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THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXXVII No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 $2.00 Holodomor Committee Putin tests Zelensky, encroaches on Ukraine’s sovereignty

continues promotion by Mark Raczkiewycz of genocide awareness KYIV – Russia continues to test U.S. Holodomor Committee President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky during a transitional power period with further WASHINGTON – Based on the suc- encroachment on Ukraine’s sovereignty. cessful commemorations of the 85th In the span of two weeks, the Kremlin anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932- banned oil and coal exports to Ukraine, 1933 in Ukraine, the U.S. Committee for started expediting the issuance of Russian Holodomor-Genocide Awareness (U.S. passports to Ukrainians and continued its Holodomor Committee) is continuing creeping annexation of the Azov Sea. its campaign in 2019 and beyond. Combined, the events are exposing Mr. Holodomor advocacy days are sched- Zelensky, 41, to the daily reality that he will uled for early May throughout state capitals and major cities to promote a face as president and one that is dissimilar Holodomor curriculum within the pub- from the same role of a fictional head of lic school systems of the 50 states, as state he played in the TV series “Servant of well as to advocate for executive procla- the People,” in which Russia’s hybrid and mations/legislative resolutions recog- conventional war is never mentioned. nizing the Holodomor as genocide During a brief hiatus in Turkey following his convincing April 25 runoff victory, the against the Ukrainian nation. Orthodox Church of Ukraine Highlighting the U.S. Holodomor former comedian learned that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to Metropolitan Epifaniy, primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, presents a Committee’s plans and activities for reprint of the 16th-century Ostroh Bible to President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky in fast-track citizenship for residents of the 2019 will be a Holodomor convention Kyiv on April 30. scheduled for October 5-6 in Moscow-occupied parts of the Donbas. He Philadelphia. The two-day convention expanded the decree on May 1 – Labor Day “inalienable human rights and freedoms” Luhansk Oblast in a town of the Rostov will be an opportunity to bring togeth- in Ukraine and in Russia – to include don’t exist. region. er experts on Holodomor-related Ukrainians born on the Ukrainian territory Mr. Zelensky underscored that “Ukrainians Overall, the Russian government has so issues. It will feature workshops delv- of Crimea and Ukrainians who have Russian are free people in a free country that is far earmarked $5 million ($330 million ing into the practical topics of advanc- residency or asylum status. independent, sovereign and indivisible.” rubles) and issued an order to issue “at least ing a Holodomor curriculum; political Mr. Zelensky mocked the Kremlin leader He then said that Kyiv will extend citizen- 190,000” passports to residents of the occu- recognition of the Holodomor as a in a statement that went over his head and ship to citizens of “post-Soviet states,” includ- pied parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. genocide; social and mass media directly addressed the Russian people on ing Russia, who seek “protection, asylum After the Kremlin leader’s latest decree on awareness campaigns about the April 28. Obtaining Russian citizenship, he and… anyone ready to fight for freedom.” citizenship, Mr. Zelensky said on May 2 in a Holodomor; and, efforts to rescind The said, offers fewer freedoms than what While Mr. Zelensky’s words remain sus- Facebook post that there is “nothing left in New York Times correspondent Walter Ukrainians enjoy: “The right to be arrested pended in the realm of rhetoric, Russia on common” between Ukraine and Russia Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize for his articles for a peaceful protest, the right to have no April 29 opened its first passport issuance wrought with Soviet propaganda. free and fair elections,” and the fact that center for residents of the occupied part of (Continued on page 7) The U.S. Holodomor Committee is an organization of nearly 30 affiliated organizations and individual volun- teers. In addition, regional community committees have also been formed in Connecticut, Florida, Texas, Michigan, New law protects Ukrainian language in society New Jersey, New Hampshire, Oregon, by Mark Raczkiewycz the Capital District of New York State, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada adopted a Philadelphia and Yonkers, N.Y. sweeping language law on April 25 that Commemorations of the elevates the status of Ukrainian in nearly Holodomor’s 85th anniversary were every facet of life. initiated in the U.S. with a March of A solid majority of 278 lawmakers voted Remembrance in New York City in for the bill that makes Ukrainian the sole November 2017. Observances contin- language in all government activities and ued throughout 2018 with communi- for officials while performing official duties. ties participating in the international Ukrainian dominance in media, culture and Candle of Remembrance campaign; education is also ensured. The bill’s mea- advocating for resolutions and procla- sures don’t apply to private communication mations from states and major cities or language use in religious ceremonies. throughout the U.S.; and lectures, con- After centuries of suppression by more certs, and exhibits offered at various powerful neighbors whose legacies are still public venues and universities. felt today, Ukrainian has become a symbol The U.S. Holodomor Committee for the country’s struggle for independence commissioned the making of a short and a key component of identity. Russian, documentary called “When We Starve.” in particular, still dominates as the lingua The 17-minute film reviews the medi- Facebook/Andriy Parubiy franca in print and online media as well as cal, psychological and spiritual effects Verkhovna Rada head Andriy Parubiy (top center) triumphantly lifts his arms in in commerce, where menus, labels and out- of starvation. It includes interviews reaction to the Verkhovna Rada having adopted an expansive law that elevates the door signage still appear mostly in Russian. status of the Ukrainian language in nearly all public spheres on April 25. Seated (Continued on page 11) beside him are Iryna Herashchenko (left), the Rada’s first deputy chair, and National (Continued on page 7) Deputy head Oksana Syroyid. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 No. 18

ANALYSIS

Kremlin sees new window of opportunity It’s official: Zelensky declared winner Zelensky to Putin: ‘Don’t waste your time’ Ukraine’s Central Election Commission Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr after Poroshenko’s massive electoral loss has formally declared Volodymyr Zelensky Zelensky has told Moscow “not to waste time trying to lure Ukrainian citizens with moted Mr. Zelensky during the campaign. the winner of the country’s presidential by Pavel Felgenhauer Russian passports,” after Russian President Several years ago, the Poroshenko election, releasing final results from the Eurasia Daily Monitor Vladimir Putin said Moscow could ease the administration nationalized PrivatBank, April 21 runoff vote. Commission process of granting Russian citizenship to On March 31, the authorities released the biggest Ukrainian private bank, which Chairwoman Tetyana Slipachuk announced Ukrainians. Ukrainians understand that official results for the first round of the belonged to Mr. Kolomoisky, who demands on April 30 that Mr. Zelensky received Russian citizenship means “the right to be its return or $2 billion in compensation 13,541,528 votes, more than 73 percent, Ukrainian presidential election. The incum- arrested for peaceful protests,” and “the from the government (see Eurasia Daily while incumbent President Petro bent, President Petro Poroshenko, came in right not to have free and competitive elec- Monitor, April 23). The U.S. Federal Bureau Poroshenko received 4,522,450, less than second place with almost 16 percent of the tions,” Mr. Zelensky wrote in a Facebook of Investigation (FBI) has reportedly been 25 percent. The numbers were in line with vote, while the front-runner, popular sati- post on April 27. “It’s the right to basically investigating Mr. Kolomoisky’s possible the unofficial figures released shortly after rist/comedian/media manager Volodymyr forget all rights and freedoms,” he wrote. financial criminal activity, though he has the runoff between Mr. Zelensky, a 41-year- Zelensky, received over 30 percent. During “Ukraine’s difference, in particular, is in the denied any wrongdoing (Newsru.com, old comedian with no political experience, the three weeks leading up to the decisive fact that we, Ukrainians, have freedom of April 8). After Mr. Zelensky won the runoff, runoff on April 21, Mr. Poroshenko and Mr. Poroshenko, 53, who is close to the speech in our country, free media and the Kyiv district administrative court ruled attempted to close the gap. He campaigned end of a five-year term. The turnout was Internet,” Mr. Zelensky wrote. He went on to in favor of Mr. Kolomoisky, declaring the primarily on a patriotic agenda, promoting 61.37 percent, Ms. Slipachuk said, adding say that “Ukrainians are free people in a nationalization of PrivatBank illegal his achievements in resisting Russia and that the commission had not received any free country” and that they “should not be (Korrespondent.net, April 23). President Vladimir Putin, building up the major complaints that could put the results talked to in the language of threats and mil- The Kremlin wanted President Ukrainian military, negotiating a visa-free of the election in doubt. The official results itary and economic pressure.” However, Mr. Poroshenko to be ousted and the Russian travel regime with the European Union, of the runoff were based on the protocol Zelensky pointed out that he was ready for state-controlled media clearly supported and achieving mild economic growth of signed by 15 members of the commission – negotiations with Russia. He said that “the Mr. Zelensky as a force capable of toppling over 2 percent last year. one member was absent at the session – real normalization will only take place after the incumbent (see EDM, April 4). Reports President Poroshenko did indeed mobi- and official representatives of the contend- de-occupation of both Donbas and Crimea.” also surfaced of possible Kremlin- lize his support base, but not nearly enough ers. Mr. Zelensky is expected to be inaugu- Shortly after Putin’s decree was published connected financing of the Zelensky cam- to overcome his opponent. Voter turnout rated in early June. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian on the Kremlin website on April 24, paign (The Insider, April 17). But this on April 21 was over 61 percent – quite Service, with reporting by UNIAN and Ukraine’s foreign affairs minister called it alleged alliance turned out to be short- high for a runoff. But Mr. Poroshenko was Gordon) “aggression and interference” in Kyiv’s lived. Just before April 21, when Mr. soundly defeated, receiving less than 25 affairs. Mr. Zelensky issued a statement on Zelensky’s victory and Mr. Poroshenko’s percent of votes, while Mr. Zelensky gar- Putin fast-tracks Russian passports April 24 condemning Russia as an “occupy- trouncing seemed virtually assured, nered over 73 percent (Interfax, April 23). ing state” and an “aggressor country that is Moscow suddenly imposed severe sanc- Russian President Vladimir Putin has Mr. Poroshenko was elected president in waging war against Ukraine.” He called for tions on Ukraine, prohibiting the export of signed a decree to fast-track passports and May 2014, winning outright in the first “increased diplomatic and sanctions pres- oil to that country beginning on June 1, citizenship for people in Ukraine and Soviet- round, with almost 55 percent of the vote, sure on the Russian Federation.” (RFE/RL) compared to under 13 percent for the run- 2019. The sanctions also make the export era deportees. The order, published on the ner-up, veteran Ukrainian politician Yulia of coal and oil products conditional on spe- Kremlin’s website on May 1, followed Mr. U.S. condemns Putin’s passport move cial authorization from the Kremlin for Putin’s decree last week that made it easier Tymoshenko (Vedomosti, April 23). If a The U.S. State Department condemned direct comparison of their first-round every batch. Ukraine imports some 40 per- for thousands of people living in war-torn cent of its oil and oil products from Russia eastern Ukraine to obtain Russian passports an order by Russian President Vladimir results can be considered an accurate Putin to simplify the procedure for people assessment, Mr. Poroshenko in 2014 would and, according to Ukrtatnafta, an abrupt – an announcement that was mocked by embargo may cause economic chaos and Ukraine’s new president. The new order living in parts of eastern Ukraine held by seem to have been more popular over all Russia-backed separatists to obtain Russian than Mr. Zelensky is today. massive disruptions (Interfax, April 18). makes it easier not only for Ukrainian citi- After Mr. Zelensky’s landslide victory, zens and children to get Russian passports, citizenship. Department spokesperson Under the present Constitution of Morgan Ortagus stated on April 24: “The the Kremlin announced “it is untimely” to but also certain stateless persons who lived Ukraine, the head of state has limited politi- United States condemns today’s decision by send an official congratulations, implying in Crimea but moved away prior to Russia’s cal powers, mostly in the realms of defense, President Putin to provide expedited Mr. Zelensky must first make unspecified 2014 annexation of the Black Sea peninsula. national security and foreign policy. A rul- Russian citizenship to Ukrainians living in ing coalition in the Verkhovna Rada “concrete steps” for Mr. Putin to recognize Also eligible for Russian passports are for- the legitimacy of his election (Vedomosti, Russia-controlled eastern Ukraine. Russia, appoints the Cabinet, and most presidential eigners who are descendants or relatives of through this highly provocative action, is decisions and decrees must be underwrit- April 23). A day later, the Russian president Soviet-era deportees from Crimea, including signed an ukaz (decree) authorizing the intensifying its assault on Ukraine’s sover- ten by the Cabinet or the Rada. In 2014, Crimean Tatars. Many were deported to eignty and territorial integrity. President President Poroshenko managed to form a mass issuance of Russian passports to resi- Uzbekistan on the orders of Soviet dictator friendly Cabinet and control the unruly dents of the Russian-controlled Donbas. Joseph Stalin in 1944. (RFE/RL) (Continued on page 9) Residents of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Rada, assuming much more effective power and Luhansk people’s republics who have than the letter of the Ukrainian been issued local identification cards (pass- Constitution envisages. But Mr. Zelensky ports), will receive Russian passports in will not inherit this power automatically. exchange for a pledge of allegiance to the HE KRAINIAN EEKLY FOUNDED 1933 Mr. Zelensky won a spectacular landslide T U W Russian Federation. However, legal denun- on April 21, riding a wave of public discon- ciation of Ukrainian citizenship is not An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., tent in a country distressed by poverty, cor- required (Interfax, April 24). a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. 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NEWS ANALYSIS President-elect Zelensky’s team emerges from the shadows by Oleg Varfolomeyev which otherwise relied on social media Razumkov used to be a member of Mr. earned from his presidential victory, could Eurasia Daily Monitor posts (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, February Yanukovych’s Party of Regions. While pre- have a space of several days or weeks to 13). Messrs. Zelensky and Kolomoisky have senting a part of his victorious team on a dissolve Parliament and call early elections Popular comedian Volodymyr Zelensky never denied their business ties, but both talk show (airing on 1+1), Mr. Zelensky said in May or June to replace the ruling coali- won the Ukrainian runoff presidential elec- refute charges of Mr. Kolomoisky’s role in that, during the campaign, domestic politics tion and the government – both of which tion hands down on April 21. More than 73 the Zelensky election campaign. were the remit of Mr. Razumkov, who also were formed under President Poroshenko. percent of those who came to the polling Still, Mr. Kolomoisky has never dis- served as one of the public speakers for Mr. Mr. Zelensky himself indicated such a possi- stations cast their ballots for him. For the avowed that he wanted to see President Zelensky’s staff. bility (RBC, April 18). first time in any post-Soviet state’s history, Poroshenko defeated. He fell out with Mr. Oleksandr Danylyuk, a former finance Mr. Zelensky apparently already has a an individual without any experience in Poroshenko in 2015, when the president minister (April 2016-June 2018) and a for- candidate in mind for defense minister, Col. politics, security or public administration fired him as Dnipropetrovsk Oblast gover- mer advisor for economic reforms to Mr. Ivan Aparshin, whom Mr. Zelensky publicly was elected president. Mr. Zelensky defeat- nor. Later on, Mr. Poroshenko supported Yanukovych, was helping Mr. Zelensky to presented as his expert for defense and ed incumbent Petro Poroshenko, who had the nationalization of PrivatBank, Ukraine’s communicate with the business community security. Col. Aparshin served in different been in politics for two decades. The vic- largest bank, until December 2016 co- and foreigners. Incidentally, as finance min- defense-related government positions tor’s views regarding the complex foreign owned by Mr. Kolomoisky and Hennady ister, Mr. Danylyuk oversaw PrivatBank’s between 2005 and 2014. He wrote in a policy, security and economic problems fac- Boholyubov (see EDM, February 11). Mr. nationalization. Ukraine’s Parliament fired recent blog post that Mr. Zelensky’s incom- ing Ukraine, however, have been difficult to Poroshenko claimed that Mr. Zelensky Mr. Danylyuk a year ago because of his con- ing team plans to continue Ukraine’s close parse, including based on his vague or even would try to return PrivatBank, into which flicts with Prime Minister Volodymyr cooperation with the North Atlantic Treaty rather naïve-sounding responses to jour- the government has poured billions of dol- Groysman over taxation policies and per- Organization (NATO), abandon conscription nalists’ questions during the campaign lars, to its former owners, but Mr. Zelensky sonnel. Mr. Zelensky said Mr. Danylyuk service to the Armed Forces, make defense (YouTube, December 25, 2018 and March has repeatedly denied this (Interfax, April advised him on foreign affairs as well as spending more transparent, and reform the 21, 2019; RBC, April 18, 2019). 19). finance and banking (YouTube, April 18). defense industry company Ukroboronprom, Consequently, at least in the beginning, Ukrainian investigative journalists from Several other former government offi- which was involved in several recent cor- President-elect Zelensky will have to rely Skhemy (a joint project of RFE/RL and cials were also on the 1+1 stage; curiously, ruption scandals (Obozrevatel.com, April heavily on his staff and advisors. But details UA:Pershy) found that Mr. Zelensky had Aivaras Abromavicius was absent. Mr. 22; see EDM, February 28). about his team have been emerging only bit traveled 13 times, during 2017–2018, to Abromavicius, a liberal reformer who As for the next foreign affairs minister, by bit, and Mr. Zelensky refused to share Switzerland and Israel, where Mr. resigned as economy minister several years Mr. Leshchenko earlier indicated that Mr. too many details of his personnel plans Kolomoisky resides. They further reported ago, had been seen accompanying Mr. Danylyuk could be offered the post (Nv.ua, even at his post-election briefing, on April that Mr. Kolomoisky’s lawyer Andriy Zelensky during his campaign meetings April 3), but Mr. Danylyuk more recently 21 (Ukrinform.ru, April 22). This has pro- Bohdan sometimes accompanied Mr. along with Mr. Danylyuk,. Another conspic- told reporters that he was not interested vided fuel to earlier suspicions that Mr. Zelensky on those trips (YouTube, April uous absence was that of crusading jour- (Interfax, April 21). Zelensky is not free to independently 16). Mr. Bohdan is a former deputy minis- nalist Sergii Leshchenko, who, identified as Despite a number of notable links to the choose his own people, but rather that sig- ter of justice, and he served on various state an advisor to Mr. Zelensky, gave a rare disgraced former Yanukovych administra- nificant input or even direction regarding anti-corruption bodies under President interview about the campaign to a Russian tion, many individuals trotted out as mem- personnel may be coming from the person Poroshenko’s predecessor, Viktor media outlet last month (Novaya Gazeta, bers of Mr. Zelensky’s incoming team, as believed to have been behind his campaign, Yanukovych. Notably, Mr. Bohdan’s smiling March 22). well as those publicly associated with it, oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, who reportedly face appeared behind Mr. Zelensky toward Once inaugurated, which is expected in have serious experience and clear pro- lives in self-imposed exile in Israel. the end of his public debate with Mr. May, Mr. Zelensky will be entitled to replace reform credentials. Nevertheless, it remains Mr. Kolomoisky’s television channel 1+1 Poroshenko, at Olympiyskiy Stadium in only two ministers – of foreign affairs and to be seen which of them will actually be has for years been broadcasting satirical Kyiv, on April 19. Journalists also spotted defense. He also can replace the prosecutor hired by the president-elect, and what role, shows of “Kvartal 95,” a comic group that Mr. Bohdan at Zelensky election headquar- general and the head of the Security Service if any, in the formation of the next adminis- first propelled Mr. Zelensky to public fame. ters. Mr. Zelensky’s campaign manager, of Ukraine (SBU). Prime Minister tration might be played by Mr. Kolomoisky. And Mr. Zelensky chose 1+1 to announce Dmytro Razumkov, claimed the lawyer was Groysman’s government will have to resign his decision to run for president this past Mr. Zelensky’s friend (Bihus.info, April 9). only after the election of a new Parliament, The article above is reprinted from New Year’s Eve. Thereafter, this television Mr. Razumkov himself is the son of a for- which is scheduled for the fall of this year. Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from station and Mr. Kolomoisky’s other media mer key advisor to Ukraine’s second presi- However, it has been speculated that Mr. its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, outlets backed Mr. Zelensky’s campaign, dent, Leonid Kuchma. The younger Mr. Zelensky, thanks to the political capital www.jamestown.org.

