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INSIDE:• Sociological survey examines sex business in Ukraine — page 3. • Association for the Study of Nationalities spotlights Ukraine — page 9. • The tapestries and photography of Lialia Kuchma — page 12.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXX HE KRAINIANNo. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine UkraineT underlines Chornobyl’sU aftereffects New ParliamentW convenes, at United Nations special session on children but fails to elect leadership

by Andrew Nynka officials at Ukraine’s permanent mission to by Roman Woronowycz business at hand. the United Nations put President Kuchma’s Kyiv Press Bureau And while many had hoped that the UNITED NATIONS – As world leaders offer into perspective and called it, “an election of a new leadership, including gathered here on May 8-10 for a historic attempt – one of many among heads of state KYIV – With 447 recently elected three members of the presidium and 23 General Assembly Special Session on and government – to foster new and cre- national deputies in freshly assigned seats committee chairs, would end swiftly, it Children, Ukraine continued to underline ative ways to help children.” looking on, Ivan Pliusch, chairman of the soon became apparent that the elections the effects of the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear The United Nations first set concrete outgoing Verkhovna Rada, brought the could quickly get bogged down in ambi- catastrophe on the plight of its almost 11 goals to improve children’s lives in the new, fourth convocation of Ukraine’s leg- tions, personalities and politicking. million children and affirmed its commit- 1990 Convention on the Rights of the islature to order at 10:05 a.m. on May 13. By the beginning of the third day of the ment to the U.N. Final Outcome Document, Child, which Ukraine subsequently ratified Then Yaroslava Stetsko, at 82 the oldest new session, with four leadership slates which stemmed from the three-day confer- as one of its first legislative acts one month national deputy, exercised her right as the already rejected, many were predicting ence, with a proposal to help promote the after declaring its own independence. senior member of the legislative corps to another marathon of voting, similar to rights of children. However, this was the first time in the administer the oath to her colleagues, who what occurred in 1998 when it took two In her statement at the Plenary Meeting U.N.’s nearly 58-year history that children were elected legislators in national voting months and dozens of rejected candidates on May 9, the chair of the State Committee were given the opportunity to directly on March 31. She also told the lawmakers before Oleksander Tkachenko was chosen of Ukraine for Family and Youth Affairs, address the General Assembly during a con- that she hoped they would not forget why to chair the Verkhovna Rada. Valentyna Dovzhenko, called the special ference deemed by a U.N. spokesman as “a and by whom they were elected. “Everyone said they wanted to avoid a session “an event of historic significance,” landmark review of progress since the 1990 “I expect that this Verkhovna Rada will marathon, but it has begun,” said Viktor and added that Ukrainian President Leonid summit.” not concern itself with personal and cor- Musiaka, a member of the Our Ukraine Kuchma “put forward a proposal to reduce According to Ms. Dovzhenko’s state- porate interests, but only with the matters faction and one of the nominees to the the world arms expenditure by 10 percent ment, Ukraine views the provisions in the of the Ukrainian nation,” said Mrs. parliamentary presidium in the first and to direct funds that would be released final document that underline the need for Stetsko, who is a member of the Our rounds of voting. for the needs of education, health, environ- protecting children from man-made disas- Ukraine faction. He explained that part of the problem is ment protection and combating poverty.” ters as “very important” and, she said, After a short adjournment to allow the that United Ukraine and Our Ukraine, the “The realization of such a proposal,” the “Ukraine, on its part, demonstrated resolve deputies to put their signatures to individ- two largest factions with 177 and 119 Ukrainian delegation’s leader to the special to prevent the recurrence of such tragedies ual oaths, a temporary leadership headed members, respectively, had failed to main- session said, “would become a concrete in the future by voluntarily renouncing [the] by Adam Martyniuk of the Communist tain a political dialogue. manifestation of our care for the future of third largest nuclear military arsenal [in the Party and elected by representatives of the On the second day of the new session, children.” world] and by fully decommissioning the six political organizations that won places four of the six political factions presented Although only days after the conclusion Chornobyl nuclear power plant.” in the new Parliament, took over and held what they believed were electable slates of the special session there had been no several votes on procedural matters before action on President Kuchma’s proposition, (Continued on page 17) the body got down to the first serious (Continued on page 3) 100,000 pay last respects to Valerii Lobanovsky, legendary soccer coach by Roman Woronowycz Kyiv Press Bureau KYIV – Fans of Ukrainian soccer, young and old alike – and almost 100,000 in all – descended on Dynamo Stadium in Kyiv on May 16 to pay hom- age to soccer coaching legend Valerii Lobanovsky, 63, who died three days earlier after suffering a stroke. Mr. Lobanovsky was coaching a game between his Dynamo Kyiv and Zaporizhia Metallurg on May 9, when he became ill, but stayed on the field until his team had attained victory before being transferred to a local hospital by emergency vehicle. He was reported to have suffered a stroke, and his condition worsened in the next three days. He died in Zaporizhia after a second stroke and a brain operation that failed to improve his situation. Outside Dynamo Stadium, the streets of downtown Kyiv were impassable and lines extended for a quarter mile as fans came to pay their respects to the man AP/Efrem Lukatsky Thousands of people wait on line to pay their respects to Valerii Lobanovsky, the longtime head coach of Ukraine's leading (Continued on page 16) soccer team, at the Dynamo Stadium in Kyiv. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 No. 20

