INSIDE: • Kuchma fires procurator general on suspicion of corruption — page 3. • “Famine Remembrance Week” scheduled in New York — page 4. • New stamp honors Ukrainian Canadian astronaut — page 13.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXI HE No.KRAINIAN 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine Montreal Ukrainians protest Dispute over Tuzla changes Ukraine’s stance toward Russia T U by Roman Woronowycz W Russian actions near Tuzla Kyiv Press Bureau by Simon Kouklewsky KYIV – Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma signaled on October 27 that the MONTREAL – Montreal Ukrainians dispute over the construction of a dike to gathered in front of the Russian link Russian territory with a Ukrainian- Federation’s General Consulate here on owned island in the Kerch Strait could Wednesday, October 29, to voice their turn Ukraine onto a more direct path disapproval of Russian pretensions to towards Europe. Mr. Kuchma noted his Ukrainian territory. More than 30 surprise and displeasure with the re- demonstrators waved signs reading: emergence of Russian imperialistic “Russia, respect Ukraine’s borders!” – ambition in Moscow’s attitude toward “Russie, respectez les frontières de Kyiv during the crisis. l’Ukraine!” “The recent events will force us to These slogans were also chanted by reconsider our foreign policy once the demonstrators together with: “Good again,” explained President Kuchma in neighbors respect borders” – “Les bons an interview with the Moscow-based voisins respectent les frontières.” Izvestia newspaper, and added that “it The president of the Ukrainian will not make the Russian great power Canadian Congress, Montreal Branch – happy.” Quebec Provincial Council, the Very Mr. Kuchma gave his interview on Rev. Dr. Ihor Kutash, read a press release AP October 23, three days after he aborted a prepared by the UCC National President President Leonid Kuchma looks through binoculars at the Russian dike being state visit to Brazil and returned to Kyiv Eugene Czolij. In addition, historical and constructed near the island of Tuzla, Ukraine. to oversee the escalating crisis over the recent developments were related regard- construction of a dike in the Kerch Strait, ing Tuzla Island. belonged to Ukraine and would not be believe the construction of the [dike] is a which Russia had begun from its Taman The demonstration was conducted in the subject of negotiations, slamming his manifestation of that [type of thinking].” Peninsula without informing Ukraine. Canada’s two official languages. fist to the table to lend emphasis to his President Kuchma said Ukraine would Russia’s President Vladimir Putin The event, which transpired during the declaration, according to the Novyi abandon the Single Economic Space ordered construction halted the same day lunch hour ended with the singing of the Kanal television channel. agreement should the Russian dike cross Mr. Kuchma flew back to Kyiv, after he national anthems of Canada and Ukraine. During his interview with Izvestia the Ukrainian border. spoke with the Ukrainian president via All relevant (French, English and three days later, Mr. Kuchma was just as The construction of the sand-and- telephone. Upon his return Mr. Kuchma Ukrainian) local media received press indignant and emotional. He compared stone wall to Tuzla, which was halted immediately left for Tuzla, the five-mile- releases the evening before. Three cov- Russia’s attempt to take Tuzla to the for- just 100 meters short of Ukrainian terri- ered the demonstration: Radio Canada long strip of an island at the center of the eign policy of the Chinese Middle tory, began on September 29 4.5 kilome- International (Ukrainian Section – diplomatic storm, which Ukraine Empire. ters away, on Russia’s southwesternmost www.rcinet.ca), Ukrainian Time (Radio believes Russia is trying to reclaim in “Everything was declared in their point, the tip of the Taman Peninsula. It CFMB – www.UkrainianTime.com) and order to give itself an advantage in nego- master’s ownership,” noted Mr. Kuchma went on for nearly two weeks before www.Quebec-Ukraine.com/news/ (pho- tiations over delimitation of the Kerch in explaining the foreign policy of Moscow finally responded to two official tos). Strait and the Sea of Azov. China’s Middle Empire. “A similar atti- diplomatic notes from Kyiv requesting At a press conference on the island the tude is typical of some Russians with an explanation. When the reply finally (Continued on page 18) Ukrainian president asserted that Tuzla respect to the CIS member-countries. We came, its contents were quite unexpect- ed: Russia demanded that diplomats in Kyiv present proof the island belonged to Ukraine. Ukraine responded forcefully to the Australians’VICTORIA, Australia tree-planting – Australians ceremony commemorates Famine victims belligerent request from Moscow by on Saturday, October 25, planted many sending armed border troops to the hundreds of trees to commemorate the island and conducting live-fire military millions who perished in Stalin’s act of exercises less than 50 miles from the dis- genocide against the Ukrainian nation, puted building project. the Great Famine of 1932-1933. Even with construction of the dike In gusty conditions at Point Cook now halted, the possibility of armed con- Coastal Reserve, Victoria’s Ukrainian flict receding and official acknowledg- community was joined by: Kaye ment by the two governments that the Darveniza, parliamentary secretary to the issue of ownership of the Kerch Strait premier; Nicola Roxon, federal shadow and the Sea of Azov at long last needs to minister for immigration and multicul- be resolved, the two sides continued to tural affairs; Andrew Olexander, repre- bicker. senting the Liberal Party; Telmo A day after Ukraine’s Prime Minister Languiller, member of the government of Viktor Yanukovych met with his Russian Victoria; Chargé d’Affaires of Ukraine counterpart, Mikhail Kasyanov, in Oleksander Mischenko; as well as repre- Moscow on October 24 to negotiate a sentatives of the Croatian, Cypriot, way out of the dispute, the two govern- Laotian, Lithuanian and Scottish com- ments were at it again, this time dis- munities, and journalist Steve Waldon of agreeing over whether the terms they The Age. hammered out in Moscow included the The tree-planting ceremony was pre- removal of Ukrainian border troops from ceded by a solemn church service con- the island. ducted by Catholic and Orthodox clergy During the tree-planting ceremony commemorating the 10 million who perished in Hours after Mr. Yanukovych had flown the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 in Ukraine (from left) are: Stefan Romaniw, (Continued on page 18) Telmo Languiller, Oleksander Mischenko and George Fedyszyn. 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ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Russian-Ukrainian strategic partnership Border guards hunker down the democratic opposition for the next presidential election will be discussed at appears to be in ruins due to Tuzla issue TUZLA ISLAND, Ukraine – A a democratic forum in Kyiv in six weeks’ Ukrainian border-guard unit deployed time. (RFE/RL Newsline) by Taras Kuzio Ukraine has always been for a territorial earlier this month to Tuzla Island in the RFE/RL Newsline status quo; it defends its territorial integrity Kerch Strait is preparing to spend the SBU sees no threat to Yushchenko winter there, Interfax reported on based on everything it inherited from KYIV – The Security Service of The recent dispute over the tiny Tuzla Soviet Ukraine. Ukrainian officials remind- October 29, quoting a State Border Ukraine (SBU) on October 28 said it sees Island in the Kerch Strait, the entrance to ed their Russian colleagues that copies of Troops spokesman. Russian Prime no threat to the life of Our Ukraine leader the Azov Sea, should not be happening. Soviet documents showing Ukraine’s right Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said after his Viktor Yushchenko but added that securi- The Ukrainian-Russian “strategic partner- to Tuzla exist in both Kyiv and Moscow. talks with his Ukrainian counterpart, ty has been provided for his protection, ship” – which was devoid of real content The Ukrainian side was infuriated by Viktor Yanukovych, in Moscow on Interfax reported. The move was prompt- during Ukrainian President Leonid Russia’s claims that it does not possess and October 24, and repeated on October 28, ed by President Leonid Kuchma’s order Kuchma’s first term in office and under is unaware of any such documents. Russia that the two men agreed that the con- that the SBU and the Internal Affairs Russian President Boris Yeltsin – was has also always insisted that there are no tentious construction of a Russian dam in Ministry look into Mr. Yushchenko’s beginning to be filled with some substance legal documents proving that the port of the Kerch Strait will not be extended any recent allegations that political oppo- during Mr. Kuchma’s second term and Sevastopol was transferred together with further toward Tuzla in exchange for the nents are trying to kill him. (RFE/RL under Russian President Vladimir Putin. Crimea to Soviet Ukraine in 1954. removal of Ukrainian border guards from Newsline) As the Kuchmagate crisis unfolded after Russia’s attitude toward CIS “inter- the island. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian November 2000 and the reformist govern- Foreign Affairs Ministry on October 27 nal” borders remains ambivalent. After Prime ministers discuss Tuzla ment of Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko years of territorial demands on Crimea refuted Mr. Kasyanov’s assertion by say- was removed in April 2001, Ukraine’s and the port of Sevastopol, Russia agreed ing that Mr. Yanukovych only stressed MOSCOW – Russian Prime Minister multi-vector foreign policy was reoriented to sign a treaty that recognized Ukraine’s during the talks that Tuzla is an inalien- Mikhail Kasyanov and Ukrainian Prime toward Russia and the CIS. borders only in May 1997. It took Russia able part of Ukraine. (RFE/RL Newsline) Minister Viktor Yanukovych met on For Moscow, the crowning achieve- October 24 to discuss the ongoing dispute nearly two more years for both houses of Tuzla issue pushing Kyiv Westward ments of this reorientation came this year. its legislature to ratify the treaty – a step over the Tuzla islet, Russian and interna- Last year, 2002, was designated the “Year that was taken only after the Verkhovna KYIV – Ukrainian President Leonid tional media reported. Russia agreed to of Russia in Ukraine,” and in January Rada itself ratified Crimea’s non-sepa- Kuchma said in the October 27 issue of suspend construction of a dam from the 2003 Mr. Kuchma became the first non- ratist constitution. the Moscow-based Izvestia that the con- Russian mainland to the islet, which is Russian leader in the Commonwealth of Then, another five years were required struction of a Russian dam in the Kerch located in the Kerch Strait connecting the Independent States to be elected head of (1999-2003) to complete work on delim- Strait is pushing Ukraine closer to the Black and Azov seas, while the Ukrainian the CIS Council of Heads of State. On iting the Ukrainian-Russian border. In West, Interfax reported. “The closer the side agreed to withdraw its border guards September 17 Ukraine, Russia, Kazakstan that agreement, Kyiv bowed to Russian dam is to our shores, the closer we are in from the island. The two sides will try to and Belarus signed the CIS agreement on pressure to define the Azov Sea as joint our moods to Europe and the West in resolve the disputed status of the Azov the Single Economic Space (SES), only “internal waters,” a definition Russia has general,” Mr. Kuchma said. He suggested Sea and the Kerch Strait within the next 12 days prior to the beginning of the terri- supported also in the Caspian. that the dam project is nourishing the two-three months. Tensions, however, torial conflict over Tuzla. But Russia continues to reject any imperial ambitions of some political quickly re-emerged, with Russian media Ukraine’s reorientation toward Russia demarcation of its border with Ukraine, forces in Russia. “One cannot help sym- accusing the Ukrainian side of reneging and the CIS seemed set to continue. as it does with other CIS states. Russia pathizing with the Russian leadership on the October 24 agreement. “Ukrainian President Kuchma desperately needs defines “internal” and “external” (i.e., the that sometimes is forced to take into border guards, who were supposed to President Putin’s support in the October former Soviet, except vis-à-vis the Baltic account neocolonial sentiments in leave the Tuzla spit immediately, have not 2004 presidential election in order to states) borders differently. To define Russian society, in the Russian ruling gone anywhere and, it would appear, have ensure that a suitable successor – if them in the same manner would be to class, and among the Russian generals,” no intention of leaving,” the ORT news indeed a suitable one can be found – is abandon the view of the CIS as the not- Mr. Kuchma said. (RFE/RL Newsline) service reported on October 25. The next elected. One way to achieve this was to foreign “near abroad.” day, ITAR-TASS reported that the Yushchenko: opponents trying to kill me again play the Russian card in eastern President Kuchma was criticized in Ukrainian government has appropriated Ukraine, a tactic Mr. Kuchma successful- Ukraine earlier this year for succumbing to $1 million to improve “amenities” at its ly used in the 1994 presidential election. KYIV – Viktor Yushchenko, leader of Russian pressure on the Azov Sea. By border post on Tuzla. (RFE/RL Newsline) This can now be ruled out. Pro-Kuchma the opposition Our Ukraine bloc, said on agreeing that the Azov Sea is joint internal October 24 that his political opponents Crimean Prime Minister Serhii Kunitsyn Politicians take stands on territory waters, he might have sent the wrong signal are taking measures to kill him, Interfax lamented this week: “I don’t know whose to Russia over the entrance to the Azov Sea. idea it was to build the dam, but I do know reported, quoting the Our Ukraine press MOSCOW – Duma Deputy Dmitrii Ukraine’s control of Tuzla and the Kerch service. “There are projects under which Rogozin, chairman of the Duma’s that it is ruining everything achieved dur- Strait gives it the ability to control the ing the Year of Russia in Ukraine.” killers have already arrived and taken Foreign Affairs Committee, visited the entrance to the Azov, from which it obtains appropriate measures that cannot be disputed territory on October 25, ORT As the crisis escalated, calls from $150 million per year in fees from ships. within Ukraine’s elites to speed up steps described as jokes,” Mr. Yushchenko reported. Rogozin declared that no one This, then, explains the incomprehen- claimed. He revealed that some 40 crimi- to join NATO – an objective first out- had the right to “usurp” the Kerch Strait sion of both sides at the speed with which nal cases have been opened against Our lined in a presidential decree in July or to “take” the Azov Sea, which, he the conflict has escalated. Despite meet- Ukraine lawmakers. “I am proud that, the 2002 – became more frequent. Our said, “are the internal waters of both ing regularly over the last three years for pressure notwithstanding, there are 103 Ukraine Deputy Yurii Yekhanurov, chair- Russia and Ukraine.” Ukrainian “no-neck-tie summits,” Presidents national deputies in the Verkhovna man of the Verkhovna Rada’s Industrial President Leonid Kuchma, meanwhile, Kuchma and Putin failed to contact each Rada’s [Our Ukraine caucus] who are Policy and Enterprise Committee, told told izvestia.ru that some people in other until after Mr. Kuchma had left for keeping Ukraine away from a tragic sce- Parliament on October 22 that Ukraine Russia have a “craving for imperial self- Latin America on October 20. Mr. nario,” he added. Moreover, Mr. should rebuild a small nuclear deterrent assertion.” There are, he said, “neocolo- Kuchma returned from what was to be a Yushchenko told a forum of democratic as the only way to deter similar threats to nial sentiments in Russian society, in the 10-day tour on October 22 to oversee the forces in Kharkiv on October 26 that a Ukraine’s territorial integrity. handling of the Tuzla dispute and Prime single platform and a single candidate of (Continued on page 8) In a secret presidential decree dated Minister Viktor Yanukovych similarly October 21, Mr. Kuchma outlined steps cancelled a visit to the Baltic states. to be taken to defend Ukraine’s territorial President Kuchma visited Tuzla on integrity. Those steps included Ukraine October 23 to check its defenses, and that FOUNDED 1933 quitting the recently agreed-upon SES if day construction of the dam was halted Russia attempts to encroach on its terri- just 100 meters from the island. 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The these waters lie at the heart of the conflict. unit is backed up by the Internal Affairs The Ukrainian Weekly Archive: www.ukrweekly.com Ministry’s special forces, with naval units on Dr. Taras Kuzio is a resident fellow at stand-by. An air defense exercise also been The Ukrainian Weekly, November 2, 2003, No. 44, Vol. LXXI the Center for Russian and East Copyright © 2003 The Ukrainian Weekly European Studies, University of Toronto. (Continued on page 19) No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003 3 NEWS ANALYSIS: The “Putin Doctrine” is amended by Roman Kupchinsky empire. But time is on their side. In a presidential elections due in March 2004 adopted in January 2000, there was no RFE/RL Newsline decade or two, with petro-dollars flowing – to the imperial nostalgia of a segment such emphasis on “allies.” into the Russian economy, this will of the Russian population that continues Russian officials argue that the newly At an October 9 press conference in change; but presumably the Putin to mourn the loss of empire. But all indi- revised Putin Doctrine will bring greater Yekaterinburg, Russia, that included Doctrine will remain in force and Russian cations are that President Putin’s re-elec- stability to the region; and stability is the Russian President Vladimir Putin and aspirations will continue to grow. tion is already virtually assured and there name of the game concerning energy visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Mr. Ivanov also announced that U.S. is, therefore, no need to promulgate such supplies to Western Europe, which cur- Schroeder, Russian Defense Minister bases in Central Asia, presently being a dangerous “doctrine” merely to win rently depends on Russia for 28 percent Sergei Ivanov declared that Russia used in the war on terrorism in votes. of its gas supplies, and potentially to the reserves the right to intervene militarily Afghanistan, will have to be dismantled This amended doctrine seems to be the United States. within the Commonwealth of once that war is over. His statement pro- logical extension of a series of recent This consideration no doubt figured in Independent States (CIS) in order to set- vided few clues as to who might deter- moves by some in the Kremlin to reassert the timing of the announcement – during tle disputes that cannot be solved through mine when that war is over: Russia or the control over what they consider to be Chancellor Schroeder’s visit to Russia. negotiation. At the same press confer- United States. Furthermore, it was unclear Russia’s sphere of influence over a vital- Germany, which is dependent on Russia ence, President Putin declared that the whether Messrs. Ivanov and Putin had the ly important region. for 12 percent of its natural gas and 18 pipelines carrying oil and natural gas to consent of the presidents of the sovereign An agreement signed in September on percent of its oil, is vitally interested that the West were built by the Soviet Union states in which those bases are situated to the creation of the Single Economic the pipelines and stability be maintained. and it is Russia’s prerogative to maintain make such a statement, or whether they Space (SES) in which Russia, Ukraine, The stability argument implies that them in order to protect its national inter- even bothered to ask. Nevertheless, they Belarus and Kazakstan relinquish some Russia is positioning itself to be the guaran- ests, “even those parts of the system that placed Washington on notice. of their sovereign rights to a supranation- tor of regional stability throughout the CIS. are beyond Russia’s borders.” Thirty-five years earlier, in November al body in which Russia has the largest But the policies outlined by President Putin These seemingly new additions to the 1968, a similar “doctrine” was pro- bloc of votes, was one such move. Mr. and his defense minister – which might or “National Security Concept” adopted in claimed by Soviet leader Leonid Putin’s declaration to the European might not represent a general consensus January 2000 (shortly after Boris Yeltsin Brezhnev. Czechoslovak reformers under Union that Russia will not give up state among policymakers in the Kremlin – are handed over his presidential powers to the leadership of Alexander Dubcek had control over its oil and gas pipelines was likely to increase suspicion of every Russian Mr. Putin) and subsequently known as been attempting to implement “socialism another. This was a further indication that move by its neighbors. Suspicion often the “Putin Doctrine,” codified what some with a human face” via reforms that came Russia intends to challenge the United leads to misunderstandings, or worse. The observers might consider Russian claims to be known as the “Prague Spring.” States (and China) in the oil-rich Caspian ongoing standoff concerning the construc- tion of a Russian dam near the Ukrainian to hegemony in the CIS and an unveiled Brezhnev declared that the USSR has the region and in Central Asia, with its enor- border in the Sea of Azov is a case in point. threat to Georgia. The international right to intervene in the internal affairs of mous natural gas reserves. If the Putin Doctrine intends to reverse media did not comment on Chancellor members of the Warsaw Pact if their Mr. Ivanov adopted an even more omi- history, not for the sake of ideological Schroeder’s seemingly silent acquies- social system is threatened. This, of nous tone on October 2, when he reiterat- purity but as an assertion of its newly dis- cence to the declarations by Messrs. course, meant preserving the totalitarian ed and expanded upon the original Putin covered power, the West and China might Ivanov and Putin. nature of “advanced socialism” and was Doctrine. Mr. Ivanov said the role of find themselves re-examining their rela- It seems clear that Messrs. Putin and cited as justification for the armed inva- nuclear weapons remains a key tenet in tionship with Russia – sooner or later. Ivanov both know full well that Russia – sion of Czechoslovakia that took place in Russia’s defense strategy, and that with an economy the size of that of the August of that year. Moscow does not exclude the possibility Netherlands – is not strong enough at the Some observers see the revised Putin of pre-emptive strikes – if need be – to Roman Kupchinsky is the author of moment to dictate its will beyond the Doctrine as pandering – in the run-up to defend Russia’s interests or those of its RFE/RL Organized Crime and newly drawn borders of its former December’s State Duma elections and the allies. In the National Security Concept Terrorism Watch.