Zelensky wins: What’s next for Ukraine? by David A. Wemer potential economic improvements, and two largest factions in [the new] Mr. Karatnycky added that “Zelensky’s perhaps some progress in dealing with the Parliament,” which will give him a better recent profile in the last days of the cam- Following his landslide election as presi- Russian threat.” chance of enacting serious reforms. paign took some of the bloom off of dent of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky must The fact that most voters were motivat- Mr. Zelensky’s biggest immediate chal- [Russia’s] expectations that this guy might now turn his attention to following through ed by disappointment with President lenge, however, will be the continued war be someone who will be eager to make on much-needed economic and anti-cor- Poroshenko, rather than excitement for Mr. with Russia in Ukraine’s east. “Zelensky is a some bows in the direction of Russia. That ruption reforms, all while continuing to Zelensky “means that Zelensky cannot neophyte and that is a serious problem seems to have faded from their calcula- confront Russia in Ukraine’s east and the expect any benefit of the doubt,” according when you are dealing with a character like tions.” Dr. Åslund noted that Moscow illegal occupation of Crimea. to Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Anders [Russian President Vladimir] Putin,” Mr. declined to congratulate Mr. Zelensky on The results of the April 21 contest, Åslund. “There is no euphoria about Herbst said. The Kremlin “will be probing or his electoral victory, in a departure from which saw Mr. Zelensky beat the incum- Zelensky as a person,” he added. “There is a testing Zelensky in the weeks and months to usual Kremlin practice. bent president, Petro Poroshenko, with quiet rage against the old corrupt estab- come,” Mr. Herbst said, as they will attempt Mr. Zelensky’s inexperience could nearly three-quarters of the vote was lishment.” to exploit his lack of political experience. prompt further Kremlin action and he “clearly a vote for change,” according to Messrs. Herbst, Karatnycky and Åslund Russian military aggression against would certainly benefit from closer cooper- Atlantic Council Eurasia Center Director spoke on a members and press call hosted Ukraine began in 2014 with the illegal ation with Ukraine’s Western allies, the John Herbst, who is a former U.S. ambassa- by the Atlantic Council on April 22. annexation of Crimea, followed by the inva- experts said. Mr. Karatnycky suggested that dor to Ukraine. Mr. Zelensky cannot be con- Mr. Zelensky will be somewhat handi- sion of eastern Ukraine by Russian military the United States and Europe “could ramp tent with the margin of his victory, Mr. capped in the short term, Dr. Åslund noted, forces. In November 2018, Russian ships up some technical assistance to help Herbst added, as “Poroshenko’s 2014 first- as parliamentary elections will likely not captured three Ukrainian naval vessels and [Zelensky] shape the transition, connect round victory was also unprecedented and happen until October 27. two dozen sailors in the Kerch Strait off the him with Western experts, and begin a dia- he was very popular at the time he won” “He will have six months when it will be coast of eastern Ukraine. logue.” before experiencing a decline in popularity. hard for him to deliver because he will deal According to Mr. Herbst, “Putin was hop- Dr. Åslund praised the European Union’s “To consolidate power,” Mr. Herbst said, with a parliament that has its own agenda,” ing that this election might make it easier to decision to invite Mr. Zelensky for a summit “Zelensky must move on reforms.” Adrian Mr. Karatnycky added. push Ukraine away from a pro-European in Brussels in early July and hoped the Karatnycky, senior fellow and co-director Dr. Åslund explained that Mr. Zelensky orientation.” Despite indications that Mr. United States extends a similar invitation. of the Ukraine in Europe Initiative with the could act quickly on nominating a new Zelensky might want to change the tactics The support will be needed, Mr. Herbst Eurasia Center, agreed, explaining that the prosecutor general and an anti-corruption pursued by Mr. Poroshenko, Mr. Herbst argued, as “a Russian provocation, I think, “mandate in the second round was less for prosecutor to begin to fulfill some of his maintained that the new president “is not is to be expected.” Zelensky than for hope for a change of campaign promises before a new interested and certainly would not be able Mr. Herbst reported that the although course.” He argued that the Ukrainian pub- Parliament is elected. to make a deal [with Russia] that in any way “the amount of disinformation” from lic will be “looking for rapid results in Mr. Karatnycky thinks that Mr. Zelensky cuts against Ukrainian sovereignty. Because terms of movement against corruption, “has enough support [to lead] one of the the people of Ukraine will not stand for it.” (Continued on page 11) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 No. 18 No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 5

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM UNA CELEBRATES 125 YEARS: A snapshot from history, 1896

Seen on the right are some of the members of the Supreme Assembly of Ruskyi Narodnyi Soyuz (which in 1914 became the Ukrainian National Association) who were elected at the organi- zation’s third convention held in Mount Carmel, Pa., on January 2, 1896. Seated (from left) are: Yuriy Kyliak, supreme treasurer; John Glowa, supreme president; Father Ivan Konstankevych, supreme advisor; standing: Father Ivan Ardan, supreme advisor; Father Nicholas Stefanovych, supreme advisor; and Father Nestor Dmytriw, supreme auditor. Other Supreme Assembly members elected in 1896 were: Supreme Vice-President Oleksiy Kuryla; Supreme Auditors Oleksiy Shlianta and Constantine Koban; and Supreme Advisors Father Teofan Obushkevych, Theodosiy Talpash, Vasyl Krynytsky and Dmytro Kapitula. Soyuz at the time of the 1986 convention had more than 500 members, whose average age was 35.

A photo archive of UNA history has been launched on the UNA website. It is a work in progress that will be expand- ed and refined. To take a look, go to unainc.org/una/the-una-is-125-years- old/. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 No. 18 No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 S1

Supplement to The Ukrainian Weekly, May 5, 2019

Welcome to the 2019 edition of “A Ukrainian Summer” – our 23rd annual seasonal supplement. You’ll find calendars of Ukrainian festivals and Ukrainian sports events, as well as information about a variety of activities and pursuits. We begin with something truly unique: a church conservation workshop to be held in the Lviv region of Ukraine geared to those interested in architectural conservation, historic preservation, and art and architectural history. There are stories about the concert series of “Music at Grazhda” in the Hunter, N.Y., area, courses offered by the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute, and camps that accommodate diverse interests, from Plast Ukrainian Scouting activities to bandura and Ukrainian dance, offered at several venues in North America. Also noteworthy is a report about what’s new at Soyuzivka Heritage Center in Kerhonkson, N.Y. Plus, there are stories about the goings on at the Ukrainian American Youth Association grounds in Ellenville, N.Y., the Ukrainian American Sport Center Tryzub in Horsham, Pa., and the Ukrainian Homestead in Lehighton, Pa. The advertisements in “A Ukrainian Summer” also are informative, providing details about numerous events, workshops, courses, camps, programs and travel destinations. Thank you to all who submitted materials for this supplement! (Mark your calendars as a reminder to send in your info in mid-April of next year in order to be part of “A Ukrainian Summer” 2020.) In the meantime, we hope you’ll enjoy your Ukrainian summer! Participate in a conservation workshop, learn about wooden churches in Ukraine

by Myron Stachiw and Yuri Yanchyshyn The Department of Architecture and Conservation of the National University Lviv Polytechnic, in conjunction with U.S.A. facilitators Myron Stachiw (architectural historian) and Yuri Yanchyshyn (furniture conservator), is hosting a two-week workshop from June 24 to July 6. The goal of the workshop will be to teach participants how to conduct a conservation assessment: to examine, assess and document a wooden structure, in this case the Church of the Theophany (Bohoyavlennia Hospodnioho) in the village of Kuhayiv, Lviv Oblast, erected in 1693. The historic log church is no longer in use, as the congregation recently erected a new masonry church. The building and its 18th century ico- nostasis are in dire need of conservation and restoration. The workshop is open to students and recent graduates of art and architectural conservation programs, programs in historic preservation, art and architectural history, as well as to practicing early- and mid-career professionals in these fields. It will encompass the assessment of wood as the primary material of this art and architectural form, as well as the paintings on timber walls, the iconostasis and icons. This assessment will take the form of a highly

