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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXVIII HE KRAINIANNo. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2000 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine T U Kuchma entersW the fray Ukraine is once again represented over minority language rights on International Council of Women by Roman Woronowycz organization, that Ambassador Aboimov be by Maria Tomorug last three years. The national presi- Kyiv Press Bureau declared persona non grata in Ukraine. dents, the coordinators and advisers of On July 26 Yevhen Marchuk, secretary NEW YORK – The International the standing committees also presented KYIV – Ukraine’s President Leonid of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council of Women (ICW) held its 29th detailed reports on the implementation Kuchma stepped into an increasingly emo- Council, went on the record, albeit in rather General Assembly on July 2-8 in of plans through seminars, conferences tional debate between Kyiv and Moscow undiplomatic fashion, when he called the Helsinki. The president of ICW, Pnina and projects. ICW representatives to over Russian minority language rights in recent statements by Russian representa- Herzog, welcomed the 250 delegates rep- United Nations agencies gave detailed Ukraine – which recently has swirled to tives on the language question “stupid and resenting 35 national councils of women reports on women’s issues on the inter- ever-higher echelons in both governments – absurd.” from around the world. national level and presented their next when he criticized an absolute lack of He, as President Kuchma did a day later, For the first time since 1925, challenges and goals. Russian government support for the devel- attempted to turn the issue on its heels by Ukraine’s National Council of Women The ICW General Assembly also opment of Ukrainian culture in Russia. questioning the level of Ukrainian minority also attended the conference. The adopted major amendments to its “Please, give me an example from rights in Russia. Ukrainian delegation consisted of 10 del- Constitution, which had not been Russia – where more than 10 million “It will take the Russians at least 30 egates and was headed by its president, Ukrainians reside – of at least one school, changed since the organization’s incep- years to create for the Ukrainian residents Iryna Holubieva. one newspaper, one radio or TV program in tion 112 years ago. A number of new res- in that country at least a hundredth part of In 1928 during the ICW’s General the Ukrainian language,” said Mr. Kuchma olutions were adopted, including provi- what the Russian-speaking population has Assembly held in Washington, the on July 27 in Symferopol, according to sions on the protection of victims of rape in Ukraine,” said Mr. Marchuk. Ukrainian delegation was not permitted Interfax-Ukraine. in time of war; ensuring that women to officially participate in the confer- The president stirred a brewing contro- (Continued on page 23) have retirement pensions adequate to ence. In fact, it lost its membership in versy over recent Lviv regional and munici- meet their needs for food, shelter, health the ICW because at that time Ukraine pal decisions to limit the use of the Russian care and self-support; the environment; was no longer an independent nation. language in commercial transactions and The ICW’s Charter states that only biotechnologies; and on the establish- advertising there, which have led to an national councils of independent ment of an international convention for uproar, first in the Russian-language mass 19 credit unions nations may be members of the ICW. humanitarian aid. media in both countries and then among Now that Ukraine is an independent The General Assembly voted in a new Russian government officials. nation, the National Council of Women board, with Ms. Herzog being re-elected President Kuchma emphasized that he send delegates of Ukraine, which was organized one for a second term. did not believe that any language should year ago and comprises eight women’s There were various social events “be higher” than another, although he to UNCUA meeting organizations, was able to apply to the during the conference, including the expressed support for the Ukrainian lan- by Roman Stelmach ICW to renew its membership. opening ceremonies at the Great Hall guage as the state language. After the opening ceremonies, during of the University of Helsinki, with “On the other hand,” said the president, PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. – The greetings from other organizations, greetings from the president of “let’s not forget that we are Ukrainians.” Ukrainian National Credit Union Oksana Sokolyk, president of the World Finland, Tarja Halonen, and a musical, The president’s remarks came a week Association held its annual meeting and Federation of Ukrainian Women’s dance and recital program. Also on the after Russia’s ambassador to Ukraine, Ivan spring conference on June 29 through Organizations (WFUWO), was given the program were a reception by the min- Aboimov, rekindled an issue that had begun July 1 in the suburbs of Philadelphia, in opportunity to welcome the National ister of health and social services; a to die out when he declared at a press con- the historic town of Plymouth Meeting. Council of Women of Ukraine and to luncheon at the City Hall sponsored by ference in Kyiv that Russia was disturbed The gathered delegates and guests num- thank the ICW and its president for the mayor of Helsinki (who, like by the Ukrainian government’s ineffective bered over 50, representing 19 Ukrainian reopening its door and its heart to sisters Finland’s president, is a woman); an response to the events that had occurred in American credit unions, guests from from Ukraine. embassy night, when all embassies Lviv; he said the Russian government Ukraine and representatives of the Credit She welcomed the Ukrainian dele- entertained delegates from their coun- reserved the right to take appropriate action. Union National Association’s Mutual gates both in English and Ukrainian say- tries; a gala banquet and a Finnish A day later, the Russian State Duma Group. ing: “The World Federation of Ukrainian evening with a fashion show at a passed a resolution calling on Russian The UNCUA is an association of 23 Women’s Organizations is elated that, famous Finnish stores. President Vladimir Putin to order his Ukrainian American credit unions in the after an absence of 75 years, the National Attending as observers from the Foreign Affairs Ministry to propose meas- United States that together represent over Council of Women of Ukraine is once Ukrainian diaspora were Mrs. Sokolyk, ures “in connection with Ukraine’s failure $1.3 billion in assets. The mission of the again a member of the International WFUWO president: Volodymyra to fulfill the terms of the Treaty of UNCUA is to promote interest and coop- Council of Women, and that it will once Luchkiv, WFUWO vice-president; and Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership,” eration among credit unions in the United again work with all of us for a better Maria Komarnycka, former president of which has come about as a result of Kyiv States whose membership is of Ukrainian world in this new millennium.” the Ukrainian Catholic Women’s League pursuing a “policy of discrimination against background; to foster the formation of After the welcoming ceremonies of of Canada. the Russian language.” new credit unions; to further the develop- the newly affiliated national councils From the United States came Iryna The State Duma’s action brought a series ment and progress of Ukrainian American from Azerbaijan, Senegal, Congo, Brunei Kurowyckyj, president of the Ukrainian of rebuttals in Kyiv. First the Verkhovna credit unions, and to carry out all central Das Salaam and Ukraine, the presidents National Women’s League of America, Rada issued a statement on July 21 in business functions for and on behalf of its of these councils were given an opportu- who took part as the ICW’s United which it called the Russian Parliament’s member-credit unions. nity to speak for three to five minutes. Nations accredited representative in New action “a manifestation of interference in Hosting the conference and annual Ms. Holubieva read her speech in York, and Maria Tomorug, UNWLA the domestic affairs of a sovereign state” meeting was the Ukrainian Selfreliance English, thanking the ICW for returning vice-president, who participated as a del- and expressed surprise that the intention of Federal Credit Union of Philadelphia. The the Ukrainian group to its historical place egate from the National Council of Ukrainian authorities to “secure the inalien- conference delegates were welcomed on in the ICW and promising to work to Women of the United States. able and natural right of Ukrainian citizens Thursday, June 28, to the Philadelphia area address social issues and improve the sta- The ICW General Assembly voted to use their native tongue is interpreted by with traditional Ukrainian fare. As the del- tus of women to achieve better access to that the theme for the next three years is Russian parliamentary deputies as a recur- egates arrived from their respective cities, health, sanitation, education, and income to be “Women and the Culture of Peace.” rence of ethnic discrimination policies.” they were able to restore their energy by security for women, children and men. The next General Assembly will be held That was followed by a demand from visiting the hospitality room where famil- During the plenary sessions the in 2003 in Australia and will be hosted representatives of the Ukrainian National iar holubtsi, varenyky, kovbasa, and president, general secretary and the by the Australian National Council of Rukh Party, the Congress of Ukrainian authentic Ukrainian beer were available. treasurer presented their reports for the Women. Nationalists and the Ukrainian National Conservative Party, as well as the Prosvita (Continued on page 3) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2000 No. 32

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BY DAVID MARPLES Ukraine, Russia mark Navy Day stipulates that by the end of 2000 the gov- ernment must create websites for all central SEVASTOPOL – The Russian and and local executive power bodies, as well as Ukrainian fleets on July 30 marked Navy for leading scientific and educational insti- Day in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol. tutions in Ukraine. (RFE/RL Newsline) The celebration was attended by Ukrainian Kyiv and the power struggle in Crimea President Leonid Kuchma, former Russian Ukrainian children to travel free by train by David R. Marples payments and a decline in living stan- Prime Ministers Yevgenii Primakov and dards that considerably exceeded those in KYIV – The State Department of On May 31, the Crimean Parliament Viktor Chernomyrdin, Moscow Mayor Ukraine as a whole. The decline in indus- Yurii Luzhkov, and Russian and Ukrainian Railroad Transportation has announced that backed down on a decision to dismiss the trial output, for example, was 10 times all children under age 16 may travel by government of the autonomous republic, admirals. Navy Day is celebrated on the last worse than in Ukraine. Mr. Kunitsyn, Sunday in July in Russia and on August 1 in train free of charge beginning on August 1, thereby ending for the moment a three- while hardly a radical reformer, was at Interfax reported. Under previous regula- week political crisis. The decision fol- Ukraine. President Kuchma said he partici- least well-disposed toward Kyiv and pated in the celebration to “reaffirm tions, children under 10 had to pay only half lowed meetings of President Leonid announced his intention to weed out cor- fare, while all those over the age of 10 paid Kuchma with the Premier Serhii Ukraine’s course toward constructive, ruption, which has plagued the economy peaceful and friendly measures with regard the full price. A department official told the Kunitsyn and the chairman of the region- of Crimea, where Russian business cir- agency that free train trips for children will al legislature, Leonid Hrach in both to Russia,” the Associated Press reported. cles have long held extensive property (RFE/RL Newsline) be maintained until “parents are able to pay Crimea and Kyiv. and holdings, and which remains the on their own” for them. (RFE/RL Mr. Kunitsyn’s problems had begun prime vacation spot for the Russian busi- Luzhkov signs agreements with Crimeans Newsline) with the arrest of two Cabinet ministers ness and political elite. In practice, how- on May 10 for alleged abuses of their ever, the two sides have constantly fought SEVASTOPOL – During his visit to Kuchma displeased with energy policy positions: Minister of Agriculture Mykola Sevastopol, Moscow Mayor Yurii Luzhkov for supremacy over the past two years KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma on Orlovskyi and Minister of Finance and their actions mirror those of the early signed a cooperation agreement with Lyudmila Denisova. The latter main- Crimean authorities that provides for July 27 criticized Prime Minister Viktor period of Crimean politics within post- Yuschenko’s Cabinet for mismanaging the tained that her detention, which was very independence Ukraine. expanding Russian tourism to Crimea and boosting cultural exchanges and various energy and fuel sector in Ukraine. “I am not brief, was politically motivated At stake ultimately is Crimea’s posi- joint business projects. In a separate docu- happy with the government’s performance, (Krymskaya Pravda, May 16). According tion within Ukraine and the rights of the ment, Mr. Luzhkov and Crimean authorities although this does not mean with the prime to Mr. Kunitsyn’s account, the Crimean Ukrainian president. Neither the position set up a company to build a railroad and minister. But changes are necessary, and if government had committed itself to a of republican prime minister nor that of automobile bridge over the Kerch Strait, Yuschenko does not understand this, it is his business deal worth 120 million hrv with Parliament chairman has been stable over which separates Crimea from Russia and is problem, not mine,” Interfax quoted Mr. an e-mail agreement. Ms. Denisova the past nine years. In January 1994, only some 6 kilometers wide at its narrow- Kuchma as saying. Earlier the same day, refused to be bound by this agreement, Yurii Meshkov, leader of the Russia Bloc, which included the Black Sea Ban of est point. (RFE/RL Newsline) President Kuchma criticized Vice Prime was elected the first president of Crimea Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is in Reconstruction and the Slavyanskiy Bank and immediately declared his intent to and took place when Mikhail Vitkov was Memorial is unveiled in Katyn charge of the energy and fuel sector, for hold a local referendum on independence signing a deal on gas deliveries from the minister of finance. As a result of the and to transfer the peninsula to the KATYN – Polish Prime Minister Jerzy Ms. Denisova’s refusal to be bound by an Turkmenistan. Mr. Yuschenko explained Russian ruble zone. His party subsequent- Buzek and Russian Vice Prime Minister that Ms. Tymoshenko only “initialed” a agreement of a previous government, she ly gained a majority in the Crimean Viktor Khristenko on July 28 attended the document on conditions of Turkmen gas has received death threats (these are not Parliament, but the president’s high-hand- opening of a memorial cemetery at Katyn, supplies, adding that the document has not uncommon in Crimea; in February 1998, edness soon led to a conflict with in Russia’s Smolensk Oblast, where in 1940 yet acquired legal force. (RFE/RL Aleksandr Safontsev, the first deputy Parliament Chairman Sergei Tsekov. the Soviet NKVD executed some 4,500 Newsline) prime minister of the autonomous repub- In January 1995, with encouragement Polish officers taken prisoner the previous lic, was assassinated when a bomb of some deputies in the Russian Duma, year. Mr. Buzek called for reconciliation Tymoshenko says she will not resign exploded near his car) and her action Crimea declared economic sovereignty, between the two nations. He acknowledged KYIV – Vice Prime Minister Yulia alienated certain business circles in the prompting the Kuchma government to that a whole generation of Poles regard Tymoshenko told journalists that she “fully region. Mr. Kunitsyn also refused to be take prompt action to restore the status Katyn as a symbol of genocide, but stressed agrees” with President Leonid Kuchma’s bound by the financial deals made by his quo. On March 17, 1995, Kyiv annulled that “today we have a great chance to create opinion that the price of Turkmen gas could predecessors. the Constitution of Crimea and by the end a common history without hate and lies,” be lower than that on which she agreed dur- Clearly a sustained assault on the of March Crimea was brought under the the DPA news service reported. Mr. ing her visit to Ashgabat, Interfax reported. regional government was under way. On direct rule of the Ukrainian government, Khristenko noted that although tragedies May 24, the Crimean Parliament, headed divide nations, “they can also unite them.” She noted, however, that the gas transporta- pending the adoption of a new tion costs will not be as high as suggested by the Communist Party leader Mr. Hrach Constitution acceptable to the political The ceremony was attended by some 800 since May 1998, voted to dismiss the relatives of the slain officers. (RFE/RL by the president, adding that Ukrainian con- leadership in the Ukrainian capital. In sumers will be able to buy 1,000 cubic Kunitsyn government by a vote of 68-20, June 1995 the troublesome Mr. Tsekov Newsline) thereby attaining more than the two-thirds meters of Turkmen gas for some $50. Ms. was replaced as parliamentary leader by a Kuchma decrees Internet development Tymoshenko declined the suggestion that majority required by the Constitution of more conciliatory figure, Yevhen Ukraine. she would resign in connection with the Supruniuk. KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma has In the murky world of Crimean politics, president’s criticism of the situation in the The 1994-1995 crisis was made more signed a decree on the development of the it is not always easy to discern the motives energy and fuel sector. “It is no wonder to complex by the gradual return of the Internet in Ukraine, Interfax reported on behind events, but in this case a power me that there are a lot of circles dissatisfied Crimean Tatars, whose descendants had July 31. The order obliges the government struggle has clearly been under way for with [my] curbs on the shadow economy in been deported by the Stalin regime at the to provide Internet connections for scientif- some time. Mr. Kunitsyn has been prime the energy sector. ... But as long as I am in end of the World War II, but who now con- ic organizations, educational and cultural minister of the autonomous republic for just my post, I will be introducing such a [high stitute more than 12 percent of the 2.2 mil- institutions, and a wider segment of the over two years. Formerly he was the mayor degree of] order that Ukraine will not be lion population of the peninsula. They tend- population. The government is also to draft of Krasnoperekopsk and the leader of the ashamed,” she said. (RFE/RL Newsline) ed to be more supportive of the Ukrainian a bill on the protection of intellectual prop- National Democratic Party (NDP), which, government and opposed to Russian influ- erty and copyright on the web. The decree after the Communist Party, was the largest (Continued on page 20) ence on the peninsula. The crisis was also political faction on the peninsula. The made more complicated by the negotiations appointment of Mr. Kunitsyn was clearly a between Russia and Ukraine over the status compromise: Mr. Hrach, a powerful figure FOUNDED 1933 of the port of Sevastopol and the future of in the Communist Party of Ukraine, agreed the Black Sea fleet. to the appointment in consultation with HE KRAINIAN EEKLY The signing of a Treaty of Friendship T U W Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma in An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., and Cooperation between Russia and order to ensure his own appointment as a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Ukraine in 1997, by which Russia agreed Yearly subscription rate: $50; for UNA members — $40. Parliament chairman. 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(Continued on page 17) No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2000 3 Protesters attempt to obstruct Ukraine proposes deal to settle pastoral visit by Patriarch Filaret its growing gas debt with Russia PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Protesters from the “Anathema to Denysenko.” by Roman Woronowycz cruise missiles are capable of carrying Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow Hundreds of protesters were out in force Kyiv Press Bureau nuclear warheads. Patriarch (UOC-MP) attempted to obstruct at his point of arrival, Symferopol airport, Although there are few details on how the pastoral visit to Crimea on June 23-25 where the police had to move them further KYIV – Ukraine has proposed to sell the deal, if it is eventually agreed to, would of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox away to allow the normal work of the air- Russia a portion of its natural gas pipeline, affect Ukraine’s natural gas pipeline, Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), port to proceed, according to KNS. as well as additional aircraft and cruise Yevhen Marchuk, secretary of Ukraine’s missiles, to help settle its more than $1 bil- Patriarch Filaret (Denysenko). Patriarch Filaret’s vehicle had to leave the National Security and Defense Council, lion debt for natural gas, announced Prime According to Keston News Service airport along a different road. And, accord- indicated on July 26 that Ukraine is ready Minister Viktor Yuschenko on August 1. (KNS), the patriarch denies that the demon- ing to UOC-MP sources quoted by Interfax, to surrender one-third of its gas artery, The prime minister underscored that the strations disrupted his program and claims “Patriarch Filaret had to sneak into which supplies northern Europe with offer is a proposal being considered by a that he fulfilled everything he planned. The Sevastopol across fields.” Russian natural gas. In 1999 Ukraine In Sevastopol, where the patriarch had joint Ukrainian-Russian government com- received some 30 billion cubic meters of Crimean eparchy of the UOC-KP has sever- mittee and subject to change. al parishes but does not have a bishop and is planned to visit Khersones (the site of natural gas from Russia as compensation Kyivan Rus’ Grand Prince Volodymyr’s “This is one of the options being dis- for use of the Ukrainian pipeline. under the direct supervision of Patriarch cussed,” explained Mr. Yuschenko. “Of Filaret. baptism), meet the city authorities and bless Mr. Marchuk said he supports a propos- the students of the Ukrainian Naval course, we welcome all discussions on this al whereby Russian natural gas companies Officials of the Crimean eparchy of the proposal, but it does not mean the issue rival UOC-MP have denied that they organ- Institute, he visited only the Institute of would be able to take part in privatization Nuclear Physics. has been settled.” tenders for the pipeline. He suggested that ized protests, describing them as sponta- A joint Ukrainian-Russian governmen- neous expressions of ordinary Church The Rev. Paisi, secretary of the UOC- another one-third of the pipeline would be MP eparchy in Sevastopol, told KNS on tal committee charged by the prime minis- tendered to European partners. members’ feelings. However, according to ters of both countries with resolving RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine July 14 in an interview in Khersones that he However, Prime Minister Yuschenko objected to a “pastoral visit” by the leader Kyiv’s large natural gas debt to Moscow, suggested that the pipeline would be hand- Report, Archbishop Lazar of the UOC-MP met on August 1-2 in the Ukrainian capital eparchy in Crimea issued an appeal prior to of a group that he said has “neither a single ed over in a type of leasing operation with parish nor a parishioner” in Sevastopol. “As with no agreement or evident progress on the physical pipeline remaining under Patriarch Filaret’s visit that people protest the Ukrainian proposal. his arrival at the airport in Symferopol. for Khersones,” he continued, “it is not Ukrainian management. quite true that Filaret was not allowed there, However, Russia has accepted Vice Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Before the patriarch’s visit, posters were put Ukrainian bombers and missile carriers in up in the UOC-MP’s churches in or maybe quite untrue. There were simply who is responsible for the gas and energy believers who stood with banners express- the past, most recently in December of last portfolio and who has been at loggerheads Symferopol and throughout Crimea declar- year, when Ukraine transferred ownership ing that Crimea was not a place for the ing their opinion about Filaret. He probably with Mr. Marchuk over her recent efforts of eight TU-160 missile carriers and three to revamp the sector, came out firmly “schismatic.” [Patriarch Filaret once did not want to see those people and called TU-95 MS long-range bombers, along against the security council chief’s propos- belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church the director of the reserved zone [Khersones] to say that he was canceling his with 600 X-22 cruise missiles in partial al. She claimed that it is another short-term and was a metropolitan of the UOC-MP, but visit. It is a very conventional notion – ‘was repayment of its ongoing debt to Russia, fix that does not resolve the problem of was anathematised by the Rusian Orthodox not allowed’ – he himself did not want to on which it is almost completely depend- long-term Ukrainian indebtedness to Church and labeled a “schismatic” after he come.” Defending the demonstrators’ ent for natural gas. That transaction was Russia. was elected patriarch of the competing actions, the Rev. Paisi added: “We also are valued at $285 million. “I would not administer state property UOC-KP-ed.] entitled to express our feelings.” According to Interfax-Ukraine, Russian in this way,” explained Ms. Tymoshenko. According to KNS, protests marked According to RFE/RL Poland, Belarus experts have said that the Ukrainian side is “And what shall we do when there is no Patriarch Filaret’s entire visit, with pickets and Ukraine Report, the press service of the currently offering an additional three mis- more property? Then what shall we pay gathered along his expected route. Many UOC-KP denied that Patriarch Filaret’s trip sile carriers and seven complete bombers with?” protesters held banners with slogans such as along with four disassembled ones, as well “Filaret – get out of Crimea” and (Continued on page 16) as about 80 additional cruise missiles. The (Continued on page 16)

