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INSIDE:• Ambassador Shcherbak’s Independence Day address — page 6. •A personal reflection on Independence Day 1991 — page 7. • News on the theater and music scenes — centerfold.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXVI HE KRAINIANNo. 35 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1998 EEKLY$1.25/$2 in Ukraine Canada’sT new envoyUUkraine marks seventh anniversaryW of independence to Ukraine signals a shift in strategy by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj Toronto Press Bureau TORONTO – A brief address deliv- ered in the past week by Canada’s newly appointed ambassador to Ukraine, Derek Fraser, has signaled an apparent shift in Ottawa’s foreign relations strategy vis-à- vis Ukraine from a political to an eco- nomic focus. On August 21, the Canada-Ukraine Business Initiative and the Canada- Ukraine Chamber of Commerce hosted a luncheon with Canada’s envoy to Kyiv at the Board of Trade in the provincial capi- tal’s downtown, in concert with its annu- al general meetings. Mr. Fraser’s predecessor, Christopher Westdal, had spoken at length about Ukraine’s potential as a linchpin in a realigned European order, particularly with regard to cooperation with NATO and other international bodies. The new Roman Woronowycz appointee asserted that his mission in Kyiv would function as an agency to fur- The dais at the Ukraina Palace of Culture during the commemorative government session marking seven years of independence. ther Canadian business interests. by Roman Woronowycz gala concert. in Moscow brought down the already Mr. Westdal and officials such as for- Kyiv Press Bureau Ukraine’s recently elected chairman of crumbling Soviet Union, Mr. Tkachenko’s mer International Trade Minister Art the Verkhovna Rada, Oleksander emphasis seemed to be on what he Eggleton, who recently visited Ukraine KYIV – Ukraine celebrated its seventh Tkachenko, gave the single address at the described as the seamless continuum of as minister of defense, had noted that anniversary of independence on August 22- commemorative session after being intro- Ukrainian history since the Communist Ukraine and Canada are not major trad- 24 with statements by leaders and images duced by the presidential representative to Revolution in 1917. ing partners and are not likely to become better suited to an earlier time marked by the city of Kyiv, Oleksaner Omelchenko. “I ask you not to be ashamed of the 70- such in the near future, even as they red banners and hammers and sickles. Mr. Tkachenko was invited to give the plus Soviet years,” said Mr. Tkachenko, expressed Ottawa’s abiding interest in At the official celebration of independ- Independence Day speech by President who was the minister of agriculture of the Kyiv’s political security and sensitivity ence, held on Sunday, August 23, at the Leonid Kuchma. Ukrainian SSR at the end of that era. “This to the sentiments harbored by Ukrainian Ukraina Palace of Culture, the country’s Although the rambling one-hour speech Canadians. is our history, our life. Without those years leaders gathered with thousands of invit- did mention the successes and failures that there would have been no sovereign Mr. Fraser, on the other hand, drew on ed guests for a special commemorative Ukraine has experienced since it declared his experience as ambassador to Hungary session of the government, followed by a independence in 1991, after a failed putsch (Continued on page 3) in the recent post-Warsaw Pact transition period. He proudly recalled that during his tenure Canada became “Hungary’s sixth largest trading partner, on par with Embassy in Washington hosts Independence Day reception Britain and the Netherlands, and ahead by Yaro Bihun Ukrainian National Association, Jenkins, executive director of the of Japan.” Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Wolodymyr Sochan, with the Ukrainian Ukraine-U.S. Business Council, headed “Let’s see what we can do in President’s Award for Merit medal. the business community presence. Ukraine,” Mr. Fraser said. WASHINGTON – The Ukrainian Among those present at the reception Addressing the guests, Ambassador The envoy, who was formally appoint- Embassy in Washington marked from the U.S. government were Ross Shcherbak underscored the historic ed on July 15 but did not arrive back in Ukrainian Independence Day with an Wilson, the principal deputy to the State importance of Ukraine’s independence, Canada from his previous posting in anniversary reception on August 24. Department’s ambassador-at-large and which, he said, “radically changed the Athens until August 20, called himself “an Ukraine’s ambassador to the United special advisor to the secretary of state for geopolitical map of Europe.” activist,” reiterating that he intends “to States, Dr. Yuri Shcherbak, who hosted the new independent states; Melanne Despite the many, primarily economic, operate as [the Canadian business commu- the Embassy event, recounted Ukraine’s Verveer, the first lady’s chief of staff; and problems that remain to be resolved in nity’s] lobbyist and agent in Kyiv.” accomplishments over the seven years of Ambassador William Courtney, until Ukraine, there is “much to celebrate,” he Showing that he had a diplomat’s its independence and some of the prob- recently special assistant to the president said: Ukraine has been free of inter-ethnic knack for speaking to his audience, Mr. lems that still have to be overcome, and and senior director for Russia, Ukraine and inter-regional conflicts; it transferred Fraser told his CUBI-CUCC hosts he is stressed his government’s determination and Eurasian affairs at the National executive and legislative power through from “the Canadian equivalent of to achieve its goals as Ukraine enters the Security Council. free elections, introduced economic Transcarpathia” – British Columbia. 21st century. Russia’s ambassador to the United reforms, adopted a new Constitution and Asked after the luncheon whether Before a packed Embassy reception States, Yuli Vorontsov, led the list of election law, rid itself of nuclear weapons, Ukraine had achieved a stable presence room that included U.S. officials, diplo- foreign diplomatic guests including rep- joined a number of Western structures, on the geopolitical map and is entering a mats, businesspeople and members of the resentatives from Kazakstan, Poland, established diplomatic relations with new phase of international relations that Ukrainian American community, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, France, more than 150 countries, opened 70 would enable it to concentrate on trade, Ambassador Shcherbak also honored a the Czech Republic, Uzbekistan, embassies and other diplomatic missions, Mr. Fraser said he wasn’t ready to com- long-time executive officer of the Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan; Kempton (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 13) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1998 No. 35

U.S. to finance pipeline feasibility study Eastern Economist ing Ukraine’s energy self-sufficiency, the NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Pivdennyi-Brody Oil Pipeline also would KYIV – The U.S. Trade and reduce Bosporus tanker traffic, provide Value of ruble plunges telephone conversation on August 22 that Development Agency (TDA) has another outlet for Caspian crude oil and he expects the IMF to soon approve a loan MOSCOW – The value of the ruble announced a $750,000 grant to the gov- provide alternate oil supplies of higher to Ukraine. Mr. Camdessus assured the ernment of Ukraine for a feasibility study continues to fall against the dollar, Ukrainian president that the fund supports quality crude to the refineries of Central falling 10 percent and closing at 7.86 to on the proposed Pivdennyi-Brody Oil and Eastern Europe. Ukraine’s economic reforms. The IMF Pipeline Project. $1 on August 25. It was the biggest drop loan is widely expected to stabilize The pipeline, which would include since “Black Tuesday,” October 11, The grant agreement was signed in two pumping stations along its route, Ukraine’s financial market in the wake of Kyiv by U.S. Ambassador Steven K. 1994, when the ruble sank more than 25 Russia’s financial crisis. (RFE/RL would have an initial capacity of 14.5 percent. Acting Prime Minister Viktor Pifer and Valerii Shuliko, deputy chair- million tons per year, increasing later to Newsline) man of the State Oil and Gas Committee. Chernomyrdin told reporters that the fall an annual capacity of 30 million tons. of ruble is both an “economic and a Kuchma for Chernomyrdin’s approval The $1.5 million study will evaluate the Following the signing ceremony Mr. construction of the pipeline, which would political issue.” He said that “our econo- Shuliko and Ambassador Pifer met with my is too closely linked to politics.” KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma serve as a connector between a new oil the media. Mr. Shuliko said the told Interfax on August 24 that he hopes terminal at the port of Pivdennyi, near Andrei Illarionov, director of the Ukrainian pipeline was discussed during Moscow-based Economic Analysis the Russian State Duma will confirm Odesa, and the existing Druzhba pipeline the recent meeting of the Kuchma-Gore Institute said he can envision a 15 Viktor Chernomyrdin as Russia’s prime system. commission during which U.S. Vice- ruble/$1 exchange rate if Russian finan- minister. The president of Ukraine added In addition to the TDA funding, the President Al Gore was non-committal on cial policy is not overhauled and the that the latest developments in Russia U.S. contractor for the feasibility study, support for a Caspian oil pipeline leadership of the Central Bank replaced. emphasize the importance of a “strong Gulf Interstate Engineering of Houston, Earlier Mr. Illarionov had declared a and stable government.” An official from will contribute $750,000. While improv- (Continued on page 14) devaluation of the ruble inevitable. the Ukrainian presidential administration (RFE/RL Newsline) told ITAR-TASS the same day that Mr. Kuchma believes Mr. Chernomyrdin Ukraine’s hryvnia slides “will manage to put the nation’s financial issues in order.” (RFE/RL Newsline) KYIV – In the wake of the Russian ruble’s plunge, the Ukrainian hryvnia Protesting miners under investigation slid to 2.249 to $1 on August 25, only LUHANSK – The Luhansk Oblast slightly below the upper limit of 2.250 to Procurator’s Office has launched an $1 set by the government. National Bank investigation into a clash between riot of Ukraine Chairman Viktor Yuschenko police and 150 miners who were protest- had said last week’s devaluation of the ing wage arrears, Ukrainian Radio and hryvnia to 2.243 to $1 was a “sufficient Television reported on August 25. The reaction to the decline of the Russian clash took place in a Luhansk city park ruble,” Ukrainian News reported on the previous day, Ukraine’s Independence August 22. He pledged to keep the offi- Day, when the miners gathered to burn a cial exchange rate of the hryvnia below straw effigy. Police troops arrived at the the previously announced upper limit of 2.250 to $1. He also stressed that (Continued on page 4) Ukraine’s banks are solvent, despite the fact that most banks curtailed financial operations last week. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Valerii Pustovoitenko called for urgent talks with CIS government heads Havel comments to work out a “common position” on the financial crisis in Russia, Interfax report- ed on August 21. (RFE/RL Newsline) on 1968 invasion Ambassador Yuri Shcherbak (right) presents the President’s Award for Merit to RFE/RL Newsline Wolodymyr Sochan, a longtime leader in the Ukrainian National Associaton. IMF delays action on loan PRAGUE – President Vaclav Havel, Embassy in Washington... ernment’s efforts to foster economic devel- KYIV – The IMF announced on in a Czech Radio address on August 20 opment and democracy. And we look for- August 25 that it may need more time to marking the 30th anniversary of the 1968 (Continued from page 1) ward to working with you in the coming assess the effects on Ukraine of Russia’s Soviet-led invasion of Czecho-Slovakia enjoys friendly relations with all of its millennium that you referred to in meeting financial crisis and change of government by Warsaw Pact countries, said the inva- neighboring countries, and has developed a those challenges.” before setting a date to approve a $2.2 bil- sion had revealed communism’s “totali- strategic partnership with the United States. Presenting the Ukrainian President’s lion loan to Ukraine, the Associated Press tarian character.” Ambassador Shcherbak said that Award for Merit to Mr. Sochan, reported. The IMF Executive Board was He said that for him the short-lived Ambassador Shcherbak noted that it was in Ukraine considers the Ukraine-U.S. strate- expected to meet by the end of August to “Prague Spring” meant “a time when one recognition of his “personal contribution in gic partnership “one of the most important approve the first installment of the loan, could breathe and speak again after 20 promoting Ukrainian-U.S. cooperation and achievements in Ukrainian foreign policy,” totaling between $200 million and $250 years,” and added that “nobody who his activities in Ukrainian American institu- and he expressed Ukraine’s appreciation for million. Ukrainian officials have said the lived in that era can forget it.” tions for many years.” continued U.S. support of Ukraine’s inde- loan will be used primarily to replenish At its headquarters in Prague, Radio Mr. Sochan, now an honorary member of pendence and development. the reserves of the National Bank of Free Europe/Radio Liberty organized a the Ukrainian National Association General Ukraine. International Monetary Fund symposium attended by several key par- Looking ahead at the “long and hard Assembly, retired from the fraternal organi- road” Ukraine must travel into the 21st cen- Managing Director Michel Camdessus ticipants in the 1967-1968 reforms, zation’s Executive Committee in 1994 after had told President Leonid Kuchma in a including former officials and dissidents. tury, Dr. Shcherbak expressed his confi- 45 years of service at the UNA, including dence that Ukraine will overcome its eco- 28 years as supreme secretary. nomic problems and will succeed in achiev- He is a member of the Secretariat of the FOUNDED 1933 ing its goal of becoming “a prosperous, Presidium of the World Congress of democratic nation in the family of European Ukrainians and was a member of the initia- countries.” HE KRAINIAN EEKLY tive group that laid the groundwork for the TAn English-languageU newspaperW published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., “We are determined to achieve this establishment of the World Congress of a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. 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Ukraine marks... (Continued from page 1) Ukraine.” The 59-year-old leader of the Agrarian Party of Ukraine called for a return to clos- er ties with Russia and for further integra- tion into the Commonwealth of Independent States via its Inter- Parliamentary Assembly. Mr. Tkachenko said that Ukrainians must not forget that Kyivan Rus’ was actu- ally a Slavic empire of Ukrainians, Russians and Belarusians, and criticized the democratic forces that, in his words, forgot about the economy and the people in their pursuit of an idea. “You remember under what slogans this crime against what is above all the Slavic family took place: ‘Away from Moscow!’ ‘We will maintain only ties convenient for us.’ ‘The West will help us!’ For whom was this convenient?” asked the Verkhovna Rada chairman. He also called on the Ukrainian govern- ment not to depend on foreign borrowing to help ease Ukraine out of its economic morass. “Of course we need investments and credits, but not the kind that will leave Roman Woronowycz as naked and barefoot,” he added. Military vehicles carrying rockets lumber down the Khreschatyk during the parade on Ukrainian Independence Day. He said that in 1919, faced with an eco- nomic crisis, Lenin answered with the New Economic Program (NEP), which saved the fledgling Soviet Union and did not rely on foreign borrowing. Mr. Tkachenko, who included “com- rades” among the people he greeted at the start of his speech, put Volodymyr Scherbytsky, first secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine in the 1970s and 1980s, on the list of those who con- tributed to the development of Ukrainian statehood. Mr. Scherbytsky was known for his fierce loyalty to Moscow during the Soviet era and for the intensive Russification programs he instituted in Ukraine. By all appearances, Mr. Tkachenko’s speech did not go over very well with the government leaders gathered on the dais of the Ukraina Palace stage. No one offered a handshake of congrat- ulations after Mr. Tkachenko finished; applause from the audience was brief and polite. During the speech, Viktor Yuschenko, chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine and a person who has done much to establish a Western monetary poli- cy for Ukraine, very consciously and obvi- ously turned his chair and his body away from the direction of the podium from which Mr. Tkachenko was speaking. Young Ukrainian athletes march on August 24. Foreign Affairs Minister Borys Tarasiuk was seen to shake his head a few times. Even President Kuchma seemed to have had enough by the end of the 60-minute presentation, as he sat with his head in his hands. He also did not offer the Parliament leader a handshake as he returned to his seat. The Rukh Party, which in its original form as a pro-democracy movement led Ukraine’s move towards independence in the late 1980s and early 1990s, respond- ed critically to Mr. Tkachenko’s speech. In a statement released by RukhPress, party leader Vyacheslav Chornovil called Mr. Tkachenko’s words “an act against the state.” He said the presence of high govern- ment officials during the presentation could be construed as tacit approval of Mr. Tkachenko’s words, and called on President Kuchma to make known his atti- tude towards the speech. Also present at the commemorative ses- sion were members of the Ukrainian dias- pora. Their reactions were predictable. “This is simply a terrible and negative speech, a return to old Soviet traditions,” said Dr. Paul Dzul, who was in Ukraine for the convention of the World Federation of Ukrainian Medical Associations. (Continued on page 13) Ukrainian national guardsmen passing the reviewing stand during the military portion of the parade. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1998 No. 35