Kuchma fires top prosecutor Quotable notes “Nobody thinks about Ukraine as being halfway between anywhere – not a bridge, not a buffer, but a valuable strategic partner in a hugely important part of the on suspicion of corruption world, an independent, sovereign nation state proud and ambitious to become part of by Roman Woronowycz The anti-corruption committee, which the Euro-Atlantic mainstream. ... We want a democratic and prosperous Ukraine to Kyiv Press Bureau includes the minister of justice, the min- find its rightful place in the Euro-Atlantic community of nations, and we want ister of internal affairs, the director of the Ukraine to be an active and effective contributor in dealing with security challenges.” KYIV – Five days after an announce- Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and ment by the Procurator General’s Office the head of the State Tax Administration, – NATO Secretary-General George Robertson, speaking in Kyiv on October that it had arrested a leading state militia also agreed that Mr. Piskun had turned 20, as quoted by RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service. investigator in connection with the his post into a political soapbox in order Gongadze case, President Leonid “to create a political image for himself.” Kuchma relieved its director for unpro- President Kuchma signed the decree fessional behavior and suspicion of cor- dismissing Mr. Piskun after the anti-cor- ruption. ruption committee made its recommen- Sviatoslav Piskun, who had directed dation public. Mr. Piskun could still face ACTION ITEM the Procurator General’s Office for a year criminal investigation. The Senate’s Famine resolution and four months, was unceremoniously Few indications existed that Mr. dumped after a presidential anti-corrup- Piskun was under fire in his post. In fact, In view of the recently revealed pressure from the White House to weaken the Senate’s Ukraine Famine Resolution and remove the term “genocide” from it, it is tion committee announced it had found his dismissal came only days after what most urgent that Ukrainian Americans and their friends fax letters to Sen. Richard that Ukraine’s chief prosecutor had com- seemed like a huge success for his Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urging him to support mitted “serious violations of legislation agency. On October 24, his No. 2 man, the Ukrainian Famine Resolution, S.Res. 202, as written. and dishonorable deeds.” Viktor Shokin, had announced that the Olga Kolinko, head of President Sen. Lugar’s support is essential and critical to the passage of this resolution. Procurator General’s Office had arrested In your letters please stress that the Ukrainian American community is determined Leonid Kuchma’s Committee on a high-ranking Ministry of Internal Organized Crime and Corruption, made that those who would deny the unconscionable act of the Soviet Communist regime in Affairs official, Oleksii Pukach, the for- engineering the artificial famine in Ukraine in 1932-33 must not be allowed to sweep the announcement during a press briefing mer chief of its Department of Criminal on October 29. Valerii Tsvyhun, a mem- this genocide under the rug of history as journalist Walter Duranty of The New York Investigations. Times tried to do at the time. ber of the committee, noted that the deci- In making the announcement, Mr. sion was unanimous. Current and future generations need to remember this tragic event so that nothing Shokin said the arrest of Mr. Pukach was like it ever occurs again. “No one voted against, and no one tied to the murder of Heorhii Gongadze, voiced a contrary opinion,” explained Please fax your letter to Sen. Lugar’s office, in care of Jessica Fugate, at 202-224- whose death three years ago remains the 0836. Alternately, you may e-mail Sen. Lugar at [email protected], or Mr. Tsvyhun. most high-profile unsolved case in Among the most damaging charges call the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at 202-224-4651. Ukraine, with some of the country’s Your action in support of this campaign for historic truth is vital to its success. leveled by the anti-corruption committee highest ranking state officials still under against Mr. Piskun are allegations that he suspicion. had used departmental money to illegally – Submitted by Ihor Gawdiak, president, Ukrainian American Coordinating At the time of the announcement Mr. Council. import truckloads of goods from Russia. Shokin stated that he was not ready to The committee also charged that he had explain how the state militia’s chief taken extensive, luxurious vacations investigative office was tied to the abroad – last year totaling 29 days – on a Gongadze murder. salary that would not seem to allow it. Mr. Shokin also made a second unex- This issue of The Ukrainian Weekly is reaching In addition, the committee alleged that pected announcement, claiming his all members of the U.S. Congress thanks Mr. Piskun had forcibly taken over cases agency had determined that a second to the generous sponsorship of under investigation by other law enforce- band of killers – dubbed Werewolves II ment agencies, generally involving large in the press – consisting of current and sums of money, and then dragged them out or closed them. (Continued on page 14) First Security Federal Savings Bank. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003 No. 44 “Famine Remembrance Week” scheduled in New York City by Tamara Gallo Renowned scholars and experts will discuss various delivered by Dr. James Mace, formerly staff director of topics related to the international response to and the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine. NEW YORK – To commemorate the 70th anniver- acknowledgement of the Famine-Genocide. Due to lim- A memorial concert dedicated to the Famine is slated sary of the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, ited seating, those interested in attending should register for Friday, November 14, at 6:45 p.m. The concert will a series of events will be organized by the Permanent be held at the United Nations Poseidon Area of the Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations, the Ukrainian with Columbia University by calling (212) 854-6213. That same evening an exhibit dedicated to the 70th Visitors Lobby, public entrance located at 46th Street Congress Committee of America, the Ukrainian World and First Avenue. Congress and the Harriman Institute of Columbia anniversary of the Great Famine, organized by The Ukrainian Museum in New York, will be unveiled at the The week’s events will conclude on Saturday, University during the week of November 10-15, which November 15, with a “March of Remembrance” and a has been proclaimed “Famine Remembrance Week.” United Nations. Although the unveiling of the exhibit is by invitation only, the exhibit will be open to the public solemn requiem service to be held at St. Patrick’s The week’s events will begin with an international Cathedral. The staging point for the march is St. George conference, sponsored by the Harriman Institute of throughout Famine Remembrance Week during regular 9 a.m.-5 p.m. visiting hours at the United Nations Ukrainian Catholic Church located on Seventh Street Columbia University, the Permanent Mission of between Second and Third avenues. Participants are Visitor’s Lobby, public entrance located at 46th Street Ukraine to the United Nations, the Shevchenko urged to wear their Ukrainian embroidered and First Avenue. Scientific Society, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and blouses/shirts and carry Ukrainian flags draped with On Wednesday, November 12, in the United Nations Sciences, and the Ukrainian Congress Committee of black ribbons. Participants are asked to gather at 11 a.m. America. The conference will be held at the Columbia Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium, the documen- in order to be prepared for the 11:45 a.m. departure to University School of International and Public Affairs on tary film “Harvest of Despair” will be screened at 5 St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Monday, November 10, beginning at 9:15 a.m. p.m. Following the screening, a commentary will be The final destination point of the march will be St. Patrick’s Cathedral, located at 51st Street and Fifth Avenue, where a solemn requiem service will be held at 2 p.m. to honor the victims of the Great Famine. The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund: September Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox hierarchs will concel- ebrate the requiem service, with the participation of the Amount Name City FCU Philadelphia, Pa. $250.00 Leonard Mazur Mountain Lakes, N.J. $150.00 Zenon Masnyj New York, N.Y. Dumka Chorus of New York. $200.00 George and Motria $126.00 Friends of Peter Choma King of Prussia, Pa. Following the service, Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Sosenko Oakbrook, Ill. $100.00 Anna Hursky-Devassal Gwynedo Valley, Pa. Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Ukraine’s $100.00 Bohdan Sereda New York, N.Y. Marusia and Myron Ambassador to the United Nations Valeriy Kuchinsky, $75.00 Marko and Eugenia Antoniw Cleveland, Ohio U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Korlatowycz Strongsville, Ohio Margaret and Lew Nycz Kinnelon, N.J. Negroponte and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) will $55.00 Anna and Walter George and Maria Szczupak Old Field, N.Y. Pazuniak Wilmington, Del. address the gathering. $50.00 Halyna Breslawec Potomac, Md. Ukrainian Human Rights The week’s events are co-sponsored by the follow- Bohdan Guran Sarasota, Fla. Committee Abington, Pa. ing: Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Mykola and Oksana Christina Stasiuk and Nations, Consulate General of Ukraine in New York, Herus Eastchester, N.Y. George Farion Philadelphia, Pa. 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(Continued on page 22) No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003 5 UCCA continues campaign to revoke Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize Stanford University to present by Tamara Gallo drive to the Pulitzer Prize Board urging it symposiumSTANFORD, Calif. – The Center honoring for will be “Secret Conquest Documents about the to revoke Duranty’s prize. Russian, East European and Eurasian 1932-1933 Famine in the Archives of the NEW YORK – The UCCA campaign The UCCA’s Kyiv Bureau also solicit- Studies at Stanford University will pres- Central Committee of the Communist to strip Walter Duranty of his 1932 ed letters from various influential ent “Famine in Ukraine: 70 Years After,” Party of Ukraine” (to be presented in Pulitzer Prize has now targeted the chair- Ukrainian citizens. Letters were sent to a symposium honoring Dr. Robert man and publisher of The New York Ukrainian with translation). the Pulitzer Board from National Deputy Conquest for his contributions to the The symposium is scheduled to begin Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., via a mass study of the Famine-Genocide of 1932- Hennadii Udovenko, former president of at 7 p.m. at the Lane History Corner, e-mail drive designed to persuade The the United Nations General Assembly; 1933, on Thursday, November 13. Building 200, Room 002, at Stanford Times to disavow Duranty’s prize. The National Deputy Pavlo Movchan, chair- Featured speakers are: Amir Weiner, University. The event is co-sponsored by public can join this campaign by logging man of the Prosvita Society; Prof. associate professor of history, Stanford on to the UCCA’s website at Volodymyr Serhiichuk, director of the University, who will cover the topic “The the Hoover Institution. www.ucca.org and e-mailing Mr. Ukrainian Studies Center at Taras 1932-33 Famine: Sources, Course and Parking on campus is free after 4 p.m. Sulzberger. Shevchenko National University in Kyiv; Legacies,” and Volodymyr S. Lozitskyi, For further information readers may log In addition, the UCCA is recommend- and Ihor Lubchenko, chairman of the director, Central State Archives of Public on to http://CREEES.stanford.edu or call ing that the community continue to e- Journalists’ Union of Ukraine. Organizations of Ukraine, whose topic 650-723-3562. mail the Pulitzer Prize Board from the The UCCA also co-sponsored the UCCA website, inasmuch as its decision Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties on whether to revoke Duranty’s Pulitzer Association’s worldwide postcard cam- is expected in mid-November. paign directed to Sig Gissler, administra- UOC-USA designates November The campaign to revoke Duranty’s tor of the Pulitzer Prizes. The UCCLA Pulitzer is timed to coincide with the has now begun a postcard campaign as “Famine Commemoration Month” 70th anniversary of the Famine- directed at the publisher of The New Genocide. In early February the UCCA York Times. (A reproduction of the post- SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. – The talk on the Famine-Genocide and the artist initiated a community-wide letter writing card appears on page 6 of this issue.) month of November has been designated and his work. by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Other commemorative events during U.S.A. as “Famine Commemoration the month of November include: Month,” as the world remembers the 70th • Friday, November 7, at 7:30 p.m. – Ethnic Advisory Council member reminds anniversary of the deaths of millions of “Tears of the Mother of God,” a folk Ukrainians. tragedy and prize-winning play by Ulas To mark this solemn anniversary, the Samchuk, depicting life during 1932- New Jersey governor about Great Famine Office of Ethnic and Cultural Affairs is 1933 in Ukraine, presented by the Lviv PRINCETON, N.J. – Camilla Huk is Genocide and a copy of Dr. Bohdan presenting an art exhibition of the graphic State Drama Theater at the Ukrainian no stranger to representing Ukrainians on Vitvitsky’s book, “The Other Holocaust,” art of Mykola Bondarenko. His series of Cultural Center. Tickets: $25; students, the state political scene, as a current and during the annual Women’s Leadership linocuts, “Ukraine 1933: A Cookbook,” $15 (available at the Consistory Offices). past member of the New Jersey Ethnic Breakfast held on September 16 at the will be on display for the entire month of • Sunday, November 23, at 10 a.m. – Advisory Council. Her recently renewed governor’s residence, Drumthwacket, in November in the rotunda and library of hierarchical divine liturgy, memorial membership on the council led to a per- Princeton. Other items in the packet she the Consistory Building of the Ukrainian panakhyda, memorial dinner and program sonal meeting with New Jersey Gov. presented to the governor included a CD Orthodox Church of the U.S.A., located at at St. Andrew Memorial Church and at the James McGreevey during which she had by noted singer Andrij Dobriansky, a 135 Davidson Ave., Somerset, N.J. 08873. Ukrainian Cultural Center. the opportunity to remind the governor woodcut print of hollyhocks (“malvy”) The exhibition opening will be held on For information and directions, contact of the significance of the Great Famine by New Jersey artist Christina Sunday, November 2, at 5 p.m. Natalia Honcharenko at (732) 356-0090, of 1932-1933. Holowchak-Debarry, and a copy of Ms. Refreshments will be served after a short ext. 17. Ms. Huk presented Gov. McGreevey Huk’s own book titled “Hollyhocks.” with a pamphlet about the Famine- In a note to the governor, Ms. Huk wrote: “Our New Jersey experience has RECORDING DEPARTMENT been a sharp and wonderful contrast to our MEMBERSHIP REPORT – JULY 2003 history, and we hope that it will continue to grow in that direction in years to come.” Christine E. Kozak, National Secretary Besides her membership on the state’s Juvenile Adult ADD Total Ethnic Advisory Council, which stretches Total Active Members – 6/2003 6,018 12,357 2,725 21,100 back to the administration of former Gov. Total Inactive Members –6/2003 7,621 16,205 0 23,826 Brendan Byrne in the late 1970s, Ms. Huk is Total Members – 6/200313,639 13,639 28,562 2,725 44,926 the founder of Branch 18 of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP (UNWLA) in Clifton, N.J. She is employed Gains in 7/2003 by Roche Pharmaceuticals in Nutley, N.J. New members 7 10 0 17 The breakfast meeting was attended New members UL 0 2 0 2 by members of the governor’s Cabinet Reinstated 3 7 5 15 and hosted by the state’s commissioner Total Gains: 10 19 5 32 of commerce, the Rev. William D. Losses in 7/2003 Watley. During his address, Gov. McGreevey stated that it is his mission to Died 0 21 0 21 Cash surrender 0 12 0 12 involve minorities and women as ven- Endowment matured 17 7 0 24 dors in an upcoming bidding process for Fully paid-up 18 18 0 36 Camilla Huk with New Jersey Gov. the construction of additional schools Reduced paid-up 0 0 0 0 James McGreevey. throughout New Jersey. Extended Insurance 9 15 0 24 Certificates lapsed (active) 9 3 19 31 Certificate terminated 2 2 2 6 Total Losses 55 78 21 154 Roselle Park unanimously adopts Total Active Members –7/2003 5,973 12,296 2,709 20,978 resolution on remembering Famine INACTIVE MEMBERSHIP Gains in 7/2003 ROSELLE, N.J. – The Borough of on the Famine-Genocide. The display will Paid-up 18 18 0 36 Roselle Park, N.J., unanimously adopted be on view during the month of November Reduced paid up 0 0 0 0 Resolution 151-03, titled “Solemnly at the Roselle Park Veterans Memorial Extended insurance 9 15 0 24 Remembering the Ukrainian Victims of Library, 404 Chestnut St. Total Gains 27 33 0 60 the Russian Communist-Engineered Copies of the borough’s resolution Losses in 7/2003 Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 on its were to be forwarded to the Ukrainian * Died 3 45 0 48 70th Anniversary,” on October 16 during press, the United Nations and Ukraine’s * Cash surrender 5 17 0 22 the meeting of the mayor and Council. Mission to the U.N. by November 15. Pure endowment matured 0 6 0 6 Reinstated to active 3 7 0 10 The resolution was authored by Board Following is the text of the resolution. of Education member Alexander Balaban. Certificates lapsed (inactive) 2 10 0 12 Mr. Balaban and Councilwoman Melanie *** Total Losses 13 85 0 98 Total Inactive Members – 6/2003 7,635 16,153 0 23,788 Selk are two Ukrainian American public Whereas, Ukrainian Americans form officials in Roselle Park. an integral part of the ethnographic map TOTAL MEMBERSHIP – 6/2003 13,608 28,449 2,709 44,766 The borough will also mark the solemn anniversary of the Famine with an exhibit (Continued on page 18) (* Paid up and reduced paid up policies) 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003 No. 44

