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INSIDE:• President Bush on Chornobyl’s 20th anniversary — page 3. • A plaque to honor Welsh journalist Gareth Jones — page 7. • “Does Ukraine Have a History?” — page 10.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIV HE KRAINIANNo. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine ChornobylT catastropheU remembered with prayers,W conferences by Zenon Zawada Cherviakov has already suffered a stroke Kyiv Press Bureau and is classified as disabled. Ms. Cherviakov was among more than KYIV – On the day of the Chornobyl 300 Ukrainians who joined President nuclear catastrophe 20 years ago, Oleh Viktor Yushchenko in an early morning Cherviakov rode a bus directly into the moleben service on April 26 led by Kyiv furnace of death. Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian His shift as a communications chief at the Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate to Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant began at 8 pray for those who perished and suffered a.m. on that ominous Saturday morning. as a result of the Chornobyl accident. Though he noticed his co-workers Ukrainians and foreigners alike spent being shipped off to hospitals, and the week commemorating the Chornobyl though he knew that he risked radiation nuclear catastrophe by attending govern- poisoning, he did not think twice about ment ceremonies, academic conferences, working that day. religious services and reunions held “We were fulfilling our responsibili- throughout Ukraine, particularly in the ties,” he said, dismissing the idea of not Kyiv Oblast that is home to the reporting for work during such an emer- Chornobyl plant. gency. “We could not leave. We weren’t allowed to leave.” 1:23 a.m. Though Prypiat was evacuated the next Precisely at 1:23 a.m., on April 26 the day, the plant managers had to remain, bell atop a memorial mound at the and Mr. Cherviakov worked two consecu- Warriors of Chornobyl Memorial rang tive night shifts following the accident. Though only 52 years old, Mr. (Continued on page 3)

Program of the 36th Regular Convention of the Ukrainian National Association, Inc. to be held in Kerhonkson, N.Y., at Soyuzivka Friday, May 26, through Monday, May 29, 2006, beginning at 9 a.m. 1. Opening of Convention 2. Report of Credentials Committee 3. Acceptance of Convention Program Zenon Zawada 4. Approval of Minutes of the 35th Convention Protesters standing outside a Chornobyl conference venue in Kyiv on April 24 5. Election urge an end to the use of nuclear power in Ukraine. a. Convention chairperson, two vice-chairpersons b. 11-member Election Committee c. 5-member Committee on Petitions d. 6-member Secretaries Committee 6. Appointment of Press Committee, Resolutions Committee and two sergeants-at-arms Helsinki Commission hearing 7. Reports of UNA Officers – Executive Committee: President Stefan Kaczaraj, First Vice-President Martha Lysko, Director for Canada Al Kachkowski, focuses on Chornobyl’s legacy National Secretary Christine E. Kozak, Treasurer Roma Lisovich U.S. Helsinki Commission N.J.) who chaired the hearing. “We need 8. Reports of UNA Auditing Committee members: Zenon Holubec, Alexander Serafyn, to be vigilant of the latent health effects Yaroslav Zaviysky WASHINGTON – The Helsinki that still are expected to emerge and 9. Reports of UNA Advisors: Eugene Oscislawski, Stefan Hawrysz, Vasyl Luchkiw, Commission on April 26 held a hearing ensure that there is public awareness Myron Pylypiak, Wasyl Liscenesky, Pawlo Prinko, Andrij Skyba, on “The Legacy of Chornobyl: Health about the health threat.” Michael Kuropas, Myron Groch, Gloria Horbaty and Safety 20 Years Later,” commemo- Rep. Smith stressed the importance of 10. Report of Svoboda Editor-in-Chief Irene Jarosewich rating the 20th anniversary of the world’s the completion of the Chornobyl Shelter 11. Report of The Ukrainian Weekly Editor-in-Chief Roma Hadzewycz worst nuclear accident at the Chornobyl Implementation Plan to cover the rapidly 12. Discussion of reports and their acceptance power plant in Ukraine. deteriorating sarcophagus covering the 13. Report of By-Laws Committee, discussion and approval of proposed changes The health, environmental and socio- damaged reactor: “We need to do every- 14. Discussion: “Development plans for Soyuzivka” economic costs of the disaster at thing possible to protect people and the 15. Discussion: “Status of the UNA in Canada” Chornobyl continue to have a profound environment from the large quantity of 16. Discussion: “UNA: Shaping the Future” impact on people in the region, especially radioactive remains of the Chornobyl 17. Report of Financial Committee and determination on bonding and salaries of officers in Ukraine and Belarus, which bore the nuclear power plant even as we persist in 18. Election of General Assembly brunt of Chornobyl’s radioactive fallout. our assistance to the victims.” 19. Report of Petitions Committee, discussion and resolutions “The bitter legacy of Chornobyl con- “An important lesson from Chornobyl 20. Report of Secretaries Committee, discussion and resolutions tinues to be felt 20 years later, and its – one that remains relevant today – is in consequences will remain for the people 21. Resolutions and recommendations for the well-being of the organization the importance of transparency in gover- 22. Miscellaneous of the region and beyond for a long time nance,” said Ranking Member Rep. to come,” said the commission’s co- 23. Adjournment chairman Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R- (Continued on page 3) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 No. 18

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS The geopolitical implications NEWSBRIEFS Ukraine, Belarus recall Chornobyl project within the framework of Ukraine’s program toward eliminating of Ukraine’s 2006 elections SLAVUTYCH, Ukraine – Hundreds of the consequences of the Chornobyl people filed shortly after midnight on April nuclear accident. (Ukrinform) by Taras Kuzio NATO membership. 26 through the streets of Slavutych, the What of the largest parliamentary fac- Ukrainian town built to house Chornobyl Some Chornobyl documents declassified Five political forces have entered the tion, the Party of the Regions, whose size plant workers after the world’s worst civil- 2006 Verkhovna Rada which is legally in is twice that of President Yushchenko’s ian nuclear accident on April 26, 1986, KYIV – Security Service of Ukraine place until March 2011. Of these political Our Ukraine? The Party of the Regions is Ukrainian and world agencies reported. Chief Ihor Dryzhchanyi stated on April forces, the left (Socialists and in favor of economic reform because it is Later the same day in Kyiv, the Verkhovna 25 that as many as 10 classified docu- Communists) received 10 percent, the dominated by oligarchs and business- Rada, elected in 2002, held its last session, ments on consequences of the Chornobyl centrist Party of the Regions 32, and two men. Yet, it voted against WTO legisla- which was devoted to a hearing on the accident have been declassified. Mr. Orange forces (Our Ukraine and Yulia tion in 2005 as a protest vote against Mr. Chornobyl aftermath. In Homiel, Belarus, Dryzhchanyi also said that the list of Tymoshenko Bloc) 36 percent. Yushchenko. Now that the elections are the Belarusian opposition on April 25 held unclassified files will be enlarged and There is little consensus among these over, the Party of the Regions will move a conference of scientists, lawyers and that experts are considering declassifying five political forces over the course of into a pro-WTO position. political activists on the Chornobyl after- other top-secret documents. The recently Ukraine’s foreign policy. As Yulia More problematic are the Regions’ math. In the afternoon of April 26, the declassified documents include an April Mostova wrote in the influential Zerkalo attitudes toward NATO and the opposition was to stage a “Chornobyl 30 to May 2, 1986, graph of radiation Nedeli weekly, “Half the country wants Commonwealth of Independent States – Way” demonstration in Miensk, at which movement in Kyiv; a May 1, 1986, to be like Belarus and the other half like two areas making it difficult for Our opposition leader Alyaksandr Milinkevich report of the 6th Administration of the Europe.” Ukraine to agree on a “grand coalition” was expected to publicize the Homiel con- USSR Committee of State Security on The left controlled the Parliament in with the Party of the Regions. The Party ference’s conclusions and announce the radiation levels; an October 16, 1986, the 1990s but was unable to influence the of the Regions is in favor of full mem- creation of a broad pro-democracy move- report on radiation pollution of the course of Ukraine’s foreign policy. bership in the CIS Single Economic ment in Belarus. (RFE/RL Newsline) USSR; and a May 16, 1986, conclusion Centrists dominated Ukraine’s presiden- Space (CIS SES). Our Ukraine and the of experts of the Committee of State cy in 1991-2004 and this led to a con- Tymoshenko Bloc described the CIS SES Deceased Chornobyl liquidators honored Security about the Chornobyl accident. stantly vacillating multi-vector foreign as “treasonous.” President Yushchenko (Ukrinform) policy. K YIV – President Viktor Yushchenko has followed President Kuchma in agree- on April 25 signed a decree to posthu- 3 million are victims of Chornobyl Under President Leonid Kuchma, ing only to the first step of the CIS SES – Ukraine had an extensive program of mously confer the title Hero of Ukraine a free trade zone. KYIV – The international conference cooperation with NATO’s Partnership for and the Gold Star State Order upon five The Party of the Regions has promot- “Twenty years after the Chornobyl Peace and bilaterally with the United Chornobyl eliminators: Mykola Vaschuk ed Ukraine’s full membership in the CIS Accident: Future Outlook” opened in Kyiv States and the United Kingdom through and Vasyl Ihnatenko, subunit command- SES beyond the first stage; that is, a cus- on April 24 with President Viktor “In the Spirit of Partnership for Peace.” ers of the 6th Detached Paramilitary Fire- toms and monetary union. These two Fighting Unit; Oleksander Lelechenko, Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yurii Mr. Kuchma also sent the third largest stages would rule out integration into the military contingent to support the U.S.- deputy chief of the Chornobyl Nuclear Yekhanurov in attendance. The president EU as no country can be in two customs Power Plant’s electrical workshop; said in his address to the conference that led coalition in Iraq. unions at the same time. Since the victory of Viktor Mykola Tytenko, a firefighter with the the parameters of scientific studies of These contradictions in the Party of 6th Detached Unit; and Volodymyr Chornobyl issues should be expanded. He Yushchenko in the 2004 elections, the the Regions are not unusual as it is the executive has been dominated for the Tishura, a former senior firefighter of the said that some 3 million people suffered most unstructured and ideologically 6th Detached Unit in the town of Prypiat. from the Chornobyl accident and its conse- first time by the center-right which tradi- amorphous party to enter the new tionally has been more pro-Western and (Ukrinform) quences. Over 20 years Ukraine has spent Parliament. The Party of the Regions has critical of Mr. Kuchma’s multi-vector almost $15 billion (U.S.) to liquidate the been touted by its U.S. supporters (U.S. China donates to Chornobyl project foreign policy. President Yushchenko has disaster’s consequences. He noted that political consultants played a role in its attempted to balance maintaining good Ukraine can hardly expect to turn the successful election campaign) as domi- KYIV – As announced by the relations with Russia with orienting Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant into a nated by pro-EU businessmen. This argu- Economy Ministry’s press service, on Ukraine toward NATO and European technologically safe and ecologically ment is contradicted by the Slavophile April 25 Minister of the Economy Union membership. friendly facility on its own, and he called orientation of senior officials of the Party Arsenii Yatseniuk and Chinese As in the Kuchma era, the left have on the world community for assistance. of the Regions and its absorption of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary been frozen out of foreign policy deci- The assistant secretary general of the many former Communist Party voters. Ambassador to Ukraine Gao Yuishen sions. With even fewer seats in the newly United Nations and director of the U.N. A second problem with the Party of signed a Ukrainian-Chinese intergovern- elected Parliament they will have little Development Program’s Regional Bureau the Regions is its attitude toward NATO mental agreement. Under the agreement influence on Ukraine’s foreign policy for Europe and the CIS, Kalman Mizsei, that will be more difficult to change than China will grant 10 million yuans ($1.2 orientation. The pro-Orange Socialists its contradictory attitudes towards the million U.S.) to Ukraine to implement a (Continued on page 16) and anti-Orange Communists have a CIS SES and EU. The largest faction in combined total of approximately 50 seats Ukraine’s Parliament – Party of the out of 450. Regions – is against NATO membership. 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THE 20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHORNOBYL NUCLEAR DISASTER Chornobyl catastrophe... allowed to retrieve family albums. She is convinced that she’s ill from (Continued from page 1) the accident, having been in the hospital for one minute amidst reflective silence. for a month because “my legs and arms Afterwards, President Yushchenko, refused to move. I couldn’t move them,” alongside Kyiv Mayor Leonid she said. Chernovetskyi, Prime Minister Yurii Her daughter was diagnosed with Yekhanurov and outgoing Verkhovna leukemia. Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn, To make matters worse, Ms. Kleshenak’s class designation as placed bouquets of red roses at the Chornobyl disabled doesn’t qualify her to mound. receive medicines. Class 1 disabled, Vitalii Klitschko was among those many of whom gave bribes to get the sta- attending the service and placing roses, tus or falsified certificates, now receive though he was not part of the president’s medicines at a discounted price, Ms. entourage that participated in a brief Kleshenok said. service afterwards inside St. Michael the “I think I deserve it since I worked at Archangel Chapel. the third reactor block in the deactivization Later Mr. Yushchenko and Patriarch department,” she said of her experience as Filaret joined worshippers inside a tent a liquidator. “It was the dirtiest work there where vodka and juice were served, as done by our department. We served the Maria Masich well as complementary paska (Easter people who worked on the roof, taking off First Ladies Kateryna Yushchenko of Ukraine and Maria Kaczynska of Poland. bread). Some brought their own food, as their clothes and washing them.” April 26 has become an annual commem- oration for those who were directly affect- “Twenty Years After Chornobyl” delivery of equipment, unresponsiveness governments need to tell the truth, Mrs. ed by the Chornobyl accident. of potential cohort members, weather, Yushchenko said. At the Ukrainian Home on European vacations and long distances to screening Another lesson is that governments Every year, hundreds of former Square, scientists and engineers met on Chornobyl zone residents meet at the centers. need to shed an egotistical view of the April 25 and 26 to discuss their research Original plans for locating subjects world and adopt a strategic approach to Warriors of Chornobyl Memorial on wenty Years after Chornobyl” at the “T had to be re-worked because of incom- meeting the needs of people. Peace Boulevard on Kyiv’s left bank to conference sponsored by the Ukrainian plete information provided, early plans Global problems need to be resolved catch up on the latest news, exchange government and other governments and for laboratories were too ambitious, through cooperation of different nations, new telephone numbers and reminisce international organizations. budgets were inefficient, and computers Mrs. Yushchenko said. about their lives before the accident. Among the speakers was Ihor Masnyk, were lacking for data processing. Ukraine’s first lady also announced a Once joyful family weekends and the project director of Chornobyl idyllic summers provide painfully fond “The early enthusiasm and promises partnership between the Ukraine 3000 research projects at National Cancer fund and CCRDF in which they will memories for Liudmyla Vanhorodska, 44, Institute in Bethesda, Md., who discussed were over-ambitious, although well- of her grandparents’ village of Ludanka. meant,” Dr. Masnyk said. “The majority improve the training, technology, medi- the execution of the largest study per- cine and overall standards in one chil- “When I was a child, I remember formed in examining leukemia cases of the requirements were achieved, pro- building our aunts’ home with our own fessional judgments prevailed, negotia- dren’s hospital in each region of Ukraine. among liquidators and thyroid cancer in They will also work together to create hands, building the well. And we planted children. tions provided satisfactory solutions and the trees,” she said. “To leave that all the completed screening of about 90 per- a new state-of-the-art children’s hospital The liquidators’ study, financed by the in Kyiv so that Ukrainian children won’t behind was very sad.” U.S. Department of Energy and the cent compliance per screening cycle Just 35 kilometers (22 miles) from the manifested a success of the operation.” have to travel abroad to receive top-notch French Institute of Nuclear Protection medical treatment. Chornobyl nuclear station, Ludanka was and Safety, began in October 1995, while These studies led by Dr. Masnyk were evacuated within days of the catastrophe. the largest and most intensive on the Also attending the forum was the the thyroid cancer study began screening world-renowned author Paolo Coehlo of Visiting the village two years ago, Ms. its subjects in 1997. effect of the Chornobyl accident on Vanhorodska said she saw wild boars leukemia in liquidators and thyroid can- Brazil, who revealed his particular inter- The project’s first challenge was coop- est in the Chornobyl disaster and its roving about abandoned houses, in which cer in children. eration between the Ukrainian, Belarusian, effect on humanity. growing trees burst through floorboards. French and American scientists and In his first visit to Ukraine, he was for- Forest covers what used to be roads. “I “Rebirth, Renewal administrations, Dr. Masnyk said. bidden to travel to the Chornobyl zone, so didn’t know the village anymore,” she and Human Development” Problems plaguing the pilot study Mr. Coehlo instead visited the Chornobyl said tearfully. were poor understanding of the project, Museum at Kontraktova Square. Former Prypiat resident Fayina Across the street at the Philharmonic inadequate follow-up and less than opti- “I was moved to tears when I saw the Kleshenok wasn’t at the plant the day of Hall, social scientists and government mal screening sites, long waiting lines consequences of the disaster,” he said. the accident, but her 13-year-old daugh- experts discussed Chornobyl’s social and cold relations between staff and par- Mr. Coehlo then wrote about his impact at the “Rebirth, Renewal and ter had returned from the city of ticipants. impressions in his column published in Human Development” humanitarian Chornobyl that morning. Specific measures alleviated these periodicals in 35 different countries. Nobody knew what had actually hap- problems. forum organized by First Lady Kateryna “To my surprise, most people had pened, but residents were told to evacu- The National Cancer Institute took over Yushchenko’s Ukraine 3000 fund and the already forgotten the meaning of ate with the expectation that they would the project in 1999 with continued Children of Chornobyl Relief and Chornobyl, either because they are young return in three days. Department of Energy funding, providing Development Fund (CCRDF). ... or because they did not get close to the Ms. Kleshenok would return to her more scientific oversight and review bodies. The main lesson the world learned apartment only once more; she was only Further problems included delayed from the Chornobyl catastrophe is that (Continued on page 13)

According to a press release from the Helsinki... Embassy of Ukraine, in his testimony at (Continued from page 1) the hearing Ambassador Shamshur pro- FOR THE RECORD: President Bush’s Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.). “The vided facts illustrating the enormous nature of the Soviet system did not lead losses Ukraine suffered as a result of the statement on Chornobyl’s 20th anniversary Chornobyl accident and focused on the to a humane or rational response to the problems that might emerge in the near tragedy. The consequences of this secre- Following is the text of President cumstances for a safer and more pros- future. He emphasized the urgent neces- cy remain with us to this day. They are a George W. Bush’s statement on the perous region, and acted with courage sity to finalize preparations for the erec- vivid reminder of the value of open, 20th anniversary of the Chornobyl dis- in the march of democracy. I appreciate tion of the new sarcophagus around the aster. It was released on April 25 by the people around the world who con- democratic and accountable governments stricken reactor No. 4, work that must which respect the human rights and dig- the Embassy of the United States in tinue to show their compassion for commence by 2007. Ukraine. those still suffering in Ukraine, Russia nity of the individual.” An unofficial transcript of the hearing Testifying at the hearing were: and Belarus, and I reaffirm America’s will be posted on the Helsinki On the 20th anniversary of the commitment to the ongoing effort to Stephen G. Rademaker, acting assistant Commission’s website, www.csce.gov. Chornobyl nuclear disaster, I join my improve the safety and security of secretary of state, Bureau of International The Commission on Security and fellow Americans in expressing our Chornobyl by confining its nuclear Security and Nonproliferation; Oleh Cooperation in Europe, also known as deepest condolences for this tragedy. reactor. Shamshur, Ukraine’s ambassador to the the Helsinki Commission, is a U.S. gov- Today, we remember the victims of this On this solemn anniversary, we pay United States; Dr. David Marples, profes- ernment agency that monitors progress in horrible accident and recognize those tribute to the lives lost and the commu- sor of history at the University of Alberta the implementation of the provisions of who still suffer great hardship in its nities hurt in the devastation following and author of three books on Chornobyl; the 1975 Helsinki Accords. The commis- aftermath. the disaster at Chornobyl. We are Pablo Rubenstein, M.D., director, sion consists of nine members of the By closing Chornobyl more than encouraged as the people of Ukraine National Cord Blood Program at the New Senate, nine from the House of five years ago, a free Ukraine removed and neighboring regions resolve to rise York Blood Center; and Kathleen Ryan, Representatives, and one member each an environmental threat built by an again and reclaim a future of hope and executive director, U.S.A., Chernobyl from the departments of State, Defense oppressive government, created the cir- dignity. Children’s Project International. and Commerce. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 No. 18

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM CONVENTION PRIMER: Young UNA’ers Program and committees of a UNA Convention

As the Ukrainian National Association, its officers and members prepare for the organization’s 36th Regular Convention, which will convene on Friday, May 26, at the Soyuzivka estate in Kerhonkson, N.Y., The Ukrainian Weekly is publishing a series titled “Convention Primer” that explains the UNA’s goals, structure and operations.