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Russia continues its disrespect USTR cites Ukraine’s “persistent failure” Defense Council, told UNIAN on May 9 that the Ukrainian and U.S. sides have of Ukraine’s sovereignty WASHINGTON – The U.S. Trade begun independent checks of the contract Representative (USTR) on April 30 whereby Kyiv sold three Kolchuha air- by Taras Kuzio CIS and organized the first congress of released its Special 301 Report on defense radar systems to Ethiopia. Last RFE/RL Newsline “compatriots” in Moscow last October. Intellectual Property, citing problems in month, media reports alleged that in Russia has used this concern for “compa- Ukraine and Brazil and improvements in 2000 President Leonid Kuchma had It took Russia five years after the triots” as a pretext for repeated com- Korea and Macau. According to the approved a sale of $100 million worth of demise of the USSR to sign an all- plaints about the alleged infringement of report, intellectual property rights (IPR) air-defense radar systems to Iraq in con- encompassing interstate treaty with their rights in education and the media in protection in Ukraine remains inade- Ukraine in 1997, and then a further two travention of United Nations sanctions. Ukraine. quate. Ukraine’s “persistent failure” to for both chambers of the Russian Kyiv officially dismissed these allega- Although only the extreme left in stop optical media piracy means it Parliament to ratify that treaty. Three tions, asserting that the only country to Ukraine supports Ukraine’s membership remains designated a priority foreign years later, Russia’s actions in a number which Ukraine has ever sold Kolchuhas in the Russia-Belarus Union, Russia still country, and U.S. imports from Ukraine of areas show that, although Ukraine’s was Ethiopia. Last month, the Israeli holds out hope that this will change. In remain subject to $75 million worth of borders might no longer be in question, newspaper Ha’aretz suggested that an interview in Trud in January, sanctions annually, USTR said in the Moscow still finds it extremely difficult Ethiopia could have been only an inter- Ambassador Chernomyrdin was asked if executive summary of the report. USTR to recognize Ukraine as an equal and mediary link in the delivery of the a union of the three eastern Slavic peo- warned that Ukraine’s IPR problems sovereign state. Ukrainian radars to Iraq. (RFE/RL ples was possible. His reply was indica- could jeopardize its efforts to join the Former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Newsline) tive: “When Ukrainian society matures to World Trade Organization (WTO) and Chernomyrdin was appointed ambassa- this point it will opt for such a step.” undermine its efforts to attract trade and dor to Ukraine and “special presidential United Ukraine supports Lytvyn According to a March poll by the investment. The USTR cited Ukraine’s envoy for the development of Russian- Russian Public Opinion Fund, almost 50 problems “with disappointment” and said Ukrainian trade and economic ties” in KYIV – The newly elected Verkhovna percent of Russian citizens would like the U.S. government “continues to May of last year. Since then, his actions Rada was to gather for its first session on Russia and Ukraine to unite, while anoth- remain actively engaged with Ukraine in have caused observers to question May 14. The pro-presidential United er 35 percent believe Ukraine and Russia encouraging the nation to combat piracy whether he also has a third unofficial Ukraine bloc will propose Volodymyr should remain independent but remove and to enact the necessary intellectual position, that of regional governor. Mr. Lytvyn, the former chief of the presiden- border restrictions and have no visas or property rights legislation and regula- Chernomyrdin’s appointment was meant tial administration, as its candidate for customs controls. tions.” (USTR) speaker, the UNIAN news agency report- to consolidate the Russian vector in When Russia equates demarcation Ukraine’s “multi-vector” foreign policy ed on May 13, quoting Ihor Sharov from with erecting a “fence” between two Ministry denies arms sales to Bosnia United Ukraine. The leaders of the six as the primary one at a time when the countries, it is referring to the kind of West was becoming increasingly disen- forces represented in the Parliament – border demarcation that was formerly KYIV – Defense Ministry spokesman chanted with Ukraine. United Ukraine, Our Ukraine, the undertaken by the Soviet Union. In Kostiantyn Khivrenko on May 13 denied During the March 31 elections, Communist Party, the Yulia Tymoshenko Russia’s eyes, the only difference that Ukrainian peacekeepers in Bosnia Ambassador Chernomyrdin openly inter- Bloc, the Socialist Party and the Social between the former borders between the sold weapons to Bosnian Muslims in Democratic Party (United) – were fered in favor of pro-presidential parties, constituent republics of the USSR and helped fan the flames of an “anti-nation- 1994, Interfax and New Channel expected to meet later on May 13 to dis- the present frontiers between CIS states elevision reported. A Dutch military alist” campaign against pro-Western T cuss rules of the game while electing the is that the latter can be now delimited on expert told RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service forces, and chided Ukrainian Foreign parliamentary leadership – a chairman maps. But this is as far as Russia will go. earlier the same day that Ukraine was the Affairs Ministry State Secretary and two vice-chairmen – and the heads Demarcation should only be applied – as biggest illegal-weapons supplier to the Oleksander Chaly as “obtuse” when he of parliamentary committees. Their it was in the USSR – to the “external Balkans after Greece and Turkey. The listed among Ukraine’s goals joining the meeting on May 10 produced no agree- frontiers” of the CIS. Mr. Chernomyrdin, European Union, not the alternative expert said German and Dutch security ment on the issue. (RFE/RL Newsline) whose views have been echoed by other Eurasian Economic Community. services have information that Ukraine Russian officials, said that “demarcation Two factors, both of them related to closely cooperated with Iran in illegal Blocs want Kinakh Cabinet out is out of the question” because it is being Russian perceptions of national identity, arms supplies to the Balkans. According imposed on Ukraine and Russia by the form Mr. Chernomyrdin’s gubernatorial to the expert, Iranian aircraft took off in KYIV – Yulia Tymoshenko on May 11 West. style. First, Russia has looked upon the Teheran, stopped in Ukraine to load announced that her parliamentary caucus To some extent this is true. Ukraine CIS since its creation in December 1991 weapons, and then flew on to airfields will initiate the dismissal of the current cannot make good on its rhetoric in favor as a loose commonwealth or confedera- near Zagreb. The expert also alleged that Cabinet of Ministers led by Anatolii of aspiring to become an associate and tion guided and led by Russia. In the Ukrainian peacekeeping battalion, Kinakh, the UNIAN news service report- then full member of the European Union Russia’s view, other CIS member-states prior to leaving Bosnia, sold its armored ed. Commenting on the statement by Our if it has not demarcated its 2,000-kilome- possess only partial sovereignty as the personnel carriers and other weapons to Ukraine leader Viktor Yushchenko that ter-long eastern border with Russia (the “near abroad” – a region that is no longer Bosnians. Meanwhile, former Ukrainian the government should report to the 2,600-kilometer western border was part of the USSR but, at the same time, is Vice Minister of Defense Oleksander Parliament about its activities, Ms. demarcated during the Soviet era). But not as fully sovereign as the “far abroad.” Stetsenko, who is the current chief of Tymoshenko said that her faction in the this is not the only reason Ukraine has Ambassador Chernomyrdin and other armament of Ukraine’s armed forces, previous Parliament had repeatedly unsuccessfully pushed for demarcation. members of the Russian elite are hostile told journalists on May 13 that Ukraine declared its intention to initiate both the Ukraine’s elites have always steadfastly to the Our Ukraine bloc’s foreign policy did not grant permission to any Iranian dismissal of Mr. Kinakh’s government defended their sovereignty and territorial objective of integration into the aircraft to enter its airspace in 1994. and the impeachment of Ukrainian integrity, and to them borders are a sym- European Union and NATO because this (RFE/RL Newsline) President Leonid Kuchma. The same bol of this sovereignty. is seen as an attempt at fully breaking day, Hennadii Udovenko, the leader of To accept Russia’s division of borders Sale of Kolchuhas under investigation from Russia. Hence, Russia’s open sup- the National Rukh of Ukraine (a con- in the CIS into delimited “internal” and port for the pan-Slavic and pro-Soviet stituent of the Our Ukraine bloc), said delimited-demarcated “external” ones Communist Party of Ukraine and for oli- KYIV – Yevhen Marchuk, the secre- would be to accept a status of only par- (Continued on page 14) garchic centrist parties that back a for- tary of Ukraine’s National Security and tial sovereignty. Some 30,000 migrants eign policy strategy of “to Europe with manage to enter Ukraine each year Russia.” because of its transparent border with Second, Russia still finds it difficult to FOUNDED 1933 Russia. 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New Parliament... (Continued from page 1) for consideration by the Parliament, but all four “packages” as the national deputies are calling them, which consisted of nominees for chairman, first vice-chair- man and vice-chairman, failed to gather a majority in a series of votes that lasted until midnight. The package put forward by the United Ukraine faction, which mirrored the pro- posal of the Social Democrats (United) faction — Volodymyr Lytvyn, head of United Ukraine, as the nominee for chair, with Mr. Martyniuk in the second spot and Oleksander Zinchenko of the Social Democrats (United) faction in the third – came closest to obtaining the 226 votes needed for a majority, falling 17 short of the tally. The Our Ukraine slate, with current Chairman Pliusch in the No. 1 slot, fol- lowed by Mr. Martyniuk in second and Oleksander Turchynov of the Tymoshenko Bloc faction in third, could muster but 140 votes, while the Communist faction submission, with Mr. Martyniuk at the top of the list, Mr. Musiaka second and Petro Tolochko of the Tymoshenko Bloc faction in the third, UNIAN received only 172 votes in support. The scene in the Verkhovna Rada chamber as newly elected deputies began the body’s fourth convocation. Although the procedure agreed upon by all the factions called for consultations Parliament. With Our Ukraine and United explained that Our Ukraine had no choice cent of the vote comes next with 119 and the development of additional pack- Ukraine unable to find a compromise on a but to search for compromise with the members, followed by the Communist ages, by the end of the following day the leadership package, each of them has leftists if it was serious about grabbing faction with 63, the Social Democratic process seemed frozen with no new slates been forced to woo the Communists. back legislative leadership, which practi- (United) faction with 31, the Tymoshenko proposed by any of the six caucuses. “The influence of the Communists con- cally was stolen from it when United Bloc faction with 23 and the Socialist fac- However, it has become quite clear that tinues to rise, more and more,” said Mr. Ukraine convinced well over a hundred tion at 22. There are also 14 remaining the Communists would have their say in Musiaka, whose faction, ironically, con- national deputies who had successfully independents. deciding who would lead this new tains many staunch anti-Communists. He run outside the party lists in individual In an effort to stop the bleeding of his districts to join its ranks. ranks, on May 15 National Deputy Viktor The tactical maneuvering – which some Yushchenko, head of Our Ukraine, met are calling scare tactics and outright intim- with President Kuchma. According to idation – undertaken by United Ukraine Studio 1+1 television, Mr. Yushchenko Sociological study examines since the March 31 election, during which was to tell the Ukrainian president, it won barely 13 percent of the popular whose interests are represented by United sex business in Ukraine vote, has resulted in the faction growing Ukraine in the Parliament, that there was by Roman Woronowycz ories for how women come to accept sex- tremendously. On the second day of the increasing pressure on members of his Kyiv Press Bureau for-pay as an acceptable career, nearly a parliamentary session its official member- faction who are closest to the business third of the girls and women who responded ship was announced at 175, before two community to jump to the United KYIV – Just under three-quarters of to the UISR survey said they were raped in more members, defectors from Our Ukraine faction or face the wrath of Ukrainian prostitutes are in the sex business their first sexual encounter. Forty percent of Ukraine, were added that evening. Ukraine’s tax police and that the unethi- because it provides them a living, while the respondents said they were between 15 Our Ukraine, which took nearly 25 per- cal tactics needed to be suspended. around 20 percent would not leave the pro- and 17 years of age when the rape occurred, fession even if given a comparable financial and 29 percent said the act was by someone alternative, according to the first-ever socio- they knew. Sixty-three percent said they lost logical study on the plight of Ukraine’s their virginity before they were 16 years women of the night. old. The study, developed by the Ukrainian Eleven percent of all those questioned in Institute for Social Research (UISR) and the survey said they turned their first tricks released on May 14 as a book titled “Sex between the ages of 12 to15. Another 20 Business in Ukraine: An Attempt at percent said they first took pay for sex Social Analysis,” focused on the illicit between age 16-17. While the largest group, trade as it exists in Ukraine today and which was still merely 33 percent, said it how it affects the women involved. It happened between the ages of 20 to 25. queried prostitutes about their life in the Most prostitutes begin leaving the busi- business as well as a cross-section of ness in their early 30s, although 40- and 45- Ukrainians about their impressions of the year-old hookers were not all that uncom- world’s oldest profession. mon, according to the survey. The study was conducted in conjunction Unlike what sociologists suggest, how- with the AIDS prevention program of the ever, only about half the women in the sex United Nations and financed by the German trade in Ukraine are the result of broken government. It involved interviews with homes. A full 49 percent said they grew up 636 female prostitutes in various cities and with a mother and father present. Only 2 towns of Ukraine. percent said they were orphans. “Until now the sex business in Ukraine While very few Ukrainian prostitutes are had not been discusses objectively,” married – only about 6 percent – half of explained Olha Balakirieva, assistant those who have spouses said their husbands director of UISR, in giving the reason for are fully aware of what they do and support conducting the study. Speaking at a press the work because it brings money into the conference with other leading sociologists, Slava Stetsko administers the oath of office to fellow national deputies. Looking household. on is Ivan Pliusch, chairman of the previous Verkhovna Rada. she said the study had focused on female Ukraine’s prostitutes tend to be an edu- prostitutes because they tended to suffer cated lot. For example, the study showed the negative affects of the business much that in Dnipropetrovsk and in Lviv at least more than men. 46 percent of working prostitutes in each This issue of The Ukrainian Weekly is reaching The book, which is filled with graphs city had at least some higher education. and statistics, quantifies the personal histo- This tendency held true for most small and all members of the U.S. Congress ries of the women who ply their trade on mid-size cities as well. In the largest Ukraine’s streets, in bars and hotels to deter- metropolises, however, and especially in thanks to the generous sponsorship of the mine what made them become hookers, Kyiv where employment opportunities are what keeps them there and how it affects most abundant, women in the field tended their health. Ukrainian Institute of America. Supporting one of the more accepted the- (Continued on page 23) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 No. 20 UNWLA members host reception for WFUWO president in New York by Wolodymyra Bilaniuk NEW YORK – Representatives of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America held a reception on March 5 in honor of Oksana Sokolyk, president of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations (WFUWO), and a guest from Lviv, Zoriana Bilyk, who heads the Ukrainian Women’s League (Soyuz Ukrainok) in Lviv Oblast. Nadia Sawczuk, president of the New York Regional Council, welcomed the guests and introduced Iryna Kurowyckyj, UNWLA president. Mrs. Kurowyckyj greeted the honored guests and presented them with flowers. The guests presented a book of letters written by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and a gift to the museum – a wooden toy wagon made by children in Ukraine. Mrs. Sokolyk spoke about the produc- tive work of the WFUWO. She extended an open invitation to women’s organiza- tions in America to the eighth congress of the WFUWO scheduled to meet in October in Toronto. Ms. Bilyk mentioned that there are 2,410 “Soyuzianky” in the Lviv Oblast. Oksana Sokolyk (front row, fourth from right), president of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organization, They participate and organize various among UNWLA members in New York City. beneficial programs, for example, help for single women, edit publications, organize foreign countries. extended to the event’s organizers, Mrs. as a participant in the Commission on the essay and poetry contests for school-age During the reception Mrs. Sawczuk Sawczuk and Natalia Duma. Status of Women meeting at the United children and sponsor scholarships. proposed a toast to representatives of Mrs. Kurowyckyj also thanked the Nations. WFUWO representatives to the She said that the UNWLA’s financial women’s organizations – Maria Organization for the Defense of Four U.N. were Mrs. Kurowyckyj, Mrs. assistance is appreciated and gave spe- Lozynsky, Ludmila Kostyk, Olena Freedoms for Ukraine for the use of their Shmigel, Slava Rubel, Uliana Kekish- cial thanks to Mrs. Kurowyckyj and Prociuk and Uliana Starosolsky. premises. Solodenko, Marta Kichorowska-Kebalo Nadia Shmigel for their constant help. Mrs. Sokolyk had arrived in New York and Daria Dykyj. Ms. Bilyk also spoke about the eco- The evening was a great success, Mrs. nomic difficulties in Ukraine, noting Kurowyckyj said, thanks to the hard that women leave their families and work and organizational skills of homeland to become breadwinners in UNWLA members. Special thanks were Immigration History Research Center awarded grant for heritage preservation OBITUARY: Wasyl Kardash, 79, MINNEAPOLIS – The National elitist view that archives are for the Park Service has awarded $250,000 to few,” said historian and IHRC director the University of Minnesota Rudolph Vecoli. “During the lHRC’s music ensemble director, nationalist Immigration History Research Center 37-year history we have attempted to by Olya Odynsky-Grod and led several Ukrainian Canadian (IHRC) through the heritage preserva- make the center’s documentary treas- church choirs, choral ensembles and tion program “Save America’s ures accessible to the many, through TORONTO – Wasyl Kardash, founder bands – Prometheus, Avanguard, Levada, Treasures.” This federal matching workshops for teachers and family his- and director of several Ukrainian Baturyn – whose names reflected the award will support “Documentation of torians publications, exhibits, even a Canadian church choirs, choral ensem- indomitable spirit he associated with the the Immigrant experience,” an IHRC vaudeville show – and more recently, bles and bands, and member of the Ukrainian struggle for independence. initiative aimed at providing education- the Internet. This grant will expand our Organization of Ukrainian Nationalist He was a firm but fair taskmaster. Out al resources for ethnic community and Holocaust Survivor died on March of earshot we fondly called him “Mister capability for outreach manyfold. Soon, organizations, school classrooms and 26. He was 79 Three Foot Six.” But while small in more people than ever will have access He taught several generations, myself stature, his was a big spirit, not burdened the general public. to immigrant letters and diaries, photos, among them, by example focusing on the by horrors to which many had suc- The IHRC is one of six organizations and other precious and fragile records – life-affirming importance of hard work cumbed. As I think back on his life, I in Minnesota with initiatives designated with a simple keystroke.” and perseverance. In Canada he organized realize how his unconcealed joy in bring- as official projects of “Save America’s Steven Rosenstone, dean of the ing music to others, over decades, was Treasures,” a public/private partnership College of Liberal Arts, lauded the of the White House Millennium IHRC for its “spectacular success” in Olya Odynsky-Grod was a member of both a tribute to those who perished and Council and the National Trust for documenting the immigrant experience, the Baturyn Marching Band and Dibrova a lesson for the living. Maestro Kardash Historic Preservation. The current grant noting, “The IHRC is one of our great Ladies Choir in Toronto. taught us that music outlasts the horrors that were perpetrated. was made possible with assistance from treasures. As immigration issues main- Born on January 22, 1923, in Novosilka U.S. Rep. Martin O. Sabo of tain their prominence in our news, it is in the Ternopil region of western Ukraine, Minnesota’s 5th District. particularly important that this center young Wasyl showed such an early and “Documentation of the Immigrant continue to build its resources and remarkable talent for music. He had an Experience” will make original histori- reach out to communities throughout opportunity to study and train either in cal source materials more widely avail- the country.” Italy or Russia. The second world war cut able and assist ethnic communities in The IHRC has begun the process of short these prospects. Committed to free- preserving their unique histories. A cen- launching “Documentation of the dom for Ukraine, he joined the tral feature of the effort will be the digi- Immigrant Experience” by readying a Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. tizing of selected documents from the set of photographs from its collections The Gestapo arrested him, along with his IHRC collections to establish a major for access on its website, brother and father, on August 26, 1943. new Internet resource of historical pho- www.umn.edu/ihrc. The project is After brutal interrogations, all three were tographs, memoirs, letters, newspaper expected to run for three years initially, transported to Auschwitz. Wasyl was tat- articles, pamphlets and other material. with many features becoming a perma- tooed with No.155108; his brother, Partnering with community cultural nent part of the IHRC’s program. Mikhailo, No.155107, his father, Ivan, and ethnic organizations, the project Additional funding to match the “Save No.155106. His mother, Tekla, never saw also will gather and create new histori- America’s Treasures” award will be them again. She died young and alone in cal documentation on immigration – sought throughout the project. Ukraine in 1950. including exhibits, oral histories, public For more information about the Slave labor awaited the Kardash men programming and publications reflect- project, including how individual’s in the Nazi concentration camps of ing the perspectives and voices of schools or ethnic organizations can Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee. Worked immigrants. It will also sponsor work- participate, contact IHRC Curator and nearly to death and starving, weighing shops for educators on the use of histor- Asstistant Director Joel Wurl at: only 36 kilos, Wasyl Kardash was liber- ical source materials for teaching. phone, (612) 625-0553; or e-mail, “We have never subscribed to an [email protected]. Wasyl Kardash (Continued on page 21) No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 5 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

28th conference of UNA Seniors: CONVENTION PREPARATIONS: Have you made your reservation? District offers proposals for deliberation by Anna Chopek Research Institution, talks on medical The Northern New Jersey District should not be held on holiday weekends, matters of interest to seniors, (e.g., osteo- Committee of the UNA on May 8 con- such as Memorial Day weekend, or on Have you made your reservation for the porosis, food and allergies), a discussion vened a special preconvention meeting of holidays, such as Mother’s Day. 28th annual conference of UNA Seniors to of the UNA Convention, a Ukrainian its members and delegates to the 35th 3. The newly elected General be held at Soyuzivka on June 11 to 15? To sing-along, a welcoming party, a free Assembly should be given at least two be sure that you will get accommodations, Convention of the Ukrainian National bingo night, an auction of Ukrainian years to resolve the Soyuzivka dilemma. call (845) 626 5641 or write to Ukrainian Association. At the meeting, held at the items, an Odesa Night seafood dinner. 4. UNA publications should publish National Association Estate, P.O. Box UNA Corporate Headquarters in Ukrainian videos, slides of visits to for- the names of candidates for the UNA 529, Kerhonkson, NY 12446. Parsippany, N.J., participants discussed eign lands, card games, and a cocktail Executive Committee and their creden- Soyuzivka is celebrating its 50th a number of issues facing convention del- party on the Veselka deck followed by an tials at least six weeks prior to the UNA anniversary this year. As you recall all egates and the UNA. elegant anniversary banquet with a Convention. the vacations and weekends you spent at keynote speaker. The meeting participants voted to * ** the Ukrainian National Association’s Seniors are asked to bring Ukrainian present the following proposals to the resort, the friends you met, the good items for the auction; all proceeds from As well, Northern New Jersey District 35th Convention. times you had, wouldn’t you like to the auction go to Ukrainian charities. members’ discussions yielded the follow- repeat the experience? Since many of the Also, it would be appreciated if seniors 1. The district agrees that the size of ing: suggestions General Assembly mem- friends you met are now seniors, the would wear a Ukrainian blouse, shirt or the General Assembly should be reduced. bers should enroll at least five members per place to meet them is at the UNA Senior tie to the banquet. However, it suggests that the UNA By- year; the UNA must undertake a serious Conference. The Kerhonkson Branch of the Laws be amended to provide for five marketing campaign for its products, serv- We promise you a good time. Ukrainian National Women’s League of executive officers (president, two vice- ices and subsidiaries, including its two The conference begins with a divine America is planning a trip to Mohegan presidents, national secretary and treasur- newspapers and Soyuzivka; detailed organ- liturgy at the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Sun Casino in Connecticut on Wednesday er); three auditors and 11 advisors. In izing reports must be published and should Catholic Church in Kerhonkson for our of Senior Week, and have invited the sen- addition, advisors should have specified include the names of organizers, plus deceased members. The program includes iors to join them. If you are interested in duties, especially focused on assisting results on the branch and district levels; the a few brief sessions, a discussion of cur- this event, make your reservation with with fraternal activities which, in turn, UNA must not turn its back on Canada rent events in Ukraine, a talk on new pub- Sonya Semanyshyn at Soyuzivka. will help promote membership in the where there is a large Ukrainian population, lications issued by the Harvard Ukrainian To get a special rate for your stay at UNA. plus many new immigrants; and the Soyuzivka, seniors should bring a card or 2. The duration of UNA conventions General Assembly must be reactivated to Anna Chopek is president of the letter from their UNA branch secretary should be shortened from five days to make use of all its members, from execu- Ukrainian National Association Seniors. verifying their membership. three days. In addition, conventions tive officers, to auditors and advisors.

