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ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXI No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 $1/$2 in Ukraine UCC expresses concern about content Group of protesters at Mezhyhiria draws of Canadian Museum for Human Rights harsh, fearful reaction from Yanukovych Calls upon Canadians to speak out WINNIPEG, Manitoba – The Ukrainian crimes of communism,” Mr. Grod contin- Canadian Congress (UCC) on April 5 urged ued. “Despite several meetings with senior all Canadians to voice their concerns over management of the museum where these the content and layout proposed for the questions have been raised, they have been Canadian Museum for Human Rights unable to articulate how decisions are (CMHR). made on content and layout or who is mak- “On a recent site tour of this taxpayer- ing them. This is unacceptable and we are funded museum, I was shocked to discover calling upon all Canadians to speak out on how shamefully Ukrainian Canadian and the issues of content, layout and transpar- Ukrainian themes are to be presented in ency at the museum.” this national institution. We are deeply “It is appalling that the only reference to troubled that neither Canada’s first nation- Canada’s first national internment opera- al internment operations nor the tions is a nondescript picture, even though Holodomor will have permanent and thousands of Ukrainians and other Eastern prominent exhibits and galleries in the Europeans were interned as ‘enemy aliens’ Museum,” stated UCC National President in 24 Canadian labor camps, tens of thou- Paul Grod. sands more were disenfranchised and “It is outrageous that in the province of Winnipeg was a receiving station for these Manitoba, which has the highest propor- ‘enemy aliens’ during the first world war tional percentage of Ukrainians in Canada, period. Even more outrageous, the subject Vladyslav Musiyenko/UNIAN Special police forces arrest an activist at the “We Won’t be Frightened” protest held the human rights stories that have impact- of the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 in ed our community have either been on April 15 at Mezhyhiria, the grandiose residential estate of Ukrainian President Soviet Ukraine, the Holodomor, is relegated Viktor Yanukovych that has come to symbolize the corruption of his rule. ignored or minimalized. We have attempt- to a minor panel in a small obscure gallery ed to work in good faith with the museum near the museum’s public toilets! This is by Zenon Zawada Upon his appointment, Mr. Yanukovych for the past two and a half years, yet they offensive and intolerable,” the UCC presi- Special to The Ukrainian Weekly was given a simple building at Mezhyhiria to remain wedded to the discredited Content dent underscored. reside in, which had previously been desig- Advisory Committee Report, which makes KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor nated as a residence for foreign guests and for no mention of the Holodomor or the (Continued on page 3) Yanukovych can appear like a real tough guy, official recreational retreats. He became more throwing his political opponents in prison, enchanted with his new home upon discover- but last week all it took was a few dozen ing hunting grounds for wild boars close by. young activists to discover his Achilles’ heel. He wasted no time in staging his takeover Brody-Lew fraternity announces drive Their repeated attempts to hold demon- of Mezhyhiria. Within four months of becom- strations outside the gates of his grandiose ing prime minister, he rented the building to raise funds for history chair at UCU Mezhyhiria residence touched a raw nerve and its surrounding 7.4 acres from the state. with the president, who dispatched busloads It was a 49-year rental agreement. NEW YORK – Brody-Lew, the New Brody-Lew was established in the of special police forces and unidentified Before Mr. Yanukovych had arrived, he York-based fraternity for the protection early 1950s in New York City by veterans goons in black to silence the youngsters. Two lived in a modest home – by Ukrainian oli- of Ukrainian military cemeteries, has of the (Dyvizia Halychyna), later the 1st activists were imprisoned for five and seven garchs’ standards – on the outskirts of announced a drive to raise funds for the Division of the Ukrainian National Army. days, respectively. Donetsk, Vasyl Khara, a former Party of establishment of an endowed chair in Since its founding, Brody-Lew has been Mr. Yanukovych’s disproportionate, fren- Regions insider, told the Ekonomichna history at Lviv’s Ukrainian Catholic fulfilling its mission of honoring veterans zied reaction to the protesters – who car- Pravda news site in an interview published University (UCU). The chair is to focus on by establishing cemeteries and memori- ried nothing more than paper placards and in May 2012. all military units in western Ukraine dur- als for Ukrainian military veterans megaphones – revealed the feelings of enti- Meanwhile, Mezhyhiria was a luxurious ing World War II. throughout the world and especially in tlement he has towards Mezhyhiria, the Soviet residential complex that was inhabit- Fund-raising for the $250,000 needed Europe and Ukraine. 346-acre estate where he lives, works and ed by Soviet Communist Party General to endow the chair began with an inaugu- Most recent Brody-Lew projects are: plays, observers said. Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Communist ral $25,000 donation made by Brody-Lew. Dyvizia veterans memorials on the Zhbyr “For Yanukovych, the whole world ends at Party of Ukraine First Secretary Volodymyr This effort is the initiative of the chil- hillside near the village of Yaseniva, at the the gates of Mezhyhiria,” said Sergiy Taran, dren and grandchildren of Ukrainian mil- Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, management the director of the International Institute of Shcherbytsky. itary veterans who believe that more of the Sich Riflemen graves at Lyson and Democracy in Kyiv. “The president has sever- These Communist leaders could never scholarship in this field of study is essen- the Divisia “Halychyna” Veterans’ al phobias. The first is the maidan, the sec- have imagined that portions of the estate, sit- tial. According to Brody-Lew President Memorial Cemetery near the village of ond is Tymoshenko, and the third is uated on the right bank of the Dnipro River Taras Ferencevych, it is needed “to pro- Liads’ke-Chervone, Zolochiv region. Mezhyhiria. Those are his weak spots, hitting about 15 miles north of central Kyiv, would vide a counter-balance to over 50 years Brody-Lew is soliciting donations upon which draws an inadequate reaction.” be sold and rented out to private firms. of intentional and unintentional misin- from Ukrainian community members, Indeed, Mr. Yanukovych’s first two pho- Yet, in September 2007, Mr. Yanukovych formation campaigns about the military organizations and businesses. Checks bias are directly related to the third. spent the last days of his second tenure as events in Western Ukraine during World should be made out to Brody-Lew and It was the Orange Revolution of 2004 on prime minister issuing Cabinet resolutions War II.” sent to: Brody-Lew Inc. Brotherhood, P.O. Independence Square – the maidan – and that gradually transferred the ownership of Brody Lew chose to partner with UCU Box 261, Cooper Station, New York, NY the prime ministership of Yulia Tymoshenko Mezhyhiria’s numerous buildings from the because of the great strides the universi- 10276. that played direct roles in stopping Mr. state to a private Donetsk-based company, ty has made in establishing itself as an Yanukovych from returning to live in which in turn sold the properties to another independent and highly respected insti- EDITOR’S NOTE: For more on the Mezhyhiria, for which he developed an infat- company, Tantalit, before declaring bank- tution of higher education. Galicia Division, see article on page 9. uation when he first became prime minister in November 2002. (Continued on page 10) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 No. 16

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Putin, Miller unveil pipeline project Kozhara condemns attacks in Boston those killed, and ask you to convey words of support and wishes for a speedy recov- KYIV – Ukrainian Foreign Affairs ery to all those injured,” the head of state to bypass Ukraine via Poland Minister Leonid Kozhara, speaking as said in a condolence message. (Ukrinform) chairperson-in-office of the Organization bcm per year. by Vladimir Socor for Security and Cooperation in Europe Rybak: Rada work back to normal Eurasia Daily Monitor (OSCE), condemned the explosions during for its originally proposed capacity of 63 the Boston Marathon, in which three peo- KYIV – The work of the Ukrainian On April 3 in Moscow, President bcm• Designingper year, with the four South parallel Stream lines pipeline on the ple were killed and 144 more were injured. Parliament, which was complicated due to Vladimir Putin and Gazprom CEO Alexei seabed of the Black Sea en route to Europe. At the 21st OSCE Economic and blocking, has now returned to normal, Miller announced a colossal series of gas This seems to imply reinstating South Environmental Forum, which was held in Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr projects. These involve an expansion of Stream’s southwestern branch toward Italy, Kyiv, on April 16-17, he said: “The sports Rybak said at a meeting with co-rappor- existing big projects or a reactivation of which Moscow had dropped in 2011 from event, which is designed to serve the world teurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the earlier, unimplemented proposals. the initial project, instead prioritizing the and unite people, has become the site of a Council of Europe (PACE), Marietta de Ukraine’s start of gas imports from Europe, northwestern branch to Central Europe. Pourbaix-Lundin and Mailis Reps, in Kyiv bloody tragedy. I condemn the terrorists reducing dependence on Gazprom (see on April 15. “The situation has improved, whose actions led to deaths and injuries. Eurasia Daily Monitor, April 1), triggered via Polish territory to Slovakia – the long- and I believe that the Verkhovna Rada will All OSCE participating states should work this Putin-Miller move. In a set-piece dia- proposed• Building Kobryn a new (Belarus)-Poland-Velke pipeline from Belarus work. There is a mood to work, and there together to fight terrorism in all its forms logue, they outlined these intentions Kapusany (Slovakia) line – to connect could be no talks about dissolution,” Mr. and manifestations. We should not put up (Russian presidential website www.krem- Russia with Central Europe. This line Rybak noted. The Rada chairman stressed with it.” Mr. Kozhara described such actions lin.ru, Interfax, April 3, 4): would plug into Slovakia’s gas corridor. the importance of drafting a new wording as unacceptable and said that the interna- - The Slovak corridor carries the lion’s of the Constitution, which would be sup- tional community should join efforts to ect in the Russian Arctic (no specifics men- share of Russian gas supplies to the ported by all political forces represented in prevent the activity of terrorist groups. tioned).• Reviving the Shtokman extraction proj European Union, representing the direct the Ukrainian Parliament. “The adoption of “Those who commit such acts should be continuation of Ukraine’s transit pipelines amendments to the Constitution requires a found and brought to justice,” he stated. As Stream pipeline on the Baltic seabed to to Europe. The proposed Kobryn-Velke constitutional majority in the Parliament. OSCE chairperson-in-office and on behalf Western• Adding Europe, a third and parallel prolonging line to that the Nordthird Kapusany line would circumvent Ukraine, Therefore it is very important to prepare a of the Ukrainian government, Mr. Kozhara line to supply the Netherlands and Britain but would not affect Slovakia, inasmuch as new wording of the Constitution, which expressed his condolences to the families with Russian gas. This would boost Nord the same gas volume would enter Slovakia would be supported by all political forces of the victims and wished a speedy recov- Stream’s capacity from the existing 55 bil- represented in the Ukrainian Parliament,” ery to those injured. “We share the tragedy lion cubic meters (bcm) to more than 80 he noted. However, Rybak did not rule out (Continued on page 16) with the American people,” the minister that some issues of constitutional reform said. The participants in the 21st OSCE must be put to a referendum. In this regard, Economic and Environmental Forum hon- he noted the importance of the ored the Boston victims with a minute of Constitutional Assembly, whose work also silence. (Ukrinform) Will Poland consider a gas deal involves experts from the Council of Europe Yanukovych on deadly blasts in Boston and the Venice Commission. (Ukrinform) with Russia at Ukraine’s expense? KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor Rybak: No more off-site Rada meetings bypass threat to Ukraine, as long as Poland Yanukovych delivered his condolences to by Vladimir Socor KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman is seen to consider it even hypothetically. U.S. President Barack Obama over the ter- Eurasia Daily Monitor Volodymyr Rybak said that there will be no Polish ambiguity would undermine rorist attacks in Boston, the president’s off-site meetings of the Parliament any- On April 3 Russian President Vladimir Ukraine’s position vis-à-vis Russia. To dis- press office said in a statement on April 16. more. Speaking at a meeting of heads of Putin and Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller pro- pel that effect, which some Polish official “With great sorrow Ukraine has learned parliamentary committees and factions in posed building a new pipeline for Russian statements have generated, the govern- the news of the terrorist attack in the city Kyiv on April 15, he also noted that nation- gas through Poland to other European ment needs to move beyond its initial of Boston. Unfortunately, sports events, al deputies will not re-vote the bills passed Union countries in Central Europe, bypass- equivocation and instead answer Mr. which serve peace and bring people in a building on Bankova Street. He also ing Ukraine (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, Putin’s proposal with a definitive “no.” together, became the scene of the massa- urged the opposition to allow the April 5). Moscow publicized the proposal – This proposal, re-branded Yamal- cre. Ukraine strongly condemns terrorism Verkhovna Rada to work as normal: “You and a corresponding offer to Poland – with- Europe 2, takes its name from an earlier, in all its forms and supports the active have come to the Parliament not to hold out any prior notification to Warsaw. This quite different proposal, which would have efforts of the international community to rallies, but to work. There is no need to move has surprised Polish authorities, pro- added a parallel line to the Yamal-Europe 1 eradicate this shameful phenomenon,” Mr. stomp, no need to shout.” (Ukrinform) voking some contradictory reactions within pipeline, across Belarus and northern Yanukovych emphasized. “On behalf of the the government. Some Polish officials are Poland into northern Germany. What Ukrainian people and myself, I extend my prepared, at least initially, to take Mr. Putin’s Russia now designates as the Yamal- condolences to you and the families of (Continued on page 12) proposal under consideration (www.natu- Europe 2 pipeline would run southwest- ralgaseurope.com, accessed April 8, 9). ward. It reiterates Moscow’s old Kobryn- The gambit, more political than econom- Velke Kapusany proposal, named after the ic, seeks to enlist Poland into a joint inception and terminus points in Belarus he krainian eekly FOUNDED 1933 Russian-Polish move against Ukraine. It and Slovakia, respectively, of the proposed T U W aims to demonstrate that Moscow can shift pipeline through Poland. An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., gas export volumes into new bypass pipe- At an annual capacity of 15 billion cubic a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. 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NEWS ANALYSIS Regionnaire’s Rada: A defining moment in Ukraine’s future by Alexander J. Motyl no room for compromise. One side has to illegitimate Parliament incapable of pursu- ing a voice, and if President Yanukovych cave; one side has to prevail. Or the ulti- ing reform, promoting European integra- wins the ballot by dividing the majority, the When the Party of Regions responded mate power holder, President Viktor tion and saving the economy from collapse. cleft between the Regionnaire thugs and on April 4 to the opposition’s continued Yanukovych, has to resolve the standoff by Mr. Yanukovych will own the entire mess. the democrats will only grow, and the over- blockade of the parliamentary podium by knocking heads together or by abolishing The European Union will never sign an lapping divides between supporters of leaving the Rada premises and setting up both bodies. Association Agreement with Ukraine’s ver- Europe and supporters of Russia, between its own legislature on Bank Street, near the The Regionnaires will never admit that sion of Robert Mugabe, while Russia’s supporters of modernity and supporters of president’s office, it effectively created a their rump legislature is illegal – which of President Vladimir Putin will turn up the the Soviet past, and between supporters of condition of what the Bolsheviks once course it is – or that the laws it passed are neo-imperialist pressure on “Little Russia.” Ukrainian independence and Little Russian called “dual power.” Russia’s socialists did bogus. Quite the contrary, Speaker Mr. Yanukovych will finally be completely vassalage will deepen. Social, cultural and the exact same thing when, in the after- Volodymyr Rybak has even sent four such isolated – from the world and from his peo- economic tensions will increase and large- math of the tsar’s overthrow in the pieces of legislation to Mr. Yanukovych for ple. scale civil disturbances will become likely. February Revolution of 1917, they estab- his signature. If the Regionnaires wish to Even if Mr. Yanukovych has the sense to Once violence, either from below or from lished the Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ define legality in terms of their actions mediate a compromise between the two above, enters the picture, as it certainly Deputies in Petrograd. Lenin’s Bolsheviks rather than existing rules (which seems to Radas, the precedent – and, thus, the ongo- could in this scenario, Ukraine will become used the soviet (council) to launch their be the case), then anything they do must be ing threat – of dual sovereignty will have ungovernable. At that point, Europe’s own coup in November of that year. a priori legal. End of story. The opposition been set. The only solution to such an Zimbabwe may become Europe’s Syria. If there’s one thing the Regionnaires may eventually back down and thereby implicitly unstable condition is to abolish the existing Rada via a referendum, estab- Alexander J. Motyl is professor of political know, it’s their Soviet history. Well-schooled acquiesce in the Regionnaire coup, but lish a rubber-stamp institution in its place, science at Rutgers University-Newark. The in Communist Party lore, they knew that, in some democrats will not. and institute a winner-take-all single round article above, which is reprinted here with moving the Verkhovna Rada’s seat to Bank If the standoff between the two Radas of presidential elections, in the hope that the author’s permission, was originally pub- Street, they weren’t just responding to the continues or is ever revived, one side will, the opposition will be unable to agree on a lished on April 12 by the World Affairs democratic opposition’s filibusters. The by the force of logic of the revolutionary sit- single candidate for the 2015 elections. Journal on Prof. Motyl’s blog “Ukraine’s Regionnaires had to know they were creat- uation, have to repress the other – or, as This approach could end up destroying Orange Blues” (see http://www.worldaf- ing what Lenin understood as a “revolution- Lenin put it, “Kto kogo?” (“Who gets Ukraine. If the Regionnaire Bolsheviks fairsjournal.org/blog/alexander-j-motyl/ ary situation” – an unstable condition in whom?”). As journalist Serhii Leshchenko exclude a majority of the country from hav- defining-moment-ukraines-future). which the legitimate authorities are effec- says, “We are entering very difficult times. tively challenged by revolutionaries. When I What struck us as ‘bad’ or ‘illegal’ in the told an ex-Sovietologist about this develop- past will now appear to be child’s play com- ment, he responded with three short words: pared to what awaits us ahead.” FOR THE RECORD: “That’s very bad.” If and when the regime turns against the The reason it’s very bad is simple. Dual democratic opposition à la Belarus, Russia power is intrinsically unsustainable. You and Uzbekistan, President Yanukovych’s Sen. Cardin on Lutsenko’s release can’t have two parliaments, or two presi- legitimacy, already flagging, will go into Following is the text of a statement on conditions of detention and the denial of dents, or two popes. Once a condition of negative numbers. Worse, he’ll have to the situation in Ukraine made in the their ability to participate in last such “binary opposition” emerges, there is admit that he is a dictator supported by an Senate on April 9 by Sen. Benjamin L. October’s parliamentary elections. Cardin (D-Md.), chairman of the U.S. As chairman of the Helsinki Helsinki Commission. Commission, which has long been com- the genocides recognized by the govern- mitted to Ukraine’s independence and UCC expresses... ment of Canada that are not featured in Madam President. I would like to democratic development, I am especially other places in the museum. These two (Continued from page 1) address the current situation in Ukraine, mindful of Ukraine’s 2013 OSCE chair- amalgamated and repurposed galleries will an important country in the heart of manship. Like any chair-in-office, The UCC released a video of a presenta- have sufficient space to also house exhibits Europe, a bellwether for democratic Ukraine faces formidable tasks in leading tion made by its president outlining its relating to the human rights violations development in the region, and the cur- a multilateral organization that operates concerns and sent a letter of its concerns committed by the Soviet regime. rent chairman-in-office of the OSCE on the basis of consensus, which relating to the content and layout to the - [Organization for Security and includes 57 countries ranging from board of the museum several weeks ago tion space for a World War I internment Cooperation in Europe]. mature democracies to oppressive dicta- Let me first welcome the release from torships. The United States wants and is still awaiting a response. exhibit:• 2. Allocation A separate of exhibit a permanent section dedicat- exhibi prison Sunday of former Ukrainian Ukraine to succeed, but the reality is that The CMHR is proceeding to plan its gal- ed to the internment operations in the gal- Minister of Internal Affairs and leading the politically motivated imprisonment leries without a permanent and prominent lery titled “Canada’s Human Rights Journey.” opposition figure Yuri Lutsenko. Mr. of Ms. Tymoshenko casts a cloud over its gallery dedicated to the Holodomor or a gallery to include a discussion on the War Lutsenko had been convicted on politi- chairmanship. A chair-in-office must permanent exhibit to the World War I Measures• 3. Revision Act, legislation of the Canadian that was Challenge used to cally motivated charges and incarcerated itself have strong democratic credentials internment operations. Furthermore, in remove the rights of tens of thousands of since December 2010. President [Viktor] if it is to succeed in encouraging reform galleries such as “Making a Difference,” Canadians during the first and second Yanukovych’s pardon of Mr. Lutsenko is in other countries. which is to tell the human rights stories of world wars. an encouraging step in the right direc- Furthermore, democratic regression immigrants to Canada, there is no intention tion. I also welcome the pardon of for- in Ukraine has harmed U.S.-Ukrainian to tell the story of prejudice, discrimination “Immigrant Experience” gallery to include mer Environment Minister Heorhii bilateral relations, preventing a tradi- and violence against Ukrainian and other the• difficult 4. Modification experiences ofof early the CanadianUkrainian Filipchuk, who also served as a member tionally strong partnership from realiz- Eastern European immigrants in Canada, and other Eastern European immigrants to of Ms. Tymoshenko’s Cabinet and had ing its full potential. It has also slowed where many were forced to change their Canada. been released last year after his sentence down the process of Ukraine’s drawing names and abandon their cultural, linguis- was suspended. By pardoning Mr. closer to the EU, which is that country’s tic and religious traditions, the UCC noted Communism and Nazism: a comparative Lutsenko and Mr. Filipchuk, President stated foreign policy priority, manifested in a press release. analysis• 5. of Inclusion human rights of abuses the Crimes perpetrat- of Yanukovych is indicating not only a will- in the still-delayed signing of the ingness to resolve what has been a major EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. The Ukrainian Canadian Congress had ed under Soviet-Communist and Nazi dic- irritant in Ukraine’s relations with the More than half a year has gone by since supported the government-funded muse- tatorships. United States and the EU, but also a stain the unanimous adoption of S. Res. 466, um on the basis that it would be reflective The UCC called upon all Canadians to: of the broader Canadian experience, and on Ukraine’s democratic credentials. calling for the release of Yulia that the Holodomor and Canada’s first At the same time, I remain deeply con- Tymoshenko. Parliament to voice your concerns. We cerned about the politically motivated The Ukrainian authorities now need national internment operations would be • Write and call your members of encourage all Canadians to meet with imprisonment of Ukrainian opposition to follow up on the important step they given a permanent and prominent place in members of Parliament and federal the museum. figure and former Prime Minister Yulia have taken in freeing Yurii Lutsenko. Cabinet ministers to address these serious Tymoshenko, who has been incarcerated They need to free Ms. Tymoshenko and As presented, the CMHR is completing concerns. You can find the contact informa- since August 2011. restore her civil and political rights. By construction and current plans do not dis- tion for your member of Parliament at: Mrs. Tymoshenko’s case stands out as demonstrating commitment to the rule tinctively and appropriately commemorate www.parl.gc.ca a significant illustration of Ukraine’s of law and human rights principles these two tragedies. backsliding with respect to human embodied by the OSCE, Ukraine will The UCC is calling for the following James Moore at 819-997-7788 of write to rights, democracy and the rule of law strengthen the credibility of its chair- changes to the museum: him• Callat: MinisterMinister ofof CanadianCanadian Heritage,Heritage since she was defeated by President manship and show it is serious about House of Commons, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0A6. Yanukovych in February 2010. The being a full-fledged member of the dem- prominent Holodomor Gallery: The Hope - United States, EU and Canada have ocratic community of nations. and• 1.Hardwork Establishment Gallery of shoulda permanent be repur- and als, companies and governments that have repeatedly expressed concerns about the I strongly urge the Ukrainian govern- posed to house a Holodomor Gallery and donated• Express or pledged your concerns to provide to the funding individu to application of selective justice against ment to resolve the case of Ms. the “Breaking the Silence” gallery should the museum (see www.friendsofcmhr. political opponents, their flawed trials, Tymoshenko. be redesigned to provide prominence to com). 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 No. 16 Ambassador Motsyk spends two days in Boston