Wikimedia Church of the Theophany (1693), Kuhayiv, Lviv Oblast. detailed condition report and recommendations for con- servation, to which all attendees will contribute. In addition to the assessments, participants will visit a studio conducting the conservation of a 17th century ico- nostasis; visit and tour other sites; and will attend lec- tures/seminars by U.S., Ukrainian and international practi- tioners in the field on the history of the wooden churches and their interiors, wood and its properties, wood identifi- cation, construction methods, documentation procedures, preservation issues and other topics. Field trips will bring participants to four of the eight Ukrainian wooden churches named in 2013 to the UNESCO World Heritage List in Rohatyn, Drohobych, Potelych and Zhovkva (see https://whc.unesco.org/en/ list/1424; a virtual tour of the eight churches is available at http://churches.authenticukraine.com.ua/en/). Ukraine has a long tradition of wooden church building; archaeological remains of wooden churches have been dis- covered dating back to the 10th-11th centuries. Within each of the ethnographic subregions of Ukraine unique and distinctive building technologies, forms and stylistic expressions have evolved, adopting and adapting fashion- able European stylistic trends. In the eight oblasts within western Ukraine, more than 2100 wooden churches, dat- ing from the 16th- through the 20th centuries, survive in Andrij Saluk Iconostasis of the Church of the Theophany (Bohoyavlennia Hospodnioho), Kuhayiv, Lviv Oblast. (Continued on page S20) S2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 No. 18

It’s Festival Time! May 8-12 Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Festival, June 16-22 Fiesta Week, Dnipro/Odesa and Lviv Ukrainian Pavilions, St. Albert, AB The Arden Theater, http://cheremosh.ca/festival Oshawa, ON Oshawa Folk Arts Council, www.fiestaweek.com or 905-721-1144 May 10-12 Yorkton Kalyna Festival of Ukrainian Dance, Yorkton, SK Yorkton Regional High School, Ann Portnuff Theater, June 22 Ukrainian Festival, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin www.yorktonkalynadance.com Perth Amboy, NJ Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church, 732-826-0767 or www.assumptioncatholicchurch.net May 11 Vesna Ukrainian Festival, Saskatoon, SK Prairieland Park, www.vesnafestival.com June 22 Zolotyj Klen Music Festival, Ukrainian Youth Association Halton Hills, ON of Canada Camp Veselka, www.zolotyjklen.com May 17-19 St. George Ukrainian Festival, St. George Ukrainian New York Catholic Church, 212-677-7460 June 23 Vintage Day and 34th Friends Ukrainian Music Fest, Tofield, AB Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, May 20 Celebration of Spring, Ukrainian Cultural Heritage https://ukrainianvillage.ca/vintage-day-and-friends- Tofield, AB Village, https://ukrainianvillage.ca/events ukrainian-music

May 24-25 U-Fest Edmonton Ukrainian Festival, June 29-30 19th annual Lemko Vatra, Organization for the Defense Edmonton, AB Borden Park, www.ufest.ca Ellenville, NY of Lemkivshchyna, Ukrainian American Youth Association camp, www.lemko-ool.com May 25-26 Carassauga Missisauga’s Festival of Cultures, Ukrainian June 29-30 Sacred Heart Ukrainian Festival, Sacred Heart Ukrainian Mississauga, ON Pavilion, St. Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church, Castle Creek, PA Catholic Church Picnic Grounds, www.sacredheartucc.org www.carassauga.com or 647-609-9848 July 3-6 Brantford International Villages Cultural Festival, May 26 20th annual Okanagen Ukrainian Festival, Sadok Brantford, ON Ukrainian Village Pavilion, Harmony United Church, Vernon, BC Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, Vernon Performing Arts [email protected] or 519-752-6222 Theater, www.ticketseller.ca or www.sadok.net/events July 4-7 Nadiya Ye! Festival, Ukrainian American Youth June 1 Mississauga Ukrainian Festival, Bloor West Village Ellenville, NY Association camp, www.cym.org/us-ellenville or Mississauga, ON Ukrainian Festival, Mississauga Celebration Square, 845-647-7230 905-891-0242 or www.ukrainianfestival.com July 5-7 46th annual Vegreville Pysanka Festival, Vegreville June 1-2 Calgary Ukrainian Festival, Acadia Recreation Complex, Vegreville, AB Exhibition Grounds, www.pysankafestival.com Calgary, AB www.calgaryukrainianfesitval.ca July 12-14 Soyuzivka Cultural Festival, Ukrainian National June 8-9 Chervona Ruta Palatine Ukrainian Festival, Ukrainian Kerhonkson, NY Foundation, Soyuzivka Heritage Center, Palatine, IL American Youth Association, Immaculate Conception www.soyuzivka.com or 845-626-5641 Ukrainian Catholic Church, [email protected] July 13 53rd Gerdenton Ukrainian Festival, Gerdenton June 9 Sviato Vesny celebration, Camp Veselka, Ukrainian Gardenton, MB Ukrainian Museum Grounds, 204-425-8197 Halton Hills, ON Youth Association of Canada, https://cym.org/ca July 17-20 Badlands Ukrainian Days, Ukrainian Cultural June 14-16 Kingston Folklore Festival, Lviv Ukraine Pavilion, Belfield/Dickinson, ND Institute, www.badlandsukrainiandays.com Kingston, ON Ukrainian Canadian Club of Kingston, Regiopolis Notre Dame High School, July 19-21 Capital Ukrainian Festival, St. John the Baptist Ukrainian www.lvivukrainefolklorefestival.com or 613-549-5060 Ottawa Catholic Shrine, www.capitalukrainianfestival.com July 20 Ukrainian Village Festival, St. Vladimir Ukrainian June 14-16 Yonkers Ukrainian Heritage Festival, St. Michael Parma, OH Orthodox Cathedral, Yonkers, NY Ukrainian Catholic Church, https://stvladimirs.org/fesitval.html [email protected] or http://yonkersukrainianfestival.org (Continued on page S7)

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Christine Syzonenko “Hopak” by Iskra and Voloshky. Come to Tryzubivka for a summer full of events by Eugene A. Luciw Tryzubivka’s festival grounds, sports pub, banquet hall and forty-two beautiful acres of parks, streams, picnic groves, natural and artificial turf sports fields in Horsham, Pa., beckon to be a part of your Ukrainian Summer. Become a club member for only $25 annually ($35 for a family member- ship). Enjoy a cascade of heritage, cultural, fraternal and sporting events throughout the spring, summer and early fall. The most popular community event – over 3,000 now attend – at the Ukrainian American Sport Center Tryzub is the Ukrainian Independence Day Festival, Outdoor Summer Concert & Zabava. The fes- tivities are scheduled for Sunday, August 25, commencing at noon, in Tryzubivka’s fully shaded festival glade. Ukrainians and other Americans from throughout the Philadelphia Metropolitan area and beyond attend this Christine Syzonenko featured event that celebrates Ukrainian cul- “Matrosy” (Sailors) premiered by the Voloshky and Iskra Ukrainain Dance Ensembles. ture, as well as liberty and unity. To celebrate the 28th anniversary of Tryzub will hold its popular Father’s Day Fest women’s, men’s over 30 and men’s under Tryzub also invites Ukrainian club and Ukraine’s independence, the artists – dance (free admission and parking), a family-ori- 23 categories. At least two of the men’s non-Ukrainian teams to participate in troupes, musicians, singers and ensembles ented picnic event that features the finals games will be held Sunday afternoon. either of two immensely popular soccer that have performed in previous years – are Philadelphia area’s Voloshky School of Over Memorial Day Weekend, on tournaments: the Memorial Day youth soc- again creating a fresh, dynamic and integrat- Ukrainian Dance, accordionist Ivan Saturday night, May 26, all are invited to cer tournament scheduled for Memorial ed collaborative program (see the ad in this Zhytnikov, the Soloveyky Vocal Ensemble and attend an outdoor family-oriented parents’ Day Weekend (May 24-26); and the issue for details). The Korinya Ukrainian the Swords of Kobzars Bandurist Quartet, appreciation picnic under the stars. There Columbus Cup girls’ soccer tournament Folk Band and the Na Lemkovyni vocal and other excellent younger singers, dancers is no admission fee. Enjoy an array of live (October 11-13). ensemble will be the special guest stars. The and musicians. A zabava to the versatile music by popular local bands, social danc- Throughout July and August, Tryzub’s concert will also feature the Voloshky and music and song of Ihor Sypen follows. ing, food, refreshments and fraternity. staff of coaches and counselors will also be Iskra Ukrainian dance ensembles and vio- Over that entire Father’s Day weekend, There will also be a commemoration cere- offering a number of camps at Tryzubivka. linist Innesa Tymochko Dekajlo. Tryzub will host (also without admission) mony for the memories of our fallen You can learn more about Tryzubivka A “zabava” (dance) to the tunes of the Vox the U.S. Adult Soccer Association’s Region I heroes, even as the tournament financially and the opportunities it offers the commu- Ethnika Orchestra will follow the concert. U.S. Open and Amateur Cup National supports the Travis Manion Foundation, an nity at www.tryzub.org and at www.ukrai- Arts and crafts vendors, children’s recre- Championship games. With the U.S. divided organization dedicated to assisting our niannationals.com. The club is located at ation and Ukrainian foods, picnic fare, des- into four regions these are effectively the heroes and their families and to challenging Lower State and County Line roads in serts and refreshments will be abundant. quarter-final games for the outright our youth proactively to volunteer and to Horsham, Montgomery County (northern On Sunday, June 16, beginning at 1p.m., American championships in the men’s, perform works of charity. suburbs of Philadelphia).

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Spend your summer at Soyuzivka Heritage Center by Maya Lew The 2019 summer season at Soyuzivka is almost here, and exciting things are happening at this Ukrainian heri- tage center in Kerhonkson, N.Y.! This summer, guests will have the opportunity to use the newly added spa facilities in the Poltava building. Throughout this past winter and spring, Soyuzivka man- agement and staff have been hard at work. Guests can now enjoy a dry cedar sauna as well as a private outdoor hydro- therapy whirlpool tub and an open yoga or exercise space with spectacular mountain views. Staying ahead of the wellness trend, Soyuzivka has been hosting wellness retreats since 2017 and their popularity is growing. These facilities are a welcome addition, and Soyuzivka can help you to plan your own private retreat. This summer, don’t forget to check out Soyuzivka’s other recent renovations as well: the Odesa building now fea- tures three suites with kitchenettes, comfy beds and flat- screen TVs. Uzhorod maintains its old-world Ukrainian charm with its original woodwork and includes new bath- rooms, carpeting and furniture. The Chernivtsi building retains its cottage feel and has received a welcome facelift. As always, the summer will kick off with Soyuzivka’s popular summer camps. Last year, over 500 campers came Maya Lew to Soyuzivka, and we look forward to welcoming our new Sunset over the pool at Soyuzivka. campers and seeing everyone again this year. Please don’t forget to register your child for camp through our easy online application on the Soyuzivka website: http://www. soyuzivka.com/camps.html. Throughout the summer, the Soyuzivka dining room will have several specialty nights. Enjoy the favorite Hutsul and Odesa nights every Wednesday and Friday, and keep an eye out for special dinners, happy hours, as well as other sur- prise events. This summer we will also offer meal plans whereby guests will have the option to pay one all-inclu- sive rate upon check-in for all of their dining room meals throughout their stay. Soyuzivka will offer several summer package rates: stay with us for two nights and receive your third night half off. (Based on availability, certain blackout dates apply.) Starting in July, stay with us from Sunday through Thursday night with breakfast for two for a $109-per-night inclusive rate. Also new for this summer are long-term rentals – inquire about special reduced rates for a two-week or longer stay. Please contact us to reserve your upcoming wedding, christening, reunion, conference, retreat, or any other occa- sion that comes to mind. Soyuzivka is the perfect place with everything you need. Keep up with all of our events (and book quickly) by looking at the Events Calendar on our website: http://www.soyuzivka.com/events-calendar. Guests enjoy the Tiki Deck. html. And, if you haven’t already, please join the over 7,150 people who follow our Facebook page at www.Facebook. American Ukrainian community, and we are excited for Come stay with us to see what Ukrainians have known com/Soyuzivka and join our e-mail list as well (link avail- 2019. Both the Hudson Valley and Kerhonkson have for over 65 years, and to experience what the renewed able at www.soyuzivka.com). recently been featured in several newspapers as a great buzz is all about. Remember: There’s no place like Since 1952, Soyuzivka has been a hub of the North place for second homes, and the area is experiencing a tourism boom as there is a resurgence of the 1950s “sum- mers in the Catskills.” Soyuzivka!Maya Lew Нема is Soyuzivka’s то як на Союзівці! front office and events manager.

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Appreciate live classical music at the Grazhda – in its 37th year

by Zirka Voronka The final concert of the season will feature cellist Natalia Khoma and pianist Mr. Vynnytsky on August 24. This con- The oldest, acclaimed classical music festival in Greene cert of Bach, Tchaikovsky and Chopin works will be dedi- County will open its 2019 summer season with a fund-rais- cated to the memory of Lubomyr Krushelnytsky, a great ing concert on July 6. The young, up-and-coming soprano and loyal friend of Music at Grazhda. Antonina Chehovska will make her debut at the Grazhda, All concerts begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 for general located in Jewett, N.Y., in works by Barber, Puccini, Dvorak, admission, $15 for seniors and $12 for members. All fund- Saprun and Sonevytsky. Ms. Chehovska participated in a raising concert tickets – $35. The Grazhda concert hall is concert at Carnegie Hall as a soloist in Mozart’s located on Route 23A in Jewett (adjacent to the Ukrainian “Coronation Mass” and Vivaldi’s “Gloria” this past May. The church). For additional information and reservations, artistic director of the Music and Art Center of Greene please call 518-989-6479. County, Volodymyr Vynnytsky, will be at the piano. The Music and Art Center also organizes courses in The featured artists on July 13 will be soprano Kayleen Ukrainian folk arts for adults and children age 10 and up: Sanchez and pianist-composer Paul Sanchez, who will per- Gerdany (bead-stringing) July 29-31 with instructor Lesia form music by Grieg, Bernstein, Sanchez and Vassilandonakis. Lasiy. Sofia Zielyk will be the instructor for Pysanky Peter Nelson Jazztet will bring a bit of cultural variety to (Ukrainian egg decorating) on August 1-2. Lubow Wolynetz the Grazhda’s audience on July 20. Trombonist Peter will teach Embroidery on August 5-8; and Ukrainian Folk Nelson and his colleagues will play jazz pieces and impro- Motif Painting will be offered on August 5-7 (instructor visations on Ukrainian melodies. TBA). The Children’s Folk Singing Course is on July The August 3 concert will spotlight the noted Gould 29-August 9 with Anna Bachynsky and Melanie Serbay. String Quartet. The Lithuanian-born violinist-extraordi- The registration deadline for the courses is July 15. The fee naire Atis Bankas, director of the Niagara Music Festival, for a two-day course is $40; $75 for three- and four-day and his chamber musicians will play music by Puccini, courses. The fee for the singing course is $75 per week. Please Donizetti and Verdi. call Ms. Serbay at 518-263-4670 or e-mail Melanieserbay@ On July 10 at 7 p.m. the Grazhda will resonate with chil- yahoo.com for registration and additional information. dren’s voices in a concert of Ukrainian folk songs. Serhiy The Music and Art Center of Greene County is a non- Salov, the internationally renowned pianist and winner of profit organization, funded in part by the Greene County the 2004 prestigious Montreal International Music Legislature through the Greene County Cultural Fund and Competition will play music by Chopin, Schumann, Dmytro Savchuk administered by GCCA, Self-Reliance New York Federal Lysenko and Shamo. Antonina Chekhovska Credit Union, private donations and memberships.

