered as of April 21, A U.S. State Department official told grab, fundamental freedoms have “deterio- will be leading it,” Viktor Nebozhenko, according to the Rada’s website. That’s four RFE/RL on April 18: “We are deeply dis- rated radically” for many in Crimea, espe- director of the Ukrainian Barometer short of the necessary majority. turbed by these reports. Banning the Mejlis cially for pro-Ukrainian activists, journalists Sociological Service, told the gazeta.ua The failed vote showed the coalition Council, the body representing the region’s and the Crimean Tatar community. news site on April 20. “Lutsenko fears lift- doesn’t exist, Mr. Leshchenko wrote, Tatar ethnic minority, would remove what In its annual human rights report issued ing his head before the president. We’d be repeating the claims made last week by Mr. little representation and recourse the last week, the U.S. State Department criti- getting a cardboard prosecutor, not a real Liashko and Ms. Tymoshenko, who criti- Tatars have left under Russian occupation. cized what it portrayed as a broad range of one.” cized the tactics used to form the coalition. Crimean Tatars face repression and dis- rights violations against Crimean Tatars, With someone like Mr. Lutsenko leading Those tactics involved keeping the previ- crimination in Russian-occupied Crimea. including “systematic discrimination” and the prosecution, Mr. Poroshenko is forming ous coalition of five pro-Western factions in Almost 10,000 Crimean Tatars have been “physical abuse and beatings” by “Russian a regime of personal power and a repres- place on a de jure basis, while at the same forced to flee their homeland. Those who occupying forces.” sive state apparatus, said Mr. Nebozhenko, time recruiting independent national depu- remain have been subjected to abuses, Russian President Vladimir Putin last a view that was supported by Serhiy ties to join the Poroshenko Bloc in an including interrogations, beatings, arbi- year suggested that foreign countries were Gaiday, a Kyiv political consultant who attempt to swell the ranks of the two larg- trary detentions, and police raids on their funding efforts to “destabilize the situation” worked with Mr. Poroshenko in the past. est factions forming the de facto coalition to homes and mosques. These brutalities and by highlighting difficulties faced by He told The Ukrainian Weekly he more than 226 deputies. human rights abuses must end.” Crimean Tatars, and said that Moscow believes the president is usurping power, Verkhovna Rada Chair Parubiy claimed The Mejlis has refused to recognize would not allow this. echoing claims made by pro-Western oppo- as recently as April 18 that 230 national Russia’s takeover of Crimea, which triggered sition leaders Oleh Liashko and Yulia deputies are in the parliamentary coalition, a wave of Western sanctions against Copyright 2016, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted with Tymoshenko. yet proof has yet to emerge. Moscow, and played a key role in the consoli- the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Serhiy Leshchenko, a national deputy Meanwhile, experts were hard-pressed dation of efforts on behalf of Crimean Tatars. Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington with the Poroshenko Bloc, said on his to name other possible candidates for proc- The council was led for many years by DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see http://www. Facebook page that the April 21 vote failed urator general who would satisfy both the the veteran leader of the Crimean Tatars, rferl.org/content/russia-crimea-tatar-mejlis- because two deputies’ groups, Renaissance West’s calls for reform and the president’s Soviet-era dissident Mustafa Dzhemilev. suspended-extremist/27682394.html). and Will of the People, are blackmailing the appetite for control. No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016 9 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016 No. 17

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE UAYA branches complete “Warming Hearts with Warmth” project

by Yuriy Mykytyn NEW YORK – For the second consecutive year, the Ukrainian American Youth Association (UAYA) in the United States, in conjunction with the worldwide governing body of the organization, were the “angels” that St. Nicholas relied upon to bring joy to children in Ukraine under the auspices of a humanitarian project called “Warming Hearts with Warmth.” The goal of this project was to unite Ukrainian youth throughout the world in good deed for others, in this case for chil- dren whose parents may currently be on the battlefront or may have already given their greatest sacrifice for their country – their life. Young refugees from the war-torn east of Ukraine were also designated recip- ients of the gifts. The “Warming Hearts with Warmth – 2015” campaign included Ukrainian Youth Association members from the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, Belgium and Great Britain. From the United States alone there was 100 percent partici- pation from each of the 18 active UAYA branches in the country. Additionally, sev- eral church communities where there are no active UAYA groups but where individu- al UAYA members reside joined in the cam- paign. Participants in “Warming Hearts with Warmth – 2015” were successful in send- Members of the Philadelphia branch of the Ukrainian American Youth Association with winter clothes and school supplies sent to ing over 1,500 gifts to contacts in Ukraine, children in Ukraine. nearly 550 of which came from U.S.-based UAYA centers, which then disseminated petrovsk and Kyiv. moved to know they had not been forgot- son. It was the Ukrainian American Youth them to overjoyed children in Ukraine. This project extends an opportunity for ten. For those who participated in collect- Association’s greatest hope and joy that Specifically, the Ukrainian Youth these children in Ukraine to feel the love, ing and sending the gifts, the opportunity these acts of kindness would warm the Association in Ukraine has active centers in generosity and caring of others. Many of to think beyond their own immediate prob- hearts of children in Ukraine with the love Kalush, Lviv, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, them and their extended family with whom lems and needs, to help and show love for and warmth that went into each and every Chernihiv, Skvyra, Bobrynets, Dnipro­ they are currently residing were very their neighbors in need was a priceless les- gift sent to them. Parish blesses new icons Pysanky, Ukrainian art on display for Stations of the Cross at Wethersfield Public Library by Zirka Rudyk tiny birds (“ptashky”), used to decorate a traditional wedding cake or “korovai,” a pre- WETHERSFIELD, Conn. – The Wethersfield served “paska” in a basket, a miniature girl’s Public Library in Wethersfield, Conn., has headdress, or “vinochok,” as well as a Hutsul hosted Ukrainian Easter Egg exhibits for hat or “krysan.’ ” One section of the display many years, mainly through the efforts of was dedicated to the Hutsul region. Another Myron Kolinsky. Each year, Tanya Osadca’s small section showed how effectively tradi- beautiful pysanky (made with both chicken tional designs are reflected on contempo- and goose eggs) were on display and rary pysanky, ceramics and embroideries. A received raving reviews. short write-up and step-by-step display of a This year the exhibit, which was on view white egg turning into a beautiful pysanka during the months of April and March, com- was shown. prised not only pysanky, but also some tra- This year’s exhibited pysanky were ditional Ukrainian artwork. There were col- made by Ms. Osadca and Zirka Rudyk, who orful embroideries, ceramics, woodcarvings, also arranged the display cases.

