INSIDE: • U.S. ambassadors receive honors from Ukraine — page 3. • More on Yulia Tymoshenko’s U.S. visit — pages 4-7. • Music in North America, contemporary art in Kyiv — centerfold. HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXXV No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007 $1/$2 in Ukraine Foreign policy objectives Tymoshenko tells U.S. that Ukraine remain frozen in Ukraine is in “deep constitutional crisis” by Zenon Zawada Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Kyiv Press Bureau The MARS-75 radio-navigation sta- KYIV – Though the Ukrainian winter tion is the latest in repeated refusals by was unusually mild, the country’s foreign the Russian Federation to adhere to policy remained largely frozen in recent Ukrainian court orders requiring that its months, characterized by ongoing government transfer Black Sea Fleet Russian interference and Ukraine’s mini- property to the Ukrainian government. mal progress Westward. Last year, the Sevastopol Economic Russian soldiers on March 5 refused to Court ordered the Russian Federation to allow Ukrainian government officials to transfer control of 77 lighthouses and enter the MARS-75 navigation station in navigational sites to Ukraine’s Ministry the Kherson Oblast in order to deliver a of Defense. Russia never compiled. court order that the soldiers withdraw, in At the MARS-75 station in Henichesk, adherence with Ukrainian law. Russian soldiers are violating the Black Meanwhile, in Brussels, European Sea Fleet arrangement with their pres- leaders continued to keep Kyiv at arm’s ence on Ukrainian territory 200 kilome- length, stressing the need for Ukraine to ters away from their Sevastopol base, join the World Trade Organization, estab- said Oleh Yatsenko, leader of the Student lish a free trade zone and engage in fur- Brotherhood (Studentske Bratstvo). ther reforms before serious prospects Mr. Yatsenko has led a citizens’ moni- toring campaign of Black Sea Fleet sites could emerge. Khristina Lew “We gave the understanding that the and bases on Ukrainian territory, and also leads the Student Brotherhood’s active Opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko meets with Rep. Marcy Kaptur (left) and European Union (EU) is in a stage of protests and attempts to raise public Rep. Maurice Hinchey (center) on Capitol Hill on March 1. National Deputy digesting its expansion,” said Angela awareness of Black Sea Fleet violations. Hryhorii Nemyria, an advisor to Ms. Tymoshenko, is on the right. Merkel, the federal chancellor of Escorted by law enforcement authori- Germany and EU president. ties and Student Brotherhood activists, by Khristina Lew March 26, 2006. Members of Ukraine’s With a bipolar government that is State Executive Service officials on Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Parliament, or national deputies, serve unlikely to agree on a more aggressive March 5 delivered an April 11, 2003, five-year terms. course toward Euro-Atlantic integration, court order issued by the Kherson Oblast WASHINGTON – Ukraine’s charis- Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), co-chair let alone on a foreign affairs minister to Economic Court ordering the soldiers’ matic opposition leader Yulia of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, replace Borys Tarasyuk, Ukraine remains Tymoshenko met with Vice-President said after her March 1 meeting with Ms. stuck under a fierce Russian boot. (Continued on page 10) Dick Cheney, National Security Advisor Tymoshenko, “if the Constitutional Court Stephen Hadley and Secretary of State and Ukraine’s leaders approve, then it’s Condoleezza Rice during her four-day probably within reason” for Ukraine to visit to the nation’s capital that mirrored hold new parliamentary elections. Ukrainian Canadians press an earlier visit by Ukrainian Prime State Department spokesman Sean Minister Viktor Yanukovych last McCormack on March 2 sidestepped a government on redress issue December. reporter’s question about U.S. support for Unlike Mr. Yanukovych’s official new elections in Ukraine, saying, “I’m by Matthew Dubas fact that the government has acknowl- working visit on December 3-7, 2006, not going to get too deeply into the edged that “persons of Ukrainian origin Ms. Tymoshenko’s February 28-March 3 details here. The secretary has met with PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Representatives were interned in Canada during the first trip was a private one in which she open- Ms. Tymoshenko several times before, of the Ukrainian Canadian community – world war” and agreed to provide ly discussed Ukraine’s constitutional cri- and including in Ukraine. They talked including Paul Grod of the Ukrainian sis and called for new parliamentary recognition of this event. about the domestic political situation Canadian Congress, Andrew elections as a means to resolve it. In honoring this pledge and as a within Ukraine. They talked about Hladyshevsky of the Ukrainian Canadian “Ukraine is in deep constitutional cri- condition of the Agreement in Ukrainian energy needs and the various Foundation of Taras Shevchenko and Dr. sis,” she told a standing-room only gath- Principle signed in Regina, Manitoba, sources that Ukraine might tap into for Lubomyr Luciuk of the Ukrainian ering at the Center for Strategic and in August 2005, the Conservative gov- their energy needs. They talked a little bit Canadian Civil Liberties Association – International Studies on February 28. ernment’s solution was to establish the about the Millennium Challenge Corp. met on February 16 with Jason Kenney, “The president has said it. The prime Acknowledgement, Commemoration The [sic] Ukraine has qualified for con- secretary of state for multiculturalism and minister has said it. We can no longer and Educational Fund program (ACE). sideration of Millennium Challenge Canadian identity to discuss the status of ignore the fact that Ukraine is losing ele- Currently referred to as the Corp. grants. They talked about regional redress for Canada’s World War I intern- ments of stability every day, and the Community Historical Recognition issues as well, regional international poli- ment of persons deemed “enemy aliens.” standoff between the two branches of Program (CHRP), the program is a tics. That’s really about it.” Mr. Kenney said that the govern- government is ruining our well-being, the three- to four-year general fund of $25 ment knows it has a legal responsibility investment climate and Ukraine’s posi- Washington meetings million managed by bureaucrats that is to make right on a pledge to Ukrainian tion as a stable partner.” earmarked for approximately a dozen Ms. Tymoshenko, President Viktor Canadians who are continuing their Ms. Tymoshenko said her country’s Yushchenko’s prime minister until he dis- ethnic groups, including Ukrainians, democratic forces have asked Ukraine’s fight for recognition of the fact that who were told they could apply for missed her in September 2005, arrived in previous generations were interned in Constitutional Court to rule on whether Washington three days after formally cre- project funding. grounds exist for the president to call camps between 1914 and 1920. Additionally, a National Historical ating a single opposition in Parliament Conservative MP Inky Mark’s Bill new parliamentary elections, and that with the president’s party, Our Ukraine. Recognition Program (NHRP), which they anticipate an answer by the end of C331 – Internment of Persons of is to be administered by civil servants She was scheduled to visit New York Ukrainian Origin Recognition Act, March. prior to arriving in Washington, but within the Ministry of Canadian Ukrainians voted in parliamentary which received royal assent in Heritage, distributes the funding of an abruptly cancelled appearances at the November 2005, is a major leverage elections, hailed by international Council on Foreign Relations and point for the Ukrainian effort, due to the (Continued on page 16) observers as the most free and fair in Ukraine’s history, one year ago, on (Continued on page 4) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007 No. 10 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS

