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ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXII No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 $2.00 Europe’s leaders frustrated Paslawsky honored as hero with burial at Askold’s Grave in their failure to halt Putin by Zenon Zawada by Zenon Zawada KYIV – The way his friends and acquaintances tell it, you couldn’t find KYIV – If Europe’s leaders needed a splash of anyone more devoted to Ukraine than cold water to realize just what kind of force they’re Mark Paslawsky, 55, who grew up in New up against, Russian President Vladimir Putin pro- Jersey, settled in his ancestral homeland vided it on August 27, when his soldiers took con- upon its independence and followed in trol of the strategic port city of Novoazovsk in the his father’s footsteps to defend its land Donetsk region that was invaded three days earlier. from Muscovite occupation. Until that point, the Russian armed forces Only a week had passed since he covertly supported pro-Russian separatists in was killed on August 19 in the Donbas Donbas with unmarked mercenaries. With the dis- war, yet Paslawsky was already being organized separatists facing imminent defeat, how- spoken of as a Ukrainian legend at his ever, the Russian military resorted to an open inva- funeral in Kyiv on August 26. sion, amid persistent denials of doing so and Enshrining that legendary status was despite evidence gathered by Western govern- the Ukrainian government’s approval of ments. his burial on the grounds of St. Nicholas Serhij Marchenko In response to the escalated warfare, Western Ukrainian Catholic Church at Askold’s Relatives of Mark Paslawsky, including his mother, brother and sisters, mourn leaders expressed their shock and exasperation at Grave, considered to be the second-most their inability to halt Mr. Putin’s military aggres- alongside Donbas Battalion soldiers during the soldier’s August 26 funeral at sacred mount in Ukraine (after Kaniv), Askold’s Grave in Kyiv. sion with their efforts thus far, which have largely situated on Kyiv’s Pechersk Hills over- consisted of economic and individual sanctions. looking the Dnipro River. will occur here to commemorate our who simply wanted to pay their “The fact that this conflict developed is a failure “We won’t reach you with our great victory against these dog-headed respects to a man they’d never met but of European institutions,” Council of Europe shouts, we won’t return you anymore. monsters that you fought,” he said. admired from what they’d heard. Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said on You crossed that boundary where [Dog-headed monsters appear fre- The procession was led by armed September 2 after meeting in Kyiv with Ukrainian begins our tragic, bloody but beautiful quently in Ukrainian mythology as National Guardsmen – one carrying President Petro Poroshenko. “European institu- Ukrainian history. You belong to it,” said devourers of raw human flesh and sym- Paslawsky’s framed photo – and a mili- tions were set up after the second world war in Volodymyr Yavorivskyi, a national dep- bols of exceptional savagery.] tary vehicle towing his coffin, which order to create peace and prevent new wars in uty of the Batkivshchyna party who Paslawsky was honored with a descended down Heroes of Kruty Alley Europe, but we haven’t been able to fulfill that spearheaded the effort for Paslawsky’s National Guard funeral, attended by to the quaint, yellow, circular church, mandate.” burial at Askold’s Grave. members of his Donbas battalion, as where the panakhyda (requiem ser- [The Council of Europe is an organization dis- “I am convinced that great demon- well as several hundred friends, tinct from the European Union. It has 47 member strations, gatherings and panakhydy acquaintances and other mourners states and acts as an informal structure to pro- (Continued on page 4) mote Western values, whereas the EU has 28 member states and acts as a supranational govern- ing structure with judicial, legislative and execu- tive branches.] Echoing that frustration was Herman van Demonstrators call for stronger sanctions, Rompuy, the outgoing president of the European Council, a structure that consists of the EU heads of state and acts as a collective presidency. He said military equipment, assistance for Ukraine the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has no solution in sight and is the biggest threat to European security since the end of the Cold War. “This conflict doesn’t have a military solution, but neither does it have a political solution at this stage because there’s no political will from Russia,” he told EU diplomats on September 2, as reported by the UNIAN news agency. “If Ukraine surrenders its Association Agreement, the conflict will con- clude very quickly. But they won’t do that. After the Maidan, this has become a clash of values.” Russia’s occupation of Crimea became the turn- ing point of its relations with the West, Mr. van Rompuy said. Mr. Putin’s actions since have ruined his relations with the EU, violating agreements reached in Geneva, Normandy and Berlin this year, said Federica Mogherini, the EU’s newly appointed foreign policy chief. WASHINGTON – For the second time in August, a large group of Ukrainian Americans assembled in front of the White “These partner relations don’t exist anymore: House in Washington to protest Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine. The hour-long protest demonstration on August from this moment, Russia isn’t a strategic partner 31, organized by Razom under the slogan “Stop WWIII Now,” called on the United States to apply stronger sanctions of the EU,” she told an Italian newspaper in an against Russia and provide military equipment and other assistance Ukraine needs to fight this Russian aggression. A (Continued on page 16) similar Razom-organized White House demonstration in mid-August also included a march to the Lincoln Monument. – Yaro Bihun 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 No. 36

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France suspends warship delivery at the summit that they should step up Putin’s war for “Novorossiya” sanctions if Moscow does not pull its sol- PARIS – French President Francois diers back. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by dislodge Ukrainian forces in order to open a by Roger McDermott Hollande says the government will not The Telegraph, Der Spiegel, La Repubblica fresh re-supply route from Russia. The sec- Eurasia Daily Monitor deliver the first of two Mistral-class war- and Reuters) ond, Volnovakha, would sever the link to the ships to Russia because of Moscow’s After recent successes by Russia-backed Azov group of forces. Others mentioned are: aggressive actions in eastern Ukraine. Mr. Yatsenyuk rejects Putin peace plan rebel forces in southeastern Ukraine, Donetsk (especially the airport), Debaltsevo, Hollande’s office said in a statement on increased reports of Russian regular troops the Lysychansk-Rubizhne-Severodonetsk September 3 that the “conditions” were not KYIV – Ukrainian Prime Minister involved in the conflict and belligerent area, which Ukrainian forces have allegedly in place to deliver the warship, a controver- Arseniy Yatsenyuk has rejected Russian statements by the Russian leadership, spec- fortified, and Luhansk and the surrounding sial deal that has led to criticism from many peace proposals for eastern Ukraine as an ulation mounts in Moscow as to the nature areas to alleviate pressure on separatist of Paris’s Western allies. Russian Deputy attempt to deceive the West about of the Kremlin’s “war aims.” Some clues as forces. The article concluded that over a Defense Minister Yury Borisov was quoted Moscow’s real intentions. In a statement on to Moscow’s evolving tactical and strategic two-month timeframe, the aim would be to as saying the French decision “is unpleas- September 3, Mr. Yatsenyuk described the aims in Ukraine have emerged from presi- allow separatists to “hold out” and thus ren- ant” but “not a tragedy” for Russia’s “rear- Russian peace plan as another attempt to dential statements, Russian military activi- der Kyiv less of a problem for Moscow and mament” and reform plans. The U.S. State “pull the wool over the eyes” of the interna- ty in Ukraine, the continued deployment of Novorossiya (Voyennoye Obezreniye, Department said France had made a “wise” tional community on the eve of a NATO combined-arms forces near the border and accessed August 31). decision. The first warship was to have summit in Wales and an attempt to avert the assembling of peacekeeping forces that Given the article’s stress on Novorossiya been delivered to Russia in October. French Western sanctions against Moscow. “The appear ready to commence an operation. – the term used in tsarist Russia to refer to officials said the issue would be reviewed best plan for ending Russia’s war against On August 31, President Vladimir Putin southeast Ukraine – it is worth recalling Mr. in November. France had resisted pressure Ukraine has only one single element: for called for substantive talks on possible Putin’s use of the word in his “annexation from its allies to stop the delivery of the Russia to withdraw its troops, its merce- “statehood” for southeastern Ukraine, and speech” on Crimea and, more pointedly, his warships, saying that halting the multibil- naries, and its terrorists from Ukrainian added that the conflict remains “unpredict- use of it on August 29 to praise the separat- lion-dollar deal would hurt Paris more than territory,” he added. Mr. Yatsenyuk also told able.” Far from implying nearing an end- ists. The deployment of small numbers of Moscow. But Mr. Hollande said last week a Cabinet of Ministers meeting that Ukraine game in the crisis, Mr. Putin leaves open an Russian troops in the conflict zone as an that it would be “intolerable and unaccept- was beefing up its frontier with Russia by uncertain end state of the present conflict additional layer of support for the separat- able” if Russian forces had entered Ukraine. launching “the wall project,” which entails (Channel One TV, August 31). ists while avoiding a larger-scale incursion, (RFE/RL, based on reporting by Reuters, the construction of “real border” infrastruc- The recent escalation of the conflict in seems predicated on Mr. Putin’s core tacti- the Associated Press and Agence France- ture. He added that Ukraine was seeking southeastern Ukraine was marked by the cal aim: to smash the Ukrainian anti-terror- Presse) the status of a “special partner, partner No. use of a humanitarian aid convoy illegally ist operation (ATO). If this is achieved, it 1” with NATO. Earlier on September 3, entering the country, evidence gathered by will also facilitate the insertion of Russian Putin: I can take Kyiv in two weeks Russian President Vladimir Putin said he the North Atlantic Treaty Organization peacekeepers into the area and promote a had “sketched out” a seven-point ceasefire (NATO) of Russian troops and military hard- de facto state within a state. ROME – Vladimir Putin has reportedly plan during a flight to Mongolia after a tele- ware actively involved in clear violations of Mr. Putin maintains pressure on Kyiv warned the European Union that the phone conversation with his Ukrainian Ukraine’s sovereignty, as well as Russian using a broad mix of diplomatic, economic, Russian military could take Kyiv in two counterpart, Petro Poroshenko. Mr. Putin support for separatists to open a second political, informational and military mecha- weeks if he gave the order. The Italian told reporters his and Mr. Poroshenko’s front in Mariupol, which resulted in the nisms. In addition to supporting the rebels newspaper La Repubblica reported on views on finding a political solution to the European Union issuing an ultimatum with materiel, deploying some Russian September 1 that the Russian president conflict are “very close,” and expressed requiring Moscow to reverse its course in ground forces, and by maintaining high-read- told outgoing European Commission hopes Kyiv and the rebels will agree on a the crisis or face fresh sanctions. “Plausible iness forces close to the border, he has maxi- President Jose Manuel Barroso, “If I want, I plan to end their conflict during talks in deniability” of such direct involvement was mized the fear caused by the aid convoy and can take Kyiv in two weeks.” The paper said Minsk on September 5. Mr. Putin said both dealt a blow with the capture of a company the use of small numbers of Russian troops; Mr. Putin made the comment during a sides should halt “active offensive opera- of soldiers on Ukrainian territory from the these appear to constitute psychological phone call with Mr. Barroso, who relayed it tions” as part of a ceasefire agreement, and elite Airborne Forces (VDV); Moscow’s operations (PSYOP) designed to achieve to leaders at an EU summit on August 30. that Ukrainian government forces must claims that these troops had lost their way ends with minimal forces. In the back- The report implied Mr. Putin’s threat was a stop the “use of military aviation against presaged a prisoner exchange on August 30. ground, the threat to deploy peacekeepers response to the possibility the EU might peaceful civilians” and withdraw from posi- Although Sweden’s Foreign Affairs remains real and viable. According to senior impose further sanctions on Russia over its tions from which they can hit civilians with Minister Carl Bildt characterized Russia’s officers in the VDV, the Russian military has role in the Ukraine crisis. Kyiv and Western artillery. His ceasefire plan also includes actions in the latest developments as mark- also formed a credible and potentially governments say Moscow has sent soldiers prisoner exchanges, humanitarian aid cor- ing its “second invasion” within one year, potent peacekeeping force (Nezavisimoye into eastern Ukraine and provided weap- ridors and international monitoring of the Moscow commentators have highlighted Voyennoye Obozreniye, August 29). ons to pro-Russian separatists who have truce. Mr. Putin made the comments after the reportedly low number of Russian forc- The joint military exercises Nerushimoye made gains recently in their four-month- the Ukrainian president’s office had said es allegedly involved. NATO’s official esti- Bratstvo-2014 (Kyrgyzstan) and old conflict with government forces. Russia mate was that 1,000 Russian troops were Vzaimodeystviye-2014 (Kazakhstan) tested denies the accusations. EU leaders decided (Continued on page 12) engaging in operations, while some the combat and peacekeeping skills of these Western media outlets were told off-the- units under a Collective Security Treaty record by Western government agencies Organization (CSTO) umbrella. The CSTO that the actual figure may be around 5,000. exercise in Kazakhstan modeled the scenario he krainian eekly FOUNDED 1933 These relatively low figures for an “invasion on an intervention in a neighboring country, T U W force” caused puzzlement among Russian which seemed strikingly similar to events in Ukraine (odkb-csto.org, August 19). In fact, An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., commentators (Ekho Moskvy, August 30). a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. 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FOR THE RECORD President Obama’s statement Ambassador Power on Russia’s on Russian incursion into Ukraine aggression and deployment in Ukraine Following are excerpts of President Kingdom, we’ll focus on the additional steps Following is the transcript of remarks by rocket launchers are positioned on the out- Barack Obama’s August 28 statement in the we can take to ensure the alliance remains U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations skirts of that town as we speak. James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the prepared for any challenge. Our meeting of Samantha Power at the Security Council ses- Russia’s force along the border is the White House. The statement dealt with sev- the NATO-Ukraine Commission will be sion on August 28. (Source: U.S. Department largest it has been since it began redeploy- eral topics; below are his comments and his another opportunity for our alliance to con- of State). ing forces there in late May, and includes responses to questions posed by the press tinue our partnership with Ukraine. And I significant numbers of combat aircraft and regarding the situation in Ukraine. (Source: look forward to reaffirming the unwavering Mr. President, representatives on this helicopters. Russian unmanned aircraft The White House) commitment of the United States to Ukraine council, this is our 24th session to try to routinely cross into Ukrainian airspace. and its people when I welcome President rein in Russia’s aggressive acts in Ukraine. Other Russian deployments into …I just spoke with Chancellor [Angela] [Petro] Poroshenko to the White House next Every single one of those sessions has sent Ukrainian territory include advanced artil- Merkel of Germany on the situation in month. … a straightforward, unified message: Russia, lery and air defense systems not found in Ukraine. We agree – if there was ever any stop this conflict. Russia is not listening. the Ukrainian inventory. These artillery Question: Thank you, Mr. President. doubt – that Russia is responsible for the We said it when Russia flagrantly violated systems have shelled Ukrainian positions Do you consider today’s escalation in violence in eastern Ukraine. The violence is international law in occupying Crimea. We outside Luhansk City in conjunction with Ukraine an invasion? And when you talk encouraged by Russia. The separatists are said it after the shocking downing of the recent separatist counteroffensive. about additional costs to Russia, are you trained by Russia. They are armed by Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, which took the One of the separatist leaders that Russia ready at this point to impose broader Russia. They are funded by Russia. Russia lives of innocent men, women, children and has armed and backed said openly that economic sanctions? Or are you consid- has deliberately and repeatedly violated infants from 11 countries. And we say it 3,000 or 4,000 Russian soldiers have joined ering other responses that go beyond the sovereignty and territorial integrity of today, as Russia’s soldiers, tanks, air defense their cause. He was quick to clarify that sanctions? Ukraine. And the new images of Russian and artillery support and fight alongside these soldiers were on vacation. But a forces inside Ukraine make that plain for I consider the actions that we’ve seen in separatists as they open a new front in a cri- Russian soldier who chooses to fight in the world to see. This comes as Ukrainian the last week a continuation of what’s been sis manufactured in and fueled by Russia. Ukraine on his summer break is still a forces are making progress against the sep- taking place for months now. As I said in But Russia is not listening. Russian soldier. And the armored Russian aratists. my opening statement, there is no doubt Instead of listening, instead of heeding military vehicle he drives there is not his As a result of the actions Russia has that this is not a homegrown, indigenous the demands of the international communi- personal car. already taken, and the major sanctions uprising in eastern Ukraine. The separat- ty and the rules of the international order, at Meanwhile, in Russia, family members we’ve imposed with our European and ists are backed, trained, armed, financed by every step, Russia has come before this of Russian soldiers are holding funerals for international partners, Russia is already Russia. Throughout this process, we’ve council to say everything except the truth. It their loved ones who have been killed in more isolated than at any time since the end seen deep Russian involvement in every- has manipulated. It has obfuscated. It has the fighting in Ukraine. They’re demanding of the Cold War. Capital is fleeing. Investors thing that they’ve done. outright lied. So we have learned to measure answers for how they were killed. are increasingly staying out. Its economy is I think in part because of the progress Russia by its actions and not by its words. Journalists who try to cover these funerals in decline. And this ongoing Russian incur- that you had seen by the Ukrainians In the last 48 hours, Russia’s actions are harassed and threatened by armed sion into Ukraine will only bring more costs around Donetsk and Luhansk, Russia have spoken volumes. men. Yet, still, according to the Russian gov- and consequences for Russia. determined that it had to be a little more On August 26 – just this Tuesday – after ernment, the soldiers were never there. Next week, I’ll be in Europe to coordi- overt in what it had already been doing. meeting with Ukrainian President They were never in Crimea either, until nate with our closest allies and partners. In But it’s not really a shift. Poroshenko in Minsk, Belarus, President Russia announced that those soldiers who Estonia, I will reaffirm our unwavering What we have seen, though, is that Putin spoke of the need to quote “end were never there had annexed Crimea. commitment to the defense of our NATO President [Vladimir] Putin and Russia have bloodshed as soon as possible.” End quote. The last 48 hours fit into a well-estab- allies. Yet the same day, satellite imagery shows lished pattern for Russia. Each step has At the NATO Summit in the United (Continued on page 18) Russian combat units – combat units – paved the way for the one that followed. southeast of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine. And yet in spite of all of these outrageous That same day in Luhansk, Ukraine actions, Ukraine has repeatedly sought a NEWS ANALYSIS detained regular Russian Army personnel political solution to this crisis. It has repeat- from the 9th Brigade. edly sought a path to de-escalation. Despite In response, Russia claimed the soldiers this pattern, President [Petro] Poroshenko Donetsk march of POWs: had wandered into Ukrainian territory “by showed up in Minsk to meet with President mistake.” This, supposedly, in a time of con- [Vladimir] Putin. In contrast, President When is a parade a war crime? flict along one of the most carefully Putin was still unwilling to acknowledge watched borders in the world. the most basic facts we all know: that “If this is an international armed con- The day after those talks, Russia fired Russia has armed, equipped and now by Carl Schreck Grad rockets from inside Russia at joined illegal separatists fighting in Ukraine. RFE/RL flict, this definitely seems to be a clear... violation of the Geneva Convention lan- Ukrainian positions in Novoazovsk, and Serious negotiations are needed, urgently When pro-Russian separatists guage,” Mr. Glazier says of the POW then attacked with two columns of Russian needed. But Russia has to stop lying and marched captured Ukrainian soldiers at march. “The problem is if it’s not an inter- armored vehicles and tanks. Russian bayonet-point through the streets of national armed conflict, then the standard armored vehicles and Uragan multiple (Continued on page 13) Donetsk on August 24, the crowd jeered, is a much harder one to satisfy: the actual cursed and hurled refuse at the haggard ‘outrage upon personal dignity.’ And it’s prisoners. not clear that this rises to that level.” It was a spectacle that shocked many, The International Committee of the Sens. McCain and Graham including human rights activists who Red Cross, the guardian of the Geneva called the procession a clear violation of Conventions, has called the war in the Geneva Conventions’ rules on the Ukraine a “noninternational armed con- on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). flict.” Kyiv and Western governments, Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey tainly not the answer now. Instead, the But whether the forced march constitut- meanwhile, have accused Russia of pro- Graham (R-S.C.) on August 28 released the United States and our European allies ed a war crime – and whether it could be viding arms and other support to the following statement on Russia’s invasion of should immediately begin providing intelli- prosecuted as such – is not so clear-cut, rebels in eastern Ukraine – accusations Ukraine. gence and defensive weapons to Ukraine, international law experts say. Moscow denies. including anti-armor systems. We should This ambiguity lies largely in how the Even if the conflict were to be classified Russia’s ongoing aggression in Ukraine also impose real sectoral sanctions on as a war between Ukraine and Russia – Ukraine conflict itself is classified, can only be called one thing: a cross-border Russia – not the half-measures taken to according to David Glazier, an interna- bringing the “public curiosity” language military invasion. To claim it is anything date, but full sanctions on Russia’s defense, tional law expert at Loyola Law School in into play – “all war crimes are not created other than that is to inhabit President financial, energy and other sectors. Los Angeles. equal,” says law of war expert Michael Putin’s Orwellian universe. This is a moment to speak and act with The rules for civil wars spelled out in Scharf, the interim dean at Case Western For months, the critics of providing arms clarity. A sovereign nation in the heart of the conventions ban “outrages upon per- Reserve University School of Law. and additional assistance to Ukraine have sonal dignity” and “humiliating and The “public curiosity” provision is not Europe is being invaded by its larger neigh- warned that doing so could provoke a degrading treatment” of POWs. The rules among the “grave breaches” of the bor. This runs completely contrary to the for wars between governments set a Geneva Conventions, which include Russian invasion. Everything the critics civilized world that America and our part- lower bar by including a ban on subject- crimes such as “willful killing” and “tor- said would happen if we did more to help ners have sought to build since World War ing these prisoners to “insults and public ture and inhumane treatment,” he noted. Ukraine has now happened anyway. II. If we will not or cannot defend our own curiosity,” both of which were on promi- “So while this is certainly something that Believing that the answer now is to do values now, as well as friends who share nent display at the August 24 parade in more of the same, or to do even less, is folly. them, the future will be dark and danger- Donetsk. (Continued on page 14) Such a minimalist policy has been a large ous indeed, not just for Ukraine but for us part of the current problem. It is most cer- too. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 No. 36

