Inside: l PHOTO FOLLOW-UP: Ukrainian Independence Day in Kyiv – page 4 l The Lemko Vatra, here in the United States and in Poland – page 8 l Ukrainian National Association scholarship winners – pages 14-15

ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXIV No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 $2.00 Leaders, protesters demand American Chamber of Commerce president release of Crimean Tatar activist sees its role as moving Ukraine forward by Mark Raczkiewycz KYIV – Andy Hunder is so busy these days that he has to cancel his attendance at ribbon-cutting ceremonies for new factories or offices that foreign companies are opening in Ukraine. On July 1, Mr. Hunder, the president of the country’s American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), couldn’t attend a door-opening event for the network marketing company Amway in Lviv. His schedule was booked. The previous day he witnessed the launch of Uber taxi service in Kyiv. The following day, British-Dutch Unilever cre- ated 100 jobs by opening a tea-making factory in Hostomel, 30 kilometers northwest of Kyiv. Facebook/Ilmi Umerov And he recently learned that Leoni, a German cable and Crimean Tatar activist Ilmi Umerov. harnessing manufacturing firm, is opening a second plant in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast town of Kolomyia, in addition to RFE/RL its plant in Lviv. Noting that American agricultural giant Bunge broke KYIV – Ukrainian leaders, Human Rights Watch Andy Hunder, president of the American Chamber of ground last month on a $280 million seaport facility in the and protesters in Kyiv called for the release of a Commerce in Ukraine. Crimean Tatar activist who was forced into a psy- Mykolayiv Oblast, Mr. Hunder said that economically things chiatric hospital in Russia-annexed Crimea. are picking up. Indeed, GDP last year plunged by 10 percent, and an addi- Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo “The macro is we’ve hit rock bottom, and the question is tional 7 percent in 2014. This year, Ukraine’s economy is slat- Klimkin compared Ilmi Umerov’s detention to the how quickly can we rebound. This year we’re looking at 1 to ed to reach only $87 billion with foreign direct investment Soviet-era practice of holding dissidents in psychi- 1.5 percent gross domestic product growth,” the native accounting for just 2.9 percent, according to Kyiv-based atric hospitals. “Punitive psychiatry is a return to Londoner of Ukrainian parents told The Ukrainian Weekly at the terrible times of the NKVD,” Mr. Klimkin wrote his office on August 31. “It’s minimal, but it’s the trend.” (Continued on page 10) on Twitter, referring to the secret police under Stalin. He and other supporters of Mr. Umerov started a Twitter hashtag #StopKillingIlmiUmerov. A group of Crimean Tatar activists and govern- ment officials on August 26 held a protest at Kyiv’s Philadelphia’s UUARC assists war-affected children Independence Square, the Maidan, carrying a ban- ner reading: “Free Ilmi Umerov.” And in a statement on August 26, Human Rights Watch urged the Russia-backed authorities in Crimea to drop the trumped-up charges against Umerov and provide him with necessary medical treatment. Mr. Umerov, the former deputy chairman of Crimean Tatars’ self-governing body, the Mejlis, was charged with separatism in May after he made public statements against Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in March 2014. Speaking to the AFP news agency by phone from inside the hospital on August 26, Mr. Umerov said: “Just the fact of my being here in a psychiatric hospi- tal is one long act of torture.” He added, “I feel... like a free man in a cage.” Mr. Umerov, 59, whose relatives and lawyers say he suffers from diabetes, Parkinson’s disease and heart problems, has been in a psychiatric hospital Vira Prinko against his will since August 18. Children from the Donetsk Oblast are seen in Kyiv after a two-week camping trip to the foothills of the Carpathian “His life remains in danger,” his lawyer Nikolai Mountains funded by the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee. Polozov told AFP, saying his client was suffering from spikes in blood pressure. by Mark Raczkiewicz that the UUARC has organized the the surrounding landscape. The Moscow-based Memorial Human Rights camping trip for war-traumatized chil- At a cost of $25,000, the UAARC sent Center has called the case against Umerov “illegal KYIV – Some 200 war-affected chil- dren from Ukraine’s east, marking the them on tours to Kyiv and Lviv as well and politically motivated.” dren living in the frontline cities of the organization’s response to the coun- as the Ivano-Frankivsk region, where With reporting by AFP. Donbas were treated to a two-week trau- try’s latest needs. they stayed at the Opillia campsite not Copyright 2016, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted with the ma-relief trip to the foothills of the One hundred children each came far from the district capital of Rohatyn. permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Carpathian Mountains in July-August by from the easternmost oblasts of The front line cities from which the 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington DC 20036; the Philadelphia-based United Ukrainian Luhansk and Donetsk to get a respite children hailed included Shchastia, www.rferl.org (see http://www.rferl.org/content/ American Relief Committee, one of from the everyday dangers of war. Tryokhizbenka and Krymske, all in the crimea-tatar-activist-umerov-hrw-release/ America’s oldest charitable institutions Children in those cities are exposed daily Luhansk Oblast, and Avdiyivka and vil- 27947920.html). that assists Ukrainians worldwide. to artillery and mortar shelling, sporad- lages and towns located in the This is the second consecutive year ic gunfire and deadly mines that litter Yasynuvatsky district of Donetsk Oblast. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 No. 36

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Disturbing new push in Putin’s Russia EU prepared to prolong sanctions also said. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by Reuters and TASS) BRUSSELS – European Union ambassa- to rehabilitate Stalin’s NKVD chief Beria dors appear set to prolong asset freezes OSCE calls for release of Umerov and visa bans against 146 individuals and head of the security services. Nor was he to by Paul Goble 37 entities that, according to the EU, are COPENHAGEN – The forced commit- blame for coming up with the idea of send- responsible for actions against Ukraine’s ment to a psychiatric clinic of Ilmi Umerov Even those Russians who deify Joseph ing Russians who had been taken prisoner territorial integrity. RFE/RL reported on represents a worrying new low in Russia’s Stalin typically blame some of the tragedies to the gulag on their liberation from their stigmatization of the Crimean Tatar com- August 31 that EU sources said the decision of his time on his comrades in arms and Nazi jailors. That too was an old Moscow munity and should be immediately to prolong the measures by six months will thus have been opposed to rehabilitating idea. reversed, said the chair of the OSCE be taken ahead of a September 15 deadline and celebrating the lives and careers of the Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights without much discussion. The targets of the most notorious of these, including longtime of the troika in 1937 or that he was behind committee, Ignacio Sanchez Amor (a mem- sanctions include companies in Crimea and secret police chief Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria. the• LeningradIt is not true affair that Beriaafter wasthe war.a member Even ber of Parliament from Spain) on August 27. But now that Russia has a KGB officer as Nikita Khrushchev’s pet historians couldn’t various battalions formed by the Russia- “Already facing charges for simply having its president – and one who often says posi- find evidence for this myth, the article says. backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, as the courage to speak his mind, Russian tive things about Stalin’s times – it perhaps well as Russian politicians like Deputy authorities are now using an old and partic- should not be surprising that some after losing faith in the Kremlin leader. Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and Dmitry ularly worrying tactic to try and silence Russians are now seeking to rehabilitate • It is not true that Beria killed Stalin Kiselyov, a state media executive and pre- Umerov,” said Mr. Sanchez Amor. “This ugly and celebrate even those as horrific as foreign powers. senter whom many regard as the Kremlin’s allegation of mental instability is a transpar- Beria precisely to establish a kind of dynas- • It is not true that he was an agent of chief propagandist. The sanctions were ent attempt to punish Ilmi Umerov for tic succession from Feliks Dzerzhinsky to vegetables disappeared from Soviet shelves first introduced in March 2014 after speaking out in favor of Ukraine’s territorial the present day. in 1953• It is becausenot true of that Beria, potatoes, as some fruits writers and Russia’s seizure and illegal annexation of integrity. I call for the immediate reversal of There are now websites, articles and have claimed. Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. The EU’s eco- this decision and the release of Mr. Umerov.” even films devoted to this effort – see, for - nomic sanctions that target Russia’s energy, Mr. Umerov, deputy head of the Crimean example, the movie about Beria’s life on tations from western Ukraine, Moldova, military, and financial sectors are up for Tatar Mejlis, which was banned in April, is Youtube (youtube.com/watch?v=tm4W Belarus• It is notand true the that Baltic Beria countries initiated deporor the renewal on January 31. EU sources told facing prosecution for reportedly saying DCt1pVE) – but perhaps the most disturb- deportations from the North Caucasus. RFE/RL that those sectoral sanctions will during an interview earlier this year that ing of these is a 3,000-word article that Moreover, the article says, it is not the case be discussed at a Brussels summit of EU “Russia must be forced to leave Crimea and seeks to expose what it calls “the Jewish that Beria “planned to surrender the leaders in October. (RFE/RL) Donbas.” In mid-August a court ordered Mr. mythology of myths” about Beria (topwar. Caucasus to Hitler.” Umerov to undergo psychiatric testing and ru/99056-razoblachenie-noveyshey- That list, a pastiche of claims made Ministers call for end to Ukraine conflict he was subsequently committed to iudeyskoy-mifologii-mify-o-lavrentii-pav- about Beria in the past and even now, is WEIMAR, Germany – The foreign affairs Simferopol’s Psychiatric Hospital No. 1 for a loviche-beriya.html). enough to suggest why some are interested ministers of Germany, France and Poland 28-day period. In its Tbilisi declaration The article lists more than 15 “myths” in rehabilitating the NKVD chief. But those have agreed that there should be greater adopted last month, the Parliamentary about Beria and provides what it says are behind it may not have reflected on the Assembly of the Organization for Security the real “facts” in each case. Among the possibility that such efforts have one con- international efforts to reduce tensions in eastern Ukraine. Germany’s Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in Europe called on the most interesting of these are the following. sequence that they may not really be inter- Russian Federation to reverse the illegal ested in having happen. Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier made the announcement on August 28 after talks annexation of Crimea and expressed grave was ever brought before a Soviet court. In And it is this: if Beria was not guilty of so concern over the deterioration of the situa- fact,• It the is notarticle true, says, the article those says, who that arrested Beria many of the crimes that he was charged with his French and Polish counterparts in the German town of Weimar. More than tion of human rights in the region. At the him violated the law in numerous ways, with because they actually happened or OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 2015 9,500 people have been killed in fighting including arresting him before rather than could have happened, someone was. And Winter Meeting, Mustafa Dzemiliev, a for- between government forces and Russia- after charges were brought against him. when he was in charge of the Soviet secret mer chairman of the Mejlis and a member backed separatists in Ukraine’s east since - police, there was only one person that of the Ukrainian Parliament, reported that April 2014. Mr. Steinmeier said there had ple who didn’t deserve to be repressed. He could be – Stalin – someone whom the cur- thousands of his people have fled to main- carried• It is out not his true orders that Beria and punishedrepressed those peo rent Kremlin leader has called “an effective not been sufficient progress in implement- land Ukraine in response to attempts to who the author suggests deserved to be. manager.” ing the February 2015 Minsk accords restrict their political and linguistic autono- aimed at settling the conflict. “We have to my by the de facto authorities since the was behind the idea of creating special The article above is reprinted from work for a de-escalation of the situation,” Russian annexation in March 2014. He NKVD• It issquads not true, to shootthe article any Redsays, Army that Beria men Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from the German minister said. Western officials called for the OSCE and the broader interna- who were retreating. That idea had been its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, were talking with Moscow and Kyiv to tional community to focus efforts on bring- enshrined in Soviet law before he became www.jamestown.org. encourage them to implement measures ing the peninsula back under Ukrainian already agreed in the Minsk process, sovereignty. (OSCE) including local elections in the separatist- THE POWER VERTICAL held areas of eastern Ukraine, Steinmeier (Continued on page 12)