Ukrainian-Russian steel merger Yushchenko hails opposition unity Ukrainian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Veselovskyi. “I want to has top-level political ramifications KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko reiterate that this enhanced agreement told a press conference in Chernivtsi on will be drafted within the framework of by Vladimir Socor ous hands of Gazprom-connected Russian March 6 that he “approves and appreci- European Neighborhood Policy,” Ms. Eurasia Daily Monitor companies, from Itera to Metalloinvest, in ates” the unification of opposition forces Ferrero-Waldner noted, adding that the notoriously opaque transactions. A certain in the Verkhovna Rada. “I am happy to say new agreement will not prejudge any The Industrial Union of the Donbas Austro-Ukrainian Hares Group, named that a congress of the Our Ukraine Bloc, (IUD), Ukraine’s second-largest steel-mak- possible developments in relations after Yushchenko’s Arab businessman- which is scheduled for March 31, will be between Ukraine and the EU. She said ing group, is negotiating a merger with the friend Yusuf Hares, acquired 90 percent held to unify several bloc members and to Russian Metalloinvest group controlled by the new cooperation agreement could ownership of Ribnita in 2004, then sold an create one party with one statute,” he said. help lead to a deal on free trade between Alisher Usmanov, who also heads undetermined portion of that to the current The president said it would help “mini- Gazprom’s investment arm for assets other the EU and Ukraine. But she added that owners, some of them hidden under unde- mize formal problems” which “impede talks on this issue will begin only after than gas, Gazprominvestholding. An IUD- cipherable acronyms (Moldpres, Olvia political progress.” He said the unification Metalloinvest merger could generate far- Ukraine is accepted into the World Trade Press, January 29, 30). of the pro-presidential bloc and ex-Prime Organization. (RFE/RL Newsline) reaching political and business repercus- The IUD includes the Alchevsk coke Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s bloc “gives sions in Ukraine and beyond. and steel plants and the Dniprodzerzhynsk the best answer on how to harmonize Ukrainian president visits Georgia On February 19 the sides signed an steel plant in Ukraine, as well as the Ukrainian politics,” adding, “It has always agreement on the mutual evaluation of Dunafer and Huta Czestochowa steel been a very difficult and ambitious chal- TBILISI, Georgia – Visiting Tbilisi on their assets, preparatory to a merger plants in Hungary and Poland, respective- lenge to consolidate Ukraine’s democratic March 1, Ukrainian President Viktor (Financial Times, February 20). A merger ly. IUD produces 9 million tons of steel movement.” Mr. Yushchenko reiterated Yushchenko discussed with his Georgian would be followed by an initial public pipes and rolled goods annually. that the country’s leaders should hold talks counterpart, Mikheil Saakashvili, bilateral offering of the integrated holding on An IUD-Gazmetall merger would result on how to create an effective system of relations and cooperation, their respective Western capital markets. The stated ambi- in a combined capitalization of some $15 checks and balances, with the opposition countries’ bids for NATO membership tion is to match or overtake the output of billion, reduce production costs and pool being one of the key participants of this and regional cooperation, including with- Severstal, Russia’s largest steel producer. existing steel output capacities of 15 to 20 process. (Ukrinform) in the GUAM group, Georgian media and The IUD is a rival to Renat Akhmetov’s million tons annually. According to the kavkaz-uzel.ru reported. Speaking at a Systems Capital Management (SCM), Uzbek-born Mr. Usmanov, the integrated PM: no grounds for early elections subsequent joint press conference, Mr. which also is based in the Donetsk region, Yushchenko reiterated earlier offers by holding would be a leader “on the wide KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor largely bankrolls the governing Party of Ukrainian leaders to contribute a contin- expanses of our former fatherland” Yanukovych told representatives of the the Regions, and holds sway on personnel gent to an international peacekeeping (Interfax-Ukraine, February 20). Parliamentary Assembly of the Council appointments throughout the economic force to be deployed in Abkhazia under Such declared ambitions notwithstand- of Europe in Kyiv on March 5 that the ministries and agencies. However, SCM the aegis of the United Nations. The two ing, the merger scheme largely stems from calls by some politicians for early parlia- by no means fully dominates or represents sides signed several bilateral agreements, the need to surmount certain handicaps on mentary and presidential elections in the Donetsk region’s interest groups and including one facilitating the permanent either side. Gazmetall controls only small Ukraine are “groundless,” Interfax- has proceeded to pressure some of them. residence of citizens of one country in the production capacities for steel products Ukraine reported. Last week, a lawmaker IUD owners Vitalii Haiduk and Serhii other, and a second one facilitating the such as pipes and rolled goods. Moreover, from the Party of the Regions headed by Taruta – each with a stake of slightly under export to Ukraine of Georgian wine and it does not own industrial assets on Mr. Yanukovych announced that he plans 50 percent – formed a political alignment mineral water, Caucasus Press reported. European Union territory, which IUD does to submit to the Verkhovna Rada a bill on with the embattled President Viktor (RFE/RL Newsline) in Poland and Hungary and would include holding early presidential and parliamen- Yushchenko during the second half of these in the integrated holding. tary elections in the fall. (RFE/RL President against early elections 2006. Since then, Mr. Haiduk serves as sec- For its part, IUD does not own iron Newsline) retary of the National Security and Defense ore mines and dressing plants in Ukraine TBILISI, Georgia – President Viktor Council; and Oleksander Chalyi – IUD’s or anywhere, but would gain access to Kyiv starts new talks with EU Yushchenko said in Tbilisi on March 1 top political adviser – serves as deputy head such resources through Gazmetall in that he does not approve of the proposal of the Presidential Secretariat. Meanwhile, Russia, thus offsetting a major handicap BRUSSELS – Ukraine and the to hold simultaneous early presidential Mr. Taruta oversees IUD’s daily operations. against IUD’s Ukrainian competitors. European Union launched negotiations in and parliamentary elections this coming This alignment seeks to counterbalance IUD’s major disadvantage in this regard Brussels on March 5 on a new coopera- fall, UNIAN reported. Mr. Yushchenko the close relationship between Mr. stems from the manipulative privatization of tion accord to replace the current one, was commenting on the initiative of a Akhmetov’s SCM and the government of the Ukrainian Ore Industry (Ukrrudprom) in which expires in 2008, dpa and UNIAN lawmaker from the ruling Party of the Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. 2004 by then-President Leonid Kuchma and reported. “This is an important step to Regions to submit a draft bill to that However, a merger of IUD with the first government of Viktor Yanukovych. have Ukraine come closer to us, and it effect. According to Mr. Yushchenko, the Usmanov’s Metalloinvest, an ally of That privatization awarded the lion’s share – will send a signal of our wish to deepen potential early elections would reinstall Russian energy giant Gazprom, could lead the Central and Southern iron ore-dressing relations with Ukraine,” EU External the same political forces in Parliament to a reshuffle of top-level political and plants – to Mr. Akhmetov’s SCM, along Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero- business relationships in Ukraine. with a stake in the Southern plant to Ihor Waldner said following a meeting with (Continued on page 14) The Russian holding’s iron- and steel- Kolomoiskyi’s Pryvat Group and with the related assets – grouped in the Gazmetall Inhulets ore-dressing plant to Russian busi- concern – include the Ural Steel plant, nessman Vadim Novinsky’s Smart Group. 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No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007 3 Retribution behind calls for early elections U.S. Ambassadors Miller and Herbst by Jan Maksymiuk would not be the worst scenario.” RFE/RL Mr. Bondarenko is right in suggesting receive Ukraine’s awards “For Merit” that Mr. Kyseliov’s draft bill on holding PRAGUE – Last week, a lawmaker early parliamentary and presidential polls from the ruling Party of the Regions sub- makes no legal sense. mitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft bill Staging early parliamentary elections on holding simultaneous early parliamen- is the exclusive constitutional prerogative tary and presidential elections this com- of the president, who calls for such polls ing fall. if the Verkhovna Rada fails to form a A week earlier two opposition parties, majority within 30 days after its first sit- the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and Our ting or a new Cabinet within 60 day after Ukraine, signed a unity deal in which the dismissal or resignation of the previ- they pledged to seek early parliamentary ous one; or if it fails to gather for a sit- elections. ting within 30 days during an ongoing Is Ukraine poised to plunge into a parliamentary session. whirlwind of electioneering this year? Thus, in order to produce formal “We see that the situation is getting grounds for early parliamentary elec- out of control, including the president’s tions, the ruling coalition would need to control,” Party of the Regions lawmaker prohibit its lawmakers from convening Vasyl Kyseliov told journalists two days for a month rather than pass a bill with before submitting his draft bill to the leg- no legal force. islature. On the other hand, the opposition “Therefore I, as a national deputy, am could create prerequisites for early par- working out a draft bill, or a draft resolu- liamentary polls by challenging the legal- tion, on simultaneous early presidential ity of the Yanukovych Cabinet before the and parliamentary elections in the fall, Constitutional Court. Andrew Bihun approximately on September 30.” The current Verkhovna Rada convened The next presidential election in Ukraine’s Ambassador Oleh Shamshur (right) praises former U.S. Ambassadors for its first sitting in late May 2006. The to Ukraine William Green Miller (second from right) and John Herbst during a Ukraine is due in 2009, the parliamentary parliamentary majority supporting the ones in 2011. ceremony at which the two men received Ukrainian state orders “For Merit.” Yanukovych Cabinet was formed in early Looking on is U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns (left). Ruling coalition’s response August 2006, thus apparently overstep- ping the time frame set by the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States commitment of Ambassador Miller to Mr. Kyseliov’s initiative seems to be Constitution by more than a month. Ukraine even after he officially ended his the ruling coalition’s “asymmetric” WASHINGTON – Ukraine’s ambassa- Consequently, if the Constitutional Court ambassadorial duties in Kyiv. He contin- response to the opposition’s formalized dor to the United States, Oleh Shamshur, confirmed that Mr. Yanukovych’s ues to take an active part in further devel- vow to seek early parliamentary elec- on February 22 presented the high Cabinet was formed beyond this time opment of U.S.-Ukraine relations, serv- tions. frame, President Yushchenko could dis- Ukrainian orders “For Merit” to Will the Verkhovna Rada put the bill Ambassadors William Green Miller and ing as a co-chair of the Coalition for a solve the legislature and call for new Secure and Democratic Ukraine. on early parliamentary and presidential elections. John Herbst. The awards recognized their elections on its agenda? personal contributions to strengthening The Ukrainian ambassador also highly Ivan Boykin, head of the Socialist The fundamental law relations between Ukraine and the United praised Ambassador Herbst, who repre- Party’s parliamentary caucus, said he States, as well as outstanding diplomatic sented the U.S. in Ukraine at the time of The Ukrainian Constitution stipulates the unprecedented historic events of the believes that if the political rivalry that an early presidential ballot may be performance while they were representing Orange Revolution. between Prime Minister Viktor held only after the incumbent president the United States as envoys to Ukraine. Ambassador Shamshur remarked that Yanukovych and President Viktor has resigned or died, has been unable to Undersecretary of State Nicholas Yushchenko continues, Mr. Kyseliov’s perform his duties because of his health, Burns and other State Department offi- Ukraine today continues its course toward proposal may not only be put to a vote or has been impeached by Parliament. cials attended the ceremony, which took Euro-Atlantic integration, transforming but also endorsed by the ruling coalition. Clearly, no such preconditions are pres- place at the U.S. State Department. itself into a modern European state and “There is madness on the part of one ent in Ukraine. In his remarks at the ceremony, Dr. building upon the mutual benefits of the political force, and the other political National deputies from the ruling Shamshur pointed out the longstanding Ukraine-U.S. strategic partnership. force has also begun to go mad and coalition seem to realize, too, that Mr. wants to propose this madness to all of Kyseliov’s draft bill is more of a propa- Ukraine,” Mr. Boykin said. “But if this ganda move than a real threat to Mr. madness goes on, if this affliction is not Yushchenko’s presidency. Lawmaker Quotable notes cured on Bankova Street [in the Volodymyr Zubanov from the Party of [The proposed cuts and reductions in U.S. international broadcasting are] “a Presidential Secretariat] or in Parliament, the Regions suggested that Mr. if there is not enough sense to realize that gift to dictators and suppressors of press freedom.” Yushchenko could resign as Leonid “Whenever budget cuts become necessary to pay for new programs to coun- playing with the idea of the dissolution of Kravchuk, Ukraine’s first president, did Parliament is hopeless, we will have to tries and regions where freedom of expression is suppressed, the BBG in 1994 in order to defuse a political con- [Broadcasting Board of Governors] inevitably relies on cutting programs to audi- support this [bill].” frontation. Messrs. Yanukovych and Yushchenko ences which are also deprived of free media but are less important for the foreign “In 1994 when there was a parliamen- policy goals of the [Bush] administration. have recently locked horns over a bill tary and presidential crisis, Kravchuk that extends the powers of the Cabinet “This lack of consistency sends a terrible signal to defenders of freedom and agreed to leave his post before the end of courageous journalists around the world.” and the Parliament at the expense of the his term and hold an early election,” Mr. president. Zubanov said. “I think that today it Mr. Yushchenko vetoed the bill, but – FreeMediaOnline.org, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization, as would be timely for Yushchenko to step quoted by the BBC Monitoring Service, February 27, in an analysis by Peter the ruling coalition of the Party of the down and hold early [parliamentary and Regions, the Socialist Party and the Feuilherade headlined “Planned Cuts in Language Services Mar Voice of presidential] elections on September 30.” America’s 65th Anniversary.” Communist Party managed to override But President Yushchenko has no his veto with the help of the opposition intention of following in President Tymoshenko Bloc. Mr. Yushchenko sub- Kravchuk’s steps. Last week Mr. “I think it’s laughable, tragic and absurd for the Voice of America not to sequently appealed to the Constitutional Yushchenko said the idea to hold an early Court. broadcast in English. presidential election is “provocation, “I mean, if Radio Moscow stopped broadcasting in Russian, people would be In what seemed to be a political tit for blackmail and psychological pressure.” tat, the ruling coalition rejected Mr. shocked. If Radio Beijing stopped broadcasting in Chinese – imagine Radio According to him, potential early parlia- France not broadcasting in French." Yushchenko’s nominees for the posts of mentary elections would reinstall the foreign affairs minister and head of the same political forces in Parliament that Security Service of Ukraine. – Sanford Ungar, who headed Voice of America from 1999 to 2001, comment- are there now. ing on the proposed radical reduction of English-language broadcasts. Quoted Shaky legal ground This week, Prime Minister in a February 27 analysis by Peter Feuilherade of the BBC Monitoring Service. Yanukovych also went public and said Ukrainian political analyst Kostiantyn that the calls for early parliamentary and Bondarenko said he believes that early presidential elections are “groundless.” “The march to democracy has taken a back step in Russia.” elections could be a way out of the cur- Mr. Yanukovych’s statement may imply a “Those that [Russian President Vladimir Putin] is listening to are extremely rent political standoff in Ukraine. withdrawal of Mr. Kyseliov’s draft bill conservative and very suspicious of the United States. [They] interpret things “There are no legal grounds [for early from the legislative agenda. through a lens that portrays Russia as the downtrodden, or [that indicates] we’re polls], but there is a problem of con- trying to hold them back to the advantage of the United States.” frontation and a problem of the dead end The Tymoshenko factor in which Ukraine has found itself However, the topic of early parliamen- – U.S. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell speaking before a because of the institutional confrontation tary elections is likely to remain on the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on February 27, as quoted by between the Cabinet of Ministers and the public agenda in Ukraine. This is because RFE/RL Newsline. Presidential Secretariat,” Mr. Bondarenko said. “[Such elections] (Continued on page 18) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007 No. 10 Tymoshenko honored by U.S. conservatives at Ronald Reagan Banquet by Yaro Bihun Special to The Ukrainian Weekly WASHINGTON — Yulia Tymoshenko had a roaring reception near the end of her Washington visit at a gathering of American political activists, whose con- ference coincided with her four-day stay here. The Ukrainian opposition leader was honored on March 2 at the Ronald Reagan Banquet of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a meeting of Republican Party’s conserva- tive base activists, which this year also attracted the party’s presidential candi- dates. By coincidence, the banquet was in the same huge hall at the Omni Shoreham Hotel where President Viktor Yushchenko had been honored by the Ukrainian American community in April 2005. “In recognition of her commitment to freedom and democracy in Ukraine,” John Fund of the Wall Street Journal pre- sented her with a large, leather-bound portfolio containing three original proclamations signed by President Reagan — two honoring Captive Nations Week, and one commemorating the vic- tims of the Great Famine in Ukraine. When the ovation of the more than 2,000 guests had died down, Ms. Yaro Bihun Tymoshenko thanked the hosts, saying Yulia Tymoshenko receives a standing ovation during the Ronald Reagan Banquet at the Conservative Political Action that she was accepting the honor “as a Conference in Washington. sign of your respect for my country, Ukraine, which I love with all my heart.” “We shall persist, and our democracy vative base of the Republican Party, there speakers that, she said, “bordered on the Citing President Reagan’s inspira- shall prevail,” she stressed, adding that were moments during the banquet which obscene.” tional call in Berlin — “Mr. Gorbachev, her work will not end until Ukraine over- may well have caused a visiting foreign She also detected an added measure of tear down this wall!” — she said that is comes every obstacle to become — again non-partisan politician some discomfort. the “grotesque” in the fact that the what the Orange Revolution did and is quoting President Reagan — the next As Ukrayinska Pravda correspondent “Defender of the Constitution Award” continuing to do. “shining city on the hill.” Tetiana Nykolaienko noted in her con- was presented to a wounded American “Yet, as Ronald Reagan knew, liberty Bringing on yet another standing ova- cluding report, the American guests were soldier by a person who some years ago demands eternal vigilance,” she added, tion, she concluded with “God bless obviously enjoying the anti-Hillary had been tried for illegal arms trading. “so, once again, we are defying a gov- Ukraine, and God bless the United States Clinton cartoon playing on the hall’s The presenter, radio talk show host Lt. ernment that seeks to corrupt our democ- of America.” large screens during dinner as well as the Col. Oliver North, was involved in the racy and curtail our independence.” Being a gathering of the staunch conser- partisan jokes and jabs by some of the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s.

financial, monetary and customs policy. Tymoshenko tells... Ukraine, she said, would have only an 11 (Continued from page 1) percent stake in the SES, while Russia Columbia University set for February 26. would control over 80 percent of the A press release attributed Ms. institution’s work. Tymoshenko’s absence to the flu. She defended her support of the law In Washington, Ms. Tymoshenko also on imperative mandate – which would met with Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), permit a political party or bloc to revoke leader of the Senate Foreign Relations the mandate of a deputy in a local coun- Committee; Rep. Kaptur, Rep. Sander cil if he or she were to switch party alle- Levin (D-Mich.) and Rep. Maurice giance – by pointing out that Ukraine Hinchey (D-N.Y.), co-chairs of the does not have a developed system of Congressional Ukrainian Caucus; and political parties and that the law, cur- Madeleine K. Albright, secretary of state rently under review by the under President Bill Clinton and chair- Constitutional Court, would strengthen man of the National Democratic party tradition. Institute. Ms. Tymoshenko traveled with Her rhetoric was meant to counter National Deputies Hryhorii Nemyria, what analysts have been referring to as Yevhen Korniychuk, Viktor Shvets and “Ukraine fatigue.” Rep. Levin addressed Oleksander Feldman. the issue squarely on March 1 after their meeting: “There was some reference to She spoke at CSIS on the first day of Khristina Lew her visit and at the National Press Club whether there was fatigue about Ukraine. on March 2. There, as at all of her public Yulia Tymoshenko arrives at Rayburn House Office Building on March 1 with I think the issue is not fatigue, but con- appearances, she spoke of the gains (from left) National Deputies Hryhorii Nemyria, Yevhen Korniychuk, Viktor Shvets cern,” he said. made in Ukraine after the Orange and Oleksander Feldman. Fatigue was wanting at a town hall- Revolution that she helped lead in style meeting between Ms. Tymoshenko November 2004, the need to stem the freedom of speech to Ukraine, and that Yanukovych stems, she said, from the and the Ukrainian community on March constitutional crisis with new parliamen- the government of Prime Minister constitutional reform that was adopted 1, where she was greeting with chants of tary elections, and Ukraine’s energy and Yanukovych was not defending on January 1 of last year, and she reiter- “Yulia! Yulia!” That meeting, organized economic security. Ukraine’s national interests. ated that her bloc was the only political by The Washington Group, the Ukrainian Ms. Tymoshenko told the National The country’s constitutional crisis and force in Ukraine that opposed it. Congress Committee of America, the Press Club that the Orange Revolution the power struggle between President She discussed regional energy security Ukrainian American Coordinating brought true political competition and Yushchenko and Prime Minister and Russia’s attempts to control Council and the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, Ukraine’s gas distribution network, was attended by over 300. Earlier, Ms. telling an over-capacity audience at CSIS Tymoshenko met with leaders of SUPPORT THE WORK that “it’s not just about gas – it’s about Ukrainian American organizations from violating the political sovereignty of Washington, Philadelphia and New York. OF THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY. Ukraine.” Ms. Tymoshenko also was honored for She warned that the Yanukovych gov- her work for democracy in Ukraine by Send contributions to: The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund, ernment would bring Ukraine into the the Conservative Political Action 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 Single Economic Space, a supra-govern- Conference at a banquet held at the mental agency that will dictate Ukraine’s Omni Shoreham Hotel on March 2. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007 5 Ukrainian opposition leader meets with Ukrainian Americans by Yaro Bihun Special to The Ukrainian Weekly WASHINGTON – Unlike Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who would not meet with Ukrainian Americans during his visit here three months earlier, Yulia Tymoshenko devoted the evening of March 1 to two such get-togethers – a small gathering with organi- zational representatives and a large meeting with the community. The community meeting, held in one of the larger caucus rooms in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, attracted some 300 Ukrainian Americans. Most were from the Washington area, but the assembly included small groups from Baltimore and Philadelphia, and individuals who came from as far as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. The participants heard the Ukrainian opposition leader give her analysis of political developments in Ukraine and what corrective measures she thought were needed in the future. They also had a chance to express their concerns and ask Ms. Tymoshenko questions dur- ing the discussion that followed. In her presentation, Ms. Tymoshenko underscored many of the same points she raised at other public ven- ues in Washington, in meetings with Bush aministration officials and members of Congress. The Yanukovych team is intent on tightening its hold on the government Yaro Bihun and economy of Ukraine and bringing it into the Yulia Tymoshenko, with fellow Verkhovna Rada deputies sitting beside her, discusses developments in Russian fold, she said. Ukraine with representatives of Ukrainian American organizations at the Rayburn House Office “The Yanukovych government, regardless of what Building in Washington: (front row, from left) Orest Deychakiwsky, Adrian Pidlusky, Ihor Gawdiak, anybody says, is not working for Ukraine, for Ukraine’s Nadia Komarnycky-McConnell; (second row) Ihor Kotlarchuk, Bohdan Futey. Discussion moderator national interest, is not working to maintain Ukraine’s Andrew Bihun is on Ms. Tymoshenko’s right. independence,” she said. That was particularly evident in the way it is trying to hand over Ukraine’s energy and energy transport sector to Russian control. Constitutional Court to rule that a deputy Ms. Tymoshenko pointed out that these intentions are cannot switch from one party list to also apparent in the Yanukovych government’s apparent another and remain in the Verkhovna indifference to Russia’s expressed intentions in Crimea Rada. They expect a ruling within a few and in Vice Prime Minister Mykola Azarov’s push to weeks, she said. They have also asked get Ukraine into the Russia-dominated Single Economic the court to affirm the president’s right Space, in which Ukraine’s voting share would be 11 to disband the Verkhovna Rada and call percent, compared to Russia’s 80 percent. early elections. She said they hoped to The Yanukovych team’s plans must be checked, she get a ruling on that issue before the end said, initially with the help of the Constitutional Court, of April. and its government hopefully would be dislodged from It will not be easy, but it must be done, power through early parliamentary elections. she warned. “If this Yanukovych team, if As a first step, she stressed, they must not be allowed this mafia remains in power until 2011, to buy a 300-vote Constitutional majority in the it’s hard to predict in what condition the Verkhovna Rada, which would give them unlimited opposition will find itself – who will be power – to change the Constitution, the government and free, and who will find himself behind the country, in general. And even though her party and bars. It will he hard to say what decisions that of President Viktor Yushchenko are now in agree- will be made, and can they be countered.” ment once again, she added that one could not guaran- If this happens, Ms. Tymoshenko tee that their party members would not “trade in their said, it will have a negative affect on the souls, trade in the future of Ukraine for, as an example, other countries in the region, like Khristina Lew $5 million. And a few have already done so.” Georgia and Moldova. But, in conclu- Opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and National Deputy To prevent the further buying away of deputies by the sion, she expressed her conviction in the Hryhorii Nemyria at a town-hall style meeting with the Ukrainian Yanukovych team, she said, they have asked the righteousness and ultimate triumph of American community on March 1.

