INSIDE:• Election bloc profile: The Socialist Party of Ukraine — page 3. • Hearing focuses on Famine memorial in D.C. — page 4. • Hollywood film industry honors three Ukrainians — page 14.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIV HE KRAINIANNo. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine Even in post-Orange Revolution Ukraine, Jackson-VanikT GraduationU Coalition W election environment has lingering problems activists meet to define strategy by Natalka Gawdiak Wexler (D- Fla.), and Tim Holden (D- by Zenon Zawada Pa.). Kyiv Press Bureau WASHINGTON – Jackson-Vanik Among those representing the Graduation Coalition representatives met Jackson-Vanik Graduation Coalition KYIV – To protest a Natalia Vitrenko on February 28 on Capitol Hill with were Ambassador William Green Miller, rally in Dnipropetrovsk on January 19, members of the Congressional Ukrainian 18-year-old Liudmyla Krutko brought co-chair of the coalition; Nadia Caucus to work out a definitive strategy with her a blue-and-yellow flag and McConnell, president of the U.S.- to achieve the goal of their campaign to stood across the street. Ukraine Foundation; Mark Levin, execu- graduate Ukraine from the restrictions of Just the sight of the Ukrainian flag tive director of NCSJ; Ihor Gawdiak of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. was enough to offend the chair of the the Ukrainian American Coordinating The three co-chairs of the Vitrenko Bloc’s oblast headquarters, Council; Michael Bleyzer and Morgan Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, Reps. Serhii Kalinychenko. Williams of SigmaBleyzer; and Dr. Zenia Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), Marcy Kaptur (R- Along with two other men, he alleged- Ohio), and Sander Levin (D-Mich.) were Chernyk and Vera Andryczyk of the ly grabbed Ms. Krutko, threatened her joined by Reps. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R- Ukrainian Federation of America. with a gun, and dragged her to a group of Fla.), and Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.) to work Representatives of the Jackson-Vanik about 20 nearby protesters, demanding out how the graduation issue should be Graduation Coalition expressed their that they all get rid of their Ukrainian approached. great frustration at the failure of the flags. Rep. Gerlach’s bill, HR 1053, urges House to take action on the bill, in partic- “The one who held Liuda tried to hit the House to remove Ukraine from the ular since the Senate had passed such a me several times,” reported Viktor Orel, restrictions of the 1974 Jackson-Vanik bill in November 2005. a worker at the oblast’s Liberal Party Amendment and grant normal trade rela- Although there were varied opinions press center who took part in the protest. tions treatment to the products of on the tone that should be adopted in “I dodged several times and went off Zenon Zawada Ukraine. Currently, the bill is in the Ways removing the anachronistic restrictions, to the side, thinking that I had avoided and Means Committee, and has 44 co- the members of Congress and JVGC rep- any danger. But then I felt two blows to Ihor Popov, the administrative direc- sponsors. resentatives agreed that the amendment is the nape of my neck, from what felt like tor of the Committee of Voters of All of the congressmen concurred with irrelevant today, and that Ukraine has a metal object. And then a strong blow to Ukraine, said the biggest problem in Rep. Weldon’s statement that “the gradu- met all requirements for its graduation. my nose,” he recalled. this year’s elections is forming district ation of Ukraine from the Jackson-Vanik Mr. Bleyzer, president and CEO of election commissions and getting them Amendment has gone beyond rhetoric. It SigmaBleyzer, and a political emigrant (Continued on page 12) to function properly. is crucial to pass legislation in the House from Soviet-era Kharkiv, noted that he prior to the upcoming March 26 elec- had benefitted from the original Jackson- tions.” Vanik Amendment, but emphatically stat- Eugene Iwanciw, second vice-president Also present at the February 28 meet- ed that it is wholely inappropriate today ing were former Rep. Charles Dougherty and should be lifted. and a number of congressional staffers, of UNA, Washington activist, dies at 53 representing the offices of Reps. Robert (Continued on page 5) PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Eugene president of the UNA. In addition, since Iwanciw, second vice-president of the 2003 he was chairman of the Baltimore Ukrainian National Association and for- District Committee of the UNA. mer director of the UNA Washington He was the director of the UNA Ukraine’s take at Torino Games: Office, has died, it was learned on Washington Office during the entire Saturday, February 25. He was 53. period the office existed, 1988-1995. two bronzes, five top-10 finishes Mr. Iwanciw was a UNA supreme In 1996-2000 he was a member of the PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Ukraine’s ath- the Ukrainian House. The Ukrinform advisor in 1974-1978 and 1982-1998, board of directors of the UNA’s letes returned home from the Winter press service reported that well-known and in 2002 was elected second vice- Ukrainian National Foundation. Olympic Games in Torino, Italy, with athletes, including figure skater Viktor A lifelong member of UNA Branch two bronze medals – one in biathlon and Petrenko and hockey player Viacheslav 234, Mr. Iwanciw was born on May 16, the other in ice dancing. Fetisov, participated in the reception. 1952, in Elizabeth, N.J. After graduating The first medal was won on February The event was also attended by from St. Benedict’s Preparatory School 16 by Lilia Efremova in the women’s International Olympic Committee in Newark, N.J., he moved to 7.5-kilometer sprint of the biathlon; the President Jacques Rogge, who noted that, Washington to attend Georgetown second was earned four days later by ice since figure skater Oksana Baiul’s gold University. He graduated with a bache- dancers Elena Grushina and Ruslan medal in the 1994 Olympic Games, lor’s degree in Russian area studies. He Goncharov, a husband-and-wife duo. Ukraine has been contributing to the also attended summer courses in Otherwise, Team Ukraine’s results development of Olympic sports. Ukrainian studies at Harvard University. included five top-10 finishes – in According to Ukrinform, National In his youth, he was a member of women’s luge, biathlon and cross-coun- Olympic Committee of Ukraine President Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization try skiing, and men’s biathlon – and a Serhiy Bubka congratulated Team and the Mykola Michnowsky Student host of lesser achievements. (See com- Ukraine and offered his opinion that Society (TUSM). plete results on page 13.) Ukraine was Ukraine’s athletes will continue setting Mr. Iwanciw became active in the ranked 20th in terms of the medal count new records. Family, Youth and Sports among the 85 countries participating in Minister Yurii Pavlenko stated that Federation of Ukrainian Student the Torino Olympics. President Viktor Yushchenko supports the Organizations of America (known by During the Games’ closing ceremonies development of sports in Ukraine. its Ukrainian-based acronym as on February 26, short-track speed skater Deputy Mayor Ihor Lisov of Kyiv SUSTA), first as special assignments Volodymyr Grygoriev was given the announced that Mayor Oleksander director (1972), then as vice-president honor of carrying the Ukrainian flag. Omelchenko had stipulated that (1972-1973) and finally as president While in Torino, the National Olympic Ukraine’s medalists at the Games will be Eugene Iwanciw (Continued on page 6) Committee of Ukraine held a reception at awarded apartments in Kyiv. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 No. 10

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS ‘The first nail in the coffin of communism’ Pynzenyk wants gas deal canceled Latvia hosts Lesia Ukrainka exhibit by Paul Goble devoted to demolishing Stalin’s efforts to KYIV – Finance Minister Viktor K YIV – Riga, the capital of Latvia, is RFE/RL Newsline promote himself as an equal of Lenin and Pynzenyk, who is on leave to campaign hosting an exhibition of outstanding as a brilliant wartime leader. Neither is Ukrainian poetess Lesia Ukrainka’s Fifty years ago Soviet leader Nikita for the March 26 parliamentary elections, accurate, Khrushchev said. He provided works at the Elias artistic-historical Khrushchev delivered to a closed session said on February 28 in an online news details about Lenin’s now famous testa- museum. The exhibition is dedicated to of the 20th Congress of the Communist conference that Kyiv should back out of a ment calling for the party to remove Stalin the 135th anniversary of Ukrainka’s Party of the Soviet Union remarks about deal increasing the price of imported gas as party secretary because of his “rude- birth. The exhibition was organized by his predecessor Joseph Stalin and the lat- in 2006 to $95 per 1,000 cubic meters and ness,” about Stalin’s editing of his own the cultural-enlightenment society ter’s “cult of personality” that have restart talks on the issue with Russia, biography and that of others concerning Source together with Ukraine’s Embassy passed into history as “the secret speech.” Reuters reported. “The country must go the revolution, and his failure to prepare in Latvia and a range of Ukrainian public On the basis of his later comments, back to the starting point. We have all the the Soviet Union for the war with Hitler organizations in the country within the Khrushchev appears to have decided to objective conditions to achieve a proper that so many people had warned him of – framework of the joint project “Let’s Be deliver that speech as both a tactical move balance of interests between Ukraine and and then his disastrous involvement in the Acquainted: We Are Ukrainians.” against his opponents within the Soviet lead- Russia,” Mr. Pynzenyk said. “Russia has planning of military actions. Kicking off the exhibition, Ukrainian ership and as a broader effort to enhance the the gas, but doesn’t have the pipelines. And, in yet a third section of his long Ambassador to Latvia Raul Chilachava legitimacy of the Communist system. We have the gas transport system without speech, Khrushchev detailed Stalin’s noted the significant contribution of But whatever his intentions, his remarks which it’s impossible to export gas to increasing suspiciousness and capricious- Ukrainka’s works to Ukrainian and world on February 24-25, 1956, had a far broader Europe. That gives us the opportunity to ness in the post-war years, a period when literature. He also stressed the necessity and deeper set of implications. Indeed, by defend our interests in our talks on gas,” members of the Communist Party and he added. Mr. Pynzenyk’s Reforms and to organize such events to promote what he said in that speech and even more the Soviet people expected that their friendly relations between countries. by what he left unsaid, Khrushchev, in the Order Party is running for the parliamen- remarkable and heroic efforts in that con- tary elections in a bloc with the Pora Within the framework of the exhibition a words of Anatoly Chubais, drove “the first flict would be rewarded. But instead of performance of Ukrainka’s best-known nail into the coffin” of that system. party. According to most surveys, the doing that, Stalin dreamed up conspira- bloc is well below the 3 percent voting drama, “Forest Song,” was staged by Himself one of Stalin’s closest lieu- cies that never were, from the Leningrad Latvian pupils. (Ukrinform) tenants, Khrushchev faced an impossible threshold qualifying for parliamentary Affair to the Doctors’ Plot, to justify a representation. (RFE/RL Newsline) task, even in his own terms. In order to return to the kind of repression he had Yulia confirms her PM ambitions reassure his party comrades that there overseen before 1941. Klitschko: corruption is main problem would be no going back to the arbitrary In only two places, however, did KYIV – Yulia Tymoshenko, head of violence of the past, he had to blame Stalin Khrushchev even mention the conse- KYIV – The chief problem faced by the eponymous political bloc, said on tel- for all the evils of the system over which quences of Stalin’s crimes for those other Kyiv is corruption, according to mayoral evision on February 27 that she harbors the late Soviet dictator had presided for so than the party and state elite itself. He did candidate Vitalii Klitschko. During a no “presidential ambitions,” the long without implicating himself and his discuss Stalin’s baseless and criminal deci- presentation of his pre-electoral platform Ukrayinska Pravda website reported. supporters in those crimes or disowning the sion at the end of World War II to exile on February 28, Mr. Klitschko noted that “Under the new Constitution [that came into effect on January 1], the president accomplishments of the system – the col- entire peoples from the Caucasus to he promises to solve a number of prob- has practically lost all of his powers,” lectivization of agriculture, the construction Central Asia. And he suggested that lems, including those in the sectors of Ms. Tymoshenko added. She stressed of a powerful industrial base and the defeat Stalin’s capriciousness had unsettled many transportation, housing and public utili- that she would like to return to the post of Nazi Germany in World War II. Soviet citizens and meant that they worked ties. There are people who are trying to of prime minister, from which she was Khrushchev devoted almost all of his less effectively for the party and the com- turn Kyiv into a second Manhattan; Kyiv dismissed by President Viktor speech to the ways in which Stalin arbitrari- mon cause of building communism. is Kyiv and should remain Kyiv, Mr. Yushchenko in September 2005. ly and brutally destroyed Lenin’s legacy and But those few remarks had the effect Klitschko said. He also promised to Speaking about her attitude toward the the cream of the Communist Party, forcing of calling attention to what Khrushchev work toward turning Kyiv into a cultural current Cabinet of Prime Minister Yurii party leaders to confess to crimes they had had avoided talking about: the party’s capital. New York is the financial capi- Yekhanurov, Ms. Tymoshenko said she is not committed and then executing them. lack of concern for the people in whose tal, Paris is the tourist capital, London is “close to being in opposition” to it. “I All of the cases that the party had exam- name it ruled and its willingness to try to the business center and Kyiv should be a cannot say that I am in opposition, but I ined after Stalin’s death, Khrushchev said, defend its own members regardless of park-city, he said. Answering questions don’t approve of much of what the gov- were found to have been “fabricated” and, what happened to others. regarding the Elite-Center real estate ernment is doing,” she said. According to consequently, he and the leadership were Thus, Khrushchev did not mention the scandal, Mr. Klitschko noted that Kyiv a poll by the Sotsiovymir Sociological moving to “posthumously rehabilitate” millions of deaths from the Soviet dicta- authorities are responsible for the situa- and Political Research Center conducted them – perhaps guaranteeing that that term tor’s “Terror Famine” in Ukraine and else- tion. Mr. Klitschko is also at the top of on February 19-24, Ms. Tymoshenko is will be as closely linked to Khrushchev as where. He did not talk about the millions of the Pora-Reforms and Order Party elec- the most trusted politician in Ukraine, the phrase “enemy of the people” that ordinary Soviet citizens who were swept tion list for the Kyiv Rada elections and Khrushchev insisted – incorrectly – that up in the terror of the late 1930s and sent to the parliamentary elections. (Ukrinform) (Continued on page 16) Stalin had invented is with him. build the factories in which Khrushchev Throughout that part of his speech, took such pride. And he did not talk about Khrushchev repeatedly insisted that “Stalin the destruction of the culture and way of FOUNDED 1933 decided everything.” But as he documented life of all the peoples of the Soviet Union, the crimes of his predecessor – the torture, Russian and non-Russian alike. the forced confessions to crimes no one had HE KRAINIAN EEKLY Khrushchev was clearly aware at the TAn English-languageU newspaperW published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., committed, and the killing of so many lead- time of the danger of any broader discus- a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. ing party members – Khrushchev in 1956 sion of the issues he had raised and not Yearly subscription rate: $55; for UNA members — $45. was not able to avoid mentioning those who raised. 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Kyiv court indefinitely postpones ElecElectiontion NotNotebookebook its hearings of Gongadze case by Zenon Zawada Kyiv Press Bureau KYIV – The Kyiv City Appellate Minister Serhii Holovatyi issued an Court on February 17 postponed for an appeal for openness. He noted that, by • KYIV – A brief scandal erupted when Ukraine. indefinite period its hearings of the holding the trial behind closed doors, the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko UCCA observers are going at their Gongadze case, pending a state expert’s court is violating the principle of open- alleged at a February 20 press conference own cost and many already have experi- conclusions about whether case materials ness that is enshrined in the Constitution that President Viktor Yushchenko’s gov- ence after the 2004 presidential elections, contain information that may be consid- of Ukraine and the European Convention ernment was allowing an American com- he said. ered state secrets, reported Ukrinform. on Human Rights. Mr. Holovatyi argued The UCCA’s deadline for registration The court began hearing the Gongadze pany, Holtec International, to export that this is unacceptable in a country that was March 1, but more election case on January 9; it decided to hold its nuclear waste to Ukraine. has declared it recognizes the rule of law observers may be approved because the sessions behind closed doors due to the Holtec International is currently build- and has undertaken to abide by these Central Election Commission in Kyiv is nature of information that was likely to ing a nuclear waste depository in the principles in its activities. still processing several applications. be divulged. Chornobyl zone with the intention of stor- According to the head of the • KYIV – The United States Agency All three defendants, former police ing its waste there, Ms. Tymoshenko said. Presidential Secretariat, Oleh Rybachuk, for International Development (USAID) officers Valerii Kostenko, Mykola She based her allegations on a copy of President Yushchenko is indignant over is helping to fund two observation mis- Protasov and Oleksander Popovych, con- an alleged business contract, apparently the lack of transparency in the court’s sions that will bring European monitors firmed their written obligation to divulge signed by representatives of Holtec hearing of the Gongadze case. While in to Ukraine for the March 26 parliamen- no state secrets, to which they had access International and the Ukrainian govern- no way infringing on the judicial authori- tary elections, said Emily Seats, the elec- while on duty as police officers. Another ment, that she brought with her to the ty’s independence, the president keeps tions and political processes advisor for key figure, former police Gen. Oleksii requesting that the court’s sessions be press conference. “Who’s going to be held responsible USAID’s Office of Democracy and Pukach, has been declared wanted. maximally open, Mr. Rybachuk said at a Governance, on March 2. Two defendants in the Heorhii news briefing on February 10. for the health of Ukrainians after such projects become reality in Ukraine?” Ms. As of February 25, 42 long-term Gongadze murder case have pleaded All of us understand all too well that observers of the European Network of guilty, while the third has pleaded partly this is not an ordinary case, Mr. Tymoshenko said at the press conference. In response, Holtec International Chief Election Monitoring Organizations guilty, noted Ukrinform on February 10, Rybachuk further commented. It is every (ENEMO) have already started observing quoting state prosecutor Vladimir Shilov. citizen’s right to be informed about the Executive Officer Kris Singh told Radio Svoboda that Ms. Tymoshenko’s allega- in all regions of Ukraine, according to an Mr. Shilov declined to name the defen- proceedings, he added. ENEMO press release. dants, saying a recently adopted ruling On February 8 the court had decided tions were false and absurd. The company’s contract with the Ukrainian government On Election Day ENEMO will deploy forbids the release of such information to postpone its hearings until February 16 at least 388 observers to monitor the vote before the court passes its verdict. because one of the defendants, Mr. makes no mention of Ukraine importing any foreign waste products, he said. and vote-counting procedures, according Mr. Gongadze, a journalist who found- Popovych, had not been feeling well. Mr. to the release. ed the Internet newspaper Ukrayinska Rybachuk expressed hope that the presi- Dr. Singh confirmed that his Marlton, N.J.-based company is building a waste In addition, 112 observers with the Pravda, disappeared on September 16, dent’s call would be heard and that on International Republican Institute (IRI) 2000. In November 2000 his decapitated February 16, the day court hearings were depository, but with the intention that it will store only Ukrainian nuclear waste will arrive for the elections. body was found in the Tarascha forest to resume, journalists would be admitted All participants are volunteers, Ms. outside Kyiv. into the courtroom. products. Ms. Tymoshenko also alleged that in Seats said, and no more than 10 will rep- President Viktor Yushchenko on On February 17 the court partially met resent the United States, she said. Five February 14 called on the Kyiv Appellate a plea by the lawyer of Lesia Gongadze, May 2005 the U.S. government revoked some of Holtec’s licenses, a charge Dr. American observers are part of the IRI Court to ensure openness of the trial. the slain journalist’s mother, to restore mission, she said. “Considering the public resonance sur- the hearing’s openness. According to Singh also denied, adding that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission that To finance these missions, USAID has rounding the court trial of the Gongadze Judge Iryna Grigorieva, who presided joined with IRI, Freedom House and the case, the political conjectures that are not over the session, journalists and public assigns licenses never canceled any license granted to Holtec. National Democratic Institute for strengthening confidence in the judicial representatives may be admitted to the International Affairs, Ms. Seats said. • KYIV – The Ukrainian Congress system and taking into account other rea- court’s further sessions, with the excep- USAID doesn’t disclose financing for Committee of America (UCCA) has reg- sons discrediting the country, lowering tion of those that will deal with docu- projects that it awards, she said. istered at least 108 election observers for its authority, I, as the president, will ments containing state secret informa- The long-term ENEMO observers the March 26 parliamentary elections, appeal to the court to ensure openness of tion. already in Ukraine are from Russia, President Michael Sawkiw said on the process within the framework of Commenting on the court’s decision, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Armenia, Georgia, February 28. national legislation,” Mr. Yushchenko Mrs. Gongadze’s lawyer, Andriy Fedur, Azerbaijan, Serbia and Montenegro, “By no means whatsoever do we said, according to the Ukrinform news expressed his astonishment over why the Kyrgyzstan, Romania and Albania. anticipate these elections to be fraudu- service. issue of secret information had been More ENEMO observers will arrive lent,” Mr. Sawkiw said. “The mission is He stressed that there is nothing to raised precisely at this moment. He insist- from those nations, as well as Croatia, hide in the case, that all the secrets have ed that the issue should have been clari- to observe the entire process. This is our Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia. long come out into the open, and that fied before the case was brought to court. opportunity to make sure the democratic With the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, journalists and other people already have He expressed his opinion that everything processes are working in Ukraine.” USAID is also sponsoring two delega- sufficiently detailed knowledge of the is being done to prolong the case and dis- Observers will meet in Kyiv for two tions of a half-dozen former U.S. con- materials that could be considered state credit President Yushchenko, who has briefing sessions on March 24 and 25, gressmen as observers. One delegation secrets. been quite outspoken in pressing for the Mr. Sawkiw said, after which they will Ukrinform also reported that Justice trial to be transparent to the public. travel to their assigned regions in (Continued on page 18) POLITICAL BLOC PROFILE: The Socialist Party of Ukraine by Zenon Zawada “It’s not that important. What’s important is that the Kyiv Press Bureau process begins moving in the proper direction in our country. The Socialists aren’t issuing declarations in During the 2006 parliamentary election campaign, order to gain acceptance in the EU.” The Ukrainian Weekly will profile the leading political “We believe that from the very start, we ourselves blocs. This week’s installment features the Socialist should create those conditions in our own nation: stan- Party of Ukraine. dards of life, a level of wealth, rights and freedoms, all of which are characteristic of European nations,” he KYIV – In the late 1990s, Oleksander Moroz used to explained. stand on European Square in downtown Kyiv and lead Communist rallies against private property. Political strategy In public, he often appeared alongside Communist The Socialist Party of Ukraine is in direct competition Party leader Petro Symonenko. with Lytvyn’s People’s Bloc in order to capture the mod- A gradual transition began to take place when journal- erate electorate of Ukraine – those who aren’t entirely ist Heorhii Gongadze was murdered. Mr. Moroz took the sold on either the pro-Russian or pro-European stances, initiative in playing the Melnychenko tapes in political experts said. Parliament in 2000, helping to expose the corrupt Mr. Moroz’s strategy has been to cast the Socialist regime of Leonid Kuchma. Party as European-oriented, but primarily committed to He would eventually become among the most visible Ukraine’s rural and small-town population, as well as leaders of the Orange Revolution. small- and mid-scale businessmen. “Building Europe in Ukraine” is now the slogan of In the last three or four years the Socialist Party has the Socialist Party of Ukraine. However, Mr. Moroz has essentially traded places with Lytvyn’s People’s Bloc, made it clear that he’s in no rush to join the European said Serhii Taran, director of the Kyiv-based Union. International Democracy Institute, which is financed by “(EU membership) can happen sooner or later,” Mr. Moroz told European journalists in Brussels last month. (Continued on page 18) The logo of the Socialist Party of Ukraine. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 No. 10 President and first lady host reception for foreign diplomats Presidential Press Service in its relations with the EU and in other fields of cooperation,” the president stressed. “Today, KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko and we are sending a clear signal to Brussels: Kyiv First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko hosted a is ready to make its contribution to Europe’s reception on February 9 for foreign diplomats energy security.” working in Ukraine. More than 300 guests “I am convinced Ukraine is becoming a were invited – 100 of them ambassadors and powerful geopolitical magnet that will attract representatives of such international organiza- foreign investment and technologies,” he con- tions as the United Nations, UNICEF, the tinued. Organization for Security and Cooperation in In 2006 Ukraine is also going to establish a Europe, European Bank for Reconstruction and system of regional stability and implement a Development, European Commission, World friendly foreign policy with its neighbors, the Bank, International Monetary Fund and many president said. others. Argentina’s ambassador, Miguel Angel Prime Minister Yurii Yekhanurov, National Kuneo, asserted that the world community had Security and Defense Council Secretary witnessed profound changes in Ukraine. “The Anatolii Kinakh, Secretariat Chief of Staff new government aimed to change this country Oleh Rybachuk, ministers and parliamentarians by introducing reforms in all fields of life. The attended the event. first year of their work showed that Ukraine In his opening speech, President breathed fresh air,” he said on behalf of his for- Yushchenko said: “This meeting is not only an eign colleagues. occasion to spell out this year’s priorities of Addressing the president, Mr. Kuneo said our domestic and foreign policy but also a the world community appreciated Mr. great occasion to thank all of you for the frank Yushchenko’s effort to put Ukraine “at a new dialogue we had last year.” President Viktor Yushchenko and First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko higher level of economic development.” greet Canadian Ambassador Albina M. Dann (left). Mr. Yushchenko added that he was pleased He also noted that the government had done Ukraine had reached mutual understanding much to integrate Ukraine into the world com- democratic changes and build Ensemble, Oksana Dyka and with other countries and international organiza- munity and assured President Yushchenko that democracy. Dmytro Popov. They also enjoyed tions. all countries and international organizations are The guests heard a performance an exhibition featuring Ukrainian “Ukraine is looking forward to real progress ready to support Ukraine in its bid to introduce by soloists of the Kyiv Chamber paintings and glassware.