70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FAMINE-GENOCIDE THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Ukrainian studies at Columbia It was over a year ago when we first learned that a permanent program of Ukrainian The Famine of 1932-1933 studies was being established at Columbia University, thus strengthening the school’s already highly recognized Eastern European and Slavic studies departments. Housed aB elowgenocide is the text of the lecture bydeliv- motherillion people perished. means mainly within the framework of the school’s renowned Harriman Institute and the ered by Dr. Taras Hunczak on October The immediate origins of the tragedy School of International and Public Affairs, the Ukrainian program will develop with a 15, at Rider University in Lawrenceville, could be found in Stalin’s program of broad inter-disciplinary curriculum focused primarily on research and teaching at the N.J. The presentation was sponsored by “Socialism in one country,” which called undergraduate and graduate levels. the Julius and Dorothy Koppelman for economic transformation of the coun- The plan was envisioned to evolve in stages. Ultimately it calls for the participation Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center at try, particularly of the countryside. What of scholars from various fields and disciplines, a system of scholarships and stipends the university as a special community Stalin inaugurated was, in effect, a war for undergraduate and graduate students, further growth in the university’s Ukrainian lecture open to the public. on the Ukrainian villages waged by library collection and new bibliographic work, and the organization of conferences and Dr. Hunczak is a professor of history introducing a policy of collective agricul- seminars on Ukraine. and political science at Rutgers ture, which was to replace individual We were happy to report recently that the first major goal in the project was realized University. He was chairman of the his- farming. when officials at the Ukrainian Studies Fund raised the money necessary to endow a tory department at Rutgers and director The objective was obvious – Stalin course on 20th century Ukrainian history, which is planned for Columbia’s 2004 spring of the university’s East European Studies wanted to make individual farmers semester. Program, and is the author of several hostages of the Communist regime, The thanks for successfully completing the first phase of the project should, in large books and numerous articles on the his- expecting, in his own words, “to estab- part, go to the Self Reliance (New York) Federal Credit Union for its donation of tory and politics of Ukraine. lish a system whereby the collective $250,000, as well as to the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the Heritage Foundation of The following day, Dr. Hunczak spoke farmers would deliver, under penalty, to First Security Federal Savings Bank of Chicago, Ivan Stebelsky and an anonymous also during a special workshop abut the the state and the cooperative organiza- donor for their generous financial contributions. Famine-Genocide geared toward the tions the entirety of their marketable The Ukrainian Studies Fund – which also endowed three chairs in Ukrainian studies state’s high school teachers of social stud- grain.” at Harvard University – has worked arm in arm on the project with officials from ies. The workshop also was held at Columbia University, who, for their part, have welcomed the program with open arms. Koppelman Holocaust/Genocide Resource The plan to further expand the school’s Ukrainian Studies Program into other aca- Center. demic departments and to increase valuable Ukraine-related library materials is an by Taras Hunczak intelligent and wise decision and a move that would establish a much-needed “A ruthless struggle is Ukrainian studies powerhouse in New York City. The Western World – having experi- going on between the Such a program would also serve the diplomatic, political and international affairs enced the Renaissance of humanism, communities that are highly active in New York City. It would act as a media center which freed the individual from the peasantry and our gov- for journalists writing about Ukraine, for example; as a center of accurate information Medieval spirit of conformity and, build- ernment. It’s a struggle and research on Ukrainian issues, it would help fight defamation. ing upon that experience, proceeded to While driving the project forward, officials at the school and the USF have encoun- establish the principle of the natural to the death. This year tered a bumpy road. The necessary funding for the entire project, estimated to be $5 rights of man in the course of the 17th was a test of our strength million, is only 20 percent complete and the program is intending to grow at a time and 18th centuries, ending the quest for when many other schools in North America are downsizing or eliminating their Eastern individual and national freedom in the and their endurance. It European and Slavic departments. era of Romanticism of the 19th century – The USF and Columbia University, for their part, have shown a willingness and entered the 20th century with great took a famine to show desire to establish a permanent program of Ukrainian studies at the Ivy League school, expectations. Unfortunately, the 20th them who is the master but realizing the entire project will depend largely on the demand for it. As an academ- century witnessed great disappointments, ic institution and as a business, the university must draw students who are interested in tragedies and bloodshed the likes of here. It has cost millions a Ukrainian studies program, participants to the program’s public conferences and sem- which the world had never before seen. of lives, but the collec- inars, and the funding to realize such a project. There were two world wars, which cost humanity millions of lives and wast- tive farm system is here ed great resources. Even worse, totalitari- an regimes were created that destroyed to stay. We have won the Nov. millions of innocent lives. It is they – the war.” Nazis and the Communists – who pur- Turning the pages back... sued the policy of ruthless oppression, which was accompanied by a policy of – Mendel Khataevich 6 genocide. What a sad and tragic picture In 1996, members of the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote for humanity the 20th century represents 1996 the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords commemorated the when we consider the mass killings of The policy of collectivization was 20th anniversary of the courageous group’s founding. As our the Armenian people or the long lines of officially announced in November 1929. Kyiv Press Bureau chief wrote: “Forty-two of them spent a total Jews and Gypsies escorted by the Nazis Practically, this meant that individual of 550 years incarcerated in the prisons and gulags of what was the Soviet Union. On to their execution. farmers were to surrender their land, November 6 those who survived the tyranny of the times gathered to celebrate the 20th The Holocaust is not just history, it is their livestock and farming implements anniversary of the ... Ukrainian Helsinki Group – the legendary people who did not give a tragedy that forever should remain a to the collective farms. An essential com- in, who decided that at all costs, their lives included, they would fight for an independent part of our consciousness – it is part of ponent of forced collectivization was Ukraine. Some did not survive. Many of those who did gathered to pay tribute to an me since I witnessed it. Equally tragic Stalin’s policy of “liquidation of the organization that spurred, if not ensured, eventual independence for Ukraine.” was the genocide perpetrated against the kulaks [wealthy farmers] as a class” The Ukrainian Helsinki Group was established on November 9, 1976, in Kyiv to mon- Ukrainian people by means of the artifi- since they were, according to Communist itor implementation of the Helsinki Accords that were signed in August 1975 by 35 coun- cally created famine of 1932-1933 in tries, including Canada, the United States and the Soviet Union. The accords guaranteed which anywhere from 7 million to 10 (Continued on page 16) the human and civil rights of people with respect to the countries in which they resided. The Kyiv group assumed three principle tasks: to monitor the implementation of the accords in Ukraine; to gather and disseminate information about their violation; and to secure an independent role for Ukraine in subsequent negotiations and in inter- national affairs. The group’s founding members were: Mykola Rudenko, Oles Berdnyk, Oksana Meshko, Gen. Petro Grigorenko, Ivan Kandyba, Lev Lukianenko, Myroslav Marynovych, Mykola Matusevych, Nina Strokata and Oleksa Tykhyi. The surviving members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, who were able to attend the 20th anniversary commemoration, were: Mr. Rudenko, along with his wife, Raisa; Mr. Berdnyk, National Deputy Lukianenko and Mr. Kandyba, followed by Bohdan Rebryk, Iryna Senyk, Iosyf Zissels, Mykhailo Horyn and National Deputy Vyacheslav Chornovil. Those who had gathered on stage, and those who were recalled, represent- ed the political dissident movement of Ukraine of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980. Within two years of the founding of the organization – which also was the seed that gave birth to the Ukrainian Republican Party as well as the Popular Movement of Ukraine, Rukh – all the original members were arrested and sentenced to anywhere from two to 10 years for their activities, all on trumped-up and unsubstantiated charges. More arrests and incarcerations followed in the next six years. According to our Kyiv correspondent, Mr. Rudenko said in his presentation that the goal of the organization at its conception was largely an unspoken one. “Yes, we thought that there would be a free Ukraine eventually. No, we did not think that it would happen in our lifetimes. We knew we would spend time in prison and in the Reproduction of the postcard now being used by the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association and other community groups in an effort to have The New (Continued on page 23) York Times relinquish the 1932 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Walter Duranty. No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003 7 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Faces and Places chs, “Addressed in broad terms were rela- Reflections on 9/11 tionships with Ukrainian communities and organizations in North America and by Myron B. Kuropas and war in Iraq Ukraine; the challenges presented by the Dear Editor: on-going process of secularization in society; and the Church’s role as the prin- So, the Bush administration has finally cipal teacher and repository of faith and Will tainted Times publisher do the right thing? admitted that no direct connection exists morality, and as the promoter and between Saddam Hussein’s regime and guardian of the sanctity of life.” Regardless of what the Pulitzer Prize Bush today signed a sweeping corporate- 9/11. Yet 69 percent of Americans were It appears to me that the United States, Board decides to do with the Pulitzer Prize fraud bill that ...” An example of a slanted convinced of the existence of such a con- with its freedom, wealth and power, awarded to Walter Duranty in 1932, Arthur Times lead-in which ran on July 31 is, “In a nection, which would justify our war in should be in a position to follow the O. Sulzberger Jr., publisher of the ultra-liber- sign of how profoundly the nation’s business Iraq. Robert Scheer of The New York course of the hierarchs in preserving al New York Times, should publicly repudi- scandals and volatile stock market have Times has accused the Bush administra- what we have in the United States, ate Duranty for the true miscreant that he rocked his administration, President Bush was. tion of the “brainwashing of Americans.” specifically faith and morality, and signed a sweeping corporate fraud bill today Tainted reporting at The New York Times The sad truth is that most Americans extending this to the rest of the world, ...” did not begin with Walter Duranty, nor did it Headlines are distorted as well. A are woefully ignorant about the rest of especially Ukraine. end with Jason Blair, only the most recent Washington post headline on October 21, the world, and prejudice, stereotype and Christ came to the Jews to show the Times falsifier. 2002, a week prior to the mid-term election, over-generalization fill the void created Way, the Truth and the Life. We sure can In his 1969 book “All the News that Fits: read: “Economy Gross at 3.1 Percent Pace.” by a lack of knowledge. To many people, benefit from the mission of Christ if we A Critical Analysis of the News and The Times headline read: “Economy grew all 15 former Soviet countries are extend it to our country and hopefully to Editorial Content of The New York Times,” at 3.1 Percent in 3rd Quarter, Slower than “Russia,” and Russia speaks for all of the world. Therefore, I appeal to you with your Herman H. Dinsmore, a 30-year veteran Expected.” When reporting on a Bill Clinton them. Likewise, to many, “Arab” is syn- reporter and senior editor of The Times, economic conference, The Times described onymous with “Moslem,” which is syn- worthy weekly newspaper to dwell on articles on the course chosen by the hier- exposed the increasingly far left of center it as an “important policy conference” onymous with “terrorist.” Distinctions world view of Mr. Sulzberger’s newspaper. involving “real Americans.” A similar con- just create undesirable complications. arch. We need to work together since we are in the world and not of the world. its editorials and news articles, which ference organized by President George W. As a member of Ukrainian American described Castro’s Cuba as “free, honest, Bush was “stage-managed” according to Veterans Post 40, I attended the “Support and democratic,” helped gain initial The Times. Our Troops Rally” in North Port, Fla., on Joseph Jackson New Providence, N.J. American support for the Marxist dictator. Mr. Kohn offers copious examples of March 22. Unfortunately, it was really a Mona Charen’s recent book, “Useful how The Times slants the news by omission, pro-war rally, and both the City Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the distortion, falsification and emphasis. When Commission’s proclamation and the Variety of articles Cold War and Still Blame America First,” the deceit is exposed, the apology is on a Roman Catholic priest’s invocation documents Times bias. A week before the page that few people read. emphasized 9/11 as the supposed justifi- Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia and Times reporters often inject their own cation for the war. On another occasion, in October 19 issue massacred 2 million people, The Times ran bias into stories with such introductions as someone who was trying to reconcile Dear Editor: a front page story by Sydney Schanberg “Many feel,” “Observers say,” “Americans herself with the war said, “Well, at least which said, “for the ordinary people of believe,” “History suggests,” Example: we’ll get rid of those religious fanatics.” I meant it when I sent in the congratula- Indochina ... It is difficult to imagine how “Many economists doubt that the tax relief A letter to the editor of The Weekly tory statement for the Ukrainian Philatelic their lives could be anything but better with can be enacted quickly enough to make (April 20) justified the war by citing both and Numismatic Society on your 70th Americans gone.” In the wake of President much difference in the economy this year.” 9/11 and the specter of “a pan-Arabic anniversary and when I mentioned that I Ronald Reagan’s liberation of Grenada fol- These “economists,” of course, were not empire with Islam ruling,” in which “if you was “continuously amazed by the breadth lowing a Castro-engineered takeover of the identified. do not convert to Islam, you lose your of your reporting.” Your October 19 issue island, “America’s newspaper of record” Name-calling is another favorite of Times head.” It doesn’t matter that none of the is yet another wonderful example of this lamented that “America has no more respect reporters, especially when they can quote 9/11 hijackers was from Iraq or that the diverse coverage. In addition to more tra- for laws and borders, and the codes of civi- someone who agrees with their bias. Iraqi regime was a secular one, which ditional newsy articles, it contained pieces lization, than the Soviet Union.” Dismissing Favorite Democrat pejoratives for treated Christians decently, Shiite Moslems on Ukrainian films acquired by the fears that the Marxist-propelled Sandinistas Republicans, fully quoted by the Times, are badly and the mostly Moslem Kurds horri- Harvard Film Archive (for arts lovers), were Communist insurgents as “red scare” “racist,” “sexist” and “bigoted,” “homopho- bly. It seems that, after 9/11, many three music-related features, a very inter- stories, the Times predicted “better times in bic.” When Democrats use terms like Americans just wanted to fight Arabs. esting report on how Uman becomes Nicaragua” under Commandants Daniel “obscene” to describe Republican economic The Bush administration, far from brain- “Little Israel” for two weeks every year Ortega. policy, they are called “strident.” When washing the public, merely exploited wide- (for ethnographers), two poignant remem- In her book “Treason: Liberal Treachery, Republicans call Democrats “big spenders,” spread ignorance and post-9/11 fear and berances of activist Oresta Kowcz (a true from the Cold War to the War on they are called “mean-spirited.” hatred to gain support for its irrational and loss, but a great inspiration) and coverage Terrorism,” Ann Coulter documents myriad Numerous critiques of Times reporting nepotistic war. Politicians will be politi- of “Ukraine’s Hercules” (for sports enthu- examples of the kind of bias that earned the have appeared recently in various publica- cians. In a democracy, suckers for propa- siasts). Terrific! Times its sobriquet, “The New York tions, including a convincing review in The ganda have only themselves to blame. Pravda.” Another outrage: the Times vehe- Ukrainian Weekly by Andrew Nynka who What truly topped it off for me was mently defended Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs provided persuasive evidence that Walter the “Blue + Yellow = Green” travelogue. Karen Bapst, Ph.D. and Owen Lattimore, and then all but Duranty was a Soviet shill long before 1932. I have long been fascinated by the many Port Charlotte, Fla. ignored the VENONA files that exposed the This brings us to junior Sulzberger. Will similarities and parallels in Irish and treachery of these Soviet spies. It was the he do the right thing? According to Mr. Ukrainian history, and it was a pleasure Times which concluded that President Kohn, the Blair fiasco led to certain mana- to read Natalie Mason Gawdiak’s Reagan’s refusal to give in to Mikhail gerial changes, but “the Times practice of U.S. should promote impressions. My spouse is also (part) Gorbachev at Reykjavik, especially the pres- distorting its news pages to reflect its ideo- Irish and I too have visited the Emerald ident’s refusal to curtail research on SDI, logical opinions goes on ...” Asked about the morality to world Isle, so there was much in the narrative was an enormous diplomatic blunder. future of the front page after the departure of that I could relate to. Dear Editor: Still another book exposing the double- Executive Editorial Howell Raines, Mr. Her mention that Ukrainian and Irish dealing of The New York Times is Sulzberger replied, “That’s strategy. Things music can sound the same is something “Journalistic Fraud: How The New York that are strategic don’t change with people.” I am sorry to provide a belated com- that I’ve noticed too. I believe (but can- ment on an article in your August 31 Times Distorts the News and Why It Can Translation: at The New York Times, it will not prove) that this is something that can No Longer Be Trusted” by Bob Kohn. be business as usual. issue which I had misplaced and found be attributed to a common Celtic ances- yesterday. The comment has to do with Standard ideological bias in editorials and And yet, there is hope. Few people try. Many people don’t realize it, but the thought that the Pulitzer Board would seri- “Faces and Places” by Myron B. by columnists is one thing, argues Mr. Celts weren’t confined to just western ously consider revoking the Duranty prize Kuropas on “Why can’t they be like us,” Kohn, but The Times has gone far beyond Europe. They spread as far as western until Dr. Luciuk and the Ukrainian Canadian referring to Ukrainians in Ukraine. this standard by subtly skewing simple news Ukraine. Traces of their presence are vis- stories, often on the first page. The Times is Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA) initiat- “They’re different. Different attitudes ible in the scattering of redheads I noted no ordinary, local gazette. It has national ed their highly effective postcard campaign. and values. Different mindset. Different in the Podillia region (even among mem- impact, setting the daily news agenda for Now we need to follow Dr. Luciuk’s lead behavior ... They appear arrogant. bers of my own extended Ukrainian rela- ABC, CBS and dozens of the leading news- again and send postcards to the imperious Cynical. Somewhat morose with a pen- tives)! papers through America. “The editors and Mr. Sulzberger whose feathers deserve some chant for dissimulation.” I find it interesting that the most quin- reporters of The Times,” writes Mr. Kohn, serious ruffling. In the same issue you had a report tessentially Celtic instrument, the bag- “determine what is news and what is news- Get a postcard from your friendly, neigh- from South Bound Brook, N.J., head- pipe - found in all western Celtic areas: worthy.” A popular joke reads: Peter borhood Ukrainian activist and mail it now. lined “Ukrainian Orthodox and Catholic Scotland, Ireland and Brittany – has a Jennings is not a “yes man.” If The Times No local activist? No problem. Write a per- hierarch meet in ‘Fraternal Encounter,’ ” western Ukrainian counterpart, the duda says “no,” Peter Jennings says “no.” sonal letter to Mr. Arthur Sulzberger Jr., responding to the challenges and needs (also called the Volynka or Koza). As any freshman journalism major will Chairman and Publisher, The New York of Ukrainian Catholics and Ukrainian Keep up the great work! Your efforts tell you, the lead paragraph of any news Times, 229 W. 43rd St., New York, NY Orthodox in the 21st century. are certainly appreciated by this reader! story should include simple facts: the who, 10036. What is very interesting is the compar- what, when, where, why and how of the ison of concern of Ukrainians in America Dr. Ingert Kuzych event. An example of a journalistically Myron Kuropas’ e-mail address is: and in Ukraine. At the meeting of hierar- Springfield, Va. appropriate lead statement is, “President [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003 No. 44

