INSIDE:• Ruslana to perform benefit concert for CCRF — page 3. • Reflections on Yushchenko’s trip to the U.S. — page 8. • Maria Burmaka: from the “maidan” to Manhattan — page 12.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIII HE KRAINIANNo. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 EEKLY$1/$2 in TymoshenkoT cancelsU visit to , Ukraine’s ministerW of justice demands Russian respect for Ukraine assailed over academic credentials by Zenon Zawada note sent to the Russian Federation’s by Zenon Zawada formal legal education, he also has no Press Bureau Ministry of Foreign Affairs and made pub- Kyiv Press Bureau graduate or post-graduate college degree, lic by Vsevolod Shmatkov, an advisor- despite his insistence to the contrary to KYIV – In a demand for respect from envoy of the Russian Embassy in Ukraine. KYIV – For the last eight years, Ukrainian reporters in recent weeks. the Russian Federation, Ukrainian Prime “Due to spring field work and the neces- Roman Zvarych, today Ukraine’s minis- “I received the diploma of a master in Minister Yulia Tymoshenko abruptly can- sity of resolving tasks in order to eliminate ter of justice, has been claiming that he philosophy,” Mr. Zvarych told the popu- celed her first visit to Moscow the day complications arising at their implementa- earned a graduate degree in philosophy lar Russian-language newspaper Fakty i after ’s top prosecutor said crimi- tion, the Ukrainian side is forced to post- from Columbia University. Kommentarii in an interview published nal charges were still pending against her. He also has been saying he was a New Russian Procurator General Vladimir pone Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia on March 25. Tymoshenko’s visit to the Russian York University professor between 1983 He repeated that claim as late as April Ustinov said on April 12 that Ms. and 1991. Tymoshenko could visit the Russian Federation,” Mr. Shmatkov quoted. 19 to Ukrainska Pravda, the Internet Within an hour of notification, Russian Yet, officials at both universities have newspaper that first broke the news about Federation without arrest because of verified that neither statement is accu- immunity provided by state leaders, but Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attempted Mr. Zvarych’s deceit on April 14 in a damage control by telling journalists that rate. Instead, they are part of a web of story reported by Washington correspon- that she remains “on the wanted list.” lies woven by Mr. Zvarych that served to The remark angered Prime Minister there are no obstacles to Ms. Tymoshenko’s dent Luba Shara. visit. By then, it was too late. elevate him from a national deputy in the The lies about Mr. Zvarych’s back- Tymoshenko, who immediately stated Verkhovna Rada to the highest echelons her official reason for canceling the trip Hours later, the Cabinet of Ministers ground were disseminated primarily press office issued a second statement, of the Ukrainian government. through the Who’s Who in Ukraine direc- as needing to prepare for Ukraine’s The American-born son of a building spring field work. Days later, however, attributing Prime Minister Tymoshenko’s tory that is released annually by the pub- cancellation to a presidential order contractor who grew up in Yonkers, N.Y., is lisher Kyiv Informatsia Servis (KIS) and she revealed her indignation with Mr. now enmeshed in his second major scandal Ustinov in an April 15 interview with requiring those Cabinet Ministers direct- available electronically. after taking office just two months ago. Mr. British Broadcasting Corp (BBC). ly involved with preparing the nation for The Who’s Who entries are influential Zvarych caused the first scandal of President “I want to believe the statement is just “spring field work,” or the agricultural because they are appear to be the only Viktor Yushchenko’s administration when the stupidity of one bureaucrat and that it sowing season, to refrain from embark- source of biographical information for he threatened to resign and then backed off is not the national politics of Russia,” Ms. ing on any business trips. Cabinet Ministers and Verkhovna Rada Tymoshenko said. “If that is the case, then President Viktor Yushchenko’s press following a controversy over a government employees. that bureaucrat must correct his stupidity.” secretary, Iryna Heraschenko, confirmed ban on the re-export of oil and his wife’s In fact, Ukraine’s government pays She also used the cancellation as an this in a statement on the presidential employment with a firm that resells oil. KIS for the unverified information as opportunity to demand new relations Now it is known that not only does between Russian and Ukrainian govern- (Continued on page 4) Ukraine’s new justice minister lack any (Continued on page 3) ment authorities, criticizing Russian leaders for their attitude toward their counterparts to the west. “I know the Russian political elite has gotten used to Ukraine suffering from an Plast fights for recognition from world scouting movement by Zenon Zawada inferiority complex, but I want this to dis- appear from our relationship,” she said. Kyiv Press Bureau Ukraine’s prime minister was sched- KYIV – Plast, Ukraine’s largest uled to visit Moscow on April 15 and 16. scouting organization, is engaged in one The Russia Procurator General’s of the most significant struggles in its Office alleges that Ms. Tymoshenko 84-year-history: fighting for recognition bribed Russian defense officials while in by the Geneva-based World Organi- charge of United Energy Systems of zation of the Scout Movement Ukraine, the nation’s main gas distribu- (WOSM). tion company at the time. Russian Recognition would enable Plast authorities also accuse her of forgery and Ukrainian Scouting Organization to rep- gas smuggling, according to her website. resent Ukraine on the world arena as the Ms. Tymoshenko has maintained the nation’s premier scouting organization. charges are part of a concerted effort by WOSM allows only one scouting Russian authorities intended to destroy organization from each nation to send her political career. delegates to its World Scout Russian authorities could not have Conference, and Ukraine currently has arrested Ms. Tymoshenko because the no representative. Vienna Convention of 1961 provides WOSM is on the verge of designat- diplomatic immunity to high-ranking ing a group called SPOK (Spilka government officials on foreign visits, Pionerskykh Orhanizatzii Kyieva) as said Kirill Kulikov, acting chief of the Ukraine’s representative, despite objec- Serhii Letenko Ukrainian Interpol bureau. tions from Ukraine’s leading political Yunachky (Plast girls age 11-17) pledge a Plast oath on the Ukrainian flag As a result of her immunity status, and spiritual authorities. during a Day of the Plastun ceremony in Lviv in April. Interpol suspended its international President Viktor Yushchenko, search for Ms. Tymoshenko, Timur Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian “I am not indifferent to the fate of the proposition of making an objective Lakhonin, Interpol’s Russia Central Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate Ukrainian scouting organizations that decision. From my end, in the future, Bureau chief, told Interfax on April 14. and Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, primate act according to WOSM principles,” my government and I will assist the “This is not the first decision of Interpol of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic President Yushchenko stated in his let- development of the national scouting to suspend the search for a person enjoy- Church, have each written letters to the ter. movement in Ukraine that truly repre- ing immunity,” Mr. Lakhonin said. WSOM asking that it reconsider He concluded the letter: “I express sents the goals and principles of the Ms. Tymoshenko’s announcement, SPOK’s membership in the 154-mem- deep respect to the political independ- which was first reported as a postpone- ber conference. ence of WSOM, and turn to you with (Continued on page 4) ment, came as a result of a convoluted 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 No. 17

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Tymoshenko takes on the oligarchs Rice concerned by trends in Russia people demonstrated on April 19 near the by Taras Kuzio plant, Kryvorizhstal, will lead the partici- U.S. Consulate in to protest Eurasia Daily Monitor pants at the “extraordinary” congress. EN ROUTE TO MOSCOW – U.S. against U.S. policies in former Soviet states, The plant was privatized for only $800 Secretary of State Rice told journalists Interfax-Ural reported. The demonstration A congress of Ukraine’s oligarchs was million in June 2004 as a pre-election aboard her plane as she flew to Moscow on was organized by the “trade-union of the scheduled for April 13 under the guise of bribe for the Dnipropetrovsk and April 19 that “the centralization of state middle class, PROFI,” which was recently the “Assembly of Ukrainian Donetsk clans, represented by Viktor power in the presidency at the expense of created by Duma Deputy Anton Bakov. Metallurgists” (ukrrudprom.com, April Pinchuk and Renat Akhmetov, respec- countervailing institutions like the Duma or Participants in the rally told Interfax-Ural 11). Representatives from 62 metallurgi- tively. Mr. Pinchuk is also former an independent judiciary is clearly very that the United States is the main source of cal enterprises were to attend the President Leonid Kuchma’s son-in-law. worrying,” according to a State Department instability in the CIS and said it incites and “Extraordinary” congress in Kyiv. Prime The new Ukrainian authorities have press release. She added that “the absence supports “colored revolutions.” The U.S. Minister Yulia Tymoshenko described the stated their readiness to re-nationalize of an independent media on the electronic Consulate responded that “every man has event as an attempt to lobby the govern- Kryvorizhstal and re-submit it for tender. side is clearly very worrying.” Dr. Rice the right to his own opinion,” Interfax-Ural ment to reverse its decision to raise trans- They hope to raise $3 billion from the noted that she understands how difficult it reported. (RFE/RL Newsline) portation charges on Ukraine’s railways new sale. Prime Minister Tymoshenko can be to reach a correct balance between by 50 percent. predicted that re-privatization would take political freedom and efficient government Pavarotti sets record in Kyiv Ms. Tymoshenko’s ongoing fight place later this month. in a “huge and complicated” country like against the oligarchs will likely increase The oligarchs became noticeably nerv- Russia. She warned, however, that the KYIV – The great Italian tenor Luciano her popularity even more. As she has ous in March, when Ms. Tymoshenko Russian Federation should not “mimic the Pavarotti’s concert in Kyiv has set the pointed out, five families control mentioned that 3,000 enterprises would Soviet state.” Talking about Russian partici- record as the most expensive performance Ukraine’s metallurgical industry, and she be subjected to re-privatization, a state- pation in the group of the world’s most- in Ukraine’s history. The legendary plans to audit every one. Russian ment that also alarmed Western developed countries, the Group of Eight, singer’s program “A Night To investors own the four largest Ukrainian investors. President Yushchenko and the secretary of state said she does not see Remember,” which he presented accompa- oil refineries. other government ministers have calmed any reason “to see Russia isolated” and that nied by the National Philharmonic Society Vice Prime Minister Mykola Tomenko Western fears by reiterating that re-priva- “threatening to exclude the Russians from Symphony Orchestra, included classical has openly accused oligarchs and region- tization would only apply to 30 compa- various organizations” doesn’t make sense. selections and Italian folk songs. President al barons of systematically sabotaging nies – although which 30 has not been (RFE/RL Newsline) Viktor Yushchenko and his spouse, the government’s work and pointed to made public. Kateryna, who were among the concert’s rising fuel and food prices as proof. The Second, on April 6 the head of Rice: U.S. did not foment revolutions attendants, met with Mr. Pavarotti after the “sabotage” is directed against the gov- , Borys performance and thanked him for having ernment’s plan to cut the hidden subsi- MOSCOW – U.S. Secretary of State treated them to what was a genuine luxury. Kolesnykov, was arrested on suspicion of Condoleezza Rice told Ekho Moskvy on dies, unfair privileges and excessive corruption, extortion, and attempted mur- President Yushchenko thanked Mr. profits enjoyed by the oligarchs. April 20 that the United States does not con- Pavarotti for having included Kyiv on his der, charges that could lead to 12 years of sider it necessary to “export democracy.” Dr. “President [Viktor] Yushchenko is imprisonment (see EDM, April 11). farewell tour’s itinerary. (Ukrinform) mobilizing all government agencies at Rice said that the United States did not Kolesnykov is a high-ranking member of foment revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine or Orel wants to rehabilitate Stalin the central and regional level, in particu- the Party of the Regions led by defeated lar law-enforcement bodies, in order to Kyrgyzstan, but merely supported people presidential candidate Viktor “in their right to express their opinions.” She OREL – The Orel city legislature on make the Ukrainian authorities work as a Yanukovych. single and well-coordinated team,” Mr. said she does not believe that the peoples of April 13 adopted a resolution asking the Centrist parties have pointed to his those countries want to see a reduced role government to rehabilitate Soviet dictator Tomenko warned (Uriadovyi Kurier, arrest to claim that the new authorities for Russia in the region of the former USSR. , arguing that Stalin’s respon- April 7). have launched a campaign of political The secretary of state added that the United sibility for the deaths of millions of Soviet Two other factors will also affect this repression. Mr. Yanukovych wrote a long States “respects” the development choice citizens has never been proven, The looming clash between the state and the open letter to the European Union and oligarchs. that Russia has made, but added: “We Moscow Times reported on April 15. First, Ukraine’s largest metallurgical (Continued on page 20) understand that Russia is finding its own Thirty-three of the legislature’s 35 mem- way. ... All that we are saying is that for bers signed the appeal. “The idea belongs U.S.-Russian relationships to really deepen to Deputy Mikhail Vdovin, who said that Russia becomes a haven and for Russia to gain its full potential, there veterans’ groups had urged him to demand needs to be democratic development. There historical justice for Stalin and to ask that should not be so much concentration of people stop smearing his name,” a spokes- for those fleeing Ukrainian justice power just in the presidency. There needs to woman for the legislature told the daily. be an independent media. ... We think that Local human rights advocate Vladimir by Taras Kuzio election victory last December. our relations will improve if Russia is able Krayukhin told the daily that in 1993 the Eurasia Daily Monitor Moscow is at a loss about what to do to exploit fully its potential, if democracy is city legislature adopted a resolution com- with a Ukraine under President strengthened.” She denied that the United memorating September 11 as the anniver- Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Yushchenko. This bewilderment com- States is seeking to expand its influence in sary of the 1943 killing of some 150 local Tymoshenko cancelled her first official pounds Russia’s pre-existing inability to the former , but said that both political prisoners by Stalin’s secret police. visit to Russia this week. The Russian deal with Ukraine as a truly foreign coun- Russia and the United States must develop He added, however, that no city official Procurator General’s Office has continued try. In an interview given to Kommersant economic ties in the region. “It is a game in has showed up at commemorations of the to insist that she be brought in for ques- (April 12), Russian President Vladimir which there are no losers,” Dr. Rice said. day in the 12 years since the resolution tioning in connection with a long-forgot- Putin compared Russia and Ukraine to She said the United States is monitoring the was passed. Earlier this month, a group of ten case from the 1990s in which she is East and West Germany. Ukraine’s Yukos case in order to evaluate the state of cultural figures published an open letter to accused of bribing Russian Defense Foreign Affairs Ministry dismissed this rule of law in Russia. (RFE/RL Newsline) President asking him to Ministry officials. Ukrainian authorities comparison as both “absurd and illogical” stop the installation in Volgograd of a stat- Group protests ‘colored revolutions’ under former President Leonid Kuchma (Ukrainska Pravda, April 13). ue of Stalin, U.S. President Franklin unsuccessfully tried to smear her with What then is the source of this new- YEKATERINBURG – Several hundred (Continued on page 24) these and other charges in 2001-2003. found uncertainty in Moscow? As Sergei Russia, in a bid to demonstrate its sup- Karaganov, deputy director of the Institute port for Mr. Kuchma last year, placed of Europe, pointed out, it is the threat of FOUNDED 1933 Ms. Tymoshenko on the Interpol wanted the entire western ex-USSR joining NATO list. Interpol, meanwhile, removed her and then moving on to join the European HE KRAINIAN EEKLY from all wanted lists on March 3-4; now Union (RIA-Novosti, April 11). 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Kyiv Press Bureau Ruslana has worked with the Dzherelo Children’s Rehabilitation Center since 1999 KYIV – Rock star Ruslana announced – years before her international fame – and this week that she will perform a benefit has been providing assistance and support, concert during the week of Eurovision as well as performing for its patients. 2005 to raise money for the Children of The singer described her close relations Chornobyl Relief Fund. with the children, who look up to her and Proceeds will supply hospitals in Kyiv reveal their thoughts and worries to her. and Dnipropetrovsk with high-quality “I don’t have any personal interests to neo-natal intensive care equipment and gain, and I don’t have interests in support the Dzherelo physical rehabilita- improving my image,” Ruslana said. tion center in Lviv. “I’m doing this simply because I believe Ruslana’s concert is slated for Tuesday, it’s needed.” May 17, in the courtyard of the Arena Among those hospitals benefiting from Entertainment Complex at Bessarabska Ruslana’s effort is Children’s City Square near Kyiv’s main train station. Clinical Hospital No. 3 in Dnipropetrovsk Organizers expect it will draw headed by Dr. Ihor Makedonskyi. between 3,000 and 4,000 concert-goers, The hospital hopes to increase the who will already be in Kyiv to attend the number of beds it has for infant resuscita- Eurovision 2005 semi-finals and finals tion from 12 to 25, Dr. Makedonskyi on May 19 and 21. said. A children’s hospital catering to Joseph Sywenkyj “In this way, through the possibility of newborns needs one bed per 1,000 deliv- Eurovision, we will be able raise the eries, he said, and the hospital handles Michelle Poliwka, CCRF event manager; Olena Welhasch-Nyzhnykevych, coun- issue, not just quietly or with a whisper, 25,000 deliveries a year. try director; Ruslana; Marta Nykolayeva, student of the Dzherelo School and but very loudly, confidently and at one “It’s very important and pragmatic that Physical Rehabilitation Center for children with special needs; Oleksander moment,” Ruslana said at the fund’s the fund and Ruslana turned their atten- Ksenofontov, Ruslana’s producer and husband; Alexa Milanytch, CCRF director April 19 press conference in Kyiv. tion, above all, toward newborn babies, of procurement; and Olya Datsenko, CCRF Ukraine’s accountant. It was Ruslana’s initiative to dedicate because it’s a realistic possibility of giving Dzherelo Managing Director disabled daughter, Martusia. her concert to Ukraine’s ill children, and children a chance to survive, and we need Myroslav Nykolaev also expressed grati- An example of Ruslana’s support is a she selected the Children of Chornobyl to start at that point,” Dr. Makedonskyi concert she organized at the center that Relief Fund as her charity of choice, said. “This offers a real possibility of tude for Ruslana’s role in supporting his according to the press release announcing reducing disability in children.” center, and particularly in the life of his (Continued on page 27)