Senate subcommittee hearing Wrzesnewskyj named Opposition’s focuses on Famine memorial associate critic for foreign affairs by Serhiy Zhykharev sacrifice the Ukrainian people made OTTAWA – Borys Wrzesnewskyj, the with the president, prime minister and Cabinet Ukrainian National Information Service during the Ukrainian Genocide and recently re-elected member of Parlimant from of the transitional federal government. Also in noted that “this memorial will not Etobicoke Center, has been appointed the 2005 he travelled to the Darfur region of WASHINGTON – After the suc- only honor the victims of this horri- Official Opposition’s associate critic for for- Sudan, meeting with Canada’s military which cessful unanimous passage last year ble period of history, but also serve eign affairs. The appointment was made on is providing the backbone for the African by the House of Representatives of a as a reminder to all of us that we February 20 by the leader of the Official Union peacekeeping force. Commenting on bill providing for construction of a must work together to prevent such Opposition, Bill Graham. Canada’s role in the world, Mr. Wrzesnewskyj monument on federal land in tragedies in the future. This reminder Commenting on his appointment, Mr. noted: “If properly executed, Canada can Washington to honor the victims of is particularly poignant given the Wrzesnewskyj said: “It’s an honor to have establish for herself an international role as an the Ukrainian Famine Genocide of renewed commitment of Ukraine to been asked to serve as the associate critic for honest broker to be called upon to resolve con- 1932-1933, the Senate freedom and democracy during last foreign affairs, and I would like to thank the flicts without the host countries having to fear Subcommittee on National Parks of year’s Orange Revolution.” leader of the Official Opposition, the a loss of sovereignty or control over national the Senate Energy and Natural Ambassador Shamshur, Ukraine’s Honorable Bill Graham, for this opportunity. I resources. Canada has tremendous potential to Resources Committee held a hearing newly appointed envoy to the United look forward to working with Foreign Affairs play an international role disproportionate to on the bill on Thursday, February 16. States, presented written testimony Critic the Honorable Stéphane Dion and my her size. A country renowned for her multicul- Chairing the hearing was Sen. in which he highlighted the sheer colleagues in Parliament to ensure that tural human resources, an exporter of peace Craig Thomas (R-Wyo.), and oral brutality of the 1932-1933 Ukrainian Canada’s foreign policy continues to build on builders and civil society architects, the builder testimony was provided by John the Pearsonian legacy of peace-building and of a peaceful global village.” Parsons, associate regional director Genocide. Referring to the genocide by the Ukrainian term “Holodomor,” directly engages the reserves of potential An opposition critic’s responsibility is to for lands, resources and planning for found in Canada’s multicultural society.” shadow a particular minister in the govern- the National Park Service (NPS). Dr. Shamshur stated that this “unpar- alleled disaster in the history of my During the previous parliamentary session ment and to oversee his or her work in a par- Written testimony was submitted to Mr. Wrzesnewskyj spearheaded the “Canada ticular portfolio. As the associate critic for the subcommittee by Rep. Sander nation, [is] similar to the Holocaust in scale, cruelty and cynicism of its Corps” in its first international project in sup- foreign affairs, Mr. Wrzesnewskyj will work Levin (D-Mich.), co-chair of the port of free and transparent elections in alongside the foreign affairs critic, Mr. Dion, Congressional Ukrainian Caucus and perpetrators.” The ambassador’s testimony Ukraine during the Orange Revolution of to hold Foreign Minister Peter MacKay to sponsor of HR 562; Dr. Oleh 2004. In 2005 he personally financed a fact- account and to advocate for improvements to Shamshur, ambassador of Ukraine to noted that “the pain and bitter mem- ory of the Holodomor are alive in finding mission to Somalia working on the policy or legislation relating to the foreign the United States; and, Michael peace and reconciliation process and meeting affairs portfolio. Sawkiw Jr., president of the practically every Ukrainian family; Ukrainian Congress Committee of they make our hearts ache.” America (UCCA). In his written remarks, UCCA IN THE PRESS Mr. Parsons commenced his testi- President Sawkiw quoted the 1986 mony by stating that H.R. 562 would U.S. Commission on the Ukraine “duplicate the efforts of the Victims Famine, which concluded in its find- of Communism (VOC) memorial,” ings that “Joseph Stalin and those which is to be built by the end of around him committed genocide Wall Street Journal commentary 2006 in Washington. The VOC mon- against the Ukrainians in 1932- ument will be a generalized memori- 1933.” on “Putin’s KGB instincts” al and will not specify the atrocities Mr. Sawkiw reiterated that a “Global View: Putin’s KGB Instincts Serve course, denies any political pressure, saying that endured by various nations under the monument in Washington would Russia Badly,” commentary by George Melloan, it is only trying to obtain ‘market’ prices for the yoke of communism. enhance the scope and message of The Wall Street Journal, New York, February 14: natural gas its Gazprom monopoly supplies. When questioned by the chairman victims of communism. “Their ulti- “Yet it’s hard to live down a KGB past. about how other groups feel about mate sacrifice was as a result of an “... In Soviet times when the empire was Reports are circulating in the Baltic states of the general VOC monument, Mr. inhumane ideology – food as a threatened the Russians sent tanks, as to secret Russian support for non-governmental Parsons accurately portrayed the weapon ... Though other atrocities Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and organizations (NGOs) and newspapers that sentiments: “I don’t think it [the have afflicted many nations of the the borders of Poland in 1981. Today they use back pro-Russian political candidates there. VOC memorial] represents what world, the sheer magnitude and other methods, such as cutting off gas supplies Mr. Putin has grown increasingly sarcastic in they [the Ukrainians] are trying to gravity of the Ukrainian Genocide to Ukraine in the dead of winter and – so his references to the independent states that tell.” remains little known to the world,” Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili were once Soviet republics, reflecting a reluc- Other testimony provided to the he explained. believes – arranging the sabotage of energy tance by Russian hard-liners to admit that the subcommittee elaborated on the The next step towards final pas- infrastructure serving his tiny state. Russia, of former empire is no more. ...” necessity to build such a monument sage of HR 562 is to bring it to a to the victims of the Ukrainian vote in the U.S. Senate during the To subscribe: Send $55 ($45 if you are a member of the UNA) to The Ukrainian Weekly, Genocide. Rep. Levin, sponsor of second session of the 109th Subscription Department, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 the bill, enumerated the enormous Congress. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 5

New Ukrainian Catholic metropolitan Ukraine’s new Consul General for Canada enthroned in Winnipeg in New York is appointed WINNIPEG – Bishop Lawrence on August 28, 1977, following perpetual NEW YORK – Mykola M. Mr. Kyrychenko is married and has Huculak, OSBM, was enthroned as the religious vows in the Order of St. Basil the Kyrychenko, 51, has been appointed as one daughter. metropolitan of Ukrainian Catholics in Great. He holds a doctorate in liturgy form the new consul general of Ukraine in As the Consulate General of Ukraine Canada on Saturday, February 11, at Ss. the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. New York. With a résumé that includes in New York welcomed its newest leader, Volodymyr and Olga Cathedral in He was ordained bishop for the Eparchy of stints as the consul general in such cities it bid a farewell to Consul General Serhiy Winnipeg. Edmonton on April 3, 1997. “This is an exciting time for the The appointment of Archbishop- Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada,” Metropolitan Huculak by Pope Benedict said the new metropolitan, who also XVI coincided with the pontiff’s accept- became archbishop of the Winnipeg ance of the resignation of Metropolitan Archeparchy. “We are entering our 50th Michael Bzdel. jubilee year since the establishment of “I am grateful to Our Lord for having the Metropolitan See of the Ukrainian had the privilege to serve the Ukrainian Catholic Church and establishment of the Catholic Church in Canada as its metro- eparchies of Toronto, Saskatoon and politan for the last 12 years,” said Edmonton ... I look forward to serving Archbishop Bzdel. “I would like to our Canadian Ukrainian Catholic Church assure Archbishop Lawrence of my as its metropolitan.” prayerful and fraternal support.” Archbishop-Metropolitan Huculak was born on January 25, 1951, in Vernon, (Sources: The Sower, Religious British Columbia. He was ordained a priest Information Service of Ukraine.) Mykola Kyrychenko Serhiy Pohoreltzev a s Toronto (1997-2000), Ottawa (2000- Pohoreltzev, who released a statement to 2001) and Istanbul (2003-2006), Mr. the Svoboda Ukrainian-language weekly. Rep. Davis welcomes Ukrainian delegation Kyrychenko has served in the diplomatic Mr. Pohoreltzev, who served as circles of Ukraine since the mid-1970s. Ukraine’s consul general in New York Holding a master’s degree in interna- since 2001 and prior to that (1999-2001) tional relations and international law as acting consul general, wrote in part: from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State “This is to inform you, that January University (1976), and the diplomatic 15, 2006 marked the end of my pro- rank of envoy extraordinary and plenipo- longed term as consul general of Ukraine tentiary, Mr. Kyrychenko has served in in New York, N.Y. other noteworthy positions within diplo- “In accordance with a decision of the matic and foreign affairs circles of leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Ukraine throughout his career. Affairs of Ukraine, I am returning to my Mr. Kyrychenko has served as: chief homeland for a new assignment within of the State Protocol Department of the the system of the Ministry of Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Affairs. (MFA) (2001-2003); first deputy head of “I would like to take this opportunity the Consular Department of the MFA to, first of all, thank you for the many (1995-1997); counselor, MFA (1994- years of cooperation with the General 1995) and Consul of Ukraine in New Consulate and myself, personally. In the York (1991-1994). In 1979-1991 he suc- years that have passed, we have achieved cessively held the positions of attaché, much that has benefited Ukraine to third, second and first secretary at the affirm a positive image of our state Foreign Affairs Ministry. around the world. He also participated in the United “Today, it is with great pleasure that I During a meeting in Chicago (from left) are: CEO Bohdan Watral, Consul Nations General Assembly sessions in recall, and will always remember, our General Vasil Korzhachenko, Rep. Danny Davis, Ambassador Oleh Shamshur 1980-1988, and in 1996 served as the head numerous meetings, varied actions and and Interim Consul General Oleh Shevchenko. of the consular post of Ukraine in Atlanta. functions – the result of our fruitful work.” by Theodora Turula The Jackson-Vanik Graduation CHICAGO – Rep. Danny K. Davis Jackson-Vanik... Coalition, co-chaired by Ambassador (D-Ill.) welcomed Ukrainian Ambassador (Continued from page 1) Steven Pifer and Ambassador Miller, com- U.S. and Ukraine conclude Oleh Shamshur, Ukrainian Consul All present agreed on the urgency for prises more than 250 businesses, and General in Chicago Vasil Korzhachenko, Ukrainian American, Jewish American, WTO accession agreement Interim Ukrainian Consul General in passage of the bill before the March 26 and other non-governmental organizations. Chicago Oleh Shevchenko and parliamentary elections in Ukraine and (For related news, see page 11.) Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal rejected the idea that Ukraine’s graduation on market access issues For more information about the Jackson- Credit Union CEO Bohdan Watral to his should be tied to Russia’s. If graduation is Congressional District on February 21. not achieved before the upcoming Rada Vanik Graduation Coalition, readers may log NEW DELHI – The United States The 7th Congressional District of Illinois elections, Ukrainian voters may take this on to http://www.usukraine.org/jvgc.shtml and Ukraine have concluded bilater- includes Chicago’s Ukrainian Village. as a sign of failure on the part of the dem- or e-mail [email protected] or al negotiations on market access Rep. Davis, a staunch supporter of ocratic forces in Ukraine, observers noted. [email protected]. issues related to Ukraine’s World democratic initiatives, traveled to Trade Organization (WTO) acces- Ukraine in 2004 and returned with a sion, the Office of the United States clear understanding of the political and Trade Representative announced on economic situation in Ukraine. During March 1. the 109th Congress, Rep. Davis co-spon- Ukrainian Trade Minister Arsenii sored a number of bills favorable to Yatseniuk will join U.S. Trade Ukrainians, including HR 885 and HR Representative Rob Portman in 1053 to extend normal trade relations Washington on March 6 to formally treatment to products from Ukraine and sign the agreement. HR 562 to authorize the government of “This agreement marks a mile- Ukraine to establish a memorial on fed- stone for both countries in our bilat- eral land in the District of Columbia to eral trade relations. It confirms honor the victims of the Famine- Ukraine’s commitment to broad- Genocide that occurred in Ukraine in based reform and economic liberal- 1932-1933. ization. It also demonstrates He is a member of the House of Ukraine’s resolve to join the interna- Representatives Ukraine Caucus. tional trading system,” said Mr. In his conversation with the newly Portman. appointed diplomatic officials, Rep. “As a result of these negotiations, Davis acknowledged the positive contri- we can expect greater bilateral coop- butions of the credit union as a commu- eration on economic issues, and a nity financial institution in uniting the strong boost to Ukraine’s efforts to Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Rep. Curt Weldon and Ambassador William Miller (center, residents of the Ukrainian Village neigh- complete the accession negotia- from left), and Jackson-Vanik Graduation Coalition members and congressional tions,” he added. (Continued on page 18) staffers discuss ways to graduate Ukraine from the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 No. 10

