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INSIDE: • Central and East European Coalition meets with Bush – page 3. • Denver’s three-day commemoration of the Holodomor – page 11. • Parish in Manchester, N.H., marks centennial – page 13.

THEPublished U byKRAINIAN the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW associationEEKLY Vol. LXXVI No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 $1/$2 in Ukraine XX Congress of Ukrainians in America Gridlocked Rada takes steps meets in Cleveland, elects new leaders to deal with fi nancial crisis CLEVELAND – The Ukrainian new UCCA president and executive board. Congress Committee of America (UCCA) For the first time in the 68-year history on October 17-19 held its XX Congress of of the organization, a woman was elected Ukrainians in America, which was dedi- as UCCA president. The long-time execu- cated to the 75th anniversary of Ukraine’s tive director of the UCCA National Office, Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933. Close to Tamara Gallo Olexy, was unanimously 100 delegates representing UCCA branch- chosen to lead the UCCA for the next four es around the country, as well as delegates years. from Ukrainian national organizations Also elected to the presidium of the gathered here at the Sheraton Hotel to UCCA executive board were: Andrij Futey, amend by-laws, hear reports and elect a executive vice-president; Marie Duplak, executive secretary; Stepan Kerda, treasur- er; and Stefan Kaczaraj, National Council chair. Following the official opening of the convention with the singing of the Ukrainian and American national anthems, the first order of business was to elect indi- Nikolay Lazarenko/UNIAN viduals to preside over the convention. Volodymyr Stelmakh of the National Bank of Ukraine and President Viktor Elected were: Chair Orest Baranyk; Yushchenko at an October 30 meeting on the financial crisis. Deputy Chairs Roman Kozicky and Kenneth Wanio; and Secretaries Nicholas by Zenon Zawada International Monetary Fund on October Duplak (Ukrainian language), Andrij Szul Kyiv Press Bureau 26 to prevent Ukraine’s financial system and Eva Zelenko (English language). from collapsing. The congress also included workshops KYIV – Ukrainian lawmakers led by The Party of Regions of Ukraine and addressing issues of importance to the the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc approved on the Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense Ukrainian American community. October 29 the first reading of legislation bloc indicated they wouldn’t support anti- The first workshop, titled “The Future to stem the nation’s economic implosion, crisis legislation unless their proposed of Our Community,” moderated by Larssia but ongoing attempts by opponents to amendments were included, particularly a Kyj, president of the United Ukrainian attach amendments cast doubt on their measure to finance the pre-term parlia- American Relief Committee, included ability to pass the necessary second read- mentary election. ing by week’s end. speakers Mr. Kaczaraj, Ukrainian National As efforts to pass the legislation were Ukraine needs new legislation reform- Oles Yanchuk Association; Bohdan Harhaj, Ukrainian mired in gridlock, Ukraine’s economic dete- Newly elected UCCA President ing its banking system to fulfill its end of Tamara Gallo Olexy. (Continued on page 4) a $16.5 billion loan extended by the (Continued on page 8) IMF to loan Ukraine billions to cope with global crisis RFE/RL that of many countries with emerging weeks. age at that day’s parliamentary session. economies – has been starkly exposed by Ihor Burakinskiy, director of the “It would be a bad example for PRAGUE – The International the global economic downturn. Institute for Economic Studies and Parliament to block the plan,” he said. Monetary Fund (IMF) says it will loan Prices for the country’s major export, Political Consultations, told RFE/RL that Deputies loyal to Prime Minister Ukraine more than $16 billion to help it steel, have fallen amid diminishing the Ukrainian leadership is still far from Tymoshenko, who is again locked in a cope with the global economic crisis. demand from foreign buyers. At the working out a final anticrisis strategy. bitter power struggle with former ally Mr. The loan approval is the latest sign the Yushchenko, nonetheless blocked the IMF will try to play a fireman’s role in same time, foreign investors fleeing “If we are talking about the plan as a emerging markets have rushed out of document which has necessary support in vote, forcing an adjournment. rescuing emerging economies that are too They were demanding that the IMF weak to survive on their own. Ukraine’s stock market, helping to send it the legislative body, in the sense of a plummeting by 60 percent since the start draft law, then as of today such a plan loan be discussed prior to a draft law to The loan is to be used over the coming finance early parliamentary elections two years to bolster Ukraine’s teetering of September. does not exist,” Mr. Burakinskiy said. And the global credit shortage – which “There are a few documents prepared by called by Mr. Yushchenko in December banking sector. IMF Managing Director and opposed by Ms. Tymoshenko. It was Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on October comes as international commercial banks the government and a document prepared hold on to their capital amid the crisis by the National Security and Defense unclear when deputies would reconvene 26 that Ukraine is to receive the loan “to to examine legislation needed to secure maintain confidence and economic and rather than loan it – is severely limiting Council” headed by President the ability of the Ukrainian government, Yushchenko, he added. the loan. financial stability.” Ukraine’s political in-fighting means Ukraine has seen its exports, stock firms and banks to get new loans from The IMF bailout comes with condi- abroad to finance their operations. tions. Under the deal, Ukraine’s fractious the legislation faces a rough ride in market, banks and currency all severely Parliament – each main parliamentary weakened in the global financial crisis. All these pressures have sent the Parliament must adopt a raft of likely national currency, the hryvnia, downward unpopular anti-crisis measures. The IMF faction has put forward its own anti-crisis Mr. Strauss-Kahn said the IMF loan draft law. in recent weeks. It has fallen from an ear- hasn’t made the conditions public, but should help to protect companies and The IMF package is instrumental in lier rate of below 5 hrv to the U.S. dollar experts expect them to include cutting families from an almost certain further helping Ukraine stay afloat amid global to a rate of 6 hrv on October 27. Making government wages, pensions and subsi- deterioration of the country’s economic financial turmoil. things still worse is political turmoil in dies for household utilities, as well as condition. “It will guard against a deep The country’s economy has enjoyed an decline by insulating households and cor- Kyiv, where President Viktor Yushchenko increasing taxes on gasoline, alcohol and economic boom in recent years thanks to porations to the extent possible,” he said. and his former ally Prime Minister Yulia tobacco. a rise in prices for its main export, steel. Tymoshenko are again deadlocked in a President Yushchenko on October 27 Fragility in emerging economies But a recent slump in international power struggle. Their latest showdown called on national deputies to put their Ukraine’s economic fragility – like has kept Parliament in disarray for differences aside and approve the pack- (Continued on page 16) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 No. 44 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Moscow seeks to prolong Parliament backs bailout bill (YTB), Our Ukraine – People’s Self- Defense and the Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc, KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on Ms. Tymoshenko said she viewed this as a naval presence in Sevastopol October 29 adopted in its first reading a positive signal about restoration of the bill on immediate measures to prevent by Vladimir Socor Abkhazia and Transdnistria, where their extended democratic coalition. “I think negative fallout of the financial turmoil. the democratic coalition may be resumed, Eurasia Daily Monitor presence helped carve out a zone of The bill, which is supposed to be adopted and the Parliament will be able to work Russian control. Crimea has not become on October 30, was backed by 248 nation- October 23 successfully compared to previous a hot spot (conflict zone), as Ukrainian al deputies. The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, months,” she said. Last week and earlier For the first time since the Soviet era, officials such as Security Service of a majority of the Our Ukraine – People’s this week, deputies of the YTB had Russia’s Black Sea Fleet undertook an Ukraine Acting Chairman Valentyn Self-Defense factions, the Volodymyr blocked the parliamentary rostrum, insist- offensive operation in August of this year Nalyvaichenko correctly point out Lytvyn Bloc and two deputies of the ing that the ant-crisis bill be considered when it attacked Georgia, landing (Izvestia, October 22). But Moscow holds opposition Party of Regions, which sug- before any bill on financing the announced Russian ground forces in Abkhazia. The enough cards to hint at a potential con- gested its own anti-crisis bill, voted for Russian Fleet, based mainly in flict, for political leverage over Kyiv’s the document. The Communists did cast pre-term parliamentary elections. Sevastopol, misused Ukraine’s territory decisions on the Black Sea Fleet and votes. The presidential bailout bill envis- (Ukrinform) Kyiv-NATO relations. and abused Ukraine’s neutrality in ages the creation of a stabilization fund, Catherine II monument vandalized launching that operation. It did so with In their cumulative effect, these recent which is formed by means of privatization impunity, underscoring the deficit of developments have clearly enhanced the revenues, external and internal borrow- KYIV – Overnight on October 27-28, usable power, political leadership and Black Sea Fleet’s value in the eyes of ings, as well as funds from international unknown persons bombarded a monument international rule of law in the Black Sea Russia’s leadership, lending an added financial organizations. The proceeds are to Russian Empress Catherine II in region. impetus to plans for retention of the supposed to be channeled to financing Sevastopol with packets of dye. The like- The Russian fleet now plans to use the Sevastopol base in the future. projects in those sectors that have lost for- ness of the empress was painted with yel- prized Ochamchire base on the Abkhaz On October 22 Russian Minister of eign demand in order to ensure develop- low and blue colors. According to the coast, which is legally sovereign Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov announced ment of the domestic market. The presi- head of the Ukrainian Community of Georgian territory (Vremya Novostei, that Russia would ask Ukraine to prolong dent also suggests introducing in the Sevastopol, Myroslav Mamchak, organiz- October 21; see Eurasia Daily Monitor, the stationing of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet agrarian sector a value-added tax accumu- ers of the provocation wished to stir up October 22). The Turkish-Russian naval in Sevastopol beyond 2017, when the lation regime, whereby all the VAT that is anti-Ukrainian moods on the eve of possi- condominium, which exists de facto in basing agreement is due to expire. Mr. earned by villagers (around 7 billion hrv), ble parliamentary elections. Mr. Mamchak Lavrov said that Russia would not make the Black Sea, did not inhibit the Russian will remain in their possession. In order to confirmed that the Ukrainian Community its proposal to Ukraine any time soon but fleet from attacking Georgia. bolster the banking sectors, the introduc- of Sevastopol had been against erection of “at some later stage, closer to 2017” In late September and the first half of tion is proposed of a mechanism of recap- the monument to the empress, but it acted (Interfax, October 22). October, ships of Russia’s Black Sea italization of commercial banks with the openly; it has no connection to this act of Such timing, however, would leave Fleet joined flag-showing exercises by help of government and National Bank of vandalism, he added. Sevastopol authori- almost no room for Russian compliance the Russian navy in the Mediterranean Ukraine resources. It is also suggested to ties are investigating the incident. with the deadline, in the event that earmark from the 2008 budget 1 billion (Ukrinform) Sea and visits to Soviet-era bases located Ukraine turns down Moscow’s proposal. there. While the fleet’s overall combat hrv to nationalize PromInvestBank via The fleet’s physical relocation from Ukreximbank. The presidential anti-crisis President’s rating declines further value is very low at present, Russia’s Sevastopol to Russian territory would be leaders think 10 years ahead in terms of bill provides for a two-year moratorium KYIV – According to the results of the a multi-year process and could be dragged on sharp increases of social indicators ship-building plans, premised on oil and out longer than necessary by Russia. public opinion poll conducted on October gas revenues, for uncontested naval “with the goal of balancing state finances 7-19 by the Oleksander Razumkov Center, Starting the discussions with Ukraine and the finances of enterprises.” This supremacy over neighboring countries 22.8 percent of people would vote for “closer to 2017” would, therefore, ensure means that the minimum subsistence level and a possible renewed presence in the Party of Regions leader Viktor the prolongation of the Russian fleet’s and the minimum wage will be increased Mediterranean. Yanukovych if the presidential elections presence in Ukraine beyond the deadline, within the inflation level. (Ukrinform) The Black Sea Fleet, moreover, seems de facto if not de jure. took place next Sunday. Coming in sec- potentially usable in Crimea much as the The basing agreement, signed in 1997 A signal of coalition’s revival? ond is Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Russian ground troops proved usable in and valid for a 20-year period, can be leader of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, KYIV – Prime Minister Yulia prolonged automatically unless either side who has 20.5 percent support. Third is Tymoshenko, who optimistically accepted terminates it with one-year advance Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko the October 29 vote in the first reading of notice. This procedure puts the onus on with 5.1 percent, followed by President Kyiv denies extension the anti-crisis bill submitted by the presi- the Ukrainian authorities. Moscow proba- Viktor Yushchenko with 4.9 percent. dent, predicted its successful adoption in bly hopes that a divided Ukrainian gov- Volodymyr Lytvyn, leader of the its second reading on October 30. of lease for Russia’s ernment and body politic may not be able Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc, and Parliament Commenting on the support for the bill by to reach, sustain and enforce a decision to the factions of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (Continued on page 14) Black Sea Fleet terminate the basing agreement. Moscow is already laying out the strat- PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The egy for retaining its naval presence on Associated Press reported on October Ukraine’s territory in the future. The strat- FOUNDED 1933 24 that Ukraine had turned down a egy includes potentially coercive aspects, THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Russian proposal to extend the lease as well as inducements. An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., for the naval base on the Crimean On the coercive side, Russian officials, peninsula used by the Russian Black a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. including some at the top, are openly Yearly subscription rate: $55; for UNA members — $45. Sea Fleet. questioning Ukraine’s territorial integrity Periodicals postage paid at Parsippany, NJ 07054 and additional mailing offices. Russia wants the fleet to remain in (also inspiring the Duma to do this), with (ISSN — 0273-9348) Sevastopol, Ukraine, after the lease particular reference to Crimea and expires in 2017. Sevastopol. 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Parsippany, NJ 07054 when 2017 draws closer in the hope On the inducement side, the Russian that Ukraine’s President Viktor A. government proposes to: a) increase the The Ukrainian Weekly Archive: www.ukrweekly.com; e-mail: [email protected] Yushchenko, who is pro-Western, will rent it pays to Ukraine for leasing the no longer be in office. 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The adver- state orders with Ukrainian military- industrial plants in Crimea and elsewhere Maria Oscislawski, advertising manager (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 tisement should have occupied a full-page. e-mail: [email protected] This week’s issue contains the correct in Ukraine (including the now-idle Ukrainian shipyards along the seacoast, Mariyka Pendzola, subscriptions (973) 292-9800, ext. 3042 full-page version of that advertisement. e-mail: [email protected] – Advertising Department (Continued on page 22) No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 3 The Holodomor 75 years later: The Kharkiv Oblast by Zenon Zawada Kyiv Press Bureau The Holodomor VALKY, Ukraine – In the mid-1980s in the Kharkiv Oblast as a budding Soviet journalist in Valky, a rural town outside of Kharkiv, Tamara 128,000 known casualties * Polischuk was struck by how the elders 54,490 known survivors still alive ** would switch to a whisper when mention- ing the terrible Famine. 900-plus population centers affected “Whatever they talked about, they 192 known mass graves somehow ended up on this topic,” said Ms. Polischuk, now director of the Valky * Liumyla Rovchak, the lead editor of the Ethnographic Museum. “I didn’t under- Kharkiv volume of the National Memory stand what they were talking about or Book of Holodomor Victims, said this figure why they spoke of it with such trembling is based on current evidence and does not fear.” reflect the true casualty rate, which is Her journalistic itch kicked in, and Ms. expected to be at least four times higher. Polischuk began digging through Soviet ** As of 2002, according to Ms. Rovchak. history books and publications, only to find brief mentions of food shortages in 1932 and 1933 caused by drought. oblast residents perished – eight times the Once the Soviet Union collapsed, how- normal death rate. ever, the whispers became living testimo- Zenon Zawada Half the populations of certain Kharkiv nies to the Holodomor, the man-made Tamara Polischuk began researching the Holodomor in the late 1980s after she Oblast villages, such as Snizhky, were famine hatched by the Soviet government noticed that Kharkiv Oblast residents would whisper about it during interviews. eliminated, while those situated near the to annihilate the foundation of Ukraine, railroad suffered only 10 percent casual- its peasant farmers. New York banker who currently resides That changed when Holodomor ties. After being recruited in 1992 to in Lviv, financed the book, which con- researcher Volodymyr Boichuk of France Residents there were able to ride the become director of the Valky district’s tains documents from the Kharkiv Oblast visited Kharkiv in 1995, read Ms. train to the city of Kharkiv, work in the first ethnographic museum, Ms. Polischuk State Archives that Ms. Polischuk spent Polischuk’s manuscript and invited her to city’s factories, earn valuable “produktovi became determined to investigate and hundreds of hours copying in the early join the burgeoning Holodomor kartky” (food cards) and thereby feed document the terror that befell the Valky 1990s, not having the luxuries of photo- Researchers Association. their families. district, blessed with seemingly endless copying machines and digital cameras. Much work has yet to be done in Ms. Polischuk’s grandfather worked as fields of some of Ukraine’s deepest and The documents revealed that the assessing the Holodomor in the Kharkiv a firefighter in the railway town of richest “chornozem” (black earth). Famine wasn’t accidental, or imposed Oblast, despite Ms. Polischuk’s enormous Liubotyn and was able to feed his two She began traveling to surrounding vil- locally, and a chain of documents led efforts. children because of where he worked. lages and writing down testimonies with directly to Moscow. For example, researchers have yet to As peasants starved to death, Kharkiv a simple pen and paper – all that was Meanwhile, the Security Service of establish a death count for the oblast, was becoming a Soviet industrial power- available at the time of the economic dev- Ukraine denied Ms. Polischuk access to which won’t be ready in time for the house, its residents had work and food, astation in the early 1990s. its documents. Kharkiv Oblast volume of the National and the massive State Industry She gathered 50 eyewitness accounts Wanting to consult with local histori- Memory Book of Holodomor Victims. (DerzhProm) complex in central Kharkiv herself and collected 150 from others, ans about her work, Ms. Polischuk was Kharkiv Holodomor historian was active, Ms. Polischuk said. many of which eventually made it into shocked to discover in 1993 that not a Yelyzaveta Yatsenko estimates that 2 mil- When she was researching the her acclaimed account of the Holodomor single Kharkiv historian had done any lion were killed in the Kharkiv Oblast, Holodomor in the 1990s, Ms. Polischuk’s in Kharkiv, “Stolytsia Vidchayu” (Capital research on the Holodomor that devastat- which in 1933 included territory now part efforts were largely greeted with encour- of Despair), published in 2006. ed the oblast and Russified its inhabit- of the Poltava and Sumy oblasts. Holodomor activist Marian Kots, a ants. Ms. Polischuk believes a third of the (Continued on page 16)