most instances it is an honor to be a board member, mem- Yuschenko. He noted that “... the time has arrived that the 19 credit unions... bership also attaches a great deal of liability for the opera- executive arm of the government has the support of the (Continued from page 1) tion of the credit union. Mr. Dinger provided many exam- Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) and that, therefore, now The management staff of the Philadelphia credit union ples from his own experience, which elicited multiple there is greater hope for the betterment of Ukraine’s was congratulated on its fine choices of hotels and caterer. questions and much conversation. future.” The official opening of the annual meeting and confer- The day ended with a banquet and a cultural program Dr. Zhulynskyi ended his speech by presenting certifi- ence occurred on Friday morning, at which time the host- featuring Philadelphia’s Voloshky Ukrainian Dance cates of honor to Mr. Chyzowych, Mr. Hryhorczuk, Ms. ing credit union’s CEO and treasurer, Ihor Chyzowych, Company. A surprise guest from Ukraine, Lida Denysenko (CEO and general manager, Rochester [N.Y.] formally welcomed the delegates and guests to Bytchkova, provided several operatic renderings. Ukrainian FCU), Dr. Bohdan Kekish (CEO, Selfreliance Philadelphia. Outgoing and re-elected UNCUA The banquet’s keynote speaker, Dr. Mykola [N.Y.] FCU), Bohdan Watral (president and CEO, Chairperson Tamara Denysenko also greeted the delegates Zhulynskyi, vice prime minister for humanitarian affairs Selfreliance Ukrainian FCU, Chicago) and Vsevolod and President Dmytro Hryhorczuk initiated the confer- of Ukraine, greeted the conference on behalf of the ence by introducing the first speaker, James Byrnes. President Leonid Kuchma and Prime Minister Viktor (Continued on page 14) Mr. Byrnes, of the Illinois Credit Union League Service Corporation, presented the process of instituting credit cards for smaller credit unions ($10 million or less). This effort would require the financial support of the UNCUA with an initial investment of $8,750. The second speaker was Ihor Kozak, chairman of the association’s Supervisory Committee, who presented the financial status of Ukrainian American credit unions for the year ended 1999. Utilizing pie charts and a number of graphs, Mr. Kozak offered the delegates a comparative review of individual credit unions, their gross income, membership, capital, expenses and other financial data. He underlined that Ukrainian American credit unions compare favorably with peer American credit unions. The analysis revealed that membership in Ukrainian American credit unions grew in 1999 by 18.9 percent (from 75,160 members to 79,345), while capital grew by a healthy 9.8 percent (from $1,248,589,209 to $1,370,024,169). Expenses in the form of community support were over $1.7 million, well over the average annual amount of $1 million. Thus, he noted, it appears that Ukrainian American credit unions remain as the basis for financial support to Ukrainian communities and their religious organizations As the delegates to the UNCUA conference are also members of the boards of their respective credit unions, the topic of board responsibilities and duties is an ongoing concern. Arthur Dinger, a compliance and information specialist from the Pennsylvania Credit Union League, presented and explained in detail the duties and responsi- Roman Stelmach bilities of a board member. It was noted, that although in Wearing sunglasses provided by the host credit union, UNCUA members indicate: “Our future is bright.” 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2000 No. 32 UNA resort hosts Chemney Fun Center Camp for preschoolers

One of the joys of camp: enjoying roasted marshmallows with friends. Campers enjoy a visit with a resident of Kelder’s Farm.

Ever wonder what happens after a day at camp? See Some of the medal winners at the 2000 Chemney Camp Olympics. above.

KERHONKSON, N.Y.– The week of July 9-15 at Soyuzivka was filled with the sounds of laughter of preschool children in Plast holds 23rd Tabir Ptashat at Soyuzivka search of the famous collie Chemney. Chemney Fun Center Camp 2000 was in session with 31 children age 4-6 in atten- dance. Under the direction of Nadia Nalywayko Hrynowetz, Marianka Wasylyk and Tana Huertas, the children enjoyed a week filled with Ukrainian language, song, dance and culture. Highlights of the camp included a pysanka demo by Cathy Bishuk, a field trip to Kelder’s Farm, where children took a hay ride, fed farm animals and picked blue- berries. Campers took part in Chemney Clues (similar to the “Blues Clues” show on Nickelodeon TV). Each day three clues were presented to the children whose assignment was to guess what they would do that day. They became musicians, farm- ers, artists and cooks, to name a few per- sonages. Campers also enjoyed Soyuzivka’s theme nights, Hutsul and Odessa nights as well as an Olympics and a bonfire. On a rainy Saturday, July 15, the camp was concluded with a short program of songs the children had learned during the week. Guest speakers in attendance at the program were UNA Vice-President Stefko Kuropas and UNA Advisor and Branch Secretary Stefania Hawryluk, who had gifts for all the campers from the UNA and Roman Lewycky Soyuzivka. KERHONKSON, N.Y. – The second tour of the 2000 “Tabir Ptashat” was held here at Soyuzivka on July 2-9 with 53 All the campers left with smiles on their preschoolers participating. The camp was directed by Tunia Bilyk-Shatynski and 22 counselors and volunteers. Dr. Chrystia faces and with the hope that they would Slywotzky was the camp physician, while Theresa Ben was the administrator. During the bonfire held as a finale to the week return next year to once again see Chemney of activities, the children received camp certificates as well as gifts from the Ukrainian National Association, owner of the and the new friends they had made this Soyuzivka resort. The gifts were presented by UNA National Secretary Martha Lysko, who greeted the campers and their year. parents, and introduced other members of the UNA General Assembly: First Vice-President Stefko Kuropas, Advisor *** Stephanie Hawryluk and Honorary Member Walter Sochan. The Plast camp for children age 4-6 is organized each year by For more information on this day camp the Pershi Stezhi Plast sorority by a committee that includes Neonila Sochan, Oksana Koropeckyj and Mrs. Ben. The second for children, contact Soyuzivka, (914) 626- tour of the 2000 camp was the 23rd Tabir Ptashat held at Soyuzivka. 5641. No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2000 5 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

