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INSIDE:• President disbands Ukraine’s State Traffic Inspection — page 3. • Curriculum guide on Ukrainian Famine available from the UNA— page 5. • Debut of “Reporter’s Notebook” by Zenon Zawada — page 6.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIII HE KRAINIANNo. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine TrialT lawyers’ awardU recognizes courage Families forW Children program of Ukrainian court’s election decision to help Ukraine’s homeless kids WASHINGTON – The Association of date Viktor Yushchenko, the result of this by Yana Sedova the director of Ukraine’s Families for Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) on bitterly fought contest was still unclear. Kyiv Press Bureau Children program. “If children return to July 26 presented its annual Amicus When the government’s Central Election their families, we will consider the task Award to the Civil Chamber of the Commission and supporters of Mr. KYIV – A Families for Children pro- accomplished.” Supreme Court of Ukraine. The court Yanukovych claimed victory, dramatic gram implemented by Holt International To many Ukrainians, it’s ironic that exhibited an extraordinary act of judicial protests ensued. Children’s Services and financed by the only since independence from the independence when it ordered a new International observers and civil jus- U.S. Agency for International oppressive Soviet Union has the term election during last year’s divisive presi- tice advocates doubted the validity of the Development will be launched in “homeless child” returned to the national dential contest in Ukraine after it found outcome, backed by reports from Ukraine in September. lexicon. During the Soviet period, any evidence of electoral fraud and intimida- Yushchenko supporters of intimidation, The goal of this three-year, $2.4 mil- child without parents was required to tion, the ATLA noted. rigged ballots, violence and fraud. lion program is to return children to their live in an orphanage; teenagers were sent Each year, ATLA’s Amicus Award rec- By the third week in November, the original families and help them stay to hostels. Running away wasn’t a viable ognizes outstanding contributions to the crisis had paralyzed the country, and on together. In cases where this is not possi- option. civil justice system, and notable efforts November 25 the Civil Chamber of the ble, models then promote adoption to About 103,000 children in Ukraine are that foster a healthier, safer society. Supreme Court of Ukraine was asked to ensure that children have a permanent officially deprived of parental care, Past recipients include members of step in. The court examined the election family in a foster or group home. according to the Ministry for Youth and Congress and the judiciary, as well as results and allegations of electoral fraud. “Let’s get the homeless and parentless Sports. They are either orphans, or they everyday citizens who have had a posi- In Kyiv’s Independence Square, millions kids out of cold, heartless institutions come from broken homes from which tive impact on the civil justice system of Ukrainians awaited the court’s deci- and into families, where their lives may authorities had to remove them for their and on the safety of American families. sion, waving orange flags as a symbol of take on some hope,” said Karen Hillard, safety. This year’s award, however, recog- their faith in their democracy, the ATLA the USAID regional deputy mission The majority of these children live in nized the actions of an esteemed and related. director, who has adopted her own 8- public institutions, such as shelters, chil- brave body of citizens who reside On December 3, the court, in a coura- year-old daughter from Nicaragua. dren’s homes and hostels. halfway around the world in Ukraine, geous act of judicial independence, Back in October 2004 Families for The situation surrounding parent- deprived children is a “national prob- noted the ATLA. Fifteen years after the annulled the results of the election’s sec- Children had already launched pilot proj- lem,” said Tetyana Kornyakova, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of ond round. A new vote was held and the ects as models of family care in the Kyiv, assistant to the Procurator General. the Soviet Union, this country’s young Central Election Commission on January Cherkasy and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts. Parent-deprived children often get and thriving democracy nonetheless 11 declared Mr. Yushchenko the official USAID will distribute grants to quali- involved in crime, she said. So far this appeared to be in peril last December. winner, with 52 percent of the vote. fying Ukrainian and international non- After two disputed rounds of the presi- governmental organizations based on year, they have committed about 15,000 “The members of this chamber risked crimes, she said, 9,000 of which were dential election in October and personal and political peril, but refused to applications submitted by August 5. November 2004 between Prime Minister “We want to embrace 5,000 children serious. Viktor Yanukovych and opposition candi- (Continued on page 14) and families,” said Alyona Herasymova, More than 6,000 children are regis- tered with the Ministry of Health because of drug addiction. Prostitution flourishes among them. Reports on lavish lifestyle of Yushchenko’s son stir controversy “We have many examples that these children can be rehabilitated,” said by Zenon Zawada the Ukrainian public of corruption relat- guage shocked the dozens of journalists Ludmyla Volynets, the director of the Kyiv Press Bureau ed to the president and his family. gathered in the Cabinet of Ministers Department of Childhood of the Ministry In addition, the president’s reaction to building, where Mr. Yushchenko held a KYIV – Evidence that Andrii for Youth and Sport Affairs. “The only media reports about his son’s lifestyle press conference after a grueling eight- thing they want is to be heard and loved Yushchenko, the son of Viktor appear to have soured his relations with hour-plus session with his ministers. Yushchenko, enjoys a luxurious lifestyle, and respected by somebody.” the press. Throughout his public life, President Homeless children live in a harsh and apparent attempts to cover it up, President Yushchenko lost his cool at a have apparently cast suspicions among (Continued on page 13) world of the streets where they must act July 25 press conference when Serhii and think as adults in a game of survival. Leschenko, a 24-year-old reporter for They learn how to cope in Ukraine’s Ukrayinska Pravda, asked him whether it’s frigid winters and how to scrounge up ethical, in a country such as Ukraine, for money for food. But, at the end of the the president’s son to be driving a luxuri- day, they are still children who need love ous car and using expensive cellphones. and care. In asking the question, Mr. Leschenko “We must accept these children as was paraphrasing Mr. Yushchenko when they are,” said Kostiantyn during the Orange Revolution he Shenderovskyi, the director of Kyiv City declared on the “maidan” (Independence Center of Social Services for Children, Square) that it was simply immoral for Families and Youth, which shelters 784 Ukraine’s government leaders to live so children and 1,500 families. “Every lavishly while the majority suffered. minute a child that needs help appears in During the exchange with Mr. Kyiv.” Leschenko, Mr. Yushchenko lost his tem- The Ukrainian government and non- per and told Mr. Leschenko, “Conduct governmental organizations finance 93 yourself as a polite journalist, not like a shelters in the country, said Ihor Zhohlo, hired killer.” the chair of the Office of Preventive In describing how he advised the 19- Work in the Department for Children’s year-old Andrii to deal with journalists Rights. Children can request medical probing his spending at restaurants, Mr. examinations, psychological help and Yushchenko said, “Pay the check in front either stay there in the daytime or spend of the journalist’s mug (morda), and then the night, he said. Andrew Nynka go to court.” AP President Viktor Yushchenko The president’s use of offensive lan- Andrii Yushchenko in a 2004 photo. (Continued on page 21) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 No. 31

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS SBU announces criminal cases NEWSBRIEFS 200,000 make pilgrimage to Zarvanytsia ment in Ukraine, Ukrainian and interna- tional news agencies reported. In a joint over gas transportation schemes TERNOPIL – An all-Ukrainian family statement with Japanese Prime Minister pilgrimage to the village of Zarvanytsia in Junichiro Koizumi, Mr. Yushchenko by Roman Kupchinsky recently investigated for allegedly laun- western Ukraine’s Ternopil region, titled pledged to improve the investment envi- RFE/RL Organized Crime and Terrorism Watch dering $59 million for the Ukrainian “The Eucharist as a source of love and ronment in Ukraine for Japanese business- Transportation Ministry during the unity in the family,” took place on July es. For his part, Mr. Koizumi expressed In a dramatic announcement that could administration of former President 16-17 at the St. Mary Spiritual Center. have far-reaching consequences, support for Ukraine’s “early accession” to Leonid Kuchma. The bank is closely Approximate calculations indicate that the World Trade Organization. The state- Oleksander Turchynov, the head of the linked to Naftohaz Ukrainy. more than 200,000 pilgrims from Ukraine, Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), stat- ment also endorsed efforts to reform the Mr. Liashko’s arrest and Mr. Poland, Belarus and other countries par- United Nations into a more representative ed on June 18 that criminal cases have Turchynov’s announcement were long- ticipated in the pilgrimage. (Religious been opened concerning the activities of organization, including the expansion of awaited steps in the realization of Information Service of Ukraine) the U.N. Security Council to provide a two offshore companies involved in gas- President Viktor Yushchenko’s and Prime transportation schemes from Ukrainians recognized as “Righteous” permanent seat for Japan and an addition- Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s promise to al non-permanent seat for an Eastern Turkmenistan to Ukraine – schemes that close down highly suspect schemes in VINNYTSIA – Israel’s Ambassador to European country, the Associated Press allegedly deprived the Ukrainian treasury the gas-transportation business that are Ukraine Naomi Ben-Ami has awarded the reported. (RFE/RL Newsline) of more than $1 billion. alleged to have drained the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations medal to In an interview with the newspaper state treasury of $1.2 billion since 2003. Groups oppose Romaniuk’s reburial eight Ukrainians in Vinnytsia. The medal is Dzerkalo Tyzhnia published on June 18, Thus far there has been no reaction Mr. Turchynov said the SBU has been awarded to people who facilitated the res- from Gazprom to Mr. Turchynov’s alle- KYIV – A recent appeal of the Society investigating the activities of two compa- cue of Jews during World War II. gations. of the Repressed in Ukraine to Ukrainian nies – Eural Trans Gas and its successor, According to the ambassador, this is the On July 30, 2004, Russian and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, RosUkrEnergo – which acted as the sixth time she is awarding the medal in Ukrainian media announced that the top requesting reburial of the remains of “operators” of Turkmen gas to Ukraine. Ukraine this year. Over 2,000 people have management of Russia’s Gazprom and Bishop Volodymyr Romaniuk of the Investigators are also probing any role received the award in Ukraine. (Ukrinform) Ukraine’s Naftohaz Ukrainy had jointly Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv that might have been played in their created a new offshore company to be Patriarchate (UOC-KP), on the territory of operations by the management of Volodymyr’s relics returned to Kyiv the “operator” for Turkmen gas to St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv has caused Naftohaz Ukrainy, the Ukrainian state- Ukraine. The new company, KYIV – The remains of Prince sharp criticism from the Union of owned energy monopoly. RosUkrEnergo (RUE), would replace Volodymyr the Great, who reigned in 980- Orthodox Brotherhoods of Ukraine and the Russia’s Gazprom and Naftohaz Eural Trans Gas, a Hungarian-based 1015 in Kyivan Rus’, were to be returned Orthodox Brotherhood of St. Alexander Ukrainy are closely linked to the activi- company that had been the center of con- to the Monastery of the Caves (Pecherska Nevsky. According to blagovest-info.ru, ties of the two offshore companies under siderable controversy in the media. Lavra) on July 24. Metropolitan the organizations say that such reburial investigation. Mr. Turchynov charged Eural Trans Gas, according to the reg- Volodymyr of the Ukrainian Orthodox will “not only oppress the interests of the that former high-level officials in istration document filed with the Church – Moscow Patriarchate was to canonical Orthodox Church in Ukraine [i. Ukraine, together with Russia’s current bring the relics back from Rostov-on-Don, e. the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – leaders, knew of and approved these Budapest business court, was of curious Russia. Prince Volodymyr’s remains were Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP)], but will illicit schemes, Interfax reported. origin. It listed its place of business as discovered by archajeologists in 1635 in a be generally anti-Orthodox in character.” Also on June 18, Ukrainian Gas Bank the small village of Csabadi, outside of marble sarcophagus of the Church of the The two organizations stated that: “The head Vadym Liashko was arrested as he Budapest, and named three previously Tithes (Desiatynna Tserkva) in Kyiv. Part Orthodox public of Ukraine, represented allegedly was preparing to flee the coun- unknown Romanians as its principals. of the relics went to the Kremlin’s by the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods of try, Ukraine’s Channel 5 television Eural, according to a 2003 interview Assumption Cathedral; and part was Ukraine and the Orthodox Brotherhood of reported. The Ukrainian Gas Bank was with Eural Director Andreas Knopp in the Kyiv Post, was closely linked to placed in the Monastery of the Caves. The St. Alexander Nevsky, considers the Dmytro Firtash, a Ukrainian business- Kyiv relics were on loan to Leningrad appearance of such plans a manifestation Roman Kupchinsky is editor of RFE/RL prior to World War II for an anthropologi- of sacrilege against an Orthodox sanctuary Organized Crime and Terrorism Watch. (Continued on page 15) cal study. The remains now returning to not only of ancient Rus’ and all the eastern Kyiv were transferred in the 1980s from Slavic nations, who consider Kyivan Rus’ the Kremlin to the Nativity of the Virgin their cradle, but of the entire Orthodox Transdniester leader shows interest Mary Cathedral in Rostov-on-Don. Prince world, and calls the current government Volodymyr brought Christianity to his not to allow realization of these criminal realm in 988. (RIA Novosti) designs.” The statement went on to note: in settlement plan proposed by Kyiv “Should similar anti-Orthodox and sacrile- Yushchenko seeks Japanese investment gious plans be realized, the Orthodox com- by Jan Maksymiuk to negotiate with the criminals from munity will consider them the beginning RFE/RL Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Report Tiraspol because they represent the TOKYO – President Viktor of repression against canonical Orthodoxy, ‘tools’ of the Russian Federation in the Yushchenko said in Tokyo on July 21 that Ukrainian President Viktor a crime against the conscience and histori- region. Therefore, it’s not rational for us he expects that his ongoing five-day visit cal truth of the Orthodox people of Yushchenko met in Ukraine on July 14 to negotiate with the ‘tools’ but with the to Japan could result in attracting more with Igor Smirnov, leader of Moldova’s ones who ‘handle’ the tools – meaning, than $1 billion worth of Japanese invest- (Continued on page 22) breakaway Transdniester region. with the administration of the Russian According to the Ukrainian president’s Federation. The Republic of Moldova official website, Mr. Smirnov agreed to wants to discuss this with its partners FOUNDED 1933 cooperate with Kyiv in implementing the from Moscow even if this dialogue is a plan that Mr. Yushchenko proposed in difficult one. 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But observers from Ukraine, both demanded and mer Internal Affairs Minister Yurii Despite hopes to the contrary, the elec- are now wondering if the “scheduling error” received $1 million each from Kuchma Kravchenko, whose voice is heard on the tion of a new president of Ukraine has not is really a smokescreen covering both the administration authorities. The funds were Melnychenko tape dealing with Mr. speeded the investigation into the murder procurator general and Mr. Melnychenko. organized by Viktor Medvedchuk, then Gongadze. MVS Minister Yurii Lutsenko of opposition journalist Heorhii First, both Mr. Melnychenko and Mr. head of the presidential administration, and and former SBU chairman Ihor Smeshko Gongadze. At the Davos World Economic Gongadze’s widow, Myroslava, have long negotiated in Moscow by Ihor Bakai, then do not believe Mr. Kravchenko commit- Summit in January, President Viktor argued that President Yushchenko was head of the Directorate for State Affairs. ted suicide – especially as he was found Yushchenko promised that the Gongadze mistaken in retaining Mr. Piskun as the Mr. Bakai is now living in Moscow and is with two bullets to his head – after case would be submitted to court by May. country’s top prosecutor. Mr. Yushchenko wanted by the current Ukrainian authori- Procurator Piskun publicly called him to In fact, there is little progress beyond may belatedly be coming round to that ties on charges of stealing $300 million. give testimony. Mr. Smeshko said, “I am the arrest of two Internal Affairs Ministry same conclusion. At a meeting of central This explains why so little of the inclined not to believe that he committed officers and the release of a third on bail. and regional prosecutors, Mr. Yushchenko Melnychenko tapes were released during suicide. The information I have at the All three were involved in the Gongadze accused the Procurator’s Office of taking the 2004 election and his reluctance to moment poses huge questions as to why kidnapping in fall 2000. bribes to block investigations ordered by assist the Gongadze investigation since the murder version was not pursued” Procurator General Sviatoslav Piskun in the Internal Affairs Ministry (MVS) and President Yushchenko came to power. His (Channel 5 TV, July 11). the second week of July, visited the United Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). silence was agreed to in Moscow as part of The second suspicion rests with efforts States where he had planned to meet Mr. Yushchenko noted that top Kuchma- the monetary arrangement. to bring Mr. Kuchma to justice. First Vice Mykola Melnychenko, the former presi- era officials all seem to get advance warn- Third, the latest tapes to be released Prime Minister Mykola Tomenko dential guard who had bugged President ings to flee Ukraine ahead of their imminent make top Yushchenko officials look guilty. believes that any investigation of the Leonid Kuchma’s office. A fragment of arrest. For example, Gen. Oleksii Pukach, Newly released tapes from 2000 incriminate Gongadze affair should begin with Mr. one tape recording with Mr. Kuchma’s who was in the car alongside three other National Security and Defense Council Kuchma and Verkhovna Rada Chairman voice ordering violence against Gongadze MVS officers accused of kidnapping Mr. Secretary Petro Poroshenko, portraying him Volodymyr Lytvyn (Den, July 15). Mr. was played in Parliament on November 28, Gongadze, fled to Israel in 2004. When the as a Kuchma lackey hostile to then First Lytvyn, who was head of the presidential 2000, sparking the Kuchmagate crisis. SBU and Israeli security service jointly Vice Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, administration in 1996-2002, has never For still-unclear reasons, Mr. Piskun located Mr. Pukach in Israel and passed this who is now prime minister. Zerkalo been called in for questioning and will be did not meet Mr. Melnychenko. Instead, information through Interpol to the Nedeli/Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (July 9) described a coalition partner with Mr. Yushchenko he discussed other issues with the United Ukrainian Procurator General’s Office, this development as the recordings’ “trans- in the 2006 parliamentary election. States, such as signing an extradition somebody leaked this information to formation from a heroic deed into some- Deputy Procurator Viktor Shokin is treaty, the deportation of former Prime Segodnya (June 23), allowing Mr. Pukach to thing absolutely different. And a national now stating that Mr. Kuchma did not Minister Pavlo Lazarenko (detained and go into hiding. As Zerkalo Nedeli/Dzerkalo tragedy has been transformed into a farce.” issue the order to “deal with” Gongadze on trial in California since 2004), and the Tyzhnia (June 25) put it, “In a word, it all However, the Kuchma camp is not the (Stolichniye Novosti, June 22). Mr. extradition of former Kuchma adminis- looks professional and smells bad.” only faction that has sought to buy off peo- Shokin was deputy prosecutor in October tration officials wanted in Ukraine but Second, Mr. Melnychenko’s reputation ple involved in the Gongadze case. The 2003, when the presidential administra- now living in the United States. has been tarnished. Semen Shevchuk leaked Ministry of Justice attempted to bribe Ms. tion responded to pressure and released Mr. Melnychenko blamed Mr. Piskun for information to Ukrayinska Pravda (July 5) Gongadze with 100,000 Euros in exchange Mr. Pukach from a brief imprisonment. changing the time and place of the planned that detailed meetings in Berlin (February), for her withdrawing all future claims Failure to proceed on the Gongadze meeting. Mr. Piskun was to have taken Mr. and Moscow (August and September 2004) against the government. She described this affair will seriously damage the legitimacy between Mr. Melnychenko and Kuchma offer as “an absolutely vulgar proposal by of those who came to power through the Dr. Taras Kuzio is visiting professor at officials, with Russia’s SVR acting as inter- the Ukrainian government to shut me up” Orange Revolution. As SBU Chairman the Elliot School of International Affairs, mediaries. The Russian side was interested (Ukrayinska Pravda, June 23). Unlike Mr. Oleksander Turchynov admitted, “the George Washington University. The article in protecting Mr. Kuchma as well as ensur- Melnychenko, Ms. Gongadze refused the death of this person [Gongadze] really above, which originally appeared in The ing that fragments of Mr. Melnychenko’s offer and demanded that the Ukrainian shook up and changed the country” (2000, Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily tapes relating to corruption by Russia’s authorities punish the “organizers,” and not June 3). Without Kuchmagate, there likely Monitor, is reprinted here with permission leaders in cahoots with Mr. Kuchma did not just the MVS officers who carried out the would never have been an Orange from the foundation (www.jamestown.org). go public. murder of her husband. Revolution exactly four years later. State Traffic Inspection disbanded as administration seeks to end corruption