1989 and 1992, or three years. tion about his professional background in ter. When asked at an April 20 press con- Ukraine’s minister... Mr. Zvarych was no professor, howev- Ukraine also has raised eyebrows. ference about Mr. Zvarych’s lies, Prime (Continued from page 1) er. He was “a part-time lecturer at NYU’s In the Fakty i Kommentarii interview, Minister Yulia Tymoshenko offered a part of its Intranet system, said Yurii School of Continuing and Professional Mr. Zvarych stated, “I wasn’t a practicing humorous answer without confirming Mr. Marchenko, director of KIS. Studies, teaching sections of a social sci- lawyer in the U.S., only in Ukraine.” Zvarych’s educational background. When Ukrainska Pravda broke its story, it ence class,” Mr. Taylor said. But Mr. Zvarych makes no mention in “It would be wonderful to place in the cited the Cabinet of Ministers’ Internet site KIS does not verify the information his biography of studying law at any press club the diplomas of all the minis- as the source of information on Mr. Zvarych. provided by the contributors to its annual Ukrainian educational institution or ters with their supplements, their grades – In fact, the webpage’s content looks identical Who’s Who directory partly because it working for any Ukrainian law firm. including California diplomas, physics- to the entries in Who’s Who based on the wouldn’t have the resources to verify the His most relevant legal experience mathematical school certificates – so that format, content and style. A Cabinet of biographies of its 14,000-plus contribu- would have been his work as a member you would be able to check the expertise Ministers spokeswoman who did not give tors, Mr. Marchenko told The Weekly. of the Verkhovna Rada’s Legal Reform of those working in government,” Ms. her name would not comment on the matter. It’s also not the role of the publisher to Committee beginning in 1998, according Tymoshenko said. In his first submission to Who’s Who in censor or police its contributors, he said. to his 1999 Who’s Who entry. The California diploma was a refer- 1994, Mr. Zvarych never claimed to have Mr. Marchenko said he is confident that During the interview, Mr. Zvarych also ence to Viktor Yanukovych’s claim to any college degree. He listed his education Mr. Zvarych himself authored all the educa- waxed about being 17 years old and have a diploma from what turned out to only as Columbia University. He also tional information in his biography, as well attending Columbia lectures in 1969 that be a non-existing institution. wrote that he was a “candidate of sciences as his professional experience in the U.S. were taught by Prof. Zbigniew Her second reference was to a comment in philosophy,” a statement Europeans The only time KIS editors change Brzezinski, “who took an interest in me.” made earlier in the week by Transport understand to mean someone who has biographies is to add governmental posi- This story is entirely inconsistent with Minister Yevhen Chervonenko, who prided already obtained a master’s degree. tions, he said, but never to subtract or his claim that he attended Columbia himself on graduating from an elite physics- It’s not until his second submission to change information. University between 1976 and 1981. mathematics school in Dnipropetrovsk. the Who’s Who directory in 1997 that As proof of Mr. Zvarych’s direct Despite what would be considered a Members of the Ukrainian American Mr. Zvarych claimed to have earned a involvement in writing his biography, Mr. serious ethical breach in the U.S. that community in Kyiv responded with cyni- master’s degree in philosophy. He also Marchenko provided copies of two of Mr. would almost surely demand resignation, cism and disbelief when asked to consid- added that he studied at Columbia Zvarych’s handwritten attestation forms virtually all of the Ukrainian media have er that Mr. Zvarych told lies that are University’s philosophy department submitted to Who’s Who – one of which avoided or ignored the story. scandalous by American standards. between 1976 and 1981. contained meticulous editing notes. Roman Chaika, the host of a popular Some suspected a smear campaign. In fact, Mr. Zvarych did study at In the five business days since the story Saturday night political talk show, “Five In May 1998 Mr. Zvarych gave an Columbia University, The Weekly learned. broke, the Justice Ministry’s press office, Cents,” on Channel 5, was the only interview to Roman Woronowycz of The However, he had registered himself for led by press secretary Olena Ukrainian television reporter who raised Ukrainian Weekly’s Kyiv Press Bureau classes only between 1976 and 1978, Iskorostenska, has stonewalled media the question of Mr. Zvarych’s diploma. when he was first elected a national according to the university Registrar’s inquiries. The show aired on April 16. deputy in the Verkhovna Rada. He Office, which handles student records. Ms. Iskorostenska declined to answer any Amidst all the avoidances, denials and informed The Weekly that he had earned Columbia University spokeswomen of The Weekly’s questions on Monday, April deceptions involved in this ongoing fias- a Ph.D. in philosophy. Katie Moore confirmed on April 21 that 18. On Tuesday, lower-ranking officials co, Mr. Zvarych did manage to admit one He also told The Weekly that he Mr. Zvarych did not earn any degree answered the phones and took messages. of his lies to Ukrainska Pravda. renounced his U.S. citizenship and from Columbia University. One of these officials picked up the Ever since 1994, or his first Who’s applied for Ukrainian citizenship because The same facts were obtained and ver- phone on Wednesday morning, April 20, Who submission, Mr. Zvarych has he considered himself a Ukrainian, not a ified by Ukrainska Pravda. and took a message, but then the press claimed to have written a “candidate’s Ukrainian American. He said he accepted Given that Mr. Zvarych obtained no secretary’s phone gave a busy signal all dissertation” on the “Ontological Ukrainian citizenship – which he was degree from Columbia University, that Wednesday afternoon. Foundations of Platonic Ethics” in 1981. granted in January 1995 – in order to would throw into question another item No one at Mr. Zvarych’s office When asked by Ukrainska Pravda on resolve “an internal contradiction that on his Who’s Who biography. answered repeated calls on Thursday, April 12 whether he actually wrote a dis- would lead to various psychological In his submission in 1997 Mr. Zvarych April 21, and Ms. Iskorostenska never sertation, Mr. Zvarych admitted: “I didn’t problems.” claims to have been an assistant professor responded to The Weekly’s repeated write a dissertation. I didn’t reach that “In order to alleviate any possible at Columbia University between 1981 and requests to interview Mr. Zvarych. As of level. I earned a master’s degree, a mas- problems, psychologically and otherwise, 1983. The Weekly was unable to confirm press time, there still was no response ter’s of philosophy.” this was the right thing for me to do,” Mr. the validity of this claim. from Mr. Zvarych or his office. “Therefore the work on – that Zvarych told The Weekly. Mr. Zvarych also claimed in his 1997 As a result, The Weekly was not able was your master’s degree work?” the Mr. Zvarych also said in the interview submission to Who’s Who that he was a to confirm with Mr. Zvarych whether he Ukrainska Pravda reporter prodded. that he always wanted to be a politician, New York University professor for seven has any college degree at all. None of his “About Plato? That was a work in the “but never really saw my place in years, between 1983 and 1991. three biographical submissions to Who’s context of a so-called colloquium,” Mr. American politics.” In fact, Mr. Zvarych did teach at New Who between 1993 and 2004 make any Zvarych responded. York University, said university reference to a bachelor’s degree. Mr. Zvarych’s colleagues also demon- The Ukrainian Weekly editor Andrew spokesman Josh Taylor, but only between Mr. Zvarych’s biographical informa- strated a remarkable silence on the mat- Nynka contributed to this story. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 No. 17 OBITUARY: Ukrainian Canadian pianist Daria Telizyn, 44

by George Sajewych liance, and Telizyn fully deserved the began her musical education at the age of standing ovation that followed.” — The 3 at the Royal Conservatory of Music, SILVER SPRING, Md. – Ukrainian Washington Post going on to study at the University of Canadian pianist Daria Telizyn, whose Critical acclaim also followed the Western Ontario, from which she concert performances took her to venues release of Ms. Telizyn’s three CDs, all on received a bachelor of music degree in throughout North America and Europe, the Claudio Records label: “Daria Telizyn 1980. She studied for two years at the died on March 21 in Florida. She was 44. Paris Conservatory, then moved to the She performed to critical acclaim for Plays Liszt” (1988), “Grande Fantasie Symphonique/Totentanz” (a world pre- United States, to Baltimore, where in over two decades, as demonstrated by the 1985 she graduated from the Peabody following reviews. miere recording of the two Liszt works with the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, 1990), Conservatory with a master’s degree in “Telizyn made the piano sing, even in piano performance. powerful tone clusters, but especially in and “Tchaikovsky: Tranquillity” (2002). Ms. Telizyn was born March 31, 1960, Moving to Washington, Ms. Telizyn more gentle, single-line melodies, soulful quickly established herself as a musical in Toronto. She inherited her love of the and zealous.” — Albany Times Union presence in the U.S. capital. On different arts from her parents. Her father, Emil “Heightening the concerto’s piquancy occasions, The Washington Post wrote Telizyn, is a widely known icon painter was Telizyn, whose lithe fingers, by that: “Telizyn immediately displayed turns, caressed and stormed the keyboard and designer of iconostases, church deco- deep musicality and sensitive phrasing with delicate dance motions, singing tone rations and monuments. Her mother, the and construction”; “She produced a and fierce attacks. Her pianism is phe- late Nina Telizyn, was an opera singer strong, beautiful sound from deep within nomenal.” — The Berkshire Eagle and an actress with the Zahrava Theater. the keys. She offered thoughtful and per- “There were moments of sheer bril- It was in Toronto that Ms. Telizyn suasive playing that incorporated a daz- zling lightness and clarity of chromatic runs into the music’s formal outline”; tions, but has received no response. and “The young Canadian’s virtue of In a letter addressed to Dr. Missoni, Daria Telizyn Plast fights... delicious sensitivity showed in her coun- (Continued from page 1) Ukraine’s current minister of family, tryman Oscar Morawetz’s ‘Fantasy, children and youth, Yurii Pavlenko, also WOSM constitution,” Elegy and Toccata.’ Two concert études pointed out that SPOK has no religious gist Jan van Voorthuysen wrote in Het According to that constitution, if by Franz Liszt unleashed Telizyn’s or spiritual program. One of WOSM’s Vederland: SPOK’s membership is unopposed or “Even if I had heard only Liszt’s noto- fundamental principles is “duty to God wilder temperament and technique.” opposed by 5 percent or less of World rious, grand Sonata in B minor, I would and respect for individual beliefs.” Ms. Telizyn’s concert career took her Scout Conference members, the organi- have been convinced that I had heard one SPOK doesn’t have a consistent edu- to London, Paris, Kyiv (where she per- zation will be declared a member of the of the greatest pianists. Years ago I heard cation or training program, no regular formed Revutsky’s Piano Concerto with WOSM, as the national scout organiza- her first teacher more than once and I am weekly activities and its scouting pro- the National Symphony of Ukraine), tion of Ukraine, as of May 1. sure he could not have equalled her, for gram takes place only at its summer Washington, Frankfurt, Brussels, Toronto Nachalnyi Plastun (Chief Scout) he could not have equalled Horowitz or camps, Mr. Pavlenko wrote in his letter. and Mexico. She toured Germany and Lubomyr Romankiw arrived in Kyiv on Andor Foldes, whereas Daria Telizyn The Weekly’s attempts to reach SPOK Austria with the Washington Symphony April 18 in order to rally support for did! And with the greatest of ease! After were unsuccessful, and the organization Orchestra and the United States with the Plast and to meet with lawyers. having heard more than 10,000 concerts has no apparent website. The Mangup Kyiv Chamber Orchestra (twice). He said eight votes out of 154 are need- and after having written more than 8,600 Tourist Club, which identifies itself as a Over the past few years Ms. Telizyn, reviews, after having heard the Liszt ed to break the 5 percent barrier. Dr. member organization of SPOK, has a who lived in Florida, went through a Sonata countless times, I simply feel Romankiw has already recruited Poland, website but no contact telephone numbers. series of illnesses and was not able to bound to declare that after Daria Argentina and Germany to oppose SPOK’s Attempts were also unsuccessful in play. Recently, she had returned to the Telizyn’s unbelievable performance I entry. The United States delegate also will trying to reach Oleksander Bondar, the piano with a new strength and resolve to feel completely flabbergasted.” write a letter in opposition, he said. head of WOSM’s Eurasia Scout Region, return to the stage. However, this was not Throughout her life Ms. Telizyn Since Ukraine’s independence in which is headquartered in Yalta to be; on March 21, after emergency sur- would say with pride that she saw herself 1991, Plast has swelled to 10,000 mem- According to Plast officials, Mr. Bondar gery in Dunedin, Fla., Ms. Telizyn as: “woman, Ukrainian, pianist.” She bers, said Serhii Letenko, the organiza- submitted SPOK’s application to join passed away, 10 days shy of her 45th was a woman of great beauty and spirit, tion’s spokesman. WOSM. birthday. a passionate Ukrainian and a pianist of Plast is already playing a leading role Unfortunately, Plast is in this position Very few pianists could enchant an incomparable talent, dedication and in developing the nation’s youth and pro- because Mr. Bondar never allowed the audience the way Ms. Telizyn did. Such resolve. Hers was a star that burned ducing positive leaders in society, Mr. organization to attempt entry into was the effect of her October 1986 con- brightly in the heavens and was extin- Letenko said. WOSM on its own, Dr. Romankiw said. cert at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw that guished much too soon. Oleh Klymchuk, First Lady Kateryna Plast’s leadership had decided to try to the eminent Dutch critic and musicolo- Yushchenko’s press secretary, is a work with Mr. Bondar and cooperate Ukrainian-born Plast member, as is Evhen with other scouting groups, he said. tive and very well-meaning,” Ms. Hlibovytskyi, a news director at Channel Plast agreed to work with SPOK Tymoshenko said. 5, Ukraine’s 24-hour news channel. because its leaders thought that they Tymoshenko... “And I believe that at the highest levels Plast encompasses Ukraine’s diversity, could easily win the SPOK scouts over, (Continued from page 1) and includes scouts who are Orthodox, Dr. Romankiw said. They were con- website, adding that the goal of keeping of both nations are very honest intentions to Catholic, Protestant and Muslim, Dr. vinced of the superiority of the Plast pro- ministers from traveling abroad was to build equal standing, partnerly, long-lasting Romankiw said. Ethnic Russians and gram, which had been developed and concentrate on stabilizing the economy. and very hopeful relations,” she added. have also become mem- refined for decades, he said. In the BBC interview three days later, Ms. Tymoshenko’s colleagues imme- bers of Plast, he said. In fact, two Tatar But it’s precisely for that reason that Ms. Tymoshenko said it’s time that diately supported her decision. Serhii troops are active in Crimea, he added. SPOK entered into partnership: to access Russia accepted Ukraine as its equal Teriokhin, Ukraine’s minister of the In official letters to WOSM, SPOK superior methodology and experience, partner – not like a “younger brother” – economy, said Russian officials should claims to have 3,500 members. Plast Mr. Pavlenko wrote in his letter. and treat the nation and its politicians think before speaking. “It was going to leaders firmly dispute that estimate, and Mr. Bondar stands to lose a comfort- with respect. be the first visit – a milestone event,” Mr. Mr. Letenko said the group has about 350 able salary and generous traveling perks Certain Russian actors fought against Teriokhin said. “Something is always off members. from WOSM if he loses his control over her and her allies at the request of former with the procurator generals in Russia.” SPOK violates numerous WOSM condi- scouting in Ukraine, which is why he is President Leonid Kuchma, Ms. Ms. Tymoshenko was planning to dis- tions, Dr. Romankiw said, most significant- fighting Plast, Dr. Romankiw commented. Tymoshenko said, and made her a prime cuss the Single Economic Space and other ly that it is supported with funding from the The chief scout said he hopes to target for political destruction. important matters, Mr. Teriokhin noted. Ukrainian government. As a result of this resolve the situation positively, or Plast “Now, in the post-election period, it’s Although Ukrainian officials had been funding, SPOK acted in support of the for- may resort to legal action against the likely very hard for them to drop old tac- preparing hard for the visit, “we as an mer party in power, he said. In fact, World Scout Bureau – the secretariat that tics which they used to destroy politi- independent nation will find the possibil- SPOK’s official address is that of the carries out the instructions of the World cians in other nations,” she said. ity to defend the dignity and authority of Ministry of Family, Children and Youth. Scout Conference and the World Scout Ms. Tymoshenko said she hopes that Ukraine, and Prime Minister Yulia Plast has written to Dr. Eduardo Committee, the conference’s executive Ukraine and Russia will together get Tymoshenko,” said Anatolii Kinakh, Missoni, the secretary general of WOSM, body – for not upholding its own rules through this “painful period of transition.” Ukraine’s first vice prime minister. in order to inform him of these viola- and requirements. She said she believes Russian Meanwhile, Ukraine’s National President Vladimir Putin, along with his Security and Defense Council Secretary prime minister and those Russian intel- Petro Poroshenko will lead a delegation lectuals who can objectively examine visiting Moscow on April 21, according Russian-Ukrainian relations, will quit to his official website. HelpDon’t yourself andlet the Subscr youription Depar subscriptiontment of The Ukrainian Weekly by lapse! keeping track of Mr. Poroshenko will discuss creating your subscription expiration date (indicated in the top left-hand corner of your mailing label employing the political technology (year/month/date) and sending in your renewal fee in advance of receiving an expiration schemes that were employed in the 2004 the Yushchenko-Putin Commission that notice; or, if you have already received a notice, by promptly sending your renewal. presidential elections. was announced during the Russian presi- “I know there was a wonderful and dent’s visit to Kyiv in March. During the This way, you’ll be sure to enjoy each issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, and will keep yourself warm meeting between the presidents of visit, Presidents Putin and Yushchenko informed of all the news you need to know. 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Northern New Jersey District Committee holds annual meeting by Roma Hadzewycz In lieu of the minutes from the previ- ous annual meeting, Mr. Welhasch read PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Northern the official report on the meeting that New Jersey District Committee of the was published in the UNA’s newspapers. Ukrainian National Association, which The district chairman then delivered encompasses 18 branches, held its annual his report, thanking all for their coopera- meeting here at the UNA Corporate tion and noting that in his first year as Headquarters on Friday, April 15. chairman he was still learning a lot about The meeting was brought to order by the organization’s work. He thanked District Chairman Stephan Welhasch, UNA National Secretary Christine Kozak who welcomed branch representatives, for her assistance. district officers and two members of the The chairman also cited the district’s UNA General Assembly, UNA President successful bus trip to Soyuzivka for Stefan Kaczaraj and Advisor Eugene Father’s Day in 2004 and the involvement Oscislawski. Fifteen people representing of the district’s members – especially the district’s various branches participat- Stefko Woch, Christine Brodyn and ed in the meeting. Oksana Trytjak – in manning UNA infor- Mr. Welhasch opened the meeting and mation tables at various festivals around called for a moment of silence in honor the state and beyond, including New of Northern New Jersey District mem- York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. bers who had passed away during the As well, Mr. Welhasch reported on the past year. Mr. Oscislawski was elected to Northern New Jersey District’s organizing chair the meeting; while Roma accomplishments, pointing out that the Roma Hadzewycz Hadzewycz recorded the minutes. district experienced a 10 percent growth in At the Northern New Jersey District Committee’s annual meeting (from left) are: District Chairman Stephan Welhasch, UNA Advisor Eugene Oscislawski, who chaired the meeting, and UNA President Stefan Kaczaraj.