OBITUARIES and political impact of price increases cer- Newsbriefs tain to be triggered by the devaluation of (Continued from page 2) the ruble. In a related development, Mr. scene after receiving an anonymous tele- Gorbachev told Interfax that he has turned phone call saying that the effigy contained down an invitation to meet with the Walter Klawsnik, past commander an explosive device. The miners refused Duma’s Impeachment Commission per- to let policemen examine the effigy and sonally because some of its members were of Ukrainian American Veterans fought back. Twelve policemen and eight supporters of the so-called Emergency miners were hospitalized after the skir- Committee that launched the August 1991 by Johanna Klawsnik Hyannis Port, Mass. coup against him. (RFE/RL Newsline) During World War II Mr. Klawsnik had mish. (RFE/RL Newsline) BAYSIDE, N.Y. – Walter Klawsnik served as a flight officer and bombardier in Coup anniversary passes almost unnoticed died of Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) on Odesa elects Bodelan mayor the United States Air Force. He was deco- July 24. As a past national commander of MOSCOW – Approximately 50 peo- rated with the American Campaign Medal ODESA – Ruslan Bodelan, former the Ukrainian American Veterans, and for- ple gathered near the Russian White and the Victory Medal of Honor. In civilian chairman of the Odesa Oblast, was elect- mer president of Ukrainian National ed mayor of Odesa on August 23, House on August 19 to commemorate the Association Branch 325, Mr. Klawsnik life Mr. Klawsnik became the president of seventh anniversary of the 1991 coup and a leading marking device manufacturing Ukrainian Television reported. Mr. was a distinguished member of the Bodelan, who was supported by the gov- Russian resistance to it, the Associated Ukrainian American community. corporation in New York. Press reported. The demonstrators, who Mr. Klawsnik was known also as a ded- ernment in his mayoral bid, received Mr. Klawsnik was elected to the post of some 100,000 votes (36 percent) in the carried Russian flags and portraits of national commander of the Ukrainian icated husband and father to his family. President Boris Yeltsin, were heckled by His friends, family and community will ballot. More than 30 candidates ran in the American Veterans (UAV) on June 25, election, and turnout was 36 percent. The Communists and coal miners protesting 1965. During his administration he advo- always appreciate and remember his the Yeltsin administration for failing to thoughtfulness. city’s previous mayoral elections held in cated the establishment of new veterans’ March were declared invalid when the pay workers on time. Neither President Burial was at the Holy Spirit Ukrainian Yeltsin nor former Soviet leader Mikhail posts, the revival of old posts and cooper- victor, former Odesa Mayor Eduard Catholic Cemetery in Hamptonburgh, Gorbachev made any public statements ation with the Canadian Veterans Hurvits, was found guilty of breaking the Association. N.Y. At the funeral a veterans tribute was about the events of 1991. (RFE/RL law. Mr. Hurvits was banned from run- He also worked vigorously for the given by former UAV National Newsline) ning for re-election. (RFE/RL Newsline) UAV to receive national recognition from Commander Ben Bezkorowajny. Other Pustovoitenko continues tax collection the U.S. Department of Defense. On prominent Ukrainians who attended the Kuchma confers with Sen. Lugar behalf of the UAV, Mr. Klawsnik thanked service were: John O. Flis, former KYIV – Following two unorthodox KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower by telegram supreme president of the UNA; Andrew measures to collect tax debts – civil met with U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar in for unveiling the Taras Shevchenko monu- Keybida, former finance officer of the defense exercises for directors of debtor Kyiv on August 23 to discuss U.S. assis- ment in Washington in 1964. UAV and former UNA advisor; John A. companies and the seizure of cars from tax tance to Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament When John F. Kennedy ran for presi- Flis manager of Soyuzivka; and Daniel delinquents – Ukrainian Prime Minister program. Mr. Kuchma noted that U.S. dent of the United States, Mr. Klawsnik Slobodian, former manager of Soyuzivka. Valerii Pustovoitenko announced a third funds to assist Ukraine in destroying mis- helped represent the Ukrainian Surviving are Mr. Klawsnik’s wife, stage of tax collection on August 19. The sile silos are being transferred “on time,” Americans’ advocacy of a free Ukraine at Stella; son, Robert; daughter, Johanna; government is to immediately establish but he complained that the money allo- a meeting in Kennedy’s private home in and grandchildren, nieces and nephews. “tax collection posts” at all debtor compa- cated for recultivating the land around nies. “The tax collection posts will exer- the former silos is not, the Associated cise control over the production and sale of Press reported. Sen. Lugar, who along all output and the payment of taxes, with Sen. Sam Nunn initiated a U.S. aid including barter and goods exchange oper- program to former Soviet republics to ations,” Ukrainian Television quoted Mr. eliminate their nuclear arsenals, pledged Pustovoitenko as saying. But Mr. continued economic aid to Ukraine and Pustovoitenko’s unorthodox measures to praised Kyiv for its support of the recent collect outstanding taxes have not proved U.S. attacks in Sudan and Afghanistan. very effective to date. Tax arrears totaling (RFE/RL Newsline) 8.3 billion hrv ($3.7 billion U.S.) on Moroz receives Order of Yaroslav the Wise August 1 were reduced by only 5.6 percent by August 17. (RFE/RL Newsline) KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma presented the Order of Prince Yaroslav Lego exhibit arrives in Kyiv the Wise to Oleksander Moroz, former KYIV – The 1998 Danish children’s chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and show, Legoland on Wheels, arrived for the today chairman of the Parliament’s first time in Kyiv on August 22-24. This Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land. free event, which celebrated Ukraine’s He received the award “for personal con- Independence Day, included an assort- tributions to the Ukrainian state in the ment of games for children at Kontraktova Walter Klawsnik (right) at a meeting with President John F. Kennedy and his wife, realm of state-building and a significant Ploscha in the historic Podil section of the Jacqueline. contribution to the development of leg- capital. With the guidance of Lego design- islative authority in the country.” The ers from Lithuania and Denmark, kids award was presented on the occasion of could also help construct a huge Lego the seventh anniversary of Ukraine’s Sphinx or a two-by-three meter Ukrainian Romana L. Pyndus, Newark activist independence proclamation. (Respublika) flag. Lego’s 1998 tour of European cities NEWARK, N.J. – Romana L. Pyndus, a Melnik, and his wife, Helen. Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact protested has already made stops in Austria, respected member of the New Jersey A panakhyda (requiem service) was held Germany, Norway and Switzerland. The Ukrainian community, died on May 24 in on May 26 at the Lytwyn and Lytwyn CHISINAU – Some 200 people on models to be displayed are made up of St. Barnabas Hospital. She was 79. Mrs. Funeral Home in Union, N.J. The funeral August 23 participated in a rally in 280,000 Lego pieces and cover 50 square Pyndus was a member of St. John the liturgy was held on May 27 at St. John the Chisinau, capital of Moldova, marking meters. (Eastern Economist) Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, and Baptist Church and burial followed at St. the 59th anniversary of the signing of the was active in the senior citizens’ group and Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery in Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, which led to EBRD gives preliminary OK for credit the Sodality at the parish here. South Bound Brook, N.J. Bessarabia’s annexation by Stalinist KYIV – The Ministry of Environmental Born on March 11, 1919, in Lviv, Mrs. Russia in 1940. The participants demand- Safety reported that the board of directors Pyndus was the daughter of Symen and ed the “elimination of the historic injus- of the European Bank for Reconstruction Anna Skrypij. She had three sisters, Ola, tice,” the annulment of “all consequences and Development has agreed to provide Iwanka and Iryna, and two brothers, Yurij of the pact” and the restoration of the $190 million (U.S.) in credits toward the and Mykola, all of whom are deceased. “Romanian unitary state within its his- completion of units at the Rivne and Mykola Skrypij, was a renowned goalie for toric borders,” Infotag reported. The pro- Khmelnytskyi atomic energy stations. The the Ukraina hockey team in Lviv. Yurij testers also shouted anti-Russian slogans main condition for EBRD financing is the Skrypij was a participant in the ill-fated bat- in front of the Russian Embassy and opening of power units at both plants. tle at Brody (1944), where the Galicia demanded the release of Ilie Ilascu, who According to the EBRD, starting up the Division fought the advancing Red Army; has been jailed for six years in the new units – which are being counted on to he was subsequently captured by the Transdniester region. (RFE/RL Newsline) replace power lost from Chornobyl’s shut- Soviets and sent to Siberia. Gorbachev denounces Russian president down – would ease the doubts that nag Romana Skrypij immigrated to the EBRD experts about EnergoAtom’s ability United States in the early 1950s and mar- MOSCOW – Former Soviet leader to repay the credits. Environmental Safety ried Yaroslav Pyndus in 1955; their son, Mikhail Gorbachev told Reuters on Ministry experts, however, think that the Roman, was born on October 3, 1956. She August 19 that President Boris Yeltsin financing will make it possible to begin worked as a lab scientist at Sandoz would perform “his last good deed for his operations by 2000; this target date is the Pharmaceuticals for 18 years and was an people” if he called early elections. But he main condition for an early shutdown of active participant in Essex County politics. suggested that Mr. Yeltsin is unlikely to do Chornobyl. Sources estimate the total nec- Mrs. Pyndus is survived by her son, that because “I don’t think he realizes essary for the completion of the two power Roman Jaroslaw; daughter-in-law, Iryna; what the situation is.” Mr. Gorbachev said units at between $900 million and $1.6 bil- grandson, Orest; and nephew, Vladimir Romana L. Pyndus he is especially worried about the social lion (U.S.). (Eastern Economist) No. 35 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1998 5 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

