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Vol. LXIX No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 $1/$2 in Ukraine HE KRAINIANKyiv ready for historic visit of EEKLYPope John Paul II BushT says new EuropeU W by Roman Woronowycz will inhibit the access of the masses to the charismatic must include Ukraine Kyiv Press Bureau pontiff. WARSAW – During his first official visit to Europe, Papal visit organizers were particularly peeved that KYIV – As the first of several million pilgrims began President George W. Bush called on June 15 for an end to the first busload of pilgrims into Kyiv, those from trickling into Ukraine on June 21 for the first visit to this talk of East and West, and for an “open Europe” without Belarus, were stopped and harassed in Kyiv by state country by Pope John Paul II, thousands of Orthodox “false lines.” He also underlined during a major speech in militia after they first entered the city limits. faithful who are opposed to it again demonstrated peace- the capital of Poland that “The Europe we are building must “In the entire world, law enforcement and security include Ukraine.” fully in Kyiv to protest his intrusion into the affairs of agencies implement their functions to help people meet A press release from the U.S. Department of States what they consider an “Orthodox country.” with the holy father, but in Ukraine they understand it in reported that addressing faculty and students at Warsaw The holy father was expected to land in Kyiv at about a different way,” said Roman Catholic Bishop Stanyslav University, President Bush urged that all of Europe’s new noontime on June 23 for a five-day visit – the 94th for- Shyrokoraiduk, one of the organizers of the papal visit democracies, “from the Baltic to the Black Sea and all that eign trip of his pontificate. He will also travel to Lviv, here. lie between, should have the same chance for security and the center of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church During a press conference on June 19, Minister of freedom – and the same chance to join the institutions of (UGCC), an Eastern rite Church of nearly 5 million Foreign Affairs Anatolii Zlenko, who heads the official Europe – as Europe’s old democracies have.” faithful, which has been in communion with Rome for organizing committee preparing for the papal visit, said “I believe in NATO membership for all of Europe’s more than 500 years. he had heard the complaints and that they were being democracies that seek it and are ready to share the responsi- Some 500,000 are expected at the two liturgies Pope addressed. bilities that NATO brings,” he continued. “The question of John Paul II will lead in Kyiv, while up to 2 million “We understand the problems with the law enforcement ‘when’ may still be up for debate within NATO; the ques- could be on hand at similar services in Lviv. agencies and have addressed them,” said Mr. Zlenko. tion of ‘whether’ should not be. As we plan to enlarge Law enforcement agencies have said they will imple- He also said he had received assurances from the lead- NATO, no nation should be used as a pawn in the agendas ment strict security measures during the visit of the leader ership of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow of others. We will not trade away the fate of free European of the Catholic Church due to concerns about violence Patriarchate (UOC-MP), which is associated with the peoples.” and terrorism in connection with the protests that have Russian Orthodox Church and has vigorously protested When NATO leaders gather for the Prague Summit in been staged and individual threats that have been issued. the papal visit, that there would not be any organized 2002, Mr. Bush said, “The United States will be prepared to “To avoid mass disorder we intend to stop any prob- protests during the pope’s stay in Kyiv. make concrete, historic decisions with its allies to advance lems before they start,” said Vice Minister of Internal Ukraine’s foreign affairs minister emphasized once NATO enlargement.” Affairs Oleksander Kharlamov on June 19. “So, we are again that because the papal trip is the result of an offi- gathering information from Interpol and cooperating (Continued on page 4) cial invitation from the Ukrainian head of state to the with the Security Service and border guards to block Vatican head of state, religious leaders had no reason to these people from coming into our country,” he added. feel threatened. Just to be safe, however, Ukrainian law enforcement Mr. Zlenko said that for Ukraine it would be one of the Communist-led lawmakers officials will have 30,000 officers present on the streets major events of the last decade and a “strong signal in of Kyiv during the pope’s three-day stay in this city. support of the politics that Ukraine began 10 years ago.” Other security precautions, including an order that all He added that the papal visit is in the national self- fail to remove Rada leaders windows along the route Pope John Paul II will take on interest of Ukraine and would considerably firm up his tour of the city center remain closed and that resi- by Roman Woronowycz Ukraine’s commitment to European integration in the dents refrain from greeting the pope from their balconies eyes of the world. Kyiv Press Bureau and tossing flowers onto the street, have led Catholic KYIV – An effort to remove the leadership of Ukraine’s Church officials to complain that the protective measures (Continued on page 3) Parliament sputtered on June 19 when it failed to gain a majority of votes to put the issue on the parliamentary agenda. After the coordinating council of the Verkhovna Rada agreed to place the issue before the entire body, only 146 lawmakers supported the initiative during the floor vote to remove Verkhovna Rada Chairman Ivan Pliusch, 185 to oust First Vice-Chairman Viktor Medvedchuk and 144 to get rid of Vice-Chairman Stefan Havrysh. The proposal to do away with the ruling troika came after the Communist faction earlier this year had gathered the signatures of more than 150 national deputies – the min- imum required to consider the issue for debate within the assembly. The initiative came from a petition-gathering effort that began late this past winter at the height of the political crisis that engulfed Kyiv as a result of the tape scandal surround- ing the disappearance of the young journalist Heorhii Gongadze. But the main objective of the Communist Party was to remove those parliamentary leaders who last year had successfully ousted the prior chairman, Oleksander Tkachenko, an Agrarian Party member who has since joined the Communist faction. Mr. Symonenko said that though his faction had decided to delay the initiative while the Gongadze affair raged, it was now well more than a year since the Tkachenko leader- ship was removed in an illegal “parliamentary putsch” and time for the current Verkhovna Rada leadership to defend its work. Efrem Lukatsky “Let them now account for their work during this time, let them show that this leadership improved the work of the Priests, monks and laypersons of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate carry religious ban- ners during a protest against Pope John Paul II’s upcoming visit to Ukraine. Approximately 3,000 participated (Continued on page 4) in the demonstration in Kyiv on June 21. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 No. 25

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Soviet regime’s deportation of Balts Vitrenko’s attackers are sentenced chosen our union – it is the European Union.” (RFE/RL Newsline) DNIPROPETROVSK – The continues to resonate 60 years later Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Court on June 14 Ukraine reports 9 percent GDP growth by Paul Goble to insist that the inclusion of the Baltic sentenced two brothers, Serhii and RFE/RL Newsline countries into the Soviet Union was a vol- Volodymyr Ivanchenko, as well as Andrei KYIV – The State Statistics Committee untary event and that Moscow bears no Samoilov to 15 years in prison each for said Ukraine’s GDP in January-May Sixty years ago last week, Soviet forces responsibility for what happened there in organizing and carrying out a grenade increased by 9 percent, compared with the began rounding up and deporting tens of 1940 and afterwards. Even more, many attack on presidential candidate Natalia same period last year, Interfax reported on thousands of Estonians, Latvians and Russian commentators argue that the Baltic Vitrenko on October 2, 1999, Interfax June 15. The committee said the fastest Lithuanians from their homelands, an event countries should be grateful that the Soviet reported. The court found Serhii growth was registered in the manufacturing that continues to resonate in all three Baltic Union took them in because it helped pro- Ivanchenko guilty of organizing the attack, industry (24.1 percent), wholesale and retail countries, in the Russian federation, and in tect them against the Nazis. while Volodymyr Ivanchenko and Andrei trade (12.5 percent), construction (9.9 per- the West as well. But there are serious problems with each Samoilov were found guilty of throwing cent), agriculture and forestry (5 percent) Carried out as the attention of the world of these claims. Stalin absorbed the Baltic two RGD-5 grenades into a crowd and and extraction of natural resources (4.8 per- was riveted on the imminent fall of Paris to countries in 1940 after he and Hitler divided injuring some 40 people, including Ms. cent). (RFE/RL Newsline) German forces, the deportation of men, Vitrenko. According to the court, the per- up Eastern Europe via the Molotov- World Bank to lend Ukraine $350 M? women and children from the Baltic coun- Ribbentrop Pact. It is true that the Baltic petrators’ motive for the attack was to tries occupied by Moscow a year earlier governments did not order armed resistance “help” Socialist Party leader Oleksander KYIV – Luca Barbone, the World destroyed much of the social fabric of these Moroz in his election campaign. (RFE/RL to the Soviet occupation that followed, but Bank’s director for Ukraine and Belarus, countries. only because they believed that such resist- Newsline) Many of those deported never returned. said in Kyiv on June 14 that the bank may ance would be both bloody and futile. Kasianov, Kinakh to expand cooperation give a $250 million tranche out of a $750 And their places in society and the econo- And the Soviet occupation of the Baltic my either remained vacant or were assumed million loan to Ukraine by the end of this countries did little or nothing to slow the ST. PETERSBURG – At a meeting in by pro-Communist groups or by non- year if all disagreements over the reform of Nazi advance through them and into the St. Petersburg on June 13, Prime Minister indigenous people brought in by the Soviet the country’s largest bank Ukraina are Soviet Union itself in 1941. If anything, the Mikhail Kasianov agreed with Ukrainian authorities to solidify Moscow’s control of solved, the Associated Press reported. Mr. disorder that the Soviet occupation created Prime Minister Anatolii Kinakh to restart Barbone added that the bank also intends to the three countries. meant that some in these three countries ini- the work of a permanent intergovernmental More than that, however, the deportation conclude in December its work on granting tially viewed the Germans as liberators commission that will deal with a large num- a $100 million loan to help Ukraine issue defined the way Estonians, Latvians and rather than as invaders. That reality too con- ber of outstanding issues, ITAR-TASS Lithuanians viewed and continue to view some 6.5 million land-ownership certifi- tinues to color how citizens of both the reported. For his part, Mr. Kinakh said the cates to farmers. (RFE/RL Newsline) Moscow. Baltic countries and Russia view these two sides should be more serious in imple- The deportations convinced residents of events. menting agreements already signed, EU chief urges Kyiv to respect freedoms the Baltic states that the Soviet Union could But it is another Russian argument aris- Interfax-Northwest reported. (RFE/RL not be trusted and that they must seek not ing from these events of long ago that is Newsline) KYIV – Swedish Prime Minister Goeran only to escape from Soviet occupation, but perhaps the most troubling. The Russian Persson, who simultaneously presides over to seek security guarantees from the West to government continues to insist that Estonia, Kuchma blasts blockers of integration ... the European Union, said in Kyiv on June prevent any new threat from Moscow. 20 that Ukraine will have to guarantee press Latvia and Lithuania were legitimately part BRATISLAVA – President Leonid Over the past month, Estonian President of the Soviet Union and that, as a result, the freedoms and other democratic standards if Lennart Meri, who as a 12-year-old was Kuchma said in the Slovak capital on June it wants closer ties with the West, the West must not consider including them in 13 that the Ukrainian Parliament is hamper- among the deportees in 1941, has been vis- NATO. Associated Press reported. “We want to iting survivors of the deportation around his ing the country’s advance toward the That insistence represents a challenge to have growing cooperation and partnership country. Last week, Latvia hosted an inter- European Union, Interfax reported. Mr. the Baltic countries, which are convinced with Ukraine,” Mr. Persson noted, adding national conference on the deportations – a Kuchma praised cooperation between the that they need the guarantees of member- that the EU wants to stimulate its potential conference that identified this Soviet action Slovak legislative and executive branches, ship, and to the West, most of whose gov- future members – Poland, the Czech as “a crime against humanity.” And adding that Bratislava has achieved greater ernments never recognized the forcible Republic, Hungary and Slovakia – to deep- Lithuanians, too, have remembered the progress in European Union membership inclusion of the Baltic states into the Soviet en cooperation with Ukraine. (RFE/RL deportation this year, just as they have on talks than some countries that launched Union as legitimate. Indeed, these govern- Newsline) all past anniversaries. such talks much earlier. He said current ments maintained ties with the diplomats of And all three countries have set up relations between Ukraine’s Parliament and the last pre-occupation governments right national and international commissions to government are “not completely lamenta- up until the three Baltic countries fully examine these events, to ferret out the infor- ble, but close to that.” He expressed hope recovered their independence in 1991. mation that the Soviet authorities sought for that the Verkhovna Rada to be elected in Quotable notes The commemoration of the 60th so long to conceal. 2002 will implement the results of the 2000 “We don’t want him [Pope John anniversary of the deportations coincides Nonetheless, the Russian government as constitutional referendum, thus improving Paul II] to come here and proselytize, with an upsurge of Baltic efforts to be the successor to the Soviet state continues the current model of cooperation between to be a missionary. What do we need among the next new members of the the legislative and executive branches in that for? His program is like a night- Paul Goble is the publisher of RFE/RL Western alliance, a coincidence that makes Ukraine. (RFE/RL Newsline) mare for us. If an enemy comes to Newsline. their political impact now far greater than you, are you going to keep quiet? And would otherwise have been the case. ... says no to Russia-Belarus union he is an enemy of man’s souls.” BRATISLAVA – In an interview pub- – Father Gerontii, a priest at the lished in the Slovak daily Pravda on June Pecherska Lavra Monastery in Kyiv, 12, President Leonid Kuchma said Ukraine which is controlled by the Ukrainian Chernomyrdin speaks on allegations of gas diversion will not join the Russia-Belarus Union. Orthodox Church – Moscow by Michael Lelyveld The state-owned gas company Naftohaz “Joining this union is ruled out. It is impos- Patriarchate, as quoted on June 19 by RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report Ukrainy followed with a more qualified sible. We have won our independence not RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine statement, saying that it has not allowed Viktor Chernomyrdin, Moscow’s new for losing it [voluntarily],” Mr. Kuchma Report. any siphoning since last June and that none told the newspaper. He added: “We have envoy to Ukraine, has defended the country took place during last winter’s heating sea- against charges that it is diverting Russian son. gas. 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Mr. Kuchma also glossed over an inci- dent in January, when Ukrainian power Postmaster, send address changes to: Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz Last week, Interfax reported that The Ukrainian Weekly Editors: Roman Woronowycz (Kyiv) Ukrainian President Kuchma reacted angri- companies admitted taking Russian gas rather than submitting to a complete cutoff 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280 Ika Koznarska Casanova ly to the charge, saying, “Ukraine has not Parsippany, NJ 07054 violated the gas delivery terms a single by Gazprom’s trading partner Itera. time.” The various versions make it hard to tell The Ukrainian Weekly Archive: www.ukrweekly.com who speaks with authority about a problem that has roiled relations between the two The Ukrainian Weekly, June 24, 2001, No. 25, Vol. LXIX Michael Lelyveld is an RFE/RL corre- Copyright © 2001 The Ukrainian Weekly spondent. (Continued on page 19) No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 3

