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Ambassador Gennadi Udovenko: Minorities congress decisively pushing for Ukraine's recognition supports Ukraine's independence by Marta Kolomayets Mr. Udovenko is confident that ODESSA - Delegates to the first others who "cannot imagine the union the results of the December 1 re­ All-Ukrainian Inter-Ethnic Congress without Ukraine" have been warning. NEW YORK - Residents of ferendum will yield over 70 percent held here on Saturday and Sunday "We wish all peoples well, we want to Ukraine who hold valid Soviet pass­ for independence. "I am convinced November 16 and 17 overwhelmingly work with all nations, first of all with ports, but who are currently either that the people of Ukraine will vote supported Ukraine's independence. our neighbors, but we do not need visiting, working or studying in the yes; the Ukrainians, the Russians and With more than 1,000 delegates pre­ intermediaries, we do not need an United States, will be eligible to vote the Jews will speak out for independ­ sent, only three raised their hands amoral and shameless center in Mos­ in the December 1 referendum, said ence," he said. against the independence resolution cow," the delegates emphasized, Ukraine's ambassador to the United passed at the conclave. Nations, Gennadi Udovenko, during But he also warned that emissaries Minorities make up about one quar­ a recent interview. have been traveling to Ukraine in More than 100 ethnic groups were ter of Ukraine's population of 52 Those who have emigrated, but recent weeks, agitating the public represented in the congress, including million. Russians are the most numer­ have not yet given up their Soviet against independence. "Some of Gypsies, Russians, Jews, Greeks, Cri­ ous, totalling about 11 million, follow citizenship, will also be able to vote these forces have argued that a mean Tatars, Germans and Koreans, ed by about half a million Jews and on December 1. According to Alex­ referendum was held in March, reported the Los Angeles Times. The 440,000 Belarusians. ander Boutsko, a counselor at the which pushed for a renewed union," assembly urged all minority groups to By the entrance of the Odessa Opera Ukrainian Mission to the U.N., he explained. vote for independence on December 1. Theater, where the congress Soviet citizens whose permanent "What happened last March and The congress was organized by Rukh, was held, "a Hasidic Jew in a black residence is Ukraine, but who will be up until the putsch, is one matter: the Popular Movement of Ukraine, the skullcap hawked newspapers promot­ in the United States on December 1, what goes on 'today is a icompietely Ukrainian Council of Ministers and the ing the revival of Yiddish culture. A should send their passport numbers, new situation and we should no Supreme Council. About 150 ethnic Cossack attired in a flowing blue robe names (including patronymic), ad­ longer operate on the results we organizations were asked to send dele­ lounged against a banister nearby, a dress and telephone to the Perma­ received last March. gates. sword at his side," wrote John-Thor nent Mission of Ukraine, 136 E. 67th Dahlberg of the L.A. Times. The assembly issued an appeal, in St., New York, NY 10021, or fax this "We know that these emissaries try Besides discussing the referendum, information to (212) 288-5361 prior to promote the idea that Ukraine will which it stated that "either Ukraine will achieve independence and become a the delegates also raised the issues of to December 1. This will ensure that be hopeless without the Soviet their schools, newspapers and other they will be registered to vote; then Union. They go a step further and free and rich country, or it will remain a cultural institutions. They appealed to on Sunday, December 1, Soviet add that the Soviet Union cannot colony doomed to deprivation of its the Ukrainian Parliament to transfer registered voters must come to the exist without Ukraine. In such cases, material production and intellectual some of the property that used to belong .. Mission between 8 a.m. and noon to I always say that at this point in time resources through imperial policies to the Communist Party to minority cast their ballots. I am no longer interested in what directed at the genocide of nationalities organizations. Unfortunately, no other voting others have to say about Ukraine. I and national-ethnic groups." Several presidential candidates took districts have been set up in the am only interested in the thoughts It went on to say that "This state will United States to allow citizens of and desires of Ukraine and its people. the opportunity to do some campaign­ make us masters of our own fate, will ing. Candidates Levko Lukianenko, Ukraine to take part in this historic And if the people decide on Decem­ give us political, social and economic event. At this time, there is no ber 1 that they want to be free of Volodymyr Hryniov and Vyacheslav „. freedom," reported Raisa Rudenko, of Chornovil attended, while Leonid absentee ballot system, and thus, Moscow, then the government should the UNA's press bureau based in Kiev. citizens of Ukraine must come to the do everything to support them," kravchuk sent a telegram of support. Mission in person to vote on Decem­ Ambassador Udovenko emphasized. This neutralized the argument that While the congress was in session Mr. ber 1. (Continued on page 3) Ukraine might erupt into another Chornovil made a dramatic entrance, Yugoslavia, as Mikhail Gorbachev and during which his supporters threw down campaign leaflets from the fourth On the eve of the referendum floor balcony. Support runs high for independence, Kravchuk likely to be elected Deal signed by Dr. David R. Marples society. Many of these divisions are Independence will be ratified in con­ RFE/RL Research Institute likely to come to the surface after the vincing fashion. to print referendum. Nonetheless, there appear to be significant regional variations in sup­ On December 1, residents of Ukraine Prognoses on the referendum port for the act. Support is highest in Ukraine's currency will vote in a referendum to ratify the non-communist western Ukraine, and by Oksana Zakydalsky act declaring Ukrainian independence Recent surveys conducted in Ukraine in the city of Kiev. adopted by the Ukrainian Parliament TORONTO - The National Bank suggest that the majority of the popula­ In Ternopil province, which has the of Ukraine has signed a contract with on August 24 of this year, following the tion fully supports the declaration of highest population of rural dwellers in abortive putsch in Moscow. This same the Canadian Bank Note Co. of independence. Early in November, a the republic, 92.3 percent of respon­ Ottawa to print Ukraine's currency. day will also see a vote for a new survey conducted by a prominent busi­ dents favored independence, while the Ukrainian president, who will be invest­ The agreement was approved on ness group within Ukraine indicated northern province of Volyn followed November 14 by the full Presidium of ed with significant powers. Together, that 71.7 percent of the population is closely with 87.8 percent. Response was the two events will determine the future the Supreme Council of Ukraine, in favor of the act, while a poll conduct­ also very favorable in Ivano-Frankivske said Toronto lawyer Bohdan Ony- of Ukraine as an independent nation, ed by researchers working on behalf of f and Lviv. All the above provinces form schuk, who represented both the one that could lead to recognition of the the Parliament provided a figure o 68.4 part of a very nationally conscious country by Western states. National Bank and the Ukrainian percent on November 6. Among com­ region that was incorporated into the government in arranging the deal. From the Ukrainian perspective, mitted voters — those who are resolved Soviet Union during World War II, and to go to the polls on December 1 — the Ukrainian Canadian lawyers from there appear to be grounds for opti­ (with the exception of Volyn) histori­ the Toronto office of Fasken Marti- mism about the result, although the figure is an impressive 84„2 percent. cally was part of the Austrian rather There seems nttle doubt, therefore, that neau Davis acted for Canadian Bank lead-up to the referendum has illus­ than the Russian empire, (Continued on page 13) trated some wide divisions in Ukrainian the August 24 Act of the Declaration of (Continued on page 2). 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24,1991 No. 47

Ukrainian Republican Party, believes the referendum. But perhaps the greatest territory. The question of nuclear weap­ Support... that the "splintering" of Ukraine would obstacle from the Ukrainian perspective ons on Ukrainian territory has caused (Continued from page 1) only strengthen "latent Russian im­ has been the attitude toward Ukrainian perhaps more controversy than any Areas that are populated by Russians perialism," i.e., that it would weaken the independence in both Russia and single issue, and is still unresolved. or are largely Russian-speaking provide Ukrainian state and render it more Mikhail Gorbachev's State Council. susceptible to outside intrusions. Faced with pressure from Moscow, a different picture In the easternmost A radical Russian politician suggested the Ukrainian leadership has acted province of Luhanske and in Crimea, recently that the post-putsch political cautiously, but sometimes in a confused officially an autonomous region, sup­ Election of the president situation in Russia has given rise to a fashion. Thus Ukrainian Premier Fokin port for the act is hovering just above 50 strengthening rather than weakening of was permitted to initial Ukraine's percent, according to the surveys. The On the question ctf the presidency, Stalinist circles, and to the development consent to a new economic agreement, northern Sumy province is also some­ there appears to be little doubt about of a movement to restore what is but the republic then boycotted the what reticent toward the independence the outcome, though over 100 candi­ perceived as "old Russia." While the November 14 meeting of the State act, showing support at 55.1 percent. dates originally registered for the post. article contained some hyperbole, it Council that signed an economic union In the southeastern regions, heavily The clear front-runner is current chair­ coincides with a feeling that is preva­ between seven sovereign states. The fact industrialized and in which a substan­ man of the Ukrainian Parliament, lent in some sectors of Ukrainian that the referendum was still more than tial portion of Russians live, there are Leonid Kravchuk, a former second society, i.e., that Boris Yeltsin's Russia, two weeks away was perhaps one reason significant areas of overt opposition to secretary of the Communist Party of supported by Mr. Gorbachev and for Ukraine's reluctance to join the the act. Ukrainian sociologists have Ukraine with responsibility for ideo­ Aleksandr Yakovlev in particular, will other members of the union. noted that pensioners and military logy. From ruthless bureaucrat, Mr. make every effort to establish a new personnel make up the groups least Kravchuk has transformed himself into union, and to ensure that Ukraine does Economic trade with Russia, on the disposed to support Ukrainian inde­ a firm and persuasive advocate of not separate itself from the other former other hand, seems to have been stabilized pendence. In Crimea, servicemen Ukrainian independence and military Soviet republics, and specifically from temporarily by an agreement signed are said to be especially strongly opr rights, \ Russia. with Mr. Yeltsin in Moscow, on No­ posed. Chairman Kravchuk has elicited There is some evidence to support vember 6. In fact the Russian and In general, the Russian population of strong support in certain circles, and this view. In late October, Mr. Yeltsin, Ukrainian economies are so closely tied Ukraine, which consists of some 11 has a strong international presence. Mr. Gorbachev and the Kazakh presi­ at present that such a course of short- million citizens, is neutral toward the According to one poll, in early Novem­ dent, Nursultan Nazarbayev, were term action appeared to be inevitable. issue, though there are several enclaves ber, he had the support of 30.8 percent among signatories to an appeal to the The agreement contained a conciliatory among them in support of the act. of committed voters, leaving his closest Ukrainian Parliament, which declared clause about Ukraine's right to have its If one poses a second question on rival, Mr. Chornovil (the Lviv Oblast that the petitioners could not conceive own national army. government chairman) well behind with what sort of independence is antici­ of a union (of sovereign states! without The Ukrainian leaders have often pated, then response is divided. Radical 12.2 percent. Ukraine, and that the "multi-national" The leading five candidates were emphasized the relative tranquility of nationalist regions of western Ukraine Ukrainian people similarly could not Ukraine as compared to other former prefer total independence with the rounded off with Volodymyr Hryniov foresee a future without the other and Mr. Lukianenko (both with 2.6 Soviet republics. Aside from the Rus­ establishment of relations with other members of the union. During a recent sians, most minority groups there former Soviet republics according to percent), and Ihor Yukhnovsky (1.95 interview with the editor-in-chief of percent). appear to support