by Peter T. Woloschuk prices, we signed an agreement for gas. The Russians have not adhered to their word BOSTON – Ukrainian Ambassador and, as a result, today Lithuania is paying Olexander Motsyk spent two days in the second highest price in Europe for gas, Boston in late March, attending a panel dis- after Ukraine.” cussion at Boston University Law School, a “To try to eliminate our country’s by-invitation-only business breakfast at the dependence on Russian gas, we have begun Charles Hotel in Harvard Square, a tour of to construct a major nuclear plant to pro- the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s vide energy and we have sought outside (MIT’s) Technology Development Center, help,” Ambassador Pavilionis said. and an open luncheon at an MIT building “However, to forestall our efforts, the on the banks of the Charles River. Russians have begun rapid construction of The trip was sponsored by Boston two nuclear plants, one in the Kaliningrad University, the Boston University European Oblast on our southwestern border and the Studies Program, Europeans in Boston and other in Belarus, less than 50 kilometers the United Nations Association, Rhode from Vilnius, our capital and largest city, Island Chapter. The ambassador was and they have let it be known that accompanied from Washington by Lithuania doesn’t really need any nuclear reactors for power because it can get plen- Pavilionis, who also participated in the pro- ty of cheap power from it.” gramLithuanian and is Ambassadorvery much in Žygimantasfavor of the “There is really nothing that Russia can European Union, NATO and as many con- give Lithuania,” the ambassador empha- Vsevolod Petriv tacts as possible with the West. The sized. “Everything that we need comes During a luncheon in Boston (from left) are Danute Mileika, Olga Lisovskaya, Lithuanian envoy has repeatedly stated Lithuanian Ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis, Ukrainian Ambassador Olexander from the West. Our culture has been deeply that in time he hopes to persuade his Motsyk, Eugene Moroz and Maxim Lubarsky. affected by the West and all our technologi- Ukrainian colleague that there is no other cal innovations come from the West. Even viable option for Ukraine. true for Ukraine. However, he pointed out es, Ambassador Motsyk presented several our popular culture and music have been Their visit began on Tuesday evening, that, to date, there was no evidence that volumes on Ukrainian history and the greatly impacted. March 19, with a panel discussion on “The Ukraine had moved forward in any of the Holodomor to Olha Aleksic, the librarian of “I believe that the same is true for European Union Inside Out” featuring the areas outlined by the EU including reform the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Ukraine,” the ambassador said. “Russia two ambassadors at BU’s Law School. It of the judiciary, the freeing of opposition (HURI), for its library. really has nothing to offer it and any type of was chaired by Alan Berger, a retired edito- political prisoners [his comments came During the buffet, which consisted of association or union with it would serious- rial writer on international affairs for the before the release of Yurii Lutsenko], curb- both Ukrainian and Lithuanian dishes, the ly retard the country’s development. That Boston Globe. ing of corruption, and accession to the rule two ambassadors mingled with those pres- is why Lithuania has been so concerned Some 50 people attended the presenta- of law. ent and took further questions. about developments in Ukraine and why it tion which addressed the theme of demo- Wednesday morning’s business break- Ambassador Pavilionis again was asked is so strongly supporting Ukraine’s candi- cratic politics and global challenges, such fast was attended by 20 people – none of what he thought Ukraine’s chances of being dacy and admission. The history of our two as economic crises, transnational terrorism them Ukrainian. The main topic of discus- admitted to the EU really were. He countries has been intertwined for centu- and global warming, and the role of the sion was business opportunities in both answered by pointing out that he had been ries, and we believe that a strong and free European Union as a model for transna- countries. directly involved in Lithuania’s accession Ukraine is vital for the development and tional cooperation from the perspective of After the breakfast the two ambassadors into the EU as well as NATO. stability of our entire region.” Lithuania, an EU member state, and were taken on a tour of MIT that focused “For my country, and for Ukraine, it only “As for adherence to the EU,” the ambas- Ukraine, a non-member. on new and high technology, as well as makes sense to join both of these organiza- sador said, “I would give Ukraine a 50-50 During the question-and-answer period experiments with potentially great impact tions. New high technology, which is imper- chance, even now. If President Yanukovych that followed the presentation, Dr. for the future currently being conducted at ative for future development, comes from has the will for the EU, then it will happen. Lubomyr Hajda, associate director of the school. the West and in this morning’s tour we saw He has such control over the country that if Harvard University’s Ukrainian Research The fourth and final event of the pro- clear evidence of how far behind we still he wants Ukraine to join the EU he can Institute, asked the Lithuanian ambassador gram was an open buffet luncheon that are and some of what we need,” the ambas- force the bureaucracy and the country to if he saw any evidence of the Ukrainian drew some 60 people. The event began sador said. “Democracy, a free press, free- complete the required reforms by the government fulfilling any of the demands with brief remarks by both ambassadors on dom from corruption and the rule of law November date. However, if he is not seri- and recommendations for eventual mem- the importance of the European Union for also come from the West, and are practiced ous, nothing will happen and that would be bership in the European Union presented their respective countries and was followed there even though there are occasions a disaster for Ukraine.” by Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite by a brief question-and-answer period. Two when their example is less than perfect.” Ambassador Motsyk was pointedly to President Viktor Yanukovych during her Ukrainian folk songs sung by two Boston “Lithuania, at first, tried to be open and asked what he thought of Ukraine’s chanc- two recent visits to Ukraine. Ukrainians in folk costume accompanied by have good relations with all countries, par- es of being accepted by the EU for associate Ambassador Pavilionis started out by a pianist followed and then two Lithuanian ticularly its neighbor, the Russian status at the upcoming special meeting in saying that entrance into the European folk songs were performed by a soloist also Federation,” the ambassador continued. Lithuania in November, about the bill cur- Union had been of top priority for his coun- in national dress. The final number was “After lengthy negotiations and many rently in Parliament to allow dual try and that it only made sense. He then sung in Ukrainian by all three performers. promises from the Russians that our coun- went on to say that he felt the same was Immediately following the performanc- try would enjoy favored status and low (Continued on page 13)

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The Ukrainian National Association Forum Reflections: The Ukrainian Weekly goes digital by Roma Lisovich Subscriptions have been declining, and Certainly, for me, who grew up in extremely difficult for all of us who love to UNA Treasurer advertising revenue is insufficient. Printing Minnesota in a small and wonderful hold a newspaper in our hands and with costs and postage have soared. This gloomy Ukrainian community, 450 miles from the eagerness anticipate its arrival at our door- The Ukrainian Weekly’s announcement picture is not unique to The Weekly. U.S. nearest “hromada,” The Weekly was our step. Most of us hope that the newspaper of plans to change to a new digital format newspaper circulation has hit its lowest connection with other Ukrainians around will not become a remnant of the past, fad- and eventually exit the world of print media level in seven decades, and the newest sta- the country. Together, these communities ing from our lives like the rotary phone and has generated a number of reactions. Some tistics paint a dismal picture for an indus- scattered across the country formed a net- the manual typewriter. are greeting the news with anticipation and try already feeling the pressures of an work – one large hromada – and The This decision brings mixed emotions. I excitement. “Will it be available on the iPad, advertising slump coupled with the worst Weekly was its conduit. It has kept our dias- love paper – the smell of it, the touch of it, iPhone and other mobile devices?” we have business downturn since the Great pora vital and thriving. And so it shall in the and the history behind it. Yet, I am writing been asked. Most certainly! Depression. future. To borrow the sentiments of this article on a computer, at the same time We are grateful to all of our dedicated The good news is that The Ukrainian Newsweek’s editor at that magazine’s loving the speed and efficiency with which I and loyal readers and hope that most will Weekly remains committed to continuing recent announcement of the end of its print can communicate with others and thrilled embrace the change. But the costs of pro- the mission that has been its purpose for edition: “We are transforming The with the fact I can read the news from ducing a print publication have simply sur- the 80 years of its existence – but now we Ukrainian Weekly, not saying good-bye to it.” passed our ability to support it. must embrace the all-digital future. Nonetheless, exiting the print medium is (Continued on page 11)

economic downturn, one of the annuity’s annuity seemed boring and bland. Yet guarantors, claiming financial hardship, soon-to-be retirees, wary of the volatility of wanted to stop paying a portion of the stocks and bonds, as well as the large tax- annuity. Beethoven sued, and the Austrian bite of low-interest investments such as courts upheld Beethoven’s right to contin- CDs, are re-discovering the annuity. ue to receive annuity payments, placing the The basic promise of an annuity for burden of managing such payments back retirement is simple: you give your money on the guarantor. to an insurance company and, in turn, you While annuities do not need to be used receive tax-deferred growth in the form of exclusively for retirement, as in the exam- compound interest on your investment ples of Beethoven and Franklin, the reality until you are ready to receive payments today is that most annuities in the United back. If you plan to receive the money fairly What did Babe Ruth, Ben Franklin States are established precisely for that soon, this is known as an immediate annui- purpose. Unlike 30 or 40 years ago, few pri- ty; if payments are expected to begin in the and Beethoven have in common? vate-sector employers now provide a guar- future, this is known as a deferred annuity. anteed or defined benefits pension plan. In either case, you have the security of The “Sultan of Swat,” Babe Ruth, is saved is a penny earned,” Franklin left a Whereas most public sector employees still knowing that you will not lose your princi- famous for having said, “I may take risks in considerable amount of his considerable receive a monthly pension, in effect, an pal. The tax-advantages of the annuity life, but I never risk my money.” However, personal wealth to the two municipalities annuity provided by the government, mean your investment will grow more the rest of the quote, often left unfinished, he loved in order to help aid widows and employees who work in the private sector quickly than in a non-tax-advantaged was “I use annuities and never have to orphans who lived there. Boston continued increasingly are being left on their own to investment. Best of all, you free yourself of worry.” to receive annual payments from the annu- devise their own retirement plans. some of the burden of managing your Benjamin Franklin left two annuities to ity established by Franklin for 200 years! In A combination of an employer-provided retirement income, passing along the has- his heirs and was a lifelong proponent of 1991, on the 200th anniversary of 401(k) fund and Social Security payments sle to professionals. annuities to provide income to widows and Franklin’s annuity left to the city, Boston often serve as the basis for these personal With more than a century of service as a orphans. decided to finally cash out. plans. However, since 401(k) funds invest fraternal benefit society, the UNA continues Instead of a salary from traditional In 1808 Beethoven was offered a lucra- almost exclusively in the stock market, to live by its motto “The UNA and the employment, Ludwig von Beethoven’s tive position by Napoleon’s brother, King there is considerable risk of losing money, Community: Partners for Life.” To find out patrons provided him with a lifetime annu- Jerome Bonaparte, on the condition that he including principal, the original part of more about how UNA products can help ity, believing that “only a man free of wor- move to Westphalia, a principality in cen- your salary invested in the fund. you, contact the UNA Home Office at 1-800- ries” would be able to compose such out- tral Germany. Vienna social luminaries des- Furthermore, for those who plan to retire 253-9862, the UNA sales staff directly at standing works and chose “to provide for perately wanted to keep the talented in more than 10 years, Social Security pay- 1-888-538-2833 or find your local UNA his relevant necessities” in order to not Beethoven in Austria. In early 1809, two ments could very well be reduced. branch secretary through the UNA website inhibit Beethoven’s powerful genius. princes and an archduke guaranteed Therefore, more secure options for retire- at www.ukrainiannationalassociation.org. So the answer to the question of what Beethoven a generous annuity to simply ment income need to be considered. Find the full series of “Insurance did the three great men have in common is: compose and perform, no other work Compared to the excitement in recent Matters” articles on Facebook.com/ all three owned annuities. required, on the condition that he stay in decades of go-go growth stocks, the more Ukrainian National Association or on our Ruth bought his first annuity in 1923 Vienna. Several years later, during a time of conservative, but stable, bread-and-butter website under the “Latest News” link. through Equitable Life Insurance Company (now AXA Equitable). His insurance agent recorded that the baseball star purchased between $35,000 and $50,000 worth of annuities each year in the years between The UNA and our community 1923 and 1929 – more than half his salary, The Northern New Jersey District of it is important for it to have a presence annually. The star understood that, as soon the Ukrainian National Association will and be available to all in the Ukrainian as he stopped playing baseball, he would host a coffee-and-pastries information community, noted Yuriy Symczyk, the not have either an income or a pension. session on Sunday, May 5, at St. John the chairman of the UNA’s Northern New When Ruth finally did retire in 1935, dur- Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church at 719 Jersey District Committee, who is also a ing the height of the Great Depression, he Sanford Ave. in Newark, N.J. licensed insurance agent. and his wife Clara lived comfortably on the The goal of the event is to continue to This will also be an ideal opportunity income he received in monthly payments develop better relations with our Ukrainian for members and potential members to from his annuities. Ruth is credited by his- communities and churches. The UNA feels ask questions about UNA policies and torians of the insurance industry for being new products, find out information about Stephen Welhasch and Oksana Trytjak an important figure in promoting the secu- the UNA, and meet the UNA’s professional will be among the UNA representatives rity of annuities as a source of retirement agents and branch secretaries in the area. at an information session in Newark, income in America. Agents/secretaries confirmed for the N.J., on May 5. More than 100 years before Babe Ruth, Newark event are: Stephen Welhasch, Bound Brook, N.J., on Saturday and another great American understood the Oksana Trytjak, Michael Bohdan and Sunday, May 11 and 12, from noon to 6 value of the consistent stream of income Steven Woch. They will be available after p.m. on both days. provided by annuities. In his will, Franklin, the three Sunday liturgies (8, 9:30 and 11 Agents/secretaries confirmed for this who died in 1790, left annuities not only to a.m.) at St. John’s. event are Eugene and Maria Oscislawski, Eugene and Maria Oscislawski are two his personal heirs, but also to the city of UNA agents and branch secretaries will and Michael Bohdan. Boston, the place of his birth, as well as to of the representatives who will be in be present also at the Providna Nedilia South Bound Brook, N.J., on May 11-12 For more information call Mr. Symczyk Philadelphia, the city where he lived most (St. Thomas Sunday) pilgrimage in South to offer information about the UNA. toll-free at 888-538-2833. his life. Credited with the maxim “A penny 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 No. 16