August 24 Ukrainian Day in the Park, Rotary Park, Spadina It’s Festival Time! Saskatoon, SK Crescent East, www.ukrainiandayinthepark.ca (Continued from page S2) August 24-25 Babas and Borshch Ukrainian Festival, various venues, July 20-21 Surrey Fusion Festival, Ukraine Pavilion, Holland Park, Lamont, AB www.babasandborshch.ca or 8780-365-2434 Surrey, BC www.surreyfusionfestival.ca/ukraine August 24-25 Ukrainian Days Festival, Ukrainian Congress Committee July 21 110th anniversary celebration and concert, Ukrainian Chicago of America – Illinois Division, http://uccaillinois.org Philadelphia American Citizens’ Association, [email protected] or www.ukieclub.com August 25 28th annual Ukrainian Folk Festival, Ukrainian Horsham, PA American Sport Center Tryzub, July 25-28 St. Mary’s Ukrainian Festival, St. Mary Ukrainian http://tryzub.org or 267-664-3857 McKees Rocks, PA Orthodox Church, www.ukiefestrocks.org September 6-8 Montreal Ukrainian Festival, Ukrainian Youth Center, July 28 Ukrainian Festival, Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Montreal Parc Beaubien, http://ukefestmontreal.org Buffalo, NY Church, 716-384-0738 or www.holytrinitybuffalo.com September 7 Ukrainian Festival, St. John the Baptist Ukrainian August 2-4 Canada’s National Ukrainian Festival, Selo Ukraina, Kenmore, NY Catholic Church, 716-873-5011 or Dauphin, MB http://cnuf.ca or 877-474-2683 [email protected] August 3-5 Lemko Vatra, Lemkivshchyna Resort, Durham, ON www.lemko-olk.com or [email protected] September 7 Northwest Ukrainian International Festival, Consulate Bellevue, WA of Ukraine, Crossroads Park, 425-209-2909 or August 3-5 Servus Heritage Festival, Ukrainian Pavilion, [email protected] Edmonton, AB www.heritagefest.ca September 7-8 Baltimore Ukrainian Festival, Baltimore Ukrainian August 4-17 Folklorama Winnipeg Folklorama Festival, Spirit of Baltimore Festival Committee, St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Winnipeg, MB Ukraine Pavilion at Soul Sanctuary and Ukraine/Kyiv Church, www.baltimoreukrainianfesitval.com or Pavilion at Maples Collegiate, 204-982-6210 or 410-967-0501 [email protected] September 8 Harvest of the Past Food Festival, Ukrainian Cultural August 15-17 Saskatoon Folkfest, Ukrainian Karpaty Pavilion, Tofield, AB Heritage Village, http://ukrainianvillage.ca/harvest-past Saskatoon, SK Prairieland Park, www.saskatoonfolkfest.com September 8 52nd Connecticut State Ukrainian Day Festival, August 16-19 46th annual St. Jospahat Ukrainian Festival, St. Josaphat Stamford, CT St. Basil Seminary grounds, Rochester, NY Ukrainian Catholic Church, www.rochesterukrainianfestival.com September 13-15 Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival, Bloor Toronto West, www.ukrainianfestival.com August 17 Hamilton Ukrainian Day on the Bay, Ukrainian Canadian Hamilton, ON Congress – Hamilton Branch, Hamilton Waterfront September 13-15 Washington Ukrainian Festival, St. Andrew Ukrainian Dock, [email protected] Silver Spring, MD Orthodox Cathedral, www.ukrainefestdc.com or August 17-18 Ukrainian Festival, Ukrainian Homestead, 301-384-9192 Lehighton, PA www.ukrhomestead.com or 610-377-4621 September 14 Twin Cities Ukrainian Heritage Festival, Ukrainian August 18 Ukrainian Day, Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Minneapolis American Community Center, Tofield, AB https://ukrainianvillage.ca/ukrainian-day https://uaccmn.org/festival S8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 No. 18 No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 S9

See what’s new at the Ukrainian Homestead by Paula Holoviak Visit the Ukrainian Homestead in Lehighton, Pa., this summer and enjoy our newly renovated facilities, take in the Ukrainian cultural events or stop by the near- by town of Jim Thorpe for historical tours, train rides, bike tours, shopping and more. Located in the heart of the Pocono Mountains, just 90 minutes north of Philadelphia, the Ukrainian Homestead offers swimming, outdoor recreation, camping and a full calendar of cultural events. New this year are our freshly reno- vated motel units combining comfort and charm at an affordable price. The summer opens with the annual Memorial Day Weekend picnic on Sunday, May 26. The Ukrainian American Heritage Foundation dance camp, open to children and youth age 5 and up, runs July 1 through July 5. A finale performance is offered on Saturday, July 6, at 7 p.m., followed by a “zabava” (dance) to celebrate the Fourth of July weekend. The highlight of the summer season is the annual Ukrainian Festival on Saturday and Sunday, August 17-18, beginning at noon both days. The Kalyna Performing Arts Company from Toronto will be the fea- Christine Syzonenko tured dance ensemble. Other performers The Kalyna Performing Arts Company of Toronto at the Ukrainian Homestead Festival in 2018. include the KAZKA Ukrainian Folk Ensemble, renowned violinist Innesa For more information on room and Limited dates are available for weddings, Executive Committee of the Organization Tymochko-Dekajlo and accordionist Walt facility rentals as well as a full calendar of reunions and picnics throughout the 2019 for the Rebirth of Ukraine (CEC, ODWU) a Syzonenko, who will play the Saturday eve- events, visit our website at www. season. The Ukrainian Homestead is 501 (c)(3) charitable and cultural organi- ning zabava. ukrhomestead.com or call 610-377-4621. owned and operated by the Central zation. S10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 No. 18 No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 S11

Celebrate 30 years of the UAHF folk dance workshop

Kathy Park Photography The Volyn “Flirtation Dance” featuring the advanced ensemble of the Ukrainian American Heritage Foundation Dance Workshop in 2018.

by Paula Holoviak offered to children age 5 and up and advanced work- 1992 or Sandra Duda at 610-377-7750 or e-mail holovi- shop instruction is available for experienced dancers [email protected]. Forms and information are also avail- The Ukrainian American Heritage Foundation of the age 11 through adult. The workshop is under the artistic able online at www.kazkaensemble.org. Lower Anthracite Region (UAHF) will celebrate 30 years of direction of Pennsylvania Master Artist Andrij The camp is supported by the Pennsylvania Council on song and dance at the annual folk dance camp and work- Dobriansky. the Arts, a state agency, through its regional arts funding shop, Monday, July 1, through Friday, July 5. The camp is The camp will conclude with the 30th anniversary per- partnership, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA). State held at the Ukrainian Homestead of CEC, ODWU, Inc., locat- formance on Saturday, July 6 at 7 p.m. with a special dance government funding for the arts depends upon an annual ed at 1230 Beaver Run Drive in Lehighton, PA 18235, and and party to follow the show featuring the Just Us appropriation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and runs daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Orchestra from Northeastern Pennsylvania. The perfor- support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fed- Camp activities include dance instruction, folk sing- mance is open to the public free of charge. For more infor- eral agency. PPA is administered in this region by the ing, sports, crafts and swimming. Beginner instruction is mation on the camp, contact Paula Holoviak at 570-708- Lehigh Valley Arts Council. S12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 No. 18 No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 S13

Answer Ukraine’s call for volunteers by Olha Yurieva Is volunteering on your bucket list? Combine your passion for travelling with making impact. Here’s a program that you can be a part of right now: GoCamp. The biggest volunteering program in Eastern Europe, which teaches children to speak English, French and German, GoCamp is about cultural exchange and sol- idarity with the world. In just three years, the program has connected over 144,000 Ukrainian schoolchildren between the ages of 10 and 15 with 800 trained foreign vol- unteers from 67 countries. The program aims to educate children as active citizens with global values and pre- pared for the challenges of the 21st century. International volunteers motivate kids to break their language barrier, think creative- ly and critically, be tolerant and communi- cate in multicultural environments. Here’s how Ukraine is bridging the artifi- cial East-West divide with the help of for- eign volunteers. Language and culture bar- riers disappear as the kids learn that the world outside of their homes is wonderful Serhiy Hudak and worth discovering. When kids are more GoCamp volunteers motivate kids to break their language barriers, and think creatively and critically. open-minded, they become more conscious of their surroundings and learn what they Ukrainian NGO Global Office in partnership Short-term and long-term options for there is no upper age restriction. Check out can do for their country. It is the next gener- with British Council, Ministry of Education volunteers are open for May, June, and details and apply here: https://gocamps. ation of Ukrainians who will have to over- and Science of Ukraine, as well as a number August. Volunteers of different professions com.ua/en/volunteer. haul the country. If we want to change the of other international organizations and and backgrounds, as well as entire families world, we have to inspire the kids. embassies. GoCamp is also improved by are welcome to participate in GoCamp. Olha Yurieva is PR manager of the The program is organized by the EVS (European Voluntary Service). Volunteers must be at least 18 years old; GoGlobal initiative.

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Connect with the music of the bandura

Oksana Rodak Participants of the 2018 ODUM Bandura Camp at their final concert.

by Valentina Burbelo They also had the opportunity to meet other Ukrainian (“Zaspivaymo Pisniu za Ukrainu”) by Alexander children, practice their Ukrainian language skills, learn Ponomariov. The soul of Ukraine was heard on the strings The Association of American Youth of Ukrainian Descent about Ukrainian history, and learn Ukrainian songs. of the bandura. (known by the Ukrainian-based acronym ODUM) has held Children also had time for sports, games, swimming, a tal- History has shown us that you can take everything away summer camps for over 50 years. ODUM offers several ent show and a bonfire; they had fun enjoying the summer from Ukrainians except their will for freedom and their camp experiences: counselor camp, recreational camp, weather. song. Together, let’s cherish the unique achievements of sports camp and bandura camp. After a week-long study of the instrument, a wonderful our people – our bandura and our songs. Last year, over 25 children from Canada and America concert was presented. Campers’ parents and the local If you want your children to grow up and feel the true attended bandura camp on the picturesque grounds of the community had the opportunity to hear the national Ukrainian spirit of the bandura, then join the summer Ukraina Country Club near the city of London, Ontario. anthem of Ukraine, the Ukrainian folk songs “Doshchyk,” camps of ODUM. Bandura camp awaits new bandura play- Under the hard-working and professional guidance of “Dyvnaya Novyna” and “Vzyav by ya Banduru,” and the ers. directors Oksana Rodak, Oles Petliura and members of the modern classic “Chervona Ruta.” This summer Bandura Camp will run from July 7 to July Canadian Bandurist Capella, children learned how to play The audience was deeply moved by the sincere perfor- 14. For more information please contact Oksana Rodak at the bandura. mance of the song “Let’s Sing a Song about Ukraine” [email protected]. S16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 No. 18

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Enjoy a Ukrainian Plast summer – at camp

by Nata Bilash stvo,” or cub scouts, will take place on June 23 to July 2 at the Novyi Sokil campground The most exciting time for a Plast scout in North Collins, N.Y. This camp provides is in the summer months, and this year aspiring counselors with challenging activi- Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization has a ties, programs and plans to implement at variety of camps and activities planned for summer camps and during the year. its members. Three-week camps for novatstvo (age Plast counselor training camp for young 6-11) and “yunatstvo” (scouts age 12-18) men will kick off the summer camp season will take place on July 6-27 at the Vovcha this year starting with “Lisova Shkola,” an Tropa campground in East Chatham, N.Y., intense camp for preparing camp counsel- Novyi Sokil in North Collins, N.Y., and ors and teaching them wilderness skills Pysanyi Kamin in Middlefield, Ohio. and survival, which will take place in In addition, a special two-week camp for Hunter, N.Y., on June 22 to July 3. older teens (scouts age 16-18), popularly Training for Plast counselors for “novat- known as “U2,” will be held at the Vovcha

Tymish Hankewycz Campers from Novyi Sokil during a whitewater rafting activity. Tropa campground on July 6-21. For cub 3-10. Older scouts working toward the scouts not quite ready for three-week camp, Plast equivalent of eagle scout can attend a there is a one-week “Pochatkovyi Tabir” special camp dubbed “KVT” at Vovcha (beginner’s camp) for children age 6-7 on Tropa on July 28 to August 3. July 21-27. The Seattle Group of Plast is Plast summer camps are the most fun organizing a two-week camp for novatstvo part of the Plast experience and are a cul- and yunatstvo at Camp Sheppard Boy Scout mination of the knowledge gained and Camp in Enumclaw, Wash., on August 4-17. activities experienced during the entire Those who wish to extend their summer Plast year. It’s important for a child to be camp experiences can choose from special- familiarized with Plast’s program and focus camps, including a Horseback Riding structure, as well as regional activities, Camp at High Point Equestrian Center in before attending a summer camp. Montague, N.J., on June 23-29 for campers For more information on all Plast sum- age 11-17; Cycling Camp in Pittsburgh on mer camps and to register, please visit the Alexandra Nirschel July 23-August 4; and “Morskyi Tabir” (Sea Plast website at www.plastusa.org and click During camp christening ceremonies at the Pysanyi Kamin campgrounds. Scouting Camp) in Saxton, Pa., on August on “Tabory.” S18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 No. 18 No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 S19