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NEWS ANALYSIS Rights groups say 13 released from secret jail in Ukraine, allege torture

by Christopher Miller It also alleged that the Russia-backed when he was detained. The captors warned 20 days. There, he was handcuffed to a bed RFE/RL separatists imprisoned civilians suspected the detainees to keep silent about their and supervised by a guard watching of backing or spying for the Ukrainian gov- secret detention and threatened them with around the clock. KYIV – Thirteen civilians who were ernment. Separatist leaders in the eastern severe repercussions if they spoke out. On November 27, 2015, Mr. Vakaruk allegedly held incommunicado, interrogat- regions of Donetsk and Luhansk have But three of them have given detailed said, SBU officials returned him to the ed and tortured after being rounded up called the allegations “absurd.” testimony to Amnesty and HRW. Kharkiv site, where he stayed until July 25, “abduction-style” have been released from The report detailed 18 alleged cases of Viktor Ashykhin, 59, told Amnesty and when he was set free along with Mr. a secret jail run by Ukraine’s domestic arbitrary, prolonged detentions by both HRW that he was abducted from his home Ashykhin and four others. security service, two prominent human sides during the conflict, which has killed in Ukrayinsk, Donetsk Oblast, on December Dmytro Korolyov, 37, was a policeman in rights groups say. more than 9,500 civilians and combatants 7, 2014. the city of Zaporizhia who joined separat- In a letter to Ukraine’s chief military since April 2014. Fighting persists despite “One of them went through my comput- ists in Donetsk in early June 2014 but prosecutor, Amnesty International and a February 2015 ceasefire deal signed by er. The others found my phone and badge returned home weeks later. He was arrest- Human Rights Watch (HRW) said 12 men Ukraine, Russia and the separatists, and lit- from the [May 11, 2014 separatist] referen- ed in January 2015 and given a five-year and one woman who had been held at a tle progress has been made on political dum, [which] I had kept. Then, without giv- suspended sentence for organizing an detention facility in the eastern city of steps to resolve the conflict. ing any explanation or producing any “unlawful armed group.” He was trans- Kharkiv were set free by the Security “International humanitarian law papers, they put a black plastic bag over my ferred to a detention facility in the city of Service of Ukraine (SBU) on July 25 and acknowledges that during times of armed head, tightened it with scotch tape at eye Dnipro until the verdict came info force. He August 2. conflict there may be security grounds for level and led me outside into a white VW said that on August 3, 2015, with his At least five people were still being held temporary detention of civilians, but arbi- van,” he said. The men warned his wife not release papers in hand after walking free, in secret detention at the Kharkiv facility, trary detention is always prohibited, and to contact any authorities for the next two he was abducted by SBU officials and taken according to the rights groups’ letter, which parties to an armed conflict are required to days or else they would harm him. to the Kharkiv site. was dated August 23 and made public on ensure a legal basis and framework as well Mr. Ashykhin said his captors took him Mr. Korolyov told Amnesty and HRW he August 29. Some of those who were as basic safeguards for the detention of to an SBU facility in Kramatorsk, where he thought he was going to be part of a prison- released had been held for weeks, others civilians,” Mr. Yankov said. was tortured and forced to confess to being er exchange. Instead, his captors took him for months. Allegations of torture by the SBU at an informant for armed separatists. Four to the Kharkiv site, where he remained The SBU, which has said it has no secret secret jails were first raised by a group of days later, Mr. Ashykhin was transferred to until his release on August 2. jails, did not respond to RFE/RL’s requests United Nations inspectors in March. In May, the Kharkiv facility, where remained until In their letter, Amnesty and HRW said for comment. U.N. efforts to gain access to the facilities his release on July 25. Messrs. Ashykhin, Korolyov and Vakaruk “The SBU has denied the existence of the were thwarted by the SBU. Mykola Vakaruk, 34, said he was taken were invited by the police in their respec- secret prison in Kharkiv and the use of the Because Ukraine is a party to the United from his home in Ukrayinsk by unidentified tive hometowns to file reports about their practice of secret detention, both in public Nations Convention Against Torture and armed servicemen in face masks on forced disappearances. But police merely and in our private meetings with them,” the Optional Protocol to that agreement, December 9, 2014, and brought to a facility wrote in reports that they were no longer Krasimir Yankov, a Kyiv-based researcher U.N. inspectors should be able to make in the city of Chervonoarmiysk, which has missing and closed the missing person for Amnesty International, told RFE/RL. unannounced visits to any detention center. since been renamed Pokrovsk. There, he cases on each of them. In their letter, Amnesty International said, interrogators wearing insignia of The police did not open investigations Detained, tortured, discarded and HRW said the SBU’s continued denial Ukraine’s Dnipro-1 and Donbas battalions and did not encourage them to file com- of enforced disappearances and secret Amnesty and HRW said that SBU offi- beat and kicked him for six hours while he plaints, according to Amnesty and HRW. detentions “fosters a climate of lawlessness cials in Kharkiv freed six detainees on July was handcuffed before forcing him to con- Amnesty and HRW said a Russian and perpetuates impunity for grave human 25, and seven more on August 2. At least fess to being a separatist spy. national named Vladimir Bezobrazov was rights violations.” They called on the office five remain at the secret detention facility “They were doing it in pairs: when two among at least five people held in secret of the chief military prosecutor, Anatoly there, they added. men got tired from kicking me, another detention in Kharkiv at the time the letter Matios, to take immediate steps to secure The groups interviewed five of the freed two replaced them,” Mr. Vakaruk told was written. the release of those who remain in custody detainees who said SBU officials covered Amnesty and HRW. “At some point they “We call on the Ukrainian authorities to and to bring the perpetrators to justice. their heads with black bags, drove them said, ‘Do you hear this? Would you want commit to an independent and transparent The recent releases, which Amnesty and out of Kharkiv in the back of an armored your wife to be next in line?’ ” he added. investigation of the information provided HRW learned of through interviews with minivan and left them on the side of the On December 11, 2014, Mr. Vakaruk was in our report and to deliver justice to the five of the freed individuals, followed the road on the outskirts of Kramatorsk and transferred to the SBU facility in victims of these egregious violations,” Mr. groups’ joint report on July 21 that accused Druzhkyvka, in the Donetsk Oblast. The Kramatorsk and four days later to the Yankov said. Ukrainian authorities and pro-Kyiv militias two cities are under government control Kharkiv site. In October 2015, he said, he of rounding up and abusing civilians sus- but are close to the front lines of the con- developed a serious kidney problem and Copyright 2016, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted pected of supporting or having connections flict. his captors took him to a hospital in with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ with Russia-backed separatists. Before letting them go, their captors Kharkiv. While registered under the false Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Besides the Kharkiv site, the report said returned their passports and gave them name of Serhiy Ivanov, surgeons removed Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see detainees were held in secret SBU jails in about $2 to $5 “for transportation costs,” one of his kidneys. He said he was kept in http://www.rferl.org/content/rights- the government-controlled eastern cities of the rights groups said. One man was with- intensive care for 10 days before being groups-13-released-from-ukrainian-secret- Kramatorsk, Izium and Mariupol. out a passport because he did not have it moved to another room for an additional jails-tortured/27951657.html).

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“We face two very different, but significant, long-term challenges – from Russia, Kerry on Ukraine’s Independence Day and from terrorism and violent extremism – challenges that have re-shaped our view Following is the text of the press state- Today we mark not just a quarter-centu- of our own security and that will be with us for many years to come. Russia’s illegal ment “On the Occasion of Ukraine’s National ry of your independence, but also of the and illegitimate annexation of Crimea in 2014 – its use of military force to take the Day” issued by U.S. Secretary of State John fruitful partnership between our nations sovereign territory of another country, the first time this has happened in Europe Kerry on August 24. based on our shared commitment to free- since World War II – brought years of more positive relations between NATO and dom and the rule of law. The United States Russia to an end. But this is not only about Crimea. In the time since the annexation, On behalf of President Obama and the will stand by you as you continue to Russia has continued to support separatists in eastern Ukraine, acts in an aggressive American people, I offer my warmest con- strengthen your democracy. With our and bullying manner towards its other neighbors, and has tried to divide and intimi- gratulations to the people of Ukraine as you European partners, we will also press for date NATO allies. ... observe the 25th anniversary of your inde- full implementation of the Minsk agree- “As it stands, there is a wide gulf between NATO and Russia in the way we view the pendence on August 24. ments to end Russian aggression in Donbas world. We see a world of free, sovereign, independent nation states, abiding by the During my most recent visit to Kyiv, I and return the international border to Helsinki Final Act, with respect for borders and for the right of every state to choose was deeply impressed by all you have Ukrainian control. We remain steadfast in its security arrangements. Russia looks to a new version of the 1945 Yalta accomplished in the more than two years our refusal to recognize Russia’s attempted Agreement, in which the major powers agree to divide Europe into spheres of influ- since the Revolution of Dignity. Despite annexation of Crimea. ence and dominion, and where the big powers dictate the fate of their neighbors. Russia’s aggression in eastern Ukraine and Throughout the past quarter century, the These worldviews are, clearly, incompatible. As long as Russia continues its aggres- its illegal occupation of Crimea, you have American people have admired the depth of sion against Ukraine and attempts to intimidate NATO allies and partners, we will do worked steadily to build stronger and more your devotion to liberty and the resilience everything in our power to maintain a strong deterrence and defense.” effective political, economic and cultural you have shown in the face of grave chal- institutions. These efforts have required lenges. On this special day, we salute you as – NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow, speaking on August 29 in perseverance and sacrifice, for which I friends, and wish you a peaceful, prosper- Bucharest, at the annual meeting of Romanian ambassadors. applaud you. ous and productive year to come. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 No. 36

Official Website of Ukraine’s President Ukrainian troops march in new NATO-style uniforms. Emblems of the military units that participated in the parade. Ukraine celebrates with military parade in Kyiv

President Petro Poroshenko bestows the rank of major general on Ihor Hordiychuk, headmaster of the Ivan Bohun Military College. The scene at Independence Square, the Maidan.

The colors presented to the commanders of 18 military units that have distin- Some of the heavy weaponry that proceeded down the Khreshchatyk. guished themselves in military operations in Ukraine’s east.

Polish President Andrzej Duda with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Polish soldiers from the Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian brigade. No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 5

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The UNA now offers a variety of modern est fraternal insurance organizations in term and permanent life insurance policies, America, was one of 85 fraternals regis- as well as annuities, along with Traditional, tered in the United States in 2015. Roth and SEP IRAs to help with retirement Currently operating in 16 states, the UNA planning, and endowments and Coverdell has a solid record of financial management ESA accounts for a child or grandchild’s and longevity, having weathered two world educational expenses. wars and several major economic down- What distinguishes the UNA from a typi- turns. cal life insurance company is that the UNA, As a new series of articles begins, it is committed to our common Ukrainian heri- important to note that a similar series of 18 tage, returns a portion of the proceeds from articles was published in this newspaper in the sale of financial products – insurance 2012-2013. Those articles continue to pro- Th e UNA: A promise to protect and annuities – back to its members and vide useful information and the series can our community. These funds have helped be found on the UNA website. That series While most people in our community weave the fabric of our community decade was initiated at the suggestion of the late have heard of Svoboda or The Weekly or after decade. Christine Kozak, who carried on a long tra- Soyuzivka, institutions that have created With the beginning of Life Insurance dition of commitment to the fraternal val- bonds among us for generations, these Awareness Month, held annually in ues of the UNA. Ms. Kozak, who passed same people are probably less aware of the September nationwide, the UNA begins a away in late June, was a dedicated member organization – the Ukrainian National series of articles that will explain which of the UNA Executive Board, serving as UNA Association – that forms their foundation. UNA products can help you and your family, mational secretary for 16 years, and the Established in 1894 as a fraternal benefit will answer questions about life insurance daughter of a dedicated UNA branch secre- society – essentially a life insurance compa- tary, Lydia Kozak. ny owned and managed by its members “Financial stability and security are key to a Exactly four years ago, here on these who hold insurance policies – the Ukrainian pages, Ms. Kozak wrote, “Financial stability National Association has been serving our life of satisfaction. … let the UNA help you.” and security are key to a life of satisfaction. community for more than a century. …Managing personal finances is becoming And while the Ukrainian National hardship. The Ukrainian National more complex in today’s world and we sin- and annuities, and offer interviews with Association is best known through associa- Association sells life insurance so that you cerely hope that you find these articles to UNA members. tion with its newspapers, special projects and members of your family can be secure Many UNA members are able to acquire be helpful and in the near future, will let the past and present such as teaching English in from the burden of financial uncertainty. life insurance through their employment, UNA help you.” As then, those words hold Ukraine, financing the Taras Shevchenko Since 1894, this promise of security has yet they also choose to have policies with true today. monument in Washington, hosting fund- been at the core of the UNA, guiding the the UNA. They understand the importance To ensure your peace of mind and to raisers to help Ukraine’s disabled soldiers, or development of this fraternal organization. of supporting an organization that sup- learn more about how the various cost- decades of organizing cultural events and The original “burial benefit” policies needed ports them. effective products offered by the UNA can summer camps at Soyuzivka – the UNA’s real by Ukrainian immigrants to pay for a proper In the United States in 1868, only 26 years help you directly with your financial plan- core business is protecting your loved ones. funeral for those who lived and worked in before the UNA was established, the frater- ning needs, contact your local UNA branch For more than 122 years, the Ukrainian the harsh conditions of the Pennsylvania nal insurance movement was started by a secretary, or the UNA Home Office through National Association has been offering the coal mining towns, where the UNA began, group of railroad mechanics in Readville, Pa., the toll-free number 1-800-253-9862, or promise that a UNA life insurance policy were replaced as new and additional needs a town then not far from Shamokin, birth- via its website at www.ukrainiannation- will help protect families from financial for protection and planning arose. place of the UNA. The UNA, as one of the old- alassociation.org. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 No. 36