The Ukrainian Weekly We need your response In late March, this newspaper’s administration mailed to all subscribers of The Ukrainian Weekly a leaflet/questionnaire headlined: “The Digital Revolution is here… WANTED: Your e-mail address.” We announced that The Ukrainian Weekly would be going 100 percent digital and that the new digital version of our newspa- per – which has been available in an online edition for several years now – would “I have enough to buy bread...” appear in an enhanced format. Sadly, we also noted that the print version of The KYIV – “Do you know the address of Weekly would continue to be available for a limited time only (yet to be deter- President Barack Obama?” That’s how mined), but at a higher price. (More on the topic of conversion to an all-digital for- Olena Burymska, 59, introduced herself to mat appears on the UNA Forum page.) me about a year ago when I was preparing The reason for the conversion to digital only: economic realities. Plus, there is the to pay my bills at Kyiv’s main post office on fact that postal delivery is, well, lousy, and promises to get worse as the troubled U.S. Independence Square. Postal Service institutes various cutbacks. That poor service, in fact, has resulted in I looked at a small stack of letters she the loss of many subscribers who don’t feel they should pay for a product that is had and understood that she wanted to delivered late – never mind that it’s not our fault and that we have been doing every- write him. She pegged me for an American thing possible to secure better postal delivery. even without my speaking to her. Our newspaper has been available online since 2008 at www.ukrweekly.com. At And, like any good American, I knew the first, access was free for all issues, including those of the current year; then, in 2010 White House’s address by heart: 1600 we switched to paid online subscriptions. (Our digital archives, however, as has been Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. the case since they were unveiled in August 1998, are freely accessible for all.) Each Except for the zip code. I wrote it all down week’s issue is posted before the publication date. Notifications of each issue’s post- for her and told Ms. Burymska that she ing are sent to subscribers and they appear on our Facebook page (https://www. could look up the zip code on the Internet, facebook.com/TheUkrainianWeekly). but she said she never used it before. Our questionnaire requested responses by April 22, and many of our readers I asked Ms. Burymska why she was have already sent in their filled-out forms. Thank you! To those who have not yet writing President Obama. She told me Zenon Zawada done so, we say: It’s not too late – please do respond! Your answers are very impor- about her daughter, who lives in a single Olena Burymska tant in helping us determine our next steps. If, for some reason, you did not receive room with her son-in-law, two grand- the questionnaire, or if you discarded it without replying, please contact our admin- daughters age 11 and 5, and a 3-year-old owns the Roshen confectionary firm, sent istration via e-mail, [email protected], or call 973-292-9800 x 3040. We’ll grandson. She wants to find decent hous- candy instead. “They were so thrilled,” Ms. e-mail you the form pronto or take your reply via phone. ing for them so that they don’t live in such Burymska said of her grandchildren. In October, The Ukrainian Weekly will celebrate the 80th anniversary of its pre- cramped quarters. As you can imagine, this Volodymyr Lytvyn, himself a native of a miere issue dated October 6, 1933. As we move further into the digital age during causes a lot of tension and they end up poor Zhytomyr Oblast village who went on our jubilee year, we pledge to continue being your community newspaper and to arguing a lot. to become speaker of the Parliament, continue serving as the network that connects us all. On her pension of $131 a month, Ms. responded to Ms. Burymska’s letter with a AN IMPORTANT POSTSCRIPT: Burymska can’t afford to save up for a vil- gift of 100 hrv (about $12.35 U.S.). She The Ukrainian Weekly has also curtailed the distribution via regular mail of gratis lage house. Nor could they afford a house if didn’t bother collecting it. copies of the newspaper. Frankly the cost of the subscription plus mailing was just they included her daughter’s salary, which “I have enough to buy bread,” she said. too much for us to bear in these trying financial times. We are encouraging institu- comes to about $247 a month, working in “It’s housing that I’m looking for. At least tions that used to receive these complimentary subscriptions to become paid sub- under the Communists, you could get a res- scribers and thus help us continue to fulfill our mission as a community newspaper. a government employment center in the idence by waiting in line. Without any help Among those affected are members of the Senate and House of Representatives, Zhytomyr Oblast town of Andrushivka from relatives, it’s simply not possible now.” who for may years received free subscriptions to our newspaper as we strove to (population 9,000). She heard of a program launched by the keep them informed about developments in Ukraine, the life of the Ukrainian They could not afford a house even if Yanukovych administration in which the American community and issues of concern to our community – their constituents. they included her son-in-law’s unemploy- state pays the 13 percent portion of 16 per- We are no longer mailing them copies of our newspaper each week, however, we are ment check of $104 a month. He used to cent interest on a 10-year mortgage, leaving offering their offices free online access to The Ukrainian Weekly at www.ukrweekly. work as a police officer but lost the job. Ms. only 3 percent for the homebuyer to pay. com. We are sending letters to senators and representatives about this offer, and we Burymska doesn’t know why. He then are calling on readers to encourage their members of Congress to take advantage of worked as a security guard and taxi driver, Yet once she heard the down payment this opportunity. (To activate their access to The Ukrainian Weekly’s online edition, never holding down a job for more than a required almost $9,900, the details of the members of Congress or their staffers may contact [email protected]. few months. He paid a bribe to get a job monthly payment became a blur. Our Subscription Department will be happy to assist them.) back at the police force about five years “Somewhere between $74 and $99 a ago, but only lasted for a year or so before month,” she estimated. And her daughter leaving. She doesn’t know what happened. would be able to pay the mortgage only if “Does he drink on the job?” I asked. she found a new job, since it’s available in “No, only at home. Not more than two only three cities in the Zhytomyr Oblast. April Turning the pages back... or three times a week,” she assured me, Yet that’s a less expensive option than rather satisfied. buying a village home in Andrushivka, Last year, on April 24, 2012, Yulia Tymoshenko’s lawyer, Serhiy Ms. Burymska got the idea of writing to where they cost about $30,000. “$20,000 if Vlasenko, released a statement on Ms. Tymoshenko’s official web- the world’s most powerful people when there’s no heating installed, $15,000 if 24 sharing her problems with another “babu- there’s no heating and no plumbing,” Ms. site, www.tymoshenko.ua, announcing her hunger strike. 2012 The statement began with the report on April 20, 2012, by sia” (elederly woman) in her village. “She Burymska explained. German doctors, Prof. Karl Maks Einhaupl and Norbert Haas, that said she would write letters to influential In late March, she stood outside the Ms. Tymoshenko’s health could not be restored in the current people if she were in my place, so that’s Parliament building and caught National hospital proposed by Ukraine’s government. After communicating with the penal colony’s what I started doing,” she said. Deputy Anzhelika Labunska on her way director, the supervising prosecutor and the minister of health, and taking the German doc- Besides sending a letter to President out. Ms. Labunska is supposed to represent tors’ conclusions, Ms. Tymoshenko informed them that she agreed to be transferred to a Obama, Ms. Burymska has written to the residents of Ms. Burymska’s district in hospital after she spoke with her attorney. George Soros and Warren Buffett. She got the Verkhovna Rada. Ms. Tymoshenko then recounted an attack she sustained by three prison guards after the latter’s address by approaching some Ms. Labunska said she was too busy to her cell neighbor was removed from her cell. At some point she lost consciousness and young men smoking outside the talk but gave her business card and said later woke up in a hospital ward. It was at that moment that she refused to eat and refused Diplomatic Academy near the Foreign they could meet in a week. Ms. Burymska to answer any questions until she met with Mr. Vlasenko. Affairs Ministry in Kyiv. One of them went called the mobile number listed and got no Ms. Tymoshenko stated: “I think of the helplessness and hopelessness every person feels to his office and returned with the info. “He response. When she called the office num- today when they confront the government’s violence in all its manifestations. When they said he couldn’t find Buffett’s home ber, the receptionist said she’d call back started to apply brutal force to me, I imagined the despair of the defenseless people being address, just his office,” she said. when Ms. Labunska would be available. It’s cruelly, brutally beaten and sometimes killed by policemen at numerous prisons, pre-trial She sent the letters in Ukrainian, but been several days without that call back. detention centers, militia stations, colonies, in basements of the modern SBU-NKVD. When assumed that such influential people “I read that Africa gets $3 billion in aid you are within four closed walls, fully isolated from the world, when butchers […] ‘take care’ would have translators. She can’t afford to daily,” she said, referring to the organiza- of you, when you do not know if this is the end of your life, only then you realize clearly translate the letters herself. tions and individuals who help the people in what country we have built over 20 years of our independence, and you understand that She’s also tried the Ukrainian oligarchs, Africa. “Why don’t they consider Ukraine?” we do not have the right to leave it to our children in this inhuman condition. including billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, the It’s hard enough for five people to live in “[…] The president of Ukraine is steadily and pedantically building a concentration mega-millionaire former Kyiv Mayor two rooms. Five people in one room is camp of violence and lack of rights in the great European Ukraine, supplemented by an Leonid Chernovetskyi and President unacceptable. Here’s my offer: I’ll chip in unprecedented enrichment of the ruling family and its entourage by misappropriating Viktor Yanukovych. They all sent letters $2,500 if I can recruit 11 more people to do state resources. […] If we lose time, we will get a new Libya or Syria in the center of stating that arranging housing for her chil- the same. You can reach me at zawada98@ Europe, and then it will be late to extinguish the fire.” dren is not within their capability. gmail.com. Or you can reach Ms. Burymska (Continued on page 10) Petro Poroshenko, the billionaire who directly at +380-98-205-5008. No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 7

Let’s talk about it

by Yaro Bihun

Immigrants from Ukraine Pointers for the pontiff Wasyl Dubas – his haunting face, the No sooner had Pope Benedict XVI (Epoch Times, Washington, March 21-27, mustache and the number 19 clipped announced his resignation last February 11 2013, p. 1.) Global capitalism is not target- onto his jacket in that old Ellis Island than the press was abuzz with speculation ing the Catholic Church; it is targeting the photo – resurrected in my mind when I about the direction the Catholic Church simplicity, self-restraint and spirituality watched the new citizen naturalization might take after he left office. taught by all the major religions. So with ceremony at the White House on the TV On February 28, the last day of his pon- whom will Ukraine side in the global econ- evening news on March 25, then again – tificate, The New York Times published an omy – with the exploiters and their culture this time with even more emotion – the op-ed by one of his fiercest critics, the dissi- of consumption, or with the exploited? And following morning as I read a Washington dent Swiss theologian Father Hans Küng, will Ukraine’s Churches confront its rulers? Post report about the event, which noted titled “A Vatican Spring?” It outlined what As archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario that among those singled out by might be called the liberal agenda for the Bergoglio was not afraid to speak truth to President Barack Obama in his remarks Church. (http://www.nytimes.com/ power, for example, in exposing govern- was a recent immigrant from Ukraine – 2013/02/28/opinion/a-vatican-spring. ment manipulation of economic statistics. now serving in the U.S. Air Force – Nikita html?pagewanted=all&_r=0). E. J. Dionne, a This sets a high standard for Ukrainian Kirichenko. So I got on the Internet to get liberal columnist and a Catholic, even pro- Church leaders. the full transcript of the president’s posed a female pope. This was not, as most In fact, Cardinal Bergoglio’s call for “a remarks and the full list of the 28 new cit- people seem to think, a contest between poor Church, and a Church of the poor” was izens who were honored. Surprise: those who seek change and those who anticipated by Father Joseph Ratzinger long Hanna Myroshnychenko, another recent oppose it. Most understand that change is before he was elected pope. In a series of immigrant from Ukraine, was there as inevitable. But what kind? “Trendies” as radio homilies in 1969, Father Ratzinger well. well as “traddies” usually seek to revive spoke of a crisis from which there “will Wasyl Dubas, of course, was not. some (often fancifully imagined) aspect of emerge a Church that has lost a great deal… In his remarks welcoming them to the National Archives the past: for some it’s the apostolic age, for It will become small and will have to start East Room of “the people’s house,” which Wasyl Dubas at Ellis Island. others it’s the medieval or Counter- pretty much all over again. … It will be a was designed by an Irish immigrant, more spiritual Church. … It will be poor and placed aboard the same S.S. Kroonland, reformation Church. President Obama noted how these new will become the Church of the destitute.” going back to Antwerp. The election on March 13 of Cardinal citizens came to America from all around Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who consistently Speaking in Germany as Pope Benedict XVI the world. I wondered if our family’s first immi- (but, to the secular mind, incomprehensi- over forty years later, on September 25, “Some of you came here as children, grants to America – Aunt Maria and her bly) combines orthodox doctrine with per- 2011, he remarked that secularization, by carried by parents who wished for them husband, Nick Fedorka – ever grabbed a sonal humility and a concern for social jus- stripping the Church of its wealth and a life that they had never had. Others handful of peas from some neighboring tice, has only fueled the speculation. Since power, would actually strengthen it, mak- came as adults, leaving behind everything landowner’s field and brought it home to just about everyone is offering advice for ing it “truly open to the world.” (The you knew to seek a new life,” he said, help feed their family in Nyzhny Strutyn Pope Francis, your columnist might as well Moynihan Letter, No. 15, February18, pointing to four in the group as examples, before coming to America at about the 2013) the first among them: Airman 1st Class same time as Wasyl tried to. If they had, join in. So, here is a to-do list for the succes- Openness to the world allows the Nikita Kirichenko. their Ellis Island interrogators never sor of St. Peter – noting, of course, the inevi- Church to convey Christ’s teaching. But it “For Nikita Kirichenko – there’s Nikita learned about it, and they made it to table Ukrainian angle. can only do so if its authority is recognized. right here – that love runs so deep it led Pennsylvania, where Nick worked in the To start with the most sensational issue, Many accuse the Church of authoritarian- him to enlist in our military. Nikita came coal mines, while Maria raised their chil- the new pontiff must deal with the various ism. Authoritarianism, however, is not the here at the age of 11 from Ukraine. His dren and took care of the small home scandals that have plagued the Church: mother saw America as the one place on they turned into a boarding house for a “Vatileaks,” pedophilia and the cover-ups, same thing as authority. It often appears Earth where her son could do anything handful of other immigrant coal miners. and other matters both sexual and finan- when authority has been weakened. he wanted. And a few years ago Nikita Later, two of their sons would served in cial. Pope Francis needs to continue Exercising his teaching authority, and as decided that he wanted to join the Air the U.S. military during World War II. Benedict’s reform of the Roman Curia. part of the “New Evangelization,” the pope Force so that, in his words, ‘I could give Half a century later, my immediate Seminaries must be scrutinized. And the will need to elucidate the seamless web of back to a country that took me in and family and other relatives also made it Vatican press office hasn’t been particularly fundamental Church doctrine. For example, gave me a better life.’ Thank you, Nikita.” here without a hitch after spending up to adept at dealing with the media. Although the same belief in the sanctity of human life Reading the president’s remarks, my five years in post-World War II DP camps. Ukrainians might shrug these off as essen- that condemns war, euthanasia, and the mind wandered back in time again: If We, too, were lucky that nobody blew the tially Western, Latin-rite, problems, I death penalty commands protection of the President Woodrow Wilson had a similar whistle on my father Mykola’s “moral tur- wouldn’t be so sure. The bishops’ call for unborn. The same recognition of natural ceremony at the White House after World pitude” and jail-time in Polish prisons transparency, accountability and efficiency law that requires protection of the family War I, maybe Wasyl Dubas could have between the wars: five years in Wisnicz, a applies to the entire Church. It seems that demands the preservation of marriage. been among those honorees. But no. He number of shorter detentions in Lviv’s financial irregularities were part of the bag- These are hard lessons for those never made it past New York’s Ellis infamous jails, and a year and a half at gage of the Russian Orthodox clergy who Ukrainians accustomed to flexible ethics Island. Bereza Kartuzka – Poland’s precursor to returned to the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic and selective morality. And following his I “got acquainted” with Wasyl early our Guantanamo, in which without any Church (UGCC). That Church has had prob- professorial predecessor, this learned Jesuit last summer at the National Archives court order Poland detained suspects lems with the press as well. And it has had should clearly set forth the Christian exhibit “Attachments: Faces and Stories considered to be “a threat to national its share of difficulties with the Roman response to that philosophical dead-end from America’s Gates” – a haunting security, peace and order.” Father was an Curia. It may be time, for example, to end or known as “post-modernism.” Perhaps even exhibit describing the many difficulties active, combative Ukrainian nationalist. reduce the tutelage of the Congregation for Ukraine’s intelligentsia will catch on. and prejudices America’s immigrants Nowadays he would be called an the Eastern Churches. Since Pope Francis is familiar with from Europe and Asia faced in trying to “extremist” or “terrorist.” The Nazis As the Catholic Church’s center of gravi- Ukrainians, we can expect an ecumenism achieve their life’s ambition of building a didn’t care for him that much either, and ty moves to the poor countries of the South that will fully include the UGCC. Pope new and successful life in this country. He sent him to the Sachsenhausen concen- and East, where two-thirds of its members Francis greeted Bartholomew, the first ecu- was one of the “faces” featured in the tration camp. Luckily, World War II soon now live, the pope should call attention to menical patriarch to attend a papal inaugu- exhibit. ended and he survived. its social teaching. Having chosen the name ration, as “my brother Andrew,” referring to This poor 33-year-old “native of My parents never formally became U.S. of St. Francis of Assisi (1186-1226), known the brother of the apostle Peter, whose suc- Austria,” “Ruthenian” “farm laborer,” with citizens, but the children did. And my for his solidarity with the poor, he is famil- cessor he is. May he also remember the leg- “normal ears” and two missing teeth, brother Andrew and I served our country iar with the devastating effects of globaliza- end of St. Andrew’s journey to the site of arrived at Ellis Island from Antwerp in the commercial and press sections of tion on Asia and Africa, as well as his native Kyiv, and encourage Church unity in that aboard the S.S. Kroonland on November the new U.S. Embassy in Kyiv in the early Latin America. He has criticized interna- “laboratory of ecumenism.” 13, 1906. During the screening process, years of Ukraine’s independence; earlier, tional structures like the International There’s more: women, youth, the envi- the interrogators somehow discovered before going to college, I served three Monetary Fund. But the damage is spiritual ronment. But it’s time to send this off that he had spent one month in jail “for years in the U.S. Army. and cultural, as well as financial and eco- before Pope Francis begins his first encycli- stealing peas” and eight more “for being Wasyl Dubas never got that chance. nomic. Recently, the president of a consul- cal. I wouldn’t want him to leave out any- an accomplice to thieves.” And for that, Although, in a way, he finally succeeded tancy firm near New Delhi was quoted as thing important. the document notes, he was “excluded as in making it here: a year ago, when he saying, “Historically, India was not about a person convicted of a crime involving entered my memory and now lives with materialism or consumerism. It will take Andrew Sorokowski can be reached at moral turpitude.” A week later he was me in Washington and wherever I go. years before we can change that culture.” [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 No. 16 No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 9 On the 70th anniversary of the proclamation of the Galicia Division