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Seen above are the 12 grandchildren of John and Alice Olenchuk. All of the chil- dren are members of Branch 112, the newest member being Blake Andrew Robinson. Mrs. Olenchuk, financial secretary of Branch 112, has insured all of the children. Mr. Olenchuk is a member of Branch 102. Pictured are: (front row, from left) Grace Makenna Robinson, Blake Robinson, Rebecca Poston, Carolyn THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Poston; (second row) Michelle Henderson, Adam Hipp, Katherine Sterba, Rachel Visit our archive on the Internet at: http://www.ukrweekly.com/ Hipp; (third row) Luke Poston, Sarah Henderson, Alex Sterba and Bethany Hipp. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 No. 20

NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY The new Rada begins its work “Farmer’s Project” offers

In the days leading up to the start of the new convocation of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, the most often mentioned characteristic of the legislative body that was to begin development aid for Ukraine its work on May 14 was that it would be more “structured” and “disciplined.” Political by Dr. Laryssa Kyj project is based upon a $10,000 to 15,000 commentators said the six factions formed from the six political groups that gained start-up loan from the planned UUARC entry into the Parliament by obtaining at least 4 percent popular support in the March Last winter, Ukraine’s Parliament at Land Fund. The business will turn to the 31 vote had better defined objectives and more differentiated political markings than long last ratified the Land Law. Although Microscopic Fund Bank for loans to cover previous factions. The pundits also said this would be the first convocation in which such a law should have been implemented larger capital outlays. the power of the Communists would be substantially reduced. long ago, it must be noted that, unfortu- This type of assistance, known as After the first few hours of the first day everything seemed to be just as the experts nately, in its current format the law is “development aid” is extremely necessary predicted, with the lawmakers agreeing to remove a limitation that previously had flawed and can only benefit non- and beneficial for Ukraine. The time has allowed them to vote only on Thursdays and finding common ground on other organi- Ukrainians. According to this law, land come to focus our assistance on projects zational matters, including the number of committees and the minimum number of may be owned by a Ukrainian citizen or a that are self-sustaining. Until now, our aid members needed to form a faction. The Communists even seemed to show that they registered “legal entity.” Unfortunately, rarely sustained itself, and our community had undergone a process of socialization. In a leaflet handed out on the opening day, foreign investors, primarily Russians, is running short of funds. Furthermore, which protested that National Deputy Slava Stetsko, whom they scurrilously depict as make up 90 percent of these “legal enti- aid that fails to sustain itself perpetuates a Nazi collaborator because of her work within the Organization of Ukrainian ties.” the unhealthy Soviet-era mindset that has Nationalists, would administer the oath of office, the Communists underscored that, The Ukrainian peasant who has already inflicted grave damage on the nevertheless, they had decided that “developing democracy and parliamentarism in obtained his land has no means of creat- psyche of the Ukrainian people. Ukraine” should be their priority and would accept the oath as read – this in marked ing a profitable farm and becoming the Such loans can reinforce villages and contrast to 1998, when they had hooted, hollered and turned their backs on the parlia- master of his own ancestral land if he help create a middle class of wealthy mentary dais as Mrs. Stetsko swore in the new lawmakers. does not join with others to obtain loans farmers. Orphanages, boarding schools So we saw progress on several fronts and had every reason to remain optimistic in order to purchase necessary farming and old-age homes in Ukraine are all that this Rada would neither become paralyzed by personal and corporate interests nor equipment. included in county, regional, municipal polarized by an inability to compromise and see the political forest for the trees. Then Some of the “legal entities” are eagerly and collective farm budgets. There are no came the first real test of the new Rada’s effectiveness: whether it could find the politi- waiting for the peasants to give up their funds for the support and maintenance of cal sense to quickly elect a new parliamentary chairperson. And the problems began. land so they can purchase it. No country these humanitarian establishments when Less than a week into the new Rada’s first session, four leadership slates for the can be truly democratic and strong with- industries and businesses are not function- presidium have been rejected, with only one even coming close to approval. The ini- out a middle class, a position that ing and villages are not maintaining their tial rejections could be considered tactical maneuvering as separate factions proposed Ukrainian farmers could, with some help, budgets. them. The problem, however, lies in the fact that for a full day after the first four realistically achieve. The Ukrainian people are very gener- rebuffs, representatives of the six factions failed to produce new sets of nominations. To this end, the United Ukrainian ous – willing to share their last piece of It also quickly became apparent that the 66 members of the Communist faction American Relief Committee (UUARC) bread. That is why aid toward the devel- would wield the fulcrum that swings the balance of power in the new Verkhovna office in Lviv has prepared a “Farmer’s opment and maintenance of small farm Rada. The only faction member found on each of the first four slates was Communist Project” for the Ukrainian farmer. A budg- enterprises and cooperatives will, in the Adam Martyniuk, which shows the degree of power the leftists have retained even et has been prepared for the purchase of long run, help orphanages, boarding with their reduced numbers. Many politicians believe that without jumping into at machinery necessary for such an enter- schools and old-age homes survive. least a loose coalition with the Communists, no faction has the chance to gain leverage prise. We might recall that in 1981, through in this Parliament. Our Ukraine, with a good portion of its membership staunchly anti- The following are expenditures that the efforts of the UUARC, Ukrainians in Communist, will have the hardest time accepting this. But there is a realization among America established a Brazilian Land some of its members that there may be no other recourse. would be required for a typical coopera- Fund of over $750,000 for Ukrainian peas- As faction leaders remained sequestered on the session’s third day and searched for tive farm business: tractor, plow, cultiva- ant families with limited income and many compromise candidates, Viktor Musiaka of Our Ukraine told reporters that his faction tor – 135,000 hrv; seeder – 25,000 hr: dependents. These peasants repay their would find common language with the Communists, if only because they were the grain gathering combine – 400,000 hrv: loans with bean crops, which the fund only two political groups based on ideology and not corporate or personal ambition. sprinkler – 15,000 hrv The total sum of sells, thus sustaining itself. The fund has He said the point was to get a suitable parliamentary leadership in place, after which these expenditures for farm machinery is its own local administration and is still in the opposing ideological forces could continue along their separate paths. 575,000 hrv, equivalent to $110,000. The We hope that the first days of this fourth convocation of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada existence today. At present, the value of the fund has increased to $1 million. are not precedent-setting and that the parliamentary body finally will break free of its Dr. Laryssa Kyj is president of the historic paralysis and ineffectiveness. To move forward, the lawmakers must look for With its rich fertile soil, Ukraine has United Ukrainian American Relief been the “breadbasket of Europe” for cen- political consensus and practical solutions to the country’s problems. But, above all, Committee. they must put the country first. turies, which is why this type of coopera- National Deputy Stetsko, in administering the legislative oath, put it most succinct- tive farm program – very successful in ly when she said:“I expect that this Verkhovna Rada will not concern itself with per- Poland and other Western European coun- sonal and corporate interests, but only with the matters of the Ukrainian nation.” tries – should be further supported. In We wish the national deputies well and believe that if they keep to the standard Clarification addition to helping people get on their feet expressed in the wise words of Verkhovna Rada’s oldest national deputy, the Dr. Ivan Hvozda has notified The financially, and helping the fiscal health Ukrainian people will benefit deeply from their work in the next four years. Ukrainian Weekly that some readers of the entire country, it can also change have misread the opening sentence of the people’s mentality and make them our editorial last week (May 12) to mean independent and self-sufficient. that the Ukrainian lands of the Lemko, The UUARC calls upon all generous May Sian and Kholm regions are Polish terri- Ukrainians in the diaspora to respond to Turning the pages back... tory. In fact, what the editorial states this appeal and to assist in the realization (and this is clarified in the next sentence of this project. Tax-deductible contribu- 21 of the editorial) is that these ancestral tions may be sent to: United Ukrainian Ukrainian territories were under Polish American Relief Committee Inc., 1206 1997 Five years ago, on May 20-22, 1997, Poland’s President rule at the time of Akcja Wisla. Cottman Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19111. Alexander Kwasniewski spent three days in Ukraine on an offi- cial state visit during which he signed a document with President Leonid Kuchma aimed at putting aside historical animosities and conflicts between the two neighboring states. To The Weekly Contributors: On May 21 the two presidents signed a Declaration on Concord and Unity, which, We greatly appreciate the materials – feature articles, news stories, press clippings, let- according to our Kyiv correspondent, addressed the major points of contention between ters to the editor, etc. – we receive from our readers. In order to facilitate preparation of the countries in the 20th century: Akcja Wisla (Operation Vistula) of 1947, in which The Ukrainian Weekly, we ask that the guidelines listed below be followed. 150,000 Ukrainians were forcibly moved by the Polish Communist government from ® their homes in ethnically Ukrainian territories then part of southeastern Poland to the News stories should be sent in not later than 10 days after the occurrence of a given event. northwest, and others killed for refusing to be resettled; and the killing of Poles in Volyn ® All materials must be typed (or legibly hand-printed) and double-spaced. in the Ukrainian struggle for independence during World War II. ® A joint statement released by the presidents noted “We pay tribute to the innocent Photographs (originals only, no photocopies or computer printouts) submitted for publication must be accompanied by captions. Photos will be returned only when so Ukrainians and Poles – the tormented, the dead and the forcibly uprooted.” In addition, requested and accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. ® speaking before the Verkhovna Rada, President Kwasniewski expressed sympathy for the Full names (i.e., no initials) and their correct English spellings must be provided. ® “tragic destiny of Ukrainians who suffered because of Operation Vistula.” Newspaper and magazine clippings must be accompanied by the name of the publi- “We recognize that no objective can justify a crime, violence or application of the collec- cation and the date of the edition. ® tive responsibility principle,” stated the two presidents. “We remember that the source of Information about upcoming events must be received one week before the date of The Weekly edition in which the information is to be published. those conflicts was often outside Poland and Ukraine and at times due to circumstances ® over which neither Ukrainians nor Poles had control, as well as undemocratic political sys- Persons who submit any materials must provide a daytime phone number where they may be reached if any additional information is required. tems imposed upon our peoples in defiance of their wills.” ® Unsolicited materials submitted for publication will be returned only when so request- Source: “Polish, Ukrainian presidents sign concord declaration” by Roman ed and accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. Woronowycz, Kyiv Press Bureau, The Ukrainian Weekly, May 25, 1997, Vol. LXV, No. 21. No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

addition, private funding from some of the PERSPECTIVES wealthier citizens/companies within Fedynsky column Ukraine needs to be encouraged. BY ANDREW FEDYNSKY right on target The current reality is that Ukrainian Dear Editor: physicians have limited equipment and even less disposable supplies to keep the Andrew Fedynsky’s recent column available equipment in good working con- regarding: “Linguistic attitudes and paral- dition. I wish to commend Ukraine’s physi- The May 9 “provokatsiya” lels” was right on target. I never knew cians for their creativity and resourceful- “Provokatsiya”: it’s a word you often one permissible way to view the conflict: it Gogol was Ukrainian; neither did I realize ness in doing “the best they can” in helping hear in Ukraine. It has hostile overtones, was the Great Patriotic War and Stalin Shevchenko spoke Russian! sick babies with what they have. However, referring to underhanded actions designed (regardless of whatever faults he might While the Ukrainian diaspora avidly pro- I explained to them that, in addition to to elicit a response to get somebody in trou- have had) was the great leader who got the motes the Ukrainian language, it should acquiring the latest knowledge of how to ble. It goes back to Soviet days, when soci- Soviet people through the ordeal. never ignore, despise, ostracise and aban- treat sick newborns, their results in achiev- ety was permeated with conspiracy. A “pro- That’s the line the group of veterans in don Ukrainian youth who failed to learn ing the highest level of care will be limited vokator” would drop some seditious com- Kharkiv accept. But not everyone has the Ukrainian yet still are proud of their by the availability of the needed equipment ment just to test people: to see who would same memories they do. Many remember Ukrainian heritage. The Ukrainian diaspora and supplies. agree, who would ignore it and who would that Hitler and Stalin were collaborators in is deeply flawed when they see language Finally, I wish to commend Nadia turn him in. “Provokatsiyi” made people launching World War II, when both dicta- alone as a “sine qua non”! Matkiwsky and Dr. Zenon Matkiwsky and uncomfortable. At a minimum they could tors invaded Poland in September 1939. In his memoirs “Special Tasks” the entire staff of CCRF for the foresight in lead to unpleasant conversations with very That’s also when the Soviet Union annexed Ukrainian NKVD Gen. Pavel Sudoplatov arranging to get not only the equipment but mean people: “Why didn’t you report western Ukraine and the secret police spoke Ukrainian so fluently that he was also the knowledge base to the Ukrainian Leonid Ivanovich after he spoke critically arrested hundreds of thousands, either easily able to penetrate the UPA (Ukrainian NICU’s. This ongoing process is needed to of Comrade Stalin?” A bright light shines in killing them or deporting them to Central Insurgent Army), murder Col. Yevhen eventually bring the standard of care for your eyes. Asia. Nearly every family suffered. Konovalets and later brag how poorly the critically ill neonates to the highest levels, Citizens developed a keen sense of what When the Nazis invaded the Soviet DPs in the West spoke Ukrainian. as seen in the West. to avoid, so as not to put others in an awk- Union in June 1941, Ukrainians viewed it To be truly Ukrainian is also a matter of ward situation. Something we consider as a godsend. Those in the West were trau- Ihor Bilyk, M.D. the heart, of heritage and of the soul. benign – handing a colleague a printed invi- matized by the 21 months of Soviet occupa- Fort Wayne, Ind. tation to a child’s christening – would have tion, while those in the East had still-fresh Andrew M. Senkowsky, D.D.S. been an act of madness or a “provokatsiya.” memories of the Terror-Famine. Besides, Van Etten, N.Y. The letter-writer is a neonatologist and assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at This Soviet-era concept still exists in the ever since Stalin approved the non-aggres- Indiana University School of Medicine. minds of many Ukrainians today, only the sion pact with Germany, Soviet propaganda rules have changed. Now there’s freedom had been trumpeting Hitler as a good guy. of speech and assembly. Instead of one It didn’t take long, of course, for More on helping political party and one point of view, there Ukrainians to learn that the Nazis were Ukraine’s newborns Further questions are more than 30 parties and as many opin- lunatics who matched Stalin, atrocity for Dear Editor: ions as there are citizens. As for Soviet-era atrocity. Within a year, self-defense forces regarding UGCC symbols, they’ve been scrapped. A in western Ukraine began to organize, Unfortunately, I did not express myself Dear Editor: Ukrainian Rip van Winkle, awakening after forming the Ukrainian Insurgent Army clearly in the recent article headlined 20 years of sleep, would see tridents instead (UPA) to fight Hitler’s forces. As for eastern “CCRF continues relief work, with a focus As always in his “Faces and Places” col- of hammers and sickles, blue-and-yellow Ukraine, people rallied around the Soviet on education,” (May 5). I wish to clarify umn, Myron Kuropas packs an impressive flags instead of the red banner, and hear the government, which had made a strategic my statement. It is true that the neonatolo- amount of thought and information into his Ukrainian national anthem instead of the concession to Ukrainian patriotism, albeit in gists in Ukraine have many obstacles to article on Bishop Michael Wiwchar of Internationale. a Soviet form. Poets were allowed to rhap- overcome in advancing the level of care Chicago (May 12). He has given us both a As a result, the Ukrainian political land- sodize about Ukraine and ancient Kozak available to the neonates in Ukraine. One of tribute to a distinguished hierarch and an scape is littered with landmines. One such heroes were invoked. The Supreme Soviet the main obstacles is the lack of resources insightful sketch of the Ukrainian Greek- mine exploded in Kharkiv on May 9, the also created puppet ministries of foreign to purchase the needed equipment and sup- Catholic Church in this country. Hopefully, anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi affairs and defense for Ukraine and the plies. The other obstacle is the general Dr. Kuropas’ position within the Ukrainian Germany, when a group of about a hundred front was organized along national lines – inability to obtain knowledge to provide the American community will allow him to Red Army veterans heckled during the units operating on the “Ukrainian Front” level of care equivalent to the care available develop further some of the points alluded moment of silence at the monument to fall- helped to push the Nazis toward Berlin. A in the Western World. to in this piece: en Ukrainians. Ukrainian Division liberated Auschwitz. Using the U.S. model as an example, 1. If “politics” and “exclusiveness” are a Why the heckling? The veterans didn’t In 1943 and 1944, UPA and the Red much of the equipment and supplies avail- major cause of the decline in the Ukrainian approve of the Ukrainian national anthem at Army overlapped, fighting a war within a able in the U.S. is purchased through billing Greek-Catholic Church in this country, the ceremony. That wasn’t the melody they war. It continued into the 1950s, long after of patients who pay for services through what should be done about it? Won’t a strat- had marched to when the Red Army entered the defeat of Nazi Germany. In what was private health insurance (if available) or egy of future growth based mainly or exclu- Berlin in 1945, and they didn’t like it. So really a civil war with Ukrainians on both Medicaid (government aid). In addition, sively on evangelizing the Fourth Wave they interrupted the most solemn moment sides, the Red Army defeated the UPA and grants from private foundations are occa- make the UGC Church in this country even to create an incident. Indeed, it got them for the next 30 years Soviet propaganda did sionally available for some major purchases more exclusive? written up on the worldwide web. Kharkiv all it could to falsify its record and blacken of equipment or improvement of facilities. 2. What has been the effect on the UGC Oblast Chairman Yevhen Kushnariov its image. In contrast, Ukraine currently does not Church in this country and in Europe of promptly labeled it a “provokatsiya.” Now, 57 years after the defeat of Nazi have a health insurance program that can acquiescing in Rome’s policy against By creating an outrage, the hecklers Germany, the small number of Red Army ordaining married men to the priesthood provide sufficient payments to cover the hoped to use their status as veterans of the veterans who created the “provokatsiya” in outside Ukraine? costs of purchasing and operating the vari- war against Hitler to protest the symbols of Kharkiv were dismayed to see blue-and- 3. What will be the effect on the UGC ous equipment or the purchase of medicines the Ukrainian state. If Mr. Kushnariov had yellow banners and hear the national Church in this country of continuing to rely needed for treatment in a neonatal intensive been operating under the rules that pre- anthem of Ukraine. Who won the war, on large numbers of European-born priests? care unit (NICU). I understand that the vailed in Kharkiv in the 1930s and 1940s, they’re asking? From their perspective, it What will be the effect on those priests and Ukrainian government has had many issues he would have ordered them arrested, tor- was Stalin and the Soviet Union, but in real- on the Church in Ukraine when they return and problems to solve in the past several tured and shot. Instead, he deftly side- ity the UPA was the ultimate winner, after having served for years in a country years since Ukraine become an independent stepped the landmine. “Voicing grievances although its warriors have yet to receive the and culture so different from their own? nation. It has made some advances where at such a time is inappropriate,” he said, recognition they deserve. That’s another 4. Could the reluctance of UGC priests “particularly at such a sacred place. We landmine for Ukraine’s politicians. possible. However, with mortality on the and people to become “mission-minded” need to look for ways to unite the country. Kharkiv Oblast Chairman Kushniarov rise and the population growth in a general reflect their confusion about what they are As for those who do not respect the national appears to be a savvy young leader who decline, as a physician, I think that health being urged to do? Do they see an inconsis- flag, they are the ones responsible for this knows you have to pay tribute to the heroes care should be one of the top priorities tency between the Gospel mandate to and victims of the second world war, but within the government budget. I believe “teach all nations” and the idea that the ‘provokatsiya.’ ” that there are many diligent workers within future of their Church depends on evangel- Ukraine’s role in World War II was very ultimately he’ll be judged on how well he the government working towards improv- izing recent immigrants? Do American- complicated, with an astonishing number of delivers for the future – above all in eco- ing healthcare in Ukraine. born (non-Ukrainian-proficient) Ukrainian casualties. According to AP/Yahoo, 8.5 mil- nomic development. He’s working on it. However, the fact remains that there is Greek-Catholics have any role in this evan- lion Ukrainians were killed in the war – 60 Recently, he led a trade delegation to the still an inadequate health system in Ukraine gelization effort? percent of them civilians. To put that into United States, where he met with officials to provide the needed technology and medi- 5. Has the fragmentation of the perspective, 259,000 Americans fell in in Washington. He also signed a protocol on cines for the level of care comparable to Byzantine Catholic community in this World War II. On average, that many cooperation with Ohio Gov. Bob Taft. that available in the West. This indicates country into Ukrainian, Ruthenian Ukrainians were killed every six weeks As for Kharkiv, the city survived the that the Ukrainian government has quite a (Rusyn/Magyar/Croat), Melkite, Belarusian throughout the four years of the war. May 9 “provokatsiya.” There were some lot more work to do in providing more sup- and Russian jurisdictions helped or hin- Another 2 million were sent to Nazi con- bruised feelings, but that’s about it. Now port for healthcare. Without health, there dered the growth of these Churches? centration camps or became slaves. that Ukraine has dismantled the accouter- will be no wealth. Outside help from organ- Kharkiv, the scene of major battles, suffered ments of the police state that the veterans izations such as the Children of Chornobyl Timothy F. Stock enormously. miss so much, “provokatsiyi” just aren’t Relief Fund has been extremely helpful. In Arlington, Va. During the Soviet era, there was only what they used to be. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 No. 20

