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INSIDE: • Yushchenko’s address to OU-PSD convention — page 6. • New books — pages 10 and 11. • Hromovytsia tours Western Europe — centerfold. HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXXV No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 $1/$2 in Ukraine

CEC registers Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc list after court ruling by Zenon Zawada Kyiv Press Bureau KYIV – Yulia Tymoshenko over- came the latest hurdle thrown at her bloc’s parliamentary election campaign. The Central Election Commission (CEC) ruled on August 10 that the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc could not participate in the September 30 pre- term elections because it submitted documents that didn’t contain the complete addresses of the 450 deputies on its electoral list. It reversed its decision on August 15, one day after an administrative court decided in the YTB’s favor. Ms. Tymoshenko alleged this was the lat- est attack from her enemies in the coalition government. “That our political force wasn’t registered simply speaks to the politi- cal persecution executed against our Zenon Zawada political team,” Ms. Tymoshenko told Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc supporters rally in front of the Central Election Commission on August 12. The banner reads (Continued on page 4) “There won’t be elections - there will be a revolution!” Election Notebook: observing the Longtime journalist Mary Mycio climate prior to Ukraine’s early vote leaves Ukraine for United States

by Zenon Zawada tion-forming negotiations. by Zenon Zawada almost always draws stares. Kyiv Press Bureau The largest organizational threat to Kyiv Press Bureau “They all look at the ‘tryzub!’ ” she the elections is contradictory legislation said. Up to five million Ukrainian citizens and the highly flawed preparation of KYIV – Only a few dozen North Needless to say, the delicious luxury living abroad won’t be able to vote in the voter lists, the CVU reported. Americans braved the challenging eco- of inexpensive French cuisine only September 30 elections because a new The “On a state voter register” law nomic and social conditions of Ukraine became an option in Ukraine’s capital in amendment limits eligible voters to those is not being applied and a complete regis- to re-settle their ancestral homeland recent years, along with credit cards and listed on consulate registries as of August ter of voters won’t be available by when the nation finally gained independ- the Internet. 2, the Committee of Voters of Ukraine September 30. ence in 1991. “I remember the first grocery store (CVU) reported on July 17. The CVU commended Mr. Among them were Mary Mycio, the that opened that had milk with a shelf “Right now, only those who are on Yushchenko’s presidential order to daughter of Lemko immigrants who grew life,” Ms. Mycio said. “I used to pasteur- consulate lists can vote, and that’s a very ensure the proper organization for the up in Long Island, N.Y. She had just ize my own milk and roast my own cof- insignificant amount of voters,” said election campaign, as well as the completed law school at the time and fee. Those were the days. I wouldn’t Oleksander Chernenko, CVU advisor. Presidential Secretariat’s organizing and decided to launch a journalism career that want to do that again, but at that time, it The stipulation was part of the June supplying the elections commissions lasted longer than she imagined. was part of the fun, in a way.” 2 compromise reached between the coali- with materials and technical assistance. “I didn’t expect to stay here for 16 She first arrived in Kyiv in 1989 and tion government and President Viktor However, it also criticized President years, I can tell you that,” said Ms. returned several times to collect informa- Yushchenko on amendments to Ukraine’s Yushchenko for abusing his office by Mycio, whose accomplishments include tion about the Chornobyl nuclear acci- election legislation to prepare for producing political campaign ads and articles for the Los Angeles Times and dent, volunteer in the Rukh democracy September parliamentary elections. classifying them as “social advertising,” New York Newsday, as well as her book movement and witness the student “It was the coalition’s proposal,” Mr. thereby securing television placement hunger strikes before deciding in January Chernenko said. “They think it’s to their published in 2005, “Wormwood Forest: free-of-charge. A Natural History of Chornobyl.” 1991 to settle on a more permanent basis. advantage because they limit the votes of The CVU is a non-profit, non-gov- “Ukraine was becoming independent, Western Ukrainians working abroad in Deciding “my time here is done,” Ms. ernmental organization that serves moni- Mycio returned to the U.S. for good, set- and I wanted to see it,” Ms. Mycio said. Europe.” tors elections and informs voters. As with most Ukrainian Americans The CVU also reported its “signifi- tling in the Philadelphia area with plans It is financed by numerous Western to re-marry. who settle in Ukraine, the tales of cant disturbance” regarding possible vio- organizations, including the Konrad Ukrainian folklore and greatness instilled lations in election campaigning and vote How she spent July 17, her last full Adenauer Fund, the Eurasia Foundation day in Kyiv, revealed just how rapidly throughout her childhood were quickly tallying in its July 19 report. and the National Democratic Institute. shattered, particularly after serving in the “The biggest political threat in hold- Ukraine’s capital had changed since she The U.S. State Department finances first settled there in January 1991. Rukh democracy movement. ing honest and democratic elections is the latter two organizations. “I saw the incompetence,” she said. “It Enjoying a late afternoon lunch at a the high level of political competition, was either sabotage or stupidity, I’m not newly opened Eric Kayser French patis- which also affected the activity of gov- *** sure. There was a lot of crap that went on.” serie and restaurant, Ms. Mycio munched ernment organs, the Central Election Ms. Mycio was in the Verkhovna Rada on a roasted salmon fillet accompanied Commission (CEC) and courts,” the The Congress of Ukrainian the day independence was declared, CVU reported. Nationalists (CUN) announced August 7 by a leafy arugula salad. remembering how nationalist Larysa The CVU predicted a large number it dismissed Assistant Chair Yevhen A few glasses of pinot grigio made for Skoryk pleaded with her allies not to sup- of complaints to be filed with courts, par- a delightful meal, paid for with her Self ticularly during vote tallies and the coali- (Continued on page 4) Reliance Credit Union credit card, which (Continued on page 3) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 No. 33 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Yushchenko, Yanukovych, Tymoshenko CEC refuses to register YTB Socialist Party and the Communist Party. The eight CEC members nominated by KYIV – The Central Election the ruling coalition issued a statement on once again running in Ukraine’s elections Commission (CEC) on August 11 refused August 13 slamming the YTB for “gross, to register candidates of the Yulia overt pressure” and “groundless accusa- by Pavel Korduban Mr. Yanukovych may be replaced as prime Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB) for the early tions.” (RFE/RL Newsline) Eurasia Daily Monitor minister by either Ukraine’s richest man, parliamentary elections due on Rynat Akhmetov, who is viewed as the September 30, Ukrainian media reported. Kyiv court orders CEC to reconsider The campaign for the September 30 PRU’s main financier, or Mr. Akhmetov’s With seven votes in favor, the list was parliamentary elections officially kicked right-hand man, Borys Kolesnikov. Both one vote short of the eight votes required KYIV – The Kyiv District Administra- tive Court on August 14 ordered the off in Ukraine on August 2. This campaign have denied this. Mr. Akhmetov said he is for registration. Seven CEC members will see the same contenders as in the Central Election Commission to recon- not planning to work in the executive at nominated by the ruling coalition refused March 2006 election: President Viktor sider no later than August 15 the registra- all, and Mr. Kolesnikov repeated in several to endorse the list on the grounds that the Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine – People’s tion of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc’s interviews that there is no need to replace YTB had failed to provide the exact Self-Defense bloc (OU-PSD), except last (YTB) list of candidates for early parlia- Mr. Yanukovych as head of the Cabinet. addresses of the candidates, a require- year it was just Our Ukraine, without Yurii mentary elections on September 30, The PRU, confident of its strength, has ment not clearly set by election legisla- Lutsenko’s Self-Defense; the Party of the Ukrainian media reported. “I believe this been the only force among the three main tion. “This is a blatant and rather desper- Regions (PRU) of Prime Minister Viktor will put an end to all provocative actions players to not form a bloc. Instead, sever- ate attempt to undermine the electoral Yanukovych, which represents Eastern against our bloc. It is now clear that the al small parties ceased to exist to enable process by eliminating a political party Ukraine’s big businesses; and the populists election commission was simply wrong,” their leaders to join the PRU’s list for the that represents one-third of the country’s from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB). Yulia Tymoshenko said after the court election. The list, adopted at the party’s population,” Yulia Tymoshenko told The Communists and the Socialists, pre-election convention on August 4, decision. The ruling may be contested at who barely made it into Parliament in journalists, vowing to challenge the reg- the Higher Administrative Court within includes a record number of government istration refusal in court. YTB supporters 2006, again will be fighting for their sur- officials: five vice-prime ministers and two days. (RFE/RL Newsline) vival. The Communists have better on August 12 pitched some 100 tents in 11 Cabinet ministers. front of the CEC offices in Kyiv to PM for stripping officials of immunity chances than the Socialists, who appar- The head of the Presidential ently lost much of their electorate protest the decision. It is widely expected Secretariat, Viktor Baloha, has suggested in Kyiv that the YTB list will be regis- KYIV – At a Cabinet of Ministers because of their largely unexpected coali- that the PRU will not resist the temptation meeting in Kyiv on August 15, Prime tion with the PRU. Both are set to enter a tered following a court ruling. (RFE/RL of using “administrative resources,” Newsline) Minister Viktor Yanukovych proposed coalition with the PRU again, once in the meaning the government’s illegal partici- that the Verkhovna Rada in September Verkhovna Rada. pation in the campaign in favor of one Tymoshenko Bloc protests in Kyiv pass a bill stripping high-ranking offi- So far, the campaign is focused on party, a frequent charge against former cials – including the president, the prime domestic problems, such as corruption, President Leonid Kuchma. KYIV – Some 2,000 supporters of the minister, lawmakers and judges – of the cancellation of deputies’ immunity OU-PSD has ostentatiously crossed Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB) rallied in immunity from prosecution and other from prosecution (a top issue with both off Mr. Yushchenko’s aides, including front of the Central Election Commission privileges, Interfax-Ukraine reported. OU-PSD and YTB), amending the Mr. Baloha, from its list, in order to pre- (CEC) offices in Kyiv on August 13, urg- “Let’s make this historic step; let’s con- Constitution, the demographic problem clude accusations against Mr. ing the top election body to register the vene a session in early September and (all three main players promise more Yushchenko of interference in the elec- list of YTB candidates for early parlia- unanimously vote to strip everybody of money for one-time payments for child- tion process. Furthermore, Mr. mentary elections on September 30, immunity,” Mr. Yanukovych said. The birth) and, to a lesser extent, the official Yushchenko on August 6 dismissed six Ukrainian media reported. The CEC prime minister’s proposal seems to be the language issue. advisers who had decided to run for refused to register the YTB party list last response of the ruling Party of the Foreign political issues are not high on Parliament on the OU-PSD list. There week, arguing that it does not include the Regions to the opposition Our Ukraine – the agenda, and none of the main players are, however, two key ministers among exact addresses of the candidates. The People’s Self-Defense election bloc, have positioned themselves as pro- the top 10 on the OU-PSD list: Foreign YTB claims that Ukraine’s election legis- which is campaigning ahead of early Russian or decidedly pro-Western. OU- Affairs Minister Arsenii Yatsenyuk and lation does not require that political par- polls in September with calls to abolish PSD is pro-NATO; the PRU reluctantly Defense Minister Anatolii Hrytsenko. ties supply the full addresses of their can- parliamentary immunity and cancel privi- concedes that NATO membership may be The PRU has already accused Mr. didates. A district court in Kyiv was leges for lawmakers. (RFE/RL Newsline) on the agenda in the future; and this issue Hrytsenko of having recourse to adminis- expected to rule on the controversy on is not among YTB’s top priorities. trative resource, claiming that military August 14. President Viktor Yushchenko, Sentences in killing of recruit Rumors persist about PRU infighting. in a statement publicized on August 13 Several newspapers have speculated that (Continued on page 8) ZHYTOMYR, Ukraine – A military by his aide Maryna Stavniychuk, urged court in Zhytomyr has sentenced one the CEC to “return voluntarily” to the military sergeant to seven years and issue of registering the YTB candidates, another to five years in prison, finding without waiting for a court decision. The them guilty of killing a recruit, As Ukraine looks to NATO, Moscow’s CEC has 15 members -- seven nominated Oleksander Rybka, at a military training by the president and eight by the ruling maritime interests shift east to Asia coalition of the Party of the Regions, the (Continued on page 22) by John C.K. Daly Russian use of Sevastopol epitomizes Eurasia Daily Monitor the complexity of Ukrainian-Russian rela- FOUNDED 1933 tions, as the rent for the facility is currently THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Legendary Russian Gen. Alexander deducted from Ukraine’s debt to Russia for An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., Suvorov founded Russia’s Black Sea its energy imports. Disputes between Kyiv a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. naval base at Sevastopol in 1783. 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RFE/RL A Turkish national who was driving the where they discovered a laboratory for truck was arrested following the seizure, refining opium into heroin, along with pre- A number of factors appear to dictate Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) which was described by a spokesman for cursor chemicals used in the process. why drug smugglers have chosen agents in July netted 174 kilograms of the SBU as “one of the largest hauls this At the scene they arrested the driver of Ukraine as a popular trafficking route. heroin in a raid conducted in cooperation year,” according to RIA Novosti. a minibus carrying 124 kilos of heroin One can be found in the vast stretches with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency That catch came just two months after destined for markets in the European of unguarded borders between Ukraine and (DEA) and Turkish law-enforcement another major heroin shipment was Union, as well as a Turkish citizen who Russia, from which illegal drugs deriving organizations. appropriated – this time 114 kilograms was charged with drug smuggling. from Central and South Asia and trafficked The haul was the latest sign that Ukraine netted in central Kyiv as a Turkish nation- All in all, Ukraine’s Security Service via the Caucasus can enter the country. is increasingly being used as a transit coun- al was loading the drugs into an automo- this year has confiscated more than 460 Another is the largely unprotected try for illegal drugs – both for synthetic bile. An SBU official said in announcing kilograms of heroin worth $32 million – Black Sea coastline, which provides a drugs making their way from Europe and the action on May 23 that it was the third more than the total amount of heroin safe haven for boats laden with illegal for Afghan heroin heading west. and final phase of an international opera- seized in Ukraine in the past 15 years. drugs to dock undetected. The problem recently led the Security tion to destroy a criminal group that was By comparison, according to statistics The high level of corruption among Service of Ukraine (SBU) to issue a state- transporting heroin to Europe. released by the Ukrainian government, Ukraine’s Customs Service also plays a ment in which it expressed its concern That raid followed the announcement just 3.7 kilograms of heroin were confis- vital role in Ukraine’s east-west drug- about Ukraine’s rising role in the world of in April by the SBU that an international cated by Ukrainian law-enforcement trafficking trade. drug trafficking, including the production ring trafficking drugs from Western agencies in 1997; in 1999, 6 kilograms Smugglers, taking advantage of border of drugs and “the more intensive involve- Europe to Ukraine had been broken up. were seized; and in 2001, 12 kilograms. crossings known to be “safe” as a result ment of Ukrainian nationals.” Four people from different parts of And while the SBU boasts of having of lax security, or arrangements with cor- rupt inspectors, focus on those entry and Record hauls Ukraine were detained in that operation, closed nine channels for drug smuggling which yielded $200,000 worth of ecstasy, via Ukraine already in 2007, it is widely exit points. The 174-kilo stash was seized on July cocaine and amphetamines, and led to the believed that the amount of heroin cap- Lastly, increased vigilance by law- 23 in Illichevsk, where it was discovered interception of a larger haul of 4,000 tured represents only a fraction of the enforcement along the traditional “Balkan in the false bottom of a truck that had ecstasy tabs and 1 kilogram of ampheta- amount that reaches its final destination. route” has led traffickers to find new routes arrived at a southwestern Ukrainian port mines in Western Europe, according to According to a report prepared for the – making Ukraine a natural choice owing by ferry from Georgia. Investigators the UNIAN news service. U.S. Justice Department, for instance, the to its borders with Poland, Hungary, believe the heroin was being smuggled And in February, SBU, DEA and Turkish estimated amount of heroin trafficked via Slovakia, Romania and Moldova to the from Iran to Western Europe via police officials raided a house in a small vil- Ukraine in 2001 was nine to 20 metric tons. west, and Russia on the east.