her alliance’s mission. “Ukraine will play its role and mission. Additionally, I am convinced – and no one will convince me other- wise – that Ukraine is and will be the spiritual center of this region, because no politicians will be able to lessen, hide or destroy the spirit that was born in Ukraine dur- ing the Orange Revolution. I am convinced that the spirit continues to live in the hearts of true Ukrainians in Ukraine and abroad,” she said. To which the audience replied by chanting: “Nas bahato! Nas ne podolaty!” (We are many! We cannot be defeated!) Among the issues raised in the discussion session that followed was the fate of the “selo” (the village and farmers) in the new economy, and of the Ukrainian lan- guage and culture, in general. One questioner com- plained about the difficulties encountered by Ukrainian voters residing abroad, and a Radio Liberty reporter questioned the trustworthiness of some of the deputies now allied with Mr. Tymoshenko. The community meeting with Ms. Tymoshenko was arranged by a committee of four organizations: the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation and The Washington Group, an association of Ukrainian American professionals. Earlier that evening, representatives of these and other Ukrainian American organizations had a separate Yaro Bihun discussion session with the Ukrainian opposition leader. Yulia Tymoshenko describes the political situation in Ukraine and her vision for its future in front of some On the last day of her stay in Washington, March 3, 300 people attending a community meeting at the Rayburn House Office Building organized by Washington- just before flying home, Ms. Tymoshenko placed a bou- based Ukrainian American organizations. quet of flowers at the Taras Shevchenko monument. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007 No. 10 Back in Kyiv, Tymoshenko assesses her U.S. visit as a success by Zenon Zawada tions to Ukraine’s current political instabili- near term,” he said. “Despite its lip service Ms. Tymoshenko became the first leader Kyiv Press Bureau ty, as well as its closer relations with the on democracy, the Party of the Regions real- to publicly propose a project, suggesting the Eurasian sphere. She underscored that it was ly has only one task: to increase through pol- modernization and reconstruction of the KYIV – Parliamentary opposition leader important for the U.S. to understand recent itics and the media its own affluence, power nation’s heating system, as well as the exten- Yulia Tymoshenko told the Kyiv press corps developments in Ukraine, so that it doesn’t and control. Tymoshenko understands they sion of hot water to the nation’s entire popu- on March 5 that her three-day U.S. trip was cross Ukraine off its list of stable nations can’t be allowed another four years. It’s a lation as a means of reducing natural gas use a success, having received high-level sup- ripe for investment. big amoeba that swallows everything it and increasing energy efficiency. port for legally attained pre-term parliamen- The means to halt the rise of authoritari- comes into contact with.” She also suggested distributing funds to tary elections, as well as her ongoing efforts anism that Ms. Tymoshenko agitated for is The opposition leader told U.S. officials regional governments to address social prob- to reform Ukraine’s energy sector. pre-term parliamentary elections. the Tymoshenko and Our Ukraine blocs are lems. “Highly estimated were the unification of “Pre-term elections will finally return to jointly drafting a new edition of the Ms. Tymoshenko announced a joint proj- democratic forces in Ukraine, the perception Parliament honestly elected political forces Ukrainian Constitution to put an end to ect between the Tymoshenko Bloc and the of all threats within Ukraine’s energy market that will be able to change today’s situation attempts to revise it for what she described U.S.-based RAND Corp. to conduct special- and also the rebuilding of a new authoritari- and renew Ukraine’s path toward Euro-inte- as “totalitarian” ends. ized research on the state of trade relations anism in Ukraine,” Ms. Tymoshenko said of gration, towards honestly building the gov- Ms. Tymoshenko also spent a significant between the U.S. and Ukraine. The RAND her meetings, which included U.S. Vice- President Dick Cheney and U.S. Secretary ernment’s work, and towards transparency time discussing Ukraine’s energy situation, Corp. will also perform an evaluation of the of State Condoleezza Rice. and consistency of reform that needs to take which is directly related to Europe’s energy nation’s investment climate, with political Specifically, she said top American offi- place in Ukraine,” she said. stability. recommendations for its improvement, she cials expressed their understanding and sup- Ms. Tymoshenko’s best chance at forcing Issues of concern that were discussed said. port for her key energy positions, which are pre-term elections would involve finding included usurpation of Ukraine’s natural gas Ms. Tymoshenko said her U.S. visit, based on the principles of transparency, 150 deputies, or one-third of the Verkhovna market, RosUkrEnergo affiliates’ export of first in nearly a decade, finally put to rest competitiveness and diversification. Rada to resign and turn in their deputy man- electricity, RosUkrEnergo’s control of ener- what she called political provocations Aside from her stated accomplishments, dates. gy distribution networks and RosUkrEnergo against her suggesting that U.S. law the three-day trip tried to reinforce the image While all 125 Tymoshenko Bloc affiliates’ encroachment upon natural gas enforcement authorities still had con- of Ms. Tymoshenko and her bloc as deputies would be willing, it’s unclear and oil transit systems, she said. cerns regarding her formerly close busi- Ukraine’s leading democratic alternative to how many from the Our Ukraine bloc “All these developments demonstrate that ness ties with Pavlo Lazarenko. the Party of the Regions, which she has per- would agree, considering that many stand the level of energy safety in Ukraine is in a The former prime minister was convicted sistently cast as a corrupt, authoritarian force to lose their parliamentary seats because critical state,” Ms. Tymoshenko said. in a U.S. federal court in August of money hostile to Western political values. the bloc isn’t likely to win as many votes RosUkrEnergo is a Swiss-registered com- laundering, wire fraud and interstate trans- The Party of the Regions has undergone a in repeat elections. pany in which the Russian natural gas port of stolen property. He was sentenced to significant image makeover since the 2004 Furthermore, President Viktor monopoly Gazprom holds a 50 percent nine years in federal prison. elections, and has since gained increasing Yushchenko, who is honorary chair of the stake, and Ukrainian businessmen Dmytro In meeting with high-level officials, Ms. levels of respectability, acceptance and even Our Ukraine bloc, has repeatedly indicated Firtash and Ivan Fursin own the other half. Tymoshenko also addressed the Russian support from certain Western leaders and that he isn’t ready to take that drastic step. The company derives enormous profit Federation’s role in sending “colossal politi- businessmen. The U.S. government will support pre- from serving as an intermediary between cal money” into the Autonomous Republic Amidst this change in perception, Ms. term elections as long as they’re executed Gazprom and Ukrainian natural gas distribu- of Crimea to support organizations that Tymoshenko has struggled to depict the sce- within the bounds of Ukraine’s Constitution tor Naftohaz in providing natural gas to threaten Ukraine’s territorial integrity and nario as an ongoing struggle between forces and law, and based on legal principles, Ms. Ukraine – a role that many experts, includ- create instability. for democracy, free markets and Western Tymoshenko said. “It will be exclusively a ing Ms. Tymoshenko, insist is unnecessary. Ms. Tymoshenko said she would soon values against those supporting authoritari- legal path, not public disturbances or calls For many years, Ukrainian leaders, meet with Mr. Yushchenko to discuss her anism, command market policies and for a new revolution,” she said. among them Mr. Yushchenko, refused to trip’s results. Eurasian values. Ms. Tymoshenko is leading an aggressive reveal who were the partners in When asked by reporters what gift she “The Party of the Regions hasn’t drive for pre-term elections because she sees RosUkrEnergo. They were finally outed wanted from the Ukrainian president for changed,” Ms. Tymoshenko told Kyiv a danger of the Party of the Regions remain- by the Russian daily newspaper Izvestia the March 8 national holiday, which is reporters. “It is a mafia which, in forming ing in power until the next parliamentary in April 2006. International Women’s Day, her interests the coalition government, practically created elections in four years, said Ivan Lozowy, Ms. Tymoshenko also met with went beyond flowers and chocolates. a national revolution and continues to do so. president of the Kyiv-based Institute of Millennium Challenge Corp. officials, “I expect consistency in uniting demo- The sooner we’re able to stop this, the soon- Statehood and Democracy, which is who announced in January that Ukraine cratic forces and in conducting pre-term er Ukrainians will be able to live a stable, financed by Ukrainian business donations. may qualify for a grant between $500 elections,” Ms. Tymoshenko said. “I predictable life.” “They will become much more million and several billion dollars to think that would be the best present from The opposition leader said her visit was entrenched. In that case the elections will be develop a sustainable economic develop- Ukraine’s president for all of Ukraine’s vital in explaining the causes of and solu- much less fair than what we can get in the ment project on a national scale. women.”

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Guests and all interested persons are very welcome! No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007 7 FOR THE RECORD: Yulia Tymoshenko interviewed by VOA Following is the English-language trans- And Ukraine needs political stability as Ukraine, also, is capable of producing with certainty that the democratic or, lation of an exclusive Voice of America much as man needs fresh air. But [this sta- more electricity than it needs for its internal let’s say, the “Orange” forces would pre- interview with Yulia Tymoshenko. The inter- bility] needs to be created. Today it is consumption. vail, if early election were held. What is view was released on March 5. absent. And we think that early elections are All of these are projects that are of inter- your conviction based on? Don’t you a democratic procedure that has been est not only for Ukraine. I found that they think that the so-called “Orange” voter is by Zoreslav Baydyuk employed already by almost all countries. are being supported on the highest levels of disaffected [with what has happened in Voice of America Early elections are known as something the United States government. Ukraine]? foreseen by the constitutions of many coun- Speaking here in Washington, you tries, and I don’t see anything out of the During your meetings you have called My prognosis that the democratic forces have been emphasizing that the goal of ordinary here – other than it being a vehicle on Americans to invest capital in would again prevail during early parliamen- your visit is to, primarily, present the through which stability can be achieved. Ukraine. At the same time, during a tary elections is based on [my] familiarity opposition’s point of view on current meeting with the Ukrainian [American] with the mood structure within Ukrainian events in Ukraine. So, what exactly did During your visit to the Unites States community, you indicated that in society. Yes, Ukrainian voters hold a bit of a you discuss with Vice-President you have met with civic and political Ukraine – you cited Crimea as an exam- grudge against democratic parties, against Richard Cheney, the influential Sen. leaders. What are your expectations? ple – there is a predominance of Russian the “Orange” forces, because many mis- Richard Lugar, and what topics did investments. The average [person] might takes have been made. But they will never you cover with Secretary of State First and foremost, [for them] to under- ask why U.S. investments should be con- accept a concept for the development of Condoleezza Rice? stand Ukraine. Because there is plenty of sidered better than Russian investments. their country other than [the pursuit of] a information that is currently being deliber- European perspective and far-reaching There were two main topics. The first one ately disseminated out of Ukraine. There The fact of the matter is that sizeable reforms of our internal order that would be dealt with the political situation in Ukraine are those who claim that there are wonder- financial injections, of which we heard from based on the rule of law, equal opportunity as well as our concerns that today, as never ful changes occurring in Ukraine today – Moscow Mayor [Yuri] Luzhkov, to the tune and government transparency. previously during the past 15 years, there changes that lead, as you say, to stability Therefore, it won’t matter in which con- exist dangers to Ukraine’s independence as a of $3 billion in two years, with which they and that bring results in terms of domestic figuration the democratic forces will prevail country, as well as risks that we may forever plan to better the lives of Ukrainian citizens and foreign policy. – some democratic parties will get more lose out on opportunities in the energy sector in Crimea, in our view, are nothing else than We, however, think that the situation is, votes, others less and, maybe, some new as concerns the diversification of energy a huge political stunt aimed at getting in fact, quite different. And our primary ones professing a similar development strat- supplies not only into Ukraine, but also into Ukrainian citizens, Ukrainian citizens in hope is for leading policy-makers to under- egy for Ukraine will appear – but what’s European Union countries. Crimea, to look more favorably toward stand [this] and to formulate their policies most important is that together they garner a Therefore, I laid out all the facts that Russia, to look at Russia as a country that is vis-à-vis our county accordingly. majority of votes. Such is the mood in today give cause for concern, because it is capable of offering some additional bliss. Secondly, we are hoping that decisions Ukraine today. important for us that all democratic coun- But all of this is undoubtedly intended to will be made – decisions that are important On the other hand, pro-Russian moods tries worldwide that stood by Ukraine have political consequences, which are the for Ukraine today – for instance in the and tendencies as well as a longing for the throughout all the events of the [2004] pres- very purpose of such investments. implementation of the Millennium re-establishment of the Soviet Union in idential elections, that supported and contin- I would call upon investors – not only Challenge program. This is a very powerful some new form are shared today by no ue to support Ukraine in her efforts to American investors, but investors and broad-based program conducted by the more than 30 percent of people in Ukraine. strengthen democracy – that they have at throughout the world – even though government of the United States through their disposal information about events tak- [many] large global corporations are con- which grants are disbursed to countries for In the event of a victory – where do ing place in Ukraine from multiple sources. centrated and based in the United States, I the purpose of improving conditions within you see yourself? We are concerned that power in Ukraine would call on them not to waste time, but those countries. And we expect for Ukraine today is being monopolized by one political to initiate projects in Ukraine, because the to be an active participant of this program, We have signed a coalition agreement force – the Yanukovych team that promotes current government with all of its nonsen- and rejoice that a small African country has with the political forces aligned with the its own reform strategy for Ukraine – one sical behavior is only temporary and we received 550 million [dollars] in grants, and president – an agreement that is not intend- that is diametrically opposed [to ours] – perceive it only as such. Therefore, no think that Ukraine can also become a partic- ed only for the time-being. It is intended for both in the area of domestic policy as well time should be wasted. Ukraine needs ipant in such projects and a recipient of the long term. In the event of a victory our as in foreign policy strategies. We are con- investments as soon as possible. such financial assistance. team will work in the power structures to cerned that today among Ukraine’s assets I think we also hope that U.S. officials ensure that a proper development strategy that are being [voluntarily] relinquished is Speaking of the government and for Ukraine is implemented. her capability to develop her own closed will thoroughly analyze everything that returning to the subject of early elections nuclear fuel cycle. We are concerned that takes place in our region as pertains to that you are proposing – you have said (Continued on page 19) our uranium deposits have been handed energy security. Because we think that the over to some unknown joint company of growing monopolization that we see there which Russian corporations are part. We are is a challenge not only for Ukraine. not happy that today certain amounts of sur- Growing monopolies that provide energy plus electricity that is being generated but resources to the European Union and not consumed in Ukraine somehow end up post-Soviet countries are a problem wor- in the hands of certain companies affiliated thy of discussion at international forums with RosUkrEnergo, and are exported not and diplomatic meetings, and, therefore, by Ukraine, but by these not very transpar- we focused our attention on it. ent companies, which are active also in the So, does the situation that arose when Ukrainian gas sector. Russia cut off gas and oil supplies to For us, all of these things are signs that featuring Ukraine and Belarus sending shock- Ukraine, first of all, is clearly sliding away BELARUSAN MELODIES waves throughout Europe, does it present from [its goal of] European integration and, “BOSILEK” BULGARIAN FOLK DANCE ENSEMBLE an opportunity for Ukraine to forge new secondly, sliding in a direction that will “GEMIST” CROATIAN FOLK ENSEMBLE partnerships for herself in Europe and compound [existing] energy problems. “GOCE DELCEV” MACEDONIAN FOLK DANCE ENSEMBLE across the Atlantic? “GRACHANITSA” SERVIAN FOLKLORE ENSEMBLE In your speeches you have suggested THE GREEK AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY early [parliamentary] elections as a way I’m currently working on consolidating our partners in the United States and the “KOZLOV” INTERNATIONAL DANCE out of the [current] political crisis. The “LIMBORA” SLOVAK FOLK ENSEMBLE United States, generally speaking, is a European Union with the intention of creat- ing a type of pool that would help formulate NORWEGIAN DANCERS country that cherishes stability. Don’t POLISH AMERICAN FOLK DANCE COMPANY you think that your suggestion could energy policy in the region. And the proj- 30 “SYZOKRYLI” UKRAINIAN DANCERS OF NEW YORK alienate the U.S. government, and partic- ects that Ukraine is currently developing ularly U.S. businessmen and investors involve not only Ukraine. This and the issue that have already grown tired of the con- of creating, together with European coun- stant instability in Ukraine? tries, a new transport corridor for natural gas is being met with endorsement both in If anyone would want to describe the Europe and in the United States. This current political situation in Ukraine as sta- pipeline would be capable of transporting ble, it certainly wouldn’t be me. I think that gas from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and particularly the signs of a deep constitutional Turkmenistan to Europe through two seas crisis that manifests itself in the confronta- and via Georgia and Ukraine. tion between different branches of govern- We are also very hopeful that we will be ment – a rather radical confrontation, one able to enlist European countries in a proj- might add – a crisis, in which two branches ect that would create part of a closed of government that have been popularly nuclear fuel cycle, which would provide elected profess two different strategic direc- Ukraine with alternative nuclear fuel. And tions for Ukraine, then I would say that this we think that Ukraine today would have a can’t be characterized as stability. lot to offer in a unified EU energy system. And the sooner we find a solution, an What would be needed are sizeable invest- exit strategy for these intractable problems, ments and a pooling of efforts on the part of the sooner Ukraine will have its stability. various countries. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007 No. 10