Vsevolod Petriv BOSTON – Seen on April 10 at the Christ the King Ukrainian Catholic Church in Boston, after the blessing of the newly installed Stations of the Cross icons (from left) are: Motria Holowinsky (donor); the Very Rev. Archpriest Yaroslav Nalysnyk, pastor; Dr. Andrew Holowinsky (donor); Tania Vitvitsky, member, Greater Boston Friends of UCU. The Stations of the Cross icons were blessed just in time for Easter according to the Julian calendar. Contemporary yet at the same time tradition- ally Ukrainian, the icons were commissioned by the Christ the King Church. Nadiya Karwacka of the Icon Painting School at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv painted the icons utilizing the ancient egg tempera technique (dry pigments, egg yolk mixed with water and vinegar) on wooden plaques covered with many layers of gesso. Parishioners were delighted with this thoughtful and generous gift of the Holowinsky family from Rhode Island. Tania Vitvitsky A portion of the exhibit of pysanky and Ukrainian art. No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016 11

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE NYC schoolchildren present “A Wreath for the Bard” by Daria Kozak-Tymets NEW YORK – A long-time tradition of honoring the anniversary of the birth of Ukraine’s national poet, Taras Shevchenko, by students of the Self Reliance School of Ukrainian Studies in New York City contin- ued this year. On Saturday, March 12, par- ents and guests gathered at St. George Academy for a celebratory concert on the occasion of the great bard’s 202nd birthday. Principal Ivan Makar opened the pro- gram with words of welcome, and a brief description of the life and works of Shevchenko, one of the most respected poets and painters in Ukraine and around the world. He said Shevchenko was a Daria Kozak-Tymets prophet who gave his descendants guid- Students of the Self Reliance School of Ukrainian Studies in New York City pay tribute to Taras Shevchenko. ance and commandments to follow, which are still relevant today, as Ukraine’s best Mr. Makar called on the assembled youth Like a wreath, students wove into the You, Taras,” “Our Thought, Our Song Will and brightest sons and daughters continue to be worthy heirs of the talented Ukrainian program perennial verses by Shevchenko, Not Die, Will Not Perish” and “About Taras,” to fight for their country’s freedom and bard (kobzar), urging them to be conscien- staged his dramatic works and sang his transported the audience to Shevchenko’s independence. A moment of silence was tious students and active community mem- songs inspired by his poetry. era. observed for those who have paid the ulti- bers, to show a resilient spirit and to love The program of the lower grades, which Students in the upper school also pre- mate price in that fight. their ancestral homeland, as did Shevchenko. included “Taras’ Childhood,” “We Bow to sented an array of vignettes: “To the Dead and the Living,” “Taras’ Eternal Word,” “Unforgettable Bard,” “Shevchenko and Maidan” and “Mother, Rise.” These pieces combined the past and the present, exem- plifying how the struggle for the values and issues of Shevchenko’s time continues through today The school choir, directed by Elya Romanyshyn and accompanied by Nastya Antoniv, sang the bard’s verses, concluding with a rendition of “Testament” (Zapovit) and the Ukrainian national anthem. Pupils of the School of Ukrainian Studies Svitlychka (Branch 83 of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America) honor Ukraine’s greatest poet. Translated by Xenia Ferencevych. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016 No. 17

pleted in New York, which would also give Askold Melnyczuk’s fourth novel him the opportunity to spend some time with his godfather who recently had a “Smedley’s Secret Guide to World May 1 – perfect timing for it to be included stroke, but city life – along with the charms Literature, By Jonathan Levy Wainwright, in some summer vacation reading. of the worldly Beatriz – provides endless age 15,” by Askold Melnyczuk. Byfield, The book is written from the point of distraction. In the end, we are reminded Mass.: PFP Publishing, 2016. 216 pp. ISBN: view of Jonathan, a “savvy and cyber-sexed that “no one knows how anything will turn 978-0-9970248-1-4. 15-year old,” who gets suspended from out until it happens.” school a week before Memorial Day and Esquire magazine described “Smedley’s Askold Melnyczuk’s fourth novel, whose poet/professor father assigns him Guide…” as “a novel so precise and under- “Smedley’s Secret Guide to World the task of writing a history of literature in stated it’s stunning,” while The Boston Literature by Jonathan Levy Wainwright, the age of Twitter. Jonathan decides his Globe called it a “small gem of a novel.” The age 15” is scheduled for publication on father’s assignment could be better com- New York Times Book Review said, “To fall in love with Melnyczuk’s voice is no trouble at all.” Mr. Melnyczuk’s previous novels include “What is Told,” a New York Times Notable Book; “The Ambassador of the Dead,” which was selected as one of the Best Books of the Year by the Los Angeles Times; and “The House of Widows,” chosen by the American Libraries Association’s Booklist as an Editor’s Choice. He has also published stories, poems, essays, transla- tions and reviews in The New York Times, The Nation, APR, The Antioch Review, Boston Foundation. Poetry and Glimmer Train. “Smedley’s Secret Guide to World Mr. Melnyczuk currently teaches at the Literature” will be published on May 1. For University of Massachusetts and at print versions, the publisher suggests read- Bennington College, MFA Program. He has ers try their local independent bookseller, taught at Harvard University and Boston who will be able to order the book if they University, and has served on the boards of do not have it in stock. Links to various the New England Poetry Club and PEN online retailers can be found on at www. New England and has been a fellow of the pfppublishing.com/contact.

