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INSIDE:• “Good news” from Ukraine, courtesy of Kuchma administration — page 2. • 2003 Shevchenko Lecture focuses on multiculturalism’s significance — page 4. • Ukraine’s philatelic releases of 2002: vote for your favorite — pages 13-15.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXI HE KRAINIANNo. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine UkraineT may be involvedU in stabilization TarasyukW elected to lead of post-war Iraq; role to be determined National Rukh of Ukraine by Yaro Bihun “We were not presented with any con- by Roman Woronowycz Special to The Ukrainian Weekly crete proposals,” he said, “we were there Kyiv Press Bureau simply to observe how the decisions were WASHINGTON – Ukraine’s participa- being made and how the stabilization of KYIV – Less than two months after tion in post-war Iraq has yet to be decid- Iraq would proceed. Would there be a role joining the National Rukh of Ukraine ed. Yevhen Marchuk, secretary of for Ukraine in this or not — that would be Party (NRU), Borys Tarasyuk became its Ukraine’s National Security and Defense decided later.” chairman on May 4 during its 13th Council, says it will depend on how “There is much that would be of inter- annual congress. The former foreign NATO responds to the U.S. proposal, and, est to Ukraine,” Mr. Marchuk told Radio affairs minister received nearly unani- according to that alliance’s secretary-gen- Liberty, “but this will require serious mous support from the 834 delegates, eral, George Robertson, NATO has not study and appropriate procedures.” with 808 supporting his candidacy, 10 yet made its decision. Lord Robertson said Ukraine remains voting against and 16 abstaining. Mr. Marchuk and Lord Robertson were “high on the list of NATO’s strategic pri- Speaking at the Culture and Arts asked about their future roles in Iraq dur- orities” as it continues to develop its rela- Center on the campus of the Kyiv ing a news conference here May 5, after a tionship with NATO. Polytechnic Institute, where the two-day daylong conference of the NATO-Ukraine “We had some tough moments between congress took place, the ex-foreign min- Joint Working Group on Defense Reform. Ukraine and NATO, but I believe it’s ister of Ukraine, who is currently a law- The closed-door meeting of Ukrainian changing significantly,” he said. maker and chairman of the Verkhovna and NATO defense ministers and officials “I think the worst of the problems are Rada’s Committee on European focused on Ukraine’s progress in achiev- certainly over,” he added. “But some Integration, laid out his political stance Yaro Bihun ing greater cooperation and integration in a single sentence. issues still remain and they will still have Borys Tarasyuk at a recent conference. into NATO. to be resolved.” “Our goal is to take the reigns of Responding to a question about power to build an independent, demo- Mr. Marchuk indicated that these prob- must consolidate and work for the unifi- Ukraine’s role in Iraq, Mr. Marchuk said lem issues were the subject of frank dis- cratic, prosperous, law-abiding that, as a cooperating partner with NATO, European-type country,” explained Mr. cation of all national democratic forces cussions at the conference. in Ukraine into a single political organi- “We will make our decision after NATO “The talks between friends sometimes Tarasyuk, who called for resolving con- makes its position known.” tinuing economic problems and main- zation. He said the object of that unifica- do not sound like the sweetest of music,” tion should be support for a single can- Lord Robertson noted that the issue of he said, “but they were most helpful.” taining the course towards Euro-Atlantic NATO’s role in Iraq was raised during a integration for the country. didate in the 2004 presidential elections, ministerial meeting in Brussels in April. (Continued on page 3) He said the National Rukh of Ukraine whom he identified as National Deputy He said that they will surely discuss the Viktor Yushchenko. possibility “in due course, when the situa- Mr. Yushchenko is an ex-prime minis- tion does become clearer.” As of now, ter who currently heads the Our Ukraine however, “There is no NATO position in faction in Parliament to which the NRU relation to operations in Iraq,” he added. belongs. Mr. Yushchenko was present Later, Mr. Marchuk said in an inter- Tarasyuk: no legal basis at present for both sessions of the congress. view with Radio Liberty that deciding “I call on all those political powers Ukraine’s participation in Iraq will not be for Ukraine to send soldiers to Iraq close to us in spirit to begin unification an easy matter, recalling how it was with by Roman Woronowycz presence in Iraq by dividing the country and the formation of a single monolithic the decision on sending the Ukrainian Kyiv Press Bureau into three zones of control and inviting party,” Mr. Tarasyuk exhorted his party NBC (anti-nuclear, -biological, -chemical) other countries to provide troops, among faithful. detachment to the Persian Gulf. KYIV – A former foreign affairs min- them Ukraine. The 10 countries invited Delegates heeded the call and “The decision in this case will be no ister of Ukraine said on April 7 that no would have responsibility over the approved a resolution that states: less complex, and most probably more legal basis exists at present for sending northern zone, which Poland would con- “Victory in these elections will depend complex,” he said. And that is why soldiers to Iraq as part of a U.S. stabi- trol as one of the countries that sent on agreement and unity among all the Ukraine was invited as an “observer” to lization force. troops into battle. democratic forces of Ukraine and full the coalition’s Iraq stabilization planning “There is a problem of legitimacy Great Britain would continue to main- coordination of our common efforts.” talks in London, he explained. here. In Ukraine’s past participation in tain responsibility over the southern part The congress also approved a specific peacekeeping efforts there was a norma- of the country, while the U.S. presence request to Mr. Yushchenko to run for the tive base from which to proceed, the would be reduced to the central region, presidency in 2004 – a move that he has United Nations, NATO, etc. At the including the area around Baghdad. not yet been willing to make. moment there is none,” explained Borys Australia would maintain only a token While Mr. Tarasyuk had only recently Tarasyuk, foreign affairs minister in the force in Iraq. taken formal membership in the NRU, Cabinet of ex-Prime Minister Viktor The other countries invited to con- more commonly referred to simply as Yuschenko and currently the chairman of tribute military personnel were: Rukh, he was not an unexpected nomi- the Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Bulgaria, Denmark, the Netherlands, the nee, nor was he an unexpected victor. European Integration. Philippines, South Korea, Qatar, Outgoing Chairman Hennadii Udovenko Mr. Tarasyuk emphasized that he Pakistan, India and Albania. told The Weekly in an exclusive inter- would like to see Ukraine take part in the Kyiv has remained guarded about its view on May 7 (a full transcript will U.S.-led stabilization force, but until a current attitude toward participation in a appear in an upcoming issue of The recognized international body gave sup- stabilization force in part perhaps Weekly) that he had pushed the candida- port for the mission and a legitimate because its giant northern neighbor, cy of the person whose career in interim government took charge in Iraq Russia, has continued to vehemently Ukraine’s diplomatic corps and in poli- it was unlikely that the Verkhovna Rada oppose the U.S. takeover of the country tics has shadowed his own. Mr. would give legislative approval for and the regime change that occurred. On Udovenko suggested that there was not a Ukraine’s participation. The stabilization May 6 Foreign Affairs Ministry better choice for the Rukh chairman than force would conduct peacekeeping and spokesman Markian Lubkivskyi would Mr. Tarasyuk. humanitarian operations. only say that “intensive negotiations” are Mr. Udovenko said the new Rukh Yaro Bihun On May 2 the U.S. announced that it Yevhen Marchuk will make an effort to reduce its military (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 4) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 No. 19

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS “Good news” from Ukraine Putin, Kuchma agree on range of issues House noted, and downgraded Russia’s by Taras Kuzio stopped producing these surveys after Ms. overall rating from “partly free” to “not RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report Severinsen publicly ridiculed them in the YALTA, Ukraine – President Vladimir free.” (RFE/RL Newsline) Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Putin wound up his five-day visit to Yalta, The presidential administration’s Europe. Crimea, on May 4, having reached agree- CPJ gives Russia poor marks Department for Information Policy began Third, the aim is to influence the ment with Ukrainian President Leonid sending, on a daily basis, “Good News Kuchma on “a wide range of issues,” NEW YORK – The U.S.-based Ukrainian diaspora through its media out- Committee to Protect Journalists named from Ukraine” newspapers to the lets. The thinking behind the “media proj- Kommersant-Daily reported on the next Ukrainian diaspora. The first issue included day. Mr. Putin reiterated Russia’s desire to Chechnya as one of the 10 worst places in ect” and the tactics used are similar to those the world to be a journalist, noting that a cover letter signed by the head of the in the Soviet era when Tovarystvo Ukraina reach an agreement with Ukraine and department, Serhii Vasyliev, stating that Germany to repair Ukraine’s gas-pipeline Russian policies have accomplished “the (the Society for Cultural Relations with government’s goal of preventing journalists when used, “Good News” should be cited Ukrainians Abroad) published a weekly system and thereby expand its capacity to as the source (i.e., not the presidential from reporting on the [Chechen] war’s dev- newspaper in English and Ukrainian titled export Russian natural gas to Western administration). astation” (see http://www.cpj.org). News from Ukraine/Visti z Ukrayiny, Europe, Interfax reported on May 2. He This “news media project,” as Mr. Reporters Without Borders likewise cited which was unavailable inside Ukraine. also spoke in favor of continuing joint pro- Vasyliev called it, aims to accomplish three the dangers of reporting in and around Tovarystvo Ukraina had limited appeal, duction with Ukraine of the AN-70 trans- things. First, by its very title the “media Chechnya. (RFE/RL Newsline) except with Ukrainian Communist groups port plane, saying Russia has already project” seeks to counter Ukraine’s bad in the United States and Canada. “News invested “quite a bit” in the project and Putin pushes CIS-EU economic space international image. “Good News from from Ukraine/Visti z Ukrainy specialized wants to see it through. Izvestia reported on Ukraine” is the latest example of Ukraine’s in publishing attacks on Ukrainian nation- April 26 that Russian military officials are MOSCOW – During his visit to Ukraine elites attempting to undertake various proj- alist émigrés, as well as accusations of their “categorically against” the project. The two on April 30-May 4, President Vladimir ects to counter this image, all with little involvement in war crimes during World presidents discussed relations with the Putin commented on issues that were not success to date. It follows the creation in War II. European Union and their two countries’ strictly bilateral, Russian news media June 2001 of the Ukrayina Cognita NGO, Will the presidential administration be prospects for entering the World Trade reported. He said he is satisfied with efforts after Ukraine’s international image took a more successful in influencing the Organization (WTO). Mr. Kuchma, noting to create a “single economic space” on the dive during the Kuchmagate scandal. that Ukraine’s bid for WTO membership is basis of the “quartet” of Russia, Ukraine, Second, the Department for Information Ukrainian diaspora than Tovarystvo Ukraina? Unlike when News from not going as well as he had hoped, called Belarus and Kazakstan, Interfax reported on Policy was created after Viktor for greater coordination between Moscow May 2. Mr. Putin also called on the Medvedchuk became head of the presiden- Ukraine/Visti z Ukrainy was published, “Good News from Ukraine” is appearing and Kyiv in moving toward WTO member- Commonwealth of Independent States to tial administration in May 2002, and its ship, Kommersant-Daily reported. work on creating a “single economic space” policies reflect his more aggressive style. during the age of the Internet. Many differ- ent news sources on Ukraine are now avail- (RFE/RL Newsline) with the European Union, adding that this The Department for Information Policy has will be discussed at the Russia-EU summit 38 staffers and is one of the largest in the able, and most newspapers in Ukraine also ... listed as violators of press freedom appear on the web. “Good News from set for May 31 in St. Petersburg, to which presidential administration (the depart- the CIS leaders have been invited, vesti.ru Ukraine,” therefore, has much competition PARIS – Presidents Vladimir Putin of ments of foreign policy and of economics reported on May 4. Mr. Putin also said that from other, far better sources of information. Russia and Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine have 23 and 26, respectively). the international community should quickly Why is “Good News from Ukraine” sent made this year’s “Predators of Press The department was reportedly implicat- reach a consensus on rebuilding Iraq, only to diaspora publications? Presumably Freedom” list, issued by the Paris-based ed in the release of “temnyky” – instruc- Interfax reported on May 2. Russia “did not because Western media outlets, just like the Reporters Without Borders, Kommersant- tions to television stations on what to cover stand on one side or the other – we were not Council of Europe, would find the style Daily reported on May 5. The list, which and what to ignore – in the summer-fall of for the winners or the losers” in the Iraq and tone of information produced by the was released on May 3 to coincide with 2002. Mr. Vasyliev attempted to counter conflict, Mr. Putin added. Iraq’s debts, he presidential administration unusable. There World Press Freedom Day, includes 42 criticism of growing censorship voiced reiterated, should be discussed on the basis is also an assumption that diaspora organi- heads of state. In explaining Mr. Putin’s within Ukraine and in the Council of of the Paris Club of international creditors, zations remain influential within the inclusion, the group said he has used the Europe by organizing weekly surveys of Interfax reported. (RFE/RL Newsline) the Ukrainian media showing how free it Western media and governments, some- pretext of the fight against terrorism to pre- was in its criticism of the executive. These thing that is highly questionable. vent journalists from reporting truthful and Report says press freedom lacking ... surveys were then sent to the Council of “Good News from Ukraine” is also objective information and that some Europe’s Hanne Severinsen. Mr. Vasyliev highly biased towards issues beloved by Russian media have been punished for NEW YORK – Freedom House, a U.S.- the Ukrainian diaspora. These include a broadcasting the operation to free hostages based organization whose stated aim is to heavy dose of articles devoted to language, support global democracy, released its Dr. Taras Kuzio is a resident fellow at at a Moscow theater last October. The culture, nationalist movements in the 1940s “Freedom of the Press 2003” report on the Center for Russian and East group also noted that the Kremlin controls April 30, noting that press freedom “suf- European Studies, University of Toronto. (Continued on page 25) Russia’s main electronic media. (RFE/RL Newsline) fered notable worldwide deterioration in 2002, due in part to political and armed Freedom House notes repression of press conflicts and increased government-backed FOR THE RECORD: UWC appeal to member-organizations restrictions on independent media outlets,” NEW YORK – Freedom House, a New according to the group’s website Below is the text of the Ukrainian tors at Chornobyl as agreed upon with the York-based non-governmental organization, (http://www.freedomhouse.org). The con- World Congress appeal to Ukrainian international community despite the com- singled out Russia and Ukraine as violators clusions include classification of countries’ National Central Representations in the munity’s default on its obligations and in its annual report on press freedom, media as “free” (0-30 points), “partly free” diaspora. The document is dated March 3. Ukraine’s continued energy shortage. released this year on April 30. The Russian (31-60 points) or “not free” (61-100 points). Ukrainian society includes a vibrant government, it said, has shut down leading “Of the 27 countries of Central and Eastern The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) and outspoken group of journalists and independent broadcasters, while Ukrainian Europe and the former Soviet Union, nine urges its member national central repre- members of government in opposition and and Russian reporters who investigate offi- (33 percent) are rated free, eight (30 per- sentative organizations to use their good critical of the current administration. cial corruption “were routinely intimidated cent) are partly free, and 10 (37 percent) are offices in order to improve Ukraine’s rela- While demonstrations have not been par- and sometimes violently attacked.” Three (Continued on page 17) tionships with countries in the West. For ticularly populous, still they have been journalists in Russia were killed, Freedom almost one and one-half years, we have consistent. been witnessing a puzzling reversal in Recent criticism has focused upon relations between the United States of Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma. FOUNDED 1933 America as the leader of the Western Leonid Kuchma is a Soviet man with world and Ukraine. In particular, this per- HE KRAINIAN EEKLY inveterate deficiencies. While he or most TAn English-languageU newspaperW published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., ceptible change has occurred since the others from his generation are not the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. long-term solution for Ukraine, today he Yearly subscription rate: $55; for UNA members — $45. the commencement of the U.S. war is the legitimately elected president of against terrorism. 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Copyright © 2003 The Ukrainian Weekly Ukraine has closed down its nuclear reac- (Continued on page 18) No. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 3 Replica of Shroud of Turin arrives in Kyiv for Holy Week by Roman Woronowycz Kyiv Press Bureau KYIV – Thousands have been forming queues outside of St. Volodymyr Cathedral in Kyiv since May 3 to get a glimpse of what is perceived to be the likeness of Jesus Christ found on a copy of an ancient cloth. The relic, a Vatican-sanctioned replica of the Shroud of Turin, arrived in Kyiv from Lviv during Holy Week according to the Gregorian calendar. Since September 2002, it had been on display at St. George Cathedral of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin. The copy, one of eight that exist in the world, bears the imprint of a human figure, which Christian believers say is the likeness of Jesus Christ. After it was completed, the replica was placed on the original shroud in order to bring it into physical contact with the original markings. The original shroud, found in the Italian city of Turin and displayed very rarely, is said to be the cloth that the biblical figure Joseph of Aramithea gave for the burial of Jesus after He was crucified. The copy that is touring Ukraine, which is considered the best replication of the original, is permanently found in Miensk, Belarus. The original Shroud of Turin was last publicly displayed during celebrations Faithful line up to view a replica of the Shroud of Turin on display at St. Volodymyr Cathedral in Kyiv. of the millennium of the birth of Jesus in 2000. covered in the city of Turin in 1694. church of the UOC-KP, the two Church faiths had viewed the shroud over the last Measuring four meters in length by 1.5 Thousands of believers crowded the leaders led the first-ever ecumenical service seven months, which the Den story said had meters in width, the cloth bears the facial Kyiv train station to greet the arrival of the concelebrated by a leader of the UGCC and led to a closer kinship among the faithful of and bodily outlines of a man with blood- shroud, which was then paraded to St. the UOC. various Christian confessions in that part of stains and wounds to his hands and feet. Volodymyr’s Cathedral several blocks Cardinal Husar called the event, “a truly Ukraine. Experts several years ago determined that away, escorted by Cardinal Lubomyr historical moment,” in inter-confessional On May 11 the copy of the shroud was the outline could have not been painted or Husar, the leader of the UGCC, and relations in Ukraine and said he hoped it scheduled to be moved to the Ukrainian made through currently known replication Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox was the beginning of closer cooperation and Greek-Catholic Church of St. Basil the methods, according to an article in the Kyiv Church – Kyiv Patriarchate. At St. understanding between Catholic and Great in Kyiv. In July it is scheduled to trav- newspaper Den. The original was first dis- Volodymyr’s Sobor, which is the main Orthodox faithful. el to Donetsk for exhibit there before being In Lviv, hundreds of thousands of all returned to Miensk. United Nations body recognizes UWC as NGO