finance, by-laws and publications. He also public relations director), the Ukrainian Eugene Iwanciw... worked on projects for the National Congress Committee of America, the (Continued from page 1) Fraternal Congress of America, of which Ukrainian Republican Federation and the (1973-1975). the UNA is a member-organization. National Committee to Commemorate the As SUSTA president he traveled around In 1989-1990 Mr. Iwanciw chaired the Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine. the United States to organize student clubs. UNA Convention Committee for the He worked on the staffs of Sen. James During one such trip in 1975 he visited 1990 conclave held in Baltimore. Also in Buckley of New York, Sen. Harrison with students in Cleveland, Denver, Los 1990 he was part of a UNA delegation Schmitt of New Mexico and the Senate Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix and Houston. that traveled to Ukraine for the second Select Committee on Intelligence. In As a student activist he also chaired the congress of Rukh, the Popular Movement addition, he worked on various Committee for the Defense of Valentyn of Ukraine. While in Ukraine that delega- Republican Party bodies, including the Moroz and organized various actions in tion – which also included Supreme Republican Heritage Foundation and the defense of the imprisoned national and President Ulana Diachuk, Supreme Republican National Finance Committee. He was also a member of the human rights activist, including a hunger Secretary Walter Sochan and Supreme Ukrainian American Caucus, which strike in front of the White House. Advisor and The Ukrainian Weekly brought together individuals who worked In 1974, at the age of 22, Mr. Iwanciw Editor-in-Chief Roma Hadzewycz – also in the political arena in Washington and became the youngest person ever elected met with officials at Ukraine’s Ministry was aimed at increasing the effectiveness to the UNA Supreme Assembly (later of Foreign Affairs to discuss the possibil- of Ukrainian Americans working in the known as the General Assembly). He was ity of opening a Kyiv Press Bureau. (The nation’s capital. Later he was executive a UNA advisor for five terms, during bureau became reality in January 1991.) director of the Ukrainian American which he also was involved with the UNA Mr. Iwanciw’s other Ukrainian commu- Khristina Lew Political Action Committee. Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine and served nity affiliations included the Association In 1977 Mr. Iwanciw was one of the Eugene Iwanciw in 1991 at a on the UNA Centennial Committee, the of Ukrainians in Washington, The organizers of a UNA Week in Washington, Washington rally in support of Ukrainian Heritage Defense Committee, Washington Group (of which he was a an effort aimed at acquainting members of Ukraine’s independence. and committees on youth, Soyuzivka, founding member in 1984 and its first Congress with the situation in Ukraine. Similar lobbying efforts were held in sub- the Ukrainian National Information sequent years. In 1983 he helped organize Service during the early years of its exis- a hearing on the Great Famine of 1932- tence; he and the others received UNIS 1933 in Ukraine before the U.S. Senate Co-Founder Awards. Committee on Agriculture and at the same His activity also included lecturing, time worked for passage of a concurrent primarily on foreign policy, at the congressional resolution that designated Foreign Service Institute and various November 4, 1984, as a day to remember universities, including Harvard, Syracuse the genocidal Famine’s victims. and American universities. Mr. Iwanciw was tapped in the early In 2003 Mr. Iwanciw, a resident of 1980s by UNA President John O. Flis to Arlington, Va., was elected president of the serve as the fraternal organization’s rep- Inter-Service Club Council of Arlington, an resentative in Washington for liaison umbrella organization of 32 service clubs. with the White House. As well, he was president of the Optimist In 1988, when the UNA established its Club of Arlington, where he had been an Washington Office with the aim of mak- officer since 2001. His civic contributions ing Ukrainian Americans’ voices heard, included tutoring students in the Arlington Mr. Iwanciw was named its director. He school system. In addition he was active in was employed in that capacity through Leadership Arlington, the Arlington County September 1995. However, even after the Republican Committee, and the county’s office’s closing, he continued to repre- Chamber of Commerce and Historical sent the UNA’s interests in Washington, Society. including on the Central and East A parastas was scheduled to take place Eugene Iwanciw (left) in 1978 at the UNA/UCCA-sponsored Ukrainian Human European Coalition, of which the UNA, on Friday, March 3, at Lytwyn and Right Day on Capitol Hill with (from left) Myron Leskiw, Rep. Matthew Rinaldo through its Washington Office, was a Lytwyn Funeral Home in Union, N.J. A (D-N.J.) and his parents, Anna and Michael Iwanciw. founding member. funeral liturgy was to be held the next While he was director of the UNA day at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Washington Office Mr. Iwanciw wrote Church in Elizabeth, N.J., with interment news stories and commentaries on politi- to follow at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in cal developments. His regular column in East Hanover, N.J. The Ukrainian Weekly was called “Letter To honor Mr. Iwanciw, the Ukrainian from Washington.” National Association has established the After the UNA Washington Office was Eugene Iwanciw Heritage Scholarship Fund closed, Mr. Iwanciw established EMI (see announcement on page 7 of this issue). Associates, a consulting firm specializing in Surviving are Mr. Iwanciw’s parents, government relations and business develop- Anna and Michael Iwanciw, his sister, With deep sorrow, the Executive Committee and ment in Central and Eastern Europe. Irene Koczerzuk, and extended family. In staffs of the Ukrainian National Association, In 2002 Mr. Iwanciw, along with five lieu of flowers, the family has requested Svoboda, The Ukrainian Weekly other individuals, was honored by the that memorial donations be made to The and Soyuzivka inform the community UCCA for playing a key role in helping Ukrainian Museum in New York. that on Saturday, February 25, 2006,

secondEugene vice-president of the Ukrainian Iwanciw National Association and chair- man of the Baltimore District Committee, passed away unexpectedly.

A longtime and committed UNA activist, in 1974-1978 and again in 1982- 1998 he was a supreme advisor. In 1988-1995 he was the director of the UNA Washington Office. In 1996-2000 he was a member of the board of directors of the UNA’s Ukrainian National Foundation.

A parastas will take place on Friday, March 3, 2006, at 8 p.m. at Union Lytwyn and Lytwyn Funeral Home, 1600 Stuyvesant Ave., Union, N.J., (908) 964-4222. Visitation will be on Friday, March 3, 2006, at 2 p.m.-4 p.m. and 7 p.m.-9 p.m.

A funeral service will be held on Saturday, March 4, 2006, at 10:15 a.m. at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church, 303-305 Grier Ave., Elizabeth, N.J., (201) 352-8823. Interment will follow at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, 225 Ridgedale Ave., East Hanover, N.J.

We extend our deepest sympathy to his parents, Anna and Michael, his sister, Irene, and his extended family. We will remember Eugene always. The three-person staff of the UNA Washington Office in 1989: Eugene Iwanciw (right), director, John Kun, assistant director, and Maria Lischak, secretary. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 7

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM FOR THE RECORD: UNA president’s letter on the case of the Karnaoukh family The Eugene Iwanciw Following is the text of a letter sent on dark-clothed men were firemen), were Heritage Scholarship Fund February 27 by UNA President Stefan told to get outside immediately, were not Eugene Iwanciw, second vice-president of the Ukrainian National Kaczaraj to Gov. Jon Corzine of New allowed to put on street clothes, were not Association, was very interested in our youth, and strongly believed that Jersey, with copies sent to the state’s two given answers to any questions, and then developing a new generation of Ukrainian American leaders within our U.S. senators, Frank Lautenberg and were handcuffed at shortly before 5 a.m. community was essential to ensure the continuity of our community. Robert Menendez. and driven to the deportation center in Before his untimely passing, he was developing a scholarship project for Newark. Our federal immigration services graduating high school seniors of Ukrainian descent who will be attending Dear Gov. Corzine: claim that the Karnaoukh family was here an accredited college and/or university. This essay scholarship was to fea- On Monday, February 6, readers of illegally. They were not allowed to contact ture a new topic every year to encourage young Ukrainian American stu- The Star-Ledger were stunned by an arti- any friends or family, and Maria’s mother, dents to think about themselves and their place in our Ukrainian community. cle by popular columnist Bob Braun, who speaks no English, was left alone in In honor of Eugene Iwanciw, the Ukrainian National Association wants to who wrote about the appalling method by the house, terrified. continue this project. Thus, the Ukrainian National Association is pleased which a hard-working and quiet family Gov. Corzine: Where do we live? to announce the establishment of the Eugene Iwanciw Heritage from Little Falls, N.J., was forced out of What country is this? Since when does Scholarship Fund, which will be funded by private and community dona- their home at gunpoint, in handcuffs and the United States use NKVD-Stassi-SS- tions. The annual scholarship will be awarded to a graduating senior who is pajamas, early on the morning of January KGB-style tactics against sleeping subur- a UNA member and who submits the winning essay on the announced 6 – Orthodox Christmas. banites, even if we believe them to not topic, which will change annually. The fund will be administered by he The Karnaoukh family, Vassili and have proper documentation? Do we as a Ukrainian National Foundation, a registered tax-exempt 501(c) (3) organi- Maria, with their sons Ihor and Sviatoslav, country believe it is appropriate to treat zation. were not told what was going on (Maria Tax-deductible contributions should be made to the UNF – Eugene thought the house was on fire and that the (Continued on page 22) Iwanciw Heritage Scholarship Fund and sent to: Ukrainian National Foundation – Eugene Iwanciw Heritage Scholarship Fund, 2200 Route 10, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Greetings from the OOL Below is the text of a greeting sent by fondly known as the UNA. We the national the Organization for the Defense of Board of OOL extend our greetings and Members of the Ukrainian National Association Lemko Western Ukraine (OOL) to the encourage all members of OOL to join the Branch 39 (Ukrainian Sich Assembly) Ukrainian National Association. UNA – a venerable organization that in its early years had a strong Lemko presence. are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting To the Executive Committee and fel- Today we prosper and enjoy our free- to be held low UNA members: doms and privileges in this great country, Sunday, March 12, at 1:00 p.m. On the 112th anniversary of the but we must remember those hearty at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church undercroft Ukrainian National Association, we the Ukrainian immigrants who had no one to executive board of Organization for the turn to for advice, help or financial assis- 207 Tomkins St. Defense of Lemko Western Ukraine Inc. tance: they were the visionaries and Syracuse, N.Y. send our greetings to you, the Executive understood the need to organize. Committee, and your members on this Let us all unite in a “Mnohaya Lita” Following the election of officers, will be the election of a delegate memorable anniversary. for our UNA. to the 36th UNA Convention Many of our first Lemko immigrants in America were active in helping establish the Zenko Halkowycz, president first central Ukrainian organization, now Ana Woytowycich, secretary UNA Branch 206 Greetings from the ODFFU “Zaporozka Sitch” will hold its Annual Meeting Below is the text of a greeting sent to put up a statue of Taras Shevchenko in on March 11, at 1:00 p.m. the Ukrainian National Association by Washington, D.C., were initiated by and at St. Michael’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church the Organization for the Defense of Four supported by the UNA. 74 Harris Ave. Freedoms for Ukraine. The UNA has a long history of pub- Woonsocket, RI. lishing many Ukrainian- and English-lan- The Organization for the Defense of guage books, and the Ukrainian American We will elect a delegate to the 36th UNA Convention Four Freedoms for Ukraine Inc. sends community is especially grateful for the greetings and congratulations on the publication of the English and Ukrainian 112th anniversary of the Ukrainian versions of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine Irene Sarachmon, Secretary National Association. Our members have in two volumes. The UNA continues to always been and continue to be support- play a leading role in the education of ive of the UNA, by buying insurance Ukrainian children in their heritage with policies, subscribing to the newspapers courses offered at Soyuzivka during sum- UNA BRANCH 25 MEETING The Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda, and mer camps, sports events, and other com- Parsippany, N.J. visiting and enjoying the wonderful munity cultural and art events. UNA Branch 25 “Svoboda” will hold its Annual Meeting resort Soyuzivka. We support the growth The Ukrainian National Association on Tuesday, March 7, 2006, at 3 p.m. and activities of the oldest Ukrainian fra- was, is and will continue to be a leading at the UNA Home Office in Parsippany, N.J. ternal insurance company in the United Ukrainian American organization that On the agenda: disussion of reports, elections, election of a delegate States of America. unites the Ukrainian American communi- to the 36th UNA Convention The UNA has been an integral part of ty, and expresses the cultural ideals of the We welcome all members of Branch 25. the Ukrainian community throughout the Ukrainian people. years. From the early days when Throughout 112 years of the UNA’s Oksana Trytjak, Branch Secretary, (973) 292-9800 ext. 3071 Ukrainians were known as “Rusyny,” the existence the Ukrainian American com- UNA was involved in helping to protect munity has been gifted with this organi- Ukrainian families by offering them rea- zation. sonable insurance policies. The UNA The Organization for the Defense of Visit the websites also helped to educate and financially Four Freedoms for Ukraine wishes the support the Ukrainian communities in the Ukrainian National Association contin- of the UNA’s publications: United States. The UNA was one of the ued growth and success! driving forces in helping Ukrainians rec- ognize and realize their national identity. With great respect, www.ukrweekly.com Events like the proclamation of a Michael Koziupa, president Ukrainian Day in 1917, and the project to Osip Roshka, general secretary www.svoboda-news.com