WINDOW ON EURASIA The Ukrainian Weekly Ukraine’s Independence Day parade Moscow likely to exploit involvement A huge military parade featuring columns of soldiers and convoys of weaponry pro- ceeded down Kyiv’s main thoroughfare, the Khreshchatyk, on Ukrainian Independence in U.S. politics long after November Day, August 24. By all accounts, it was a rousing success on many levels. by Paul Goble ings of 80 percent, but new investigations First of all, it was a celebration for all the people of Ukraine, no matter what lan- in the Congress and the media, with the guage they speak, what oblast they are from, or their religious denomination. It was Most Western commentators have worst variant being impeachment.” an affirmation that Ukraine – 25 years after the re-establishment of its indepen- focused on the ways in which Vladimir Putin Russian involvement with campaigns dence – exists despite the best efforts of its age-old adversary, that it continues to is seeking to use his agents of influence to could easily become the basis for such make progress on its path toward Europe and that it is looking ahead to a brighter affect the outcome of the American presi- investigations and even for suggestions future. And it was a manifestation of national unity and patriotism. dential election, but a report in Novaya that the outcome of the elections was ille- The parade and its attendant ceremonies also constituted a major event that no Gazeta suggests he may be counting on what gitimate, and that could be a reason why doubt boosted the morale of all the branches of Ukraine’s armed forces. President he is doing today to affect and destabilize Moscow has not tried to conceal what it is Petro Poroshenko told them: “You have displayed heroism defending our native the U.S. longer after the votes are counted. doing but rather has almost flaunted it as Ukrainian land. You demonstrate examples of courage and self-sacrifice every day. Aleksandr Panov, the Washington corre- an indication of Russian power. Now you will be marching with confidence along the Khreshchatyk. Demonstrating spondent for Novaya Gazeta, provides the Two other Russian commentaries in your soldierly appearance, emanating strength and courage, you will infuse still August 5 issue of the paper the most August, one by Igor Eidman and a second more belief in the combat capacity of our troops, their capability to defend the coun- detailed Russian summary yet of Western by Igor Yakovenko, provide additional rea- try to millions of our compatriots.” Indeed, the troops were loudly welcomed by the articles about how the Kremlin has sought sons for drawing that conclusion because public as they proudly paraded down the broad boulevard. to influence the campaigns of both Donald they highlight the way in which Moscow There was a fitting tribute to the thousands of fallen heroes, volunteers and sol- Trump and Hillary Clinton to Russia’s has proceeded quite publicly and without advantage (novayagazeta.ru/politics/ diers, who paid the ultimate sacrifice for Ukraine’s freedom, as well as the thousands its usual caution to show that it is influenc- 74077.html). of peace-loving people killed during the war. During a moment of silence, the ing this or that American political camp. Near the end of that article, the Russian mournful and evocative “Plyve Kacha” was beautifully sung. As for Ukraine’s living Writing on the Kasparov.ru portal, Mr. journalist makes a comment which sug- heroes, it must be noted that the loudest welcome was given to the veterans of the Eidman argues that “Trump is Putin’s last gests that, once again, in contrast to ATO (anti-terrorist operation), who marched behind the Ukrainian national flag. hope” because the Republican’s coming to Americans, Moscow is taking a longer view power would “inevitably destroy the anti- The Ukrainian Independence Day parade also marked the first time the joint about its role in the U.S. presidential vote Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian brigade, which is successfully implementing NATO Putin coalition of Western countries and in and about what may happen both indepen- general introduce into the camp of demo- standards for military troop operations, made a public appearance. Onlookers greet- dently and as a result of Russian involve- cratic countries discord and division” (kasp- ed the brigade with great enthusiasm. The presence that day of the president of the ment in that process. arov.ru/material.php?id=57A36985814BA). Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, was significant as a visible expression of the He writes the following: “This year But two other observations of Mr. strong support of this ally of Ukraine. Mr. Duda later thanked the Ukrainian presi- Americans are confronted with a choice of Eidman are more to the point here. He says dent “for the opportunity to stand together today bowing our heads in tribute to the ‘the lesser of two evils.’ ” And that has con- that “Putin of course wants not only to help memory of those who perished for the independence of the Ukrainian state, the sequences: “Victory in the elections does but also to influence Trump,” and he Ukrainian soldiers who died defending Ukraine.” not mean that the [current] scandals will observes that Russian special services Another first at the parade was the new NATO-style uniforms worn by Ukraine’s disappear. The winners do not await rat- began playing a long game in the 1990s by soldiers, all part of the ongoing Westernization of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. paying court to American political consul- In what according to news reports was the largest military procession since 1991, Paul Goble is a long-time specialist on tants who had come to Russia. the parade also featured tanks, armored transport vehicles, missile launchers and ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia Among those, the Russian commentator other heavy equipment. Over 200 vehicles in all rumbled down the Khreshchatyk in a who has served in various capacities in the says, was Paul Manafort, whom the Russian remarkable display of power and a demonstration that the country’s military has been U.S. State Department, the Central agencies assisted and who was now in Mr. revitalized since the Euro-Maidan movement that become the Revolution of Dignity. Intelligence Agency and the International Trump’s inner circle. It is beyond question, And then there were the commanding words of President Poroshenko: “What is Broadcasting Bureau, as well as at the Voice Mr. Eidman continues, that this “link with this parade to demonstrate, in my opinion? The public will see their new army creat- of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Russian overseers has not been lost” – yet ed almost from scratch within the past two years. The public will make sure that the Liberty and the Carnegie Endowment for another indication that Moscow seeks to armed forces get stronger year by year, and that national security strengthens. This International Peace. The article above is use such people to promote its own inter- parade will signal to our international partners that Ukraine is capable of defending reprinted with permission from his blog ests over the long haul. itself, but requires further support – since our enemy is a country whose territory is called “Window on Eurasia” (http://windo- equal to one ninth of the land area on the Earth, whose military budget is dozens of woneurasia2.blogspot.com/). (Continued on page 13) times higher than ours. Finally, our parade is a signal to our enemy as well. Ukrainians are ready to further fight for their independence.” FOR THE RECORD: Statements Sept. Turning the pages back... on Ukrainian Independence Day Gov. John Kasich of Ohio (August 24): After 70 years of Soviet domination, the Four years ago, on September 9, 2012, Ukraine earned the This is a landmark day for Ukraine – a Ukrainian people regained their freedom fourth-place spot at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London with 9 country that has made significant sacrifices and chose the path of democracy, liberty 84 medals – 32 gold, 24 silver and 28 bronze medals – to finish in its fight for democracy. and peace, with an assurance from the behind China, Russia and Great Britain. The Games ran from 2012 I congratulate the people of Ukraine on United States that we would protect their August 29 through September 9. the 25th anniversary of Ukraine’s indepen- borders. But once again, Russia has violat- Half of Ukraine’s medals were won by its swimmers, who col- dence. ed these borders, killing thousands and dis- lected 44 medals – 17 gold, 14 silver and 13 bronze, with 20 top-10 finishes. All Americans should be proud to stand placing roughly 1.7 million Ukrainians from Seventeen medals for Ukraine came in track and field events – five gold, six silver and with Ukrainian Americans and Ukrainians their homes. The United States must never six bronze medals, with seven top-10 finishes as well. to defend and ensure Ukraine’s sovereignty recognize Vladimir Putin’s illegal annexa- Ukraine’s seven-a-side soccer team won silver in a 0-1 loss against Russia in the final after and territorial integrity. tion of Crimea, and we should keep sanc- defeating Iran in the semifinal 2-1. In the group stage, Ukraine finished in the top spot after Moscow should implement its obliga- tions on Russia until its behavior changes. defeating the U.S.A. 9-0, a 7-1 win against Great Britain and 1-1 draw with Brazil. tions under the Minsk II agreements, while And, instead of trying to cut deals with our The women’s seated volleyball team won a bronze medal after winning 3-0 against the working with Kyiv to return Crimea and adversaries at the expense of our enemies – Netherlands. Ukraine finished its group in first place with six points, with three wins (3-0 Donbas to Ukrainian sovereignty in a man- against Great Britain, 3-1 against the Netherlands and 3-0 against Japan) and no losses. as the Obama administration has done – ner that satisfies the national security Ukraine won 3-0 in the semifinal against the U.S.A. we must finally give the Ukrainian people interest of both parties. Ukraine’s 172 athletes will be participating in a total of 15 sports during the Rio 2016 the tools they need to defend themselves. As we join Ukrainians in celebrating Paralympic Games in Rio on September 7-18. (This year, due to doping, Russia’s entire their national independence, the United Office of Rep. Sander Levin, Democrat of Paralympic team has been banned from the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio.) States must stand ready to provide Michigan (August 24): In seven-a-side soccer, Ukraine is in Group A with Brazil, Great Britain and Ireland. Ukrainians with the lethal defensive weap- Going into the Paralympic Games in Rio, Ukraine is ranked first in the world after defeat- Today, August 24, Rep. Levin joins the ons required for their legitimate self- ing Brazil 2-0 in the 2016 Pre-Paralympic Tournament in Salou, Spain, in the first-place community in commemorating Ukraine’s defense and work with Moscow and Kyiv to match. 25th anniversary of independence. The reach a mutually acceptable end to the In goalball (played by women), Ukraine (ranked 15th in the world) is grouped with United States and the international com- Crimean and Donbas conflicts. Turkey, China, Australia and Canada. munity must stand with the people of Other sports events with representation by Ukraine include archery, cycling, judo, para- U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, Republican of Ukraine against Russian aggression and canoeing, rowing, shooting and swimming. Ohio, (August 24): continue to help Ukraine develop the rule of law and strengthen its democracy. Sources: “Ukraine’s Paralympic Team finishes in fourth place in London,” by Matthew Ukrainian independence is critical not Dubas, The Ukrainian Weekly, September 16, 2012. (Wikipedia) just to Eastern Europe, but to the world. (Continued on page 13) No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 7