by Roman Hawrylak Such considerations completely trans- UPA as the nucleus of the future Ukrainian Things turned out quite differently than formed the way people viewed the forma- armed forces was doubtful. Moreover, to we had expected. The military role of the This spring marks 70 years since the tion of the Galicia Division. As recent histo- reach a goal, it was necessary to utilize all Galicia Division ended, for the expected Galicia Riflemen Division’s founding was ry and experience had shown, the possibili- of the opportunities available at the time: armed conflict between the Soviets and the proclaimed in Lviv. This event took place ty of a power vacuum on Ukrainian lands the division and the UPA – two roads, one Allies did not develop, instead taking the on April 28, 1943, during the German occu- made it imperative for us to have our own goal. This was the thinking that went into form of the Cold War. The division’s fighters pation of Halychyna (Galicia), as a result of armed forces, or some embryo thereof, if making a choice between joining the divi- immigrated and settled in many countries the negotiations between the Ukrainian we wanted to establish our own state. The sion or the UPA. In any case, the Galicia of the world. However, they knew neither Central Committee headed by Prof. Ukrainian state after World War I did not division was formed, and the Germans pro- peace nor due recognition, because they Volodymyr Kubijovyc and the German gov- last for several reasons, chief among them vided it with excellent weaponry and quali- bore the brand of association with the ernor of Galicia, Dr. Otto Wächter. It is that it did not possess its own military, ty military training, which lasted exactly notorious SS. worth examining the political climate of the which could match the challenges and the one year. That this association was akin to the period when the Division was formed and tasks facing it. However, the division encountered great Faustian bargain with the devil and was the consequences of this decision, both Now an opportunity arose for the misfortune, for it was sent to the Eastern pure conjecture is unknown to the public, from the perspective of the preceding cen- Ukrainians to create the structure for their front to fight the Red Army just as the latter so it is measured according to the generally tury and from the perspective of contem- own military in the form of at least one was implementing its largest and most suc- accepted stereotype. Should we not also porary interpretation and understanding division – nothing else existed at the time. cessful offensive. The opponent’s forces consider the moral parity of the association of this event in Ukraine and in the We had to join the ranks of the division. Did outnumbered us many times over, and so between the Allies and the Soviets, which Ukrainian diaspora. they were able to surround the division represented the largest empire of evil? The German occupation of Ukraine last- such a seed of the Polish army, which wres- near Brody and destroy it. Many laid down After all, this too was collaboration with ed from June 1941 to the middle of 1944. tledthe legions for and of helped Piłsudski establish not serve Polish as exactly state- their lives in that battle, many were cap- evil, which resulted in the enslavement of Germans, obviously Nazis, had immediately hood? And how about our own Ukrainian tured, many joined the UPA, and only 3,000 half of Europe. The world is still unable to shown their true colors. The first order of Sich Riflemen (USS), who became the sub- (of approximately 16,000) fighters broke resolve the controversy of whether the business for them was to liquidate the ject of so many legends and stories, on through the ranks and escaped the encir- Soviet Union or the Third Reich was the Ukrainian Administration, announced in which we were raised during the inter-war clement. worst evil, but this question was decided Lviv by the Organization of Ukrainian period? Did they not play a vitally impor- Afterwards, the division was reconstitut- by those who were the victors in the war. Nationalists (OUN) under Stepan Bandera’s tant role in our struggles for liberation? ed and reinforced, and it was sent to fight The intellectual elite of the Ukrainian leadership, and to separate Halychyna from When they were formed, they did not fight the Communist partisans in Slovakia and diaspora treated the Galicia division as an the rest of Ukraine, adjoining it to the for Austria, but the idea of Ukrainian state- Yugoslavia and, towards the end of the war anachronism of pre-war times and, under General government, which encompassed hood lit their way. to the eastern front in Austria. By that time the influence of “political correctness,” the territory of occupied Poland. This was a It seemed that this opportunity dare not the Ukrainian National Army (UNA) was expressed only lukewarm recognition of terrible blow to our national sensibilities, be wasted, and, despite the Germans’ formed, the commanding officer being Gen. the Division veterans, “from under the skirt although we, the Halychyny, were better off behavior, if they were willing to put arms Pavlo Shandruk, who took over the divi- flap,” as the late Oleh Lysiak, a writer and a for it, because we did not experience the into our hands, we had to take up those sion’s command and included it in the UNA former war reporter of the division, once cruel terror of the Hans Koch regime, the arms. That was the general opinion at the contingent, which meant taking an oath of said. Reichskommissar of Ukraine. time, and so all of our leaders at the time allegiance to Ukraine. The war was over, Moreover, some specialists from the From that point on the atrocious exter- became actively involved in the formation and the soldiers surrendered their arms to world of academia, such as Prof. John-Paul mination of Jews and the executions of of the Division headed by Prof. Volodymyr the Allies, becoming prisoners of war but Himka from the University of Alberta, con- Ukrainians and Poles were committed out Kubijovych, including almost all the veter- wondrously, through fortunate coincidence tinue to search for crimes that the Galicia in the open, without any attempt to cover or ans of Ukraine’s struggle for independence and circumstance, escaping the forced Division supposedly committed, primarily disguise them. The gallows, with our people during World War I. repatriation that was vigorously demanded hanging on it, adorned public squares in Our foes in the past have described and by the Soviets. (Continued on page 15) every town and city of Halychyna. The continue to describe the Galicia Division unceremonious exploitation of the country’s veterans as German servants and collabo- economy, the forced transport of people for rators. The youths who joined the division slave labor in Germany and the arrogant were concerned exclusively with Ukrainian UNA SENIORS AND FRIENDS behavior antagonized the population and aspirations. What interest could they have increased hostility towards the German MAKE RESERVATIONS EARLY! in collaborating with the Germans? They occupants. The resistance movement start- were foreign to us, and their ideology was ed to form and many young people escaped Summer is approaching. Its time to make reservations for UNA alien and hostile to us. They were losing into the woods to create an armed partisan Seniors Week at Soyuzivka the war anyway, so nothing positive, in underground. terms of political concessions, was expect- Sunday, June 9 – Friday, June 14, 2013 As a result of such cruel behavior on the Registration beginning Sunday 4:00 pm at part of Germans in the occupied lands and ed from them. of their brutal treatment of Red Army pris- Our decision-making was motivated by SOYUZIVKA Heritage Center! oners of war, the military success of the the aspiration of having our own armed Germans started to turn around. They forces, while the Germans still hoped that All inclusive 5 nights - meals beginning with breakfast Monday, began retreating from the Eastern front. we could help them defeat the Bolsheviks, banquet Thursday, lunch Friday, taxes/gratuities included - The Red Army was chasing them away, despite the utterly hopeless military situa- tion in the East. This was their last-ditch entertainment and special guest speakers. defending Moscow, Leningrad and, after a lasting siege, Stalingrad. It became obvious effort to save themselves from their situa- that the Germans would not come out of tion. Herein was the only intersection of the war victorious. our interests: both sides wanted the It was in this atmosphere that the news Division, but each had its own reason for about the formation of the Galicia Division wanting it. Unfortunately, as it turned out spread in the spring of 1943. The governor later, both expectations were not realized. of Galicia, Dr. Otto Wächter, was one of What other alternatives were there? 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WE WELCOME NEW GUESTS! and a power vacuum would ensue, similar of all, the UPA, being a partisan structure in to what happened in the aftermath of the incipient stages of its formation, could MAKE RESERVATIONS! Call SOYUZIVKA Tel: 845 626-5641 World War I, when Germany was defeated, provide neither the appropriate military Remember to bring your embroidered attire (vyshyvanky) Austria broke up and Russia was swept training nor the modern weaponry that the away by a revolution. division could provide, so the value of the for the banquet. And if possible bring items for the auction! 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 No. 16

current Vice Prime Minister Yurii Boiko and came under the single ownership of the days their leader Maksym Panov. Group... the Kliuyev brothers, all of whom have close British company (with unknown partners). When they returned to protest Mr. ties to President Yanukovych. Andriy Kliuyev Within a few months, these anonymous Panov’s arrest, police arrested and incarcer- (Continued from page 1) currently heads the National Security and owners submitted plans to build, among ated another activist, Vasyl Hatsko, for five Defense Council of Ukraine. other things, a yacht club and boathouse, days. The third protest, held on April 15 and ruptcy (a common tactic in stealing land, Tantalit’s director and lawyer is Donetsk golf course, horse stable and heliport. dubbed “We Won’t be Frightened,” drew observers said). native Pavlo Lytovchenko, who was identi- Under construction also was a large rec- aggressive behavior by police and security The property transfers were handled in fied by Ukrayinska Pravda as Mr. reational complex that includes a bowling officers, who were dressed in black and November 2007 by Eduard Stavytskyi, who Yanukovych’s “consigliere,” among his duties alley, indoor and outdoor tennis courts, a unidentifiable. now serves as minister of energy and coal reportedly being legalizing the family’s sto- shooting range, a bathhouse complex, three Activists said the aggressive tactics and production as the reward for his loyal ser- len properties through fictitious firms and decorative pools, a health complex and guest incarcerations were illegal, violating their vice, observers said. They were organized individuals. house. (Mr. Yanukovych said he plays tennis rights to assembly and free speech, given to prevent then Prime Minister Before Tantalit, Mr. Lytovchenko served as often as twice a day.) that their protests occurred on public Tymoshenko from returning the properties as a lawyer for two Donetsk firms owned by The registered organization responsible streets. to state ownership. Oleksander Yanukovych, the president’s for building the recreational complex is a “At Mezhyhiria, they were greeted by The alleged theft occurred without the elder son. charity fund founded by two Donetsk college three buses filled with Berkut special forces, interference of Viktor Yushchenko, who was It was Tantalit that signed a 2008 agree- students. Critics cite that arrangement as special forces without distinguishable badg- president at the time. In exchange for turning ment with the local government to rent for further evidence of corruption. es, the chief of the local district police, the a blind eye, Mr. Yushchenko allegedly 49 years the 318 acres that surround the At the time of his inauguration, Mr. chief of the Kyiv Oblast police, several dozen received two properties near the Mariyinskyi Mezhyhiria structures it allegedly illegally Yanukovych had already begun building a people with mafia-like appearance and doz- Palace in Kyiv’s city center from Mr. privatized – at a ridiculous price of $20.45 70-vehicle garage and his now-famous, five- ens of traffic police officers,” wrote Serhiy Yanukovych, according to documents per acre per month. story Honka residence, built of Finnish Leshchenko, the reporter with Ukrayinska reviewed by the Ukrayinska Pravda news site. Another Party of Regions official involved wood. Pravda who has led the investigations into After returning as prime minister, Ms. in the Mezhyhiria land machinations, As evidence of its ostentatious expense, Mezhyhiria. Tymoshenko accused Mr. Yanukovych of Donetsk native Oleksandr Yurchenko, hap- Ukrayinska Pravda reported that about $9.4 Builders who spoke to Ukrayinska Pravda stealing Mezhyhiria properties in August pened to also be involved in the alleged ille- million worth of building materials between on an anonymous basis estimated in 2010 2009 and ordered the Justice Ministry to gal privatization of 43 acres in the 2009 and 2010 was imported to build the that the renovation and construction proj- take measures to return it to the state. A few Sukholuchia reserve where Mr. Yanukovych Honka house. They included interior doors ects at Mezhyhiria would amount to $200 days later she announced the successful enjoys hunting wild boar. made of Libyan cedar worth $64,000 each million in expenses. This year, Ukrayinska return to state control of Mr. Yanukovych’s The privatization and renovation of and wooden door cases costing $70,000 Pravda offered an estimate that Mr. residence – not all the property’s buildings – Mezhyhiria accelerated dramatically upon each. Yanukovych has allegedly spent $170 mil- that he allegedly illegally confiscated. Yet, Mr. Mr. Yanukovych’s election as president. Mr. Yanukovych also ordered light fix- lion, including on the Honka house. Yanukovych retained control in the remain- Among his first alleged actions was to tures costing $50,000, chandeliers costing The source of these funds can’t be con- ing months leading up to his presidency. arrange the sale of the house he had rented. $97,000, and decorated a toilet and bath firmed, though they undoubtedly have indi- It was the same building that had earlier It was reportedly sold to Mr. Yanukovych with semi-precious gemstones at a cost of rect links to Ukraine’s state budget that served as the state’s guest residence for for- with 4.3 acres of surrounding land. about $450,000, according to journalist made their way into the bank accounts of eign visitors. Mr. Yanukovych continued liv- Ukrayinska Pravda has attempted to investigations. Tantalit, reports said. ing there even after his term as prime minis- obtain the documents confirming the price He established 24-hour security that “Mezhyhiria is the biggest symbol of cor- ter concluded in 2007, expecting to be elect- of the state’s sale of the property to Mr. patrolled the territory and the waters along ruption and lawlessness in Ukraine,” said ed president. Yanukovych (and other related information), the Dnipro River banks. In addition to Dmytro Hnap, a television journalist who Tantalit, the company listed as the cur- but the local government offices refused to Berkut special forces, the territory is guard- has been assaulted and detained in his rent owner of Mezhyhiria’s structures (but disclose them. Ukrainian courts have sup- ed by a private security firm linked to his investigations of Mr. Yanukovych’s alleged not its land), is a Lichtenstein-based trust, ported these officials’ refusal, with the news elder son, Oleksander Yanukovych, which privatizations of various properties, includ- formed by two firms registered in Great site now appealing to the European Court also guards the Sukholuchia reserve. ing Sukholuchia. Britain and Austria whose partners are for Human Rights to gain the information. President Yanukovych built a 21-foot “You can’t prove in the courts, prosecu- unknown, Ukrayinska Pravda reported. Both Mezhyhiria and Sukholuchia, situat- metal fence along Mezhyhiria’s perimeter tors’ offices, the Security Service of Ukraine However, the same firms are linked to ed about 22 miles apart from each other, and forbid flights above its territory. More that Mezhyhiria is stolen, since these law than $6 million was spent to renovate the enforcement organs don’t want to acknowl- road to Mezhyhiria, compared to $8.6 mil- edge it. It’s also become an attack on our lion earmarked to repair all of Kyiv’s roads. freedom of speech because they’ll arrest you Before he became president, Mr. if you go to protest there,” he added. Yanukovych had also introduced exotic ani- mals to Mezhyhiria, including ostriches, CLARIFICATION emus, pheasants, Australian geese, deer and In his past articles referring to Mezhyhiria, even kangaroos. Zenon Zawada reported on several occasions More corruption surfaced when that President Viktor Yanuko­vych had alleg- Ukrayinska Pravda discovered that $12,500 edly illegally privatized the estate’s 346 acres in state budget funds are paid annually to that once belonged to the state. Mezhyhiria’s private companies to pay for Mr. Yanukovych is not alleged by Mr. Yanukovych’s on-site office at the estate. Ukrainian journalists and critics to have When Mr. Yanukovych agreed to allow privatized the entire estate under his name. loyal journalists to view Mezhyhiria, he Instead, he is alleged to have arranged for showed them his old residential building, the state to rent most of the property, about not the Honka house. That was the last time 340 acres, to a private firm, Tantalit. It’s pos- even loyal journalists were allowed in. sible that the property has been sold, though The first court order forbidding protests not proven. outside Mezhyhiria was issued on June Tantalit’s owners are unknown, but wide- 2011. The latest court order forbidding a ly believed to have close ties to Mr. SAVE THE DATE for the biggest and the best protest was issued on April 5, claiming that Yanukovych, if not directly including him or flood repair work was taking place and members of his family. Ukrainian Festival in the USA! couldn’t be interrupted. Mr. Yanukovych is also alleged to have The half dozen activists of the Democratic illegally privatized for himself a 4.4-acre Alliance political party decided to show up property in the middle of the Mezhyhiria July 12-14, 2013 anyway to offer help with the repairs. They estate, giving him the legal basis of having constant access to the estate’s remaining featuring spectacular stage shows - top name performers from around the world - were greeted by special police forces, who acreage. vibrant music & song - dazzling dance - unique arts & crafts - arrested them all, incarcerating for seven delicious traditional foods - varenyky eating contests - tournaments - scores of vendors - fun-filled activities for children - breathtaking mountain views - friendly Soyuzivka hospitality & amenities (accommodations, tennis, taken to slaughter. I will oppose this as long Olympic-sized pool, volleyball, restaurant dining) & much more... Turning... as I am alive. And I know that you will not let them humiliate Ukraine like this.” (Continued from page 6) For more information please visit us at www.soyuzivka.com Ms. Tymoshenko’s hunger strike lasted or contact us at [email protected]. Ms. Tymoshenko recommended: First, 20 days, ending on May 9, 2012. According that the public commence international to her daughter, Eugenia, Ms. Tymoshenko For vendor information please call (203) 274-5579 investigations into all corrupt dealings lost 22 pounds during the strike and was involving international transactions and moved from the prison to a Kharkiv hospi- 216 Foordmore Road registration of illegally obtained assets on tal to commence an eight-week recovery the territory of foreign states – to prove the program, under the care of Dr. Lutz Harms Kerhonkson, NY 12446 Союзівка international character of the crimes; sec- of Germany. Tel. (845) 626-5641 ond, that the Yanukovych regime be removed through peaceful means. Source: “For the Record: Tymoshenko’s Відвідайте нас! Ms. Tymoshenko added: “The one thing announcement of a hunger strike,” The we must not do is be a silent herd being Ukrainian Weekly, May 6, 2012. No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 11