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FOR THE RECORD THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Eugene Iwanciw, 1952-2006 Ambassador Oleh Shamshur’s testimony This week we learned the sad news that Eugene Iwanciw is gone after decades on the scene in Washington and within our Ukrainian American community, where in support of Famine memorial in D.C. he was best known as an activist of the Ukrainian National Association. Following is the testimony of Dr. Oleh and independent spirit were in their He began to make his mark in our community early on. As a student he played a Shamshur, ambassador of Ukraine to the blood. This was their crime in the eyes of leading role in the Federation of Ukrainian Student Organizations of America United States, during the February 16 the tyrant who ruled the country. This (SUSTA), organizing student clubs and spurring students to action on issues of the hearing before the National Parks was the reason why Ukraine and its peo- day – most notably protests against Soviet violations of human and national rights. Subcommittee of the Committee on ple were considered dangerous by Stalin Soon thereafter he was elected, at the very young age of 22, as a supreme advisor Energy and Natural Resources on a bill and his henchmen. of the UNA. It was an affiliation that would last for the rest of his all too short life. He to authorize the government of Ukraine I shall be honored to provide you with brought to the UNA the same idealism and energy that he had manifested in SUSTA. to establish a memorial on federal land some background information to explain He came into office in 1974 with a focus on youth. “There seems to be, among our in the District of Columbia to honor the what a horrible tragedy occurred in my youth, a lack of understanding about the UNA and other community organizations. victims of the Famine-Genocide that country 73 years ago and why it deserves The importance of our fraternal and financial organizations is generally misunder- occurred in Ukraine in 1932-1933. (The to be commemorated in the capital of the stood,” he wrote in 1978, adding that in his first term as supreme adviser he attempted text was released on February 22 by the U.S. In my testimony I will rely upon the to reach the younger generations. He noted that “The potential of the UNA is immense Embassy of Ukraine.) book “Harvest of Sorrow” by British his- ... The past is a tribute to the pioneers who built our organization. The future belongs torian Robert Conquest, works of the to the young members of our organization.” Indeed, in later years he was joined on the Mr. Chairman, distinguished members American researcher James E. Mace, UNA Supreme Assembly by a group of young activists who understood the intrinsic of the subcommittee: Canadian scholar Roman Serbyn and value of the UNA and its historic role within the Ukrainian diaspora. First of all, let me express my deep British journalist Askold Krushelnycky. The quintessential “political animal,” Mr. Iwanciw was intimately involved in gratitude for the attention you are paying The disaster started in 1932 when the promoting the Ukrainian cause in Washington – even before he was tapped to direct to the issue of raising a memorial to the Soviet authorities increased the grain pro- the UNA Washington Office. He played a key role in countless political actions and he demonstrated, again and again, his tenacity in working toward a goal. It was during his work with the UNA’s Heritage Defense Committee that Mr. Today I am adding my voice to many oth- Iwanciw first proposed the creation of a fully-staffed Washington office of the UNA to represent the interests of not only the UNA, but the entire Ukrainian ers who ask you to provide Ukrainians American community. The office opened on July 1, 1988, with Mr. Iwanciw at with an opportunity to commemorate the the helm. Under his direction the office tackled myriad issues and tasks: defense of Soviet political prisoners; refugee status for Ukrainian Catholics and immeasurable suffering and horrid death Ukrainian Orthodox persecuted in the USSR; funding for the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine; disseminating the truth about developments in Ukraine, of millions of their kin and to condemn both pre- and post-independence; obtaining U.S. recognition of Ukraine’s inde- this act of genocide by erecting a solemn pendence; searching for an appropriate home for the Embassy of Ukraine; help- ing to coordinate visits to the U.S. by Ukrainian leaders, etc. memorial in the heart of America which In 1994 he reported to the UNA Convention: “Were it not for the UNA, Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly, we would not have been able to provide accurate infor- has always been so attentive to pain and mation about Ukraine to the West at a critical time. Were it not for the UNA, there injustice inflicted upon others. would be no Kyiv Press Bureau, which provided invaluable information to U.S. pol- icymakers. Were it not for the UNA, there would be no Washington Office which orchestrated the congressional campaigns for U.S. recognition of Ukraine and U.S. victims of the man-made Famine in curement quota for Ukraine by 44 per- foreign assistance to Ukraine. In other words, were it not for the UNA, U.S. foreign Ukraine in 1932-1933. cent. They were aware that this extraordi- policy may have been far more disadvantageous to Ukraine than it was.” In the Ukrainian language this tragedy narily high quota would cause a grain Four years afterwards, in his last report to a UNA convention, Mr. Iwanciw tried is referred to as “Holodomor,” meaning shortage, resulting in the inability of the to get the UNA’s leaders and members to refocus, underscoring that they needed “to “total starvation.” The Holodomor is an Ukrainian peasants to feed themselves. set a course for our organization which would ensure our future” and pointing to the unparalleled disaster in the history of my Soviet law was quite explicit: no grain importance of what President George H.W. Bush had once referred to dismissively as nation, similar to the Holocaust in scale, could be given to feed the peasants until “that vision thing”: “‘That vision thing’ is an understanding of who we are and what cruelty and cynicism of its perpetrators – the state quota was met. Communist Party is our mission. We are a Ukrainian American organization and both being Ukrainian a crime officially recognized by the U.S. and being American is critical to our survival. ... To survive and prosper, the UNA officials with the aid of military troops Congress in 1986 as an act of genocide must provide more than insurance. It must provide an identity, a heart and a soul. We and NKVD secret police units were used against Ukrainian people. must provide leadership for our community here and in Ukraine...” That was Mr. to move against peasants who might be Although the Holodomor took from 7 Iwanciw’s advice to the UNA, an organization he loved and cherished – and some- hiding grain from the Soviet government. million to 11 million innocent lives, it thing he himself tried to carry out. An internal passport system restricted remains barely known to the world. Stalin Eugene Iwanciw had “that vision thing.” We will miss you, Gene. And we will movement of Ukrainian peasants so that miss your vision. and the Soviet regime employed every they could not travel in search of food. possible tool in order to make this atro- Ukrainian grain was collected and stored cious crime fall into oblivion. And yet, as in grain elevators that were guarded by the Gospel says, “there is nothing hidden, military units and the NKVD while March except that it should be made known; nei- Ukrainians were starving in the vicinity. Turning the pages back... ther was anything made secret, but that it After it turned out in 1932 that should come to light.” The truth about the Ukraine couldn’t fulfill the quota set by 5 cold-blooded starving to death of millions Moscow, draconian measures were of human beings in the center of Europe, taken. On the highest level, the grown in the midst of the 20th century, has been Eleven years ago our op-ed page carried one of the many wheat was declared inviolate “socialist 1995 revealed, although it is yet to receive a property” and anyone who gleaned even articles written by Eugene Iwanciw, director of the UNA due historical tribute. The pain and bitter Washington Office. This one was titled “The real story of an ear of wheat or bit off a sugar beet memory of the Holodomor are alive in was declared an “enemy of the people” U.S. assistance,” and it ran as one of Mr. Iwanciw’s regular practically every Ukrainian family; they columns called “Letter from Washington.” and could be executed or sentenced to make our hearts ache and remind us what On March 5, 1995, Mr. Iwanciw tried to paint an accurate, and meaningful, picture of not less than 10 years in the gulag. a monster died when the Soviet empire U.S. aid to Ukraine. “For the past year we have been hearing that Ukraine is the fourth In Ukraine, the decree of December 6, fell apart 15 years ago. largest recipient of U.S. foreign assistance, after Israel, Egypt and Russia. Those claims 1932, singled out six villages that alleged- There is at least one thing that has have even been printed in our community newspapers,” Mr. Iwanciw wrote. “We have ly sabotaged the grain procurement cam- been always well known about Ukraine: heard big numbers such as $700 million of assistance in fiscal year 1994 and $200 mil- paign. They were placed on the “black- its richness in agricultural resources that lion in fiscal year 1995. I have continually challenged the accuracy of these figures.” list,” which was soon extended in a whole- earned it the name of the “breadbasket of He went on to explain that accurate data are almost impossible to find and that dif- sale fashion. The blacklist meant a com- Europe.” In the early 1930s Ukraine was ferent sources, often in the same agency, will cite different figures. “In addition, one plete economic blockade of the villages still largely an agricultural country. It must sort the apples from the oranges that are often mixed together in the administra- listed, including an immediate closing of was inhabited by hard-working, peaceful tions’ announcements of ‘assistance’ to Ukraine. The apples are the actual assistance stores with all the food therein; a complete programs, while the oranges are credits or loans that must be repaid.” and diligent people. The state forced ban on trade in the village, including trade Finally, Mr. Iwanciw said, the U.S. Department of State had set the record straight in them into so-called “kolhospy,” collec- in most essential goods; immediate halting “U.S. Assistance and Related Programs for the New Independent States of the Former tive farms, where they toiled to satisfy and calling in of all credits and advances; Soviet Union, 1994 Annual Report.” He then took a look at actual expenditures, noting the agricultural appetites of the Soviet combing the neighborhood for so-called that “in terms of total dollar amounts, Ukraine ranks third after Russia and Armenia.” regime. They were natural-born farmers “foreign agents” and “saboteurs.” At that “This, however, is deceptive,” he continued. “How does one compare the total dol- deprived of earth and instruments of pro- time this was equivalent to a sentence of lar amounts when you have a country as large as Russia with 150 million people and a duction. Yet, even after 15 years of death by starvation. country as small as Armenia with 3.4 million people? The only solution is to analyze Communist rule, they still knew how to Only those who survived the Famine grow wheat, breed cattle, plow their fer- (Continued on page 23) tile land. Respect for private property (Continued on page 19) No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 9

Financial News You Can Use Faces and Places Meeting your financial objectives by Myron B. Kuropas by Walter Prochorenko The best plans in the world, however, can be little more than characters on a This is the first article in a series that piece of paper if these plans are not will attempt to provide some guidance implemented and followed. But even and information in a world that has the best of plans are obsolete the day “Externals” and the new iconoclasts become extremely complex and confus- they are drawn up since we all know In his Christmastide letter of January days” did not begin with the Puritans. ing. The articles are meant to inform and that life is constantly in flux. Therefore, 29, Father Michael Fill dismisses my con- Although Christmas was not recog- are not intended to replace advice that is plans need to be flexible and malleable cern with Christmas “externals” in one of nized as an official federal holiday in the best obtained from professionals such as in order to deal with what life throws at my recent columns as unimportant. United States until June 26, 1870, our accountants, attorneys, financial advisors us. He argues that Christians ought to founding fathers were not atheists. God or insurance professionals. To start considering a plan which will focus on living Jesus’ message of love the Creator is mentioned in the As an example of this complexity, help formulate a strategy to meet one’s rather than in quibbling about manger Declaration of Independence, and the according to the Investment Company financial objectives, let’s first take a look scenes and Christmas trees in the public U.S. Constitution forbids Congress from Institute, in 1940 there were 68 mutual at the possible components that will need square. “prohibiting the free exercise” of reli- funds, but by the year 2004 the number to be considered. “We will then have ‘grown up,’ ” he gion. grew to well over 8,000. Worldwide writes, “ ‘matured in Christ’ knowing As articulated by our founders, the there are now over 55,000 mutual funds. Capital Accumulation that Jesus is not born in the town square, United States was established as “one It is then no wonder that it has become and Appreciation not in the homeroom, not in the nation under God.” George Washington quite confusing to select proper funds for held that it “was the duty of all nations to • Growth stocks and mutual funds Christmas program (all of which are one’s portfolio. acknowledge the providence of Almighty • Tax-exempt bonds and municipal nice) but more importantly, ‘born in us However, mutual funds, although a God.” John Adams believed that “our bonds this day.’ ” favorite investment vehicle (with over $2 Constitution was made only for moral • Real estate and REITs Father Fill is right. Ours would be a trillion invested in the U.S. alone) are and religious people. It is wholly inade- • Pension plans hollow faith indeed if it only consisted of only a part of the total investment and quate for the government of any other ...” • IRA and IRA rollovers externals. We need to practice our faith, financial security strategy that should be “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to • 401(k) and Keogh plans to love others as we love ourselves, to considered by people with an eye toward God,” Thomas Jefferson proclaimed. • 529 and Coverdell plans for education cherish the less fortunate in our midst. In the future. Other investment vehicles “Here is my creed,” declared Benjamin • Dividend and interest income capital addition to good works, however, some should be liquid assets such as bank Franklin, “I believe in one God, Creator preservation of us need symbols provided by the accounts and CDs, good insurance cov- Church, spiritual gifts such as icons, of the Universe.” erage to protect assets and earning poten- stained glass windows, rosaries, carols, Symbols continue to remind us of our tial, proper tax planning, estate planning, Capital Preservation molebens, hymns, holy cards, religious patrimony. Moses and the Ten real estate investments, annuities and a • Life and health insurance traditions, and the bells and smells of Commandments are honored on the number of other products that can • Disability and long-term care insurance liturgies to remind us of who we are. I Supreme Court Building, in the Library enhance lifestyle. • Asset allocation treasure these religious “externals.” I was of Congress and the U.S. Capitol. The If one were to ask the average person • Tax planning brought up with them, and they are an Capitol also has statues of Father what is his/her most valuable asset, the • Estate planning and trusts integral part of my Christian life. Damian of Molokai, Father Marquette usual answer tends to be one of the fol- • Wills There was a time, of course, when and Mother Joseph, as well as medallions lowing: a home, a car, a boat, land, col- • Gold and silver strategies capital religious veneration of “externals,” icons of St. Louis, Pope Innocent III and Pope lectibles, jewelry or investments. The distribution in particular, was frowned upon, even Gregory IX. The same Capitol has a proper answer, however, is one’s earning punished by some early leaders of the small chapel where senators and repre- power. The average wage earner will Christian Church. Several bishops of the sentatives meet to pray. Congressional earn from $1 million to several million Capital Distribution Byzantine Church condemned icons, sessions begin with a prayer. dollars over his or her lifetime. And yet, • Annuities (fixed, variable, equity relics and similar representations of the In the words of New York University this most important of all assets is rarely indexed, tax-deferred, immediate) faith as forms of idolatry, the breaking of law professor Noah Feldman, people think insured against disability, major illness- • Pension plans the second commandment against wor- that official symbols do matter because es, debilitating accidents or even long- • IRA and IRA rollovers ship of graven images. Byzantine they are a proxy for the most fundamental term care. • 401 (k) and Keogh plans Emperor Leo III published a decree in question affecting Christian legal theory, But I’m getting a little ahead of • Endowments 730 forbidding Christians to continue the namely, “whether religious values should myself. First let us bring together what • Charities practice. Those who resisted, especially inform public policy choices or rather should be a prudent set of criteria to con- • Trusts monks, were persecuted. Monasteries should remain a private matter, irrelevant sider and follow when establishing finan- were destroyed, monks were executed, to the state’s public decisions and the pub- cial goals. A good plan can be imple- tortured or banished. lic reason that justifies it.” Professional Assistance mented by using the following 10 simple The Western Church condemned these And it is precisely these official sym- • Accountants and tax advisors guidelines established by well-known “iconoclasts” as heretics. In 731 Pope bols that America’s current crop of icono- • Estate-planning attorneys firms that deal with these issues on a Gregory III held a synod of 93 bishops in clasts seeks to obliterate. As Daniel Peres • Financial planner and advisor daily basis. Rome during which it was decreed that points out in “Storming the Heavens: The • Insurance agents • Identify and assess financial con- all persons who broke, defiled or stole Soviet League of the Militant Godless,” cerns. • Chartered Financial Consultant one of the first “externals” the Bolsheviks (ChFC) images of Christ, or his Mother, the • Prioritize your goals. Apostles or other saints were subject to tried to eliminate were those associated • Determine your own risk tolerance. • Certified Financil Planner (CEP) with Christmas. Get rid of the true sym- • Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) excommunication. Veneration of icons • Set up investment strategies. was finally re-approved by the Eastern bols of Christmas in the United States and • Understand how money relates to • Broker/dealer what comes next? The phrase “under • Real estate broker Church in 787 when Empress Irene con- your concerns and goals. vened the Second Council of Nicea God” in the “Pledge of Allegiance,” “In • Balance long-term goals with a view (Seventh Ecumenical Council). The God We Trust” on American currency, of short-term needs. In the next four articles we will deal council made a distinction between the prayer in Congress, tax-free Churches, • Protect assets and earnings with with capital accumulation, capital preser- veneration given to icons because they Thanksgiving Day, the wearing of crosses insurance coverage. vation, capital distribution and profes- are images of God or holy persons, and by public servants, Bible study groups on • Prepare financially for life’s transi- sional assistance. Future articles will adoration which is due to God alone. public property, the acceptance of tions. deal with specific issues within these Some Christian historians now believe Darwinism as fact and intelligent design • Seek professional advice. areas. that the rise of iconoclasm in the East was as fiction, are all part of the national dis- • Implement your plan. cussion today. * * * due to the influence of Islam, which even today condemns (to death in some cases) Like it or not, America is in the throes Walter Prochorenko, Ph.D., is an NOTE: We will welcome any articles any representation of Mohammed. The of a culture war. It is not a war begun by accomplished businessperson with dealing with financial, insurance, estate Islamic Taliban went as far as destroying the so-called “religious right” of which, extremely varied multi-national project and tax planning, and similar issues from devotional images of other groups. In 2001, contrary to Father Fill’s assertion, I am experience in over 40 countries, includ- the many Ukrainian professionals in these for example, they obliterated the centuries- not a member. Nor is John Gibson, ing Ukraine. He completed his doctorate fields. Since we are a community news- old Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan. author of “The War on Christmas,” who in international business administration, paper, we welcome and encourage the The Puritan followers of John Calvin in his book mentions that he “was raised is a registered NASD and insurance pro- participation of our readers and members promoted the destruction of Catholic outside the Church ...” fessional in New York and New Jersey, in a meaningful dialogue that will help all works of art, claiming they were idols. The first shots of this war were fired and is a Chartered Wealth Manager. our brethren. – Walter Prochorenko Father Fill mentions that Puritans in by the secular left that continues to ever Boston outlawed the celebration of so “righteously” undermine our religio- Christmas suggesting that we shouldn’t cultural society under the mantra of “sen- romanticize “the good old days (for per- sitivity to all.” All, that is, except haps they really were not).” Father neg- Christians. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY lects to mention that, in contrast, the Visit our archive on the Internet at: http://www.ukrweekly.com/ older Jamestown settlement did celebrate Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is: Christmas. In any case, my “good old [email protected]. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 No. 10