UNA launches new insurance program featuring discount card Young UNA’ers by Martha Lysko and is insured for life. Anyone from age you need to do is complete the form on UNA National Secretary 18 to 60 is eligible to participate. the bottom of this article and enclose a Persons age 61 to 70 can purchase a check for the specified amount. Within The UNA has introduced an innova- Whole-Life policy or a Whole-Life one week you will receive from the tive insurance program offering three Single-Premium policy for the minimum UNA an application that must be benefits for one low price. The package $2,000 face amount. This is the UNA’s returned to the Home Office. Within provides basic life insurance coverage standard-issue policy that offers full two weeks you will receive a discount for those who may not need comprehen- membership privileges to the insured. card and a certificate for the ADD con- sive coverage or those who claim they No medical examination is required tract. have enough insurance but want to on these policies. Policyholders can This three-part program is meant to become involved in a Ukrainian frater- become members of any branch they be sold as a package; no part of this nal society. It also provides accidental choose; if no branch is selected, a offer is available separately. However, death and dismemberment coverage for branch will be assigned based on the the Ukrainian National Association those who feel they need this type of residency of the individual. insurance. In addition, the program offers a wide variety of insurance prod- offers a discount membership card – a Plus ADD contract ucts that are not a part of this special trial offer. Our staff of insurance pro- fraternal benefit being offered for the The next component of this new first time by the Ukrainian National fessionals can provide all the details package is a $10,000 accidental death and answer any questions you might Association. and dismemberment contract (ADD), Called the UNA Heritage Program, it have. which is available to anyone age 18 and All secretaries of UNA branches, all is being promoted on a trial basis to up. It is part of a group policy that the gauge interest in pre-packaged benefits UNA organizers and all those interested UNA will hold for all insured. The in supporting UNA – as well as its two among community members. It is meant member will receive an individual con- to be bought and sold by anyone who newspapers, Svoboda and The Ukrainian tract with the standard ADD provisions. Weekly, and the Soyuzivka resort – are Ian Ross Melnyk, son of Ihor and Lisa gets one of the UNA’s promotional asked to participate in this new cam- Melnyk, is a new member of UNA brochures. Every secretary, every mem- And, a discount card paign. The UNA Home Office will be Branch 166 in Cincinnati. He was ber and every prospective member can The third part of the UNA Heritage glad to answer any questions regarding enrolled by his grandparents, Zinowij buy and sell this package. The UNA Plan is a discount card offered by a and Oksana Melnyk. Mrs. Melnyk is hopes to attract those people who are this special program. national carrier for services such as car Please call the UNA at 1-800-253- secretary of Branch 166. reluctant to spend hours talking to any- rentals, hotel accommodations and cer- one about insurance. The UNA also 9862 and ask for information regarding tain limited dental, medical and eye care the UNA Heritage Program. hopes to reach out to those who want to services. Each person who signs up for play a part in the Ukrainian community the program will receive a discount card. without investing too much effort, A booklet listing all travel benefits money or time. throughout the United States and Canada, Life insurance coverage and some benefits available worldwide Correction will also be provided to each discount In the organizing report for the first At the heart of this program is a UNA card member. As well, there is a toll-free half year of 1998, there were several 20-Payment Life insurance policy. This telephone number that cardholders may errors. The Branch 200 organizer should policy is offered in face amounts of call for any additional information. have been listed as Dawn Pryhoda and $3,000 and $10,000, called, respectively, the Branch 7 organizer as Helen Slovik. the Blue and the Gold Benefit Plans. * * * In addition, Julia Cresina should have The insured pays premiums for 20 years To take advantage of this offer, all been listed as being from Branch 382.

Roxanna Lee Thornton, daughter of Larissa and James Thornton, is a new member of UNA Branch 338 in Monessen, Pa. She was enrolled by her grandmother, Olga B. Pishko.

Teya Rosalia Lucyshyn, the daughter of Tamara and Nick Lucyshyn of Floral Park, N.Y., is a new member of UNA Branch 360. She was enrolled by her grandmother, Ludmila Korytko. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1998 No. 35