Motyl’s first poetry collection

“Vanishing Points,” by Alexander Motyl. Hemet, Calif.: Aldrich Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 0692643605. Paperback, 114 pp., $17. Prof. Alexander Motyl of Rutgers University has just published his first col- lection of poetry, “Vanishing Points,” with Aldrich Press. The 114-page book takes readers on a unique journey, to various locales as well as various periods of time. According to Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno, the recipient of the BBC’s Book of the Year Prize in 2015, “If Alexander Motyl’s poems are metaphysical, it’s pri- marily because they deal with the quiver- ing sensation of things passing. At the same time, the poet’s language is suffused with names and places and is, thus, inextricably connected to real life. It’s as if experience and memory were playing tennis, forcing us, the readers, to pay close attention to the players and divine the rules of the game. Cityscapes resound with the living voices of people, family histories focus on loss, and the falling of leaves ‘makes my heart soar in life until it fades, but doesn’t vanish. with boundless levity.’ ” These poems would make a beautiful film, Ukrainian American poet Dzvinia threads of life that never end. Beautiful Orlowsky, winner of the prestigious images of yearning that stays with the Pushcart Prize in 2007, writes that eyes.” “Alexander Motyl takes the reader on a Motyl is the author of seven novels, journey from Vienna to New York through “Whiskey Priest,” “Who Killed Andrei history with a literary vision and poetic Warhol,” “Flippancy,” “The Jew Who Was rhythm. The speaker of these lively poems Ukrainian,” “My Orchidia,” “Sweet Snow,” embraces cities and venues with trepida- “Fall River” and “Vovochka.” His artwork tion and lustful abandon as if they were has been shown in solo and group shows in capricious lovers; contemplates composers, New York City, Philadelphia, and Toronto historical characters and saints with the and is part of the permanent collection of ease of a long lost neighborhood friend. The Ukrainian Museum in New York and Poem to poem, wry humor and a sense of the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Winnipeg. loss converge, taking to task that which He teaches at Rutgers University-Newark stays and that which changes.” and is the author of six academic books, American poet Gloria Mindock notes numerous articles and a blog on “Ukraine’s that “ ‘Nowhere can be somewhere/and Orange Blues” on www.worldaffairsjournal. somewhere can be nowhere’ writes org. Alexander Motyl in his new collection “Vanishing Points” is available on ‘Vanishing Points.’ He shows us loss in Amazon (amazon.com) and from the country after country. Changing landscapes author ([email protected]). No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016 13 Women’s Bandura Ensemble performs its first full concert by Ihor Slabicky NEW YORK – The newly formed Women’s Bandura Ensemble of North America gave its first full concert performance, titled “Expanding Traditions,” at The Ukrainian Museum on Saturday, February 13. The concert concluded the museum’s epic exhibit “The Ukrainian Diaspora: Women Artists, 1908-2015” and was produced in association with Bandura Downtown. Founded in 2015, the ensemble has 20 members from New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio and Ontario. This concert featured members of its East Coast group: Luda Yurkevych, Ihor Slabicky Terenia Kuzma, Alina Kuzma, Sofia The Women’s Bandura Ensemble of North America performs at The Ukrainian Museum in New York City. Milnikiewicz, Kalyna Leshchuk, Sana Shepko, Joanna O’Flaherty, Christina symphony orchestra would be divided into of the instrument, as well as the composer’s Olya Fryz led the ensemble into her deli- Jamherian, Zoya Shepko, Irene Kuzma, Olya sections. One section played the stepping skill in weaving the themes into an artful cate arrangement of the love song “Oy Hylya, Fryz and Larysa Krasij. bass, another – the melody, and soloists piece. Hylya.” For their final piece, ensemble mem- In his introduction, world-renowned ban- added the flourishes that decorate this clas- The ensemble returned to play “Balaio,” a bers re-arranged themselves into a bandura durist Julian Kytasty expressed the unique- sic composition by Hryhory Kytasty. Portuguese melody arranged for bandura by quartet with the other members behind ness of not only of the ensemble, but also of Exclamations of “Wow!” interspersed the Olya Herasymenko. “Vyrostesh Ty Synu” was them as vocalists. Together, they sang the the rare appearance of any bandura ensem- enthusiastic applause that followed the con- performed next and was dedicated to the traditional “Oy Khotila b Mene Maty.” ble in the New York City area. clusion of this piece. Maidan. The song tells of the worries and The response to this moving perfor- The ensemble opened with an a cappella The trio of Luda Yurkevych, Terenia travails that young Ukrainian soldiers and mance was a standing ovation by the sold- “Oy Na Hori Lyon,” their 12 strong voices Kuzma and Alina Kuzma performed “Ne their families face today. out house. Following closing comments by reflecting the traditional vocal style that they Dayut Spat Soloviyi,” their voices blending Starting the instrumental “Bandurna Hanya Krill, the programs director at The utilized for this lively song. Playing their exquisitely throughout this piece about fall- Rozmova” in unison, the ensemble split into Ukrainian Musuem, the audience again banduras, the ensemble then sang “Oy ing in love. two opposing groups. This led to one side responded with a standing ovation. Harna, Ya Harna.” For this piece, Sana The ensemble followed with “Proshchay, challenging the other with more and more Something then happened that rarely occurs Shepko on violin provided a lovely counter- Proshchay,” an expression of the yearning intricate and involved phrases before return- at such events: the audience sang “Mnohaya point to the lilting melody. for one’s homeland as one emigrates to a ing to unison closing. The work could be Lita” to the ensemble, as a token of apprecia- Next, the ensemble launched into “Homin new land. This evening saw the revival of the described as “Dueling Banjos” for bandura. tion and to wish the bandurists an auspi- Stepiv,” an instrumental work that paints the song – it was last performed 40 years ago. Accompanying herself on bandura, cious future in their musical endeavors. musical imagery of a rider mounted on a Next was “Zoraly Divchata,” a traditional Terenia Kuzma gave a stellar performance The debut of the entire Women’s horse, together traversing the vast steppes song in which the women prove they are of the nostalgic “Nahaday Banduro Bandura Ensemble will be on October 29 in of Ukraine. Listening to the ensemble play- better at farming than the men. Spivamy.” The audience responded with Detroit and October 30 in Cleveland, with ing this composition was a much different “Moths,” an experimental composition numerous acclaims of “Brava!” and enthusi- planned concerts at Wesleyan University experience than hearing it played by a solo- written by Julian Kytasty for the Poltava- astic applause for her vocal performance of and in New Jersey. Further information and ist. The arrangement called for the ban- style bandura, was played by Alina Kuzma. this poem by Nina Kalyuzha that was set to a mail list sign-up can be found at the durists to play in sections, akin to the way a The intricate melody highlighted her control music by Hryhory Kytasty. ensemble’s website, www.banduristka.org. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016 No. 17

