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INSIDE: • Kuchma-Gore Commission to focus on Ukraine’s economic problems — page 3. • Roundtable discusses interpretations of Ukrainian history — page 9. • The late artist Mychajlo Moroz gains international recognition — page 11. HE KRAINI A N EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXV No. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1997 $1.25/$2 in Ukraine

Lazarenko tries NATO secretary-general underlines Ukraine’s importance by Marta Kolomayets Partnership for Peace, in Bosnia and Ukraine to ratify the CFE Flank Agreement Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Herzegovina and in our frequent diplomatic is May 15 Mr. Solana said this is important a positive spin and military meetings. if the current talks in Vienna on moderniz- KYIV – Welcoming a new phase in rela- “Now we want to go further. We want ing are to move ahead.] by Marta Kolomayets tions between the North Atlantic Treaty to develop a document which will see the Foreign Affairs Minister Udovenko also Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Organization (NATO) and Ukraine, NATO-Ukraine relationship go beyond expressed satisfaction with the course of the Secretary-General Javier Solana arrived in KYIV – Prime Minister Pavlo what we have today,” he said addressing meetings held in Kyiv on May 7. He said Ukraine for a one-day visit on May 7, to journalists invited to attend a meeting the draft agreement presented to President Lazarenko told journalists on May 6 open the new NATO Information Center in that he expects Ukraine’s organized by Ukraine’s association of Kuchma reflected many of Ukraine’s pro- Kyiv and “to illustrate the high regard the journalists, the Ukrainian Media Club, at Verkhovna Rada to pass the 1997 posals, yet added that the negotiating allies have for Ukraine.” the Ukraine House (formerly the Lenin budget by May 20, which, in turn, process has not yet been completed. “The alliance acknowledges that Ukraine Museum). will lay the groundwork for new Minister Udovenko and Secretary- has an important and even unique place in Mr. Solana was referring to a draft foreign investments of more than General Solana signed a memorandum of the European security order. An indepen- agreement presented to President Kuchma mutual understanding between Ukraine $1.2 billion this year. dent, democratic and stable Ukraine is one outlining a “special relationship” between “I’m convinced the government and NATO regarding the opening of the of the key factors of stability and security in Ukraine and NATO. Although details of NATO Information Center in Kyiv, the has enough strength to do this and Europe. Its geographic position gives it a the agreement were not available, Mr. first of its kind. Parliament has enough intelligence major role and responsibility. Ukraine’s Kuchma told journalists that in principle “This paper seals the interest and the to do the same,” said the prime decision to renounce nuclear weapons and he agrees with the document. It is expected wish of NATO’s member-countries and minister during a 90-minute press to accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation that the document will be signed at the independent Ukraine to inform each other conference. Treaty greatly contributed to the strengthen- NATO summit in Madrid in July, when about the role and functions of NATO, as He attempted to put a positive ing of security and stability in Europe. It has the alliance is scheduled to announce it well as public attitudes toward the alliance, spin on the current economic situa- earned Ukraine special stature in the world plans for expansion. proceeding from the new realities on the tion in Ukraine, predicting an eco- community,” said Mr. Solana, after a full President Kuchma also said Ukraine and continent,” said the Ukrainian diplomat, nomic rebound, adding that it is day of meetings with President Leonid NATO do not diverge on the issue of the who was accompanied by Ukraine’s ambas- possible for Ukraine’s GDP to grow Kuchma, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) sador to the Benelux countries and special by about 1.5 percent this year (GDP Oleksander Moroz and Foreign Affairs treaty. During his discussions with the envoy to NATO, Borys Tarasiuk. declined by 54 percent in the last Minister Hennadii Udovenko. NATO secretary-general, the Ukrainian The new center, which opened in the five years) bringing to an end the “NATO attaches a special importance to leader said that the two men discussed the building that once housed the Higher Party post Soviet-economic collapse. He its relationship with Ukraine. In 1995, issue of flank restrictions, adding that guar- School of the Communist Party of Ukraine, also noted that the economic situa- NATO and Ukraine jointly issued a state- antees were given that the deployment of is meant to dispel myths about the Atlantic tion is stabilizing because inflation ment in which we agreed to strengthen and military units from foreign countries would alliance, said Roman Lishchynsky, a has been brought down to 0.1 per- expand our relationship. I have already not be allowed on Ukrainian territory with- cent in April, from 2.2 percent in mentioned the areas of progress; in the out Ukraine’s consent. [The deadline for (Continued on page 6) January and 1.2 percent in February. Mr. Lazarenko told journalists that he sees two main priorities in Ukraine’s defense minister in U.S. to strengthen strategic partnership Ukraine today: passing three tax by Yaro Bihun the National Security Council and the State units, and a signing ceremony at which reform laws and speeding up the Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Department as well as with members of the Minister Kuzmuk and Secretary Cohen privatization process which is to be signed three bilateral agreements: WASHINGTON – Ukrainian Defense U.S. Congress. The highlight was the completed by the end of 1997. Two • The Amendment to the Strategic Minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk came on his Pentagon visit for talks with Defense of the tax reform laws have now Nuclear Arms Elimination Agreement, been passed by the Verkhovna first visit to the United States on April 28. Secretary Cohen, which included the cere- which gives Ukraine an additional $47 mil- Rada: the value-added tax law and Four days later – after talks with American monial arrival parade with a 19-gun salute the draft law amending the law on military and political leaders and visits to and the inspection of U.S. Armed Forces (Continued on page 3) taxation of business profits. The numerous American military bases – he third law, which is expected to be returned home a satisfied man, with a passed soon, is the personal income strengthened U.S.-Ukraine “strategic part- tax law. nership,” a better understanding of the U.S. Mr. Lazarenko explained that he military and how it works, two military is now in the process of forming a medical cooperation agreements and an panel of 15 economic experts who additional $47 million for Ukraine’s disar- will advise the government on the mament process, and a promised visit to steps needed to succeed with eco- Ukraine this summer by Defense Secretary nomic reforms. William Cohen. In his first press conference since “The visit was a very fruitful one, in my he became prime minister in July of estimation,” Gen.-Col. Kuzmuk said before last year, Mr. Lazarenko tried to flying back to Kyiv. “We achieved the dispel various rumors about corrup- goals we set for ourselves.” tion in Ukraine highlighted in the The military side of the visit schedule for Western press over the last few Gen.-Col. Kuzmuk and his delegation, weeks. He charged that “certain which included the commanders of forces” stand behind this campaign Ukraine’s armed forces and top Defense of discreditation. Ministry officials, took them to the major The prime minister’s press confer- U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine ence – to which Western journalists Corps bases in the southeastern United were invited by a Washington-based States, to the Pentagon for talks with Yaro Bihun public relations firm – was also Secretary Cohen, and to National Defense clearly an attempt by Mr. Lazarenko College for discussions with military strate- Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk (right) explains Ukraine’s posi- gists and historians. tion on expanding NATO as U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen listens. (Continued on page 6) On the political side, Minister Kuzmuk Standing behind Minister Kuzmuk during the Pentagon briefing is Volodymyr and his commanders met with officials at Havrylov, the Ukrainian military attaché in Washington. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1997 No. 19

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Eight reasons why Ukraine and Russia Ukraine and Romania move on treaty mation center would help calm fears shared by about a third of the population WASHINGTON – On May 3, the for- who oppose expansion of the Western eign ministers of Ukraine and Romania alliance. “The aim of the center is to will not sign an inter-state treaty initialed the text of the Bilateral Treaty by Taras Kuzio to the December 1993 Russian show NATO is in the process of transfor- on Friendship and Cooperation. During mation, that this is not only a military Constitution, the executive conducts for- consultations held in Kyiv, Romanian During the summer 1994 presidential eign policy. Therefore, there is nothing bloc ... that NATO does not pose a threat elections, candidate Leonid Kuchma reg- and Ukrainian delegations led by to independent Ukraine,’’ he said. An legally stopping Mr. Yeltsin from travel- Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister ularly accused his main rival, incumbent ing to Kyiv to sign the treaty; in fact it is opinion poll carried by UNIAN news President Leonid Kravchuk, of being a Adrian Severin and his Ukrainian coun- agency on May 6 said 37 percent of the perfectly within the realm of his powers terpart, Hennadii Udovenko, exchanged “romantic,” in contrast to his own “prag- population back the idea of Ukraine join- to do so. Ultimately, Russia has not opinions about ways to further bilateral matism.” When Mr. Kuchma came to ing NATO, 28 percent oppose it and 34 legally recognized Ukraine’s borders relations. They agreed that the treaty will power in July 1994, he expressed opti- percent are undecided. (Reuters) because it is not interested in doing so, be signed by the two nations’ presidents mism that this “pragmatism” would lead seeing no strategic advantage for itself. on dates that are to be determined by Kuchma creates Energy Ministry to the normalization of relations with With only one side interested in the both sides. Afterwards, the treaty will be Russia through the signing of an inter- treaty (Ukraine), there is little wonder submitted for ratification to the KYIV — President Leonid Kuchma state treaty that would legally recognize that it has not been signed. Ukrainian and Romanian Parliaments. has folded the state nuclear regulatory current borders and resolve the issue of Fourth, the support given by the The document confirms the inviolability agency, Derzhkomatom, into the Energy the Black Sea Fleet. Russian executive to the territorial claims of existing borders between the two and Electricity Ministry, which has been This normalization of relations would made against Ukraine is reflected in a countries and proclaims that both sides renamed the Energy Ministry, the presi- then allow for the establishment of a variety of actions. The political party led will not have any territorial claims dential press service announced on May strategic partnership between Ukraine by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin against each other now and in the future. 7. Energy and Electricity Minister Yurii and Russia through which Ukraine could – Our Home is Russia – regularly sup- On May 3, Mr. Severin was received by Bochkariov was given the expanded seek its role in Eurasia. The ideologues ports imperialist claims against President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine. portfolio and re-appointed energy minis- of this Kuchma pragmatism (Volodymyr Ukrainian territory in the State Duma and (Embassy of Ukraine in the U.S. ) ter. The move is aimed at “improv[ing] Hryniov, Dmytro Tabachnyk and the Federation Council. In the Federation the governing structures in the energy- Dmytro Vydryn propagated this thesis in Council, which voted unanimously in GM, Daewoo to produce cars industrial complex and its efficiency,’’ a pair of books published after the elec- the press service said. Derzhkomatom November 1996 to assert Russian sover- KYIV — U.S. carmaker General tions. eignty over Sevastopol, the Russian will become an Energy Ministry depart- Nearly three years after Mr. Kuchma’s Motors and South Korea’s Daewoo ment and oversee safety at the five executive has the greatest number of sup- Group will form a joint venture in election, his pragmatism seems to have porters among deputies. Both Messrs. nuclear power plants that produce 45 per- been little different from the romanticism Ukraine to produce cars at the AvtoZAZ cent of Ukraine’s electricity. (Reuters) Yeltsin and Chernomyrdin use the reso- car plant in the city of Zaporizhia, Prime of his predecessor. Russian-Ukrainian lutions and draft laws prepared by these relations have improved, but they are far Minister Pavlo Lazarenko said on May 6. Air Ukraine to buy new planes two houses of the Russian Parliament in “There is the agreement that Daewoo and from normalized. In a recent interview in attempts to pressure Kyiv into giving up General Motors will sign a deal and form KYIV — Air Ukraine is to buy two Nezavisimaya Gazeta, President Sevastopol. a joint venture,’’ Mr. Lazarenko told a Boeing 767-200ER airliners for its trans- Kuchma argued that Russian-Ukrainian Fifth, Russia assumes de facto territor- news conference. “The plan is for Atlantic routes and three Airbus A320- relations have never been at such a low ial claims against Ukraine. When 220,000-255,000 cars annually in four 200s for medium-range flights as the level. The Black Sea Fleet issue still has Moscow Mayor Yurii Luzhkov travels to years.’’ He said GM would produce state-owned carrier begins to replace its not been resolved and Russian naval Sevastopol to make imperialist claims 35,000 Opels and 150,000 Daewoo cars aging Soviet-era fleet. A May 5 state- forces have been stationed illegally in that this city is the “16th prefecture” of in Zaporizhia, some 600 kilometers (330 ment from the National Agency for Ukraine since January. Ukraine’s borders Moscow he is never criticized by the miles) southeast of Kyiv. Mr. Lazarenko Reconstruction and Development said remain recognized by all except one Russian executive. This is unlike the crit- added that AvtoZAZ would produce its the decision was taken by a two-thirds country – Russia. icism made by Moscow against the gov- Tavria and Dana small city cars, but they majority in the tender committee, which In fact, there are eight reasons why no ernor of the Primorskie Krai over his would be modernized with the help of included government officials, experts inter-state treaty with Russia has been anti-Chinese statements. We can only Daewoo and GM. Senior Daewoo offi- and officers of Air Ukraine. The prices signed – or, indeed, will ever be signed. conclude that the Russian executive also cials have said previously the group was paid for the new aircraft were not dis- First, NATO will hold a summit in supports the views advanced by Mr. ready to invest up to $1 billion into closed, however, local news agencies Madrid in July at which it will be decid- Luzhkov and the Russian Parliament; AvtoZAZ. (Reuters) recently quoted Prime Minister Pavlo ed which Central European countries will but, at this moment in time, chooses to Lazarenko as saying both Boeing and be asked to join. Opposition to NATO advance them in a more subtle manner. Udovenko: society divided over NATO Airbus cut their prices per plane by $10 enlargement has cross-party consensus in At a talk to the Royal Institute of million each. Air Ukraine has an agree- Russia, as well as support throughout its International Affairs in London in KYIV — “Our society is still divided ment from U.S. aviation authorities to elites. It seems highly unlikely that March, Russian Foreign Affairs Minister into two parts — those who are in strong postpone a ban on the flights of its Russia will sign an inter-state treaty with Yevgenii Primakov said, “Sevastopol as opposition to Ukraine’s cooperation with Soviet-built Ilyushin IL-62s, imposed Ukraine after the NATO summit. After a Russian city is in the heart of every NATO and those who are in favor,’’ because of safety considerations and the enlargement process begins, many Russian.” He is right – 75 percent of Foreign Minister Hennadii Udovenko noisy landings and take-offs. Air Ukraine believe that Russia will attempt to pres- Russians believe that Sevastopol and said in an interview on the eve of NATO flies to New York and Toronto, but want- sure Ukraine into joining the Belarusian- Crimea should be returned to Russian Secretary-General Javier Solana’s one- ed to add Miami, Los Angeles and day visit to Kyiv on May 7. “I under- Russian Community of Sovereign sovereignty. Washington, as well as renew its can- stand why many people are in opposition Republics. In addition, Russia will con- Sixth, Russians have a psychological celled Chicago route by 1999. The airline to NATO because of our Soviet mentali- tinue to hold out on legally recognizing problem in recognizing Ukrainian inde- has nine IL-62s, 30 Tupolev TU-134s ty, when we considered NATO was Ukraine’s border, because to do so pre- pendence as a permanent entity. Three- and TU-154s, 30 Yakovlev YAK-40s enemy number one. And many people vents Ukraine from meeting one of the quarters of those surveyed do not consid- and YAK-42s and 64 Antonov AN-24s. still think so.’’ Mr. Udovenko said he key criteria (lack of border disputes) er Ukrainians to not be a separate ethnic hoped the Western alliance’s new infor- (Continued on page 8) required to apply in the future for NATO group. Surveys of the Ukrainian question membership. in the Russian press by the Russian histo- Second, we are told by the Russian rian A. Miller show that Russians simply government that the reason why no treaty do not understand what is happening in FOUNDED 1933 has been signed thus far is because Ukraine. They remain convinced that if it TH E UK R A I N I A N WE E K LY President Boris Yeltsin was too ill to were not for a former communist, turned corrupt nationalist, elite in Ukraine then An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., travel to Ukraine. 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(Continued on page 16) No. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1997 3 Morningstar says Kuchma-Gore Commission will focus on Ukraine’s economic pro b l e m s by Yaro Bihun climate, corruption and slowness in imple- Ukraine is actually becoming more and • a significant reduction in the payroll Special to The Ukrainian Weekly menting economic reforms. more difficult,” he said. “And it’s not just tax, which at 52 percent is keeping com- Mr. Morningstar said that it’s in the corruption,” he said. “It’s a very, very diffi- panies from returning from the shadow WASHINGTON – The visit to interests of both Ukraine and the United cult bureaucracy to deal with and very dif- into the formal economy; Washington by President Leonid Kuchma States that Ukraine “develop as an inde- ficult laws to deal with as well.” • deregulation – eliminating the on May 14-16 and the meeting of the pendent, stable, market democracy.” And “It’s very important that these invest- chances of corruption by decreasing the Kuchma-Gore Binational Commission will the greatest threat to that end is a lack of ment disputes get solved, because even if number of people in the bureaucracy, the focus a lot of attention on Ukraine’s eco- economic growth, he said. “It’s one thing they are exaggerated in the newspapers, number of required licenses and registra- nomic problems, according to President Bill to achieve macroeconomic stabilization, they have developed such a life of their tions that a business has to obtain; Clinton’s adviser on aid to the newly inde- but that doesn’t necessarily translate into own that, until they are solved, American • and the elimination of the so-called pendent states of the former Soviet Union. economic growth. investors are going to be much less likely “kartoteka.” (He asked, “How can you Ambassador Richard Morningstar, who “And, if Ukraine cannot establish over to go to Ukraine,” he added. run a market economy if the government also advises the secretary of state on these the next several years a clear pattern of Ukraine agreed with international can dictate where bank accounts are issues, recently returned from a fact-find- economic growth,” he cautioned, “there’s financial institutions and bilateral partners going to be directed?”) ing mission in Kyiv. He discussed a tremendous risk, I think, to the stability like the United States that it would enact a Mr. Morningstar stressed that Ukraine Ukraine’s economic problems – as well as of Ukraine.” Ukraine needs to develop an very bold reform package. While there has must pay attention to some other important its accomplishments – on May 5 at the investment climate that will foster eco- been some limited success, Mr. areas if it does not want to lose the assis- Meridian International Center. nomic growth, Mr. Morningstar said. Morningstar said, a lot more needs to be tance of international financial institutions. “Ukraine is very much at a crossroads,” That was part of the message he done in order to get International Agriculture is one such key area. he told a large, primarily business audience brought to Ukraine during his last visit in Monetary Fund and World Bank funding Unfortunately, he added, reform in agricul- that included 43 Ukrainian bankers, MBA April and it will form the basis of the and to develop a good investment climate. ture “is going backwards, and not forward.” professors and students from Ukraine. economic talks during the Kuchma-Gore He noted, on the positive side, that the He noted, “It was almost incredible to see “I think that those meetings will be very Commission meeting in Washington. Verkhovna Rada had passed a new value- the decree that Prime Minister Pavlo important in defining our relationship and Ambassador Morningstar listed some added tax, that a new corporate tax has Lazarenko issued establishing a new paras- our strategic partnership,” he said. Ukraine of the points of that message. had a second reading, and that the govern- tatal ‘Agrotechnologia,’ which would has been under a lot of pressure in the Investment disputes involving American ment has filed a new, revised budget. encompass Khlib Ukrayiny and also the United States and in Europe – in the companies, as well as other foreign and Ambassador Morningstar said it was chemical and equipment monopolies that media, in the Congress “and to some Ukrainian investors, must be resolved. “It is very important not only that all of these already have been established.” extent within the administration here in increasingly reported to us by American measures pass, but that the package also Washington” for its worsening investment businesspeople that doing business in include: (Continued on page 12)

be a parallel process and “not be a second permission?” he asked sarcastically. lowing information: U k r a i n e ’s defense... Yalta,” selling out Ukraine and its interests. He said that Defense Secretary Cohen • The national composition of the military is (Continued from page 1) Summing up the five-day visit, would visit Ukraine and witness either the now 88 percent Ukrainian in the enlisted ranks lion to help it destroy remaining strategic Ukraine’s ambassador to the United “Sea Breeze 97” exercise or another inter- and 75 percent in the officer corps, which was delivery vehicles and silos that once housed States, Yuri Shcherbak, who accompanied national exercise scheduled for the summer predominantly Russian at the time of indepen- the nuclear warheads Ukraine inherited Minister Kuzmuk and his delegation in Ukraine called “Cooperative Neighbor.” dence. Some 70,000 officers and their families He added, “You can appreciate the names still do not have housing. from the Soviet strategic arsenal. throughout most of his tour and meetings, we have to invent (for these exercises).” • The Ukrainianization of the language in • The Reciprocal Health Care said the “unprecedented openness, warmth On another issue that has Moscow the armed forces is proceeding, but not Agreement, which gives Ukrainian mili- and friendship they encountered demon- frowning, Minister Kuzmuk said that without major difficulties. While all official tary personnel and their dependents sta- strated that Ukraine, indeed, has a strate- Ukraine intends to sell Pakistan some 300 communications, documents and new tech- tioned in the U.S. for more than 30 days gic partnership with the United States.” T-80UD tanks. Moscow would rather nical manuals are now in Ukrainian, all of access to U.S. military medical facilities The “extremely productive talks,” as Ukraine didn’t, since Russia is the main the old technical manuals are still in if they have health problems and gives he described them, with Secretary Cohen supplier of these tanks to Pakistan’s neigh- Russian, and it will take “an army of trans- American military personnel similar reci- and with senior officials at the National bor, India. Discussing Ukraine’s arms sale lators” many years and great expense to procal rights in Ukraine. Security Council, served to further policy, Minister Kuzmuk added that translate them. • The Statement of Intent for Future strengthen that strategic partnership, “Ukraine is very careful and places strin- • The Ukrainian navy, which will num- Military Medical Cooperation, which sets in Ambassador Shcherbak said. gent controls on its arms exports, so that ber about 50 vessels when the split of the motion preliminary work toward that goal. Among the invited guests at the they do not fall into the wrong hands.” Soviet Black Sea Fleet is complete will At the news conference following the Ukrainian Embassy reception and news And still another Ukraine-Russia dis- include four frigates (the size of the signing, Secretary Cohen said Ukraine’s conference on the last day of the visit agreement was raised at the Pentagon Hetman Sahaidachny, which visited the commitment to peaceful disarmament is “an were representatives of veterans of the 1st news conference on the previous day, Norfolk U.S. Naval Base last year), one inspiration to the rest of the world.” He Division of Ukrainian National Army who when the Ukrainian defense minister diesel-powered submarine, and smaller underscored the close U.S.-Ukraine bilater- had fought against the Red Army in expressed doubt that Russia will accept patrol and support vessels. al cooperation in removing Ukraine’s World War II. Ukraine’s proposal to sell it the 50 or so • The armed forces will get chaplains if it nuclear weapons, in helping to train Addressing some of Ukraine’s military strategic bombers Ukraine inherited from is determined that there is a need for them. Ukrainian noncommissioned officers, in the and security problems, Minister Kuzmuk the Soviet strategic forces. Ukraine has no On the last day of the visit, there was a NATO Partnership for Peace program and pointed that out that when the Soviet need for these planes, he said, and does not ceremony at the Ukrainian Embassy at in drafting the NATO-Ukraine charter. Union collapsed, Ukraine inherited 1,800 plan to modernize or re-equip them. which the pharmaceutical company Asked about the possibility of Ukraine nuclear weapons and armed forces totaling While waiting for the defense minister Merck gave Ukraine 6,000 doses of the joining NATO, Minister Kuzmuk reiterated 880,000. Despite all of its economic diffi- to arrive at the Embassy reception for hepatitis B vaccine – enough to immu- the stated Ukrainian position that it has pro- culties, it set out to get rid of the nuclear Ukrainian American community represen- nize 2,000 health-care providers. claimed itself to be a neutral and non- weapons and cut back its bloated military tatives, members of the delegation, includ- The Ukrainian defense minister’s U.S. aligned country. However, he added – with manpower. “And to this day we have kept ing the commanders of the army, navy visit preceded by two weeks a planned what he called “a little bit of a philosophical on schedule,” he said. Ukraine has rid and air force, fielded questions about the official visit to Washington by President bent” – that “there is nothing permanent in itself of all nuclear warheads and is in the Ukrainian military, which yielded the fol- Leonid Kuchma. the past, in the present and in the future.” process of getting rid of their delivery sys- Minister Kuzmuk pointed out that the tems, while the armed forces have been negative image of the United States downsized to 500,000, and will be cut fur- ingrained in the Soviet military over the ther to 350,000 by the year 2005, he said. past 70 years has been swept away. Minister Kuzmuk said Ukraine has a “Today, there is a strong desire to work problem with the Conventional Forces in together, a strong desire to deepen our Europe Flank Agreement because a foreign friendship, and a strong desire to improve armed force – the Russian Black Sea Fleet and further strengthen our ties.” – is stationed on its territory. Ukraine is At other stops during his visit, in willing to compromise with Russia, he Congress and during a reception at the said, and in mid-April he proposed to his Ukrainian Embassy, he pointed out that Russian counterpart that both sides agree to Ukraine views NATO as the guarantor of demilitarize Sevastopol – which he stressed stability in Europe and that Kyiv intends to is a Ukrainian city – by withdrawing their expand and strengthen its relations with the naval ground troops units from the city, alliance both within the Partnership for leaving behind only the naval vessels. “I’m Peace program and within the special rela- still waiting for a reply,” he added. tionship now being negotiated with NATO. As for Ukraine’s hosting of the interna- “We have done everything that we can to tional “Sea Breeze 97” training exercises establish a special relationship between this summer on the Black Sea, Minister NATO and Ukraine, which would both Kuzmuk said the exercise, which includes define these relations and include certain some 25 participating countries, will take guarantees,” he said. place despite Russia’s boycott and Yaro Bihun Minister Kuzmuk stressed Ukraine’s protests. “How could this be: Ukraine, the U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen (left) accompanies Ukrainian Defense insistence that a similar charter outlining host of such an exercise, and on the Black Minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk as he reviews the Armed Forces honor guard in future relations between NATO and Russia Sea at that, and without asking Russia’s front of the Pentagon. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1997 No. 19 Yale University hosts confere n c e New York congresswoman meets on Ukraine’s agricultural potential with Verkhovna Rada counterpart WASHINGTON – Rep. Louise M. Slaughter. “The Ukrainian people deserve NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale the speakers: privatization of land; cre- Slaughter (D-N.Y.) recently met Yulia a better quality of life, and I am committed Center for International and Area ation of a functioning land market; Tymoshenko, a member of the to helping them move forward.” Studies on April 11-12 hosted an inter- improvement of infrastructure; cre- Verkhovna Rada and president of Ms. Tymoshenko requested the meet- national conference on “Attaining ation of viable credit institutions for Ukraine’s largest natural gas company, ing with Rep. Slaughter because of her Ukraine’s Agro-Industrial Potential.” financing the purchase of inputs neces- United Energy Systems, to discuss rela- close ties to the Ukrainian American The conference examined the perfor- sary to arrest the decline in produc- tions between the U.S. and Ukraine. community in Rochester, N.Y. Ms. mance as well as the prospects of tion; reform of investment in the agri- “This is an extraordinarily important Slaughter told Ms. Tymoshenko of the Ukraine’s agro-industrial sector. cultural sector and human capital; time for people in Ukraine as they move close connection that had formed Participants analyzed problems and reforrn of public attitudes in favor of from a planned economy under commu- suggested strategies for bridging the market practices and efficiency; nearly nism to a free market economy,” said Ms. (Continued on page 14) gap between performance and poten- total removal of government interven- tial in Ukrainian agriculture. Speakers tion in agriculture; enactment of legis- addressed a broad spectrum of issues lation to clearly define and protect that related to the main theme of the property rights; and creation of an conference: land reform and privatiza- investment climate favorable to for- tion, technology policy and the role of eign investors. agricultural science, and infrastructure Speakers expressed confidence that of the agro-industrial sector in Ukrainian agricultural production Ukraine. could be increased four- or five-fold Yuri Shcherbak, ambassador of from its current low levels, but exten- Ukraine to the United States, and Prof. sive reform processes would be neces- Gustav Ranis, director of the Yale sary to achieve this level of productiv- Center for International and Area ity. Studies, opened the conference. Among the attendees and partici- Ambassador Shcherbak gave an pants of the conference were six overview of the reform process in Ukrainian government officials, 20 Ukraine and emphasized the impor- Ukrainian and American business tance of the Yale conference on the leaders, 11 academic experts, repre- eve of the mid-May meeting of the sentatives of the media, non-profit and Kuchma-Gore Commission in international organizations from both Washington. Ukraine and the U.S., as well as facul- Prof. D. Gale Johnson, University ty and students from Yale and other of Chicago, delivered the keynote universities. address. He noted that the elimination All those present discussed a pro- of past distortions in the organization posed resolution to establish an advi- National Deputy Yulia Tymoshenko (left) of Kirovohrad meets with Rep. Louise of agricultural production and the sory body on agro-industrial policy Slaughter of New York state. development of a framework of a civil within the framework of the intergov- society with well-defined and enforce- ernmental Kuchma-Gore commission. able property rights are the most The resolution and list of recommen- OBITUARY immediate tasks for Ukraine’s agro- dations to the commission await fur- industrial policy. ther consideration. All participants acknowledged The two-day conference provided a Anna Palczuk Harris of Pennsylvania Ukraine’s considerable agricultural venue for a productive exchange of potential and the probable positive ideas among participants. Reflecting WILLOW GROVE, Pa. – Anna the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural impact of this potential on the coun- on the conference, George Chopivsky, Palczuk Harris, 74, died of cancer at Center, the Ukrainian National Choir, and try’s future. John Costello, president founder of the Ukrainian Development Holy Redeemer Hospital, Meadowbrook, the Ukrainian Professional Society’s of the Citizens Network for Foreign Corp. and a major sponsor of the Pa., on Monday, April 21. A funeral Advisory Board. She was the Philadelphia Affairs, remarked, “The Citizens event, commented: “It was most grati- liturgy was celebrated on Friday, April chairperson for the Conference of Network for Foreign Affairs is co- fying to see Yale University facilitate 25, at Annunciation B.V.M. Ukrainian Ukrainian Catholic Laity in the United sponsoring this timely and important an open, objective and frank discus- Catholic Church in Melrose, Pa., at 10:30 States and a member of the Ukrainian conference in the belief that the sion of the agricultural situation in a.m. Burial took place at the Sacred Federation of Greater Philadelphia. She development of Ukrainian agricul- Ukraine. The conference was instru- Heart Cemetery in Williamstown, Pa. served on the Chapel Finance Council and ture is fundamental to the economic mental in building working relation- Born in Williamstown, Pa., to Xenia the Committee for the Basilian Spirituality and political transformation of ships among Ukrainian and Westem Turchyn and Nicholas Palczuk, Anna Center, both committees that helped the Ukraine. lt is my view that private participants. I expect that these rela- Harris received a B.S. from Shippensburg Sisters of St. Basil the Great in Fox Chase, sector-led agriculture will be the tionships will continue and will favor- University, Shippensburg, Pa., in 1944 and P a . engine for the economic and political ably affect policies of the Ukrainian an M.Ed. in business education from She was preceded in death by her hus- transformation of Ukraine and the and U.S. governments and of multilat- Trenton State College, Trenton, N.J., in band of 32 years, Clifford Campbell Harris, key to prosperity in the next centu- eral institutions.” 1975. She had lived in Willow Grove, Pa., in 1980. Survivors include her children r y . ” The conference was sponsored by since 1958. Jane Woodside of Johnson City, Tenn.; Many variations on the main the Council on Russian and East After retiring from 24 years of teaching, Nicholas Harris of Arlington, Va.; and themes of the conference emerged European Studies and the Yale Center Mrs. Harris became active in numerous Richard Harris, a merchant seaman; her sis- from the presentations. However, the for International and Area Studies with Ukrainian American organizations. She ter Jane Ihnatolya of Latham, N.Y; her following necessary preconditions for support from the Chopivsky Family was named by Gov. Robert P. Casey in brother N. Charles Palczuk of Durham, attaining Ukraine’s agro-industrial Foundation, Citizens Network for 1993 as the Ukrainian American commis- N.C.; and three grandchildren, Jessica, potential were reiterated by many of Foreign Affairs and AGCO Corp. sioner for the Pennsylvania Heritage Christopher and Nicholas Woodside, all of Commission and served on the boards of Johnson City, Tenn.

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Young Soyuzivka: UNA resort is better than ever by Daniel Slobodian The first was stung by the worst depres- active, along with the Ukrainian-lan- sion in U.S. history. Then World War II guage camp for pre-schoolers run by KERHONKSON, N.Y. – In our nos- brought the second immigration as the Pershi Stezhi Plast sorority under talgia, we are prone to make the good refugees. These two groups shared two the direction of Neonila Sochan and old days better than they actually were. things: their Ukrainian roots and their with the cooperation of parents (and When Soyuzivka was established, lack of wealth. grandparents). much work had to be done: buildings Today Ukrainian youths are graduat- A new addition, now in its second needed to be made structurally safe and ing college with degrees and working year and going strong, is Chemney’s renovated; heating and plumbing sys- as professionals. So Soyuzivka has Fun Center, geared to exposing tems, both indoor and underground, had changed, too. English-speaking pre-schoolers to the to be replaced; eventually, a new water More rooms have been added, many Ukrainian heritage. supply and sewage system were have been upgraded with air condition- The newest thing at Soyuzivka is the installed; rooms were refurbished with ing, more than a quarter of the rooms “Winter Inn” restaurant and cocktail tiled baths, new windows, rugs, walls, have televisions and telephones. The lounge. Manager John A. Flis has creat- ceilings and furniture. swimming pool has been rebuilt, and a ed a first-class restaurant with atmos- The focus of the new resort was to new snack bar gives a guests the option phere and decor that you will not find attract Ukrainian youth. To do this, an of booking rooms with or without meal for miles around. The food is prepared Olympic-size pool, a volleyball court, plans. One can still visit the nearby Log by Chef Andrij Sonevytsky, a graduate shuffleboard and tennis courts, a soccer Cabin Restaurant, and enjoy a kovbasa of the Culinary Institute of America, Xenia Vitovych, born in Kyiv to Christina field, and a large recreation hall with a pizza or Ukrainian platter, participate in Pendzola-Vitovych and Oleh Vitovych, a and is truly gourmet. The restaurant is patio on top for dancing, indoors or out, a game of pool and catch up with pro- open Thursday, Friday and Saturday national deputy in Ukraine’s Verkhovna were built. Rada, is a new member of UNA Branch 184 prietors Olga and Zen Sawchuk. evenings, with à la carte choices, from in New York City. She was enrolled by her On summer weekends, 1,000 to Weddings are expertly catered and the traditional Ukrainian platter to the grandmother Maria Jakowiw Pendzola. 2,000 young people would come and the value at Soyuzivka is outstanding. exotic Shrimp Asianique. Sunday dance to the Amor orchestra. When Many excellent tent weddings have Brunch just has to be seen to be Walter Kwas came on board as manag- been set upon the newly leveled ground believed. er he obtained many fine entertainers in behind the building, which provides a Sonya Semanyshyn is the hard- addition to the orchestra. He remained gorgeous view of the mountains. working office manager who is courte- manager for 28 years and is responsible Soyuzivka caters to reunions, conven- ous and has a heart of gold. Andrij for countless improvements and inno- tions, conferences and receptions for all Cade (he is Chef Lesiw’s great vations at Soyuzivka. occasions, as well as people who just nephew) is the bar manager who is The food at Soyuzivka has always need a weekend getaway. always there to provide guests with a been fresh and tasty, and the kitchen A recent New Year’s Eve in libation. has been immaculate thanks to Andrij Soyuzivka’s Veselka hall was unfor- There’s plenty of activity in the Lesiw. Who could forget his delicious gettable for me. The hall was elegantly Catskill and Shawangunk mountains, duck, perfectly done steak or deep-dish decorated in black and white ribbons, and I urge all of you to come to apple pie? The long hours he devoted to streamers, balloons and table linens. A his work and his loyalty can never be Soyuzivka. Your children will love it, beautiful crowd attended: the men and so will you. Always reasonably appreciated enough. were dressed in tuxedos and the We had two Ukrainian immigrations. priced, Soyuzivka is a great vacation women in formal gowns, and there was spot, and it’s better than ever. dancing to the superb music of the Tempo Orchestra. Gregory Luke Gudziak, son of Dr. Marko Daniel Slobodian was the first gen - * * * and Roma Gudziak, is a new member of eral manager of the UNA’s resort. He The tennis camp, children’s camps For information about Soyuzivka or U N A Branch 39 in Syracuse, N.Y. He was lives a half mile from Soyuzivka and is and Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky’s to make reservations, call the resort at enrolled by his grandparents Dr. Alexander active in local community life. Ukrainian dance camp are still very (914) 626-5641. and Jaroslawa Gudziak. In Memoriam

