INSIDE: • Foundation aims to preserve Ukraine’s archives — page 9. • Hockey great John Bucyk honored by Bruins — page 11. • Australia’s Plast hosts international jamboree — centerfold. HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXXV No. 9 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007 $1/$2 in Ukraine Battle continues over Yushchenko’s Tymoshenko Bloc, Our Ukraine nomination of foreign affairs minister agree to forum united opposition by Zenon Zawada the support of 196 national deputies from Kyiv Press Bureau the Our Ukraine and Yulia Tymoshenko blocs. KYIV – As Viktor Yushchenko’s latest Party of the Regions deputies said they gambit in his battle with the coalition believe Mr. Ohryzko is not a serious can- government to select Ukraine’s next for- didate for the job, citing the president’s eign affairs minister, the Ukrainian presi- lack of lobbying in support of the candi- dent re-nominated Volodymyr Ohryzko dacy as well as the nominee’s lack of on February 28 – a week after his candi- experience. dacy was rejected by the Verkhovna Mr. Yushchenko’s motivation to re- Rada. nominate an already rejected candidate In re-nominating Mr. Ohryzko, has subtler, but just as weighty political President Yushchenko has no motives reasons, political observers said. other than selecting a highly professional The president needed to avoid setting diplomat and contemporary, experienced a precedent in which the parliamentary administrator, Presidential Secretariat coalition simply rejects candidates with- Chair Viktor Baloha said. out concern for the Presidential “That Volodymyr Stanislavovych Secretariat’s position, said Volodymyr [Ohryzko] was not approved by the Fesenko, chair of the Penta Center for prime minister proves the coalition is for- Applied Political Research in Kyiv, getting its words more and more easily which is contracted by major Ukrainian with every passing day,” Mr. Baloha said, political parties, as well as the claiming that Prime Minister Viktor Presidential Secretariat. Yevhen Orlovskyi/UNIAN Yanukovych had assured the president Had Mr. Yushchenko backed down Our Ukraine Bloc Political Council Chair Viktor Baloha and parliamentary earlier that he approved of Mr. Ohryzko. this time, he stood the risk of having opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko shake hands after signing an agreement to The battle to select the next minister future nominations to other government unite the opposition. of foreign affairs is among the key con- positions getting rejected without resist- flicts racking Ukraine’s bipolar govern- ance, he said. by Zenon Zawada larly in forcing pre-term elections. ment, with world powers closely watch- “This is a demonstration of consisten- Kyiv Press Bureau Other common goals include cancel- ing to see whether Ukraine will continue cy from the president’s side,” Mr. ing the December 2004 constitutional its Western integration course, and at Fesenko said, stating that the conflict has KYIV – Leaders of the Our Ukraine reforms, creating a parliamentary-presi- what pace. taken on a psychological level. “He is and Yulia Tymoshenko blocs agreed dential government, as well as upholding The Anti-Crisis Coalition government demonstrating that for him, it’s a matter February 24 to unite into an opposition imperative mandates on city council declined to support Mr. Ohryzko in a coalition in which they will cooperate to deputies, which would prevent them February 22 vote in which he received (Continued on page 8) achieve common political goals, particu- from abandoning a political bloc or party. “Today we see signs of the ruination of Ukraine’s statehood,” said Viktor Ottawa forum focuses on Ukraine’s trafficking problem Baloha, the Political Council chair of the by Roman Zakaluzny and groups. would never happen to us.” Our Ukraine bloc, who signed the agree- Special to The Ukrainian Weekly “The problem is very big, especially in The most popular destination, Ms. ment with opposition leader Ms. Ukraine,” said Alla Galych, an officer in Galych said, was Russia. Tymoshenko. OTTAWA – Jail time can now be the anti-trafficking division of the Parentless children are the majority of “Examples are the unconstitutional expected for those who traffic human Organization for Security and Cooperation those trafficked. Even the organization law on the Cabinet of Ministers, the cre- beings in Ukraine, Ottawa residents in Europe. that makes it its business to help ation of a republic in the name of the learned at a recent forum on the sex trade She is very familiar with the issue: she Ukraine’s orphans said there’s not much prime minister’s, personnel decisions in that country. used to do the same work with the it can do once orphans reach adulthood. and a fight against everything But the problem remains a serious one HUHTC. “Graduating orphans need information Ukrainian.” for Ukraine 16 years after independence Those vulnerable to trafficking are on what is out there,” said Ms. Zalucky. President Viktor Yushchenko voiced and more than two years since the Ukraine’s poor, residents looking for “(But) once our orphans graduate, we his approval of the Opposition Union on Orange Revolution ushered in a new employment or better employment to lose track of them. They disappear. We February 26. willingness to tackle societal ills. support their families or themselves. would love to stay in touch with them.” “I approve of the union of opposition Although the situation is improving, Ninety-five percent are female, she said. “We really quickly saw the orphans in forces in the Verkhovna Rada, an impor- human trafficking within and out of “Around 83 percent of the women Ukraine were in need of special atten- tant pre-condition for opposing the sys- Ukraine goes on, a panel of experts told a come from the villages,” she said. “Do tion,” said panelist Natalka Chaplynska tematic and flagrant violation of crowd of some 150 gathered in late they know what they’re getting into? Of of the Women’s Consortium Ukraine, Ukraine’s Constitution and acting legis- January at St. Paul’s University in course they do.” speaking in Ukrainian. “Many had few lation that we are witnessing in the Ottawa. The victims, she said, were naïve. family or none at all, so they were a spe- nation’s Parliament,” the president said. Especially worrisome, they said, was Only a small proportion of the women cial risk.” “I share your expressed concern the degree to which young orphans – believe they are going abroad to work as However, after Ukrainian Canadian regarding the serious threats that have which number some 120,000 in Ukraine – nannies or exotic dancers; most know journalist Victor Malarek’s much-publi- emerged in Ukraine’s political life and are the primary target group by traffickers. they will be used for sex. However, the cized 2003 wake-up call – the book “The create a real danger to the Ukrainian Panelists from three non-governmental women don’t foresee the degree to which Natashas” – the situation made it in state’s constitutional order, its safety and organizations participated in a January 23 many become virtual labor or sex slaves earnest onto Ukraine’s political agenda. stability, as well as the rights and free- roundtable titled “Building Bridges and beholden to their traffickers in foreign Combined with a regime change in Kyiv doms of Ukraine’s citizens.” Strengthening Ties.” The panel was countries. and the ongoing perseverance of non- The Opposition Union marks the sec- chaired by Toronto’s Halyna Zalucky of “We knew the problem (the potential governmental groups, the situation in ond occasion that Ukraine’s leading pro- Help Us Help the Children (HUHTC), of being trafficked),” one victim told Ms. and co-sponsored by six local businesses Galych’s group. “We also thought it (Continued on page 11) (Continued on page 4) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007 No. 9 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS

Ukrainian gas distribution networks Yanukovych on U.S. missile shield President hails opposition unity DUSSELDORF, Germany – Ukrainian KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko are eyed for swaps with Gazprom Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said in has welcomed the unity deal signed by the by Vladimir Socor tions to Gazprom or to companies and an interview with the German business daily Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and Our Ukraine Eurasia Daily Monitor individuals fronting for Gazprom. Handelsblatt on February 27 that the United last week, the presidential press service These proposals are being accompa- States should have consulted Ukraine and reported on February 26. “I approve of the Since the law initiated by opposition nied by distracting suggestions emanat- Russia over its plans to establish a missile- unification of the opposition forces in the leader Yulia Tymoshenko and adopted by ing also from Mr. Boiko’s ministry as defense system in Poland and the Czech Verkhovna Rada as an important prerequi- the Verkhovna Rada on February 6 has well as from Prime Minister Viktor Republic. The interview appeared on the eve site to oppose the systematic and outright banned any form of alienating gas transit Yanukovych. These profess intentions to of Mr. Yanukovych’s official visit to Berlin. violation of the Constitution of Ukraine pipelines and other Naftohaz Ukraine- seek production-sharing agreements for “The deployment issue should have been and legislation in force that can be seen in owned assets, Russia’s Gazprom and gas and oil – including some offshore discussed with everyone in advance, includ- the country’s parliament,” Mr. Yushchenko officials in Kyiv seem to be adjusting projects – in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, ing Russia and Ukraine. Only after there has said in a letter to both opposition blocs. “I their approach. They now suggest trans- Egypt and Libya (Zerkalo Nedeli, been a comprehensive European discussion, share your concern over the serious threats ferring stakes in Ukrainian oblast-level February 17; ICTV Television [Kyiv], a dialogue between East and West Europe, to Ukrainian political life, which pose a and local distribution companies to February 19). Such intentions are also should a decision be taken. Europe should real danger to the constitutional system of Gazprom, in return for Ukrainian clearly beyond Ukraine’s means and not be divided again like it was before the Ukraine, its security and stability, human “access” to gas extraction projects in might form a smokescreen for the real Iraq war,” the German daily quoted Mr. rights, and freedoms,” Mr. Yushchenko Russia. Such transfers could, however, game ongoing with Moscow. More real- Yanukovych as saying. The Ukrainian prime added. (RFE/RL Newsline) eviscerate Ukraine’s gas transport system istically perhaps, Mr. Yanukovych pro- minister also said that the involvement of from within, aggravating Naftohaz’s posed that Naftohaz participate in recon- Poland in the U.S. missile-defense plan “did Baloha comments on early elections already bleak financial situation and structing Uzbek gas pipelines “together not help bilateral relations.” In what KYIV – The chairman of the Our potentially setting the stage for a transfer with the other interested parties” – appar- appeared to be an indirect reference to Mr. of the transit system itself later on. Ukraine bloc’s council and Presidential ently referring to Russia, next to which Yanukovych’s interview, President Viktor Secretariat Chief of Staff Viktor Baloha, On February 19, Ukrainian Fuel and Naftohaz could only play a relatively Yushchenko said the same day that individ- Energy Minister Yurii Boiko indicated who has signed an agreement on a united minor role in Uzbekistan. ual countries have the sovereign right to opposition with Tymoshenko Bloc leader that the government might transfer parts In a variation on this theme, Mr. Boiko make decisions on the deployment of the of Ukraine’s gas distribution networks to Yulia Tymoshenko, said on February 24 cited Ukrainian investment projects in U.S. missile-defense system, RFE/RL’s that he supports holding early elections to Gazprom. Speaking in the wake of talks Turkmenistan (building a bridge on the Ukrainian Service reported. “Therefore, the with Gazprom president Alexei Miller, the Verkhovna Rada. “The sooner, the bet- Amu Darya river, several gas compressor Ukrainian authorities should not make com- ter,” he said. Answering journalists’ ques- Mr. Boiko said, “Russia is not interested stations, an irrigation water supply ring) ments on this issue in an easy-going way,” in anything other than distribution net- tions about the grounds for early parlia- as entitling Ukraine to certain volumes of President Yushchenko added. (RFE/RL mentary elections, Mr. Baloha admitted works in Ukraine.” Gazprom has pro- Turkmen gas (UNIAN, February 19). Newsline) posed specific options to exchange that these might be a “decision of the However, most of these low-tech invest- Constitutional Court recognizing that for- Russian extraction assets for Ukrainian ments date back to the late 1990s and Opposition signs unity deal infrastructure assets. Ukraine’s State mation of the Yanukovych government have strained Ukraine-Turkmen relations KYIV – The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc was illegitimate” and noted that “if the Property Fund is currently preparing because of long delays and cost overruns. sales of minority stakes in distribution and Our Ukraine on February 24 signed president within his constitutional authori- This situation was a factor in Ashgabat’s an agreement on the creation of a “united ties has grounds to disband the Parliament, companies in certain Ukrainian oblasts December 2005 decision to renounce (Interfax-Ukraine, February 19). opposition,” Ukrainian media reported. he will use this right.” The opposition sent direct sales of gas to Ukraine, selling the The signatories pledged to vote in harmo- a letter to the President Viktor Yushchenko Swapping Ukrainian infrastructure for gas instead to Gazprom for indirect “access” to Russian oil and gas deposits ny on legislation in the Verkhovna Rada with a proposal to veto all laws that the delivery to Ukraine via RosUkrEnergo. and coordinate coalition-building activi- majority coalition adopts in the Verkhovna does not seem to be a viable proposition. Members of President Viktor Ukraine is hardly able to provide the high ties in the event of their victory in poten- Rada. (Ukrinform) Yushchenko’s team are airing serious tial early parliamentary elections. The inputs of technology and investment cap- concerns over proposals to sell infra- Coalition urges meeting with president ital required by extractive projects in agreement creates a Coordinating Council structure stakes to Russian interests. In a as the leading body of the united opposi- Russia. More likely, such “access” would February 19 teleconference with heads of KYIV – Raisa Bohatyriova, coordinator become a cover for non-transparent tion, in which each bloc will be represent- of the parliamentary majority, has called transfers of Ukrainian infrastructure por- (Continued on page 14) ed by six people. Yulia Tymoshenko said on President Viktor Yushchenko to meet in a television interview on February 25 with leaders of all parliamentary caucuses that the agreement does not oblige the two and discuss the danger of a “deepening blocs to put forward a single list of candi- national split,” UNIAN reported on dates in parliamentary elections. The next February 24. “The opposition forces, Kremlin moves to repair parliamentary elections in Ukraine are due damaged international image in 2011. (RFE/RL Newsline) (Continued on page 17) by Sergei Balgov Post and several other Western papers Eurasia Daily Monitor designed to project the “right” image of FOUNDED 1933 Russia. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Russian officials have strongly Furthermore, in the state’s latest effort An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., endorsed efforts to improve the country’s to reach out to English speakers, state tarnished international reputation. 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While RIA-Novosti created (ISSN — 0273-9348) negative image of Russia entails a lack of “Russia Today” with the aim of present- confidence in us, in our political system, ing the government’s view on news about in our economy, thus limiting invest- The Weekly: UNA: Russia, Moscow News would have no Tel: (973) 292-9800; Fax: (973) 644-9510 Tel: (973) 292-9800; Fax: (973) 292-0900 ments in Russia.” obligation to run reports about the Image “is a very important element of Kremlin, RIA-Novosti deputy editor Postmaster, send address changes to: Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz our foreign policy” and Russia should Leonid Burmistrov explained (Moscow The Ukrainian Weekly Editors: invest in this area, Mr. Morozov argued. Times, February 21). Notably, before its 2200 Route 10 Zenon Zawada (Kyiv) Furthermore, he suggested relying on launch in late 2005, Russia Today’s exec- P.O. Box 280 Matthew Dubas Soviet experience in promoting the coun- utives insisted that the channel should Parsippany, NJ 07054 try’s positive image. “This work was well have an independent editorial policy. done in the Soviet Union” and it brought In the meantime, Russia’s media The Ukrainian Weekly Archive: www.ukrweekly.com; e-mail: [email protected] good results, Mr. Morozov said. maneuverings have been seen as part of a Although he conceded that Soviet propa- The Ukrainian Weekly, March 4, 2007 No. 9, Vol. LXXV broader campaign to improve the coun- Copyright © 2007 The Ukrainian Weekly ganda misrepresented the actual state of try’s image in the West. On the eve of the domestic affairs, he still insisted, G-8 summit in St. Petersburg last sum- “Instruments to achieve this goal mer, Moscow reportedly paid the U.S. remained unchanged.” Mr. Morozov sug- PR firm Ketchum $15 million, presum- ADMINISTRATION OF THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY AND SVOBODA gested revamping these publicity tools to ably to counter critical media coverage of fit Russia’s current realities (Interfax, Russian affairs. Walter Honcharyk, administrator (973) 292-9800, ext. 3041 February 21). However, Western public relations e-mail: [email protected] The Kremlin is already spending mil- specialists had to work hard to earn their Maria Oscislawski, advertising manager (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 lions of dollars on the English-language millions, as many Russian foreign policy e-mail: [email protected] satellite news channel “Russia Today.” moves were criticized. In particular, Mariyka Pendzola, subscriptions (973) 292-9800, ext. 3042 Moscow also funds Russian Trends, a e-mail: [email protected] monthly supplement in The Washington (Continued on page 21) No. 9 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007 3 NEWS ANALYSIS: Yushchenko’s and Tymoshenko’s blocs proclaim unity by Pavel Korduban did not make much practical sense, as the ble to disband the Verkhovna Rada and to OU’s website Razom.org.ua. Running Eurasia Daily Monitor majority continued to pass laws during call new elections. separately, it would be hard for YTB and the daytime, using natural light from the Mr. Yanukovych, interviewed on tele- OU to avoid competition and conflicts at The pro-presidential Our Ukraine bloc windows, but the show of unity of OU vision on February 25, said that his party the local level, as they share the same (OU) and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and YTB was demonstrated on TV is against early elections that would nationally minded, mostly Ukrainian- (YTB) have signed an accord proclaim- screens across the country for several “destabilize the country.” One of his speaking electorate in the west and center ing a unified opposition. It is aimed days, which was probably their real party’s senior members, a former first of Ukraine and Kyiv. against the majority coalition in the motive. assistant to president Kuchma, Serhii Verkhovna Rada, which was formed last Finally on February 24, Ms. Liovochkin, took the accord between OU Sources: Korrespondent.net, February summer by Prime Minister Viktor Tymoshenko and the chief of the and YTB less seriously, dismissing it as 16; UNIAN, February 19, 22, 25; Yanukovych’s Party of the Regions, the Presidential Secretariat, Viktor Baloha, “just another part of the same soap Channel 5, February 21; Razom.org.ua, Socialists and the Communists. who is also the formal head of OU, opera.” February 24, 26; Ukrayinska Pravda, The two opposition blocs pledged to signed the accord on a unified opposi- The accord signed on February 24 February 24; ICTV, ProUA.com, form a majority coalition in Parliament tion. In the preamble, the two parties does not say anything about a joint elec- February 25. and a Cabinet if they win the elections. warn against “an anti-constitutional coup, tion campaign. Speaking on television on OU and YTB, in an alliance with the whose goal is to return power to the clans February 25, Ms. Tymoshenko clarified The article above is reprinted from Socialists, did win the March 2006 elec- and oligarchs” and against “the absolute- that YTB and OU would conduct sepa- Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission tions. That alliance, however, fell apart ly unconstitutional concentration of rate campaigns in case of an early elec- from its publisher, the Jamestown within four months. power in the hands of the Cabinet and the tion. Mr. Baloha confirmed this, speaking Foundation, www.jamestown.org. Ms. Tymoshenko, speaking after sign- parliamentary majority.” The accord ing the unity accord on February 24, laid offers two remedies: a cancellation of the blame for that on the Socialists, who constitutional reform of 2004-2006, opted for a coalition with Mr. which weakened the presidency, and an Environmental association appeals Yanukovych last year. However, there are early parliamentary election. doubts about the viability of the new President Yushchenko, who has signif- alliance and about the attainability of its icantly fewer constitutional powers than to Tymoshenko on eve of U.S. visit goals. his predecessor, Leonid Kuchma, and A preliminary agreement on a unified Ms. Tymoshenko, who harbors presiden- WASHINGTON/RIVNE, Ukraine – In mate change, air and water pollution, toxic opposition was signed on February 6. tial ambitions, rejected the constitutional a letter delivered to Ukrainian opposition wastes, soil conservation, sustainable agri- Not everybody in OU welcomed it, reform from the outset. However, it will leader Yulia Tymoshenko, the Ukrainian- culture, and wildlife and wilderness protec- expressing mistrust in Ms. Tymoshenko be very hard to cancel it, as the necessary American Environmental Association tion. and reservations about her ideology. constitutional amendments cannot be (UAEA) outlined “Eleven Opportunities Among the UAEA’s proposals were: Nevertheless, OU and YTB demonstrated made if the parliamentary majority and for the United States to Assist Ukraine in • Scholar exchanges: The multiple fed- a unity of actions through February. Mr. the Constitutional Court do not agree. In the Sphere of Improving Energy erally-sponsored scholar and research Yanukovych’s careless remark about the the text of the accord, OU and YTB Efficiency.” exchange programs, including the absence of grounds to raise minimum pledged that their first step as a unified National Deputy Tymoshenko is Freedom Support Act, Muskie, and wages and pensions, which he made on a opposition would be to appeal the consti- scheduled to visit the United States from Fulbright programs, could give higher visit to Donetsk on February 15, prompt- tutional reform to the Court. February 28 to March 2 and meet with priority to recruiting and placing ed OU and YTB to attack the govern- An early election would provide OU top U.S. government officials to discuss a Ukrainian students, teachers, scholars ment, employing populist rhetoric. and YTB with another chance to form a number of policy issues including energy. and researchers interested in energy effi- President Viktor Yushchenko, who is government, as recent public opinion In its letter, UAEA noted that Ms. ciency and related environmental issues the honorary chairman of OU, called on polls show that they might muster more Tymoshenko “recognize[s] the impor- at U.S. educational institutions. Prime Miniser Yanukovych to immedi- popular support than Mr. Yanukovych tance for Ukrainian industry, local gov- Likewise, greater emphasis could be ately come up with legal amendments to and his allies if the elections took place ernments and others to reduce energy given to assisting American scholars boost social protection. Ms. Tymoshenko now. There are, however, no legal waste and to improve energy efficiency wishing to teach and/or conduct research predicted that Mr. Yanukovych’s attitude grounds for early elections at the for the good of the nation’s economy and on how Ukraine could improve the ener- toward social protection would result in moment. Mr. Baloha has said that there is its national security.” gy efficiency of its economy as well as his dismissal. She launched a tour of a possibility that the court may proclaim It added: “We believe that your address other related energy and environ- Ukraine, urging the local authorities to the current Cabinet illegal. In that case, upcoming visit to the United States mental issues. lower utility rates. President Yushchenko would have formal affords a good opportunity to explore • U.S. Peace Corps: Ukraine is host to On February 19 OU and YTB signed a grounds to call new elections. options for U.S.-Ukraine cooperation for the world’s largest contingent (at present, declaration pledging unity of actions at Mr. Yushchenko, speaking on pursuing your goals in the area of energy over 300) of Peace Corps volunteers the local councils. As the majority February 22 was skeptical, saying that an efficiency.” (PCVs). Given the placement of PCVs in refused to discuss a YTB-drafted bill early parliamentary election would not Accordingly, UAEA outlined 11 areas schools as well as with NGOs and gov- aimed at restricting rises in utility prices, change the situation in Ukraine. Former in which the United States could actively ernment agencies in cities, towns, and OU and YTB deputies on February 21-23 Internal Affairs Minister Yurii Lutsenko, work with Ukraine to reduce energy villages throughout the country, Peace blacked out Parliament by switching off whose new People’s Self-Defense move- waste and thereby improve its economy Corps volunteers would be in a particu- the lights and blocking the access to the ment proclaims support for both OU and and national security. These included larly good position to develop education electrical control room. This maneuver YTB, has doubted that it is legally possi- expanded scholar and business exchange programs about energy efficiency and programs, financial assistance, formal related energy issues for students, NGOs, Verhovna Rada-U.S. Congress communi- local government offices, and community cations, an additional role for the U.S. residents. However, this is presently not a Tymoshenko, ill with flu, Peace Corps, translations of U.S. energy designated program of Peace Corps efficiency studies and training materials, Ukraine and would require a formal cancels her New York trip replication of successful U.S. energy effi- agreement between U.S. Peace Corps and ciency programs, expansion of Voice of the Ukrainian government to facilitate an PR Newswire Nemyria, a Ukrainian Member of America and other broadcasts, and using expansion into this area. Parliament and senior foreign policy advi- the new U.S. Embassy in Kyiv as a • U.S. Embassy facilities as a model: KYIV – Former Ukrainian Prime sor to Ms. Tymoshenko. “Consequently, demonstration of energy-efficient design. The U.S. Embassy could announce a Minister and Orange Revolution leader she is already discussing plans for a return The Ukrainian-American Environmental series of energy efficiency initiatives at Yulia Tymoshenko announced on trip to New York as part of her outreach to Association is a private, non-governmental its own facilities to serve as a model for February 26 that she has made changes to various diaspora, media, public policy, organization founded in 2004 and chartered Ukrainian government officials – and this week's scheduled visit to the United and business constituencies in the United in both the United States and Ukraine. It is then provide tours, seminars and training States, canceling the New York segment a network of more than 800 Ukrainian and and refocusing on her Washington meet- States and elsewhere.” for Ukrainian nationals so that the U.S. Ms. Tymoshenko’s trip to the United American NGOs, academic researchers, experience could be replicated. A particu- ings. businesses, and government officials to She explained that her ongoing out- States follows a series of recent diplo- larly good opportunity is presented by matic outreaches, including trips to facilitate the exchange of information on a the soon-to-begin design phase of the reach to citizens in cities and towns across broad array of environmental issues includ- Brussels and Berlin in November and to Ukraine, undertaken in the midst of harsh ing, but not limited to, energy policy, cli- (Continued on page 8) weather conditions, has resulted in her Israel in January. experiencing the flu. The flu has spread In Washington later this week, Ms. across the country, closing schools; even Tymoshenko was to meet with govern- the speaker of the Parliament missed a ment officials, lawmakers, policy experts Quotable notes week of plenary sessions. and business leaders to discuss the impor- Ms. Tymoshenko’s decision to delay tant issues facing Ukraine. She was to “We came through many tests, through many mistakes ... our union today is her departure to the United States, taken address efforts to advance the country’s not due to circumstances, it is not a spontaneous decision. It is a decision dictat- on the advice of her physician, has result- path to democratic reform and be honored ed by those Ukrainians who want to see Ukraine European.” ed in the cancellation of a robust sched- by policy organizations that support her ule of events in New York. passion and commitment to Ukraine. She – Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s main opposition leader, speaking about the “Ms. Tymoshenko understands that this will also speak at some of the most newly signed agreement between the Tymoshenko Bloc and Our Ukraine, as schedule change will be a disappointment prominent American think-tanks on topics quoted on February 26 by the Associated Press. to many in New York,” said Hryhoriy of Ukrainian and American interest. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007 No. 9 Chernivtsi-born physician opens oncology hospital in Kyiv by Zenon Zawada patient’s needs and minimize human who relocated to Ukraine. The hospital Kyiv Press Bureau error. Anesthetic devices can eliminate also provides for the option of bringing the pain and discomfort from gastroen- cancer specialists and surgeons from KYIV – Growing up in Chernivtsi, teroscopy procedures. abroad to perform specialized proce- Edward Maiberg was inspired by his During the course of a single opera- dures. mother, a doctor who taught him that tion, LISOD doctors will have the ability World-renowned oncologist Dr. helping the ill was a physician’s most to perform an operation removing a Carlos Perez of the Washington important duty. mammary gland tumor, eliminate minute University School of Medicine in St. After immigrating to Israel in 1989 to metastases and then perform reconstruc- Louis traveled to Kyiv to see LISOD for build his oncology career, Dr. Maiberg tive surgery. “Only a few clinics in the himself. Dr. Maiberg and his business has returned to his native land to lead the world can do this,” Dr. Maiberg said. partners deserve to be commended for development of an elite oncology hospi- The hospital’s linear accelerator can their venture, he said. tal on Kyiv’s outskirts whose mission is irradiate a tumor with enough precision “I admire their fortitude because this to help those stricken with cancer. to deliver the necessary dose while is a risky business,” Dr. Perez said. “The Aiming to reverse the current trend of avoiding surrounding organs and tissues. resources that it takes to build this kind Ukrainians traveling abroad to receive Radiation can even be administered dur- of institution are great. What it’s going to quality cancer care, Dr. Maiberg said he ing surgery. take to maintain the operation perhaps is expects cancer patients from Moscow “Every oncology clinic would dream even greater than the initial investment. and Warsaw will be traveling to Kyiv to to have the equipment installed at And they are willing to take that risk. be treated at the Hospital for Modern LISOD,” Dr. Maiberg said. “We offer the And they do not know if the environment Oncology care, or Likarnia Suchasnoyi most precise radiotherapy that a radioon- will be supportive or not.” Onkolohichnoyi Dopomohy (LISOD). cologist could hope for.” However, demand for such care “Our clinic has everything to provide Beyond advanced technology, LISOD should lead to success. patients with treatment, prevention and Zenon Zawada has a unique approach to cancer treat- Israeli oncologist Edward Maiberg, a Dr. Maiberg said no oncology hospital diagnostics at the highest levels that ment that consists of individually tailored Chernivtsi-native, speaks about the of the same capabilities and specialized modern oncology has to offer,” Dr. care, maximally painless surgery, screen- new world-class oncology hospital approach currently exists in Poland or Maiberg told reporters during a February ing, diagnosis verification and providing located on the outskirts of Kyiv. the Russian Federation. 19 tour of LISOD. psychological comfort, he said. Given Kyiv’s location between these “And using the standards that were LISOD will play an active role in two countries, he expects cancer patients implemented from our clinic’s very start, early detection of cancer – the main prin- including LR Group Chief Executive from both will seek treatment at LISOD, we can say today that we are able to cure ciple in its treatment approach. Officer Michael Amzel, Dr. Maiberg said. which will largely serve Eastern – not just treat, but cure – up to 65 per- The hospital’s coordinator is a clinical Mr. Amzel, also an Israeli, has been Europe’s well-heeled. cent of patients at all stages of oncology oncologist, because those are the doctors active in numerous Ukrainian business LISOD’s convenient location near illness,” he added. most capable of seeing the picture as a ventures, most notably selling Donetsk- Koncha Zaspa, the Kyiv suburb where Set to open in the spring, LISOD will whole, Dr. Maiberg said. made Kolchuha radar systems to the Ukraine’s elite live, was not chosen at offer among the most advanced technolo- An oncologist for most of his career, Ethiopian government. random. gies available for cancer treatment, such as the 43-year-old Dr. Maiberg is now con- LISOD consists of two buildings tucked “The high-quality treatment we’ll be biopsy and mammogram devices that can centrating his efforts on the business end amidst surrounding coniferous forests that offering at the clinic can’t be inexpen- detect tumors smaller than 1.5 centimeters. of cancer treatment. can serve as many as 200 patients. sive,” Dr. Maiberg said. “Even if I said it LISOD’s computerized systems are LISOD is a $30 million investment The staff includes Ukrainian doctors, was inexpensive, I don’t think you’d able to tailor treatments to a specific made by 10 international business partners, as well as Israeli and European doctors believe it.”

