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INSIDE:• Court rules against dubbing of films into Ukrainian — page 3. • North American scholarly institutions meet — page 5. • Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski released in Ukrainian — page 9.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIV HE No.KRAINIAN 45 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 EEKLY$1/$2 in VerkhovnaT RadaU OKs resignations W Ukraine to join WTO no sooner than early 2007, of Ministers Zvarych and Likhovyi by Zenon Zawada Ukraine bloc would enter the opposition, says economyby Zenon Zawada minister inW rebufTO wouldf todecide Yushchenko Ukraine’s member- Press Bureau despite President ’s Kyiv Press Bureau ship. urgings to return to the negotiating table. Although Mr. Makukha is an inde- KYIV – Fed up with the Our Ukraine In relieving the two ministers, the KYIV – Ukraine can expect to join the pendent politician, he was appointed to bloc’s political indecisiveness, the coun- Party of the Regions demonstrated that World Trade Organization (WTO) no his post by Prime Minister Viktor try’s coalition government led by the its patience had run out with Our sooner than February 2007, said Minister Yanukovych, the leader of the Party of Party of the Regions let go two of the Ukraine, a political force that it doesn’t of the Economy Volodymyr Makukha, the Regions, which staunchly supports bloc’s ministers from their posts. need because it has enough votes in derailing President Viktor Yushchenko’s pro-Russian cultural and military poli- American-born Minister of Justice Parliament after uniting in a coalition plan to join by late December. cies, but also favors European Union and Minister of Culture with the Socialist Party of Ukraine Even if Ukraine passes the necessary integration. Ihor Likhovyi were relieved during the (SPU) and Communist Party of Ukraine laws and signs the necessary agreements After Mr. Yanukovych inked a natu- November 1 session of Parliament, when (CPU). by the year’s end, Mr. Makukha said ral gas deal with the Russian Federation their resignations, tendered two weeks Prime Minister membership isn’t realistic because last week, political observers began sus- earlier, were formally accepted by the said the government would have also let Ukraine’s legislative acts will still pecting that one of the unofficial condi- . go Minister of Family, Youth and Sports require extensive review by the WTO. tions of the deal was for Ukraine to syn- They were replaced with ministers who and Minister of Health “After completion of Vietnam’s proce- chronize its WTO accession with had served under former President Leonid Yurii Poliachenko, both Our Ukraine dures, the maximum amount of attention . The Russian Federation’s government Kuchma: Oleksander Lavrynovych members if not for the fact that the coali- will be given to Ukraine,” he told an became minister of justice and Yurii October 30 press conference, referring to tion government hadn’t yet agreed on (Continued on page 4) Lobutskyi is minister of culture. their replacements. Vietnam’s WTO bid. “In any case, to say “We can’t allow ourselves to become Ministers Zvarych, Likhovyi, that we will become a member earlier hostages to someone’s meditations, Pavlenko and Poliachenko had submitted than February, when the WTO General reflections, spiritual thoughts, hesita- their resignations on October 19 once Council meets, does not reflect reality,” Rada’s budget debate tions, this kind of yearning for power,” Our Ukraine declared it was going into he added. said Yaroslav Sukhyi, a Party of the opposition to the Yanukovych govern- Mr. Makukha’s announcement was yet reveals wide chasm Regions national deputy. “Give back ment. another episode in the bipolar govern- your positions and tramp off!” Minister of Foreign Affairs Borys ment’s inability to agree upon a common The Rada’s move come after Our Tarasyuk and Minister of Defense foreign policy agenda and plan. between opposing sides Ukraine People’s Union (OUPU) Chair Just four days earlier, Mr. Yushchenko insisted the Our (Continued on page 3) had said a December 21 meeting of the by Zenon Zawada Kyiv Press Bureau KYIV – One man’s junk is another man’s treasure. Saskatchewan’s first Ukrainian bilingual school opens Or in the case of Ukraine’s 2007 by Angela Wasylow Podiluk, former director of education, Bishop Wiwchar lobbied the school budget, what Parliamentary Opposition was a keen supporter of the beginning of board for what he knew the community Leader called a SASKATOON, Saskatchewan – the bilingual program in 1979. John desired and could sustain, Mrs. Wasylow “genocide,” First Vice Prime Minister History was made on Thursday, Lewchuk was board chair when the noted. The work of Nadia Prokopchuk, Mykola Azarov considered weighted, September 28, as Bishop Filevich movement toward a single stream school Ukrainian education consultant, balanced and reconciled. Ukrainian Bilingual School – the first began. Dr. Helen Horsman, former direc- Saskatchewan Learning, has been invalu- “All social programs that exist today,” Ukrainian bilingual school in the tor of education, was instrumental in the are absolutely preserved in next year’s province of Saskatchewan – was official- designation of the school. (Continued on page 11) budget Mr. Azarov said. “Spending for ly opened and blessed. Bishop Michael them has increased.” Wiwchar, together with the Rev. Bohdan Ukraine’s Parliament debated and Demczuk and the Rt. Rev. Vladimir swiftly passed the first reading of Mudri, celebrated a moleben and blessed Ukraine’s 2007 budget on October 31, the school, staff and students. but not without the usual fireworks. Jim Carriere, chair of the Greater Complaining that she was allowed Saskatoon Catholic School Board, offi- only three minutes to speak by cially opened the school and together Verkhovna Rada Chairman Oleksander with the oldest student, Matthew Bilinski, Moroz, Ms. Tymoshenko called the and the youngest student, Salome Senger, budget shameful, just like the coalition unveiled the new name of the school. The government. students then rang a bell signaling the “The budget’s social portion is beginning of the school year. absolutely ruined,” she said. “The mini- The 160 kindergarten to Grade 8 stu- mum wage and pensions don’t increase dents showcased their linguistic and reli- in this budget.” gious education skills by replying to the Once her three minutes expired, she moleben and singing hymns and prayers. refused to leave the podium, provoking a Maria Kowaluk and Linden Predy gave a mild standoff. tribute to the late Bishop Basil Filevich. Mr. Moroz allowed her seven more The choir pieces moved the audience of minutes as other national deputies decid- about 170 guests, including 35 Ukrainian ed to yield their time to her. language students from E.D. Feehan “Unfortunately, all social programs Catholic High School. are practically ruined, particularly those Principal Angela Wasylow recognized related to wages and pensions,” she con- Bishop Filevich Ukrainian Bilingual School others who have helped along the journey tinued, repeating herself. toward a single-stream school. Walter The Rt. Rev. Vladimir Mudri blesses a classroom at Bishop Filevich School. (Continued on page 4) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 No. 45

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Putin offers Ukraine “protection” Presidential decree on Helsinki monitors WTO bills expected in Rada by December for extending Russian fleet’s presence KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor signed a decree “On Commemoration of the Yanukovych told journalists in Kyiv on by Vladimir Socor and alleged “Slavic”-Tatar tensions there. 30th Anniversary of Creation of the October 30 that the government is planning Eurasia Daily Monitor Mr. Putin carefully couched his propos- Ukrainian Group to Promote Implementation to submit to Parliament by mid-December als in terms seemingly respectful of of the .” According to the a dozen bills required for Ukraine’s entry In his annual phone-in dialogue with Ukraine’s sovereignty, though reminiscent decree, the Cabinet of Ministers is to organize into the World Trade Organization (WTO), Russian citizens, televised live on of Soviet military assistance offers to then- solemn events on the occasion of the 30th RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service reported. Mr. October 25, Russian President Vladimir “fraternal sovereign countries” at their anniversary of the Ukrainian Helsinki Yanukovych earlier predicted that his Putin proposed extending the stationing “request.” He declared: “The decision on Group’s formation. Moreover, the govern- Cabinet would send the required bills to the of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine’s such issues undoubtedly lies within the ment is tasked with elaborating issues related Verkhovna Rada by mid-November. Crimea beyond the 2017 legal deadline. competence of the Ukrainian sovereign to increasing state stipends for Ukrainian citi- Meanwhile, Our Ukraine lawmaker Ksenia Moreover, Mr. Putin obliquely cast doubt state. Should the need arise, and should the zens who were persecuted for their human Liapkina said the same day that this year on Ukrainian sovereignty and security in Ukrainian people and leadership make a rights defense activity . The president directed the Verkhovna Rada is unlikely to endorse the Crimea and farther afield by purport- request, Russia would guarantee noninter- the Kyiv State Administration with inaugurat- all of the bills Ukraine needs to pass ing to offer Russian military guarantees ference in Ukraine’s internal affairs, if any- ing commemorative plaques on sites connect- toward WTO membership. Ms. Liapkina to that sovereignty and security. one would fancy such temptations [to ed to the life and activity of members of the noted that Ukraine's accession to the WTO Mr. Putin was answering pre-arranged interfere]. In that case, I assure you, the . (Ukrinform) will be delayed by the government and the questions from nine locations in Russia ruling coalition, which in her opinion do presence of Russia’s fleet would not be Rada rejects proposal to honor Grigorenko plus Sevastopol in Ukraine. Dwelling at irrelevant. … If the Ukrainian leadership not want to move quickly on the issue. length on two questions from Sevastopol deems it possible and addresses us with a “This is political will dictated from outside regarding Russia’s Black Sea Fleet based KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on request for assistance, we are prepared – October 31 declined to approve celebra- Ukraine,” she added. (RFE/RL Newsline) there, Mr. Putin replied (Interfax, without involving Russia into decisions on October 25): “Russia … is ready to nego- tions in 2007 of the 100th anniversary of Police foil attack on local marketplace that type of issues – to provide assistance the date of birth of Gen. , tiate an extension of the timeframe of our to our closest neighbor, the fraternal fleet’s presence there … I expect that we member of the Ukrainian Group to DNIPROPETROVSK – Special police Ukrainian republic, to protect her.” Promote Implementation of the Helsinki forces in Dnipropetrovsk on October 30 can resolve all these issues in a construc- The Russian president employed his tive dialogue on the governmental level, Accords and the Helsinki Group. arrested some 90 people out of the 150 recently developed, dialectical approach One hundred ninety-three deputies voted the ministerial level. Such negotiations who, armed with firecrackers and pneu- to the sovereignty and territorial integrity for the measure, but 226 votes were needed are ongoing.” He also hinted at “difficult matic weapons, unsuccessfully attempted for it to pass. In accordance with the pro- internal political processes” in Crimea (Continued on page 14) to seize the city's central marketplace posal, among various anniversary events called Ozerka earlier the same day, were to be special anniversary gatherings UNIAN reported. In 2004 control over organized by government entities. Gen. Ozerka was taken over by a private firm in Russian-Ukrainian “international” Grigorenko was born October 16, 1907; he a tender that many potential local buyers died in 1987. The former Red Army gener- decried as dishonest. In September 2006 gas consortium back on the agenda al was stripped of his military honors, the tender was cancelled by a court deci- arrested for his human rights activities and sion. The identity of the attackers has not sent to a psychiatric institution. In 1977 he yet been established. (RFE/RL Newsline) by Vladimir Socor Germany barely a week before Mr. Putin’s emigrated to the United States and was Eurasia Daily Monitor visit there. Gas deliveries and transit stripped of his Soviet citizenship. Yushchenko attends EU summit topped the agenda of the Russian presi- (Ukrayinski Novyny) On October 10, President Viktor dent’s visit to a Germany complacent HELSINKI – Ukrainian President Yushchenko’s office issued two policy about overdependence on Russian supplies Russian fleet’s presence may be extended Viktor Yushchenko said at the European announcements on control over Ukraine’s (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, October 12). Union summit in Helsinki on October 27 gas transit pipeline system: regarding The gas transit system is Ukraine’s sin- KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor that Ukraine aims at enhancing its current national ownership and regarding a gle largest economic and strategic asset, Yanukovych told journalists in Kyiv on level of cooperation with the EU to a “level Russian-German-Ukrainian consortium. and Russian control over it is a major October 30 that the current Ukrainian- of political association and economic inte- Meeting in the morning with Prime objective of Russian policy in Europe. Russian agreement on the deployment of gration,” Reuters reported. Mr. Yushchenko Minister Viktor Yanukovych to discuss The idea of turning Ukraine’s gas transit Russia's Black Sea Fleet in Crimea until was speaking at a news conference follow- government policies and a Party of the system into a Russian-Ukrainian consor- 2017 could be prolonged beyond that year, ing talks with European Commission Regions-Our Ukraine “broad coalition,” tium dates back to a 2002 preliminary Interfax-Ukraine reported. Mr. Yanukovych President Jose Manuel Barroso and Finnish Mr. Yushchenko “underscored the inadmis- document of intent, supplemented by a denied allegations that the issue of the Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, who rep- sibility of any compromises regarding tran- similar document signed in 2003 with Black Sea Fleet was somehow linked to resented the EU presidency. However, Mr. sit fees for [Russian] gas and the ownership Germany. Then-President Leonid reaching last week’s deal on gas deliveries of the country’s gas transportation system,” Kuchma signed those documents in the to Ukraine in 2007. (RFE/RL Newsline) (Continued on page 14) according to the presidential press service knowledge that national control over the (Interfax-Ukraine, October 10). pipeline system was a matter of consen- Speaking by telephone with German sus in Ukraine across party lines and that FOUNDED 1933 Chancellor Angela Merkel in the after- the Verkhovna Rada was unlikely to noon, Mr. Yushchenko “came out in approve a cession of such control. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY favor of resuming negotiations toward At that time, Moscow insisted on deal- An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., the creation of a Ukrainian-German- a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. ing with Ukraine first on a bilateral basis, Yearly subscription rate: $55; for UNA members — $45. 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Kyiv court repeals requirement on Ukrainian-language dubbing of films by Yana Sedova tributors were obliged to show the executive director of the Cinema Forum of Ukraine, a distribution company. Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Ministry of Culture both a Russian and Ukraine and the Association for Ukrainian The pirated video market swelled Ukrainian version of each film as the Cinema Promotion. “European feature because movie-goers couldn’t see films KYIV – The revolutionary decision of only way to obtain a distribution license. films might disappear, and only Russian in the , said Mykhailo the previous Cabinet of Ministers requir- The Association for Ukrainian Cinema and Hollywood movies would stay in the Sokolov, president of the Association for ing the dubbing of foreign films into the Promotion asserted that the Cabinet market.” Ukrainian Cinema Promotion. “If these faces the fate of the decree violated the Constitution of Distributors blame B&H Distribution 80 percent do not see a movie in a lan- Titanic. Ukraine, which protects the use of the Co., the largest in Ukraine’s film market, guage they want, they will buy home The Kyiv Appellate Court repealed the in lobbying its business interests and try- video movies,” Mr. Sokolov said. Ukrainian-language quotas on October Russian language and languages of all national minorities in Ukraine. ing to establish a monopoly through its However, his claim was false on two 17, siding with the Association for support of Ukrainian-language dubbing. accounts. Ukrainian Cinema Promotion that filed a Distributors now use other arguments, mostly economic, against Ukrainian-lan- After the Cabinet decree, only B&H During the Ukrainian dubbing experi- lawsuit against the Cabinet of Ministers was willing to pay for dubbing the ment, Ukrainians had the option of view- for issuing its decree. guage quotas. Every year, about 300 foreign films Disney film “Cars” and “Pirates of the ing films in Russian or Ukrainian. “This decision bans the Ukrainian lan- Caribbean – Dead Man’s Chest.” Furthermore, the Ukrainian-language guage in our distribution industry,” said are released in Ukrainian theaters, they said at an October 27 press conference, “B&H Co. earned $12.5 million last versions were shown only during unpop- Viacheslav Kyrylenko, the former vice year, and that is why they can afford the ular movie-going hours, namely during prime minister for humanitarian affairs and dubbing all of them into Ukrainian would be too expensive. Currently, dubbing,” Ms. Smirnova said. “But small mornings and afternoons. who led the campaign to dub movies into distributors can’t. So we could have at Box-office reports don’t support the Ukrainian. Ukrainian distributors simply obtain their films dubbed in the Russian Federation least started with providing movies with distributors’ claims. The quotas stipulated Ukrainian-lan- Ukrainian-language subtitles.” into the Russian language. In heavily Russian-speaking Donetsk, guage dubbing for 20 percent of feature At the same time, distributors said the average audience for a Ukrainian-lan- films released since September 2006, 50 “Dubbing costs about $50,000 per film, movie-goers aren’t interested in watching guage version of “Cars” was 37 movie- percent as of January 2007 and 70 per- and there are many low-budget movies that films in their original languages with goers, compared with an average audi- cent as of July 2007. never bring as much of a box office return Ukrainian-language subtitles. ence of 32 movie-goers who opted for Since September, all foreign film dis- as blockbusters,” said Tetiana Smirnova, Insisting that the issue is not political, the Russian-language, said Bohdan distributors said it’s simply not their duty Batrukh, the general manager of B&H. to promote the Ukrainian language. The Association for Ukrainian Cinema Moroz urges caution on UPA issue, Distributors say there are no copy lab- Promotion requested a more comprehen- oratories with appropriate production sive approach by the government and capacity. The only laboratory at the guarantees of the government’s financial opposes benefits for UPA veterans National Dovzhenko Cinema Studio can support for the industry, particularly any produce 100 copies per week at most, Ukrainian-language dubbing. KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman saying that he uses materials of UPA sol- while the market needs tens of thousands “We now see that the market is not Oleksander Moroz has called on national diers and does not consider Soviet and of copies per year. ready for the Ukrainian language and it’s deputies not to rush to review the status German archives. The distributors also claimed to have not profitable to release a lot of films in of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) According to Mr. Moroz, German conducted their own opinion polls in 32 Ukrainian,” Mr. Ihnatiev said. “The state and its combatants, reported the archives show that the Ukrainian eastern and western cities, which suppos- should have better supported national Ukrayinski Novyny news agency on Insurgent Army liquidated only 600 edly convinced them that 80 percent of film production.” October 27. German soldiers during the war with the movie-goers want to see films in the lan- A happy ending appears elusive in the At a meeting with faculty and stu- USSR, while at the same time Soviet par- guage they’re used to, namely Russian. long-suffering soap opera in which the dents of Kyiv National Economic tisans eliminated nearly 600,000 German In eastern Ukrainian movie theaters, Ukrainian language plays the role of the University, Mr. Moroz said: “Is it neces- troops. for example, the Ukrainian-language ver- beautiful, yet neglected Cinderella. sary today to honor this organization, The Rada chairman further stated that sion of the animated film “The Ant “I believe the deputies, the media and making its members out to be defenders he is opposed to granting any social bene- Bully” drew an audience of up to 10 society will not keep silent,” Mr. of the motherland? And what about the fits to UPA soldiers. On May 9 President movie-goers, compared to several hun- Kyrylenko said. “They had the possibili- nearly 200,000 victims of the Lutsk and Viktor Yushchenko had called on the dred for the Russian version. ty to see movies dubbed, or at least subti- Volyn tragedies of 1943?” Verkhovna Rada and the Cabinet of “In situations like this cinema theaters tled, in the Ukrainian language for the Mr. Moroz criticized the work on the Ministers to grant equal social benefits to are unable to pay salary to its staff,” said first time in Ukraine’s history. It’s too UPA of historian Stanislav Kulchytskyi, veterans of the UPA and the Soviet Army. Ihor Ihnatiev, the manager of Luksor early to close the book on this story.” Ukrainian interns hold roundtable Rada moves to suspend internal affairs minister with MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj RFE/RL Newsline sion. Kushnariov told lawmakers that the reason for his motion is recent articles in KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on the Kyiv-based newspaper 2000 charging November 2 passed a bill setting up an ad hoc commission to investigate alleged that there have been numerous cases of corruption and abuse of office in the corruption and abuse of office in the Internal Affairs Ministry and proposing Lutsenko-led ministry. that Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych Our Ukraine lawmaker Viacheslav suspend Internal Affairs Minister Yurii Kyrylenko told the Verkhovna Rada that Lutsenko for two months, UNIAN its move against Mr. Lutsenko is a “polit- reported. ical reprisal.” Mr. Lutsenko, who has no The motion, submitted by Party of the formal party affiliation, was proposed for Regions National Deputy Yevhen his Cabinet job by President Viktor Kushnariov, was supported by 235 law- Yushchenko following a deal with Mr. makers of the 435 registered for the ses- Yanukovych.