IN THE PRESS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Yulia takes Washington Yulia Tymoshenko’s message By all accounts, Yulia Tymoshenko’s visit to the United States – her first as a during her visit to the U.S. national deputy of Ukraine and the leader of the opposition to boot – was a great success. She met with top officials of the Bush administration, including vice- “Coalescing in Ukraine,” editorial, “… On a high-profile U.S. visit that President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National The Washington Times, March 6: includes meetings with Vice-President Security Adviser Stephen Hadley; and members of Congress, including leaders Dick Cheney and Secretary of State of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus. She spoke at the Center for Strategic “… [Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor] Condoleezza Rice, Mrs. Tymoshenko and International Studies (where more than 100 people were turned away from Yanukovych has advanced closer ties to said the United States must speak out for the standing-room-only event) and at the National Press Club, and she met with Russia, stalled talks of NATO integration Ukraine despite a full foreign-policy influential news media. and ‘is trying to buy deputies like chick- plate that includes Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan Ms. Tymoshenko was received in Washington, many observers noted, on the ens in a bazaar,’ said Mrs. [Yulia] and other pressing crises. same level as Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych back in December. Tymoshenko last week at The “She noted there was ‘disillusionment’ Unlike Mr. Yanukovych, she welcomed meetings with the Ukrainian Washington Times. Mrs. Tymoshenko in Washington about backsliding in American community and its leaders. And she made a genuine attempt to hear and Mr. [Viktor] Yushchenko recently Ukraine since her coalition was propelled their concerns and answer their questions. signed an agreement to form a unified to power in 2005 by a wave of street Her principal message was both positive and negative, yet optimistic. Positive, opposition. protests that became known as the because it underscored that the Orange Revolution lives on; negative, because she “Mrs. Tymoshenko argued that Orange Revolution because of the orange made it clear to all her audiences that “Ukraine is in deep constitutional crisis.” Ukraine can either continue along the flags and banners carried by the protest- “What happened in Ukraine at the time of the Orange Revolution is irre- path charted by Mr. Yanukovych for ers. versible. And, even if the opposition becomes weak and the authorities gain closer relations with Russia – ‘as close as “But, she said, ‘a country as large and power, there is the Ukrainian nation, whose strength is simply colossal,” she said possible’ – that would leave Ukraine influential as your own has to lead this at the outset of her remarks. She then continued to work toward her goal in com- again a ‘vassal’ of Russia, or the presi- kind of work. Your country does not have ing to the United States: to explain to those who support Ukrainian democracy dent can, under certain conditions the right to be fatigued about Ukraine’s what is going on in Ukraine. And she did so without mincing any words. according to the Constitution, call pre- future.’ … “The Yanukovych government, regardless of what anybody says, is not working term elections. ‘The goal of the opposi- “Mrs. Tymoshenko acknowledged that for Ukraine, for Ukraine’s national interest, is not working to maintain Ukraine’s tion,’ she said, is to put Ukraine back on she had moved too quickly in her short, independence,” she stated. She cited the Yanukovych government’s willingness to a course of ‘Euro-Atlantic integration stormy first stint as prime minister. … turn over control of Ukraine’s energy and energy transport sectors to Russia, its and deep transformative reforms.’ And She said Mr. Yushchenko also had under- push to have Ukraine join the Single Economic Space (SES) and its general indif- ‘the only instrument that we have today estimated the power of entrenched inter- ference to Russian meddling in Ukraine. She warned that the SES was not simply a at our disposal is pre-term elections.’ … ests opposed to the Orange Revolution free-trade zone, but a supranational structure to which member-states cede a signif- “… Even if pre-term elections are reforms. … icant portion of their sovereignty. Within the SES, she explained, Ukraine would held, there’s no guarantee that the turmoil “She compared Ukraine in 2005 to a have an 11 percent share of voting power, while Russia would have 80 percent. that followed the March 2006 parliamen- scuba diver trying to surface too quickly She asked: “Can this possibly be the future for which we stood on Orange tary elections won’t be repeated. … after years in the stagnant political squares (maidany)? Is this the future about which tens of generations dreamed, “The last time the Orange coalition depths. for which true patriots of Ukraine fought?” came to power it was unable to stay “If I have a chance to have the respon- That is why the opposition is the opposition. Its goal, she told The Washington together long … Many of Ukraine’s post- sibility in the future, unfortunately the Times, is to put Ukraine back on a course of “Euro-Atlantic integration and deep Orange Revolution problems, including reforms will have to come at a slower transformative reforms,” adding that “the only instrument that we have today at intraparty fighting and corruption, could tempo, to make sure we do not get anoth- our disposal is pre-term elections.” Continuing, she said “If this government is in be understood as the kinks of a nascent er case of the bends,’ she said.” power until [the next elections in 2011], there would be nothing left of a demo- democracy. Ukraine’s current slide cratic Ukraine.” toward Russia is more serious, according “A signal from DC,” Kyiv Post, Ms. Tymoshenko even hit the right notes at the Ronald Reagan Banquet dur- to Mrs. Tymoshenko. While many March 1: ing the Conservative Political Action Conference, quoting the late president’s advances – freedom of speech and of the words: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” And she followed up with: “As press, and true political opposition – “As President Viktor Yushchenko and Ronald Reagan knew, liberty demands eternal vigilance. So, once again, we are remain, the country’s hard-won political Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych carry defying a government that seeks to corrupt our democracy and curtail our inde- progress faces a very serious challenge. on with their cut-throat, and at times pendence.” She assured the audience of more than 2,000: “We shall persist, and If the revived coalition can return to childish, wrestling match over authority, our democracy shall prevail.” power, it will need to avoid the mistakes opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is Perhaps the most important message Ms. Tymoshenko sent to the U.S. gov- that brought about its previous collapse if creeping up behind them, garnering the ernment – which seems to be suffering from “Ukraine fatigue” – is that the it is to put Ukraine back on a path toward respect and attention of ordinary United States has to take the lead in speaking out for Ukraine. “A country as Euro-Atlantic integration.” Ukrainians and world powerbrokers. … large and influential as your own has to lead this kind of work. Your country “Her goal, of course, is to establish does not have the right to be fatigued about Ukraine’s future.” “Tymoshenko seeks early elections,” herself as Ukraine’s genuine and And that is how, in three days, Yulia Tymoshenko took Washington. by David R. Sands, The Washington strongest democratic leader. … The Times, March 2: Ukrainian Joan of Arc is viewed as a challenger to the increasingly marginal- “… [Yulia] Tymoshenko, a former ized Yushchenko and pushy, possibly March prime minister and key figure in the pro- pro-Russian, Yanukovych in future presi- Turning the pages back... Western Orange Revolution street dential elections. protests of December 2004, said “The power tussle between Ukraine’s sovereignty and hopes for bet- Yushchenko and Yanukovych has left 10 ter relations with the West are in jeop- many abroad confused as to which Viktor Forty-five years ago, The Ukrainian Weekly reported on ardy if the government of pro-Moscow is in charge in Kyiv. It has also deprived 1962 the scheduled release of the first volume of “Ukraine: A Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych the country of a fully functional foreign Concise Encyclopedia,” the first English-language encyclope- serves out its full term to 2011. minister for several months. As a top dia about Ukraine. This was a revised, translated and amend- “ ‘If this government is in power until British diplomat said in Kyiv this week, ed edition of the three-volume set published in Ukrainian in 1949. then, there would be nothing left of a Ukraine’s Western partners are confused The project was initiated by Dr. Luke Myshuha, the former editor-in-chief of democratic Ukraine,’ she said, speaking by the entire mess. Svoboda, the daily newspaper of the Ukrainian National Association, and Prof. through an interpreter with editors and “What is also clear is that Volodymyr Kubijovyc of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh). With the passing reporters at The Washington Times. ‘The Tymoshenko, while populist in her fight of Dr. Myshuha, Prof. Kubijovyc took the lead as editor-in-chief of the 1,185-page territory would still exist, but it would reference work. Over 100 scholars and research specialists contributed to the refer- not be Ukraine any longer.’ (Continued on page 10) ence book’s entries on ethnography, language, history, literature, culture, geography population and other general information. The release of Volume I of “Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia” marked the culmi- nation of 10 years of work, which ran into the tens of thousands of dollars and was Quotable notes subsidized by the UNA, in what was called “one of its greatest achievements.” The “My sense is some in America mistakenly believe the Orange Revolution is work was described by the University of Toronto Press as “one of the major reference over, that democracy has won – and that liberty and justice have secured their books of the 20th century.” place in our country’s history. The first printing released in 1962 was limited to 5,000 copies and was available in “The Orange Revolution is not over. The movement that brought thousands the fall with an advance payment of $30 or $37.50 after the encyclopedia’s appear- of Ukrainians together to overthrow the post-Soviet regime lives on. Much ance on the market. Nearly 10 years later, the UNA released the second volume of the progress has been made to bring democracy to Ukraine, but much more remains encyclopedia prepared by NTSh, led by Prof. Kubijovyc. to be done.”