Mission Statement ORGANIZING RESULTS BY MEMBERSHIP The Ukrainian National Association exists: FROM JANUARY 1, 2000, TO JUNE 30, 2000 I to promote the principles of fraternalism; Organizer (Branch) Members Amount of Branch District I Organized Insurance Number to preserve the Ukrainian, Ukrainian American and Ukrainian Canadian I heritage and culture; and 1. Pylypiak, Myron (496) 25 $189,000.00 496 Various to provide quality financial services and products to its members. 2. Hawryluk, Joseph (360) 18 $433,000.00 360 Buffalo 3. Koczarsky, Jacek (777) 15 $325,000.00 777 Various As a fraternal insurance society, the Ukrainian National Association reinvests its earn- 4. Hardink, Leon (206) 12 $390,000.00 206 Woonsocket ings for the benefit of its members and the Ukrainian community. 5. Chabon, Joseph (242) 10 $140,000.00 242 Shamokin 6. Oscislawski, Eugene (234) 9 $256,650.00 234 Northern New Jersey 7. Staruch, Longin (371) 7 $141,000.00 371 Northern New Jersey 8. Paschuk, Larisa R. (325) 6 $60,000.00 325 New York 9. Worobec, Andre (168,076) 6 $520,000.00 076 Northern New Jersey MEMBERSHIP QUALIFICATIONS FOR ALL DISTRICTS 10. Bachynsky, Barbara (184) 5 $83,000.00 184 New York 11. Hawryluk, Stephanie (088) 5 $25,000.00 088 Albany FROM JANUARY 1, 2000, TO JUNE 30, 2000 12. Banit, Vira (473) 4 $20,000.00 473 Montreal Number of districts 27 13. Ukrainian National Association 4 $90,000.00 777 Various Number of branches 259 14. Diakiwsky, Nicholas (161) 3 $25,000.00 161 Pittsburgh Enrolled new members 229 15. Kapral, Mary (112) 3 $11,000.00 112 Cleveland Total insurance $4,363,650.00 16. Kotch, Joyce (039) 3 $75,000.00 039 Syracuse 17. Kozak, Christine (777,155) 3 $115,000.00 777 Various Average amount of insurance per person $19,055.24 18. Liteplo, Olga (361) 3 $9,000.00 361 New York Assigned quota 1250.00 19. Matiash, Eli (120) 3 $15,000.00 120 Pittsburgh Quota achieved 18.32% 20. Tatarsky, Helen (094) 3 $25,000.00 094 Detroit 21. Bilyk, Michael (323) 2 $10,000.00 323 Central UNA District Quota New Percentage of Total 22. Boland, Genet (409) 2 $25,000.00 409 Wilks Barre 4.5% Members Quota Achieved Insurance 23. Fenchak, Paul (320)` 2 $5,000.00 320 Baltimore 24. Haras, Anna (047) 2 $20,000.00 047 Allentown 1. Woonsocket 10 13 130.00% $393,000.00 25. Hentosh, Marguerite (305) 2 $10,000.00 305 Shamokin 2. Various 50 49 98.00% $954,000.00 26. Horbaty, Gloria (414) 2 $50,000.00 414 Connecticut District 3. Buffalo 40 18 45.00% $433,000.00 27. Karachewsky, Helen (221) 2 $8,000.00 221 Chicago 4. Shamokin 45 13 28.89% $155,000.00 28. Krywulych, Walter (266) 2 $20,000.00 266 Albany 5. Montreal 25 7 28.00% $35,000.00 29. Kujdych, Ivan (331) 2 $35,000.00 331 Philadelphia 6. Connecticut District 35 9 25.71% $213,000.00 30. Kuzio, Myron (277) 2 $123,000.00 277 Connecticut District 7. Albany 40 10 25.00% $65,000.00 31. Maruszczak, Olga (082) 2 $10,000.00 082 Detroit 8. Wilkes Barre 20 4 20.00% $35,000.00 32. Milinichik, Janice (147) 2 $60,000.00 147 Allentown 9. Central 10 2 20.00% $10,000.00 33. Moroz, Tekla (465) 2 $10,000.00 465 Montreal 10. New York 95 17 17.89% $167,000.00 34. Napora, Vera (291) 2 $10,000.00 291 Cleveland 11. Northern New Jersey 165 29 17.58% $1,157,650.00 35. Nazarewycz, Irene (352) 2 $8,000.00 352 Philadelphia 12. Baltimore 20 3 15.00% $10,000.00 36. Shewchuk, Paul (013) 2 $10,000.00 013 Albany 13. Syracuse 35 5 14.29% $105,000.00 37. Skyba, Andrij (399) 2 $50,000.00 399 Chicago 14. Central New Jersey 45 6 13.33% $103,000.00 38. Stuban, Frank (067) 2 $15,000.00 067 Connecticut District 15. Allentown 30 4 13.33% $80,000.00 39. Trytjak, Oksana (025) 2 $10,000.00 025 Northern New Jersey 16. Pittsburgh 70 8 11.43% $55,000.00 40. Vasylyk, Galina (399) 2 $50,000.00 399 Chicago 17. Chicago 95 9 9.47% $126,000.00 41. Zaviysky, Yaroslav (155) 2 $20,000.00 155 Central New Jersey 18. Cleveland 60 5 8.33% $21,000.00 42. Banach, Joseph (171) 1 $25,000.00 171 Northern New Jersey 19. Philadelphia 135 11 8.15% $203,000.00 43. Bardell, Janet (241) 1 $3,000.00 241 Woonsocket 20. Detroit 80 6 7.50% $38,000.00 44. Bilchuk, Nina (777) 1 $100,000.00 777 Various 21. Rochester 40 1 2.50% $5,000.00 45. Bilyk, Wolodymyr (170) 1 $5,000.00 170 Northern New Jersey 22. Youngstown 10 0 0.00% $0.00 46. Brodyn, Christine (027) 1 $100,000.00 027 Northern New Jersey 23. Winnipeg 10 0 0.00% $0.00 47. Butrej, Tymko (164) 1 $5,000.00 164 Wilkes Barre 24. Toronto 50 0 0.00% $0.00 48. Choma, Mychajlo (290) 1 $5,000.00 290 Baltimore 25. Niagara 15 0 0.00% $0.00 49. Cybriwsky, Ilko (417) 1 $10,000.00 417 Various 26. Minneapolis 10 0 0.00% $0.00 50. Doboszczak, Bohdan (059) 1 $10,000.00 059 Connecticut District 27. Boston 10 0 0.00% $0.00 51. Dolnycky, Alexandra (434) 1 $5,000.00 434 Montreal 52. Duda, Teodor (163) 1 $10,000.00 163 Philadelphia TOTAL 1,250 229 18.32% $4,363,650.00 53. Felenchak, Tracie M. (271) 1 $25,000.00 271 Syracuse 54. Fil, Nicholas (013) 1 $10,000.00 013 Albany 55. Fuga, Paul (269) 1 $5,000.00 269 Central New Jersey 56. Hawrylciw, Peter (253) 1 $5,000.00 253 Connecticut District 57. Hawryshkiw, George (283) 1 $5,000.00 283 Syracuse BEST ORGANIZERS BY MEMBERSHIP 58. Hawrysz, Stefan (083) 1 $20,000.00 083 Philadelphia 59. Hentisz-Brechun, Olena (489) 1 $5,000.00 489 New York FROM JANUARY 1, 2000, TO JUNE 30, 2000 60. Jewtushenko, Wasyl (422) 1 $100,000.00 422 Philadelphia 61. Kotlar, Julian (042) 1 $5,000.00 042 Northern New Jersey Organizer (Branch) Members Amount of Branch District Organized Insurance Number 62. Kufta, Genevieve (171) 1 $100,000.00 171 Northern New Jersey 63. Kulczycky, Maria (008) 1 $5,000.00 008 New York 1. Pylypiak, Myron (496) 25 $189,000.00 496 Various 64. Kuropas, Stefko (176) 1 $5,000.00 176 Chicago 2. Hawryluk, Joseph (360) 18 $433,000.00 360 Buffalo 65. Lawrin, Alexandra (175) 1 $3,000.00 175 Detroit 3. Koczarski, Jacek (777) 15 $325,000.00 777 Various 66. Lazirko, Iouri (134) 1 $20,000.00 134 Northern New Jersey 4. Hardink, Leon (206) 12 $390,000.00 206 Woonsocket 67. Martynenko, Mycajlo (245) 1 $10,000.00 245 Philadelphia 5. Chabon, Joseph (242) 10 $140,000.00 242 Shamokin 68. Odezynskyj, Bohdan (216) 1 $5,000.00 216 Philadelphia 6. Oscislawski, Eugene (234) 9 $256,000.00 234 Northern New Jersey 69. Petruncio, Mary (078) 1 $5,000.00 078 Shamokin 7. Staruch, Longin (371) 5 $141,000.00 371 Northern New Jersey 70. Petryk, Fedir (362) 1 $10,000.00 362 Philadelphia 8. Paschuk, Larisa R. (325) 6 $60,000.00 325 New York 71. Pishko, Olga (338) 1 $10,000.00 338 Pittsburgh 9. Worobec, Andre (168,076) 6 $520,000.00 076 Northern New Jersey 72. Pytel, Petro (139) 1 $3,000.00 139 Chicago 10. Bachynsky, Barbara (184) 5 $83,000.00 184 New York 73. Salabay, Nadia (155) 1 $3,000.00 155 Northern New Jersey 11. Hawryluk, Stephanie (088) 5 $25,000.00 088 Albany 74. Skibickyj, Alex (285) 1 $5,000.00 285 Rochester 12. Banit, Vira (473) 4 $20,000.00 473 Montreal 75. Stefuryn, Gizelia (169) 1 $5,000.00 169 Wilks Barre 13. Ukrainian National Association 4 $90,000.00 777 Various 76. Streletsky, Lubov (010) 1 $5,000.00 010 Philadelphia 14. Diakiwsky, Nicholas (161) 3 $25,000.00 161 Pittsburgh 77. Trojan, Myroslaw (067) 1 $10,000.00 067 Connecticut District 15. Kapral, Mary (112) 3 $11,000.00 112 Cleveland 78. Turko, Michael (063) 1 $5,000.00 063 Pittsburgh 16. Kotch, Joyce (039) 3 $75,000.00 039 Syracuse 79. Woch, Steven (777) 1 $175,000.00 777 Various 17. Kozak, Christine (777,155) 3 $115,000.00 777 Various 80. Yurkiw, George (130) 1 $5,000.00 130 New York 18. Liteplo, Olga (361) 3 $9,000.00 361 New York 81. Zajac, Roman I. (472) 1 $10,000.00 472 Chicago 19. Matiash, Eli (120) 3 $15,000.00 120 Pittsburgh 20. Tatarsky, Helen (094) 3 $25,000.00 094 Detroit Total 229 $4,363,650.00

BEST ORGANIZERS BY PREMIUM AMOUNT FROM JANUARY 1, 2000, TO JUNE 30, 2000

Organizer (Branch) Members Annual Amount of Branch District Organized Premium Insurance Number

1. Hawryluk, Joseph (360) 18 $6,342.46 $433,000.00 360 Buffalo 2. Pylypiak, Myron (496) 25 $5,895.84 $189,000.00 496 Various 3. Bachynsky, Barbara (184) 5 $4,056.80 $83,000.00 184 New York 4. Staruch, Longin (371) 7 $2,401.33 $141,000.00 371 Northern New Jersey 5. Fuga, Paul (269) 1 $2,265.00 $5,000.00 269 Central New Jersey Insure 6. Karachewsky, Helen (221) 2 $2,120.00 $8,000.00 221 Chicago 7. Oscislawski, Eugene (234) 9 $1,950.03 $256,650.00 234 Northern New Jersey and be sure. 8. Worobec, Andre (168,076) 6 $1,683.70 $520,000.00 076 Northern New Jersey 9. Ukrainian National Association 4 $1,076.45 $90,000.00 777 Various 10. Banit, Vira (473) 4 $1,022.15 $20,000.00 473 Montreal Join the UNA! 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2000 No. 32