NEWS AND VIEWS “Our Membership – Our Strength”: UNWLA prepares for 2017 convention How did we vote back in the day? As the American presidential campaign executives approached President Woodrow heats up, it’s helpful to reflect on Ukrainian Wilson and convinced him to declare a American political involvement and non- nationwide “Ukrainian Day” to solicit dona- involvement in past years. Who did we vote tions from Americans for Ukrainian war for back in the day? Here are some high- relief. On April 21, 1917, Alliance members lights. collected $53,189.12 – worth over a million Svoboda was urging Rusyns (as in 2016 dollars. Patriotic commitment to Ukrainians then called themselves) to Ukraine’s freedom crusade remained become active in American political life strong through the 1920s, with Ukrainians early on, writing: “Having few opportunities supporting the anti-Communist policies of to organize in the old country, we were poor Republican Presidents Warren Harding, politicians. But here we have no excuse.” The Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. UNA newspaper urged its readers to estab- The Great Depression convinced most lish political clubs that could someday orga- Ukrainians to vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt nize themselves into a national federation. in 1932. This changed by 1936. President The federation ideal was not realized for Roosevelt had recognized the criminal many years, and most of the political clubs regime of Joseph Stalin in 1933, resulting in that were established were not “worthy of an explosion of Soviet influence in American respect” according to an article in Svoboda. domestic and foreign affairs. During the so- “We have, praise be to God, Rusyn political called “Red Decade” Ukrainian patriots were Members of the XXXI UNWLA Convention Committee. clubs, but unfortunately some of them bring often labeled “fascists” and investigated by no benefit but actually bring harm and both the FBI and the House Un-American chosen motto “Our Membership – Our by Vira Bodnaruk shame to Rusyns because their chairmen or Activities Committee. Strength” is the essence of our organization other executives take money for their votes. The post-war years brought a resurgence “Our Membership – Our Strength” is the and makes possible the success of its many Small wonder that Americans call such of Ukrainian political fortunes, with both the motto chosen for the XXXI convention of undertakings. clubs ‘boodle clubs’ (sell-out, piggish clubs) Republicans and Democrats recapturing the Ukrainian National Women’s League of In 1925, when Ukrainian women met in and their members ‘voting cattle.’ ” their self-confidence. Joseph Lesawyer, newly America, which will take place on Memorial New York City to establish “Soyuz Ukrainok An exception was the Ukrainian elected president of the Ukrainian National Day weekend next year (May 26-29, 2017) Ameryky,” their aim was to inform the free American Citizen’s Club of Philadelphia, Association, led Ukrainian Democrats. Dr. in Tampa, Fla. world about events in Ukraine, provide organized in 1909 with the help of Bishop Lev Dobriansky was the accepted spokes- The Convention Committee headed by moral and material aid to Ukraine, and pro- Soter Ortynsky. Promoting the importance man for Ukrainian Republicans. Lidia Bilous met several times to discuss mote Ukrainian cultural heritage and of gaining U.S. citizenship and becoming A monumental break came for and choose an appropriate motto and logo Ukrainian identity in diaspora. Since 1925, active in American political affairs, the club Ukrainian Republicans with the election of for the 2017 convention. Committee mem- many changes have taken place in the world, began with 35 members. Within a year Richard M. Nixon in 1968. He directed the bers wanted to succinctly reflect the many but the goals of 1925 are still relevant today. successful outcomes of UNWLA projects on there were 109 members. establishment of the Republican Heritage Despite the fact that in some areas behalf of the Ukrainian community. The (Continued on page 13) Groups Council within the Republican Rusyns had enough votes to elect fellow National Committee. Under the leadership Rusyns to local office, they failed to do so. of Hungarian American Laszlo Pastor, the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Their focus was on Ukraine, not the United RHGC blossomed. These were halcyon States. Ukrainian historian Julian years for Ukrainian Republicans. The Bachynskyj observed that “most immi- very same day was mobilizing tens of thou- Ukrainian National Republican Federation grants remain foreigners until they die.” sands of troops along its border, in occu- of 20 state organizations was recognized By 1900 the political party that had the Kerry and Lavrov’s pied Crimea and in the occupied parts of by the RNC. During the Ford administration most appeal to the editors of Svoboda was the Donbas. Ukrainians could be found working in the “chat” about Ukraine Is this the message about the level of his Socialists. In an editorial titled “Who White House and the Senate offices of Bob Dear Editor: commitment to support Ukraine in resist- should Rusyns vote for,” Svoboda wrote Taft and James Buckley. President Reagan ing Russia’s war that President Barack that there was little difference between the appointed a Ukrainian to be our ambassa- On August 26, the U.S. Department of Obama wants to send to Russia, Ukraine, two major parties “because the Republican dor to the Bahamas. State reported Secretary John Kerry’s Germany, France, Poland and the Baltic Party is the party of very rich men while George H.W. Bush also had a heritage remarks about his daylong meeting with countries? the Democratic Party is the party of fairly group campaign committee. As ethnic Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Mr. Kerry, please be advised: one chats rich men who are not permitted to become influence in the GOP and the White House Lavrov: “Obviously, our nations are working about one’s golf game with friends. The richer… The Socialist Party wants everyone increased, the Sovietophile left responded on a number of different issues together, United States secretary of state does not to be treated fairly, regardless of race, creed with vilification. The most egregious trying to resolve, along with other coun- chat about an ongoing war in Europe with or sex… it wants all national resources such charge appeared in a publication titled “Old tries, each of these issues, including the aggressor. as land, forests, mines as well as factories, Nazis, the New Right and the Reagan Ukraine, which we chatted about. But most- trains, telegraphs… to be the property of all Administration” by Russ Ballant. The ly today we focused on the crisis in Syria.” Borys Potapenko the people in order that the benefits of all Troy, Mich. author charged that the Cold War was Someone at the State Department these riches could go to all the people rath- being prolonged by the presence of anti- thought long and hard how to describe the er than just a few…” Soviet ethnic Americans in the GOP. The conversation about Ukraine. They certainly A number of local Ukrainian Socialist RNC responded by quietly dissolving the came up with a formulation that truly will Concern in Ukraine clubs were established. Responding to the RHGC. President Bush later flew to Kyiv satisfy Vladimir Putin that Ukraine is an urging of American Socialists, they united and urged Ukrainians to spurn “suicidal afterthought for the U.S. First, “working about Donald Trump in 1915, creating the Ukrainian Federation nationalism” and remain part of the USSR. together on a number of issues,” i.e., that Dear Editor: of Socialist Parties of America (UFSPA). Remember his infamous “Chicken Kiev” A split occurred within the organization Russia is a partner in resolving the prob- speech? Ukrainians ignored it and declared lem, not its cause. And, second that the I write to inform that, as regards our between the nationalists who supported their independence. Ukraine “issue” is of such little significance upcoming presidential elections, after a national reform and the internationalists So what about the future? This year that they merely “chatted” about it. month of living and working in Ukraine I (Bolsheviks) who promoted the overthrow looks good for Ukrainian Democrats. Marta It is frightening to have the secretary of have yet to encounter anyone, whether of all capitalist societies. By 1917 the Farion, Ulana Mazurkevich and Andrew state characterize as “chatting” his direct among government officials or just plain UFSPA had 1,000 members and the Fedynsky are gearing up to lead the charge discourse with the foreign affairs minister folk, who does not view the possibility of a Bolsheviks were in firm control. When the for Hillary Clinton. That’s good. I know of of Russia about a country where Russia is Trump victory with alarm or dread. Communist Party of America was estab- no Ukrainian Republicans prepared to do presently engaged in a military invasion, The August 5 Kyiv Post cover pretty well lished in Chicago in 1919, the UFSPA joined the same for Donald J. Trump. That’s not causing the death of over 10,000, the captured the mood here. It features page- and became the UFCPA. The Moscow party good. Our community needs visible repre- maiming of thousands more, dislocation of sized photos of Vladimir Putin and Donald line was followed from then on. sentation in both presidential campaigns. over 1.5 million and billions of dollars in Trump with the headline “Ukraine’s Twin Ukrainian patriots, meanwhile, were not wanton destruction. And, to say they are Threats.” idle. A Ukrainian National Alliance was “working together” on the issue is beyond Bohdan Vitvitsky established in 1916. Headed by the legend- Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is the pale, especially when Russia on that Kyiv ary Father Peter Poniatyshyn, Alliance [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 No. 36 Lemko activists from U.S. participate in festival on ancestral land by Mark Howansky ther for seven months in the Jaworzno con- centration camp because of his Ukrainian On July 22-24, as the president of the identity. My maternal grandparents, Organization for the Defense of Dmytro and Melania Lozyniak, were born Lemkivshchyna in the United States, I had and lived in the village of Smerekowiec, the privilege and pleasure of attending the only a few miles from Zdynia. 34th Lemko Vatra in Zdynia, Poland. This I was honored to participate in the open- three-day festival, organized yearly by the ing ceremonies of the Lemko Vatra in Union of Lemkos, celebrates Lemko culture Zdynia, where I was among numerous on the very territory from which the organization heads to ring a “peace bell” to Lemkos were resettled after World War II. remember those forcibly relocated through While I am an American by citizenship, I was raised to know that I am Lemko- asked me to say a few words on stage on Ukrainian and to understand the history Akcjabehalf “Wisła.” of OOL The and organizers then awarded of the the festival OOL and culture of our people. My family lived with a beautiful plaque to recognize the in the Lemko region for centuries, until the organization’s 80 years of work. I wish to Polish government forcibly relocated them publicly thank the Union of Lemkos, espe- cially Wasyl Szlanta, for the invitation and 1947; so it was very moving to return to my the hospitality that they showed me. toancestral western land. Poland during Akcja “Wisła” in While in Zdynia, I attended the My paternal grandparents, Damian and Presidium of the World Federation of Sofiya Fedyna Fotyna Howansky, were born in Zdynia and Ukrainian Lemko Associations (SFULO), an Mark Howansky, president of the Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna, rings the peace bell to honor victims of Akcja “Wisła.” lived there until 1947. That year, the Polish umbrella organization of which OOL is a government also imprisoned my grandfa- member. The meeting, led by SFULO President Sofiya Fedyna, included Lemko Research Foundation in the U.S.A. has sup- leaders from Poland (Stefan Klapyk, Emil ported. To my pleasant surprise, during the Hojsak), Serbia (Bogdan Vilavski, Joachim festival, I bumped into OOL members from Hrubenya, Velemyr Paplatsko), Croatia our various branches and their relatives, (Zvonko Kostelnik), Slovakia (Petro Sokol, including from the Kowalczyk, Jacewycz, Ivan Laba), Ukraine (Stefan Krynytsky, Mamrosh, Chomiak, Senick and Denaiko Stefan Majkovich, Mykola Vovk, Ihor Duda) families. I am grateful to OOL member and Canada (Andriy Rotko). We were also Mykhaylo Chomyk for not only organizing joined by a few special guests, including the transport and housing, but personally driv- head of OOL’s New York City branch ing me around the Lemko region to visit the (Mykhaylo Chomyk), the governor of the historical sights of my homeland. Ternopil Oblast in Ukraine (Stefan Barna), Already, OOL has started to plan a and the Head of the Borderland Center at Heritage Tour, open to all OOL members the Ukrainian Catholic University (Taras and their families and friends. Tour partici- Rad). The next SFULO Congress will be held pants will visit surrounding Lemko villages in Zymna Voda, Ukraine (near Lviv) in late during the week prior to the Vatra in August 2017. Zdynia and then attend the festival. There Although my trip to the Lemko region will also be educational and social activities was only a few short days, I enjoyed the geared to the younger generations as part Vlad Deineko opportunity to spend time with Lemkos of the tour. Anyone who is interested The Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna is honored with a plaque for 80 from around the world, including Dr. should contact this writer at president@ years of service. From left are: Mark Howansky, Mykhaylo Chomyk and Olya Deineko. Yaroslava Galyk, whose research the Lemko lemko-ool.com for more information. A weekend of culture and history at the annual Lemko Vatra Festival in U.S.

by Diana Howansky Reilly Against the backdrop of the Catskill Enjoying sunshine all weekend long, the Mountains, which resemble the rolling hills Lemko Vatra’s three masters of ceremonies ELLENVILLE, N.Y. – Once a year during of the Lemko region, guests gathered by the – Vasyl Harhaj, Halyna Semenyak and the summer, the members of the outdoor stage to watch the two-day festival Darek Kuzmiak – took turns introducing Organization for the Defense of performance. In front of the stage, the fami- the festival performers. Highlights includ- Lemkivshchyna (Orhanizatsiia Oborony ly members of the late Dr. Ivan Hvozda ed: the authentic Lemko folk band Demaj Lemkivshchyny, or OOL) hang a banner helped light the festival’s traditional “vatra,” from Gromadka, Poland; the Rodyna musi- across the entrance to the campgrounds of or bonfire, to signify the start of this year’s cal ensemble of New York; the Obrii danc- the Ukrainian American Youth Association event. Dr. Hvozda had been an influential ers from Passaic, N.J.; the Malay dancers in Ellenville, N.Y., that says: “Vitayemo na figure within the Ukrainian Lemko commu- from Jersey City, N.J.; Max Lozynskyj from Lemkivskiiy Vatri” – “Welcome to the nity, serving as president of both OOL and New York; the Korinnya folk band from Lemko Vatra.” This year’s Lemko Vatra in the World Lemko Federation, as well as New Paltz, N.Y.; young singer Ariana Lem the USA – the 16th organized by OOL – took Editor of the publication Annals of Joy from New York City; and the humorist place on June 25-26. Lemkivshchyna. Petro Wislocki. Festival-goers could also visit the vari- ous vendor tents, which offered a variety of food, books and Lemko-themed souvenirs ranging from Lemko Vatra T-shirts to jewel- ry made out of Lemko-style Easter eggs. Guests took part in the annual pig roast in addition to tasting the traditional Ukrainian food for sale. The Lemko Research Foundation (LRF) sold maps about the Lemko region and Julie Wislocki books on Lemko history, architecture, poet- Lemko Vatra masters of ceremonies ry and culture. At the Lemko History and (from left): Darek Kuzmiak, Halyna Heritage Tent, genealogists Justin Houser Semenyak and Vasyl Harhaj. and Michael Buryk answered questions about how to research one’s Lemko roots. and the Expulsion of Ukrainians after the Other events included the Vatra Cup soc- Second World War.” cer tournament, which was won by FC Additionally, guests attended divine lit- Karpaty (Passaic). On Saturday night, the urgy at the Lemko chapel on Sunday. Lemko Vatra guests were treated to both For those who were unable to attend the outdoor and indoor dances to live music by festival, OOL suggests a visit to its website, both the Demaj and Rodyna bands. www.lemko-ool.com, or its Facebook page,

Julie Wislocki Prof. Stephen Rapawy also gave a pre- Lemko-OOL, where you can purchase LRF’s The family of the late Dr. Ivan Hvozda helps light the bonfire of the Lemko Vatra in sentation of his book, “The Culmination of books online and find more information the U.S.A. Conflict: The Ukrainian-Polish Civil War about other upcoming Lemko-related events. No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 9 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 No. 36

Simultaneously, he headed the Ukrainian American Chamber... Institute in London at the behest of Bishop Borys Gudziak, who at the time was rector (Continued from page 1) of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. investment bank Dragon Capital. Again Mr. Hunder gained exposure by “But 2008 was the peak [year] so we’ve holding rallies in support of the Euro- a long way to go,” Mr. Hunder realistically Maidan revolution. He made headlines by said, referring to that year’s economic out- picketing the $200 million penthouse of put of $180 billion. Ukraine’s richest billionaire, Rinat That’s partially why 16 months ago Akhmetov, who was a close ally of Mr. AmCham’s board commissioned the global Yanukovych. He did the same to then-Prime recruitment firm Hudson to seek out a Minister David Cameron, calling on the leader for the influential business associa- British government to sanction the tion’s 630 member companies comprising Yanukovych administration for gross some of the world’s biggest multinational human rights violations. firms and strategic investors. “He [Akhmetov] sent people around the Mr. Hunder’s predecessor, Californian building apologizing to the neighbors for Bernard Casey, had lasted only about nine the inconveniences,” said Mr. Hunder. months. He harbored pro-Russian senti- When the revolution reached a crescen- ments, according to his Facebook posts, do in mid-February, Mr. Hunder realized including opposing the Euro-Maidan revo- that there weren’t that many native-English lution and referring to Russia’s unprovoked speakers who could explain what was hap- war against Ukraine as a civil conflict. pening in Ukraine. He started giving inter- Thus, Mr. Hunder is charged with “get- views to the Western media, including CNN, ting the voice of business across to govern- BBC and Sky News. ment, to have a one-voice policy,” to under- “I did seven live interviews in one day… I stand the needs of businesses for them “to did over 100 interviews on the big TV grow and get new investment into Ukraine.” channels… There was a massive niche and He added: “We’re here, we want to need to get the Ukrainian voice across,” he change the country, and we believe this is a said. good platform to move the country for- When he returned to Ukraine as the ward.” president of AmCham in April 2015, Mr. In fact, Mr. Hunder, 45, has made it his Hunder noticed that the “place is changing.” business to help improve Ukraine for much “It was a new society, civil society has of his life despite not having a business really changed, there’s no going back,” he degree. added. His odyssey started at the age of 13 He set about doing damage control to when he convinced his parents to send him both re-establish the business association’s to the Pontifical Minor Ukrainian Seminary reputation and restore good relations with in Rome after hearing a priest give a lecture the U.S. Embassy and other associations in- at a summer camp run by the Ukrainian country and abroad while being “extra American Youth Association. careful not to step on any mines.” “At the time… I was considering becom- Still, the same problems plague ing a priest,” Mr. Hunder said. AmCham’s member companies: corruption, He eventually spent 10 years in Rome, lack of rule of law and pervasive bureaucra- graduating with a degree in philosophy and cy, according to the association’s president. theology from the St. Sophia Seminary. Citing a rolling survey that the group con- After spending two years studying the ducts of the business climate, Mr. Hunder insurance industry starting in 1994 back in said, “in terms of corruption, it’s the courts, London, Mr. Hunder visited Ukraine, where the legal system is still very much corrupt he says he had “many friends.” and that leads to assets being stolen.” He got a job as a producer of an English- Yet the group is reinvigorated. language television program and soon Last year, it conducted more than 700 became the show’s anchorman. His profile meetings on government policy. It writes caught the attention of the foreign CEO of position papers on every piece of legisla- Ukraine Mobile Communications, who tion that either has an economic element or offered him the job of communications affects business activity. manager. After seven years, the Londoner “We work with the presidential admin- took the same job at pharmaceutical behe- istration, the prime minister, the ministries moth GlaxoSmithKline. of economy, finance, infrastructure and He never doubted his ability of finding health… We have committees on tax, cus- gainful employment despite his liberal arts toms, agriculture, banking and finance, background. health care, IT, mobile phones, we have a “In life, do what you love,” Mr. Hunder special committee on seeds, it’s across the said. “If you do that, you’ll do it well, and board,” he said. money will come to you.” Combined with rampant graft, Russia’s Working in Ukraine also changed the war against Ukraine compounds the coun- romantic perception he had of a country try’s negative international image, which that he described as “houses with gardens Mr. Hunder calls “distorted.” and orchards” complete with “vyshyvanky, “People think that there are tanks in the sharovary and folk dancing.” streets of Kyiv,” he said, adding that Ukraine “This was reality, waking up Monday needs more good news stories in the morning, going to the office, seeing stuff… it Western media. was a pragmatic approach of living in the Not forgetting his philosophical roots, country,” Mr. Hunder said. “I decided that Mr. Hunder likes to quote others on his this was something I wanted to do, and I message to businesses or people contem- haven’t looked back.” plating making the move to Ukraine. During the disgraced presidency of “Dream big,” he said, citing the late Viktor Yanukovych starting in 2010, Mr. Major Archbishop Josyf Slipyj. Hunder had first headed government rela- Switching to Mark Twain, the British tions in London for the law firm Magisters Ukrainian said: “Twenty years from now you and then Sayenko Kharenko, both Ukraine- will be more disappointed by the things that based attorney firms. you didn’t do than by the ones you did so.” The Ukrainian Weekly LIKE on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/TheUkrainianWeekly No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 11 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 No. 36