Source: “University of Toronto Press announces publication of Ukrainian encyclo- – Yulia Tymoshenko, as quoted in Inform Newsletter, an international publica- pedia; First volume of ‘Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia’ scheduled to appear this tion of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, February 27. fall” The Ukrainian Weekly, March 10, 1962. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007 9 View Trembitafrom the Lounge by Andrew Sorokowski by Taras Szmagala Jr. The true enemy is apathy Global Ukraine “Ping-ping.” A strange noise interrupt- he is particularly recognized by the grand Emigration has sometimes been com- infusions? After all, each of us has a ed my Saturday morning ritual of drink- inquisitor, the cardinal of Seville. pared to an escape valve. For the great choice. ing coffee and reading newspapers. In the story, the grand inquisitor does empires, the exit of countless Irish, Poles, We may choose assimilation, like “Ping-ping.” Putting down the sports sec- not take kindly to Jesus in his midst. In Jews, Ukrainians and others helped keep some of my Polish American friends, tion, I looked around the kitchen. By the fact, he takes Jesus into custody. Indeed, social pressure below the explosion point who never learned much Polish but third ping-ping, I identified the culprit: from the inquisitor’s point of view, Jesus of revolution. For the receiving countries, embraced the manners and mindset of the my Blackberry. (For those of you who are was a hindrance, not a help. How so? immigration provided the human energy American elite. They went to the right not familiar with it, a Blackberry is an Because our fictional inquisitor was con- for industry or agriculture. For the schools, joined the right clubs and now electronic gadget that appeals to individu- vinced that Jesus erred by giving humans migrants, it was a chance to escape pover- enjoy the genteel, sophisticated life of als who wish to think they’re important too much free will. Giving mankind free- ty or persecution and make a new start. upper-class America. There is nothing enough to be reachable by e-mail, text or dom – true freedom – was a burden too And to the growing Ruthenian- wrong with this. Such individuals can phone anywhere, at any time.) great for most to bear, according to him. Ukrainian diaspora, the immigration of the have more influence on American opin- “Ping-ping.” I took the device out of In one memorable passage, the inquisitor past century and a quarter has seemed like ion than a legion of small-time activists. its holster and looked at the screen. It lectures Jesus thusly: “I tell you that man a conveyor belt, ever bringing fresh faces But if they lose their ethnic loyalty, in was my friend Petro from Ukraine, send- is tormented by no greater anxiety than from the homeland. Diaspora organiza- whose interests will they exercise that ing me a text message: “Where have you to find someone quickly to whom he can tions – to continue the industrial metaphor influence? been?” Ugh – all of that pinging for hand over that gift of freedom with – have served as a cultural decompression Yet sometimes the path of assimilation “where have you been.” I hit the reply which the ill-fated creature is born.” chamber between the heavy, intense leads to cultural revival. My high school button: “Sorry – been busy.” Thirty sec- The inquisitor goes on to state his view atmosphere of Eastern Europe and the Chicano chum from East Los Angeles onds later, he replied: “Haven’t read any that mankind would gladly trade freedom heady freedom of the West. left church and barrio for the rough and articles by you in a while.” He was right: for material prosperity and comfort: “No But what happens at the end of the tumble of American business. Though he “Not much to write about – no one wants science will give them bread so long as conveyor? Historically, immigrants have never knew much Spanish, he can now to discuss Ukrainian politics. they remain free. In the end they will lay become ordinary Americans. Our post- hire a Mexican nanny to teach his chil- Yanukovych is gaining power, and the their freedom at our feet, and say to us, war Third Wave was exceptional in try- dren the language of their forebears. opposition is divided. Apathy seems to ‘Make us your slaves, but feed us.’ ” ing to resist this law of history. As politi- Nevertheless, many of us chose to be the mood here,” I offered. Importantly, the inquisitor does not feel he cal exiles, they wanted to someday return swim against the assimilationist stream. This time, five minutes passed. Then, is doing anything improper or unethical – to their country, or at least preserve what We cultivated a language no one had ping-ping: “Yeah, here too. The youth are in fact, he is convinced that he is acting in was being destroyed there. With a free heard of, which was dying out even in its disillusioned. Politics isn’t cool anymore. the best interests of his flock by relieving Ukraine, these issues are moot, and the own country. We championed a hopeless- Apathy, not Yanukovych, is the enemy.” them of the burden of free will and, in law of assimilation comes back into ly quixotic political cause. We perpetuat- Puzzled, my thumbs navigated the tiny turn, feeding them and providing them the force. ed village customs that clashed incongru- keys: “What? What do you mean that certainty and stability that mankind craves. What, then, will happen to the diaspo- ously with urban American life. We apathy, not Yanukovych, is the enemy? I Of course, this story has many mean- ra organizations? They can certainly sur- clung to a church that seemed perversely don’t get it.” This time, I waited eagerly ings on many, many levels. And perhaps vive, under two conditions. First, they resistant to modernization. The results for the ping-ping: “Yanukovych is tem- the least of these levels is political – must adapt, both to the changing charac- were often artificial, even bizarre. I porary. But apathy – willingly giving up Vladimir Putin is no inquisitor, and cer- ter of the emigration and to our changing remember a wedding where the groom’s one’s right to choose in exchange for sta- tainly no public servant can be compared American society. This means they must party careened down the freeways of Los bility and calm – that is more permanent. to Jesus. But there’s a lesson in this story appeal, on the one hand, to Ukrainians Angeles to carry out the ritual “kidnap- And more harmful,” he wrote. nonetheless. As The Economist magazine who have grown up in Soviet and post- ping” of the bride. Once Ukraine became By now, it would have been easier to noted this week, Russia’s presidential Soviet conditions, and on the other, to the independent, some of us went even fur- pick up the phone and have an actual con- election next year promises to be a progeny of the previous emigrations. ther by living, working, even marrying versation, but text messaging was never “coronation” – and we don’t even yet Appealing to these markedly different there. really about ease or logic. So, at the risk know who Mr. Putin will choose to be constituencies is easier for some organi- But was this really so unrealistic? of developing carpal tunnel, I continued the next king. There will be little debate, zations than for others. Plast, for example, Today we live in a world where your the exchange: “What’s wrong with stabili- little exchange of ideas. The death of represents a pre-war Galician ethos that doctor may be a turbaned Sikh, your den- ty? It worked well for Putin. There is no Russian civil society and political dis- might not mean much to new immigrants tist a bindi-browed Brahmin, and your viable opposition in Russia, and their course has gone largely unnoticed, over- – though its success in Ukraine suggests lawyer an Orthodox Jew in a yarmulke. economy is growing more quickly than shadowed by the brisk pace of Russian it can evolve. The Ukrainian Catholic and And you may all be living in Kansas. Ukraine’s. What’s so bad about calm?” economic growth, fueled by high prices Orthodox Churches claim the allegiance Ethno-religious identity is no longer an This time, the ping-ping was almost for Russian oil and gas. of most Ukrainians, whether natives or obstacle to upward mobility. As Chinese immediate: “Taras, sorry to cut this short, Ukraine has taken the harder path. But American-born. But they have lost many, American and Latino as well as but I have to go. Remember who your many in Ukraine today question whether and their declining numbers suggest they Ukrainian American writers and artists favorite author is?” “Sure, Dostoyevsky,” it is the right path – they look across the are losing more. From an array of reli- have shown, the diaspora experience can I replied. One final ping from Petro: border to their Russian neighbors, and gious choices, we cannot assume that produce first-rate culture, not just kitsch. “Then recall ‘The Brothers Karamazov,’ wonder whether they’d ultimately be bet- Ukrainian Americans will always choose And geographic barriers have fallen. and reflect on Ivan’s story about the ter off trading in their personal freedoms the intellectually and morally demanding With the Internet, one can keep up with grand inquisitor. Gotta run.” for short-term prosperity. And there sure- faith of their ancestors. And do our the gossip in Uzhhorod, Uruguay or Uttar Whoa – going from the sports section ly are Ukrainian politicians who would Churches speak convincingly to the new Pradesh. We can be loyal American citi- to Dostoyevsky in 10 minutes was gladly facilitate that exchange. diaspora of post-Soviet Ukrainians, many zens while participating in a culture root- enough to induce a headache. But it was- It’s this risk that makes it even more of whom did not have the benefit of fami- ed in a far-away land yet spread out over n’t hard to figure out where Petro was critical that we continue our support of ly religious traditions? the world. Assimilation is history. going with his comment. And he was democracy in Ukraine. Whatever disap- If our diaspora organizations are to be Some may think the Fourth Wave, as right on the money. pointment we may have in the perform- something more than halfway-houses to an economic immigration, will melt into The story of the grand inquisitor is real- ance of individual Ukrainian politicians assimilation, they must offer something American society like most of the first. ly a “story within a story” contained in is of little consequence. We must not let lasting and incomparable. Otherwise, as Not necessarily. They are well-educated, “The Brothers Karamazov.” The Spanish those disappointments stand in the way their membership disappears in the nationally conscious, and in close touch Inquisition is in full force, with heretics of our support for a vibrant Ukrainian American melting-pot, they must rely on with their homeland. Nor are they lack- being condemned and tortured, all in the civil society and robust political system. a steady stream of new immigrants. That ing in patriotism. Last January 29 a name of doctrinal orthodoxy. In the midst We must be firm in our faith that the is the second condition of their survival. group of them gathered in the bone- of the confusion and fear, Jesus appears, inquisitor was wrong. But for today’s Ukraine, emigration is cracking cold at the Shevchenko monu- walking calmly through the streets of a massive, debilitating hemorrhage. ment in Washington in memory of the Seville. Although he does not announce Taras Szmagala Jr. may be reached at Several million of the country’s most heroes of Kruty – an event the older dias- [email protected]. his identity, he is recognized by all. And skilled, educated and enterprising citi- pora had almost forgotten. Through e- zens have left their homes in search of mail, the commemoration was coordinat- work. Many never return. Families break ed with others in Ukraine. MAY WE HELP YOU? up. The intelligentsia is decimated. You may remember the joke about the We thus have the paradox that the patriot who wanted to buy a globe of To reach The Ukrainian Weekly call (973) 292-9800, hemorrhaging of the homeland is the Ukraine. Today Ukraine is global. The seeds of the diaspora were sown far and and dial the appropriate extension (as listed below). lifeblood of the diaspora. So is the dias- pora just a vampire, always thirsting for wide. But we are the harvest. Editorial – 3049, 3088; Production – 3063, 3069; fresh immigrant blood? Isn’t there a way Administration – 3041; Advertising – 3040; Subscriptions – 3042; for us to remain ourselves, generation Andrew Sorokowski can be reached at after generation, without relying on new [email protected]. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007 No. 10

nized by the Ukrainian side,” said Igor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Germany’s lack of enthusiasm for Foreign policy... Dygalo, spokesman for the Russian fleet. Yanukovych have grappled in a political Ukraine’s EU aspirations drew criticism (Continued from page 1) Though negotiations may be pleasant, battle to appoint his successor, to the from Mr. Yushchenko in an interview he withdrawal and the property’s transfer to the Ukrainians have a starkly different expressed disappointment of European gave to Financial Times Deutschland in the Ukrainian Ministry of Transportation view. leaders. the days leading up to Mr. Yanukovych’s and Communication. In refusing to adhere to the court “Certainly, the process of reforming visit. In his view, European politicians They were greeted by activists from order, the Russian Federation is violating does not seem easy for the Ukrainian aren’t doing enough to support Ukraine’s the Russian Bloc organization of its agreement on the Black Sea Fleet with people and nation,” said European EU and NATO ambitions. Council President Frank-Walter Sevastopol, who stood defending the the Ukrainian government said Andrii More aid to Ukraine MARS-75 station when the officials Deschytsia, spokesman for the Ministry Steinmeier during a February 6 visit to arrived. of Foreign Affairs. Kyiv. “A certain tension exists in the It’s possible the president’s criticism They removed a Ukrainian flag placed The ministry’s position is that all navi- reform process, which we were able to resonated with European Commission at the station’s gates by Student gational-hydrographic sites are Ukrainian feel during our visit.” leaders, who on March 8 announced a Brotherhood activists and trampled it, property, and the Russians should abide It’s difficult to work on an agreement decision to almost double financial aid to Mr. Yatsenko alleged. by decisions issued by Ukrainian judges. with one foreign affairs minister, and con- execute the “Ukraine-EU” action plan tinue discussions with another, he added. and support reforms in Ukraine. Russian officials said they would not Relations with European Union follow the court order because the status of On February 28, Mr. Yanukovych had More than $648 million is planned for Black Sea Fleet sites still hasn’t been Relations with the European Union in an important meeting with Ms. Merkel the next four years – the biggest invest- resolved in negotiations of the Russian- have been evolving more positively, in Berlin, the result of which was the ment being Ukraine’s integration into the Ukrainian Black Sea Fleet Subcommittee. though European leaders have lamented European Union’s expressed commit- European energy market. “In any case, legal issues related to the the lack of a clear foreign policy course ment to establishing a free trade zone Also planned are development of with Ukraine. operation of the Black Sea Fleet’s hydro- on the state level for the past three Ukraine’s oil and natural gas transport Ukraine’s eventual accession to the graphic sites are supposed to be decided months. systems, as well as improving energy European Neighborhood Policy is anoth- at the negotiating table, which to this day Since Mr. Tarasyuk’s dismissal on efficiency. er prospective preliminary step to have had positive tendencies, as recog- December 1, 2006, President Viktor At the March 6 conclusion of their European Union membership, she said at visit, Parliamentary Assembly of the a press conference. Council of Europe (PACE) observers ed to Yanukovych testifies to her growing But Ms. Merkel said she didn’t yet see Hanna Severinsen and Renata Wohlwend Tymoshenko’s message... recognition as a potential leader of Ukraine’s prospects for EU membership, said they were encouraged to see (Continued from page 8) Ukraine. … stressing that Ukraine should focus on Ukraine’s two leaders agree on legisla- creating a free trade zone as its next step. tion to reform the judiciary and establish for electoral support, is ever more viewed “While it’s hard to predict the out- Intentionally or not, Mr. Yanukovych independent courts. as a reliable and capable leader. While come, perhaps the time has come to roll the dice again by asking Ukrainians how overlooked Ms. Merkel’s reserved tone However, Ukraine’s constitutional cri- many once viewed her as extreme, more in his assessment of Ukraine’s relations they feel about the current political sis is troubling, Ms. Severinsen said. are now laying hope on her aggressive with the EU. “The Constitution should be something chaos. Even if repeat elections produce a and successful tactics as a viable substi- “We obtained the signal that the EU’s that makes the rules of the game, but it similar breakdown between Orange and tute to the void and disorder generated by doors are open for Ukraine,” he told the seems sometimes that the political forces the Yushchenko-Yanukovych act. The pro-Yanukovych voters, coalition negoti- press conference. “And that will be laid here politicize the constitutional issue fact that Tymoshenko managed to broker ations could produce a different configu- out in the new agreement for the next 10 and use it as a point of political discus- meetings with top U.S. officials at the ration for top leadership, one that is more years.” sion,” she said. same level as diplomatic protocols grant- effective than what we see today.” In fact, Mr. Yanukovych and the Party The observers are preparing a report of the Regions have maintained a careful, on Ukraine for discussion by the pragmatic policy of rejecting the North Parliamentary Assembly in October, Share The Weekly with a colleague. 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Sunday, March 25 – 2:00 pm Sunday, April 1 – 3:00 pm WINDSOR, ONTARIO ST CATHARINES, ONTARIO St. Joseph’s Secondary School Ukrainian Black Sea Hall 2425 Clover Street, Windsor 455 Welland Avenue, St. Catharines (Off Tecumseh, between Lauzon and Banwell) Tickets and more information: Tickets and more information: Ukrainian St. Catharines Credit Union Ukrainian Credit Union 118 Niagara St, St. Catharines 1069 Ottawa Street 905.684.5062 or 905.687.1954 519.256.2955 Sunday, May 6 – 2:00 pm Saturday, March 31 – 7:00 pm NEW YORK CITY SYRACUSE, NEW YORK The Great Hall at Cooper Union Fowler School Auditorium 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue 227 Magnolia Street, Syracuse Tickets and more information: Tickets and more information: Surma Book & Music Co. Ukrainian Federal Credit Union 11 East 7th Street, New York City 211 Tompkins Street, Syracuse 212.477.0729 or 917.559.8629 315.471.4074 No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007 11 Pysanka’s enduring tradition on display at The Ukrainian Museum by Marta Baczynsky material, as well as large collections. Both have been invaluable in the study NEW YORK – The beautiful pysanky and appreciation of Ukrainian folk art. (Ukrainian Easter eggs), the quintessential The pysanky in this exhibition – the work and the most widely recognizable repre- of Ms. Osadca – are arranged in groups sentatives of Ukrainian folk culture, are designed to identify the people or institu- once again making an appearance at The tions who collected the originals and were Ukrainian Museum – a welcome reminder the sources in her research. Ms. Osadca has that spring is just around the corner. done this to credit both individuals and insti- “Pysanka: Vessel of Life” opened on tutions whose efforts pioneered the study of March 3 and will be on view through this fascinating art form, promoting its July 1. Lubow Wolynetz of the muse- preservation and popularization. um’s Folk Art Collection, curated the For example, there are groups of exhibition. pysanky representing the Pelahiia The exhibition features the work of Bartosh Lytvynova Collection (collected pysanka artist Tania Osadca. Also includ- in 1876) and the Myron Korduba Study ed in this show are pysanky and embroi- (dating from 1899). There are pysanky dered shirts from the museum’s own that mirror those in The Museum of

V. Gritsik Pysanky displaying the “goddess” motif from various regions of Ukraine. From the Folk Art Collection of The Ukrainian Museum.