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

emphasize, “For a long time the study of the will to continue to value the heritage More on the UNA Bibliographic notes ethnicity and nationalism has been treat- which all hold in common.” ed with reserve, especially in the Anglo- Obviously, the above is intended to and its subsidiaries were commendable Saxon world. But the situation is now hint at the complexity of the idea of Dear Editor: Dear Editor: being swiftly remedied, and we are wit- “nationalism,” both as a theory and, With regard to a recent letter The thoughtful inclusion of biblio- nessing a remarkable growth of rich and much more importantly, as a reality. “It reminds one of another universalist ide- (February 12) to The Weekly attempting graphic notes with Prof. Taras Hunczak’s penetrating works on every aspect of eth- ology and movement – religion. It should to refute the points I made in my letter article about Metropolitan Andrey nicity and nationalism in all parts of the be quite clear that “there are important published on February 5, kindly allow Sheptytsky (January 29) should be com- world.” differences in ways of defining the con- me to make some observations. mended. Still, according to this publication, cept of nationalism, some equating it No, we will not atrophy and simply It transformed an interesting and “Questions of definition have bedeviled with national sentiment, others with wait to die. informative essay into an authoritative our field of study, and there is no agree- nationalist ideology and language, others No, we will not chant the mantra of one. Kudos to the editors of The ment among scholars about ‘subjective’ again with nationalist movements. There defeat. and ‘objective’ factors in the definition Ukrainian Weekly. is also difference between those who No, I never suggested that if more of nations ...” stress the cultural rather than the political Ukrainians spent a week at Soyuzivka it George Thaddeus Saj, M.D. Three classic statements are listed, which cover a wide spectrum – those of aspects of nationalism,” according to the would be profitable. Montclair, N.J. editors. Yes, however, that is actually a great idea. Renan, Stalin and Weber: “Ernest Renan rejects the statist con- They also point out “a synthesis is Yes, that does show even a negative possible, in that the ideology and move- message can have a positive idea. cept of the nation in order to identify the nation as a form of morality. It is a soli- ment incorporate political and cultural No, Soyuzivka will never be Park MAUP deserves dimensions ... That, at any rate, is how City, Utah. darity sustained by a distinctive histori- cal consciousness. The nation, he the founding fathers – Rousseau, Herder, No, Soyuzivka will never be Napa strong denunciation Fishte, Rorais and Mazzini – saw the Dear Editor: declares, is a daily plebiscite. Valley, Calif. ideological movement of nationalism.” I am responding to the newsbrief in “Stalin’s definitions contain a mix of Yes, the Napanoch Fire Department In summary, according to Hutchinson, your January 29 edition of The Ukrainian objective and subjective elements. picnic business is welcome at Soyuzivka. “Nationalism was, first of all, a doctrine Weekly wherein Minister Borys Differentiating nations from races and No, the Napanoch FD picnic will not of popular freedom and sovereignty. The Tarasyuk strongly condemned the anti- tribes on the one hand, and imperial save Soyuzivka (unless there’s a fire). people must be liberated – that is, free Semitism of the Interregional Academy states on the other, he argues that a Yes, Ukrainian Americans can save from any external constraint; they must of Personnel Management (known by its nation comes into existence only when Soyuzivka. determine their own destiny and be mas- Ukrainian acronym as MAUP). I also several elements have come together, Yes, Ukrainian Americans can save ters in their own house; they must con- note that President Viktor Yushchenko especially economic life, language and Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly. trol their own resources; they must obey reportedly resigned from the board of territory. Yes, the UNA can sell a competitive only their own ‘inner’ voice. But that product. that institution. “Max Weber examines the nation as a ‘prestige community,’ endowed with a entailed fraternity. The people must be Yes, we can convince our Napa Valley What is not clear from the article is sense of cultural mission. What distin- united; they must dissolve all internal wine-tasting Ph.D.s that the 112-year-old how anti-Semitic the MAUP leadership guishes the nations is a commitment to a divisions; they must be gathered together UNA is worth more than a $400 invest- appears to be. I refer you to a link that political project.” in a single historic territory, a homeland; ment. (What’s a good bottle of shows how white-supremacist David Karl Deutsch’s socio-demographic and they must have legal equality and Chardonnay go for?) Duke is involved with this organization. approach offers a functional definition of share a single public culture. But which Yes, the UNA can be here 40 years from As a Canadian of Ukrainian descent, I the nation. Deutsch argues that the objec- culture and what territory? Only home- now, steadily paying out on its policies. am shocked and dismayed. This blatant tive of nationalist organizations is to land that was ‘theirs’ by historic right, Yes, the whole can be greater than the anti-Semiticism must be publicized and strengthen and extend the channels of the land of their forebears; only a culture sum of the parts. denounced in no uncertain terms. communication which can ensure a pop- that was theirs as a heritage, passed Yes, after taking we can learn to give Minister Tarasyuk must be supported in ular compliance with national symbols down the generations, and therefore an back. And that’s the true meaning of this. and norms. expression of their authentic identity.” community. Nationalism is “a field which is both Dr. Michael Szul From an anthropological perspective, Clifford Geertz indicates that there are fundamental to our grasp of modern Respectfully and hopefully, Toronto society and politics and rightly reward- Zenon B. Masnyj two components – ethnic and civic – in the nationalism of post-colonial states. ing for a more profound understanding New York of humanity.” The ethnic dimension is portrayed as a Re: the meaning commitment to “primordial” loyalties Ivan Hvozda which endow individuals with a distinc- Syracuse, N.Y. Our metropolitans of “nationalism” tive identity; the civic as a desire for citi- Dear Editor: zenship in a modern state. in the United States You are to be congratulated for the “In contrast,” the editors stress, We welcome your opinion timely publication of letters concerning “Anthony Giddens presents an unam- Dear Editor: The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters In the profile of Bishop Emeritus Basil the meaning of “nationalism” in The biguously statistic definition of the Ukrainian Weekly (December 11, 2005, to the editor and commentaries on a vari- Losten (February 12), The Weekly nation, described here as a ‘bordered ety of topics of concern to the Ukrainian reports that the bishop “was appointed January 1, January 22 and February 5). power container.’ This and much else is American and Ukrainian Canadian com- auxiliary to Metropolitan-Archbishop An excellent Oxford Reader on the subject of critique by Walker Connor, munities. Opinions expressed by colum- Ambrose Senyshyn of Philadelphia [...] “Nationalism” (John Hutchinson and who rejects tendencies to equate nation nists, commentators and letter-writers are In this capacity Bishop Losten seemed to Anthony D. Smith, eds., 1994) states that with state, and nationalism with state their own and do not necessarily reflect the be in line to one day take over as the next “nationalism is one of the most powerful patriotism. Like Weber, he defines the opinions of either The Weekly editorial metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic forces in the modern world, yet its study nation as community of descent, but dis- staff or its publisher, the Ukrainian National Association. Church in the United States, but since has until recently been relatively neglect- tinguishes it from ethnic communities by ed. As an ideology and movement, Letters should be typed and signed that time three other men have taken the its degree of self-consciousness; whereas (anonymous letters are not published). helm of the Church in the U.S.” nationalism exerted a strong influence in an ethnic group may be other defined, a Letters are accepted also via e-mail at In fact, since that time there actually the American and French Revolutions.” nation must be self-defined.” [email protected]. The daytime phone have been four men in that position: Joseph Yet, it did not become the subject of According to Renan, “A nation is a number and address of the letter-writer Schmondiuk, Myroslav Lubachivsky, thorough investigation by scholars from soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the must be given for verification purposes. Stephen Sulyk and Stefan Soroka. several disciplines until only since past, the other is in the present. One is Please note that a daytime phone number 1960s, after, as the publication claims, the possession in common of a rich lega- is essential in order for editors to contact Leo Iwaskiw the spate of anti-colonial and ethnic cy of remembrances; the other is the letter-writers regarding clarifications or questions. Philadelphia nationalisms. As the editors further actual consent, the desire to live together, No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 11 Peace Corps volunteers urge UCCA urges passage of HR 1053 by Serhiy Zhykhkarev of Representatives to graduate Ukraine lifting of Jackson-Vanik restrictions Ukrainian National Information Service from the Jackson-Vanik amendment “would give a significant boost to the WASHINGTON – With just over four pro-democracy forces vying for parlia- WASHINGTON – In a letter delivered soon as possible. … We therefore urge weeks left before the Ukrainian parlia- mentary seats in Ukraine’s elections on on February 28 to members of the U.S. you to lend your full support to efforts to mentary elections, the Ukrainian March 26,” stated the UCCA letter to House of Representatives, 85 former and make this a reality.” Congress Committee of America Rep. Thomas. “Let us extend our support current Peace Corps volunteers who The full text of the letter follows. served in Ukraine urged the Congress to (UCCA) has appealed to Rep. William to Ukraine at this critical juncture and * * * Thomas, chairman of the House of assist in securing its democratic future.” graduate Ukraine from the provisions of Representatives Ways and Means With Congress resuming its session on the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. Dear Representative: Committee, to expedite passage of HR Tuesday, February 28, after the Jackson-Vanik is a 1974 amendment As Ukraine prepares for its parliamen- 1053, a bill introduced by Rep. Jim Presidents’ Day recess, the UCCA also that imposed trade restrictions on the tary elections in late March, we are writ- Gerlach (R-Pa.) to graduate Ukraine sent a letter to all members of the House Soviet Union in response to its poor ing to urge you to lend your support to from the Jackson-Vanik amendment. of Representatives who haven’t yet sup- human rights policies, particularly efforts to reinforce democratic and free- In a letter dated February 22 to ported HR 1053. In an urgent appeal to restrictions on the emigration of religious market developments in that country. Chairman Thomas, the UCCA mentions Members of Congress, the UCCA high- minorities. These efforts include working with Ukraine’s many accomplishments since lighted President Viktor Yushchenko’s However, as the letter notes, “Ukraine Ukrainian officials in their quest to even- the Orange Revolution, most notably bat- address to a joint meeting of the U.S. has clearly more than fulfilled the tually join the World Trade Organization, tling corruption and money laundering, Congress, where he reiterated the need to requirements necessary for graduation NATO and the European Union. and focusing on accession to the World repeal the Jackson-Vanik amendment. from Jackson-Vanik. Ukraine has built a However, foremost among these Trade Organization (WTO). “Repealing the [Jackson-Vanik] amend- strong record of allowing open emigra- efforts is an issue that is almost entirely The UCCA letter reaffirmed the ment is a critical step that will demon- tion and has created conditions for reli- in the hands of the members of the U.S. increased bilateral cooperation between strate to the Ukrainian government that gious minorities to pursue their beliefs Congress. That is supporting legislation, Ukraine and U.S. as evidenced by the the United States welcomes the changes freely. As such, Ukraine is a success story such as HR1053, to graduate Ukraine U.S. recognition of Ukraine as a market Ukraine has implemented and trusts in for Jackson-Vanik and it now merits grad- from the 1974 Jackson-Vanik trade economy and its support for Ukraine as it the future of that country,” stated the uation from the Amendment’s provi- restrictions. aspires for WTO membership. “What UCCA letter. sions.” Ukraine has clearly more than fulfilled remains troublesome, however, is the lin- The UCCA’s Washington bureau, the Following his January 2005 inaugura- the requirements necessary for gradua- gering issue of the Jackson-Vanik amend- Ukrainian National Information Service tion, Ukrainian President Viktor tion from Jackson-Vanik. Ukraine has ment for Ukraine and its ultimate gradua- (UNIS), also issued an urgent Action Yushchenko announced that Ukraine’s built a strong record of allowing open tion in the United States Congress,” the Item to the Ukrainian community and all graduation from the provisions of the emigration and has created conditions for letter noted. friends of Ukraine to write to their U.S. Jackson-Vanik Amendment would religious minorities to pursue their The UCCA’s letter also acknowledged respective members of Congress to sup- be at the forefront of his economic and beliefs freely. As such, Ukraine is a suc- that there is “wide bipartisan support [in port HR 1053. The Action Item is critical foreign policy objectives for 2005. cess story for Jackson-Vanik and it now the House of Representatives], as well as at this juncture as Congress will be in Last April, following their Washington merits graduation from the amendment’s the support of the administration” for its session only through March 17 – a few meeting, U.S. President George Bush provisions. successful passage. days prior to Ukraine’s March 26 parlia- joined President Yushchenko in express- Moreover, this step is urgently needed An endorsement from the U.S. House mentary elections. ing support for “immediately ending as a symbolic affirmation of Ukraine’s application of Jackson-Vanik to successful democratization. Graduating Ukraine.” Ukraine from Jackson-Vanik would pro- Most recently, on November 18, 2005, vide powerful support for the Ukrainian the U.S. Senate approved repeal of the government’s efforts to stabilize and AHRU contacts members of Congress Jackson-Vanik restrictions on Ukraine. expand its economy, promote trade and NEWARK, N.J. – As part of the joint ment – will demonstrate support for The matter now lies entirely in the investment, and participate in the interna- effort to rescind the Jackson-Vanik Ukraine by the U.S. Congress and will hands of the members of the U.S. House tional marketplace. Amendment, Americans for Human send a message to members of the gov- of Representatives. Politically, legally and morally, gradu- Rights in Ukraine (AHRU) on February ernment in Ukraine on the eve of its par- The Peace Corps volunteers’ letter ating Ukraine from the Jackson-Vanik 20 sent more than 70 letters to select liamentary March 2006 elections that the concludes that “politically, legally and provisions is the right thing to do. members of the House of Representatives. American people are supportive of morally, graduating Ukraine from the Furthermore, it poses no economic or A similar action was undertaken by Ukraine’s pro-Western, pro-democratic, Jackson-Vanik provisions is the right other costs to the United States. AHRU in December 2005, when more market-oriented ideals and her integra- thing to do. … As Ukraine prepares for There is no better way for the United than 60 letters were mailed out to mem- tion into Euro-Atlantic community.” its parliamentary elections in late States to further democracy and promote bers of the U.S. Congress whose respon- Mrs. Olshaniwsky commented to The March… [t]here is no better way for the economic growth in Ukraine than to sibility was to deal with this issue. Ukrainian Weekly that “the stalemate of United States to further democracy and graduate it as soon as possible – prefer- Bozhena Olshaniwsky, spokesperson HR 1035 is not only perplexing but puz- promote economic growth in Ukraine ably within the next few weeks – from for AHRU, wrote in a letter to the con- zling, too. This bill is supported by more than to graduate it from Jackson-Vanik as Jackson-Vanik. gressmen: “Ukraine has met the Jackson- than 250 Ukrainian American groups. Vanik freedom of emigration and free- Jewish American associations, NGOs, dom of religion requirements a long time business enterprises and groups from ago. This amendment was enacted by the Ukraine. It is also supported by the U.S. U.S. Congress as an act against the Senate with its passage in November Soviet Union’s restrictive policies in the 2005. With such a tremendous unified early ’70s regarding Jewish emigration to show of sponsorship this should help the U.S. The continuance of this amend- make HR 1035 pass the U.S. House with ment until modern times is both ludi- alacrity. Why would anybody in the crous and an anachronistic albatross House of Representatives object to get- around the neck of Ukraine. In spite of ting rid of this rust-covered 32-year-old the difficulties involved in converting to relic of the Cold War whose removal market reforms away from the inefficient would improve relations between the and collapsed command economy of the United States and Ukraine?” old Soviet Union, Ukraine has shown AHRU is appealing to interested indi- both a willingness and capability to adapt viduals to join this effort by writing, call- to new conditions when given the oppor- ing or e-mailing their congressmen in tunity and deserves our support.” order to make the passage of this bill a She also stated: “This legislative reality. For further information, readers action – the rescinding of the old amend- may call AHRU, (973) 373-9729.

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A fight ensued between Mr. Chornovil the top five candidates of Lytvyn’s fault for not submitting candidates to the Even in Post-Orange... and his entourage and the Pora party sup- People’s Bloc. electoral commissions, Mr. Chernenko (Continued from page 1) porters, resulting in one activist suffering “Unfortunately, during the reporting said. Many of those who do show up at This year’s election violations aren’t light bodily injuries, while someone in Mr. period no incidents have been reported the commissions become intimidated by nearly as egregious as they were during Chornovil’s entourage had his clothing torn. when high-positioned people were pun- the immense workload and responsibility, 2004 presidential elections, said Most reported violations committed by ished for abusing their position of power and quit altogether, he said. for the elections,” the CVU stated in its “People don’t want to work in election Oleksander Chernenko, press secretary of Orange-allied forces weren’t criminal offenses. report released on February 25. commissions,” Mr. Chernenko said. “If the Committee of Voters of Ukraine State Property Fund Chair and “This stimulates the unaccountability the previous government placed pressure (CVU). Socialist Party member Valentyna of authorities and supports more wide- on people to join, the current administra- But, for those thinking that democracy Semeniuk violated administrative spread abuse of positions of status during tion isn’t even providing the space for instantly prevailed in Ukraine following resource laws on January 17, when she the elections,” the report noted. The these commissions to operate.” the Orange Revolution, incidents such as openly campaigned for her party during a reporting period was between January 27 The Kuchma government pressured the Dnipropetrovsk attack demonstrate government-related business trip to and February 24. business owners to provide space for elec- that problems linger. Vinnytsia, the CVU reported. In Luhansk, Our Ukraine campaign tion commissions to operate, he said. Now During a February 24 Our Ukraine “Administrative resource abuse” refers materials were placed in the service cen- that the new law-abiding government rally in Luhansk, Party of the Regions to government officials or business lead- ter of Naftohaz Ukrayiny, the govern- can’t resort to pressure, business owners supporters attacked, injuring participants ers using their positions of power or ment’s natural gas enterprise, which cur- are declining to open their doors to elec- and tearing down their orange flags. access to money to promote a political rently is directed by Our Ukraine Bloc tion commissions, Mr. Chernenko noted. During the assault, the attackers yelled, party or bloc. member Oleksii Ivchenko. For those commissions that are up and “Get out! This is our turf!” Any political campaigning is supposed Exploitation of administrative running, many are functioning with the It’s not only the pro-Russian political to take place outside a government build- resources and “black PR” campaigns are bare minimum amount of members, Mr. forces that are reported to have commit- ing or business property. not the CVU’s biggest concerns at the Popov said. As a result, those few mem- ted violations in this year’s parliamentary “Cases of using administrative moment, said Ihor Popov, the CVU’s bers are likely to become overwhelmed campaign. resources in favor of various subjects administration chair. with work and responsibilities, which Orange-allied political blocs have (i.e., parties and blocs) in the elections “The biggest problem in conducting the may affect their ability to organize voting wrought their own share of abuses, are widespread,” the CVU reported, upcoming parliamentary and local elec- and tally votes, he said. according to the CVU, which maintains a adding that the abuses increased in tions is the formation and actions of the Such problems could be the grounds list of all of this year’s election violations February among both those in power and district election commissions,” he said. for lawsuits filed to contest the election on its website, www.cvu.org.ua. the opposition. This year’s elections are more poorly results. As a prominent example, Party of the For example, an employee who organized than they were in 2004, said Other than the challenges of forming Regions National Deputy Taras wished to remain anonymous told The Mr. Chernenko of the CVU. the district election commissions, this Chornovil visited a Ternopil radio station Ukrainian Weekly’s Kyiv Press Bureau The vast majority of election commis- year’s elections reveal progress in on January 31 to participate in a radio that the national grocery chain Furshet sions weren’t formed in time, Mr. Popov Ukrainian society, Mr. Chernenko said. show. Pora Civic Party activists greeted has pressured or forced its workers to said. 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2006 WINTER OLYMPICS – TORINO, ITALY

Results for Team Ukraine SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16

Biathlon – Men’s 20 km Individual Biathlon – Women’s 7.5 km Sprint 18. Ruslan Lysenko 3. Lilia Efremova 39. Andriy Deryzemlya 44. Olena Petrova 49. Olexander Bilanenko 49. Oksana Khvostenko 54. Alexei Korobeynikov 50. Nina Lemesh