FOR THE RECORD THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY On the importance of membership Ukraine’s ambassador to U.S. It’s that time of year again: the end of summer vacations and the beginning of the school year, which also signals the start of our community activities after a three- speaks on independence anniversary month hiatus. Thus, it is time for us once again to ruminate on the significance of Following is the full text of the Ladies and Gentlemen: our community life, to take a look at where we stand. address by Dr. Yuri Shcherbak, ambassa- We consider the establishment of a This year we take as our point of departure something close to home: that is, the dor of Ukraine to the United States, strategic partnership with the U.S. one of recent mass mailing sent out by the Ukrainian National Association which drew delivered at a reception on the occasion our most important achievements in attention to the fact that many UNA members had expressed concern about the of the seventh anniversary of Ukraine’s Ukrainian foreign policy. There is a con- recent cutbacks of UNA fraternal benefits: the curtailment of the Soyuzivka season independence held at the Embassy of tinuous political dialogue at the highest and the transformation of the Svoboda daily into a weekly. (As well, there have Ukraine on August 24. level, the subjects of which are both been staffing cutbacks at The Ukrainian Weekly, which has functioned since late issues of bilateral cooperation in an ever- January minus one editor.) These fraternal activities and others are threatened by Your Excellencies! growing number of fields and the most further reductions; in fact, many observers expect the next round of cuts to fraternal Esteemed Guests! crucial issues of domestic and internation- activities to come in November, when the General Assembly elected at the UNA’s Ladies and Gentlemen! al life that are of mutual interest. The sec- 34th Convention this past May meets during a special session. ond plenary meeting of the Ukraine-U.S. Writing in her July letter to “Members, Future Members and UNA Supporters,” On August 24 the people of Ukraine Binational Kuchma-Gore Commission the UNA president noted: “The cutbacks in our fraternal benefits are all sad celebrate a great national holiday – the was successfully held in Kyiv last July. reminders that we must act quickly to save the fraternal activities of the Ukrainian Ukraine’s Independence Day. Seven The visit of U.S. Vice-President Al Gore National Association, our oldest and largest fraternal association. For more than years have passed since the Verkhovna to the Chornobyl nuclear power plant con- four generations, UNA has served the Ukrainian community well and faithfully Rada of Ukraine declared Ukraine an tributed to a better understanding of our because we had a large base and community-wide support.” independent nation. It became an event needs in the mobilization of finances to To make it plain: the reason the UNA was able to serve that community was of historic importance that radically realize the shelter project and the decom- because community members supported the UNA by joining the ranks of its mem- changed the geopolitical map of Europe. missioning of the Chornobyl nuclear bers. The activity of the Ukrainian National Association affected all aspects of our Despite all the past and present diffi- power plant in the nearest future. community life, whether this involved sponsorship of a local sports team and schol- culties in our development, today we arship grants to university students, donations to worthy causes like the erection of have much to celebrate. In the past seven the Taras Shevchenko monument or financial support of efforts countering the years since it became an independent We believe that we will defamation of Ukrainians by CBS’s “60 Minutes.” nation: succeed in attaining our Though we may not think the approach selected by the UNA execs to promote • Ukraine has been free of inter-ethnic, the UNA was the best (“We received many faxes and letters criticizing us for mak- inter-regional and civil conflicts. goal of making Ukraine ing tough choices and unpopular decisions. Instead of faxes send us your member- • Ukraine has had a peaceful and dem- ship applications ... ”), we do agree with its intent, which was to inform the public ocratic transition of both executive and a prosperous, democrat- that it is through its insurance business that the UNA is able to provide fraternal legislative powers via free elections. This ic nation in the family of activities. Whereas commercial companies use their profits to enrich stockholders, testifies that, by all European standards, fraternal organizations like the UNA put their profits back into the community. Ukraine is a democratic country. European countries. Without the profits from its business, however, the UNA would simply not have • Ukraine has given up its strategic We are determined to any fraternal activities. and tactical nuclear weapons of its own So, the choice is the community’s. You can belong to the Ukrainian National free will, thus having made a major con- achieve this goal. We can Association and invest in the future of our community, or you can stand on the side- tribution to global peace and security. do it, and we will do it. lines and watch as our community institutions continue to be eroded. (The new UNA • Ukraine has been accepted as a Heritage Program provides a perfect, hassle-free way for community members to member of the Council of Europe and join the UNA and thus support fraternal benefits, like its publications and its resort.) NATO’s Partnership for Peace Program, And remember, there is an additional benefit of UNA membership: once you have and signed the Charter on a Distinctive We also hope that Ukraine will joined the UNA you will have a voice as to the future of this powerful diaspora insti- Partnership with NATO. receive important support from the IMF tution. Members have a say about how the organization is run, about what fraternal • Ukraine has introduced many major and the World Bank, that we will be able benefits are offered, about what causes and organizations are supported, etc. economic reforms, despite extreme hard- to join the EFF [Extended Fund Facility] And that, dear readers, is the reason the UNA refers to those who enroll as its ship for its citizens. program and implement numerous World members, rather than its policyholders. Real members have a say – and a stake – in • Ukraine has adopted a new Bank projects. the organization to which they belong. Constitution, which incorporated the best Ukraine has to solve many problems features of European democratic consti- in all spheres. However, the democratic tutions; adopted a new Law on Elections choice of the state remains unchanged. and established all necessary state insti- Ukraine, having embarked on a massive Sept. tutions. program of reforms and building a dem- TurningTurning the pagespages back... back... Today Ukraine is heading in the direc- ocratic European state, will carry on, tion of radical reforms with the goal of solving all issues in a civilized manner 4 resolving its current financial crisis, cur- and honoring all its commitments to its ing social problems, providing the basis partners. Independence is the most for stable socio-economic growth, and important guarantee of that. 1914 In August 1914, soon after the outbreak of the first world reducing the time needed for successful Let me express our deep appreciation war, the early success of a Russian offensive against Austro- transition to a market economy. to the American people, the U.S. admin- Hungarian forces, as well as incendiary proclamations by the Regardless of the obvious difficulties, istration and Congress for supporting Russophile Committee for the Liberation of Carpathian Ruthenia, caused panic and the intentions and efforts of President Ukraine. paranoia in the Habsburg Empire. Angry mobs and soldiers not at the front exploded Leonid Kuchma and the Cabinet of Dear Friends: in violence against Russophiles living in Galicia and Bukovyna. Many were mur- Ministers to continue the course of It is a long and hard road that we must dered, many were court-martialed for treason and summarily executed. reforming Ukrainian economy remains travel. Thousands of others were arrested and sent to a number of internment camps in unchanged and steadfast. All this Let us remember that in two years we Austria or Hungary. In Galicia, further arrests were encouraged by the Polish-domi- allowed Ukraine to achieve certain posi- will meet the 21st century, and in three nated provincial administration, which had scores to settle with the western Ukrainian tive results. Signs of recovery in produc- years we will celebrate the 10th anniver- populist intelligentsia. Thus, not only Russophiles, but also nationally conscious tion can be observed in most sectors of sary of Ukraine’s independence. Ukrainians (many actually loyal to Austria-Hungary) were interned. the national economy, as economic We believe that we will succeed in The largest and most notorious camp was located on the outskirts of Thalerhof, a growth trends intensify. attaining our goal of making Ukraine a village near Graz, Austria. The first 2,000 prisoners arrived in Thalerhof on The president of Ukraine has issued prosperous, democratic nation in the September 4, 1914. By December of that year the number had climbed to 8,000, and several decrees that provide for urgent family of European countries. over 70 percent were Ukrainians. measures designed to speed up reform We are determined to achieve this Between 1914 and 1916, anywhere from 14,000 to 30,000 internees passed through and lift Ukraine’s economy from its cri- goal. We can do it, and we will do it. the camp, suffering brutality, starvation rations, filth and epidemics of typhus and sis situation. other contagious diseases, which contributed to a very high mortality rate among the Within the short period of seven years, * * * prisoners. While 1,747 deaths were registered by the Austrian authorities who ran the in the historical sense, Ukraine has estab- Now I would like to perform my pleas- camp, this is almost certainly too low a figure to be considered accurate. lished diplomatic relations with more than ant duty on behalf of the Ukrainian govern- Late in the war, some members of Austria’s Parliament in Vienna grew solicitous 150 countries of the world, opened 70 ment and present an award of the president about this scandalous treatment of the empire’s citizens, and an order was issued in embassies and other foreign missions on of Ukraine – the medal “For Merit” – to May 1917 to close the Thalerhof camp and others. all the continents, established friendly the U.S. citizen Mr. Wolodymyr Sochan, a Thus, ironically, while Ukrainian Canadians were being interned for alleged sym- relations with all neighboring countries, public activist, an honorary member of the pathies for the Austro-Hungarian enemy of the British Empire and its ally, Russia, resolved difficult issues, historically and General Assembly of the Ukrainian Ukrainians in their homeland were being persecuted for purportedly harboring the technically, of territorial division and bor- National Association, in recognition of his opposite sentiment. ders, and concluded almost 1,900 bilateral personal contribution to promoting Sources: “Russophiles,” “Thalerhof,” Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vols. 4, 5 (Toronto: University of and multilateral international treaties and Ukrainian-U.S. cooperation and his activi- Toronto Press, 1993); Orest Subtelny, “Ukraine: A History” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, agreements that constitute the political- ties in Ukrainian American institutions for 1988); Paul Robert Magocsi, “A History of Ukraine” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996). legal basis of its foreign policy. many years. 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INDEPENDENT UKRAINE: THE 7th ANNIVERSARY The vote for Ukraine’s independence: a personal reflection Irene Jarosewich was funded by grants from the Rochester N.Y. and Chicago chapters of the Coordinating Committee to Aid Ukraine to work in the public infor- mation section of Rukh, the Popular Movement of Ukraine, between July 1991 and December 1992 at the organization’s headquarters in Kyiv. As we mark the sev- enth anniversary of Ukraine’s independ- ence, Ms. Jarosewich, now a staff editor at The Ukrainian Weekly, offers some per- sonal reflections on the events surround- ing August 24, 1991.

by Irene Jarosewich CONCLUSION Stanislav Hurenko’s words still echo in my ears. I’ve read several interpreta- tions and translations of the statement he made in the auditorium, and the phrase about voting for independence is usually similar. However his final phrase, “nam bude bida” has been variously translated as “there will be trouble,” “there will be problems for us” and “it will be a disas- ter.” The Economist once even rendered his words as “we’ll be in deep s___!” The impact of his words, nonetheless, is the same each time: to leave me stunned. During the silence that followed his Chrystyna Lapychak words, I remember sitting perfectly still National Council members carry in the Ukrainian flag that had draped a tank during the August 1991 coup standoff in Moscow. in the back of the auditorium, barely breathing, hesitant to look up. friends wrote, typed, corrected, revised, Peremohy, the Ukrainian Writers’ Union back around and continued talking ani- When I did look up, I saw a blur of printed and collated several hundred building on Ordzhonikidze and the Hotel matedly. The door shut with the men bodies moving and caught a glimpse out copies, one for each deputy plus some Kyiv at the intersection of Kirov and Karl inside, and we watched the elevator of the corner of my eye of my colleagues extras, of the acts and resolutions that Libknekht streets was the triangle of ascend. Christine Demkovych and Natalia were to be on the agenda the next day. activity for those working with Rukh and * * * Fedushchak, sitting almost directly This was a huge undertaking beyond the the National Council. Ivan Drach’s office behind Mr. Hurenko, furiously taking capabilities of the administrative staff of at the Writers’ Union was the scene of Not only do I hope that someday histo- notes. I turned around and looked at Mr. the Verkhovna Rada, which normally pre- many meetings and much resolution draft- rians will gather all the facts of who was Lavrynovych of Rukh, a slight, pale pared documents for parliamentarians. ing, and the building’s auditorium was where, when and how, and what they said man, who sat with lips pursed. He saw Resolutions were being written and used for caucuses and press conferences. - but I hope that those who played pivotal me and rose, shaking his head, slowly revised late into the night. Besides the Even the building manager’s room on the roles will write about their thoughts and whispered, “I’ve never seen anything Act of the Declaration of Independence, first floor was occupied for action. With emotions during that week. like this ... I never could have imagined.” they included such resolutions as remov- an accessible TV, people were always What was going through the mind of As the auditorium emptied, a deputy ing the KGB from the control of the crowding around, tracking events. Mr. Hurenko, one of the youngest people in a Soviet military uniform remained Communist Party, declaring the military The Rukh building was a grassroots to ever head the Communist Party of seated in front of Ms. Lapychak and me. to be under the control of the Parliament, organizing and information-production Ukraine, when he asked his fellow As he, one of the few remaining, got up creation of a national guard – 16 in all. machine – with phones, faxes, comput- Communists to vote for independence? to leave, he spotted us and stopped: “I’m John Hewko, a Ukrainian American ers, copiers, people going almost around What was Mr. Pavlychko thinking as he sure that this meeting was interesting for lawyer who was then with the Soros-fund- the clock – while the Hotel Kyiv was the became one of the few and major negotia- you, young ladies,” he said, “this was a ed Advisory Council to Parliament, and place to meet, eat, sleep. The hotel was- tors between the National Council and the unique event. ... However, – it [inde- his wife, Marga, rented a tiny hotel apart- n’t built to handle the volume of activity Communists over the wording and strategy pendence] will last only five years.” ment in the Hotel Kyiv – the building that that it was forced to handle during the of the declaration and other resolutions? Rukh’s Serhii Odarych later told me also housed many of the national deputies, week of the coup. The all-too-small ele- Was it the case, as later claimed by that several Communists, instead of including several active members of the vators were overworked, overcrowded Mykhailo Horyn, who was still hospital- ized with a heart condition on August 24, returning to the main chamber, had tried National Council such as Vyacheslav and always getting stuck; to avoid the that the text of the declaration was to break away after leaving the auditori- Chornovil, Les Taniuk and Mr. Filenko. long wait, people would often walk up grabbed out of Levko Lukianenko’s um by exiting the building through an The Hewkos, into the final hours, contin- and down five, seven, nine flights. hands by Mr. Yavorivsky seconds before underground passage that links the ued to make copies of revised resolutions Because of the number of national it was to be read on the floor of Parliament building with the parliamen- on their small desktop Canon copier, one deputies who lived in the building, the Parliament, so that Mr. Yavorivsky could tary committee building across the street. slow sheet at a time. Hotel Kyiv dining room was always a be the one noted in history as having They had hoped to either break the quo- At the Rukh office, resolutions were good place for journalists and staff to read the declaration? Or was it, as others being printed, collated and stacked. catch a parliamentarian, and, in general, rum, and therefore invalidate the vote, or claimed, that Mr. Yavorivsky’s reading the hotel was also a good place to simply did not want to cast a vote to end Whenever there was a minor revision, was part of the final compromise the the Soviet Union. The possibility of rather than remake entire sets of copies, observe who was talking with whom, Communists requested: that the act not such a breakaway attempt had been fore- staff were set to the task of manually who was coming and going, who was be read on the floor of Parliament for the seen, and a group of young men from revising the copies. Replacement parts meeting with whom. vote by someone as far right as Mr. Rukh had gone ahead and shut the doors, for photocopiers, paper, toner, mimeo- One of the funnier memories I have of Lukianenko – but by someone more and then stood to block the underground graph stencils – these were in short sup- that intense week came as Ms. Lapychak moderate – and that Mr. Pavlychko had passage. ply – while labor, though exhausted, was and I waited for an elevator. She and I agreed without the consent of fellow The “khloptsi z Rukhu” (guys from plentiful. were at the front of a group of about half a members of the National Council? Rukh) were called upon whenever a As I said my late night good-byes, I dozen people who had patiently watched How important was news about events minor Herculean effort was required at a remember Mr. Odarych standing alone in the floor display above the elevator in Moscow in convincing the deputies to moment’s notice. Need to have several the center of the room, bending his head descend towards the lobby. The elevator vote for independence? Susan Viets, a thousand leaflets distributed? O.K., ask to light one of those god-awful Bulgarian landed, the door opened and revealed the correspondent for the British paper The the “khloptsi z Rukhu.” Does a demon- cigarettes he smoked, flicking out the back of Mr. Pavlychko, who was gestur- Independent, never set foot outside her stration need to be organized? Get the match, and slowly surveying what ing animatedly to three other men in the door without a short-wave radio after guys. Need to block fleeing Communists? “khloptsi” he had left to work with – guys elevator. Realizing that the elevator had August 19. On August 24 she could often No problem, ask “nashi khloptsi.” who had been up all night, every night, stopped, he turned around and looked out be seen in the hallway on the top floor of When I had left the Rukh office the for almost a week. One tired soul had onto those waiting. Recognizing Ms. the Parliament building, near a window, night before, my last memory was walk- pulled three chairs together and made a Lapychak and me, he calmly greeted us, trying to pick up bands to hear reports of ing out of the large room off the entrance makeshift bed, another was slumped over “Good day, lovely ladies,” and then the special session in Moscow and the to the building that housed the printing a stack of papers, a third was organizing pushed the button for the top floor. struggle between Messrs. Yeltsin and and copying operation. During the final packets to be loaded into a car. Obviously not yet finished with his dis- Gorbachev. At one point, placing the night, in several locations throughout For the week preceding the vote, the cussion, and not yet willing to release his Kyiv, parliamentarians, staffers and Rukh headquarters on Prospekt captive audience, Mr. Pavlychko turned (Continued on page 12) 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1998 No. 35