attempting to understand the mystery of from Troy, Ohio; Zenon Elyjiw of life and somehow grasp its fundamental Rochester, N.Y.; Luba Perchyshyn from impulse, man created myths about it, as Minneapolis; Ihor Slabitsky from Rhode well as cults and rituals surrounding the Island; Yaroslava Surmach Mills from West objects that were deemed to contain or be Nyack, N.Y.; and Ms. Zielyk of New York. imbedded with these powers of life. The In its newly built, elegant facility, The pysanka – Ukrainian Easter egg – is just Ukrainian Museum honors and continues such an object: a symbol of the greatest the venerable tradition of the Ukrainian mystery experienced by man – the mystery pysanka. Once a practice enveloped in of life – suffused by nature with the mystery, with rituals and symbolism that essence of life and through man’s interven- held deep and sacred significance for the tion with magical powers of protection.” people, the pysanka and its mystique have The advent of Christianity in Ukraine survived the turbulent passage of history. in 988 did not dispel the traditions and Shedding its religious relevance, creating the popularity of the pysanka mystique a pysanka has remained a beloved custom among the people, since they were to be treasured and delighted in. deeply ingrained in their ages-old social In conjunction with the “Pysanka: Pysanky from the Hutsul region displaying the tree of life motif. From the Folk infrastructure. Subsequently, the pysanka Vessel of Life” exhibition, the museum Art Collection of The Ukrainian Museum. and the customs associated with it were presents the following programs: incorporated into the Christian religion. • Pysanky-Decorating Workshops: extensive Folk Art Collection, displaying Ethnography and Applied Art in Lviv, Many of the pagan celebrations, especial- March 10, 11, 17, 18 and 25, 2-4 p.m. regional similarities in design and col- whose collection dates back to 1868, as ly those associated with the arrival of This is a hands-on workshop, allowing oration in embroidery and pysanky orna- well as those from the catalogue pro- spring, were interpreted with new adults and children (over age 12) to learn mentation. duced by Serhii Kuzhunskyj in 1899 and Christian meaning and paralleled the the art of making pysanky. Dyes, bees Ms. Osadca is a master of the pysanka those researched by Erast Biniashevskyi, observances of the Easter Holiday. Thus, wax and stylus (a special writing instru- craft and an esteemed authority on whose drawings were first reproduced in the pysanka became a very visible and ment) are used to decorate the eggs with Ukrainian folk art. Ms. Osadca, who stud- his book, published in 1968. viable part of this most dramatic and traditional Ukrainian designs. The work- ied art history at Kent State University, The part of the exhibition that features important Christian celebration. shop will be held on Saturday and Sunday. found a passion for pysanky very early in pysanky and embroidered shirts from the The Ukrainian Museum has never Fee for each session: adults, $15; seniors life, having watched her grandmother and museum’s Folk Art Collection is failed in its 30 years of operations to fos- and students over 16, $10; children 12-16, mother decorate the eggs. described by curator Lubow Wolynetz: ter the tradition of the pysanka each $5; museum members receive a 15 per- She became an expert pysanka artist, “The type of ornament and the color spring for its constituents and the general cent discount. Registration is required. demonstrated the craft widely and devot- scheme in the embroidery of a particular public. The museum’s Folk Art • Demonstrations in the Making of ed many years to researching the history, region are very often similar to the Collection has hundreds of magnificent Pysanky: Saturday, March 31, 1-5 p.m. symbolism and application of the ancient design and color combination on the examples of pysanky, representing vari- Artists will create beautiful pysanky for pysanky designs. Her work in this field pysanky of that region.” With this prem- ous regions of Ukraine, showing the the viewing audience. Slavko Nowytski’s allowed her to develop one of the most ise she calls attention to the fact that the diversity in design, color and execution. award-winning film “Pysanka” will be important collections of pysanky outside cultural tastes of regions or even individ- In appreciation of the continuity of the shown on a continuous basis. Pre-regis- of Ukraine, which have been exhibited ual villages in Ukraine embodied their pysanka tradition among the Ukrainian tration is not required. throughout the United States, Canada artistic expressions with favored charac- immigrant population in the United Admission fee: adults, $10; students and Ukraine. teristics unique to their area. States and Canada, the museum has over 12 and seniors, $8; museum mem- A most unique characteristic of Ms. Ms. Wolynetz explained further, “The numerous times featured the work of bers, $6; free for children under 12. The Osadca’s pysanky collection is that in individual motifs that are combined to cre- contemporary pysanka artists, who faith- fee includes admission to all museum her work she has remained true to the ate ornamental designs are similar through- fully adhere to the time-honored princi- exhibitions. original. In each case she has produced out Ukraine, but the great variety of designs ples of this fascinating craft. For further information contact: The faithful reproductions of pysanky that stem, to a large degree, from regional tastes The latest such exhibition was presented Ukrainian Museum, 222 E. 6th St., New she had found during her years of and preferences. Each region has its own in 2000 and featured the work of pysanky York, NY 10003; telephone, 212-228- research in various museums in Ukraine, preferred color combination, rhythmic har- artists Jaroslava, Romana and Natalka 0110; e-mail: [email protected]; in her travels throughout the country, as mony and compositional style.” Bachynsky from Montreal; Ms. Osadca web page, www.ukrainianmuseum.org. well as in published sources. In her strict Many of the decorated eggs displayed adherence to tradition, she has added her in this part of the exhibition were created part to the thread of continuity in her by artist Sofika Zielyk at the request of generation, so vital to the survival of the the curator of the exhibition for the pur- Ukrainian cultural legacy. pose of ornamentation comparison with "&&+,é2(.+,% é"'éé.%-.+%é1)+"'„ Interest in folk art in Ukraine was the embroidery. A native New Yorker, Ms.  ôö born in the early part of the 19th century, Zielyk was introduced to the craft by her /(%.'-+ heralding a tremendous blossoming of mother. Today, a successful pysanka artist, ö national awareness. Scholars, researchers Ms. Zielyk is also a teacher of the craft, -!é.$+"'"'é&.,.& and collectors went into the country, vis- has lectured on the topic, and exhibited  ô'ô2 ô iting villages, gathering songs, stories, her work widely at numerous galleries -ô. ö ö ô& 0 ôô  ô
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New concert series to present “Bandura – The Soul of Ukraine” DETROIT – The all-male Ukrainian instrument: It is considered the voice of * * * Summer Music Festival and presented Bandurist Chorus (UBC), under Artistic Ukraine. This inspiration has been a “Bandura Christmas International” with Founded in 1918, the Ukrainian Director and Conductor Oleh Mahlay, guiding force for the Ukrainian Bandurist Metropolitan Opera soloist Paul Bandurist Chorus has a long and proud has announced its 2007 concert series Chorus since its inception in Kyiv in Plishka. “Bandura – The Soul of Ukraine.” history of representing the bandura and As a tribute to its role in preserving 1918. Ukrainian choral music on the interna- The first phase of concerts begin in This year also marks the 100th and perpetuating the legacy of Ukrainian March and culminates in June. Concerts tional stage. Boasting a repertoire of music, the chorus was selected by anniversary of Hryhory Kytasty’s birth. more than 500 songs, this internationally will take place in Windsor (March 25) Maestro Kytasty (1907-1984), the long- Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers as the and St. Catharines, Ontario (April 1); celebrated and award-winning ensemble recipient of the Taras Shevchenko standing conductor of the UBC, was a has captivated audiences in major concert Syracuse, N.Y. (March 31); Pittsburgh, driving force in re-instilling Ukrainian Ukrainian State Prize – the highest Pa. (to be announced); New York City halls in the United States, Canada, choral and bandura art in North America. award that can be bestowed for excel- (May 6)and Chicago (to be announced). Europe, Australia, and Ukraine since lence in the arts. In October, the Ukrainian Bandurist Considered a legend in his own time, this immigrating to North America from Chorus will embark on a 10-day tour of composer, conductor, performer and Europe in 1949. the eastern United States and Canada. teacher was a role model and inspiration The chorus has performed for such “Bandura – The Soul of Ukraine” will to young bandura players. noted personalities as former President Stage adaptation tell a story about cultural identity, sur- For more information on the concert Richard Nixon, former President Ronald vival and mystery through several cen- series, readers may log on to www.ban- Reagan, movie star Jack Palance and gets good reviews turies. Because its development closely dura.org or call UBC President Anatoli former President of Ukraine Leonid reflects the history of the Ukrainian Murha, 734-658-6452. (Check comments Kravchuk. Most recently, the Ukrainian PARSIPPANY, N.J. — C. S. Lewis’s nation, the bandura, a 60-stringed instru- newspapers for concert advertisements Bandurist Chorus was featured at the “The Great Divorce,” a story about a bus ment, is more than a national musical and announcements). internationally renowned Stratford ride through heaven and hell, was recent- ly adapted for stage by George Drance, artistic director of The Magis Theater Company, who also directed the produc- tion. Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times called the performance “long on theatrical skill and remarkably short on preachiness.” Mr. Drance with a cast of nine “bring the scenes to life” assuming multiple roles. Mr. Drance, a Ukrainian American who is artist-in-residence at Fordham University at Lincoln Center and a mem- ber of the Jesuits, has performed in over 20 countries on five continents. Film credits include “The Light of Eons,” which won best short film at the Westchester Film Festival, and “Solidarity,” shown at the New York Film Festival. Last year at the Biennale in Venice, Italy, he played Pantalone in Carlo Gozzi’s “Il Corvo.” The first run of the 90-minute per- formance was shown at The Salvation Army’s Theater 315, 315 W. 47th St., in New York. A second run of the perform- ance is proposed with dates to be deter- mined; for more information readers may contact the theater company by e-mail, [email protected], or phone, 212-592-0127, or log on to http://magis- The Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus. theatre.tripod.com. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007 13 Young artists showcase their works at Kyiv’s Center for Contemporary Art by Larissa Babij photos, X-ray art and a large red Special to The Ukrainian Weekly alien bound by silver cord. On one wall, a collage of spray- KYIV – Clashing guitar noises ricocheted painted stencils depicts various off the 18th century vaulted arches of the members of the group in a street- Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) at the style family portrait. National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy In Kyiv last summer, the doors the night of February 23. to Totoro Garden were open to Young people in mismatched clothes and anyone with a work-in-progress, mod hairdos squeezed past one another explained Anatolii Sloyko. The between the chaotic performance and adjoin- imaginative gallery, featuring work ing exhibition halls. by more than 60 artists, also hosted Large sheets painted with bright letters and art shows, conceptual parties and strings of lights approached college dorm décor. Somewhat resembling a frat party, this performances. was indeed a celebration of fraternity – the Its current virtual existence is kind that develops among young artists all reflected by its CCA exhibition pursuing a common goal: to survive in the title: “Transplantation.” slippery field of Ukrainian contemporary art. SOSka is a gallery-squat in a Initiated by the group REP – which in ramshackle apartment in Kharkiv. Ukrainian stands for Radical Experimental Artists Mykola Ridny, Bella Space – the Communities Project is an exhibi- Logachova, Hanna Kryventseva tion on view at the CCA through March 25. and Olena Polyashchenko opened Since the CCA was established by George it in late 2005 after collaborating Soros in 1993, its progressive shows have on various projects. shaped the artistic education of today’s young SOSka’s CCA show documents Center for Contemporary Art artists. politically oriented performances, REP collective installation crowns the show with new symbolic language. Almost all currently active artists in photo projects and gallery installa- Ukraine claim affiliation with a specific artis- tions. The highlight is a large video projection of the artists’ satir- Yulia Tymoshenko and Viktor Yanukovych. tic group, REP ’s Mykyta Kadan said at a ical march through Kharkiv subway cars dressed as beggars Psia Crew’s street art – which includes a series of gallery press conference on February 22. behind realistic masks of political leaders Viktor Yushchenko, spray-painted alligator heads and pixilated skulls of painted glass tiles in industrial windows – is document- ed in large black-and-white photos printed on banner- weight vinyl. The opposite wall is also hung with graffiti photos, these ironically narrating the urban wilderness of Berlin. They are among the works presented by Karpatskyi Teatr – a collective of Ukrainian, German and Austrian creative professionals. Formed in 2005, the group has accommodations in the Carpathian Mountains, Cologne and Berlin, for working on projects, exhibiting, and staging perform- ances, readings and film screenings, explained one of its founders, Ivan Bazak. The diversity of its members is reflected in the exhibited works. Another photo collage blurs the borders between Germany and Romania through a seamless conglomera- tion of images of urban congestion, technological grace and decay. Around the corner, a video project creates a comic juxtaposition between a contemporary Carpathian Ukrainian wedding – including a fashionable white bridal gown and traditional folk musicians – and the text of a 1914 Austro-Hungarian travel guide to the region. The dense installation of Kherson’s contemporary artists is varied yet aggressive, ranging from drawings of physical mutilation on stained paper to vivid photos of a woman helplessly tied to a tree, from elegant black- PENOPLAST performs at the exhibition opening. 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The exhibition, featuring seven groups of artists from all over Ukraine, plus a few from Germany and Austria, attempts to identify a grand narrative uniting these diverse practitioners: community. Unlike capitalist competition, this project resembles socialist contests where participants push one another to excel toward one common goal, Mr. Kadan said. He concluded, “This exhibition is about friendship.” The distinct identity of each artistic community becomes evident when walking through the gallery’s six rooms. REP’s collective installation occupies the central hall, its white wall dominated by a large, black, winged handshake. Below, a lexicon of symbols for the new patriotism reveals the above message as “soaring friendship.” Other commanding graphic compositions adorn the walls like rebus puzzles to be deciphered. Since the 2004 Orange Revolution, the Kyiv-based REP has staged group shows and interactive social proj- ects that manipulate and study the language of political address. Currently, the REP consists of Zhanna Kadyrova, Lesia Khomenko, Mykyta Kadan, Lada Nakonechna, Volodymyr Kuznetsov and Kseniya Gnylytska. Projects by Totoro Garden – an ephemeral independ- ent artistic institution that flowered in Kyiv in the sum- mer of 2006 – inhabit an adjoining room. The mixed-media assortment includes low-tech card- board viewing boxes, found-object sculptures, travel The scene as young art lovers attended the exhibit opening at the Center for Contemporary Art. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007 No. 10

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found in units and formations of the land NEWSBRIEFS forces; there are about 6,500 women in (Continued from page 14) the Ukraine’s air force. (Ukrinform) instituted into the apparent suicide com- Mortality still exceeds birth rate mitted by former Minister of Internal Affairs Yurii Kravchenko. Procurator KYIV – In 2006 Ukraine observed the General Oleksander Medvedko announced negative demographic trend of mortality that all appropriate investigations and rele- exceeding the birth rate. According to the vant examinations in the case have been Justice Ministry, in 2006 462,700 births carried out, resulting in the finding that were registered versus 758,100 deaths. У глибокому смутку повідомляємо рідних, друзів і знайомих, there was no evidence of a crime commit- Commenting on the figures, Justice що в понеділок, 26 лютого 2007 р. відійшов ted in the case. Thus, investigators have Minister Oleksander Lavrynovych called у вічність на 75 році життя наш найдорожчий the situation “disturbing.” (Ukrinform) closed the Kravchenko case. On March 4, "У#, $А$О і 'І'О 2005, the ex-minister was found in his UAOC asks UOC-KP head to resign country home with two gunshot wounds – one to his chin and the other to his temple. KYIV – The Hierarchal Sobor of the св. п. He was to visit the prosecutor’s office that Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church day as a witness summoned in the investi- (UAOC) has called on Patriarch Filaret д-р )*Я$О)/А* $1О34"89:О gation of the Heorhii Gongadze murder (Denysenko), head of the Ukrainian case. Mr. Kravchenko’s sudden death was Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate нар. 15 грудня 1931 р. у /ьвові. said to be connected with the Gongadze (UOC-KP), to resign. The sobor released an killing. The public, however, does not appeal to bishops, clergy and faithful of the *ідвідини і >А1А)$А) відбудуться в четвер, 1-го березня 2007 р. від believe that Mr. Kravchenko committed UOC-KP on March 2. In the appeal, the 6-ої до 8-ої веч. в McCrery Funeral Home, 3924 Concord Pike, Wilmington, DE. sobor accuses Patriarch Filaret of “desecrat- suicide, since there were two gunshots to >ОBО1О99І *І'>1А*4 відбудуться в п'ятницю, 2 березня 2007 р., о his head. (Ukrinform) ing the idea of the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church.” The UAOC bishops год. 12-ій дня в українській православній церкві свв. >етра і >авла, Odesa mayor honored by IRI call the patriarch “the symbol of schism” 1406 Philadelphia Pike, Wilmington, DE. KYIV – The U.S.-based International and call on him “to voluntarily leave the >охорон в суботу, 3 березня 2007 р. о год. 12-ій дня на українському position of the head of the UOC-KP and, by Republican Institute (IRI) has conferred цвинтарі св. Андрія >ервозваного в ). Iавнд Iруку, 9. 'ж. the title “Hero of Democracy” upon doing so, to expedite unification processes Odesa Mayor Eduard Gurvits. The diplo- in Ukrainian Orthodoxy and the recognition Jалишені у смутку: of the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church ma was presented to the nominee by IRI дружина – "А1$А Program Officer Brian Mefford. The IRI by the world’s national Orthodox Churches.” According to the hierarchs of донька – JОЯ /І'ІЯ з чоловіком B14)$О3О1О" confers the title upon public and political the UAOC, the canonical sanctions against внуки – /І'ІЯ і 8'*А1' figures beyond the borders of the United Patriarch Filaret have been recognized by States. (Ukrinform) та ближча і дальша родина. all national Orthodox Churches and the Armenian Consulate in Dnipropetrovsk UAOC cannot ignore the position of world *ічна Lому пам'ять! Orthodoxy. That is why a decision has been ...... KYIV – Armenia opened a Consulate made to avoid eucharistic and prayerful in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Armenian communion with Patriarch Filaret. Jамість квітів можна складати пожертви на Ambassador to Ukraine Armen (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) 9аукове $овариство ім. Oевченка в Америці Khachatrian said on March 5. The або Ukraine, Hungary sign cooperation deal Consulate will provide services for citi- на українську православну церкву свв. >етра і >авла у Wilmington, DE. zens of the Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava and BUDAPEST – Ukrainian Prime Zaporizhzhia regions. The consul of Minister Viktor Yanukovych and his Armenia in Dnipropetrovsk has been Hungarian counterpart, Ferenc Gyurcsany, appointed; he is Arsen Avetisian. The signed a bilateral cooperation accord for Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava and 2007 in Budapest on March 6, Interfax- Zaporizhzhia regions are home to about Ukraine reported. Mr. Yanukovych told 20,000 ethnic Armenians. (Ukrinform) journalists in Budapest that he offered 18,500 women serve in military Hungary the use of Ukrainian gas-storage facilities. According to Mr. Yanukovych, KYIV – There are more than 70,000 Hungary receives 12 billion cubic meters women serving and working in the of gas annually via Ukraine but consumes Ukrainian military, and almost 18,500 only 8 billion cubic meters. Mr. out of that number are military women, Yanukovych also told journalists that the the Defense Ministry press service two countries are discussing plans to build reported on March 6. The vast majority a hydropower plant on the Tysa/Tisza of military women, about 7,000, can be River. (RFE/RL Newsline)

