INSIDE:• Ambassador-designate to speaks at confirmation hearing — page 4. • Ukrainian Orthodox Church remembers Patriarch Mstyslav — page 9. • Krawciw Memorial Symposium discusses literary renaissance — centerfold.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXI HE KRAINIANNo. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine PulitzerT Prize BoardU keeps information Shkidchenko out,W Marchuk in as defense minister regarding Duranty review under tight wraps by Maryna Makhnonos appointment of a civilian defense minis- Special to The Ukrainian Weekly ter,” President Kuchma said, according to the Interfax news agency. by Andrew Nynka plaints” had caused the Pulitzer Board to – President on Interfax also reported that in address- create a subcommittee, which was done PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Pulitzer June 25 dismissed Defense Minister ing his new subordinates, Mr. Marchuk very quietly in April. He added that the Volodymyr Shkidchenko – who submit- Prize Board, under pressure from an said that Ukraine’s armed forces “should bulk of the thousands of complaints ted his resignation last week after presi- international campaign asking to revoke be more flexible, more effective and came after the subcommittee was creat- dential criticism of his work – and a 1932 award, has kept information ready to fulfill tasks on observing ed. appointed the country’s top security offi- regarding a Pulitzer Board subcommittee Ukraine’s security, be quickly adaptable When asked what spurred the Pulitzer cial to the post. review of the award given to The New for colossal changes in Ukraine and the Board to create a subcommittee if the Mr. Kuchma introduced National York Times’ Walter Duranty locked world.” bulk of the thousands of complaints Security and Defense Council Secretary tightly behind closed doors. Mr. Marchuk, 62, was born in the cen- came after the subcommittee was Yevhen Marchuk as Mr. Shkidchenko’s “I am not going to get into confiden- tral Ukrainian region of Kirovohrad and formed, Mr. Gissler repeated that he successor at a meeting with top Defense tial proceedings of an internal review,” has a pedagogical and law education. His would not comment on the matter Ministry officials, presidential spokes- said Sig Gissler, administrator for the career spans posts from that of a KGB because “the work of the board is confi- woman Olena Hromnytska said. Pulitzer Prizes, during a June 20 tele- dential and the review is internal.” “Today I signed a decree on the (Continued on page 23) phone interview with The Ukrainian The only statement released regarding Weekly, which sought to find further the matter came on June 10 (see full text details regarding the subcommittee. Nor on page 4). In that statement Mr. Gissler would the administrator say when a deci- acknowledges that complaints regarding sion on Mr. Duranty’s prize could be Mr. Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize have “arisen Kuchma seeks constitutional amendments expected. from time to time. ... However, the board by Marina Makhnonos Mr. Gissler said that “some com- is aware of the most recent complaints islature, reduce the number of national and, like any significant complaint, we Special to The Ukrainian Weekly deputies and to have the draft law approved in a national referendum. take them seriously. They are under KYIV – About a week before review by a Board subcommittee and all “Exactly those three clashing points Ukrainians marked Constitution Day, have prompted the debate between the aspects and ramifications will be consid- President Leonid Kuchma announced on ered.” president and his opponents,” Mr. Canadian Senate adopts June 19 his proposals to amend the Kuchma said, according to the Uriadovyi Mr. Gissler went on to say in that state- supreme law and give more authority to ment that Mr. Duranty won the Pulitzer Kurier, the government newspaper that the Parliament. Opposition lawmakers, published his official address. motion on Famine-Genocide for an explicit set of stories in 1931 and however, understood the address as an by Peter Stieda “that a prize in a particular Pulitzer cate- Demonstrating his intention to share attempt to prolong the incumbent’s rule. power with the legislative branch, the OTTAWA – In a historic move, the gory is not meant to say anything about a Speaking in a televised address to the president proposed that the Parliament Senate of Canada on June 20 unanimous- winner’s body of work over time.” nation, Mr. Kuchma officially rejected appoint the prime minister from a list of ly adopted a motion calling on the gov- However, Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, direc- his previous ideas to turn the 450-seat ernment of Canada to recognize the (Continued on page 4) into a two-chamber leg- (Continued on page 4) Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 which killed 7 million to 10 million people in Ukraine. The motion, originally moved by Sen. Klitschko loses to Lewis, but wins public support Raynell Andreychuk, calls for the recog- nition of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Lennox Lewis defeated Ukrainian of 1932-1933 and for the condemnation Vitalii Klitschko to retain the World Boxing Council title after of any attempt to deny or distort this his- a ringside doctor stopped their June 21 fight prior to the start of torical truth as being anything less than a the seventh round. genocide. While Lewis, 37, won the fight, it was Klitschko, 31, who It also calls for the fourth Saturday in surprised boxing experts and captured many of the 15,939 November to be designated as a day of hearts at the Staples Center in Los Angeles with his perform- remembrance for those who perished ance. during the time of the Famine; and for all Klitschko’s heart and determination had been in question Canadians, particularly historians, educa- ever since he pulled out of what many experts said was the tors and parliamentarians, to include the only true test of his career – he failed to come out for the 10th true facts of the Ukrainian Famine- round against Chris Byrd on April 1, 2000, after tearing the Genocide of 1932-1933 in the records of rotator cuff in his left shoulder in the fourth round of that fight. Canada and in future educational materi- This time, however, Klitschko, a 4-1 underdog going into al. the fight, left a strong impression on analysts and commenta- Sen. Andreychuk expressed satisfac- tors working the fight. Several, including boxing great and for- tion and appreciation that the Senate has mer heavyweight champion George Foreman and HBO’s Larry recognized the significance of this atroci- Merchant, called Klitschko the real winner in the fight and said ty. “The motion represents a great step in that questions regarding Klitschko’s heart were erased with the giving a voice to all those who fell vic- Ukrainian’s performance. tim to the famine-genocide,” she stated. Klitschko fought from the third round on with blood pouring “I cannot begin to tell you the number over the left side of his face from five different cuts. of people in Canada, Ukraine and else- Dr. Pearlman Hicks, a California-based plastic surgeon who where who are thankful for this motion. I repaired the cuts to Klitschko, said in a telephone interview want to express my appreciation to the with The New York Times that 60 stitches were required to Ukrainian Canadian Congress and others repair four cuts on Klitschko’s face and one cut in his mouth. throughout Canada for their determina- Ringside doctor Paul Wallace ordered referee Lou Moret to tion and support to ensure that all those stop the fight in between the sixth and seventh rounds prompt- AP who suffered because of this tragedy are Vitalii Klitschko in a bout for the WBC title against cham- not forgotten,” said Sen. Andreychuk. (Continued on page 16) pion Lennox Lewis. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 No. 26

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Kuchma’s illusive 2004 candidate Ukrainian, Polish presidents meet Geoana said that “regardless of historic by Taras Kuzio After becoming NBU chairman head in injustice, the 1946 Paris Peace treaty December, Mr. Tyhypko began a self- Whom will President Leonid Kuchma ODESA – Ukrainian President Leonid incorporated the island into the Soviet promotion campaign that nobody in that choose as the pro-presidential candidate Kuchma and his Polish counterpart, Union contrary to any norm of interna- position had ever undertaken. for the October 2004 elections? Aleksander Kwasniewski, attended the tional justice, while political reality after Within Ukraine both Mr. Medvedchuk Discussions are under way between opening of a Polish Consulate in the 1990 confirmed this fact.” He said the and Mr. Yanukovych have drawbacks in , head of the pro- Black Sea port of Odesa on June 24, dispute with Ukraine is not over which relation to Mr. Tyhypko. Mr. reform Our Ukraine bloc, and two radical Ukrainian news agencies reported. The country the island belongs to, but on the Medvedchuk has made even more ene- opposition groups, Oleksander Moroz’s two presidents took part in a Ukrainian- delimitation of the Black Sea’s continen- mies than he already had prior to becom- Socialists (SPU) and ’s Polish business forum in Odesa later the tal shelf. Romania regards the island as ing presidential administration head in bloc, to unite behind Mr. Yushchenko. same day. (RFE/RL Newsline) uninhabited, while Ukraine claims it has May 2002. The Social Democratic Party- Mr. Yushchenko has maintained his “an economic life of its own,” Mr. united (SDPU), which is led by Mr. New deputy joins Verkhovna Rada position as Ukraine’s most popular politi- Geoana said. Should Ukraine stick to its Medvedchuk, is the only oligarch party cian since he was prime minister from KYIV – The Central Electoral claim, he added, Romania might take the unpopular in its home base, in Kyiv. December 1999 to April 2001. In a May Commission on June 24 registered case to the International Court of Justice There are indications that Mr. poll by the Ukrainian Democratic Circle, Mykola Kulchynskyi as a lawmaker of in The Hague, as stipulated in the basic Medvedchuk is willing to sit out the Mr. Yushchenko obtained 27.8 percent the Verkhovna Rada, UNIAN reported. treaty between the two countries in the 2004 election and work towards the 2009 backing (rising to 42.3 percent if Mr. Mr. Kulchynskyi ran in the 2002 parlia- event they fail to reach agreement on the elections, including as head of the SDPU Moroz’s and Ms. Tymoshenko’s support mentary elections on the Our Ukraine issue. According to international law, if opposition party, if Mr. Yushchenko is added), while Communist Party of party list. He replaces Volodymyr wins. the court rules that the island is uninhab- Ukraine (CPU) leader Scherban, whose mandate was terminat- Mr. Yanukovych’s rating is growing ited, Ukraine cannot lay claim to unilat- got 17.9 percent. The opposition is likely ed by the Parliament last week in con- because of his dynamism since becoming eral economic exploitation of oil reserves to have two candidates – Mr. Yushchenko nection with his appointment to the post prime minister in November 2002. His within 200 miles from the island. and the CPU’s Mr. Symonenko. of chairman of Sumy Oblast. Mr. visit to Paris in May was deemed a suc- (RFE/RL Newsline) Of the two opposition candidates, Mr. Scherban also was elected on the Our cess and considered the best visit to Yushchenko is clearly the favorite. No Ukraine party list but abandoned that Kyiv on border accord with Bucharest France by any Ukrainian government. Communist candidate relying solely on parliamentary caucus in July 2002 for the Mr. Yanukovych’s usefulness to KYIV – Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs CPU support would be able to win elec- pro-presidential People’s Choice group. President Kuchma was in converting the Minister Anatolii Zlenko said on June 18 tions in Ukraine. With their high ratings, (RFE/RL Newsline) Donbas into a “mini-Belarus,” as that by signing the agreement on the both opposition candidates could possi- Ukrainian commentators have described Our Ukraine against “reverse” pipeline Ukrainian-Romanian land border the pre- bly enter the second round, which would it, where he has ensured the domination vious day, both presidents “have make a Mr. Yushchenko victory certain. of the local “party of power” (Regions of KYIV – Viktor Yushchenko’s Our unblocked the situation that existed in It has always been in President Ukraine). Ukraine said in a statement on June 24 Ukrainian-Romanian relations,” Interfax Kuchma’s interest to have the opposition Mr. Yanukovych’s strength in the that the use of the Odesa-Brody oil reported. “The most fundamental issue vote fractured with all four opposition Donbas may be his liability in the pipeline to pump Russian oil from [is that] we confirmed the state-border leaders as candidates. In May, Mr. remainder of Ukraine. Although Mr. Brody to Odesa would run counter to line determined by accords of 1947 and Kuchma said that Mr. Yushchenko had Yanukovych will be prime minister for Ukraine’s national interests, Interfax 1961,” Mr. Zlenko said. The minister made a mistake in not siding with pro- nearly two years prior to the 2004 elec- reported. The statement came in appar- added that the 2003 border agreement presidential centrists after the 2002 elec- tions, it is not clear that this is sufficient ent response to recent appeals to employ contains provisions that make its revision tions, and he ridiculed talk of a united time to change his image from oblast the Odesa-Brody pipeline, which was impossible. Commenting on the dispute opposition candidate. chairman of Ukraine’s “mini-Belarus” to built to pump Caspian oil to Europe, in over Serpent Island (Zmiynyi Ostrov) in An April poll by Kyiv’s Politychna a potential . a “reverse mode.” Our Ukraine called the Black Sea, Mr. Zlenko said the issue Dumka (Political Thought) journal dis- Mr. Tyhypko has advantages over both on President Leonid Kuchma to take a was settled by a Ukrainian-Romanian cussed four possible scenarios for 2004. Messrs. Medvedchuk and Yanukovych, clear stand on using the pipeline exclu- treaty in 1997. “Under the treaty of 1997, The best scenario, from the viewpoint of as he is the best of the three to take on sively in accordance with its original the island belongs to Ukraine; the issue anti-Kuchma forces, was a joint non- Mr. Yushchenko. Whether Mr. Tyhypko’s design. Meanwhile, Mr. Kuchma said has been settled and closed,” he said. Communist opposition candidate leading image of an oligarchic “reformer” con- the same day that Ukraine will not use Meanwhile, upon returning to Bucharest, to Messrs. Yushchenko and Symonenko forms to reality is difficult to say. His the Odesa-Brody pipeline in the reverse Romanian President Ion Iliescu said he entering the second round, where they proficiency was never rated highly when direction if the European Commission hopes the agreement signed with would obtain 53.1 percent and 28.8 per- he was vice prime minister and economy takes “specific steps” to use the oil Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma will cent, respectively, of the votes. minister in the government of Valerii pipeline in its planned direction. Mr. facilitate an understanding over the out- In these four scenarios, a pro-Kuchma Pustovoitenko in 1997-1999. Ms. Kuchma also observed that the Odesa- standing issue of Serpent Island, candidate would have to obtain sufficient Tymoshenko, leader of the eponymous Brody oil-pipeline project “perfectly Romanian Radio reported on June 18. support in the first round in order to beat opposition bloc, claims that when Mr. characterizes the Ukrainian mentality”: The same source added that Foreign Mr. Symonenko into the second round. Tyhypko was economy minister in the “First we did it, and then we asked our- Minister Mircea Geoana said the sides Individual opinion polls for the three Mr. Yushchenko government, he “profes- selves – why have we done this?” are as far apart on the issue as ever. potential pro-presidential candidates – sionally sabotaged all of my work” (P. (RFE/RL Newsline) (RFE/RL Newsline) Prime Minister , Loza, “Nevypolnennyi Zakaz,” Kyiv, Chairman Minister says Serpent Island is Ukraine’s Taki Spravy, 2002, p. 70). In May 2000 Rada re-elects ombudswoman Serhii Tyhypko, and presidential admin- Mr. Tyhypko resigned in protest as econ- BUCHAREST – Foreign Minister istration head Viktor Medvedchuk – are KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on June omy minister over reforms introduced by Mircea Geoana said that the Black Sea’s low. But they should be added together 19 voted 280 to 10 to re-elect Nina the Yushchenko government. contentious Serpent Island belongs to with an additional five percent to 10 per- Karpachova as the country’s The manner in which Mr. Tyhypko Ukraine, the daily Ziua reported on June cent from “administrative resources.” ombudswoman, Interfax reported. became head of the National Bank in 20, citing an interview Mr. Geoana Although opposition candidates have November 2002 also is not a good indi- recently gave to Amos News. Mr. (Continued on page 15) access to state television’s Channel 1, cator of his character. 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Economist Hawrylyshyn comments on Ukraine’s movement toward Europe by Roman Woronowycz Ukraine also had to meet another, more out all that well, but it created expecta- 120 parties? Ideally, you have a roof with Kyiv Press Bureau subjective criteria, he added. tion and movement,” Dr. Hawrylyshyn two sides – a left side and a right side – “We also need to clean up our interna- noted. and a center, maybe five-six political par- KYIV – Even with its economy tional image, some of which is deserved The economist criticized Kyiv’s inabil- ties at most.” expanding this year at a rate that exceeds and some of which is undeserved,” ity to break free of Moscow’s economic Dr. Hawrylyshyn pointed out that crit- forecasts and after three previous years of explained Mr. Hawrylyshyn. influence and the initiative of the admin- ics of the political reforms initiated by strong growth, Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, The economist said that Europe could istration of President Leonid Kuchma to President Kuchma explain that the reason noted economist and advisor to the help Ukraine to move economically clos- develop a free trade zone and an open for the presidential effort is to ensure that Ukrainian government, believes that er by reducing strict quotas on the import economic space with Russia and three the current Ukrainian president has a Ukraine has little chance of achieving of Ukrainian products, including textiles other members of the Commonwealth of hand in picking his successor or that European levels and entering the and wheat. Independent States. Dr. Hawrylyshyn Moscow has some influence over the European Union in the next decade. Dr. Hawrylyshyn sounded a warning said the cooperative effort could further process. “Is 2012 a reality? I would say it is too to Ukraine if it expects economic devel- hinder Ukraine’s faltering effort to enter He stated that it would be more impor- optimistic a date,” stated the Ukrainian the World Trade Organization, which is a tant for Ukraine’s future to make sure born Canadian citizen who now calls opment to continue: strong growth will Geneva home. not continue without a substantial infu- basic requirement for EU membership. that local and regional government state Dr. Hawrylyshyn, who has been an sion of foreign direct investment, some- “On March 18, we signed a protocol representatives do not have the ability to aide to several Ukrainian prime ministers thing in which Ukraine has lagged way with the EU for accession individually, manipulate and control the elections and has offered advice to nearly all of the behind its neighbors to the west as well not collectively,” explained Dr. through electoral fraud and intimidation chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada since as the east. He explained that Kyiv must Hawrylyshyn. “I happened to be in the of the local population. Ukraine declared independence in 1991, complete economic reforms, develop delegation, and I can tell you there were And so who does Dr. Hawrylyshyn said there is reason to believe that eco- transparency in government and business last-minute attempts by Russia to prevent believe will win the presidential elections nomic growth will be sustained, but that practices, reduce corruption, and achieve it from happening.” in 2004? He wouldn’t come right out and extensive political and social develop- better predictability in policy-making for According to Dr. Hawrylyshyn the state that, of course, but he did give an ment must take place before Ukraine foreigners to take advantage of the eco- upcoming presidential elections could indication of what he thought of some of ascends to the European paradigm. nomic and business opportunities the prove another watershed for Ukraine. He the “could be” undeclared contenders: The 77-year-old semi-retired author country offers. explained that the way in which the elec- On Viktor Yushchenko: “Yushchenko and scholar who helped found the He said that much of Ukraine’s growth tions are conducted – the degree of the can be criticized because he has not been International Management Institute in over the last years was domestically driv- electoral process’ honesty, openness and tough as an oppositionist leader, but he is Kyiv 13 years ago explained that Ukraine en and was more easily attainable after a integrity – would also determine the genuine. And he is genuinely a person needs additional, and extensive, political long economic decline, which he cited as speed at which Ukraine enters the EU. who wants to unite rather than polarize.” and administrative reform – including having started in the late 1960s. He said that most EU leaders, includ- On Viktor Yanukovych: “He is a per- changes in its still much too Sovietized He said the economy began regenerat- ing his longtime friend, EU President son who has shown a willingness to legislative base – to bring it into line with ing in 2000 after government officials Romano Prodi, were not at all concerned learn. He is a rather strong personality European legislative norms. finally brought the energy sector out of with the political reforms proposed by and, with the economy doing rather better “The harmonization of laws is a the shadow economy and dismantled the President Kuchma because they fell into rather than worse and if the budget stays tremendous process and takes a long barter system, which coincided with the line, for the most part, with European on course, his popularity could rise. But I time,” said Dr. Hawrylyshyn. development of a policy of enforced tax norms. don’t think he can rise to the level of Dr. Hawrylyshyn noted that on an collection. The economist noted that the However, Dr. Hawrylyshyn said he Yushchenko because people have precon- objective basis, to enter the European presidential decree of 1999 on agricultur- believes it would be to Ukraine’s benefit ceived ideas of how he came to power.” Union Ukraine had to meet the al reform did much to rejuvenate that to reduce the number of political parties On Viktor Medvedchuk: “He is Copenhagen criteria, a list of stringent important economic sector, which also in the country “I think the greatest politi- extremely intelligent, but I don’t believe requirements to which all potential EU helped stimulate the economy in general. cal ill in Ukraine is the number of parties. he has political appeal and the trust of the members must conform. However, “It is not so much that it was carried How can you build a political roof with people at large.” Presidents of Ukraine and Romania Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff sign 10-year treaty on land borders discusses military relations in Kyiv by Roman Woronowycz abut, would soon take place. President KYIV – Gen. Richard Myers, chair- deployed in the Polish sector southwest Kyiv Press Bureau Iliescu said he believed the maritime man of the U.S. Army Joint Chiefs of of Baghdad by the middle of July. issues would be more easily resolved Staff, spent a day in Kyiv on June 17 to Gen. Myers thanked Ukrainian service- KYIV – Ukraine and Romania finally because the signed documents included discuss U.S.-Ukraine military relations men in the army’s 19th Special Battalion, finished a process of border delimitation “certain principles” already agreed upon with Ukrainian officials. which has responsibility for countering that had lasted more than six years, when for divvying up the continental shelf and The military leader of the U.S. Armed the effects of attacks of weapons of mass Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma and exclusive economic zones they currently Forces met with Ukraine’s Minister of destruction, who were part of the deploy- Romanian President Ion Iliescu signed a share. Defense Volodymyr Shkidchenko to dis- ment to Kuwait in support of the U.S.-led border treaty on June 17 in Chernivtsi, The economic zones have been a par- cuss various topics on the development of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Ukraine. ticularly troublesome area of negotiations bilateral military relations, including prepa- During the low-profile visit by Gen. The agreement established a border between Romania and Ukraine, especial- rations under way for Ukraine’s participa- Myers, which included one photo oppor- regime between the two countries, as ly the Zmiinyi Island, which the two tion in the Iraq stabilization force, reported tunity and no press conferences, the two well as a policy of cooperation and mutu- the Ministry of Defense press center. sides also discussed Ukraine’s prepara- al aid. sides agreed last year would belong to Ukraine has committed two battalions tions for integration into NATO and the The treaty, which is valid for 10 years, Ukraine. The document signed in consisting of 1,800 troops to the peace- status of defense reform in the country’s including an option for another five Chernivtsi supported the earlier agree- keeping effort in Iraq, which will be armed forces. years, establishes the land border ment. between the two countries according to a Yet, already the island is a central part line agreed upon between Romania and of future negotiations because Romania the USSR in 1961, when Ukraine was believes it should not be part of the still under Moscow’s rule. demarcation process as Bucharest con- That agreement put a part of the siders it an uninhabitable rock, while Bukovyna region, known in Romania as Kyiv works with the understanding that Bessarabia, under Bucharest’s rule; it has it is an inhabitable island and, therefore, stirred disputes among people in the bor- must have border control. der region ever since. The two sides have been haggling over Romania, in particular, needed the the details of the border agreement after treaty to secure its eastern border as a agreeing on July 2, 1997, on the inviola- requirement for entering the European bility of the existing border. That docu- Union, something the country hopes to ment supported a 1990 document of do in 2007. demarcation that supported the line “We have finally managed to solve drawn between the two countries in the painful problem that had been ham- 1961. pering development of relations The Parliaments of both countries between our countries,” said President need to verify the border agreement Kuchma during the signing ceremony, before it becomes enforceable. according to a news report filed by Markian Lubkivsky, spokesman for Interfax-Ukraine. Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The two country leaders noted that said the final rounds of talks between work on delimiting the continental shelf Romania and Ukraine would begin in of the Black Sea, which both countries September in Bucharest. Gen. Richard Myers with Minister of Defense Volodymyr Shkidchenko. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 No. 26