TORONTO – Following a lengthy Saturday, April 6. Specific issues to be application process the UWC has formally addressed at the United Nations were dis- become a non-governmental organizatio in cussed, i.e., migrant workers and traffick- special consultative status with the United ing of women. Issue formulation is being Nations Economic and Social Council shaped by the committee chair. (ECOSOC). Inasmuch as the UWC membership The UWC has established a separate within ECOSOC includes, in addition to United Nations Committee, chaired by the headquarters in New York, U.N. repre- Borys Potapenko of Warren, Mich., and sentations in Geneva and Vienna, the has designated representatives to the U.N. UWC seeks volunteers. The UWC is enti- New York office consisting of UWC tled to five delegates at each office in addi- President Askold S. Lozynskyj, Secretary tion to its president and secretary general. General Victor Pedenko, Marta Kokolskyj Anyone with an educational, social service in New Jersey as the lead representative or political science background interested and Ihor Dlaboha in New Jersey and Mr. in working in a volunteer capacity at any Potapenko as additional representatives. In of the U.N. offices is urged to contact Mr. addition to Messrs. Potapenko, Lozynskyj Potapenko via e-mail at and Pedenko and Ms. Kokolskyj, the [email protected]. UWC’s U.N. Committee includes Andriy The UWC expressed its gratitude to J. Semotiuk in Los Angeles and the chairs Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to A woman gets a closer look at the Vatican-sanctioned copy of the holy shroud. of the World Social Services Council, Olga the United Nations Valeriy Kuchinsky, Danylak; World Coordinating Educational Mr. Potapenko and Ms. Kokolskyj for Council, Nadia Luciw, and Human and their substantial assistance to the UWC Civil Rights Committee, Jurij Darewych. president in gaining NGO consultative The committee held its first meeting on status. Quotable notes “April 26 marks the 17th anniversary of the accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Ukaine. For the last 17 years, millions of people in Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine have lived with a daily reminder of the moment of the Ukrainian people. Ukraine may be involved... that changed their lives forever. The explosion of the Chornobyl nuclear reactor “This will be a long process,” he said. on April 26, 1986, has led to long-term consequences to their health and welfare. The next NATO-Ukraine meeting is (Continued from page 1) The tragic legacy of Chornobyl will remain with them, and their descendants, for While 2005 has been mentioned as a scheduled for 2004 in Warsaw. That same generations to come. target date for Ukraine’s entry into NATO, year, seven more East European countries “As we take note of this grave anniversary, the Secretary-General wishes to Lord Robertson pointed out that Ukraine will be accepted into NATO: Bulgaria, make a special plea to the international community to remember the victims of has not yet officially applied for member- Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Chornobyl. He reiterates the comminent of the United Nations system, in part- ship and that it was time for the Ukrainian Slovakia and Slovenia. nership with non-govemmental organizations, to assist the governments and peo- leadership to act. Among the Ukrainian participants in ple of the affected states to forge ahead on the path to recovery. He calls on Mr. Marchuk explained that before offi- the NATO-Ukraine conference, which was donors to respond generously in kind, in a joint demonstration that Chornobyl cially applying, Ukraine must first accom- held at the Center for Strategic and will nerve be forgotten.” plish a series of NATO-mandated require- International Studies, were Defense ments and procedures – which it has been Minister Volodymyr Shkidchenko and the – statement delivered on April 26 by the spokesman for United Nations doing – as well as build a domestic con- vice-chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Secretary-General Kofi Annan. sensus and get the support of the majority Oleksander Zinchenko. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 No. 19

Multiculturalism means inclusiveness, social justice, empowerment, says speaker at annual Shevchenko Lecture by Bohdan Klid citizens by many Anglophone Canadians. politics of multiculturalism was about In regard to multiculturalism, if power ... His foremost goal was to EDMONTON – While multicultural- Anglophone Canada would accept the change the nature of power relationships ism has been official government policy reality that it was indeed multicultural, in Canada so that individuals from all in Canada since 1971, it has never been this, in effect, meant recognition of diver- universally accepted and opposition to it groups could legitimately participate in sity. Mr. Kruhlak further noted that if the political life of this country.” continues to the present. Moreover, the English-speaking Canada would multiculturalism program’s increasing In the early 1980s the first race rela- acknowledge that it was not a monolithic tions elements were added to the govern- focus since the 1980s on battling racism but a diverse society, it would be more has come at the expense of the policy’s ment’s multicultural program. While this inclined to accept Quebec’s legitimate original intention of promoting inclusive- initiative, Mr. Kruhlak said, “expanded demands. ness for individuals from all communities the social justice dimension of the poli- Bilingualism and multiculturalism in Canada. These were two of the major cy,” it came “to overshadow all other ele- were attacked also by the nationalist- conclusions reached by Orest Kruhlak, ments of the program” and, in so doing, inclined Francophone elite. Even the who delivered the 37th annual “set aside other equally important mat- Official Languages Act was bothersome Shevchenko Lecture on March 14 at the ters.” As a result, concluded the speaker, University of Alberta. to Quebec nationalists as legally it con- some groups, like the Ukrainian In his talk, Mr. Kruhlak treated the ferred status on a language and not on a Canadians, found themselves excluded policies of multiculturalism and official group. They also understood that in sup- from the program – a great irony for a bilingualism in Canada as complementa- porting multiculturalism Prime Minister policy that had its intellectual origins in ry and reinforcing one another. The Trudeau was promoting the idea that striving for inclusiveness. Official Languages Act was passed in Canada was a nation of many peoples, Mr. Kruhlak noted that a major multi- and that French Canadians, although a 1969 and the policy of multiculturalism Orest Kruhlak delivers the 37th annu- culturalism conference in April offered critically important component of was adopted by the government of the al Shevchenko Lecture, speaking some hope that the policy would “return late Pierre Elliot Trudeau in 1971. Canada, were nevertheless but one of about the topic of multiculturalism. to its roots.” He also urged ethno-cultural Opposition to both, the speaker said, many groups. communities, like Ukrainian Canadians, came from people who “did not want Mr. Trudeau’s multicultural policy who have devoted less of their energies their conception of what Canada was and denied that Canada had an official cul- breakthrough in defining what Canada to multiculturalism issues in Canada their place in that Canada changed.” ture, which Quebec nationalists equated was all about. recently, to become more involved again. According to Mr. Kruhlak, the two as denying Quebec the status of a distinct Mr. Decore and the late Walter Mr. Kruhlak is well-placed to speak policies aimed to change the conception society. In promoting multiculturalism, Tarnopolsky were responsible in large with authority and first-hand knowledge of who legitimately was Canadian, as the Trudeau government was also chal- part for the inclusion of Section 27 on on the subject of multiculturalism. From well as the nature of power relationships lenging the “Two Nations” concept of multiculturalism in Canada’s Charter of the early 1970s until his retirement in in Canada. The primary purpose of multi- Canada, which implicitly conveyed spe- Rights and Freedoms, which states: 2002, he held high-level positions in the culturalism, he concluded, was “to make cial status to one or the other of the two “This Charter shall be interpreted in a federal government in the areas of her- ethnicity irrelevant as a marker in so-called “founding nation” groups. manner consistent with the preservation itage, culture and multiculturalism, serv- Canadian society ... that ethnicity should In his talk, Mr. Kruhlak stressed the and enhancement of the multicultural ing as director of the Multiculturalism no longer be used to rank Canadians and contributions of two Ukrainian heritage of Canadians.” Program. He thus had an insider’s view that all Canadians should be of equal Canadians – the late Laurence Decore According to Mr. Kruhlak, Decore of the origins and evolution of multicul- worth.” and Manoly Lupul – to the development understood well what the multicultural- turalism from its foundation as govern- In Anglophone Canada, the policies of of multiculturalism in Canada. Dr. Lupul, ism policy was supposed to be about. ment policy until his retirement in 2002. bilingualism and multiculturalism threat- the first director of the Canadian Institute Although ethnic singing and dancing His most recent position was a regional ened the elite and the average Canadian of Ukrainian Studies, was able to push were important as manifestations of director for the Western Region of the whose value system and culture were politicians in directions they did not wish diversity, Mr. Decore believed that multi- Department of Canadian Heritage. largely British. By confering official sta- to go, and played a major role in estab- culturalism was really supposed to be The annual Shevchenko Lecture is co- tus on French through the Official lishing the Non-Official Languages “about a society which in fact practices sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Languages Act, the status of French Program. Although the program no social justice and inclusiveness rather Ukrainian Studies and the Ukrainian Canadians was raised, as prior to this longer exists, Mr. Kruhlak noted that Dr. than simply professing it. Most impor- Professional and Business Club of they had been regarded as second-class Lupul, was able to achieve a critical tantly, Mr. Decore understood [that] the Edmonton.

the Reform and Order Party and Rukh Ukraine’s entry into NATO at some Tarasyuk elected... had long been allied and had even con- Tarasyuk: no legal basis... future point in time. (Continued from page 1) sidered uniting at one time, so Mr. (Continued from page 1) Ex-Foreign Minister Tarasyuk agreed chairman – who had been a member of Tarasyuk’s change of membership could underway between Ukrainian and U.S. that a Ukrainian stabilization force in the Ukrainian diplomatic corps at the not be viewed as a radical departure for officials on “what Ukraine could offer.” Iraq would help re-seal the frayed edges United Nations when he was Ukraine’s either him or Rukh. Yevhen Marchuk, the secretary of of the U.S.-Ukraine strategic partner- chief of mission there, then followed As for his own refusal to run again, Ukraine’s and National Security and ship, which had been strained by pre-war him as foreign affairs minister of Mr. Udovenko cited his age as the rea- Defense Council, commenting during a allegations from Washington that Ukraine before now succeeding him as son. He said he was satisfied with the Ukraine-NATO conference in Ukrainian officials had supplied illegal head of Rukh – was the one name that accomplishments of his four-year chair- Washington on May 6 on a Ukrainian radar tracking stations to the now- consistently had received wide support manship, which included successfully deployment to Iraq did not give details deposed regime of Saddam Hussein. from party members when talk of the overcoming the deepest crises in the his- of any possible ongoing negotiations or Mr. Tarasyuk said previous authoriza- next possible leader cropped up. tory of Rukh, including the schism with- what Kyiv’s inclinations were at present. tion by the Verkhovna Rada for deploy- “For a year I carried a handwritten list in the party after the tragic death of its He emphasized that Ukraine would ment of a special Ukrainian battalion in of people, of outstanding Rukh mem- previous leader and most charismatic make a decision only after NATO had Kuwait specializing in neutralizing the bers, in my wallet. However, I could not personality, Vyacheslav Chornovil, and developed its own stance towards the after affects of nuclear, biological and get a consensus of support from the lead- several attempts to draw membership presence of an international stabilization chemical attacks, which was currently in ers with whom I conferred about my list away from the organization through the force in Iraq. Before arriving in place, had already committed Ukraine to during informal meeting and get-togeth- establishment of bogus copycat organi- Washington, Mr. Marchuk had traveled the Iraq effort. This, in turn, would ers,” explained Mr. Udovenko. zations. He said he also could take credit to London for a gathering of U.S., make receiving Verkhovna Rada The 72-year-old life long diplomat for raising NRU membership by 13,000 British and Polish officials, dubbed the approval simpler the second time and politician said that is when Mr. people to 31,331 members today – up “force generation conference,” during around. Tarasyuk became a serious candidate. from the 18,000 that were left after the which the 10 countries were chosen. Mr. Tarasyuk also pointed out that His name first surfaced in a letter Mr. party’s split in 1999. At the Washington meeting, NATO Ukraine’s continued contribution to the Udovenko received from Rukh members He noted that Rukh is well positioned Secretary General George Robertson post-war stabilization force would give it in Kirovohrad, which stated “when the to qualify easily for presidential elec- said that at the moment NATO “has no a distinct advantage in obtaining con- question of a new leadership arises, tions in 2004 because it exceeds the min- position on operations in Iraq.” tracts for specific projects in the rebuild- don’t forget Tarasyuk.” imal requirements for a presence in two- However, Anatolii Hrytsenko, director of ing of Iraq, which is due to begin shortly Mr. Udovenko rejected characteriza- thirds of all oblasts and within those the well-respected Razumkov Center for and which could provide Ukrainians tions by some that the new chairman, oblasts in two-thirds of all raions. Economic and Political Studies, who with thousands of jobs. who originally had been a member of the “Today Rukh is a strong and potent was present at the same Washington con- Mr. Tarasiuk also said he expected the Reform and Order Party after leaving united force. The situation in the coun- ference, told Interfax-Ukraine on May 7 United Nations Security Council to give Ukraine’s diplomatic corps, was not a try is changing,” explained Mr. that he understood that Washington had the nod to an international stabilization true “Rukh-ivets.” He explained that Mr. Udovenko. requested that Ukraine agree to provide force before long, which would give the Tarasyuk had drawn closer to Rukh over The ex-chairman said he would two battalions and the leadership for a Verkhovna Rada the official sanction it time by first associating with members remain sufficiently busy and would brigade. would be seeking. and then attending Rukh plenary meet- maintain his position as a national He added that U.S. officials had “I cannot see under what pretense ings, before receiving his party ticket in deputy through the 2006 parliamentary expressed the view that such a step China, Russia or France could reject Lviv about two months ago. The ex- elections, after which he would review would be a concrete commitment, which such a peace-building effort,” stated Mr. chairman emphasized that, in any case, his future options. they would return with support for Tarasyuk. No. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 5 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM Albany District Committee holds its annual meeting by Slavko Tysiak WATERVLIET, N.Y. – This year’s annual meeting of the Albany District Committee of the Ukrainian National Association (UNA), which comprises Branches 13, 57, 88, 200 and 266, began at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 29, in the Ukrainian Citizens Club located in Watervliet, N.Y. A total of 30 members were present, including branch secretaries, district officers and UNA members. It should be noted that Branch 13 celebrates its 85th anniversary in 2003. After welcoming everyone, District Chairman Nick Fil, opened the meeting and called for a moment of silence for UNA members who passed away during the past year. Paul Shewchuk was elected to chair the meeting and Walter Litynsky was elected to record the minutes. Mr. Shewchuk called on District Secretary Litynsky to read the minutes of last year’s meeting. Mr. Fil then gave a report on the overall organizing per- formance of the individual branch secretaries during the past year. What the annual report indicated is that the branches whose secretaries had played an active role in their local community were able to recruit new members and were poised for growth in the future. The Albany District took first place by signing up 41 new members Members of the Albany District Committee of the Ukrainian National Association at their annual meeting. (102.5 percent of the assigned quota) for a total of $1 mil- lion in insurance. The best organizers were Stephanie Mr. Krywulych, treasurer; Mr. Shewchuk, Stanley described the openness of the new general manager and Hawryluk (Branch 88, Kerhonkson), 16 members; Mr. Fil Mochulsky and Andrij Demczar, auditors; Mr. Udycz, Peter staff to try new events such as the Cinco de Mayo celebra- (Branch 13, Watervliet/Troy), 14 members; Walter Spiak and Wasyl Terlecky, nominations. tion and to restore events such as the heritage concerts. . Krywulych (Branch 266, Amsterdam), seven members; After the elections, Mr. Fil expressed a special thanks to Ms. Hawryluk said there is a need for continued support Anna Slobodian (Branch 88), three members; and Ronald Mr. Litynsky for his many years of service as district secre- for Soyuzivka during this period of transition and said that Gordon (Branch 88), one member. Branches 57, (Cohoes) tary. The members acknowledged Mr. Litynsky’s record of one way all can help is by volunteering to work on specific and 200 (Ozone Park) did not enroll any members. Mr. Fil service to the UNA with a round of hearty applause. projects, such as creating nature trails and helping clean up stated that the district had received an award at the 2002 Next, District Chairman Fil announced that the UNA and update the facilities. UNA Convention in recognition of its fraternal activities. Home Office is asking districts and branches to self-impose At the conclusion of the meeting, the district chairman Following the reading of the annual report, John Udych, recruitment goals. A general discussion ensued about a pro- reviewed planned activities, highlighting the annual chair of the Nominations Committee, indicated that all of posed 4 percent recruitment goal for the Albany District, Father’s Day trip to Soyuzivka and upcoming efforts to pro- the 2002 district officers had expressed a willingness to meaning the enrollment of 36 new members in 2003-2004. mote the UNA at local events. He stressed the need to tap serve another one-year term with the exception of Mr. After the discussion, the district members voted to establish deeper into the pool of people with Ukrainian American Litynsky, who said he wished to step down from serving as a 3.5 percent recruitment goal for the district and to help roots as well as so-called “Fourth Wave” Ukrainians who secretary. Mr. Udych then nominated Slavko Tysiak for sec- branch secretaries in their efforts to reach the goal of 32 do not live among and participate solely in the Ukrainian retary. All were elected by acclamation. District officers for new members in the coming year. community. 2003-2004 include the following: Mr. Fil, chairman; Mr. Ms. Hawryluk then described the changes taking place at Following the official close of the annual meeting, a Shewchuk, honorary chairman; Ms. Hawryluk and Soyuzivka, including more of an emphasis on youth-orient- group picture was taken to mark the occasion and a buffet Michael Sawkiw, senior vice-chairs; Mr. Tysiak, secretary, ed activities focused on teenagers and young adults. She meal prepared by the ladies of the district was served.