ernment, the so-called Anti-Crisis Verkhovna Rada... Coalition. (Continued from page 1) In the months since, President Anatolii Hrytsenko are likely to remain Yushchenko and other Our Ukraine lead- in their posts because they are the two ers accused the coalition government of OTTAWA – Liberal Member of Parliament Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Etobicoke ministerial appointments designated by violating the Declaration of National Center) recently hosted a roundtable and farewell reception for the 20 visiting the Constitution of Ukraine to be made Unity particularly on foreign policy Ukrainian university students who were part of this year’s contingent from the by the . issues. Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program (CUPP). The future leaders of Ukraine Mr. Zvarych was reappointed justice Mr. Zvarych was born in Yonkers, spent two hours exchanging their ideas and views with Mr. Wrzesnewskyj. The minister on August 4, when it seemed N.Y., to Ukrainian immigrants. He was roundtable discussion focused on Canada’s political system and the evolution of possible that the Our Ukraine bloc would active in New York City’s Ukrainian Canada-Ukraine relations. Interim Liberal Leader Bill Graham also attended the unite with the coalition government into American community before pursuing a send-off and wished the interns all the best in their future endeavors. This year a National Unity Coalition. political career in Ukraine. He became a marked the 16th anniversary of the establishment of the CUPP. Supported by In their agreement, Our Ukraine man- Ukrainian citizen in October 1993. the Chair of Ukrainian Studies Foundation of Toronto, under the direction of the aged to name four of its politicians to President Yushchenko first appointed president of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies Foundation Ihor W. Bardyn, the chair Cabinet ministries, in addition to Mr. Zvarych as his Justice Minister on CUPP has provided Ukrainian university students an exceptional opportunity to Messrs. Tarasyuk and Hrytsenko. February 4, 2005, following the Orange learn how democracy functions in Canada by working closely with Canadian This violated Ukraine’s Constitution, Revolution. He lost the position in members of Parliament of all parties. Above, the interns are seen with Mr. experts said, because Our Ukraine wasn’t September, after the president decided to Wrzesnewskyj at the conclusion of their roundtable. formally a member of the coalition gov- sack his entire Cabinet. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 No. 45

tionally disrupting the schedule for closed schemes, and would therefore be Ukraine to join... preparing and reviewing WTO laws in negatively affected by new rules on (Continued from page 1) the Verkhovna Rada. Furthermore, the transparency. is against Ukraine joining the WTO ear- Universal of National Unity called for Other than bringing Ukraine’s legisla- lier, because that would give its smaller the coalition government to complete all tion into conformance with WTO neighbor the upper hand in bilateral WTO-related measures by the year’s end, requirements, Ukraine also needs to agree to tariff proposals and require- negotiations for its accession. Ukraine he said. Mr. Yanukovych said on October 30 ments. The only trade protocols still would then be able to use its stronger that he will submit all the remaining, requiring bilateral agreements are with position to win gains in resolving trade necessary WTO legislation for Kyrgyzstan and Taiwan, Mr. Makukha disputes with Russia. Parliament’s consideration by mid- said. Mr. Makukha denied the coalition December. The Verkhovna Rada was to consider government was slowing Ukraine’s entry Although the Party of the Regions and 16 WTO-related bills at its November 2 on the Russian Federation’s behalf, its ranks of wealthy businessmen gener- session. The Communist Party of insisting it was deriving its policies and ally support Ukraine’s WTO accession, Ukraine has already stated its deputies measures independently. the Communists are notorious for their will vote against the bills, while Our As evidence, he pointed to the fact opposition, and it’s unclear whether they Ukraine and the Tymoshenko Bloc will that Ukraine is much further along in the will fall in line for the vote. vote in favor. Many Party of the Regions WTO accession process. Other enemies of Ukraine’s WTO deputies will also vote in favor, while the Yet, at the same time, Mr. Makukha accession, Mr. Makukha said, include Socialist Party of Ukraine hasn't indicat- several times repeated the importance of businessmen who currently operate under ed its position. Russia as a trade partner for Ukraine. “This isn’t the Olympics, where some- one is supposed to finish first, and some- Zenon Zawada port, Mr. Makeyenko said. one else second,” he told The Weekly. Mr. Azarov personally guaranteed Ukraine’s Minister of the Economy “It’s extremely important for us to Rada’s budget... that by 2008, Ukraine will have Volodymyr Makukha. (Continued from page 1) become a WTO member, and we don’t “Veteran pensioners are at the Rada between $5 and $7 billion in foreign have any direct reason to tie this to investment. He accused the preceding supporters argue that free trade creates at the moment. I would like to tell Russia. There are certain problems that Cabinet of Ministers of failing to prop- competition that ultimately benefits con- them that their requests were absolute- trouble them. We are giving them erly manage the 2005 and 2006 budg- sumers, while its detractors believe the ly not taken into account. Veteran pen- answers as to how to resolve these prob- sioners are practically deprived of nor- ets. WTO is a part of a globalization process In fact, the 2006 budget even failed to lems that arise.” mal pensions, and I would like for that is destroying local economies and adequately fund Ukrainian cultural pro- Specifically, Russian trade officials them to turn to the government, before communities. grams that the government is currently expressed their concern that Ukraine’s it’s too late.” In order to join, Ukraine’s Parliament trying to cover, he said. membership would lead to a flood of Real income grew 20.5 percent when still needs to pass about 20 bills. The “I would like to turn your attention to spirit, alcohol and sugar products from she was prime minister, Ms. Tymoshenko Presidential Secretariat has submitted 16 several programs – ‘Insuring Ukraine. said, while the 2007 budget is planning bills for review, which the Cabinet of Development and Application of the Ukrainian officials assured the for 8 percent growth. Ministers will approve, Mr. Makukha Ukrainian language’ – nil, ‘Measures to Russians that proper customs and border Meanwhile the income tax will said. Establish Cultural Ties with the control would prevent a flood of such increase from 13 percent to 15 percent, However, there are tactical disagree- Ukrainian Diaspora’ – nil, ‘Creating a products into Russia, Mr. Makukha said. she said. “We aren’t talking about any synchro- ments between the Secretariat and the Distribution for National Films’ – nil,” “This means that every person Mr. Azarov said. “Presidential grant for nization,” he said. “We’re consulting and Cabinet regarding three bills that involve absolutely will undoubtedly lose a part of removing concerns from our trade part- foreign economic policy and agriculture, young artists for creating and realizing their salary,” Ms. Tymoshenko said. creative projects, nil, publishing book ners.” he said. The budget cuts financing of the State Established in 1995, the WTO is an Minister of Foreign Affairs Borys under the program ‘Ukrainian Book’ – Pension Fund by $1.1 billion, she said, nil. All these programs will be financed international trade organization aimed at Tarasyuk on Octber 23 accused the pro- which means no one’s pension will enhancing free trade among states. Its Russian coalition government of inten- 100 percent by the year’s end. But a increase. Utility bills will also increase question arises: Why weren’t they markedly, she said, without any govern- financed through August?” ment subsidies. Mr. Azarov neglected to mention that Philadelphia Ukrainians meet City governments are burdened with the 2007 budget denies funding for the handling social programs, but the 2007 planned Holodomor Complex budget doesn’t allocate them adequate and Ukrainian Institute of National with Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell funds to meet the public’s needs, Ms. Memory. Tymoshenko noted. Instead, the budget Mr. Azarov accused Ms. Tymoshenko falsely inflates city budget incomes, she of resorting to populist politics in her said. criticisms, while Socialist National The budget has a 2.6 percent deficit Deputy Oleksander Baranivskyi accused that plunges Ukraine further into debt, her of lying outright about the 2007 she continued. budget. It also includes free economic zones, “Budgets are never ideal, just as a hus- which she described as tax loopholes for band’s wage at home – whatever he businesses that support the Party of the brings, it’s always too little for his wife,” Regions. Mr. Baranivskyi said, mocking Ms. Tymoshenko Bloc deputies com- Tymoshenko. plained that they received copies of the He particularly praised the budget for budget just three hours before the increasing education funding by $1 bil- October 31 session began, and that com- lion, which would cover computers and parative budget tables were received only textbooks. a half-hour before voting. With the 2007 budget, Ukraine’s “Is two or three hours enough to seri- Parliament is on the cusp of a historic ously and carefully read this document in moment, Mr. Makeyenko said. “It’s three order to vote for it?” asked Oleksander years until the next elections,” he said. Turchynov, Ms. Tymoshenko’s closest “During this period, we have the chance advisor. to pass a balanced 2007 budget and Party of the Regions National Deputy begin work today to review non-politi- Volodymyr Makeyenko, who chairs the cized projects for the 2008 and 2009 PHILADELPHIA – The governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell, on October parliamentary Budget Committee, said state budgets.” 27 met with Ukrainian leaders to discuss his vision for Pennsylvania, a state printed versions of the budget were dis- After three hours and 20 minutes of that has one of the largest Ukrainian communities in the U.S. The first wave of tributed the day before. debate, the coalition government, along Ukrainian immigrants settled in the 1900s in Pennsylvania; today it is home to He and other coalition government with 11 Our Ukraine deputies and eight the Fourth wave of Ukrainian immigrants. Gov. Rendell told the Ukrainian del- leaders dismissed Ms. Tymoshenko’s Tymoshenko Bloc deputies, mustered egation that Pennsylvania has seen economic growth more than triple. In criticisms as distortions, touting the 2007 256 votes to approve the budget in its 2002 Pennsylvania was ranked 41st in job growth; today the state is ranked budget as responsible and balanced, par- first reading. 15th. Pennsylvania ranks sixth in the nation for new and expanded corporate ticularly in the social spheres. A second reading and vote are sched- facilities and fourth for new manufacturing growth. During his tenure previous- In fact, their claims were direct contra- uled for November 20. ly as mayor of Philadelphia and now as governor, Mr. Rendell participated in dictions of Ms. Tymoshenko’s criticisms: After the session, Ms. Tymoshenko various Ukrainian community events, including commemoration of the the State Pension Fund will have 1.5 told reporters that the coalition govern- Holodomor – the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933. Currently, the governor and times more financing than the 2005 ment wanted to pass the budget as quick- his trade office are exploring a “state to state” relationship with Ukraine. Gov. budget, wages will increase by 12.5 per- ly as possible with minimal debate or dis- Rendell is seen above (second from left) with (from left) Borys Zacharczuk, cent, and social spending will increase by cussion. Ulana Mazurkevich and Ihor Fedoriw. 8 percent from last year. “In the conditions that people are liv- Specifically, new mothers will contin- ing in, this is practically a budget of – Ulana Baluch Mazurkevich ue to receive $1,700 in government sup- genocide in my opinion,” she said. No. 45 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 5