members and was responsible for $1.5 $161,000 in 2003 to $240,000 in 2004. Young UNA’ers million in new insurance. However, he Mr. Kaczaraj then revealed that dis- added, the district’s membership quota for cussions are under way about transferring 2004 was met by only 54 percent. Soyuzivka from a limited liability corpo- Vice-Chairman Julian Kotliar then ration that is wholly owned by the UNA reported, joking that it’s easy to be vice- to a foundation that would be created as a chairman when the chairman does every- separate entity. It is hoped that the foun- thing. He focused on organizing activity, dation could then secure a significant stating that it is hard to enroll new mem- loan for the purpose of renovating facili- bers these days and suggesting that a new ties at Soyuzivka, in particular its Main approach is needed to attract younger House, in hopes of attracting corporate members. business year-round. Speaking on behalf of the Auditing In regard to the UNA’s newspapers, Committee, Mr. Oscislawski, chairman, Mr. Kaczaraj said that the UNA had hired said that he and his committee members, a consultant, who is to report on how to Christine Brodyn and Ciapka, had cut down expenses. Later, during the reviewed the district’s books and had question and answer session, the UNA found everything to be in order. He president explained that the consultant is expressed commendations for a job well also to suggest how the publications can done to Treasurer Walter Honcharyk and increase income. reported that the district had a balance of Among other subjects discussed dur- $2,046.54 in its account. ing the open discussion part of the meet- Mark Andrew Rokycky, son of ing were: renovations and town houses at Sophia Yamanishi, daughter of Svetlana and Andrew Rokycky of The reports were unanimously approved by meeting participants. Soyuzivka; the importance of both the Alexandra C. Bodnar and Mike Wethersfield, Conn., is a new member UNA’s newspapers and Soyuzivka to the Yamanishi, is a new member of UNA of UNA Branch 277. He was enrolled Next on the agenda was the election of district officers for the new term. A propos- UNA as fraternal benefits; and the new Branch 13. She was enrolled by her by his grandparents Vira and foundation for Soyuzivka, which will parents, who live in Pepperell, Mass. Lubomyr Rokycky. al from the floor to re-elect the entire slate of officers was greeted with applause and have 501 (c) (3) status. the slate was re-elected by acclamation. The final item on the meeting’s agenda District officers are: Mr. Welhasch, was a plan of activity for the year. Mr. chairman; Mr. Kotliar, vice-chairman; Welhasch said that the district will once Daria Semegen, secretary; Mr. Honcharyk, again organize a bus trip to Soyuzivka treasurer; Ms. Hadzewycz (The Ukrainian for Father’s Day. He also underscored Weekly editor-in-chief), English-language that the district needs to devote more press liaison; Irene Jarosewich (Svoboda attention to new immigrants and their editor-in-chief), Ukrainian-language press needs, and he opened a discussion on liaison; Ms. Trytjak, organizing director; how the UNA can reach this new wave. Lon Staruch and Michael Bohdan, mem- Meeting participants, including profes- bers-at-large; Mr. Oscislawski, Ms. sional sales agents and one member of what is known as the Fourth Wave of Brodyn and Ms. Ciapka, auditing commit- immigration, expressed various ideas on tee. Wolodymyr Bilyk and John Chomko how to accomplish this, as all agreed that remain as honorary district chairmen. the UNA has something to offer these UNA President Kaczaraj then newcomers to the United States. Nina addressed the gathering, reporting on the Bilchuk of the UNA’s Home Office noted state of the organization for 2004. He that, with the positive changes in noted that insurance sales were up slight- Ukraine, there is an increase of interest in ly, but not enough to cover costs of UNA identifying with Ukraine. She said she is operations. Expenses of Soyuzivka near- optimistic that members of the latest ly doubled, he said, explaining that while wave of immigrants will eventually join Pavel and Lidiya Pashchuk, children the resort had more guests than during the UNA, though it may take time. She Pavlo Odemchuk, son of Halyna and of Oksana and Andrij Pashchuk of the previous year, expenses increased to also noted that UNA brochures must be Oleksandr Odemchuk of Kent, Wash., Kent, Wash., are new members of $620,000. The UNA’s newspapers, written in a language they understand is a new member of UNA Branch 496. UNA Branch 496. They were enrolled Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly also He was enrolled by his parents. by their parents. had increased expenses, up from (Continued on page 31)

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EASTER PASTORAL THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Chornobyl’s 19th anniversary The Power of God is revealed Following is the Paschal greeting of of Jesus of Nazareth in the fullness of April 26 marks the 19th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear catastrophe in the Permanent Conference of Ukrainian His Divinity and His Humanity. The Ukraine – the world’s worst nuclear accident. For most of the world, Chornobyl Orthodox Bishops beyond the Borders of Church fathers never attempted to evade is a word from the past, a tragedy that happened a generation ago and has been Ukraine to the clergy and faithful of the this startling fact by saying that “His largely forgotten. Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ukraine Spirit lives on,” or that “His ideas live But, for Ukraine and Belarus, and parts of western Russia, Chornobyl is also the and throughout the world. on,” or simply that “He lives on in the present, and the future, as the effects of the accident at the Chornobyl nuclear lives of those who believe.” No, Jesus power station can be felt to this day and will be felt for many years down the road. May the peace offered by our Risen Christ – Lord and Savior – lives on! To illustrate this bitter reality, we cite information newly released by Lord to His Holy Disciples following His As we Ukrainian Orthodox Christians Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Resurrection be with you at all times and revel in this fact at Pascha 2005, we, An astounding total of 2,646,106 citizens of Ukraine – among them 643,030 in all places. your archpastors, ask ourselves and each children – are officially classified as victims of the Chornobyl accident as of Christ is Risen! Indeed he is Risen! of you entrusted to our spiritual care: January 1, 2005. The Apostle Paul has written: “If our Having proclaimed to one another and to During the course of the 19 years since the accident, 164,700 people were relo- hope in Christ has been for this life only, the world “Christ is Risen! Indeed He is cated to 213 population centers. The zone around the nuclear power station will we are the most unfortunate of people. Risen!” during the holy and wondrous remain uninhabitable for hundreds of years due to radioactive contamination. But Christ has in fact been raised from liturgical celebrations of this Feast of In 2004, more than 2,318,300 people, including 451,800 children, were under the dead, the first-fruits of all who have Feasts, are we prepared to fulfill our mis- medical care in Ukraine as a result of Chornobyl’s effects. fallen asleep. Death came through one sion? What difference will proclaiming A total of 2,242,111 people are currently being monitored to determine the man and, in the same way the “Christ is Risen!” make in our lives as accident’s effects on their health. Resurrection of the dead has come we wake up to Bright Monday? What The portion of people suffering the ill effects of the 1986 disaster continues to through one man. Just as all die in Adam, difference will proclaiming “Christ is grow. Among Chornobyl “liquidators” – those sent into the zone at the time of so all will be brought to life in Christ ... Risen!” on Pascha make in our relation- the disaster in an attempt to “eliminate the consequences” of the accident – 94.2 When this perishable nature has put on ships with the members of our families, percent are ill; among evacuated citizens the figure is 89.8 percent; and among imperishability, and when mortal nature with our co-workers, with our neighbors, those who live on territory affected by radiation, 84.7 percent. has put on immortality, then the words of with our enemies? What difference will As for Ukraine’s children – the country’s future – 79.8 percent of those classi- Scripture will come true: ‘Death is swal- proclaiming “Christ is Risen!” make in fied as victims of Chornobyl are also officially listed as ailing. lowed up in victory’ ... So let us thank our concern for justice, peace and service Needless to say, the costs of caring for Chornobyl’s victims – who suffer from God for giving us the victory through our in our local communities and in the a variety of ailments ranging from thyroid cancer to illnesses of the circulatory Lord Jesus Christ.” (I Cor. 15:19- world at large? and nervous systems, and immuno-deficiency problems – are astounding and a 22,54,57) We who bear the Name of our Lord – severe strain on Ukraine’s budget. And, lest we forget, there are the children born Our mission – that of every single Christians – must place ourselves direct- with birth defects that can be linked to Chornobyl’s aftereffects. Ukrainian Orthodox Christian – is to ly in position to reflect the Light that In addition, there is the matter of the Chornobyl plant itself. The Shelter spread the Good News that the victory shines forth from the empty tomb into Implementation Project, whose goal is to stabilize the damaged sarcophagus at the has been won, that the time of peace has the world, into our communities and into plant is ongoing, with completion scheduled for 2006. After that, plans call for the been established, that the time for recon- the lives of all those we confront as we construction of a new confinement structure over the No. 4 reactor. However ciliation is at hand, that the world has walk the temporal path of this world. We additional funding must be found to cover its cost of more than $1 billion. nothing to lose and everything to gain by are created to image – to reflect – the That, dear readers, is only a fragment of the harsh actuality that is Chornobyl’s embracing the new order of life estab- love of Christ, the compassion of Christ, legacy in Ukraine, the epicenter of the disaster. lished by the Risen Lord. Our mission is the peace of Christ into our world. Are As we observe the solemn 19th anniversary of the Chornobyl catastrophe, let to tell our brothers and sisters who are we prepared spiritually to fulfill our mis- us recall that in Ukraine today millions of our brothers and sisters need our help. still making alliances with the forces of sion? Through solid preparation through- Can we ignore their plight? greed, hatred, war, bigotry, fierce compe- out the Great Lenten season and through tition and exploitation, that their allies continued and frequent participation in are already defeated – that judgment has the Precious Eucharist – the Body and April been rendered – that Christ is Lord! Our Blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Turning the pages back... mission is to let them in on the Good Christ – we are and shall always be. News: “It is true. He is Risen.” On Pascha – Resurrection Sunday – Some people want a scientific expla- we celebrate the awesome reality that not 27 nation for all this. But science can only only was the Power of God revealed, but analyze one event by comparing it with also that the Power is now being 2004 In conjunction with the 18th anniversary of the Chornobyl other events. The Resurrection of Jesus revealed. Pascha is not only a past event, nuclear accident in Ukraine, on April 27, 2004, the United cannot be compared to anything else. it is an eternally present reality. The Nations hosted a special screening of the Academy Award- What the Easter Gospel proclaims has Power of God manifested in the winning documentary film “Chernobyl Heart.” The 39-minute never happened before and it has never Resurrection is revealing to us now that film, produced and directed by American documentary filmmaker Maryann DeLeo, happened since. Other people have all the problems we can ever imagine was shot predominantly in Belarus in 2001-2003. The Academy Award-winning docu- returned from the dead – even the Bible already have been resolved. That Power mentary follows a group of officials from the Chernobyl Children’s Project gives examples of that – but they is working deep within us now to sustain International, a New York-based international humanitarian aid organization that has returned only to die again. Our Lord us in our mission and on our journey to worked in Belarus for the past 12 years. rose, never to die again. He rose to New abundant life and to empower us to Speaking at the U.N. prior to the film’s presentation, Ms. DeLeo told the audience Life, where death is abolished, opening achieve it. We have witnessed that Power that she contacted CCPI Founder and Executive Director Adi Roche in 2001 with the the road to the Kingdom of God and in the recent peaceful transition of idea of making a documentary after having seen a photography exhibit on the subject Salvation for us all. authority in our native Ukraine. We have at the U.N. headquarters building earlier that year. Ms. DeLeo said she remembered Our Lord’s death was not a symbolic witnessed that Power in people gathered being astonished to learn that, while the number of children suffering from radiation- death, but a real death, unaccompanied together in peace and singleness of mind related illnesses was increasing, “international aid and attention has been progressive- by cosmetics and flowers and sweet and the face of a nation was forever ly diminishing.” Birth defects and cancer rates in the region have reportedly shot up music. And our Lord’s resurrection from changed. It is this same Power that can over the past few years. the dead was not a symbolic resurrection, The film also featured the work of Dr. William Novick, a cardiac surgeon and but a real Resurrection – the real return (Continued on page 29) founder and medical director of the International Children’s Heart Foundation, who has traveled to the region on a number of occasions, performing surgery on children EASTER GREETING who have a condition that is referred to in the region as “Chornobyl heart.” Speaking at the U.N., Dr. Novick said that in 2003 7,500 children in Belarus required the cor- rective surgery, while only 300 received it. In Ukraine, the film notes, there are 10,000 children on the waiting list for the surgical procedure, and only 2,500 will receive the operation. Many of the rest, Dr. Novick told the audience that greeted him with a Message from Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.N. standing ovation, will die while the waiting list will continue to grow. Below is the text of Easter greetings to world Easter is a bright and joyful day “For my country, Chornobyl is not only a pain of the past, but a problem of the the Ukrainian diaspora from that strengthens them along life’s way, present and a challenge of the future,” said Ambassador Valeriy Kuchinsky, Ukraine’s Ambassador Valeriy Kuchinsky, perma- awakening the best of feelings and permanent representative to the U.N., prior to the screening. “Unfortunately, with the nent representative of Ukraine to the thoughts. passage of time – particularly since the closing of the Chornobyl station in 2000 – the United Nations. Extending my greetings on this problem of Chornobyl is gradually losing its momentum and is becoming, for some, majestic day, I sincerely wish that this yet another boring issue on the United Nations agenda.” Dear Friends: Easter may bring comfort to your hearts, “I think that the documentary film we are going to see tonight will speak to these On behalf of the Permanent Mission happiness and well-being to your fami- people, especially children, much better and more effectively than hundreds of offi- of Ukraine to the United Nations and on lies, and hope for a better future. cials. We are very grateful to Ms. DeLeo and her team for the great work done in my personal behalf, please accept the May this blessed day be for all of us a reflecting on today’s consequences of the Chornobyl accident,” Mr. Kuchinsky said. most cordial greetings on the joyous holy source of peace, harmony, good and love day of the Resurrection of Christ – a for many happy years to come. Source: “Screening of Chornobyl documentary is centerpiece of U.N. commemora- holy day of joy, hope and purity. tion,” by Andrew Nynka, The Ukrainian Weekly, May 9, 2004, Vol. LXXII, No. 19. For millions of people all over the Happy Easter! Khrystos Voskres! No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 7 COMMENTARY Faces and Places History, its uses and its misuses, by Myron B. Kuropas