American Councils for International Education honors Ukraine’s English teachers by Roman Woronowycz more closely with the Ukrainian educa- Kyiv Press Bureau tional institutions and to continue to help in the development of education here,” KYIV – The American Councils for explained Christina Pendzola-Vitovych, International Education on April 23 the country coordinator for American announced its finalists in the U.S.- Councils’ U.S.-Ukraine Excellence in Ukraine Excellence in Teaching English Teaching English Awards. Awards, an annual competition that gives This is the sixth year that the organiza- Ukrainian teachers who have shown out- tion has held the teaching competition, standing ability in the field a chance to which is widely publicized in schools travel to the United States to meet and exchange views with American educators and involves all the oblasts of Ukraine. while receiving additional training. The winners are far from a homogeneous In a competition that lasted four lot. They vary in age, experience and in months and went through three stages, many other ways, but they all are similar judges whittled down a list of 343 in that they have proven they are top- Ukrainian teachers of English who quali- notch educators with the needed skills fied for the contest to 20 finalists who and motivation to teach kids well. will travel to the United States this sum- While winner Liubov Lehetska of the mer for seminars and specialized training Chernihiv Oblast is 60 years old and has in Washington, South Carolina and spent 40 years as a teacher, 25-year-old Montana. Andrii Kirnoz of Volyn Oblast has been The American Councils, a not-for- teaching for a mere three and a half profit education, training and consulting years. Mrs. Lehetska had been encour- organization specializing in the countries aged to apply for the program by a for- of Eastern Europe, Russia and Central mer student, who is now a teacher and Asia, oversees a host of programs in had won an earlier competition. Ukraine, most directed at student and Maryna Pervova, 38, of Mykolaiv, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual, Ivanna Reed and Christina Pendzola- professional exchanges. The organization also is among this year’s finalists. She Vitovych present an award to one of Ukraine’s top English language teachers. is entirely funded by the U.S. govern- had entered four previous times only to ment, and received $7.3 million in 2002 fall short, but had continued to work to Cherkasy, who is keenly in tune with also a professional exchange program for for its various programs. improve her teaching skills until she U.S. government programs and has pre- teachers called the Partners in Education In January of this year American finally became a member of the top 20. viously taken part in Peace Corps and Program. Councils celebrated its 10th anniversary There is also Iryna Yakusheva, 38, of Junior Achievement projects. American Councils has sent a total of in Ukraine, and while they have accom- Konotop, Sumy Oblast, whose husband These five winners and 15 others more than 3,000 students and teachers to plished much in a decade, their work is had been a finalist in 1997, an achieve- came out on top in a competition that the United States in a variety of far from done. ment that drove her to attain the same began earlier this year when oblast exchanges in its 10 years of work here, “Our desire and our hope is to work heights; and Anatolii Stepanenko of judges selected a group of 231 round-one explained Ms. Pendzola-Vitovych. This winners from the original 343 contest- year alone 400-plus Ukrainians who ants. The quarterfinalists received com- might not otherwise have had such a memorative plaques with their names chance will travel to the United States. inscribed, to be displayed in their respec- Among them will be more than 100 “Kalyna Country” attractions tive schools. graduate students, about an equal num- Mrs. Pendzola-Vitovych explained ber of undergraduate students, some 50 win Alberta provincial awards that to ensure that the judging process high school students and another group EDMONTON – Rural East Central The winners of the 2002 National was transparent and impartial, each judg- of 30 teachers, in addition to the 20 win- Alberta, dubbed “Kalyna Country,” is Awards will be announced at a gala ing committee had a U.S. citizen with ners of the English teacher awards. definitely making an impression with banquet that will be held in Edmonton teaching or language expertise assigned American Councils began in the Travel Alberta, at the same time that it on May 30. to it. She said that the committees also 1960s in Russia as the American Council is garnering the attention of holiday In the meantime, Kalyna Country’s were urged to have a journalist present to of Teachers of Russian and to this day travellers and winning the respect of 2002 marketing campaign has already not only publicize the affair but to record that designation remains in its official the fairness of the selection process. She key players within the provincial moved into high gear in preparation title, which is American Councils for noted as well that oblast committees tourism industry. for the summer season. This year’s International Education ACTRA & judged only contestants from other Five of 13 Alberta nominees for this 120-page Kalyna Country Visitors and ACCELS (the second acronym stands for oblasts and not their own. year’s Attractions Canada Awards are Events Guide is not only bigger than American Council for Collaboration in sites or events in Kalyna Country. Elk ever, it makes more extensive use of In March the 231 contestants were reduced to 90 finalists who were selected Education and Language Study). Island National Park, the Ukrainian color and had a press run of 50,000 However, after Perestroika and with Cultural Heritage Village, the copies to meet growing demand. The by a group of U.S. and Ukrainian educa- tional and language specialists in Kyiv. the Soviet Union disintegrating, ACTRA Vegreville Ukrainian Pysanka Folk new guide was published in record redefined its focus and objectives and Festival and Lamont County’s time, appearing in mid-February so as The semifinalists received $200 worth of with the collapse of the empire organized “Church Capital of North America” to take full advantage of Kalyna teaching materials and texts, while their representative offices in most of the campaign (selected in two categories) Country’s extensive trade show cam- schools received $2,000 worth of books newly independent states, including were among the tourism attractions paign, and to allow for more compre- and equipment. chosen to represent Alberta in the 2002 hensive coverage of target markets. The third round involved another (Continued on page 23) cross-Canada program. By mid-April, an estimated 15,000 group of judges and included individual Considering that Calgary, copies were already in circulation, dis- interviews before final selection took Edmonton and Rocky Mountain stake- tributed through outlets not only in the place. The winners will now spend the holders also took part in the competi- Greater Edmonton area, but in summer in the United States – first a tion, the strong showing by East Calgary, Saskatoon, Regina and week of orientation in Washington fol- Central Alberta marked a significant Winnipeg. Bulk deliveries are slated to lowed by four days in South Carolina breakthrough in industry awareness of be made shortly into British Columbia where they will participate in an English the unique tourism products offered and Toronto, and the DMO office has as a Second Language conference, and within Kalyna Country. begun mailing out guides in response then a trip to the University of Montana- “It’s just one more sign that our pro- to requests being received on Kalyna’s Bosman, where they will have six weeks motional efforts are starting to get toll-free number line or through the of intensive training. At various times greater recognition,î observed Ecomuseum website. they will meet with U.S. English and Jacqueline Vaughan, president of the Although guides have now been social studies teachers to exchange view- Kalyna Country Destination Marketing dropped off in many communities points and teaching techniques. Some of Organization (DMO) and the owner of within Kalyna Country and in neigh- the U.S. teachers will eventually travel to Kalyna Country Cottages, a bed and boring towns and villages, more deliv- Ukraine as part of the exchange program breakfast located south of Vilna. eries will be made in the weeks lead- run by American Councils. “We strongly encouraged eligible ing up to the long weekend in May. While the U.S.-Ukraine Excellence in operators to apply for the competition, “The unseasonable weather has English Teaching Awards is an integral and are naturally thrilled that so many meant that many people still arenít part of the work of the American active members of our DMO won thinking about holiday activities,î Councils, the organization does quite a provincial awards. Of course, it would noted Kalyna marketing director, bit more in Ukraine. It is also is responsi- be terrific if any of them were chosen Kevin Kisilevich.” However, we want ble for administering the Edmund S. to be featured in the Attractions to be sure that they have the informa- Muskie Fellowship Program for graduate Canada promotions, but even to be tion about Kalyna Country handy as students, as well as an undergraduate nominated is a great achievement,” soon as they start planning for their exchange program and a high school Tamara Hurevych of the Klovsky Ms. Vaughan stated. leisure time.” exchange program called the Future Lyceum of Foreign Languages, a Leaders Exchange Program. There is regional finalist in the program. No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 9 Association for the Study of Nationalities puts Ukraine in the spotlight by Yuri Shevchuk tures” (a quote from the convention program), so well- was a sinister plot orchestrated in order to replace known among Ukrainians of the diaspora. President Kuchma with Viktor Yushchenko, destabilize NEW YORK – Ukraine was the principal focus of Two other screenings proved to be a small sensation Ukraine and smear its image in the world. The partici- the seventh annual World Convention of the Association at the convention not least due to their controversial pation in the discussion of Myroslava Gongadze, the for the Study of Nationalities that took place in New subjects deeply steeped in present-day politics SS in late journalist’s wife who has been granted political asy- York on April 11-13, with 18 panels, roundtables and Britain Julian Hendy, director (United Kingdom) caused lum in the United States, gave an added sense of drama video presentations discussing a wide array of Ukraine- quite a mobilization among those whose memories of and poignancy to the occasion. related political, social, historical, cultural and language the infamous 60 Minutes segment called “The Ugly issues. Face of Freedom” were still all too fresh. The documen- This time around the ASN World Convention, held at tary about the Waffen-SS Division Halychyna asserts the International Affairs Building of Columbia that the Division committed war crimes against civilians University and sponsored by the Harriman Institute, offered a Ukrainian selection of topics that by sheer in Ukraine and Slovakia, and that many of its soldiers number of papers – about 60 – left all other post-Soviet obtained British citizenship after the war. The heated countries well behind, Russia among them with only 12 discussion following the screening was a case of una- panels. nimity quite rare among scholars, who basically shared An additional sign of Ukraine’s importance in the view that the documentary was biased, one-sided today’s field of post-Soviet studies was a strong interna- and politically motivated. tional flavor to the Ukrainian thematic “menu”: in its The fourth presentation consisted of two sets of Index of Panels by Regions, the official ASN footage, each, in its own way, dealing with the abduc- Convention Program listed under “Ukraine” such panels tion and murder – allegedly on President Leonid as “Building the Crimean Tatar Nation,” “Belarus After Kuchma’s orders – of the muckraking journalist Heorhii the Presidential Elections,” “Ukraine: Historical Issues Gongadze, that resulted in the deepest political crisis and Policies of Slavic Identities,” “Developing Foreign Ukraine has seen since independence and sharply divid- Policy,” “Jewish Identity in Ukrainian Culture,” and ed society into defenders and detractors of the present “The Impact of Western Assistance on Ukraine’s regime. Transition to Democracy.” The first documentary “Bring Me the Head of Ukraine-related papers were also presented at other Georgy Gongadze,” by the director Susie Davis (U.S.) regional panels, for example, the panel on “Dealing was followed by “Pi Ar” [PR] Peter Powel, producer, with Diasporas” alongside others, discussed the paper Charles Clover co-producer (U.S.). The former present- by Wsewolod Isajiw (University of Toronto), titled ed the Gongadze case as a testimony to the sorry state Laada Bilaniuk, 2002 Shklar Fellow at HURI, “Ukraine’s Loss of Human Resources: Immigrants from of the independent press and freedom of speech in University of Washington, discusses the “surzhyk” Ukraine to Canada, 1999-2001.” Similarly, the Ukraine. The latter suggested that the Gongadze case during a conference roundtable. “Contemporary Poland” panel included the presentation by Alexandra Jawornicka (University of Zielona Gora, Poland) on “Lemko Separatism and Ethnic Politics of the Polish Government in the 21st Century.” Reflecting the realities of contemporary Ukraine and following established tradition, the convention primari- ly focused on issues of Ukrainian politics (panels: “Nationalism and Nation-Building in Ukraine,” “Domestic Politics in Ukraine”); culture and identity (panels: “The New Ukrainian Literary Canon and National Identity,” “Civic Values and Religious Education in Ukraine Today”) and foreign policy (“Ukraine: Developing a Foreign Policy”). What made this year’s ASN World Convention unique was its unprecedented emphasis on language issues in Ukraine, which were discussed within three panels: “Nationality and Language in the 2001 Ukrainian Census”, “Language Policies and Politics in Ukraine and Belarus”, and “Political, Social and Linguistic Implications of Surzhyk in Ukraine Today”. The “surzhyk” roundtable, organized by the Shevchenko Scientific Society of New York with the active participation of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), was particularly well-attended. At the roundtable on “The New Ukrainian Literary Canon and National Identity” (from left) are: George One could get a fairly accurate picture of the present Grabowicz (Harvard), Myroslava Znayenko (Rutgers), Maria Rewakowicz (Rutgers), Marko Pavlyshyn geographical distribution of Ukrainian studies in the (Monash University, Australia) and Tamara Hundorova (Institute of Literature, National Academy of West by looking at the university affiliations of the con- Sciences of Ukraine). vention participants. As befits its status of the leading Ukrainian center in North America, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) commanded by far the most impressive presence at the convention. This Shevchenko Scientific Society lecture focuses on “Kravchuk doctrine” became possible largely thanks to the new research fel- lowship created at Harvard under the aegis of the HURI by Dr. Orest Popovych and philosophy section of NTSh, who also ran the pro- by Eugene and Daymel Shklar. ceedings, and Dr. Anatoliy Rusnachenko, professor of NEW YORK – The Shevchenko Scientific Society of Alongside HURI faculty members, Michael Flier, history at the International Institute of Linguistics and Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology, America (NTSh) on April 6 hosted a program at its New Law in Kyiv and presently a Fulbright Scholar at the and George Grabowicz, Dmytro Cyzevs’kyi Professor York City headquarters dealing with some of the chal- Harriman Institute of Columbia University. of Ukrainian Literature, four of this year’s eight Shklar lenges that confront Ukraine in the 21st century – in In his opening remarks, Dr. Hunczak took mild fellows presented their papers: Laada Bilaniuk particular those of globalization and the information exception to the term “doctrine,” because he said he (University of Washington), Tamara Hundorova revolution, which are compounded by the overriding feels that a vision of a successful modern Ukraine calls (Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences need to form a modern political Ukrainian nation. for intellectual discourse rather than dogmatic pro- of Ukraine), Stephen Shulman (Southern Illinois The featured speaker was Dr. Osyp Moroz, an econo- nouncements. University) and Volodymyr Kulyk (Institute of Political mist, futurologist and former adviser to the Parliament In his talk, Dr. Moroz touched upon several of and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of and the Cabinet of Ukraine, who is a member of NTSh, Ukraine’s priorities that require analysis and action. Ukraine). the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. However, he focused on what – the imperative of our Besides the United States, Canada and Ukraine, as well as the Intellect of the Nation Society in Ukraine, time he considered the mobilization of Ukraine’s intel- which provided the greatest number of participants, and the author of the book “The Modern Nation: A lectual elite towards the solution of the country’s most among the convention’s Ukraine experts were scholars Ukrainian in Time and Space.” urgent problems. As Mr. Kravchuk articulated in his from Poland, Australia, Russia, the United Kingdom, Dr. Moroz summarized some of the ideas that have “doctrine,” “intellect is the power and hope of the France, Turkey and Israel. been discussed in detail in the book “The Kravchuk nation.” Indeed, the development of a national intellec- The program also included four Ukraine-related Doctrine,” which he co-authored with Vitaliy tual elite in Ukraine is the prime objective of the video presentations with subsequent discussions. “Time Vrublevskyi and Yuriy Sayenko. The book was pub- Intellect of the Nation Society headed by Mr. Kravchuk. to Gather Stones,” by director Sergey Tcaci (Moldova), lished in Kyiv in 2001 by the Institute of Sociology of As a practical matter, continued Dr. Moroz, it would looked at the causes and consequences of the war in the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the seem hopeless for Ukraine to try to catch up with devel- Transdniestria in 1992. “My Mother’s Village,” John Intellect of the Nation Society, whose president is oped countries. A more realistic approach would be to Paskievich, director (Canada), delved into the experi- Leonid Kravchuk, the ex-president of Ukraine. leapfrog ahead of them in selected areas through the ence of his own family who half a century ago left Participating in the program as commentators were focused application of Ukraine’s intellectual power. The Ukraine for Canada. The author attempted to “reconcile Dr. Taras Hunczak, professor of history and political sci- his lifelong feeling of being caught in between two cul- ence at Rutgers University and chairman of the history (Continued on page 21) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 No. 20 No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 11 Chortopolokhy Plast sorority celebrates 50 years of activity at Soyuzivka gathering

