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INSIDE:• Forced/slave labor compensation negotiations — page 2. •A look at student life in the capital of Ukraine — page 4. • Canada’s professionals/businesspersons convene — pages 10-13.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXVII HE No.KRAINIAN 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 EEKLY$1.25/$2 in Ukraine U.S.T continues aidU to Kharkiv region W Pustovoitenko meets in Moscow with $16.5 million medical shipment by Roman Woronowycz the region and improve the life of Kharkiv’s withby RomanRussia’s Woronowycz new increasingprime Ukrainian minister debt for Russian oil Kyiv Press Bureau residents, which until now had produced Kyiv Press Bureau and gas. The disagreements have cen- few tangible results. tered on the method of payment and the KYIV – The United States government “This is the first real investment in terms KYIV – Ukraine’s Prime Minister amount. continued to expand its involvement in the of money,” said Olha Myrtsal, an informa- Valerii Pustovoitenko flew to Moscow on Ukraine has stated that it owes $1 bil- Kharkiv region of Ukraine on August 25 tion officer at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. August 27 to meet with the latest Russian lion, while Russia claims that the costs when it delivered $16.5 million in medical Sponsored by the Department of State, the prime minister, Vladimir Putin, and to should include money owed by private equipment and medicines to the area’s hos- humanitarian assistance program called discuss current relations and, more Ukrainian enterprises, which raises the pitals and clinics. “Project Hope” delivered 130 containers specifically, how to liquidate Ukraine’s figure to $1.8 billion. The two sides also The humanitarian assistance project, the totaling $8 million in medical equipment billion dollar oil and gas debt to its north- have had difficulties agreeing on a ern neighbor. first and largest U.S. government effort in and supplies, and two airlifts of some $8.5 method of payment. Although consensus After two days of talks the two sides one of Ukraine’s most heavily populated million in pharmaceuticals, medicines and was reached during a visit to Kyiv in July medical supplies. The materials include x- agreed only that more discussions are by Sergei Stepashin, Mr. Putin’s prede- regions, is part of the Kharkiv Initiative, a needed. However, both prime ministers program to stimulate economic activity in ray machines, operating room equipment, cessor, that Ukraine would pay in com- medical instruments and hospital beds, and inferred that the next meeting, slated for modities, the parties could not agree on a consumable items such as bandages, surgi- late September, may produce concrete pricing structure. After Mr. Stepashin cal gloves, syringes and sutures. results. Mr. Pustovoitenko went so far as was ousted and yet another Russian gov- The Counterpart Alliance Program, a to assess that by the beginning of next ernment installed, Kyiv was concerned Bloc of 20 parties non-governmental organization funded by year Ukraine’s largest gas debt will have that the progress that had been made the U.S. Agency for International been at least reduced. would be halted or even reversed. Development, will oversee the distribution “Ukraine will most likely begin the But Mr. Pustovoitenko said he had endorses Kuchma year 2000 free of indebtedness to by Roman Woronowycz of the equipment and supplies in the next found common language with Mr. Putin two months, assisted by the international Russia’s Gazprom,” said Mr. and that more meetings between the two Kyiv Press Bureau private volunteer organizations MAP Pustovoitenko after the two government are planned. leaders had concluded their talks. KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma’s International, the International Medical Russia has demanded that Ukraine Gazprom is the second largest Russian election campaign gathered steam on Corps and Heart to Heart. charge no more than the domestic price oil and gas supplier and is 51 percent August 31 when the National Counterpart International Deputy of Russian commodities, which are Democratic Party organized an assembly General Director Sergei Zhgirov said that owned by the Russian government. much cheaper than on the world market of 20 political parties that vowed to sup- Kyiv and Moscow have been at log- (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 5) port the incumbent in the presidential gerheads for months over an ever- elections. Although most of the parties had jumped aboard the bandwagon much ear- Horyn says Ukraine’s political maturity is being tested lier, the shindig thrown for the president, a drawn-out three-hour affair filled with by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj Mykhailo Horyn, Ukrainian World The former national deputy of the speeches and promises, was a solid Toronto Press Bureau Coordinating Council executive member Verkhovna Rada said the task is “no easier expression of the rising political tide in and former Soviet political prisoner. now that we’ve been asked to break with TORONTO – At the last Ukrainian the center-left and center-right of the Mr. Horyn, who was on a visit to the past, and many have found it difficult to Independence Day celebrations of this mil- political spectrum for Mr. Kuchma. The Canada from Ukraine, said his country’s unhitch themselves from the Muscovite parties supporting the president comprise lennium, the speakers at the official cere- people “are still learning how to be a peo- monies held at the St. Volodymyr Cultural wagon.” more than a fourth of the 76 registered in ple with a state.” The man who suffered He invoked the Biblical story of Moses, Ukraine. Center in Oakville, Ontario (about 30 miles imprisonment in the Soviet gulag said that west of Toronto) on August 22 allowed who wandered in the desert for 40 years to With eight weeks left in the campaign, securing statehood is difficult work. “Who rid his nation of those who could not let go President Kuchma leads the candidate themselves – perhaps for the first time – to knew that it required sacrifice and dedica- pack with popular support of about 20 be negative about the state established in tion?” he asked with heavy irony. (Continued on page 6) percent. The president’s campaign team 1991. has been searching to build a widely Ukrainian World Congress Vice- based coalition for some time in order to President Maria Szkambara said, “We had achieve a quick victory for Mr. Kuchma expectations that Ukrainian consciousness in the first round of voting. They fear would grow once independence was that in a second round the president achieved, that youth would embrace the would become susceptible to an organ- new state, but it appears it is not so.” ized effort from the left, currently splin- She urged the 1,400 people assembled tered among four candidates, which under the cloudless sun-filled sky to sup- could lead to the president’s downfall. port the UWC’s open letter to Leonid Among the political organizations that Kuchma, in which the diaspora umbrella signed on to the affair, called “Our body expressed grave concern about the Choice is Leonid Kuchma,” were politi- Ukrainian state’s commitment to its own cal opposites such as the Ukrainian official language. National Conservative Party and the One could hardly fault a diplomat for Republican Christian Party from the accenting the positive, and yet the progress right and the Labor Party and the Party Ukraine’s Consul General in Toronto for the Regional Rebirth of Ukraine from Mykola Kyrychenko reported is mirrored the left. by failure in reality. Mr. Kyrychenko Many of the organizations that claimed that the pace of reform in his expressed their support for the president country has accelerated, that the drop in the by agreeing to be represented at the country’s productivity has been arrested, event are smallish political organizations and that respect for the legal foundations of democracy in Ukraine has grown. Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj (Continued on page 5) The day’s keynote speaker was Mykhailo Horyn addresses crowd in Oakville, Ontario. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 No. 36

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Forced/slave labor compensation Patriotic forum calls for single candidate since the state lacks the funds to hold a sec- ond round. (RFE/RL Newsline) KYIV – A forum of “patriotic, anti-cor- negotiations to continue in October ruption, pro-independence and democratic Incumbent starts re-election campaign by Myroslaw Smorodsky since these events occurred, their claims are forces” took place in Kyiv on August 22, MYRHOROD – “I can say only today not time-barred for various legal and histor- Interfax and RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service that I have started working for the future The fourth round of negotiations regard- ical reasons, and because of the magnitude reported. The forum was organized by the election,” President Leonid Kuchma told ing reparations to forced/slave laborers who of the atrocities. Open Politics association and attended by journalists on August 19, after visiting were unwillingly conscripted by Nazi According to the filed class action com- five presidential hopefuls: Yurii Kostenko, Ukraine’s famous Sorochynskyi Fair in Germany to work in its industrial war plaints, these corporations have grown to Yurii Karmazin, Volodymyr Oliinyk, Vasyl Myrhorod, Poltava Oblast. Mr. Kuchma, machine during World War II ended on the importance and economic stature that Onopenko and Oleksander Rzhavskyi. who was accompanied by Moldova’s August 26 in Bonn, Germany. Although the they have today in part because they bene- Candidates Hennadii Udovenko, Yevhen President Petru Lucinschi, noted that the discussions did not resolve the compensa- fited and profiteered from forced/slave Marchuk and Vitalii Kononov did not presidential campaign is “becoming a nega- tion matter, the negotiating parties were of labor for which they, as individual business attend. Anatolii Matviienko, who heads the tive factor in Ukraine’s life,” primarily the opinion that progress has been made at entities, never compensated the victims. association and resigned the leadership of because of the “frenzied, dirty” criticism by these talks and agreed to reconvene the They further argue that the funds paid by the National Democratic Party after it other presidential candidates of the incum- negotiations in early October in the government of Germany in the past pledged support to Leonid Kuchma’s re- bent. “They resort to methods originally Washington. were not compensation but merely a election bid, urged all presidential candi- used by the KGB,” Mr. Kuchma comment- The negotiations were initiated in humanitarian gesture, which does not dates to agree on a single candidate to rep- ed. (RFE/RL Newsline) February by German industry as a result of amount to the fair value of the services ren- resent the right-wing in the elections. the numerous class action lawsuits that are dered by forced/slave laborers while (RFE/RL Newsline) Top court upholds death sentence being filed in the United States seeking forcibly detained in Germany under inhu- Kharkiv trade unions favor Moroz compensation for forced/slave laborers. mane circumstances. KYIV – The Supreme Court on August These suits named specific corporations Despite their legal position, the German KHARKIV – A poll among trade union 26 rejected the appeal to commute to life such as Daimler-Chrysler, Bayer and corporations state that they recognize their members in the Kharkiv Oblast showed that imprisonment the death sentence handed BMW, among others, charging that these moral obligations to compensate in part for presidential candidate Oleksander Moroz, down to serial killer Anatolii Onopriienko. companies conspired and willingly partici- the wrongs committed by the Nazi regime. leader of the Socialist Party, has the Mr. Onopriienko was sentenced in April pated with the Nazi regime to violate the On February 16, German industry strongest support among these organiza- after being found guilty of 52 murders. laws of nations by enslaving and forcibly announced it would undertake a voluntary tions, polling 35 percent approval. However, he may avoid execution because deporting millions of persons from Eastern initiative to settle all potential present and Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko in 1997 Ukraine introduced a moratorium Europe to work for the Third Reich and that future claims that any party could have was second with 19 percent, followed by on carrying out the capital punishment. The these companies had profited from their against German industry as a result of any Natalia Vitrenko with 16.9 percent. Council of Europe is urging Ukraine to criminal actions. alleged actions committed by the German President Leonid Kuchma received only 12 abolish the death sentence. There are more The number of forced/slave laborers companies during World War II. In essence, percent support. (Eastern Economist) than 410 persons currently on death row in alive today is estimated to be between 1.5 German industry demands legal peace so Ukraine, according to ITAR-TASS. million to 2.3 million survivors worldwide, that no further legal actions would be insti- Deputies prepare for hectic autumn (RFE/RL Newsline) with 600,000 to 850,000 in Ukraine alone. tuted in the future against it anywhere in the The German government was not named KYIV – Ukraine’s national deputies Tyhypko urges zero deficit budget for 2000 world. plan to begin their work in parliamentary as a party in the litigation since all govern- However, German industry clearly indi- KYIV – Vice Prime Minister Serhii ments are immune from prosecution in this committees on September 1. The next ses- cates that its moral obligations do not sion of the Parliament’s 14th convocation Tyhypko said on August 26 that a “zero country. Among the lawsuits that have been encompass the forced laborers who were budget deficit should be approved for next filed is a class action matter filed on behalf will begin its work on September 7. employed by publicly owned entities, such According to Verkhovna Rada Chairman year’s budget.” Mr. Tyhypko argued that if of Ukrainian forced/slave laborers by the as the railroads, or who were forcibly the Parliament approves a large budget law firms of Smorodsky & Stawnychy of Oleksander Tkachenko, the session will be employed in the agricultural sector. In order difficult and intense. The first two weeks deficit, the government will have to take out New Jersey, Pyotr Rabinovich P.A. of New to obtain an all-inclusive resolution, the foreign loans to cover it. (RFE/RL York and Ukriniurkoleguia of Kyiv. This will involve half of the working day in ple- German industry initiative envisions the nary sessions and the rest in committees. Newsline) writer and Oleksandr Storozhuk of participation of the German government, Over 400 draft bills have been prepared. Tyhypko comments on talks with IMF Ukriniurkolejguia participated in the Bonn which would create a special fund to com- talks on behalf of the Ukrainian claimants. President Leonid Kuchma has submitted a pensate these non-industrial workers. Such KYIV – Vice Prime Minister Serhii German companies have vigorously range of economic draft laws in the form of actions require German parliamentary fund- Tyhypko said on August 19 that he “cannot denied any legal responsibility for the war decrees. Thus, the workload, especially in ing and approval. regard the recent talks with the International atrocities that occurred over 55 years ago. committees for Budget Affairs, Finance As a result of this German Industry Monetary Fund a success.” Mr. Tyhypko Among the numerous arguments made to Affairs and Banking, and Social Policy and Initiative, a progression of settlement con- added that Ukraine complied with all but support their claim of non-culpability, the Labor will increase sharply. (RFE/RL ferences have occurred in Germany and in one of the IMF requirements for obtaining German companies argue that American Newsline) Washington since May of this year, with the the next loan tranche of $180 million. The courts should not have jurisdiction over recent Bonn conference being the fourth in Communists may join Kaniv pact exception is the increase in tariffs on public these issues, since nearly all of the this series of meetings. All of these confer- utilities. According to Mr. Tyhypko, the KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman claimants are located in Europe and the ences were hosted and moderated by high- IMF has approved the Ukrainian Cabinet’s Oleksander Tkachenko said he believes that events in question occurred on that conti- level representatives of the German and effort to balance the budget, which was the Communist leader Petro Symonenko will nent. The companies further argue that the U.S. governments. key issue in negotiations with the IMF mis- join the so-called Kaniv agreement signed war crimes were committed by the Nazi The German representative is Otto Graf sion in Kyiv last month. During a subse- on August 24 by four presidential candi- regime and not by the companies them- Lamsdorff; the U.S. representative during quent meeting in Washington, Ukrainian dates on joint actions in election campaign- selves. all of the talks is Undersecretary Stuart representatives presented a program for German industry further states that the Eizenstat. ing. Mr. Tkachenko also said the presiden- (Continued on page 14) German government has adequately com- Other participants in these conferences tial election should be held in one round pensated and made reparations in the past. are representatives of German industry, the (In 1993, billions of Deutsche marks were attorneys for the claimants in the various paid by the German government to class actions, representatives of Belarus, the FOUNDED 1933 “Reconciliation Funds” in each of the East Czech Republic, Israel, Poland, Russia, European countries for distribution to Ukraine and the Jewish Claims Conference. 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INTERVIEW: Oleksander Moroz, candidate for president of Ukraine The interview below with Oleksander tion” of our economy occurring even at sector are implemented, while the indus- Moroz, leader of the Socialist Party and a the basic, consumer level, allowing for the trial manufacturing sector of the economy candidate for president of Ukraine, was sale of land would be simply criminal. is given a new impetus. This all means conducted in Kyiv by Stefko Bandera, a There are a few examples when, in that basic changes in agricultural policies Kyiv-based writer who works for the defiance of the Constitution, but based on are required. These changes can be Canadian political consulting firm Romyr presidential decrees, several farmers took intensely and swiftly implemented only and Associates. the risk of selling their land. They sold it after Ukraine’s agricultural goods for $10 (U.S.) per hectare! You don’t have improve their market positions within the When you were in the United States to be a specialist to understand the absurd- country, in the East and, to an extent, in last year, the media reported that you ity of that price. I am categorically Europe. are categorically opposed to the privati- opposed to these type of scenarios. There In 1998, the International Center zation of land in Ukraine. In the West, are successful agricultural enterprises in for Policy Studies in Kyiv reported Ukraine that prove that the sale of land is this is perceived in a negative light. that a bumper sunflower harvest was not necessarily the only answer, and show Ukraine’s greatest assets, perhaps, are sold abroad at world prices. that more emphasis should be placed on the land and its people. If you are Meanwhile, domestic sunflower oil creating economic conditions favorable to against the privatization of land, how manufacturers were underemployed, the development of agricultural enterpris- do you propose Ukraine use this because they couldn’t compete with resource and regain its status as bread- es. those foreign manufacturers who were basket of Europe? The value of the land should be includ- able to pay the price for Ukrainian ed in the price of the final product, along sunflowers. In the end, Ukrainians The fact is that when Ukraine was the with the cost of maintaining the land and Oleksander Moroz breadbasket of Europe, land was also not ended up purchasing the more expen- operation, i.e., the costs of fuel, energy, sive, imported sunflower oil that was for sale. The success of the agricultural farm equipment, herbicides, other chemi- After the period of artificially created sector does not depend on who owns the made from Ukrainian sunflower hyperinflation in the early 1990s, many cals, etc., at current world prices. If the seeds. This is a classic colonial land, but on organizing the way in which Ukrainian farmers and agricultural enter- land’s value is not included in the price of arrangement. Why can’t Ukraine the land is used, by providing necessary prises lost their basic operating capital. the final product, this will result in the export its own sunflower oil instead? support for farmers and allowing them to Moreover, a barter system of payments economic discrimination against farming Who in Ukraine benefits from this reap the benefits of their work. Laws for activities and wages will remain very low. “colonial” status? (Continued on page 16) improving this organization already exist, This is also unacceptable. This is basi- but there are at least three more funda- cally my stand on the issue of privatiza- mental measures that can only be realized tion [of land]. To make land a commodity with the help of the state. will mean losing it. I do not want to see First of all, the entity that works the that happen because I am a Ukrainian land, be it a collective or private farm, patriot and would not want to see non- BUSINESS IN BRIEF farmers or agricultural firms, needs to Ukrainians doing as they please with our have access to credits. These credits must land. If investors are interested in working Moody’s says Ukraine may default on debt be offered at reasonable rates that will with us on our land, then we can explore NEW YORK – The investment department of Moody’s rating agency announced on allow repayment by reasonably profitable different options for privatizing individual August 26 that of all the countries with transitional economies, Ukraine, Ecuador and enterprises. If the credits are offered, as land plots, subordinating them to priva- Moldova are closest to defaulting on their external debts. According to the agency, experts they are today, at interest rates in excess of tized manufacturing and industrial enter- believe that the default could be caused by internal domestic struggle, falling export rev- 80 percent, then no one will take advan- prises, for example. enues, limited access to international capital markets, the growing perception of debt tage of them. Let the farmer have the right restructuring as a solution to economic problems and a Parliament that hinders the integra- After Ukraine has managed to bring to sell his land 20 times over, and even use tion of the country’s economy into the world system. According to Moody’s, at the end of its agricultural affairs in to order, land as collateral, but he will never be able 1999 and beginning of 2000, Ukraine is due to repay $1.4 billion (U.S.) worth of external which markets can the country expect to pay these credits back [at current rates]. debt, and $2.3 billion in total for the year 2000, while Ukraine’s currency reserves total just to service? Can Ukraine ever regain its This is unacceptable. I don’t know of a $1.1 billion. Moody’s predicts that, as has previously happened, payment of Ukraine’s status as “breadbasket of Europe”? single country in the world that allows for external debts will be postponed. Its experts share the belief that the best thing for Ukraine this type of arrangement. This is one of I don’t think Ukraine will ever become to do is to default, as “the internal benefits from such actions will override sanctions after the first issues that need to be settled. the “breadbasket of Europe” that it once the default.” (Eastern Economist) Secondly, the tax burden on the farmer was because Europe has managed to needs to be significantly alleviated. Report released on economic indicators develop its own agricultural sectors to the Working towards this, the parliamentary point that the European countries are able committee I head has developed a number KYIV – Preliminary analysis shows that prices on the consumer market are under con- to satisfy their own demands. Certain of legislative acts that will decrease the trol and this year’s inflation rate is 7.5 percent, down from the predicted figure of 9 percent, Ukrainian goods can be sold in Europe, tax pressure on the farmer, and even create said First Vice Minister of the Economy Viktor Kalnyk. Prices for petroleum products have especially our vegetable oils, which can- tax breaks for a few years, thus giving the not yet been determined, but they tend to decrease. Prices for fuels and lubricants have risen not be surpassed in quality by any other agriculture sector an opportunity for by 99.3 percent, impacting the entire pricing scheme. Food prices are expected to rise by 4- country’s product, except perhaps by a revival. 5 percent by year’s end. Consumer prices are going to be influenced by the hryvnia’s infla- small part of Argentina. These oils can The third step the state needs to take is tion rate. According to Mr. Kalnyk, if the hryvnia is kept within the specified currency lim- claim their own niche on European mar- to establish minimum price levels for its during September and October, predicted inflation rates will be maintained. The inflation kets. Ukrainian apples, grapes and melons selected staple agricultural goods like rate of utility prices is 3 percent, down from the predicted 9 percent. It can grow by another can also be sold in most of Europe. Our 4 percent after the population in all regions begins to pay the entire cost of utility services. seeds, sugar, vegetable oil, meats and hard grains can claim yet another niche. poultry. This is not an unusual practice; Wholesale prices in general have stabilized following last year’s crisis, while wholesale Ukraine’s eastern regions have the right prices in the energy sector, chemical and petroleum industries have dropped. The current similar policies are pursued in various climatic conditions for growing hard forms in the European Union and the wholesale price index is 6.7 percent and it is expected to reach 16 percent by year’s end, wheat, and its successful sale alone will down from 35.4 percent of the last year. (Eastern Economist) United States through subsidies, fixed significantly strengthen our agricultural prices, etc. sector. Kyiv shipyard unveils new cargo vessel If these three measures are implement- Ukraine’s markets are to the East and ed, then the issue of whether or not to sell Middle East, but first and foremost we KYIV – The Kyiv-based Leninska Kuznia shipbuilding plant on August 26 released a the land will lose the urgency certain need to focus on completely satisfying our 110-meter-long cargo vessel, FEWI. The ship was ordered by Dutch Robo International Westerners place on the matter. In fact, domestic demand. So, you can see that B.V. and is designed to carry a load of 1,617 tons. “This is the largest vessel that our plant current legislation allows for various Ukraine’s land does have a future. has ever produced,” stated the plant’s president, Petro Poroshenko. The ship was sold for 1.2 million marks. Only Ukrainian-made materials were used in construction, and the plant forms of ownership, including private First, however, we need to change the financed all works without state support. (Eastern Economist) ownership. In 1992, 25 percent of way crop rotation is practiced, increase the Ukraine’s agricultural lands were already sowing of feed grains, grasses, etc. This Stakes in 16 firms on sale via exchange out of the state’s hands. However, at this will be easier on the land and will also time of deepening crisis, when our curren- allow for our agricultural sector to devel- KYIV – The State Property Fund has decided to sell stakes in 16 domestic companies cy is being devalued, with the “dollariza- op animal husbandry, for example. This is undergoing privatization. The most lucrative stocks include a 49.54 percent stake in the especially important for the country’s Nadvirna woodworking plant, and a 6.84 percent stake in the Rodon JSC, both in Ivano- southern regions, including the north of Frankivsk Oblast, and a 27.59 percent stake in the Zaporizhia-based Konstanta air compa- the Crimean peninsula, because the sow- ny, a 0.13 percent stake in the Zdorovia pharmaceutical company and a 22 percent stake in Quotable notes ing practices there over the past few the Holosiyivskyi Hotel in Kyiv. All stakes are to be sold via the Ukrainian Stock “A regime of ‘banditocracy’ has decades have depleted the land of its Exchange. A 17.42 percent stake in the Kyiv Aviation Technology Research Institute is to become firmly established in nutrients, and farming there means incur- be offered via the Kyiv International Stock Exchange. (Eastern Economist) Ukraine.” ring significant maintenance costs. In – Socialist Party leader order to keep costs down, we should limit SPF to sell stake in Lysychansk plant Oleksander Moroz in his party the use of farm equipment to ensure that KYIV – The State Property Fund has decided to sell a 3.84 percent stake in the newspaper, Tovarysh, on June 17 the tractors, combines, etc., spend less Lysychansk-based technical rubber plant via the stock exchange by December 1. Another 3 (as reported in RFE/RL Poland, time in the fields. percent stake was to be sold for cash via certificate auctions centers by August 31. To date, Belarus and Ukraine Report). And this will happen only after signifi- cant structural changes in the agricultural (Continued on page 22) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 No. 36