backed prosecutor’s office said Mr. Semena, NEWSBRIEFS who is an outside contributor to the Crimean Desk of RFE/RL’s Ukrainian (Continued from page 2) Service, is being investigated for alleged EU proposes visa-free travel “calls for undermining the Russian territo- TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 rial integrity via mass media.” RFE/RL or e-mail [email protected] BRUSSELS – The European Union has Editor-in-Chief Nenad Pejic said on April proposed offering visa-free travel in Europe 19: “Police conducted forced searches at to Ukrainians. “Today, we follow up on our the homes of seven people across Crimea, SERVICES PROFESSIONALS commitment to propose short-stay, visa- including some RFE/RL correspondents. free travel to the EU for Ukrainian citizens One of those journalists is now facing up to with biometric passports,” European five years in prison on criminal charges Commissioner for Home Affairs Dimitris related to his work.” The prosecutor’s office Avramopoulos said on April 20. “We need said earlier on April 19 that police searched to be united and stand by our neighbor,” he the homes of several local journalists and also said, expressing hope that visa-free confiscated computers and data “proving travel for Ukrainians will become a reality that materials of an extremist character “very soon.” The decision will come as a had been under preparation.” The relief to the pro-Western government in Committee to Protect Journalists decried Kyiv as many feared that the visa-liberaliza- Russia’s targeting of journalists covering tion process could grind to a halt after the Crimea. “We call on Russian security forces Netherlands earlier this month voted to stop harassing journalists in Crimea for against the Association Agreement their reporting and expressed opinions,” between Ukraine and the EU in a consulta- said Nina Ognianova, the committee’s tive referendum. However, it is still unclear Europe and Central Asia program coordina- how fast the liberalization process will be tor. “Russia has a record of equating criti- dealt with in the European Parliament and cism with extremism, and of using its broad European Council, where some EU member laws to intimidate and silence the press,” states might want to slow down the pro- she noted. The Organization for Security cess. (RFE/RL) and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) also Crackdown on RFE/RL’s Crimea site voiced concerns over the probe into Mr. Semena. “This recent detention only shows HELP WANTED PRAGUE – The latest clampdown on a the urgent need to stop the arbitrary prac- Crimea news site run by Radio Free tice of silencing journalists in Crimea,” said Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has drawn Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE representative Family in Jupiter Florida (Palm Beach international condemnation, with the on media freedom. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian County – South East Florida) seeking a United States denouncing it as “the Russian Service, with reporting by Interfax, TASS Ukrainian and Russian speaking nanny government’s growing crackdown on inde- and AP) to care for 2 children ages 5 and 3 in our pendent voices” on the annexed peninsula. home. Live in or out (room and board Crimea’s Moscow-backed authorities have Three soldiers killed in Ukraine’s east can be provided). Ideal candidate should repeatedly targeted the Krym.Realii web- KYIV – Ukraine says three of its soldiers have a driver’s license, recommendations site for its criticism of the peninsula’s from previous employers and experience have been killed in the country’s east – the annexation by Russia in March 2014. On heaviest toll reported in the region in near- working with children. We are looking for April 19, Natalya Poklonskaya, Crimea’s de- a long term nanny who will be a part of ly two months. Military spokesman Andriy our family. facto prosecutor-general, said her office Lysenko said on April 20 that the soldiers planned to ask Russian prosecutors to per- died in a mortar attack on the government- Tel.: Katia - 917-805-0267 manently block access to the website. Ms. Email: [email protected] held village of Mayorsk, located some 35 Poklonskaya accused Krym.Realii of pub- kilometers north of Donetsk. He said five lishing materials that contain “justification soldiers were also wounded over the previ- of sabotage, extremism and endless slander ous 24 hours in separate incidents along Family in New York seeks live-in of government bodies in Crimea.” After Ukrainian speaking nanny for twin the 500-kilometer front splitting the sepa- Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine, the ratist-held regions of Luhansk and Donetsk girls, 7 months old. Long-term Russian Parliament passed a law making it from the rest of the country. The news position. Experience with small a criminal offense to question Russia’s ter- comes amid rising concerns about ceasefire children and references required. ritorial integrity, which also means oppos- violations in eastern Ukraine. (RFE/RL, Contact: [email protected] ing the occupation. “The United States based on reporting by AFP and Interfax) remains deeply concerned about increasing restrictions on independent media and civil Training limited to avoid provoking Russia OPPORTUNITIES society in Crimea,” said Jonathan Lalley, a WASHINGTON – ”The White House has spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, boosted aid for Ukrainian forces battling in remarks published on April 20. He said Earn extra income! Russian-backed separatists but limits train- individuals and organizations with dissent- ing to mainly defensive tactics, triggering The Ukrainian Weekly is looking ing views “are being silenced or driven out,” Run your advertisement here, criticism the policy is too cautious to blunt for advertising sales agents. and condemned Crimean authorities for President Vladimir Putin’s aggressive in The Ukrainian Weekly’s For additional information contact denying international observers access to moves in the region,” reported Jim Michaels Walter Honcharyk, Advertising Manager, CLASSIFIEDS section. the peninsula. RFE/RL Editor-in-Chief of USA Today. He noted in the April 11 The Ukrainian Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext 3040. Nenad Pejic said attacks on RFE/RL staff story: “The United States recently turned have become “a regular practice” in Russia down Ukraine’s request for sniper training and Crimea. “They have faced every possi- for its armed forces because that is consid- ble pressure – public attacks, threats ered an offensive skill. The U.S. policy is Hiring Ukrainian-speaking Business reporters against their families. Many have been aimed at teaching defensive skills in order to work in Ukraine for Ukraine Business Journal forced to leave the peninsula,” he said in a to avoid escalating the conflict. U.S. officials statement. Mr. Pejic said Krym.Realii would said the distinction between defensive and continue providing independent news to Ukraine Business Journal launches September 1, 2016, as an all- offensive tactics makes little difference, Crimea, adding that the website had over since the training is focused on building business news, all English website for all of Ukraine, Europe’s newest 30 million visits last year. “This only con- basic soldier skills, which are similar for Frontier Economy. firms the importance of RFE/RL’s contin- offensive and defensive operations.” Lt. ued presence in Crimea, and the need for Gen. Ben Hodges, commander of U.S. Army With more people than Poland and more land that California, Ukraine our journalists to work safely without fear Europe, explained that, “At the company is set to grow after winning duty free access on January 1 to the of arrest or prosecution,” he said. The and maybe even at the battalion level, European Union’s 500 million consumers. Krym.Realii website is published in there’s not really a big distinction between Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar. offensive and defensive things. What we’re The newsroom for this subscription website will be in central Kyiv. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by RFE/RL’s trying to do is make sure the Ukrainians at We will have business reporters based in Lviv, Odesa, Kharkiv and Krym.Realii, AP, AFP, TASS) the tactical level are as capable as they can Dnipro. We hire this summer and open the newsroom August 1. Crimean authorities investigate journalist be.” The story went on to cite Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and other Republican law- The Editor in Chief is James Brooke, a 24-year veteran of The New York KYIV – The office for Crimea’s de facto Times and a former Moscow bureau chief for Bloomberg. makers, who have criticized the adminis- procurator-general has said that journalist tration of President Barack Obama for lim- Please email cover letter and CV to: Mykola Semena has been ordered not to iting aid to Ukraine’s military to “non- leave the peninsula while he is being inves- lethal” supplies. “If you’re there, why not [email protected] tigated by the Russia-backed authorities. In a statement on April 19, the Moscow- (Continued on page 15) No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016 15