Within a week of the union’s signing, tion government. In fact, the Party of the Regions would Tymoshenko Bloc... Our Ukraine leaders began making Among the political goals outlined in stand to gain significantly in such a sce- (Continued from page 1) inconsistent statements, a common the opposition’s agreement are gaining nario. Virtually all public opinion polls Western political forces are uniting after occurrence. European Union and North Atlantic show that Prime Minister Viktor President Yushchenko sacked Ms. Presidential Secretariat Chair Baloha Treaty Organization membership, revis- Yanukovych would handily win the pres- Tymoshenko in September 2005. said “pre-term elections are necessary, ing the Ukrainian Constitution (to cancel idential election if it were held in late the December 2004 reforms), adopting March, and the Party of the Regions Its effectiveness is questionable, politi- the sooner the better,” after signing the liberal economic policy, legalizing land would retain all its seats in the cal experts said, considering its only Opposition Unity agreement. sales, reforming the judicial system and Verkhovna Rada, or gain even more. means of gaining enough power to affect Days later, it was revealed that Mr. developing a national cultural scene. Our Ukraine would not only lose the government would require major consti- Yushchenko isn’t even thinking about pre-term elections, said the president's The agreement even sets conditions presidency in such a scenario, but polls tutional reform or pre-term elections. should the Opposition Union become the estimate it would get only between 4 and official representative to the Verkhovna With 204 votes in Parliament, the ruling coalition. It envisions a system of 8 percent of the vote. Rada, Roman Zvarych. Opposition Union is largely impotent taking turns to claim government posi- On the other hand, pre-term parlia- against the coalition government’s 237 The Opposition Union is a formal tions on a 50-50 basis, with the mentary elections within the next few votes. political structure led by a coordinating Tymoshenko Bloc having first choice. months have the potential to reinvigorate Furthermore, disagreements remain council consisting of six representatives The blocs’ leaders made clear they the Orange electorate, which could give not only between the Our Ukraine and from each political bloc. would once again campaign independently the Our Ukraine-Tymoshenko alliance Tymoshenko blocs, which have publicly Their agreement defines the union’s in the event of pre-term parliamentary elec- enough votes to form the coalition gov- lambasted each other during the past principles and programs in the opposition tions, but they wouldn’t attack each other. ernment, political observers said. year, but also within the Our Ukraine role, in the event of forming a parliamen- Pre-term elections may occur if the In fact, that may be the union’s only bloc itself. tary majority and possibly even a coali- Constitutional Court declares the forma- hope, said Volodymyr Fesenko, chair of tion of the Cabinet of Ministers illegiti- the Kyiv-based Penta Center for Applied mate, Mr. Baloha said, adding that the Political Research, which is contracted president will act on that matter only by major Ukrainian parties and the Ukrainian and American cardiologists within his authority, which he does not Presidential Secretariat. believe he currently has. “If these forces aren’t able to realize exchange experience via web-conference Other Our Ukraine leaders agreed. their strategy of pre-term elections in the “I can tell you with certainty that the next three months, then maintaining this Embassy of Ukraine in the U.S. years, and the number of participating president isn’t thinking about this now, as union in this strategic regime will be very doctors is increasing. The previous two much as the legal basis isn’t there,” Mr. difficult,” Mr. Fesenko said. “There is a WASHINGTON – A web-conference events focused on radiology and chil- Zvarych said on March 1. certain competition and divergence of of Ukrainian and American cardiologists dren’s eye and vision problems. Pre-term parliamentary elections could interests between them. Therefore, the took place on February 7 on the premises Ukraine’s Embassy representative also emerge in the event that Ukraine’s risk of a new division or collapse of this of the Children’s National Medical took part in the web-conference. In his Constitutional Court declares the union exists.” Center in Washington. The event was welcoming remarks he mentioned high- December 2004 reforms unconstitutional, The prime minister’s personnel chair, held as “Grand Round” project that is level bilateral cooperation in the medical Mr. Zvarych added. Serhii Liovochkin, likened the implemented jointly by the World sphere under the auspices of U.S. and Public opinion polls suggest that the Opposition Unity agreement to the latest Federation of Ukrainian Medical Ukrainian health authorities hailed demand for pre-term elections may in episode in a Mexican soap opera between Associations, Icodesys/International Ukraine-3000 Foundation’s activities and fact backfire on the Opposition Union, the two blocs. “Voters are tired of count- Medical Programs and the United expressed support for the “Grand particularly the Our Ukraine bloc. ing the attempts of these political forces Ukrainian American Relief Committee. Round.” Party of the Regions National Deputy to glue together the pieces of a broken The online conference lasted for The event sparked a broad response Vasyl Kyseliov announced on February pot,” he said. almost four hours and covered more than among Ukrainian doctors and was cov- 28 that his party in fact supports the call So what’s to guarantee that the Our 20 Ukrainian cities and towns represent- ered by the Voice of America. for pre-term elections, for both the Ukraine and Tymoshenko blocs will stick ing all regions and half a dozen cities in The next experience-sharing web-con- Ukrainian presidency and parliamentary together this time around? the United States, as well as in several ference, which will focus on treatment of seats. “The guarantee is that Oleksander countries of Central Europe. This is the childhood diseases, is planned for In his dare, Mr. Kyseliov went so far Moroz is absent from this table,” Ms. third such event held in the last two October. as to propose a March 30 election date. Tymoshenko told reporters. No. 9 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007 5

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NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Language wars News flash: Ukrainian politics The analysis by Taras Kuzio published in last week’s issue noted the general public tolerance of language diversity in Ukraine, pointing out that only 8 percent of those sur- is, er, political! Surprised? veyed nationwide mentioned the Russian language’s status as an issue important to by Alexander J. Motyl give a medal to Mr. Potebenko just now? them. Dr. Kuzio noted that it is only the Party of the Regions and the Communist Party If the president wanted to signal his capit- that are pushing for Russian as an official or second state language of Ukraine. And, lan- Question: What do Ukrainian ulation to the ancien régime, why not just guage choice does not correlate with political allegiance. American activist Mary Beck, former give the medal to, say, Leonid Kuchma or Against that backdrop, let’s consider the language issue from another perspec- United Nations Secretary General Kofi some other prominent politico? Why tive. Although the Russian language certainly is not under attack in Ukraine, it is Annan, and Turkmenistan’s “great reward the non-entity Potebenko? Is Mr. certainly true that the Ukrainian language is. Some of these attacks are quite leader” have in common? Yushchenko just plain dumb? fierce, and others are nefarious (some, to be sure, are merely banal). Answer: The same thing that Cardinal A little analysis – and some very rudi- Most recently, Donetsk City Council Secretary Mykola Levchenko, a member of Lubomyr Husar, Moscow Mayor Yuri mentary digging on the Internet – suggest the Party of the Regions, stated that Ukraine should have only one state language: Luzhkov, and the Turkmenbashi’s father that the picture is rather more complicat- Russian, and he predicted this would eventually happen. Ukrainian, he said, is simply have in common. ed than purveyors of outrage suggest. “unsuited to be used in the development of scholarship or in international communi- They’re all recipients of Ukraine’s How are recipients of the order cho- cations.” Ukrainian, he said, will continue to exist only as “a language of folklore.” Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise. sen? In an attack on Ukrainian speakers, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister Dmytro That order was established by The president confers the order, but the Tabachnyk recently opined that the cultural policy of Ukraine aimed at resurrecting Presidential Decree No. 766/95 on choice of recipient appears to be the result national awareness and self-respect is “in the interests of a narrow stratum of the August 23, 1996, to “decorate citizens of deliberations between him and the Ukrainian-speaking intelligentsia, which is simply afraid of competition in all areas.” for significant personal deeds for the Commission on State Awards and Another example of the language war: An online article published by the Political sake of the Ukrainian state in the sphere Heraldry. That body was set up in 2000 to News Agency (Agentsvo Politicheskikh Novostei) late last year underscored that the of state construction, enforcement of the replace the Commission on State Awards Russian language is among the most powerful tools to promote Russia’s continuing international authority of Ukraine, devel- as an advisory organ to the president. influence in the post-Soviet space. At the same time it noted that the Ukrainian lan- opment of economy, science, education, According to an official announce- guage is “essential” for the Ukrainian elites, that it “explains overall why Ukraine is culture, art, for charity, humanistic and ment, “the tasks of the commission independent.” The article singled out the National University of Kyiv Mohyla public activities.” The order comes in include drafting conclusions on draft leg- Academy – whose languages of instruction are Ukrainian and English (not Russian!) five grades, with the first being the high- islative acts on awards, considering com- – and noted that this is a project capable of “nullifying Russian influence in the intel- est and the fifth the lowest. plaints, applications and proposals lectual sphere.” The writer went on to argue that a similar scholarly center – a No one’s ever paid much attention to regarding preliminary consideration of Russian Institute – must be created in eastern Ukraine to strengthen Russian influ- the order. And with good reason: as even awards. The commission conducts expert ence in scholarship, to oppose “anti-Russian plans by sectors of the Ukrainian elites” the short list above suggests, it appears to examination of sketches of state awards, and to “solidify Russian identity” in the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine. have been bestowed on a grab-bag of presidential medals and departmental Clearly then, language remains a powerful tool – some would say “weapon” – individuals with little in common besides incentive awards, and exercises control the award. One doesn’t have to be a in the battle for the hearts and minds of Ukraine’s citizens. And that is why it is over preparation of state awards and Ukraine analyst to suspect that the order essential for the Ukrainian language to have the support of the Ukrainian govern- presidential medals.” is primarily a tool of government policy ment, scholarly institutions, the cultural community, etc., as well as the diaspora On May 5, 2005, President Yushchenko – a sweetener that is dispensed to curry and entities that provide various types of support from abroad. changed the composition of the commis- favor with influential people or key con- As Ivan Dzyuba once stated, without the Ukrainian language, without its sion and appointed National University of stituencies. Think of the Nobel Prize for Ukrainian culture, Ukraine simply will not exist. Kyiv Mohyla Academy President Literature, which appears to be less con- Viacheslav Briukhovetsky as its head. First cerned with the actual quality of the writ- Deputy State Secretary Ivan Vasiunyk ing and rather more with the geographi- became deputy head of the commission, cal origins of the recipients. while the head of the Presidential Office’s March And little attention would continue to awards and heraldry service, Volodymyr Turning the pages back... have been paid to the order, had not Repyntsev, became its secretary. President Viktor Yushchenko outraged Also appointed to the commission were: 2 Ukraine-watchers on February 16 by Lviv National University Rector Ivan bestowing the order, third grade, on Ten years ago, The Ukrainian Weekly reported on the Vakarchuk, the Ukrainian Heraldry Society Mykhailo Potebenko, the former procurator 1997 enthronement of Bishop Vsevolod (Majdansky) as archbishop head Andrii Hrechylo, presidential adviser general implicated in the cover-up of the of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. by Volodymyr Hryshko, and the head of the murder of journalist Heorhii Gongadze. Metropolitan Constantine at St. Volodymyr Cathedral in General Headquarters of the Ukrainian According to the president’s decree, Mr. Chicago (Archbishop Vsevolod’s cathedral see) on March 2, 1997. Armed Forces, Serhii Kyrychenko. The Potebenko was given the award for his The elevation of the former primate of the 45,000-member Ukrainian Orthodox Church other members of the commission are: “notable personal contribution to the con- of America to archbishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. was the first vis- presidential assistant Andrii Kyslynsky, struction of a rule-of-law state and to the ible sign of the Churches’ decision in November 1996 to unite into one body, the UOC of Amosov Cardiovascular Surgery Institute consolidation of legality and law and order, the U.S.A., under the spiritual authority of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Director Hennadii Knyshov, National his conscientious work of many years, and Over 150 faithful attended the divine liturgy concelebrated by Metropolitan Deputy Borys Oliinyk, and presidential on the occasion of his 70th birthday.” Constantine, and Archbishops Antony and Vsevolod, who were joined by three archi- adviser Mykola Poludionny. Just who is the 70-year-old Potebenko? mandrites and area priests. Also present near the altar in a spirit of ecumenism were The commission previously included Mr. A Kuchma toady, is the short answer. The Ukrainian Catholic Bishops Basil Losten of the Stamford Eparchy and Michael Wiwchar Kuchma’s first presidential assistant, Serhii longer answer is that he served as procura- of the St. Nicolas Eparchy of Chicago. Liovochkin; the head of the Ukrainian tor general from 1998 to 2002. He man- At the conclusion of the service, Metropolitan Constantine installed Bishop Presidential Administration’s awards and aged to indict former Prime Minister Pavlo Vsevolod as archbishop of the newly created Western Eparchy, which encompasses heraldry department, Mr. Repryntsev; the Lazarenko on corruption charges in 1999, the region between Detroit, Mexico and Hawaii. National Bank of Ukraine mint’s director- but did nothing about the murders of for- On the unification of the two Ukrainian Orthodox Churches, Metropolitan general, Ruslan Areshkovych; the Constantine said that this was done “for the good of our Church in the United States mer National Bank of Ukraine chief Vadym Hetman in 1998 and journalists Gongadze Ukrainian Presidential Administration’s and for the good of our Church and people of Ukraine.” deputy head, Mykola Bilokin; Arts and At the banquet that followed, Archbishop Vsevolod spoke of the need to unite and Ihor Aleksandrov in 2000 and 2001, respectively. Running on the Communist Culture Minister Yurii Bohutsky; the Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholics into one Kyivan Church, and cited the Ukrainian Heraldry Society’s head, efforts of Orthodox Metropolitan Petro Mohyla and Catholic Metropolitan Andrey Party list, Mr. Potebenko was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on March 31, 2002. Hrechylo; the History Institute’s head of Sheptytsky to “find unity between our two Churches.” department, Maria Dmytrienko; First “In helping our brother and sister Orthodox in Ukraine to create one united One breathless blogger immediately denounced the award as “shameful.” Deputy Justice Minister Anatolii Zaiats; Orthodox Church, we will be supporting a dialogue for the creation of one Ukrainian Shevchenko National University Rector Church,” added Archbishop Vsevolod. After all, how could Ukraine’s democrat- ically elected president do something as Viktor Skopenko; Vice Prime Minister Among the greetings by government officials, Church leaders and representatives of Dmytro Tabachnyk; the National Union of Ukrainian community organizations, were the best wishes of Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar callous, and stupid, as reward the odious Mr. Potebenko for his services to – of all Artists head Volodymyr Chepelyk; and (delivered by Pat Mikulski). Victor Kyryk, Ukraine’s Consul General in Chicago, National Deputy Ihor Sharov. hailed the unification of the two largest Orthodox Churches in the United States and things – rule of law? Clearly, the decree was just another bit of evidence demon- Clearly, President Yushchenko alone does called for the unity of Orthodox Churches in Ukraine. not decide who gets the order. Just as clearly, In his remarks on the disunity of the Orthodox Churches in Ukraine, Archbishop strating that the “kamikaze president” was a spineless, lily-livered weakling and some commission members are a pretty rep- Vsevolod said, “How can one Church be fragmented into four sections? It is utable bunch of prominent Ukrainian lead- uncanonical, and it is certainly a scandal. It is a scar not only on Orthodoxy, but on an apologist for the forces of reaction. But is that all there is to the story? Even ers. If Mr. Yushchenko’s granting the award Christianity, and a scar on Ukraine itself.” to Mr. Potebenko makes him a spineless, On encouraging unity in Ukraine, Archbishop Vsevolod said that the Orthodox if President Yushchenko is the embodi- ment of weakness and spinelessness, why lily-livered weakling and apologist for the should continue their dialogue with Ukrainian Catholics. “We are the same tradition. forces of reaction, then it also makes Messrs. We are the same Kyivan Church. I want all the years of bickering to cease,” he said. Briukhovetsky, Vakarchuk et al spineless, Alexander J. Motyl is professor of lily-livered weaklings and apologists for the Source: “Vsevolod enthroned archbishop of united Orthodox Church,” by political science at Rutgers University- Khristina Lew, The Ukrainian Weekly, March 2, 1997. Newark. (Continued on page 15) No. 9 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007 7