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Foundation involved will alleviate the her younger sister, Nellie, died. plays, dance performances, theater pre- Ukrainian Canadians... government’s concerns about possible Of the $45 million of the estimated sentations and books, but lack the neces- (Continued from page 1) misappropriation of allocated funds. wealth of the internees, which was taken sary funding. additional $10 million. More importantly, the Ukrainian com- by the government during the operation, “We came out [of the meeting] with a According to Dr. Luciuk, the munity feels they are better able to Ukrainians are requesting $12.5 million sense that Mr. Kenney is anxious to be Ukrainian group was offered the $2.5 determine project priorities and to in symbolic redress to be established seen as a doer, not just a talker,” added million by the Liberal government as a deliver services more effectively to the within the Shevchenko Foundation, in Dr. Luciuk. “The next step is up to him.” minimum and was told that it would like- community. full and final settlement of the Ukrainian Ambassador to Canada Ihor ly receive an additional $10 million to According to Dr. Luciuk, a precedent Ukrainian Canadian community’s Ostash said, “We believe that a full and bring about commemorative and educa- was set by the way in which the govern- claims. honorable resolution to this tragic tional initiatives it feels are necessary to ment dealt with Japanese Canadians The Ukrainian Canadian community, episode in Canada’s history will be suc- inform the public about this period of under the government of Prime Minister at its own expense, has erected commem- cessfully achieved and that public Canadian history. Recently, there has Brian Mulroney and Chinese Canadians orative plaques at all but five of the 26 acknowledgement of the responsibility been a squabble in the Parliament under the government of Stephen Harper. internment camp sites. Dr. Luciuk said for the wrongs done to the Ukrainian between MPs Borys Wrzesnewskyj and He underscored that Ukrainian that community members would also like Canadians will certainly prevent a mass Jason Kenney regarding the exact figures Canadians are just looking for equality to organize educational commemorations violation of the human rights and civil promised to the Ukrainian group. from their government. for schools, and possibly underwrite liberties in the future.” The Ukrainian delegation told Mr. At their meeting in February, the group agreed that Mr. Kenney would Kenney that they refuse to apply to the CCA director between 1999 and 2005. consider their points and provide a CHRP fund for money they were Young artists... This year REP set up headquarters response by the end of March, when the already promised. Dr. Luciuk, director (“Shtab”) at the gallery to encourage the next budget is to be approved. (Continued from page 13) of research for the UCCLA, said that development of Ukraine’s young artistic Time is of the utmost importance for and-white chrome photos of solitary fig- Ukrainians have repeatedly requested generation. the Ukrainians, Dr. Luciuk explained, as ures to a series of portraits of drab-hued an endowment within the community’s Current director Yulia Vaganova wel- Mary Manko Haskett, 98, the last living Soviet heroes against backgrounds of Shevchenko Foundation, which was comed the more laboratory-oriented brightly colored dots. established by an act of Parliament, survivor of the internment operations is approach the gallery is embracing. As a The Kherson Museum of preventing them from having to go in failing health. In 1916 Ms. Manko result of meager funding through dona- Contemporary Art in the apartment of “cap in hand” for each project. It is Haskett was sent with her family to Spirit tions and Ukrainian and foreign partner- hoped that having the Shevchenko Lake Camp near Amos, Quebec, where Vyacheslav Mashnytskyi opened in 2004 ships, she said the CCA is continually and became the first of its kind in teetering between closing and enduring. Ukraine. Kherson artists eschew main- The gallery has a contract to maintain Bridges Ukraine Tours stream trends and work outside the con- its current space until 2009. text of globalization, said Stanislav Mr. Onuch noted that the arrival of the Voliazlovsky, whose artwork is part of well-publicized PinchukArtCentre in Cultural, agricultural, agribusiness and custom tours. the Kherson exhibition. Kyiv has allowed the CCA to play a The art performance ensemble Pank more experimental role on the Ukrainian 7 day all inclusive tours. Panic Electronic Super-Group-Dream contemporary art scene. PENOPLAST entertained visitors at the The next two years may provide the $2880 includes airfare, meals, lodging, transportation exhibition opening with music and the best opportunity for this young creative multi-lingual commotion of theatrical generation to develop their talents and and full-time interpreter/guide. antics. Its motto: the “absurdization” of earn recognition, he added. mass consciousness. “We need to focus on the internal dis- REP ’s activity as resident artists at the course among you,” Mr. Onuch said, For information and reservations please visit CCA in 2005 signaled “the beginning of speaking to the participants of the www.bridgesukrainetours.com or call 970-361-5789. a certain re-orientation,” said board Communities Project gathered around the chairman Yurii Onuch, who served as conference table. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007 17 New York curator meets with colleagues and public in Edmonton EDMONTON, Alberta – While spend- As part of its programming The ing the past week in Edmonton, Lubow Ukrainian Museum hosts a wide number Wolynetz, curator of The Ukrainian of community educational sessions. Museum in New York, spent a lot of time People from all cultures come to the visiting the Edmonton area and speaking museum to learn about Ukrainian culture with residents. With many smaller and to begin their individual, lifelong Ukrainian museums in the area there was connection with it. a great demand on her time and advice. In her second talk at the University of Invited to Edmonton by the Kule Alberta on Thursday, Ms. Wolynetz Center for Ukrainian and Canadian spoke about the importance of Folklore, Ms. Wolynetz came to present Ukrainians’ strong ties to their folk cul- two public lectures for Edmontonians. ture. Her first lecture at the Royal Alberta “As a nationless and nameless group Museum was on the growth of The of people for so many years, due to wars Ukrainian Museum in New York. She and occupations, it was essential that, to spoke of its development from a cramped hold on to their ‘Ukrainian-ness,’ they space and community-run organization to held on to their traditions. These tradi- its present, state-of-the-art facility, pro- tions have allowed them to maintain their fessionally run and widely supported. ethnic identity, an identity that is still With displays that focus on folk culture strong today as you can easily see from from its collection of over 8,000 pieces, the Edmonton community,” Ms. to presentations of fine art by renowned Wolynetz said. Ukrainian artists such as Alexander She also spoke of the importance of Archipenko and Jacques Hinzdovsky, the folk art in its demonstration of patriotism. Lubow Wolynetz speaks in Edmonton. museum is showing Ukrainian culture at In a time when Ukrainians were not its best, Ms. Wolynetz said. allowed to express their ethnic pride ver- people are going. We learn from our past; commented. “Amazing resources, great Throughout her lecture she empha- bally, they would use the traditional col- we build on our history. To see far into facilities and a community that supports sized the importance of professionalism ors of blue and yellow, and the Ukrainian the future we must stand on the shoulders it so strongly; Edmonton is truly in both the administration and design of national emblem, the “Tryzub” (trident) of something that is bigger than our- blessed.” She encouraged the Edmonton exhibits. “Presenting a display that both in their embroidery of ritual items. Today, selves. Folk culture is the giant upon groups to work together to build some- old and young can take pride in is essen- Ukrainians worldwide still proudly use whose shoulders we stand,” she under- thing amazing. “Edmonton’s museums tial to the success of the museum,” noted these symbols of “Ukrainian-ness.” scored. have such great possibility for growth Ms. Wolynetz. “The youth of today are Summing up her presentation, Ms. Ms. Wolynetz had the opportunity to and development. Such a rich community very sophisticated; they need to be Wolynetz spoke of the importance of folk visit Edmonton’s various Ukrainian with so much possibility. It is important exposed to their history in a progressive culture in general. “In order to under- museums and historical sites, as well as that the groups here unite and build, and way that allows them interaction and stand the direction we are heading we the groups who run them. She was very do not allow ego to get in the way,” Ms. understanding.” must be able to see clearly where we as a impressed and said she is looking for- Wolynetz said. ward to coming back in the near future Reflecting on Ms. Wolynetz’s visit to with some of her associates from The Edmonton, Kule Center Director Andriy Osinchuk to perform at West Point Ukrainian Museum. “There are a lot of Nahachewsky said, “She has been a great lessons that New York can learn from resource for our community, and future WEST POINT, N.Y. – Edmonton,” she said. collaboration with her and the New York Internationally renowned “Edmonton is definitely on par with museum is not only a must, but also a pianist Juliana Osinchuk New York, if not farther ahead,” she great pleasure.” will inaugurate the U.S. Military Academy’s Department of Foreign Philadelphia and UCU Languages Performing Arts Series, with a piano concert featuring works by Mozart, Chopin and Gershwin. The concert will take place in Eisenhower Hall, West Your Generosity at Work Point on Friday, March 23, at 7 p.m. This performance series is part of the depart- Philadelphia Friends of the Ukrainian Catholic University ment of foreign languages cordially invite you to an informative initiative to bring back culture to the West Point Benefit Luncheon area, and to expose U.S. Sunday, March 25, 2007 Cadets to classical music At2PM repertoire as performed at by internationally recog- Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center nized artists. Pianist Juliana Osinchuk 700 Cedar Road Dr. Osinchuk, is one of Jenkintown, PA today’s most versatile artists. She has been Nadia Boulanger, Rosina Lhevinne and Featured Guest Speakers: performing to great critical acclaim nation- Nadia Reisenberg. She received her for- ally and internationally since age 11 when mal education from the Conservatoire de she made her surprise debut in Carnegie Musique in Paris and the Juilliard Hall performing Beethoven’s Sonata, School, graduating with bachelor’s, mas- Op.10, No. 1, to rave reviews. Her “supe- ter’s and doctor of musical arts degrees. rior technique, disipline and talent” (Los Dr. Osinchuk is on the Steinway Piano Angelese Times) have dazzled audiences Roster of International Artists and cur- and critics in many of the world’s great rently serves as artistic director of the concert halls. Musical America selected Anchorage Festival of Music – Soiree her as a “Young Artist to Watch.” Series and Young Alaskan Artists Award As a much sought after chamber Programs. Prof. Jeffrey Wills Prof. Antoine Arjakovsky pianist, Dr. Osinchuk has collaborated Her concert at West Point is a formal Vice Rector and Member of Board of Trustees Director, Institute of Ecumenical Studies Ukrainian Catholic University Ukrainian Catholic University with many great artists, including gala concert. Admission is by invitation Ruggiero Ricci, Daniel Heifetz, only and free of charge. The public may Nathaniel Rosen, Leslie Parnas and Lee call in and inquire about invitations. For Wilkins. informaion call Dr. Rajaa Chouairi, 845- Tickets at $40 per person may be purchased at: Ukrainian Center, Byzantine Church Supplies at 833 N. Franklin Street Among Dr. Osinchuk’s teachers were 534-5489. Ukrainian Selfreliance Credit Union in Philadelphia, PA and Trenton, NJ MB Financial Bank and from Committee Members of the Philadelphia Friends of UCU Need a back issue? 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ORTHODONTIST Ukrainian Students Association Dr. Daniel A. Kuncio Offices in Queens and Manhattan: at Buffalo resumes its activity Ñ. чÌËÎÓ é. äÛ̈¸Ó Z.D. Kuncio DDS General Dentistry by Katrusia Miecyjak dent body with a clearer view of what the Specialist in Child and Adult 26-03 203 St. Ukrainian Students Association really is. Orthodontics Bayside, NY 11360 BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Ukrainian In the beginning of the year, there was Certified and Published in (718) 352-1361 Students Association at the University at no Ukrainian Students Association as Invisalign® Buffalo, The State University of New York, there had been in years past, because the Topal Orthodontics held a club night fund-raiser on January 26 club was combined with the Russian Complimentary Consultation 2109 Broadway (73rd St.) at La Luna Nightclub in downtown Buffalo. Club to make RUSA – the Russian Suite 201 (Bayside office only) The fund-raiser’s goal was to help the Ukrainian Student Association. However, New York, NY 10023 Most Insurances Accepted club get back on its feet after it was taken there was no actual Ukrainian aspect to (212) 874-0030 over by the Russian Club in the previous this club, so it had to be separated. year. A group of students decided to split The theme for the night was “Decades the group into two separate clubs. This of Dance” with music by “DJ Aduk” was a success and now the Ukrainian PACKAGES, CARS AND from Detroit who spun music from the Students Association is independent with 1970s and 1980s, all the way up to today, CONTAINERS TO its own agenda. The club night fund-rais- including the popular songs by current UKRAINE AND EASTERN er was imperative to help the club get Ukrainian artists such as Ruslana. stabilized and to promote knowledge EUROPE Club members agreed that the outcome about what the club is and what it does. of the event was tremendous, bringing in Club officers are: Katrusia Miecyjak, people from all over the city and even some president; Yelena Dyatel, vice-president; Travel service: Air tickets and visas to Ukraine and other countries. out-of-towners. The night was a complete Stefan Moroz, treasurer; Pavel Money transfer to Ukraine and other countries. success, raising enough money to help the Gadzovich, secretary; and Tanya Brown, Ukrainian and European CDs for sale. Ukrainian souvenirs and kercheifs for sale. club start over and to provide the UB stu- e-board consultant. Telephone cards: 80 min. for $5

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What is your general impression from I have been wanting to ask you this This can’t be achieved through prison Yulia Tymoshenko... your visit to the United States? question for the past 10 years now. Why sentences, repressions or any type of (Continued from page 7) do you bother with all this? Why struggle extraordinary measures that one would First and foremost, I have a very positive against this giant, seemingly invincible choose to take. Simply put, this is my Do you think a victory is realistic in an impression, but I would like to set the atmosphere in which power and money machine, why endure prison sentences, purpose in life. And I will pursue it. record straight about some rumors that are worries, loss of health? games are played? Besides, being familiar with the politics circulating – that the democratic world is in Ukraine, I ask myself: “Who can make disillusioned with Ukraine, and that some Every person throughout his or her life I’ll tell you even more than that. The this happen, if not our team?” other questionable emotions are being tries to pursue some kind of ideal. “wheelers and dealers” of the Party of the expressed, but this is far from the truth. Everybody sees different ideals. Some Have you never woken up in the Regions are constantly saying that they will Ukraine is being viewed as a leading demo- want to make big money. Others want to morning thinking “what do I need all not allow for early elections to be held, that cratic catalyst among post-Soviet countries, make a career in science hoping to make these troubles for?” this time around they will not be as “soft” as and Ukraine has not lost this special status. a unique discovery for mankind. My life- they were in 2004 during the Orange Ukraine is [also] being viewed as a very time ideal is to see a Ukraine that is beau- It happens. For about five minutes Revolution, that they’ve been battle-hard- important [partner] in the formulation of a tiful and a worthy member of the until I’m fully awake. And things get to ened and are ready to bring in the armed balanced energy policy in the entire region. European community, a country that can me sometimes, because like anyone else forces. But in reality they know that their Ukraine is not [synonymous with] disillu- offer the world unique beautiful stan- I, too, feel disillusioned at times. And “wheeling and dealing” will not stand the sionment. It is [synonymous with] hope. dards in the establishment of its social then there are the insults... But I can test of time, and they are too cowardly to And this is the sentiment I heard along with order. endure all these things if there is a goal undertake such unconstitutional actions. expressions of support for democratic forces This is my personal dream, my driving that is much higher than engaging in And I am convinced that the [pro-]constitu- in Ukraine, as well as support for our aspira- force. And nobody can make me alter my some kind of personal vendettas. Even tional forces will prevail in early elections. tions for Euro-Atlantic integration. course or take this goal away from me. exhaustion I can endure.