“parliamentary majority,” which the pres- Kuchma seeks... ident stated must exist for the Parliament FOR THE RECORD: Ambassador-designate (Continued from page 1) to remain. candidates offered by the president. The “It’s an innovation that is unknown to to Ukraine speaks at confirmation hearing president would then decide whom to the world,” Mr. Moroz was quoted by Following is the statement of John propose from among nominees suggested Interfax as saying at his news conference Herbst, ambassador-designate to Ukraine, by the parliamentary majority. on June 20, the day the presidential draft delivered at his confirmation hearing, Mr. Kuchma suggested that the bill went to Parliament. before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Verkhovna Rada also form the Cabinet, Political expert Volodymyr Committee on June 18. but appointments of foreign, defense and Malynkovych noted some legal inconsis- internal affairs ministers would remain tencies in Mr. Kuchma’s proposals con- Mr. Chairman and members of the under presidential control. In addition, the cerning one-time elections and the presi- Committee, I am honored to appear president would retain the right to appoint dent’s right to dismiss the Parliament. before you today to discuss my nomina- top law-enforcement chiefs in the cus- “It appears that a president will have tion as ambassador of the United States toms, national security, border control and to dismiss the Parliament if it fails to to Ukraine. I deeply appreciate the confi- tax administration services, according to appoint a prime minister just a month dence that President [George W. Bush] his bill on constitutional amendments. after the parliamentary elections,” Mr. and Secretary [of State Colin] Powell The address prompted some criticism Malynkovych said, according to Interfax. have placed in me. If confirmed by the by opposition lawmakers, who lashed out He also criticized Mr. Kuchma for try- Senate, I pledge to work closely with this at Mr. Kuchma’s other political reform ing to give too much authority to the Committee, along with your colleagues proposals, including a president’s right to presidential branch in economic issues. elsewhere in Congress, to advance U.S. dismiss the Parliament if it fails to form a Mr. Malynkovych said the president interests in Ukraine and in the region as stable majority within a month of its should focus on the nation’s security and a whole. election, if it fails to form a Cabinet with- leave appointments of top tax administra- In some ways, I have spent much of in two months after the previous one is tor and customs chief to the Parliament. my career preparing for this assignment. dismissed and if it fails to adopts a budg- The expert added that a joint version Approximately half of my 24 years in the et before December 1 of each year. of the presidential draft bill and another Foreign Service have been devoted to Another point of Mr. Kuchma’s speech one developed in Parliament might be a working on first the Soviet Union and that drew critical remarks was his pro- solution. then the Newly Independent States posal to simultaneously conduct presi- Meanwhile, Parliament chairman (NIS). As deputy to the ambassador for dential and parliamentary elections once Volodymyr Lytvyn said it would be “too the NIS from 1994 to 1997, I worked every five years. difficult” to form a joint bill. He assessed with the on a “It’s absolutely enough. There is no the presidential address as a “step host of issues, such as the NATO- need to overload Ukrainian and interna- towards political power centered in the Ukraine relationship. I have also accu- tional political experts with work,” the Parliament in accordance with the spirit Ambassador-designate John Herbst mulated substantial management experi- president commented. He added that it’s found in Ukrainian society,” according to ence from service as chief of mission at Interfax. ence, but much work remains to help this up to the Parliament to decide when the our Consulate in Jerusalem and our In contrast to Mr. Moroz’s skepticism extraordinary land reach its full poten- simultaneous elections should start. Embassy in Tashkent. about the president’s honest desire to tial. We will work closely with both the According to current law, the president I am very excited about the prospect, share authority, the speaker expressed government and the Ukrainian people to is elected every five years, while with Senate approval, of serving as optimision saying that the scale of future expedite progress. Parliament is elected every four years, ambassador in Ukraine. Ensuring the but between presidential elections. Mr. parliamentary power depends much on While we experienced some difficult integration of Ukraine into the Euro- Kuchma is serving his second five-year the present actions of the law makers. moments in our bilateral relations in Atlantic community is a critical foreign term, which ends in 2004. According to Opposition lawmakers are demanding 2002, the relationship is now moving in policy goal, one with many dimensions. the Constitution, he has no right to a third that the Constitutional Court assess Mr. It means building further our partnership a more positive direction. A critical con- term. The next parliamentary elections Kuchma’s draft bill on constitutional with Ukraine in promoting regional secu- cern remains the maturing of Ukrainian are scheduled for 2006. reform to check whether the proposals rity and combating global terrorism. In democracy. The presidential election Socialist Party leader Oleksander are within constitutional norms. Mr. this connection, we deeply appreciate scheduled for late next year presents a Moroz said Mr. Kuchma’s proposal for Moroz expressed doubt that the Ukraine’s decision to join the coalition to critical test of the government’s commit- new elections most probably is in the Verkhovna Rada would be able to make free Iraq and its contribution of a ment to democracy. If confirmed, I will president’s self-interest as it includes a amendments to the Constitution before nuclear, biological chemical protection make it a priority to do what I can to mechanism for the prolongation of his the end of its session on July 10. The battalion to Kuwait. Ukraine’s ensure that the Ukrainian authorities term,” according to the Interfax news Parliament will most likely continue to Parliament recently approved the deploy- allow for a level playing field for presi- agency. discuss the issue during its fall session, ment of a brigade to Iraq as part of the dential candidates and that election Mr. Moroz also criticized the term he said. coalition stabilization force. Ukraine has preparations and the election itself are also cooperated in intelligence-sharing carried out in a free and fair manner. and provided material and logistical sup- Having an electoral process that meets Mr. Gissler did confirm in his reply to port to Operation Enduring Freedom. OSCE standards and a result that reflects Pulitzer Prize Board... that e-mail that to the best of his knowl- Achieving Ukraine’s integration into the will of the people is vital to the suc- (Continued from page 1) edge the current subcommittee review is the Euro-Atlantic community also means cess of Ukraine’s ambition to join NATO tor of research at the Ukrainian Canadian only the second time the board has close cooperation to assist Ukraine in its and to move closer to the European “reviewed similar complaints about Mr. transition from communism to democra- Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA), Union. The U.S. also strongly supports said that by using that argument Mr. Duranty’s award.” The first review came cy and a free market. Of course, Ukraine in 1990 and “the board gave extensive has come a long way since independ- (Continued on page 14) Gissler and the Pulitzer Board are hiding from the issue and are not willing to consideration to requests for revocation make a difficult decision. of the prize,” his response reads. Dr. Luciuk said he sees a difference of The board decided “unanimously Pulitzer Prize administrator playing by “the rules of the game vs. the against withdrawing a prize awarded in a spirit of the law.” He said that Mr. Gissler’s different era and under different circum- statement saying that the 1932 prize to Mr. stances,” Mr. Gissler’s June 10 statement issues statement to the press Duranty was given for an explicit set of sto- reads. The statement below regarding the fit to reverse a decision made more ries “undermines the very essence of what Contacted by telephone, Mr. Gissler Walter Duranty issue was issued by than 70 years ago. However, the board the Pulitzer Prizes is all about.” said he was very busy; he would not the administrator of The Pulitzer is aware of the most recent complaints Other than Mr. Gissler’s statement on clear up what the subcommittee had been Prizes on June 10. It was transmitted and, like any significant complaint, we June 10, the Pulitzer Prize Board has tasked with, who sits on the subcommit- to The Ukrainian Weekly on June 17 in take them seriously. They are under made no announcements regarding its tee or when the public could expect a response to this newspaper’s repeated review by a board subcommittee, and review of Mr. Duranty’s prize or the decision in the matter. attempts to seek clarification and all aspects and ramifications will be work of the subcommittee. Mr. Gissler The UCCLA, which initiated the post- additional information regarding the considered. did say that since he last spoke with The card campaign, asked in an e-mail to meet review process undertaken by The Most of the complaints refer to cov- Weekly on May 20 the subcommittee had with members of the Pulitzer Board but, Pulitzer Prize Board. erage of the Ukrainian famine in 1932- made no public announcements. as of June 23, has not received a reply. 1933. As a matter of clarity, it is worth The Weekly also attempted to clarify The Ukrainian Congress Committee of Complaints about the 1932 Pulitzer noting that the 1932 award was for an some of the details surrounding the sub- America also asked to meet with the Prize to Walter Duranty have arisen explicit set of stories in 1931, which is committee with a list of questions sent in Pulitzer Board. Mr. Gissler responded to from time to time. In 1990 the board before the famine of 1932-1933 hit an e-mail on June 17 to Mr. Gissler. He the UCCA request in a letter on June 16, gave extensive consideration to with full force. It is also true that a responded by saying that it is a very busy saying: “As a long-standing practice, the requests for revocation of the prize to prize in a particular Pulitzer category time and that “it is inappropriate to go board does not meet with groups lobby- Mr. Duranty – which would have been is not meant to say anything about a into further details at this point.” ing the board on an issue.” unprecedented – and decided unani- winner’s body of work over time. mously against withdrawing a prize Sig Gissler awarded in a different era and under Share The Weekly with a colleague. different circumstances. Administrator Order a gift subscription by writing to: Subscription Department, The Ukrainian Weekly, So, to date, the board has not seen The Pulitzer Prizes 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Cost: $55 (or $45 if your colleague is a UNA member). 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UNAPARSIPPANY, hostsN.J. – The Soyuzivka Father’sfor $250 in honor of their Day father. celebration at Soyuzivka Renaissance Fund received $6,750 dur- The Soyuzivka Renaissance Fund to ing the 19th annual Father’s Day celebra- date has raised $120,000 since it was tions at the Ukrainian National Associa- announced in the fall of 2002 during cel- tion’s Soyuzivka resort in upstate New ebrations marking the 50th anniversary York on June 15. of the resort. Some 300 guests took part in a lunch In the Veselka hall there was a concert honoring fathers, held in the Veselka hall. honoring fathers. Renowned singer Oleh UNA President Stefan Kaczaraj greeted Chmyr, with piano accompaniment by all of the guests. Mr. Kaczaraj spoke to Laryssa Krupa, sang Ukrainian folk the guests about the UNA’s recent efforts songs and classical works, as well as to renew and renovate the resort, located arias and operas. in Kerhonkson, N.Y., for future genera- The dance ensemble of Holy Trinity tions of Ukrainian Americans. Ukrainian Catholic Church in During his remarks Mr. Kaczaraj Kerhonkson, N.Y., under the direction of encouraged community members to sup- Elaine and Andrew Oprusko, performed port the resort financially. The donations for guests. In addition, the Zorepad dance Lev Khmelkovsky received that weekend were announced ensemble of the Albany, N.Y., area per- Among those who donated to the Soyuzivka Renaissance Fund are (from left): during the festivities. They included a formed for guests under the direction of Ivan Zendran and Paul Shewchuk, on behalf of UNA Branch 13; Ulana Stec; gift of $5,000 from Ulana Stec and Roma Pryma Bohachevsky. The Shepko UNA President Stefan Kaczaraj, who accepted the donations; John $1,000 from Miroslav and Martha family – Hania, Roksolana and Zoya – Suchowacki and Nicholas Fil, also on behalf of UNA Branch 13. Lomaga, in remembrance of George sang songs for guests which their mother Lomaga, who died in 1995. and grandmother Halyna had taught them. UNA Branch 13 of Waterviet, N.Y., The concert was emceed by musical donated $500, and the children of Dr. program director and television commen- Stefan Nowakiwsky sponsored a brick tator Lida Kulbida.