Lviv parish prepares Metropolitan’s Palace in Lviv renovated for papal visit by Zenon Zawada over 16 hours daily, and even Sundays when the church Special to The Ukrainian Weekly permitted. to welcome pontiff “These types of projects require a year, at a mini- by Zenon Zawada LVIV – It was at the crosshairs of two world wars mum,” Mr. Prokopovych said. “But we recognized its Special to The Ukrainian Weekly and survived the atheistic, overtly anti-Catholic, Soviet serious nature and responsibility. We’ve demonstrated LVIV – Its brick-red walls are unfinished, and the edges regime. Yet for 130 years, St. George’s Cathedral never that Ukrainians know how to work.” are rough. Much of the church’s surrounding field hasn’t underwent renovation. Until, of course, the Vatican The Metropolitan’s Palace, the residence of Major yet been sown with seedlings. Inside, parishioners mustered announced that Pope John Paul II would spend two Archbishop Lubomyr Husar, is now fitted with modern a makeshift altar for the pope’s upcoming historic visit. nights there. electric, heating and plumbing systems. Despite the lack of grandeur, the Vatican selected the To prepare for the pope’s historic visit, the Ukrainian For the first time it has two elevators, specifically Nativity of the Theotokos (Mother of God) Ukrainian government invested about $1.5 million to improve the installed to address the pope’s needs. Greek-Catholic Church in Lviv’s Sykhiv as one of only two Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Cathedral’s exterior and com- The pope will stay in a three-room wing on the sites where pope John Paul II will address the public in pletely renovate the Metropolitan’s Palace, where the palace’s first floor. Windows from his chambers, which Lviv, the center of Ukrainian Catholicism. pope and his entourage will reside. include a bedroom and study, will offer a beautiful view “I think that for the holy father, it wasn’t about the best “The most important thing was to demonstrate that of Lviv’s center, Mr. Prokopovych said. site or the nicest stone walls, but (historically) significant this palace is an appropriate residence for the Church’s During his stay at St. George’s, Pope John Paul II and vibrant people,” said the Rev. Orest Fredyna, 38, the leader and important guests of our cardinal,” said will enjoy European soups with a domestic, Ukrainian pastor at the church. Mykola Prokopovych, chief architect of the renova- flavor, said the Rev. Ivan Kravchiv, who is preparing the The Nativity Parish was formed 10 years ago, and con- tion. palace for the pope. struction of the church began six years ago. The church Ukrainian construction companies performed the ren- As a gift, St. George will present the pope with an relies entirely on its 4,000-member parish for funding, the ovation in just three months, with several shifts rotating icon of Our Lady of Vyshhorod. reason for the slow progress. The average wage of a parishioner is about $30 a month. “It’s not wealthy people or foundations who built this,” papal visit both in Ukraine and across the globe. the Rev. Fredyna said. “The parish members built all this Kyiv ready for historic visit... In the most recent such demonstrations, about 3,000 together. To me, it’s another example that Ukrainians have (Continued from page 1) UOC-MP supporters protested on the streets of Kyiv on an innate spirit of God,” he added. Pope John Paul II and other Church leaders, while not June 21 carrying placards proclaiming, “The pope is per- The Nativity Parish is in many ways symbolic of denying the aims as expressed by Mr. Zlenko, have put sona non-grata,” “The pope is the forerunner of the anti- Catholicism in Ukraine, the Rev. Fredyna said. After more the emphasis elsewhere. Christ” and “Orthodoxy or death.” than a half-century of persecution under the Soviet Union, Speaking on June 20 at his weekly general audience, The mix of UOC-MP priests, nuns, monks and faithful the Ukrainian Catholic Church is enjoying a rebirth and the holy father said the visit is the fulfillment of “a wish began their march by holding a prayer service before the growth in western Ukraine, largely led by young priests, that I have carried in my heart for a long time.” Uspenskyi Sobor (Assumption Cathedral) on the grounds nuns and parishioners. “My objective is to confirm the faith of our brothers of the Pecherska Lavra (Monastery of the Caves), which But like the Nativity Church’s construction, progress has and sisters of the Catholic community and also to pro- is considered a prime Ukrainian Orthodox shrine, before been slow because of the country’s economic woes. mote the ecumenical commitment and obedience to the moving through the center of the city. They also made a Ukrainian Catholics view the pope’s visit as a valuable spir- work of Christ,” said Pope John Paul II, according to a stop at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv to protest what they itual boost. UGCC press release. believe was U.S. involvement in bringing the pope to “Without a doubt, this is a good opportunity for every Ukraine, done to further destabilize the situation in the person to think about who is this pope, a man greeted by Cardinal and Archbishop Mayor Lubomyr Husar, head of the UGCC, told journalists on June 15 that he country, they believe. millions of people,” said Vasyl Bilash, president of St. “The pope is an intruder and nobody waits for him Sophia’s Youth Catholic Center in Lviv. believes the pope in his sermons would accent the need for a moral basis in life and for Christian unity. here,” said Tamara Mishkova, one of the protesters. At Nativity of Mary, parishioners have been volunteer- This was the fourth and largest protest by UOC-MP ing any free time they have had in the past several months He explained that the highlight of the papal visit faithful in the last month. Previous protests had averaged to prepare their church for the papal visit. would be the beatification of 27 UGCC martyrs for the about 1,000 individuals. While studying for final exams, students have set aside faith, which would take place during the pope’s final hours to prepare Christian hymns and even set up a website liturgical service on June 27 in Lviv. During that liturgy The leaders of the UOC-MP and the Russian Orthodox for their church: www.hBohorodytci.lviv.ua. the holy father will elevate 27 priests, nuns and layper- Church have met the pope’s message of Christian unity In the meantime, women have been weaving wreaths in sons of the UGCC, as well as one Roman Catholic priest, with outright disdain. ROC Patriarch Aleksei II has said the cool concrete chambers of the church’s basement. The who died under Nazi or Communist oppression often tor- that the visit will worsen relations between his Moscow traditional Ukrainian wreaths will decorate the entire scene tuously, to a rank just below sainthood. Church and the Vatican and the ecumenical movement when the pontiff addresses a youth rally of 250,000 people Cardinal Husar, when asked how the protest by the both Churches have pursued for several decades. at the pine altar on June 26. “I’m doing this for the Church UOC-MP had affected the papal visit, called the actions On June 20 a representative of the UOC-MP said, and for my soul,” said Ira Rozhyk, 60, who spent almost “a large favor” and “free advertising.” “We do not need Catholicizers, we can take care of the every day weaving wreaths for the past several weeks. “They are letting our message be heard,” explained spiritual needs of the Ukrainian people ourselves.” At Nativity Church, the pope will be greeted by children Cardinal Husar. “Although they would probably like for Plans call for the pope to meet with the leaders of all dressed in traditional costumes and will address young this to end negatively, they have done us a colossal favor the faiths represented in Ukraine at a meeting of the All- members of religious and scouting organizations. To pre- with their protests.” Ukrainian Council of Religions. The UOC-MP said that pare for the rally, about 300 of Lviv’s youth gathered at a The head of the UGCC said that without the public neither its leader, Metropolitan Volodymyr Sabodan, nor nearby theater after liturgy and held a “Youth and the Pope” outcries there would have been less publicity given to the ROC Patriarch Aleksei II would attend. conference. They learned the pope’s biography and accomplishments and sang Christian hymns and songs written in honor of the pope’s visit. They also drafted a resolution declaring that Ukraine is in a deep spiritual and moral crisis, and that the pope’s visit signals a brighter day full of hope. “Our goal is to be ready in our spiritual plans and to have a joyful outlook,” said Mariana Drushliakivska, 22, a con- ference organizer. “We also invited our Orthodox brothers because we live in one country, and we want people to posi- tively welcome this.” Just a few kilometers south of the Nativity Church, the HalBud construction company has been building the papal altar at Lviv’s Hippodrome, a massive, horse-racing track where Pope John Paul II will officiate at a Latin-rite mass on June 26 and a divine liturgy in the Byzantine rite the next morning. Construction of the modest, 450-meter altar began only in early May, said HalBud’s president, Oleksii Lutsiv. He doesn’t know why construction began so late, but noted that his workers have been pulling 15-hour days for six days a week to finish the altar in time. Such enthusiasm may be needed to accommodate the 2 million to 5 million visitors expected here during the pope’s two-day visit, the biggest event in Lviv since Ukraine’s independence in 1991. Organizers will have to provide transportation, security and toilets for the huge crowds. Cars will be forbidden within five kilometers of Nativity Church and the Hippodrome. As a result, the city will shut all trolleybus and tram service because electric circuitry doesn’t allow for individual portions of electric networks to shut down. The government will provide mini-buses and The stage on which Pope John Paul II will celebrate divine liturgy during his visit to Kyiv on June 23-25. The design trains, said Mykola Fredyna, a member of the coordinating was developed by the design company FilmPlus and Kyiv architect Andrii Moroz. According to the Ukrainian committee for the visit. Greek-Catholic press service, the ship represents the Church as it moves forward amidst the stormy seas of life. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 No. 25 Ukraine taps Pohoreltzev as new consul general for New York by Andrew Nynka the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv and lastly in the visa policy and information section of the consular department NEW YORK – Ukraine has appointed acting Consul of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv. General Serhiy Pohoreltzev to the position of consul general Mr. Pohoreltzev is confident that the consular offices will for New York. Consul Pohoreltzev emphasized during a be able to help Ukrainian citizens and diaspora Ukrainians June 14 meeting with the Ukrainian press that his main with their needs, citing his staff of five diplomats and nine focus will be on “the realization of Ukraine’s foreign policy administrative agents who serve there. “We will work to and political course as dictated by the president of Ukraine the maximum of our abilities to do what we need in helping and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.” “We will work toward expanding economic interests, those who come here with problems,” he explained. humanitarian ties, sports and tourist issues, along with the Since being based in New York, Mr. Pohoreltzev work we’re doing with the American diaspora,” elaborated addressed the issue of The Cooper Union’s plans to demap Consul Pohoreltzev. Taras Shevchenko Place saying: “We are not against putting Ukraine’s Consulate General in New York, located at in a park or public space, but the name of Taras Shevchenko 240 E. 49th St., will keep in contact with the Ukrainian Place must stay. We’ve mentioned this to Kyiv and they community both in Ukraine and here in the United States, stand behind us 100 percent.” keep the American public aware of issues relating to The consul general added that his office has been dis- Ukraine, deal with documentation issues regarding visas for cussing the matter with New York City mayor Rudolph travel to Ukraine, as well as support Ukrainian citizens here Giuliani and said he has officially “pressed the issue.” in the United States, Mr. Pohoreltzev said. “We are very interested in keeping touch with the various Since December 1999 until his appointment as consul diaspora media outlets, and we intend to use them to the general on April 6, the 36-year-old Kyiv-born Mr. best of our abilities in order to keep the public informed of Pohoreltzev had been the acting Consul General. what we’re doing,” said Mr. Pohoreltzev. From 1992 until 1999 Mr. Pohoreltzev served with The consul general stressed that he is appreciative of the Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the chief of the strong foundation of Ukrainian heritage in the United States Andrew Nynka consular division at the Embassy of Ukraine in Argentina, and feels comfortable working with the diaspora in order to Consul General Serhiy Pohoreltzev then as the first secretary of the personnel department for achieve the goals of the Consulate.