Music by Filts and Skoryk in the D.C. spotlight

by Yaro Bihun WASHINGTON – It was the second time in less than two months that classical and folk music lovers in the nation’s capital had the opportunity to hear some prominent Ukrainian and Ukrainian American per- formers and to honor and enjoy the works of two of Ukraine’s leading contemporary composers. Bohdana Filts’ compositions were hon- ored in the last concert of The Washington Group Cultural Fund 2012-13 Music Series at the Lyceum in Alexandria, Va., on March 24, and Myroslav Skoryk’s creativity was the focus of attention and excitement at a concert hosted by the Embassy of Ukraine on March 28. * * * The Filts concert featured not only the Yaro Bihun performance of her compositions by four Ukrainian composer Bohdana Filts joins with the soloists and TWG Cultural Fund director Svitlana Shiells for the last round of applause at prominent soloists – violinist Ivanna Husar, the conclusion of the concert in tribute to the composer on March 24 at the Lyceum in Alexandria, Va. Standing on the stage are (from left): soprano Oksana Krovytska, flutist Andrei violinist Ivanna Husar, pianist Oksana Skidan, soprano Oksana Krovytska, Ms. Filts, Ms. Shiells and flutist Andrei Pidkivka. Pidkivka and pianist Oksana Skidan – and the Washington-area a cappella group Spiv- vocal solos and children’s songs – and is career, she had gotten to know Mr. Skoryk “Spanish Dance.” Zhyttia, but the composer herself flew in perhaps best known for her vocal works. personally, Ms. Soroka said, adding that she The Soroka-Green duo recently record- from Ukraine for the occasion. Ivanna The Lyceum hall was packed, and the holds his creativity in very high esteem. ed these Skoryk compositions on a Toccata Husar also flew in from Ukraine to partici- enchanted audience gave the composer a Ms. Soroka was born in Lviv, where she Classics CD. pate in this tribute to Ms. Filts. standing ovation as she joined the perform- began playing the violin and made her solo * * * Introducing the composer to the audi- ers, Ms. Shiells and Chrystia Sonevytsky – debut with the Lviv Philharmonic at age 10. Meanwhile, the National Gallery of Art ence, TWG Cultural Fund Director Svitlana this concert’s organizer – on the stage for Since then she has performed worldwide, announced that pianist Mykola Suk – Shiells spoke about her “magnanimity, the final bow. received her doctorate in music at the another Ukrainian musician well-known open-heartedness and nobility,” noting that * * * Eastman School of Music and now teaches and respected in the Washington area – her music “vibrates and reflects her opti- While Mr. Skoryk did not fly in from music at Goshen College in Indiana – as will be performing Beethoven’s Piano mism – which she preserves despite all of Ukraine for the concert in his honor at the does pianist Mr. Greene, her husband. Concerto No. 5 (and other compositions) at the tragedies which the composer went Ukrainian Embassy, some in the audience In addition to Skoryk’s “Melody,” the Gallery’s West Garden Court on Sunday, through starting from a young age – and possibly felt his presence in the way his “Hutsulian Triptych” and Sonatas No. 1 and April 21, at 6:30 pm. His performance will the beauty of the Ukrainian land, its songs music was performed by violinist Solomia 2, Ms. Soroka and Mr. Greene added Mykola conclude a special series of five concerts and folk music.” Soroka and pianist Arthur Greene, and Lysenko’s Second Rhapsody “Dumka- sponsored jointly by the Gallery and the As was noted in the program, Ms. Filts from Ms. Soroka’s personal descriptive Shumka” and Igor Stravinsky’s (whose Phillips Collection with the aim of present- works in various genres – symphonic, introductions to the program and each roots are Ukrainian) Divertimento to the ing all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos instrumental, chamber orchestra, choral, piece they performed. In her professional program, and concluded with Skoryk’s within a few weeks.

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tion.” According to the president, common Komorowski: on Russia’s pipelines which foresee the provision of effective NEWSBRIEFS people and the country as a whole suffer medical care to persons held in prisons, we from the locked Rada and the politicians’ KYIV – Warsaw should not help Moscow are asking you to pardon Yulia (Continued from page 2) actions. “The primary responsibility for the pressure Kyiv in the context of the con- Tymoshenko and release her from punish- struction of new gas pipelines bypassing fact that the laws required for Ukrainians are ment under Article 85 of the Criminal Code Yanukovych on early elections Ukraine, Polish President Bronislaw not adopted lies on the opposition. Today, of Ukraine,” reads the statement. The Komorowski said in an interview with the KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor both the majority and the opposition must Helsinki Union also noted that the current Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. “We Yanukovych is ready to call early parliamen- show statesmanship and make mutual com- condition of the former prime minister [Poland] should openly say that we do not tary elections if the situation warrants it, it needs constant supervision and control in promises in the interests of the people. Go want to help Russia put pressure on was reported on April 13. In an interview and negotiate! Ukraine does not need an idle specialized medical institutions, which, Ukraine. This is particularly important according to the authors of the appeal, is with the newspaper Vechirniy Mykolaiv, the Parliament. It is too expensive to the country. when the negotiations on the EU-Ukraine presidential press-service reported that he If you are not able to agree – the people will hard to ensure in penal institutions. Association Agreement are underway,” the (Ukrinform) said: “I am concerned that the politicians choose new deputies,” Mr. Yanukovych Polish leader said, according to April 15 overworked at the Verkhovna Rada, which is emphasized. As reported, Verkhovna Rada news reports. He said that all parties Yanukovych on Tymoshenko’s pardon why people and the country as a whole suf- Chairman Volodymyr Rybak said he sees (Poland, Ukraine and Russia) should liber- KYIV – The issue of clemency for Yulia fer. If the situation warrants, I’m ready for a no reason for the dissolution of Parliament alize the gas and energy market, which is Tymoshenko will be decided after the com- hard scenario - early parliamentary elec- and an early election. (Ukrinform) actively supported by the European Union. pletion of the trials that are now under Assessing the actions of the Polish authori- way, President Viktor Yanukovych told the ties in the context of the Russian initiative press in Mykolaiv on April 11. “The issue of on the so-called Yamal-2 gas pipeline from a pardon of Tymoshenko is within the legal Belarus through Poland to Slovakia, Mr. framework. It cannot be considered until Komorowski said that the actions of Polish the trials are finished. The sooner they are ministries and officials were poorly coordi- TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 finished, the sooner it becomes possible to nated. “There is no separate center in or e-mail [email protected] address the pardon issue,” Mr. Yanukovych Poland that deals with energy issues, and said. (Ukrinform) therefore there was no horizontal commu- SERVICES PROFESSIONALS nication and coordination between the IMF predicts GDP growth in Ukraine ministries,” President Komorowski said. He said an attempt to build a gas “bridge” KYIV – The International Monetary bypassing Ukraine as a transit country “will Fund (IMF) has predicted that the have serious consequences, not only eco- Ukrainian economy will grow in 2014 by nomic, but also political.” As reported, on 2.8 percent. This was stated in the IMF’s April 5, a memorandum was signed in St. April report titled “World Economic Petersburg between Gazprom and EuRoPol Outlook,” which was released on April 16. Gaz regarding the intention to build the “In 2012, the growth of the Ukrainian econ- Yamal-Europe-2 gas pipeline. On the same omy amounted to 0.2 percent, the outlook day, Poland’s Minister of State Treasury for 2013 is 0 percent, and for 2014 - 2.8 Mikolaj Budzanowski, who is responsible percent,” reads the report. At the same for the energy sector, and PGNiG CEO time, the unemployment rate in the coun- ОКСАНА СТАНЬКО try in the current year, according to the Ліцензований продавець Grazyna Piotrowska-Oliwa said that the Страхування Життя Polish side had not agreed to the construc- fund’s experts, will reach 8.2 percent, and next year it will shrink to 7.9 percent. The OKSANA STANKO tion of the pipeline and that Russia had Licensed Life Insurance Agent exaggerated the importance of this docu- IMF also estimated the current account Ukrainian National Assn., Inc. ment. As it later turned out, Polish Prime deficit of Ukraine’s balance of payments at 7.9 percent of GDP in 2013 and at 7.8 per- 32 Peachtree Rd. Minister Donald Tusk learned of the sign- cent in 2014. IMF experts projected infla- Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 ing of the memorandum from journalists. tion in Ukraine in 2013 at 0.5 percent and Tel.: 908-872-2192; email: [email protected] He said that Warsaw does not want to par- ticipate in projects where gas is a political in 2014 at 4.7 percent. Ukrainian Prime tool. In addition, he said, Poland is not plan- Minister Mykola Azarov predicted that GDP ning to increase the volume of Russian gas growth in 2013 was expected to reach supplies and is actively working on the around 3 percent. However, Mr. Azarov said diversification of gas supply sources. Mr. that the government hopes for moderate Tusk also did not rule out that persons inflation in 2013. He said that the Cabinet involved in the signing of the memoran- of Ministers would not allow deflation, as dum with Gazprom without his knowledge was the case last year. The government could be punished. (Ukrinform) agreed on these figures with the IMF. “We have our own vision of how the Ukrainian SERVICES UCC welcomes political prisoners’ release economy develops next year, and the International Monetary Fund has its own. OTTAWA – The Ukrainian Canadian The process of the convergence of posi- Congress on April 10 welcomed news from tions is currently under way,” Mr. Azarov Ukraine on the release of two political pris- said. (Ukrinform) oners, former Internal Affairs Minister Yurii Lutsenko and former Environment MP suggests voting once a week Minister Heorhii Filipchuk. “The pardoning KYIV – The leader of the Party of and release of Lutsenko and Filipchuk Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada, marks an important first step by the Oleksander Yefremov, said he believes that Yanukovych government in dealing with the lack of votes in the voting process in politically motivated selective justice. Much Parliament is due to the human factor, and more needs to be done,” stated Ukrainian therefore he suggested that it would be Canadian Congress National President Paul appropriate to vote in the Parliament once Grod. “We urge the Ukrainian government a week. “If it is necessary to gather col- to release Yulia Tymoshenko and put an leagues for one day to make some deci- end to all politically motivated prosecu- sions, then we will do it,” the lawmaker tions. We encourage Ukraine to carry out noted according to April 16 news reports. broad judicial and legal reforms to ensure (Ukrinform) that such selective justice is not repeated.” (Ukrainian Canadian Congress) Lutsenko on current opposition leaders OPPORTUNITIES HELP WANTED Helsinki Union asks for Yulia’s pardon KYIV – None of the three opposition leaders of Ukraine – Arseniy Yatsenyuk, KYIV – The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Vitali Klitschko or Oleh Tiahnybok – pos- Earn extra income! 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true state of shale gas extraction,” Mr. not the work of the administration or the NEWSBRIEFS Fedoruk said. The chairman of the Ambassador... government of Ukraine. Association of Geologists, Pavlo At the conclusion of the event, the two (Continued from page 12) (Continued from page 4) Zahorodniuk, said that preparation of shale ambassadors departed for Logan International Airport and their return flight Someone more decisive. But no one yet has gas extraction will be very thorough, Ukrainian-Russian citizenship and pass- to Washington. a complete set of the tools needed to including explanatory work. “Gas produc- ports, and the recent banning of commemo- become the leader of the nation, with all tion from tight sandstone rocks will be nec- rative celebrations of Taras Shevchenko’s * * * Ambassador Motsyk was appointed to due respect to them,” Mr. Lutsenko said. essarily preceded by geological explora- birth in his native village of Moryntsi in the serve as Ukraine’s seventh ambassador to tion,” the expert stated. “It will take three to Cherkasy Oblast. However, he added that each of the three the United States of America in 2010 by five years. Ukrainian specialists will be also The ambassador responded by saying opposition leaders “has really grown up” in President Yanukovych. He previously participating in such studies. So, jointly that EU membership for Ukraine is vital, the recent past. “Since the election of the served as Ukraine’s ambassador to Poland they will identify natural gas reserves and that it was making the reforms the EU new Parliament, each of them – Yatsenyuk, from December 2005 to May 2010. Mr. possible risks of its output, and the best desired and that it would meet all of the Tiahnybok and Klitschko – has grown a Motsyk is a career diplomat and has held technology will be chosen. Simultaneously, November deadlines. He said that he lot,” the ex-minister said. (Ukrinform) several high level positions in the Ministry great explanatory work should be conduct- expected the release of Yurii Lutsenko in the Lutsenko denies plans for presidency ed on importance of obtaining additional of Foreign Affairs, served as Ukraine’s near future but the case of Yulia ambassador to Turkey and in the Permanent hydrocarbon resources for the country’s Tymoshenko was much more nuanced and KYIV – Former Internal Affairs Minister Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations. power supply.” Meetings held recently in complicated and would take time. Yurii Lutsenko said on April 9 that he has Donetsk gathered a few hundred people Ambassador Pavilionis is a career diplo- As for the dual citizenship issue, mat who became Lithuania’s ambassador to no plans to be the fourth member of the who expressed fear about the environmen- Ambassador Motsyk said, “It would be a the United States in August 2010. Born in opposition claiming the presidency. He tal consequences of shale gas deposits’ disaster for Ukraine and would allow med- 1971 in Vilnius, he grew up with parents made a statement to this effect on TV development in the Donetsk and Kharkiv dling by the Russian Federation in internal who prized higher education. His father, Channel 5. “I’m not going to be the fourth,” regions. (Ukrinform) Ukrainian matters and would lead to the Roland Pavilionis, was an academician, and Mr. Lutsenko said. He said the three parlia- eventual dissolution of the country.” Launch vehicle to be developed - mentary opposition forces have united, and “In countries where there is a strong he will do everything to help them. fessor. He attended Vilnius University, KYIV – Russia has proposed that national identity, it is possible to have dual According to Mr. Lutsenko, before the hiswhere mother, he earned Mary Pavilionienėa master’s degree Venus, in a prophi- Ukraine and Kazakhstan take part in the citizenship. In Ukraine we are still forming opposition decides on a single candidate losophy and a post-graduate diploma in development of a heavy launch vehicle for our identity and in some areas there still is for the presidency, it has to work out a uni- international relations. flights to the moon, Vitaliy Lopota, the not a strong identification with the Ukrainian fied plan for a new country. “I personally In 1993, Mr. Pavilionis joined the Ministry director of S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space state on the part of some of the local popula- believe that this work must be done by of Foreign Affairs and worked in the Corporation Energia, announced at a news tion. Dual citizenship would not be good for Western European Division, with the rank of extra-parliamentary intellectuals. As an conference in Moscow on April 9. “The Ukraine at this time,” he explained. third secretary. He was the assistant director optimist and a person not in any way affili- Lunar program, in general, will fall upon “Just after independence, I was part of of policy in 1994-1995, before moving to the ated with any of the three parliamentary Russia... The Russian space agency, on our negotiations in Moscow and our Russian Ministry of European Integration, camps, I want to take on the mission to initiative over the evolutionary develop- counterparts made it clear that the issue of Department of Political Cooperation. He coordinate the activities of those who ment of the rocket technology Energia, put dual citizenship was of utmost importance worked in Brussels at the Lithuanian speak of a third Ukrainian republic, a plan forward the issue at intergovernmental for them,” Abassador Motsyk continued. Permanent Mission in 1999-2002. of the new country,” the politician said. meetings with Kazakhstan and Ukraine. “They continued to press their point for an Pavilionis was then promoted to lead the (Ukrinform) The document is forwarded, our proposals entire day and almost held us incommuni- Foreign Affairs Ministry European cado. There were no breaks and food and Flow of illegal immigrants is down are being discussed,” Mr. Lopota said. The Integration Department in 2002-2004. Zenith carrier rocket, which is produced in water was withheld from us. However, we Most recently, he served as ambassador-at- KYIV – The flow of illegal immigrants Dnipropetrovsk, could be one of the “traits realized that conceding the issue would large and chief coordinator for Lithuania’s through Ukraine has decreased by 31 per- of these technologies,” he added. Mr. Lopota mean the end of Ukraine and we held firm.” presidency of the Community of cent compared to last year, the deputy said that the situation is complicated by the As for the issue of the Shevchenko cele- Democracies, as well as chief coordinator chairman of the State Border Guard Service fact that the space programs of Ukraine brations, the ambassador dismissed the for the Transatlantic Cooperation and of Ukraine (SBGSU) told reporters on April and Kazakhstan do not have enough incident’s seriousness and maintained that Security Policy Department at the Ministry the ban was the work of the local village 4. “Since the beginning of the year, 122 (31 money. “Ukraine, for example, only wants of Foreign Affairs, overseeing Lithuania’s chief who was rooted in the past and was percent) fewer illegal immigrants were to get the resource, so that their rockets are accession to NATO. detained on the border than over the same ordered, but they cannot put up their period last year. Thus, there remains a ten- money. Kazakhstan looks better financially dency to reduce immigration flows to in this context,” he said. Mr. Lopota noted ple statements since April 3 on Moscow’s Ukraine,” Pavlo Shysholin noted. He noted that a lot depends on politicians. “The three Will Poland... proposal. He has not ruled out implement- that illegal immigrants are mostly united in countries have a unique opportunity to (Continued from page 2) ing it in Poland, but has set conditions, to organized transnational groups. Mr. squeeze in one fist all their resources and wit: any such pipeline should be built by a Shysholin cited the example of the last move forward,” he said. He added that if Slovakia can hardly be expected to take Polish state company; it should depend on detention of Sri Lankan citizens by border such a task is set, then the super-heavy an open stand against Mr. Putin’s proposal. the destination countries’ agreement with guards at the Novoselytsia checkpoint. launch vehicle, built on Energia advanced The country’s transit pipelines, with their the gas volumes and price; and it should “Three foreigners have been detained in rocket technologies, could appear by 2020 monumental transit capacity of more than await the European Commission’s conclu- difficult weather conditions, away from with the cooperation of the three countries. 90 bcm annually (designed to take the flow sion of its anti-monopoly investigation populated areas. People were in serious He said that moon flights are needed for from Ukraine onward into Europe), are against Gazprom. Thus, it seems as if the condition, one of them, in spite of medical the development of technology needed to already under-utilized because Gazprom Ukraine-bypass project is being taken assistance, died of hypothermia,” the further space exploration. (Ukrinform) itself under-utilizes Ukrainian pipelines – under consideration (PAP, Dow Jones, SBGSU chief said. He added that police in not yet by re-routing into bypasses, but Bloomberg, April 5, 8). Kyiv had detained one of the organizers of Kulczyk Oil discovers gas in Donbas because of depressed European demand. PGNiG CEO and EuroPolGaz Deputy the group’s smuggling across the border. KYIV – Kulczyk Oil Ventures Inc., found- Some circles in Slovakia are fearful of los- Chair Grazyna Piotrowska-Oliwa has Another person is wanted. (Ukrinform) ed by Polish businessman Jan Kulczyk, ing further transit volumes if Russia shifts expressed considerable surprise at part of the flow from Ukrainian pipelines Gazprom’s publicity around this pipeline Minister on ‘horror stories’ about fracking announced a new pool gas discovery on the Makeyevskoye License in Ukraine, the com- into South Stream. Those circles in Slovakia proposal. But that publicity was to be fully KYIV – Energy and Coal Industry pany said in a statement posted on its offi- might therefore welcome the Kobryn-Velke expected as part of Moscow’s orchestration Minister Eduard Stavytsky said on March cial website. “The Makeyevskoye-16 Kapusany (Yamal-Europe 2) offer as reas- of pressures on Ukraine. As an incidental 21 that he believes shale gas discussions (M-16) exploration well has tested gas suring to them, inasmuch as it promises effect, Moscow’s publicity has attracted contain a lot of “horror stories,” that could from the S5 zone at more than 4.3 million undiminished transit volumes through unwanted critical attention to this project be dispelled with the help of strict control. cubic feet per day. It is anticipated that the Slovakia. in Poland itself. Speaking at a roundtable in Donetsk, well will be tied into a nearby flow line that Thus, it is up to Poland to block Mr. Budzanowski and Ms. Piotrowska- attended by both professionals and the will take the gas to the Makeyevskoye facili- President Putin’s divide-and-rule proposal. Oliwa insist that an MOU is nonbinding and public, he said, “We assure that there will ty. First production is expected late in the Prime Minister Donald Tusk has practically not necessarily followed by implementa- be public, governmental and environmen- second quarter of 2013,” Kulczyk Oil precluded building this transit pipeline on tion of the project. Such answers are inade- tal audits. The information field is sure to Ventures Inc. said, according to April 9 Polish territory. He told the press that he quate, however. Some MOUs are developed be extended in order to make it clear that news reports. It was noted that M-16 is the had first found out from the press about into binding agreements and implemented, we do.” In particular, as Donetsk Oblast deepest well drilled by the company in the memorandum of understanding (MOU) some are not. The Polish government Council Chairman Andriy Fedoruk said, the Ukraine and this is the first time the com- signing, that “EuroPolGaz [which owns and ought to reassure Ukraine that this one Donetsk region will send a public delega- pany has tested gas at commercial rates operates the Yamal-Europe 1 pipeline and belongs in the latter category – particularly tion to the United States to learn about the from a reservoir of Serpukhovian age. The is jointly held by Gazprom and Polish state- since it was signed by EuroPolGaz’s (“not a production of shale gas. “The delegation M-16 well, located 6.7 kilometers to the owned PGNiG, with 48 percent of shares Polish company”?) CEO with Gazprom, in will include representatives of public orga- northwest of the Makeyevskoye-21 gas dis- each] is not a Polish company,” and that line with the latter’s interests, to the Polish nizations. They will go to the company covery drilled in the first quarter of 2012, Poland would not participate in any government’s apparent surprise. Shell, to the place where it produces gas, to commenced drilling in early August 2012. attempt to isolate Ukraine (Bloomberg, observe the process of its receipt and to Mr. Kulczyk is Poland’s richest man; his April 5; PAP, April 5, 8). The article above is reprinted from communicate with the people who live assets in 2012, according to Wprost, Treasury Minister Mikolaj Budzanowski Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from there. This is important in order that the reached $3 billion (U.S.). He owns Kulczyk (whose ministry oversees PGNiG), howev- its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, delegation members… [learn] about the Holding. (Ukrinform) er, has sounded more nuanced in his multi- www.jamestown.org. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 No. 16