COMMENTARY THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Save Verkhovyna Ukraine’s history over the last quarter century Just two weeks ago we published a vibrant centerfold featuring a photo report from the 25th Ukrainian Youth Festival at Verkhovyna, an event that has become a time- is inextricably linked with the Helsinki Final Act honored tradition – if not the centerpiece – of Ukrainian summertime events. by Orest Deychakiwsky Tykhy, Yuriy Lytvyn and Valeriy Marchenko – sacrificed their lives, dying But the bad news is that many fear this year’s festival may be the last at the 142- This month marks the 25th anniver- acre resort located in Glen Spey, N.Y., between the Pocono mountains of in Soviet prison camps in the mid-1980s. sary of the Helsinki Final Act, which Despite these harsh repressions, the Pennsylvania and the Catskills of New York state near the Delaware River. The rea- launched what has become known as the son: Pennsylvania’s insurance authorities have ordered the resort’s owner, the members of the Ukrainian Public Group Helsinki or OSCE process, a critical to Promote Implementation of the Ukrainian Fraternal Association, to sell Verkhovyna. The UFA is a society much like vehicle for advancing human rights, the Ukrainian National Association (our publisher) that sells life insurance to its mem- Helsinki Accords (the monitoring democracy and the rule of law in Europe. group’s formal name) laid the ground- bers, provides diverse fraternal benefits to those members, and supports myriad On August 1, 1975, 35 countries endeavors whose benefits accrue to the entire Ukrainian community. work for the events that were to follow signed this milestone agreement consist- which culminated in Ukraine’s independ- The UFA’s Supreme Assembly unanimously voted in June to sell the property for ing of three sections known as “baskets,” $925,000 to the Ukrainian American Cultural Foundation. The UACF has pledged not ence. With the dawn of Mikhail containing a broad range of commit- Gorbachev’s perestroika, veterans of the only to save Verkhovyna – which is known for hosting Roma Pryma Bohachevsky’s ments designed to enhance security and Helsinki movement such as Vyacheslav dance workshops and Sitch sports camps – but to develop the property further for the cooperation in Europe, and including Chornovil, Lev Lukianenko and the benefit of all Ukrainians. Among the options being discussed are seniors’ housing, language on human rights. Horyn brothers became the leading mem- halls for seminars and conferences, and facilities for hunting, fishing and camping. History is filled with irony. At the time bers first of the Ukrainian Helsinki As of mid-July the UACF had raised $541,000; during Verkhovyna’s Youth of its signing, the Helsinki Final Act was Union, then of Rukh – and there can be Festival – within the span of two hours – another $50,000 in donations and pledges harshly criticized, perhaps with good rea- no question that the major force in forg- was collected. Nearly $350,000 remains to be raised. Time is of the essence, as the son, by some skeptics, including some ing an independent Ukraine committed to UACF expects to soon go into contract with the UFA, after which the closing will be Ukrainians in the diaspora, as endorsing democracy was Rukh. scheduled. If the UACF does not succeed in raising the necessary funds, the UFA will the political status quo of Soviet control There is a clear link between the have to sell Verkhovyna to the highest bidder – and reports indicate that several have over half of Europe. Instead, the Helsinki Helsinki movement in Ukraine, with its already expressed interest in this picturesque site. Final Act, with its emphasis on human emphasis on human rights, self-determi- “What we’re buying here is not so much the land, but the tradition – including 25 rights, and the process it engendered, nation and democracy, and Ukraine’s years of Verkhovyna Youth Festivals,” UACF President Eugene Tataryn told The turned out to be a key factor in the independence. The human rights ideals Weekly, noting that the effort to save Verkhovyna has attracted Ukrainians of all ages. demise of the Soviet empire – a blessing for which the Helsinki monitors – includ- One of our readers, recent graduate and aspiring film-maker Damyan Kolodiy, 23, in disguise. ing the Ukrainian monitors – fought, and formerly of Maplewood, N.J., and currently of Boston, sent out a public appeal via the Former President Gerald R. Ford, who the persistent Western pressure on their Internet. After laying out the facts about Verkhovyna’s predicament, Mr. Kolodiy signed the agreement for the United behalf, became a springboard for the added: “It would be a shame to lose such a place ... it has two churches, the streets are States, has stated that “the Helsinki Final Ukrainian-named, the whole place is like a little ‘selo’ [village]. ... There’s just no way Act was the final nail in the coffin of democracy and independence move- this stuff could ever be replicated once it’s lost! I don’t know if you’ve ever been up Marxism and communism in many, many ments in the captive nations, including there, but the scenery is beautiful and it’s very reminiscent of the Karpaty. ...” countries, and helped to bring about the Ukraine. Similar sentiments were voiced by singer Taras Petrynenko from Ukraine during change to a more democratic political An important aspect of the Helsinki his appearance at the Youth Festival. “Verkhovyna is a piece of Ukraine on the territo- system and a change to a more market- process was Western – and especially ry of the United States. If we lose Verkhovyna, we lose a part of Ukraine,” he stated. oriented economic system.” American – support for Helsinki princi- Indeed, Verkhovyna should be saved for the Ukrainian community. We urge our Ukraine’s recent history has been ples and willingness to raise substantial readers to lend a hand with financial and moral support for this project. intertwined with the Helsinki process. and pervasive violations of these princi- Tax-deductible contributions may be sent to: Ukrainian American Cultural There is a thread that links the signing of ples by the Soviet Union and other recal- Foundation, P.O. Box 418, Glen Spey, NY 12737. For information phone (914) 858- the Helsinki Final Act with Ukraine’s citrant signatory states. A vital role was 3805, or visit the website at http://www.uacf.net. independence. Ukrainians, who in the played by the U.S. Helsinki Commission, late 1970s and 1980s took the Helsinki a U.S. government agency composed Final Act seriously and formed the mostly of members of Congress, working August Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Group, closely with East European ethnic, used the accords’ human rights standards Soviet Jewry, and human and religious Turning the pages back... to press the Soviet government to live up rights advocacy groups. Indeed, it was to its freely undertaken commitments Congress and the Helsinki Commission, 11 under the Helsinki Final Act. Similar often citing the Helsinki Final Act and groups were formed in other Soviet subsequent OSCE documents, that 1985 Fifteen years ago, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of republics and Warsaw Pact countries. For ensured Ukraine was not forgotten the Helsinki Final Act, the Senate and House of Representatives their efforts, members of these groups throughout the 1970s and 1980s. both passed a resolution commemorating the 10th anniversary of were repressed, imprisoned or exiled. There were numerous efforts in the the Helsinki Accords and reaffirming the human rights principles The Ukrainian group – which stressed U.S. Congress to call attention to the and humanitarian provisions of the international agreement signed by 35 states, including not only human rights but self-determi- plight of Ukraine, including various the United States and the Soviet Union. The Weekly reported on August 11, 1985, that nation – not surprisingly came in for hearings featuring Ukrainian dissidents Senate Joint Resolution 180 was passed by the Senate on July 29 and by the House the next especially harsh treatment from Moscow. such as Petro Grigorenko, Nadia day. It was introduced in the Senate by Helsinki Commission Chairman Alfonse D’Amato The members of the Ukrainian group suf- Svitlychna, Nina Strokata and Danylo (R-N.Y.) and in the House by Helsinki Commission Co-Chairman Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). fered tremendously for their courage and Shumuk, on topics such as human rights The resolution noted that “the Helsinki process has evolved into an important tool of commitment to the ideals of Helsinki, in Ukraine; numerous resolutions, state- East-West human rights diplomacy and continues to serve as a beacon of hope to victims of and some – notably Vasyl Stus, Oleksa ments and letters by congressmen on oppression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.” behalf of individual Ukrainian political It also said that “the Soviet Union displays contempt for basic civil and political rights, prisoners, especially the Helsinki moni- Orest Deychakiwsky is staff advisor at such as freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief, [and] confines in prisons, labor tors concerning the plight of the banned the U.S. (Helsinki) Commission on camps and psychiatric institutions or internally exiles hundreds of citizens who have sought Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Security and Cooperation in Europe in to know and act upon their rights, among them 37 imprisoned members of Helsinki moni- Autocephalous Orthodox Churches. Washington and has served as a member toring groups.” Russification and the suppression of of U.S. delegations to numerous meetings The joint resolution resolved the following: of the CSCE/OSCE. (Continued on page 15) • the Congress strongly reaffirms the human rights principles and humanitarian provi- sions of the Final Act and the Madrid Concluding Document; • the Congress recognizes and condemns continued East Bloc violations of international obligations under the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the Helsinki Final Act, the Madrid Concluding Document, and other relevant international Moscow objects to OCSE’s instruments; • the Congress requests that the president of the United States direct the U.S. Department focus on democratization of State to convey to the Soviet Union and its allies the United States’ deep and abiding human rights concerns; RFE/RL Newsline ITAR-TASS reported on August 1. Such efforts, the ministry said, • the Congress urges the president to direct the U.S. Department of State to take full MOSCOW – In a statement advantage of the opportunities provided by all upcoming meetings of Helsinki signatory released on the 25th anniversary of the deflect from the Helsinki principles states to call the Soviet Union and its allies to account for ongoing human rights violations Helsinki Final Act, Russia’s Foreign and “may eventually lead to the orga- and to work constructively with the governments of the other Western democracies to pro- Affairs Ministry said that “attempts to nization’s degradation.” Moscow, it mote human rights progress in the Eastern signatory states; and turn the OSCE [Organization for continued, favors a balanced approach, • the Congress calls upon the president to use every opportunity to stress the inherent Security and Cooperation in Europe] one that will give “equal attention to link – explicitly stated in the Helsinki Final Act and the Madrid Concluding Document – exclusively into an instrument of all the changes and security aspects: between respect for human rights and the achievement of lasting peace. democratization of individual states military-political, economic and Source: “Congress passes resolution affirming Helsinki Accords’continued value,” The Ukrainian will only bring it to a stalemate,” humanitarian.” Weekly, August 11, 1985, Vol. LIII, No. 32. No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2000 7 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Faces and Places ernmental action the “Francophonie” of Ukraine must be Quebec has survived (unlike Louisiana) by Myron B. Kuropas and even flourished, with general accept- re-Ukrainianized ance and respect from most English Dear Editor: speaking co-citizens and other ethnic communities. The Ukrainian Weekly editorial of From a comparative point of view, July 2 stated: “That Ukrainian authorities there is good cause at this time to resort A gripping tale of terror in independent, democratically inclined to similar affirmative action to protect, Since I don’t read Russian, my exposure because of jealousy over some woman or Ukraine would issue any ban on the use enhance and promote the Ukrainian lan- to Soviet fiction has been limited to transla- because of ancient feuds and quarrels. of the Russian language is unconstitu- guage in Ukraine. This cannot be criti- tions: “Doctor Zhivago” by Boris Much of the dirty work was later tional.” cized as a misguided policy in the con- Pasternak, “Quiet Flows the Don” by accomplished by local activists mobilized Before your editorials offer facile text of the flood of Russification in con- Mikhail Sholokhov, “One Day in the Life by the GPU. “They were all people who opinions as to the lack of constitutionali- temporary Ukraine, nor could it be of Ivan Denisovich” by Aleksander knew one another well and know their vic- ty, or make statements that “language reproached as being “unfair” to Solzhenitsyn, “How the Steel Was tims, but in carrying out this task they bans are inconceivable,” the contempo- Russophones – especially given the dis- Tempered” by Nikolai Ostrovsky. If I became dazed, stupefied.” Anna continues: rary situation in Ukraine requires a more proportionate mass media market satura- recall, none of them devoted much ink to “they would threaten people with guns, as finely tuned appreciation of the legal and tion by Ukraine’s northern neighbor. Ukraine’s famine. if they were under a spell, calling small societal issues at stake. Therefore, it There is ample evidence of the pervasive At the same time, I have read and heard children ‘kulak bastards,’ screaming would benefit all those truly interested in influence of Russian culture and of the numerous accounts of Stalin’s forced ‘Bloodsucker!’ “ And those ‘bloodsuckers’ this matter to probe more deeply as to inordinate dominance of that country’s famine in Ukraine, especially when I were so terrified they had hardly any blood why and where conflicts of linguistic music and language in Ukraine today. To served as a public member of the U.S. of their own left in their veins.” rights might arise. a Western traveler like myself this has Commission on the Ukraine Famine. These Ivan wonders: How was it possible for A difference of opinions as to lan- been evident not just in the nation’s capi- chronicles and narratives broadened my the party activists to become so brutal guage status would almost inevitably tal, Kyiv (and eastern and southern knowledge of the horrors visited on towards friends and acquaintances, people arise in a situation wherein the oblasts), but even in the city of Lviv Ukraine by Stalin’s great terror, but not my they had known for years? Anna explains: Constitution of Ukraine – although stat- itself, considered to be the bastion of comprehension. How could people have They convinced themselves that the so- ing that the “official” language is Ukrainian-speaking Halychyna. been so incredibly cruel and heartless? called kulaks “were pariahs, untouchables, Ukrainian – also guarantees the “free Historically, Russia forcefully asserted Then I read “Forever Flowing,” a tale of vermin ... cattle, swine, loathsome, repul- development” of the Russian languages. its hegemony, chauvinism, tyranny, eco- Soviet life under Stalin, and I began to sive; they had no souls; they stank; they all What does this mean? What happens nomic dominance and colonial exploita- understand. Written by Vasily Grossman, had venereal diseases; they were enemies when rights appear to be mutually exclu- tion over Ukraine. Is there cause now - in the novel recounts the story of Ivan of the people and exploited the labor of sive? It is here that a constitutional court an independent Ukraine – to perpetuate Grigoryevich, a man freed after 30 years in others ...” The activists “would have killed must meet the challenge of interpreting such humiliations in the name of linguis- the gulag. It’s a compelling narrative of their own fathers and mothers simply in rights and placing them in a hierarchy, tic “free development?” human betrayal, torment and survival. order to carry out instructions.” while seeking to maintain a societal Surely there can and must be reason- Soon after his release, Ivan visits his Once collectivization was in place, the equilibrium and social peace. able limitations upon the scope of the mindless bureaucrat of a cousin who had confiscation of all grain and other food- The phraseology of the Constitution “free development” of Russian (and never denounced him but hadn’t written to stuffs, an integral part of Stalin’s genocidal of Ukraine was the outcome of exhaust- other) languages spoken by Ukraine’s Ivan in the camps either. It was a cordial plan, began, led mostly by local derelicts, district party officials, the Komsomol and, ing and protracted nightlong political citizens. Also, non-Ukrainian languages but tense meeting as the relative, who of course, the militia, the NKVD and compromises just prior to June 28, 1996 cannot without challenge, or by indiffer- lived rather well by Soviet standards, sundry army units. – a date now celebrated as a national hol- ence and inertia, take precedence in attempted to acquit himself. He felt quilty Anna goes on: “Everyone was in terror. iday in Ukraine. Yet, a day of legal reck- ambiguous situations – since to do so and found it necessary “to rid himself of, Mothers looked at their children and began oning had to come when competing lin- would then totally nullify or make an to repress in himself, that ancient worm of to scream in fear. They screamed as if a guistic categorizations would somehow absurd parody of the “official” status the intellectual, his bad conscience, his snake had crept into their house. And this have to be subordinated to the state’s Article 10 of Ukraine’s Constitution sense of illegitimacy of the miraculous snake was famine, starvation, death. What consciousness of its own nationhood. In accords to the Ukrainian language. thing that had happened to him. He didn’t was to be done? The peasants had one that context a nation’s language is pri- Having been in Ukraine six times want to confess and repent. He wanted to thing on their minds – something to eat. mordial to its identity, and – failing an since 1995, I personally have witnessed justify and brag.” Put off, Ivan left his They would suck, move their jaws and the official duality – only one set, Ukrainian, numerous incongruities where Russian cousin as quickly as he could. saliva would flow and they would keep can satisfy the historical aspirations of usage overwhelms the Ukrainian identi- Later, in Leningrad, Ivan runs into swallowing it down, but it wasn’t food ... the Ukrainian state, no matter how liber- ty. In 1999 no Ukrainian video cassettes Pinegin, a prosperous old friend, who, al and accommodating may be the unbeknownst to Ivan, had actually The children would cry from morning on, were available in Lviv’s main book- asking for bread.” allowances for other tongues. stores, whereas Russian videos prolifer- denounced him. The meeting is brief and Somebody must firmly grasp the net- both go on their way, but Pinegin is later Gradually, the children, among the first ated, and this “scarcity” is inconsistent to die, stopped crying. “That is exactly how tle and with recognized authority deter- with the relatively ready availability of angry with himself. “He hadn’t the slightest mine the parameters of language use in desire to think about that sinister sensation the Nazis put the Jewish children into the our videos here in North America. My Nazi gas chambers, Anna told Ivan. “ ‘You Ukraine. In this case it is the privilege “favorite” Russian-only technology which had slumbered inside him for and duty of Ukraine’s Constitutional decades on end and had now suddenly are not allowed to live, you are all Jews!’ experience was being told in Lviv last And it was impossible to understand, grasp, Court to clearly pronounce itself on lin- summer that Ukrainian computer CD- awakened. For him the heart of the matter guistic restrictions and their legitimate was not the evil deed, but the idiotic luck of comprehend. For these children were ROMS are “unavailable” – “and never Soviet children, and those who were put- scope. The said court had exercised such will be.” meeting a human being he had ruined. Had authority in the recent past as to the lan- they not run into each other, the feeling ting them to death were Soviet people.” It is high time, in the year 2000, to re- Unlike the gas chambers where death guage of schooling in Ukraine. Ukrainianize Ukraine, and the recent ini- asleep inside him would never have awak- Many nations and societies have man- ened.” It is not until Pinegen enters an came painfully but quickly, starvation was tiatives taken to that effect in the Lviv a prolonged and excruciating process, aged to function with multilingual group- city and oblast are neither retrograde nor exclusive Intourist restaurant where the ings, without losing their national identi- waiters fawn over him and he is served sir- according to Anna. “In the beginning, star- chauvinistic, but consistent with other vation drives a person out of this house. In ty or statehood. Belgium and nations’ standards, as well as a symbolic loin that his uneasiness begins to fade. Switzerland are two European examples. Ivan eventually settles in a provincial its first stage, he is tormented and driven as step in the right direction. To now ques- though by fire torn both in the guts and in In North America two approaches have tion the “constitutionality” of such a step town and moves in with Anna Sergeyevna, been taken: (1) the American generally a war widow who had once been chairman the soul. And so he tries to escape his in contemporary Ukraine is to perpetuate home. People dig up worms, collect grass, English-only “melting pot,” and (2) the folly of yielding willingly to the mas- of a collective farm in Ukraine. It is through Canada’s official federal duality of her eyes that he experiences the famine. and even make the effort to break through sive Russian onslaught in the press, tele- and get to the city. Away from home, away French and English. vision, radio and tourist culture (e.g., Anna explains the process. An invento- However, even in Canada, the pre- ry of all property was drawn up and fami- from home! And then a day comes when “matrioshkas” at souvenir kiosks). the starving person crawls back into his dominantly French-speaking Province of Ukraine cannot today afford the luxury lies were informed that everything Quebec – for historical and “survivalist” belonged to the state and they were merely house. And the meaning of this is that of such daily erosions of its own lan- famine, starvation has won.” reasons – has successfully “evened the guage and culture if it truly respects its put in charge of it for safekeeping. Based playing field” via legal affirmative on their belongings, they were later identi- In the end, there was nothing. The peo- unique history and values the self-esteem ple had died. The village was dead. And action. (For example, Quebec’s Bill 101 needed for its future as a nation. fied as “kulaks.” The provincial authorities required that exterior commercial signs determined how many “kulaks” were liv- now it was as if no one had ever lived Consistent with the above, in all fair- there. “Can it really be that no one will ever be in French and at least twice the size of ness, let us ask how many monuments ing in a district, and the districts then English ones; also, immigrants have to assigned proportionate shares of the total answer for everything that happened?” asks exist today in Moscow or Warsaw to Anna. “That it will all be forgotten without enroll their children in French schools, honor Ukrainian literary icons (e.g., number to the individual village soviets etc.) Thus, in Quebec a minority (offi- (councils), and it was there that the lists of even any words to commemorate it?” Shevchenko, Franko, Ukrainka), whereas “Forever Flowing” is available in paper- cial) language – French – has managed a multitude of Pushkins and specific names were drawn up. to bolster its status and ensure its conti- And who made up the lists? “A troika – back for $16.95 from Northwestern Mickewiczes undisturbedly grace the University Press, (847) 491-5313. nuity for a quarter century by resorting to centers of Ukrainian towns – in addition three people,” Anna declares. “Dim-witted, what may at first appear to have been the to the numerous Lenins, even in Kyiv at unenlightened people determined on their drastic curtailments of the linguistic own who was to live and who was to die ... Myron Kuropas’ e-mail address is: rights of others. However, by this gov- (Continued on page 15) There were bribes. Accounts were settled [email protected] 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2000 No. 32

NEWS AND VIEWS

A secret of the prairie: St. Vladimir’s College in Manitoba by Steven Rudyk The dormitories are “down the hall” from the classrooms, the labs, the library, the dining room, the gym, the weight The former Redemptorist ROBLIN, Manitoba – We had arrived the night before room, the dark room, the TV room (yes, even that), the and various secrets were revealed to us very quickly. The headmaster’s office, the chapel, the laundry room, the Seminary in Roblin is now first was, that here in western Manitoba, a concert sched- music room, etc. The old axiom, “an idle mind is the uled for 8 p.m., begins at 8 p.m. Not 8:05 p.m. (when we devil’s workshop,” is strictly non-applicable at St. Vlad’s. a Ukrainian Catholic arrived), but at the scheduled hour. For us New Yorkers, it No idle minds here, as there is no idle time. A well-planned was an embarrassing surprise that the audience was in and balanced seven days per week program takes care of boarding school for boys place, the lights were dimmed, and the program began on that. time. We had already missed the choir’s rendition of “O, And, as my anxious son found out, there is a reasonable in grades 9, 10, 11 and 12. Canada,” and “Otche Nash” (Our Father). amount of time set aside for the all important boob tube We went to this concert expecting a good program. As and boom box, a staple of today’s high schoolers. That the second secret, a very talented and well-trained young comes with several big ifs: If ... you’ve done all your many years to come. Some of the members of the school’s men’s choir, was revealed to us, we looked around and assigned classroom work; If ... you’ve completed all your board of directors shared with us their ambitious plans for shook our heads in disbelief. This exceptional three-voice assigned housekeeping chores; and finally, if ... you actual- its continued growth and success into the future, while choir, under the direction of Paul Bakan, was not a profes- ly want to do the couch potato “thing” with everything else maintaining those characteristics that make this school so sional choir. These were high school boys. The opening of going on around you. unique. the concert consisted of Ukrainian religious hymns, fol- Back to that concert we attended. This was the program Graduation ceremonies began the next morning with a lowed later in the program by various Ukrainian folk the students put on in several cities throughout Canada. divine liturgy during which Metropolitan Bzdel was the songs. (The school has its own genuine Greyhound-type bus, main celebrant. The excellent choir we enjoyed the previ- Our joy and amazement continued when we later found emblazoned with the school name and logo on the side. It’s ous night sang the responses and contributed to the rich- out that these young men, all of Ukrainian descent, ranged a safe and convenient way to get around for long or short ness of the service. The liturgy concluded with the distribu- from first through fifth generation, born in Canada. These trips. Two licensed drivers are available on the staff.) tion of diplomas to the graduates. were not your garden variety New York or Toronto area Ukrainian folk dancing was intertwined throughout the A banquet immediately followed. After opening cere- Ukrainian high schoolers weaned on a steady diet of program, and included the traditional “Pryvit,” and ended monies and prayer, we enjoyed a great buffet luncheon Ukrainian school on Saturday, Plast or SUM summer with a fiery Hopak. prepared by the school’s own staff. (These students certain- camps, Ukrainian music and dance classes, and, of course, We especially enjoyed hearing Mr. Bakan sing “Vziav ly dine very well.) We listened and applauded an array of Soyuzivka. by ya Banduru,” accompanied by a trio of student “ban- awards presented for excellence in various subjects and Many of these young men had learned all their durysty,” plus a sopilka (flute) player. A breath-taking ren- activities. Winners and parents shared these happy Ukrainian in this wonderful prairie secret – St. Vladimir’s dition! And when was the last time you heard tsymbaly at a moments. College in Roblin, Manitoba. The former Redemptorist Ukrainian concert ... played by high schoolers? And they But the most memorable part of this banquet was the Seminary is now a Ukrainian Catholic boarding school for were quite impressive on the trembita as well. We stood for traditional speeches by top graduates on behalf of their boys in grades 9, 10, 11 and 12. the Ukrainian national anthem sadly aware that this fine class. All were well-written, and meaningful. I will always I believe we “discovered” it before the masses “back evening of entertainment was over. remember the moving speech by graduate Roman Hrycyna East” in the United States and Canada did. This school Later that evening we spoke with George Iwasechko, of Toronto. The speech was rich in emotion rarely seen or rivals many tony and pricey prep schools available for high headmaster at St. Vlad’s, and some of the parents of these heard in such a young man. All present shared tears of joy. schoolers throughout North America. And it’s Ukrainian to fine students. They all beamed with pride and the satisfac- With the conclusion of the banquet, the graduates were boot! tion of a job well done – well done by the faculty and staff, free to leave for home, yet, each one of them chose to Its geographic location, the physical plant, the experi- well done by the students. This program, coupled with the spend one more final night at St. Vlad’s with their friends enced and dedicated faculty, the stunning student-to-facul- following day’s graduation and awards ceremonies, were for life. ty ratio and the rich curriculum provide the winning learn- the culmination of a productive year for all involved. I’m happy that we chose St. Vladimir’s for my son. This ing environment we wanted for our son. And that excludes Sharing in the joy was the special guest of honor and the school will give him that extra advantage so necessary to the dizzying smorgasbord of extracurricular activities that patron of St. Vladimir’s College, Metropolitan Michael succeed in the 21st century. You may wish to consider this includes basketball, volleyball, golf, hockey (this is Bzdel of Winnipeg, archbishop of Ukrainian Catholics in fine school for your son as well. Canada, after all), fishing (ice fishing included), tae-kwan Canada. We enjoyed an enthusiastic description of his days More information can be obtained at the school’s web- do, computers, photography and juggling – to name just a as a student at St. Vlad’s, as well as his many years on the site, http://www.stvlads.net, by phoning (204) 937-2173 or few. (And speaking of juggling, the concert I wrote about faculty and administration. faxing (204) 937-8265. As they say in those late night featured another first for me: a “sharavary”-clad juggler.) The metropolitan is committed to making this school a infomercials, act quickly, as only a limited number of A student at St. Vladimir’s wastes no time commuting. successful Ukrainian Catholic school for young men for openings are still available for the 2000-2001 school year.