with Russian President Vladimir Putin in political forces that want to change either Bush says... Slovenia June 16, he would stress that Communist-led... the entire administration of the Verkhovna (Continued from page 1) “Russia is part of Europe and, therefore, (Continued from page 1) Rada or at least replace some of it with their The promise of NATO enlargement does not need a buffer zone of insecure Verkhovna Rada,” said Mr. Symonenko. people,” said a seemingly untroubled Mr. “now leads eastward and southward, north- states separating it from Europe. NATO, In February 2000, a majority coalition of Medvedchuk, today considered the most powerful person in the Parliament and the ward and onward,” he said. “I want to thank even as it grows, is no enemy of Russia. centrist and democratic factions forced the prime target of the leftist forces. Poland for acting as a bridge to the new Poland is no enemy of Russia. America is removal of the leftist parliamentary leader- National Deputy Oleksander Volkov, democracies of Europe, and a champion of no enemy of Russia.” ship that had blocked legislation aimed at another power broker in the legislative body the interests and security of your neighbors, President Bush said he would also reiter- economic and democratic reform and who heads the Democratic Union faction, such as the Baltic states, Ukraine, Slovakia. ate to the Russian president his belief that replaced it with its own members. put the effort by the Communists in more You are making real the words: ‘For your “the basis for our mutual security must A year later, during February and March blunt terms, explaining that the political freedom and ours.’ ” move beyond Cold War doctrines,” and that of this year, Communists in Parliament right, in failing to support the initiative, sim- “The Europe we are building must “we must have a broad strategy of active began gathering signatures to oust the new ply used good political reasoning. include Ukraine, a nation struggling with non-proliferation; counter-proliferation; and leadership. The faction obtained the support a new concept of deterrence that includes of most of the Left Center (Socialist), “I see this as no more than an attempt to the trauma of transition. Some in Kyiv cause controversy on the part of the left. defenses sufficient to protect our people, Batkivschyna and Yabluko factions, as well speak of their country’s European destiny. If The right had the good sense of mind to see our forces, and our allies; as well as reduced as some lawmakers from the Ukrainian this is their aspiration, we should reward it. this was not for the good of Ukraine,” said reliance on nuclear weapons.” National Rukh and Progressive Socialist We must extend our hand to Ukraine, as Mr. Volkov. Poland has already done with such determi- “And, finally, I’ll make clear to President factions, which amounted to 154 names. nation,” President Bush noted. Putin that the path to greater prosperity and However, as became obvious later, the sup- Calling for a Europe that is “open” to greater security lies in greater freedom,” Mr. port that the Batkivschyna, UNR and Russia, Mr. Bush said that in his meeting Bush said. Yabluko factions extended to the effort was FOR THE RECORD: a result of the political turmoil of “Tapegate.” U.S.-EU statement on Ukraine The Ukrainian Weekly announces a special section By the time Mr. Symonenko introduced President George W. Bush and European the measure, the political environment in Union leaders, meeting June 14 in Congratulations,Congratulations, Graduates!Graduates! Kyiv had changed: the Gongadze affair and Goteborg, Sweden, issued a joint statement Tapegate had lost political steam, and the to reaffirm their historic partnership and Every year tens of thousands of students throughout North America Communists successfully had led the ouster shared values. The leaders declared support receive undergraduate and graduate degrees at colleges of Prime Minister Viktor Yuschenko, the for an independent Ukraine with close ties and universities, cresting a pinnacle of personal achievement. And then darling of the right. There was little doubt to the trans-Atlantic community. Following there are those who graduate high school or complete the “matura” in that the UNR and Yabluko would not con- are excerpts provided by the Public Affairs our schools of Ukrainian studies. tinue to support the matter. Section of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. Mykhailo Brodsky, leader of the Yabluko In The Ukrainian Weekly’s special section – Congratulations, Graduates! Party, said that the Communists had utilized “ ... The U.S. and EU strongly support an – readers of The Ukrainian Weekly can place a note congratulating fam- the signatures illegally by presenting them independent, sovereign Ukraine with close ily members and dear friends on their recent achievements. 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Chicago Convention Committee STAFF PROFILE: Deanna Yurchuk prepares for UNA conclave in 2002 of The Ukrainian Weekly team CHICAGO – The 2002 UNA wonderful place to be.” PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Readers of The Though she enjoys journalism, Ms. Convention Committee in Chicago is up The convention committee is headed Ukrainian Weekly may have noticed a Yurchuk’s primary interest is in experi- and running. by Myron B. Kuropas, honorary member new byline on the pages of our newspa- ential education, to which she has devot- “We plan to make this the best conven- of the UNA General Assembly, and per. Deanna Yurchuk, who majored in ed a considerable amount of time as a tion ever, “ stated Stefko Kuropas, UNA includes UNA Advisor Andrij Skyba, journalism and English at Rutgers counselor and instructor with the Plast Chicago District Committee chairman and vice-chairman; Osyp Panczyszyn. University in New Brunswick, N.J., has Ukrainian Scouting Organization. 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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T U W interfere with the people’s right to prac- A repudiation of Yalta tice religious beliefs of their own choos- Faithful have right ing. And that includes greeting their spir- itual leader, the pope of Rome, on his In a groundbreaking speech in Warsaw on June 15, President George W. Bush to greet pontiff visit to Ukraine. spoke unequivocally of “an open Europe,” and a NATO stretching from the Dear Editor: Atlantic to the borders of Russia. He delineated the center of the new Europe as Ihor Lysyj On the eve of Pope John Paul II’s visit Austin, Texas Poland and urged expanding the Atlantic Alliance into the countries of Eastern to Ukraine there has been a lot in the Europe that are not yet its members. Most emphatically he stated: “it is time to national and international press about put talk of East and West behind us.” Ukraine being an “Orthodox” country The U.S. president’s speech – his most significant to date about the U.S.- and the pope having no right to visit Not all Orthodox Europe relationship – strongly repudiated the decisions of Yalta, the infamous without permission from the Moscow conference in 1945 at which the three remaining world powers, the United patriarch. The originators of this media against papal visit States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union, carved up the world into spheres of spin are the Russian Orthodox Church, Dear Editor: influence and thus determined the political order of Europe. As a result of Yalta, part of which is masquerading as the As a Ukrainian American conservative Eastern Europe was Sovietized and the Cold War began. All of Ukraine’s lands Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow Republican, I generally enjoy Dr. Myron wound up in the Soviet sphere. Patriarchate, and the Russian govern- Kuropas’ column, particularly when he “Yalta did not ratify a natural divide, it divided a living civilization. The parti- ment. skewers liberals and their unrealistic tion of Europe was not a fact of geography, it was an act of violence. And wise The Moscow Patriarchate decries its notions. However, as an Orthodox leaders for decades have found the hope of European peace in the hope of greater loss of western regions of Ukraine to Ukrainian, I was dismayed to read his latest unity,” Mr. Bush argued, adding that, “In the same speech that described an ‘iron Catholicism. It is a significant loss diatribe, “Polish pope, Russian patriarch.” curtain,’ Winston Churchill called for ‘a new unity in Europe, from which no because this small region of the former First of all, the title suggests that the nation should be permanently outcast.’ ” Soviet empire used to provide one-third patriarch of the Muscovite Church is equiv- Today, Mr. Bush underlined, “As we plan to enlarge NATO, no nation should of the income for the Russian Orthodox alent in stature to the pope of the Roman be used as a pawn in the agendas of others. We will not trade away the fate of Church. Catholic Church. The pope is the undisput- free European peoples. No more Munichs. No more Yaltas.” On the Russian government side, ed leader of every Catholic Church in the It was a truly noteworthy speech – one that went largely unappreciated by the newly appointed Russian Ambassador to world (as far as I know). The patriarch, on American public. American citizens, it seems, still tend to feel that Europe is a Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin pro- the other hand, is merely the head of one world away. How many of them understood the significant historical references claims: “The pope’s visit is Ukraine’s branch of Orthodoxy, which is in the midst in their president’s speech? And, it is regrettable that most commentators chose affair, but maybe it’s not very good and of a losing battle to control Ukrainian to focus on Mr. Bush’s chummy manner with European leaders, his charm offen- not very right. We are Slav Orthodox Christians, concurrent with Moscow’s los- [people]. I don’t think there should be sive, than on the substance of his remarks. ing battle to control Ukraine politically. cracks in our spirituality.” Exactly what And substance there was plenty. The article does not mention the fact that kind of spirituality he has in mind is In the Polish capital city, President Bush told his listeners: “We can build an there are two branches of Ukrainian never explained. open Europe – a Europe without Hitler and Stalin, without Brezhnev and Orthodoxy completely independent of This well-orchestrated Russian media Honecker and Ceaucescu and, yes, without Milosevic.” He continued: “Our goal Moscow. There is the Ukrainian Orthodox blitz has been picked up and is being car- is to erase the false lines that have divided Europe for too long. The future of Church – Kyiv Patriarchate and the ried uncritically by the Western media. every European nation must be determined by the progress of internal reform, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox “Ukrainian Orthodox protest pope visit,” not the interests of outside powers. Every European nation that struggles toward Church. Both of these are patriotic and are cry headlines in the Western press. The holding discussions on possible unification democracy and free markets and a strong civic culture must be welcomed into fact that there are three Orthodox (excluding the Muscovites from these Europe’s home.” Churches in Ukraine, and that only one talks). Both support the pope’s visit, realiz- “All of Europe’s new democracies, from the Baltic to the Black Sea and all of those three – the one under the direct ing that strong Ukrainian Churches will nat- that lie between, should have the same chance for security and freedom – and the jurisdiction of the Moscow patriarch – urally reduce Moscow’s influence over same chance to join the institutions of Europe – as Europe’s old democracies does all the protesting is never men- Ukrainian Christians. have,” he underscored. tioned. This column missed a golden opportuni- Among those countries Mr. Bush referred specifically to Ukraine: “The Even such usually well-informed ty to show Ukrainians supporting each Europe we are building must include Ukraine, a nation struggling with the trau- sources on Eastern European affairs as other against their oppressor; instead it gave ma of transition. Some in Kyiv speak of their country’s European destiny. If this Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty have legitimacy to the oppressor. The author is their aspiration, we should reward it. We must extend our hand to Ukraine, as swallowed this Russian spin – hook, line used the unfortunate choice of words “even Poland has already done with such determination.” and sinker. Writes Askold Krushelnycky Ukrainian Orthodox Patriarch Filaret, The American president expressed thanks to Poland “for acting as a bridge to (RFE/RL, June 13) about Catholics in declared ‘non-canonical’ by Aleksei II, has the new democracies of Europe, and a champion of the interests and security of Ukraine: “Comprising both Greek and ... agreed to meet with the pope.” First, the your neighbors, such as the Baltic states, Ukraine, Slovakia. You are making real Roman Catholics, they are concentrated word “even” suggests that this is a surprise, the words: ‘For your freedom and ours.’ ” in western Ukraine and make up just 10 whereas to us younger Ukrainian Orthodox, Indeed, in Warsaw we heard powerful and meaningful words from America’s percent of the country’s religious believ- it would be expected – a no-brainer. new president. So different from those uttered in Kyiv just a decade earlier by ers, who are predominantly Orthodox Second, who cares what the Moscow patri- Christian.” another Bush. arch thinks of our patriarch? How this writer has determined that Orthodoxy was central to the identity of Catholics comprise only 10 percent of the Ukrainian Kozaks, whose battles with the country’s religious believers and that Polish forces are all that kept Ukraine June the country is composed predominantly (especially western Ukraine) from becom- of Orthodox Christian believers is never Turning the pages back... ing completely Polonized. After Ukrainian explained. Orthodoxy was suppressed (not “annihilat- With all this media hype about the 28 ed,” which suggests its death), the pope’s visit to Ukraine, it is time for a Ukrainian Catholic Church was at the fore- reality check, specifically how “pre- Five years ago the Ukrainian Parliament adopted a new front of the Ukrainian independence move- 1996 dominantly Orthodox” Ukraine really Constitution of Ukraine – a historic moment for the five-year- ment, especially in the 20th century. is. If one tries to address this question old independent state – at 9:18 a.m. Friday, June 28, after an Therefore, both religions have a right to be honestly, one learns very quickly that all-night intense marathon session in the halls of the legislature. proud of their heritage, and both should be there are really no objective criteria for “We have a Constitution,” proclaimed Parliament Chairman Oleksander Moroz, respected by all Ukrainian patriots. determining whether Ukraine is pre- after the deputies voted 315-36, with 12 absentions, to adopt the fundamental law. It is a shame that some of our older gen- dominantly atheist, Orthodox or The jubilant lawmakers responded with resounding applause and a standing ovation, eration are still relatively ignorant of the Catholic. while the newly adopted anthem “Sche Ne Vmerla Ukraina,” was played in the Church to which they do not belong Considering its Communist past, I am chambers. (Catholic vs. Orthodox). Fortunately, the inclined to agree with Myron B. Kuropas Despite a 16-hour plenary session – which began at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday evening younger generation is more enlightened and (The Ukrainian Weekly, June 10): and ended 9:30 a.m. Friday morning with no breaks – the mood among the lawmakers tends to work together. The best examples “Taken as a whole, Ukraine today is a was euphoric, as they posed for a group picture outside the Supreme Council building of this are joint Catholic-Orthodox liturgies nation of non-believers.” How many in Cleveland, and participation in each to mark this historic occasion. They then made their way to the parliamentary buffet Orthodox or Catholic believers there are other’s Easter liturgies by Chicago clergy. for champagne victory toasts, where they spent hours laughing and singing old Kozak today in Ukraine nobody knows. And At the end of the article, Dr. Kuropas songs, an atmosphere reminiscent of the day when the Parliament declared Ukraine’s then there is the question of how one gives the reader an unpleasant choice – a independence on August 24, 1991. defines “believer.” Is a person who “Polish pope” or a “Russian patriarch.” The deputies also passed a resolution declaring June 28 as Constitution Day, a legal declares himself/herself to be Orthodox With this he betrays an unfortunate resigna- holiday in Ukraine. President Leonid Kuchma announced that the deputies of both the or Catholic but has never been inside a tion to let outsiders control us. Dr. Kuropas last and current convocations of Parliament will be awarded state medals for the work church a “believer?” fails to mention a third choice – best and in the constitutional process. The fact remains that the present-day most obvious one: a Ukrainian Church run “Now our main goal is to learn to live in accordance with this Constitution,” said population of Ukraine comprises a by Ukrainians! Wild concept, huh? Don’t Leonid Kravchuk, independent Ukraine’s first president and then a deputy in the diverse and pluralistic society both in its laugh, it could happen in your lifetime! Parliament. ethnic and religious composition, and “Parliament adopts Constitution in marathon session,” by Marta Kolomayets, The that no one – and that includes the Andrew Kosowsky Ukrainian Weekly, June 30, 1996, Vol. LXIV, No. 26. Moscow patriarch – has the right to Schaumburg, Ill. No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 7 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Faces and Places attention to what is happening on this street is a mystery. by Myron B. Kuropas Preservation group Now that our community’s attention has finally been focused on this sorry- must define mission looking place, let’s not waste our collec- Dear Editor: tive time and energy on what is clearly I read your article about the proposed not a Ukrainian community issue, specifi- demapping of Taras Shevchenko Place cally the building of yet another New UPA’s impossible dream with great interest not only as a member York hotel and office building. Personally, Throughout history heroic men and Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), pledging her of the East Village Community since birth I would rather be stopped by a starry-eyed women did battle against hopeless odds. life to the struggle for Ukraine’s independ- and an attorney with an East Village prac- tourist looking for directions to The Sometimes they won. More often they lost. ence. Beginning her OUN career as a couri- tice for the past 18 plus years, but as a for- Ukrainian Museum or Veselka than by a They remained steadfast in their resolve, er during the Polish occupation when the mer member of the original so-called mentally ill former drug addict off med- however. They never wavered. OUN was an active terrorist organization Taras Shevchenko Preservation ication looking for a handout. To whom Three hundred resolute Greeks fighting fighting Poland’s vicious suppression of Committee. In reading your paper’s would we rather showcase our culture and off a Persian horde at Thermopylae Pass in Ukrainian ethnonational life, Maria later lengthy article, I failed to spot any sort of achievements? the fifth century B.C. are an example of this became an UPA member during the Nazi specific mission statement for this organi- Of course some people are deeply kind of heroism. Today, their deeds are leg- and Soviet occupations. zation. It is, in fact, this failure to articu- opposed to gentrification, and that’s cer- end. Her life in the UPA was harsh. Serving late a specific purpose or set of goals that tainly their fight. But the sole purpose of a Confederate Gen. George Pickett’s as a secretary to various UPA leaders, she led me to resign from what I assumed Ukrainian community-sponsored group charge during the Battle of Gettysburg is eventually married one of them, a man from the name to be an ad hoc committee should be Ukrainian issues. At the last another much repeated tale of devotion to a called Orlan (Vasyl Italasha). She had two dedicated to maintaining a New York meeting of the committee I was told by hopeless cause. Ordered to attack a union sons and was forced to abandon both of street in the name of Ukraine’s great 19th one person that the issue is high rent. fortification, the general’s troops moved out them for the cause. Such discipline was century bard. Later another person said The Cooper without question. A Union officer recorded necessary, she believes, “to overcome the Unfortunately, the committee seems to Union was not entitled to special defer- what he saw as the rebels advanced, mus- fatalism of the Ukrainian Slav.” Winters have wandered far from its original pur- ence, because so many of its students kets in hand: “More than half a mile their were often spent in underground bunkers. pose. While its first fliers called upon all come from out of town. Then I was told front extends ... man touching man...rank Many of her family members were arrested to try to save Shevchenko Place, the fliers that we need to preserve parking spots for pressing rank ... The red flags wave, their and sent to Siberia. She experienced priva- calling attention to the community meet- Ukrainians visiting the neighborhood. horsemen gallop up and down, the arms of tion, wounds from bomb fragments and ing at the Cooper Union of May 29 (at Imagine. Its become frightening to open [thirteen] thousand men, barrel and bayo- betrayal by trusted comrades in arms. least the ones I saw) made no mention of up an American newspaper for fear of net, gleam in the sun ... Right on they move, Fearing capture at one point, she was pre- Shevchenko but referred to The Cooper what the latest report on Ukraine might as with one soul ... magnificent, grim, irre- pared to die. Twice she was captured by the Union’s plans to build a hotel and an say. Membership in Ukrainian organiza- sistible.” “It was,” another Union officer Soviets. office building off Third Avenue and, if tions over here is plummeting, Svoboda remembered, “the most beautiful thing I During one of her interrogations by M.V. my memory is correct, talked about the became a weekly, Soyuzivka may be ever saw.” Slon, a KGB officer, she was chided for loss of parking spaces. forced to close, but we should be worried It was also a slaughter: 6,500 bringing children into the world and then Now, is the goal of the committee to about parking spots! Confederates were killed or captured as the abandoning them. “You wish you had peo- stop The Cooper Union, a university that In short, if you are going to be speak- tide finally turned in favor of the Union. ple who would dedicate themselves to gives each student a full scholarship and ing on behalf of the Ukrainian community The Confederate army, however, now hope- Communism the way we dedicated our- that has educated dozens of young immi- or soliciting its support for your activities, lessly outnumbered, fought bravely for selves to our cause,” Maria replied without grants and their offspring (many of them then please tell us what you stand for and another two years. hesitation. Startled by her fervor, Comrade Ukrainian) from building a hotel? Or is against. I think as a community we have Ireland’s struggle against the mighty Slon could not respond. the goal to prevent the demapping of matured beyond the point of giving our British empire also began as a hopeless Eventually Maria arrived in the United Taras Shevchenko Place? representatives carte blanche. endeavor until independence became a real- States, remarried, settled in the Milwaukee For those who are not well-acquainted We need to ask: Where does the Taras ity. We all marvel at IRA members who just area, and bore a son who graduated from with the East Village, Taras Shevchenko Shevchenko Preservation Committee recently were willing to starve themselves West Point. Place is the former Ale Place, which is a stand? And for that we need a mission to death in a British gaol rather than give up Lesia and I have known Maria Pyskir small 200-foot mid-block street cutting statement. the Irish-Catholic cause in Northern Ireland. and her husband Volodymyr for years. Both across from Seventh to Sixth Streets Zenon B. Masnyj Ukraine has also had its share of heroes are long time leaders of Milwaukee’s between Second and Third avenues near New York who died for a hopeless cause. The Battle of Ukrainian community. I even stayed at their McSorely’s Old Ale House. Hence, its Kruty on January 29, 1918, saw a contin- home in Wauwatosa, Wis., one night. previous name. It has the distinction of gent of 500 young men, mostly students, During all this time we had no inkling of being one of the few streets in the City of military cadets and new recruits, hold off a Maria’s exploits in the UPA. New York that has no address attached to Of street demapping Bolshevik contingent of 4,000 men heading Lesia and I both read her book, and a it. All too often, when the bathrooms at towards Kyiv. Most of the Ukrainian youth few weeks ago we met Maria Pyskir again, McSorely’s become too crowded, it is and a compromise perished, but their heroism stalled the this time at a SUM Hall reception in Dear Editor: used for less lofty purposes than original- Bolshevik advance and bought time for the Chicago. Still a handsome, soft-spoken, ly intended. I am very worried by the proposal to Ukrainian government to conclude the demure lady, she explained her devotion to Unfortunately, because of an often demap Taras Shevchenko Place in New Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, forcing Lenin and the UPA with conviction, and without notes. endemic lack of focus in New York’s York’s East Village. In my opinion, this Trotsky to recognize Ukraine’s independ- For the first time we experienced Maria Ukrainian community and its “establish- important part of the community’s identi- ence. Pyskir, UPA warrior – fiery, devoted, deter- ment,” this street was the grand prize ty should not be undermined in such a Another heroic but ultimately futile mined. awarded the Ukrainian community by the way. Ukrainian battle against the Soviets Was the UPA cause hopeless? “We knew city fathers for more than 100 years of There are choices that ought to be dis- occurred in July of 1944. The Ukrainian we couldn’t beat the Soviets militarily,” she substantial contribution to New York’s cussed, and I have a concrete proposal. Waffen SS Division Galicia, attached to the told her audience. “We were fighting for the cultural and economic life. Other past In exchange for Taras Shevchenko Place, 13th German Army Corps, held off the Red Ukrainian conscience. We were needed; gifts to the neighborhood have included a which is a short pathway between Sixth Army’s advance on Lviv near the town of even our death was needed to provide shelter for over 2,000 homeless and often and Seventh streets, let's rename The Brody. Outnumbered and outgunned, the moral strength to the Ukrainian people. mentally ill men with a history of sub- Cooper Union as Taras Shevchenko Galicia Division was decimated. Of the Fighting for Ukraine’s freedom is never in stance abuse, a number of methadone University. Sounds like a good compro- division’s 11,000 men, only 3,000 survived. vain as some people have argued. Listen to clinics and half-way houses and, of mise to me! While we know quite a bit about certain the songs of the UPA and you will under- course, the well-known flop houses of the This way the university gets the street, heroic moments in Ukrainian history, there stand.” Bowery, which is an extension of Third and we get to keep the name of Taras is one chapter that is largely neglected. The UPA was an impossible dream, kept Avenue. Shevchenko in our neighborhood. Precious little has been published about the alive until the 1950s by dedicated souls like The possibility that this recognition, Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), especial- Maria Pyskir. Their impact has yet to be Serge Polishchuk ly in the English language. UPA veterans however humble and insignificant, might appreciated in the United States, and espe- be taken away obviously does touch and have recorded their experiences in the Jersey City, N.J. cially in Ukraine where UPA veterans have should touch a raw nerve in the Ukrainian multi-volume, Ukrainian-language Litopys no status. community. However, this should not UPA, but even these memoirs remain large- Read Maria’s story and spread the mes- blind us to the fact that the street itself in The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes ly unknown. And it’s not much better in sage. Better yet, invite her to speak in your its present condition does nothing to letters to the editor and commen- Ukraine, where many people still cling to community. Her story is worth repeating. enhance St. George Ukrainian Church and taries on a variety of topics of con- the Soviet view of the UPA as a band of We need to be reminded that Ukraine’s its school, which both border on it. Every cern to the Ukrainian American Banderite bandits. independence was not won by Ukrainian day dozens of children pour out of St. and Ukrainian Canadian commu- Fortunately, the situation is beginning to Kuchmaistas, but by Ukraine’s true champi- George and because of the narrowness of nities. Opinions expressed by improve, thanks to Ania Savage, who trans- ons – those individuals who were willing to Taras Shevchenko Place spill out onto the columnists, commentators and let- lated the UPA experiences of Maria street as they have been doing for ter-writers are their own and do Savchyn Pyskir. Titled “Thousands of sacrifice their comfort, their families, their decades, and as many of the readers them- not necessarily reflect the opinions Roads: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s careers, even their lives to keep their cher- selves did in the 1950s and 1960s of either The Weekly editorial Life in the Ukrainian Underground During ished dream alive. notwithstanding the best efforts of nuns staff or its publisher, the and After World War II,” hers is a phenom- and our waiting parents. Why it took us as Ukrainian National Association. enal story. While still a student, Maria Myron Kuropas’ e-mail address is: a community over 20 years to finally pay became a member of the Organization of [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 No. 25 Worldwide Catholic charitable organization helps needy in Ukraine by Roman Woronowycz customed to displays of humanity and who most often end up on the periphery members on providing proper care and Kyiv Press Bureau kindness, which too often took a back of society: the orphaned or abandoned treatment for their patients. seat to politics and tokenism in what young; the homeless; the elderly and One of the charitable organization’s KYIV – The Rev. Ken Nowakowski, most refer to as the “old times.” It is one infirm; and the poor. The organization newer programs is an awareness program president of the Ukrainian branch of the of the hurdles that Caritas Ukraine, part has specific programs to aid them all. in the fight against trafficking in humans. worldwide Catholic charitable organiza- of the Vatican-based charitable federation Within Ukraine when you think of Caritas Ukraine thus far has held a series tion Caritas, tells a story of traveling in Caritas Internationalis, must continue to Caritas you think of soup kitchens. Its of seminars on the subject to make the Ternopil region at the time of last overcome as it begins the second decade program of free meals, directed at the women more aware of the problem. year’s damaging windstorm. On the road of its work in the country. poor, was the first project undertaken by The organization is cooperating with a from Lviv to Ternopil he drove through a Caritas Ukraine opened regional Caritas Ukraine and continues to this day. network of charitable organizations village affected by strong wind gusts and offices in Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk in Currently there are 22 such centers, most- around the world that have dedicated saw a house on whose roof a tree had 1991 and became a national program in ly located in the western regions of resources to this battle, as well as with fallen. 1994 on the directive of the late head of Ukraine, but also in Kyiv and outside of the Ukrainian government, to bring the Noticing an elderly woman surveying the UGCC, Cardinal Ivan Lubachivsky. Odesa. problem to the attention of the countries the damage done to her abode, the Rev. Today it is the official charity of the Then there is the Caritas Ukraine of export and to help the women and Nowakowski, a priest of the Ukrainian Kyiv-Halych Senate of Bishops and has home care program, one that it pioneered children who have been caught in the trap Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC), pulled nine regional offices located in each of in Ukraine. Today it involves about 45 of sex slavery. his car up to her home and in the ensuing the UGCC eparchies of Ukraine. Caritas volunteers and workers who pro- A very different Caritas Ukraine pro- discussion volunteered the help of his The Rev. Nowakowski, who took the vide assistance to some 400 elderly shut- gram for women provides care packages charity. Her response was typical. helm of the organization in 1997, has ins. The support ranges from delivering to the incarcerated who are either preg- “She was amazed that someone would presided over its growth into a nation- meals to providing medicines and can nant or have children. The charity also help with no strings attached,” related the wide organization, which last year dis- include the services of a visiting nurse, a maintains lines of communication and Rev. Nowakowski, 43, who was born in tributed some $1.2 million of aid in all social worker or simply a person to clean counseling with these women to help Canada but has lived in Ukraine since the parts of Ukraine. up in the home. them in any reasonable way. leadership of the UGCC officially Caritas Ukraine is not a proselytizating In addition, the organization has devel- Caritas Ukraine also runs several pro- returned here in March 1991. or catechetical organization. Its function oped a comprehensive home care manual grams centered on children. In Lviv there The woman’s reaction, according to is to do the social work and be the devel- in the Ukrainian language. It is a concise is a children’s shelter for kids from 3 to 7 the Rev. Nowakowski, is common in this opmental arm of the Catholic Church. Its and comprehensive guide for both state- post-Soviet state where people are unac- primary responsibility is to those people owned and public services, and family (Continued on page 14)