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR TH E UK R A I N I A N WE E K LY ing for the crime of Nazi helpers? The Apology did not notion is grotesque. Your community newspaper One has never heard apologies “on deserve accolades behalf of France” for the involvement of The Ukrainian Weekly has been published regularly now for a little more than 63 Dear Editor: the Vichy government in the Holocaust. and a half years. (Its first issue came out on October 6, 1933). So it is not because During World War II, Ukraine had no there is an anniversary date that we are writing in this space about ourselves. Surprisingly, an article by Andrew authority of its own even remotely com- Wait, strike that. We are not writing about ourselves, come to think of it, but Fedynsky (April 6) with accolades for parable with the Petain regime, or with about you, dear readers. That, in fact, is the whole point of this editorial: The President Leonid Kravchuk’s apology that of Switzerland that was hustling the Ukrainian Weekly is your newspaper. That was true in 1933, and that remains the “on behalf of Ukraine” in 1991 at the money stolen from Jewish victims. case today. Through the decades The Weekly changed with the needs of its readers Babyn Yar for the many injustices that It makes much more sense to expect and with the challenges faced by our community. The newspaper continues to occurred in our history against the Jewish someone to apologize for crimes against change today, striving to offer you the latest news from Ukraine, direct from our people, has not raised many eyebrows. It the Ukrainian people. One could begin Kyiv Press Bureau, news that concerns and affects our community, as well as news should. from the nomenklatura – past and present. from our communities throughout the United States and Canada. Ukraine, itself occupied by foreign And that is where you, dear readers, come in. The Weekly has an “enor- powers throughout its history, and specif- Boris Danik mous” staff of three full-time editors at its home office (plus one part-timer), ically by the Germans in 1941, apologiz- North Caldwell, N.J. one in Kyiv and one in Toronto. It also has a small network of free-lance corre- spondents and stringers who can be counted on, more or less regularly, to con- tribute news stories, commentaries and features. There is yet another essential undercuts a proposal submitted by Mr. ingredient in the recipe for The Ukrainian Weekly’s success: you. You can fill Lazarenko tries... Lazarenko to President Kuchma a few in the gap as we, the editors, cannot be everywhere. You can convey informa- (Continued from page 1) weeks ago. Presidential Chief of Staff tion to us, and we will use it. You can let us know how we’re doing as your to improve his own image. Yevhen Kushnariov said that some sec- newspaper (give us the good and the bad — we can take it ...). A press packet, which contained Mr. tions of the law violate the Constitution.] A case in point is our recently published supplement “A Ukrainian Summer.” Lazarenko’s May 3 response to The New Mr. Lazarenko also used this press con- That effort hinged on your cooperation. We turned to readers via several announce- York Times article on crime and corrup- ference as a forum to deny involvement in ments of the upcoming special issue and you responded. You made that issue come tion in Ukraine (April 5) as well as a United Energy Systems and rumors that he alive. Now that the issue has been circulated, we can report that the response has statement on his policies with regard to is the richest man in Ukraine and that his been very encouraging. One reader commented that the issue illustrated the connec- implementing economic reforms, was children study abroad. He told journalists tions among our community members and showed that our “hromada” has so much passed out to journalists in both that his son is a college student at the to offer. Another reader wrote: “The Ukrainian Summer section looks great! Where Ukrainian and English. He said that he Ministry of Internal Affairs Academy and did you find all those bylines?” The answer: our readers came through. had done a thorough analysis of 41 arti- his two daughters are in high school at the Dear readers, you can keep proving that our community is vibrant and well-con- cles in the Western press, 18 of which gymnasium affiliated with Kyiv State nected. The Weekly is your paper. Use it! Share news about your local communi- were negatively skewed on Ukraine. U n i v e r s i t y . ties, send in photos of your community events, and write letters to the editor. Our Mr. Lazarenko admitted that “corrup- “ I love this country and I have no goal at The Ukrainian Weekly is to be open to all segments of our community and to tion exists among some government offi- plans to leave it,” Mr. Lazarenko said. help our community flourish. With your help we can make The Weekly even better cials,” but added that the fundamental Mr. Lazarenko also said he thinks that and ensure that it remains a paper you need and a paper you enjoy. reorganization of the Cabinet of the prime minister should also be a deputy P.S.: And, if you don’t mind, dear readers, please spread the word about The Ministers’ structure and a 30 percent in the Verkhovna Rada and denied that he Weekly to family, friends and colleagues, and help us increase our newspaper’s staff reduction will help in the resolution has any presidential ambitions. He said he reach and, thus, its effectiveness. of this problem. would support President Kuchma in the [On May 5, the Parliament passed a next elections and that, as a member of law limiting the Cabinet to 25 members, Yednist, a centrist faction in Parliament, but this law is expected to be vetoed by he will support all centrist movements, May President Leonid Kuchma, because it such as the Agrarian Party.

TurningTurning the pagespages back...back... becomes a member of NATO, it will lose 15 N ATO secretary-general... its independence. A full 50 percent of those (Continued from page 1) surveyed did not express an opinion. 1884 Toma Tomashevsky was born on May 15, 1884, in Stetseva, a Canadian who will serve as NATO’s repre- On May 7, it was clear where Ukraine’s village north of Sniatyn, halfway between Kolomyia and sentative to Ukraine. democratic youth, united in Young Rukh, Chernivtsi in Halychyna. Upon emigrating to western Canada in “The opening of the information office was headed. Holding signs that read “We 1900 he became very active in socialist circles, particularly the Rivnist Ukrainian Labor today is a result of months of hard work by love NATO” and “Eastern border of Fraternity (Equality), the Slavic Socialist Union (a local miners’ group he helped establish NATO and Ukrainian officials. It represents NATO – eastern border of Ukraine,” they in 1907), and became one of the more intrepid fieldworkers in the movement. a new phase in our relationship,” said Mr. met Mr. Solana at the opening of the infor- He also busied himself in community organizations such as the Brotherhood S o l a n a . mation center and later at the Ukraine Benefit Association and the short-lived Independent Greek Church, which, influenced “From today onward, we will have an House. This was not the case when Mr. by Presbyterianism, rejected both “Uniates” (Ukrainian Catholics) and “Tsarophiles” additional means to increase the under- Solana met with Chairman Moroz, who (the Orthodox). standing between the people of Ukraine and informed the NATO leader that “political After Mykola Sichynsky assassinated Andrzej Potocki, Austria’s Polish viceroy in NATO. There will be NATO officials in forces in Ukraine hold opposite stands on Halychyna, in April 1908, Tomashevsky became a member of the “Council of Seven” Kyiv ready to respond to the growing inter- the NATO issue.” that banded together to raise money for the man’s defense and that rallied petitions for est in the alliance by Ukrainian citizens. He informed Mr. Solana that 187 his amnesty (Sichynsky’s death sentence was commuted and he escaped to the U.S. in The purpose of this office is just what its deputies in Parliament had signed a petition 1915), touring the Canadian prairies and west coast with Sichynsky’s sister Irena name implies – to provide information on to form an anti-NATO bloc called “Ukraine when she arrived on a visit. the alliance. NATO and Ukraine expect to outside NATO” (most of these deputies Eventually, he adopted an anti-Communist position, joining the Federation of formalize our relations in a document to be belong to the Communist and Socialist fac- Ukrainian Social Democrats (FUSD), the United Farmers of Alberta, and eventually the signed by the time of the NATO summit in tions in Parliament). Commonwealth Cooperative Federation (forerunners of today’s New Democratic Party). Madrid. It is important, therefore, that The Ukrainian Parliament chairman Early on in his restless career, he became known as a journalist and editor of an NATO becomes fully transparent and expressed concern that NATO’s expansion array of newspapers, first joining the staff of Robochyi Narod (Edmonton, 1910), then understood in this country,” continued Mr. eastward will bring about a new division of working as co-editor of Nova Hromada (Edmonton, the official FUSD organ, 1911- S o l a n a . Europe and will have a negative impact on 1912) then of Postup (Mundare, 1915-1917), then of Pravda i Volia (Vancouver, In a poll released by Democratic Ukraine’s national security, which may 1920), the satirical monthly Batih (1921-1922), then, as he became more settled in Initiatives on May 7, only 7 percent of those become a buffer between the two blocs. Edmonton, of Nash Postup (1922-1929). surveyed said they knew “a lot” about However, on the eve of Mr. Solana’s For a year, in 1928, he took over an Edmonton-based bimonthly known as the NATO, while 19 percent said they knew visit to Ukraine, Volodymyr Horbulin, sec- Western News. He then sold it to the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Edmonton, something about the alliance. which renamed it The Ukrainian News (now an independent operation run by editor- Those polled were asked three questions retary of Ukraine’s National Security and publisher Marco Levytsky). concerning NATO. Twenty-five percent Defense Council, in a letter to the In the 1930s (while he also edited Farmerskyi Holos) and 1940s, he was a leader in said they viewed it as a defensive alliance Verkhovna Rada said Ukraine is re-thinking what historian Mykhailo Marunchak termed the “epoch of consumer cooperatives,” while 22 percent saw it as a peacekeeping its official policy of neutrality and that this helping to establish 10 in the province of Alberta, in places such as Vegreville, force and 15 percent regarded it as an status can be viewed “only conditionally.” Smoky Lake, Myrnam, Mundare, Thorold and Cherhill. “aggressive military bloc.” He said that Ukraine cannot have absolute Pushing 70 and beyond, Tomashevsky hardly missed a beat in the 1950s, devoting To a question asking them to character- neutral and non-aligned status, given its his energies to preserving the legacy of Ukrainian pioneers in Canada. He published ize NATO, 38 percent said they viewed it sensitive geopolitical position. Although and edited the quarterly Ukrainskyi Pionir (1955-1960) and co-founded the Ukrainian as a stabilizing force in Europe, 17 percent Ukraine is not officially even considering Pioneers Association of Alberta. He died in Edmonton on February 4, 1969. saw it as a leftover of the Cold War and 45 applying for NATO membership, it does Sources: “Tomashevsky, Toma,” Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol. 5 (Toronto: University of percent did not express an opinion. have the rights as a member of the United Toronto Press, 1993); M.H. Marunchak, “The Ukrainian Canadians” (Winnipeg: Ukrainian Thirty-one percent of those surveyed saw Nations to join any political or military Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1982); Orest Martynowych, “Ukrainians in Canada” NATO as a guarantor of Ukraine’s sover- bloc, especially one involving European (Edmonton: CIUS Press, 1991). eignty, while 19 percent said if Ukraine security, he wrote. No. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1997 7

NEWS AND VIEWS

Successful transfer of know-how by Myron B. Kuropas from expatriates to Ukrainians by Bohdan Hawrylyshyn which took place over the last three years. Some 12,000 have already found An open letter to President Kuchma Several organizations that I helped cre- occupations in the civilian economy, Dear Sir: irrelevant. Egypt, Israel and Chicago have ate in Ukraine, and which I chair, have 4,000 have created their own business. influence in Congress that Ukraine does Welcome to the United States. May undergone changes in leadership as of Another very visible accomplishment – not enjoy. Ukraine, moreover, has powerful January 1 of this year, heralding a change one with significant long-term conse- God bless your visit here, and may all of enemies in the United States who make your aspirations be realized. in the way activities are carried out in quences – is the Transformation of judgments according to a double standard. As you are no doubt aware, Ukraine has Ukraine today. I will treat them according Education in Humanities Program. Thus It’s not fair, but that’s the way it is. For bet- recently been criticized in the American to the sequence in which the respective far it has published 94 books intended as ter or for worse, Americans tend to believe press. In an April 9 New York Times arti- organizations were created. textbooks for all levels, authored by what they read. And right now they are not cle titled “Ukraine Staggers on Path to • The International Management Institute Ukrainians and checked by experts. Once reading nice things about Ukraine. No use- Free Market,” Raymond Bonner under- ( I M I - K y i v ) : tested, they will become official textbooks, ful purpose is served by accusing the press scored the concerns of American Embassy The decision was made in December since we are working very closely with the of “slander” as did Ukrainian Foreign officials in Kyiv who described the busi- 1988 to create a joint venture between the Ministry of Education. Affairs Minister Hennadii Udovenko dur- ness environment as “marked by bribes, International Management Institute of ing a visit to Belarus recently. His state- The first executive director of the threats and violence. American and Geneva (of which I had been a director for Faces and Placesment that “opinion is being forced without International Renaissance Foundation was Ukrainian officials estimate that as much a couple of decades) and the Academy of concrete facts” is ludicrous. Valery Hruzin, formerly