Paslawsky his Ukrainian citizenship in three weeks, spar- Paslawsky honored... ing him months of waiting. Paslawsky also consulted with Lt. Gen. Oleksandr (Continued from page 1) Skypalskyi, his friend for more than two decades. “When vice) was led by Patriarch Sviatoslav, who offered the main he prepared to fight, he filled his backpack with rocks of a eulogy afterwards. particular weight and ran so that he could rescue himself in “Mark was born in the U.S., which seems as the quietest war,” the general said at the tryzna, referring to Paslawsky and calm land on the earth today, where many of those as a “great military expert.” He noted, “I knew him as a per- who desire to save their skins flee and save their lives,” said son mentally prepared and careful in battle. We discussed the patriarch. “But that was not the striving of the heart of it a lot. He was confident he would avoid a bullet.” our brother Mark. He traveled to Ukraine, became one of us Paslawsky lived in preparation for the war, Mr. here on our native land and had become our brother-in- Kukharenko said. “I don’t have the right to sit this out,” he arms in the struggle for a free and independent country. He said he told him. “I need to fight in this war and either help became one of us even by citizenship, sacrificing the conve- win it or die.” nient U.S. citizenship in order to stand beside us in our He was also preparing for life after the war. With his present struggle.” new Ukrainian citizenship, Paslawsky was going to apply to Paslawsky, who was born in New York, attended St. John work in the Defense Ministry or the National Bank of the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic School in Newark, N.J., and Ukraine, Mr. Radchuk said. was a member of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization. Besides taking on citizenship, Paslawsky took on the Patriarch Sviatoslav said Plast members all over the world pseudonym “Franko” (after his first choice, “Taras,” was were at the funeral in prayer and in spirit; some attended already taken). A member of Paslawsky’s unit known as the services in their Plast uniforms. “Lex” said Paslawsky was modest, not discussing his expe- Though he died from three wounds to his back sus- rience and rank in the U.S. military, and using only the tained in battle in Ilovaysk, an open casket allowed those in arms, equipment and food that his colleagues had, Vice attendance to glimpse Paslawsky’s undamaged face. The News reported. coffin was brought outside after the formal panakhyda, Launching a Twitter Feed under another pseudonym, allowing those closest to him to share their thoughts and Bruce SpringNote, Paslawsky described the Spartan-like memories of someone they unanimously described as a conditions that his fellow soldiers faced. selfless hero, even before his death in combat. “Everywhere I have been in the anti-terrorist operation Paslawsky graduated in 1981 from the United States (ATO) the food has been terrible and often simply not pro- Military Academy at West Point; admission to the academy vided,” he tweeted on August 16, three days before his Serhij Marchenko death. “Soldiers/volunteers spend much time scrounging.” required the recommendation of a U.S. senator. National Guardsmen carry the coffin of slain soldier Mark “It was a big achievement for the Ukrainian diaspora at The day before, he reported, “We have soldiers who Paslawsky to the front of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic came to the ATO without weapons and are still searching. the time,” wrote Ukrainian Catholic Church Bishop Borys Church. They are followed by Patriarch Sviatoslav. Gudziak in a letter that was read aloud, expressing his con- Something wrong when country sends guys to fight with- dolences to the Paslawsky family. “He will become the real Credit Suisse co-worker Alexander Belavin recalled tell- out weapons.” legend that children will take an example from.” ing Paslawsky that he wanted to name his son in his honor. He reported earlier that day that it was “terrifying to trav- After graduating, he was invited by veterans of the Commemorating his son’s birth on January 13, 2003, two el in convoys at night” and they often travel 100 kilometers Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) for a dinner, during which days before his own birthday, Paslawsky offered a restored to get to a point only 20 kilometers away. “All about control- they told him to study well because Ukraine would need 19th century icon of St. Mark as a gift. “He said, ‘Alex, I want ling roads. Getting lost part of the process, unfortunately.” generals in the future. Paslawsky told this story to his for- Mark to be a real Mark,’ ” Mr. Belavin recalled through tears. Maxym Dondyuk, a Ukrainian photographer embedded mer Kyiv co-worker, Petro Radchuk, after Russia had occu- Many friends, family members and acquaintances were like- with the Donbas battalion, told Vice News that he saw an pied Crimea in March. wise tearful as they shared their memories at the tryzna. injured Paslawsky brought to a school the battalion was “He didn’t fully realize what they meant until now,” Mr. Paslawsky was on the Maidan for the Orange Revolution using as a temporary base. Radchuk told those assembled at the church. “He went to bat- all day and night, Mr. Yavorivskyi said. A relative recalled “He had three wounds in his back,” Mr. Dondyuk said. tle as a private, but he did no less than our generals, perhaps how she requested an American flag for the Maidan, which “He was saying that he was in pain and that he didn’t want more. His father also fought for an independent Ukraine Paslawsky provided along with his personal guard in case to die. People were telling him he was going to be okay. I decades ago, but he didn’t finish the job. Mark didn’t finish it anyone provoked her. think it might have been possible to save him if he had either. We should finish what he left for us to complete.” “Though critical, Markian never gave up on his parents’ MedEvac helicopters or ambulances, but all there was on After West Point, Paslawsky served in the U.S. Army homeland,” his brother, Nestor, 57, said in his eulogy. “The hand were the battalion medics.” Rangers until he was 32 years old. He earned a Master of failure of the Orange Revolution cast a pessimistic outlook Three other Donbas Battalion members were killed the Business Administration degree from Monmouth on Ukraine’s future, and its best chance for true freedom same day, Vice News reported, citing spokeswoman University in New Jersey. had passed.” Vasilisa Trofimovich. Semen Semenchenko, the battalion He wasted no time settling in Ukraine once its indepen- Paslawsky was just as active in the Euro-Maidan nine commander, was hospitalized with multiple shrapnel dence was re-established, earning his first job working for years later, aiding injured protesters at St. Michael wounds, she said. Donbas oligarch Yukhym Zviahilskyi and bringing alumi- Cathedral, which was just down the street from his central At the reception, Gen. Skypalskyi said Paslawsky’s num oxide to Ukraine for his aluminum production. There Kyiv apartment. wounds came from a grenade that “blew up from behind, he befriended Volodymyr Bortnyk, with whom he eventu- On January 29, he joined fighters in launching the traitorously hitting him in the back.” No news reports cited ally launched the Rosava grain-growing company about National Guard in the Ukrainian Home, in response to the a grenade. five years ago. first killings of protesters. Vitali Zakharchenko, then the “A sniper’s bullet didn’t find him, but he died in They shared tea nearly every morning of their friend- internal affairs minister, threatened them with 10 years’ Donechchyna,” Mr. Shyian said through tears. “This is mov- ship until the Euro-Maidan erupted, said Ruslan imprisonment. ing for me. I thank God very much that I met this incredible Kukharenko, Mr. Bortnyk’s nephew. They also shared an Paslawsky was also in the thick of the most intense person. He was a simple, honest and selfless person.” appreciation for tennis, traveling to watch the Wimbledon fighting on Instytutska Street between February 18 and 20, Paslawsky wanted to die for Ukraine and, in his death, tournament together. where he witnessed dozens slain by police gunfire. he became “a pure Ukrainian,” Mr. Bortnyk said at the “They were close friends because Mark was highly com- “He saw how his brothers were dying but went forward funeral, during which he was honored by the National petent in those areas that he studied,” said Mr. Kukharenko, anyway,” Mr. Bortnyk said at the funeral. “It was a miracle Guard with a gun salute. “He did everything so that we’d all who also shared tea with Mark on many of those mornings. that a sniper bullet didn’t get him then. Afterwards, he live on this land well and happy,” he said. “Thanks, Mark, “He studied these areas to perfection, selecting agricultural made the firm decision – I’m going to the front to rid that you were the way you were. You are a true hero.” machinery and studying the technology of growing grain. Ukraine of this gang.” Among the family members attending were Paslawsky’s He was so decent and deeply honest that my uncle trusted Paslawsky consciously went to meet death at the Euro- mother, Orysia; brother, Nestor; and sisters, Olena and him with everything, including finances, power of attorney Maidan, Mr. Shyian recalled. “I said, “Mark, you could have Irena. The Paslawskys had planned to transport Mark’s and signing contracts.” died.’ But he responded, ‘I can’t do it any other way.’ ” body to the U.S. for burial, his brother said. In their conversations over tea, Paslawsky often He visited his family in the U.S. after the Euro-Maidan in “After meeting with friends, both Ukrainian and expressed his concern for Ukraine’s future and worried May, sharing his experiences and confiding in his brother American, it became obvious that he was born American deeply about its shortcomings, Mr. Bortnyk told those gath- that he was going to fight in the war. but died Ukrainian,” Nestor Paslawsky noted. “Fortunately ered at the church. “He was bursting to devote his entire “He was calling my mom weekly, telling her that he’s in for Ukraine, we leave our son, brother, cousin, uncle and life to the country and aspired to nothing else,” he said. the area of Donbas, but not telling her that he was fighting,” friend here in the homeland of his parents, grandparents Indeed, Paslawsky had not married. Nestor Paslawsky, whom many know as the general man- and forebears.” He did coal- and metal-trading for Ukrainian companies. ager of the Soyuzivka Heritage Center in Kerhonkson, N.Y., He concluded the eulogy for his brother with the words He also worked for an American ore trading firm, AVEC told The Weekly. “When I last spoke to him, he thought this of Taras Shevchenko’s “Testament.” Holding in Kharkiv, the Credit Suisse First Boston invest- was the chance for Ukraine to truly gain the democracy it’s With Paslawsky’s burial, Askold’s Grave is a national ment bank’s Kyiv branch and even joined Louis Dreyfus supposed to have. He went off to fight for this.” memorial that also includes the massacred Heroes of Kruty Group in Moscow, which he could only handle for about a To join the Donbas battalion of the National Guard of and the grave of an unknown Maidan fighter who was year before eagerly returning to his new homeland Ukraine, Paslawsky had to take Ukrainian citizenship. He burned inside the Trade Union Building that was set ablaze Viktor Shyian, who worked with Paslawsky for more asked Mr. Shyian for help in avoiding the potential bureau- by Berkut police, Mr. Yavorivskyi said. than three years, remembered bumping into him outside cratic hurdles. At the same time, he hid the purpose of He thanked Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk for pull- the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine when crowds gathered for switching citizenship because he knew Mr. Shyian would ing the strings to ensure that Paslawsky would be buried the approval of Ukraine’s Constitution. try to dissuade him from going to war. on the grounds of St. Nicholas Church. He has also submit- “He said, ‘I thank God I’m present in Ukraine for this his- “Mark said, ‘We did what we needed to do here, but it’s ted a request that the president bestow on him the title toric event,’ ” Mr. Shyian recalled at a post-funeral reception not enough. We need to go to war and defeat the aggres- Hero of Ukraine. (“tryzna”) at the Hotel Kyiv, just across the street from the sors,’ ” Mr. Shyian told The Weekly. “I said, ‘Be calculated. “I didn’t learn to love Ukraine as much as Mark did,” said very same Rada. “Little did he know that he would lay down Ukraine needs your intellect. Professional soldiers should Volodymyr Kosenko, who worked with Paslawsky for more his life on the altar of independent Ukraine and make histo- be fighting this war.’ But knowing Mark, he’d never wait. If than a decade. “For me, heroes were only on film some- ry himself. He is a true hero and heroes never die.” he set a goal, he went towards it without hesitation.” He got where. But I stood next to such a hero and spoke with him.” No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 5 Flashmobs in D.C., on Jersey shore demonstrate Ukrainian unity