“In 1991, you couldn’t spend $20 a “We single-handedly reformed Murmansk. Longtime ... month,” she said. “It was impossible. defamation law in Ukraine,” she said. “Take good care of Murchyk,” she (Continued from page 1) There wasn’t much to buy.” “We made it a lot more difficult for said of her Ukrainian riding horse. “He’s port the move because it would give the In covering the 1998 parliamentary elec- politicians to win lawsuits when they very good and worth it.” Communists a means to insulate them- tions for the Los Angeles Times, Ms. didn’t deserve to. So I feel like I’m leav- Ms. Mycio spent many weekends vis- selves from Boris Yeltsin’s drive against Mycio noticed how politicians were rou- ing behind a legacy.” iting her horse’s ranch, where she tinely winning libel claims against the Her other top achievement is escaped the stresses of Kyiv, particularly the party. media and succeeded in closing newspapers “Wormwood Forest: A Natural History after the brutal assault she endured on “I remember her saying, ‘I promise because lawyers, judges and even editors of Chornobyl,” a 240-page book in September 15, 2005, when a thug you in six months Yeltsin will give had little knowledge of defamation law. which Ms. Mycio vividly details her smashed a concrete block against her Ukraine independence,’” Ms. Mycio The lawsuits were part of former exploration of the 30-kilometer head as she exited her apartment on a recalled. “And (Serhii) Holovatyi was President Leonid Kuchma’s emerging Chornobyl zone, which has ironically sunny afternoon. against it too, because he wanted to hold She successfully fended him off in an those Communists accountable for their ensuing struggle, thanks to her athleti- alleged involvement in the putsch.” cism gained from her active pursuit of Much has changed since then. horseback riding. Ms. Skoryk fervently opposed the Ms. Mycio soon hired a bodyguard, Orange Revolution and aligned herself with confidently letting him go in November the Party of the Regions, recently accompa- 2006. She said she hasn’t had trouble nied by Mr. Holovatyi, who secured the since, recovering mentally and physically. 93rd position on the Party of the Regions Ms. Mycio’s attacker was never list for the September elections. found. It was during the independence move- “The case has died,” she said, adding ment that Ms. Mycio became acquainted that it’s typical in Ukraine, unfortunately. with her future husband. “My understanding is you have to pay the When independence was finally police to get them to pursue something.” achieved, Rukh activists preoccupied On the eve of her departure, Ms. themselves with ideology, nation-build- Mycio wasn’t the least bit sentimental or ing and national symbols while the emotional. wiser, pragmatic Ukrainians launched She said she won’t miss the lush, their takeover of the country’s industrial romantic parks of central Kyiv; the occa- and natural wealth. sional melodic Ukrainian phrases spoken “[The activists] were former dissi- on its streets; or even the awesome dents and poets, not the most down to wilderness of Chornobyl. (“I’ve already earth kind of people, and that’s why the been there 25 times.”) other guys got rich,” Ms. Mycio said. She’s far more pragmatic. “They didn’t care about independ- Mary Mycio (center) flanked by Ukraine’s first lady, Kateryna Yushchenko, and “Haircut, roots, bleaching and wash ence. They looked at what’s in it for U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor at the November 2006 launch of the still cost me only $16,” she said as she them. Meanwhile [the activists] were Ukrainian-language publication of her book “Wormwood Forest: A Natural departed for her 5:00 p.m. appointment. fighting over the blue-and-yellow flag, History of Chornobyl.” “I have no idea what that costs in the which was more important to them than U.S., but I’m dreading the thought.” just about anything, including the eco- strategy of muzzling the media, targeting become Europe’s largest nature reserve nomic stuff.” those outlets owned by Pavlo Lazarenko, since the 1986 catastrophe. In the year, Ms. Mycio was among the his biggest political opponent at the time. The book has sold 7,000 copies globally. Notice to publishers well-known circle of female expatriate She launched a legal defense fund in To honor the Ukrainian-language pub- reporters who lived in Kyiv and docu- 1998 called the ProMedia Legal Defense lication of “Wormwood Forest,” U.S. and authors mented the first years of Ukrainian inde- and Education Program, in cooperation Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor It is The Ukrainian Weekly’s policy to pendence for the world to read. with the International Research and held a November 20, 2006, reception at run news items and/or reviews of newly They included Marta Kolomayets of Exchanges Board (IREX) and with fund- his Kyiv residence, which was attended published books, booklets and reprints, as The Ukrainian Weekly, Natalia well as records and premiere issues of Feduschak of The Wall Street Journal, ing from the U.S. Agency for by first lady of Ukraine Kateryna International Development (USAID). Yushchenko. periodicals only after receipt by the editorial Chrystia Freeland of the Financial Times offices of a copy of the material in question. After nine years of serving Ukrainian Upon settling in the U.S., Ms. Mycio and Marta Dyczok writing for The News items sent without a copy of the Guardian. journalists and even paying their legal said she plans to pursue her next book new release will not be published. Through 1998 Ms. Mycio said she fees, the program closed on June 23, project, what she described as “a darkly Send new releases and information was able to live a comfortable life in spinning off a Ukrainian non-govern- comic thriller about nuclear smuggling in (where publication may be purchased, Ukraine without earning a great deal of mental organization called the Media Ukraine in the early 90s.” cost, etc.) to: Editorial Staff, The Ukrainian income from articles to U.S. newspapers. Lawyers Association. Upon finishing her salmon fillet, she Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, In fact, vast money wasn’t useful even The program is among Ms. Mycio’s got a call on her cell phone from Vasyl, Parsippany, NJ 07054. if it was available, she said. proudest achievements. the fellow who agreed to buy her horse, 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 No. 33

ners, and singing folk songs and listening CEC registers ... to pop tunes from the maidan. UCCA seeks volunteers to serve (Continued from page 1) “Only pressure from the people will reporters on August 13. prevent sold-out, corrupt officials from “I think that Yanukovych and his party doing whatever they want with this as international election observers know very well that the single competi- country,” Ms. Tymoshenko said. tor against them, an all-Ukrainian mafia, The Party of the Regions released an NEW YORK – In light of nation. Delegation teams will be is our team.” August 11 statement soon after the CEC President Viktor Yushchenko’s recent deployed to various regions through- While the CEC claimed it was merely ruling alleging the YTB intentionally decision to disband Ukraine’s out Ukraine in order to cover as many adhering to election procedures when planted the mistakes in order to create a Parliament and call for new elections, oblasts as possible. denying registration to the YTB, its deci- political scandal on which to capitalize. the UCCA will once again be hosting To become a member of the UCCA’s sion raised suspicion as to whether it was Though one of the banners posted at a delegation of International Election International Observer Mission volun- only the start of attempts to sabotage the the CEC read, “There Won’t Be Observers to monitor the upcoming teers must hold citizenship in a country reform-driven Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in Elections, There Will Be a Revolution,” extraordinary parliamentary elections other than Ukraine and be willing to its election campaign. Ms. Tymoshenko told reporters on on September 30, 2007. dedicate roughly one week to the pro- The coalition forces appoint eight of August 14 that it was her supporters who International Election Observers gram. Individuals interested are asked the CEC’s 15 members, thereby giving it independently posted such a banner, and play an extremely important role in to contact the UCCA National Office the majority in voting on its rulings. her political force isn’t considering any significantly enhancing the trans- either by email at [email protected] or The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc poses the radical measures. parency of the election process. telephone at 212 228-6840. biggest threat to the Party of the Regions, “I think together we launched the Therefore, the UCCA is once again The UCCA has been hosting dele- particularly in Ukraine’s central oblasts. Orange Revolution once already and seeking individuals to serve as mem- what’s needed is to implement what was gations of International Election The CEC ruling puzzled political bers of the UCCA International achieved by the revolution in our lives,” Observers to monitor Ukraine’s presi- observers because the public would view Observer Mission. she said. dential and parliamentary elections parliamentary elections without the YTB UCCA Observer Missions are con- The August 14 denial isn’t the first since 1994. In 2004, the UCCA's del- as illegitimate, particularly if resulting ducted on a volunteer basis. The from something as minor as an alleged instance the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc egation, which numbered 2,408 indi- UCCA will provide all volunteers clerical error, which Ms. Tymoshenko faced a hurdle in its parliamentary cam- viduals, was the largest delegation of official accreditation from Ukraine’s vehemently denied existed. paign. Central Election Commission, exten- International Election Observers ever “All documents which we submitted to Months earlier, the two dozen or so sive training to familiarize observers registered by Ukraine's Central the CEC were prepared irreproachably YTB defectors who attempted to join the with all the laws and regulations relat- Election Commission, surpassing the from a legal point of view,” Ms. coalition government tried to form their ed to the election process, as well as OSCE's delegation by almost 1,000 Tymoshenko said. “Nowhere did we ignore own parliamentary faction called Byut. in-country travel and lodging coordi- observers. a single concern raised by the CEC.” They hoped such a faction in If the ruling was a political technology Parliament would deny all attempts to hatched by the coalition government, it hold pre-term parliamentary elections. Transforming CUN into a privately held was a clear failure. They also threatened to form a politi- Election Notebook... company is a dead end road.” Rather than hampering the Yulia cal party by the same name. Tymoshenko Bloc, the CEC rejection More recently on August 14, Socialist (Continued from page 1) Mr. Hirnyk is the son of Soviet dissi- dent Oleksii Hirnyk, who fatally set him- delivered a boost in mobilizing its sup- Party lawyers tried to deny the Yulia Hirnyk from its ranks after he decided to self ablaze on January 21, 1978, in Kaniv porters and enhancing its image as an Tymoshenko Bloc the ability to appoint accept the 91st position on the Our to protest the Soviet totalitarian govern- opposition force challenging a corrupt representatives to local election commis- Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense Bloc’s ment and its brutal Russification policy. coalition government intent on prevent- sions, claiming it was not a legitimate electoral list. ing its ascent. parliamentary faction after its deputies Mr. Hirnyk represented CUN in *** Within hours of the August 10 ruling, surrendered their mandates and liquidat- Ukraine’s Parliament since 2002 and was an army of more than 1,000 Yulia ed the faction. against the party’s decision to abstain Party of the Regions Campaign Chair Tymoshenko Bloc supporters clad in Only the parliamentary factions in the from joining the Our Ukraine-People’s Borys Kolesnikov predicted on August white t-shirts and polo shirts descended most recent parliamentary convocation Self-Defense Bloc, which was officially 14 that Viktor Yanukovych will return as on the Central Election Commission, set- can appoint representatives to local elec- formed on August 2 between nine par- prime minister because their party will ting up more than 40 tents, posting ban- tion commissions. ties, most of which have a national dem- form the next parliamentary coalition. ocratic orientation. “Our party’s leader enjoys the highest All nine parties also agreed to fold level of trust from Ukrainian society,” Mr. cent for the Our Ukraine-People’s Self- nine members from both the coalition and merge into a single party following Kolesnikov said. “Undoubtedly, he will Defense Bloc, according to a poll con- government and the opposition to each the September elections. realize the Party of the Regions’ program.” ducted by the Socio-Vymir Center for local election commission. Aside from not joining the bloc, Hours later, Our Ukraine-People’s Sociological and Political Research. The Party of the Regions, Socialists CUN decided against running in the par- Self Defense Bloc leader Yurii Lutsenko More than 46 percent of respondents and Communists could each appoint three liamentary elections independently so as declared the Party of the Regions won’t said they had a positive attitude towards members, while the Our Ukraine and not to skim votes from the Our Ukraine- be able to form the next coalition “with- Mr. Yanukovych, compared with 46 per- Tymoshenko blocs could appoint four or People’s Self Defense Bloc, the party out finding new betrayers” such as cent for Ms. Tymoshenko and 44 percent five, rotating with every other commis- leadership announced in an August 2 Oleksander Moroz and Anatolii Kinakh. for Mr. Yushchenko. sion, the CEC decided. statement. “In voting for the Our Ukraine- The Socio-Vymir Center surveyed 2,100 “The Congress is ideologically dis- People’s Self Defense Bloc, people can respondents between July 23 and August 1 *** tinct from liberal-democratic oriented rest assured their votes won’t be betrayed with a 2.3 percent margin of error. parties, therefore the condition to dis- by the latest political Judases,” Mr. The poll was funded by International Ukraine’s only chance for stability is if solve CUN for the participation in a sin- Lutsenko said. Institute of Democracy, which is led by the Party of the Regions forms a coalition gle political party with a liberal-demo- Meanwhile, election polls continue political scientist Serhii Taran, who government with the Our Ukraine- cratic orientation is unacceptable for to demonstrate the Party of the Regions earned the 307th place on the Our People’s Self-Defense Bloc after the CUN,” the August 2 statement said. is Ukraine’s most popular political force, Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense Bloc September 30 elections, in the view of Instead, the Congress will concentrate and Mr. Yanukovych is the most widely electoral list. industrial and media magnate Victor on strengthening and rebuilding its struc- supported leader. Pinchuk. ture, prepare for city council elections More than 35 percent of poll respon- *** “A broad coalition between the Party and lobby for positions in executive gov- dents said they would vote for the Party of of Regions and Our Ukraine is the single ernment organs. the Regions, compared with 19 percent for The Socialist Party of Ukraine is still exit, the single chance and the single hope CUN also declined to form a nation- the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, 17 percent for trying to undermine the September 30 for today,” Mr. Pinchuk said in a July 17 alist bloc with the Svoboda All- the Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense elections. interview with Ukrayinska Pravda. Ukrainian Union, the latter’s leader Oleh Bloc and five percent for the Communist In the latest attempt, its lawyers Others can join, he said, and it’s far Tiahnybok stated. Party of Ukraine, according to a argued before the Kyiv District from the ideal coalition, but any other For the first time since it was Democratic Initiatives Foundation poll Administrative Court that the Yulia coalition is only a temporary solution. launched by Slava Stetsko in 1993, CUN conducted between June 20 and July 6. Tymoshenko and Our Ukraine-People’s “It’s necessary to begin sewing the won’t have any representation in the More than 31 percent of respondents Self-Defense blocs can’t have representa- nation’s two parts together,” said Mr. Ukrainian Parliament. said they would vote for Mr. tives on local election commissions. Pinchuk, whose business empire is esti- The party reached a low point after its Yanukovych if pre-term presidential Since their deputies surrendered their mated at $7 billion. “That can be done by chair and top financier, millionaire natu- elections were held, compared with 15 mandates in order to end the Parliament’s uniting the elite, which in one form or ral gas trader Oleksii Ivchenko, was percent for President Viktor Yushchenko fifth convocation, the Socialists argued another represent these two parts.” denied inclusion to the Our Ukraine- and 14 percent for Yulia Tymoshenko. their factions were liquidated and there- Certain high-ranking Our Ukraine People’s Self-Defense Bloc following his Funded by the U.S. Agency for fore non-existent. politicians are also interested in forming scandalous tenure as chair of Naftohaz, International Development, the Election law states that only those a broad coalition with the Party of the the government-owned natural gas distri- Democratic Initiatives poll surveyed blocs and parties represented in the most Regions, Kyiv journalists have reported bution monopoly. 2,011 respondents with a margin of error recent Parliament can appoint staff to in recent weeks. “The era of mega markets has of 2.2 percent. local election commissions. Meanwhile, Party of the Regions lead- arrived in politics,” Mr. Hirnyk told an More than 26 percent of respondents Judges rejected the Socialists’ argu- ers have left the door open to forming a August 13 Ivano-Frankivsk press confer- said they would vote for the Party of the ments on August 14. coalition government with any of the ence. “CUN should be in a wide coali- Regions, compared with 21 percent for The prior day, the Central Election political forces qualifying for Parliament tion of national democratic forces. the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc and 14 per- Commission (CEC) decided to appoint after the September 30 elections. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 5

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The Weekly boasts Tabatchouk, Kuropas receives honorary doctorate Denysyk as summer interns PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Ukrainian age 7-11) in the Newark Plast branch. Weekly is fortunate this summer to have She plans to join the Plast sorority not one, but two summer interns – one “Spartanky.” working on the editorial side of the As the summer draws to a close, The newspaper and the other on the produc- Ukrainian Weekly will soon bid farewell tion aspect. to its summer interns, wishing Mr. Roman Tabatchouk, a 2007 graduate Tabatchouk and Ms. Denysyk further of Rutgers University – New Brunswick, success in their studies.