A look at student life in Ukraine: a kaleidoscope of experiences by Mariana Voronovich much to say, but only Oksana, who is a problems four years ago. The most serious One answer, of course, is the cost to the and Olena Fadeicheva freshman, agreed to speak for the record. of which was not robbery, but the sale of students. The monthly payment for stu- Special to The Ukrainian Weekly “There are different types of dorms that drugs. The thing that attracted the drug sup- dents here is 70-80 hrv (under $20), which provide various amenities, depending on pliers and users was not the students, but is still cheaper than renting a private apart- KYIV – The life of students in Ukraine the monthly payment. It varies from 6 hrv the outsiders [who were living in the ment, even one far from downtown Kyiv, does not seem to differ from that in other to 10 hrv per month. Students pay 10 hrv dorms]. Because of a lack of supervision, which can go for $80 to $100 per month. parts of the world. for a single shower/bath for two rooms, access to the territory was open. This guar- Student life does not consist solely of We were curious about whether students which is considered to be rather comfort- anteed a rather secure and profitable busi- red-letter days filled with fun and visits to had thought of moving out of their dormi- able. It is unfortunate that I decided not to ness for the newcomers. concerts, night clubs, pubs and cinemas, as tories into more Western-style student live there,” she said. “When the criminal situation in the dis- these activities cover no more than 25 per- housing or even into private apartments. Oksana continued: “In my building the cent to 30 percent of students’ time. The trict and around the dorm became critical, Many students’ answers were similar to planning is totally different; there is only other 70 to 75 percent of their time is spent the university administration started to take that given by a second-year student named studying. one shower/bath for the whole dormitory. an active role in resolving the problem. We Yurii: “Because I am not a Kyiv resident, I Ukrainian students study hard and run Even worse, it is situated in a dark base- found the financial resources for a profes- am required to live in a dormitory, as are neck-and-neck with their peers from other ment with no locks, and there is not even a sional night guard for the campus territory many of my friends. I am sure that only a countries, even outrunning them in some proper partition between the men’s and and the dormitories. A checkpoint and per- small number of non-residents can afford to categories. Official figures show that 93 women’s facilities. “You can hardly imag- mit system for entering the dorms also was rent an apartment for $100 a month. To be percent of Ukrainian college sophomores ine how I feel as I stand under the shower, established. honest, I am not thrilled with the conditions go on to graduate, while in the United knowing that behind the thin plywood par- “We cannot yet say that the problem as a of life on campus, however, I can afford it States that figure stands at around 53 per- tition some unknown boys are also taking a whole has been solved, but due to these and given my financial resources. Besides I cent. shower. Almost everybody is frightened other measures, tensions were reduced have friends here whom I do not want to There are two types of students who and nobody goes alone to shower. “So that about a year and a half ago. As you may leave. Living alone can be lonesome and study in Kyiv: those who have grown up there would not be any problems, we have well know, our inspections have become boring; it is more difficult to find help, sup- and live in the city, and those who come to arranged ‘bath days’ (separate days for much more strict. Dormitory students who port and even good times. study in the capital from other cities, towns males and females). This may seem exces- return home late without their identity “But if the decrees that the Ukrainian and villages of Ukraine. sively cautious, but that way we feel safer.” cards are not allowed pass the checkpoints. government handed down in November Neither the student on duty [in the dormito- It is generally believed that students who Campus housing history 1998, concerning the social welfare of stu- reside permanently in Kyiv have a more ry] nor friends can help. In fact, these con- dents had been implemented, my monthly secure and comfortable life. Non-residents As we talked, an older lady, who turned trols brought safety.” stipend would not be 13 hrv to 16 hrv a live in dormitory housing that is of poor out to be Maria Ivanivna, the eldest gov- Models for the future month, but 40 hrv to 50 hrv. Then, I would quality and full of hazards. Two-thirds of erness of the campus, approached us. First have willingly moved to the new Western- all Kyiv university students live in dorms she asked us who we were and what we A few years ago the university built a style dorms, to a one-bedroom apartment that do not meet satisfactory standards of wanted. Afterward she imparted some model dormitory building that upholds with a separate bathroom and kitchen.” living. Nonetheless, living independently interesting information about the history of standards accepted in the West. This hotel- * * * gives them more freedom and a chance to the campus. style dormitory differs appreciably from the experience life in different ways – or so we Ms. Ivanivna explained that she had present buildings. Its lodgings consist of Thus, on the basis of our informal inter- have been told. taken part in the planning of the complex apartments with two or three rooms, with a views, we concluded that student life here To find out for ourselves, we decided to and that the initial plan of the campus lay- separate kitchen and other amenities. Why in Kyiv is a kaleidoscope of experiences, visit the main student housing district for out was superb because everything was to not provide all the students with this type and challenges, all of which are part of the Kyiv university students, home of the non- be close by. of housing? education process. resident students of Kyiv State University. It was planned that the office of the The student housing complex is located on director of studies and the military depart- the outskirts of the city, about an hour away ment were to be located a few steps from The Kharkiv Initiative resulted from a via public transportation. the apartments. The preventive medicine U.S. continues aid... U.S. decision to compensate the region for clinic and the swimming pool were to be (Continued from page 1) the loss of money and jobs after Turboatom, Arranging for basics located nearby, and the polyclinic and Kharkiv hospitals need not worry about one of Kharkiv’s largest manufacturers, At the housing campus we first encoun- kindergarten were to be at the heart of the receiving expired medicines or outdated agreed to stop the construction of turbines tered Oleksander, a third-year student. We campus. In the end, only the kindergarten equipment. He explained that, in conjunc- for a nuclear plant in Iran at Washington’s asked him if student housing is as bad as was built, she noted. tion with Kharkiv Oblast authorities, his insistence. we had heard. He replied: “You know what The polyclinic was moved to another organization accepted only medical supplies The U.S. Embassy has cooperated with they say, ‘It is not the money, but the district far from the campus, which has with expiration dates well in the future. the region’s local governments and busi- amount of it that matters.’ Our situation is caused major problems. Students have little “We noticed on some insulin packages nesses to stimulate U.S. commercial invest- similar to that; our problem is not the chance of obtaining urgent medical assis- expiration dates of October 1999, which we ment in the region. It has organized accommodation but its quality. But to tell tance. declined to accept, even though the insulin exchanges of Ukrainian and U.S. business- you frankly, I’m surprised that for the The lack of medical care in the area has is especially needed here, as you well know, people and worked to make Kharkiv busi- money we pay we even have a place to been an issue that two other students, and would have been used up immediately,” nesses more investor-friendly. Ms. Myrtsal live, cook and relax.” Halyna and Maria, spoke to us about. said Mr. Zhgirov. explained that no contracts have yet been In the beginning. it is not easy to get “There is no first aid post on our cam- The pharmaceutical supplies and techni- signed with U.S. businesses. used to such a way of life. It is the humor pus. Ambulances answer student calls cal equipment were donated by multiple Ambassador William Taylor, coordinator and inventiveness of the students that helps reluctantly. Doctors seem to think that we U.S donors, said Ms. Myrtsal of the U.S. of U.S. assistance to the New Independent them get through it all. are only looking for doctor’s certificates to Embassy. She added that in the next two States, and Chargé d’Affaires David Hess For example, each floor of the dormitory excuse our absences from classes. If a girl months another shipment of up to $2 mil- of the U.S. Embassy led a delegation of has its own kitchen. But only one of the calls for an ambulance, the on-duty doctor lion of additional consumable medical sup- officials present for the delivery of the med- two gas stoves works, and that is far from [who rides with the ambulance team] plies is expected in Kharkiv. ical shipment. enough to satisfy the needs of 50-60 stu- makes a standard diagnosis without a med- dents who live on the floor. That is why, ical examination: ‘You are pregnant.’ Even now and then, students play “kitchen if she has other symptoms, they simply The conference ended in an atmos- tricks” on each other. What this means is reaffirm, ‘It is a pregnancy with complica- Forced/slave labor... phere of confidence that the next round that, if a student is cooking his meal, and tion.’ ” (Continued from page 2) of talks in Washington would achieve an has to leave the kitchen for a moment, he The two girls added, “The only alterna- and since their heirs are so numerous, amicable resolution of these difficult may return to find everything gone but the tive for students who need medical atten- meaningful compensation to each is not issues. As one delegate stated: “We are pan. tion is a student hospital, but getting there feasible. The German Industry Initiative doomed to succeed – history demands It’s okay when it is done in the proper takes an hour. The question is whether this includes plans to develop a “Future Fund” this of us.” In his closing remarks, the spirit, and then everyone can laugh together is a realistic alternative when you are feel- that will give some meaningful assistance Ukrainian delegate, Ihor Lushnikow, about it. However, one should never forget ing terrible and have a high fever.” to forced laborers’ heirs through various observed: “[but] success is built on mutu- that next time it could happen to him or her. al compromise by all.” Crime a threat programs and also initiate permanently Another problem students have is a funded programs that will have as their * * * shortage of showers. This is a problem bet- Having heard an awful lot of things (or goal the prevention of a repetition of the Counsel for the Ukrainian Forced/Slave ter explained by the girls, for whom this is maybe a lot of awful things) about the atrocities of World War II. Labor Claimants are: Pyotr S. Rabinovich, “closer to the heart.” problems of robbery and thievery, we asked The negotiations are further complicated 475 Fifth Ave., Suite 602, New York, NY Several girls whom we approached had the criminal statistics department of the by the fact that these talks involve various 10017, telephone, (212) 679-5880, fax, Kyiv militia to provide information on industry and public-sector parties, govern- (212) 679-7958; Myroslaw Smorodsky, Marianna Voronovich, 18, and Olena crime. It turns out that the city district in ment representatives and lawyers for the Smorodsky & Stawnychy, 75 Union Ave., Fadeicheva, 20, are students at Kyiv which the student housing complex is various claimant groups. This multi-party P.O. Box 1705, Rutherford, NJ 07070, tele- State University. Miss Voronovich is a located is the worst crime district in Kyiv. aspect of the talks requires multi-faceted phone, (201) 939-1999, fax, (201) 507- sophomore studying mass communica- We asked the housing administration discussions and compromise. Although the 3970; and Danylo Kourdelchouk and tions at the Institute of International whether it had considered hiring security Bonn Conference did not resolve all of the Oleksandr Storozhuk, Ukriniurkolleguia Relations, while Miss Fadeicheva is in guards who could be paid from the stu- problems involved, substantial progress was Ukrainian Bar Association for Foreign her fourth year at the Institute of dents’ monthly rent. made toward achieving a solution to many Affairs, 2-A Zoloti Vorota St., Kyiv, Ukraine, Journalism. Both are Kyiv residents who An administration representative of the complex issues and closing the gap 252034, telephone, 380-44-246-53-91, fax, live with their parents. explained: “There were even more pressing on others. 380-41-229-85-22. No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 5

how the sale would affect the disarma- Pustovoitenko meets... ment agreements Ukraine has signed Lviv Theological Academy’s vice-rector (Continued from page 1) with the West, and particularly the since the drastic depreciation of the United States. ruble. Ukraine has objected, especially Russian Prime Minister Putin clouded visits Kyiv to study needs of Catholic faithful since Russia has charged Ukraine world the issue further when he refused to con- by Illya Labunka approximately 500-600 faithful here partici- prices and better for its oil and gas in the firm at a press gathering in Moscow pating in holy liturgy on Sunday,” added the past. whether an agreement had been reached. KYIV – On the cramped, second floor of Rev. Sanotsky, with the result that most The two prime ministers now appar- “Russia has not received the bombers, a belltower, the Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak cel- people stand outside. ently have turned to military goods as a and we are not yet quite sure whether we ebrated liturgy this past spring on the prem- The Rev. Gudziak was born in Syracuse, form of payment. There has been conjec- need them or not,” explained Mr. Putin, ises of St. Mykola the Benevolent N.Y., to Ukrainian emigré parents. In 1980 ture that Moscow and Kyiv have found according to Interfax-Ukraine. Ukrainian Catholic parish in the Podil he received a bachelor’s degree from common language in the sale of several The Russian prime minister admitted region of Kyiv. This tiny space inside the Syracuse University with a double major in Ukrainian strategic bombers as compen- that Russia had disregarded debts by belltower is one of only two places in the philosophy and biology. He then enrolled in entire capital city where Ukrainian sation. Russian manufacturers to Ukrainian the College of St. Sophia of the Ukrainian Catholics can gather to worship. In fact, Ukraine’s recently appointed suppliers, especially in the military- Catholic University in Rome, under the The Rev. Gudziak, who is vice-rector of first vice prime minister, Anatolii industrial sector, a problem that had tutelage of Cardinal Josyf Slipyj. As a stu- the Lviv Theological Academy, visited Kinakh, alluded to reporters in been remedied during the Moscow talks, dent of eastern theological studies, the Rev. Kyiv in order to familiarize himself with the Luhansk, after his return from Moscow he said. Gudziak became inspired by Patriarch needs of the Ukrainian Catholic community The two prime ministers also dis- Josyf’s vision and dream to one day estab- on August 28, that an agreement had in Ukraine’s capital, home to thousands of cussed continuing import barriers on lish a Catholic university in Ukraine. The been reached on the sale of the military Ukrainian Catholic faithful. Celebrating his Ukrainian sugar and alcohol products, foundations of this dream were laid in 1994 aircraft. first liturgy in Kyiv since being ordained a the ongoing border demarcation negotia- He said that by September 20 the two priest in November 1998 in Lviv, the Rev. with the revival of the Lviv Theological tions and the Black Sea Fleet, as well as sides will have worked out “the mecha- Gudziak stated in his sermon that, “On the Academy, which had been founded origi- Mr. Pustovoitenko’s pet project, the nism for the formation of prices of the eve of the third millennium when Ukraine is nally by Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky. goods to be supplied by Ukrainian manu- development of a free trade zone across in transition, in political, cultural and eco- After receiving a licentiate in theology in facturers in repayment of the debts” and the entire region of the Commonwealth nomic crisis, there is a particularly urgent 1983, Mr. Gudziak entered Harvard said that it would include the supply of of the Independent States. need for clear signs of hope and new incar- University from which he received a doc- special technologies, including strategic In Kyiv, Mr. Pustovoitenko said that it nations of the Christian tradition that has torate in Slavic and Byzantine Church histo- bombers and auxiliary equipment, is becoming increasingly doubtful that all been the lifeline of Ukraine from the begin- ry in 1992. In autumn of that year, the Rev. according to Interfax-Ukraine. the CIS countries will agree to a free ning of its history. The social ministry of Gudziak established permanent residency in However, as Mr. Kinakh admitted, trade zone, but that Ukraine should, mercy and the arduous ‘podvyh’ (task) of Lviv and planted the first seeds of the now- first the Ukrainian side must determine nonetheless, move toward such a policy. creating new visions for the future is what revived Lviv Theological Academy by cre- Ukrainian society expects from the ating the Institute of Church History. In Church.” 1995 Mr. Gudziak became vice-rector of Reflecting on the spiritual and pastoral the Lviv Theological Academy. Bloc of 20 parties... “I had been preparing myself for the (Continued from page 1) needs of Ukrainian Christians throughout Ukraine, the Rev. Gudziak proclaimed that, priesthood for 20 years,” said the Rev. with little popular support, such as the “as a thousand years ago, the Church is Gudziak. “I never doubted that the day of Party for a Beautiful Ukraine, which as called to spread the good news from the my ordination would arrive, however, I far as most political analysts can surmise hills of Kyiv.” always struggled with the question for has an organization but no real member- Although work has been initiated to whom, and who is calling me to this conse- ship list. build a cathedral on Kyiv’s Left Bank and cration. My association with the students There are others, however, that carry the Basilian fathers are constructing a and faculty of the Lviv Theological much political influence and financial church in the center of town, according to Academy, our camaraderie and my famil- resources. Among them is the National the vicar-general, the Rev. Lubomyr iarity with their spiritual needs became the Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Sanotsky, with whom the Rev. Gudziak met impetus and guiding light that led me Valerii Pustovoitenko and the Social with at the parish site following liturgy, “as towards the decisive moment.” Democratic Party (United) headed by of today the Ukrainian Catholics of Kyiv The following day, the Rev. Gudziak par- Second Vice-Chairman of the Verkhovna still do not have an appropriate house of ticipated in a liturgy of Christian burial for Rada Viktor Medvedchuk, whose mem- worship in which to practice their faith.” human rights activist Vyacheslav Chornovil, bership includes former President Leonid Frequently, due to limited space, faithful member of Parliament and leader of Rukh. Kravchuk and powerful businessman are compelled to stand and pray outdoors at For more information or to make a dona- Hryhorii Surkis. one of two locations: the parish of St. tion on behalf of the Lviv Theological The gathering, held at the Mykola the Benevolent in the belltower of a Academy, contact: The Ukrainian Catholic Milton Grant International Cultural and Arts Center, destroyed church and the parish of St. Education Foundation, 2247 West Chicago better known as the October Palace, Leonid Kuchma Mykola in the small rotunda at Prince Ave., Chicago, IL 60622; telephone (773) resembled a convention, sans the bal- new coalition, made on Independence Askold’s Tomb. “Often, and particularly 235-8462; fax, (773) 235-8464; e-mail, loons and much of the hoopla. Day from Tarasova Hora in Kaniv, has when the weather cooperates, we see [email protected]. No united platform was offered, but changed the political make-up in the several resolutions were passed, all presidential horse race inasmuch as the unanimously. One called on the need to “Kaniv Four,” as some in the press are “ensure the predominance in society of calling them, may just have the strength the champions of reform over those who Ukrainian World Congress moves headquarters to offer President Kuchma a serious chal- by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj Scientific Society of Canada. More recent dream of an administrative command lenge. economy” – an obvious reference to the Toronto Press Bureau arrivals included the Consulate General of The Kuchma organization is using the Ukraine and Kontakt-TV. Communist Party. Democratic Party’s defection to its ranks TORONTO – The Ukrainian World The assembly agreed that its main Mr. Szafraniuk died in November 1991 as evidence that the coalition is fragile Congress on August 1 issued a terse press and Mrs. Szafraniuk in August 1996, and in goal, one expressed by their candidate, and will collapse. release, signed “UWC Presidium,” inform- should be to lay the groundwork for recent years the terms granted to Ukrainian President Kuchma, the center of all ing the community that its headquarters had organizations came under increasing scruti- Ukraine’s vigorous advancement toward the fuss and the attention at the moved downtown, to the Ukrainian Credit free market reforms and further democ- ny by their inheritors. International Cultural and Arts Center, Union building near the intersection of Ruslana Wrzesniewska, a veteran com- ratization of the state, and to exclude any said he was humbled by such an expres- College Street and Spadina Avenue, from its munity activist (project coordinator of the possibility for Ukraine to move back to sion of support and that the show of long-standing seat in the area known as Help Us Help the Children charitable foun- its Communist past. unity would help to raise cooperation Toronto’s Bloor West Village. dation) and a real estate broker, has After Prime Minister Pustovoitenko among political parties to a higher level. The move also ends a long-standing assumed a majority share in the building kicked off the event, many of the party He called the centrist political unity that association with the Ukrainian Canadian Art and in the past year had signalled that, for leaders took to the rostrum to offer the event symbolizes decisive for Foundation (UCAF). In 1975 Mykhailo and various economic reasons, the almost words of encouragement, including Mr. Ukraine. Yaroslava Szafraniuk, both art collectors ruinously generous terms of previous leases Medvedchuk of the Social Democratic “The assertion of political centrism and real estate developers, co-founded the could not be continued. Party (United), Liberal Party leader and the formation of the middle class UCAF and decided to donate premises to As recently as the UWC’s Presidium Volodymyr Scherban and Democratic will be decisive in our breakthrough to a both a UCAF gallery and to the diaspora meetings in May, UWC President Askold Party leader Hanna Antonieva. better life and ending the crisis in umbrella body, then known as the World Lozynskyj had been optimistic about Ms. Antonieva’s party had thrown its Ukraine,” President Kuchma told the Congress of Free Ukrainians, on Bloor extending arrangements favorable to the support to Mr. Kuchma only days prior audience during a lengthy discourse on Street West near Jane Street. UWC, but according to UWC General to the assembly, a move that was made his plans and goals for the next four In 1978 came a shift to larger facilities at Secretary Victor Pedenko, in the president’s after its first presidential choice, Yevhen years. 2118A Bloor St. W., a white-brick edifice absence from Toronto, differences between Marchuk, joined three candidates from Mr. Kuchma explained that he hoped built on the slope of Bloor Street, rising lessor and leasee proved insuperable. UWC the left – Oleksander Tkachenko of the the unity among the parties shown westward away from High Park; both insti- Chief Financial Officer William Sametz Peasants Party, Oleksander Moroz of the toward his candidacy would carry on tutions made the move. was urged to redouble his efforts in finding Socialist Party and independent after the October 31 elections and lead to Subsequently, they were joined by, alternate accommodations. Volodymyr Oliinyk – in a loose coali- the formalization of a political coalition among others, the Toronto branch and the Mr. Pedenko said that at a closed meet- tion. and a parliamentary majority in the Ontario Provincial Council of the Ukrainian The unexpected announcement of the Verkhovna Rada. Canadian Congress, and the Shevchenko (Continued on page 20) 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 No. 36