Soccer 2012 Mr. Palkin said in an interview with Selimov (with judges scoring 47-48, 47-48, tal light-heavyweight title during the main Interfax-Ukraine that the CIS league would be 48-47). In the first leg of the quarterfinals, event at the Sports Palace in Kyiv as part of a Dynamo Kyiv was disciplined by the impossible, but believed that a joint cup the Otamans defeated Azerbaijan Baku Fire nine-fight show put on by K2 Promotions, UEFA Control and Disciplinary Committee on match between Russia and Ukraine could be 5-0 on March 22 at the Sports Palace in Kyiv. headed by Alexander Krassyuk, that attract- March• 21 to play two European cup home introduced for the 2013-2014 season, as such Bantamweight Mykola Butsenko defeated ed 7,000 spectators. Uzelkov was out-point- matches (UEFA Champions League or Europa a tournament was discussed in April 2012 at Gairbek Germakhanov; lightweight Denys ed by the late substitution from France, who League) without spectators. “The reason for a regional meeting of the European Club Berinchyk won against Hushid Tojibaev; holds the WBC international light-heavy- that is the racist behavior of some fans during Association in Donetsk. middleweight Dmytro Mytrofanov won weight title and the WBC light-heavyweight the UEFA competitions games this season,” against Khaybula Musalov; light-heavyweight Baltic title. Super-welterweight Alexander Three Ukrainian clubs – Metalist Kharkiv, noted the UEFA committee. The decision was Oleksandr Gvozdyk defeated Vladimir Spirko (15-0, 8 KO) defeated Laszlo Fazekas Dynamo Kyiv and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk – based on fan conduct at Dynamo Kyiv match- Cheles; and heavyweight Olksandr Usyk won (13-6-1, 10 KO) of Hungary by unanimous were• eliminated from the UEFA Europa es against Paris Saint-Germain on November against Magomedrasul Medzhidov. On March decision after eight rounds, with each judge League’s Round of 32 on February 21, follow- 21, 2012, and against Bordeaux on February 1 Ukraine defeated Great Britain 3-2. The U.S. scoring 80-71 in favor of Spirko. ing the teams’ failure to advance. Dynamo lost 14. Dynamo Kyiv announced on April 10 its vs. Ukraine scheduled fights on February 21 Heavyweight Andrey Rudenko (23-0, 15 KO) 0-1 against Bordeaux, France; Metalist lost decision to appeal the ruling by the commit- were cancelled by the organizers, citing a defeated Adnan Buharalija (26-15-2, 18 KO) 0-1 against England’s Newcastle; and tee, citing its support for UEFA’s anti-racist “technical commission decision.” The second of Bosnia and Herzegovina with a TKO in the Dnipro’s 1-1 draw against Swiss club Basel policies, but criticized the decision as too leg of the semifinals between Ukraine and first round of their eight-round fight. Viktor wasn’t enough for it to advance. The UEFA harsh for the club and its loyal fans. No date Italy is scheduled for April 19 at the Sports Plotnikov (28-2, 13 KO) defeated Beka Europa League Championship final match is for an appeal hearing was set. An upcoming Palace in Kyiv (results to appear in the next Sutidze (10-5-1, 4 KO) of Georgia in the wel- scheduled for May 15 in Amsterdam. match Dynamo plays in a UEFA competition Sportsline). Other teams in the semifinals terweight division, with judges scoring will be held behind closed doors, and the sec- Ukraine’s Shakhtar Donetsk tied 2-2 include Mexico and Kazakhstan, with 80-72, 80-71, 80-71 after 12 rounds. Vadim ond closed-door match, if necessary due to against Germany’s Dortmund Borussia on Kazakhstan up on Mexico 3-2 in the first leg. Novopashyn (3-0, 1 KO) defeated fellow another infraction within a three-year proba- February• 13 in Donetsk in their first-leg Ukrainian light-heavyweight Vladislav tionary period, is to be determined by the On March 30 at AKKO International match of the round of 16 in the UEFA Nikitenko (0-1, 0 KO) after a unanimous deci- committee. Center in Kyiv, featherweight Timur Champions League. In the second leg, sion after six rounds with judges scoring Ahundov• (14-2-1, 5 KO) defeated Khavazhy Dortmund defeated Shakhtar 3-0 at 59-56, 59-53, 59-51. Oleg Korobko (2-0, 0 Ukraine’s national soccer team moved up Khatsyhau (10-1, 6 KO) of Azerbaijan after Dortmund Stadium on March 5 in Germany, KO) lost to Georgian Mishiko Beselia (0-0, 0 11 places from 48th place to 37th place in the 12 rounds, with judges scoring 119-109, eliminating the Donetsk club from the com- KO) in the super-lightweight division on April• edition of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World 117-111, 117-111. In the super-lightweight petition. The UEFA Champions League final points after four rounds, and light-heavy- Ranking, published on April 11 on the FIFA division, Daniyar Hanyk (9-0, 4 KO) defeated match will be played on May 25 at Wembley weight Oleh Nekrasov (6-1-1, 6 KO) lost to website. Ukraine’s recent national team wins compatriot Volodymyr Harabuga (0-2, 0 KO) over Poland and Moldova helped to boost the Stadium in London. Levan Shonia (13-5, 9 KO) of Georgia after a after 12 rounds, with judges scoring 100-89, team’s ranking. TKO in the fifth round of their six-round fight. Boxing 00-90, 99-91. Also on that date, at Westin Ukraine defeated Moldova 2-1 in Odesa Bonaventure Hotel, in Los Angeles, light- Wladimir Klitschko, who turned 37 on on March 26 and won against Poland 3-1 on Middleweight Vitaliy Kopylenko (19-0, heavyweight Ismayl Sillakh (18-1, 15 KO) March 26, announced on March 5 his March• 22 in Warsaw during the 2014 FIFA 10 KO) defeated Daniel Borisov (4-6, 0 KO) of defeated Mitch Williams (7-2-1, 5 KO) of the planned• fight against Francesco Pianeta, a World Cup Brazil qualifiers. After five match- Bulgaria• on April 13 at Palestra Communale U.S., after an eight-round unanimous deci- 6-foot-3 southpaw with an undefeated es Ukraine, in Group H, is in fourth place with Saleggi in Locarno, Switzerland. sion. record (28-0-1, 15 KO), on May 4 in 8 points, ahead of Moldova (4 points, after six Mannheim, Germany, at SAP Arena. Pianeta, Flyweight Olexandr Gryschuk (12-0, 5 On March 29 at Turning Stone Casino in matches), and San Marino (0 points, after 28, who took a brief hiatus after being diag- KO) defeated Gabor Molnar of Hungary (11-2, Verona, N.Y., super-welterweight Taras six), and behind Montenegro (14 points, after nosed with cancer in 2009, is ranked No. 9 by 8 KO)• to win the WBA Intercontinental title Sheles• ­tyuk (0-0, 0 KO) TKO’d Kamal six), England (12 points, after six) and Poland the WBO, and No. 12 by the WBA and IBO. after two rounds of their bout on April 5 by Muhammad (0-0, 0 KO) of the U.S., with a (8 points, after five matches). In the final min- Last year he was Klitschko’s sparring partner. Union Boxing Promotions of Donetsk. Artem first-round technical knockout during a four- utes of the Ukraine-Moldova game, Taras Klitschko (59-3, 51 KO), who holds the WBO, Dalakian defeated David Kanals (10-5, 4 KO) round exhibition. During the other fights that Stepanenko, who plays for Shakhtar Donetsk, IBO, WBA and IBF super heavywieght titles in the first round to win the vacant WBA night, Brazilian light-heavyweight Jackson was red-carded after a flying kick connected as well as the honorary “Ring Magazine” title, International title in the flyweight division. Junior (14-0, 12 KO) lost to Umberto Savigne with the back of Moldovan player’s head, is set for his 14th title defense and 23rd Olexander Yegorov (12-0-1, 6 KO) won by (10-1, 7 KO) of Cuba, with a fourth-round while in the penalty area. This could be trou- world championship fight. The fight will be split decision (98-93, 99-92, 99-93) against TKO in their 10-round fight, and middle- ble for the Ukrainian squad as the qualifiers broadcast in Germany on RTL, and Epix will Dmytro Aushev (1-3, 1 KO) in the super-ban- weight Brian Vera (22-6, 13 KO) defeated progress. Ukraine’s next match is against show the fight in the U.S. tamweight division. Light middleweight Donatas Bondoravas (17-3-1, 6 KO) of Montenegro on June 7 in an away match. Artem Karpets (18-0, 6 KO) out-pointed Lithuania after Bondoravas retired in the On February 23 Anatoliy Dudchenko Following a meeting between Shakhtar Norbert Szekeres of Hungary (13-23-3, 8 KO), seventh round of their 10-round fight. (18-2, 13 KO) stopped Sabou Ballagou (8-7, 4 Donetsk coach Mircea Lucescu and club with all three judges scoring in favor of KO)• in the fifth round of their National Ukraine hosted a boxing exhibition on owner• Rinat Akhmetov, the coach was signed Karpets, 80-72. Heavyweight Yuri Voynilenko Amateur Boxing Association U.S. light-heavy- March 21 at the Sport Life Club in Kyiv. Viktor to a two-year contract with the club. Lucescu, (2-0, 2 KO) scored a win after a second-round weight title fight at Quiet Cannon arena in Postol• (21-0, 10 KO) won against Henry 67, has been the team’s coach since 2004; he stoppage against Vyacheslav Scherbakov Montebello, Calif. At the start of the fifth Lundy (22-2-1, 11 KO) of the U.S. for the signed on for another two years with the (3-15-1, 2 KO). Also in attendance were WBA round, the two fighters were closely scored WBC super-lightweight international title, club, as announced by the club’s press office welterweight champion Vyacheslav by the judges, with a slight lead for Ballagou with the judges scoring unanimously after 12 on March 25. Lucuscu has led the team to six Senchenko and WBA interim super middle- (39-37, 39-37, 38-38), but then Dudchenko rounds in favor of Postol 116-113, 116-112, Ukrainian titles, four Ukrainian cups, and the weight titleholder Stas Kshtanov. came alive and dropped Ballagou to the can- 117-112. Cruiserweight Dmytro Kucher (20- 2008-2009 UEFA Cup win. vas twice before the fight was stopped. In the In the first leg of the semifinals, Ukraine 0, 15 KO) defeated Julio Cesar Dos Santos cruiserweight division, Ismail Sillakh (18-1, lost to Dolce and Gabana Italia Thunder 4-1 (22-1, 20 KO) of Brazil for the WBC cruiser- Ukraine’s U-21 team lost to Italy on 15 KO) stopped Daniel Allotey (14-4, 7 KO) of on •April 12 at Casino Campione in Campione weight international title, with all three judg- March 25 at Bassano del Grappa after a goal Ghana in the second round. Sillakh dropped d’Italia. Light heavyweight Imre Szello es scoring 120-108 in favor of Kucher. by •Ciro Immobile in the 59th minute of an Allotey to the canvas in the first round and defeated Denys Solonenko (50-45, 49-46, Featherweight Oleg Malinovsky (6-0, 2 KO) international friendly match prior to the twice in the second for the TKO victory. Italian’s departure for the UEFA Under-21 50-45); middleweight William McLaughlin defeated Zhdanos Zhetpisbayev (5-4, 2 KO) Championship to be held in Israel on June defeated Ievgenii Barbanov (48-47, 50-45, of Kazakhstan after a unanimous decision by Heavyweight Vyacheslav Glazkov (14-0, 5-18. Ukraine is in Group 5, with Switzerland, 48-47); lightweight Banimir Stankovic the judges, with each scoring 60-54 after six 10 KO) in his fight against Malik Scott (35-0, Croatia, Latvia and Liechtenstein, in qualifiers defeated Denys Berinchyk by unanimous rounds. Middleweight Valentin Zbrozhnek 12• KO) of the U.S. on February 23 at for the 2015 U-21 European championship. decision, with all three judges scoring 48-47; (2-1-1, 0 KO) defeated Robison Omsarashvili Paramount Theater in Huntington, N.Y., bantamweight Jahyn Vittorio Parrinelllo (10-3-3, 6 KO) of Georgia, with all the judges ended with a draw decision. Judges scored Shakhtar Donetsk and Metalist Kharkiv defeated Viktor Gogolyev by split decision scoring 60-54 in favor of Zbrozhek after six 96-94, 92-98, 95-95. Both fighters retain team directors, respectively, Serhiy Palkin and (48-47, 49-46, 49-46); and heavyweight rounds. Super-welterweight Myasnik their undefeated status. Serhiy• Volyk, in commenting on the Russian- Oleksandr Usyk defeated Matteo Modugno Ogdzhanyan (0-0, 0 KO) secured his first win Heavyweight Alex Mazikin (18-8-2, 4 proposed joint CIS League expressed concern by TKO in the first minute of the second against fellow Ukrainian Vitaly Salyga (0-0, 0 KO) lost to Christian Hammer (12-3, 8 KO) about the creation of a league that could have round. In the second leg of the quarterfinals, KO), with referees scoring 40-37, 39-37, of •Romania on February 22 for the WBO the potential to sacrifice Ukrainian national on March 30 in Baku, Ukraine Otamans lost 39-37 after four rounds. Welterweight European heavyweight title at Strada Henri soccer. “The vision of our club begins with the to Azerbaijan Baku Fire. Bantamweight Roman Zhailauov (6-0, 4 KO) defeated Stas Coanda in Galati, Romania, as part of a three- words ‘to be an ambassador of Ukrainain Magomed Kurbanov defeated Alexandr Savarin (0-0, 0 KO) of Ukraine after three card fight night. football in the world.’ This is our basic posi- Riscan by unanimous decision (50-44, all rounds, when the Ukrainian retired before tion. And then we have to sit down and open- three judges); middleweight Mikalai Vesialou the end of their four-round fight. Super- Artem Ayvazadi (10-3, 5 KO) lost to ly discuss with the entire Ukrainian football defeated Olexandr Stretskyy by unanimous welterweight Illya Prymak (3-0, 3 KO) defeat- Kirill Relikh (11-0, 9 KO) of Belarus in the community about whether it’s necessary to decision (50-45, all three judges); light- ed fellow Ukrainian Oleksandr Nikolenko super-lightweight• division on February 19 at support the joint league or not, and what are heavyweight Ramazan Magomedau defeated (01-0, 0 KO) with a TKO in the third round of the Moulin Rouge Club in Minsk. all of the pros and cons,” Mr. Palkin stated. Mr. Sergiy Lapin by split decision (49-46, 49-45, their four-round fight. Volyk added, “You have to understand all legal 49-46); heavyweight Abdullayev defeated On February 16, Vladislav Nikitenko lost and sporting consequences, as well as the Dmytro Rudenkyi by unanimous decision On March 16 Doudou Ngumbu (31-4, 11 to Umar Salamov (2-0, 1 KO) in the light- consequences of what remains in Ukraine (with all three judges scoring 30-27); and KO) beat light-heavyweight Vyacheslav heavyweight• division at Spartak Gym in Kyiv, and Russia, and what happens to the clubs lightweight Vasyl Lomachenko retained his Uzelkov• (28-3, 17 KO) and took the with all three judges scoring 20-18 in favor that don’t play in this league.” In November undefeated status with his defeat of Albert Ukrainian’s WBO 175-pound intercontinen- of Salamov. No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 15