OSTROH, Ukraine – The Ukrainian version of Dr. Myron B. Kuropas’s history of the Ukrainian National Association, “Ukrainian American Citadel: The First One Hundred Years of the Ukrainian National Association,” was formally launched at the National University of Ostroh Academy in May. It was a fitting venue as the university is home to the Institute for Ukrainian Diaspora Studies, founded in 2002. As seen in the photos above, Dr. Kuropas (left) also was honored with an hon- orary doctorate presented during special ceremonies at the university by Rector Ihor Pasichnyk. Dr. Kuropas has lectured at the National University of Ostroh Academy on the history of Ukrainians in the United States and American history, and is the principal fund-raiser for the rebirth of the university. Donations to the National University of Ostroh Academy can be made through the UNA’s Ukrainian Roman Tabatchouk and Dara Denysyk at The Ukrainian Weekly. National Foundation/Ostroh Fund. has been an editorial intern. Readers may have noticed his fine articles about Ukraine’s soccer scene. Mr. Tabatchouk holds a B.A. in political science and is The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund: July headed for New York Law School beginning in mid- Amount Name City Helen Duda Old Bridge, N.J. August. He hopes to eventually work in the field of inter- $200.00 Yuriy and Irena North Potomac, Md. Alexandra Florchuk Warren, Mich. national law. Deychakiwsky Joseph Jackson New Providence, N.J. A resident of Hackettstown, N.J., Mr. Tabatchouk was $125.00 Plast Tabir Ptashat Kerhonkson, N.Y. Alexandra Kochman Chicago, IlL. born in Ukraine and arrived in the United States in 1991. Tour 1 Mykola Mychalczak Manlius, N.Y. He is a member of the Ukrainian American Youth Plast Tabir Ptashat Kerhonkson, N.Y. Jaryna Turko-Bodrock Cambridge, Mass. Association, a graduate of the Lesia Ukrainka School of Tour 2 $10.00 Marion Bartoszyk Hyattsville, Md. Ukrainian Studies in Morris County, N.J., and former pres- $100.00 Anisa Sawyckyj-Mycak Forest Hills, N.Y. Dorothy Doloszycki Little Falls, N.J. ident of the Rutgers Ukrainian Students Club. He was the UNA Seniors Kerhonkson, N.Y Mary Efremov New York, N.Y. organizer of the conference of the Federation of Ukrainian $55.00 Anya and Jurij Petrenko Ashton, Md. Maria Kudryk-Case Cedar Lake, Ind. Student Organizations in America (SUSTA) held in April. $50.00 George Dziadiw Slingerlands, N.Y. Maria Lavanga Philadelphia, Pa. Working at The Weekly as layout artist this summer is Maria Matlak Escondido, Calif. Patricia Myr Philadelphia, Pa. Dara Denysyk, a resident of nearby Morris Plains, N.J. She M. Otrok Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Boris Onufreiczuk Watchung, N.J. is in her last year of studies toward a Bachelor of Fine Arts Roman Petryshyn Edmonton, Alberta Katherine Panchesine Woodbine, N.J. in graphic design and multi-media studies at Centenary Olga Solovey Dearborn Heights, Mich. Myron Pawlowsky Winnipeg, Manitoba College in Hackettstown, N.J. She hopes to work in maga- $45.00 Maria Briggs West Hartford, Conn. Bohdan Pestrak Whitestone, N.Y. zine publishing as a designer. Adrianna Kashuba Chicago, Ill. Nestor Scherbey Grand Rapids, Mich. Ms. Denysyk received a Certificate of Merit in Graphic Roman Okpysh Dana Point, Calif. Irene Szymanskyj Schiller Park, Ill. Design and Multi-Media Arts earlier this year and was $30.00 John Guty Ottawa, Ontario $5.00 Larysa Biloholowskyj Wilmington, N.C. responsible for creating and designing the poster used by Andre Traversa Park Ridge, Ill. Merle and Bonnie Toledo, Ohio Centenary Radio. She has also designed brochures and Eugene B. and Natalia Short Hills, N.J. Jurkiewicz pamphlets for various clients. Readers see her design work Zmyj Liliana and Bohdan Kendall Park, N.J. in each issue of The Weekly. $25.00 Oksana and Volodymyr Highland, N.Y. Kotys Ms. Denysyk is a member of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Bakum Natalya Krawczuk- Silver Spring, Md. Organization and used to be a counselor of “novaky” (boys Walter Dobushak Kerhonkson, N.Y. Wells Jaroslawa Komichak Upper St. Clair, Pa. Myroslaw Kulynych Jackson Heights, N.Y. Paul Nadzikewycz Chicago, Ill. Harby Praschyk West Easton, Pa. Peter Serba Wilmington, Del. Stephan Saldan Niles, Ill. Andrew Simock Las Vegas, Nev. Steffi Sarvady Northlake, Ill. B. and O. Yaremko Livingston, N.J. Lubomyr Zobniw Binghamton, N.Y. $20.00 Bar-W-Pac Spring Beach, Tex. (in memory of Dr. TOTAL: $1,745.00 Jaroslaw Stachiw) Roman Kuropas Warren, Mich. Sincere thanks to all contributors to Alexander Leskiw East Hanover, N.J. The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund. Kristine Lyktey Utica, N.Y. O. Makarushka-Kolodij Maplewood, N.J. The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund is the only fund Antoinette Sorbello Putnam Valley, N.Y. dedicated exclusively to supporting the work of this $15.00 Stephen Daisak Freehold, N.J. publication.

THE UNA: 113 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 No. 33

FOR THE RECORD THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Democracy at 16 “Your are fighting not for politicians Sixteen years after Ukrainian independence was declared, the nation is closely approaching its first ever pre-term parliamentary elections, slated for September 30. but for the people and for Ukraine” As is oft repeated by the Orange leaders, pre-term elections are a normal phe- Following are excerpts from President effectively for the people. It must adopt a nomenon in the world’s democracies (Turkey held them in July and Poland will Viktor Yushchenko’s speech at the August transparent and clear code of how to hold them in October). 7 convention of the Our Ukraine – serve its citizens. The events leading to these pre-term elections reveal that democracy remains high- People’s Self-Defense bloc. The English- Through such a prism we will edit ly fragile, even under threat, just 16 years after it was established on Ukrainian lands. language text was provided by the Press Ukraine’s Constitution, promote the prin- In their Orwellian perception of events, Ukraine’s coalition-oriented forces argue Office of Ukraine’s President. ciples of European parliamentarism, that Mr. Yushchenko has been democracy’s main enemy, first leading a revolution renew the democratic balance of powers that undermined what they consider to be the legitimate 2004 elections, then alleged- My Fellow Citizens, Brothers: and restore order in our country. ly calling for pre-term elections this year without any constitutional foundation. I am greeting Ukraine’s democratic The third pillar is adequate economic In their version, the Orange forces point to their opponents’ cynical and self- majority here and now, standing on this and social standards, which should be con- serving rejection of Mr. Yushchenko’s genuine attempt to form a broad coalition high political rostrum. I am greeting the sistent with the standards of united Europe. last year, consisting of four of the Parliament’s five factions (the Yulia political forces that have formed the Our Over the past seven years, since my Tymoshenko Bloc abstained) in order to put aside past differences and unite on Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense bloc. premiership, Ukraine has been demon- behalf of the Ukrainian people. We have taken a real step into the future. strating Europe’s and, I would even say, In rejecting the National Unity Coalition, the coalition forces led by Prime Remember our history: for centuries, dis- the world’s best macroeconomic growth. Minister Viktor Yanukovych waged an aggressive usurpation campaign to monopo- cord has been chasing our democratic However, our doctors, teachers and lize government, in their view, reaching its climax in March when they attempted to forces with tragic persistence; self-destruc- artists very often earn no more than 700- form a 300-vote parliamentary majority in order to override all presidential vetoes. tion – not foreign armies and regiments – 800 hrv per month. Is this normal? How As is almost always the case in Ukrainian politics, neither the Orange or the has very often been our biggest obstacle. can one combine fast economic growth coalition forces are angels. This curse destroyed the Kozak move- and the CIS’s lowest social standards? The coalition’s aggressive usurpation campaign, followed by the President ment and the Kozak state. It ruined our Economic growth makes sense only in Yushchenko’s extreme and questionable measures to ensure pre-term elections, great chances in the 20th century under one case, and this is when it benefits the reveal that Ukrainian democracy remains held together by a delicate thread, at Hetman [Pavlo] Skoropadsky and the gov- people, when it affects each average citizen. risk of ripping apart with every major conflict that arises. ernment of [Volodymyr] Vynnychenko. It As far as I remember, the coalition of At the heart of the problem is the extreme politicization of Ukraine’s govern- has plagued us since the revival of our the Party of the Regions, the Socialists ment institutions and courts, in which political allegiances to parties and clans independence. No doubt this is a formida- and the Communists made it their priority trump the law, ethics and common fairness in resolving conflicts. ble challenge and the nation’s great pain. to improve the life of the people by using However, 16 years after independence, Ukrainians have yet to adopt a politi- Ambitions and petty political intrigues the country’s unique macroeconomic cal culture that would serve to develop the necessary institutions, and their safe- have undermined the people’s trust in the achievements of the past seven years. guards, in order to ensure the rule of law. Orange revolution. I want each of us to What has each Ukrainian citizen been As much as they claim to aspire to Western principles of governance, the rule remember this. given this year? The major sign is real of law and an impartial court system, too many Ukrainians are having difficulty We are guilty of our failures. Each of income. But the income of the people has shedding their Soviet traditions of tributes and allegiances, or are simply com- us in this hall must make a pledge. The decreased twofold in the past year, fortable with them, including the so-called Orange leaders. war of hetmans is over. The Ukrainian although Ukraine boasts the fastest eco- Ukrainian democracy has another problem. people are waiting for these words. nomic growth in its independent history. ... For the second time in two years, parliamentary elections will again take place We are united today. A united demo- I want to ask: What country does this employing as closed-list electoral system that is a corruption of purer and more cratic party is emerging here today. I government work for? Whose interests just forms of democracy. want to shake hands with everyone who does it protect? I am indignant at the crim- Voters won’t have the option of selecting a specific person to represent their contributed to this unification. I want to inal impudence and negligence of Cabinet particular district in Parliament. thank the leaders of the political parties members in how they treat the life and Instead, they can only choose from a party, or bloc of parties, with pre-select- and forces that joined this alliance. I security of the citizens of Ukraine. ed lists of candidates that will supposedly represent their interests, though with- know how difficult it was. We have had eight big transportation out any direct accountability. I would like to say straightforwardly: accidents over the past seven months. If a train wreck occurs in my district, who is held responsible if land is pollut- there will be no alternative. We are leav- They are becoming regular, in fact, and ed or rescue efforts are substandard? Who represents those concerns in ing our old symbols of power in the past. culminated [last month] in a phosphorus Parliament? The answer so far is nobody. We are going to build a new future. spill in Ozhydiv, which cost the state 14 If Ukrainian democracy is to thrive and prosper, the closed party list system Our position will be clear and princi- million hrv. But this was not the end. We must be abandoned and replaced with some form of single-mandate plurality pled. The party will not seek warm and have recently had new serious incidents voting, which would allow the individual voter to select a specific person to rep- comfortable seats. It will be working for in the Kharkiv region, in Ternopil and on resent his or her particular region in Parliament. Ukraine, for the nation, for each free the Southern Railway. The slow evolution from the Soviet system of tributes and allegiances to a individual. It will act effectively whether No transparent and competitive priva- Western perspective that views the law as the ultimate arbiter of conflicts must in the government or the opposition. tization has been staged this year to continue. I am addressing each member of our encourage foreign and national invest- The hope is that such reforms and changes will occur in time to prevent team, each of the millions of our support- ment. Privatizations are becoming murki- Ukraine’s fragile democracy from bursting at the seams. ers, members of local organizations and er. Ukraine has forgotten this year what a candidates: you are a force that can win. transparent auction is. The state budget You are fighting not for politicians but has already lost billions of hryvni, which for the people and for Ukraine. I am with could have been spent to benefit the peo- August you. We are one team. We are one force. ple. Foreign investment in the national Turning the pages back... We are one palm. economy has decreased greatly. The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc is marching As president and as a citizen of 19 shoulder-to-shoulder with us. We are mutu- Ukraine, I do not accept such results. al supporters. Our common victory depends Having all the opportunities to work, Sixteen years ago, the Soviet Union came to an end in a failed on how well you will be able to coordinate the former coalition started struggling for 1991 coup attempt during August 19-21, 1991, by hardliner this cooperation and help each other. power, frankly, openly and violating the Communists who attempted to remove Mikhail Gorbachev We must do lots of difficult and exhaust- Constitution. from power and as a result paved the way for Leonid ing but necessary things for the country. Having their majority, they attempted to Kravchuk of Ukraine to become the country’s first democratically elected president, Ukraine has more programs for economic collect 300 votes through unconstitutional as reported by The Ukrainian Weekly. and social development than it needs. What means. The purpose of this coup was to As the events in Moscow unfolded, the Ukrainian SSR authorities remained in con- it lacks, however, is unity and the wisdom usurp power and rule with no restrictions. trol and assured the populace that no state of emergency existed in Ukraine. Mr. of politicians that wish their state good. They destroyed Parliament. It was Kravchuk, however, was cautious in regard to the self-declared State Committee on ... Our idea is to have a powerful state, destroyed because of the coalition’s ille- the State Emergency in Moscow. a united nation, one state language and gal actions, profound political corrup- Experts believed, even then, that Mr. Kravchuk should have condemned the com- one Orthodox Church. In this I see the tion, black schemes and backstage politi- mittee as illegitimate and publicly supported Mr. Yeltsin before Kazakh President essence of the national idea. cal agreements. Nursultan Nazarbayev did. But according to the report, the Communist-dominated Ukraine will be successful if it stands … I stopped the threat hanging over Presidium was a major stumbling block to the shedding of the old guard. on three unbreakable pillars. Ukraine. The attack was stopped. I dis- “Mr. Kravchuk was overly cautious; he covered himself and the Ukrainian govern- The first pillar is the country’s unity solved the Verkhovna Rada and called a ment in case of the success of the coup,” commented Prof. Vasyl Markus, of Loyola and the nation’s intellect. We must imme- fresh parliamentary election. It is incum- University in Chicago. diately renew and reinforce systemic pro- bent on the democratic forces to spare no Commenting on the failed coup attempt, Dr. David Marples of the University of Ukrainian humanitarian policies. We will effort to tell the people what changes we Alberta said: “On the whole, Ukraine will only benefit from this situation. And just as then truly respect our state language and would like to introduce. I say “no” to the ruling group took over to prevent the decentralization of power, it will be the Soviet other minority languages, civil freedoms, empty words and promises. We will republics, not the Soviet presidency, that determine the final outcome. The question science and education. restore order in Ukraine. The second pillar is a powerful, demo- (Continued on page 27) cratic and worthy government that works (Continued on page 27) No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 7