news agency, has been found dead at his not explicitly say who fired the missile. identity was not disclosed, was detained NEWSBRIEFS apartment. Ukrainian police said they sus- However, it identified a 320-square-kilome- after returning to Russia’s Kirov region in pect Mr. Shchetinin’s death was a suicide. ter area where it said the launch must have September 2015. He had been fighting (Continued from page 2) Authorities said friends who visited Mr. taken place. All of that territory was con- alongside Ukrainian armed forces against OSCE wants inquiry into journalist’s death Shchetinin’s apartment on Kostyatynivska trolled by Russia-backed separatists at the pro-Russian separatists for more than six Street in Kyiv early on August 28 in order to time. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s months. There have been numerous reports VIENNA – The Organization for Security congratulate him on his birthday found him spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that many volunteers and mercenaries from and Cooperation in Europe’s media free- seated in a chair on his balcony with a gun- on August 31 that Moscow has given all the former Soviet republics are fighting on both dom advocate called on Ukrainian authori- shot wound to the head and a gun on the intelligence and data it has to the interna- sides of the conflict. (RFE/RL, based on ties to carry out a thorough investigation ground beside him. Police said Mr. tional investigators. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by Interfax and RIA) into the death of journalist Aleksandr Shchetinin also had written an e-mail to a reporting by AP and Reuters) Shchetinin. Mr. Shchetinin, a founder of Man suspected of fighting with separatists journalist colleague in which he declared Launch of e-declaration system the Novy Region online news agency, was his intention to kill himself. (RFE.RL, based ALMATY – A court in Kazakhstan’s found dead in his apartment in Kyiv on on reporting by TASS, Interfax, UNIAN and KYIV – President Petro Poroshenko northwestern city of Aqtobe has added to August 28. “The circumstances of this trag- 112 Ukraine) informed that the official launch of the the country’s wanted list a local resident edy must be swiftly and thoroughly investi- e-declaration system must take place on suspected of fighting alongside Russia- gated,” OSCE Representative on Freedom of Relatives of MH17 victims seek data August 31 at 23:59. “Yesterday, the head of backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. The the Media Dunja Mijatovic said on August PRAGUE – Frustrated relatives of people the State Service of Special Communications court issued its ruling on August 30 after 29. “His death is a loss for the media com- killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was and Information Protection of Ukraine the suspect, Maksim Yermolov, failed to munity.” Ms. Mijatovic repeated her call for shot down over eastern Ukraine have informed that the certificate is ready. Today, appear in court for a second time in the authorities to improve the fragile situation appealed to the European Union’s top dip- it must be transferred to the representatives case. Mr. Yermolov was detained in regarding the safety of journalists and fully lomat to put pressure on Russia, Ukraine of the National Agency for Prevention of February 2015 after returning to and effectively address the “issue of impu- and the United States to provide investiga- Corruption. The program has been drasti- Kazakhstan from eastern Ukraine, where he nity.” Mr. Shchetinin, originally from the tors with intelligence and radar data about cally altered,” Mr. Poroshenko informed allegedly fought alongside pro-Russia sepa- Russian Federation, worked as a journalist the tragedy. An international investigation journalists in the course of a working trip to ratists who are battling Ukrainian govern- Mariupol. He said the program will be in Ukraine for several years. Ukrainian is collecting evidence for criminal charges ment forces. He was charged with “taking launched starting on September 1. Mr. police said they suspect Mr. Shchetinin’s against those responsible for the July 17, part in military conflicts abroad” and Poroshenko emphasized that it would mean death was a suicide. (OSCE) 2014, tragedy that killed all 298 passengers ordered not to leave the city of Aqtobe. His the fulfillment of all conditions of coopera- and crew members aboard. Russia and current whereabouts are unknown. From Suicide suspected in journalist’s death tion with the International Monetary Fund Ukraine blame each other for downing the 2014 to 2015, Kazakhstan jailed at least and provision of the visa-free regime for KYIV – Reports from Ukraine say Boeing 777. A 15-month investigation con- two Kazakh citizens for fighting against Ukraine by the European Union. He noted Ukrainian government forces in eastern Aleksandr Shchetinin, a Kyiv-based Russian cluded in 2015 by Dutch authorities said a that a committee of the European journalist who founded the Novy Region Buk missile shot down the plane, but did Ukraine. Four Kazakh citizens also were Parliament would start considering the visa- convicted during that period on charges of free regime issue on September 5. (Official inciting separatism and ethnic hatred on website of the President of Ukraine) the Internet in connection with the war in Russian jailed for joining Ukrainian forces Ukraine. (RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service) MOSCOW – A court in Russia has jailed a Ministry cuts ties with photographer TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 Russian man for fighting against Kremlin- KYIV – Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense has or e-mail [email protected] backed separatists in Ukraine’s eastern cut ties with a photographer who served as region of Donetsk. The Russian Investigative a ministry adviser amid controversy over Committee said on August 30 that a court in the authenticity of photographs purported- SERVICES PROFESSIONALS the Kirov region found a 24-year-old local ly showing combat scenes in eastern resident guilty of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine. Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak a foreign country and sentenced him to two and a half years in jail. The man, whose (Continued on page 13)

strategy memo that was leaked last year to How to manufacture... the liberal newspaper Novaya Gazeta. The memo was reportedly drafted under (Continued from page 2) the supervision of Kremlin-connected oli- As it turned out, Russia only managed to garch Konstantin Malofeyev and discussed stir up sufficient unrest to intervene mili- by top officials in February 2014 – at the tarily in Donetsk and Luhansk. They failed height of the Euro-Maidan uprising and in Kharkiv, Odesa, Zaporizhia and else- before President Yanukovych was toppled. where. The document advocated the incorpora- FOR RENT But it apparently wasn’t for a lack of try- tion of Crimea and large parts of eastern ing. Ukraine, particularly the Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian Orthodox Church in In one intercept, dated February 28, into Russia. Maplewood New Jersey is looking 2014, Mr. Glazyev discussed financing “Russia’s participation in the highly like- for a husband and wife team uprisings in Kharkiv and Odesa with ly disintegration of the Ukrainian state will to rent a 3 bedroom 1 and 1/2 Konstantin Zatulin, a former State Duma not only give new impetus to the Kremlin’s bathroom house with caretaker deputy and now an official in Russian- integration projects but will also enable our responsibilities for the church and annexed Crimea. country to preserve, as mentioned earlier, HELP WANTED In another, dated March 1, he berates a control over the gas-transport system of grounds at a reduced rent. man identified only as Anatoly Petrovich, Ukraine,” according to the document. “At For more information call Alex at about the lack of crowds on the streets of the same time, it will fundamentally change 973-714-2459. Home Health Aid For IMMEDIATE HIRE Zaporizhia and instructing him to organize the geopolitical layout of central and east- Looking for home health aids to care people to take over the Oblast Council ern Europe, returning to Russia one of its for an elderly gentleman. Multiple FOR SALE building. main roles.” shifts available! 5 days a week 12 hour “Why is Zaporizhia silent?” Mr. Glazyev On one hand, this all just reinforces what shifts and/or weekend 12 hour shifts. said, adding that he has “direct orders from many have suspected from the start. FOR SALE OR RENT The applicant MUST SPEAK ITALIAN the top to get people on the streets in But nevertheless, taken together, the and have documents. Please call Ukraine.” Malofeyev strategy memo and the Glazyev 2 bedroom condo at St. Andrew telephone intercepts have gone a long way Ukrainian Condo Association in Carmela at Mr. Glazyev stressed that there could 917-882-4238 / 718-932-3800 only be Russian armed support if the anti- toward filling in the blanks in the historical North Port, Fl. government protests were sufficiently large record about the origins of the war in the For information please call Yuri: and there was the impression of local sup- Donbas. 847-404-9538 OPPORTUNITIES port. “If there’s no people, what kind of “They imply that not only the so-called help can there be?” he says, adding that if ‘civil war’ in Ukraine was triggered by Russia,” enough people get on the streets Russia can writes Andreas Umland of the Institute for Memoirs, in English, about UPA Earn extra income! intervene, as in Crimea. “On Attack and in Retreat” The Ukrainian Weekly is looking Mr. Glazyev also instructed a man from conflict that preceded the use of guns had by Maksym Skorupsky. for advertising sales agents. Odesa, identified as Denis, that demonstra- Euro-Atlanticalso already Сooperationbeen secretly in Kyiv. orchestrated, “The social Price: $25.00. For additional information contact tors must take over the Oblast Council, guided and financed from Moscow.” Walter Honcharyk, Advertising Manager, declare the authorities in Kyiv illegitimate To order call 1-732-563-2263 The Ukrainian Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext 3040. and make an appeal to Putin for help. He Copyright 2016, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted also appeared to suggest that Russia was with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ prepared to intervene militarily. Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Run your advertisement here, Messrs. Glazyev and Zatulin have both Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see denied the authenticity of the recordings. http://www.rferl.org/content/how-to-man- in The Ukrainian Weekly’s CLASSIFIEDS section. But they are consistent with a Kremlin ufacture-a-war/27947359.html). No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 13