Kyiv theater group tours Canada’s Fringe Festivals by Kalyna Yosipiv and Yuriy Diakunchak Mr. Liptsyn, also the staging’s director, sees the play from Hohol’s writings. as an avant-garde interpretation of the Slavic absurdist Particularly effective was Ms. Daruga’s haunting TORONTO – “Why should theater be entertaining?” tradition in the manner of Hohol. “Slavic absurdist tradi- chant, not quite singing, but not quite cat-in-estrus-yowl- asked Kyiv actor Oleh Liptsyn after a performance of tion differs from the Western concept of absurdism in ing either. Almost orgasmic in quality, it embraced her “The Old Woman” at Toronto’s Fringe Festival on July that it is optimistic. The circumstances of life conspire to transformation from feline to the human “old woman” of 10. beat a person down, but the spirit always seeks to rise the title. That may sound like an absurd question to someone above the mundane,” he said. The play premiered at the Kyiv Avant-Garde Theater brought up on a steady diet of Broadway hit musicals, Humor, too, is received differently here than in in 1995, and the troupe has performed it across Europe. but Mr. Liptsyn wasn’t kidding. “Theater is meant to Ukraine. “People look for deeper or hidden meanings The ensemble also enjoyed a successful visit to the move the soul,” he said. In the 30-something thespian’s in humor in Ukraine, they expect to have their soul United States last year. Co-founded in 1988 by Mr. interpretation, this is not necessarily an entertaining touched by the performance. Here I’ve been forced to Liptsyn, Ms. Daruga and Igor Lesthenko, TheatreClub is proposition. be much more demonstrative in my humor, more obvi- billed as “one of Kyiv’s elite artistic groups.” Despite such convictions, “The Old Woman,” a pro- ous.” Mr. Liptsyn opined that audiences approach the- Mr. Liptsyn said that all of the troupes’ plays have duction of the Kyiv-based TheaterClub Company, is a ater from a more realistic angle in North America. been developed in Kyiv, drawing on the works of rather entertaining piece of theater, at least in its North “They expect theater to be a slice of life on the stage. Shakespeare, James Joyce, Hohol, Mykola Khvyliovyi American incarnation. Revolving around the imaginary In Ukraine the approach is much more abstract,” he and Kyivan Russian Mikhail Bulgakov. He added that meeting of two old, half-insane writers who lived a cen- said. his company’s intent is to tap into English, Continental tury apart, Mykola Hohol (Nikolai Gogol) and Daniil “That was probably the most challenging thing about European and Slavic theatrical traditions. The troupe’s Kharms, the play explores aging and the realization that performing here. It is difficult to gauge and read an unfa- productions have won prizes for staging and experimen- death is near. As the end of life approaches, the charac- miliar audience, improvise in front of it and try to get the tation in theater in Ukraine. ters express regret about the many things they haven’t best response possible,” Mr. Liptsyn said. TheatreClub’s tour of Canada’s Fringe Festivals achieved, and now will never be able to achieve. Slightly longer than one hour in length, the play is began in Toronto in early June and will continue west- Caught between reality and imagination, the charac- presented in English and Russian. The troupe decided to ward until late September. The stops include Winnipeg ters feel a spiritual void that needs to be filled, leading keep a part of the play in Russian because it was the lan- (July 17-26), Saskatoon (July 31-August 9), Edmonton the audience on a fascinating journey deep into the guage in which Hohol and Kharms wrote. Two other (August 14-23) and four cities in British Columbia: human psyche. “Yerusalym, Yerusalym,” intones the actors perform in the play, Gediminas Sederavicius, who Kelowna (August 13-22), Victoria (August 27- Kharms character (played by Mr. Liptsyn), reflecting his plays the part of Hohol, and Alla Daruga, who plays a September 7), Nanaimo (September 10-13) and quest for deeper meaning. cat transformed into Pulkheria Ivanovna, a character Vancouver (September 10-20).

DRAMA REVIEW: Yuriy Tarnawsky’s “Not Medea” by Leonid Hrabovsky Whereas Ukrainian poetry and prose have always been a part of the major developments in world literature, the genre of drama has been and today still is generations behind. Contemporary Ukrainian avant-garde writers, such as the members of the New York Group and the Kyiv School, can be considered as part of the contemporary currents in world poetry, though their works may not have found adequate dis- semination due to political repression in Soviet Ukraine on the one hand, and the sui generis conditions of diaspora litera- ture on the other. However, when it comes to drama, one must ask: does truly modern Ukrainian drama, such as one expects to see at the end of the 20th century, exist? The cycle of Yuriy Tarnawsky’s six plays titled “6 x 0,” is a definite contri- Ustya Tarnawsky bution to modernist Ukrainian drama. Tania Maria Miller in final scene of “Not Medea.” Sequentially the third of these plays, “Not Medea,” was recently brought to Medea has turned into a melodramatic her own accompaniment on the piano, some these were not available to the audience the U.S. in the author’s English-language and calculating Multi Medea, and one lines from Mahler’s “Kindertotenlieder” at the staging. version, as an experimental, work-in- character, the Man, remains alone on the (“Songs of Dead Children”), an obvious In the end one still wants to ask: what progress production. stage throughout the play, his only part- allusion to Medea’s situation. Toward the is “Not Medea” about? One has to con- The cycle, in its original Ukrainian, is ners a set of puppets dressed as medics end of the play, the spectators were treated cede that it is impossible to give an in the process of being polished, and it who come out carrying stretchers and to the opening of the well-known and richly answer to this question in brief without will be up to literary critics to evaluate it then remain asleep until the very end of associative Chaconne for solo violin by resorting to oversimplification and from the literary standpoint when it is the play. (In the staging even they were Bach. schematization. released. I will limit myself to expressing absent, having been replaced by the In addition to singing, Ms. Salins cre- The play is replete with hidden histori- my thoughts on the staging of the play author’s words, with the author reading ated an active counterpart to the main cal references (including the history of which took place June 6-7, under the from the text about them.) character of the play, the Man, played by theater art itself), paradoxes and enigmas. Resident Artists Program of Mabou The play’s director, the internationally Tania Mara Miller. Ms. Miller carried Even though the spectator may not be Mines/Suite at the Toronada Theatre in acclaimed figure of Ukrainian stage and with brilliance, ease and at the same time able to grasp each recalcitrant detail of New York City. screen Gregory Hlady, has used Mr. dignity the heavy load of performing a the text aurally, he can’t avoid being “Not Medea” is not simply yet another Tarnawsky’s text, as happens frequently long chain of difficult and often simulta- struck by a strong sense of logic (iron myth set in modern times. Mr. in modern theater as a springboard for his neous tasks which monodramas typically logic, one wants to say) emanating from Tarnawsky’s attitude to the classical own improvisations and experimenta- place on the shoulders of the performer. its structure; a reading of the text only story is complex and highly individual. tions. Mr. Hlady’s staging bears the The stage, costume, and lighting reconfirms this belief. The epigraph in the play reads: stamp of an explosive talent endowed designer, Volodymyr Kovalchuk, is a “Not Medea” is a tragedy. The whole “Warning: Written with body fluids. with a rich, almost limitless, imagination. brilliant partner of the performance team. is aptly conveyed through the synthesis Made in Ukraine.” The structure of the So, the play itself and Mr. Hlady’s stag- His minimalist approach showed a pro- of the text, action, sound, light and stage play, its fabric of motives and motiva- ing should be viewed as two distinct found understanding of the author’s con- design. It is a tragedy set in a web of tions, is quite complex and multi-lay- works of art, although the link between cept, bringing out the very essence of the irony, grotesqueness and self-depreca- ered. them is undeniable and obvious. play for the audience’s benefit and to tion. In the play, there are no figures from Mr. HIady also introduced into the play understand “Not Medea,” one should In spite of some shortcomings, “Not the classical prototype (Medea, Jason, another actress, Laila Maria Salins, a pro- have a good grasp of classical Greek Medea” is a truly significant work in the their children), but only a narration of its fessional opera singer (mezzo soprano). drama. Mr. Tarnawsky has supplemented history of modern Ukrainian drama and story – grotesquely deformed in that One of Ms. Salin’s functions was to sing, to the text of his play with helpful notes but theater. No. 35 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1998 9