NOTEWORTHY UKRAINIANS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Multiculturalism and inclusiveness Vasyl Yaroshenko: writer, The debate in Canada over a museum of the Holocaust now seems to have been transformed into a dispute over parallel versus combined efforts to set up an institution restless traveler, humanitarian that commemorates victims and draws lessons from the past to give instruction to the by Danylo Kulyniak adopted for himself at the time was not present and future. without its dangers. He insisted on traveling Some quarters, including the B’nai Brith, insist on a “dedicated” Holocaust project, Vasyl Yaroshenko’s life was one of independently (unheard of for a blind per- noting that such a facility “could provide an environment for learning about the many rigorous self-sacrifice and dedication to his son at the time) and for this purpose learned acts of racism and atrocity around the world ... which have their parallels in the vari- ideals. to ride a dog sled, but on one occasion fell ous stages of the Holocaust.” Thus, the argument goes, it would be “inclusive of the In the foreword to one of Vasyl from the sled while crossing the tundra and experiences of many ethnic groups.” Others have suggested two separate museums: Yaroshenko’s works, Lu Hsun, a Chinese almost froze to death. one dealing solely with the Holocaust; the other a “generic” genocide museum. scholar, wrote about the blind writer from However, his restless spirit always over- We strongly resist both the comparative genocides approach, whereby one geno- Ukraine: “His naive beauty and the reality came such obstacles and even enabled him cide is elevated above others, and the idea of two separate museums, which to us of his dream became clear to me. Perhaps to deal with the arbitrariness of the machi- smacks of segregation and discrimination. Why should there even be a conflict over this dream was a veil that covered the nations of government. He was expelled an all-inclusive museum dedicated to recognizing the victims of genocides? tragedy of an artist? I also was a dreamer, I from India (then a part of the British Member of Parliament Sarkis Assadourian, who earlier this year introduced a bill to called upon the author not to part with his Empire) because of his sympathy with the mandate the commemoration of the 20th century’s crimes against humanity via an beautiful childish dream. I called upon the anti-colonial movement, he was imprisoned exhibit at Canada’s Museum of Civilization, is now urging that Canadian citizens and readers to enter this dream, to see a genuine in Japan for the participation in the work of other concerned individuals write to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to support the cre- rainbow and understand that we were not the Second Congress of the Socialist ation of a Canadian Museum of Reconciliation. Such a museum, Mr. Assadourian sleep-walkers.” League, and only the intervention of the believes, would give due recognition to all victims of genocide and crimes against What exactly was the dream that respected writer Lu Hsun saved Mr. humanity in the 20th century. inspired “Iosianke,” as the Chinese called Yaroshenko from arrest by the Chinese Mr. Assadourian’s office suggests the following arguments: Canadians from many Mr. Yaroshenko? authorities. diverse backgrounds have been affected by crimes against humanity that have taken Forced by his blindness to look inside But Mr. Yaroshenko had no real interest place throughout the 20th century. As we approach the new millennium, the creation himself, Mr. Yaroshenko envisaged a realm in politics for its own sake. His participa- of the Canadian Museum of Reconciliation will assure equality and justice to all vic- of universal concord and fraternity, a realm tion in political movements was a result of tims without classification or prioritization. An all-inclusive museum reflecting where neither language, disease nor want his actively “pervading” the soul and cus- Canada’s multicultural make-up and serving to build unity among all communities in would divide people. When his concept toms of the people among whom he lived at Canada will also illustrate the importance of peacekeeping to Canada’s foreign policy was complete, he moved towards making various stages of his adventurous life. as it continues to oppose crimes against humanity. his vision a reality. He traveled to Britain, Acquaintance with a new culture resulted in Furthermore, the MP suggests that Mr. Chrétien be urged to make the Canadian where he became one of the Esperantists (a mastery of new languages, in ethnographic Museum of Reconciliation a reality at the beginning of the 21st century by announc- group that included Anna Sharapova, a sis- expeditions, in literary works. The Chinese ing its creation in the upcoming Throne Speech (which outlines the government’s ter of Leo Tolstoy.) The philosophy of a poet Hu Yuo-Ji acknowledged that nobody plans), a move that would make this issue a matter of consideration for the Cabinet. “universal language,” Esperanto, became had so deeply penetrated the problems and (The PM’s mailing address is: The Right Honorable Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of an ideal for Mr. Yaroshenko, offering as it misfortunes of the Chinese as Ilosianke in Canada, Langevin Block, 80 Wellington St., Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6.) did an entry to the world scientific commu- his “Moan of a Solitary Soul” and “The The Ukrainian Weekly joins with such Ukrainian organizations as the Ukrainian nity, encouraging him to seek universal val- Tale of a Solitary Tree.” Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, as well as ues and truths, to synthesize the cultures of Mr. Yaroshenko constantly carried out other ethno-cultural groups, to voice its strong support for Mr. Assadourian’s efforts. West and East. scientific and research work; in 1923 he At the same time, we call on Canadian Jewish organizations to support this initiative. At the same time, the blind youth was awarded a prize at the International Canada has the opportunity to be an innovator and leader on this issue. Its multicul- became interested in Buddhism. While in Congress of Esperantists of Nuremberg and tural society deserves no less than an all-inclusive Museum of Reconciliation. Japan, Mr. Yaroshenko attended a series of next year delivered a speech at the lectures by a leading intellectual, International Congress of Blind People in Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore, lecturing at Vienna. In his later years Mr. Yaroshenko Sept. Tokyo University, defined European culture taught, translated from Eastern languages Turning the pages back... as material and Eastern as spiritual; and took part in international events. Christianity, maintained Tagore, was prag- He lived modestly, almost in poverty, matic, while Buddhism strove to elevate sending his generous fees for translation 9 human consciousness. Mr. Yaroshenko dis- work to a fund for blind people. agreed, stating that although the cultures Mr. Yaroshenko died in 1952 in 1912 Zenon Tarnavsky was one of the leading lights of 1930s had little in common, they could not be Obukhivtsi (now the Kursk region in Ukrainian Galicia’s “Bohema,” a group of witty literateurs and opposed to one another. He felt that one Russia). artists, many of whom carried on their careers in the displaced should look for factors that unify people persons camps in Germany and in the post-war diaspora. and help them understand one another in all Born on September 9, 1912, in Sambir, an ancient town located about 40 miles southeast areas of life. The poet was to dedicate his of Lviv, he began his studies in law at Lviv University, then switched to art history at life to this principle. Horyn says... Warsaw University, but graduated from the Warsaw School of Journalism. “Living is the main art for me, life itself (Continued from page 1) Tarnavsky greeted the decade of the 1930s by publishing his first short story in the jour- is a drama, and every man performs his role of the past, and asserted that many of his nal Novyi Chas and by joining a group of café-going artistes dubbed by Edward Kozak as on this great state,” Mr. Yaroshenko wrote. fellow citizens lack the self-respect neces- “Dvanaitsadka” (The Twelve). He took a stab at acting (appearing in Petro Soroka’s pro- He saw his own role as being a guide for sary to embrace a Ukrainian identity. duction of “Akordy” by Hryhoriy Luzhnytsky); translated 19th century French comedies, the people who found themselves in spiritu- Mr. Horyn also quoted the 19th century such as Eugène Labiche’s “Tu Seras Mienne” into Ukrainian; and wrote stage adaptations al darkness. The inner dictates of this role leader Antonio Garibaldi, who said, “We of novels such as Alexandre Duval’s “Stéphane” for Volodymyr Blavatsky of the Zahrava compelled Yero-san, as the Japanese called have built Italy, now we must build theater, and Ulas Samchuk’s “Hory Hovoriat” (The Mountains Speak) for Mykola Bentsal Mr. Yaroshenko, to leave Japan, where he Italians.” at the Tobilevych Theater. had spent seven years and found great con- He said Ukraine is being tested for polit- Commissioned to adapt the Austrian writer Jozef Polaczek’s “Dr. Berghof” by the City tentment. “There is too little land and too ical maturity. The party structure and the Theater of Lodz, he remained briefly in the Polish city to study directing under Leopold much happiness here,” said Mr. Yaroshenko political spectrum must re-evaluate its Kielanowski. In 1938 he wrote his own play, “Taras Shevchenko,” which Blavatsky pre- about Japan, the country where he fell in commitment to the state within which it miered that year at the Zahrava Theater. love for the first time, where he began writ- operates. “Today, not every party func- Inspired by a desire to create “an urban theater close to Lviv’s city folk and its streets,” ing in the language of his mistress, where tionary works for the state and the coun- he founded and acted as the artistic director of the influential Veselyi Lviv theater in 1942. his works were first published and where he try,” Mr. Horyn said, “most are concerned For two years it drew on the talents of such luminaries as Blavatsky, the Berezil veteran was recognized as a writer. only with themselves.” actors/directors Yosyp Hirniak and Olimpia Dobrovolska, the composer/conductor Mykola Mr. Yaroshenko’s travels led him to However, Mr. Horyn ended on a hopeful Kolessa, the painter Myron Levytsky and fellow writer Bohdan Nyzhankivsky (who later northeastern Asia, where he established a note, with a captivating image. He likened made a name for himself as the wise-cracking versifier “Babai” in Kozak’s satirical illus- school for blind children in the city of Ukraine to a lady who has yet to join a trated monthly “Lys Mykyta”). Moulmein. He taught the children how to dance, unsure of herself. He said that in the Unfortunately, because of Tarnavsky’s conviction that “drama belongs to life in the the- read and write in Braille and wrote stories 21st century his country could yet emerge ater, as a basis for theatrical spectacle, not as reading material in leisure time,” few if any of for them using this system. Later, on arriv- on the European ballroom floor as a model the scripts survived. But, as he noted himself in a letter to a friend, “many of the songs and ing in Russia, Mr. Yaroshenko organized a of democracy, social justice and ethnic har- skits created for ‘Veselyi Lviv’are sung and recounted today, as they were by the fighters of similar school in the extreme north in mony. the [Galicia] Division and the UPA [Ukrainian Insurgent Army].” Chukotka. “Only for this kind of Ukraine is it As his collegiate path suggests, Tarnavsky’s parallel profession and passion was journal- The way of life that Mr. Yaroshenko worth living,” the former dissident said. ism. In the 1930s, he worked for the Lviv-based daily Ukrainski Visty and the weekly Batkivschyna, and contributed to countless others under various pseudonyms. In September 1939, as the tanks of the Soviet occupation of Galicia rolled into Lviv, Tarnavsky was moved by an ambition to become the first Ukrainian radio reporter in the region, and joined the Ukrainian Radio Committee. Two years later, from the station’s THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY headquarters on Bathory Street, he read out Yaroslav Stetsko’s ill-fated proclamation of Visit our archive on the Internet at: (Continued on page 18) http://www.ukrweekly.com/ No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 7 NEWS AND VIEWS Faces and Places Canadian care-giver program by Myron B. Kuropas among the best for immigrants by Andriy Semotiuk ed to keep the door open to the foreign care- givers. Of all the programs the Canadian gov- Sometimes these foreign care-givers are Manipulating the Holocaust ernment has to offer immigrants, the best family members who are welcomed into the Once again Ukrainian Canadian leaders of Jews in the 1950s, Prof. Nathan Glazer has to be the care-giver program under new home with glee, since this not only are engaged in an acrimonious debate with noted that the Holocaust “had remarkably which an individual who is prepared to look helps the Canadian family, but also makes it Jewish Canadian leaders over historical slight effects on the inner life of American after children, or the elderly, can come to possible for these families to help their kin truth. Jewish leaders are promoting an Jewry.” The Holocaust was not even men- exclusively Jewish Holocaust museum, tioned in a similar survey by Norman Canada and eventually qualify to stay per- move here. This, of course, raises eyebrows similar to the one in Washington, to be built Podhoretz that same year. The Cold War manently. The beauty of the program rests and elicits snarls from Canadian visa offi- in Ottawa at taxpayer expense. Ukrainian notion that criticism of Germany played in the fact that, unlike the others that require cers who see it as an attempt to circumvent leaders support a more universal genocide into the Communists’ hands also con- wealth, unique skills or family connections, normal immigration procedures. But it is museum that would include the Holocaust tributed to making the Holocaust yester- this program helps ordinary people immi- tolerated. as well as the Great Famine and other day’s news for American and Jews alike. grate to Canada. The process for sponsorship of a foreign crimes against humanity. The inclusionary perception remained, For as long as I can remember, the pro- care-giver begins within Canada when the gram has been the bane of the existence of As accusations and counter-accusations however. Even Simon Wiesenthal spoke of relevant family applies to Human are published in the Canadian press, com- the 11 million victims of Nazism. the Immigration Department yet, thankfully, Resources Canada. They are given a book- its supporters in Canada have had the promise between the two groups appears The Eichmann trial changed all that, both let that explains the program and invited to unlikely. Why? Much of the reason can be in Israel and the United States. Attempts by strength to keep it alive. The requirements enter into a written contract with the immi- of the program are quite straightforward, found in a new book by a University of the Anti-Defamation League and the AJC to grant in which the duties, money and living Chicago professor, Peter Novick, titled present the trial in a universalist fashion and the process under which the applicants arrangements are spelled out. Basically, the have been allowed into Canada is interest- “The Holocaust in American Life.” soon dissipated as the prosecution placed foreigner is paid about $1,200 per month Like the Jews, Ukrainians have suffered Eichmann “in a genealogy that extended ing. The program is of particular impor- from the host family and can be required to tance to Ukrainian Canadians, since it offers the horrors of regimes whose bestial sav- from Pharaoh through Haman, Chmielnicki pay about $300 per month for room and agery threatened their very existence as a [Khmelnytsky] and Petlura [Petliura].” a way for them to find Ukrainian care- board. Working conditions must satisfy givers for their children and the elderly, people. And, like the Jews, Ukrainians want Survivors such as Elie Wiesel (“all of local labor laws. The signed contract and an their suffering to be recognized and never Ukraine is Babi Yar,” he once wrote) were sometimes even involving relatives from application are submitted to Human Ukraine. The United States has a similar forgotten. There is a difference in approach suddenly sanctified. For Mr. Wiesel, the Resources Canada, which usually takes program, but it falls short of the mark when to past horrors by the two groups, however. Holocaust became “equal to the revelation about three weeks to approve the matter. compared to the Canadian one. Writes Prof. Novick: “In Jewish discourse at Sinai” in its religious significance, a sym- When the application is submitted, the To qualify under the program the would- on the Holocaust we have not just a compe- bol of eternal Jewish vulnerability. people at Human Resources must be told be care-giver must meet four requirements. tition for recognition ... but a competition Beginning in the late 1960s and especial- where to send the approval letter. • First, the care-giver must have complet- for primacy.” Jews have succeeded in mak- ly in the 1970s, Jewish leaders promoted Sometimes the applicant for the job is visit- ed high school. The program requires the ing their tragedy the benchmark against the idea that a new anti-Semitism had arisen ing Canada when the application is filed. In equivalent of Canadian high school com- which all other atrocities are to be judged. and that Jews, as perpetual victims, were this case Canadian immigration law pletion. In American usage, a Holocaust survivor is always at risk. Heightened Holocaust requires the applicant to leave the country • Second, the applicant must be willing always a Jew. When Ukrainians and Poles awareness one rabbi argued, would prepare and apply from a foreign Canadian con- to live in the home of the sponsoring family. voice their resentment, Jews such as Sol American Jews for the day when they sulate. For example, the Los Angeles This implies that the house has suitable Littman of the Simon Weisenthal Center might have to flee the U.S. Ironically, Prof. Consulate can be designated as the accommodation for the arriving person. accuse them of “Holocaust envy.” And it’s Novick writes, “anti-Semitism in the United Consulate where the applicant wants to be • Third, the immigrant must have either not just the Holocaust. It’s also genocide, a States was, by every measure, continuing its interviewed to obtain his/her visa. Human six months of full-time training or one year term that some Jews now claim can apply long-term decline, diminishing to the point Resources Canada will then send its of experience in paid employment in a field only to them. that it presented no significant barriers or approval letter to that consulate and that is related to care-giving. Thus, for example, a It wasn’t always that way. “After the war disadvantages to American Jews.” where the applicant must travel to take the teacher would qualify for a nanny position began, and after the main outlines of the Why the disparity between reality and next step. with a Canadian family. Holocaust had become known,” writes Dr. reaction? According to Dr. Novick, a signif- If the applicant is within Canada when • Finally, the care-giver must be able to Novick, “it was common for Jewish writers icant reason is assimilation, the “vanishing the initial steps are taken, the applicant must speak, write and understand either English to interpret Nazi atrocities in a universalist Jews” phenomenon. At a time when neither religious beliefs nor cultural traits unite or French. contact a U.S. Consulate in Canada to get a fashion – stressing that Jews were far from most Jews, and as Israel is no longer per- In some ways these are onerous require- visa to travel to the United States for the the only victims.” A 1944 American Jewish ceived as pristine, the Holocaust has ments. For example, a nanny who is going interview at the Canadian Consulate. Just to Committee staff memorandum urged become ‘the defining Jewish experience,’ to care for the children of somebody who be clear here, we are now talking about two emphasis on “the new spirit of Poland he writes. “Insofar as it attained mythic sta- speaks German in the home will not qualify different visas and two different Consulates: under the heel of the Nazis, the new spirit of tus, expressing truths about an ensuring if her English is not good, even though she the Canadian visitor’s visa and the kinship and camaraderie among all sections Jewish condition, all were united in an may speak perfect German, and even American visitor’s visa. of the Polish population – Catholics, essential victim identity.” though she may have a Ph.D. in education The Canadian visa is what the applicant Protestants, Jews.” I can appreciate Jewish concerns with and meet all the other qualifications. got when he or she first entered Canada; the These sentiments were essentially a American visa is what the applicant now political ploy. Anti-Semitism was relatively assimilation. Ukrainians have similar wor- Similarly, does somebody who may not ries about their future in North America. intend to settle in Canada permanently real- wants from the American Consulate in prevalent in America during the war; some Canada in order to attend the interview Americans believed that President Franklin What I resent, however, is the way Jewish ly need to have a high school education to leaders have manipulated public discourse look after the elderly? Some changes to the scheduled at the Canadian Consulate in the D. Roosevelt was a closet Jew and that this United States. was the main reason he concentrated our on the Holocaust to the point that any dis- program would make it even better, but cussion that is not in lock-step with their there can be no denying the fact that the Thus, for example, in Alberta, the appli- military might not on Japan, which had cant who has been approved by Human attacked America, but on Germany, which position can be interpreted either as “anti- program, even as it is, helps a great many Semitic” or “bordering on anti-Semitism” – people who are in need in Canada. Resources Canada and been notified the hadn’t. Jewish leaders feared that emphasiz- ing Jewish suffering would lend credence to accusations for which there is no defense. One of the main reasons for the pro- approval letter has been sent to the this canard. Defeating Hitler took prece- Yes, the Jewish Shoah is unique. “But to gram’s survival has been the fact that most Canadian Consulate in Los Angeles, will dence over Jewish rescue. single out these aspects of the Holocaust Canadian care-givers are not prepared to then turn to the U.S. Consulate in Calgary Today, of course, the situation is quite that were distinctive (there certainly were move in with the family of the individuals to get a visa to travel to the United States. different, especially at the Holocaust such),” writes Prof. Novick, “and to ignore who need care. While there may be unem- Assuming that the applicant has renewed Museum in Washington where it is claimed those aspects that it shares with other atroci- ployed nurses and other medical personnel his or her visitor’s visa in Canada after a that Jewish leaders petitioned the war ties, and on the basis of this gerrymandering looking for work in Canada who, in theory, six-month stay, and has therefore been department to bomb Auschwitz. Not so, to declare the Holocaust unique, is intellec- could fill these needs, the fact of the matter required to pass a medical exam, the appli- argues Prof. Novick. tual slight of hand. The assertion that the is that such unemployed individuals do not cant can apply from the United States to be When the war ended, Jewish survivors Holocaust is unique – like the claim that it like the concept of being available at odd approved for care-giver status in Canada. were held in contempt by Jews in Israel and is singularly incomprehensible or unrepre- hours of the day and night by living in the Passing a medical exam is one of the pre- America because they didn’t resist Hitler’s sentable – is in practice deeply offensive. relevant home. And this is just what is need- requisites. Since applications for care-givers often murder machine. A top leader of the AJC, What else can all this possibly mean except arise when a visitor to Canada is asked by a for example, wrote to a colleague in 1946: your catastrophe, unlike ours, is ordinary; Andriy Semotiuk is a practicing attorney Canadian family to become a care-giver “Those who have survived are the not the unlike ours, is comprehensible; unlike ours, with the law firm of Manning, Marder and here, it is worth taking a moment to discuss fittest ... but are largely the lowest Jewish is presentable.” Few nations suffered more anguish and Wolfe in Los Angeles. He has practiced law what that proposed care-giver will need to elements, who by cunning and animal misery in this century than Ukraine. No for over 20 years and is a member of the obtain an American visa to travel there for instincts have been able to escape the terri- group has the right to pervert this historical California, New York, Ontario, Alberta and an interview at a Canadian Consulate in the ble fate of the more refined and better ele- fact for its own convenience. British Columbia bars. He specializes in United States. To arrange an American visa, ments who succumbed.” immigration law, and in active in the applicant should come to the U.S. Between the end of the war and the Ukrainian affairs. He may be reached via 1960s, the Holocaust was rarely discussed Myron Kuropas’ e-mail address is: e-mail: [email protected]. (Continued on page 14) among Jews. In his 1957 scholarly survey [email protected] 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 No. 36

DATELINE NEW YORK: Village life, complete with rituals by Helen Smindak Manhattan’s East Village teems year-round with artists, craftspeople, sidewalk vendors, New York University students and tourists. In the fall, winter and spring it also comes alive with intense Ukrainian activity that generally goes into hiatus during the warm-weather months. This summer, however, was different. The area that harbors the largest concentration of Ukrainians in New York City has been surprisingly active in recent months: concerts by two touring ensem- bles from Ukraine (one of these, Dity Ditiam, or Children for Children, was movingly reviewed by Bohdanna Wolanska in the August 15 issue of The Weekly); a series of unique programs centering around off-beat poetry, music and folk rituals; participation by the Cheres folk ensemble in the annual summer concert series in Abe Lebewohl Park; an appearance by the Gogol Bordello ensemble at the popular Joe’s Pub; and a turn at experimental theater by actress Tannis Kowalchuk at La MaMa Theater. Abetting the performing arts, The Ukrainian Museum offered a summer exhibition of works from its fine arts collection. The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America hopped aboard the summer bandwagon, too, inviting the public to attend brown-bag lunches and hear speakers from Ukraine and the United States dis- course on political topics.