LeadingNEW YORK – The Ukrainian Shevchenko Scientific Society scholarly (NTSh) on institutions confer at Shevchenko Society October 21 hosted the third meeting of the representatives of leading scholarly institutions and programs dedicated to Ukrainian studies. Held at the NTSh headquarters, the conference was a follow- up to two previous such meetings, held on October 1, 2005, and May 6 of this year. Dr. Orest Popovych, president of NTSh, welcomed the partici- pants, recognizing first Dr. Larissa Onyshkevych, the immediate past-president of NTSh, who had initiated these conferences. He then extended special welcome to first-time participants Dr. Michael S. Flier, director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) and Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology at Harvard University, as well as the Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak, rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in Lviv. Also in attendance were (in the order of their presentations): Dr. Frank Sysyn, director of the Peter Jacyk Center at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS); Dr. Lubomyr Hayda, HURI; Dr. Zenon Kohut, CIUS director; Dr. Myroslava Znayenko, presi- dent of the American Association of Ukrainian Studies (AAUS); Dr. Mark von Hagen, chair of both the Ukrainian Studies Program and the department of history at Columbia University; Dr. Roman Procyk, vice-president and learned secretary of NTSh, representing the Ukrainian Studies Fund; Dr. Albert Kipa, president of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. (UVAN) and rector of the Ukrainian Free University (UFU) in Munich, Meeting at the Shevchenko Scientific Society are: (first row from left) Larissa Onyshkevych, Myroslava Germany; and Dr. George Grabowicz, Dmytro Chyzhevsky Znayenko, Orest Popovych, Daria Dykyj, (second row) Frank Sysyn, the Rev. Borys Gudziak, Lubomyr Professor of Ukrainian Literature at Harvard University, represent- Hayda, Michael Flier, Mark von Hagen, Zenon Kohut, Roman Procyk, Vasyl Makhno and Albert Kipa. ing the Krytyka magazine and publishing house. In the general part of the program, each representative was grams in humanities and social sciences according to ment and its ministries, according to the Rev. Gudziak. given five minutes to report about the latest developments at the Western models. At present, the official educational The conferees were unanimous in their agree- given institution in the areas of scholarships, grants, publica- establishment in Ukraine does not recognize the ment to meet again in the spring of 2007, albeit per- tions, scholarly conferences and archives. American Ph.D. degree as a doctorate, confirmed the haps with a less ambitious agenda. Dr. Popovych distributed copies of the recent NTSh Rev. Gudziak. If Ukraine's educational system is to Prof. Vasyl Makhno served as the recording sec- announcements about the society’s pre-doctoral scholarships and modernize, it must do so independently of the govern- retary for the above conference. the new post-doctoral fellowships in Ukrainian studies. He also spoke about continued financial support for the publications of the NTSh in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University and the arche- The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund: October ological excavations at Baturyn in Ukraine. Amount Name City Irynej Prokopovych Calabasas, Calif. Dr. Sysyn reported on the work by the CIUS on the $170.00 Victor Paul Lebedovych APO, AE George Slusarczuk Monroe, N.Y. electronic encyclopedia of Ukraine, the publication of $100.00 Laryssa Courtney Washington, D.C. Dennis Stachiv Middlesex, N.J. the Journal of Ukrainian Studies and the English trans- Wolodymyr Klokiw Rye, N.Y. $10.00 Alex Bachnivsky Elkhart, Ind. lations of the volumes of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s Irene Nowak Milwaukee, Wis. Lesia Bekersky Whitesboro, N.Y. “History of Ukraine.” The CIUS is also planning con- $55.00 Julian Kulas Park Ridge, Ill. Mychajlo Bilyk Philadelphia, Pa. ferences to mark the anniversaries of the Holodomor M. Swinchuck Hicksville, N.Y. Michael Bochno Toronto, Ontario and the battle of Poltava in 1709. Tanya Vena West Orange, N.J. Demetrius Cap Newburyport, Mass. Drs. Hayda and Flier presented a rich menu of the semi- Ihor Vitkovitsky Silver Spring, Md. Anna Chopek Los Alamos, N.M. nars, symposia and exhibitions on Ukrainian themes either $50.00 Bohdan and Maria Howell, N.J. Mary Ann and Peter Astoria, N.Y. taking place or planned at HURI. They also announced Harhaj Chupa that 12 post-doctoral fellows will be doing research at the Irena Ivanonko Johnson City, N.Y. Eugenia Ivashkiv New York, N.Y. HURI this year, each for a period of four months. Michael McGrath Franklin Square, N.Y. Irena Jemetz Warners, N.Y. Dr. Kohut reported about the extensive publication pro- John Riszko Orchard Park, N.Y. Wasyl Kiec Franklin Park, N.J. gram at CIUS, its support of the Baturyn excavations proj- George Wyhinny S. Barrington, Ill. Andrew Klek Fairview Park, Ohio ect, and an exchange program between the University of Andrew Zura Broadview Heights, Ohio Roman Koniuk Toronto, Ontario Alberta and Lviv University for undergraduate students. $45.00 N. Kosowsky Chicago, Ill. Stephan and Daria Jersey City, N.J. Dr. Znayenko, representing some 60 members of the Daria Kurylko New Providence, N.J. Krawczeniuk AAUS, spoke about her society's participation in schol- Stephen Matkowsky Rochester, N.Y. Roman and Stacy Farmington, Conn. arly conferences and the awarding of prizes for the best Wolodymyr Petryshyn Cranford, N.J. Leskiw works of Ukrainian literature. Ihor Puhacz Macungie, Pa. Michael Petriwsky North Port, Fla. Dr. von Hagen cited examples of recent activities at Jaroslaw Semkiw Boiling Springs, Pa. Michael and Oksana Amherst, N.Y. the Ukrainian Studies Program of Columbia University: a Ulana Steck Mississauga, Ontario Saldyt roundtable in Washington, devoted to the subject of Peter Sztyk New York, N.Y. Bohdan Samokyszyn Parm, Ohio Ukraine and NATO; conferences on Babyn Yar, on Nadia Samuel Walczuk Stamford, Conn. Christine Smith Harrisburg, Pa. Svitlychna, and with Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Minister $30.00 Mark Mycio Old Bethpage, N.Y. Ann Swanson Palo Alto, Calif. . Also active at Columbia University is $25.00 Andrij Baran Saratoga Springs, N.Y. $5.00 Oksana Danylyk Houston, Tex. the Ukrainian Film Club, run by Dr. Yuri Shevchuk. Sophie and Stephen Pawleys Island, S.C. Michael Danylyshyn Pittsford, N.Y. Dr. Procyk stressed the need to find benefactors for Chmil Maria Dorozynsky North Port, Fla. Ukrainian scholarly institutions. In the case of archives, Ihor Davydovych Montreal, Quebec Wolodymyr Dyhdalo Troy, Mich. he advised that copies be retained in North America Luba Keske Woodland Hills, Calif. Merle and Bonnie Toledo, Ohio when transferring the originals to Ukraine. Mykola and Oksana Baltimore, Md Jurkiewicz Dr. Kipa reported that both UVAN and UFU were in Koropeckyj Wolodymyra Kawka Drexel Hill, Pa. a state of financial crisis. According to him, the finan- Natalie Olds Fenton, Mich. Roman Kopychuk St. Augustine, Fla. cial resources of the UFU will be exhausted by the end Walter Swyrydenko Cleveland, Ohio Ivan Kujdych Vineland, N.J. of October after which the university will be run by Gregory Szczerbaniuk Joliet, Ill. Alexander Malycky Calgary, Alberta unpaid volunteers. Teaching at the UFU is expected to Walter Tupyckyj Cheektowaga, N.Y. Maria Motyl North Babylon, N.Y. end in July 2007. The good news is that at UVAN work Steven Yevich Boston, Mass. Bozhena Olshaniwsky Newark, N.J. is being done on the archives and their electronic ver- John Zyznomyrsky University Park, Fla. Emil Pyk Orland Park, Ill. sion will hopefully appear soon. $20.00 Leonid Kondratiuk Belmont, Mass. O. Rudenko Phoenix, Ariz. Dr. Grabowicz spoke about the joint publication projects Michael and Kathryn Johnson City, N.Y. Nicholas Skirka Yonkers, N.Y. of Krytyka and HURI. As examples he cited books by Kowalczik Yaroslav Hrytsak, Tamara Hundorova, Yurii Andrukhovych Volodymyr Mayorchak Livonia, Mich. TOTAL: $2,190.00 and Vasyl Makhno. He announced proudly that Krytyka Thomas Mess Cincinnati, Ohio was voted the best publishing house in Ukraine. $15.00 Bohdan Bejger Buffalo, N.Y. Sincere thanks to all contributors to The second half of the meeting was devoted to more Tatiana Durbak Ewing, N.J. The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund. specific recent problems, such as the crisis in the area of Iwan Haftkowycz Trenton, N.J. the state archives of Ukraine, and the efforts by some Lydia Hajduczok West Orange, N.J. The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund is the only fund universities in Ukraine to gain autonomy. Dorothy Korey Pittsburgh, Pa. dedicated exclusively to supporting the work of this Directly involved in these efforts is the Rev. Dr. Gudziak, Anatole Kryworuchko Ottawa, Ontario publication. who reported that the UCU is one of the eight universities Leonid Petrenko Sun City, Ariz. that formed a consortium designed to develop Ph.D. pro- 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 No. 45

SIXTH ANNUAL GRIGORENKO READINGS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY 30 years ago: a new movement Human rights activist Nadia Svitlychna Thirty years ago, on November 9, 1976, the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote through the prism of Amnesty International the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords was established. Its founding members were: Oksana Meshko and Oleksander Berdnyk, both veterans of Stalin-era camps; by Anna Procyk group. And Nadia, after her arrival in Ivan Kandyba and Lev Lukianenko, who had been active in the Ukrainian Peasants Kyiv, soon acquired recognition as his and Workers’ Union of the late 1950s-early 1960s; Oleksiy Tykhy and Nina Strokata, It has been almost 40 years ago that right hand in editing, translating and dis- who were involved in the intellectuals’ movement of the 1960s; Mykola Rudenko, a Nadia Svitlychna’s name came to the atten- seminating dissident literature. While she member in the early 1970s of the Moscow chapter of Amnesty International; Petro tion of human rights groups, including was not caught in the first wave of arrests Grigorenko, a Red Army major-general who had become a member of the Moscow Amnesty International, through the publica- documented in “The Chornovil Papers,” Helsinki Group; and two neophytes, Myroslav Marynovych and Mykola Matusevych tion of a collection of documents exposing her name does appear on the pages of the – the only ones who had not been imprisoned before joining the new group. the flagrant violation of human rights in prisoners’ correspondence. The Ukrainian Helsinki Group outlined its goals as follows: Ukraine. These materials were compiled by One letter in the Chornovil Papers “1. To assist in making wide circles of the Ukrainian public familiar with the Vyacheslav Chornovil, at that time a young written to Svitlychna by a political pris- Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To demand that this international legal journalist working for a television studio in oner, the modernist, non-conformist artist document serve as the regulating principle of relations between the individual Lviv. They circulated in manuscript form in Opanas Zalyvakha, was of particular and the state. 2. … to promote the implementation of the humanitarian provi- Ukraine and, as has been the case with simi- interest to human rights activists in New sions of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. lar samizdat/samvydav literature, through York because Zalyvakha was adopted as 3. To work toward ensuring that Ukraine, as a sovereign European state and as a Czechoslovakia, Poland and other channels, a prisoner of conscience by the Riverside member of the United Nations, is represented by a separate delegation at all found their way abroad. They appeared in Group of Amnesty International. international conferences where compliance with the Helsinki Accords is Paris in 1967 under the title “Lykho z It was probably the impression created reviewed. 4. To demand, with a view to encouraging a free exchange of informa- Rozumu” (Woe from Wit) and a year later by the artistic works of Zalyvakha repro- tion and ideas, the accreditation to Ukraine of representatives of the foreign the book’s English translation was published duced in “Lykho z Rozumu,” as well as the press, the establishment of independent press agencies and such.” by McGraw Hill as “The Chornovil Papers.” cruelty of his punishment – it was learned To join the Ukrainian Helsinki Group was an act of great courage, as Soviet This publication created a stir if not a that a labor camp guard broke Zalyvakha’s repression in Ukraine was harsher than in any other republic of the USSR. Still, its sensation in the West, and not only fingers in order to prevent him from paint- members were steadfast in their belief that the accords signed on August 1, 1975, among people actively engaged in the ing – that prompted the head of Amnesty provided an opening for them to hold the to the commitments it freely defense of human rights. International in Washington, a great admir- undertook in Helsinki, in particular its humanitarian provisions. In addition to human Prof. Frederick C. Barghoorn of Yale er of modernist art, to adopt Zalyvakha as rights, the Ukrainian Helsinki Group focused on national rights, and it did not mince University in the introduction to “the one of the first Soviet “prisoners of con- words. Already in its first document, Memorandum No. 1, the group spoke of the Chornovil Papers” evaluated highly the science” in the United States. The second physical and spiritual genocide of the Ukrainian nation (citing the Famine-Genocide contribution Ukrainian intellectuals were Soviet adoptee was the Russian dissident of 1932-1933, among other examples) under the Soviet regime. Its first memoran- making in the struggle for freedom of Vladimir Bukovsky. dum also documented the fate of 75 political prisoners from Ukraine. expression and civil rights in the Soviet At that time besides the Washington Soviet persecution of the group’s members was fast and furious, as the regime Union. He singled out in particular what he group, there was only one other active sought to silence the group from the first day of its existence. On February 5, saw as the “community of interests among Amnesty section in the United States, the 1977, the Soviet authorities’ crackdown intensified, with Rudenko and Tykhy Soviet intellectuals of various national already mentioned Riverside Group, which becoming the first Ukrainian Helsinki monitors to be incarcerated for their activ- backgrounds,” observing that “although the – even though not officially affiliated – was ity. As its members were arrested and sent off to prisons, camps or psychiatric preservation of the Ukrainian cultural her- nevertheless closely connected with wards, new activists joined the group’s ranks. itage and language are central features of Columbia University: the majority of its Many members paid even more dearly – with their lives. Two of the Ukrainian the outlook of many young Ukrainian intel- members were either Columbia University monitors, Yuriy Lytvyn, 50, and Mykhailo Melnyk, 35, committed suicide as a lectuals, the latter perceive themselves as professors or students, including its head, a result of harsh imprisonment and repression; three, Vasyl Stus, 47, Oleksiy struggling, not against the Russian nation ... prominent scholar of Japanese culture, Prof. Tykhy, 57, and Valeriy Marchenko, 37, died in the gulag as a direct result of their but rather against dictatorship and police Ivan Morris, a British subject who joined conditions of imprisonment and lack of medical care. state.” Max Hayward of London, with Amnesty in England, where the organiza- But the group continued its work, demonstrating, as their Memorandum No. 1, obvious admiration, wrote: “... the tion was originally founded in 1962. Prof. had announced to the world, that “... the struggle for human rights will not cease Ukrainian opposition is striking both for its Zbigniew Brzezinski – although not a until these rights become the everyday standard in social life” and that “prisons, moderation and its high intellectual level.” member of Amnesty – was nevertheless camps and psychiatric hospitals are incapable of serving as dams against a move- What was stressed in these and other evalu- very responsive when approached with ment in defense of rights.” ations was the mature level of nationalism requests of assistance in various matters, Twenty-five years after the founding of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, Kyiv among the Ukrainian dissidents: their especially in efforts to publish the docu- witnessed an anniversary gathering of its surviving members. One of them, Vasyl emphasis on national equality without ments from “The Chornovil Papers” in Ovsienko, explained the group’s contribution to Ukraine: “Without the Helsinki expressions of antagonism or ill feeling American papers and journals. Group there would have been no independent Ukraine. U.S. military, economic Being the only person in the Riverside toward the ruling nation. and political pressure came in response to light shed by the Helsinki groups. We Group from the Russian Institute (now Svitlychna’s older brother and mentor, helped to destroy the Soviet Union. ” The Harriman Institute) at Columbia the eminent poet and literary critic, Ivan Today, 30 years after the emergence of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, we bow University, it was only natural that I Svitlychnyi, had been considered the our heads in memory and in tribute to these heroes. would become involved in the work on central figure, the guiding spirit of this behalf of the two Soviet prisoners of con- science. In subsequent years, one of my Dr. Anna Procyk is professor of histo- Columbia colleagues, Walter Odajnyk, Nov. ry at Kingsborough Community College joined the group and another friend, Marta Turning the pages back... of the City University of New York. This Skorupskyj, being associated with a paper was delivered at the sixth annual Ukrainian research center not far from the 9 Grigorenko Readings at Columbia University on October 10. (Continued on page 18) 1976 This week we remember the founding of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group 30 years ago on November 9, 1976, as reported OUR SPECIAL OFFER: $73 for two subscriptions! by The Weekly on November 21. The group was headed by Ukrainian poet Mykola Rudenko and had as its first members: Lev Lukianenko, Nina Strokata, Oles Berdnyk, Ivan Kandyba, Myroslav Marynovych, In hopes of extending our partnership with our readers, The Ukrainian Mykola Matusevych, Oleksiy Tykhy, Oksana Meshko and Petro Grigorenko. 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NEWS AND VIEWS A tribute from a bystander PERSPECTIVES BY ANDREW FEDYNSKY by Irene Zabytko “Second Wreath Conference,” a Ukrainian feminist gathering in Edmonton, Alberta. It I can’t say I really knew her – I missed was a controversial and exciting forum, pro- out on the opportunity. It's more truthful to gressive and invigorating, and I was thrilled say I knew of her, and yet I had the privi- to be among other women who shared a her- lege of witnessing Nadia Svitlychna’s pres- Franko – an uncommon genius itage I was slowly embracing again. Ivan Franko didn’t much like Ukrainians. expelled from Eden. In another one, the ence long before she was aware of mine. I sat inside a packed auditorium await- For him, they were people of little character, 17th century ascetic Ivan Vyshensky dis- The first time I heard about Nadia ing her keynote address to us. She came undisciplined, sentimental and prone to patches his “epistles” from Mount Athos, Svitlychna was in my research for an on stage, and her unassuming manner and bickering, egoism, two-facedness and pride. urging his countrymen to struggle for free- undergraduate independent project. I read gentle demeanor were evident. She spoke He saw few examples in their history of dom. Franko’s masterpiece is “Moses,” a about the “Shestydesiatnyky,” the dissi- in a calm Ukrainian lilt and described her civic spirit, loyalty, justice and freedom. personal reflection on the burden of spiritu- dents in Ukraine in the 1960s who arrest and her time in the horrific labor Ukrainians, on the other hand, really al leadership. Although the poem is about expressed their anti-Brezhnev grievances camp in Mordovia without pity for herself love Franko. They’ve put him on postage Jews searching for the Promised Land, the through underground samvydav and pub- or recriminations toward her denouncers. stamps, coins and currency (see Ingert allusion to Ukrainians is clear. A century lic protest, and I wanted to learn more She simply related her experiences with Kuzych’s “Focus on Philately,” June 6, later, composer Myroslav Skoryk debuted about them. Exploring that era was actu- grace, candor and lack of rancor or bitter- 2004, and July 4, 2004), named streets, his opera based on Franko’s work in the ally a personal reawakening since I had ness, even when she showed the audience town squares, a cruise ship, opera house, very opera house named after its author. no real connection to Soviet Ukraine out- the camp uniform she wore and had theaters, universities and even an entire As if novels, short stories, children’s side of the Cyrillic scribbles on graph miraculously preserved – a striped and city after him. There are monuments to books and poetry weren’t enough, paper stationery my parents received otherwise plain dress, simple in its form him in Lviv, Kyiv, Brody and my home- Franko also wrote several plays, includ- from remote villages they no longer rec- and yet terrible in what it represented. town of Cleveland. For good reason. ing “Stolen Happiness,” about Ukrainian ognized. I remember remarking to a friend who Born 150 years ago in a remote corner of village life. Still in repertory, it became From my research, I was introduced to was also there how extraordinary it was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franko had the basis for another opera – this one by the courageous Vasyl Stus, Vyacheslav that after all she had gone through, an astonishing career. With an energy and Yulia Meytus – as well as a 1952 movie, Chornovil, Petro Grigorenko and certainly Svitlychna appeared so serene. My friend capacity for work that seems superhuman, an Armenian television production and a Nadia Svitlychna. I was especially fascinat- said it was because she was given anoth- he created well in excess of a thousand recent film by Andrii Donchyk. ed when I learned more about her astonish- er chance at life after she defected to the pieces of fiction, poetry, journalism and Franko was also a formidable scholar, ing heroism and integrity in defending the West and was reunited with her family. scholarship, most of them in Ukrainian, but publishing around 100 or so sociological, other dissidents. She was unwavering in Svitlychna was, as my friend put it, not all. Franko worked in 14 different lan- political and historical-economic studies: her dedication and stamina when she dis- “reborn.” guages, translating Homer, Dante, these include works on the peasant move- tributed the underground political writings Years later, I saw her again. It was a Shakespeare, Byron, Pushkin, Ibsen, Zola, ment, 1848 Revolution in Galicia and for human rights in Ukraine despite KGB year after Ukraine's independence, and I Mickiewicz, Heine, Goethe, Cervantes, etc., Polish-Ukrainian relations; several studies harassment and labor camp internment. was in post-Soviet Kyiv where I taught not to mention original articles published in on the Ukrainian language and its dialects; At tremendous personal sacrifice, she English as a Second Language classes for 50 different European publications. a five-volume collection of texts and analy- fought for a cause which even Ukrainians, the Ukrainian National Association’s I first came across Franko when my ses of Ukrainian Apocrypha and Legends; never mind the world, did not necessarily innovative volunteer program, “Teach mother read “Lys Mykyta” to me when I literary criticism of modern Ukrainian and embrace or aid. What a tumultuous time English in Ukraine.” I was going home was a little boy. In retelling the 12th century European writers; a History of Ukrainian- for Ukraine in those days (but then it’s after several fulfilling weeks of teaching French folktale of Reynard the Fox, Franko Ruthenian Literature; a History of the 18th always a tumultuous time there it seems). and being my students' first real-life enriched it with Ukrainian folklore and Century Puppet Theater in Ukraine; studies What exceptional heroism those dissidents American. satire, creating one of the most recognized of folk songs; anthropological compilations of the ’60s exhibited in their hope and I was waiting in the long line to board figures in Ukrainian culture: the clever fox of clothing, food, art, beliefs and sayings of faith for a more humane Ukraine. my Air Ukraine flight at Boryspil. Two who stands alone against all the other ani- Galician peasants. The first time I actually saw Svitlychna in people were ahead of me, one was mals, shrewdly turning his enemies’ Franko also organized political parties person was at the infamous and pivotal Svitlychna, although I was oblivious at weapons against them and winning in the and scholarly organizations, edited news- first. She looked familiar, certainly very end. I still have my T-shirt from the Lys papers and journals, and taught at the native Ukrainian, but it wasn't until she Irene Zabytko is the author of the Mykyta Lounge – “The Sly Fox” – where university. In one poem, he exhorts him- was made to go through the metal detector novel “The Sky Unwashed” and the Cleveland Ukrainians gathered in the 1970s, self to “work, work, work and in working several times that I finally remembered. short story collection “When Luba and remember fondly the satirical magazine succumb.” And that’s what happened: Leaves Home.” (Continued on page 16) Edward Kozak put out from 1947 to 1990, when Franko died at age 59, he was calling it – What else? – Lys Mykyta. utterly exhausted. No wonder: a 50-vol- Franko also wrote about a hundred ume edition of his works, published in short stories. At the Ridna Shkola the 1970s-1980s, contains only half of FOR THE RECORD Saturday school in the 1960s, we read a what he wrote. Imagine: 50 volumes! couple, including one about a boy who To say Franko didn’t like Ukrainians is spends a year in school and learns basi- not the whole story. In his famous poem cally nothing: all he knows is how to “Sidohlavomu,” he cites why he dislikes UCC on the 50th anniversary write the nonsense syllables, “a-baba- his country, only to conclude it’s because halamaha.” Today, Ivan Malkovych, of his “excessive love” for her. That’s why of the Hungarian Revolution responsible for a wonderful series of he devoted his life to such a broad array of Following is the text of a statement on We celebrate the spirit of love of country children’s books, calls his Kyiv publish- literary and civic activities – to give his the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian and of fellow citizens which motivated ing house – you guessed it – A-ba-ba-ha- people a culture that social, historical and uprising against Soviet domination that the freedom fighters of ’56. This same la-ma-ha. My wife read those books to political circumstances had denied them – was issued on October 24 by the spirit was subsequently shown in other our children when they were little. something he analyzed, described and Ukrainian Canadian Congress. countries of Eastern Europe and the for- As a teenager I read “Zakhar Berkut” worked all his life to remedy. mer Soviet Union. Most recently, in (1883), a novel about Ukrainians’ resist- Presumptuous as it is for me to try to On October 23, 2006, freedom-loving Ukraine, during the ance to the Mongols in 1241. (Recently, figure out Franko’s mind, I’ll bet if he people across the world mark the 50th this spirit served as an example to the our son brought the same novel home saw what his country has achieved since anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution. hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians from Ridna Shkola, only now in abridged his death in 1916, he’d be delighted by This spontaneous nationwide revolt who braved the threat of state violence form much like Cliff’s Notes.) In all, the Declaration of Independence, the against the neo-Stalinist government of and foreign intervention to stand up for Franko wrote several dozen novels, includ- Orange Revolution, the tilt toward the Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies their rights. ing “Boa Constrictor” about the nascent oil Ukrainian language, etc. On the other lasted from October 23 until November Canada became home to many of the industry in Galicia and the birth of work- hand, he probably wouldn’t be surprised 10, 1956, when it was brutally crushed refugees of the revolution. Ukrainian ing class consciousness. (I read a 1957 at Ukrainians’ difficulties with governing by the armed forces of the Soviet Union Canadians are proud to count their English translation of a Russian translation even as that provides another reason to assisted by domestic collaborators. Hungarian neighbors as friends. Together of the original Ukrainian.) Franko wrote dislike his countrymen. Maybe their suc- Thousands of Hungarians died defending our two communities became champions another novel on the same topic, cess at this year’s World Cup soccer their nation. Many others became of freedom and democracy in countries “Boryslav is Laughing.” A couple of years championship would have made up for it. refugees. ruled by totalitarian regimes. We stand ago, someone asked me if there’s an No doubt, he would have enjoyed it just The revolution was an act of national together now in continuing to contribute English translation and I had to tell him, like the rest of us, only by now, he would self-defense in the face of an anti-demo- to Canada and its multicultural society. alas, that none exists, as far as I know. have written a novel, an epic poem and cratic dictatorial regime which did not On behalf of the Ukrainian Canadian On the other hand, we do have transla- an analysis of the interplay between serve the interests of the Hungarian peo- Congress, I extend my best wishes to the tions of Franko’s poetry – many of them on sports and politics in Ukrainian history. ple but only those of the imperialist Hungarian Canadian community. Let no the terrific website http://www.franko. Franko was an uncommon genius. regime in Moscow. one forget the spirit and example of the lviv.ua, including love poems, sonnets, rev- What a pleasure to rediscover him on the Ukrainian Canadians bow their heads Hungarian Revolution of 1956! olutionary hymns and his incredible narra- 150th anniversary of his birth! in memory of those who gave their lives tive poems. One, “The Death of Cain,” for the ideal that nations have the right to Orysia Sushko, president describes the biblical murderer and his Andrew Fedynsky’s e-mail address is live as they chose in their own countries. Ukrainian Canadian Congress wanderings and reflections after being [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 No. 45