Tsurenko tops terfinal in Memphis. She was the No. 1 the first set, Tsurenko won seven of the semifinal. Meanwhile, Date-Krumm had a player for Ukraine’s Fed Cup team, thanks next eight games to take command of the more difficult challenge to overcome in her in Ukrainian women’s tennis to her great two-handed backhand, for the match and pull out the 7-5, 6-3 victory. semifinal match against Tamarine For most of the past decade on the first time in her career in a tie against the Tsurenko’s hot start to 2013 is proving Tanasugarn, perhaps sapping her of some World Tennis Association (WTA) Tour, the United States, and defeated Francesca the hand you’re dealt is not important if energy going into the final. Ukrainian blue-and-yellow flag was carried Schiavone and Sara Errani on clay. She you don’t know how to play your cards. Svitolina surprised the tennis world by by the Bondarenko sisters. Alona and ended 2012 barely on the outside of the Granted, the young Ukrainian lost her third winning the tournament, besting favorites Kateryna were the 2008 Australian Open top 100 at No. 102. round match against Caroline Wozniacki Date-Krumm (former top 5 player), doubles champions and each sister had her Tsurenko made the trip to Brisbane, (4-6, 3-6), but she still enjoyed a No. 74 Petkovic (former top 10 player) and own noteworthy singles career. Alona Australia, to open 2013, but lost in the final ranking as of late March 2013. A bit of good Tanasugarn (former top 20 player). peaked at No. 19 in 2008, won two career round of qualifying, then was granted a luck kicked off the new tennis year, but Heading into the WTA event in Pune, India, titles and boasted career victories over reprieve via an entry into the main draw hard work and dedication allowed her to Elina was ranked No. 133 in the world. The Jelena Jankovic, Caroline Wozniacki and when Maria Sharapova withdrew with a take full advantage of it. No. 7 seed served 10 aces to beat Petkovic Maria Sharapova. The younger Kateryna collarbone injury. Later it was made known in a little over an hour, then went on to eas- reached the quarterfinals at the 2009 U.S. Svitolina wins WTA title ily dispatch Date-Krumm in the final. that Tsurenko got the lucky loser spot Eighteen-year-old Ukrainian female ten- Open, won her lone WTA title at “The win over Petkovic gave me a lot of when two higher-ranked losers in qualify- nis player Elina Svitolina won her first WTA Birmingham in 2008, and recorded wins confidence, she’s a great player, she was ing did not sign in by the deadline. title in Pune, India, on November 13, 2012. over Venus Williams, Agnieszka Top 10. I had to play really well,” Svitolina As a big underdog in all of her Brisbane The rising Ukrainian tennis hopeful defeat- Radwanska, Ana Ivanovic and Li Na. matches, Tsurenko went on to defeat said. “I knew how Kimiko plays and I knew ed a former top-five player, Japanese I just had to play every ball, every point and However, with Alona suffering several Jammila Gajdosova and Daniela Kimiko Date-Krumm, 6-3, 6-3, in one hour injuries and needing surgeries over the Hantuchova on her way to the semifinals every game as the last one – I had to stay and 19 minutes. Svitolina earned a $20,000 really focused. And it all went pretty well.” past two years and Kateryna marrying and where she would take the first set from cash prize and 160 ranking points. becoming pregnant, the 2012 season was Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova before the “It was not my day, my tactics weren’t While the young Svitolina played in her working,” Date-Krumm said in her losing the first in 10 years no Ukrainian woman Russian rallied for a three-set win. Her first first ever WTA event final, her 42-year-old press conference. “She has a lot of power, tennis pro finished in the top 100 of the career WTA semifinal in Brisbane brought counterpart, Date-Krumm, was seeking to but she doesn’t just hit the ball hard, she’s WTA rankings. Tsurenko back into the top 100 at No. 83 – become the oldest singles winner on the also smart. Now a lot of players just hit the Enter Lesia Tsurenko. a new career high. WTA circuit. Svitolina demonstrated pow- ball, but she was mixing it up, using wide Born in 1989, the 23-year-old from Entering the Australian Open, Tsurenko erful ground strokes and a big serve which serves and more.” was required to play qualifying, but would Vladimirec has been grouped with higher- helped her defeat her opponent’s decades Since winning the French Open juniors be the top seed. While some players might ranked players her age like Victoria of playing experience. in 2010, Svitolina had won four ITF Azarenka, Agnieszka Radwanska, Dominika have struggled with the notion of playing in “It is a great feeling to win my maiden Women’s Circuit titles. Prior to the victory Cibulkova and Sabine Lisicki. The grouping qualifying with a ranking high enough for WTA title. I had watched her (Date- in India, the biggest of her wins was a 2012 is somewhat unfair, since unlike her peers, the main draw, Tsurenko put her ego aside Krumm) play in the last few matches and victory in Georgia worth $50,000 in prize Tsurenko did not turn professional until and just played tennis. Despite arguably the was only focusing on playing my natural money. 2007. She doesn’t come from a sporting toughest opening round draw against game,” Svitolina said in a post-match press Elina had inched her way up to a #87 family, in fact, she comes from the opposite Bethanie Mattek-Sands, a former top-30 conference. WTA ranking as March came to a close. extreme. Her father, Viktor, worked in player coming back from an injury, Svitolina had previewed her strong international relations for a nuclear power Tsurenko won in three sets and experi- game playing against pre-tournament Ihor Stelmach may be reached at iman@ plant prior to retiring; mother Larisa is an enced little difficulty in her other two favorite Andrea Petkovic of Germany in one sfgsports.com economist. Older sister, Oxana, is a lawyer. matches to make the main draw. Lesia studied at Ukraine’s National She was challenged some more when University of Physical Education and Sports she was drawn in the only qualifier oppo- and is fluent in three languages. site a seeded player and would face The early part of her WTA career could Pavlyuchenkova for the second time in a best be described as here and there – a few weeks. This time Lesia would have her journey woman of sorts. The 2012 season revenge against the higher-ranked Russian, finally saw Lesia Tsurenko making major winning 7-5, 3-6, 7-5. The second round strides. She played in the main draw of all saw her face off against teenaged qualifier four Grand Slam events for the first time Daria Gavrilova in some sweltering and she reached her first career WTA quar- Australian heat. After falling behind 4-0 in

journal, degrade the credibility and the On the 70th anniversary... scholarly integrity of the author, who is (Continued from page 9) supposed to be a historian of World War II in Ukraine. its alleged participation in the Holocaust. Similarly, in Ukraine, where the Soviet (Krytyka magazine, No. 7-8, 2012). He dis- tradition of glorification of the “Great misses the results of the Commission of Patriotic War” lives on, the dominant Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada, appraisal of the Galicia Division amounts to known as the Deschênes Commission, continued demonization – also a Soviet leg- which found that the division did not par- acy. Instead, the Red Army, which fought on ticipate in committing any crimes. This behalf of Stalin’s regime, which enslaved not commission, spurred on by allegations only Ukraine but also more than half of from multiple parties, conducted a thor- Europe as a result of the war, is constantly ough investigation and cleared the division glorified. of all accusations. Yet Prof. Himka contin- Taking into account the developments ues to assert the “high probability that the and the political climate during the 22 division participated in the raids on the years of independent Ukrainian Statehood, Jews in Brody,” when in fact the division nothing indicates that an appropriate reap- was never in Brody, but instead was com- praisal and due recognition of Galicia pletely surrounded and engaged in heavy Division veterans is coming anytime soon. fighting against the Bolsheviks in the Brody The division will not join the “Ukrainian region. Prof. Himka also claims that “the Pantheon of Glory,” and neither will its vet- Division collaborated with the Dirlewanger erans, who in 1943-1945 fostered high brigade in the destruction of entire villages hope and patriotism, expressed in their in Slovakia,” while in fact, the division fight- willingness to fight and gain statehood for ers enjoyed the pleasant and hospitable Ukraine, albeit unsuccessfully. Most of attitude of the local population and left them have died, and those who are still liv- behind only the warmest memories. The ing are in their late 80s and 90s, having no existence of the Dirlewanger brigade in hope of seeing their struggle duly recog- Slovakia wasn’t even known to the division nized and valued. fighters, who found out about it only from publications after the war. Such unfounded Translated from Ukrainian by Bohdan accusations, published in a respectable Pechenyak and Taras Ferencevych. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 No. 16