Pikardiiska Tertsiia Yara’s Eleanor Lipat, Katie Takahashi and Tom Lee celebrate the feast of Ivan Kupalo. and basses Andrii Shavala and Bohdan Bohach. All are to the accompaniment of ancient Kupalo songs com- Bearing the intriguing name of Pikardiiska Tertsiia, a graduates of the Lysenko Music Institute in Lviv. piled by Ms. Tkacz and electronically processed by six-man vocal troupe from Lviv held a full house spell- The blending of voices was smooth and melodious, Alex Kytasty. At the gazebo in the garden’s center, Irina bound at the Ukrainian National Home in June, sans the style unique. The sextet sang in Ukrainian, although and Genya from Kyiv assisted everyone in making microphones, musical instruments or printed programs. English took over in two rock ’n roll pieces. wreaths of freshly picked wildflowers. Elsewhere, In a non-stop 90-minute program, they beguiled the Among the liveliest selections were a Ukrainian folk Mykhailo Andrec strummed his bandura, providing audience with harmonies that ranged from a heavenly song “Tam za Lisom, za Luhom” (Beyond the Forest, background music for simultaneous English and sounding chorus of angels “Sad Anhelskykh Pisen” Beyond the Plain), jazzed up by variations of tempo and Ukrainian readings of Gogol’s Kupalo story by Tom (Garden of Angels’ Songs), folk songs like the yearning beat, and a rock ’n roll number that ended with a long, Lee and Taras Los. “Tuman Yarom” (Mist-Shrounded Hillsides) to hearty drawn-out “Oh, yeah.” In the number “Tanok” (Dance), Eugene Hutz, standing in front of a video projection country-western and electrifying rock ’n roll music. a piece written by Yevhen Stankovych as an exercise for of Vadym and Yuriy Illienko’s 1967 film “The Eve of Along the way, the singers imitated the sound of gui- his music students, the ensemble went to town with an Ivan Kupalo” read original stories from his Ukrainian- tar strings and mouth organs and the twang of the small, entire gamut of sounds, as well as combinations of language collection “New York Fables” to bandura metal “drymba” (mouth-harp), and accompanied them- sounds and tempos. accompaniment. Listeners showered him with buckets selves with rhythmic clapping, foot-stomping, wordless Caught up in Tertsiia’s fervor, the audience clapped of water, Kupalo-style, at the end of each story. crooning, humming and whistling. along with the singers and shouted “sche, sche” (more, In another corner, choreographer Dyane Harvey led Tenor Volodymyr Yakymets, the ensemble’s director, more) at the end of the show, and got more – a lively participants in a candle dance to Meredith Wright’s fas- explained the absence of amplifying equipment. “We rock ’n roll number reminiscent of joyous Afro- cinating improvisations on the traditional folk song want to bring our songs to you raw and fresh – without American gospel singing. “Hold a Candle.” Tristra Newyear, Eleanor Lipat and any apparatus.” Beginning its tour in Washington during the Joint Julian Kytasty sang Kupalo songs in the traditional folk Tertsiia’s vocal formation also included tenors Andrii Conferences of Ukrainian American Organizations, the style known as “bilyi holos” (white voice), adding Kapral and Yaroslav Nudyk, baritone Roman Turianyn ensemble swung through several Northeast states, mak- another entrancing facet to the evening. ing New York its final stop. Word of the group’s out- Fortunes written by each participant and hung on the standing presentation had preceded it to New York, “hiltse” (branch) at the start of the evening were now attracting music lovers of all ages. plucked at random from this tree of fortune and eagerly Tertsiia’s manager, Roman Klymovsky, said the scanned by the light of candles floating on water. group is heading to appearances in Warsaw and Kyiv, These Kupalo festivities formed a Julian-calendar and Peter Rybchuk, editor of Zakordonna Hazeta, which follow-up to a Kupalo evening held in June at the co-sponsored the tour with Air Ukraine/Uzbekistan Ukrainian Sports Club. That event featured a talk by Airways, added that the ensemble will be back in the filmmaker Andrea Odezynska and the screening of her U.S. during the Christmas season. award-winning film “Dora Is Dysfunctional,” an The name Pikardiiska Tertsiia? It’s a musical term – uproarious look at the diaspora’s attempts to preserve picardy third that comes from the French “tierce old country rituals in the United States. There were also Picardie.” According to the Harvard Dictionary of excerpts of Kupalo scenes from such famous films as Music, it was popular from 1500 to 1750 and denotes “Andrei Rublev,” “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” “the major third used for the final chord of a composi- and “Time of the Gypsies,” improvisations on a Kupalo tion in a minor key.” song by soprano Natalia Honcharenko and readings of water incantations by Ms. Tkacz. Kupalo rituals The initial event of Yara’s Nova Nomada series was held at the Big Bar on East Sixth Street, combining an Pre-Christian Ukrainians celebrated the end of the ethno-electronic piece, “Bicycling in Transylvania” by summer solstice and the beginning of harvest time by the Staroviry trio (Mr. Hutz and the Kytasty brothers), a honoring Kupalo, the god of love and the harvest, and hilarious storytelling performance by Mr. Hutz and the personification of the earth’s fertility. Though this “Ukrainian-American” poetry by Ms. Tkacz. pagan festival has been supplanted on the Christian At another event, New York author and Svitovyd edi- calendar by the feast day of the Nativity of St. John tor Maria Rewakowicz piqued the interest of an audi- the Baptist, it has remained part of Ukrainian folk ritu- ence at the Sports Club as she read selections from her al as the festival of Ivan Kupalo. Nikolai Gogol books of haunting love poems, some in Ukrainian, oth- (Mykola Hohol) drew world attention to the rituals in ers in English translation. Julian Kytasty offered flute his short story “Nich pid Ivana Kupala” (The Eve of and bandura improvisations, and Mr. Andrec performed Ivan Kupalo). the “Mosaic” bandura piece he composed with comput- On a warm summer evening in July, Virlana Tkacz, er assistance. Yuriy Fedynsky of Raleigh, N.C., back members of the Yara Arts Group, bandurist Julian from bandura studies in Lviv and Kyiv, simulated the Kytasty and others re-enacted Kupalo rituals for a sounds of a cascading waterfall in his “Bandura Piece multi-ethnic throng amid the lush plantings and rustic No. 1.” Mr. Hutz rounded out the program by acting as grapevine trellises of the Community Garden at the cor- DJ for his special blend of electro-music. ner of Sixth Street and Avenue B. Now that the momentum has begun, Ms. Tkacz says Flickering candlelight led participants from one gar- the Nova Nomada gathering will continue every two den spot to another. Katie Takahashi recited water Tannis Kowalchuk (foreground) with Allison Waters. incantations and told fortunes beside a rock formation (Continued on page 9) No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 9 Toronto artist creates icons for Basilian Sisters’ chapel in Rome by Oksana Zakydalsky iconography is done in egg tempera for which a rigid surface is required. Canvas was also chosen because TORONTO – A recent visit to the studio of artist Aventino, where the chapel is located, is sometimes sub- Sophia Lada was an almost spiritual experience. Along ject to earth tremors that can crack walls. Canvas is one wall of the studio hang panels of a 6-by-11-foot trip- more flexible. tych, the central part a life-size rendering of the Oranta Part of the icons of the project have already been with arms uplifted – Mary the Protectress of All. To her installed. They included the composition on the wall right, three saints: the Venerable Mary of Egypt, St. behind the altar with the Pantokrator (Enthroned Christ) Helene (mother of Emperor Constantine) and St. Mary surrounded by the Seraphim and symbols of the Four Magdalen. To the left of the Oranta: the martyr St. Evangelists. To his right is the Blessed Mother and Barbara, St. Olha the Great, princess of Kyiv, and St. Archangel Michael; to the left – St. John the Baptist and Catherine of Alexandria. The triptych is destined for the Archangel Gabriel. On the side walls are St. Macrina, chapel of the Mother House of the Sisters of St. Basil the patron saint of the Basilian Sisters, and St. John the Great in Rome. Chrysostom and St. Basil the Great, fathers of the Several years ago, the Sisters of St. Basil the Great Church. approached Lada [who prefers to be called Lada – no Lada went to Rome in the spring of 1998 to do the Ms.] with a proposal to paint the walls of their installation. The canvas was applied to the wall by a chapel, which is located in an older building, a former local craftsman; Lada painted the ornamentation and villa adapted for the order’s use, in the Avantino dis- applied the goldleaf. She was assisted by Sister Selina trict of Rome. The Basilian Sisters were familiar with also an iconographer. Lada’s work as she had been artist-in-residence at The second phase is to be completed this October, Manor College in Philadelphia, which is run by the with Lada again going to Rome to oversee the installa- order. tion. In addition to the triptych, which will be put on one The initial stage of the project involved a trip to wall of the central part of the chapel, icon paintings of Rome where Lada discussed with Mother Dia Stasiuk St. Nicholas the Great, Ss. Cyril and Methodius and the and the Basilian Sisters the selection of saints to be Grand Prince of Kyiv, St. Vladimir, will be installed. painted and made a plan of how to divide the walls of The back wall of the chapel, which includes the exit, the chapel. Although the chapel is not large – 15 by 45 will feature the Guardian Angels of Day and Night, feet – it has a very high ceiling that gave the artist lots whose depiction was inspired by the collection of daily of space in which to work. prayers “Prayers for a Planetary Journey.” The Basilian Sisters wanted the iconography of the To make sure that the second phase of the icons chapel to observe the canons of Byzantine ecclesiastical matched the first, Lada said, “I made color samples art; they helped choose the specific icons to be featured. from the icons already in Rome and matched them up. The choice of colors was governed both by the fact that The second part of the project was easier to do than the certain colors are attached to different saints and that first. At first, it was hard to envision the icons in their colors have symbolic meanings of their own. Colors place. After the first installation, I knew what the colors were chosen to evoke a spiritual response and to achieve would look like. That was the most challenging part of a harmonious whole. the project – not doing the work there, on site, and not Where had Lada learned iconography? “The being able to see the work as it progressed within the acclaimed iconographer Sviatoslav Hordynsky intro- environment it was to go into.” duced me to the history of iconography. During the With this years-long project nearing completion, Lada 1970s I assisted him in the execution of several church said, “This has been the biggest project that I have Sophia Lada in Rome putting finishing touches on projects (for Munich and western Canada) in his style worked on independently. I am looking forward to doing the icon “Christ Enthroned.” and technique. I learned a lot from him. It is unavoid- my own work and preparing an exhibit, but it takes time able that, at the present time, his influence is visible in to adjust. Doing iconography takes a specific frame of philosophy of inner light. This project has been a very my work,” Lada said. mind. It is altogether a different spiritual journey, rewarding experience because it has given me an oppor- Since the paintings were to be done in Toronto and because, as an artist, my work is mostly inspired by the tunity to execute work which is a part of my heritage had to be rolled up and transported to Rome, Lada chose culture of pre-Christian Ukraine. But I do apply certain and personally to see the treasures of Rome and the sur- to do them on canvas in acrylic paints. Traditional principles of Byzantine art in composition and in the rounding cities of Italy.”

Ms. Kowalchuk has performed in Canada, Italy, junction with Mr. Milavsky’s lecture on Hutsul music Village life... France and Denmark, taught a unique approach to phys- for students of Harvard’s Ukrainian studies summer (Continued from page 8) ical and vocal training in universities and schools in school. weeks, “tying together rock ’n roll, theater, poetry and North America and Europe, and created a children’s per- Mr. Milavsky, who began his career at the exclusive traditional music in an untraditional manner.” formance, “Journey of the Dragon Boy,” which was pro- Kyiv School of the Arts as a teacher of woodwind duced in Canadian regional theaters. instruments in both classical and folk genres, recently Exploring new territory The actress and her husband, Brad Krumholz, who formed a classical woodwind quintet in New York. He directed “Asphyxia,” founded North American Cultural also teaches jazz, plays in the Amato Opera orchestra Tannis Kowalchuk is drawn to projects that present a Laboratory in order “to create situations for communica- and serves as choir director at All Saints Ukrainian foray into new territory, so she enjoys working in a cre- tion and human interaction between fellow theater Orthodox Church. He and his wife, Lila Dlaboha, a pro- ative style that blends physical theater, song, stilt-walk- artists and spectators from all walks of life.” Together fessional editor who handles perscussion instruments in ing, music and original text into a multi-layered experi- with Ms. Waters, they practice daily actor-training ses- the Cheres ensemble, are working on a Cheres video ence that has been likened to “Beckett on stilts.” sions and spend four months to a year on each project that they expect will match the popularity of the Cheres A core member and collaborator with Primus Theater, created by NaCl, a resident company of La MaMa. CD “From the Mountains to the Steppes” released in a prominent Canadian experimental theater troupe, the 1998. Winnipeg-born actress has been active in New York Cheers for Cheres since 1997 as a co-founder and member of the North Gogol Bordello American Cultural Laboratory (NaCl). This past July, the Ukrainian folk ensemble Cheres She has created and performed roles with NaCl in assembled in Abe Lebewohl Park in front of historic St. “If you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere,” “The Secret Storey” and “A Canon for the Blue Moon.” Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery to give a noontime con- goes the popular Frank Sinatra song “New York, New Last year, premiering in Cleveland and New York in the cert of Carpathian music. Attired in traditional Hutsul York.” Those words could be the theme for the one-woman avant-garde production “The Passion garb, the group of musicians led by director Andriy Ukrainian surrealistic punk cabaret band Gogol According to G.H.,” she dramatized a life-changing Milavsky performed on native woodwind and string Bordello. The four-man group, fronted by singer/song- encounter with a huge cockroach simply using her body, instruments. writer Eugene Hutz, has appeared in almost every New voice and costume. It was the group’s second appearance in three years in York club that presents punk cabaret music. Now Gogol Ms. Kowalchuk returned to the New York stage a few the series of summer musical programs started by local Bordello has added a hip new club – Joe’s Pub – to its months ago in another original, highly unusual piece, institutions to encourage neighborhood residents and list of “been there, done that.” “Asphyxia and Other Promises,” a modern absurdist tale visitors to use the park. Originally named St. Mark’s Open seven nights a week, Joe’s Pub is the Joseph based on an Italian fairytale. Written by poet/playwright Park, it was renamed Abe Lebewohl Park to honor the Papp Public Theater’s new nightclub on Lafayette Henry Israeli, “Asphyxia” tells the story of a woman memory of the philanthropic owner of the Second Street, offering a changing roster from ethnic music who is tricked into giving up her unborn child to the Avenue Deli who was murdered in 1996. ensembles and spoken-word artists to promising young Order of Disorder, and the child is raised in a magical The series is sponsored by the Third Street Music musical-theater composers and performers. Celebrities cloister by a giant, insect-like stilt figure, ministered to School Settlement and the 10th and Stuyvesant Streets like Georgio Armani, Donald Trump and composer- by mischievous spirits and tutored by a mad and rebel- Block Association in cooperation with St. Mark’s songwriters Adolph Green and Betty Comden ornament lious “Sister.” Church, and receive funding from several local institu- the place. During its three-week run at La MaMa, the experimen- tions. Says Mr. Hutz, “Gogol Bordello puts the accent on tal theater company on East Fourth Street, “Asphyxia” Last season, Cheres enjoyed successful runs at theatrics and storytelling, and is heavily influenced by stirred patrons with its dramatic imagery and revolution- Karpo’s Restaurant on Blecker Street, as well as what Ukrainian, Romanian and Gypsy folk music. We’re a ary sounds. Ms. Kowalchuk, playing the roles of the troupe described as “really wild” weekend gigs at very live act; we don’t stand around.” He expects his Asphyxia and Sister, and Allison Waters, as Beatrix, the Brewsky’s Tavern on East Seventh Street. The ensem- group will be invited to Joe’s Pub for a return engage- child, turned in dynamic, finelycrafted performances. ble appeared at Harvard University this summer in con- ment. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 No. 36

President-elect Oksana Bashuk Hepburn to steer Canadian Ps and Bs from nation’s capital by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj tions moved westward from Ottawa (Michael that the federation could sponsor or conduct Toronto Press Bureau Kostiuk, who held the post since its inception a survey concerning the often-decried brain in 1995) to Calgary (Roman Zakaluzny). drain of Canadians to the United States in TORONTO – Delegates of the Ukrainian The convention adopted no formal reso- order to determine what effect this has had Canadian Professional and Business lutions, but Ms. Bashuk Hepburn is no on the Ukrainian community. Federation’s biennial convention, held in stranger to taking initiative. Judging from “We should explore the possibility of Canada’s largest city on July 1-4 under the her acceptance speech following her accla- asking the federal government, which is slogan “Catch the Global Spirit,” voted mation, her address at the banquet later that about to embark on a $170 million study of Oksana Bashuk Hepburn of Ottawa as their evening, and her comments during the new the reasons for the waning of French cul- president – the third woman in succession executive’s first meeting on July 4, the ture in western Canada, to afford Ukrainian to hold the post. UCPBF’s agenda is likely to be full. culture, also part of the Canadian multicul- At the UCPBF’s Nation-Building Awards The president’s many ideas tural mosaic, similar attention,” Ms. Bashuk Banquet at the Holiday Inn on King Street, Hepburn said. the convention venue, Ms. Bashuk Hepburn At the awards banquet the president As a measure of balance for the often crit- announced that Canada’s former Governor announced that the UCPBF, the umbrella ical stance taken by the community towards General Ramon Hnatyshyn had agreed to group for organizations of professionals and the government, the Ottawa-based activist serve as the organization’s patron, and that businesspeople (popularly referred to as Ps suggested that the federation could initiate a entrepreneur William Teron, chairman of a and Bs) will undertake a “Millennium “Thank You Canada” program to “celebrate highly successful development firm, had Project” focusing on the contributions of the various advantages that our community been designated honorary president. Ukrainians in Canada, which will include a has been afforded in this country.” At the initiative of Toronto-based lawyer publication to be issued in cooperation with “We should also focus on the various Eugene Zalucky (UCPBF president, 1991- the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies vacancies in our country’s institutions and Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj 1993), it was decided that a Past Presidents’ and a mentoring program between nominate individuals for positions such as Club would be formed as an executive advi- Oksana Bashuk Hepburn delivers her Canadian and Ukrainian counterparts. governor general, director of the National sory body. Raya Shadursky of Toronto acceptance speech. Ms. Bashuk Hepburn, who is also Arts Center, Supreme Court justice, Federal (1995-1997) and Oshawa’s Peter Zakarow Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) Court justice,” she said, adding, “We should Biennial meeting (1987-1989) agreed to play an active role. Ottawa Branch president (since June 1998), reacquire the mindset that is directed at the Assuming office unopposed was a slate The UCPBF’s biennial meeting, held noted that “As a major constituent member very top spots in the country and help one that included Executive Vice-President July 3, began with outgoing Treasurer Ron of the UCC, we [the UCPBF] support the another in striving for them.” Peter Sorokan and Secretary Marilyn Maleshewski’s report which indicated that UCC as the leading voice representing our As another “Millennium Project,” Ms. Dolenko (both also from Ottawa); Treasurer while many of the local associations are community, since the UCC is very strong in Bashuk Hepburn said the UCPBF could Mike Stebila of Windsor, Ontario; seven behind in the payment of dues, the overall this area [Ottawa], as demonstrated by its establish a special scholarship. “Our fore- regional vice-presidents, two communica- financial health of the organization is initiatives concerning denaturalization and bears’ focus on education in the 1930s was tions directors and five ex-officio represen- sound, showing a small surplus of $4,270. deportation, the internment of Ukrainian so strong that it produced a wave of strong tatives from affiliated organizations. Acting President Doris Watson presented Canadians in 1914-1920, the Museum of leaders and professionals. The composition of the core executive a sketch of the past two turbulent years, con- Genocide/Reconciliation and immigration “We want our children to be the best body suggests a shift eastward after a trou- centrating on positives such as the UCPBF’s policy.” She added, “However, perhaps the qualified, so that we and they can capitalize bled two-year term that saw Donna assistance to Natalia Polataiko in her efforts federation can undertake some initiatives of on what this country and the world at large Korchinski of Calgary, Alberta, resign as to compile an updated directory of its own.” have to offer.” president mid-term, and other officers also The new president expressed hope that Ukrainians in North America and humani- finding it difficult to serve out their commit- life would be breathed into a Friends of Optimistic opening tarian aid work in the form of assistance in ments. Doris Watson of Calgary, who took Ukraine Parliamentary Committee at the fed- organizing soup kitchens in Ukraine. over as acting president when Ms. eral legislature, and suggested the UCPBF The optimistic tone of the convention In her first official act as UCPBF Korchinski stepped down, will stay on as could play a role in evaluating the Canadian was set by its opening act: a “Canada Day President, Ms. Bashuk Hepburn asked the past president. International Development Agency’s pro- Gourmet Boat Cruise” on Lake Ontario assembly to stand for a moment of silence The directorship of Internet communica- grams for Ukraine. She raised the possibility aboard the Jubilee Queen Showboat on the “in memory of one of us,” Prof. Danylo evening of July 1. Also notable was that Husar Struk, who died in Munich, among the 200 attending, there was a sig- Germany, on June 19. Ukrainian Canadian Professional and nificant number of new immigrant profes- Asked to comment on the low number of sionals and businesspeople seeking registrants, as compared to the 900 attracted Business Federation involvement in the established community. to the Joint Conferences of Ukrainian About 60 people attended the formal American Organizations, Ms. Shadursky National Executive for 1999 - 2001 opening of the convention on the morning said: “I see our convention as successful. of July 2. A former UCPBF president and We may not have a multitude assembling Patron: Ramon Hnatyshyn, former governor general of Canada convention organizer Raya Shadursky here, but we do have representation from Honorary President: William Teron, Chairman, Teron International began the proceedings with a speech noting across the country of the leaders of the local President: Oksana Bashuk Hepburn (Ottawa) that the organization effected a group of associations. Those are the people who Executive Vice-President: Peter Sorokan (Ottawa) Canadian nation-builders, who contributed want to meet, those are the people who will Marilyn Dolenko Secretary: (Hamilton, Ontario) to the authoring of Section 26 of Canada’s go back to their associations, who are going Mike Stebila Treasurer: (Windsor, Ontario) Constitution, which describes the country to make plans and provide leadership for Interim Past President: Doris Watson (Calgary) as multicultural. the community.” Directors: She commended past members for “I think we have to get away from the their instrumental roles in creating the thinking that demands that you need to fill a Communications: John Chilibeck (St. John, New Brunswick) Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian room to be successful. What you need is Internet: Roman Zakaluzny (Calgary) Studies, the Canadian Institute of good people who will make good sugges- Regional Vice-Presidents: Ukrainian Studies (its founding director, tions, take action and provide leadership.” Prof. Manoly Lupul, was UCPBF presi- The former federation president added: British Columbia: vacant dent in 1973-1975) and the Ukrainian “We’ve had discussions about this and have Alberta: Steven Jakymiw (Edmonton) Resource and Development Center at decided that instead of spending 80 percent Saskatchewan: Zenia Stechishin (Saskatoon) Edmonton’s Grant MacEwan College; of our time chasing after membership num- Manitoba: Nadia Maksimiw (Winnipeg) for supporting the publication of the bers, we’ll start concentrating on issues that Ontario: Marika Lawrentiw (Toronto) Encyclopedia of Ukraine; for traveling to are more important. If anything, this also Quebec: Olya Kowal (Montreal) Ukraine in 1989 on a fact-finding mis- allows for a more realistic separation of the Maritimes: Olya Williams (Halifax, Nova Scotia) sion and establishing the first business social aspect of belonging to an organiza- council formed with a country of the for- tion of professionals and businesspeople Representatives: mer Warsaw Pact. from the actual work that has to be done.” Ukrainian Canadian Congress: Adrian Boyko (Saskatoon), Nestor Budyk (Winnipeg) The Weekly’s collection of materials about the Ukrainian Canadian Students’ Union (SUSK): Famine Michael Ilnycky (Calgary) The Ukrainian Weekly’s official website contains the largest collection of materials Taras Shevchenko Foundation: on the Internet dedicated to the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. Andrew Hladyshewsky (Edmonton) Located at www.ukrweekly.com, the special section includes a chronology of the Famine years, eyewitness accounts, editorials, media reports, stories about observanc- Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies: es of the Famine’s 50th anniversary in 1983, scholarly articles, interviews with jour- Olya Kuplowska (Toronto) nalists who reported on the Famine, transcripts of testimony on the Famine commis- sion bill ultimately passed by the U.S. Congress, texts of statements before the U.S. Past Presidents’ Club: Commis-sion on the Ukraine Famine, references and other documentation, as well as the full text of The Ukrainian Weekly’s special issue on the Great Famine published Raya Shadursky (Toronto) on March 20, 1983. The section is completely searchable. No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 11