Andrij Demchar (left) is pictured with his daughter, Hania, her husband and Mr. Andrij Demchar (right) is pictured with his two sons, their wives and children. Demchar’s two grandchildren.

Wasyl Sosiak (left) celebrated Father’s Day at Soyuzivka with his daughter, Maryanne, and her hus- band Hryhori Voloshyn. Also pictured are their two Members of the dance ensemble from Holy Trinity children, Katie and Kalyna. Ukrainian Catholic Church in Kerhonkson, N.Y. From the left are Hania, Roksolana and Zoya Shepko. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 No. 26

IN THE PRESS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Ukrainian spirit in action Prize specimen: the campaign

Although The Weekly often receives various suggestions and bits of advice from different sources for a variety of reasons, it is much rarer that we become a go- to revoke Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer between to provide charity to an individual. It is rarer still that we stumble onto a per- by Andrew Stuttaford Writing about his two visits to Ukraine son with the talents and drive of Ihor Lobok, whose tragic family circumstances far in 1933, Duranty was content to describe We will never know how many from assured that this potential would be realized. how “the people looked healthier and Ukrainians died in Stalin’s famines of the We found Ihor, quite unexpectedly, after our Kyiv correspondent was invited to more cheerful than [he] had expected, early 1930s. As later attend a press conference on poverty in Ukraine, which was to take place in connec- although they told grim tales of their suf- recalled, “No one was keeping count.” tion with a street musician’s festival. And if you ever have doubted there is such a ferings in the past two years.” As Writing back in the mid-1980s, historian thing as “the hand of God,” or “cosmic fate,” then consider this. Duranty had explained (writing about his Robert Conquest came up with a death That press conference, as sometimes happens in Ukraine, was held earlier than trip to Ukraine in April that year), he toll of around 6 million, a calculation not scheduled because the performances finished a bit sooner than had been expected. Our “had no doubt” that “the solution to the so inconsistent with later research (the reporter in Kyiv was punctual but missed everything anyhow. The only people left agrarian problem had been found.” writers of “The Black Book of when he arrived were the president of the Union of Humanists, the organization that Well, at least he didn’t refer to it as a Communism,” 1999, estimated a total of organized the event, and some of the Kyiv student acitvists who support it. And also “final” solution. Ihor, a frail and shy teenager, who had won one of the prizes and now wearily sat in 4 million for 1933 alone). As the years passed, and the extent of the concert hall awaiting a ride home. Four million, 6 million, 7 million, the famine and the other, innumerable, Our reporter, anxious to get some sort of story, turned to the youngster for an inter- when the numbers are this grotesque brutalities of Stalin’s long tyranny view. But Ihor replied with a frightened doe-eyed look and muttered that he would does the exact figure matter? Just became increasingly difficult to deny, rather defer. Only after the teenager had already left did Union of Humanists President remember this instead: Duranty’s reputation collapsed (I wrote Valerii Nechyporenko tell Ihor’s tragic story. If our Kyiv correspondent had showed The first family to die was the about this on NRO [National Review up even a little later Ihor’s story might never have became known. Rafalyks, father, mother and a child. Online] a couple of years ago), but his After the story was published, we at The Weekly were amazed by the speed and Later on the Fediy family of five also Pulitzer Prize has endured. sincerity of the responses to his situation, with several people offering to buy the tal- perished of starvation. Then followed the Ah, that Pulitzer Prize. In his will old ented boy a new violin, including a case and strings, quite an expensive proposition families of Prokhar Lytvyn (four per- Joseph Pulitzer described what the prize for most, which could easily run to several thousand dollars. In the end, spontaneous sons), Fedir Hontowy (three persons), was designed to achieve: “The encour- financial offers to help Ihor reached $1,140. Samson Fediy (three persons). The sec- agement of public service, public morals, What was equally surprising, even shocking some might say, was the inability by ond child of the latter family was beaten American literature and the advancement some Kyivans who were involved in the project to fully comprehend why complete to death on somebody’s onion patch. of education.” strangers would donate money in such amounts, so freely and unconditionally. Ihor’s Mykola and Larion Fediy died, followed In 1932 the Pulitzer Board awarded violin teacher at first said she could simply neither understand nor trust the motivation by Andrew Fediy and his wife; Stefan Walter Duranty its prize. It’s an achieve- behind such expressions of concern and aid, and even suggested that there might be Fediy; Anton Fediy, his wife and four ment that The New York Times still cele- unknown strings attached. To be quite truthful, she quickly came around and eventual- children (his two other little girls sur- brates. The gray lady is pleased to pub- ly could only express tearful amazement at a type of charity rarely seen in Ukraine. vived); Boris Fediy, his wife and three lish its storied Pulitzer roster in a full- We are very pleased that our community remains concerned about our brothers and children: Olanviy Fediy and his wife; page advertisement each year, and, clear- sisters in Ukraine, and continues to express its support in tangible ways. This is espe- Taras Fediy and his wife; Theodore ly, it finds the name of Duranty as one cially pleasing, given the many allegations of financial improprieties and fraud that Fesenko; Constantine Fesenko; Melania that is still fit to print. His name is near have emerged from there in the past several years. We must remain engaged in Fediy; Lawrenty Fediy; Peter Fediy; the top of the list, an accident of chronol- Ukraine, while remembering that we can help change people’s lives even with small Eulysis Fediy and his brother Fred; ogy, but there it is, Duranty, Times man, works of charity. (Eight of the 12 people who helped Ihor donated less than $100.) Isidore Fediy, his wife and two children; denier of the Ukrainian genocide – Ihor now has a future. He has his new violin. He will have some new clothes. Two Ivan Hontowy, his wife and two children; proudly paraded for all to see. of the donors have even pledged to follow his development and help him enter Kyiv’s Vasyl Perch, his wife and child; Makar Interestingly, the list of prize-winners prestigious Rheingold Gliere Ukrainian State Music Academy in 2004. Fediy; Prokip Fesenko: Abraham Fediy; posted on The New York Times It took only a few people – strangers to one another but like-minded in their resolve Ivan Skaska, his wife and eight children. Company’s website is more forthcoming: – to help create a new world of possibilities for a boy who until then had much more Some of these people were buried in a Against Duranty’s name, it is noted that desire than hope. Hillary Clinton may say that it takes a village and George Bush may cemetery plot; others were left lying “other writers in The Times and else- label it a million points of light, but we know this is simply the Ukrainian spirit in wherever they died. where have discredited this coverage.” action, with a good deal of input from the Man above! For instance, Elizabeth Lukashenko Understandably enough, Duranty’s died on the meadow; her remains were Pulitzer is an insult that has lost none of eaten by ravens. Others were simply its power to appall. In a new initiative, dumped into any handy excavation. The June Ukrainian groups have launched a fresh remains of Lawrenty Fediy lay on the campaign designed to persuade the Turning the pages back... hearth of his dwelling until devoured by Pulitzer Prize Board to revoke the award rats.1 to Duranty. The Pulitzer’s nabobs do not 30 And that’s just one village – Fediivka, appear to be impressed. A message dated in the Poltava province. April 29, 2003, from the board’s admin- On June 30, 1947, the front page of The Ukrainian Weekly We will never know whether Walter 1947 istrator to one of the organizers of the ran a piece called “The New Arrivals” about relations between Duranty, the principal New York Times Ukrainian campaign includes the follow- the Ukrainian American community and the new wave of correspondent in the USSR, ever visited ing words: Ukrainian immigrants. The piece provides a striking parallel to Fediivka. Almost certainly not. What we “The current board is aware that com- the current state of relations between the two groups. do know is that in March 1933, while plaints about the Duranty award have In a quote that could easily have come from a newspaper today, The Weekly wrote, telling his readers that there had indeed surfaced again. [The campaign’s] sub- “There is, for instance, a steadily growing number of complaints from the new arrivals been “serious food shortages” in mission...will be placed on file with oth- that our Ukrainian American life is not what they think it should be, that it is not Ukraine, he was quick to reassure them ers we have received. However, to date, Ukrainian enough, that it is rather shallow, that so many of our younger generation do not that “there [was] no actual starvation.” the Board has not seen fit to reverse a or care not to use Ukrainian in their speech or in their writing.” There had been no “deaths from starva- previous board’s decision, made 70 years Just as today, The Weekly also noted complaints by the new immigrants regarding tion,” he soothed, merely “widespread ago in a different era and under different the type of Ukrainian used by the Ukrainian American community. The Weekly wrote, mortality from diseases due to malnutri- circumstances. “In fact one of the new arrivals went so far as to criticize young American-born charac- tion.” So that was all right then. A “different era,” “different circum- ters taking part in the ‘Kozaks’ Reply to the Sultan’ scene in the Rally Festival because, But, unlike Khrushchev, Duranty, a stances” – would that have been said, I of all things in reciting their lines in Ukrainian they used the “Halytsky” (western Pulitzer Prize winner no less, was keep- wonder, about someone who had covered Ukrainian) accent and not the eastern Ukrainian accent!” ing count – in the autumn of 1933 he is up Nazi savagery? But then, more rele- In response to what it viewed as the complaints of the new Ukrainian immigrants, recorded as having told the British vantly, the Pulitzer’s representative notes The Weekly, from the Ukrainian American point of view, wrote, “Actually most of these Embassy that 10 million had died.2 “The that Duranty’s prize was awarded “for a complaints are based on a general misconception of things.” The Weekly even wondered, [sic] Ukraine,” he said, “had been bled specific set of stories in 1931,” in other with a hint of condescension, whether the new Ukrainian immigrants could integrate white,” remarkable words from the jour- words, before the famine struck with its themselves into American and Ukrainian American society, writing, “The question is nalist who had, only days earlier, full, horrific, force. And there he has a now whether it will be an influence on Ukrainian American life – or a collision with it.” described talk of a famine as “a sheer point. The prize is designed to reward a “We hope and believe that it will be the former, that the new Ukrainian immi- absurdity,” remarkable words from the specific piece of journalism – not a body grants – for that is actually what they are – will gradually adjust themselves to the real- journalist who, in a 1935 memoir had of work. To strip Duranty of the prize on ities of our way of life and contribute their share to its development – which is based dismayingly little to say about one of his- the grounds of his subsequent conduct, on sound American democratic principles and a devotion to the cause of Ukrainian tory’s greatest crimes. national freedom.” Fifty-six years later, the immigrants who were the subject of the piece in The Weekly, Andrew Stuttaford is a writer living in 1 From an account quoted in Robert and their children, find themselves on the other side, playing the role of the established .” New York and a contributing editor of Conquest’s “The Harvest of Sorrow Ukrainian American community. As history repeats itself, the concluding paragraph of 2 On another occasion (a dinner party, “The New Arrivals” seems prescient: “It is all a question of adjustment. We to them, and National Review Online (NRO). His article ironically) that autumn Duranty talked they to us. Understanding and tolerance, as well as good faith, are required of both sides.” appeared under the headline reproduced about 7 million deaths. above in NRO on May 7. It is reprinted Source: “The New Arrivals,” The Ukrainian Weekly, June 30, 1947. here with the author’s permission. (Continued on page 20) No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 7