by Yana Sedova the Verkhovna Rada chairman, and their detect DAI speed traps. are in the habit of giving bribes. Kyiv Press Bureau children, said Hennadii Hrebniov, the “When I hear its signal, I immediately However, Mr. Dudnyk saw the prob- chair of the Office of Preventive Work in become a law abider,” Mr. Dudnyk said. lem differently. KYIV – There is an old joke about a the State Traffic Inspection. “So, the detector makes me a cultured “People are too busy,” he said. “They Ukrainian traffic officer who won $1 mil- The Patrol Service would focus more person who obeys the law. That is our do not have time for court hearings. It is lion in a lottery. When asked what he on monitoring civil order on the roads nature.” much easier to give a bribe and quickly would do with the money, he answered and on sidewalks, patrolling designated Beyond mere corruption, drivers con- go away.” that he would buy an intersection and territories and preventing criminal activi- sider the present system of punishment So, in addition to structural reforms, work the post for his own satisfaction. ty before it occurs, he said. rather complicated. When a DAI officer fines may increase soon to $10-$15, said The hidden motif of the joke is that There are about 23,000 officers in writes a report about a minor offense, he Minister of Internal Affairs Yurii nothing is more powerful than habit. DAI: 8,000 of them will enter the Patrol sends it to a court which rules on a fine. Unfortunately, as part of their habit, Lutsenko. If drivers fail to pay their Service, and the others will join the But only 25 percent of drivers actually recorded fine, the fine will rise continu- Ukrainian traffic officers are notorious Traffic Security Service. pay these fines. The rest don’t even both- for their corrupt conduct. ously until payment is made. “If they refuse, they will choose er to show up in court, and law-enforce- However, drivers think this will not “We give them bribes,” said another department of the Ministry of ment officials don’t want to waste time Volodymyr Dudnyk, 45, who has driven solve the problem. Many of them are Internal Affairs to work for,” Mr. retrieving $2 and $3 fines. sure that those who drive expensive cars a taxi cab for 27 years. “Drivers are those Hrebniov said. “Our officers have a uni- Given that the fines are so small, Mr. who make the offer. The fixed rate (a versal education. Nobody will be fired.” Hrebniov said he wonders why drivers (Continued on page 14) bribe) for minor offenses is $2 for us taxi The relationship between DAI officers drivers.” and Ukrainian drivers could best be Hence, one of the many reasons described as a perpetual confrontation. OSCE office presents survey and manual Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko Drivers had developed a system to signed a presidential order on July 19 to warn each other about DAI posts on the eliminate Ukraine’s State Traffic road. For example, if a Ukrainian was on Ukraine’s civil and commercial codes Inspection, or the DAI as it is known driving along a road and saw cars coming based on its Ukrainian acronym. from the opposite direction blinking their Organization for Security information on the application of the new The purpose of the decree is to reor- lights, this meant there was a DAI post and Cooperation in Europe codes, a well-structured basis for their ganize a police force that is corrupt several hundred meters ahead. application and serve as a guideline for beyond repair, government officials said. Mr. Dudnyk told a story about a KYIV – The Office of the OSCE future legislation,” said Dr. Stanislav During the next three months, the Ukrainian friend, having gone to Canada, Project Coordinator in Ukraine and the Shevchuk, legal adviser to the OSCE Ministry of Internal Affairs will divide who saw a small car approaching and country’s Supreme Court on July 4 pub- project coordinator in Ukraine. the DAI into two separate divisions: the blinking its headlights on the opposite lished a survey and manual on the coun- Prepared by a working group of Traffic Security Service and the Patrol side of the road. An old woman, probably try’s new civil and commercial codes. judges, lawyers and legal scholars, the Service. They will remain under the min- about 80 years old, was driving the car The publications point out the contra- publications were accompanied by a istry’s jurisdiction. and warning him about an upcoming dictions that exist between the codes, series of training courses in 12 regions of The Traffic Security Service will regu- police post. which came into force in January 2004, Ukraine. late traffic, deal with traffic jams, register “Our guys brought this tradition to and will provide judges and lawyers with Production of the survey and manual cars, issue license plates, administer driv- Canada!” he laughed. a practical commentary on applying was carried out by the OSCE project ing tests and provide escort services to Ukrainian drivers also equip their cars them. coordinator at the request of the Ukraine’s president, prime minister and with radar detectors which help them “The survey and manual provide key Ukrainian Supreme Court. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 No. 31 Ukraine’s health minister participates in UMANA scientific conference

by George Hrycelak EDMONTON – The Ukrainian Medical Association of North America (UMANA) held its 38th Biennial Scientific Conference and 31st Assembly of Delegates on June 29-July 3, in Edmonton. Participants included nearly 100 health care professionals from the U.S.A., Canada and Ukraine. The guest of honor and keynote speaker was Dr. Mykola Polishchuk, minister of health of Ukraine. The four-day event included two days of scientific presentations and one day devoted to the biennial busi- ness meeting with elections of new officers. Interspersed were a host of enjoyable social gatherings between participants from three countries and the greater Edmonton Ukrainian community. The conference venue was the Chateau Louis Hotel and Conference Center in central Edmonton. Hosts Barbara and Julian Koziak went to great lengths to ease their local and out-of-town guests’ stay at their hotel. Daria Luciw of the DL Group Inc. skillfully coordinated the registration, exhibits and programming details. The convention opened on Wednesday evening, June 29, with a welcoming reception for participants and their families. Anne McLellan, deputy prime minister of Canada; Ralph Klein, premier of Alberta; and Stephen Mandel, mayor of Edmonton, sent greetings. A pleasant surprise that evening included the presen- tation of several dances by the Volia Ukrainian Dance Edmonton host Dr. Wayne Tymchak and UMANA presidents (from left) Drs. Ihor Voyevidka, Vasyl Truchly, Ensemble and a vocal performance by the Ukrainian George Truchly, Bohdan Iwanetz, Ukraine’s Health Minister Mykola Polishchuk, Maria Hrycelak, Paul Dzul, Male Chorus of Edmonton. The reception concluded Andrew Iwach, W. Tymchak and George Hrycelak. quite late in the evening, since during the summer the sun sets at this latitude at 10:15 p.m. • Nurse Practitioner Christine Evanochko concert at the Vegreville Grandstand during the (Edmonton), “A Nurse Practitioner’s Experience in renowned annual Pysanka Festival. With the scientific Neonatal Training Programs in Ukraine”; portion of the conference concluded, the conference par- • Dr. Walter Maksymowych (Edmonton), “Ethical ticipants retired for a well-deserved rest prior to the next and Policy Issues in International research: Developing day’s biennial meeting. a National Framework for Clinical Trials.” On Saturday, the 31st Assembly of Delegates was As part of the cultural program for participants, a called to order at 8 a.m. by the outgoing president, Dr. watercolor painting workshop was conducted by well- Iwanetz. Routine business occupied the majority of the known Canadian artist Larisa Sembaliuk-Cheladyn. morning, with a bright spot evident in the 70 new mem- Several guests left the workshop with a memento of bers confirmed to full status since the previous assembly their hidden artistic talents. Thursday’s group luncheon in 2003. heard a medley of songs performed by the St. Nicholas The highlight of the business meeting was the elec- Ukrainian Catholic Parish Youth Choir, directed by tion of the new administration for the term of 2005- Joyce Chrunik-Rudiak. 2007: Andrew Iwach, M.D. (Northern California), presi- Thursday afternoon was spent on various tours of dent; Wayne Tymchak, M.D. (Edmonton), vice-presi- area churches and museums, as well as the Cheemo dent; Ariadna Holynskyj (New York Metro), president- pyrohy factory, where 2 million of the delicious elect; Boris Leheta, M.D. (Michigan), secretary; Diana dumplings roll off the assembly line each day. The Traska, O.D. (New York Metro), treasurer; Alexandra evening was dedicated to a Ukrainian “Yarmarok” Kushnir, M.D. (New York Metro), membership. (bazaar), with most of the conference participants dress- Also elected were: Robert Dzioba, M.D., Tymish ing in national attire, viewing various examples of fine Trusewych, D.O. and Adrian Kesala, M.D., Ethics locally produced arts and crafts in the Ukrainian theme. Comittee; Maria Hrycelak, M.D., archivist; Roxolana Musical entertainment was provided by the Kubasonics Horbowyj, M.D., WFUMA liaison; Adrian Baranetsky, playing on a variety of classical Ukrainian folk instru- M.D. UMANA News editor-in-chief; Roman Worobec, Minister of Health Dr. Mykola Polishchuk (left) and ments. Ph.D., UMANA editor-in-chief; Andrew Melnyk, M.D., UMANA President Dr. Andrew Iwach exchange Friday morning scientific sessions included the fol- Scientific Committee; Maria Hrycelak, M.D., Jerome greetings at the Assembly of Delegates. lowing: Maryniuk, M.D. and Ihor Voyevidka, M.D., UMANA • Dr. Roman Worobec (UMANA editor-in-chief), Foundation. The mornings of Thursday, June 30, and Friday, July “Ukraine and the Medical Information Gap”; Minister Polishchuk then addressed the gathering of 1, were dedicated to scientific presentations and discus- • Dr. Luba Komar (Toronto), “Youth for Health UMANA delegates. The health minister focused on how sion by a host of health care professionals from the Canada-Ukraine Project 1998-2006”; UMANA and similar organizations in the diaspora could U.S., Canada and Ukraine. The speakers were intro- • Dr. Victor Denysenko (Edmonton), “Transition from best be of assistance to Ukraine in this time of its med- duced by UMANA President-Elect Andrew Iwach and Immigration to Practice”; ical professional evolution. UMANA Edmonton Branch President Wayne Tymchak. • Yuri Konkin (Edmonton), “Jetstream staffing proj- Dr. Polishchuk said he feels that aid and support The speakers and their topics were: ect and recruitment of nurses from Ukraine”; given by the diaspora to date have left a positive impres- • Dr. Christine Genyk-Berezowsky Sapka, (UMANA • Dr. Ehor Gauk (Edmonton), “Medical Project sion. He suggested that Ukraine needs access to man- member, New York Metro) “Evoked Potentials in OSVITA”; agement data and training information, which it will Multiple Sclerosis.” • Veronica Izaak (Edmonton), “Translation of Nurse then use to train physicians. The medical establishment • Dr. Oleg Nadashkevich (Lviv), “Classification Credentialling Modules into Ukrainian”; needs reorganization, with emphasis on general practice Criteria for System Sclerosis-Scleroderma,” a collabora- • Dr. Andrew Iwach (UMANA member, Northern and family medicine. tive study between Lviv Medical University and the California), “Complexities of Cataracts and Glaucoma The minister admitted that the medical community Universities of Alberta and Calgary; in Ukrainians”; needs to learn more about fund-raising and philanthro- • Dr. Steven Archer (chairman of the Section of • Dr. Roman Petryshyn (Edmonton), “Development py, and how to obtain needed financing and grants for upcoming projects. He foresees cooperation and coordi- Cardiology, University of Alberta), “Erectile of Programs to Aid Disabled Children in Ukraine”; nation between various medical associations in Ukraine, Dysfunction: From Bench to Bedside to Garden”; • Dr. Volodymyr Kharytonov (Kyiv) “Pediatric and the World Federation of Ukrainian Medical • Dr. William Selezinka (UMANA member, Southern Neurology in Ukraine, and the Role that Canada and Associations (WFUMA), headquartered in Kyiv. He California) “Ukrainian American Ophthalmologist in Project OSVITA played in this development”; closed by requesting that we in the West consider send- Ukraine”; • Dr. Mykola Polishchuk (minister of health of ing experts to Ukraine to teach them how to teach their • Dr. Wayne Tymchak (UMANA Edmonton Branch Ukraine), “Current State and Prospects for Health Care health care professionals about implementing issues of president) “Is Ukraine Ready for the Atkin’s Diet?”; Restructuring in Ukraine.” medical policy. • Dr. Wladimir Wertelecki, (UMANA member, Friday afternoon and evening were devoted to sam- On Saturday evening a gala banquet gathered repre- Florida) “Birth Defects Surveillance and Prevention in pling Edmonton area examples of Ukrainian culture. sentatives of the Edmonton Ukrainian community and Ukraine,” International Charitable Fund Omni-Net for Two busloads of conference attendees toured the UMANA members in an extraordinary tribute to this Children; Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village outside of collaborative effort of international professionalism of • Dr. Tetyana Vihovska (Ukraine), “Impact of Edmonton, as well as the Basilian Father’s Museum in three countries. Present in the audience was Ed Resource Centers on Birth Defect Programs in Ukraine”; Mundare. Stelmach, minister of international and intergovernmen- A visit to Alberta would not be complete without see- tal relations in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. George Hrycelak, M.D., is executive director of the ing the world’s largest pysanka in Vegreville. The Ukrainian Medical Association of North America. evening concluded on a musical note with a memorable (Continued on page 18) No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 5

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UNA curriculum guide on Famine-Genocide is available to the public by Roma Hadzewycz The testimonies of Famine survivors, including human rights activist and former Soviet political prison- PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Ukrainian National er Sviatoslav Karavansky, follow. Association is making available to members of the Also covered in the student handouts are: the press Ukrainian community and the public copies of the curricu- cover-up, Soviet responsibility for and denials of the lum guide on the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 prepared Famine, the use of food as a political weapon and by Dr. Myron B. Kuropas, an educator and historian. Ukraine in recent times. The guide was prepared in 2003 on the occasion of Dr. Kuropas, a former UNA vice-president and today the 70th anniversary of the Great Famine; it was pub- an honorary member of the fraternal organization’s lished and funded by the UNA. General Assembly, originally developed a curriculum The guide includes two sections: one for teachers guide geared toward teaching the Ukrainian Famine in and the other geared for students. 1983. That guide was used at several teachers’ work- The 29-page teachers’ guide includes information on: shops, including those held in Chicago, Detroit and “Soviet Policy and the Forced Famine,” “The Organized Newark, N.J. Preparation of the Famine,” “The Terror-Famine in In 2003 Dr. Kuropas prepared a new curriculum Perspective,” “Was the Famine Really a Genocide?” and guide on the Famine, which was reproduced and funded “Food as a Political Weapon.” by the Ukrainian National Association. The updated and Also discussed are the press cover-up of the Famine, revised guide was employed at a major workshop for the Soviets’ direct responsibility for the Famine and secondary school teachers on the topic of the use of Soviet denials that the Famine took place. food as a political weapon that was held at the At the end of the teachers’ section is a vocabulary list, University of Denver. Dr. Kuropas was among the suggested student activities and an extensive bibliography. experts invited to address the educators. The 33-page student section consists of student hand- Theupdated guide was first used at a 2003 workshop outs, beginning with President Ronald Reagan’s 1984 on the Famine-Genocide for New Jersey’s high school proclamation on commemorating the Great Famine, and teachers held at Rider University. The program was brief articles that cover Russian imperialism, Russia and sponsored by the Julius and Dorothy Koppleman the Soviet Union, Soviet imperialism, and Ukraine and Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center at the university. its people. Copies of the curriculum guide are available from the “The Terror-Famine in Perspective,” written by the UNA Home Office. Orders may be placed by calling or eminent historian Dr. Robert Conquest, is included in writing to Steven Woch, Ukrainian National this section along with “Famine and Nationalism in Association, 2200 Route 10, Parsippany, NJ 07054; Cover of the UNA’s curriculum guide on the Soviet Ukraine: Postscript” by the late Dr. James E. (973) 292-9800, ext. 3013. Copies of the guide are free, Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933, which was prepared Mace, renowned researcher of the Ukrainian Famine. however, there is a postage charge. by Dr. Myron B. Kuropas.