National University of Ostroh Academy sees itself as Oxford of Ukraine by Roma Hadzewycz Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy. Among the academy’s famous graduates are Hetman PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Imagine, if you Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachnyi; the will, an Oxford in Ukraine. That’s the founders of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy vision of the National University of in Kyiv, Yov Boretskyi and Elisei Ostroh Academy, located in the historic Pletenetskyi; and Meletii Smotrytskyi, small town of Ostroh, in the Rivne Oblast Orthodox churchman, philologist and of Ukraine. In 10 years, university offi- author of the famous textbook on cials hope, Ostroh Academy – which this Slavonic grammar published in 1619. year marks the 425th anniversary of its It was also in Ostroh in 1581 that the founding – will be the Ukrainian Oxford, notable printer Ivan Fedorovych printed and Ostroh will be an internationally his most famous book, the Ostroh Bible, renowned academic town much like the the first full Church Slavonic edition of English town it sees as its model. the Old and New Testaments. The acade- The rector and vice-rector of the my remained active through the 1630s. National University of Ostroh Academy, During recent decades intellectuals in respectively, Ihor Pasichnyk and Natalia Ukraine had dreamed of reviving this Lominska, recently visited the United higher educational institution. Ultimately States to speak about the school’s pro- the school was reborn after Ukraine gram and its prospects for the future. In regained its independence. their presentation – titled “The Task of By decree of President Leonid Kravchuk Educating Future Patriotic Leaders in a on April 12, 1994, the Ostroh High Democratic Ukraine” – Dr. Pasichnyk Collegium was established as the successor and Prof. Lominska both underlined that to the illustrious academy. Two years later, Ostroh accepts only the top students from President Leonid Kuchma issued another all parts of Ukraine and that its educa- decree that renamed the institution the tional program is geared not only toward Ostroh Academy. Successive presidential academic excellence but toward produc- decrees proclaimed the institution a univer- ing patriotic adults who will assume sity and a national university. leadership positions in diverse fields of endeavor in Ukraine. Ostroh Academy today “The people who attended our presen- A historic church, part of the Monastery of the Capuchins, on the grounds of The National University of Ostroh tation were very excited about the rebirth Ostroh Academy. Academy has two working languages, of the Ostroh Academy. And many now Ukrainian and English, a constantly want to visit us,” Dr. Pasichnyk related in expanding library that today holds more an interview at The Ukrainian Weekly. than 250,000 volumes, including the lat- His colleague, Prof. Lominska, noted the est editions and many foreign language warmth with which they were received editions, and a new generation of faculty by Ukrainian Americans in the members – the average age of professors Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and New is 33 – all highly qualified scholars. York/New Jersey metropolitan areas. The university also boasts prominent The duo also spoke before audiences visiting professors and foreign lecturers at the School of Education at the from the United States, the United University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Kingdom, Canada, Poland, Germany and Northern Illinois University. NIU and Switzerland. Exchange programs exist Ostroh, it should be noted, have estab- with institutions in Canada, the United lished regular contacts and have a joint States and Poland. master’s program. Its student body comprises 1,200 A 12th century town young Ukrainians ranging in age from 17 to 24, with 40 percent of the students Records of Ostroh date back to 1100; hailing from eastern Ukraine. There are during the 16th and 17th centuries this also a number of students from the small town in Ukraine was famous as a Ukrainian diaspora in Russia. Soon the political, cultural and educational center. university hopes to open its doors to for- There in 1576, under the patronage of eign students – at first as students at spe- Prince Vasyl Kostiantynovych Ostrozsky, cial summer courses and eventually as the first institution of higher education in Rector Ihor Pasichnyk and Vice-Rector Natalia Lominska. Eastern Europe was established: the (Continued on page 23) No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 9