On the front page of this issue, readers will notice the official announcement of the program for the 36th Regular Convention of the Ukrainian National Association. In accordance with the UNA By-Laws, the convention program must be announced “at least 30 days prior to the Convention.” Daria Pareez Shepelavy, daughter of Danylo and Roxanne Shepelavy of The By-Laws also stipulate that “The Lucas D. and Ava Prysazniuk, children of Yarema and Tracy Prysazniuk of Philadelphia, is a new member of UNA Executive Committee at a special session Lenox, Mich., are new members of UNA Branch 174. They were enrolled by Branch 13. She was enrolled by her called by the President, shall prepare a their grandparents Yarema and Stephania Prysiazniuk. grandparents Julia and Taras Shepelavy. program for the Convention.” That meet- ing was held at the UNA headquarters on April 7. Also at their April 7 meeting, once again as directed by the By-Laws, the UNA Executive Committee approved the delegates and alternates to the 36th Convention, and appointed five members each to the Credentials Committee, Committee on Revision of By-Laws and Financial Committee from among the delegates elected by their branches to serve during the convention. The By-Laws state that “The dele- gates on each respective committee shall be from different states; they shall elect from among their number a chairperson and secretary and shall meet with one or more members of the Executive Committee.” The By-Laws also spell out the duties of these committees. Meeting on April 13, the Credentials Committee verified the status of all dele- gates in accordance with the UNA By- Aidan Bruce Van Schaick, son of Bruce and Melanie Van Schaick of Laws. Paul and Andrew Williams, sons of Christine and Andrew Williams of Croton- Jamesville, N.Y., is a new member of The names of the delegates and alter- on-Hudson, N.Y., are new members of UNA Branch 353. They were enrolled by UNA Branch 39. He was enrolled by nates, as well as the appointed committee their grandmother Lydia Crosier. his parents. members, were published in this newspa- per’s April 23 issue. * * * The UNA Manuals, which are append- ed to, but not a part of the UNA By-Laws, stipulate that a UNA Convention is called to order by the UNA president. Once the conclave has been declared formally in session and the Credentials Committee has presented its report and the list of del- egates, “the delegates shall elect from among themselves a Chairperson of the Convention and two Vice-Chairpersons.” Also elected are an 11-member Election Committee and a five-member Committee on Petitions. In addition, the Manuals provide for the appointment of “a Press Committee and any other Committees which may be deemed nec- essary.” It is customary that a Secretaries Committee and a Resolutions Committee are named. Delegates elected to the Election Committee cannot be nominat- Maya Maria Nyzhnykevych, daughter Nicole Emilia Deychakiwsky, daughter Peter Matthew Hrycak, son of Orest ed as candidates for any office on the of Olena and Yuriy Nyzhnykevych of of Nicholas Deychakiwsky and Oksana and Margaret of Cranford, N.J., is a General Assembly. The duties of the Kyiv, is a member of UNA Branch 171. Pronych of Brighton, Mich., is a new new member of UNA Branch 234. He Election, Petitions and Press committees She was enrolled by her grandparents member of UNA Branch 233. She was was enrolled by his grandparents Maria and Stephan Welhasch. enrolled by her parents. Petro and Ria Hrycak. (Continued on page 5)

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Chicago UNA District Committee holds annual meeting by Myron B. Kuropas During the discussion that followed, There was unanimity regarding UNA Ukrainian? Is the New Jersey commis- Stefko Kuropas reported that by Christmas cards which were criticized as sion trying to sink the UNA?” he asked. CHICAGO – The annual meeting of enrolling 16 new UNA members being aesthetically poor – “horrible,” one The problem of an effective national the Chicago UNA District Committee ($245,000 of insurance), the Chicago person declared. Everyone wondered organizer was brought up as was the hir- was held at the Ss. Volodymyr and Olha District Committee achieved 106 percent why Chicago members received the cards ing of a publications director. One dele- Community Center on Saturday, April 8. of its annual membership quota. Stefko after Christmas. gate wondered why the UNA hired a pub- The meeting was brought to order by Kuropas enrolled four new members, Some delegates wondered why the lications director to “fix” our publications District Committee Chair Stefko while Myron Luszczak, Nadia Salabay, UNA’s application forms have not been when what we really needed was another modernized. It was agreed that they are organizer for the Midwest. “Why fix needlessly long and repetitive. One per- something that isn’t broken?” he asked. son wondered why it was perfectly It was also pointed out that since the acceptable to have applications in the minutes of the last convention (2002) have Ukrainian and English languages for over not been published, it is ridiculous to think 100 years and now, when we have a new that delegates could offer “changes for the immigration that hasn’t mastered good and welfare of the association.” One English, the applications are all in delegate seemed to recall that a resolution English. Adviser Skyba explained that was passed at the Chicago convention to English only was mandated by the New purchase “Helm of Destiny” videos or Jersey State Insurance Commission. CDs for use by secretaries in marketing One General Assembly member won- the UNA. This was not done. “No one dered if the UNA couldn’t take the insur- seems to understand marketing at our ance commission to court for ethnic dis- Home Office, not for our products, for crimination. “If we can have official U.S. Soyuzivka for that matter,” he stated. government documents in Spanish, why The meeting ended with a buffet can’t we have our applications in luncheon for members and guests.

UNA’ers at the Chicago District Committee meeting. To the Members of the UNA: The 2002 UNA Convention mandated several changes to the UNA By-Laws. Kuropas. Elected to the presidium were Stephan Welhasch and Steven Woch The revisions made are now available in print. Those wishing to receive a Myron Kuropas, chairman, and Andrij enrolled two each. copy of the revisions, should contact the UNA Home Office at 800-253-9862. Skyba, recording secretary. The remainder of the meeting was Annual reports were presented by devoted to concerns which branch secre- Chairman Stefko Kuropas, Secretary taries and General Assembly members Skyba, and Treasurer Bohdan Kukuruza. had regarding the future of the UNA. Following a short discussion, a motion to One UNA branch secretary mentioned accept the reports as read was made by that he has been paying for UNA ads in the auditing committee. The motion was Chas i Podiya, one of the local Chicago approved unanimously, as was a motion papers, with relatively good results. He to re-elect the same three officers, name- wondered why the Home Office was not ly, Stefko Kuropas, chairman, Mr. Skyba, willing to pay for more of them in secretary, and Mr. Kukuruza, treasurer. Chicago.

ballot and voting machines.” Program... In order for an amendment to the (Continued from page 4) UNA By-Laws to pass, it must be are delineated in the Manuals. approved by “not less than two-thirds of The manner of voting at the conven- the delegates of all Branches” at a UNA tion also is dictated by the Manuals: “On Convention. The UNA Manuals, on the any question before the Convention, other hand, can be changed more readily except the amendment of the By-Laws, as all that is required is two-thirds the majority vote of the delegates present approval of the 20-member General shall govern. The presiding officer [the Assembly, which meets annually. chairperson, or in his absence one of the All convention proceedings are run in vice-chairpersons] shall take the vote in accordance with “Robert’s Rules of Order.” such a way as he sees fit, except for the 7.3” x 2 election of officers, which shall be by – Roma Hadzewycz

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NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Putin’s G-8 From the maidan to Main Street: There have been calls from various quarters for the Group of Eight industrialized countries to take a stand against the conduct of one of its own members, albeit a new member. That member, which currently holds the G-8 chairmanship, is Russia. Ukraine’sby staff of the U.S. Helsinki landmark Commission Whatever elections shortcomings there were in U.S. Sen. John McCain stated on April 2 that the “glimmerings of democracy these elections – and no undertaking of are very faint in Russia today” and called on the U.S. to take a tough stand against While pundits attempt to sort out the this scale is perfect – they appear to have the Putin administration’s regressive policies. He pointed to President Vladimir political meaning of Ukraine’s March resulted from late or otherwise poor plan- Putin’s repression of the news media; his backing for Alyaksandr Lukashenka of 26th parliamentary elections to fill the ning. Among these were delays in the Belarus, known as “the last dictator in Europe”; and his refusal to cooperate with 450-seat Verkhovna Rada, the signifi- formation of some district and precinct the U.S. on the issue of nukes in Iran. The senator is so critical of Russia’s behav- cance of the conduct of the elections election commissions, the absence of a ior that he called on President George W. Bush to not attend the G-8 summit should not be missed. “Free and fair” functioning Constitutional Court, long scheduled to take place in Mr. Putin’s hometown of St. Petersburg in July. Others was the resounding assessment of the lines and crowding at some polling sta- in the U.S. have echoed the senator’s call for a boycott of the summit. International Election Observation tions, and lingering inaccuracies in voter The Washington Post, in an April 23 editorial titled “Imperialist Gas,” stated that Mission (IEOM) led by the Organization lists. On the positive side of the balance “Russian foreign policy seems to grow more aggressive with each week that President for Security and Cooperation in Europe sheet were the significantly freer media Vladimir Putin serves as chairman of the Group of Eight.” The Post pointed to (OSCE) that also included observers and decidedly more balanced media cov- Gazprom’s and Russia’s bullying of client states and neighbors over gas supplies, the from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, erage; no systematic use of administra- most striking example of which was the New Year’s Day cutoff of gas to Ukraine. the Parliamentary Assembly of the tive resources; the transparent, consensu- Most recently, RFE/RL reported that Gazprom has begun talking about the new price Council of Europe, the European al and professional administration of the for gas that Ukraine will have to pay come July, adding that price concessions could be Parliament, the NATO Parliamentary elections at all levels; inclusion of considered only if Ukraine agreed to a consortium with Russia for joint control over the Assembly and the OSCE Office of domestic, non-partisan observers; and an Ukrainian gas-pipeline network – a tactic Russia has used with other neighbors. Democratic Elections and Human Rights overhaul of voter lists. At the same time, Andrei Illarionov, a former senior economic advisor to Mr. (ODIHR). This unqualified positive Election day began early with polling President Putin, has gone on record on more than one occasion as questioning appraisal – a first among the 12 former stations opening at 7 a.m. There were whether Russia should even be a member of the G-8. Writing in The Washington Soviet republics outside the Baltics that over 34,000 polling stations. Adding to Post on April 18, he noted that Russia “meets only one criterion for membership: have conducted scores of elections since the vibrancy of the elections was the the size of its economy.” Otherwise, on measures of political rights, the battle the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union – large number of domestic observers, an against corruption, independence of the judicial system, etc., it doesn’t even underscores the consolidation of demo- indication of buy-in on the part of come close to matching international standards. cratic gains made in Ukraine’s 2004 Ukrainians young and old alike with President Bush, meanwhile, has stated that he intends to attend the summit Orange Revolution following years of many affiliated with particular parties or because he fears that snubbing ol’ Vlad would be counterproductive. “I need to be political stagnation. candidates and others representing in a position where I can sit down with [him] and be very frank about our con- These clean March 26 elections stood NGOs. cerns,” he explained, adding that he has not “given up” on Russian democracy. in stark contrast to the fatally flawed first Upon entering the polling stations, one But it’s not enough to have a quiet chat with Mr. Putin. Some sort of public rounds of the Ukrainian presidential elec- was struck by walls plastered with infor- demonstration of censure is called for on the part of the seven other members of tions that ushered in popular revolt 16 mational bulletins on candidates and par- the G-8. Otherwise, as Mr. Illarionov and others have pointed out, the summit will months earlier. Coming on the heels of ties. Forty-five parties and blocs vied for be seen as a sign of support for the Russian president and his odious policies. the blatantly undemocratic presidential seats in Parliament. While the interna- Otherwise the G-8 summit will be Mr. Putin’s show. “elections” in neighboring Belarus a tional community was mainly focused on week earlier, comparisons were the parliamentary balloting, voting was inevitable. The Rada elections also fol- also under way for regional and local May lowed a series of recent electoral contests government. Voters were thus presented elsewhere in the former Soviet Union, with four lengthy ballots: national and Turning the pages back... including in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, regional, as well as local councils and which to varying degrees fell short of mayoral races. While some older voters 2 international standards. The OSCE were befuddled by this collection of assessment in Ukraine returns the “free papers, most voters seemed to take it in 1999 Seven years ago on May 2, 1999, The Ukrainian Weekly and fair” formulation to the lexicon of stride. Election commission poll workers carried an article about the settlement signed on April 21 international election observations, seemed attentive to their duties. This was regarding the CBS “60 Minutes” broadcast of “The Ugly Face departing from the heavily nuanced put to the test in the complicated tabula- appraisals that have become common in of Freedom” that aired five years earlier on October 23, 1994. tion process that began, once polling sta- recent years. This development has The settlement was signed by lawyers representing the plaintiffs, Alexander J. Serafyn tions closed at 10 p.m., typically involv- potentially significant implications for of Detroit, Oleg Nikolyszyn of Providence, R.I., and the Ukrainian Congress Committee ing the sorting and counting of thousands future OSCE observations, especially of papers. Processing the Rada results of America, and attorneys for CBS. A petition for approval of the settlement was sent on with parliamentary and presidential elec- the day of the signing to the Federal Communications Commission. alone went into the wee hours of morn- tions expected in Russia in 2007 and ing, with the three remaining stacks of The U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia had found that there were seri- 2008, respectively. ballots from other contests proceeding ous questions about whether CBS intentionally distorted information in that news report Helsinki Commissioner Rep. Alcee L. well past daybreak. and ordered the FCC to revisit the case. The court ruled that the FCC “acted arbitrarily Hastings, current president of the OSCE The undeniable success of the domes- and capriciously” in denying a petition for a hearing on whether CBS engaged in news Parliamentary Assembly, was appointed tic observation in these elections, but- distortion. The FCC had three options: to revisit its decision, call for more evidence or by the OSCE chair-in-office to serve as tressed by years of investment in training convene a full-scale hearing on the matter. The difficulty was whether the Ukrainian special coordinator for short-term and support by the United States and oth- American plaintiffs could prove that CBS presented its distortions intentionally. observers. Commission staff observed on ers, raises obvious questions about the Election Day, as part of the IEOM The actual settlement was an attempt by CBS to offer an olive branch to the plaintiffs in need for future international observations deployment of 914 observers coming order to put an end to the case. In the settlement, “the CBS Parties” agreed “to reimburse the in Ukraine. Has the time come to “gradu- from 45 OSCE countries, including ate” Ukraine from such scrutiny and legal expenses (totaling $328,000) incurred by ‘the UCCA Parties’ in filing and prosecuting Russia. In all, the group examined voting such petitions and other objections and to provide the UCCA Parties with a settlement letter.” leave that necessary task to Ukrainian and the vote count in nearly 3,000 stakeholders themselves? Many believe The settlement letter also stated that CBS regretted that Ukrainian Americans were polling stations. The commission contin- the March 26 elections confirm that that offended by the segment, but it fell short of apologizing for misrepresentation. The settle- gent observed balloting throughout the time has come, especially if Ukraine con- ment letter, written by Louis Briskman, vice-president and general counsel of CBS, also Kyiv and Cherkasy regions. tinues on its increasingly democratic tra- stated: “I want to squarely address the suggestion that our broadcast intended to imply that The Ukrainian government declined to jectory. The greater and more prominent Ukrainians are somehow genetically anti-Semitic. Nothing could be further from the truth. invite observers from the role of domestic observers, also rein- This was not our intention when we first broadcast the report, nor is it our belief today.” Commonwealth of Independent States forces the notion that the time for The letter also indicated that the two parties were not in agreement on the principal (CIS), an entity discredited in the eyes of Ukraine’s “graduation” has come. issue: the accuracy and fairness of “The Ugly Face of Freedom.” The letter states: “While many for its effusive praise of fundamen- Indeed, the OSCE should continue to tally flawed elections elsewhere in the CBS and your clients may not agree about the merits of the ‘60 Minutes’ broadcast and encourage domestic stakeholders to former Soviet Union, including Belarus’ may have differences concerning possible future programs, I am hopeful that our meeting prove themselves to their own people. undemocratic March 19 presidential con- The maidan, Kyiv’s Independence helped to promote mutual respect and understanding. In this regard, let me assure you test. The CIS stood out for its sharply that CBS has no ‘agenda’ with regard to the Ukrainian people and country. Our desire is Square that featured so prominently in critical evaluation of Ukraine’s the massive demonstrations by orange- to maintain good relations with all segments of the television audience and, obviously, December 26, 2004, presidential elec- clad protesters in November 2004 and the Ukrainian American community is no exception.” tions that resulted in Viktor the jubilant crowds following Mr. Arthur Belendiuk, a lawyer for the Ukrainian American plaintiffs stated, “They wanted Yushchenko’s victory in elections widely Yushchenko’s victory a few weeks later, us to agree that they had not intentionally distorted [the news] – we refused to do that. considered to have met democratic stan- was calm on the Monday following the We’re just saying that we’re dropping the case. We agreed to disagree.” But he comment- dards. Ukraine has refused to participate Rada elections. Strolling past this ed on CBS’s actions saying, “they are making some pretty significant steps.” further in CIS monitoring missions. The bustling area, Ukrainians were going two dozen Russian Duma observers pres- about their routines, perhaps an indicator Source: “CBS and Ukrainian Americans sign settlement agreement regarding “The ent offered tempered, mixed opinions Ugly Face,” by Roma Hadzewycz, The Ukrainian Weekly, May 2, 1999, Vol. LXVII, No. 18. about the conduct of Rada elections. (Continued on page 25) No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 7 COMMENTARY Faces and Places