Enroll for the 49th session of the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute by Peter T. Woloschuk The Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI) will hold its 49th annual session at Harvard University’s main cam- pus on the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass., for upper-level under- graduate, graduate and postdoctoral stu- dents, particularly those of Ukrainian heri- tage, as well as university students from Ukraine and professional, government and military specialists who need to hone their skills in the field of Ukrainian Studies. This year’s program will run for seven weeks beginning on Saturday, June 22, and ending on Saturday, August 10, and will offer three courses in history, language and political science. The program offered by HUSI was the first of its kind in the world and is recog- nized internationally for its many contribu- tions to the field of Ukrainian studies. It is run jointly by the Harvard Summer School and the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University (HURI). Participants will have an unparalleled opportunity to expand their knowledge of contemporary Ukraine under its newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky; to learn from some of today’s leading scholars in Ukrainian stud- ies; and to have the chance to meet and HUSI interact with major contemporary The Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute class of 2018. Ukrainian cultural, political and social activ- ists. hours of instruction. It is a FLAS eligible public hygiene and the limits of control, ongoing development and enrichment of The summer program has been in con- course. revolutionary culture and the artistic Ukrainian culture and life both in the dias- tinual existence since 1971 and is intended The second course, “State-Society avant-garde, the long lasting effects of wars pora and in Ukraine itself. for those concentrating in Ukrainian stud- Relations in Independent Ukraine,” will be and extreme violence on society, and the The deadline for applying for the ies or those who wish to broaden their taught by Sophia Wilson, assistant profes- rise of mass culture and sport. Students Harvard Summer School (including HUSI), overall educational experience. sor of political science at Southern Illinois will learn why studying Ukraine is essen- including housing and full tuition payment, Participants live in Harvard University University Edwardsville. The four-credit tial for an understanding of the modern is Monday, May 20. Late registration will housing and have full access to all of the course will examine the patterns and world. begin on Tuesday, May 21, and continues university’s instructional and research dynamic of interaction between the state HUSI is the only program of its kind in through Wednesday, June 19. facilities, including the largest Ucrainica and society in Ukraine. A state-society North America offering seven weeks of Further information about the program collection outside of eastern Europe; its approach will emphasize the interdepen- intensive, accredited university instruction and the application process is available on many libraries, museums, athletic com- dence of state and social actions, rather in Ukrainian Studies at one of the premier the HUSI web site www.huri.harvard.edu/ plexes and language resource centers. They than assuming that political developments universities in the world. It has graduated husi.html. Additional questions may be will also be able to draw on the wide range are predominantly influenced either by more than 1,600 students, many of whom directed to Prof. Bilenky, HUSI program of activities and resources of the greater state rules or social formulations. The have gone on to play significant roles in coordinator, at 647-687-4953 or serh. Boston area ranging from a group of fine course will also analyze the problems of Ukrainian scholarship as well as in the [email protected]. arts, musical venues and museums that are nation-building in post-independence among the finest in North America to a Ukraine, and examine the legacies of the higher educational collaborative that is Leninist socialist regime. It will look at composed of more than 60 colleges and shifts in state-society relations during and universities, as well as neighboring beach- after the Orange Revolution of 2004, the es, professional sports teams and many Maidan Revolution of 2013-2014, and the tourist attractions. ongoing war with Russia and Russian- At the end of the program they will supposed militants. Finally, it will look at receive credit for their courses from the efforts of Ukraine’s growing civil soci- Harvard University, and, depending on ety to influence state-building and promote their performance, one or more of them human rights and the rule of law in the will be awarded the Theodosius and Irene country. Senkowsky Prize for Achievement in Finally, Serhiy Bilenky of the Ukrainian Studies. Department of Political Science at the This summer’s courses include Ukrainian University of Toronto will offer the four- for Reading Knowledge which will be taught credit course “Tradition and Modernity in by Volodymyr Dibrova, a preceptor with the Ukraine in a Wider Imperial and Department of Slavic Languages and Transnational Context,” which will intro- Literatures at Harvard. This eight-credit lan- duce students to the most important social, guage course is designed primarily for grad- political and cultural issues facing modern uate students in the humanities and social Ukraine, from imperial to Soviet and post- sciences who wish to acquire a reading Soviet times, primarily in urban settings. knowledge of Ukrainian for research pur- Major cities such as Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, poses. Texts from a wide variety of fields Kharkiv and Dnipro will be looked at, as will be used. Reading selections will include well as Jewish shtetls and monuments of articles on contemporary issues in business, the Soviet “industrial sublime” such as the economics, politics, science, technology, Dnipro hydroelectric station – each repre- environment, and culture. Some previous senting a particular crucial issue of the background in Ukrainian, Russian or other epoch. Such topics as the reactionary Slavic language accepted by the instructor is responses to modernity (ranging from anti- a prerequisite for enrolling in the course. Semitism to religious conservatism), the The course will meet from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., central role of the city and urbanization, five days a week, a total of 140 contact the making and unmaking of nationalities, S20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 No. 18

and all ground transportation during the Participate... workshop. Travel to and from Ukraine is the responsibility of the individual partici- (Continued from page S1) pant. A limited number of full and partial various states of preservation. In all of scholarships are available for American Ukraine the number is greater than 3,000. students and first year graduates. Many of these churches are in need of For more information readers may con- conservation, repair and restoration. Sadly, tact Myron Stachiw at mostachiw@gmail. the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, which com. oversees the preservation of these histori- Mr. Yanchyshyn is the principal and cal monuments, lacks the necessary funds senior conservator of Period Furniture and sufficient numbers of conservators Conservation LLC and Kensington trained in state-of-the-art methods of Preservation LLC, both metropolitan New assessment and conservation to address York City firms dedicated to furniture and these needs. This workshop is designed to objects conservation, as well as cultural begin the process of training a new genera- heritage objects preservation. Before the tion of Ukrainian conservators. The founding of his firms, he worked as a con- Department of Architecture and sulting conservator at the Metropolitan Conservation at the National University Museum of Art. He holds degrees from the Lviv Polytechnic, with help from Western University of Michigan and Cal Arts, and scholars, is actively expanding its existing Yuri Yanchyshyn received conservation training from the architectural conservation program (B.A. Iconostasis and painted interior log walls in St. George Church (circa 1500), Drohobych. Amsterdam Academy for Restoration and and M.A. degrees in conservation of mason- the Smithsonian Center for Materials ry and artifical stone) to include the conser- servation and restoration of Ukraine’s Ukraine please visit https://www.period- Research and Education. He has treated vation of wooden artifacts and buildings, architectural and cultural heritage. We furnitureconservation.com/speaking- wooden objects for over 35 years, and his painting on wood, and the establishment of invite your participation and support. arrangements/fulbright. firm’s clients include institutions, private a state-of-the-art conservation laboratory Additional details of the workshop can The cost of this workshop is $700 for collectors and other conservators. He was at the Lviv Polytechnic. This workshop is be found at https://www.periodfurniture- students, and $1,000 for early- and mid- awarded Fulbright Specialist Status in the first of what will be an annual summer conservation.com/workshop. career professionals, which will include 2016 and taught a six-week introduction to training program in the preservation, con- For an overview of wood conservation in modest hotel accommodations, some meals wooden artifacts conservation at the National University Lviv Polytechnic in 2018. In 2019 he was awarded Fulbright Scholar status and will be returning to teach in Ukraine in the autumn of 2019. ПЛЕМ’Я ПЛАСТУНОК „ПЕРШІ СТЕЖІ“ For the past 45 years Mr. Stachiw has влаштовує worked as an educator, historian, archaeol- ogist, architectural historian, historic pres- „ДЕННИЙ ТАБІР ПТАШАТ ПРИ ПЛАСТІ“ ervationist and museum curator. Since для дітей від 4 до 6 років, які володіють 1974 he has been and continues to be engaged as an historical consultant to (розуміють і розмовляють) українською мовою museums, historical agencies, and national, state and local preservation organizations • Дитина мусить мати закінчених 4 роки життя до 31 серпня 2019 р. Вийнятків немає. and agencies in the U.S. and Ukraine. He • Дитина мусить мати усі приписані щеплення. has been the principal or a member of • Дитина, яка склала Заяву Вступу до новацтва, не може брати участи в таборaх для Пташат. teams conducting historic structures reports on more two dozen historic land- Табір відбудеться на Союзівці mark buildings in New England and від неділі, 30 червня, до суботи, 6 липня 2019 р. Virginia. Between 1988 and 2004 he orga- nized and taught a number of three- to six- Перша тура табору пташат 2019 (23 червня до 29 червня 2019р.) ВІДКЛИКАНА! week summer field schools in buildings У справі кімнат просимо порозуміватися безпосередньо з Адміністрацією Союзівки: archaeology, teaching the methods and SOYUZIVKA, P. O. Box 529, 216 Foordmore Road, Kerhonkson, NY 12446 practice of researching, investigating, docu- menting and interpreting historic struc- (845) 626-5641; www. Soyuzivka.com; Fax: 845-626-4638 tures. He has also taught courses and lec- • Tаборова оплата: $150.00 ($20.00 незворотні); оплата за два тижні – 290.00 дол. tured in historic preservation, architectural • Зголошення і таборову оплату (чек виписаний на Plast – Pershi Stezhi) надсилати до: history, social history and museum studies at a number of U.S. and Ukrainian universi- Mrs. Oresta Fedyniak, 2626 W. Walton Ave., Chicago, IL 60622 ties. 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Завваги ...... Andrij Saluk ...... Підпис батька або матері Architectural drawing by Mykola Hayda (2010) of the Church of the Theophany in Kuhayiv. No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 S21

Come to “Oselia CYM” for a summer jam-packed with festivities

Taras Peretiatko The DOOX live in concert in Kyiv.

by Natalia Stupak As another summer approaches, the membership of the Ukrainian American Youth Association (UAYA) prepares for a fantastic summer full of festivities, recreation, camping and concerts at “Oselia CYM,” its camp/resort property in Ellenville, N.Y. Adrian Dlaboha, president of the Ukrainian American Youth Association’s national board, stated, “The history of our prior eight years of the annual Nadiya Ye! Festival is filled with memorable performances by the top pop and rock groups from Ukraine, and this year’s band, The Doox, is sure to ignite our audiences. Our commitment to produc- ing these festivals is deeply rooted in our educational work within our youth organization. The more our youth experi- ence performances by professional groups from Ukraine, the greater their interest swells with love for Ukrainian music, its artists, language, and overall love for their ances- tral roots.” Oselia’s first post-Memorial Day event will be the annual Lemko Vatra produced by the Organization in Defense of Lemkivschyna (known by its Ukrainian-based acronym OOL). This colorful festival scheduled for the weekend of June 29-30 is unique in its style and entertainment, which focuses on the deep cultural traditions and heritage of The DOOX – a Ukrainian rock/pop group from Kyiv. Lemkivshchyna and the Carpathian regions of Ukraine. A highlight of this summer’s events includes the ninth Dance Ensemble and the Choir Lanka Halychanka, both nament, softball tournament, Dibrova Lounge pub nights, annual Nadiya Ye! Festival scheduled for the weekend of from Hartford, Conn. This year’s festival will also include and a variety of weekend performances by Ukrainian folk July 4 through July 7. This year, we’re thrilled to announce the crowd-favorite performance of DJ Stas and his laser dance groups, singers and much more. Come join us on our the U.S. premier of the Ukrainian rock/pop group, The light show on Friday night, a “zabava” (dance) on Saturday beautiful property in the New York Catskills for a summer DOOX, from Kyiv. The main concert is scheduled for night and all-day live music on Saturday and Sunday fea- you won’t forget. Saturday, July 6. turing the Rodyna Band. For additional information about our children’s camps, Prior to The DOOX taking stage at 9 p.m., audiences will Oselia’s 2019 summer season will also include many events or our organization, please call us at 845-647-7230 be treated to a lively concert featuring the Zolotyj Promin activities for youths and adults alike, including a golf tour- or visit us at cym.org/us-ellenville.

USCAK Events Calendar 2019

May 24-26 Memorial Day Weekend Soccer Tournament, July 8 Golf tournament, Ukrainian Golf Association of Canada, Horsham, PA Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals, Ukrainian American Etobicoke, ON Markland Wood Golf Club, 416-621-3400 or Sports Center Tryzub, www.tryzub.org or www.ugolf.ca www.ukrainiannationals.com/memorialday August 10 Golf tournament, Ukrainian Golf Association of Canada, June 1 43rd annual Tryzub Golf Outing, Ukrainian American Hamilton, ON Willow Valley Golf Course, 905-679-2703 or Horsham/ Sports Center Tryzub, Limekiln Golf Club, www.ugolf.ca Ambler, PA 215-914-1251 or www.tryzub.org August 31 through USCAK Championships, singles tennis, Ukrainian Sports September 2 Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada, Soyuzivka June 15-16 Father’s Day Fest and U.S. Amateur Soccer Association Kerhonkson, NY Heritage Center, www.soyuzivka.com or 845-626-5641 Horsham, PA U.S. Open Cup and Amateur Region 1 National Championship Finals, Ukrainian American Sports September 21 Golf tournament season finale and general meeting, Center Tryzub, www.truyzub.org or 267-644-3857 Caledon, ON Ukrainian Golf Association of Canada, Osprey Valley Resorts Golf Club: The Hoot Course, 519-927-9034 or June 29-30 USCAK-East singles and doubles tennis tournament, www.ugolf.ca Kerhonkson, NY Ukrainian Sports Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada, Soyuzivka Heritage Center, www.soyuzivka.com or October 12-13 Columbus Cup Soccer Tournament, Ukrainian American 845-626-5641 Horsham, PA Sports Center Tryzub, www.tryzub.org S22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 No. 18