The General Assembly of the Ukrainian National Association

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AUDITING COMMITTEE Barbara Bachynsky 107 Ilehamwood Drive 101 E. 16th St. DeKalb, IL 60115 President Zenon Holubec 5566 Pearl Road New York, NY 10003 Stefan Kaczaraj Parma, OH 44129-2541 Bishop Stephen Bilak Ukrainian National Association Wasyl Liscynesky 1750 Jefferson St., Apt. 301 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280 Yaroslav Zaviysky 4257 Dentzler Road Hollywood, FL 33020 Parsippany, NJ 07054 11 Bradley Road Parma, OH 44134 Clark, NJ 07006 Joseph Lesawyer First Vice-President Pawlo Prinko Gables at Lake Mary Martha Lysko Alexander Serafyn 1245 Rhawn St. 3655 West Lake Mary Blvd. 1404 Roundhouse Lane 2565 Timberwyck Trail Philadelphia, PA 19111 Lake Mary, FL 32746 Alexandria, VA 22314 Troy, MI 48098 Andrij Skyba Wasyl Didiuk Second Vice-President 4575 N. Nagle Ave. 30 Allenhurst Drive, Apt. 402 Eugene Iwanciw ADVISORS Harwood Heights, IL 60706 Islington, Ontario M9A 4Y8 P.O. Box 5748 Eugene Oscislawski Michael Kuropas 6138 N. 12th St. 25 Jason Court Taras Szmagala Sr. 313 West St. Arlington, VA 22205-0748 Matawan, NJ 07747-3510 10976 Tanager Trail Sycamore, IL 60178 Brecksville, OH 44141 Director for Canada Joseph Hawryluk Myron Groch Helen Olek Scott Al Kachkowski 79 Southridge Drive 16 Kevin Drive 126 Simon Fraser Crescent West Seneca, NY 14224-4442 7644 W. Rosedale Ave. Founthill, Ontario L0S 1E4 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7H 3T1 Chicago, IL 60631 Stefan Hawrysz Anatole Doroshenko National Secretary 155 Erdenheim Road HONORARY MEMBERS 39446 Edgewater Drive Erdenheim, PA 19038 Christine E. Kozak OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Northville, MI 48167 Ukrainian National Association 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280 Vasyl Luchkiw Anna Chopek William Pastuszek Parsippany, NJ 07054 49 Windmill Lane 678 44th St. New City, NY 10956 Los Alamos, NM 87544 5 Park Ave. Treasurer Swarthmore, PA 19081 Anna Haras Roma Lisovich Myron Pylypiak 1930 Greenleaf St. P.O. Box 59313 Tekla Moroz Ukrainian National Association Bethlehem, PA 18017 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280 3000 S.E. Royal Hills Drive – No. 29G 345 36th Ave. Parsippany, NJ 07054 Renton, WA 98058-2313 Myron Kuropas Lachine, Quebec H8T 2A5 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 No. 19

IN THE PRESS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Accuracy, please Nuclear weapons and the legacy of Chornobyl PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The cover story of tect themselves from Russia. Former Soviet On May 13, New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will open a major The New York Times Magazine of May 4 Rocket Forces officers were swearing alle- exhibition of paintings and drawings by Kazimir Malevich, the Ukrainian founder of was “The Thinkable” by Bill Keller, a giance to their new country and claiming Suprematism and the avant-garde movement’s most famous exponent. In a story pub- Times columnist and a senior writer for the they could run an independent nuclear arse- lished on March 31, The New York Times properly called Malevich, a “master” and a magazine. The article dealt with nuclear nal.” “seminal figure in modern art.” It noted that “the Guggenheim show will feature weapons in “ a new nuclear era” during “If Ukraine had kept the warheads, it important works never seen in the West,” and that “there will be an elegant dinner and which “such weapons govern our foreign would have become a source of profound flurry of events, all celebrating the bold spirit of an artist who was also a prominent policy more than they have in decades,” instability in its region. Instead, Ukraine victim of Stalinist repression.” and at a time when “nuclear proliferation is decided to embrace Europe and its neigh- Unequivocally, these are accurate statements. However, the story, which is an inter- at the heart of our confrontation with North bors,” she added. esting piece of reporting focused on Nikolai Khardziev, the man who became the self- Korea and Iran, two states for whom the The former NSC director explained that appointed guardian of the Malevich legacy, flounders on a single misguided stroke of message of Iraq was intended,” and when three factors were important in that deal: inaccurate information: it implies that Malevich was Russian and calls his art “proliferation is a persistent irritant in our “First, an unequivocal goal, to get the “Russian” avant-garde. relations with Russia and China.” nuclear weapons out of Ukraine, but in a These are absolutely untrue and unfounded assertions with which we take excep- The long article also includes a section way that ensured Ukraine’s security and tion. There is no need to cry disinformation or deception, for we do not believe it about Ukraine, which renounced and sur- future in Europe. Second, remorseless exists in this case. However, it is undoubtedly the result of past injustice and disinfor- rendered its nuclear arms in 1994. Mr. attention from the president and vice presi- mation, most pointedly, a past Moscow-initiated state policy used by both the Russian Keller wrote: dent – whenever they were needed to mus- Empire and the Soviet Union over more than 300 years to turn into Russian every- “In hindsight, you could say that the cle or cajole the negotiating partners, they thing notable and exceptional that is in fact Ukrainian. It is a problem to which the closing act of the first nuclear age took were willing to do so. Third, hard, clear West has turned a passive and blind eye, in particular the Western press, through care- place in January 1994, when Ukraine demands on all parties, with deadlines and less or less than accurate reporting, perhaps done at times merely for the sake of expe- agreed to give up the nuclear weapons it penalties.” dience. Nonetheless, it is injurious to the Ukrainian cultural legacy. had inherited in the break-up of the Soviet The fact is that Malevich is not Russian, but Ukrainian, and the avant-garde move- Union. It was the last of the former Soviet Chornobyl’s legacy ment he founded developed in the depths of the fertile artistic loam of the Ukrainian states to relinquish its unconventional cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv. Most of the chief proponents of the avant-garde revolution The Washington Times on April 26 pub- weapons, and probably the only one with of the 1920s – Vladimir Tatlin, Oleksander Bohomazov, Alexandra Exter, David lished a feature article headlined the technological wherewithal to override Burliuk and Anatol Petrytskyi – came from the artistic communities of these two “Chernobyl [sic] legacy lingers” by Moscow’s centralized control systems and Ukrainian cities. We believe that for this reason it would be more accurate to represent Elizabeth Manning, deputy international become an overnight nuclear state. But at the movement as the Ukrainian avant-garde. editor of UPA. Malevich, the leading figure of the movement, can only be considered Ukrainian. that time, possession of nuclear weapons She notes the sacrifices of the “liquida- It is incontrovertible that he was born in Kyiv in 1878 before leaving to study and was still understood as a serious impedi- tors” sent, in the parlance of those days, “to work in St. Petersburg. He returned to his hometown in the latter years of the 1920s ment for a country seeking admission into eliminate the consequences of the acci- and taught at the Kyiv Art Institute alongside Bohomazov until he was dismissed by the Western world. If you wanted to join the dent,” citing a report by ITAR-TASS that of Bolshevik authorities and then arrested. party, you checked your nukes at the door. the 700-strong 731st Battalion of Malevich’s theoretical articles published in the Kharkiv magazine New Generation The first Bush administration and then the Chornobyl liquidators, only about half are and in the Kyiv “Avant-Garde Almanac” were written in Ukrainian. This is indis- Clinton administration bargained hard for still alive. putable as well because in the last decade they have been translated into French from the surrender of Ukraine’s weapons, prom- “Many of the first wave of workers who the language of the originals. Prof. Dmytro Horbachov, a Kyiv-based Ukrainian spe- ising abundant financial aid and a military rushed to contain the explosion died within cialist on the avant-garde movement and one of the world’s authorities on Malevich, partnership that Ukrainians hoped would hours from the radiation pouring from the states that he has evidence the artist even wrote letters to friends and relatives in Kyiv lead to American security guarantees. shattered reactor. To date epidemiologists in the Ukrainian language. And, finally, the artist himself, in his autobiography pub- “However, an attentive listener back place the total deaths somewhere between lished posthumously in Stockholm in 1976, reminiscing about his colleague Valentyn then might have sensed that the old verities 15,000 and 30,000, many of which critics Loboda, wrote: “He and I were Ukrainians.” were beginning to lose their power. say could have been avoided by early safety Need we say more? Ukrainian nationalists (including many measures. Moscow, then the capital of the The Guggenheim Museum, which is publicizing Malevich as the leading figure of Ukrainian-Americans) raised a serious Soviet Union, did not admit the accident for the “Russian” avant-garde, must pay heed to historical accuracy in the way it presents clamor for retaining the weapons. Why hours even among local populations, nor one of Ukraine’s greatest artists. should Russia, which has a history of the scope of the devastation for several Ukrainian Americans, and especially those in the New York metropolitan area, throwing its weight around, be a nuclear days. Meanwhile, people in nearby com- need to press upon the directors of the Guggenheim that it is in the best interest of the power and not Ukraine? Who will take us munities sunbathed and picnicked in the arts to represent Malevich truthfully: as a Ukrainian. seriously without the Bomb? Some of the unusually warm spring weather around the diplomats who negotiated the end of May Day holiday, exposing themselves to Ukraine’s nuclear interlude are not so sure the flow of radioactive particles ultimately that today their appeal would successfully carried by winds for hundreds of miles May withstand the riptide of nationalism.” from the site. Iodine pills to protect from Turning the pages back... The article went on to note that “The thyroid cancer were not distributed for days second nuclear age was heralded by a rum- and in some cases weeks, when the thera- ble under the Rajasthani desert in 1998, as peutic window was largely past,” Ms. 15 India’s newly elected Hindu nationalist Manning wrote. government detonated five test blasts. Two She also noted at the conclusion of her 1983 Nearly 13,000 people gathered at the Ukrainian Orthodox weeks later Pakistan followed suit.” article: “Russian KGB documents declassi- fied earlier this month suggested a record of Center of St. Andrew the First-Called Apostle in South Bound A deal that worked Brook, N.J., on May 15, 1983, “Providna Nedilia,” to pay their problems at Chernobyl’s four reactors, respects and mourn the 10 million who died in the genocidal Writing on the op-ed page of The New ranging from inconsistent performance to Great Famine of 1932-1333. The services began with an archpas- York Times on April 26, Rose equipment failures.” toral divine liturgy celebrated by Metropolitan Mstyslav of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Gottemoeller, a senior associate at the Chornobyl anniversary with Archbishop Mark of the UOC and Bishop Iziaslav of the Byelorussian Autocephalous Carnegie Endowment for International Orthodox Church. Afterwards, thousands congregated before the steps of St. Andrew’s Peace and a former director on the National In a story published on April 27 in the Memorial Church for the ecumenical requiem service conducted by clergy of the Ukrainian Security Council staff, recalled “A Deal Chicago Tribune, Bennett Ramberg, author Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant faiths, inclduing Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk of the That Worked” (the headline for her article). of “Nuclear Power Plants as Weapons for Ukrainian Catholic Church and Pastor Wladimir Borowsky of the Ukrainian Evangelical Ms. Gottemoeller wrote: The Enemy,” focused on Chornobyl’s sar- Alliance of North America. “The clash between American and North cophagus – the covering that entombs the Metropolitan Mstyslav stated: “This year’s Pascha in the life of the Ukrainian nation and Korean negotiators this week reminded me plant’s stricken reactor. the faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is marked with the inexpressible painful of another push to get rid of nuclear “Chernobyl [sic] is bleeding. Seventeen remembrance of that which occurred only 50 years ago. In 1932 and 1933, Moscow, crim- weapons: not the 1994 talks with North years to the month after the world’s worst son with the human blood which it shed through the ages and totally brutal in its treatment Korea, which did not succeed in the end, (Continued on page 7) of the nations which it enslaved, guided only by designs of plunder, resolved to erase from but those with Ukraine, which did. After the face of the earth the Ukrainian nation as a separate, independent nation-state. Guided by months at the table with Russia and the this goal, Moscow confiscated by force from the Ukrainian farmer his ancestral land, a land United States, the Ukrainians let their 1,900 made holy by his bitter sweat, a land which through the ages was the strongest fortress of warheads go to Russia for destruction. the Ukrainian nation and, at the end of the year 1932, robbed from him everything which “Although no one expected this week’s Correction the generous Ukrainian earth had borne him during that very abundant year of harvest.” talks to go smoothly, I sometimes hear that A technical error resulted in the omis- The chairman of the National Committee to Commemorate Genocide Victims in the Ukrainian accord is irrelevant to North sion of a word from the quotation of a Ukraine, Prof. Petro Stercho, spoke: “We have a sacred duty to remember and to make oth- Korea because it was a cakewalk. But as an letter sent by the administrator of the ers aware of the past and present sacrifice of the Ukrainian nation in the battle for freedom, architect of the Ukraine accord, I don’t Pulitzer Prizes (Editorial, May 4, 2003). truth and justice. ... We have a sacred duty to make our Ukrainian youth and the nations of remember it that way. At the time, the The correct quotation is: “However, to the free world aware of these tragic historic facts.” Ukrainian Parliament was full of deputies date, the Pulitzer Board has not seen fit Source: “13,000 attend Great Famine memorial service,” by Roma Sochan Hadzewycz, who were determined to hold on to the to reverse a previous board’s decision The Ukrainian Weekly, May 22, 1983, Vol. LI, No. 21. country’s leftover Soviet weapons, to pro- that now stretches back 70 years.” No. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR FOR THE RECORD