Professionals and businesspeople recognize exemplary achievements with special awards by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj venture project in Ukraine. Toronto Press Bureau In Canada Mr. Lahanky sponsored dance and choir performances, donated TORONTO – The Ukrainian commu- books on Ukrainian topics to university nity too rarely reaches out to recognize and municipal libraries, and supported a those who have left their mark on the wide range of charitable and community wider world. projects and activities However, two years ago, the Ukrainian Donna Lahanky accepted the award Canadian Professional and Business on her father’s behalf, and read a state- Federation decided to establish a program ment in which he thanked his family, of awards “to recognize Ukrainian Bishop Isidore Borecky of the Toronto Canadians who helped build Canada Eparchy of the Ukrainian Catholic through local, national and international Church and Gloria Drayson of the endeavors,” noted Olya Kuplowska, past Moncton, New Brunswick, UCPBA for president of the Toronto Ukrainian providing direction to his philanthropy. Professional and Business Association He also entreated the Ukrainian and master of ceremonies, as well as chair Canadian community to “open your of the awards jury of the UCPBF’s awards hearts and help your brothers and sisters banquet held here July 3. in a poor, but free and democratic coun- “More specifically, they were set up to try of Ukraine ... and [do not] forget the recognize exemplary individuals who through their vision, creativity and perse- land of your ancestors.” verance have achieved personal, profes- Terry Evanshen: Andrew Gregorovich sional and business successes, and in so Personal Achievement UCPBF President Oksana Bashuk Hepburn with Terry Evanshen, recipient of the doing promoted the stature of Canada, Personal Achievement Award. the profile of Ukrainians in Canada, and Montreal-born Terry Evanshen, who who have contributed to Ukraine’s received the award for personal achive- recognition. Mr. Kroitor recalled his Ukrainians to involve themselves in com- growth and development,” the banquet ment had a 14-year career as a pass receiv- childhood filled with Ukrainian song and munity organizations” and expressed master of ceremonies added. er in the Canadian Football League, play- dance and plays put on by his mother, a gratitude for having been “plugged into The awards were first presented at the ing for the Montreal Alouettes, Calgary teacher in rural Saskatchewan schools, the Ukrainian professional and business Stampeders, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and UCPBF convention in Calgary in 1997. that filled his life with inspiration network.” The four categories and respective award Toronto Argonauts, setting records in vari- recipients were: Friend of Ukraine, pre- ous categories and winning the Schenley Lubko Belej: Yorkton UCPBA: sented to Canada’s Minister of Foreign Award as the league’s Most Outstanding Youth Achievement Humanitarian Award Affairs Lloyd Axworthy; Personal Canadian twice (1967, 1971). He was The UCPBA branch of Yorkton, inducted into the CFL’s Hall of Fame in The Guelph, Ontario-born immediate Achievement presented to Saskatchewan past president of the Ukrainian Canadian Saskatchewan, was honored with the spe- Provincial Premier Roy Romanow; 1984. cial Humanitarian Award for the branch’s In July 4, 1988, he suffered a near- Students’ Union (SUSK), was a member Business Achievement presented to first of the SUM Ukrainian Youth selfless support of two families who had Baton Broadcasting President Ivan fatal car accident as a result of which, Association and is currently an active immigrated to the area from Ukraine, as Fecan; and Youth Achievement presented along with severe physical injuries, his member of Plast’s “Vovkulaky” well as support for other individuals from to former president Jon Thomas of the memory was absolutely wiped out. Basic (Werewolves) fraternity. Attending Brock Ukraine, for two years. Ukrainian Canadian Students’ motor skills, emotions had to be rebuilt University in 1995-1999, he revived the Ms. Wanio, a member of the UCPBF Association. from scratch. His success in doing so jury, stated that the jury decided to The award itself was designed and prompted Mr. Evanshen to establish a Ukrainian Students’ Club there, has been instrumental in bringing a renewed vigor reward a gesture that was symbolic of the produced by Chris Kowalsky of Chris motivational program called “Seize Each sacrifices made by Ukrainian Canadians to the activities of SUSK, and participat- Ceramics. In the shape of a pyramid, the Day.” In 1994 the CFL Hall of Fame for their families from their homeland. ed as a panelist at the Youth Conference award symbolizes movement into a new honored him with a special Courage to Harry Krumyk, president of the at the recent Ukrainian World Congress millennium under the leadership of the Come Back Award. Yorkton branch, accepted the award on in Toronto in December 1998. honoree and, as a mountain peak, the Mr. Evanshen thanked the “wonderful behalf of the organization, commenting heights scaled by the individual being team of doctors and nurses who put me Mr. Belej told the banquet attendees honored. back together again”; fellow players who he would “continue to encourage young (Continued on page 19) Ms. Kuplowska announced that this “would tell me stories about myself ... so year a special jury category was created eventually I became an actor interpreting to recognize Ukrainian philanthropy via my first life, so I could retell the story a Humanitarian Award. although I can’t add many of the details to it”; and his wife and three daughters Oksana Bashuk Hepburn: Bohdan Lahanky: who “made me realize, day after day, Friend of Ukraine that it’s just too easy to quit.” UCPBF president for 1999-2000 New Brunswick-based entrepreneur He thanked those assembled for the by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj number of top-level bureaucratic tasks. Bohdan Lahanky was recipient the award and for Walter Maceluch of the Toronto Press Bureau She served as director of the Canadian Friend of Ukraine award. Toronto UCPBA for drawing him back to Human Rights Commission and of Mr. Lahanky is a major supporter of the the Ukrainian community. TORONTO – Upon announcing the Health and Welfare Canada. new slate of the Ukrainian Canadian Children of Chornobyl Canadian Fund, and Roman Kroitor: In her capacity as senior executive Professional and Business Federation’s the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ukraine. Business Achievement advisor to a number of ministries, she Thanks to his contributions, the church in executive for the 1999-2000 term at was instrumental in the formation of his native village of Zubiv in Halychyna, Saskatchewan native Roman Kroitor, the body’s biennial convention on July tripartite community-government- destroyed by the Soviet regime, was rebuilt recipient of the Business Achievement 3, event organizer Raya Shadurska industry consultation boards at the and reopened in 1997. He operates a joint Award, began his career as a film-maker provided a biographical sketch of the ministries of Labor and the for the Canada’s National Film Board, incoming president, Oksana Bashuk Environment; was part of a team that and one of his early efforts, “Paul Hepburn. reorganized the Canada Transport Tomkowicz” (1954) about a Ukrainian Born in Ukraine, Oksana Bashuk- Investigation Board, which deals with Canadian railway worker, was recog- Hepburn immigrated to Canada with marine, rail and air traffic accidents; nized as a milestone in documentary her parents after the war and settled in and oversaw executive personnel pro- making. In 1960 he co-produced a pio- Winnipeg. She graduated with a B.A. grams at the Public Service neer film on space exploration, in political science from the University Commission and the Treasury Board. “Universe,” which was used by NASA in of Manitoba in 1963 and joined the In 1991 she left the public service to pilot training and which strongly influ- federal public service that year, mov- found Ukraine-Canada Relations Inc. enced the late director Stanley Kubrick ing to Ottawa in 1965. (UCAN), a consulting firm that over- in making his film “2001: A Space In 1970 she traveled to Australia to sees governmental exchange programs Odyssey.” be with her first husband (the late between the two countries. Two of The huge success of his multi-image Lubomyr Zyla) during his three-year Ukraine’s prime ministers – Pavlo film “Labyrinth,” shown in several pavil- diplomatic posting in Sydney, and set Lazarenko and Valerii Pustovoitenko – ions at Expo ’67 in Montreal, led to the up a management consulting business have been high-profile participants. formation of the IMAX Systems Corp., while there. Returning to Ottawa, she Also in 1991 she remarried. She and of which he is vice-president and direc- ran her consulting firm until she her husband, Ken Hepburn, run tor, and whose revolutionary IMAX rejoined the public service at the exec- Bashuk Hepburn Associates, a consult- giant-screens he helped design, launch- utive level in 1980, working as a ing firm handling non-Ukrainian con- ing a worldwide industry. Continuing to “troubleshooter” at the Federal tracts. innovate, he produced and directed the Treasury Board. In 1998 Ms. Bashuk Hepburn was first OMNIMAX 3-D movie, “We Are Over the course of the next 13 elected president of the Ottawa branch Roman Kroitor, recipient of the Business Born of Stars,” for Expo ’85. years, Ms. Bashuk Hepburn handled a of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. Achievement Award. While thanking the UCPBF for the 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 No. 36

Convention presentations and panels cover issues facing Ukrainian Canadian community by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj Toronto Press Bureau TORONTO – Throughout the Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Federation’s biennial convention delegates were drawn into intense discussions of issues that face them and their community at the turn of the century. On July 2, following the keynote address by former astronaut Roberta Bondar (see separate report on page 13), delegates attended the first plenary session, which addressed the questions: “Who are we? Where are we? What does the future hold?” Panelists included: Michael Kostiuk, a geographer-cartographer of Ukrainian-Irish background, who served as the UCPBF’s vice-president of Internet communications from 1995, maintaining the organization’s website and in the winter of 1995, who also worked on a project to connect seven health Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj organizations in Ukraine to the Internet; and UCPBF Convention Organizer and Past President Raya Shadursky introduces panelists for plenary discussion of Ukrainian demo- Paul Grod, chairman and founder of the graphics, youth and future community directions: geographer-demographer Michael Kostiuk (left) and Pavlo Grod (center), Canada Ukraine Internship Program founding chairman of the Canada-Ukraine Internship Program. (CUIP), a former president of the Ukrainian Canadian Students’ Union (SUSK) and an ing knowledge of Ukrainian and actual use The former SUSK leader and current “Global Impressions: Perception versus executive member of the Conference of of the language across the country. Toronto SUM activist pointed out that most youth Reality” addressed Mr. Grod’s point about Ukrainian Youth Organizations (CUYO), led the country with 35,220 claiming “don’t tend to belong to a particular organi- the vilification of Ukrainians. currently pursuing a career in law and busi- knowledge of Ukrainian and 11,580 pro- zation, and keep mostly to themselves, but Andrew Gregorovich of the Toronto- ness at the Canadian Imperial Bank of fessing to use it at home; in Edmonton, show a need for an occasional fix of altru- based Ukrainian Research and Commerce. 26,430 reported knowledge of the language, ism and a sense of belonging – they will Documentation Center denounced as “his- but only 2,320 use it at home; and in show up if made aware of specific projects torically myopic” the recent decision by the The statistics of identity Winnipeg there were 2,550 home users and drives.” Liquor Control Board of Ontario to bow to Mr. Kostiuk presented data gathered among the 24,530 who reported knowing Mr. Grod said it is paramount for organi- a complaint by a Toronto resident offended from Statistics Canada to present a picture Ukrainian. zations to become more professional, by the fact that a line of the Ukrainian-made engage in more strategic planning and rely “Hetman” vodka carried the likeness of of Ukrainian Canadian demographics based Identity maintained, but mixed on the 1996 Census. on entirely different strategies than appeals 17th century Kozak leader Bohdan The report, accessible at For Mr. Kostiuk, these grim statistics to guilt or responsibility to the community. Khmelnytsky. http://fox.nstn.ca/~mkostiuk/ were not portents of doom, but markers of a The CIUP chair said his program is part Mr. Gregorovich also presented a read- ukcandem.html, presents a the dramatic reality that Ukrainian organizations in of a movement that needs to be expanded – ing list of materials to be used to blunt argu- decline of position of Ukrainians among Canada needed to face. He derived comfort one that capitalizes on the emergence of an ments presenting Ukrainians as anti- Canada’s leading ethnic groups. from the apparent fact that people continue independent Ukraine by creating opportuni- Semitic. In 1971 Ukrainian was third, behind to identify themselves as Ukrainians, ties for individuals to express their altruism. Lesia Jones of Media Watch Ukraine German and Italian, as a mother tongue for despite their gradual mixing with other her- Mr. Grod praised the Help Us Help the recapitulated the history of the deportation, a language other than English or French – a itages. Children initiatives in support of orphans in trial in Israel and subsequent continuing reported 309,890 speakers; it slipped to He emphasized that in the 1996 census, Ukraine, and suggested that kibbutz-type efforts to prosecute retired Cleveland auto fifth, behind Portuguese and marginally 1,026,475 individuals reported a Ukrainian efforts could be initiated in the eight-year- worker John Demjanjuk. ahead of Polish (with Chinese rising to sec- background, with those of mixed heritage old country. Olya Odynsky Grod focused on the ond place) by 1991 (down to 201,320 outnumbering the “single response” Mr. Grod said organizations had to begin strongly negative impact that the Canadian speakers); by 1996 Ukrainian dropped to Ukrainians 694,790 to 331,680. “thinking outside the box” of their traditions Justice Department’s program of denatural- ninth on the languages list (174,830 speak- Mr. Kostiuk’s survey also gave figures and current practices, and address contro- ization and deportation has had on the ers), falling well behind Polish and Punjabi for the number of individuals who reported versial questions. The questions the young image of Ukrainian Canadians and on her and just ahead of Arabic. Of those listing that they had recently immigrated from banker-lawyer posed were provocative, own family (her father is the object of pro- Ukrainian as their mother tongue, 47 per- Ukraine. Toronto was the leader, this time including: Should all youth organizations be ceedings). cent were age 65 or older. by a disproportionate margin with 4,030; amalgamated into one? Should all unsuc- Volodymyr Halchuk, the newly elected As to Ukrainian in the home, the lan- Montreal at 785; Vancouver at 635; cessful organizations be disbanded? Should president of the Ukrainian Canadian guage has not registered a position in the Edmonton, 515; Ottawa-Hull, 250; people agree to a minimum of two or three Congress (UCC) Ontario Provincial top 10 since it disappeared from the top-15 Winnipeg, a surprisingly scant (given the people on all executives? Council, galvanized the audience with his list prior to the 1991 census. province’s special immigration programs) Mr. Grod saw a further challenge in the outrage at the defacing of the Ukrainian The most dramatic statistic dealt with 235; while 145 settled in Calgary; 120 in apparent reversal in social mood away from Cultural Center on Toronto’s Christie Street language shift between 1971 and 1996, Oshawa, Ontario; and 100 in Hamilton, the “ethnic chic” that prevailed in the 1970s on June 20. indicating the use of Ukrainian in Canadian Ontario. and 1980s, to a darkening mood against UCC Toronto Branch President Maria them. He said Ukrainians have to be vigi- Szkambara decried the lack of fortitude homes declined by 76.5 percent (only Give youth a “fix” of belonging German, at 71.2 percent, showed a compa- lant against the vilification of Ukrainians shown by lawyers of Ukrainian background rable shift, and only Dutch fared worse, at Mr. Grod began his presentation with the and the tainting of their history. in not standing up in defense of the commu- nity’s good name. 87.2 percent). truism “the future equals youth,” then out- Tainted perceptions Mr. Kostiuk also presented information lined some of the challenges that Ukrainian A convention guest from the United indicating the distribution of those profess- Canadian organizations face. At a workshop after the panel, the theme States, Bohdan Vitvitsky, president of the Ukrainian American Professionals and Businesspersons of New York and New Jersey, rose to commend the panelists and participants for their fervor and convictions, but urged them not to allow “short-term dis- cussions to turn into dilettantism” and called on the Ukrainian Canadian commu- nity to “call a conference and decide whether an appropriate amount of resources would be allocated to influence the media, government and the society at large in a proper direction.” Building an Internet community The next plenary session was titled “The New Millennium: Modern Telecommunications” and chaired by the Ontario Advocates’ Society Executive Director Alexandra Chychij. Ms. Chychij pointed out that one of the factors that accelerated the fall of the Soviet Union, “The International Marketplace” panel: at the podium, Zenon Kulchisky, partner in Trident Video, speaks about doing busi- particularly in the immediate aftermath of ness in Ukraine; seated (from left) are Stephan Bihun, communications and marketing consultant;Eugene Luczkiw, founding director of the Institute for Enterprise Education; and session moderator Zenon Holadyk. (Continued on page 18) No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 13