President Leonid Kuchma told journalists Regarding the contentious issue of the Strait on October 22 to watch the con- NEWSBRIEFS in Kerch, Crimea, that he considers it border delimitation in the Azov Sea, struction of a Russian dike that is report- (Continued from page 2) inadmissible for Kyiv to change the cur- President Kuchma said Kyiv wants to edly some 100 meters from the Russian ruling class, among Russian gen- rent Ukrainian-Russian border in the draw a borderline on the sea surface, not Ukrainian border, Ukrainian and interna- erals,” the website reported on October Kerch Strait, Interfax reported. Mr. on the seabed, as postulated by Moscow, tional news agencies reported. Mr. 27. Duma Deputy Aleksei Arbatov Kuchma stressed that the Kerch-Yenikal which wants the sea “for joint use” with Kuchma also met with Ukrainian border Channel, a deep fairway in the Kerch (Yabloko), deputy chairman of the Ukraine. “We are ready to agree that the guards on the island. Following a tele- Strait, should remain the property of Duma’s Defense Committee, highlighted Azov Sea is an internal sea of both coun- phone conversation with President Ukraine. The Ukrainian president also the potential for the dispute to spiral out tries, Ukraine and Russia, but the border Kuchma, Russian President Vladimir dismissed the idea of building a bridge of control. Mr. Arbatov said that he could should be drawn on its surface,” Putin reportedly requested that authori- between Russia and Crimea over the RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service quoted Mr. not rule out the possibility of “armed Kerch Strait, as declared in a 2001 accord ties of Russia’s Krasnodar Krai halt con- Kuchma as saying. (RFE/RL Newsline) contacts of a limited character” between signed by Moscow Mayor Yurii Luzhkov struction of the controversial dike, the two sides in the disputed area, Interfax reported on October 23, quoting and then-Crimean Parliament Chairman Kuchma views dike construction RosBalt reported on October 24. Leonid Hrach. “It is impossible to build a Mr. Kuchma’s press service. Meanwhile, (RFE/RL Newsline) bridge, as no pier will stand on the ground TUZLA ISLAND, Ukraine – 17 Ukrainian jet fighters deployed in Crimea held an exercise on October 22 Kuchma rejects border change there [in the Kerch Strait],” Mr. Kuchma President Leonid Kuchma, who inter- said, adding that he is in favor of launch- rupted his Latin American tour due to the involving missile firings into the water KERCH, Crimea – Following his trip ing a regular ferry connection between ongoing Ukrainian-Russian border dis- in an area not far from Tuzla, ITAR- to the Tuzla island on October 23, Russia’s Krasnodar Krai and Crimea. pute, visited Tuzla Island in the Kerch TASS reported. (RFE/RL Newsline)

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Greetings and flowers were presented to Metropolitan Constantine by children from the Sunday school, Ukrainian School and junior chapter of the Ukrainian Orthodox League. Geofrey Greenleaf, president of the parish board of trustees, presented the tra- ditional Ukrainian greeting of bread and salt. This was followed by the greeting from the clergy of the cathedral, Father John Nakonachny, pastor, and Father John Mironko, assistant pastor. Serving the liturgy along with the pastor and assistant pastor were the Rev. Abbot John Henry, Father Vladimir Ivanov, Father Michael Strapko and Father Deacon Ihor Mahlay. Metropolitan Constantine blesses the newly renovated cultural center of St. Vladimir’s Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral. They were assisted by 23 altar servers. The combined Ukrainian and English Nicholas Pro-Cathedral in Lakewood and Parishioners also offered their contribu- choirs, directed by Markian Komichak, dean of the Ohio Deanery, and clergy tions to the cultural center. Correction sang the responses to the bilingual hier- from St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan Constantine offered con- The story “Ukrainian Studies Fund archal divine liturgy. Metropolitan Cathedral in Parma. gratulations and appreciation to the raises $750,000 for Columbia’s inter-dis- Constantine delivered sermons in both During the program, representatives parish clergy, the board of trustees, the ciplinary program” (October 12) should Ukrainian and English. from the parish organizations offered Renovation Committee and all parish- have noted that Dr. Frank Sysyn is actual- Following the liturgy, everyone pro- greetings and donations to aid in cover- ioners for completing this extraordinary ly the director of the Peter Jacyk Center ceeded to the parish hall for the blessing ing the cost of the $500,000 project. project, which will be used for many for Ukrainian Historical Research at the of the cultural center and a banquet. Also The parish Pyrohy Group, as in the years not only by parishioners, but by Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at participating in the dedication were the past, was very generous with its donation many people of the Greater Cleveland the University of Alberta. He is also asso- Very Rev. Dennis Kristof, pastor of St. of $100,000 toward this project. area. ciated with the University of Toronto. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003 No. 44 Braty Blyuzu and Marianna Vynnytsky to appear in first major concert in New York City NEW YORK – A concert offering a wide spectrum on, the group consistently placed in top ratings nation- in programs featuring the leading musicians of the day. and mix of popular music, featuring the group Braty wide in the “best jazz ensembles” category as conduct- Their engagements included performances at the Blyuzu – Myroslav Levytsky, keyboard; Oleh Levytsky, ed by the prestigious Profi ratings in Ukraine. UNESCO headquarters in Paris, where they shared the saxophone; Andriy Melnyk, bass-guitar; Stefan Kuziv, Prior to his commitment to Braty Blyuzu, Myroslav stage with the popular French singer Patricia Kaas solo guitar; Andriy Vintsersky, percussion; and soloist, Levytsky, a graduate of the Ivano-Frankivsk (1995); the Pepsi-Szeged festival in Hungary, where singer Marianna Vynnytsky – will be held at the Pedagogical Institute, where he studied piano, had been they shared the bill with such stars as Goldie, Ramstein, Ukrainian National Home, 108 Second Ave., on Sunday, working with the Russian pop artist Iryna Ponarovska in Trans Global Undergound, Therapy, Natasha Atlas and November 9, at 2:30 p.m. Joining the performers will be Moscow (1987-1991). Upon returning to Ukraine, he Patty Smith (1998); and the 2001 international Linz Myroslav Holodynsky, violin. worked for a time with Zahrava, until a fortuitous Fest in Austria, where they performed in a featival Comprising the concert program will be works from encounter with Mr. Vintsersky, who was working at the which featured, among others, the Dutch group Rens the extensive repertoire of Braty Blyuzu, drawing on a time with the popular group Zemliany, and Andriy Newland and the Canadian group Lionel Lodge. decade of music-making, as well as on the group’s latest Melnyk – the other two original members of the group. Braty Blyuzu have released three CDs. Their first compositions. The program will also feature songs with Myroslav Levytsky is both the music director and the was cut in 2000 with arguably the most popular lyrics by Ms. Vynnytsky, in arrangement by Volodymyr godfather of Braty Blyuzu. (Note: the name of the Ukrainian pop singer, Ani Lorak as a joint production of Vynnytsky and Mr. Vintsersky. group, apart from its literal meaning, is a pun on words, the Komora (Kyiv)-BMG (Munich) studios. The fol- which is derived from the regional Hutsul use of the lowing year, the group came out with “Vienna Woods,” *** term “bráty blyuzu,” i.e., to put on a shirt or jacket, and which was presented at the Ukrainian Home in Kyiv. The third CD, titled “Dosch” (Rain), was recorded in Bratu Blyuzu came into existence in 1992, as a ven- go out among people). He is also credited with writing Munich last year. ture undertaken jointly by the brothers Myroslav and most of the group’s music. Mr. Levytsky refers to the Among the better known works of the group are Oleh Levytsky with the intention of creating their own full spectrum of the group’s music – rock, jazz, folk as songs such as “Interlude,” “Authentic Life,” “Tosi- well as World Music and New Age – as reflecting con- group to play their own music. The group, in a partially Bosi,” “15-16-17-18,” “Shalenyi Doshch” (Crazy temporary music developments and trends. different configuration than its current one, got its start Downpour), “Nedilia, 19:25” (Sunday, 7:25), at the Zirky Prykarpattia festival in Ukraine and within After garnering the grand-prix at Chervona Ruta, “Zachekayte Khvylynu” (Just Wait a Moment) – the lat- a year’s time, won the grand prize at the famed Braty Blyuzu went on to concertize in France, Hungary, ter came to serve as the group’s calling card in Europe. Chervona Ruta festival in Donetsk (1993). From then Slovakia, Germany and Austria, where they performed The group’s first U.S. performance, together with Ms. Vynnytsky, was this summer at the Ukrainian Festival at the Verkhovyna resort in Glenn Spey, N.Y. *** A percussionist (as well as accomplished lira player), Mr. Vintsersky is a graduate of the Chernivtsi Music School and author of the songs “For Ani Lorak- Manekennytsa” (For Ani Lorak, Model) and “Holos” (Voice), which is dedicated to Oleksander Ponamarov. Mr. Levytsky, saxophonist, is a graduate of the Cultural-Educational Professional School in Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Together with his brother, Myroslav, he is a co-founder of the group. Oleh, along with Volodymyr Vynnytsky, note that the rock music the Braty Blyuzu play has an important informational com- ponent in that a lot of it is created on a very sound and authentic base, i.e., Ukrainian folk melodies. Mr. Kuziv, guitarist, is a graduate of the D. Sichynsky Music School in Ivano-Frankivsk, where he studied cello, and Mr. Melnyk, bass-guitarist, is a founding-member of the group. *** Ms. Vynnytsky was born in Kyiv and graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory with a degree in singing and choir conducting. She now lives in New York and per- forms as a singer. Among Ms. Vynnytsky’s past performances are appearances as soloist with the Kyiv Burlesque and the Kyiv Music Hall ensembles, which included tours of Ukraine, the Baltic states and Poland with the latter. While in Ukraine, she also recorded song tracks for the Dovzhenko Film Studio in Kyiv. Ms. Vynnytsky’s debut performance in the United States was at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New Ihor Barabakh York in a concert of songs of Ukrainian and American Braty Blyuzu – Andriy Vintsersky, percussion; Oleh Levytsky, saxophone; Andriy Melnyk, bass-guitar; composers, featuring the jazz compositions of Myroslav Stefan Kuziv, solo guitar; Myroslav Levytsky, keyboard; and vocalist Marianna Vynnytsky – strike a pose on Skoryk, with Maestro Skoryk and pianist Volodymyr the streets of New York. Vynnytsky (1995), which was followed in 1996 by a concert tour and the release of the CD titled “Lviv Jazz.” mail us first to determine exact specifications. Subsequent select appearances have included partici- Please do not send unsolicited photos via e-mail. pation in the 20th anniversary celebration of The ¨ Full names (i.e., no initials) and their correct English Ukrainian Museum (New York, 1996); the Yara Arts Group production – “Hot House: An Evening of Poetry To The Weekly spellings must be provided. on Heart and Home” (New York, 1997); the “Jewett ¨ Newspaper and magazine clippings must be accom- Jubilee” concert, held as part of the Music and Art Contributors:We greatly appreciate the materials – feature articles, panied by the name of the publication and the date of Center of Greene County “Music at the Grazhda” sum- news stories, press clippings, letters to the editor, and the edition. mer concert series (2001); “Ukraine: Focus on the the like – we receive from our readers. In order to facili- ¨ Information about upcoming events must be received Future,” The Washington Group’s Leadership tate preparation of The Ukrainian Weekly, we ask that one week before the date of The Weekly edition in Conference” (Washington, 2001); and the 50th anniver- the guidelines listed below be followed. which the information is to be published. sary celebration of the Ukrainian National Association ¨ Persons who submit any materials must provide a (Kerhonkson, N.Y., 2002). ¨ News stories should be sent in not later than 10 daytime phone number where they may be reached if Apart from concert engagements, Ms. Vynnytsky does voice-overs for Western Union. days after the occurrence of a given event. any additional information is required. In this concert, Ms. Vynnytsky joins Braty Blyuzu in ¨ All materials must be typed (or legibly hand-printed) ¨ Unsolicited materials submitted for publication will be and double-spaced. presenting songs to which she has written both the returned only when so requested and accompanied music and the lyrics. From some 20 songs compiled ¨ Photographs (originals only, no photocopies oir com- by a stamped, addressed envelope. over a two-year period, the songs selected for this con- puter printouts) submitted for publication must be cert have been inspired, both in terms of theme and tim- accompanied by captions. Photos will be returned You may reach us at: The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 bre-hues, by thoughts and feelings as well as associa- only when so requested and accompanied by a Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054; tele- tions brought on by the fall season. stamped, addressed envelope. Please note: photos phone, 973-292-9800; fax, 973-644-9510; e-mail, Tickets for the Braty Blyuzu concert, at $20, will be may also be e-mailed, however, please do call or e- [email protected]. available at the door. For additional information call (718) 748-8193 or (718) 894-4818. No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003 11 Virko Baley’s “Treny” (Laments) to have West Coast premiere