Nordic Combined – Individual Gundersen 15 km Cross-Country Skiing – Women’s 10 km Classical 45. Sergei Diyachuk 21. Valentina Shevchenko 48. Volodymyr Trachuk 27. Tatjana Zavalij 44. Kateryna Grygorenko SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12 F igure Skating – Men’s Alpine Skiing – Men’s Downhill 20. Anton Kovalevski Reuters 47. Nikolay Skriabin Bronze medalists Elena Grushina and Ruslan FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Goncharov of Ukraine (right) with gold medalists Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov of Russia Cross-Country Skiing – 15 km Classical (center) and silver medalists Tanith Belbin and 18. Roman Leybyuk Benjamin Agosto of the U.S. 57. Vladimir Olschanski 61. Vitaly Martsyv THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 64. Alexander Batyuk Biathlon – Women’s 4x6 km Relay SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 11. Oksana Khvostenko, Olena Petrova, Nina Lemesh, Lilia Efremova Alpine Skiing – Men’s Super G 53. Nikolay Skriabin Figure Skating – Ladies’ 17. Galina Efremenko Biathlon – Women’s 10 km Pursuit 18. Elena Liashenko 8. Lilia Efremova 41. Nina Lemesh Freestyle Skiing – Men’s Aerials Reuters DNS Olena Petrova 12. Enver Ablaer The Olympic flag is carried during the closing cere- Lapped Oksana Khvostenko 13. Stanislav Kravchuk monies of the Winter Olympics. 26. Igor Ishutko Biathlon – Men’s 12.5 km Pursuit 27. Oleksandr Abramenko 33. Andriy Deryzemlya Cross-Country Skiing – Ladies’ 15 km Pursuit 43. Ruslan Lysenko FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 14. Valentina Shevchenko DNS Olexander Bilanenko 26. Vita Jakimchuk Alpine Skiing – Ladies’ Giant Slalom 40. Kateryna Grygorenko Cross-Country Skiing – Ladies’ 4x5 km Relay 45. Tatjana Zavalij 35. Yulia Siparenko 8. Kateryna Grygorenko, Tatjana Zavalij, Vita Cross-Country Skiing – Men’s 30 km Pursuit Jakimchuk, Valentyna Shevchenko Cross-Country Skiing – Ladies’ 30 km Free, 47. Mikhail Gumenyak Mass Start SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19 50. Roman Leybyuk 7. Valentina Shevchenko 53. Olexandr Putsko 22. VIta Jakimchuk Cross-Country Skiing – Men’s 4x10 km Relay 58. Alexander Batyuk 42. Kateryna Grygorenko 14. Roman Leybyuk, Vladimir Olschanski, Olexandr DNF Marina Malets Lisogor MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13 Putsko, Mikhail Gumenyak MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Biathlon – Women’s 15 km Individual 21. Oksana Khvostenko Alpine Skiing – Men’s Giant Slalom Alping Skiing – Men’s Slalom 30. Olena Petrova 26. Nikolay Skriabin 36. Nikolay Skriabin 37. Lilia Efremova 47. Valj Semerenko Figure Skating – Ice Dancing Biathlon – Women’s 12.5 km Mass Start 3. Elena Grushina/Ruslan Goncharov 17. Lilia Efremova Figure Skating – Pairs 20. Julia Golovina/Oleg Voiko 12. Tatiana Volosozhar/Stanislav Morozov SUNDAY, FEBRUARY26 19. Julia Beloglazova/Andrei Bekh TUESDAY , FEBRUARY 21 Cross-Country Skiing – Men’s 50 km Free, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 Biathlon – Men’s 4x7.5 km Relay Mass Start 7. Olexander Bilanenko, Andriy Deryzemlya, Alexei 56. Mikhail Gumenyak Skiing – Men’s Combined Downhill Korobeynikov, Ruslan Lysenko 62. Vladimir Olschanski DNF Nikolay Skriabin DNF Olexander Putsko Nordic Combined – Individual Sprint 7.5 km Biathlon – Men’s 10 km Sprint Biathlon 45. Sergei Diyachuk 29. Andriy Deryzemlya 48. Volodymyr Trachuk DNQ = did not qualify 36. Olexander Bilanenko DNS = did not start 46. Ruslan Lysenko WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 DNF = did not finish 74. Vyacheslav Derkach Alpine Skiing – Ladies’ Slalom Source: Torino 2006 website Cross-Country Skiing – Ladies’ Team Sprint 45. Yulia Siparenko DNQ for final Marina Malets Lisogor and Tatjana Zavalij Cross-Country Skiing – Ladies’ Sprint 36. Vita Jakimchuk Cross-Country Skiing – Men’s Team Sprint 43. Marina Malets Lisogor DNQ for final Ivan Bilosyuk and Vitaly Martsyv Cross-Country Skiing – Men’s Sprint Luge – Women’s Singles 40. Ivan Bilosyuk 6. Liliya Ludan 42. Vitaly Martsyv DNS Natalia Yakushenko 62. Mikhail Gumenyak 66. Olexandr Putsko WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 Freestyle Skiing – Ladies’Aerials Luge – Men’s Doubles 13. Olga Volkova 14. Andriy Kis/Yuriy Hayduk 18. Tatiana Kozachenko Reuters DNS Oleg Zherebetskyy/Roman Yazvinskyy 20. Nadiya Didenko A view of the Torino Games’ closing ceremonies. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 No. 10 Three Ukrainians receive awards from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

by Andrij J. Semotiuk Borisow also met with senior execu- consul general and the vice-consul attended a Mr. Kokush’s “Ukrainian Cranes” were the tives of Sony Pictures dinner reception at the home of Charmian and first to bridge the Atlantic to bring the modern HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Newly Entertainment, who expressed strong Peter Borisow. Guests included Anatoly Ukrainian film industry to Hollywood. Now appointed Ukranian Ambassador to interest in the Ukrainian market. Kokush, president of Kyiv-based Filmotechnic Ambassador Shamshur has extended Ukraine’s the United States Dr. Oleh and recipient of two awards from the academy; hand to Hollywood and opened the door for Shamshur, arrived in Los Angeles on Ambassador Shamshur advised Sony executives that Ukraine is its Yelena Strokach, president of Filmotechnic Hollywood and the Ukrainian film and televi- Friday, February 17, to attend the International; studio executive Iya Labunka; sion industries to join forces to serve and devel- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and own separate market for which gov- director Wes Craven; screenwriter Paul op the Ukrainian market, with both Ukrainian- Sciences Scientific and Technical ernment regulations now mandate Wolansky; and three-time Academy Award win- and English-language films and programs. Awards ceremonies at which three Ukrainian-language dubbing of films ning documentary film director Mark Harris. Ambassador Shamshur’s visit celebrated Ukrainians from Kyiv were honored. for distribution in theaters and on tel- On Saturday afternoon, February 18, Ukraine’s Scientific and Technical Awards Ambassador Shamshur, Consul evision. He also stressed the necessi- Ambassador Shamshur placed flowers at the and focused the spotlight on future Ukrainian General Mykola Tochytskyi and ty for direct dialogue between Ukrainian Genocide Memorial on the Civic achievements in the world film industry. Vice-Consul Taras Kuzmych were Hollywood studios and the Ukrainian Center Mall in the heart of downtown Los Summing up the experience, the ambassador greeted by their host, Peter Borisow, film and television industries, as well Angeles and met with genocide survivor said, “I look forward to the day when I return Eugenia Dallas and members of the Los to Hollywood to applaud Ukrainian winners at Angeles community who are active in educat- the Oscars.” ing the public about the Holodomor. The Hollywood Trident Foundation, which Later that evening the ambassador and his hosted the Ukrainian ambassador’s visit to guests attended the Scientific and Technical Los Angeles, was formed to foster more films Awards Ceremony held in the Grand about the contribution of Ukrainians to mod- Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Three ern civilization worldwide and also to bring Ukrainians, Mr. Kokush, Yuriy Popovsky and together entertainment and media industry Oleksiy Zolotarov, received Scientific and professionals in support of the following fur- Engineering Awards for the concept and ther objectives: to support fellow members in development of the Gyro-stabilized Camera their career pursuits in the entertainment and Crane and Flight Head. media industry in Hollywood and internation- On presenting the award, the evening’s ally; to facilitate contact among professionals host, actor Rachel McAdams, suggested that working in the entertainment industry who are the device, frequently mislabeled as “the interested in Ukrainian affairs; and to conduct Russian Arm,” should really be called “the seminars, workshops and other entertainment Ukrainian Crane,” a comment that drew projects for members. applause from the audience. * * * Mr. Kokush began developing gyro-stabi- lized camera cranes and flight heads as a young According to the Ukrinform news service, At the Scientific and Technical Awards of the Academy of Motion engineer in Kyiv in the 1970s. Filmotechnic’s Filmotechnic’s devices have been used to Picture Arts and Sciences (from left) are: Ambassador Oleh Shamshur, leading-edge technology, now used on virtually shoot hundreds of films, including “Titanic,” Anatoly Kokush, Peter Borisow, Oleksiy Zolotarov and Yuriy Popovsky. all major Hollywood productions, is considered “War of the Worlds,” “Batman Begins,” “The the Rolls Royce of the business. Italian Job,” “Harry Potter” and “The DaVinci president of the Hollywood Trident as government agencies. Mr. Kokush also received a second Code,” as well as over 1,000 concerts by such Foundation, who took them to Sony Dr. Shamshur expressed support Scientific and Engineering Award for the con- performing artists as Julio Iglesias, Sting, The Pictures Studios, where they had for Hollywood-Ukrainian co-pro- cept and development of the Cascade Series Scorpions and Deep Purple. lunch with Michael Kohut, president ductions both in English and in of Motion Picture Cranes. The lightweight Ukrinform also reported that, during his visit structure of the Cascade and the Traveling to California, Ambassador Shamshur also had a of Post Production Facilities, and Ukrainian. Sony executives compli- mented the ambassador on Ukraine’s Cascade Cranes allows filmmakers to reach brief informal meeting with Gov. Arnold were given a tour of Sony’s state-of- new anti-piracy law and encouraged heights of up to 70 feet, making otherwise Schwarzenegger and met with Mayor Abi Lend the-art studios and sound stages. collaboration on further efforts. impossible shots possible. of West Hollywood, Vice-Mayor Steven Webb Ambassador Shamshur, Consul This was the first such high-level With these new developments, Mr. Kokush of Beverly Hills. In addition, he attended divine General Tochytskyi and Peter meeting between representatives of has kept Filmotechnic a step ahead and a head liturgy at the local Ukrainian Catholic Church Ukraine and a Hollywood studio above the inevitable copycats. Despite rich and met with community representatives. Andriy J. Semotiuk is executive and marks the beginning of a new and tempting offers to move his business else- On February 23, the Embassy of Ukraine director of the Hollywood Trident era for the Ukrainian film industry. where, Mr. Kokush refuses to leave Ukraine hosted Messrs. Kokush and Zolotarov at a Foundation. That evening the ambassador, the and his beloved Kyiv. reception in Washington.

The Washington Group Cultural Fund concert features Volodymyr Vynnytsky by Yaro Bihun Quartet in a special concert marking the Square in London. the audience, which included Ukraine’s Special to The Ukrainian Weekly composer’s 60th birthday. Then, as at the He has resided in the United States since ambassador-designate in Washington, last concert, among the works he per- 1991. He is a visiting member of the piano Oleh Shamshur, raised a toast to mark WASHINGTON – The world of clas- formed was Skoryk’s “Burlesque.” faculty at the University of Connecticut and Mr. Vynnytsky’s 50th birthday. sical music is celebrating the 250th That 1998 concert was held at the is the artistic director of the Music and Art The cultural fund’s 2005-2006 music anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Dumbarton United Methodist Church, Center of Greene County, N.Y. series concludes on April 9 with a con- Mozart’s birthday this year, and The one of the historic churches in Mozart’s was not the only anniversary cert by the winners of the 6th Washington Group (TWG) Cultural Fund Washington’s Georgetown area used as a celebrated at the February 12 concert. International Competition for Young joined in the celebration on February 12 venue for the cultural fund’s concerts at During the reception following the per- Pianists in Memory of Vladimir thanks to pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky, that time. Over the past five years, these formance, Ms. Zielyk and members of Horowitz, held in Kyiv in 2005. the featured artist of the third concert in concerts, which are presented under the the fund’s 2005-2006 music series. patronage of the Embassy of Ukraine, The Ukrainian-born pianist honored have been held at another historic venue, the Austrian composer with the first two The Lyceum, in “Old Town” Alexandria, pieces of his concert, Mozart’s Fantasia Virginia, just outside Washington. in D-minor and Sonata in B-flat major. Mr. Vynnytsky was born in Lviv, The rest of the program included Peter where he began his musical studies at the Tchaikovsky’s Original Theme and Lviv Music School for Gifted Children. Variations in F-major, Frederic Chopin’s He continued his music education at the Sonata No. 3 in B-minor, and, as is the Moscow Conservatory, where he custom of the fund music series, a com- received his doctorate in 1983. That same position by a Ukrainian composer. This year he was a laureate of the Margueritte time, the audience was treated to the con- Long-Jacques Thibaud International temporary Ukrainian composer Myroslav Piano Competition in Paris. Skoryk’s “Burlesque.” Since then he has taught at the Kyiv As TWG Cultural Fund Director Marta Conservatory, played with orchestras in Zielyk noted in her introduction, Mr. Ukraine, Europe and the United States, Vynnytsky is well known to the fund’s and performed in such leading concert concert series audiences. He has per- halls as Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert formed a number of times – as a soloist, Hall, Steinway Hall, the Phillips Gallery Yaro Bihun accompanist and with chamber ensem- in Washington, the Great (Bolshoi) Hall at Raising a toast to pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky (second from left) following his bles. Indeed, in 1998 he joined with Mr. the Moscow Conservatory, the Theatre concert are Ukrainian Ambassador Oleh Shamshur, TWG Cultural Fund Skoryk and the Leontovych String Champs d’Elysees and St. John’s Smith Director Marta Zielyk and its former director, Laryssa Courtney. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 15

Retrospective exhibition in Toronto Hnizdovsky’s ‘extraordinary richness’ spotlights works by Ihor Kordiuk exhibited at University of Manitoba that have enriched the cultural life of WINNIPEG – The exhibition “An Manitoba Libraries have had a long tradi- Toronto’s Ukrainian community to this Extraordinary Richness: The Works of tion and relationship with the Ukrainian day. Jacques Hnizdovsky in Private community in Manitoba, and that 2006 Mr. Kordiuk passed away prematurely Collections in Winnipeg” opened on marks the 57th anniversary of the estab- at the age of 58 in October 2004, leaving February 5 in the Icelandic Collection of lishment of the Slavic Collection at the behind the fruits of 30 years of creative the Dr. Paul H. T. Thorlakson Gallery at Elizabeth Dafoe Library. work in Canada and a collection of earli- the University of Manitoba’s Elizabeth She explained that the original collec- er work still in Munich. The retrospec- Dafoe Library. The exhibition was on tion consisted of 2,000 volumes of tive nature of the current exhibition pro- display through March 5. Carolynne books, journals and newspapers. Today, vided a wider display of the artist’s cre- Presser, the director of libraries at the the number has grown to 60,000 books, ative range than was possible in 1976. University of Manitoba, and Orysia journals, newspapers and microforms, From the artist’s biography, it is inter- Tracz, curator of the exhibition, spoke at comprising material in all 14 Slavic lan- esting to note that he began his artistic the opening which was attended by over studies in Munich at the studio of the guages, with the majority in the 100 guests. Ukrainian, Polish and Russian languages. renowned sculptor Gregor Kruk. He con- Ms. Presser noted in her introductory tinued his studies at the Chelsea School comments that the University of (Continued on page 19) of Art in London and the Art Academy in Munich. In 1972 he visited the United States and worked in the studio of Jurij Solovij. Mr. Kordiuk began exhibiting his A painting by Ihor Kordiuk. paintings in the late 1960s in Munich. In 1971 he was accepted to the Salon by Irma Osadca Payne International de l’Art Libre in Paris. After arriving in Canada, he began to TORONTO – The unique Ukrainian have shows in commercial galleries such artist Ihor Kordiuk moved to Canada as Bau-Xi Gallery, Bellair Gallery and from Munich, Germany, in 1975. In that Madison Gallery. year, art patrons Mykhajlo and However, his bohemian nature drew Yaroslawa Szafraniuk were realizing him to also exhibit at alternative galleries their dream of establishing the Ukrainian and with artists’ collectives. He worked Canadian Art Foundation (UCAF), out of his warehouse studio in the whose initial location was at 2395 Bloor Liberty Village neighborhood of Toronto St. W. Auspiciously, the first solo exhibi- where many artists have their studios. tion of an artist organized by the new At the exhibition opening on Sunday, foundation in 1976 was that of Mr. January 29, artist Taras Polataiko deliv- Kordiuk. ered remarks about Mr. Kordiuk, with The exhibition introduced Toronto’s whom he had a close association. Mr. A view of the exhibit of works by the late Jacques Hnizdovsky. Ukrainian community to the young artist Polataiko’s achievements in the interna- and to his original paintings and draw- tional art world have made his name ings steeped in mysticism. Influences familiar to art lovers. In 2002 he repre- apparent in his artwork stemmed from sented Ukraine at the XXV Bienal de early cultures in ancient Ukraine and Sao Paulo in Brazil. Jarema Novorozhkin’s exhibition European avant-garde art movements. The retrospective exhibition of Ihor On the 30th anniversary of this exhibi- Kordiuk’s art was on display at the “My Aquarium” on view in Chicago tion, UCAF will again present the work Ukrainian Canadian Art Foundation by Serge Mykhalyuk his reality is much more complicated and of this artist, whose original exhibition Gallery, 2118-A Bloor St. W., from multidimensional. His works surpass was the first of many at the foundation January 29 to February 12. CHICAGO – Jarema Novorozhkin, a time and place in the sense that they trace talented and expressive young Ukrainian their origins to the first human encoun- painter who emigrated to Chicago and ters with fish and cats. currently works in “The Windy City,” “Stills” by Anya Antonovych will show his work at the exhibition “My Mr. Novorozhkin is a native of Lviv. Aquarium,” a blend of mystical symbol- He studied at the Lviv Art Academy in ism and reality on March 3-24. 1995-2001 and moved to Chicago in on display in Chicago gallery Mr. Novorozhkin is a young man who 2002. His oil paintings have been exhib- does not allow empty emotions and sen- ited in Ukraine, France and Chicago. CHICAGO – The UA Group will host of India. sations to guide him in achieving ulti- They are in private collections there and “Stills,” an exhibition of abstracted land While reminiscent of color field work mate inspiration for his works. On the in Canada. and cityscapes by Anya Antonovych. The by Mark Rothko and zip paintings by contrary, the aquarium, a seemingly lim- In addition to his “Chats et Poissons” exhibition opened on Friday, March 3, at Barnett Newmann, Ms. Antonovych’s ited environment, has become a source of series on exhibit at the Ukrainian the Independent Radio Gallery, 2306 W. series of drawings are still fresh and inti- transcendence, a self-contained and yet National Museum, Mr. Novorozhkin’s Chicago Ave. mate. They evidence a meditative draw- immense universe. restoration work may be seen in St. ing practice; this renewed search for the The exhibition will run through March Even though it may seem that he is Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Church 12. Gallery hours are Friday, 6-9 p.m., spiritual through color and geometry is profoundly obsessed with fish and cats, at Cortez and Oakley streets in Chicago. Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.- 5 p.m., or especially relevant in a time when the by appointment by calling 773-329-0137. structures of organized religion seem to This series of pastel drawings is based be failing more and more at their ostensi- on sketches and notes made on a recent ble missions of bringing peace to people. six-month voyage through India, Ms. Antonovych credits her mentor, Bangladesh, Thailand, Nepal and Tibet. Chicago artist John Fraser, with instilling The title of the exhibition, “Stills,” refer- in her the importance of negotiating form ences film stills or photographs, as the and feeling in drawing. She noted that she drawings serve as Ms. Antonovych’s sub- is thankful for his confirmation that draw- stitute for more technological records of ing is indeed a serious medium, and need her travels. not serve merely as a prelude to painting. An exploration of color and space, Ms. Antonovych is a 25-year-old these highly geometric drawings seem at Ukrainian American Chicagoan. She first to be antithetical to stereotypical completed her undergraduate studies in Western notions of India: the strict geom- English literature and the history and phi- etry is strangely at odds with the wild losophy of science at McGill University patterns one associates with India; the in Montreal. She hopes to pursue a mas- sense of stillness unlike the chaotic bus- ter’s degree in fine art in the near future. tle of the streets and train stations and Ms. Antonovych regards travel as the marketplaces. Color, however, is the truest form of education; she has resided essence of India, especially when in Scotland, France and Canada, and has remembered in gray on gray Chicago. traveled extensively through Western and Aside from capturing color, these draw- Eastern Europe, the United States and ings convey stillness: the deep serenity Asia, with visits to Africa and Central that underlies the superficial unruliness America. One of Jarema Novorozhkin’s works from the exhibit “My Aquarium.” 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 No. 10