Remembering Gareth Jones in Wales by Myron B. Kuropas

by Lubomyr Luciuk million people may have died directly or indirectly from lack of food in the Soviet He was born in Barry and murdered in Union during the past year.” Nevertheless, Mongolia. It was a short life – he was he got the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for his “objec- killed on the eve of his 30th birthday – tive reporting” about the Soviet Union. Welcome back, pilgrim! but the span graced to Gareth Richard Meanwhile, Jones was targeted. Soviet Thanks to ham-fisted INS agents, the explain what is at stake. Immigration law Vaughan Jones was used well. Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov Karanoukh family – Vasilli, Maria, Sviat, professors from Seton Hall University Between 1925 and 1929 he secured a declared him persona non grata, forever Ihor – are now in Kyiv, where Ukraine’s were present and mentioned that they first class degree in French from the banned from the USSR. Ominously, he embrace of these “pilgrims” is not exact- operate a free legal aid office for immi- University of Wales, Aberystwyth, then was placed on the secret police’s watch ly welcoming. grants. The UNA offered to provide another in medieval and modern languages list. Like Muggeridge, he was censured The Karanoukhs lost everything they translators if necessary. from Trinity College, Cambridge. Fluent and scorned, repeatedly. Writing to Jones had accumulated during their 15 years in Americans for Human Rights in in French, Welsh, English, German and on April 17, Muggeridge left an impres- the United States: their house, their busi- Ukraine (AHRU) President Bozhena Russian, he found employment by 1930 as sion of what that was like. Agreeing that ness, their ID cards (including Sviat’s Olshaniwsky told me that her organization a private secretary for foreign affairs to Duranty was, “of course, a plain crook,” Stevens Institute ID – he was scheduled to held an information night for Fourth Lloyd George, the World War I leader and he complained of how his own famine graduate in May) and many of their person- Wavers a while back and only four people only Liberal ever to be a prime minister of articles were censored by the Manchester al belongings, including two gold rings. showed up. the United Kingdom, “the Welsh Wizard.” Guardian’s editor, William Crozier. Last February, INS agents hustled the Part of the reason Fourth Wavers are at More interested in journalism than aca- Breaking his ties with that newspaper, Karanoukhs to the airport in vans with risk is their mentality. Having lived in demic life, Jones moved to the Wall Muggeridge had offered a rejoinder: “You black-tinted windows. They were denied Soviet Ukraine and beyond, they still Street offices of Dr. Ivy Lee’s public rela- don’t want to know what is going on in an opportunity for a final farewell with believe that anything is possible for the tions firm in 1931. That same year he Russia, and you don’t want your readers to their aging grandmother who remained right price – college diplomas, green made his second trip to the USSR, escort- know either; if the Metrovick behind because she had a green card. On cards, asylum, whatever. As soon as they ing Jack Heinz II, son of the founder of [Metropolitan-Vickers Trial] people had their trip to the airport, according to earn enough money over here, our newest the famous “Heinz 57” fortune. They met been Jews or Negroes, your righteous indig- Sviat, one of the INS agents turned the immigrants are willing, even anxious, to many Soviet boosters, from Maurice nation would have been unbounded. You’d volume up on the radio, making it diffi- squander it on some unscrupulous attor- Hindus to Louis Fischer to Walter have published photographs of their lacerat- cult for the family to communicate. ney or other shyster who promises relief Duranty. They even secured an interview ed backsides. They being just Englishmen, Upon arriving in Kyiv, Ukrainian for the right price. When we tell them that with Lenin’s widow, Madame Krupskaya, you refuse to publish the truth about their authorities questioned them for about an we live in a country of laws, they find it first being “thrilled” to view Lenin’s treatment or the general facts which make hour. They were especially interested in difficult to believe, especially when some mummy in its Red Square mausoleum, that truth significant – and this when the the father’s political asylum request. His of their friends really do get taken care of “the body of a man dead seven years.” MG is packed with stories of what the passport had “08” stamped in the category by people who somehow manage to get The Depression forced Jones home but Nazis are doing to the Jews and the Poles to section which stands for political asylum. them a visa in Kyiv, a green card, a dri- employment awaited with George and later the Ukrainian and Silesian minorities.” So how are these former pilgrims ver’s license and whatever else they need with The Western Mail. As his diary entries Banned from the USSR, Jones turned his doing in Ukraine? Not well. Ukraine, as I – all for the right price. and regular Sunday letters reveal, Jones attentions to Asia, in late 1934 embarking have mentioned many times on these One can hardly blame our newest possessed a near-irrepressible curiousity, on his “Round-the-World Fact-Finding pages, does not recognize American col- immigrants for maintaining a low profile. coupled with determination to interview Tour.” Particularly intrigued by a growing lege degrees. The father’s computer pro- If they’re illegal, they’re afraid to come the great men of his time. And he did – conflict between Imperial Japan and China, gramming degree, earned in the United forward. They refuse to join our organi- chatting with Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Frank Jones ended up in Manchukuo where, near States, is dismissed as meaningless by zations out of fear that their status will Lloyd Wright, Sir Bernard Pares, Upton Kalgan, he met his end on August 12, 1935, Ukrainian authorities. The sons’ high somehow be betrayed. The idea of volun- Sinclar, Walter Lippman and William having been kidnapped by Chinese bandits school diplomas and college credits also tary membership in a community organi- Randolph Hearst, to list but a few. And, on 16 days earlier. How Jones died is not in are unacceptable. The boys were told they zation, moreover, is an unfamiliar con- February 23, 1933, he was the first non- dispute. The investigating officer, Lt. K.E.F. would have to return to school to earn a cept, especially since “voluntarism” in Nazi journalist invited to fly with the fuhrer Millar, reported he was dispatched with one diploma from a Ukrainian secondary Soviet Ukraine was hardly voluntary. to Frankfurt, in Chancellor Adolph Hitler’s bullet to the head, two to the chest. school. Ukrainian authorities have this Illegals are always looking over their private plane, the Richtoffen, observing, “If Why Jones was murdered, however, inflated idea of the value of Ukrainian shoulder, wondering when they will be this aeroplane should crash, the whole his- remains controversial. Was it because he higher education, despite the fact that of discovered and sent back. The tory of Europe would be changed.” was an eyewitness to the genocidal Great 500 rated universities in the world, not Karanoukh debacle doesn’t offer much From Germany Jones went to “the Famine of 1932-1933 in Soviet Ukraine, one – NOT ONE – is in Ukraine. solace. home of Bolshevism,” arriving in Moscow the Holodomor? Certainly, but unbe- Instead of college, Sviat and Ihor now Although some 11 million illegal on March 6, 1933, that very evening meet- knownst to him, as he made his way from face military service, where the old immigrants, mostly Hispanic, still live ing Malcolm Muggeridge. Then, surrepti- Japan to Inner Mongolia, he was sur- Soviet army tradition of savage beatings freely in the United States enjoying vari- tiously, he set out for Kharkiv, intent on rounded by characters now known to of recruits – “didovschina” – is still very ous benefits, four Ukrainians who fol- learning the truth of rumors about a great have been Soviet agents of influence, per- much in vogue. Given the low opinion lowed the proper procedures have been famine. Detraining, he tramped through haps worse. He shared an apartment in Ukrainians have of Ukrainians from the deported. Some Ukrainians tell me that the Ukrainian countryside, finding wide- Tokyo with Gunther Stein, not knowing it U.S., their military welcome should be the Karanoukhs deserved what they got spread hunger. His pocket diary recorded a was used for secret wireless broadcasts to especially exquisite. because they lied about their need for village elder saying: “In the old times we Moscow by the Soviet spy Richard Sorge. One more thing. As in Soviet times, asylum. Their lives were never in danger. had horses and cows and pigs and chick- When Jones set out on his last expedition Ukraine has two passports, an interna- But who can say what constitutes peril in ens. Now we are dying of hunger. In the he traveled in a car provided by a Mr. tional one and an internal one. Sviat and today’s Ukraine? old days we fed the world. Now they have Purpis, who ran the Wostwag fur trading Ihor do not have internal passports. Are Jews in danger in Ukraine today? taken all we had away from us ... I should company, a cover for Communist espionage Without internal passports, they can’t be Jewish émigrés are returning from Israel have bade you welcome, and given you, as activities in the Far East. Their “White employed. If they apply for internal pass- in droves, so most of us would say no. my guest, chickens and eggs and milk and Russian” driver, Anatoli, disappeared after ports, the lack of military service will be But the fact remains that up until very fine white bread. Now we have no bread in the ambush, never interviewed, while Dr. a red flag. They may be drafted before recently (perhaps even now), Jewish the house. They are killing us.” Herbert Muller, his traveling companion, they can attend any school. immigrants from Ukraine were granted Jones returned to Berlin, on March 29, was released unharmed, no ransom paid. Is the Karanoukh debacle an unusual U.S. asylum simply for the asking. Some filing numerous articles about the famine, The bandits themselves were then tracked case? No. Are other Ukrainians at risk, Jewish organizational leaders still pro- provoking a near-immediate riposte from down, some killed, the others scattered, the are they really low-hanging fruit as mote the idea that Ukraine is a hotbed of none other than Duranty, in The New York immediate perpetrators thus lost to history. Camille Huk would have us believe? anti-Semitism. Times on March 31, “Russians Hungry, Perhaps Jones was just an ill-fated fel- Absolutely! Gone are the days when we condemned but Not Starving.” Belittling Jones, low. Or he fell victim to assassination, In my last column I wondered if the Fourth Wavers for immigrating because Duranty would justify the forced collec- being a man who, as Lloyd George Ukrainian community has done anything we wanted them to remain in Ukraine to tivization of agriculture with the infamous wrote, “knew too much of what was on behalf of the Karanoukhs. I’ve done help build a new nation. Like it or not, a prescription, “to put it brutally, you can’t going on.” We may never find out. some poking about and discovered that new, nationally aware and economically make an omelette without breaking eggs.” What is indisputable, however, is that our people here have tried to help. stable Ukraine is still decades away. The Dissimulating further, he wrote: “there is Jones wrote truthfully about the Holodomor Ukrainian National Association Treasurer time has come to accept and assist our no actual starvation or deaths from starva- even as Duranty did not. And for that rea- Roma Lisovich has informed me that Fourth Wave, unquestionably the largest tion but there is widespread mortality from son a trilingual Welsh-Ukrainian-English both the UNWLA and the UNA have immigration we’ve ever had. They’re here diseases due to malnutrition.” plaque, the first ever, is to be unveiled at the addressed this issue and enlisted the and we need them to help us build a new Duranty never admitted how, on University of Wales on May 2. It hallows assistance of New Jersey’s two U.S. sen- Ukrainian America. We may not like their September 29, 1933, he had called in at the the memory of a decent young man who ators in the Karanoukh case. attitudes, their mind-set, or their way of British Embassy, stating that “as many as 10 wanted nothing more than to be an honest A few weeks ago the Ukrainian thinking, but in the end, they’re our peo- reporter and probably paid for his commit- National Women’s League of America ple. They’re family for God’s sake! Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk is a professor of ment to his calling with his life. Much bet- and the Passaic branch of the Ukrainian political geography at the Royal Military ter, I say, to honor the truth-teller than the Congress Committee of America organ- Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is: College of Canada. Prize-winning liar. ized a meeting of Fourth Wavers to [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 No. 18

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

the same feelings as Dr. Luciuk. I felt that Ukrainian community through their Natalia Vitrenko’s People’s Opposition Bloc a part of me was dishonored and violated vocations, ideals and causes, and who cleared the 3 percent threshold (which it Kudos to Zawada because this was a memorial to my peo- would otherwise perhaps go unnoticed or missed by a hair), the Orange parliamentary ple. As I looked at the face of the man forgotten over the years. majority would have slipped to 51.7 percent. for election reports depicted in the statue, it would have been Dear Editor: Which brings me to the photograph These numbers should dampen the a contemporary of my great-grandfather. Kudos to Zenon Zawada of The from 1956 included in the article about notion that Viktor Yanukovych, with his I wondered, was it a premeditated Weekly’s Kyiv Press Bureau for his com- Msgr. Gresko in which “an unidentified Party of the Regions getting 32 percent of action, or the random act of an intoxicat- prehensive, informative and well-written nun” is mentioned in the caption. Perhaps the popular vote, has failed to match the ed hooligan? Regardless, the individual coverage of the Ukrainian elections in the someone else will identify her and some- 44 percent he received in the presidential who defaced such a monument was filled April 2 issue. day write about her contributions as well. contest in December 2004. The 46 percent with hate and bigotry. Later, I walked Although I was present in Ukraine as It’s very likely hers is a story that also pro-Russian minority (consisting of the around the woods behind the monument, an election observer and read a variety of needs to be told, along with those of so Party of the Regions and the Communist presumably the remnants of the camp. I reports and other materials on the elec- many other unnamed heroes and heroines. Party) in the next Verkhovna Rada is wondered just how the internees and tions, I found the timely information effectively Mr. Yanukovych’s brigade, their families might have felt; betrayed, Irene Zabytko in Mr. Zawada’s articles, including his which would make him prime minister if mistrusted, mistreated, victims of igno- interviews with other observers, valuable Apopka, Fla. it had the strength that it almost achieved. rance and prejudice. Our pain must have in rounding out my own knowledge as I The line between the Orange and pro- paled in comparison to theirs. prepared for appearances at various Russian camps has been almost immutable, It reminded me of how important such forums to discuss this milestone event in reflecting a quasi-permanent regional memorials are. This was the action of one Ukraine’s “friends” Ukraine’s democratic evolution. divide clearly seen on the electoral results sick individual. However, during the more Thanks, and keep up the good work. map. Zenon Zawada, in his “Reporter’s than 10 years that the memorial to the in the United States Notebook,” (March 26) offered a thought- Ukrainian internees had been in place, per- Dear Editor: Orest Deychakiwsky ful description of the prevailing mindset in haps many thousands of people had visited The pseudo-explanations given by Washington southeastern Ukraine. It also showed the the site without acting out in such a disre- Ohio Democratic Reps. Marcy unbending determination of “Blue” strate- spectful manner. Perhaps many thousands Kaptur and Dennis Kucinich for their gists to nurture their notions of right and thought about the answer to “Why?” failure to support HR 1053 to graduate wrong, with scant regard for “foreign” per- Many thousands were reminded of the Ukraine from the Jackson-Vanik ceptions. Internment victims injustices that prejudice and bigotry bring Amendment (March 26) ring hollow and The crucial few percentage points that upon humanity. Hopefully, the more we bring to mind the saying: “With friends tipped the election’s outcome were assidu- were dishonored are reminded of tragic events in history, like these, who needs enemies?” ously courted. With the collapsing credibili- Dear Editor: maybe, just maybe, the chances of recur- Their mention of the Anti-Defamation ty of President Viktor Yushchenko – a In the summer of 2002, I was on a fami- rences in the future might slowly fade. League and implied reference to the con- sequence that started shortly after he took ly vacation in upstate New York. We took As an individual, I may not agree with troversial Interregional Academy of office and is vividly recapitulated in Taras the ferry across the St. Lawrence River over the UCCLA’s proposals regarding prose- Personnel Management (MAUP) to justi- Kuzio’s analysis in The Ukrainian Weekly to Kingston, Ontario, and came upon Fort cuting Stalin-era war criminals. But the fy their refusal to vote for Ukraine when of April 2, among others – Mr. Yanukovych Henry. There, while on a tour of the historic concrete work that these volunteers do to the chips were down makes one wonder was poised for a comeback win. fort, we encountered a plaque on the inside research, inform and memorialize injus- just how much they are kowtowing to the The key and initially unnoticed or wall, marking it as one of the sites of tices that the Ukrainian nation has suf- ADL. After all, it is common knowledge ignored counter-process that at the end frus- internment of Ukrainians by the Canadian fered is extremely important. that Ukraine has granted extensive civil trated his effort was the shift of the Orange government during World War I. It was Organizations such as the UCCLA rights to minorities, especially Jews. center of gravity toward Yulia Tymoshenko. placed there by the efforts of Dr. Lubomyr deserve our moral and material support. Seems that our critical “friends” will not It was set in motion by the dramatic resig- Luciuk and the Ukrainian Canadian Civil be satisfied, and will continue to ignore nation of Oleksander Zinchenko, the presi- Liberties Association (UCCLA). Dr. Yuri A. Deychakiwsky statements by Ukraine’s highest officials dent’s chief of staff and his campaign man- Last week, we traveled to Banff, Alberta, North Potomac, Md. (starting with the president) condemning ager in the 2004 election, on September 3, to visit and ski in the Canadian Rockies anti-Semitism, until the Ukrainian govern- 2005, and it turned Mr. Yushchenko’s loss for our very first time. On April 8, after our ment shuts down the MAUP (freedom of into Ms. Tymoshenko’s gain. arrival, and settling in, we randomly chose speech be damned). “The exquisite Yulia” pulled it off again. to drive up the Bow Valley Parkway toward About identifying Then, our “friends” will search with In a bold move to revive the Orange cause, Lake Louise and explore the area. Suddenly, their magnifying glasses until they find the majority of Mr. Yushchenko’s team my wife, Irena, noticed a roadside sign: ‘unidentified’ guests another wrinkle on the beautiful face of apparently decided to openly challenge “internment camp.” We pulled over. Much Dear Editor: Ukraine that is pointed out by powerful their leader to weigh in against corruption to my amazement, again, we encountered a I am grateful to Luba Mudri and Yaro special interests who cannot accept the in his own circle. When he balked, their trilingual plaque and statue of a Ukrainian Bihun for identifying the “unidentified existence of an independent Ukraine. choice of Ms. Tymoshenko was inevitable. internee near the base of Castle Mountain. guest” as Msgr. Dmytro Gresko in my Mr. Zawada, while acknowledging in his As I took photos and video, I was again article about the Ukrainian community in Leo Iwaskiw column the corruption in Mr. Yushchenko’s amazed at yet another coincidental “find” Apopka (March 12). Many community Philadelphia entourage, agreed with him that “Ms. while vacationing in Canada. members tried very hard to Tymoshenko sometimes puts her own inter- We posed for family pictures. It was a identify him before I submitted the photo- ests ahead of all others.” This is a philosoph- serene and peaceful place. The plaque graph for the article, and we even passed ical statement. Given Mr. Yushchenko’s and statue were decorated with colorful around the original photo at our church. Yushchenko’s breathtaking vacuum of leadership, a critical natural and artificial flowers, which Unfortunately, most of the parishioners opinion of Ms. Tymoshenko sounds almost accented the monument relative to the who were around when that photo was prime time is over like a certification of good behavior. It background of the snowy forest. taken almost 30 years ago have sadly Dear Editor: reminds one of former New York Mayor Ed But one thing disturbed me. On one passed on, or could not remember. We The outcome of the parliamentary Koch’s quip that he (Koch) would be perfect corner of the plaque, someone had simply couldn’t get the information, and election in Ukraine on March 26 was suc- if he were modest. scratched in the f—- word, and, on the the oversight was never intentional. cinctly described by Tom Warner in the As of now, Ms. Tymoshenko’s strong base of the statue by John Boxtel, the let- Actually, we’re glad to know who he was Financial Times of April 8: “A divided showing effectively means that she has ters “BS.” They were noticeable, but as part of our community history, too. pro-Western Orange camp won a narrow taken over as standard-bearer of the seemed, thankfully, somewhat faded. I am also glad that my article sparked victory over Blue pro-Russian forces.” Orange Revolution. No matter what the When we returned home, I came another one that features Msgr. Gresko With the wipeout of the 22 percent of the shape of a ruling parliamentary coalition across Dr. Luciuk’s article about the and his contributions. Publications such vote cast for a multiplicity of small parties will be, Mr. Yushchenko’s prime time is defacement of this very same monument as The Ukrainian Weekly are so valuable failing to get at least 3 percent, the line-up in over. Sadly, he is a lame duck president. in the April 16 issue of The Ukrainian because they provide a forum to com- the Verkhovna Rada will be 54 percent vs. Weekly. The defacement is documented memorate and appreciate the people who 46 percent in favor of the Orange parties. Boris Danik on my digital video footage. I had much have dedicated themselves to the Had the vote for Russian flag-waving North Caldwell, N.J. No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 9 Foreign policy community hosts discussion of Ukraine’s elections by Oleg Ivanov between the central and local election com- for Ukraine to join the European Union political, economic and social progress. U.S.-Ukraine Foundation missions, the ambassador focused mainly and NATO. Ukraine’s improving living As the only member of a non-government on the positive lessons of the Verkhovna standards and developing democratic insti- organization on the panel, Mr. Karatnycky WASHINGTON – The American Rada elections. Chief among these were tutions have moved it closer to Europe and went a little further than the other panelists Foreign Policy Council joined the Center for the free and fair nature of the elections and America than it has ever been – both diplo- in his assessment of the elections and what U.S.-Ukrainian Relations on April 4 in host- the pro-Western mandate that the outcome matically and economically. they meant for Ukraine’s future. Unlike the ing a discussion of the recent parliamentary of the vote seemed to imply. Ms. Stuart echoed these sentiments in others, he pointed out the harsh political dis- elections in Ukraine. The panel assembled For the first time in the nation’s histo- her brief statement, proclaiming that the course between the Orange and anti-Orange for the debriefing consisted of four mem- ry, according to Dr. Shamshur, Ukraine results of the elections signaled a contin- political forces that accompanied the elec- bers: Oleh Shamshur, Ukraine’s ambassador pulled off a wholly transparent, demo- uation of the Orange Revolution. Like the tion. Despite the quarrelling, he argued, the to the United States; Karen Stewart, director cratic and undisputed election. This was Ukrainian ambassador, she saw the vote differences between these two blocs are of the Office of Ukraine, Moldova and especially evident among the press, as evidence of a positive outlook towards actually narrowing; he pointed out that Belarus Affairs at the U.S. Department of which was completely unhindered by the Euro-Atlantic integration among the Viktor Yanukovych, the head of the govern- State; Ronald McNamara, deputy chief of government in its attempt to provide an Ukrainian people. And while she saw the ment opposition, has even recently declared staff of the Commission on Security and accurate account of the election process, first “Orange year” as a successful one, his support for further European integration. Cooperation in Europe; and Adrian and the Central Election Commission, Ms. Stuart did call on the Ukrainian gov- “The majority of Ukrainians,” Mr. Karatnycky, president of The Orange Circle. which was singled out by the ambassador ernment to do more to fight corruption Karatnycky argued, “are pro-Europe, pro- Held in the Capitol, the near-capacity for its competency and evenhandedness. throughout every sector of society. business and pro-rule of law.” meeting was attended by various policy- “Ukraine passed the test of democra- Mr. McNamara, who observed the “Ukraine is a European state,” Mr. makers, scholars and NGO staff members. cy,” Ambassador Shamshur declared, cit- elections at several polling stations on Karatnycky stated. He predicted that the After a few brief remarks from Ilan ing the 70 percent turnout rate to support behalf of the U.S. Commission on new government, which will likely be Berman, the discussion’s moderator and President Viktor Yushchenko’s claim that Security and Cooperation in Europe, also another Orange coalition headed by Yulia vice-president for policy at the American the nation has completed the “post-Soviet gave an unqualified positive appraisal of Tymoshenko as the prime minister, will Foreign Policy Council, Ambassador democratization process.” the voting process. He saw these as the embody this quality above all others. Shamshur provided a general assessment Possibly even more important, however, first truly free and fair elections among Though problems related to the nation’s of the elections. While acknowledging cer- was that the results of the elections, which all of the ex-Soviet states of Eurasia. initial post-Soviet privatization efforts will tain shortcomings in the actual voting gave the ruling Orange bloc of the presi- Like Mr. Shamshur, Mr. McNamara continue to surface, the new Orange gov- process, like the lengthy and complicated dent and his allies 42 percent of the vote, also noted that the media coverage of the ernment will continue to seek conciliation ballots and some miscommunication appeared to bode well for further Euro- elections was far more balanced than it with its opponents to keep Ukraine on Atlantic integration. The ambassador saw has ever been in Ukraine. He also empha- track toward Euro-Atlantic integration. As Oleg Ivanov is a third-year political these results as a show of support for the sized the overwhelming enthusiasm and President Yushchenko recently declared, it science and history double major at president’s various policies, such as his diligence of the poll workers. Like his co- will take a bipartisan effort to implement UCLA. He is currently interning at the democratic and free market reforms, panelists, Mr. McNamara saw the elec- the reforms necessary for Ukraine’s con- U.S.-Ukraine Foundation in Washington. whose ultimate goal is to make it possible tions as a sign of Ukraine’s continuing tinuing economic and democratic success. Panelists review the parliamentary elections in Ukraine