Concert series celebrates 60th of composer Skoryk HUNTER, N.Y. – A series of concerts marking the 60th anniversary of the birth of prominent contemporary Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk is being per- formed this year on three continents – Australia, North America and Europe. Maestro Skoryk arrived in the U.S. in July. The world premiere of the composer’s latest work – Piano Concerto No. 3 (String Quartet Version) “Prayer; Dream; Life” – was held July 12 at the prestigious Music Mountain concert series in Falls Village, Conn. The work, performed by the Leontovych String Quartet, and the composer were enthusiastically received, and Maestro Skoryk was invited by Nicholas Gordon, the festival’s director, to have the work performed once again in the year 2000. The Leontovych String Quartet, with Myroslaw Skoryk and Volodymyr Vynnytsky at the piano, performs at the Grazhda. Prior to his arrival in the U.S., concerts of Maestro Skoryk’s work were held in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra, Australia. “Yarylo’s Games” festival hosts international drama troupes Anniversary concerts for Maestro by Julie Anne Franko tion, “The President and I,” explored the the instances of both the Ukrainian and Skoryk, with the composer in perform- dynamics of a woman’s relationship with a Georgian theaters, the rites and passages ance, were to be held in Germany in LVIV – Under the auspices of the Center president made of plasticine with whom she of life events, such as courtship and mar- August and in Ukraine in September and for International Cultural Initiatives and as is in love. The work used song and music as riage, were recreated through the use of October. part of its “Week of European Culture,” the an equal element with body movement and Maestro Skoryk returns to the U.S. in Les Kurbas Theater opened “Yarylo’s occasional song in which the timbre, text, which resulted in a clear and focused emotion and energy calibrated and rein- November, and concerts will be held in Games,” an international theater festival picture of a whole theatrical – and universal devoted to “song as an extension of the dra- forced the life-force of the act. New York, Chicago, Cleveland and – understanding of the forces beneath all matic act,” at its theater in Lviv. The two other Ukrainian theaters repre- Detroit, among other cities. relationships. Hosting theaters from Austria, Denmark, sented in the festival were Lviv’s Theater in The Ithaca Theater’s (Sweden) all-female Concert at the Grazhda Georgia, Latvia, Sweden, Switzerland and a Basket and Kharkiv’s Arabesky Theater. collective produced a work in progress, Ukraine, the eight-day festival named for The former presented “White Moths, Woven On July 18 the anniversary concert for “Virtue and Bliss,” based on writing of the the god of spring presented its participants Chains,” a mono-drama based on the writ- Maestro Skoryk opened the summer con- collectives’ diaries. Here everything from cert series held at the Grazhda in Jewett and spectators with workshops, concerts ings of Vasyl Stefanyk in which the former and performances that demonstrated a the- first loves to vegetarianism presented itself Kurbas Theater actress Lidia Danylchuk Center, N.Y., which is held under the aus- as text upon which movement and song was atrical diversity of musical technique and beat out the rhythms and tones of Stefanyk’s pices of the Music and Art Center of either layered or augmented. methodology. work through the use of voice and body. Greene County, with Dr. Ihor Sonevytsky The Slava Theater – a parent group to the as artistic director. The festival began with the Kurbas The Arabesky Theater – a young theater Theater’s production of “Grace-given Ithaca Theater – offered the festival the vital The concert program was marked by performance, “Wild Voices,” a compilation of great promise – presented a colorful and rich stylistic diversity. Erodii” on the evening of May 8, and offi- sprightly rendition of Ivan Kotliarevsky’s cially opened the following afternoon. The of theatrical effects (medieval lights and Among the works for piano performed torches, interchangeable satiny robe-like “Eneida.” The production infused song into by the composer was a new work titled opening ceremonies commenced with the the text as a means to explore the work theater leading a songful procession of the costumes) and song. Incidentally, the title “Duma,” which draws on motifs from “Wild Voices” is a misnomer. While the through the potential of its rhythmic energy. Ukrainian Insurgent Army songs; “Three festival participants from the Kurbas In choosing to approach the work as such, it Theater to the opera house square, where tones and harmonies of this collective are Pieces For Piano: Lullaby, The Lira freed itself of being a work of comic stereo- the festival’s artistic director, Oleh Drach, far-reaching, and arouse the core of what Player, Folk Dance;” as well as “A Leaf may euphemistically be called “primitive,” type, and like the energy exuded by Ms. from The Album” and “Melody.” brought together participants and Lviv pedestrians. the collective’s voices (and bodies) exude Danylchuk’s performance (albeit energy Violinist Yuri Kharenko and pianist professional training and demonstrate the from a wholly different vein), the text’s Volodymyr Vynnytsky performed Maestro Running for about 15 minutes, this degree to which song may be used as a underlying resources became uncovered. Skoryk’s “A-RI-A” for violin and piano, a unrehearsed opening was graced with a component of theatrical expression. Within the context of the festival’s goal, work that was especially favorably Euclidean precision of energy, enthusiasm The Riga New Theater (Latvia) brought the most critically acclaimed work came received by the audience. and talent. The Kurbas Theater’s songs Lviv an intentionally disturbing production from the Danish Ofyn Veg Theater’s pro- Mr. Vynnytsky was also awarded from “Marusia Churai” gave way to the based on Oscar Wilde’s “Salomé.” Graphic duction of “Idyll,” a two-person presenta- resounding applause for his brilliant per- folk songs of the Georgian theaters Mtiebi in its use of colors, textures and distortions formance of Maestro Skoryk’s and Mzetamze. And, in the echo of the tion of “Hamlet.” From “to be or not to be” of reality, this work, which aspired to look “Burlesque.” applause, the members of the Swedish the- to “... we know what we are, but we know at itself through an opium-induced state, The high point of the first part of the ater Slava arrived, still in their traveling not what we may be ... ,” this work evolved was coalesced by the voices of two musi- concert was the performance of five jazz clothes, to render a cappella versions of as an epitome of theater. In selecting vari- cians who underscored the text with the pieces for piano, four-hands, played by music from their international repertoire. ous texts from “Hamlet,” and splicing them musical motifs of Indian, Japanese, African Messrs. Vynnytsky and Skoryk: “Pryiemna Accompanying themselves on violin and with various songs and song genres and Baltic folk music. Prohulianka” (A Pleasant Stroll); accordion, the two-person Danish Musik- (although the primary source for song in The Zurich Young Theater “Naviazlyvyi Motyv” (A Persistent Motif); Teatr Ofyn Veg wove in ancient folk this work was Shakespeare’s contemporary, (Switzerland) presented the two-person “V Staromu Dzhazovomu Styli” (In the songs, which were followed by the voice- John Dowland), Uta Motz’s virtuoso per- opera, “Vis-à-vis,” a sentimental comedy Old Jazz Style); “Kapryz” (Caprice); and folly singing of Austrian theater duo Tanto. formance as Hamlet, Ophelia, the King, et about the lives of two shy neighbors who “V Narodnomu Styli” (In the Folk Style). As promptly as this ceremony began, it al, against Christian Bredholt’s poised dispersed into another procession that led to share both a bathroom and dreams for the For the encore, the duo played Maestro director/bass fiddle and accordion player a specially built stage behind Lviv’s future. This production did not use its song Skoryk’s clever jazz reworking of (irony and comedy intended) transported Arsenal. Here each of the groups performed Beethoven’s “Für Elise.” as a means to join theatrical elements: as again, formally, and this concert ended with the will and whimsy of Shakespeare’s text The second part of program featured an opera, the song and text were one, Mr. Drach inviting Lviv to a week’s worth through the vehicle of players. These play- the Leontovych String Quartet – Yuri rather than correspondents. What gave the of theatrical enterprise. ers’ bodies became the instruments of the Mazurkevych, first violin; Mr. Kharenko, performance a heightened musical theatri- “What is interesting about this festival,” text’s spirit, while their use of musical second violin; Borys Deviatov, viola; and calism was the inclusion of the company’s observed the Kurbas Theater’s artistic direc- instruments and voices became the body Volodymyr Panteleiev, cello. The quartet pianist on stage – not exclusively as a tor, Volodymyr Kuchynsky, “is how all of for the work’s spirit. opened the program by dedicating its per- means for accompaniment, but as an active these theaters are very different from one source of commentary on the work. The festival came to a close in a loud formance of Beethoven’s String Quartet another, yet they all have something to con- echo of its opening. Congregating before in F Major Op. 18, No. 1 to Maestro The Ukrainian Folk Theater Gerdan, tribute to the theme of music use in theater.” like the Georgian theaters Mtiebi and the Kurbas Theater, festival participants Skoryk on the occasion of his anniversary. The Tanto Theater’s two-person produc- were immersed in the sounds of The concert concluded with the per- Mzetamze, served the festival’s theme by Sweden’s traditional horns, and a pro- formance of Maestro Skoryk’s recently providing a context for song’s use in the- longed celebration of the music and song premiered new work – Piano Concerto Julie-Ann Franko is associate artistic ater. While visually and aurally distin- No. 3 (String Quartet Version): “Prayer; director and dramaturge of the Les Kurbas guished from one another, both perform- of the gathered countries ensued. The Dream; Life” – as performed by the Theater. She received her master of fine arts ances incorporated the ritualistic origins event ended with a bonfire torching of degree in dramaturgy and drama criticism of song, which blatantly demonstrated Yarylo, the god of spring, for whose spir- (Continued on page 14) from Yale University. song as an extension of a dramatic act. In it the festival is most indebted. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1998 No. 35

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FOX CHASE MANOR, Pa. – The Baptist School in Newark. Sisters of St. Basil the Great recently held a Celebrating 70 years of service were: jubilee celebration here, honoring five sis- • Sister Julia Karpiak, who joined the ters for their years of service and commit- order in July 1928 and was a member of ment to the order. the Immaculate Conception Cathedral Sisters were honored for 60 and 70 years parish. Sister Julia taught in Ukrainian ( ) of service. The celebrant for the divine schools in Pittsburgh, Scranton, Pa., CALL 973 292-9800 liturgy was the Rev. Paul Repela, chancel- Chicago and New York, and served as resi- lor for the Ternopil Eparchy in Ukraine. dent dean at Manor Junior College in the The liturgy was followed by a dinner cele- early 1980s. She is now retired at the Planning a trip to bration in the convent dining room. Sisters’ Motherhouse in Fox Chase. Honored for 60 years of service were: • Sister Lucy Malanczyn, who entered FLOWERS • Sister Cornelia Shevchuk, who entered the order in January 1928 and was a mem- the order in September 1938. Born in the ber of St. Michael Parish. Born in UKRAINE? Bronx, N.Y., Sister Cornelia was a member Saylesville, R.I., Sister Lucy taught in of St. George Parish in New York City and schools in Pittsburgh, Newark, N.J., Personalized taught or served as principal at Ukrainian Yonkers, N.Y., and Maryland. She is retired Delivered in Ukraine Travel Service at schools in Chicago, Pittsburgh and New at the Motherhouse in Fox Chase. 1-800-832-1789 York City. She currently teaches religion at • Sister Neonilia Malanczyn, who was Reasonable Rates St. Josaphat School in Philadelphia. born in Saylesville, R.I., and entered the Landmark, Ltd. • Sister Damien Matyschak, who entered order in January 1928 as a member of St. •VISAS•HOTELS•MEALS• the Order in June 1938 and was a member Michael Parish. Having served as novice of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral director in 1953-1968, Sister Neonilia •TRANSFERS•GUIDES• parish. Born in Philadelphia, Sister Damien taught at schools in Scranton, Pa., •AIR TICKETS• taught or served as principal at Ukrainian Pittsburgh Philadelphia, Chicago and •CARS WITH DRIVERS• schools in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Newark, N.J. She currently teaches religion Syracuse, N.Y., and Newark, N.J. She cur- part-time at St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic •INTERPRETERS• rently teaches religion at St. John the School in Parma, Ohio. •SIGHTSEEING•