Eparchial Conference looks toward the new millennium by Christine Hayda following two years participants began “Building Church,” “Building Parish” and these conferences Bishop Wiwchar envi- building the future and preparing for the “Building Community.” sions a stronger and healthier Church – the CHICAGO – The year 2000 has been new millennium. At the dawn of the 21st century it is only foundation on which future generations in celebrated in many forms and fashions. The fourth annual Eparchial Conference, appropriate that the planners, architects and North America will continue to build upon. From gala celebrations to grand balls, from hosted by the parish of the Assumption of builders of the parishes and communities of For many the millennium was celebrat- solemn services to candlelight vigils, and the Blessed Virgin Mary in Phoenix, Ariz., the St. Nicholas Diocese gather in Chicago, ed not only in the year 2000 but also in the from festivals to fireworks, the whole began the first of a four-year series led by the seat of our eparchy for the sixth annual year 1988. From the conversion of St. world spent many years preparing for the Bishop Nicholas Samra, auxiliary bishop of conference. Having spent the previous five Volodymyr to Christianity in 988 to the secular technological transformation of this the Melkite Church in America. Invited by years collaborating with dedicated laity and new millennium in 2000, the faithful have century. Years were spent preparing com- Bishop Wiwchar to lead the leadership con- clergy, the process continues. Bishops been adorned by the rich heritage and tradi- puters and perfecting electrical systems so ferences, Bishop Samra has been credited Wiwchar and Samra will lead the attendees tions of the Ukrainian (Kyivan) Church. that the transition into the 21st century with the rebirth and growth of the Melkite into “Building Stewardship,” that is, build- What has kept this spirit alive for so many would be smooth and flawless. (Byzantine) Catholic Church in America. ing a foundation for the giving of time, tal- centuries has been the stewardship of The Church, specifically St. Nicholas Bishop Samra began the four-year series ent and treasure. countless dedicated, devoted and true Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Chicago, is “Building Leadership” by discussing how Being a good steward in the secular believing Christians. no exception. Beginning in the fall of 1995, members of parishes are “builders” of their sense means that one is a good caretaker, In order for the Ukrainian Catholic under the spiritual direction and initiative own communities. Each individual within giving of his or her time or talent in caring Church to continue to flourish and grow of Bishop Michael Wiwchar CSsR, a com- the parish has a “building” talent – he or for someone or something that is important during the new millennium, Bishop mittee was established to bring the parishes she may be a planner, an assessor of future to them. Among the laity who work in the Wiwchar and the clergy of the St. Nicholas of the diocese into the 21st century using needs, or an architect. Bishop Samra also Church, being a good steward is no differ- Diocese invite all planners, architects and educational conferences as the primary described the importance of builders who, ent. Stewardship in the Church means that builders, not only of the St. Nicholas tool. One of the goals of the conferences through their physical labor within the one is the caretaker of God’s creation here Eparchy, but from across North America to was to nurture the laity with the rich spiri- parish, make the plans and designs become on earth, that is, taking good care of all the become participants of the sixth annual St. tual and liturgical traditions of the a reality. gifts God has entrusted to them. Good Nicholas Eparchial Conference – “Building Ukrainian Catholic Church in order to revi- The fifth Eparchial Conference was stewards care for what is theirs and give of Stewardship.” talize its parishes. hosted by the Nativity of the Mother of their time in caring for others. They also Those who wish to be participants in the In the first three years the conferences God Parish in Los Angeles and drew nearly share their talent in teaching or perhaps St. Nicholas Eparchial Conference, to be were held, participants from various parish- 200 participants from the Midwest and physically working in the parish. Other held October 6-8 at the Chicago Marriott es gathered in Chicago, Detroit and Western United States, as well as Canada. good stewards also share their treasure as a O’Hare, may contact: Motria Durbak, Minneapolis, respectively, discussing the Two months away from the new millenni- way of thanking God for all that He has Gerda Bardygula or Christine Hayda at topics “Who Are We?”, “We are the um, the enthusiastic participants were eager provided them. (773) 625-4833. Information may also be Church” and “Where Are We Going?” to continue plans for the new century. Bishop Wiwchar’s goal for the confer- obtained by contacting the St. Nicholas These three formative years gave partici- Nearing the threshold into the year 2000, ence is to educate the laity and clergy with- Eparchial Office, (773) 276-5080, or by pants the opportunity to identify them- Bishop Samra continued providing the par- in the St. Nicholas Eparchy so that they visiting the St. Nicholas Eparchial website selves and their role within the Church. The ticipants with the necessary tools for may become better stewards. Through at www.stnicholaseparchy.org. No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2000 9

United Ukrainian American Relief Committee A benefactor remembers reports on its humanitarian aid activity for 1999 his native village in Ukraine PHILADELPHIA – The annual meeting In this first year of the expanded project, of United Ukrainian American Relief the UUARC has had just over 100 people PHILADELPHIA – The United U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, and Mrs. Committee Inc., took place on May 13. The “adopted,” and anticipates a continued Ukrainian American Relief Committee James divided the estate among these board of directors discussed the UUARC’s interest in such a program. Sponsors can be Inc. was recently given opportunity to groups. activity for the past year, especially the aid individuals, families, companies, social administer a most generous gift from a The UUARC’s grant, compiled with given to Ukrainians in Ukraine, as the orga- groups, classrooms, and neighborhoods; Ukrainian American who lived in the help of Andrij Dyda of the nization’s motto of “Brother to Brother” payments can be made to the UUARC America over 50 years, yet never for- UUARC’s Lviv office, covers exten- continues to be its motivating factor and the quarterly, semi-annually or annually. got his roots and always kept the trou- sive repairs, both structural and gener- organization’s raison d’être. bles of his countrymen in mind – espe- al, to one hospital and 11 Soup kitchen, food parcels, shoes Following is the annual report for 1999 cially the fate of the village of his schools/internaty for the handicapped delivered by UUARC President Larissa In Lviv the UUARC also supports a birth, Staryi Dobrotvir. and the orphaned. Repairs include roof Kyj. “soup kitchen” lunch program five days a William (Vasyl) Petrach came from replacements, heating system over- the small village of Staryi Dobrotvir in hauls, installation of indoor plumbing Economic reforms week for the elderly and for minor orphans living with grandparents. In addition, the Kamianka-Buzka raion of Lviv updating of kitchens, renovation of The economic crisis in Ukraine contin- thanks to funding from Bohdan Kurylko of Oblast. Mr. Petrach left his home town buildings in disrepair, replacement of ues, as the transition from a planned to a Switzerland, 30 boxes of food per month and made his way to America, where, windows, etc. The schools will also be market-driven economy encounters obsta- are sent to housebound senior citizens. Mr. with his wife, he amassed a sizeable receiving new desks, computers, cles. The only economic reforms to date Kurylko also helps administer a program fortune. In the 1990s, after the death shower facilities and beds, as needed. have been macroeconomic stabilization, at whereby shoes are manufactured in a Lviv of his wife, Mr. Petrach made a pil- The hospital has even received a new a huge cost – $10 billion of foreign aid – as Technical School and then distributed to grimage to his ancestral home, visiting ambulance. The total budget for this well as a great deal of human suffering. “internaty” (children’s homes) throughout the town of Staryi Dobrotvir, as well project is $20,700. The reforms now needed to improve the Ukraine. The UUARC donated more than as other villages in the area. The work began in December 1999 plight of the Ukrainian people are micro- 1,000 pairs of shoes in 1999. Upon his return Mr. Petrach made and is supervised via frequent site vis- economic. Unfortunately, most of the busi- provisions in his will to leave approxi- its by Mr. Dyda. As each project Aid committee reaches completion, a plaque will be nesses continue to be government-run, mately $2 million for charitable work posted in grateful memory of Mr. unprofitable, managed by corrupt govern- In the past year, the UUARC’s Aid to be done in Ukraine and for the good Petrach. ment officials who have a vested interest in Committee has been flooded with requests of Ukrainian people, appointing a Impressive though this bequest was, maintaining the status quo. A great deal of for assistance from individuals in Ukraine. long-time family friend, Virginia the UUARC receives pleading letters the bureaucracy remains in the hands of the Letters come in almost daily, and the com- James, as trustee of the estate. In 1998, daily from teachers, administrators or “nomenklatura,” who interpret each new mittee has been handling 15 to 20 legiti- in an unfortunate and tragic accident, visitors, regarding group schools legislation to benefit themselves; and so the mate requests per month – authorizing Mr. Petrach lost his life, and Mrs. throughout Ukraine that lack the most bureaucrats get richer and the general pop- either parcel shipments or financial aid. James began to interview benevolent rudimentary necessities for life – ulace sinks deeper into poverty. and charitable organizations working Historically, the formation of a country St. Nicholas gifts much less for learning. The future of towards the improvement of life in Ukraine is closely tied to the futures of is a long and arduous task. After the In 1999, the UUARC, with the coopera- Ukraine in order to fulfill Mr. American Civil War, it took two genera- these children who need to be helped. tion of the Ukrainian Heritage School of Petrach’s last will and testament. We are often reminded that a will is tions for the southern states to gain eco- Philadelphia, collected holiday gifts for The UUARC Inc. was invited to nomic stability, and Ukraine has only been a very important document, regardless orphans in Ukraine. Students eagerly submit a proposal, along with other of a person’s age, since one never independent for 9 years. For this reason, brought in wrapped Christmas gifts for Ukrainian organizations, among them most of the UUARC’s efforts are, of neces- poor Ukrainian children who know so little the Ukrainian Catholic Church and the (Continued on page 18) sity, directed to help the people of Ukraine about St. Nicholas, Christmas or the spirit survive the “growing pains” of a new of giving. The packages went via container nation. and arrived just in time for the holidays. Flood relief The UUARC also allotted funding for additional country-wide holiday celebra- In November of 1998 one of the worst tions, sponsoring the appearance of St. floods of the century devastated the Nicholas at various internaty and orphan- Transcarpathian region of Ukraine and ages, as well as sending children from east- Romania. The UUARC, as a charitable ern Ukraine and Crimea to experience tra- organization, took upon itself the assign- ditional holiday celebrations in western ment of helping the affected families and Ukraine. The UUARC also donated $8,000 individuals who lost everything in this nat- to send children to summer camps through- ural disaster. The UUARC collected, out Ukraine, and $3,000 for Ukrainian through the generosity of the Ukrainian summer camps in the United States. American community, over 300 parcels and $70,000 in financial aid. The parcels Estate of William Petrach were sent via container, $20,000 was sent In the fall of 1999 the UUARC received to the Ukrainian community in Romania, a grant in the sum of $207,000 from the $20,000 of the relief funding was trans- estate of William Petrach, a healthy and Jubilee Committee of the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Parish ferred to Transcarpathia by the director of generous Ukrainian American from the of Kerhonkson, New York the UUARC’s Lviv Office, Dr. Andrij Washington area. The trustee of his estate, Dyda, and the balance ($30,000) was deliv- Virginia James, followed his wishes and ered to Uzhorod by the UUARC executive endowed Ukrainian organizations with invites all its past and present members, director, Stefan Hawrysz. funding for many good projects to benefit guests and their families who participated in our services, Adopt-a-Grandparent program Ukraine, especially his home town of were married and/or baptized in our church, to be part of our Staryi Dobrotvir. The UUARC’s proposal In 1999 UUARC expanded a very for the repair and renovation of 13 schools important project, through which, for the and orphanages in the Lviv Oblast was Celebration of the past five years, elderly writers, families of accepted by Mrs. James and is being 35th Anniversary of the Parish and dissidents, and other poverty-stricken sen- administered by the director of UUARC’s ior citizens have received a monthly Lviv Office, Dr. Dyda. 25th Anniversary of its Church stipend to augment their meager, or nonex- istent, government pensions. The project is Containers and USAlD on the now called “Adopt-a-Grandparent” and As has been the case for the last eight 24th of September, 2000 matches Ukrainian American sponsors with years, the UUARC is still sending contain- needy seniors in Ukraine. ers with humanitarian aid to Ukraine and Ceremonies will begin at 10:00 a.m. with the Celebration of a High Mass For $15 per month the monthly income Kazakstan. With a generous grant from the of some of these people is more than dou- USAID, which allotted the UUARC followed by a Banquet at Soyuzivka, Ukrainian National Ass’n Estate bled, allowing for home heating, medicine, $60,000 for reimbursement of freight and healthy food. The UUARC receives charges for aid shipments, UUARC has ral- If you would like to attend our banquet, please respond by lists of elderly people who need assistance lied the Ukrainian American community to August 30, 2000 from churches, clinics and other social new heights of activity. Communities service organizations, their situations are throughout the United States have respond- Holy Trinity UCC Jubilee Committee confirmed by our directors in Ukraine, and ed with renewed energy and generosity to then they are assigned a sponsor from the P.O. Box 712, Kerhonkson, NY 12446 the call, and to date nine 40-foot containers Tel.: (845) 626-2058 or Fax: (845) 626-5831 United States. Many people correspond have been shipped, eight to Ukraine and with their “adopted grandparent” and one to Kazakstan, containing clothing, per- E-mail: [email protected] enjoy the gratitude of people they are truly helping. (Continued on page 18) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2000 No. 32