independence. Con­ international norms. In brief, Belarus Moscow News, President Gorbachev versely, very few advocate a federal or Russia would be treated on the According to a separate survey of the declared that: "For the other republics, Institute of Sociology, Ukrainian Aca­ system within the former union boun­ same level as, say, Poland or Germany. including Ukraine, isolationism is daries. In the short term, therefore, the The majority of provinces are said to demy of Sciences, Mr. Kravchuk's tantamount to a catastrophe." rating in November stood at 38.3 victorious Ukrainian president and his favor political independence, but with There have been suggestions by revamped Parliament (which is expect­ some form of economic agreement percent, followed by Mr. Chornovil with 14.5, Mr. Yukhnovsky with 4.5, Western experts that Messrs. Gorba­ ed to be considerably smaller than the between Ukraine and the former Soviet chev and Yeltsin have tried to persuade current one) will face the task of republics. Some parts of eastern U- Mr. Lukianenko with 3.9 and Mr. Hryniov with 3.2. There do not seem to the United States and other countries conciliating potentially breakaway kraine support the preservation of a that recognition of independent U- provinces or regions. Authority will single economic and military unit from be any viable contenders outside these five candidates. kraine is not in their best interests, devolve from the center to the local the former union. because it would lead to instability in councils; most of the presidential candi­ Thus, support for the declaration of Regional variations are again appa­ the region. dates acknowledge that such measures independence does not necessarily rent. In the city of Donetske, according will be enacted. translate into agreement over the form to a September survey, support for Mr. A report, based on a source in the that the new state will take. Kravchuk is substantial at 52.6 percent. Ukrainian Parliament, has stated that The crucial questions will concern the Several regions have asserted strong The Ukrainian premier, Vitold Fokin the Soviet Army plans to conduct economy and national defense: Will a claims to local self-government. In occupied second place here with 16.3 military maneuvers in Ukraine, begin­ national currency prove economically Crimea, a Russian-dominated group percent (he has since failed to collect the ning on November 28, just three days feasible? How will Ukraine pay off its has collected 10,300 signatures in required number of signatures to qua­ before the referendum. Ukrainian De­ national debt? Will Ukraine seriously support of a petition requesting that lify as a candidate) followed by Mr. fense Minister Konstantin Morozov, support an economic union with the Crimea be transferred to the Russian Chornovil (11.3 percent) and Mr. reportedly attacked the move as an former Soviet republics? Will a standing republic. Most Ukrainian leaders, Yukhnovsky (7.1 percent). All sources intimidatory tactic, and one that vio­ army of 400,000 be regarded as a including Leonid Kravchuk, regard indicate a clear victory for Mr. Krav­ lated Ukraine's sovereignty. A parlia­ potential threat by neighboring Russia? Crimea as a special case. chuk and it would take a major political mentary deputy, speaking on Novem­ How will the transfer of nuclear weap­ But other regions are also making blunder to deprive him of his lead. He ber 12, declared that Mr. Gorbachev onry to Russia take place? How will demands on Kiev. In the westernmost has behind him not only some former was attempting to "terrorize Ukraine's Ukraine dismantle its existing nuclear province of Transcarpathia, a second Communists, but also a number of voters." This account has not been power stations, which are at present question has been added to the referen­ supporters associated with the Ukrai­ corroborated from other sources to effectively leaderless now that the dum on whether the province should nian Popular Movement (Rukh). date, but in his interview with Moscow Ministry of Atomic Energy is financed acquire autonomous status within the Moreover, Mr. Kravchuk's political News (No. 44, 1991), Soviet Defense directly by Russia? All these questions Ukrainian state. The industrial pro­ acumen is unquestioned. He is one of Minister Yevgeny Shaposhnikov clearly must be addressed, but one is unlikely to vince of Donetske, the center of the the most astute politicians in Ukraine. indicated his opposition to Ukraine's see a definitive response to any of them 1989 and 1991 coal miners'strikes, has He has combined optimism with real­ taking control over army units on its until after the referendum. also been debating whether to seek this ism concerning Ukraine's economic same states, while in the city of Odessa, future. In an interview published by traditionally multicultural, the local Demokratychna Ukraina (November Memorial Society is campaigning 2), he declared that if the president, among citizens to boycott the referen­ government and Supreme Council of Ukrainian Weelcn FOUNDED 1933 dum altogether. It should be pointed Ukraine should create laws that re­ out, however, that more than 80 percent sponded to popular needs, then within An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National of residents of Odessa province are three years Ukraine would be able to Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ. behind the act of independence. alleviate its economic problems. 07302. Nevertheless, there is some support Mr. Kravchuk maintains that U- for a federal structure in the future kraine's natural resources, its strategic Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, NJ. 07302. independent Ukraine. 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Ukraine's presidium rejects UACC statement on referendum diaspora vote on referendum Below, is the statement issued by the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council issued on November 11 concerning the referendum in Ukraine and NEW YORK—The Presidium of the kraine's Referendum (DAHCUR), Dr. US. recognition of Ukraine. Supreme Council of Ukraine voted on Lubomyr Woroch, did not return The Friday, November 15, against the parti­ Weekly's phone calls. NEW YORK — On December 1 there will be a referendum in Ukraine in which the citizens of Ukraine are to vote on the act of the declaration of cipation of the Ukrainian diaspora in Therefore, it is not known how this the scheduled December 1 referendum. independence declared by the Supreme Council of Ukraine on August 24. latest event will affect the work of the In connection with this historical event, during a meeting on November 9 According to a Radio Kiev report . committee, which has been collecting aired last week, People's Deputy Ste- the Executive Board of the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council absentee ballots and donations from the agreed to ask the branches and members of the UACC to participate in a pan Khmara spoke out against the Ukrainian American community, diaspora's participation in this historic massive letter-writing campaign to U.S. President George Bush, urging him hoping to pass along the voting results to recognize Ukraine's independence, to senators, urging them to support vote. Originally, some deputies in the to Kiev. Ukrainian Parliament had discussed the S.Con.Res. 65, and to representatives,urging them to support H.Con.Res. possibility of creating a diaspora man­ In the Radio Kiev interview, Dr. 212. date for this referendum, but this Khmara praised the work of the Both these resolutions call for presidential recognition of Ukraine's proposal was discarded by the Presi­ Ukrainian community outside the independence and the undertaking^ steps toward the establishment of full dium. boundaries of Ukraine which, he said, diplomatic relations with Ukraine. Dr. Khmara, who was interviewed on had provided moral and financial Regarding the ballots for American citizens of Ukrainian background to Radio Kiev, reported that this vote by support to numerous Ukrainian state, vote in the referendum sent out by the "Ad Hoc" Committee on Ukraine's the diaspora could turn out to be national and cultural organizations. Referendum, the UACC regards this as illegal, and thus fruitless and possibly harmful to Ukraine; it could prove to be He also expressed his gratitude to the harmful to our cause. advantageous to Ukraine's enemies who Ukrainian diaspora, which has sought can view this action as propaganda and various ways and means to assist in The Executive Board of the UACC accuse non-citizens of meddling in promoting positive results of the Ukraine's internal affairs. referendum. But, he noted in conclu­ The chairman of the newly formed sion, voting by non-citizens of the CCAU Executive Council meets to Diaspora Ad Hoc Committee on U- diaspora is not a method. discuss referendum and other issues "We must quell the fears of the by Ulana Mazurkevich cadres of writers, students, parliamen­ J Ambassador... West, we must continue to remind j tary deputies and pro-independence (Continued from page 1) them that once we become independ- j FLORHAM PARK, I^f.J. - The activists to campaign for a "yes" vote ent, we want to join the circle of the I Executive Council of the Coordinating mainly in the eastern and southern Now, Mr. Udovenko would like to non-proliferation signatories." Committee to Aid Ukraine held an regions of Ukraine. The council will I see the Ukrainian American commu- extraordinary meeting in Washington have to quickly raise funds in order to \ nity continue to lobby its govern- "The West should not worry, j on Saturday, October 26. Present at the finance this campaign. | ment to recognize Ukraine after the Ukraine has no nuclear ambitions, | meeting were Bohdan Burachinsky, Based on Mr. Burachinsky's report, | December 1 referendum. Chornobyl was enough, and many і Volodymyr Baranetsky, Robert Mc- the CCAU Executive Council issued an 1 generations to come will feel the j Connell, and Ulana Mazurkevich. appeal to all Ukrainians and various "I think now all eyes are on U- effects oft this," he stated. Vasyl Markus, also a member of the Ukrainian organizations for funds to | kraine, awaiting the results of the council, was unable to attend. „ aid the referendum effort. An over­ | referendum; and we are continuing The formation of a national army j is also an issue that concerns the \ The president of the CCAU, Mr. whelmingly positive response has been | to work for the recognition of U- Burachinsky and Vice President Bara­ received to date, and all Rukh support | kraine. As a member state of the West, said Mr. Udovenko. This too, і is a needless worry, he added. netsky briefed the Executive on their committees throughout the U.S. and | U nited Nations, we have always been recent trip to Kiev, where they and a Canada are engaging in various fund- I recognized by the UN; last year, after What kind of independent state | delegation of 12 representatives of U.S. raising efforts. I the July 16 Declaration of State would Ukraine be without an army, \ Coordinating Committee met with Ivan The Executive Council was also | Sovereignty, we asserted this inde- asked Mr. Udovenko. "Ukraine will j Drach, chairman of Rukh and the briefed on several meetings in Kiev, | pendence, we reaffirmed our posi- leadership of Rukh to discuss the | tion," Mr. Udovenko said. not flex its muscles, but it will have і attended by Messrs. Burachinsky, them," he said. impending referendum on independ­ Baranetsky, Wolodymyr Wolowdiuk | ence scheduled in Ukraine for Decem­ "We are also doing all we can for and Roman Voronka with the Ministry Mr. Udovenko said that Ukraine \ ber 1. of Public Education and the Prosvita | recognition by Western countries does feel pressure from outside | I to become a reality," he con- Mr. Drach and his colleagues out­ Society in reference to a joint project of sources to stay in a union with \ lined the problems and plans of actions the CCAU and the Education Council Si eluded. He and his small staff at Moscow. "In my opinion, one of the j I the Ukrainian Mission are working mainly for the eastern and southern for publishing 2 million updated chil­ reasons Ukraine initialed the econo- j oblasts of Ukraine, where in March of dren's textbooks in Ukrainian empha­ I overtime these days. They serve as mic treaty was because it wanted to I I Ukraine's only official representa- 1990, a high percentage supported the sizing national and religious themes, calm the fraction of Ukraine's resi- \ all-union question advocated by Soviet this project is in full swing and the dead­ | tion in the United States; thus their dents who fear the republic will ! | days are filled with business meet- President Mikhail Gorbachev. line of January 1,1992 will be met for the wither economically if it fails to enter j Thus, it was concluded that besides delivery of the corrected,' edited and | ings, economic conferences, cultural a union. In turn, this may have \ і program planning and diplomatic the official efforts, Rukh must help illustrated manuscript to the produc­ І receptions. affected the results of the referen- j enlighten this bloc of voters in the tion department. This project is being dum. merits of independence while avoiding co-funded by the Thoughts of Faith They are also taking an active role the risk of polarization. Mission, the Rev. John Shep, in the development of a foreign "I believe that Ukraine should sign an economic treaty; perhaps not this One of the more difficult problems director