Oleksandr Khapatnyukovsky cy of the voting and vote count. He stressed that the There are some reasons for this success, remarked U.S.-Ukraine Foundation shortcomings were mostly organizational and logistical, Mr. Kudelia. Firstly, unlike President Yushchenko, Yulia and not the result of a centralized, planned attempt to Tymoshenko “has passed the test of power.” “During WASHINGTON – The Washington Group (TWG), in manipulate the election, and that the election results her term as prime minister, she did not steal anything. conjunction with the Johns Hopkins University School reflected the will of the people. With these elections, On the contrary, she tried to return the stolen property to of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), on April 10 said Mr. Deychakiwsky, ”Ukraine’s leadership and peo- the people,” said Mr. Kudelia, explaining the popularity hosted a presentation titled “The Recent Parliamentary ple have shown their commitment to democracy in a of Tymoshenko among common citizens. Elections in Ukraine: A Review.” Speakers included very tangible way.” Secondly, according to Mr. Kudelia, Tymoshenko won Orest Deychakiwsky, senior staff advisor at the U.S. Mr. Kudelia focused on the results of the elections. He the corruption debate that dominated the election. Having Helsinki Commission and an Organization for Security strongly criticized President Viktor Yushchenko for his fail- dismissed Ms. Tymoshenko from the government in and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) election observer in ure to unite the Ukrainian people after the Orange September 2005, President Yushchenko accused her of Ukraine; Adrian Karatnycky, president of The Orange Revolution of 2004. “Cultural and regional identities in Circle; and Serhiy Kudelia, Ph.D. candidate at the SAIS. plotting a coup against him and favoring certain business- Ukraine transformed into political ones,” said Mr. Kudelia. es. Ms. Tymoshenko, in turn, accused Mr. Yushchenko of The panelists assessed the procedure of the first par- He characterized the election campaign of the president’s liamentary elections in Ukraine after the constitutional surrounding himself with corrupt politicians who manipu- political party, Our Ukraine, as a “brilliant failure.” To lated him. “The untransparent gas deal with Russia in reform had come into power, analyzed how the elections make his point, Mr. Kudelia compared Our Ukraine’s 24 were conducted and gave their perspectives of the elec- January 2006 served as the critical evidence of corruption percent support rate in the 2002 parliamentary elections among Ukraine’s top officials,” stated Mr. Kudelia. tion’s implications. with the less than 14 percent backing received in 2006. As the evening’s first panelist, Mr. Deychakiwsky Thirdly, Ms. Tymoshenko in her election campaign At the same time, the speaker underlined the success appealed to socially unprotected people, like students, emphasized the importance of the post-election assess- of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, which came second with ment of the OSCE-led election mission, which included pensioners and doctors. “It was not new for Ukrainian 22 percent of the vote, outpolling Yushchenko’s Our politicians,” said Mr. Kudelia, “but this time she prom- observers from the parliamentary assemblies of the Ukraine two to one or higher throughout most of central Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and eastern Ukraine. (Continued on page 23) European Union, Council of Europe and NATO. This was the first time the OSCE had called any elections among the 12 former Soviet republics outside the Baltics “free and fair.” This, according to Mr. The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund: March Deychakiwsky, underscores the consolidation of demo- Amount Name City Tymofij Shtompil East Hanover, N.J. cratic gains made in the Orange Revolution. $200.00 ODWU-Central Lehighton, Pa. George Zahalak Clayton, Mo. Comparing the recent elections to the first two rounds of Executive Committee $10.00 Lubomyra Brykowycz Montreal, Quebec the 2004 presidential elections in Ukraine, Mr. $100.00 A. Mulak-Yatzkivsky Los Angeles, Calif. Mary Decyk-Nowadly Niskayuna, N.Y. Deychakiwsky noted that “temnyky,” state interference, Ola Cholkan Toronto, Ontario Alex Harbuziuk Naperville, Ill. and the use of administrative resources and intimidation, (in memory of Stephen Hlynsky Lodi, N.J. harassment and outright fraud were largely a thing of the Roman Cholkan) Stefan Kyrylenko Beloit, Wisc. past. This time there was a freer media and decidedly more Orest Wesely Stockton, Calif. Ewhen Pytel Prairie Du Chien, Wisc. $60.00 Stefan Hawrysz Philadelphia, Pa. Anna Sawchuk Jamaica, N.Y. balanced media coverage, and the elections were conducted $55.00 Lida Buniak Fayetteville, N.Y. Julie Sydorowych Dewitt, N.Y. in an atmosphere of true competition. He also compared M. Domaradsky Waldwick, N.J. $5.00 Merle and Bonnie Toledo, Ohio is press fund the Rada elections with the presidential elections in Belarus $50.00 Ihor Sawon Somerville, N.J. Jurkiewicz held a week earlier, describing the latter as a “farce.” Neonila Sochan Morristown, N.J. Victor Kachur Columbus, Ohio However, there still were some shortcomings in the (in memory of Joseph Christine Matus Wyomissing, Pa. election process, Mr. Deychakiwsky said. The holding of and Mary Lesawyer) Olena Papiz Warren, Mich. $45.00 Morris Ilyniak Toronto, Ontario Jurij Podolak Silver Spring, Md. both national and local elections at the same time added to counted? John Krupinski Scranton, Pa. Mary Stec Pittsburgh, Pa. difficulties in the efficiency of the election process, lead- Mark Krushelnycky New York, N.Y. Oksana Wereijenko Doylestown, Pa. ing to long lines and overcrowding in some polling sta- $35.00 M. and M. Lomaga Wethersfield, Conn. tions. Outdated or incorrect information in voter lists with $30.00 Stefania Bryant Raleigh, N.C. the recent voter registration overhaul also led to complica- $25.00 Zirka Clark Bloomfield Hills, Mich. TOTAL: $1,295.00 tions – even disenfranchising some voters. Ksenia Kolcio Redondo Beach, Calif. Adrianna Melnyk New York, N.Y. Mr. Deychakiwsky praised the hundreds of thousands Sincere thanks to all contributors $20.00 Halyna Balaban Cronton on Hudson, N.Y. to The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund. of election workers and non-partisan domestic and party Daria Halaburda-Patti Clifton, N.J. observers for their hard work in ensuring the transparen- A. Melnyk Columbus, Ohio The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund is the $15.00 Jurij Cikalo Nutley, N.Y. 4.5” x 6.5” Paula Holoviak Sugarloaf, Pa. sole fund dedicated exclusively to supporting Oleksandr Khapatnyukovsky is an intern at the U.S.- Eugene Kurdydyk Toronto, Ontario the work of this publication. Ukraine Foundation. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 No. 18

Political expert evaluates impact of Ukraine’s parliamentary elections by Peter T. Woloschuk Center for Government and International Regions and its allies carried 10 oblasts, come in ahead of the Tymoshenko Bloc,” Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Studies and held in the Belfer Case Study while Our Ukraine and the Tymoshenko Dr. Haran said, “and it was predicted that Room on April 10. bloc and its allies won 17,” Dr. Haran Tymoshenko would play a major role in CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – “My main In his lecture – titled “Post-Orange said. “This was exactly the same as in the new government, but not as prime thesis,” Dr. Olexiy Haran said, speaking Ukraine and the March 2006 Elections: Round 3 of the presidential elections in minister. However, the bloc’s dominant before an audience composed primarily What Now?” – Dr. Haran looked at the December 2004. showing made it clear that Tymoshenko of academic and regional specialists, “is outcome of the elections and posited var- now won’t accept anything less than the that the results of Ukraine’s March par- ious scenarios for the formation of a new top spot. Her victory is due to skillful liamentary elections shouldn’t be viewed government, and then scrutized each in campaigning and the fact that she per- with alarm. They were a real victory for turn. sonally campaigned all across the coun- the principles of the Orange Revolution. He pointed out that Parliament has 30 try and attacked both [Viktor] Ukrainian politics are becoming normal days to convene after the election results Yushchenko and [Viktor] Yanukovych. and European, and are dramatically dif- have been ratified and promulgated, and As a result she came in first in 14 oblasts ferent than those in most of the other then the various parties have 30 days and second in nine, including all of the post-Soviet successor states.” after Parliament convenes to form a gov- oblasts in the south and east except for “As a result of these elections,” Dr. ernment. If they fail to do so within that Luhansk, Donetsk, Crimea and Haran continued, “the major political time period, under the Constitution the Sevastopol. If the Tymoshenko Bloc can parties in Ukraine have been forced to president has the right to disband the continue this trend, it has the possibility attempt to build coalitions with various Parliament and call for new elections. of becoming the first truly national polit- partners. In order to get power they have “I don’t think it will come to that, ical party.” to compromise and make deals. And that though,” Dr. Haran emphasized. “The “Even if the Orange forces come back is at the heart of all Western politics.” election results have not yet been certi- together, there are great differences “Despite all of the problems associat- fied and, once they are, the major victors between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko, ed with the campaign and elections, on in the election basically have 60 days to particularly in the areas of European the national level, they were free and pick the prime minister. There is plenty integration and NATO,” Dr. Haran said. fair,” Dr. Haran pointed out. “Each party of time for bartering and negotiations.” “However, under the new Constitution, campaigned freely, each party had access Dr. Haran analyzed the results of the Cabinet officers are sacrosanct for one to media, even government media, and elections and pointed out that more than full year and so they would have to learn there was no interference or manipulation 70 percent of the population voted in to work together.” by the government.” spite of disenchantment with the current The second scenario could happen, These remarks came in a lecture that state of affairs and the recent energy deal Dr. Haran said, but it would be forced by Dr. Haran delivered at the Harvard with Russia. He also underscored the fact Dr. Olexiy Haran businessmen in both camps, not by Ukrainian Research Institute’s (HURI) that on the national level the results Messrs. Yushchenko and Yanukovych. 13th annual Petryshyn Memorial Lecture closely mirrored those of the 2004 presi- “Although much has been made of the “There are businessmen on both sides which was co-sponsored by Harvard’s dential elections. “The Party of the fact that the Party of the Regions won a who want reform to continue and who plurality of votes, it must be emphasized want to trade with the West,” Dr. Haran that, even with the Communists and their pointed out. “However, such a coalition other allies, they do not constitute a would cause a major moral dilemma for Von Hagen revisits the question majority and have virtually no chance of many loyal followers in both camps, and, forming a new government themselves,” as a result, would have little chance for “Does Ukraine Have a History?” Dr. Haran continued. success.” He also pointed out that this was the “The final possibility,” Dr. Haran by Roma Hadzewycz published in the fall 1995 issue of Slavic first proportional election for the parties added, “is some sort of a grand coalition Review.) He noted that, “if we ... look to as mandated by recent constitutional of most, if not all, of the major parties,” NEW YORK – Dr. Mark von Hagen, the political geography of history teaching, reforms and that it actually worked to but he quickly pointed out that there director of the Ukrainian Studies we find virtually no recognition that strengthen the parties and give stability were too many disparate demands made Program at Columbia University, revisit- Ukraine has a history.” Ukrainian history to the government. Finally, he noted that by all these groups and the likelihood of ed the topic “Does Ukraine Have a as a field “does not exist per se,” he wrote. the situation on the local level was much them working together was slim at best. History?” in a lecture at the International He went on to note that it seems more complex, pointing out that the Dr. Haran concluded by saying that he Affairs Building that kicked off the uni- Ukraine does not have a history because Odesa Oblast had voted for the Party of is an optimist and that the ongoing politi- versity’s spring 2006 semester. Ukraine, and other states of Eastern and the Regions but the city of Odesa elected cal process in Kyiv gives hope for the Central Europe, “were pawns in the inter- a mayor who belongs to Our Ukraine. future. national system. Before 1914 the ‘non- “Under the old system, members of “These elections show that Ukraine is historical peoples’ were long subject to Parliament were free to do as they beginning to mature politically and that three Central European dynastic empires: pleased. There was little party discipline it is developing normal Western inter- the Romanovs, the Hohenzollerns and the and members could take independent party relations,” he said. “These elec- Habsburgs.” Later these nations became positions on any issue they wished. The tions and their aftermath are really the “the pawns of either the German Reich or electorate was never sure that their offspring of the Orange Revolution and the Soviet Union.” deputy was fulfilling their wishes or give hope for the future.” Furthermore, Prof. von Hagen watching out for their interests,” Dr. Born in Kyiv in 1959, Dr. Haran grad- observed that “two hegemonic histori- Haran explained. “Now deputies have to uated from the department of internation- ographies ... have had a vested interest in follow the dictates of their party.” al relations at Kyiv University (1981) the failure of East and Central European “The unfortunate piece of this new where he also received his candidates states, the German and the system is that deputies run on a national degree in international relations (1986) Russian/Soviet.” party slate and don’t have to come from and his doctorate in contemporary histo- On February 1, Prof. von Hagen, who is any particular region,” Dr. Haran said. ry (1996). He has been a Fulbright the Boris Bakhmeteff Professor of Russian “As a result, in the new Parliament Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of and East European Studies and teaches almost 60 percent of all of the deputies Government and has lectured extensively Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian history at come from Kyiv and another 12 percent in the United States. Columbia, addressed the topic anew and come from Donetsk.” Dr. Haran spent six years as a from the perspective of a Ukraine one year He continued: “In the new Parliament researcher at the Institute of History at after the Orange Revolution. 75 percent of the deputies belong to the the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and Introduced as “an organizer of major parties, 61 percent have been in 1994 became the dean and organizer Ukrainian studies both nationally and elected for the first time, and only 8 per- of the faculty of social sciences and the Zenon Zawada internationally” by his colleague Frank cent are women. first head of the political science depart- “However, Dr. Haran added, “these Prof. Mark von Hagen, director of the Sysyn, professor of history at the ment at the National University of Kyiv- University of Alberta and a Petro Jacyk women are strong, vocal figures who are Mohyla Academy (NUKMA). Ukrainian Studies Program at very charismatic.” Columbia University. Visiting Scholar at Columbia, Prof. von In 2002 he became the founding direc- Hagen spoke before an audience com- In analyzing the outcome of the tor of the NUKMA School for Policy prising students and faculty, as well as March elections, Dr. Haran cited three Analysis and in December 2004 began It was back in 1995 that Prof. von interested guests from outside the possible scenarios: serving as the Eurasia Foundation’s Hagen first addressed that topic in an Columbia University community. • the re-establishment of the Orange regional vice-president for Ukraine, essay by the same title in which he asked He began his talk by stating, “The ques- coalition with Our Ukraine and the Yulia Belarus and Moldova. The foundation whether Ukraine has “a written history tion of what made Ukrainian history Tymoshenko Bloc forming a new gov- has given out more than 1,400 grants in of its experienced past that commends ‘Ukrainian’ was no doubt behind my ernment, perhaps with the Socialists; Ukraine since 1994, averaging more than some widespread acceptance and author- provocative essay title of a few years • a coalition of Our Ukraine and the $20,000 each. ity in the international scholarly and back.” After all, he explained, he had come Party of the Regions – uniting the Dr. Haran is the author of “To Kill the political communities.” to Ukrainian studies from years of work in Orange with the Blue; or Dragon: From the History of Rukh and Eleven years ago, as he examined the the history and languages of Russia and • a grand coalition composed of most, the New Political Parties of Ukraine” history and historiography of Ukraine, Poland, as well as graduate work in mod- if not all, of the parties in Parliament. and is the co-author of several other Prof. von Hagen found that the answer “At the beginning of the campaign, was not quite so simple. (His article was (Continued on page 23) polls indicated that Our Ukraine would (Continued on page 23) No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 11