FFOOCCUSUS ONON PHIPHILLAATTEELLYY by Ingert Kuzych

Painting up a storm: Ivan Aivazovsky No other artist before him had managed ings attracted the attention of the mayor, to capture with such brilliance, accuracy who helped the young man enter the and apparent ease the most difficult of sub- Symferopol gymnazium and, in 1833, the jects for a painter – the changing moods of St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. the sea. Although Ivan Aivazovsky did Aivazovsky flourished at the academy occasionally dabble in the more traditional and after four years received a gold medal, art forms of landscapes and portraiture, the which gave him the privilege of prolonged bulk of his output was seascapes. He was a study abroad at the expense of the acade- master at realistically depicting water and my. In view of Aivazovsky’s considerable the sea in its many forms: calm, choppy, talent, the Academy Council made an stormy, at night, as rain, as foam on waves, unusual decision. He was to return to windblown, etc. Crimea for two years of independent work About the artist sponsored by the academy. This would Figure 2 enable him to perfect his preferred genre Ivan Aivazovsky was born on July 29, of seascape painting before departing to “Aivazovsky’s pictures in Rome are indefatigable energy allowed him to pro- 1817, in Teodosiia (present-day foreign destinations. judged the best in the exhibition. His duce the staggering total of about 6,000 Feodosiia), a town on the southeast coast The graduate threw himself into his new ‘Neopolitan Night,’ ‘The Storm’ and paintings. He exhibited his works in of the Crimean peninsula. He was the son assignment with the capacity for work that ‘Chaos’ have caused such a sensation in Odesa, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, of Konstantin Aivazovsky, a minor official was to be his hallmark throughout life. An this, the capital of fine arts, that the palaces Sevastopol and Kherson, as well as in of Armenian background who had come to entire succession of Crimean seascapes of noblemen and society venues are all Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 1857, Crimea from Austrian Galicia and settled soon emerged. astir with talk of the landscape painter Aivazovsky repeated his Paris success: his there at the beginning of the 19th century. While still at the academy, the impres- from southern Russia; the newspapers exhibition was awarded the Legion of It was here that Ivan developed his lifelong sionable student had been attracted by the have sung his praises loudly and all agree Honor. A prize only rarely conferred on fondness for the Black Sea. romance and beauty of sailing ships and at that only Aivazovsky depicts light, air and foreigners (Figure 1). A plague had swept through Teodosiia the same time intrigued by what he learned water so truthfully and convincingly. Pope Although, as mentioned earlier, most of in 1812, wrecking the family business. of naval battles. In Crimea he took advan- Gregory XVI has purchased his ‘Chaos’ Aivazovsky’s works depict the Black Sea When Ivan was born five years later, the tage of a number of opportunities, and in and had it hung in the Vatican, where only or seascapes, he did frequently travel family had fallen on hard times. The lad 1839 took part in Black Sea maneuvers on the works of the world’s greatest artists are through Ukraine proper and he did pro- grew up waiting tables in a coffee house. three different occasions. considered worthy of a place. His ‘Chaos’ duce a number of Ukrainian landscapes. With a good ear for music, he learned the In 1840 Aivazovsky at last set off on his is generally held to be quite unlike any- Among these are: “Chumak Caravan” violin and to play the folk tunes of many scholarship journey. He went to Rome, thing seen before; it is said to be a miracle (1855); “Reed Bank on the Dnipro Near of the nationalities represented in the cos- where he worked industriously and exhib- of artistry.” the Town of Oleshnia” (1858); “Ukrainian mopolitan port town. However, it was in ited regularly. He was soon gathering Leading artists did not fail to praise Landscape” (1866); “Mill on a Riverbank, drawing that the young Aivazovsky widespread acclaim. The St. Petersburg Aivazovsky, while others began to imitate Ukraine” (1880) and “Wedding in excelled. Lacking artist’s materials, he publication The Art Gazette published a his work. Marine painting had been virtu- Ukraine” (1891). drew with charcoal on the whitewashed lengthy article on his success in Italy. ally unknown in Italy, but soon seascapes In 1868 Aivazovsky traveled in the walls of Teodosiia. Eventually these draw- Following is an excerpt. became all the rage. In 1842 Aivazovsky Caucasus and the following year he took a exhibited some of his works in Paris and trip to Egypt. Invited to the opening cele- was awarded a gold medal by the Paris brations of the Suez Canal, he became the Academy. Triumph followed triumph as first artist to paint this engineering marvel the young man continued to travel around and the epoch-making event. western Europe: to Spain and Portugal, A few years later, in 1871, Aivazovsky France, England, Holland, and Malta. built a Historical and Archeological What brought about such extraordinary Museum in Teodosiia. He had long been interest in his work by both seasoned con- interested in archeology, as was only natu- noisseurs and ordinary art-lovers alike? It ral with his affinity for maritime history. was undoubtedly Aivazovsky’s unusual Many years earlier, in 1853, he had even fidelity to nature that entranced all who taken part in archeological excavations viewed his pictures. His ability to accurate- near Teodosiia and discovered a number of ly convey the effect of water in motion or valuable articles now housed in the to portray watery reflections of sunlight or Hermitage. Over the next several years he moonlight was unprecedented. Viewing made a number of trips to Italy, visiting some of his works you almost felt you among other places Nice, Florence and would get your fingers wet if you touched Genoa. the canvas. In 1880 Aivazovsky established the Aivazovsky returned to the St. Teodosiia Picture Gallery, which also Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1844 and served as his studio. Today it bears his was honored with the title of academician. name and houses 130 canvases and 270 of By decree of the tsar he was appointed to his sketches (along with paintings by other the Chief Naval staff “with the title of marine artists from Crimea). It is definitely painter to the Staff and with the right to worth a visit if you are ever in the area. In wear the uniform of the naval ministry.” addition to the gallery and the earlier-men- His first commission was to paint various tioned Historical Museum, Aivazovsky sites on the Baltic Coast, an assignment he contributed to his hometown in other completed by the end of winter. ways. He donated the funds to build a In the spring of 1845 the artist set out on water main for Teodosiia and opened an a voyage around the shores of Asia Minor art school in the town. Needless to say, and the Greek isles. Working diligently, he these civic actions earned him the admira- filled his sketchbooks with the new tion and love of the townspeople. impressions he experienced. On his return It was in 1892, at the age of 75, that he settled in his hometown of Teodosiia Aivazovsky made his longest trip – to the and set to work painting the coastal scenes United States. In the eastern United States and places he had visited. The pictures of he visited Washington and Niagara Falls, this period, especially those of which he, of course, painted. In 1894 he Constantinople and Odesa, are among his joined the Society of South Russian best. Artists. Founded in Odesa in 1890, this Aivazovsky soon realized that he pre- was an association of artists who lived in ferred to work in this provincial seaside southern Ukraine. town; the role of court painter did not Aivazovsky passed away on May 5, especially appeal to him. Although he con- 1900, in Teodosiia, leaving unfinished a tinued to occasionally travel, Teodosiia painting, “The Explosion of a Ship,” he remained his real home and it is there he had begun that very day. It still rests on its created his best canvases. Figure 1 Over the next half century Aivazovsky’s (Continued on page 11) No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2000 11

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kopek value was part of a multi-stamp set al onlookers have spotted the boat, but they Painting up... displaying works from the Tretiakov are powerless to help. This famous canvas (Continued from page 10) Gallery (Figure 4). hangs in the Teodosiia Picture Gallery. easel in the Teodosiia Picture Gallery. A In 1974 a decision was made to honor Finally in this set, the high value 50- monument of Aivazovsky was erected in Aivazovsky with an entire stamp set of his kopek souvenir sheet features “Portrait of I. Aivazovsky” (1881) by Ivan Kramskoi, 1930; it stands before that same gallery. own. Seven different values were included: from the Teodosiia Picture Gallery. Today, two of the principal sites of six stamps, each featuring one of his great- Additional stamps with Aivazovsky Teodosiia are Aivazovsky’s tomb near an est works, and a souvenir sheet depicting connections appear in the postal releases Figure 6 ancient Armenian church and his splendid the artist. It turned out to be a lovely phila- telic issue with fairly accurate and detailed of five other countries. Armenia honored Picture Gallery. reproductions of the paintings. The low- Aivazovsky in 1993 when it reproduced Aivazovsky stamps value, 2-kopek stamp presents a painting his painting “Noah’s Descent from Mount. titled “View of Odesa by Moonlight” from Ararat” on a souvenir sheet. The artist was The Soviet Union produced the greatest 1846 (Figure 5). It currently hangs in the identified as Hovhannes (Armenian for number of postal issues honoring Ivan Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. Ivan) Aivazovsky. Aivazovsky: a total of 10 stamps and one The 4-kopek stamp is the only one of In 1988 Madagascar included “The souvenir sheet. The first commemoration this series in a vertical format; it depicts Black Sea Squadron at Teodosiia” (1890) was a three-stamp set issued in 1950, the “The Battle of Chesme on 25-26 June on a stamp. The original resides in the 50th anniversary of the artist’s death. The 1770” (Figure 6). Dating from 1848, the Teodosiia Picture Gallery. first two stamps of this set depict two of scene shows a spectacular nighttime sea An 1845 work by Aivazovsky titled Aivazovsky’s most famous paintings. battle. The painting is housed in the “Seascape,” which hangs in the Art The 40-kopek value shows “The Black Dzerzhinsky Higher Naval Engineering Museum of Romania in Bucharest, graced Figure 7 Sea” (1881), which very realistically por- College of St. Petersburg. The rendering a 1971 stamp released by Romania. trays a storm brewing over the sea. The on the 6-kopek features yet another night A recent Russian 1.5-ruble stamp (from wind forms swells in the water, while on scene (Figure 7); its title is “St. George’s 1998) depicted “The Ninth Wave” (1850) the horizon a speck of a ship attempts to Monastery” (1846) and it may be found in previously described. outrace the dark, threatening clouds the Teodosiia Picture Gallery. Finally, a Ukrainian 40-kopiyka stamp (Figure 2). This masterpiece presently The next three, higher-value issues all from 1999 (Figure 12), which commemo- hangs in the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow. depict turbulent seascapes. The 10-kopek rated the 200th anniversary of Alexander The other work, “The Ninth Wave” stamp (Figure 8) is simply called “Stormy Pushkin’s birth, indirectly also honored (1850), appears on the 50-kopek stamp Sea” (1868) and is displayed in the Aivazovsky. The scene is from one of his (Figure 3). Now in the Russian Museum, Tretiakov Gallery. paintings, originally titled “Pushkin on the St. Petersburg, this haunting depiction is of The subject matter of the 12-kopek Shore of the Black Sea” (1897). The can- a maddened, stormy sea at sunrise. Along value (Figure 9), titled “The Rainbow,” is vas was donated by the artist to the city of the bottom of the canvas, a half dozen somewhat reminiscent of “The Ninth Odesa under a new name, “Pushkin in shipwrecked survivors cling to some flot- Wave.” Once more tension and uncertainty Odesa.” The following year the rendering Figure 8 sam. The newly risen sun, piercing the are depicted around the survivors of a sea was hung in the Odesa Art Museum, watery chaos, raises their hopes, while a storm. The mother ship is foundering, but where it may still be viewed. looming, enormous wave portends their one lifeboat has been launched, another is Reconsidering Aivazovsky’s Heritage possible doom. Unfortunately, Soviet loading. Although survival is still question- printing technology of the time does not do able, a rainbow and an ascending sea gull Ivan Aivazovsky belongs to a group of justice to the grandeur of this painting, represent hope. This is one of personalities on postal issues who were Not only is it hard to make out any details, Aivazovsky’s “wettest” representations. born and worked in Ukraine, but who have but the colors are distorted. The third (1 The mist and rain almost look as it they are not generally been identified as being rubel) stamp of the set shows the artist as a ready to drip off the canvas (Figure 10). Ukrainian. Some other such notables are: young man – titled “I. Aivazovsky Painted in 1873, it may be found in the Ilia Repin and Arkhyp Kuindzhi, artists; Portrait” (1841), it was painted by the Tretiakov Gallery. Ihor Sikorsky, aviation engineer; and Ilia Russian artist Aleksei Tyranov and may be The 16-kopek stamp unfolds another Mechnykov, Nobel Prize-winning micro- found in the Tretiakov Gallery. dramatic story (Figure 11). Titled biologist. Figure 9 A single stamp greeted the 150th “Shipwreck” (1876), it presents a lifeboat In Soviet times Aivazovsky was always anniversary of Aivazovsky’s birth in 1967. full of survivors caught in a tempestuous represented as a Russian painter, but he This time an early painting from 1840 was sea. The craft is being driven against huge more correctly falls within the cultural reproduced. Titled “Seashore,” this 4- boulders at the foot of a cliff. Above, sever- milieu of both Russia and Ukraine. While much of his training and exhibiting occurred in Russia, most of his artistic labors were undertaken in present-day Ukraine, on the Crimean peninsula. A large segment of his output focused on Ukraine, Crimea and the Black Sea. In my opinion, then, the above- described Aivazovsky stamps deserve to be included in any good philatelic collec- tion of Ukrainian topics. This year marks Figure 11 the centennial of Aivazovsky’s death. Would it not be appropriate if Ukraine Post prepared some sort of Aivazovsky philatelic commemorative release, perhaps featuring a marine topic? * * * Want to find out more about Ukrainian philately? Why not attend the UKRAIN- PEX 2000 convention-exhibit October 7-8 at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, 26601 Ryan Road., Warren, MI. Hours: 10 a.m.- 5:30 p.m.; there is no entrance fee. This is Figure 12 an excellent opportunity to learn more about the hobby, purchase unique items and examine rare materials. The Ukrainian Ingert Kuzych may be contacted at P.O. Weekly’s Dr. Ingert Kuzych will be in Box 3, Springfield VA, 22150 or by e-mail Figure 10 attendance. at [email protected] 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2000 No. 32 Bachs are back: scholar details search for family’s scores by Gail Fineberg our heads together.” Dr. Grimsted, who became known in WASHINGTON – A scholar’s career- the Soviet Union as the “archive spy” long search for Bach family music that during the 1980s, was devoted to learn- disappeared from Berlin during World ing the fate of captured cultural treasures, War II led to an archive in Kyiv and “trophy” art, books and archives plun- 5,170 items (about 1 million pages) of dered from countries occupied by music, much of it never seen or per- Germany and from Holocaust victims. formed, at least not for 300 to 400 years. Materials seized by Allied forces were “This was a remarkable discovery in returned, but goods gathered up by the Kyiv,” said Christoph Wolff, professor of Soviets disappeared and their where- music at Harvard University and dean of abouts remained shrouded in secrecy. its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, “The Soviet Union was more interested who told the story of his odyssey to a in reparations than restitutions,” Dr. large lunchtime audience in the Coolidge Grimsted said. Auditorium on June 22. Searching Ukraine for lost cultural Assisting him with his quest was treasures in connection with her forthcom- Patricia K. Grimsted, an associate of ing book, “Trophies of War and Empire: Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute, a The Archival Heritage of Ukraine, World senior research fellow at the U.S. War II, and the International Politics of Holocaust Memorial Museum, and U.S. Restitution,” Dr. Grimsted stumbled on a project director of ArcheoBiblioBase, a captured Soviet document among French After the lecture about Bach scores newly found in Ukraine are: (from left) Laryssa Russian and Ukrainian archival directory intelligence records indicating freight car Chopivsky (TWG Cultural Fund), Ambassador William Green Miller, Larysa database in Kyiv and Moscow. She told loads of books and other treasures from Kurylas (TWG Cultural Fund), Christoph Wolff (Harvard), Patricia K. Grimsted her part of the story. eastern Germany (part of Poland after the (Harvard), Jurij Dobczansky (LCPA Ukrainian Language Table coordinator) and Their Library of Congress visit was war) had gone to Moscow and Kyiv. The Ruth Foss (Music Division). sponsored by the LCPA Ukrainian official response from Kyiv was that the Language Table, the Music Division and document Dr. Grimsted presented was J.S. Bach was arranging the Johann oldest continually performing organiza- The Washington Group Cultural Fund, “fabricated.” Christoph motet for performance at his tions, and one would go to Harvard whose mission is to foster and promote With the assistance of a colleague, own funeral; J.S. Bach died two years University. Ukrainian culture in the Washington met- Hennadii Boriak, deputy director of the later. The BBC performed the work last Dr. Grimsted added that Ukrainian ropolitan area. Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and month, which was the first time it had authorities now claim the German materi- Dr. Wolff was working on his doctoral Source Studies, National Academy of been heard since Bach’s death in 1750. als were never classified and never secret. dissertation in the mid-1970s, when his Sciences of Ukraine, Dr. Grimsted closed Dr. Wolff played a recording for the “Or, they never knew about it,” she said. research into sources pertaining to in on Kyiv. Dr. Boriak, on a chance meet- library audience. Ukraine leads other states of the former Johann Sebastian Bach’s large, musical ing in April 1999 with an official of the Dr. Wolff said negotiations between Soviet Union in the return of trophy cul- family hit a dead end. From an 1832 Central State Archive-Museum of Ukrainian authorities and Harvard repre- tural materials, for example, to Dresden inventory he knew there was a rich Literature and Art of Ukraine, noted a sentatives would establish a collaborative and to private sources, Dr. Grimsted said. deposit of Bach family materials, dating large collection of foreign music. project by which Sing-Akademie materi- [Editor’s note: The Washington Group’s from the 17th and 18th centuries, in the Learning that a cache of more than als will be catalogued properly and Cultural Fund sponsored an archival record- musical estate of Bach’s second son, Carl 5,000 manuscripts might “possibly” con- microfilmed, with the help of the Packard ing of the lecture for the library’s perma- Philipp Emanuel, which was housed in tain German music, “possibly” some Humanities Institute. One copy of the ment collection.] the archive of the Berlin Sing-Akademie. Bach scores, Dr. Grimsted sent a note to film would remain with the Ukrainian That archive disappeared at the end of Dr. Wolff, suggesting he might “possi- Academy of Sciences, one would go to Reprinted with permission from the LC World War II. bly” want to pack his bags for a visit to the Sing-Akademie, one of Germany’s Gazette. “Nobody knew its whereabouts,” Dr. Kyiv. Wolff said. “I never really gave up on When Dr. Wolff, Harvard music cata- where the Sing-Akademie treasures were, loguer Barbara Wolff, and Dr. Grimsted although no one knew whether they had arrived at the Central State Archive in been destroyed or misplaced.” Ukraine in late June 1999, they were told Ukrainian Brazilian artist Tracing the history of the Sing- the archive “was under renovation.” But Akademie, which was founded in 1791, they persevered and were admitted to a participates in U.N. exhibit Dr. Wolff displayed images of the concert climate-controlled room to find boxes “in hall in which, in 1829, Felix optimal storage,” Dr. Grimsted recalled. Mendelssohn conducted the first per- In the boxes they saw bound volumes formance since J.S. Bach’s death in 1750 of music, a sheet clearly labeled “Sing- of the St. Matthew Passion (this concert Akademie zu Berlin,” a letter from is credited with renewing interest in J.S. Goethe. Bach’s music). Dr. Wolff also showed an “What we saw confirmed the collection image of the Sing-Akademie’s chorus was intact in Kyiv,” Dr. Grimsted said. library, in which the “older stuff,” no A spot check revealed manuscripts by longer performed, was stashed on lower Telemann, Beethoven’s Op. 2 piano shelves. It was this “older stuff” that Dr. sonatas dedicated, in his hand, to Sing- Wolff longed to see. Akademie founder Karl Friedrich Sing-Akademie materials were last Christian Fasch (1736-1800), available for study in the 1930s. Dr. Mendelssohn manuscripts, and the C.P.E. Wolff’s research turned up a packing list Bach archive, Dr. Wolff ’s grail. In that indicated the C.P.E. Bach materials October 1999 Dr. Wolff returned for a were part of the Sing-Akademie invento- week of research. ry that the Germans had removed from Dr. Wolff said the collection contained Berlin in 1943 for safe-keeping in 5,170 items of music, 85 percent of Silesia, a southeastern province of which was music manuscripts. The col- Germany that now is part of Poland. He lection itself had never been properly cat- tracked the materials as far as Ullersdorf alogued and was guarded closely by “Agia Talassini” by Ukrainian Brazilian sculptor Oxana Narozniak. Castle. academy directors, who allowed very “That’s all I could find out,” Dr. Wolff few to see it, Dr. Wolff said. UNITED NATIONS – Oxana porting breast cancer research. said. After the Soviet invasion of eastern The C.P.E. Bach archive included 550 Narozniak, a Ukrainian Brazilian artist In addition to participating in vari- Germany in 1945, the Sing-Akademie manuscripts and printed scores, including participated in the international art ous group exhibits, Ms. Narozniak has archive disappeared. One theory held that the oldest known four-part score for cho- exhibition “Progress of the World’s also had 10 solo exhibits. The venues the archive probably was in Moscow. But rus, 200 choral works of Johann Women,” which opened to the public include: Museu H. Stern, Rio de nobody knew for sure, or would say. Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), including in the United Nations lobby on June 5 Janeiro; Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo; Then, in the early 1980s, a Russian the B Minor Mass, 150 cantatas, includ- as part of the U.N. “Women 2000” The Judge Gallery, Washington; and copy of German baroque music appeared ing autographed scores, some clavier conference. Ms. Narozniak entered her the Ukrainian Institute of America, that caught Dr. Wolff’s attention; there sonatas, and parts of Johann Sebastian’s bronze sculpture “Agia Talassini” val- New York. was only one original, and he knew it Wedding Cantata, written in his hand. ued at $12,000, and sold the piece. Ms. Narozniak was born in was in the Sing-Akademie archive. “I Even older was music by Bach family Earlier in the year her sculpture was Germany and has been living in Brazil then heard a rumor the archive might be composers, such as the original score for exhibited at Saks Fifth Avenue in for many years. She received a B.A. in in Kyiv,” Dr. Wolff said. He alerted his a motet written by an older cousin, Huntington, N.Y., under the direction 1972 from Wayne State University in European network of colleagues and Johann Christoph Bach, and an eight-part of the Survivors Art Foundation and Detroit, and studied at the University musician friends who traveled abroad, motet composed for two choruses by the Huntington Breast Cancer of Hawaii and at the Art Students’ but no one could learn anything more. Johann Christian Bach. Coalition. The proceeds went to sup- League of New York. That is when he and Dr. Grimsted “stuck Dr. Wolff said he thinks that, in 1748, No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2000 13 TRAVELOGUE: Kharkiv home to historic Shevchenko Theater by Virlana Tkacz and Irena Makaryk KHARKIV – Few tourists and scholars visit Kharkiv, locat- ed at the eastern end of Ukraine. The city center combines sites of great historical interest, such as the 16th century Uspensky Monastery and the Collegium where Hryhorii Skvoroda lectured, with some of the earliest examples of Constructivist architecture, the Derzhprom complex, and more recent arrivals: fashionable outdoor cafes. But the heart of the city for a scholar and a lover of Ukrainian theater is the tiny museum in the Shevchenko Theater. The museum houses an archival collection of original pho- tos and documents from the history of this theater company, going back to its very beginnings. The theater was started in 1922 as the Berezil Artistic Association in Kyiv by the great Ukrainian director Les Kurbas. In 1926 the company moved to Kharkiv to its present location. Here Kurbas first staged the plays of Mykola Kulish and brought his best productions from Kyiv, including “Jimmie Higgins” and “Macbeth.” When, in 1933, Kurbas was purged from his post as artistic director, the theater was renamed the Shevchenko Theater. The museum is located in a corner of the second-floor lobby of this large theater complex. When you open the doors Les Kurbas, his actors Valentyna Chestiakova, Yosyp Hirniak, Olympia Dobrovolska and Oleksander Serdiuk look down at you from their large painted canvases. The two small rooms of the museum are crammed with files, photos, posters, busts, and various theatrical memorabilia. But even greater treasures are hidden in the cabinets. There were manuscripts of memoirs on the Berezil era, scripts and musical notes to the produc- tions. There are books from Kurbas’ personal library. We were The heart of Kharkiv: the Shevchenko Theater. particularly interested in the photos of such Kurbas produc- tions as “Oedipus Rex,” “Gas,” “Jimmie Higgins,” “Macbeth,” “Myna Mazailo” and “Maklena Grasa.” There are also many reminders of Stalin’s purges, including stamps on much of the material with the ominous word “Provireno” (Verified.) The custodian of the museum is Nina Medvedeva, who lov- ingly tends to the museum and its needs. An elderly woman, she befriended Yulia Fomina, the last living Berezil actor who was the director of the museum until her death several years ago. Mrs. Medvedeva told us that Ambrosi Buchma, one of the leading actors of Berezil, originally lived in the two rooms that house the museum, which were then also a gathering place for the company. Buchma often played chess here with his friends. To this day the museum attracts young actors who come here to be inspired by Kurbas and fed by Mrs. Medvedeva. Two floors above the museum is a large room that houses an extensive library overseen by the resident dramaturg (liter- ary advisor), Olena Sedunova. For its wide spectrum of books, from rare 19th century to current texts on costume, stage design, history, literature, theoretical studies and play texts, the library is visited by directors, actors, costumers and set designers. Kurbas and his actors are still felt as a significant presence not only in the museum and library, but also in parts of the city. In particular, the enormous monument dedicated to Taras Shevchenko and representing aspects of his poetic creations is modeled on a number of actors in Kurbas’ troupe. Anatolii Starodub led us to the Kharkiv‚ Museum of Literature, found- ed in the late 1980s, which also houses theatrical archives, including Kurbas’ passport, letters of well-known literary per- sonalities, particularly of the 1920s, and books and exhibits ranging from the 16th to the 20th centuries, and including col- The headquarters of the Rukh Party, located in a historic building in Kharkiv. orful children’s books. The spirit of Kurbas reigns especially strong in Kharkiv’s theaters. At the Shevchenko Theater, where the stage is unchanged since Kurbas’ day, we were fortunate to see the preview of Karpenko-Karyi’s 19th-century play “Who is Guilty?,” which will officially premiere on October 1. Directed by Anatolii Lytko, designed by Tetiana Medvid, with music by Hennadia Frolova, lighting by Volodmyr Minakov, the lyrical production includes a large cast of young, energetic actors. On the other side of town, in the elegant Building of the Architects, the Kharkiv Theater Laboratory presented an avant-garde production of Yves Jamiaque’s “Monsieur Amilcar,” or the “Person Who Pays,” directed by Stepan Pasichnyk. Throughout Kharkiv, Russian remains the language of choice, although Ukrainian still maintains a tenuous foothold, one, that is, surprisingly, enthusiastically supported by some of the Russian intelligentsia of the city, people like Sergey Gordeev (who heads the chair of directing at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture) or Tatiana Kikteva (whose father worked with Kurbas), who are concerned not only by the decline of governmental support for Ukrainian culture, but also by the growing vulgarization of culture as a whole. Some areas of life continue to encourage interesting literary links. While new hotels have sprung up in Kharkiv, we stayed at the historic building and headquarters of the Rukh Party, which shares space with the Institute of Far Eastern Studies, where Farsi and Sanskrit, among other languages, are taught. Kurbas would have approved. Virlana Tkacz (left) and Irene Makaryk at the Shevchenko Theater’s museum archives. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2000 No. 32 CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI, (973) 292-9800 x 3040