routes in the east of the country. The State President Francois Hollande and German 14. Mr. Biden congratulated Mr. Groysman NEWSBRIEFS Special Transport Service is responsible for Chancellor Angela Merkel passed on the on his new post and the new Cabinet ensuring the safety of the transport net- message to Ukrainian President Petro approved by lawmakers earlier in the day, (Continued from page 14) work and for restoring railways and bridg- Poroshenko in a phone call on April 15. and stressed that “the new team should train them in the way Ukrainians need to es destroyed by hostilities. This often “The new dynamic created by the change in move forward quickly” on its reform pro- be trained to counteract the Russian offen- involves clearing mines and unexploded government must translate into rapid and gram in order to maintain international sive,” said Rep. Hunter, a member of the ordnance that threaten civilian transporta- concrete results,” according to a statement support for Kyiv, a White House statement House Armed Services Committee who tion routes. ”Safety of communications is from the French presidential office issued said. This includes fulfilling Ukraine’s recently visited Ukraine, told USA Today. extremely important in the context of sus- after the telephone call. (RFE/RL, based on International Monetary Fund commit- “How nice can you be while Putin takes tainable post-conflict recovery, future reporting by AFP and Interfax) ments, implementing the Minsk agree- over the world?” Col. Nick Ducich, com- peace and security in the region,” said ments aimed at regulating the conflict with Biden urges speedy reforms in Ukraine mander of the multinational training group Vaidotas Verba, the OSCE project coordina- Russia-backed separatists in eastern in Ukraine, said there are some offensive tor in Ukraine. “I hope that with our help WASHINGTON – The White House says Ukraine, and confirming a new “reformist” tasks that U.S. trainers are not teaching the service will be in better position to U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden urged new procurator general, the White House said. Ukrainian troops, including how to estab- swiftly and efficiently ensure safer condi- Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr The vice-president “reiterated unwavering lish an ambush, which is considered an tions for the movement of people and Groysman to quickly implement reforms in U.S. commitment to the prosperity, sover- goods in the conflict-affected areas.” Since exclusively offensive skill, in addition to a telephone call after Ukraine’s Parliament eignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine,” avoiding sniper training. Canada and July 2014 the State Special Transport approved the new prime minister on April the statement added. (RFE/RL) Lithuania, which also train Ukrainian forc- Service has cleared over 300 kilometers of es, do not have similar restrictions, USA railways in government-controlled areas of Today reported. Michael Carpenter, a depu- the Donbas and disposed of more than ty assistant secretary at the U.S. 4,500 unexploded ordnance, mines and “Facing History and Ourselves,” an educa- Department of Defense, said the U.S. has to booby traps. This is among the more than Holodomor... tional website popular with history and social studies teachers, with offers to work walk a line, helping Ukraine without pro- 100,000 such dangerous items discovered (Continued from page 1) voking a Russian response. “The goal has and destroyed by all organizations working with the Boston Holodomor Committee to been to help the Ukrainians be more effec- in the region, which are involved in dealing respectful as it listened to attorney Paul enhance the presence of the Holodomor on tive in defending their territory without with these remnants of conflict. To help Thomas Rabchenuk quote the first-hand the organization’s website. The activists escalating the conflict.” He noted that the Ukraine address this new challenge, the observations of Holodomor survivors as present also received expressions of sympa- U.S. is providing Ukraine’s military with Office of the OSCE Project Coordinator is reported in testimony before the U.S. thy and support from audience members. about $600 million in training and equip- also training the country’s humanitarian Commission on the Ukraine Famine. The Many were surprised that such a tragedy ment. “There is no other country that is deminers on international mine action quotes were preceded by a brief descrip- remained unknown for a long period of time. doing even close to what we’re doing,” he standards, helping to introduce a modern tion of the involvement and motivations of The prominent position given to the noted. (USA Today) information management system to Joseph Stalin and Lazar Kaganovich. Holodomor was seen as indicative of the improve operations and the inter-agency Following the presentation, both Mr. progress made by the Boston Holodomor OSCE helps improve safety in east coordination of efforts, and assisting in Rabchenuk and Boston activist Mary Walzer Committee in bringing awareness of this were approached by representatives of tragedy to the general public. SLOVIANSK, Ukraine – The project coor- developing relevant legislation and stan- dinator in Ukraine of the Organization for dards. (OSCE) Security and Cooperation in Europe Germany, France urge Kyiv to act (OSCE), at a ceremony in Sloviansk, The Board of Directors Donetsk Oblast, on April 7, presented rep- KYIV – Germany and France have urged resentatives of the Infrastructure Ministry’s new Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr of the Ukrainian Institute of America State Special Transport Service with 15 sets Groysman to quickly implement economic regrets to announce that our of protective equipment, including vests reforms and the Minsk agreements on reg- Member and Friend and helmets, which are to be delivered to ulating the conflict with Russia-backed sep- local deminers working along transport aratists in eastern Ukraine. French JOHN SHMERYKOWSKY passed into eternal rest on April 2, 2016 John will be remembered as a prominent engineer at Weiskopf & Pickworth and then at his own ‹ rm, Shmerykowsky Consulting Engineers. He led construction projects up and down the East Coast, in addition to his work on high-rises on Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue and Maiden Lane in New York City. В П’ЯТУ НЕВИМОВНО БОЛЮЧУ РІЧНИЦЮ відходу у вічність нашого найдорожчого Mr. Shmerykowsky was actively involved in Ukrainian organizations. БАТЬКА, ДІДУСЯ І ВУЙКА He was a member of the Ukrainian Institute of America, the Ukrainian Engineers Society of America, the Ukrainian National Association, and св. п. ВАСИЛЯ ВІНТОНІВ the Carpathian Ski Club. (12 травня 1923 р. - 26 квітня 2011 р.) Our heartfelt condolences go out to John’s entire family, in particular, his son, Marco Shmerykowsky along with his wife Nataliya, his daughter, Поминальні Служби Божі з Панахидами Dianna Shmerykowsky, and his brother, Adrian Shmerykowsky along будуть відправлені за спокій Його душі with his wife Iryna. В АМЕРИЦІ • 15 травня 2016 р. в церкві св. Миколая в Пасейку, Н. Дж. May he Rest in Eternal Peace. о год. 8:30 ранку Vichnaya Pamyat! • Церкві Успіння Пресвятої Богородиці в Бейонi, Н. Дж. В УКРАЇНІ • Соборі св. Юра, Львів • Львівській Семінарія, Львів • Гошівському монастирі, Гошів У другу болючу річницю відходу у вічність • Церкві св. Миколая, Солуків найдорожчої Дружини, Мами і Бабці • Церкві Різдва Пресвятої Богородиці, Заріччя Просимо про молитви за вічний спокій Його душі. св. п. доня, Леся Албизаті з чоловіком Данилом і внуки Никола і Марко. КАЛИНИ КОЗАК Вічна Йому пам’ять! з дому Татарська Нехай пам’ять про Покійного залишиться в наших серцях, а душа буде відправлена поминальна Свята Літургія Його буде прийнята у небесі хороми. в суботу, 7 травня 2016 року, о 10-ій годині ранку в церкві Благовіщення Пречистої Діви Марії Смирітеся, молітесь Богу в Мелровз Парк, Пенсильванія. Все що мав у житті він віддав І згадуйте один другого. Для одної ідеї Свою Україну любіть, Рівночасно за Покійну будуть відправлені Святі Літургії І горів, і яснів, і страждав, Любіть її... Во время люте, У Львові і в Дрогобичі. В останню тяжкую мінуту І трудився для неї О молитви просять Іван Франко За неї Господа моліть! Тарас Шевченко чоловік Ярослав Козак з родиною Вічна Їй пам’ять! 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016 No. 17