Prof.by Dr.Himka Bohdan Vitvitsky and gettingWho has anoff axe toour grind againsknees whom? “Since the days of Bogdan Leaving Prof. Himka’s idiosyncratic Third Rome resurgent Chelmenitzky [sic], the Jewish people sense of logic aside, his claim that it is As Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice further talk of Catholic-Orthodox unifi- has a long score to settle with the Ukrainian Americans who have an axe to prepares to travel to Russia to raise U.S. cation can go forward. “We hope a Ukrainian people ... To you and your grind against Jews suggests that he has concerns over Russia’s fading “democra- spirit of competition will be replaced friends, I suggest that you go to church just recently returned from several cy,” President Vladimir Putin must be by a spirit of dialogue,” stated a not only on Sunday but also every day of decades of travel in a distant galaxy. Was laughing up his sleeve. spokesman for the Moscow patriarch the week, and that you kneel there until it a Ukrainian parliamentarian who wrote Mr. Putin, a former KGB officer, following the death of Pope John Paul bleeding at the knees in asking forgive- that Ukrainian have a long score to settle knows his people. He understands the II. “We hope the new pontiff will ness for what your people has done to with Jews and that Jews should kneel three historic instruments of the Russian understand our tradition.” ours.” – Excerpt from a letter written in until they bleed to ask forgiveness, or soul, the ruling troika of autocracy, And what is that tradition? The idea October 1986 by Dov B. Ben-Meir, the was it a Jewish parliamentarian who orthodoxy and “narodnichestvo.” He is that Moscow is the third and final deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset, to wrote that to Ukrainians? No other mem- busy fine-tuning all three. Rome. “It has long been a feeling Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine ber of the Knesset would criticize or The one-time intense, pre-Soviet intel- which was native to Russians,” wrote [published in The Ukrainian Weekly, repudiate the 1986 letter by Mr. Ben- lectual debate between “Westernizers,” Nicholas Berdyaev in The Russian Idea, January 11, 1987]. Meir, even when asked to do so by the who favored democratic processes, and “that Russia has its own peculiar des- letter’s recipients. Yet, our Prof. Himka “Slavophiles” who shunned Western tiny, that the Russian people are a pecu- In a letter to The Weekly (March 6), thinks it is Ukrainians who have an axe ideals, is long past. Autocracy, part of the liar people. Messianism is almost as Prof. John Paul Himka suggested that to grind? Russian condition since the founding of characteristic of the Russian people as anyone who makes mention of facts Was it a Ukrainian columnist who Muscovy, won the day. it is of the Jews,” which is why, Mr. such as that Trotsky, Kaganovich and wrote recently that he wasn’t sure The Russian nation never experienced Berdyaev believes, an “active share of other Jews played an important role in whether Jews existed, but that if they did, the Renaissance, the Reformation or the the Jews in Russian communism” was the first decades of Soviet Communism they had the blood of Ukrainians on their Enlightenment, cultural phenomena that possible. is “grinding an axe against the Jews” hands, or was it a columnist in the produced such liberating ideals as that of Finally, there is the question of “naro- and is guilty of anti-Semitism and xeno- Jerusalem Post who wrote in December the independent individual, a person with dnichestvo,” that mystic veneration of phobia. He also advised that “this whole 2004 that “whether or not a Ukrainian unique thoughts, feelings, moral con- the Russian soul. “Narodnichestvo is keeping of national scorecards – what nation exists, insofar as Jewish history is science, freedom and, of course, control not the same thing as nationalism, the Russians, Poles, Jews, etc. did to the concerned, it will live forever, since no of his/her destiny. From tsar to commis- although it might take on a nationalist Ukrainians – is such a discredited and other nation other than the Germans sar, the Russian people have lived under color,” explains Mr. Berdyaev. The con- restrictive mode of thought, that we seems to have more Jewish blood on its a series of brutal sovereigns who ruled cept has religious overtones in which should really make an effort to abandon hands”? And yet, our Prof. Himka thinks with an iron fist. “the people is a sort of mystical organ- it altogether. It is a mental fixture of the it is Ukrainians who have an axe to Democracy never took root in Russia ism which goes deeper into the spirit 1930s and 1940s that that needs to be grind? because for many Russians, even today, than the nation, which is a rationalized, thrown out.” He concludes by further Was it a Ukrainian school that staged a it is associated with decadence, anarchy historical organization in connection suggesting that if Ukrainians don’t stop play portraying Jews as the enemy or, as and uncertainty. As bad as tsar and com- with the body politic ... The people are a talking about such subjects, we are reported in the May 24, 2001, Bergen missar were, they provided a certain sta- concrete community of living persons, doomed: “if we don’t clean our house Record in New Jersey, was it a play bility, even predictability. As social whereas the nation is a more abstract now, it will be impossible to hide the staged by high school students at the psychologist Erich Fromm reminded us idea.” stink.” Yavneh Academy in Paramus, titled in “Escape from Freedom,” given a This Russian troika remained deeply Prof. Himka acknowledges that “Faith, Rebellion and Fate”, that injustly choice between freedom and pre- inbedded in the Russian psyche even in Trotsky, Kaganovich and other Jews portrayed Ukrainians? As the paper dictability, people tend to prefer pre- Soviet times. Autocracy was part of the played an important role in creating reported: “The play begins in the early dictability. Individuality can lead to iso- Bolshevik way. Marxism/Leninism was Soviet rule and that Jews were over-rep- 1990s in Tomaszov, Poland, the home of lation, alienation and bewilderment. the new orthodoxy. And the Third resented in the Soviet secret police and a large Hasidic settlement, showing how Freedom can be confusing and threaten- International supplanted the third Rome related criminal organizations. But, he Lerman, then only 7, got his first taste of ing. Conformity is simpler, less fright- as the new Russian vehicle of messian- complains, why be selective in focusing anti-Semitism, when his family was ening. This is especially true of ism. on these facts? And, he explains, state- attacked by Ukrainian soldiers who often Russians who, according to philosopher During the Gorbachev and Yeltsin ments of facts are not made in a vacuum. preyed on Jews and wanted to annex the Nicholas Berdyaev, constantly seek cer- eras, Russia temporarily lost its compass. They are objectionable, even if true, region.” And yet, our Prof. Himka thinks tainty. “The Russian spirit craves for Glasnost and perestroika were foreign because “There’s an ugly history in it is Ukrainians who have an axe to wholeness,” he writes. ideals, quickly discarded. After the Ukrainian wartime journalism of identi- grind? Mr. Putin is returning power to the Soviet collapse, a temporary power vacu- um emerged as Communists changed fying Jews and Bolsheviks to justify When one goes to a college bookstore Kremlin, slowly and methodically hats and pretended to support democracy. German policy towards Jews.” or to a Barnes & Noble-type bookstore weaning the Russian people of their That, too, died. Under Mr. Putin, there is I realize that logic is not a required today – not in the 1930s or 1940s – and quest for freedom. Few Russians seem no longer any need for pretense. The subject for historians, but where is it looks through the books in the Jewish to mind. According to a poll of Russian third Rome is up and running. written that they can take a holiday from history section, one will repeatedly sentiment taken in March, Mr. Putin’s In May Russia will commemorate the it altogether? Ukrainian Americans encounter the extraordinary libel that, approval rating stands at 66 percent. “great victory against fascism.” The should not in 2005 make mention of the purportedly, Bohdan Khmelnytsky was Apparently, scrapping the election of crimes of the past are forgotten. As one leadership role that individual Jews the anti-Semitic precursor to Hitler. And governors by popular vote, state control Russian told Anne Applebaum recently, played in the first decades of the Soviet when one looks up references to Simon of oil firms, censorship of the media, “The Gulag isn’t relevant any more.” No state because of something that some Petliura, one also repeatedly finds the the brutal repression of , and need to acknowledge the evils of the Ukrainian said a continent away 60-some slanderous claim that, purportedly, blatant interference in the political for- years ago during World War II? tunes of neighboring nations are not Holodomor, the Nazi-Soviet pact, Katyn Petliura, too, was an anti-Semite and Forest, the 40 million murdered by gov- Prof. Himka’s point about selectivity pogromist. And yet, our Prof. Himka reasons for concern. What matters is is equally puzzling. After doing research that Mr. Putin is bringing stability to his ernment fiat. Apologize? Only American thinks it is Ukrainians who have an axe presidents and popes apologize. at Yad Vashem and the Hebrew to grind? country. University, Prof Himka authored a long The , a Stalin, the Georgian who came closest In 1926, a man named Samuel to establishing Moscow as the world’s article published in 1997 on the subject Schwartzbard, who was in all likelihood tool of the ruling elite, whether tsarist of “Ukrainian Collaboration in the or Soviet, supports authoritarian rule third Rome, is back in favor. A survey a Soviet agent, assassinated Simon conducted by the All-Russian Center for Extermination of the Jews During World Petliura in Paris. The assassin, a Jew because that is how the patriarch and War II.” More recently, he has written his army of willing clerics remain in the Study of Public Opinion in March from Bessarabia, claimed in his defense asked Russians if they think their country “War Criminality: A Blank Spot in the that the murder was supposed retribution business. As the Russian army expand- Collective Memory of the Ukrainian ed the empire during tsarist times, the needs a ruler similar to Stalin. Among for Petliura’s purported pogroms. The those 45 to 59 years of age, 52 percent Diaspora.” So, making mention of Jewish community took up the defense’s Russian Orthodox Church was close Jewish participation in the leadership or behind pushing conversion as the first said yes. Russian youth, those between cause and helped to assassinate Petliura a age 18 and 24, favored the tyrant by 45 the secret police of the criminal Soviet second time, this time via character step toward russification. During state is being objectionably “selective,” percent. assassination accomplished with the help Soviet times, the Russian Orthodox but writing about Ukrainian “collabora- Dr. Rice is a brilliant woman and a of distorting the documentary evidence Church was complicit in the destruc- tion” with the criminal Nazi state is laud- Russian expert thoroughly familiar with relating to what Petliura had and had not tion and brutal suppression of the ably universal? Some more of that spe- Stalinism. I hope she succeeds in done. The first assassination was the Ukrainian Catholic Church – an act of cial logic? genocide for which we are yet to hear Moscow, for our sake and the sake of the work of an individual, culpability for world. She needs our prayers. which lay exclusively with that individ- remorse. This outrage continues today Bohdan Vivitsky is an attorney, writer ual and those, if any, who sent him. But as the Russian patriarch demands that and lecturer who holds a Ph.D. in philos- Rome shelve its support of the Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is: ophy. (Continued on page 26) Ukrainian Catholic Church before any [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 No. 17

REFLECTIONS ON PRESIDENT VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO’S VISIT TO THE U.S.

The good, the bad and the ugly: a look at the visit to Boston by Prof. Peter T. Woloschuk Library Foundation and 350 members of the local Ukrainian American community. The recent visit of President Viktor The latter were invited by the Kennedy Yushchenko and his wife, Kateryna, to Library Foundation staff, who had insisted Boston was clearly a great success. The that the broader Ukrainian American com- Ukrainian president came to Boston at the munity be present and participate. The invitation of the Kennedy family to receive Kennedy Library Foundation asked the the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Ukrainian Americans for Democracy in Courage Award and he also made time to Ukraine (UADU) to assist in the coordina- visit 5-year-old Nastia Ovchar, who is tion of the event and act as the go-between being treated at the Shriners’ Burn Center with both Ukraine’s Consular officials and for third-degree burns on over 80 percent Ukrainian American community leaders. of her body. Media coverage was compre- UADU is an ad-hoc volunteer organi- hensive and positive. From an organiza- zation that was formed in November 2004 tional perspective the event demonstrated to conduct a petition drive asking the that some members of the Ukrainian Massachusetts congressional delegation to American community have the ability to intervene in the Ukrainian elections (more help organize such an event. than 1,000 signatures were collected in With the event still in our memory, it one weekend). UADU has members who Tania D’Avignon is appropriate to examine and learn from have existing relationships and expertise what worked and what didn’t, and then to required for such a high-profile event. President Viktor Yushchenko is flanked by Sen. Edward Kennedy and Caroline constructively go forward. As a result of UADU’s intervention, Kennedy Schlossberg during the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award cer Approximately 900 people turned out the community was present as the emony at the Kennedy Library. for the event, including some 550 promi- Yushchenko motorcade arrived, witnessed nent Bostonians invited by the Kennedy the formal award ceremonies simulcast Kennedys, the Yushchenkos, their seniors Kennedy Library (and there were only 17 into a separate theater (the main hall at staffs, and trustees of the Kennedy Library of them), their division and disposition and Kennedy Foundation, when Sen. was nothing short of scandalous. Peter Woloschuk is a professor of com- the Library only holds 550), and attended the VIP reception with live classical Kennedy stood up and told the assembled Although there has been an organized munication and journalism at Boston guests that the Kennedys were not only Ukrainian community in Boston for almost College and Northeastern University; he music, gourmet food and an open bar. In addition to the formal presentation proud of their Irish roots but of their 125 years, it is sad to note that the commu- also occasionally lectures at the University Ukrainian roots as well. People smiled at nity, and, more particularly, its leadership, of Massachusetts and Pine Manor College. of the award itself, there were a number of electric moments in the nearly five first, but the senator indicated that he was has not been able to develop a sense of He is the editor-in-chief of the Pine Manor serious and called on his niece, Caroline professionalism or a desire to showcase College Alumnae Bulletin and spent more hours that the Yushchenkos spent with the Kennedy Schlossberg, to explain. She then what is truly good and notable before the than 10 years working for the Boston Kennedy family. The first occurred after a stood and said that both of her husband’s broader American community. The “selo” Globe. Mr. Woloschuk has served as the formal private exchange of gifts between grandparents came to the United States as mentality of some of the earliest settlers, deputy director of communications for the the Yushchenkos and Sen. Edward small children from villages in the Poltava unfortunately, is still very evident. city of Boston and director of media for the Kennedy in the family’s private function Oblast and that they were Ukrainian. She The Ukrainian Congress Committee of Boston Police Department. He has trav- rooms of the library when the senator, added that, as a gift to her husband, she America (UCCA) which has acted as an eled extensively for the White House Travel moved almost to tears, searched among had made arrangements for the two of umbrella agency coordinating local activ- Office working on events and media for the the various mementos displayed in the them to travel to Ukraine this summer to ities for decades has been weakened by president and the first lady and has helped room, and then picked up a very valuable visit Kyiv and Poltava, and then to go to scandal and is now moribund. It is con- coordinate media and security for all seven bust of President Kennedy created by an cerned with purely Ukrainian matters on papal visits to the United States for the U.S. internationally known sculptor, and pre- the two villages to trace his roots. The third and final moment came near a very basic level. It does not think about Conference of Catholic Bishops. Mr. sented it to President Yushchenko, saying interfacing with the local government, Woloschuk is the head of Ukrainian that his brother, President Kennedy, the end of the evening when the Yushchenkos learned that the Kennedys other ethnic groups and organizations, or Americans for Democracy in Ukraine – would have been proud to have met him. the local media and it has no master plan Boston (UADU) and has worked on numer- He then concluded by saying that he had missed the final commercial flight back to Washington, because the event for growth or development. ous events at the Kennedy Library. He and hoped that the bust would serve as a As a result, when UCCA was contact- the UADU were approached by the library reminder of the esteem that the entire lasted more than two hours longer than scheduled and quietly invited them to fly ed by representatives of the Ukrainian staff and asked for assistance with the visit Kennedy family had for Mr. Yushchenko. Consulate in New York who said that they of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. The second came during a dinner for the back to Washington on the Ukrainian presidential aircraft. were in charge of President Yushchenko’s In retrospect, the Yushchenkos’ visit to visit to Boston and were working with the Boston went better than could be expect- Kennedy Library, it was unable to pull A journalism student’s view ed. The Kennedys were pleased, the together a committee to work on the visit Yushchenkos were pleased, and everyone that truly represented the community. who came to the Kennedy Library was At the first meeting, the Consulate offi- of the big event in Chicago ultimately included in the event. Media cials were clear that Mr. Yushchenko was coverage was very positive, and a num- coming to Boston to get the award at the by Christina Paschyn Of course, I had never met the man in my ber of local newspapers even did follow- Kennedy Library, that he would speak at life. But I felt he would be the type of guy to up editorials and op-ed pieces. the Kennedy Library and that he would My hands were shaking. As my work- share a plate of pyrohy with a person just However, it should be noted that the visit the Shiners’ Burn Center. There was study boss drove me to the Palmer House because they were Ukrainian. So as my boss event almost didn’t happen. In dealing with no room in the schedule for anything else. Hilton Hotel in Chicago, my shoulders dropped me off in front of the hotel, I took a the representatives of the Ukrainian diplo- Unfortunately, no one listened. Most of tensed and I could feel my heart thump- deep breath and tried to block out the voice matic service, and through them, with the the four-hour meeting was dedicated to a ing in my chest. inside me saying, “Don’t screw this up!” so-called leaders of the Ukrainian American discussion of the need for the Yushchenkos I knew eventually I would cover a “big” Although stressed (I was covering this community of Boston, Kennedy staffers and to visit the local churches, credit union and story – one that all the Chicago TV stations story for Northwestern’s student newspa- other institutions. Several hours were spent Library foundation employees developed and newspapers would cover too. That’s per, television station and public relations debating how many children in Ukrainian such frustration that they held several meet- newsletter), I felt confident carrying my dress should greet the guests and whether what all of us “up-and-coming” journalists ings exploring alternatives including cancel- camera equipment and wearing my newly they should all have flowers. at Northwestern University were training to ing and/or postponing the event. purchased black suit and Nordstrom The following week the Consulate do. But I had no idea that big story would Issues ranged from staffers’ inability to shoes. And I was proud to be wearing my informed the UCCA that it obtained only materialize while I was still an undergradu- get an official commitment for the visit Ukrainian blouse – although by doing so I 17 invitations to the Kennedy Library ate. Nor did I ever imagine the story would from the Ukrainian side, a schedule that probably wasn’t presenting myself as a event and that the community was basi- include me filming a head of state’s speech changed a number of times even after the true unbiased and objective reporter. But I cally excluded. When they came for their – not just any head of state, but one I had a invitations were printed and mailed, a didn’t care. Here was my chance to do second meeting, invitations in hand, they personal connection to: Viktor Yushchenko. fundamental misunderstanding of whose something for Ukraine and the Ukrainian found that only three members of the American community; this was my oppor- event it was and the protocol of the wel- group from the week before had been Christina Paschyn is a sophomore in tunity to pop Northwestern’s little bubble coming ceremony, to the role of the local notified of their coming. The three took the Medill School of Journalism at and to expose the students to an icon who Ukrainian American community. the invitations and proceeded to divide Northwestern University. Her concentra- was not part of the American mystique. These problems were compounded by them in a most interesting fashion (for tion is in broadcast journalism and soci- Okay, so maybe I was a bit cocky when the fact that the local Ukrainian leader- example, the Orthodox community of ology. She grew up in Parma, Ohio, and I flashed my press pass to the security ship did not act in the best interests of the Boston was allotted a single ticket). belonged to the Ukrainian American guard and pretentiously sauntered into the community but sought to take care of In concert with the Consulate staff, a Youth Association (SUM) and the ballroom while the Chicago Ukrainians itself. When invitations and tickets origi- welcoming ceremony was then put togeth- Kashtan School of Ukrainian Dance. She who actually paid the $25 to get in waited nally were made available by representa- er which involved the president of the hopes to be a foreign correspondent in tives of the Ukrainian Consulate in New the future. (Continued on page 29) York which they had received from the (Continued on page 28) No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 9