President Bush meets with Central and East European Coalition Ukrainian National Information Service WASHINGTON – In an unexpected meeting with leaders of the Central and East European Coalition (CEEC), President George W. Bush thanked the ethnic representatives for their support of the NATO enlargement process during a briefing at the White House on Friday, October 24. Founded in 1993, the CEEC comprises 19 U.S.-based national Central and East European ethnic organizations represent- ing over 20 million Americans in the United States. The briefing took place prior to a cer- emony in which President Bush signed Protocols of Accession to help bring Croatia and Albania a step closer to for- mal NATO membership in 2009. In his remarks in the State Dining Room, President Bush spoke to the group Peter Wendl of 33 CEEC members for nearly half an Representatives of member-organizations of the Central and East European Coalition; seated in the first row (second and hour about the future of NATO, the pri- third from right, respectively) are Ihor Kotlarchuk, chairman of the UCCA’s District of Columbia branch, and Michael orities of his administration and its Sawkiw Jr., director of the Ukrainian National Information Service. accomplishments. He thanked the CEEC for its role in supporting previous rounds democracy and security issues facing remarks, Mr. Sawkiw reiterated the con- Prior to the president’s appearance, the of NATO enlargement to bring in many Ukraine and Georgia, support of democ- cerns expressed by the CEEC members CEEC was briefed by U.S. Ambassador of the countries from the Central and racy-building in Belarus, the upcoming during the meeting: “We [the Ukrainian to NATO Kurt Volker and Assistant to the East European region. 60th NATO summit in 2009 and U.S.- American community, as part of the President for Strategic Initiatives and President Bush emphasized that the Russia relations. CEEC] are grateful to have had this External Affairs Barry Jackson. National work of the CEEC must continue during The Ukrainian Congress Committee of opportunity to meet President Bush and Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and the next presidential administration and America was represented by two of its discuss issues important to our respective Deputy National Security Advisor Judith that NATO must take in those countries executive board members: Michael communities. We are hopeful that, with Ansley were also present at the gathering, that aspire to and are ready to share the Sawkiw Jr., director of the UCCA’s the transition to a new administration in along with Damon Wilson, Adam Sterling burdens of membership, including Washington bureau, the Ukrainian January 2009, granting a Membership and Maria Germano of the National Ukraine and Georgia. National Information Service (UNIS), Action Plan (MAP) to Ukraine and Security Council, and Vanessa Beebe The president also discussed the and Ihor Kotlarchuk, chairman of the Georgia, and vigilance of events within from the Office of Public Liaison. Victims of Communism Memorial in UCCA’s District of Columbia branch. the Russian Federation remain in the fore- Washington, the Visa Waiver Program, Commenting on the president’s front of U.S. foreign policy.” (Continued on page 16) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 No. 44

Stefan Kaczurak Delegates, UCCA officers and guests at the closing of the XX Congress of Ukrainians in America.

At the conclusion of the banquet, the XX Congress... UCCA presented its highest honor, the (Continued from page 1) Shevchenko Freedom Award, to six promi- American Youth Association; and nent individuals within the Ukrainian com- Alexander Lushnycky, UCCA Educational munity: Undersecretary of State Paula Council. Dobriansky; Askold Lozynskyj, former The second panel, “The Importance of president of the Ukrainian World Congress; Advocacy of Our Community’s Interests Prof. Dmytro Shtohryn University of on the Local and Federal Levels,” moder- Illinois at Champagne-Urbana; Maria ated by Mr. Baranyk, was another hot topic Lozynskyj, former president of the for the XX convention delegates. George Women’s Association for the Defense of Brown, ethnic liaison for Sen. George For Freedoms for Ukraine (WADFFU); Voinovich (R-Ohio), Svitlana Sweat, Julian Kulas president of the Heritage Foundation; and Daria Stepaniak, long- UCCA Georgia branch, and Steve time activist of the WADFFU. Ostafichuk, Holodomor Project coordina- The evening’s entertainment was pro- tor, League of Ukrainian Catholics, pro- vided by the local Cleveland dance ensem- vided advice on how best to advocate ble, Kashtan, the Ukrainian Bandurist issues important to the community, such as Chorus under the direction of its new con- Ukraine’s Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933, ductor, Adrian Bryttan, and the UCCA and on creating chambers of commerce Philadelphia branch’s all-male choir, between UCCA branches and Ukraine. Akkolada. On Saturday evening, the United Addressing the delegates on Sunday, after Organizations of Cleveland, the UCCA’s the election of the UCCA’s new leadership, Cleveland branch, organized a formal ban- Ms. Olexy expressed gratitute to Mr. quet for the delegates and guests of the con- Sawkiw, outgoing UCCA president, the gress. The keynote address was delivered UCCA executive board and National by Sen. Voinovich, a long-time friend and Council, as well as UCCA branches for their supporter of the Ukrainian community. many years of dedication and hard work. Greetings were also received from the Ms. Olexy pledged to do her utmost for two U.S. presidential candidates, Sen. John the good of the UCCA and the Ukrainian McCain and Sen. Barack Obama. Oleh American community. She noted that the Shamshur, Ukraine’s Ambassador to the biggest challenge will be to revitalize the Julian Kulas accepts the Taras Shevchenko Freedom Award. Looking on is out- United States, also in attendance, community, through the UCCA’s member- going UCCA President Michael Sawkiw Jr. addressed the delegates and guests and ship and branches, and she outlined her presented UCCA’s outgoing president, vision for the next four years, which utilizing the most up-to-date communica- stated, “I look forward to working with Michael Sawkiw Jr., with a special award includes reassesing the status of UCCA tions methods, and embracing the newest you all. We are a team and, with open from Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign branches, retooling the UCCA to meet the immigrants from Ukraine. communication and cooperation, I believe Affairs. current needs of the community, including In closing, the newly elected president we will have a bright future before us.”

Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.S. Oleh Shamshur...... and Sen. George Voinovich address congress delegates. No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 5 Greetings to the XX Congress of Ukrainians in America Sen. John McCain Sen. Barack Obama Following is the full text of Sen. Ukrainian Congress Committee for its Following is the full text of Sen. efforts to earn its rightful place as a John McCain’s October 16 letter to the principled stand in defense of Georgia’s Barack Obama’s October 14 letter to the member of the Euro-Atlantic communi- XX Congress of Ukrainians in America. independence and territorial integrity, Ukrainian Congress Committee of ty. I look forward to supporting These have been difficult times for America. Ukrainian policies to strengthen the rule XX Congress of Ukrainians Georgia and Russia’s neighbors. The of law, reduce Ukraine’s energy depen- in America clear stand adopted by Ukrainian Michael Sawkiw dence, improve the business climate, Ukrainian Congress Committee Americans will shape opinion here and President expand U.S. investment in Ukraine’s 203 Second Avenue abroad, and for the better. As I said Ukrainian Congress Committee vibrant economy, and create more oppor- New York, NY 10023 during one of the presidential debates, of America tunities for young Ukrainians to study in it’s not accidental that the presidents of the United States. Dear Delegates, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and Dear President Sawkiw and fellow The Ukrainian experiment in democ- Ukraine flew to Georgia. They showed delegates to the Ukrainian Congress racy must succeed, not only for the well Greetings and welcome to all joining solidarity with Georgians, a solidarity Committee of America, being of Ukrainian citizens, but also to this year’s Congress of Ukrainians in born of direct experience of what it is inspire those still fighting for democracy America. Thank you for allowing me like to be subjected to Russian military I congratulate you on convening the throughout the region, including even this chance to join you, at least in spirit, action. In that debate, I also pointed out 20th Congress of Ukrainians in America inside Russia. Bolstering Ukrainian as Ukrainian Americans from around that we had to watch out for Ukraine. in Cleveland this week. I regret that I democracy, development, and security our country gather to discuss the many Russia must face consequences for its cannot attend, but I look forward to hear- will constitute a central pillar of my for- issues that unite your community in invasion of Georgia, and must under- ing the results of your meeting, particu- eign policy for dealing with the entire common action. stand that the West will not stand by as larly as they pertain to bolstering sover- region. I urge you as individual eignty, security, democracy and prosperi- There will be a great deal to consid- the Kremlin pressures Ukraine. We Americans and the Ukrainian Congress ty in Ukraine. er. Ukrainian Americans have been piv- must be steadfast and effective in our Committee of America as a whole to support for the inclusion of Georgia As we have seen in the past months, otal in supporting the democratic aspi- remain engaged in helping us achieve and Ukraine in NATO. sovereignty and security must never be rations of Ukrainians during and fol- this common goal. Thank you for being a strong voice of taken for granted in Europe. Partnership lowing the Orange Revolution, and In closing, I would like to assure you your continued support will be critical freedom, of human rights, of spreading and cooperation with Ukraine’s friends that Michelle and I are personally aware in solidifying the dramatic changes of democracy, of the cultural heritage of in the West must continue to play a vital of the historic importance and meaning recent years. During my visits to Ukrainian Americans and their current role in building a safe and prosperous of the Holodomor. The tragic famine that Ukraine and in my meetings with contributions in all these areas. America future for Ukrainian citizens. took so many lives must never be forgot- Ukrainian leaders and citizens, it has is enriched by your activities, and I fully support the efforts of Ukraine’s ten. An entire era was shaped by this been clear that the people of that proud Ukraine is strengthened by the linkages citizens to build a stable, independent, horrendous crime. For the sake of our country have a bright future, one that you foster between our countries. and democratic Ukraine, integrated into will be all the more promising as Europe and contributing to transatlantic common humanity, we must never forget Sincerely, America stands by its side. security. The United States must work the famine and must always ensure that I would also like to commend the John McCain closely with our European allies to accel- future generations know this painful his- erate and deepen Ukraine’s integration tory so that it will never be repeated. into the West. Ukraine is ready for a I wish you a productive meeting and NATO Membership Action Plan: I look forward to hearing the results. pledge to work with America’s NATO Sincerely, President George W. Bush allies to build agreement among them for Following is the text of U.S. Americans helped build our country taking this next key step in Ukraine’s Barack Obama President George W. Bush’s October 16 and shape our national character. letter to the UCCA congress. I appreciate the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America for your com- IN THE PRESS I send greetings to those gathered mitment to preserving and celebrating for the 2008 Quadrennial Congress of your customs, values, and history. Your the Ukrainian Congress Committee of efforts honor a vibrant culture in our Moscow mayor and Russian nationalism America. country and set a fine example for Our Nation is a land of diversity that future generations of Americans. “Kremlin Rules: Moscow’s Mayor called for Russia to reclaim Crimea from has benefited from the contributions of Laura and I send our best wishes on Exports Russia’s New Nationalism,” by Ukraine. Many Russians consider this special occasion. people from all backgrounds. Through Clifford J. Levy, The New York Times, Crimea, which has an ethnic Russian hard work and perseverance, Ukrainian George W. Bush October 26: majority and a Russian naval base on the Black Sea, an integral part of Russia. “…Yuri M. Luzhkov is a mayor with a “If it becomes the next flash point foreign policy. A former Soviet apparat- between Russia and the West, Mr. chik who yearns to restore Russia’s Luzhkov will in no small part be respon- President Viktor Yushchenko regional hegemony, he has supported eth- sible. He has nurtured separatist groups nic Russians and stoked separatism in in Crimea that since the Georgia conflict Following is the text of Ukrainian condemnation as genocide. nations along the country’s borders. … have a new battle cry: we will be next. President Viktor Yushchenko’s greeting I am moved by the desire of “Over the past decade, Mr. Luzhkov, “In May, when Mr. Luzhkov got off a to the participants of the XX Congress Ukrainians in America to support in 72, has spent hundreds of millions of dol- plane in Crimea, he was greeted by of Ukrainians in America. (Translated their souls the feeling of belonging to lars from Moscow’s well-padded city Ukrainian security service agents who by The Ukrainian Weekly.) the great Ukrainian family and to care- budget in Russia’s ‘near abroad,’ several warned him to stop fomenting separat- fully preserve the cultural and spiritual city officials said. He has supported pro- ism. He instead proclaimed in a speech To the Participants of the XX traditions of their ancestors. Russian separatists in Moldova, built that Sevastopol, the site of the Russian Congress of Ukrainians in America I am convinced that your congress highways in rebellious Georgian enclaves naval base, belongs to Russia. … will become a significant step on the and constructed housing for the Russian “The next day, Ukrainian officials Dear Friends, Dear Ukrainians! road to uniting Ukrainians worldwide military on the Crimean peninsula in barred him from Ukraine and began I cordially greet you with the open- around the national idea and will spur Ukraine. investigating his activities in Crimea… ing of the jubilee XX Congress of their unification in a mighty organism “His enigmatic role unnerves Russia’s “In Sevastopol, a city of 350,000, Mr. Ukrainians in America. whose heart is Kyiv. pro-Western neighbors because he flouts Luzhkov has deepened the Russian pres- Your contributions to the Ukrainian I assure you that Ukraine will always diplomatic rules that prohibit aid to sepa- ence. He has constructed a branch of nation are invaluable. I am deeply remember its sons and daughters, and ratists. When foreign governments pro- Moscow State University, Russian thankful for your assistance in estab- considers the strengthening of contacts test that he is violating their sovereignty Orthodox cathedrals, schools, a sports lishing and developing Ukrainian state- with them to be a government priority. and destabilizing their countries, he says complex and other facilities. hood and for representing our nation in I wish you good health, good for- he is merely expanding Moscow’s sister- “…[Russian Prime Minister Vladimir] the world with dignity. tune, inspiration and continued success city relationships. The Kremlin says he is Putin has said that Russia respects I highly appreciate the contributions in the name of Ukraine. acting as a local official or a philanthro- Ukraine’s territorial integrity, but he has of American Ukrainians in acquainting Glory to Ukraine! pist. … not disavowed the separatists or Mr. the international community with the Glory to the Ukrainian nation! “But he is the bête noire of leaders Luzhkov. In fact, after Mr. Luzhkov was horrible truth about the Holodomor of who took power in popular “color revolu- barred from Ukraine in May, the Kremlin 1932-1933 in Ukraine and seeking its Viktor Yushchenko tions” that swept Eastern and Central lashed back. Europe over the past six years, especially “ ‘Luzhkov only expressed a view that, the Rose and Orange Revolutions in incidentally, coincides with the point of Georgia and Ukraine. … view of most Russians who responded To subscribe to The Ukrainian Weekly: call 973-292-9800 x 3042. “Mr. Luzhkov, who declined to be painfully to the disintegration of the interviewed for this article, has also USSR,’ the Foreign Ministry said. …” 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 No. 44