a member of the as $100 billion has been spirited out of the Sciences of Ukraine, more specifically, The United States helps other nations editorial board of Vsesvit, the journal of for- country by profiteering officials; if the with its Institute of Economics. The deci- for two major reasons: 1) it is in America’s eign literature, the second director was Mr. money were brought back, the country’s sion was made together with the president strategic national interest; 2) it results in Budzan (mentioned above) and, as of foreign reserves would nearly double ...” of the Academy, Academician Boris long-term financial benefits for American January 1, the new director is Viacheslav Despite massive U.S. aid, the country’s Yevhenovych Paton at the suggestion of companies and their stockholders. It is for Pokotylo, a scientist by education with a standard of living has plummeted to an Prof. Oleh Bilorus, who became the first this reason that American assistance res- good knowledge of the foundation’s mis- average monthly income of about $80 per director of IMI-Kyiv and who, as many cued Europe and Japan after World War II, sion and Ukraine’s needs. The former chair- month, Mr. Bonner wrote. Ukrainian offi- know, later became Ukraine’s first ambas- and the trend continues today. Foreign aid man of the executive committee, Dr. cials, meanwhile, have become multimil- sador to the U.S. It took nearly eight remains a significant aspect of U.S. foreign Bohdan Krawchenko, a well-known lionaires. This is unconscionable. months in 1989 to go through the bureau- p o l i c y . Ukrainian Canadian who has been in Ukrainian Americans doing business in cratic procedure to get official status, but Thus far, it is in America’s national Ukraine for six years, was lately replaced Ukraine can vouch for the accuracy of that less then four months to rebuild a facility interest to assist Ukraine as a buffer by Hryhoriy Nemyria, who moved from statement. They often meet Ukrainian offi- for teaching purposes, hire faculty, get a against Russian expansionism. The sec- Donetsk, where he was director of the cials who have two calling cards, one for library, and recruit students for the first ond part of the equation, however, long- Political Research Center. their government post, the other for their post-graduate post-experience one-year term financial benefits for investors, has • The Council of Advisors: business interests. M.B.A. program, which started on January yet to be realized. How long America can The council to the Presidium of The Washington Post was a little more 2, 1990. wait given the negative publicity is hard Ukrainian Parliament was created in balanced in its approach. An April 14 edi- Andrew Masiuk, a Ukrainian American, to tell. The clock is ticking. March of 1991 at the request of the then- torial acknowledged that “Ukraine has who started working at IMI-Kyiv from its What can be done to change the situa- chairman of the Parliament Leonid made progress in six years. Unlike Russia inception, became its second director after tion in Ukraine? The commission you Kravchuk by decision of the Presidium. and most former Soviet republics, it weath- Prof. Bilorus left for Washington. As of formed recently to find ways to make The council consisted of ten renowned ered a peaceful transition when President January 1 of this year Bohdan Budzan, investment easier is a step in the right personalities with legislative and execu- Kuchma defeated Ukraine’s first president who for four years had been director gen- direction but, unless problems of bribery, tive experience in their respective coun- in a free and fair election. Thousands of eral of the International Renaissance official misconduct and criminal behavior tries. These people were, in fact, the first state-owned firms have been privatized. Foundation and who in the fall of 1996 are addressed as well, it won’t be enough. ambassadors of Ukraine, even before Ukraine voluntarily gave up the nuclear spent 10 weeks at the Advanced There must be a bold initiative. I am Ukraine became an independent country. weapons it inherited when the Soviet Management Program of Harvard suggesting a plan that is a modified ver- This group, with the help of a secretariat Union collapsed.” At the same time, how- Business School, became the third director sion of a strategy put forth by economist and some experts in Ukraine, has helped ever, “the institutional corruption of the general of IMI-Kyiv. Larry Diamond: “a code of conduct for in the drafting the new Constitution and Ukrainian political economy and its slow government officials that meticulously IMF-Kyiv has expanded greatly and some legislative acts and helped commis- progress on reforms pose a dilemma to the rules out use of political office or influence runs four parallel M.B.A. programs: one sions and members of the Verkhovna West. The U.S. has more than enough for economic gain; a comprehensive sys- of a conventional nature, one designed to Rada learn how parliaments functioning experience to know that pouring aid into tem for individuals to declare their assets teach teachers of banking (sponsored by in other countries. They also defended dysfunctional regimes solves no problems the U.S. Agency for International Ukraine’s interests in various bodies, – and often exacerbates them. Ukraine is on entering elective office or government service; a highly professional and rigor- Development) and two groups of an such as the House of Lords (in the United approaching that point.” ously independent body to monitor com- evening executive-type M.B.A. program, Kingdom) and the Council of Europe. In an April 23 Wall Street Journal article pliance with this code of conduct; a struc- which runs over two years. The Institute, The first executive secretary was a titled “Complaints by American Businesses ture for trying corruption charges and pun- which has always had a license to oper- Ukrainian American lawyer, John Hewko, About Ukraine Could Curb U.S. Aid,” ishing the guilty; and an infrastructure for ate, recently received the highest accredi- who was replaced by another Ukrainian Matthew Brzezinski echoed earlier con- auditing the accounts of government agen- tation of the Ministry of Education. Thus, American, Mykola Deychakiwsky, who in cerns by writing: “Bureaucratic red tape [in cies and ministries.” Ideally, laws should it not only can offer officially recognized turn was replaced by a Ukrainian Belgian, Ukraine] is so thick that the share of the be passed that make it impossible for any degrees, but can also run a Ph.D. pro- Zenon Kowal. From 1995 through underground economy is estimated to have Ukrainian government official to have gram. December 1996 Ukrainian American risen last year to 60 percent from 50 per- business interests while holding office. One development of which we are very lawyer Petro Matiaszek was executive sec- cent of total economic output. Top govern- This type of conflict of interest is con- proud is that in the 1997 M.B.A. day pro- retary. mental officials sport gold Rolex watches, temptible and should never be tolerated. gram, 72 percent of the participants are Since the Constitution that was adopted while millions subsist on wages that are women – a world record – which was often not paid. Diplomats complain that the All members of your Cabinet and other on June 28 did not provide for a presidium senior officials of your government should achieved without any special campaigns of the Parliament, the decision was made, new breed of apparatchiks, or communist- or special conditions offered to women style bureaucrats, is increasingly brazen in be allowed six months to divest them- in agreement with the president’s office, selves of their business interests (a blind participants. The demand was strong and the Cabinet and a number of committee dishing out the nation’s meager wealth to their qualifications excellent. cronies. Bureaucrats from competing politi- trust is one option) or resign from office. chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada, to main- Legislation should be enacted that pro- • The International Renaissance tain the Council of Advisors to work with cal clans have been gunned down in drive- Foundation: by shootings from passing police cars.” vides severe penalties (fines, jail terms) for all three branches of the Ukrainian govern- office holders who betray the public trust. Financed by the American financier ment to help with proper implementation Whether or not all of these complaints and philanthropist George Soros through are accurate (I happen to believe most None of these suggestions will matter a of the Constitution and to introduce a more twit if there is no commitment from the his Open Society Institute, the IRF start- systematic approach to policy formulation are) is irrelevant. What matters is that the ed its operations in the spring 1990, that three newspapers cited above are read by top to create a civil society that permits the and implementation. strengthening of institutions dedicated to is, before the independence of Ukraine. • International Center for Policy America’s power-brokers, the people Its primary mission is to help create a who have an influence on American for- the public good. In the words of President Studies: Harry Truman, “the buck” stops with the civil society and help Ukraine become a This organization was started infor- eign policy. truly open society. It is active in many Some Ukrainians have argued that other president. There is also a Ukrainian saying mally in 1991 under the leadership of – something about the head of a fish. But domains, such as education, culture, pub- Prof. Krawchenko and officially created nations receiving substantial U.S. aid also lishing, support for creation of non-gov- are corrupt. Egypt has an authoritarian gov- I’m sure you know that one. by presidential decree in the fall of 1993. Good luck in your meetings with ernmental organizations, etc. Essentially its purpose was to provide ernment, while Israel’s moral turpitude is Among the most significant accom- legendary. America, too, has its share of American officials and know that the an analysis of existing policies and prepare diaspora is here to help. plishments of the International proposals for new policies to be adopted, political chicanery. According to the late Renaissance Foundation has been the particularly in the field of economic Ukrainian columnist Mike Royko, retraining of 28,000 officers of the Chicago’s unofficial motto was Ubi Est Myron Kuropas’ e-mail address is: Ukrainian army for civilian occupations, (Continued on page 14) Mea (“Where’s Mine?”). 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# Title Price Quantity Total village near the western city of Uzhhorod, local residents have reported seeing an apparition of the Mother of God, local media reported on May 7. Older persons recall that a chapel was once located on the site of the apparitions, a residential building. All attempts at photographing or videotaping the vision have failed. Pilgrims from throughout Ukraine are vis- iting the site. (Respublika) Lukashenka speaks out on Union MIENSK — Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has warned Russian legislators not to alter the charter outlining steps for further integrating the two states, Reuters reported on May 7. Mr. Lukashenka noted that he and Russian President Boris Yeltsin have already initialed the document. He also criticized the Russian media for “inflicting irreparable damage” and dampen- Subtotal ing Russian public support for the union. The charter, signed last month by the two heads of 20% Discount - state, is accompanied by a statement pledging

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Dr. Hrytsak has been causing waves in the historical establishment by critical- ly reassessing traditional interpretations of Ukrainian history. Dr. Marta Dyczok, currently a resident fellow at University of Toronto’s Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES), had met Dr. Hrytsak during her five-year (1991- 1996) sojourn in Ukraine, and decided to organize the “Roundtable on History in Post-Soviet Ukraine” to coincide with Andrij Wynnyckyj Dr. Hrytsak’s stay in Toronto. It took At the historians’ roundtable at the University of Toronto (from left) are: Prof. Robert Magocsi, Prof. Frank Sysyn, Dr. Zenon place on April 4 on the University of Kohut, Prof. Robert Johnson, Dr. Marta Dyczok and Dr. Yaroslav Hrytsak. Toronto’s downtown campus. Dr. Zenon Kohut, director of the and truisms of national suffering, the (Yaroslav Isaievych), to those who now with comments by Prof. Magocsi who Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at martyrdom of Ukraine’s people, and stu- provide a benchmark for slavishly “Little challenged points raised by earlier speak- the University of Alberta in Edmonton; pidity or short-sightedness of its leaders. Russian” defenses of the old, Great ers. In particular, the author of “A Dr. Frank Sysyn, director of the Peter Instead, Dr. Hrytsak posited that the Russian order (Petro Tolochko). History of Ukraine” (1996) dismissed the Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Ukrainian state-building project was one Dr. Sysyn said that despite the ravages very notion of a “nation” as specious, Research (PJUHR) also at the University of the most successful in history, even in of the past 70 years, there is reason for and stated that “to think of these things of Alberta; and two CREES members traditional Western terms. He argued that optimism, as there are areas of research as problems any more is to be mired in specializing in Ukrainian history, Prof. the changeability of Ukraine’s borders and that are covered nowhere but in Ukraine. old problems.” Paul Robert Magocsi, Chair of Ukrainian permeability of cultures that produced a “Now I go to Ukraine to learn,” Dr. The holder of the University of Toronto Studies at the University of Toronto, and multicultural society on Ukrainian territory Sysyn said, “not to tell them things.” Ukrainian Studies Chair also noted that, Prof. Orest Subtelny of Toronto’s York are strengths rather than weaknesses of the despite Prof. Subtelny’s alarms about a Strengths and weaknesses University, agreed to join the discussion. Ukrainian national movement. The IHR crisis in historiography, more students The roundtable was chaired by CREES director said that, thanks to a “miraculous Next, Dr. Dyczok presented a paper, than ever are flocking to the discipline, Director Prof. Robert E. Johnson. glue which has held different regions of providing a “management-minded” analy- and said the relatively large audience in CIUS director offers