NEWS AND VIEWS: St. Wolodymyr Parish in Monmouth County not ready to fade away by Victoria Mischenko, Walter Pitio, getting a chance to know the families. agreed to perform the Easter liturgy for for comments from the local newspaper, Anna Poruchynsky and Anita Roik Second, when the lease with St. the parish was notified by Metropolitan the Asbury Park Press, went unanswered Gabriel’s ended in 2002 the parish obtained Soroka that he was not granted permis- by the metropolitan’s office. MIDDLETOWN, N.J. – Twice, on rental space at the Monmouth County sion to celebrate the Easter liturgy with So, with only lay spiritual leaders, the March 31 and April 7, an article headlined Chinese Christian Church in Lincroft. the parish and that there would be conse- members of the parish held a small and “In the Christian Spirit: Area Church Unfortunately, the church was available quences if he chose to do so. The metro- personal family service on March 26 to comes to aid of St. Wolodymyr Parish on only on Saturday or Sunday evenings. politan’s letter from November 21 had continue the mission of St. Wolodymyr’s Easter” by staff writer Alesha Williams Predictably, some parishioners stated that due to the critical shortage of faithful. The Ukrainian Catholic Easter was printed in the Asbury Park Press, in became discouraged and sought to fill priests, he was not able to provide a priest traditions were modified for the special the newspaper’s separate inserts for their spiritual needs elsewhere. Attempts for St. Wolodymyr’s faithful. However, circumstances. An introduction to the Marlboro/Manalapan and Middletown. to secure a facility, preferably in a when the parish had found an available Ukrainian Church’s Easter traditions The reporter was inspired to write Catholic setting, were initially unsuc- priest through their own efforts, this priest about the upcoming Easter celebration started the gathering for visitors, and then cessful. But parishioners persevered and was told not to help the parishioners of St. after a parish-sponsored event held at the traditional Stations of the Cross were their hopes were restored when in 2004, Wolodymyr’s celebrate Easter. Monmouth County Library in read followed with selections from the the Old First Church, a historic congre- No attempt was made by the archep- Manalapan, N.J., on March 13 sparked Easter vespers. gation dating back to the late 1700s, gen- archial offices and Metropolitan Soroka to her interest. The event, titled “An contact the parish directly. Even requests (Continued on page 31) Eyewitness Account of the Historic erously opened its doors to St. Ukrainian Elections,” was a panel dis- Wolodymyr Parish. cussion of official Ukrainian election The facility, centrally located in monitors that was sponsored by a group Middletown, N.J., was available immedi- of St. Wolodymyr’s parishioners. After ately. Plans were made to move the parish interviewing a few church members, Ms. to the Old First Church by the end of Williams uncovered what she thought November. Good news the parishioners was a newsworthy story. thought – until yet another hurdle appeared. The story took another turn when, On November 21, 2004, at the end of three days before Easter, the most holy Sunday liturgy, the parish received an day on the Christian calendar, the parish unscheduled visit from Father Joseph found itself without a priest to celebrate Szupa. He was sent by the archeparchial the liturgy. office in Philadelphia to read a letter from St. Wolodymyr Parish has existed for Metropolitan Stefan Soroka. The parish- almost a quarter of a century. The parish- ioners heard a formal notification that a ioners are proud of all their efforts to priest would no longer be provided to St. sustain a Ukrainian Catholic community Wolodymyr Parish and that the trustees had in Monmouth County, N.J. The unique been relieved of their duties. The parish- parish community is still going strong in ioners were stunned. Father Szupa was not spite of the many difficult hurdles that able to answer many of the parishioners’ have come its way. With the 1988 mil- questions or offer a rationale for the sudden lennium of Ukrainian Christianity decision to close St. Wolodymyr’s. approaching, Msgr. Anthony Borsa came The parishioners scattered for the out of retirement in 1980 to help estab- Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, lish St. Wolodymyr Parish as a mission wondering what the next steps would be. Parishioners participate in the blessing of Easter baskets. church. The parish was founded by six Everyone was in disbelief that it took families who originally met at Msgr. only one letter from the metropolitan to Chicago parish begins its centennial year with Lenten Day of Reflection and Renewal CHICAGO – A group of 80 women are portrayed in religious icons, Dr. and members of the clergy gathered at Nahachewsky graphically illustrated the the St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic idea that women’s tendencies and incli- School for a Lenten Day of Reflection nations lean toward nurturing, intimacy and Renewal on Sunday, February 13. and living lives, which are more reflec- Dr. Lesya Nahachewsky, professor at the tive and connected to nature. University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, This event, sponsored by the St. Saskatchewan, presented “A Celebration of Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral the Mystery of Woman.” Those attending Parish Centennial Committee, brought learned about the Old and New Testament together Ukrainian Catholic women from images of women, how women’s roles in throughout the city and its outlying areas. the Church and in society evolved histori- The committee plans to sponsor a golf out- cally, and how women are perceived by the ing, a family day, a youth day and a clos- media and in advertisements versus the ing banquet as part of the parish’s 100th deeper concept in which beauty is a mystery anniversary celebration. For more informa- that arises from within a woman’s heart. tion about the 100th anniversary celebra- With her presentation of how women tion readers may call (773) 486-3891. The parish’s event focusing on Ukraine’s presidential elections of 2004.

Borsa’s Matawan home to celebrate dissolve a parish that had existed for Sunday liturgy. Later the parish was able over two decades with the hard work and to move to the Chapel of St. Gabriel generous financial contributions of near- Roman Catholic Church in Marlboro. ly 80 families. Was this the end? The parish worshiped there for more A group of well-meaning parishioners than 20 years. The parishioners dreamed decided to make formal attempts to com- of establishing a permanent residence municate with the metropolitan and and virtually everyone in the mission Cardinal Lubomyr Husar in Philadelphia church worked hard on fund-raising in February and March of this year, but efforts and a substantial church building to date there have been no responses. fund was established. However, rising The parishioners searched for a solu- real estate values in Monmouth County tion and found a Ukrainian Catholic increasingly became a major issue. priest willing to celebrate Easter liturgy Then, two more serious obstacles and bless the Easter baskets on March came in their path. 26. Plans were made, all the parishioners First, the death of Msgr. Borsa in 1997 were notified, and the parish looked for- led to a string of short-term assignments ward to once again celebrating together a of more than seven priests in the next traditional Ukrainian Easter liturgy. seven years. Each came and went before Unbelievably, however, St. Wolodymyr parishioners learned they Victoria Mischenko, Walter Pitio, had yet another hurdle to deal with. Anna Poruchynsky and Anita Roik are Three days before Easter, a shocking Bishop Richard S. Seminack and speaker Dr. Lesya Nahachewsky (second from members of St. Wolodymyr Parish. phone call came. The priest who had right), and members of St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Parish in Munster, Ind. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 No. 17 Shevchenko Scientific Society hosts conference on archeology by Lubomyr S. Onyshkevych 2500 B.C.), confronted the incoming tribes of the Maikop culture – Central Asiatic NEW YORK – The Shevchenko nomads who reached Ukraine via the Scientific Society in New York held a Caucasus mountains. There were hostilities unique scholarly archeological confer- between the two radically different cul- ence titled “Ancient Ukraine: New tures, but also trade and eventually a cul- Perspectives in Archeology” on Sunday, April 9. The conference consisted of six tural exchange, which led to a partial syn- presentations by Ukrainian archeologists thesis of the two cultural life-styles. Dr. from Ukraine and from the United States Rossamakin studied these processes by supplemented by commentaries. doing extensive excavations of the archeo- The so-called ancient period in logical remains of the steppe people. Ukrainian history, the period from about The steppe cultures, specifically that 800 B.C. to about 400 A.D., was a time of the Scythians, were further discussed when the steppes of Ukraine were domi- in the talk “The Scythians of the Pontic nated by ancient nomadic peoples, the Steppe” by Yuriy Boltryk, also from the Scythians and Sarmatians; it was also a Institute of Archeology (NANU). He time of establishment and growth of concentrated on the period of Scythian many (and later Roman) movement into the territories of Ukraine cities-colonies on the littoral. (8th to 7th centuries B.C.). The nomadic The first presentation of the evening horsemen, who came from the Caucasus, was on “The Pontic Steppe and the fought and subjugated the agricultural Vasyl Lopukh Speakers at the Shevchenko Scientific Society conference on archeology: (from left): Valentyna Krapivina, Yurii Rassamakin, Lada Onyshkevych, Titus Hewryk and Oleksander Leskov.

Archeology, NANU, described many Black Sea coast a series of Greek city- aspects of the material culture of the states, the most important of which were: Scythians. These people were mainly (at the Dnister estuary), Olbia (at engaged in animal husbandry and were the Dnipro estuary), Tauric nomadic; they lived mostly in their beau- (in Crimea, at ) and tifully embellished wagons. Dr. Fialko Pontikapeion, part of the Bosporan showed slides of their dress, their art Empire (in Crimea at Kerch). objects, instruments, weapons, etc. The Dr. Krapivina described the ruins and Scythians were rather war-like and had remains of the ancient city of Olbia, excellent military technology, which which existed from the 6th century B.C. allowed them to prevail over not just the until about the 4th century A.D. The city Greek colonies and the neighboring was Greek in its culture and religion (it tribes, but also the invading Persians. worshipped Apollo Delphinios, along Dr. Fialko stressed that at least 25 per- with other cults), but with time it cent of the burials of Scythian warriors absorbed some cultural traits from the Vasyl Lopukh were of women, who were fighting along- surrounding populations. Dr. Krapivina Archeology conference participants and organizers (from left): Yurii Boltryk, side their men; this, probably, was the ori- showed numerous slides of the remain- Olena Fialko, Titus Hewryk, Larissa Onyshkevych, Yurii Rassamakin, Valentyna gin of the Greek myths of the Amazons. ing ruins and artifacts at Olbia. Krapivina, Oleksander Leskov, Renata Holod, Lada Onyshkevych and She showed numerous slides of various The final presentation was given by Oleksander Symonenko. Scythian finds, especially the wonderful Dr. Lada Onyshkevych of the University of gold jewelry and other objects for which Pennsylvania. In her talk, titled “An Trypillian Culture: Problems of pre-Slavic inhabitants (of the so-called the Scythians are justly world-famous. Ancient Greek Bone Inscription about Interpretation of Their Relationships,” by Zarubinetska culture) along the Dnipro “The Treasures of the Sarmatian Apollo, Found on the Berezan island,” she Yuriy Rassamakin of the Institute of and Sula Rivers, and also in the Kerch Nobility” was the topic for Dr. Oleksandr presented an epigraphic study of a graffito Archeology of the Ukrainian Academy of area of the Crimea. Symonenko, Institute of Archeology, found among the ruins of a Greek colony in Sciences (NANU). The lecture tackled Dr. Boltryk excavated a number of NANU. He stressed that the territory of the Ukrainian Black Sea littoral. the perennial problem of the interaction Scythian tumuli (“kurhany”), as well as Ukraine during the ancient period (espe- Specifically, she presented her analysis of a between the agricultural societies of the the remains of the settlements and their cially from the end of the Bronze to the bone plaque (a flat polished bone fragment) forest-steppe zone of Ukraine and the fortifications. Some of the battlefields of beginning of the Iron Age) was a bridge found on the island of Berezan, not far nomadic people of the Ukrainian steppes. the clashes between the two cultures between cultures of Central Asia, Trans- from the ancient city of Olbia. The archaic The agricultural Trypillian culture, and were found, with numerous remains of Caucasia, the Balkans and Central Europe. form of the letters dates the inscription to other similar peoples who inhabited a large weapons and burials. Dr. Boltryk showed He described his excavations of the the end of the 6th century – beginning of portion of Ukraine from the Neolithic peri- many illustrative slides of his finds. remains of the Sarmatians, who arrived in the 5th century B.C. (the Greek colony on od through the Early Bronze Age (4750- Olena Fialko, Institute of Ukraine (probably from the Altai Berezan preceded the city of Olbia). Mountains) and displaced the Scythians, A previous analysis of this inscription around the time of Christ. The Scythians (by A. S. Rusiaeva and others) identified and Sarmatians were related, but were dis- it as oracular, an answer to a query of an ‘Between Hitler and Stalin’ to air in Ukraine tinct cultures. Dr. Symonenko described oracle. However, Dr. Onyshkevych pro- by Oksana Zakydalsky the excavated kurhany with burials of posed a much more convincing interpre- TORONTO – The Ukrainian Sarmatian noblemen and women tation of the inscription by pointing out Canadian Research and Documentation (Sarmatian women were also quite often that it is much more likely to be a hymn, Center (UCRDC) has been successful warriors). Some slides of exquisite items a prayer to Apollo, the major deity of the in making arrangements to premiere its of Sarmatian costumes, jewelry and area, because the enigmatic references in film “Between Hitler and Stalin – weapons were shown. From these items, it the text are all pertinent qualities tradi- Ukraine in WWII” by Slavko was obvious that the Sarmatians were tionally associated with Apollo, particu- Nowytski in Ukraine before the official engaged in very wide trade: the items larly to the Apollo of the dolphins and commemorations of the 60th anniver- included things from Rome, Egypt, China, Apollo the healer, and because the text sary of the end of World War II begin. Central Asia, Greece, the Balkans, etc. features standard elements of known The premiere of the film was to be The Sarmatians occupied the steppe Greek hymns. held in Kyiv at the KINO film theatre territories of present-day Ukraine until The conference was opened by Dr. on April 18. The showing of the around 350 A.D., when they were, in Larissa Onyshkevych, president of the Ukrainian-language version of the film turn, displaced by the next Asian con- society; she thanked Titus Hewryk, direc- is an invitation event for 500 persons, querors – the Huns. Henceforth the tor of the society’s Arts Section, for his and is being organized by the Kyiv Sarmatians, like various Germanic tribes, input in organizing the program, and espe- Memorial Society under the direction traveled all the way to the Iberian penin- cially Dr. Renata Holod for bringing to of Roman Krutsyk, a collaborator in sula and Northern Africa. It was interest- New York this group of archeologists, the production of the film. ing to learn that the Ossetians, a with whom she is now writing a textbook Caucasian ethnic group, retained a lot of of Ukrainian archeology. As well, the film is scheduled for Prof. Roman Serbyn Ukrainian television broadcast on May Sarmatian language and culture. The speakers were introduced by Dr. 3 on the national network UT-1, where challenges of the official Soviet ver- Valentyna Krapivina, Institute of Holod and Oleksandr Leskov of the it will air together with a discussion sion of World War II as the Great Acheology, NANU spoke about “Pontic University of Pennsylvania. After the pre- panel. Representing the UCRDC on the Fatherland War (Velyka Vitchyzniana Olbia (Olvia): A Review of the Most sentations, there were many questions panel will be historian and advisor to Viyna) – still the most widely accepted Recent Finds and Analyses.” Throughout from the audience, which filled the hall to the film, Professor Roman Serbyn from interpretation of the conflict in the time of the Asiatic nomads’ domi- capacity, and a lively open discussion Montreal, who is well known for his Ukraine. nance of the Ukrainian steppes, there over tea and coffee during the subsequent existed and flourished on the Ukrainian reception. 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Stamford Eparchy’s Women’s Day highlights Eastern Church traditions by Anisa Handzia Sawyckyj ways in which to engage children and Ottawa, and has taught catechists in These are contrasting visions of salva- youth in liturgical life and in activities in Ukraine through a program with the tion as expressed in the Latin Church (the STAMFORD, Conn. – “We’re here the parish. Other groups discussed the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. passion of Christ) vs. the Eastern Church because we love our Church” – this was unique spiritual traditions of the Eastern Ms. Galadza’s talk focused on the vital (the glory of the risen Christ), says Dr. the phrase heard over and over again at Church, the power of liturgical prayer, role of women in the spiritual life of each Daddona. This difference is apparent in the Eparchial Women’s Day celebration the relationship between the Church and family (the domestic Church) and in the liturgy, prayers, music and religious art of on Sunday, April 10, at St. Basil College Ukrainian community life in the United life of the Church as an institution, from the Western and Eastern Churches. in Stamford, Conn. The event drew about States, as well as the role of the Church ancient times to the present. She also According to Dr. Daddona, the emphasis 150 women from across the eparchy, in the Orange Revolution. highlighted the important role women are of the Eastern Church is on the glory of some from cities such as Buffalo in the In the different sessions, facilitators being called to play in the Ukrainian Christ’s resurrection, hence the golden glow western reaches of the eparchy, others offered information on such important Catholic Church of today and tomorrow. from Long Island and some from as far of icons, the images of transformation and topics as: the concept of the family as a There is a great strength and spiritual the absence of the tradition of Stations of north as Boston. “domestic Church,” the divine liturgy as This is the third such women’s event dialogue and as a source of spirituality, to be called by Bishop Basil Losten of Willow Sunday, the Paschal meal, the the Stamford Eparchy to honor and cele- icon corner (“pokuttia”), the significance brate the special contribution of women of parental blessing, “myrovannia” laity to the Ukrainian Catholic Church. (anointing), metania (forgiveness), and This year’s conference had as its theme other unique aspects of Ukrainian reli- “Ukrainian Catholic Women: Yesterday, gious and traditional life. These concepts Today and Tomorrow.” The goals of the evoked interest because they offered new program were to recall the contribution of perspectives on spiritual issues in one’s generations of women to the life of the personal and family life. Church; to learn more about the unique- The theme of the uniqueness of the ness of the Kyivan Christian spiritual tra- Ukrainian Catholic Church’s Kyivan dition; and to consider ways that the laity spiritual traditions, which are worthy of can help the Church respond to its needs reverence and celebration, was continued now and in the future. in the remarks of the keynote speaker, The program was structured in the form Iryna Galadza. of morning discussion groups, as well as an Dobrodiika (priest’s wife) Iryna is a afternoon keynote presentation, panel dis- high school religion teacher and the cussion and question and answer session. mother of six grown children. Married to Six morning discussion groups led by Father Roman Galadza, pastor of St. facilitators met simultaneously in the 75 Elias the Prophet Ukrainian Catholic minutes prior to an 11 a.m. divine liturgy. Church in Brampton, Ontario, she has In those six sessions, the participants worked for more than 25 years with chil- focused on different issues depending on dren and youth. She is studying for a their interests. Certificate in Eastern Christian studies Sophia Galadza and Sister Julia Nagornyak read the Epistle during the divine In one session, women talked about through the Sheptytsky Institute in liturgy.