Vitaliy Dubil PARSIPPANY, N.J. – To manifest the unity of the Ukrainian diaspora with Ukraine, flashmobs were organized in various cities on Friday evening, August 22, as a lead-in to com- memorations of the 23rd anniversary of the re-establishment of Ukraine’s independence. The flashmobs were the initiative of the organization Razom for Ukraine. Seen above is the flashmob in Washington; below, the gathering on the pier in Wildwood Crest, N.J.

Ihor Fedoriw Ukrainian Selfreliance Federal Credit Union announces $150,000 donation to Philadelphia UECC

PHILADELPHIA – Ukrainian Selfreliance ter’s founding in 1980, the USCFU has Ukrainian American Youth Association and credit union in the Commonwealth of Federal Credit Union (USFCU) has made a donated more than $500,000 to support Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization. It is Pennsylvania and the fifth largest in the three-year, $150,000 commitment to the that institution. the true center of Ukrainian American life city of Philadelphia. USFCU continues to Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center “After a long and thoughtful discussion, in the Greater Philadelphia area. grow with five branches in the greater (UECC) in Jenkintown, Pa., that has been and careful planning, I am pleased that the “We are very grateful to the USFCU for the Philadelphia area and Trenton, N.J. (For home to multiple Ukrainian American USFCU is able to bestow this historical gift,” generous contribution that kick starts our more information, visit www.ukrfcu.com or organizations since 1980. The gift, being said USFCU Chairman of the Board Mary capital improvement campaign,” said Sophia call 215-725-4430.) paid annually in $50,000 installments, will Kolodij. “The UECC is an invaluable asset to Koropeckyj, president of the UECC. “This gift The Ukrainian Educational and Cultural cover half of a $300,000 Capital the community and is utilized by many of will allow us to make much-needed building Center is a non-profit organization located Improvement Campaign being implement- our members. We are thrilled to support renovations that will enable us to better in the suburbs of Philadelphia in ed by the UECC. this worthy cause.” serve the needs of the community.” Jenkintown. Founded in 1980, the UECC is The USFCU contribution will support The Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Established in 1952, Ukrainian a focal point of Ukrainian-American cultur- mechanical upgrades to the building, Center is presently home to over 30 organi- Selfreliance Federal Credit Union (USFCU) al life in the Delaware Valley. The objective including a new HVAC system and water zations, such as the Ukrainian Federation of is a full-service financial institution based of the UECC is to preserve and promote heater. This donation is the latest in America, Prometheus Ukrainian Male in Philadelphia with over $260 million in awareness of Ukrainian heritage through- USFCU’s partnership with the UECC, which Chorus, and many that cater to youth, assets and over 9,000 members. In terms out the community. (For information visit dates back nearly 30 years. Since the cen- including the Ukrainian Heritage School, of asset size, USFCU is the 24th largest www.ueccphila.org or call 215-663-1166.) 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 No. 36

COMMENTARY The Ukrainian Weekly The semantics of invasion The 2014 Russian war against Ukraine There’s an old saying: “If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, by Myroslaw Smorodsky assistance to Ukraine. This piecemeal then it must be a duck.” It’s a bit of folk wisdom used when someone refuses to see approach has only emboldened Mr. Putin the obvious. And it’s quite fitting these days, when world leaders refuse to call the In the past few weeks, what was painful- and has given him a strategic time-advan- invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces an invasion. It’s been called “aggression,” a ly obvious from the very beginning to tage to fully implement his invasion of “deployment,” an “attack,” an “incursion.” (One of our contacts suggested sarcastical- Ukrainians – that the terrorist conflict in Ukraine, which in turn, will directly affect ly that it could be called an “excursion,” since there was a claim that Russian soldiers eastern Ukraine was artificially manufac- the economic and political stability of the were fighting in Ukraine during their vacations!) tured, clandestinely funded, militarily sup- member states of the EU. Thankfully, there are those who do see the reality. Republican Sens. John McCain plied with weapons and fighting personnel, In recent days, and to the world’s aston- of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said in a joint statement: “Russia’s and secretly orchestrated by the Kremlin – ishment, Mr. Putin has brandished not so ongoing aggression in Ukraine can only be called one thing: a cross-border military is now grudgingly acknowledged by the veiled bellicose threats emphasizing the invasion. To claim it is anything other than that is to inhabit President Putin’s rest of the world. Russia has now openly nuclear armament power that he has at his Orwellian universe.” Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey likewise did invaded Ukraine and only Vladimir Putin’s disposal. Clearly, it is in the long-range self- not mince words. Appearing on CNN from Kyiv on August 31, he said what we are generously paid Western apologists or the interest of the West to take meaningful seeing is “clearly an invasion”; he was quoted by various news sources as saying the extremely naive could argue otherwise. steps to stop and reverse Russia’s aggres- U.S. should supply arms to Ukraine’s military to defend the country and toughen The Russian government’s continuing sion against Ukraine and thus protect its sanctions against Russia. “Weakness is a greater provocation for Putin to act than bold-faced lies that the alleged Donbas own political and territorial integrity from strength,” he argued. Another Democrat, Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. from New Jersey, on “separatists” are self-reliant disgruntled future jeopardy. September 4 spoke of a “full-blown invasion” and urged passage of the bipartisan Ukrainians who are Russian speakers seek- Towards this end, the United States and Ukraine Security Assistance Act of 2014 (HR 5190) that was initiated back in July by ing only to protect their rights can no lon- the United Kingdom have a particular leaders of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus. ger be credulously accepted by the West. responsibility under the Budapest Thus, it was most distressing to hear President Barack Obama’s August 28 This ruse has run its course. Russia is and Memorandum. There are those apologists description of the violence in Ukraine’s east. Though he was right in saying “Russia is has for months been in a state of war that argue that the Budapest Memorandum responsible for the violence in eastern Ukraine. The violence is encouraged by against Ukraine – its sole objective is to is not a “treaty” – even though it was part of Russia. The separatists are trained by Russia. They are armed by Russia. They are eradicate Ukraine’s independence and Ukraine’s accession to the Non-Proliferation funded by Russia,” when pressed by a reporter on whether the most recent escala- return it to a vassal state under the dicta- Treaty – and, according to their flawed logic, tion was an invasion, he ducked: “I think in part because of the progress that you had torship of Moscow, thus giving a rebirth to its breach is not enforceable nor does it have seen by the Ukrainians around Donetsk and Luhansk [a reference to the Ukrainian a new USSR-like empire. any consequential obligations for its other forces’ recent success in the anti-terrorist operation], Russia determined that it had Since the cataclysmic events of World signatories. However, the Budapest to be a little more overt in what it had already been doing. But it’s not really a shift.” War II, the world’s nations have attempted Memorandum is clearly a contractual agree- Crazy like a fox (as another saying goes), Vladimir Putin wants it both ways. He to establish basic principles of internation- ment under which three countries – Russia, denies that his forces are in Ukraine, yet he wants to call the shots in determining al law and behavior to be adhered to by the the U.S. and the U.K. – together obtained a Ukraine’s future. And, what’s more, he is now auditioning for the role of peacemaker. governments of all nations so as to prevent valuable and tangible concession from After meeting with President Petro Poroshenko in Minsk and saying that he wanted future conflagrations on a global scale. The Ukraine for their joint benefit, i.e., the relin- to “end the bloodshed as soon as possible,” he escalated the violence the next day by United Nations Charter, the Helsinki Final quishment of 1,600 nuclear warheads, in sending Russian combats units into eastern Ukraine and firing Grad rockets from Act (the charter document of the consideration for which these three coun- Russian territory into Ukraine. Next came news about a supposed agreement Organization for Security and Cooperation tries together gave their joint assurances for between Messrs. Poroshenko and Putin on steps toward a ceasefire. Russia’s in Europe) and the various organic docu- the territorial integrity and economic inde- response, delivered by spokesman Dmitry Peskov: “Russia cannot physically agree ments of the European Union, have had as pendence of Ukraine. on a ceasefire, as it is not a side in the conflict.” And then came reports of a “peace their linchpin the principle of territorial As such, since one of the beneficiaries of plan” proposed by Mr. Putin. Please! integrity and security and the inviolability the Budapest Memorandum, Russia, egre- Speaking in Estonia on September 3, President Obama quite correctly comment- of borders of independent states. NATO giously breached its promise to respect ed on the potential ceasefire: “There’s an opportunity here… But no realistic political was created in part to protect the territorial Ukraine’s territorial integrity, it is the obli- settlement can be achieved if, effectively, Russia says, ‘We are going to continue to integrity of its member states from outside gation of the other two beneficiary signato- send tanks and troops and arms and advisers under the guise of separatists who are military threats. ries of the Budapest Memorandum, the U.S. not homegrown, and the only possible settlement is if Ukraine cedes its territory or Since 1994, when it entered NATO’s and the U.K., to make certain that Ukrainian its sovereignty or its ability to make its own decisions about its security and its eco- Partnership for Peace Program, Ukraine territorial integrity is fully restored. Failure nomic future.’ ” has participated in NATO outreach pro- to do so will undoubtedly completely Still, the U.S. and the West, including NATO (which is holding its summit in Wales grams and taken part in NATO-led missions undercut any future negotiations with as these words are being written), must take a stronger stand against Russia’s inva- around the world and alongside American other nuclear powers in the hope of achiev- sion of Ukraine and its absolute disregard for international agreements and norms troops in such places as Iraq and ing nuclear disarmament and world peace. of behavior. As The Washington Post noted in yet another excellent editorial on Afghanistan. It was this principle – territo- The time has now come for the West to Ukraine: “Intentionally or not, the White House and NATO are sending Mr. Putin the rial integrity and sovereignty of indepen- take strong and meaningful action in sup- message that Ukraine can be sacrificed. …A White House official told reporters that dent states – that was solemnly invoked, port of Ukraine’s independence and territo- the president’s message to Moscow is, ‘Don’t even think about messing around in jointly and severally, by the United rial integrity. The West must stop moving Estonia or in any of the Baltic areas in the same way that you’ve been messing Kingdom, the Russian Federation and the the goal line in order to placate Mr. Putin in around in Ukraine.’ …Russia’s aggression in Ukraine poses a critical test to the United States in the Budapest the unlikely Pollyanna-like expectation that Western alliance, and the war there is at a tipping point. The response cannot be to Memorandum of 1994, which fervently he will take an “off-ramp” and deescalate cede Ukraine while trying to dissuade Mr. Putin from further conquests.” pledged assurances by these countries of the situation in Ukraine. The hard and the inviolability of Ukrainian borders – uncontroverted evidence proves exactly the assurances on which Ukraine relied and contrary: Mr. Putin only interprets such voluntarily relinquished 1,600 nuclear war- peace-intended initiatives as a sign of heads, then the third largest nuclear arse- weakness. He only respects decisiveness Turning the pages back... nal on the globe. and power. Therefore, the West must face Sept. It is now self-evident that the Kremlin him with resolve and strength. has not and will not adhere to any of its It is crystal clear that neither the United Six years ago, on September 8, 2009, Russian Foreign Affairs internationally made pledges regarding the States nor the European Union will put 8 Minister Sergei Lavrov wrote in an article that U.S.-Russia ties territorial integrity and sovereignty of boots on the ground in Ukraine. However, had significantly improved following the “reset” in relations, states, thus undermining the bedrock upon as Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko 2009 partly due to President Barack Obama’s visit in July 2009 to which European peace is built in the after- has expressed to world leaders, Ukrainians Moscow. math of World War II. Rather, Russia has have the resolve and will to defend their “We see that the desire for confrontational policies is falling, intentionally trampled upon Ukraine’s homeland. What Ukrainians need is mili- especially in the Euro-Atlantic community,” Mr. Lavrov wrote. political and economic sovereignty and its tary supplies and weaponry to aid them in However, Moscow’s actions are different from its official statements. In August 2009 territorial integrity for quite some time in their battle for national survival. Therefore, the Kremlin increased its military presence in Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia full view of the world. we strongly urge that the following steps be regions, violating a European Union-brokered ceasefire following Russia’s war in Georgia Regrettably, the response from the implemented immediately by the U.S. gov- in August 2008. The Duma had passed legislation to make it easier to send troops abroad United States and the European Union has ernment, NATO and its European allies. to “defend Russian citizens” and “prevent aggression against another state.” been a blinders-like muted scolding of Mr. Moscow political analyst Kirill Rogov said President Obama’s charm offensive had no Putin with tempered economic sanctions weapons and nonlethal military supplies, visible effects on relations. Appeals to respect common values, Mr. Rogov said, fall on deaf but specifically excluding any military as •well Military as advisors assistance and inrelated the form intelligence of lethal ears when it comes to authoritarian leaders such as Russia’s. “For them, politics is always and equipment should be provided. played along zero-sum rules,” he added. “That means the result of Obama’s [reset] policies Myroslaw Smorodsky, Esq., is communica- may be very disheartening, even though the idea itself may seem laudable.” tions director of the Ukrainian American Bar imposed, especially in the banking and fos- Russia’s designs on Ukraine don’t end at objections to Ukraine joining NATO. “The Association (UABA), on whose behalf he has sil •fuel Full industries, sector and sanctions the bank shouldaccounts beof written this article. He may be reached at (Continued on page 12) [email protected] or 201-507-4500. (Continued on page 14) No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 7