Canada’s first woman astronaut, a Ukrainian, gives environmental focus to “Global Spirit” by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj Toronto-based Key Porter Books. Toronto Press Bureau In 1997 she was appointed to a special advisory panel by Canada’s Minister of TORONTO – The organizers of the Health Allan Rock. Ukrainian Canadian Professional and On June 24 Dr. Bondar was accepted Business Federation’s convention made as a specially elected fellow into the many inspired choices in gathering its list Royal Society of Canada. According to of panelists and participants. her citation, as a member of the However, before they asked Dr. University of Western Ontario Faculty of Roberta Lynn Bondar, the first Canadian Health Sciences, Dr. Bondar conducted woman in space, to be their keynote pioneering neurological research, for her speaker – a perfect selection for a gather- “unique ability to capture the minds and ing whose slogan was “Catch the Global imaginations of people of all ages,” for Spirit” – they must have wondered her tireless promotion of the appreciation whether they should also automatically of sciences and encouragement of learn- present her with an award for personal ing and research at all levels, “for achievement. Her curriculum vitae is expanding opportunities for Canadian humbling, if not mind-numbing. scientists to participate in research in Dr. Bondar was born December 4, space, and for developing international 1945, in Sault-Ste.-Marie, Ontario. collaboration in life sciences for According to the Great Canadian Canada.” Scientists website, while still a child she Sault-Ste.-Marie has gone Bondar- dreamed of becoming Flash Gordon and happy, renaming a plaza, several schools, doing battle with Ming the Merciless. resource centers, libraries, scholarships She got her private pilot’s license while and athletic awards after the astronaut. Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj still in high school. Towns across the country have followed Dr. Bondar earned a doctorate in neu- suit. The province of Ontario renamed its Ukrainian Canadian Shuttle Astronaut Roberta Bondar poses next to the “Ukrainian robiology from the University of Toronto Science and Technology Awards in her Achievements in Space” Exhibit at the UCPBF Convention. in 1974, an M.D. from McMaster honor and the Royal College of University in 1977 and, after a stint at the Physicians and Surgeons of Canada No. 2, we don’t drink Tang.” around Lake Huron’s Georgian Bay and neuro-ophthalmology unit of the Tuft’s established a fellowship in her name. Returning to the serious tenor of her the St. Lawrence Islands Provincial Park New England Medical Center in Boston The website of the Roberta Bondar talk, Dr. Bondar explained that the 55 with the stark white patches of logged and the Playfair Neuroscience Unit of Earth and Space Center Planetarium experiments she conducted, based on terrain, as well as the relatively denuded Toronto Western Hospital, as well as hav- at Toronto’s Seneca College, research carried on by 13 countries, con- urban environs of Vancouver, Edmonton, ing completed post-graduate medical http://www.senecac.on.ca/bondar/ cerned human adaptation to space condi- Toronto, Montreal and her native city. training in neurology at the University of astronauts.html, provides a comprehen- tions and the methods by which inverte- The astronaut said, “in the shuttle’s Western Ontario in London, she was sive list of her achievements. brates, such as insects, and vertebrates, photographs, places taken up by cities admitted in 1981 as a fellow of the Royal such as humans, function in gravity. and suburbs look like someone has taken College of Physicians and Surgeons of Cosmic keynote address The astronaut commended organizers a razor to velvet and shorn away all the Canada as a specialist in neurology. For a woman of learning, Dr. Bondar for having given Roman Kroitor, one of pile.” Dr. Bondar was one of the six original phrases her credos in disarming fashion. the creators of IMAX systems, an award, Dr. Bondar said she is driven by a Canadian astronauts selected in “I think it’s very important that when we since it very closely matches the size and sense of responsibility that falls to her as December 1983, while working as an do stuff,” she said, “we don’t assume clarity of the film used in both the U.S. an explorer to convey the issues facing assistant professor of neurology at that’s the only accomplishment we’ll and Soviet/Russian space programs. humans as inhabitants of the planet. She McMaster University in Hamilton, attain in life – there’s always something Dr. Bondar began her slide show with also said she feels duty-bound to people Ontario (1982-1984). beyond that we can work toward.” a photo, taken from the Russian MIR in Canada who don’t get a chance to see Although she began astronaut training The astronaut said the space program Station, of the shuttle Discovery with its first-hand both the richness of its natural in February 1984, a long waiting period is unique in that “there are only about bay doors ajar, which to her represents inheritance and what is being done to it. on the ground was standard. Dr. Bondar 500 people out of a global population of “the opening up of a person’s mind.” As someone who immersed herself in did not spend the time idly. She conduct- 5 to 6 billion that have experienced space The astronaut-activist said she has science, she said it was time for her to ed research at the Pacific Vascular flight, and yet these individuals were not taken leave from her academic duties to assist in prompting “society [to] ride a Institute in Seattle and at Toronto’s selected because of their wisdom or their embark on a cross-Canada campaign pendulum swing away from the culture Sunnybrook Medical Center, among oth- potential to bring back fresh ideas to called “Passionate Vision: A Photo of technology in order to attain some bal- ers. Earth.” Journey,” to show people from sea to sea ance.” It was not until early 1990 that she “You’re probably aware,” the scientist the beauty of their country through pho- She said that taking her message to was designated for a mission – the first added, “that there has been no great poet- tographs she herself has taken. corporations has been very important. involving the International Microgravity ry that has come from space flight, or any She was harshly critical of the indus- “They’ve been treating me with a lot of Laboratory. Dr. Bondar flew on the space truly good books – although I did attempt trial policies that have left entire ranges respect, for a hippie,” she quipped. “For shuttle Discovery during Mission STS-42 to write one –” written by any of the pro- denuded of trees, degrading the soil. me, education is the thing. Children are on January 22-30, 1992, and she per- gram’s participants. “There are three things we need: clean very important, but education shouldn’t formed life science and material science “Sometimes pure science does not water, clean air, and trees and plant life,” stop with childhood,” Dr. Bondar added. experiments in the Spacelab and on the bring that experience back, nor change Dr. Bondar said. “We cannot eat soil, During the question and answer ses- shuttle’s middeck. our lives and our attitudes as perhaps it [trees] can. We need them to keep the sion, she conceded she hadn’t been Since that flight, her efforts exploded. should,” she noted. cycle of nutrients going, otherwise we aware that she was the second She taught and conducted research as an Because of the technical experience will starve as a species.” Ukrainian woman in space, after the adjunct professor at the University of necessary and the emphasis of the pre- “We’ve developed technologies to get Soviet cosmonaut Valentyna New Mexico’s departments of neurology flight training, Dr. Bondar said that, by us into space, and this enables us to view Tereshkova, and said she still looks for- and biology (1992-1994), was accepted and large, “people who go up lack the things from a wiser perspective, and yet ward to visiting Ukraine. into the faculty of the Center for kind of mind that might embark on a path we’ve developed technologies that can Prompted by the editor of Forum mag- Advanced Technology Education at the of deeper understanding.” do us in,” the activist said. azine, Andrew Gregorovich, the astro- Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (1992), To compound this problem, the shuttle “One thing you feel very starkly when naut said she would make a point of try- and served as visiting distinguished fel- scientist said: “Everything flashes by you’re in space is that the Earth is all we ing to meet the Moscow-based Ukrainian low, department of medicine, Faculty of very quickly, 90 minutes around the have – there are just billions of stars, and former cosmonaut Pavlo Popovych at Health Sciences, McMaster University Earth means 9 kilometers per second, nothing else,” she added. one of the annual meetings of the (1993-1994); and as a visiting distin- few colors are visible, and it is very diffi- Dr. Bondar showed examples of her International Association of Space guished professor of kinesiology at the cult to recognize specific features on the stunning images of rugged mountains, Explorers, which brings together the elite University of Western Ontario (1994- ground.” lush temperate rainforests, resplendent club of space flight veterans. 1998). Dr. Bondar said the primary thing she fall colors, and close-ups of fauna, such Dr. Bondar pointed out with deter- Dr. Bondar conducted research in the gained was a certainty that the environ- as porcupines, and flora, such as caribou mined humor that, while there are vast U.S. at Boston’s Deaconess Hospital, the ment is non-negotiable. Her focus on the mosses and ferns. differences in technological level Johnson Space Center in Houston, fragility and uniqueness of Earth’s beauty Dr. Bondar then turned to shuttle-eye- between the U.S. and Russian space pro- Edwards Air Force Base in Texas, and amidst the vastness of space is common view shots, contrasting the look of pro- grams, “there are still many Russian cos- the Kennedy Space Center in Cape among former astronauts. However, the tected wildernesses such as the Pacific monauts and American astronauts who Canaveral, Fla. Sault-Ste.-Marie native suggested that, Rim National Park, the Banff, Yoho and don’t take women as seriously as they She even excels at hobbies, (she was for the most part, astronauts have come Jasper national parks, the wilderness should.” an honors student in professional nature down the same as they went up – perhaps photography at the Brooks Institute of with convictions more strongly Photography, Santa Barbara, Calif.). In entrenched. Need a back issue? 1995 her book “To Touch the Earth,” Jokingly, the astronaut said there are If you’d like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, graced with NASA’s and her own pho- two myths about the space program she send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, tography and with a text inspired by her wanted to dispel: “No. 1, you can’t see 2200 Route 10, P.O. 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proportionally in order not to destabilize the Tkachenko again urges Slavic union August 30 on a two-day official visit. hryvnia. (Eastern Economist) According to the Ukrainian Defense Newsbriefs KYIV – “Ukraine urgently needs to set (Continued from page 2) Ministry’s press service, he met with New USAID director for Kyiv sworn in up economic and defense unions with raising budget revenues and cutting expen- Defense Minister Oleksander Kuzmuk and Russia and Belarus,” said Verkhovna Rada Prime Minister Valerii Pustovoitenko to ditures, and proposed their own solution to K YIV – Christopher Crowley was sworn Chairman Oleksander Tkachenko. Mr. non-payment for utilities services A three- in on August 26 in Washington as the new discuss the deepening of bilateral military, Tkachenko, who is the Peasants Party’s can- military-political and military-technical year $2.205 billion (U.S.) EFF program for mission director to USAID Kyiv, covering didate for president, also advocates that Ukraine was approved in September 1998. Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. He is due to cooperation, and to coordinate the views Ukraine join the CIS customs union. of the two states on the issue of European (RFE/RL Newsline, Eastern Economist) arrive in Kyiv on August 29 and will (Eastern Economist) replace Gregory Huger, who served in the and regional security. The two sides also Finance Ministry to shape tax policy Kyiv post since 1995. Mr. Crowley will Symonenko would eliminate presidency discussed the possibility of Greece buying oversee the USAID’s third-largest program, Ukrainian military equipment, like the KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma has which manages approximately $270 million KYIV – Petro Symonenko, presidential AN-32P firefighter aircraft and the T-84 signed a decree putting the Finance in annual assistance. Since 1992 the USAID candidate and leader of Communist Party, tank. An agreement on military and tech- Ministry in charge of taxation policies, a has provided over $1.4 billion in technical once again pointed out that if he became nical cooperation between Ukraine and key requirement for the International and humanitarian aid in support of president he would eliminate the presiden- Greece was signed August 30 by Monetary Fund to resume its $2.6 billion Ukraine’s democratic, economic and social tial post in Ukraine. Mr. Symonenko also Industrial Policy Minister Vasyl Hureiev aid program to Ukraine, the Associated transition. (Eastern Economist) boasted that he will resolve the main eco- and Greek Defense Minister Akis Press reported on August 27. The decree nomic issues in Ukraine during the first five Tsokhadzopulos. (Eastern Economist) deprives the State Tax Administration of Tkachenko calls for Cabinet’s resignation years of his term. (Eastern Economist) policy-making duties and orders the Finance Independent TV channel may face closure KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman Ministry to set tax collection targets and Ukraine sends rescuers to Turkey Oleksander Tkachenko said on August 25 KYIV – Tax authorities in Kyiv on propose new taxes. The State Tax that the legislature should reconsider the K YIV – An aircraft with 37 rescuers on August 26 ordered that the bank account of Administration retains the right to monitor issue of the Cabinet’s resignation, UNIAN board has been sent to Turkey by the the private STB television station be closed tax collection. (RFE/RL Newsline) reported. Mr. Tkachenko added that in July Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry. UNIAN because of the station’s failure to submit tax World Bank may provide $100 M loan he voted against dismissing the government learned that the rescue group, which includ- documents for examination, the Associated because he did not want “to upset the bal- ed six dog handlers and dogs, were flown to Press reported. STB President Dmytro K YIV – The World Bank has tentatively ance between Ukraine’s branches of power Istanbul on August 18. The group then trav- Prykordonnyi told journalists that his station agreed to provide Ukraine with a $100 mil- at harvest time.” Now, however, Mr. eled to Sakarya, near Izmit, the epicenter of cannot submit the required documents lion (U.S.) loan by September 7 to pay off Tkachenko said he believes the Cabinet of the devastation, where it immediately began because they are being held by eight other back wages, pensions and other social pro- Ministers “pays absolutely no attention to search and rescue operations. All expenses state bodies. “I haven’t dealt with television grams, Vice Prime Minister Serhii Tyhypko national economic issues but is wholly connected with the work of the Ukrainian proper for the past two months. Instead, I’ve said. He stressed that the final decision engaged in the president’s election cam- rescue group, as well as its flight to Istanbul been working with the nine controlling depends on “the positive development of paign.” Mr. Tkachenko criticized Prime airport, were covered by Ukraine. It is likely agencies,” Mr. Prykordonnyi commented. Ukraine-IMF relations.” Finance Minister Minister Valerii Pustovoitenko for his that a second aircraft will be sent with a He added that the channel will have to close Ihor Mitiukov pointed out that if the funds involvement in the campaign. joint unit on board. (Eastern Economist) in September unless it is granted access to are granted, the situation among the recipi- “Pustovoitenko was appointed prime minis- Ukraine, Greece sign cooperation treaty its money. STB has vowed to give equal air ents of social payments will improve signif- ter to head the government ... and not the time to each of the leading candidates in the icantly. Mr. Tyhypko stressed that when the [pro-presidential] Zlahoda association,” the KYIV – Greek Defense Minister Akis upcoming presidential ballot. (RFE/RL funds are received they will be disbursed chairman said. (RFE/RL Newsline) Tsokhadzopulos arrived in Kyiv on Newsline)

the refusal. Once the immigrant has bers at the scene who argue the merits and copy of the medical report from the doctor Canadian care-giver... obtained the visitor’s visa from the purpose of the proposed U.S. visit. who performed the exam to prove the med- (Continued from page 7) American Consulate, he or she is ready to Once the care-giver arrives in the United ical exam was completed. Consulate with his or her passport, travel for the interview at the relevant States he or she can proceed directly to the Assuming all goes well, it is possible to Canadian visitor’s visa, a letter from the Canadian Consulate in the United States. relevant Canadian Consulate. My experi- get approval from a Canadian Consulate in sponsoring family evidencing financial sup- Having a visa to enter the United States ence has been it is best to show up early and the United States for the care-giver in one port for the trip to the U.S., a return air tick- as a visitor in order to attend an interview at to expect to be there all day. The care-giver day. As for applications overseas, the med- et and a copy of the letter from Human a Canadian Consulate is not a guarantee of should produce a copy of the Human icals usually hold things up since they take Resources Canada indicating the matter has entry into the United States. When flying to Resources Canada letter, a passport and $50 some time to be approved and are not some- been transferred to the Canadian Consulate the United States care-givers are often re- (Canadian) processing fee. He or she will thing already completed before the inter- for an interview in the United States. examined by U.S. immigration officials on also need to produce original and English view, as they are in the U.S. case. The U.S. Consulate wants reassurance the reasons for their trip and the documents translations of all diplomas and other perti- Assuming all goes well, the applicant is that if the care-giver is allowed to travel into they produce. These officials have the final nent documents, which should include let- given a letter of approval which he or she the U.S. he or she will leave the U.S. after say and, believe it or not, can refuse entry ters from the home country attesting to the presents to the Canadian immigration offi- the interview. For visitors to Canada who even to someone with a visa from the U.S. applicant’s experience or training and good cial on returning to Canada. The letter basi- have a current unexpired Canadian visitor’s Consulate. Therefore, it is helpful for family moral character. These documents will be cally states that the applicant has been visa, a trip to the United States is possible members to remain at airport gates until required during the interview itself. The approved as a care-giver and requests the even though the Canadian visa does not they can be certain the care-giver has passed same goes for interviews in the applicant’s border official to issue the person a work allow for multiple entries. So long as the through U.S. immigration and to help out home country where the application is made authorization and visa. The visa is issued for Canadian visa is current when the applicant with respect to translations or arguments on from overseas. one year and assuming the care-giver returns to Canada, Canadian border officials why the person should be let through if The applicant’s papers are collected by encounters no troubles, is renewed for the will allow the applicant to re-enter Canada – problems do arise. The occasional border the receptionist, and the applicant is told to second year almost automatically. but only once. This is important to appli- crisis can be averted through a timely inter- sit and wait for the interview. Usually, about At the end of the second year the care- cants who may be denied care-giver’s status vention with U.S. Immigration at a an hour or so later, the applicant is given giver can then apply for permanent resi- since they can still return to Canada despite Canadian airport by helpful family mem- another form to fill out at the Consulate. dence in Canada which usually takes about This form inquires into the applicant’s work three months. If Canada Immigration has and educational history. Care should be some suspicions about the care-giver’s life Are you still reading your mother’s copy of taken in completing this application since it in Canada and his or her compliance with must correspond to the assertions being the rules, the applicant may be invited in for The Ukrainian Weekly? made about previous relevant education or an interview. Such an interview is designed work experience related to care-giving. In to inquire into whether the applicant has set How adult of you. particular, dates should correspond to the down roots in the community. Evidence of dates that are on diplomas or other docu- involvement in community affairs, taking For $40 a year, you can have your own. ments submitted to prove the applicant fits English or other evening course, savings the required criteria. Conflicts between this and friendships will help the applicant in Then your children will have something to read. form and other documents related to educa- this back-end review before permanent resi- tion or work experience feed the suspicions dence is granted. of visa officers who are looking for reasons The beauty of this program lies in the SUBSCRIPTION to deny applications. fact that those individuals who are success- The interview is usually next and is usu- ful in their applications can improve their NAME: ______ally conducted in the absence of counsel. lives, and the lives of their descendants, NAME: (please type or print) Applicants outside Canada do not have the forever. Through this program they can ADDRESS: ______right to have their lawyer present. The ques- change their destinies, and the destinies of tions asked usually start off with the who, CITY: ______STATE: ______ZIP CODE: ______those who follow them. Few opportunities what, where, why and how of the situation like this exist in the world for ordinary PHONE (optional): ______and cover the four grounds for legal admis- people, and for that reason, Canada should J J sion to Canada. Invariably I have found that be very proud of this aspect of its immigra- UNA member subscription price — $40.00/yr. Non-member subscription price — $50.00/yr. the visa officers cannot locate the medical tion policy. UNA Branch number ______clearance that was obtained by the applicant As for the Ukrainian community, it when they renewed their visitor’s visa after should try to make as much use of this pro- Mail to: Subscription Department, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 six months in Canada, although in every gram as possible, since it offers a way we case eventually it is found it. Because this can help Ukrainians from Ukraine while can cause a delay, it is helpful to bring a helping ourselves at the same time. No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 15 Ukrainian Dance Camp participants display talents at Verkhovyna resort

by W. Bruce Potter GLEN SPEY, N.Y. – What a delight it is to spend a leisurely summer afternoon up in the mountains of New York state, enjoying the sunshine, warm breezes and bugs, mosquitoes and spiders. No, I’m not kidding. On Saturday, August 7, the ensemble presentation of “Mukha – The Fly” pre- miered here at the Verkhovyna Resort, under the inspired artistic direction of Roma Pryma Bohachevsky. Once again, Ms. Bohachevsky took traditional Ukrainian folklore themes and molded them into an exhilarating ballet that allowed young Ukrainian dancers to demonstrate their practiced technique, while showcasing the exquisite classic skill of the principal dancers. Coming from New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Texas, Connecticut, Ohio and as far away as California, the young par- ticipants of this year’s Ukrainian Dance Camp prepared themselves for long hours at the ballet bar and in practicing intricate footwork and hand movements. Two weeks of hard work culminated in the performance that family and friends had traveled far to see. What resulted was a joy to experience. The first act was a wonderful pastiche with a magical midsummer night’s glow that told of a world of insects, all cele- The finale of the dance campers’ performance. brating the name’s day of Mukha who, along with her friends, the ladybugs, fantasy images for the performance. “By the River” and “Flirtation Dance slowly began to wind down, as young caterpillars, beetles, ants, moths, cock- Again, Mr. Bohachevsky scored the from the Lemko Region,” the performers people gave one last hug to their friends roaches, butterflies; experienced an dance with music that fit the plot. From took traditional dance themes from vari- and one last thank-you to their coun- adventure of romance and spidery Beethoven to Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, ous regions of Ukraine and used them to selors. Automobiles trunks were packed malevolence that could only be the instrumental music chosen for each of highlight the skills learned during many with sheets and towels; one last run down expressed through the storytelling of bal- the scenes, though eclectic, tended to hours of camp training. The “Hopak” the hill to the lake to catch a frog was let. Special recognition goes to Boris blend, rather than distract from the story. finale allowed all the participants to squeezed in. Bohachevsky, who wrote the story and After a brief intermission, the ensem- demonstrate their athletic precision and As parents drove tired young people selected the music. ble re-convened to demonstrate its skills artistic discipline. from that mountain resort in New York, it Using an ensemble of over 70 young in traditional Ukrainian folk dance. Five Behind the scenes, but working just as seems sad that so much effort was dancers, various bugs revealed the story separate pieces were presented, each diligently were Ada Helbig as the prac- expended for only one performance. Yet of the young heroine’s attraction to the using traditional music and themes, some tice accompanist and Marusia maybe it was the discipline, the cultural evil spider and his web, her hypnotic with interesting interpretation through Darmohraj-Mulyk, the camp director. experience, the participation in what it capture via beautiful silks and the even- choreographic innovation. means to be a Ukrainian that made these tual heroic battle to release her. A plot In the first one, “Hutsulka,” two coun- * * * two weeks important. Thank you, Ms. worthy of Shakespeare with a Ukrainian try bumpkins try to capture beautiful fish, Finally the hours of sweat were over, Bohachevsky, for keeping this tradition flavor, the story was a perfect plot to only to be outsmarted. In “Volynianka,” the performance was complete. The camp alive and well. enable the various ballet skill levels of the students to express their accomplish- ments in dance. Chornomorska Sitch conducts 30th anniversary Sports School The four principal dancers – Mr. Bohachevsky as the beetle that tangos; by Christine Kozak-Prociuk Soyuzivka during Labor Day weekend. singing of the Ukrainian national Andrij Cybyk as the heroic Komar, the Tennis was instructed by Yuri anthem, the lowering and folding of the green-eyed mosquito; Adrienne Gawron as GLEN SPEY, N.Y. – The Saldana, Mr. Hawryluk, Jane Brynzak American and Ukrainian flags and Mukha; and Orlando Pagan, the evil black Chornomorska Sitch Sports School com- and Dan Lewycky. Players were taught evening prayers, ended the campers’ spider – brought great professional style to pleted its 30th anniversary season at the terminology in both Ukrainian and their roles. Through their dance “lan- Ukrainian Fraternal Association’s fun-filled days under the starry skies of English; drills, exercises and stroke clin- guage” they conveyed a fully developed Verkhovyna resot with more than 80 Verkhovyna. ics were held throughout the four weeks. understanding of what their characters rep- campers from various regions of the Counselors play an important part Tennis players were grouped according resented in the play. By including tradi- United States and Ukraine participating integrating youths into camp life. The to ability and competed in tennis tourna- tional Ukrainian dance steps, their per- in the four weekly sessions beginning year’s especially selected counselors ments – even the youngest of players, 8- formances set the tone for a Carpathian July 25 and ending August 21. were Ms. Farrell and Ms. Hordynsky, folktale. Soccer instruction was conducted by year-olds, participated. girls’ counselors; Alexander Napora, Messrs. Bohachevsky, Cybyk and Andrew Panas and Roman Holowinsky Volleyball instruction was conducted younger boys’ counselor; and Walter Pagan, Ms. Gawron and Christina Izak for the first two weeks, and by Ihor by Adrianna Hordynsky and Mr. Wasylak, older boys’ counselor. were the camp’s instructors. Czeszko and Greg Serheev for the second Hawryluk. Players underwent numerous Counselors supervised the campers as While all were magnificent in their two weeks. Messrs. Panas, Holowinsky eye-hand-ball coordination, technique, they made their beds, and cleaned, swept running and strategy drills, and learned performances, several highlights are and Serheev all are former sports school and mopped their barracks daily for scoring techniques. Volleyball players memorable. Particularly moving was the participants. Various drills and exercises inspection. Many a parent commented on competed against each other using their nervous, though courageous re-enact- were conducted, and techniques and the improvement of their children’s abili- new skills in setting, digging, bumping, ment of the capture of Mukha for the “moves” were taught, augmented via ties. Counselors provided supervision in spiking and serving. Volleyball tourna- brave Komar by the fluttering moth. Mr. audio/visual training. The campers partic- both the Ukrainian and English lan- Pagan’s spider was wonderful. His por- ments were held biweekly. ipated in extensive competitions for best guages. trayal of an evil force in the bug king- Other activities featured during sports dribbler, best juggler, most penalty shots, Camp administrators were: Myron dom put many in the audience in awe of etc. school were: talent/variety shows, Stebelsky, director for first two weeks, his controlled malevolence, even cheer- Swimming instruction was given by singing, dances and the trademark obsta- Omelan Twardowsky, director for second ing for him during the final battle. The Mary Kate Farrell and Orest Hawryluk. cle course “Journey through Ukraine,” narcotic mood of the silks bringing in Swimmers learned proper stroke and div- which features obstacles named after two weeks, Mary Bokalo, secretary and Mukha was captivating. ing techniques, and each swimmer was Ukrainian cities in geographical order. federal food program administrator, and A special note also must be made of give specialized instruction for his/her (Due to drought conditions, the tradition- Christine Kozak-Prociuk, medical direc- the costumes and music. Dancers were ability. Weekly swim races were enjoyed al weekly bonfires were not held.) tor. festooned with magnificent outfits and by all as swimmers exhibited their newly Nightly league games were the high- At the camp closing on August 2 the the colors of the various insects they rep- learned swimming skills and competed lights of each sports-filled day for the camp directors thanked the campers, par- resented. The flowing wings of the but- for medals. Some of the campers were campers. Using Ukrainian cities and ents and guests, and urged all campers terflies, the multi-colored silk banners of also training for the swim meet to be con- team names, the campers competed and their parents to compete in sports the worms, the mushroom-capped young ducted by the Ukrainian Sports against one another. Sports videos, edu- throught the year, honorably representing dancers and cute ladybugs all created the Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada at cational and recreational movies, the their Ukrainian heritage. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 No. 36