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY some basic facts can readily dispel Mr. Focus on issues Pytel’s attempts to do both in his article. Vote! Sen. Barack Obama does not have to be a instead of Ayers member of the original Daley party to be the What has seemed like the longest campaign ever for the presidency of the United product of the Daley machine, for that Dear Editor: States will soon be over, with the election scheduled to take place two days after the machine is well-known for advancing can- date of this issue. Regular readers of this newspaper surely have noticed that we’ve For some reason Myron Kuropas didates by utilizing extreme political tactics published a variety of opinions on the candidates, their qualifications and their posi- thinks that Bill Ayers’ doctoral disserta- bordering on, if not crossing over into, tions; indeed, the last batch of them, in the form of letters to the editor, appears on tion is of such great importance to unethical standards. David Axelrod has a this page and the next. Some of our columnists also have chosen to weigh in on the Ukrainians that he actually spends one- long Communist pedigree of constantly pro- choices facing American voters, and letters from readers have commented on those half of a full page discussing it, as well as moting and espousing leftist socialist views, columns as well. It must be noted that we’ve printed 99 percent of the letters we the benefits of a grant that Mr. Ayers the kind that, by the way, led to the redistri- received on the topic of the U.S. presidential race. The unpublished remainder were received form the Annenberg Corporation. bution of wealth that resulted in many atroc- repeat letters, written by those who’d already had a chance to have their say. In the process Dr. Kuropas, a former high ities, including the Great Famine in Ukraine. In short, it’s been a lively campaign season on the pages of this paper. school teacher and principal, and now an Regarding the price of gasoline, it was the As for The Ukrainian Weekly itself, readers may have noticed that the news- adjunct professor at Northern Illinois leftists who have prevented America’s ener- paper did not endorse anyone. Nor have we done so in past elections. That’s University, comments on doctoral disser- gy independence by blocking drilling in the because The Weekly and its sister publication, Svoboda, are published by the tations which go through rather rigorous U.S. and offshore. Ukrainian National Association. [The UNA is a 501(c)(8) not-profit organization, committee scrutiny at any university. As a The Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and AIG which – unlike a 501(c)(3) non-profit – is allowed to engage in political activity.] professor of education myself, I find the debacle was the result of leftist social engi- The UNA, realizing that it represents a diverse membership with a variety of columnist’s self-righteous attitude, as neering efforts to promote fiscally irrespon- political views, has traditionally chosen not to endorse political candidates; how- well as his dismissal of the Annenberg/ sible federal housing. President George W. ever, the UNA and its newspapers have always encouraged members and readers PCB foundation as left wing, to be rather Bush’s and Sen. John McCain’s efforts to to be politically involved. disturbing. All educators know of the tre- control the two entities were blocked by the As Ukrainian Americans, we care about the same issues other Americans care mendous education projects that the foun- Franks, Dodds, Waters and Schumers of about; and the diversity of opinions in our community is a reflection of American dation has supported over the years. I Congress. Finally, the $700 billion bailout society as a whole. Perhaps more so than the average American, however, we care have used a set of physics videos called required an additional hundred billion or so about foreign affairs. The good news, as noted in one bipartisan letter on the next the “Mechanical Universe” to support of Democratic pork to gain passage, includ- page, is that both major party candidates running in 2008 are supporters of Ukraine, courses I teach. ing at one time, earmarks for ACORN, the and both have visited our ancestral homeland. (Try Googling McCain and Ukraine, The whole column does not seem to Democratic voter registration machine and Obama and Ukraine – you’ll find a wealth of information.) have any point save for Dr. Kuropas’s last indicted in many states for fraudulence. For those of you who’d like some extra reading before making up their minds, sentence regarding Barack Obama: What America needs is de-regulation and we suggest taking a look online, or in your local library, at past issues of the eminent “Given the senator’s record of dissimula- private enterprises, and more regulation of journal Foreign Affairs. Both Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain authored tion, do you believe him?” Now that Democratic social engineering skills in order thoughtful articles on U.S. foreign policy at a time when they were running for the statement is of interest to all Americans, to make it possible for our economy to con- presidential nominations of their respective parties. Mr. Obama’s article, titled including Ukrainian Americans. Dr. tinue to build wealth and not simply to redis- “Renewing American Leadership,” appeared in the July /August 2007 issue of the Kuropas should have begun his article tribute wealth a la the failed ideology of journal; Mr. McCain’s contribution, “An Enduring Peace Built of Freedom; with that statement and then gone on to communism. A Ukrainian who refuses to Securing America’s Future,” was published in November/December 2007. (Log on show examples of this dissimulation, but understand where Sen. Obama is headed to www.foreignaffairs.org and click on the appropriate back issue.) instead he ends with this, leaving readers turns a blind eye and a deaf ear to the bloody That said, Dear Readers, we leave you with just one piece of advice: get out and wondering exactly what dissimulation he drama of his own people. And that, to me, vote. In an election year that pundits have labeled transformational, your vote is talking about (if he has anything con- represents irony at its most bitter. counts more than ever. crete to say about this at all). Olya Samilenko If Sen. John McCain supports George Baltimore, Md. W. Bush’s policies 90 percent of the time, then over the years Dr. Kuropas has sup- Nov. Turning the pages back... ported them 100 percent of the time, beginning with support for the insane Iraq An answer war on these very pages. We all know where those policies have gotten us. 2 Last year, on November 2, 2007, President Viktor Yushchenko We have so many issues that actually to Kuzma op-ed addressed the Cabinet of Ministers and suggested ways to deal affect Ukrainian Americans to write about Dear Editor: 2007 with rising inflation, which included introducing new customs that we would all be better served with an electronics and appraisals to regulate the flow of goods across the intelligent discussion of these. Re: Alex Kuzma’s article (September 28) Ukrainian border. in support of Barack Obama. According to President Yushchenko, economists needed to re- Dr. Oleh George Kolodiy Mr. Kuzma writes, “Sen. Obama under- examine how economic sectors relate to one another, especially in terms of supply and Maplewood, N.J. stands the kind of devastating impact that demand. Budget spending needed to fall under fiercer control, he continued, and the economic decisions made in Washington National Bank of Ukraine should assume tighter controls on the money supply. The letter-writer is associate professor can have on those who have to struggle to The president also suggested updating the methods of gathering inflation data. According of mathematics/science education at Kean survive.” to the methods then employed, a minimal standard of living was estimated based on how University of New Jersey. Here’s just one example of Sen. Obama’s many socks and coats the average Ukrainian needs, and at what prices the could be pur- economic reality: He bought property from chased. his neighbor (Tony Rezko) who sold it to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych suggested a short-term fix by halting exports of goods him for a fraction of its value. Eventually to ease the increase in domestic prices. Mr. Yanukovych previously suggested the same for Mr. Obama was able to repay Mr. Rezko grain exports, which resulted in significant losses for Ukraine and criticism from interna- Pytel employs with congressional earmarks of several mil- tional markets. lion dollars. Subsequently Mr. Rezko was The State Statistics Committee reported that inflation rose 11.7 percent after jumps of 2.9 “ridicule principle” convicted of fraud – so much for change percent in October 2007 and 2.2 percent in September 2007. At that rate, economists pre- you can believe in. dicted that Ukraine could end 2007 with its highest inflation rate in seven years, as prices for Dear Editor: Mr. Kuzma tries to equate Mr. Obama’s goods were approaching those in Europe, while salaries were not rising proportionally. In taking issue with Dr. Myron Kuropas’s humble roots with those of most Ukrainian During the election campaign, the major parties promised higher pensions and govern- column of September 14, Ewhen Pytel uti- Americans. But how many Ukrainian ment salaries, and more payments for child births. lized the “ridicule principle,” an old com- Americans would spend 20 years going to a “On the markets, producers have reacted accordingly,” said Andrii Novak, a Kyiv econo- munist rhetorical strategy used to disparage church where the pastor ranted: “God d**n mist. “They raised prices, with the expectation that citizens will have more money. They the West. When substantive counter-argu- America”? How many Ukrainian Americans also created artificial deficits by reducing products, also leading to higher prices.” ments against America did not seem to be have the advantage of minority “set-asides” Rising global commodity prices also had an effect, as higher gas prices caused utility bill when applying to Ivy League schools? working, the editors of Izvestia and Pravda hikes. Service prices in Ukraine also were a key inflationary factor, reported Moody’s “Eight years ago Bill Clinton left a $230 typically resorted to an artificial question- Economy.com. The emerging consumer lending boom in Ukraine was another leading cause billion surplus,” Mr. Kuzma notes. This sur- of inflation, economists said. answer format laced with sarcasm. plus was developed through drastic cuts in The decrease in value of the U.S. dollar on currency markets influenced the Ukrainian Interestingly, the “ridicule principle” was the military budget – cuts that had to be economy as well. Many Ukrainians received a significant portion of their salaries in dollars, warmly embraced by none other than leftist restored after 9/11. And let’s not forget that off the books. At that time the exchange rate was 5.05 hrv per $1. radical Saul Alinsky in his guidebook on President Clinton had an opportunity to pre- The National Bank of Ukraine had stuck with the U.S. dollar as its base to maintain sta- how to replace American capitalism with vent this catastrophe – Sudan offered to bility in the economy, especially due to the fact that the dollar was the main currency in communism. The 1971 primer, now a left- hand over Osama bin Laden to us, but Mr. reserve, economists said. wing classic, was vividly titled “Rules for Clinton refused the offer. Volodymyr Stelmakh, chairman of the NBU, said he would take measures to further Radicals.” Basically, Mr. Alinsky’s point Mr. Kuzma references the “economic strengthen the hryvnia’s position in order to curb inflation and would consider allowing the was that if you can’t kill the message, you apocalypse we have witnessed on Wall hryvnia to appreciate to 4.90 per $1. should discredit the messenger. Fortunately Street.” Let’s examine the primary cause of for Dr. Kuropas, he is not a man who can the current financial crisis – the crash/bail- Source: “Rising prices, growing inflation cause for concern in Ukraine,” by Zenon easily be discredited by leftist ideology, and out of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which Zawada, The Ukrainian Weekly, November 18, 2007. neither is his message. On the other hand, resulted primarily from sub-prime mortgage No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR lending practices in the banking industry erty. We are concerned about the country PERSPECTIVES that had a ripple effect throughout our econ- that we live and work in, and the state that omy. It was the Clinton administration that it is in today. We are very concerned about BY ANDREW FEDYNSKY pressured the banking industry to give more the future for our children and grandchil- loans to the “financially disadvantaged” – dren. even requiring that food stamps be consid- Today the picture looks bleak. We do ered as income when qualifying for a mort- not want more of the same. We are inter- Iwan Schuljak (1911-2008) gage – and threatened to sue banks for racial ested in electing a president who will help discrimination if they did not comply. Any regain trust, economic stability and respect This is a fairytale, only the story is true. with a revolver, depriving him of hearing in actuary or risk analyst (I have been a risk in the U.S.A. and throughout the world. And because it’s true, it ends with death, his right ear. underwriter for the past 30 years) will tell We want our children to have a brighter but it’s a fairytale and therefore has a happy Once the Terror subsided, Mr. Schuljak you that is a recipe for financial disaster. future, a healthier environment and a sense ending. It’s about an elderly man who was released to work on the railroad. Three of Sen. Obama’s economic advis- of security. We love Ukraine with all our devoted his life to Ukrainian Culture and When the Nazis invaded in 1941, he, ers served as Fannie Mae executives and hearts, but we believe that our president how the global village cared for him. along with 2 million other Ukrainians, they earned tens of millions in those posi- needs to take care of matters at home. I first met Iwan Schuljak in the early was forced to work in the German econo- tions. And, the three largest recipients of Once that is accomplished, America will 1960s at the Plast Scouting Home in my. His blue and white OST patch identi- campaign contributions from Freddie and regain the respect in the world that it truly Cleveland where he was the live-in care- fying him as a slave is now part of the Fannie are Democrats: Sens. Christopher deserves, and then America will be in a taker. Twenty-five years later, he was still UMA collection. When the war ended, Dodd, John Kerry and Obama. better position to help – not save – others. there when I returned to Cleveland to Mr. Schuljak wisely decided to immigrate “For most of the past 30 years,” Mr. We need to be concerned about our become director of the Ukrainian Museum- to America. There, he maintained contact Kuzma writes, “we have been governed by country. Let’s first and foremost take care Archives (UMA), which had purchased the with his family, exchanging letters and what George H. W. Bush once called ‘voo- of matters at home. Please exercise your building from Plast. phone calls, sending them money. doo economics.’” The reality is that for most right to vote. We have freedom of choice. In 1987 the UMA was adrift. Having As he reached his mid-80s, Mr. of those years we have had a Democratic Vote for whom you wish, and do so based been in the Tremont neighborhood for a Schuljak was slowing down and the vil- Congress. And what happened to the change on whatever criteria you feel appropriate. century, the Ukrainian community left for lage in Cleveland began to pay attention that Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Harry But please do not demean Ukraine by jus- the suburbs after highway construction to his plight. Daria Sopka, who worked at Reid promised when they came into power tifying a political agenda with “I’m doing demolished half the houses and nearby fac- the UMA, signed him up for the Cuyahoga in 2006? this to save Ukraine.” tories were closing. UMA leaders had County Passport Program for the elderly. From my perspective, neither party is either passed away or retired. And so, a Vira Popel Lida, a young immigrant from Lviv, really for the people; they’re looking out staggering collection of memorabilia, docu- George Popel only for themselves. Whenever one party assisted Mr. Schuljak with every-day Monmouth Junction, N.J. ments, books and artifacts was sitting controls both the presidency and the legisla- neglected in an aging wooden building in a needs, shopping, etc. At MetroHealth, ture we completely lose the “checks and neighborhood where the major industry nurses, doctors and Ukrainian interpreters balances” that the Founding Fathers put into had become arson and insurance fraud. knew him by name. the Constitution. There’s good news Mr. Schuljak lived in a spare room on Then in January 2007, he slipped and Thus, Sen. McCain clearly is the better the second floor. Invariably, he sat on the broke his leg. The leg healed, but at 95, he choice for America – he will provide the about the election porch reading or prowled the streets of could no longer live unassisted and Myron “checks and balances” against an earmark- Tremont to let people know the UMA was Pakush – also with the UMA – arranged for prone Congress. Dear Editor: viable and someone was caring for it. In the him to be admitted to Avon Oaks, a nursing winter he shoveled the snow; in the sum- home owned and operated by the Reidys, Zin Balaban There’s good news for Ukrainian mer, he mowed the grass; throughout the Ukrainian Americans from Lorain County. Farmington, Conn. American voters on November 4 – both year, he cleaned and was there to welcome Not having heard from him for some Barack Obama and John McCain strongly the occasional visitor. time, Mr. Schuljak’s family became con- support a free and democratic Ukraine. I was 39 years old and ready for a cerned and called. When they learned what Both strongly reject any pretense of Russian Two-part response change after nearly a decade on Capitol had happened, they immediately offered to hegemony over Ukraine. Both strongly sup- Hill. My father had been UMA director and take care of him in Ukraine. Well, Avon port Ukraine’s entry into NATO. Both also I felt an obligation to help preserve his leg- Oaks is a gracious and caring community to Stefko Kuropas support bilateral security arrangements acy. And so, with old friends like Ihor and he had regular visitors, especially Dear Editor: between the United States and Ukraine. Kowalysko and new ones like Vlodko Father John Nakonachny from St. These positions were voiced by Celeste Storozynsky, we started working on the Vladimir’s Cathedral, but it was still a nurs- We are responding to Stefko Kuropas’s Wallander, senior national security advisor collection and raising the profile of the ing home and Mr. Schuljak was ecstatic at letter to the editor “Vote for McCain to to Sen. Obama, and Ian Brzezinski, senior institution. the prospect of “going home.” Save Ukraine” (October 19). We would national security advisor to Sen. McCain, at At the age of 76, Mr. Schuljak welcomed But there was a problem: he had never like to respond in two parts. the October 15 Conference on Ukraine’s the changes and made appropriate accom- become an American citizen and since First, there is the suggestion that Regional Commitments held in Washington. modations. He announced that he was now Ukraine did not exist when he was born, he Ukraine needs to be saved by Sen. John Ms. Wallander specifically rejected the con- restricting his garlic to weekends only and wasn’t a citizen of that country either. So McCain. If indeed Ukraine needs to be cept of a “Schumer Doctrine” and clearly told me that I was to avoid it altogether. he couldn’t get a passport. saved, then Ukraine (an independent coun- stated that it is not the position of Sen. try) will need to save itself. We think that People were noticing, he said, and we had I explained the situation to Ukraine’s Obama to accept concessions to Russia at to present a certain image. this is a great insult to all Ukrainians and the expense of Eastern Europe in exchange ambassador to the U.S., Dr. Oleh Shamshur, those of Ukrainian descent. Is Mr. Kuropas Before long, the world around us for Russian support for U.S.-led sanctions who directed his consular office to help. To suggesting that Ukraine is so weak and changed dramatically: communism col- against Iran and its nuclear program. establish that Mr. Schuljak had been born helpless that it needs Sen. McCain to lapsed and Tremont began gentrifying. The It is very important for Ukrainian in what is today Ukraine, his relatives “save” it? We assume Mr. Kuropas means arsonists went to jail, and urban pioneers Americans to vote on November 4 and to retrieved his birth certificate from 1911. He Ukraine needs to be saved from “the were restoring historic buildings, opening declare themselves as Ukrainian Americans also needed an updated “green card.” expansion of Russian imperialism.” art galleries, coffee shops and restaurants. when they vote. Please tell anyone asking Alerted to the urgency of his case, the He then makes reference to the “failed Developers built townhouses and condo- that you are a Ukrainian American voter. As Department of Homeland Security turned policies of President [Jimmy] Carter.” That miniums. And the UMA was part of all things around in less than a week. Ukraine’s far as Ukrainian security is concerned, it that, with young volunteers and board was many years ago. Much has changed honorary consul for Ohio, Andrew Futey, does not matter if you vote for Sen. Obama members. Throughout, Mr. Schuljak was a since then, like the collapse of the Soviet and Roman Andarak at the Embassy in or Sen. McCain – both are equally strong mainstay: not only a caretaker, but also an Union (the evil empire), the independence D.C. did the rest and earlier this year, Mr. supporters of Ukraine. advisor, a confidant and a beloved figure in of Ukraine, etc. The expansion of Russian Schuljak became a Ukrainian citizen. In imperialism (as Mr. Kuropas puts it) under So, make your decision based on any of the neighborhood. the other issues in this election. Whichever He had a thousand stories: you know June, accompanied by Ihor Mychkovsky, Vladimir Putin occurred during the eight he arrived in Kyiv to meet his relatives. His years of President George W. Bush’s choice you make, it will be good for the guy at the Friendly Bar with no fin- life had come full circle. administration. Messrs. Bush and Putin Ukraine. In this election, the most important gers on his left hand? Back in the 1930s, Because he was nobody’s responsibili- were soul mates, remember? Perhaps men- thing you can do for Ukraine is to declare the NKVD demanded he turn his gold ty, Mr. Schuljak became everyone’s. tioning President Carter but failing to men- yourself to be a Ukrainian American voter. over to the state. He didn’t have any, he tion President Bush was an oversight. This time – whoever wins – if you vote, said, so they chopped off a finger and People all over helped out, making The second point is about our needs Ukraine wins. kept on until they were finally persuaded amends, in a way, for how brutally he’d here in the U.S.A. One of us was born in he was telling the truth... The macabre been treated in the first half of his life and Peter Borisow repaying him in part for his dedication and Ukraine, and one of us is a first-generation Los Angeles, Calif. punch line: the joke was on them! He had American. Our parents settled in the the gold all along, and it’s still there, bur- selflessness. He died on October 6, and U.S.A. in 1949 and were able to instill in ied in the ground. The guy hated the is buried within walking distance of where their children a love and respect for their Artur Hryhorowych, M.D. Communists so much he wouldn’t give he was born. To honor him at the institu- homeland. We are active in the Ukrainian New York them the satisfaction. tion to which he had devoted a major por- community, as are our adult children. Our Well, Mr. Schuljak, the son of farmers, tion of his life, the UMA has established family is fluent in Ukrainian and embraces Both letter-writers are members of the hated them too. When communism came an Iwan Schuljak Memorial Fund and our culture and traditions. board of the Center for U.S.-Ukraine and with it collectivization and famine, he welcomes donations. So what’s the point? The point is that Relations; Mr. Borisow is an Obama sup- became a “class enemy.” Arrested and bru- we live and work in the U.S.A. This is the porter, while Dr. Hryhorowych is a McCain tally interrogated, he carried scars the rest Andrew Fedynsky’s e-mail address is country that gives us our freedom and lib- supporter. of his life where a Chekist cracked his skull [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 No. 44