by Nadia Nynka The main event of the weekend was the who founded the sorority, a special cele- Following several skits and a group banquet held on Saturday evening in the bration was held which culminated in pre- sing-along around the bonfire, the evening KERHONKSON, N.Y. – Members of Veselka building. Tables were set up in a senting these founding members with sev- ended with all present forming a circle the Chortopolokhy Plast sorority, togeth- circle around the dining room; they were eral gifts that included flowers, a custom- and singing the traditional “Sirily u er with their families and guests, gath- decorated with tablecloths that featured made brooch featuring the chortopolokh Sumerku” and “Nich Vzhe Ide.” ered on April 19-21 at Soyuzivka to cele- the purple colors of the Chortopolokhy flower, and a plaque expressing gratitude On Sunday, a liturgy and a panakhyda brate the 50th anniversary of the sorori- sorority, and a centerpiece arrangement ty’s founding. for their individual efforts. The gathering were dedicated to those members who that included the chortopolokh (thistle) The sorority was formed in sang several versions of “Mnohaya Lita” died. Following the Sunday services, the flower on each table. A Plast bonfire was Philadelphia on December 7, 1951. Its for their continued good health. weekend activities were officially closed. set up in the center of the room, symboliz- first six members – Marta Tarnawska, The highlight of the evening was a There followed many farewells and pos- ing the unity and common purpose of all Natalka Holowinsky, Ivanna Bilyk, Vira montage of slides produced by Petro ing for yet another round of pictures. In the Chortopolokhy. Pak, Anya Maksymowych and Yaroslava Bokalo with narration written by Sonia her closing remarks, sorority leader Ms. Oksana Korduba and Roma Onuferko – were members of Plast in Bokalo. The 20-minute slide show provid- Leskiw declared the first 50 years of the Klymkovych, who welcomed the guests, Salzburg, Austria. The founders emigrat- ed a visual history of the Chortopolokhy sorority’s history closed, and the next 50 and introduced the “holovnyi chor- ed to the United States with the end of sorority spanning the entire 50 years. officially opened. topolokh” (sorority leader), Marijka World War II – determined to continue Leskiw, led the evening’s events. their scouting – and formed their group. Following the traditional opening with the They named their sorority Edelweiss, singing of the Plast hymn and the hymn of which harkened back to their days hiking the Chortopolokhy, a moment of silence in the Austrian Alps. The group grew in numbers and within a year they officially was observed for all deceased became “Chortopolokhy” to show their Chortopolokhy – Maria Shchuka, Lesia ties to Ukraine. Staruch, Lesia Slobodian, Julianna From its very beginnings, the sorority Ratycz, Halyna Filinska and Bozhenna was very active. In addition to working Filinska. with the younger Plast groups (novatstvo During the banquet numerous greetings and yunatstvo) they created a quartet that received from other Plast groups were read entertained at many Plast functions, held praising the hard work of the workshops to teach Ukrainian youths Chortopolokhy. One of the founding about embroidery, ceramics, pysanky, members and the first leader of the sorori- kylyms and other folk art. ty, Marta Tarnawska, spoke to the gather- In 1958 the Chortopolokhy established ing about her hopes for the future, while and operated a Ukrainian library in founding member, and the second holovnyi Philadelphia. After more than 30 years of chortopolokh, Mrs. Maksymowych, recounted humorous anecdotes from the running the library, they turned over its Andrew Nynka ongoing operation to the Ukrainian past. Educational and Cultural Center in To show the gratitude of the Founding members of the Chortopolokhy are (from left): Marta Tarnawska, Philadelphia. But to this day individual Chortopolokhy members to those first six Vira Pak, Natalka Holowinsky, Ivanna Bilyk and Anya Maksymowych. members of the Chortopolokhy still play an active role in its daily operations. Today, Chortopolokhy number 77 members – 32 belong to the younger 24th “kurin,” or unit, of young adults and 45 belong to the 8th unit of seniors. To celebrate the sorority’s 50th anniversary, nearly 100 people gathered at Soyuzivka. The event started on Friday evening with an informal get-together at Soyuzivka’s Kyiv villa. An official open- ing on Saturday included the formal acceptance of several candidates as full members. In the afternoon individual members had the opportunity to partici- pate in one of several planned trips: horse- back riding, visiting several of New York state’s wineries, or hiking at Lake Minnewaska. Some timid souls, afraid the weather might turn rainy, stayed close to home base, venturing out once the sun broke through the clouds to hike some of Soyuzivka’s trails, or just took the time to sit back, relax and chat with members they had not seen in a while. Members of the Chortopolokhy sorority of Plast following their 50th anniversary celebrations.

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by Cynthia Quick “Celebrations,” revisited the ancient ritu- als still celebrated in the Ukrainian CHICAGO – In many ways, Lialia Church, such as the blessing of the fruit Kuchma’s life reflects the tapestries she and the carving and blessing of the ice weaves. Strands of color become inter- cross as part of the Feast of the twined – some are dropped and picked Epiphany. up later, while others are carried through- She has recently completed over 140 out influencing those they touch. The black and white portraits as part of a col- recurring strands of Ms. Kuchma’s life laborative oral history project with Irene and art are family, nature, and her Antonovych, titled “Generations Ukrainian heritage – its people and its Project,” a documentary of Ukrainians in search. They propel and shape her work Chicago. as a photographer and tapestry artist. Ms. Kuchma’s tapestries and photo- Born in Ukraine, Ms. Kuchma was graphs have been exhibited at Art Space, raised in the Ukrainian Village of Artemesia Gallery, Evanston and Kansas Chicago – in its church, school and com- City art centers, Textile Art Center, munity. She attended the University of Tapestries Gallery, Fermi Lab-Wilson Illinois at Champaign and graduated with Hall Gallery, and the Ukrainian Institute a bachelor of fine arts in 1967. of Modern Art, among others. Last year Following graduation, she focused on her work was featured as part of the printmaking and did independent studies group exhibit “The Art of the Craft: 12 at the School of the Art Institute of Artists Interpret Their Cultural Roots,” Chicago and with master of calligraphy held in November at the Ukrainian Reggie Ezell and master of Ukrainian Institute of America in New York. I. Antonovych decorative wood inlay Petro Iwachniuk. Ms. Kuchma has participated in “Luke 1:35” (Part I and II), 2000 and 2001, respectively; wool tapestries. The In 1975, her transition toward tapestry national and international exhibitions, works are based on the biblical citation: “The Holy Spirit will come upon You — began. including the “1998 American Tapestry and the Power of the Most High will cover You with its shadow.” For over 20 years, tapestry has been Biennial,” “Fiber ’97” in Chicago, Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago. What follows is the artist’s statement, the primary medium through which Ms. “Currents ’95” and “Fiberart Inter- an eloquent expression conveying Lialia Kuchma has followed her muse – creat- national ’95” at the Pittsburgh Center for *** Kuchma’s love of the craft and conceptu- ing dynamic images, both abstract and the Arts. alization of her particular art form, the figurative, in vivid color. Other art Her work is in the permanent collec- Tapestries by Lialia Kuchma were sources of inspiration for her work, as forms, in particular photography, have tions of the Illinois State Museum, the recently on exhibit in Chicago’s Wood well as reflections on style and form. provided an ongoing counterpoint. Governor’s Mansion in Springfield, Ill., Street Gallery in a show of contemporary furniture and fiber art titled “The For eight years, Ms. Kuchma, together the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in *** with Darya Bilyk and Oksana Chicago, as well as private residences Artists’s Hand,” held on March 9-April Teodorowycz, was engaged in a major and the corporate collections of Fel-Pro, 20. For me, weaving is a love affair – love project working on the decorative ele- Harris Bank, 1st Security Federal Forming part of the exhibit was the of the material, the loom, the process, the ments in the newly constructed Ss. Savings Bank, Jameson Realty and stunning wool tapestry – Luke 1:35 (Part history, the final tapestry. It is the touch Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Nutra-Sweet. I and II), which has been characterized as of the strands of wool, the way they Church under the direction of Maestro Ms. Kuchma has recently been transcending its medium to become pure absorb light, how the color makes me Ivan Dykyi – employing stencils, gold appointed chairperson of the Art light and color. Other pieces by Ms. feel. It is the substance and stability of leaf, free-hand iconography – and docu- Committee at the Ukrainian Institute of Kuchma were “Trees Talking” and six my all-wood eight-foot loom; the free mented each stage photographically. Her Modern Art. She was also selected to be wool miniature pieces whose essence and regenerative nature of the process. subsequent photographic series, a member of the Art Committee at the resonates color and energy. I enjoy creating monumental works, which can be totally engaging to view, and, at the same time, intimate and per- sonal. It typically takes three to four months to complete an 8-foot-square piece – woven strand by strand. For those not familiar with tapestry, the warp is the “skeleton” of the structure that dis- appears beneath the body of the fiber. The weft forms the decorative scheme on the surface. In tapestry, the weft is woven by hand, section by section, according to an original drawing or car- toon which provides the pattern for the work at hand. In my work, the weft is wool and the warp cotton. The inspiration for my work lies everywhere – in friends, nature, faith, experiences. But, it all begins at the loom. The next work often takes shape in my mind as I am at the loom completing the one in progress. In my earlier work, the subject matter reflected my interests and could be clearly identified – por- traits, red dogs, calligraphy. More recent- ly, I work with landscapes, abstract and spiritual concepts. Each piece has its own “textural poetry.” My early work reflects a decidedly fig- urative style and narrative form. Still, during these periods I found myself seek- ing a non-traditional image as a sensual response to my feeling and understanding of what was about and within me. While I have worked in other media, the choice of tapestry meant a purity of color and rawness of material that could aggressively emerge from any angle. Each strand has become a visual extension of time, a metaphor drawn and woven repeatedly through the larger body, always demanding attention as it moves in its direction to complete the final piece. I came to tapestry from printmaking, where I was disappointed in the color: It is the personal, emotive content of my “Gran Sabat,” 1992, wool tapestry; three separate panels, each panel, 8’ x 36.” (Photo courtesy of the artist.) In the words of the artist “Strands of yarn resonate color for me, their tactile property complements sensuous elements to weave in.” (Continued on page 13) No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 13