context Ukraine together,” the movement had cre- sis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportuni- attendance for the roundtable (the location ated a viable modern state. ties and threats that face history as a disci- was changed to accommodate a greater Dr. Kohut began the discussion by Concerning the scholarly debates in pline in Ukraine today. Based on her five than expected number of listeners) was a presenting an overview of the status of Ukraine, of which he is a vigorous partici- years’ experience in Ukraine (which testament to the enduring interest the field Ukrainian historiography before 1991 in pant, Dr. Hrytsak said that members of his included a teaching stint at the University c o m m a n d s . a paper titled “Burdens of the Past.” field were largely isolated from Western of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy), Dr. Dyczok In fact, Prof. Magocsi said the problem He outlined the context in which thought (as opposed to Polish historians said that the country faces a shortage of is that too many scholars are publishing Ukrainian historiography developed, not- who frequently traveled to Paris and points competent professional historians, that cur- works, so that it is virtually impossible to ing the difficulties faced by scholars who West) and this has left its scars. He also riculum and quality of teaching remain dis- keep up with developments in thinking. constantly struggled against dominant disputed contentions that Ukraine’s schol- tant from internationally recognized norms, Also present at the roundtable was interpretations of history, such as pur- ars benefited from the legacy of and that education continues to be centrally Petro Jacyk, a well-known patron of veyors of “the Russian grand narrative” Marxism’s accent on social history, saying controlled, stifling efforts at reform. Ukrainian studies, who once again and Polish thinkers who dismissively that the Soviet establishment’s rigid chan- The CREES fellow added that increas- demonstrated his support for new trends considered Ukrainians to be a “peasant” neling or outright repression of thought left ing exposure (by way of the Internet and in Ukrainian scholarship by presenting subset of their own superior civilization. no coherent body of work in this area. other media, as well as through exchange Dr. Hrytsak with a grant to enable him to Dr. Kohut pointed out the important Dr. Hrytsak concluded by saying that programs) to the international intellectual continue publishing new works on link between the writing of history and some of the more fruitful debates current- community has created opportunities for Ukrainian history in Ukraine. nation-building (citing historian and ly being undertaken in his country reform-minded historians, supporting Ukrainian National Republic President revolve around the question of whether new initiatives and grass-roots reform, as Mykhailo Hrushevsky as an example), Hrushevsky’s approach is still relevant. well as introducing new ideas for stu- How to reach and briefly examined the generational dents currently studying in the field. Hrushevsky’s relevance divide that currently exists among histo- However, Dr. Dyczok said the economic rians in Ukraine (pointing to Dr. Hrytsak This conclusion provided a neat segue crisis is causing a lack of employment TH E UK R A I N I A N WE E K LY and colleague Natalia Yakovenko as to the presentation offered by Dr. Sysyn, opportunities and research funding for members of a young vanguard). who also heads the English-language historians, causing many to leave the M AIN OFFICE (editorial, The CIUS director referred to a recent translation project of Hrushevsky’s 10-vol- field and threatening the devaluation of s ubscriptions and adver- tising departments): essay by fellow panelist Prof. Subtelny in ume masterwork, “Istoria Ukrainy-Rusy.” history as a subject for study. which the York historian cautioned against The Ukraini an Weekly Dr. Sysyn said the “return” (after its Prof. Subtelny, author of the popular 30 Montgomery Stree t the hasty abandonment of Marxist models. suppression under the Soviets) of the first 1988 work “Ukraine: A History,” placed J erse y City , NJ 07302 Dr. Kohut said that, paradoxically, the three volumes of Hrushevsky’s work current developments in the field into the phone: (201 ) 434-023 7 superficial switch away from Marxist would be crucial for a revival in the studies broader context of international histori- fax: ( 201) 451- 5486 dogma simply resulted in wide-ranging of Ukraine’s Kyivan Rus’ and medieval ography. He pointed out the disillusion- (and largely unthinking) adherence to periods, both in Ukraine and, thanks to the ment with the study of history is occur- KYIV PRESS BUREAU: nationalist-statist dogma. work’s imminent availability in English, ring globally, and provocatively asked The Ukraini an Weekly “A real multiplicity of views will like- abroad. Dr. Sysyn added that the medieval whether Western historiography had any- 11 Horodetsky S treet — Apt. ly emerge only after Ukrainian statehood and early modern eras are likely to cause thing to offer for Ukraine, even suggest- 33 is more secure,” Dr. Kohut concluded, the longest and most heated debates ing the generalized confusion reigning in Kyiv, Ukra ine 252001 pointing out the ongoing threat presented between Ukrainian and Russian historians. the West should be studiously avoided. Ukrain e by the Russian neighbor to the north. The PJUHR director also outlined the The York University scholar suggest- phone/fax: (44) 229- 1906 effect of the Soviet period’s “noxious ed that although increased travel would “History without bromides” TORONTO PRESS BUREAU: atmosphere” that devastated the field of serve to fill in the factual gap and present Ukrain ian National Ass ociation Dr. Hrytsak, the founding director of history in Ukraine, and gave brief a framework of intellectual trends, innov- The Ukraini an Weekly Press the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) accounts of some typical scholarly ative ideas in Ukrainian historiography Bureau at Lviv University, was the roundtable’s careers. These accounts ranged from will come from individuals. Prof. 1 Eva Road —Suite 402 main attraction. description of those who showed civic Subtelny pointed out that the status of Etobicoke, Ontario M9 C 4Z5 The Lviv-based maverick asserted that courage and were thus marginalized intellectuals in society is rapidly drop- Canada he was not original, but a revisionist who (Fedir Shevchenko), to those who were ping in Ukraine, and that the field of his- phone: (416 ) 626-199 9 aimed to rescue Ukrainian history from more timid but worked inside the system tory was being bureaucratized. fax: ( 416) 626- 3841 bromides — the well-worn platitudes to produce works of relative quality The presentations were concluded 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1997 No. 19

T h ree Journeys exhibit opens May 10 in Chicago THEATER REVIEW: by Oksana Zakydalsky exploration of archeological, mythological values that honor the passage of time and historical sources on the role of with her personal experience of growing TORONTO – An art exhibit focusing women and spirituality in both ancient and older. She challenges ruling value sys- Living the absurd on three women artists – Sophia Lada modern cultures. tems and shows how self image is influ- (Toronto), Halyna Cisaruk (Troy, Mich.) Ms. Lada is a graduate of the enced by one’s cultural environment. by Irena Koval and Halyna Mordowanec-Regenbogen Pennsylvania Academy of fine Arts Ms. Lada’s works trace her own ances- (Windsor, Ont.) – opens at the Ukrainian KYIV — The barnacles of erudi- (1965) and has had eight solo exhibits; tral roots to create an identification with Institute of Modern Art in Chicago on tion fall away from the first Ukrainian the latest was “Reflections” at the St. the matrifocal goddess of prehistory. May 10. production of Samuel Beckett’s play Vladimir Institute Gallery in Toronto in In the essay referred to above, the The title of the exhibit, “Three “Waiting for Godot” at Kyiv’s authors give the following description of Journeys,” refers to the artists’ personal 1993. She has taken part in over 20 Experimental Theater, a theater in resi- Ms. Lada’s series of works named quests for spiritual connection and relates group exhibits both in Canada and the dence at the University of Kyiv- “Conformity” (which will be part of the them to contemporary issues of self-dis- U.S., and in the 1991 Biennale in Lviv. Mohyla Academy. The actors and exhibit): covery, identity and empowerment. Her works are found in numerous private director Ala Zamans are fortunate not Ms. Lada is motivated by the desire collections as well as in institutions such “Ms. Lada’s female figures have an to have had access to volumes filled for self-knowledge through the investi- as the Canadian Museum of Civilization, uncanny Orwellian feel and are fore- with scholars’ interpretations of the gation of her ancestral roots. Her works Manor Junior College and Harvard grounded throughout this series. Often play. The fresh, dynamic production is are visual commentaries, exploring University. doubled, these figures reinforce not only in marked contrast to the versions I images of the female form, rooted in Ms. Lada’s recent works are directly their stylized form and manufactured saw some time ago in London and the goddesses of Old Europe and inter- related to the myth of the goddess. In conformity, but also they become an Cambridge, Mass., which seemed woven with the demands for conformi- “An Essay on the Recent Work of Lada” insidious signifier of subjugation and pickled specimens in comparison, safe ty imposed by our image conscious cul- by Linda Abrahams and Penelope control. With their back to one another and sterile examples of the theater of ture. Stewart, both of the Women’s Art and their arms tightly folded, their rela- the absurd from drama anthologies. In her paintings, Ms. Cisaruk explores Resource Center in Toronto, the authors tionship is revealed to their counterpart In the UKMA production, a tele- the archetype of the mandala. Her work quote archeologist Marija Gimbutas, the and to the viewer. This coldness is further phone pole stands center stage cov- takes us on a contemplative journey popularizer, through books such as “The enhanced by a penetrating gaze which ered in advertisements to which strips of telephone numbers are attched that within as well as an exploration on the Goddesses and Gods of Eastern Europe”, looks through and beyond the viewer. one vagrant called Vladimir tears off nature of the infinite. of the goddess myth. Though faces may often be obscured or and feeds to another tramp named Ms. Mordowanec-Regenbogen creates The existence of thousands of female fragmented, they are charged with a mili- Estragon. A telephone, a faulty lamp symbolic masks, structures and screens images unearthed at archeological exca- tance. This combative quality appears activated by Vladimir’s singing, a lad- associated with rituals grounded in vations in southeastern Europe led also in the clothing worn; helmets of steel der, and oil drum serve as the props in women’s spiritual strength. The images Gimbutas to conclude that women were screwed to their heads accompanied by the purgatory to which the two are are concerned with ancestral, archaic, worshipped in prehistoric times and that bracelets that bind and arm bands bolted condemned. the primary diety, which appeared in to their forearms. These adornments mysterious connections and psychic reso- Estragon (A. Petrov) is a wit, wiry, numerous forms, was a goddess. The articulate the entrapment suffered by the nances particular to women from the scrawny, suspicious, prone to poetry sexes then lived in peaceful coexis- figures. Identity and power seem lost; a ancient to the present time. and parody. Vladimir (Y. Chornenkii) tence, which was shattered by patriar- manufactured encasement is prescribed. Although the artists created indepen- is a stutterer, naive, lanky, practical dently, collectively their works have a chal invaders who worshipped war-like A new goddess has been created to serve within the monotheism of patriarchal val- and ponderous. Both are caught in a common bond. They share the same her- gods. state of suspension where nothing hap- itage of the rich mythology of Ukraine and The goddess myth is a beginning point ues... “This body of work is an indictment pens or, for that matter, will ever hap- the unifying theme of the exhibit is an for Ms. Lada, who juxtaposes matrifocal pen. To mark time they humor them- of the obfuscation of women, particular- selves with constant rounds of impro- ly the Crone, the wise one. Lada’s visation. Vladimir (Chornenkii is a tal- images identify the cultural fixation with ented musician) sings and beats out youth and the denigration of aging. Beckett’s text on the oil drum in reg- Fecundity is understood only as it relates gae rhythms. The two tramps sit with to the physical and the power and wis- their bodies intertwined and deliver dom of the old is sublimated and made the dialogue with dizzying speed, par- invisible. This is the theme that has been odying a cheap, facile communication. explored within this series”. The actors throw out scraps of cliches Ms. Cisaruk is a graduate of Wayne in Russian, French, English, German, State University in both fine arts (1976) Polish which add another ironic and art education (1979) and took study dimension to their isolation. trips to Europe in the 1980s: to Italy, Spain A black, leather-jacketed SS-type and Greece. She has had several solo master called Pozzo (V. Lehin) and exhibits, the most recent in 1993 at the his slave-cohort Lucky (V. Chaika Gallery in Warren, Mich., and has Oleksiyenko) intrude on the havoc. In taken part in numerous group exhibits, one of the strongest scenes in the pro- mostly in Michigan. Both Ms. Cisaruk and duction, Pozzo manufactures tears Sophia Lada were part of a trio of artists with a water pistol and transforms his (the third was Svitlana Muchin) whose face into a hideous mass of cruelty exhibit, “Full Circle,” was held at the and innocence. Multicultural Center, Central Michigan With a brilliant mix of precision University, in September 1995. and spontaneity, Estragon and Ms. Cisaruk’s works explore the sym- “Velyka Maty Zbizhzhia” (Great Mother of Harvest No. 2), mixed media, 1988-1997, Vladimir develop a crude, often vul- by Halyna Mordowanec-Regenbogen. gar, intimacy contradicted by (Continued on page 13) moments of desperate isolation when each crawls into the oil drum for com- fort. In this world where Godot is eter- nally on