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wholesale oil market,” the Ukrainian presi- Ukrainian people,” Mr. Tarasyuk added. “I what NATO and the EU [European Union] NEWSBRIEFS dent told the news conference. Ukraine view it as a provocation because the peo- mean,” he noted. Opinion surveys routine- (Continued from page 16) completed the 674-kilometer Odesa-Brody ple suggesting the referendum did nothing ly find that more than 50 percent of address on February 25. “On March 26 pipeline in 2002. Failing to find both oil during their decade-long period in power Ukrainians oppose potential NATO mem- the Ukrainian people will elect not a suppliers and buyers, Kyiv decided to to clearly explain to Ukrainian citizens bership. (RFE/RL Newsline) prime minister or a chancellor, but prima- reverse the pipeline flow in 2004 to take Russian oil south. (RFE/RL Newsline) rily a new parliamentary majority. I believe that it will be a democratic majori- Tarasyuk against NATO referendum ty,” he added. (RFE/RL Newsline) KYIV – Foreign Affairs Minister Borys Two presidents discuss pipeline Tarasyuk has described the recent proposal to hold a referendum on Ukraine’s NATO KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor membership as a provocation, Interfax- Yushchenko and his Polish counterpart, Ukraine reported on February 24. “Given Lech Kaczynski, pledged in Kyiv on the political forces proposing the referen- February 28 to pursue talks on extending dum, it looks like an attempt to stage a Genevieve Zerebniak the Odesa-Brody oil pipeline across full-scale nationwide provocation,” Mr. former vice-presidentess of the UNA, former honorary member of the Poland to the Baltic Sea, Ukrainian and Tarasyuk said at a news conference in Supreme Assembly and former longtime secretary of Branch 180 of Akron, international media reported. However, Chernihiv on February 24. The referendum Ohio, passed away on February 11, 2006. Mrs. Zerebniak was also very active President Kaczynski suggested at a joint idea is being promoted, among other in the Ukrainian Youth League of North America, the Ukrainian Junior news conference after his meeting with forces, by the Ukrainian Social League and the Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church. Mr. Yushchenko that they have not Democratic Party – United led by Viktor achieved any progress on the project. “If Medvedchuk. Mr. Tarasyuk recalled that She was predeceased by her husband, Harry. Mrs. Zerebniak is survived by Poland does not build [its] section of the Mr. Medvedchuk, in his former capacity as her son Harry of Canal Fulton, Ohio; daughter-in-law Linda; grandchildren oil pipeline, Ukraine naturally is entitled to head of the presidential administration, Michael, Kimberly and Matthew; daughter Ann of Portsmouth, choose whatever option suits it best,” signed many documents declaring New Hampshire; and son, John with daughter-in-law Gretna of Reuters quoted Mr. Kaczynski as saying. Ukraine’s commitment to Euro-Atlantic Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. “The Odesa-Brody project, [extended] integration. “It looks like he has woken up subsequently to Gdansk, may become one and realized that it [NATO membership] Vichnaya Pamyat! of the most interesting projects of Europe’s allegedly does not meet the interests of the

In loving memory of our mother, With deep sorrow we inform family, friends and former parishioners that on Wednesday, February 22, 2006, Emilia Balaban (née Pawlyk) entered into eternal rest at the age of 54, Born on September 27, 1911 Died on February 25, 2006 our son, brother and uncle Emilia Balaban was a long-time member of the Ukrainian Women’s Rev. Bohdan (Barry) Kin League; she was also a Ukrainian School teacher in Jersey City; Born on January 27, 1952, in Brooklyn, New York. she was the widow of Jakiw Balaban. Ordained on October 1, 1977, by Bishop Basil Losten. She will be buried in St. Andrew’s Cemetery Parastas was held and served by Monsignor John Terlecky on Friday, in South Bound Brook, NJ, on March 4, 2006. February 24, 2006, at St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Hamptonburgh, N.Y.

Funeral liturgy was celebrated by Bishop Basil Losten on Saturday, She is survived by: February 25, 2006, at St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in son Zinowij and his wife, Halya Hamptonburgh, N.Y., followed by interment at Holy Ghost Cemetery. son Alexander grandson Michael and his wife, Laryssa In deep sorrow Rev. Kin leaves behind: mother Anna Kin granddaughter Uliana and her fiancé, Ingo Putze sisters Mary Kin-Selezniov sister-in-law Olha and her daughter, Christine Carter Christine Pawlyk with husband Orest sister-in-law Maria Pawlyk nephews Steve Selezniov with wife Selina and extended family throughout Ukraine and the world. Michael Pawlyk niece Tania Pawlyk Vichnaya Pamyat! and extended family and many friends near and dear in the United States and Ukraine. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation in our mother’s name to Eternal memory. The Ukrainian Museum in New York.

With profound sorrow, we inform our friends and the Ukrainian community, that by the will of the Almighty, on February 12, 2006, in North Palm Beach, Fla., at the age of 80, departed from us our unforgettable husband, father, father-in-law and grandfather. In loving memory of Volodymyr Ivanovych Bilajiw Born on June 25, 1925, Damian Porytko in the town of Mospyno, Donetsk Region, Ukraine 15 July 1919 – 9 February 2006 Former head of the Ukrainian National Rada, former director of the Ukrainian Branch of “Voice of America,” associate member of Ukrainian Born in Knyahynych, Rohatyn, veteran of the Ukrainian First Academy of Arts and Sciences, poet-laureate of the Ukrainian Mohyla- Division of Halychyna. Active member of the Ukrainian Catholic Mazepian Academy of Sciences, celebrated Ukrainian journalist, author Church of St. John in Hunter, N.Y. and community activist.

Services were held on February 11, 2006, in Hunter, N.Y. His remains will be buried in his native Donetsk region, Ukraine. and the body was laid to rest at St. Andrew’s Cemetery in South Bound Brook, N.J. In lieu of flowers we ask that you make contributions to charities in his memory. Family members surviving his loss: wife Elizabeth Overwhelmed by sorrow are his wife Dorothy, daughters Alla Rogers and son Bohdan with wife Natalia Gina D. Long and her husband Steven and grandson Nolan Thomas, as well grandson Bohdan as other family members in Ukraine and the United States.

Eternal peace be with Damian! May he rest in peace Eternal Memory 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 No. 10

During the 2005 World Trade nation and she remains the fund’s chair. newspaper with a circulation of at least The Socialist... Organization battles in Ukraine’s She recently indicated a similar posi- half a million readers. (Continued from page 3) Parliament, the Socialist Party consistent- tion on the Nikopol Ferroalloys Plant, a Through this newspaper, the Socialists mid-level Ukrainian businesses and the ly voted against legislation that would second major industrial enterprise the are able to communicate with its solid National Democratic Institute for pave the way for Ukraine’s membership. Yekhanurov government is trying to electoral base of rural and small-town International Affairs. (Dr. Taran is 28th The Socialist Party views WTO mem- reclaim from businessman Viktor Ukrainians, the majority in central Pinchuk, Leonid Kuchma’s son-in-law. Ukraine, who dislike the Communist on the Reforms and Order-Pora Bloc’s bership far more negatively than the Party of the Regions, which has support- The Socialist Party has avoided any Party but support socialist ideas, particu- electoral list.) ed WTO legislation despite their pro- overt position on granting the Russian larly in the agricultural sector. While it used to be just to the left of Russian image. language official status. In the past, Mr. The party has consistently been able center, now the Socialist Party is now to The disagreements caused serious Moroz has prepared such legislation, said to secure between 6 and 8 percent of the the right and willing to form a parliamen- fractures in the Orange coalition. During Ivan Lozowy, president of the Kyiv- vote in the past two parliamentary elec- tary majority with the Our Ukraine bloc the July debates, former Minister of the based Institute of Statehood and tions. In the 2002 elections the Socialist after the March 26 elections, experts said. Economy Serhii Teriokhin referred to the Democracy, which is exclusively Party won in the Poltava Oblast. Socialists hold key, powerful positions Socialists’ behavior as treacherous for financed by Ukrainian business dona- In this year’s campaign the Socialist in Prime Minister Yurii Yekhanurov’s agreeing to vote on WTO bills, but then tions. Party has about 8 percent of the vote, government, among them Minister of backing out at the last minute. However, Socialist Party members according to the National Institute of Agriculture Oleksander Baranivskyi, While State Property Fund Chair typically use the Ukrainian language in Strategic Research, a government Minister of Education Stanislav Semeniuk supported the privatization of their public appearances. research agency that often performs Nikolayenko, State Property Fund Chair the massive Kryvorizhstal steel mill in work for the president and his Campaign strategy Valentyna Semeniuk and the very popu- Kryvyi Rih, she opposed its reprivatiza- Secretariat. lar Minister of Internal Affairs Yurii tion on the auction block, arguing that it The Socialist Party is barely visible on According to the Western-financed Lutsenko. should remain in government control. Ukrainian television, which is where Democratic Initiatives Foundation, the Despite their prominence, the Socialist She even submitted resignation papers most of the parties are spending their Socialist Party has the support of about 5 Party doesn’t see eye-to-eye with the Our after Netherlands-based Mittal Steel Co. money in campaigning. percent of the electorate. Ukraine and Yulia Tymoshenko blocs on won the Kryvorizhstal mill for $4.8 bil- Its main propaganda vehicle has been Party leaders many issues. lion. Mr. Yushchenko rejected her resig- Silski Visti, Ukraine’s most widely read Though not the most dynamic leader in Ukraine’s political spectrum, Mr. Moroz is among the most recognized, having served as Verkhovna Rada chair- man between 1994 and 1998. During that time, he was a fierce opponent of reforms toward private property, Mr. Lozowy said. Mr. Moroz is essentially competing with Mr. Lytvyn to reclaim the Rada chairman’s post, Dr. Taran said. Ms. Semeniuk is second on the elec- toral list and Mr. Nykolayenko is third. During his tenure as Education Minister, Mr. Nykolayenko has increased the num- ber of students learning on government scholarships in institutions of higher edu- cation by 1.5 percent, according to cam- paign literature. Teachers’ salaries have increased 45 percent. Silski Visti Editor-in-Chief Ivan Spodarenko is fourth on the party’s list, while Serhii Chervonopyskyi, who merged his Svicha Party with the Socialists, is fifth. Mr. Chervonopyskyi chairs the Ukrainian Association of Afghanistan Veterans.

Rep. Davis... (Continued from page 5) borhood. He thanked Mr. Watral for his and the credit union’s activities on behalf of Ukraine. Rep. Davis actively participates in many of Chicago’s Ukrainian American community events and has been instru- mental in advancing positive initiatives to enhance the community. He stressed his wholehearted support for democratic initiatives in Ukraine and the strengthen- ing of bilateral relationships between the United States and Ukraine.

Election Notebook (Continued from page 3) already observed campaigning in Kharkiv, while the second group will observe on Election Day. Meanwhile, the Kyiv press office of the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) declined to comment on how many election observers it will sponsor and whether any would arrive from the United States. • KYIV – The Party of the Regions announced March 2 that it has sent a let- ter to the Our Ukraine Bloc’s leadership requesting live televised debates between Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Yurii Yekhanurov. Mr. Yekhanurov has already indicated his interest in debating Mr. Yanukovych, and so has former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 19

1933 when he set out by train to member of her family to “dekulakiza- from starvation. Multiply her suffering Ambassador Shamshur’s... Ukraine’s Donbas mining area in search tion” and famine, says such memories by at least 7 million – those are the most (Continued from page 8) of work. He says thousands of starving can never be erased. Nor does she want modest estimates of human losses can describe adequately what it was like. peasants, painfully thin with swollen bel- to forget them. Ukraine suffered during the Holodomor. They tell of the entire village population lies, lined the rail track begging for food. “My baby sister died of hunger in my Today I am adding my voice to many swelling up from starvation. They tell of The train stopped in the city of arms. She was begging for a piece of others who ask you to provide Ukrainians the “dead wagons” day after day picking Dnipropetrovsk, and Burtianski says he bread, because to have a piece of bread in with an opportunity to commemorate the up dead bodies to dump them later in pits. was horrified by what he saw there. the house meant life. She pleaded for me immeasurable suffering and horrid death of millions of their kin and to condemn They tell of whole villages becoming “At Dnipropetrovsk we got out of the to give her a bit of bread. I was crying and told her that we didn’t have any. She told this act of genocide by erecting a solemn deserted, of homeless children roaming carriages. I got off the wagon and I saw lots of people swollen and half-dead. And me that I wanted her to die. Believe me, memorial in the heart of America which the country in search for food, and of rail- some who were lying on the ground in it’s painful even now. I was little myself has always been so attentive to pain and road stations flooded with starving peas- convulsions. Probably they were going to then. I cried, but my heart was not torn to injustice inflicted upon others. ants who had to beg lying down for they die within a few minutes. Then the rail- shreds because I couldn’t understand why By doing so you will also pay tribute to were too weak to stand. Many tried to way NKVD quickly herded us back into this was all happening. But today, and ever over 1 million Ukrainian Americans mak- cross the border to the Russian Federation, the wagons.” since I became an adult, I haven’t spent a ing an outstanding contribution to the pros- where bread was available. But the secret Grain and potatoes continued to be har- day in my life when I haven’t cried. I have perity of this country. This memorial will police established border checkpoints to vested in Ukraine, driven by the demand never gone to sleep without thinking about be yet another sign of the developing part- prevent anyone from carrying food from of Stalin’s quotas. But the inefficiency of what happened to my family.” nership between Ukraine and the United Russia to Ukraine. This meant the de facto the Soviet transportation system meant Let us think about this little girl. States now standing together for democra- blacklisting of the entire Ukraine. that tons of food literally rotted uneaten – Visualize this Ukrainian martyr forced to cy and against tyranny and oppression. Graphic portraits of the horrors of vil- sometimes in the open and within the see her dear ones die one after another Thank you. lage life during the Holodomor emerge view of those dying of starvation. from testimonies of eyewitnesses gath- The scene Burtianski described was ered by British journalist Askold repeated in towns and cities all over TOURS TO UKRAINE Krushelnycky. Ukraine. In the countryside, entire vil- Oleksa Sonipul was 10 in 1933 and lages were being wiped out. The hunger For a 16-day ALL-INCLUSIVE adventure lived in a village in northern Ukraine. She drove many people to desperation and from Kyiv to Lviv through the Carpathians, said by the beginning of that year, famine madness. 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He said people were shot for garden, and because of that they took trying to steal grain or potatoes from the everything from grandfather and all the local collective farm, which was sur- seeds that grandmother had gathered for rounded by barbed wire and guarded by sowing the following autumn. And the next armed men. He said people were execut- day, the first day of Christmas, they came ed even for trying to pick up a few loose to us, tore out our windows and doors, and seeds dropped on the ground. took everything to the collective farm.” “A tragedy developed. People became As villages ran out of food, thousands swollen, they died by the tens each day. of desperate people trekked to beg for The collective farm authorities appointed food in towns and cities. Food was avail- six men to collect and bury the dead. able in cities, although strictly controlled From our village of 75 homes, by May through ration coupons. But residents 24 houses were empty where all the were forbidden to help the starving peas- inhabitants had died.” ants and doctors were not allowed to aid Many people met their deaths with the skeletal villagers, who were left to quiet resignation, praying and comforting die in the streets. their starving children with fairy tales. Fedir Burtianski was a young man in Teodora Soroka, who lost nearly every

tication, intelligence, refinement, wit and Hnizdovsky’s... humor, a keen observer of nature and the (Continued from page 15) human situation, a man of empathy and Ms. Presser also mentioned the newly sympathy. ...He is so loved that I think an launched – in 2003 – Archives of the event like this could be held in practically every large city in North America – and I Ukrainian Canadian Experience, which hope it is.” preserve the collective memory of She detailed the Winnipeg connections Ukrainian Canadians by gathering to Hnizdovsky and spoke of her own papers, documents, photographs, audio encounters with the artist at the and visual recordings and other archives Ukrainian National Association estate from individuals and institutions in the Soyuzivka, in Winnipeg and in New Ukrainian community, on Ukrainian life Jersey. in Canada. She also thanked the collectors who In her opening remarks Ms. Tracz, lent the exhibition their works, including curator of “An Extraordinary Experience,” Oksana Rozumna and Dr. Jaroslav paid tribute to Hnizdovsky: “Jacques – Rozumnyj, Vera Hrycenko, Dr. Jaroslav Yakiv – Hnizdovsky was a man of beauty, and Maria Barwinsky, and Natalia elegance, modesty, simplicity and sophis- Radawetz. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 No. 10 No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 21 COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Ukrainian National Ansonia celebrates ‘Schedryi Vechir’ Federal Credit Union The shortest way to your first million! • Deposits • Investments • IRA • Credit cards and many other financial products