that contained earlier proposals, such as the Russian TV network carries Gridlocked Rada... Cabinet of Ministers’ stabilization fund mea- (Continued from page 1) sure. distortions about Holodomor rioration accelerated, with the hryvnia “The very fact of seven bills testifies to plunging to its lowest-ever values, trading at ineffective government,” said Oleksander Paskhaver, a leading economist and advisor “a different placard will be in export, 6.8 hrv per $1 at some Kyiv kiosks on by Zenon Zawada to former President Leonid Kuchma. “These Kyiv Press Bureau with the goat carefully disguised.” October 30. Since early September the hryvnia has are political documents that are not intended The report didn’t indicate when and to do anything. They are created to interfere KYIV – The Russian television net- where this goat was disguised, or what is lost 20 percent of its worth against the U.S. work RTR Planeta on October 26 broad- dollar, resulting from a 40 percent drop in with each other.” proven or disproven about the Holodomor The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the cast an evening news report replete with if indeed a living goat were captured in exports – much of it in the steel sector – and lies and distortions about the Holodomor, a rash of October withdrawals that deprived Party of Regions of Ukraine called for the same photograph as a starving girl. increasing the maximum compensation to also smearing the recognition efforts by More evidence of falsification is seen banks of $3.4 billion and triggered the President Viktor Yushchenko, who “trav- National Bank’s October 20 freeze on with- depositors of bankrupt banks to $16,667 in a documentary film distributed to (100,000 hrv), thereby doubling the current els around the world speaking only of the Ukrainian schools that featured photo- drawals. Holodomor.” A week later, on October 27, the National maximum compensation, a measure not graphs of victims of the 1920s famine in supported by the Secretariat. “In essence, this is speculation on a the Volga River basin, not the Holodomor Bank of Ukraine (NBU) leadership declined tragedy with the single goal of creating to reveal its prognosis for the hryvnia’s “This guarantee is principally important of 1932-33 in Ukraine, the report said. to reduce panic among the people who have enmity among us,” the host of the pro- The news report criticized the future course, only to admit two days later gram said. that it would fall to 6 hrv per $1, sending the deposits,” said Iryna Akimova, a Party of European Parliament for its October 25 Regions lawmaker and assistant chair of the Among the four-minute report’s distor- vote recognizing the Holodomor as a national currency careening even further tions are that President Ronald Reagan towards 7 hrv per $1 on the market. Parliament’s Economic Policy Committee. crime against humanity, insisting that a Such bankrupt banks include earmarked $400,000 for a special com- The unfolding financial turmoil sent famine of equal character and magnitude PromInvestBank, in which 25 million mission “with the task of finding testimo- shockwaves into all areas of the Ukrainian ravaged regions of Russia and depositors had their savings invested. nies that the Famine of the 1930s was economy. Kazakhstan. The Presidential Secretariat said it wants against Ukraine.” Savings deposit accounts at all Ukrainian “What’s puzzling is why the European to spend about $167 million (1 billion hrv) It was then that the term “Holodomor” banks remained frozen by the Ukrainian Parliament separated from its sorrowful in state budget funds to buy the controlling was invented in the U.S., the news report government for the second week, forbidding list only Ukraine alone,” the report said, stake of shares in PromInvestBank. said, “which didn’t exist in the Ukrainian depositors from withdrawing money to cope ignoring the overwhelming documentary Meanwhile, several Russian banks stated language earlier” and was used as a with personal financial woes. evidence that among the Holodomor’s their interest in taking control of weapon against Russia. NBU Council Chair Petro Poroshenko aims was to destroy the Ukrainian cul- PromInvestBank, which was founded by “‘Keti’ [Kathy] Chumachenko estimated that Ukrainians withdrew between ture, language and identity, strongest Zhytomyr native Volodymyr Matviyenko, Yushchenko actively attached herself to $3 billion and $4 billion in the first weeks of amongst the peasant class. whose wealth was valued this year at $1.4 this as a U.S. State Department employ- October before the freeze, and since then The result of the genocide is evident billion, much of which he may lose, ending ee, moving to Ukraine into the position deposits by legal entities have increased today, as most urban residents of eastern up as a minority stakeholder. as the president’s wife,” the report said. and southern Ukraine have no interest in while withdrawals by individuals have In fact, the term Holodomor was PromInvestBank’s collapse directly Ukrainian culture, language and identity declined, indicating some stabilization. impacted the Illyich Iron and Steel Works coined by Ukrainian author Vasyl Barka after 70 years of Russian chauvinist poli- The current crisis brought the nation’s in his 1963 work “Zhovtyi Kniaz” Plant in Mariupol, Ukraine’s second-biggest cies employed by the Soviet government. credit market to a virtual halt, already devas- producer of steel and metal products after (“Yellow Prince”), and was later first The news report also portrayed tating automobile and real estate sales highly publicly uttered by Soviet literary icon Kryvorizhstal. Russian scholar Viktor Kondrashin as an dependent on Ukrainian consumers being Borys Oliynyk, according to the The plant’s general director, Volodymyr authoritative Holodomor scholar. able to borrow from banks. Presidential Secretariat. Boiko, whose wealth was valued this year at At an international Holodomor confer- As a result, Kia dealers have dropped RTR Planeta accused Holodomor $2.3 billion, asked the government to con- ence held outside of Kyiv in late prices on new models by about $1,667 scholars of falsifying photographs, par- sider buying the plant’s shares, which are September, Mr. Kondrashin presented his (10,000 hrv), Ford dealers offered discounts ticularly one of an “exhausted girl with a owned by an estimated one-third of the up to $4,167 (25,000 hrv) and Porsche cut company’s 60,000 workers. goat in the background,” and charged that (Continued on page 16) prices by 9 percent. “It’s basically ‘durdom’ (madhouse) with The lack of available credit has already PromInvestBank,” Mr. Boiko told an lowered once surging real estate prices. For October 29 press conference. “Our money the first time in a decade, for example, pric- is there, and we can’t withdraw it. A deci- es for office space in Kyiv declined in recent sion needs to be made on its nationaliza- weeks. tion.” Ukraine’s industrial oligarchs, mean- The government should nationalize, he while, announced they will shut down some said, because no private enterprise would be of the country’s biggest factories. willing to invest in a plant that incurred an The Nikopol Ferroalloys Plant, among expected $42 million in losses in October the world’s biggest producers of ferroalloys, alone. will cease production as of November 1 The Mariupol metallurgical plant was because half of the September product among the first to bring production to a vir- hasn’t been sold and is in storage, said tual halt, also slashing its workers’ salaries Volodymyr Kutsyn, the plant’s general by 30 percent. director. The Tymoshenko Bloc and the Its 8,000 employees are threatened with Presidential Secretariat agree on borrowing losing their jobs, as are those who work at $1.7 billion (10 billion hrv) from interna- the Zaporizhia and Stakhanovskyi ferroal- tional financers to implement social-eco- loys plants, which will also shut their pro- nomic projects, as well as establishing $6.7 duction as of November 1. billion (40 billion hrv) in government guar- Massive layoffs will soon begin in the antees on international loans. The Party of metallurgy, chemical and construction indus- Regions rejected these proposals. tries, said Ildar Gazizulin of the Kyiv-based The Party of Regions and the Presidential International Center for Prospective Secretariat agreed on increasing the Research. Depositors Guaranty Fund to 25 percent of Top German real estate developer ECE the National Bank’s profit, which was not Projektmanagement abandoned its plans to supported by the Tymoshenko Bloc. build shopping malls in Ukraine’s largest The Tymoshenko Bloc offered the most cities, shutting down its ECE-Ukrayina sub- radical proposals, which aimed to increase isidary and dismissing the staff. government revenue by conducting privati- Meanwhile, Donbas coal miners are zation sales, including the nation’s behe- owed $16.4 million in unpaid wages from moth telephone monopoly UkrTelekom and September, the Ministry of Labor and Social introduce new taxes on property. Policy reported on October 28. Opponents accused the Tymoshenko News of the IMF loan didn’t help the Bloc of taking advantage of the crisis to decimated Ukrainian stock market, whose advance its political agenda, also suggesting value fell another 10 percent on October 27. that Ms. Tymoshenko wanted to sell the Its managers again had to stop trading to national telephone company to Russian stem rampant selling of shares in certain businessmen. companies. As the anti-crisis legislation stalled for a Ukrainian politicians, however, weren’t fourth day in Verkhovna Rada, concerned pressured by the deteriorating economic business leaders urged decisive action. conditions. Without the IMF loan, Ukraine faces Each of the three leading political forces even worse inflation and the government registered its own anti-crisis legislation in could default, warned NBU Chair Parliament, with the Presidential Secretariat Volodymyr Stelmakh at an October 29 press most recently submitting its own version conference. No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 9 Ukraine’s first Ph.D. program opens at Kyiv Mohyla Academy by Mychajlo Wynnyckyj Ukraine’s first Ph.D. program KYIV – The National University of The Kyiv Mohyla Academy Doctoral Kyiv-Mohyla Academy officially opened its School represents a radical departure from Doctoral School on October 8, offering the the existing system. It is hoped that in time, country’s first Western-style Ph.D. pro- it will become a real model for reform grams. This initiative is revolutionary for throughout the country. This year, the Ukraine’s higher education system, as it Doctoral School enrolled its first 16 doctoral represents a radical departure from the candidates into three EHEA-compliant Soviet-era system of researcher preparation Ph.D. programs: Management in Public that persists in Ukraine. Health (an initiative of the Kyiv Mohyla Unlike the traditional Soviet-era “aspi- School of Public Health); Mass rantura,” which is highly regulated by the Communications (a joint program of the Ministry of Education’s Higher Kyiv Mohyla School of Journalism and Attestatation Council (known by its department of sociology); finance (a joint Ukrainian acronym VAK), the Kyiv program of the department of finance and Mohyla Doctoral School’s Ph.D. programs Kyiv Mohyla Business School). are an embodiment of the principle of uni- Each doctoral program was established versity autonomy (i.e., independence from with extensive international partner cooper- the state) that is fundamental to the Western ation, as Norwegian, American, Spanish and system of higher education. In time, it is Dutch academics serve as program experts, hoped that the Kyiv Mohyla Doctoral research supervisors and potential disserta- School will become a model for the enact- tion examiners. ment of fundamental reform within Kyiv Mohyla’s Doctoral School plans to Ukraine’s post-graduate education system. launch three additional Ph.D. programs next Mychailo Wynnyckyj, Ph.D. (left), director of the Kyiv Mohyla Doctoral School, and year: Transition Studies (joint program of Serhii Kvit, Ph.D., president of the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Traditional “aspirantura” system the departments of sociology and political The fact that Ukraine’s current system of sciences); philosophy of literature (joint parative literature, the Sorbonne, University ported by an enthusiastic group of Kyiv post-graduate education (the traditional program of the departments of philosophy of Paris) as deputy director of the Kyiv- Mohyla faculty who see an urgent need for and literature); and membrane technologies aspirantura system that culminates in the Mohyla Doctoral School. aspirantura reform. (joint program of the departments of biolo- candidate of sciences degree) is in dire need Background knowledge and training for gy and chemistry). Each program must have Departure from prior system of reform is widely accepted. According to this group was obtained through a European the required “critical mass” (including for- Ministry of Education statistics, only 7 per- The new model of Ph.D. training Union-funded Tempus project in 2006-2007, eign partners, financing and a sufficient cent of Ukrainian “aspirants” complete their described above represents a radical change and a follow-up application to Tempus was number of qualified Kyiv-Mohyla academ- research degree within the required three submitted for 2009-2010. A grant from the ics within each field) before being approved from Ukraine’s existing aspirantura system. year period, and only 25 percent ever sub- Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of America for launch. Whereas the old system was designed by mit their dissertations for defense. financed organization and management The university’s goal is to completely Soviet-era apparatchiks as a means of limit- This state of affairs reflects serious sys- ing access for those deemed unworthy or training of Ph.D. programs at U.S. universi- transform the current aspirantura system at ties. In addition, the Ph.D. program in Mass temic flaws in the structure of post-graduate Kyiv Mohyla (approximately 55 students unreliable for distinguished positions in the training: young aspirants are assigned a sin- USSR’s academy, the Kyiv Mohyla Doctoral Communications obtained a 560,000 hrv per year) into EHEA-compliant Ph.D. pro- start-up grant from Rinat Akhmetov’s gle supervisor for their research projects, grams by September 2010. School’s system is designed to aid young but are provided with minimal institutional Ukrainian post-graduate students to gain Foundation for the Development of Ukraine. support during their three-year period of The doctoral curriculum access to the worldwide scientific and study. Course work is not required, nor do The structure of training at the Kyiv research communities. In order to accom- Financing the new program any structures exist for the inclusion of aspi- plish this goal, however, financing is needed. Mohyla Doctoral School consists of the fol- However, these prior grants are insuffi- rants into a global academic community. At present, the Doctoral School initiative lowing. During their first year of studies, in cient to implement a full-scale best-practice Upon completion of the three-year period, at Kyiv Mohyla Academy is limited in addition to commencing their individual model of Ph.D. education at Kyiv Mohyla aspirants are required to publicly defend research projects, doctoral candidates enroll resources to scarce internal university fund- their dissertations before a specialized in a series of methodological and skills ing and small grants, and the project is sup- (Continued on page 10) defense committee whose members are cho- training courses that are organized by the sen according to formal criteria (each must Doctoral School (up to 20 credits), and also be a doctor of science) rather than their real participate in thematic courses and seminars ability to assess the quality of the aspirants’ organized by each doctoral program (up to research. 20 credits). During the second year of stud- Such a system has led to widespread cor- ies, the number of structured courses is ruption (buying academic degrees) and to somewhat reduced (total of 30 credits), with the overall discrediting of Ukraine’s system research becoming more central to each of post-graduate education. For this reason, Ph.D. candidate’s activities as he/she pro- many young Ukrainian students who plan to ceeds through the four-year doctoral pro- embark on academic careers – especially gram. those returning to Ukraine after studying A Kyiv Mohyla doctoral candidate’s abroad – do not even consider enrolling in training culminates in a dissertation defense the existing aspirantura system. before an ad hoc thesis committee (not a European integration permanent council whose membership is sanctioned by Ukraine’s VAK) organized by Ukraine became a signatory in 2005 to the Doctoral School, and composed of five the Bologna Declaration, a joint declaration well-known academics from the candidate’s The first class entering the new Ph.D. program at the Kyiv Mohyla Doctoral School. of European ministers of education to research field, including at least one from a reform and integrate European systems of non-Ukrainian university. Successful candi- higher education. In doing so, Ukraine dates will be awarded the Kyiv Mohyla committed itself to replacing the flawed Ph.D. degree which, for now, is not recog- Soviet-era system by 2010 with a Western- nized by the Ukrainian state, but (paradoxi- style third cycle of education (i.e., the Ph.D. cally, and in full compliance with Western degree) that conforms to the principles of practice) will be recognized by the world- the European Higher Education Area wide academic community as a legitimate (EHEA). However, in reality, implementa- Ph.D. degree. tion of EHEA-compliant Ph.D. programs has not yet begun in Ukraine. Doctoral program administration Without the creation of a working model The following Kyiv Mohyla professors of a Doctoral School, there is a serious risk have been appointed to lead the new pro- that in the near future Ukraine’s Ministry of gram: Mychailo Wynnyckyj (Ph.D. in eco- Education will attempt to superficially con- nomic sociology of post-Soviet transition, form to its Bologna commitments by simply Cambridge University associate professor, renaming the candidate of sciences degree a department of sociology and Kyiv Mohyla Ph.D. without reforming the substance of a Business School), as director of the Kyiv- system of research training. Mohyla Doctoral School; Volodymyr Morenets (vice-president for research and Mychailo Wynnyckyj, Ph.D. is director academic affairs, chair of the department of of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy Doctoral literature) as doctoral program coordinator School and of the Press Office of Kyiv for the Philosophy of Literature Ph.D. pro- Mohyla Foundation. gram; and Tetiana Oharkova (Ph.D. in com- 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 No. 44 European Parliament recognizes Famine of 1932-1933 as crime against humanity European Parliament cally and cruelly planned by Stalin’s regime history and that this reconciliation with a acts, directed against the Ukrainian peasant- in order to force through the Soviet Union’s difficult history does not denote any sense of ry, and marked by mass annihilation and STRASBOURG, France – In a resolu- policy of collectivization of agriculture collective guilt, but forms a stable basis for violations of human rights and freedoms.” tion on the commemoration of the against the will of the rural population in the construction of a common European It also “expresses its sympathy with the Holodomor, the artificial famine in Ukraine Ukraine.” future founded on common values.” Ukrainian people, which suffered this trage- in 1932-1933, members of the European MEPs believe that “recalling crimes The resolution, therefore, makes a “dec- dy, and pays its respects to those who died Parliament (MEPs) describe it as “an appall- against humanity in European history laration to the people of Ukraine and in par- as a consequence of the artificial famine of ing crime against the Ukrainian people, and should help to prevent similar crimes in the ticular to the remaining survivors of the 1932-1933.” against humanity.” future” and they stress that “European inte- Holodomor and the families and relatives of Lastly, the resolution “calls on the coun- According to the resolution, the gration has been based on a readiness to the victims.” tries which emerged following the break-up Holodomor of 1932-1933, which caused the come to terms with the 20th century’s tragic It “recognizes the Holodomor (the artifi- of the Soviet Union to open up their archives deaths of millions of Ukrainians, “was cyni- cial famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine) as an on the Holodomor in Ukraine of 1932-1933 appalling crime against the Ukrainian peo- to comprehensive scrutiny so that all the ple, and against humanity.” causes and consequences can be revealed Series of events in NYC to commemorate The text then “strongly condemns these and fully investigated.” 75th anniversary of Ukraine’s Genocide National Holodomor Awareness Week NEW YORK – The annual national will begin a solemn walk to St. Patrick’s observance to commemorate Ukraine’s Cathedral (Fifth Avenue, between 50th and slated for November 16-23 in Canada Genocide of 1932-1933 – one of the worst 51st streets). cases of man’s inhumanity to man and per- “We decided that there is no better way WINNIPEG, Manitoba – The Ukrainian marked in the schools as Holodomor haps the most extreme example of the use to memorialize our brethren who were Canadian Congress is launching the first Memorial Day. of food as a weapon – will take place at St. starved to death 75 years ago, than by col- National Holodomor Awareness Week on There is, however, a great deal of work Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on lecting food for today’s hungry in New York November 16-23. The goal is to annually Saturday, November 15, at 2 p.m. City,” stated Andrij Dobriansky, a UCCA still to be done, she cautioned. “We must unite the Ukrainian community and all continue working with our provincial minis- As this year marks the 75th anniversa- New York member and one of the initiators Canadians in remembering the victims and ry of the Holodomor, as the Famine- of the food drive project. tries of education and local school boards to raising awareness of this tragedy. Genocide of 1932-1933 is known, the Goods donated at the food drive can ensure that our students in Canada learn “As a community in Canada we have Ukrainian Congress Committee of include: dry food, baby food and all types about the Holodomor. We have a moral been successful in drawing the attention of America is urging the Ukrainian of canned goods (as long as they are with- obligation to ensure that the personal stories Canadians to this often forgotten genocide,” American community to attend the ecu- in the expiration date and in their original of our survivors are documented and pre- noted Irka Mycak, chair of the UCC menical service to honor the millions of packaging). served for future generations. Internationally, National Holodomor Commemoration innocent victims who perished as a result The National Committee to the United Nations must recognize the Committee. of deliberate Soviet policies. Commemorate the 75th Anniversary of Holodomor as an act of genocide.” Among the successes Ms. Mycak cited Prior to the ecumenical service, the New Ukraine’s Genocide of 1932-1933 is urging The UCC has called on Ukrainian was the International Holodomor York City Branch of the UCCA, on behalf the Ukrainian American community to par- Remembrance Flame that toured 17 Canadians to: of the National Committee to Commemorate ticipate in the various events scheduled for Canadian cities in the spring. In May • on Saturday, November 22, in solidarity the 75th Anniversary of Ukraine’s Genocide November 15. Canada became one of the first Western with Ukraine, honor the memory of the vic- of 1932-1933, will hold a food drive at 9 For more information readers may con- nations to recognize the Holodomor as an tims with a moment of silence at 9 a.m. and a.m.-1 p.m. at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza tact the UCCA National Office either by act of genocide, and Alberta’s Ministry of light a candle of remembrance in your (East 47th Street, between First and Second telephone at 212-228-6840 or by e-mail at Education has decided to include the home; avenues). From there at 1 p.m. participants [email protected]. Holodomor in its high school curriculum. • on Sunday, November 23, participate in In addition, Ms. Mycak noted that the memorial services that will take place in Toronto School Board will include the their local churches; and Holodomor in its 2009 curriculum and the • participate in events organized by their fourth Friday of every November will be local communities.