Learn bandura or choral music at Kobzarska Sich by Mykola Murskyj This August, the bandura community celebrates the 40th anniversary of Kobzarska Sich camp (K.S.) in Emlenton, Pa. For two weeks every August, KS has trained two genera- tions of bandurists and singers from across the globe. Two legendary musicians will lead the 40th anniversary camp: Julian Kytasty and Oleh Mahlay. Mr. Kytasty is the artistic director of the Canadian Bandurist Capella; Mr. Mahlay serves as the artistic director of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of North America. Nadia Tarnawska leads the Choral Workshop. A Fulbright Scholar, Ms. Tarnawsky has studied and taught Eastern European singing tech- niques for three decades. It’s our privilege to give students an opportunity to study with such incredible musicians. As Sich enters a new era, we’re improving and diversify- ing the program. In our course-based structure, every day campers will have two to three periods of core (i.e., bandu- ra or choral) instruction and two to three periods of elec- tive courses. Before arriving, campers will pick the subjects they’ll be interested in learning. Have you wanted to learn how to Oleh Sozansky arrange music for voice and bandura? Or are you more inter- Kobzarska Sich singers and instrumentalists rehearse their concert pieces at the All Saints Campground in ested in learning the basics of sound engineering? Perhaps Emlenton, Pa. conducting or composing is your thing. At KS 2019, these also have dedicated vocal coaches on hand to help develop participants, a Millennium Cultural Center with housing (and more) will be offered as week-long elective courses. participants’ voices. and classrooms, and exquisite nature trails. The Bandura Course – our flagship program – gives The Sacred Music Workshop (August 7-11) reviews the KS offers multiple scholarships through the generosity of campers an opportunity to work with top-level bandura rich history of Ukrainian liturgical and religious music, the Ivan Zinchuk Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Ukrainian instructors from around the world. Second to none in its focusing on selections from a wide repertoire of church Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko, the Volodymyr breadth and depth, the two-week bandura course allows music, especially those pieces normally not sung in the aver- and Vera Murha Scholarship Fund, the Eugene Ciura and campers to learn bandura basics or to hone their skills, age parish setting. Participants learn basic chanting tech- Stefania Krislaty scholarship funds, the Michele Schidowka while also developing their other interests with elective nique, and some will have the opportunity for conducting Memorial Scholarship Fund, as well as from private donor courses. The bandura course is open to adults and kids age coaching. The Choral Workshop and the Sacred Music support. Scholarship requests must be received by June 15. 11 or older; it takes place August 4-17. Workshop are open to older teenagers and adults of all ages. Interested participants are encouraged to enroll early to The Choral Workshop (August 11-17) teaches solo and KS is held at All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Camp in ensure placement. For more information about bandura ensemble singing in the Ukrainian choral tradition. Emlenton, Pa. All Saints offers over 90 acres of pristine rental and scholarship requirements, or to fill out a regis- Participants will have the opportunity to broaden their beauty in the Allegheny Mountains. The camp’s facilities tration package, visit the website at www.banduracamp. musical knowledge with music listening lectures. We will include volleyball courts, a swimming pool, 10 cabins for org, call 248-225-2913, or e-mail [email protected]. No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 S23 S24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 No. 18 No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 7

interface in Ukrainian, English, or an EU language, but not in Putin tests... New law protects... Russian,” said Euromaidan Press. “This will impact the video game market, in which the main language now is Russian.” (Continued from page 1) (Continued from page 1) Services must be provided in Ukrainian, but can be pro- except for a “shared” 2,295-kilometer border. “And Russia After voting for the final version of the bill at 11:02 a.m., vided in other languages upon a customer’s request and if should return control for every millimeter of it to Ukraine,” national deputies sang the national anthem while former the service provider is capable of providing it. he added. President Viktor Yushchenko and Filaret (Denysenko), the Administrative fines for non-compliance range from $128 Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has called Mr. honorary patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, were to $447 based on the current currency rate. A national com- Putin’s move a “flagrant breach of international law and in attendance. mission will be established to monitor compliance, approve Ukraine’s state sovereignty.” It will also be outgoing President Petro Poroshenko’s last language standards and review language knowledge for can- Additional economic sanctions preceded the recent legislative legacy before Volodymyr Zelensky gets sworn in didates seeking government work or citizenship. events. A day before the Ukrainian presidential debate by June 3. Reversal of Yanukovych-era law on April 18, Moscow imposed oil and coal export bans to Speaking in Lviv during a work visit on April 29, Mr. Ukraine. Kyiv depends on a particular grade of anthra- Poroshenko said he will sign the bill as soon as he receives The new law fills a legal gap that was left after a contro- cite coal for heat and power because most of the mines it. It comes into effect two months after it gets published. versial language law was passed under ex-President Viktor that produced the high-carbon coal are in Russian- “The law on the Ukrainian language does not mean that Yanukovych in 2012, two years before the Euro-Maidan occupied territory. Furthermore, Ukraine’s gas transit contract with Russia we want to ‘squeeze’ any other language,” he said. “This is Revolution ousted him. expires at the end of the year. Kyiv is reliant on Russian gas definitely not the case. This law is about protecting our lan- It cynically used the European Charter for Regional or that it brings back after importing to European Union guage. For no place in the world, except Ukraine, will it be Minority Languages that is designed to protect lesser used countries based on reverse-flow contracts. Contracting protected.” languages in a country. Thus, it allowed Russian to replace countries order surplus amounts from Russia so that the President-elect Zelensky criticized the bill’s spirit by say- Ukrainian as an official regional language where at least 10 unneeded volumes get imported to Ukraine. ing “the state should promote the development of the percent of an ethnic minority resides. “After all, the reverse [supply] is virtual. There’s our Ukrainian language by creating incentives and positive Soon after Mr. Yanukovych abandoned office and fled to gas flowing to Western Europe… Since Soviet times, how examples rather than with prohibitions and punishments…” Russia in late February 2014, the Verkhovna Rada passed a has the gas pipe been set up?” Mr. Putin said to journal- He furthermore said the bill should have been widely dis- bill that was meant to repeal the 2012 law, but that bill was ists during a working visit to China on April 27. cussed in public, despite the fact that, since the first vote on never ratified. After the runoff, Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service the bill in October 2018, it had been debated among experts Still, Russia used the Rada’s attempted repeal of the lan- started to report that inspections of commercial ships and civil society groups throughout the country. guage law as an excuse to annex Crimea the following coming to and leaving the Azov Sea ports of Mariupol In addition, more than 2,000 amendments – most of month and stoke an armed uprising in southeastern and Berdyansk have increased. Harassment of commer- which came from the pro-Russian Opposition Bloc – were Ukraine to “protect” Russian speakers. cial shipping in the shared waters ratcheted up after considered before the second vote. Ukrainian as second-rate Moscow opened an illegal bridge that links mainland The law stipulates that Ukrainian is the only state and Russia and the Crimean peninsula in the Kerch Strait in official language of Ukraine and that officials down to the Centuries of “Polonization” and “Russification” policies May 2018. local level cannot interfere with its use. suppressed Ukrainian and relegated it to an inferior level Tensions escalated six months later when Russian “All categories of public servants, state employees and throughout much of Ukraine. naval ships captured 24 Ukrainian servicemen on three many others, from the president, members of the govern- Most notable is the 1863 circular issued by Minister of ships that were later impounded while they were ment and parliamentarians of all levels, to prosecutors, Internal Affairs Pyotr Valuev during Russian tsarist rule. approaching the strait in shared waters of the Black Sea police officers, judges, teachers and physicians, are obliged Essentially, it employed “tools and methods… by the from Odesa. The 24 servicemen are in custody in Russia and are to be fluent in Ukrainian and use it in performing their imperial Russian government to reverse the upward trajec- being charged with trespassing on Russian territory duties,” an analysis by Euromaidan Press stated on April 25. tory of the Ukrainian language towards full functionality as despite international and bilateral treaties in place Ukrainian will be the mandatory language of instruction a standard language,” wrote linguists Michael Flier and allowing for passage. from the fifth grade onward, but the law doesn’t prohibit Andrea Graziosi for the 35th volume of the journal Harvard On April 29, Ukraine State Border Guard Service head private institutions from teaching minority languages like Ukrainian Studies published in 2017-2018. Petro Tsyhykal said that “an artificial queue is being creat- Hungarian or Romanian. The linguists noted how imperial Russian policy, includ- ed, and our vessels take much longer to inspect and are A majority of the population speaks Ukrainian at home ing the more severe Ems Decree of 1876 that was amended the last to be let go,” according to Ukraine Business News. and considers it their native language, according to separate five years later, secretly banned the Ukrainian language in On April 30, the day the official election results were polls conducted in the last two years by the Razumkov print. announced, Mr. Zelensky released a video calling for can- Center and Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. Valuev also sought to demean Ukrainian by saying “there didates for the position of his spokesperson to submit However, the majority of newspapers and magazines are has not been, is not, and cannot be any special Little Russian their resumes. The general criteria includes knowledge published in Russian. language,” and claiming that “the dialect as used by the com- of three languages – two of which are required: English In the cultural sphere, the law stipulates that narration mon folk is the very same Russian language, only corrupted and Ukrainian – and a background in journalism and should be in Ukrainian at all public events that are held by by Poland’s influence on it.” willingness to work “24/7.” state entities. Advertisements should be in Ukrainian and Yet the linguists noted that the two languages were dis- He has yet to name who he will either appoint or their Ukrainian letters should be larger if another language tinct as far back as 1654 when Ukrainian Kozak leader nominate for five positions: defense and foreign minis- is used. The same applies to museums and exhibitions. Bohdan Khmelnytsky negotiated an alliance with the ters, state security chief, central bank chairperson and Foreign films, including at festivals, should either have Russian tsar. They noted that during the negotiations prosecutor general. Ukrainian subtitles or voiceovers. between the Kozaks and Muscovites, for example, “inter- Upon returning to Ukraine, Mr. Zelensky also met with In five years, Ukrainian-language quotas should increase preters (tolmachi) were needed for both sides.” three high-ranking clergymen of the Orthodox faith: to 90 percent for national television channels and 80 per- Another example they provided was when writer Nikolai Metropolitan Epifaniy, primate of the Orthodox Church of cent for regional ones, the Euromaidan analysis stated. Gogol (Mykola Hohol) included a Ukrainian-Russian word Ukraine, Filaret, honorary patriarch of the Orthodox Different rules apply for the Crimean Tatar language and Church of Ukraine, and Metropolitan Onufriy, who repre- list “in his Russian-language ‘Evenings on a Farm near sents parishioners of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine. “other languages of indigenous peoples.” Dikanka’ of 1831-1832.” Metropolitan Epifaniy and Mr. Zelensky spoke about Print media must publish at least one version of their Ukrainian enjoyed a renaissance in the 1920s under early the Russian-stoked Donbas war in which at least 34 publication in Ukrainian; this provision will apply 30 Soviet rule and it was standardized in 1927 when linguists Ukrainian servicemen were killed in January-April and months after the law goes into effect. Places selling print of western and Soviet Ukraine gathered in Kharkiv to estab- over 13,000 since April 2014, according to a statement media must ensure that at least 50 percent of their offerings lish an orthography, according to the Harvard Ukrainian on the website of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. They are in Ukrainian. The 24 languages of the European Union Studies Institute. also spoke about corruption and poverty. and the Crimean Tatar language are exempt from these Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin reversed the Mr. Zelensky’s team has voiced its priorities for the rules, while Russian isn’t. “Ukrainianization” policies in the 1930s during the first 100 days: to get bills enacted in Parliament on presi- Internet media should have a home page in the Ukrainian Holodomor that killed millions of Ukrainians. The language dential impeachment and to remove immunity from language. was “Russified” with the hard “g” letter being removed, prosecution for lawmakers, the president, judges and The half rule also applies to publishing, where half the among other changes. others to whom the law currently applies. The president- published titles must be in Ukrainian; a two-year transition “This policy of Russian dominance continued until the elect would also like to “reboot” anti-graft bodies, period for implementation of this requirement is provided, break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991,” Drs. Flier and according to previous statements. Mr. Zelensky indicated Euromaidan Press wrote. Graziosi said, even though Ukrainian was by then the official on election night that he would dismiss the current pros- “Computer programs sold in Ukraine should have an state language. ecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko. The presidential swearing-in ceremony is to take place during a parliamentary session, yet the legislature isn’t scheduled to convene until May 14 and a resolution erbase in the Rada and will face a disloyal Cabinet, while the about the date of the inauguration should be voted on Kremlin sees... Kremlin will continue increasing its economic and political pressure. Mr. Zelensky’s election is not seen in Moscow as that day or soon afterwards. (Continued from page 2) Pre-term parliamentary elections can be set upon dis- an outright victory; but the trouncing of Mr. Poroshenko is solving the legislature – the Zelensky team has men- ordered Russian state media to stop praising Mr. Zelensky viewed as a decisive rejection of Ukrainian nationalism by tioned that possibility – but the dissolution must occur or even mention him too much after his victory (Proekt. the majority of Ukrainians. Indeed, such a notion may before the Verkhovna Rada begins the final six months of media, April 24). If Mr. Putin sees Mr. Zelensky as a encourage Russia to again try more forcefully to reclaim its five-year term. Kolomoisky protégé and a pro-Western figure, he may con- Ukraine from the West. Otherwise, parliamentary elections are scheduled for sider the incoming Ukrainian president an outright threat. October 27. Until then, Mr. Zelensky will find it difficult At the same time, however, the possible Kolomoisky connec- The article above is reprinted from Eurasia Daily Monitor to garner enough votes for his priority legislative initia- tion could make the West hesitant to deal with Mr. Zelensky. with permission from its publisher, the Jamestown tives. After his inauguration, Mr. Zelensky will lack a solid pow- Foundation, www.jamestown.org. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 No. 18