PERSPECTIVES Faces and Places by Myron B. Kuropas BY ANDREW FEDYNSKY Rebellion and renewal “Tsyrk Na Droti” As every Ukrainian knows, Taras Certainly that’s what the Revolution of As Ukraine slouches toward its 17th rounding the president. Who changes the Shevchenko was the orphaned slave who 1917 was all about, when Ukrainians estab- year of independence, there is more good party name on the eve of an election? was miraculously freed and then, by dint lished their independence after 250 years. news than bad news. Small wonder that polls suggest that if the of genius and character, crafted a body of Co-opting the Ukrainian National Republic Really? What’s the good news, you election were held today, OU-PSD would magnificent poetry to describe his people’s slogans styled after Shevchenko’s admoni- ask. For openers, Ukraine is still sover- garner less than 10 percent of the vote. glorious past and their misery as serfs. tion to look to your own home and there eign and independent. That’s longer than Pollsters argue that the September elec- Growing up in the early 1800s in a establish your own “truth, strength and at any time in its history. tions will change nothing. Predictions are provincial backwater south of Kyiv, Taras freedom,” Lenin also promised Ukraine The economy has improved, unem- that Mr. Yanukovych’s Party of the Regions learned the ways and history of his people statehood, along with “Bread, Peace and ployment is down, and moral capitalism will get almost 30 percent of the vote while the way everyone else did – from the Land,” even as he imposed “Red Terror” to has a toe-hold. Against great odds, small the Tymoshenko bloc will win 17 percent. songs and stories that the “kobzars” related insure the Bolsheviks would not lose the entrepreneurs are succeeding. President Yushchenko has promised to unite on their regular rounds of village squares. country’s bounty. And so, again, armed Despite widespread disillusionment in forces with Yulia, the most dynamic of the This was something mystical: a network of peasants – most notably 100,000 warriors the aftermath of a diminished Orange candidates, after the election. Let’s hope minstrels – most of them blind – who wan- who rode with Nestor Makhno – fought to Revolution, Ukrainians still care about it’s not too little, too late. dered the breadth and width of Ukraine, expel the foreigners, and like Gonta, their political future. Polls indicate that The most despicable aspect of keeping fresh the legacy and lore of a Zalizniak, Karmaliuk and others, became some 73 percent of the population plans Ukraine’s political scene currently is the nation with no political, academic or cul- the subject of legend and song. to vote in September. Parliament, described sarcastically by tural institutions. It was all word of mouth Only this time, a new educated class of Ukrainianism is alive and well. some Ukrainians as “tsyrk na droti,” or and it made an enduring impression on the artists and writers emerged, along with a Patriotism is being taught in the schools of high-wire circus. A representative body it young Shevchenko who later borrowed corps of dedicated activists who worked at Ukraine. Lesia and I visited educational is not. If Americans want to contact their from these itinerant musicians, styling his a higher cultural level, recording, celebrat- institutions in western and central Ukraine, senators and congressmen, we can. We book, “Kobzar,” after their work. ing and analyzing the country’s history and if the walls of classrooms and corri- know their names and their telephone During Taras’s childhood, a few elderly and culture – basically, for the first time in dors, teacher comments and textbooks are numbers. Not so in Ukraine. People don’t people still remembered armed resistance to the country’s history. As for the kobzars, any indication, Ukrainian national con- vote for individuals, they vote for political serfdom, including his grandfather Ivan they continued to ply their trade just as sciousness is being bred and nurtured. blocs. Ukrainians don’t know who repre- who told of the Haidamaky and their insur- they always had – until the Famine. Ukrainian heroes are celebrated. sents them because no one really does. rection in 1768. Professional military units That too was about land, harvest and Ukrainian national symbols are venerated. That way no one is accountable. No mem- were deployed to suppress the uprising; people’s labor. In 1929 Stalin ordered the Ukrainian school teachers and administra- ber of Parliament has a constituency so no rebel leaders Ivan Gonta and Maksym collectivization of agriculture. Perceiving tors appear to take great pride in their member of Parliament has to worry about Zalizniak were captured and publicly tor- this as nothing more than re-imposition of national heritage. This contrasts sharply antagonizing individual voters. In the tured to death, their visible agony serving as serfdom, people roundly rejected his plan. with American schools where many edu- United States we write letters to members a warning against further uprisings. Later, When Stalin resorted to violence to cators consider patriotism retrograde, pre- of Congress. In Ukraine no one does. Shevchenko related how in his boyhood he enforce his policy, people rose up – an ferring to march under the flag of multicul- Who are you going to write to? defied the master’s ban on singing the songs estimated 40,000 armed “rebels” in 1930, turalism where all cultures are equal. Not only is a member of Parliament glorifying the rebels. Later, the insurrection according to Dr. Robert Conquest. The Churches (Catholic, Orthodox, not accountable to a constituency, he/she provided him with material for one of his resistance included former Petliurists, Protestant) and synagogues are springing is not accountable to anyone. Members greatest poems, “Haidamaky,” written 75 “Red partisans” from 1919 and, in the up all over Ukraine like mushrooms after of Parliament are immune from prosecu- years after the actual events and six years Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, a Red Army lieu- a rain. Religious commitment has tion. Some, like Prime Minister before Shevchenko was arrested in 1847. tenant home on leave who was killed in returned to Ukraine, filling the moral Yanukovich, have prison records. Over Russian authorities certainly had reason action, leading villagers against military vacuum following the demise of atheistic 300 parliamentarians are millionaires. It to be uneasy about a dynamic poet who units with artillery and aircraft. Who was communism. And it’s just not old people is no secret that many of them gained was not ambitious for himself but for his this man, I wonder, and why isn’t he cele- going to church. Young people have also their money illegally but as long as they people. Just a decade earlier there had been brated in legend and song, like Karmaliuk found God. remain in Parliament, they’re Ukraine’s another smaller rebellion, led by a deserter had been a century before and Gonta and Anti-Semitism is all but non-existent. untouchables. from the Russian army, Ustym Karmaliuk. Zalizniak nearly a century before that? Jews who immigrated to Israel are Ukrainian parliamentarians enjoy perks Organizing bands of angry young men, he Well, consider this: To quell opposition, returning to Ukraine in droves. Many unheard of in the United States. President conducted nearly 1,000 raids on landown- Stalin deployed artillery, division-strength have opened businesses that are thriving. Yushchenko has estimated that Ukrainian ers’ estates in the 1830s before being killed infantry and regiments of cavalry. Troops I visited Uman where the venerable taxpayers have spent up to 500 million hrv in action in 1835. Akin to England’s Robin surrounded villages with machine guns Rebbe Nachman, leader of the Bratslaver [100 milltion U.S. dollars] annually for Hood, Karmaliuk was memorialized in and sprayed bullets into crowds of protest- Chassidic Jewish sect, is buried, and MP’s privileges – rent-free apartments in sayings, folk songs, a story by Marko ing peasants. Airplanes dropped bombs. where some 10,000 of his followers Kyiv, free transportation and vacations, Vovchok and a novel by Mykhailo When the Nazis did that against return annually on Rosh Hashanah to and the best medical and social services. Starytsky. Shevchenko certainly knew of Guernica in 1937, Pablo Picasso painted pray, sing and dance at his grave. To “This money,” President Yushchenko Karmaliuk, noting in his diary a song about one of the iconic paintings of the 20th accommodate the pilgrims, Bratslaver declared, “is enough to pay off Ukraine’s the rebel’s exploits – no doubt composed century and the world shared his outrage. Chassidic Jews have even purchased a wage arrears or to build, for example, 250 and spread by the same network of kobzars When Vasyl Sedliar produced a haunting hotel near the grave of the rebbe. new schools or five new mines or increase that had inspired the young Taras. series of drawings about collectivization, In preparation for the September elec- pensions by 20 percent.” It’s commonplace that rebellion is he was shot and his work largely tions, Ukrainian political blocs (they are Oligarchs own newspapers and yet, ingrained in the Ukrainian national char- destroyed. The vast majority of Ukraine’s not political parties in the American next to coal-mining, journalism remains acter, a trait imposed seemly by the coun- writers and artists suffered the same fate. sense) have launched Western-style cam- the most dangerous occupation in try’s geography itself. Ukraine’s image as Even blind kobzars – especially kobzars paigns with political conventions, plat- Ukraine. an agricultural giant goes back as far as – assembled from all corners of Soviet forms and debates. Prime Minister Viktor Ukraine’s population continues to 440 B.C., when Herodotus, “The Father Ukraine were executed: no songs, no Yanukovych has a new hairdo, an expen- shrink, from 52 million in 1992 to some 46 of History,” devoted a chapter to Scythian memory, no nation; this was followed by sive new suit, and he speaks Ukrainian million in 2007. Despite the fact that the agriculture and wheat trade with Greece. half a century of censorship forbidding when necessary. He has even toned down government currently pays parents 8,000 Today, the country’s flag itself evokes the very mention of a famine. calls for closer ties to Mother Russia. hrv ($1,600) for the first newborn, the endless fields of golden wheat ripening Now, we’re 75 years removed from Wearing a Ukrainian folk-style dress, abortion rate is extraordinarily high. under a cloudless sky of blue. With near- the Great Famine; the same interval that Yulia Tymoshenko had all delegates to Health remains a major problem. perfect growing conditions – flat, sunlit separated Shevchenko from the her bloc convention wear white T-shirts HIV/AIDS has expanded exponentially, fields of black earth, so deep you can Haidamak Rebellion. The Famine is a with a red heart and the inscription from 223 registered cases in 1994 to plunge your arms all the way to your story of unprecedented victimhood – “Yuliya” on them. Her political platform 68,000 in 2003. It is estimated that by armpits and still encounter the legendary indeed genocide – but it’s also a story of is unrealistic but inspiring nonetheless. 2016 over 2 million Ukrainians will die “chornozem” – Ukraine produced moun- resistance. By his example, Shevchenko And the best news of all? The editor of AIDS-related diseases. tains of grain year after year, earning it the showed a nation how to survive and how of the English-language Kyiv Post is Conclusion? The Ukrainian people title “Breadbasket of Europe,” a sobriquet individuals make that happen. Stephen Bandera. Can you believe it? are making progress but their sleazy that’s been as much a curse as a blessing. Commemoration of the Famine is not The bad news is that a waffling leaders remain mired in the sludge of To control the land and its bounty, armies only to remember the victims but to also President Viktor Yushchenko has yet to corruption. I want to believe that come have crisscrossed Ukraine since before the weave this generation into the tapestry of coalesce his coalition. He continues to September, some of the circus clowns birth of Christ. Indeed, Ukrainian history is rebellion and renewal that has sustained make uninspiring speeches. The name of will be knocked off the high wire. Let’s typically depicted as a struggle for freedom Ukrainians since time immemorial. the Yushchenko bloc was changed from all pray on it. against occupiers imposing slavery – it’s in Our Ukraine to the Our Ukraine – Shevchenko’s “Zapovit” (“Testament”) and Andrew Fedynsky’s e-mail address is: People’s Self-Defense bloc (OU-PSD), Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is the country’s national anthem. [email protected]. exacerbating the confusion already sur- [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 No. 33 TheThe thingsthings wewe do...do... NEWS AND VIEWS Ukrainian Insurgent Army by Orysia Paszczak Tracz veterans deserve recognition by Peter Ihor Kiziuk after Stalin’s death his sentence was How do you make a “Yanychar?” reduced to 10 years. Mr. Kravets is the During a trip to Ukraine this past June, only living UPA veteran in Zolochiv who They taught them well. Over the cen- Ukrainian, who pull for closer ties with I met three veterans of the Ukrainian saw combat during the years 1941-1947. turies of the Russian tsarist empire, and Russia and consider Ukrainian as just not Insurgent Army (UPA). These veterans I met Petro Mulyk and Stepan especially during the 70 years of the Soviet cool. To them, even though they are home are not accorded the same benefits or Bondaruk in Terebovlia, a town of Empire, they taught them very well, indeed. in their own land, they are enemies to recognition as those who served in the 15,000 people about 40 miles south of Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the lyrics everything Ukrainian. Ukraine is a con- Red (Russian) Army, although President Ternopil. Both men are in their mid-80s. for the musical “South Pacific” (music by venient place, not a homeland. Viktor Yushchenko has been trying to rec- Mr. Mulyk was conscripted into the Richard Rodgers) in 1949. In the musical, My sister Nusia and I had a “yanychar” tify that. This year, on the 100th anniver- town police by the invading German army this song is about an inter-racial romance, (singular of yanychary) experience in Kyiv sary of the birth of Gen. Roman at age 18 in 1941. He was then already a with Lt. Cable expressing his frustration at on the Khreschatyk last summer. We were Shukhevych, state-sanctioned commemo- member of the OUN (Organization of being uncomfortable over loving a in line at the Dva Husia cafeteria, talking rations were held throughout Ukraine – to Ukrainian Nationalists), and because of Polynesian girl: to each other in Ukrainian and beginning a greater extent in the western oblasts. his position in the town police he was able “You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear. to give our order. The young man behind Much misinformation has been spread to warn the OUN-UPA of any pending You’ve got to be taught from year to year. the counter smirked at us. “Poliaky?” about the UPA by Communists and raids by the Nazis, thus saving many lives. It’s got to be drummed in your dear little (Poles), he asked. Somehow, to him our Moscophiles, including the usual “fas- Mr. Mulyk joined the UPA in 1944, partic- ear. You’ve got to be carefully taught. Ukrainian sounded Polish. cist” and “anti-Semitic” labels. This is ipated in several battles, and in one was “You’ve got to be taught before it’s too He was speaking Russian with his co- absurd, as the UPA promoted a joint liber- saved by the sacrifice of his brother, who late – before you are six or seven or eight, workers. And yet his name-tag read ation struggle among nations enslaved by to hate all the people your relatives hate. “Oleksa Mykhailiuk,” certainly not a blew himself up to save his younger Russia and Germany. Jews served not brother. He was captured in 1947 and You’ve got to be carefully taught!” Russian name. Maybe he was trying to only as surgeons in the UPA but also In the case of present-day Ukraine, it is impress the Ukrainian girls with how served 10 years in exile in Kazakhstan. fought in the UPA ranks. Mr. Bondaruk, also in his mid-80s, not hating another group or race that is the “with-it” he was, or was just a wise guy. I It is also a well-known fact that bands of problem. It is self-hate – hating yourself suppose putting down customers was not served in the UPA since he was 18. Being Russian soldiers, masquerading as UPA sol- from Volyn, he perhaps saw the most and all your own – your nation, your cul- covered in the training manual. And then diers, committed atrocities against civilians, ture, your language. – putting them down for speaking action of the three men I met. He too was with the purpose of discrediting the UPA. captured and was exiled for 11 years, 11 For patriotic Ukrainians, such people Ukrainian – in the capital of the country! My purpose in meeting veterans of the are “yanychary” – or “yanuchary” (sup- I cannot believe that our Ukrainian was months and 11 days in Siberia. UPA was twofold: to thank them on behalf Mr. Mulyk and Mr. Bondaruk are the porters of Yanukovych and others). These so outdated as to be mistaken for another of Ukrainian American Veterans for their are the contemporary equivalent of the language. Our meal was spoiled. We felt only two living UPA veterans in Terebovlia service to Ukraine and to present each of who saw combat during the years 1941- Janissaries (yanychary in Ukrainian). The disgust, anger, revulsion and sadness at them with a gift of $100 from Boston’s young boys captured during the Tatar and what he was and how he got to be that way. 1947. There is a memorial to UPA veterans Nikolaus Zozula Post No. 31 of the UAV. in the cemetery in Terebovlia that contains Turkish raids and invasions of Ukraine in Maybe this young man really thought Although Ukraine achieved its inde- the 15th-17th centuries were brought up to he was doing something right, or maybe he over 2,000 names of young men who gave pendence in 1991 without bloodshed, it is their lives for Ukraine. forget their past and to become loyal was just a rude punk. But his smirking my belief that without the efforts and sacri- Turkish soldiers. They were indoctrinated publicly at his own language tells a lot None of the UPA veterans that I met fices of the UPA and the UHA (Ukrainska live in the lap of luxury. Yet, they were to forget and to turn against their own, about the legacy of tsarist - and Soviet-era Halytska Armiya) during World War I, because later, as soldiers, they returned to Russification. The indoctrination of being more appreciative of our recognition of Ukraine may have been Russified to such their service than the $100, which is the Ukraine as raiders, repeating the cycle. taught to hate your own identity has been an extent that the flame of independence The yanychary today are those passed down through several generations. equivalent of a month’s pay in western may have been extinguished. Ukraine. That tells you something about Ukrainians raised or educated to think that I pray that this is the last Ukrainian gen- I met Ivan Kravets, a man in his mid- anything Ukrainian is second-class, and eration of yanychary, and that there are no the nature and spirit of these men who 80s, in Zolochiv, a town of 20,000 people gave their best years in service to Ukraine. not as “prestigious” as Russian. They are more children being carefully taught to about 40 miles east of Lviv. Mr. Kravets the ones who speak Russian rather than hate and fear their own. Slava Ukrayini! Heroyam Slava! joined the UPA as a messenger, participat- (Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!) ed in several battles, was wounded, cap- tured and sentenced to death. His sentence Peter Ihor Kiziuk is finance officer for Ms. Tymoshenko also promised to do her Yushchenko ... was commuted to 20 years imprisonment Post 32 of the Ukrainian American utmost to revise gas agreements with in Siberia, but he was fortunate because Veterans. (Continued from page 2) Russia. She wants to remove intermedi- aries in the natural gas trade, and she also servicemen were spotted distributing republics, with Russia accounting for 30 pledged to return to cheaper gas prices OU-PSD campaign materials. As Ukraine ... percent of Ukraine’s foreign trade. Among for Ukraine. One of the main questions that the major bilateral issues is the fact that most Recent opinion polls show that not (Continued from page 2) election should resolve is whether the Russian natural gas deliveries to Europe much should change in Parliament after 100,000 protesters against this month’s current opposition will remain united. transit Ukraine – a point of economic the election, so Mr. Yushchenko’s and joint NATO-Ukraine Sea Breeze-2007 Ms. Tymoshenko and Our Ukraine leader pressure that Russia has not hesitated to Ms. Tymoshenko’s hopes for a maritime exercise, involving 21 warships Viacheslav Kyrylenko have pledged that use in the past (RIA-Novosti, June 22). Parliament dominated by their coalition and 1,200 NATO troops from 14 coun- their parties would be together, and never Grudgingly acknowledging its new will hardly come true. The PRU is the tries, being held off Odessa and form a coalition with the PRU. strategic relationship with Kyiv, Moscow confident leader of popular sympathies. Mykolayiv. The July 9-22 Sea Breeze Mr. Lutsenko, who tops the OU-PSD is also reluctantly planning to abandon its Some 30 to 33 percent of Ukrainians exercises epitomize Ukraine’s ambivalent list, however, has not ruled out his radar bases in Sevastopol and Mukachiv are ready to vote for it, according to the party’s cooperation with the PRU in a attitudes toward increasing cooperation near Ukraine’s border with Slovakia. polls conducted independently by SOCIS new parliament on specific issues like with the West. Ukraine’s contribution to While Russia is withdrawing its naval and the Public Opinion Foundation in constitutional amendments or new elec- the exercise is 10 warships, three fighters, units from Ukraine, its oil revenues have toral legislation. “We have to take into June and July. OU-PSD and YTB will eight helicopters, and troops and marines. nonetheless boosted its naval ambitions, account that about one in three contest the second position. They should The decade-old annual training exercise with Adm. Masorin stating that the Ukrainians backs the PRU,” he told Inter score, respectively, 13 to 15 percent and emphasizes shipboard and damage-control Russian fleet will deploy up to six air- TV, urging “dialogue” with the PRU. 14 to 17.5 percent, according to the poll- training. Nearly 1,000 of the operation’s craft attack groups within the next 20 Mr. Yanukovych, addressing the PRU sters. The Communists should score 3.5 to 2,500 participants are Ukrainian, with the years, three of which will be based in the convention on August 4, urged a broad 5 percent. The Socialists may fail to clear U.S. Navy and Marine Corps deploying Northern Fleet, with the other three based coalition, but he did not mention either the 3 percent barrier, as public support for about 700 people. The remaining personnel in the Pacific (Kommersant, July 10). OU-PSD or YTB specifically. them hovers around 1.1 to 2.5 percent. are from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Canada, The Pacific deployment is one of the Ms. Tymoshenko, addressing her con- Georgia, Germany, Greece, Latvia, clearest signs that Moscow is increasingly vention on August 5, said that corrupt Sources: Glavred.info, July 30; Macedonia, Moldova, Romania and Turkey. viewing Asia as an area of strategic interest officials should be imprisoned for life UNIAN, July 28, August 1, 4; Segodnya, While Ukraine and Russia have increas- even as it downgrades its traditional and that judges should be elected by pop- August 2; Interfax-Ukraine, Channel 5, ingly divergent military security percep- European military visibility. As a clear indi- ular vote. YTB also seeks a new constitu- August 4; Inter, August 5; Ukrayinska tions, their economies remain tightly linked. cation of Moscow’s shifting naval ambi- tion in order to strengthen the presidency. Pravda, August 6. Two weeks ago Ukrainian Prime Minister tions, Adm. Masorin stated that Russian Viktor Yanukovych visited Moscow for naval forces will construct a new base in Need a back issue? bilateral economic discussions with Russian Vilyuchinsk on the Kamchatka peninsula. Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and dis- Thus, while Moscow seems prepared If you’d like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, cussed next month’s meetings between the to downsize its traditional presence in the send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: presidents of Ukraine and Russia. Black Sea, its attentions are increasingly Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, Ukraine remains Russia’s fifth-largest shifting eastward away from Russia’s tra- trading partner. 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PITTSBURGH – The Ukrainian Korchynsky, who provided an overview suing an education in a new country. Manasterski and her sons, Myron and Technological Society (UTS) of of the UTS – now in its 37th year – and Reverend Ivashchenko made his presenta- Gregory, was awarded to Janel K. Sudiak Pittsburgh presented its 2007 Scholarship its activities. Dr. Korchynsky thanked tion in Ukrainian with English translation of Pittsburgh. Awards to undergraduate students from the many donors who have continuously provided by Mr. Steve Benham. The Ukrainian Selfreliance of Western western Pennsylvania and bordering offered their financial support, making Mr. Nickolas C. Kotow, UTS Pennsylvania Federal Credit Union cities in Ohio in ceremonies at the Henry the scholarship program possible. Secretary, then awarded the 12 scholar- Scholarship was awarded to Taras Clay Frick Fine Arts Building on the Reverend Vladimir Ivashchenko, pastor ships totaling $6,000. This marked the Strutynsky of McKees Rocks, Pa. University of Pittsburgh campus on of the Slavic Baptist Church of Pittsburgh, 35th year of the UTS Scholarship Receiving Akim and Tatiana Sunday, July 29. offered words of support and encourage- Program, with over 300 separate awards Kutsenkow Memorial Scholarships, Students, family members, UTS mem- ment to all the scholarship awardees, espe- made totaling more than $140,000. underwritten by Dr. and Mrs. Michael bers, and guests were welcomed by UTS cially those of the "fourth wave" of immi- The Chester Manasterski Memorial Kutsenkow, were Anna Lernatovych and Executive Board President, Dr. Roksana grants who face unique challenges in pur- Scholarship, underwritten by Mrs. Olga Vitaly Cherednichenko, both of Pittsburgh. Receiving Antin and Cornelia Karmazyn Memorial Scholarships, underwritten by Ms. Olga Karmazyn in memory of her parents, with a matching grant from Federated Department Stores Foundation, were Autumn M. Adamiak of Arnold, PA, Alan Buriak of Pittsburgh, Amy Dolnack of Verona, Pa, and Molly E. Wolfe of Ford City, Pa. Ukrainian Technological Society Scholarships were presented to Dalena E. Klavin of Pittsburgh, Yelena Kostyuk of Pittsburgh, Eric Senedak and Marc Senedak, both of Austintown, Oh. The Choir of the Slavic Church, under the direction of Mr. Steve Benham with pianist Mr. Tim Meier, provided a pro- gram of choral and instrumental music. Refreshments and a social hour followed the program in the courtyard gallery. To learn more about the UTS, its Scholarship Program, and other activi- ties, visit their web site at www.utspgh.org. Donations toward the 2008 Scholarship Program are being accepted. Donations are tax deductible, as provided by law, as the UTS has Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) desig- nation. Donations or inquiries may be sent to the UTS at P.O. Box 4277, Recipients of Ukrainian Technological Society scholarships (from left): Alan Buriak, Yelena Kostyuk, Autumn M. Adamiak, Pittsburgh, PA 15203. Or e-mail the Dalena E. Klavin, Molly E. Wolfe, Janel K. Sudiak, Eric Senedak, Marc Senedak, Anna Lernatovych and Taras Strutynsky. UTS at [email protected]. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 No. 33