Ukrainian Canadians elected to Canada’s new Parliament PARSIPPANY, N.J. – At least nine votes. members of Canada’s Parliament elected In Manitoba, Ukrainian candidates saw on October 14 are of Ukrainian descent. easier victories. Ms. Wasylycia-Leis, of According to Ukrainian News of the New Democratic Party (NDP), earned Edmonton, many of the elected MPs could 62.6 percent in Winnipeg North, and Mr. be Ukrainian, but it is unknown based Bezan, a Conservative, won 60.6 percent upon their surnames. in Selkirk-Interlake. Among the Ukrainian MPs are: Borys In Saskatchewan, Mr. Lukiwski, a Wrzesneskyj and Gerard Kennedy in Conservative, won 51.1 percent in Regina- Toronto; Judy Wasylycia-Leis and James Lumsden-Lake Center, and Mr. Bezan in Manitoba; Tom Lukiwski and Ed Komarnicki, a Conservaive, swept the Komarnicki in Saskatchewan; Rona Souris-Moose Mountain riding with 70.5 Ambrose in Alberta; and Alex Atamanenko percent. and Mark Warwara in British Columbia. Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Mr. Kennedy, the Liberal candidate, Ambrose (née Chapchuk), a Conservative, narrowly defeated incumbent Peggy Nash easily won Edmonton-Spruce Grove with in Toronto’s Parkdale-High Park area with 68.5 percent of the vote. a margin of just 3,385 votes. Mr. Atamanenko, of the NDP, was re- Also in the Toronto area, Mr. elected to British Columbia’s Southern Wrzesnewskyj, a Liberal, defeated Axel Interior, and Mr. Warwara, a Conservative, Kuhn for Etobicoke Center by 5,699 won in Langley with 61.4 percent.

area of research that finds little support Ukraine's first Ph.D. ... among institutional and private donors, but (Continued from page 9) is of utmost importance to the worldwide Ukrainian community. that can also become an example for wider For more information about the Kyiv Ukrainian reform. Additional funds are Mohyla Academy’s Doctoral School, see: required for the Doctoral School’s infra- www.gradschool.ukma.kiev.ua. In the structure, faculty, journals and books, and United States, tax-deductible donations to stipends. In particular, the Kyiv Mohyla the new Ph.D. program can be directed to: Doctoral School is appealing to the Kyiv Mohyla Foundation, P.O. Box 46009, Ukrainian diaspora for its support of the Chicago, IL 60646-0009. For more infor- Philosophy of Literature Ph.D. program – an mation see: www.kmfoundation.com. No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 11 Three-day event on the Ukrainian Famine held in Colorado Symposium at the University of Denver attracts teachers, students and community members by Ania Savage Famine is that food has been used through history as a means to coerce a people,” Dr. DENVER — The 75th anniversary of von Hagen pointed out. the Ukrainian Famine was marked in Dean Abebe continued the discussion on Denver by a three-day event on October famines by discussing the tragic conse- 10-12 at the University of Denver and in the quences of European colonialism that con- Ukrainian community. tributed to the famine in Ethiopia in 1985. An estimated 200 people attended the Dr. Serbyn focused on documenting how events, which were organized by the Denver the Holodomor was genocide since Stalin chapter of the Ukrainian National Women’s not only destroyed the Ukrainian peasantry League of America (UNWLA) and its but also the intellectual and religious leader- Holodomor committee. ship of the nation. Three experts on Ukraine and the Famine After lunch prepared for symposium par- highlighted the all-day symposium on ticipants by UNWLA members, Dr. October 11 titled “Politics of Food: Past and At the symposium on the Holodomor held at the University of Denver (from left) Present.” Helstosky spoke about how Hitler and Mussolini manipulated food supplies in are: speakers David Marples (University of Alberta), Roman Serbyn (University The speakers were Dr. Mark von Hagen, of Quebec at Montreal) and Mark von Hagen (Arizona University) with Dr. chairman of the department of history at Western Europe during World War II. Dr. Marples analyzed the different per- Carol Helstosky (University of Denver) and Daniel Abebe (First College, Arizona State University and former direc- Metropolitan State University of St. Paul). tor of the Harriman Institute at Columbia ceptions of the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine and by the diaspora, and how the University; Dr. David Marples, director of documentary “Harvest of Despair” was During the entire month of November the Famine is being used in Ukraine’s current the Stasiuk Program on Contemporary screened at the Josef Korbel Graduate UNWLA is staging an exhibit on the political stance toward Russia. He pointed Ukraine at the University of Alberta; and School of International Studies. The evening Holodomor at the Koebel Library, the main out that for decades the Famine was an Dr. Roman Serbyn, professor emeritus, event included a roundtable discussion of library of the Arapahoe Library District in “unmentionable” in Soviet Ukraine and that Université du Québec à Montréal. the film and the Holodomor by Drs. Von metro Denver. it was first referred to publicly only in 1966. They examined the causes and the after- Hagen, Marples and Serbyn. The Inya Saldyt, president of the UNWLA’s Subsequent mention of the Famine in Soviet math of the Famine, as well as the view that Association of Human Rights Students and Denver chapter, pointed out that prepara- Ukraine and in Russia often blamed its the Famine was genocide aimed at the its president, Roxolana Wynar, organized tions for the Famine commemoration began occurrence on drought and a bad harvest. Ukrainian nation. the screening. About 35 students, mostly two years ago. “We held bake sales, a pic- Dr. Marples said, “The narrative of the In order to broaden the discussion on students of international relations, attended nic and solicited donations in order to bring Famine as the destruction of the Ukrainian “the politics of food,” these three experts the screening and sampled Ukrainian food to Denver experts whose scholarship would nation did not begin until 1990,” when were joined by two other scholars who prepared by Tatiana Gajecky-Wynar. enable us to mount a symposium at the uni- Congress created the U.S. Commission on examined food manipulation and shortages On Sunday, Drs. von Hagen, Serbyn and versity level,” she said the Ukrainian Famine. He said that scholar- in the 20th century and today. Marples participated in a community meet- The symposium was co-sponsored by the ship on the Famine is current and ongoing Daniel Abebe, dean of First College, ing at the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the University of Denver’s Center for Teaching both in Ukraine and abroad, although in Metropolitan State University of St. Paul Transfiguration. The discussion was held International Relations and the Program in Russia historians tend to ignore the and board member of African Relief and after the liturgy and panakhyda (requiem Humanitarian Assistance at the Josef Korbel Ukrainian aspect when studying the events Development Initiative, spoke on the fam- service) in memory of the victims of of school. A generous grant from the humani- of 1932-1933. ine in Ethiopia in 1985 and the present food Holodomor. The church hall was filled to tarian program defrayed the expenses of the Moderating the symposium was Ania disruption and imminent famine in Darfur. capacity for the discussion and a light meal. Famine commemoration. Dr. Carol Helstosky, associate professor Savage, professor of journalism at the of history at the University of Denver, who University of Denver and chair of the specializes in the history of food supplies Holodomor committee. The symposium and nutrition, spoke about food supply was advertised to metro Denver’s high manipulation during World War II. school teachers of history and social science Kicking off the symposium at 9 a.m. was who were able to earn one continuing edu- Dr. von Hagen, who traced the long history cation credit from the university by partici- of famines, starting with the Irish “potato pating in the symposium. Teachers attend- blight” famine in the 19th century through ing the event were given a CD of materials the three famines in Ukraine in 1922-1923, on the Ukrainian Famine that could be used 1932-1933 and 1947, to the famine in China in the classroom. The CD was prepared by following World War II. Taras Bugir. “One of the lessons of the Ukrainian The evening before the symposium, the

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Wire: Taras Kuzio Bank of America, 2001 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington DC 20006, USA Routing Transit Number: 054001204 Checking Account Number: 0019 2394 0686 US Domestic: 026009593 International Swift Number: BOFAUS3N 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 No. 44 No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 13 Parish in Manchester, N.H., celebrates 100th anniversary by Peter T. Woloschuk On Saturday afternoon, October 4, the pastor, the Rev. Robert Smolley, wel- MANCHESTER, N.H. – One hundred comed Bishop Paul Patrick Chomnycky, years ago on Saturday, October 17, 1908, OSBM, eparch of Stamford, Conn. Later Bishop Soter Ortynsky arrived at the that evening there was a dinner in the par- Manchester, N.H. railroad station accom- ish hall in honor of the bishop which was panied by the Revs. Dwulit and attended by the parish trustees, Chaplinsky to meet the local Ukrainian Anniversary Committee members and community and to dedicate their newly their spouses, along with several invited erected church of the Protection (Pokrova) guests. of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the next On Sunday, October 5, at 9 a.m. some day. 200 parishioners and guests filled According to the account in the city’s Protection church to celebrate its centen- main newspaper, the Manchester Union nial anniversary with a solemn pontifical Leader, the three were met by a delegation divine liturgy. Joining them in the festivi- of the city’s Ukrainian Catholics, the ties were Bishop Chomnycky, the princi- Manchester city band and members of the pal celebrant of the liturgy; Archpriest local Polish military organization with Edward Canon Young, Ss. Peter and Paul Bishop Paul Chomnycky of Stamford, Conn., celebrates the liturgy. their band. Parish, Ludlow, Mass.; Archpriest “There were two hacks waiting for the Yaroslav Nalysnyk, Christ the King Parish, clergy,” the newspaper reported, “and the Jamaica Plain, Mass., and Dean of the one for the Bishop was drawn by four Boston Deanery; the Rev. James Morris, white horses.” A festive parade set out St. John the Baptist Parish, Salem, Mass.; from the station for the new church, parish Archdeacon Mykola Drofych, Eparchy of hall and rectory, and “there was a large Stamford; Msgr. Alfred Daniszewski, St. concourse of people on the streets to wit- Hedwig Parish, Manchester; the Rt. Rev. ness it.” Andre St. Germaine, Melkite Eparchy of The entire parish had assembled around Newton, Mass.; the Rev. Thomas the church property and Bishop Ortynsky Steinmetz, Our Lady of the Cedars was formally welcomed by the pastor, the Melkite Catholic Church, Manchester; the Rev. Julian Levinsky, the Rev. John J. Revs. Sullivan, OSB, and Benedict Lyons, P.R. representing the Latin rite Guevin, OSB, St. Anselm Abby, Bishop of Manchester, and Rev. Puchala Manchester; the Rev. Jerome Day, OSB, of St. Hedwig’s Polish Catholic Church. A St. Anselm Abbey and St. Raphael Parish, moleben was then celebrated in the church Manchester; the Rev. Joseph Gurdak, and was followed by benediction. The OFM Cap, St. Augustin-St. Anne Parish, actual consecration of the building was Manchester; the Rev. Charles performed on the next day and was fol- DesRuisseaux, St. Anthony of Padua lowed by the celebration of a pontifical Parish, Manchester; and the Rev. Christian divine liturgy in the new edifice. Tutor, OSA, All Saints Anglican Parish, The commemoration of the 100th anni- Concord, N.H. Photo taken of the members of St. Mary’s Ruthenian Catholic Brotherhood versary of Manchester’s Protection of the The clergy gathered in the parish hall (which raised money for the construction of the church) during the two dedicato- Blessed Virgin Mary Church also was a ry events. Bishop Soter Ortynsky is seated in the middle of the second row two day affair. (Continued on page 19) between the two priests. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 No. 44