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Ukraine and in the Ukrainian diaspora Bush took office. The miscalculation of Kuzio responds believed in the Orange Revolution slogan 9/11 and beyond: the White House and the neocons is of “bandits to prison,” Mr. Karatnycky illustrated by a misfired prediction from was seeking to ingratiate himself with Rupert Murdoch, Fox channel tycoon, in to Karatnycky a look at U.S. policy February 2003: “The greatest thing to Dear Editor: Ukraine’s wealthiest oligarch. During Mr. Dear Editor: come out of invading Iraq will be $20 a Adrian Karatnycky’s letter (October 15) Karatnycky’s talks in the U.S. and Your editorial about 9/11 was some- barrel for oil.” raised important points that could have Canada in 2005-2006 he has claimed that what similar to the ritualistic official line Rattled by bad news from the Middle been made without the implied threats and there was “no proof” for accusations toed by mainstream media. However, East and the sinking poll numbers at personal attacks. My record is absolutely made against Mr. Akhmetov for his mur- there is substance in the comment about home, the president is now compelled to impeccable regarding the use of sources derous rise to power to become head of President George W. Bush’s political escalate the rhetoric. In tune with and people entrusting me with information the Donetsk clan. During an April 10 detour in his 9/11 speech, where he tried Connecticut’s Sen. Joe Lieberman and “off the record” or on the record. The con- panel on the March elections held in “to make the case” for his miscalculated some out-to-lunch talk-show hosts, he is versation in the Baraban bar was in the Washington and organized by The neo-colonial war in Iraq. now battling not only the terrorists but presence of Roman Olearchyk, the Washington Group, Mr. Karatnycky dis- A tragedy is a tragedy; in a hostile also “the Islamic fascists.” Ukrainian American Financial Times cor- missed the lack of criminal investigations give-and-take it usually strikes the inno- against “bandits” by stating that there had cent. It did so recently in Lebanon, respondent in Kyiv, which surely makes Boris Danik also been no charges made against those Afghanistan and Iraq, as it did through- him a “Western” journalist. North Caldwell, N.J. I have just returned from a three-week who had committed Soviet crimes. out history. 9/11 was no exception. It visit to Ukraine for the U.S. government During Our Ukraine’s October 21 con- “changed the world” only because this during which I met many senior gress in Kyiv, delegates were given time the U.S. was on the receiving end. Ukrainian and U.S. officials. I will fully copies of a recently published book titled The 9/11 outrage evoked sympathy respect their privacy as always. The sin- “Donetskaya Mafiya.” Mr. Akhmetov is a and condolences throughout the world. Thanks for covering gle case that Mr. Karatnycky is referring prominent character in the book. Tactfully, no one rubbed it in that to is rather different and I, therefore, During my visit to Ukraine I asked Americans got a taste of what the U.S. Famine-Genocide made a conscious decision to bring to the many senior politicians, lawyers and poli- has been dishing out to some Third World Dear Editor: public domain ties between him and oli- cy-makers whether they believed the Party countries during the last 50 years in terms Congratulations on The Ukrainian garch Rynat Akhmetov, president of of the Regions, which is partly financed by of both the destruction of infrastructure Weekly’s 73rd anniversary. I am deeply Systems Capital Management and a lead- Mr. Akhmetov, could evolve into a post- and human “collateral” casualties. touched by the fact that your first 1933 ing financier of the Party of the Regions. oligarch and post-Kuchma party. I did not Media commentaries on 9/11 are issue was “born of the need of the Mr. Karatnycky has never hidden his receive a single positive answer. mostly cliches, dwelling on drama and times,” during which the Famine was ties to Mr. Akhmetov. Only two days after Why would the Orange Circle, avoiding any reference to the failures of raging in Ukraine. President Viktor Yushchenko was elected through its president, choose to have any U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East At that time, four of my brothers and Mr. Karatnycky traveled to Donetsk to association with an oligarch group head- that had plenty to do with 9/11. sisters were dying of starvation in the interview Mr. Akhmetov. The interview ed by Mr. Akhmetov which has one of (American military bases would not be village of Kilochky, near Poltava, while led to a flattering article about Mr. the worst reputations in Ukraine? But, located near the Persian Gulf in the last my mother was serving a five-year term Akhmetov in the Wall Street Journal on perhaps more importantly, why has the several decades if the main export from for “stealing” four ears of corn. Although January 14, 2005, titled “A Ukrainian Orange Circle received financial support that region were cabbage and tomatoes I am a child of my parents’ second, post- Magnate Tries to Mend Fences.” This rela- from Akhmetov – but not from any Our instead of oil.) Famine family, the mere mention of tionship has continued as Mr. Karatnycky Ukraine businesses? Commenting on the media presenta- Famine or the year 1933 deepens the admitted in his letter when referring to the There would seem to be a conflict of tion of terrorism as the central issue in open wound in my soul. energy conference in Houston. Donbass interest between the Orange Circle and 9/11, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, national I am eternally grateful to your publi- Fuel-Energy Co., the major energy compa- Mr. Akhmetov’s Systems Capital security adviser to former President cation for alerting the world to the Soviet ny within Mr. Akhmetov’s System Capital Management that should be subjected to Jimmy Carter, wrote in The New York Genocide of the Ukrainian nation. Management, is listed as a “supporter” of greater transparency. I would welcome a Times on September 1: “It is as if terror- the Orange Circle (http://www.orangecir- public debate with Mr. Karatnycky on ism is suspended in the outer space as an Halyna Hrushetska cle.org/donors.html). these issues. abstract phenomenon, unrelated to any Westchester, Ill. Let’s put the decision to do this inter- specific motivation. Missing is the dis- view and write the op-ed into context. At Taras Kuzio, Ph.D. cussion of the simple fact that lurking the same time when Ukrainians in Washington behind every terrorist act is a specific We welcome your opinion political antecedent.” The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters With its attention focused on “the war to the editor and commentaries on a vari- on terror,” the country was waving flags ety of topics of concern to the Ukrainian while President Bush exploited the occa- American and Ukrainian Canadian com- sion to promote the partisan far-right munities. Opinions expressed by colum- Republican political agenda. Given a nists, commentators and letter-writers are blank check by the rubber-stamp their own and do not necessarily reflect the Congress, he cut taxes for billionaires opinions of either The Weekly editorial and launched two wars financed by cred- staff or its publisher, the Ukrainian National Association. it card. Fear-mongering became the center- Letters should be typed and signed piece of the 2004 Republican re-election (anonymous letters are not published). strategy – and still is for the coming Letters are accepted also via e-mail at Congressional election. “Terrorism is a [email protected]. The daytime phone horse which we can ride through the number and address of the letter-writer election,” lectured Karl Rove, the presi- must be given for verification purposes. Please note that a daytime phone number dent’s chief strategist, at the Republican is essential in order for editors to contact National Committee meeting in Texas letter-writers regarding clarifications or during the summer of 2002. questions. This time the horse may be freaked out by the hefty price of gas and heating Please note: THE LENGTH OF LET- oil, which doubled and tripled since Mr. TERS CANNOT EXCEED 500 WORDS. No. 45 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 9

BOOK REVIEW

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s book on Ukraine in the Ukrainian language “Ukrayina u Heostratyhichnomu Kontektsi” (Ukraine in the Geostrategic Context) of freedom and democracy has been by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Kyiv: Kyiv Mohyla Academy Publishers, 2006. 101 pp. broadcast by the Wall Street Journal to millions of readers of its American, by Volodimir Bandera Soviet empire, the strengthening of the Asian and electronic editions. These arti- newly independent states like Ukraine and cles were also carried by hundreds of Zbigniew Brzezinki’s influential book Georgia could encourage the formation of other newspapers worldwide, including “Ukraine in the Geostrategic Context” is a new Russia as a democratic country some periodicals in Ukraine. now available in the Ukrainian language without imperialistic aims and confronta- Certainly, Dr. Brzezinski’s insights go thanks to the publishing house of the tionist international policies. Not surpris- beyond the time frame and the context of National University of Kyiv Mohyla ingly, later in the book, this optimistic the- the original publications. His broad histori- Academy. It is very timely in view of the sis was challenged when Dr. Brzezinski cal and global perspective can help readers unsettling political and socio-economic lectured to audiences in Ukraine. also to understand current developments conditions involving the post-Soviet The second part of the book consists like the Russia-provoked energy crisis, the nations. of several public lectures and interviews challenge to Ukrainian as a state language, From this short but insightful publica- which focus on the geopolitical implica- and the difficulties with Ukraine’s entry tion we can learn how a renowned politi- tions of Ukraine’s independence immedi- into the World Trade Organization, NATO cal scientist perceives Ukraine from the ately preceding and following the Orange and the European Union. standpoint of geopolitics. Unlike some Revolution. Dr. Brzezinski’s speeches While the author recognizes these Western observers, this expert treats the and impromptu responses to questions problems for the leadership of a reborn newly independent state not as a pawn of demonstrate a deep grasp of East nation, he is optimistic in that the Orange the world powers but as an assertive European conditions and will delight the Revolution was “a revolution of hope.” player that defends and promotes its readers with a masterful lively oratory. The Ukrainian edition of this book is national interests. For instance, during his lecture at the the fifth in a series of translations called Dr. Brzezinski’s international reputation National University of Kyiv Mohyla “Current Global Views.” Published by is based on his brilliant academic career, Academy on May 14, 2004, a student York Times during the momentous days the National University of Kyiv Mohyla participation in the implementation of U.S. asked: “If Europe loses Ukraine now, of the Orange Revolution. Thus, the arti- Academy, the series includes Vsevolod foreign policy, authorship of a stream of what would it lose in the future?” Dr. cle “Russian roulette” comments on Isajiw’s “Society in Transition: Social books, analytical articles and sought after Brzezinski’s answer was: “If Europe Kyiv’s democratic upheaval and the Change in Ukraine in Western loses Ukraine, it will also lose Russia; Perspective,” a compendium of studies appearances in the mass media. rudeness of Vladimir Putin’s heavy- His father was Poland’s senior diplo- and without Ukraine and Russia, its secu- by 19 experts of various fields. handed meddling. Then, in his article mat in Germany during the rise of rity will be weaker. Hence Europe should Slated for publication is Dr. “Imperial Russia, Vassal Ukraine,” Dr. Nazism (1931-1935), in Moscow during be greatly interested to promote close Brzezinski’s latest book, “The Choice: Stalin’s reign of terror (1936-1938), and relations with Ukraine, both since the Brzezinski cautions the West that “… the Global Domination or Global in Canada at the time of the Molotov- country is important in itself and since defeat of democracy in Ukraine or a suc- Leadership,” and Oleh Havrylyshyn’s Ribbentrop Pact that preceded the Ukraine’s entry into the EU will be con- cessful Russian-backed break-up of the “Capitalism for All or a Few?” This German and Soviet attack on and the ducive to the broadening of desirable country would further ignite the ambi- series of translations is sponsored by the occupation of Poland. relations between Europe and Russia.” tions of those in Moscow who still dream Ukrainian Federation of America. The young Brzezinski studied at Another student’s question was: of a reconstituted empire.” The reviewed book may be acquired McGill University, earned his doctorate “What will be the Western response if the It should be noted that through these for $14 via the Internet at at Harvard, and became professor and elections (in Ukraine) will be undemoc- articles Dr. Brzezinski’s voice in defense [email protected]. director of the Institute of the Problems ratic and not conforming to European of Communism at Columbia University. and American standards?” To this Dr. The book reviewed here consists of Brzezinski responded: “The relations three parts. First is the translation of Dr. would markedly worsen ... However, Brzezinski’s monograph “The most importantly, if the elections are Geostrategic Triad: Living with China, free, honest and legal, then regardless of Europe and Russia.” It was originally who is elected, there will be positive published by the Center for Strategic and cumulative effects on the development of International Studies (2000). As we a democratic society; it is in the interest know, the analysis provided by this and of Europe and America to maintain con- similar think-tanks plays a key role in the structive relations with the important formulation of U.S. foreign policy. From country Ukraine.” Ukraine’s standpoint, especially relevant Unlike the other parts of the book, the essays in the second part were published is the analysis of interaction between the in Ukraine and in Ukrainian periodicals U.S. and Russia. abroad, and they were usually broadcast Dr. Brzezinski argues that, after the dis- in Ukraine by Western media like the integration of the Russian-dominated BBC, Deutsche Welle and Radio Liberty. The third part of the book offers sever- 0RQWK,5$&'6SHFLDO Dr. Volodimir Bandera is professor of al short but poignant essays which international economics at Temple appeared as op-ed page commentaries in University. the Wall Street Journal and/or The New $3< -80%2,5$&'UDWHVDYDLODEOH 3OHDVHFDOOIRUUDWHV