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Reporter’s notebook HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T U W by Zenon Zawada A place for our genocide memorial Kyiv Press Bureau

Two weeks ago on this very page we published a letter addressed to President Viktor Yushchenko from two survivors of the Famine-Genocide that ravaged Ukraine in 1932-1933. In that letter, Nicholas Mischenko of the Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation based in Chicago and Peter Borisow of the Hollywood Trident Foundation based in Los Angeles argued emotionally, elo- EncountersPerhaps nothing unnerves in aDonetsktion, an energetic 22-year-old named quently and insightfully that the capital of Ukraine must become the site of a Communist more than a photographer. Oleksii Hlushko joined us. memorial and museum dedicated solely to the remembrance and study of the And nothing amuses an American He began to voice his opinions as Great Famine, Stalin’s genocide of the people of Ukraine. more than real, live Communists waving well, but they were starkly different from “There is no place on earth dedicated exclusively to our genocide, to our suf- red flags in the year 2005. those of Mr. Shafer. He dismissed all of fering, the Holodomor. We need such a place, and we deserve such a place,” they It’s like going on safari and seeing an Mr. Shafer’s Marxist slogans and nostal- wrote, in order to properly mourn and remember the 10 million of our kinsmen endangered species of gorillas, I suppose. gia, rolling his eyes at certain moments who perished during that time of terror. The only proper place for such a memo- Now, I thought humanity had settled and eventually telling him to buzz off. rial, they emphasized, is Kyiv. And there, they noted, “we would finally have a this whole Marxist debate by 1991: neat He wanted me to get a more informed place of our own – to be with our own and to cry with our own.” idea, but it doesn’t work. point of view and led me to the Ukraine Since that letter was published, we have learned from other news media and, in But, as I photographed supporters of Without Yushchenko pseudo-tent city particular, from a report filed by journalist R.L. Chomiak especially for the Action Natalia Vitrenko’s Progressive Socialist that he and his group of political activists Ukraine Report (an international newsletter distributed via e-mail), that there Party huddled around Donetsk’s massive set up next to Lenin’s monument. His appears to be a problem in Kyiv with the siting of the Famine-Genocide memori- Lenin statue, I was approached from behind. group is called, the Union of Those al. Several proposed sites have already been rejected and, as reported in Vechirnii “Amusing, isn’t it?” the man asked. Borne of the Revolution. (Their website Kyiv, “The issue of the final location of the memorial ... is far from completion.” “Oh yes,” I responded. “I didn’t know is www.souzrr.dn.ua) One suggested site was dropped with the reasons never revealed (possibly the Lenin was still so popular. I thought he What interested me about Mr. Hlushko construction nearby of high-rise luxury apartments); another was far off the and Stalin killed a lot of people.” was that he stated his points unemotionally tourist trail next to a floating casino on the Dnipro – clearly an inappropriate set- “Where are you from?” the fellow asked. and tried dealing with facts instead of ting; and parts of a third site are at once being suggested for a commercial proj- “I’m an American,” I responded. empty slogans or hyperbole. The guy actu- ect and being claimed by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate. And so began my conversation with ally made some valid points that broadened “Seventy-two years after the greatest disaster of the Ukrainian people there Viktor Shafer. For about 15 minutes, Mr. my understanding of Ukrainian politics. still is no place for a center to study it and keep the memory of it alive,” Mr. Shafer explained to me how life was so Below I present excerpts of our discus- Chomiak underscored. much better under the Soviet Union and sion to demonstrate what the average Morgan Williams, editor of the Action Ukraine Report, noted that in February how the American government financed young Donechanyn is thinking. I also President Viktor Yushchenko proposed that the Kyiv administration submit pro- the Orange Revolution in order to set up examine some of the statements made to posals for a Famine memorial. He commented that the city administration’s the puppet government of Viktor response that a museum of the Famine will be established before November 26 see whether they have any basis in reality. Yushchenko in order to destabilize the The more examining I did, the more I of this year, the national day of remembrance, “was never taken seriously by entire Ukrainian economy. anyone” and that “it is not possible to create a world-class museum” in such a realized that the Yanukovych camp has as He explained to me that Slavic people much a penchant for falsifying facts as short time-frame. We most emphatically concur. can live only in a socialist economy With the Yushchenko administration in power, we believe it is not too much to they do for falsifying votes. because it is a higher form of culture. Mr. Hlushko started: “We don’t agree expect a serious and well-thought-out plan to recall the 10 million brutally killed At the conversation’s peak, Mr. Shafer in 1932-1933 in Ukraine and to educate the world about this genocide that, with the term ‘Orange Revolution’ because declared, “The Soviet Union was the great- a revolution implies that all the people rose unfortunately and unbelievably, remains largely unknown and unacknowledged. est civilization the world had ever seen!” At the same time, we pray that by the time of our national tragedy’s 75th anniver- up to change the government of a nation, Whoa! It became apparent at that point sary there will be a proper memorial and museum, or at the very least the beginnings and not a certain limited number of people that Mr. Shafer hadn’t done much traveling. of one, in the capital city of our long-suffering and now independent Ukraine. who captured power and kept devastating However, there were points in our certain regions, particularly Donetsk and conversation in which I actually agreed most eastern oblasts of Ukraine, because and empathized with Mr. Shafer, for people here didn’t support Yushchenko August example, when he said: “All we have is when he was prime minister.” Turning the pages back... now anarchy and chaos in Ukraine.” “What is the goal of your organiza- After five months in Ukraine, during tion?” I asked. 1 which I’ve seen elderly women begging “The first goal is ‘Ukraine Without for pennies next to Mercedes jeeps with Yushchenko.’ Our organization wants to 22-year-olds behind the wheel, I can 2004 A year ago on August 1, The Ukrainian Weekly reported that file a lawsuit against him for splitting agree with Mr. Shafer that there’s a cer- Ukraine. He should have to answer for that Ukraine had changed its defense doctrine, omitting wording that tain lack of socio-economic structure in stated that NATO and European Union membership were a cen- in court, in front of the law, in front of the modern Ukraine. I won’t even bother dis- people. He’s the one who divided Ukraine tral priority of foreign policy. The wording was replaced with a cussing the promiscuous 13-year-olds more general statement that alluded to Ukraine’s continued Euro-Atlantic integration. into two parts – not the territory itself, but slinking about the Khreschatyk during the nation. He has said the Russian lan- The changes came after Ukraine failed to achieve any perceptible progress in its the late hours of the night. quest for membership in the two most important European institutions during summits About two minutes into our conversa- (Continued on page 10) held separately by NATO and the EU in June. The defense doctrine had originally been approved on June 15, 2004, in preparation for the NATO summit. During its Istanbul summit, NATO refused to consider a Membership Action Plan for Ukraine – the first step in the process toward membership – until the country showed that democratic changes, including notions of the rule of law, free and fair elections, and freedom of the press, had taken root. As for the EU, it continued to refuse to recognize Ukraine as a free market econo- my, even though it has already extended such status to Russia. Romano Prodi, the head of the EU’s executive body, the European Commission, expressly stated in the spring that Ukraine would never become an EU member. The announcement in the defense doctrine changes came on July 26 in Yalta, where Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma was hosting Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during a Russian-Ukrainian economic summit, with who could be considered the cap- tains of industry of both Russia and Ukraine in attendance. In Yalta, in response to journalists’queries as to why the information had not been made public earlier, various presidential press service spokespersons stated that the changes within the defense doctrine had been noted on the presidential administration website from the date the presidential decree was signed. It was learned that Ukraine had quietly made changes to its defense doctrine at the beginning of July, after its efforts at closer ties with NATO and the EU were repudiated during summits in Istanbul and Brussels, respectively. President Putin, generally restrained in his public comments, caused more interna- tional waves when he told the economic summit attendees during his presentation that intelligence operatives from Western governments for too long had attempted to derail closer relations between Russia and Ukraine. “Their agents within our countries and outside are trying to discredit the integration of Russia and Ukraine in various ways,” charged President Putin during his address to the economic summit. Zenon Zawada Andriy Purgin (left), 33, and Oleksii Hlushko, 22, stand at the mini-tent city Source: “Ukraine no longer lists membership in NATO and EU as foreign policy established in the Donetsk city center to protest Viktor Yushchenko’s presidency. goal,” by Roman Woronowycz, Kyiv Press Bureau, The Ukrainian Weekly, August 1, They belong to the Union of Those Borne of the Revolution, a youth group 2004, Vol. LXXII, No. 31. formed in opposition to Mr. Yushchenko. No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 7 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Faces and Places and large, language and national aware- ness are the two sides of the same coin. by Myron B. Kuropas Impressions But Ms. Tymoshenko’s party gets only of a visit to Kyiv about 13 percent of the overall vote in Dear Editor: opinion polls, somewhat less than the Anyone who expects to hear the second-place Communist Party. Despite Ukrainian language from passport con- her finite base, there seems to be a broad perception in Ukraine that no other politi- Higher education in Ukraine: no Bologna yet! trol officials when arriving at Kyiv’s When Prof. Mark von Hagen of process which hopes to establish a Europe- Boryspil Airport is an optimist. Figure cian has sufficient prestige to step into her shoes as the prime minister. Columbia University went after higher wide higher education system by 2010. out in advance how to be a sport. And if education in Ukraine, he hit on a topic This would allow students to move from Aerosvit, the Ukrainian airline, is your It is possible to be of two minds about language. An ephemeral view is to wait close to my heart. Speaking at the sixth country to country in Europe for the pur- carrier, the only trace of Ukrainian congress of the International Association pose of further study or employment and comes from recorded “welcome aboard” and see, and pretend that this is a side issue. Or one can say that “Russian is an of Ukrainian Studies (IAUS) in Donetsk, would provide the continent with a broad, and “fasten your seatbelts” messages. Dr. von Hagen was brilliant and blunt! high quality and advanced knowledge base. Virtually all warm bodies, passengers indigenous language of Ukraine,” as some “Despite years of post-independence The process officially started in 1999 and stewards, seem to be living out a have apparently convinced themselves. reform programs and proposals,” he when 29 European nations signed the so- journey from Vladivostok to Moscow. In more lucid moments, however, it is declared before some 600 scholars, “the called Bologna Declaration pledging, An ideal place to start learning Russian. clear that Ukraine’s language chimera is organizations which are most critical to among other things, to adopt a system of The language landscape on the street a collective identity disorder, showing IUAS have failed to construct a meaning- easily readable and comparable degrees, in Kyiv, the city that voted for independ- signs of a fatal disease. There is no ful agenda for Ukrainian nation-building a system of university credits, as well as ence by a large margin in 1991 (as it explosive ethnic conflict in Ukraine and the development of civic conscious- the promotion of European cooperation would today) and went over 60 percent mainly because it was forcibly resolved ness through the development of basic in quality assurance. Full recognition for for Viktor Yushchenko in the December in Russia’s favor some time ago. scholarship and culture.” Ukraine depends upon adherence to the 2004 presidential election, can be looked In conclusion, let’s note that, according Dr. von Hagen was especially critical following principles: international mobil- at from several angles. to a May 5 report by the official informa- of Ukraine’s Ministry of Education ity of students and staff; public responsi- If someone is of the opinion that the lan- tion agency Ukrinform, in a poll conduct- which, while providing some of the bility for higher education; autonomous guage is in much better shape today than it ed by Democratic Initiatives, 36.9 percent funds for the congress, is “rolling back universities; student participation in the was under the Soviet regime, keep dream- favor nationwide official status for the important gains in university autonomy governance of higher education. ing. This summer, after some absence, I Russian language. In a separately asked and academic freedom won since the end How far along is Ukraine in the found Kyiv about the same as it was in the question, 39.6 percent favor official status of Communist rule.” process? According to a recent report year 1943. In the mindset of the average for Russian only for regions in which a Having spent time in Ukraine as a issued by Dr. Per Nyborg, head of the resident, to speak Ukrainian connotes majority wants it. Inexplicably, the sum of Fulbright professor at the National lower social rank, the village and no class. these two numbers (76.5 percent) was Secretariat of the Bologna Follow-up University of Ostroh Academy, as well as A friend in Kyiv of mixed German- cited by Interfax and quoted in some pub- Group, Ukraine still has a way to go. mentoring professors from Ostroh work- Ukrainian lineage puts it this way: lications (including The Ukrainian “The change from 11- to 12-year primary ing on higher degrees at Northern Illinois “Russian in Kyiv is like Hochdeutsch in Weekly of May 29 per Interfax) as evi- and secondary education as a basis for University, I can relate to Dr. von Germany. Ukrainian is looked at as dence of the strongly favored language. Ukrainian secondary education is an Hagen’s remarks. Plattdeutsch”(the dialect of plain folks in Whatever the real figure, the virtual important development,” the report As an annual participant and presenter at Germany’s south). In Kyiv this notion absence of the Ukrainian language on the reads. “From the Law of Ukraine on the University of Illinois seminars organ- also pervades the business community Kyiv street is outright self-degrading. The Higher Education, revised in December ized by Prof. Dmytro Shtohryn, I have met and government bureaucracy. overall impression is reminiscent of the 2002, Bologna principles and structures various professors and university rectors Ethnic Ukrainian Russophones (EURs) mythical centaur, a creature half-man and can be clearly seen.” There is some inter- from Ukraine over the years. I have been are the face of Kyiv. They can also speak half-horse. The diaspora’s grand illusion national mobility in that some 10,000 impressed, not so much with their academ- pidgin Ukrainian when answering ques- cannot hide the reality, and the Orange students from Ukraine are studying ic competence, but with their hubris. Some tions from diaspora types, if so inclined. Revolution was not able to push it aside. abroad and 25,000 foreign students study truly believe that their universities are the Getting a large chunk of the EUR vote in Nonetheless, there is a silver lining for in Ukraine. University autonomy, howev- best in the world. Professors and students Kyiv and outside is crucial to winning those who are into museums and cathe- er, is still limited, and there is no “clear who earn higher degrees in the United elections. Mr. Yushchenko did well drals. For those who are not, the city understanding of the correlation between States, for example, are not recognized by among the EURs mainly because he was itself offers fabulous panoramic views, the degrees of bachelor, specialist and the Ministry of Education in Ukraine the only credible alternative to the corrupt architecture, and elegance that rival master, and between a master and post- because our higher degrees, their educators Kuchma regime. “We shall win together” Paris. For philosophers, the best places graduate student working on a thesis.” maintain, are nowhere near the equivalent – expressed in both languages – was his are in experience-Ukraine restaurants How valid is the Ukrainian criticism of of their degrees. The millions of U.S. dol- winning slogan. Television and radio are such as Kozak Mamai (Prorizna No. 4) American education? If we’re talking about lars spent on various academic exchange mostly in Russian. and Korchma (Khreschatyk No. 44), fol- elementary and secondary education, it is programs with Ukraine are, as of now, Ukraine’s president undoubtedly lowed by Dynamo Stadium. no secret that compared to schools in other largely a waste. knows that, to maintain his plurality base, Incidentally, my wife and I met two developed nations, the United States is near I applaud the comments of Olga he must not press the language issue. strangers on the street whose Ukrainian the bottom in math and science scores on Andriewsky, a professor of history at That’s one of the reasons why the darling was excellent. Both were Jewish. international tests. When it comes to self- Canada’s Trent University, who of nationally conscious Ukrainians of the esteem, however, we’re No. 1. Over the described higher education in Ukraine as younger generation seems to be Yulia Boris Danik years, educators committed to so-called “a bureaucratized, centralized, paternalis- Tymoshenko, not Mr. Yushchenko. By North Caldwell, N.J. “progressive education” have ravaged the tic academic culture ... Everything is American classroom with failed fads such about pecking orders.” as whole language reading, social promo- As I’ve mentioned on these pages tions, invented spelling, values clarifica- To The Weekly Contributors: before, the system now in place in Ukraine tion, etc. Recent immigrants from Ukraine is essentially the old Soviet system with We greatly appreciate the materials – feature articles, news stories, press clippings, letters to who send their children to American public the editor, etc. – we receive from our readers. 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FOR THE RECORD: Mark von Hagen’s address to IAUS congress Below is the text of the opening was assumed to be little different from and a new outpouring of generosity from become clear over time that Ukrainian address delivered on June 29 by Prof. Russia. the North American hromada (communi- studies remains a poor and struggling Mark von Hagen, president of the The Orange Revolution presented an ty). stepchild in the priorities of those organi- International Association of Ukrainian opening for the world to consider a dif- I hope that the Orange Revolution in zations. Studies (Mizhnarodna Asotsiatsiya ferent Ukraine, in which its citizens, Ukraine has only just begun and that it The academy is more than ever domi- Ukrainistiv), at the IAUS congress held especially its young people, mustered the will indeed spread to societies where the nated by the powerful interests of the in Donetsk. courage to demand a government citizenry has proven itself less coura- natural and applied sciences and is con- accountable to the Constitution and held geous in demanding decent government. tent to ignore the humanities and social Dear colleagues, on behalf of the pro- strong to a vision of non-violent regime Unfortunately, there are alarming signs sciences. It is also overly concentrated in gram and organizing committees, wel- change in the name of dignity, trans- that the opportunities of the revolution the capital to the disadvantage of the rest come to the sixth international congress parency and human rights. May God might be squandered by the government. of the country. Moreover, the academy has proved unable to integrate its of IAUS, and to Donetsk, the home of grant that the new government of The Orange Revolution and MAU IAUS founding member Ivan Dziuba and Ukraine prove itself worthy of its citi- research activities with the educational missions of the system of university and to another great Ukrainian patriot Vasyl zens and the hopes of millions of pro- The new image of Ukraine represents important opportunities and difficult higher education, an unfortunate legacy challenges for IAUS too. IAUS exists from the Soviet era that negatively today with the same mission that its affects the development of humanities What the Orange Revolution did, among founders set for it in Naples: to raise and the social sciences. awareness about and inform the interna- Of all the relevant organizations, the other things, was to remind the world that tional community, including Ukraine Ministry of Education proved to be the Ukraine has a history of progressive tradi- itself, about the richness and dilemmas most attentive to IAUS and provided the of Ukraine’s present and past. largest sum of funding for the congress. tions: religious pluralism, civic activism, How might this best be accomplished Without the ministry’s support, we ethnic tolerance, Kozak democracy. in the future? I propose this evening sev- would not be meeting here in Donetsk. eral critical perspectives that are based The IAUS bureau took an important step on my best intentions for the future of of insisting that foreign attendees make both IAUS and Ukraine and hope that their own travel, hotel and restaurant Stus. Although the Donbass has been gressive citizens of other countries, espe- these frank observations will provoke a arrangements, thereby freeing up the subjected over the past two centuries to cially in Russia and Belarus, but even discussion among the attendees at this small budget to cover the costs of intensive russification and deukrainian- “older” democracies such as the United sixth congress in Donetsk. Ukrainian participants. ization in the name of industrial progress States, which has become notorious for At one level, IAUS is undergoing a The Ministry of Education and and economic development, the region its violation of international law and its process of maturation, which might also Science also raised considerable alarm was once the home of Cossacks and later assault on civil liberties at home and be seen as a crisis of growth. Never with its plans to recentralize its control foreign colonists invited by Russian abroad. before in the history of the association over the sphere of higher education, emperors and empresses to replace the What the Orange Revolution did, have the organizers faced over 1,300 thereby rolling back the important gains deported and defeated Kozak hosts. All among other things, was to remind the applicants for a congress that has tradi- in university autonomy and academic these groups built what today is south- world that Ukraine has a history of pro- tionally accommodated 600 to 800 par- freedom that were won since the end of eastern Ukraine. gressive traditions (in addition to the Donetsk therefore is a very different negative features that are better known Ukraine than those Ukraines that have and often misunderstood): religious plu- Despite years of post-independence been the host sites for prior congresses of ralism, civic activism, ethnic tolerance, IAUS in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Kozak democracy. reform programs and proposals, the Chernivtsi, but each of those cities also During the past several years I have organizations that are most important to represented very different Ukraines, with been immersed in the history of Ukraine different historical paths and contempo- during the years of war and revolution IAUS have failed to construct a meaning- rary complexions. (1914-1923); the more I become familiar Our local host, Volodymyr with the complex legacies of Mykhailo ful agenda for Ukrainian nation-building Shevchenko, rector of Donetsk National Hrushevsky, Andrey Sheptytsky, and the development of civic consciousness University, is a good illustration of the Volodymyr Vynnychenko, even Pavlo region’s Ukrainianness. He attended a Skoropadsky, the more I am impressed through the support of basic scholarship Ukrainian primary school near his native by those progressive currents in modern Dnipropetrovsk, but soon transferred to a Ukrainian politics and culture. and culture. Russian high school. He achieved inter- Since Chernivtsi, I have come to national renown in his field of physics know these fellows even better and have and is a member of the Academy of even greater respect for them and the ticipants. Many colleagues were disap- communist rule. Fortunately, leading Sciences of Ukraine and honorary mem- ways in which they faced the difficult pointed by their not being included in the Ukrainian universities, among them, ber of other national academies. And he ethical and political dilemmas into which program because of local and financial Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Lviv National has been chair of the local Prosvita soci- the 20th century threw them, and how constraints. Although the overwhelming University, and the Ukrainian Catholic ety and the proud father of the University they approached those dilemmas with majority of the applicants came from University, in the spirit of the Orange Lycee which turns out more national dignity, tolerance and a good measure of Ukraine itself, and Kyiv in particular, the Revolution, rallied to the defense of uni- Ukrainian-language Olympiad winners honesty, especially by today’s political range suggests that Ukrainian studies is versity autonomy and the ministry has than any other institution in the country. standards. no longer an endangered species. engaged in a positive dialogue. Thank you, Pane Volodymyre, for all Indeed, I often wonder as I commune But is it a healthy species? The orga- Finally, the continuing refusal of the your cooperation, your patience, and pro- with my book’s heroes, where are such nizational headaches that have attended VAK [Vyscha Atestatsiyna Komisia, or fessionalism, and for your sincere leaders today in the world? Before the the first congress in Kyiv have not much Higher Attestation Commission] to Ukrainian hospitality since we first met. revolutions of the early 20th century changed over time, despite heroic efforts acknowledge foreign educational degrees there were Taras Shevchenko, Ivan In addition to Rector Shevchenko and by the bureau, organizing committee, is evidence not of intellectual superiority Franko, Mykhailo Drahomanov and oth- his team, many other colleagues helped program committee and Donetsk of Ukrainian scholarship to its foreign ers; since then, other heroes have make this congress possible, but special University administration to set a new counterparts, but of persistent defensive emerged, from the “Shestydesiatnyky” thanks go to Yaroslav Hrytsak, Frank path for the organization. provincialism, and needs to be addressed and Ukrainian Helsinki Group to the Sysyn and Diana Howansky, as well as And here we touch on the sensitive seriously as Ukraine takes a more active young people of Pora. the Kyiv MAU office. role in Bologna process. This other Ukraine is being increas- issue of IAUS’s relations with and con- tinuing dependence on several institu- The vice minister for humanitarian The Orange Revolution ingly acknowledged internationally. affairs and the Ministry of Culture have When The Ukrainian Museum reopened tions which have become impediments to and Ukraine’s international image future progress, unless those relation- allowed for the deterioration of the Kyiv in New York after several years of funda- Lavra Cave Monastery, are doing little to Although I have never overcome the ships and those institutions are reformed: mental redesign and reconceptualization, prevent the collapse of the local archival feeling that I am the accidental (vypad- the National Association of its organizers chose wisely an inaugural system, and have stood by while a once- kovyi) president of this organization, in Ukrainianists, the vice minister for exhibit not of pysanky or Shevchenko vibrant Ukrainian film industry declined the past three years that I have served in portraits – and I defend the continuing humanitarian affairs, the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, the to the point of virtual collapse. that office, I have had many moments of importance of both of these more tradi- Moreover, measures restricting the Ministry of Education and Science, and gratification and pride, but perhaps none tional subjects of Ukrainian culture – but Russian language and culture do not in the Ministry of Culture. so powerful as those of a long-distance of the revolutionary sculptures of and of themselves help to strengthen the First to the National Association, observer of the Orange Revolution. Alexander Archipenko, a leading figure Ukrainian language and culture. A more which – until the last minute – demon- Three years ago, when we last con- in the international avant-garde of the proactive pro-Ukrainian policy needs to strated less initiative than the Italian and vened, Ukraine’s reputation, frankly, was 20th century. be pursued in film, mass media, and the Polish organizations. This is lamentable not a positive one in the international New programs in Ukrainian studies offering of convenient and professional arena. Its present under Kuchma was have opened at the University of Ottawa because the National Association is Ukrainian-language courses. Personally, summarized as corruption, apathy and in the capital of Canada with a chair in meant to be the backbone of IAUS. The I think the more languages a citizen provincialism, while its past was indicted political science; at Stanford University; national association itself is deeply knows, the better for Ukraine and the for xenophobic nationalism, especially and elsewhere. Older programs have embedded in its relations with the acade- violent anti-semitism, backwardness, and been boosted by the Orange Revolution my and ministries; all the while it has (Continued on page 18) No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 9 24th annual Conference on Ukrainian Subjects focuses on Ukraine and Europe by Leonid Rudnytzky Rutgers University of New Brunswick, were delivered by Raisa Bratkiv, president Sochocky, independent researcher of spoke on “The Encounter of Ukrainian of the Foundation for the Advancement of Toronto, who offered a comparative study of URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Among Philology with Western Methodological Ukrainian Studies at the University of Illa Kyriak’s “Sons of the Soil” and Thomas the most enduring Ukrainian scholarly tra- Strategies.” Illinois, and Julian Kulas, president of the Bell’s “Out of this Furnace.” Jean-Pierre ditions in the United States is the annual Contemporary topics tended to domi- Heritage Foundation of First Security Cap of Easton, Pa., spoke on the novel Conference on Ukrainian Subjects organ- nate the presentations and discussions, Federal Savings Bank in Chicago. In addi- “Public Enemy” by Olena Zvychaina, and ized and sponsored each summer by the particularly those concerning the momen- tion, the consul general of Ukraine in Assya Humesky, University of Michigan, Ukrainian Research Program at the tous Orange Revolution and its after- Chicago, Borys Bazylevskyi, addressed Ann Arbor, read a paper on traditional poetry University of Illinois at Urbana- math. Oleksander Sych, State University the assembly on the topic of Ukraine after titled “Rebirth of the Village – Rebirth of the Champaign. To date, 24 such weeklong of Oil and Gas in Ivano-Frankivsk, spoke the Orange Revolution. Ukrainian Spirit.” Prof. Hunczak, Rutgers conferences have been held with the partic- on the role of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Two diametrically different points of University at Newark, N.J., shared his first- ipations of scholars from around the globe. Organization in the Revolution; the jour- view were apparent in the papers dealing hand account on the independence referen- For a quarter of a century the nalist Luka Kostelyna spoke on the eco- with Ukrainian-Polish relations: a rather dum of December 1, 1991. Ukrainian Research Program at the nomics of Ukraine before and after the pessimistic view was espoused by Other papers included such topics as University of Illinois has been headed by Revolution; Ludmila Wussyk, from Los Volodymyr Serhijchuk, Taras Shevchenko “Ukraine and Russia – Two different Prof. Dmytro Shtohryn, who has served Angeles, offered an overview of the opin- National University, Kyiv, in his presenta- Civilizations” by Tetyana Lysenko, as its spiritus muvens. ions expressed in the European press on tion titled “What kind of Advisor to Ukraine George Washington University; “Trends All the papers delivered have been pre- this event; and Nadezhda Banchik, from will Poland be in the 21st Century?” An and Characteristics of Immigrants and served in the archives of the program in San Jose, Calif., spoke on the ethnic optimistic one, titled “Polish-Ukrainian Temporary Visitors from Ukraine to the audio/visual form, and some selected con- minorities and refugees in Ukraine before Relations During the Last 15 Years: The United Satets: 1995-2005” by Oleh tributions have been published in a separate and after the revolution. Path of Kyiv to European Integration Leads Wolowyna, Informed Decisions Inc.; and collection titled, “Ukraine: The Challenges The general topic of the conference, through Warsaw,” authored by Rafal “Ukrainian Culture in America” by Myron of World War II” (University Press of “Ukraine and Europe,” was addressed by Wolski, the consul of the Republic of Kuropas, Northern Illinois University. America, 2003), under the editorship of several scholars. Martha Trofimenko Poland in Munich, was read in Ukrainian The Program Committee, consisting of Prof. Taras Hunczak and Prof. Shtohryn. offered a discourse titled “Ukraine and translation by Swiatoslaw Trofimenko, Profs. Fizer, Hunczak, Rudnytzky, An index listing all the papers read at these the European Union: Reflections in the University of Delaware. Both presentations Jaroslav Rozumnyj, and Ms. Sochocky, conferences with brief commentaries is Mirror of International Law.” Oksana were followed by a spirited discussion. and chaired by Prof. Humesky, is already scheduled to appear in the near future. Zavalina, University of Illinois at A session chaired by Volodymyr planning the 25th Conference on This year’s conference was held from Urbana-Champaign, offered insight into Chumachenko, University of Illinois at Ukrainian Subjects which, among other June 29 to July 2; its topic was “Ukraine and the level of cooperation between Ukraine Urbana-Champaign, was dedicated to topics, will include several sessions on Europe.” The program of the conference and the West in the area of economics; libraries and informational science. It the life and works of Ivan Franko (1856- was comprised of 10 sessions, which includ- and Leonid Rudnytzky spoke on contem- featured papers by Prof. Shtohryn and 1916). The committee welcomes ideas ed two keynote addresses: Raisa porary “Ukrainian Culture in Germany.” Olena Pogrebna of the National and suggestions regarding this jubilee Ivanchenko, International University of Following the opening remarks by Prof. Parliamentary Library of Ukraine. conference from scholars and researchers Kyiv, read a paper titled “Ukraine – The Shtohryn at the banquet, thoughtful and One special session was devoted to litera- both in the United Sates and abroad. A Eastern Shield of Europe,” and John Fizer, informative greetings to the participants ture. Papers were presented by Christina call for papers will be issued shortly.

Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute discusses Orange Revolution from different perspectives by Mykola Polyuha CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Although the Ukrainian Orange Revolution may have faded from the pages of newspapers, discussion and retrospective understanding of the event is just beginning. On July 18, the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute featured a roundtable dis- cussion titled “This Year in Ukraine: Personal Observations and Perspectives.” The event significantly deviated from other debates on the topic since the pre- senters were not professional economists, political ana- lysts, or state officials, but current Harvard Ukrainian Summer School students, many of whom had never made public speeches in English before. Given that the speakers were from different countries and had different educational backgrounds, the audience received an opportunity to hear about the Orange Revolution from a variety of perspectives. The eight presenters included students and young scholars from Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Canada and the United States. Bohdan Yankovyy (Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv) talked about his work as a Yushchenko campaign activist. Being a resident of Kyiv, he helped protesters by providing them with shelter, food and Alexander Dillon warm clothes. Mr. Yankovyy vividly described the During the roundtable on the Orange Revolution (from left) are: Bohdan Yankovyy, Olena Zaplotynska, atmosphere of revolutionary Kyiv and emphasized the Maria Ratanova, Tammy Lynch, Oksana Jackim, Ania Golab, and Taras Kurylo role of church and youth organizations during the crisis. Another presenter from Ukraine, Olena Zaplotynska Yanukovych propaganda on Russian TV channels and of view of a historian. He warned against the oversim- (Institute of Ukrainian History, National Academy of about ordinary Russians’ reactions to the events. plifications of the Orange Revolution perpetrated by Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv), said that due to health prob- Ania Golab (University of Warsaw) presented the sit- many mainstream newspapers, such as describing the lems she was unable to participate actively in the uation as it was perceived from Poland. Remembering positions of the two presidential contenders simply as protests but gave her friends on the “maidan” their own struggles from the time of Solidarity, Polish “pro-Western” or “pro-Russian.” These oversimplifica- (Independence Square) moral support and kept them people felt great sympathy toward Ukrainians, which tions, he said, distorted the events and prevented proper informed about the reaction of the world community. manifested itself in ways ranging from wide media cov- understanding of them. Oleksandra Kunovska (Ukrainian Catholic erage in Poland to encouragement from the arts commu- Ms. Lynch, who monitored the Ukrainian elections University, Lviv) articulated the western Ukrainian per- nity. Despite the fact that the elections were held during on behalf of the State Department, said that she devel- spective. She talked about the students of Lviv universi- the Catholic Christmas holidays, more than 3,000 Polish oped great admiration for Ukrainians. “Anybody who ties who gathered at the Ivan Franko monument to observers came to Ukraine to monitor the voting. Being met Ukrainian people at that time would not say that the protest against fraudulent elections. “I’ve never been so one of the observers herself, Ania Golab testified: “I revolution was organized by somebody from outside. proud to be a student... We created a new nation!” Ms. saw tiredness in the eyes of many Ukrainians. But they This revolution indeed came out of the heart of Kunovska concluded emotionally. were really determined to stay until victory. In Poland, Ukrainians,” she stated. Much attention was drawn to the presentations by the revolution was called the ‘Orange enthusiasm.’ ” The presentations were followed by a vibrant discus- Russian and Polish students. Maria Ratanova (European Finally, Oksana Jackim (University of sion in which those present addressed the current political University, St. Petersburg), a Ph.D. student and a jour- Massachusetts), Taras Kurylo (University of Alberta) and economic situation in Ukraine. From the responses of nalist for Kommersant, described the attitudes of and Tammy Lynch (Boston University) provided North the Ukrainian students, it was obvious that their level of Russians toward Ukraine before, during and after the American perspectives. enthusiasm had in no way decreased. Having acknowl- revolution. “I am writing a dissertation on Ukrainian During the revolution, Ms. Jackim published several edged the existence of many problems, the speakers were avant-garde artists and, even one year ago, I had a hard articles in local Massachusetts newspapers, increasing generally optimistic about the future of Ukraine. time trying to find a Ukrainian-Russian Dictionary in American awareness of the situation. She also volun- Alexander Dillon, director of the Harvard Ukrainian St. Petersburg. Nobody was interested in Ukrainian teered to translate news from Ukraine for U.S. broad- Summer School, called the roundtable discussion “one matters. Now, the situation has changed,” Ms. Ratanova casting agencies. of the most important events held at the Harvard noted. She also spoke about the massive pro- Mr. Kurylo spoke about the revolution from the point Ukrainian Research Institute this year.” 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 No. 31