Documentary photographer examines Chornobyl’s enduring aftereffects by Andrew Nynka PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Twenty-two- year-old Connecticut-born Joseph Sywenkyj has seen firsthand the con- sequences of Chornobyl’s nuclear fallout on victims in the affected region. During the United Nations 10th conference on “Health and the Environment,” Mr. Sywenkyj’s pho- tographs of Chornobyl’s aftereffects were prominently displayed as an emotional reminder of the world’s worst civilian nuclear catastrophe. In an interview he described some of his personal experiences, emotions and the story of how photography has become his life’s calling. From dance to photography Mr. Sywenkyj was awarded a scholarship during his senior year to Walnut Hill performing arts high school in Natick, Mass., where he majored in classical ballet and mod- Michelle Morales ern dance. He has studied Ukrainian Joseph Sywenkyj folk dancing for over 15 years. At the age of 18 Mr. Sywenkyj had for them. Something interesting. I think traveled to Kyiv in order to study with the it broke up the monotony of their every- Virsky dance ensemble. After an injury day routine. In general, most of the peo- brought him back to the United States, Mr. ple were flattered and really happy about Sywenkyj developed an interest in pho- it. They felt as though someone was pay- tography. “Being a dancer since I was 4 ing attention to them,” he said. years old, the injury sent me looking for Asked to recall a stirring emotional another way to express myself,” he noted. moment or image that remains in his mind Mr. Sywenkyj is currently in his third from his trip, Mr. Sywenkyj remembered a year at the School of Visual Arts in New moment in Lviv: “A young patient was York City, where he is studying documen- wearing this mask and as I was preparing tary photography. to take her picture, her mother removed Before his Chornobyl project in the mask. I pleaded with the young girl’s Ukraine, Mr. Sywenkyj was working on mother to keep it on because I thought it assignments for class, documenting what was an important picture, but she wouldn’t family members go through as they strug- allow it.” gle with disease. “It’s been quite a jump Asked to explain why this picture was this last year. Everything has been mov- important, Mr. Sywenkyj replied: “I con- ing fast,” he commented. sider my photography as looking at When asked what it was that attracted aspects of humanity – the human condi- him to photography, Mr. Sywenkyj admit- tion. This was an important moment ed: “Photography can burn a still image because it showed the young girl in her into a person’s head. It captures an icon – present condition and it did it in a way a moment.” that had a strong impact. I was hoping to Mr. Sywenkyj continued: “I hope I can capture that.” be a messenger that creates a dialogue – “Some people use the camera as a wall that stirs action in people.” by which they can separate themselves from what they’re taking pictures of. I A fateful meeting like to think of it as a door to bring me “When I was in high school I met Alex closer to people,” Mr. Sywenkyj com- Kuzma, executive director of the Children mented. “It brings me into a person. And of Chornobyl Relief Fund (CCRF),” said when I’m close to them I can capture what Mr. Sywenkyj. “I approached CCRF they’re feeling.” about going to Ukraine in order to take Once in Ukraine Mr. Sywenkyj traveled some documentary pictures of the disaster, mostly on his own. “It’s been very inter- and they liked the idea but basically said esting, traveling through Ukraine. It’s sad we can’t afford it.” in a way, but an individual could probably But CCRF did offer Mr. Sywenkyj a get across the country for under $10,” he part-time job as a summer intern. “After related. working there for the summer and men- Mr. Sywenkyj did not stay in hotels, tioning my photography, I finally showed but on the premises where he was work- them my work. Their response was basi- ing. He readily admits that without the cally: pack your things, you’re going,” help of CCRF, “I would not have had the related Mr. Sywenkyj. access to the hospitals, orphanages or the With only two weeks’ notice, Mr. families with which I stayed.” Sywenkyj prepared himself for his third “It’s true,” Mr. Sywenkyj added, “if trip to Ukraine. you were just someone trying to get “I thought it was important to show the around that area without clearance from decimation of this once beautiful land,” different departments, you wouldn’t be Mr. Sywenkyj said of his Chornobyl proj- able to get anywhere.” ect. “Some of these children are obvious- He continued, “My age was a factor. ly mentally and physically affected by the Sometimes it was tough for my contacts to catastrophe, but others do not seem to believe that the person they were going to have any problems. It was so emotional meet was so young, but I think we got for me to meet these children,” he contin- over that. Thanks are due to CCRF, who ued. obtained clearance for me and arranged “No matter what their condition, the minute I showed up it was something new (Continued on page 11)

Photos by Joseph Sywenkyj (on the left, from top): Sanatorium, Zaluchia, Ukraine; the neonatal ICU (with equipment from CCRF), Poltava Maternity Hospital; Luhansk Regional Hospital. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 No. 25 SUM sponsors its 42nd annual ‘Zlet’ spring festival

by Orest Kozicky ELLENVILLE, N.Y. – The Ukrainian Youth Association (SUM) of America sponsored its 42nd consecutive annual “Zlet” on May 26-27 at the SUM resort in Ellenville, N.Y. Zlet is the annual spring festival for SUM youths that comprises academic and athletic competitions and poetry recitations that demonstrate knowledge about various aspects of Ukrainian history, cultural traditions and lan- guage. As well, Zlet is an opportunity for participants to perform with their dance, bandura, choral and drama ensembles within a talent contest type forum. The athletic competitions at Zlet encompass individual Commander Ivan Kebalo (at microphone), with members of his contingent of volunteers who conducted Zlet. and team sporting events that include 40-, 60-, 100-, 440- and 880-yard sprints and mile runs, relay races, broadjump, shot put and obstacle course races, as well as a volleyball tournament. Heavy rains led to the cancellation of the volleyball tour- nament and the 440-yard, mile and relay race events. Thanks to the combined efforts of members of the partici- pating branches, the track and field were cleared of rain puddles daily and, despite continuing threats of rain, SUM youths competed in the spirit of the SUM greeting “Hartuys.” The youths also had an opportunity to socialize at a dance on Saturday night. On Sunday morning the participants took part in a divine liturgy celebrated by the Rev. Bohdan Danylo. A formal review of the SUM ranks arranged as individual branches from various cities was conducted, with scoring based on adherence to the uniform dress code. Although the Zlet in Ellenville usually involves only the 12 SUM branches along the Eastern Seaboard, this year a contingent of participants from the Montreal branch also took part. There were 464 youth participants ranging in age from 4 through 17. The continued growth of the organization is reflected by the participation of a continually growing num- ber of “Sumeniata,” or preschoolers age 3-5. Officials of winning SUM branches, Whippany, N.J., Goshen, N.Y., and Jersey City, N.J., receive trophies. This year the responsibility for coordi- larger contingents. nating the various Zlet events was undertak- In overall points, the SUM branch from en by members of the Hartford branch. The Whippany, N.J., took first place. Goshen, responsibility of conducting the individual N.Y., took second place and Jersey City, events was divided among all of the partici- N.J., took third. pating branches. Mark Kozicky of Yonkers, N.Y., won the The Zlet commander was Ivan Kebalo, individual trophy for most points in the 13- who together with main coordinator Myron 17 age group. Natalie Midzak of Kolinsky and the rest of the Hartford con- Philadelphia won the trophy in the 6-12 age COME,COME, JOINJOIN USUS tingent successfully coordinated the multi- group. ple complex aspects of Zlet. Yurij Nakonechny closed the awards cer- HIGH INTEREST RATES ON CDs This year the new point system drafted in emonies by expressing his gratitude to 2000 by Yurij and Ihor Stecko of the New Messrs. Kebalo and Kolinsky and the FREE CHECKING York branch was again implemented, Hartford contingent, as well as to all of the GREAT RATES FOR LOANS, MORTGAGES invoking a corrective factor that allowed SUMivtsi for their participation in another smaller branches to compete on par with successful Zlet. SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES AVAILABLE UKRAINIAN/ENGLISH SPOKEN FRIENDLY PERSONNEL WESTERN UNION

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Phone-a-thon a success at The Ukrainian Museum by Marta Baczynsky 2001, the grant is a remarkable fund-rais- ing vehicle with short-and long-term ben- Ukrainian National Association Estate NEW YORK – “Where are our young efits to the institution. people?” is a question frequently heard at Foordmore Road, Kerhonkson, New York 12446 The function of the grant is twofold. Tel.: (845) 626-5641 • Fax: (845) 626-4638 various public events in our community. First, the money raised by means of the www.soyuzivka.com • e-mail: [email protected] It is true that at some events, especially at grant will supplement the Building Fund; those of a more serious nature, one is second, with the matching funds of the hard-pressed to find a young face. grant, the donors will open the Eugene Not so at The Ukrainian Museum on SUMMER PROGRAM 2001 Saturday, June 9! and Daymel Shklar Endowment Fund at SUMMER PROGRAM 2001 the museum, the income from which will Positively oblivious to the balmy sum- Friday, June 29 support the institution’s ongoing pro- mer day and tempting beach weather, a 10 p.m. – Midnight Bigus at Trembita Launge group of young individuals – mostly col- grams in the future. lege students gathered at the museum to During the several hours that the Saturday, June 30 phone-a-thon was active, the determined take part in a phone-a-thon. The event, 9:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. – Zabava – music by MONTAGE organized by the museum’s Building young volunteers raised more than Fund-Raising Committee chaired by $8,000. Several donors also included Friday, July 6 matching gift applications from their Rostislav Milanytch, was designed to 10 p.m. – Midnight Bigus at Trembita Launge raise funds via the telephone to support places of business, which doubled their the new building project. gifts. As the Challenge Grant matches all Saturday, July 7 these donations, the overall benefit to the The involvement of young people in 9:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. – Zabava – music by FATA MORGANA this high profile fund-raising activity is museum is more than $24,000. of great significance to the museum. It Why did these young people give up a Saturday, July 14 speaks of the mounting interest of the carefree summer Saturday to help the 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. – Family Day, Chemny’s Birthday museum? Their answers varied from the young generation in the welfare of the 9:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. – Zabava – music by LUNA institution and emphasizes their desire to very serious to the jocular, but all said they wanted to do something beneficial see the building project realized. Saturday, July 21 It was very gratifying to feel the ener- for The Ukrainian Museum and their community. Some said that volunteering 8:30 p.m. – First Place Winners, Makovytska Struna (Eastern Slovakia) gy and enthusiasm that dominated the 10:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m. – Zabava – music by VIDLUNNIA room that day. Quick learners all, the made them feel good about themselves, others spoke about the importance of young men and women took to the Friday, July 27 being a contributing member of the com- phones following a brief, but compre- 10 p.m. – Midnight Bigus at Trembita Launge hensive orientation session, and began munity. One young man brought a bit of humor to the serious conversation by earnest telephone conversations with Saturday, July 28 saying, “I came to help ‘cause I heard people on their designated lists, asking 8:30 p.m. – DUMKA them for donations to the Building there were girls here.” 10:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m. – Zabava – music by MONTAGE Fund. The Ukrainian Museum expressed gratitude to the following young individ- The most persuasive point in their Saturday, August 4 solicitation for donations was the uals for doing a wonderful job in this 8:30 p.m. – Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Dance Recital Challenge Grant, which volunteers intro- fund-raising project: Christina duced into each telephone conversation. Baranetsky, Victoria Baranetsky, Adrian 10:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m. – Zabava – music by SWITANOK In December of last year the museum Berezovsky, Natalie Bonacorsa, Adrienne Sunday, August 5 received a $1 million Challenge Grant Burachinsky, Askold Chemych, Danylo from Eugene and Daymel Shklar. Liteplo, Alexa Milanytch, Lisa UNWLA Day Designed to match dollar for dollar any Milanytch, Andrew Olesnycky, Adrian Saturday, August 11 donation received by the museum during Olesnycky and Natalka Trojan. MISS SOYUZIVKA CONTEST 10:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m. – Zabava – music by TEMPO

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DATELINE NEW YORK: Festival fever hits the city by Helen Smindak