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Perk, former mayor of Cleveland, will serve as 60th wedding anniversary honorary chairman of the Ohio Nationalities for CLEVELAND – Nicholas and Mary (Szmagala) Voinovich Coalition. Ukrainians for Voinovich, a commit- Bobeczko were married 60 years ago, on August 6, tee headed by Daria Futey and George Oryshkewych, was 1938, at Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church established to get the Ukrainian American community in here on West Seventh Street. Ohio involved in the campaign at a grassroots level. A divine liturgy with the Rev. Canon Peter Waslo The other nationalities forming committees in sup- officiating was held on August 9 at St. Andrew port of Gov. Voinovich include: Albanians, Arabs, Ukrainian Catholic Church in Parma, Ohio, in honor of Armenians, Asian Indians, Belarusians, Bulgarians, the couple’s 60 years together. A special blessing was Chinese, Croatians, Cubans, Czechs, Estonians, given by Msgr. Leo Tymkiw and the Rev. Waslo. Filipinos, French, Germans, Greeks, Hungarians, Irish, A delicious dinner for family members was served at Italians, Japanese, Koreans, Latvians, Lithuanians, the home of Taras and Katherine Szmagala immediately Macedonians, Mexicans, Native American Indians, following the anniversary liturgy. Poles, Puerto Ricans, Romanians, Russians, Scots, The Bobeczkos are active members of the UNA. Mr. Serbs, Slovaks, Slovenians and Vietnamese. Bobeczko has been financial secretary of Ss. Peter and For more information about the Voinovich compaign, Paul Branch 102 since 1947 – 51 years. Mrs. Bobeczko contact Andy Futey or Caryn Candisky at (614) 280–6446. has faithfully assisted her husband with the duties of sec- retary and is now the recording secretary of the branch. Both are very active with the UNA Seniors Association that meets at Soyuzivka every year in June. They also volunteer in the community with seniors proj- UCCA designates ects. The Bobeczkos have attended many UNA conven- tions – Nicholas as a delegate and Mary as a guest. Mr. Famine remembrance Bobeczko has been an active member of the Elections NEW YORK, N.Y. – The national executive of the Committee during many conventions. Ukrainian Congress Committee of America has desig- They are the proud parents of Gerald, who resides in nated November 8-9, as Famine Remembrance Days. Glendale, Ariz., with his wife, Mary Jo; and Daniel and A solemn ecumenical prayer service will be held at his wife, Oxana, of Mentor, Ohio. 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The vote for... (Continued from page 7) radio to her ear, she grew still and announced aloud, “Oh, my God. In Moscow the Communist Party just disbanded.” Apparently the Parliament staff also had heard about the resignation of Mr. Gorbachev as the general secre- tary of the CPSU because about 15 minutes later, a staff member walked out to the chairman’s podium, whis- pered into the ear of the deputy chairman, Ivan Pliusch, and suddenly another break was called. Ms. Viets and her short-wave were surrounded by people as news of Mr. Gorbachev’s decision spread in the hallways. It is difficult to reconcile the optimism and excite- ment of August 24, 1991, with today’s often dismal reality. The vote for independence – 321 for, two opposed, six abstaining – followed by a vote to accept a December 1 referendum – was met with a relatively sedate standing ovation by the parliamentarians, most of whom still were, after all, Communists. However, there was obvious enthusiasm and joy on the part of members of the National Council. And roars of euphoria from the crowd outside permeated the thick walls of the building, and in the press and visitors’ galleries, tears flowed with the applause. As the session drew to a close, Mr. Chornovil, the National Council chairman and a human rights activist Members of the National Council of the Verkhovna Rada and Rukh’s leadership attend a briefing on August 20 who had spent years in the Soviet gulag, asked in the auditorium of the Ukrainian Writers’ Union building. Verkhovna Rada Chairman Leonid Kravchuk to allow a er, in Zaporizhia, I had been in a similar hotel room with with his short-wave antenna aimed out the window, and huge, blue-and-yellow flag into the chamber – a gift Mr. Chornovil, but under starkly different circumstances. then turned to see who had come in. from supporters outside. John Stepanchuk, then the U.S. deputy consul in Kyiv, “Ah, my friends,” he greeted us and approached with He led the procession that carried the massive flag and I had come to his room shortly before 7 a.m. on open arms as though to hug, “how happy I am to see into the room, and helped drape it over the podium. The August 19. The weeklong Chervona Ruta music festival you – good morning, good morning. It seems as though session officially over, and most of the parliamentarians in Zaporizhia had ended the night before, and after-hours we have some news today. Well, no need to worry. Pack gone, members of the National Council remained, sur- singing and music playing had gone on until dawn. your bags and your passports. Soon they will be sending rounding the flag-draped podium. Many of them cried Cries of “coup in Moscow” were heard in the halls in you back to America, and me to Siberia.” as they sang “Hey u Luzi Chervona Kalyna.” Ms. the very early morning, as staffers ran down the halls, Now, in just a blip of a week’s time, he was offering Lapychak and I remained in the press gallery, singing knocking on people’s doors to alert them. Mr. a toast to a close circle of supporters and friends. “To an and crying along with them. Stepanchuk was Rukh’s guest for the festival, and I independent Ukraine,” he began amid immediate cheers When the lights were finally dimmed, we left, walk- dashed to his room to see if he had heard the news. and first sips, “may God protect her.” Then he paused ing in the warm evening to Mr. Chornovil’s suite in the “Let’s go to Vyacheslav Maksymovych’s,” he said, “if and began again, “To an independent, but still socialist, Hotel Kyiv. The street around the Verkhovna Rada was anybody knows what’s going on, he does.” Ukraine,” and was greeted with cries of protest. He quiet, the world unaware of the day’s drama. As Mr. Stepanchuk and I were let into Mr. insisted firmly: we need to understand the nature of our Twenty or so people were crammed into Mr. Chornovil’s room, his dark silhouette stood against the victory. He continued, “To an independent, but socialist, Chornovil’s small room for a toast. A mere six days earli- backdrop of a lace-curtained, sunlit window. He fiddled Ukraine, and long, I fear, will she remain so.” Air Ukraine THE KYIV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Ä‚¥aΥ̥fl ìÍð‡ªÌË AND CHORUS

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As hundreds of thousands of adults and 130 armored vehicles, howitzers, missile PREVIEW Ukraine marks... kids watched from the edge of the street, launchers and rockets on transport (Continued from page 3) Minister of Defense Ivan Bizhan began the machines, their diesels sputtering while OF EVENTS Dr. Alexander Serafyn, an auditor of the proceedings by reviewing troops while emitting dense, dark smoke. Ukrainian National Association, said the standing in the back-seat area of an old The drab green and black machines gave Soviet Zil convertible limousine. way to Olympic athletes, past and present (Continued from page 16) speech showed that Mr. Tkachenko still holds Communist ideology close to his After the review, he made a short pres- in colorful costumes, followed by kids of Ukrainian Federal Credit Union, a heart. “A speech on such an occasion entation in which he said, “The seven years all ages in various athletic pursuits, as a Ukrainian Youth Fest will be held at 7 should have a unifying goal, not a divisive that have passed since [independence] are a tribute to Ukraine’s youth and its future. p.m. at St. Mary’s Orthodox Church message, especially when it talks of com- whole epoch during which we have created The Khreschatyk had been completely Hall, 3176 St. Paul Blvd. The festival munism and extremism,” said Dr. Serafyn. all the elements of statehood.” excavated and renovated just prior to sponsors are: the Rochester Ukrainian The parade then began with some 5,000 Independence Day at a cost of some $25 Federal Credit Union, Zoloti Struny Soviet-style military parade Bandura Ensemble, St. Josaphat soldiers goose-stepping down the million after it was discovered the under- Ukrainian Catholic School, Taras The next day, Monday, August 24, the Khreschatyk, bedecked in blue and yellow. ground electrical cables were badly dete- Shevchenko School of Ukrainian celebrations of the seventh anniversary of They marched from City Hall, past a riorated. Studies, Ukrainian Sunday School – St. Ukraine’s independence continued with a reviewing stand set up near the street on The two-month-long renovation blitz, Mary the Protectress Ukrainian parade down the newly reconstructed Independence Square, where President with thousands working around the clock Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Khreschatyk, the capital city’s main thor- Kuchma, Prime Minister Valerii and on weekends, produced what presi- Yevshan and Dunay SUM Ukrainian oughfare. For the first time since independ- Pustovoitenko, Verkhovna Rada Chairman dential administration representative in Dance Schools, Cheremosh Ukrainian Tkachenko and a host of government lead- Kyiv Mr. Omelchenko called “a street as Dance Ensemble, and Plast and SUM ence the parade included a display of mili- Ukrainian Youth Associations. The tary hardware, a long-standing Soviet tradi- ers and dignitaries stood, and down to beautiful as any in Europe” during rib- objective is to have all youth participat- tion brought back from the grave this year European Square. bon-cutting celebrations a week before ing together in this commemoration. by Ukraine’s leaders. After that came the military hardware: Independence Day. All proceeds will be donated to the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund. Admission is $5. Live music and a DJ as well as acting director general of the will be featured. Canada’s new envoy... International Cultural Relations Bureau. After his tour of duty in Budapest, Mr. Tuesdays, September 22 - October 20 (Continued from page 1) ment, but did say that “barriers are down, Fraser was director of the Central and TORONTO: St. Vladimir Institute, 620 and trade should grow naturally.” Eastern Europe Relations Division, 1993- Spadina Ave., is offering a five-week But the veteran diplomat added that 1995, and since 1995 was the ambassa- workshop titled “Gerdany: Beadwork dor to Greece. Ukrainian-Style.” Learn how to make “it’s wrong to simply announce that ‘bar- riers are down’ and sit back and watch Mr. Fraser was to depart for Kyiv on your own seedbead collars, pendants and August 28. bracelets in traditional patterns or using things happen. We hope to facilitate the contemporary colors. In this series, Maria process.” On August 23, Mr. Fraser attended the Rypan, program director and instructor, He conceded that Hungary has had an seventh anniversary celebrations spon- will teach the mesh technique with a sin- easier task in effecting a transition from a sored by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress gle needle and thread, and various varia- centralized to a market economy because Toronto Branch at the St. Volodymyr tions. A two-needle technique will also be it endured only 40 years of Communist Culture Center in Oakville, Ontario. shown for even-width bands, and needle domination, while Ukraine was con- Mr. Fraser said he’d worked with the weaving, a versatile form of weaving trolled even before the revolution under a UCC in the past as director of the Soviet without a loom, will also be covered. The largely centralized Russian imperial eco- relations division, particularly in the area classes are at 7-9 p.m. and the fee is $60 of human rights, and is looking forward for five sessions, or $15 per class. For nomic system. further information call the institute, Mr. Fraser has a B.A. and LL.B. from to further cooperation. He highlighted his (416) 923-3318. the University of British Columbia (1958 past consultations on efforts to secure the and 1963, respectively) and joined the release of Valentyn Moroz and concern- Thursday, September 24 ing the Vienna review meeting of the Department of External Affairs in 1963. Derek Fraser, Canada’s new ambassador NEW YORK: The Ukrainian He then served in Saigon, Bonn and Conference on Security and Cooperation to Ukraine. Institute of America, Inc., invites the Brussels, and was first secretary counsel- in Europe. Ukrainian community to an art exhibit lor at Canada’s Embassy in Moscow in He affirmed that he would follow the Canadian community in Kyiv. “I extend titled “Hnizdovsky: Selected 1973-1976. While in Ottawa, Mr. Fraser course set by his predecessor, Mr. my invitation to you – next week, next Portraits.” Exhibit hours are: Monday was director of the USSR and Eastern Westdal, and said he looks forward to month, next year, in Kyiv,” the new through Thursday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and Europe Relations Division in 1984-1988, greeting representatives of the Ukrainian ambassador told the crowd. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. Suggested contribution: $5. For additional information please contact the UIA, Tuesday through Friday between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., (212) 288-8660. The exhibit contin- ues through October 4. ONGOING YONKERS, N.Y.: Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Branch 30 is currently accepting registration for its Ukrainian preschool (Svitlychka) for 3- and 4-year-old chil- dren. The Svitlychka meets on Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon, at St. Michael’s Church on Shonnard Place at North Broadway starting Saturday, September 19. For additional informa- tion please call Nadia Cwiach at (914) 949-7010.