Ukraine to take its place in the phalanx of European nations. “A vision for Ukraine” presented Relations between For now, countrymen, let’s be honest: “us” and “them” “The emperor has no clothes.” by U.S. undersecretary of state Dear Editor: Zenon Mazurkevich Philadelphia Paula Dobriansky, undersecretary of true democracy will conduct free and fair Volodymyr Tsybulko and Yuriy state for global affairs, is the highest rank- elections, have an independent media that Tarnawsky confronted a most agonizing ing Ukrainian American in the U.S. gov- accurately reflects real life, encourage civil subject in their discussion of the rela- ernment. Following is the text of her society, strenghten the rule of law, establish tions between “us,” the diaspora, and remarks to the conference “A Vision for an independent judiciary and hold its lead- “them,” Ukrainians in Ukraine. They Heretz expresses Ukraine” held on April 7-8 at George ers accountable for their actions. Let me raised interesting and valid points but Washington University in Washington. stress, however, that it is not simply the being literary their politeness and conge- unfounded concern façade of institutions or going through the niality tended to blur their main points. Dear Editor: It’s a pleasure to be here today to discuss motions of an election. It is immersing a This is a subject that pains “us” all an issue that is crucial not only to Ukraine, country in what many are calling a “culture and since the door has been opened it I was disappointed by the somewhat but also to the development of Europe as a of democracy.” Integrating democratic merits frank debate, what the philoso- unfounded concern that Michael Heretz whole. As some of you know, this topic is practices throughout the governmental pher Nietzsche called “philosophizing postulates in his response to a March 18 of great interest for me. I have spent much institutions, permitting – indeed encourag- with a hammer.” article questioning Cardinal Lubomyr of my career working on democracy pro- ing – a free exchange of ideas, and allow- As an architect I, too, had my share of Husar’s proposed missionary work to motion in this region, and am very commit- ing the natural checks and balances frustrations and disappointments when I bring Christ to the unchurched in ted to seeing this trend continue. between the government and people to designed (gratis) the cathedral for Ukraine. Those who have studied and observed develop. Kolomyia in the most avant garde style It seems that Mr. Heretz draws a false Ukraine’s development over the past sever- Let me say a few words about Ukrainian and presented it in Ukraine. I wanted to conclusion from a recent survey of al decades and have watched the innumer- democracy. Indeed many rightfully ask ignite a discussion. To my surprise it was Ukraine’s population with regard to faith able changes in Eastern Europe, particular- what the status of Ukraine’s democracy accepted by all without discussion. The and religion. He is saying that just ly since 1989, recognize that the surest path today is. It depends very much on whom Bishop then asked me: “How much because someone is baptized Orthodox, to realizing that vision of Ukraine’s full we ask, and on what standard of compari- money can you raise for this building in they are actively involved in their faith integration into Euro-Atlantic institutions is son we are using. America?” Besides money, there are sev- and don’t need to hear the Gospel. He the building of a modern, democratic mar- If we ask different people, we would eral dynamics at work here in our rela- draws similar conclusions about the ket economy. That is a path that has been likely get different answers. If we are com- tionship with our countrymen. For one rather large number of “believers” in successful for many countries in the region, paring Ukrainian democracy to conditions there is the “prodigal son syndrome” – Ukraine in spite of 70 years of religious Poland, Hungary, Romania and others. under Soviet domination, Ukraine has you left, you had a good life; we stayed, persecution by the Communists. Ukraine’s stated intentions to count itself made great progress. But for the purposes we suffered. Now you owe us. Being baptized into any Christian among the members of the European of making policy, we in the United States Do we? faith or claiming belief in the Triune God Union and NATO, and to join global insti- government have to compare the current doesn’t necessarily equate to active Secondly we forget that the tutions such as the WTO, are significant state of Ukrainian democracy to where involvement in any Church. Lenin, Stalin Communist regime systematically eradi- choices. In announcing its Euro-Atlantic Ukraine has said it wants to be in the near and Castro were baptized, but their initi- cated the intelligencia. Pol Pot in aspirations, Ukraine showed foresight, future, namely, in the company of EU, ation into Christianity didn’t prevent Cambodia killed everyone who had since in just two years, Ukraine will have NATO and WTO peers. And we must look them from becoming totalitarian despots. glasses because they could read. Our three EU members and four NATO mem- at where it can be. Satan most certainly believes in God. Soviets were not far behind. So there is a bers on its borders. These choices not only We see positive developments, and My point is that bean counting doesn’t great fragility in the current cultural elite. reflect a desire on the part of Ukraine to many of you have been part of these. We always portray a realistic picture of a As Mr. Tarnawsky points out, in many become more integrated into the world. have seen: given situation. The mission field in cases they are merely “poseurs” mimick- They also outline clearly the most promis- • Grassroots NGO development and Ukraine is ripe for plucking, and no one ing culture. Thomas Aquinas called this ing path for Ukraine’s future. coordination that has made a difference. should have any inordinate fears about “learned ignorance.” However, real change will come when This made a difference in the March Cardinal Husar trying to bring the If the truth be known, there are about these stated intentions are matched with the Parliamentary elections: Ukrainian NGOs Gospel (Good News) to the lost sheep of 35 million Ukrainians in Ukraine. In the political will and transformation on the worked together last March to make elec- Ukraine. diaspora in the United States, Canada, ground that will indeed advance Ukraine tion monitoring more effective. Your on the path of full integration into the Euro- Europe, Australia and South America we Leo Cionka implementation of accurate exit polling Atlantic framework. Whether this happens have about 350,000 cognizant, informed Warren, Mich. prevented opportunities for vote tampering Ukrainians. Yet this 350,000 is better will depend on the decisions the govern- after polls closed. You made it work. educated, more cultured, more produc- ment and the people of Ukraine make in • Independent media fighting back tive, richer and much more patriotic than The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes the near future. It will require strong com- against attempts by the central authorities the 35 million in Ukraine. This leads to letters to the editor and commen- mitted leadership, forward-looking civil to control your reporting and coverage of all sorts of phobias. taries on a variety of topics of con- society leaders with an eye on long-term issues and events. We’ve seen you form a One of them is: Our countrymen have cern to the Ukrainian American and reform, and a citizenry that is willing to trade union; we’ve seen your colleagues created a territorial concept of Ukraine. Ukrainian Canadian communities. stay the course and hold its leadership to resign in protest against attempted control; These who are within the boundaries are Opinions expressed by columnists, this task. we’ve seen you sign a manifesto in favor of Ukrainian. Those outside are not. Very commentators and letter-writers are That’s what I would like to talk about media freedom; and we watched televised primitive. their own and do not necessarily today: the importance of those decisions [Verkhovna] Rada hearings on media free- The diaspora must refocus and contin- reflect the opinions of either The for determining what kind of country dom. ue building the virtual Ukraine and the Weekly editorial staff or its publish- Ukraine will be two, five, 10, 20 years • The growth of the Rada’s independ- er, the Ukrainian National rich culture we created outside Ukraine. from now. Before I expand on this, let me ence, allowing it to become more of a bal- Association. We have a literature, art, architecture, state clearly that the Bush Administration is ance on the power of the presidential committed to seeing the development of an schools, theaters, banks, churches; we Letters should be typed (double- administration. have a Ukrainian civilization that gener- independent, democratic, and market-ori- • A recognition by Ukrainian authorities spaced) and signed; they must be ented Ukraine, and is determined to make ates nothing but pride and awe. originals, not photocopies. The day- and NGOs that they must confront the It takes three generations to raise an that vision a reality. We have benefited threat posed by HIV/AIDS. While different time phone number and address of greatly from the partnership we have had intelligentsia in a normal country. When the letter-writer must be given for than the other areas I’ve listed, it is critical with many countries in that region that that happens in Ukraine we can share our verification purposes. to Ukraine’s development to engage in the intellectual and cultural energy and help have been our allies in democracy promo- fight against this deadly virus, which is tion, security and economic development. spreading at a faster rate in Ukraine and It is our desire to see Ukraine deeply some of its neighboring states than any- ensconced in the partnership between the where else in the world. Just two months U.S. and its European allies. ago, the U.S. Embassy sponsored a confer- renaissance.” After pointing to the safety Let me turn first to leadership. There challenges that today confront the nuclear ence on how we can work together with Nuclear weapons... must be a commitment at the most senior Ukraine – both the official and non-govern- (Continued from page 6) energy industry, including their vulnerabili- levels to taking the steps necessary to join ty to terrorist attack, Mr. Ramberg con- mental sectors – in this important cause. I nuclear accident, the “sarcophagus” the EU, NATO and other organizations to mention this issue because investing in entombing the reactor is on the verge of col- cludes: “When the Soviet Union built which Ukraine aspires. To integrate com- Chernobyl, it touted the reactor as a marvel one’s people is a critical measure of a lapse risking the further release of radiation. pletely into these institutions, Ukraine will country’s social and political development. of engineering. Today’s bleeding Chernobyl have to demonstrate the force of its convic- Ukraine and a consortium of nations are in a reminds us – much as the recent Columbia Each of these is a crucial step along the tions by carrying out concrete steps to path of democracy building and develop- race to reduce the peril. Plans call for con- space shuttle disaster does – that we cannot adopt the laws, develop the practices and ment of civil society. Likewise, discussions struction to begin on a new sarcophagus in have too much hubris when it comes to create the institutions of a truly democratic like this conference highlight such 2004. It is uncertain whether the current managing complicated technology. Because state. structure will survive until then,” he wrote. progress. This is an important exchange of of the avoidable risks posed by atomic This is because nothing is more central ideas that will bolster your efforts when The author points out that “The passage power, prudence dictates that the United to Ukraine’s integration into Euro-Atlantic you return. Those here who are part of the of time has dimmed the impact of the acci- States contemplate its phase out in the years structures than the progress it makes on dent and the nuclear industry is bent on a to come.” democratization. At the end of the day, a (Continued on page 17) 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 No. 19 BOOK NOTES: Publication examines Ukrainian-Russian relations “Culture, Nation and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounte, 1600-1945,” Ukrainian-German historical encounters. made Ukrainian-Russian relations a Andreas Kappeler, Zenon Kohut, Frank Sysyn and Mark von Hagen, eds. Edmonton: (Information about and sample pages of major international issue. A new, diffi- Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2003, xiv, 381 pp. these, and many other CIUS Press publi- cult, and uncertain phase in these rela- cations, may be found at tions began with the establishment of by Dr. Marko R. Stech www.utoronto.ca/cius. these two independent, neighboring In April, the CIUS Press published a states. Since Russia would clearly Throughout its turbulent history new and important book on Ukraine’s remain a major world power, while Ukraine’s cultural and national identity historical relations with its most power- Ukraine was the largest and one of the as well as its political fate was shaped ful neighbor, Russia. most populous states of Europe, those and, in many instances, determined by The book, “Culture, Nation and relations took on more than binational the nature of its relations with neighbor- Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian significance. The future of the post- ing states and peoples. It is impossible to Encounter, 1600-1945” is based on a Soviet order depends largely on how understand Ukraine’s history without series of four sessions on the Russian- these two largely Slavic countries will closely examining the cultural, social Ukrainian encounter held alternately at work out their relations. and political relations between Columbia University and Cologne The editors of “Culture, Nation and Ukrainians and Russians, Poles, Jews, University from June 1994 to September Identity,” representing the Seminar for East European History at Cologne Germans, Belarusians, Hungarians, 1995, which had their origin in both the University, the Harriman Institute at Romanians, and other East and Central world of great political events and the Columbia University and the Canadian European nationalities. realm of scholarly discussions. Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the In order to shed light on these com- Ukraine’s declaration of independ- University of Alberta, invited 70 special- plex issues, the Canadian Institute of ence, ratified by the referendum of ists to examine the Russian-Ukrainian Ukrainian Studies Press has over the December 1, 1991, and subsequent inter- encounter in four chronological sym- years published several multi-faceted national recognition were followed by posia, from the 17th century to the pres- studies of the Ukrainian-Russian, the dissolution of the Soviet Union on ent. Ukrainian-Polish, Ukrainian-Jewish and December 25, 1991. These developments The present volume is a selection of 16 articles developed from presentations on the Ukrainian-Russian encounter from the early modern period to World The Ukrainian National Association announces: War II. Historians and Slavists from Canada, Germany, Russia, Ukraine and the United States employ diverse methodologies to examine the many spheres in which Russians and Ukrainians and their identities and cul- tures interacted. The publication of “Culture, Nation and Identity” has been generously sup- ported by the Ukrainian Studies Fund Inc., New York, NY. Until September 30, the book can be purchased as part of a special offer. For $28 (paper) or $38 (cloth), taxes and shipping included, readers can receive one copy of this new book and as a bonus a 415-page book by David Saunders “The Ukrainian Impact on Russian Culture, 1750-1850.” Outside Canada the price is in U.S. dollars. Send orders to: CIUS Press, 450 Athabasca Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E8; fax, (780) 492-4967.

Addendum In the story headlined “Archives of the Ukrainian Canadian Experience launched in Winnipeg” (April 27), the author incor- rectly identified Carolynne Presser as the director of Elizabeth Dafoe Library. In fact, she is the director of libraries for the University of Manitoba. Readers interested in these new archives may contact: Shelley Sweeney, Head Archives and Special Collection, University of Manitoba; phone (204) 474- 6350; e-mail, shelley_sweeney@umanito- ba.ca; or James Kominowski, Slavic librarian/ archivist, University of Manitoba; phone, (204) 474-9681; e-mail, [email protected].

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by Oksana Zakydalsky in Ukraine, a country under the leadership that he wrote the book. I know it was diffi- of President Kuchma. This book is a docu- cult – even technically difficult – and that Jaroslaw Koshiw was recently in mented history of the investigation process, he took a risk, as do all of us who are Canada and the United States to introduce of the killing of Heorhii and, basically, a involved in this case. He worked long on his book “Beheaded: the Killing of a documented history of contemporary the book and published it with his own Journalist” at presentations in Detroit, Ukraine. The book includes a large number money. Toronto, Washington and New York. The of facts and it explains, in great detail, the On the outside it appears that the case book was published in January of this year investigation process which, I think, is its of your husband’s disappearance has and examines the case of journalist Heorhii primary achievement. Gongadze – his investigative work in reached a dead end. It seems that people Ukraine on television, radio and the To provide insight into the case, are waiting for something to happen, Internet – exposing corruption in high Koshiw takes excerpts from the although they are not happy with the sit- places, his disappearance and murder, and Melnychenko tapes supposedly made in uation. Do you think that something will evidence that points to the involvement of the president’s office and compares them happen to kick-start a resolution to the President Leonid Kuchma in the case. to what actually happened. Do you think case? his method is persuasive? I met Myroslava Gongadze, widow of the I work every day on keeping the issue murdered journalist, at the Association for I think it is the only method that one alive. The case has been presented to the the Study of Nationalities Conference held could use, and it is one that enables the courts in the U.S. There is also a special recently at Columbia University, where she reader of the book to understand clearly the committee at the Council of Europe investi- took part in a panel discussion on “Media process involved. What he does is basically gating this issue. We have made some and Politics in Ukraine” and led the discus- establish the link between the events and the progress with the investigating committee Oksana Zakydalsky sion at a special screening of the BBC film tapes, and we get to see how the events at the Verkhovna Rada. Some of the Myroslava Gongadze on the Gongadze case “Killing the Story.” I develop. It is Koshiw’s use of the tapes Melnychenko tapes have been handed over spoke to her about Mr. Koshiw’s book. which makes the book a document and a to the U.S. Department of Justice for identi- Can you give your general opinion history, and not just literature. fication – I think this will help a lot. called “derzhavnyky” – who believe that about the book “Beheaded: the Killing of You were at Koshiw’s book presenta- Of course, a lot of things that are being criticism of the president of Ukraine and a Journalist”? tion in Washington. How did the audi- done are not made public. I, personally, accusations against him made on the have not folded my hands and I am glad world stage do harm to Ukraine? When he began to work on the book, ence react to the book and the author? that there are, both in the American govern- Yarko Koshiw came to me in Kyiv and The only thing I can say is that we must There was a lot of interest, and the author ment and in the Verkhovna Rada, commit- said: “I am planning to write this book.” I remember that truth never threatened any- sold a large number of books. People were tees that are investigating the killing of really did not believe that it would happen. body. Only truth can help a country to be very interested in the details of the investi- Gongadze. A lot of people are helping and When he was in Washington recently, I reborn and, I will repeat this, if we do not gation process and in the author’s under- trying to do something. reminded him that I had not believed that he find a solution to this case, if we see no standing of the process. I personally asked I believe that this crime will be solved. would do it. It is an admirable project and a results, if there are no answers to the ques- the author why he had written this book and Maybe we won’t see that soon but, as you job well done. He undertook a very difficult he replied that he had long wanted to do know, we have examples here in the United tions that have been raised, then there is no task and I think that he produced a work of that kind of book. His first motivation was States of cases that take up to 20 years and hope that Ukraine will develop normally. If quality. the fact that his friend and colleague, only after a long time are solutions found. these “derzhavnyky” are really concerned I am very glad that he puts the problem Mykhailo Boychyshyn had disappeared [in But, personally, I am not afraid of this about the fate of Ukraine, their first task of the murder of Heorhii into a historical 1994]. He wanted to investigate that disap- because I am convinced that, if we do not should be to find the answers, to find the context. He does not merely relate what pearance but, at the time, there was no evi- get answers to the Gongadze investigation, truth. happened with him; he tells what happened dence to pursue. When Heorhii disappeared if the guilty are not brought before the I am absolutely certain about my mis- to other journalists and political activists up and some of Melnychenko’s tapes were courts – then we will not have a stable sion and confident about what I am to the time that Heorhii was killed. made public, Koshiw saw that, finally, “I Ukraine. doing. And I will continue to act consis- Basically, he opens our eyes to the large have a chance to prove the criminality of number of crimes that have been committed the Ukrainian government.” I am very glad How do you answer people – often (Continued on page 18) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 No. 19 No. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 11