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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art celebrates 35th anniversary by Laryssa Chreptowsky Reifel and to invite engagement at a level of con- templation that offers universal import. CHICAGO – The Ukrainian Institute Hence, the Institute of Modern Art is not of Modern Art celebrated its 35th about what it means to be Ukrainian anniversary at the Ukrainian Cultural through popular arts and customs, but what Center in Chicago on October 7. it means to be Ukrainian within the family The turnout for the celebration was of mankind in the world today, especially quite strong, with more than 250 people in in terms of the Western world whose aes- attendance. Guests at the celebration thetic values Ukraine had made its own – enjoyed a very pleasant cocktail hour with from the Byzantine period, through the excellent music by Zorepod. The mistress- Baroque, and into the modernist age.” es of ceremony were Dr. Vira Bodnaruk Prof. Morenets very eloquently discussed and Laryssa Chreptowsky Reifel. the role of initiative in the diaspora and Vera Chreptowsky opened the evening specifically praised the initiative of the four by welcoming all of the guests and thank- men whose efforts were celebrated at the ing them for their support of UIMA. event: Dr. Achilles N. Chreptowsky, Guest speakers Prof. Myroslawa Mudrak UIMA’s founder and principal benefactor; of Ohio State University and Prof. Vladimir Wasyl Kacurovsky, UIMA’s first curator and Morenets of the National University of Kyiv principal art expert; Konstantin Milonadis Mohyla Academy gave speeches about the and Michajlo Urban, UIMA’s first artists. relevance of the Ukrainian Institute of In addition to formal speeches, there was Modern Art and its role in the diaspora. a short film presentation that contained a Prof. Mudrak expounded upon the role photo montage and interviews with various of the institute in the world by explaining volunteers at the institute and their thoughts that “Through the abstract language of on the meaning of the Ukrainian Institute of At the 35th anniversary celebration of the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art music and art, the institute has offered the Modern Art and its role in the community. (from left) are: Vera Chreptowsky, Prof. Myroslawa Mudrak, Prof. Volodymyr opportunity to find meaning on a level that The highlight of the evening came with Morenets, the Very Rev. Bohdan Nalysnyk of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic transcends the literal and the pedestrian, the introduction of a new award to be Cathedral, Dr. Vira Bodnaruk and Laryssa Chreptowsky Reifel.

given by the institute on very rare occa- The following organizations and individuals made generous donationssions. The Guardianto the of the Institute Award th is to be given to individuals who have dis- Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in celebration anniversary. of its 35 tinguished themselves in their service to the institute. Mrs. Chreptowsky introduced UIMA is grateful for such wide based community support. the award and its first recipient – Oleh Kowerko. Mr. Kowerko was given the award because he has exemplified what it Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union$25,000 Mrs. Jaroslava Farion $100 means to be a Guardian of the Institute The Heritage Foundation of First Security Federal$10,000 Savings Mrs.Bank Oresta Fedyniak $100 through his 35 years of selfless dedication Mrs. Vera Chreptowsky $2,000 Mr. & Mrs. Halicki $100 to the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, MB Financial Bank $1,000 Dr. Maria R. Hrycelak $100 its programming and evolution. Dr. & Mrs. Kulas $1,000 Mr. & Mrs. Ihor Figlus & Natalie Jaresko$100 Dr. & Mrs. Nadzikewycz $1,000 Mr. & Mrs. Karawan $100 Many leaders from both the Ukrainian Mr. & Mrs. Oleh & Luba Skubiak $1,000 Drs. Kolenskyj $100 and American communities addressed the Mrs. Irena Kaminska $550 Mr. Nicholas Kotcherha $100 banquet with warm greetings of congratula- Mr. & Mrs. Oleh & Lesia Kowerko $400 Mr. & Mrs. Kuropas $100 tions. Among them were Consul General of Mr. and Mr.s Mykola Bagan $300 Mr. & Mrs. Matwyshyn $100 Ukraine Vasyl Korzachenko, Deputy Dr. & Mrs. Daczkewycz $250 Mr. & Mrs. Pavlyk $100 Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Valentine Mr. & Mrs. Hankewycz $250 Ms. Kalyna Pomirko $100 Judge; the president of the Ukrainian Drs. Procyk $250 Mrs. Valentina Sanina $100 Congress Committee of America – Illinois Mr. George M. 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Other restrictions apply institute is open Wednesday through Sunday, from noon to 4 p.m. No. 45 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 11 New Ukrainian television program is launched in Montreal MONTREAL – CH Television has ducted with Peter Pawliw from Sherbrooke, launched a new, much-anticipated, week- whose mother was interned at Spirit Lake; ly Ukrainian half-hour program called with Kim Pawliw, his daughter, whose “Suziria,” that reflects the activity of the poem on the internment won a Quebec Ukrainian community in Montreal and competition; and with Zorianna Hrycenko- the province of Quebec. Luhova, a researcher on the internment doc- The program features interviews, pri- umentary “Freedom Had A Price.” marily in the Ukrainian-language, on var- Every week, the television program ious topics with such guests as Canadian highlights the newest top three popular opera singer Taras Kulish, Montreal artist songs from Ukraine, instructs viewers how Serhij Burtovyy, lawyer Evhen Czolij on to find specific Ukrainian sites on the com- the fourth World Forum of Ukrainians puter, introduces viewers to works of and Prof. Roman Serbyn on his recent young, up and coming Ukrainian filmmak- research in Kyiv. ers in Montreal, focuses on the presidents A special CH television film crew in and activities of the many Montreal organ- September covered the annual Ukrainian izations, and airs weekly announcements Festival in Rosemount, in which over about various community events. 10,000 Montrealers participated. The television program is geared to both With the unveiling of a commemorative young and old, and is especially appreciat- internment plaque in Beauport and ed by the elderly who are unable to attend Valcartier, Quebec, in October, a special the various functions but still want to have program focused on the internment of a connection with the community. Ukrainians in Quebec. Interviews were con- The Ukrainian program fulfills the man-

Lydia Gabruch, Maureen Romanchuk, “Suziria” crew members (from left): host Anastasia Kyva, CH TV program Saskatchewan’s... Bohdan Zerebecky, Alvin Bodnarchuk, director Istan Rozumny and host Oksana Zhovtulia. (Continued from page 1) Catherine Schabel; teacher assistants Mary Holowachuk and Stacia Horbay date of the station, a division of CanWest using a rotation process.” Many of the 18 able. Randy Warick, former superintendent MediaWorks, to reflect the various commu- Montreal ethno-cultural communities have of schools worked diligently on behalf of and Office Coordinator, Sonia Kodak. The band teacher is Carol Weninger- nities in Canada. The Montreal program continuous programming by financially students and parents. The present superin- was initiated in large part by Isabella supporting their community TV program. tendent of schools, John McAuliffe, is a Calver, while George Jedlicki is student Federigi, the CH Television station manag- The weekly hosts of “Suziria” are dedicated and effective leader. counselor. Laurisse Marchessault is a er – who recognized that the Ukrainian Oksana Zhovtulia and Anastasia Kyva. The Former principals of the Ukrainian language assistance teacher. Caretakers community in Montreal and Quebec is over production line-up and researcher is bilingual program each gave valuable are Shannon Martin and Vanessa 100 years old – and by Istan Rozumny, Valentyna Golash, and the program director service, while staff and parents have been Miskolzie. filmmaker and a CH TV program director. is Istan Rozumny. “Suziria” can be viewed steadfast in their dream of a single stream Guest speakers included Mr. Carriere, facility and their hard efforts have been of the Greater Saskatoon Catholic The duration of the program is guaran- on CH Channel 14 four times a week every rewarded, Mrs. Wasylow concluded. Schools, Bishop Wiwchar, Mrs. teed for six months. However, as Ms. Saturday at 9:30 p.m., Sunday at 9 p.m., For 27 years the bilingual program has Prokopchuk, Superintendent McAuliffe, Federigi stated, “The station could bring it Tuesday at 11 p.m. and Friday at 5 p.m. served the families of the entire city of Slawko Kindrachuk of the Ukrainian back if the show proves to be a good The Montreal Ukrainian television pro- Saskatoon, first at St. Goretti School and Canadian Congress, Saskatoon Branch, investment and serves the community gram welcomes comments and program more recently as the St. Nicholas and Chrystal Polanik, president of the properly. CH tries to give a chance to suggestions; readers may call 514-522- Ukrainian Bilingual Program at Holy Home and School Association. communities, to have a local show by 4150 or e-mail [email protected]. Family School. The program was marked by a sense The present staff members include of gratitude to those who helped reach Principal Wasylow; Vice-Principal Olya the goal of a Ukrainian bilingual school, Kowaluk, who is also a learning assis- as well as the need for the entire tance teacher and “sadochok” teacher, Ukrainian community to actively support teachers Brenda Kelln, Julie Thachuk, and enhance the school. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 No. 45

Ukraine: Former U.S. ambassador assesses Orange Revolution RFE/RL authority in the president, with no real this, introducing new energy-efficient tech- checks and balances. So now you have nologies, and be able to absorb the price PRAGUE – Steven Pifer served from more serious checks and balances, first of increases. Now certainly it won’t be without January 1998 to October 2000 as the all between the Ukrainian executive branch some pain, but I was surprised in September U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. On the and the legislative branch, and also between that most people talked about it as if sidelines of the Prague Energy Forum, the president and the prime minister. Ukraine could manage it in a way that peo- organized by Radio Free Europe/Radio Second, I would point out, if you look ple weren’t talking about managing energy Liberty in partnership with the Warsaw- at the countries in Central Europe and the price increases say eight or 10 months ago. based Institute for Eastern Studies, Pifer Baltic states that have successfully made spoke to RFE/RL’s Jan Maksymiuk about Mr. Yanukovych has said that the aftermath of the Orange Revolution, the transition after the collapse of the Soviet Union, after the collapse of the Ukraine should be prepared for an even Ukraine's gas price rise and the state of more painful gas price hike beyond 2007. the proposed Russia-Belarus union. Warsaw Pact, those countries that joined NATO and the European Union in 1999 And Mr. Yushchenko has recently sig- naled that Ukraine should return to talks and 2004, they all had the parliamentary- How do you assess the Orange on forming an international consortium, presidential model. This has been a suc- Revolution in Ukraine in 2004 from with the participation of Russia, to run cessful model in Central Europe. the perspective of the nearly two years his country’s gas transit pipelines. Do Now, the problem that we’ve seen, that have since passed? Are there any you think Ukraine can ensure its energy and we saw it for example in the debate practical results of the revolution for security without giving control over its in September, over whether Ukraine ordinary Ukrainians today? Are you gas transit infrastructure to Russia? would seek a NATO membership action disappointed with the turn of political Yaro Bihun events in the country following this plan, was that although there are new There are two different questions here. year’s parliamentary elections? constitutional arrangements now in The first question is, Ukraine ultimately Steven Pifer effect, there's some ambiguity, there’s needs to be prepared that it's going to have Well, I think the turn in political events not total clarity on issues such as the to pay world market prices for energy. I Forty-seven dollars seems to be fairly in Ukraine has probably surprised many – NATO membership action plan. Or on think it’s also fair for Ukraine to expect much of a gift. And indeed, Gazprom has that there’ll be a certain transition period, already been making noises that they just as for example Russia, when it negoti- would like to raise the prices of energy, ... it may be very important that the two ated its WTO bilateral agreement with the because Gazprom also is a partially com- European Union, negotiated with the EU a mercial entity, at least. There’s a mixture Viktors – President Yushchenko and five-year transition in terms of raising there because it’s state-owned, but domestic prices for energy within Russia. Gazprom is also looking to maximize its Prime Minister Yanukovych – are going to But it makes sense both from an eco- revenues, and it’s hard to see how have to come to terms together if they nomic point of view, but also from the Gazprom can afford to continue to pro- point of view of energy security, that vide energy at that low price to Belarus. want to produce coherent policy that Ukraine plans that it’s going to ultimate- So, I think Belarus would be wise to moves Ukraine forward. ly have to pay world market prices, and begin thinking about what happens when therefore begin adapting toward that. the prices of energy go up there. Because once Ukraine is paying global prices, it reduces the amount of political Some Russian and Belarusian analysts the fact that [Prime Minister Viktor] other questions, there is no precise guide leverage that Russia may have over believe that Moscow has no clear vision Yanukovych has returned. But he as to what happens when the president Ukraine. If Ukraine's getting a special of what to do with Belarus. Russian returned basically as a result of a free and and the prime minister are in disagree- deal, there will be that temptation for the President Vladimir Putin proposed to fair democratic process. So, that's hard to ment. Russians to exploit that question. Belarusian President Alyaksandr argue with. In the longer term, though, if I’m not sure that this is something that The second question on the interna- Lukashenka three integration scenarios you look at the Orange Revolution, the can be fixed easily or quickly by looking at tional consortium – this is something that in 2002: (a) political absorption of impact is going to be seen in things such the Ukrainian Constitution. In the end, it five or six years ago, when I was still in Belarus by Russia; (b) integration simi- as a media that I think today is stronger, may be very important that the two Viktors the American government, we were very lar to that between the EU countries; (c) feels more independent and is prepared to – President Yushchenko and Prime Minister interested in, because we saw an interna- putting into operation the 1999 union challenge the government, and a stronger Yanukovych – are going to have to come to tional consortium to manage the pipeline state treaty that has so far remained non-governmental-organization sector. terms together if they want to produce as a way to promote win-win solutions, mostly on paper. Mr. Lukashenka reject- You will have, I believe, a strong and coherent policy that moves Ukraine for- both for Ukraine and for the producers ed the first two options, stressing the vocal opposition in [former Prime Minister ward. And that’s going to be a challenge for and shippers in Russia, but also for the equality of both sides in a common state. and opposition leader] Yulia Tymoshenko both of them. But it’ll be important for consumers – I think the consortium idea What is your opinion about the future as an opposition leader, unlike the kind that Ukraine that they meet that challenge. still has some merit. shape of the Belarus-Russia Union? Ukraine has had in the past. So I think But it’s going to be very important that Could it be a viable political formation? Today Kyiv and Moscow are expect- there are different manifestations now that Ukraine look at the exact terms of what the That ultimately is going to depend are good for Ukrainian democracy. ed to sign a deal on gas supplies for consortium looks like. The concern here is 2007. What is your prediction regard- upon Russia and Belarus. What has And, again, with regard to Mr. that when designing the consortium with struck me is that although the two coun- Yanukovych's return, his party won in ing the price Ukraine will have to pay Russia involved, and they usually also talk for imported gas next year? And what tries have talked about a political union March in a free and fair election; hope- about a consumer, maybe [German gas since the mid-1990s, you really haven't fully now it doesn’t bring some of the impact may this new price have on company] Ruhrgas or somebody on the Ukraine’s economy? seen much in the way of real progress. baggage back from the [former consumer side being involved. Ukraine has Part of my assumption has always been Ukrainian President Leonid] Kuchma Based on what I’ve seen, the expecta- to bear in mind that there always may be a that while the Russians talk about a polit- years. But I think there will be a lot of tion is that in 2007 Ukraine will have to convergence of interests between the pro- ical union with Belarus, they didn't want people watching very carefully on this. pay something on the order of $100-$135 ducer and the shipper in Russia, and the to make the practical steps, because actu- per 1,000 cubic meters of gas, which is an consumer in Western Europe. And that con- ally bringing Belarus into a union with The coming of President Viktor vergence of interests is, of course, that the Yushchenko to power in 2004 became increase from the $95 per 1,000 cubic Russia would probably impose some sig- meters that Ukraine has paid for imported shipper and the consumer want to minimize nificant economic costs, not only in possible through the introduction of a the transit costs. So there is that alliance of constitutional reform that limited presi- gas in 2006. What struck me when I was terms of the energy subsidies that Russia in Kyiv in September was when I talked interests which could work against Ukraine. is already providing, but also other types dential powers in favor of the prime So Ukraine has to make sure that the con- minister and Parliament. Ukraine has to various people, both in the government of subsidies to make that work. It seems and also in industry, nobody seemed to sortium is designed in such a way that its to me that up until now, Russia has been moved from a presidential republic, interests do not get shortchanged. which is characteristic of most post- see that this would be a huge problem. unwilling to make that economic invest- Soviet states, to a parliamentary-presi- They seemed to understand that the price Belarus is a country that pays for ment to make a political union. dential system, which is more typical of was going up, and they seemed to believe Russian gas deliveries not so much with I also found it interesting that when European democracies. But this shift that this would not be a huge blow to the money as with political loyalty. In your President Putin posed those two alterna- has triggered a bitter confrontation Ukrainian economy. opinion, for how long may Belarus tives, either absorption or an EU-type between Messrs. Yushchenko and And what I heard from multiple sources expect to receive gas from Russia at arrangement, it was almost designed as if Yanukovych over who should be the was that in fact, Ukrainian large industry such a discount as now, when it pays he was trying to give Mr. Lukashenka real ruler of the country. Don’t you already understands that the price of ener- just $47 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas? two alternatives that were very unpalat- think that Ukrainians are not yet ready gy is going up, probably eventually to Will Russia increase its gas price to able. It seems to me that while there may to break with their political thinking in world market prices. And, therefore, large Belarus next year? If so, by how much? be talk about this political union, I terms of the authoritarian power sys- businesses are making decisions now in haven't really seen much evidence that tem established by President Kuchma? investing in energy-efficient technologies, I’m a little bit less familiar with the either side is moving to make that a reali- decisions that they didn’t make four or gas and energy scene in Belarus than in ty, which suggests that both sides may be I’d say, first of all, that this change, the five years ago because gas was so cheap Ukraine, but I think it would be awfully comfortable with talking about a union, fact that Ukraine has moved from a supra- and there was no economic reason. So optimistic for Belarusians to continue to but neither is really prepared to make the presidency model to a parliamentary-presi- they're making decisions now. expect to enjoy that kind of deal. If you investment in the costs, or the sorts of dential model, is probably a good thing. And several people said that if Ukraine look around, Ukraine will be paying real changes that would be necessary to Certainly one of the problems of the has two or three years to make this transi- $130, and in the Baltics it's already $120 make that happen. Both may be, in fact, Kuchma era was that you had too much tion, they should be able to accommodate and it's likely to go up. comfortable with the current situation. No. 45 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 13 Grad student analyzes political attitudes of adolescents in Russia and Ukraine