assistant chair of the Donetsk Regional State As for the comparisons with Poland, that nation iden- Encounters in Donetsk Administration. Such increases are planned for August tifies itself as a democratic state, not the federal republic (Continued from page 6) however, although the rate is still unknown, he said. that its neighbor, Germany, is. The distribution of tax guage will be the language of the minority, but according “Do you think Boris Kolesnykov is an innocent revenues is also a bit more complex there. Polish gov- to statistics, about 85 percent of Ukrainians speak Russian. man?” I asked. ernment revenues are based on income taxes derived How can you make the Russian language a minority in “Our organization supports Boris Kolesnykov ... from physical entities (individual income-earners) and Ukraine? This is an obvious example of a national destruc- because this man didn’t break the law ... All his consti- legal entities (business enterprises), according to Anna tion between two peoples – between southeastern and tutional rights were violated, and there are 28 laws that Skovronska-Luchynska, an advisor-envoy at the Polish west-central Ukraine. He’s igniting fires.” were broken by the procurator general ... The commis- Embassy in Kyiv. This is definitely a difficult issue. A full 85.2 percent sion created by the Rada in order to examine the case of The Polish central government receives about 35 per- of Ukrainian citizens said Ukrainian, not Russian, is the Kolesnykov detention made a conclusion that his cent of taxes collected from the physical entities and 90 their “ridna mova,” or their first language, according to constitutional rights were infringed upon and he should percent of the taxes collected from business enterprises, the 2001 census. I’ll be the first to admit that it is highly be released on his own recognizance. But neither she said. Given that taxes obtained from businesses are doubtful that 85 percent of Ukrainians actually speak [Internal Affairs Minister Yurii] Lutsenko nor always significantly higher than those received from Ukrainian on a day-to-day basis. However, the census [Procurator General Sviatoslav] Piskun agreed to a individuals, Mr. Hlushko’s estimate of only 30 percent didn’t pose the question that way. compromise – they are afraid that this man will be able of revenues going to the Polish central government The Union of Those Borne of the Revolution will to lead the people into rebellion as a Party of the can’t be accurate. likely support the Party of the Regions in the March 26 Regions leader because of unjust actions against At this point, I was graced by the presence of the parliamentary elections, Mr. Hlushko said. Ukrainian people.” leader of the Union of Those Borne of the Revolution, “Though the party is not a well-structured opposi- It has yet to be proven whether Mr. Kolesnykov, a Andrii Purgin, who took the baton from Mr. Hlushko. tion,” he said, “we cannot accept the problems that Donetsk businessman and former oblast council head, “The Donetsk Oblast produces 25.5 percent of the appear now when Yushchenko dominates: 18 percent actually broke the law. Authorities arrested him on April GDP in Ukraine. Those five Western oblasts, where inflation, though they say that they don’t have such a 6 and charged him with extortion. He allegedly led a about 5 million people live, produce about 2.5 percent problem ... And they always have quarrels with Russia campaign of threats and violence, including two bomb- of GDP,” Mr. Purgin pointed out. ... We are Slavs, we are one nation. I have relatives in ings and a spray of machine-gun fire, to pressure anoth- In fact, the Donetsk oblast accounted for 12.4 percent Russia and Belarus and I do not want them to become er businessman into selling his shares in a Donetsk of Ukraine’s GDP in 2002, the latest such figure avail- our enemies as Ukraine used to be their enemy.” department store at a discount. able, according to Tatiana Nikitenko, the assistant chair I’m not sure where Mr. Hlushko obtained his economic No lawsuit has been filed against Procurator General of the Main Economics Administration in Donetsk. statistics. In fact, inflation during the first half of 2005 was Piskun for breaking any laws in his handling of the I asked the 33-year-old Mr. Purgin to give me three 6.4 percent, according to the State Statistics Committee. Kolesnykov case, according to his office. A Verkhovna examples of how life has gotten worse in Donetsk since Mr. Hlushko echoed a pan-Slavic sentiment that is Rada commission examining the upholding of constitu- Mr. Yushchenko assumed the presidency. very popular in eastern Ukraine and one often asserted tional rights in Ukraine also examined the Kolesnykov “One example is in Donetsk-Makiyivka, where a big by the Russian Orthodox Church for obvious political detention and determined that some law-enforcement metallurgical integrative business was closed. There are reasons. Many anti-Yushchenko protests feature the flag procedures were violated, said Yurii Syrotiuk, the editor 3,000 unemployed now. The second example is that for of Derzhava, a pro-Russian political organization that of Deputat, a prime website for Verkhovna Rada analy- the last one and a half months miners haven’t received a supports the Moscow Patriarchate. sis. However, the committee never recommended any salary. People have been working without pay. There has However, when one considers that Poland and Slovakia action and never determined that Mr. Kolesnykov should been a total reduction in places to work. My mother works are Slavic nations that have managed to integrate into the be released from custody, Mr. Syrotiuk explained. as a mayor’s substitute in a suburb. They decreased the European Union, then the whole pan-Slavic concept “Do you consider yourself to be a patriot of Ukraine staff of the health center, closed a kindergarten, a library becomes quite moot. Besides, what good is all this pan- or Russia?” I querid. ... Teaching jobs are being cut,” Mr. Purgin continued. Slavism if all it means is Moscow dictates to the region? “I am a patriot of Donbas,” Mr. Hlushko replied. “I “These things are happening because the local budget is Besides, “don’t you think Russia has had a lousy am a patriot of my motherland. Why am I forbidden to empty. The economy has been deteriorating so quickly political record in Ukraine?” I asked. speak Russian? I speak Russian and I think in Russian. I you can’t even keep track of the process.” “In history? Maybe ...” Mr. Hlushko paused. “Yes. But can speak Ukrainian, but I like Russian more because Apparently, the metallurgical business to which Mr. we should not live in the past. We must look forward to the this is the language of my father, grandfather and great- Purgin is referring has been under repair between May future, not look back. Why, during two years when grandfather ... I learned it with my mother’s milk. and August, said Hennadii Diukarev, the first assistant Yanukovych was a prime minister, we had had friendly Russian is more native to me than Ukrainian.” chair of the Main Industry and Energy Administration. relations with Russia and now we’ve got many problems ... Mr. Hlushko makes an interesting point. During my No one was laid off from this metallurgical plant, he with oil and gas. From July 1, municipal service payments time in Donetsk, I was surprised to learn that many said, and all industrial workers in the oblast have been have increased. For example, in the Makiyivka-Donetsk Donetsk residents consider themselves Donechany paid to the last kopiyka, he said. region, municipal service payments have already risen 120 above all other identities, including Ukrainian. Unemployment in Ukraine was 3.0 percent in June percent in accordance with the prime minister’s decree.” They have a unique loyalty to the Donbas, similar to 2005, compared with 3.5 percent as of December 2004, but In fact, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko issued a how the Lemko people prefer to refer to their ethno- these statistics are largely meaningless because we all know recommendation for higher payments, not a decree. graphic region, instead of saying they are Polish or unemployment is far worse in Ukraine. The Ukrainian gov- And, so far, no costs for municipal services have Ukrainian. ernment hasn’t posted any unemployment statistics per increased, said Valentyn Vasylovskyi, an aide to the And I can’t blame someone for wanting to speak in oblast on the State Statistics Committee website. the language that his family has spoken for “They want to transform me into a Ukrainian though generations. At a minimum, however, a there are eight different nationalities mixed in my Ukrainian citizen should at least know how blood, and my surname is Russian ... I feel as though to speak, read and write Ukrainian. Actually I’m a Donechanyn. I’m not a Russian or a Ukrainian. If using the Ukrainian language can only they want to force me to join the Orthodox Church of depend upon a person’s free will, unless an the Kyiv Patriarchate where they pray in Ukrainian, employer requires that Ukrainian be spoken. when the whole Orthodox Church prays in Old Church I continued the conversation by asking: Slavonic, then they’ve created a new religion, because “Do you think there will always be prob- that is not the Orthodox belief,” Mr. Purgin related. lems in Ukraine?” “I want to be a citizen of this country, but I want my “This situation is becoming a boiling rights to be respected. If my rights are to be respected, pot. And if the government keeps on being then in Donetsk 99 percent of people speak Russian and inactive and passive, the wave of rebellion 70 percent do not understand Ukrainian. People are will rise ... After the congress in forced to fill out inquiries or some other documents and Severodonetsk, he [Mr. Kolesnykov] was to read these in Ukrainian, especially old people. There first accused on a charge of separatism. But is one more problem – to find a non-Ukrainian televi- sion channel. My grandparents have a problem of find- we didn’t want to separate Ukraine ... We ing out what is going on in the country ... They lived in wanted to divide it economically ... Let the times of the USSR and it wasn’t necessary to know Ukraine be together, but we wanted the Ukrainian. Their rights are being violated,” he argued. money we earn in metallurgy, in mines to No one’s transforming Mr. Purgin into a Ukrainian stay here. We give 70 percent into the treas- because he is already a Ukrainian just by the fact of his ury and live on 30 percent. And I want this citizenship. Unfortunately for him, I suppose, there is no situation to be the other way around as in Donechanyn citizenship status available – or not yet any- Poland, which is a federal state. In Poland, way. And no one is forcing Mr. Purgin to join any Church. they give 30 percent, and they live on 70 According to the 2001 census, 24.1 percent of Donetsk percent. Why can’t we do that?” Mr. Oblast residents said their native language is Ukrainian. Hlushko asked. Therefore, I find it very hard to believe that 70 percent of Mr. Hlushko’s comment reflects a senti- Donechany don’t understand Ukrainian. Having just ment in Donetsk that the oblast is an eco- spent nearly a week in Donetsk, I think Mr. Purgin can nomic powerhouse frequently exploited by sleep well at night because there is no shortage of the central Ukrainian government. It proved Russian-language television programming in Donetsk, or challenging to reach a government official in Lviv for that matter. to confirm whether Mr. Hlushko’s statement “Don’t you think that Kuchma and his clan are guilty Zenon Zawada was true. However, it states in Ukraine’s of stealing and corruption?” I asked. Supporters of Natalia Vitrenko carry the red flags of her Budget Code that 75 percent of tax revenues Mr. Purgin’s answer didn’t make much sense: “If our Progressive Socialist Party in front of the towering Lenin mon- from physical entities, or individual income government and our president are not implicated, ument in the Donetsk city center on Ukraine’s Constitution earners, goes to the oblast budget. Further Day, June 28. tax information was not available. (Continued on page 11) No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 11

THE NEWS FROM HERE

In this week’s “News from Here” each School in Jersey City, with the guidance the school’s treasurer, Lucyna with Rotary International, which has story focuses on community. In of their teacher, and help from the com- Demjanuch, to count the donations they contributed aid to Ukraine for many Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn., a Ukrainian E- munity, exceeded their goal in raising had received. There were whoops of joy years. Readers may contact Peter Gazette was recently established to keep the funds for the Gift of Life, a cause to when the count reached $1,050, but there Oleschuk at (516) 561-5311 for informa- Ukrainian community in that area, Chicago which they became devoted. was more in another coffee tin. The total tion about this program, and how to con- and New York informed of Ukrainian news. Marie Lasky, a lay religious teacher at turned out to be $1,500, and the kids tribute. The Ukrainian community in Jersey City the Ukrainian school, asked students to were ecstatic. CHESAPEAKE CITY, Md.: worked together and raised $1,500 for the do something to benefit a person in need Next, Ms. Lasky invited representa- Community faces development Gift of Life program, which will pay for a during Lent. After some brainstorming, tives of the Gift of Life to come and child’s operation in Kyiv. Finally, the the children settled on the idea of helping accept the check. Chesapeake City, a town divided into Ukrainian community in Maryland is con- a fellow Ukrainian child. With help from Teodor Oleschuk, president of the Gift north and south by the Chesapeake and cerned about the impact that development in Ms. Lasky the pupils selected the of Life, and Petro Oleschuk, executive Delaware Canal, is home to a Ukrainian the area where Ukrainians have lived since Ukrainian American Freedom vice-president, visited Jersey City, where community that was first established at the beginning of the 19th century will have Foundation’s Gift of Life program as the they were presented with the $1,500 that the beginning of the last century. In the on their community. recipient of their donation. Needless to the Ukrainian community had collected. next 10 to 15 years land that the Sisters say, the project had the wholehearted The Saturday School’s Mother’s MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, Minn.: of St. Basil, an order that is part of the support of the Ukrainian Saturday Committee prepared coffee, cake, sand- Ukrainian E-Gazette debuts Ukrainian Catholic Church, sold to a school’s director, Dr. Orest Polischuk. wiches and home-baked goods for the developer will have been annexed into On April 1 the e-mail based newsletter, The children’s idea for their group guests and the community to enjoy dur- Chesapeake City. Ukrainian E-Gazette had its debut. The project incorporated the rest of the Jersey ing the exciting visit. Federal-style town houses and single- Ukrainian American Wave Association and City Ukrainian community when the pas- The hard work of the students of family homes built close together along “Radio Ukraine” created the newsletter to tor, Father Vasyl Putera, agreed to Jersey City’s Ukrainian Saturday School tree-lined streets will form the new land- inform the Twin Cities, Chicago and New include announcements about the fund- has allowed a child in Kyiv to receive an scape of the 154 acres. York City diasporas of upcoming commu- raiser in the church bulletin and to make operation. Through this project the chil- This sale poses a problem to the St. nity events. Over 1,000 recipients wel- weekly announcements during Lent. dren not only helped somebody else, but Rose of Lima Parish because now there comed the premier of Ukrainian E-Gazette. Thus, the entire community, including they also saw what they could do when is no opportunity to expand its cemetery, The parent of “Radio Ukraine,” UAWA the local branch of the Selfreliance they worked as a team. in which several Ukrainian families are members Lyuba Megits, Yosyf Sabir, Ukrainian American Credit Union, According to community activist buried, including Breza, Hrycek, Kulick, Romana Vasylevych, Kristina Zaluckyj whose manager is Yaroslav Zaviysky, Zenon Halkowycz, Ms. Lasky empow- Maksyn, Terpeluk, Losten, Zukowsky, and “Radio Ukraine” producer Mykola became involved and supported the fund ered the group to come together, and Luzetsky, Blendy and Ortynski. Megits work collectively on community drive. with minimal input from teachers and Chesapeake City’s mayor, Robert events. With time they realized that an The children’s goal was to raise parents, the children realized their poten- Bernstine, stated that he understood that additional form of efficient advertising $1,000. When the drive ended around tial for success when they did so. some land would be preserved, but it is was necessary, especially at the start of Eastertime they sat with Ms. Lasky and The Gift of Life program is partners unclear whether that land will be avail- the Orange Revolution. Numerous list- able for expansion of St. Rose’s ceme- serves emerged in the community during tery. the political turmoil, keeping everyone Chesapeake City is located in Cecil abreast of the latest developments. County, which borders southeastern Shortly after the end of the Orange Pennsylvania and Delaware’s New Revolution it became evident that com- Castle County. Cecil County’s open munity announcements needed to be space and convenient location, between consistently advertised in electronic Philadelphia and Baltimore, has spurred fashion, complementing regular great population increases over the past announcements on the radio. Hence the several years. According to the Sunday birth of Ukrainian E-Gazette. News Journal, a Maryland-based news- Design layout for Ukrainian E-Gazette paper, in 1990 Cecil County’s population is produced by DreamGlance, Inc. was 71,000 and today it has grown to Editors for Ukrainian E-Gazette are Mr. 90,000. This population is expected to Megits and Ms. Zaluckyj. To be included increase to over 100,000 in less than a in Ukrainian E-Gazette’s distribution list, decade. post a community event free of charge, Though some residents are hesitant or advertise a Ukrainian organization for about the growth of Chesapeake City a small fee, readers may e-mail because of their concern about the city [email protected]. losing its identity, Mayor Bernstine states JERSEY CITY, N.J.: that Chesapeake City must expand in School kids become empowered order to improve its day to day opera- Students of the Ukrainian Saturday School in Jersey City present the funds they tions. This past spring a group of motivated raised to representatives of Gift of Life. Seen in the front row (from left) are: students at the Ukrainian Saturday Teodor Oleschuk, Marie Lasky, Dr. Orest Polischuk and Father Vasyl Putera. – compiled by Roxolana Woloszyn

ronments such as Donetsk. However, body, no evidence. That is the way Messrs. Hlushko and Purgin, they con- Encounters... aside from some homeless people, per- Kolesnykov was imprisoned. Somebody cluded by saying that businesses are (Continued from page 10) haps, no one is starving to death in said that Kolesnykov tried to get shares afraid to contribute to their organization. they’re not guilty of what happened. The Donbas. One cannot even compare the from that person. And Kolesnykov has Instead, they can rely only on small oligarchs are guilty, and bad Donbas [a improved economic conditions of today been in prison for four months. The same donations made by regular folks who slang reference to the region’s criminal with those hyperinflationary conditions situation could never happen in Europe, visit their stand at the city center. element] is guilty ... If the government is of the early 1990s, when stores were vir- but in Ukraine everything is possible. I don’t know whether to believe that or not implicated, and it cannot master the tually empty. It’s as though their con- Even if they prove that Kolesnykov is not not. power they were given, maybe we do not tempt for Mr. Yushchenko has created a guilty, another person will come and tes- What’s clear is that, if they are acting on need such a government and such a presi- tunnel vision in these people’s minds. tify that he threatened and so on.” their political beliefs, then Mr. Hlushko, dent.” “We were separated for about 600 years When appearing before the Verkhovna Mr. Purgin and their colleagues at the Pessimism is growing in Ukraine and and then we were united and told to live in Rada two days after Mr. Kolesnykov’s Union of Those Borne of the Revolution there are many problems in the economy, this country and that we are one nation. We arrest, Internal Affairs Minister Lutsenko have a lot of fears about Ukraine’s future. Mr. Purgin said. are not one nation. In Western region, they said no laws were broken in Mr. They seem to perceive that they don’t fit “The specific structure of Donbas is do not speak Ukrainian. Half of their lan- Kolesnykov’s arrest. As for accusations that into a society that is increasingly asserting that 5 million people live on a small guage is Polish. It’s a mixture of Slovak Mr. Kolesnykov was arrested without suffi- its independent, Ukrainian identity. piece of land. I have no potatoes in my and Polish and so on. It’s not a Ukrainian cient evidence, that can’t be proven until I wouldn’t have spent all this time ana- cellar. I have no land. I buy all my food language at all,” Mr. Purgin stated. Kolesnykov’s trial, Mr. Lutsenko said. It lyzing their arguments if I had met them in at the market. If I am not paid, my family No comment on that misrepresenta- would be unacceptable to disclose evidence a bar drinking beer and shooting their will starve. If you talk about a peasant, he tion. of the investigation before a trial, he said. mouths off after a long day in the mines. can slaughter a chicken or a duck and he Mr. Purgin returned to the Kolesnykov “It’s a breach of any boundaries of But they have positioned themselves in the won’t starve. He will have no money, but matter: “Do you know how they put jurisprudence,” Mr. Lutsenko said. “If I center of Donetsk. They are spreading false he won’t starve. Here, 80 percent of peo- Kolesnykov into prison? Somebody came pass all the evidence of the case into the information, projecting their own fears and ple will starve,” he said. and said that he threatened this person. hands of [national] deputies, I am afraid thereby inflaming other people’s fears. Mr. Purgin makes a valid point about It’s the same as if I came and said that that tomorrow there won’t be many liv- I don’t think these fellows are inten- the unique limitations placed on those you hit an old man with your car and you ing witnesses.” tionally malicious. But misinformation is Ukrainians living in dense, urban envi- were put in prison, even if there were no When I wrapped up my interview with always dangerous. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 No. 31 Soyuzivka hosts 38th annual Tennis Camp for youths age 10-18