took second place with 374.40 points. May 3 means Ukraine will finish no better SPORTSLINE Ice hockey than 10th place at the 2003 World SPORTSLINE Championships, but no worse than 12th. Ukraine got its only win at the Though Ukraine will not place higher than Track and field International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) it did at the 2002 championships in second place with a time of 3:42.62. World Championships in Finland on April Sweden, where it finished in ninth place, it Morocco’s Abdel Kader Hachlaf took third 30, beating Japan 5-1. The win set up a has secured a spot at the 2004 World Ukraine’s Zhanna Block won the place with a time of 3:42.71. May 2 contest against the heavily favored Championships in the Czech Republic. women’s 60-meter sprint at the World Boxing Czech Republic, which Ukraine subse- Ukraine then lost its final game of the Track and Field Indoor Championships, quently lost 5-2. However, many hockey held in Birmingham, England, on March 16-team tournament, which ends with the Ukrainian boxer Vitalii Klitschko will analysts credited Ukraine with a strong per- 14-16, with a time of 7.04 seconds. gold medal game on May 11, to Austria on get his opportunity to fight for the World formance against the Czechs and despite Americans Angela Williams and Torri May 5 by a score of 4-0. Several other Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title some controversy – Ukraine’s goalie Ihor Edwards took second and third place, games, which would ultimately determine by the end of November, Klitschko’s pro- Karpenko was run over by a Czech player, respectively, with times of 7.16 and 7.17. Ukraine’s final standing in the tournament, moters said on May 5, according to a giving the Czech squad a rather simple Iryna Lishchynska of Ukraine took fifth had not yet been played as of press time. Reuters report that same day. empty net goal for a 2-0 lead – managed place in the women’s 1,500-meter event, However, one thing is known for certain: The news wire also reported that what many hockey analysts and experts finishing in 4 minutes and 7.19 seconds. Ukraine will finish the tournament ahead of Klitschko’s German promoter, Klaus-Peter called a respectable performance against a America’s Regina Jacobs won the event in the NHL-laden American squad, which fin- Czech team filled with National Hockey 4:01.67, while Great Britain’s Kelly Kohl, said he signed a contract with ished the tournament in 13th place. Holmes took second place with a time of Lennox Lewis’ management for the fight to League talent. In other hockey news, Ukrainian sniper 4:02.66. Russia’s Yekatarina Rozenberg take place before December. This is the Prior to the game against Japan, Ukraine Dave Andreychuk scored his 611th career came in third place with a time of 4:02.80. second time a fight between WBC title- lost to Germany, 3-1, and Slovakia, 9-3, regular season NHL goal to move past In the women’s long jump Ukraine’s holder Lewis and the WBC’s No. 1 ranked during the first round of round-robin com- Bobby Hull for 11th place on the all-time Inessa Kravets took second place with a contender has been scheduled. petition play. Since the top three out of list during the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 4-2 jump of 22 feet and 3⁄4 of an inch. Russia’s Lewis called off an April 2003 fight with four teams in each of the tournament’s four victory over the Buffalo Sabres on March Tatyana Kotova took first place, jumping Klitschko, saying the Ukrainian had not groups qualified for the next round, 14. Since then Andreychuk added to his 22-5 1/4, while Brazil’s Maurren Higa gone through the necessary fights to make Ukraine’s win against Japan gave it the total and finished the season with 613 regu- Maggi jumped 21-11 3⁄4 to take the third him the rightful challenger for the WBC final group A ticket to the next round and lar season goals. However, his scoring spot. belt. “Vitalii Klitschko at this time doesn’t set up the game against the Czechs. In the women’s high jump Ukrainians deserve a chance to fight me,” Lewis was A disappointing 9-0 loss to Finland on (Continued on page 22) Iryna Mykhalchenko and Inga Babakova quoted as saying. “Who has he fought?” took fifth and eighth places, respectively, A series of legal actions between the two jumping 6.43 feet and 6.30 feet. Sweden’s camps attempted to resolve the situation Kajsa Bergqvist took first place with a but were both dropped after the WBC jump of 6.59, and Russia’s duo of Yelena recently ruled that Vitalii Klitschko is the Lviv strongman sets new record Yelesina and Anna Chicherova took second No. 1 WBC contender and, therefore, and third places with jumps of 6.53. Lewis must defend his title in a bout with Ukraine’s Vita Pavlysh took fourth place Vitalii. in the women’s shot put, throwing 64.73 However, on April 25 Reuters reported feet. Germany’s bronze medal winner that Lewis would face Canadian Kirk Astrid Kumbernuss threw 65.16, while Johnson on June 21 in Los Angeles. The Russia’s Irina Korzhanenko took the gold news organization also reported that the medal with a throw of 67.42. Nadezhda WBC ruled it is not sanctioning the fight Ostapchuk of Belarus took the silver medal and that the bout will not be for Lewis’ with a throw of 66.63. WBC title. In the women’s 4x400-meter relay the In yet another twist, the Associated Press Ukrainian team of Antonina Yefremova, reported that Vitalii Klitschko would also Tetiana Debela, Natalia Zhuravliova- fight in Los Angeles’s Staples Center on Vdovychenko and Natalia Makukh took June 21 but as the undercard of a Lewis- fifth place with a time of 3 minutes and Johnson main event. The news wire 36.18 seconds. Russia took first place with reported that Klitschko is scheduled to fight a time of 3:28.45, while the Jamaican team a 10-round bout but his opponent has not took second place, finishing the relay in been determined. Vitalii Klitschko, who is 3:31.23. The team from the United States 31-1 with 31 knockouts, is also ranked the took third place, finishing in 3:31.69. No. 1 contender by the World Boxing Ukraine’s Maryna Brezgina finished the Association. women’s pentathlon in seventh place after In other boxing news, following a disap- completing the competition’s five events – pointing March 8 loss to South African 60-meter hurdles, high jump, long jump, Corrie Sanders, Volodymyr Klitschko said shot put and the 800 meters. Sweden’s at the end of March: “I’m looking forward Carolina Klüft took first place with 4,933 to a rematch against Corrie Sanders. We points, and Natalya Sazanovich of Belarus have talked with the WBO [World Boxing took second place with 4,715 points. Organization] and Sanders’ promoter. I France’s Marie Collonville took third place think we need another three weeks. Then with 4,644 points. Brezgina finished with we will have more information.” Diving 4,313 total points. On the men’s side, Yurii Bilonoh of Ukraine won a bronze medal in the men’s Olena Zhupina won a silver medal in the shot put with a throw of 69.32 feet. Manuel women’s 10-meter platform event at the Martinez of Spain took the gold medal with ninth Federation Internationale de Natiation a throw of 69.69, and John Godina of the (FINA) Diving Grand Prix held in Madrid United States took the silver medal with a on March 13-16. China’s Jing Zhou won throw of 69.65. the event with 342.93 points while Puerto In the men’s long jump Volodymyr Rico’s Angelique Rodriguez took third Zyuskov of Ukraine came in fifth place place with 321.57 points. Zhupina finished with a jump of 26.25 feet. America’s the event with 341.22 points. Dwight Phillips won the event with a jump In the women’s 3-meter springboard of 27.2, and Spain’s Yago Lamela took sec- Zhupina captured a bronze medal, earning ond place with a jump of 27.17. Miguel 303.72 points. China’s Hou Yuanyuan took Pate of the United States took third place the gold with 321.81 points, and Hungary’s with a jump of 26.94. Nora Barta took the silver medal with Andrii Sokolovskyi of Ukraine came in 310.68 points. UNIAN eighth place in the men’s high jump, clear- On the men’s side Ukraine’s Dmytro ing 7.38 feet. Sweden’s Stefan Holm won Lysenko took a bronze medal in the men’s LVIV – Twenty-nine-year-old Vasyl Vyrastiuk of Lviv is the undisputed strongman the event after he jumped 7.71, and 3-meter springboard competition, earning of Ukraine and perhaps the world. He has won and successfully defended virtually Russia’s Yaroslav Rybakov took second 420.93 points. Russia’s Aleksandr every major strongman championship in Ukraine and within the region of the for- place with a jump of 7.64. Belarus’s Dobroskok won the event with 458.94 mer Soviet Union. He also performs record-setting stunts. In his most recent Gennadiy Moroz took third place with a points, and China’s J. Chen took second accomplishment, he set a new world record by moving five street cars weighing jump of 7.55. place with 434.97 points. 101.5 tons each a distance of 17.9 meters (about 60 feet). The record was estab- Ukraine’s Ivan Heshko came in fifth Ukraine’s Aleksander Kropotov took a lished during Lviv Days festivities in the muscleman’s hometown on May 3. The place in the men’s 1,500 meters with a time bronze medal in the men’s 10-meter plat- effort was duly recorded and should become part of the next edition of the of 3 minutes and 44.56 seconds. France’s form competition, earning 371.76 points. Guiness Book of World Records. Mr. Vyrastiuk, who works as a filling station Driss Maazouzi won the event with a time China’s Jing Chang won the event with guard, has also set records in carrying two bags weighing 171 kilograms each of 3:42.59 and Kenya’s Bernard Lagat took 412.80 points and Canada’s Julio Abate (376 pounds each) and in pushing a line of 10 automobiles. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 No. 19

DATELINE NEW YORK: In the merry, merry month of May by Helen Smindak

The Ukrainian Institute of America host- three art exhibitions were opening or about pany also included Lviv-born soloist Maria ed an animated throng at the May 2 open- to see the light of day in Manhattan. This Abashova and Nina Zmievets from Kyiv. ing of Marko Shuhan’s latest exhibition weekend, Galerie LeLong was set to open a Exciting performances by the Syzokryli “33/6 Paint: Marko Shuhan.” Friends and showing of work by Ursula von Ukrainian Dancers of New York opened associates of Mr. Shuhan, most in their 30s Rydingsvard, internationally known for her and closed this year’s European Folk and 40s, crowded the second-floor galleries grand-scale sculpture assembled from cedar Festival at the Fashion Institute of to examine and admire his recent paintings beams that are laminated, carved and often Technology’s Haft Auditorium. The show – huge canvases covered with powerful surfaced with graphite to enrich their color. began with the blare of trembity and a spir- abstract designs suggestive of Cy Twombly Ms. Rydingsvard was born in Germany of ited circle dance from the Carpathian and Jean Michel Basquiat. Ukrainian and Polish parents named Mountains, and wound up with the explo- The joint was jumping with sound and Karoliszyn. [The gallery is located at 526 sive “prysidky” and sword play of the movement. The three-man Wetpaint band W. 26th St., phone, (212) 315-0470).] “Hopak” dance. Presented by the Slavic supplied a jazzy musical background, while On May 13, the Solomon R. Heritage Council of America and directed a gaggle of youngsters from age 2 and up Guggenhemin Museum will open a gleam- by George Tomov, with all 200 performers who accompanied parents to the show ing exhibition of paintings and drawings by in national costumes, the festival included scampered through the crowd. Among Kazimir Malevich, born in Kyiv but known six other folk dance ensembles – Bulgarian, them were 5 1/2-year-old Ihor Severin and to the world as “a master of the Russian Serbian, Macedonian, Slovak, Russian and 19-month old Omelyan Panas, the offspring avant-garde.” The center of the show spot- Polish, as well as a Belarus music trio and, of Mr. Shuhan and his wife, Motria. lights newly discovered paintings, said to for the first time, an Irish dance troupe. Scheduled for just a week’s run (to May be from the collection of Nikolai The ALLNATIONS Dance Company, forced to cancel a 23-day tour of northern 11), the exhibit included close to 30 color- Khardzhiev, a Kyiv-born Russian critic Irene Zabytko ful works, with prices ranging from $800 a who befriended leading members of the China due to the SARS epidemic, hosted an piece for small works to $5,600 for six- avant-garde as a young man and secretly open house performance at International foot-high canvases titled “Mystery of Life,” preserved their art, manuscripts and mem- Last Monday’s opening night gala of House on Riverside Drive in mid-April. “Springs turn” and “When all the doubts oirs long after such work was banned as American Ballet Theatre’s spring season at Dancer/choregrapher Andrij Cybyk, who is are crystal clear.” Intense emotions and subversively bourgeois. [1071 Fifth Ave., the Metropolitan Opera house showcased also Syzokryli’s assistant director, per- drama were expressed in the works through (212) 423-3500.] the remarkable talents of the Kyiv-born formed with his customary balletic skill and vivid colors and bold, energetic strokes and Beginning May 15, the Ukrainian husband-wife team of Irina Dvorovenko pizzazz during the two-hour program. Making music spirals of paint. Institute of America will exhibit recent and Maxim Belotserkovsky, though in sep- A graduate of New York’s School of paintings by Crimean-born Anton S. arate performances. Ms. Dvorovenko was Visual Arts, Mr. Shuhan began his career in Kandinsky, the great-grandson of Vassily partnered by Ethan Steifel in Pas D’Action The hullabaloo is not yet over for John 1984 with the Ukrainian Theater of New Kandinsky, the abstract painter and theorist from “La Bayadére”; Mr. Belotserkovsky Stetch’s “Ukrainianism” CD, and here he is York as executive assistant to the late who is generally regarded as the originator performed the Act 1 Waltz from “Swan with another solo CD recording. As you Walter Klech, senior set designer at the of abstract art. The exhibit will include sur- Lake.” Both dancers will continue to per- might guess from the title “Standards,” the Metropolitan Opera. He advanced through realistic still life and portraits by the young form throughout the company’s eight-week Justin Time Records release includes such a variety of art and illustrative positions artist, who maintains a fine art studio in the season. Vladimir Malakhov was not includ- popular music and jazz classics as Jerome with Park Theater Gallery in Union City, Museum Mile vicinity. [Fifth Avenue at ed in the first two weeks casting, and it Kern’s “All the Things You Are,” N.J., OHM Productions in Brooklyn and 79th Street, (212) 288-8860.] remains to be seen whether he will be per- Gershwin’s “Embraceable You” and the Woodstock Artists Association, becom- Award-winning authors forming with ABT this season. (Tickets Thelonious Monk’s “Pannonica” – inter- ing studio assistant and fabricator at Arman may be purchased online through ABT’s preted in Stetch’s inimitable jazz style, with Studios in New York in 1997. Characters and episodes from Irene newly designed website www.abt.org) verve and virtuosity, so that these time-hon- His paintings have been exhibited in solo Zabytko’s second novel, “When Luba Principal guest artist Alina Cojocaru, on ored chestnuts sound new. There are rendi- and group exhibitions in New York, Leaves Home,” came to life at the Mayana exchange from the Royal Ballet, makes her tions of “Out of Nowhere,” “Like Someone Chicago and Philadelphia, as well as in Gallery recently when Ms. Zabytko read debut with ABT in the role of Nikiya in “La in Love” and an ethereal version of “Stella upstate New York locales (Kingston, excerpts before an intimate audience. Ms. Bayadére” this weekend, with Angel by Starlight.” Woodstock, New Paltz). Born and raised in Zabytko, award-winning author of the Corella as her partner (the pair will perform Based in New York, the Edmonton-born New York, the son of Olya Shuhan and the novel “The Sky Unwashed,” a story of the in the same roles on May 12). Born in pianist was featured on WNYC’s late Ihor Shuhan, he now makes his home Chornobyl disaster, offered brief summaries Bucharest, Rumania, she left home at 9 to “Soundcheck” this past Friday, playing in Accord, N.Y., with his wife and family. of each excerpt before launching into a study ballet in Kyiv. At 17, she won a songs from the new CD and giving a live Why the name “33/6 Paint: Marko reading. Her new book, published by scholarship to the Royal Ballet School in interview. Mr. Stetch is scheduled to per- Shuhan?” The artist said it was the choice Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (a London, but stayed for only six months, form with the John Stetch Trio at the Jazz of a friend who was present at the opening, Workman Publishing division), is a heart- lured back to Kyiv by the offer of a contract Standard, 116 E. 27th St., on May 14, and will follow up with a solo concert at the Julian Lepcan, a hypnotherapist and warming story of how the children of as a principal dancer with the national com- Ukrainian Institute on June 20. Solo con- numerologist who resides variously in New America’s melting pot grow up strong pany there. Ms. Cojocaru’s dancing is certs are also coming up at the Montreal York, Los Angeles and San Paolo, Brazil. enough to carry their double identities. reputed to be dazzling, marked by flawless and Monterey Jazz Festivals. Mr. Lepcan, who happens to be the grand- Interwoven with bandura melodies technique and innate musicality. Soprano Oksana Krovytska, busy in son of the late Julian Revay, the first execu- strummed by Julian Kytasty and Mike The Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, in recent months with performances of tive director of the Ukrainian Institute, Andrec, the readings were warmly received its spring outing at City Center, presented a “Madama Butterfly” (January), an opera selected 33/6 because they are Mr. by the audience. Ms. Zabytko, a first-gener- full-evening work “Who’s Who,” a take on concert with the Toledo Symphony Shuhan’s personal, or spiritual, numbers. ation Ukrainian American who grew up in Billy Wilder’s film “Some Like it Exhibits galore (February) and two performances as Mimi Chicago’s Ukrainian Village section, is Hot,”with Natalia Povorozniuk from in “La Bohéme” with the Austin Opera in already working on her third novel. Her Ukraine as Lynn. The witty and bright bal- Texas, is preparing to appear as soprano Taya Hayuk of Brooklyn, a freelance first novel, “The Sky Unwashed,” was a let combined ballet, modern, jazz, music photographer, illustrator and designer soloist for five performances of Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Broadway dance and a bit of tap to tell its Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony” with the in New York, has been working for the last title, a Book Sense 76 pick and a New American-inspired tale. Ms. Povorozniuk, five years on painting installations with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, conduct- England Booksellers Association discovery. born in Vinnyitsia in 1979, trained at the ed by Zdenek Macal. She will perform at vibrant imagery and spectacular color creat- Audience members stayed on to chat Perm Ballet School and was a soloist with ed out of smaller pieces that stand alone just the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in with Ms. Zabytko and have her autograph the Perm Ballet Theater from 1997 until she as powerfully as they do in conjunction newly purchased copies of “When Luba joined the Eifman Ballet in 2000. The com- (Continued on page 16) with one another in groups. Leaves Home.” The evening, sponsored by Her new work, “Protype, “a series of the Ukrainian Art and Literary Association, paintings laid on the floor that have been was enhanced by an exhibit of dynamic fitted to be moved by the viewer/partici- black-and-white linocuts by Vitaliy Lytvyn pant, was exhibited in a group show pre- (1937-2003), a native of the Rivne region in sented by the migrant gallery Transientnyc Ukraine. in lower Manhattan from April 5 to May 5. The recently-published book “Shanar: Ms. Hayuk, 33, who grew up in a Dedication of a Buryat Shaman in Siberia,” Baltimore suburb, seems to be posing a co-authored by Virlana Tkacz, Sayan question to her audience: Why don’t we Zhambalov and Wanda Phipps, has been play more with our lives, beliefs and desires named a finalist in the 2003 Benjamin until we find a combination we are happy Franklin Awards competition in two cate- with. gories, Multiculturalism and Religion. Ms. Hayuk is a recent transplant from Coincidentally, Ms. Tkacz, director of New San Francisco, where she created a series of York’s Yara Arts Group, has been selected 5 x 7 posters for the bus shelters that run up as a finalist for this year’s Alan Schneider and down Market Street. She undertook the Director Award from the Theatre project in 2001 as a recipient of the San Communications Group (the organization Francisco Arts Commission Market Street for professional theaters of America); the Kiosk Project grant – “a huge honor” by winner is to be announced next month. Bay City standards, she says. From ballet to folk dance As this “Dateline” was being printed, Irina Dvorovenko Maxim Belotserkovsky No. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 13

Electronic balloting also is available and is described at the end of this article. All votes received are tabulated and FFOOCCUUSS OONN PPHHIILLAATTEELLYY combined with votes from Ukraine. The by Ingert Kuzych prize winner is usually announced in September. Your name will not be disclosed and is requested simply to prevent multiple voting. Anyone can vote for the Narbut Prize. You do not need to be a stamp collec- Your chance to choose: tor, artist, or even Ukrainian, for that matter.