Lialia(Continued Kuchma... from page 12) tapestry, compelled by the familiar and unfamiliar associations of shapes before me. Strands of yarn resonate color for me, their tactile property complements sensuous elements to weave in. In my work, the black line has served me as a codifier of the representational, as a boundary containing colors and now, most recently, it has loosened itself, exploding before the colors, branching, suddenly these lines are conduits of ener- gy weaving among themselves. I antici- pate these strands will thread themselves through time and harmonies to recreate a universe of forms as only tapestry by nature, is capable of doing. The French tapestry artist, Jean Lurcat, once said the “tapestry is an essentially mural object, going hand in hand with architecture.” Tapestry com- plements and is completed by its envi- ronment. In that regard, I have a great respect for space. As a tapestry artist, I also feel con- nected to its long history. Tapestry is still being done in much the same way as it was in 3000 B.C. – the same tools, ped- als, harnesses, treadles, the same means. It is a nomadic kind of art, one that moved with its makers and, when unrolled, created the continuity of home. While I have achieved the mechanical skills needed to successfully express my thematic or narrative projects, I do not feel I am ever not learning. Tapestry weaving is at a particular disadvantage compared to other media because of its slowness, but the challenge to produce the strong expressive image reflective of my own interests in a medium whose very physical properties (Continued on page 17) Lialia Kuchma’s “Talking Trees,” 1999, wool tapestry, 94” x 83.” (Photo courtesy of the artist.) Misha Didyk sings in Bellini opera Khoma and Vynnytsky to appear “The Capulets and the Montagues” in Weill Recital at Carnegie Hall by Bohdan Markiw Donose of Romania in the lead role of NEW YORK – Cellist Natalia Khoma Spectrum Theater in Washington as part of Romeo. Ms. Donose’s quality of singing and pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky will The Washington Group Cultural Fund PHILADELPHIA – The matinee pres- may be characterized as luscious, with a appear in concert at Weill Recital Hall at Music Series and at the Music and Art entation of Vincenzo Bellini’s opera creamy velvety tone. Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, May 29, in a Center of Greene County at the Grazhda “The Capulets and the Montagues” at The Russian coloratura-soprano Anna program of works by Beethoven, Mozart, in Hunter, N.Y. Philadelphia’s renowned Academy of Netrebko, in the role of Giiulietta, has an Shostakovich, Granados, Cassadó and Prior to the Carnegie concert, Ms. Music on April 13 was a spectacular per- agile voice and beautiful appearance. Vynnytsky. Khoma and Mr. Vynnytsky will appear at formance due to a hand-picked cast of Although one would prefer to discern a The duo, natives of Lviv who both the Lake San Marco Chamber Music international artists that included the more feminine delicacy in the aria in studied at the Moscow Conservatory, are Society in California on May 26. Ukrainian tenor Misha Didyk. which she appears with her father as well frequent collaborators whose concerts in Tickets for the Weill Recital Hall concert, The opera, written for two sopranos, as in the duet with Romeo, and a more the past have included performances at the at $25, are on sale at the Carnegie Hall Box featured mezzo-soprano Ruxandra resigned piano sound in the tomb scene, Beethoven Festival at Trinity Church in Office; call Carnegie Charge, (212) 247- nevertheless, she did win over the public New York, at Steinway Hall for a tele- 7800, or online at www.carnegiehall.org. Bohdan Markiw, an orchestral con- with her impeccable clearness of pitch vised concert series in Japan, as well as The concert begins at 8 p.m. ductor, concert violinist and chamber and the musicianship of her singing. the concert series “Cello Plus” at The Carnegie concert is presented by musician, is choir conductor of St. The opera’s leading tenor was Mr. Michigan State University, “Music at the New York Concert Management: Lee Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church in Didyk, in the role of Giuletta’s suitor and Institute” at the Ukrainian Institute of Walter Associates, and Haus Music – Meet New Haven, Conn. Romeo’s rival. Mr. Didyk convincingly America in New York, the Rosslyn the Artists, Urbana, Ill. demonstrated his ability to sing bel canto with all the attributes of that style. Whereas his aria “I love her so and she is so dear to me” was sung with touching, deep emotion, in the call to battle, his voice acquired more dramatic color, cul- minating in a brilliant high “C.” The supporting characters were the forceful bass Brain Jauhiainen, in the role of Lorenzo, doctor to the Capulets, and the cultured voice of baritone Mark McCrory as Giuletta’s father. In general, the chorus was very good, except for a lack of focused crispness in the last number of the first act. Also, there was some unevenness in the beginning of the Overture in the orchestra as led by con- ductor Maurizio Barbacini. The excellent costumes, stage sets and lighting design complemented this triumphal performance. After individual bows to the sound of resounding bravos, the conductor and the Tenor Misha Didyk entire cast were given a standing ovation. Cellist Natalia Khoma and pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 No. 20

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the whole, the money they earned suf- NEWSBRIEFS ficed only to repay loans and prepare the (Continued from page 14) sowing campaign. (RFE/RL Newsline) the information department of the Lviv Theological Academy (LTA). On the Church to be built in honor of firefighters occasion of this resolution being passed, a liturgy was served in the LTA chapel. KYIV – Patriarch Filaret of the After the liturgy, the Rev. Borys Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Gudziak, Ph.D., rector of the LTA, said: Patriarchate consecrated the site for a “From the very beginning, when in 1994 church in the Obolon district of Kyiv on the LTA was renewed, our whole com- March 22. The Church of the Burning Bush The Liasion and information committee of is going to be the first church erected in munity was united by the common goal CARPATHO-UKRAINIANS in DIASPORA, (KoZI), with deep of accrediting theology in Ukraine. Now honor of firefighters who have died while our Church, other denominations and doing their duty. Oleksander Omelchenko, regret announces the untimely death in Tucson, AZ, of our even representatives of non-Christian mayor of Kyiv, and the administration of religions are going to benefit from this the Kyiv Fire Prevention Office also partic- countryman and active member of the Committee, in charge ipated in the ceremony. (Religious resolution. This great deed is just a of assistance to the Plast organization in Transcarpathia, small step. The fact that theology is now Information Service of Ukraine) recognized as an academic discipline is probably not the most important, Kuchma cites threat to economic security though. More important for us as Christians is the experience of remain- KYIV – Addressing a government con- William Lelyk ing steadfast in our faith, which proves ference on the protection of the domestic that in this country, too, one can achieve market on February 14, President Leonid Kuchma said smuggling is threatening the his goal without bribes and craftiness, born November, 12, 1922, even if at the beginning its achievement country’s economic security, UNIAN seems quite unrealistic.” According to reported. According to Mr. Kuchma, in Velyki Luchky, Carpatho-Ukraine. information provided by the Committee Ukraine’s budget last year lost more than 2 on Religious Affairs, at the beginning of billion hrv ($376 million) in unpaid cus- 2002 there were 147 educational theo- toms dues. Without specifying a time logical institutions with a total of 11,554 frame, President Kuchma said illegal transit Eternal memory to our friend, Vasyl! full-time students and about 7,000 cor- of alcohol across Ukraine has increased respondence students in Ukraine. threefold. He also said Ukraine has become (Religious Information Service of “a major link on the Balkan drug-traffick- Deep sympathy to his wife, Laura, daughters, Cheryl Ukraine) ing route to Europe.” The president added that Ukraine has seen a 300 percent and Tamara, and family in Ukraine. Filaret sees plot against UOC-KP increase in drug-related crimes in the past 10 years. (RFE/RL Newsline) KYIV – The Procurator General’s Office has said the registration of the Kyivan Orthodox plan religious college Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv In Memoriam Patriarchate in 1992 was illegitimate, KYIV – Bishop Paisii of the Ukrainian Ukrainian media reported on March 13. Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate Nicholas Karpa The decision followed a motion of 65 law- (UOC-KP), head of the Odesa and Baltia makers who accused the UOC-KP led by Eparchy, held a press conference in the Born 1863, Holohory, Ukraine Patriarch Filaret of illicitly appropriating building of the Golden Coast movie the- property from the canonical Ukrainian ater in Odesa, which is to be transferred In Memoriam Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate. to the Odesa Religious College of the UOC-KP. Hennadii Nahaichuk, cornet- Meanwhile, the State Committee on Martha Karpa Religious Affairs confirmed the same day general of the Black Sea Kozaks, also that the registration was legitimate. New participated in the press conference, as his Born 1864, Halushchyntsi, Ukraine Channel Television suggested that the organization is a major sponsor of the col- Procurator General’s Office’s move is lege. According to Bishop Paisii, part of Both Grandparents political revenge on Patriarch Filaret, who the movie theater will be rebuilt into a has repeatedly voiced his support for church for the religious college, while the Viktor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine bloc. premises on the second floor are planned In Memoriam Patriarch Filaret openly blamed the to be used as classrooms. Organizers said Communist Party for his troubles. “[The they plan to open the college in John Karpa Communist deputies] came forward with September of this year. (Religious April 3, 1890 - July 2, 1970 their protest aimed to abolish the Kyiv Information Service of Ukraine) Patriarchate or, if not abolish, then deliver Ukraine a blow that would knock the Kyiv Armenians mark genocide anniversary In 1935 John Karpa was President of U.N.A. Branch #221, St. Patriarchate out of existence and thereby Stephen Society, in Chicago, Il. help the Communist Party to win over LVIV – The Armenian community in voters who side with the Moscow Lviv, headed by Father Thaddeus Heorhian, Patriarchate,” he told New Channel pastor of Assumption Cathedral, on April 24 In Memoriam Television. (RFE/RL Newsline) conducted a number of activities to com- memorate the Armenian genocide that Elizabeth Karpa Kuchma pledges to reform grain market occurred in a Turkish massacre 87 years ago. According to the organizers of the Nov. 16, 1896 - Jan. 13, 1973 KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma commemoration, the Ottoman Empire at the promised on March 11 that the state will beginning of the 20th century caused the form a “civilized” grain market in mass slaughter of over 2 million Armenians. In Memoriam Ukraine by this summer, Inter The commemoration opened with a memo- Television reported. Ukrainian grain rial service in the Armenian church, after Steve Karpa producers complain that the intermedi- which Father Heorhian analyzed the tragic aries who sell grain domestically and events. Documentary photographs depicting Sept. 2, 1922 - Aug. 19, 1957 internationally were buying grain from the horror of the tragedy were on exhibit on Chicago Ukrainian farmers at artificially lowered the church walls. The memorial ceremony prices last autumn. “This situation was continued with a procession of the Brother created deliberately. Deliberately! Why Armenian community to the monument to have we earned almost nothing from the Taras Shevchenko in the city center, where With all my love and your guiding light, forever, exports that equaled 7 million tons?” some speeches on the genocide were deliv- Bill Karpa Mr. Kuchma asked, promising that the ered. The demonstrators carried Ukrainian government will monitor the grain mar- and Armenian national flags and a banner ket through the Khlib Ukrainy (Bread of saying “The Armenian genocide of 1915 in Ukraine) state company to keep prices the Ottoman Empire must be recognized by DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS the civilized world. The executioners of 2 at the international level. The govern- to be published in The Ukrainian Weekly – in the Ukrainian ment also plans to introduce high duties million victims must be condemned.” A or English language – are accepted by mail, courier, fax, phone or e-mail. on imports of food products in cases wreath with the inscription “A rostrum of where similar products are made in freedom: to Taras Shevchenko on the day of Information should be addressed to the attention of the Advertising Department Ukraine. Last year, Ukrainian farms har- memory of the Armenian genocide” was and sent to: The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. 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100,000 pay last respects... (Continued from page 1) who made the worldwide reputation of Kyiv Dynamo and was the pillar of mod- ern Ukrainian soccer. While teenagers scooted up fences and through shrubbery at the edge of the stadium facility to cut short the line and the wait, the more eld- erly patiently queued to view the body, many with flowers in hand. With law enforcement officials keeping tight rein over the crowd, the line inched forward through the entry gates and into the stadium where Mr. Lobanovsky spent six years as a player in a 10-year career that ended in 1968, followed by a total of 22 years as head coach in a second career that spanned 33 years. “He was an honest man, a decent man born of peasants whose life was soccer,” explained Viktor Cheremshyna, 56, a fan who was near the very front of the wait- ing mass of humanity when the gates opened at 10 a.m. Mr. Cheremshyna, who said he had followed Mr. Lobanovsky’s career from the time he began with the Dynamo squad in 1959, explained that the player was as great as the coach. “People have forgotten that he led the AP/Efrem Lukatsky resurgence of Dynamo Kyiv soccer. Do Dynamo Kyiv soccer player Georgy Peev (left) wipes away tears as he goes past the honor guard at the coffin of Valerii Lobanovsky. they remember his famous corner kicks?” queried the soccer fan. matic and unexpected descent before lan- the stadium, which was encircled with a years after it had been threatened with Mr. Cheremshyna was referring to a guidly dropping through the goalmouth wide strip of black bunting. As Mozart expulsion to the second division – and a technique, dubbed the “dry leaf,” which after falling behind the shoulders of the played over the loudspeakers, the body 1964 Soviet Cup. In all, Mr. Lobanovsky Lobanovsky-the-player is believed to goalie and defenders. Many fans com- was placed under a tent-like canopy at the played 258 games in Soviet champi- have perfected. The deft-footed forward pared it to a dry autumn leaf wispily flut- far end of the playing field. An official onships, was a member of the all-USSR would fool opponents by lifting a curling tering to the ground, hence the name. government delegation led by Vice Prime squad and played on two Olympic teams. but seemingly innocuous corner kick, At 9:45 a.m. with thousands already Minister Volodymyr Semynozhenko and In his last two seasons he played with which would then increasingly turn outside, a Cadillac hearse drove the eact- National Deputy Hryhorii Surkis, who is Odesa Chornomorets and then Donetsk toward the goal and begin a rather dra- ly remains of the late soccer legend into president of Dynamo Kyiv and also the Shakhtar clubs before changing hats and Ukrainian Soccer Federation, began the becoming coach of Dnipropetrovsk public viewing. After the VIPs paid their Dnipro in 1969-1973. respects to the coach’s widow, daughter The Ukrainian Weekly announces a special section and relatives, members of both the Dynamo soccer team and the Ukrainian National team followed. Then came the Congratulations,Congratulations, thousands of fans who for years had thrilled to the achievements of Coach Lobanovsky’s great teams. Graduates!Graduates! Forty minutes into the viewing, the Every year tens of thousands of students throughout North lines were halted as a large group of America receive undergraduate and graduate degrees at col- national deputies numbering more than a leges and universities, cresting a pinnacle of personal achieve- hundred entered the stadium, led by ment. And then there are those who graduate high school or National Deputies Valerii Pustovoitenko, a complete the “matura” in our schools of Ukrainian studies. former head of the Ukrainian Soccer Federation, Leonid Kravchuk, the coun- try’s first president, and Viktor The Ukrainian Weekly’s special section – Medvedchuk, Mr. Surkis’ business partner. Congratulations, Graduates! – offers readers of The Shortly after that, President Leonid Ukrainian Weekly the opportunity to place a note congratulat- Kuchma, Prime Minister Anatolii Kinakh ing family members and dear friends on their recent achieve- and a bevy of ministers and government ments. This annual section will be published on July 7, 2002. officials paid their respects. President Kuchma told reporters that Mr. To place an ad congratulating a recent graduate, Lobanovsky meant much more to Valerii Lobanovsky please send us the following by June 25: Ukraine than simply soccer. “He was one of those that built an In 1974 he returned to Kyiv as head • your note of congratulations, in Ukrainian or English, independent Ukraine,” explained the coach of the Dynamo squad and quickly which should be no more than 50 words, including names; president. “He made us proud to be made his mark, winning eight straight • in English, the full name of the graduate, the degree completed Ukrainian.” Soviet Union league championships and or diploma received, along with the date it was presented, a list With thousands of people lining the six Soviet Cups, as well as two UEFA streets of Kyiv, the hearse bearing the Champions League Cups and a European of awards and honors given the graduate, and the name and casket of the late legend was moved Super Championship. While at the helm location of the school; from the stadium to Baikove Cemetery of the Soviet national squad he took a • a photo of the graduate (optional); on the afternoon of May 16, where Mr. bronze medal at the 1976 Olympics in • payment for the ad; Lobanovsky was given a state burial. Montreal. • your daytime phone number. Among the many people who lingered In 1990, after winning both the USSR in the stadium were politicians, athletes, championship and the Soviet Cup a final The ad sizes for the greeting are a 1/8 page horizontal for friends and acquaintances. They included time, Mr. Lobanovsky left Dynamo to $100 or a 1/4 page for $180. Mykola Chaika, Mr. Lobanovsky’s high coach in the United Arab Emirates, but school teacher who carried a 10th grade returned in 1996. Within a year he once Please make checks payable to The Ukrainian Weekly class photograph of his former pupil. again had taken Kyiv Dynamo to the and mail along with above information to: “Sports was his life,” explained Mr. UEFA Champions League quarterfinals. The Ukrainian Weekly – Congratulations Graduates! Chaika. “His mother wanted him to be A year later his team was back, this time 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280 an engineer, so he listened and enrolled to reach the semifinals, where it lost to in an engineering polytechnic institute, eventual champion Bayern Munich. Parsippany, NJ 07054 but that career lasted only a few days.” On the day of his death, President Mr. Lobanovsky, who was born in 1939, Kuchma posthumously awarded Mr. For further information, please call finally did get a university degree, but not Lobanovsky the Hero Of Ukraine medal. (973) 292-9800 ext. 3040 (Maria) until 1965 when his playing days were The same day the Kyiv Dynamo board of drawing to a close. By then he had been directors voted to change the name of part of a Kyiv Dynamo team that had won Dynamo Stadium to Dynamo-Lobanovsky the 1961 USSR championship – only three Stadium. No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 17