THE 20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHORNOBYL NUCLEAR DISASTER First International Youth Ecology Forum held in Slavutych U.S.-Ukraine Foundation general director of the Research Center for Radiological Medicine, member-cor- SLAVUTYCH, Ukraine – On the eve respondent of the Academy of Medical of the 20th anniversary of the Chornobyl Sciences of Ukraine; disaster, the First International Youth Ecology Forum was held in the city of • “Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant – Slavutych on April 4-7. The Trial Years” – Oleksander Bringing together youth from across Yevhenovych Novikov, deputy technical Ukraine, the goal of the forum was to director for Nuclear Safety at the attract youth to public life through eco- Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant; logical education, raise a generation that • “Rehabilitation of radioactive territo- is ecologically aware and provide reli- ries” Anatolii Volodymyrovych Nosovsky, able information on the radioecological Ph.D. in technical sciences, professor, problems of the catastrophe. director of the Slavutych Training Center The forum, a component of the U.S.- at the Chernihiv State Institute for Ukraine Foundation’s heralded Youth Economics and Management, director of Leadership Program, demonstrated that, the Slavutych branch of the Kyiv by uniting their intellectual forces, youth Polytechnic Institute; and and local government can take on the • “Techno-Eco-Polis Slavutych – Participants of the Youth Ecology Forum: (bottom row, from left) Oleksiy Lyzenko (Kirovske, Donetsk Oblast), Yulia Olabenko (Voznesensk, Mykolaiv Oblast), Volodymyr Boyaryn (Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Volyn Oblast), (top row, from left) Oleksandra Prudnikova (Korosten, Zhytomyr Oblast), Natalia Tatarina (Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytsky Oblast)

The participants then broke up into sible, unfortunately, Chornobyl will sections to further discuss these topics. remain a problem for the next generation. The USUF hosted a discussion titled On their train ride back to Slavutych, “Youth and Local Government: Partners participants were able to talk with work- in Solving Ecological Problems in a ers heading home after their daily shifts. Community.” At the close of the forum, participants The next day participants traveled by unanimously adopted a resolution, before train to the Chornobyl Nuclear Power attending a commemorative performance Plant inside the 30-kilometer exclusion by Slavutych youth and laying flowers at zone. They were given an overview of the town’s memorial to Chornobyl liq- the accident using a detailed model of the uidators. interior of reactor No. 4, told of current Slavutych, a participant in the U.S.- measures being taken to safeguard the Ukraine Foundation’s Community reactor and, plans for building a new Partnerships Project since 1997 – it is a shelter, and were provided a description partner city of Richland, Wash. – was of life within the exclusion zone. built by people from across the Soviet The trip continued two miles farther to Union in 1987-1989 to house displaced Participants standing by the Chornobyl Memorial in the city of Slavutych. the abandoned city of Prypiat, and then workers from the Chornobyl Nuclear on to the city of Chornobyl, which still Power Plant. Slavutych is Ukraine’s battle for an ecologically sound environ- Effective Socioeconomic Rehabilitation” houses some temporary workers. youngest city, both historically and ment and healthy way of life. – Volodymyr Petrovych Udovychenko, Back at the plant, the participants met demographically; the average age of resi- Participants included students from Ph.D. in economics, winner of the State with the head of the Information dents is 31. In 2005 it was ranked second state universities in Uzhhorod, Sevastopol, Prize of Ukraine in Science and Department, who discussed the history of among Ukrainian cities, after Kyiv, in Kyiv, Chernihiv and Odesa, the Slavutych Technology, member of the Ukrainian the plant and the reasons for its shut- terms of socioeconomic development. lyceum, members of the Kyiv Oblast stu- Ecological Academy of Sciences, mem- down. He assured them that while every- For more information about the U.S.- dent council and youth representatives ber of the Congress of Local and one at the plant is working hard and Ukraine Foundation readers may log on from the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation’s Regional Governments of Europe. doing their best to make it as safe as pos- to http://www.usukraine.org. Community Partnerships Project (CPP) cities of Kamianets-Podilskyi, Kirovske, Komsomolsk, Korosten, Volodymyr- Volynskyi and Voznesensk. The forum initiative was co-sponsored by the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF), the Executive Committee of the Slavutych City Council – Division of Family and Youth, the State Specialized Enterprise Chornobyl Atomic Energy Station and the Kyiv Oblast State Administration – Department for Family and Youth. In his introductory remarks at the forum’s opening on April 5, Slavutych Mayor Volodymyr Udovychenko noted that we will probably never know the true consequences of the Chornobyl catastro- phe. He pointed out that, unfortunately, our youth do not have enough information about it – thus stressing the importance of such events. He expressed his hope that this will become an annual forum. Presentations were then given by experts on the following issues and prob- lems related to the Chornobyl disaster: • “Radioecological Problems of the Exclusion Zone” Yurii Oleksandrovych Ivanov, Ph.D. in biology, chief research engineer, International Radioecology Laboratory at the Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology; • “Medical aspects of the Chornobyl Catastrophe” – Volodymyr Hryhorovych Bebeshko, Ph.D. in medicine, professor, Participants standing around a model of the destroyed reactor 4 at the Chornobyl Shelter Observation Room. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 No. 18

THE 20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHORNOBYL NUCLEAR DISASTER Greenpeace, others challenge IAEA report on disaster’s consequences

by Luke Allnutt and Claire Bigg and the United Nations Development Speaking at a Greenpeace news confer- stances close one’s eyes to this problem, RFE/RL Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Report Program, said fewer than 50 deaths so far ence in Moscow earlier this month, like the IAEA and our opponents from could be directly attributed to Chornobyl. Lyudmilla Komogortseva, a deputy from Rosatom are trying to do.” Greenpeace has sharply criticized a The report claimed the disaster will cause the Bryansk Oblast – Russia’s region most The IAEA, however, dismisses such report by the International Atomic no more than 4,000 deaths worldwide. It affected by the accident – said the inci- warnings. Didier Louvat, the head of the Energy Agency – the United Nations’ also found no profound negative health dence of cancer in her region is 10 to 15 IAEA’s waste safety section that helped nuclear watchdog – claiming the 1986 consequences to the rest of the popula- percent higher than the national average. coordinate the United Nations report on nuclear catastrophe at Chornobyl tion in surrounding areas. “Today one can say with certainty that Chornobyl, told RFE/RL there was no (Chernobyl) will cause no more than These figures take into account only the Chornobyl catastrophe, even what is evidence showing low radiation doses 4,000 deaths worldwide. Like a number the people most exposed: those sent to called low-radiation doses, has a negative increased the risk of cancer. of environmental organizations, “liquidate” the consequence of the explo- effect on the health of people living in “The Bryansk region was the Russian Greenpeace accuses the report of “white- sion and those who lived in nearby towns the regions exposed to radioactive pollu- region most affected by the [radioactive] washing” Chornobyl’s impact and claims at the time of the accident. tion,” Ms. Komogortseva said. fallout. So the Bryansk region forests are that some 200,000 people in Russia, The IAEA says its findings regarding Ms. Komogortseva lashed out at the certainly the most contaminated. If this Ukraine and Belarus could already have the environmental impact of the blast are Russian government for failing to pay can be related to any increase of cancer died as a result of the accident. also “reassuring,” with radiation levels compensation to the Bryansk population in the region, among the population, even Parishev, 20 kilometers east of mostly returning to normal. for health damage and slashing ecologi- the population consuming forest prod- Chornobyl, was once a bustling village of The report claims that poverty, disease cal and health programs set up in the ucts? The WHO report clearly said no,” several hundred people. Now, only a and mental-health problems in the former region after the disaster. Mr. Louvat said. “Twenty percent of the dozen people remain. Soviet Union actually pose a far greater Some experts and local residents are population – the Russian population, the Speaking to RFE/RL one year ago, health threat than radiation exposure. also concerned about the dangers of con- world population – are going to die of Halyna Yavchenko said the number of But this verdict has been challenged taminated food. cancer. There is no way to attribute this villagers in Parishev is shrinking and that by a number of organizations, including Ms. Komogortseva said more than 50 cancer to one specific cause.” people are dying one after the other. She Greenpeace and associations of percent of food products in the Bryansk Greenpeace believes the authors of the herself complained of strong headaches Chornobyl “liquidators.” region are contaminated, according to Chernobyl Forum report have an agenda. and high blood pressure. Speaking at a press conference on official figures from Russian veterinary Mr. Chuprov said the report is part of a But she said she’s not afraid to live in April 18 in Kyiv, Bruno Rebelle, a pro- sources. In addition, she said, local resi- campaign to present nuclear energy as a an abandoned village in the middle of a gram director for Greenpeace dents widely consume mushrooms, reliable and safe source of energy: “The radioactive zone. If only the wild animals International, said the number of berries and game from the forests, where question is politicized. There is a power- would leave her garden alone: “We are Chornobyl-related deaths is much higher: most of the radiation is concentrated. ful lobby, and public opinion on used to living here. But we are like “The most recent published figures indi- Speaking at the same press conference, Chornobyl is the last barrier against the wolves here. Last year, boars ate every- cates that in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine Vladimir Chuprov, the chief nuclear construction of new [nuclear] reactors in thing they could find.” alone, the accident resulted in an estimat- expert at Greenpeace’s Moscow chapter, Russia and in the world. This is part of a Ms. Yavchenko is one of the many ed 200,000 additional deaths between said these food products continue to pose PR campaign aimed at eliminating social affected by the 1986 disaster, where a 1994 and 2000.” a serious health threat: “These food prod- disapproval, because according to social power surge triggered an explosion that A recent Greenpeace report, which is ucts – mushrooms, berries, meat, dairy polls, 78 percent of Russians are against emitted radiation across Europe. But partly based on research from the products – reach the Moscow market, the the construction of nuclear plants in their experts disagree how severe the conse- Russian and Belarusian Academies of St. Petersburg market, the central region.” quences of the disaster have been – and Sciences, says that the incidence of can- European part of Russia. Specialized Russia’s atomic energy agency, Rosatom, how bad they still could be in the future. cer in Belarus jumped 40 percent organizations are known to withdraw has announced plans to build 40 new A report released in September 2005 between 1990 and 2000. And, according hundreds of kilograms of these products nuclear reactors in the country by 2030. by the Chernobyl Forum, which compris- to the report, children born after 1986 from Moscow markets every year. The es the International Atomic Energy have shown an 88.5-fold increase in thy- problem here is general, this radiation is RFE/RL’s Valentinas Mite contributed Agency, the World Health Organization roid cancers. spreading, and one should in no circum- to this report. 20 years later: What lessons have been learned?

by Robert Parsons a tireless advocate of the Slavutych cause. ble to radiation from the disaster but that, ed and then relocated from the region RFE/RL Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Report He argues that the Ukrainian government ultimately, several thousand could die most affected by the accident. undertook to guarantee jobs for the work- from fatal cancers, in addition to the As the example of Slavutych shows, Twenty years ago in the early morning of ers laid off by the closure of Chornobyl. 100,000 cancer deaths expected in the unemployment is one of the biggest con- April 26, while most of Europe lay oblivi- “The main problem today is the budget region from other causes. sequences of the disaster. The station has ous and asleep, a chain of events had begun problem of Slavutych – and that’s not even This is a far cry from the early predic- shut down and the local economy all but in Soviet Ukraine that was to unleash a addressing the issues of medical care,” Mr. tions of a worldwide radiation-induced collapsed. But, relatively speaking, the catastrophe of unprecedented scale. At 1:23 Udovychenko said. “It’s not right to apply health disaster in which thousands would people of Slavutych have been privi- a.m., a massive surge of power in the fourth the same standards for the work force of die from radiation sickness. leged. reactor at the huge Chornobyl power station the Chornobyl atomic station as we have in But, it says, less is understood about Most of the evacuees, the report says, triggered an explosion that lifted the 1,000- the rest of Ukraine. Here in Slavutych the dramatic increase in psychological have had huge difficulties adjusting to ton lid off the reactor’s core. there are 8,000 people who took part, one problems caused by insufficient commu- the disruption in their lives. They feel Within hours a column of radioactive way or another, in the containment of the nication about radiation affects, the social rootless and unwanted, and share a fatal- material some 1 kilometer high was drifting explosion and the clean-up. We can say disruption of evacuation, and economic istic belief that their life expectancy has northwest across Europe. As panic gripped that the government of Ukraine is not ful- depression. been reduced by exposure to radiation. the continent, hundreds of thousands of peo- filling its commitments made when closing Volodymyr Berkovsky of the At the heart of the problem, the report ple, many of them volunteers, fought with the Chornobyl nuclear power station.” International Atomic Energy Agency’s argues, lies the failure of first the Soviet astonishing courage to control the accident. Mr. Udovychenko is talking about Research Center for Radiation Medicine authorities and then subsequently the Twenty years on, what are the lessons of unemployment. Built as a model town, shares the report’s view that the mental- Ukrainian authorities to provide full Chornobyl and what are its consequences? the continued dependence of Slavutych health impact of Chornobyl is the largest information. Chornobyl has left a legacy Snow still lay on the ground in on the station threatens it with ruin. public health problem unleashed by the of mistrust. Slavutych in defiance of the early March “In 1999 we still had 10,000 jobs here accident to date. Yes Anders Knape, a vice-president of sunshine. Even at midday, the town had at the power station,” he said. “Today, “Unfortunately, we cannot discuss the Bureau of the Congress of Local and an unnatural stillness, underlined – not we’re down to 3,620. In other words, mental problems in terms of numbers like Regional Authorities of the Council of broken – by the occasional shopper or we’ve been through a huge transforma- we discuss morbidity or mortality,” he Europe, thinks lessons should and can be group of schoolchildren. tion. But if we lose those jobs as well, it says. “It’s rather subjective. It could be a learned. Mr. Knape was attending a con- The town’s strangeness has a cause. will be a catastrophe for Slavutych.” consequence of the accident. It could be ference organized in March by the Slavutych is the child of the Chornobyl In September 2005, the U.N.-spon- something like simultaneous action of the Congress of Local and Regional disaster, a small city constructed from sored Chernobyl Forum presented the total problem in the country plus Authorities of the Council of Europe in nothing to take in the evacuated staff of conclusions of its digest report on Chornobyl. It is mostly superimposition Slavutych to share his experiences as the nuclear plant and their families. Chornobyl’s legacy, a massive 600-page of different factors – of economic prob- deputy mayor of the Swedish city of Just 50 kilometers from Chornobyl, it analysis incorporating the work of hun- lems, of economic stagnation, contamina- Karlstadt, another town heavily depend- was built as a showcase and a demonstra- dreds of scientists and experts. It is the tion and so on.” ent on nuclear energy. tion of the indomitable human spirit, but most thorough examination yet made of Perhaps it is the subjective nature of The key, he says, is information. The in its own way it, too, has become a testi- the health, sociological, environmental the problem that has caused it to be local people need to be properly mony to tragedy. and economic consequences of the acci- somewhat neglected. The report notes informed of the risks of living in the Its energetic mayor, Volodymyr dent. that the psychological distress arising vicinity of a nuclear power station and Udovychenko, who is himself a former It argues that so far fewer than 50 peo- from the accident has been particularly employee of the nuclear power station, is ple have died of causes directly attributa- acute among the 330,000 people evacuat- (Continued on page 13) No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 13