TheThe thingsthings wewe do...do... Faces and Places by Myron B. Kuropas by Orysia Paszczak Tracz Tarasova Hora: witness to Holodomor history “But the worst were the Ukrainians...” Tarasova Hora (Taras’s Hill) in Kaniv on January 22, 1978 (see “The Death at Like many Jewish Americans with Union and dies in Ukraine. Through all is the site of Taras Shevchenko’s grave Tarasova Hora,” by Orysia Paszczak Ukrainian relatives who survived the that...he never leaves his village.” and the museum dedicated to his life and Tracz, The Ukrainian Weekly, March 9, Holocaust, Daniel Mendelsohn’s opinion Mr. Mendelsohn’s guide in Ukraine work. This is where he had hoped to set- 1998). of Ukrainians was formed early in life. was Alex, described by him as “a gregar- tle, marry and raise a family. And, in his A later book, a supplement to When it came to blame for the horrors ious young Ukrainian who makes his liv- “Zapovit,” or “Testament,” he asked to “Sviatynia,” covers archival material on suffered by Jews, the familiar refrain ing now by taking American Jews to the be buried on the hills overlooking the the Holodomor in this region – went something like this: “The Germans blighted settings of their own family sto- Dnipro, so that he could watch it flow “Sviatynia i Holodomor: dokumenty i were bad, the Poles were worse, but the ries…” There are many other Ukrainians down to the Black Sea. materialy z naukovokho arkhivu worst were the Ukrainians.” who help the Mendelsohns along the way Earlier, it was known as Chernecha Shevchenkivskoho Natsionalnoho Unlike many Jewish Americans, and by page 109 of this 512-page book Hora (Monk’s Hill), because of the Zapovidnyka,” compiled by O. V. Daniel Mendelsohn went to Ukraine in we read, “we were all thinking the same monks who very long ago lived there in Bilokin (Kaniv/Lviv: PP Soroka T.B., search of the truth, not about Ukraine and thing: some Ukrainians aren’t so bad.” the caves they had dug for themselves. 2003. 60 pp. ISBN 966-96091-6-x). Most the Ukrainians, but to discover for him- Confirming what my grandmother A settlement grew at the foot of the of the material is the taped and tran- self the fate of six of his relatives who once told me, the book describes how hill and was named Monastyrok (little scribed memoirs of survivors of the had once lived in the western Ukrainian Jews and Ukrainians lived side-by-side monastery). What remains of this hamlet Holodomor, most of whom had lived town of Bolekhiv. Before his odyssey in relative peace for generations in west- is the name of a city street in Kaniv. around Kaniv and worked on the con- was over, he writes, he had “traveled to a ern Ukraine. A man in Australia tells Mykhailo Maksymovych, the eminent struction of the museum. Dr. Tarakhan- dozen cities from Sydney to Copenhagen Daniel how “many of Bolechow’s scholar and friend of Shevchenko, passed Bereza collected the memoirs over many to Beer Shiva, to embark on airplanes Gentiles, Polish as well as Ukrainians, on local stories about three hetmans years. and ferries and trains packed with Jewish spoke perfect Yiddish, that’s how close (Kozak leaders) buried on the hill: Ivan As she writes in both books: boys and girls in uniforms with guns they all had been.” Pidkova, Kishka and Shakh. The funeral “The architects devoted much effort to strapped to their narrow bodies; to go, in The murderous behavior of some procession for the killed Pidkova fol- ensure that the construction [of the muse- the end, to Bolechow itself and there talk Ukrainians during the Nazi occupation is lowed the same route as the later one for um building] was supplied with the nec- to the few remaining people who had not whitewashed. Jewish killings are Shevchenko. essary materials, a labor force – hired seen what had been done.” described as Aktions. “The Bolechow The Kanivskyi Musei-Zapovidnyk from the collective farms and cities – and Mr. Mendelsohn read many Holocaust Aktion,” writes Mr. Mendelsohn, “took “Mohyla T. H. Shevchenka” – the Kaniv water supply. Much more difficult were stories and histories and interviewed sur- place on October 28 and 29, 1941. In it Museum Preserve – Grave of Taras H. the living situation and the food supply vivors. After five years, he produced there perished approximately a thousand Shevchenko – is a national park preserve during this difficult time. The Ukrainian “The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Jews.” Other Aktions with Ukrainian covering many acres on the hills over- people began the construction of the Million,” published last year by participation are also described. looking the Dnipro River. present Shevchenko memorial in Kaniv HarperCollins. Sometimes Ukrainian militiamen assisted The place is reverent, picturesque and in the most tragic years of the I learned of the book by chance. Mr. the German killing squads. At other beautiful. The personnel working there – Holodomor, artificially created by the Mendelsohn was interviewed on times, Ukrainians killed Jews randomly, the scholars as well as the general staff – totalitarian state of the time, which, in a Chicago’s “Extension 720,” a nightly as “part of a personal vendetta.” are very dedicated. Often the retirees way, wanted to say ‘here we are honoring talk show hosted by Milt Rosenberg that A classicist by training, Mr. come to see the gardens they had planted our great people, even though we are I occasionally listen to. A retired Mendelsohn points out that “Greek and proudly tell visitors about their work exterminating their descendants – the lit- University of Chicago professor whose tragedy ... is never a straightforward con- in the past. Over the past few years, the tle people – by the millions…’ knowledge base is encyclopedic, Dr. frontation between Good and Evil but is, museum, built in the mid-1930s and “The genocide totally directed against Rosenberg is a true renaissance man. rather, much more exquisitely and much designed by architects Vasyl Krychevsky the Ukrainian people showed itself espe- more agonizingly, a conflict between two and Petro Kostyrko, has been undergoing During the interview, Ukraine and cially fiercely here in Kaniv, the spiritual Ukrainians came up and Mr. Rosenberg irreconcilable views of the world … the extensive reconstruction. center of Ukraine. In the area of Jews of eastern Poland, who knew they As scholar Dr. Viktor Tarakhan of the mentioned Ukrainian collaboration in the Shevchenko’s grave, the populations of Nazi killing of Jews. Mr. Mendelsohn would suffer unimaginably if they came national shrine told me, construction was entire villages were dying out – Reshitky, under Nazi rule, viewed the Soviets as begun just after the Holodomor (the gave the usual affirmation but then Lipliave, Keleberda… This is what hap- added, to his credit, that Ukrainian com- liberators in 1939 ... whereas the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933), with pened in the village of Prokhorivka, for- Ukrainians of eastern Poland who had materials that were barely sufficient. For plicity wasn’t as black and white as some ever connected to the names of Mykhailo people think. “Wow,” I thought, a suffered unimaginably under Soviet example, in some places wood was used Maksymovych and Taras Shevchenko: oppression during the 1920s and 1930s, instead of brick and mortar or stone, and nuanced response to Ukrainian-Jewish ‘What was happening in the village was relations. I bought the book. viewed the cession of eastern Poland to steel-enforced concrete was substituted horrible. There were corpses in every the Soviet Union as a national disaster with other materials. The book, which chronicles the home … People rode around the village author’s travels in great detail, is a fasci- and saw the Nazis as liberators in 1941...” For any visitor coming to this idyllic with a wagon, going into each house, car- Although different peoples live side- site today, it is horrifying to learn that nating read. It is a report, a memoir and a rying out the dead, taking them to the detective story all rolled into one. Most by-side, their perception of the same during World War II the whole area was a cemetery without coffins. No one dug events can be dramatically different. battlefront, and the museum building impressive is the fact that the author did any graves, but just covered the corpses Such is the tragedy, I believe, between itself was a Nazi concentration camp. his homework regarding Ukrainians and with some earth … Most houses in the Ukrainians and Jews. This is documented in the museum exhi- Ukrainian history. village stood empty, the village became Fortunately for Ukrainians, Mr. bition. Some of Mr. Mendelsohn’s descrip- silent…’ [Tetiana Yosypivna Oseledets’] Mendelsohn mellowed regarding our In 1941 a battle took place right on the tions are familiar. “A month before I “Like shadows, weak, tired, hungry people. Describing Jewish animus hill and at the grave of Shevchenko. In went to Ukraine with my own siblings,” people wandered the streets of Kaniv. towards Ukrainians, he writes that “this the fall of 1943, during the German occu- he writes, “I stood in the stifling lobby of Often they lost consciousness and even unwillingness to believe anything good pation, the Nazis drove the people of the the Ukrainian consulate on East 49th died just on the street. They were collect- of Ukrainians struck me as irrational … whole region into the ruined museum Street in New York, waiting for a visa, ed – and deposited (not just the dead, but since every survivor I talked to had been building. They spent their days – during and as I stood there I would look around the half-alive) in the morgue or in an saved by a Ukrainian. I did not say this battles – digging trenches along the at the people standing next to me, who abandoned house on Taras Shevchenko to them at the time, but it seemed to me Dnipro and on the hills. The building was were all talking animatedly and often Street (on the way to Shevchenko’s that Jews more than others should be encircled with barbed wire. The first exasperatedly in Ukrainian to each other, grave): ‘All were unloaded in this house wary of condemning entire populations floor became a stable for German horses. yelling at the solitary officer behind the and the door was locked, so that they out of hand.” “Sviatynia” documents this destruction, bulletproof glass, and the line, ‘the [those still alive] would not wander out, Will tensions between Ukrainians and and lists some of the inmates of the con- Ukrainians are the worst’ would go and so they died there…’ ” Jews ever let up? Despite the fears of the centration camps. Even the revered architects, through my head, over and over, acquir- A decade earlier, like the rest of the ing its own kind of rhythm.” American Jewish Committee members of Krychevsky and his former student our Ukrainian Jewish dialogue in 1990, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Kostyrko, did not escape the hardship. Mr. Mendelsohn writes of the con- Kaniv area was in the horrible grip of the stantly changing spelling of his grandpar- things have never been better for Jews in They were not paid regularly, and the 60- Ukraine. Many who left Ukraine for Holodomor. year-old Krychevsky had to sell some of ents’ ancestral village: “Bolechow under The history of Tarasova Hora is thor- the Poles, Bolekhov during the Soviet Israel are returning to buy homes and to his clothing and other items at the market start businesses. I am less optimistic oughly and lovingly covered in the book in order to buy food. years, and now finally, Bolekhiv under “Sviatynia” by Dr. Zinaida Tarakhan- the Ukrainians who always wanted the about America’s Jews who appear to be But a most horrible fate found Ivan stuck in a time-warp regarding Bereza, a scholar at the national shrine Yadlovsky, the caretaker for many years town and now own it.” He relates a joke (Kyiv: Rodovid, 1998. 538 pp. ISBN which illustrates the different national Ukrainians. One exception is Daniel of Shevchenko’s grave. Visitors to the Mendelsohn. 966-5114-1-0 – regrettably now out of museum see the lovely typical Ukrainian ownerships in this part of the world: “it’s print). One of the revelations from this thatched-roof white house which was the about a man who’s born in Austria, goes book was the self-immolation at the foot to school in Poland, gets married in Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is: of Shevchenko’s grave by Oleksa Hirnyk (Continued on page 14) Germany, has children in the Soviet [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007 No. 9