OPINION Viktor Yushchenko’s true legacy

by Taras Kuzio Lutsenko said he received zero support from the president, and Security Service of The two-part interview with former Ukraine Chairman Oleksandr Turchynov First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko (July 27, was prevented from arresting former Occupied Crimea: August 3) was surreal in its divorce from Naftohaz Ukrayiny Chairman Yuriy Boiko. reality. If Viktor Yushchenko was allegedly Mr. Yushchenko did nothing to break the active during the Euro-Maidan why did he ties between political power and business, crucible of cooperation? never once visit it and seek to speak to the and in fact he and the pragmatic wing of One consequence of the illegal Russian significant increase in violence. crowds? Was he possibly too afraid of the Our Ukraine always preferred working with annexation of the Crimea is that Russian When on April 28 a passer-by attacked poor reception he would receive from pro- oligarchs and entering a grand coalition laws and policies are being imposed. Among Nikolai Martseniuk, who was offering litera- testers, many of whom had probably par- with the Party of Regions. As U.S. cables them are the laws on religion. The 1997 ture on a street in Yalta, kicking him uncon- ticipated a decade earlier in the Orange from Kyiv (leaked to Wikileaks) repeatedly Russian Law on Freedom of Conscience and scious, the police failed to come to the scene Revolution? show, Mr. Yushchenko had a close alliance Religious Associations differs markedly of the assault or otherwise take action. Viktor Yanukovych’s four-year klepto- with oligarchs Dmytro Firtash and Rinat from Ukraine’s more liberal counterpart. On Sunday, June 1, a mob of about 50 cratic and violent regime and Russia’s Akhmetov throughout his presidency. Mr. The 2006 Russian Law on Public people attacked the church and congrega- actions in the Crimea and the Donbas Yushchenko was unable to pursue a full Associations (the “NGO law”) also applies tion of the Protection of the Holy Mother of would not have happened if Yulia investigation into his own poisoning – to religious groups. Both Russian laws pro- God, which belongs to the Ukrainian Tymoshenko had won the 2010 elections. which still remains unresolved – because he vide that under some circumstances, the Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Mr. Yushchenko assisted Mr. Yanukovych’s permitted the Donetsk clan to control the authorities may ban a religious organiza- Patriarchate, at a military base in Perevalne 2010 election victory by telling voters there Procurator General’s Office throughout his tion. While the preamble to the law on reli- (Symferopol district), preventing Father was no difference between Mr. Yanukovych presidency, showing how unimportant gion refers specifically to the roles of Ivan Katkalo from entering. They then and Ms. Tymoshenko and calling for a vote reform of the rule of law was to him. Russian Orthodoxy, Buddhism, Islam and changed the lock. Father Ivan’s appeal to against both. Mr. Yushchenko’s support for Mr. Yushchenko contributed to the EU’s Judaism, the law itself does not discrimi- the police was ignored. Later that month, Mr. Yanukovych’s election victory assisted freezing of the Association Agreement by nate against any religion. In practice, how- Archbishop Klyment Kushch, who heads in the criminal Donetsk clan and oligarchs assisting President Yanukovych’s policy of ever, various arrangements with govern- the UOC-KP Eparchy of Symferopol and the capturing the Ukrainian state and, accord- selective use of justice, and one of the most ment agencies, as well as central and local Crimea, stated that Father Katkalo had left ing to the Procurator General’s Office, their immoral episodes in his thoroughly lack- government policies, favor the Russian for Canada, and that the church was lost. theft of $100 billion during his presidency. lustre career was Mr. Yushchenko giving Orthodox Church. (http://en.wikipedia. The Kyiv Patriarchate reports that five of Mr. Yushchenko should therefore take evidence against Ms. Tymoshenko at her org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Russia) its 10 priests in the region have been forced responsibility for helping to bring Mr. trial. Her subsequent imprisonment led to Moreover, Russian authorities have long to leave the Crimea due to threats, including Yanukovych to power. the EU freezing the agreement. been persecuting certain Muslim and non- death threats. In addition to the church at Claiming Mr. Yushchenko was unable to Mr. Yushchenko both lobbied and under- Orthodox Christian groups by accusing them Perevalne, it has lost its only church in accomplish much because he was con- mined NATO membership, and it was not of “extremism.” Under a July 2002 Russian Sevastopol, St. Clement’s. Three other strained by a parliamentary Constitution is the case that it was opposed by Ms. federal law on Combating Extremist Activity, churches have had to stop functioning. Eight disingenuous. Mr. Yushchenko and Our Tymoshenko and her bloc (US cables from applicable to non-governmental groups and parishes of the UOC-KP survive, mostly in Ukraine voted for the December 2004 con- Kyiv reported her support for NATO mem- mass media, “extremism” is a punishable villages in the northern part of the peninsu- stitutional reforms and Mr. Yushchenko bership). If Mr. Yushchenko had agreed to offense. It is defined by a list of specific acts, la. The eparchy’s complaints to the police ruled Ukraine under a presidential Ms. Tymoshenko becoming prime minister including “incitement to religious hatred.” and prosecutor’s office have been rebuffed. Constitution during his first year in power. in 2006 President George W. Bush would Extremism also includes “propaganda of On June 24, about 30 armed security offi- During that year we did not witness a more have visited Kyiv and Ukraine would have exclusiveness, superiority or inferiority of an cers, apparently led by the Russian FSB energetic, reformist Yushchenko. entered a Membership Action Plan that individual based on his/her religious identi- (Federal Security Service) and including Of the four governments under year at the Riga summit of NATO. In ty” or “attitude to religion.” The organization members of OMON and Berkut riot police, President Yushchenko, only the January 2008 Prime Minister Tymoshenko, and preparation, as well as incitement to raided a madrassah (Islamic religious Yanukovych government was in opposition Rada Chairman Arseniy Yatseniuk and and financing of, such activities are also pun- school) in the village of Kolchugino to him. Mr. Yushchenko insisted Our President Yushchenko signed a joint letter ishable. The principal sanction is dissolution (Bulganak in Crimean Tatar), some 20 kilo- Ukraine deputies be included in two to NATO requesting a MAP. If Ukraine had of the group. Although an individual cannot meters west of Symferopol. The madrassah Tymoshenko governments and then he entered a MAP in 2006 it could have be punished under this law, similar laws in is part of the Spiritual Administration of irrationally worked to undermine them become a NATO member by 2010. the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Crimean Muslims (the Muftiate). The offi- even though they included numerous peo- As investigations by the Procurator Criminal Code, chiefly articles 280 and 282, cers, some of them in masks, broke glass on ple he had appointed. General’s Office are showing, the running do punish individuals. Last June, additional windows and doors to gain entry. Armed President Yushchenko issued many down of Ukraine’s armed forces began anti-extremism laws were promulgated with Kalashnikovs, the two Berkut officers more decrees during his one term in office under President Kuchma, continued under against, among other things, the organiza- asked who among the teenage students than President Leonid Kuchma issued in President Yushchenko and accelerated tion or maintenance of religious communi- and teachers was the oldest. They pointed a two terms, and many of them sought to under President Yanukovych. Without vol- ties that spread “extremist” ideology. Such pistol at a student in a neighboring room to undermine Ms. Tymoshenko, such as for- unteer National Guard battalions doing the activities are punishable by up to eight years force him to open a window to let them in. bidding governors to attend government brunt of the fighting in the Donbas against of prison or corrective labor, or heavy fines. They “interviewed” the madrassah deputy meetings. While seeking to undermine Ms. Russian-backed separatists the underfund- Although these anti-extremism provisions director and searched the premises, confis- Tymoshenko, he at the same time claimed ed and underequipped armed forces would are similar to those of some European coun- cating a book, two computers and mobile credit for her socio-economic policies. have long ago been defeated. tries, they are so vague as to open the door phones. Later, the officers told Muftiate rep- Mr. Yushchenko did nothing to combat Former First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko not only to selective enforcement, but to arbi- resentatives that they were acting on the corruption and four National Security and and former President Viktor Yushchenko trary application, against disfavored groups. basis of a court decision on suspicion of Defense Council secretaries appointed by show no remorse for the complete and In Moscow, Samara and Taganrog, Russian extremism and storing of weapons. (Felix Mr. Yushchenko never viewed fighting cor- abject failure of their presidency for which authorities have used the anti-extremism Corley, “Crimea: Raids, violence, threats – ruption as their strategic priority. Mr. they refuse to take any responsibility. provisions of Article 282 of the Criminal but what protection do victims get?” Forum Yushchenko cooperated with highly cor- Instead, they lay blame elsewhere, while Code to persecute prayer and Bible-reading 18 News Service, 26 June 2014.) rupt Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky – as taking claim for successes pushed through groups of Jehovah’s Witnesses. They have Given their shared hardships, it stands witnessed during the 2008 pre-term Kyiv by others. The best proof of the utter failure also targeted Muslims who read the works to reason that Christians and Muslims in city elections. Internal Affairs Minister Yurii of Mr. Yushchenko’s term in office can be of the Turkish theologian Said Nursi. the Crimea should help each other. Last seen in his 2010 election result of 5 percent In the Russian-occupied Crimea, both March, Archbishop Ievstratii Zoria of the compared to President Leonid Kravchuk’s Christians and Muslims have experienced UOC-KP reported that Crimean Tatars had Dr. Taras Kuzio, Ph.D. is research associ- 44 percent in 1994 when he lost the elec- harassment since the March invasion. In a let- offered to let his faithful use their mosques ate at the Center for Political and Regional tions to Mr. Kuchma. Mr. Yushchenko left ter dated August 21, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic for religious services in case they were Studies, Canadian Institute for Ukrainian office with the highest negative rating of Major Archbishop Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) stat- expelled from their own churches. Studies, University of Alberta; and non-resi- any Ukrainian politician. History will judge ed that churches and religious communities Perhaps this was just an instance of per- dent fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Mr. Yushchenko harshly for having in occupied territories had suffered discrimi- sonal generosity, occasioned by the extraor- Relations, School of Advanced International betrayed the values of the Orange nation and outright violence. In the Crimea, dinary circumstance of the Russian inva- Relations, Johns Hopkins University. Revolution and Ukrainian voters. he noted, the Muslim Tatars had suffered sion. But in view of the ongoing oppression the most, living in daily danger. Some of its by a common enemy, the prospect of lasting leaders had been exiled. Greek and Roman cooperation between Crimean Christians Catholic ministries, Orthodox parishes of and Muslims should not be discounted. The Opinions in The Ukrainian Weekly the Kyivan Patriarchate, and the Jewish Crimea may just become a crucible for inter- Opinions expressed by columnists, commentators and letter-writers community had been menaced. religious as well as inter-ethnic solidarity Forum 18, a religious liberty watch and cooperation. are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of either The Weekly group based in Oslo, has provided the editorial staff or its publisher, the Ukrainian National Association. details of several such instances. Since Andrew Sorokowski can be reached at March, Jehovah’s Witnesses have suffered a [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 No. 36