Composer Virko Baley Cellist Natalia Khoma Cellist Andrew Smith Soprano Christine Seitz

LOS ANGELES – Virko Baley’s mon- Khoma’s sense of drama and attention to States at the Los Angeles Conservatory of “Dreamtime” (CD 1090) – all on the umental chamber work “Treny” timbre, where much-needed light shines Music (now the California Institute of the Cambria lable. In December 2002 the (Laments) for Two Violoncellos and on the pervading darkness just as the Arts), where his principal teachers were TNC Classical label released his “Treny Soprano (1996-1999), will have its West piece threatens to sink into its own gloom Earle C. Voorhies and Morris H. Ruger. I-IV” (TNC 1508) and Symphony No. 1: Coast premiere on Wednesday, ... The vocal line [words by the Polish A highly respected composer, Mr. “Sacred Monuments” (with the the November 12, at 8 p.m., at the Los Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski], Baley has received grants and commis- Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Angeles County Museum of Art, in the whose wordless hum soon blooms into a sions from numerous organizations. He Baley, conducting, TNC 1505). The Leo S. Bing Theater. text reconciling itself to human morality, is the recipient of the 1996 Shevchenko song cycle “A Journey After Loves” is Featured performers at the concert descends on the earthiness of the cello Prize for Music awarded by the being released this fall on Arsis. will be cellists Natalia Khoma and like a message from above.” Ukrainian government and he was also Mr. Baley has also led the Kiev Andrew Smith, and soprano Christine New York commentator Jed Distler, awarded the State of Nevada Regents’ Camerata in recordings for over 15 CDs Seitz. Ms. Seitz and Mr. Smith are col- writing for the magazine Classics Today, Creative Award for 1996. of orchestral music by composers rang- leagues of Mr. Baley at the University of noted: “ ‘Treny’ is a 73-minute composi- He has received commissions also ing from Mozart, Beethoven, Ivan Nevada, Las Vegas. tion that encompasses two solo cello from the National Endowment for the Karabyts, Valentin Silvestrov and The complete cycle of “Treny,” a movements, a movement for two cellos, Arts, New Juilliard Ensemble, Kiev Bernard Rands to Yevhen Stankovych. tetralogy for two cellos and soprano, was plus a final movement where a soprano Camerata, Project 1000 and the For a number of years he was also the inspired by a bilingual edition of an soloist joins the cellists. Weld these Winnipeg Symphony, Cleveland principal guest conductor and music eponymous poem by the Polish forces to composer Virko Baley’s intro- Chamber Orchestra, Nevada Symphony, advisor of the Kiev Camerata in Ukraine. Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski, spective, darkly lyrical sound world, and Continuum, Boston Modern Orchestra Mr. Baley is founder, and was for translated into English by Stanislaw the end results are remarkably sustained Project, California E.A.R. Unit, and from many years the conductor and music Baranczak and Seamus Heaney, and pub- and subtle for a work of such duration many individual artists. director, of the Nevada Symphony lished in 1995. and scope. It may take several hearings In 1989 Mr. Baley co-produced and Orchestra in Las Vegas. Currently, he is In the words of Mr. Baley: “ ‘Treny’ to grasp Baley’s carefully deployed the- composed the music for the film “Swan distinguished professor of music at the is a work that I wrote with the sound of matic interrelationships and transforma- Lake: The Zone,” which won top awards University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Natalia Khoma’s sound ringing in my tions, but the sheer incandescence and at Cannes – the first Ukrainian film ever His current projects include producing ears. At the time of my initial writing of registral resourcefulness of his cello writ- to receive a prize there. More recently, for release (winter 2003-2004) seven it I was deeply involved in many read- ing are omnipresent.” he wrote his second film score for anoth- CDs of the music of Ukrainian composer ings of the great series of poems, titled The “Treny” CD (TNC 1505) is avail- er feature film, “A Prayer for Hetman Valentin Silvestrov, four CDs of the “Treny,” by the Polish Renaissance poet able on the web at www.tncmusic.net. Mazepa,” directed by the renowned music of Yevhen Stankovych, as well as Jan Kochanowski, whose deeply per- Tickets for the concert may be pur- Ukrainian film director Yuri Illienko. CDs devoted to the music of Oleh Kyva, sonal and highly charged poems, chased at the museum ticket office or A highly respected writer on music, Volodymyr Huba, Volodymyr Runchak inspired by the death of his infant through Vista Ticketing at (877) 522- Mr. Baley’s most recent publication was and the pianist Evgeni Gromov perform- daughter, led to my wanting to write 6225. The museum ticket office can be the 39 new articles and five revisions he ing piano music of Ukrainian composers. something to commemorate three reached at (323) 857-6010 did for the new New Groves Dictionary His immediate composition projects deaths that occurred very close to each *** of Music and Musicians (2000). include work on the String Quartet, a piano other: the death of my mother, Laryssa His recordings include a trilogy of his cycle for New York pianist Jed Distler Bondarenko, the wife of Valentin Virko Baley was born in Ukraine in chamber music: “Orpheus Singing” (CD titled “Cante Hondo” and based on flamen- Silvestrov, and Bruce Adams, a very 1938, but has spent his creative life in the 1087), featuring the violin concerto, co motifs, and a series of guitar pieces to be dear friend. Kochanowski’s laments United States and considers himself a cit- “Jurassic Bird” (CD 1077) and written for the virtuoso Ricardo Cobo. helped me to focus my own grief and izen of the world. Multilingual and led to the writing of this cycle.” multi-disciplinary, he infuses his music Since its premiere and release as a CD with themes of contemporary and tradi- on the TNC Classical label, “Treny” has tional motifs. Concert organist from Ukraine garnered significant reviews. In writing Reviewing a concert of his music, about the work, John Schaefer, the cele- given by Continuum, Shirley Fleming of brated writer and commentator on the New York Post called his music begins annual tour of United States WNYC-FM Radio said: “ ‘Treny’ “vibrant, dramatic, communicative, much by Yaro Bihun In the past, in addition to the smaller ven- (Laments) is part of a trilogy of works by of it framed by extra-musical allusions ues in the Midwestern states, he has WASHINGTON – Volodymyr the Ukrainian American composer Virko that place it in a solid context.” The New played recitals in some of the leading Koshuba, a world-traveled leading con- Baley that deal with the ultimate ques- York premiere of his Concerto No. 1, houses of worship in Washington (twice tions: questions of mortality, death, grief, Quasi Una Fantasia for Violin as per- cert organist from Ukraine, began what has become almost an annual event for in the National Cathedral), New York and and the legacy we leave behind … formed by the New Juilliard Ensemble Chicago. ‘Treny’ is economically scored for two conducted by Joel Sachs, with Tom Teh him – a U.S. concert tour. Mr. Koshuba’s concert programs, cellos and (in the end) soprano, and was Chiu, soloist, was acclaimed by Village This year, however, the short, two- which include the standard organ reper- inspired by the grief-wracked Voice critic Kyle Gann for “sonic week tour has only five performances in toire, also feature arrangement of works Renaissance poetry of Jan Kochanowski. images memorable enough to take two states: in Madison and Beloit, Wis., Writing at a time of personal loss, and home.” and in Rochester, Alexandria and Albert by Bortniansky and other Ukrainian com- working with purposely restrained Mr. Baley’s most recently released Lea, Minn. posers. forces, Baley offers some of his most work on TNC Recordings, Symphony It also differs from his previous tours In Ukraine Mr. Koshuba has been the deeply felt, ingeniously developed music. No. 1: “Sacred Monuments” was com- in that, for the first time, Mr. Koshuba is concert organist of the Kyiv State Organ Haunted by ghosts, suspended in a musi- mented in Classics Today by David sharing the spotlight, introducing to the Concert Hall since 1981. In 1988 he was cal and emotional twilight, ‘Treny’ is a Hurwitz as “Powerfully imagined, clear- American audience his daughter, named Honored Artist of Ukraine. masterful example of music’s power to ly articulated, and quite moving … It’s a Viktoriya, 12, the gold-medal winner in Following his performances in express what words cannot.” very serious ambitious statement by a recent international piano competitions in Madison and Beloit, Wis. (October 28 In reviewing the piece for the presti- gifted artist, and I wouldn’t be a bit sur- Turin and Paris. and 30), the remaining concerts on his gious British magazine Gramophone, prised if it turns out to have more stay- In recent years, Mr. Koshuba has spent tour are in Minnesota: November 2, at Ken Smith wrote: “The strength of the ing power than many other contempo- three to four months out of the year tour- the Zumbro Lutheran Congregation in piece lies in its highly – and unapologeti- rary works by today’s trendier com- ing abroad – primarily in Europe and Rochester; November 7, at the Calvary cally – emotional content, dispensed art- posers.” North America. He has also performed in Lutheran Church in Alexandria; and fully with the utmost thematic discretion. Mr. Baley’s musical training began in South America and Japan. November 9, at the First United The strength of the playing lies in Natalia Germany and continued in the United This is his eighth U.S. tour since 1994. Methodist Church in Albert Lea. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003 No. 44 Second “Viktory for Kids” show unites stars for a worthy cause DANBURY, Conn. – An all-star cast of international skaters led by Ukrainian World and Olympic Champion Viktor Petrenko performed in a gala benefit for the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund on Saturday, October 4. The Western Union “Viktory for Kids” Rock on Ice featured many of the brightest stars on the Olympic and professional skat- ing circuit, including Olympic and World Champion Brian Boitano, two-time World Champion and Olympic Silver Medalist Evgeni Plushenko, two-time Olympic Pairs Champion Ekaterina Gordeeva and her hus- band. 1998 Olympic Champion Ilia Kulik. The star-studded event at the newly con- structed Danbury Ice Arena attracted skating fans from well beyond Western Connecticut and New York State, drawing aficionados from as far away as Texas, Idaho, Missouri, California and Japan. “In many ways, this fund-raiser exceeded our expectations,” said CCRF’s Executive Director Alexander Kuzma. “We’re deeply grateful to all the skating stars who respond- ed so generously to Viktor Petrenko’s appeal and performed for the Children of Chornobyl free of charge.” The Danbury program added many new stars who were not able to participate in the The cast of the second Viktory for Kids on the ice for ovations at the end of the benefit show. Viktor Petrenko, the event’s original Viktory for Kids fund-raiser two organizer, is seen in the center. years ago. Among these were five-time U.S. “Access Hollywood.” finale. Ms. Palylyk thanked her brigade of enthusi- Ice Dance Champions Naomi Lang and Many of the skating stars came to The first Viktory for Kids skating gala in astic volunteers from the Danbury area and Peter Tchernyshev, U.S. Olympic Bronze Danbury after performing the night before at March of 2001 raised over $105,000 and from Salem and Brewster, N.Y., including Medalist Timothy Goebel, Ukrainian the Campbell’s Soup Pro-Am competition enabled CCRF to establish a state-of-the-art Mark and Irene Pawliczko, Rostyk and National Pairs Champions Elena Grushina in Madison Square Garden. Fresh from his neonatal intensive care unit in Mr. Ulana Slabicky, Motrya and Tassos and Yuri and Ruslan Goncharov, Russian National champion performance in New York City, Petrenko’s hometown of Odesa, Ukraine. Kokoris, the Rev. Luke Mihaly, and Jim and Champions Tatiana Navka and Roman This year’s program raised an estimated Pat Zeleniak. Kostomarov, Japanese National Champion Mr. Plushenko dazzled the crowd with his signature combination leaps. Mr. Petrenko $125,000 in cash and in-kind contributions, Connecticut State Rep. Janice Giegler and World Bronze Medalist Fumie Suguri, including an Acuson XP pediatric ultrasound read a proclamation from Gov. John and World Silver Medalist Elena Sokolova. received a standing ovation for his new pro- gram titled “Flight,” set to the music of donated by the Siemens Corp. and a $20,000 Rowland and the Connecticut State The emcee for the program was title sponsorship from Western Union Legislature praising CCRF and Mr. Broadway tenor sensation Brian Lane American supermodel and television hostess Financial Services. Petrenko, and declaring October 4 as Green. Mr. Green stepped out on to the ice Carol Alt, known for her promotional work The program was also taped by Emmy- “Viktory for Kids Day” in the state. A dele- for Cover Girl and Lancome and her and performed the song live as Mr. Petrenko Award-winning television producer Robert gation of schoolchildren dressed in appearances on the celebrity program skated the closing number prior to the grand Dustin as a donation to CCRF. “Within the Ukrainian embroidered blouses presented first week after the show, we’ve already Mr. Petrenko with a bouquet of flowers, and received more than 80 requests for the Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton also greet- videotape via the Internet and by phone,” ed the crowd. said CCRF Procurement Director Lisa In his impromptu remarks, Mr. Petrenko Milanytch. “Some of these requests are underscored the dramatic impact that CCRF coming from people as far away as Finland has had on the quality of medical care at the and Japan,” she added. Odesa Hospital. “They have shown that we The Danbury program generated tremen- can achieve great results. And CCRF is defi- dous Internet traffic, and many of the skaters nitely the organization to get the job done.” promoted the show on their own fan club When he concluded his remarks, the guests websites in a gesture of solidarity with Mr. viewed a homemade movie filmed by the Petrenko. staff at the Odesa Hospital, and narrated by In an interview that appeared in the Yuri Kokoris clearly showing the contrast Hartford Courant prior to the show, Mr. between conditions at the hospital before Petrenko praised the all-star cast for their and after CCRF implemented its moderniza- generosity of spirit: “It’s unique seeing tion program. skaters from different generations. You don’t At the conclusion of the skating program A representative from Western Union presents the Children of Chornobyl Relief see that very often. My friends and col- at the Danbury Ice Arena, VIP guests Fund with a check for $20,000. Dr. Zenon Matkiwsky, president of CCRF with his leagues understand what I’m trying to do. returned to the Colorado Brewery for a wife, Nadia Matkiwsky, office administrator of CCRF, and Alexander Kuzma, They’re donating their performances to celebrity auction hosted by recording artist executive director of CCRF, accept the check on behalf of he organization. help.” and Soyuzivka emcee veteran Olya Since the fall of 2001, Mr. Petrenko has Chodoba-Fryz. Mr. Petrenko, Ms. Grushina, made several visits to the Odesa Regional Mr. Goebel, Ms. Alt and Mr. Plushenko took Children’s Hospital to see first-hand the turns helping Ms. Fryz promote various auc- neonatal intensive care unit that now bears tion items, raising thousands more dollars his name. “Every time I talk to the doctors, for CCRF. they say, ‘We’re saving this newborn ... Since 1990 CCRF has launched 30 air- we’re saving that one.’ They can treat 12 lifts and 14 sea shipments, delivering over babies at one time. I saw the wing before 1,300 tons of medical and humanitarian aid they started remodeling. I saw it after ... It’s valued at over $50 million. This year the as modern as St. Francis Hospital in fund is launching a new program to develop Hartford, where our daughter was born. You a children’s cardiac surgery program in Lviv. can’t tell the difference ...” CCRF is also expanding hospital partner- Prior to the ice skating gala at the ships with perinatal centers in Chernihiv, Danbury Ice Arena, the Children of Rivne and Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, in an Chomobyl Relief Fund also held a fund-rais- effort to reduce infant mortality in those ing reception across the street at the regions. Colorado Brewery and Steakhouse, whose To support the Viktor Petrenko Neonatal owner Michael Kondrat is a prominent Intensive Care Unit in Odesa, or any of Danbury businessman of Ukrainian descent. CCRF’s children’s health programs in Ms. Grushina and Mr. Goncharov joined Ukraine, tax-deductible donations may be Mr. Petrenko in welcoming the guests and forwarded to: CCRF, 272 Old Short Hills thanking the organizers and donors for their Road, Short Hills, NJ 07078. For more U.S. National Champion and Olympic Bronze Medalist Timothy Goebel (left) support. information, consult the CCRF website at and World and Olympic Champion Brian Boitano (right) with a representative The banquet hall was elegantly decorated www.childrenofchornobyl.org, or call (973) of Western Union, the principal sponsor of the 2003 Viktory for Kids. by Alexandra Palylyk of Ridgefield, Conn. 376-5140.