proposal, under discussion since the late 1990s, envisages Germany. The construction of Nord Stream on the Baltic Putin, Miller unveil... building a 600-kilometer pipeline from Kobryn, via eastern seabed, bypassing the mainland, has rendered that version Poland, to Velke Kapusany in easternmost Slovakia, the of Yamal-Europe 2 moot. Moscow, however, now proposes (Continued from page 2) entry point of the main transit pipeline from Ukraine en the name Yamal-Europe 2 for the Beltranshaz trunk pipe- from Poland, instead of entering from Ukraine. The export route to Central Europe. line that would carry Russian gas from a junction point destinations (Austria with the Baumgarten distribution Under the Putin-Miller proposal, Gazprom would divert within Belarus to Kobryn and the exit to Poland. center, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy) would 15 bcm per year from Ukraine’s transit pipelines into the Poland has no need for this pipeline, no reason to coop- not be affected either. Kobryn-Velke Kapusany route. Whether the re-routing of erate with this Russian project and no grounds for com- Compared with the Nord Stream and South Stream this volume would still allow sufficient capacity for Russian pounding the pressure on Ukraine. However, Slovakia is a mega-projects, a Kobryn-Velke Kapusany pipeline with its gas supply to Belarus itself through the Beltranshaz pipe- vulnerable target of Gazprom. Like Ukraine, Slovakia is proposed 15-bcm annual capacity looks almost restrained. line is not entirely clear. Russia normally supplies Belarus fearful of losing transit volumes in the event that Russia But, if built, it could deal a coup de grace to Ukraine’s gas with approximately 20 bcm of gas annually for Belarus’s builds South Stream. In that case, the same westbound gas transit system, which is already facing the South Stream own consumption. Another 2.5 bcm per year of Russian volumes that would be shifted from Ukraine’s transit pipe- bypass threat. A Kobryn-Velke Kapusany line would not gas is delivered through a Beltranshaz line to Lithuania and lines could ipso facto be shifted from Slovakia’s transit add any new volumes of Russian gas to Europe. The opera- onward to Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave. pipelines, these being a direct westward continuation of tive goal of this project is to increase Russian pressure on Ukraine’s pipelines. Ukraine to cede control over its transit pipelines to Moscow, however, now seems to offer to maintain the Gazprom. The operative goal gas transit volumes through Slovakia, re-directing them via To achieve that operative purpose, the Kobryn-Velke Poland, instead of Ukraine, into the Slovak pipeline system. Kapusany project need not be actually implemented. It of a new pipeline project is Russia’s move seeks to isolate Ukraine while incentivizing only needs to become a credible threat, which would how- a separate Slovak deal with Gazprom. The South Stream ever require Warsaw’s and Bratislava’s acquiescence, at to increase Russian pressure project is designed to scare Slovakia almost as much as least in the form of conducting serious discussions about on Ukraine to cede control Ukraine. The pressure on Slovakia is not so obvious this project with Moscow. Apparently, the Kremlin and because Russia refrains from advertising it publicly, where- Gazprom hope that the European Union member countries over its transit pipelines as it heavily publicizes its pressures on Ukraine. Poland and Slovakia might assist Russia’s efforts to obtain Back in 2000-2002, Russia insistently discussed the control over Ukraine’s transit pipelines under compound- to Gazprom. Kobryn-Poland-Velke Kapusany project with Belarus, ed pressures. According to Messrs. Putin and Miller in their Poland and the European Union, in an early effort to cir- joint appearance, Gazprom has recently held talks with cumvent Ukraine’s transit system (Kommission der Polish and Slovakian companies, which allegedly Gazprom in 2011 completed a phased takeover of Europaeischen Gemeinschaften, Energie-Dialog mit expressed “very strong interest” in the implementation of Beltranshaz under Gazprom’s full ownership, achieving an Russland, April 2003). In 2002 Ukraine ostensibly agreed the Kobryn-Poland-Velke Kapusany pipeline (Russian integrated gas transportation system on Belarus’s territo- (without seriously intending to deliver) to share its transit presidential website www.kremlin.ru, Interfax, April 3, 4). ry. This is partly intended as an overture to a phased take- system with Gazprom in a “consortium,” possibly with According to Messrs. Putin and Miller, this line could be over of Ukraine’s gas transit system. Meanwhile, it is obvi- minority German participation. After this, Moscow de- built and become operational by 2018-2019, after South ously more profitable for Gazprom to use its own transit emphasized the Kobryn-Poland-Velke Kapusany project Stream will have been built by 2017. Stipulating such pipeline on Belarus’s territory, rather than pay transit fees because it counted on using the Ukrainian system under deadlines (without a discussion of resources for the South for using Ukrainian transit pipelines. Gazprom’s control. This story may recur, albeit to a full Stream project) is designed to scare Ukraine into submis- Separately from Beltranshaz, Gazprom owns and oper- denouement this time, if Ukraine yields to Russian pres- sion. Russia would not need to come up with new gas vol- ates the Yamal-Europe 1 transit pipeline, with a capacity of sure. In that case, the unaffordable South Stream and the umes, but merely to re-route existing export volumes into 30 bcm per year, running across northern Belarus into more bankable Kobryn-Poland-Velke Kapusany project a Polish transit pipeline, before they reach Ukraine’s tran- Poland and onward to Germany. The Yamal-Europe 1 pipe- would become redundant. sit system. line is fully dedicated to supplying Poland and Germany Kobryn, in the southwestern corner of Belarus on the with Russian gas. Russia (and, at times, Poland) intermit- The article above is reprinted from Eurasia Daily Monitor Polish border, is the exit point of the Beltranshaz trunk tently discussed building a Yamal-Europe 2 pipeline, paral- with permission from its publisher, the Jamestown pipeline connecting with Poland’s pipeline grid. Gazprom’s lel to Yamal-Europe 1, toward Poland and possibly Foundation, www.jamestown.org. No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 17 Volodymyr Shesiuk, conductor of Livonia Symphony, marks two anniversaries by Nina Wasylkewych conservatory: classical violinist and con- modern opera and ballet performances. In ductor of operatic/symphonic orchestras. Kyrgyzstan Maestro Shesiuk received the DETROIT – During the current concert In spite of his acknowledged musical tal- Abdylas Mahdybaev Award. season, the Livonia Symphony Orchestra is ent, however, throughout his life in the When Leonid Kravchuk, the first presi- celebrating its 40th anniversary, as well as USSR Mr. Shesiuk felt discrimination as the dent of independent Ukraine, visited the 20th year of Volodymyr Shesiuk’s tenure son of “untrustworthy” parents. One such Kyrgyzstan in 1991, Mr. Shesiuk asked him as music director and conductor. In honor of incident of attempted sabotage was a last- about the possibility of returning to work Maestro Shesiuk’s Ukrainian heritage, the minute change in the operatic repertoire to professionally in Ukraine. Unfortunately, final spring concert will be composed be played at a major national qualifying circumstances were not favorable, and the almost entirely of Ukrainian classical music. exam. In a very short timeframe, however, Shesiuk family emigrated to the United This event will take place in the Louis Mr. Shesiuk was able to master the new States. Schmidt Auditorium, Clarenceville High program, and he received the highest rating In the Detroit area, Maestro Shesiuk has School, 20155 Middlebelt Road, Livonia, as orchestra conductor. During the Fourth been able to utilize his musical talents in Mich., on Saturday, April 27, 4 p.m. National Competition of Young Conductors many spheres. As the highly respected con- The concert will be one more milestone in the Soviet Union, the audience gave Mr. ductor of the Livonia Symphony Orchestra, in Volodymyr Shesiuk’s extraordinary per- Shesiuk a standing ovation. Nevertheless, he has worked tirelessly not only to perfect sonal and professional life. Born in the the officials prohibited him from participat- the musicians’ performances, but also to Volyn region of Ukraine, he experienced ing in the finals and subsequently denied promote Ukrainian culture and music. hardships from early childhood. His father, him eligibility to apply for positions with He also conducts the St. Josaphat Church a teacher and staunch Ukrainian patriot, the opera and ballet orchestras in Kyiv. Choir, and he is the instructor of the was deemed “politically untrustworthy” by And yet, new opportunities arose unex- Immaculate Conception Schools’ choirs, for the NKVD (the Soviet secret police). Forced pectedly. The director of the Major Theater which he has written many original songs. out of their home in the town of Hlody, the in Moscow was willing to hire Mr. Shesiuk At a recent birthday celebration for the family moved into a shabby one-room as conductor. There, he met many of well-known accompanist Olya Solovey, he apartment in the city of Lutsk. Volodymyr’s Russia’s greatest musicians and artists, con- surprised everyone by singing his original father was prohibited from working in the ducted performances of world-class operas composition, “Mama,” accompanied on the schools, and the family struggled to survive. and continued his music studies at the Maestro Volodymyr Shesiuk piano by his wife, Luba. He is heard often It was through the benevolence of Paul Moscow Conservatory. A highlight of this on Detroit’s classical music radio station, Kniupfer, a German music teacher, that period was Mr. Shesiuk’s meeting with at the Lviv Conservatory. The working con- giving background information on compos- young Volodymyr was able to attend the Volodymyr Ivasiuk. The popular young ditions in the theater quickly became intol- ers and their works. To support music institute in Lutsk. Recognizing the Ukrainian composer asked Mr. Shesiuk to erable, with the directors blocking his ini- Immaculate Conception Schools and local boy’s talent, Mr. Kniupfer paid for his entire arrange some of his songs, with lyrics by tiatives and creativity. Again fate inter- Ukrainian churches, Maestro and Mrs. education at the institute. To this day, Rostyslav Bratun, for a symphonic perfor- vened. Based on the excellent references Shesiuk, and daughter Anna Sorohtei, a tal- Maestro Shesiuk warmly remembers his mance. Unfortunately, this was to be the Maestro Shesiuk received from Moscow, ented pianist, have organized and per- wonderful benefactor. last concert in Ivasiuk’s lifetime. In 1978 the director of the National Theater in formed in many benefit concerts. Following his graduation from the Lutsk Mr. Shesiuk unexpectedly received an invi- Kyrgyzstan offered him the position of Rose Kachnowski, President of the institute, Mr. Shesiuk was accepted to study tation to attend a brief series of master principal conductor. After hearing Maestro Livonia Symphony board of directors, com- at the Lviv Conservatory, where he was classes given by Kiryl Kondrashyn, the con- Shesiuk conduct several pieces, the admin- mented: “We are extremely proud of the privileged to attend classes under Yurij ductor who had guided Van Cliburn during istration and members of the theater accomplishments of Maestro Shesiuk, his Luciw, a Shevchenko Award laureate. Mr. the Tchaikovsky Competition. enthusiastically endorsed the decision. impact on the orchestra and what he has Shesiuk was one of a very small number of Early in 1985 Mr. Shesiuk returned to Over the next six years Maestro Shesiuk done to promote awareness of Ukrainian students who completed two majors at the conduct the orchestra in Lviv and to teach directed and conducted both classical and culture.”

have been unavailable in libraries – even in Next year, in 2014, the Ukrainian Art Ukrainian music conservatories. Song Project will release a CD to commem- Ukrainian Art Song Project The Ukrainian Art Song Project (UASP), orate the 200th anniversary of Taras using its Musica Leopolis record label, was Shevchenko’s birth. This will be a compila- founded by Pavlo Hunka, the renowned tion of the best settings of his poetry by the now available on i-Tunes British bass-baritone, with a view to composers recorded so far. (Look for it recording and promoting the classical trea- online.) Mr. Hunka will appear in Toronto sures of the Ukrainian art song. The label and New York next March to commemorate plans to record all the known songs, many the Shevchenko anniversary. of which are masterpieces, of all the major Also next year, the UASP plans to launch composers, including: Lysenko, Stetsenko, its next collection: the art songs of the Stepovij, Borys Lyatoshynsky, and Yuri Galician composers, including Vasyl Meytus, among many others. Barvinsky, Denys Sichynsky and Stanislav The UASP has been developed under the Liudkevych. Of special note are the art auspices of the Canadian Ukrainian Opera songs of Stefania Turkevych, who was the Association (CUOA), a registered charity first professional woman composer in whose objectives are to promote Ukrainian Ukrainian music history. For more details classical music in all forms, including live on concert dates and times, reader may performances and recordings. The CUOA consult the UASP website: (www.uasp.ca). has a long and distinguished history in Covers of three CDs released by the Ukrainian Art Song Project. staging and promoting Ukrainian classical Roman Hurko is producer of the music, especially operas. Ukrainian Art Song Project (UASP). by Roman Hurko vidual song for only 99 cents. Additionally, on the i-Tunes site they can hear a snippet of any NEW YORK – Did you know that more song, on any album, for free, to help them than half of all music sales last year were decide whether or not to buy it. digital downloads? With the demise of To try out this new way of buying music, record stores and the rise of i-Tunes and just go to: http://www.apple.com/itunes/ other Internet music providers such as Next, go to the top right of the screen, Amazon, the compact disc may soon go the where there is a box with the letter ‘Q’ in it way of the LP record – or the printed book (Q is for question). In the box, type in the for that matter. name of any composer you are looking for. In keeping with the times, the Ukrainian Another initiative of the UASP has been Art Song Project has now made available, to digitize all the written music for the for digital download, the complete art songs and make these available for free songs of three Ukrainian composers: download on the UASP site www.uasp.ca. Mykola Lysenko, Kyrylo Stetsenko and This music is all in the public domain, Yakiv Stepovyi. yet very difficult to find, as Ukrainian music The advantage of this to the lover of publishing today is in a state of great disor- Ukrainian classical music is twofold: first, the ganization. It is the hope of the UASP that music is now available all over the world, singers all over the world will be able to wherever there is Internet access. Second, lis- access this beautiful music and include it in teners can choose to purchase a complete CD their concert repertoire. Sonia Holiad for $9.99 (which is often less than the hard- Also, music scholars will now have Ukrainian Art Song Project producer Roman Hurko in the control room at the Glenn copy retail price), or can purchase any indi- access to many songs that, up until now, Gould Studio in Toronto. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 No. 16 No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 19

April 25 Lecture by Volodymyr Viatrovych, “(Not) April 28 Ukrainian Ladies Tea, Ukrainian Cultural Center, Cambridge, MA Overcoming Totalitarianism: The Ukrainian Lesson,” Warren, MI 586-757-8130 or [email protected] Harvard University, 617-495-4053 April 28 Easter bazaar, St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic April 25 Chornobyl commemoration service and program, Ottawa Shrine, www.st-john-baptist-shrine.ca or 613-723-1673 S. Bound Brook, NJ Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A., St. Andrew Memorial Church, 732-356-0090 April 28 Singing workshop with Maria Sonevytsky, “Lyrical New York Village Songs of Ukraine,” Ukrainian Village Voices, All April 26 Exhibit, featuring photography by Mike Platosz and Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church, New Britain, CT artwork by Ramon Crespo, Trinity-On-Main, [email protected] or www.trinityonmain.com www.brownpapertickets.com/event/368882

April 26 Book presentation, “The Boy from Reactor 4” by Orest April 29 Lecture by Agnieszka Matusiak, “The Discourse of New York Stelmach, The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 Cambridge, MA Masculinity in Ukrainian Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries,” Harvard University, 617-495-4053 April 26-28 10th annual Spring Cleaning Weekend, Brooklyn Ukrainian Kerhonkson, NY Group, Soyuzivka Ukrainian Heritage Center, April 29 Lecture by Alexei Miller, “Nation-building at the Core of [email protected] Stanford, CA Empires: Entanglements and Comparisons,” Stanford University, https://creeesevents.wufoo.com/forms/creees- April 27 Concert, “Treasures from Ukraine,” Livonia Symphony seminar-429-alexei-miller/ Livonia, MI Orchestra conducted by Volodymyr Shesiuk, 734-421-1111 or www.livoniasymphony.org April 30 Film screening, “Guardian of the Past” by Malgorzata Toronto Potocka, St. Vladimir Institute, 416-923-3318 April 27 Poetry reading, “World Poetry in Ukrainian Translation,” New York Shevchenko Scientific Society, 212-254-5130 May 2 Lecture by Douglas Irvin, “A Colonial Crime? Lemkin’s Cambridge, MA Thoughts on the Ukrainian Genocide,” Harvard University, April 27 Spring and Ukrainian Easter Bazaar, Holy Trinity 617-495-4053 Kerhonkson, NY Ukrainian Catholic Church, 845-647-6911 May 6 Lecture by Robert Magocsi, “The Crimean Tatars: A Fate April 28 50th anniversary photo exhibit and reception, Svitlychka Cambridge, MA of a Deported People,” Harvard University, 617-495-4053 Jenkintown, PA Ukrainian Nursery and Pre-School, Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center, [email protected] May 7 Film screening, “The Guardian of the Past: A Documentary April 28 Fund-raiser evening, “Forks and Corks Sunday Fund-Day,” Seattle, WA of Malgorzata Potocka,” University of Washington, Nutley, NJ International Ukrainian Football Tournament, New York 206-543-6848 2013 Working Committee, MEAL Restaurant, www.iuft.net Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events April 28 Concert of Brahms’ sonatas with violinist Solomiya advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions Philadelphia Ivakhiv, Philadelphia Ethical Society, from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors www.robertdurso.net/tickets and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected]. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 No. 16

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Saturday, April 27 The Second World War and Socio-Political NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Attitudes in Ukraine, 1939-1941.” The pre- Society invites all to the second reading in sentation, in English, will be at the Library of the series “World Poetry in Ukrainian Congress European Division Conference Translation.” The reading will feature the Room, LJ250 Jefferson Building, 101 poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1925), Independence Ave. SE, Washington, DC the renowned Austrian poet. Rilke’s poems 20540, at noon-1 p.m. Admission is free. For will be read by Alexander Motyl in German further information call Erika Spencer at and by Vasyl Makhno in Ukrainian (from 202-707-4371. translations by Mykola Bazhan, Bohdan Sunday, May 12 Krawciw, Vasyl Stus and Moisei Fishbein). The presentation will take place at the soci- SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N. J.: Ukrainian ety’s building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between American Veterans Inc., invites veterans and Ninth and 10th streets), at 5 p.m. For addi- the community to the groundbreaking cere- tional information call 212-254-5130. mony on St. Thomas Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the site of the future UAV National Thursday, May 9 Monument on the grounds of St. Andrew WASHINGTON: The European Division and Ukrainian Orthodox Memorial Church and the Ukrainian Language Table at the Library Cemetery. The UAV National Monument will of Congress, and the Shevchenko Scientific be dedicated to all Ukrainian American men Society, District of Columbia branch, are and women who served in the U.S. armed sponsoring “New Historiography of 20th forces. For more information e-mail Mathew Century Ukraine,” a book presentation by Koziak, UAV past national commander, at Liudmyla Hrynevych on “The [email protected], or call Bernard W. Collectivization and Holodomor Chronicle Krawczuk, UAV national public relations Project: The Unknown Famine of 1928- officer, at 732-888-0494, e-mail uav.tri- 1929,” and by Vladyslav Hrynevych on his [email protected] or visit http://www. new monograph “Unbridled Dissonance: uavets.org.

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Tennis Camp Tabir Ptashat June 23-July 4 Session 1: June 23-29 2013 Summer Camp Kicks off the summer with 12 days Session 2: June 30-July 6 of intensive tennis instruction and com- Ukrainian Plast tabir (camp) for chil- Information petitive play, for boys and girls age dren age 4-6 accompanied by their par- 10-18. Attendance will be limited to 45 ents. Registration forms will also be students. Room, board, 24-hour super- appearing in the Svoboda and The vision, expert lessons and loads of fun Ukrainian Weekly in March and April. are included. Camp is under the direc- For further information, please contact tion of George Sawchak. Neonila Sochan at 973-984-7456.

Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Ukrainian Dance Academy Workshop June 30- July 13 Vigorous 2-week dance training for more intermediate and advanced dancers age 16 and up under the direction of the Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Ukrainian Dance Foundation, culminating with performances on stage during the Ukrainian Cultural Festival weekend. Additional information http://www.syzokryli.com/

Ukrainian Heritage Day Camp Session 1: July 14-19 • Session 2: July 21-26 A returning favorite, in the form of a day camp. Children age 4-7 will be exposed to Ukrainian heritage through daily activities such as dance, song, crafts and games. Children will walk away with an expanded knowledge of Ukrainian folk culture and lan- guage, as well as new and lasting friendships with other children of Ukrainian heritage. Price includes kid’s lunch and T-shirt and, unless noted, is based on in-house occupan- cy of parent/guardian.

Discovery Camp Chornomorska Sitch Sports School Roma Pryma Bohachevsky July 14-20 Session 1: July 21-27 • Session 2: July 28-August 3 Ukrainian Dance Camp Calling all nature lovers age 8-15 for this sleep- 44th annual sports camp run by the Ukrainian Athletic-Educational Session 1: July 21-August 3 over program filled with outdoor crafts, hiking, swim- Association Chornomorska Sitch for children age 6-17. This camp will ming, organized sports and games, bonfires, songs focus on soccer, tennis, volleyball and swimming, and is perfect for any Session 2: August 4-August 17 and much more. Room, board, 24-hour supervision sports enthusiast. Please contact [email protected] Directed by Ania Bohachevsky-Lonkevych (daugh- and a lifetime of memories are included. for an application and additional information. ter of Roma Pryma Bohachevsky), this camp is for aspiring dancers age 8 -16, offering expert instruction for beginning, intermediate and advanced students. For applications or more info please call Soyuzivka, 845-626-5641, Room, board, 24-hour supervision, expert lessons and plenty of fun are included. Each camp ends with a or check our website at www.soyuzivka.com grand recital. Attendance will be limited to 60 students.