Ukraine’s 2002 stamps No. Description Ukraine Post continued to produce the animal characters on the folk tales attractive and interesting stamp issues last stamps, then the “animal” stamp total can 415-417 The first three stamps of the year, continuing various popular series be raised to 25. This is certainly more than year were the continuation of a from the past, as well as initiating quite a necessary and hopefully represents only a long-running series honoring few new ones. In all, 66 stamps appeared in one-time aberration. Ukrainian hetmans. The indi- 2002, 15 of which were part of four sou- Nevertheless, a great many very worthy viduals highlighted in 2002 venir sheets. individuals, events and topics were com- It was a bit of a surprise that so few sou- were Pavlo Teteria (Right- memorated on last year’s releases, all of Bank hetman in 1663-1665), venir sheets were produced last year; many which are briefly described (chronological- more have appeared annually in the past. Demian Mnohohrishnyi (Left- ly) in the list below. Following the listing is Bank hetman, 1668-1672), and Since a souvenir sheet has emerged as the a form allowing you to indicate and submit winner for best philatelic design for the past Ivan Briukhovetskyi (Left- your selection for the best stamp design. Bank hetman in 1663). These five years in a row, it will be interesting to The ballot may be photocopied if more than see if the trend continues in this year’s bal- one member of a household wishes to vote. (Continued on page 14) 443-444 loting for the Narbut Prize. The prize is named after Heorhii Narbut, Ukraine’s famous graphic artist of the early 20th century, who designed some of Ukraine’s first stamps and banknotes. Instituted by yours truly in 1992, the year Ukraine resumed stamp production, the monetary prize has been awarded annually and is now regarded as the premier recogni- tion for Ukraine’ s philatelic designers. While only one stamp of a religious nature was released last year (in contrast to the nine the year before), many more stamps illustrating animals made an appear- ance than at any previous time. In total, 14 issues specifically represented animals of Ukraine or surrounding regions. If one includes the horses or birds shown as part of the image on various other designs, or 425, 442, 446, 466, 469, 470

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location on a map of Ukraine; Your chance... the sides illustrate oblast (Continued from page 13) scenes. stamps bring to 15 the number 426-427 of individuals presented in this Another beautiful series that series first begun in 1995. has been going on for several years recalls the era of tall 418-421 The next four stamps were ships in Ukraine. Last year’s part of a new series depicting contribution depicted the 54- gun frigate Syzopol, complet- the “Military History of ed in Sevastopol in 1841, and Ukraine.” Shown were a the 16-gun brig Perseus, built lightly armored mounted in Mykolaiv in 1840. Scythian horseman, heavily armored Scythian infantry- 429 On March 1, 1992, exactly men, a Scythian king and three months after ratifying its young warrior, and a mounted independence from the Soviet female warrior-archer (an Union, Ukraine began to once Amazon). again issue its own postage stamps. On March 1, 2002, a 422, 428, Five new stamps were addedto special stamp was prepared to 441, 447, Ukraine’s beautiful definitive commemorate the first decade 465 (regular) stamp series on na- 432-433 of Ukrainian stamp releases. tive Ukraine flora. The 5- Reproduced on the elaborate kopiyka stamp depicts peri- issue was the first stamp of 10 winkle, the 10-kopiyka illus- years earlier recalling the trates hollyhocks, the 30- 500th anniversary of the kopiyka shows marigolds, the Ukrainian Kozak. “C” value (equivalent to 15 U.S. cents) pictures lilacs, 430 This portrait stamp recalled the while the 45-kopiyka portrays 175th birth anniversary of the cornflowers. outstanding literary figure Leonid Hlibov (1827-1893). 423-424 Stamps highlighting Ukrai- nian world sports champions 431 Ukraine’s first chess stamp made an appearance in commemorated “Ruslan Po- February. Honored were win- nomariov – The 16th World ners in track and field and Chess Champion.” swimming. 432-433 Another first was Ukraine’s 425, 442, No less than six stamps from souvenir sheet showing the 446, 466, the continuing “Regions and “National Circus of Ukraine.” 469, 470 Administrative Centers of Softer, more diffuse circus Ukraine” series were released scenes frame prominent last year. The oblasts repre- images of a tiger and lion. This sented were Kyiv, Luhansk, issue was Ukraine’s “Europa” Chernivtsi, Odesa, Cherkasy entry, whose theme last year 435-438 and Sumy. The center of each was circuses. of these stamps shows the region’s coat of arms and its 434 The sole religious stamp of the year highlighted “Verbna Nedilia” (Palm Sunday).

435-438 Perhaps the most exotic issue of the year was the leopard snake block of four stamps. This very colorful set was a real attention-grabber due to both its unusual subject matter and striking realism. This rep- tile is found in Ukraine and is listed in its Red Book of Endangered Species.

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from 2000. “Kurochka Riaba.” This issue understandably was a big hit 463-464 In September Ukraine and 443-444 Two other animals from with children. Kazakstan prepared a joint Ukraine’s Red Book were stamp issue. (This is a special shown on a pair of stamps in 456-458 Yet another series that contin- event where two or more June: the harbor porpoise and ues to astound with lovely countries issue a stamp or the European shag (a water images is that devoted to stamps on the same topic, bird). “Treasures from Ukrainian often with similar or identical Museums.” Last year three designs.) The theme was the 445 A portrait of the prominent intricate works by master folk “Protection of the Natural composer and conductor artist Hanna Sobachko-Shostak Environment” and depicted on Mykola Leontovych (1877- (1883-1965) were featured. the stamps were two endan- 1921) graced this issue on the gered animals: the Caspian 125th anniversary of his birth. 459-462 An important new series was seal and the Black Sea beluga “launched” in August honoring sturgeon. 448-452 More fauna appeared on a spe- “Ukrainian Contributions to cial souvenir sheet that illus- Space Exploration.” Four very 467 The millennial anniversary of trated many of the birds and worthy scientists re-ceived the town of Khotyn (in plants found in the their own stamps: Yurii Chernivtsi Oblast) was truly Chornomorskyi Biosphere Kondratiuk (1897-1942), worthy of commemoration. Reserve. Mykhailo Yanhel (1911-1971), This site has a fascinating his- Mykola Kybalchych (1853- tory, having changed hands on 453-455 The “Ukrainian Folk Tales” 1881) and Serhii Korolov (Continued on page 21) 434 series continued with three (1907-1966). Their contribu- stamps illustrating the stories tions were all in the fields of “Kolobok,” “Pan Kotskyi” and cosmonautics and rocketry.

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the Sobor Party on European Square in the Ñ¥ÎËÏÓÒfl ÒÛÏÌÓ˛ ‚¥ÒÚÍÓ˛ Á ð¥‰ÌËÏË, ÔðËflÚÂÎflÏË ¥ capital, the UNIAN news service reported. NEWSBRIEFS Á̇ÈÓÏËÏË, ˘Ó ‚ ̉¥Î˛, 27 Í‚¥ÚÌfl 2003 ð. ÛÔÓÍӪ·Òfl (Continued from page 2) Speakers at the Kyiv rally called for the ‚ ÅÓÁ¥ ̇¯‡ ‰ÓðÓ„‡ ¥ ÌÂÁ‡·ÛÚÌfl not free,” the group said. Ratings in Central rejection of President Leonid Kuchma’s åÄåÄ, ÅÄÅñü ¥ ëÖëíêÄ and Eastern Europe, listed alphabetically, proposals for political reform and empha- are: Belarus (82), Czech Republic (23), sized the need for joint opposition efforts to Estonia (17), Hungary (23), Latvia (18), secure victory in the next presidential elec- ·Î. Ô. Lithuania (18), Poland (18), Slovakia (21) tion. Some 500,000 Ukrainians reportedly and Ukraine (67). (RFE/RL Newsline) took part in May Day demonstrations and festivities organized throughout the country, åàêéëãÄÇÄ ãßôÄä ... press freedom in Ukraine declines with the highest attendance reported in Donetsk (53,000), Dnipropetrovsk (16,000), NEW YORK – Freedom House named and Symferopol (12,000). (RFE/RL Á ‰ÓÏÛ ÅìãúÇÄç Ukraine among 11 countries in which rat- Newsline) ̇ð. 25 ‚ÂðÂÒÌfl 1926 ð. Û ÅÓðËÒ·‚¥, ìÍð‡ªÌ‡. ings dropped from the “partly free” to “not Diaspora targets Pulitzer-prize winner free,” according to a copy of the report on èéïéêéççß ÅéÉéëãìÜÖççü ‚¥‰·ÛÎËÒfl ‚ ˜ÂÚ‚Âð, 1 Úð‡‚Ìfl 2003 ð. ‚ the group’s website. “Among the most seri- WASHINGTON – The Ukrainian dias- ÛÍð‡ªÌÒ¸Í¥È Í‡ÚÓÎˈ¸Í¥È ˆÂðÍ‚¥ Ò‚. ÄÌÌË ‚ Austintown, OH, a ÓÔ¥ÒÎfl ̇ ous developments were major setbacks for pora on May 1 launched a campaign aimed press freedom in Russia, Ukraine and Calvary Cemetery, Youngstown, OH. at seeing the late U.S. journalist Walter Venezuela,” the group noted in a press Duranty stripped of his 1932 Pulitzer Prize, ì „ÎË·ÓÍÓÏÛ ÒÏÛÚÍÛ Á‡Î˯ËÎËÒfl: release accompanying the survey. Freedom RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service reported. ÒËÌ – åàêéç Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ íÄåÄêéû House said several Ukrainian journalists Duranty, then a correspondent for The New ‚ÌÛÍË – éãÖäëÄçÑÖê ¥ çÄíÄçüã were targeted by politically motivated libel York Times, received his prize for a series lawsuits or punitive tax audits last year. ‰Ó̸͇ – åÄêßâäÄ of articles he published in 1931 on Stalin’s “Russian and Ukrainian reporters who ÒÂÒÚðË – ãûÅéåàêÄ ãìñú Á ÏÛÊÂÏ ÉêàÉéêß∏å plans to reform the Soviet economy. investigated official corruption were rou- – Öåßãßü ñúéñú Á ÏÛÊÂÏ åàäéãéû Duranty subsequently maintained silence in tinely intimidated and sometimes violently Ú‡ ·ÎËʘ‡ ¥ ‰‡Î¸¯‡ ðÓ‰Ë̇. his writings about the man-made famine in attacked,” the group said. (RFE/RL Ukraine in 1932-1933, in which up to 10 Newsline) million people died. “[Duranty] completely Ç¥˜Ì‡ ∫È Ô‡Ï’flÚ¸! Rallies held to mark May Day ignored the Ukrainian famine; he even went as far as to lie that there was no famine, KYIV – Some 3,000 people took part in there was no genocide of the Ukrainian peo- a May Day rally organized by the ple,” Ukrainian Congress Committee of Ç 40 ÑÖçú ëåÖêíà Communist Party, the Socialist Party, the America President Michael Sawkiw Jr. told ̇¯Óª ̇ȉÓðÓʘӪ åÄåà, ÅÄÅìëß, ëÖëíêà, íÖíà ¥ äìáàçäà Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, Our Ukraine and RFE/RL. (RFE/RL Newsline) ·Î. Ô. Äççà ÉÄêÄë tial candidates to have their say. “A vision...” • Voters should be allowed to choose ·Û‰ÛÚ¸ ‚¥‰Ôð‡‚ÎÂÌ¥ (Continued from page 7) freely, and not be subjected to threats or ëãìÜÅà ÅéÜß Ukrainian civil society contribute to the manipulation. ‚ ˆÂðÍ‚‡ı: positive force that is steering the country in • Judicial decisions concerning candi- dates should not be arbitrary. the direction we will discuss today. These • ÅÂÚ΄ÂÏ¥, è‡.; And as expected, there will be many developments are encouraging, and are • 縲 Åð‡ÌÁ‚ËÍÛ, ç.ÑÊ.; injecting more accountability and trans- impulses for reform in Ukraine that extend • äÂð„ÓÌÍÒÓÌ¥, ç.â.; parency in the workings of government far beyond the election. A simple look around the room shows the diversity of than ever before. • çÓðÚ èÓðÚ¥, î·.; activities and organizations that are focused But building accountability and trans- • ë¥πÚÎ, LJ¯.; on different elements of civil society devel- parency into governing are far from being opment and governmental reform. There is • îÓðÚ ÇÓðÚ, íÂÍ.; routine practices. There are still areas of WTO membership, the growth of small and • èÂð˜ËÌ¥, ìÍð‡ªÌ‡; continuing concern. medium-sized businesses, and tax and • Governmental harassment, physical, • çËÊ̸ÓÏÛ ÅÂðÂÁÓ‚¥, ìÍð‡ªÌ‡; financial reform, which will provide oppor- financial and otherwise, of independent • äËπ‚¥, ìÍð‡ªÌ‡. tunities for increased transparency and journalists and media outlets does not fit broad-based prosperity. Likewise, there is into our shared vision of Ukraine integrated the implementation of the NATO Action êÓ‰ËÌÛ, ÔðËflÚÂÎ¥‚ ¥ Á̇ÈÓÏËı ÔðÓÒËÏÓ Ó ÏÓÎËÚ‚Ë Á‡ ‰Û¯Û èÓÍ¥ÈÌÓª. into Euro-Atlantic and global structures. Plan, which will involve much more than Human Rights Watch just published a defense reform. And the prospect of even- ÑÓ̸͇ ¥ ÒËÌ Á ðÓ‰Ë̇ÏË report on March 17 that outlined many of tual EU membership will bring in the per- the restrictions that the state is putting on spectives (and support) of neighboring Ukrainian television. countries. • Civil society should not have to strug- Each of these external forces will pro- gle to operate freely in a democracy. Legal mote the case for widespread reform. DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS recognition for and protection of civil soci- However, the main push for reform and ety groups should be routine. to be published in The Ukrainian Weekly – in the Ukrainian transformation must come from within or English language – are accepted by mail, courier, fax, phone or e-mail. • Opposition politicians should be Ukraine. 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I know several people who were famil- The next issue of The Ukrainian Weekly’s Myroslava Gongadze... iar with the Gongadze case and have said (Continued from page 9) that they found the Koshiw book con- tently. Many people, including many vincing. Do you think this book will help young people, who once were afraid to in the case of Heorhii Gongadze? talk to me, now approach me and Yes, the book is very readable and clear- WeddingWedding squeeze my hand as a sign of support. ly explains the whole process. I think every- Even people who work at the Embassy of one should read it and find out how it all Ukraine, who work at various Ukrainian really happened. Announcements representation establishments in Europe, *** Announcementswill appear on June 22, 2003. earlier – say a year or two ago – were The book “Beheaded: Killing of a afraid to approach me. Now they under- Journalist may be ordered online at For a wedding announcement to be included in that issue, stand that only truth can save us and they www.artemiapress.com.uk. The price of all information must be received in our offices by June 10, 2003. themselves feel the falsity of their posi- $25 (U.S.) includes postage. It is also avail- Along with wedding announcements, we will include greetings from friends, tions. They don’t say this officially, but able in Canada through the Ukrainian Book family members, bridesmaids and ushers – from all those when they talk to me, they tell me so. Store in Edmonton, www.ukrainianbook- who wish to share in the excitement of a new marriage. They say: help us to free ourselves. store.com. Also welcome are anniversary and engagement announcements and greetings to most Western countries, particularly Rates for announcements and greetings: Europe and the U.S. One-column wedding announcement: $100 UWC appeal... The UWC feels that the Ukrainian dias- Two-column wedding announcement: $200 (Continued from page 2) pora, and its national central coordinating Wedding greeting: $75 in innocent victims and collateral damage. representative organizations, in particular, In this case, Ukraine, and with it the can and should play a pivotal role in fos- For further information or to request a brochure, Ukrainian people, have become casualties please call (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 (Maria). of political expediency and shortsighted- tering better Ukraine-West relations. Visit www.ukrweekly.com to view a wedding announcement sample page. ness. Unfortunately, current U.S. policy Despite ongoing Russian intimidation, seems to be that Ukraine falls within Ukraine continues to manifest its desire to Russia’s sphere of influence. We believe integrate politically and economically into that such a policy is shortsighted and erro- European and trans-Atlantic alliances and neous. structures. Even with current U.S.A.- AÖROSVIT CARGO Russia collusion, much can be done in the U K R A I N I A N A I R L I N E By geographic location alone Ukraine is pivotal to the West. Additionally, West since U.S. policy has become very ÉÂÌÂð‡Î¸ÌËÈ ‡£ÂÌÚ ÔÓ ‚¥‰Ôð‡‚ˆ¥ ‚‡Ìڇʥ‚ ‚ ìÍð‡ªÌÛ Ukraine is the 24th largest country in the unpopular in segments of the global vil- world. While Ukraine’s current per capita lage. We urge our member organizations ÇßÑèêÄÇäÄ ÇÄçíÄÜßÇ Ì‡ Åéßç¢Äï-767 åË ‰ÓðÛ˜ËÏÓ ‚‡Ìڇʥ ‚ ìÍð‡- Gross Domestic Product does not measure to work towards a just and enlightened ‚¥‚Ú¥ðÍË, ˜ÂÚ‚Âð„Ë, Ô’flÚÌˈ¥ ¥ ̉¥Î¥ ÔÓ Ï‡ð¯ðÛÚÛ ªÌÛ Á‡ 10 „Ó‰ËÌ Û ä˪‚ Ú‡ ‰‡Î¥ up to European Union standards, its vast treatment of Ukraine by the international resources including its educated popula- community, as we also urge them to work çúû-âéêä – äà∫Ç – çúû-âéêä ‰Ó ÑÌ¥ÔðÓÔÂÚðӂҸ͇, é‰ÂÒË, towards the establishment of Ukraine as a 㸂ӂ‡, ï‡ðÍÓ‚‡, ÑÓ̈¸Í‡ tion both as producer and consumer have èêüåß êÖâëà ‚ ìäêÄ∫çì great potential. Militarily, Ukraine is cur- truly democratic and prosperous state of rently a valued member of the United the Ukrainian people. AeroSvit CargÓ ç‡‰‡πÏÓ ‰ÓÔÓÏÓ„Û ‚ Nations peacekeeping forces, and certain- For the Ukrainian World Congress: Ç¥‰Ôð‡‚‡ ‚‡Ìڇʥ‚ ÔÂðÂıÓ‰¥ ˜ÂðÂÁ ly, a more formidable potential contributor to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Askold S. Lozynskyj 2307 Coney Island Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11223 ÇàëàãÄ∏åé ‚‡Ìڇʥ ‰Ó åÓÒÍ‚Ë, and European Union security than a President (718) 376-1023 • Fax: (718) 376-1073 íÂθ-Ä‚¥‚‡, í·¥Î¥Ò¥, ∏ð‚‡ÌÛ, ŇÍÛ, êË„Ë, majority of current or candidate members www.aerosvitcargo.com Ç¥Î¸Ì˛Ò‡, í‡ÎΥ̇ ·ÂÁ ÛÒÍ·‰ÌÂ̸. of NATO or the EU. Losing Ukraine as a Victor Pedenko potential ally should be cause for concern General Secretary No. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 19