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

ative world.” I don’t know what “imagi- PERSPECTIVES Back to “us/them” nary creative world” is supposed to mean, but what is it that I should be debating BY ANDREW FEDYNSKY with people who claim that free verse literary discussion retains traditional rhyming and stress or Dear Editor: that Vasyl Barka and Oleh Zuyevsky are Ah, if only the difficulties between Surrealists? There’s nothing here to Ukraine and its diaspora were due to my debate. These are examples of gross Searching for underwater treasures personality. You could get rid of me and incompetence and all you can do about Nearly 20 years ago, explorer Robert For Ukrainians, of course, Byzantium is everything would be peachy-creamy. them is to point them out. But I do, in fact, Ballard discovered the wreck of the Titanic. inextricably linked with the golden age of Alas, things aren’t so simple. I am refer- engage in what Prof. Hunczak suggests – Later he found the battleship Bismarck, the Kyiv, when restless Vikings united the ring to Taras Hunczak’s letter to the edi- the interview is a literary discussion. Lusitania, 11 warships from the lost fleet of Slavic tribes of Rus’ and created an empire tor “Do not speak on my behalf” (June And most importantly, it is Mr. Guadalcanal, the World War II aircraft car- that was first a rival and later an ally of 8), in which he excoriates me for the Tsybulko who brings up the topic of rier Yorktown, two ancient Phoenician ships Constantinople. A thousand years later, this statements I make in Volodymyr incompetence among Ukrainian literary off Israel, a sunken Roman fleet off Sicily relationship, conducted largely by ship- Tsybulko’s interview with me (April 13 elite and I merely comment on it. He and John F. Kennedy’s PT-109. borne commerce across the Black Sea, is and 20) and equates the difficulties I talk says: “I remember one conference where So where’s Dr. Ballard going this sum- reflected in Kyiv’s architecture, religious about with my “personal problems.” two home-baked ‘experts’ preached for mer? Why the Black Sea, of course. After icons, in the way Ukrainians cross them- To start with, the existence of the chasm over an hour about the nature of post- all, that’s where civilization began – at least selves (the “orthodox” way, from right to between Ukraine and the diaspora was not modernism until one of the foreign according to William Ryan and Walter left) and even in the country’s politics dreamed up by me but noted and stressed by guests put them to shame by pointing out Pittman. (“byzantine”). Mr. Tsybulko himself, who is an established that post-modernism in the rest of the Like many others, these two Columbia In time, the Kyivan Empire fell – as figure in the cultural life in Ukraine. As his world meant something quite different University scientists were intrigued by empires always do – and a couple centuries questions make clear, he feels this is a real from what they’d been saying.” Is Prof. ancient legends of a catastrophic flood that later, Byzantium fell as well. Traffic across issue and that it should be discussed in pub- Hunczak chastising Mr. Tsybulko, too? destroyed humanity. Everyone, of course, is the Black Sea, however, continued unabat- lic. Furthermore, the responses I got from As proof of the supposedly cordial relation- familiar with Noah and his ark: “The foun- ed, only now it primarily served the the interview supporting my position tell me ship between Ukraine and the diaspora, Prof. tains of the deep burst forth and the win- Ottoman Empire. In the 16th and 17th cen- that mine is not a voice calling out in the Hunczak cites the friendships and cooper- dows of the heavens were opened. ... The turies, Kaffa in Crimea became a major wilderness, but that many people have had ative projects he and his friend Bohdan waters swelled so mightily that all the high transfer point for the bounty of Ukraine’s similar experiences and feel as I do. And Boychuk have established in Ukraine. mountains under heaven were covered.” steppes, including slaves seized by Tatar that there are difficulties is not a secret. Well, I have done the same, as I point out Only Noah and his family survived. warriors and shipped to Asia Minor. How many tries did it take for George in the interview. This doesn’t change the But there’s also the Babylonian epic, Outraged over the steady flow of captives Shevelov to get a Shevchenko Prize? And overall unsatisfactory picture, however. Gilgamesh, written 1,500 years earlier, from their villages, Ukrainians organized didn’t Vasyl Barka die without getting one, Big changes are needed in the relation- which relates the story of a great flood the Kozak Brotherhood, whose deeds are which he certainly deserved? Has Jurij ship, and they must happen on the other side. remarkably similar to the one in the Bible. remembered in legend and song – especial- Solovij had a retrospective show in Then in Greek mythology, we read how ly their daring sea-launched raids to free Ukraine? And what about Jacques Yuriy Tarnawsky Prometheus’s son, Deucalion, is warned of slaves and seize booty. Hnizdovsky? Roman Babowal tells me he White Plains, N.Y. an approaching deluge that Zeus would Later, during the 19th century’s Industrial has tried for two years to get his poetry send to punish the human race for its Revolution, the Black Sea figured in the published in a Ukrainian journal to no avail. wickedness, so he builds a boat that carries great export boom in grain, earning Ukraine Another member of the New York Group him and his wife to safety, where they start the sobriquet “Breadbasket of Europe.” In had a similar experience with an article. a new race of people. the 20th century, sailors, soldiers, refugees Such examples of exclusion are numerous Sifting through archeological, linguistic, and spies sailed aboard ships that also car- and extend beyond the field of art. genetic and geological evidence, Messrs. ried raw materials, missiles and wheat If I talked in the interview mainly about Ryan and Pittman reach a startling conclu- across the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, myself it was because the questions asked sion: these various accounts describe an the Suez Canal, the Straits of Gibraltar, and were about my personal situation. But my actual event from around 5,600 B.C., when from there to all the oceans and continents. experience, unfortunately, isn’t unique. a great freshwater lake that lay hundreds of So what will Dr. Ballard be looking for Prof. Hunczak interprets my claim that feet below the level of the world’s rising this summer? Whatever he can find. the diaspora changed the nature of oceans was overwhelmed by a stupendous Although the Black Sea is notorious for its Ukrainian culture as referring “obviously” flood that burst through the Bosporus sudden, severe storms, people have been to the New York Group, “of which Valley with the force of a thousand Niagara navigating its waters for thousands of years, [Tarnawsky is] a founding member.” He Falls. Salt water from the Mediterranean whether they were moving wine from goes on, “His message, bordering on mes- destroyed everything in its path, creating Chersonesos to Salamis, grain from Odesa sianism, tells the reader that [his way of the Black Sea. Throughout the basin of the to Liverpool, slaves from Kaffa to new sea, scattered survivors regrouped, ulti- writing] is the only correct way for the Attention, Forum: Trebizond or a fleet of chaiky (seagulls, mately founding Neolithic farming commu- which is what the Kozaks called their ves- Ukrainian culture to develop. Obviously it nities, including one that evolved into the sels) full of Kozak warriors sailing to free would be unfair to accuse the author of it’s Kyiv, not Kiev Tripillian civilization near Kyiv. their countrymen from slavery. Everyone modesty.” I obviously don’t say anything Dear Editor: Could this amazing account that Messrs. hoped to navigate the sea safely, but not all of the sort. If this is what I’d had in mind, The latest issue of the popular, English- Ryan and Pittman describe in their book, did. Many perished, and their ships and car- that’s what I would have said. language magazine Forum has just come “Noah’s Flood,” possibly be true? In 2000 goes lie deep beneath the surface. What I obviously did have in mind was out. I always look forward to its fascinating A.D., Dr. Ballard used robotic vehicles to For an archeologist, every shipwreck that for some 40 years, from 1945 until articles on Ukrainian history, art and other scrape up sediment at the point where the tells a story. And in the Black Sea they’re 1991, with the brief thaws in the 1960s issues, and I am never disappointed. But sea bottom abruptly plunges from relatively far more eloquent than elsewhere. Because and ‘80s, a good part of what is valuable I’m definitely troubled by Forum’s stub- shallow waters offshore to an eventual depth of the unique configuration of its basin, its in Ukrainian culture was developed in the born insistence on using the Russian of more than a mile. The result? Freshwater waters do not circulate below 700 feet, so West. The MUR (Ukrainian Arts) move- spelling of “Kiev” rather then the more fossils – which Carbon-14 analysis identi- there’s no oxygen at the bottom. As a result, ment in the DP camps, the later writings of appropriate Ukrainian “Kyiv.” fied as 7,600 years old. The conclusion was organic materials don’t decay, so whatev- Todos Osmachka, Vasyl Barka, Oleh Incredibly, the venerable Andrew inescapable: this is the submerged shoreline er’s there is in a high state of preservation. Zuyevsky and others, including those of Gregorovich, Forum’s editor-in-chief once of a freshwater lake that somehow became a Last summer Dr. Ballard and a team of the New York Group; the theater of remarked that he liked “Kiev” better saltwater sea around 5,600 B.C. Bulgarian scientists announced the discov- Volodymyr Blavatsky and Yosyp Hirniak; because it sounds more natural and it’s easi- For at least three millennia now, the ery of a totally intact, 2,400-year-old wood- the paintings of Oleksander Hryshchenko, er to pronounce. Really, Mr. Gregorovich? Black Sea has been a busy maritime high- en ship laden with amphoras, the clay stor- Mykola Cholodny, Jacques Hnizdovsky, The use of “Kyiv” is good enough for the way. Early Greek expeditions there spawned age jars of antiquity, including one with Jurij Solovij, Liuboslav Hutsaliuk, Arcadia U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, the Michelin map the myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece. bones from a catfish that had been dried and Olenska-Petryshyn, Nina Klymovska; the company, the Thomas Cook rail guide, the By 450 B.C. when Herodotus, the “Father of cut into steaks – a sailor’s snack, perhaps. sculpture of Alexander Archipenko, Let’s Go and Lonley Planet travel guides, History,” went to Scythia in southern There’s plenty more down there. Noah’s Hryhor Kruk, Mychailo Czereshniowskyj, and The Ukrainian Weekly. Indeed, that’s Ukraine, he was able to describe a rich cul- ark and Deucalion’s ship floated away a Mykhaylo Dzyndra, Mykhaylo Urban; the also the spelling used by the government of ture of warriors, herdsmen and grain pro- long time ago, so Dr. Ballard isn’t likely to music of Yuriy Fiala, Ihor Sonevytsky, Ukraine. ducers who buried magnificent golden arti- find those this summer, but he just might Virko Baley, Lubomyr Melnyk; and many So why is Forum still using “Kiev”? facts in the mounds that dotted the steppes. find Noah’s house at the bottom of the sea, other contributions, are an inalienable part The use of “Kyiv” epitomizes the very The Greek colony, Chersonesos, founded or one very much like it. Then again, if of Ukrainian culture and have indeed idea of Ukrainian independence, and its near the site of modern Sevastopol, instead he finds a Viking longboat, a Kozak changed its face forever. profoundly symbolic importance must remained a thriving city during Roman chaika, a Turkish galley or a sunken ship Prof. Hunczak is “shocked” at my not be lost on Ukrainians and non- times, moving fur, honey, wax, wheat, cattle, with Scythian gold, I’m sure he’ll call it a being shocked by the illiteracy of the Ukrainians alike. How about joining the wine and slaves to all parts of the empire. successful day. Happy hunting. Ukrainian literary “elite.” He suggests rest of us, Mr. Gregorovich? We need all When Rome fell into barbarism, power CORRECTION: In my March col- that, “His speaking in such harsh terms the help we can get. shifted eastward to the Byzantine Empire. umn, “And then the war came,” I wrote about individuals with who he should be that the Khryshtalowych family was sep- debating various literary issues tells me Nestor Wolansky Andrew Fedynsky’s e-mail address is: arated from their infant son in 1941. The that he is restricted to his imaginary cre- Berkeley, Calif. [email protected]. correct date is 1944. Mea culpa. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 No. 26 Chicago fund-raiser benefits Ukrainian National Information Service

by Luka Kostelyna CHICAGO – A major fund-raising event was held in Chicago on May 13 benefitting the Ukrainian National Information Service. UNIS is the Washington bureau of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) which has serviced the Ukrainian American community for 26 years. During its years of representing our community in Washington UNIS has established close working rela- tionships with members of Congress, numerous admin- istration officials, media personnel and various think- tanks. UNIS, commitment to the concerns of the Ukrainian American community have been exhibited with significant impact. Its successes would not have been possible without the support of this fund-raising event and previous ones like it. Annual benefits have been held in Chicago’s Ukrainian community for the past 25 years, with this year’s event being held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center. During his welcoming remarks, Julian E. Kulas, member of the Chicago Friends of UNIS Fund-Raising Committee, welcomed everyone and gave a brief At the fund-raiser for the UNIS, (from left) are: Orest Baranyk, Ambassador William Green Miller, Consul overview of UNIS’ history and its charter as well as its General Borys M. Bazylevskyi and Julian E. Kulas. important accomplishments on behalf of the Ukrainian American community. During his presentation, Mr. Sawkiw informed the Communists against Ukraine and its people. Erection of Mr. Kulas introduced this year’s guest speaker, for- guests of all the past and current projects of UNIS. He the monument is planned during the 75th anniversary of mer U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Green Miller noted that one of UNIS’ most important current activi- this Ukrainian national tragedy. After Mr. Sawkiw pro- as not only the longest tenured U.S. ambassador to ties is its annual information sharing with Congress vided detailed information about this proposed project, Ukraine (1993-1998), but as a staunch supporter of about the benefits of the United States providing much- guests were encouraged to engage in a dialogue. Ukraine and its quest for achieving the status of a truly needed foreign aid to Ukraine. Mr. Sawkiw reported on The benefit event raised over $63,200 in contribu- democratic country. this past year’s presentations before various Senate and tions to support the mission of UNIS. This sum included Ambassador Miller has proven himself to be excep- House committees on behalf of numerous Ukrainian $17,300 from the Heritage Foundation of 1st Security tionally well informed about events in Ukraine and the issues. UNIS’ most important activities are its timely Federal Savings Bank and $12,300 from Selfreliance tense processes that the country is currently undergoing reactions to events that affect Ukraine, and which need Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union. in the political, economic and social spheres, as well as about the level of economic reform and the democrati- to be addressed by the Ukrainian American community. zation of Ukrainian society. Ambassador Miller reflect- Currently, one of the most important issues for UNIS ed on the situation in Ukraine from the perspective of a is the building of a monument to the victims of the To subscribe: Send $55 ($45 if you are former U.S. ambassador to that country, as well as a Ukrainian Famine-Genocide in our nation’s capital, a member of the UNA) to The Ukrainian current professional observer. The ambassador exhibited Washington. Although a holocaust museum currently an extremely positive attitude toward Ukraine in his exists in Washington, this museum does not present all Weekly, Subscription Department, presentation and during the question-answer period. crimes against humanity against other nationalities. 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Also present at this event was UNIS Director UNIS, efforts in connection with this proposed monu- Michael Sawkiw Jr., who also serves as president of the ment will be seen by the world as an acknowledgment Parsippany, NJ 07054 Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA). of the horrific, inhumane crimes perpetrated by the No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 9 Ukrainian Orthodox Church remembers Patriarch Mstyslav on the 10th anniversary of his death

by Hieromonk Daniel Zelinsky SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. – The Metropolia Center of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. in South Bound Brook/Somerset, N.J., was the site on June 8 of the Church’s commem- oration of the 10th anniversary of the death of His Holiness Patriarch Mstyslav, the long-time Prime Hierarch/Metropolitan of our Holy Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. and Diaspora. Several hundred people took part in the prayerful commemoration, which began with divine liturgy in St. Andrew Memorial Church. Metropolitan Constantine and Archbishops Antony and Vsevolod concelebrated the liturgy, assisted by the Revs. Yurij Siwko, Michael Hutnyan, Bohdan Ostash (a guest from the Church in Ukraine) and Michael Hontaruk, along with Protodeacon Ireney Dziadyk and Deacon Bohdan Peshko from Chicago. In his homily during the liturgy, Yaroslav Kulynych Archbishop Antony spoke about the Hierarchs officiate at solemn ceremonies at the crypt of Patriarch Mstyslav. Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord and the 318 holy fathers of the First Ecumenical Council, whose memory was commemorated on this particular day. These bishops understood the real mean- ing of the Feast of Ascension as the cul- mination of the events in our Lord’s life. The holy fathers understood that God is always with us. Archbishop Antony counted Patriarch Mstyslav as one among the bishops who are descended from these holy fathers, who always acted with courage and boldness, knowing that God was, indeed, with him and would strengthen and enable him to accomplish what he set out to accomplish for the glory of God and for the good of the entire Ukrainian nation. He recalled that Patriarch Mstyslav frequently said very clearly that if the Ukrainian nation fails to remain faithful to God and the faith of its forefathers, it will never live up to its fullest potential. The archbishop elaborated on the mean- ing of the patriarch’s immense and extremely important contribution to Relatives of the patriarch gather at the crypt in Holy Resurrection Mausoleum beneath St. Andrew Church. ecclesiastical life throughout the 20th century. The patriarch was commemorated during the litany for the deceased. PASTORAL LETTER: On the 10th anniversary of the patriarch’s repose In the patriarch’s crypt in Holy Below is a pastoral message of the of 51 years as a bishop. an unshakable one that had a positive Resurrection Mausoleum beneath St. Council of Bishops of the Ukrainian As we mark the 10th anniversary of and calming effect upon the life of the Andrew Church the hierarchs, 35 clergy Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. his repose in the hope of resurrection Church reborn. He was the tie between and the faithful gathered in the late after- and eternal life, those of us who knew the pre-Soviet and post-Soviet life of noon to offer prayer for the repose of His To the venerable and beloved clergy him well, in some instances, as the Ukraine and the life of the Church. He Holiness’ soul. Participating in these and faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox instrument by which we were elevated represented the spiritual aspirations of prayers were the patriarch’s son, Church of the U.S.A. and to all who lived, to the office of the episcopacy in the generations of faithful of all denomina- Yaroslav, with his wife, Sophia, from worked with and followed the leadership Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the tions in and beyond Ukraine. Our only of His Holiness Patriarch/Metropolitan Edmonton; and daughter Tamara from U.S.A., join all who were touched in regret is that his vision became reality so Mstyslav – 1898-1993 – on the 10th Toronto, with her children and grandchil- any manner by his visions for Church late in his life. We believe that there is anniversary of his repose: dren. St. Andrew Memorial Church and nation in offering sincere prayers no one in Ukraine or beyond her borders Dearly beloved brothers and sisters in Choir under the direction of Taras for the repose of his soul. We also offer who could even remotely symbolize so Pavlovsky sang the responses. Christ, It is difficult to believe that a full much as he did in the first years of decade has passed since the repose of prayers of thanksgiving for having Archbishop Vsevolod spoke prior to Ukraine’s independence. His Holiness Patriarch of Ukraine and shared life and ministry with him. the panakhyda (requiem service) remem- We still rely upon the guidance that Metropolitan of our Holy Church here in The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of bering Patriarch Mstyslav as the eldest the U.S.A. and Diaspora, for which he he so frequently provided in the admin- among all the patriarchs of the Orthodox the U.S.A., Mstyslav. Throughout that labored with zeal and dedication, bears istration of our Holy Church, most espe- world and a Church leader who linked time, however, it has often seemed that the seal of his archpastoral ministry and cially that provided in his last will and the 19th and 20th centuries. The patri- he was still among us provoking us to enjoys at the table of world Orthodoxy testament, concerning the unity of the arch was the nephew of Symon Petliura think seriously about the issues of the that prestige which he envisioned and for Church in Ukraine. May his soul rest and it was from this family line that he day, in particular about the rebirth of our which he himself labored for many eternally in a place of Light, a place of inherited his civic and political commit- Church in Ukraine – his life’s dream having become reality. years. In commemorating this anniver- happiness, a place of peace, where there ment, which in conjunction with the spir- is no more pain, nor grief, nor sighing. itual commitment he inherited from his The character of the servant of God, sary of his repose, those of us who, “bap- His Holiness Patriarch Mstyslav, born tized and clothed in Christ,” fulfill vari- May his memory be eternal! monastic relatives, made him the unique In our Lord’s all-encompassing love, leader he was. at the end of the 19th century, like that ous ministries in the Ukrainian Orthodox The Ukrainian nation and the of so many notables of his era, was Church of the U.S.A. and Diaspora, + Constantine, Metropolitan Ukrainian Orthodox Church, during its forged in the crucible of religious and inspired by his example, renew our com- + Antony, Archbishop process of rebirth following Ukraine’s political upheaval, that marked the mitment to quality and excellence for the + Vsevolod, Archbishop independence, were very fortunate to world of the 20th century in which he glory of God and good estate and unity have a person such as the patriarch who labored as a political and then religious of His Holy Church. Given on the 11th day of June in the was so completely prepared for the role leader – a hierarch of our Church in the Patriarch Mstyslav’s vision concern- year of our Lord 2003 – Venerable U.S.A. for over 40 years out of a total ing the life of the Church in Ukraine was Martyr Theodosia. (Continued on page 22) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 No. 26 No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 11 Assumption parish hosts 21st annual Rosary Societies Communion Breakfast by Maryann Kulish BAYONNE, N.J. – The Rosary Society of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church here hosted the 21st annual Rosary Societies Bayonne City-wide Communion Breakfast on Sunday, April 27. Three hundred Rosary Society mem- bers from different church communities within Bayonne participated in the event. Also in attendance was Joseph V. Doria, New Jersey state assemblyman and mayor of Bayonne. A large number of the Rosary Society members were from Roman rite parishes. For many, this was their first introduc- tion to the celebration of the divine litur- gy of St. John Chrysostom. Metropolitan-Archbishop Stefan Soroka of Philadelphia celebrated the divine liturgy and was the homilist. Elisabeth Siryj, president of the Ukrainian Rosary Society, Maria Ciko and Luba Berezny, members of the organization, greeted the hierarch at the entrance to the church with the tradition- Sister Marina Bochnewich addresses the breakfast participants; seated (second from right) is Metropolitan Stefan Soroka. al tray of bread and salt. The Rev. Vasyl Putera, pastor, welcomed the metropoli- tan on behalf of Assumption Parish. expressed desire “That they may all be thanked them for their spirit of faith and remarked that when Mary speaks her Concelebrating with Metropolitan one” was put into practice and witnessed. half-century of assistance to their church. words are carefully chosen and most Soroka at the altar were the Rev. Putera, Under the able direction of Andriy Marilyn Solan, founder of the annual meaningful. At the marriage feast at the Rev. Wasyl Kharuk, former pastor of Yaremiy, cantor the choir enthusiastically City-wide Communion Breakfast event, Cana, Mary recognizes that those in Assumption Church and now spiritual sang the responses to the divine liturgy spoke to the attendees of her strong devo- charge of refreshments are running out of director at St. Joseph’s Seminary in and inspired all with songs of faith from tion to Mary. wine. Mary turns to the servants, points Washington, as well as Msgr. Edward both the Ukrainian and Roman rites. The highlight of the breakfast event to her son, and simply says: “Do whatev- Matash, pastor of St. Joseph’s Roman Following the church service, the was the address by the honored guest er he tells you.” Sister Marina urged the Catholic Church, and the Rev. Lawrence members of all the Rosary Societies, speaker, Sister Marina Bochnewich, spir- attendees to have the same level of confi- Miller, pastor of St. Mary’s Star of the clergy from the participating parishes and itual director at the Basilian Spirituality dence in Jesus as did Mary. Sea Roman Catholic Church. honored guests met at Hi-Hat Caterers in Center in Fox Chase Manor, Pa. Sister The Rosarians were praised for their It was at the altar and through the Bayonne for breakfast and continuation Marina focused her remarks on the unwavering dedication to the Blessed divine liturgy’s gift of prayer to God that of the day’s events. Marianne Savron Blessed Virgin. She reminded everyone Mother. Everyone was asked to continue to clergy from both the Ukrainian and Cohen, vice-president of the Rosary that Pope John Paul II had proclaimed pray the rosary, reflect upon the mysteries, Roman Catholic Churches gathered, and, Society of the Assumption BVM Church, this as the “Year of the Rosary.” To pray and remember that Mary will always lead in the church pews, members of the was master of ceremonies. the rosary, said Sister Marina, is to hand the faithful to her son, Jesus Christ. Rosary Societies from both rites, the Metropolitan Soroka delivered the over your burdens to the merciful hearts Many of the Rosarians from the parish faithful and honored guests all invocation. He congratulated the of Christ and his mother. Assumption Church are members of came together as one. On this day, Ukrainian Rosary Society on its forthcom- Although there aren’t many scripture Ukrainian National Association Branch Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky’s often- ing 50th anniversary in November and references to Mary, Sister Marina 171. Michigan Ukrainians complete Heritage Room at university When Irene comes home: author shares life’s lessons DETROIT – Michigan’s Ukrainian Catherine Koneya, Olga Meyer, Tom by Oryna Hrushetska rial director at Algonquin. A few months American community has completed a Meyer, Bohdan Nehaniv, Lydia Taraschuk- later she was offered a book deal and CHICAGO – This city’s aspiring writ- Ukrainian Heritage Room in Manoogian Nehaniv, Dr. Alexander Serafyn, Julia asked to sign a “standard” contract. The ers were blessed with a rare treat last Hall at Wayne State University (WSU). Stoiko and Irene Yanchak-Torrance. author signed without consulting an month, compliments of the Young Although it contains artwork celebrating On Sunday afternoon, May 4, more than agent – a mistake she warned other writ- Friends of the Ukrainian Institute of Ukrainian history and culture, the room 300 people converged on the WSU campus ers to avoid. Modern Art. Acclaimed Chicago-born to take part in the dedication and reception After reading a review of “The Sky will serve as a functioning classroom. author Irene Zabytko led an animated Along with the other nationality rooms ceremonies. An overwhelming number of Unwashed” in Publishers Weekly, an workshop on the business of writing, dur- agent solicited and signed Ms. Zabytko at Wayne State University, the Ukrainian guests packed Room 297 to capacity. ing which she shared invaluable advice Heritage Room exemplifies the character of At the grand opening Mr. Wichar, mas- as a client. With her professional repre- and writerly wisdom. sentation came increased understanding Detroit, by melding together culture, beau- ter of ceremonies, officially opened the Ms. Zabytko, whose work was award- ty and learning, while preserving and hon- Ukrainian Heritage Room with welcoming and leverage in the deal-making process. ed the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award Now armed with practical experience and oring the Ukrainian ethnic idenity. remarks. He acknowledged, among others: and has been broadcast on NPR’s “The The Ukrainian Heritage Room is the Gerrie Paulson, WSU senior director of enhanced marketing savvy, the author is Sound of Writing,” opened with a warn- building on her previous success. product of cooperation between the development; Dr. Lawrence Scaff, dean, ing: the road to publication is not an easy Steering Committee and the artistic man- College of Liberal Arts; and Olga Currently on tour with her second novel, one. “When Luba Leaves Home,” Ms. agement of Lviv iconographer Volodymyr Wilchowy, special assistant. Mr. Wichar After many years of attempting to Mayorchak and Jarema Kozak, son of the introduced Susan Burns, associate vice- Zabytko is now speaking to full houses write what she called “Cheeveresque” and signing stacks of books. She has famed Ukrainian artist Edward Kozak president of development, representing Dr. stories, she was struck by a revelation: “I (EKO). Yet, the room does not create a Irvin D. Reid, WSU president. come home in style. didn’t know those people in the The author’s leading advice for fledg- museum environment, but function as a The roster of speakers included: Dr. Hamptons, and I didn’t really want to university classroom. Potentially, thou- Donald Haase, department chair of German ling writers? Before you even ponder the know them. That’s when I learned you business of writing you must edit, edit sands of students will receive instruction in and Slavic studies; Joseph Elnick, president have to write what you know.” this room in a Ukrainian surrounding. of the Ukrainian Graduates of Detroit and and edit again, until your work is as good This revelation, along with her trip to as you can possibly make it. Then, Ms. The Ukrainian Heritage Room project Windsor; and David E. Bonior, former U.S. Ukraine, resulted in a long labor of love was planned and implemented by the Congressman for the 12th Congressional Zabytko recommends you garner feed- that culminated in the publication of back from objective acquaintances and Ukrainian University Graduates of Detroit district, and former majority and minority “The Sky Unwashed.” edit again. Finally, send your work to as and Windsor. Under the leadership of Co- whip of the Democratic Party, who today is When Ms. Zabytko completed the many agents and publishers as possible, Chairmen Stephen M. Wichar Sr. and Olga a professor of labor studies at WSU. novel, she was writing for the Orlando but do not call them. They will call you. Dubriwnyj-Solovey, the following mem- Additional speakers included: Cathy Sentinel, where an editor suggested she Your time will be better spent cultivating bers committed themselves to this three- George, probate judge-elect (who is of send a query letter to a colleague at more personal contacts in the industry – year, $75,000 project: Vera Andrushkiw, Ukrainian desent); Kathry Christie presi- Algonquin Books. After collecting a who you know is just as important as Alberta Cieply, Oleh Cieply, Dr. Paul Dzul, dent of the Hamtramck City Council; and stack of rejections from various publish- what you know. Joseph Elnick, Ivan Halich, Sonia Hazen, Svetlana Rogovyc, WSU Slavic depart- ing firms, Ms. Zabytko received a Sonia Hulyk, Jaroslaw Konopada, ment. request for her manuscript from an edito- (Continued on page 20) 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 No. 26