by Petrusia Sawchak KERHONKSON, N.Y. – Year after year Soyuzivka’s Tennis Camp continues to attract youngsters, age 10 to 18, to learn and develop their game and have fun doing so. The campers also form friendships which many of them contin- ue throughout the year. This year there were 32 children who came from different parts of the East Coast. They were an eager bunch of enthusiastic tennis campers who played tennis even during their limited free time. Campers reported to the courts at 9 a.m. every day to participate in a series of conditioning exercises necessary in developing tennis fitness. During the day there were three two-hour sessions of tennis: morning, afternoon and early evening, weather permitting. Campers learned proper stroke production, court movement and game strategy as well as other finer points needed to be proficient in tennis. 2005 Soyuzivka tennis campers with the staff. Large group instructions/lessons were provided by George Sawchak, director of Mr. Kucina noted, “The kids learned Off court the campers participated in a Tylawsky and Christian Rajic won over the camp for 38 years, and instructor of a lot from watching themselves play ten- lot of activities: movies, dances, and day Julian Chernyk and Paul de Vassal in the various United States Tennis Association nis on camera. They can see what they’re and night swims in Soyuzivka’s Boys’ B Doubles Group. (USTA) youth groups, organizer of ten- doing and, hopefully, try to improve.” Olympic-size pool. The occasional peri- Anissa Boyko and Tatyana Romanyuk nis events, senior competition director The staff also included Olha Czerkas, ods of rain did not dampen anyone’s spir- won over Andrea Kucina and Larisa and ranked player. a school teacher from Florida, who pro- it. For example, on one rainy day Mrs. Farion in the Girls’ Doubles Group. Other on-court sessions were taught vided continual off-court supervision. Czerkas taught youngsters to polka and The coveted Best Camper Awards, by Yuri Kucina, United States Additional supervision was given by waltz in the Main House, much to every- chosen by the entire staff, went to Alyssa Professional Tennis Association Petrusia Sawchak, also a teacher, and one’s delight. Kowcz, Lydia Kowinko, Vasyl Hereha (USPTA) tennis instructor from coordinator and administrator of the The first week of Tennis Camp was and Peter Tylawsky for their exemplary California, assisted by counselors camp. devoted to instruction and the second behavior on and off the tennis courts. Christopher Benoit, John Puhalla, Tanya Campers enjoyed three meals a day week to actual tournament play, round- The trophies and other awards were Skvirska and Marco Czerkas (part time). prepared by Chef Andrij Sonevytsky and robin style, in five groups. This gave the presented at a banquet held exclusively Mr. Kucina also videotaped the campers’ served in the newly renovated main din- players a better opportunity to put their for the campers in the Main House where strokes for immediate analysis. ing room of Soyuzivka. lessons into action. all the participants received their camp “The best way to practice playing in certificates and water bottles compli- competitive mode is to play many com- ments of Soyuzivka. The Soyuzivka staff petitive matches,” explained Mr. gave the campers the red carpet treatment Sawchak. at the banquet complete with Shirley The winner in the Boys’ A Group was Temple drinks, hors d’oeuvres and a Alexander Charchalis, the runner-up was choice of salmon or chicken parmesan Andrew Klokiw, and Mikey Szczupak and apple pie à la mode for dessert. placed third. In the Boys’ B Group Chris Some parents were present during the Farion won, second place went to Peter ceremonies as trophies were awarded to Tylawsky, and Yuri Sendzimir took third. all the winners and runners-up by Mr. The winner in the Boys’ C Group was Sawchak. The doubles winners were Daniel Tylawsky, with Christian Rajic as happy to receive Soyuzivka T-shirts, runner-up, and Adrian Burke in third compliments of the management. place. Campers also received a camp booklet Katherine Charchalis was the winner, prepared by Mrs. Czerkas with their pho- the runner-up was Lana Denysyk and tos, names and addresses so they can third place went to Andrea Kucina in the keep in touch throughout the year. Girls’ A Group. In the Girls’ B Group Soyuzivka’s manager, Nestor Anissa Boyko took first place, Lydia Paslawsky, addressed the campers at the Kowinko came in second, and Laryssa banquet, complimenting them for their Boyko in third. behavior and encouraging them to return The Boys’ A Doubles Group winners again next year. Mr. Sawchak thanked the were Chris Farion and Mikey Szczupak campers for attending this year’s camp Best Camper Award recipients (holding trophies, from left) are: Vasyl Hereha, over Greg Serba and Lesyk and the staff for their outstanding contri- Peter Tylawsky, Alyssa Kowcz and Lydia Kowinko. Hryhorowych. The pair of Daniel butions. A dance followed the banquet.

Singles tournaments trophy recipients with staff. The doubles tournaments winners with their Soyuzivka T-shirts. No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 13

USCAK-Eastby George Sawchak TennisCharchalis Tournament6-2, 6-3 in the semi-finals. played on UNA resort’s courts Katrusia Charchalis repeated as a KERHONKSON, N.Y. – During the champion of the girls’ group. She won Fourth of July weekend, Soyuzivka, the the final match against Lana Denysyk 6- estate of the Ukrainian National 0, 6-2 to claim the title. In the semi- Association again became the site of the finals Charchalis defeated Larysa Boyko Ukrainian Sports Federation of the U.S.A. 6-0, 6-0, while Denysyk beat Alyssa and Canada (USCAK) East Tennis Boyko in the first round 6-2, 6-2 and Tournament. The competition was con- with the same score defeated Californian ducted in singles, doubles and mixed dou- Andrea Kucina in the semi-finals. bles. As are all Ukrainian tennis tourna- Charchalis paired with her father, Andrij, ments in North America this year, the tour- to win the mixed doubles competition. In nament was dedicated to the 50th anniver- the finals they defeated the pair of Nusia sary of USCAK and the 50th year of com- Dubas and Richard Legetzke 6-1, 6-2. In the petitive tennis played at Soyuzivka. semis the Charchalises defeated another There were 43 entrants in the tourna- father-and-daughter team, Katrina and Ivan ment, making it one of the most attended Durbak, 6-0, 6-1, while the Dubas-Legetzke USCAK-East events in recent years. team advanced when the husband-wife team Especially noteworthy was a large pres- of deVassals could not continue the match ence in the junior groups, both boys and due to injury after splitting the first two sets. girls – most of them from Soyuzivka’s Sosiak and Ihor Lukiw repeated as Tennis Camp, which was held on site at men’s doubles champions, winning the time of the tournament. Beautiful July against the father-and-son team of Andrij weather throughout the weekend added to and Alexander Charchalis in the finals 6- Men’s finalist Dennis Chorny (second from left) and winner Gregory Surman (sec- the enjoyment of the tennis competition. 1, 6-4. In the semi-finals Sosiak-Lukiw ond from right) receive trophies from George Hrabec (left) and George Sawchak. The tournament was conducted in six team defeated George Hrabec and George groups: men’s singles, senior men’s sin- Sawchak 7-5, 6-2, while in a long match gles, boys’ and girls’ singles and men’s the Charchalises won over two brothers,

Junior winner Mykola Stroynyk (left) and finalist Greg Serba (right) are con- Senior winner Ivan Durbak (left) and finalist Nick Nalywayko are congratulated gratulated by George Hrabec and Roma Lisovich. by UNA Treasurer Roma Lisovich and tournament director George Sawchak. and mixed doubles. There were three Marko and Victor Krasij 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. groups of consolation play. The winners of the consolation tourna- A young Californian, Gregory Sturman, ments were Walter Dziwak in the men’s became the 2005 Men’s USCAK-East group, Christopher Farion in the boys’ champion when in the finals against Dennis group and Anissa Boyko in the girls’ group. Chorny, his opponent pulled a hamstring The host club of the tournament was the muscle and could not continue the match. Carpathian Ski Club (KLK) of New York, At the time of the injury, Chorny was ahead and the event was run by USCAK’s Tennis 4-2 in the first set of what would have been Committee member George Hrabec and a classic tennis match between a gifted George Sawchak, tennis director. young player and a skilled veteran. Presenting the awards at the conclusion On his way to the finals, Sturman of the tournament were UNA Treasurer defeated Steve Sosiak and Marko Krasij, Roma Lisovich, Mr. Hrabec and Mr. while Chorny received a default in the Sawchak. Representing the Ukrainian second round and won against Victor National Association, Ms. Lisovich spoke Krasij in the semi-finals. briefly to the participants encouraging them In a large boys’ group, Mykola Stroynyk, to support Soyuzivka and UNA activities. last year’s champion, defeated Greg Serba The next Ukrainian tennis tournament in the finals 6-1, 6-1 to win the group again. will be USCAK’s Singles On his way to the finals Stroynyk beat Championships held at Soyuzivka during Andrew Klokiw in the second round 6-0, 6- the Labor Day weekend. Information 2 and Vasyl Hereha 6-0, 6-0 in the semi- about entry into this tournament will be finals. Serba won against Julian Chernyk 6- published in The Ukrainian Weekly and 0, 6-1 in the second round and Alexander Svoboda newspapers. Trophy winners during the closing ceremonies.

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Vienna, as its partner in RUE, Raiffeisen portfolio. When asked to name the have some say in its management and to SBU announces... Investment. “Ukrainian businessmen,” the spokesman receive the $478 million the unnamed (Continued from page 2) Raiffeisen Investment AG, an Austrian declined to do so, citing confidentiality businessmen are reputed to collect yearly. man with interests in Moldova and company registered in 1993, was agreements. Apparently the former management of Turkmenistan, and the owner of a num- described by Gazprom spokesmen as Apparently, the “Ukrainian business- Naftohaz, headed by Mr. Kuchma loyal- ber of companies in Ukraine. According their partner in RUE that looked after the men” whose portfolio’s were being man- ist Yurii Boiko, renounced its right to be to court documents provided by the Itera interests of Naftohaz Ukrainy. aged by Raiffeisen Investment were act- a principal in RUE and reclaim the $478 Despite Gazprom’s explanations, there International group of companies, Mr. ing as private individuals, while ARosgas million that Ukraine paid RUE for its was considerable speculation in the press Firtash’s Israeli-registered company, was clearly connected to the Russian services, giving its consent instead to a as to the role of Raiffeisen Investment Highrock Properties Ltd., is being sued state and collected nearly $478 million group of unnamed private “Ukrainian and its exact relationship, if any, to by Itera, which accuses him of owing annually for Gazprom, according to businessmen” to collect this money. Mr. Raiffeisen Bank. Gazprom spokesmen them $28 million. Hermitage Capital Management, a Boiko, however, rejects any allegations never clarified the relationship, merely Hermitage Capital Management, an Moscow-based investment company. of wrongdoing. repeating that RUE is a “fully transpar- investment fund in Russia that campaigns The total fee paid to RUE by the According to a June 15 report by ent” structure. Ukrainian state for transporting gas from Interfax Prime Minister Tymoshenko has for minority shareholder rights, published On August 6, 2004, Interfax reported: its report on Eural Trans Gas and Gazprom Turkmenistan, in Gazprom’s pipeline, to stated that as a consequence of the Eural “In late July 2004, 100-percent sub- Ukraine is reputed to be close to $1 billion Trans Gas and RUE schemes, Ukraine in 2003. This forced Gazprom and sidiaries of Russia’s Gazprombank and Naftohaz to take steps to distance them- per year, paid to RUE in the form of 13 lost more than $1 billion. Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank created the billion cubic meters of gas, which it then Gazprom has not come under any offi- selves from Eural, a company they helped RosUkrEnergoprom company for the create. Eural was sold in 2004 to a group sells in the West through a variety of cial scrutiny in Moscow for its role in the supply of Turkmen gas to the Ukrainian agents. This is the same fee that Ukraine RUE or Eural Trans Gas gas schemes. of investors and came to be headed by market. The company, shared by the par- Cedric Brown, the former head of British paid Eural Trans Gas, according to a con- The lone critical voice was that of ties 50-50, will be registered in tract signed in Moscow in December 2002 Gas. Another prominent player in Eural Hermitage Capital Management, whose Switzerland. RosUkrEnergoprom will that has been made available to RFE/RL. became Robert Shetler Jones, although his spokesman told The Moscow Times on purchase Turkmen gas for the Ukrainian Asked by Ukrainian journalists at a June 16 that Gazprom is losing out on exact role was not clear. He was described market and act as operator of the gas pur- press conference earlier this year if $478 million in annual revenues from the in the Kyiv Post on June 16 as a consultant chased and investor in the development Naftohaz Ukrainy is a principal in RUE, RosUkrEnergo deal and that this money to another investor in Eural, the British of the gas-transport infrastructure Naftohaz Ukrainy head Oleksii Ivchenko is going to unknown beneficiaries partici- publicly traded firm JKX Oil and Gas, a required for securing the transit. The replied that it is not and that Naftohaz pating in RosUkrEnergo via Raiffeisen company with substantial oil-drilling company will be run by a coordination was seeking to buy into RUE so as to Investment. assets in Ukraine’s Poltava region. committee, including representatives of Despite these changes of ownership, the leading officials of Gazprom, Eural Trans Gas was finally replaced by Naftohaz Ukrainy, Gazprombank, and UKRAINIAN BUILDERS OF CUSTOM HOMES RUE, which began operations on January 1. Raiffeisen Bank.” WEST COAST OF FLORIDA According to Gazprom and Naftohaz Research has shown that Raiffeisen spokesmen, RUE was registered in Zug, Investments has no direct management TRIDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP. Switzerland, on July 22, 2004, and seem- connection to Raiffeisen Bank, although • Over 25 years of building experience ingly consisted of two partners: ARosgas both companies are owned by the • Bilingual Holding AG, a subsidiary of Gazprombank Austrian RZB Group. 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Messrs. Yushchenko and Smirnov also Dear Readers! Transdniester... agreed to invite representatives of the (Continued from page 2) European Union and the United States to This last provision appears to address take part in negotiations between the fear of Transdniestrians that Moldova Chisinau and Tiraspol, which has so far The Ukrainian Weekly is may reunite with Romania at some time been brokered by Russia, Ukraine and accepting greetings on the in the future. the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The Moldovan Parliament in June Both politicians also decided to set up occassion of the overwhelmingly endorsed the a working group to formulate criteria for Yushchenko plan, but it added one democratizing Transdniester and ensure a important condition: that Russia with- transparent electoral process there. draw its military contingent from However, the Yushchenko-Smirnov Transdniester by 2006. 14th14th AnniversaryAnniversary agreement might be not enough to ensure Russia currently has some 500 ser- that Chisinau and Tiraspol start talking of the vicemen in the so-called security zone about practical steps to implement the plan. along the Dniester River separating A Moldovan delegation to a session of Transdniester from the rest of Moldova. the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE Chisinau’s apparent eagerness to in Washington on July 1-5 staged a walk- IndependenceIndependence ofof UkraineUkraine resolve the Transdniestrian issue without out to protest an adopted resolution on Tiraspol, on the other hand, may not the Transdniester-conflict settlement. We invite individuals, organizations and businesses work with Moscow, which wants the sep- The delegation reportedly demanded to show their pride and support for those individuals aratist region to be treated as an equal that the Tiraspol administration be who through personal dedication and sacrifice partner in the negotiations. referred to in the resolution as “sepa- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei ratist” and “criminal.” have secured a free and independent Ukraine. Lavrov said recently that the Ukraine’s prominent role in brokering a Transdniester settlement is possible only deal between Chisinau and Tiraspol is Special Rates if both sides participate in the negotia- obviously a consequence of Kyiv’s vigor- tions. He slammed Chisinau for its reluc- ous pro-European policies that followed 1/8 page – $50 1/2 page – $200 tance to speak with Tiraspol: the 2004 Orange Revolution and the instal- 1/4 page – $ 100 1 page – $400 “The impression is that the Moldovan lation of Mr. Yushchenko as president. authorities are trying to do everything But Kyiv is also keenly interested in possible and impossible not only to block the fate of some 200,000 Ukrainians who Please send your greetings, address and the Transdniester settlement – they boy- live in Transdniester. President cott every attempt to resume the negotia- Yushchenko’s website reported that he telephone number by August 12, 2005, to: tion process – but also to damage and Mr. Smirnov, apart from political Russian-Moldovan relations even more,” issues, also discussed the supply of The Ukrainian Weekly Mr. Lavrov said. Ukrainian textbooks to Ukrainian-lan- 14th Anniversary Greetings Tiraspol was initially hostile to the guage schools in Transdniester and quo- Yushchenko plan, reportedly fearing that tas for students from Transdniester at 2200 Rt. 10 its hidden purpose was to replace Ukrainian universities. PO Box 280 Russian troops in the region with NATO Parsippany, NJ 07054 forces. But Mr. Smirnov’s apparent con- This article was written with contribu- sent to the plan more recently represents tions from RFE/RL’s Romania-Moldova Tel.: (973) 292-9800 ext. 3040 a significant step forward. Service. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 No. 31 No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 17