COMMENTARY NEWS AND VIEWS Canada and its internment operations Talk of reform in Kyiv

by Lubomyr Luciuk “enemy alien” was finally paroled, ironical- by Bohdan Vitvitsky speak fluent English. Some, such as ly, for work in a munitions factory. No Minister of Economic Development Pavlo Words matter. teacher or professor ever spoke to me On July 19-21, an international retreat Sheremeta, who played an active role at the At first, Ottawa’s were calming. People about Canada’s first national internment took place in Kyiv that was sponsored by retreat, have considerable international were told that if they went about their busi- operations. Instead it was this plain-heart- George Soros’s Open Society Foundations experience. Another minister who partici- ness and caused no trouble they would be ed man who told me about what he and and co-organized with the European Bank pated actively and made a very favorable left alone, at peace. others like him endured. for Reconstruction and Development impression was Volodymyr Hroysman, the Soon after, the War Measures Act was In 1988, Mary Manko Haskett, another (EBRD). The subject for analysis, discussion former mayor of Vinnytsia and now the enacted. Tens of thousands of immigrants, victim, recounted her story. She was and debate at the retreat was “Ukraine: A vice prime minister for regional policy. The lured earlier to the Dominion with promis- Montreal-born, a British subject, 6 years Strategy for Reforms.” difference in mentalities between those for- es of free land and freedom, found them- old when imprisoned with her family at The purpose of the retreat was to help merly in government with those in the selves suddenly branded “enemy aliens,” Spirit Lake. Her younger sister, Nellie, 2½ energize and provide focus for systemic present government was striking. subject to arrest and other state-sanctioned years old, perished there. It was Mary who reform in Ukraine. The 200 or so participants Second, the organizers of the retreat indignities, not because of anything they ennobled the Ukrainian Canadian redress consisted of four different constituencies: (1) invited as special guests a number of for- had done wrong but only because of who campaign by insisting it must be “about representatives of donor institutions and mer high-ranking officials of neighboring they were, where they had come from. memory, not money.” Mary wanted no com- countries (EBRD, Open Society Foundations, governments who had been leaders in the Under armed guard, Ukrainians and pensation, never asked for any apology. All European Union, United States, Sweden, reform efforts in those countries. Each other Europeans were caged behind she wanted was for Canadians to remem- Switzerland and others); (2) Ukrainian gov- spoke on multiple occasions and shared his Canadian barbed wire in 24 internment ber what had been dismembered. ernment officials (five ministers, a represen- invaluable experiences with respect to the tative of the presidential administration camps, there forced to do heavy labor for the In the years following, Ottawa’s men challenges involved in implementing radi- and others); (3) foreign experts, of which profit of their jailers. In some cases their tried, at first, to tell us the internment oper- cal reforms, where the opposition and this writer was one; and (4) representa- womenfolk and children were sent away too ations never happened. When that didn’t push-back to reform had come from, how tives of Ukrainian civil society groups. – to Spirit Lake in Quebec’s Abitibi region work they instructed us to forget this past such opposition was overcome, and what The agenda for the retreat was structured and to Vernon, British Columbia. injustice and “move on.” We often won- the dramatic economic benefits that had so as to juxtapose plenary sessions, at which The first survivor I met, in 1978, was dered why others raising historical griev- resulted from such reforms were. Former everyone was addressed by panels of speak- Nick Sakaliuk. In 1912 he had left ances were never offered a similar pre- officials who offered particularly valuable ers, with breakout sessions during which Bukovyna, a western Ukrainian region then scription, not then, nor since. But we did insights and suggestions were Nika Gilauri, participants were divided up into 11 work- part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, not not falter. We stayed true to Mary’s charge. the former prime minister of Georgia, and ing groups tasked with developing recom- wanting to soldier in the emperor’s army. And, in 2005, thanks to Inky Mark, a Ivan Miklos, the former deputy prime min- mendations for action. The subjects assigned When the Great War broke out he was Chinese Canadian MP whose family mem- ister of the Slovak Republic. to be discussed by the working groups working at the Canadian Car and Foundry bers paid the head tax, we secured passage Third, I was tremendously impressed by included: (1) good governance (including representatives of Ukrainian civil society. Co. Fired by a “patriotic” boss, Nick became of Bill C-331 – The Internment of Persons constitution, administrative reforms and Some are in their 20s or 30s and are former destitute. Searching for work, he tried leav- of Ukrainian Origin Recognition Act. That e-governance); (2) anti-corruption and Maidan activists who have continued their ing for the U.S.A., a neutral power. Arrested, led to the creation of the Endowment transparency; (3) judiciary, law enforcement activism in NGOs focused on promoting he was jailed at Montreal’s federal immi- Council of the Canadian First World War and police reforms; (4) energy security and reforms. They are smart, dedicated to the gration building, next sent to Kingston’s Internment Recognition Fund, an inclusive energy efficiency; (5) infrastructure; (6) common good and devoted to achieving Fort Henry, this country’s first permanent body charged with hallowing the memory macroeconomic policy (including monetary practical successes, such as reducing fraud internment camp. He arrived there October of all of the first world war’s “enemy aliens” policy and public finance); (7) social, educa- and corruption in government tenders. 17, 1914. Later relocated to the Petawawa through commemorative and educational tion and cultural policy; (8) agribusiness and But it was not just the younger members camp, and then to Kapuskasing’s, this initiatives. I take great satisfaction in recall- land market; (9) competitiveness, innova- of Ukrainian civil society that impressed. ing how two men working together, one of tion and development of entrepreneurship The character of discussion and debate that Lubomyr Luciuk, Ph.D., a professor of Chinese and the other of Ukrainian heri- political geography at the Royal Military (including industrial and trade policy); (10) they contributed was direct, focused and health policy reform; and (11) financial sec- College of Canada, headed the CTO Project. (Continued on page 17) unfettered from the kind of resigned inertia tor development. that I had so often encountered just five Discussions and debates were at times years ago. There was also a refreshing lack intense. Sessions began at 9 a.m. and lasted of fear of hierarchy. Although there FOR THE RECORD: Prime Minister Harper late into the evenings. Each working group appeared to be understanding for why generated a set of recommendations for President Petro Poroshenko, in light of his action that was then presented in plenary national security duties, did not visit the remembers internees of World War I sessions. What may or may not result from retreat, there was widespread and open Prime Minister Stephen Harper on We are also steadfast in our commitment any of this work is difficult to predict and, criticism of Prime Minister Arseniy as the saying goes, talk is cheap. That said, August 22 issued the following statement to remembering those who suffered. That Yatsenyuk for his failure to visit the retreat. there was a number of things that made a in remembrance of those interned in is why in 2008 the government of Canada Fourth, and last, the retreat’s organizers strong impression. Canada during the First World War. worked closely with affected communities and the Open Society Foundation that fund- First, the leadership of the Ukrainian and committed $10 million to the ed the event deserve a lot of credit for government is now in the hands of a new A century ago, as a result of fear gener- Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras bringing together such different categories generation of people, i.e., people who are in ated by the onset of the first world war, Shevchenko to establish the Canadian of participants to engage in direct and sus- their 40s and 30s. When I worked on an thousands of new immigrants of European First World War Internment Recognition tained interaction. Off and on for years anti-corruption project while serving at the there has been foolish talk in Ukraine about origin were interned during the first world Fund. We also included a section on the U.S. Embassy in 2007-2009, our counter- war even though there was no proof that internment in our revised Citizenship Ukrainians being able to find a “third way,” part was 60-some-year-old Mykola Azarov i.e., some sort of uniquely Ukrainian way of they posed a threat to Canada. Guide, Discover Canada. who, among other things, spoke neither Many of the internees came to our Today, the descendants of internees of doing things or organizing their economy Ukrainian nor English. Ukraine’s current or government. There are, to be sure, no shores seeking to escape oppression and Ukrainian, Croatian, German, Hungarian, president, prime minister and the minis- to build a better future for their families, Polish and other ethnic origins, will be cookie-cutter approaches to resolving chal- ters who participated in the retreat not lenges in government or the economy, but but instead found themselves impris- gathering in churches and community only all speak Ukrainian but all, except one, oned simply for having come from terri- centers across the country to pray and to Ukraine must learn from the successes and failures of other countries, particularly tory controlled by the then-German or reflect on this sad moment in our histo- Bohdan Vitvitsky served as a resident Austro-Hungarian empires. This practice ry. I encourage all Canadians to take part from the experiences of neighboring, post- legal advisor at the U.S. Embassy in 2007- persisted even after the British govern- in these events. Communist countries, in order to move for- 2009 and helped implement a large anti- ment advised that most of these so- I also thank the Shevchenko ward, and the retreat helped make a contri- corruption project then. called “enemy aliens” were in fact sym- Foundation and the Ukrainian Canadian bution towards that direction. pathetic to our war aims and encour- Civil Liberties Association, which coordi- aged Canada not to intern them. nated the “One Hundred Plaques across Governments have a solemn duty to Canada” initiative, for their important raise the stakes still further, inadvertently defend against legitimate threats in war- roles in remembering this moment in Putin’s war... risking inter-state war. Beyond these tactics, the wider strategy time, but we look back with deep regret our history and in coordinating today’s (Continued from page 2) on an unjust policy that was implement- commemorations. appears to be to undermine Kyiv’s legitima- ed indiscriminately as a form of collective As we remember the past, let us also tainty and tension in the crisis. His authori- cy, “federalize” Ukraine and apply a South punishment and in violation of funda- remember to celebrate the achievements zation of both the aid convoy as well as a Ossetia model in southeastern Ukraine. mental principles of natural justice, of the internees and their descendants, limited troop deployment in an apparent including the presumption of innocence. who overcame this hardship and contrib- PSYOP to undermine the ATO is working to The article above is reprinted from In Canada we acknowledge the mis- uted so much to the building of our coun- date to push back the Ukrainian govern- Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from takes of the past, and we learn from them. try as loyal and dedicated citizens. ment’s forces. But the same motif will likely its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, lose its impact if used repeatedly, and thus www.jamestown.org. No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 9 Vakhtang Kipiani speaks at the Ukrainian National Museum by Roxolana Kozyckyj a cursory understanding of current events in Ukraine. One such detail compared the number of main streets in large CHICAGO – Vakhtang Kipiani, the editor of Ukrainian cities that bear a Soviet-era name and what that name rep- online publication Istorychna Pravda (Historical Truth) and resents, highlighting Ukraine’s inability to move forward if a true visionary scholar in media, spoke about the current its people are physically stuck living in the past. situation in Ukraine as the guest of honor at the Ukrainian He also explained a unique exercise in which his online National Museum in Chicago on Friday, August 15. newspaper conducted an informal survey in several large Mr. Kipiani spent the week reviewing the extensive col- cities around Ukraine asking locals who was the most lection of diaspora news publications archived at the UNM important Ukrainian figure in history. The answers ranged in the hopes of eventually establishing a news history from Taras Shevchenko and Roman Shukhevych to Andriy museum in Kyiv. Georgian by birth, but Ukrainian at heart, Shevchenko and the popular rock band Skryabin. Despite Mr. Kipiani captivated his audience on Friday night with his the entertaining results, the poll illustrated some of the fresh perspective on a variety of issues relevant in Ukraine issues Mr. Kipiani covered that evening, including historical today. truth, journalistic integrity, and the need for reform and Mr. Kipiani’s passion and deep knowledge of historical consistency in the Ukrainian history curriculum in schools. detail enabled him to illustrate unique facts and statistics A spirited debate followed the presentation and contin- for the guests in attendance, most of whom had more than ued throughout the evening as guests enjoyed light

Maria Klimchak Vakhtang Kipiani refreshments and readily lined up to meet Mr. Kipiani. Among the guests were the consul general of Ukraine in Chicago, Andriy Pravednyk, and musicians from Ukraine, Serhij Fomenko from Mandry and Maria Burmaka, whose attendance lined up with their participation in St. Joseph the Betrothed Parish’s Uketoberfest that same weekend. The wide-ranging topics all revolved around everyone’s primary concern: the future of Ukraine. The Ukrainian National Museum’s mission is to collect, preserve and develop the history of Ukraine and its immi- grants to a wide multicultural audience. Mr. Kipiani espoused that mission in his visit to the museum, empha- sizing that learning and knowing Ukraine’s history, both good and bad, will be the key to creating a successful The audience at the Ukrainian National Museum. future for Ukraine.

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Christine Syzonenko Over 2,500 attend Ukrainian Folk Festival at Tryzubivka

HORSHAM, Pa. – Well over 2,500 visitors, Ukrainians and “Ukrainians for a day,” attended the 23rd annual Ukrainian Folk Festival held on Sunday, August 24, at the Tryzub Ukrainian American Sports Center (Tryzubivka). A “significant” amount of the proceeds from this year’s festival would be donated to help provide humanitarian relief in Ukraine, said Eugene Luciw, festival organizer and an executive board officer of the Ukrainian American Sports Center. According to Mr. Luciw, the donations would provide clothing for the refugees of eastern Ukraine, as well as knapsacks and medical supplies for the Ukrainian army. Festival-goers sampled Ukrainian food, browsed at numerous vendors’ stalls, and enjoyed a stage show featuring Iskra Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, violinist Innesa Tymochko Dekajlo, SPIV-Zhyttya choir, Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble and Vox Ethnica Band, which also played for a zabava after the program. Below: Eugene Luciw and Innesa Tymochko Dekajlo. Clockwise from top left: Voloshky in “Kokhanochka,” Iskra in “Bereznianka,” Voloshky in their Moldovan dance, Roman and Luka of the Azov Battalion with Borys Pawluk of the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee, Voloshky and Iskra in a joint photo, SPIV-Zhyttia, Iskra in “Hopak.” 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 No. 36