by Oksana Zakydalsky Russia, but in Ukraine a language ques- were strongly proud or proud, but pride authorities recently increased the spending tion was added: Which language do you was also high in Donetsk – 80 percent. for patriotic education and launched a series TORONTO – Olena Nikolayenko’s speak at home: Russian, Ukrainian, or Trust in politicians and authorities was of initiatives, trying to co-opt youth into Ph.D. dissertation analyzes and com- both Russian and Ukrainian? In Lviv, similar to that in Russia. Everywhere stu- organizations and teach them how to be pares the political attitudes of today’s most spoke Ukrainian at home, in dents complained about the corruption of patriotic. “After Yushchenko came to teenagers in Russia and Ukraine. A grad- Donetsk – most spoke Russian, while officials references to “khabari” (bribes), power, he could have done something to co- uate student in comparative politics, Ms. “both Russian and Ukrainian” was chosen “prodazhni” (those who sell out), etc. would opt the youth of the whole of Ukraine. I did- Nikolayenko did her field research in by the majority in Kyiv, although Ms. come up many times. Mistrust for the mili- n’t get the sense that there was any attempt Russia in April-May 2005 (in the cities Nikolayenko suspects that the students tia and the courts was pervasive, with to develop a youth policy, for example, a of Moscow, Tula and Rostov-on-the would mostly use Russian at home but, respondents feeling that they don’t care new curriculum for the civic education Don) and in Ukraine in September- because everyone in Kyiv learns about protecting law and order, but only course which is mandatory. There were October 2005. In Ukraine, the cities cho- Ukrainian, they were able to use about stuffing their pockets. There was some good initiatives, but not at the govern- sen were Kyiv, Lviv and Donetsk. Ukrainian. On the other hand, in Donetsk, some ambiguity with regard to the president ment level,” Ms. Nikolayenko said. Her fieldwork involved questionnaire students are not learning Ukrainian. – in the fall of 2005 Mr. Yushchenko still She added that a Lviv organization, surveys of about 100 students age 14 to “I did my survey in Ukraine in the fall had some lingering popularity in the west, Nova Doba (with funding from the U.S.) while in east he was evaluated negatively. developed a new textbook in civics – col- However, there was a striking differ- orful, illustrated and much improved. But ence between Lviv and Donetsk on the although it was approved by the ministry appraisal of the Soviet Union’s demise. of Education and recommended for use, In Russia, 63 percent considered it a neg- it was not financed by the foreign minis- ative page in their history; in Donetsk, 69 ter and de facto it meant nothing. percent saw it as a negative; while in “The findings of my research show that Lviv, 92 percent saw the collapse of the there are regionally concentrated pockets USSR as a positive thing. for democracy and at the same time a neg- “The disturbing thing for me is the extent ative appraisal of democracy. The real to which the mass media and the politicians danger is that Ukraine will continue to perpetuate the stereotyping of each other. oscillate between democracy and dictator- Politicians are trying to antagonize rather ship, although some might argue that sup- than improve relations between the regions port in the whole country – 64 percent – is and I think this does have some impact on more than half. But it doesn’t seem to be the young generation. Although they are high enough to rock the boat and radically growing up in independent Ukraine, they change the situation because there are a continue to hold this deep-seated stereotyp- large number of adolescents, especially in ing,” Ms. Nikolayenko said. Donetsk who feel alienated from democ- She pointed out that media in the east racy or don’t really think it fits the coun- are controlled by local administrations – by try,” Ms. Nikolayenko concluded. the regional regimes and the regional gov- * * * ernors. There is lack of face-to-face contact Olena Nikolayenko in Lviv. between east and west. “Those who live in Financial support for Ms. the western Ukraine don’t go to Donetsk, Nikolayenko’s research was provided by 16, in each of three schools chosen in of 2005, almost one year after the Orange Luhansk or Kharkiv. The East is not as pic- the Petro Jacyk Program for the study of each city – therefore, about 900 ques- Revolution. What I confirmed was a turesque as the Carpathians. Adolescents Ukraine aided by the department of polit- tionnaires were collected for each coun- shocking, although not surprising, thing – from the east don’t have contacts with the ical science, Faculty of Arts and Science try. The questionnaires concerned the the extent of the east-west difference as West and go to Russia where they are likely and the School of Graduate Studies at the acquisition of political attitudes as part far as the adolescents’ perception of the to have relatives,” she observed. University of Toronto. of the socialization process. president, the interpretation of the Orange Interest in youth in Russia has intensified * * * Ms. Nikolayenko explained, “Both Revolution and the political reality after the Orange Revolution and, Ms. Russia under [Vladimir] Putin and Ukraine around them,” she explained. Nikolayenko pointed out, to some extent in A previous article on Olena under [Leonid] Kuchma (and to some “Students in Lviv and Donetsk continue Ukraine as well, but from the Viktor Nikolayenko’s research in Russia extent – Viktor Yushchenko) are similar, to perceive the situation in different terms. Yanukovych side not the Mr. Yushchenko appeared in The Ukrainian Weekly on somewhere between democracy and dicta- After the Orange Revolution, the Lviv side. In Russia, Ms. Nikolayenko said, August 21, 2005. torship. Political scientists have coined the Ukrainians feel that it was part of their term ‘hybrid’ regime – a very strange crea- experience, whereas Donetsk Ukrainians ture which has some democratic institu- are totally alienated from the process. In tions and some democratic procedures in Donetsk, they feel like losers; in Lviv, place, but where the ruling elite manipu- there is a sense of pride in the victory of Adrian Bryttan speaks on music lates procedures to its own advantage. It ordinary citizens. But this illustrates the really is not interested in developing func- failure of the incumbent government to tioning democratic institutions or a vibrant reach out to different segments of the pop- from Ukraine at the Shevchenko Society civil society but wants to keep the pretence ulation and try and build some bridges to stay in power.” across the country,” Ms. Nikolayenko said. “I was intrigued by the similarities On some questions, the differences between the two countries and at the between Donetsk and Lviv were larger same time I hoped that there might be than the difference between Donetsk and some differences due to the escalation of Moscow. Ms. Nikolayenko concluded authoritarian measures in Russia espe- that in Ukraine intra-country differences cially in the last few years,” she noted. are larger than the differences between “In Ukraine there was some sense that Ukraine as a whole and Russia. the Orange Revolution was a watershed In the support for democracy question event, and that a monumental change (questions were mostly multiple choice might come as a result of it. So I thought with: strongly agree, agree, ambivalent, that there would be different shades of grey disagree and strongly disagree as choices between Russia and Ukraine. I wanted to for a given statement) – how suitable do analyze the extent to which differences in you think democracy is for your country? the political climate would leave their – approximately 64 percent of the respon- imprint on the political attitudes of the dents in both Russia and Ukraine strongly young generation – those who will be vot- agreed or agreed that democracy is the ers in a few years and who will, to some best form of government for their country. extent, decide the future of their country.” However, percentages answering In her survey, Ms. Nikolayenko elect- strongly agreed varied widely – in Lviv, NEW YORK – In a lively presentation-cum-video, Dr. Adrian Bryttan on ed to measure three objects of political 44 percent; Kyiv, 28 percent; and Donetsk, September 16 led his audience at the Shevchenko Scientific Society through support: support for the regime as a only 17 percent. This is not surprising snippets of operas and instrumental works, performed recently in Lviv, whole by asking about support for because the students link what is going on Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv. Most of these were done under his own baton, but democracy; secondly, attachment to the in the country with democracy and in the the program also included an unusually accomplished rendition of a Hnatyshyn political community – by asking students east (at least in Donetsk) they don’t like it. mass by a girls’ church choir in Drohobych, a joyful reading of the “Hot Canary” about national pride in their country and To the question “How proud are you from Dr. Bryttan’s violin recital in Lviv, some ballet and even drama. All of this their opinion about the collapse of the to be a citizen of your country?” there was introduced on video with a walk-through of streets and memorable sights in Soviet Union; and, as the third element were similarities at the country level. In the cities, while Dr. Bryttan made comments, often interjecting humor. A of political support – she wanted to both Russia and Ukraine about 88 per- Fulbright scholarship afforded Dr. Bryttan the opportunity to spend parts of 2005 measure their trust in the authorities. cent are proud to be citizens of their and 2006 in Ukraine. Seen above (from left) are: Vasyl Makhno, Orest The questionnaire was the same as in countries. In Lviv, 97 percent said they Popovych, Adrian Bryttan, Daria Dykyj and Vasyl Lopukh and Olha Kuzmowycz. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 No. 45

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Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov on that certain heterodox Christians, often critical of Politkovskaya and suggested that NEWSBRIEFS October 24, the latter reportedly brought Catholics of the Eastern rite, whether out of her killing unfairly harmed Russia’s image. (Continued from page 14) up some possible negative consequences ignorance or for some other reason feel enti- Mr. Ponomaryov added that “it is not by and Naftohaz Ukrayiny was left without of Ukraine joining the WTO ahead of tled to receive communion in parishes of the chance that we speak of an authoritarian rule 40 billion cubic meters of gas that was Russia. According to Mr. Chalyi, President UOCC. The reference to the decline in [in Russia], especially now that Putin is stipulated in the contract,” Mr. Voronin Yushchenko assured Mr. Fradkov that membership is both disingenuous and mis- beginning to have messianic overtones. He added. (RFE/RL Newsline) Ukraine’s “accession will not pose any leading. We have two concrete means of thinks that he and Russia are one, and that it danger to the Russian Federation.” The measuring Church membership in the is his vocation to save Russia. Unfortunately, Belarusians remember Stalin’s victims same day, Ukrainian Finance Minister UOCC – governmental statistical data and he does not hear or accept any criticism. Mykola Azarov said that the Russian side Church membership rolls. According to “The New-York based Committee to Protect MIENSK – Several hundred people meant the terms of the accession rather governmental census data there were Journalists called Mr. Putin’s comments “a marched on October 30 from central than its date. (RFE/RL Newsline) 119,000 self-professed Ukrainian Orthodox backhanded attack” that “belies his commit- Miensk to the Kurapaty, site of Stalin-era Christians in Canada in 1961 and 32,700 in ment to justice.” (RFE/RL Newsline) mass executions on the city’s outskirts to Kyiv to inform Moscow on WTO accession 2001. According to Church membership commemorate Dzyady (Ancestors’ rolls there were approximately 18,000 mem- Legislator warns against ‘cozy dinners’ Remembrance Day), Belapan and KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor bers in 1961 and 11,500 in 2005. As is obvi- RFE/RL’s Belarus Service reported. Yanukovych said on October 26 that ous, the data given in the posted article con- BRUSSELS – Finnish European Affairs Although the march was officially author- Ukraine is ready to inform Russia about sisted of comparing apples and oranges.” Minister Paula Lehtomaki, whose country its progress on WTO accession, Interfax ized, police briefly detained several partic- (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) holds the European Union’s rotating presi- ipants. Some demonstrators carried ban- reported the same day. “The fact that dency, told the European Parliament in ners reading: “No To Union With Russia!” Ukraine and Russia are connected with Putin dogged in Germany by murder case Brussels on October 12 that Anna and “Union With Russia Means Hunger close trade ties is good ground for inform- Politkovskaya’s murder was “a major set- and Killings!” (RFE/RL Newsline) ing our trade partner about our intentions MUNICH – Russian President Vladimir back for freedom of expression in Russia,” while passing decisions on European inte- Putin faced questions from Bavarian and Reuters reported. She added that “this is a Putin offers to help ‘fraternal’ Ukraine gration or WTO entry,” Mr. Yanukovych other German officials regarding the terrible crime, which we call on the Russian said, adding that similar actions should be Politkovskaya murder case during his visit authorities thoroughly to investigate. We MOSCOW – In his multimedia tele- made in the sphere of foreign policy. to Munich on October 11, as he had the day want the perpetrators to be brought to jus- vised question-and-answer session on However, Mr. Yanukovych stipulated that before in Dresden, German media reported. tice, and this is a particularly important test October 25, President Vladimir Putin said the government “has acted and will Bavarian Economy Minister Erwin Huber of the rule of law in Russia.” She added that that Russia is prepared to help Ukraine if it always act on the basis of Ukraine’s said that the killing “casts a shadow over the EU will raise the case with President faces “outside interference.” In response to national interests.” Ukraine’s expected Russian society as far as democracy, free- Vladimir Putin at the October 20 summit in a question as to whether Russia could help accession to the WTO has been postponed dom of expression and the use of violence Lahti. But Daniel Cohn-Bendit, floor leader Ukraine resolve increasing ethnic tensions many times – Prime Minister Yanukovych is concerned, and President Putin owes of the Greens in the legislature, told Ms. concerning Crimean Tatars on Ukraine’s announced that WTO General Council Bavaria and the world answers.” Lehtomaki that the EU treads lightly with Crimean peninsula, Mr. Putin replied: “If should consider Ukraine’s membership in Elsewhere, the head of Germany’s parlia- President Putin because of its dependence the Ukrainian leadership considers it nec- February 2007. (RFE/RL Newsline) mentary Human Rights and Humanitarian on Russian energy supplies. “You talk about essary and asks us for help, we will be Assistance Committee, Herta Daeubler- bringing the perpetrators to justice, but one Jews praise Odesa for pilgrimage help ready, without immersing ourselves into Gmelin of the Social Democratic Party of the perpetrators is going to be having these [ethnic] problems, without drawing (SPD), said Mr. Putin must provide dinner with you,” he noted. Mr. Cohn- Russia in trying to resolve such problems, ODESA – In a letter to Eduard Hurvits, mayor of Odesa, representatives of the answers about the killing in the next two Bendit added that “as we saw on television to provide assistance to our closest neigh- months or face “the consequences.” She is with [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel bor. [We will help what we call] without Israeli tourist agency Derekh Tsadikim, which organizes religious tours in a former justice minister who was sacked and Putin [in recent days], we need Putin so exaggeration the brotherly republic of by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (SPD) in much that no one is going to be able to ask Ukraine, in order to protect it from outside Ukraine, thanked Svitlana Kobylianska, general director of the Odesa International 2002 for her remarks at a closed SPD meet- him the difficult questions. I think we interference, should anybody be tempted ing comparing U.S. President George W. should negotiate with Putin but we don’t [to interfere].” He added that “when I said Airport, for being professional and for successful services rendered for recent Bush to Hitler. (RFE/RL Newsline) have to have cozy dinners with him.” that, if it were necessary, and if there were (RFE/RL Newsline) a request from the Ukrainian people and Hasidic pilgrims. “The efficiency level of Activists slam Putin’s comments ... the employees of the Odesa airport is the Ukrainian leadership, Russia could Advisor quits over Putin’s remarks much higher than that of their colleagues guarantee at least one thing – guarantee MOSCOW – Igor Yakovenko, general at Boryspil International Airport in Kyiv Ukraine against interference [by other secretary of the Russian Union of MOSCOW – Oleg Orlov, who heads and other Ukrainian airports,” wrote I. countries] in its internal affairs. Should Journalists, told RFE/RL’s Russian Service the human rights group Memorial, said Habai, executive director of Derekh anybody be tempted to interfere, I assure in Moscow on October 12 that the recent on October 17 that he has resigned his Tsadikim, in the letter. “We witnessed for you, the presence of the Russian fleet killing of critical journalist Anna post as adviser to Russian President the first time that the registration of docu- would prove rather useful.” He did not Politkovskaya “has divided Russia in two.” Vladimir Putin as a member of the ments for such a large number of people indicate who might be tempted to interfere On October 11, Lev Ponomaryov, who Presidential Council on Promoting Civil (3,500 people arrived over a 36-hour peri- in such a way that the Russian naval forces heads the activist group For Human Rights, Society and Human Rights, news agen- od) lasted less than 40 minutes (e.g., in could prevent it. (RFE/RL Newsline) told RFE/RL that Ms. Politkovskaya cies reported. Mr. Orlov said he disagrees Boryspil it takes at least two or three “opposed the authorities and she did cause with Mr. Putin’s recent comments on the hours). All flights were arranged on time damage to the present authorities. But in no slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Yushchenko denies concessions to Russia without causing any problems to the pas- way did she damage Russia. I am certain of Many observers at home and abroad sengers. In our opinion, all this opens very KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko that.” He was responding to recent state- described Mr. Putin’s comments as cold bright prospects for the development of ments by President Vladimir Putin that were and demeaning. (RFE/RL Newsline) denied on October 26 that Ukraine had tourism, including of the religious type, in made any political concessions to reach a Odesa.” (Religious Information Service of deal with Russia on gas prices, Interfax Ukraine) reported. Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych announced on October 24 UOC in Canada comments on story that Ukraine in 2007 will buy Russian gas at $130 per 1,000 cubic meters. The deal WINNIPEG, Alberta – Father Bohdan caused speculation that concessions had Hladio, chancellor of the Ukrainian Walter W. Fedun been given to Russia, including the exten- Orthodox Church of Canada (UOCC), has sion of the Russian Black Sea Fleet pres- sent the Religious Information Service of Walter W. Fedun from Port Jervis, NY, passed away on October 4, 2006. He was ence in Crimea. “At the presidential level Ukraine commentary on a July 31 news 90 years old. no political questions were discussed,” Mr. story from Interfax. The commentary, which Yushchenko said, “and I am sure that the was received on September 30, noted: Funeral services were held on October 9th at Walter’s parish, St. Volodymyr’s government [did not discuss such ques- “Regarding the article ‘Ukrainian Orthodox Ukrainian Catholic Church in Glen Spey, NY. Interment was at Holy Spirit tions] either.” The president also said that in Canada No Longer to Give Communion Cemetery in Hamptonburgh, NY. the possible extension of the fleet’s pres- to Non-Orthodox’ posted on the RISU web- ence might be considered by the site, several corrections need to be made. Born in Bobowa, Poland, Walter lived most of his life in Ternopil, Ukraine, Yushchenko-Putin Commission, adding The title itself would indicate that the prac- before emigrating to the United States after World War II. Once here, he put him- that a visit to Ukraine by Russian President tice of the UOCC until now has been to dis- self through college, married, and then worked as an engineer for Grumman Vladimir Putin will be prepared “probably tribute holy communion to non-Orthodox. Corporation in Bethpage, NY, and at its facilities at the NASA Kennedy Space for this year.” (RFE/RL Newsline) This is false. The UOCC, in common with Center in Florida. His projects included the LEM spacecraft for the first lunar all Orthodox Churches, restricts the recep- landing in 1969 and the US Navy’s F-14 jet fighter. His name was recently hon- Simultaneous WTO accession? tion of the holy mysteries to those who have ored at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, NY, Long Island’s tribute been officially and sacramentally received to America’s aerospace industry. Walter retired to Port Jervis in 1979. KYIV – Oleksander Chalyi, deputy into the Orthodox Church. The dateline head of the Presidential Secretariat, said on given for the article is Ottawa. Our main Among those who will dearly miss their father, grandfather, and brother are his October 25 that the question of Ukraine's Church office is in Winnipeg. We have no son Bohdan with wife Angela and child Ian; daughter-in-law Kathy and children simultaneous accession to the WTO with press-office in Ottawa. How is it that ‘offi- Jill and Walter; and sisters Maria Sawicki, Luba Iwanchuk, and Christine Leonard Russia is illogical, Interfax reported. “The cial’ UOCC Church announcements are with husband Richard and sister-in-law Edith Rekshynskyj, with all their families. position of the Ukrainian president is clear coming out of Ottawa? While it is true that on that [question],” Mr. Chalyi said. in certain isolated cases communion has In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to St. Volodymyr’s Ukrainian During a meeting between Ukrainian been distributed to non-Orthodox, the cited Catholic Church in Glen Spey, NY, or the Ukrainian Museum in New York, NY. President Viktor Yushchenko and Russian encyclical was made necessary by the fact 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 No. 45