structural erosion of the family and by drawbacks in child- and parent-oriented Ukraine underlines... educational activities.” YURI INTERNATIONAL (Continued from page 1) 13 Royal Palm Dr., Cheektowaga, NY 14225 Over the past 16 years the Chornobyl Over the past five years, Ms. Dovzhenko accident has affected some 1.2 million chil- said, a series of urgent measures was taken TRADE, TRAVEL, PARCEL dren, or every 10th child in Ukraine, Ms. in Ukraine to prevent child homelessness Dovzhenko said. Sixty percent of thyroid and lack of care. The major thrust in this Tel.: (716) 685-1505 Fax: (716) 685-0987 cancer cases among children were diag- work was on getting children away from the nosed on the territories affected by the acci- streets and preventing them from becoming PARCELS, AIRLINE TICKETS, VISAS, MONEY TRANSFER, street children. 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Nonetheless, Ukrainian Calls to Ukraine 16¢ per minute • Calls to Russia 16¢ per minute U.N.-sponsored UNAIDS organization that law so far has no legal definitions for a is working on the AIDS epidemic in ‘homeless child’ and a ‘child devoid of For further information call: Ukraine, along with an additional 7,500 care,’ ” said the report. (716) 685-1505 The special session document, which children age 15 and younger – a number E-mail: [email protected] that many experts agree is increasing at an had been negotiated intensively over the alarming rate due to illegal drug use, sexual course of the meeting, was adopted on the activity among children as young as 10 evening of May 10 without a vote, signaling years old, as well as insufficient education that delegates had bridged their differences regarding safe sex and drug use. over sensitive language in the text. UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION According to a national progress report The text confronts pressing issues of on the goals established at the 1990 conven- child mortality, AIDS, exploitation and tion, published by the State Statistics poverty. Building on promises made at ANNUITY RATES Committee of Ukraine along with the international conferences during the 1990s, United Nations, Ukraine is also experienc- the document’s goals aim to pull hundreds EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2002 ing a clear-cut increase in the number of of millions out of poverty within a genera- orphans and children deprived of parental tion, while including new targets in the Single & Flexible Premium Annuities care. areas of HIV/AIDS and child protection, First year rate (new money) Asked to elaborate on the problem dur- reflecting the changing nature of the chal- (rate locked in for one year) 6.00% ing a press conference at Ukraine’s lenges facing the world’s children. However, delegates from the United Permanent Mission to the U.N. in New Single & Flexible Premium Annuities States and a host of other countries under- York City on May 7, Ms. Dovzhenko said (EXISTING) scored that none of what was agreed to in that parents and guardians of Ukrainian $100,000.00 and over children are “not actively engaged in their the conference is binding on individual 5.50% children’s upbringing,” but that cooperation countries. between various international aid organiza- In her concluding remarks to the special $50,000.00 - $99,999.99 tions is beginning to show signs of increas- session, Ms. Dovzhenko expressed the con- (EXISTING) 5.25% ing children’s health and welfare. viction of the Ukrainian government that According to data provided by the “consolidating the efforts of the world com- $100.00 - $49,999.99 Ministry of Education and Science of munity on securing favorable conditions for (EXISTING) Ukraine, in 1999 orphans numbered children’s development in the world would 5.00% 103,400 – almost twice as many as at the be the best guarantee of achieving ... appro- decade’s onset. The situation is further priate conditions for rendering immediate Flexible 10 Annuity aggravated by an increasing tendency humanitarian assistance to the civil popula- (YEAR 2) 5.25% towards what Ms. Dovzhenko called “a tion – in the first turn, children.” Stop playing with your retirement. The stock market may go up and down but your retirement should be secure from such fluctuation. UNA sitoriness of seasons, colors, emotions, Annuity offers safety and guarantees constant growth. For information on Lialia Kuchma... light; in the fecundity of myth and imagina- UNA Annuities call toll free 1 800 253 9862 ext. 3013 (Continued from page 13) tion, of conflict and of harmony and in the email: [email protected] inspire me is unyielding. Interest and influ- representations of friends, family, self. The ences are in the commonplace; the lines and work is accomplished if it speaks not only markings in the branches of trees, in calli- back to me, but to others, when somewhere graphic shapes, tar in the streets; in the tran- in its own life it begins a dialogue.

Irene Antonovych (left) and Lialia Kuchma (right), project director and portrait èÓÍÓÎ¥ÌÌflphotographer, respectively, for the “Generations Project” at the “Generations/ ” exhibit held at the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago in October 9, 1999, through January 2, 2000. An exhibition catalogue – comprising of over 140 black-and-white portrait photographs and the oral histories of the older generation of Ukrainians in Chicago – came out in 1999 as a publication of Ekran magazine. The project, dedicated to Adam Antonovych, an educator and community leader, publisher and editor of the illustrated magazine Ekran, was sponsored by the Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago and the Ivan Franko Ukrainian Literary Fund. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 No. 20 Ukrainian pro hockey update

bbyy II hhoorr SStteell mmaacchh Daneyko not ready to retire sat out only one other game the entire rest of this past regular season. (Daneyko One certainly gets the feeling Kenny suited up in 67 of 82 games.) Daneyko is not ready or willing to have “Do I agree with the way things have his No. 3 retired to the Continental been handled? Absolutely not,” Daneyko Airlines Arena rafters just yet, or anytime said. “When the team struggles, it puts soon. pressure on the coaches and they start Reduced to a part-time role on a team changing things. I just seemed to take a that struggled mightily during the first lot of the brunt this year. That’s fine. I’m couple of months of this past season, the man enough to handle it.” New Jersey Devils defenseman disputed Kenny Daneyko will be lacing up his claims his performance has slipped. skates one more time come September “I’m no different than I was last June training camp. Where? Why, New Jersey. when I was one of the guys in the Stanley Where else? Cup playoffs. In five or six months you Berehowsky’s year full don’t lose your position as a go-to guy,” said the 37-year-old after sitting out three of ups and downs of four games as a healthy scratch. “For my role and what I do, it’s going to take a Patience, they say, is a virtue. Pardon lot longer (for his game to significantly Drake Berehowsky, though, if he’s virtu- deteriorate). It’s too short of a time. I ally run out of patience. believe I have two more years left in me First he became a routine healthy after this one. In fact, I know it. I’m not scratch while in Vancouver, this despite injured and I’m not banged up.” signing a new, three-year deal before the Daneyko has one more season remain- start of this past regular season. ing on his contract, but there was Naturally, he welcomed his December increased speculation that he might not 28, 2001 trade to Phoenix with open end his career with the Devils, the team arms. Then he proceeded to sit on his for which he has played his entire NHL hands some more, scratched again with career. his new team in 10 of his first 23 games “There is nothing to read into this, with the Coyotes. other than the six defensemen we have “It’s tough to accept, but it makes you played well,” said GM Lou Lamoriello. realize you have to work hard and you “No question, when push comes to have to respond,” Berehowsky said. “The shove, Kenny will be a very valuable only thing I can control is how hard I person.” work. That’s the only thing in my power It certainly didn’t appear that way to and that’s the only thing I’m focusing on.” Daneyko, especially the first several The gritty Ukrainian defenseman final- months of 2001-2002 when he missed 14 ly caught a break after fellow blueliner games. Of further interest is the fact he (Continued on page 19) No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 19

Leafs because of his versatility. Belak has Pro hockey... played both wing and defense this season, (Continued from page 18) flipping back and forth between the two, depending on Toronto’s injury situation. Paul Mara injured his left foot. With Mara He’s comfortable enough that he can prac- sidelined, Berehowsky slid back into the tice all week at one position and then line-up and, paired with Danny Markov, became part of the most effective defen- switch if coach Pat Quinn has to make a sive rotation during the Coyotes’ 6-0-0-1 last-minute adjustment. ... The Sabres tried mark following the Olympic break. using defenseman Alexei Zhitnik as much “He has done everything that’s been as possible – and he seemed to get better asked of him, and he’s handled it like a real the more he played. Zhitnik averaged near- pro,” said Coyotes coach Bobby Francis. ly 26 minutes a game and led the team’s Berehowsky ended the 2001-2002 blueline corps with 33 assists, good hockey season riding high hoping to enough for third best on the team. He maintain the up direction in this roller played against the top scoring lines and coaster of a year. handled the puck better than any other Milestones for Bondra Sabres defender. ... Washington’s Andrei Nikolishin played in his 500th NHL game on March 4. ... The first of Oleg When Peter Bondra is hot, the best thing to do is just get out of the way. Tverdovsky’s three assists in a 6-1 victory Simply let the Lutsk, Ukraine, native January 25 at Dallas made him the NHL’s winger shoot away. Most of the time youngest active defenseman with 200. ... there is very little that can stop him. After missing 54 games following shoul- In the space of less than a week, der surgery, left-winger and co-captain Bondra recorded his 397th and 398th Steve Konowalchuk made it back right goals – surpassing Hall of Famer Mike after the Olympic break, as promised. ... Gartner as the all-time leading Capitals (Thanks to beat writers Rich Chere, goal-scorer – and then added goals No. Bob McManaman, Dave Fay and David 400 and 401. J. Neal for quotes.) “I don’t know how you can measure it, Final transactions/injuries but a guy like Peter can’t get much better for a franchise,” said General Manager George McPhee. “He has grown up here, ANAHEIM – Vitaly Vishnevski, D, he continues to score goals, he brings sprained left ankle, day-to-day; speed to the line-up and he’s a very well- Vishnevski suspended by NHL two liked guy.” games for elbowing Penguin Michal One of Bondra’s goals was his 10th Roszival; Oleg Tverdovsky, D, strained power-play strike of the season. After groin, day-to-day; Gregg Naumenko, GT, going scoreless for some six games, the recalled from Cincinnati (AHL). left-winger put up seven goals in six ATLANTA – Darcy Hordichuk, LW, games, leaving his reputation as a streaky assigned to Chicago (AHL); Hordichuk player quite intact. traded to Phoenix Coyotes. Bondra was presented with a silver CAROLINA – Steve Halko, D, and stick by majority-owner Ted Leonsis fourth-round draft pick in 2002 traded to before a game last December in recogni- St. Louis for Sean Hill, D; Randy Petruk, tion of his efforts. GT, recalled from Florida (ECL); Petruk Joey T.among Panthers later returned; Ryan Bayda, LW, signed with lots of fight three-year contract and assigned to Lowell (AHL). COLORADO – Jordan Krestanovich, When one says “the opening drop” LW, recalled from Hershey (AHL). about Florida Panthers games, one must DALLAS – Brad Lukowich, D, broken distinctly clarify: is it the opening drop of left ring finger, indefinite; mid-January; the puck or dropping of the gloves? Lukowich concussion, day-to-day. The first 26 games under the team’s FLORIDA – Denis Shvidki, RW, new coach, Mike Keenan, saw the assigned to Utah (AHL); Joey Tetarenko, Panthers average 1.88 fights per game (49 D, back pain, indefinite. in 26) after averaging only 1.03 (27 in 26) NEW JERSEY – Ken Daneyko, D, under fired coach Duane Sutter. Even if bruised right shoulder, indefinite. one subtracts a 13-fight weekend against OTTAWA – Curtis Leschyshyn, D, flu, Dallas and Atlanta as a statistical anomaly, day-to-day. the Keenan-coached Panthers average 1.50 PHILADELPHIA – Ruslan ROCHESTER fights per game. There are two schools of Fedotenko, RW, bruised right knee, thought on the pugilistic upswing by a indefinite; Todd Fedoruk, LW, assigned KRAINIAN EDERAL REDIT NION team which was already the NHL’s most to Philadelphia (AHL) and later recalled. U F C U penalized. PHOENIX – Drake Berehowsky, D, MAIN OFFICE “When you play a more in-your-face acquired in five-player trade with style of game, it’s bound to happen,” said Vancouver Canucks; Darcy Hordichuk, 824 Ridge Road East, Rochester NY 14621 left-winger Peter Worrell. LW, assigned to Springfield (AHL) and “Guys are getting frustrated and they Tel. (585) 544-9518 Toll free (877) 968-7828 later recalled. want to show the new coach they do ST. LOUIS – Steve Halko, D, assigned Fax: (585) 338-2980 care,” said Ukrainian right-winger and to Worcester (AHL); Halko, broken nose active troublemaker/enforcer Joey www.rufcu.org and concussion, indefinite; Halko Tetarenko, who earned a three-fight ejec- recalled and later returned; Keith Audio Response: (585) 544-4019 tion against Atlanta last January 19. (Three fights in one game means auto- Tkachuk, LW, deep thigh bruise and CAPITAL DISTRICT BRANCH matic banishment to the dressing room.) strained groin, indefinite. 1828 Third Ave., Watervliet, NY 12189 Coach Keenan added, “If a player TAMPA BAY – Nikita Alexeev, RW, recalled from Springfield (AHL) and TEL: (518) 266-0791 FAX: (585) 338-2980 fights to retaliate or to get noticed after www.rufcu.org the fact, that tells me a player wasn’t later returned; Alexeev later recalled ready to play that night.” again; Dieter Kochan, GT, recalled from AUDIO RESPONSE: (585) 544-4019 Springfield (AHL). UKRAINIAN UTTERINGS: Flyers’ TORONTO – Alexei Ponikarovsky, CREDIT UNION SERVICES: center Jeremy Roenick apologized to LW, recalled from St. John’s (AHL), CREDIT CARDS • VEHICLE LOANS • MORTGAGES • SIGNATURE LOANS Alexei Zhitnik after he gave the Buffalo returned and again recalled; Wade Belak, BUSINESS & COMMERCIAL LOANS • SHARE DRAFTS & CHECKING D, stomach virus, day-to-day. defenseman an unexpected check into the S S NVESTMENTS OUTH CCOUNTS boards early in the NHL All-Star Game at WASHINGTON – Glen Metropolit, CD’ & IRA’ • I • Y A Los Angeles on February 2. Skating a little C/RWrecalled from Portland(AHL); CONVENIENCE SERVICES: less than nine minutes per game may not Steve Konowalchuk, LW, shoulder sur- HOME BANKING • AUDIO RESPONSE SYSTEM sound like much, but Wade Belak is prov- gery, March 1; Metropolit assigned to DIRECT DEPOSIT • ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSFER ing himself to be invaluable to the Maple Portland and later recalled again. 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Jack Palance to be special guest at Anthracite Museum’s 25th jubilee SCRANTON, Pa. – The Pennsylvania love to go home.” Anthracite Heritage Museum on May 31- “I am happy to help celebrate the June 1 will celebrate 25 years of serving museum’s 25th anniversary. I have previ- the public. It will kick off a yearlong ously visited the museum, and appreciate 25th anniversary series of special events the work it does in preserving the coal with a 25th anniversary gala dinner- region heritage,” he added. Mr. Palance dance and a public recognition with actor will be making remarks and taking ques- Jack Palance as a special guest. tions from the audience during his part of On Friday, May 31, the museum will the gala program. celebrate with a dinner-dance at the The Anthracite Heritage Museum will Lackawanna Heritage Valley Center in host a public 25th anniversary celebra- Mayfield. The special guest that evening tion on Saturday, June 1. It will begin at will be Mr. Palance, and previous direc- 1 p.m. with a concert by the Donegal tors of the museum have been invited to Weavers and continue at 2 p.m. with participate in a special program. recognition of the museum’s 25 years of Mr. Palance began his film career in service, featuring the participation of Mr. 1950. He has made over 40 films, and in Palance. 1991 won the Best Supporting Actor As a birthday present to the communi- Oscar Award for his role as Curly, in ty, the museum will waive its admission “City Slickers.” Mr. Palance was born fee for the June 1 celebration. Vladimer Palaniuk on February 18, 1919, The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage in Lattimer Mines, Pa. He once comment- Museum is located in McDade Park, off ed that growing up in the coal fields was Keyser Avenue, in Scranton (Exits I-82 about “three meals a day, picking berries, or 191 B off I-81, and Exit 122 off I- wheeling coal – and that’s about it.” 476.) The museum is open year-round, Mr. Palance owns a 500-hectare cattle Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 ranch north of Hollywood in the p.m., and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Tehachapi Mountains, but maintains a Admission is charged. Call the Anthracite home outside of Hazleton in Drums. “I’m Heritage Museum at (570) 963-4804 for still a Pennsylvanian,” said Mr. Palance. more information. “I spend four months a year traveling The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage around the country but I spend most of Museum is administered by the my time here. I’d never give it up! My Pennsylvania Historical and Museum home has been there for 40 years and I Commission.