and the Ukrainian National policy for Ukraine, working along­ facing Rukh was the "interfront" which Association. Additional funding is side Ukraine's foreign ministry. one, but we do have common in­ terests with the other republics and exists in Donbas. U.S. representatives being sought from the general public we should cooperate with them," he were told that cadres from the Russian and churches. "The United States wants to pre- republic were coming into Ukraine to j serve the Soviet Union, we must added. Another important activity planned agitate against a "yes" vote in the by the CCAU will be a public appeal to show that Ukraine will hold such an But pressure does not come exclu­ referendum, spurred on by Alexander important geopolitical position that the Ukrainian American community for sively from Moscow, Mr. Udovenko Solzhenitzyn who has argued that each letters and telegrams to their senators, it will be impossible for the United stressed. "The actions of the NATO oblast should decide for itself whether States to ignore it." congressmen, and to the officials in the members' meeting in Rome a few to become part of Ukraine or Russia. administration urging U.S. recognition The Ukrainian ambassador re­ weeks back can also be considered In addition Mr. Gorbachev also of Ukrainian independence after the pressure. They reported that they ported that the visit of the official strongly argued on television against referendum is affirmed. would give aid only to republics that separation of Ukraine from Russia. While in Washington, members of delegation headed by Supreme rid themselves of nuclear weapons." Council Chairman Leonid Kravchuk Despite these problems, Oleksander the CCAU Executive Council attended in September proved to be important After the December 1 referendum, Lavrynovych, vice chairman of Rukh, the annual banquet of the Ukrainian in forging relations with the United Mr. Udovenko hopes to turn his reported that according to a public National Credit Union Association, States, Canada and France. attention to the Ukrainian Mission in opinion poll conducted for Rukh over and lobbied members of this group for New York. He and his staff want to 65 percent of all voters in Ukraine favor support. In addition, the next day, on "Interestingly, everywhere Mr. take up residenceat the Ukrainian independence. However, this percent­ October 27, Messrs. Burachinsky and Kravchuk went, he was questioned Institute of America, along New age way lower in the Donbas and the Baranetsky met with and issued a direct about the nuclear arms based on York's Museum Mile. Currently southern regions. appeal for aid to the directors of the Ukrainian territory. Those who negotiations are underway with the Mr. Burachinsky further reported association, who pledged their full know us, know that Ukraine has no UIA. that a citizens' referendum council support. nuclear ambitions. We are a peace- spearheaded by Messrs. Drach andTa- The CCAU Executive Council is loving nation, we don't want to "Of course, "added Mr. Udovenko, lanchuk, which encompasses all demo­ planning to issue a comprehensive threaten anyone, we have never been "we will keep the space that is cratic parties and factions in Ukraine, had activity and financial report early in the oppressors, we have always been rightfully ours in the building on East been formed in Kiev, for the purpose of January 1992. The ne^t meeting of the the oppressed. 67th Street. organ,'7l'ng a pro-independence cam-\ Board of Directors is being planned for paign. The council plans to engage mid-December. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24,1991 No. 47

Ukrainians asked to register blood Luhanske poet participates in with international donor databanks International Festival of Authors WASHINGTON - When Jacob Secondly, no effort has been made to Thomas Rutsohn immigrated to the specifically recruit potential donors United States from Kiev sometime within the Ukrainian community to between 1909 and 1910, he brought with meet the needs of Ukrainian patients. In him the Ukrainian bloodline that would addition, there is no way to identify by be needed over 80 years later to save the ethnicity the records of any from the life of his granddaughter. Ukrainian community who may have Barbara Bohn Wright, whose mother participated in a "donor drive" for a was Jacob's youngest daughter Eliza­ non-Ukrainian patient. The opportu­ beth, learned in late 1989 that she has nity, therefore, to test for the blood chronic myelogenous leukemia. She components specific to Ukrainians has also learned that her blood carries a been overlooked. unique component inherited through In order to be "typed," a very small her Ukrainian grandfather. amount of blood is taken from the In pursuing her Ukrainian ancestry, volunteer and sent to a medical labora­ Ms. Wright not only hopes to save her tory for analysis. The results are then life, but is focusing attention on issues entered into the main computer of the that may help save the lives of other National Marrow Donor Program, Ukrainians diagnosed with cancer and which is searched internationally on other blood-related diseases. This is behalf of patients with fatal blood especially important as the incidence of diseases. cancer continues to increase as a result Anyone identified as a potential of the Chornobyl accident. donor is asked to be typed for addi­ Leukemia is a disease of the blood- tional blood factors. Potential donors producing tissue known as bone mar­ always have the option of withdrawing row. Marrow, located in the center of at any point in the process. the large bones, produces the body's Bone marrow transplantation differs blood cells, which transport oxygen and from other types of organ donation in Poet Vasyl Holoborodko meets with (from left) Lydia Palij, Sophia Lada and other nutrients to the rest of the body. that the donor is not permanently giving Myrosia Stefaniuk. The only known cure for leukemia is to up anything, and actually loses less than replace the malfunctioning marrow 10 percent of the body's marrow in a by Oksana Zakydalsky writer Barry Callaghan, Exile Editions with healthy marrow from a donor with procedure that usually lasts about an an identical or near identical marrow has built up an impressive list of more hour. The procedure, done under an­ than 100 titles, covering literature and "type." Without the replacement proce­ aesthesia, temporarily leaves a "dull TORONTO - Poet Vasyl Holobo­ dure, known as a bone marrow trans­ rodko, from Luhanske, became the the fine arts, drawn from French and ache" in the hip area where the marrow English Canada, from Britain and plant, the disease is terminal within is collected. In just a few weeks time the third writer from Ukraine to take part in three to five years. donor's body has fully replaced the "the largest annual literary festival in Europe. It has been particularly strong Bone marrow "type" is inherited just "lost" marrow. the world, the International Festival of in introducing writers from Eastern Europe to Canadian readers. like other physical characteristics such Since the first bone marrow trans­ Authors held this year from October 18- as skin color, eye color, and hair color. plant in 1968, the procedure has saved 26 in Toronto and featuring 68 authors Last year, Exile Editions published The first step, therefore^ in locating a the lives of thousands of individuals from 30 countries. "Crowning the Scarecrow," by Ihor donor is to "type" the individual's who have been fortunate enough to find Kalynets, in a bilingual Ukrainian and immediate and extended family mem­ Mr. Holoborodko read from his a donor. Long-term survival with a recently published collection "Icarus English edition with translation by bers. If no match is found among family transplant is 30-80 percent, depending Marco Carynnyk and, in the previous members, individuals of the same racial with Butterfly Wings and Other Poems." on the disease. Although these are He read only one poem in the original year Ivan Drach's "Orchard Lamps." A or ethnic background may be "typed" in exciting statistics, the sad truth is that Ukrainian; the rest of the reading was forthcoming title is "The Madonna of the hope of finding a match. only about three out of every ten people Chernobyl" by Mr. Drach, also in a In Barbara's case, her blood "type" needing a transplant actually get one. done in English translation by the Canadian actor, Eric Petersen, who did bilingual edition with translation by includes a unique combination of One way to increase this percentage is to Mr. Carynnyk. factors very recently reported in indivi­ encourage more individuals to get it with both great skill and feeling. duals of Ukrainian descent. "Typing" of typed. The greater the pool of typed There was a large audience at the Translation for Mr. Holoborodko's all relatives and a search of the more individuals, the greater the chances of reading in spite of the fact that the well- "Icarus with Butterfly Wings and Other than 400,000 individuals who have been finding a match. known English writer Doris Lessing Poems" was done by Myrosia Stefa­ "typed" and are part of the national was appearing at the same time at a niuk. The cover design features a Because databanks in the United parallel reading. donor databank, have been unsuccess­ States are available internationally, an gouache by Sophia Lada. ful in locating a donor for her. Inter­ increase in the number of "typed" indivi­ "Icarus with Butterfly Wings and Copies of the book (at S 16.95) may national organizations that cooperate duals of Ukrainian descent would be of in donor searches have also been un­ Other Poems" is published by Exile be ordered from: Elina Miguel, World assistance to others of Ukrainian back­ Editions, called "the most distinctive Media Brokers, 44 Wellington St. E, successful in identifying a suitable ground who may develop the need for a donor. small publishing house in Canada." In Suite 20 Toronto, Ont. M5E 1C8, tel.: donor. As the number of individuals the last 15 years, under its publisher, (416) 362-9643. There are two major reasons why the diagnosed with cancer and other blood- search for Barbara's donor has been related diseases linked to the Chornobyl unsuccessful. First, standard "typing" accident continues to increase, the procedures do not take ethnic varia­ Ukrainian community both here and tions into consideration. Unless ethni­ abroad would be expected to benefit Ukraine: a political statement city is identified, the donor's blood from a larger representation of Ukrai­ sample is tested only for components nians in the donor databanks. considered characteristic of the major racial category identified by the donor Time, from the point of diagnosis, is a — Caucasian, Asian, or African. This vital factor in the success of bone means that the "typing" of certain marrow transplantation. As more ethnic groups like Ukrainians is likely to Ukrainians in need of a transplant are be incomplete. (Continued on page 13) Elmira community calls for recognition ELMIRA, N.Y. - The Ukrainian sible for obtaining the vast majority of American community of Elmira and signatures. In addition, Mr. Chopko vicinity recently sent President George also got official letters supporting the Bush a petition representing 1,400 petition from Catholic War Veteran's people urging him to recognize the Post 1178, VFW Post 6083 and the independence of Ukraine and to esta­ Ukrainian American National Club, all blish full diplomatic relations with of Elmira Heights. These three organi­ Ukraine. zations represent a total of 1,100 mem­ bers. The petition signing campaign was Paul Nimec also volunteered his time initiated and organized by Walter J. for the petition drive and his efforts Korchynsky, supreme advisor of the produced over 80 signatures. Besides Ukrainian National Association. As­ the intensive door-to-door campaign, sisting him was the secretary of UNA signatures were also gathered after all Branch 271, John Chopko. liturgies at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Mr. Chopko was personally respon­ Catholic Church in Elmira Heights, This^cartoon by James Larrick is reprinted with permission of The Columbus Dispatch. No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24,1991 5 Future entrepreneurs from Lviv's Management Institute learn business American-style by Roman Woronowycz Mr. Olach, who did some work at the In Lviv, Dr. Genick and Prof. An- organizational efforts of Dr. Pynzenyk. Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Chornobyl nuclear facility before the drushkiw met with Dr. Pynzenek and The institute maintains four activities: 1986 accident there, was thrilled that the arranged for an exchange involving an MBA program, short-term executive DETROIT - Fledgling Ukrainian business school at Wayne State Uni­ students from Lviv and faculty from seminars, stimulation of international entrepreneurs from Lviv poked and versity had arranged for him to spend Wayne State University. The SBDC business, and consulting for privatiza­ prodded dozens of American compa­ two weeks each at the Fermi plant and hopes that within three years small tion procedures. nies last month while taking courses to the Perry nuclear reactor in Ohio, where business development centers will learn business American style. he would study the control of radiation sprout in the Lviv region, said Dr. The school places most emphasis on release into the environment. In be­ Genick. developing the MBA program, accord­ What will become the Lviv Manage­ ing to Ihor Chervak, director of the ment Institute's first graduating class in tween he would spend time investi­ gating hazardous waste disposal at program, who traveled with the group the Masters of Business Administration Dr. William Volz, dean of the School in the United States. (MBA) program arrived in Detroit on Envotech. of Business Administration, arranged September 20 for three weeks of inten­ Arriving in Detroit by charter bus for needed financing, while Dr. Bush- Most classes are taught by visiting sive study at Wayne State University from Philadelphia, the students from nell set a schedule of lectures and professors from American and Cana­ (WSU). They also visited such diverse Lviv met first with the Ukrainian seminars. Prof. Andrushkiw, Dr. Ge­ dian universities who lecture in English. corporations as Envotech, a hazardous community at a reception sponsored by nick, Assistant Dean Donna Santo Students learn from English-language waste disposal company, the Budd the Friends of Rukh at St. Josaphat's and Assistant to the Dean Louise texts, gifts of the Sabre Foundation, Company, the Fermi Nuclear Plant, the which donated over 500 such books. Ford Motor Co., Selfreliance Ukrai­ nian Federal Credit Union and Food- Classes, which begin in January of land Distributors. each year, are limited to 25 students. Through September of this year he had A diverse group ranging in age from already received 45 applications, said 21 to 44, the students have backgrounds Mr. Chervak. ranging from physics, medicine, che­ mistry, engineering and computer Tuition runs high. In a city where science to professional experience in the monthly incomes average 500 rubles, glass, coffee and travel industries. tuition is 21,000 rubles a year. "Stu­ Under the sponsorship of WSU's dents don't pay. If they had to, we'd School of Business Administration, the never be able to keep the school going," students were treated to a dizzying array said Mr. Chervak, who at 24 is the of classes and seminars. youngest departmental director. One lecture, prepared by two re­ The institute relies on private com­ nowned Michigan law firms,taught the panies, cooperatives and even govern­ students how to prepare legal forms for ment-owned enterprises, which sponsor incorporating businesses in the West, their best employees. "These companies how to arrange limited partnerships have discretion to spend their money as with Western partners and how to they see fit after they pay the govern­ properly export to the U.S. ment what they owe. They choose an Other classes explained how to orga­ employee, generally with five years' nize various marketing strategies for experience or more, who has shown a business expansion, and how to best talent for business," said Mr. Chervak. privatize. Rep. David E. Bonior (D-Mich.), center, meets with June 1992 graduates of the The students visiting the U.S. agreed Vitalij Pyatkowsky, at 20 the young­ Lviv Management Institute. that everybody from the WSU School est student, said the amount of infor­ of Business Administration and indivi­ mation overwhelmed him. Ukrainian Catholic Church in Warren, Mooeri set up an itinerary of corpora­ Mich. tions that the students would visit. dual companies was genuinely helpful to the fledgling entrepreneurs. "But America is where we will learn An itinerary filled with lectures on "Our emphasis was to give (the the most. One step at a time, but always marketing, small business management, students) a sense of a graduate busi­ Mr. Olach added, "I found the dias­ forward," he said. "One of us will accounting and privatization, followed ness education in the U.S.," said Dr. pora community so open. They are become the Ukrainian Rockefeller or by visits to local businesses and corpo­ Volz. really trying to help us solve our Ford. Who it will be, time will show." rations, left little time to meet further The Ukrainian community of Detroit problems." He added that living with his Olha Lavrentjev, a manager of Aero- with the Ukrainian community in provided no less a contribution, said hosts he felt better cared for than he flot in Lviv and a visiting student, said Detroit. Prof. Andrushkiw, putting up students would with his own parents. she most enjoyed visiting the Thomas However, the students did find time in their homes for three weeks and Cook Travel Agency. "I will benefit to enjoy a picnic at the Dibrova Ukrai­ providing drivers for vans supplied by Dr. Volz said the first group of most in the future from the business nian Estate, to attend a Ukrainian Ford Motors and the Budd Corp. Wayne State University professors will connections I made with corporations. I The Lviv Institute of Management, leave for Lviv in January 1992. After­ language class at Wayne State Univer­ wards he expects more Ukrainian stu­ have cemented ties with the vice- sity, to meet with Ukrainian engineers which is affiliated with Lviv's Ivan president of Cook Travel, and I hope we Franko University opened its doors in dents from Lviv in Detroit in Septem­ and lawyers at a reception, and to listen ber of next year. will do business in the future," she said. to a board meeting of the Ukrainian September of 1990 due largely to the Ms. Lavrentjev said she understood Selfreliance Credit Union as well as to the extent of computerization in the visit the Ukrainian Future Credit Union. West, but never realized that arrange­ One of the tour coordinators, Prof. ments for travelers went beyond airline Vera Andrushkiw, who doubles as a and hotel reservations to such ameni­ Ukrainian lecturer in the department of ties as car rentals and restaurant dis­ German and Slavic languages and count packages. literatures at WSU, helped organize the Jaroslaw Olach, a nuclear physicist students' visit to Detroit. She made and the oldest of the students at 44, contact with Dr. Viktor Pynzenek, owns Energy, a consulting firm that founder and current director of the Lviv does work for government-owned Management Institute, and Vice-Direc­ power plants in the Lviv region. Mr. tor Ivan Vasiunyk, when they visited Olach said he enrolled at the Lviv Detroit last April. Prof. Andrushkiw Management Institute desiring to ex­ and Jerry Dutkewycz, acting as liaisons, pand his knowledge of Western style initiated contacts with the business marketing and the privatization pro­ community and WSU's School of cesses. Business Administration. He found the Fermi Nuclear Plant Dr. Robert Bushnell, associate dean, fascinating. "At Fermi the high level of along with Dr. Ray Genick, director of cleanliness impressed me," said Mr. the school's Small Business Develop­ Olach. "The few workers needed when ment Center (SBDC) decided to include technology exists at such a high level Lviv University in a series of seminars amazed me. He said more automation that the center was planning for Cze­ could only result in a safer work envi­ choslovakia. ronment." Prof. Andrushkiw said, "I wisn't even going to go on the trip. At the last Roman Woronowycz is a special minute Dr. Bushnell asked me (to go). It Dean William H. Volz. (right) School of Business Administrator at Wayne State writer for the Ann Arbor News and is was tremendously successful." Dr. University presents Ihor Chervak. director, MBA program Lviv University, with a completing a master s degree in journal­ Bushnell said his reasoning was that certificate of completion of the first exchange program for MBA students ism at the University of Michigan at Prof, Andrushkiw was familiar with the between the two universities. Pictured with them is Prof. Vera Andrushkiw, tour Ann Arbor. people and language, coordinator and Ukrainian language lecturer at Wayne State. б THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24,1991 No. 47

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As The Weekly was going to press it was uncertain whether Congress is recessing Ukrainian Weelcl for just the Thanksgiving holiday or for the year. In either case, most senators and Y representatives will be in their home state or district. It is a perfect opportunity for Ukrainian Americans to visit with their elected officials in their state and district offices. To find out where their offices are located and the telephone number, you It would be prudent, George can call Htv hall or the Washington Office of the UNA at (202) 347-8629. Ukrainian Americans should arrange appointments with their representative and As the date of Ukraine's referendum fast approaches, the Western press has senator and urge them to support U.S. recognition of Ukraine by co-sponsoring the begun to take notice of the important role Ukraine will play on the new world resolutions (S.Con.Res. 65 in the Senate and H.Con.Res. 212 in the House) and by map. The Fourth Estate has recognized Ukraine, when will the United States contacting President George Bush and urging him to recognize Ukraine. follow suit? It should be stressed that this is the most important issue for the Ukrainian Over the past few weeks, such respected statesmen as Zbigniew Brzezinski, American community and that Ukrainian Americans will remember their friends. such influential columnists as William Safire, have highlighted Ukraine's If your senators or representative have already co-sponsored the resolutions, unstoppable drive for independence, yet President George Bush is doing his you should arrange an appointment to thank them for their support. best to roadblock the inevitable. — submitted by the UNA Washington Office Recently, columnist Cord Meyer noted that "the Bush administration has had to reconsider its sweeping condemnation of Ukrainian nationalism contained in President Bush's speech in Kiev last August. Mr. Bush's recent Below, the Washington Office of the Ukrainian National Association, has useful meeting with Mr. Kravchuk in Washington signaled that the process of compiled a list of senators and representatives who have sponsored the resolution policy adjustment is under way." to recognize Ukraine after the December 1 referendum. Is your elected official listed? However, Mr. Bush's administration has regressed recently; just last week, Senators it began to dissuade other countries from recognizing Ukraine. Arizona: Maryland: North Carolina: Hungary reportedly has already recognized Ukraine. Poland, Czecho­ slovakia and Canada have said they will recognize Ukraine after December 1. Dennis DeConcini Barbara A. Mikulski Jesse Helms So what is the United States waiting for? Connecticut: Massachusetts: Pennsylvania: iDoes it fear the appearance of a new state, 52 million strong, rated by Christopher J. Dodd John F. Kerry Arlen Specter Deutsch Bank as a republic with the most economic potential? Does it truly Joe Lieberman Harris L. Wofford believe that Ukraine will strive to become a nuclear power, an irresponsible Florida: Michigan: South Dakota: monster with an army, its own currency and border control? Bob Graham Donald W. Riegle Larry Pressler Dr. Brzezinski points out that "U.S. policy toward the crisis in the Soviet Connie Mack Union is out of focus. Our rhetoric has traditionally favored democracy, Hawaii: New Jersey: Utah: pluralism and self-determination. But that theme has been overshadowed by Daniel K. Inouye Bill Bradley Orrin G. Hatch one that is closer to real U.S. policy: that it is somehow in the interest of 'stability' that a 'Soviet center,' preferably with Mikhail Gorbachev, at the Illinois: New York: Wisconsin: helm, be preserved. Paul Simon Alfonse M. D'Amato Robert W. Kasten Daniel P. Moynihan Wyoming: David Brooks, deputy editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe, notes that "Starting with Lithuania, the Bush administration has Malcolm Wallop always erred on the side of shabbiness, siding with the center against Representatives republican democrats. In Ukraine, the U.S. says it supports democratic California: Massachusetts: New York: principles, but it remains cooly aloof while the Ukrainians struggle to create C. Christopher Cox Brian Donnelly Benjamin A. Gilman them." Randy Cunningham Richard E. Neal William Green And, according to Mr. Safire, on December I at least two out of three William E. Dannemeyer Frank Horton Ukrainians are likely to vote to assert their country's national sovereignty. On Dana Rohrabacher John J. LaFalce that day, the Soviet "union" will die. Matthew F. McHugh Michael R. McNulty On that day Mr. Bush's administration will err again, unless, of course, it Henry J. Nowak realizes that the future includes an independent, democratic Ukraine. Louise M. Slaughter James T. Walsh Illinois: Michigan: Ohio: Frank Annunzio David E. Bonior Mary Rose Oakar Harris W. Fawell William S. Broomfield Turning the pages back... William O. Lipinski Dave Camp John D. Dingell Dennis M. Hertel Dale E. Kildee Hryhoriy Strilets, better known under his pseudonym, Hryhoriy Kosynka, was born on November 29, 1899. A Indiana: Minnesota: Pennsylvania: writer, he lived in Kiev from 1920, and belonged to the Dan Burton Jim Ramstad William J. Coyne Vin Weber Joseph Kolter writers' groups Lanka and MARS. His first story, "Na buriaky"(At Beet Harvest), John P. Murtha appeared in 1919 in the paper Borotba. Don Ritter Publication of the collection "Sertse" (The Heart, 1933) was prevented by the Richard J. Sari orum censors. Party critics accused Kosynka of propagating 'kulak ideology,' 'counterrevolutionary tendencies,' and 'banditry' in his stories. Publishing his Louisiana: New Jersey: Rhode Island: stories was forbidden in the early 1930s, and he was forced to