recipient of her company, and I almost File No. 988-06 A tribute... asked if he would change seats with me. SURROGATE’S COURT – WESTCHESTER COUNTY (Continued from page 7) We had a long stopover at Dublin's THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK She was more diminutive up close than Shannon Airport. Those were the days By the Grace of God Free and Independent on that Edmonton stage, but still as digni- when Shannon welcomed the "Russians" fied and calm as before. She was patient, by placing large signs (in Russian) in the cooperative and absolutely gracious with bathrooms that instructed unsophisticated To: Walter Verheles, Katherine Verheles, Paul Zitko, Natalia Zitko, travelers what the sinks were (not for Tanya Zitko, Larissa Volosyena, Svetlana Kornienko, Walter Luhova, the customs guard, a pimply faced young man with tryzub insignia who nervously bathing), and what the showers were (for Tamara Luhova and Katherine Oleniak, whose whereabouts are bathing only). None of the passengers waved the electro-magnetic wand over her unknown, and if deceased, to all the unknown distributees, heirs at law appeared offended – in fact it was well- body. She extended her arms, amused at the and next of kin, of Barbara Pregon, their guardians, committees, conser- intentioned, even amusing, and from what I entire ritual, then asked if it was all right to saw, many were happy to be contained in a vators or assignees, and if any of them survived the decedent but have go through the gate. I wondered if he had very classy part of the airport with an Irish since died or become incompetent, their successors in interest, execu- any awareness of who she was, and what pub and several high-end souvenir shops. tors, administrators, legal representatives, devisees, legatees, spouses, great deeds she had done for his generation I wandered around until I saw distributees, heirs at law, next of kin, committees, conservators, guardians and his new country. I wondered if she Svitlychna and shyly approached her. She or any person having any claim or interest through them by purchase, thought it ironic to be mildly harassed in the was buying a beautiful hand-woven scarf inheritance or otherwise. country she helped to liberate by an official for one of her children. I reminded her of A petition having been duly filed by Russell Kantor, who is domiciled at half her age and nowhere near her stature. the conference in Edmonton so long ago. 188 Rockne Road, Yonkers, NY 10701. Eventually, we boarded what was a fas- Yes, she remembered that amazing event. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s cinating flight. Besides Svitlychna, a pro- She was friendly, and very patient in lis- Court, Westchester County, at 140 Grand St., White Plains, New York, on fessional singing group called the Cherkasy tening to my struggling Ukrainian, and November 22, 2006 at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why a Kozaks (with forelocks and shaven heads) we continued our conversation all the were also on board, as were many Hasidic decree should not be made in the estate of Barbara Pregon lately domi- way back to our seats on the plane. Jews and their families, all en route to New She noticed I was worried. I confided ciled at 375 Marlborough Road, Yonkers, NY 10701, admitting to probate York. I thought it amazing how well the a Will dated Jan. 15, 2001, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of (for in that brief time, I felt comfortable Hasids interacted with the beautiful enough to confide in her) that I somehow Barbara Pregon deceased, relating to a real and personal property, and Ukrainian stewardesses who were dressed miscalculated the long stopover in Ireland, directing that Letters Testamentary issue to Russell Kantor (State any fur- in embroidered blouses. Scattered in the and feared missing my connection in New ther relief requested). rows between the bearded and fedora- York. She asked if I had a place to stay in wearing Hasids were the mustached, bald case I was stranded, and if not, I was wel- Hon. Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. Kozaky and the most amazing thing was come at her home in New Jersey. Dated, Attested and Sealed September 21, 2006 that nobody was alarmed or bothered that I was taken by her generosity. It was a Surrogate John W. Kelly, Chief Clerk two historically rancorous groups were sincere invitation and given in her gentle sharing the same space. Nobody cared. voice to a stranger who could barely It happened that I sat in the same row as Stephan Wislocki, Esq. 914-347-7197 communicate her gratitude. I am sorry Svitlychna. She had the window seat, and PO Box 129, Hawthorne, NY 10532-0129 now that I hadn't taken up the invitation one of the Kozaks sat between us. He and I because it would've provided the oppor- 29 Taylor Rd., Valhalla, NY 10595 hardly spoke since he was in deep conversa- tunity I will never have of getting to tion with her. I overheard her talking to the know that great woman. Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not Kozak whose head was bent down low, his I lost her in the crowds going through required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not ear capturing her story told in a soft voice customs at Kennedy Airport, but not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear that was often muffled by the monotonous before she handed me her business card for you. drone of the plane's engines. I was actually and insisted I call if I needed a place to jealous that he was sitting there, the lone stay. Then she smiled and was gone. No. 45 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 17

market for gas within Ukraine to Russian-Ukrainian... UkrGazEnergo. It has also forfeited (Continued from page 2) major transit revenue by agreeing to Meanwhile, Ukraine’s situation has maintain the fee on Russian gas en route deteriorated in a number of respects. First, to Europe via Ukraine unchanged at only according to Prime Minister Viktor $1.6 per 1,000 cubic meters per 100 kilo- Yanukovych, the national energy holding meters of pipeline, despite the price hike company Naftohaz Ukrainy “appears to be on Russian-delivered gas to Ukraine. The on the verge of bankruptcy, as a result of Yanukovych government is adhering to extraordinary obligations and a year-and-a- this arrangement inherited from the The Ukrainian National Association will mail half of criminal management” (Associated Yushchenko team. Press, September 28) – a reference to the Finally, the price on Russia-delivered Christmas greeting cards to presidential protégés in charge from early gas to Ukraine is rising substantially due to Ukrainian American service people! 2005 through mid-2006. There is no clear Turkmenistan’s price hike on the gas it accounting of the company’s debts to sold to Russia for resale to Ukraine. The Russia. Apart from its arrears to Gazprom, Turkmen hike, from $65 to $100 per 1,000 The UNA will be mailing Christmas greetings to Ukrainian the new debts incurred by Naftohaz to cubic meters, in effect from October 1 American service people presently serving their country in Gazprom’s newly created offshoot onward, is not yet reflected in the price many parts of the world. charged by RosUkrEnergo to Ukraine in RosUkrEnergo just in the first half of 2006 The UNA wishes to solicit your help in getting names, address- amount to some $600 million, according to the fourth quarter of 2006. RosUkrEnergo Fuel and Energy Minister Yurii Boiko will collect that increment from Ukraine es and ranks of any Ukrainian you may know who is serving in (Interfax-Ukraine, October 11). retroactively in 2007, when the price of its the armed forces. Help make this project successful! In addition, Naftohaz took out Western gas supplied to Ukraine is expected to rise loans in 2005-2006. Some funds were from $95 to some $130 per 1,000 cubic used to refinance debts to Gazprom and/or meters, mainly of Turkmen provenance. The UNA will mail Christmas and New Year’s greetings RosUkrEnergo (from the AMRO Bank), In this situation, Moscow seems set to to our service people by December 25, 2006. and others were used for investment in the move to claim control over Ukraine’s gas gas transport system (from Deutsche transit system, in association with Bank, used by Naftohaz for other than the Germany as a minority partner. Politically, We wish to contact all of our service men and women. declared purpose, and said to have been it will try to sell its move in Ukraine as a With your help we will reach most of them! written by Deutsche Bank over to comprehensive settlement of past debts Gazprom for collection from Ukraine). and evidence of restraint on future prices. Moreover, it remains unclear how It will try to sell it politically in the Name: Ukraine is paying Moscow for the gas West as a major investment project to Rank: just received for Ukraine’s winter sup- modernize Ukraine’s system in the inter- Address: plies. Injected into Ukraine’s underground est of Western consumers. storage sites in September and early And it will portray it both in Ukraine October, according to Mr. Boiko, that vol- and in the West as an “international” con- ume amounts to at least 8 billion cubic sortium with Germany in tow, obscuring Please send the information by December 2, 2006, to: meters, belong to RosUkrEnergo’s off- Berlin’s actual role in an energy partnership Ukrainian National Association, Inc. shoot UkrGazEnergo; plus possibly a por- that Russia is shaping on its own terms. UNA National Organizer - Oksana Trytjak tion of the stored 10 billion cubic meters 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280 may also belong to RosUkrEnergo itself The article above is reprinted from Parsippany, N.J. 07054 (Interfax-Ukraine, October 11). Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission Naftohaz lost half of its sales revenue from its publisher, the Jamestown Tel.: 973-292-9800 ext. 3071; e-mail: [email protected] earlier this year by ceding the industrial Foundation, www.jamestown.org.

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artist. We were deeply moved by the to her colleagues. In a recent obituary, the Svitlychna too was a young mother of Human rights... bravery of Bukovsky who, in a secret literary scholar Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska a small son when she was arrested in (Continued from page 6) interview given to a Western correspon- describes the comforting sense of strength 1972. One can imagine the agonizing university, was very helpful in supplying dent, boldly declared: “we are deter- that Svitlychna’s presence instilled among thoughts and emotions that must have information about the most recent viola- mined to break the chains of fear that the dissidents: “Standing next to her, one seized this young woman while being taken from her child to prison. Yet later, tions of human rights in Eastern Europe. have been paralyzing our society.” If could always feel a strong, loyal arm on which one could depend, even in the most in her reminisces of those painful years Thus, through Zalyvakha’s correspon- these words became firmly chiseled in our memory, it is because in subsequent dangerous situations of life.” related on numerous occasions either dence, almost from the beginning of years they were heard in dissident circles The principle upon which this unbend- before Ukrainian audiences or human Amnesty’s involvement in the defense of scattered throughout Eastern Europe. ing stand rested was spoken of by Vaclav rights groups, she stoically avoided ref- Soviet dissidents, human rights activists In 1971, while walking with Chornovil Havel when he appeared before the U.S. erences to her personal travails, prefer- became acquainted with Nadia Svitlychna. and a group of his friends on the streets of Congress in 1990: “The only genuine ring to focus on the ordeals of others. Needless to say, one could not help but be Lviv, I was suddenly seized by an acute backbone of all our actions, if they are to Being away from New York for a impressed by the bravery of this young feeling of fear after realizing that we were be moral, is responsibility, responsibility good part of the 1970s, I did not have the woman to whom numerous prisoners were followed by a swarm of secret agents. I to something higher than my family, my good fortune to witness Svitlychna’s sending warm greetings and words of asked my companion: “Aren’t you afraid? country, my firm, my success.” unexpected arrival in the West in 1978. I gratitude for her support, especially since I am scheduled to leave for New York in a My departure from Ukraine in the do know, however, that she was very it could be assumed that, given Soviet few days but you and your group...?” In a summer of 1971 was not as smooth as ably assisted and cared for in Rome reality, her involvement in the defense of most unpretentious but resolutely firm expected, primarily because in addition where she first landed by Ms. Skorupsky, political prisoners would sooner or later manner Chornovil replied: “Please under- to my walks with Chornovil and his who, as has been noted above, worked result in arrest and deportation – which stand that we are above fear. Our actions friends, I also met the wife of a well- closely with human rights groups. indeed would be the case a few years later. are dictated by our conscience; we cannot known dissident incarcerated in the When I returned to New York, my For us, at that time still relatively act otherwise.” Vladimir prison. Her husband at that time involvement in Amnesty once again young students, it was naturally most This strong stand adopted by the dissi- was a newly adopted prisoner of con- brought me, this time directly, face-to- inspiring and gratifying to get involved in dents expressed itself in different ways. In science of the Riverside Group. Most face, with Svitlychna. The political pris- the defense of such individuals as the case of Svitlychna, it was reflected likely because she was the mother of a oner on whose case we were working at Zalyvakha and Bukovsky. We were through her refusal to be intimidated by young child, of all the dissidents I met on the Madison Group – very ably at that impressed by the paintings, writings and the almost daily harassments of the KGB my trip that summer, on her face only, time coordinated by Yadia Zeltman – was unbending courage of the Ukrainian and in her readiness to provide assistance could one detect a slight shadow of fear. the Ukrainian poet Zenovii Krasivsky, who happened to be a close friend of the Svitlychny family. Svitlychna generously provided us with invaluable information about the prisoner (and his continually harassed and maligned wife, Olena Antoniv), while through her occasional personal appearances at Amnesty’s meet- ings, her words instilled encouragement to continue our work which, at that time, seemed to be producing no results. The early 1980s were perhaps the most discouraging years for human rights activists working on behalf of dissidents in the Communist world. Yet, even dur- ing those dark days, Svitlychna never wavered. At a time when some Ukrainian human rights organizations began divert- ing their attention to matters only remote- ly related to the defense of political pris- oners, she almost single-handedly under- took the defense of one of the most tal- ented and most harshly persecuted figures among the dissidents: the poet Vasyl Stus, who later, mainly through her efforts, was a Nobel Prize nominee. This was the strong, always loyal arm of which Ms. Kotsiubynska spoke. This was also the arm that, I am certain, all political prison- ers feel when cared for by Amnesty. Next to her indefatigable work in the arena of human rights, Svitlychna perhaps is best remembered as a mediator, as a consummate conciliator. It was truly remarkable how she succeeded in bringing to her cause people from the most diverse walks of life, from the most diverse national and political backgrounds. It has been said that she learned this invaluable skill from her brother Ivan, but I think that also very influential for the development of her world outlook was the philosophy of Stus with whose poetry she became most intimately acquainted through many years of editing his works. A few lines of one poem will be suffi- cient to bring to light this point: How good it is that I’ve no fear of dying Nor ask myself how ponderous my toil Nor bow to cunning magistrates decrying Presentiments of unfamiliar soil, That I have lived and loved, yet never burdening My soul with hatred, curses or regret… The issue of anger and hatred as impediments to human progress in the sphere of human rights was discussed by Havel during an interview he gave in the early 1990s. When the host of the pro- gram, Jim Lehrer, raised the issue of for- mer enemies, the Czechoslovak president calmly responded that the most danger- ous enemy is the enemy within you: the thorn of hatred in one’s heart. Resisting anger and hatred, of course, (Continued on page 19) No. 45 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 19