in a phone interview from the Ukrainian NEWSBRIEFS capital. “I know we’ve provided them with night vision goggles, but it doesn’t do much (Continued from page 2) good to see the enemy and not be able to Messrs. Putin and Poroshenko had agreed stop them.” The senator from New Jersey TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 “on a ceasefire regime” for the region, also appeared on CNN, arguing that the U.S. or e-mail [email protected] where the U.N. says more than 2,600 peo- should provide Ukrainians with defensive ple have been killed in the conflict. (RFE/ weapons to counter the Russia’s invasion of its territory. (Office of Ukraine’s President, SERVICES PROFESSIONALS RL, with reporting by Reuters, Agence France-Presse and Interfax) The Star-Ledger, CNN) Poroshenko meets with Sen. Menendez Sen. Portman: U.S. policy not working KYIV – President Petro Poroshenko met WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Rob Portman on September 1 with U.S. Sen. Robert (R-Ohio) on August 29 issued the following Menendez (D-N.J.). The president informed statement following reports of increased him of the escalation of the situation in the Russian aggression in Ukraine. “There is Donetsk and Luhansk regions due to now no doubt that the Ukrainian military is Russian aggression against Ukraine. Mr. fighting Russian forces on their territory. Poroshenko noted that the Ukrainian The president should call this what it is: an armed forces had been making significant invasion. Despite the president’s claims, progress in countering terrorists until the sanctions alone are clearly not working. It’s Russian armed forces intruded. “It is cru- time for the president to adopt a more cially important for Ukraine to receive comprehensive approach that doesn’t con- assistance in its struggle for freedom, tinue to ignore the military dimension of democracy and sovereignty,” Mr. the conflict. A political solution is simply Poroshenko emphasized. In turn, Sen. not possible if Russia feels that military Menendez noted: “These events threaten force is a better way to achieve its objec- not only Ukraine, but also the entire world. tives, and the lack of U.S. and Western sup- The first victims are the people of Ukraine, port for building Ukrainian military capa- but they are not the only victims. This is an bilities gives [Vladimir] Putin no reason to issue of global security.” Mr. Poroshenko change his strategy. In addition, the politi- expressed gratitude to the U.S. Congress for cal and economic reform goals that other the initiative to grant Ukraine the status of forms of U.S. assistance are designed to a Major Non-NATO Ally, which “will allow achieve will not be possible if the receiving new opportunities for coopera- Ukrainians lack the ability to maintain law tion with the U.S.A. and enhancing our and order and defend their sovereignty. I security.” The two men also discussed the continue to call on the president to give the upcoming U.S. visit of the Ukrainian presi- Ukrainian military the capabilities it needs dent. Sen. Menendez, who chairs the Senate to defend its land and people. This must be Foreign Relations Committee reiterated his combined with increased sanctions and call for the U.S. to supply arms to Ukrainian clear steps to strengthen our allies in the OPPORTUNITIES national forces and toughen sanctions region.” (Office of Sen. Robert Portman) against Russia, adding he would seek a Allies to stage military drills in Ukraine joint session of Congress later this month Earn extra income! to let the Ukrainian president make the WARSAW – Ukraine is to host U.S.-led military drills later this month involving The Ukrainian Weekly is looking case directly to U.S. lawmakers. “We need to hundreds of troops. Poland’s Defense for advertising sales agents. give the Ukrainians the wherewithal to For additional information contact defend themselves,” against Russian- Walter Honcharyk, Advertising Manager, backed separatists, he told The Star-Ledger (Continued on page 13) The Ukrainian Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext 3040. Turning... The European perspective shows that WANT IMPACT? most view Russia as a threat, not as it was (Continued from page 6) during the Soviet Union, but as an energy Run your advertisement here, supplier. Moscow had shut off gas to in The Ukrainian Weekly’s Kremlin believes Ukraine must be made Ukraine twice in three years. part of the Russian sphere of influence,” Mr. “[Nuclear weapons] were almost use- CLASSIFIEDS section. Rogov said. “That’s how they understand it, less,” noted Dr. Marshall Goldman of and that’s going to be a major problem in Harvard University, “because if Russia relations [with the United States].” The were to use them, the United States would impasse between what Washington and have retaliated and some of the Europeans Moscow accept as permissible action in as well. If Russia today cuts off or threat- Ukraine and other former Soviet republics, ens to cut off energy supplies, there’s he added, threatens to derail President nothing anybody can do to offset that.” Obama’s reset policy. Russia has been working at undermin- Kremlin lackey Viktor Kremenyuk of ing European unity – another threat as Moscow’s U.S.A. and Canada Institute refut- viewed by Moscow – by cultivating bilater- ed that the Kremlin’s actions had been al relations with individual countries, overly confrontational, insisting that Russia often through lucrative deals between is addressing the security threat it sees Gazprom and energy companies across from possible NATO expansion. “If we Western Europe such as the Nord Stream shared similar values,” Mr. Kremenyuk said, and South Stream pipeline projects that “I don’t think we could have the same prob- bypass Ukraine’s gas transit system to lems… We are different. And this is some- Europe. thing like a challenge, because with these In 2008, German Chancellor Angela different values, can we still live together? Merkel opposed Ukraine’s and Georgia’s This is the real question.” path to NATO membership, while at the The success of the reset hinged on a new same time blocked proposed EU regula- nuclear arms pact that would replace the tions that would have restricted foreign 1991 START agreement that was to expire companies from buying European energy in December 2009. utilities to slow Gazprom’s infiltration. “The ideological foundation of [Prime Some believe that a European consen- Minister Vladimir] Putin’s regime strictly sus can develop only if people in London follows Soviet models,” said Vladimir and Paris feel as threatened by Russia as Ryzhkov, a former independent Moscow some Czechs do on the streets of Prague. legislator who met with President Obama during his visit to Moscow in July. “It issues Source: “How Obama’s Russia reset is anti-liberal, anti-American and anti-West- playing on the ground in Europe,” by ern propaganda, and it discredits liberal Gregory Feifer (RFE/RL), The Ukrainian values and democracy.” Weekly, September 13, 2009. 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stands. His comment came in response to ple are being shot at almost at point blank” Ukrainian troops abandon Luhansk airport NEWSBRIEFS an announcement by Ukrainian Prime in Ukraine. Mr. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk that the gov- Peskov later said the president did not KYIV – Ukrainian military officials say (Continued from page 12) ernment would ask Parliament to set the envision sovereignty for the two separatist government forces have pulled back from the airport of the eastern city of Luhansk Ministry said on September 3 that the exer- country on a path toward NATO member- regions in eastern Ukraine that style them- ship, a move certain to anger Russia. He selves as “Novorossiya” (New Russia). Mr. following clashes with pro-Russian sepa- cises, dubbed Rapid Trident 14, are to be ratists. Military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said, however, that the basic aim of Peskov said the region should remain part held on September 13-26 in western said the soldiers made an “organized Ukrainian foreign policy remains to of Ukraine. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by Ukraine close to NATO-member Poland. retreat” from the airport on September 1 in become a member of the European Union. ITAR-TASS and Interfax) Troops from NATO allies Britain, Bulgaria, the face of an intensifying assault that he Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Romania, and (RFE/RL, Putin: Russians, Ukrainians ‘one people’ blamed on “professional artillery gunmen alliance partners Norway and Moldova will Georgia to ask for NATO membership of the Russian armed forces.” Mr. Lysenko join U.S. and Polish troops for the annual MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir said troops had been battling a Russian event in Ukraine, which is not a NATO TBILISI – Georgian President Giorgi Putin, speaking at a youth camp outside tank battalion there. He added that there member. Focused on peacekeeping, it will Margvelashvili says his country will ask for Moscow on August 29, also said he believed were “no fewer than four [Russian] battal- include command patrolling and dealing NATO membership at the alliance’s upcom- Ukrainians and Russians are “practically ion-tactical groups” in Ukraine, adding that with improvised explosive devices. The ing summit in Britain. Mr. Margvelashvili one people.” He continued, “People who each one comprised 400 men. The annual exercise was initially scheduled for said in a September 3 speech at the have their own views on history and the announcement came shortly before July, but was put back when planning was Chatham House think tank in London that history of our country may argue with me, Ukrainian and Russian officials, separatist disrupted by the fighting between govern- “We will shoot for an invitation for NATO but it seems to me that the Russian and rebels, and OSCE representatives met in ment forces and pro-Russian militants in membership” but added that Tbilisi under- Ukrainian peoples are practically one peo- Minsk, the capital of neighboring Belarus, eastern Ukraine. (RFE/RL, based on report- stood “[such] decisions are made in a much ple.” Mr. Putin also called the fighting in to discuss the Ukraine crisis. (RFE/RL) ing by Agence France-Presse and Reuters) more complicated way.” NATO said earlier eastern Ukraine a tragedy and compared it Psychiatric exam ordered for Savchenko this year it would not expand its member- to the World War II Nazi siege of Leningrad. NATO chief cites ‘military operations’ ship at its summit in Wales, which began on “Small villages and large cities surrounded MOSCOW – A Russian court has refused BRUSSELS – NATO Secretary-General September 4. But it said it will offer Georgia by the Ukrainian army, which is directly hit- to free a Ukrainian air force officer on bail Anders Fogh Rasmussen has accused a “substantive package” of cooperation that ting residential areas with the aim of and ordered her to be sent to Moscow for a Russia of engaging in “direct military oper- would help it move closer to the alliance. destroying the infrastructure,” he said. “It psychiatric examination. Lt. Nadiya ations” in Ukraine and dismissed Moscow’s Mr. Margvelashvili added that although it sadly reminds me the events of World War Savchenko was captured in June and is “hollow denials” of involvement. Mr. was good that Ukrainian President Petro II, when German fascist... occupants sur- awaiting trial in Russia. She is charged with Rasmussen was speaking to reporters in Poroshenko and Russian counterpart rounded our cities.” He said Kyiv must complicity in the killing of two Russian jour- Brussels on August 29 after an emergency Vladimir Putin are discussing the crisis in engage in “substantial, meaningful talks” nalists who died while covering the conflict NATO meeting to discuss the Ukraine crisis. eastern Ukraine, “on the other hand we had with the rebels in an effort to end the fight- between pro-Russian separatists and gov- He said that “it is now clear that Russian one more column [of military armament] ing. Officials in Kyiv ”don’t want to speak on ernment forces in eastern Ukraine. At a troops and equipment have illegally going [from Russia] into Ukraine [today].” substance, that is the problem,” he claimed. hearing on August 27, a court in the city of crossed the border,” part of a “dangerous (RFE/RL, based on reporting by Reuters) Mr. Putin also said Russia had no desire to Voronezh refused to release her on bail and pattern” to destabilize Ukraine and a “bla- Putin calls for eastern Ukraine ‘statehood’ get involved in large-scale conflicts, “but extended her pretrial detention through tant violation” of its sovereignty. Mr. naturally, we should always be ready to October 30. It ruled that she will be sent to Rasmussen said Moscow had supplied pro- MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir repel any aggression toward Russia.” He Moscow for a psychiatric examination. Ms. Russian separatists with tanks, armor, artil- Putin said talks on ending the conflict in added, “Our partners, no matter what state Savchenko’s lawyer, Mark Feigin, says his cli- lery and rocket launchers, and had fired on eastern Ukraine must discuss statehood for their countries are in and whatever foreign- ent has lodged a protest against the psychi- Ukrainian troops from Russian territory the region. In an interview with Russia’s TV policy concept they stick to, must under- atric examination. Lt. Savchenko told the and Ukrainian soil. Russian Foreign Affairs Channel One aired on August 31, Mr. Putin stand that it is better not to mess with us.” court that she is not guilty and that Russia Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier on said: “We need to immediately begin sub- (RFE/RL, with reporting by the Associated has no right to try her. (RFE/RL, based on August 29 that the West had failed to prove stantive talks... on questions of the political Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters) reporting by UNIAN and Interfax) its claims of Moscow’s military involve- organization of society and statehood for ment in Ukraine and dismissed them as southeastern Ukraine with the goal of pro- “conjecture.” Mr. Rasmussen also said tecting the lawful interests of the people With deep sorrow we announce that our who live there.” Mr. Putin also said that NATO’s 2008 assurance that Ukraine will beloved husband, father, brother, one day join the alliance if it wishes still Moscow could not stand aside “when peo- grandfather, uncle and cousin

costs felt by citizens of countries when George Macyk Ambassador Power... their governments take these actions. It has costs for businesses that trade with Russia passed away on March 16, 2014. (Continued from page 3) and sell to Russian markets, from small- He was born August 25, 1930, in Lutsk, Ukraine. has to stop fueling this conflict. scale farmers to big factories. Those costs The mask is coming off. In these acts – are considerable, and nobody should take Funeral services were held on March 20, 2014, at Shook Funeral Home these recent acts – we see Russia’s actions them lightly. in Clifton, NJ. for what they are: a deliberate effort to sup- But let’s be clear: if unchecked, the dam- port, and now fight alongside, illegal sepa- age that Russia’s blatant disregard for the Interment took place at BG William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial ratists in another sovereign country. international order poses is much, much Cemetery in Wrightstown, N.J. Now, Russia has claimed that Ukraine is greater. These rules and principles that not interested in a ceasefire, but let’s be have taken generations to build, with In deep sorrow: clear: we have every interest in a ceasefire, unparalleled investment – countless lives wife - Alexandra Macyk son - Walter with wife Irene as do the Ukrainians, as long as it is a real have been lost to establish and defend these principles. And every single one of us grandchildren - Mark, William and Michelle one. But Russian separatists not only have sister - Oxana Babiuk no interest in observing a ceasefire, but has a stake in defending them. A threat to the order – the international order – is a nieces - Roxolana with family they cynically use the time to rearm and - Tamara with family wait for additional soldiers and supplies to threat to all of our peace and security. These are the rules that Russia is flout- sister’s brother-in-law - Myrom Babiuk with wife Ulana and family flow across the border from Russia. cousins - Lila (Roma) Paschuk with family In the face of these deeply alarming ing when it illegally seizes territory and - Helen Hury with son Danny actions, the most important question for us arms, equips and fights alongside illegal - Oksana Molchanowa with family now is not what we should say to Russia. groups in neighboring countries. - Ileen Brady with family The most important question is what we Ukraine is one of roughly a dozen coun- should do to make Russia listen. tries that share a border with Russia. Let G. Macyk had a great Christian love of people, was a devoted son The United States has, throughout this me close with a couple questions: How can Ukraine, cheerful, smiling and with a great sense of humor. crisis, and in close coordination with our we tell those countries that border Russia European partners, the EU and the G-7, that their peace and sovereignty is guaran- He graduated from the gimnazium in DP camp in Regensburg, exerted targeted, effective pressure so that teed if we do not make our message heard Germany. His higher education was obtained at City College. His MBA this message is heard, so that Russia begins on Ukraine? Why should they believe it will degree was from New York University. to de-escalate, rather than escalate, so that be different if tomorrow, President Putin the reasonable peace plan put forward by decides to start supporting armed separat- He was active in community organizations. in 1960-61, he was President Poroshenko is adopted and ists and allowing soldiers “on vacation” to the Editor-in-Chief of Horizon - Ukrainian Students Review. He was a implemented. And in the face of Russia’s fight in their countries? And, just as impor- long-time active member of the Government-in-exile of the Ukrainian continued aggression and blatant disregard tant, what message are we sending to other National Republic. for the U.N. Charter, the Helsinki Final Act, countries with similarly alarming ambi- we will continue to work closely with our tions around the world, when we let Russia Wife Alexandra and family ask for prayers for the repose of His soul. G-7 and European partners to ratchet up violate these rules without sufficient conse- the consequences on Russia. quences? In the face of this threat, the cost Memory eternal! Now, I understand that there are real of inaction is unacceptable. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 No. 36

ordering them to be paraded through the Donetsk march... streets of Rome in January 1944. Onlookers hurled sticks and stones at the (Continued from page 3) POWs, the prosecution alleged, though Maezler’s defense argued that they threw would be of concern, I don’t think this is flowers and cigarettes. Photographs of the the kind of thing that you could bring parade appeared in the Italian press accom- Russia, for example, to the International panied by the caption: “Anglo-Americans Criminal Court and have a whole case enter Rome after all... flanked by German based on,” Mr. Scharf says of the POW bayonets,” according to a 1949 report com- parade. missioned by the United Nations. Neither Russia nor Ukraine – nor the The ban on exposing POWs to such pub- United States – is a signatory to the lic forums is not aimed at protecting them International Criminal Court (ICC), though from moral injury, but from physical harm Kyiv has accepted the Netherlands-based as well, Mr. Scharf says. During World War court’s jurisdiction for crimes committed on II, there were several instances of POWs Ukrainian territory between November 21, killed after being stoned or beaten by 2013, and February 22, 2014. Ukraine would crowds at such parades. “There were a cou- have to submit another declaration or an ple of high-profile prosecutions for that in amendment to bring more recent events – the Nuremberg Tribunal era,” he explains. such as the Donetsk parade – within the “So this is not just about the public curiosi- ICC’s jurisdiction, Mr. Scharf notes. ty through images, but also the protection Rights activists denounced the prisoner of the individuals whose lives are at risk march as an unequivocal violation of the when they’re being paraded.” Geneva Conventions. The parade clearly The parade in Donetsk echoed the 1944 meets the threshold of “humiliating and parade in which the Soviet government degrading treatment” under Article 3 of the marched thousands of German POWs Geneva Conventions, Human Rights Watch through the streets of Moscow, also at bay- Deputy Director Rachel Denber said on onet-point. Large trucks then sprayed the Twitter. streets with water in a symbolic cleaning of Her comment was echoed by Tanya the roads after the German soldiers. Lokshina of HRW’s Moscow office. “The so- Street-cleaning trucks were deployed in called parade of prisoners in Donetsk today similar fashion at the Donetsk parade over is not only revolting from a purely human the weekend. Three of the bulky vehicles perspective, but it is a clear violation of drove slowly and rinsed the roads about 60 international humanitarian law,” Ms. meters behind the procession. Lokshina told RFE/RL. The symbolism was not lost on one Nazi, Soviet parades spectator filming the parade. “Bravo,” he said enthusiastically. “That’s telling. They’re There is a precedent for successful pros- cleaning the streets after them.” ecution of individuals for parading prison- ers of war before the public. Copyright 2014, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted In September 1946, a U.S. military com- with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ mission convicted German Lt. Gen. Kurt Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Maezler of “exposing” several hundred U.S. Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see and British POWs in his custody “to acts of http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-pow- violence, insults and public curiosity” by march-war-crime/26548667.html).