the point of arriving, where Yara Arts Group to present evening of poetry uncertainty oscillates with hope, and NEW YORK – The Yara Arts Group at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in Vasyl Yeroshenko who traveled to Japan in anticipation is repeatedly followed by will present “Hot House,” a bilingual New York, sets in motion a dialogue 1914, which the Village Voice called “deli- disappointment, Estragon and evening of Ukrainian poetry on Friday, between languages and cultures on stage. cate and ethereal in the extreme, yet some- Vladimir stir the audience with their May 16, 8 p.m. at the Ukrainian Institute “Yara is like nothing else in the how as tough as steel, hard as nails...” and infectious urge to participate in that of America, 2 E. 79th Street. As part of Ukrainian diaspora,” as The Ukrainian “Yara’s Forest Song” (1994), based on tainted, dangerous, often meaningless e x i s t e n c e . the evening, this year’s Poetry Award Weekly once wrote. “Its mixture of East Lesia Ukrainka’s classic “Lisova Pisnia”, Cultural isolation cuts both ways. If from the Global Commitment Foundation Village hipness and Ukrainian poetry called “a dazzling parable for our time” by actors in Kyiv often feel that they are will be presented to a Ukrainian poet. blends the two cultures Ukrainian N.Y. Casting “Waterfall/Reflections” working in a vacuum, cut off from the Yara’s actors will perform the poetry Americans grew up with.” (1995), which was created by Yara with cross-fertilization of the West, they are in what critics have called “the trademark Yara has recently returned from Ukraine Nina Matvienko, called a “theatrical also blessed with the need to rely on Yara method of interweaving original where it opened the Experimental Theater enchantment” by the New York Times. their own impulses and instincts. The and translation. The latter conveys the Festival in Kyiv with its production of Translators Ms. Tkacz and Ms. Phipps production at UKMA is perhaps rich- frame of meaning and the former, the “Virtual Souls.” Since its founding in 1990, have received the Agni Translation Prize, er, more complex and open to a multi- original rhythm and ancient emotion.” Yara has produced six original theater the National Theater Translation Fund tude of interpretations as a result of the The English translations were created pieces, including: “A Light from the East,” Award and grants from the New York actors’ and directors’ hunger to make especially for Yara’s performances by (1990-1991) about Les Kurbas and his State Council on the Arts for their work meaning out of the absurdity around Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps. Some struggle to create a modern Ukrainian the- with Ukrainian poetry. Their translations them. Left to their own resources, they of the poems served as lyrics for songs ater in 1920; “Explosions” (1992), which have been published in American literary dig deeper into themselves and written by composer Genji Ito and will commemorated Chornobyl and included magazines and several recent anthologies. explore rather than mimic Beckett’s be sung during the evening. poetry awarded the Agni Translation Prize; For more information, call the Yara sense of mystery and bewilderment. Yara Arts Group, a resident company “Blind Sight” (1993), about the blind poet Arts Group at (212) 475-6474. No. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1997 11 THE ARTSCENE: The late Mychajlo Moroz earns recognition in Ukraine by Dr. Daria Darewych T O R O N T O — Mychajlo Moroz (1904-1992), a prominent Ukrainian artist with an international reputa- tion, is best remembered for his landscapes painted with turbulent strokes and vivid colors. It is noteworthy that prior to Ukraine’s independence in 1991, the artist’s work was inaccessible to his fellow countrymen. The publication of a monograph (with 224 color plates) in 1995 by The Art Museum of LaSalle University in Philadelphia, however, has brought Moroz well-deserved recognition in Ukraine, the land of his birth, as well as in North America. Among the events held in Ukraine to commemorate the artist and his work were: a memorial exhibition at the Lviv National Gallery and a conference at the Novakivskyi Memorial Museum held in Lviv in 1994; an exhibition held last April in the village of Kosmach in the Carpathian Mountains — the artist’s favorite spot for painting in Ukraine; and a program, dedicated to Moroz on the occasion of the appearance of the mono- graph, that was aired in January on Ukraine’s State Radio, with host historian Fedir Pohrebennyk. This summer, various archival material and reproduc- tions of the artist’s work will be on display in Kyiv at the Buclynak Vchytelia, formerly the building of the Central Rada. Also, the director of the Ternopil Regional Museum, Venedykt Lavryniuk, has invited Irena Moroz, the artist’s widow, to bring an exhibition of her husband’s art work to Ukraine. The Ternopil Museum will be marking the fifth anniversary of the artist’s death with an exhibition this summer. The interest in the art of Mychajlo Moroz in Ukraine is not surprising, considering that he was Oleksa “The Monastery of St. Barlaam,” by Mychajlo Moroz, Greece, 1969. Novakivskyi’s favorite student and a well-known artis- tic figure in Lviv prior to World War II. In the 1930s As a result of the 1962 exhibition, The New York slashes are gestural, the colors expressive as in such Moroz gained prominence as a painter of Carpathian Times wrote that “Mychajlo Moroz is showing lively paintings as “Mountain Storm” (1965) and “Buttermilk landscapes and of the Hutsuls in the Kosmach area. interpretations of picturesque scenes, some of which Falls” (1967). However, Moroz never took the next step Moroz was born on July 7, 1904, in the village of tend to go beyond the picturesque to the expressionis- into non-representational art. Elements of the landscape Plikhiv in the Ternopil region. In 1923 he became a tic.” (January 23, 1962) such as rocks, water, trees remain recognizable. Perhaps student in the newly established Novakivskyi School of Moroz appeared in “Who’s Who in America” from the reason for this is to be found in his devotion to and Art, where he studied until 1927. The next two years 1976 on. In 1979 his name was included in “Men of love of the great outdoors, the changing seasons of were spent studying art in Paris on a scholarship from Achievement” published in Cambridge, England. The nature, and his need to share his vision and experience. Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. In Paris Moroz stud- Italian Academy of Art awarded Moroz a gold medal Although landscapes dominate Moroz’s work, the ied at the Académie Julian and the Conservatoire for his paintings and made him an honorary member in artist also painted numerous portraits and still life com- Nationale des Arts et Métiers. 1980. An entire room in the Ukrainian Museum in positions. There are some interesting expressionist por- While in Paris Moroz met such renowned Ukrainian Rome is dedicated to Moroz’s work. In 1990 a retro- traits of Hutsuls from the 1930s and 1940s, including artists as Oleksa Hryshchenko (Alexis Gritchenko), spective exhibition of his work was held at The “Hutsul with Pipe” (1943) There is also a memorable Mykola Hlushchenko and Vasyl Khmeliuk, who were Ukrainian Museum in New York. The artist died in portrait of his mentor and patron, Metropolitan Andrey also working in Paris in variations of the expressionist 1992 on Staten Island, N.Y. Sheptytsky. Of special interest are the self-portraits, of style. In Paris Moroz met the famous French artist and Moroz’s paintings, specially his landscapes, belong which there are several; they convey a brooding person- father of the fauvist movement, Henri Matisse. The to the expressionist mode in art. In such early works as ality in the Romantic tradition. Over all the portraits are direct encounter with the Ecole de Paris, particularly the not as expressive as the landscapes, the brushwork and experience of French expressionists, had a strong impact “Easter in Kosmach” (1939), it is evident that Moroz is not imitating nature, but is concerned with expressing color are more controlled and less exuberant. As many on Moroz. It reaffirmed his interest in Post-Impressionist of the portraits were commissioned, some by prominent art, derived from his studies with Novakivski, and vali- feelings and emotions. He uses color, form and line for their expressive possibilities in order to convey the sen- members of the Ukrainian community, perhaps Moroz dated his affinity for expressive colors and forms. felt constrained by the expectations of the sitters. In one of his paintings of the French period, “La sations he is experiencing. Manche” (1929), all the elements associated with Moroz’s Twenty years later in the United States, Moroz paint- (Continued on page 16) mature sensibility are already in place: the exuberant ed “Hutsul Christmas,” an award-winning work at the brush strokes, the intensity, vivid colors, the spontaneity 1964 Exhibition of 20th Century World Religious Art of the palette, the heavy impasto of oils, as well as the cor- held at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. The brush relation between the emotional state of the artist and his strokes are even more turbulent and spontaneous, the response to the observable phenomena of nature. color arbitrary and intense, the whole composition pul- In 1931 Moroz traveled to Italy accompanied by his sates with vibrating color rhythms. The heavy impasto former teacher, and in 1932 he became Novakivskyi’s of the oil pigment is energetic and prominent in the fig- assistant. Together they made trips to the picturesque ures and the background eliminating depth perception. Carpathian Mountains and were inspired to paint All the figures, including the Holy Family, are subject numerous works of the land and its people. The events to the rhythms of the composition and not to the laws of of World War II and the occupation of western Ukraine anatomy and perspective. by the Soviet Union interrupted Moroz’s work and Moroz’s body of work includes landscapes of the forced him to seek asylum for his young wife, Irena, Carpathian Mountains, the Alps, the Catskills, and such and infant son, Ihor, in Germany. famous landmarks in the U.S. such as the Grand Although he lost some 800 paintings, a painting of Canyon, Garden of the Gods, the Rocky Mountains of his wife and child, “Motherhood” (1944), survived. It Colorado and the Delaware River. There are several shows a young mother dressed in Hutsul dress and is views of Hunter, N.Y., particularly of St. John the reminiscent of icons of the Hodegitria type in the posi- Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in the changing sea- tioning of the figures and hands. Generally speaking, sons, and of Staten Island, where Moroz lived. the paintings done in Germany were more restrained in Throughout the years Moroz painted numerous color and brushwork and more reminiscent of seascapes in France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, the United Impressionism. States and Puerto Rico. Even though views of nature In 1949 Moroz and his family settled in New York, without the imprint of humans predominate, there also where he continued to make a living as an artist. In are many vistas of famous architectural landmarks, such January, 1959 he had his first of five solo exhibitions at as St. George Cathedral in Lviv, the Acropolis in the Panoras Gallery in New York. The journal Art News Athens, the Coliseum and Arch of Titus in Rome and noted that: “Mychajlo Moroz, a Ukrainian, is only a St. Mark’s Square in Venice. newcomer to New York. The unity of the show as a Many of the landscapes painted in the 1950s and whole, the fluency, the fast play of brush and color, 1960s verge on the abstract; an indication that Moroz reveal an experienced painter, a man who sees his scene was aware of the action paintings of the New York all of a piece, grasps its details instinctively and with a School of American Abstract Expressionists that domi- quick technique lays it out flatly and distinctly.” nated the North American art scene at the time. Space is (January 1959) compressed, the shapes distorted, the palette knife The artist at work on a still life of sunflowers in 1970. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1997 No. 19

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The money raised will be States, the center will serve the faithful used to cover construction costs, furnish- of the surrounding areas by providing an ings, icon paintings for the iconostasis, costs environment for renewal and deepening of program development and to secure an of their faith, as well as a place for edu- endowment fund for future maintenance. cational and spiritual support. The Sisters of St. Basil the Great were According to Sister Dorothy Ann founded in the 4th century by St. Basil Busowski, provincial superior, “Since the the Great and his sister, St. Macrina. St. Sisters of St. Basil have always provided Basil and St. Macrina, also the founders leadership in the field of elementary, sec- of Eastern monasticism, urged their fol- ondary and higher education, it only seems lowers to be “co-workers with God” in natural to move into adult spirituality and developing the potential of every human education. Our grounds are the ideal place being through education. The Basilian to provide this ministry to area residents, tradition spread throughout Asia Minor to church groups and to the clergy.” and Europe, and by the 11th century, this The center will embody the concept of tradition was rooted in Ukraine. In 1911, the Basilead derived from the Greek word the sisters were invited by Bishop Soter “Basileia” designating God’s reign or pres- Ortynsky, the first Ukrainian bishop in ence. Architecturally designed in keeping the United States, to come to Philadelphia with the traditional style and beauty of the to open an orphanage and school in Ukrainian/Byzantine Catholic Churches, P h i l a d e l p h i a . the center will contain a library, meeting During the 83 years of Basilian history rooms and a chapel where members of the in the United States, the sisters have community can foster their spiritual growth. expanded their charitable works to The Basilian Spiritually Center will offer include education at all levels, pastoral days of recollection, spiritual direction, ministry, spiritual direction, and retreat Ukrainian Dance Workshop & Camp prayer groups, and liturgical celebration. In ministry, communications, diocesan addition there will be informational and chancery support personnel, ecclesiasti- Verkhovyna, Glen Spey, NY educational workshops and programs on cal and cultural folk arts. Roma Pryma Bohachevsky artistic director out the cyclical connotations. Three Journeys... The artist writes: “My art comes from Workshop June 29-July 20, 1997 (Continued from page 10) a fascination with the prehistoric and the Ages 16 and older for advanced dancers bolism of the mandala, a Sanskrit word mythic. I find intriguing the concept that Dance Camp July 27-August 9, 1997 meaning circle or center. “It is often a objects or acts acquire a value because Ages 7-16 intermediate and beginners spiral that takes us on a contemplative they participate in a reality that tran- journey within as well as an exploration scends them. In my art, whether it is the building of enclosures or the combining All correspondence/inquiries to: on the nature of the infinite. The man- of materials into objects, the interest lies Ukrainian Dance Workshop/Camp dala is also a web where all components in the produced image acquiring a mythi- c/o Roma Pryma Bohachevsky interweave, each part supporting and cal force.” 