reasons. Ms. Sharina was detained last fire on August 24, saying that a criminal mainland Ukraine were blocked briefly ear- NEWSBRIEFS October and charged with inciting extrem- investigation had been opened into Mr. lier this month after Russia said two security ism and ethnic hatred because her library’s Shoigu’s Ukrainian counterpart, Stepan personnel had been killed during an alleged (Continued from page 12) collection allegedly included books by Poltorak, and other military officials. They incident with a group of Ukrainian sabo- said on August 28 that he made the deci- Ukrainian ultranationalist and author are accused of war crimes and violations of teurs. Kyiv called the Russian claims prepos- sion to release photographer Dmytro Dmytro Korchynskyi, whose works are a 2015 ceasefire in the eastern Ukrainian terous. Russia is also scheduled to hold pre- Muravsky from his position as a ministry banned in Russia. She was placed under region known as the Donbas, according to a viously announced war games in southern advisor “due to the ongoing debates about house arrest. In April, investigators charged statement from the agency, Russia’s top regions called Kavkaz 2016, which will photographs” taken by him. Mr. Poltorak Ms. Sharina with misallocating library investigative body. Fighting in parts of the included thousands of personnel and hun- said all of the photos in question had been funds, allegedly because she used library Donbas has surged in recent weeks, with dreds of heavy weapons and other equip- taken by Mr. Muravsky before his appoint- funds to pay for her legal defense in anoth- Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed sepa- ment. The Russian Defense Ministry said in ment to the post. Mr. Poltorak said the min- er extremism case against her that was dis- ratists exchanging mortar, artillery and a statement that troops have been put on istry never used them or presented them to missed in 2013. Her lawyer said the gunfire. The likelihood of either country combat alert as part of the drills, which were media as legitimate scenes of real military authorities had “trumped up” new charges putting the accused top officials on trial is taking place in military districts that encom- operations. Earlier in August, a group of after realizing their initial case against his virtually nil, though both nations allow for pass Crimea and Russian regions bordering Ukrainian photojournalists raised concerns client was too weak. Ms. Sharina has reject- trials in absentia. A lawmaker in Russia’s Ukraine and regions bordering the three about a photo by Mr. Muravsky, which ed all the allegations, saying they are politi- upper house of Parliament, meanwhile, Baltic nations, all of which are NATO mem- depicted Ukrainian soldiers in the coun- cally motivated. (RFE/RL, based on report- suggested one way to further tweak Kyiv: bers. The ministry said the drills will last try’s east fighting against Russia-backed ing by Interfax and TASS) by staging criminal proceedings against until the end of August and involve a variety separatists. The photojournalists claimed Dueling indictments in Russia, Ukraine Ukrainian officials in areas of the Donbas of units, from paratroopers to Northern the photo was staged and accused the controlled by separatist forces. (RFE/RL) Fleet naval ships. It also said foreign military Defense Ministry of using fake photos as KYIV – Russia and Ukraine traded salvos attaches posted in Moscow had been noti- Russia holds snap military exercises part of an information campaign against this week with dueling criminal investiga- fied of the exercises after they began. Like the Kremlin. Mr. Muravsky insists that he tions against each other’s top military MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir NATO and many countries, Russia regularly has never staged any photos of combat in brass, a new front in the ongoing conflict Putin announced large-scale snap military holds exercises to test its armed forces’ eastern Ukraine. (RFERL, based on report- between the two countries. Ukrainian exercises on land and in the Black and capabilities. But some analysts say Moscow ing by UNIAN and Interfax) Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko Caspian seas, increasing worries in Ukraine is increasingly using unannounced drills as a launched the opening legal hand grenade Library director still under house arrest and other Western neighbors about means to threaten neighbors or to clandes- on August 22, announcing a probe into Moscow’s intentions. The exercises, which tinely position equipment or personnel for MOSCOW – A court in Moscow has pro- Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu began early on August 25, put thousands of future operations. The drills that began on longed the house arrest of Natalya Sharina, and 19 other Russian military and civilian troops on combat alert and followed weeks August 25 caused alarm in neighboring the director of the Ukrainian Literature officials. Mr. Lutsenko said the officials are of increasing tension along Ukraine’s east- Poland, also a NATO member, where Library, who is facing charges of extremism suspected of “committing especially seri- ern borders and in Crimea, the Black Sea Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz called and embezzlement. The court ruled on ous crimes against the foundations of peninsula that Russia seized from Ukraine in an urgent briefing of military intelligence August 26 that Ms. Sharina’s house arrest Ukraine’s national and civil security, peace, 2014. Large-scale movements of military and other units including Operational would be prolonged until October 28. On and international law and order,” adding weaponry and equipment have been report- Command, which oversees Poland’s air August 15, the Moscow prosecutor’s office that Kyiv plans to seek international war- ed in Crimea and border crossings into defenses. (RFE/RL, with reporting by AP) refused to indict Ms. Sharina and returned rants for their arrests. Not be outdone, the case to investigators without giving any Russia’s Investigative Committee returned Humanitarian aid was organized and dis- tributed whenever the need arose, whether Twenty-five years ago, Ukrainian citizens “Our Membership...” in the U.S. or abroad. At present, as the fight- Statements... rose up and cast off the yoke of Soviet (Continued from page 7) ing in eastern Ukraine with Russian-backed oppression. August 24, 1991, marked an end (Continued from page 6) separatists continues, there is a great need to centuries of foreign oppression and The events in Ukraine do influence the to help the wounded soldiers of Ukraine decades under the heel of the Soviets. work of the UNWLA, as do the original Hillary for America Foreign Policy and the families of those who died defend- Passed first by the Ukrainian Parliament and goals to promote Ukrainian culture in the Advisor Laura Rosenberger (August 24): ing Ukraine. The UNWLA is actively then by referendum by the Ukrainian peo- United States. A great deal was achieved in Twenty-five years ago, the citizens of involved with assistance on both fronts. ple, the Act of Declaration of Independence the past 91 years, but the need to continue Ukraine boldly declared their indepen- The many-faceted work of the UNWLA is of Ukraine was a proud moment for the peo- work in the fields of education, culture and dence from the Soviet Union and affirmed possible only because of its many dedicated ple of Ukraine, and the world. humanitarian assistance is still present. their right to self determination. Today, as members who selflessly give their time and Sadly, American policy during this In the past, an important part of UNWLA we observe this Independence Day, talents to carry out the goals of their orga- administration has put Ukrainian indepen- was the organization and running of pre- nization and the Ukrainian community at Ukrainians honor the legacy of that coura- dence in peril. Vladimir Putin is now wag- schools by local branches and support for large. One person can only do so much geous act, and those who have sacrificed ing a bloody war of aggression that has Ukrainian language schools to pass on the good, but when there is an organized for those ideals and principles in the years already claimed 10,000 lives. The purpose knowledge of the Ukrainian language and group, then there are unlimited possibili- since, including on the Maidan. of Putin’s war is to dismember Ukraine and culture to new generations. The Scholarship ties for success. Through her multiple visits to Ukraine, subordinate its people to Moscow’s rule. Fund was established to help Ukrainian stu- In our membership is our strength! Secretary Clinton has seen first-hand the Even though Ukrainian troops are fighting dents not only in the U.S., but also in other passion with which Ukrainians fight for bravely, President Obama refuses to pro- countries. Ukrainian books, texts, and bro- Vira Bodnaruk is press secretary of the these ideals in the face of persistent adversi- vide Ukrainian forces with the weapons chures were published with support from XXXI Convention of the UNWLA. ty. She remains a staunch ally and advocate they need to defend their freedom. the UNWLA. as they continue to defend their sovereignty. Shamefully, Donald Trump has defended Together, we also acknowledge and cele- Putin and his brutality. For her part, Hillary brate the rich contributions of Ukrainian- Clinton was the architect of this president’s З великим болем серця ділимося сумною вісткою, Americans to the fabric of American life, failed policy of reconciliation with Moscow, що 23-го серпня 2016 року відійшов у вічність and their deep commitment to the ideals of known as the “reset.” Only Evan McMullin наш найдорожчий Чоловік, Тато, Брат і Вуйко democracy and freedom. understands the threat posed by Moscow and will stand shoulder to shoulder with св. п. Петро Матійцьо Independent conservative presidential the people of Ukraine as they defend the candidate Evan McMullin (August 25): peace of Europe. нар. 6-го березня 1946 року в Німеччині. Панахида відбулася у похоронному заведенні Литвин і Литвин scoundrels masquerading as idiots have в Union, NJ Moscow likely... who supposedly do not understand the Похоронна Служба Божа i тризна відбулися в церкві св. Івана threat to the world that the Putin regime Хрестителя та Українському Американському Культурному Центрі (Continued from page 6) poses,” Mr. Yakovenko says. Some, like for- у Whippany, NJ. And also on the Kasparov.ru portal, Mr. mer German Chancelor Gerhard Schroeder Yakovenko suggests that it is time to dis- or International Olympic Committee У глибокому смутку залишилися: pense with Lenin’s term “useful idiots” and Chairman Thomas Bach, do so for “obvi- дружина - Леся Колцьо instead use the term “useful scoundrels” to ously” selfish interests. донька - Ніна Аріянда describe those who are cooperating with Others, like Mr. Trump, “are seeking брат - Павло з дружиною Олесею і синами: Moscow to spread its influence in the U.S. together with Putin to increase chaos in Юстином з дружиною Настею and elsewhere (kasparov.ru/material. the world because in a world of order and Тимішем з дружиною Лярисою php?id=57A3995200596). stability, they do not have any political сестра - Таня з чоловіком Михайлом Колюмбіс He observes that “Lenin called Western prospects,” he argues, adding that these і сином Матейком bourgeois politicians and public figures politicians will suffer the same fate as their шваґер - Нестор Колцьо з дружиною Маґдою і дітьми: who supported the Bolsheviks useful idiots. predecessors who indeed were “useful idi- Ксенею з чоловіком Морісом Пратер In Lenin’s time, they really could be ‘idiots,’ ots.” Богданом з дружиною Катею і дітьми Зенком that is, people who did not understand Mr. Yakovenko says that fate is: Their і Аксельком whom and what they were supporting.” But names will become symbols of those who та родина в Україні. with the rise of the Stalin regime, they were are prepared to betray their own civiliza- more like scoundrels than idiots. tions and reach out instead to “the enemies Вічна Йому пам’ять! Today, “there are various reasons useful of civilization” as such. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 No. 36 Congratulations to the UNA scholarship winners for 2016-2017!

by Maria Drich $2,000 $1,000 $750 The Ukrainian National Association, as a fraternal organization, annually awards scholarships to student members of the UNA who are earning degrees at institutions of higher learning in the U.S.A. and Canada. For the 2016-2017 school year, the UNA Scholarship committee awarded 42 stu- dents with Scholarships totaling $11,050, of which $5,500 were set aside for special scholarships. Applicants for the special scholarships were reviewed by the UNA Scholarship Committee and winners were determined based on academic achievement, financial need, field of study and activity in the Ukrainian community. The Joseph and Dora Galandiuk Scholarship, in the amount of $2,000 was awarded to Alexander Zelez, member of Alexander Zelez Matthew Handzy Larysa Iwaskiw UNA Branch 277, who is an honors student (UNA Branch 277) (UNA Branch 88) (UNA Branch 134) studying to be a physician assistant at Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y. Going Wagner College Rutgers University Ramapo College of NJ into his senior year, Mr. Zelez is active in stu- $750 $500 dent life at college as a member of the Physician Assistant Association, where he spends many hours on volunteer projects. He also serves as vice-president of the Catholic student club at the college. In the Ukrainian community, Mr. Zelez is a graduate of the St. Michael School of Ukrainian Studies in Hartford, Conn., and performed with the Zolotyj Promin dance ensemble and is a member of the Ukrainian American Youth Association (UAYA). He also worked as a counselor at UAYA sports and youth camps. The Drs. Maria, Dmytro and Olha Jarosewycz Scholarship, in the amount of $1,000 was awarded to Matthew Handzy, member of UNA Branch 88, who is an hon- ors student studying computer science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. As with many Ukrainian children, Mr. Handzy learned to keep Ukrainian tradi- Matthew Tomaszewsky Maria Kulchyckyj Katarina Sokol tions, attending the School of Ukrainian (UNA Branch 8) (UNA Branch 83) (UNA Branch 414) Studies in Newark, N.J., and as a member of Syracuse University Brandeis University Hofstra University the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization. He attended many Plast camps and worked amount of $750 was awarded to Matthew an active member of Plast, as well as Roma Congratulations to all of the UNA scholar- as a counselor. Mr. Handzy also played gui- Tomaszewsky, a member of UNA Branch 8 Pryma Bohachevsky dance ensembles dur- ship winners! The UNA wishes you all con- tar with the high school jazz ensemble, and and an honors student at Syracuse ing summer camps at the Soyuzivka tinued success and achievements. The suc- is proficient in Chinese. In the Ukrainian Unviersity. Mr. Tomaszewsky attended the Heritage Center. cess of the Ukrainian National Association, community, he remains active with the Yonkers School of Ukrainian Studies, and is a Ms. Sokol, a member of UNA Branch 414, as a fraternal insurance organization, Rutgers Ukrainian Students’ Club. member of the UAYA, as well as the Cortland is studying biology at Hofstra University in depends on its membership. We invite you The Vera Stangl Scholarship in the amount American Youth Athletic Association. New York. She is a graduate of the St. all to remain active members of the UNA, of $750 was awarded to Larysa Iwaskiw, a Two students were selected for the Michael School of Ukrainian Studies in subscribe to our publications, Svoboda and member of UNA Branch 134 and an honors Blackstone Scholarship, founded by the Hartford, Conn., plays bandura, and has per- The Ukrainian Weekly, visit the Soyuzivka student in biology at Ramapo College in Ukrainian National Home Corp. in formed with the Zolotyj Promin and the Heritage Center, and sign up your friends Mahwah, N.J. She is a graduate of the Lesia Blackstone, Mass., in the amount of $500 Roma Pryma Bohachevsky dance ensembles. and relatives to become UNA members as Ukrainka School of Ukrainian Studies in each. Maria Kulchyckyj and Katarina Sokol The remaining 36 student members of the well. As members of the UNA, you have an Whippany, N.J. She served as a translator for were awarded the scholarship. UNA were awarded standard scholarships, opportunity to take advantage of all of the a family from Ukraine, who brought a Ms. Kulchyckyj, a member of UNA Branch with amounts based on year of study. The benefits the UNA has to offer. For more 13-year-old boy for treatment at a nearby 83, is studying health science and social pol- amounts were broken down accordingly: 15 information about the UNA and its scholar- hospital. Ms. Iwaskiw sees her future in the icy and social justice at Brandeis University. freshmen received $125 each; seven sopho- ship program, readers may telephone 800- medical field, and plans to become a doctor.. She attended the Taras Shevchenko School mores received $150; seven juniors received 253-9862 ext. 3011, or visit the UNA’s web- The Joseph Wolk Scholarship in the of Ukrainian Studies in Washington, and is $175; and seven seniors received $200. site, www.ukrainiannationalassociation.org. $200