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remember that when my grandfather to the transition of a society from totalitar- Pearls for the soul I sow for you, Oleksander Moroz... spoke about the Great Famine, even dur- ianism to democracy. It is very convincing And create and ponder for you, (Continued from page 16) ing the 1960s (a period of relative liberal- and should be utilized in education about Be away America and Russia most significant threat to our national ization), he never attributed the Great the importance of living in accordance While I am conversing with you. Famine to the activities of the Communist with the rule of law. As it turns out, this is security lies in the fact that unemployment People are constantly asking: “Where is and the current social malaise can lead to Party. He simply spoke about it as histori- the most important cause. cal fact. He spoke about why it happened, Ukraine headed – East or West?” Ukraine the type of cataclysms that will leave an has nowhere to go right now but up and indelible mark on Ukrainian statehood. and the reasons he cited were not unlike A question on geopolitics. Ukraine out of the hole it finds itself in. In this Everything must be done to create employ- the rationale offered by the (post-Stalin) seems to be in a position where it is sense, the roads of progress will lead to ment for the people and pay their wages. Communists who spoke about the “objec- being pulled in two different directions tive” reasons. at once by the Russians on the one greater economic integration with both About Ukraine’s entry into the CIS When I analyze those years, I think that hand, and the Americans on the other. Russia and the West. But Ukraine should Inter-Parliamentary Assembly. As a we, today’s politicians, cannot forget Is Ukraine nothing more than the sub- remain an independent and influential politician, do you think that this bring about those terrible times, but more ject of deals struck between these two player on the international scene. In my about real change? Will Ukraine be bet- importantly we must make sure that they powers? Does Ukraine have any inde- view, not only Russia, because that isn’t ter off, or will the country simply be will never be repeated. That would be per- pendent influence in international poli- the full picture, but also America, should- forced to contribute financially to this haps the best way to show what we think tics? n’t use other states for political barter. And institution? about those times. Everyone should know if certain people consider nations to be the truth about those events, know about Perhaps (Ukrainian poet) Vasyl geopolitical “goods,” then that is truly a Ukraine can’t be a mere observer when the criminal actions of Stalin and his Symonenko’s words are appropriate today sad state of affairs, even for those states discussions concerning legislative models regime and call things by their real names. when he wrote about Ukraine: that engage in it. for CIS IPA member-countries are under- But, I repeat, attention should be placed way. I think this is yet another vehicle for on the current state of affairs and not representing Ukraine’s interests. Ukraine’s allow them to get any worse than they sovereignty and independence cannot be already are. I think that is possible. guaranteed by simply being or not being Regarding those people who show up members of various international organi- at parades and sometimes carry relics zations. Pursuing smart politics in these from the past. They believe in them. This types of institutions, however, will serve is not something welcomed by myself or as guarantees. The task at hand is to repre- our party. Moreover, Stalinism and the sent Ukraine’s interests in all available dictatorial regime were condemned and manners, to take advantage of all possibil- that is clearly stated in our party’s pro- ities and options. gram. But, if a person walks around with a That is why I think that membership in sign, then it reflects the type of person. the IPA will not present even an elemen- Did you know that placards with Stalin’s tary threat to Ukraine’s sovereignty. The picture were not carried between the objections to IPA membership are not 1960s and 1990s? Where these people grounded in genuine concern about kept them, I do not know. Ukraine’s interests, but are more ideologi- cal in nature, basing themselves on slo- Imagine people in Berlin today walk- gans such as “Away from Moscow!” In ing around with pictures of Hitler in my view, this is an unwise slogan, and public. will be quickly forgotten once the benefits of IPA involvement are seen through the Why imagine? There are people that do preparation of various legislative acts that it in Berlin. It’s all a matter of time. It will will guarantee effective economic cooper- pass, and too much attention shouldn’t be ation among the member countries. The paid. No one, for example, condemns rest, in my view, cannot be taken serious- Austrian social democrats who demon- ly. No one considers Ukraine’s member- strate in the center of Vienna on May Day ship in the Parliamentary Assembly of the with red flags. The Austrian chancellor Council of Europe to be a threat to our sometimes even addresses these gather- sovereignty. ings. This year, 1999, marks the 65th When did you realize that the Soviet anniversary of the Great Famine in Union would be no more? Did it come Ukraine. This anniversary appears to as a surprise to you? have been largely ignored on the official It was 1990, and I remember speaking level. At the same time, we see demon- about it with my colleagues-parliamentari- strations, left-wing rallies, with people ans. When Gorbachev began talking about carrying images of Stalin. Ukrainians a new union agreement, which basically vote for the Communist Party, the initiated the demise of the old union, I party that created the Great Famine. In remember saying that we should welcome the West, this appears to be very con- a new union not as a weight around our tradictory, and even serves to lower the neck, but as a form of independence. We opinion held about Ukrainians because should have sat down, enlisted the servic- some Ukrainians talk about a Great es of a specialist who could have deter- Famine while others vote the mined what belongs to us and what does Lozynskyj Foundation Communists into Parliament where not in terms of the energy sector, defense, they command the largest faction. Is it c/o Bohdan J. Chaban debts, responsibility for Chornobyl, mat- 59 St. Mark’s Pl., New York, NY 10003 possible that the Great Famine never ters concerning the fleet, etc. A private, non-profit foundation. happened? This wasn’t done because matters were Its tax return available for examination at above address. settled in a manner not uncommon for us This is not an altogether accurate and first we broke “the clay pot” into For further information please contact assessment. Christians, for example, have thousands of pieces and then took those Bohdan Chaban, Tel. (212) 677-2790 no problems calling themselves Christians pieces and tried to figure out where they despite some controversial periods in the belong. Had we taken a calmer approach, history of Christianity. It is a system of and itemized all of our concerns and inter- beliefs and ideas, and even though the ests, then Ukraine would be a very differ- Church has made mistakes in the past, ent place today. Today, nobody in DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS Christianity as an idea has not been dis- Moscow knows where all of the gold, credited. to be published in The Ukrainian Weekly – in the Ukrainian financial assets, etc. disappeared. In In the same way, I would not associate Ukraine, those who once cried out “Away or English language – are accepted by mail, courier, fax, phone or e-mail. the Great Famine exclusively with the from Moscow!” are now talking about Communist Party, although I understand Deadline: Tuesday noon before the newspaper’s date of issue. mutual forgiveness, audits and the like. that the Western reader does have precon- (The Weekly goes to press early Friday mornings.) Who is going to take up the matter today? ceived notions on the subject. I was a Rate: $7.50 per column-inch. member of the Communist Party for 18 Which political leaders or style of years and can say honestly that I served leadership appeal to you? Information should be addressed to the attention of the Advertising Department the people of Ukraine honestly and con- and sent to: The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280 (NB: please scientiously, and defended our national I admire Roosevelt of the 1930s. I have do not include post office box if sending via courier), Parsippany, N.J. 07054; and social interests. read quite a bit about him, and there are a fax, (973) 644-9510; telephone, (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040; The Great Famine was very brutal in lot of interesting lessons to be learned. e-mail, [email protected]. the village where my family comes from, Recently, while in Bonn, I visited their and I heard about it first-hand from my historical post-war museum and also Please include the daytime phone number of a contact person. grandfather and parents. Interestingly, I found it very interesting. It’s a testament 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 No. 36

Commission (roughly the equivalent of the websites is relatively inexpensive, and more important than knowledge and skill.” Convention presentations... U.S. Federal Communications through them everything from research Stephan Bihun, another panelist, joined (Continued from page 12) Commission, provided an excellent information to radio and television broad- Bell Canada as a repairman in the 1960s, the attempted coup of August 1991, was overview of the changes in telecommunica- casts can be carried. However, he cautioned rose through various management positions, the plethora of fax machines that had been tions. that the marketing of such sites so that a exhibiting talent in marketing, and took on Mr. Roberts said massive changes are sufficient number of people are aware of the numerous overseas assignments on behalf smuggled into the moribund empire from ongoing in the telecommunications indus- service being provided can be very capital- of Bell Canada International until his retire- the West. try, with the big companies that have domi- intensive. ment in 1994. Drawing on this experience, Ms. Chychij said that computer technol- nated telephone, television, cable and “The future leans to the nimble,” the as well as a two-year period in which he ogy has further democratized access to Internet access services scrambling to assert media expert said, “and the nimble are often helped break up British Telecom’s monop- information and called on the Ukrainian control over the emergent “Wild West” in the smaller.” oly in the United Kingdom, Mr. Bihun then diaspora’s organizations to use this technol- telecommunications. The other panelist in that afternoon’s ses- ventured into business opportunities in ogy to expand on the traditional links The media analyst said the democratiz- sion, Donald Guy, is vice-president of the telecommunications in the U.K., Thailand, among its members and accelerate the deci- ing trend mentioned by Ms. Chychij offers Toronto-based firm POLLARA, which con- Australia, France, the Netherlands and sion-making process that has made them opportunities for small players, such as ducts public opinion surveys, convenes Ukraine. slow-footed in the past. small organized communities (ranging from focus groups for various clients and con- Ukraine’s business climate evaluated Panelist William Roberts, current secre- a group such as the Ukrainian community ducts executive interviews. His prior experi- tary general of the North American in Canada, to farm cooperatives, to a neigh- ence includes service as an advisor to an The Bell veteran concentrated on dispel- Broadcasters’ Association, former senior borhood association active within six city Ontario Provincial Cabinet minister, as a ing any illusions businesspeople might have vice-president for television at the Canadian blocks) to bypass the networks set up by the corporate government relations officer and about opportunities in Ukraine, and of rely- Association of Broadcasters and former larger companies or ride piggy-back on a research analyst for the federal Ministry of ing on the Canadian government’s agencies senior policy analyst at the Canadian Radio- them. Transportation. to smooth the way. Television and Telecommunications Mr. Roberts pointed out that setting up Mr. Guy cited statistics suggesting that “CIDA [the Canadian International two-thirds of Canada’s population had used Development Agency] is hopeless. Their the Internet in the past year; with 76 percent business planning stuff is doing more harm Turning the pages... sending electronic mail, 74 percent conduct- than good,” Mr. Bihun opined. “It has been ing research (mostly consumer-oriented), proven to fail in North America and now it’s (Continued from page 6) and 62 percent buying goods or services. being inflicted on Ukraine.” Ukrainian statehood over the airwaves. He pointed out that privacy concerns are Mr. Bihun said the only hope is to sell Fleeing westward in 1944, Tarnavsky settled in Munich, where was the first editor of the paramount. Anonymity is often preferred, Ukraine’s politicians and leaders of vested Munich-based newspaper Ukrainska Trybuna (among the most widely read in the DP and as such is an impediment to “relation- interests on the benefits to their constituen- camps). He co-founded and served as managing editor of the cosmopolitan literary and arts ship marketing” and the forming of stronger cies and their own pockets if they adopt journal Arka. community ties. proper business practices. Tarnavsky emigrated to the United States in 1949 and settled in Detroit, working as an The amount of time people devote to the Mr. Bihun took up on the idea voiced industrial graphic designer, but also resumed his efforts as a literary translator. He staged computer screen has to come from some- earlier by Mr. Luczkiw, suggesting that and directed his own rendering of the Medieval English morality play “Everyman” and where, the analyst said, and he suggested what is required in Ukraine is a business directed its premiere in his adopted city in 1961. that computer users often “cannibalize” the concept that prompts workers in the coun- He translated Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” wrote Ukrainian adaptations of the works time previously devoted to community try’s industries, highly trained but inappro- of Aristophanes and Sophocles, and penned countless radio plays for children. involvement. priately employed in labor-intensive proj- Reunited in artistic collaboration with Nyzhankivsky, Tarnavsky co-wrote several plays And yet, Mr. Guy averred that since ects, to embark on grass-roots entrepreneur- that have been staged but have remained unpublished, including the satirical comedy “Chai Ukrainians have a “brand identity” – their ship. u Pana Premiera” (Tea at the Premier’s), the historical drama “Attila in Rome,” a Ukrainian ethnicity – the Internet can serve as a neu- It was Mr. Luczkiw’s turn to be grimly adaptation of Sophocles’s “Antigone.” They also began work on a stage adaptation of the tral “guilt-free” medium that can attract realistic, pointing out that most in Ukraine medieval “Chronicle of Bygone Years.” those who have been at the community’s are forced by their circumstances into a dif- Zenon Tarnavsky died in Detroit on August 8, 1962. fringes or not participating at all. This is ferent mentality. “People are in survival A year after his death, his translations of T.S. Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral” and particularly true of youth, the analyst mode in Ukraine, and it is difficult, given Georges Bernanos “Dialogues des Carmelites” was published by the prestigious Na Hori averred, who can be drawn to the tasks of the current situation, to switch over to self- series, while a posthumous edition of his selected prose, memoirs, essays and journalistic operating and troubleshooting for commu- actualization, the driving force in the West.” writings appeared in 1964, titled “Doroha na Vysokyi Zamok” (The Road to the High nications systems. Mr. Luczkiw mentioned an interesting Castle). The double-edged sword, noted Mr. Guy, possibility that might allow Ukraine to capi- Sources: “Tarnavsky, Zenon,” Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, is that people can communicate with one talize on growing opposition to lumber- 1993); Zenon Tarnavsky, “Doroha na Vysokyi Zamok” (Detroit: Institute of Ukrainian Culture in another almost instantaneously via e-mail based paper production around the world, America, 1964); Terem, No. 8 (1982). across vast distances, or download material suggesting that if the country’s traditional from publications or data bases operating hemp (konopli) industry were to be revived, afar, yet they become less involved with it would be very well positioned in terms of their own local community. the world market in the coming decades. Veteran UCPBF activist and panelist The two-brother team of Andrij and Olya Kuplowska, senior producer at the Zenon Kulchisky also offered their insights publicly funded television station TVO, during a session titled “Learning the Ropes suggested that Ukrainians have already in Ukraine.” Investing the money they made a good start in staking a presence on made in a successful video rental business the Internet, but have to expand in a more in Hamilton, Trident Video, they established coordinated and concerted fashion and Marcan International, a joint venture pro- noted that Ukrainian studies could be easily ducing bathroom products in Ukraine. expanded because the Internet makes it eas- Initiated in 1993, the company was eventu- ier to share material and to focus interest ally run into dormancy and has now been strategically. taken over by the Ukraine-based partner. Ukrainian entrepreneurial buzz Zenon Kulchisky, a former lecturer in political science at York, McGill and St. Participating in the plenary session “The Mary’s universities, related that the most International Marketplace,” on July 3, was demanding task faced by a foreign entrepre- Eugene Luczkiw, an internationally recog- neur is keeping track of the changing laws. nized expert in the field of entrepreneurial “If you invest there, stay there with your development and enterprise education, money, read every issue of Halytski founding director of the Institute for Kontrakty and Dilo [two business-oriented Enterprise Education (website at newspapers], and whenever you’re con- http://iee.vaxxine.com/iee/ented.html), a fronted by an official demanding a payoff, non-profit facility affiliated with Brock pull out your clippings,” he said,” otherwise University in St. Catharines, Ontario, and you’ll be stiffed.” an adjunct member of the faculty of busi- Mr. Kulchisky said there was no getting ness. around the Soviet legacy in Ukraine. “You His noted success was in turning a com- have to be able to deal with the burden of pany in Ontario’s wine industry (formerly a history,” the businessman-scholar averred, laughingstock) into a presence in the world “If the arrival of prosperity in Ukraine market. He has been a consultant to the depends on the reduction of state power, as World Bank, the Royal Bank of Canada and we believe in the West, the process will be the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., among excruciatingly slow.” others, and accompanied an Enterprise In a nutshell, his advice to prospective Canada delegation to Ukraine in 1995. investors: “Don’t put all your eggs in the Mr. Luczkiw’s talk was peppered with Ukrainian basket, but if you are Ukrainian the buzz that seeks to “change the world by yourself and are willing to stay in for the changing attitudes,” boldly strike out into long haul, you can watch the gradual new conceptual territory with assertions process and feel the rewards of having such as “every citizen, every worker should helped the economy in the land of your think like an entrepreneur” and “attitude is forebears.” No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 19 Ukrainian Independence Day ROCHESTER UKRAINIAN to be marked on Capitol Hill FEDERAL CREDIT UNION by Michael Sawkiw Jr. Beginning at 6 p.m., the congressional Ukrainian National Information Service event will feature a buffet reception and remarks from members of Congress and WASHINGTON – The Capitol Hill commemoration of Ukrainian the Ukrainian government. Hierarchs of Independence Day is becoming an impor- the Ukrainian Churches (Catholic, tant tradition here and on this eighth Orthodox and Baptist-Evangelical) have anniversary of Ukraine’s August 24 decla- been invited to participate, along with ration of independence, the Congressional leaders of Ukrainian American organiza- Ukrainian Caucus (CUC), the Ukrainian tions. The Ukrainian American communi- Congress Committee of America (UCCA) ty is invited to participate in order to con- and the Ukrainian American Coordinating vey the community’s appreciation to the Council (UACC) are coordinating this members of Congress who will join in the commemoration to provide a forum for celebration of Ukraine’s eighth anniver- members of Congress to express their soli- sary of independence. darity with the Ukrainian people and the The cost of the congressional reception Ukrainian American community. is $30. RSVP requested by Friday, In observance of the anniversary, a spe- September 17. Checks should be made cial congressional reception will be held payable to the UCCA and sent to the fol- on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, September 22, at 6-8 p.m. in the Rayburn House lowing address: Ukrainian National Information Service (UNIS), 311 Office Building, Room B369, South LAW OFFICES WEST2282 Bloor St. W., Toronto, ARKA Ont., Canada M6S 1N9 Capitol and Independence streets, SW. Massachusetts Ave. NE, Washington, DC More than 30 senators and representatives 20002. For further information, contact OF Gifts have endorsed the congressional reception Michael Sawkiw Jr., UNIS director, at Ukrainian Handicrafts by serving as sponsors and supporting (202) 547-0018, or Ihor Gawdiak, presi- ZENON B. MASNYJ, ESQ. Art, Ceramics, Jewellery A. CHORNY members of the event. dent of the UACC, at (301) 680-0415. 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George Luckyj honored by CFUS Maxim Tarnawsky, accepted the award (By Appointment Only) on his behalf, and paid tribute to the con- The Canadian Foundation of Ukrainian tribution the scholar made, ranking him Studies is an institution closely affiliated along with Prof. George Shevelov of with the UCPBF. As part of the banquet Columbia University, Prof. Omeljan program, CFUS President Christina FIRST QUALITY Pritsak of Harvard and Ivan Lysiak- Stodilka presented the CFUS Award for UKRAINIAN TRADITIONAL-STYLE Rudnytsky of the University of Alberta, Contributions to Ukrainian Studies to who “paved the way for Ukrainian schol- George S.N. Luckyj, professor emeritus arship into the North American academic MONUMENTS of the University of Toronto’s department SERVING NY/NJ/CT REGION CEMETERIES world, combating both the prejudices of of Slavic languages and literatures; an non-Ukrainian scholars and the provin- OBLAST endowment in support of scholarly work cialism of Ukrainian academics.” in his name will be established. MEMORIALS How to reach Prof. Tarnawsky praised the honoree’s P.O. BOX 746 The distinguished Ukrainian-born, dedication, perseverance and adherence Chester, NY 10918 Columbia University-educated scholar to the highest standards of research and 914-469-4247 published several influential works of lit- HE KRAINIAN EEKLY scholarship. 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Ms. Stodilka said that among the last recommendations made by the recently deceased Prof. Danylo Struk was that Prof. Luckyj should receive this year’s CFUS award and that an endowment in his name be established. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 No. 36

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work on Apollo 13 – the first shuttle to Couple to wed land on the moon. Mrs. Luchkan is cur- rently employed by Aetna US Healthcare on September 25 as a benefits consultant, and is a self- WEST HARTFORD, Conn. – taught artist and singer. Roksolana Luchkan is engaged to be Roksolana works for Thomson married to Nicholas Charles Humphries Financial Securities Data as an account on September 25 at the St. Volodymyr executive. She is a graduate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral on West University of Southern California where 82nd Street in New York City. A recep- she studied international relations. tion will be held at The Ukrainian A former member of Plast, Ms. Institute of America. Luchkan stays active in the Ukrainian Ms. Luchkan and Mr. Humphries met community by acting in Ukrainian plays six years ago while traveling in Ireland. under the direction of Lydia After they met, both Ms. Luchkan and Krushelnytsky. She is a member of the Mr. Humphries lived in Australia for Ukrainian Institute of America and three years. They will reside in New Ukrainian National Association Branch York City. 12. Nicholas, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas recently completed a gradu- Kenneth Humphries, hails from Sydney, ate certificate degree at Oxford Australia. His father is a self-employed University in England. He is an accom- architect, and his mother works for the plished rugby player. He has played for Malleson, Stephens and Jacques law firm Manly Rugby Union in Sydney in Sydney. Australia, the Penguins International Roksolana is the daughter of Valentina team, Oxford Rugby Blues, as well as the Luchkan and the late Jaroslav (Slavko) New York Athletics Club. Luchkan. The Ukrainian Weekly recently This fall Mr. Humphries will begin published an article about Mr. Luchkan work at Arthur Anderson in the business and his leadership in Plast, as well as his fraud division.