THE 20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHORNOBYL NUCLEAR DISASTER Chornobyl catastrophe... “Frankly, it makes no sense to me.” “Cars crash. But people still drive cars.” A disaster like Chornobyl could just as Oleh Cherviakov knew all the men (Continued from page 3) easily happen in Millstone, she said, and whose plaques decorate the memorial Americans have no reason to feel com- disaster,” Mr. Coehlo said. “I was really mound at the Warriors of Chornobyl park. shocked because I was convinced that forted that its nuclear industry is in pri- In some ways, the Soviet system was everybody knew.” vate hands. good, he said. People were more solid, The humanitarian forum is of major “Cutting corners is the name of the they were more friendly. importance in not allowing people to for- game, and they did that in the construc- “And if something like this were to get those events that affect everyone in tion of Millstone,” she said. Leukemia, happen now in our country, there’s no the world, he said. It can transform a thyroid cancers and extraordinary can- way Ukraine would be able to solve this tragedy into something positive because cers cases have been increasing and are task alone,” Mr. Cherviakov said. “we can have good lessons from unusually high in Millstone, she added. He doesn’t think any other government tragedies,” Mr. Coehlo said. The Chornobyl+20 conference resolu- would have reacted differently compared to The first and the most important lesson tion declared that the international com- how the Soviet government responded to is try not to let it happen again, he said, munity has failed to recognize the truth Chornobyl. “Every government has secrets and then try to learn how to manage these about the Chornobyl disaster. It con- which prevents impermissible things to be disasters created by human beings. demned the nuclear industry for promot- disseminated,” Mr. Cherviakov said. “I am grateful to you for organizing ing itself and seeking government subsi- Ukraine should keep nuclear energy, he this event, for making people more dies to continue expanding. said, especially considering Ukraine’s aware, for those people who weren’t It also condemned the drive to make problems with obtaining fuel. Technology affected or who weren’t even born when the Russian Federation into an interna- is constantly developing to make nuclear this tragedy happened,” Mr. Coehlo said. tional receptor of nuclear waste, stating Zenon Zawada plants more secure, he argued. Among the scientists to address the that each nation should find ways to cope “Cars crash, but people still drive humanitarian forum was Dr. Wolodymyr Dr. Wolodymyr Wertelecki of the with its own waste products. cars,” he said. Wertelecki, chairman of medical genetics at University of South Alabama at the the University of South Alabama in Mobile. “Birth, Renewal and Human He spoke on the influence of Development” forum on April 25. Chornobyl on the genetic health of future Where were you on April 26, 1986? generations that have been investigated putable for the minister of health, who by a large team of researchers. some people contend is committing pub- Several participants of the “Rebirth, Kateryna Yushchenko, first lady Dr. Wertelecki’s report was among the lic health malpractice by not introducing Renewal and Human Development” of Ukraine: few, if any, to seriously explore the effect these preventive measures.” conference recalled the moment they I think many people can remember of Chornobyl’s radiation fallout on Beyond spina bifida, during the last learned of the Chornobyl catastrophe. the moment they first heard about genetics. five years four cases of conjoined twins President Viktor Yushchenko offered his Chornobyl. I remember it well. I was a Information on Chornobyl’s impact on have emerged in the Rivne Oblast, which comments in an interview on Ukrainian member of the Ukrainian diaspora, birth defects is quite limited so far, Dr. is the region heaviest hit by ionizing state television. studying at the University of Chicago. Wertelecki said, partly because Ukraine radiation from Chornobyl. On television late at night, there doesn’t have a broad birth defect surveil- One case emerged in Crimea a week Viktor Yushchenko, president of appeared a special report. lance system, with the exception of five ago, Dr. Wertelecki said. Ukraine: And it showed a map of the Soviet scattered centers. “This is not attributable to Chornobyl, I was in Kyiv then, while my family Union, in the middle, where Ukraine was, The studies, he said, have pinpointed but is attributable to something,” he said. was in the Sumy Oblast. On April 26, there was a nuclear radiation. And there there was information that there was a was radiation coming out of Ukraine, and an epidemic among Ukraine’s infants of “Chornobyl+20: Remembrance spina bifida, a genetic disorder in which redness to the sky in the Chornobyl nobody knew whether it was a bomb or a district, that two explosions had nuclear plant. Nobody knew. the spinal canal isn’t closed and is for the Future” occurred. And this information seeped And when I began calling my fami- exposed outside the skin, or is severed. It Aside from the official conferences, into Kyiv. Until May 2, no information ly, there were no lines. And what was is considered among the most serious of Ukrainian, German and other European was correct. tragic is that I knew what was happen- birth defects. environmental organizations combined I remember how May 1 was a clear ing in Ukraine before my family did. Ukraine loses 500 children to spina efforts to host the “Chornobyl+20: spring day, and dandelions had blos- And I think many people will remem- bifida every year and has lost 2,500 chil- Remembrance for the Future” confer- somed. I remember my daughter ber those very tragic moments. dren in the last five years. ence, which had an explicit anti-nuclear Vitalina had arrived, and we walked If the Ukrainian government were to energy orientation. along the Dnipro’s precipice, gathering John Herbst, U.S. ambassador to introduce folic acid into the diet of its Among those attending was Nancy them. Ukraine: citizens, spina bifida cases could be Burton of the Connecticut Coalition Then we went to the Khreschatyk, I was at that time working at the reduced by at least 50 percent in Crimea, Against Millstone, who has led an effort and there was a bike race where many American Embassy in Moscow. And I and by three-quarters in the most affect- to close the Millstone nuclear power Kyivans stood. There was a feeling of remember getting the reports about ed regions such as the Rivne and Lutsk plant in Connecticut since 1988. absolute peace. There wasn’t any feel- what might have been happening in oblasts, Dr. Wertelecki said. She was initially drawn to Ukraine by ing of alarm that an irreversible Ukraine. He accused Ukraine’s minister of the Orange Revolution as an election tragedy had taken place. And, of course, that was the time of health, Yuri Poliachenko, of ignoring the observer and then began to study the I remember the issue was raised in the policy of glasnost, of opening up. spina bifida epidemic. Chornobyl disaster. the bank that we need to remove the And that was the very first failure of “These are not arguable scientific “I am horrified to learn that far from bank’s property from the Chornobyl the policy of glasnost because the facts,” he said. “There is so much data entering the modern era of conservation zone – bank notes, money, valuables. Soviet authorities, as always, hid the right now that the Center for Disease and investing in clean, green energy, it There was a line to go, and I didn’t great tragedy that had unfolded before Control in the U.S. has said monitoring sounds like the Orange Revolution’s sign up for it. Only experts were need- the eyes of the world. is no longer necessary. This is beyond leaders are pushing for a nuclear revival ed, those who knew how to manage And, most importantly, while dispute, in terms of science. But it is dis- in the homeland of Chornobyl,” she said. cashier operations, work with cash, not Communist officials were shipping their economists or financiers. children out of Ukraine, the people of Chornobyl were living and their children catastrophe like this, in the beginning were playing in the fields of Ukraine. 20 years later... you have a lot of resources and a lot of As luck would have it, I was visiting (Continued from page 12) focus coming from national government with my wife and children in Kyiv and trained to know what to do when things and from all over the world,” he says. Chernihiv about two weeks before the go wrong. Like many, he believes the “But when it comes back to ordinary Chornobyl disaster. And there but for scale of the evacuation was greater than days, it’s the local authorities who have the grace of God would have been my to meet the needs of the local popula- it should have been. children. tion,” he continues. “Of course, if you “The reaction [at the time] was that the have an open and democratic local socie- catastrophe was bigger than we can see [it Paolo Coehlo, world-renowned ty, you also have a better chance to han- author: was] today,” he says. “Today we know we dle these types of situations.” haven’t had the extreme dimensions of I remember the day when I heard the Controversially, perhaps, the U.N.- news. I was in Brazil. I am a Brazilian. people killed or of areas you can’t live in sponsored Chernobyl Forum report and things like that. So that’s very impor- It was quite far away from the disaster argues that most of the contaminated ter- itself. But many times, some things tant to give back to people their hopes for ritories are now safe for settlement and that affect one person or a group will the future, give back their land, give back economic activity. Radiation levels, it affect all of humankind. their opportunities for work and living maintains, have fallen several hundred On my first visit to Ukraine, I tried to also in areas close to Chornobyl.” times because of natural processes and go to Chornobyl but it was impossible. But it’s not just more information countermeasures. Only in this way, it So I went to the museum of Chornobyl. that’s needed. Mr. Knape argues that you suggests, will it be possible for the evac- Zenon Zawada And I was moved to tears when I saw need greater popular involvement in gov- uees of Chornobyl to begin the long Paolo Coehlo the consequences of the disaster. ernment as well. “When you have a process of reclaiming their lives. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 No. 18 Yuri Onuch reflects on Ukrainian contemporary art by Oksana Zakydalsky that came to us from Pittsburgh, the Kabakov and Kossuth show, Joseph Beuys, and the “Brand: Ukrainian” The Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Kyiv, show, which had a wide resonance in Ukraine. We took whose mission has been to foster contemporary visual part in the “Year of Poland in Ukraine” program with an art and culture in Ukraine, was established in 1993. outstanding exhibit of seven contemporary Polish artists Currently it has five professional staff, two support staff, and were able to produce a wonderful catalogue thanks to one intern and from six to eight volunteers. It is located financial support from Poland. Six of the artists came to in the Podil district of Kyiv, in an 18th century historical Kyiv and created their projects right in the gallery. building that belongs to the National University of Kyiv And just recently, we formed a coalition of partners Mohyla Academy (NUKMA). Through a contract with such as The British Council, Goethe Institute, Alliance the NUKMA, the CCA has use of the premises for 10 Francaise and others, to be able to pay the fee of 26,000 years, after which the property reverts to the university. euros to bring to Kyiv the World Press photo exhibit. Yuri (Jerzy) Onuch became director of the CCA in We have a group of contemporary Ukrainian artists who 1997. He was born in Poland but, since 1985, has been work with us. This group, which includes people such as a resident of Canada. After seven years as the director, Arsen Savadov, Alexander Roitburd, Oleh Tistol and Andrei Mr. Onuch has left the CCA. He was in Toronto at the Sahaidakowsky, began their careers at the end of the 1980s beginning of this year and this writer asked him to and today the artists are 40 to 50 years old. Everyone had describe and evaluate his years at the CCA. long been waiting for a new generation of artists and finally last year, they appeared. The catalyst for this was the Orange How did you become the director of the CCA? Revolution. The CCA gave these 20- to 25-year-old artists a The first director of the CCA was Marta Kuzma (from platform for their creative activity. They adopted the name the U.S.), and the CCA was then funded by the Soros REP (acronym for Revolutsiinyi Eksperementalnyi Prostir) Renaissance Fund in Kyiv. In 1997 Soros decided that the and gathered and lived at the CCA. They showed tremen- dous energy – that’s not to say that they had very interesting CCA should become an independent organization – part of Yuri Onuch a network of Centers of Contemporary Art, of which there or phenomenal artistic ideas but, because of the maidan (Independence Square), they came out and began to say were about 20 in Europe – funded directly from New Another thing I am happy about – something that what they thought, what they wanted and what pained them. York. I was successful in the competition for the new engenders optimism – is the public. When I came to the [Part of the initial REP maidan exhibit from the CCA was director, and it took me a year and a half to register the CCA, the budget was almost half a million dollars annual- shown recently in Chicago.] CCA as a Ukrainian international charitable foundation. ly, but the annual number of visits to the CCA was about During 2005 they were made artists-in-residence at the The law on charitable organizations in Ukraine is very 7,000. Whereas, last year, up to November 2005, 43,000 CCA. They were able to work there, present shows, proj- restrictive and limits their functioning. They can only people have come to the CCA. There have been, on aver- ects, actions and performances. Because they were young, receive donations and cannot engage in any income-gener- age, 40,000 visits annually in the last few years. I estimate they drew in a lot of their own audience. The CCA will ating activities. For example, a gallery can’t charge any that we have about 10,000 persons for whom contempo- continue to have artists-in-residence, but this program will entrance fee or sell its catalogue in order to recoup costs. rary art forms part of their cultural life. This does not be limited to three artists and one curator-critic. By 1999 it became obvious that the funding of the mean that they are all fans of contemporary art, that they Usually, a new generation appears every five years, but Soros network of CCAs was going to stop as Soros was like everything – we often get critical reactions. But the planning to cease the funding of all cultural programs the gap between the previous group of artists and this new group is 15 to 20 years. Why did it take so long? One of fact that they come, that it interests them, that they want to from New York. He agreed to a three-year phase-out know about it – this is a great success of the CCA. period for the CCA, which then had to begin its own the reasons is the system of art education in Ukraine. The Academy of Arts does not work in the paradigm of con- I believe we are ready for a generational change in fund-raising. Just to run the physical plant – staff, tele- Ukraine. There is a small group of specialists – experts, phone, computer maintenance, garbage collection, etc. – temporary art. Its level of consciousness is stuck in the critics, professionals – who are ready and there is a pub- the CCA needs about $50,000 annually. mid-20th century. People interested in contemporary art lic that is ready. When the attitude to culture in the offi- We were not able to find any local sponsor that would have to learn from each other rather than their teachers. cial policy is changed, the ground will be ready. There replace Soros. Hence, it was not possible to remake the The Orange Revolution brought these young together. is no need to start from the beginning. That is why it is institution as I had hoped nor do long-range planning. important to maintain what has been achieved, to have Today everything is done on a one-off basis. Funding for What do you consider to have been your successes? the institution continue to exist. every project, for every show, for every activity is specif- Today, the CCA is the most important institution in ic. The $35,000 the CCA now receives annually from the Ukraine which deals exclusively with issues of contempo- You mention the attitude to culture in official poli- Kyiv Renaissance Foundation does not even cover the rary culture and contemporary art. Not only the most cy. What is your evaluation of this policy and have running costs. I invested a good chunk of my life into important but the only one. At the same time, we have you seen any change in it during your years in Kyiv? this institution and, as I leave, I fear that my younger col- been able to maintain a professional level, and even serve leagues, whom I have trained and prepared, will not be as an example to other galleries. We were the first to bring From my perspective of eight years working in the able to find adequate support and the CCA might change the curatorial system to Ukraine. We at the CCA worked field of culture in Ukraine, I have not noticed any sys- into a post-Soviet organization – not yet dead but no with curators who worked with the artists. We had high temic changes or any desire to make them. Remnants of longer living, of which there are many in Ukraine. standards of how to exhibit visual art – its physical presen- Soviet institutions persist. There are 27 or 28 so-called tation, the design of the exhibit, the lighting and so on. creative unions or associations (tvorchi spilky), some of What do you consider to have been the highlights which have national status. Although I understand that of your years as director? And we brought public relations into our activities – we issued press releases for every activity, organized press it’s good to have representative organizations, the prob- We tried to find a balance between international proj- conferences before each event and so on. And, finally, all lem is their monopoly position. ects and Ukrainian-based projects. As for highlights in the our printed work, such as invitations or catalogues, was on A good example was the Ukrainian presentation at last few years, I could mention the Andy Warhol exhibit a professional level even when money was tight. the Venice Biennale in 2001 which I started to organize. The Union of Artists was not interested in the Biennale, maybe it didn’t even know it existed. But my competi- tors for the Ukrainian presentation were able to use the unique monopoly position of the union to sabotage the project. The affair showed that the union was powerful, that it could wreck projects in which its involvement was not sought. The Ministry of Culture is obligated to partially sup- port its activities and the Union of Artists is sitting on very valuable real estate – union buildings, union estab- lishments – almost all artists’ studios (except for Lviv where they have been privatized) are formally owned by the Union of Artists. How did Ukraine’s neighbors – for example Poland and the Baltics – solve this problem of monopoly? One must understand that in those countries there were people who wanted systemic changes, and they formed a critical mass among the remnants of Soviet legacy. Many changes took place thanks to the ministers of culture in those countries. For example, the minister of culture in Latvia was a person who was 28 years old. He had no experience but a will to make changes. The CCA in Latvia was created by the state; the director who was appointed was 30 years old. It is important to bring in new people into positions where decisions are made. In Ukraine no systemic changes in cultural policy have The REP group of artists prepares its show at the CCA in December 2004. (Continued on page 24) No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 15 Collection of works by artist Oleksa Hryshchenko transferred to Ukraine

NEW YORK – Nearly 30 years after foundation oversight rights to ensure that his death and in keeping with his wishes, all transfer conditions will be upheld in a major collection of the great Ukrainian the future. expressionist painter Oleksa “Hryshchenko will find a new life in Hryshchenko (Alexis Gritchenko) was Ukraine,” declared Mr. Melnyk of the formally transferred to his native Ukraine National Museum in Kyiv, in remarks to at a ceremony at the Ukrainian Institute guests witnessing the transfer ceremony. of America on March 22. He hailed the transfer of Hryshchenko’s Some 70 works, from oils to watercol- works as a “truly big event for Ukraine,” ors to drawings, as well as books, cata- and described the artist as one of the logues, notes, handwritten memoirs and “shining lights” of Ukraine’s cultural and other archival material, had been intellectual heritage. bequeathed by the artist to the Oleksa Echoing his remarks, Ukraine’s new Hryshchenko Foundation, founded in consul general in New York, Mykola 1963 with the provision that they be Kyrychenko, said he was “glad and transferred some day to museums of a proud” that Ukrainian Americans had free Ukraine. Throughout the years, the safeguarded the collection throughout the Officials of Ukraine, the Oleksa Hryshchenko Foundation and the Ukrainian foundation was located at the Ukrainian decades. Hryshchenko’s works, he said, Institute of America sign an agreement on the transfer of art works by Institute of America (UIA) in New York. “are returning (to Ukraine) but so is his Hryshchenko to his native Ukraine. The transfer act was signed by founda- name, and his stature will be restored to tion President Walter Baranetsky and the high place where it rightly belongs.” original directors, recalled how America, the Hryshchenko Foundation UIA President Jaroslav Kryshtalsky, and, According to Mr. Bilash, the Kyiv Hryshchenko, nearing 80 and recuperat- was established, with the goal of eventu- for the receiving side, by Pavlo Bilash, museum is scheduling a Hryshchenko ing from a serious illness, mused nostal- ally moving the bequeathed collection to deputy head of Ukraine’s state commis- exhibit still for 2006, and exhibits are gically about his early years in Ukraine. museums in an independent Ukraine. The sion for the transfer of cultural treasures, also already being planned for Lviv, After a life of prodigious output, inten- Ukrainian Institute’s founder and bene- and Anatolyi Melnyk, director of Kyiv’s Kharkiv and other cities. Mr. Bilash sive travel and acclaim, Hryshchenko’s factor, William Dzus, readily agreed to National Museum of Art of Ukraine. The added that the collection will not be bro- only regret, said Mr. Baranetsky, was that house the foundation at the institute until act stipulates that Hryshchenko’s works ken up among museums but will remain his work remained unknown to his coun- that time, Mr. Baranetsky said. be permanently housed in national muse- intact. trymen. Paintings that had been in the The foundation had considered trans- ums of Ukraine, not to be sold to anyone Mr. Baranetsky, the head of the collections of the Lviv Museum were ferring the collection to Ukraine after the or given to other institutions; it gives the Hryshchenko Foundation and one of its destroyed by the Soviets as “bourgeois country’s referendum on independence in formalism,” together with works by such 1991, but it was only in recent years that other notable Ukrainian artists as Ukraine’s political and legal circum- Alexander Archipenko, Mykhailo stances had stabilized enough to make a Boichuk and Yurii Narbut. transfer feasible, according to Mr. Donetsk-born pianist Serhiy Salov On the suggestion of a group of close Baranetsky. He also thanked the friends, among them the artist and art Ukrainian Consulate in New York for performs debut concert in Toronto scholar Sviatoslav Hordynsky, then head by Tetiana Tkachenko of the Association of Ukrainian Artists of (Continued on page 25) TORONTO – Artistic performances that are 100 percent successful in every respect are truly rare, however the Toronto debut concert of pianist Serhiy Documentary on internment operations Salov, which took place on March 1, in the Glen Gould Studio, was indeed an of 1914-1920 now available on DVD unqualified success. MONTREAL – The award-winning the film crew. By means of archival Winner of the First Grand Prize at the documentary “Freedom Had a Price” footage, vintage photographs, and the Montreal International Musical depicting Canada’s first internment oper- compelling testimony of survivors and Competition in 2004, Mr. Salov was ation between 1914 and 1920 has been prominent Canadian historians, the film born in 1979 in Donetsk, where he released on DVD by the National Film captures a moving, human story that has attended a special music school for Board of Canada. finally gained public attention. exceptionally gifted musicians. Upon Produced and directed by filmmaker Mr. Luhovy first began researching the completion of these studies, he achieved Yurij Luhovy, the one-hour film docu- internment of Ukrainians in Canada in his bachelor of music from ments the over 5,000 Ukrainians in Musikhochschule Freiburg in Germany, the early 1970s when interest in this Canada who were imprisoned as “enemy aspect of Ukrainian Canadian history was and received his master’s degree from aliens” in 24 internment camps across the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in just beginning. He was the first person to country. find and film many of the original intern- London, England. Currently, the pianist Filmed on former locations of intern- resides in Strasbourg, France. ment sites and found original internment Serhiy Salov ment sites across Canada, this documen- photos of the Spirit Lake internment site The influence of his early musical tary shows the remains of original intern- training can be felt in the very vivid and ment structures and relics discovered by (Continued on page 25) passionate, yet ever tasteful refinement of the Romantics: Schumann, Chopin, of Mr. Salov’s performance. He is not Liszt, Brahms, Lysenko and Johann only the beneficiary of tremendous God- Strauss. He played this repertoire very given talent, but also possesses a phe- well – his sound is agreeable and warm, nomenal musical apparatus, which he with wide-ranging subtleties, light fili- employs with such precision that it gree technique and individuality of inter- seems he could play ad infinitum without pretation, but without artifice or exagger- enduring any physical exhaustion or loss ation. This pianist does not “suffer,” or of concentration. “agonize,” but shares with his listeners In Mr. Salov’s performance one senses the thoughts and emotions of the com- a combination of emotions and warmth posers of these masterpieces of the musi- with the intellectual realization of the cal art form, as well as his own concept potential of his instrument, as well as the as their interpreter. demands of the works he is playing. To lis- However, it must be confessed that ten to Mr. Salov perform is not only pleas- Mr. Salov’s greatest strength lies in his ant, but fascinating. He needs to be heard performance of works by Ukrainian many times, as does his interpretation of composers. He deeply feels and under- works from diverse periods and styles in stands the particularities of Ukrainian the compendium of musical literature. folk music. Beneath Mr. Salov’s fingers, During his March 1 concert Mr. Salov Mykola Lysenko’s well-known second performed almost exclusively the works rhapsody sounded completely new, truly exciting. One heard the familiar timbre of folk instruments, lyrical improvisa- Tetiana Tkachenko is a long-standing tions, pulsing dance rhythms and impec- member of the Piano Faculty of the cable piano technique. Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, The most interesting part of the con- and the Faculty of Music at the cert program was the suite by Ihor University of Toronto. (Ms. Tkachenko’s Shamo titled “Hutsulian Watercolors,” Former Prime Minister Paul Martin receives a copy of “Freedom Had a Price,” a article was translated by Ulana documentary on the first world war-era internment operations, during a meeting Plawuszczak Pidzamecky.) (Continued on page 25) at the Ukrainian Canadian Congress headquarters in Winnipeg. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 No. 18