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COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Professionals of Montreal hold annual meeting Montreal – The Ukrainian-Canadian Professional and Business Association (UCPBA) of Montreal held its annual gener- al meeting at the Ukrainian Youth Center on June 26, electing Vasyl Pawlowsky as president for the 2014-2016 term. UCPBA Montreal is a member organization of the Montreal branch of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, with the UCPB Federation a founding member of UCC National. This year, UCPBA Montreal will mark its 60th anniversary (1954-2014). The outgo- ing president, Zorianna Hrycenko-Luhova, who was the first woman president of the Montreal club and served several terms, provided a partial list with her president’s report of an overview of the many out- standing speakers the Montreal club orga- Newly elected UCPBA Montreal President Vasyl Pawlowsky (fifth from left), outgoing President Zorianna Hrycenko-Luhova nized in the past, including Dr. Manoly (third from left), with other members at the Montreal annual general meeting. Lupul, Mayor Vera Danyluk, Dr. Frank Sysyn, Prof. Jaroslav Rozumnyj, Ivan Drach, order to invigorate and resurrect the feder- members of the club; to support the proj- language Rotary Club in Kyiv. In his former Federation President Oksana ation and its branches. ect-proposal spearheaded by Orest remarks he affirmed his commitment to Bashuk-Hepburn, The Hon. Gerry Weiner, A federation convention is planned for Humenny of establishing one Ukrainian reach out to university graduates; to John Kolasky, Orest Nowakivsky and many September, when a new federation execu- center in Montreal; and to continue to rebuild the club’s membership, reaching more. The list was to offer a reminder and tive will be elected and a new federation work closely and support the Spirit Lake out to newer members, young profession- give a background to newer members of constitution will be ratified. Federation Internment Interpretive Center near Amos, als, including the new arrivals of the fourth the diverse Ukrainian Canadian issues and President Mykhailo Wawryshyn stated that Quebec. The center develops public aware- and fifth wave; and to increase the use of concerns the club in Montreal has now it is more important than ever to have ness of the second largest internment site social media in building interaction among addressed, as well as to encourage a con- a strong Ukrainian diaspora, a strong feder- in Canada, where over 1,200 were unjustly members. tinuation of active community involvement. ation and branches to take leadership role interned – mainly Ukrainians, from the A wine and cheese reception followed Ms. Hrycenko-Luhova reported on the Canada-wide in many areas. Montreal area – and shares the story of the the meeting, with members sharing their recent work of the UCPB Federation, which The outgoing Montreal president early history of Ukrainian immigration to ideas for the club’s future in Montreal and had a meeting at the 24th triennial UCC con- stressed the need: to organize the UCPBA Quebec and Canada. its federation, and recalling the input of gress in Toronto in November 2013, fol- Montreal archives to ensure the historical Following her report, Ms. Hrycenko- past presidents such as Prof. Yarema lowed by four monthly teleconference record of the club is documented; to con- Luhova introduced the new president, Mr. Kelebay. meetings chaired by Eugene Zalucky, with tinue to work closely with the university Pawlowsky, who worked for 10 years in To become a member of UCPBA the participation of representatives from students at McGill, Concordia and the Ukraine for NGOs and was the secretary Montreal, readers may email: vpaw- various branches including Montreal, in University of Montreal, potential future and president of Ukraine’s first English- [email protected] or call 514-631-0297.

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Tel.: 973-292-9800 ext. 3040 Published by the Ukrainian National Association 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 No. 36 Columbia’s Ukrainian Studies Program announces courses, events NEW YORK – The Ukrainian Studies Program at the threatens global peace and security. Is there anything the Century in Archival Collections of the United States (Yurii Harriman Institute will be offering six courses and a series world community can do to stop the aggressor? Can diplo- Sherekh [Shevelov] and his Social and Literary of events at Columbia University during the fall 2014 macy still play a role? These and other issues are dealt Surroundings)” semester. with in a newly revised course, delivered by a career diplo- The fall semester will feature the 12th installment in the Dr. Anastasiia Grynko from the Mohyla School of mat. The instructor will share his own diplomatic experi- Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series, co-sponsored Journalism in Kyiv will be returning as postdoctoral ence, will trace the trajectory of Ukraine’s foreign policy by the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman research scholar at Columbia University in the fall, a posi- and analyze the current international crisis. Institute and the Kennan Institute in Washington. This tion made possible by the generous support of the Petro Dr. Yuri Shevchuk (Department of Slavic Languages and year’s guest is writer Oleksander Boichenko, a literary crit- Jacyk Fund. Dr. Grynko is a deputy director for research Literatures) will teach the course “Soviet, Post-Soviet, ic, publicist, essayist and translator from Chernvitsi. He is and senior lecturer at the Mohyla School of Journalism. At Colonial and Post-Colonial Cinema” (Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.). also author of the books “Shchos’ na Kshtalt Shatokua” Columbia, Dr. Grynko will be teaching a course titled The course will discuss how filmmaking has been used as (Sort of Like a Chautauqua, 2003), “Shatokua Plius” “Media, Internet and Euro-Maidan Protests in an instrument of power and imperial domination in the (Chautauqua Plus, 2005), “Aby Knyzhka” (To Have a Book, Contemporary Ukraine” (Thursdays, 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.). Soviet Union, as well as in the post-Soviet space since 2011) and “Moi Sered Chuzhykh” (Mine Among Strangers, This newly revised course invites students to look at the 1991. A body of select films by Soviet and post-Soviet 2012). He will be presenting at Columbia University on evolution of media in contemporary Ukraine, think about directors that exemplify the function of filmmaking as a October 20 and at the Kennan Institute on October 23. the role of information, media and the Internet in the devel- tool of appropriation of the colonized, their cultural and The Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University, will be oping democracy and the power of disinformation, propa- political subordination by the Soviet center will be exam- celebrating its 10th anniversary this fall. That milestone ganda and numerous challenges to freedom of expression. ined in terms of post-colonial theories. will be marked with an extraordinary event to go along Ukraine has received international attention for the past The course will focus both on Russian cinema and on with the monthly screening of Ukrainian films throughout months since anti-government Euro-Maidan protests and often overlooked work by Ukrainian, Georgian, Belarusian, the academic year – a special screening of the much-talk- political upheaval that have been followed by international Armenian, etc. national film schools and will examine how ed-about film “The Guide” at which the film’s director, Oles crisis. Alongside the work of journalists, the recent events in they participated in the Communist project of fostering a Sanin, will be present. The date of this screening will be Ukraine showed a significant engagement of Internet users, “new historic community of the Soviet people,” as well as determined shortly. civic and media activists. The course will study the cases of resisted it by generating – in hidden and, since 1991, overt Courses at Columbia are open to students from other media and civic initiatives during the Euro-Maidan, work and increasingly assertive ways – their own counter-narra- universities in the New York metropolitan area seeking with visual and textual media messages, examine the con- tives. Close attention will be paid to the new Russian film credit. Please contact the university at which you enrolled tinuing evolution of the media landscape, analyze media as it re-invents itself within the post-Soviet imperial to determine whether it participates in this manner with coverage and investigate the role of media and the Internet momentum projected on the former Soviet colonies. Columbia University. Some courses are also open to out- in the protests, and, the Euro-Maidan in particular. Three levels of Ukrainian language instruction will be side individuals interested in non-credit continuing stud- Another course to be offered in fall 2013 is Ambassador taught this fall by Dr. Shevchuk: elementary on Mondays, ies. Additionally, through the Lifelong Learners program, Valeriy Kuchynskyi’s “Ukrainian Foreign Policy: Russia, Wednesdays and Fridays, 8:40-9:55 a.m.; Intermediate on individuals over age 65 who are interested in auditing Europe and the U.S.” Ambassador Kuchynskyi is the former Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:10-11:25 a.m.; and courses, may enroll at a discount rate as Lifelong Learners. permanent representative of Ukraine to the United advanced on Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:40-3:55 p.m. Readers may visit the Columbia University School of Nations. His course, (Tuesdays from 2:10-4 p.m.), will Arriving at Columbia University in the fall and visiting Continuing Education website (http://www.ce.columbia. focus on the political situation in Ukraine today. for the entire 2104-2015 academic year will be Fulbright edu/auditing/ ?PID=28) for more details. As a result of Russia’s continued illegal intervention and scholar Dr. Tetiana Shastopalova, professor of the September 2 is the first day of classes, and September provocative acts in Ukraine, the worst political crisis since Department of Ukrainian Literature and Method of its 12 is the final day to register for a class. For more informa- the end of the Cold War has evolved on the European conti- Teaching at Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National tion about courses or the Ukrainian Studies Program at nent. Moscow has challenged the basic principles of inter- University. At Columbia she will be working on a research Columbia University, please contact Dr. Mark Andryczyk at national law, violated numerous bilateral agreements and project titled “Ukrainian Literary Criticism of the 20th [email protected] or 212-854-4697.

Putin’s demands in Ukraine. tion 424,000) and even its northern regions, which had Europe’s leaders... “He has taken Crimea already,” he reportedly said. “We largely eluded the warfare, he reported. Russian forces are can’t allow him to take the whole country because we risk also trying to secure control of the entire southern half of (Continued from page 1) repeating the mistakes that were made in 1938 in Munich. the Donetsk region. We don’t know what can happen afterwards.” Mr. Poroshenko’s only remaining option is to hold nego- interview published on September 1. “Putin never respect- [European leaders surrendered the Sudetenland, where tiations to evacuate people from the Russian-controlled ed and didn’t want to fulfill his obligations. He didn’t want ethnic Germans resided within Czech borders, as part of territories of the Donbas, the NATO general said, adding changes, instead supported the separatists, particularly in the 1938 Munich Agreement that attempted to appease that at least 20 Russian battalions, each with 500 soldiers the situation with the Malaysian airliner. The gap between Adolf Hitler.] and military hardware, were positioned on the Ukrainian obligations and concrete actions is very large right now.” The EU leaders agreed that “there aren’t any more limits border. Echoing such sentiments this week was NATO Secretary to Putin’s unpredictability,” the news site reported. “He is The meeting also considered Russia’s goal of a creating a General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who said at a Brussels no longer considered a rational player, and his actions are land corridor along the Azov Sea coastline to the Crimean press conference on September 1 that NATO and Russia driven by nationalism.” peninsula, considering it’s currently accessible only by air aren’t partners anymore, but adversaries. Mr. Putin confirmed that conclusion during the very or sea, causing enormous problems for its residents. He expressed regret that efforts to develop relations course of the meeting. Jose Manuel Barroso, president of The capture of the town of Novoazovsk is widely with the Russian government have failed, despite the the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, told believed to be the first step in that process. Next on the launch of the Russia-NATO Council in 2002, joint subma- those in attendance that he’d just had a telephone conver- horizon is the port city of Mariupol (population 458,500), rine and fighter jet exercises in 2011, and a consistent open sation with Mr. Putin and received a threat when he asked where more than 5,000 have volunteered for the city’s door policy to cooperate in the fight against terrorism and the Russian president about his soldiers invading Ukraine. defense. About 60 Russian tanks were reported on August proliferating weapons of mass destruction. “That’s not the real problem,” Mr. Putin reportedly told 28 to have taken positions within 20 kilometers of the city. “We see the reality that Russia views us as an adversary Mr. Barroso. “If I want to, I can take Kyiv in two weeks.” “Russian land corridors would also violate international and we will adapt to this situation,” he said. While not concerned about the Ukrainian capital’s fate law and would deserve censure, just as Russia’s annexation The Russian government has even lost the support of its for the time being, Western leaders have begun voicing of Crimea,” Germany’s Foreign Affairs Minister Frank- strongest traditional allies in Europe, Germany and France. their expectation that the Ukrainian government will lose Walter Steinmeier said in an interview published in a French President Francois Hollande announced on the war in Donbas, giving Mr. Putin enough confidence to German newspaper on September 1. September 3 that his government is suspending the deliv- occupy the southeastern coastline along the Azov and Gennady Korban, the deputy head of the ery of its Mistral helicopter-carrier warship that was Black seas. Dnipropetrovsk State Oblast Administration, told the scheduled for this fall (though he stressed the next day that The view in NATO is that the Ukrainian government has Ukrayinska Pravda news site on August 28 that his team the contracts for two warships wouldn’t be cancelled). lost control of its eastern border and the Donbas war in has assumed responsibility for the military defense of the Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is very general, the German news site Spiegel Online (Spiegel.de) neighboring Zaporizhia Oblast and the city of Mariupol. angry and offended with Mr. Putin after he failed to uphold reported on September 2, citing an anonymous high-rank- He warned that thousands of soldiers would be killed if the obligations he assumed at the August 17-18 talks in ing NATO general who attended a crisis meeting of NATO they attempt an invasion “so that all Russians finally come Berlin, according to a September 1 report published by generals that occurred at the end of the prior week. to their senses and soberly look at the leadership of their Italy’s La Repubblica news site (repubblica.it), which pub- “Militarily, the conflict is already lost for Kyiv,” the source country.” lished an account of an August 30 meeting of the EU said, summarizing the meeting’s conclusions. In approving its third round of sanctions against Russia Council based on anonymous sources. In early August, the Ukrainian army began retaking con- in late July, the EU “never went so far with a country locat- “Disregarding the efforts that we’ve made to have open trol of numerous cities and was marching towards victory. ed so close,” Mr. van Rompuy said. The 28 EU member- diplomatic channels, Putin hasn’t upheld his promises and By the month’s end, however, Russia significantly bolstered states will be united in imposing another round of sanc- has moved towards a military escalation,” she reportedly its military intervention, forcing Ukrainian forces into tions, but he also called for a united coalition that involves said. retreat ever since. the U.S., Canada, Japan and NATO. Ms. Merkel, “who is usually very reserved in her rela- As of September 3, Russian forces and pro-Russian sepa- Meanwhile, within the EU, those countries most resis- tions with Russia, resorted to hyperbole, declaring that ratists have practically taken control of the entire southern tant to pressuring Russia are Hungary, Slovakia and Latvia and Estonia could be next after Ukraine,” La part of the Luhansk region after the retreat of Ukrainian Cyprus, which fear economic retaliation, the La Repubblica Reppublica noted. armies, Dmytro Tymchuk, a military analyst with the report said. On the other hand, the Baltic states have called Also attending the meeting was British Prime Minister Information Resistance news site, reported on September 3. upon the EU to provide arms to the Ukrainians, just as it David Cameron, who said the EU can’t consent to Mr. Russian forces are invading the city of Luhansk (popula- did for the Kurds. No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 17 Zolotyj Promin dance group: ray of hope becomes golden success by Ihor N. Stelmach HARTFORD, Conn. – What started out as a dream of four Hartford area Ukrainian parents 20 years ago evolved into reality when one examines the history of the Zolotyj Promin Dance Ensemble. The four- some got together and hoped to organize their own workshop to teach Ukrainian children of all ages traditional Ukrainian dance steps. Little did they know how suc- cessful their ambitious project would become, culminating in exhibitions and performances all over the Northeast. Bohdana Szafran, Roman and Christine Kolinsky, and Irene Tomaszewsky pooled their resources and began organizing the logistics. Any child of Ukrainian descent, regardless of religious, youth organization affiliation or community involvement was invited to join. The first dance practice was held on October 6, 1994, at Hartford’s Ukrainian National Home, where 20 young- sters and an instructor were introduced to each other. The parent board quickly adopted Zolotyj Promin as their ensemble’s unique name. Having a dance group meant driving every week to New Haven, Conn., to pick up/drop off instructors, establishing poli- cies and procedures, co-existing with curi- ous parents and dealing with community politics. Obstacles included stubbornness, lack of support, a negative mindset that the Members of the Zolotyj Promin Dance Ensemble of Hartford, Conn., which this year celebrates its 20th anniversary. concept would never work and lack of funding. The board decided on traditional The beautiful dances directed and cho- ble. Some 20 of these alumni are expected show will honor Ukraine’s current fight for Ukrainian caroling and a unique communi- reographed by Mr. Pagan represent the to perform at the dance group’s 20th anni- freedom with an unforgettable tour of the ty breakfast to initially fund the project. many regions of Ukraine. Dancers range in versary performance this fall. country’s regions featuring unique cos- Operating expenses and the need for age from 7 to 27 and are now divided into Saturday, October 4, will see the Zolotyj tumes and innovative choreography. costumes pushed the board to pursue a four distinct levels. All are required to mas- Promin Dance Ensemble displaying its Tickets for this special event are avail- select list of Ukrainian families in the great- ter and perform folk dances with attention grace and talent on the stage of The able at the box office, by phone at 888-824- er Hartford area who would welcome the to ethnographic details in costumes and Bushnell Theater in Hartford. The 6 p.m. 2874 or online at www.Bushnell.org. caroling dancers after those representing choreography. Each member of the group the local church, school and youth organi- proudly performs to promote his or her zations. This was followed by what became Ukrainian heritage through the cultural an annual community breakfast, as deli- medium of dance. cious and plentiful as anything served by Under Mr. Pagan’s guidance, Zolotyj the IHOP chain. In subsequent years a New Promin has inspired scores of Ukrainian Britain, Conn., “Malanka” dance and a spe- American children to honor their ancestors’ cial year-end performance were added as rich history and culture through traditional additional fund-raisers. dance steps of jumps, spins, kicks and Despite the many challenges, Zolotyj other fancy footwork. The group has par- Promin managed to hurdle all the stum- ticipated at festivals across the Northeast, bling blocks of its first year, setting itself on most notably shows at MetLife Stadium, a path to success. OP.Sail, Taste of Hartford, Wadsworth The second season witnessed the arrival Atheneum and the prestigious Manhattan of a new instructor, a Hispanic American Center’s “The New York Encounter.” veteran of the Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Dance Group from New York City, Orlando 20th anniversary performance Pagan. Very soon it became evident that the More than 225 students have danced chauffeuring to and from a bus station and the negative reaction by the Ukrainian with Zolotyj Promin over the past 20 years. community to the new instructor were off- Four years ago alumni were invited to set by an upgrade in instruction and a hap- return and help dance at summer festivals pier, more involved group of dancers. like those at the Ukrainian American Youth In retrospect, Mr. Pagan’s arrival on the Association campground in Ellenville, N.Y., scene was the foundation the ensemble and the Soyuzivka Heritage Center in could build upon for the next 19 years. Kerhonkson, N.Y., as well as at the three- When he was later hired by the Harlem day fest in Rochester, N.Y. Ballet Company and absent for a time, sub- A new tradition was born, and graduates stitute instructors diversified the group’s continue to return for weekly practices, dance methods and styles. regaining their active status in the ensem-