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KNS requests during the first two weeks of The Department of Recreation of the City of Philadelphia Protesters attempt... July for comments on the obstruction of and the Ukrainian Festival Committee (Continued from page 3) Patriarch Filaret’s visit. Asked by KNS whether the eparchy had of the Ukrainian Community of Metropolitan Philadelphia to Crimea had been ruined by the UOC- MP. The press service admitted that an instigated the rally in Sevastopol, the Rev. Paisi declared: “No, people understand Presents attempt to prevent Patriarch Filaret from entering Crimea was made at Symferopol everything themselves.” He claimed that Patriarch Filaret had not complained of any airport, but it said that “the authorities of the “aggressive actions” by believers. Republic of Crimea did everything possible According to KNS, during his meeting UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL to prevent any confrontation on religious with Mr. Jemilev, Patriarch Filaret deplored OF MUSIC, SONG AND DANCE grounds.” the actions of the local Orthodox Church in The press service listed a number of Crimea, such as setting up crosses and reli- meetings and religious services held by gious placards that are found all over the Patriarch Filaret during his three-day peninsula, complaining that in a multi-con- “Echoes of Ukraine” stay in Crimea, underscoring that there “Echoes of Ukraine” fessional society such as Crimea, these were no “conflicts or clashes between FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 2000 types of actions create inter-confessional believers.” 8:00 PM tension. In a telephone interview with KNS on One of the issues also discussed during Robin Hood Dell East July 4, Patriarch Filaret maintained that the the meeting was the prospect of recognition Ridge Ave., at 33rd and Dauphin Streets whole program of the visit went well. “I of the UOC-KP by Ecumenical Patriarch visited Sofiyivka, a village not far from in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park Bartholomew. Symferopol, where I consecrated the cross at the location of the construction of a new Dedicated to the church, then I had a meeting with the Independence of Ukraine and the Crimean clergymen. I also visited Ukraine proposes... “Welcome America” Celebration Sevastopol Nuclear Naval Academy, where (Continued from page 3) I was present at the graduation ceremony, Featuring prominent artists: Recently Ms. Tymoshenko suggested and visited Bakhchesarai, where I had a that Ukrainian industrial consumers ANNA KOVALKO, soprano soloist, Lviv, Ukraine - (American debut performance) meeting with Mustafa Jemilev, the chair- should prepare for a sharp rise in the price man of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, and MYROSLAW SKORYK, contemporary composer, pianist, Lviv, Ukraine of natural gas. She based her comments on Mufti of the Crimea Emir Ali Ablayev. On VOLODYMYR VYNNYTSKY, concert pianist, laureate international competition a belief that Russia is preparing to begin June 25 I served the liturgy in our OLEH CHMYR, baritone, Lviv Opera selling Ukraine the desperately needed Symferopol church. I was told that there Ukrainian International Balley Theatre energy source at European prices, which were pickets in Symferopol airport, but I “VOLOSHKY” Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, Philadelphia approach $100 per 1,000 cubic meters. did not see them personally,” he was quot- The vice prime minister supports a deal ed as saying. she negotiated with Turkmenistan that Mistress of Ceremonies: ORYSIA HEWKA Efforts by KNS to find out from the would give Ukraine an alternative natural Metropolitanate of the UOC-MP in Kyiv gas supplier at $42 per 1,000 cubic meters. The Ukrainian Festival Committee invites all Ukrainian Americans, friends, neigh- whether it was aware of the protests insti- However, President Leonid Kuchma has bors, and all Philadelphia area residents to come and enjoy an evening of the finest gated by the Crimean eparchy and whether criticized that deal because it does not take Ukrainian music, song and dance performed in the beautiful outdoor setting of the it had approved them failed. In the absence into account transit costs through the terri- Dell East Theatre in Fairmount Park. of Metropolitan Volodymyr [Slobodan], the tories of Uzbekistan, Kazakstan and senior hierarch of the UOC-MP, nobody Russia, which would bring the total cost to FREE ADMISSION, No tickets needed. * FREE PARKING. would take the responsibility of comment- nearly $100 per 1,000 cubic meters. ing on the actions of the Crimean eparchy. Ukraine currently pays Russia $36 per The Crimean eparchy failed to respond to 1,000 cubic meters of gas. No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2000 17

The political impasse can be simplified Kyiv and the power... to the pro-Russia outlook of Mr. Hrach (Continued from page 2) versus the pro-Ukraine leaning govern- suspended the decision. However, both ment of Mr. Kunitsyn (though he is cer- the Parliament Chairman Vasyl Kyselyov tainly not anti-Russian). Mr. Hrach him- and his successor from February 1997, self, according to some observers, is seek- Anatoly Hrytsenko, were moderates who ing to build his own power base in were well disposed toward Kyiv. The Crimea. And lastly the NDP appears to be appointment of Mr. Hrach on May 14, declining as a political force, thereby 1998 altered the picture dramatically. weakening the authority of the Crimean In mid-December 1999, Mr. Kunitsyn prime minister. In turn, the Communists have been the most powerful faction in In Memoriam engineered a split within the Parliament, the Parliament since the last elections, but Justyn Burbelo (1885-1970) joining with deputies from the Zlahoda they failed to oust Mr. Kunitsyn, report- and Respublika caucuses and backing a Born Konotopy, Ukraine edly because of the strong moral support motion, which succeeded by a narrow the prime minister received from the pres- majority, to dismiss the presidium led by ident and from the state procurator gener- Mr. Hrach. This conflict ended when the al of Ukraine, Mykhailo Potebenko. In Memoriam Ukrainian government dispatched media- The Autonomous Republic of Crimea Julia Kochalewycz Burbelo (1894-1966) tors to Symferopol on December 17 but remains the problem child of Ukraine, a there have been several other occasions Born Sokal, Ukraine perennially sensitive area that frequently when the clash between Messrs. Kunitsyn threatens to become engulfed in conflict. and Hrach came to a head. President Kuchma’s task is to ensure that Parents At issue, essentially, is the authority of his government has support from the local Ukraine to deal with disputes in the authorities and to avert an eventual autonomous republic. Several sources takeover of power by the Communists have pointed to the ambiguous nature of under Mr. Hrach. Article 136 of the Constitution of At present, the chances of a crisis that In Memoriam Ukraine, which stipulates that the would seriously undermine the stability Dr. Bohdan Justyn Burbelo (1915-1997) Crimean parliament can appoint and dis- of Ukraine seem remote. The precedent of Born Sokal, Ukraine miss the head of the local government presidential rule in 1995 remains an with the “knowledge and consent” of the unspoken alternative if an impasse should Brother president of Ukraine. Yet, if more than arise. Moreover, the economic picture has two-thirds of parliamentary delegates steadily improved under the Kunitsyn vote for such a decision, then the presi- administration and the dissatisfaction of dent, in theory, is obliged to agree to the the Crimean Tatars with their social and In remembrance of our loved ones decision. economic standing seems to have sub- who live in our hearts forever, Thus, the Crimeans are taking advan- sided. What occurred in May of this year tage of a loophole in the Constitution that can be described as a “mini-crisis” that Dr. G. Myroslav Burbelo and Burbelo family in effect allows them more authority than was resolved by the prompt actions of the might appear on paper. 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with the proceeds reverting to the fund. United Ukrainian American... This fund is administered by a committee (Continued from page 9) chaired by the Rev. Balthazar. sonal items, books, medical supplies, med- Combined federal campaign icines and desperately needed vitamins. UUARC has successfully applied for Krasnodon mine accident inclusion in the Combined Federal Unfortunately, accidents in the coal Campaign, as well as State Employee mines of eastern Ukraine are not a rare Campaigns in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, occurrence, but each incident is both a New York and California, so federal national and a personal tragedy, leaving employees, and state employees in the behind devastated widows, bereft parents, mentioned states, can donate directly to the and, most tragically, hundreds of orphaned UUARC through their workplace. Private sector employees should write in UUARC children. The recent mine explosion in in the United Way Campaign, which is Krasnodon, near Luhansk, was one of the “donor driven,” meaning the impetus must worst in mining history, with 80 dead and come from the donors, and if enough seven injured. donors write in “UUARC,” we will be The UUARC responded immediately, included in the subsequent booklets. by sending $16,700 to be distributed ($200 per family of the deceased, and $100 per Volunteers needed family of injured miners), before even appealing to the community for donations. The UUARC’s work is rejuvenated, but The money – the first aid to be given to what is required is not only financial sup- the families of the victims – was personal- port from the community, for which the executive committee is very grateful, but ly delivered by the director of the also volunteer support. Recently, President UUARC’s Kyiv office, Vira Prynko. Not Bill Clinton called for more volunteerism even the government of Ukraine, which in America, stressing the importance of promised aid to the families, had given volunteer work in improving life in the them anything by the time Ms. Prynko vis- United States. ited them. Thanks from Krasnodon have No less important is volunteerism in been pouring in. Again, the Ukrainian improving life for our unfortunate brothers American community has responded from and sisters in Ukraine. Volunteers can help the heart, and Ms. Prynko will soon be collect new and used clothing, personal returning to Krasnodon to deliver addi- items and school supplies and ship them to tional donations. us, or contact their local hospitals and phar- Publishing macies for donations of medical supplies and/or instruments. Under the auspices of the UUARC, The main office of the UUARC, locat- through the generosity of our benefactor, ed at 1206 Cottman Ave. in Philadelphia, H. Malynowsky, and thanks to the creative PA 19111, is headed by UUARC energy of Prof. W. Bandera, two extremely Executive Director Hawrysz, with the informative books were published – help of Oksana Horajeckyj and Lydia “Liudyna-Anatomia” (Human Anatomy) Melnyk. The UUARC’s phone number is and “Maty I Dytyna” (Mother and Child). (215) 728-1630. These books are donated to schools, uni- versities and libraries throughout Ukraine. Information bureau A benefactor remembers... The Information Bureau, administered (Continued from page 9) by Metodij Boretsky at the UUARC’s knows what will be. This is particularly headquarters continues to assist newly impressed upon us when we hear of arrived immigrants from Ukraine, through someone who planned the future of a biweekly open house, where information his/her estate so well, and whose good and advice is available, as well as through works will be remembered by handi- Citizenship Training Classes funded by a capped children and orphans who no grant from the Commonwealth of longer have a leaky roof, or drafty win- Pennsylvania through Lutheran Children dows, or can learn a skill on the computer. and Family Services. The Citizenship The UUARC Inc. would like to help Training course, consisting of six to eight implement readers’ final wishes, should two-hour classes, including visual and they be inclined towards humanitarian audio aids, and followed up with assign- aid for Ukrainians. We have experience ments and exams, were professionally in restricted donations, endowment funds taught by Mr. Boretsky. and bequests, and can be trusted to fulfill Brazil Fund both the legal and moral implications. Please contact us at: United Ukrainian The Brazil Fund continues to flourish as American Relief Committee Inc., 1206 a self-sufficient program. Seed money was Cottman Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19111; donated in the 1980s to aid poor and large telephone, (215) 728-1630; fax (215) families to purchase farm land. These loans 718-1631; e-mail, [email protected] are repaid in bean crops, which are sold or our website, http://www.uuarc.org/.