placed side-by-side with the Zhirinovskys. Human rights... In spite of her public reticence on polit- (Continued from page 18) ical issues, in early 1991 Svitlychna did did not mean collaboration or compromis- send me a copy of a letter with a highly es with the former oppressors. Vaclav political content written to her by Havel understood that democracy in Krasivsky. It is my impression that some Czechoslovakia could not have been built of the ideas may have reflected with the cooperation of former party boss- Svitlychna’s own views as well: why es, Jindra, Bilak and others, and he stub- would she otherwise send it to me – at that bornly resisted pressure to do so. Similarly, time Krasivsky was already a free man. one could not have expected to see democ- The following excerpt brings out the Join our racy’s foundations constructed in coopera- central theme: “We all know that the Growing Family tion with the former secretary of ideology Soviet state represented nothing but a state of the Communist Party of Ukraine. of usurpers, but we pretend that [with the We are witnessing the sad conse- latter’s cooperation] a democratic system quences of this illusion, even though can be constructed here, that even a parlia- We Meet there are still some who try to convince mentary form of struggle is possible ... We Meet us that yes, indeed, all is well in the Adherents of this line of reasoning do not the want to recognize that ... they are allowing the house constructed with the help of On-Line Banking Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma. themselves to be led into a blind alley.” financial Svitlychna avoided political issues, It is known that Svitlychna’s efforts most likely because she knew that her could not save Stus, and in the early needs Bill Payment involvement would interfere with the prin- 1980s, hardly anyone’s could. But how many lives she did save beginning with Business & Commercial cipal task she had set before herself after of Accounts and Loans the collapse of communism: the publica- her simple letters of encouragement and tion of works by her dissident colleagues, parcels assistance! This type of activity UkrainianUkrainian Credit/Debit/ATM cards especially those who in the 1990s were no was the mirror image of Amnesty work longer alive. For this reason, it seems, she during those decades. The efforts of both, Communities did not even care to participate in the Svitlychna’s and the human rights organ- Scholarships debate on the marginalization of the for- ization are best summed up in the title of Jeffrey C. Goldfarb’s recent book: “The Coast to Coast Community and mer dissidents after the collapse of the Library Services Soviet Union, an issue raised at a number Politics of Small Things: The Power of of conferences at Columbia University. the Powerless in Dark Times.” Here it would be of interest to note how What started with letter writing and during the first presidential campaign in care packages in the dark ages of the Ukraine, the former dissidents who, as we Soviet era ended with nominations of prisoners for a Nobel Prizes and ulti- have seen, were so highly praised by Rochester, NY Main Branch: Western political commentators for their mately with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It Tel: (585) 544-9518 is an effort which, if pursued with per- moderation, intelligence and political tact, Albany, NY Tel: (518) 266-0791 sistence and responsibility, produces Boston, MA Tel: (781) 493-6733 had been consistently smeared by the Sacramento, CA Tel: (916) 721-1188 Portland, OR Tel: (877) 968-7828 results that are capable of being carried opposition as ultra rightists whose election Syracuse, NY Tel: (315) 471-4074 would inevitably lead to war with Russia. only on the shoulders of giants. Even here in the West, these slanderous * * * remarks were often repeated and, on occa- sion today, the dissidents and their younger Editor’s note: Nadia Svitlychna would admirers are sometimes irresponsibly have been 70 on November 8. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 No. 45 Ukrainian Graduates of Detroit and Windsor to honor Ukrainian of the Year

by Michael J. Berezowsky Volker, Canadian Sen. Paul Yuzyk, settes. Its website is www.bandura.org. Nehaniv, chairman of the scholarship com- Stephen Wichar, Martha and Michael Mr. Mahlay has made great contribu- mittee, will announce this year's recipients DETROIT – The Ukrainian Graduates of Wichorek and Emily Zaporozhetz. tions in maintaining the bandurists' very of the Ukrainian Graduates scholarship Detroit and Windsor, an organization of col- Mr. Mahlay, this year's recipient of the high level of artistic performance, spend- awards to local Ukrainian American and lege and university graduates, professionals “Ukrainian of the Year” award, an attorney ing many weekends every year in Detroit Ukrainian Canadian college students. For and businesspersons in Metropolitan Detroit by profession living in Parma, Ohio, fre- and working tirelessly with the members many years now, the Ukrainian Graduates, and Windsor, Ontario, will honor Oleh quently comes to Detroit in his role as artis- of the chorus, many of whom, like him, among its other activities (which have Mahlay, artistic director and conductor of included the creation, renovation and the famous Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus at tic director and conductor of the Ukrainian also come trom different states and Bandurist Chorus, which has been based in provinces. Mr. Mahlay and every member endowment of the beautiful Ukrainian the Graduates’ 67th anniversary banquet on room at Wayne State University in Detroit) Sunday, November 19. Detroit, since emigrating to the United of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus States after the second world war. deserve the continuing admiration and has given financial aid to hundreds of An organization active in the Ukrainian deserving students attending colleges and communities of Detroit and Windsor since The chorus, named in honor of Taras appreciation of every American and Shevchenko, the great Ukrainian poet, Canadian of Ukrainian heritage for their universities in the U.S. and Canada. 1939, the Ukrainian graduates has, since This year's scholarship recipients are: 1955, annually honored a “Ukrainian of the traces its origins to 1918 in Kyiv, deep commitment to Ukrainian music and Ukraine's capital. It has made numerous culture, for their continuing hard work Lubomyr Berezowsky (Lake Forest Year” to recognize individuals who have College, Lake Forest, Ill.); Michelle Bocian concert tours of the United States, Canada and devoted efforts in preserving, per- been particularly active in the Ukrainian (University of Windsor); Vasyl Mayorchak and Western Europe, and has twice toured forming and popularizing Ukrainian communities in the United States or Canada (Michigan State University, East Lansing, Ukraine since its independence. Its previ- choral music throughout the world, or made special contributions to them. Mich.); Yuri Mayorchak (Henry Ford Previous recipients of the award include ous music directors and conductors in the according to the Ukrainian Graduates. Community College, Dearborn, Mich.), Vera Andrushkiw, former Congressman United States were Hryhory Kytasty (a The “Ukrainian of the Year” Award is recipient of the Ivan Halich Memorial David Bonior, Dr. Paul Dzul, Dr. Myron previous Graduates' “Ukrainian of the a well-deserved recognition of Maestro Scholarship; Natalia Pavlyuk (Macomb Kuropas, Vera Petrusha and Marie Year” honoree), Volodymyr Bozhyk, Mahlay's efforts and achievements and is Community College, Warren, Mich.); Zarycky, and the late Mary Beck, Jaroslaw Hryhory Nazarenko, Ivan Zadorozhnyj, intended to honor him individually and, Alexander Prysiazhniuk (Wayne State Dobrowolskyj, John Panchuk, Canadian Petro Potapenko and Wolodymyr by extension, to honor every member of University); Peter Sawka (Lawrence Governor General Raymond Hnatyshyn, Kolesnyk. The chorus' extensive musical the capella as well, the Graduates noted. Technological University, Southfield, Canadian Justice John Sopinka, Anastasia repertoire is available on CDs and cas- During the anniversary banquet, Lydia Mich.), recipient of the Wichorek Family Memorial Scholarship; Joseph Stoiko (Michigan State University), recipient of the Tanya Dubriwny Memorial Scholarship; and Nicholas Zurawskyj (University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit), recipient of the Alex Sutaruk Memorial Scholarship. The 67th anniversary banquet of the Ukrainian Graduates of Detroit and Windsor will be held on Sunday, November 19, at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Warren, Mich. Tickets may be purchased by calling 586-268-8863, 248-851-7093 or 586-758-6086 or at the Ukrainian Selfreliance and Future Credit Unions.

Turning the pages... (Continued from page 6) among them the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, the World Congress of Free Ukrainians and Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine. Within two years of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group’s creation, all of the founding members were either impris- oned or exiled. But membership grew to include even political prisoners in labor camps. In retaliation, the Soviets began to charge members with criminal, not politi- cal, activity. The External Representation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group was formed in 1979 under the direction of Gen. Grigorenko; beginning in 1987 Mr. Rudenko led the group. Former political prisoner Nadia Svitlychna joined the group in the U.S. in 1978 and edited the publication Visnyk Represii na Ukraini, which documented repression in Ukraine. Toward the twilight of the Soviet regime, during the era of perestroika/pere- budova and glasnost, all imprisoned mem- bers of the group were released. They reor- ganized the group and elected Mr. Lukianenko as their new leader. The focus of the organization shifted toward a broad civic association called the Ukrainian Helsinki Union that promoted democratic reform in Ukraine and economic and politi- cal sovereignty for the country. The following year the group revised its program and activities, and joined in the political processes in the USSR and Ukrainian SSR Supreme Soviets (Councils). Large demonstrations were organized against repressive laws and the group helped to organize the Popular Movement of Ukraine, known as Rukh.

Source: “Form Citizens Committee in Ukraine to Monitor Helsinki Accords,” The Ukrainian Weekly, November 21, 1976; “Ukrainian Helsinki Group,” Encyclopedia of Ukraine. No. 45 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 21

NOTESNOTES ONON PEOPLEPEOPLE Pharmacist honored for community service RIDGEFIELD, Conn. – Jaroslaw (Jay) Palylyk of Ridgefield, Conn., was selected to receive the prestigious Wyeth Pharmaceutical’s “Bowl of Hygeia” award for 2007. Only one pharmacist is chosen annually from each state. Mr. Palylyk was selected for the award in recognition of his outstanding achieve- ments in community service by pharmacy professionals. The award is for those pharmacists who excel beyond their stan- dard job duties and pay back their com- munities through exceptional public serv- ice and innovative pharmacy practices. Mr. Palylyk is very active in the Ukrainian community in Yonkers, N.Y., where he grew up. His efforts with the Ukrainian American Youth Association (SUM) and St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church keep him busy on a reg- Jaroslaw (Jay) Palylyk ular basis. Currently, Mr. Palylyk owns RxCare Connecticut and parts of New York. Mr. Pharmacies Inc, a pharmacy serving Palylyk has been a registered pharmacist nursing homes, long-term care facilities for over 25 years and has been a pharma- and group homes throughout the state of cy owner for 22 years.

anniversary on Sunday, July 16. Following the divine liturgy celebrated Tucson couple marks by Pastor Basil Bucsek at St. Michael Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church a 50th anniversary reception was given in the couple’s TUCSON, Ariz. – Stefan and Trudy honor, with best wishes resonating Tkachyk celebrated their 50th wedding throughout the day.

Trudy and Stefan Tkachyk (center) with their pastor, the Rev. Basil Bucsek, and altar boys, as well as Zenon and Mary Korytko.

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Membership form name ______THANK YOU! address ______Your $$$ will go to fund new 2006 city ______projects and will create a strong financial state ______zip code ______foundation for Soyuzivka: email/ x ______New dual air conditioning/heating system phone for Veselka Send form and check to: Soyuzivka Heritage Foundation , 2200 Route 10, Parsippany NJ, 07054 x Additional new mattresses Individual $100.00 ____ x New curtains in Main House rooms Seniors over 65 $ 30.00 ____Family (children under 16) ____$150.00 Students 17- 23 $ 40.00 ____Partner ____$300.00 Heritage $500.00 ____Legacy ____$1000.00 Corporate $500.00 ____ Send in your form and we will send you details on your membership ID card and benefits information. Thank you all for your support! No. 45 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006 23 OUT AND ABOUT

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Saturday, November 11 St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue and Soyuzivka’s Datebook 53rd Street, at 2 p.m. to commemorate the NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific victims of the 1932-1933 Famine- November 10-12, 2006 N ovember 25, 2006 Society invites all to a presentation of the Genocide in Ukraine. For more informa- Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization 90th Birthday Party book “Spomyny” (Memoirs), by Oksana tion call 718-896-7624. “Orlykiada” Lemecha Lutzky, which was published in December 1-3, 2006 Ternopil, Ukraine, in 2006. The program also Saturday, November 25 November 19, 2006 Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization will feature George Gajeckyj, Taras Hunczak and Vasyl Makhno. It will take place at the PITTSBURGH: The Ukrainian Family Reunion “KPS Vidprava Stanychnykh” society's building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Technological Society of Pittsburgh, an Ellenville Co-op Nursery School association of professionals and busi- December 24, 2006 Ninth and 10th streets) at 5 p.m. For addi- Fund-Raising Auction tional information call 212-254-5130. nesspersons, will host its 37th annual din- Traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve ner-dance at the Pittsburgh Athletic November 22-26, 2006 Supper Sunday, November 12 Associaiton, 4215 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA Family Reunion 15213. The social hour begins at 6 p.m. December 31, 2006 NEW YORK: The Plast Ukrainian scout- Taras G. Szmagala of Brecksville, Ohio, November 23, 2006 New Year’s Eve Extravaganza ing sorority Verkhovynky invites you to a will be presented the 2006 Ukrainian of the Thanksgiving Feast commemorative program for Nadia Year Award for his dedication and service to Svitlychna at 2 p.m. at the Shevchenko the Ukrainian American community. Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Ave. Andrew N. Farley of Spring, Texas (former- (between Ninth and 10th streets). The pro- ly of Pittsburgh), will be presented the 2006 gram will include poetry reading, musical Friendship Award for lifetime support of the numbers and a slide show. For information Ukrainian community. Tickets are $60 per call 732-225-6865 or 212-254-5130. person; dress is black tie. For invitations or more information call Nickolas C. Kotow, To book a room or event call: (845) 626-5641, ext. 140 CHICAGO: A benefit luncheon for the secretary, 724-337-5704, or write to the 216 Foordmore Road P.O. Box 529 Ukrainian Catholic University featuring Ukrainian Technological Society, P.O. Box Kerhonkson, NY 12446 Father Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., rector, will 4277, Pittsburgh, PA 15203. E-mail: [email protected] be held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, Sunday, December 3 Website: www.Soyuzivka.com 2247 W. Chicago Ave. For more informa- tion call the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, 773-235-8462. NORTH PORT, Fla.: The solemn blessing and dedication of the rectory of the Tuesday , November 14 Ukrainian Catholic Parish of the Presentation of the Most Holy Mother of OLD BRIDGE, N.J.: Ukrainian National God will be presided over by Bishop Women's League of America Branch 98 of Robert Moskal. The event will start with a Holmdel and Middletown, N.J., will spon- pontifical divine liturgy at 11 a.m., fol- sor a screening of the film "Harvest of lowed by a luncheon for all parishioners, Despair" at the Central Library, 1 Old invited dignitaries (both secular and reli- Bridge Plaza, Municipal Center, Old gious) and guests. The event will take place Bridge, NJ 08857, at 7 p.m.; telephone, in the parish hall, 1078 N. Biscayne Drive. 732-721-5600, ext. 5010. Directions are For more information call the pastor, Father available on the library website, Severyn Kovalyshin, 941-426-7931, or e- lmxac.org/obpl/. Refreshments will be mail [email protected]. Website: served; admission is free. Please come and www.ukrainiancatholicflorida.com. bring your friends to view this informative and sobering film. For more information WARREN, Mich.: A benefit luncheon for call Branch 98 President Viki Mischenko, the Ukrainian Catholic University featuring 732-671-1914, or e-mail [email protected]. Myroslav Marynovych, senior vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, will Saturday, November 18 be held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, 26601 Ryan Road. For more information NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Chorus call the Ukrainian Catholic Education Dumka will sing the panakhyda service at Foundation, 773-235-8462.

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Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Branch 113 – New York

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