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New stamp honors first Ukrainian woman astronaut Many countries worldwide recognize space on her radio set and she was October as stamp collecting month and known to “explore” her neighborhood as frequently issue especially interesting or an “astronaut” (accompanied by her attractive stamps during this time. older sister). Canada Post wanted to make sure that Understandably, Roberta became fas- this year’s commemoration was some- cinated with flying and was able to pilot thing “out of this world” so, on October a plane even before she could drive a car. 1 it released a set of eight self-adhesive She dreamed of someday becoming a stamps honoring living Canadian astro- real astronaut and avidly followed the nauts (Figure 1). One of the eight stamps American space program through pic- in the issue pictured Roberta Lynn tures and news clippings sent to her by Bondar, Canada’s first woman in space, an aunt living in Florida. FIGURE 2: Roberta Bondar stands next to an enlarged reproduction of her 48- who is of Ukrainian background. During her school years Roberta cent Canada Post stamp. excelled both academically and athleti- About Roberta Bondar cally. A high school science project led to Manned space flight is something that summer employment studying the spruce only a tiny fraction of the world’s 6.3 bil- budworm. This experience, in turn, led to lion people can ever experience. The studies in agriculture and zoology at the men and women who do become astro- University of Guelph. Using her camera nauts are both mentally and physically in support of her studies, she graduated among the “cream of the cream” of with a bachelor of science degree in humanity. Roberta Bondar is no excep- 1968. tion and fits the model of a classic over- She went on to attend the University achiever. To read her jaw-dropping list of of Western Ontario (where she developed accomplishments leaves one almost new techniques for photomicroscopy) breathless with admiration. and the University of Toronto for gradu- Roberta Lynn Bondar was born in ate studies. She ultimately obtained a Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, on doctorate in neurobiology in 1974, again December 4, 1945, the younger of two working extensively with photography. children. From an early age she was fas- Ms. Bondar then went on to medical cinated by the world of science and this school at McMaster University, graduat- interest was nurtured by her parents. She ing in 1977. She pursued her interests in enjoyed receiving such things as chem- neurology (the study of the brain) during istry sets as gifts and, by the age of 7, her internship, and was admitted to the she was conducting experiments in a Royal College of Physicians and FIGURE 3: Roberta Bondar (kneeling, left) joins her fellow Canadian astronauts basement laboratory built by her father. Surgeons in 1981 as a specialist in that at the Canada Post official unveiling of the Astronauts stamps that took place at Roberta was equally captivated by sci- field. She conducted research at Tufts the Canadian Space Agency headquartered in Saint Herbert, Quebec, on ence fiction and she imagined herself Medical Center in Boston, and at September 26. taking part in the Flash Gordon stories Toronto Western Hospital, before joining she read and listened to on the radio. She the McMaster University faculty as an International Microgravity Laboratory um exhibit with the same name that even tried to contact beings from outer assistant professor in 1982. Mission, on board the space shuttle toured Canada in 2000-2002. In the fall It was at about this time that Dr. Discovery. She and the other six crew of 2002, Dr. Bondar released another Bondar’s long-cherished dream of members had to wait a further two years book, “Canada – Landscape of Dreams,” exploring space became a real possibili- for the launch of Mission STS-42, on which partnered her photography with ty. In 1983 the National Research January 22, 1992. She ended up spend- quotes from dozens of prominent Council of Canada announced the forma- ing eight days in space, conducting Canadians. tion of the Canadian space program, and numerous life and material science Dr. Bondar has received numerous invited applications from those interested experiments and photographing the honors during her career, including the in becoming astronauts. Dr. Bondar earth’s surface, before returning on Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, quickly submitted her application pack- January 30. (She wrote of the experience the NASA Space Medal and some two age and spent the next several months in her book “Touching the Earth.”) dozen honorary degrees. She was named undergoing a battery of interviews. I Dr. Bondar circled the earth 129 a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, n December of that year she was times: she was the first Canadian woman and was inducted into the Canadian informed that she was one of six people, and the first neurologist to travel in space Medical Hall of Fame. She has received chosen from a field of over 4,000 appli- – and the first Ukrainian woman in many additional awards and has at least cants, who would begin training to space.1 two schools named after her, as well as become the first Canadian astronauts. On returning from space, Dr. Bondar resource centers, trophies and scholar- Not surprisingly, as the only female in retired as an astronaut to devote further ships. A ship (the USS Bondar) and a the group, she received even greater time to her neurological research. Her rose (yellow) have also received her scrutiny than her fellow candidates. consuming interest was and continues to name. What followed were many years of be neuro-ophthalmology – how we see In addition to her professional career, intense training and preparation – as well and record the world around us. She also she pursues interests in a variety of out- as delays. For a while, after the began spending more time pursuing her door activities, such as cycling, hiking, Challenger disaster in 1986, it was love of photography, particularly nature uncertain whether or not the space shut- fishing, shooting, hot air ballooning and tle program would even continue. photography, and even enrolled in a pro- roller-blading. She also holds a private During her training, Dr. Bondar was fessional course. pilot’s license. She summed up her refocus as fol- offered the chance to stay on board the About the Canadian Astronauts stamps Mir space station, in order to participate lows: “To fly in space is to see the reality in a study on the long-term effects of of Earth, alone. To touch the earth after, The eight stamps of the Canadian weightlessness on women. She declined is to see beauty for the first time ... Astronauts set were designed by Pierre- the opportunity, however, as the Russian Although I cared deeply about the envi- Yves Pelletier to be round, in order to space program was interested in her not ronment before I flew in space, I became call to mind the shape of the earth and for her abilities as a scientist, but rather passionate about it during my flight. My the path of an object in orbit. The star as a female subject for experiments. sense of responsibility [now] reaches image on every stamp is taken from the As part of her preparation, Dr. Bondar beyond my lifetime to the future genera- (Continued on page 15) had to learn to work aboard the shuttle, tions of the planet.” which had been designed for male occu- Inspired by her experiences in view- pants. She also had to make the decision ing the earth from space, she decided to 1. I have not been able to confirm a state- to put off having a family in order to further explore the planet from the ment I once encountered that the Soviet cos- ground and so between 1997 and 2000 monaut Valentyna Tereshkova, who circled maintain an active role in the space pro- the earth 45 times in the Vostok 6 spacecraft FIGURE 1: A complete pane of the gram. began a project of photographing all 41 on June 16-19, 1963, was the first Ukrainian Canadian Astronauts issue. The After a long wait, in 1990 Dr. Bondar of Canada’s national parks. The results woman in space. All sources I have been able Roberta Bondar stamp appears in the learned that she would go into space as a were gathered into a book titled to locate indicate that she was of Russian upper right. payload specialist with the first “Passionate Vision,” as well as a muse- extraction. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003 No. 44 Kuchma fires... 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Canadarm2 on the International Space New stamp honors... Station transferred its launching cradle to (Continued from page 13) the Canadarm on the shuttle Endeavour, Canadian Space Agency’s logo; it repre- with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield sents a type of productive, energy-pro- at the controls. ducing star sometimes believed to have The official unveiling of the stamps influence over human destiny. The twin- took place on September 26, at Saint- kling of this star on the stamps is the Hubert, Quebec, the home of the Ñ¥ÎËÏÓÒfl ÒÛÏÌÓ˛ ‚¥ÒÚÍÓ˛ Á ÔËflÚÂÎflÏÚË ¥ Á̇ÈÓÏËÏË, result of a special combination printing Canadian Space Agency [Figures 2 and ˘Ó ‚ Ô’flÚÌˈ˛, 25 Í‚¥ÚÌfl 2003 . Û åÓÌ‡Υ ‚¥‰¥È¯Ó‚ Û ‚¥˜Ì¥ÒÚ¸ involving holographic hot stamping and 3]. All eight astronauts were on hand; the ̇¯ ̇ȉÓÓʘËÈ ¥ ÌÂÁ‡·ÛÚÌ¥È ˜ÓÎÓ‚¥Í, ·‡Ú¸ÍÓ ¥ ‰¥‰ÛÒ¸ micro-embossing. occasion marked the first time they had Each stamp on a pane of eight portrays all shared the same “space” together. Six an astronaut in the foreground in color, million of these 48-cent stamps – each 40 while the background illustrates a high- mm in diameter – were printed by Lowe- light of his or her mission in black and Martin Printers in six colors and using white. The back of the stamp pane pro- gold and silver foil. vides brief descriptions of each of the astronauts. The bottom of the pane pres- Ingert Kuzych may be contacted at P.O. ents the “Canadian space handshake” of Box 3, Springfield, VA 22150 or at his e- 2001, when the newly installed mail address: [email protected]. ·Î. Ô. References and suggested readings ‰- Ù¥ÎÓÒÓÙ¥ª Bondar, Roberta. “Canada – Landscape of Dreams.” Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2002, 109 pp. êéåÄç êÄîÄ∫ã ¢êéÑáßñúäàâ Bondar, Roberta. “Passionate Vision: Discovering Canada’s National Parks.” Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2000, 175 pp. ‰Ó‚„ÓÎ¥ÚÌ¥È ÔÓÙÂÒÓ ¥ ‰ËÂÍÚÓ ·¥·Î¥ÓÚÂÍË ÔË åarianopolis College Û åÓÌ‡Υ. Bondar, Roberta. “Touching the Earth.” Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1994, 144 pp. ç‡Ӊ˂Òfl 17 βÚÓ„Ó 1919 . Û Ï¥ÒÚ˜ÍÛ ä‡Ï’flÌ͇, 㸂¥‚Ò¸ÍÓª ӷ·ÒÚË. Miller, Rick. “Eight 48-Cent Astronauts Stamps Picture Eight Living Canadians.” è‡Ì‡ıˉ‡ ‚¥‰·Û·Òfl 27 Í‚¥ÚÌfl 2003 ., ‡ ÔÓıÓÓÌÌ¥ ‚¥‰Ô‡‚Ë ‚¥‰ÒÎÛÊÂÌÓ Linn’s Stamp News (September 29): 1, 48. 28 Í‚¥ÚÌfl ‚ ˆÂÍ‚¥ ìÒÔ¥ÌÌfl ÅÓÊÓª å‡ÚÂ¥ Û åÓÌ‡Υ. http://robertabondar.ca is Dr. Bondar’s own website. èÓıÓ‚‡ÌËÈ Û åÓÌ‡Υ ̇ ˆ‚ËÌÚ‡¥ NÓtre-Dame-des-Neiges. http://www.kodak.com/us/en/corp/features/bondar is a beautiful site featuring some of Roberta Bondar’s excellent nature photography. ì „ÎË·ÓÍÓÏÛ ÒÏÛÚÍÛ Á‡Î˯ËÎËÒfl: http://www. jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/PS/bondar.html is the NASA biographical data sheet ‰ÛÊË̇ – ßáÄ ëíÖîÄçßü on Roberta Bondar. ÒËÌ – ‰- êéåÄç Ç. ¢êéÑáßñúäàâ http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/12/h12-402-e.html is the National Library of Canada’s Á ‰ÛÊËÌÓ˛ ‰. åÄÉÑÄãàçéû ãÖåÄêäÄçÑ write-up on Roberta Bondar. ‰ÓÌfl – ‰- íÄåÄêÄ ï. ¢êéÑáßñúäÄ-åÄëìÑ Á ˜ÓÎÓ‚¥ÍÓÏ ‰-ÓÏ îÄÑß åÄëìÑéå ‚Ì͇ۘ – ïêàëíàçäÄ ë. åÄëìÑ Ó‰Ë̇ ‚ ìÍ‡ªÌ¥ ¥ èÓθ˘¥