postponed its decision on whether to put NEWSBRIEFS the issue of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS (Continued from page 2) in Ukraine on its agenda due to Russia’s Chairman Arseniy Yatseniuk each gar- position. “The Russian Federation, using TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI (973) 292-9800 x 3040 nered 4.6 percent support. Other potential its instruments of influence as a perma- OR E-MAIL [email protected] candidates had the support of less than 1 nent member of the U.N. Security Council percent of respondents. (Ukrinform) and applying open pressure and black- mail, is seeking to deprive a U.N. mem- SERVICES PROFESSIONALS World Bank to revise program ber-state of its right to put an issue that is important to it on the agenda of the U.N., KYIV – The World Bank will revise its the largest international organization in program of cooperation with Ukraine, terms of its representation,” reads the Country Director of the World Bank for statement. The Russian Federation’s Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova Martin unconstructive position contradicts the Raiser said on October 28. In particular, international community’s approaches he said that the matter involves restructur- toward assessing the nature of the Famine, ing and recapitalizing the banking sector, for example the resolution commemorat- providing support to vulnerable strata of ing the victims of the Holodomor that was society, safeguarding critical capital unanimously passed by the European investments and deepening structural Parliament on October 23. That resolution reforms to restore sustainable economic recognized the Famine as “an appalling growth in Ukraine. The World Bank also crime against the Ukrainian people and welcomed agreements reached between against humanity.” The European Ukraine and the International Monetary Parliament also noted that it “expresses its Fund aimed at tackling the negative sympathy with the Ukrainian people, who impact of the global economic crisis. The suffered in this tragedy, and pays its World Bank approved a new Country respects to those who died as a conse- Partnership Strategy for Ukraine in quence of the artificial famine of December 2007, foreseeing around $4 bil- 1932-1933.” Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry lion (U.S.) in assistance over four years said that work would continue on putting GEORGE B. KORDUBA (2008-2011). (Ukrinform) the issue of the Famine of 1932-1933 in Counsellor at Law Holodomor Flame now in Ukraine Ukraine on the agenda of the U.N. Emphasis on Real Estate, Wills, Trusts and Elder Law General Assembly. (Ukrinform) KYIV – The final stage of the Ward Witty Drive, P.O. Box 249 NATO support on the rise MONTVILLE, NJ 07045 International Holodomor Remembrance Hours by Appointment Tel.: (973) 335-4555 Flame began in Ukraine on October 27. KYIV – Ukrainian First Vice Minister Solemnities started in the village of for Foreign Affairs Volodymyr Khandohiy Ivankiv, Boryspil district of the Kyiv met with NATO Assistant Secretary region, with a religious service and light- General for Public Diplomacy Jean- ing of the Remembrance Flame with a Francois Bureau on October 23. The two torch that had traveled to 32 countries discussed the course of an information around the globe. The Holodomor torch campaign dedicated to the Euro-Atlantic was delivered to Ukraine by a delegation integration of Ukraine and its cooperation led by Ukraine’s Ambassador to Georgia with the alliance. Mr. Khandohiy said that Mykola Spys. The Remembrance Flame in an increase in public support for the idea Georgia traveled from Tbilisi to Batumi, of Ukraine joining NATO was the result Poti and other cities, where religious ser- of active work in the information sector. vices, exhibitions, conferences and com- He said that the number of NATO sup- memorative meetings were held. “We hope porters in Ukraine grew by over 10 per- that like the Holocaust, the genocide of the cent in October as compared to June of Ukrainian people – the Holodomor of this year. (Ukrinform) 1932-1933 – will be recognized all over the world. This is our genetic memory. We New poll on pre-term elections MERCHANDISE have to remember the terrible tragedy of the Ukrainian nation, and we hope that all KYIV – According to a national phone the people of the world will share this his- survey on early parliamentary elections in toric memory with us,” said Vasyl Ukraine conducted by the Horshenin Boyechko of Ukraine’s Ministry of Institute, 79 percent of Ukrainian citizens Foreign Affairs. The International believe that the snap elections won’t help OPPORTUNITY Holodomor Remembrance Flame will find a way out of the current political cri- travel to all of Ukraine’s 25 regions. The sis. About half of respondents (48.9 per- torch relay will end on November 22 in cent) said that the Ukrainian president EARN EXTRA INCOME! Kyiv when the Memorial to Holodomor would benefit most from the early elec- Victims will be unveiled. Then tions to the Verkhovna Rada. Some 61 The Ukrainian Weekly is looking Remembrance Flame will then be deliv- percent of those polled slammed the disso- for advertising sales agents. ered to the Holodomor Museum to be lution of the Parliament. Another 53.5 per- cent of Ukrainians believe that parliamen- For additional information contact opened within the memorial complex near the Kyiv Pecherska Lavra. (Ukrinform) tary elections should be simultaneously Maria Oscislawski, Advertising held with early presidential elections. As Manager, The Ukrainian Weekly, Direct foreign investment grows compared to 2007, this year there is an (973) 292-9800, ext 3040. increase in the number of those who are KYIV – The volume of direct foreign sure the election results will be rigged. A investment in the Ukrainian economy total of 67.6 percent of respondents said totaled $36.45 billion (U.S.) in the first half prior to the 2007 parliamentary elections of 2008 – an increase of $6.9 billion. that they did not believe the elections Minister of the Economy Bohdan would be transparent, while this year’s fig- Danylyshyn told representatives of U.S. ure is 81.1 percent. Nonetheless, 58.5 per- Business Executives for National Security cent of respondents are planning to go to that the United States remains one of the polling stations. The survey was con- Ukraine’s investment partners. U.S. invest- ducted in all regional centers in Ukraine ment in the Ukrainian economy grew by and the cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol on $30.6 million over the period to $1.4 bil- October 15-18. Participating were 1,000 lion (6.7 percent of the total volume of respondents over the age of 18. The poll’s direct foreign investment). A total of 1,408 margin of error does not exceed 3.2 per- companies with U.S. assets currently oper- cent. (Ukrinform) ate in Ukraine. Also discussed during the meeting were the economic situation in Experts cite harm to country’s image Ukraine and the United States and ways out of the global financial crisis. KYIV – According to a study conducted (Ukrinform) by the Sociovymir Center for Sociological and Political Studies on October 20-23, Ukraine blames Russia at U.N. half of experts believe that snap elections Insure and be sure. to the Verkhovna Rada will worsen the KYIV – The Foreign Affairs Ministry foreign political image of Ukraine. A total Join the UNA! of Ukraine believes that the United Nations General Assembly on October 23 (Continued on page 15) No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 15

both the Red Army and the Ukrainian stimulus for the development of the real rose to 513,600, which is 4,100 more than NEWSBRIEFS Insurgent Army (UPA). The monument’s estate market. And those investors who in August. (Ukrinform) main sculptures are the figures of a Red will enter commercial real estate projects (Continued from page 14) Ukrainians among Eastern Europe’s rich of 30 leading political experts participated Army soldier holding a machine-gun and earlier than others will be able to raise in the survey. Moreover, the specialists an UPA soldier with a submachine gun. money on these projects,” he said. Today, KYIV – The Polish weekly Wprost in said the elections would weaken the image They are depicted defending a woman according to Mr. Partskhaladze, partner- October presented its ranking of the rich- of government institutes in society (43.3 with a child who symbolizes mother ship with local developers is the most est residents of Central and Eastern percent) and could bring strengthened Ukraine. The inscription on the monument optimal variant for Western investors to Europe. This year, 24 Ukrainians were authoritarian trends in Ukraine (37.7 per- reads: “To the soldiers of united Ukraine quickly enter the Ukrainian market, since among the top 100 of the European rich. cent). A third of the experts polled said who died in wartime.” (Ukrinform) it will ensure the most effective and Rinat Akhmetov appeared to be the richest prompt implementation of real estate proj- they are confident that the early elections Court decision on Sknyliv case man among them; his wealth has been will escalate political confrontation in ects. (Ukrinform) estimated by the Polish publication at $23 Ukraine, while 13.3 percent said that the KYIV – The Supreme Court of Ukraine NBU issues Bartholomew coin billion (U.S.). He is No. 2 in the ranking, political crisis would be settled after the has left unchanged the not guilty verdict while last year he was in fourth. The year elections. (Ukrinform) handed down to four ex-generals of the KYIV – The National Bank of Ukraine 2008 was successful also for Igor Ukrainian air force for the Sknyliv air (NBU) has put into circulation a com- Kolomoisky, who ranks the seventh Experts offer advice on savings show tragedy, it was reported on October memorative jubilee coin titled “In honor among the rich. The assets of the Privat KYIV – Presenting recommendations 23. Around 200 victims of the 2002 trage- of the Visit by Ecumenical Patriarch Group owner have been valued by Wprost for mitigation of the financial blow to dy – which killed 77 people, including 28 Bartholomew I to Ukraine,” issued on the at $11.4 billion (U.S.). In general, average citizens, Ukrainian experts have children, and injured 500 when an Su-27 1,020th anniversary of the conversion of Ukrainian businessmen increased their advised keeping savings in the hryvnia, aircraft crashed during an air show at the the Kyivan Rus’ to Christianity. The assets despite the world financial crisis. In dollar and euro simultaneously, to restrict Sknyliv aerodrome outside Lviv – are 85-milimiter-diameter .999 fine silver 2008 only one Ukrainian multimillionaire spending and take credits in the currency planning to challenge the verdict in a coin, with a face value of 50 hrv, is of spe- became poorer: the owner of the Illich that is a source of one’s permanent income. European court. On June 20 the Ukrainian cial uncirculated quality released in an Mariupol Metallurgical Works, Volodymyr In addition, the government and the Procurator General’s Office had filed an edition of 1,000. In 2008 the NBU is plan- Boiko. Last year his wealth was valued at National Bank of Ukraine are recommend- appeal with the Supreme Court of Ukraine ning to put into circulation 32 commemo- $2.3 billion, while in 2008 it is $2.1 bil- ing the nationalization of problem banks of the not guilty verdict announced by the rative and jubilee coins (40 kinds), while lion. (Ukrinform) and then selling them to private investors, Military Appeals Court of the Central in 2007 the bank produced 31 coins (39 the diversification of gold and foreign cur- Region of Ukraine acquitting four generals types). Since 1995 the bank has put into Lviv’s tourism development center rency reserves and pursuit of a course of who were involved in the organization of circulation over 282 commemorative and KYIV – A new municipal enterprise, gradual devaluation of the hryvnia. Experts the Sknyliv air show. The Military Appeals jubilee coins (351 kinds), including over the Tourism Development Center, has consider a deficit-free budget and reduc- Court handed down its verdict on six pilots 30 gold coins. (Ukrinform) been set up in Lviv. The Lviv City tion of social programs to be the first nec- in Lviv on June 24, 2005. The Procurator Third of unemployed are youth Council’s Culture and Tourism essary steps. (Ukrinform) General’s Office launched separate crimi- Department says the center will work nal proceedings against four generals. On Ombudswoman on fighting poverty KYIV – Youths account for one-third under the TACIS program and will receive June 11 of this year the Military Appeals of the total number of unemployed people a grant of 700,000 euro from the European KYIV – Referring to statistics concern- Court of the Central Region found the four in Ukraine as of September 1, the State Commission for the development of the ing violations of citizens’ rights to proper generals not guilty. (Ukrinform) Statistics Committee reported in late tourist infrastructure in Lviv. The project living standards, Nina Karpachova, the Bubka honorary citizen of Rio October. The level of unemployment envisages the appearance in Lviv of “mul- Verkhovna Rada’s commissioner for among economically active population tilingual” names of streets and monuments human rights, said on October 20 that KYIV – The president of the National age 15-70 is 6.2 percent, and 6.8 percent for foreign tourists. The center will per- 27.3 percent of the Ukrainian population Olympic Committee of Ukraine (NOCU), among the working-age population, the form the functions of a tourist information still suffers from poverty and about a half a member of the International Olympic committee noted. Every other unemployed center; it will provide free information of those from extreme poverty. Committee’s executive board and first is a laborer, every third is a serviceman, and consultations about tourist routes, “Overcoming poverty, which leads to a vice-president of the International and every fourth had no profession. In locations of hotels and restaurants, etc. range of systemic violations of citizens’ Association of Athletic Federations, September the number of jobless citizens (Ukrinform) constitutional rights, should be the state’s Serhiy Bubka, has become an honorary strategic goal, and no one should stand citizen of the Brazilian city of Rio de aside,” said Ms. Karpachova. (Ukrinform) Janeiro. An Olympic champion who broke the world record for men’s pole vaulting Yanukovych to run if… 35 times, Mr. Bubka has already been KYIV – Party of Regions leader Viktor named an honorary citizen of the Yanukovych, who was in his native Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, Donetsk region on October 16, said that if as well as other cities around the world, there is broad support for his party in the including Bratislava (Slovakia), and Padua pre-term parliamentary elections, he will and Abano Terme (Italy). The honors are run for the presidency. Speaking live with granted in recognition of the sports the local First Municipal Channel TV and achievements of Mr. Bubka and his sig- Radio Company, Mr. Yanukovych said: nificant contributions to the development “If I see the support of the Ukrainian peo- of international sports and the populariza- ple – and that is essential – I believe the tion of the Olympic movement. party will make the decision to put forth (Ukrinform) my candidacy.” The opposition leader also Investors and Ukrainian real estate promised that the Party of Regions, if it comes to power, would overcome the eco- KYIV – Western investors are interest- nomic crisis and return the deposits once ed in investing funds into commercial real blocked in former Soviet savings bank estate in Ukraine since Western markets accounts. Mr. Yanukovych also said the are congested, while the Ukrainian market Russian language would become the sec- is only at 20 percent capacity, according ond national language in Ukraine if the to the chairman of the board of directors Party of Regions wins a constitutional of both the Ukrainian Construction majority in the Verkhovna Rada after the Association and the XXI Century snap elections. “Then we will immediate- Investments, Lev Partskhaladze. ly solve this task,” he stated. (Ukrinform) “Investors that want long-term profession- Monument honors Red Army, UPA al investments will invest money into the commercial real estate of Ukraine today, KYIV – An unusual monument to vil- since the Ukrainian real estate market is lagers who died in World War II was the most capacious and thin market in unveiled in the village of Mayaky, Lutsk Europe,” he noted. Mr. Partskhaladze district of Volyn region, it was reported on emphasized that holding the Euro-2012 in October 23. This is the first monument in Ukraine generates great interest on the Ukraine that is dedicated to soldiers of part of investors. “Euro-2012 is a good

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the Russian Orthodox Church.” population and ignite that same intereth- Russian TV... It concluded in a disturbingly vicious The Holodomor... nic tension against which he protested.” (Continued from page 8) tone. Communist Party Central (Continued from page 3) District prosecutors indeed summoned view that the famine in Russia’s grain- Commission First Secretary Stanislav agement. Since then, the Holodomor has Ms. Polischuk for questioning, but never filed criminal charges against the ethnog- producing regions was just as devastating Kosior “sent an encryption to Stalin to become highly politicized, she said, with increase the confiscation of bread among the Communist Party of Ukraine doing raphy museum director. as the Holodomor in Ukraine, particularly Although tensions have increased in the Ukrainian population for the benefit the utmost to undermine efforts to shed in terms of casualties. of general state interests,” the report said. recent years, largely inflamed by Russian light on the genocide. The RTR Planeta news report also “But a Kosior monument stands in Kyiv chauvinists, Ms. Polischuk said she con- In Kharkiv last year, a retired prosecu- smeared the president’s older brother to this day. And there you have such gri- siders herself fortunate to be able to Petro, who is “working on the schism of maces amidst nationalist propaganda.” tor who actually arrived in Ukraine to research the Holodomor in an indepen- serve the Communist Party during the dent Ukraine, because she would have Holodomor, asked local prosecutors to asked the same questions during the arrest Ms. Polischuk for “inflaming inter- Soviet era and the reaction to her inqui- ethnic tensions.” ries would have been much more severe. Her book, “Capital of Despair,” “I am lucky that I came around in the includes survivors’ testimony that the right place at the right time,” she said. “I Soviets transported Russians to replace had no idea how they punished such peo- the murdered Ukrainians, and placed ple for this. I needed to do this because it them in authoritative government posts. was a cover-up that I wanted to discover “It wasn’t me, but [Ivan] Shekhovtsov and uncover – uncover this matter that who was inflaming enmity,” she said. they hid from me and then tell others how “He wanted to stir the Russian-speaking it truly was.”

cast into the region. The reasons are dif- President Bush... ferent in Georgia, versus Ukraine, versus (Continued from page 3) Belarus, for example, but access to free The CEEC presented to White House media is most important in new democra- officials its October 2008 Position cies/non-democratic states.” Statement, covering many of the issues The statement concludes by noting: brought up at the briefing and including “The United States declared a democratic concerns about funding assistance to the victory much too early in the CEE Want to see Central and East European region; U.S. [Central and East European] region, and international broadcasting; energy securi- we are paying the price. We need to stay ty; human and minority rights; and totali- engaged and not declare victory too your name in print? tarian crimes and genocide. soon.” In particular, the Position Statement Following the briefing and remarks by Then why not become a correspondent of noted: “It is incomprehensible why President Bush, members of the CEEC The Ukrainian Weekly in your community? Georgia and Ukraine have not been offered joined others in the East Room of the MAP status, or even a timetable, especially White House for a signing ceremony of We welcome submissions from all our Ukrainian communities, no matter as Russia’s unmistakable aggressive the Protocols of Accession for Croatia where they are located. Let the rest of us know what you’re up to in your designs toward its neighbors have become and Albania into the NATO alliance. corner of the Ukrainian diaspora! apparent. The CEEC believes that this NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop lapse must be immediately remedied Scheffer joined President Bush in com- Any questions? Call The Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext. 3049. before the West, including the United ments at the ceremony. All 26 NATO States, is confronted with exacerbated cri- members must sign and ratify the amend- ses and the gains made at the end of the ments to the NATO Treaty in order to Cold War are further jeopardized.” bring in new members to the alliance. As well, the statement underscored: Ambassadors from Croatia and Albania “The CEEC also unqualifiedly opposes also attended the event, along with Rep. any cuts with respect to Voice of America Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), foreign policy lead- and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ers, congressional staffers and members broadcasting into the region, including of the diplomatic corps. Russian programming. The Russian peo- In related news, CEEC members also ple are being denied access to objective attended an October 17 event in the Rose information by their government, as are Garden at the White House at which other people in the region, such as those President Bush announced that seven in Belarus. With the Kremlin feeling countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the emboldened, deprivation of rights such as Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary free speech becomes a heightened threat. South Korea) had completed the require- Thus, not only is it ill-advised to elimi- ments to join the Visa Waiver Program. nate or cut programming, but it is also a Citizens of those countries will be eligible mistake not to increase funding for VOA to travel without visas to the United and RFE/RL and other free media broad- States starting in the year 2009.

package for Iceland, a bailout deal for IMF to loan... Hungary, and is in talks with Belarus and (Continued from page 1) Pakistan. Other countries touted as possi- demand for steel has forced the country ble IMF aid recipients include Romania, to tap into its foreign currency reserves to Estonia, Latvia and Bulgaria. support its currency, the hryvnia. The central bank has bailed out several banks Copyright 2008, RFE/RL Inc. and the Ukrainian stock market has lost Reprinted with the permission of Radio more than 70 percent of its value this Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 year. Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington DC The IMF loan to Ukraine is the latest 20036; www.rferl.org. The article above sign that the international body – much is a compilation of two RFE/RL stories: criticized for failing to sound the alarm “IMF to loan Ukraine billions to cope ahead of the global crisis – is now assum- with global crisis” (October 27) and ing a key role as a rescue service for “Ukrainian Parliament discusses $16.5 economies hardest hit by the crisis. billion IMF loan” (October 28). See The fund has announced a $2.1-billion www.rfe/rl.org.