Ukrainian basketball players visit Boston UAYA

by Mark Howansky JAMAICA PLAIN, Mass. – The Boston branch of the Ukrainian American Youth Association (UAYA) had its own version of NCAA March Madness when it hosted a reception and pizza party on March 23 at its clubhouse (“domivka”) in Norwood, Mass., for a group of 15 youth basketball players, 10 coaches/trainers and a translator from various parts of Ukraine, including Donetsk, Chernivtsi, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia and Brovary. The group was visiting the United States as part of an exchange program run by the Youth Leadership through Sport (YLS) Streetball Sports Diplomacy in coordination with PH International and Coaches Across Continents (CAC). YLS is a set of international exchange programs funded by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs/ Sports Diplomacy Division. It is designed to foster greater cross-cul- tural understanding by providing youth athletes and their coaches with sport and cultural opportunities to learn about leadership, teamwork, mentorship, healthy living and self-discipline in a multi- cultural setting. Coaches Across Continents is a nonprofit organization founded by former Harvard University soccer player Nick Gates in 2008 to Jaime Zozula use sports as a vehicle for social change in developing communities. Members of the Boston branch of the Ukrainian American Youth Association with basketball players, coaches/trainers and a translator from Ukraine. Boston UAYA head Nick Zozula was Boston College (T-shirts) and Shaw’s instrumental in organizing the event along Supermarkets (gift bag items), as well as with CAC representative Ashlyn Hardie, UAYA Boston members helped make the after being contacted by Nick Gates’ party a success and provide the guests with TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL WALTER HONCHARYK (973) 292-9800 x3040 Harvard soccer friend and Ukrainian gifts for their visit and to bring back home or e-mail [email protected] American activist Mark Howansky. to Ukraine. As part of the exchange program, the The night clearly had an impact on the Ukrainian youth players and their coaches YLS visitors according to organizer Ms. SERVICES PROFESSIONALS traveled for 10 days, on March 20-30, to the Hardie: “There were many moments that United States, where they participated in night when I checked in on the Ukrainian the leadership through sports program. participants in my group, and when they The program included daily athletic and expressed their feelings to me about the cultural activities to help build leadership night – their eyes watered. Hearing immi- skills and foster cross-cultural understand- grant stories, singing traditional songs ing. The group spent a portion of the trip in together and hearing their language spo- and around the Boston area, visiting histor- ken so freely in a very different place gave ical landmarks, Harvard University, them the truest sense of home. Even on our Thornton Academy and the Naismith last day, in reflection of the week – many Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, mentioned the UAYA gathering as one of Mass., and attended several sporting events their favorite moments because of the at the Boston Garden. The other portion of inspirational stories some of the older МАРІЯ ДРИЧ the trip was spent in Saco, Maine, at the XL UAYA members shared, and feeling so free Ліцензований Продавець Sports World, where the youths participat- to talk about everything in their home Страхування Життя ed in basketball training and drills. country, how it compares, etc. One youth МАRІA DRICH The March 23 reception at the UAYA participant said the thing he loved most Licensed Life Insurance Agent clubhouse was added to their itinerary so was the freedom of expression and person- Ukrainian National Assn., Inc. that the YLS group could make connections ality that Ukrainian American youth are 2200 Route 10, Parsippany, NJ 07054 with the local Ukrainian American, and the given by their community, and how the Tel.: 973-292-9800 ext. 3035 end result was memorable for all involved. UAYA senior members empower their e-mail: [email protected] The atmosphere was very festive with youth with respect, trust and love.” songs sung, games played, gifts exchanged Similarly, the Boston UAYA members and bonds formed as part of a fulfilling cul- were very impressed by their guests and HELP WANTED tural exchange program through sport. Donations from JP Licks (ice cream), (Continued on page 11) Live-in caregiver needed for my mother in Silver Spring MD. Near churches, thriving Ukrainian community, nice home. Experience/patience with AZ preferred. OPPORTUNITIES [email protected] or 617-566-1996

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was “simply illegal.” He added that granting a criminal case into the playing of a video at the search, Crimea Solidarity said. There was NEWSBRIEFS Russian citizenship to Ukrainians amounted Kyiv’s Boryspil Airport that showed a map no immediate comment from the Russian to a “creeping annexation” of east Ukraine of the country which did not include authorities who control the region. Rights (Continued from page 2) and “consolidation of the total Russian con- Crimea. The police said in an April 30 state- groups and Western governments have Putin’s decision creates a serious obstacle trol over the occupied territories.” The ment that they were looking into a possible denounced what they describe as a cam- to the implementation of the Minsk agree- United States said it was “unacceptable” for “encroachment on the territorial integrity” paign of repression by the Russian-imposed ments and the reintegration of the Donbas Russia to decide to extend citizenship rights of Ukraine after a citizen raised the issue the authorities in Crimea who are targeting region. The Minsk agreements, signed by to Ukrainians and accused Moscow of fuel- previous day. “Police are documenting the... members of the Turkic-speaking Crimean Russia, call for the full restoration of ing the conflict in the region. French distribution of illegal video content and Tatar community and others who have spo- Ukrainian government control over eastern Ambassador Francois Delattre asserted that questioning the airport’s personnel, identi- ken out against Moscow’s takeover of the Ukraine. This comes just three days after “the solution to this crisis is not to hand out fying individuals who edited and offered the peninsula. In its annual report on religious the Ukrainian people overwhelmingly Russian passports to Ukrainian citizens” but video to be used,” the police said. “A prelimi- freedom worldwide, released on April 29, elected Volodymyr Zelensky the next presi- to respect commitments made to end the nary investigation has established that the the U.S. Commission on International dent of Ukraine. President-elect Zelensky conflict. German Ambassador Christoph proposal for the video to be used by the [air- Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said that “[in] has repeatedly expressed his readiness to Heusgen told reporters after the meeting port] originated in the Information Policy Russian-occupied Crimea, the Russian engage seriously with Russia to implement that “we think right now the emphasis Ministry.” According to the statement, a pre- authorities continued to kidnap, torture, and the Minsk agreements, and to end the con- should be on a renewed effort to implement liminary investigation is under way as imprison Crimean Tatar Muslims at will.” flict in eastern Ukraine, which has claimed the Minsk agreement and to bring peace to police are trying to determine who ordered (Crimea Desk, RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) some 13,000 lives. It is now up to Russia to the people that are suffering under this cri- and created the video. The issue is very sen- 17 die at mine in occupied eastern Ukraine decide whether it wants to continue to sis.” Russia, as a permanent member of the sitive for Ukraine as Kyiv lost control over escalate tensions or meet its Minsk com- council, can block any measures opposing Crimea after Russia seized the peninsula in Reports from eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk mitments.” (U.S. Department of State) the decree with its veto power. France and March 2014 upon sending in troops, seizing region say the death toll from an under- Germany, the European guarantors of the key facilities, and staging a referendum dis- OSCE, Western powers assail Moscow’s plan ground coal-mine explosion has been raised Minsk Accords, said earlier on April 25 that missed as illegal by at least 100 countries in to 17, with Russia-backed separatist leaders The OSCE and Western powers at the the decree “goes against the spirit and aims” a U.N. General Assembly vote. (RFE/RL) who control the mine saying all the bodies of the Minsk process. Ukrainian President United Nations have criticized Russian Homes of Crimean Tatar activists searched of missing miners have been recovered. The President Vladimir Putin’s decision to ease Petro Poroshenko said that with the decree revised death toll was announced on April the process of granting Russian citizenship “Russia is torpedoing the peace process in Police have searched the homes of two 27 after search-and-rescue workers recov- to Ukrainians in territory of eastern Ukraine the Donbas.” Mr. Putin has rejected interna- Crimean Tatar activists in Ukraine’s Russia- ered the miners’ bodies from beneath held by Russia-backed separatists. The tional criticism about his decision, telling controlled Crimea region, a Ukrainian debris inside the mine in the village of Organization for Security and Cooperation reporters that objections to the decree were human rights group says. Crimean Solidarity, Yurivka, which is in territory controlled by in Europe (OSCE) said in a statement on “strange.” He claimed that his decree was a rights group that has members in Crimea Russia-backed separatists. Russia’s April 25 that its chairmanship “believes that similar to policies in European Union mem- and other parts of Ukraine, said that Russian Emergency Situations Ministry says it sent this unilateral measure could undermine ber states like Romania and Hungary that police and security officers searched the mine rescuers to the Skhidcarbon mine at the efforts for a peaceful resolution of the grant citizenship to “their own ethnic kin homes of Rolan Osmanov and Delyaver the request of separatist leaders who con- crisis in and around Ukraine.” It said it was living outside their borders.” However, Mr. Bekirov on the outskirts of the regional capi- trol the mine’s operations. Rescue workers reiterating its “call for a sustainable, full and Putin’s decree makes no reference to ethnic- tal, Simferopol, on April 30. According to from the Ukrainian government did not permanent cease-fire and its firm support ity, background or self-identification. Its Crimea Solidarity, the activists were not have official access to the area. A methane for the work of the OSCE Special Monitoring wording suggests that anyone living in the arrested and nothing was confiscated during gas explosion ripped through the mine on Mission to Ukraine, which plays an essential separatist-held parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk the search. The group quoted Mr. Osmanov April 25, reportedly causing parts of the role in reducing tensions on the ground, and and Luhansk regions can apply. (RFE/RL, as saying that police officers told him they mine to collapse. The Skhidcarbon mine had in fostering peace, stability and security.” with reporting by RFE/RL’s Ukrainian, were “looking for narcotics” in his home, been closed in 2014 due to the conflict Ukraine appealed to the U.N. Security Reuters, AFP and AP) while no clear explanation was given to Mr. between Ukrainian government forces and Bekirov about the reason for the search in Council on April 25 to take “real action” Police investigate video omitting Crimea the Russia-backed separatists. But it was against the citizenship decision, with his house. An ambulance was called for Mr. reopened in 2018. (RFE/RL, based on Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko saying it Ukrainian national police have launched Osmanov’s mother, who felt unwell during reporting by AFP and DPA)

З глибоким сумом повідомляємо що 10 квітня 2019 року відійшла у вічність на 87-му році життя наша найдорожча МАМА, БАБУСЯ, СЕСТРА і ТЕТА В п’яту болючу річницю св. п. відходу у Вічність нашої найдорожчої проф. МОТР’Я ТЕОДОТА БОГАТЮК і незабутньої з дому Кульчицьких-Ґут Дружини, Мами і Бабці вдова по св. п. Миколі професор, романіст, громадська діячка народилася 3 січня 1932 року у Львові, Україна. св. п. Закінчила University of Pennsylvania зі ступнем Бакалавра та закін- Калини Татарської Козак чила Syracuse University зі ступнем Маґістра. Була Професором Роман- ських Мов в Maria Regina College в Сиракюз, Н.Й. впродовж 27 років. будуть відправлені Похоронні відправи відбулися в суботу, 13 квітня 2019 року, Поминальні Святі Літургії в Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Philadelphia, PA, і на цвинтарі St. Mary’s Cemetery, Fox Chase, PA. у суботу, 11 травня 2019 року, о годині 10:00 ранку У глибокому смутку в Вірі, Надії і Любові залишились: сини д-р Юрій Богатюк д-р Андрій Богатюк в церкві Благовіщення Пречистої Діви Марії д-р Олександер Богатюк з дружиною Христиною 1206 Valley Road внуки Микола, Марко та Аня Melrose Park, Pennsylvania 19027 брат інж. Богдан Кульчицький з дружиною Христиною з синами д-р Дмитро Кульчицький з дружиною Марселою і дітьми інж. Даньо Кульчицький з дружиною Лізою і дітьми та у Львові і Дрогобичі. мгр. Ярко Кульчицький з дружиною Мартою і дітьми кузини Квітка Семанишин Ліда Семанишин Вічна Їй пам’ять! інж. Зенко Семанишин з дружиною Даркою і дітьми сестрінка д-р Ольга Рибаків з доньками д-р Ляля Рибаків Чоловік Ярослав д-р Квітка Маєрс з чоловіком Джеф і донькою з Родиною Вічна Їй пам’ять! 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 No. 18

SGA Drama Club to present “Baba Yaga – A Fairy Tale” NEW YORK –The St. George Academy (SGA) formance is being spearheaded by Liza Donovan, Drama Club will present its performance of the SGA social studies teacher and director of the “Baba Yaga – A Fairy Tale” before parents, faculty Drama Club. Once again, Iryna Chuyan, ESL members, students and members of the teacher, is serving as the costume designer and Ukrainian American community on Thursday, assistant director, and Dr. Kim Halverson, math May 30, at 6 p.m. teacher, is lending her invaluable assistance this The play is an adaptation of the Ukrainian folk year in building the set. The students voluntarily tale “Baba Yaga” and tells the story of a girl attend rehearsals and set-building sessions after named Kalyna, who is sent into the forest, to school. Baba Yaga’s house, by her evil stepmother, “This year’s performance is longer and more Yavdokha. Along the way, Kalyna meets various complex than last year’s, and takes far more ded- creatures from Ukrainian mythology and folk- ication from the students,” says Mrs. Donovan, lore, including forest spirits and talking animals. “However, I feel that because of the incredible Over 30 students are participating in this student participation and cooperation, we have year’s production. Most are actors; however, the SGA raised the bar in terms of quality. And the stu- play has two stage managers, key hair and make- St. George Academy students at work designing and creating the set for dents are learning invaluable skills and life les- up artists; and props and set designers. The per- the upcoming performance of “Baba Yaga – A Fairy Tale.” sons as well.”