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Chornobyl should not remain a black mark on the map.” The president said MOSCOW – Praskovya Britskaya of 157 SECOND AVENUE that in the past 20 years Ukraine spent some NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10003 (212) 477-3002 $15 billion in dealing with the conse- (Continued on page 17) The Serious Personal Injury Real Estate/Coop Closings (fee for Condo/Coop Purch. in Manh. Our Ukraine and the Tymoshenko LUNA BAND only is $1000) Bloc will be the bedrock of Ukraine’s Music for weddings, zabavas, Business Representation The geopolitical... festivals, anniversary celebrations. Securities Arbitration (Continued from page 2) pro-NATO orientation. Together they OLES KUZYSZYN phone/fax: (732) 636-5406 Divorces, etc. at its 2008 enlargement summit. garnered 36 percent of the vote, which translates into close to half of the parlia- e-mail: [email protected] (By Appointment Only) This year’s free elections and a result- ant Orange coalition shows the consoli- mentary seats (210). 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CEC to have the election results validat- the head of the European Commission and Borys Oliynyk, composer and People’s NEWSBRIEFS ed by publishing them in two state-spon- delegation to Ukraine, Ian Boag. The Artist of Ukraine Yevhen Stankovych, as (Continued from page 16) sored periodicals, Holos Ukrayiny and meeting was attended by Ukraine’s Prime well as other intellectuals. (Ukrinform) Uriadovyi Kurier. In the March 26 polls, Minister Yurii Yekhanurov, Foreign the Moscow Union of Invalids of Ukraine-U.S. discuss consular issues Chornobyl appealed to President the Party of Regions won 32.14 percent Affairs Minister Borys Tarasyuk, of the vote, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc Emergencies Management Minister Vladimir Putin at a Kremlin ceremony on K YIV – The U.S. Department of State 22.29 percent, Our Ukraine 13.95 per- Viktor Baloha and Deputy Chief of Staff April 25 to create a treatment center for hosted negotiations into consular-legal mat- cent, the Socialist Party 5.69 percent and of the Presidential Secretariat Anatolii the survivors of the clean-up effort that ters between Ukraine and the United States, the Communist Party 3.66 percent. In the Matvienko. (Ukrinform) took place 20 years ago, Reuters report- chaired by the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs 450-seat Verkhovna Rada, the Party of ed. She said in remarks addressed to the Ministry’s Consular Service Department Regions will have 186 seats, the Home-made bombs injure 14 president that “we sent a draft proposal to Director Borys Bazylevsky and U.S. Tymoshenko Bloc 129, Our Ukraine 81, the government and to you but never KHARKIV – Two homemade bombs Assistant Secretary of State Maura Harty. the Socialists 33 and the Communists 21. received an answer.” Mr. Putin gave out exploded at two supermarkets in Ukraine’s The U.S. agreed to a Ukrainian proposal for (RFE/RL Newsline) medals to the survivors at the ceremony. second-largest city, Kharkiv, on April 22, providing consular assistance to Ukrainian He stressed their courage in responding President meets with G-8 ambassadors injuring 14 people, Ukrainian and world citizens who find themselves in difficult sit- to what he called “one of the largest man- news agencies reported. Police sources uations in countries where Ukraine does not made disasters of the 20th century,” KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor said initial indications suggest the blasts have diplomatic missions. American con- Interfax reported. He added that “even Yushchenko met with G-8 ambassadors were linked to a settling of scores between sular missions can assist them upon the lacking experience in dealing with such to Ukraine and the head of the European businesses. Doctors said there were no Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry’s peti- disasters, you and your colleagues Commission delegation to Ukraine on serious injuries in the blasts, which tion in each concrete case. Regarding further worked out a strategy and made deci- April 24, the presidential press service occurred within minutes around noon in simplification of the visa regime between sions swiftly, sometimes relying only on reported. During the meeting Mr. two suburban supermarkets located some 1 the two states, the Ukrainian side offered to your own knowledge and experience.” Yushchenko briefed the ambassadors kilometer apart. (RFE/RL Newsline) issue multiple-entry/exit visas to relevant On April 26, former Soviet Prime about the state of a series of key projects categories of citizens of the two countries, in Intellectuals warn of ‘unnatural alliances’ Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov told Interfax related to Chornobyl and he highly particular to businessmen, journalists and assessed their respective countries’ assis- scientists, for a period of up to 10 years that the Soviet government of the time KYIV – According to the official web- tance to Ukraine. He reiterated that “the instead of current five. During the negotia- did all that it could to respond to the dis- site of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, a group Chornobyl issue calls for collective effort tions the Ukrainian side raised the painful aster. He argued that “we did everything of known Ukrainian intellectuals has sent a and colossal resources” and added that issue of lack of information about some possible, based on the knowledge we message to President Viktor Yushchenko to we must first build a safe new shelter for Ukrainian children adopted by U.S. citizens possessed and using the scientific, orga- condemn the idea of creating “unnatural the Chornobyl plant’s stricken reactor. and expressed its hope that the U.S. will set- nizational and technical means available political unions” and to support efforts The president later told journalists that tle the problem. Both parties agreed that the to us then.” Mr. Ryzhkov now represents toward creating a coalition of democratic construction of a new sarcophagus at the next round of consultations on consular- Belgorod Oblast in the Federation forces. The message notes that Ukraine has Chornobyl plant might start in mid-sum- legal matters might be held in the first half Council. (RFE/RL Newsline) a rare chance to create a “unique tandem of mer. He said almost $1 billion (U.S.) has of 2007, but, if need be, could occur earlier. the authority and national intellect,” which been collected toward the project at three (Ukrinform) Court confirms election results will be a reliable base and springboard in international conferences. The meeting realizing programs for Ukraine’s spiritual KYIV – The Supreme Administrative was attended by U.S. Ambassador to Kyiv hosts Kontakt film festival and cultural revival, and the nation’s inte- Court on April 25 rejected a complaint by Ukraine John Herbst, British Ambassador gration with the European community. The KYIV – Kyiv hosted the second inter- four Ukrainian political blocs and parties Robert Brinkley, Russian Ambassador message argues that the people of Ukraine national festival of documentary films claiming that the Central Election Viktor Chernomyrdin, French have confirmed the acceptability of “Kontakt.” The opening ceremony of the Commission (CEC) violated legal proce- Ambassador Jean-Paul Veziant, Italian Ukraine’s further development under a festival on April 10 was attended by dure in announcing results of the March Ambassador Fabio Fabbri, Japanese coalition of three political forces: the President Viktor Yushchenko, who under- 26 parliamentary elections earlier this Ambassador Mutsuo Mabuchi, Canadian Tymoshenko Bloc, Our Ukraine and the scored that the festival aims to focus on month, Ukrainian media reported. The Ambassador Abina Dann, German Socialist Party; anything else would be new talents. The festival’s program con- decision effectively opens the way for the Ambassador Dietmar Stuedemann and deceptive and amoral, the message further sisted of national and international seg- says. The Ukrainian intellectuals have ments. According to organizers, the festi- called upon the president, as the guarantor val aims to create interest in documentary of stability, democracy and civil freedoms, films among a broader audience. The top to prevent further fanning of political pas- prize of the festival is about $5,000 sions and a new wave of public disillusion- (U.S.). Several Ukrainian films, including ment. The letter was signed by National “There Was A House” by Olena Fetisova, Academy of Sciences President Borys “Nevseremos. People from the Maidan” Paton, National Union of Musicians by Serhii Masloboyschikov, “Adam and Chairman Anatolii Andriyevskyi, Eve” by Murat Mamedov, “Oleksandra Academician Ivan Dzyuba, Taras Ekster and World Scenography” by Shevchenko Literature Institute Director Valentyn Sokolovskyi, “Travelers” by Mykola Zhulynskyi, National Union of Ihor Strembitskyi, “Castles of Ukraine” Writers Chairman Volodymyr Yavorivskyi, by Artem Sukhariov and “The Seventh All-Ukrainian Prosvita Society Chairman Day” by Oles Sanin were chosen to par- Pavlo Movchan, writers Pavlo Zahrebelnyi ticipate in the competition. (Ukrinform)

Believeing in the resurrection of the dead and in the life of the world to come, we announce that our beloved husband, father, grandfather and uncle Dr. Alexander Gudziak (born January 19, 1926 in Pomoryany, Ukraine) peacefully fell asleep in the Lord on Saturday, April 22, 2006. 7.2” x 2 In hope, faith and love,

wife Jaroslawa (née Szypula) sons Fr. Borys Gudziak Dr. Marko Gudziak with wife Roma grandchildren Kateryna, Gregory, Zachary sister-in-law Stephanie Szypula 4.8” x 2 nephews Roman Gudziak with family (in Lviv) Teodor Gudziak with family nieces Lida Leshchuk Renata Horodysky with family

May his memory be eternal! Christ is Risen!

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Ukrainian Catholic University through the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, 2247 West Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60622. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 No. 18

habits/work ethic of a true NHLer. This admitted in a chat with Mr. Chere. “It Ukrainian pro hockey update season, despite last year’s lockout, shows they appreciate my level of devel- Ponikarovsky has truly blossomed into a opment and the type of player I am. It’s a bbyy IIhhoorr SStteellmmaacchh legitimate offensive threat and a physical great feeling to be picked by them. I’m force every night. going to a great organization.” Despite more than their share of rav- WWhhyy ZZaajjaacc?? PPoonnii kkaarroovvsskkyy aa nneeww LLeeaaff aging injuries to key players, this mind. Sometimes he could be a Hulklike Ukrainian winger has enjoyed a success- Perhaps the key ingredient of an ama- force; at other times, he could take on the fully productive breakout campaign. His teur scout’s evaluation of a potential Talk about using some special super persona of a mild-mannered Dr. Bruce 18 goals and 28 points through some 70 powers. One day after a late morning prospect is projecting how a player will Banner, the Hulk’s alter-ego. games is proof a 25-goal season is within practice right around Halloween, turn out in five years. Travis Zajac really For the past several years the Maple easy reach. put the central scouting experts to the test. Toronto’s Eric Lindros made a joking sug- BBaabbcchhuukk aa wwaanntteedd hhuull kk gestion to teammate Alexei Ponikarovsky. Leafs waited for Ponikarovsky to make “He played Junior A and you’d really Lindros hinted the up-and-coming major league progress, heck, any kind of like to see how he would do against his Ukrainian star should paint himself green, progress, with his God-given 6-foot-4, T he official press release from (draft eligible) peers in major junior,” put on some ratty clothes and go out trick 220-pound athletic build. 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INTERVIEW:by Yarema Belej AlexeiUtah. “We hadPonikarovsky a good bunch of guys there that, andof I don’tthe think Toronto I am as big as sticky Maple situation. My parents Leafs are even split ... It was a great experience to be a part of,” [Vitalii] Klitschko.” on who they voted for,” he said. NEW YORK – With career bests in all he said. “We had a chance to go to the main Even though he still has his Ukrainian That same even-handedness is evident aspects of his game, Kyiv native Alexei event but Belarus beat us.” Without any hes- citizenship, Ponikarovsky is trying to stay in Ponikarovsky’s game, as he rarely Ponikarovsky has blossomed into a top-line itation he declared that he would love to play out of the political ring right now. “I’m speaks out, keeps his head down and winger for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He for Ukraine in future Olympic tournaments not going to vote, because it is a very skates to the corners because he has to. took some time before his team left Madison if the opportunity were to present itself. Square Garden, after losing to the New York It was a fellow member of that Olympic Rangers (5-2) on Saturday, March 18, to team that brought hockey’s greatest treas- give an interview to The Ukrainian Weekly. ure back to Ukraine in the summer of 2004. “I was 5 years old when I first played Ruslan Fedotenko of the Tampa Bay hockey back in Kyiv,” said Ponikarovsky, Lightning had the opportunity to bring relating that his parents pushed him into back the Stanley Cup, the championship the sport of hockey because his first love, trophy of the NHL, to the streets of Kyiv. soccer, was too competitive in the local Ponikarovsky laughed when asked if he sport scene. would do the same (probably because his “I hadn’t skated before that time, so I team at the time of the interview was out of tried it, and I kept going and going,” said the playoff picture). “For sure, it is some- the big left winger. “... then I moved to thing everyone dreams of ... if Toronto ever Moscow, because hockey in Kyiv was not as big, so I had to make the move to wins the cup I would bring it back home so better my chances.” my parents and friends could see it.” His 6-foot-4, 220 pound frame is one Ponikarovsky, 26, lives year-round in that is becoming typical in the very phys- Toronto with his wife and two children. ical game of hockey. Yet, it is not only It is there that he works with a few chari- Ponikarovsky’s size that makes him a ties, including the Easter Seals Society, great asset for the Toronto Maple Leafs. which provides opportunities for people It is his style of play that has the Kyiv with disabilities. He feels the obligation Alexei Ponikarovsky (left) of the Toronto Maple Leafs with The Ukrainian native playing on the top line of one of to give back to a community that has Weekly free-lance correspondent Yarema Belej. sport’s most storied franchises. given him great support. “Strong play, the forecheck and my Although he has not yet had an oppor- play down low [are what allow me] to tunity, Ponikarovsky is very open to the score goals,” said Ponikarovsky of his idea of working with a Ukrainian-based style. Since most of his goals come by charity in the future. He is well aware of way of his hustle and fighting through the very large Ukrainian community in the opposition, it has become clear that his city, but he laments that there is little he has to play hard to have an impact. free time in his busy schedule. During the 2003-2004 season, his first In the off-season, Ponikarovsky tries full season with the Leafs, Ponikarovsky to spend as much time with his children played in 73 games, scoring nine goals as possible. “I go fishing with them, but and adding 19 assists. This year he has soon you have to start working-out for solidified himself as a real NHLer with the next season,” he said. 21 goals and 17 assists in 81 games. When asked whether he had consid- Along with a few other NHL players, ered running for mayor of Kyiv when he Ponikarovsky was a member of the 2002 retires, Ponikarovsky laughed and said, Ukrainian Olympic Team in Salt Lake City, “you have to become really famous to do SELF REL IANCE NEW YORK 2.4” x 2 Federal Credit Union Main Office: 7.1” x 2 Effective April 1, 2006 108 Second Avenue m the NCUA has increased insurance New York, NY 10003 e limits from $100,000 to $250,000 Tel: 212 473-7310 It Fax: 212 473-3251 ws on Individual Retirement Accounts . Branches: Ne Kerhonkson: 6325 Route 209 Retire in con fidence and style. Kerhonkson, NY 12446 Tel: 845 626-2938 Open an IRA at Self Reliance New York. Fax: 845 626-8636 Uniondale:

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NEW YORK – On the eve of the 15th production of a play about the Ukrainian change and new lives shedding themselves Southwest Film Festival 2005, IDFA anniversary of Ukraine’s independence, a avant-garde theater director Les Kurbas. of the old ones. In this case, it’s about the (International Documentary Film Festival - new documentary film, “Light from the The play, also called “Light from the end of being chained to the principles of the Amsterdam) 2005, Austin Film Society Doc East,” about an American acting troupe’s East,” focuses on Kurbas’ revolutionary Soviet Union.” Director Richard Linklater Tour 2005 and at Harvard University tour of Ukraine during the August 1991 life and work, and his murder by Stalin in (“Before Sunset,” “School of Rock”) said, (2005). It will have its New York premiere putsch that dissolved the Soviet Union, the purges of 1937. Against this backdrop, “Personal, political, historical ... I loved it.” while screening as part of the Brave New will premiere in New York City at the the American actors witness the overthrow Ms. Grappell said, “because I believe, Europe: new films from and about Central Pioneer Theater on May 11-17. of the Kremlin by a military coup and as the diary of Les Kurbas reads – that ‘art and Eastern Europe series at the Pioneer The 72-minute feature-length film, writ- Ukraine’s declaration of independence. is where the humanity becomes manifest; Theater, East Third Street between avenues ten and directed by Amy Grappell, and “Light from the East” was filmed during it’s where our true selves converse with A and B, on May 11-17 at 9 p.m. Tickets one another’ – I have aimed to create a may be purchased in advance at www.two- produced by Ms. Grappell and Christian the region’s massive political changes in film that is more a lyrical meditation than a boots.com/pioneer/light.htm, or by calling Moore, follows the Yara Arts Group of 1991. 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development is that “the Hrushevsky para- Catholic Church, both “clearly shaped by sovereignty had been ruptured by outside Von Hagen revisits... digm of Ukrainian history has virtually Ukraine’s borderlands legacy.” powers, the ways in which Ukrainian (Continued from page 10) replaced the former reigning Soviet- The literature on borderlands, regions lands, institutions and populations inter- ern European history, so he had been “com- Russian imperial one that denied any gen- and cities, Prof. von Hagen explained, acted with the new authorities was also paring the history of Ukraine to at least uine autonomy to events and developments highlights “how central the fact of Ukraine part of that distinctiveness,” he added. those several traditions from the start.” in ‘southern Russia.’ The Western diaspora as a multinational and multiregional idea The scholar concluded his talk by not- Prof. von Hagen continued: “One of played a critical role in nurturing this alter- has been to the history of Ukraine.” ing that “time and place do matter” and the things I learned from my first foray nate historiographical vision, so that schol- Finally, Prof. von Hagen emphasized that, indeed, Ukraine has a history, into Ukrainian studies, the ‘Does Ukraine ars in contemporary Ukraine did not have that “the histories of nations and nation- though perhaps not one that easily fits the Have a History?’ essay, was how contest- to start from zero in rethinking their past. “ states do not cease to exist when they are traditional nation-state paradigm. ed the intellectual and political stakes Citing some interesting “new direc- occupied by a foreign power, however Prof. von Hagen has a B.S. in foreign have been in Ukrainian history; this is tions” for scholars who study Ukraine, defined and perceived. Instead, much like service from Georgetown University, an still true, and in some ways even more Prof. von Hagen noted, for example, that individual biographies, those countries’ M.A. in Slavic languages and literatures true, since the latest independence “borderlands studies have found a natural already complex histories take on new from Indiana University at Bloomington proclamation in 1991.” home in Ukrainian history,” which is layers of complexity as they are inter- and a Ph.D. in history and humanities Time and place are “important vari- replete with examples of “pulls between woven with, interposed on the equally from Stanford University. He was associ- ables in explaining the world,” Prof. von two or more empires or states,” including complex histories of a second (or, in ate director and director of the Harriman Hagen said he believes, adding that he Poland, Russia, Austria-Hungary and some cases, third) country.” Institute at Columbia University in 1989 realized Ukraine was “a marvelous case Germany, and geopolitical struggles. “It is important to recognize that – 2001, and in 2002-2005 was president study of precisely the geographical and Thus, there is much to explore in com- [Ukraine] does have a distinctive set of of the International Association of chronological determinants of social and parative history by focusing on regions. pasts, and that even when Ukrainian state Ukrainian Studies. political life.” As well, transnational and multina- After quickly reviewing how Ukrainian tional tendencies in political thought in studies figure in Russia, North America, Ukraine, from “Taras Shevchenko’s Britain, France, Germany and Poland – appeal to all oppressed Slavs to the noting both increased interest in the field strong support for autonomy, federalism CONCERT and some dramatic changes in attitudes, as and minority rights in the mainstream of Saturday, May 6, 2006 - 8 p.m. the Ukrainian national movement of the in the case of Poland – Prof. von Hagen at the turned to the state of Ukrainian studies in first decades of the 20th century,” are a Ukraine itself. “The last dozen years have fascinating field of study. Modern Ukrainian Institute of America seen a good part of the Ukrainian histori- Ukrainian political thought, he under- ans’ scholarly community integrated to scored, expresses “transnational solidari- various degrees into various international ty” and recognizes “the need for an ideol- forms of collaboration and production,” he ogy of multinational co-existence.” One Season Closing Concert - “Mozart – 250” pointed out. In addition, after a wave of of the examples Prof. von Hagen cited An evening of chamber music republication of émigré and ‘other former- was from September 1917, when the in one of the city’s spendid historical architectural landmarks ly proscribed scholarship,’ ” Ukrainian Ukrainian capital hosted “ the most wide- historians have now “been moving beyond ly representative gathering of the non- performed by the era of rehabilitation of the diaspora Russian peoples of the Russian empire” – narratives and forging new ones based on the Congress of Oppressed Peoples. Charles Castleman (violin), Natalia Khoma (cello), their own experiences.” Other focuses of study enumerated by Katya Grineva (piano), Mykola Suk (piano) Referring to the seminal work of histori- the professor were cities, including those an Mykhailo Hrushevsky, known as “the that had the status of Madgeburg Code Program father of modern Ukrainian history,” the cities; and institutions, such as the speaker said an especially noteworthy Kozaks and the Ukrainian Greek- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin in E-flat Major, K 380 Mozart: Overture to “The Magic Flute” arranged for Piano Four Hands their parents to support annual lectures by Alexander Zemlinsky Political expert... by distinguished scholars with a national Ludwig von Beethoven: Six Variations in E-flat Major on (Continued from page 10) or international reputation in the field of “Bei Maennern weiche Liebe fuehlen” from Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”, Woo 46 works. He also served as a member of the Ukrainian studies. Previous speakers included Ukrainian Ambassador Dr. Yuri Mozart: Sonata in D Major for Piano Four Hands, K 381/123a consultative board of non-governmental Shcherbak, who lectured on Ukraine’s Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart: Variations on a Ukrainian theme, organizations (NGOs) under the emerging foreign policy; Dr. Marta Op. 18 (“U susida khata blla”) Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bohachevska-Chomiak of the National Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello and was an expert of the Public Advisory Endowment for the Humanities, who lec- in E-flat Major, Op. 12 Board of the office of President tured on political communities and gen- Yushchenko. der in Ukraine; and Dr. Dominique Arel Tickets The Vasyl and Maria Petryshyn of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the General admission: $30 Memorial Lectures were funded by Dr. University of Ottawa, who lectured on UIA Members and Seniors: $25 Wolodymyr Petryshyn and his sister, the regional factor in Ukrainian politics Students: $20 Olha Petryshyn Hnateyko, in honor of in the past decade. 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One must establish some sort of priori- Yuri Onuch... ties – in the end it is not important who Ukrainian National (Continued from page 14) represents Ukraine at the Venice Biennale taken place, nor are they taking place now. – but it is important to understand what the Federal Credit Union Since the Orange Revolution there has not Biennale is, why we go there, what is our been enough time and, currently, every- aim, why we want to be present there. It is thing is overly political. To make serious, a gate to a huge art world and, unless you systemic changes, one needs political will understand what this means, you will The shortest way and expertise, although political will is make mistakes. One cannot take works more important than knowledge. There there that don’t fit into the context. If there to your first million! has to be an understanding of what gigan- is an international exhibition of electron- tic changes in communications, in cultural ics, one does not take a vacuum lamp radio – it should go to a museum of technology. • Deposits • Investments dissemination, in the functioning of cul- ture have taken place in the world. Because of misunderstandings or lack of • IRA • Credit cards People keep saying “Time is needed” for knowledge, such opportunities as the change – but time by itself means nothing. Venice Biennale are not taken advantage and many other financial products One thing that can be done is to study the of, although they can promote the country. experience of others. What Ukraine will do What image does Ukraine have? What then – that is another issue. Whatever is kind of image do we want it to have? One MAIN OFFICE: BRANCH in BROOKLYN, NY: learned will fall on local ground where has to think about these things and see 215 Second Ave. 1678 Ö 17th St. there are different people and a different what Ukraine’s neighbors are doing – they have similar historical baggage. (between 13th & 14th St.) Brooklyn, NY 11229 context. For example, one phenomenon of the history of culture is what is called New York, NY 10003 Tel.: (718) 376-5057 You are now leaving the CCA? Ukrainian Baroque. Everyone is very proud Tel.: (212) 533-2980 Fax: (718) 376-5670 of it, it is interesting, it’s our own, it’s very I had planned to stay three years but I Fax: (212) 995-5204 Toll Free: 1-866-857-2464 specific – all that is true. Ukrainian worked as the director for seven years. I Baroque differs from Baroque in Germany, think my biggest achievement has been NEW JERSEY BRANCHES Poland or Italy, but it is still Baroque. to maintain this institution. Last year I Another problem in the cultural sphere announced that I would not seek the is the fact that there was such a long renewal of my contract. I wanted my 35 Main St. 265 Washington Ave. Soviet period that certain things have been younger colleagues, whom I had trained So. Bound Brook, NJ 08880 Carteret, NJ 07008 lost, certain things didn’t happen. You and with whom I have worked, to take can’t go back to them. You can’t draw a over. Seven years ago they had just come Tel.: (732) 469-9085 Tel.: (732) 802-0480 line in the development of visual arts in out of university and I saw to it that they Fax: (732) 469-9165 Fax: (732) 802-0484 Ukraine and then accurately compare it to would gradually take over, that they what happened in Poland or in the world would internalize this institution, that the because certain periods can’t be recon- CCA would become their center. Call us toll free 1-866-859-5848 structed – if at some period in your life I have stayed on as the chairman of the you didn’t read particular books, you board of the CCA. The CCA building is e-mail: [email protected] • website: www.uofcu.org won’t read them now. But should you stop in a prime location and very valuable. reading altogether? No, at some moment What the NUKMA will want to do in you have to decide that now you are enter- three years when its contract with the ing the game. The game is called such and CCA expires is not known. So I have also such. When we speak of Europe, the game formed the CCA Foundation in order to is called Europe. It is made up of a lot of safeguard the brand and the history of the elements and you should plunge in. CCA and to deal with some fund-raising. No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 25