BOOK NOTES New novel about “Andrei” Warhol by Alexander Motyl

“Who Killed Andrei Warhol: The me who grew up in New York’s Lower the sights and sounds of a city that he, as American Diary of a Soviet Journalist,” East Side know that can’t be true.” an orthodox Marxist, cannot understand. by Alexander Motyl. Santa Ana, Calif.: Prof. Motyl initially wanted to write a “Sasha visits my New York – those parts Seven Locks Press, 2007. 234 pp., $23.95 scholarly study about this facet of of the city that I’ve known and now (hardcover). ISBN: 978-0-9795852-0-3. Warhol’s life. “But when, while doing miss. Some of the novel is a walk down research on Warhol, I discovered that his memory lane for me,” Prof. Motyl noted. NEW YORK – A new novel by Factory was in the same building as the Sasha gets mugged on Union Square, eats pizza in Chelsea, orders duck in Alexander J. Motyl, “Who Killed Andrei Communist Party USA, I knew I had Chinatown and drinks vodka with bums Warhol: The American Diary of a Soviet stumbled upon a fact that was almost too on the Bowery. He even attends a rock Journalist,” is to be published by Seven good to be true. This coincidence just begged for some kind of literary explo- concert at the Ukrainian National Home Locks Press in mid-August. ration. Having Warhol meet a Ukrainian on Second Avenue. “Who Killed Andrei Warhol” is an Communist, who would misinterpret him “Who Killed Andrei Warhol” is Prof. absurdist tragicomedy that imagines a as a socialist realist, seemed like an obvi- Motyl’s second novel. The first, “Whiskey friendship between pop artist Andy ous device for exploring questions of art Priest,” was published by iUniverse in Warhol and a straight-laced Soviet and identity. After all, who decides what 2005. Prof. Motyl is also author of six aca- Ukrainian journalist who arrives in New Warhol’s art is – the New York art world demic books and numerous articles. York at the height of the garbage strike or the Communist Party? And what’s the A native New Yorker, Dr. Motyl is pro- in early 1968 to cover the impending difference?” fessor of political science and deputy direc- American Revolution. The journalist, “The funny thing is that, as preposterous tor of the Division of Global Affairs at Sasha Ivanov, comes to reside at the as it may seem to view Warhol as a socialist Rutgers University-Newark. He served as Chelsea Hotel; he also has an office at realist,” continues Prof. Motyl, “it’s no associate director of the Harriman Institute the Communist Party USA headquarters, more preposterous than much of what pass- at Columbia University in 1992-1998. Prof. located in the same building as Warhol’s “Who killed Andrei J. Motyl” es for literary and artistic criticism today. In Motyl is also a painter; he is represented by “Factory” studio on Union Square. that sense, the novel is also a satire of con- The Tori Collection, and his work is on dis- As Ivanov struggles to understand life and a range of Warhol’s “superstars.” temporary postmodern thinking, which play at www.toricollection.com. in New York, he decides that his fellow Ivanov also visits Warhol’s home and unintentionally manages to make sense of “Who Killed Andrei Warhol” may be Ukrainian worker, “Andrei” Warhol, is a becomes a close friend of his mother, nonsense and nonsense of sense in ways ordered directly from Seven Locks Press socialist realist painter, a proletarian Julia Zawacka, who plies him with pota- that can only be termed hilarious.” (www.sevenlockspublishing.com) as genius and a passionate Leninist. In the to dumplings, vodka and memories of New York City also figures promi- well as from Amazon.com and process, Ivanov has an affair with the old country. nently in the novel, as Ivanov explores BarnesandNoble.com. Warhol’s would-be assassin, Valerie Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh Solanas, and gets implicated in intrigues into a working-class family of Rusyn- involving the FBI, the KGB, the Ukrainian background. “This side of Communist Party, the Black Panthers Warhol’s life has remained completely Bociurkiw’s tale of three generations and the Students for a Democratic unexplored,” says Prof. Motyl. “It’s as if Society at Columbia University. living the first 20 years of one’s life in an of Ukrainian women in Canada The novel features cameo appearances insular ethnic community that barely by Communist Party leader Gus Hall, the spoke English could not have affected “The Children of Mary,” by FBI’s Communist “mole” Morris Childs, one’s later life and work. Ukrainians like Marusya Bociurkiw, Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education Inc., 2006. 207 pp., $19.95 (Canadian).

Marusya Bociurkiw’s novel tells the story of Sonya and Kat, two sisters sepa- rated by the death of one, which inspires the other to trace a family’s history from the 1930s to the 1990s, from the “Old World” to the new, taking the reader from the prairies of Manitoba to the fem- inist underground of Toronto. The Children of Mary, a religious community of nuns and laypersons, is where these two sisters lived during their formative years with their mother, Mary. Kat, the more outgoing and assertive one, leaves the community for Toronto to escape the constriction of living in the religious community. Kat soon finds herself living in a com- mune with politically and socially con- “The Children of Mary” scious women, who advocate issues such as feminism in the 1970s. Kat gets self-aware in the process. involved in the rallies, parades and meet- Ms. Bociurkiw’s use of Ukrainian ings that eventually lead her to meet other idioms mixes well in the text and readers women struggling with issues and to shift familiar with the language will appreci- her sexual orientation toward lesbianism. ate the nuances of the intimate dialogue Kat realizes, albeit too late, that the between characters. The author also pres- commune was not concerned about her ents in fine detail Ukrainian inter-family well-being and did care if she was alive relationships spanning three generations. or dead. When Sonya goes looking for Readers may purchase the book by Kat, she meets with Kat’s former lover, contacting Inanna Publications and who does not seem troubled by Kat’s dis- Education Inc., 210 Founders College, appearance. When Kat turns up dead, the York University, 4700 Keele St., book moves toward the story of Sonya Toronto, ON M3J 1P3; phone, 416-736- living with her mother and grandmother, 5356; email, [email protected] or visit decoding her past and becoming more www.yorku.ca/inanna.