Thank you for the following contributions to the Starving for Color Fund. DuringSTST the photoARVINGARVING exhibit Starving for Color, held at FORtheFOR Ukrainian NationalCOLORCOLOR Museum in Chicago Il. on Oct. NOTESNOTES ONON PEOPLEPEOPLE 26, 2002, funds were collected for the purpose of purchasing infant formula for the newborns at the orphanage in Lviv. of the Ukrainian National Association. We wish to thank the following generous contributors. Named chief of staff Dr. Terlecky is married to Elizabeth $1000 Latyshevsky, Hanna and Alex 75 Fannin, James Steele of Troy, N.Y., and they have three Pawlyk, George 500 Lewicky, Daria and Andrew and Lewyn-Pawlyk Halyna children, Anna, Wasyl and Andrew. They Sabir, Galena at medical center all are members of UNA Branch 13 in Zaenger, Jamilette and Mark by Nicholas Fil Selfreliance, Ukrainian American Watervliet. Credit Union 50 Baransky, Ulana and Bendixon, Richard WATERVLIET, N.Y. – Dr. Wasyl Tymiak, Maria Crismyre, Janet and Michael Terlecky was recently named chief of Darelius, Karen 300 Iwanetz, Irena and Jaroslaw Dolyniuk, Larysa staff at Grandview Medical Center in Demczuk-Bresnahan, Roxolana Dayton, Ohio. Prior to that he was the 250 Browar, Taisa and Andrew The Heritage Foundation of Fedoriw, Marta and Ihor hospital’s vice-chief of staff. First Security Federal Saving Bank Gribovich, Galina and Yurij In September of last year Dr. Terlecky Goodwin, Gorchynsky, Iwanna and George received the Outstanding Family Lumarco, Inc. Hladko, Larissa Physician 2002 Southwest CORE Award Jaworsky Ann and Felton, Larissa 200 DePinto, Donald Jermihow Christina from Peter Bell, D.O., assistant dean of Domino, Bohdanna and George Karawan, Greg Ohio University College of Medicine. Karavan, Joanna and Oleh Kedzierski, Erika and Sandra Dr. Terlecky earned his doctorate of Latyshevsky, Alex and Zorianna Krogh, Rose osteopathy from Philadelphia College of Lonchyna, Inna Lyubinsky, Faina and Leonid Osteopathic Medicine. A graduate of Ozga, Marta and Jurij Madaj, Bernice McLaughlin, Weaver and Gerald 100 Baransky, Maria and Michael Central High School in Troy and the Mycyk, Natalia Block, Sanford State University of New York at Albany, Panchuk, Juliana Bradley he has been practicing family medicine Richmond, Marilyn and Eugene Chryniwsky, Valeria and Orest Rumsavich, Mary for more than 20 years. Domino, Laryssa Sonevitskiy, Irena and Yurij The physician is originally from Di Santi, Andrea Trachtenberg, Lorraine and Michael Watervliet, N.Y., where his parents, Gibson, R and A Kateryna and Wasyl, are very active in Guzlas, Dean and Ruth Widstrom 25 Roman, Sophia and Illa the Ukrainian community and Branch 13 Hrycelak, Maria Verback, Susan Dr. Wasyl Terlecky Hrycelak, Geroge Krushelnycky, Oksana and Lubomyr 20 Bodnaruk, Maria and Borys Kuhn, Carolyn Marie Grieco, Donato Kuropas, Roman and Tania Johnson, Sally and came to this country following Lisowski, Maria 10 Eliashevsky, Oleh and Larissa World War II. The recipient of numerous Lonchyna, Natalia Hanushevsky, M and O Receives award awards and citations for professional Lytwynyshyn, Helen and George Shorobura, George Marshall, Janet and Richard excellence, Mr. Kupchynsky is listed in Also we would like to thank Melania Lonchyna for Matwyshyn, H.M. and I for work with youths participating in the Las Vegas N.V. held marathon on the 2000 Millennium edition of “Who’s Mittelstadt, Donna and Michael BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Jerry M. Who in America.” Mr. Kupchynsky is a Feb. 2, 2003. Kupchynsky, supervisor emeritus of the Mittelstadt, Michael R. Melania raised the following funds in conjunction with member of UNA Branch 233. Mycyk, Natalie and Bohdan her run. East Brunswick Schools System, is the Proczyk, Klodnyczka $500 Latyshevsky, Alex and Hanna recipient of the 2003 prestigious Fay S. Siddiqui, H.N. and S 250 Hromovytsia - Ukrainian Dance Ensemble Tymiak, Maria Slobodian Mathewson Award. 260 Latyshevsky, Alex and Zorianna The New Jersey Recreation and Park Sobol, Christine and Rostyslaw 400 Lebedovych, Milas and Zveneslava Association, a not-for-profit organization Suptela, Larysa and Anatole 50 Stiles, Matt Traversa, Halyna 25 Frease, Jordan of citizens dedicated to enhancing the Truchly, Lida and Vasyl Valenti, Christopher quality of life in the state, annually con- Warten, Julia Wang, Stephanie ducts an award program whose goal is to Wyhinny, Patricia and George $1485 Total focus state attention on the achievements GAP Corporation is matching this dona- tion with $1485 of park and recreation departments. The Mathewson Award is given to acknowl- edge and provide recognition to a “Friend of Recreation, Parks and Conservation.” The 2003 award was presented to Mr. Kupchynsky in recognition of his work with the youth of East Brunswick, evi- denced by his founding, and for 19 years administering, the East Brunswick Young Musicians Project. Mr. Kupchynsky was born in Ukraine Jerry M. Kupchynsky

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ish checks,” said Canucks coach Marc Christmas tree. Pro hockey... Crawford, adding this was no four- or five- Your chance... (Continued from page 20) day experiment ... Komarniski had dabbled (Continued from page 15) 475-480 The final stamp issue of 2002 Though the Pilots ended on a disap- with playing left wing three seasons ago numerous occasions. At differ- was a beautiful six-stamp treat- pointing note – falling in the first round to with Syracuse ... This time it appears to be ent times it was controlled by ment illustrating “Ukrainian Mississippi – Gordon bolstered the team for keeps ... There is serious concern Kyivan Rus’, Moldavia, the Folk Costumes,” both as single with several key signings, including former Komarniski’s below-6-foot frame is too Kozaks, the Poles, Russia, stamps and on a souvenir all-star defenseman Brad Dexter, who undersized at the NHL level and his Austria and Romania, before sheet. This was the second came out of retirement. chances are much better as a two-way reverting to Ukraine. The consecutive year that Ukraine Another key mid-season acquisition winger ... stamp shows the massive Post released such a set and the from last year, goaltender Maxime Over in the United League, Colonial fortress built by the Genoese in regions depicted this time Gingras, was re-signed for 2002-2003, and Cup champion Muskegon made former the 13th century. were: Vinnytsia (The Feasts of Pankewicz felt confident all the pieces Hartford Wolf Pack assistant coach Mike “Pokrova” and “Spas”), were in place for a title run. Busniuk the seventh head coach in club 468 A special issue for the eighth Cherkasy (spring folk song rit- “All we lacked was the ability to play a history last fall ... Busniuk replaced All-Ukrainian Philatelic uals of vesnianky and haivky) and Ternopil (Easter scenes). team game,” he said. “They brought Danton Cole, who was named coach of the Exhibition “Odesaphil 2002” Dexter to quarterback our power play and AHL’s Grand Rapids Griffins ... Busniuk, came in October. Prominent in Once again this year, we are making we got off to a slow start in goaltending who played for the Philadelphia Flyers the design are the famous last year before Maxime got here. Having Potemkin Stairs in Odesa. participation in Narbut Prize voting easier from 1979 to 1981, was an assistant for than ever. All of the above philatelic him from the start is going to make a huge five years in Hartford after spending four 471-473 Yet another new series inaugu- issues may be viewed in color on Bohdan difference.” years in the same position with rated last year was “Kyiv Hrynyshyn’s Ukrainian Electronic Stamp Pankewicz himself, though, figured to Binghamton of the AHL ... be the biggest difference-maker of all. Through Artist’s Eyes.” A set Album: www.ukrainian-philately.info/ Former Idaho Steelheads (West Coast “Bar none, he was the best player in this of three stamps kicked off the narbut.htm An accompanying ballot League) coach and color commentator league last year,” Wilkie said. “He has the series with scenes by Taras allows for Narbut Prize voting directly Clint Malarchuk landed a job as goaltend- total package.” Shevchenko (1814-1861), from this site. Pre-season MVP candidate indeed. ing instructor for the Florida Panthers ... including a watercolor of Further information about Ukrainian phi- Truer words were never spoken. Malarchuk, 41, will still live in Nampa, “Askold’s Tomb,” a landscape lately and about previous winners of the Pankewicz recently ended up the current Idaho, traveling to Miami for a week to 10 etching and another watercolor Narbut Prize may be found on the website 2002-2003 hockey campaign the sixth top days per month ... He will also visit goalies of “St. Oleksander’s Church.” of the Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic scorer in the East Coast League. He fin- in the Panthers’ system ... It is his first full- Society (UPNS): www.upns.org. Click on ished with a league-high 46 goals, adding time coaching job since the Steelheads 474 A cartoonish stamp titled “Related Sites” to find out where stamps 41 assists for 87 points with a whopping fired him two years ago ... Malarchuk went “Happy New Year!” helped may be ordered. 340 minutes in penalties. 62-70-11 in two years as a coach and was close out the philatelic year. Stay tuned for the official counting of the team’s radio color commentator last Presented on the issue was a Ingert Kuzych may be contacted at P.O. the MVP ballots in the ECL. Greg season ... He also works as a horse dentist wispish Father Frost carrying Box 3, Springfield, VA 22150, or at his e- Pankewicz truly was an MVP in the mak- out of his ranch in Nampa ... “The Panthers what looks like an oversized mail address: [email protected] ing. called me kind of out of the blue,” Yarema finally flies with Ducks Malarchuk said ... He signed a one-year contract with an option for a second year ... The best way to assure job security is to Malarchuk spent 10 seasons as an NHL Dear Mr. Spiwak:NARBUT PRIZE BALLOT produce at an optimum level. Or so goalie with three teams... My selection for this year’s Narbut Prize, as the best philatelic design of 2002, is: FINAL NHL TRANSACTIONS/INJURIES: No.______Title ______Brendan Yarema thought. Sincerely, Mr.(s.) ______Even that wasn’t enough for Yarema, however. Despite scoring nine goals and 13 Mail this ballot to: CAROLINA – Damian Surma, RW, Mr. Paul Spiwak points in 14 Calder Cup playoff games for recalled from Lowell (AHL) and later the Houston Aeros last spring, the seventh- 42 Irving Rd. returned. New Hartford, NY 13413 year 26-year-old center found himself CHICAGO – Judd Medak, R W, Or send an e-mail with the stamp/souvenir sheet number and name to unemployed without a contract this season. assigned to Norfolk (AHL). With an American Hockey League limit [email protected]. COLORADO – Johnny Boychuk, D, Copies of this ballot are acceptable if more than one member of a household wishes to vote. of six “veterans” per team, it was a simple signed multi-year contract. One ballot per person, please. supply vs. demand equation, and the limit- DETROIT – Joey Kocur, assistant Deadline for submitting votes is August 15, 2003. ed demand didn’t meet the overabundant supply of available players who fit the coach, suspended two games and team AHL’s definition of a veteran (260 games fined $5,000 by NHL for actions in March of pro experience). 29 game. Thus, after being released from his FLORIDA – Joey Tetarenko, RW, training camp tryout with the Boston recalled from San Antonio (AHL) and later Bruins, Yarema suddenly found himself traded to Ottawa; Denis Shvidki, RW, looking for work. recalled from San Antonio; Darcy “I was sitting at home for six weeks, not Hordichuk, LW, high ankle sprain, indefi- even skating,” he said. “It was frustrating nite. because I had a great playoff last year. I MINNESOTA – Dieter Kochan, GT, had about six or seven teams interested, but assigned to Houston (AHL). things didn’t pan out. All of a sudden NEW JERSEY – Oleg Tverdovsky, D, you’re wondering what’s going on.” fatigue and dizziness, indefinite. Yarema joined the East Coast League’s OTTAWA – Curtis Leschyshyn, D, Charlotte Checkers in November 2002 strained groin, day-to-day; indefinite; and, after scoring five goals in five games, Leschyshyn sore right ankle, indefinite. was signed to a tryout contract by the PHILADELPHIA – Todd Fedoruk, RW, AHL’s Cincinnati Mighty Ducks later that sprained right thumb, indefinite; Fedoruk same month. Through his first 47 AHL left thigh contusion, indefinite. games, the never-drafted Yarema had PHOENIX – Drake Berehowsky, D, notched 15 goals, including four game- right knee surgery, late-February; winners, and 30 points with 89 minutes in Berehowsky assigned to Springfield penalties. His play convinced Anaheim to (AHL); Berehowsky later recalled; Darcy sign him to an NHL/AHL contract back in Hordichuk, LW, traded to Florida. early December. ST. LOUIS – Keith Tkachuk, LW, sus- “I like when the games are on the line. I pended four games by NHL for cross- think you work harder to contribute to the team,” said Yarema, who had 18 goals, 31 checking incident in February 23 game; points and 150 minutes in 77 games last Tkachuk, sprained right wrist, mid-April; season in Houston. “And once you get on a Sergei Varlamov, LW, recalled from roll, you get confidence and feel good Worcester (AHL) and later returned. about yourself.” TAMPA BAY – Ruslan Fedotenko, RW, MINOR UKRAINIAN UTTERINGS: broken right finger, day-to-day; Brad Lukowich, D, fractured right orbital bone, Zenith Komarniski was one of the late April. Manitoba Moose’s most reliable defense- TORONTO – Wade Belak, D, stiff men last season ... Nobody will be echoing neck, day-to-day; Alexei Ponikarovsky, those words these days ... Komarniski LW, recalled from St. John’s (AHL). agreed to a position change to left wing in (Quotes thanks to Rob Mueller, Kevin the Vancouver Canucks organization ... Oklobzija, Tim Campbell, Brendan Savage “We love his strength and his ability to fin- and Chadd Cripe.) 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 No. 19

Tolkunov said Ukrainian youth coaches The event featured numerous sticks and coach in 1983-1991. He coached the Sportsline... are generally assigned a team of 6-year- stick blades autographed by Admirals play- Soviet Union’s gold-medal winning (Continued from page 11) olds and move up with them through the ers. But the big-ticket items were NHL women’s foil team at the 1986 World touch was not enough to help Tampa Bay age-group ranks until they leave for junior game jerseys signed by Pittsburgh’s Mario Championships. overcome the New Jersey Devils in the sec- hockey or the Ukrainian national team. Lemieux, Los Angeles’ Jason Allison and According to an article in The New York ond round of the NHL playoffs. Gavrilov’s bunch also included Ruslan Vancouver’s Henrik Sedin. Times, the first ever American to be ranked Proceeds were to be personally deliv- Ukrainian minor-leaguer Dmitri Fedotenko, who plays with the NHL’s No. 1 in the world in men’s saber, Keeth Tampa Bay Lightning, and Alex ered to Gavrilov’s family by Tolkunov Smart, is coached by Yuri Gelman, a for- Tolkunov of the American Hockey Zinevych, who’s skated in the American upon his return to Kyiv later this spring. mer saber competitor from Ukraine. Mr. League’s Norfolk Admirals held an auction Hockey League and East Coast Hockey “It’s very hard for his wife with no man Gelman is the U.S. national fencing team’s recently to help the family of his former League. in the family so I wanted to do this little men’s saber head coach. coach in Ukraine who died of a blood dis- Tolkunov, currently sidelined with a bit,’’ Tolkunov told the Virginia-Pilot on And, according to the U.S. Fencing order last year. minor knee injury, has yet to make his May 2. “She is not working because she Association, Leszek Stawicki, the current The coach who nurtured Tolkunov for NHL debut but played for Ukraine in the has the responsibility of the kids. When I head coach of wheelchair fencing for the eight years in Kyiv, until the youngster 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. go home after the playoffs, they will be the U.S. national team, is a native of the former made the leap to Canadian junior hockey in He credits much of his success to his for- first people I go to see.’’ Soviet Union who earned the title of 1995, was Konstantin Gavrilov. A local mer coach. Chess Eminent Coach of the Republic while at Virginia newspaper reported that Tolkunov Gavrilov is survived by his wife and the Academy of Physical Training in Lviv, was devastated when Gavrilov died sud- four children, age 2, 4, 16 and 21. International Chess Federation FIDE Ukraine. He is also currently the head denly last October and so the 23-year-old According to the local paper, Tolkunov said world champion Ruslan Ponomariov of coach of the Louisville Fencing Center in Tolkunov is doing what he can with a silent the eldest is a U.S. college student but the Ukraine came in fifth place at the 20th Kentucky and he coached the 1996 U.S. auction during his team’s Western remaining family members are struggling Linares Super GM Tournament in Spain paralympic team. Prior to coming to the Conference semifinal playoff series against to make ends meet and the auction is a way following the conclusion of play on March United States, Stawicki was the Polish the Houston Aeros. to help. 9. Out of the seven competitors, Russia’s national coach, guiding the saber team to a Vladimir Kramnik took first place and silver medal at the 1986 World Hungary’s Peter Leko took second place. Championships and a bronze at the 1976 India’s Viswanathan Anand took third World Championships. At the 1980 place. Olympics, his epee team won the silver Fencing medal. Soccer The Ukrainian Weekly recently learned that Ukrainians are involved in fencing at The Ukrainian Nationals soccer club the highest international levels, specifically, beat the Baltimore Colts 1-0 with a sudden- as members of the U.S. national fencing death overtime goal with three minutes team. Out of the team’s seven coaches, two remaining to play during U.S. Open Cup are from Ukraine while a third was born in competition on April 13. The Ukrainian Poland but studied at a fencing academy in club team, currently the Eastern Lviv. Pennsylvania regional champions, defeated “Ukrainian and other east European the Maryland State regional champions coaches have laid the foundation for many during the round of 16 play. The Ukrainian of U.S. fencing’s recent successes,” said squad then lost to Champions League win- Cindy Bent, a spokeswoman for the U.S. ner Vistula of New Jersey, on April 27, by a Fencing Association. score of 3-0. The game was played at the Simon Gershon, who currently lives in Ukrainian American Sport Center Brooklyn, N.Y., and is the U.S. national (Tryzubivka) in Horsham, Pa. The loss fencing team’s men’s foil head coach, eliminated the Ukrainian team from the was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. According to U.S. Open Cup. the U.S. team’s website, he was the Soviet Union’s men’s and women’s foil – compiled by Andrew Nynka No. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 23