Krawciw Memorial Symposium discusses Ukrainian literary renaissance by Yuri Shevchuk approached the subject of the symposium from the perspec- tive of the interaction between art and the literary avant- CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – On May 5, the Harvard garde in Ukraine during the 1920s. In his paper “Dangerous Ukrainian Research Institute held the Bohdan Jurij Attraction: the Avant-Garde Temptation in Ukrainian Krawciw Memorial Lecture in Ukrainian Literature. Literature and Art of the 1920s,” he argued that the dis- Established in the mid-1970s in memory of Bohdan course of the avant-garde played a central role in three of Jurij Krawciw, poet, journalist, literary critic and a the “best experimental novels produced in or around the HURI associate from 1973 until his death in November year 1928”: Yuriy Yanovskyi’s “Maistr Korablia” (Master 975, the lecture seeks to encourage scholarly discus- 1 of the Ship), Maik Johansen’s “Podorozh Uchenoho sions of Ukrainian literature by inviting literary critics, Doktora Leonardo” (Journey of the Learned Doctor writers and librarians to address the issues that were of Leonardo) and Viktor Domontovych’s “Divchynka z lasting interest to Bohdan Krawciw. Vedmedykom” (Girl with a Teddy Bear). Poet, scholar and visionary Prof. Shkandrij noted that the thought that Ukrainian culture also has its avant-garde still seems to many in Bohdan Krawciw was born in the Dolyna region of Ukraine and outside it an oddity. Those artists of the western Ukraine on May 5, 1904, in a priest’s family. He Ukrainian avant-garde who were not physically destroyed attended gymnasium and university in Lviv. His literary by the Bolsheviks, were purged of all signs of “bourgeois career began with the editorship of the newspaper decadence” and terrorized into collaboration with the Molode Zhyttia in 1919. His poetry and contributions to Soviet regime; others who survived abroad, or whose literary and public affairs journals were first published in works were rescued from Communist censorship came to the 1920s. After World War II, Mr. Krawciw continued be known as part of the “Russian avant-garde,” often his literary and journalistic careers in West Germany. despite the fact that they considered themselves In 1949 he and his family emigrated to the United Ukrainians, like Kazimir Malevich or were “enormously States, settling in Philadelphia. He became editor of proud of their Ukrainian origins,” like David Burliuk. Suchasnist, the Ukrainian literary journal published in In his presentation, Prof. Shkandrij went to consider- Munich, and served as editor of “Ukraine: A Concise able length to restore to the Ukrainian avant-garde its Encyclopedia,” the two-volume reference book pub- Bohdan Jurij Krawciw rights and accomplishments. That such restitution is still lished by the University of Toronto Press, in both its the order of the day is clearly suggested by the latest English and Ukrainian versions. For a number of years exhibit of Malevich’s works at the Guggenheim Mr. Krawciw was also editor at the Ukrainian daily Krawciw published “Obirvani Struny” (Rent Strings), a book of Ukrainian poetry of the totalitarian period, and Museum in New York, where Malevich is presented as, newspapers America and later, Svoboda. not unexpectedly, a “Russian suprematist.” He was a member of several scholarly organizations, in 1966 “Shistdesiat Poetiv Shistdesiatykh Rokiv” (Sixty Poets of the Sixties), a book that reflected the Prof. Shkandrij reminded his audience that the “artis- including the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences tic avant-garde emerged in Ukraine in the years 1908 to in the United States and the Shevchenko Scientific newfound enthusiasm and genuinely important contribu- tions of the new wave of Ukrainian poets of the 1960s. 1928.” Ukrainians organized one of the first avant-garde Society. In addition, Mr. Krawciw was an active and exhibitions in the Russian Empire – the Link Exhibition productive supporter of the Ukrainian Research Institute There is a whole volume, noted Prof. Grabowicz, still unpublished, of Mr. Krawciw’s writings, polemicizing held in Kyiv in 1908. They also made major contribu- in the early 1970s, participating in the Seminar in tions to the international avant-garde movement, and Ukrainian Studies and, most importantly, donating his with the Soviet regime, a one-man conscience, respond- ing to events, outrages, censorship and attempts of sup- could be found working among fellow avant-gardists in extraordinary library of Ucrainica and personal archive Paris, Munich, St. Petersburg and Moscow. Kazimir to the collections of the Harvard University Library. pressing the culture. Mr. Krawciw’s relation to the period discussed at the Malevich’s Suprematism, Vladimir (Volodymyr) This year, the Krawciw Memorial Lecture was given Tatlin’s Constructivism, David Burliuk’s Futurism, the format of a symposium titled “Traditionalism and symposium is manifest in some of his published articles. For example, he wrote the introduction to the Suchasnist Alexander Archipenko’s Cubist sculptures, Alexandra Experimentation: Aspects of Ukrainian Literature in the Exter’s theater art, and Mykhailo Boichuk’s 1920s.” The symposium happened to take place on the edition of the, at that time, still unpublished and barely accessible poem “Sliptsi” (The Blind Men), a major Monumentalism are only some of their more prominent day the honoree was born exactly 99 years ago. Six liter- achievements.” ary scholars from the United States, Canada, Poland, poem not only of one particular writer, Mykola Bazhan, but of the entire literature of the 1920s. Mr. Krawciw Prof. Shkandrij dwelt at length on the interaction Germany, and Ukraine discussed one of the most excit- between avant-garde experimentation and Ukraine’s ing periods in the history of Ukrainian letters – the 1920s also devoted considerable attention to Mykola Zerov and the neo-classicists. A study that to this day is valuable, rich cultural tradition. This is amply exemplified by the – and its consequences for the modern literary process. avant-garde’s fascination with primitivism. According In his tribute to this remarkable HURI benefactor, though it, too, was overtaken by further research, is his review of the repression of Ukrainian writers under the to Prof. Shkandrij, “The avant-garde used primitivism George Grabowicz, Dmytro Cyzevskyj Professor of to assert the marginalized, which for them (in contrast Ukrainian Literature at Harvard, said that this year’s Soviet system titled “Na Bahrianomu Koni Revoliutsii” (On the Crimson Horse of Revolution). to the Western Europeans) included their own unique symposium is a reflection not only on Mr. Krawciw but cultural traditions. Primitivism, from the first, became a also on the ongoing interests and the nature of the Prof. Grabowicz concluded that Mr. Krawciw was one of those living, highly articulate and sensitive wit- major current. Exter, Maria Syniakova, Malevich, research group that is now working at HURI. Prof. Petrytskyi and the Boichuk school in different ways Grabowicz then offered an overview of Mr. Krawciw’s nesses, who along with people like George Sheveliov, Lavrinenko and Hryhorii Kostiuk articulated a deep linked the avant-garde to an ancient folk culture that life and activities as a poet, scholar, bibliographer and still played a vital part in daily life.” editor. In his opinion, Mr. Krawciw was “a very fine sense of an age, one which was formed by its under- minor poet, whose stature and role is delimited not so standing of, and relationship to the 1920s – a most Blueprint for cultural revival important period in 20th century Ukrainian history. much by his own talent and limitations but also by the The clash between conformity and experiment found incomplete and somewhat truncated nature of the émigré Symbiosis between arts and letters its particularly dramatic manifestation in the great liter- literature, of which he was a part and on which he also ary discussion of 1925-1928, which resulted in an Myroslav Shkandrij, professor at the department of reflected in other guises. Mr. Krawciw, if he could have unprecedented outpouring of books, pamphlets and arti- German and Slavic studies, University of Manitoba, lived in Ukraine, would have been a much more signifi- cles, as well as mass public discussions. cant poet.” In her paper “Avant-garde Not: The VAPLITE Prof. Grabowicz subsequently touched upon Mr. Blueprint for Cultural Revival,” Halyna Hryn, research Krawciw’s scholarly interests, including his work on fellow at HURI, analyzed the modernist literary move- Ukrainian mythology and folklore and their resonance in ment known under the acronym of VAPLITE “The Tale of Ihor’s Host”; Taras Shevchenko and his (Vseukrainska Akademiia Proletarskoi Literatury – All- importance within Ukrainian culture; Ivan Franko and Ukrainian Academy of Proletarian Literature). In 19th century Ukrainian history; Ukrainian literature of Western scholarship VAPLITE has been traditionally the 1920s and 1930s; and émigré literature. What is regarded as the embodiment of the “restless revolution- interesting and somewhat poignant, noted Prof. ary spirit of the ‘20s.” Grabowicz, is that Mr. Krawciw’s scholarly and academ- Despite its professed proletarian credentials, the group, ic work truly comes into its own at the very end of his headed by the charismatic personality of Mykola life when he got involved as a researcher and scholar Khvyliovyi, in essence stood in opposition to the basic with HURI. rules of Soviet cultural life and espoused the aesthetic by Mr. Krawciw was a research associate and fellow at which, as Ms. Hryn noted, “artistic quality is the primary HURI during the academic years 1973-1974 and 1974- criterion for judging a literary work; true art is a high 1975, coming to Cambridge several weeks on end, dur- vocation, the product of genius and fully accessible only ing which time he presented two seminars. Both of them to the developed intellect; the creation of the new resulted in articles that still represent a significant contri- Ukrainian culture should be entrusted to intellectuals and bution to Ukrainian studies: one on the state of not semi-literate hacks hiding behind the banner of ideo- Ukrainian literary criticism in the diaspora; the other on logical purity. The new literature was to measure against the period of Renaissance and humanism in Ukrainian the canon of Western civilization, and this meant a literature. At that time these were subjects receiving knowledge of literary technique and of the art of the past, scant, if any, attention. including the heritage of Western Europe. Only a culture To the end Mr. Krawciw was also a bibliographer and created on this basis would be able to fulfill the messianic a contributor to anthologies of which he edited two, even role that Khvyliovyi envisaged for it: to lead the great before the publication of the major Ukrainian anthology cultural revival of the East, the ‘Asiatic Renaissance.’ ” of the 20th century – Yuri Lavrinenko’s “Rozstriliane Bohdan Krawciw as depicted in a 1967 pen-and-ink Vidrodzhennia” (Executed Renaissance). In 1955 Mr. portrait by Liuboslav Hutsaliuk. (Continued on page 13) No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 13