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where the former location was, but it’s at Ukrainian World Congress... the center of the city, and this has many (Continued from page 5) advantages.” However, the solution is temporary. ing of the UWC executive on July 10 (with “We’re not sure how long we’ll be able to Mr. Lozynskyj and other senior officials stay here,” Mr. Pedenko averred, “we might present), negotiations with the former land- have to move at any time from five months lords were broken off and a unanimous to five years.” decision was made to accept an offer from The UNF itself is in flux, having decided the Ukrainian National Federation (UNF), to sell the Ukrainian Credit Union Building which owns the UCU building. part and parcel with its current headquarters UZBEKISTAN Mr. Pedenko is in charge of the head- next door. Air Ukraine airways quarters’ day-to-day operations. Contacted The transition to another facility, on by The Weekly at his new offices, he Evans Avenue in Etobicoke (a Toronto sub- expressed great satisfaction with them. urb) has begun, but is in abeyance, pending “Very spacious and very comfortable,” Mr. the sale of the buildings on College Street. Pedenko said. The UWC’s new coordinates are: 295 BOEING 767-300 Even the downsides have upsides, as the College St., Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1S2; UWC official saw it: “It’s somewhat telephone, (416) 323-3020; fax, (416) 323- on TUESDAYS, FRIDAYS and SUNDAYS removed from the center of Ukrainian life, 3250; e-mail, [email protected]. from JFK International Airport ANNOUNCEMENT Members of the Ukrainian National Association who are 79 years or older and are still INFORMATION AND RESERVATIONS paying premiums on their insurance with UNA are entitled to a fraternal benefit. The UNA will pay the annual premiums for policies issued in classes 1, 5, 6, 21, 51, 26, or 56. This payment is automatic and members do not need to do anything. Any member who has UZBEKISTAN AIRWAYS insurance in any other class is not entitled to this benefit. All members 79 years and over who have dividend options other than cash must continue to pay their insurance premi- 1-212-489-3954 (office) ums. with Dividend option 2 or 4 (accumulation of interest on the dividend or additional paid-up insurance), the UNA will pay their dividend option but not the premium. Members 1-212-245-1005 (ticket reservation) may cancel their dividend option if they wish to have the UNA pay their premiums. Please 1-800-820-2891 (cargo) contact the UNA Home Office or your branch secretary. 1-718-244-0251 (fax cargo) The Executive Committee No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 21

NASA engineer is working on personal satellite assistant by Olena Welhasch The PSA concept was presented at a Silicon Valley conference on data fusion PARSIPANNY, N.J.: Imagine having a this summer. Today, the concept mock-up, softball-sized personal assistant floating which is about the size of a basketball, around your house or office and taking care floats over a table on Earth. The challenges of time-consuming tasks. NASA astronauts facing the design team includes decreasing may soon have access to this luxury thanks the size of the PSA while maintaining to the work of Yuri Gawdiak and his NASA enough power to keep it functioning and research team. creating sensors sensitive enough to prevent The Personal Satellite Assistant (PSA) is it from bumping into objects on board. an astronaut support device designed to According to a recent article in New move and operate independently in the Scientist, NASA scientists predict that it microgravity environment of space. The will be about two years before the PSA is fan-propelled PSA will monitor the space ready for the space shuttle or international station’s environment, testing sensors, fans, space station. communication control and navigation, and Yuri Gawdiak, 36, orginally of Silver will even be able to make minor repairs, Spring, Md., dreamed of working for leaving the astronauts free to work on other NASA since he was a child. Today he does. matters. The PSA will be instrumental in Mr. Gawdiak is a team experiment lead measuring temperature, air pressure and gas engineer at NASA, Ames Research Center levels. “Gases behave differently in space. (ARC) in California. They have a nonpredictable distribution, so In addition to the PSA project, Mr. the hard-wired sensors won’t pick up a Gawdiak was involved in the successful given gas. The PSA can hunt and search for Mir Wireless Network Experiment (WNE), gases,” said Mr. Gawdiak. which was the first test of a wireless client- Due to its size, the PSA will be able to server network in the space environment. investigate areas of the spacecraft that peo- Mr. Gawdiak was also involved in a NASA ple cannot. This technology would have (ARC) and the Federal Aviation been useful when a fire broke out on the Administration (FAA) alliance formed to Mir space station, to ensure that the entire build a full mission-simulation facility that fire had been extinguished. will be used to validate future airport surface Equipped with a camera, micro- and air traffic control tower technologies. phone, speakers and display terminal, the Mr. Gawdiak was an active member of PSA will enable the scientists on Earth to Plast Youth Organization and was head of interact with crew members while pro- the Plast branch in Washington. As a youth viding a unique view of the mission he attended bandura camp and Ukrainian operation. The on-board sensors may school. In his free time Mr. Gawdiak said also be used to monitor the status of lab he enjoys hiking, biking and skiing with his animals. Ideally, the apparatus will have wife, Lada, and immediately added that he plug-and-play capabilities, allowing the has fun at work, too. Mr. Gawdiak is a To subscribe: Send $50 ($40 if you are a member of the UNA) to The Ukrainian Weekly, astronauts to outfit the PSA with particu- member of Ukrainian National Association Subscription Department, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 lar tasks to complete that day. Branch 15. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 No. 36

Business briefs (Continued from page 3) a 20.57 percent stake in the plant has been sold via auctions for privatization property cer- tificates and a 1.55 percent stake on favorable terms. The plant’s leaseholders already own a 21.04 percent, with the state retaining a 50 percent controlling stake. (Eastern Economist) Russia accused of airlines discrimination KYIV – Russia’s aviation authorities are conducting a discriminatory policy in respect to Ukrainian airlines, said a Ukrainian Transportation Ministry official. According to the inter- governmental agreement on air traffic between Ukraine and Russia, Ukraine does not levy a value-added tax for services provided by Russian airlines in Ukrainian airports, while the Russian side taxes services provided by Ukrainian airlines in Russia because Russian legis- lation does not regard flights between the two countries as international, which makes it possible for the Russian side to levy VAT on CIS airlines. Such an approach violates the provisions of Russia’s Air Traffic Code of February 19, 1997. Ukrainian airlines to date have paid Russia more than $3.2 million (U.S.) in VAT. (Eastern Economist) Big Antonov line-up for Russian airshow KYIV – About 300 aviation associations, design offices, plants, research institutes and enterprises participated and demonstrated more than 130 new aircraft at the fourth International Air Show MAX ’99 held recently in the Russian town of Zhukovskyi. Ukraine’s Industrial Policy Minister Vasyl Hureiev, his deputy, Valerii Kazakov, and the deputy chief of armaments of Ukraine’s armed forces, Mykhailo Mytrakhovych, were in attendance. According to Mr. Kazakov, Ukraine displayed the AN-70, AN-140, AN-38 and AN-3, the AN-32P firefighter and the converted AN-74TK-200. The AN-140 was to have its first air demonstration ever. Mr. Kazakov said the aim of the show was to convince prospective partners that the AN-70 “has not been the only success of the national aviation industry.” Ukraine will continue with its policy of promoting Antonov planes by holding talks with German and Italian delegations. The first passenger AN-140 could be assembled in the Iranian city of Isfahan by the end of 1999. Ukraine gained the rights for serial produc- tion of AN-140 in December 1995. (Eastern Economist) South Africa intends to order Motor-Sich engines ZAPORIZHHIA – South Africa intends to place an order for engines for 12 top-class fighting helicopters with the Ukrainian company Motor-Sich, Dellari van Tonder, South African Ambassador to Ukraine, said while visiting this company. The decision was reached after South African aircraft engineers had visited the La Bourget and Moscow air shows and learned of aircraft engine production at the Ukrainian company. (Eastern Economist) Ukraine, Russia aim to begin production of AN-70 KYIV – Ukraine and Russia plan to begin joint serial production of AN-70 military transport aircraft in 2001, according to a senior Ukrainian official. Vice Prime Minister Serhii Tyhypko said on August 30 that the two countries would include expenses for the project, which is 75 percent financed by Russia and 25 percent by Ukraine, in their budgets for next year. He also confirmed that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Valerii Pustovoitenko had come to such an agreement in Moscow a week ago. Mr. Tyhypko added that Russia had also agreed to pay a $52 million debt owed to the AN-70’s designer, Ukraine’s Antonov Design Bureau. Antonov predicts demand for the AN-70 at 1,500 units worldwide. The AN-70 is able to carry 35 tons of cargo. A version built with Germany called the AN-7X was offered in a tender for new military cargo air- craft for European armed forces earlier this year. The preliminary results of the tender were to have been announced on July 2, but are still being awaited. The base price of the AN-70 is expected to be about $40 million (U.S.), compared to $50 million (U.S.) for the AN-7X. There seems to be great interest in the AN-7X as well. Antonov has held talks with the Airtruck consortium uniting eight German aerospace firms on a trilateral agreement between Ukraine, Russia and Germany to supply the AN-7X plane to the air forces of Germany, Denmark and Portugal. The plane is a modified version of the new AN-70 air- craft. Under the proposed trilateral agreement, a total of 305 planes will be supplied to the armed forces of the three countries. In addition, Denmark and Portugal have announced plans to buy between three and five and AN-7X planes. (Eastern Economist) Variah aircraft carrier is half paid-for KYIV – Only half of the cost of the Variah aircraft carrier has been paid to date. Speaking on August 11, Oleh Firsov, deputy director of Black Sea shipbuilding plant, said the ship will not leave the shipyard until the buyer, a company based in Portuguese Macao, pays the total sum, $20 million (U.S.), in accordance with the contract signed in May of this year. (Eastern Economist) Cabinet supports liquid pharmaceuticals KYIV – The Cabinet of Ministers instructed the State Innovation Fund to provide fund- ing for a project aimed at starting the production of liquid pharmaceuticals packed in tubes and droppers. The project will be implemented at the Styrol concern in Horlivka, Donetsk Oblast. The cost of the project is 21.9 million hrv. Styrol must present guarantees to the SIF for the repayment of the credit in 2002. (Eastern Economist) Ex head of alumina plant is reinstated KYIV – A ruling by a Mykolaiv regional court on August 6 reinstated the former general director of the Mykolaiv Alumina Plant, Vitalii Mieshyn, to his post. The court acknowl- edged that, in accordance with the articles of association of the MAP open joint-stock com- pany, Mr. Mieshyn should manage the plant until privatization is completed. In accordance with his contract he will remain in his post until December 2000. The court ruled that the National Agency of Ukraine for Management of State Corporate Rights did not have the powers to break labor contracts concluded with the heads of joint-stock companies. (Eastern Economist) Arrests made at Kryvorizhstal works KYIV – Six managers of the Kryvorizhstal steel works have been arrested, and a total of 60 employees are under investigation, according to Interfax-Ukraine. Quoting a source at (Continued on page 23) No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 23

Business briefs (Continued from page 22) the law enforcement agencies, on August 11 the news agency reported that 40 criminal cases have been filed. Among the charges are theft, bribes and abuse of authority. Yet, the enterprise officials are denying accusations. “I don’t know anything about any arrests or criminal cases,” said Evgen Auer, assistant to general director. (Eastern Economist) September launch planned for rocket KYIV – A commercial satellite launch under the auspices of the Sea Launch internation- al satellite program is planned to take place in mid-September. The first launch will involve launching a DIRECTV 1-R telecom satellite into orbit using the Ukrainian Zenit booster rocket. The satellite will broadcast 20 television entertainment shows for direct satellite TV subscribers. (Eastern Economist) Coal industry makes strides, says minister KYIV – Amidst all the closings of unprofitable mines, a new coal mine is to be opened in Ukraine for the first time since independence, Coal Minister Serhii Tulub announced. However, the coal sector was to receive 110 million hrv to finance objects of major impor- tance, according to a March 23 Cabinet of Ministers decree, and only 9.3 million hrv has been provided thus far. Mr. Tulub warned that since the legislature overturned a presidential veto on changes to the law on revenue taxes, the coal sector lost one source of financing and any further reductions could lead to “the full destruction of mine-building industry.” As a result of major changes in the management structure of coal industry which started in the second quarter of 1998, coal miners were able to reach some stability in the sector, Mr. Tulub said in his report to President Leonid Kuchma. He lauded the mechanisms of state support distribution, higher control for budget funds allocated from the sector, individual management at almost each of coal mining enterprises, capital construction financing only under tender conditions, and also development of a number of anti-barter, technical and social programs. The measures taken have made it possible to increase coal extraction and labor efficiency, lower production costs and increase quality. Given the positive experience of crediting mining enterprises in 1996-1998 and the increased productivity that resulted, Mr. Tulub suggested that President Kuchma allocate 160 million hrv for providing one-year loans for coal-mining enterprises for the purchase of equipment. He said that with enough unextracted coal remaining and new horizons developed, equipment remains the only obstacle to increased coal output. Since the beginning of the year, domestic mines have extracted 50 million tons of coal. The yearly plan for 1999 is 80 million tons; nearly 33 mil- lion tons have already been sent to consumers. In order for thermo-electric stations to accu- mulate the necessary reserves for the winter period, mines are being instructed to send 100,000 tons daily to the stations. (Eastern Economist) Sugar beet crop to meet last year’s volume KYIV – The sugar beet crop harvested this year will be almost 16 million tons – the same as was brought in last year, announced the new Agro-Industrial Complex Minister THEY COULD BE YOURS Mykhailo Hladii on August 5. The harvest will ensure the production of around 1.9 million tons of sugar by Ukraine’s 161 sugar refineries. The minister forecast that the total sun- flower harvest is expected to reach 2.5 million tons, or 300,000 tons more than last year. The increased volumes are mainly due to better yields and increased acreage being seeded, 2.5 million hectares in all – substantially more than the initially planned 1.9 million hectares. According to Mr. Hladii, the state will not interfere in farm activities and will not restrict the movement of sunflower seeds from the region or from export. (Eastern Economist) PrivatBank offers gold bullion service KYIV – PrivatBank announced on August 5 that it has introduced a new service: opera- tions with bank gold bullion. The bank can now offer buy-sell operations with 999.9 stan- We are looking to expand our advertising clientele for the Ukrainian National Association’s dard gold bullion in weights of 5-12,500 grams, store gold and provide special precious publications, The Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda. metals accounts that would enable the clients to do operations with gold bars. (Eastern Economist) If you are a self-motivated, hard-working and bright individual, you can supplement your Professional women mark anniversary income by referring customers to our advertising department. Your earnings will be based on the amount of advertising you attract to our pages. KYIV – The League of Professional Women celebrated its second anniversary in August. The organization’s goal is to protect labor rights and assist professional career For details please write or call: UNA Publications, Advertising Department, women in business, science and education, public administration and the mass media. 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054; (973) 292-9800. Partners of the league include the Institute of Philosophy of Ukraine, the Business Incubators Development Program in Ukraine, IREX, CIPE, ACCELS and the Women’s Consortium of the NIS-USA. The League of Professional Women publishes an information bulletin and a newsletter to inform businesswomen about grants, training, education, con- ferences, and small and medium-sized loans. To date, seven members have won interna- tional individual grants with the advisory support of the league, while the league’s consult- ing group recently published Dr. E.V. 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Law set to exempt cognac producers IF YOU ARE A PHYSICIAN, DENTIST, OR OTHER HEALTH PROFESSIONAL KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma signed a decree on August 10 exempting cognac EITHER PRACTICING OR TRAINING, HERE’S YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN spirit from customs duties until January 1, 2001, if the spirit is to be used for the production YOUR COLLEAGUES IN NORTH AMERICA’S PREMIER ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS. needs of domestic cognac manufacturers. The list of importers is to be approved by the FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE WRITE TO: government. The same law also imposes a privileged rate of excise, or 0.02 ecu per 1 liter UKRAINIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA of 100 percent alcohol, for ethyl alcohol used by domestic producers of pectin, vinegar, 2247 W. CHICAGO AVENUE pharmaceuticals and veterinary medicines. The government must approve the supplies pro- CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60622 cedure and regulate the use of alcohol. (Eastern Economist) TELEPHONE: 773-278-6262 German company orders bulk vessels OR FAX YOUR REQUEST TO 773-278-6962 NAME: ______KYIV – UkrExImBank is to sign a loan agreement with Japanese Export-Import Bank worth 14.8 yen before September 10, intended for the Okean shipbuilding plant. The plant ADDRESS: ______is to purchase equipment for the construction of 10 Panamax-class bulk vessels for the CITY: ______German Horizont Schiffahrtgesellschaft. A contract for the construction of two such ves- sels had already been signed earlier. The construction of 10 ships will cost $240 million STATE: ______ZIP: ______(U.S.). Okean has already finished 67 percent of the first bulk vessel, which was originally DAYTIME PHONE: ______built for the Black Sea Shipping Company but then halted due to lack of funds. (Eastern Economist) 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1999 No. 36

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WASHINGTON: “My River: Recent ROCHESTER, N.Y.: The 20th anniversary Paintings of the Potomac River” by Andrei dinner of the Mosaic Ukrainian Heritage Kushnir will be on view at the gallery of Center will be held at 1 p.m. at St. Josaphat Taylor and Sons Fine Art, 666 Pennsylvania School Auditorium, 910 E. Ridge Road. Guest Ave. SE. A reception for the artist will take speaker will be Lubow Wolynetz, curator and place Saturday, September 11, at 5-8 p.m. at librarian of the Ukrainian Cultural Center, the gallery. Mr. Kushnir has pained in oils Stamford, Conn., and curator, Department of since 1980 and has displayed his work in Folk Art, The Ukrainian Museum, New York juried and group shows. His works have City. Tickets are $10 and available at the frequently been accepted in gallery shows Mosaic gift shop, Ukrainian Federal Credit by curators from prestigious galleries such Union and the lower level of St. Josaphat’s as the National Gallery of Art and the Ukrainian Catholic Church until September National Museum of American Art. For 19. In conjunction with the anniversary, an information contact Taylor and Sons, (202) exhibit and sale of paintings by Bohdan 546-0021. Borzemsky will be held at 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The exhibit opening will be held at 6-9 p.m. on S unday, September 12 September 25. For more information call Irena Russnak, (716) 342-8423. NEW YORK: Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Branch 83 invites the SOUTHPORT, Conn.: A hospitality gather- Ukrainian community to the screening of the ing for the Ukrainian National Women’s documentary film “Eternal Memory,” directed League of America will take place at 4-6 p.m. by David Pultz and narrated by Meryl Streep, at the Ukrainian American Club, 279 Kings at the Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Drive (I-95, Exit 19.) Guest speaker Nadia Fourth Ave., at 1:30 p.m. Admission is $5. Shmigel, chair of the national Social Welfare Refreshments will be served. A discussion Committee, will discuss the UNWLA”s with the director will follow the screening. achievements, college scholarships, aid to vic- This film is a historic documentary of the tims of Chornobyl, orphans and the aged, and Stalinist purges and terror in Ukraine during future plans. The meeting is open to the pub- the 1930s and 1940s. lic. Contact Roma Hayda, (203) 261-4530, or Helen Balaban, (203) 255-5461. Lesia Ukrainka School of Ukrainian Studies Tuesday, September 14 S unday, October 10 in Morris County, NJ, under the aegis of UCCA Educational Council IRVINGTON, N.J.: The first session of announces Muzychne Doshkillia – Music and Me will WASHINGTON: The parish 50th anniver- take place on September 14. The program fea- sary celebration at the Ukrainian Catholic the beginning of the school year for children from kindergarten through 12th grade tures classes for pre-schoolers age 2 1/2 to 5 at National Shrine of the Holy Family will be September 11, 1999, three locations: the Ukrainian Community held at 4250 Harewood Road NE. At 9:30 9 a.m. – Beginning of classes; 9:15 – Parents’ meeting Center, 140 Prospect Ave., Irvington, N.J.; the a.m. there will be a liturgy and dedication of Ukrainian Youth Center, 301 Palisade Ave., the upper church structure with a banquet to at Parsippany High School Yonkers, N.Y.; and (starting September 15) at follow. Tickets to the banquet must be pur- Ihor Zwarycz, President of the Parents’ Committee the Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. 79th chased before September 26; admission for St., New York. For more information call adults is $30; children age 12 and under, $15. Marta Sawycky, (908) 276-3134 or (973) 374- For more information and reservations contact 8079. Deacon T. Staruch, (703) 765-6769.

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