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by Nicholas Fil ing to raise funds by making and selling WE CAN ACCOMMODATE ALL YOUR FINANCIAL NEEDS pyrohy, and soliciting extra donations WATERVLIET, N.Y. – St. Nicholas from parishioners. The committee also is MAIN OFFICE Ukrainian Catholic Church here is appealing to former parishioners and presently undergoing major renovations, Ukrainians at large to help raise the funds 215 Second Ave. (between 13th and 14th St.), New York, NY 10003 the entire roof, including six domes and necessary to pay for the project. Tel.: (212) 533-2980 • Fax: (212) 995-5204 six crosses, is being replaced. The domes A benefit dance, “Spring Zabava,” has BRANCHES and moulding will be made of copper and been planned for May 17 at the crosses will be covered with gold leaf. Ukrainian Club in Watervliet. The Zolota 35 Main St., So. Bound Brook, NJ 08880 The church is almost 97 years old and Bulava band from Montreal is donating Tel.: (732) 469-9085 • Fax: (732) 469-9165 is the largest church in the Capital its talents to help raise funds. Young 265 Washington Ave., Carteret, NJ 07008 District, that is the region around Albany, Ukrainians from the Northeast are being Tel.: (732) 802-0480 • Fax: (732) 802-0484 the capital of New York State. The proj- invited to come and enjoy the event. For ect should be finished by the end of the more information about donations and/or 1678 E 17th St., Brooklyn, NY 11229 year, but is very costly for a small com- the dance contact Nick Fil, (518)785- Tel.: (718) 376-5057 • Toll Free: 1(866) 857-2464 munity like Watervliet’s. Costs already 7596, or Roman Karpishka, (518)783- are over $600,000. 0560. e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.uofcu.org The church committee, which is head- The church website is located at Call toll free: 1-866-859-5848 ed by the Rev. Michael Myshchuk, is try- www.cerkva.com. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 No. 19 No. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 25

camp. Derzhavnyky place Ukrainian “Good news”... statehood above all else and see criticism (Continued from page 2) of the president as destabilization of this (the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists statehood. [OUN], and Ukrainian Insurgent Army Only three months after “Good News [UPA]), and steps taken by President from Ukraine” began to be issued, the Kuchma in honor of nationalist events or Ukrainian World Congress (UWC), led by historical figures. OUN-B member Askold Lozynskyj, issued Marco Levytsky, editor of Canada’s an appeal “To Ukrainian National Central largest Ukrainian newspaper, the biweekly Representations in the Diaspora.” This fol- Edmonton-based Ukrainian lowed debates on the pages of The News/Ukrainski Visti, finds it suspicious Ukrainian Weekly, North America’s largest that “Good News from Ukraine” is so English-language Ukrainian newspaper, heavily slated towards the news that the over how to respond to problems in Ukraine diaspora so wants to read. Mr. Levytsky and whether criticism merely worsened asks, “If the presidential administration Ukraine’s image. The debates included let- feels so favorably about OUN-UPA, why ters from Mr. Lozynskyj; former editor of don’t they rehabilitate them on the national New York’s OUN-B Natsionalna Trybuna level, and why don’t they send these stories newspaper, Ihor Dlaboha; a former head of to newspapers in eastern Ukraine, which is RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service, Roman where the most education about OUN-UPA Kupchinsky and others. is needed?” The UWC statement, dated March 3, “Good News from Ukraine” published a asked the diaspora organizations and media telegram dated March 13 and sent to the to “work towards a just and enlightened family of Yaroslava Stetsko, head of the treatment of Ukraine.” The UWC sees Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, who Ukraine as “collateral damage” after died the day before. Yet, neither President September 11, 2001, when the U.S. allowed Kuchma nor Prime Minister Viktor Russia to increase its influence over Yanukovych attended her funeral three Ukraine. The WCU has been a strong critic days later. of the “amoral” Bush administration in “Good News from Ukraine” is unlikely what it sees as its double standards towards to be used by editors from the younger Ukraine and in its Iraq policy. These views generation and those who edit non-party within the nationalist wing of the Ukrainian newspapers, such as Ukrainian diaspora reflect the suspicion that Russia is News/Ukrainski Visti. It will, however, be behind the Kuchmagate scandal. favorably received by newspapers linked In a similar pattern to recent claims of to OUN-B (Stepan Bandera) or OUN-M double standards by the presidential (Andriy Melnyk) and where editors administration, the UWC statement also belong to the older generation. This says, “Unfortunately, Ukraine has been reflects similar divisions in Ukraine that singled out as one of the most corrupt and have existed within the national-demo- abusive countries in the world,” while the cratic camp between nationalist West also has its fair share of similar prob- derzhavnyky (statists) and reformist anti- lems. With such a similar political culture, Communist oppositionists since 1992. “Good News from Ukraine” therefore, That division still plagues Viktor may be relatively more successful than Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine, preventing it what Tovarystvo Ukraina ever hoped to from fully moving into the opposition achieve. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 No. 19 UKEUKELLODEONODEON FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

Connecticut community’s children observe age-old traditions ANSONIA, Conn. – The children of this town in the Lower Naugatuck Valley in Connecticut – an area that locals refer to simply as “The Valley” – enjoyed observ- ing age-old Ukrainian traditions at Eastertime. On April 5 and 19 many attended pysanky-decorating classes at Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church. The classes were taught by a longtime local activist, Frank Stuban, who has taught the art of making Ukrainian Easter eggs for about 40 years, along with two assistants, Helen Stuban and Susan Monks. In the photo above, children in one of the classes are seen holding illus- trations showing how to make a pysanka. On Holy Saturday, in keeping with Ukrainian tradition, more than 500 Ukrainians who reside in Ansonia and other nearby towns along the Naugatuck River brought their Easter food baskets to Petro Pytaye asks: What did you wish your parents? be blessed by the Rev. Pawlo In an attempt to get more UKELODEON readers Martyniuk. involved and onto the pages of this special section for “the next generation,” our roving reporter, Petro Pytaye, is asking you to reply to the following ques- CHECK IT OUT: On tion in time for our next issue. pages 13-15 of this issue in the What did you wish your Mom on Mother’s Day, column called “Focus on and what will you wish your Dad on Father’s Day? Philately” (that’s the fancy Be creative! (Will it be blue skies with smiling term for stamp collecting), see clouds, a bright sun and a rainbow, as drawn by one all the beautiful postage young reader?) stamps released by Ukraine Send in your responses, along with your photo, during 2002 – all 66 of them. age, school and address, to: The Ukrainian Weekly, And, if you have a favorite, UKELODEON, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, vote for it! Parsippany, N.J., 07054.

Kids distribute Easter baskets

PARMA, Ohio – Over 25 Easter baskets were blessed on Saturday, April 26, for distribution by the parish youth to parishioners of St. Vladimir’s Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Parma, Ohio, who are in hospitals and nursing homes, as well as to shut-ins who are ill at home and have no family. The baskets, each of which contained paska, egg, sausage, candle and icon, along with greetings from the parish youth, are prepared annually by the parish youth commit- tee. Seen on the right: Father John Nakonachny, pastor of St. Vladimir’s, surrounded by the youths and their families, blesses the Easter baskets that were then delivered to the sick. No. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2003 27 St. John’s students conduct Mishanyna To solve this month’s Mishanyna – which focuses on the colorful blooms we food drive to help the needy see come springtime – please find the names of the flowers listed below. Just for fun, we’ve included in parentheses the names of these flowers in Ukrainian (written in English letters to help you pronounce their names).

anemone (anemona) lily of the valley (konvalia) aster (aistra) marigold (nahidky, chornobryvtsi) carnation (hvozdyky) pansy (bratky) crocus (krokus) poppy (mak) daffodil (nartsyz) primrose (pervotsvit) daylily (liliynyk) rose (troyanda) forget-me-not (nezabudka) sunflower (soniashnyk) geranium (peliargonia) tulip (tulipan) iris (kosaryky, irys) violet (fialka) larkspur (sokyrky) zinnia (mayortsi)

Z I N N I A N E M Y I N O R E O L A M Y R T L S E R U U E S Seventh graders with their teacher, Ms. Kornas, and some of the items they collected in their food drive to help the needy. P A N S A N T N I R I P D S U R O S S E R A V D I S A A U N by Tanya Bihuniak there were a lot of cans coming into I N T U L P I A L K F N Y C F and Bohdon Woch school! Mr. Muench and Mr. M E E U A O L G R F L E L O L NEWARK, N.J. – The students at Podberezniak will bring the food to St. John’s School started their annu- the sisters. The sisters feed 300 R O S E L P O A O O O M I R O al food drive on Thursday, March people a day and rely solely on O S E E A P L D D L O O L C W 20, to help The Missionaries of donations in food drives like this. Charity (Mother Theresa’s order). It was nice to help other people S I T U L Y I I I S D N Y O E People are hungry all over the who are not able to get out and buy E D U A U L O S S S L E O A R world, and somebody just had to do food. It’s not a big effort for us to something about this. But how? Our help others who don’t have food E E L A C A R N A T I O N R O school’s food drive involved the every day on the tables. This is a M U I N A R E G R O U P E R S kindergarten through Grade 8. very good example of how a small Each student was asked to bring school can help the less fortunate P A P T O N E M T E G R O F T canned food (pasta, soup, tuna, during this season of Lent. L I L I A N N A A S A R A T E etc.) to school for collection. The food drive is an annual event The seventh grade students and that our school organizes to give L I L Y O F T H E V A L L E Y their teacher, Ms. Kornas, were in back to those in need in the com- charge of this food drive. Overall, munity.

Tanya Bihuniak and Bohdon Woch at work in the third grade classroom at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic School.

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Thursday, May 15 held at 1 p.m. at Tryzubivka, County Line and Lower State roads. There will be Soyuzivka’s Datebook NEW YORK: A presentation titled music and dancing to the Karpaty “Bioterrorism: Actual Risks and Methods Orchestra of Philadelphia, as well as tradi- of Preparedness – From Research to tional Ukrainian food and standard picnic May 17, Saturday July 26, Saturday Vaccination,” will be held at the Ukrainian fare. In addition, the finals of the second Art Exhibit featuring artist Soyuzivka Summer Zabava with Institute of America, 2 E. 79th St., at 6-8 annual Ukrainian Nationals Invitational Marko Shuhan SVITANOK p.m. Among featured speakers are: Robert youth soccer tournament will be held on Rothberg, M.D., New York University; that day. Tournament play will start Friday Cathey Favlo, M.D., New York Medical evening (under the lights) and continues May 19-22 July 27, Sunday Berchtesgaden Gymnasium College; Veronique de Rugy, public health through Sunday, to be followed by an Summer Heritage Concert – No. 3 policy analyst; and Kimberly Kohlhausen, Reunion awards ceremony. Admission: $3; free Ph.D., bioethisist. The presentation will parking. August 1-3 focus on the areas of research parameters May 24, Saturday FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.: The Soyuzivka Sports Jamboree which isolate organisms from their labora- Memorial Day Weekend BBQ tory inception; identifying symptoms and Ukrainian Dancers of Miami present a and Zabava with LUNA Weekend. signs that indicate biological and chemical whirlwind afternoon of dance and song in Softball, Soccer, Volleyball and exposure (anthrax, smallpox, nerve agents, their 11th annual “A Ukrainian Montage” June 2-5 Hockey/Rollerblade etc.); the emergency preparedness plan for concert featuring the Ukrainian Dancers of Clergy Retreat, Stamford Tournaments hospitals; and a detailed examination of the Miami and the Maksymowicz Trio. The concert begins at 2 p.m. in the Amaturo Eparchy Music by Ihor Bachynskyj, options and risks associated with the pro- gram general population smallpox vaccina- Theater, Broward Center for the Barabolya and Ron Cahute Performing Arts, 201 SW Fifth Ave. June 8-13 tion. The lecture is jointly sponsored by New York Independent Women’s Alliance, Admission: $15. For tickets call The UNA Senior’s Week August 2, Saturday Ukrainian Institute of America and AutoNation Box Office, (954) 462-0222, Soyuzivka Summer Zabava with Ukrainian Engineers’ Society of America. or visit www.browardcenter.org. June 15, Sunday BURYA Admission for members is free; pre-regis- Father’s Day & Kick-off tration, non-members: $15; at the door, Monday, June 2 of the Summer Heritage Concert $20. RSVP to: IWA of [email protected]; for STANFORD, Calif.: Adrian Karatnycky, Series August 3-8 more information call (212) 882-4994. Soyuzivka Scuba Diving Course counselor and senior scholar at Freedom Saturday, May 17 House, will speak on the topic “Ukraine June 21-July 3 After Kuchma: Political Contestation and Tennis Camp August 9, Saturday ALBANY, N.Y.: A “Spring Zabava,” with Democratic Reform.” The lecture – the Soyuzivka Summer Zabava with music by the Zolota Bulava band from last of seven distinguished lectures in the June 22-29 NA ZDOROVYA. Montreal is being sponsored by St. series titled “Ukraine: Emerging Nation” Day Camp, Tabir Ptashat No. 1 Art Exhibit with Ducia Hanu- Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in sponsored by the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford shevsky; Ceramics and the Watervliet, N.Y., located just outside June 28, Saturday Albany. All profits will benefit the church University – will be held at Hartley paintings of Anatolij Burtovyj. restoration fund. The dance will be held Conference Center, at 4:15 p.m. For addi- Soyuzivka Summer Zabava with tional information log on to VIDLUNNIA Saturday at the Ukrainian American August 10-17 Citizens Club in Watervliet, 402 25th. St., http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CREES/ Club Suzy-Q Week at 8 p.m.-1 a.m. In addition, the Friday UkrainianStudies.html, or call the center, June 29-July 6 prior to the dance is Pub Night. For tickets (650) 723-3562. Day Camp, Tabir Ptashat No. 2 ($20) and more information, call Roman August 10-23 Friday, June 6 Karpishka, (518) 573-3705, or Nick Fil, Traditional Ukrainian Folk July 4-6 (518) 785-7596. NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Institute of Fourth of July Weekend and Dance Camp with Roma Sunday, May 18 America, together with the Ukrainian Zabavy with MONTAGE and Pryma Bohachevsky Medical Association of North America, TEMPO. OLD TOWN ALEXANDRIA, Va.: Ukrainian American Professional and Music with Phili Funk Jazz August 16, Saturday Pianist Lydia Artymiw performs works by Businesspersons’Association of New York Ensemble. Miss Soyuzivka Weekend and Beethoven, Brahms, Lysenko and and New Jersey and the Ukrainian Schumann at The Lyceum, 201 S. Engineers’ Society of America, invite the Zabava with Ukrainian community to a special dinner July 6, Sunday FATA MORGANA Washington St., at 3 p.m. Suggested dona- Summer Heritage Concert No. 2 tion: $15; students, free. A reception for yacht cruise along the Hudson River. the artist will follow the program. The Enjoy the spectacular New York City sky- August 17, Sunday concert is presented by The Washington line and the sounds of Dixieland jazz. A July 6- 19 sneak preview of fashion designs from Boy’s and Girl’s Recreational Summer Heritage Concert – No. 4 Group Cultural Fund under the patronage of the Embassy of Ukraine, as part of their Ukraine will also be featured. The ship Camp Horizon is docked at the Lincoln Harbor August 23, Saturday 2002-2003 music series. For more infor- mation contact Laryssa Courtney, (202) Marina in Weehawken, N.J. Boarding July 12, Saturday Ukrainian Independence Cele- 363-3964. begins at 7 p.m., with departure promptly Soyuzivka Summer Zabava bration – Dance Camp Recital at 8 p.m. Make reservations early, as space and Zabava with VORONY Sunday, May 25 is limited. Tickets, at $125, cover appetiz- July 13- 18 ers, dinner and entertainment. For reserva- Chemney Camp, Session No. 1 HORSHAM, Pa.: The Tryzub Ukrainian tions and additional information, call August 25- September 1 American Sport Center is holding its Zenia Brozyna, (201)-935-6233. Proceeds Labor Day Week annual Memorial Day picnic-dance to be to benefit the UIA Building Fund. July 19, Saturday Soyuzivka Summer Zabava with August 30- 31 VORONY Labor Day Weekend – Zabavas July 20-25 with FATA MORGANA and Chemney Camp, Session No. 2 TEMPO. WHAT? 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