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Through September 30 Art exhibit, “Pysanka: Vessel of Life,” March 22 Tarnawecky Distinguished Lecture by New York The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 Winnipeg, MB Myrna Kostash, “How I lost my hyphen and found my groove,” University of Manitoba, March 15-May 6 Art exhibit, “Vera Jacyk: Chysto, Chysto, 204-474-8905 Oshawa, ON Chysto,” Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 905-576-3000 March 22 Concert, “Paris to Kyiv – Live Fragmenti,” Athabasca, AB Nancy Appleby Theater, 780-525-2161 or March 15 Pysanka class by Judie Hawryluk, West 780-916-6871 Buffalo, NY Seneca Community Education Center, 716-674-5185 March 23 Lecture by Serhii Plokhii, “Remembering Yalta: Toronto The Politics of International History,” March 16 Lecture by Orysia Tracz, “Songs Your Mother University of Toronto, 416-946-8113 Winnipeg, MB Should Never Have Taught You: Erotic Symbolism in Ukrainian Folk Songs,” March 23 Concert, “Paris to Kyiv – Live Fragmenti,” University of Manitoba, 204-474-9681 Bonnyville, AB Lyle Victor Albert Center, 780-526-3986

March 16 Ukrainian modern art workshop, “Modernity, March 24 Concert, “Songs of Ukraine,” featuring the Toronto Identity, Tradition,” University of Toronto, Burlington, ON Canadian Bandurist Capella, Music at St. Luke’s 416-946-8113 2007, 905-639-7643

March 16 “Literary Café at the Institute,” featuring March 24 Concert, “Paris to Kyiv – Live Fragmenti,” New York readings by Vasyl Makhno, Yuriy Tarnawsky Edmonton, AB Maclab Theater, 780-424-2915 or and Alexander Motyl, Ukrainian Institute 780-916-6871 of America, 212-288-8660 March 24 Lecture by Mykola Kravets on aircraft March 17, 18, 25 Pysanka workshop, The Ukrainian Museum, New York designer Ihor Sikorsky, Shevchenko Scientific New York 212-228-0110 Society, 212-254-5130

March 17 Lecture by Andriy Legkyj, “Trends in March 25 Presentation by Iryna Kowal, “Afternoon at New York Contemporary Instrumental Chamber Music Washington the Theater,” Embassy of Ukraine, in Ukraine, Names and Works,” Shevchenko 202-349-2937 or 202-244-8836 Scientific Society, 212-254-5130 March 25 Concert, “Bandura – The Soul of Ukraine,” March 17 Women’s Day, “Women Nurturing Women: Windsor, ON Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus, St. Joseph Philadelphia A Celebration of Women’s Spirit,” Immaculate Secondary School, 519-256-2955 Conception Cathedral Hall, 215-627-0143 March 25 Pysanka Workshop, Ukrainian Homestead, March 18 Syzokryli Ukrainian Dance Ensemble performs Lehighton, PA 215-235-3709 or 610-377-4621 New York at the European Folk Festival, Fashion Institute of Technology, 212-217-5800 March 25 Banquet fund-raiser, to benefit Ukrainian Jenkintown, PA Catholic University, Ukrainian Educational March 18 Presentation by Norman Golb, “Khazars in Cultural Center, 215-663-1166 Chicago Ukraine,” University of Chicago, 773-883-9737 March 25 Yara Arts Group presents “Janyl,” La MaMa March 19 Lecture by Roman Szporluk, “The Traditional New York Theater, 212-475-7710 or www.lamama.org Cambridge, MA Scheme of 19th Century Ukrainian History and the Problem or Rational Restructuring Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Please send e-mail to of the History of Eastern Europe,” [email protected]. Items will be published at the discretion of the Harvard University, 617-495-4053 editors and as space allows. Please note: items will be printed a maximum of two times each. March 21 Lecture by Taras Kuzio, “Ukraine: Political Washington Crisis or Normal Politics?,” George Washington University, 703-548-8534

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UNA Estate Soyuzivka POBox 529 216 Foordmore Road Kerhonkson, NY 12446  (845) 626-5641 www.Soyuzivka.com No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007 23 UKEUKELLODEONODEON FOR THE NEXT GENERATION Children to present “Enchanted Tunes” in Philadelphia area PHILADELPHIA – On Sunday, present an abridged version of “Little March 18, two organizations that are Red Riding Hood” by the Children’s strongly tied to the educational Choir of UMI. The original composi- development of Ukrainian children tion is by composer Vasyl are presenting “Enchanted Tunes,” a Bezkorovayniy. The growing orchestra program for kids from age 2 to 102. of the Ukrainian Music Institute will These two organizations are the present the Overture to the operetta. Philadelphia Branch of the In the second part of the pro- Ukrainian Music Institute, and the gram, the Svitlychka School has Svitlychka Cooperative Nursery of invited the well-known singer Olya the Ukrainian Gold Cross at the Fryz, who will be performing popu- Ukrainian Educational and Cultural lar children’s songs from her CD Center (UECC). “Scho Za Hamir.” This will be a fun The program will open with tal- interactive performance for the ented drummer/singer/song-writer children. George Hrab, who will present a “Enchanted Tunes” starts at 2 The Children’s Choir of the Ukrainian Music Institute. fun lesson about music. The chil- p.m., at the UECC. dren will have an opportunity to The cost of tickets is $10 per Advance tickets may be pur- may also be purchased on Monday hear and play instruments. adult; children accompanied by chased by calling the Svitlychka evenings at the UECC during the The first part of the program will adults are free. office at 215-663-0381. Tickets dance and choir rehearsals. Parma parish hosts special youth event PARMA Ohio – The annu- attend the liturgy. al “Bring-a-Friend-to-Church The clergy welcomed the Sunday,” sponsored by the visitors and gave a brief Junior Ukrainian Orthodox introduction and explanation League Chapter of St. of the Orthodox faith and the Vladimir’s Cathedral, was Ukrainian Orthodox Church. held here on February 18 at Each visitor was presented the 8:30 a.m. divine liturgy. with a remembrance of the Although a heavy snow visit and all participated in a had fallen in Parma through- special breakfast in the out the night, the parish parish center following the Clergy, Junior UOL members and visitors to St. Vladimir’s Ukrainian Orthodox Catheral youth braved the weather to liturgy. in Parma, Ohio, during “Bring-a-Friend-to-Church Sunday.”

Mishanyna C I TYABALAKLAVAL To solve this month’s Mishanyna, find the words on the list below in the RA I YNAHZE RE BOOK Mishanyna grid. This month’s theme: ABC’s – Ukrainian cities and I LLUTRAHNUTY I RY towns starting with the letters A, B and C. See how many of these you can find on your map of Ukraine. MUKUWOBORYSLAV I

Alupka Alushta ESYVPRATYSAOR I V Antratsyt Apostolove AHERRKY I VKAU THS Artemivka Balaklava NTVAOLATROKVE I C Baranivka Baturyn Berezhany Boryslav DAOGNOPOHCVRMNH Cherkasy Chernihiv ILLKOYMURHIEIRY Chop Chornomorka Chortkiv SLOODORRYENRVEN I S T I NORU I RAHKHA OUR NEXT ISSUE D I SRCARTTKREACM UKELODEON is published on the second Sunday of every month. To make it into our next issue, dated April 8, please send in your materials by March 30. Please drop us a line: CHORTK I V S AA I OWA UKELODEON, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054; fax, OHPMAK I VKS BMAMA 973-644-9510. Call us at 973-292-9800; or send e-mail to [email protected]. We ask all contributors to please include a daytime phone number. CHANTRATSYTSARY 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007 No. 10

PREVIEW OF EVENTS Soyuzivka’s Datebook Friday, March 16 Suggested donation: $20. Seating is limited. RSVP to [email protected] or 202- NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Institute of 349-2937; for more information call 202- March 23-25, 2007 May 19, 2007 America is pleased to announce a Literary 244-8836. Plast Sorority “Chornomorski Tri Valley High School Prom Café, featuring readings by Vasyl Makhno, Khvyli” Rada Yuriy Tarnawsky and Alexander Motyl. Dr. JENKINTOWN, Pa.: A presentation and May 25-27, 2007 Makhno will read in Ukrainian from “Coney luncheon spotlighting the Ukrainian April 8, 2007 Memorial Day Weekend BBQ, Island,” a tragicomic play about Ukrainian Catholic University will be held at 2 p.m. Traditional Blessed Ukrainian Easter Orchidia Patrons’ Reunion, emigrants in Brooklyn. Mr. Tarnawsky will at the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural read in Ukrainian and English from his col- Center, 700 Cedar Road, Jenkintown, PA Day Brunch, doors open at Summer kick-off and zabava lections of poetry and prose. Dr. Motyl will 11:30 a.m. 19046. Tickets to the event cost $40; read in English from his novels “Whiskey donations are also welcome. All proceeds June 1-3, 2007 Priest” and “Who Shot Andrei Warhol.” The from the luncheon will support the April 13-15, 2007 Ukrainian Language Immersion UIA is located at 2 E. 79th St. The event Ukrainian Catholic University. To pur- Ukrainian Language Immersion Weekends offered at SUNY begins at 7 p.m. Admission: general public, chase tickets send a check to: Philadelphia Weekends offered at SUNY New Paltz $10; students, $5. Beverages and appetizers Friends of the Ukrainian Catholic New Paltz will be served during the café. RSVP by call- University, P. O. Box 19, Huntingdon June 4-8, 2007 ing 212-288-8660 or e-mailing Valley, PA 19006; for more information April 20-22, 2007 Stamford Clergy Days - [email protected]. call 215-947-2795. All friends and sup- BUG (Brooklyn Ukrainian Group) Spring Seminar porters of the Ukrainian Catholic Sunday, March 18 Spring Cleaning/Volunteer University and the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, as well as all inter- Weekend June 9, 2007 CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Business and ested persons, are invited to attend. Wedding Professional Group of Chicago invites Organizations are also most welcome. April 21, 2007 members and the community to a presenta- tion by Dr. Norman Golb on “Khazars in Alpha Kappa Sorority Semi-Formal June 10-15, 2007 Through Sunday, March 25 Dinner Banquet UNA Seniors Week Ukraine.” Dr. Golb, professor of Hebrew studies at the University of Chicago, will Wedding NEW YORK: Yara Arts Group has created discuss recent findings on Khazars, a June 17, 2007 “Janyl,” an original theater piece based on a nomadic tribe that established a powerful Kyrgyz epic about a woman warrior, with the April 27-29, 2007 Father’s Day Luncheon and Program kingdom that extended as far as Kyiv and Sakhna Theater of Bishkek, and will present Plast Sorority “Shostokryli” Rada lasted until the early 11th century. Dr. Golb the show at La MaMa Theater in New York. June 21-24, 2007 is author of numerous books and articles “Janyl” is directed by Virlana Tkacz, April 28, 2007 UMANA Convention on Jewish history, including the book designed by Watoku Ueno, with movement TAP New York Beer Festival at Hunter “Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Mountain - 10th Anniversary! June 24-July 6, 2007 Tenth Century,” co-authored with the late by Shigeko Suga, photography by Margaret Prof. Omeljan Pritsak of Harvard. The lec- Morton, video by Andrea Odezynska and Round-trip bus from Soyuzivka, Tennis Camp translation by Ms. Tkacz, Roza Mukasheva special room rate $60/night ture will be held at 3 p.m. at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of and Wanda Phipps. “Janyl” features a cast of Alpha Phi Delta Fraternity Semi- June 24-July 1, 2007 Yara and Sakhna artists, as well as Kyrgyz Formal Dinner Banquet Plast Camp - Tabir Ptashat, Chicago (Breasted Hall), 1155 E. 58th St., preceded by optional independent tours of epic singing and music. Show times: March Session #1 the galleries at 1 p.m., and a film about 9-11, Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 May 4-6, 2007 Persepolis at 2 p.m. An optional group din- p.m. and 8 p.m.; March 15-18 and 22-25, Ukrainian Language Immersion June 25-29, 2007 ner for $20, including wine, will follow the Thursday-Saturday, 9 p.m., and Sunday at 3 Weekends offered at SUNY Exploration Day Camp Session #1, presentation. For dinner reservations and p.m. and 8 p.m. Venue: La MaMa Theater, New Paltz ages 7-10 additional information, call 773-883-9737. 74a E. Fourth St. (at Second Avenue). Tickets Admission is free, with a suggested $5 at $15 may be purchased at the box office, May 13, 2007 donation to the museum. 212-475-7710 or www.lamama.org. Mother’s Day Luncheon Monday, March 19 Saturday, March 31

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard HORSHAM, PA.: The Ukrainian Ukrainian Research Institute will host a lec- American Sport Center Tryzub, County ture by Roman Szporluk, Mykhailo S. Line and Lower State roads, (Philadelphia Hrushevsky Research Professor of area), invites you to a wine tasting, seminar Ukrainian History, Harvard University. His and dinner. Learn a sommelier’s secrets of lecture, “The Traditional Scheme of 19th- food and wine paring; enjoy the company of To book a room or event call: (845) 626-5641, ext. 140 good friends. The seminar and wine tasting 216 Foordmore Road P.O. Box 529 Century Ukrainian History and the Problem of Rational Restructuring of the History of will be presented by Old Wines LLC of Kerhonkson, NY 12446 Eastern Europe,” will be held at 4-6 p.m. in Philadelphia. (For information and a demo E-mail: [email protected] Room S-050 (Concourse level) of the South video see www.MarnieOld.com.) Doors Website: www.Soyuzivka.com Building of the Center for Government and open at 7 p.m.; the seminar and wine tasting International Studies (CGIS), located at will commence at 7:30 p.m., and will be fol- 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA lowed by a bountiful buffet banquet, elegant 02138.For more information contact HURI sweets, coffee and tea. The seminar, dinner at 617-495-4053 or [email protected]. and wine are all included in the price: $35 in advance; $40 at the door. Reservations and Sunday, March 25 advance ticket purchases are highly recom- mended, as seating will be limited. Call Easter Greetings 2007 WASHINGTON: The Washington Group Nika Chajkowsky, 215-860-8384, or Natalia Cultural Fund, under the patronage of the Luciw, 215-362-5331. Information is also Embassy of Ukraine, invites the public to an available at www.tryzub.org. Continue your tradition. “Afternoon at the Theater” during which Iryna Kowal, a Ukrainian American play- SAVE THE DATE Send best wishes to your family and friends, wright, will speak about her work and will colleagues and clients on the occasion of Easter present dramatic readings from her plays by NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Institute of local actors in Ukrainian and English. The America presents “Casino Royale, An with a greeting in The Ukrainian Weekly. presentation will take place at 3 p.m. at the Evening in Montenegro,” on Saturday, Embassy of Ukraine, 3350 M St. NW. April 21. More info to come. Holiday Issue Publication Date Advertising Deadline PREVIEW OF EVENTS GUIDELINES: Preview of Events is a listing of Ukrainian community events open to the public. It is a service provided at minimal cost ($20 per submission) by The Ukrainian Weekly to the April 1 March 20 Ukrainian community.

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