work as a scenarist. William J. Jefferson Bernard J. Dwyer Ronald K. Machtley Arrested during the Stalinist terror, he and 36 others were tried on fabricated Frank Pallone charges of terrorist activity by a military tribunal, and he and 27 others were Matthew J. Rinaldo summarily shot on December 17, 1934. Robert A. Roe Mr. Kosynka was one of the more outstanding Soviet Ukrainian story writers of the 1920s and early 1930s. His stories captured the prevalent attitudes, relations, Maryland: New Mexico: and political shifts among the Ukrainian peasantry during the 1917-1921 period of Constance A. Morella William Richardson revolutionary upheaval and war. About 20 of his story collections appeared during his life, including "Na zolotykh bohiv" (Against the Golden Gods, 1922), "Zakvitchanyi son" (The Florid Dream, UNA Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine 1923), "Za voritmy" (Behind the Gates, 1925), "Maty" (Mother,1925), "V zhytakh" (In the Wheat Fields, 1926), "Polityka" (Politics, 1927), "Vybrani opovidannia" The Home Office of the Ukrainian National (Selected Stories, 1928 and 1929), and "Tsyrkul" (The Compass, 1939). Association reports that, as of November 21, Although Soviet criticism today views him as merely an epigone of M. the fraternal organization's newly established Kotsiubynsky, S. Vasylchenko, and V. Stefanyk, this view is belied by an analysis Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine has received of his unique style, in which examples of expressionism and experimentation, not unlike those of his contemporary M. Khvylovy, abound. Mr. Kosynka was 9,352 checks from its members with donations posthumously 'rehabilitated' after Stalin's death. totalling ^236,866.81. The contributions Selected editions of his works appeared in New York in 1955, in Kiev in 1962, include individual members' donations, as well 1967, and 1972, in Lviv in 1971, and (in Russian) in Moscow in 1930 and 1966. A v as returns of members' dividend checks and book of memoirs about him was published in Kiev in 1969. (Encyclopedia of Mu\^ interest payments on promissory notes. Ukraine). No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24,1991 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Faees and Places independence movement. Ukraine is in Media insertion the news almost daily, so write to by Myron B. Kuropas newspapers and the TV networks cor­ of "the" unethical recting them. Don't be bashful. Re­ Dear Editor: porters are anything but shy. After all, Kudos to Messrs. Myron Kuropas, why should Peter Jennings still refer to Brent and Harry:Two peas in a pod? Wasyll Gina and Bohdan Wynnyckyj Odessa as a "Russian City" (ABC I tried to do with Eastern European September 22), or actress Milla Jovo- When I was first appointed a special for tackling and succeeding in dealing assistant to President Gerald R. Ford,I Americans. He was against White with the issue of the article 4he' and vich refer to her birthplace as "Kiev, House visits from former Hungarian Russia" (born December 17, 1975; was laboring under the delusion that a Ukraine (September 15 and 29). major U.S. foreign policy objective - freedom fighters, certain Slovak groups, The Ukrainian community in the interviewed by Cheryl Lavin, Chicago even Cardinal Josyf Slipyj. With the Tribune, August 11). was the weakening of the Soviet Union. U.S. and Canada (also, in Germany for Members of the National Security help of Mr. Baroody and Congressman the "der") should realize that the Donald R. Carnahan Ed Derwinski, who was then involved Chicago Council and the State Department soon American media is only marginally disabused me of any such notion. with President Ford's re-election cam­ aware of Ukraine and its issues. They I learned quickly. My first lesson in paign, I was able to have my way much still see Ukraine in terms of 18th century Amen to "the" realpolitik, came during my first week of the time. Hungarian freedom fighters British English reference to Ukraine as a in Washington when I was preparing and Cardinal Slipyj did meet with dependency, albeit an autonomous letter campaign President Ford's remarks for a Ukrai­ President Ford. state. Dear Editor: nian Independence Day banquet held A new low was reached when Mr. This frame of reference, which has Bohdan Wynnyckyj's letter, "What to by the Ukrainian Congress Committee Scowcroft objected to a White House been carried over to American English do about the 4he' " (September 29), of America in Chicago. The Chicago presentation of an embroidered na­ and the American psyche, stems from ends with a suggestion that the Ukrai­ UCCA had voted the president their tional costume to Mrs. Ford by Croa­ the period when western Ukraine was a nian press initiate a full-scale letter "Man of the Year." tian Americans in honor of America's province of Austria, called Galicia, and campaign to any and all newspapers, In my suggested text I used phrases Bicentennial. Thanks to Mr. Baroody, a eastern Ukraine was part of tsarist periodicals and other mass media in such as "Iron Curtain," the "yoke of presentation was made in the White Russia. Canada and America. Soviet imperialism" and "the freedom- House. But not to Mrs. Ford. And, that is the reason the Anglo To this I say Amen! But I would like loving Ukrainian people striving to rid There is little doubt that President world defines "Ukraine" by such terms to add: let us all join in this letter themselves of Russian oppression." I Ford's tolerance of the views and as "borderland" or, as President George campaign. completed the text and turned it over to actions of Henry Kissinger, then his Bush used last August in Kiev, "fron­ Recently I wrote to The Riehle Bob Orben, President Ford's chief secretary of state, Mr. Scowcroft, his tier...steppe." Foundation in Milford, Ohio, explain­ speech writer, whose responsibility it assistant Bill Hyland (now editor of The American media adheres to this ing to them how absurb and unjustified was to craft the remarks so they fit the Foreign Affairs), Mr. Clift, Helmut style, and reporting is made from that is its use of "the" before Ukraine in its president's style. Sonnenfeldt (now with the Brookings point of view. recently published translation of Yosyf A few days later I received the final Institution and architect of the in­ Our group, Ukraine Media Watch, Terelya's book "Witness to Apparitions edited version and was stunned. Not famous "Sonnenfeldt Doctrine" which monitors the local and national press and Persecution in the USSR." only were none of the above phrases would have legitimized Moscow's con­ and television, and reminds the media The Riehle Foundation wrote back to included, there wasn't even a mention of trol over Eastern Europe) and sundry that the British usage is outdated and me expressing appreciation for re­ Ukraine or Ukrainians! It was a canned other like-minded individuals, contri­ pejorative. And, that, just as the article ceiving my clarification: "... we... have speech suitable for delivery at your local buted to his defeat in 1976. Worse yet, it is now omitted for such countries as never thought about making that sepa­ Kiwanis luncheon. permitted the Soviet Union to survive Maldives and Seychelles, Ukrainians ration or were aware of the error. We I went to Mr. Orben who told me to another decade. find the "the Ukraine" form offensive will try to be more sensitive in our check with the boys at National Secu­ Today, Mr. Scowcroft is back at his and use simply "Ukraine." materials..." rity on the third floor of the Old old j ob as head of the National Security We also remind the media that, what We all can help to drop the anachro­ Executive Building. After some search­ Council It was he who, because of a is especially annoying is the insertion of nistic term "the Ukraine" and say ing I found a Mr. Clift, the man respon­ personal slight, underestimated Boris the 'the' within quotation marks after "Ukraine" instead. sible for the final copy of President Yeltsin's popular appeal in Russia, li is interviews or when citing quotes, parti­ Wolodymyr C. Sushko Ford's speech to Chicago's Ukrainian he who helped write President Bush's cularly translated quotes. Baltimore community. I introduced myself and remarks in Kiev. It is he who out of As an example, wire services recently explained my concerns. "Are you the admiration for Mikhail Gorbachev is quoted Ukraine's Defense Minister Kiev or Kyiv? guy who wrote that speech about the fighting to preserve the Soviet Union. Konstantin Morozov as saying, "The Ukraine?" he asked.4 replied affirma­ Who is Brent Scowcroft and how did Ukraine will have its own armed forces," tively^ he get to be so powerful? A graduate of and, "I serve the Ukraine" (Francis X. We need a standard West Point, he achieved the rank of Dear Editor: "Where have you been for the last 10 Clines, The New York Times, October years?" Mr. Clift asked sarcastically, lieutenant general in the Air Force and 23). The same quotes were even used in What we surely need are English- holds a Ph.D. in political science from language standards in transliteration "Have you been stateside?" I explained I an otherwise excellent and "the"-free had been. Columbia University. He taught Rus­ article in the Chicago Tribune (October and translations of Ukrainian terms. The sian history at West Point, political 23). diaspora needs a standard for Ukrai­ "Don't you know we haven't used phrases like Tron Curtain' and "Soviet science at the Air Force Academy, and Laurie Hays of The Wall Street nian usage. served as an assistant air attache at the Is it Kiev or Kyiv, Lviv or Lviw, yoke' for years?" he inquired. "Have Journal quoted Ivan Plyushch as say­ you ever heard of detente?" U.S. Embassy in Belgrade where, re­ ing, "The Ukraine is such a republic..." Cossack or Kozak, paska or pascha? It portedly, he came to admire Marshall (October 18). it pysanka or pysankas, or pysanky and I was angered by his tone. "Detente Tito's ability to keep "local national­ And, the media has even gone so far pysankies? Is a "rushnyk" a decorative doesn't mean capitulation," I replied ism" at bay. as to "correct" the names of our organi­ towel or ritual cloth? with a smile. I explained how I viewed Not since Harry Hopkins of the zations. Daniel Henninger of the WSJ The diaspora has made significant my White House role and told Mr. Clift Franklin Roosevelt White House has (September 27) renames "Renaissance progress from "the Ukraine" to Ukraine, that he was making things difficult for any one individual had as much in­ Foundation in Ukraine" as "Renais­ Now how about "Ukraina"? Come on the president. Later, I took the matter fluence over a president's perception of sance Foundation in the Ukraine." Harvard, take a stand. up with my superior, Assistant to the the Soviet Union. The similarity be­ By using the article "the," reporters Michael J. Jula President Bill Baroody, director of the tween Messrs. Hopkins and Scowcroft attribute to the speaker a form that Carnegie, Pa. White House Office of Public Liaison, is eerie. In their book, "KGB: The would not have been used had the words who spoke with the director of the Inside Story," Christopher Andrews been spoken in English. It's unethical. National Security Council, Brent Scow- and Oleg Gordievsky write: "What is Change lyrics croft. I was allowed to rewrite the certain is that Hopkins came to feel an While such transgressions may be speech using a lexicon of politically attributed to ignorance, much of it is extraordinary admiration for, and to anthem correct terms such as "hegemony" and confidence in, Stalin, combined with due to pure belligerance. President other such euphemisms. Mikhail Gorbachev's official translator Dear Editor: apprehension for the future if anything is a venue for the American media and a I can't help but fully agree with the I kept running into the same road­ should happen to him." Given his source for all the "the"-ing he can use in letter writer (October 13) who called our blocks the entire time I was in the White unconditional support of Stalin, many his translations. Anyone watching the attention to the wording of the Ukrai­ House. Mr. Scowcroft and his people KGB operatives came to believe Mr. October 28 Bush-Gorbachev press nian national anthem, which implies watered down everything, the presi­ Hopkins was an agent of major in­ conference in Madrid, Spain, was aware that Ukraine is dying, but is not quite dent's speeches, his remarks, his greet­ fluence. Mr. Gordievsky concluded that of this. dead. ings, his letters, evenjmy speeches. The Mr. Hopkins was "an unconscious The New York Times disregarded the We should change the lyrics to "Vse goal, they explained to me, was notlo rather than a conscious agent." (p. 287). translator at Chairman Leonid Krav- zhyve Ukraina." That would tell the offend Moscow, Belgrade, Prague, and ' Л We all know what horrendous hight- chuk's recent Washington, press confer­ world that Ukraine always existed, but Budapest. Not even the annual Captive niares Harry Hopkins' affection for ence and edited in the article 4he' with was temporarily suppressed by invaders Nations proclamation was sacrosanct. Stalin created for the United States. quotation marks and all. It is unpar­ who caused so much death and destruc­ A meaningful text linking Captive Only time will tell what damage Brent donable that such major news media tion. Nations aspirations with the bicenten­ Scowcroft's love affair with Mikhail regard "the Ukraine" as politically Yes, let's say that Ukraine was always nial of America's Declaration of In­ Gorbachev will produce. correct usage. alive and that its glory and freedom dependence was summarily gutted by Roman Popadiuk, our man in the We wish to remind the Ukrainian have survived. Mr. Scowcroft whose brusque style I White House, has his work cut out for community that now, more than ever, it John Stefanuk came to resent. him. Pray that he succeeds where I has a chance to take part in Ukraine's Waldport, Ore. Mr. Scowcroft opposed most of what failed. THE UKRAINIAN WEEK! Y SUNDAY., NOVEMBER 24, 1991 No. 47