New York turns into a frolicsome festival of music, help immigrant families and children achieve a better Stachiw. There were anecdotes and poems by Iwan dance, foods and crafts during the warm-weather life in the United States as well as to promote positive Kinal, songs by Laryssa Hulovych, Slava Hirniak and months, when streets and avenues around the city are intercultural relations by changing negative perceptions. Stepha Lopukh as well as by sisters Lidia and Gabriella closed to traffic and pedestrians swarm around mini- Promin, a multi-purpose chamber choir formed by Oros, and children’s songs by Marianna Kostiuk. marketplaces, sampling tasty ethnic foods, browsing Ms. Wolansky 29 years ago, performs at fairs, festivals (Dance performances were described in Dateline New stalls of temptingly priced goods and enjoying free and weddings in the tri-state area. Currently busy York of June 3.) entertainment provided by performing artists and singing at weddings at Soyuzivka and in New Jersey, Many of the Sunday performers took part in Friday’s ensembles. the ensemble is looking forward to participating in the and Saturday’s programs as well, along with a host of Oblivious to the weather, most festivals take place on Ukrainian Independence Day celebration in Yonkers, others too numerous to list. Assisting program director weekends that are hot, muggy, chilly, windy or wet. N.Y., on August 24 and a number of cultural events at Anna Bachynska throughout the weekend were Last Sunday’s lashing rain and flooded roadways – the the Ukrainian American Youth Association (SUM) announcers Ulana Kekish-Solodenko, Ivanka Mazur- result of Hurricane Allison – caused no interference for camp in Ellenville, N.Y. Hodowanec, Laryssa Magun-Huryn and Taras Mazur. the 16th annual International Cultures Expo-Fest or its Homin Stepiv (Echo of the Steppes), on hiatus for Despite the exciting stage attractions and vendors’ participating groups, including two Ukrainian musical several months while its director, Mr. Lechicky, was stalls that stretched from Third to Second avenue, troupes. Though raindrops kept falling lightly on specta- away in Ukraine, resumed its activities with the numerous visitors continued to line up at a brightly dec- tors’ heads as the storm headed out of the city, the Madison Avenue festival performance. orated stand, waiting to sign a petition to “Save Taras Promin Vocal Ensemble and the Homin Stepiv Bandura The Ukrainian fest Shevchenko Place.” Residents and non-residents of Ensemble performed on the covered mobile stage at New York City added their names to the list, protesting Madison Avenue and 47th Street and received an enthu- The Cooper Union’s plan to demap Taras Shevchenko Ukrainians from all five boroughs and nearby tri- siastic reception from the mixed-heritage audience. Place so that the university could expand its building state areas trekked to East Seventh Street in the East With director Bohdanna Wolansky and her trusty gui- space. Village during the third weekend in May for a taste of tar fronting 14 vocalists, the Promin ensemble stirred In a mid-afternoon call from the stage, Jaroslaw holubtsi, varenyky and borsch and the thrill of watching afternoon crowds with its opening rendition of Ihor Kurowycky, who heads the Shevchenko Place Ukrainian dancers from five to 25-plus twirl and leap Sonevytsky’s slow, stately “Vesilna Pisnia” (Wedding Preservation Committee, appealed to the festival throng through kolomyikas and hopaks. They came to admire Song). Soprano Oksana Charuk-Bodnar was the excel- to “help us preserve our community.” Mr. Kurowycky Sofika Zielyk’s stunningly-decorated ostrich pysanky, lent soloist for the selection, a piece with both modern declared emphatically: “In a year’s time, if we don’t the elaborate bead gerdany of Sister Josaphat (OSBM), and ancient-sounding phrases that was composed for the take action as a community, we won’t see this stage and Andrij Khomyk’s reverse-glasspaintings in the Arka 1,000th anniversary of Christianity in Ukraine. Other street here anymore.” shop’s booth and the ornate flower-and-bird Petrykivka Ukrainian melodies offered by Promin included the folk Noting that Ukrainians have made the East Village paintings of Andrij Pikush. They arrived also to buy song “Verbovaia Doschychka” (Willow Bridge), which their community base for 150 years and that St. CDs, tapes, embroidered ritual cloths, fringed shawls, brought into play village-style “bilyi holos” (white George’s Parish (now housed in a beautiful church at hand-carved wooden plates, jewelry, books and greeting sound) through the impressive voice of mezzo-soprano the corner of Seventh Street and Taras Shevchenko cards from a large number of vendors and the adjacent Iryna Hrechko, a professional folk singer from Place) is 140 years old, Mr. Kurowycky urged all Surma Book Store. Chernihiv. Ukrainians to add their presence and their voice at a The Homin Stepiv quartet, directed by John Meeting and greeting friends is an inherent part of a community meeting scheduled for May 29 in The Lechicky, presented a medley of bandura music in “Dvi street fair, comparable to chatting on the village green, Cooper Union’s Great Hall. Vesnianky” (Two Spring Songs) and was joined by the and I noted plenty of meetings and greetings on Sunday A side note: Several references were made during Promin singers for “Dozvol Meni Maty” (Permit me, (the day I took in the festival), as well as embroidered Sunday’s performances to “the 25th anniversary of St. mother). The two groups topped off their program with shirts and blouses worn by many festival visitors. Among George’s Ukrainian Festival,” which should actually be the sprightly “Metelytsia” (Whirlwind) that had listen- that day’s visitors were Myroslava Gongadze, the widow celebrated in 2002. The very first Ukrainian street fair, ers tapping their toes in rhythm. of slain Ukrainian journalist Heorhii Gongadze, and her held in 1976 as part of the Ukrainian community’s Dr. Joseph Costantino, director of special events for two small children, and Ukraine’s former Minister of Bicentennial celebration, was planned and organized by the festival sponsor, the International Immigrants Foreign Affairs Borys Tarasyuk, who was in town to the Ukrainian Bicentennial Committee of New York, Foundation – International Cultures Mission, believes attend a conference at Columbia University. headed by attorney John O. Flis, the longtime president the citywide showcase of the world’s cultures will foster Following a solemn liturgy in St. George Ukrainian of the Ukrainian National Association. St. George’s positive inter-cultural relations in American society. Catholic Church, with responses sung by the choir of Parish took over the handling of the festival in 1977, so “We can overcome bias and prejudice, which is mainly SS. Cyril and Methodius Ukrainian Greek-Catholic festival planners can now look forward to another 25th due to ignorance, by bringing people together to share Church of Olyphant, Pa., under the direction of Patrick anniversary. their cultures and appreciate them fully,” Dr. Costantino Marchinko II, a concert of religious music was present- The big screen declared. ed by the Dumka Chorus, directed by Vasyl He said he was “very impressed by the singing and Hrechynsky, and Olyphant’s Ekumen Chorale, directed beautiful dress” of the Ukrainian performers and would by Mr. Marchinko. Jacques Hnizdovsky’s unforgettable woodcut “The like to get the Ukrainian community involved in the Sunday’s stage program included singers, musicians Sheep” (1969) appears in poster form on the wall of a IIF/ICM parade that will be held on Madison Avenue on and actors, among them the Ukrayinska Rodyna ensem- room in an upcoming film “The Hours,” a trilogy based September 9. While the Expo-Fest was held on Madison ble of Brooklyn directed by Oksana Lykhovyd and the on Michael Cunningham’s 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning Avenue between 37th and 57th streets, the parade will Lisova Pisnia duo of Alla Kucevych and Ludmyla novel that tells the story of three women in the course of take place on the same avenue from 23rd to 41st streets. Hrabovsky. Soloists included tenor Roman Tsymbala, one day. The poster is seen in the trilogy portion that The IIF-ICM is a charitable, non-governmental, non- sopranos Victoria Kaninska and Laryssa Magun-Huryn, stars Meryl Streep and Ed Harris. (Coincidentally, the political, non-profit organization whose mission is to mezzo-soprano Iryna Hrechko and bandurist Ostap Boston Museum of Fine Arts has just reproduced posters of “The Sheep” and the 1962 Hnizdovsky work “Turkey” for sale in its gift shop.) Mr. Hnizdovsky’s work was exhibited last month in New Haven, Conn., by the local branch of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America. A new edition of the book “Ukrainian Folk Tales,” trans- lated by Marie Halun Bloch and illustrated by Mr. Hnizdovsky, has been brought out by Hippocrene Books of New York, though with a new format and cover that do not please Mr. Hnizdovsky’s widow, Stephanie. The Ukrainian Institute of America, whose French Gothic architecture and period decor attract filmmakers, was the scene of recent location shooting for the Miramax film “Kate and Leopold,” destined for release early next year. Starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman, who is currently appearing in the movie “Swordfish,” the story takes place in 1880 and 2001. The institute was used for six weeks to shoot the 1880 sequences and a few of the 2001 scenes. Often used for shooting episodes of the television series “Law & Order,” the Institute’s building at Fifth Avenue and 79th Street has also provided settings for the upcoming film “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” starring Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins. The small screen

Mila Kunis, who plays the snobby character Jackie Burkhardt in the hit Fox series “That 70s Show,” was born in Ukraine and moved to Los Angeles with her par- The Promin Vocal Ensemble at a recent performance. Seen in the photo are: conductor Bohdanna Wolanska ents in 1991. The TV show, which chronicles a group of (fifth from left), soprano soloist Oksana Charuk (first from left); John Lehicky (second row, fourth from left), director of the Homin Stepiv Bandura Ensemble. (Continued on page 21) No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 13 Legendary mime Marcel Marceau performs in Kyiv by Stephen Bandera er doesn’t have a past does not have a future – that’s what I want to tell the younger generation.” KYIV – Pope John Paul II is only one of the 20th Though Mr. Marceau performed in the Soviet Union century’s icons visiting Ukraine this year. at various times throughout the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s, The legendary Marcel Marceau pre-empted the pon- the last time he was in Kyiv was 1973. Mr. Marceau’s tiff by arriving in Kyiv for the “Kyiv Travnevyi” (Kyiv current appearances in Ukraine came immediately after in May) performance festival. The 78-year-old mime a tour of the United States, and two shows in Spain. He performed two sold out shows at the Lesia Ukrainka still performs more than 200 shows a year. theater on May 24 and 25. When asked what his secret to staying young is, Mr. Marceau’s mother traces her roots to Ukraine, Mr. Marceau simply responded “Respect your body.” although the mime insists she spoke Rusyn, not Reporters prodded him to find out if he subscribes to Ukrainian, and that there was no such country as Buddhist theories of silence or practices yoga. Ukraine when she emigrated to France. At the time, the “That’s my secret – respect your bodies,” he main- town of Yabluniv, near Kolomyia, was part of the tained. Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother married a Sitting in the second row, you could see every crease Frenchman named Mangel, and gave birth to Marcel in and crack in the 78-year-old man’s whitewashed face Strasbourg in 1923. During the second world war, and hands. Nevertheless, the mime moved with the Marcel and his brother Alain changed their name to elasticity, accuracy and timing of a young man. Marceau (after a general during the French But it was his sense of humor that made the show. Revolution). Mr. Marceau’s father died in Auschwitz in The complete silence in the hall was made hilarious 1944. by the mime’s moves and expressions, supplemented with an occasional thump of his foot for accents, like Ukraine has very deep roots, opening a wine bottle. Mr. Marceau succeeded in “telling” complete short stories – from a murder case whoever doesn’t have a past in court to a bachelor who is visited by five mademoi- does not have a future – selles from a marriage agency. Mr. Marceau also per- formed his famous hands piece set to Ukrainian Stas Alexeyev/Polityka i Kultura that’s what I want to tell the Orthodox music. But Mr. Marceau’s finale – the maker of masks – Marcel Marceau speaks with reporters in Kyiv. younger generation. was more somber compared to the previous lightheart- away. The mime struck a deathly pose – together with a ed adventures of his trademark Chaplain-like character lighting trick his eyes, mouth and hair disappeared into Bip. In this piece, the mime dons and removes a num- black, leaving nothing but a skull on a skeleton’s body. “Marceau wanted to come to Ukraine,” the president ber of masks. The trick is that his only prop is his own A warning, perhaps: Don’t let the masks you put on get of Arka 3, Olga Pokalchuk, said. “There are obvious face. So he changes from a smiling mask to a sad mask the better of you. sentimental attachments to the land,” she added. The to a funny mask. The audience refused to stop clapping at the end of idea to bring Mr. Marceau to Ukraine came to Olga and Then he put on a gargoyle-like mask with a sneer the show. When the standing ovation finally ended, Mr. her husband, renowned Ukrainian writer Yuri reminiscent of Jack Nicholson’s Joker from the original Marceau jumped back out on stage to the crowd’s Pokalchuk, after a chance meeting in Paris two years “Batman” movie. But when he tried to take this partic- delight. ago. ular mask off, it refused to give way. The mime strug- Mr. Marceau performed in Kyiv courtesy of Arka 3 “This is the man who studied Charlie Chaplain and gled, and pushed and pulled, but could not take it off. (France), Maksanna (Ukraine) and United Resorts & taught Michael Jackson the moonwalk,” Mr. Mr. Marceau’s face seemed to be carved out of rock, as Cruises of the World (France). Pokalchuk, the tour’s media liaison explained. he kept the same expression for 10 minutes. Even the president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, took “Naturally, we wanted to bring him to Ukraine.” His inability to take off the gargoyle face turned into time out of his hectic schedule to surprise Mr. Marceau Mr. Marceau associates Ukraine and Ukrainians with obvious agony. But the mask refused to give, and the with a meeting. dancing – he recalls seeing the Hopak being performed, violence of his efforts grew. Finally, with one last effort As for missing the pope in Ukraine, Mr. Marceau and said that has left an impression on him. “Ukraine using all his strength, he removed the mask with a vio- expressed regret, “It’s too bad – I have a piece I wanted has very deep roots,” Mr. Marceau explained, “whoev- lent tear. But along with the mask, he tore everything to show him.”

Toronto’s Vesnivka Choir appears in “Echoes of the East” program by Sonia Solon tonal colors” to the performance, Mr. ticipate in the International Olympic Day The Vesnivka Choir was to join other Chapman noted. The climax was the per- gala concert. This gala is part of the arts performers, including the Toronto TORONTO – The Vesnivka Choir, formance of Stetsenko’s “The Beatitudes.” and culture component of the City of Symphony Orchestra and world- under the direction of Kvitka Kondracki, To finish off the 2000-2001 season, Toronto’s bid for the 2008 Summer renowned tenor Richard Margison on recently made a guest appearance with Vesnivka Choir has been invited to par- Olympics. June 23 at Roy Thomson Hall. the renowned Amadeus Choir at the North York Performing Arts Center. The program titled “Echoes of the East” was a musical venture into the Slavic choral liturgical repertoire. Vesnivka sang compositions by Verbytsky, Koshetz, Hnatyshyn and Hrechaninov. The Toronto Star’s Gary Chapman had this to say about the choir’s peformance. Vesnivka sang “in [an] appropriately mellifluous manner, articulation clean if too even-handed, emphasizing accuracy over expressive- ness though passion was elicited from ‘Praise The Lord, O My Soul.’ ” Hahilky and vesnianky (spring ritual songs) provided a delightful interlude to the religious repertoire. Kondracki engaged young artists of the Toronto- based Ukraina Dancers, who wove dance patterns to the singing. This was some- thing new and appealing for the largely non-Ukrainian audience of Amadeus subscribers. The highlight of the April 9 concert was the merging of two choirs. Lydia Adams, conductor of Amadeus, left the selection of compositions for this section to Kondracki. She chose and conducted excerpts from “The Divine Liturgy,” by Iakiv Jacynevych, which the reviewer found “exceptionally moving.” Alois Nanke’s “In the Flesh You Fell Asleep – Plotiyu Usnuv” was “nobly done, dark,” and the combined choirs brought “rich Kvitka Kondracki conducts a rehearsal of the Vesnivka and Amadeus choirs. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 No. 25

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Ò‚‚. ‡ÔÔ. èÂÚð‡ ¥ 臂· ‚ ÑÊÂðÁ¥ ëËÚ¥, ç.ÑÊ. – „Ó‰. 9-Ú‡ ð‡ÌÍÛ; Ò‚. ß‚‡Ì‡ ïðÂÒÚËÚÂÎfl Û ÇËÔԇ̥, ç.ÑÊ. – „Ó‰. 7-χ ‚˜.; Veterinarian and author Ò‚. ‡ðıËÒÚð‡ÚË„‡ åËı‡ªÎ‡ ‚ âÓÌÍÂðÒ¥, ç.â. – „Ó‰. 8:30 ð‡ÌÍÛ; èðÂÒ‚flÚÓª íð¥Èˆ¥ ‚ äÂð„ÓÌÍÒÓÌ¥, ç.â. – „Ó‰. 8:15 ð‡ÌÍÛ; Dr. George M. Cehelsky dies Ú‡ ‚ ÛÍð‡ªÌÒ¸Í¥È „ðÂÍÓ-͇ÚÓÎˈ¸Í¥È ˆÂðÍ‚¥ äÓÒÏË ¥ чÏ'fl̇ Family here in America, as well as in Ukraine, ‚ ïÓ‰ÓðÓ‚¥, ìÍð‡ªÌ‡. grieve at the loss of their Patriarch, beloved hus- band, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and uncle.

Dr. George Michael Cehelsky, author and Patriarch of the Cehelsky Clan, died on Thursday, May 31, in Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Reading, Pa., due to complications of cancer, sur- gery and pneumonia. He was 95. with sorrow announces the passing of Surviving are his wife, Veronica; daughter, Anisia Kowalchuk with her husband Roman and their children Roman George and Anna Maria with their families; and daughter, Olga.