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BOOK REVIEW Literature afficionados hail Tarnawsky’s multi-genre novel “Like Blood in Water,” by Yuriy This is why every interpretation of his The law of gravity also seems to exist Tarnawsky. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: The work is as good as the reader who inter- between her, her daughter and her son. University of Alabama Press/FC2, 2007. prets it. There is no wrong answer – only Each one seems to relate according to his 191 pp., $17.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978- pleasure. He does not entertain. Instead, or her size and to the distance between 1-57366-135-5. he invites the reader on a spiritual jour- them. ney as an equal partner. While Fatima clutched Lourdes’ skirt, by Vitalij Keis On my part, I found a pattern in “Like “stretching it like a rubber membrane, Blood in Water” which I never saw in any stretching also her left arm,” Nelson II – Good art is like good sex: everyone of his earlier books, or, for that matter – in on Lourdes’ left – “stretched her skirt knows what it is, but only from a person- any other book. The first piece, titled and his arm even more than Fatima.” His al perspective. However, the common “screaming,” has a surrealist quality. Even arm “blurred, seeming to be made out of denominator for all is pleasure. though Rilke Roark and Alba live in a a rubber membrane, but being a blur of This is especially true of literature. In world unlike our own, we still can recog- an image projecting at a sharp angle onto spite of what professors tell us, the rules nize them from our dreams and from our a surface,” it barely resembled a boy’s of prose cannot be rigidly defined. Yuriy nightmares. “former pianist fitipaldo” arm. The length of the sentence describ- Tarnawsky’s “Like Blood in Water,” ing this departure covers most of page 47 which seldom conforms to anything starts that way, however, as this mini- and all of page 48, and ends on page 49, taught in a graduate seminar – is the novel progresses, it enters a quantum hinting – at least to me – that my hypoth- greatest book I have recently struggled world: logic as we know it – even a per- esis makes sense. with. (Forgive me for ending that sen- verted logic of surrealism – stops to exist. tence with a preposition.) When I say Instead, we enter a world of string theory “Like Blood in Water” addresses the “struggled with,” this is not a rhetorical and its multiple dimensions where cause reader on many different levels. There phrase. Mr. Tarnawsky demands a great and effect are no longer applicable. Here, are allusions to art, music, psychology, although “a soccer field is empty, its right philosophy – you name it. However, you, deal of sensitivity and a great deal of “Like Blood in Water” intellectual involvement from his read- side dissolves in void.” Although “the the reader, will see only what interests players are all gone,” holes are left in their you. You will see horror, and you will ers. If you read books for vicarious expe- be a stockbroker instead. This is more places like a light that flashes, signaling see lyricism. But you will experience the riences, this book is not for you. than “comic relief” in the traditional the existence of neutrinos or bosons in a world of literature at its best. Just look at “Like Blood in Water” consists of five sense; instead, it is an existential com- pieces: “screaming,” “former pianist fiti- particle collider. When we begin reading this sample of Mr. Tarnawsky’s writing: ment on disparity between man and reali- “the joys and sorrows of r. york” – could “The sky above is also brown, tinged paldo,” “the joys and sorrows of r. york,” ty in which he is always an alien. In all of “pavarotti-agamemnon” and “surgery” – this be an allusion to Goethe? We are not by the light reflecting from below. It is these excursions, the main tone is never surprised upon entering a new world. very low – so low Roark has to stand all rendered in the lower case. The mys- violated. The unity is always there. For tery is this: Why does Mr. Tarnawsky Here a bus becomes a carp, “its body with his head bent down. It stretches flat these reasons we may see them as stylis- bending this way and that, wrinkles form- all the way to the horizon where there is call these pieces “mini-novels”? In my tic embellishments, rather than irritants. judgment, there is only one way to read ing on its shiny metal skin first on one only a thin opening left between it and To be sure, the mythos of “Like Blood side, then on the other.” Even beer, the the earth like the slot in a pinball this book: we must read it as we would in Water” is a vintage Tarnawsky. We see read a modern poem. beverage that we like to drink on warm machine. Someone on the other side is the same existential theme that runs If we apply length as a criterion, four summer days, here acquires the personali- feeding shiny new quarters of light into it throughout each of his 19 collections of of these pieces resemble a short story, ty of a being, sighing mysteriously. one by one, over and over again.” poetry, seven plays and three of his previ- and the fifth – a novella. But because The former pianist does not fit in his I can’t imagine writing better than this. ous novels (the jacket of the book men- they do not create any unified psycho- world, in spite of the root in his name. tions nine books of fiction, but I have logical effect focusing on a single char- Indeed, there is something “cosmologi- Vitalij Keis taught English and com- acter in a conflict, they are neither. Yet read only three). This is not to say that cal” about the breaking up of Fitipaldo’s parative literature for over 30 years. He each of them is as haunting as any myth Mr. Tarnawsky is simply another existen- family, something analogous to modern retired two years ago from the English that takes hold of our imagination. tial writer who is preoccupied with alien- physics. His family is “going away for department at Rutgers University. Nor can we read the book as a novel: ation and “man’s abandonment in the uni- good.” They are, we are told, “between ... there is no plot to satisfy our expectation verse.” It is not a philosophical point of Fitipaldo and the vanishing point on the of action. There are neither “heroes“ nor view that determines a writer, only how horizon.” Furthermore, there seem to be “anti-heroes” for us to identify with, and originally he expresses what he feels pas- some forces which direct the behavior of SEND THE WEEKLY no “villains” for us to hate. Action sionately about, and – more important – and relationship between his wife, his TO UKRAINE what effect his writing has on us. occurs only in collaboration between the daughter and his son. His wife leans for- To order an air mail subscription to Mr. Tarnawsky, like a virus, inflicts ward, “her head bent down, protruding reader’s mind and the reader’s imagina- The Ukrainian Weekly for addressees tion. 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It is no wonder, myriad images – which speak directly to seem light, “as though (they) were tend- Parsippany, NJ 07054. then, that he mimics Wittgenstein’s our aesthetic and our intellectual nature. ing to rise like helium-filled balloons.” “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,” including his “atomistic” style, to present his own take on life. Similarly, in “sur- gery” Rimbaud’s poem serves the same purpose. In both cases these are neither translations nor paraphrases, but a grate- ful acknowledgment by a contemporary writer to like minds in the past. Mr. Tarnawsky is also a playwright. No wonder then that he uses the dramatic genre as well in his mini-novels. Each of them includes some sort of dramatic dia- logue, including the stage directions. Usually some comic aspect comes to us through drama – analogous roughly to the “comic relief” in a Renaissance tragedy. Take, for example, the following scene in “screaming”: “Roark (giving up on the topic, eager to get to what interests him): Is Roger a gravedigger? “Woman (turning her head around for an instant and looking at the leader who is just disappearing in one of the doors): No, he’s a stockbroker.” The “comic” is a sub-species of the “ironic”: an absurd outcome in place of the expected. We expect man dressed as a gravedigger to be one. Yet he turns out to 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 No. 33 Ukrainian ethnomusicology on world stage at Vienna conference by Anthony Potoczniak National Committee of the ICTM, the Institute of Musicology at Vienna VIENNA – A delegation of scholars University, the Phonogrammarchive of the from Ukraine and the United States recent- Austrian Academy of Sciences and the ly presented papers on Ukrainian ethnomu- Austrian Commission for UNESCO. sicology at a prestigious international con- The themes for this year’s conference ference on traditional music. The included the relationship between cos- International Council for Traditional Music held its 39th World Conference in Vienna, mologies and performance practice, nation- Austria, on July 4-11 at the University of al and regional traditions of ethnomusicol- Music and Performing Arts Vienna (see: ogy and ethnochoreology, the influence of http://www.ictm2007.at). It was the first media and other technologies on music, time in the council’s 60-year history that a and the transmission of music and dance panel on Ukrainian ethnomusicology had through formal and informal education. been organized at its conference. Special attention was given to the musical This year’s conference had by far the traditions of national minorities. largest number of participants compared The Ukrainian delegation, consisting to previous ones. ICTM conferences are of four specialists from Ukraine and two organized biennially in different regions from the United States, delivered papers around the world. Over 500 delegates in the panel “Broadening the Dialogue Anthony Potoczniak participated during the weeklong event. between Regional Ethnomusicologies in Members of the Ukrainian delegation and ICTM organizing committee. From Not surprisingly, a significant number of Ukraine.” The double-session panel left: Yaroslav Davydovsky, Olha Kolomyyets (Lviv), Lee-Anne Proberts participants came from Eastern European focused on current ethnomusicological (Canberra), Birgit Huebener (Vienna) and Iryna Dovhaliuk (Lviv). and former Soviet bloc countries. research especially after the break-up of The event was co-hosted by distin- the Soviet Union. Several papers provid- Ukrainian ethnomusicology during the “authentic” performance practices from guished institutions, including the Austrian ed historical context for the discipline’s interwar period, especially Klyment different regions in Ukraine. The course Kvitka’s involvement in many state- teaches students to apply and practice sponsored initiatives in the 1920s-1930s. students’ knowledge of folk traditions by This paper complemented nicely the performing the repertoire of local com- presentation given by Iryna Dovhaliuk munities. After singing several examples (Ivan Franko National University, Lviv), of ritual folk music, Ms. Kolomyyets who discussed the early phonographic showed a video excerpt that demonstrat- recordings of Ukrainian ethnomusicolo- ed how her students mastered a regional gists and their important contribution to traditional singing style. the discipline. Her presentation was To complete the panel, Yaroslav punctuated with audio examples of early Davydovsky (SDA Technologies Ltd., recordings made by Ukrainian folklorist Lviv) and Anthony Potoczniak (Rice Osyp Rozdolsky, whose collection of University, Houston), coordinators of the approximately 700 wax cylinders had project “Networking Cultural Heritage been transferred and digitized recently Collections in Ukraine,” outlined a strat- from the legacy recording medium. egy to help make collections of unique In contrast, Olha Kolomyyets (Ivan field recordings more publicly accessible Franko National University, Lviv) shared through the use of Internet-based tech- pedagogical experience from her nologies. The presentation featured the involvement in a newly developed ethno- website portal www.folk.org.ua, which musicology course, the “folk perform- has enabled sound archives to collaborate more effectively to help develop a Yaroslav Davydovsky ance practicum,” which has been adopted national strategy to preserve their collec- Ukrainian panel (from left): Iryna Dovhaliuk (Lviv), Olha Kolomyyets (Lviv), at several higher education institutions in tions for future generations. Adriana Helbig (New York) and Olena Murzina (Kyiv). western Ukraine. Since Ukraine’s inde- Aside from its international and inter- pendence, more ethnomusicology pro- institutional make-up, the Ukrainian grams have been established in higher Anthony Potoczniak is a Ph.D. candi- development. panel was an experiment of collaboration date at the department of anthropology Olena Murzina (Peter Tchaikovsky education institutions across Ukraine. among specialists, who represent various, at Rice University. For further inquiries National Music Academy, Kyiv), who is Increasingly, these departments have often divergent theoretical approaches in about this event, readers may e-mail him the ICTM’s liaison officer for Ukraine, concentrated on multi-ethnic traditions at [email protected]. examined the progressive state of with special emphasis on so-called (Continued on page 24) Galadza wins grant from Canada’s Social Sciences, Humanities Research Council OTTAWA – The Rev. Peter Galadza, project will also take Father Galadza and Anthology for Worship” published by the who holds the Kule Family Chair in his team to cities such as Zaporizhia and Sheptytsky Institute. From 1994 to 2005 Liturgy at the Metropolitan Andrey Uzhhorod, not to mention Kharkiv and he was editor of Logos: a Journal of Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Odesa. Eastern Christian Studies. Studies in Ottawa, recently received a “Unfortunately, however, many manu- The Sheptytsky Institute is an academic research grant from the Social Sciences and scripts that were produced in Ukraine are unit of the faculty of theology of St. Paul Humanities Research Council of Canada held in Moscow and St. Petersburg. University. The faculty has 28 full-time (SSHRC) in the amount of $116,850. Someday I hope to be able to continue professors, three of whom are Eastern Most of the money will go to hire the project by schematizing their orders Christians. Along with several sessional research assistants in Ukraine, who will of worship as well. This will certainly lecturers, these three form the core of the work with the Rev. Galadza during the help anyone writing the history of wor- university’s teaching staff for programs in next three years to produce a multi-vol- ship in Ukraine – not to mention her his- Eastern Christian Studies from the under- ume descriptive catalogue of liturgical tory in other areas,” Father Galadza graduate to the graduate level. manuscripts in Ukrainian repositories. explained. St. Paul University has the largest reli- “Resources like this for the study of The Rev. Stephen Wojcichowsky, the gious studies library in all of Canada, Western worship have existed for new director of the Sheptytsky Institute, and is unique in the Western hemisphere decades,” said the Rev. Galadza. commented on the awarding of the grant: in that it offers degrees in both Western “Finally, we’ll have a similar resource “We are very proud of Father Peter’s and Eastern Christian studies. The work that describes what East-Slavic liturgical award as it recognizes his many years of The Rev. Peter Galadza of the Sheptytsky Institute is supported manuscripts prescribe. Anyone wanting scholarly accomplishments in the aca- Harvard Fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks by the Sheptytsky Institute Foundation. to know, for example, what a 16th-centu- demic community. He is a rare individual Byzantine Research Center in The chair held by the Rev. Galadza is ry codex from Kyiv contains regarding of exceptional talent, and the Sheptytsky Georgetown. His graduate students have named in honor of Peter and Doris Kule, marriage, or funerals, or prayers for civil Institute is blessed by his presence and also gone on to win prestigious grants. He Ukrainian Catholic philanthropists from authorities will be able to consult our cat- his contribution to our professorial staff. has held positions in several academic Edmonton, who have funded many other alogue – both in hard copy as well as Father Galadza’s ranking by the associations and is a popular speaker at similar initiatives throughout North online. And the catalogue will not only SSHRC for overall research achievement Roman Catholic and Protestant gatherings. America, including the institute’s Peter contain the original Slavonic wording of was 5.5 out of 6. And the overall ranking He also serves on two committees of the and Doris Kule Chair of Eastern incipits (opening lines of prayers), but was 18 out of 88 for all of Canada. In Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. Christian Theology and Spirituality, held will provide a parallel translation in fact, Father Galadza was the only profes- Father Galadza is the author of “The by Rev. Andriy Chirovsky. For more English.” sor at St. Paul University this year to Theology and Liturgical Work of Andrei information on the Sheptytsky Institute Many of the liturgical manuscripts to receive a SSHRC research grant. Sheptytsky (1865-1944),” as well as edi- readers may visit www.ustpaul.ca/shep- be analyzed are in Kyiv and Lviv. But the Three years ago the Rev. Galadza was a tor-in-chief of “The Divine Liturgy: An tytsky. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 13 Notes from the road: Hromovytsia dance troupe tours Western Europe by Greg Karawan Larger than life. When repeated, it’s a phrase that sounds rather peculiar since there really is no true measure to the size of one’s life. However, as I reflect back on Hromovytsia’s 2007 European Concert Tour, the sights we saw and the experiences we had, nothing seems more fitting than to describe it as, quite simply, larger than life. On June 22 the Hromovytsia Ukrainian Dance Ensemble of Chicago embarked on what seemed like a mere fantasy just a few years ago. It was short- ly after the completion of its 2003 Concert Tour of Ukraine that Hromovytsia’s Artistic Director Roxana Dykyj-Pylypczak declared that the ensemble’s next conquest would be a tour of Western Europe. In fact, I believe the front wheels of our 767 had not quite touched American soil when I heard these words. Jet lagged, overloaded with memories and our bellies still full of cucumbers and tomatoes, we politely acknowledged this declaration, but knew full well it had to be at least another five, perhaps 10 years before Hromovytsia Olya Soroka could possibly be ready for an undertak- Hromovytsia at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. ing such as the one we just concluded. But as her vision, drive and ambition Paris, Chateau de Versailles, the Lorraine away at hundreds of shirts and blouses. from America, let alone spoke Ukrainian continue to amaze not only her audiences American Cemetery in St. Avold, Munich’s The results were pristine costumes that fluently. After months — even years of but her dancers as well — Roxana was Olympiastadion, the statue of David in even the front row of audiences could preparation, our hard work was praised, ready for Europe. And she would take 84 Florence, the Rialto Bridge in Venice, the never tell were jam-packed into under- our determination commended and our of us with her on a whirlwind tour. Alps, the lavish vineyards of Tuscany, sized garment bags. And although we had efforts applauded. It wasn’t long before Hromovytsia Michaelangelo’s Sistene Chapel, St. Peter’s rehearsed each dance countless times in In addition to the museums, monu- Basilica and the Coliseum, to name just a the months before, all 46 dancers would ments and performances, our group also few. establish a make-shift dressing room and enjoyed the many sights and sounds of Adding to the thrill of each of these head to the stage for rehearsal. Europe that may typically not be found visits was always a well-versed and com- pelling tour guide. Infatuated with their craft, the guides explained that behind every 500-year-old painting or sculpture there was a reason for every brush stroke and a vision for every stone carving. In just 16 days, we were able to see and experience a part of the world that one could only hope to see in a lifetime. It was truly larger than life. As if these magnificent spectacles weren’t enough, there was still the thrill of performing for audiences in Strasbourg, Munich, Florence and Rome. Olya Soroka Our ensemble arrived at each theater sev- “The Boxers” perform in Strasbourg. eral hours before the concert and, although tired and weary, went right to went to work on tireless fund-raising work like a well-oiled machine. The tech- efforts, planning, organizing, choreo- nical and lighting crew had been there graphing and rehearsing. The i’s were long before the rest of us even had a dotted, the t’s crossed and our European wake-up call to ensure every panel, tour that had seemed so far away was soundboard and lighting effect were at imminent. The ensemble would be visit- peak performance. Our parents and rela- ing Paris, Strasbourg, Munich, tives would quickly scour the back-stages Greg Karawan Montecatini, Florence, Venice, Tuscany for anything that resembled an ironing Members of the tour at Symon Petliura’s gravesite in Paris. and Rome with 51 dancers and staff, and board and began steaming and ironing 34 relatives, friends and unwavering sup- Despite some of the challenging con- in history books, adding a personal touch porters that included our guest-artist and ditions we had to contend with — to our journey. When exploring on our close friend, violinist Vasyl Popadiuk. inclined stages, slippery floors and tight own, we would migrate in bunches, both With the lights in the rehearsal studio quarters — our shows went on without large and small, to the popular squares turned off and our farewells bid, we were fail. Each concert began with a group that make up the cities and towns of swiftly airborne on our way to another prayer and our traditional “Pryvit” wel- Europe. And although novices to the country, another continent, and what for come dance and ended with the crowd streets and mass transit systems, we nav- many of us seemed like, another world. favorite “Hopak” and the ensemble’s igated through Europe surprisingly well. We instantly learned that there would be customary “Budmo!” cheer immediately Once in the vicinity of our destination, little rest or relaxation on this trip as we following the curtmain’s close. In we would eventually find the shops, mar- stepped off the plane and onto a bus, and between, crowds enjoyed Hromovytsia’s kets, specialty stores, restaurants and immediately began our tour of Europe new repertoire which included among nightlife that understandably appeal to all with a stop at the Eiffel Tower. As 85 of us others, the humorous “Boxers,” the rous- European tourists. As a tour group we scattered to find the best vantage point of ing “Brothers for Eternity,” the romantic traveled in two buses that, although this colossal structure, we found it impos- “Summer Nights,” as well as the ever-so- crowded and cramped, eventually became sible to believe that the “tour” we had ref- popular sounds of Vasyl Popadiuk. strangely familiar as we would retreat to erenced hundreds of times in the last cou- Audience members throughout the the same seat with each boarding. Up ple of years was actually underway. cities included Ukrainian immigrants, towards the front you would find our par- The memory cards of our digital cam- consul generals, ambassadors to Ukraine ents, friends and relatives toasting cham- eras quickly filled as we were continuously and the Vatican and locals who simply pagne and singing traditional Ukrainian bombarded with sights we had only seen in have a love for the arts. After each show songs, while towards the back you would pictures or read about in history class – the you would often find our dancers con- find our dancers reading, listening to sights that have withstood world wars and versing with those who stayed a little music, conversing or even fast asleep. revolutions and attract millions of visitors Olya Soroka longer, many of whom were in awe that each year. The Louvre, Notre Dame de Hromovytsia performs in Florence. we brought traditional Ukrainian dance (Continued on page 24) 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 No. 33 No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 15