As the December 1 referendum on the At the same time, Krymskaya Pravda independence of Ukraine draws closer, published a questionnaire — at the more and more attention is being Centrifugal movements in demand of the Republican Movement focused on movements in various parts of Crimea — asking readers to respond of the former Soviet republic support­ to three questions: (1) "Are you for ing one or another form of regional Ukraine and independence Crimea being part of Ukraine?"; (2) "Are you for Crimea being part of autonomy or, in some cases, secession. by Dr. Roman Solchanyk Russia?" and (3) "Are you for Crimea The situation in Crimea, which ear­ RFE/RL Research Institute lier this year became an autonomous being an independent state?" republic within Ukraine, has received among other thin^ th^ mnct pffir^nt first secretary of the Crimean Oblast Mr. Meshkov's attitude towards the most attention and is arguably the vehicle for such Ukrainianization — Party Committee and simultaneously Ukraine is perhaps best reflected by his most serious. In several respects, Cri­ i.e., Ukrainian-language schools - chairman of the Oblast Council and statement that: "The very question of mea is a special case: it is the only does not exist in Crimea. To the present now chairman of the Presidium of the Russia-Ukraine is a provocation. All of territorial-administrative unit in U- day there is not a single Ukrainian- Crimean Supreme Council. this benefits only the fCommunistJ kraine with an ethnic Russian majo­ language school in the autonomous Not only leading local Communist party apparatus both of Ukraine and rity; in 1954 it was transferred from the republic for the 626,000 Ukrainians Party functionaries, but the oblast party Russia. And in Ukraine, national so­ Russian SFSR to Ukraine as a "gift" in living there. organization as such came out in sup­ cialism is rearing its head." commemoration of the 300th anniver­ Moreover, the region's main news­ port of the restoration of autonomy. On The Republican Movement of Cri­ sary of the "reunification" of Ukraine paper, Krymskaya Pravda, which was October 27, 1990, the report and elec­ mea supports the secession of Crimea with Russia; and there is the question of published previously in both Russian tion conference of the oblast party from Ukraine and its independence the Crimean Tatars, who claim the and Ukrainian, recently began coming organization adopted a resolution "On both from Ukraine and the RSFSR peninsula as their ethnic homeland. out exclusively in Russian; Ukrainian- the Nationalities Policy of the Crimean within a union of sovereign states. It is Centrifugal tendencies are also evi­ language programming on local televi­ Oblast Party Organization" officially financed by tfie IMPEKS-55 of Crimea dent in parts of eastern Ukraine, espe­ sion amounts to a total of 10 minutes stating its position on the issue. The economic association, which, in turn, is cially in the Donbas where there are said to be financed from Communist per week; and the Shevchenko Ukrai­ situation in Crimea on the eve(l of the proponents of reviving the short lived nian Language Society, Prosvita, has referendum was aptly summed up by Party coffers, and recently Mr. Donetske-Kryvyi Rih Republic of 1918, consistently been denied official regis­ one republican newspaper: "If one is to Meshkov offered to assume full finan­ and in the Kharkiv region. The same is tration by local authorities. believe the party and party Oblast cial responsibility for expenses incurred true of parts of southern Ukraine, where Such "details" (including the fact that Committee-controlled mass informa­ by a referendum. the so-called Novorossiya movement Russian is the state language in Crimea) tion media (and others simply do not Most other groups in Crimea favor has been active. notwithstanding, the languagw w e issue has exist in Crimea), opponents of the one or another form of self-determina- There is also the question of the been exploited for political purposes. referendum are only a small group of -tion. The Citizens' Forum of Crimea, Zakarpattia (Transcarpathian) oblast, A case in point is last year's article by 1 extremists and nationalists." which considers itself a democratic where the Ruthenian (Rusyn) move­ V. Strutinsky, a corresponding member In Crimea, as in parts of eastern and movement, insists on the dissolution of ment rejects Ukrainianism and, more­ of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences southern Ukraine, centrifugal tenden­ the Crimean Supreme Council and new over, is subject to irredentist forces in in Krymskaya Pravda, which was cies were fueled and gained momentum elections on a multi-party system. At Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia. written in response to the joint appeal of after last July's Declaration on State the same time, it wants a referendum to Outside influences, in this case from the Kiev City Council's Commission on Sovereignty of Ukraine. Now, after determine whether Crimea is to remain Moldova, are also evident in the Bulga­ National Questions and Control over Ukraine's declaration of independence, within Ukraine or unite with the rian and Gagauz movement for terri­ the Implementation of the "Law on the question of regionalism is once RSFSR. In mid-September, the local torial autonomy in the Bolhrad Raion Languages in the Ukrainian SSR" and again on the agenda. Perhaps not branches of Rukh, the Ukrainian Re­ of Odessa Oblast. the Shevchenko Ukrainian Language entirely fortuitously, already on Sep­ publican Party and the Democratic Society that parents enroll their chil­ tember 4 — i.e., little more than a week Party of Ukraine left the coalition, Crimea dren in Ukrainian-language schools or after Ukraine declared independence — saying that they could not remain in an classes. Among other things, the appeal the Crimean ASSR Supreme Council organization whose members were Crimea became an autonomous So-; notpd that the number of Ukrainian- declared its state sovereignty as a calling for Crimea's secession from viet Socialist Republic within Ukraine language schools in the republic would constituent part of Ukraine and "the Ukraine and its unification with the after 93.3 percent of voters said yes to increase steadily and that all higher and supremacy, unity and indivisibility of RSFSR. the January 20 referendum question secondary specialized institutions the Crimean ASSR." Several days The January 20 Movement also "Are you for the restoration of the would be fully Ukrainianized by 1994. earlier, a number of local deputies had supports a referendum, which should Crimean ASSR as a subject of the Strutinsky capitalized on this to warn demanded an immediate declaration of determine whether Crimea is to secede USSR and a party to the union treaty?" Crimeans of the dangers awaiting them secession from Ukraine. from Ukraine. If so, it would like to see The decision to hold a referendum on from "aggressively motivated national­ The current campaign to "consoli­ a follow-up referendum on joining the the peninsula's status was taken last ists" while at the same time arguing that date" Crimea's self-determination be­ RSFSR. The January 20 Movement is November by an extraordinary session use of the Russian language was "part of gan in earnest in September. One of the headed by V. M. Sahatovsky, a former of the Crimean Oblast Soviet, which Ukrainian national culture." main forces behind the campaign is the consultant to the Crimean Republican rules that the Crimeans had the right to The threat of "forced Ukrainianiza­ Republican Movement of Crimea, Committee of the Communist Party of their statehood in the form of an tion" and "Ukrainian nationalism" which is led by Yuriy Meshkov, a Ukraine. autonomous republic and that the June coupled with the specter of a "Tatar deputy of the Crimean Supreme Coun­ The Democratic Crimea group, which 30, 1945, decree of the Presidium of the invasion" has been exploited by the cil. At the end of September, Mr. represents the radical opposition to the USSR Supreme Soviet and the July 25, local Communist Party-dominated Meshkov was calling on all of his existing power structure, argues that 1946, RSFSR law abolishing their administration, which was not dis­ colleagues to demand the convening of before deciding Crimea's fate a referen­ autonomous status were unconstitu­ lodged from power in Crimea (or in an extraordinary session of the Cri­ dum should be held to determine tional. eastern and southern Ukraine) after mean Supreme Council no later than whether or not the current composition The referendum was held irrespective the 1990 elections, to mobilize popular October 1, with the question of a of the Crimean Supreme Council enjoys of the fact that at the time there was no sentiment for autonomy or secession. Crimean referendum on nullification of the confidence of the electorate and new referendum law in Ukraine and that the The rationale, argue representatives the 1954 transfer of the peninsula to elections on a multi-party basis. In corresponding USSR law expressly of Ukrainian democratic forces, is that Ukraine as the main topic of discussion. September, it appealed to the Ukrainian ruled out conducting referendum to the local party structures, which, given change the status or borders of a Crimea's profile as an "all-union play­ territory. Nonetheless, the Ukrainian ground" and its heavy military pre­ Supreme Soviet acknowledged the sence, have always been subordinated status change in its February 12 law "On to Moscow rather than to Kiev, are the Renewal of the Crimean Autono­ determined to isolate themselves from mous Soviet Socialist Republic," which the democratic changes being wrought renewed Crimean autonomy "within by the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet and the borders of the Ukrainian SSR." safeguard their status and privileges by As noted earlier, one of Crimea's transforming the peninsula into an of specific features is its ethnic composi­ autonomous "preserve" where they can tion. Thus, according to the 1989 operate more or less undisturbed by census, Russians account for 67.04 developments in the Ukrainian capital. percent of the population while Ukrai­ Thus, it was precisely Leonid Hrach nians are only 25.75 percent. More­ — former second secretary of the over, 47.4 percent of Ukrainians in Crimean Oblast Party Committee, Crimea consider Russian to be their chairman of the Oblast Council's Com­ native language. The language factor is mission on Harmonization of Inter- important here, as in other parts of Ethnic Relations and the Spiritual Ukraine with a heavy Russian or Russi­ Sphere, and chairman of the organizing fied presence, because after the adop­ committee for the re-establishment of tion of the Ukrainian law on languages Crimean autonomy — who, on the eve in 1989 that made Ukrainian the official of the January referendum, warned state language the threat of "forced local television viewers that opponents Ukrainianization" became a potent of the referendum "would be held political issue. responsible." Another prominent sup­ lillllillllll^llllll Mikhail Levit That such a threat has no basis in porter of Crimean self-determination In Cherkassy, pro-independence supporters hold signs which feature such slogans reality is suggested by the fact that, has been Nikolai Bagrov, the former as "From paper declaration to freedom from Moscow occupation." No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1991