ogized in Lavrinenko’s famed “Rozstriliane writer, for at any given moment in the life of each liter- Krawciw Memorial Symposium... Vidrodzhennia” (Executed Renaissance) there is not a sin- ary generation there are two simultaneous processes at (Continued from page 12) gle woman. Ms. Rewakowicz did a comparative analysis work: one is the search for teachers or role models; the Ms. Hryn noted that recently published correspon- of the representation of women in the poetry of the 1920s other, an adolescent rebellion. (Because, in the words of dence between the communist Khvylovyi and the pre- and that of the New York Group of the 1960s and early Ogden Nash “Children are unhappy with nothing to eminent Kyiv intellectual Mykola Zerov demonstrates 1970s. Poets like Mykhail Semenko, Valerian Polishchuk, ignore. This is what the parents were created for.”) that there was no fundamental difference between the Mykhailo Drai-Khmara, Maik Johansen, Pavlo Accordingly, there is a need for a laying on of hands, two camps and that strategies for the “literary discus- Fylypovych, Mykola Zerov, Vasyl Ellan-Blakytnyi, Yevhen the process of transmission of messages, ideas and val- sion” were generated in tandem. At stake was the cre- Pluzhny, and Volodymyr Svidzinskyi, despite the wide ues from one literary generation to another. Securing ation of an atmosphere conducive to cultural develop- variety of their styles and approaches, have one thing in such spiritual continuity is essential for the survival of ment in a rapidly deteriorating political situation‚ an common when it comes to the subject of women: their rep- every literature. Mr. Dibrova went on to raise the ques- attempt to hold the line against the rising militancy of resentations are almost always rooted in a concrete reality, tion of what happens when that line is broken, the chain party-minded critics with their anti-intellectual, anti- their images of women have either autobiographical prove- is severed, and there are gaps and craters everywhere, as Western stance and in their guise the onset of what we nance or correspond to the types observed in everyday life. is the case with Ukrainian literature. now know as Stalinist culture. Accordingly, Ms. Rewakowicz noted, intimate per- According to Mr. Dibrova, as a result of the repres- VAPLITE’s programmatic principles, as Ms. Hryn sonal accounts of love relationships co-exist with sion in the 1920s-1930s, all the best artists were exter- perceptively suggests in the title of her paper, do indeed detached, at times, subject to parody and irony, depic- minated, purged, imprisoned or spared, only to be sound very much like a blueprint for the cultural revival tions of urban existence with all its dubious mores. In coerced into cooperation. The works of the best of in post-Soviet Ukraine today: “Experimentation with the poetry of these poets women appear as prostitutes, Ukrainian writers were destroyed, banned and burned. literary technique was encouraged and its members fol- sex objects, albeit also as friends and companions. Ms. To comprehend the impact of the Bolshevik purges on lowed with interest developments abroad. They longed Rewakowicz went on to note that one of the poets Ukrainian culture one can try to imagine American liter- for direct dialogue with Western Europe, breaking the devised or promoted a specific paradigm of female sub- ature without Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, E. Russian monopoly over such contacts in the past. As a jectivity, which is very much the case with the poets of E. Cummings, John Dos Passos, Eugene O’Neal, nationally conscious intelligentsia, they looked forward the New York Group. Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot or Robert Frost. to the day when their own fully developed culture Love and women, Ms. Rewakowicz pointed out, play Mr. Dibrova noted, however, the transmittal of the literary would take its rightful place in Europe. In this regard a prominent role in the poetry of the New York Group’s baton continued, albeit with great delays, at times skipping a they were direct heirs to the aspirations of several gen- male contingent, with each individual poet having his generation, but eventually catching up. Today Ukrainian lit- erations of writers that had preceded them.” distinct vision of a woman: Bohdan Boichuk’s is mysti- erature, free of ideological and institutional constraints, has cal, Bohdan Rubchak’s – classical, and Yuriy to deal with the legacy of the Soviet domination. In this Spengler and Khvyliovyi Tarnawsky’s – decadent. respect Mr. Dibrova shared his view of how to maintain the A fascinating instance of such a dialogue between Mr. Boichuk’s paradigm of woman is that of fertile oft-interrupted literary continuity today – “you have to come Ukrainian intellectuals of the 1920s and West European goddess, and woman is approached by the poet with an back to the area of rapture and you have to pick up where the thought was addressed by Alexander Kratochvil, assis- awe usually reserved for the sacred and the unknowable. previous generation left off. And most likely you have to tant professor at the department of Slavic studies (sec- His response to the female entity is, if not mystical, then face and tackle the same set of problems that were left unre- tion on Ukrainian studies) at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt certainly metaphysical, for through sexual love or car- solved by your predecessors way back then.” University of Greifswald, Germany, and Eugene and nality, whose essence is characterized by imperma- Mr. Dibrova pointed to the signs of exactly such a gap- Daymel Shklar Fellow at HURI. In his presentation at nence, woman acquires transcendental qualities. bridging, drawing parallels between Yuri Andrukhovych the symposium “ ‘The Decline of the West’ in Ukraine: Mr. Rubchak’s treatment of women, according to Ms. and Mykola Khvyliovyi in their openly pro-West orienta- Mykola Khvyliovyi’s Eurasianism in Light of Rewakowicz, in many ways evokes that of Fylypovych’s. tion; their elitism and rejection of popular culture; Spenglerian Thought,” Prof. Kratochvil analyzed how Woman to him is first and foremost a muse, someone Khvyliovyi’s disdain for philistines (mishchanstvo) and Oswald Spengler’s ideas on the Western decline and who inspires, leads and protects. This classic paradigm, Mr. Andrukhovych’s for people with a Soviet mentality simultaneous Russian ascendancy got refracted in however, only partially reflects the complex nature of his (the so-called sovok). Mr. Dibrova, however, sounded a Khvyliovyi’s vision of Ukraine’s future cultural devel- poetic oeuvre. Mr. Rubchak’s ruminations on love invari- note of caution, addressed to those who profess such elit- opment and in his philosophy of “romantic vitaism.” ably betray existential underpinnings; according to him, ist aesthetic today. What elitists, like Khvyliovyi or Mr. Prof. Kratochvil argued that there are two lines of loneliness and alienation are so rooted in human existence Andrukhovych do not realize, he argued, is that that this Khvyliovyi’s ideas inspired by Spengler. The first is that even a union between a man and a woman (no matter much despised populace is their natural constituency, one present in Khvyliovyi’s pamphlets and the novel how passionate) cannot alleviate them. that needs to be won over, going on to note that without “Valdshnepy.” This line advocates the Western or, more Mr. Tarnawsky’s woman is a quintessential femme that victory Ukrainian literature has no future. specifically, Faustian cultural type as the only way out fatale, who brings misfortune to her lover. But she also Speaking of the future, Mr. Dibrova concluded his of the crisis in Ukrainian culture. The second line com- becomes an existential category, a kind of Sartrean noth- remarks by painting an optimistic vision of Ukrainian litera- bines elements of Western cultural tradition with Asian ingness, which cannot be avoided and must be faced. ture: “There is a country in the grip of an acute, but healthy temperament and develops – using historical analogies Love, by the same token, although quite banal, is at the and long overdue, identity crisis. There is a culture waiting – – a Ukrainian cultural messianism, for example, in same time ontological. Mr. Tarnawsky’s lyrical hero is in fact, begging! – to be discovered, first of all by Ukrainians “Ukraina chy Malorosia?” (Ukraine or Little Russia?). doomed to say: “I love you” because he is simply man. themselves. The process of laying-on of hands is well under Clearly inspired by Spengler, Khvyliovyi shows that The interesting aspect in their treatment of women, way. For example, Krytyka Press has just published a book Ukrainian culture of the 1920s shares similarities with Ms. Rewakowicz noted, is that each male member of the of poetry which brought together three authors: Mr. the 18th century literary movement “Sturm und Drang” New York Group managed to create a clearly defined Andrukhovych, 42, who is, probably, the most famous con- in Germany. The political and cultural decline of paradigm of the female entity. temporary Ukrainian writer, and two of his young col- leagues, Andrii Bondar and Serhii Zhadan, still in their 20s. Germany following the Thirty-Year War was stopped Continuity and prospects for revival and reverted in the 18th century by a strong movement As long as there are living “literary priests” and those who against the French cultural hegemony in German intel- In his paper titled “The Laying on of Hands: wish to be ordained into “literary priesthood,” “life will go lectual and spiritual life (Geistesleben), especially in lit- Ukrainian Literature from the 1920s to the Present,” on, and the rest will take care of itself,” he stated. erature. In Khvyliovyi’s analogy, this recalls the politi- Volodymyr Dibrova, writer-in-residence at HURI, and The Bohdan Krawciw Memorial Symposium was cal and cultural decline in Ukraine during the 18th and preceptor in Slavic languages and literatures, Harvard presented as part of HURI’s Seminar Series in 19th centuries caused by the growing hegemony of University, looked at the problem of continuity in the Ukrainian Studies and was made possible through the Russian politics and culture. Ukrainian literature since the 1920s. support of the endowed gift of Michael Maksymiw to In Khvyliovyi’s case, the denial of Russian cultural According to Mr. Dibrova, continuity and tradition the Ukrainian Research Institute for the promotion of influence, Prof. Kratochvil cautioned should not be under- are indispensable for the development of every new Ukrainian studies. stood as the denial of Russia itself or an anti-Russian atti- tude. Khvyliovyi explains that Ukrainian writers’ orienta- tion towards Europe resembles the earlier German writ- ers’ quest for new sources of inspiration. Similarly as the German Stürmer and Dränger (representatives of the Storm and Stress movement, the “rebellious geniuses,” as Khvyliovyi refers to them) got rid of unproductive tradi- tions and found inspiration in English literature, especially in Shakespeare’s works, contemporary Ukrainian writers – also rebellious geniuses – could, by analogy, liberate themselves from the unproductive tradition of Ukrainian provincialism, i.e., that of being “Little Russian.” Cherchez la femme There is one aspect that sets the Ukrainian literature of the 1920s sharply apart from both the early modernist period of the fin de siècle, and the later forms of mod- ernism of the 1960s and early 1970s, and that is the glar- ing absence of women. In her paper “Gendering Ukrainian Modernism: Images of Women in the Poetry of the 1920s and 1950s,” Maria Rewakowicz, assistant research professor at Rutgers University (Newark) and Shklar Fellow at HURI, called attention to the surprising At the Svoboda editorial offices in 1963, Bohdan Krawciw (second from right) is seen with colleagues and fact that “the period of the avant-garde ‘20s has so little to correspondents of that daily newspaper and the humor magazine Lys Mykyta. From left are: Zenon Snylyk, offer as far as women’s literary discourse is concerned.” Viacheslav Davydenko, Anthony Dragan, Hryhorii Kostiuk, Walter Dushnyck, Edward Kozak (Eko), In the list of some 40 writers whose works were anthol- Ivan Kedryn Rudnytsky, Luke Luciw and Ivan Kernytsky (Iker). 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 No. 26 COMMUNITY CHRONICLE: Parish CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS in Troy celebrates 105th anniversary TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI, (973) 292-9800 x 3040

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ment cooperation. Mr. Armitage empha- year, dollar-denominated bonds on June 4 University in Lublin, Poland, where he NEWSBRIEFS sized that the United States has high at a yield of 7.65 percent, Interfax report- received a licentiate in pastoral theology (Continued from page 2) expectations that agreements on these ed. The Financial Times noted on June 5 in 2002. From 1990 Fr. Viityshyn was Karpachova failed to secure the required programs will be approved at the that a lack of regional bond issues con- pastor and dean in Tlumach and from majority of 231 votes in a May vote. The GUUAM Summit of Heads of State. He tributed to favorable terms in comparison 1997 he worked as a questor for the same day, the Parliament also passed a and the visiting ambassadors attached with the 10.4 percent yield on Ukraine’s Kolomyia and Chernivtsi Eparchy. In bill that allows civilians to head the great importance to the strengthened seven-year bond issue in 2000. The addition, he served as a court vicar and Defense Ministry and assume leading cooperative relationship between the bonds marked Ukraine’s first internation- member of the college of counselors. posts in Ukraine’s armed forces, and United States and GUUAM, and agreed al issue since a debt restructuring three (Religious Information Service of introduces the post of ombudsman for that the organization has the potential to years ago, the paper added. (RFE/RL Ukraine) foster beneficial development for the Newsline) servicemen. (RFE/RL Newsline) Russia disagrees with Georgia, Ukraine entire region. (U.S. Department of State) Rada cuts VAT to 17 percent Ukraine’s post office loses monopoly Poland delays visas for eastern neighbors MOSCOW – Col. Gen. Baluevskii KYIV – On June 19 the Verkhovna KYIV – The Ukrainian Constitutional said on June 17 that he cannot compre- Rada reduced the value-added-tax (VAT) WARSAW – The Polish Foreign Court ruled on June 4 that the sale of hend the reason for the refusals by rate from the current 20 percent to 17 Ministry said on June 13 that the date for postage stamps, envelopes and postcards Georgia and Ukraine to sign an agree- percent and abolished a number of VAT the introduction of visas for citizens of may be conducted by other economic ment proposed by Russia to other breaks, UNIAN reported. (RFE/RL Belarus, Russia and Ukraine has been entities than the Ukrposhta national members of the Commonwealth of Newsline) shifted from July 1 to October 1, the PAP postal service on the basis of appropriate Independent States to impose stricter news agency reported. Foreign Ministry contracts with Ukrposhta, Interfax report- controls on the sale of Igla and Strela Turkish president visits Ukraine spokesman Boguslaw Majewski said ed. The ruling came in response to a shoulder-launched anti-aircraft mis- siles, Interfax reported. He noted that KYIV – Turkish President Ahmet Polish consular missions were prepared motion requesting an official interpreta- Azerbaijan and Moldova, which like- Necdet Sezer met with Ukrainian for the introduction of the visa regime for tion of some provisions of a 2001 law on wise declined at a meeting of senior President Leonid Kuchma and Prime Belarus, Russia and Ukraine on July 1, as postal services. (RFE/RL Newsline) CIS defense officials earlier this month Minister Viktor Yanukovych in Kyiv on originally planned. He added, however, Bishop named for Kolomyia-Chernivtsi to endorse such a multilateral ban, June 19, Ukrainian news agencies report- that the date was postponed due to the have subsequently hinted that they are ed. The two sides signed four cooperation “interests of Polish citizens traveling to LVIV – Pope John Paul II recently prepared to sign bilateral agreements accords. Trade turnover between the two those states during the summer season approved the decision of the Synod of with Russia on strengthening control countries amounted to $1.4 billion in and in consideration of postulates on the Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek- over the sale of such weapons. 2002. (RFE/RL Newsline) part of Poland’s eastern neighbors.” Catholic Church (UGCC) to appoint the According to a Georgian Foreign Earlier, Marek Siwiec, head of the presi- Rev. Volodymyr Viityshyn as co-adjutor Armitage meets with GUUAM envoys Ministry statement of June 16, Tbilisi dential National Security Office, had said bishop of the western Ukrainian was ready to sign such a ban if it had that Poland would most likely introduce Eparchy of Kolomyia and Chernivtsi. WASHINGTON – Deputy Secretary been amended to include an inventory entry visas for Ukrainians later than July The news was reported on May 13. of State Richard Armitage met with the of such weapons currently deployed at 1. Mr. Siwiec said Poland was planning Father Viityshyn was born on November ambassadors of Georgia, Ukraine, Russian military bases in Georgia. to join the European Union on January 1, 9, 1959, in the village of Demydivka, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova (the (RFE/RL Newsline) GUUAM group) at the State Department 2004, when it set the July 1 deadline for Vinnytsia region, and studied in the June 24 to discuss multilateral projects issuing visas to Ukrainians, Belarusians underground seminary. He was ordained on regional security and economic devel- and Russians. He added that since EU a priest in 1982 and worked in various opment and the July 3-4 GUUAM accession was put off until May 1, 2004, locations of the Ternopil and Ivano- Correction Summit of Heads of State in Yalta, the visa requirement also could be post- Frankivsk regions when the Church was The photographs taken at the Help Us Ukraine. The deputy secretary under- poned. (RFE/RL Newsline) in the underground. After the UGCC Help the Children fund-raiser (June 15) scored U.S. interest in and enthusiastical- Ukraine taps international bond market came out of the underground in 1989, he should have been credited to Lu Taskey. ly endorsed the progress made on joint studied theology at the Theological and The photo of Eugene Melnyk (June 22) U.S.-GUUAM projects in trade and KYIV – The Ukrainian government Catechetical Institute in Ivano- also was taken by Mr. Taskey at the transport facilitation and law enforce- issued an $800 million tranche of 10- Frankivsk and later at the Catholic HUHC benefit. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 No. 26