have been breaking the law. salary is about $4,680 a month, or Incidentally, President Yushchenko Reports on lavish... “If the president’s son is not living on $56,160 annually. signed a letter written to Ukrayinska (Continued from page 13) the means that he’s able to live on, and Kateryna Yushchenko’s income is sig- Pravda the following day in which he told an Internal Affairs Ministry meeting. driving a car that’s not only expensive in nificantly larger than that of her husband. explained his perspective on the conflict “For every private activity my family this country but throughout Europe, and However, Andrii is the president’s son but did not offer an apology. holds itself accountable to you.” going to the most expensive nightclubs, from his first marriage, and it’s unlikely “It seems that the history of the article The scandal has the potential to unravel then people should know about this the first lady would pay for his luxuries. in Ukrayinska Pravda has become a joint even further because no one is quite sure because it is a potential sign of corrup- While President Yushchenko’s temper test – of the readiness of the authorities just where Andrii Yushchenko obtained the tion,” said Viktoria Siumar, the editor-in- made television and newspaper headlines and the media to live under new condi- money to afford such luxuries, the appear- chief of the Kyiv-based Institute of Mass in Ukraine, Ukrayinska Pravda’s aggres- tions, of the readiness to respect journal- ance of which smacks of corruption. Information. sive style of journalism has also raised ists’ right to information and of the readi- To add further suspicion, discrepancies As for the cellphone, Andrii Yushchenko eyebrows. ness to respect [a] citizen’s right to priva- exist in the explanations provided by said it was a gift from a friend. In its reporting of Andrii Yushchenko’s cy,” Mr. Yushchenko wrote in a letter to father and son. Following the July 25 press confer- lavish residency, the website posted the Ukrayinska Pravda following the incident. Andrii Yushchenko claimed that a ence, President Yushchenko had a harsh young man’s street address, including The scandal has revealed a new cli- friend was letting him use the BMW M6, man-to-man talk with him, his son told what floor he lives on and what his apart- mate in which journalists are pushing but said he would not disclose the per- Ukrayina Moloda on July 27. ment looks like from the outside, for all their enhanced freedoms to scrutinize the son’s name in order to protect his privacy. “When I met with my father after all the world to see. families of public figures and hold them At his July 25 press conference, howev- these huge scandals, he took the Vertu cell- Printing such personal information is accountable to their campaign promises. er, President Yushchenko said his son was phone in his hands and made a motion as if restricted in American journalism, unless As a result of the family scandal, renting the car with money earned at a he were throwing it,” Andrii Yushchenko it is absolutely relevant to a story. President Yushchenko has now joined the consulting firm, which also enabled his said. “He wanted to see my reaction.” However, many Ukrainian journalists ranks of Western leaders such as George son to afford two bodyguards and a driver. Andrii Yushchenko said that rather argue that it is entirely relevant, considering W. Bush, whose daughters were exposed However, Andrii Yushchenko never than getting rid of the gift, he would sim- that President Yushchenko has not provided for underage drinking by the press. said he worked at a consulting firm; ply leave it at home. adequate answers about his son’s lifestyle. Observers note that it is somewhat rather, he is employed by a construction Ukrayinska Pravda also found out that “They still haven’t answered the neces- ironic that the leader who ensured and company and an insurance firm. Andrii Yushchenko is living in the posh sary questions, and their answers are either expanded journalistic freedom through Without a college degree and only Lypky neighborhood near the contradictory or illogical,” Ms. Siumar his election is now frustrated with it. part-time employment, however, Andrii Bessarabskyi Market. said. “Excuse me, but I would like to know They note that it is also ironic that Yushchenko could not possibly earn more He is renting a 200-square-meter what consulting firm a 19-year-old can these journalists who are exposing the than $600 a month, which is an extreme apartment, enormous by Kyiv standards, work for and make this kind of money.” president would have acted with far more salary in and of itself, according to Ukrayinska Pravda reported. Ms. The scandal is reaching a critical stage restraint and caution, and might have Ukrayinska Pravda. Heraschenko claimed that Andrii because President Yushchenko’s conduct faced censorship, had Viktor Yanukovych Iryna Heraschenko, the president’s Yushchenko was paying only “a few hun- will set an example for all of Ukraine’s been elected president. press secretary, told Ukrayinska Pravda dred dollars” a month for the apartment. politicians, Ms. Siumar said. He can But Ukraine’s journalists see it differently. that Andrii Yushchenko was paying about Considering that the rental price of a come clean with the necessary explana- “Yanukovych is not our president – $1,000 a month in rent for the BMW. nearby Lypky apartment of about 108 tions and documents, and emerge from an Yushchenko is,” Ms. Siumar said. However, to rent even less-expensive square meters is $2,200 a month, embarrassing situation with his honor “We had very high expectations of BMW models costs $250 for a single day, Ukrayinska Pravda reported, such a claim intact. “Otherwise, the situation has the Yushchenko because he said he’d represent the Kyiv auto rental firm Mia-Avto could only be false. potential to become very dangerous,” Ms. European ideals. And now we expect those informed Ukrayinska Pravda. Not only could Andrii Yushchenko not Siumar commented. “We can return to ideals and ethical norms that he represents Furthermore, Internal Affairs Minister have afforded the car – it’s also apparent those times that existed before.” to be demonstrated in front of others.” Yurii Lutsenko acknowledged on July 27 that Viktor Yushchenko could not have Numerous prominent journalists “I agree that if Yanukoyych were presi- that it is illegal for a Ukrainian citizen to afforded it either. signed a letter written by Ukrayinska dent, these questions would not have arisen. rent a foreign-owned car. He has been a Ukrainian government Pravda’s editors requesting that President But Yanukovych never said he was honest Therefore, even if Andrii Yushchenko employee his entire career, implying very Yushchenko apologize to Mr. Leschenko and that you should follow his example and was truly renting the BMW, he would modest salaries. As president, his current for his disrespectful answer. also live honestly,” she added. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 No. 31

served a climate of conservativism and replicated elsewhere in Ukraine to such a participatory, more transparent and Mark von Hagen’s... provincialism. The ministries and acade- degree. encouraging of local and regional initia- (Continued from page 8) my need an orange revolution of their Perhaps with time the academy’s still tives. world, but the Ukrainian language is still own to bring them and their constituen- considerable resources can be largely As to future IAUS congresses, it weak and unstable in contemporary con- cies into the modern world of scholar- transferred to the university system. In its appears that holding such a large interna- ditions. ship, education and culture. place, special national research funds in tional gathering every three years is In short, despite years of post-inde- What possible paths are available? the humanities and social sciences can be beyond the budgetary capacity of the pendence reform programs and propos- First, the Academy needs to be decentral- established to support talented scholar- Ukrainian state, so it might make sense als, the organizations that are most ized and debureaucratized by spreading educators in their research. After all, to consider congresses every four to five important to IAUS have failed to con- its resources more equitably throughout Ukrainian studies thrives in Poland, years, and on a much smaller scale, and possibly in a foreign country, notably struct a meaningful agenda for Ukrainian the country. This decentralization also where the Academy of Sciences is very Poland, whose national association has nation-building and the development of means the integration of the academy much subordinated and secondary to the been most active and is best represented civic consciousness through the support with the educational process of the uni- government’s support for higher educa- among foreign associations. In the inter- of basic scholarship and culture. This is versity system. And it means a reform of tion. im, the National Association in Ukraine all the more regrettable because, in the priorities of the academy itself, with Universities must be assured their can organize more frequent, local confer- Ukraine’s current orientation to Europe, more equitable apportionment of administrative autonomy and intellectual ences and workshops, as can IAUS itself, the best immediately available resources resources to humanities and social sci- pluralism; indeed both should be gener- both in and outside of Ukraine, depend- that it has to offer are still in the realm of ences. ously enhanced if the Orange govern- ing on national and international fund- scholarship and higher education; of Although the academy for many years ment of Ukraine is to be taken at its word ing. course, this can only last as long as this played an important role in keeping alive that it is committed to a democratic, I close with a caution – that I can not generally positive legacy of the past is the humanities discipline that have European future for the country. imagine another non-Ukrainian scholar not squandered by disregard or low prior- proved important to Ukrainian studies – Likewise, local governments and munici- being willing to take on the presidency ity by the government. history, linguistics, literature, folklore – palities have more responsibility and they have not encouraged the social sci- financial and legal means to protect local of IAUS until some major changes are Let me start with the opinion that cen- introduced; more importantly, it is not ences that are the center of any effort to monuments of culture: museums, theaters tralization and bureaucratism are foreign likely that a foreign scholar would be understand contemporary Ukraine – poli- and archives. This is not a call for the to Ukrainian traditions, but survive in able to use IAUS and its international tics, economics, sociology, anthropology, government to withdraw from the crucial contemporary Ukrainian institutions that experience and resources to help in the media studies, gender studies. Donetsk processes of building a modern, progres- still bear the weight of Soviet and fundamental processes of reform that are sive Ukrainian culture and civic identity. Russian imperial legacies. The centraliza- University, at its founding, incidentally, called for. I suspect that a Ukrainian tion and bureaucratism have led not to provided a model for the integration of But it is a call for the government to president will also not be terribly willing scholarly innovation but instead pre- academy and university that has not been make that project more democratic and to undertake these urgent and very diffi- cult measures. I have no illusions about the challenges of bringing the Orange Revolution to Ukrainian studies. But whoever takes on that mission will have the support of hundreds of scholars and teachers in Ukraine itself, but also the commitment of the international Ukrainian studies community as well. “Sche ne vmerla Ukraina” is a refrain that has been repeated many times in modern history, but there won’t be too many more opportunities like the Orange Revolution for IAUS and its affiliated institutions to take advantage of. The time is now and not tomorrow. Good luck and enjoy the congress!

Ukraine’s health minister... (Continued from page 4) Dr. Iwach welcomed the guests and dignitaries. Dr. Maria Hrycelak present- ed an archival summary of the past two- year term of “Hetman” Iwanetz, and introduced the upcoming term of “Prince” Iwach. Recognition awards for meritorious service were given to Dr. Lesia Kushnir of Metropolitan New York, Dr. Wasyl Salak of Pennsylvania, and the outgoing president, Dr. Iwanetz. Special recogni- tion for outstanding service for 50 years of membership and 35 years of editing the Likarskyj Visnyk was given to Dr. Paul Dzul of Michigan. Concluding the night’s formalities, the guest of honor, Minister Polishchuk, deliv- ered a heartfelt speech thanking the organ- ized medical professionals beyond the bor- ders of Ukraine for keeping their country of origin high on their list of priorities, and maintaining helpful and educational rela- tions with their respective counterparts. Dr. Polishchuk awarded a plaque to Dr. Ehor Gauk of OSVITA, formally rec- ognizing the effort expended by that group over the last decade in philanthrop- ic and charitable assistance to Ukraine. Entertainment for the evening includ- ed violin virtuoso Vasyl Popadiuk, dance performances by the Cheremosh dance ensemble, and the upbeat entertaining music of Millenia. The conference ended with a real sense of interaction among the three involved countries. There was a palpable feeling of building teamwork across the Ukrainian communities in the U.S., Canada and Ukraine. More information about UMANA can be found at www.umana.org. No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 19

House of Ukraine in San Diego THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION celebrates 45th year of operation SAN DIEGO – House of Ukraine Inc., reception will be held on Saturday night with its many members located here in Balboa Park, will sponsor at the additional price of $10 per ticket. its annual Ukrainian Festival during Revenue from the additional ticket sales wish to congratulate Labor Day weekend, Friday through will go directly to the House of Ukraine Sunday, September 2-4. Preservation Fund. Participants will be This year marks House of Ukraine’s able to meet old friends, make new 45th year of operation. It is thanks to acquaintances over a glass of wine, and Michael Komichak three generations of volunteers and sup- pick their preferred seats for the per- porters that the center has had its doors formance. Board members from the th open every Sunday to what now totals previous 44 boards of directors are on the 55 Anniversary of tens of thousands of visitors. especially invited to celebrate this mile- The Ukrainian Radio Program Festivities start on Friday, September stone. 2, with a Welcome Get-Together in the On Sunday, September 4, beginning at of Pittsburgh. sand near Lifeguard Station 13 located noon, Ukrainian ethnic food and refresh- just south of “The Giant Dipper Roller ments will be available for purchase at Coaster” in Mission Beach, Calif. This is the House of Pacific Relations a great opportunity for festival guests to International Cottages’ Lawn Stage locat- Michael Komichak is a community activist meet the festival’s Canadian performers ed in front of House of Ukraine in and to visit this popular beach attraction. Balboa Park. At 2 p.m. a short program and a long-time member of UNA branch 264. On Saturday morning the festival con- of Ukrainian entertainment will begin on tinues at one of San Diego’s most popu- the lawn stage featuring Troyanda and lar tourist destinations, the USS Midway. Mr. Popadiuk. A private tour has been organized at a Festivities conclude on Sunday night In celebration of 55 years of service to the discounted price for participants of the with a dinner and zabava (dance) at 6 Ukrainian Festival. This aircraft carrier p.m. at the Red Lion Hanalei Hotel in Ukrainian community, we wish to acknowl- was commissioned in 1945 and served as Hotel Circle, with Ukrainian dance music the flagship in Desert Storm in 1991. No by Dunai from Toronto. edge and thank him for his many years of other carrier in U.S. history has served as A Preservation Fund has been set up to long as the USS Midway. maintain and operate the cottage for years dedication and promotion of Ukrainian The annual concert starts at 7:30 p.m. to come. To help keep House of Ukraine on Saturday, September 3, featuring the open to the public, organizers are seeking culture and consciousness. Troyanda Ukrainian Dance Ensemble donations and advertisements for Saturday from Selkirk, Manitoba, with a special night’s program. Questions regarding the guest appearance by violin virtuoso Vasyl program book or advertisements should be May your success continue Popadiuk from Toronto. This event will directed to Natalie at (619) 447-1252 or e- take place at the Casa Del Prado Theater mailed to [email protected]. for many more years. located in Balboa Park. Organizers For more information on House of advise festival-goers to come early to Ukraine’s Ukrainian Festival in San Diego, mingle and support a good cause. readers may call House of Ukraine at (619) As part of the House of Ukraine 460-5733, e-mail [email protected] or Executive Committee anniversary celebration, a pre-concert log on to www.houseofukraine.com.

You are invited to celebrate the 55th ANNIVERSARY OF PITTSBURGH’S UKRAINIAN RADIO PROGRAM Sunday, July 31, 2005

Michael Komichak, Director Gateway “Majestic” Cruise – Buffet Dinner – Dancing Admission $30.00, Children age 17 and under $15.00 Boarding at Station Square from 6:00 p.m. Sailing: 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. For tickets and table reservations contact Michael Komichak, tel: (412) 331-6724 Ukrainian Radio Program n Box 52 n Pittsburgh, PA 15230 E-mail: [email protected] 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 No. 31 No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 21 Chortopolokhy sorority of Plast stages play for young campers

EAST CHATHAM, N.Y. – The New Jersey branch of the Plast sorority Chortopolokhy put on a play for the youngest girls (novachky) on July 16. The campers, age 7-11, first participated in a round robin to learn how a play is pro- duced. The novachky painted scenery, constructed props, decorated costumes, colored playbills and sang songs. The Chortopolokhy then presented “Yazykata Khvesia,” the story of a Ukrainian woman who loved to gossip and could never keep a secret. Seen above are the actors: (back row, from left) Christine Stawnychy, Orest Temnycky, Vira Popel, Marta Stawnychy and Darka Temnycky; (front row) Larissa Oprysko, Andrea Popel and Melasia Popel.

– Larissa Oprysko

work in government schools and try to Families for Children... prevent trouble by monitoring families (Continued from page 1) that need special attention,” Ms. “More than 400 children have turned Herasymova said. to our center since the moment it Reaching a child in an early-crisis sit- opened” in March 2000, said Vira uation, in which there are serious family Koshel, the president of the Aspern problems, is necessary, said Harry Foundation, an international charitable Garner, the president and executive organization dedicated to children and director of Holt International Children’s youth projects. “A child who gets encour- Services. agement from adults has a future, but one About 145,000 children currently live who doesn’t could be lost.” with an estimated 80,000 families that The quicker a child is taken off the are experiencing problems which may streets, the better, Mr. Zholo said. After wreck their homes, according to the only a year on the streets, it is almost Ministry of Youth and Sports. impossible to bring a child back to a fam- “The earlier [the intervention], the eas- 3.30% APY (3.25 APR) ** ily, he said. ier to prevent something worse,” Mr. “Through panhandling, they can easily Garner said. 3.56% APY (3.50 APR) ** earn about $15 a day,” he said. “Despite Non-governmental organizations all the discomfort, they consider life in the aren’t the only ones acting. On July 12, 3.87% APY (3.80 APR) ** street as one allowing the most freedom.” President Viktor Yushchenko signed an In addition to reuniting and helping order on taking measures on children’s families, the program will provide tem- protection in Ukraine. porary family care with foster parents or “The main idea is to create a State in group homes, in order to meet the Department for Adoption and Social Care needs of children in crisis or transition, of Children,” Mr. Zhohlo said. “It would Ms. Hillard underscored. concentrate on the whole sphere of prob- “We will also qualify personnel to lems affecting children in Ukraine.”