Petro Chudolij Jessica Denczar Adam Ginn Luke Macios Tatiana Matejko-Lima Taissa Michel (UNA Branch 42) (UNA Branch 13) (UNA Branch 247) (UNA Branch 161) (UNA Branch 234) (UNA Branch 42) Rutgers University Ithaca College University of Delaware Duquesne University Mary Mount Manhattan College Rowan University No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 15

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Anastasia Vandermark Daniel H. Harper Moroz Anastasiya Kaspruk John Klaczany Nadya Spotts Andrew Uzdejczyk (UNA Branch 137) (UNA Branch 247) (UNA Branch 234) (UNA Branch 182) (UNA Branch 242) (UNA Branch 8) Kansas State University University of Oklahoma Duquesne University Rutgers University Penn State University Boston College

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Christina Vosbikian Andrea Wasylyk Natalie Ginn Zachary Matejko-Lima Arkadia Pereklita Mariana Pylypiw (UNA Branch 83) (UNA Branch 88) (UNA Branch 247) (UNA Branch 234) (UNA Branch 292) (UNA Branch 86) Princeton University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University of Delaware Kean University Mary Mount Manhattan College Rutgers University

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Andriy Semeniv Nicholas Stefurak Xenia Vitovych Chloe Diakiwsky Iryna Hrynyk Marta Kasiyan (UNA Branch 269) (UNA Branch 116) (UNA Branch 184) (UNA Branch 161) (UNA Branch 283) (UNA Branch 360) Hudson County Community College University of Pittsburgh St. John’s University Penn State University University of Buffalo Nazareth College

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Joseph Kuchta Zenon Lewyckyj Gregory Lopatynsky Maya Lopatynskyj Nataliya Savchuk Ariana Shevchuk (UNA Branch 368) (UNA Branch 174) (UNA Branch 194) (UNA Branch 194) (UNA Branch 59) (UNA Branch 287) University of Mississippi University of Michigan Boston University New York University Temple University University of California, Davis

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Anya Spotts Adriana Terleckyj Alexander Tomko Olenka Tytla Julianna Walchuk Danylo Yanovskiy (UNA Branch 242) (UNA Branch 15) (UNA Branch 37) (UNA Branch 777) (UNA Branch 172) (UNA Branch 59) Bloomsburg University Clarkson University Muhlenberg College Boston University Fordham University Sacred Heart University 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 No. 36

NEW RELEASES Publication on archaeological research of Baturyn in the Kozak era

by Volodymyr Mezentsev of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) of the The booklet provides a brief overview of University of Alberta, Edmonton, the the history of Baturyn during Polish- “Rozkopky u Baturyni 2015 Roku. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Lithuanian rule over left-bank Ukraine, the Rekonstruktsii Interieriv Palatsu Ivana (PIMS) at the University of Toronto and the national-liberation war led by Hetman Mazepy” (Excavations at Baturyn in 2015. Ucrainica Research Institute in Toronto Bohdan Khmelnytsky against Poland and Reconstructions of the Interiors of Ivan have sponsored the Baturyn project. Prof. the Hetman era. It pays special attention to Mazepa’s Palace), Zenon Kohut, Volodymyr Volodymyr Kravchenko, director of CIUS, the reign of Hetman Ivan Mazepa, when the Mezentsev, and Yurii Sytyi. Toronto: heads the Kowalsky Program. Prof. Zenon town was his capital and reached the pin- Ukrainian Echo Publishing Company Ltd., Kohut, the previous director of both the nacle of its economic, demographic and cul- 2016. 36 pp., 79 color illustrations, paper- institute and the program and an eminent tural development and became known in back. $8.95. historian of the Hetmanate, is the academic Western Europe. adviser of this undertaking. The archaeolo- The destruction of Mazepa’s capital and This new booklet continues the series of gist Dr. Volodymyr Mezentsev (CIUS the slaughter of its entire military person- annually issued, richly illustrated brochures Toronto Office) and the renowned historian nel and civilian population by Russian dedicated to the historical, archaeological, of Ukraine-Rus’ Prof. Martin Dimnik troops in 1708 is described on the basis of architectural and artistic study of Baturyn, (PIMS), have participated in the research of the Belarusian Mahiliou Chronicle, which one of the capitals of the Kozak Hetman state. Baturyn and the publication of its excava- provides a unique, detailed and vivid It was prepared by Canadian and Ukrainian tion findings. The archaeologist Yurii Sytyi account of this tragic event. archaeologists and historians participating (Chernihiv National University) oversees The authors examine the results of the in the Baturyn excavations and is geared to the Baturyn Canada-Ukraine expedition. 2015 excavations of the remnants of 17th Cover of the booklet on the 2015 Baturyn both the general public and scholars. Some 45 students and scholars from uni- and 18th century dwellings and graves of excavations. The Kowalsky Program for the Study of versities in Chernihiv, Kyiv and Hlukhiv, the townsfolk within the former Baturyn Eastern Ukraine at the Canadian Institute Ukraine, took part in the 2015 excavations. fortress, as well as Mazepa’s and General Judge Vasyl Kochubei’s manors and court churches. They also discuss the material culture and lifestyle of the hetman and wealthy Kozak state officials along with their families. The researchers have revealed hitherto unknown Italian and Polish influences on the ceramic floor pavement patterns and impressive ornamentation of Mazepa’s destroyed principal residence and have published several unprecedented computer reconstructions of its interiors. The 2015 archaeological explorations have obtained data for locating the sites of the ruined St. Nicholas Church (1698), commissioned by Mazepa, and the house- hold of his closest supporter and chargé d’affaires, General Secretary Pylyp Orlyk, as well as the 17th to 19th century Kerbutivskyi (Novomlynskyi) convent near Baturyn, which the imperial Russian authorities abolished in 1827. New archae- ological and physical anthropological evi- dence about the annihilation of Baturyn’s residents by tsarist troops in 1708 has also been brought to light. The publication of this booklet was funded by Buduchnist Credit Union (BCU) in Toronto and the Ucrainica Research Institute. Thanks are due to Oksana Prociuk, CEO, and Chrystyna Bidiak, opera- tions and human resources manager of BCU, as well as Orest Steciw, president of this institute and president of the League of Ukrainian Canadians, for providing subsi- dies to cover the printing and other costs of this booklet, the fifth in a series, and the fourth (2015) booklet. The brochures of the Baturyn series are 24 to 36 pages long in Ukrainian, contain 50-80 color illustrations, and are printed on glossy paper. They will be of interest to all students of Ukrainian history and antiquities. The booklets are available for $8.95 each through CIUS Press (4-30 Pembina Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2H8, tel.: 780-492-2973, fax: 780-492-4967, e-mail: [email protected]). These brochures can be ordered online from the CIUS Press website. The last two booklets are also on sale at the office of the National Executive of the League of Ukrainian Canadians (9 Plastics Ave., Toronto, ON, Canada M8Z 4B6; telephone, 416-516-8223; e-mail, [email protected]). In August, the Canada-Ukraine archaeo- logical expedition, including nearly 60 stu- dents and scholars from universities in Chernihiv, Kyiv, Sumy, and Hlukhiv, contin- ues the systematic excavations in Baturyn. Its findings will be analyzed and presented

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Von Hagen tapped as interim director of ASU’s Melikian Center TEMPE, Ariz. – Mark von Hagen was Ukraine for contributions to U.S.-Ukraine Mr. Huntwork added: “The Ukrainian recently appointed as interim director of relations and to the development of language in and of itself rebuts centuries of Arizona State University’s Melikian Center Ukrainian studies. disinformation and is the key for accessing for Russian, Eurasian and East European His publications treating Ukraine the past and present reality of this critically Studies. He teaches the history of Eastern include: the co-edited volume, “Culture, important nation.” Europe and Russia, with a focus on Nation, Identity: the Ukrainian-Russian Prof. von Hagen remarked: “The Ukrainian-Russian relations, at Arizona Encounter, 1600-1945” (Toronto, 2003); Ukrainian language, like all the languages State University, after teaching 24 years at “War in a European Borderlands: we teach at the Melikian Center’s Critical Columbia University, where he also chaired Occupations and Occupation Plans in Language Institute, is a gateway to a rich the history department and directed the Galicia and Ukraine, 1914-1918” culture and dynamic society. After two Harriman Institute. (University of Washington Press, 2007); the years of Russia’s war with Ukraine, the At the Harriman Institute, Prof. von co-edited volume, “Empire and teaching of this language will also likely Hagen developed Ukrainian studies in the Nationalism at War” (Bloomington, become a national security priority for the humanities and social sciences. He is chair Indiana: Slavica Publishers, 2014); and “ United States. I remember fondly and of the international advisory board of the ‘Notes and Materials’ toward a(n) (Anti-) gratefully the generosity of the Ukrainian German-Ukrainian Historians Commission (Post-) Colonial History of Ukraine,” in the communities of North America for our and member of the Steering Committee of book, “The Future of the Past: New Ukrainian programming during my the Leonid Nevzlin Center’s 1917 project Perspectives on Ukrainian History” (forth- Columbia years.” (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). coming, Harvard University Press, fall Prof. von Hagen was elected president of 2017). About Melikian Center the International Association for Ukrainian With generous seed funding from The Melikian Center for Russian, Studies in 2002 and presided over the Advisory Board Member Patience T. Eurasian and East European Studies in the Congress in Donetsk in 2005. He also Huntwork and her husband, James R. Prof. Mark von Hagen College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at served as President of the Association for Huntwork, the Melikian Center looks to add Arizona State University is a comprehen- Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Ukrainian language courses to its Critical American Bar Association to sever its ties sive research and training center with both (2009). Languages Institute (CLI) in the summer of with a Soviet organization, the Association instructional and research missions. It is During his New York years, he was a 2017 and seeks to raise funds to endow a of Soviet Lawyers, and continued with home to over 40 faculty affiliates from ASU member of the Council on Foreign Ukrainian Studies Program in perpetuity. efforts to advocate for legal reform and the and community colleges throughout Relations and remains a member of the Both Huntworks serve as lawyers, and both rule of law in a democratic and indepen- Arizona. Advisory Board for Europe and Asia at have been active in Ukraine. (To donate to dent Ukraine. As an instructional unit, the center spon- Human Rights Watch. He has worked with the Melikian Center’s CLI Ukrainian Fund, In recognition of those efforts, Patience sors the Critical Languages Institute, one of historians, archivists and educators in inde- please go to: www.asufoundation.org/ received the Union of Councils for Soviet the largest summer training academies for pendent Ukraine and with diaspora institu- Ukraine.) Jews Humanitarian Award, the American intensive training in less commonly taught tions. Ms. Huntwork, a graduate of Stanford Jewish Committee’s Judge Learned Hand East European and Eurasian languages. In July 2013 he was elected dean of the University and Yale Law School, works as Human Relations Award, the Jewish As a research unit, the Melikian Center philosophy faculty at the Ukrainian Free an attorney in the judiciary of the State of Federation of Greater Phoenix’s Certificate capitalizes on its partnerships with more University in Munich and re-elected for a Arizona. Her volunteer human rights of Recognition and the Ukrainian Congress than a dozen East European and Eurasian second term in July 2015. He received the efforts in Ukraine began with her success- Committee of America’s “Man of the Year” universities to build programs of academic Certificate of Honor from the Embassy of ful international campaign to persuade the Award. exchange, international development and Ms. Huntwork noted that “the Melikian collaborative research. Center is among the few centers of critical In its outreach programming, the center be much-needed in 2016-2017. Donations language study, serving the nation’s implements short-term training programs Publication... may be sent to to: Stan Kamski, Treasurer, defense and national security needs. It is for professionals from Eurasia. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 59 (Continued from page 16) time that Ukrainian is recognized as a criti- The center has implemented research Queen’s Park Crescent E., Toronto, ON, cal language along with Russian and other and educational programs for the in academic and newspaper articles, a new Canada, M5S 2C4. (Please make checks languages. I hope the Ukrainian communi- Department of State, the U.S. Agency for booklet and public lectures in 2017. Next payable to: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval ty will join in this effort to fund this proj- International Development, the summer, the expedition will resume the field Studies, Memo: Baturyn Project.) The insti- ect.” Department of Education and the research in the town. Meanwhile, in the tute will issue official tax receipts to all With a master’s degree in economics Department of Defense, among others. current war situation, the funding of the donors in the U.S.A. and Canada, and they and a J.D., both from Yale University, Mr. Founded in 1984, the center received its scholarly project has become increasingly will be gratefully acknowledged in related Huntwork practices transactional law with name in late 2006, in recognition of the problematic for the Ukrainian government. publications and public lectures. a Phoenix firm. Both he and his wife have generous support of Gregory and Emma The continued support of archaeological For additional information or questions served as election observers in Ukraine Melikian. explorations in Baturyn and the publication about the Baturyn project, readers may dating back to the Gorbachev era and have For more information about the ASU of its materials by Ukrainian organizations, contact its executive director, Dr. worked to support commercial law reforms Melikian Center, readers may visit https:// foundations, companies and private bene- Mezentsev, in Toronto at 416-766-1408 or in independent Ukraine. melikian.asu.edu. factors in the United States and Canada will via e-mail, [email protected].