and that’s enough for his candidacy not Mr. Ohryzko had just returned from Battle continues... to be accepted by the coalition.” Moscow, where he led the Ukrainian side (Continued from page 1) During his month serving as acting during Russian Black Sea Fleet subcom- of principle to nominate precisely minister of foreign affairs, Mr. Ohryzko mission negotiations, which he described Ohryzko. The president needs to show has already received his fair share of crit- as “more dynamic.” Ukraine is ready to his strength and flex his muscles.” icism from the coalition government. conduct an inventory of the Black Sea When a delegation led by European Fleet’s property, which can be completed Mr. Ohryzko is a career diplomat who Council President Dr. Frank-Walter within three months, but the Russian served as Borys Tarasyuk’s vice minister Steinmeier visited Kyiv on February 6 Federation has delayed the process, he before the former foreign affairs minister for the Ukraine-European Union summit, said. was pressured to resign by a hostile Mr. Ohryzko failed to properly prepare Mr. Ohryzko’s nomination failed the coalition government. for and lead negotiations, alleged Taras first time around because it emerged dur- His foreign policy is considered close- Chornovil, a Party of the Regions nation- ing a period of sharp conflict between ly aligned with Mr. Tarasyuk’s views, al deputy. the coalition government and the which is why the coalition government “Ohryzko is a complicated candidacy, Presidential Secretariat, Mr. Fesenko rejected his candidacy, said Yurii though he’s a wonderful minister com- said, adding that he believes Mr. Yakymenko, director of political-legal pared to Tarasyuk,” Mr. Chornovil said. Ohryzko has a chance to win approval programs at the Razumkov Center for “But there are distinguished problems the second time around. Economic and Political Research in with this candidacy – complications and “I am absolutely convinced that the Kyiv, which is funded by more than 50 inexperience in conducting serious nego- issue is not in the person of Ohryzko, but international government and non-gov- tiations.” the latest crisis in Parliament and wors- ernmental organizations. Russian-oriented politicians have also ening of relations between the “In my view, the single most simple directly and indirectly accused Mr. Zenon Zawada Parliament coalition and the opposition,” reason lies in his association with that Ohryzko of having views hostile to the Mr. Fesenko said. “If there wasn’t this Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of foreign policy course that is not support- Russian Federation. disgusting sharpening of political con- Ukraine Volodymyr Ohryzko. ed by the coalition,” he said. “They view Among the reasons for his doubts flict, I think Ohryzko’s candidacy would him as a person who will consistently regarding the nomination, Prime pass though, sooner than not.” defend the Euro-Atlantic integration Minister Yanukovych on February 8 Ohryzko communicated with a Russian In the event that the parliamentary course, who will share Tarasyuk’s views, cited a 2006 incident in which Mr. delegation in Ukrainian through an coalition rejects Mr. Ohryzko a second interpreter. time, the Ukrainian president will then At a press conference several days likely propose a compromise candidate, later, Mr. Ohryzko explained that the he said. incident occurred at a conference of the However, it’s unclear what kind of a Commonwealth of Independent States candidate would accommodate the for- (CIS). He said he prepared his theses on eign policy positions of both the Russian-Ukrainian relations in the Western-oriented Presidential Ukrainian language, unaware that it was Secretariat, and the Russian-oriented not among the conference’s so-called coalition government. working languages. Among the leading candidates “In fairly harsh form, several confer- remains lawyer and diplomat ence participants began demanding that I Oleksander Chalyi, who has found favor switch to Russian,” Mr. Ohryzko said. with both the Presidential Secretariat “But I continued to speak in Ukrainian.” where he currently serves as the assis- On March 1 Crimean Communist tant chairman, and the coalition govern- leader Leonid Grach accused Mr. ment, because of his Russian-oriented Ohryzko of Russophobia – a day after positions. the acting minister told a Kyiv press con- Mr. Chalyi served as first vice minister ference that the Crimean government’s of foreign affairs between 1998 and 2001 decision to open an affiliate in Moscow and as state secretary for European inte- violated Ukrainian law. gration issues between 2001 and 2003.

officials), farmers, motorists and home- Environmental... owners. It would be useful to have the (Continued from page 3) best of these resources translated into new U.S. Embassy compound in Kyiv. Ukrainian and/or Russian so they could The best in energy efficiency and green be reproduced and used in Ukraine. building designs could be incorporated so • Voice of America, Radio Free that the end result is a state-of-the-art Europe/Radio Liberty: Broadcasts by facility that showcases the latest in ener- Voice of America as well as by Radio gy-saving, environmentally-safe and Free Europe/Radio Liberty afford a vehi- renewable energy technologies. To the cle for sharing American experience in the field of energy efficiency with a very Tel./Fax: extent that security considerations per- mit, Ukrainian architects, designers, large Ukrainian audience. While energy builders, government officials and stu- policy has been among the issues dents could be invited to presentations addressed in these broadcasts, specific and training sessions related to the design strategies for promoting energy savings and building of the new facility. in Ukraine, especially by individuals, and • Translation of U.S. publications: discussing relevant experience in the Over the past 30 years, the U.S. govern- United States has not, to date, been a ment has developed vast amounts of edu- focus. Broadening the focus of these cational and technical materials on ener- broadcasts to include this issue could gy efficiency for use in the United States prove to be a low-cost but effective by businesses, industrial facilities, hospi- method of furthering energy efficiency in tals, schools, government buildings (and Ukraine.

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Since the Lviv Archives Preservation repairs, placement of grates on windows, immediately to mind when representatives To date, through the Lviv Archives Project is due to expire this June, more reparation of the buildings’ facades and of the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation visited the Preservation Project, excavation work has assistance is direly needed to help contin- installation of a fire alarm system. 700 years of history encapsulated in In order to extend the life of the docu- Ukraine’s Central State Historical Archives ments, there is an urgent need to digitize in Lviv. One million records – decrees, the Archives’ records. 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French, German, Latin, Moldovan, Additionally, it is important to further Polish, Turkish and Ukrainian, the train archival staff in new conservation archives’ shelves span nearly 7.5 miles. technologies via internship programs at However, the future of this skarb is archival institutions in Ukraine and uncertain. The archives are located in the abroad, and participation in archive- former Bernardynskyi Monastery and the related conferences and seminars. former Royal Arsenal – historical struc- “We are deeply grateful to the U.S.- tures that date back to the 17th century, Ukraine Foundation and the R’fa’aye-nu which were not intended to house valu- Society for their work in helping us with able documents requiring special ventila- the restoration work of the archives. tion and treatment. Since the buildings However, much work still needs to be done, had never undergone major renovation, and we encourage the assistance of new they are in dismal condition. donors. 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High levels of explained Diana Pelts, director of Ukraine’s humidity are significantly harmful to the Central State Historical Archives in Lviv. records, and partial repairs, with finances For more information about Ukraine’s from the Archive’s budget, have not pro- Central State Historical Archives in Lviv, duced any significant results. readers may visit http://www.archives. In August 2005, the U.S.-Ukraine gov.ua/Archives/index.php?ca04. Foundation, in cooperation with the R’fa’aye-nu Society, launched the Lviv * * * Archives Preservation Project, a The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation would like $105,000 initiative funded by the U.S. to expand its activity in the area of histori- Agency for International Development (USAID). The project was built upon the Centuries-old documents are damaged by sunlight that enters through windows cal and cultural preservation. The founda- proposal of Mira Brichto, founder of the at Ukraine’s Central State Historical Archives in Lviv. tion is seeking individuals to offer ideas for R’fa’aye-Society. Ms. Brichto future preservation projects, to volunteer, been done on the water canal system to pro- ue the restoration efforts. The lengthy “to approached the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation and to financially support program activi- vide better drainage, the electrical system do” list includes roof repairs, chemical with the idea of creating a project to pre- ties. Those individuals interested in assist- serve the cultural and historical treasures has been partially repaired, and the founda- treatment of documents, repair of the ing the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation in this contained within the Lviv Archives. tion of the building has been improved. water pipes and electrical wiring system, field may contact Chrystia Sonevytska at Thus, a two-year initiative was born. “This project is vital to preserving not installation of an air conditioning and [email protected] or at 202-223-2228. On the U.S.-Ukraine foundation’s side, only Ukrainian history and culture, but the project is coordinated by the the histories and cultures of Belarus, the Foundation’s Lviv Western Ukrainian Vatican, Italy, Lithuania, Germany, Regional Training Center, and assisted by Poland, Hungary, Turkey and France that Chrystia Sonevytska, special projects are documented in the Lviv Archives. coordinator and volunteer from Comprehensively catalogued in the Washington. 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After 11 seasons in Boston, Bucyk and the Black Hawks gifted a rifle. Native American appearance, was his was expected to retire due to a debilitating However, Bucyk went on to play 713 games, score 727 points and win two Stanley Cups over the next 10 seasons. That summer Bucyk went to see some specialists in Toronto – the Maple Leafs doctors – who made a brace for him that he played with for the remainder of his career. From an interview that appeared in the Boston Globe, Bucyk recalled, “What people often don’t think about, or forget, is that from that time on, I got the record for most consecutive games as a Bruin – Elise Amendola/AP 418. And they thought I was finished!” John Bucyk during the Boston Bruins’ Bucyk is credited with 545 goals as a ceremony held in his honor. Bruin, the most in franchise history, (only Ray Borque scored more points in a team player, be a part of a team in his goals and assists), and he remains in the objective. Whatever you do, you do it top 20 of all-time NHL goal and point together, work together. I do hold faith in scorers. the hard-working player, and that was Other club records set by Bucyk John Bucyk.” include the most seasons (21), the most Bruins fans will recall that in 1957 games (1,436), the most assists (794) and Stasiuk was part of the “Uke line” with the most points (1,339). Bucyk and Bronco Horvath. The second “John Bucyk Night” came On the Ukrainian interplay dynamics, in 1980 when his No. 9 was hoisted to Horvath recalled, “I’d tell Vic and the rafters. The following year he was Bucyk, ‘Get the puck and look in front inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame. for my socks.’ That’s how it worked. But For approximately the last 10 years, I wouldn’t stay there too long, because if Bucyk has served the club on the road as you did, someone like Doug Harvey a traveling public relations secretary in would cross check you in the head or try addition to assisting current players and to punch your lights out.” alumni in every aspect. Remembering Bucyk’s style of play, The Bruins’ “Uke Line” of 1957-1961 (from left):Vic Stasiuk, Bronco Horvath Former linemate Vic Stasiuk, 77, said Horvath said, “He didn’t fight much, and John Bucyk (reproduced from “Beyond the Uke Line” by George Tatomyr). of Bucyk, “He’s a good Uke! He’s got Chief. There wasn’t anything dirty about that good Ukrainian bloodline in him, the way he played, and I think that’s why and by that I mean the willingness to be guys didn’t want to fight him.” was also produced by the consortium, she Ottawa forum... added. It strives to showcase the lives of (Continued from page 1) orphans who have found success as adults Ukraine began slowly to improve, the without resorting to being trafficked. Literary Café at the Institute panelists agreed. “We have to show that this is not the Ukraine’s Article 149, passed a year only way, that there are alternatives,” ago, increased the offenses and raised the said Ms. Chaplynska. severity of punishment for those convict- Ukraine’s newly appointed ambassa- The Ukrainian Institute of America ed of involvement in the sex trade, said dor to Canada former National Deputy is pleased to announce its first Chaplynska. Where as before a convicted Ihor Ostash of the Our Ukraine bloc, said offender simply paid a fine, those con- the Verkhovna Rada passed a number of Literary Café victed since the article’s passage now face laws to crack down on human trafficking. on five years in a Ukrainian penitentiary. “I took personal interest in this issue “We also partnered with many differ- while a member in the Ukrainian ent ministries,” Ms. Chaplynska said, Parliament,” he said. “I plan to continue pointing to the first time that the fight doing so in my present capacity as well.” Friday, March 16, 2007, 7-9 p.m. against trafficking had become a coordi- “We must remember, human traffick- nated effort across different government ing has a transnational character,” he departments. “By now, we have an estab- added. “It involves criminal organiza- lished network with government agen- tions in several countries.” Vasyl Makhno will read from his play, “Coney Island” cies, (and) we are responding with local Ukraine also relies on help from sever- action plans in every region and city,” al countries, said Dmytro Samarsky of the she added. charity Pryiateli Ditei (Friends of Yuriy Tarnawsky will read from his poetry and prose Ms. Chaplynska’s group has also pro- Children). He related his group’s effort to duced a film warning of the dangers of provide university scholarships to Alexander Motyl will read from his novel, “Whiskey Priest” the sex trade. That movie has since been orphans. The group handed out just two declared mandatory viewing in every in 1998; the number is up to 178 this year. school in Ukraine by the government. Samarsky showed a graph displaying Unfortunately, it was not available for the country of origin of donated monies. Admission: $10 general; $5 students. viewing by attendees. However, Ms. More than half came from donors in the Chaplynska circulated sketches, drawn United States, while some 40 percent by Ukrainian kids immediately after see- came from within Ukraine. Beverages and appetizers will be served during the Café. ing the film, capturing their thoughts and The remainder – less than 11 percent – fears of the sex trade. came from Canadian donors, the graphic Another film, aimed only at orphans, showed. 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Boys try to navigate a raft they built during one of the jamboree’s competitions.

added, “Those from our three most ‘outly- which they eagerly adapted. ing frontiers’ – Canberra, Adelaide and A counselor of these scouts-to-be, Brisbane – were without exception fantas- Mariana Danylak, recalled that the tic leaders, and the Jamboree was richer for favorite activities of the “ptashata” were their participation.” any games that involved running around. Larissa Radion of Melbourne said, But what everyone will remember most “holding the jamboree in Adelaide was a about this camp was the colorful “kep- chance to reawaken South Australia’s tar” Hutsul-style vests that the ptashata

Adrian Magalas (right), commander of the camp for Plast teens, with Mykola Kastraby, a camp participant.