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á‡Î˯ÂÌ¥ Û „ÎË·ÓÍÓÏÛ ÒÏÛÚÍÛ: ˜ÓÎÓ‚¥Í – âéëàî Maria Volodymyra (Rohoza) Makarushka ‰Ó̸͇ – ãÖëü ëéãìä Á ÏÛÊÂÏ ãûÅéåàêéå ‚ÌÛÍË – íÄçü, îÖçü ¥ ÄçÑêßâäé ·‡Ú – ûêßâ ÉçÄí Á Ó‰ËÌÓ˛ born May 27, 1911, in Vershytsia, Ukraine, Ò‚‡ı‡ – ßÇÄçäÄ ëéãìä passed into eternal rest. ÒÂÒÚ¥ÌÓÍ – êéÑÜÖê èÖíêéçßä Á Ó‰ËÌÓ˛ Ú‡ ·ÎËʘ‡ ¥ ‰‡Î¸¯‡ Ó‰Ë̇. She leaves behind in sorrow her Ç¥˜Ì‡ ∫ª ԇϒflÚ¸! – son, Ihor Makarushka, with wife Diane – daughter Christina Allmon, with husband Clinton – daughter Oksana Makarushka

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The Famine was caused by Stalinist dra- ATTENTION! The Famine... conian requisition quotas imposed on Ukraine, forcing the devastated villages NEW LOCATION, NEW SERVICES (Continued from page 6) propaganda, exploiters of the working of the country to deliver millions of tons SUMA (YONKERS) FEDERAL CREDIT UNION class. This policy involved confiscation of grain to the state. Since the farmers of property of the well-to-do farmers and could not meet the quotas, Moscow Expanded Office Hours their elimination as members of village ordered that some 12,000 special communities. brigades be sent to the villages in order Now Open Mondays and Morning Hours Between January and March 1930 to collect the “hidden” food reserves. some 61,887 farms were taken over. Overseeing Stalin’s ruthless policy of grain procurement were his closest Drive through window (Corp. Blvd) 125 Corporate Blvd 301 Palisade Ave. Those who protested were executed on the spot, some were sent to concentration henchmen, Viacheslav Molotov and Monday: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. ------Lazar Kaganovich, who traveled through Tuesday: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 3 p.m. - 8 p.m. camps, and many families were sent to Siberia, where they were dumped often the plundered villages, giving directions Wednesday: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 3 p.m. - 8 p.m. on how to rob the starving population. Thursday: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 3 p.m. - 8 p.m. without food or shelter. Many did not survive. Some were just ordered to leave Their orders were effectively executed Friday: 8:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. ------by the local collaborators who, together Saturday: ------9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. their districts. Of the more than 1 million Ukrainian farmers expropriated in the with the members of the special brigade and party activists, went from house to early 1930s, about 850,000 were deport- ‚ 24 Hour / 7 days ATM (Surcharge Free) house, searching for hidden grain and ed in freight trains to the Russian far ‚ Drive Thru Teller Window other food – even taking the last loaf of north. bread that was on the table. As a result, ‚ Safe Deposit Boxes In the meantime, collectivization was already in 1932 people were dying of New Loans: pursued – encompassing all other farm- hunger. ers, regardless of their status. In ‚ Vacant Land Loans But Stalin was not moved. He issued response, farmers rebelled in most ‚ Construction Loans an order to “develop the grain procure- regions of Ukraine. But the farmers were ment campaign ... and speed it up. The no match for the army and the secret Main Office: Yonkers Branch: first commandment was “fulfill the grain police who were sent against them. Now 125 Corporate Boulevard 301 Palisade Avenue procurements.” Yonkers, NY 10701-6841 Yonkers, NY 10703 collectivization was carried out by force Phone: (914) 220-4900 Phone: (914) 965-8560 – according to one report, the homes of “Enemies of the people” the middle, and even poor peasants, were Fax: (914) 220-4090 Fax: (914) 965-1936 August 7, 1932, a law was passed, destroyed in the middle-class farmers of On personally edited by Stalin, concerning 1-888-644-SUMA the night and the peasants were forced, at the protection of socialist property, a law E-mail: [email protected] gunpoint, to join collective farms. that the people called the “five wheat- Confiscated property was often stolen by Stamford Branch: Spring Valley Branch: ear” law. Since the famine was raging in urban party activists, while the militia Ukrainian Research Center SS Peter & Paul Ukr. Catholic Church the countryside, people went to the fields roamed the village streets arresting any- 39 Clovelly Road, Stamford, CT 06902 41 Collins Ave., Spring Valley, NY 10977 gathering ears of grain that was left one in sight. Phone/Fax: (203) 969-0498 Phone/Fax: (845) 425-2749 behind after the harvest in order to sur- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: Tuesday, Friday: Stalin’s requisition quotas vive. According to Stalin’s law, anyone 4 p.m. - 8 p.m. 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. who gleaned an ear of grain or bit the These terrible conditions created artifi- root off a sugar beet was to be consid- SUMA (Yonkers) FCU offers you the best rates on savings and loans, cially in Ukrainian agriculture, compli- ered an enemy of the people subject to with convenient hours and friendly service. cated by a drought, did not, however, execution or imprisonment for 10 years. cause the Famine in Ukraine. After all, Accordingly, in the beginning of 1933 Board of Directors even Stalin stated that “the total yield of grain in 1932 was larger than in 1931.” (Continued on page 17)

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government accusation against the farm- The Famine... ers of sabotage with political overtones, (Continued from page 16) which was gradually transformed into The next issue of The Ukrainian Weekly’s some 54,645 people were tried and con- nationalism. The question arises: Why demned; of those, 2,000 were executed. accuse the starving peasants of national- The famine raging in Ukraine, in the ism? Was it just a convenient phrase, or ethnic Ukrainian region of the northern was there a purpose behind it? I think Caucasus and in the region of the lower that the answer can be found in Stalin’s WeddingWedding Volga River in 1932 reached its high concern with the rather remarkable sense point in 1933. It has been estimated that of independence of the Ukrainian elite – already in the beginning of the year a particularly of such individuals as AnnouncementsAnnouncements family of five had about 170 pounds of Mykola Khvyliovyi, Mykola Skrypnyk, will appear on December 14, 2003. Oleksander Shumskyi and many others grain to last it until the next harvest. In For a wedding announcement to be included in that issue, other words, each member of the family who, while Communists, defended all information must be received in our offices by December 5, 2003. had to survive on about 4 pounds a Ukrainian independence. To crush the month. Lacking bread, people ate pets, sense of independence of the political Along with wedding announcements, we will include greetings from friends, rats, bark, leaves, tree bark and garbage elite, Stalin had to destroy the source of family members, bridesmaids and ushers – from all those from the well-provisioned kitchens of their strength. That source was the who wish to share in the excitement of a new marriage. party members. There were numerous Ukrainian village. Also welcome are anniversary and engagement cases of cannibalism. According to a Stalin understood the problem. He announcements and greetings Soviet author, “The first who died were stated it clearly in his “Marxism and the Rates for announcements and greetings: the men. Later on the children. And the National-Colonial Question,” where he One-column wedding announcement: $100 last of all, the women. But before they wrote: “Farmers present by themselves Two-column wedding announcement: $200 died, people often lost their senses and the basic force of the national movement Wedding greeting: $75 ceased to be human beings” (as cited by ... Without farmers there can be no strong Robert Conquest). national movement. This is what we For further information or to request a brochure, mean when we say that the nationalist Eyewitness accounts please call (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 (Maria). question is, actually, the farmers’ ques- Visit www.ukrweekly.com to view a wedding announcement sample page. There are many eyewitness accounts tion.” of the genocide in Ukraine. Whiting Following Stalin’s line of reasoning, Williams, a British journalist, published his objective in the ruthless pursuit of in the journal Answers in 1934 an famine becomes quite obvious: destroy ATTENTION ARTISTS! account about his painful personal expe- the village, its infrastructure and the rience. He wrote: “Once I saw with my farmers, and you have destroyed the 2003-2004 CHRISTMAS CARD PROJECT own eyes the victims of famine. Men and political aspirations of the nation. Oksana Trytjak, UNA Special Projects women were literally dying of hunger in Stalin’s concern with Ukraine is clearly the gutter ... They (‘wild children’) sat in stated in his letter of September 11, and Fraternal Activities Coordinator the streets, their eyes glazed with despair 1932, to Kaganovich in which he states and privation, begging as I have never that “... at this point the question of It’s August and we are thinking about seen anyone beg before ... There was one Ukraine is the most important. The situa- Christmas already. The UNA is begin- youngster I saw in Kharkov. Half-naked, tion in Ukraine is very bad ... If we don’t ning its work on collecting artwork he sunk, exhausted, on the carriage-way, take steps now to improve the situation, from Ukrainian artists who wish to with the curbstone as a pillow, and his we may lose Ukraine... The objective should be to transform Ukraine, in the participate in the annual UNA pipe-stem legs sprawled out, regardless Christmas Card Project. Over the of danger from passing wheels. Another, shortest period of time, into a real a boy of 8 or 9, was sitting among debris fortress of the USSR” (as cited by Yurii years UNA has been fortunate in hav- of a street market, picking eggshells out Shapoval). ing over 30 artists participate in this of dirt and examining them with heart- The real objective project. We will be accepting works breaking minuteness in the hope of find- from artists for reproduction that have That the real objective of Stalin’s poli- ing a scrap of food still sticking to them a traditional Ukrainian Christmas ... There were hordes of those wild chil- cy was political is clearly stated in 1933 theme. In the past artists contributed dren in all the towns. They live and die by one of his lieutenants, Mendel like animals ...” Khataevich, one of the individuals in works in diverse genres including oil, It might be interesting to note that the charge of the grain-procurement pro- watercolor, tempera, graphics, wood- Communist Party did not want the farm- gram, who stated proudly: “A ruthless cuts, batik, ceramic tile, mixed media ers to leave the villages and for that rea- struggle is going on between the peas- and others which added interest and antry and our government. It’s a struggle son new passports were issued without variety to the collection. which one had no right to be in the city. to the death. This year was a test of our strength and their endurance. It took a But the passports were not given to the In publishing the Christmas cards the UNA wishes to promote traditional people in the villages. Hence, they were famine to show them who is the master like the serfs of the 19th century or here. It has cost millions of lives, but the Ukrainian art and encourage and popularize Ukrainian artists. This year again hostages of modern times. All that was collective farm system is here to stay. We the UNA will publish over 120,000 cards that will be distributed throughout the left for them was to starve to death in have won the war.” U.S.A., Canada and Ukraine. their villages. The above statement is reinforced by And they were starving – dying by the Pavlo Postyshev, who was sent from All proceeds from the UNA Christmas Card Project will be donated to support millions, while the Soviet government in Moscow to Ukraine at the end of 1932 the Renaissance of Soyuzivka and to assist the Ukrainian National Foundation, 1932 and 1933 was selling 1.73 and 1.63 and was given by Stalin dictatorial pow- created by the UNA in 1992 to help promote humanitarian, cultural and educa- ers in order to implement his policies. At million metric tons of grain on the tional programs in the U.S.A., Canada and Ukraine. The Ukrainian National Western markets, and the Western liber- the November 1933 meeting of the als, such as Bernard Shaw and The New Central Committee of the Communist Foundation maintains a 501 (c) (3) status making all donations tax-exempt. York Times correspondent Walter Party, Postyshev reported: “Under the Duranty, were praising Stalin for the direct leadership and directions of the The UNA looks forward to this year’s Christmas Card Project and welcomes all great progress that the Soviet Union was Central Committee of the Communist participants. Please submit either a slide, photo or original work that can be making. Party and personally of comrade Stalin reproduced and mail to the UNA Home Office no later than September 30, 2003. In his report of March 31, 1933, we smashed the Ukrainian nationalist Please make all inquiries to my attention: Oksana Trytjak, Special Projects. Duranty went so far as to say that “there counter-revolution.” UNA, 2200 Route 10, Parsippany, NJ 07054, Tel: 973 292-9800 or 800 253-9862. is no actual starvation, but there is wide- In his report Postyshev is really refer- spread mortality from diseases due to ring to the destruction of the Ukrainian malnutrition.” And yet, he knew the national renaissance of the 1920s. What truth. is noteworthy is that both Khataevich and In a conversation on September 26, Postyshev say nothing about their suc- 1933, with William Strang, the British cess in grain procurement, but they report consul in Moscow, Duranty said that “as with pride about their victory over the many as 10 million people may have died Ukrainian people. directly or indirectly from the lack of From the above statement it should be food.” We should note that for his obvious that the purpose of the Famine, reports, which deceived the American which destroyed the villages and the people, Duranty was awarded the entire social structure together with mil- Pulitzer Prize. lions of innocent victims, was – as stated Among Stalin’s American defense by Khataevich and Postyshev – to estab- team one finds also Maurice Hindus and lish the mastery of the Communist novelist Upton Sinclair for whom “revo- regime, at whatever cost. The famine, lution” justified even famine. therefore, was an instrument of genocide As the Famine escalated, so did the by other means. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003 No. 44

duct a study with the goal of expanding Roselle Park... the world’s knowledge and understand- (Continued from page 5) ing of the famine, and of Roselle Park and contribute to its rich Whereas, the commission’s formal cultural diversity, and report concluded that the victims ‘starved Whereas, 2003 marks the 70th to death in a man-made famine’ and that anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine- ‘Joseph Stalin and the Russian Genocide of 1932-1933, which resulted Communist leadership committed geno- in the deaths of at least 6 million cide against Ukrainians in 1932-33’, now Ukrainians and was covered up and offi- therefore cially denied by Russian Communist Be it resolved by the governing body authorities, and of the Borough of Roselle Park that: Whereas, Russian Communists delib- 1. Ukrainian victims of the Russian erately confiscated grain harvests and Communist-engineered Famine- starved millions of Ukrainian men, Genocide of 1932-1933 be solemnly women and children in a policy of forced remembered by Roselle Park residents on collectivization that sought to destroy its 70th Anniversary, Ukrainian aspirations for independence, 2. Information regarding the Ukrainian and Famine of 1932-33 will be made avail- “George, stop worrying! At our age life Whereas, the Russian Communist able at the Roselle Park Public Library authorities ordered the borders of during the month of November 2003, insurance is cheap!” Ukraine sealed to prevent anyone from 3. The United Nations and all the gov- Yes. I know Natalie, but do my parents? escaping the artificial famine and pre- ernments of the world should recognize venting any international food relief ship- the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932- The UNA can help you worry less. ments to reach the starving masses, and 1933 as an act of “crimes against human- Call for details 1-800-253-9862. Whereas, at the height of the famine, ity.” Ukrainian villagers were dying at the rate Be it further resolved that a copy of of 25,000 per day, and this resolution be sent to Councilwoman Whereas, one in three Ukrainian chil- Melanie Selk and Board of Education dren perished as a result of the forced member Alexander Balaban, both of famine genocide, and whom are Ukrainian Americans, the Whereas, the United States Congress Ukrainian Mission to the United Nations, formed a Commission on the Ukraine The Ukrainian Weekly and the Ukrainian Famine on December 13, 1985, to con- Congress Committee of America.