KLK ANNUAL FALL WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 17 & 18, 2016 New USUF initiative supports SOYUZIVKA HERITAGE CENTER small business in Ukraine KLK cordially invites all our members, family and friends to our Annual Fall by Adrian Karmazyn businesses make up 48.5 percent of pri- Weekend. Play some friendly tennis, golf or just relax and mingle with friends. vate-sector employment, 46 percent of pri- WASHINGTON – The U.S.-Ukraine vate-sector output and 37 percent of high- SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: Foundation (USUF) has signed a memoran- tech employment. GOLF - Start time 9:30 AM at the The Hudson Valley Resort. Cost $30.00 per dum of cooperation with the Business The Business Community Club, which player. PRE REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Community Club (BCC), a Ukrainian nation- currently has about 1000 members, was al small-business association headquar- established to support “the development of TENNIS DOUBLES- Registration at 11:00 AM. Pre- registration desirable. tered in Lviv. The project aims to support Ukraine as a strong European state by means AFTERNOON SOCIAL – Begins at 2:30 PM. Enjoy some good food, drink and small business development in Ukraine by of developing small and medium business good company. deepening communication and coopera- and establishing civil society based on busi- DINNER DANCE will begin at 6:30 PM starting with a cocktail hour, sit down tion between U.S. small businesses (includ- ness ethics and [the] national idea.” BCC dinner and dance will begin at 7:30 PM. Dance to the spectacular ing Ukrainian diaspora entrepreneurs) and believes that Ukraine can become “one of the tunes of “ANNA-MARIA” their counterparts in Ukraine. Through most successful countries in the world.” The joint activities USUF and BCC will educate organization is headed by Mykola Savulyak Afternoon Social, Cocktail hour, Dinner, Dance and Open Bar – $140 per person. small businesspersons and authorities in and, besides its headquarters in Lviv, cur- Dinner Dance and Open Bar – $120.00 per person Ukraine about small business sensibilities rently has offices in Kyiv, Ternopil and To register, RSVP or for more information please contact [email protected], and best practices in the USA, as well as Ivano-Frankivsk, with plans to establish call 732 991-1095 or go to our website: www.klkusa.com policies and entities in the United States branches in every oblast in the country. that foster small business development. For more information or to become a Please RSVP if you are planning to attend. It is important that we get a headcount Small businesses are considered the part of this new initiative, readers may con- so that we can make this weekend a success and enjoyable for you. backbone of the American economy. tact the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation at info@ Room Reservations - Please call SOYUZIVKA at 845 626-5641 and mention KLK. According to the U.S. Small Business usukraine.org or USUF Vice-President John Administration, in the United States small A. Kun at 202-524-6551. No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 19

Through November 27 Art exhibit, “’Reality Check’ – Directions in September 11 Connecticut Ukrainian Day Festival, Connecticut State Chicago Contemporary Art since Ukrainian Independence,” Stamford, CT Ukrainian Day Committee, St. Basil Seminary College, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 773-227-5522 or www.ct-ukrainian-festival.com or 203-269-5909 www.uima-chicago.org September 12 Fall reception, Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard Through September 25 Art exhibit, featuring works by Natalia Bendus Cambridge, MA University, [email protected] or 617-495-4053 Chicago Petrovska, Ukrainian National Museum, 312-421-8020 September 14 Ukraine Forum, “Ukraine at 25 – Winning the Battle for September 8 Discussion with Adrian Karatnycky and Alexander Motyl, Washington Freedom.” U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, Capitol Visitor New York “Update on Ukraine,” Kosciuszko Foundation, www.thekf.org Center, 202-524-6555 or [email protected]

September 9 Charity golf tournament, Canada-Ukraine Chamber of September 15 Ukrainian Days advocacy events, Ukrainian Congress Aurora, ON Commerce, Lebovic Golf Club, www.lebovicgolfclub.ca Washington Committee of America and the Ukrainian National or 647-971-1187 or [email protected] Information Service, Capitol Hill, 202-547-0018 or www.ucca.org September 9-11 Montreal Ukrainian Festival, Parc de l’Ukraine, Montreal www.ukefestmontreal.org September 15 Congressional Reception, Cannon House Office Building, Washington Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, September 9- “Ukrainian Folktales for Children: A Diorama Exhibition 202-547-0018 or [email protected] October 2 by Luba and Andrij Chornodolsky,” Ukrainian National Chicago Museum, www.ukrainiannationalmuseum.org or September 16-18 Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival, Bloor 312-421-8020 Toronto Street West, www.ukrainianfestival.com or 416-410-9965

September 10 Chicago Charity Golf Outing, Pobratymy Foundation, September 17 Ukrainian Nationals Family Fun Day, Ukrainian Horsham, PA American Sports Center Tryzub, www.tryzub.org Elk Grove Village, IL Fox Run Golf Links, [email protected] September 17 Potato Bake and Pig Roast, Ukrainian Homestead, September 10 Golf tournament fund-raiser, The Meadows Golf and Lehighton, PA www.ukrhomestead.com or 215-699-3725 Ottawa Country Club, St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Shrine, 613-599-5310 September 17 25th anniversary Ukrainian Independence Day banquet, Chicago Kyiv Committee of Chicago Sister Cities program, September 10 Svitlychka session, for children age 3-4, Ukrainian Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, Yonkers, NY National Women’s League of America Branch 30, St. Chicago Hilton and Towers, www.uccaillinois.org Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church, 914-572-1511 September 17 Ukrainian Festival, Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Phoenixville, PA Church, www.sspeterandpaulukr.com or 484-429-4787 September 10 Lecture by Yuriy Ruban, “Education and Science in New York Ukraine: Revolutionary Expectations and the Reality of their Chances,” Shevchenko Scientific Society, Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events 212-254-5130 advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors September 10-11 Ukrainian Village Fest, Ss. Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected]. Chicago Catholic Church, www.ukrainianvillagefest.com

September 11 Gallery talk by Yuri Savchuk, “In Metal, On Paper: Coins, New York Banknotes and Postage Stamps of Independent Ukraine, Дирекція Школи Українознавства 1991-2016,” and Bohdan Kordan presents “Money, Sovereignty and Power: The Paper Currency of при ОУА „Самопоміч“ в Ню-Йорку Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917-1920,” The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 or www.ukrainianmuseum.org подає до відома, що НАВЧАННЯ Stefan Szkafarowsky to star В НОВОМУ ШКІЛЬНОМУ 2016/2017 РОЦІ розпочнеться in opera “Aleko” в суботу, 17 вересня 2016 року by Olia Rudyk за адресою NEW YORK – Internationally renowned 215 Схід 6-та вулиця, Ню-Йорк, Н.Й. bass Stefan Szkafarowsky will star as Aleko in the opera of the same name presented by the New York City Opera. Performances Збір учнів у клясах о 9:00 год. ранку. will be held at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater on September 8, 10, 11 and 13. Навчання розпочнеться після Літургії Written by Sergei Rachmaninoff with a в церкві св. Юра і триватиме до 12:00 год. дня. libretto by Vladimir Nemirovich- Danchenko, “Aleko” is an adaptation of the Запис нових учнів від 1-ої до 11-ої кляс та передшкілля poem “The Gypsies” by Alexander Pushkin. відбудеться після Першого Дзвоника. Seeking an escape from a world where he does not fit in, Aleko joins a band of gyp- При школі існує СВІТЛИЧКА sies. Among them is a “staryk,” an elder leader of the tribe with a beautiful daugh- ter, Zemfira. Aleko immediately falls in love Дитина мусить мати закінчених три рочки with the much younger Zemfira. Sitting by до 31 грудня 2016 року. the campfire one evening, the staryk tells Stefan Szkafarowsky his life story. He admits that his own wife, Mariula, met a younger gypsy nomad and In a double-bill evening premiere for the Детальнішу інформацію deserted her family. The staryk never tried New York City Opera, “Aleko” will be fol- можна отримати на нашій to find her and this revelation angers Aleko. lowed by “Pagliacci.” Conducting both інтернет-сторінці: He believes the staryk should have avenged operas will be Maestro James Meena; himself for the scorn and embarrassment directing will be Lev Pugliese. www.ukrainianschoolnyc.org his wife and her lover caused him. The plot Anyone interested in seeing Mr. thickens when he discovers Zemfira has Szkafarowsky star in “Aleko” may call Ласкаво Просимо! taken a younger gypsy lover. The news of Center Charge at 212-721-6500 or visit her deceitfulness enrages Aleko and the www.jazz.org to purchase tickets and using drama continues with yet another twist. code GYPSY16. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 No. 36

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Saturday, September 10 Stamford. Starting at 9 a.m., festival-goers can visit over 20 Ukrainian vendors. A liturgy will be celebrated at 11 a.m. by Back to NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Society invites all to Bishop Paul Chomnycky; confessions will be heard begin- a lecture, “Education and Science in Ukraine: Revolutionary ning in the morning. After liturgy, there will be plenty of Expectations and the Reality of their Chances” by Yuriy Ukrainian and picnic foods. At 2:30 p.m. there will be a lively Ruban (Kyiv). Mr. Ruban is chief of the Department for School program featuring several dance ensembles, singers and Humanitarian Policy in the Ukrainian Presidential other performers. A dance featuring the music of Halychany Administration. The lecture will take place at the society’s will take place at 5-8 p.m. Visitors can also enjoy children’s building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and 10th streets) activities and visit the Diocesan Museum on the grounds. Special at 5 p.m. For additional information call 212-254-5130. Admission for all age 12 and over is $5 per person when Saturday-Sunday, September 10-11 paid in advance, $10 at gate; parking is free. For tickets, CHICAGO: Ukrainian Village Fest will take place on the cor- information or to volunteer, call 203-269-5909. A subscription – ner of Superior Street and Oakley Boulevard, in the heart of Saturday-Sunday, September 17-18 the Ukrainian Village in Chicago. Merchant and food vendors will line the street. There will be non-stop action on stage, SILVER SPRING, Md.: Bring your family and friends to the print and online, featuring the Ukrainian Dance Ensemble Hromovytsia, 14th annual Ukrainian Festival of the Washington, D.C., Ukrainian School of Dance, guest performers Natalia Metropolitan Area on the grounds of St. Andrew Ukrainian Buchynska, Vova zi Lvova, Ms. Toronto 2016 Valentyna Orthodox Cathedral, 15100 New Hampshire Ave., Silver or online only – to Butenko and many more local dance ensembles and singers. Spring, MD 20905. Hours are: Saturday, 11 a.m. - 9 p.m., and Children will enjoy the kids’ area with rides, arts and crafts Sunday, 11 a.m.-dusk. On Saturday night the festival contin- and much more fun. There will also be a raffle and a beer ues by the lake. Admission and parking are free. The festival garden. Admission is $5 daily. Festival hours: 1-10 p.m. features wonderful Ukrainian artists and dancers, crafts, The Ukrainian Weekly! Come join us in Chicago for one of the last festivals of the children’s activities, delicious Ukrainian food and a Kozak Give the college students in your family their summer! For more information call 312-829-5209. beer garden. For more information contact the Festival Office, 301-384-9192, or visit www.UkraineFestDC.com. own nine-month gift subscriptions to The Sunday, September 11 Ukrainian Weekly. The Weekly is a great resource Sunday, October 2 NEW YORK: At 2 p.m. The Ukrainian Museum will present a for students who plan to write college papers on gallery talk with the guest curators of two new exhibitions ALEXANDRIA, Va.: The Washington Group Cultural Fund topics about Ukraine, helps students keep in commemorating Ukraine’s independence: Yuri Savchuk, opens its 22nd season with a concert by internationally rec- touch with the Ukrainian community throughout Ph.D., senior research associate at the Institute of History of ognized pianist Mykola Suk, in a program of “fantasies” by the United States and Canada, and gives students Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, will pres- Beethoven, Hummel, Thalberg, Skoryk and Liszt. Maestro the opportunity to keep learning about their ent “In Metal, On Paper: Coins, Banknotes and Postage Suk gained international recognition as the winner of the first prize and gold medal at the 1971 International Liszt- Ukrainian heritage once they leave home. Stamps of Independent Ukraine, 1991-2016”; Bohdan Kordan, professor and director of the Prairie Center for the Bartok Competition in Budapest. His international career has The price for the academic year is only $65 Study of Ukrainian Heritage at St. Thomas More College, spanned four continents; he has performed in the most pres- ($60 if the student is a member of the UNA) University of Saskatchewan, will discuss “Money, Sovereignty tigious venues from the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory – and that includes both print and online and Power: The Paper Currency of Revolutionary Ukraine, to Carnegie Hall in New York. American Record Guide noted 1917-1920.” Admission (light reception included): $15; of Mr. Suk: “An astonishing blend of muscular power, poetry subscriptions! An online subscription alone members and seniors, $10; students, $5. The Ukrainian and utter control… he will prove to be one of the more formi- for the same nine-month period is $30. Museum is located at 222 E. Sixth St.; telephone, 212-228- dable talents to have appeared in this country in years.” The To take advantage of this special offer, phone 0110; website, www.ukrainianmuseum.org. concert will be held at 3 p.m. at The Lyceum, 201 S. The Weekly’s Subscription Department at 973- Washington St., Alexandria, VA 22314. A reception to meet STAMFORD, Conn.: The 49th Connecticut Ukrainian Day the artist will follow the performance. Suggested donation is 292-9800, ext. 3040, and charge the subscrip- Festival, sponsored by the Connecticut State Ukrainian Day $30; free for students. Seating is unreserved. For more infor- tion to your credit card. Committee at St. Basil’s Seminary, 161 Glenbrook Road, mation e-mail [email protected].