Mr. Wojewidka stated: “The key Plast camps were held soon after post- theme of this YuMPZ in Australia was war immigration to Australia, when Plast Plast’s 95-year history. For the organiza- was formed in Adelaide. So, the region, tion to have existed this long, especially was also a sentimental location for us.” outside Ukraine, is an incredible feat Although the largest Plast populations and, as Plast scouts, we have a responsi- in Australia are found in Victoria (which bility to current and future generations to includes the cities of Melbourne and Plast teens participate in a team-building game. ensure that Plast ideals continue to Geelong) and Sydney, this jamboree saw remain an active and relevant part of participants from a total of six Australian dormant Plast community by re-enthus- crafted out of paper bags and which their lives, now and into the future.” cities. According to Symon Kohut of ing existing members and attracting new served as costumes when they sang and Over 250 people took part in the seven- Melbourne, current head of Australia’s ones.” danced for the public. day festivities, with some 140 additional National Plast Command, “One of the Great distances have always been a The camp for novatstvo (ages 6-11) visitors joining them over New Year’s most rewarding aspects about jamborees factor in hindering Australian Plast scouts had a Kozak theme and was headed by Eve for a celebration around a beautifully is that counselors have the opportunity to from coming together, according to Mr. Pavlo Buczma of Melbourne. “The lit disco marquee at the campsite. work with other leaders that they might Wojewidka. Nationwide get-togethers major aim of this camp was to provide There were four separate camps: not have otherwise met.” such as this one in Australia ensure conti- an environment for the children to learn “ptashata” (3-5 year-olds), “novatstvo” This year was, in his opinion, particular- nuity of the organization and create about themselves – not only in the con- (6-11-year-olds), “yunatstvo” (adoles- ly notable as both youth camps had leaders opportunities for fostering new friend- text of their heritage, culture and back- cents) and “Tativka” (parents’ camp). from every branch of Australia’s Plast. He ships. From Mr. Wojewidka’s point of ground, but also about their own abili- view, Australian Plast members need to ties, skills, ideas and feelings,” Mr. also meet Plast scouts from other parts of Buczma explained. their region and also the rest of the world Camp activities included: canoeing, to see that Plast is thriving globally. orienteering, climbing, arts and crafts “We now have the capability to bridge challenge hill, building a mini-Sich, the distance gap through the Internet and Olympic competitions, swimming and improved high-speed communications,” singing. “We also made Kozak swords said Mr. Wojewidka. “Plast needs to uti- and costumes, designed Kozak flags and lize this new technology to bring togeth- emblems, and learned about the Kozak er Plast scouts from across the world.” way of life, customs and traditions,” Mr. The youngest camp (tabir) at the jam- Buczma added. boree comprised 21 “ptashata” and was led For Mr. Buczma, one of the highlights by Ms. Wojewidka. “The tabir program of the camp was working with leaders drew on the richness, color and beauty of from four different states and one territo- Ukraine’s Carpathian Mountains (the site ry in Australia, and seeing how different- of the first Plast camp 95 years ago) ly branches operate. through song, arts, crafts, and dance, as For Ms. Radion, a favorite part of camp well the traditional elements of Plast activi- was planning an interesting and challeng- ties, such as nature walks, campfires gath- ing program for the children, which also erings and the like,” Ms. Wojewidka said. included 15 youngsters who were new to For many of the children, this was Plast. As for most of the novastvto, Mr. Counselors of the jamboree’s camp for novatstvo (children age 6-11). their first Plast camp experience, to Buczma revealed, the greatest activities No. 9 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007 13 were “anything that involved a mess.” For most participants, however, it was Teresa Hasset, 10, a participant of this the expedition itself that provided the great- camp, shared that she most enjoyed earn- est opportunity for personal physical and ing badges and swimming in the lake. mental challenge, despite hot weather that Mr. Buczma noted that the partici- had to be endured while hiking and biking. pants in his camp were all “keen and Ms. Kastraby shared, “I love going away seemed to enjoy getting involved in and forming close bonds with other camp activities and challenging them- Australian Plast members, which inevitably selves.” He observed that “their attitude happens during such an expedition.” stems from parents who want to preserve According to Mr. Magalas, “The great- Plast in Australia and ensure that their est strength of Australian yunatstvo is that children continue to benefit from the they are happy to embark on new adven- many things Plast can and does provide tures, and when they do, they do it with towards their development.” gusto and positive energy.” He noted that Adrian Magalas, leader of the 40-par- although they are growing up in an envi- ticipant camp for teens, said that he start- ronment where scouting is no longer pop- ed planning the camp program, which ular, Plast youths in Australia are proud to

Adrian Neugebauer A group of participants of the International Plast Jamboree in an official photo.

On December 30, after five days of ‘drowning’ in the organization; rather, individual programs, all the camps con- everyone has a valued and treasured place.” verged for a four-day jubilee celebration, The Australian Plast community is cur- which included a ceremonial parade, rently planning to send a contingent to Sunday liturgy, an afternoon of song and Canada to celebrate Plast’s 95th birthday dance, sports competition and bonfires. at that country’s jamboree this August. “The sense of unity and completeness According to Ms. Radion, an estimated 10 was uplifting,” noted Ms. Wojewidka. leaders and 10 participants will travel For Mr. Kohut, the most enjoyable was overseas in August to represent Australia the song and dance concert, as the at Canada’s YuMPZ-2007 in Ontario. yunatstvo, novatstvo and various combi- Plast leaders in Australia say they are nations of Plast leaders and parents from excited about this prospect and hope that across the camps and the whole country this occasion will help to span the many showcased their talents. miles between Australia and other coun-

Adrian Neugebauer takes a portait photo of a lizard. consisted of a four-day bush hiking and be taking part in scouting activities that bike riding expedition through local their friends at school would never do. forests and pastoral areas, back in Mr. Magalas said he is passionately August. The camp’s mission was to pro- invested in creating a rewarding experi- mote teamwork and communication, and ence for Plast teens in hopes that they this theme was stressed throughout the “realize the benefits that Plast has to offer jamboree through various individual and the greater community.” His efforts are group challenges. geared toward encouraging youth “to One such challenge was designing and become leaders and pass the Plast ‘flame’ building rafts and testing them on the to the next generation.” In order to better lake. According to Ms. Wojewidka, the achieve this goal, Mr. Magalas would activity was a great success, and the have liked the jamboree, especially the source of much fun for both the partici- expedition part, to have been longer. pants and the onlookers. Mr. Kohut also is hopeful for the next One camper, Natalia Kastraby, said generation of Australian Plast scouts. He that her favorite activity was the popular senses that Plast in Australia is currently Iron Chef-style competition during the “surfing the breaking wave of a new era expedition phase. “I felt that the chal- of strength and vitality.” He revealed, “We lenge instilled real team spirit among us, are lucky to have a substantial crop of A camp leader demonstrates a part of the Plast greeting, “SKOB!” which sustained itself throughout the rest young leaders, all of whom are commit- of the jamboree,” she revealed. ted, dedicated, and full of life and ideas.” Although the Australian Plast communi- tries where Plast is flourishing, and will At the same time, he ty is relatively small, it is nevertheless a promote a sense of unity for Australian noted that parents have a vibrant and productive one. As Ms. Plast scouts with their counterparts in the renewed interest in sending Kastraby put it, “Because there are so few rest of the world. their children to Plast. “Our of us here in Australia, we have a really All photos in this series (except where numbers have been growing close, family-like setting. It is because of this closeness that no one feels as if they are noted otherwise) are by Deanna Yurchuk. steadily, especially at camps, as children of former Plast members and those of newly arrived immigrants from Ukraine reach Plast member- ship age,” he stated. The final camp, “Tativka” (which comprised senior Plast members and non-member parents) had 74 participants. According to Mr. Kohut, Tativka has grown over the past 10 to15 years at Australian Plast summer camps both in size and prominence, and is now a crucial feature of all camps due to its positive community-building effect. “At this year’s Jamboree, ‘Tativka’ included a fulsome program,” Mr. Kohut said, with activities like winery tours, golf, excursions to Alexandra Suchowerska, Roxolana Suchowerska and Anastasia Suchowerska of Pavlo Buczma and Ivanka Buczma of Melbourne. local heritage towns, etc. Sydney during the New Year’s disco. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007 No. 9