nouncements contained in the book “The Shevchenko Society... Kravchuk Doctrine,” generally agreeing (Continued from page 9) with their principles, but expressing rapid growth of the high-tech industry in doubts about some of the details and per- the Silicon Valley, as well as the success sonalities that might be involved in their of the free economic zones in India could implementation. serve as models for Ukraine, he noted. The program was preceded by an With his intimate knowledge of exposition of photographs by Tania Kyivan politics, Dr. Rusnachenko D’Avignon titled “Ukraine and offerred a spirited critique of the pro- Politicians.”

woman who in 1956 would become his In Association with Air Ukraine Wasyl Kardash... wife, Larysa Khomenko. She became a (Continued from page 4) lifelong, loving companion with whom Direct Flights ated by the Americans, literally pulled he had two children, Virlana and Adrian. from JFK Airport from a bundle of bodies, some dead, Like most DPs, Mr. Kardash worked at on a comfortable many jobs, from being a bus-boy in some dying, on Ukrainian Easter Sunday, Boeing 767-300 aircraft Vancouver to an aircraft mechanic, doing May 6, 1945. Some might regard his per- whatever was needed for his family. sonal resurrection on the most joyful day on Fridays and Sundays Concurrently, he also began setting up of the Christian calendar as a coinci- choirs and marching bands for the Starting June 11, 2002, on dence. But for this deeply religious man Ukrainian Youth Association (SYM), Tuesday (3 flights) it was near-miraculous proof that he had making music until his 78th year. He also New York, Kyiv, Tashkent been spared for a purpose; to make music earned a master’s degree in Slavic studies. that would bring his students and those Departure at 6:00 PM Among Ukrainians, those who have New York around him a little closer to the eternal. passed away are remembered 40 days Neither his brother nor father ever Chicago Kyivas after burial. And so, on Sunday, May 5, 57 Detroit fully recovered from the Nazi tortures. low years since he was freed from a Nazi hell, Miami as Mr. Kardash cared for them as best he when I sat down with my family to cele- Los Angeles could, to the end of their lives. A politi- brate Ukrainian Easter, we remembered Toronto $499 cal exile, one among millions of Wasyl Kardash’s liberation by singing the Ukrainian displaced persons in post-war traditional Easter hymn, “Khrystos 8 hours and you’re in Kyiv Europe, he found temporary shelter in a Voskres” – Christ is Risen – knowing that refugee camp, in Augsburg, Germany. that neither the maestro’s nation nor his Emigrat-ing to Vancouver in 1948, he music will die, thanks to men of true moved on to Winnipeg, where he met the stature like him. New York - Kyiv - New York as low as $499 ROUND-TRIP Russian retreat from its traditional impe- Russia continues... rial and paternalistic “big brother” atti- FOR INFORMATION (Continued from page 2) tude. Nevertheless, Ms. Tolz concluded Office (212) 489-3954, 489-3956 Freight reservations and shipping that it will take decades to redefine Delimitation of the border is all but set- Fax (212) 489-3962 Tel.: (718) 244-0248; Fax: (718) 244-0251 Ukrainian-Russian relations “on the tled except for the Azov Sea, which Reservations (212) 245-1005 Tel.: (718) 376-1023; Fax: (718) 376-1073 Russia wants to maintain as a common basis of Russia’s full acceptance of an lake. independent Ukraine as an equal partner 1-800-995-9912 In an article published last month in in the international arena.” This would the journal Nations and Nationalism, be similar to the protracted process of MONDAY - FRIDAY FROM 9 AM TO 6 PM Vera Tolz outlined advances made in Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation, which Russian post-Soviet historiography on began after World War II but eventually Ukraine that she suggested reflect a bore fruit only in the 1980s. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 No. 20 No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 23

drug use, HIV/AIDS, which was almost Sociological study... non-existent here until the early 1990s, has (Continued from page 3) exploded in Ukraine, with some interna- tional agencies predicting a future epidem- LOOKING FOR A SUMMER JOB to be those whose education allowed them ic. to hold only menial jobs in the regular work According to the International YOU’LL NEVER FORGET? force. Overall, 57 percent of the sex work- HIV/AIDS Alliance, to date there have ers had at least a high school diploma. been 45,714 officially registered cases of Also, while prostitutes working in small- HIV in Ukraine and 3,200 cases of AIDS, er towns and cities more often than not were Look no further than SOYUZIVKA! with 1,650 deaths. But the international SOYUZIVKA (a.k.a. Suzie-Q) is the Ukrainian National Association’s Resort born there, in larger cities they identified non-governmental agency, like others themselves either as transients or transplant- nested in the breathtaking Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. With weekly working in the field, believes that the true ed residents. zabavas, miles of hiking trails, an olympic-size pool, 7 tennis courts, a beach vol- incidence of HIV/AIDS is much more What remains most striking in the report leyball court, the Q-Café and Ukrainian cuisine in the dining room, you can’t ask widespread with the actual numbers at are the reasons the women and girls gave for much more. As a SOYUZIVKA worker, you can enjoy all the great amenities above 400,000 infections. Most susceptible for staying in the profession. The most, 73 of this summer resort while getting $$paid$$ and making lifelong friends! are intravenous drug users and prostitutes. percent of the females, responded that they Even so, up to 66 percent of the prosti- agree with the quote, “I do not want to SOYUZIVKA is looking for a few good kozaks (men and women) to become part tutes surveyed in the UISR study said they work for pennies in simply any type of of a unique team this 2002 summer season: practiced unsafe sex at one time or another, job.” Meanwhile, 61 percent said they would make their money and eventually with most explaining that it was at the • Emergency technician or nurse – summer only leave the business. Another 49 percent request of the clients, who often compen- • Lifeguards explained that the sex business is no worse sated them financially for not requiring the • Office personnel and no better than any other job. There use of condoms. While a 1998 report iden- • Camp counselors were also those who said they would leave tified that 2.5 percent of Odesa prostitutes • Entertainer / master or mistress of ceremonies the business if they could find a job – about were HIV positive, a year later, a similar • Q-Café manager 27 percent, including many who identified study in Donetsk put the number in that • Dining room / Q-Café personnel themselves as working mothers. city at 13 percent, which shows to some • Housekeeping personnel • General workers (grounds maintenance, setups, etc.) Finally, there were “the happy hookers,” extent how quickly the virus is spreading in the 20 percent who supported the response: Ukraine, according to Maryna Varban of We are located only 90 miles from New York City and minutes from the “I enjoy working in the sex business” and the UISR. Ukrainian Youth Camp SUM, Woodstock, Poughkeepsie, Albany, Woodbury the 19 percent who said it was “Habit – Another problem for prostitutes is vio- Commons, Minnewaska State Park, Lake Mohonk and the hip town of New second nature. I cannot imagine another lence, which many of them, ironically, per- Paltz. So there’s always something to do! way of life.” ceive as a routine matter, with the study stating that a good portion of them do not The survey showed that Ukraine’s gen- Details: eral public little understands the reasons fully realize that some actions against them why women and girls become prostitutes were considered violent. • Please submit your application by May 1, 2002. and the difficulties they face, with three Vena Lakhumalani, a consultant for a • Non-U.S. citizens must have a Green Card or Employment Authorization. out of four respondents stating that prosti- British Council program on controlling • Preference will be given to those who are able to come early in June and stay tution can never be justified. However, the sex business in Ukraine, said that vio- through Labor Day. about 40 percent said that, nonetheless, it lence is the biggest threat sex workers • You must be prepared to have a great summer and meet lots of people! would be better for society to legalize face, especially at the hands of law prostitution in order to better control the enforcement officers. business. Somewhat incongruously, 81 “The police think women make so much A little piece of Ukraine in upstate New York! percent of the respondents were also ready money that they can exploit them as much as they like,” explained Ms. Lakhumalani, SOYUZIVKA • Ukrainian National Association Resort to accept more severe punishments for P.O. Box 529 • Kerhonkson, NY 12446 prostitutes. who said rapes of prostitutes by members phone 845-626-5641 • fax 845-626-4638 Until the last decade prostitution was not of the state militia are not uncommon. e-mail: [email protected] • website: www. soyuzivka.com a growth business in Ukraine, and few peo- She said the notion that prostitutes make ple here knew that the profession existed in big money must be dispelled as well the Soviet Union. The women and men because, after a prostitute has paid the involved quietly catered to the privileged pimps, the police and the bars or hotels SPUTNIK GLOBAL TELECOM class and to tourists, even while Soviet offi- where she works, and then for the hospital cials proudly told the world that their costs to treat the various sex-related ail- utopia-in-the-making did not suffer from ments from which she suffers, little remains A UKRAINIAN-AMERICAN OWNED INDEPENDENT AGENCY vice crimes. for her. CONTINUES With the fall of the Soviet Union and the “In the end they are left with only about DIAL ALL DAY FOR THE UNA! disintegration of totalitarianism, many 20 percent,” explained Ms. Lakhumalani. established prostitutes began to conduct She said she was disappointed in Support The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund with your long distance phone calls. their business more openly, while the eco- Ukraine’s new criminal code, which Every time you make a call using our service, Sputnik makes a donation to the press fund. nomic malaise that followed independence placed the blame for prostitution only on Discounted domestic and international calling plans for residential and business clients. forced many other women into the profes- the person offering the service and does not No monthly fees, no minimums, no contracts. sion. Today unofficial numbers state that reflect contemporary thinking on the mat- For more information call toll-free there are some 250,000 prostitutes in ter. “For every sex worker there are at least 1-888-900-UKIE (847) 298-5900 Ukraine, who work in small towns and even 10 clients,” explained the British Council OR villages as well as in the large metropolises. representative. “It is a matter of supply and Sputnik speaks Ukrainian With the increase in prostitution and demand.”

American Councils... (Continued from page 8) Ukraine. The Kyiv office of American Councils opened in January 1992, with the organi- zation offering many of the exchange programs it continues to administer today. Then, however, it also had respon- sibility for the highly respected Fulbright Scholarship Program, as well as the Regional Scholar Exchange Program and the Junior Faculty Development Program, all of which are now separately administered. Today American Councils has a very strong alumni program with many former exchange students continuing to remain active with the organization in various Upstate NY: 6325 Rte 209 Kerhonkson, NY 12446 Tel.: 914 626-2938, Fax: 914 626-8636 roles, acting as volunteer judges and coor- Long Island: 226 Uniondale Avenue Uniondale, NY 11553 Tel.: 516 565-2393, Fax: 516 565-2097 dinators. Ms. Pendzola-Vitovych estimat- Queens: 32-01 31st Avenue Astoria, NY 11106 Tel.: 718 626-0506, Fax: 718 626-0458 ed that more than 60 percent of the alumni remain active, while around 20 percent remain “super active” in that they are often in touch with the organization and always willing to lend their support. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002 No. 20

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