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Concerto; and sonatas for violin and piano. Concert series... Maestro Skoryk has also written music (Continued from page 9) for some 40 films, the best known of Leontovych String Quartet and the com- which are “Shadows of Forgotten poser, with Mr. Vynnytsky at the drum. Ancestors” and the animated cartoon This work elicited the strongest and “How the Kozaks Cooked Kulish,” and deepest response on the part of the audi- for nearly 30 stage productions. ence and the capacity audience greeted He also writes jazz and popular music. Maestro Skoryk with a standing ovation. Maestro Skoryk’s Concerto for Piano and String Quartet is the third of the com- * * * poser’s works that was performed as a world premiere by the Leontovych String Myroslav Skoryk was born in Lviv in Quartet at Music Mountain. “Diptych” 1938. He studied at the Lviv Conservatory and “Partita” No. 6 were performed, with Stanislav Liudkevych, Roman respectively, in 1994 and 1996. Simovych and Adam Soltys. He received a doctoral degree from the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with the celebrated Dmitri Kabalevski. U.S. to finance... A professor of composition at the Lviv (Continued from page 2) and Kyiv conservatories, Maestro Skoryk is head of the Lviv branch of the Union of through Ukraine. Ukrainian Composers. Although he works Mr. Shuliko also reported that the plot- in various genres, Maestro Skoryk is pri- ting of the route, to be completed by marily known for his orchestral and year’s end, will take into account ecologi- chamber music written in the contempo- cal factors, while also ensuring that the rary mode of expression, but tightly line does not run through politically bound with Ukrainian folklore. unstable areas. Mr. Shuliko had earlier Among his most popular compositions said that investments of more than $200 are the Concerto for Orchestra million are needed to complete construc- (Carpathian), awarded the first prize at the tion of the Odesa-Brody pipeline and 1991 Kyiv Composition Competition; the another $150 million is required to finish Hutsul Tripych, based on his beautiful construction of the Pivdennyi oil terminal. score for the film “Shadows of Forgotten Analysts have said that the oil pipeline is Ancestors”; Violin Concertos No. 1 and 2; almost half-done, while the oil terminal in Piano Concertos No. 1 and 2; Cello Pivdennyi is only 20 percent finished.

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THE YEAR 2020 ONFERENCE ROGRAM C Program current as of AugustP 31, 1998

Saturday, October 10, 1998 Opening Address 9:00 am Bohdan Vitvitsky, Attorney, author - NJ

Panel 1: Views and Perspectives of the Younger October 10-11, 1998 • Ramada Inn • Rt 10 West • E. Hanover, NJ Generation (20 - 35 years old) on the Diaspora’s Future onference addresses on the Diaspora’s future will be delivered by Myron Kuropas, Moderator: Mark Kapij, Entrepreneur - MA CRoman Szporluk and Bohdan Vitvitsky. In Participants: Stefko Kuropas, Banker, UNA VP - IL addition, the Conference will feature a series of Oleh Mahlaj, Attorney, creative director of panels devoted to the views and perspectives on The Bandurist Chorus - OH the Diaspora’s future of, respectively, the Xenia Piaseckij, Radio journalist - NY younger generation and the mid-life generation; Oksana Stojko, Architect - NJ a panel on developments in Canada and the Ambassador Yuri Shcherbak Bohdan Vitvitsky Taras Szmagala, Attorney - OH relationship of the American and Canadian Diasporas; and a panel on the role of the Fourth Lunch Wave in helping to determine the future of the Ukrainian Diaspora in the U. S. and Canada. Special Guest Speaker: Roman Szporluk, Historian, director of At the Saturday evening banquet, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute - MA Honorable Yuri Shcherbak will be the guest Panel 2: Relationship of the Respective Evolutions of speaker, and the ensemble Paris to Kyiv will the Canadian and provide the musical feature. Myron B. Kuropas Roman Szporluk American Diasporas

Moderator: Alexander Motyl, Political scientist, assoc. REGISTRATION FORM director of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University - NY end registration form with check Participants: Ihor Bardyn, Attorney - CDA - ON S Alexis Kochan, Recording artist, or money order in U. S. currency to: psychologist - CDA - MB Zenon Kohut, Director, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian U.A.P.B.A. - N.Y. & N.J. Studies - CDA - AL P. O. Box 1054 Victor Satzewich, Sociologist - CDA - ON New York, NY 10013

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Moderator: Vitaly Chernetsky, Slavicist - NY Registration by NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 29. Tickets for conference events will not be Participants: Serhiy Myroniuk, Newspaper editor - NJ mailed to you; they will be available upon registration. Kateryna Nemyra, Radio journalist - OH Petro Rybchuk, Newspaper editor - NJ Name: Michael Stashchyshyn, Entrepreneur, musician - NJ Address: Banquet City: State: Zip: Special Guest Speaker: Tel. # work: home: The Honorable Yuri Shcherbak, Author, physician, Ambassador of Ukraine to U.S. - DC If you are currently a dues-paying member of one of the associations or clubs that belongs to Musical Interlude: Performance by “Paris to Kyiv” fea- either the American or Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Organizations, you turing Alexis Kochan with Julian Kytasty. will, for purposes of conference registration, be considered a “member”; if you are a member, please identify the association to which you belong:

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS At Soyuzivka: September 4-7

Thursday, September 3 Ghita Hardiman, Leopold Segedin and Joan Taxay-Weinger. A reception will take KERHONKSON, N.Y. – EDMONTON: Snap Gallery, located at place on Sunday, September 13, at noon-4 Concerts, dances, a tennis tourna- 10137 104th St., is featuring “Ex Libris,” p.m. The institute’s hours are: Wednesday, ment and swim meet all combine to an exhibition of contemporary Ukrainian Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, noon-4 make Labor Day weekend, printmakers. Gallery hours are Tuesday- p.m. For more information call Oleh September 4-7, at Soyuzivka a spe- Friday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 Kowerko, (773) 227-5522, or Natalie cial experience. p.m.; telephone, (403) 423-1492; fax, Domchenko, (773) 283-7868. The exhibit The fun begins on Friday, (403) 424-9117. The exhibit runs through closes on October 18. September 4, with a dance to the September 26. Sunday, September 13 music of the ever popular Fata Friday-Sunday, September 4-6 Morgana beginning at 10 p.m. Then, PARMA, Ohio: St. Andrew Ukrainian beginning at 11 p.m., the Midnight SAN DIEGO: San Diego’s Ukrainian Catholic Church is sponsoring its 24th Bigus band takes over the Trembita Festival 1998 will feature the following annual homecoming at the parish picnic Lounge. events: a bonfire on the bay at Crown Point grove, 7700 Hoertz Road. Ukrainian food Shores on Friday at 5 p.m.; an open house The headliner of Saturday will be served beginning at 1 p.m. A prayer evening’s program is the Vohon at the House of Ukraine in Balboa Park at service will be held for the Ukrainian noon-4 p.m.; a performance by the Tropak nation at 3 p.m. Dancing will begin at 4 Ukrainian Dance Ensemble of Ukrainian Dance Theater of Vancouver at p.m. with music provided by the Romen Edmonton. The troupe of 68 dancers the University of California, San Diego Band. The Kashtan Dance Ensemble will works under the artistic direction of Mandeville Center Auditorium at 7 p.m.; a perform at 6 p.m. and a raffle drawing will Ken Kachmar, assisted by Debbie lawn program of Ukrainian dance at the take place at 7 p.m. Admission is $2 per Kachmar. Its repertoire comprises House of Pacific Relations International car. For more information call St. Andrew modernized Ukrainian folk dance, Cottages Lawn Stage on Sunday at 2 p.m., Church, (440) 843-9149. incorporating elements of ballet, jazz and a dance at the Hanalei Hotel in Hotel and modern dance. In addition, Circle with music by Trubka from NEW YORK: The Ukrainian American A promotional poster for the Vohon Professionals and Businesspersons Vohon has moved into the realm of Edmonton at 6 p.m. For more information experimental Ukrainian dance. dancers of Edmonton. call (619) 291-0661. Association of New York and New Jersey is hosting a lecture titled “A Work in The ensemble has many festival Saturday, September 5 Progress” by Christina Saj on art, iconogra- appearances on its list of credits, including Varmland Classic Festival in Sweden. phy and the influences on her work as a the Pysanka Festival in Alberta, the Vesna Ms. Musoleno-Martynuk sang with GLEN SPEY, N.Y.: The Ukrainian painter. The lecture will take place at 3 p.m. Festival in Saskatchewan, and the world’s the Ukrainian Catholic church choir in Fraternal Association’s resort and youth at the Ukrainian Institute of America, south- largest Ukrainian festival, Canada’s Olyphant, Pa., where she says she fell in center, Verkhovyna, invites everyone to a east corner of 79th Street and Fifth Avenue. National Ukrainian Festival at Dauphin, dance featuring the Mria orchestra at 9 love with Ukrainian music – both reli- Admission is $8 for members, $10 for non- Manitoba. In 1997 Vohon embarked on its gious and secular. Her husband, George p.m. For more information call (914) 856- members; students, free. A wine reception 1323. premier tour, dubbed “Go Beyond the M. Martynuk is a public relations and will follow. For more information please Boundaries,” which took the dancers to call Areta Pawlynsky, (609) 683-5959. artists management consultant; her Thursday, September 10 California, Australia, Fiji, Japan and else- father-in-law is a longtime branch secre- Saturday, September 19 where. CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Institute of tary of the Ukrainian National Modern Art, 2320 W. Chicago Ave., is pre- The Saturday evening concert also spot- Association in Olyphant. At her ROCHESTER: In commemoration of the lights vocalist Oksana Charuk and pianist senting an exhibition of paintings, photo- 45th anniversary of the Rochester Soyuzivka debut Ms. Musoleno- graphs and constructions by Chicago Thomas Hrynkiw, both of New York. Martynuk will sing Ukrainian selections artists Ralph Arnold, Morris Barazani, (Continued on page 13) Afterwards, at about 10 p.m., there will as well as operatic favorites. be not one dance, but two, to the music of Mr. Hrynkiw, an accomplished soloist Tempo and Zolota Bulava. well-known to Ukrainian audiences, will On Sunday, Soyuzivka guests can enjoy appear during the concert both as an an afternoon performance beginning at accompanist to Ms. Musoleno and as a Attention, Secretaries and Members of the Northern New Jersey 2:15 p.m. by the Vohon troupe, and the solo performer. Hailed as a pianist of “dra- District Committee of the Ukrainian National Association! singing duo of Luba and Mykola. matic power and poetry,” Mr. Hrynkiw has The weekend’s third concert slated for been making appearances since the age of On Saturday, September 12, beginning at 9 a.m., 8:30 that evening, spotlights soprano 13. At the age of 19 he won a competition the Northern New Jersey District Committee of the UNA is organizing a Rosemary Musoleno-Martynuk and Mr. whose first prize was an opportunity to Hrynkiw. perform the Tchaikovsky Concerto with GARAGE SALE. Ms. Musoleno-Martynuk is an Leopold Stokowski conducting. Since We ask all branch secretaries and members to take an active part in this fund-raiser American operatic singer whose reputa- then has performed around the globe. He to support the activity of our district. You may bring all items for sale – everything tion is growing both in opera houses and is also a much-sought chamber music per- accepted – to the UNA before September 12 or on the day of the garage sale. in the recording studio. Reviewers have former and is a recording artist with cited her sunny Italianate voice, combined Yamaha Disklavier. Mr. Hrynkiw is direc- For more information call 1-800-253-9862 and dial ext. 3019 for Maria, or 3055 for Andre. with natural musicality and a commanding tor of the Ukrainian Music Institute in stage presence. During the 1997-1998 sea- New York. This concert at Soyuzivka will son she appeared with the Marseille Opera mark his return to the UNA resort after an in “Un Ballo In Maschera” in the role of absence of several years. Oscar; at the Puccini Festival in Italy in The dance on Sunday evening, once “La Boheme” in the role of Musetta; and again, features the music of two bands, with the Bern Opera in Switzerland in “La Tempo and Fata Morgana. Traviata” in the role of Violetta. She also For information about Soyuzivka appeared in “Stabat Mater” at the Prague accommodations, entertainment programs, Festival in the Czech Republic and in art exhibits and other special features, call “Carmen,” in the role of Michaela at the (914) 626-5641.

Soprano Rosemary Musoleno-Martynuk Pianist Thomas Hrynkiw