thought from inside the Staples Center Klitschko loses... seemed to be that Lewis caught a lucky 28th Annual Verkhovyna Ukrainian Festival (Continued from page 1) break with the doctor’s ruling. ing Klitschko to jump up from his corner Klitschko’s performance during the July 11, 12, 13 stool shouting, “No, No, No!” Klitschko loss sets the stage for what many boxing was winning, 58-56, on all three of the analysts believe would make a very inter- At Verkhovyna Mountain View Resort ringside judges’ scorecards when the esting rematch. While Lewis would almost certainly approach a rematch in Glen Spey, New York fight was stopped, giving the reigning better physical shape, Klitschko gained WBC champion a sixth-round victory by confidence from the fight. Speaking in The Largest Ukrainian Festival in the United States technical knockout. post fight interviews, he seemed buoyed “Right now I feel like I am the peo- by his performance against Lewis. ple’s champion,” Klitschko said immedi- Performing: Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky Dance Workshop, Poltava Dance “The punches from Lewis looked ately after the bout, according to Reuters. Ensemble from Canada, Ron Kohut and Burya with his Mr. Barabolya show, more dangerous than they were. When Bands Fata Morgana, Oberehy, Vidlunnia and Burya (Friday and Saturday). “I did not want them to stop the fight. you get hit really hard you suddenly hear My strategy was to take it into the sev- music in your head and see birds flying Performers from the United States, Ukraine and Canada. A carnival beginning enth or eighth round. It was working per- July 9 with rides for children. Vendors, exhibits, food, drink, camping. around. That didn’t happen to me, but fect. It wasn’t easy, but I felt like I was I’m sure Lewis experienced that,” winning.” Klitschko said, according to Reuters. For more information and the latest update please visit Prior to the fight, however, Klitschko The New York Times reported that Dr. www.verkhovyna.org • e-mail: [email protected] • 845-856-1323 seemed somewhat nervous. After a tenta- Hicks said he thought it would take 60 to tive first round, the 6-foot 7-inch 90 days for the damage to Klitschko’s Ukrainian struck in the second and third face to heal, and that it could take up to rounds, landing a series of jabs and strong six months before he could safely fight AÖROSVIT CARGO rights that left Lewis reeling. It seemed at again. U K R A I N I A N A I R L I N E points that Klitschko might drop the 6- According to the Associated Press, foot 5-inch Briton in the early rounds. ÉÂÌÂð‡Î¸ÌËÈ ‡£ÂÌÚ ÔÓ ‚¥‰Ôð‡‚ˆ¥ ‚‡Ìڇʥ‚ ‚ ìÍð‡ªÌÛ Kery Davis, senior vice-president at Lewis, who last fought over a year HBO boxing, said after the fight that the ÇßÑèêÄÇäÄ ÇÄçíÄÜßÇ Ì‡ Åéßç¢Äï-767 åË ‰ÓðÛ˜ËÏÓ ‚‡Ìڇʥ ‚ ìÍð‡- ago, seemed tired and sluggish through network would be very interested in stag- ‚¥‚Ú¥ðÍË, ˜ÂÚ‚Âð„Ë, Ô’flÚÌˈ¥ ¥ ̉¥Î¥ ÔÓ Ï‡ð¯ðÛÚÛ ªÌÛ Á‡ 10 „Ó‰ËÌ Û ä˪‚ Ú‡ ‰‡Î¥ most of the fight. He entered the bout ing a rematch. Mr. Davis said Lewis weighing 256 1/2 pounds – the heaviest ‰Ó ÑÌ¥ÔðÓÔÂÚðӂҸ͇, é‰ÂÒË, could fight Roy Jones Jr., the recently çúû-âéêä – äà∫Ç – çúû-âéêä of his career. 㸂ӂ‡, ï‡ðÍÓ‚‡, ÑÓ̈¸Í‡ crowned World Boxing Association èêüåß êÖâëà ‚ ìäêÄ∫çì However, Lewis (41-2-1, 32 KOs) champion, in the fall instead. recovered in the later rounds, opening up AeroSvit CargÓ ç‡‰‡πÏÓ ‰ÓÔÓÏÓ„Û ‚ “I want a rematch, and the rematch a severe gash above Klitschko’s left eye would be much bigger (for Lewis) than Ç¥‰Ôð‡‚‡ ‚‡Ìڇʥ‚ ÔÂðÂıÓ‰¥ ˜ÂðÂÁ and later another cut just below the left Roy Jones,” Klitschko said, according to 2307 Coney Island Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11223 ÇàëàãÄ∏åé ‚‡Ìڇʥ ‰Ó åÓÒÍ‚Ë, eye with a series of heavy roundhouse the AP. (718) 376-1023 • Fax: (718) 376-1073 íÂθ-Ä‚¥‚‡, í·¥Î¥Ò¥, ∏ð‚‡ÌÛ, ŇÍÛ, êË„Ë, rights. Lewis then landed several upper- Both the Klitschko and Lewis camps www.aerosvitcargo.com Ç¥Î¸Ì˛Ò‡, í‡ÎΥ̇ ·ÂÁ ÛÒÍ·‰ÌÂ̸. cuts that stunned Klitschko (32-2, 31 said immediately following the fight that KOs) in the fifth and sixth rounds. they are interested in a rematch, but there Both fighters looked tired halfway is no date or contract set for a second through the bout, but the prevailing Klitschko-Lewis showdown.

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Sports Federation of U.S.A. and Canada holds general meeting, elects officers by Roman Pyndus of Wilmington, Del., owned by John Hynansky. EAST HANOVER, N.J. – A general In addition to the USCAK champi- meeting of the Ukrainian Sports onships, the tennis section also has con- Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada ducted tournaments for the eastern states, (USCAK) took place at the Ramada as well as local tournaments at the Conference Center on May 24. Twenty- six delegates representing Ukrainian Tryzub Club of Philadelphia. American sports clubs participated. Dr. Orest Popovych, chess director, The meeting was opened by outgoing was not present, but submitted a written USCAK President Myron Stebelsky, account of the chess activity. Six who asked for a moment of silence to USCAK chess championships took place honor the recently deceased sports during the reporting period. In 1999 Dr. activists Yaroslav Petryk, Edward Popovych represented USCAK as a play- Zarsky, Dmytro Bobelak, Walter er in the Popel Memorial International Chyzowych and Zenon Snylyk. Chess Tournament in Lviv. Both he and The meeting was run by a presidium USCAK President Stebelsky addressed consisting of Irenaeus Isajiw, chairman; those present at the tournament. Severyn Palydovych, vice-chairman; and Volodymyr Rudakewych, volleyball Catherine Matskiv, secretary. A resolu- director, reported that the only volleyball tions committee was chosen, composed activity within the USCAK organization of Roman Kucil, Yaroslav Kozak and took place at the Olympiad in 2000. Marika Bokalo. The minutes of the last Basil Tarasko, baseball/softball direc- general meeting, read by Omelan tor, was not successful in organizing Twardowsky, were approved unanimous- competition in these sports in North ly. America. However, Mr. Tarasko has been To subscribe: Send $55 ($45 if you are a member of the UNA) to The Ukrainian Weekly, The reports of the outgoing USCAK very active in organizing and supporting officers for the period beginning in May Subscription Department, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 (Continued on page 21) 1997 followed. The first to report was USCAK Vice-President Irenaeus Isajiw, whose activities involved the organiza- tion and running of Ukrainian American youth games, as well as participation in the management of the Ukrainian Diaspora Olympiad 2000. Next to report was Secretary Roman Pyndus, who, in addition to normal secretarial duties, has also acted as a liaison between USCAK and sports institutions in Ukraine, and participated in the running of the Olympiad. Treasurer Alexander Napora informed the assembly about the significant finan- cial contributions of USCAK in support of sports in Ukraine. This includes the $10,000 scholarship fund for students at the Lviv State Institute of Physical Culture; the more than $2,300 fund for the Lilia Podkopayeva Gymnastics Club in Donetsk; two contributions of $2,100 each for Stepan Popel Memorial International Chess Tournaments in Lviv; and $2,000 to aid the Biathlon Federation of Ukraine. There were also numerous other grants, such as those in support of Ukraine’s sports papers and leading chess stars, including current world champion Ruslan Ponomaryov and the European girls’ champion Anya Muzychuk, among others. Mr. Twardowsky reported on his activities as press officer. He was also the editor of the annual magazine, Our Sport, and was the compiler and editor of the volume “USCAK and Sports in Ukraine,” which was published in 2002. In addition, Mr. Twardowsky participat- ed in the tournament committees of all the major USCAK events. Marika Bokalo, USCAK swimming director, presented the results of the six USCAK swimming championships, which took place at Soyuzivka during the report period (1997-2002). On a team basis, three of the events were won by Chornomorska Sitch of Newark, N.J.; two by Tryzub of Philadelphia; and one by the SUM all-stars. A detailed account of tennis activity was presented by the tennis director, George Sawczak. In the report period, there were 23 tournaments – 13 of them at Tryzubivka and 11 at Soyuzivka. The USCAK Championships at Soyuzivka were hosted by the Carpathian Ski Club (KLK). The trophies were funded by the UNA and Soyuzivka, while the money prizes, amounting to about $4,000, were donated by the firm Winner Ford Group 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 No. 26 No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 19 UCCA officers confer with UOC-U.S.A. Archbishop Antony

by Tamara Gallo reserved about joining church or com- Ukrainian Congress Committee of America munity institutions. The UCCA delegation mentioned its NEW YORK – The Executive Board latest endeavor to create an of the Ukrainian Congress Committee Informational Center for New Immi- of America (UCCA) met on June 8 with grants, which consists of courses in Archbishop Antony of the Ukrainian English as a Second Language (ESL), Orthodox Church of the USA (UOC- computer classes, citizenship training, U.S.A.). cultural programs, etc. Having earlier attended a requiem The UCCA and the UOC-U.S.A. service at St. Andrew’s Memorial agreed to exchange information about Church in commemoration of the 10th projects aimed at assisting the newest anniversary of Patriarch Mstyslav’s Ukrainian immigrants to become an inte- passing, the UCCA delegation was gral part of the Ukrainian American greeted by Archbishop Antony and community. Hieromonk Daniel Zelinsky of the The unity of the Ukrainian American Office of Public Relations, in the community also was an important topic Consistory offices of the Ukrainian of the discussion. The UCCA delegation Orthodox Church in South Bound mentioned its attempts in the past sever- Brook, N.J. al years, thus far unsuccessful, to unite During the meeting issues affecting the various community organizations. the Ukrainian American community “The unity of our community is para- were discussed, including the commemo- mount to our functioning as an active ration of the Ukrainian Famine- society,” commented Archbishop Genocide, with the latest immigratnts Antony. from Ukraine, and continued cooperative At the conclusion of the meeting the efforts for the development of the UCCA delegation presented Archbishop Ukrainian community in the United Antony with a check for $500 to the States. Ukrainian Orthodox Church for the In greeting Archbishop Antony and building of a Ukrainian Museum in During a meeting between Archbishop Antony of the Ukrainian Orthodox Hieromonk Daniel, the UCCA delega- South Bound Brook. The UOC-U.S.A. Church of the U.S.A. and leaders of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of tion, consisting of President Michael and the UCCA agreed to remain in con- America (from left) are: Marie Duplak, UCCA executive secretary; Archbishop Sawkiw Jr., Executive Secretary Marie tact regarding various programs of inter- Anthony; Michael Sawkiw, Jr., UCCA president; Ihor Smolij, UCCA National Duplak and National Board Chairman est to the community. Board chairman. Ihor Smolij, expressed its sympathies on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the death of Patriarch Mstyslav. (A for- mal statement was issued for the occa- sion by the UCCA.) “We hold dear to our hearts the unselfish work and devotion that Patriarch Mstyslav exhibited in his years as leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – his love for his nation, his her- itage and his vision of a unified Church,” stated the UCCA president. The archbishop accepted the warm remarks of the delegation and thanked the UCCA delegation for attending the panakhyda service at the patriarch’s crypt. As the community commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide, the UCCA delegation summarized its yearlong plan of activity, highlighted by the campaign to revoke New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize and lobbying for of a memorial to the victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide in Washing- ton. The UCCA president thanked the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the United States and the Ukrainian Ortho- dox League for their letters of support before a hearing in front of the National Park Service. Archbishop Antony wel- comed the initiatives presented by the UCCA and expressed support for their successful completion. The UCCA delegation proposed sev- eral ideas to coordinate with the Ukrainian churches in the United States: a solemn day of remembrance on Sunday, November 16, with a panakhy- da service followed by the tolling of church bells for 7 minutes – one minute for each million victims who perished as a result of the Famine-Genocide; and a food drive in local Ukrainian churches with the collected items to be donated to local food banks during the Thanksgiving season in memory of the Famine victims. Regarding programs to integrate the newest Ukrainian immigrants into the organized Ukrainian American commu- nity and into American society, Arch- bishop Antony described observed that a large number of new immigrants attend church services, but remain 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 No. 26

out not to exist. He was a concoction, a Prize specimen... fiction, nothing more. The Post did the (Continued from page 6) right thing – Cooke’s prize was rapidly however disgusting it may have been, returned. would be a retrospective change of the After 70 years The New York Times rules, behavior more typical of the old has yet to do the right thing. There is, USSR than today’s U.S.A. naturally, always room for disagreement But what was that “specific set of sto- over how events are interpreted, particu- ries?” Duranty won his prize “for [his] larly in an era of revolutionary change, dispatches on Russia especially the but Duranty’s writings clearly tipped working out of the Five-Year Plan.” over into propaganda, and, often, out- They were, said the Pulitzer Board right deception, a cynical sugarcoating of “marked by scholarship, profundity, the squalor of a system in which he impartiality, sound judgment and excep- almost certainly didn’t believe. His moti- tional clarity...” vation seems to have been purely oppor- Really? As summarized by S.J. Taylor tunistic, access to the Moscow “story” in her excellent – and appropriately titled – for The Times and the well-paid lifestyle biography of Duranty, “Stalin’s and the fame (“the Great Duranty” was, Apologist,” the statement with which some said, the best-known journalist in Duranty accepted his prize gives some the world) that this brought. Too much hint of the “sound judgment” contained in criticism of Stalin’s rule and this privi- his dispatches. “Despite present imperfec- leged existence would end. tions,” he continued, he had come to real- Duranty’s “Stalin” was a lie, not much ize there was something very good about more genuine than Janet Cooke’s the Soviets’ “planned system of economy.” “Jimmy” and, as he well knew at the time, And there was something more: Duranty so too were the descriptions of the Soviet had learned, he said, “to respect the Soviet experiment that brought him that Pulitzer. leaders, especially Stalin, who [had And if that is not enough to make the grown] into a really great statesman.” Pulitzer Board reconsider withdrawing an In truth, of course, this was simply award that disgraces both the name of nonsense, a distortion that, in some ways Joseph Pulitzer and his prize, it is up to The Need a back issue? bore even less resemblance to reality New York Times to insist that it does so. If you’d like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, than “Jimmy’s World,” the tale of an 8- send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, year-old junkie that, briefly, won a 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Pulitzer for Janet Cooke of The Washington Post. Tragic “Jimmy” turned Kuchma’s illusive... (Continued from page 2) Socialist Party, published in May 2001 the names of offshore companies linked to Pryvatbank. Ironically, one of Mr. Tyhypko’s first actions as NBU chairman was to discuss illegal capital flight, which had grown to a record $2.27 bil- lion in 2002 under the government of Anatolii Kinakh that replaced Mr. Yushchenko’s. Besides being a presidential candi- date, Mr. Tyhypko’s major service to pro-presidential forces in the 2004 elec- tions could be his control over financial resources. He is already indulging in monetary populism by offering to repay bank deposits at Oshchadbank lost dur- ing the hyperinflation of 1993 by issuing dollar-denominated, long-term state bonds.