523 E. 14th St., Apt. 3B affecting the others. The Earth and all of New York, NY 10009 The exhibit “Three Journeys” will run its living things is a great Mandala; (212) 677-7187 at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art although it has a defined structure, it is in Chicago through June 29. constantly in a stage of transformation,” writes the artist. She describes a personal moment, in 1991, when she went back to her ances- tral village in Volyn, “after 45 years, I came back and stood there, rooted to the ground. I felt as if I had lead in my shoes. For a moment, I could not move and all the seasons of my life spiraled inward toward this point in time. Truly I recognized the meaning of coming full circle and how the circle extends beyond its own closing into the beginning of a new spiral of the journey.” Ms. Mordowanec-Regenbogen works with sculpture and installations. She received a B.A. at the University of Windsor (1967) and an M.F.A. at Wayne State University (1971) and is a teacher both of art and the Ukrainian language. She has had several solo exhibits and taken part in close to 20 group exhibits, mostly in southern Ontario, but also in New York and San Francisco. Her works can be found at the Canada Council Art Bank and in private collections in Canada and the U.S. The exhibit will feature 10 of her masks, as well as sculptures and screens. The masks function as cyclical-seasonal images of the many aspects of the god- dess image. The masks are made of wood, tin, aluminum screening, sculptur- al glue and various plant materials – flowers, seeds, spices, grasses and twigs. The series of sculptures are mask altar pieces in the round. The screens – silk, silk fabric paints and various threads – function as meditational depictions of the goddess image, as in the masks but with- 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1997 No. 19 Successful transfer. . . (Continued from page 7) reforms. The center’s first executive direc- tor was Tetiana Stepankova, followed by Anatoliy Solianyk and, as of January 1 of this year, by Dr. Vira Nanivska, a graduate of Lviv and Moscow universities who worked for the World Bank office first in Moscow and for the last four years in Kyiv. We combined the secretariats and staffs of the Council of Advisors and the International Center for Policy Studies in order to have the capacity to help the all branches of government implement a more systematic and cooperative approach to policy formulation and implementation, particularly in the economic domain. The approach consists of four phases: proper definition of the problem, search for real solutions, policy dialogues among relevant people and elaboration of action plans. As chairman of the above organiza- tions, I am grateful to Ukrainians from the diaspora, like Messrs. Krawchenko, Deychakiwsky, Masiuk and Matiaszek, all of whom remain in Ukraine and are now playing very useful roles. We now have in all the above organiza- tions, people from Ukraine in chief execu- tive roles, all with very intimate knowledge of the specificity of Ukrainian circum- stances yet with good exposure to the out- side world and knowledge of contempo- rary ways of managing their respective organizations. This, in the language of the World Bank, can be considered a success- ful case of the transfer of know-how and the building of indigenous capacity. New York... (Continued from page 4) between Ukrainians in Rochester and those in their ancestral home. “I have been blessed with the opportu- nity to meet and work with many in the Ukrainian community in my district,” said Ms. Slaughter. “I look forward to working with Ms. Tymoshenko in the future and visiting Ukraine to see first hand the challenges that the people of Ukraine face.” The two discussed Ms. Tymoshenko’s plans to introduce legislation to hasten privatization of the Ukraine’s energy sector. 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NATO. By doing so it is now searching Eight reasons... for its place in Europe – not the Eurasia (Continued from page 2) of President Kuchma’s ideologues in argument that CIS borders should be 1994-1995. divided into “transparent internal” and The Ukrainian leadership is right to feel “jointly guarded external” borders. a sense of urgency about this issue. After Therefore, Russia has not agreed to all, with President Yeltsin increasingly demarcate its borders with any CIS state. resembling Leonid Brezhnev, we should Why should it do so with Ukraine, a be looking to those who will replace him country that it regards as illegitimate, in the post-Yeltsin era. Of the four likely artificial and temporary? Russian presidential candidates to do so, only one Foreign Affairs Minister Primakov (Chernomyrdin) will continue current argues in his official capacity that the policies. The other three (Luzhkov, Helsinki Accords signed in 1975 do not Aleksandr Lebed and Gennadii Zyuganov) apply to these transparent internal CIS will all back the territorial claims borders. In other words, international advanced against Ukraine by the Russian norms are not applicable to the Parliament since 1992. Consequently, Ukrainian-Russian border. Kyiv may be forced to rely on its charter Eighth, Russian support for transpar- with NATO earlier than expected. ent internal borders is due not only to the The Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. high costs of demarcating borders. Borders traditionally play two important The late Mychajlo Moroz... extends an invitation functions in nation- and state-building, (Continued from page 11) policies that Moscow seeks to thwart. to a Conference In contrast the still lifes, mostly of Borders help a country’s domestic flowers, parallel Moroz’s dynamic nation-building through the promotion of marking the joint publication by the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and approach to landscapes in the execution greater national unity and increase its and freedom of expression. The vitality Sciences and the Ukrainian Academic Press: external differentiation with its foreign with which they are painted and the lav- Annals vols. XVII, XVIII, XIX neighbors. Russia would prefer that the ish color draw attention to the emotional A History of Ukrainian Literature from the XIth to the end of XIXth non-Russian member states of the CIS impact of nature on the artist. Such still Century by Dmytro Cyzevskyj with “An Overview of the XXth Century” by remain quasi-states by preventing the life compositions of flowers as “Canna” nation-building that would allow them to George S.N. Luckyj. (1964) or “Gladioli” 1978 reaffirm develop into modern nations. As quasi- Moroz’s deeply felt response to nature states they would remain consigned to and his abiding love for it. The Program will include: the Russian sphere of influence as its As an artist Moroz was very prolific • Introductory remarks — Dr. Marko Antonovych CIS dominions. and his heritage is rich and extraordinary. It is plainly in the interests of Ukraine In the diaspora Moroz was not only one of • Commentary on editorial and translation aspects of publishing to have its borders legally recognized by the best known artists, he was a living leg- • literary works — Dr. George Luckyj Russia. However, these eight factors end. Even though the themes of his work show how this is now unlikely to occur were traditional, their interpretation and • Remarks about the politics of the publishing Ukrainian literary in the short term. This could occur in the execution paralleled some of the innova- • works — Dr. Bohdan Wynar medium to long term if Russia continues tive stylistic tendencies of 20th century art. along its path of democratic transition. His achievements in terms of We should remember that it took democ- Ukrainian art are especially significant The Conference will take place on ratic post-war Germany 25 years to rec- since a free development of art in Soviet Sunday, May 18, 1997, at 2:00 PM, in the Academy: ognize Poland’s western borders. Ukraine was not possible for nearly 50 206 West 100 Street President Kuchma has proved himself to years. It remained for émigré artists such New York, NY 10025 be as much a “romantic” in this regard as as Moroz to carry on the traditions of his predecessor, Mr. Kravchuk. In the modernism in Ukrainian art. It is, there- (212) 222-1866 absence of any Russian-Ukrainian inter- fore, fitting that his name and his work state treaty, Ukraine has to seek its secu- are gaining the recognition they deserve rity elsewhere, through a charter with in Ukraine.

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS Friday-Sunday, May 16-18 Modern Art presents a concert featuring the Leontovych String Quartet in a pro- NEW YORK: St. George Ukrainian gram of works by Skoryk, Mozart and Catholic Church is sponsoring the 21st Brahms. The concert will be held at the annual Ukrainian Street Festival, with the institute, 2320 W. Chicago Ave., at 2 p.m. official opening Friday at 4 p.m.. The fes- tival features a variety of Ukrainian foods AKRON, Ohio: Stephen Miahky, violin- as well as arts and crafts. The Dumka ist, will present a Young Artist Recital at 1997 CAMPS AND WORKSHOPS AT SOYUZIVKA Chorus will give a concert in St. George the University of Akron, Guzzetta Hall, at Church on Sunday, May 18, at 1:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Mr. Miahky will perform violin TENNIS CAMP: SUNDAY JUNE 22 - THURSDAY JULY 3, 1997 The outdoor weekend festival also will sonatas by Beethoven and Debussy and For boys and girls ages 12-18. Instructor’s fee $75.00 per child spotlight singers and Ukrainian dancers. the Paganini Violin Concerto. The concert Room and board: UNA MEMBERS $240.00/Non-Members $290.00 for full session Festival hours: Friday, 4-11 p.m.; is free and open to the public. Instructors: Zenon Snylyk, George Sawchak and staff. Limited to 60 students. Saturday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; and Sunday, 1- Sunday, May 25 BOYS AND GIRLS CAMP: SATURDAY JULY 12- SATURDAY JULY 26, 1997 10 p.m. Recreational camp for boys and girls ages 7-12 NEW YORK: Ihor Sevcenko, Dumbarton Saturday, May 17 Featuring hiking, swimming, games, Ukrainian songs and folklore, supervised 24 hr. Oaks Professor of Byzantine History and Room and board: UNA MEMBERS $160.00 PER WEEK/Non-Members $200.00 per week NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Institute of Literature, emeritus, Harvard University; Counselor fee: $30.00 per child per week. Limited to 45 campers per week. America presents a concert recital with president, Association Internationale des CHEMNEY FUN CENTER: SUNDAY JULY 27- SATURDAY AUGUST 2, 1997 Lesya Hrabova, lyric coloratura soprano, Études Byzantines, editorial board mem- Geared to exposing the Ukrainian heritage to the English-speaking and Oksana Rawluk-Protenic, piano. The ber of Corpus Fontium Historiae pre-schoolers ages 4-6, 2 sessions per day 10AM - noon and 3PM - 5 PM program will include excerpts from Byzantinae and Corpus des Astronomes Registration/Counselor fee: $75.00 for parents staying at Soyuzivka Puccini, Verdi, Vivaldi, Schubert, Byzantins; and author of the recently pub- If staying off premises registration fee: $125.00 Gounod, Lysenko, Barvinsky and Kos- lished book “Ukraine Between East and Parents staying on premises pay room and board rates accordingly. Anatolsky. The concert will be held at the West” will give a lecture titled UKRAINIAN FOLK DANCE WORKSHOP: SUNDAY AUGUST 10 - SATURDAY AUGUST 24, 1997 institute, 2 E. 79th St., at 8 p.m. “Perceptions of Byzantium,” as part of the Traditional Ukrainian folk dancing for beginners, intermediate and advanced lecture series held in conjunction with JAMAICA PLAIN, Mass: A concert titled Room and board: UNA MEMBERS $265.00/Non-Members $315.00 for full session “The Glory of Byzantium” exhibition at “Masterpieces of the World and Ukrainian Instructor’s fee: $190.00. Director: Roma Pryma Bohachevsky The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Classics,” featuring Oleh Chmyr, baritone, ** No one will be accepted for a shorter period than the full session, unless it is with the lecture will be held in Grace Rainey and Volodymyr Vynnytsky, piano, will ben- ** approval of the director ** Rogers Auditorium at 3 p.m. Attendance limited to 60 students staying on premises and 10 students staying off efit the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund. premises, off premises registration fee $75.00 in addition to the instructor’s fee. The concert will be held at St. Andrew ONGOING Ukrainian Orthodox Church Hall, 24 SILVER SPRING, Md.: The Volodymyr THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ANYONE BASED Orchard Hill Road, at 7 p.m. Donation: $25, Institute, a research, training and production ON AGE, RACE, CREED, SEX OR COLOR. includes buffet and bar. Please respond by corporation, is holding free business semi- May 10 by calling (617) 522-9858. Children must be pre-registered on a first-come-first-served basis with receipt of a $25.00 deposit nars — “Ukrainian Business Opportunities per child/per camp. Sunday, May 18 in the USA” for the residents of the greater Washington and Baltimore areas. With All necessary medical forms and permission slips must by completed and received KENMORE, N.Y.: The Buffalo Chapter regard to dates and time, and to register, call by Soyuzivka together with full payment balance of instructors’ fees and camp pay- of the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund is ments 3 weeks prior to the start of the camp session. 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