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS described as follows: Index No. 3161/2018 ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, located in SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK the Town of Rochester, Ulster County, New York, bounded and described as follows: COUNTY OF ULSTER BEGINNING at a found iron pipe located on the westerly bounds of New York State Routes 44-55, and being a corner of the lands now or formerly of D.Roy Van Etten (Liber 669 Page 360) and proceeding then along the KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, bounds of Van Etten, North 69 degrees 36 minutes 09 seconds West, 252.78 feet to a found iron pipe; then Plaintiff, continuing along the bounds of Van Etten, south 28 degree 46 minutes 15 seconds West, 360.00 feet to a found iron pipe, thence continuing along other lands of Van Etten (Liter 614 Page 504), North 69 degrees 27 minutes -vs- 09 seconds West, 517.70 feet to an iron rod found in a pile of stones, reputed to be on the Town line separating LYNDA LUKEY A/K/A LYNDA LUKIV A/K/A LUKEY DENYSENKO; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF WLADIMIR the Townships of Rochester and Wawarsing, and being on the bounds of lands now or formerly of Raymond DENYSENKO A/K/A JUAN WLADIMIR DENYSENKO; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O INTERNAL REVENUE Barringer; then along the lands of Barringer, North 06 degrees 28 minutes 25 seconds West 1,010.29 feet to an SERVICE; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF ZOLOTA iron rod; then along the lands to be retained by Steve Lechnowsky, South 89 degrees 05 minutes 47 seconds OSIN CONDOMINIUM;»JOHN DOE #1-5» and «JANE DOE #1-5» said names being fictitious, it being the intention East, 539.86 feet to a set iron rod; continuing along the lands of Lechnowsky, South 27 degrees 23 minutes 21 of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants, tenants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an seconds East 408.32 feet to a set iron rod; then still along the lands retained by Lechnowsky, south 75 degrees 48 interest in or lien upon the premises being foreclosed herein, minutes 47 seconds East, 379.78 feet to an iron rod set on the westerly bounds of New York State Routes 44-55; then along the bounds of said highway, South 29 degrees 21 minutes 08 seconds West, 450.00 feet to the point Defendants. or place of beginning. Mortgaged Premises: 26 ZOLOTA OSIN ROAD, KERHONKSON, NY 12446 CONTAINING 20.0 acres more or less. A/K/A 26 ZOLOTA OSIN, KERHONKSON, NY 12446 ALL bearings as the magnetic needle painted in 1972. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): ALSO INCLUDING a fifteen (15) foot wide drainage easement running through lands of Steve Lechnowsky, said YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your easement to be 15 feet in width and the centerline of said easement shall not be less than 100 feet in length no Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day more than 200 feet in length. Said easement centerline shall commence on the northerly line of lands of Zolota of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner Osin, Inc., said line being more particularly defined as the northerly line of the Common Drainage Easement on other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in a map entitled “Survey of Lands of Zolota Osin Condominium” as prepared by Alex N. Diachishin and Associates, this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. Your failure to appear or to answer will result Consulting Engineers, Napanoch, New York, dated December, 1974, said easement centerline shall run in a in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency northerly direction until it intersects an existing small stream. balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you, unless the Defendant obtained THE above described drainage easement shall be used for the purposes of channeling or directing surface water a bankruptcy discharge and such other or further relief as may be just and equitable. coming from lands of Zolota Osin Condominium by means of a ditch or a pipe or a combination of both, across NOTICE lands of Steve Lechnowsky to be discharged in an existing stream on lands of said Leohnowsky. YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME ALSO INCLUDING an easement for a sanitary sewer to begin on the northerly bounds of the parcel herein If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the described, where the boundary intersects the westerly edge of New York State Routes 44-55, being a strip 15 feet mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a in width and 150 feet in length, running parallel to said State Road. It being the intent to provide an easement default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. for the construction and maintenance of a sewer line to discharge efflent into a stream, being a tributary of the Stonykill, as approved by the Ulster County Department of Health. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. THE ABOVE described 20 acre parcel and appurtenant easements is more particularly bounded and described on a map entitled “Survey of lands of Zolota Osin Condominium,» as prepared by Alex N. Diachishin and Associates, Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. Consulting Engineers of Napanoch, New York, under date of December. 1974, which map shall be annexed to the YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE Declaration as Exhibit No. I and made a part thereof, and shall be filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Ulster therewith. ULSTER County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises. TOGETHER with an undivided 3.8461 percent interest in the common elements of the Property {hereinafter called the «common elements»); Dated: January 10, 2019 TOGETHER with an easement for the continuance of all encroachments by the Unit on any adjoining units or VICTOR SPINELLI, ESQ. common elements now existing as a result of construction of a Building or portion thereof on the units, or which FEIN, SUCH & CRANE, LLP may come into existence hereafter as a result of setting or shifting of a Building or portion thereof on the units, or Attorneys for Plaintiff as a result of repair or restoration of a Building or portion thereof on a unit or units, after destruction or damage by fire or other casualty or after a taking in condemnation or eminent domain proceedings, or by reason of an 1400 Old Country Road Ste. C103 alteration to the common elements, so that any such encroachments may remain so long as the Building or Westbury, NY 11590 Buildings, or portions thereof, shall stand. Telephone No. (516) 394-6921 TOGETHER with an easement in common with the owners of other units to use any pipe, wires, ducts, cables, conduits, public utility lines, and other common elements located in or on any of the other units or elsewhere on NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION the Property, and serving the Unit; The object of the above action is to foreclose a Mortgage held by the Plaintiff and recorded in the County of TOGETHER with the appurtenances and all the estate and rights of the Grantor in and to the Unit; ULSTER, State of New York as more particularly described in the Complaint herein. TOGETHER with and subject to all easements of necessity in favor of the Unit or in favor of other units or the TO THE DEFENDANT(S), the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. common elements. DESCRIPTION OF MORTGAGED PREMISES TOGETHER also with easements for (a) the exclusive use of the structural portion of the wall or partition separating the individual Residences and situate between the Units in common with the owner of the adjacent The UNIT known, designated and described as Unit No. 26 (hereinafter called «The Unit») in the Declaration unit separated and benefitted by the said wall or partition; and (b) the exclusive use of all pipes, conduits, cables, establishing the Zolota Osin Condominium (hereinafter called the «Property»), made by the Grantor under the wires, and similar elements, or such portions thereof, which serve the individual Buildings and exist and are for Condominium Act of the State of New York (Article 9-B of the Real Property Law of the State of New York) dated the sole benefit of the individual units upon which such Buildings are constructed, in common with the owner of March 5th, 1976, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Ulster on the 4th day of May, 1976, in Liber the adjacent unit served and benefitted by the same. 1, at Page 57 (hereinafter called the “Declaration”), and designated as Tax Lot No. C-26 on the Tax Map of the Assessor Of the Town of Rochester, and on Exhibit No. 1 of the said Declaration, and on the Floor Plans of the TOGETHER with a right of way through the common elements to the public highway. Unit, as certified by Alex N. Diachishin & Associates, Consulting Engineers, on the 5th day of March, 1976, and Premises: 26 Zolota Osin Road aka 26 Zolota Osin, Kerhonkson, NY 12446 filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Ulster as condominium Plan No. 3. The land on which the Unit is Tax Parcel ID No.: Section: 84.6 Block: 1 Lot: 11 located (and on which the other Unite and Buildings forming part of Zolota Osin Condominium are located) is No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 11

Through May 25 Art exhibit, featuring paintings by Yuri Olishkevych and May 12 Sviachene Easter Dinner, St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Chicago Anatoliy Khmara, Ukrainian National Museum, 312-721-8020 Buffalo, NY Church, 716-852-7566 or www.stnbuffalo.com

Through June 2 Exhibit, “Embroidered Memories,” St. Vladimir Institute, May 16 Film screening, “Blazhenishiy” by Olena Moshynsky, about Toronto 416-923-3318 Jenkintown, PA the life and service of Cardinal Josyf Slipyj, St. Sophia Religious Association of Ukrainian Catholics, Ukrainian Through Exhibit, “Full Circle: Ukraine’s Struggle for Independence Educational and Cultural Center, [email protected] September 29 100 Years Ago, 1917-1921,” The Ukrainian Museum, New York www.ukrainianmuseum.org or 212-228-0110 May 17 Concert, “The Sounds of Ukraine,” Kyiv Chamber Choir, Washington Platinum Concerts International, Chorus America, May 8 Book presentation, “Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold National City Christian Church, 416-766-2557 New York Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster,” by May 17-19 St. George Ukrainian Festival, St. George Ukrainian Adam Higgenbotham, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York Catholic Church, 212-677-7460 www.ukrainianinstitute.org or 212-288-8660 May 18 Ukrainian Journalists of North America Conference, May 9 Book presentation, “Dialogue Heals Wounds” with Patriarch Kerhonkson, NY Soyuzivka Heritage Center, www.soyuzivka.com or Jenkintown, PA Sviatoslav of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, St. 845-626-5641 Sophia Religious Association of Ukrainian Catholics, Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center, [email protected] May 18 Concert, “The Sounds of Ukraine,” Kyiv Chamber Choir, Philadelphia Platinum Concerts International, Carmel Presbyterian May 10 Anniversary concert, featuring Anytchka and Pavlo Tabakov, Church, 416-766-2557 Wethersfield, CT celebrating 125 years of the Ukrainian National Association, UNA Connecticut District, Ukrainian National Home of May 18 Night at the Museum, with entertainment and food, Hartford, 860-563-4072 or 860-833-0093 Chicago Ukrainian National Museum, 312-421-8090 or www.ukrainiannationalmuseum.org May 10-26 Exhibit, “George Thaddeus Saj: Memories,” Ukrainian New York Institute of America, www.ukrainianinstitute.org May 19 Concert, “The Sounds of Ukraine,” Kyiv Chamber Choir, New York Platinum Concerts International, Church of the May 11 Concert, featuring Anytchka and Pavlo Tabakov, Ukrainian Heavenly Rest, 416-766-2557 New York National Home, 212-228-6840 or https://ticketleap.com/events May 19 Concert, featuring soprano Stefania Dovhan and May 11 Fund-raising banquet to benefit the Patriarchal Fund, with Alexandria, VA pianist R. Timothy McReynolds, The Washington Group Cultural Fund, The Lyceum, www.twgcf.org or Jenkintown, PA Patriarch Sviatoslav of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, [email protected] St. Sophia Religious Association of Ukrainian Catholics, Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center, [email protected] Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions May 12 Mother’s Day Brunch, Soyuzivka Heritage Center, from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors Kerhonkson, NY www.soyuzivka.com or 845-626-5641 and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected].

welcome them back with open arms.” has drafted a sample letter and suggests that Ukrainian basketball... On behalf of the Coaches Across Holodomor... similar letters to be sent to the news media. Continents organization, Ms. Hardie, pre- An ongoing U.S. Holodomor Committee (Continued from page 8) sented UAYA Boston President Zozula with (Continued from page 1) project is advancing a Holodomor curricu- quickly bonded with them. According to Mr. a branded polo shirt. Oleksandr Fomichov with acclaimed author Anne Applebaum; lum in each state. Since the U.S. educational Zozula: “The youth and coaches from of the League of Tolerance presented him Acting Minister of Health of Ukraine Dr. system is not centralized, advancing a Ukraine were awesome, even as teenagers, with a commemorative pamphlet of its Ulana Suprun; Bishop Borys Gudziak, soon Holodomor curriculum must be accom- so respectful, genuine, caring, and you “Equal Game” campaign. to be installed as the metropolitan-arch- plished on a state-by-state basis. The com- could tell that they really appreciated being As part of the same exchange program, bishop of the Philadelphia Archeparchy of mittee has formed a curriculum subcom- there with us. In all honesty, we could not The YLS group, again in coordination with the Ukrainian Catholic Church; and, Dr. mittee tasked with preparing a standard- have been more impressed with them. I PH International and Coaches Across Borys Buniak, gastroenterology specialist. ized curriculum that can be used through- truly believe that lifelong connections and Continents, will be sending a group of The film also includes first-hand accounts out the 50 states. relationships were formed that night, and selected basketball-playing American youth by some of the few remaining survivors of An additional focus of the committee’s with the prevalence of Facebook and social and coaches to Ukraine in July as part of the the Holodomor. work is the formation of a network of media, many of us are now in touch with exchange program, with planned stays in In 2019, the U.S. Holodomor Committee Holodomor survivors and their descendants these youth and coaches from Ukraine. It Kyiv, Kharkiv and Poltava. For those inter- continues its mission. as part of the International Holodomor has been nice to see how they are doing ested, the application and information on To promote awareness of the Ukrainian Committee of the Ukrainian World Congress. back home as they continue to learn and the program are available online at http:// genocide, the U.S. Holodomor Committee All communities are requested to provide grow. We’re hoping that maybe a few of ylsp.ph-int.org/ua/; the deadline to apply is also engages in public advocacy. For exam- information about Holodomor survivors and them might make it back to Boston for col- May 6. All expenses of the trip will be cov- ple, Amazon.com carries in its inventory their descendants for purposes of dissemi- lege at some point and we’d be ready to ered for those selected. Soviet style T-shirts and other apparel. nating information about the Holodomor. Soviet-era symbols such as the hammer and As distribution of information is impor- sickle that are displayed on these products tant to promote awareness about the Commission of Ukraine. That effort failed are especially disturbing. (Similar items Holodomor, the committee: has a new web- Zelensky wins... because of excellent cooperation between were available at Walmart Inc., but were site, www.ukrainegenocide.com; is making the United States and Ukraine.” recently discontinued after public outcry.) a tri-fold brochure available free of charge (Continued from page 3) Importantly, “the fact that [Russians] The U.S. Holodomor Committee is calling to communities advocating for Holodomor Russia during the electoral campaign “has have not intervened in a large evident way upon all Ukrainian Americans to send a recognition; encourages the use of social been overwhelming and constant,” evi- in the presidential elections does not mean clear message to Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. media – Facebook, Twitter and Instagram – dence suggests that “Moscow has actually that they will stay their hand in the parlia- com, Inc., to demand that these products be and asks community members to share been less active than we expected.” mentary elections,” according to Mr. Herbst. immediately removed from the company’s photos, links to articles, and information The Atlantic Council, together with the Given the importance of the parliamentary inventory. An Action Item is available on the about events. Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the elections for the future of reform in Ukraine U.S. Holodomor Committee’s website at Community members may donate their Transatlantic Commission on Electoral and strengthening of defense against www.UkraineGenocide.com. time and resources to disseminate Integrity, has been leading a Ukrainian Moscow, it will be vitally important for the After several attempts to have Duranty’s Holodomor awareness throughout the Election Task Force to identify and expose West to continue to help Ukraine defend Pulitzer Prize revoked, the U.S. Holodomor country. Donations and inquiries may be foreign efforts to interfere in Ukraine’s elec- against possible interference in its elections Committee has sought to meet with the sent to: U.S. Holodomor Committee, 311 tions since last fall. Mr. Herbst explained as it continues its struggle for sovereignty. Pulitzer Committee to discuss that discredit- Massachusetts Ave. NE, Lower Level, that most of the disinformation was ed correspondent’s unfitness for this cov- Washington, DC 20002. To initiate a cam- focused on accusing Mr. Poroshenko of David A. Wemer is assistant director, edi- eted prize in journalism. The U.S. paign in your city, join monthly conference being a fascist, exposing the inexperience of torial, at the Atlantic Council. This piece Holodomor Committee is requesting com- calls, or purchase Holodomor-related items Mr. Zelensky, and arguing that the elections originally appeared on the Atlantic Council’s munity response to this affront through that help defray the costs of the projects were fundamentally illegitimate. Mr. Herbst New Atlanticist blog (https://www.atlantic- mass mailings and contacts with editors of listed above, readers may contact the U.S. also noted that Russian hackers “tried to council.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/Zelensky- newspapers, magazines, television, radio Holodomor Committee at get into the system of the Central Election wins-what-s-next-for-ukraine). stations and social media. The committee [email protected]. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 No. 18

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