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УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ІНСТИТУТ АМЕРИКИ • e Ukrainian Catholic University and the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation wish you much happiness during this joyous time. вітає щирим May the miracle of this Easter season bless your heart, your home and those you love! ХРИСТОС ВОСКРЕС!

ВСЕЧЕСНЕ ДУХОВЕНСТВО УКРАЇНСЬКИХ ЦЕРКОВ, УПРАВИ ТА ЧЛЕНСТВО ВСІХ УКРАЇНСЬКИХ ОРГАНІЗАЦІЙ І ВСІХ СВОЇХ ЧЛЕНІВ, ПРИЯТЕЛІВ ТА ЛАСКАВИХ ЖЕРТВОДАВЦІВ.

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tion crisis has left the door open to xeno- Freedom House... phobia and nationalism in Central Europe. It says several leading politicians in the (Continued from page 4) Manor College partners region joined Hungarian Prime Minister There has been modest movement Viktor Orban in using xenophobic rhetoric “backward,” Mr. Schenkkan said. In part, he to denounce migrants, positioning them- with Abington Art Center said, that is because some leaders who selves as protectors of their countries’ have dominated their countries’ political Christian identity against a Muslim “inva- systems have been “eroding checks and sion.” balances and eroding independent institu- Mr. Schenkkan said that renewed nation- tions that might push back against them.” alism, as well as the erosion of freedom of “That’s certainly the case that we see in movement and other fundamental princi- Serbia, it’s very much what we saw in ples, were threatening the consolidation of Macedonia, and to another degree in democracy in Eastern Europe and the Montenegro,” Mr. Schenkkan added. entire European project. The report says that state-building in “The European Union is a project that Kosovo and Bosnia has reached an requires countries to give up some sover- “impasse,” with governmental structures eignty in exchange for other benefits. So built to keep the peace preventing prog- this very aggressive, nationalist approach ress, and political and economic stagnation to politics and to policy challenges the val- fueling popular frustration. It also ues of the EU but it also challenges the poli- describes “gradual success in functionaliz- cies of the EU,” he said. ing local governance and protecting media” “And as we are seeing, the EU is having a in Kosovo. very hard time now transforming and find- These developments risk being com- ing new policies in part because of this kind pounded by European border closings to of rejectionist approach by leaders who are prevent migrants from reaching the EU, the not necessarily interested in finding a solu- report notes. With crippling youth-unem- The partnership between Manor College and the Abington Art Center is announced tion within the EU.” on March 29 by (from left): Sally Mydlowec, executive vice-president and dean of ployment rates, turning the Balkans “into academic affairs at Manor; Marge Horner, director of arts programs at the Abington Copyright 2016, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted an island inside Europe would be cata- Art Center; Manor College President Jonathan Peri; and Stephen Grieco, Manor’s strophic for the region’s development,” Mr. with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ associate dean of academic affairs. Schenkkan warned. Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see Rising populism JENKINTOWN, Pa. – Manor College offi- effect and students are to speak with Dr. http://www.rferl.org/content/freedom- cially became a partner with its neighbor, Stephen Grieco, associate dean of academic Meanwhile, Freedom House warns that house-economic-troubles-threaten-post- the Abington Art Center, and introduced The affairs, Manor College, at 215-885-2360, the EU’s “disjointed response” to the migra- soviet-stability/27668684.html). Artist Scholars Program @ Manor College. ext. 223, or Marge Horner, director of arts The Artist Scholars Program @ Manor programs, Abington Art Center, at 215-887- College is a partnership between the 4882, ext. 111, for more information and to Abington Art Center and Manor College. utilize this opportunity. Under this agreement, students who suc- Located in suburban Philadelphia, The third conference cessfully complete designated courses and Manor College is a private two-year institu- of workshops at the Abington Art Center will tion offering transfer and career-oriented be eligible to receive up to 12 transferable programs to traditional age and adult stu- college credits in art for Manor College. dents. Manor was founded in 1947 by the UKRAINIAN Students enrolled in the program will also Ukrainian Sisters of St. Basil the Great, be eligible for additional scholarships and whose heritage and tradition are the pur- JOURNALISTS substantial tuition discounts through