11 a.m. (local time) in over 60 cities, start- Canada... ing in Amherst, Nova Scotia, then flowing west to Nanaimo, British Columbia, a first- (Continued from page 8) ever event in Canadian history. We call this Project CTO (meaning 100), a national tage, saw justice done, despite all the nay- wave of remembrance, beginning and end- sayers and thwarters. The country Mr. ing at internment camp sites, sweeping Mark and I share is one we are proud to be from coast to coast where a wave of repres- citizens of. sion once passed. These CTO plaques, On August 22, 100 years after passage of inscribed with unpretentious words – the War Measures Act – the same act “Recalling Canada’s first national intern- deployed in World War II against our fel- ment operations, 1914-1920” – fulfill low Japanese, Italian and German Mary’s dream. Canadians, and against some Quebecois in That will do, because words do matter. I 1970 – over 100 plaques were unveiled at am glad I listened. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 No. 36

a military solution to this problem is not President Obama’s... going to be forthcoming. Now, the fact that Russia has taken these actions in violation (Continued from page 3) of the sovereignty and territorial integrity repeatedly passed by potential off-ramps to of the Ukrainians has resulted, I believe, in resolve this diplomatically. And so in our a weakening of Russia, not a strengthening consultations with our European allies and of Russia. That may not be apparent imme- partners, my expectation is, is that we will diately, but I think it will become increas- take additional steps primarily because we ingly apparent. have not seen any meaningful action on the What it’s also done is isolated Russia part of Russia to actually try to resolve this from its trading partners, its commercial in diplomatic fashion. partners, international business in ways And I think that the sanctions that we’ve that I think are going to be very difficult to already applied have been effective. Our recover from. And we will continue to intelligence shows that the Russians know stand firm with our allies and partners that they’ve been effective, even though it may what is happening is wrong, that there is a not appear on Russian television. And I solution that allows Ukraine and Russia to think there are ways for us to deepen or live peacefully. But it is not in the cards for expand the scope of some of that work. us to see a military confrontation between But ultimately, I think what’s important Russia and the United States in this region. to recognize is the degree to which Russian Keep in mind, however, that I’m about to decision-making is isolating Russia. go to a NATO conference. Ukraine is not a They’re doing this to themselves. And what member of NATO, but a number of those I’ve been encouraged by is the degree to states that are close by are. And we take which our European partners recognize our Article 5 commitments to defend each even though they are bearing a cost in other very seriously, and that includes the implementing these sanctions, they under- smallest NATO member, as well as the larg- stand that a broader principle is at stake. est NATO member. And so part of the rea- And so I look forward to the consultations son I think this NATO meeting is going to that we’ll have when I see them next week. be so important is to refocus attention on the critical function that NATO plays to Question: Mr. President, despite all of make sure that every country is contribut- the actions the West has taken to get ing in order to deliver on the promise of Russia to pull back from Ukraine, Russia our Article 5 assurances. seems intent on taking one step after Part of the reason I’ll be going to Estonia another – convoys, transports of arms. is to let the Estonians know that we mean At what point do sanctions no longer what we say with respect to our treaty obli- work? Would you envisage the possibili- gations. We don’t have those treaty obliga- ty of a necessity of military action to get tions with Ukraine. We do, however, stand Russia to pull back from Ukraine? shoulder to shoulder with them, and we’re We are not taking military action to doing not just a lot of work diplomatically solve the Ukrainian problem. What we’re but also financially in order to make sure doing is to mobilize the international com- that they have the best chance at dealing munity to apply pressure on Russia. But I with what is admittedly a very difficult situ- think it is very important to recognize that ation.

Школа Українознавства СУМ Ню-Йорк проводить набір учнів на 2014-2015 навчальний рік.

Професійні вчителі допоможуть Вашим дітям краще Ukrainian National вивчити українську мову, літературу, історію, географію, Women’s League of America мистецтво та культуру. Branch 86, Newark, New Jersey Діти мають можливість вивчати українські традиції та брати участь у різних святах. cordially invites you to a Luncheon commemorating the Запрошуємо також усіх, хто бажає виховувати своїх дітей в українському та національному дусі, записати 50th Anniversary їх до рядів СУМ. Навчання в Школі Українознавства починаються of the Branch 13 вересня 2014 року з урочистої Служби Божої о 9:30 год. ранку в церкві Св. Юра (7-ма вулиця). on Sunday, the 19th of October, 2014 Реєстрація в Школу– від 10:30 год. до 12:00 год. at 12:30 p.m. at the Сумівські сходини починаються 20 вересня 2014 року Ukrainian American Cultural Center 60 North Jefferson Road Осередок СУМ і Школа Українознавства Whippany, New Jersey знаходяться за адресою: RSVP by October 1, 2014 136 Second Avenue, 2nd and 3rd Floors New York, NY 10003 $50.00 За детальнішою інформацією про Школу Українознавства Marta Borowyk просимо звертатися: 336 Independence Way [email protected] Springfi eld, New Jersey 07081 За детальнішою інформацією про СУМ просимо звертатися Please make checks payable to: UNWLA, Branch 86 [email protected] No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 19

September 13 Parish festival, St. Andrew Ukrainian Catholic Church, September 20 Potato bake and pig roast, Ukrainian Homestead, Campbell Hall, NY 845-496-5506 Lehighton, PA 215-657-1758

September 13 Ping-pong (table tennis) tournament, Ukrainian Athletic September 24 Presentation by Marsha Skrypuch, “The Forgotten Ones: Whippany, NJ Educational Association Chornomorska Sitch, Ukrainian Winnipeg Whom I Write About,” Holy Family Nursing Home, American Cultural Center of New Jersey, [email protected] 973-585-7175 September 26-27 Roundtable discussion, “Communism and Hunger: The September 13-14 Washington Ukrainian Festival, St. Andrew Ukrainian Toronto Soviet, Kazakh, Ukrainian and Chinese Famines in Silver Spring, MD Orthodox Church, www.standrewuoc.org Comparative Perspective,” University of Toronto, www.holodomor.ca September 14 Connecticut Ukrainian Day Festival, St. Basil Seminary, Stamford, CT 203-269-5909 September 28 Banquet and fashion show, Ukrainian National Museum, Chicago 312-421-8020 September 14 Ukrainian Festival, Holy Ascension Ukrainian Orthodox Clifton, NJ Cathedral, www.ukrcoc.org October 2 Presentation by Angia Grigas, “Energy Security and September 14 Anniversary celebration, “Salute to Ukraine: Building a New York Pipeline Politics: The Achilles Heel of Eastern Europe,” Chicago Nation Through Education,” Kyiv Mohyla Foundation, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 212-854-4623 University Club – Cathedral Hall, [email protected] or [email protected]

September 16 Anniversary celebration, “Salute to Ukraine: Building a October 3 Brotherhood Concert Series, featuring the Ukrainian Washington Nation Through Education,” Kyiv Mohyla Foundation, Winkler, MB Bandurist Chorus and the Hoosli Ukrainian Male Chorus, Cannon Building – Caucus Room, Enns Centennial Concert Hall, 866-943-8849 or [email protected] www.winklerconcerthall.ca

September 17-18 Advocacy event, “Ukrainian Days,” Ukrainian Congress October 4 Brotherhood Concert Series, featuring the Ukrainian Washington Committee of America and the Ukrainian National Winnipeg Bandurist Chorus and the Hoosli Ukrainian Male Chorus, Information Service, Capitol Hill, 202-547-0018 or Pantages Playhouse Theater, 855-985-5000 or [email protected] www.ticketmaster.ca

September 18 Wine and cheese evening and interactive seminar with October 4 Ukrainian Festival, Ukrainian American Cultural Center of Ottawa Nick Yuzwin, “Organizing Your Finances,” BCU Wealth Whippany, NJ New Jersey, 908-759-1771 or www.facebook.com/uaccnj Management, Ukrainian Youth Association hall, [email protected] Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions September 20 Ukrainian Nationals Family Day Picnic, Ukrainian from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors Horsham, PA American Sports Center – Tryzub, www.tryzub.org and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected]. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 No. 36

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Saturday-Sunday, September 13-14 turing the dance ensembles Zolotyi Promin (Hartford, Conn.), Barvinok (South Bound SILVER SPRING, Md.: Bring your family and Brook, N.J.), Vesna (Spring Valley, N.Y.), friends to the 12th annual Ukrainian Chervoni Maky (Trenton N.J.), Kalynonka Festival of the Washington Metropolitan (Stamford), Chornobryvtsi (Staten Island, Area at noon to dusk on the grounds of St. N.Y.) and School Yunist (Long Island); plus Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, 15100 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring, Max Lozynskyj (guitar); Valeriy Zhmud (vio- MD 20905. Admission and parking are free. lin); and the singers Popovichi; Family Kit; There will be wonderful Ukrainian artists the Halychanka Choir of Hartford. At 5-8 and dancers, crafts, vendors, children’s p.m. there will be a “zabava” with Halychany. activities, delicious Ukrainian food and a Admission for those age 12 and over: in Kozak beer garden. Saturday evening con- advance, $5; $10 at the gate. Parking is free. tinues with a party by the lake, at 6-9 p.m. For tickets, information or to volunteer call For more information, contact Iryna 203-269-5909. Trypupenko, festival director, 301-414-5458 Sunday, September 21 or [email protected]; or visit www.stan- drewuoc.org. WHIPPANY, N.J.: At 3 p.m. at the Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey, Sunday, September 14 newly formed Branch 134 of the Ukrainian STAMFORD, Conn.: The 47th Connecticut National Women’s League of America will Ukrainian Day Festival, sponsored by the hold its branch christening. Please join us Connecticut State Ukrainian Day Committee for this christening luncheon and art show at St. Basil’s Seminary, will begin at 9 a.m. to support these women as they continue with over 20 Ukrainian vendors. At 11 a.m., the legacy of the UNWLA. For reservations, a liturgy will be celebrated by Bishop Paul please send $40 per person to Tania Ponos- Chomnycky. Afterwards, there will be Symmons, 60C Jefferson Road, Whippany, NJ Ukrainian and picnic foods, and children’s 07981. Questions may be e-mailed to activities. At 2:15 p.m., enjoy a program fea- [email protected].

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