insight that comes from the faithful prac- the Cross in the Eastern Church. tice of liturgical prayer, the speaker These examples and others piqued the emphasized. This is what has sustained interest of many in the audience who are the faithful for a millennium and will familiar with both Eastern and Western ensure the Church’s survival in the future. religious traditions. The Church of tomorrow will need the During Women’s Day 2005, the main intelligence and commitment of its women celebrant at the divine liturgy held in the laity more than ever, said Ms. Galadza. chapel of St. Basil College was Bishop She encouraged the gathered women to Losten, with congregational singing led by add education and spiritual self-develop- Maria Olynec. Following the liturgy, a ment to the list of their goals and to “head buffet luncheon and fellowship hour in the for the library to learn more about the hid- refectory gave an opportunity for women den spiritual treasures of our Church.” from far-flung parishes of the eparchy to “Read, form prayer study groups, dis- meet old friends and make new acquain- cuss and meditate,” the speaker urged. tances. Many women also took the oppor- “And take a fresh look at the matins tunity to tour the impressive Ukrainian (“utreni”) and vespers (“vechirni”), Museum on the eparchy’s grounds with its which are both a beautiful and inspira- curator, Lubow Wolynetz. Keynote speaker Iryna Galadza addresses the audience at the Eparchial tional feature of our Church tradition.” Women’s Day was full in terms of its Women’s Day 2005 event in Stamford, Conn. Ms. Galadza also encouraged women program, level of participation, spiritual to support their priests in trying to foster insights and novel ideas, which many a better appreciation and practice of the participants said they were eager to share Kyivan religious tradition, which is a with women in their parishes. part of the Ukrainian Catholic Church’s For Mary Ann Chomiak of Easton, rich spiritual inheritance and the source Conn., the event highlighted “the impor- of her beauty and strength. tance of actively participating for the Another featured speaker at Women’s growth of the Church.” Irene Jadlicky of Day 2005 who echoed this sentiment Flushing, N.Y., said she felt she had was Dr. Maureen Daddona of St. Andrew learned much about the differences the Apostle Byzantine Catholic Church between the Eastern and Western Church in Westbury, N.Y., who in her presenta- traditions in general and the difference tion spoke on the theme “Being between their two versions of the “Hail Byzantine in a Western World.” Mary” prayer in particular. Irene Dr. Daddona, a college professor who Komarynsky of Stamford, Conn., said she holds a Ph.D. in neurology, speaks fre- was most interested in hearing about the quently on Eastern Church traditions. concept of “the domestic Church” and also From her perspective as a member of the intrigued by examples from other parishes laity who came to the Eastern Church in of “church services, which are bilingual her adult life from a background of yet able to retain their authenticity.” Roman Catholicism, Dr. Daddona offered The Women’s Day 2005 organizing very interesting comparisons of the differ- committee was co-chaired by Roma ences in theology and expressions of faith Hayda and Father Jonathan Morse, with between the Eastern and Western Church. members from eight parishes in the She said this was vividly illustrated eparchy. They were: Irene Badiak, Jennifer for her years ago when she saw the well- Chomiak, Jenny Czyrko, Irene D’Alessio, known Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton Ksenia Dragan, Dorette Gallan, Maryana Sheen, who dramatically highlighted the German, Anna Maria Hirniak, Christine difference in the two mainstreams of Majewski, Anisa Handzia Sawyckyj, Ms. Christian tradition by holding up in one Olynec, Myroslava Rozdolska and Cathy A book table gives women an opportunity to heed the call of the keynote speaker hand a crucifix with the figure of the cru- Pompetti-Szul. “to read, study and learn more about the hidden spiritual treasures of our cified Christ and in the other hand an The next Women’s Day is slated to Church.” Father Jonathan Morse helps with book selection. icon of the risen Christ. take place in 2007. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 No. 17 Maria Burmaka: from the “maidan” to Manhattan by Adriana Melnyk stood their fears – they thought I was Special to The Ukrainian Weekly hiding political messages in my music.” There were many aspects of Ms. NEW YORK – Throughout the history Burmaka’s tour that represented a break of modern protest movements, the arts in from the past. The tour was organized by general, and music in particular, have fre- the Brooklyn Ukrainian Group (BUG), a quently played an integral role in unifying New York-based grass-roots organization the masses. The reason for this is simple: comprising young 20- and 30-somethings by putting forth a transcendent message whose mission is to support each other that taps into the depths of human emo- and the Ukrainian community in the prop- tions, musicians have long been able to agation of Ukrainian arts and culture. inspire feelings of unity and cohesion “We decided to bring Maria to North among protesters, even if their music is not America because of our deep-seated political in nature. Ukraine’s Orange respect for her as a musician, and particu- Revolution witnessed something hitherto larly for her as a Ukrainian-speaking musi- inconceivable in Ukraine: the mobilization cian from Kharkiv, where her love of of musicians who, as a result of their sup- things Ukrainian posed many challenges to port of President Viktor Yushchenko, could her throughout her life,” said Yuri Pylyp, well have been committing career suicide. one of the organizers and a BUG member. One of the few disappointing realities Many members of the audience voiced of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine was their admiration for the organizers, whose the Faustian pact that was struck between professionalism and age was an indicator members of the former ruling elite and that young members of the diaspora are many performance artists. It is by now a active, enthusiastic, and alive and well. well-known fact that along with many The charitable nature of Ms. Lida Kryzaniwsky other members of the Ukrainian popula- Burmaka’s tour was also a first. “The fact Maria Burmaka in concert. tion, musicians were also threatened and that she sang not for her own profit, but bribed, but mostly bribed, to support for these worthy causes, helped to over- feel lonely. They would eat something and from the audience. Viktor Yanukovych, the candidate of the come the diaspora stereotype of go back to the square as soon as possible Before performing “Ivanku, Ivanku,” former ruling regime. In a nation that has Ukrainian musicians touring the United to avoid feeling as though they were she dedicated it to the memory of Kvitka a long-standing history of governmental States to raise money for themselves,” alone, and there they would see that there Cisyk, whose untimely death left a gap- patronage of the arts, the fact that these said one member of the audience at the were many others like them, that everyone ing hole in the fabric of diaspora bribes were accepted is not surprising. New York City performance. was experiencing the same emotions.” Ukrainian music. “I would like to sing a Though smaller in number, those musi- Proceeds from Ms. Burmaka’s tour Her motivation for performing for days song that an irreplaceable Ukrainian- cians who took the higher moral ground benefited three charitable causes: the pro- on end was obvious from the beginning, American, Kvitka Cisyk, used to sing, more than made up for their numbers duction of “Folk!” – Roxy Toporowych’s she told this writer. “I didn’t care what I and to say that no matter where someone with their boundless energy, their unstop- upcoming documentary film about tradi- looked like, there were moments when is from, they are Ukrainian if in their pable verve, and the inspiration and enter- tional Ukrainian folk dancing in the my fingers were freezing, but it didn’t hearts they feel Ukrainian.” tainment they provided last November United States; Help Us Help the matter. I realized that this was my small A first cousin of Ms. Cisyk’s, Maya and December to the huddled masses on Children, a project of the Children of contribution – the tiny part that I was Lew, described this dedication as being wintry Independence Square in Kyiv. Chornobyl Canadian Fund, and a volun- meant to contribute to the tremendous particularly poignant for her and for her Many of these musicians had long been tary, non-profit charitable initiative dedi- events going on around me. I had been a sisters. “It meant so much to us because household names in Ukraine and else- cated to improving the quality of life of friend of President Yushchenko’s for after her death, various musicians have where: Okean Elzy, VV, Maria Burmaka, children living in orphanages in Ukraine; many years. I remember in 1998 he told tried to imitate her songs and her style. Taras Chubai, Eurovision champion and the Bohdan and Natalia Kowal What Maria did was different,” said Ms. Ruslana, Taras Petrynenko and Oksana me that I should always consider him a Scholarship Fund for needy students friend. And I knew that if there was Lew. “She sang this song to keep her Bilozir. Their role in the Orange attending the prestigious National spirit alive, and there is no one I would Revolution elevated them to a new status: something I could do for Ukraine, for this University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. country that had given birth to me, I had rather have doing that.” where previously they were entertainers, Ms. Burmaka’s music, and particularly Ms. Burmaka also told The Weekly of they became national heroes of a sort for to do it.” her delivery of it, afforded diaspora audi- During her performance and in a per- the integral role that international musi- their ability to rouse, and to put into words ences the chance to be a part of what had cians played in boosting the hopes and and song what many protesters on the sonal interview, the singer spoke about taken place in Ukraine during the Orange other aspects of the revolution. One facet the morale of musicians and protesters streets were feeling, but couldn’t express. Revolution. in particular that she emphasized was the alike. “For me, for us, hearing the state- From March 30 to April 1, New York “Both Ukrainians and the Ukrainian unity that existed between eastern ments made by Bono (lead singer of the had the honor of hosting singer-song- diaspora got the same thing out of her Ukrainians and western Ukrainians. Irish band U2), of Jethro Tull, of Chris writer Maria Burmaka on the first stop of music: the hope, the energy, the positive “Skhid i Zakhid Razom” (East and West DeBurgh made us see that we have the her three-city inaugural North American feelings her music conveys,” said Ada Together) was one of the mantras of the support of the international community, tour, which included New York, Helbig, a Ph.D candidate in ethnomusi- protesters. “Language became irrele- that we were not alone, and that the tri- Philadelphia and Toronto. Longtime fans cology at Columbia University. vant,” she said. umph of democracy was possible.” had an opportunity not just to hear her “She afforded members of the audi- “This is something I want to communi- But really, it was in large part due to the music, but also to listen to stories about ence who did not have a chance to visit dedication of Ms. Burmaka and of per- her life and about the role she played the Ukraine in November and December the cate. This was not a political fight, it was not battle of regions, nor was it a battle of formers like her that the protesters held events of late 2004. In addition to her opportunity to share and have a part of their resolve through the most trying of musical talent, Ms. Burmaka has a the events of those months,” said Roman candidates. It was a battle of the forces of good and evil, of human dignity and human circumstances. She was on constant call, unique genuineness and expressiveness, Chwyl, another organizer. as were the handful of other musicians and an astounding ability to reach out to During her performance, Ms. rights versus the forces of repression. This was the only chance we were going to get. who took turns playing around the clock. audiences with her stories and anecdotes. Burmaka’s worldliness and sophistication Ms. Burmaka recalled one moment that Ms. Burmaka began her tour on the were evident (she is a doctoral candidate I am from Kharkiv, and I want to say that I sing in Ukrainian because it is the language was pivotal for her: “It was the 25th of evening of March 31 at Columbia in philology at Kharkiv State University). November. I heard on television that University’s Faculty House. She was intro- In between songs, she quoted Paolo of my heart. However, Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the east of the country are President Yushchenko had taken his sym- duced by Prof. Ana Maria Ochoa from Coehlo, the internationally acclaimed bolic oath of office, and I immediately left Columbia University music department’s Brazilian novelist. “Know what you want, victims of history, it is not their fault that they did not have access to information, home to go Independence Square. When I Center of Ethnomusicology. Prof. Ochoa and all the world conspires with you to got there, I was backstage and heard that spoke about the relationship between achieve it,” she told audiences, quoting and their choice of language is not a politi- cal choice,” she said. people were going to the Presidential music and politics, saying that, in general, his best-known work, “The Alchemist.” Administration Building, and that my Indeed, in addition to her original music is inherently apolitical. What politi- She added, “This notion is something that song ‘My Idemo’ was playing, and that compositions, Ms. Burmaka’s repertoire cizes music, she said, is the context in has kept me going in life.” this is the song to which they would be included the traditional Ukrainian ballad which it is performed, who performs it, Ms. Burmaka’s music is highly accessi- walking. It was only then that I realized “Rushnychok,” as well as two folk songs and when and where they perform. ble to audiences of all ages, for as she puts the importance of what I had done. I am a from Lemkivshyna, the Ukrainian region The following evening during Ms. it, she sings about “universal human emo- strong woman, and rarely cry, but when I now part of Poland. “People who live in Burmaka’s performance in New York’s tions.” Before singing her well-known heard my song, tears streamed down my Donetsk are also Ukrainian, even if they East Village, Ms. Burmaka touched on “Ne Biisia Zhyty” (Don’t Be Afraid to face, for I understood that I had somehow speak Russian,” she said. “I will now that very topic. While still a university Live), she prefaced her performance by done what I was put on this earth to do.” play a personally beloved song of mine student, she told the audience, she was on talking about the emotions of protesters in So how was the idea for her North more than one occasion questioned by November and December 2004. from another region of Ukraine, from America tour conceived, and what are its authorities about a possible subtext to her “This is a song about loneliness and Lemkivschyna. The person who taught implications? According to Ms. Helbig, music. “How ridiculous it was,” she said. although I did not write it specifically for me this song told me that there is a leg- this event should signal a new way of “I only write songs about love, about these events, in fact none of the songs I end that goes along with it: that if you doing things, and is sure to herald a new emotions, about human feelings, and I performed on Independence Square were sing it to a man, he will fall in love with dynamic of exchange of musical ideas couldn’t understand why, if none of my new songs,” she said, “this one was partic- you. I have tested this legend, and it has between the diaspora and Ukraine. “Her songs were political, they were scared to ularly relevant. Everyone would go home come true for me, and on more than one let me perform. It was only later I under- to the apartments from the maidan and occasion,” she said, eliciting laughter (Continued on page 31) No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 13 Hromovytsia celebrates 25 years of talent, heart and soul

by Greg Karawan was quite a hot commodity as theater- goers vied for any possible open seat CHICAGO – Whether viewed as a even minutes before the curtain opened, thrilling end to the first 25 years, or a rivet- reminding the ensemble that its next ing launch of the next 25, the Hromovytsia venue should be a larger one. Ukrainian Dance Ensemble’s jubilee con- The sold-out audience watched cert on March 20 was nothing short of a Hromovytsia take the stage by storm in sight and sound extravaganza. “Pryvit,” the traditional welcome dance. Under the artistic direction of Roxana Men dressed as Ukrainian Kozaks confi- Dykyj-Pylypczak, Hromovytsia spent dently clutched seven-foot-tall spears, over a year and a half painstakingly and women gracefully maneuvered preparing an almost all-new repertoire embroidered ritual cloths in an opening for this celebratory concert and, based on number that has now been performed in audience reaction and feedback, the hard three different countries. work, quite simply, paid off. As Hromovytsia made its way off the Mrs. Dykyj-Pylypczak’s meticulous stage, a future generation of Hromovytsia nature and never-ending imagination – Hromovytsia II – made its way onto the once again reached new heights, as the dance floor. The troupe showed exuber- audience could not have expected what it ance and energy and confirmed that the was about to see. future of the ensemble is in good hands. The elegant North Shore Center for Seamless transitions continued the Performing Arts – what Hromovytsia throughout the show as Hromovytsia took has called home for its last several over with a duet of traditional folk num- Olya Soroka-Striltschuk Chicago concerts – filled up quickly on bers, “Metelytsia” and “Rakivchanka,” Hromovytsia performs “The Magic Key.” this mild Sunday afternoon, the first day and a stylish ballroom tango, “Hutsulko of spring. In fact, a ticket for the event Ksenu,” unveiled to audiences for the first time. “The Magic Key,” a storytelling love, they encountered a fairy, gypsies, dance, explored the local village toyshop. nymphs, forest guards and demons. One This piece also made its debut as the per- segment of the dance saw the black-clad formers blurred the line between reality demons envelop the young couple amid a and make-believe. fury of heavy metal music and haunting The first half ended with yet another lighting. With her creation of “The premiere, “Change the World,” set to the Enchanted Forest,” Mrs. Dykyj-Pylypczak music of award-winning Ukrainian set new standards for choreography, music, artist/musician Ruslana. This powerful and costume and technical design. and acrobatic number was a clear audi- Hromovytsia continued its energetic ence favorite and featured clever cos- assortment of new pieces with “You Are tumes and daring choreography. Perhaps My Soul,” a romantic duet with a jazzy much of the appeal could be attributed to flare, the 40s-era flirtatious, whimsical the unisex flavor of this piece, which “Triplets of Bellville” and “Drianda.” Set found no variation in costumes, and very to the music of the spirited Ukrainian little variation in the steps executed by band VV from Kyiv, “Drianda” was a the men and women in it, regardless of hand-clapping, toe-tapping pleasure for how masculine or feminine. the audience as it made its Chicago debut, While Hromovytsia changed costumes previously seen last summer by crowds in throughout the show, audience members Detroit, Toronto and Dauphin, Manitoba. were treated to the eccentric, yet method- Hromovytsia fittingly ended its 25th ical artistry of renowned violinist Vasyl anniversary concert with the “Hopak” – Popadiuk. Mr. Popadiuk, who toured the ensemble’s trademark dance, and one Ukraine with the ensemble in 2003, also that has remained with the group for its made numerous appearances on stage entire 25-year existence. Although it has with the ensemble, playing live as the gone through some revision and modifi- dancers performed. cation over the years, the framework of Hromovytsia picked up right where it this dance and its accompanying music left off opening the second half of the show have remained untouched. A standing with “The Enchanted Forest.” Also a story- ovation followed, proving that audiences telling dance, this 32-minute, mystical pro- don’t want to see a different “Hopak” Olya Soroka-Striltschuk duction was set deep in the forest. As a anytime soon. Gypsies in “The Enchanted Forest.” young couple desperately battled for their While the concert officially kicked off the celebration of its 25 years of dance, Hromovytsia also includes its recent past as part of this commemoration. On April 4, the ensemble helped welcome President Viktor Yushchenko and his wife, Kateryna, to Chicago by perform- ing “Pryvit” and “Hopak” during the first couple’s visit to the Palmer House Hilton in front of a crowd of 1,400, and greeted the Ukrainian president with a traditional “korovai” and salt. Along with President Yushchenko and his wife, also present were Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and world champion boxer Dr. Vitali Klitschko. The summer of 2004 saw the compa- ny perform at a number of festivals across the United States and Canada, including the official grand opening of Chicago’s Millennium Park, Canada’s National Ukrainian Festival in Dauphin, and the Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival in Toronto – boasting an annual attendance of over 250,000 people. Hromovytsia spent Thanksgiving morning performing for over 350,000 parade-goers, and 1.5 million television viewers at Chicago’s State Street Thanksgiving Parade broadcast live on ABC. This parade was nationally syndi- cated and available in approximately 90 Olya Soroka-Striltschuk million households. The Hromovytsia Ukrainian Dance Ensemble of Chicago. (Continued on page 29) 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 No. 17 Columbia’s Ukrainian Film Club spotlights many faces of contemporary Ukraine