suit of truth and the building of a Christian Manor College. community. OF This is the first partnership between the Manor College is accredited by the two local entities. The purpose of this Middle States Commission on Higher NORTH AMERICA agreement, announced on March 29, is to Education, and offers over 30 academic encourage students who are taking classes programs, concentrations and certificates, will be held at the at the Abington Art Center to further con- including advanced degrees through its Cost: $350 per person, tinue their education as a Manor College University Center @ Manor College (www. which includes student. This partnership is currently in manor.edu/university-center). Soyuzivka conference fees, meals Heritage Center and accommodations. Secretary Kerry added: “Seven days, two in Kerhonkson, NY Turning... opposite responses, and one truth that can- not be ignored: The world will remain unit- (Continued from page 6) on To register ed for Ukraine. …If Russia chooses the path your participation, of the inner circle. Today’s targeted actions, of de-escalation, the international commu- Friday-Sunday, please e-mail taken in close coordination with the EU, nity – all of us – will welcome it. If Russia will increase the impact we have already does not, the world will make sure that the May 20-22, 2016. [email protected]. begun to se on Russia’s own economy as a cost for Russia will only grow.” result of Russia’s actions in Ukraine and U.S. President Barack Obama, while in from U.S. and international sanctions. Malaysia as part of his Asian tour, was quot- Russian economic growth forecasts have ed by The New York Times on April 27 as dropped sharply, capital flight has acceler- saying: “The notion that for us to go for- ФЕДЕРАЛЬНА КРЕДИТОВА ated and higher borrowing costs reflect ward with sectoral sanctions on our own КООПЕРАТИВА „САМОПОМІЧ“ declining confidence in the market outlook. without the Europeans would be the most Our goal continues to be for Russia to de- effective deterrent to Mr. Putin, I think, is у Клівленді, Огайо escalate the situation so that additional factually wrong. …We’re going to be in a з нагоди sanctions are not needed. However, we are stronger position to deter Mr. Putin when CSFCU resolved to continue to work with our he sees that the world is unified. … The goal international partners and take the steps is not to go after Mr. Putin personally; the СВІТЛОГО ХРИСТОВОГО ВОСКРЕСІННЯ required, including action against individu- goal is to change his calculus, to encourage в і т а є als and entities in specific sectors, if Russia him to walk the walk, not just talk the talk” continues to press forward.” as regard diplomacy to resolve the crisis in Український народ у вільній Україні, Ієрархів і Духовенство On April 24, U.S. Secretary of State John Ukraine. Українських Церков, Проводи українських організацій в Україні Kerry noted in his briefing: “It has now David Kramer, at that time president of та в діяспорі, Українську світову Кооперативну Раду та Централю been a week since the United States, the Freedom House, argued: “While imposing sanctions together with the EU would be Українських Кооператив Америки, всіх своїх членів та все україн- European Union, Russia and Ukraine met in Geneva. …Every day since we left Geneva – nice, the U.S. simply has to lead and not ське громадянство. every day, even up to today, when Russia waste more time trying to present a united БАЖАЄМО ВЕСЕЛИХ СВЯТ sent armored battalions right up to the approach. …It’s easier for us to do so than it Luhansk Oblast border – the world has wit- is for the Europeans, and they will follow, ХРИСТОС ВОСКРЕС! nessed a tale of two countries, two coun- as long as we lead.” tries with vastly different understandings Source: “U.S. announces new sanctions in Дирекція, Комітети й Працівники of what it means to uphold an international response to Russian moves,” The Ukrainian agreement.” Weekly, May 4, 2014. 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April 25 Presentation by John LeDonne, “Hetmans and Regimental May 3 Film screening, “Free to Rock: How Rock and Roll Helped Cambridge, MA Colonels in the 18th Century Hetmanate: Genealogies and Stanford, CA End the Cold War,” with panel discussion with Jim Brown Integration,” Harvard University, http://huri.harvard.edu and Nick Binkley, Stanford University, http://events/stanford.edu or [email protected] April 25 Illustrated book presentation by Martha Bohachevsky New York Chomiak, of “When the Forest was Our Father” by Maria May 4 Lecture by Serhii Plokhii, “Empire Strikes Back: The Ukraine Labunka, The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 or Washington Crisis in Historical Perspective,” George Washington www.ukrainianmuseum.org University, [email protected]