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being and the nation, and restoring and Cardinal Walter Casper, president of the lent acts against Orthodox clergy and faith- NEWSBRIEFS strengthening spirituality and morality. Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian ful, as well as desecration of Orthodox (Continued from page 2) (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) Unity, on June 22, the Catholic side again churches, took place when the Union [the stated its intention to move the seat of the Uniate or Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Ukraine. This gives us the right, according ROC against UGCC move to Kyiv to the social concept of our Church, to head of the UGCC from Lviv to Kyiv and Church] was re-established in the western to confirm his title of patriarch of Kyiv. regions of Ukraine with the collapse of the come out in defense of our holy places and MOSCOW – Meeting in Moscow on The Orthodox side stated the inadmissibili- Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early turn to the international community, above July 16, the Synod of the Russian ty of the idea of mentioning Kyiv in the 1990s. “This did not take place in the all to the brotherly peoples of the same Orthodox Church (ROC) heard a report by title of the head of the UGCC and the Middle Ages, and it concerned the Russian blood, for support and help,” the statement Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and transfer of his seat to the city from the Orthodox Church, which the Second of the UOC-MP organizations said. Kaliningrad criticizing the wish of the canonical, ecclesiological and pastoral Council of Vatican called a sister Church. (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church viewpoint.” Prior to the June 22 meeting, This is unbelievable,” the patriarch said. (UGCC) to move its seat from western UOC-MP honors Socialist leader Cardinal Kasper was quoted as saying that (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) Ukrainian Lviv to Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. he did not plan to talk about the UGCC: The ROC hierarchs supported the metro- KYIV – Metropolitan Volodymyr “It’s not my task to speak about another Ukrainian, Israeli defense officials meet politan’s position. The synod also (Sabodan), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, they must do it themselves; so it’s expressed hopes of resolving existing TEL AVIV – Israeli and Ukrainian Church – Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), not the point of my negotiations.” problems and developing good relations defense officials signed an agreement on has presented the Order of the Venerable (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) Nestor the Chronicler, first degree, to with the Roman Catholic Church. An July 25 for security and military coopera- Oleksander Moroz, leader of the Socialist information sheet attached to the synod’s Patriarch sets condition for meeting pope tion, The Jerusalem Post reported. Israeli Party of Ukraine, reported the UOC-MP final resolution notes that, since the begin- Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and visiting press service on July 21. Metropolitan ning of his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI KAZAN, Russia – Patriarch Aleksei II, Ukrainian Defense Minister Anatolii Volodymyr spoke of Mr. Moroz’s special has stated his intention to develop coopera- head of the Russian Orthodox Church, does Hrytsenko signed the agreement at a meet- contribution to the establishment of tion between the Roman Catholic and the not exclude the possibility of meeting with ing in Tel Aviv. The agreement is to lead to Ukrainian statehood, legality and democra- Orthodox Churches. The sheet goes on to Pope Benedict XVI, but only when certain cooperation in fighting terrorism, as well as cy. Mr. Moroz thanked the metropolitan for say: “However, despite encouraging state- conditions are observed on the part of the joint military maneuvers and defense the high praise of his work and assured him ments by Pope Benedict XVI, relations Roman Catholic Church, including the sta- industry cooperation. “In these days, when that he and his party will always support between the Russian Orthodox and the tus of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic global terror is becoming an epidemic and and help the UOC-MP in carrying out its Roman Catholic Churches remain tense. In Church, pravoslavye.org.ua reported on is sending its arms everywhere, as we saw historical mission of serving the human a meeting between Metropolitan Kirill and July 21. Patriarch Aleksei charged that vio- in London and in Egypt, we believe that all the nations of the world have to unite and cooperate against terror,” The Jerusalem Post quoted Mr. Mofaz as saying. Israeli troops recently returned from Ukraine, where they trained with NATO forces for the first time. (RFE/RL Newsline) Case against Dnipropetrovsk chair RETIREMENT? KYIV – Criminal charges have been filed against former Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Chairman Mykola Shvets, Interfax-Ukraine reported on July 26. The charges against Mr. Shvets include mis- ARE YOU READY? use of large amounts of state funds for personal gain during his tenure as gover- nor in 1999-2003, a spokesman for the Procurator General’s Office said. According to Interfax, Mr. Shvets has left Ukraine and is living in an undisclosed location. This is the latest case of an oblast leader appointed by former President Leonid Kuchma being charged with criminal activity. The former chair- men of the Donetsk, Sumy and Zakarpattia Oblasts have all been indicted on similar charges. (RFE/RL Newsline) Bishop ordained for Kolomyia-Chernivtsi IVANO-FRANKIVSK – The ordina- tion of Bishop Mykola Simkailo was per- formed by Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC), on July 12 in Ivano-Frankivsk’s Resurrection Cathedral. The episcopal ordination took place after Pope Benedict XVI gave his blessing to the June deci- sion of the UGCC Synod of Bishops to appoint the former dean of Ivano- Frankivsk, the Rev. Mitred Simkailo, as bishop of the UGCC Eparchy of Kolomyia and Chernivtsi. Following the ordination, Bishop Volodymyr Viityshyn ceremonially ascended to the altar of the Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk at the cathe- dral. Bishop Viityshyn had previously been bishop of the Eparchy of Kolomyia and Chernivtsi. The introduction of Bishop Simkailo into service as bishop of Kolomyia and Chernivtsi took place on July 13. Thousands of faithful, as well as hierarchs of other Christian Churches, leaders of civic organizations and repre- sentatives of the local authorities partici- pated in the ceremony. (Religious UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC. Information Service of Ukraine) 2200 ROUTE 10, PARSIPPANY, NJ 07054 Ukrtelekom privatization is suspended 800-253-9862 KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko has signed into law a bill passed by par- FAX: 973-292-0900 liament on July 5 suspending the privati- zation of the Ukrainian telecommunica- EMAIL: [email protected] tions giant Ukrtelekom, Interfax-Ukraine (Continued on page 23) No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 23

Will Rynat Akhmetov be arrested? NEWSBRIEFS (Continued from page 22) KYIV – Internal Affairs Minister Yurii Lutsenko told journalists in Kyiv on July reported on July 26. The president’s press 20 that billionaire businessman Rynat office announced that the suspension will Akhmetov may be arrested if he refuses continue until the government comes up to come in for police questioning, with a new privatization plan. The origi- Interfax-Ukraine reported. “He has the nal law allowing for Ukrtelekom’s priva- right to refuse to speak with us. ... This is tization was passed on July 13, 2000, and his constitutional right. But he is obliged allowed for the sale of a 42.86 percent to appear,” Mr. Lutsenko said. Mr. stake, with 50 percent plus one share Akhmetov failed to appear on July 18 for remaining with the state. The additional questioning as a witness in a case related 7.14 percent of shares was to be sold to to a 1988 shooting in Donetsk. (RFE/RL Ukrtelekom employees. A tender was to Newsline) have taken place in August 2004 but was suspended by former President Leonid Fake banknotes feature Tymoshenko Kuchma, who said that the sale would fuel pre-election speculation about poten- KYIV – Money counterfeiters have tial buyers. (RFE/RL Newsline) been distributing false 5,000 hrv (nearly $1,000) banknotes among pensioners in Poroshenko on refinery overhaul the Donetsk Oblast, posing as employees of regional social-security departments, KYIV – National Security and the Ukrayinska Pravda website reported Defense Council Secretary Petro on July 20, citing the Kharkiv branch of Poroshenko said that an announced three- the National Bank of Ukraine. The false year renovation project at the Odesa oil banknotes bear the image of Ukrainian refinery will not create fuel shortages or Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. The a price increase in Ukraine, Interfax- fraudsters claim to be distributing social Ukraine reported on July 26. “This allowances granted to pensioners by the [repair] cannot possibly cause and will government prior to this year’s Victory not cause any deficit of fuel on the Day. Since the allowances are signifi- Ukrainian market,” he told a press con- cantly lower than 5,000 hrv, the fraud- ference in Kyiv. The Odesa refinery is owned by Russia’s LUKoil, the manage- sters reportedly make their profits by tak- ment of which announced recently that it ing change from the duped pensioners, would undertake a $320 million, three- who are primarily village residents. year project to upgrade it. (RFE/RL Ukraine’s highest value banknote is in Newsline) the amount of 200 hrv and it bears the image of Ukrainian poet Lesia Ukrainka, Nemtsov criticizes Kyiv’s economic policy who slightly resembles Ms. Tymoshenko. (RFE/RL Newsline) YALTA – Boris Nemtsov, an informal economic adviser to Ukrainian President Latvia opens honorary consulate in Lviv Viktor Yushchenko, told journalists attend- ing the Yalta European Seminar that while LVIV – Latvia is interested in making he supports Ukraine’s aspirations for contacts with Ukraine more comprehen- European integration, he is critical of the sive and multi-faceted, as well as to country’s economic policies, Interfax develop them on the regional level, reported on July 23. “The majority of citi- Latvian Extraordinary and zens from eastern, central and western Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Ukraine Ukraine support the idea of a pro-European Andris Vilcans said at a July 21 press policy, and I think this support will contin- conference in Lviv on the occasion of the ue to grow,” Mr. Nemtsov reportedly said. opening of Latvia’s Honorary Consulate. He also suggested that actions taken by the The opening ceremony in Lviv was government have brought Ukraine no clos- attended by a Latvian delegation, com- er to Europe but, on the contrary, are mov- posed of Seimas (Parliament) members, ing them apart. Mr. Nemtsov has been criti- municipal officials of several Latvian cal in the past of Ukrainian Prime Minister towns and representatives of the Latvian Yulia Tymoshenko’s views on re-privatiza- League of Entrepreneurs, who expressed tion and her handling of price increases by their lively interest in establishing coop- Russian oil companies that operate in eration with Ukraine. Several agreements Ukraine. Mr. Nemtsov is a former leader of on cooperation in business, culture and the Union of Rightist Forces in Russia, a science are expected to be signed shortly post from which he resigned after the party between Ukraine and Latvia. The two failed to reach the 5 percent electoral countries are also supposed to step up threshold in the 2003 Duma elections. and broaden their cooperation in rail (RFE/RL Newsline) transportation, as about 70 percent of Ukraine’s fleet of electric trains was once SBU boasts of its successes made in Latvia (the Riga Rolling Stock Works) and is in need of modernization. KYIV– In an interview with the The parties’ joint project may well start Ekonomichni Visti newspaper published with the Lviv Railroad. There is also par- on July 25, Security Service of Ukraine ticular interest in stepping up cooperation (SBU) director Oleksander Turchynov between Ukrainian and Latvian small said that eight foreign agents found to towns, including the tourism industry. have been operating under diplomatic Latvia’s honorary consul to Lviv is cover were declared persona non grata Volodymyr Hartsula, chairman of the and forced to leave Ukraine in the first BEEM Holding Co., who assumed the six months of this year. Another 41 peo- office in May 2005. (Ukrinform) ple who failed to report their links to for- eign intelligence agencies were barred Minister calls for increasing livestock entry into the country, and one of 56 Ukrainian citizens with ties to foreign KYIV – Agricultural Policy Minister intelligence agents has been convicted Oleksander Baranivskyi on July 21 called while criminal cases have been launched on oblast chairmen to promote increasing against three others, Mr. Turchynov said. the number of livestock in the country, Five days earlier Mr. Turchynov told with a view to addressing the current journalists in Kyiv that Ukraine’s coun- meat shortages, the Ukrayinska Pravda terespionage service is one of the best in website (http://www2.pravda.com.ua) Europe, Interfax-Ukraine reported. Mr. reported. “I beg you: Every single pig we Turchynov said “The performance of the have should not be killed [for meat] – it military counterespionage service was should be mated,” Mr. Baranivskyi said not bad either. The service prevented 22 at a Cabinet of Ministers meeting. “Have terror attacks on Ukrainian peacekeeping you understood your task?” Prime contingents in various countries.” Minister Yulia Tymoshenko asked the (RFE/RL Newsline) governors. (RFE/RL Newsline) 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2005 No. 31

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Friday-Sunday, August 12-14 Committee of America, Illinois Division, Soyuzivka’s Datebook is sponsoring Ukrainian Fest 2005 in WARREN, Mich.: The 19th annual Chicago’s Smith Park, 2500 W. Grand July 30-31, 2005 Sept. 5); Concert featuring Kashtan Ukrainian Sunflower Festival, which will Ave. (corner of North Campbell Street) UPA Exhibit in library Dance Ensemble from Cleveland, be held at 26401 St. Josaphat Drive, is from noon to 10 p.m. both days. 8 pm; Zabava with Luna and among the most popular and largest ethnic Festivities will include Ukrainian food, July 31-August 5, 2005 Fata Morgana, 10 pm summer festivals in Michigan, attracting crafts, music, lotteries and much more. Scuba Course for ages 12 and up Sept. 4, Tiki Bar Entertainment 25,000 people every year. The festival will Pony rides and children’s attractions will featuring Stefan Stawnychy, 2 pm; take place on August 12 at 5 p.m.-midnight, add to the entertainment for the whole August 1-5, 2005 Concert featuring Kashtan Dance August 13 at noon-midnight and August 14 family. Dance groups will perform Sunday Golf Week Ensemble from Cleveland, 1 pm; at noon-10:30 p.m. This three day-event afternoon. Celebration of Ukraine’s decla- will feature amusement rides, traditional Zabava with Fata Morgana, 10 pm ration of independence will begin on August 5, 2005 Ukrainian food, ethnic dancing in tradition- Sunday at 1:30 p.m. For more information al costumes, plus exhibitions and demon- Cabaret Show with Ron Cahute & September 9-11, 2005 contact Pavlo T. Bandriwsky, (773) 772- company strations of Ukrainian folk crafts, especially 4500. Saltzburg Reunion embroidery and ceramics. Festival enter- tainment includes performances by the Sunday, August 21 August 5-6, 2005 September 11-15, 2005 Ukraina, Echoes of Ukraine and Barvinok Exhibit - Dycia Hanushevsky’s Regensburg Reunion dance ensembles, and music by Ukrainian HORSHAM, Pa.: The 14th annual ceramic art bands, including Dunai and Ephyra, and Ukrainian Folk Festival will begin at noon September 14-16, 2005 Foghat, an American band. The Ukrainian at the Ukrainian American Sport Center August 5-7, 2005 Landshut Reunion Sunflower Festival raises funds in support Tryzub, County Line and Lower State Sports Jamboree Weekend of Immaculate Conception Ukrainian roads. It is sponsored by Tryzub and the September 17, 2005 Catholic Schools located in Warren. For Ukrainian Nationals Soccer Program, both August 6, 2005 more information call Andrew Zeleney, of which are non-profit charitable institu- Lynee Richel Anniversary/ tions. This year’s festival is specially dedi- Afternoon Barabolya Show with Wedding Reception (586) 427-7795, or visit the festival website Ron Cahute and company, at http://www.sunflowerfestival.org/. cated to the people of Ukraine who stood in the cold of winter and won freedom and followed by entertainment by the September 17-19, 2005 Saturday, August 13 democracy during the Orange Revolution. band Hrim; Saturday Zabava Mittenwald Reunion Proceeds benefit cultural programming with Burya on Veselka Patio and HUNTER, N.Y.: Making their debut at the and youth soccer. Admission is $10 per DJ in Veselka Hall September 21-23, 2005 “Music at the Grazhda” concert series will be person; children 13 and under will be Bayreuth Gymnasium Reunion top-prize-winning young violinists Iryna admitted free of charge. Readers may call August 7, 2005 Krechkovsky and Marta Krechkovsky, with Tryzub, (215) 343-5412, with any ques- UNWLA Day and Sunday concert September 22-24, 2005 Kevin Kwan Loucks at the piano. Iryna tions. UNA Assembly and District Meeting Krechkovsky is a student at the Cleveland August 7-20, 2005 Institute of Music, where she studies with Friday, August 26 David and Linda Cerone. Marta Krechkovsky Traditional Ukrainian Folk September 24-25, 2005 WILDWOOD CREST, N.J.: The Dance Camp Plast Sorority Rada - Pershi Stezhi studies at the Juilliard School of Music, where she studies with Glenn Dicterow, concertmas- Khmelnychenky Plast fraternity is spon- Plast Sorority Rada - Chornomorski soring an all-ages dance at the Wildwood ter of the New York Philharmonic. This sum- August 12, 2005 Khvyli Crest Pier Recreation Center, across the mer, Iryna attended the Banff Chamber Music Tiki Bar Entertainment featuring street from the Pan Am Hotel. Last year Program as a member of Vols String Quartet; September 29-October 3, 2005 over 500 beach-goers partied at the Vidlunnia with Olga Barabash- Marta took part in the Pacific Music Festival “Return of the Khmeli” zabava – the event Turgineva Ukrainian American Vet Convention in Japan and went on a concert tour to of “Ukrainian Week” in Wildwood Crest. Germany and England with the Juilliard This year doors will open earlier, at 7 p.m. August 13, 2005 September 30, 2005 Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Loucks, a Rawlins Children’s activities: 7 p.m.-8 p.m.; chil- Miss Soyuzivka Weekend KLK Weekend - General Meeting Scholar from the University of California at dren’s dance 8 p.m.-9:30 p.m.; youth and Zabava with Tempo and Banquet Irvine and grand prize winner at the Schlern “vechirka” 10 p.m.-? There will be a char- International Music Competition (Austria), is ity raffle at 9:30 p.m., sponsored by the August 19, 2005 September 30-October 1, 2005 a master of music candidate at Juilliard. Spartanky Plast fraternity. Live music will Venue: Grazhda, Route 23 A, Hunter, N.Y. Tiki Bar Entertainment featuring Plast Sorority Rada - Spartanky be provided by Luna from 8 p.m. to mid- Time: 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the door Zuki & friend, 10 pm night; CD dance mixes welcome at mid- for $15; $12 for members and seniors; free for October 2, 2005 night. Admission: free for children age 6 students. General information is available August 19-20, 2005 UNWLA Luncheon and under; $3 for children age 7-12; $5 for online at: www.GrazhdaMusicandArt.org. Exhibit - Kozak family paintings students age 13-22; $10 for adults 23 and October 3-6, 2005 Information is also available by calling (518) over. Proceeds go toward the Vovcha August 20, 2005 Stamford Clergy Days 263-4335. Tropa Plast camp’s improvement fund. For Dance Camp Performance information and/or suggestions contact and Zabava with Fata Morgana October 8, 2005 Saturday-Sunday, August 20-21 either Adrian Horodecky at adrian@telli- Wedding gys.com or Joanne Iwaskiw at August 27, 2005 CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Congress [email protected]. Wedding October 15, 2005 Zabava with Halychany, 10 pm Wedding

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