by Stefan Rak International Short Film Festival at forming in orchestras, giving the audi- on what impressed them most about the Clermont-Ferrand, France, in February. ence the opportunity to judge her playing, particular works, or even what they found NEW YORK – Columbia University’s The other three films screened that while also including the insights of her problematic. Ukrainian Film Club on Thursday, April night were all documentaries. instructors in Paris and Moscow. The undeniable significance of the 7, hosted another event titled “The Many “Christmas” (Rizdvo, directed Oles Interviews with Ms. Kozhukhariova Ukrainian Film Club is becoming Faces of Contemporary Ukraine: Films Sanin, 1999) is a film that focuses on the and her foster mother reveal a troubled increasingly apparent. Not only does the by Valentyn Vasyanovych, Olena social and religious rituals of the Hutsuls. childhood spent in orphanages. At one club provide an opportunity to see Fetysova, Oles Sanin and Serhyi Mr. Sanin, who also directed the point, she tersely recounts being beaten at Ukrainian films in America, it is also Bukovsky.” Yuri Shevchuk, the founder acclaimed feature film “Mamay” (2003), the age of 5, but quickly puts an end to working to establish a much-needed and leader of the Ukrainian Film Club, began his career as a documentary film- that line of questioning. Clearly, they forum of ideas to help foster a greater introduced and screened four compelling maker in the mid-1990s. Since then, he were difficult times for her. Her foster consciousness of contemporary films by these accomplished filmmakers. has made numerous documentary films, mother recalls that she was a very inde- Ukrainian film. “Counterclockwise” (Proty Sontsia, admirably insisting on staying and mak- pendent child, full of aggression, and The idea of enabling a dialogue and directed by Valentin Vasyanovych, 2004) ing films within his homeland of Ukraine. asserts that she probably would have increasing awareness around Ukrainian was the first film of the evening. It relates The film provides an interesting ended up in prison – probably, that is, if film is further evidenced in the Ukrainian the narrative of a young sculptor who account of the lifestyles and customs of she had not discovered her love for play- Film Club website, which features an seeks to escape the frustrations of his life the Hutsuls during the winter and spring ing the saxophone. online forum through which interested through his art. Throughout the short months, highlighting Christmas and “If I Were a Saxophone” is a well- parties can post their own thoughts and film, a voiceover of his nagging wife fol- Easter. Mr. Sanin’s versatile camera composed, intriguing documentary about reflections. For example, Patricia Coale, lows him – whether he is working in his attentively captures human life in the a girl who is able to rise above the limita- who attended the screening last Thursday, studio at home or outside on the beach, Carpathians – at home, at work, inside, tions of her environment and the social posted her thoughts on each of the films where the greater part of the film occurs. outside, eating, praying, both as individu- expectations ascribed her to become a – and received a response from Ms. “Counterclockwise” explores the protag- als and as a culture. The film begins and woman of great talent and promise. Fetysova, director of “If I Were a onist’s ability to find himself within his ends with a man praying, emphasizing The final film screened on Thursday Saxophone.” art, enabling him to achieve the greater the importance of religion, while struc- was Serhyi Bukovski’s “Red Soil” Ms. Coale wrote, “I applaud Ms. harmony he desires. Out on the beach, turally bringing the documentary full cir- (Chervona Zemlia, 2001), a documentary Fetysova for bringing this story to the the sculptor spends several days repeat- cle. Music is also of central importance, that focuses on the Ukrainian community screen. It is important that it be told. It is edly creating and destroying works in a and Mr. Sanin capably weaves a veritable in Brazil. Panorama views of the lush awesome to see an upbeat film from ritualistic manner – until he finally finds tapestry of Carpathian music (with the vegetation and beautiful countryside con- Ukraine. And I hope to listen to Ms. what it is he’s looking for. dominant sounds of fiddles, Jews harps, trast with intimate shots of daily life. Kozhukhariova either via cd or in con- Shot on old, defective film stock, Mr. bagpipes, drums) that runs throughout the From a wedding to a party in someone’s cert.” To which Ms. Fetysova replied, Vasyanovych deliberately employs black film. Mr. Sanin’s use of intertitles home, from feeding the livestock to chop- “Thanks a lot for your feedback on the and white, yellow tinting, and even a (instead of the common documentary ping wood to tilling the soil, it is interest- film. You’ve felt the things I would like very brief color sequence to help express trope of voiceover narration), in addition ing to see how the Ukrainian expatriates [the] audience to feel. Your comments are his character’s psychology. The film to his shooting in black and white begs have made a new home in Brazil. of great importance for me because just works as a meditation on both the artist’s comparison to silent era filmmaking. Comparable to Mr. Sanin’s “Rizdvo” now I am in the beginning of the new craft and the natural elements – which are Ultimately, “Christmas” functions as a in its ethnographic mode, “Red Soil” is [documentary] about one foster family in inseparable in sculpture. The earth that testament, an incredibly absorbing visual altogether a very different documentary. Ukraine. Best wishes, Olena.” produces the clay, the water that helps the and aural tribute to the complex and rich Filmed in color to accentuate the verdant In addition to the forum, the website artist mold the clay, and the air and the Hutsul culture. landscapes and, indeed, the distinctly red also offers biographical information on fire that bake the clay – all figure promi- The next film screened was Olena soil, Mr. Bukovski’s film also features a many of the featured filmmakers, a news- nently in the film’s diegesis. Fetysova’s “If I Were a Saxophone” live recorded soundtrack, literally giving reel that highlights significant news and The title of the film, “Counterclockwise,” (2004), a documentary about the the Ukrainian Brazilians a voice, and developments in Ukrainian filmmaking, refers directly to the protagonist’s left-hand- Ukrainian musician Veronika capturing the sounds of their daily lives, and a statement of purpose explaining the ed spinning of his potter’s wheel. The literal Kozhukhariova. The film follows Ms. their music and their environment. ideological foundation and the goals of translation of the film, “against the sun,” Kozhukhariova around the world, from An attentive audience of about 30 indi- the Film Club. The website also posts unites the film’s indivisible interest in art her hometown in Symferopol, Ukraine, to viduals attended the event, which also information on upcoming events, and and nature. Mr. Vasyanovych’s provocative conservatories and performances in Kyiv, included a post-screening discussion of includes posters, stills, links, and a guest- short film was awarded the coveted Special Paris and Moscow. Ms. Fetysova films the films. Audience members expressed book. The website address is Jury Prize at the prestigious 17th Ms. Kozhukhariova playing solo and per- their opinions on the films, elaborating http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ufc/.

Ukrainian Folklore Center holds graduate lunch and lecture series by Natalie Kononenko research. The topics ranged widely and covered material culture, music and dance, EDMONTON – The Ukrainian the pioneer experience and contemporary Folklore Center at the University of ritual. All lectures were well-attended and Alberta and the Kuryliw Family followed by lively discussion and debate. Endowment this year initiated a new non- Among the many presentations were credit lunchtime seminar that proved enor- talks about Ukrainian life in Alberta such mously popular. Every Thursday a gradu- as Vita Holoborodko’s discussion of ate student, former student, or faculty Ukrainian museums, Katherine Bily’s member would speak about his or her description of rural churches, Vince

Andrij Hornjatkevych and Andriy Nahachewsky discuss the presentation, while Mariya Lesiw watches.

Rees’s analysis of dance costume, and dings that follow the serious and solemn Andriy Chernevych’s comparison of church ceremony, while Svitlana rural Malanka celebrations to urban ones. Kukharenko analyzed magic elements in Monica Jensen presented her study of the contemporary marriage practices. Sogu recollections of ritual celebrations which Hong looked at Ukrainian-Canadian she collected from her aunts, and weddings as expressions of identity. His Maureen Stefaniuk discussed her grand- presentation included a full-length video mother’s home in Saskatchewan as a which he himself created and which has Svitlana Kukharenko, Nadya Foty, Katherine Bily, Vincent Rees, Bohdan microcosm of Ukrainian prairie life. since been used in teaching. Medwidsky and Natalie Kononenko at a recent lunchtime seminar at the Weddings were a popular topic and Ukrainian Folklore Center. Nadya Foty spoke about the mock wed- (Continued on page 31) No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 15

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dering charges. Mr. Bakai’s extradition Russia becomes... would also be difficult. According to his (Continued from page 2) former allies in the Social Democratic Ukrainian Anthony Fedorov in Kyiv, is in hiding in Moscow after Pary – United (SDPU) Mr. Bakai is a Ukraine’s procurator general launched Russian citizen. However, Ukraine does among top six on ‘American Idol’ charges against him. The Russian Club not recognize dual citizenship. PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The final seven was created in summer 2004 as a lobby- Mr. Bakai is living near Moscow, contestants on the popular television pro- ing center for Russian interests and the where he fled in late December 2004. gram “American Idol,” the reality show headquarters of the Russian “political According to Minister of Transport currently in its fourth season, have been technologists” working for Viktor Yevhen Chervonenko, Mr. Bakai fled whittled from the original 100,000 who Yanukovych’s campaign. The Russian Ukraine with “five sacks full of cash.” auditioned. Among the remaining six Club was officially opened by the One private plane flew Mr. Bakai to the contestants vying for the right to be Russian Embassy and Mr. Yanukovych. Maldives and a second transported his called the next “American Idol” is 19- Mr. Kurochkin is wanted on at least personal property to a dacha near year-old Anthony Fedorov, a Ukrainian three charges, including extortion and Moscow (Ukrainska Pravda, April 12). who lives in Trevose, Pa. theft of state property through Ihor As head of the State Directorate on Mr. Fedorov was born in Ukraine and Bakai, then head of the State Directorate Affairs between 2002 and 2004 (and former- is now in his third semester at Bucks for Affairs, a government branch that ly CEO of Naftohaz Ukrainy in the 1990s), County Community College near his controlled Kyiv’s Hotel Dnipro, various Mr. Bakai is a controversial figure. President home in Pennsylvania. In addition to his markets and tourist resorts. Kuchma brought him back to divide up school work, Mr. Fedorov is pursuing a Mr. Kurochkin is also accused of having remaining state property among his allies as singing career in New York City. links to organized crime and even survived election bribes. The spoils included the According to the Associated Press, Mr. a mafia-style hit in Kyiv in November Hotel Dnipro, which was transferred to Mr. Fedorov began singing when he was 6 2004. The links among organized crime, Kurochkin between the first and second and has no formal training. When he was Russian “political advisors” and the rounds of the presidential elections. The a baby he had a lump near his vocal cords Yanukovych campaign have been publicly procurator general has launched seven seri- removed. Later, when he was 4, surgeons exposed. Deputy Internal Affairs Hennadii ous criminal charges against Mr. Bakai that removed the rest of the lump and then Moskal outlined that state property worth relate to widespread, officially sanctioned performed an emergency tracheotomy, close to $1 billion was transferred illegally theft of state property and theft from the leaving him with a pronounced scar on idolonfox.com to this “Muscovite criminal authority” state budget (Ukrainska Pravda, March 22). his throat. Soon after the surgery doctors Anthony Fedorov (Ukrainska Pravda, March 22). Mr. Chervonenko linked Mr. Bakai and told Mr. Fedorov he would never be able Mr. Moskal believes that extradition former Transport Minister Heorhii Kirpa to speak, much less sing again. Fedorov told the AP. Mr. Fedorov auditioned for a spot on would be a long process, as Mr. (who committed suicide in December 2004) Mr. Fedorov said he considers his fam- “American Idol” in Cleveland, and later Kurochkin is both a Russian citizen and to Viktor Medvedchuk, head of the presiden- ily to be heroes in his life and said he tial administration under Mr. Kuchma. Mr. spoke about what it meant to be a finalist “he is an influential person with many would thank them first if he won the com- Medvedchuk accused Mr. Chervonenko of on the show. ties” (Ukrainska Pravda, April 13). When petition. If he doesn’t win, Mr. Fedorov he resided in Ukraine, “The entire leader- “character assassination” on 1+1 television “My definition of an ‘American Idol’ said he plans to pursue his dream of sign- ship of the Internal Affairs Ministry and (April 12). Nevertheless, the connections is someone who is dedicated to what ing professionally and finishing college. the presidential administration were his between Kurochkin’s Russian Club, Mr. they do, someone who is real and true, best friends.” Meanwhile, Mr. Kurochkin Bakai’s State Directorate for Affairs and the and someone who affects all the lives The Bucks County (Pennsylvania) is living quite comfortably in Moscow presidential administration are easy to prove. he/she touches in a positive way. This Courier Times reported that Anthony’s and is not worried about being deported Warehouses controlled by Mr. Bakai’s State does not only apply to music,” Mr. real name is Anatoliy. to Ukraine (Lvivska Hazeta, March 24). 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St. Andrew’s Church in Orange County, N.Y., to bless crosses and dome CAMPBELL HALL, N.Y. – The The blessing of the crosses and dome the construction of the first Ukrainian each. blessing of the crosses and dome at St. will take place immediately after the Catholic Church in Orange County, N.Y.” Tax-exempt donations may be mailed Andrew’s Ukrainian Catholic Church on pontifical divine liturgy scheduled for For those who may be interested in to: St. Andrew Ukrainian Catholic the Grounds of Holy Spirit Cemetery will noon. The main celebrant will be Bishop making a more substantial contribution, Church, 141 Sarah Wells Trail, Campbell Father Kostyk said the following items take place here on Sunday, April 24. Basil Losten of the Eparchy of Stamford. Hall, NY 10916 (checks should be made Since the start of construction in A picnic featuring traditional are available for sponsorship: for exam- payable to St. Andrew’s Church Building October of last year, in spite of inclement Ukrainian food will follow at 2 p.m. The ple, golden domes, $50,000; large cross Fund). For further information readers weather and numerous other obstacles, celebration will take place at 141 Sarah on dome, $5,000; small crosses on dome the parish is now at the stage of installing Wells Trail in Campbell Hall, N.Y. (four) $3,000 each; and pews, $2,500 may call (845) 496-4156. the roof on its new spiritual home. A nec- Proceeds from this event will benefit St. essary element is the blessing of the Andrew’s Building Fund. crosses and dome before they are set Father Kostyk noted: “We cannot upon the new roof, explained the Rev. imagine completing the building of the Yaroslav Kostyk, administrator, while new church without the community’s issuing an invitation to one and all to join help. We ask all our brothers and sisters the parish for this celebration. to contribute a brick worth $250 toward

Artist’s rendering of the soon-to-be-completed church.

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former Sumy Oblast Chairman Volodymyr NEWSBRIEFS Scherban and Oblast Council (Continued from page 2) Chairman Volodymyr Khodakovskyi. All Roosevelt and British Prime Minister are being asked to testify in connection Winston Churchill. (RFE/RL Newsline) with cases of suspected large-scale fraud in their regions. (RFE/RL Newsline) Yanukovych likely to be charged Oil execs seek dialogue with government KYIV – Ukraine’s Internal Affairs Minister Yurii Lutsenko said during an KYIV – The CEOs of petroleum compa- Internet conference on the Ukrainska Pravda nies in Ukraine urged the Ukrainian govern- website on April 14 that criminal charges ment to participate in a dialogue to over- will probably be brought against former come what they describe as a fuel crisis on Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Mr. the domestic market, Interfax reported on Lutsenko said, “It looks like we’ve found April 19. During a news conference in Kyiv, the main vein that was feeding the pro- oil executives complained that the govern- power candidate’s presidential election cam- ment has refused to hold talks with them. paign – the so-called charitable founda- The oil executives said a 54 percent rise in tions.” According to Mr. Lutsenko, the the price of crude oil, a 30 percent increase charges that are likely to be filed against Mr. in the excise tax, and increased tariffs for rail Yanukovych are not connected exclusively transport have contributed to higher fuel with improper financing of his presidential prices. The oil lobby has urged the govern- election campaign. Asked about whether ment to control price rises through reduced charges will be brought against President corporate tax rates. Ukraine imports 80 per- Viktor Yushchenko in the bankruptcy case of cent of its oil. (RFE/RL Newsline) Ukraina Bank, Mr. Lutsenko said such Russians interested in reprivatization charges are not ruled out “but are within the competence of the Procurator’s Office.” Mr. KYIV – Fakty reported on April 14 that Yushchenko, speaking to reporters in the prospect of reprivatization of some Dnipropetrovsk on April 14, said he is pre- Ukrainian enterprises is attracting the pared to initiate a case regarding the bank, interest of a number of Russian financial- å‡Î‚ ì„ÓðҸͥ Ä‚¥‡Î¥Ì¥ª ÔðÓÔÓÌÛπ Ç‡Ï á‡ ¥ÌÙÓðχˆ¥π˛ Á‚ÂðÚ‡ÈÚÂÒfl with which he “had four years of profession- industrial groups. For example, Dmitrii ç‡ÈÍð‡˘¥ ‚‡ð¥‡ÌÚË ÔÓ‰ÓðÓÊÂÈ Á‡ ‰Ó LJ¯Óª ÚÛðËÒÚ˘ÌÓª ‡„Â̈¥ª al and honest work.” (RFE/RL Newsline) Cherniavskii, chairman of the Russian ÔðË‚‡·ÎË‚ËÏË (ÍÓÌÍÛðÂÌÚÌÓÁ‰‡ÚÌËÏË) ‡·Ó ÚÂÎÂÙÓÌÛÈÚÂ Û å‡Î‚ investment firm Avrora Capital, told ì„ÓðҸͥ Ä‚¥‡Î¥Ì¥ª: Opposition parties sign agreement ˆ¥Ì‡ÏË. reporters in Kyiv recently that the Russian tel.: + 1 212 566-9944 companies Severstal and Evrazholding are KYIV – The leaders of four opposition [email protected] potential competitors in any new tender parties, Party of the Regions Chairman www.malev.com for shares in Kryvorizhstal steel mill. Viktor Yanukovych, Progressive Socialist Severstal is also reportedly interested in Party Chair Natalia Vitrenko, Derzhava obtaining the Dnipropetrovsk metallurgi- Party Chairman Hennadii Vasyliev and cal industrial complex, Zaporozhstal, and New Democracy Party Chairman Yevhen other enterprises. Evrazholding is interest- Kushnariov, have signed a communiqué ed in Pavlohradugol, Ukrstalkonstruktsiya outlining the principles under which they and Luhanskugleavtomatika. In February will seek to form a wide coalition of oppo- President Viktor Yushchenko said that in sition forces, Interfax-Ukraine and the coming weeks the government would proua.com reported. According to the doc- review the privatizations of 30 to 40 enter- ument, the leaders charge that “persecution prises. (RFE/RL Newsline) of uncooperative media, administrative pressure on businesses, and the use of the Nashi aim to stop an Orange Revolution courts, the prosecutors, the Security Service and the Internal Affairs Ministry to attack MOSCOW – The pro-Kremlin youth opposition politicians and citizens” are all organization Nashi (Ours) held its inaugu- currently ongoing under the present admin- ral congress on April 15, adopting a politi- istration. According to Interfax, Social cal program and electing Vasilii Democratic Party – United (SDPU) leader Yakemenko and four others as “commis- Viktor Medvedchuk did not sign the com- sars,” or leaders, of the movement, RosBalt muniqué as the press service of the and other Russian media reported. Progressive Socialist Party had reported Addressing the congress, Mr. Yakemenko, earlier. Aleksei Mustafin, a member of the the former leader of the pro-Putin organiza- SDPU’s political council, said that party’s tion Walking Together, said that Nashi con- politburo will possibly examine this ques- siders all those who oppose President tion, but he added that he doubts the party Vladimir Putin’s policies as “enemies.” will join the effort. (RFE/RL Newsline) “Today, an unnatural alliance of liberals, fascists, Westernizers, ultranationalists, Kuchma may be questioned international funds and terrorists is form- ing, united by a common hatred of Putin,” KYIV – Internal Affairs Minister Yurii he said. He labeled self-exiled tycoon Boris Lutsenko is considering calling in former Berezovskii a “traitor” and National President Leonid Kuchma for questioning Bolshevik Party (NBP) leader Eduard if Russia confirms that Ihor Bakai, the for- Limonov a “fascist,” and said that Our mer head of the presidential property Choice leader Irina Khakamada and office, held Russian citizenship while serv- Committee-2008 Chairman Garri Kasparov ing in the post, the Ukrainska Pravda web- “are sympathetic to fascists.” Another of site reported on April 18. According to the group’s leaders, Aleksandr Gorodetskii, Ukrainian law, only a Ukrainian citizen can said that Nashi’s goal is to be the “next elite hold such a position. Mr. Bakai is accused of Russia” and “to stop an Orange of large-scale misuse of government funds Revolution,” RTR reported. Education and of illegally selling state property. On Minister Aleksei Fursenko addressed the April 17 Mr. Lutsenko told Channel 5 that congress as a guest. (RFE/RL Newsline) Mr. Bakai has been summoned to appear My mother, father, brother and sister for questioning at his office but did not Decree orders withdrawal from Iraq appear. Mr. Bakai is said to be living and and the rest of the family have life working in Russia. (RFE/RL Newsline) KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko has signed a decree authorizing the with- Officials wanted for questioning drawal of Ukrainian peacekeepers from Iraq insurance. What about me? by the end of 2005, Interfax and UNIAN KYIV – The Internal Affairs Ministry reported. According to the decree, the Rates are low. See the chart on the press service announced that an additional Ukrainian government will approve within list of former high-level government offi- two months a program for long-term coop- next page for more information. cials wanted for questioning has been eration with Iraq that will include projects compiled, Ukrainska Pravda reported on on oil and gas development, and energy April 18. The list includes, among others, transportation. Last month Mr. Yushchenko former Central Election Commission told U.S. journalists that Ukraine might Chairman Serhii Kivalov, former Zakarpattia Oblast Chairman Ivan Rizak, (Continued on page 25) No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 25