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ÔÓ‚¥‰ÓÏÎflπ ‚Ò ˜ÎÂÌÒÚ‚Ó, ˘Ó John Sywanyk of the East End Ukrainian Americans presents a donation for the Orphans’Aid Society to Mary Jowyk. RIVERHEAD, N.Y. – On November 5, Presently, there are no Ukrainian cultur- êßóçß áÄÉÄãúçß áÅéêà 2005, the East End Ukrainian Americans al centers on eastern Long Island, resulting of eastern Long Island, New York, spon- in a lack of Ukrainian American national sored their inaugural autumn dinner-dance organizations and activities. Consequently, ‚¥‰·Û‰ÛÚ¸Òfl to benefit the Orphans’ Aid Society. The the East End Ukrainian Americans were dance was held at the American Legion established to promote Ukrainian aware- Hall with musical entertainment provided ness and cultural activities. by the Halychany Ensemble. Mary Jowyk, president of the ‚ ̉¥Î˛, 2-„Ó Í‚¥ÚÌfl 2006 ð. Eastern Long Island has a rich Orphans’ Aid Society, who was present Ukrainian American history, with the at the event, explained that the Orphans’ Ó 2-¥È „Ó‰. ÔÓ ÔÓÎ. first Ukrainian immigrants settling in the Aid Society was organized in 1992 to area in the late 19th century. Successive assist orphans in Ukraine. Mrs. Jowyk waves of Ukrainian immigrants brought stressed the importance of supporting ‚ Á‡Î¥ their Ukrainian customs and traditions. Ukraine’s future generations, especially ìÍð‡ªÌÒ¸ÍÓ„Ó ç‡ðÓ‰ÌÓ„Ó ÑÓÏÛ In recent years, hundreds of newly orphans, who are enduring severe social, arrived Ukrainian Americans have settled financial and economic hardships. 142 Second Ave., New York, NY. here and are employed as agricultural, Participants at the zabava (dance) gen- industrial and construction workers, as erously contributed money and raffle well as domestic, hospital and home care prizes. The net profit of $350 was donat- èðÓÒËÏÓ ˜ÎÂÌ¥‚ ÔðËÌÂÒÚË ˜ÎÂÌÒ¸ÍÛ ÍÌËÊÍÛ. workers. ed to the Orphans’Aid Society. êÂπÒÚð‡ˆ¥fl ˜ÎÂÌ¥‚ Need a back issue? If you’d like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: ÔÓ˜Ë̇πÚ¸Òfl ‚ 1-¥È „Ó‰. ÔÓ ÔÓÎۉ̥. Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 No. 10

“퇇Í!Í! ìÍÍð‡ªÌˆ¥ð‡ªÌˆ¥ ÔÂðÂχ„‡‡˛Ú¸˛Ú¸ ÒÏ¥˛˜ËÒ¸” which they were originally handcuffed UNA president’s... and taken away from their home. (Yees,s, Ukrainians Win Laughing”) (Continued from page 7) Though we understand that immigra- tion law is part of federal jurisdiction, we A unique publication about the events that took place during the 2004 presidential people suspected of not having proper documentation as dangerous criminals – are deeply disturbed that in our state of elections in Ukraine. The book features the Ukrainian people standing up for honest New Jersey such horrific methods are and transparent elections as well as combating the flagrant fraud of the vote by the the equivalent of ax murderers and drug lords? What is going on here? being used – rounding up people in the government. Abundant in illustrations, it conveys the spirit of Independence Square in The treatment the Karnaoukh family middle of the night. For all immigrants Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, during the peaceful Orange Revolution. “í‡Í! ìÍð‡ªÌˆ¥ received is shameful, unacceptable, from Eastern Europe – whether Ukraine, ÔÂðÂχ„‡˛Ú¸ ÒÏ¥˛˜ËÒ¸” became possible thanks to the financial support by Alex, appalling. Unacceptable anywhere in the or Poland or Romania or Russia – the Halyna, George and Nina Woskob and the Ivan Bahriany Foundation. The project was United States, a nation of immigrants, symbolism of the methods used against administered and coordinated by Oleh Chornohuz and Yuri Zadoya, respectively. documented and undocumented, and def- the Karnaoukh family is truly terrifying. initely not in New Jersey, home to hun- Since the times of the Russian Cheka of To order the book, please send $25 and your requests to: The Ivan Bahriany Foundation, dreds of thousands of recent immigrants. the early 20th century, for Eastern Attn.: DeEtte K. Riley, AW & Sons, 309 East Beaver Ave., State College, PA 16801 Europeans the night-time raid is the The Karnaoukh family, originally penultimate example of a totalitarian from Ukraine, had been living in the government using its power against vul- United States for 15 years with legal nerable and defenseless people. work papers and were, they believed, in Why are we, Americans, doing this? the middle of an appellate process Notice to publishers and authors We are not this kind of nation. We must regarding their immigration status. A It is The Ukrainian Weekly’s policy to run news items and/or reviews of newly pub- remain a bastion of hope and justice. We hearing on February 10 showed that the cannot repeat often enough how lished books, booklets and reprints, as well as records and premiere issues of periodicals lawyer whom they trusted and paid, absolutely appalled we are by what hap- only after receipt by the editorial offices of a copy of the material in question. instead took their money and did noth- pened to our neighbors in New Jersey. Send new releases and information (where publication may be purchased, cost, etc.) ing. As a result, the Karnaoukh family We would be equally disturbed if we was deported on February 10, put on a to: Editorial Staff, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ found out that in New Jersey local and plane at JFK International Airport, wit- 07054. state law enforcement officials were nesses say, wearing the same pajamas in being used to carry out federal immigra- tion policy in this draconian manner. Protecting people, on the one hand, and dragging them out of their homes, defenseless, before the light of day, on the other, are contradictory mandates. The status of our federal immigration policy is cause for dread. Laws are arbi- trarily enforced, therefore gross injus- tices occur. Unscrupulous lawyers con- tinue to practice since their clients get deported and there is no one with stand- ing to sue them or force them to be dis- barred. Ever more frequently, inexperi- enced local and state enforcement offi- cials are being used to enforce federal immigration policy. Hard-working pro- fessional people such as the Karnaoukhs, whose sons were paying their way through local colleges, and who meet the test for self-sufficiency by any standard, should have been offered a chance at their hearing to file an appeal. Instead, they are sent back, while ringleaders in the black market of forced labor can be found in every major city in this country. Aside from expressing our outrage, we specifically ask that someone from your office, the executive of our state, be assigned to find out exactly who was used to raid the Karnaoukh home in New Jersey. Also, as the publisher of two of the oldest Ukrainian community newspapers in the United States, the Ukrainian-lan- guage Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly, published in English, with a combined readership of 10,000 in New Jersey, we ask for your comments on the following. Regarding the tactics used against the Karnaoukh family: how frequently does this happen in New Jersey? What is the policy in New Jersey for using state and local law enforcement officials in depor- tation raids? What, if any, control does the state of New Jersey have over dra- conian methods used by federal mar- shals, or other federal enforcement offi- cials, against those suspected of being in the U.S. illegally? The story of how the Karnaoukh fami- ly was deported will appear, sooner or later, in the media in Ukraine. Their story will fuel the fires of those who for decades have been stoking anti- American sentiments. It will cause deep pain for those who still view our country as a beacon. Our actions must not be this uncon- scionable, this foolish. I look forward to a reply from one of you. I can be reached directly at: 973- 292-9800, x 3016.

Sincerely, Stefan Kaczaraj, president Ukrainian National Association No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 23 St. Andrew Memorial Church hosts a triple celebration

SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. – St. During the celebration, the faithful also Andrew Memorial Church held a triple cel- honored and saluted Taras Pavlovsky, who ebration here at the Metropolia Center of retired after 27 years as the choir director at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the St. Andrew Memorial Church. From the U.S.A. as the community marked a historic young age of 19, Mr. Pavlovsky remained anniversary and honored key members of committed to an integral part of the church. their congregation. Archbishop Antony presented him with a It has been a little more than 50 years blessed certificate of appreciation. During since ground was broken for the impressive the banquet following the liturgy, Mr. St. Andrew Memorial Church. It took more Pavlovsky was also presented with a set of than 10 years to complete the project, but special hand-written icons. the community rallied around it almost The Pokrova Sisterhood of St. Andrew immediately. The church – which is dedi- Memorial Church also was honored by the cated to the victims of the Famine- archbishop. The members of the Sisterhood Genocide that ravaged Ukraine in 1932- were presented with a blessed certificate of 1933, taking 10 million lives – has appreciation recognizing them for their con- remained a lynch-pin in the Orthodox tinued dedication and devotion to the Church. Church, the Ukrainian community and the Archbishop Antony said the Pokrova local community as well. Sisterhood is often honored because its The celebrations of the church’s 50th members are the hardest working members anniversary took place during the feast day of the Church – they constantly give of of the church’s patron saint, a tradition that themselves and are not concerned with any- Archbishop Antony presents a blessed certificate of appreciation to Taras all Ukrainian parishes follow to honor their thing other than the betterment of their Pavlovsky, who retired as choir director at St. Andrew Memorial Church. patrons, parishioners and priests. Church.

not a proper measure of assistance. Then Turning the pages... USAID said that Ukraine received so little EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY (Continued from page 8) assistance because it had not pursued eco- the amount expended for 1992-1994 on a nomic reforms. And yet, Belarus received SUMA (Yonkers) Federal Credit Union is seeking an 3.5 times as much aid as Ukraine, while per capita basis, which is what I did.” Accounting Professional. This individual would be responsible Mr. Iwanciw then found an eye-opening Tajikistan received 2.5 times as much – that result: “Rather than ranking third, Ukraine despite the fact that both countries were for all the company’s bank and transaction account reconcilia- ranks 11th out of 12 NIS countries. Only decidedly far behind on economic reform. tions. Previous bank reconciliation experience required. Mr. Iwanciw’s conclusion: “The reali- Uzbekistan ranks behind Ukraine. Even SUMA offers a competitive salary and benefits package, Azerbaijan, a nation prohibited from receiv- ty is that the administration has not pur- ing U.S. assistance because of its war with sued a ‘Russo-centric’ policy as much as including 401 (K). Qualified applicants should send a resume, Armenia, comes out ahead of Ukraine.” it has pursued an ‘anti-Ukrainian’ policy, no doubt to please the Kremlin.” including salary history and requirements to: Furthermore, with $7.5 per capita in U.S. SUMA (Yonkers) Federal Credit Union Attn.: Walter Kozicky aid, Ukraine was well below the average for Source: “The real story of U.S. assis- NIS countries, which was $16.47. tance,” in “Letter from Washington” by 125 Corporate Blvd., Yonkers, NY 10701 When USAID was asked about these fig- Eugene Iwanciw, The Ukrainian Weekly, Or e-mail to: [email protected] ures, first it said per capita expenditures are March 5, 1995, Vol. LXIII, No. 10. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 No. 10 No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 25 OUT AND ABOUT

March 7 Discussion: “What can be expected from the New York March 2006 parliamentary elections in Ukraine?” Columbia University, 212-854-4687

March 11 Pysanky Playshop, Pennsylvania Anthracite Museum Scranton, PA 570-963-4808

March 11 Pikkardiyska Tertsia in concert, St. Nicholas Chicago Ukrainian Catholic School, 773-774-5997

March 12 Pikkardiyska Tertsia in concert, Ukrainian Cultural Warren, MI Center, 586-757-1306

March 11-12, 18-19 Springtime Pysanka Bazaar, Ukrainian National Chicago Museum, 312-421-8020

March 12- May 28 “Chornobyl + 20: This Is Our Land ... We Still Live New York Here,” The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110

March 18 Pikkardiyska Tertsia in concert, Ukrainian Catholic Washington, DC Shrine of the Holy Family, 410-952-8374

March 19 Pikkardiyska Tertsia in concert, Ukrainian Cultural Jenkintown, PA Center, 215-663-1166

March 19 European Folk Festival, featuring the Syzokryli New York Ukrainian Dancers, among others, Fashion Institute of Technology, 718-846-0682

March 19 “The Legend of Rusalka,” featuring the Rusalka Winnipeg Dance Ensemble and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, 204-338-6103

March 26 Spring Concert of Roma Pryma Bohachevsky New York School of Ukrainian Dance, St. George Academy 201-432-6359

Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions from all our readers; please send e-mail to [email protected]. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors and as space allows; photos will be considered. Please note: items will be printed a maximum of two times each. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 No. 10 No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 27 Renowned Pikkardiyska Tertsia begins its third North American tour by Yarema Belej Frankivsk and Chernivtsi, where the 4), Chicago (March 11), Detroit (March “Anthology: Volume II” during the tour. group won the grand prix and three first 12), Washington (March 18), Philadelphia For ticket information please refer to PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Pikkardiyska prizes in different categories at the festi- (March 19), New York (March 24) and the concert ad or the “Out and About” Tertsia’s songs and sounds remain with val Dolya-94. However, the singers’ cre- Toronto (March 26). The group plans to section in this week’s newspaper, or log the listener long after the CD has stopped ative work is especially appreciated in present a completely new program titled on to http://www.tertsia.info. spinning. They speak to their audience Kyiv and their native Lviv. quietly and purposefully. They are one of Pikkardiyska Tertsia is as unique as its the most unique acts to emerge out of name, which translates to “Picardian Ukraine since its freedom. Chord.” Used in European classical Best known for their unique a capella music, the term refers to a harmonic singing, this group of six very talented device in which a major chord is used at Ukrainian singers has finalized its North the end (but not always) of a musical sec- American Tour schedule: concerts are tion in a minor key. It is a musical device scheduled in major cities from Chicago to that is unusual to the ear, and often can New York, all within the month of March. easily change the mood of the song. The group has gained a large audience The group started as a quartet that within Ukraine and abroad. The upcom- sang ancient and folk Ukrainian songs in ing tour marks Pikkardiyska Tertsia’s 1992. Soon they grew into a sextet com- third such trip to North America; the prising Andrii Kapral, Andrii Shavala, group has also performed throughout Volodymyr Yakyments, Bohdan Bohach, Europe, including Poland, Germany, Roman Turianyn and Yaroslav Nudyk. Italy, Russia and France. They have also Pikkardiyska Tertsia has amassed a performed benefit concerts; for example, repertoire of classical, liturgical, folk and an appearance on French TV raised original songs that numbers more than money for children with cerebral palsy. 300 songs. Unfortunately for its fans, not The artistry and performing skills of all have been recorded. Ukrainian singers were highly appreciat- The group has released eight albums ed by listeners in Munich where seven to date – including “A Garden of Angelic years ago Pikkardiyska Tertsia was the Songs,” “I’ll Invent the World,” first group from Eastern Europe to take “Anthology” and “Eldorado” – that have part in the International Festival of a sold very well in Ukraine and abroad. capella music called Vokal Total. Pikkardiyska Tertsia has also recorded The sextet is well-known in Donetsk – with Ukrainian pop superstar Ruslana. starting from 1992, when a song by the Furthermore, other performance record- group closed the music festival Freedom ings are available online and at many of Choice, and when the Chervona Ruta kiosks during Ukrainian festivals. festival took place there – as well as in Pikkardiyska Tertsia’s North American Ternopil, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Ivano- tour includes concerts in: Cleveland (March University of Wisconsin conference to focus on ‘Chornobyl Here and Now’

MADISON, Wis. – The legacy of the of local and regional NGOs to aid and explosion at the Chornobyl Nuclear train populations in the affected lands. Power Station in Ukraine 20 years ago The conference is being sponsored by this April will be the subject of a confer- FOCCUS, the Friends of Chornobyl ence at the University of Wisconsin – Centers, U.S.; the Center for Russia, East Madison titled “Chornobyl Here and Europe and Central Asia, a member-pro- Now: Global Engagement, Local gram of the UW-Madison’s International Encounters.” The conference, to be held Institute; and the Stasiuk Program for the on March 23-25 at the Pyle Center, 702 Study of Contemporary Ukraine at the Langdon St., is free and open to the pub- University of Alberta. lic. Pre-registration is required. For more information, contact Lara Among the speakers are: David Kain at the Center for Russia, East Marples, professor of history, University of Europe and Central Asia, 210 Ingraham Alberta, Edmonton, and the author of “The Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, Social Impact of the Chornobyl Disaster”; WI 53706-1397; telephone, 608-265- Louisa Vinton, United Nations 6298; fax, 608-890-0267; e-mail, out- Development Program, New York; Oksana [email protected]. Additional Garnets, United Nations Development information, including a registration Program, Ukraine; Evelyn J. Bromet, pro- form, is available on the conference web- fessor of psychiatry and preventive medi- site at http://www.wisc.edu/creeca/cher- cine at the State University of New York at nobyl2006. Stony Brook; Yuri Risovanny, former sen- ior engineer, Pripyat Industrial Association. April 26, 1986, marked not the limit but the starting point of the Chornobyl catastrophe. Its repercussions continue to be seen among the 5 million people liv- ing across regions of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia that were contaminated by the accident. The affected populations have had to cope with the ongoing political, social, environmental and health conse- quences of the accident. Moreover, they have had to cope with the often conflict- ing recommendations of scientists and experts who have yet to come to a con- sensus on Chornobyl’s aftermath. The conference will examine the ongo- ing psychological and social effects of the disaster and how governmental and non- governmental organizations have changed over time to address the evolv- ing nature of the disaster. The conference will also examine the legacy of Chornobyl here, including disaster relief training and practice as well as the efforts 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 No. 10

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A JENKINTOWN, Pa.: All are cordially Ukrainian Language Immersion wine bar and buffet selections matching the invited to attend a special benefit dinner for June 2-4, 2006 wines are included. Guests will be able to the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Weekend offered at SUNY to be held at 5 p.m. at the Ukrainian New Paltz Ukrainian Language Immersion view and to purchase some wonderful fine art featuring well-known artists from the Educational and Cultural Center, 700 Cedar Weekend offered at SUNY Road. The main speaker at the dinner will April 2, 2006 Philadelphia area. Tryzubivka is located at New Paltz Lower State and County Line roads, be the Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak, rector of the Wedding Shower Horsham, Pa. Admission is $25 per person Ukrainian Catholic University. 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