tims and seeking support for the govern- Australians’... ment of Ukraine’s resolution at the (Continued from page 1) United Nations calling for the Famine to and words of sincere condolence from be recognized as an act of genocide. many speakers. “These trees will live on. They will Associate Prof. Marko Pavlyshyn of serve as a living monument to those who Monash University delivered a well-doc- perished. The presence of the broader umented and stirring address. “Many Australian community here indicates that millions died, but how many more mil- this act of genocide against the lions were not born because of this Ukrainian nation has not been forgotten,” Stalinist atrocity,” Prof. Pavlyshyn Mr Romaniw stated. asked. Many hundreds of children, their par- John Argote, president of the ents and elderly members planted trees Association of Ukrainians in Victoria and worked cooperatively. The sombre and a ranger with Parks Victoria, silence at times of hundreds of people addressed the participants. working, yet not speaking, was no doubt Australian Federation of Ukrainian due to the time being used for reflection. Organizations Chairman Stefan Romaniw The Australian Federation of reinforced the message that the interna- Ukrainian Organizations extended its tional campaign to ensure this page of thanks to all those who attended. Special history is not forgotten continues. He thanks were expressed to Parks Victoria noted that this week in the Federal for its involvement and to Point Cook Parliament Sen. Rod Kemp will propose Ranger Argote and his staff for their sup- a motion remembering the famine vic- port and enthusiasm, but most important- ly the sensitivity and feeling with which they prepared for the day and carried out their duties. The Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organizations noted that the tree-planting ceremony is intended to be an annual event at Point Cook Coastal Reserve. Montreal Ukrainians... (Continued from page 1) The request to organize this demon- stration together with other cities was issued by the Ukrainian World Congress earlier this week. The protests were scheduled ahead of an October 30 meet- ing in Kyiv between the foreign minis- ters of Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Besides Montreal, demonstrations were held in the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Lviv, as well as in Washington, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

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Tryzub sports center hosts annual Fall Tennis Tournament

Trophy winners at Tryzub’s Fall Tennis Tournament: (from left) Ihor Buhaj, Steven Sosiak, George Sawchak (tournament director), Ivan Durbak and George Petrykevych.

by George Sawchak HORSHAM, Pa. – The last Ukrainian tennis tournament of the 2003 season was held on October 4-5 at Tryzubivka. Known as Tryzub’s Fall Tennis Tournament, it was played in the men’s division only with a full feed-in consola- tion group. Rains, which plagued this year’s ten- nis season, came again on Saturday, and the tournament was held on Sunday in abbreviated form, using the pro-set scor- ing method until the finals. In the finals Ivan Durbak of Ramsey, N.J., defeated George Petrykevych, West Hartford, Conn., 6-1, 6-3, thus winning the tournament. Durbak is a reigning USCAK senior champion and also a win- ner of this year’s Tryzub Spring Tournament. In the semifinals of the main draw Durbak eliminated Steven Sosiak of Colonia, N.J., with a pro-set score 8-1, and Petrykevych beat Jerry Tymkiw, Philadelphia, by a close score of 8-6. One of the best matches of the main draw was between Ihor Buhaj, Bethlehem, Pa., and Sosiak, with Sosiak winning 9-7. Sosiak took third place in the tourna- ment by winning the feed-in consolation. In the finals he again defeated Buhaj 8-3 and in the semifinals Walter Dziwak, Lake Hiawatha, N.J., 8-4. Buhaj advanced to the finals of the group when, with the score at 2-5, Tymkiw had to withdraw because of a leg injury. Missing from this year’s draw were former champions Pavlo Rehulyk and George Sawchak because of injuries, and Alex Olynec. During the closing ceremonies tro- phies funded by Tryzub were presented to the winners and finalists of the main draw and consolation tournament. Russian-Ukrainian... (Continued from page 2) held on the Kerch Strait. On the Russian side, there are border troops and Cossacks. Support for Ukraine’s territorial integri- ty has always existed across the entire political spectrum, from left to right. Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko even accused Mr. Kuchma of being a “trai- tor” for leaving Ukraine during the crisis. The current standoff reflects the degree to which any talk of a Russian- Ukrainian “strategic partnership” will remain devoid of real content until both sides feel more confident about their respective national identities. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003 No. 44 No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003 21

already drawn the preliminary conclu- Dispute over Tuzla... sion that it would negatively influence (Continued from page 1) biodiversity and the water currents in the home, Mr. Kasyanov told journalists that area,” explained Mr. Poliakov. the essence of their agreement was based The week before, ex-Minister of DNIPRODNIPRO CO.CO. on a quid pro quo: Russia would stop con- Defense and current National Deputy Parcels, money transfers and airline tickets to different countries. Visas to Oleksander Kuzmuk had told reporters that struction of the dike; in return, Ukraine Ukraine, video Transfer PAL/SECAM-NTSC, Calls to Ukraine 8 cents per would remove border troops from Tuzla. by establishing a dike even close to Tuzla, He also emphasized that the two sides had Russia could sufficiently shift water cur- minute. Large selection of CD’s, video’s, kerchiefs and Ukrainian souvenirs. decided that no border exists between the rents to cause considerable erosion to the NEWARK, N.J. CLIFTON, NJ PHILADELPHIA two countries in the Kerch Strait. island, and even threaten its very existence. “Everything that is done under the pre- Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Igor 688 Sanford Ave. 565 Clifton Ave. 1801 Cottman Ave. sumption that such a border exists is wrong Ivanov arrived in Kyiv on October 30 to (973) 373-8783 (973) 916-1543 (215) 728-6040 and must be halted,” said Mr. Kasyanov, further discuss the Tuzla crisis and to begin according to various press reports. talks on delimitation of Russia-Ukraine (888) 336-4776 The press service of Ukraine’s waters. He underscored that, “Russia Cabinet of Ministers denied on October respects and will continue to respect 24 that Ukraine had agreed to a compro- Ukraine’s territorial integrity,” but added, mise as Mr. Kasyanov suggested. “the world does not consider that any sort Upon his return to Kyiv, Mr. of violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity Yanukovych did not respond directly to has occurred in the Azov-Kerch aquifer.” the Russian prime minister’s remarks, Mr. Ivanov said that a whole series of but noted that Ukraine would not agree issues needed to be resolved between to anything that is in conflict with its Ukraine and Russia regarding the delimi- Constitution, including any agreement tation of territorial waters and the divi- that would mark water borders at the bot- sion of property inherited from the tom of bodies of water, as the Russian defunct Soviet Union. prime minister insisted should be done – President Kuchma, who was on a visit which would make the waterways them- to Khmelnytskyi that day, told journal- selves commonly held territory. ists: “Ukraine will consider its national Also that day, according to Interfax- interests first and foremost in resolving Ukraine National Deputy Borys the border dispute,” reported Ukrainian Andresiuk, a member of the ad hoc com- Television. mittee on Tuzla, who was with Mr. Kuchma during his visit to the island, told journalists the president had ordered a permanent deportment of 50 troops to be stationed on Tuzla and for an appro- priate post to be constructed. Three days later, the issue over the removal of border troops on Tuzla had yet to receive diplomatic resolution. While Mr. Kasyanov repeated his demand that Ukraine remove troops from Tuzla as part of the agreement between the two governments on October 28, Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Markian Lubkivskyi noted during a regular press briefing that, “this request is being considered.” At the same press briefing, Leonid Osvaliuk, a senior Foreign Affairs Ministry official who is involved in resolving the Tuzla dispute, gave a slide presentation of Soviet- era and post- Soviet-era documents, which the Ukrainian side presented as overwhelm- ing proof of the country’s claim of sover- eignty over the island. “There is already a sufficient legal base and enough bilateral agreements to confirm the existing state border between Russia and Ukraine in the Kerch Strait and Ukraine’s ownership of Tuzla Island,” explained Mr. Osvaliuk. The Ukrainian diplomat also noted that for all the posturing, Russia had yet to present documented proof of its claim of common ownership of the island and the Kerch Strait. “To this day, the Russian side has not shown us a single document that proves there are no borders. I don’t think such documents exist in nature,” added Mr. Osvaliuk. Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry also said ecology experts were studying Russian claims that construction of the dike was ecologically necessary. Local Russian officials of Krasnodar Krai had said from the onset of the dispute that the dike was intended to replace a natural spit that had existed until storms in 1925 leveled it. The Russian side said the dike was necessary to redirect water currents that had eroded the shores of the Taman Peninsula causing damage to buildings and agricultural lands. Ukraine’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Serhii Poliakov told Interfax-Ukraine on October 25 that initial indications showed that the new dike would have far more serious consequences. “The Southern Seas Institute has 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003 No. 44 Farm equipment manufacturers travel from Kharkiv to Cincinnati by Jan Sherbin the 13 Ukrainians to a variety of companies in five states. Between September 8 and 28, CINCINNATI – The concept of “just in the group toured companies that make farm, time” materials management has flown food-packaging and food-processing equip- home to Kharkiv with a group representing ment, as well as parts and machine tools. its farm equipment management manufac- “We showed them both horizontally turing industry. The group members recent- and vertically structured companies, plus ly completed a three-week study tour in techniques for managing them,” said Dr. which they looked at how their American Belal Siddique, who organized the study counterparts manage their businesses. tour for Cincinnati’s Center for Technology-wise, the group was par- Economic Initiatives. ticularly impressed with laser cutters, Dr. Siddique noted that the group is which cut metal more quickly and with interested in possible business coopera- more precision than other methods. tion with U.S. companies, for example The study tour, modeled after those run via partnerships or subcontracting. after World War II for Western European The study tour was funded by the U.S. businesses under the Marshall Plan, took Agency for International Development.

Kenya, 5,721; Liberia, 1,570; Morocco, Diversity Visa... 5,069; Nigeria 7,145; Sierra Leone, (Continued from page 4) 2,149; Togo 2,819. 50,000 visa numbers have been used, the • Asia: Bangladesh 5,126; Iran 1,431; program for fiscal year 2004 will end. Japan 1,291; Nepal 4,259; Sri Lanka Selected applicants who do not receive 1,418; Taiwan 1,833. visas by September 30, 2004, will derive • Europe: Albania, 3,071; Germany, no further benefit from their DV-2004 1,227; Lithuania, 2,059; Poland, 5,467; registration. Similarly, spouses and chil- Romania, 1,845; Russia, 2,600; Turkey, dren accompanying or following to join 2,343; Ukraine, 4,494; Uzbekistan, 1,819. DV-2004 principal applicants are only • South America, Central America and entitled to derivative diversity visa status the Caribbean: Peru 1,298. until September 30, 2004. Natives of the following countries The following list is culled from the were not eligible to participate in DV- complete list issued by the State 2004: Canada, China (mainland-born, Department that provides the statistical excluding Hong Kong S.A.R., and breakdown by foreign-state chargeability Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican of those registered for the DV-2004 pro- Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, gram. Listed below are countries that had Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, the over 1,000 registrants. Philippines, South Korea, United • Africa: Algeria, 1,285; Cameroon, Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and 1,531; Egypt, 4,189; Ethiopia, 6,353; its dependent territories, and Vietnam. No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003 23

PREVIEW OF EVENTS (Continued from page 24) fall lecture series, Dr. Oleksiy Haran, direc- Ethnonational Studies, National Academy of Holiday Greetings 2003 tor, political science department and Center Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, whose topic is for National Security Studies, National “The Ukrainian SSR’S Political Leadership Christmas in Ukraine- 1995 • V University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, who and the Kremlin: Co-Authors of the 1932- Continue your tradition... will address the topic “Ukraine on the Eve 1933 Famine” (delivered in Ukrainian); and Use the UNA’s publications to send holiday of Presidential Elections: Domestic Dr. Oleksiy Haran, political science depart- Struggles and Foreign Influences.” The lec- ment and Center for National Security greetings and wishes of goodwill, prosperi-

ture will be held at CIUS, 450 Athabasca Studies, National University of Kyiv italiy Lytvyn, T ty and the season’s blessings. Please note, Hall, University of Alberta, at 3:30 p.m. For Mohyla Academy, who will speak on the to accommodate all of our advertisers and additional information call CIUS, (780) topic “Debates Over the 1932-1933 Famine oronto, ON, Ukraine the many holiday obligations and dead- 492-2972, or e-mail [email protected]. and the Current Political Struggle in lines, we must strictly observe the follow- Friday, November 14 Ukraine” (delivered in English). Dr. Shapoval is a leading authority on political ing dates... EAST HANOVER, N.J.: The Ukrainian repressions, Stalinism, and Communist poli- Medical Association of North America, New cies and practices in Soviet Ukraine. Dr. PUBLICATION DATES & DEADLINES York Metro Region, invites its members and Haran is a noted expert on contemporary the general public to a presentation by Mark Ukrainian politics and security issues. The Holy T T. Olesnicky, M.D., president of the Medical commemorative event will be held at the rinity Ukrainian Catholic Church at Soyuzivka • Kerhonkson, NY - 1983 • by Vitaliy Lytvyn, T Holiday Issue Advertising Society of New Jersey, on the topic “New Ukrainian National Federation Hall, 10629 Jersey Health Care Issues for You and Your 98th St., at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5. For further Publication Date Deadline Date Family.” The presentation will be held at the information contact CIUS by calling (780) Ramada Inn, 130 Route 10 W., at 7 p.m.; 492-2973, or by e-mailing [email protected]. telephone, (973) 386-5622. Light refresh- The Weekly December 21 December 5 ments will be served. For further information OLD TOWN ALEXANDRIA, Va.: A con- contact Dr. Marta Kushnir, (508) 890-5886. cert featuring Natalia Khoma, cello, Suren Bagratuni, cello, and Volodymyr Vynnytsky, Saturday, November 15 Svoboda December 19 December 5 piano, in a program of works by Franck, PITTSBURGH: The Ukrainian Technolo- Handel, Khudoyan, Liszt, Lysenko, gical Society of Pittsburgh invites its mem- Shostakovich and Vynnytsky, will be held at The Weekly January 4 December 5 bers and the general public to its 34th annual The Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St., at 3 dinner/dance, to be held at the Churchill p.m. Suggested donation: $15; students free. Valley Country Club in Pittsburgh. At the The concert is presented by The Washington Svoboda January 2 December 5

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS Saturday, November 8 www.brama.com/mayana; or e-mail [email protected]. Soyuzivka’s Datebook NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific November 7-9 December 24-28 Society (NTSh) invites the public to a schol- Monday, November 10 arly symposium dedicated to the Ukrainian Plast Orlykiada Christmas packages available – TORONTO: The Canadian Institute of Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933, with an Traditional Ukrainian Ukrainian Studies, Toronto Office, and the English-language presentation by Dr. James November 15-16 Christmas Eve Dinner Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of UACC with overnight stay Mace of Kyiv, professor at the National Ukraine present the annual Ukrainian November 21-23 University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, asso- Famine lecture, with Dr. Olexiy Haran, UNA General Assembly December 31 ciate editor of Politychna Dumka, and former director, School for Policy Analysis, staff director of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine; Kolasky Fellow, CIUS and Petro New Year’s Eve formal sit down Ukraine Famine, who will speak on the topic November 27-30 dinner and zabava with Tempo Jacyk Fellow; who will speak on “The Thanksgiving packages available – “Why Was It Genocide?”; and Dr. Margaret Current Political Struggle in Ukraine and Traditional Thanksgiving Dinner Siriol Colley, author of the book “Gareth Tragic Pages in Ukrainian History: Debates January 30-February 1, 2004 Jones: A Manchukuo Incident” (2002) and with overnight stay about the 1933 Famine.” The lecture will be Church of Annunciation Family the niece of Gareth Jones, the first Western held in Room 108N, Munk Center for December 6 Weekend correspondent to expose the horrors of the UNA Christmas Party International Studies, University of Toronto, Famine-Genocide, who will speak on the 1 Devonshire Place, at 6-8 p.m. For addi- topic “Gareth Jones: A Voice Crying in the tional information call (416) 946-8113. Wilderness.” Ukrainian-language presenta- tions will be delivered by Natalya CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Dziubenko, a writer from Kyiv, who will Ukrainian Research Institute will host a lec- speak on “Holodomor: Eyewitness ture by Lidia Stefanowska, senior Testimony”; and Volodymyr Danylenko, researcher, Slavic Division, Polish director of the State Archive for the Kyiv Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, and region, and Volodymyr Lozytsky, director of research fellow, Harvard Ukrainian the Central State Archive of Civic Research Institute (HURI). Her lecture, Organizations in Kyiv, both of whom will “Poetics of Liminality: Bohdan Ihor address the topic of archival material on the Antonych in the Multicultural Context of Famine. The symposium is chaired by Prof. Lviv in the 1930s,” will be held in the Taras Hunczak, professor, department of his- HURI Seminar Room, 1583 Massachusetts tory and political science, Rutgers University. 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