challenges Ukraine faces at home and be shown across Canada and is highly From the maidan... abroad. Documentary... recommended for use in schools across (Continued from page 6) What we can say with confidence is (Continued from page 15) the country as a teaching resource on the that the politics of democracy has moved that the March 26 elections were a fur- in Quebec which he donated to the subject or for anyone interested in histor- from the maidan to the Main Streets of ther essential step in the process of over- National Archives of Canada. ical documentaries. It has had excellent cities and towns throughout the country. coming the legacy of the past – a history His documentary also provided impe- reviews in various Canadian newspapers Whatever the pundits may declaim marred by foreign domination, genocidal tus for making the traveling internment with such comments as “extraordinary regarding the election results or the con- famine, denial of political and cultural exhibit by the Ukrainian Canadian documentary” – Jim Bowden, in The tinuing strength of the Orange freedom, and, more recently, political Research and Documentation Center in Toronto Star; “a powerful documentary Revolution, what seemed palpable was a stagnation. Today, the people of Ukraine Toronto and provided an important on Ukrainian internment” – Alan Kellog keen appreciation for the business of are removing the overgrowth of thorns – resource for the illustrated book, “Silver in The Edmonton Journal, “chilling por- governing. Neither a democratic revolu- an image alluded to by the great poet Threads” by writer Marsha Skrypuch. trait of national security gone wrong” – tion nor a single “free and fair” election Taras Shevchenko – that prevented them Initially, the idea and urgency of mak- Kennedy Gordon in The Sudbury Star; are guarantees that the resulting govern- for so long from pursuing their own path- ing the internment film “Freedom Had a and “significant impact in raising aware- ment will be in a position to immediately way to a brighter and more prosperous Price” did not receive immediate finan- ness about the internment camps” – John deal with the basic needs of its people. future. cial support. As a result, not to lose time Gregorovich in the University of Toronto Overcoming these obstacles will have a in order to interview some of the last Varsity. profound impact on how the next govern- The article above was released by the internment survivors before they passed Mr. Luhovy, who is a member of the ment meets the political and economic U.S. Helsinki Commission on April 20. away, the documentary was financed Canadian Film and Television Academy, almost entirely by the filmmaker with is presently working on two new docu- later supporting grants from the mentaries dealing with 20th century his- Twelve of his Constantinople paint- Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras tory and based on first-hand survivors’ Collection of works... ings were exhibited in 1921 in the Salon Shevchenko, the Ukrainian Canadian stories that have been almost forgotten (Continued from page 15) d’Automne in Paris; Fernand Leger, Research and Documentation Center and and never yet filmed. “Freedom Had a Price,” is available to helping over the years to realize the noted Hordynsky, placed Hryshchenko’s completion funds from The National anyone interested in the history of transfer, and singled out Aerosvit works next to his own. Soon Film Board of Canada. Ukrainians and may be obtained on VHS Ukrainian Airlines for its generous offer Hryshchenko’s works were being shown Don Haig, executive producer of or DVD format by writing to La Maison de to ship the collection to Ukraine free of by some of Paris’s leading galleries. NFB’s Studio B, made every effort to Montage Luhovy Inc, 2330 Beaconsfield charge. After 1924 the artist lived in France, support the internment documentary in Ave., Montreal, Quebec, H4A 2G8; e-mail- Oleksa Hryshchenko was born in settling in Cagnes, where Renoir once the final stages, having grown up with ing [email protected]; or calling (514) Krolevets, northern Ukraine, in 1883. He lived (Alexis Gritchenko is the French Ukrainians in Western Canada and, there- studied in Kyiv and then at the Moscow spelling of Hryshchenko’s name). At that fore, being very informed and sensitive 481-5871. The French-and Ukrainian-lan- Art School, and in 1911 traveled to Paris, time, noted Hordynsky, Hryshchenko had to their story of settling Canada. guage versions of the documentary are still where he became an enthusiast of mod- already moved from cubism “toward an “Freedom Had a Price” continues to in the completion stage awaiting funds. ern painting, especially cubism, accord- explosive color expression.” ing to notes about the artist written by Influenced by the lights and land- scapes of southern France, When questioned by the New York Hordynsky. Daily News’ Peter Botte regarding the During the Russian Revolution, Hryshchenko’s “heavily applied paints Pro hockey... and dramatic colors were an expression (Continued from page 18) overall performance of his revamped Hryshchenko became a professor at the defense corps, GM Milbury replied: “Just of the inner forces of a painter who was throughout the league. For all of the State Art Studios in Moscow and a mem- unacceptable.” striving to transform nature according to Islanders’ opponents, of course. ber of the Commission to Protect Brent Sopel has been a disappointment his own image,” wrote Hordynsky. The Isles missed the post-season for Historic Monuments. In 1919, fearing he at both ends, while Janne Niinimaa was In 1937 Hryshchenko held a one-man would become a “state functionary,” he the first time since 2000-2001. Why? Not exiled to Dallas in a pure dumping of exhibit in Lviv, then under Polish rule. escaped to Constantinople, producing a adhering to the newly league-mandated salary. As for expensive free agent acqui- series of oils and watercolors that quickly After the war he exhibited several times obstruction crackdown (a particular prob- sition Zhitnik? Well, he has managed to built his reputation in the art world of the in the U.S. He died in Vence, France, in lem for free agent defender Alexei develop a first-name rapport with NHL time. 1977. Zhitnik), poor positional play by both penalty box attendants in rinks all over forwards and defensemen and some sta- North America. Way too many trips, bilized goaltending. holds and hooks. ticipants of the festival with tickets to Donetsk-born pianist... Mr. Salov’s Toronto debut. (Continued from page 15) The organizing committee, formed for written in 1971. This work employs both the purpose of arranging this concert, 20th century harmonies and the special deserves our heartfelt thanks for its pro- virtuosic possibilities of the piano. At fessionalism and active labor of love. It times our thoughts turn to the French is hoped that the committee will continue impressionists, however, on balance one its activity for the benefit of a culturally feels the influence of Hutsul music. rich, Ukrainian Toronto and that, as a It seems to me that, of all the aspects result, we will be able to hear more regu- of Mr. Salov’s talent, the most brilliant is larly the performances of our distin- his understanding of the inherent color in guished musical artists. music and his masterful recreation of these colors by means of the most diverse array of touches and pedaling. When Mr. Salov played “Watercolors,” 4.8” one heard not the piano, but the Carpathian Mountains and all their songs, musicians, waterfalls, rain and a “light covering of mist.” most enthusiastic applause. 6.8” x 2 It is a pity that the pianist performed A reliable guide only four parts of the suite, and not the entire six. It is essential that Mr. Salov for your travels return to Toronto and allow us the oppor- tunity to experience the entire Shamo, as in Ukraine! well as works from the Baroque period, WE OFFER Viennese classics and the compositions OUR SERVICES of French impressionists, and, of course, TO TRAVELAGENCIES. many more works by Ukrainian com- posers, performed as only Mr. Salov can. “ä˪‚Ò¸ÍËÈ ëÛÔÛÚÌËÍ” It was nice to see at this concert indi- (Kyivskyi Suputnyk) viduals of different ages, yet all musical- vul. Pushkynska 9 ly appreciative. The presence of young Kyiv, Ukraine 01034 people and children is in part owed to the Tel. +38044 531-91-30 (multi) Ukrainian Music Festival, which is +38044 278-09-38 already training the second generation of Fax +38044 270-73-58 Ukrainian music lovers (I saw many e-mail: [email protected] familiar young faces) and which this www.sputnik.kiev.ua year awarded the most meritorious par- 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 No. 18 No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006 27 OUT AND ABOUT

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May 1 “Man” in the Conceptual Sphere of Ukrainian May 7 “Chernobyl Heart” film screening, The Ukrainian Cambridge, MA Phraseology, presented by Lesya Stavytska, New York Museum, 212-228-0110 Harvard Ukrainian Research Institiute, 617-495-4053 May 7 Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus concert, Farmington Hills, MI Nardin Park United Church, 248-476-8860 May 4 Canadian Insitutue of Ukrainian Studies guest Edmonton, AB speaker Anatoliy Kruglashov, “The Transdnistrian May 11-17 Screening of “Light from the East” about the Crisis and the Peacekeeping Mission of Ukraine: New York Yara Arts Group, Pioneer Theater, 212-591-0434 Is There Reason for Hope?” University of Alberta, 780-492-2972 May 13 Fund-raising Auction, Ukrainian Institute of Chicago Modern Art, 773-227-5522 May 5 The Washington Group’s Ukrainian social, Leopold’s Washington Kafe and Konditorei, 240-381-0993 May 13-14 Jacques Hnizdovsky art exhibit and sale, UNWLA Washington Branch 78, Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of May 5 Teen Dance, sponsored by U15F Patriots, Tryzub the Holy Family, 703-271-9672 Horsham, PA Ukrainian American Sports Center, 215-343-5412 May 16 Brooklyn Ukrainian Group/Ukrainian Congress May 5 Taras Berezovsky performs the one-man play New York Committee of America evening with filmmaker New York “Catch 86,” The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 Amy Grappell, Pioneer Theater, 212-228-6840

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Tuesday, May 2 Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature in Soyuzivka’s Datebook Kyiv. The program will take place at the NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Congress society’s building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between May 5-7, 2006 June 10, 2006 Committee of America and the National Ninth and 10th streets) at 5 p.m. For addi- Ukrainian Language Immersion Wedding Tribune invite the community to a screen- tional information call 212-254-5130. Weekend offered at SUNY ing of the 90-minute Ukrainian-language New Paltz June 11-16, 2006 film “Day Seven.” The film includes Thursday, May 11-Wednesday, May 17 UNA Seniors’ Conference exclusive interviews with the top May 14, 2006 Ukrainian leaders and uses incredible NEW YORK: The documentary “Light from the East” will premiere in New York Mother’s Day Brunch June 16-18, 2006 footage taken during the Orange 3rd Annual Adoption Weekend Revolution. The screening will take place as part of the Brave New Europe: new films from and about Central and Eastern May 20, 2006 at 7 p.m. at 136 Second Ave. (between June 17, 2006 Eighth and Ninth streets) in Manhattan. Europe series at the Pioneer Theater, East Wedding Wedding After the film, a question-and-answer ses- Third Street between avenues A and B. sion will take place with producer The film, written and produced by Amy May 21, 2006 June 18, 2006 Volodymyr Ariev and director Oles Sanin. Grappell, and produced by Ms. Grappell Communion Luncheon Banquet Father’s Day Luncheon and Program Ticket price is $5. For more information and Christian Moore, chronicles a tour of call the UCCA, 212-228-6840. the Yara Arts Group to Kyiv during the May 26-29, 2006 June 23-24, 2006 August 1991 putsch that dissolved the UNA Convention Friday, May 5 Soviet Union. “Light from the East,” in Plast Kurin “Shostokryli” Rada English and Ukrainian (with English-lan- WASHINGTON: The first of a series of June 24, 2006 guage subtitles) screens at 9 p.m. For tick- June 2-4, 2006 summer socials at the National Gallery of ets visit www.twoboots.com or call 800- Ukrainian Language Immersion Wedding Art Sculpture Garden with a live jazz 595-4849. Weekend offered at SUNY band. The social begins at 5 p.m. and goes New Paltz June 25-July 2, 2006 on until dark. Venue: 7 Madison Drive, on Saturday-Sunday, May 13-14 Tabir Ptashat Session #1 the National Mall, between Seventh and WASHINGTON: June 3, 2006 Ninth streets NW and Constitution The Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA), Wedding June 25-July 7, 2006 Avenue. The event will take place rain or shine. There is no cover charge. For more Branch 78 of the District of Columbia Tennis Camp area, invites the community to the opening information contact Adrian Pidlusky, 240- June 5-9, 2006 reception of an exhibit of works by the 381-0993 or [email protected], or log on Eparchial Clergy Retreat June 26-June 30, 2006 late Jacques Hnizdovsky. Prints will be to www.TheWashingtonGroup.org. Exploration Day Camp available for purchase. The reception Saturday, May 6 begins at 7 p.m. at the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family, 4250 NEW YORK: The “Music at the Harewood Road NE, Washington, DC Institute” chamber music series invites the 20017. The exhibit and sale continues on public to the closing concert of this sea- Sunday until 3 p.m. Admission: $10, son, commemorating the 250th anniver- includes refreshments. For information To book a room or event call: (845) 626-5641, ext. 140 sary of Mozart’s birth. The program, fea- contact Tania Terleckyj, 703-271-9672. turing violinist Charles Castleman, cellist 216 Foordmore Road P.O. Box 529 Tuesday, May 16 Kerhonkson, NY 12446 Natalia Khoma and pianists Mykola Suk E-mail: [email protected] and Katya Grineva, will consist of NEW YORK: The Brooklyn Ukrainian Website: www.Soyuzivka.com Mozart’s Sonata for Piano and Violin in E- Group and the Ukrainian Congress flat Major, K. 380; Mozart’s Overture to Committee of America will sponsor an “The Magic Flute” arranged for Piano evening with filmmaker Amy Grappell Four Hands by Alexander Zemlinsky; and a screening of her film “Light from TRAVEL SERVICES Beethoven’s Six Variations in E-flat Major the East” at the Pioneer Theater, East 1 on “Bei Maennern welche Liebe fuehlen” Third Street between avenues A and B, at UNIVERSAL ANNA YAWORSKY from Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”; 9 p.m. The film, written and produced by (215) 725-0377 Mozart’s Sonata in D Major for Piano Amy Grappell, produced by Ms. Grappell Four Hands, K.381/123a; Franz Xaver and Christian Moore, chronicles a tour of 8300 Bustleton Avenue, 1st Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19152 Wolfgang Mozart’s Variations on a the Yara Arts Group to Kyiv during the M-F: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Ukrainian Theme, Op. 18 (“U Susida August 1991 putsch that dissolved the Sat.: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Khata Bila”); and Hummel’s Trio for Soviet Union. For discounted tickets con- Piano, Violin and Cello in E-flat Major, tact the UCCA, 212-228-6840. • Airline tickets • Parcel Service Op. 12. The concert will be held at the Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. 79th Sunday, May 21 • Passport Photos • Notary St., at 8 p.m. Donation: $30; UIA mem- bers and seniors, $25; students, $20. For PHILADELPHIA: The School of the • Money Transfer • Translation Services additional information and reservations Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble is hosting its annual Spring Festival at St. • Invitations from Ukraine • Ukrainian Newspapers call (212) 288-8660 or visit www.ukraini- aninstitute.org. Michael Ukrainian Church, 1013 Fox Chase Road, Jenkintown, Pa. The festival NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific begins at 1 p.m. with a performance by the Society invites all to a presentation of the Voloshky School at 2:30 p.m. Admission: first volume of the “Complete Collected adults, $5; children age 3-12, $3. 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