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“treat ‘enemies of the people’ and the Newsbriefs ... children of ‘enemies of the people’ as (Continued from page 22) nobodies. I found this place only three of a 12-meter cross to honor the millions years ago.” She added, “grandfather was of victims of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, a priest, but my father was a simple car- RFE/RL’s Russian Service reported. The penter at a factory in Moscow. He was Solovetsky Monastery served as a prison [executed] because he was the son of a camp in the 1930s, and the NKVD, the priest and was accused of spying for KGB’s precursor, shot 20,000 people at Romania. That is incomprehensible. its Butovo firing range during the Great They simply had a plan to shoot a certain It is with great sorrow that we inform friends and the Ukrainian community that, on Saturday, Terror of 1937-1938. The cross was number of people and [my father] hap- August 4, 2007, after being struck by a vehicle on Fordemoore Road, near Souzivka, Kerhonkson, brought via the Belomorkanal, a 227- pened to be among those people because N.Y., tragically died our beloved son, father, brother, grandfather, uncle, nephew and cousin, kilometer-long canal built by political he was different, he was a priest’s son.” prisoners in 1931-1933 to connect the Igor Garkavy, who is the director of the ROMAN STEPHEN TERLETSKY White Sea with Lake Onega. The proces- Butovo memorial center, said that “we believe a memorial here in the 21st cen- sion was part of events to mark the 70th Born on the outskirts of Lviv, Ukraine to Catherine (nee) Kohut Terlecky and Ivan Terlecky anniversary of the Great Terror and honor tury should not only include a church and on April 9, 1944. In 1947, the family was forcibly deported to Northeastern Poland during Stalin’s victims. Their total number is a cross, but also a museum that should unclear but could have been about 27 represent in its archives a complete the Polish military operation “Akcja Wisla.” When Roman was 16 years old, the family million, which is more than the probable cross-section of [Soviet] society in emigrated to the U.S. and settled in New York City in 1960. In his youth, he was a member figure for those killed by German dicta- 1937.” He noted that “last year we invit- of the New York branch of Plast, and entered the Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Canada. tor Adolf Hitler, but smaller than that for ed [to a conference] representatives of all Roman subsequently married, had a family and in the early 1990’s moved to Florida. More those who died at the hands of Chinese faiths whose adherents are resting here in recently he returned to New York City. Communist leader Mao Zedong. No sen- the ditches of the Butovo shooting range. A Memorial Service was held at the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church in ior Russian government official went to I’m very grateful to representatives of the any of the commemorative events of late Muslim community and the head of ritual Kerhonkson, N.Y., on Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 10 a.m. The 40-day Memorial Service July and early August, which were services at the Moscow Choral will be held at St. George’s Ukrainian Catholic Church on September 13, 2007. attended primarily by several hundred Synagogue who took part in our confer- Roman is survived by: activists and relatives of the victims. ence and contributed to examining old President Vladimir Putin recently sought traditions and coordinating our efforts.” Mother CATHERINE (nee KOHUT) TERLECKY (N.Y.) to play down the importance of the The senior priest of the Butovo Orthodox Son MYRON TERLETSKY (N.Y.) with his family church, Kirill Kaleda, told RFE/RL that purges and other unsavory aspects of Daughter NATALIE TERLETSKY (Florida) Russian and Soviet history, claiming that “we, the people of the 21st century, German Nazism and the U.S. use of should preserve the memory of those Son ALEX (LESYK) TERLETSKY (Florida) nuclear weapons in 1945 were far worse. who suffered in the 20th century. And we Brother BOHDAN TERLETSKY, (RFE/RL Newsline) should do that not only to keep our eyes and his wife, STEFANIA and sons, TARAS & ALEX (N.J.) on the past, but also for us [to look to the Aunt AHAFIA (nee KOHUT) POCHODAY (N.Y.) Activists, families remember future].” Grigory Yavlinsky, the leader of the liberal Yabloko party, told the First Cousin MARIA (nee POCHODAY) PASKA (N.Y.), MOSCOW – At the Butovo cere- Associated Press that the absence of top And her children, ADRIANA, ANTHONY, and ANDRIJ PASKA monies on August 8, Galina Pryakina, officials at the commemorative events is whose father Ivan Pryakin was executed First Cousin BOHDANNA POCHODAY-STELMACH (N.J.), “one of the most convincing pieces of and her husband, ROMAN C. STELMACH, at a firing range by the NKVD, said that and their son, ANDRIYCHYK STELMACH the authorities were unhelpful to her evidence that Russian authorities sympa- efforts in recent years to find her father’s thize with Stalin’s regime.” (RFE/RL and Extended family in Ukraine and Poland. Newsline) grave, RFE/RL’s Russian Service report- Vichnaya Pamyiat! May He Rest in Peace! ed. She noted that the state continues to (Continued on page 24) Jason Yarosz

of Dedham, Mass., 10 years ago won the Boxing State Heavyweight # великим болем Championship. пластова станиця в *остоні ділится з пластунами і з всією українською громадою, що у вівторок, 24-го липня 2007 р. на 95-му році життя відійшов на вічну ватру Jason is of Ukrainian grandparents, Jakob and Eva Romanchuk. We would like to celebrate his сл. п. 10th anniversary in their memory. пл. сен. кер. Яків (еґрин один із засновників пластової станиці в *остоні і многолітній станичний, нагороджений пластовою медалею св. Юрія в #олоті за виховну працю з овацтвом, та старший член Орлиного Vругу.

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the Zaporizhia-based Hartron enterprise and – Ms. Kolomyyets and Ms. Dovhaliuk – Newsbriefs ... the Russian Central Research Institute for Ukrainian ... were publicly acknowledged during the (Continued from page 23) Machine Building and Rosobshemash (Continued from page 12) plenary session of the general assembly Machine Building Plant are among the lead- the discipline. and received the distinguished Barbara Man from Ukraine is world’s tallest ing enterprises of the space and rocket con- The panel’s discussant, Adriana Barnard Smith Travel Award, which rec- struction industries of Ukraine and Russia LONDON – A Ukrainian man is the Helbig (University Illinois, Urbana- ognizes the scholarship of first-time par- that have contributed to the activities of tallest person in the world at 8 feet 5 inch- Champaign), helped moderate the panel ticipants of the conference. Kosmotras. (Ukrinform) es, surpassing a Chinese man who previ- discussion and offered an in-depth com- Ursula Hemetek, one of the conference organizers and member of the award’s ously held the title, Guinness World 9.5 million visit Ukraine mentary of the participants’ research and Records said on August 8. Leonid its significance in the field. selection committee, explained how these Stadnyk, a 37-year-old former veterinari- KYIV – Some 9.5 million tourists vis- Noteworthy is the fact that Dr. Helbig scholars received this award: “We had an an who lives in Podoliantsi, Zhytomyr ited Ukraine in the first half of 2007, also chaired a separate panel on the impact unprecedented number of requests for Oblast, Ukraine, is 8 inches taller than the which is 27 percent more than the previ- of Western development aid on cultural assistance to attend this conference. The former titleholder, China’s Bao Xishun, ous year, according to the chairperson of development and presented two additional ICTM reviewed almost 40 applicants and who stood 7 feet 9 inches, Guinness the State Tourism and Resorts Service, papers on her research of the Roma in their abstract submissions and chose to World Records spokeswoman Amarilis Anatolii Pakhlia. He said the most popu- Ukraine and the role of NGOs in cultural recognize the Ukrainian scholars, because Espinoza said in London. The Associated lar area of Ukraine is the Carpathian development programs. Incidentally, Dr. they simply had the best submissions.” Press reported that Mr. Stadnyk’s growth Mountains, followed by Crimea. As many Helbig also traveled earlier this year to The Ukrainian panel would not have spurt started at age 14 after a brain opera- as 2.5 million tourists are on holiday in Cardiff, United Kingdom, to participate in taken place without the generous support tion apparently stimulated his pituitary Crimea now. (Ukrinform) a related ethnomusicology symposium of several American, Ukrainian and gland, which produces the human growth titled “National Ethnomusicologies: The Austrian organizations, including the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council grows hormone. According to Guinness, the European Perspective,” where she served Harvard Ukrainian Studies Institute, the tallest man in medical history was Illinois WASHINGTON – The executive as the representative for Ukraine and pre- Shevchenko Scientific Society, the native Robert Pershing Waldlow, who committee of the board of directors of the sented a paper “Towards a Common Ukrainian Cultural Club of Houston, the was 8 feet 11 inches and died in 1940 at U.S.-Ukraine Business Council Dialogue: Regional and National United States Embassy in Ukraine, the age of 22. (Associated Press) (USUBC) has just approved the Ethnomusicologies in Ukraine.” Altcest-Lviv, Austrian National In addition to these presentations, Committee of the ICTM and singer Kuchma is honorary head of Kosmotras Marathon Oil Co. as the 40th member of the council, it was reported on August 13 Maria Sonevytsky (Columbia University, Ruslana Lyzhychko. Their generous sup- KYIV – Leonid Kuchma, president of by Morgan Williams, the USUBC’s pres- New York), who also helped with prepa- port and assistance helped offset travel, Ukraine in 1994-2004, will represent ident. Marathon has signed a joint study rations of the Ukrainian panel proceed- lodging and registration costs associated Ukraine as honorary president of the agreement with Naftogaz for exploration. ings, participated in a subsequent panel with the conference. International Space Company Kosmotras. Paula Freer, director of international gov- devoted to accordion performance prac- However, the real heroes of this Former USSR Minister of General Machine ernment affairs for Marathon in tice and culture. Ms Sonevytsky delivered important accomplishment are the partic- Building Oleg Baklanov was elected to rep- Washington, just returned from a trip to a fascinating paper on the accumulated ipants from Ukraine, who endured the resent Russia as the second honorary presi- Ukraine. Marathon Oil Co. is the 17th symbolic meanings of the accordion, most complicated bureaucratic processes dent. The decision was adopted during the new member of the U.S.-Ukraine which is based on research conducted in of arranging visas for their travel and annual meeting of Kosmotras shareholders. Business Council in the last six months. the New York metropolitan area. participation. Thanks to their selfless The Dnipropetrovsk-based Yuzhnoye The council’s goal is to double its mem- The Ukrainian delegation also figured dedication and perseverance, Ukrainian Design Office and Southern Machine- bership in 2007 to at least 50 members. prominently in the conference’s official ethnomusicology has once again rejoined Building Plant named after A.M. Makarov, (Action Ukraine Report) proceedings. Two members of the group the international community.

Petliura in Paris and Stepan Bandera in ORTHODONTIST Notes from ... Munich. Regardless of the day’s events, (Continued from page 13) new friendships continued to form, old ones strengthened and the solidarity of Our two Italian bus drivers, Massimo our group intensified. Dr. Daniel A. Kuncio and Fabio, audaciously led us from city As our European tour wrapped up and to city and ultimately became “father- Ñ. чÌËÎÓ é. äÛ̈¸Ó the group lay strewn across the floors of like” figures that literally shed tears Rome’s Leonardo DaVinci airport, it was when they had to part with their “chil- evident that although everyone was Specialist in Child and Adult Orthodontics dren” at the airport. Our tour “mother” excited to come home to the people and Diplomate, American Board of Orthodontics was Constance, the tour’s director who things they left behind, they would sure- spoke five different languages fluently ly miss the magical places we had seen and could guide you through the depths and the incredible things we had done. of any cobblestone village, where if • Certified and Published in Invisalign®• As I sat and mused over my own alone, you would still be stuck to this experiences, I suddenly came to a real- • Complimentary Consultation • very day. On the few days that we ization: when one visits any city in weren’t occupied with performances, • Most Insurances Accepted • Europe with a 2,000-year history, they travels or tours, members of our group can’t help but fall in love with what they • Three New York City locations • would take advantage by stopping in at see. I believe this was fully expected by the famed Hofbräuhaus in Munich, sit- all those who enlisted in the tour. And WWW.KUNCIOORT HODONTICS.COM ting by the pool at our charming hotel in when a dancer who loves to perform and BAYSIDE • UPPER WEST SIDE • TRIBECA Montecatini, or visiting the gravesites of has the ability to do so in a collection of well-known Ukrainian patriots Symon European cities, it’s bound to leave a lasting impression. I would imagine that all of our dancers would agree. But when you’re given the chance to SAVE THE DATES! do all of this with 85 of your closest friends and family, it’s a once in a life- The Friends of the Ukrainian Catholic University and the Ukrainian Catholic time opportunity that will rank as one of Education Foundation invite you to the following benefit events for the Ukrainian the greatest experiences you can’t possi- bly ever forget. Our Hromovytsia family Catholic Univerity: traveled across the Atlantic and had taken Europe by storm — by “Thunderstorm” Sunday, November 4, 2007: Ukrainian National Home if you will. We did it together with laugh- 140 Second Ave., New York, NY ter, hard work, camaraderie and devotion. But most of all, to which all 85 of our European tourists will attest, we did it Sunday, November 11, 2007: Ukrainian Cultural Center with our hearts. Larger than life indeed. 2247 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL Want to reach us Saturday, November 17, 2007: Ukrainian American Cultural Center by e-mail? 60C N. Jefferson Rd., Whippany, NJ Editorial materials: [email protected] Thursday, November 22, 2007: Edmonton, Canada Subscription Department: [email protected] Sunday, December 2, 2007: St. Josephat’s Banquet Centre Advertising Department: 26440 Ryan Rd., Warren, MI [email protected] Preview of Events: For more information, please contact Nell at (773) 235-8462 or [email protected] [email protected] No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 25