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to keep the Ukrainian diaspora happy. News flash... All in all, it seems reasonable to con- (Continued from page 6) clude that the order is as much a tool of forces of reaction. policy as a genuine acknowledgement of Who’s received the order? outstanding service. Ukraine’s leaders are I found the following names after a quick to bestow the order on the gas-rich cursory survey on the Internet. The list, Turkmen dictator and his long-deceased though surely incomplete, is instructive. father, influential Russian policy-makers, Orders bestowed by President and important foreign diplomats for obvi- Kuchma: ous reasons of state. In a word, it’s highly • 1998 – President Valdas Adamkus of likely that the decision to grant the award Lithuania; to Mr. Potebenko was motivated by poli- tics – and not just by spinelessness. With sadness we inform you of the passing • 1999 – President Nelson Mandela of into Eternal Life, at age 89, of our beloved South Africa; So why did Potebenko get the order? There are three possible dramatic rea- Husband, Father, Grandfather, Brother, • 2000 – President Saparmurat Brother-in-law, and Uncle Niyazov of Turkmenistan; sons: • 2001 – Karekin II, Catholicos of all 1. Yushchenko is a kamikaze president Armenians; P.V. Balabuyev, chairman of – stupid and self-destructive. This expla- Dr. JOHN I. KYZYK, D.M.D., D.D.S. the board of directors of the Russian- nation doesn’t work, if only because the decision to award Mr. Potebenko must Ukrainian Consortium Medium Transport Born: February 18, 1918, Mokrotyn, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine Aircraft; have been at least partly endorsed by the Died: February 21, 2007, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, U.S.A. • 2002 – Kofi Annan, secretary general Commission on State Awards and of the United Nations; Mykhailo Heraldry. The deceased was a long-time member of the Ukrainian Medical Association of Potebenko, former procurator general; 2. Mr. Yushchenko is indifferent to vio- North America (UMANA), executive member of its New England branch, and • 2003 – Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, lations of legal and human rights norms. active member of its New York branch. He was long-time recording secretary of the head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic This explanation also doesn’t work, both Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, and a member of its Connecticut state Church; Mary Beck, Ukrainian American because some of the members of the com- executive; assistant director of “Ridna Shkola” Ukrainian School and recording sec- activist from Detroit; and mission surely are not indifferent to such retary of Plast-Pryiat in New Haven, CT; pioneered one of the first fundraising • 2004 – Moscow’s Mayor Yurii violations and because, if there’s one efforts in the United States for the renewal of the Ukrainian Catholic University Luzhkov; Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian thing we do know about Mr. Yushchenko, (UCU) in Rome, and was a lifetime benefactor and supporter of UCU in Lviv, ambassador to Ukraine; Minister of it’s that he’s probably a decent guy. Ukraine; executive member of the Ukrainian Patriarchal Society; long-time execu- Justice Oleksander Lavrynovych; 3. Mr. Yushchenko has joined the tive member of the parish committee and a member of the choir of St. Michael’s Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs forces of reaction. That too doesn’t work, Ukrainian Catholic Church in New Haven, CT; member of the Founders’ Circle for Celso Amorim. both because the commission consists of the Harvard Ukrainian Studies Fund and the St. Basil’s Seminary Endowment Fund Orders bestowed by President some very progressive Ukrainians and in Stamford, CT; member of the American Dental Association and numerous pro- Yushchenko: because the decision to born Mr. fessional organizations; conductor of the student choir in the United Nations Relief • 2005: Atamurat Niyazov, the father Potebenko was taken at the height of Agency’s (UNRA) and IRO Displaced Persons Camps in Regensburg, Germany. of President Niyazov of Turkmenistan; President Yushchenko’s power struggle International Olympic Committee with Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Funeral Services: Parastas was held February 23, 2007, at 8 p.m. at Union Funeral Honorary President for Life Juan Antonio There is one possible non-dramatic Home-Lytwyn & Lytwyn, Union, NJ. Divine Liturgy and Funeral Rite were cele- Samaranch; European Olympic reason: brated February 24, 2007, at 10 a.m. at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Committee President Mario Pescante; 4. Mr. Yushchenko is using the award Church, Whippany, NJ 07981. European Olympic Committee Secretary to play politics. What could his goals be? Burial took place at Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, 141 Sarah Wells General Patrick Hickey; Dr. Vasyl He might be trying to woo Mr. Kuchma’s Trail, Hamptonburg, NY 10916. Pasechnick, co-founder of the Revival pals to support him against Mr. Center of Medical Social Rehabilitation Yanukovych. Or he might be wooing Mr. MAY HIS MEMORY BE ETERNAL! VICHNAYA PAMIAT! of Disabled Children in Chernihiv. Potebenko’s pals in the Procurator • 2006: Javier Solana, the European General's Office to support him against WIFE -ALEXANDRA Union’s High Representative for the Mr. Yanukovych’s ongoing efforts to CHILDREN -MARTA POPOVICH with husband ALEXANDER, Common Foreign and Security Policy; seize control of the security organs. and daughters ANDREA and CHRISTINA Brian Mulroney, former prime minister Would the commission’s members sup- -ROMAN with wife MIRA, and children of Canada; Viacheslav Kantor, president port such a move? Why not? They under- MARK and DEANNA of the Russian Jewish Congress and head stand Ukrainian politics and they might -OREST of the International Foundation for easily endorse a symbolic measure in -ANDRIJ with wife ROKSOLANA, Commemoration of the Holocaust and its order to weaken the Yanukovych camp. and son DANILO Lessons; Yuri Shymko, Ukrainian Possibly supportive of this interpreta- -KSENIA SALEWYCZ with husband ALEXANDER, Canadian activist; Borys Wrzesnewskyj, tion is the fact that this is not Mr. and daughters ANNA and SOPHIA Ukrainian Canadian Member of Potebenko’s first such Order. President GODCHILDREN -OKSANA BACZYNSKY, ORYSIA HANUSHEVSKY Parliament; Valentyn Symonenko, chair- Kuchma conferred the Order, fourth KOMARYNSKYJ, REV. ROMAN LOBAY, man of the Accounting Chamber. grade, on him, by then a former procura- ADRIAN LODYNSKY, MARTA • 2007: Mr. Potebenko, former general tor general and national deputy, on July 8, PODUSOVKY-WOJTOWYCZ SISTER -NADIA KLIUNK procurator. 2002. Like Mr. Yushchenko, Mr. Kuchma BROTHER -VOLODYMYR and Family What conclusions can we draw from also recognized Mr. Potebenko’s “person- SISTER-IN-LAW -IVANNA HANUSHEVSKY this list? al contribution to state building and BROTHER-IN-LAW -VOLODYMYR PROTSAJLO First, the recipients of the order are a strengthening lawfulness and order in the NIECES AND NEPHEWS -NATALKA ZAKREVSKA with husband VOLODYMYR, very mixed lot. Some are distinguished country,” according to the Presidential and children MYKOLA and MARTA individuals, but many are not – or not as Information and Public Relations Agency. -IRENA KLIUNK distinguished as the others. The late Mary And there are two possible banal rea- -YURIJ KLIUNK and Family Beck was a wonderful community organ- sons: -MARIKA HULL with husband WEBSTER, and izer and local political activist in Detroit, 5. The recommendation to award Mr. children MYKOLA and JULIA but she was not quite in the same league Potebenko could have been lying around -BOHDAN with wife EWA, and children INES, as U.N. Secretary General Annan. for years, gathering dust, and the com- JANKO, STEFKO and ROMKO mission could have decided to go ahead Turkmenbashi’s dad wasn’t even in Mrs. -OLENKA GALADZA with husband REV. PETRO, and confer a largely meaningless and Beck’s league. Clearly, the standards by and children DANYIL, MARICHKA and politicized award on a former bigwig which recipients are chosen aren’t fixed. IVANKA who’s going out to pasture. Second, some recipients have made -ORYSIA KOMARYNSKYJ with husband BOHDAN, 6. Equally banal, though more likely, is “significant personal deeds for the sake and son ALEXANDER that Mr. Potebenko’s repeat award was the of the Ukrainian state,” but many – -REV. ROMAN LOBAY product of horse trading, with some mem- including such prominent figures as -OKSANA BACZYNSKY with husband TED SUES, Nelson Mandela – have not. It’s hard to bers of the commission insisting on him in and children ALEKSANDER, VERONICA, avoid the impression that the order is as exchange for, say, the likes of Messrs. and PETRO much a tool of public relations as any- Solana, Shymko and Wrzesnewskyj. -IHOR BACZYNSKY with wife MARIKA, and sons thing else. And what does it all mean? TARAS and OLEH Third, some of the recipients are nice I’d place my money on some combi- COUSIN -NINA BILCZYNSKA people, but some – such as the loutish nation of reasons 4, 6 and maybe 5. If so, RELATIVES The KYZYK, POPOVICH, ODEZYNSKY, POPOWICZ, Mr. Chernomyrdin, the thuggish Mr. then here’s a real shocker: Ukraine dis- SALEWYCZ, KLIUNK, BACZYNSKY, LOBAY, Luzhkov, the totalitarian Turkmenbashi, penses its highest awards for political HANUSHEVSKY, HULL, GALADZA, KOMARYNSKYJ, and the dubious Mr. Potebenko – are not. reasons. Here’s an even greater shocker: LODYNSKY, RIOBKA, and LEWICKY families Fourth, President Kuchma gave the Ukraine’s politicians play politics. order to some highly deserving people, but Naturellement, French President In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, he also conferred it on some rather odious Jacques Chirac, who conferred the Grand Ukraine, via the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation (UCEF): “UKRAINIAN individuals. President Yushchenko’s record Cross of the Legion of Honor on President CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION – UCEF”, In Memory of Dr. John I. Kyzyk, is better, but hardly stellar. 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ened Ukraine’s “territorial integrity and President will resubmit candidacies Viktor Korol, approved as foreign affairs NEWSBRIEFS security.” (RFE/RL, with material from minister and chief of the Security Service (Continued from page 2) Interfax) KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine, respectively, RFE/RL’s said in Symferopol, Crimea, on February which have unfortunately been joined by Ukrainian Service reported. Earlier that Rada rejects Ohryzko nomination 22 that he will “insist” on having his the pro-presidential Our Ukraine, destabi- lize the work of [the Verkhovna Rada] and KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on nominees, Volodymyr Ohryzko and (Continued on page 18) pursue an obvious goal – to undermine the February 22 failed to approve Volodymyr work of the legislature and the government Ohryzko as the country’s new foreign at the same time in order to provoke a affairs minister, Ukrainian media report- Philadelphia and UCU nationwide political crisis,” Ms. ed. Mr. Ohryzko was supported by 196 Bohatyriova told journalists, adding that opposition deputies, with at least 226 the opposition is seeking early parliamen- votes required for approval. President tary elections. “We are ready for any early Viktor Yushchenko nominated Mr. elections, both ideologically and financial- Ohryzko for the post on February 5, fol- ly, but is the country ready for them? I am lowing the resignation of Foreign Affairs Your Generosity at Work sure that the elections won’t change any- Minister Borys Tarasyuk on January 30. thing,” she noted. (RFE/RL Newsline) Also on February 22 the Parliament rejected the presidential nomination of Ukraine reacts to Luzhkov comments National Deputy Viktor Korol for the post Philadelphia Friends of the Ukrainian Catholic University KYIV – The acting chief of the of chief of the Security Service of cordially invite you to an informative Security Service of Ukraine (known by its Ukraine (SBU). Mr. Korol’s nomination Ukrainian acronym as SBU), Valentyn was backed by 190 opposition deputies. Benefit Luncheon Nalyvaichenko, said Moscow Mayor Yuri In accordance with the Constitution of Sunday, March 25, 2007 Luzhkov will face a “tough reaction” for Ukraine, the nomination of the defense and foreign ministers, as well as of the At2PM comments he made during a visit to at Crimea, RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service SBU chief is a presidential prerogative. In Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center reported. During a visit to Sevastopol on theory, President Yushchenko can submit 700 Cedar Road Jenkintown, PA February 21 Mr. Luzhkov promised sup- Messrs. Ohryzko’s and Korol’s candida- cies once again. The law on the Cabinet port for ethnic Russians in Crimea and Featured Guest Speakers: thanked the region for opposing Ukraine’s adopted by the Verkhovna Rada in efforts to cooperate with NATO. Mr. January stipulates that the parliamentary Luzhkov also decried Soviet leader Nikita majority shall appoint the defense and Khrushchev’s decision to turn over foreign ministers on its own if the presi- Crimea – where Russia’s Black Sea Fleet dent fails to submit their candidacy “with- is located – to Ukraine in 1954. Ukrainian in 15 days.” Mr. Yushchenko filed a officials accused Mr. Luzhkov of ques- protest against this law to the tioning Crimea’s status as part of Ukraine. Constitutional Court. (RFE/RL Newsline) Speaking at a joint press conference with Info sought on Yulia-Lazarenko link acting Foreign Affairs Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko, Mr. Nalyvaichenko KYIV – The Anti-Crisis Coalition sent Prof. Jeffrey Wills Prof. Antoine Arjakovsky Vice Rector and Member of Board of Trustees Director, Institute of Ecumenical Studies said Mayor Luzhkov could face a warn- a letter to the U.S. ambassador to Ukrainian Catholic University Ukrainian Catholic University ing, a ban on entering the country, or more Ukraine with a plea to provide them with serious criminal penalties. “A foreigner on information on Yulia Tymoshenko’s the territory of our country, regardless of alleged link to the case of Pavlo Tickets at $40 per person may be purchased at: his status and citizenship, must respect the Lazarenko. This was disclosed by a rep- Ukrainian Center, Byzantine Church Supplies at 833 N. Franklin Street laws, the language and the culture of the resentative of the Party of the Regions, Ukrainian Selfreliance Credit Union in Philadelphia, PA and Trenton, NJ people,” Mr. Nalyvaichenko said. “So, the Vasyl Kyseliov, at the February 23 sitting MB Financial Bank and from Committee Members of the Philadelphia Friends of UCU [Ukrainian] reaction will be harsh, in of the Verkhovna Rada. According to Mr. If you have any questions, please call Ihor Shust at: 215-947-2795 accordance with the law.” Mr. Ohryzko Kyseliov, some information source sug- said the Foreign Affairs Ministry and law gests Ms. Tymoshenko figures in a case enforcement bodies will assess the extent against Mr. Lazarenko that is under a UkrainianUkrainian CatholicCatholic EducationEducation FoundationFoundation 22247247 W.W. ChicagoChicago AvenueAvenue C Chicago,hicago, ILIL 6 606220622 to which Mr. Luzhkov’s comments threat- U.S. court’s jurisdiction. (Ukrinform)

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tinue dialogue on the issue. (Ukrinform) ORTHODONTIST NEWSBRIEFS World War II database being compiled (Continued from page 17) Dr. Daniel A. Kuncio Offices in Queens and Manhattan: day, the Verkhovna Rada failed to KYIV – Representatives of the Ñ. чÌËÎÓ é. äÛ̈¸Ó Z.D. Kuncio DDS approve Messrs. Ohryzko and Korol to German association Saxon Memorials General Dentistry these posts. “These were childish will visit Ukraine in order to discuss with Specialist in Child and Adult 26-03 203 St. games,” Mr. Yushchenko said, stressing the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Orthodontics Bayside, NY 11360 that the failed votes on Messrs. Ohryzko issues related to the preparation of joint Certified and Published in (718) 352-1361 and Korol “do not contribute to stability scholarly works and perspectives for Invisalign® in the country.” The votes took place cooperation on documents searching for Topal Orthodontics during a three-day row between lawmak- German prisoners of war. It was reported Complimentary Consultation 2109 Broadway (73rd St.) ers of the ruling coalition and the opposi- on February 25 that SBU officials said Suite 201 (Bayside office only) tion, in which pro-government deputies its archive officials are cooperating with New York, NY 10023 Most Insurances Accepted blocked the parliamentary rostrum and their German counterparts in the realms (212) 874-0030 held control over the electronic voting of treatment and restoration of docu- system, while opposition deputies were ments kept in the SBU state archive in control of the electric system and regarding the Soviet and German cap- UNA SENIORS’ CONFERENCE at Soyuzivka some other parliamentary facilities, tives, those interned during World War including toilets. The opposition II, as well as burial places of captives. Sunday, June 10-15, 2007, during UNA Seniors’ Week switched off electricity in the Verkhovna An electronic database of Soviet prison- Rada building during the afternoon ses- ers of war, composed of information on Ladies and Gentlemen: 2007 is here! sion. (RE/RL Newsline) some 9,000 persons, is being compiled. We wish you good health, good spirits and invite you to visit SOYUZIVKA! The materials have been used by Saxon PM for gas transportation consortium Memorials association in compiling a On behalf of the UNA Seniors, we invite all senior citizens to participate in our annual UNA Seniors’ Week which will be held from Sunday, June 10, to Friday, June 15, 2007. KYIV – Ukraine is interested in single database on the Soviet captives on The UNA Seniors were organized over 30 years ago for the purpose of supporting UNA endeavors, pre- resuming talks into creating a Ukrainian- the basis of the archival documents of serving and cultivating the Ukrainian heritage, promoting unity within the community, developing social Russian gas transportation consortium the German and Russian national activities and maintaining Ukrainian community life in America. archives, as well as archives of the Thankfully, we have finally reached a time in our lives where Ukraine is independent and developing as with the participation of Germany, Prime a democratic state. Although Ukraine will always be in our thoughts and have our support, there is a time Minister Viktor Yanukovych said in an Federal Security Service of the Russian when we must concentrate on maintaining our own Ukrainian community here, beyond the borders of interview with Deutsche Welle on Federation and the State Security Agency Ukraine. There is much that can be done, and we will discuss this and other matters during UNA Seniors’ of the Republic of Belarus, with whom Week. We promise that the week will be interesting and enjoyable, with many fun activities. February 24. He said the issue of a con- As you may have read in the UNA’s publications, last year’s Seniors’ Week had over 75 participants, sortium will be a topic at negotiations relevant agreements were signed. seven interesting speakers and entertainment in the evenings. Fun was had by all. This year once again with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Ukrinform) we have an interesting program scheduled. We hope you will be able to join us. So, please save these dates for UNA Seniors’ Week and follow the during his visit to Germany on February New examination of Tarascha corpse press for further information about the program. 27-28. Mr. Yanukovych stressed that, Make your reservations now for the UNA Seniors’ Conference, which will be held at our mountain from an economic point of view, the KYIV – A new forensic study of a resort SOYUZIVKA, from Sunday, June 10 (starting with a wine and cheese reception) through Friday, project is very profitable to all partici- June 15 (including brunch). The package is all-inclusive: five nights of accommodations, all meals, includ- headless corpse found in a forest in the ing banquet, (taxes and gratuites included). pants in the future consortium. He added Tarascha district outside of Kyiv will be that there are no obstacles to its realiza- conducted to identify the victim. Lesia tion. An international consortium of Gongadze, the mother of Heorhii management and development of the gas Gongadze, has insisted on a DNA analy- transportation system of Ukraine has sis, through examination of hair cut from been created in compliance with an the body in order to determine whether agreement set out in the June 9, 2002, the body is her son’s. The forensic study declaration by the Ukrainian and Russian will involve the participation of interna- presidents on strategic cooperation in the tional experts. The Procurator General’s gas sphere, as well as the intergovern- Office says it has established that mental agreement of October 7, 2002. Gongadze was murdered by policemen Documents on creating the limited liabil- Valerii Kostenko, Mykola Protasov and ity company “International Consortium Oleksander Popovych. The former chief UNA members’ package Non-members’ package of Management and Development of the of the Internal Affairs Ministry’s for five days: $425 single occupancy; for five days: $475 single occupancy; Gas Transportation System of Ukraine” External Surveillance Department, $355 pp double occupancy $373 pp double occupancy with the participation of the public joint- Oleksander Pukach, is wanted in connec- or per night: $100 single; $82 pp double or per night: $110 single; $90 pp double stock company Gazprom and the nation- tion with the case. The Gongadze murder al joint-stock company NaftoHaz of was considered in the Kyiv Court of BANQUET & ENTERTAINMENT only: $35 pp Ukraine were signed on October 29, appeal on January 9, 2006. During the 2002. There is a likelihood of Germany’s criminal investigation as many as five Call SOYUZIVKA at 845-626-5641 and register early – space is limited! participation in the consortium, but the forensic studies were carried out. Four of Organize a bus from your area and contact your local senior clubs! issue has not been resolved. In October them proved the headless body belongs For further information please call Oksana Trytjak at 973-292-9800 ext. 3071 2006 Fuel and Energy Minister Yurii to Gongadze, however, his mother refus- Seniors’ Week is FUN, AFFORDABLE AND INTERESTING Boiko stated that Ukraine views es to believe this. The crusading journal- WE WELCOME GUESTS – COME ONE COME ALL! Germany as a partner of the gas trans- ist disappeared in September 2000 and in portation consortium and intends to con- November 2000 a headless corpse, thought to be his, was found in a forest in the Kyiv region. (Ukrinform) Ukrainian National Federal Credit Union Charges filed in Kushnariov shooting KYIV – The Kharkiv Procurator’s Office charged Dmytro Zavalnyi with killing National Deputy Yevhen Kushnariov due to recklessness, Kharkiv Prosecutor Vasyl Synchuk said on 5.44%apy* February 21. He said Mr. Zavalnyi has already provided evidence as a suspect. On January 17 Mr. Kushnariov, who was a former chairman of the Kharkiv Oblast Administration, was fatally shot during a 12 month CD hunting trip. (Ukrinform) PGO to receive dioxin samples KYIV – In the near future, the Procurator General’s Office (PGO) of Manhattan Brooklyn So. Bound Brook, NJ Carteret NJ Ukraine will receive dioxin samples from two countries that will spur further investigation in the case of Viktor Yushchenko’s poisoning, Procurator 1-866-859-5848 General Oleksander Medvedko said at a February 27 press conference. Mr. Medvedko added that a masseur, who *Annual Percentage Yield based on 5.30% apr. Minimum balance $1,000. had been wanted, and other figures Rates subject to change without notice. Other restrictions apply involved in events preceding the poison- ing incident, have been interrogated. (Ukrinform) No. 9 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007 19 Minneapolis school revives tradition of Christmas caroling by Svitlana Prokopiuk and Katia Breslawec MINNEAPOLIS – Students from the Ukrainian School at St. Michael and St. George’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church here in Minneapolis delighted parish- ioners with their rendition of Ukrainian carols on January 7 in the parish hall immediately following the Christmas liturgy. They reconvened later that day to carol at private residences and visit parishioners residing in nursing homes and convalescent centers. The Very. Rev. Evhen Kumka and his wife, Daria, were the first to welcome the young carolers in their home and bestowed treats on all those who braved the Minnesota winter to carol and maintain this beautiful Ukrainian tradition. Students ranging in age from 8 to 15 diligently practiced Ukrainian carols under the tutelage of the choir director, Yuri Ivan, for many weeks as part of the school curriculum. The co-directors of the school, Yuri Pedenko and Maria Matlashewski, noted with pleasure that several parishioners have already put in requests for Ukrainian School carolers to visit their homes in 2008. The Ukrainian School at St. Michael’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church was found- ed in 1925; at St. George’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church a school was found in 1954. In 2003 the churches merged to become St. Michael and St. George’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Valentyna Yarr is the current church president. The Ukrainian School has 38 students and Carolers of St. Michael and St. George’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Minneapolis at the home of Ihor and Maryna employs nine teachers. Chowhan in Minnetonka, Minn.