April 25 Fund-raising dinner to help Ukraine’s wounded warriors May 5 Ukrainian Heroes commemorative event, Orange Wave, Centreville, VA and internally displaced women and children, United Chicago Ss. Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church, Help Ukraine, Centreville United Methodist Church, www.orange-wave.com or 773-501-0566 http://unitedhelpukraine.org May 6 Ukrainian Festival launch party/pub night, with Lemon April 25 30th anniversary Chornobyl commemoration, St. Andrew Ottawa Bucket Orchestra and Zapovid, Korchma Taras Bulba, South Bound Brook, NJ Memorial Church, uocofusa.org Ukrainian Banquet Hall, [email protected] or www.ottawafestivals.ca/event/korchma-pub-night-launch-party/ April 26 Presentation by Frank Sysyn, “The Sacralization of the New York Holodomor: The Role of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church May 6-8 Chess tournament, Ukrainian Sports Federation of the in the U.S.A. and the Memorial Church in Bound Brook,” Toronto U.S.A. and Canada, 647-834-2195 or www.uscakcanada.ca Columbia University, 212-854-4697 May 7 Fund-raising dinner and show, Iskra Ukrainian Dance April 26 Commemorative service marking the 30th anniversary Whippany, NJ Ensemble, Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey, Montreal of the Chornobyl disaster, Ukrainian Canadian Congress, www.iskradance.weebly.com or [email protected] Cathedral Marie-Reine du Monde, 514-945-7162 May 7 Film screening, “A Struggle for Home: The Crimean April 26 30th anniversary Chornobyl commemoration, St. Andrew Chicago Tatars” by Christina Paschyn, Ukrainian National Museum, North Port, FL Oseredok, 941-408-8125 312-421-8020 or www.ukrainiannationalmuseum.org

April 27 Canadian Forces Appreciation Evening, Ukrainian National May 7 “Derby de Mayo” night, with music by the Dallas Project, Toronto Federation Trident Banquet Hall and Conference Center, Syracuse, NY Syracuse Ukrainian National Home, 315-478-9272 416-925-2770 or [email protected] or http://syrucc.org April 28 Presentation with David Holloway and Magdalena May 7 Cinco de Mayo party, Ukrainians of San Antonio and Stanford, CA Stawkowski, “Chornobyl: 30 Years After,” with film Austin, TX Austin Texas Ukrainians, Barkley Meadows Park, screening of “The Russian Woodpecker,” Stanford http://parks.traviscountytx.gov/find-a-park/barkley-meadows University, 650-725-2563 or [email protected]

April 28 Arthritis presentation and Petrykivka art Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events Whippany, NJ demonstration, Carpe Diem Club, Ukrainian American advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions Cultural Center of New Jersey, 973-590-8026 from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors or [email protected] and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected]. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016 No. 17

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