Rada approves first reading of bill needed for IMF bailout PARSIPPANY, N.J. – As reported by Fund. various news media, the Verkhovna Rada Two hundred forty-eight national dep- on October 29 passed the first reading of uties voted for the legislation. Two more legislation that would secure an emergen- votes by the Rada are required for final cy loan from the International Monetary approval of the measure. No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 17 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 No. 44

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Electric and Westinghouse. He later found- Inducted into WSU’s ed Advanced Systems and Designs Inc., specializing in statistical process control for Engineering Hall of Fame the automotive industry, and co-founded American Supplier Institute. DETROIT – Andrew Jerome Haliw Mr. Haliw, whose parents were forced III, corporate general counsel and execu- to work as laborers in Nazi Germany dur- tive vice-president of internal operations ing World War II, immigrated to the U.S. with Lakeshore Engineering Services, as a displaced person, was raised in Inc., was inducted into the Wayne State Detroit and attended Cass Technical High University College of Engineering Hall School before earning a bachelor’s in of Fame. electrical engineering from Wayne State. The Wayne State University College Upon graduation, by working the mid- of Engineering boasts 75 years of train- night shift at Jones and Laughlin Steel, ing talented students to take the lead in Mr. Haliw put himself through Wayne the engineering workforce. Each fall, the State’s Law School. college has hosted its Night of the Stars, In his long professional career as an an event marking noteworthy contribu- attorney and as a registered professional tions to the college’s mission of excel- engineer, he has served on many boards lence in engineering. and has done significant charitable work This year, it celebrated professional in many arenas. He has served as com- achievements and inducted members into missioner for SMART Oakland County, its Hall of Fame at the Detroit Institute of chairman of the Farmington Hills Board Arts, one of Detroit’s cultural gems. In of Zoning Appeals, chairman of the addition to Mr. Haliw, this year’s honor- Farmington/Farmington Hills Chamber ees included Thomas Amato, Bilal of Commerce, member of the Lions Club, Kaafarani, William Osborne, Rob Member of the Inner Circle of the OCRC, Andrew Jerome Haliw III (center) is honored by his alma mater. Rutenbar and Anthony Mong-On Tai. board member of Wayne State University Mr. Haliw of Farmington Hills, Mich., is Board of Alumni, member of the Chamber. ground he is recognized as a patent and a 1968 Wayne State graduate in electrical Executive Club of Detroit, member of the He also has been very active with trademark attorney. He has also been engineering. He also holds a Juris Doctor Ukrainian Engineers’ Society, member of Veselka, the Ukrainian Museum and registered as a professional engineer for degree from Wayne State (1972). While in Walsh College President’s Advisory Archives and Ukrainian Catholic schools. many years, has been published in a num- law school, Mr. Haliw was divisional elec- Council, member of the Oakland County As well, Mr. Haliw has been generous ber of journals and presents regularly on trical engineer in charge of the Jones and Intellectual Properties Section and chair with his assistance and contributions to topics of professional interest. He has Laughlin Stainless Strip division and of the Governmental Affairs Committee U-Care (aide orphans), the Rosa Parks also been recognized by the Bar Register worked as a software designer for General for the Farmington/Farmington Hills Geriatrics Center at the DMC, New Wave of Pre-eminent Lawyers and is designated (assistance to immigrants of Ukraine), by his “AV” rating by Martindale Hubbell “Notes on People” is a feature geared toward reporting on the achievements of members of Special Olympics programs, the Exchange for his skill and integrity. the Ukrainian National Association and the Ukrainian community. All submissions should Club, and other community projects. He As captain of the WSU Fencing Team has served on the WSU Alumni in 1966-1968, he led WSU to a national be concise due to space limitations and must include the person’s UNA branch number (if Association. championship and was a two time All- applicable). Items will be published as soon as possible after their receipt. With his engineering and law back- American in sabre in 1967 and 1968. No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 19

the founders of parish began, to play; Brian Bailey and Mr. Parish in Manchester... honor the successes of past Morales, publicity; the Rev. (Continued from page 13) parishioners during this Smolley and Brother Francis around the corner from the church and 100-year journey, and to sur- Marchese, liturgy; the Rev. then solemnly processed to the main round the future of our parish Smolley and Kathy Cusson-Cail, doors of the church escorted by Knights with hope and enthusiasm.” anniversary book; Ms. Vogel, of Columbus Council 92, the oldest coun- “Our parish can be proud of children’s program; Ms. Cusson- cil in New Hampshire. The council its many accomplishments in the Cail, photography; John Hanula, recently appointed the Rev. Smolley as its past 100 years,” Mr. videography; and Jeff Stone, D.J. co-chaplain and officially became affiliat- Maksymowych continued, “par- The church’s Parish Council, ed with the parish. At the entrance to the ticularly when we consider that it which worked with the church they were greeted by children of arose out of the humble wish of Anniversary Committee, includes the parish with the traditional bread and our immigrants to worship God Trustees Messrs. Maksymowych salt. in their Byzantine Rite and to fos- and Terninko; Parish Council ter our Ukrainian traditions, cus- President Kenneth Komisarek; Bishop’s homily toms and culture in the free lands Brother Marchese, Parish Council During his homily Bishop Chomnycky of America.” member and adult religious edu- praised the parishioners and pointed out “No one can argue that the cation director; Mr. Young; Mr. that it was his first visit to the parish, to 100-year journey of our parish Morales; religious education Manchester and to New Hampshire. He has been easy, but our parish has director Ms. Vogel; and Karen wondered: “In the past 100 years how been able to overcome all diffi- Maksymowych, parish hospitality many joyous and sad events have taken culties because of the dedication, and functions director. place within the walls of this sacred build- sacrifices and solid work of our 19th century immigrants ing? How many people have come through parishioners, as well as the grace its doors? How many Mnohaya Litas have which God has given us,” he Ukrainians from Halychyna been sung? How many Vichnaya Pamyats? continued. and Zakarpattia first began arriv- How many Khrystos Voskreses?” “We need to be grateful and ing in Manchester during the last The bishop went to say, “I have a great remember our predecessors for decade of the 19th century, drawn affinity for parishes dedicated to the their sacrifices in building our Bishop Paul Chomnycky presents the oldest active by the fact that there was plenty Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary parish,” Mr. Maksymowych parishioner, Olga Senenko, with a papal blessing. of work for both able-bodied because my home parish in Vancouver, said, “and, at the same time, we young men and women in the British Columbia, was dedicated to the need to remember that there is still much of the church in winter that she had done, Amoskeag and Stark textile mills. Pokrova and because I was ordained on that needs to be done and the future of and then the eparch ended the formal por- At first religious needs were met in the the feast of the Pokrova on October 1, our parish now lies with us, our children tion of the program by giving the local Latin Rite Catholic parishes, and an 1988.” and our grandchildren.” Benediction. occasional visit was made by an itinerant Bishop Chomnycky then went on to “No one knows what the future holds Members of the 100th anniversary cel- Ukrainian Catholic priest. talk about the recent Synod of Ukrainian for our parish as we begin its second cen- ebration committee, which was formed in By 1906 the community had grown Catholic Bishops that he attended and the tury, but we can be sure that there will be 2007 and worked for more than a year on large enough to support a full time pastor, discussions on the role of the bishop as difficulties, possibilities, happiness, suc- the planning and execution of the anni- the Rev. Roman Volynets, and Bishop head of the eparchy and in evangelizaiton. cesses, as well as failures.” Mr. “It is the bishop’s obligation to make sure versary celebrations, included Messrs. Dennis Bradley allowed the Ukrainian lit- Maksymowych said. “We can never forget Maksymowych and Terninko, co-chairs; urgy to be celebrated regularly in the cha- that the gospel is preached, that the good that we, as members of the Protection of news is spread, and that the proper exam- Karen Maksymowych and Jenna Young, pel of St. Joseph’s Cathedral. the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish, are the hospitality co-chairs; Tanya Morales, Upon hearing the news of the appoint- ple is given,” the bishop concluded, “but it architects of its future and we have a is also the responsibility of each member invitations; Mr. Maksymowych and ment of Bishop Soter Ortynsky as exarch sacred obligation to preserve, cherish, nur- of the Church to reach out and be a mis- Kenneth Komisarek, parish history; Mr. for Ukrainian Catholics in the United ture and perpetuate our traditions, customs, sionary.” Terninko and Shawn Young, pictorial dis- States, the parishioners in Manchester rituals and language, and all this makes us After the liturgy a gala banquet at the unique as members of the Catholic Puritan Restaurant was attended by more Church.” than 200 people. During the course of the afternoon a video loop was played show- Co-Chair John Terninko then gave wel- ing photographs from the 10 decades of coming remarks in English and presented the parish’s existence. After the guests an allegory of the first meeting of the bish- were seated, the Knights of Columbus op of Manchester with the pastor of the escorted all of the assembled clergy into Ukrainian Catholics in the city. the hall and Bishop Chomnycky delivered Ronald Morale gave the toast for the the invocation. event. After the dinner the children of the parish under the direction of Christina Parish trustee’s address Vogel gave a presentation outlining the He was followed by Jaroslaw history of the Ukrainian Catholic Church Maksymowych, parish trustee and co- and the parish in Manchester. Father chair of the anniversary celebration, who Smolley then made brief remarks thanking welcomed everyone in Ukrainian and everyone and introducing his parents, Mr. said, “One hundred years ago a group of and Mrs. John Smolley of Hookset, N.H., Ukrainian immigrants gathered in who, he pointed out, have been married 62 Manchester with their bishop, clergy and years. guests to celebrate the dedication of their Bishop Chomnycky then spoke and pre- new Ukrainian Catholic church. Today sented Papal blessings to Olga Senenko, we are gathered in similar circumstances the parish’s oldest member, and to Mr. with our bishop, clergy, guests and paro- Maksymowych, church trustee and cantor. chial family to remember the good that Parishioner Marjorie Connolly then pre- sented the bishop with a framed painting

Parish children greet the eparch of Stamford at the doors of the church. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 No. 44 Contemplative Nuns of the Order of St. Basil celebrate golden jubilee CAMPBELL HALL, N.Y. – from Philadelphia. State Sen. William Contemplative Nuns of the Order of St. Larkin and his wife joined in the celebra- Basil the Great, who are based in tion. Middletown, N.Y., on September 20 cele- The Dumka Chorus from New York brated the golden jubilee of the founding City contributed much to the beauty of of their Sacred Heart Monastery. the liturgical celebration as their glorious Approximately 200 guests filled St. music filled the church. Andrew the Apostle Ukrainian Catholic In his homily, Bishop Chomnycky used Church in Campbell Hall, N.Y., to praise St. Luke’s Gospel reading about Martha and thank God for all the blessings of the and Mary to explain the significance, pur- 50 years of Sacred Heart Monastery. pose and fruits of the contemplative The jubilee celebration began with a monastic life. He summed up the monas- pontifical divine liturgy of thanksgiving, tic life in one word, “prayer,” and showed at which Metropolitan-Archbishop Stefan how greatly the values of this contempla- Soroka of Philadelphia was the main cele- tive life differ from the values of the brant, and Bishop Paul Chomnycky, world and therefore, are so sorely needed OSBM, eparch of Stamford, Conn., deliv- in this world and in the Church. ered the homily. At the conclusion of the divine liturgy, Contemplative Nuns of the Order St. Basil with hierarchs and clergy. Concelebrating were Auxiliary Bishop Mother Georgianna Snihur, OSBM, supe- of Philadelphia John Bura, Bishop- rior of Sacred Heart Monastery, extended Emeritus Basil Losten of Stamford, the community’s thanks to the clergy, Manchester, along with an honor guard of Bishop Dominick Lagonegro, episcopal guests and parishioners for their participa- Manchester, N.H. ... vicar of Orange County, N.Y.; the Rev. tion and assistance in the celebration. fourth degree Knights of Columbus. A Msgr. Peter Waslo and the Rev. Msgr. She also summarized the letter received (Continued from page 19) new Ukrainian-style tabernacle was Myron Grabowsky of Philadelphia; the from the Ukrainian Catholic Patriarch decided that it was time to build their own installed and blessed, and a gala banquet Rev. Msgr. George Valastro, co-vicar of Cardinal Lubomyr Husar in which he church. They intensified their fund-raising was held. Orange County; the Very Rev. Philip expressed his joy at this jubilee, under- efforts and also took a mortgage for $5,000 The parish regularly participated in Sandrick, OSBM, provincial superior of lined the great value and his deep appreci- in February 1908. Many of the parishio- major civic events, including the jubilee the Basilian Fathers, the Very Rev. ation for the life of prayer in the Church, ners volunteered their time as part of the celebration of the Manchester diocese and Yaroslav Kostyk, pastor of St. Andrew and imparted his Patriarchal blessing upon construction crew and the build- Church, the Rev. Robert Moreno of both Sacred Heart Monastery’s contem- ing was finished by September Lancaster, N.Y.; and the Rev. John plative community and all those partici- of that year. Lundberg of Middletown. Also in atten- pating in the solemn thanksgiving to God. In 1914 a bell tower was added dance were the Revs. Mykhaylo Dosyak Mother Miriam Claire gave a beautiful to the front of the church to house of Staten Island and Volodymyr Komitsky talk to the contemplative nuns, after the bell “Simeon,” which was of Sloatsburg, N.Y. which Sister Maria Rozmarynowycz, specially poured for the parish, Mother Miriam Claire Kowal, OSBM, OSBM, speaking on behalf of Sister and in 1920 a baroque iconostas general superior of the Order of St. Basil Laura Palka, provincial superior of the was installed. the Great, and numerous Basilian Sisters Basilian Sisters of Jesus, Lover of As a result of the changes from Fox Chase Manor, Pa., New York caused by World War I, Ukrainian City and Uniontown, Pa., were in atten- Humanity Province, presented Mother immigration to Manchester dance. Also present were Sisters Servants Georgianna with a plaque commemorat- ceased and the church became of Mary Immaculate from Sloatsburg, and ing the jubilee. the center and focus of the entire Missionary Sisters of the Mother of God (Continued on page 22) community. A reading room, a band, a choir, a dramatic group, a Vasile Avramenko dance group and a school that boasted 42 stu- dents in its first year were started. The various organizations were busy, and, in addition to class and regular meetings spon- sored a round of annual events, including commemorations of Ukrainian Independence in January, Taras Shevchenko in March and of Western Ukraine’s independence in November. In The Church of the Protection of the Blessed 1930 the Manchester Ukrainian Virgin Mary in Manchester, N.H. Citizens’ Club was formed and by 1938 it had its own building and more the annual commemoration of Captive than 300 members. Nations Day and the Intercultural Arts In 1933 the parish celebrated its 25th Festival. It also contributed to the cam- anniversary with a special pageant of paigns for the construction of the Taras Ukrainian song and dance that featured Shevchenko monument in Washington, more than 70 dancers from Manchester and the establishment of the Ukrainian and Boston, as well as choirs from both Research Institute at Harvard University. cities. In the 1980s the size of the parish and During the 1930s and 1940s parishio- the shortage of priests in the Stamford ners established a Ladies Sodality, a Eparchy combined to force the community branch of the Ukrainian National Women’s to rely on the services of a number of visit- League of America, and a branch of the ing priests. However, in 1990, Parish Ukrainian National Association (UNA). Deacon Joseph Lazor travelled to Ukraine Classes were run in Ukrainian music, folk and was secretly ordained by Metropolitan arts, embroidery and pysanky writing. Volodymyr Sterniuk in his residence. Father During World War II, 60 members of Lazor immediately took over as pastor and the parish served in the U.S. armed forc- served until his retirement in 2003. He sta- es. Immediately after the war the mills in bilized the community and was able to the Manchester area began to close, and launch a period of rebuilding and growth. many younger people were forced to In 2001 the parish hosted Ukrainian move to find employment. By 1960 cen- Catholic Bishop Slavomyr Miklos of sus figures showed 113 Ukrainians living Croatia, who visited his relatives living in in Manchester, down from the 600 record- the parish. The year 2006 saw the appoint- ed in 1916. ment of the Rev. Smolley as pastor. In the Despite this exodus the parish perse- summer of 2007 a group of “pyrohy vered and began to adapt and reach out ladies” was started to help generate funds into the local public arena as a way of for various projects, and in the fall Knights ensuring the parish’s future viability. In of Columbus Council 92 became affiliated 1958 the golden anniversary of the parish with the parish. Many parish organizations was celebrated by Bishop Ambrose have been revitalized, and an effort has Senyshyn, the newly installed eparch of been made to foster Ukrainian traditions Stamford, and Bishop Matthew Brady of and celebrations. No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 21 Reunion of Immaculate Conception School donates proceeds to museum by Roma Dockhorn Faith Museum. The Missionary Sisters who run the museum welcomed the PHILADELPHIA – On September 27 attendees. Many participants recognized the Immaculate Conception School at the these nuns because many years ago they Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in ran the nursery school just down the Philadelphia celebrated the first reunion street from the school. of all its classes since the school closed At registration each guest received a its doors in 1993. Over 300 alumni, commemorative booklet published for teachers and parents participated in this the occasion. Everyone then had the historic event, making it a great success. opportunity to recognize former class- A few weeks later, on October 18, mates and meet informally – some for the members of the reunion committee met first time in 50 years. with the Missionary Sisters of the Mother After the event one former student of God at the Archieparchial Museum to wrote that she was glad the program make a donation of some of the proceeds included “a tour of the museum and all from the event. its treasures. Instead of a building being The reunion started with a self-guided left unoccupied it was put to excellent tour of the old school building at 810 N. use.” Franklin St., presently The Treasury of At 4:30 p.m. participants attended the

Ken Hutchins Alumni peruse the commemorative booklet in the hallway of the school.

divine liturgy celebrated by Bishop John nies, and Dmytry Turcheniuk (class of Bura along with Msgr. Myron Grabovsky, 1975) provided the entertainment. the Rev. Ivan Demkiv and Deacon Students were grateful for the opportu- Theophil Staruch. Lisa Stasiuk Oprysk nity to reunite. Many came from the (class of 1979) sang the responses; the Philadelphia area and some traveled from congregants joined her, adding a festive afar – California, Utah, South Carolina, tone to the occasion. Many people had Florida, Virginia and Canada. not been to the cathedral for a long time After the event, one participant wrote, and commented that it was an uplifting “Though there were only about seven or experience. eight people from my graduating class, I The festivities continued with a ban- talked to so many other former students quet at Dugan’s Restaurant in whether I knew them or not. And seeing Philadelphia. Among the attendees the last graduating class of ‘youngsters’ besides Bishop Bura and the Rev. Demkiv made me realize that they care as much The Reunion Committee with Missionary Sisters on October 18 after donating were three Sisters Servants of Mary for the school as we do.” some of the proceeds from the event to the museum: (seated, from left) Sister Immaculate (former teachers) who trav- For a tour of the museum or additional Timothea, Oksana Wanchycka Woroch, Mother Nadia, Sister Evhenia, (stand- eled from Sloatsburg, N.Y., 10 former copies of the commemorative booklet ing) Maria Mykietiuch Fisher, Daria Nowakiwska Lissy, Bohdan Bobjak, teachers and a few parents. Mr. Staruch readers may call 215-627-3389 or e-mail Myrosia Nowakiwska Voloshin and Roma Skoczylas Dockhorn. (class of 1953) was the master of ceremo- [email protected].