Supreme Council to initiate concrete other parts of Ukraine specifically in a warning in Rude Pravo to "repre­ formed Democratic Union of Hungari­ measures for the transformation of the Donbas and in southern Ukraine, sentatives of certain right-wing forces in ans of Ukraine, which unites Hungari­ Ukraine into a federal republic. have not developed to the extent that Czecho-Slovakia" agitating for a an cultural organizations in Zakarpat­ A not inconsiderable role in Crimean they have posed a genuine political review of the country's eastern borders. tia, the Lviv and Kiev regions, and other politics is also played by political problem for Kiev. Zakarpattia, the Ukraine is a sovereign state and its parts of Ukraine. According to Mr. groupings from the RSFSR. In westernmost oblast of Ukraine, borders territory is indivisible, affirmed Mr. Fodo, Hungarians in Zakarpattia sup­ October, for example, the leaders of the on Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary Durdynets, adding that Zakarpattia is port autonomy for the region as a Democratic Party of Russia, the Kadets and Romania. The region was united an inseparable part of Ukraine. "Any whole, the inviolability of current and the Christian Democratic Move­ with Ukraine in 1945, previously having attempt tfrom outsidej to declare the borders in Europe, and the independ­ ment, who belong to the right wing of been part of Hungary and Czecho­ sovereignty of this part of the republic ence of Ukraine. the Democratic Russia Movement, slovakia. or join it to a foreign state," he main­ toured Crimea with promises of support Hungarian and Slovak influences, tained, "contradicts the norms of inter­ The Donbas and the south for Crimean self-determination from including assimilation of the local national law and constitutes gross Russia. population, have been considerable. interference in the internal affairs of The situation in the Donbas ^nd in Ukraine." southern Ukraine presents a somewhat And, as in Crimea, after the declara­ different picture. These regions have tion of Ukraine's independence in significant Russian populations and the August, the movement for autonomy in Russian language is dominant, al­ Zakarpattia gained pace. When the though Ukrainians are in the majority Oblast Council opened its session on in each oblast. Not unexpectedly, September 27 the deputies were greeted therefore, the "language card" figures by demonstrators, counter-demonstra­ prominently in the activities of groups tors, and hunger strikers with various that support autonomy, the retention of demands, including supporters and some sort of Soviet Union, and "inter­ opponents of local autonomy. The main nationalism." Another factor is the demand of the hunger strikers was the prevailing stereotype that the "Bande- dissolution of the council and new rites" from western Ukraine are "taking elections, which was agreed to, with new over" in Kiev. elections to be held before the end of In response, the local media have March 1992. reported on discussions about reviving The session also discussed the ques­ the short-lived Donetske-Kryvyi Rih tion of autonomy, resolving to form a Republic of 1918; another variation on working group that, after examining the this theme is the formation of a Do- issue, would forward its proposals to netske-Dnieper or Dnieper autonomous the council by the end of the year. It was region. also decided that if there was to be a Such discussions first emerged in the referendum on Zakarpattia's status it summer of 1990 — i.e., in connection would be held after the December 1 with Ukraine's declaration of sover­ presidential elections and that, in any eignty. At the end of last year, a Donbas case, the region would remain a consti­ Intermovement was formed in Donetske. Presidential hopeful Vyacheslav Chornovil and his wife Atena Pashko arrive in tuent part of Ukraine. The autonomy Its members have been active in lobby­ Odessa, where the independence movement continues to grow. issue was to be considered again by the ing for a local referendum on autonomy newly elected council. for the Donetske Oblast as a consti­ The first concrete step in this This coupled with, from the historical Shortly thereafter, the deputies re­ tuent part of Ukraine. Similarly, the direction was taken by the session of the standpoint, the relatively more recent versed themselves. The autonomy ques­ Democratic Donbas Movement sup­ Crimean Supreme Council that opened development of the Ukrainian national tion was placed on the agenda and the ports a referendum on the formation of on October 23 and was expected to movement there has resulted in the council resolved to hold a referendum a Donetske-Kryvyi Rih autonomous consider a local referendum law. The retention of the traditional Ruthenian on December 1, when voters will be region as a constituent part of a fede­ session was attended by Chairman of (Rusyn) consciousness among a seg­ asked if they want their region to have rated Ukraine within the framework of the Ukrainian Supreme Council Leonid ment of the local population. In terms autonomous status as a subject of an the USSR. Kravchuk, whose address, by all of the current situation, it is also independent Ukraine and without being Recently, the chief spokesman for accounts, had a settling effect on the important to point out that although a constituent part of any other territo­ these and similar groups has been Crimean deputies. Mr. Kravchuk Ukrainians are 78.4 percent of the rial-administrative unit. In addition, in Viktor Honcharov, a USSR people's argued that Crimea is an inseparable population, there is a significant Hun­ the Berehove Raion, where there is a deputy from Yenakievo in Donetske, part of Ukraine, but that every effort garian minority accounting for 12.5 compact Hungarian majority, there will who stirred a major controversy in would be made by the Supreme Council percent of the population. be a separate poll to determine whether Ukraine after his speech to the USSR in Kiev to create the necessary condi­ The movement for autonomy in the local population favors the forma­ Congress of People's Deputies in Sep­ tions for Crimeans to organize their Zakarpattia is led by the Society of tion of a Hungarian autonomous dis­ tember claiming that Ukraine's declara­ affairs as they see fit. Carpathian Ruthenians (Tovarystvo trict. tion of independence was "unconstitu­ After a heated discussion, the ques­ Karpatskykh Rusyniv), which was The position of the Hungarian mino­ tional" and that "national separatists" tion of conducting a referendum on formed on February 17, 1990, as an rity was made clear by Sandor Fodo, had taken over in Kiev. Afterwards, Mr. Crimea's secession from Ukraine was oblast cultural-educational society. head of the Hungarian cultural society Honcharov was given prime time on not placed on the parliamentary agenda Already on September 29, the group's in Zakarpattia and of the recently (Continued on page 10) and the referendum law was only board adopted a "Declaration of the examined on first reading and then Society of Carpathian Ruthenians postponed. In response, seven deputies Concerning the Return of the Status of led by Mr. Meshkov left the chamber an Autonomous Republic to Zakarpat­ Independence poll in Ukraine and Mr. Meshkov announced that he tia Oblast." The essence of this docu­ Poll conducted by the Institute of Sociology of the Ukrainian Academy of would begin a hunger strike in front of ment is that it rejects the legality of all Sciences, Question asked: "Do you approve of the declaration of the Supreme Soviet building in support legislative acts of the USSR and Ukrai­ independence of Ukraine?" (September-October, 1991). of a referendum and nullification of the nian SSR Supreme Soviets adopted in 1954 decision to transfer Crimea to 1945 and 1946 regarding Zakarpattia's Ukraine. unification with the Ukrainian SSR, 96 Difficulty Several days later, four women jour­ recognizing only the Munich Treaty of 9fcYes Wc No 9o Indifferent Answering nalists — a Crimean Tatar, a Ukrainian, September, 1938 which dismembered Sept. Oct. Sept. Oct. Sept. Oct. Sept. Oct. and two Russians — supported by Czecho-Slovakia and led to the creation Kiev 73.0 81.5 10.1 4.4 4.5 4.4 12.4 9.8 Rukh, the Crimean Tatars, and the of an autonomous Subcarpathian Ru- North1 61.6 71.8 13.4 9.4 8.0 11.8 17.0 7.1 Citizens' Forum of Crimea began their thenia within Czecho-Slovakia the Central2 65.1 72.9 13.6 2.7 4.1 4.4 17.2 20.0 own hunger strike to protest the fanning following month. The society considers Northeast3 49.4 65.0 27.2 16.0 7.4 2.5 16.1 16.6 of inter-ethnic tensions. From that Rusyns to be a Slavic nation separate Northwest4 88.8 86.4 1.7 1.6 4.3 8.0 5.2 4.0 point onwards, tension mounted daily from Ukrainians. East5 54.6 62.7 24.4 16.6 9.0 7.1 12.0 13.6 with meetings, demonstrations and 4 89.4 92.4 2.8 1.2 2.2 1.7 5.6 4.7 In some aspects, the situation in West counter-demonstrations. Southwest7 64.3 75.0 3.6 6.9 6.0 1.4 26.2 16.7 Zakarpattia is similar to that in Crimea. 57.5 69.4 22.9 11.7 1.7 2.2 17.9 16.7 After almost two weeks, the Presi­ As in the latter, the local power struc­ South' dium of the Crimean Supreme Council tures are controlled by the former Crimea 44.4 50.0 30.0 26.7 12.2 12.2 13.3 11.1 resolved to convene an extraordinary Communist Party, which was headed session of the local Parliament on by Mykhailo Voloshchuk, who is also 1. Kiev,Zhytomyr, Chernihiv. 2. Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Vinnytsia, Poltava. November 22, with one item on the the head of the Oblast Council. As in agenda: discussion of a draft referen­ 3. Sumy, Kharkiv. Crimea, there are parties beyond U- 4. Khmelnytsky, Rivne, Volyn. dum law. This step was taken on the kraine's borders who have shown in­ demand of 66 deputies and a petition 5. Luhanske, Donetske, Dnipropetrovske, Zaporizhzhia. terest in Zakarpattia's fate, part:'cularly 6. Lviv, Ivano-Frankivske, Ternopil. signed by over 30,000 people. political groups in Czecho-Slovakia. 7. Chernivtsi, Zakarpattia. Zakarpattia During a recent visit there, the 8. Kherson, Odessa, Mykdlayiv. chairman of the parliamentary Com­ Sources: Ukraina moloda, No. 14, October 199Up. 4:Holos Ukrainy, November 1, With the possible exception of mission on Questions of Defense and 1991. Zakarpattia, centrifugal tendencies in State Security,Vasyl Durdynets, issued а THE UKRAINIAN WEEKI Y SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 24,1991 No. 47 opinion split among those who favored Centrifugal... a unitary approach and those support­ (Continued from page 9) ing federalism along the lines of Swit­ zerland or Germany. Indeed, deputies central television on two occasions, from Mykdayin boycotted the confer­ where he reiterated his views against ence, while the Dnipropetrovske dele­ Ukrainian independence, which, in gation argued that it was "illegal" and turn, resulted in widespread protests that perhaps the prosecutor's office in Ukraine. should take an interest in the proceed­ In the south of Ukraine, the Novo- ings. rossiya movement, which emerged at The decision to convene such a the end of last year, advocates "special conference was taken at a meeting of state status" with "the historical bound­ deputies in Donetske in September, aries of Novorossiya" (today the with the idea of forming a structure for Odessa, Mykolayiv, Kherson, Dnipro- the eastern and southern regions similar petrovske and Crimean Oblasts, and to the western Ukrainian Galician also part of the Dniester region of Assembly. Moldova). Nonetheless, the idea of a federated None of these movements in eastern Ukraine enjoys support in eastern and and southern Ukraine have been crown­ southern Ukraine, which is reflected in ed with very much success. Thus, at an the recent appeal by the Donetske October 26 conference in Donetske of Oblast council to the Supreme Council people's deputies representing all gov­ in Kiev suggesting that a federal struc­ ЦІ Ch rystyna Lapycha k ernmental levels from these regions, ture be incorporated into Ukraine's new Outside of the Supreme Council building in Kiev, crowds gather to protest the work overwhelming support was expressed constitution. One or another form of of their representatives. They hold banners which ask about the implementation of for Ukrainian independence. At the federation is also supported by presi­ laws on Chornobyl and call for the ouster of deputies who do not take the needs of same time, the deputies were unable to dential candidates Volodymyr Hryniov, their constituents into consideration. find a common platform regarding Vyacheslav Chornovil and Ihor the one recently made by Nobel Prize Ukraine's future state structure, with Yukhnovsky. ^ Kiev's response to these centrifugal tendencies has been to pursue a policy laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who of accommodation while at the same proposed that the results of the Decem­ time insisting that any attempts to ber 1 referendum in Ukraine on inde­ dismember Ukraine will not be toler­ pendence be tallied not in total, but ated. This position was perhaps best rather on an oblast-by-oblast basis so reflected in Mr. Kravchuk's address to that each oblast could decide for itself the Crimean Supreme Council. The "where it belongs." Declaration of the Rights of Nationali­ Finally, it should be pointed out that ties in Ukraine, adopted by the Supreme regionalism in Ukraine appears to have Council on November 1, is a good had little impact on support for inde­ example of the accommodation aspect pendence. Indeed, two recent polls of this policy. Among other things, it conducted by the Institute of Sociology states that the Ukrainian Supreme of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Council interprets the Ukrainian law on in September and October reveal that in languages in such a way as to allow the Crimea and in the eastern and southern functioning of the language of any oblasts support for Ukrainian inde­ national group that is compactly settled pendence has grown (see table). in an administrative-territorial unit on On a group basis, the proportion of the same level as the state language - Russians favoring independence grew i.e., Ukrainian. from 45.9 percent to 58.3 percent, Jews At the same time, on October 11 the from 41.7 percent to 60 percent, and Supreme Soviet passed a law revising other nationalities from 57.9 percent to the Criminal Code, making "appeals 71.8 percent. and other activities aimed at the viola- And over all, in October 71 percent of tion of the territorial integrity of those polled said that they supported in­ Ukraine" a criminal offense punishable dependence, 10.5 percent answered that by up to three years' imprisonment or they did not, 5.7 percent were indiffer­ up to 10,000 rubles' fine. This step was ent and 12.6 percent had difficulty taken to preclude initiatives similar to responding.

Citizens of Kharkiv protest the signing of the union treaty this past summer in Kiev.