Requiem services were celebrated on Saturday, June 9, at 10 a.m., at St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in Jenkintown, Pa., with burial following at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery at Fox Chase. Presiding over the requiem service were Archbishop Stephen Sulyk, Metropolitan-emeri- tus, Father Orest Mykhailiuk, and Father Taras Lonchyna.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests to honor Dr. Cehelsky’s final wish: the sec- ond printing of “From Legends to Facts,” (Vid Legend do Pravdih), authored by his father, Dr. Lonhyn Cehelsky. Those wishing to donate towards this goal, Iwanna please contact Dr. Olga M. Cehelska, 2313-103 Beach Haven Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23451-1263, or call (757) 496-3560. Rozankowskyj a longtime honorary president of UNWLA.

Panakhyda was held Stephan Kosonocky on Tuesday, June 19, 2001, at 7:30 p.m., February 10, 1933 – June 16, 2001 at Peter Jarema Funeral Home in New York City. The Executive Committee and New Jersey branch of the Ukrainian Engineers’ Society of America (UESA) regrets to announce to its members and to the Ukrainian community that Stephan Kosonocky, who served as an officer and longtime mem- Funeral Services were held ber of the UESA, and who was also a branch secretary for the Ukrainian National Association and a member of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, died on Wednesday, June 20, at 9:30 a.m., on Saturday, June 16, at the age of 68. at St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church in New York. The UESA expresses its most sincere sympathy to his wife, Anna; to his son, Andrew; and to his daughter, Natalie. Interment at St. Andrew’s Cemetery Funeral services were held on Wednesday, June 20, 2001, at St. John the Baptist in South Bound Brook, NJ. Ukrainian Catholic Church in Whippany, NJ.

The entire UESA sends condolences to the bereaved family and wishes Stephan Executive Committee of UNWLA Kosonocky eternal peace in the Lord. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 No. 25 Ukrainian pro hockey update

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Unheralded Konowalchuk effective against Stars The defense-first mantra is nothing new for him. Konowalchuk has a hockey card from his junior days in Portland Steve Konowalchuk will not win the which describes him as “a Dave Poulin- Selke Trophy as the National Hockey type player.” When he broke in with the League’s top defensive forward. Heck, Capitals in 1992-1993, Poulin was his he might not even finish in the top five. roommate and finished runner-up in the Too bad. It’s high time a guy this deserv- Selke voting. ing and this unknown got some ink. That’s something that probably won’t You can bet if Selke voting were done happen to Konowalchuk in this year’s by NHL scouts instead of hockey writers, Selke voting, though he sure is deserv- the recognition for the best player ever to ing. come out of Salt Lake City, Utah, would Deadline day sees Burke be overflowing. take back seat “Every time we’ve looked at a player to fill a (checking) role, he’s the one Vancouver Canucks General Manager we’ve (wanted) – and we tried, but couldn’t get him,” said one scout. Brian Burke likes to make a big splash In a recent survey conducted by The whenever he can, but he did not make Hockey News, Konowalchuk beat out even a ripple on trade deadline day. The Edmonton’s Todd Marchant and New Canuck boss completed his only move in Jersey’s John Madden for the Selke March four days earlier when he picked nod. up Ukrainian defenseman Drake Konowalchuk’s anonymity has little Berehowsky from Nashville, dealing a to do with his tenacious play and every- 2001 second-round draft choice. The thing to do with the nature of the team pick actually had belonged to Atlanta he plays for and the Selke itself. Unless and was acquired at the 1999 draft as a you can score like Peter Bondra or stop result of the machinations that allowed ‘em like Olaf Kolzig, it’s tough to get Burke to select both Sedin twins. noticed in Washington. Just ask the man “We obtained a quality player to add who tied for the NHL lead in assists this to our defense,” Burke said. “He’s expe- season. Great year, Adam Oates. Anyone rienced, he’s big, he’s still within our age see it? group and he’s not a rental player. The The Selke also defies simple analysis. media focused a lot on our center-ice Defensive excellence doesn’t translate position, but depth on defense was our into stats. Furthermore, angles and biggest priority.” backchecking and positional play aren’t The Canucks satisfied their need for what anyone really writes about – unless another veteran on the blueline. Mattias the player doing it happens to be a super- Ohlund, Ed Jovanoski, Scott Lachance star having undergone a career transfor- and Murray Baron were all logging big- mation, à la Steve Yzerman or Mike time minutes, and an injury to any one of Modano. them would have meant elevating rookie So guys like Steve Konowalchuk, no Brent Sopel into the top four. offensive slouch himself with career Berehowsky, 29, was a first round highs of 24 goals and 47 points this past draft pick of Toronto in 1990. He is in season, often get left out. The Caps, the final year of an $800,000 (U.S.) con- though, can’t imagine where they’d be tract. In games with his new team without him and his linemates, Jeff Berehowsky played an average of 20:10 Halpern and Ulf Dahlen, to match up and saw action on the ice in all situa- against top lines. tions. He took a regular shift on defense, “That’s one thing you can control, while also manning the point on the sec- being a good defensive player,” said ond power play unit and helping kill Konowalchuk, who was plus 8. “We all penalties. take pride in defense first.” Ukrainian Wild man may return They do it primarily by cycling the puck down low in the offensive zone and He’s gone, but maybe not for good, eating time off the clock. When the play and he’s certainly not forgotten. turns the other way, Konowalchuk tries Defenseman Curtis Leschyshyn was to keep attackers to the outside and not traded by the expansion Minnesota Wild take himself out of position looking for to Ottawa for a third-round draft choice big hits. moments before the NHL trade deadline on March 13. However, don’t be at all surprised if the Ukrainian rearguard ends HELP US HELP THE CHILDREN • AIDONS LES ENFANTS • èêàüíÖãß ÑßíÖâ up wearing a Minnesota sweater again next season. HELP US SEND AN ORPHAN TO CAMP The Wild traded Leschyshyn because

This summer Help Us Help the Children, a project of Children of Chornobyl Canadian Fund, will hold its sixth annual summer camp for orphans in Ukraine. Over 425 children, he is due to become an unrestricted free ages 12-18, from orphanages throughout Ukraine will participate in the Help Us Help The Children Summer Camp 2001 – “Children for Children.” Once again, the camp will be agent this coming summer, but held in the town of Vorokhta, in the Carpathian Mountains. The program is designed to raise the children’s awareness of the power they hold in shaping their lives. They will take part in workshops intended to develop their self-confidence, independence, team-work and self-esteem. Help Us Help The Children’s North American and Ukrainian volun- Leschyshyn said he would seriously con- teers will continue to instill in the children an understanding of Ukraine’s history and culture and to cultivate a sense of belonging and pride in their country. sider coming back to Minnesota.

Once again, we appeal to you to assist Help Us Help The Children and sponsor an orphan to Summer Camp 2001. It costs $150.00 for one child to attend camp. This includes “I felt comfortable here (Minnesota) their transportation to camp, accomodations, three meals a day, new shoes, socks, a hat, T-shirts, pants, towels and hygiene items such as toothpaste and shampoo. With a and I like the way Jacques (Coach minimum donation of $50.00 you will receive a picture of the child you helped to sponsor and a thank-you letter from the child as well as a tax receipt. Please help us in creat- ing an unforgettable two weeks for an orphan in Ukraine this summer! Lemaire) approaches the game,” Leschyshyn said after being traded to the YES, I WOULD LIKE TO SEND AN ORPHAN TO CAMP! Northeast Division-leading Senators for a third-round draft pick in the 2001 draft Name ______Address ______and future considerations. City ______State/Province ______Postal/Zip Code ______Tel.: ______And it’s likely the Wild would wel- come him back. In fact, Minnesota GM J J J J J J J I would like to donate $50.00 $100.00 $150.00 $200.00 $500.00 $1,000.00 other $______Doug Risebrough almost didn’t trade Leschyshyn. Risebrough was talking to Please make checks payable to Help Us Help The Children and mail to: 2118-A Bloor St., W., Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6S 1M8 Leschyshyn’s agent, Rick Curran, the J J night before the trade deadline about a MASTER CARD VISA Amount ______xpiry date ___ - ___ Card # ______possible new deal. “I thought there was a 50-50 chance Signature ______that he was going to stay because of how A tax receipt will be issued in Canada or the United States. If you have any questions, please call us at (416) 604-4511 or fax (416) 604-1688, he fits with our team,” Risebrough said at or send us an e-mail to: [email protected] or [email protected]. Please visit our webpage at www.chornobyl.ca/~huhtc. Charity Reg. #0877332-03 Bus. Reg. #13690 9538 RR 0001 (Continued on page 17) No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 17

and fell to the ice, face first ... Tampa Pro hockey... Bay signed 26-year-old goaltender Dieter (Continued from page 16) Kochan last year from Binghamton of the the time. “But ultimately my responsibili- United League. He made a big impres- ty is to get what I can for a player who sion in two games against the Colorado Ukrainian National Association Estate could have potentially left for nothing.” Avalanche when he allowed just four Foordmore Road, Kerhonkson, New York 12446 goals on 62 shots ... More Bondra: the Tel.: (845) 626-5641 • Fax: (845) 626-4638 Veteran stay-at-home defender Curtis www.soyuzivka.com • e-mail: [email protected] Leschyshyn just may end up re-signing right-winger had 23 power play goals in with Risebrough’s Minnesota club and 82 games, breaking fellow Ukrainian playing out the rest of his career as a Dennis Maruk’s 19-year-old franchise Wild man. record of 20 ... Bondra proceeded to also 2001 camps and workshops at Soyuzivka break Mike Gartner’s franchise-best UKRAINIAN UTTERINGS: Contrary career total of 98. With his 45 goals, BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ CAMP SATURDAY, JUNE 23 – SATURDAY, JULY 7 to published reports, Washington sniper Bondra totalled 21 more than any of his Recreational camp for boys and girls ages 7-12 Peter Bondra said he would have been teammates ... Of course, gritty Ukrainian featuring hiking, swimming, games, Ukrainian songs and folklore, supervised 24 hr. happy playing for the Canadiens had a Room and board: UNA members $330.00 per week/non-members $380.00 per week left-winger Steve Konowalchuk was sec- trade been completed. “I would have Counselor fee: $30.00 per child per week. Limited to 45 campers per week been in Montreal the next morning,” the ond ... Oh, and Bondra declined the Insurance $15.00 per child per week opportunity to be an injury sub at the All- right-winger told the Montreal Gazette ... CHEMNEY FUN CENTER SUNDAY, JULY 8 – SATURDAY, JULY 14 With about two months to go this past Star Game because he had already prom- ised his family a trip to Disney World ... Geared to exposing Ukrainian heritage to the English-speaking pre-schoolers, ages 4-6, regular season Coach Duane Sutter said and school age children 7-10, to their Ukrainian heritage he wanted to give Louisville call-up And finally, hey, you Ukes: the NHL sus- 2 sessions per day 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Denis Shvidki time with centers Vaclav pended defenseman Drake Berehowsky Registration/counselor fee: $90.00 if parents staying at Soyuzivka Prospal and Rob Niedermayer. Shvidki, a for one game after referees ruled he had Registration/counselor fee: $140.00 if parents staying off premises left-winger, was called up because of deliberately tried to step on Anaheim Insurance $10.00 per child Ray Whitney’s back injury ... Shvidki’s defender Vitaly Vishnevski. Berehowsky, Parents staying on premises pay room and board rates accordingly (not due prior to arrival) puck-handling is excellent, and he has a in his defense, said he was only trying to TENNIS CAMP SUNDAY, JULY 8 – FRIDAY, JULY 20 young player’s hunger. Sutter said he’d help center Cliff Ronning (a Nashville Intensive tennis instruction for boys and girls, ages 12-18. like him to circle less in the neutral zone, teammate), who was tangled up with Instructors’ fees $75.00 per child so he’d be in better position to take a Mighty Duck winger German Titov ... Room and board: UNA members $485.00/non-members $535.00 for full session pass ... Caps’ center Andrei Nikolishin Fellas, don’t maim each other! Insurance $30.00 per child. Limited to 45 students finished the year with 25 assists. He had UKRAINIAN FOLK DANCE WORKSHOP AND CAMP I, SUNDAY, JULY 22 - SUNDAY, AUGUST 5 just 25 total points in 1999-2000 ... Left- (Konowalchuk quotes courtesy of winger Keith Tkachuk sustained a con- Washington beat writer Mark Brender; Traditional Ukrainian folk dancing and ballet for intermediate and advanced students ages 8-18 cussion in Edmonton when he tripped other quotes from The Hockey News.) Room and board: UNA members $580.00, non-members $630.00 Insurance $30.00 per child, Instructor’s fee $225.00 Director Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Final 2000-2001 Regular Season Scoring Stats: UKRAINIAN FOLK DANCE CAMP II – SUNDAY, AUGUST 5 - SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 Traditional folk dancing and ballet for beginners, intermediate and advanced dancers ages 7-16 Player Team GP G A PTS PIM Room and board: UNA members $580.00, non-member $630.00 Peter Bondra Washington 82 45 36 81 60 Insurance $30.00 per child, Instructor’s fee $225.00 Director Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Keith Tkachuk Phoenix-St.Louis 76 35 44 79 122 Instructors and assistants: Boris Bohachevsky, Andrij Cybyk, Krissi Izak, Orlando Pagan Oleg Tverdovsky Anaheim 82 14 39 53 32 Attendance limited to 60 students staying at resort and 10 students staying off premises. Steve Konowalchuk Washington 82 24 23 47 87 Dmitri Khristich Toronto-Washington 70 13 25 38 16 UKRAINIAN SITCH SPORTS SCHOOL Tony Hrkac Anaheim 80 13 25 38 29 CAMP I Sunday, July 22 - Saturday, July 28 Andrei Nikolishin Washington 81 13 25 38 34 CAMP II Sunday, July 29 - Saturday, August 4 CAMP III Sunday, August 5 - Saturday, August 11 Alexei Zhitnik Buffalo 78 8 29 37 75 CAMP IV Sunday, August 12 - Saturday, August 18 (this session depending on enrollment) Ruslan Fedotenko Philadelphia 74 16 20 36 72 Sitch Sports School – swimming, soccer, tennis, volleyball for youngsters ages 6-18. Dave Andreychuk Buffalo 74 20 13 33 32 Room and board: UNA members $265.00/non-member $315.00 for full session Drake Berehowsky Nash-Vancouver 80 7 19 26 121 Instructor’s fee $100.00; sessions limited to 45 students Richard Matvichuk Dallas 78 4 16 20 62 Insurance $30.00 per child per week Denis Shvidki Florida 43 6 10 16 16 PRE-REGISTRATION IS ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS UPON RECEIPT OF A $75.00 Brad Lukowich Dallas 80 4 10 14 76 DEPOSIT PER CHILD/PER CAMP. A REGISTRATION/COUNSELOR FEE OF $75.00 (EXCEPT FOR Daniel Tkaczuk Calgary 19 4 7 11 14 CHEMNEY CAMP) PER CHILD/PER CAMP WILL APPLY TO ALL CHILDREN STAYING OFF Maxim Sushinsky Minnesota 30 7 4 11 29 SOYUZIVKA GROUNDS. THE DEPOSIT WILL BE APPLIED AGAINST THIS FEE. Vitaly Vishnevski Anaheim 76 1 10 11 99 BY ORDER OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, ALL NECESSARY MEDICAL FORMS AND PER- Todd Fedoruk Philadelphia 53 5 5 10 109 MISSION SLIPS MUST BE COMPLETED AND RECEIVED BY SOYUZIVKA TOGETHER WITH Curtis Leschyshyn Minn-Ottawa 65 2 7 9 19 THE FULL PAYMENT OF INSTRUCTORS’ FEES AND CAMP PAYMENTS NO LATER THAN 3 WEEKS PRIOR TO THE START OF THE CAMP SESSION. Glen Metropolit Washington 15 1 5 6 10 OTHERWISE THE CHILD WILL LOOSE HIS OR HER PLACE IN CAMP. NO EXCEPTIONS. Mike Maneluk Columbus 39 5 1 6 33 Joey Tetarenko Florida 29 3 1 4 44 PAYMENTS FOR ROOM AND BOARD CAN BE MADE TO SOYUZIVKA BY CASH, CHECK, VISA, MASTERCARD, AMEX OR DISCOVER CARDS. Ken Daneyko New Jersey 77 0 4 4 87 PAYMENTS FOR INSTRUCTOR/COUNSELOR FEES MUST BE MADE BY CHECK OR CASH. Wade Belak Calgary - Toronto 39 1 1 2 110 PLEASE MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO UNA ESTATE - CAMP FEE - UNLESS INDICATED OTHERWISE Steve Halko Carolina 48 0 1 1 6 FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE MANAGEMENT OF SOYUZIVKA. Stanislav Gron New Jersey 1 0 0 0 2 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ANYONE BASED ON AGE, RACE, CREED, SEX OR COLOR. Yuri Babenko Colorado 3 0 0 0 0 Peter Ratchuk Florida 8 0 0 0 0 Rate increase due to raise in camp insurance premiums for New York State. Darcy Hordichuk Atlanta 11 0 0 0 38