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the bank’s July 26 talks with Ukrainian Newsbriefs Prime Minister Viktor Yuschenko said the (Continued from page 2) credit is conditional on the closure of the Chornobyl plant and reform in Ukraine’s Turkmenistan to resume gas supplies energy sector, including the privatization of ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan – energy supplying companies. (RFE/RL Turkmenistan’s Vice Prime Minister Yolly Newsline) Gurbanmuradov and his visiting Ukrainian Ukraine to deliver gas to Bulgaria counterpart, Yulia Tymoshenko signed a preliminary protocol on gas supplies for the SOFIA, Bulgaria – Visiting Ukrainian period 2000-2010, Interfax reported. Kyiv Prime Minister Viktor Yuschenko and his will purchase 20 billion cubic meters of gas Bulgarian counterpart, Ivan Kostov, told this year, and 50 billion cubic meters annu- journalists in Sofia on July 28 that Ukraine ally for a 10-year period thereafter, at a will deliver to Bulgaria 578 million cubic price of $42 per thousand cubic meters. As meters of natural gas in exchange for under previous agreements, payment will be Bulgaria’s part in laying pipelines in the partly in cash and partly in goods and serv- 1970s, the Associated Press reported. ices. According to Nezavisimaya Gazeta of Deliveries of natural gas started in 1998 but July 27, Ms. Tymoshenko did not try to bar- were interrupted earlier this year after gain over the price Ashgabat asked. Russia objected to Ukraine’s re-exporting of (RFE/RL Newsline) those supplies. Reuters had earlier quoted Kuchma criticizes gas agreement Mr. Yuschenko as saying the differences with Moscow over the matter have been KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma cast settled and the supplies will be resumed in doubt on the protocol signed by the vice August. Prime Minister Yuschenko also met prime ministers of Turkmenistan and President Petar Stoyanov, who told journal- Ukraine. Mr. Kuchma said in Symferopol ists that Ukraine and Bulgaria are “not com- on July 27 that he “has prohibited the sign- petitors” but “partners” who “share the ing of any documents” on Turkmen gas same Euro-Atlantic integration objectives.” deliveries, adding that such “agreements on (RFE/RL Newsline) principle” should be signed only by the presidents of both countries. “This is noth- Russia to be repaid with pipelines? ing short of deception,” he said, noting that KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor the final price of Turkmen gas, including its Yuschenko said on August 1 that Kyiv is transportation costs to Ukraine, may considering repaying its gas debt to amount to $90-$105 for 1,000 cubic meters. Moscow by putting part of Ukraine’s gas (RFE/RL Newsline) pipeline network at Russia’s disposal, EBRD ponders $200 million loan Interfax reported. Mr. Yuschenko added that the property conceded to Russia in KYIV – The European Bank for debt repayment would remain under Reconstruction and Development is consid- Ukrainian ownership and “under ering giving nearly $200 million to Ukraine Ukrainian management.” Mr. Yuschenko to finance the completion of two nuclear confirmed previous reports that Kyiv is reactors at the Rivne and Khmelnytskyi also considering giving strategic bombers nuclear power plants, Interfax reported on to Russia to help pay its gas debt. July 27. The EBRD statement issued after (RFE/RL Newsline)

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NOTESNOTES ONON PEOPLEPEOPLE

Nashville has signed in the past several years, Ms. Elliott might be the best pure Songwriter finds talent.” She has already appeared on “The success in Nashville Tonight Show” with Jay Leno and as her- by Peter Bandera self on the TV Show “Malibu, Calif.” Mr. Bohatiuk has his own publishing NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The road for company called Andy Bo Music and owns many songwriters inevitably leads to the publishing rights to “You Wanna Nashville – “Music City, U.S.A.” And What?” In a city where 50,000 new songs such is the story for Andy Bohatiuk, a are written every year, it’s a true testament songwriter now living there. to faith, talent and perseverance to have a On May 1, 1998, Mr. Bohatiuk loaded song recorded in Nashville and then be a U-Haul truck with his car in tow and picked as a single. drove 800 miles from Delaware to find his Readers can log onto CMT’s website at future in the songwriting capital of the www.country.com, and scroll to CMT to world. Within nine months he had his first search the playlist and find out exactly song recorded by a major artist on a major when the video will play. The same can be record label. The song: “You Wanna done for GAC at www.countrystars.com. The Carpathian Ski Club of New York What?” The artist: Alecia Elliott. The The future looks bright for this song- under the auspices of the record company: MCA Nashville. writer who is proving that the American Ukrainian Sports Association of USA and Canada (USCAK) Mr. Bohatiuk co-wrote “You Wanna dream is still alive and well. What?” with Ms. Elliott and Bill Terry, a Mr. Bohatiuk is a member of Ukrainian will hold songwriter from Mississippi. It appears on National Association Branch 39. Ms. Elliott’s debut CD “I’m Diggin It,” which was released in the annual January and has charted in the top 20 on the Billboard Country TENNIS COMPETITION Album Charts. at Soyuzivka The good news is that MCA Records has chosen the song to be SEPTEMBER 2-4, 2000 (LABOR DAY WEEKEND) the second single from the CD. The video debuted last month on CMT (Country Music Television) and on GAC (Great American Tennis Tournament Country). It was released to coun- for individual CHAMPIONSHIPS OF USCAK try radio stations across the and trophies of the United States on May 1. Ms. Elliott recently performed Ukrainian National Association, Soyuzivka, (including the B. Rak, “You Wanna What?” on the Dr. V. Huk, L. Rubel, and Dr. P. Charuk memorial trophies), Svoboda, “Donny & Marie” show and on a The Ukrainian Weekly, the sportsmanship Trophy of Mrs. Mary Dushnyk, TNN (The Nashville Network) the Constantine Ben trophy and prize money. special called “Class of 2000.” The song has also been chosen to Qualifications: This competition is open to any player whose club is a member of appear in the pilot episode of a USCAK. – Singles matches are scheduled in the following division: Men, Women, new NBC television show built around Ms. Elliott called “Alecia Women (35 and over), Junior Vets (35-44), Senior Men (45- 55), Junior (Boys and Girls). and the Belmont Girls.” Juniors are persons aged 18 and under, while seniors are those over 45 years of age. Ms. Elliott is 17 years old and Registration for tennis matches, including name, age divisions and the fee of $15.00 had been praised by People maga- Songwriter Andy Bohatiuk with MCA record- zine as “...the best teen country ing artist Alecia Elliott. Their co-written song should be sent to: singer.” USA Today has written: “You Wanna What?” was featured recently on Mr. George Sawchak “Of all the teenage singers the “Donny & Marie” show. 724 Forrest Ave., Rydal, PA 19046 Registration should be received no later than August 28, 2000. No additional applica- up in New York City. He earned degrees tions will be accepted before the competitions, since the schedule of matches will be from the City College of the City worked out ahead of time. College names University of New York and the University of Pennsylvania. He has TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE: professor laureate taught at both institutions, as well as at ALLENTOWN, Pa. – At the 152nd the Albert-Ludwigs University in commencement of Muhlenberg College G. Sawchak, R. Rakoczy, Sr., Z. Snylyk, G. Popel, G. Hrabec. Freiburg in Breisgau, and the Ukrainian in May, President Arthur Taylor Free University in Munich, Germany. Schedule of matches: announced the selection of Dr. Albert He specializes in Germano-Slavic liter- Kipa, Saeger Professor of Comparative ary and cultural relations, is the author or Saturday, September 2, Soyuzivka, 8:30 a.m. All players must contact the Tournament Literature and head of the department of editor of books and articles in his specialty, Committee: They will be informed of the time and place of their first matches, as well languages, literatures and cultures, as the and has lectured at national and internation- as matches in subsequent rounds. In case of rain, all players meet in the Main House. college’s first professor laureate. al conferences, as well as colleges and uni- Muhlenberg College’s board of versities in the United States and abroad. Because of limited time and the large number of entries, players can compete in one trustees authorized the title last year, He is a vice-president of the Ukrainian group only; they must indicate their choice on the registration blank. specifying that it be awarded to a profes- Academy of Arts and Sciences in the sor at Muhlenberg College “for excep- U.S.A. and a fellow of the Academy of Players who fail to report for a scheduled match on time will be defaulted. tional service, scholarship and teaching Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine. He once every five years.” also has been the recipient of Fulbright, The recipient of the distinction must NEH and IREX grants, as well as Goethe REGISTRATION FORM have proven himself or herself to be an Institute, Lindback and Pennsylvania Please cut out and send in with registration fee of $15.00 outstanding teacher and scholar who has Department of Education awards. made significant contributions to the col- Dr. Kipa joined the Muhlenberg lege’s visibility through his or her work College faculty as an instructor in 1966, 1. Name and who is recognized as an expert in his was promoted to professor in 1979, and 2. Address or her field by those outside the became department head in 1989. He is a Muhlenberg College community. member of Ukrainian National Association 3. Phone Dr. Kipa was born in Kyiv, but grew Branch 450. 4. Date of birth

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IVAN “JOHN” DOE 30 MONTGOMERY STREET JERSEY CITY NJ 07302 Kuchma enters... Ukrainians in Russia now have cultural 901125 W (Continued from page 1) autonomy. We don’t see that in any way.” Mr. Antoniv explained that, although Don’t let your subscription lapse! How the Russian language is treated in Help yourself and the Subscription Department of The Ukrainian Weekly by Ukraine has become an increasingly volatile Moscow recognizes Ukrainians as a sepa- keeping track of your subscription expiration date (indicated in the top left-hand cor- issue since the death of Ukrainian pop com- rate ethnic group as it does many other poser Ihor Bilozir. Mr. Bilozir died after nationalities in its cultural autonomy pro- ner of your mailing label (year/month/date) and sending in your renewal fee in several weeks in a coma that resulted from a gram, it has not found the financing for a advance of receiving an expiration notice.

beating by two Russian-speaking youths single Ukrainian-language day school, This way, you’ll be sure to enjoy each issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, and will M 0000999 after the composer refused their demands library, theater ensemble or radio or televi- keep yourself informed of all the news you need to know. that he and his friends stop singing sion program. When Ukrainians tried to Ukrainian songs because the youths wanted obtain funding to build a house of worship Subscription renewals, along with a clipped-out mailing label, should be sent to: to listen to Russian songs being broadcast for faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, they were The Ukrainian Weekly, Subscription Department, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, over the radio in a café. Parsippany, NJ 07054. In the ensuing days, sporadic and isolat- told that there are plenty of Russian ed outbursts of violence were aimed at cafés Orthodox churches, said Mr. Antoniv. Subscription fees are: $40 for members of the Ukrainian National Association, and firms that do business in the Russian While Russian government officials $50 for all others. Please indicate your UNA branch number when renewing your claim that Ukrainians have their own library language, which led both the regional and subscription. local governments of Lviv to place limita- in Moscow, Mr. Antoniv explained that it is tions on the use of Russian. Russian govern- merely one room of Ukrainian books in a ment officials have said the local govern- Russian government library. He admitted ment buckled under pressure from local that, indeed, Ukrainians in Moscow have a ultra-nationalist political parties. cultural center in the heart of the city, on the While the upper echelons of the Arbat, but emphasized that it was built by Ukrainian government have stepped in to private funds and pays the city $50,000 a Now available: neutralize political pressure being applied year in a 20-year land lease. from Moscow and turn the debate towards He also explained that any Ukrainian- Russia’s treatment of its national minorities, language newspapers – and there are a few, additional insurance coverage perhaps the most convincing tale of the dif- especially in the heavily Ukrainian region ference in the practical approaches utilized of Tiumen – are privately financed and by Moscow and Kyiv in support of minority barely manage to survive. for UNA members language rights was told by Vasyl Antoniv, According to Ukrainian government sta- If you are already a member of the UNA we offer a guaranteed issue of additional mini- the chairman of the Moscow-based tistics presented by the State Committee on mum of $1,000 to a maximum of $5,000 life insurance added to your current policy cover- Ukrainian Cultural Society Slavutych. Information Policy, TV and Radio age. If you presently own any UNA Whole Life, 20-Payment Life, P-65 or DP-65 you are During a Kyiv press conference organ- Broadcasting, the lot of Russian-language guaranteed additional insurance. UNA cannot deny you coverage. This offer is not open to ized by Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign speakers in Ukraine is better. members with term insurance, endowment plans, or Universal Life policies. Affairs, Mr. Antoniv, who has resided in Today Russian speakers in Ukraine have Moscow for 40 years, said that Ukraine 2,400 schools and 17,700 preschools to Here is how it works. must stop defending its record on support- which they can send their children. Some The UNA will issue the following amounts of the pour-in-rider: ing the language rights of minorities, espe- 35 percent of Ukrainian college students cially Russian, because they are above still attend college courses taught in • Ages 0-35, $1,000 to $5,000; reproach. Instead it must begin addressing Russian. There are 14 state-run Russian the- • Ages 36-70, $1,000 to $2,500; aters in the country, as well as 1,200 Russia’s failure to uphold promises it has • Ages 71-90, $1,000. made regarding Ukrainian minority rights in Russian-language newspapers – which Russia. accounts for 49.7 percent of all periodicals. The rates for the pour-in rider appear in the chart below. “We are led to believe that in Lviv in par- ”As a result of Moscow’s centuries-old ticular life for Russian speakers is hard. Russification policy, first by the tsarist For more information call the UNA Home Office at (973) 292-9800. 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Wednesday, August 9 is sponsoring “Ukrainian Fest 2000,” a Ukrainian cultural festival. It will take CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard place at the intersection of Grand and Ukrainian Summer Institute will present a Rockwell avenues from noon to 9 p.m. on lecture by Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, both days. The festival features cultural ambassador of Ukraine to the United presentations, Ukrainian food, arts and States. The lecture, titled “Ukraine and the crafts, and a raffle for a round-trip package United States,” will be held in Emerson for two, anywhere in the United States Hall, Room 108, Harvard University, at (courtesy of American Airlines). For fur- 7:30 p.m. For more information, contact ther information, or to obtain an applica- the institute, (617) 495-7833. tion to participate in the festival, contact Bohdan Bodnar, (630) 979-1185, or Saturday, August 12 [email protected]. HUNTER, N.Y.: Duo-pianists Alexander ONGOING: Slobodyanik and Laryssa Krupa will appear in concert at the Grazhda in a pro- CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Institute of gram of works by Liszt, Brahms and Modern Art is displaying “Generations: A Gershwin. The concert, part of the Greene Documentary of Ukrainians in Chicago.” County Center for Music and Art Summer This exhibition presents photo-portraits by Series, begins at 8 p.m. The Grazhda is Lialia Kuchma together with oral histories located on Route 23 A (adjacent to St. by Irene Antonovych. This collaborative John Ukrainian Catholic Church). Tickets: project was previously on view at the $15; senior citizens, $11; members, $10. Chicago Public Library, Harold Saturday-Sunday, September 9-10 Washington Center. For more information call the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Congress (773) 227-5522. The exhibit is on view Committee of America, Illinois Division, through August 20.

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