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Three volumes only $20 for a limited time! (shipping included) For more details contact: [email protected] 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 No. 44 UCCLA approves Parks Canada plans for interpretive museum at Banff CANMORE, Alberta – The Ukrainian Canada. He detailed his department’s briefing from the Shevchenko Foundation, The UCCLA also made preliminary Canadian Civil Liberties Association plans to spend the $2.5 million it received and was brought up to speed on develop- plans to install memorial plaques at the (UCCLA) held its 2008 annual conclave from the federal government in 2008 to ments with the Spirit Lake Corporation’s four Canadian internment sites that have in Canmore, Alberta. commemorate the details of the intern- plans for a separate internment interpre- not yet been commemorated: Edgewood, For three days at the end of September, ment operations, including the building of tive center in the Abitibi, Quebec. British Columbia; Lethbridge, Alberta; members of the non-profit group from an interpretive center near the site of the The UCCLA also discussed the pres- Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Montreal. across Canada gathered in the Rocky actual camp. The UCCLA was pleased to ence of alleged Soviet war criminals in Preliminary plans were laid for holding Mountains to spent a few hours touring learn that Parks Canada’s work toward Canada, and laid down plans for the fur- next year’s UCCLA conclave at Vernon, ther pursuit of justice regarding Soviet British Columbia. For more information, Banff’s Cave and Basin, the site of an the development of an interpretive center war crimes. readers may log on to www.uccla.ca. internment camp for Ukrainians and other and museum at the Cave and Basin in Eastern Europeans during Canada’s first Banff is proceeding well. national internment operations during and The UCCLA further discussed the after World War I. nature of the endowment that was While there, the group received a short received by the Ukrainian community New Hope for Children to hold presentation by Rob Harding of Parks from the government of Canada during a benefit for Ukraine’s orphans commissioning and modernizing the ex- by Bozhena Olshaniwsky brunch to raise money and send help to Moscow seeks ... Soviet submarine base at Ochamchire. children in Ukraine at Christmastime. NEWARK, N.J. – On Sunday, (Continued from page 2) The Black Sea Fleet also expects to be Each year Ms. Olsen appeals to the reinforced with new ships, some new and November 9, New Hope for Children is Ukrainian community for support. One of as well as certain favored plants on the sponsoring a brunch benefitting orphans Ukrainian mainland). Russian Defense others transferred from other Russian the honored guests at this year’s fund- in Ukraine. The event will take place at 9 raiser will be Ambassador Yuriy Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has held out fleets. If those reinforcements do materi- alize at Novorossiysk and Ochamchire, a.m.-1 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Sergeyev, who represents Ukraine at the this package of incentives twice recently the Kremlin will undoubtedly argue that Hall, 199 River Road, New Milford, NJ United Nations and UNESCO. (Interfax, September 23; Vremya it has nowhere to move the fleet from 07646. Entertainment will be provided by the Novostei, October 21). Sevastopol ahead of 2017 and will use New Hope for Children is a subsidiary sisters Nadia and Natalia Pawlyshyn of Mr. Serdyukov also supervises (along- that additional excuse for prolonging its of the Cross Cultural International Queens, N.Y., who perform Ukrainian side Deputy Prime Minister Sergei naval presence on Ukrainian territory. Institute under the directorship of songs of their own composition and Ivanov) the naval base construction pro- Maryanne Olsen. appear in beautifully embroidered styl- gram. That program’s Black Sea dimen- The article above is reprinted from Ms. Olsen, founder and executive ized costumes from Ukraine. sion focuses on the expansion and mod- Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission director of the organization, has personal- For further information readers may ernization of the Novorossiysk base until from its publisher, the Jamestown ly traveled to Ukraine and visited chil- contact Ms. Olsen via phone, 2020. It now seems likely to include re- Foundation, www.jamestown.org. dren’s homes and orphanages. Every year 201-262-7544; fax, 201-262-7579; or in November she organizes a benefit e-mail, [email protected].

established his first monastery 1,600 years Contemplative Nuns... earlier in Asia Minor. (Continued from page 20) St. Basil’s sister, St. Macrina, had Following the divine liturgy, clergy founded a contemplative women’s monas- and laity enjoyed a reception prepared by tery nearby, in which she and other Maria Kostyk and the parishioners of St. women followed the monastic rule of St. Andrew Church. The beautiful weather Basil. As monasteries grew in number, and delicious food, enjoyed under the they spread through Asia Minor, Europe newly purchased tent, contributed to a and finally to America in 1911. Circumstances and the needs of the joyous continuation of the jubilee cele- people required the Basilian Sisters in the bration. U.S. to become actively involved in apos- The celebration concluded at Sacred tolic work. However, in order that at least Heart Monastery in Middletown, where one Basilian monastery in the U.S. might guests enjoyed the monastery and be dedicated to the contemplative life, grounds, socialized with the nuns and one Sacred Heart Monastery was established. another, enjoyed coffee and dessert, and The purpose of this foundation was to viewed a pictorial history of the monas- foster the early monastic Basilian tradition tery. The Very Rev. Sandrick and the Rev. in which all the hours of divine praises Moreno celebrated a panakhyda (memori- would be celebrated daily, and in which al service) in the monastery chapel for the each monastic would grow personally in deceased sisters of Sacred Heart “the contemplation of divine things,” with Monastery. the help of sacred studies in Holy Sacred Heart Monastery was founded Scripture and the Fathers of the Church. on September 8, 1958, in Astoria, N.Y. In 1992, Sacred Heart Monastery relo- Prior to that date, the Order of St. Basil cated to Middletown, N.Y. Here, away the Great did not have a contemplative from the noises and distractions of the monastery in the U.S. The foundation of city, the nuns of St. Basil the Great live this contemplative community of Basilian their contemplative monastic life in a set- nuns continued the tradition of the order’s ting more like that of their founders, St. founder, St. Basil the Great, who had Basil and St. Macrina.

PREVIEW OF EVENTS (Continued from page 24) further information call 212-571-1555 ext. 35. NEW YORK: The Center for Traditional Sunday, November 16 Music and Dance, The Ukrainian Museum WARREN, Mich.: The Michigan Friends and New York Bandura Ensemble/Bandura of the Ukrainian Catholic University Downtown present “Songs of Truth: The Art of the Kobzari,” a tribute to the art of (UCU) and the Ukrainian Catholic Ukraine’s blind epic singers. Music direc- Education Foundation invite you to sup- tor Julian Kytasty presents their ancient port this uniquely important institution at epics and laments, humorous burlesques, a benefit luncheon at 1:30 p.m. at the religious and moralistic songs, sparkling Ukrainian Cultural Center, 26601 Ryan instrumental dance tunes and songs of Road. The Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak, rector social commentary. The concert begins at 7 of UCU, and other special guests will give p.m. at The Ukrainian Museum, 222 E. an informative update about this universi- Sixth St. (between Second and Third ave- ty serving the people and strengthening nues), Manhattan. Admission: $15; mem- the Church in Ukraine. Tickets are $30. ber/student/senior discounts are available. For details, contact Nell at [email protected] For reservations call 212-228-0110. For or 773-235-8462. No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 23 OUT AND ABOUT

November 5 Lecture by Christoph Mich, “Lviv, November 1918: Yonkers, NY Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, St. Cambridge, MA War and Remembrance,” Harvard University, Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church, 914-968-3842 617-495-3549 November 12 Lecture by Steven Pifer, “Ukraine Again Mired in November 7 Conference, “The Holodomor as Genocide: Stanford, CA Political Turmoil,” Stanford University, Winnipeg Reflections of the Famine of 1932-1933 in 650-723-3562 or Ukraine,” University of Manitoba, 204-474-9681 http://fce.stanford.edu/events/registration/5418/

November 7 Ecumenical Holodomor prayer service, Ukrainian November 14 Recital featuring bayan and domra virtuosos Whippany, NJ American Cultural Center of New Jersey, Alexandria, VA Volodymyr and Natalya Marunych, Washington 973-585-7175 Balalaika Society, The Lyceum, 703-549-0760

November 7 Film screening, “”Eternal Memory: Voices From the November 14 Concert, “Songs of Truth: The Art of the New York Great Terror,” The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 New York Kobzari,” featuring the New York Bandura Ensemble, Center for Traditional Music and Dance, November 8 Holiday Bazaar, St. Anne Ukrainian Catholic The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 Warrington, PA Church, 215-343-4310 November 14 Concert, “A Cabaret Evening with John Stech,” November 8-9 Holodomor commemorations, Ukrainian American New York Ukrainian Institute of America, 212-288-8660 Whippany, NJ Cultural Center of New Jersey, 973-590-8026 or

[email protected] November 15 Requiem service for the 75th anniversary of the New York Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, St. Patrick’s November 9 Benefit luncheon for the Ukrainian Catholic Chicago University, Ukrainian Catholic Educational Cathedral, www.ucca.org Foundation, Ukrainian Cultural Center, 773-235-8462 November 15 Holodomor commemoration, Taras Shevchenko November 9 Holodomor commemoration, Penn State University, Washington School of Ukrainian Studies, Ukrainian Catholic University Park, PA 814-865-1675 National Shrine of the Holy Family, 202-526-3737

November 9 Feast day dinner and dance, St. Michael Ukrainian November 16 Benefit luncheon for the Ukrainian Catholic Baltimore, MD Catholic Church, 410-675-7557 Detroit University, Ukrainian Catholic Educational Foundation, Ukrainian Cultural Center, 773-235-8462 November 9 Myroslav Skoryk 70th anniversary concert, The Alexandria, VA Washington Group Cultural Fund, The Lyceum, November 17-18 International conference, “The Great Famine in 301-229-2615 Cambridge, MA Ukraine: The Holodomor and Its Consequences, 1933 to the Present,” Harvard University, November 9 Holodomor commemorative events and concert, 617-495-3549 Warren, MI featuring the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus, Ukrainian Cultural Center, 586-757-8130 Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors and as space allows. Please note: items will be print- November 9 Holodomor march and commemorative service, ed a maximum of two times each. Please send e-mail to [email protected]. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008 No. 44

PREVIEW OF EVENTS Sunday, November 2 Ukrainian Catholic Church (half a mile Soyuzivka’s Datebook away). The march will culminate in a NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Academy moleben at the church. All participants are of Arts and Sciences in New York will asked to wear Ukrainian embroidered host a lecture by Dr. Vita V. Susak, curator November 1 - 2 – Private function November 27 – Thanksgiving shirts. The event is sponsored by the of the Department of European Art at the dinner; rooms available in Ukrainian Congress Committee of Lviv Gallery of Arts and currently a November 7 - 9 – Orlykiada Main House building only America; residents of Westchester, Fulbright scholar at Columbia University. Rockland, Orange and Fairfield counties The lecture, “ ‘Re-Animation’ and Others: are encouraged to participate. For more Recent Art Projects in Ukraine,” will be information call 914-968-3842. held in the academy’s building, 206 W. 100th St., at 3 p.m. All are invited. For CHICAGO: The Chicago Area Friends more information contact the academy, of the Ukrainian Catholic University 212-222-1866. (UCU) and the Ukrainian Catholic Saturday, November 8 Education Foundation invite you to sup- port this uniquely important institution at NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific a benefit luncheon at 1 p.m. at the Society invites all to a lecture by physicist Ukrainian Cultural Center, 2247 W. Dr. Leo Chirovsky titled “Vid Hlybyn Hen Chicago Ave. The Rev. Dr. Borys To book a room or event call: (845) 626-5641, ext. 140 u Prostory” (“From the Depths out into 216 Foordmore Road P.O. Box 529 Gudziak, rector of UCU, and other special Space”). The lecture will take place at the guests will give an informative update Kerhonkson, NY 12446 society’s building, 63 Fourth Ave. about this university serving the people E-mail: [email protected] (between Ninth and 10th streets) at 5 p.m. and strengthening the Church in Ukraine. Website: www.Soyuzivka.com For additional information call Tickets are $35. For details, contact Nell 212-254-5130. at [email protected] or 773-235-8462. WHIPPANY, N.J.: The Ukrainian Thursday, November 13 American Cultural Center of New Jersey NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Film Club and the Ukrainian Congress Committee of of Columbia University invites all to the THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE America, Morris County Branch, will program “New Films and Film Makers OF THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION commemorate the 75th anniversary of the from Ukraine: Potrukh, Vroda, Pysmenny, Holodomor with a Holodomor Poster Sukholytky-Sobchuk.” This selection of announces that its Exhibit at the UACCNJ, followed by a short feature films by directors coming presentation of the monodrama “Sin of from various corners of Ukraine each with CONNECTICUT DISTRICT FALL ORGANIZING MEETING Starvation” (“Holodnyi Hrikh”). The a distinct cinematic vision, interest and will be held on event will take place at the UACCNJ, style offers a kaleidoscope of stories, 60-C North Jefferson Road, Whippany, NJ images and cinematic languages. Vitally Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 12:30 P.M. 07981. The program begins at 5:30 p.m., Potrukh’s “The Law” is a dramatic epi- at St. Michael’s Ukrainian Church Hall with the opening of Holodomor Poster sode of the Ukrainian war for indepen- 569 George St. New Haven, CT 06511 Exhibit, followed by a light buffet/dinner dence of 1917-1920. Maryna Vroda’s and refreshments (available for purchase). “Rain” is a portrait of an old married cou- Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members At 8 p.m. the U.S. premiere of “Sin of ple attached to each other and their land. are District Committee Officers, Convention Delegates Starvation” will be staged. To order tick- In his “Thirteenth Kilometer” Ihor and two delegates from the following Branches: ets for the monodrama call 973-590-8026; Pysmenny weaves, without a single word e-mail [email protected]; or uttered, a narrative about everyday exis- send mail to: ACE at UACCNJ, P.O. Box tence and dreams of a stationmaster in a 12, 59, 67, 253, 254, 277, 350, 387, 414 217, Whippany, NJ, 07981 remote part of eastern Ukraine. Dmytro Sunday, November 9 Sukholytky-Sobchuk in his much-talked- All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting about “Adolescence” depicts a boy about WHIPPANY, N.J.: Commemorations of to enter adulthood. The program is at 7:30 the Holodomor will continue at the MEETING WILL BE ATTENDED BY: p.m. at 703 Hamilton Hall, Columbia Ukrainian American Cultural Center of University All films will be screened in Christine E. Kozak – UNA National Secretary New Jersey, 60-C North Jefferson Road, their original Ukrainian-language versions Gloria Horbaty – UNA Advisor Whippany, NJ 07981. Please come and with English subtitles. Free and open to view the Holodomor Poster Exhibit, and the public. at 3 p.m. attend the presentation of the DISTRICT COMMITTEE Friday, November 14 Ihor Hayda, District Chairman monodrama “Sin of Starvation” (“Holodnyi Hrikh”). To order tickets for NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Institute of Myron Kuzio, Vice-Chairman the monodrama call 973-590-8026; e-mail America is pleased to invite you to “A Bohdan Doboszczak, Secretary [email protected]; or send mail Cabaret Evening with Jazz Pianist John Taras Slevinsky, Treasurer to: ACE at UACCNJ, P.O. Box 217, Stetch” beginning at 8 p.m. The event will Whippany, NJ, 07981. take place at the Ukrainian Institute, 2 E. 79th St. at Fifth Avenue. Tickets: $15. For YONKERS, N.Y.: A Holodomor March more information contact the Ukrainian will be held beginning at 1 p.m. from the Institute, 212-288 -8660. Ukrainian Youth Center, 301 Palisade WHAT? Ave., with a procession to St. Michael’s (Continued on page 22) YOU DON’T HAVE YOUR OWN SUBSCRIPTION? PREVIEW OF EVENTS GUIDELINES

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