SYRACUSE. NY QESL3 WASHINGTON DC. Friday Archbshp. Carroll H.S. Aud. Fowler H.S. Auditorium Маємо на складі нову книжку 227 Magnolia St. 7:30 p.m. 4300 Harewood Rd. N.E. DESL2 NEWARK, NJ SCRANTQN. PA Saturday To be announced. To be announced. „УКРАЇНСЬКІ ВІЙСЬКОВІ ВІДЗНАКИ" 7:30 p.m. QEC^B PHILADELPHIA PA HARTFORD, CT Ярослава Семонюка Sunday Ukr. Educat. A Cultural Center в українській і англійській мовах Bulkley H.S. Auditorium 7:30 p.m. 700 Cedar Rd. 300 Wethersfield Ave. DEC 9 MAPLEWOOD. NJ. ОРДЕНИ, ХРЕСТИ, МЕДАЛІ та НАШИВКИ NEW YORK. NY Monday Maplewood Middle School Aud. Ashar-Levy School Auditorium Редактор: Микола Гавриш 7 30 p.m. 7 Bornet St., Corner Baker St. Фотографії: Іван Ґеречка 185- 1st Avenue DEC. 13 NORTH PORT, FL YONKERS. NY Friday Yacht Club Auditorium Кольорові ілюстрації, люксусовий папір. 7 30 p m. 7050 Chancellor Blvd. Ukrainian Youth Center Видання НТШ, Торонто, 1991, друком Гармоні Прінтінґ 301 Palisade Ave. North Port, FL. Компані, стор. 51. Ціна 15.00 дол. TRENTON. NJ DEC. 15 MIAMI. FL. St. Yuri's Ukr. Orthdx. Ch. Hall Sunday Ukrainian-American Club of Miami 839 Yardville-Allentown Rd. 2:00 p.m. 3595 NW 35th St., Miami, FL. 33142 Можна набувати в книгарні „Свобода" Мешканців стейту Ню Джерзі зобов'язує долучити до ціни 7Уо продажного податку. a is Wo. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24,1991 11 Youngsters compete in soccer match Goif Association holds championship by Ihor Lukiw moved to St. John's School gymna­ sium in Newark, N.J. NEWARK, N.J. - The youngest The players who participated in the soccer team playing for Chornomorska November 2 game against the YMCA Sitch has begun its season with two game were: Roman Lukiw, Taras shut-outs. Puzyk, Michael Puzyk, Markian Had- On Friday, November 2, the squad zewycz, Nicholas Komanecky, Marusia defeated the Madison YMCAteamby a Kleban, Stefan Wolansky, Michael decisive score of 8-0. The game was Gudzy, Natalia Kudryk, Andrew played indoors at the YMCA in Madi­ Kudryk, Danylo Vitvitsky and Chris­ son, N.J. tian Kleban. A few weeks ago Sitch won by a shut- The goals were divided between out score of 5-0 playing outdoors Michael Gudzy and Danylo Vitvitsky, against the same YMCA team. who had four goals each. The impres­ The team's trainer, Ihor Chupenko, sive goalkeeping of Roman Lukiw and said of his players: "If they stay to­ Taras Puzyk contributed to the team's gether they will be one of the best teams morale and confidence during the around when they are older." Coach match. Stefan Puzyk is proud of his soccer The team's success may be credited to players. the instruction of Mr. Chupenko, the Team members are between age 6 and leadership of Mr. Puzyk, the dedica­ 8. Practice is held every Friday at tion of manager Roman Kleban and all Participants of the Ukrainian Golf Association of America pose after their Farchers Grove in Union, N.J. When the mothers who have lost their voices tournament. the weather gets cold, practice will be screaming and cheering during games. ELLENVILLE, N.Y. - The Ukrai­ came in second, Vitally Zinkewycz nian Golf Association of America came in third and Roman Kinal came in capped off its first year with a 36-hole fourth. Tennis tournament held at Tryzubivka championship on September 13-14. In the low net, Mike Gudzy came in Thirty-five out of 60 members came first place, V. Hajdan came in second, HORSHAM, Pa. - Eighteen Ukrai­ In the men's group, which was pro­ to the Crossinger's and Nevele golf Carl Schnollenger came in third and nian tennis players from various com­ bably the strongest to date at Try­ courses to "drive, slice, hook, climb hills Roman Wolczuk came in fourth. munities on the East Coast gathered at zubivka, the winner again was George and valleys along Grossinger's tough In the mini-calloway tournament, Tryzubivka during the weekend of Sawchak defeating last year's finalist links and just trying to survive the gnats Roman Fedorowicz came in first, and September 28-29 to participate in the George Hrabec, (KLK Boston), by the and the aerated greens of Nevele," said Bohdan Harasym came in second. The fourth annual fall tennis tournament. score of 6-1, 6-1. George Petrykevych Roman Luzniak, the president of the longest drives were made by Joe Gulaw- They came as far as Boston, Hart­ (KLK Hartford) took third place by association. sky and Lew Wilczak. The shots closest ford, New York, and north New Jersey defeating Jerry Tymkiw, (Tryzub), in t з the pin were made by Tom Mack and the feed-in consolation final, 8-6. Members came from as far as De­ to take part in what is quickly becoming troit, and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Steve Bereza. a traditional fall tennis event among Other noteworthy matches in the even one affiliate member from Sydney, The closing event of this first full year Ukrainian players. men's division were Paul Rollick's close Australia, joined in. of the Ukrainian Golf Association was The tournament was played in two win over George Walchuk (KLK-N.J.), In the low gross, Walter Wynarczuk completed with a buffet and award groups: women and men. In the wo­ 7-5, 7-5; Alex Olynec's win over Mr. came in first place, Bohdan^ Anniuk ceremony at the Nevele. men's group the winner was Slava Petrykevych in the main draw, 6-4, 6-3; шшшшяшшшшшшшшшшшшшшшш Pawlichka; Lee who defeated Iwanka and Mr. Hrabec's grueling win over Mr. Fedyk in the final, in a three-hour Tymkiw 3-6, 6-4, 4-0. Other exciting marathon match. Ms. Lee's sister, matches were Carl Dizela vs. Lubko Notice ^ Marijka Tatunchak, took third place with a win over Luba Buhaj. (Continued on page 14) UNA — financially healthy: яюууууууушущуууууушуу^А^іт^люлюллллллллллюллллтл fact or fiction? \ DEAR READERS \ You may have read about certain bank and insurance company failures and/or takeovers by regulatory state agencies. If you are concerned about The Ukrainian National Association offers a variety of products and your insurance coverage with the Ukrainian National Association, please services, some of which you may not be aware of. These include: don't. The UNA is not in any danger! In these times of speculation and rumors, we feel it prudent to state some SERVICES pertinent facts: 1. The UNA invests and always has invested in the highest quality bonds. These services^re available at no charge to members Ninety-three percent of the S48 million in our bond portfolio is rated in the mm Complete review of your present insurance portfolio фф highest quality possible as determined by the National Association of Personal financial planning Insurance Commissioners which is the foremost authority on valuation of mm Advice from tax and estate planning attorneys mm securities. Professionally trained insurance consultants to assist you Another 6.5 percent is in the next highest quality category. To summarize: PRODUCTS Я9.5 percent of our entire bond portfolio is graded either highest or high quality. 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Demjanjuk's case discussed in Milwaukee New courses in ukramian off ered MILWAUKEE - John Demja­ consin state politicians, as well as the njuk's Israeli defense attorney, Yoram general public, to defend the imme­ STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. - English, is also worth four credits Sheftel, and John Demjanjuk Jr., spoke diate release of Mr. Demjanjuk. The department of German and and will be held on Thursdays during recently at the University of Wisconsin- xue Wisconsin Jewish СЬ^пї^іл Slavic Languages and Literatures at the same hours. The course will start Milwaukee (UWM). Besides covering The UWM Times and the UWM Wayne State University, Ukrainian on January 16. the case in general, they also discussed Post all extensively covered Messrs. Studies Program is offering several There is also Ukrainian 390 and deviations from standard courtroom Sheftel's and Demjanjuk's talk. courses for the winter semester. 590, which is directed study and can procedures during the trial and evidence This event, attended by members of Intermediate Ukrainian 201, held be worth one to three credits. The that they say proves Mr. Demjanjuk's the Ukrainian and Jewish communities, on Mondays at 6 p.m. to 9:40 p.m., instructor will be Vera Andrushkiw innocence, including the recent aquisi- was videotaped by Peter Fritsch, a for four credits, will begin on Ja­ and classes will be held at the new tion of 15,000 pages from Soviet ar­ professor in the UWM's film depart­ nuary 13. Ukrainian 302, an intro- WSU Extension Center. For further chives. The event was televised three ment. II duction to Ukrainian literature with information, call the German and Slavic department at 577-3024. times over Werner cable (channel 14) in The Milwaukee-based AHRU is reading done in either Ukrainian or Milwaukee, and the show will be repeat­ planning a nationwide protest in De­ ed on Monday, November 25 at 4 a.m. cember to release John Demjanjuk at The event was sponsored by the the time of his next appeal, said Ms. NEW YORK - The New York will run Thursdays, 6:10 - 8:05 p.m., Ukrainian Students Organization at Pawlak. University School of Continuing at the Washington Square campus. UWM and by the Milwaukee branch of Copies of the videotapes can be Education's Foreign Language De­ Registration for the course will begin "Americans for Human Rights in U- obtained by writing to: Producer P. partment will offer Ukrainian II in in December. For further informa­ kraine." Vera Pawlak, head of both Fritsch; МАТА; 610 N. Second St.; the 1992 spring semester. The course tion, call (212) 998-7030. groups, organized the event. The Milwaukee, Wise. 53212; or by calling Milwaukee-based group petitions Wis­ (414) 225-3560. NOW IN STOCK THE ENGLISH EDITION OF UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION is sponsoring ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UKRAINE AN ESSAY and A POSTER CONTEST Edited by Volodymyr Kubijovyc Managing editor Danylo Husar-Struk FIRST PRIZE winners will receive a FREE TWO-DAY STAY" FOR First and second of a five-volume work of Ukrainian scholarship in the diaspora TWO at Soyuzivka. SECOND PRIZE winners will receive Vol. I and II of UKRAINE: (the last three volumes are scheduled to be released by 1992) A CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA. THIRD PRIZE winners will receive HISTORY OF UKRAINE by A-F - U19.50 - 968 pp. Hrushevsky. ^arrangements to be made with Soyuzivka management. , There will be other awards and incentives. Winners will be announced 6-K - S125.00 - 737 pp. during the last week of January 1992. 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Skoryk works featured at UIA NEW YORK - An evening fea­ turing the works of composer Myroslav Skoryk will be presented at the Ukrai­ nian Institute of America on November 30 at 8 p.m. СВІТОВА ФЕДЕРАЦІЯ One of Ukraine's outstanding com­ posers, Mr. Skoryk is well-known for УКРАЇНСЬКИХ ЛІКАРСЬКИХ ТОВАРИСТВ his score for the movie "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors," which he wrote Чикаґо, Ілл., ЗСА when he was only 25. His music is ПОВІДОМЛЯЄ, що contemporary in spirit and expression, yet tightly knit with Ukrainian folk­ lore. He recently won first prize for his IV НАУКОВИЙ КОНГРЕС СФУЛТ Carpathian concerto for orchestra, відбудеться в Україні, в Харкові during Kiev Fest ^1. The evening will feature pianists в днях від 9-го до 14-го серпня 1992 р. Mykola Suk and Volodymyr Vynnyt- Про ближчі інформації прошу звертатися до туристичного бюра СКОВП, яке є одинокою агенцією sky, soprano Olena Heimur, violinist законтрактованою управою СФУЛТ для переведення Конгресу. Yuri Mazurkevych, the Leontovych String Quartet and the composer at the piano. Ms. Heimur and the Leontovych SCOPE TRAVEL INC. String Quartet will perform Mr. Skoryk's "Three Ukrainian Wedding 1605 Springfield Avenue Songs," and the quartet will also perform Telex 844-108 Maplewood, N.J. 07040 Fax (201) 378-7903 his "Partita No. 3." Mr. Vynnytsky will 1-800-242-7267 Tel.: (201) 378-8998 perform Mr. Skoryk's "Three Preludes and Fugues" and Mr. Suk will perform his "Partita No. 5 for Piano." Mr. Mazurkevych and Mr. Skoryk will NEW YORK DEPARTURES fc RATES LISTED: ATLANTA/CHICAGO/TORONTO/BOSTON/ perform his newest "Violin Sonata No. LOS ANGELES GATEWAYS AVAILABLE-AT ADDITIONAL COST 2." This concert is part of the "Music at TOUR A AUGUST 06-16 KIEV AUG 07-08 S2000 the Institute" series and will be follow­ SWISSAIR CONGRESS KHARKIV AUG 08-14 S200 ed by a reception. Admission is S10, 11 DAYS VIENNA AUG 14-16 SGL SUP seniors S5, and students free. The insti­ tute is located on the corner of 79th St. AUGUST 06-19 KIEV AUG 07-09 and Fifth Ave. For further information, TOUR В S2350 call (212) 288-8660. KLM AIRLINES CONGRESS KHARKIV AUG 09-14 S250 LVIV AUG 14-19 14 DAYS SGL SUP Tennis... TOURC AUGUST 01-18 IV.FRANKIVSK AUG 02-06 S2700 (Continued from page 11) SWISSAIR Kolomyja/Yaremtche/ 1 S325 Olesnyckyj and Mr. Petrykevych vs. 18 DAYS Yablonytskyj Pereval SGL SUP Ihor Buhaj. LVTV . AUG 06-09 CONGRESS KHARKIV AUG 09-14 Presenting trophies to winners, fi­ KIEV/Kaniv AUG 14-17 nalists and consolation winners during VIENNA AUG 17-18 AIRPORT HTL the Sunday afternoon ceremonies were Roman Sawchak, past president of TOURD AUGUST 02-19 KIEV/Kaniv AUG 03-06 S2400 Tryzub, and Mr. Sawchak, tournament KLM AIRLINES POLTAVA AUG 06-09 S300 director. Noting an overall success of 18 DAYS CONGRESS KHARKTV AUG 09-14 SGL SUP the tournament, some elders voiced a LVIV AUG 14-19 concern that the tournament, for some reason, does not attract younger players, TOUR E AUGUST 01-16 LVIV AUG 02-06 S2750 and hoped that the situation would be SWISSAIR Iv. Frankivsk fe Kolomyja S300 rectified. 16 DAYS or IV. FRANKIVSK AUG 02-06 SGL SUP The next tournament at Tryzubivka Kolomyja/Yaremtche/ will be held on May 2-3, 1992. All Yablonytskyj Pereval Ukrainian tennis players are welcome to KIEV/Kaniv AUG 06-09 participate. CONGRESS KHARKIV AUG 09-14 мтмншжжчшш^^тюшіїттіШ VIENNA AUG 14-16 Join the UNA TOURJF AUGUST 01-16 LVIV AUG 02-09 S2650 SWISSAIR Iv. Frankivsk u Kolomyja S300 16 DAYS or IV. FRANKIVSK AUG 02-09 SGL SUP Kolomyja/Yaremtche/ Yablonytskyj Pereval CONGRESS KHARKIV AUG 09-14 VIENNA AUG 14-16

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