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The Nominating Committee, com- Sports Federation... posed of Messrs. Twardowsky, Kozak, (Continued from page 17) Kucil and Roman Rondiak, proposed the baseball teams in Ukraine, and has following single slate of candidates to the served as coach of Ukraine’s national new governing board of USCAK: presi- teams at several levels. dent, Mr. Stebelsky (Chornomorska The last to speak was Mr. Stebelsky, the Sitch, Newark); first vice-president – Mr. outgoing president of USCAK. He stressed Isajiw (Tryzub, Philadelphia); second the contributions of USCAK to the rebirth vice-president, Volodymyr Pavelchak of sports in Ukraine, in particular the sig- (Levy, Chicago); third vice-president, nificant financial support for the Ukrainian Constantine Choliy (Ukraina, Toronto); Olympic Teams at the Lillehammer, secretary, Mr. Pyndus (Chornomorska Atlanta, Sydney, and Salt Lake City Sitch); treasurer, Mr. Napora Olympiads. Mr. Stebelsky visited Ukraine (Chornomorska Sitch), press officer, Mr. in 1999, where he saw to it that an Twardowsky (Chornomorska Sitch); and USCAK exposition was established as a members-at-large: Mr. Kucil (Rochester, permanent feature at the Museum of N.Y.), Bohdan Red (Karpaty, Ontario) Sports Fame of Ukraine in Kyiv. He also and Mykhaylo Kohut (Poltava, paid a visit to the Lviv State Institute of Rochester, N.Y.). Nominated as sports Physical Culture, where USCAK has fund- directors were: Eugene Chyzowych, ed a scholarship program. (Chornomorska Sitch), soccer; Orest Amidst the general decline of Fedash (KLK), volleyball; Mr. Sawczak Ukrainian organizations in North (Tryzub), tennis; Ms. Bokalo America, Mr. Stebelsky noted a couple of (Chornomorska Sitch), swimming; the bright spots: the establishment of a new Rev. Marian Procyk (Popel Club, Ukrainian sports club Poltava, in Buffalo, N. Y.) and Dr. Popovych Rochester, N.Y., and the club Karpaty in (Chornomorska Sitch), chess; Severyn Ontario, both of which have joined Palydovych (KLK), skiing; Mr. Tarasko USCAK. Furthermore, he mentioned the (USC, New York), baseball and softball. successful trip of the USCAK all-star Nominated to the Auditing Committee team to Paris in 1999, where they played were: Mr. Ciurpita (Chornomorska a friendly match against the Ukrainian Sitch), Orest Lesiuk (Tryzub) and all-stars of Western Europe. Catherine Matskiv (Chornomorska After a brief discussion came the Sitch). Nominated to the Arbitration report of the Auditing Committee, Board were: Yaroslav Kozak (Tryzub), chaired by Vasyl Ciurpita, which Volodymyr Rudakevych (Chornomorska Ukrainian Sitch Sports School An Unforgetable Learning Experience expressed its approval of the work of the Sitch) and Volodymyr Simkiv (Tryzub). outgoing officers. The Resolutions This slate was elected unanimously. LEARN SOCCER, VOLLEYBALL, SWIMMING, TENNIS FROM AN OUTSTANDING STAFF Committee proposed two resolutions, Greetings were received from the Lviv THAT HAS BEEN HAND-PICKED TO WORK WITH ALL AGES AND ABILITY GROUPS. which were unanimously approved: do Regional Office of the National Olympic Place: “Verkhovyna” Resort, Glen Spey, N.Y. away with the regional governing boards Committee of Ukraine, the Lviv State When: July 27 - August 16, 2003 of USCAK and to allow Ukrainian soc- Institute of Physical Culture, the Lviv Boys and girls ages 6-18 cer teams in North America to play in School of Physical Culture, and a number Register now — Capacity is limited — For information write to: USCAK championships with the same of representatives of Ukrainian sports Ukrainian Sitch Sports School line-ups they employ in their regular clubs in North America. 680 Sandford Avenue, Newark, NJ 07106 league games, i.e., not to ban team mem- The meeting concluded with a banquet, http://www.Oleh.net/sitch/ bers of non-Ukrainian origin. ably emceed by Vice-President Isajiw. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 No. 26

Constantine. One witnessed the horrible quence of his unceasing communication ly had an enormous influence upon him. Ukrainian Orthodox... consequences of the destruction of the with three ecumenical patriarchs: Many of those individuals were monas- (Continued from page 9) reborn Church after 1921 under the new Athenagoras, Dmitrij and Bartholomew. tics – his great-grandfather, Oleksii (who he was called to play in their life as spiri- order of Lenin. The other matured in the Metropolitan Constantine concluded by took the monastic name Arkadii), who tual leader, administrator and diplomat – flames of Soviet and Nazi occupation. thanking God for providing the Church was a founder of the Monastery of St. all of which he fulfilled with untiring One elevated him (then Deacon Theodore with a leader like Patriarch Mstyslav and Jonah in Kyiv; and his great-grandmoth- dedication and devotion, said Archbishop Buggan) to the priesthood, the other ele- calling on all, particularly the Ukrainian er Antonia a monastic who lived in sev- Vsevolod. vated Father Theodore to Archimandrite government, to assist in the struggle for eral monasteries in Poltava; his brother, Immediately following the memorial and later Bishop Constantine. ecclesiastical unity in Ukraine. Father Sylvester, a priest of the UAOC service, over 200 people remained for a The forté of Patriarch Mstyslav was Mykola Francuzenko, a long-time co- who was murdered by the Soviets in 1937 – all of whom made certain that memorial dinner in the Ukrainian Cultural administration and under his leadership the worker of Patriarch Mstyslav, next pre- their young relative developed a strong Center. Metropolitan Constantine spoke entire Metropolia Center was founded and sented a dramatic biographical sketch of commitment to God and to his native about Metropolitan Mstyslav, who built up over his 43 years as a bishop, arch- the patriarch’s life, which, by no means Ukrainian Orthodox Church. worked closely with Metropolitan John, bishop and metropolitan of the Church, exhaustive, provided many details unfa- Also among those relatives were the his predecessor as prime hierarch of the continued Metropolitan Constantine. It miliar to the majority of faithful and cler- political leaders of the era in Ukraine, Church. was through his efforts that the Ukrainian gy in attendance. His presentation includ- including Petliura, head of the Ukrainian Both were profoundly dedicated to Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. and ed information about many of the close government (the Directory) of the short- Diaspora has now taken its rightful place at relatives and forefathers in the young Christ, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church lived Ukrainian National Republic (the and a free Ukraine, said Metropolitan the altar of world Orthodoxy – the conse- Stefan Skrypnyk’s life, which undoubted- first brief period of Ukrainian Independence in 1918-1921), who ensured the young man’s commitment to Chicago Friends his nation and his people. With such a background and upbring- of ing, Mr. Francuzenko noted, Stefan Ukrainian National Information Service-UNIS Skrypnyk’s destiny was fulfilled, and he became one of the most important histori- Washington DC cal personalities of the 20th century. Borys Bazylevskyi, consul general of Ukraine in the city of Chicago, spoke List of Donators – 2003 about his earliest recollection of the name Stefan Skrypnyk and Bishop Mstyslav. It was early in his life, still liv- Heritage Foundation -First Security Savings Bank $17,300 Dr. and Mrs. Eugene and Maria Kovalsky $200 ing under the Soviet system, when he Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union $12,300 Mr. and Mrs. Paul and Anita Krutiak $100 heard of the bishop who had been conse- Ukrainian Congress Committee-Chicago Branch $5,000 Mr. and Mrs. Harry and Rosemary Kucewicz $250 crated in Kyiv during the Nazi occupa- Mr. Steven Oleg Andre $100 Mr. and Mrs. Julian and Elizabeth Kulas $1000 tion of the city. Of course, most of what Mr. Mykola Andrszczyszyn $100 Mr. and Mrs. Paul and Kathy Kulas $250 he had heard was from a negative point Mr. Steve Babyk $250 Mr. and Mrs. Gregory and Teofila Kulykivsky $200 of view, the consul general said, but the Mr. and Mrs. Pavlo and Olya Bandriwsky $550 Dr. and Mrs. George and Areta Kuritza $100 fact that his mother had worshipped in Mr. and Mrs. Michael and Maria Baransky $100 Mr. and Mrs. Roman and Tania Kuropas $350 St. Andrew Cathedral in Kyiv when the Ms. Ulana Baransky $100 Dr. and Mrs. Ivan and Michalina Leseiko $100 bishop served there and that his grandfa- Mr. and Mrs. Orest and Sofia Baranyk $1,000 Drs. Wasyl and Roxolana Lonchyna $200 ther remembered the young bishop as a Mrs. Alexandra Baranyk-Forowycz $25 Mr. and Mrs. John and Romana Losko $100 man who spread the news about the Mr. and Mrs. Wally and Olga Basarab $150 Mr. and Mrs George and Neonila Lychyk $100 rebirth of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Dr. and Mrs. Bohdan and Lila Bodnar $500 Mr. and Mrs. George and Helene Lytwynyshyn $150 Orthodox Church in 1942 created a posi- Mr. and Mrs. Lev and Bohdanna Bodnar $100 Mr. and Mrs. Joe and Virginia Molochyj $500 tive impression in his mind about the Dr. Ulana R. Bodnar $200 Dr. and Mrs. Andrew and Motria Melnyk $100 man. Dr. and Mrs. Myron and Adriana Bodnar $500 Mr. Yarema Melnyk $25 Consul General Bazylevskyi recog- Mr. and Mrs. Roman and Ouliana Bojkewycz $200 Dr. & Mrs. W.J. and Dianna Minkowycz $500 nized Patriarch Mstyslav as a man (In Memory of Mother, Mrs. Oxana Bojkewycz) Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas & Valentina Mischenko $100 important to the history of Ukraine and Mr. and Mrs. Lamar and Maria Brantley $100 Mr. and Mrs. Joe and Natalka Mycyk $100 wanted to participate in the commemora- Mr. and Mrs. Mark and Elizabeth Bratkiv $250 Dr. and Mrs. Paul and Leonarda Nadzikewycz $1,000 tion of this 10th anniversary in order to Mr. and Mrs. Walter and Raisa Bratkiv $1,000 Mr. Dmytro Nedowiz $100 see where and with whom the patriarch Dr. Walter Brodech $250 Mr. Dmytro Nowoshytsky $100 had worked and lived at the Metropolia Ms. Orysia Cardoso $100 Mr. B. George Oleksiuk $100 Center. Mr. Oleksa Chicz $200 Mr. Paul Oleksiuk $100 Yaroslav Skrypnyk, the patriarch’s Dr. and Mrs. Jan and Ludmilla Chojnacky $100 Organization for Defense-For Freedoms of Ukraine $100 son, concluded the evening’s program by Mr. and Mrs. Orest and Valerie Chryniwsky $250 Mr. Mykhaylo Orlych $50 expressing the gratitude of his family for Mr. and Mrs. Yurij and Irene Chylak $100 Mr. and Mrs. Joe and Irene Owerko $100 the commemorative event and for all that Mr. and Mrs. George Derkach $500 Dr. and Mrs. Jaroslav and Jaroslava Panchuk $150 the hierarchs, clergy and faithful had Mr. and Mrs. John and Nina Derkach $1,000 Mr. Ivan Pawlyk $100 done in support of his father during his Mr. and Mrs. Wasyl and Olya Derkach $500 Mr. and Mrs. Nestor and Olya Popowych $1,000 lifetime and in his memory since his Mr. John Dewan c/o CYMA-Bohun $500 Drs. George and Maria Protsyk/Klodnycky $200 death. He expressed the family’s hope Mr. and Mrs. John and Zenovia Dewan $100 Mr. and Mrs. Ihor and Helen Pryma $150 that the hierarchs remain involved in the Mr. and Mrs. Myron and Oksana Dobrowolsky $300 Mr. and Mrs. Ihor and Laryssa Ralko $200 struggle for Church unity in Ukraine, Mr. and Mrs. George and Bohdanna Domino $250 Mrs. Ivanna Savicky $100 undeterred by the difficult circumstances Mr. and Mrs. Iwan and Anna Drozd $100 Mrs. Lidia Shandor $100 with which they are faced, where the Senator and Mrs. Walter and Oksana Dudycz $250 Mr. and Mrs. Ivan and Olena Shkrobut $100 divisions seem to be increasing rather Mr. And Mrs. Bohdan and Eugenia Dudycz $100 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph and Youstyna Shorobura $100 than decreasing. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew and Michelle Dzulynsky $50 Mr. and Mrs. Oleh and Liuba Skubiak $250 The evening concluded with the Mr. and Mrs. Andrew and Vera Eliashevsky $250 Mr. Paul Slobodian $500 screening of a videotape of the patri- Mr. and Mrs. Pawlo and Nadia Slobodian $800 Mrs. Oresta Fedyniak $100 arch’s first arrival in Ukraine to the capi- Mr. and Mrs. Terry and Irene Gawryk $250 Dr. and Mrs. Alex and Olya Striltchuk $500 tal of Kyiv, well after midnight, his Mrs. Iwanna Gorchynsky $100 Dr. and Mrs. Anatoly and Irene Subota $ reception by thousands of people at the Mr. and Mrs. Jaroslaw and Maria Hankewych $250 Mr. Jaroslav Sydorenko $200 airport and surrounding St. Sophia Dr. George Hrycelak $100 Mr. Volodymyr Szceblowsky $100 Cathedral in the city, and his first visit to Dr. Maria Hrycelak $100 Mr. Iwan Telwak $100 St. Sophia Cathedral in 49 years. Mrs. Oksana Hulyk $100 Ms. Lydia Tkachuk $100 Also depicted was his first visit to Mrs. Ivanna Savicky $100 Dr. and Mrs. Bohdan and Oresta Tkaczuk $350 Lviv and the incredible reception by over Mr. Andrij Iwaniuk $50 Mrs. Halyna Traversa $100 100,000 people surrounding the visit to Mr. and Mrs. Myron and Daria Jarosewich $100 Mr. and Mrs. Petro and Olha Turchyn $50 Ss. Peter and Paul Parish, which was the Mr. and Mrs. Myron and Vera Jaworsky $500 Ms. Tamara Tyshenko $50 Mrs. Irena Kaminsky $50 Mr. Yurij Ushytko $100 first to leave, under the leadership of its Mr. and Mrs. Oleh and Joanne Karawan $300 Mr. George Vytanovych $200 pastor, Father Volodymyr Yarema (later Mr. George Kawka $500 Mr. and Mrs. Bohdan and Petrusia Watral $500 Patriarch Dmitrii), the Moscow Mr. and Mrs. Mykhaylo and Maria Klimchak $100 Mr. and Mrs. Jaroslaw and Chrystya Wereszczak $250 Patriarchate and declare itself to be under Mr. and Mrs. Chris and Areta Kohout $150 Mr. George Wijtowych $150 the omophor of Metropolitan Mstyslav in Mr. and Mrs. Marion and Olya Kolody $150 Mr. and Mrs. Vasyl and Roma Wowchuk $500 the United States. It was an amazing and Mr. And Mrs. Andrew and Zoriana Kolomayets $200 Mr. and Mrs. Zenon and Lydia Wozny $200 emotional sight to see – even on video – Mr. and Mrs. John and Mary Korb $250 Mr. and Mrs. Ihor and Marta Wyslotsky/Farion $250 as the patriarch stood the next day on the Mr. and Mrs. Michael and Daria Kos $150 Mr. Roman Yatskowsky $100 balcony of the Lviv Opera Theater and Mr. and Mrs. Luka and Maria Kostelyna $500 Mr. and Mrs. Michael and Lilian Zaparaniuk $500 looked out over the sea of more than 300,000 faithful who came to greet him, hear him speak and receive his blessing. No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 23

Minister Shkidchenko’s first offer to Shkidchenko out... resign, which came after the world’s UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (Continued from page 1) worst air show disaster during which a OF ST. VOLODYMYR official in Soviet times to chief of the fighter jet plowed into a crowd of specta- Security Service of Ukraine in 1991- tors near Lviv, killing 76 people. UNA ESTATE – SOYUZIVKA, KERHONKSON, NY 1994. He also served as vice prime min- Mr. Kuchma said he plans to appoint ister and prime minister in 1994-1996, Mr. Shkidchenko to a managerial posi- Starting on Sunday, June 29, 2003, tion at the armed forces’ General Staff. “I has the rank of an army general, was Orthodox services will be held every Sunday at 10 a.m. twice elected to the Parliament and ran want to say a good word to you, for president in 1999, receiving 8.13 per- Volodymyr Petrovych, and your subordi- during the summer season in the chapel of cent of the vote. nates,” Mr. Kuchma said to the ex-minis- St. Volodymyr, located at the UNA Estate – Soyuzivka. Social-Democratic politician Leonid ter in front of defense officials. In numerous discussions of defense Kravchuk praised the appointment, citing Father Yuriy Bazylevsky the new minister’s competence “in spe- reform and ways to overcome the crisis cial services” and his knowledge of the in Ukraine’s defense forces, some politi- army “from inside.” cians had called for the appointment of However, Socialist Party leader civilians to head the Defense Ministry. Oleksander Moroz took the news as Mr. On June 19 the parliament adopted a bill Marchuk’s “honorary dismissal,” meant on democratic control over the military, to diminish the political weight he had at allowing civilians to take top defense STSTARVINGARVING FORFOR COLORCOLOR his previous post. positions. We wish to apologize for omitting the following generous contributors. During the Mr. Shkidchenko’s decision to resign In 1994-1996 Ukraine had experi- photo exhibit, Starving for Color, held at the Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago, Il., came on June 20 after President Kuchma enced civilian control over its defense on October 26, 2002, funds were collected for the purpose of purchasing infant formu- spoke at a hearing on the results of an structures when Valerii Shmarov, who la for the newborns at the orphanage in Lviv. now heads the state weapons trading inspection of military units’ combat $500 Iwanetz, Irene and Jaroslaw readiness, the use of the budgeted funds, company Ukrspetsexport, was minister of defense. $300 Iwanetz, Laryssa and Bohdan the configuration and use of military $100 Harasymiuk, Mykola facilities, and the armed forces’ property In his June 25 speech President on the Crimean peninsula. The hearing Kuchma urged the newly appointed min- pointed out numerous shortcomings in ister to create a “civil ministry that would be able to implement modern the operations of Ukraine’s naval forces. There is also a correction to the list of donors who sponsored Melania Lonchyna in the methods of armed forces management.” Mr. Kuchma had sacked naval com- Marathone race in Las Vegas, NV, on February 2, 2003: mander Admiral in Following the USSR’s collapse in 1991, Ukraine’s armed forces suffered an April, following spot inspections of fleet $200 Iwanetz, Irene and Jaroslaw units in Sevastopol that uncovered wide- economic crisis. The Defense Ministry $200 Iwanetz, Laryssa and Bohdan spread pilferage of equipment and poor was chronically tardy in paying its ser- $20 McKeog, Mary Scott staff conditions. vicemen and thousands of retirees and $20 Williams, Jennifer Minister Shkidchenko headed officers lacked appropriate housing. $20 Bladow, David Ukraine’s defense forces since Novem- ber 2001, after his predecessor, Oleksander Kuzmuk, resigned because a Insure stray missile hit a Russian TU-154 pas- senger jet over the Black Sea during mil- and be sure. itary exercises on October 4, 2001. All 78 people on board were killed in the Join the UNA! THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY downing of the aircraft. Visit our archive on the Internet at: http://www.ukrweekly.com/ Last year the president declined 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2003 No. 26

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