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Sponsors an Awards and Scholarship Program to UNA student members attending college in academic year 2007-2008 The UNA Scholarship program for UNA student members offers 2 programs: An Awards Program and a Scholarship Program.

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March 5 Lecture with Olena Rusina, “Marching Forward into March 15 Pysanka class by Judie Hawryluk, West Seneca Cambridge, MA the Past: The Search for Historical Roots in Buffalo, NY Community Education Center, 716-674-5185 Yushchenko’s Ukraine,” Harvard University, 617-495-4053 March 16 Ukrainian modern art workshop, “Modernity, Identity, Toronto Tradition,” University of Toronto, 416-946-8113 March 8 Concert, “Musical Fortunes,” part of the Jewish Berkeley, CA Musical Festival, with the Kitka women’s vocal March 16 “Literary Café at the Institute,” featuring readings ensemble, Berkeley Repertory Theater, New York by Vasyl Makhno, Yuriy Tarnawsky and Alexander www.jewishmusicfestival.org Motyl, Ukrainian Institute of America, 212-288-8660

March 9 Varenyky dinner, sponsored by the Whippany branch March 17 Lecture by Andriy Legkyj, “Trends in Contemporary Whippany, NJ of the Ukrainian American Youth Association (SUM), New York Instrumental Chamber Music in Ukraine, Names Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey, and Works,” Shevchenko Scientific Society, 973-479-8715 212-254-5130

March 9 Concert, “Musical Fortunes,” part of the Jewish March 17 Women’s Day, “Women Nurturing Women: A Point Reyes Station, CA Musical Festival, with the Kitka women’s vocal Philadelphia Celebration of Women’s Spirit,” Immaculate ensemble, Dance Palace, www.dancepalace.org Conception Cathedral Hall, 215-627-0143

March 9-11 Ukrainian Film Festival, featuring short films and March 18 Syzokryli Ukrainian Dance Ensemble performs at the Philadelphia documentaries, Ukrainian League of Philadelphia, New York European Folk Festival, The Fashion Institute of 215-684-2180 Technology, 212-217-5800

March 9-June 3 Art exhibit, featuring sculpture by Nestor Topchy, March 19 Lecture by Roman Szporluk, “The Traditional Scheme North Baltimore, MD Johns Hopkins University, 410-516-0341 Cambridge, MA of 19th Century Ukrainian History and the Problem or Rational Restructuring of the History of Eastern March 10 Taras Shevchenko program, Cordova Community Europe,” Harvard University, 617-495-4053 Sacramento, CA Center Hall, 916-482-4706 Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to March 10 27th annual Taras Shevchenko scholarly conference, events advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome New York Shevchenko Scientific Society, 212-254-5130 submissions from all our readers; please send e-mail to [email protected]. Items will be published at the discretion of the March 10 Klitschko fight broadcast, Dnipro Sports Club, editors and as space allows; photos will be considered. Please note: items Baltimore, MD 410-967-0501 will be printed a maximum of two times each.

March 10-11 Pysanka Workshop, co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Lehighton, PA Heritage Center at Manor College, Ukrainian Homestead, 215-235-3709 or 610-377-4621

March 11 Art exhibit and Easter bazaar, Ukrainian National Yonkers, NY Women’s League of America, St. Michael Church, 914-762-6514

March 11 Taras Shevchenko program, Ukrainian Educational and Jenkintown, PA Cultural Center, 215-663-1166

March 12 Lecture with Alexander Kratochvil, “Post-modern Toronto Ukrainian Prose: a Comparative Review,” University of Toronto, 416-946-8113

March 12 Lecture with Karina Korostelina, “Social Identity and Washington Conflict in the Autonomous Republics of Russia and Ukraine,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 202-691-4140

March 12 Lecture with Konstantin Akinsha, “West European Art Cambridge, MA in the Khanenko Museum: The Fate of a Dispersed Ukrainian Collection,” Harvard University, 617-495-4053

March 15-May 6 Art exhibit, “Vera Jacyk: Chysto, Chysto, Chysto,” Oshawa, ON Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 905-576-3000

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS Soyuzivka’s Datebook Friday, March 9-Sunday, March 25 Luke’s 2007 presents “Songs of Ukraine” featuring the Canadian Bandurist Capella. NEW YORK: Yara Arts Group has creat- This group combines the sounds of the March 9-11, 2007 May 13, 2007 ed “Janyl,” an original theater piece based male chorus with the accompaniment of Ukrainian Language Immersion Mother’s Day Luncheon on a Kyrgyz epic about a woman warrior the multi-stringed bandura. For tickets at Weekends offered at SUNY with the Sakhna Theater of Bishkek, and $15 each call 905-639-7643. The program New Paltz May 19, 2007 will present the show at La MaMa Theater begins at 8 p.m. Venue: St. Luke’s Parish Tri Valley High School Prom in New York. “Janyl” is directed by Virlana Hall, 1832 Ontario St. March 23-25, 2007 Tkacz, designed by Watoku Ueno, with movement by Shigeko Suga, photography Plast Sorority “Chornomorski May 25-27, 2007 NEW BRITAIN, Conn.: The 13th annual Khvyli” Rada Memorial Day Weekend BBQ, by Margaret Morton, video by Andrea Odezynska, and translation by Ms. Tkacz, Ukrainian Easter Festival will be held at Orchidia Patrons’ Reunion, Roza Mukasheva and Wanda Phipps. St. Mary’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church April 8, 2007 Summer kick-off and zabava “Janyl” features a cast of Yara and Sakhna hall, 54 Winter St. (behind Newbrite Traditional Blessed Ukrainian Easter artists, as well as Kyrgyz epic singing and Plaza) at 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Snow day: Day Brunch, doors open at June 1-3, 2007 music. Show times: March 9-11, Friday- Saturday, March 31. Pysanky and egg-dec- 11:30 a.m. Ukrainian Language Immersion Saturday, 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m. and 8 orating supplies will be featured, as well Weekends offered at SUNY p.m.; March 15-18 and 22-25, Thursday- as Easter breads, varenyky, stuffed cab- April 13-15, 2007 New Paltz Saturday, 9 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m. and bage, borsch, and home-made cakes and Ukrainian Language Immersion 8 p.m. Venue: La MaMa Theater, 74a E. desserts. Lunch and takeout are available. Weekends offered at SUNY June 4-8, 2007 Fourth St (at Second Avenue). Tickets at Admission and parking (behind the New Paltz Stamford Clergy Days - $15 may be purchased at the box office, church) are free. For information call 860- Spring Seminar 212-475-7710 or www.lamama.org. 229-3833 or 860-677-2138. April 20-22, 2007 Saturday, March 10 BUG (Brooklyn Ukrainian Group) June 9, 2007 Sunday, March 25 Spring Cleaning/Volunteer Wedding NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific WASHINGTON: The Washington Group Weekend Society (NTSh), jointly with the Ukrainian Cultural Fund, under the patronage of the June 10-15, 2007 Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. April 21, 2007 UNA Seniors Week (UVAN), and the Harvard Ukrainian Embassy of Ukraine, invites the public to an Alpha Kappa Sorority Semi-Formal Research Institute (HURI) invite all to the “Afternoon at the Theater,” during which Dinner Banquet June 17, 2007 27th annual scholarly conference dedicat- Iryna Kowal, a Ukrainian American play- Wedding Father’s Day Luncheon and Program ed to Taras Shevchenko. The program will wright, will speak about her work and will feature opening remarks by Dr. Orest present dramatic readings from her plays by April 27-29, 2007 June 21-24, 2007 Popovych, president of NTSh, closing local actors in Ukrainian and English. The presentation will take place at 3 p.m. at the Plast Sorority “Shostokryli” Rada UMANA Convention remarks will be delivered by Dr. Albert Kipa, president of UVAN, and the follow- Embassy of Ukraine, 3350 M St. NW, ing lectures: “The Historical Content of Washington. Suggested donation: $20. April 28, 2007 June 24-July 6, 2007 ‘Velykyi Lokh’ (The Great Vault) by Taras Seating is limited. RSVP to TAP New York Beer Festival at Hunter Tennis Camp Shevchenko” by Dr. Taras Hunczak [email protected] or 202-349-2937; Mountain - 10th Anniversary! (NTSh); “The Perception of Shevchenko for more information call 202-244-8836. Round-trip bus from Soyuzivka, June 24-July 1, 2007 Yesterday and Today” by Assya Humesky special room rate $60/night Plast Camp - Tabir Ptashat, (UVAN); and “Shevchenko as Perceived Sunday, April 1 Alpha Phi Delta Fraternity Semi- Session #1 by Yevhen Malaniuk” by Dr. George Grabowicz (HURI). The conference will Formal Dinner Banquet HOUSTON: The 27th annual Ukrainian June 25-29, 2007 take place at the society’s building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and 10th Easter Bazaar sponsored by Ukrainian May 4-6, 2007 Exploration Day Camp Session #1, National Women’s League of America Ukrainian Language Immersion ages 7-10 streets) at 4 p.m. For additional informa- tion call 212-254-5130. Branch 118 will take place on the grounds Weekends offered at SUNY of Pokrova Ukrainian Catholic Church, New Paltz Monday, March 12 9102 Meadowshire, Houston, at 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. A delicious Ukrainian lunch CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard will be served throughout the day. Easter Ukrainian Research Institute will host a lec- paska, breads and a wide assortment of ture given by Konstantin Akinsha, corre- pastries will be available. Music will be spondent for ARTnews, Budapest, and provided throughout the day by Roman Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Cherwonogrodsky. Pysanky demonstra- Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute. His To book a room or event call: (845) 626-5641, ext. 140 tions, art exhibits, crafts booths and a visit lecture, “West European Art in the by the Ukrainian Easter bunny are on the 216 Foordmore Road P.O. Box 529 Khanenko Museum: The Fate of a Kerhonkson, NY 12446 program. The Zhuravli Ukrainian Dancers Dispersed Ukrainian Collection,” will be will perform at 3 p.m. Admission is $2 E-mail: [email protected] held at 4-6 p.m. in Room S-050 (Concourse (free for children under age 10); parking is Website: www.Soyuzivka.com level) of the South Building of the Center convenient. 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