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• Shakhtar Donetsk beat FC Pyunik 2-0 • Ukrainian strongman Vasyl Virastyuk • Ukrainian chess player Yuriy Vovk, • Nataliya Chepurna scored 588 on July 31 with goals scored by Oleksanr (51.5 pts.) won the 2007 International 18, won the third “Sevan Lake” points in the 60-shot competition to win Gladkiy in the 45th minute and Brandao in Federation of Strength Athletes European International Chess Tournament held in the gold medal in the 50-meter rifle the 48th minute. In the second-leg match Strongman Championships were held in Armenia on July 16. prone event at the 24th Universaide on August 8 Shakhtar answered Kyiv on July 21-22. Currently, Virastyuk • Kateryna Lahno (2468) won fourth World University Games held in Ghazaryan’s 31st minute goal with is rated as the world’s third strongest place at the Fifth North Urals Cup interna- Bangkok, Thailand, held from August 8- Brandao (40th) and Gladkiy (49th) again man. This was the first European Sports tional chess tournament in Krasnoturinsk, 18. Tetyana Holovchenko won silver in to win 2-1 to move into the UEFA Games, which included 46 nations com- Russia, on July 22-31 with five points. the 5 km race with a time of 15:40:56. Champions League’s third qualifying peting in 15 non-Olympic events. Fellow Lahno won 11th place at the MonRoi Iryna Shtangyeyeva won the gold medal round. Ukrainians Viktor Yurchenko (24 pts.) Womne’s Grand Prix international chess in the women’s 200-meter race with a • Ukrainian soccer star Andriy finished in eighth place and Oleksander tournament held in Montreal on July 21-28. time of 22.95 seconds. Olga Saladukha Voronin, 28, was named the most impres- Pekanov (12) finished in 10th place. • Vassily Ivanchuk (2762) defeated cleared 14.79 meters in the women’s sive player in pre-season play by Ukraine qualified for the IFSA Pentala Harikrishna (2664) of India at the triple jump to win the gold. Ukraine’s Liverpool fans. The poll, conducted by Strongman World Championships that 2007 Montreal International chess tour- totals in track-and-field events were five Liverpollfc.tv, had Voronin with 62 per- are to be held on September 8-16 in nament to be crowned champion of the gold, six silver and four bronze. In cent of the vote, as reported by South Korea. event with seven points. Fellow swimming, Yana Klochkova won the Premiershiplatest.com on August 9. • A report by the Ivano-Frankivsk Ukrainian P Eljanov (2701) won fourth gold in the 400-meter individual medley Adding to his notoriety, Voronin secured Regional Administration said that place with five points. with a time of 4:37.50, increasing her a 1-0 win in the 43rd minute over Ukraine has been declared the strongest • Alexander Moiseenko (2641) won ranking to third in the world. Sergei Toulouse in the UEFA Champions nation in the world for the fourth time, the nine-round Swiss-style Arctic Chess Breus won bronze in the men’s 100- League match on August 15. according to Ukrinform. The World’s Challenge held in Tromso, Norway, from meter butterfly with a time of 53.01. • FC Dynamo Kyiv defeated FK Strongest Nation - 2007 strongman August 4-12. Moiseenko won the tourna- Another gold was won for Ukraine in Sarajevo 1-0 in the third qualifying round championships were held on August 6 at ment with 7.5 points and a performance the 50-meter breaststroke. Kateryna of the UEFA Champions League match the Bukovel Resort Center, held under score of 2740. Fellow Ukrainian Michail Zubkova won silver in the 100-meter on August 15. Maksim Shatskikh scored the aegis of the International Federation Brodsky (2595) finished in eighth place backstroke with a time of 1:01.67. the lone goal for Dynamo in the 13th of Strength Athletes. with 6.5 points and a performance score Sergiy Fesenko finished fifth in the 400- minute to lead them into the group stage of 2510. meter freestyle with a time of 3:49.43. in their quest for the cup. Dynamo’s next Tennis Collecting two more medals for Ukraine match will be on August 29. Youth Olympics was Yuliya Krevsun who won gold in • Ukrainian tennis player Tatiana the 800-meter and the 4x400-meter Cycling Luzhanska will team up with Chin-Wei • Artem Vorona won a bronze medal in relay. Maria Voloshchenko won gold in Chang in a doubles match against Czech the under-60 kg division for Judo at the the 1-meter springboard competition • Ukrainian cyclist Yaroslav Popovych, players Eva Birnerova and Eva Ninth Summer European Youth Olympic scoring 280.65 points to tie with Noemi who rides for the Discovery Channel Hrodinova in a WTA tournament in Festival held in Belgrade, Serbia, on July 22- Batki of Italy. The Ukrainian men’s Team, finished the Tour de France in Austria. 27. Other Ukrainians included discus-throw- fencing team won the gold in the epee eighth place in a time of 91 hours, 12 • The Ukrainian tennis team qualified er Mariya Koshkoreva with a fourth-place team event. Ukraine finished in third minutes and 51 seconds, just 12 minutes for the 2008 Fed Cup World finish and finalist Artem Yatsenko. Ukraine place overall, (behind Russia [1] and and 25 seconds behind the winner, his Championships, as reported by Ukrinform finished in fifth place with 18 medals – eight China[2]) with 52 medals, 20 gold, 18 teammate, Alberto Contador. on July 16. gold, six silver and four bronze. silver and 14 bronze. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 No. 33 No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 27 OUT AND ABOUT

Current – August 31 Art exhibit “Ukrainian Riches” by Vera Millville, NJ Nakonechny, Down Jersey Folklife Center August 25 Ukraine Day in the Park, Kiwanis Park, at WeatonArts, 800-998-4552 Saskatoon, SK 306-374-7675

August 22 Ukrainian Independence performance August 25 Ukrainian Independence Day festival, Glen Spey, NY “Ukraiyinski Barvy,” Verkhovyna Davis, CA Ukrainian Heritage Club, Veterans Moutainview Resort, 845-858-2420 Memorial Center, 916-482-4706 or 530-400-5950 August 23 Independence Golf Tournament, Clublink’s Bolton, ON Caledon Woods Golf Course, Canada- August 25-26 Film screening, “Bereza Kartuzka” by Yurij Ukraine Chamber of Commerce, Chicago Luhovy, Ss. Volodymyr and Olha hall, 416-322-9902 847-528-4649

August 24 Art exhibit, “Knock on Wood” by Terry August 26 Ukrainian Day in Golden Gate Park, Ottawa Sametz, Foyer Gallery, At The Table San Francisco, CA 650-363-1476 Restaurant, 613-729-5973

August 24 Ukrainian Independence Day, Ukrainian August 26 23rd annual Friends’ Ukrainian Music Fest, Scranton, PA Heritage Council of Northeastern Edmonton Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Pennsylvania, St. Michael Ukrainian 780-662-3640 Orthodox Church, 570-563-2275 August 26 Ukrainian Independence Day celebration, August 24 Maryland Crab Fest, sponsored by the Somerset, NJ Ukrainian Cultural Center, 908-534-6683 Perry Hall, MD Baltimore Ukrainian Festival Committee, Columbus Gardens Hall, 410-591-7566 August 29 Ukrainian Folk Festival, Ukrainian Horsham, PA American Sports Center – Tryzub, August 24-26 “Post-Revolution Blues” film festival, 215-343-5412 Chicago Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art and the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University, August 31-Spetember 3 Ukrainian Festival, Harborfront Center, Chopin Theater, 773-278-1500 Toronto 416-973-4000

August 25 Ukrainian Independence Celebration, September 1 51st annual swim championships, USCAK, Ottawa Ukrainian Canadian Professionals and Kerhonkson, NY Soyuzivka, Heritage Center, 908-851-0617 Businesspersons Association, Royal Oak Pub, 613-238-7495 Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions from all our readers; please send e-mail to enough money and capabilities for this. [email protected]. Items will be published at the discretion of the You are fighting ... Economic growth should affect each editors and as space allows; photos will be considered. Please note: items (Continued from page 6) individual and help improve the people’s will be printed a maximum of two times each. We have a real plan and we will con- standard of living. tinue to implement it. I set real goals which we will achieve. ... I demand that legislative immunity ... We will make the government turn its must be repealed. This is a priority. This face to the people. is a key that will break the spell of cor- I would like to say a few words to ruption in the Verkhovna Rada and all Ukrainian voters. The people will make other echelons of government. This is a their free choice on September 30. I firm- real path to purify government. ly guarantee that the election campaign I am glad that the Our Ukraine – will be held in a fair, democratic and People’s Self-Defense bloc persistently transparent manner. demands that legislative immunity be As president, I will make sure the rights repealed. I think this is the most impor- and freedoms of the people are observed tant thing now. Corruption is corroding and will allow no pressure on the voters or the state. This burden impedes Ukraine’s the media. As head of state, I am calling on progress and makes the people poor. all of you to come to the polls and make a ... We must get rid of all the privileges conscious choice. Ukraine’s future truly enjoyed by lawmakers and other offi- depends on your choice. Do not be indif- cials. They have about 30 privileges ferent. Be responsible. today and get free apartments, cars, sana- My Brothers, my Fellow Citizens, I toriums, medical and social bonuses. believe the wisdom of the people will Taxpayers spend about 400 million hrv prevail. I know that the Ukrainian people on these privileges every year. This is will win. Today I am honored to be greet- blasphemy. We will stop this policy and ing a new, young and promising team of will establish a National Anti-Corruption those who will stimulate changes in the Agency to monitor the issue. life of Ukraine. I have been and will … The people need effective and fair always be with you. I firmly believe in social policies. Our social package corre- our success. We will win. Glory to you sponds to their demands. The state has and glory to Ukraine!

for the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Turning ... Famine, warned that the Supreme Soviet (Continued from page 6) should continue its discussions of the now is whether the republics will retain union treaty so that Ukraine can concen- power attained through democratization.” trate on decoupling its economy from “And now, if there is a union treaty, it that of the Soviet Union, otherwise the will be greatly revised from the original consequences could be disastrous. text. Ukraine is now in a strong position, “The democratic movements have to it can demand its own taxes, monies and do more than hold mass meetings; that’s armed forces. Gorbachev is now only a all very nice, but historically in Ukraine, figure-head,” Dr. Marples added. if you don’t have the support of the coun- Dr. Marples also noted that this was a tryside, your actions are bound to fail,” good time to call for the dissolution of Dr. Mace added. the current Parliament, and new elections based on democratic principles. Source: “What the coup meant for Dr. James Mace, former staff director Ukraine,” by Marta Kolomayets, The Ukrainian Weekly, August 25, 1991. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 No. 33

Soyuzivka’s Datebook PREVIEW OF EVENTS MONDAYS, June 25-August 27, 2007 Sunday, August 26 val are free. The official opening is Steak Night with Soyuzivka House band on the Veselka Patio Saturday at noon. The zabava (dance) is at SOMERSET, N.J.: The Ukrainian com- 9 p.m. on Saturday in the church’s WEDNESDAYS, June 27-August 29, 2007 munity of Central New Jersey (New Founders’ Hall; admission is $10. For Hutsul Night with Soyuzivka House band on the Vorokhta Lawn Brunswick, Manville, South Bound Brook) directions and detailed information go to invites all to a commemoration of the 16th http://www.standrewuoc.org/festival.htm FRIDAYS, June 29-August 31, 2007 Independence Day of Ukraine, which will or call Val Zabijaka, 301-593-5316. Odesa Seafood Night with Soyuzivka House band on the Veselka Patio take place at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, SATURDAYS, June 30-September 1, 2007 3 Davidson Ave. The commemoration will Sunday, September 9 Ukrainian zabavas (dances) featuring a live Ukrainian band include: a literary performance by Honored Artist of Ukraine Rostyslaw Wasylenko, WOONSOCKET, R.I.: St. Michael the vocal/instrumental quartet Fourth Ukrainian Orthodox Church is sponsoring August 19-23 September 10-12 Wave, the vocal ensemble of the New a Ukrainian Food and Fun Festival at 74 Discount Days, 25% off all room Reunions - Regensburg, Brunswick parish, the Barvinok dance Harris Ave., Route 122. Divine liturgy will rates Bertesgaden, Karlsfeld and ensemble, and composer and Honored begin at 9 a.m.; the festival will be held at Landshut Gymnasiums Artist of Ukraine Lilia Ostapenko. Free 11 a.m.-4 p.m. The festival kitchen will August 24 refreshments will be served at the end of offer Ukrainian and American favorites, Joseph’s Dance Studio Polish September 14-16 the program. Admission: $15; free for from varenyky, holubtsi, kovbasa, borsch youth and students. For further information and cabbage soup to grilled food. A Music Ballroom Dance Camp Recital UNA General Assembly Meeting and Bayreuth Gymnasium call 908-534-6683. and Fun Area will be a special feature of Reunion the festival. Admission is free. For further Labor Day Weekend Festivities: Friday-Sunday, August 31-September 2 information call 508-883-9952. August 31 - Zabava featuring ‘ Na September 21-23 SAN DIEGO: The House of Ukraine ADVANCE NOTICE Zdorovya,’ 9:30 pm KLK Weekend - General Meeting presents its 32nd annual San Diego September 1 - Zabava featuring and Banquet Ukrainian Festival featuring the Suzirya Saturday, October 13 ‘ Hrim,’ 9:30 pm Dance Theater and the Korinnya September 2 - Zabava featuring September 25-27 Ukrainian Folk Ensemble from Calgary, YONKERS, N.Y.: The Ukrainian ‘ Luna,’ 9:30 pm Stamford Clergy Days - Fall Seminar Alberta; and Millenia from Edmonton. For American Veterans 60th annual national more information contact 619-460-5733, convention will be hosted here by Post September 6-9 September 28-30 [email protected] or www.houseo- 301. A banquet and dance will be held at 6 Reunion - Salzburg Gymnasium Plast Sorority - Pershi Stezhi Rada fukraine.com. p.m. at the Ukrainian Youth Center, 301 Palisade Ave., Yonkers, NY 10701. Music Saturday, September 8 will be by Na Zdorovya. Please make ban- quet reservations by October 1. Questions JENKINTOWN, Pa.: The Ukrainian may be directed to Nicholas Skirka, 914- Heritage School at the Ukrainian 965-3707, or John Tkachuk, 914-965- Educational and Cultural Center in 1678. Journal ads will be accepted until To book a room or event call: (845) 626-5641, ext. 140 Jenkintown, Pa., which serves the September 1; contact UAV National 216 Foordmore Road P.O. Box 529 Philadelphia area, will open the school Commander Anna Krawczuk, 732-888- Kerhonkson, NY 12446 year. Opening ceremonies start at 9 a.m.; 0494. Hotel reservations can be made at afterwards, classes will be held until dis- the Royal Regency Hotel in Yonkers by E-mail: [email protected] missal at 11:30 a.m. Parents may enroll calling 914-476-6200. Website: www.Soyuzivka.com their children from kindergarten through Grade 12, including classes for English- January 12-19, 2008 speaking students. Books may be pur- chased on the same day. For more infor- PHILADELPHIA: The Ukrainian mation call 215-663-5322 or log on to Educational and Cultural Center’s Being Ukrainian means: www.ukrheritageschool.com. Malanka Cruise on the Freestyle Norwegian Sun will leave Miami for Saturday-Sunday, September 8-9 Roatan, Honduras; Belize; Cozumel; Great ❏ Malanka in January. Stirrup Cay, Bahamas. Cruise prices, ❏ SILVER SPRING, Md: The fifth annual including port charges and taxes: $590 per Deb in February. Washington Ukrainian Festival will be person – inside cabin; $697 per person – ❏ held on the grounds of St. Andrew ocean-view cabin; $860 per person – bal- Sviato Vesny in May. Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, 15100 cony cabin. Deposit is $250 per person. ❏ Wedding of your roommate in June. New Hampshire Ave. The festival will fea- The extended deadline for reservations is ture Ukrainian and grilled foods, the September 10. For more information con- ❏ Tabir in July. famous Kozak beer and liqueur garden, tact: Zenia’s Travel Club LLC, 46 Ukrainian music and dance performances, Muirfield Road, Jackson, NJ 08527; ❏ Volleyball at Wildwood in August. children’s activities and the Market Place phone, 732-928-3792; fax, 732-928-3793; (handicrafts, art, clothing, ceramics, nov- e-mail, [email protected]. For information ❏ Labor Day at Soyuzivka in September. elties, jewelry, music/videos, books and about the UECC or this fund-raiser visit more). Parking and admission to the festi- www.ueccphila.org or call 215-663-1166. ❏ Morskyi Bal in November. ❏ Koliada in December. PREVIEW OF EVENTS GUIDELINES: If you checked off more than one of the above, Preview of Events is a listing of Ukrainian community events open to the then you know what you’re doing to your brain cells. public. It is a service provided at minimal cost ($20 per submission) by The Now, how about doing something for your mind? 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