Goaltenders: G MINS GA AVG W L T PCT Dieter Kochan Tampa Bay 10 314 18 3.4 0 3 0 .870 Gregg Naumenko Anaheim 2 70 2 6.00 0 1 0 .759 Tax-deductible donations needed to aid the victims of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster and other needy Ukrainian families. “The wall is down, but the people still need your help.”

Ukrainian Relief Fund of Rochester P.O. Box 60552, Rochester, NY 14606 Tel.: (716) 723-3586 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 No. 25 No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 19

control over the old route and not need Chernomyrdin speaks... Poland after all. (Continued from page 2) Gazprom’s mysterious ways have been countries for the past decade. The siphon- compounded by its accounting of Ukraine’s Oleh Slupchynskyj, M.D. ing has also become an energy security debt. Last week the company said that issue for Europe, which relies on Russia for Ukraine owed it $2.5 billion, an increase one-fourth of its gas. Over 90 percent of the over previous estimates of $2 billion. But fuel flows through the former Soviet lines the Petroleum Argus newsletter noted that in Ukraine. Gazprom has not sold any gas directly in Facial Cosmetic Ambassador Chernomyrdin, who once Ukraine for the past two years. served as Gazprom’s chairman, seems to The sales have been handled by Itera, have overruled current board member Yurii raising the question of whether Gazprom is & Reconstructive Surgery Komarov, who cited Ukraine for the diver- counting Itera’s debts as its own. The two sions the week before. have denied ownership links, despite wide- It is unclear whether Mr. Chernomyrdin spread skepticism. It is unclear whether 171 East 74th Street is speaking for Gazprom or only represent- Ambassador Chernomyrdin is acting in the ing the interests of the Russian state, which interests of either company, neither, or New York, NY 10021 owns a 38 percent stake in the gas giant. both. The Russian government often treats any Mr. Chernomyrdin’s son is said to own 212-628-6731 debt to Gazprom as its own, while stakes in companies that have benefited Gazprom regularly acts as a foreign policy from Gazprom business. According to dis- arm of the state in the near abroad. closures in Gazprom’s annual report, the www.facechange.org It also seems odd that it would take ambassador’s children are “significant” President Kuchma over a week to react to shareholders in Stroitransgaz, a Gazprom the charges lodged publicly by Mr. pipeline contractor, the Financial Times Komarov. Ambassador Chernomyrdin has said last week. been holding talks on key issues, including In the meantime, Agence France Presse the merger of Russian and Ukrainian power reported that Gazprom’s new chief execu- grids and joint use of pipelines, the RIA- tive, Aleksei Miller, is interested in selling MARK T. OLESNICKY, M.D. Novosti news agency said. The events sug- up to 5 percent of the company to Royal Internal Medicine gest that the siphoning claim is being used Dutch/Shell, the leading competitor for the as a tool in Russia’s bid to control the Ukrainian pipelines. A combination of 135 Columbia Turnpike, Suite 203 pipelines. Moscow has been working a interests could leave Kyiv with nowhere to two-track strategy by negotiating with turn. Florham Park, NJ 07932 Poland for a new pipeline route to bypass While questions go unanswered, Ukraine. Poland has put off its approval Russia’s strategies seem to be taking a toll Telephone (973) 822-5000 • Fax (973) 822-3321 and sought concessions, while Russia has on Ukraine, raising the chance that it will By Appointment kept up its pressure on Ukraine. Moscow’s soon make a deal for its pipelines with message to Warsaw is that it may obtain Moscow.

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of Stage Formation, Operation and National University... Structure in Systematization” was pub- SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY. (Continued from page 8) lished by Ostroh Academy. Send contributions to: The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 full-time matriculated students. Prof. Lominska was born in Ostroh in Undergraduates at Ostroh now study 1969. She graduated from Lviv State economics, finance, law, foreign lan- University with a degree in philology. guages (there is a major in English, while She was hired as a professor of English German, French, Polish and Spanish are at Ostroh in 1994 and was appointed minors) and humanities (history, cultural vice-rector in 1999. studies, and documents and information In 1997 she became one of three analysis). Beginning in September, politi- Ostroh professors who enrolled at cal science will be offered. On the gradu- Northern Illinois University as part of ate level, Ostroh offers history and psy- the NIU/Ostroh project in “Democracy chology, as well as a certificate program and Education,” funded in part by the for specialists in Christian ethics. Eurasia Foundation. Her NIU thesis was Admission is very competitive, as there on “Language Education in Ukraine and are 23 applicants for each slot and a writ- National Identity: A Historical Analysis,” ten exam is required for entrance. “We and she graduated with a master of sci- accept only the best of the best” based on ence degree in education. Her thesis was their qualifications, not on their connec- published this year by Ostroh Academy tions, said Prof. Lominska. Our goal, she in a bilingual Ukrainian-English edition. continued, “is not only to educate, but to A permanent endowment produce patriots of Ukraine.” Toward that end, the university teaches its students the Ostroh Academy’s rector and vice-rec- history of Ukraine and of the diaspora, as tor explained that one of their goals is to well as other courses aimed at stressing create a stable endowment fund based on the students’ Ukrainian identity. hard currency. To be called the Forty-one of the school’s students are International Fund for the Rebirth of now studying in all parts of the world, Ostroh Academy, its long-term goal is $1 and none, according to the two university million. One of the goals of the endow- officials, have expressed a desire to ment is to provide an excellent education remain abroad. All want to return to for talented orphans who would not other- Ukraine and put the knowledge gained wise be able to afford attending Ostroh. abroad to good use in their homeland. “Ukraine must be built, and our grad- Tuition is $300 per year and the universi- uates will do this,” Dr. Pasichnyk stated ty is funded by the government, philanthro- with certainty during his presentations. pists, individual citizens of Ukraine and That message appears to have been heard supporters in the diaspora. Although the loud and clear, and the appreciation of bulk of its funding does come from the this goal was reflected in the reaction at government, Ostroh Academy is community gatherings. autonomous, which means the university During their tour of Ukrainian has the right to determine its curriculum American communities Dr. Pasichnyk and and choose its students. Furthermore, the Prof. Lominska succeeded in raising rector is chosen by the faculty and students; $20,000. In comparison, since 1997 they a 90 percent vote of approval is required for had raised $25,000 in North America. The the person who holds that position. donations collected are meant to provide Dr. Pasichnyk, who has served as rec- support for the university’s general fund, tor since its rebirth in 1994, was born in as well as funding for scholarships, the the village of Hlynky, Rivne Oblast, in reconstruction of a historic 16th century 1946. He attended Kyiv State University, church that will be transformed into an Lviv State University and the Rivne ecumenical house of worship – the first Pedagogical Institute, receiving his can- such church in all of Ukraine – and for the didate’s degree in 1981 and his doctorate permanent endowment fund. in psychology in 1993. * * * He has published more than 50 schol- For further information, write to arly articles; his book “The Psychology National University of Ostroh Academy, 2 Seminarska Street, Ostroh, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine 265620. Donations, via checks made out to the Shakespeare at Ostroh Ukrainian National Foundation (which PARSIPPANY, N.J. – We often functions under the aegis of the take for granted annual Shakespeare Ukrainian National Association) with the festivals put on by students at local notation “Ostroh Fund” may be sent to: schools, like Drew University in Dr. Myron B. Kuropas, chairman, Madison, N.J., whose Shakespeare Friends of Ostroh Academy, 107 Festival is widely known. But many Ilehamwood Drive, DeKalb, IL 60115. would be pleasantly surprised to hear that such exhibitions also occur half a world away, at Ukraine’s Ostroh Academy. On May 14 and 16, the English Speaking Club (ESC) of the National University of Ostroh Academy hosted a two-day event called Shakespeare Days. The first half took the form of a discussion session, at which partici- pants presented their own original poetry and discussed various works by the famed English poet and play- wright. The second installment fea- tured the highlight of the festival, a theatrical performance of a Shakespearean play in the English language. Throughout the event, the ESC presented awards to students in recognition of noteworthy acting, interpretation and poetry, to name just a few categories. Representatives of the Rivne School of Hope also took part in Ostroh Academy’s Shakespeare Days. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2001 No. 25

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Thursday, June 28 - Tuesday, July 2 more information call Olenka Bodnarskyj- Gunn, (716) 886-5881. TORONTO: The Ukrainian schooner Batkivschyna and the Discover Ukraine Friday, July 6 project will participate in Toronto Harbor’s “Parade of Lights.” Visitors will have the NEW YORK: In celebration of the opportunity to meet the captain and crew Rusalka-Kupalo season, the Ukrainian Art of the Batkivschyna, which will be docked and Literary Club and the New York behind the Harbour Castle Hilton by the Bandura Ensemble present “Rusalka Sat Island Ferry docks. “Parade of Lights” is a on the White Birch Tree,” an evening of boating festival in which each boat is deco- Ukrainian ritual music featuring Lavrentia rated with lights. Visitors are encouraged Turkewicz, who will sing water sprite and to donate strings of decorative (Christmas) summer solstice songs to the accompani- lights for the ship’s participation in the ment of the bandura. Time: 7 p.m. event. Any winnings will be donated to Donation: $10. “Rusalia: Fertility Rites of charity. For more information, the captain Spring,” an exhibit of photo reproductions and crew can be reached via e-mail at featuring the ancient ritual celebrations as [email protected]. depicted on Ukrainian bracelet jewelry from the Kyivan-Rus’ period (12th - 13th Friday, June 29 centuries), will be on view until July 8. Gallery hours: Friday, 6-8 p.m.; Saturday- NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Sunday, 1-5 p.m. The Mayana Gallery is Society is sponsoring a presentation by Dr. located at 136 Second Ave., fourth floor. Oleh Romaniv, a member of the National For more information call (212) 260-4490 Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and presi- or (212) 777-8144; visit the website dent of the Shevchenko Scientific Society http://www.brama.com/mayana; or e-mail in Ukraine, on “The Recent Manifestations [email protected]. of Russification in Ukraine.” The presenta- tion will be held at the Shevchenko Wednesday-Sunday, July 18-22 Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and 10th streets), at 5 p.m. For infor- PHILADELPHIA: St. Vladimir Senior and mation call (212) 254-5130. Junior chapters of the Ukrainian Orthodox League cordially invite the public to attend UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Saturday, June 30-Sunday, July 1 the 54th Annual UOL Convention at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel. Highlights KERHONKSON, N.Y.: An exhibit of include: dining and dancing on Thursday ANNUITY RATES Ukrainian ceramics and pysanky by New evening at the New Jersey State Aquarium; York artist Sofika Zielyk will be on dis- the “First UOL Talent Show of the New EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 2001 play and available for purchase in the Millennium” on Friday evening; the grand library of the main building of Soyuzivka banquet and ball on Saturday evening at the from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on both days. The Sheraton, with music provided by Paul Single & Flexible Premium Annuities exhibit will include over 250 pysanky on Kauriga and his orchestra; and the hierarchi- First year rate (new money) chicken, goose, rhea and ostrich eggs. For cal divine liturgy and farewell luncheon on (rate locked in for one year) further information call (212) 533-6419. Sunday at St. Vladimir Parish. For conven- 6.50% tion information call Mark Bohen, (610) 254- Tuesday-Wednesday, July 3-4 0248; or Lynn Szafranski, (609) 698-1951. Single & Flexible Premium Annuities BUFFALO, N.Y.: The Children of Monday-Thursday, September 10-13 Chornobyl Relief Fund (Buffalo Chapter) (EXISTING) will host the Ukrainian gaff schooner KERHONKSON, N.Y.: Regensberg High $100,000.00 and over Batkivschyna at the Canada-U.S. Friendship School will host a reunion for all former 5.75% Festival at the Erie Basin Marina. There will faculty, students and friends at Soyuzivka. be a ceremony to greet the crew on Tuesday, The motto is “Aby Sche Raz” (If Only $50,000.00 - $99,999.99 July 3, at 7 p.m. at the marina. The commu- One More Time). For more information nity will welcome the crew at 9 p.m. at the about this celebration and to register con- (EXISTING) 5.50% Ukrainian Home Dnipro, 562 Genesee St. tact Vasyl Luchkiw: by mail, 49 Windmill ($5 admission). On July 4 from noon to 10 Lane, New City, N.Y. 10959; by tele- p.m. there will be a series of performances phone, (845) 634-9353; by fax, (845) 634- $100.00 - $49,999.99 featuring the Chaika Dance Ensemble from 5370. For accommodations contact the Hamilton, Ontario, and Zoloti Struny Soyuzivka estate management: telephone, (EXISTING) 5.25% Bandura Group from Rochester, N.Y. For (845) 626-5641; fax, (845) 626-4638.

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