clashed with the OSCE in the past over NEWSBRIEFS Kremlin policies in Chechnya. Council for XVI ÇÖãàäÄ êÄÑÄ ìèë (Continued from page 24) Foreign and Defense Policy President Sergei 13 – 14 Úð‡‚Ìfl 2005 ðÓÍÛ withdraw its entire military contingent from Karaganov told RIA-Novosti on April 5 that RAMADA INN, East Hanover, NJ 07936, USA Iraq by mid-October. (RFE/RL Newsline) “the Russian political elite believes that íÂÎÂÙÓÌ (973) 386-5622 • î‡ÍÒ (973) 386-1663 Russian-EU relations are in a hidden crisis. Melnychenko tapes arrive in Kyiv There is no long-term constructive agenda è ê é É ê Ä å Ä for bilateral relations, and differences in KYIV – Two close associates of former Russian and European political values are è’flÚÌˈfl, 13 Úð‡‚Ìfl 2005 8:00 ‚˜¥ð áÛÒÚ𥘠– ‚˜¥ð͇ ÒÂÌ¥Ó𥂠Russian oligarch Boris Berezovskii, becoming more acute.” The next Russia-EU Aleksandr Goldfarb and Yurii Felshtynskii, summit is scheduled to be held in Moscow ëÛ·ÓÚ‡, 14 Úð‡‚Ìfl 2005 arrived in Kyiv on April 13 to give testimo- on May 10. (RFE/RL Newsline) 8:30 ð‡ÌÓ ðÂπÒÚð‡ˆ¥fl ny in the case of slain journalist Heorhii 10:00 – Ç¥‰ÍðËÚÚfl – ÔÎ. ÒÂÌ. ïðËÒÚË̇ äÓ‚˜, ÉÓÎӂ̇ ÅÛ·‚̇ ìèë Gongadze, Ukrainian media reported. Mr. Chornobyl relocations an issue èðË‚¥Ú ÉÓÎÓ‚Ë ÉèÅ – ÔÎ. ÒÂÌ. üðÓÒ·‚Ë êÛ·Âθ Goldfarb, who is head of the Civil Liberties ÇË·¥ð èðÂÁˉ¥ª ¥ ÍÓÏ¥Ò¥È HOMIEL, Belarus – The Homiel Oblast 11:00 – 75 ðÓÍ¥‚ ìÍð‡ªÌÒ¸ÍÓ„Ó è·ÒÚÓ‚Ó„Ó ëÂÌ¥Óð‡ÚÛ Fund, told Interfax that he was bringing ‰ÓÔÓ‚¥‰¸ – ÔÎ. ÒÂÌ. êÓχ̇ Éðˈ¥‚‡ “recording devices, decoded recordings and Administration has submitted to the Belarusian government a plan for resettling 12:00 ÔÓÎ. á‚¥Ú ÇÂðË٥͇ˆ¥ÈÌÓª äÓÏ¥Ò¥ª supplementary documents of [former presi- èðËÈÌflÚÚfl èðÓÚÓÍÓÎÛ ïV-Óª ÇÂÎËÍÓª ê‡‰Ë ìèë dential security officer Mykola] residents of sparsely populated rural areas á‚¥ÚË – ÅÛ·‚Ë ÉÓÎÓ‚ÌÓª ÅÛ·‚ÌÓª ìèë Melnychenko.” Mr. Melnychenko made with radioactive pollution above one curie ÑËÒÍÛÒ¥fl ̇‰ Á‚¥Ú‡ÏË secret tapes in the office of former President per kilometer, Interfax-Belarus reported on 1:00 ÔÓ ÔÓÎ. é·¥‰ Leonid Kuchma, including one that some April 12, citing Halina Akushko, head of 2:00 – ◊ëÂÌ¥ÓðҸͥ ÒÔð‡‚Ë - ÔðÓ·ÎÂÏË“ – ÏÓ‰Âð‡ÚÓð: ÔÎ. ÒÂÌ. 燉fl çËÌ͇ believe implicates Mr. Kuchma in the the radiation safety department for the 4:00 – èÂðÂð‚‡ ¥ ͇‚‡ Gongadze killing. According to the oblast. The contaminated areas include 188 4:30 – 쉥ÎÂÌÌfl ‡·ÒÓβÚÓ𥪠small villages with 410 families. Most of á‚¥Ú çÓϥ̇ˆ¥ÈÌÓª ÍÓÏ¥Ò¥ª Ukrainska Pravda website, Mr. Goldfarb ÇË·¥ð ÌÓ‚Ó„Ó èðÓ‚Ó‰Û said, “Our lawyers believe these materials the residents are elderly people who refused to be evacuated after the 1986 blast at the ëı‚‡ÎÂÌÌfl ðÂÁÓβˆ¥È are sufficient for the ‘Kuchma conversa- 5:00 ‚˜. äð‡ÈÓ‚ËÈ á’ªÁ‰ ìèë ÄÏÂðËÍË tions’ to be included in the criminal case and Chornobyl nuclear power plant. Last 6:30 – ÅÓ„ÓÒÎÛÊÂÌÌfl used as evidence.” Mr. Kuchma has claimed month, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka 7:30 – ë‚flÚÍÓ‚‡ ‚˜Âðfl Á ÔðÓ„ð‡ÏÓ˛ – ÔÎ. ÒÂÌ. áÂÌfl ÅðÓÊË̇ that the tapes are fake and were part of a plot called for a revision of the relocation pro- ëÎÓ‚Ó ç‡˜‡Î¸ÌÓ„Ó è·ÒÚÛ̇ – ÔÎ. ÒÂÌ. ã˛·ÓÏËð‡ êÓχÌÍÓ‚‡ to depose him. (RFE/RL Newsline) gram adopted following the 1986 disaster, 10:30 – á‡ÍðËÚÚfl á’ªÁ‰Û. because many people demanded relocation PM’s trip postponed at last minute for the sole purpose of improving their á‡ÔðÓ¯ÛπÏÓ ‰Ó Û˜‡ÒÚË Û ÇÂÎËÍ¥È ê‡‰¥ ÛÒ¥ı Ô·ÒÚÛÌ¥‚ ÒÂÌ¥Ó𥂠‚ Ô·ÒÚÓ‚Ëı Ó‰ÌÓÒÚðÓflı. material position. Meanwhile, opposition êÂπÒÚð‡ˆ¥fl – $125.00 ‚¥‰ ÓÒÓ·Ë ‚Íβ˜‡π ‚Ò¥ ı‡ð˜¥ ¥ ·ÂÌÍÂÚ, ·ÂÁ Í¥Ï̇ÚË. KYIV – A planned visit by Ukrainian activists announced on April 12 that they ÅÂÌÍÂÚ ‰Îfl „ÓÒÚÂÈ – $ 50.00 Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to will depart from the years-long tradition of á„ÓÎÓ¯ÂÌÌfl ¥ ˜ÂÍ ‚ ÒÛÏ¥ $125.00 US, ‚ËÔËÒ‡ÌËÈ Ì‡ Plast HB-UPS ÔðÓÒËÏÓ ‚ËÒË·ÚË Moscow set for April 15-16 has been post- commemorating the April 26 anniversary of poned, Ukrainian news agencies reported ̇ ‡‰ðÂÒÛ: Ulana Babiuk, 737 Ulana Lane, Webster, NY 14580 USA. the disaster with a march in downtown íel./Fax (585) 872-4263, e-mail: [email protected] on April 13. 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Mr. Ustinov said on April 12 that President Viktor Yushchenko call Ukraine’s prime minister could come to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Russia in accordance with international to support the unification legislation and protocol, but he said process of all branches of Orthodoxy in charges against her have not been dropped Ukraine. The sobor took place on March 3 and she is still on the wanted list. Last with participation of delegates from more The UNA has a single payment plan January Mr. Ustinov said that a Russian than 350 religious communities of the Lviv court could issue an arrest warrant for Ms. Eparchy of the UAOC. “Through a joint Tymoshenko and in that case she could be decision, the Lviv eparchy of the UAOC that will insure your child’s life at detained by police if she traveled to considers it appropriate to point to the only Russia. (RFE/RL Newsline) way to resolve today’s situation in Ukrainian $5,000 for one low payment. Find Orthodoxy and the correct path to unifica- Ternopil street to be named for pope tion by adopting direct subordination to the your child’s age below and that’s all ecumenical patriarch. For he is the only one TERNOPIL – One of the streets or with the right to grant autocephaly to the you have to pay. Call today for your squares in Ternopil will be renamed to Ukrainian Church as a filial Church, through honor Pope John Paul II. This decision was the mediation of a hierarch with unquestion- application. reached by the deputies of the Ternopil City able authority among the clergy of all the Council on April 5. The deputies started a branches of divided Orthodoxy in Ukraine, 1-800-253-9862. working group that is to hold public hear- Archbishop Vsevolod (Majdanski) of ings and discuss the idea with the clergy by Skopelos (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the end of April, and propose a street or the U.S.A.), curator of the unification square to carry the name of John Paul II in process,” the address of the sobor reads. The AGE PREMIUM their next session. The deputies also voted participants of the sobor asked the president in favor of proclaiming April 8 a memorial to “turn to Ecumenical Patriarch 0 $ 300.00 day for the pope. National flags with black Bartholomew with an official letter, asking ribbons were hung around the city that day. him to support the unification process of all 1 $ 300.00 (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) the branches of Orthodoxy in Ukraine.” The 2 $ 310.00 Moscow asks OSCE to refocus president was also asked to support the next National Sobor of the UAOC in Kyiv, 3 $ 310.00 SOCHI, Russia – Speaking to journalists scheduled to take place in June, at which in Sochi after a meeting between President documents should be agreed on for an All- 4 $ 320.00 Vladimir Putin and European Union High Ukrainian Unification Sobor of all branches Representative for Common Foreign and of Orthodoxy into a single Ukrainian 5 $ 330.00 Security Policy Javier Solana on April 5, National Orthodox Church. The sobor also presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembskii said reached a decision on direct subordination of 6 $ 340.00 that Russia wants to reform the priorities of the Lviv Eparchy to Ecumenical Patriarch 7 $ 355.00 the Organization for Security and Bartholomew I and a decision to stop men- Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), strana.ru tioning the name of Metropolitan Mefodii 8 $ 365.00 and other Russian media reported. Mr. (Kudriakov), head of the UAOC, in church- Yastrzhembskii said President Putin sup- es of the Lviv Eparchy of the UAOC during 9 $ 380.00 ports the organization itself, but wants to religious services. Archbishop Vsevolod was refocus its activities. “In recent years, the proclaimed mediator for administration and 10 $ 395.00 OSCE has focused on the problems of the communication between the Ecumenical post-Soviet region, not paying any attention Patriarchate and the Lviv Eparchy of the to the rest of Europe,” he said. “We dislike UAOC. (Religious Information Service of this one-sided approach.” Moscow has Ukraine) 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 No. 17

Magazine titled “Before the Holocaust ing in a foreign tongue. Remarkably, no in that respect. Why and when then, if History... Fades Away,” Daniel Mendelsohn wrote one seemed to understand what I was ever, might I be prompted to speak or (Continued from page 7) that his grandfather used to tell him: talking about. write about that topic? Answer: if and the second assassination was a communi- “The Germans were bad, the Poles were The same moral posturing arises when when, and I again emphasize the if, I am ty effort. Yet, no one has ever apologized worse. But the Ukrainians were the worst Jews ask accusatorily why there were not yet again confronted by yet another for it nor for the concomitant demoniza- of all.” Then, he added, “A month before more “righteous Gentiles” in Ukraine, or attempt to distort history for the purpose tion of “Ukrainian nationalism.” And yet, our journey, I waited for a visa in the sti- elsewhere, during the Nazi Holocaust. of promoting the construction of a false our Prof. Himka thinks it is Ukrainians fling lobby of the Ukrainian Consulate Perhaps a fair question, but at least there morality play to elevate the self-esteem who have an axe to grind? on East 49th Street, and as I looked were some Ukrainian righteous Gentiles. of others, then for that purpose and in the In the first year of its independence, around at the people standing next to me, How many righteous Ukrainian Jews context of that discourse, and that pur- the Ukrainian capital city presented a the line the Ukrainians were the worst were there during the Holodomor? pose alone, the Trotskys and went through my mind, again and again.” Kaganoviches and all those leaders of city-wide commemoration to the specifi- Context cally Jewish and non-Jewish victims of My letter to the Times pointed out that it the Soviet secret police in Ukraine start Babyn Yar. In addition to commemora- would be inconceivable for that paper to Prof. Himka is right about one thing: becoming relevant. tive ceremonies, there were huge glass- print an article in which a Gentile rumi- context is important. What, then, is the Conclusion encased photo-montages along Kyiv’s nated about how “Jews were the worst” context in which in the last decade some main street viewed by thousands of and then I asked, why the double stan- discussion about the role that individual No one in his right mind wants to pedestrians. A specifically Jewish monu- dard? Although the Times printed a series Jews played in the first decades of the grind any axes or pick any fights with ment was added at Babyn Yar to the of letters in response to its article, it did Soviet regime has arisen? It has arisen the Jewish or any other community. To unspecific Soviet one that had been not see fit to print my letter nor any other exclusively as a defensive reflex to the begin, it makes no sense to speak of erected years before. In Israel, a small that may have raised this obvious point. repeated attacks, intensified over the grinding an axe against a community of monument to the Ukrainian victims of Apparently, prejudice against Ukrainians last two and a half decades, by some people. Second, some or many of us the Holodomor, the genocidal Famine of seems so normal to some that it never Jewish writers and spokespersons have close professional, personal and 1932-1933, was quickly vandalized and even registers on their mental radar against Ukrainians and against the social relationships with men and women destroyed. And yet, our Prof. Himka screens. efforts by some in the Jewish communi- who happen to be Jewish. And, for thinks it is Ukrainians who have an axe Two of the strangest encounters I have ty to portray Ukrainians as morally infe- example, most of my many colleagues to grind? ever had involved the inability or unwill- rior, as supposedly “historically,” “tradi- and friends who are Jewish simply have When in 1988 John Demjanjuk was ingness of Jews to contemplate revising tionally” or “genetically” anti-Semitic. no particularly strong views about erroneously convicted of being “Ivan the their prejudices in the face of facts that Why has the reaction taken place only Ukraine or Ukrainians one way or the Terrible” of Treblinka, Israelis in the could contradict those prejudices. In within the last decade or less? Because other. courtroom chanted “death to Demjanjuk, February 1987 I spoke at an international it is only recently that specific docu- I know of no instances during the last death to Ukrainians.” And yet, our Prof. conference at the State Department host- mentation of who did what during the 40 or 50 years of any diaspora Ukrainian Himka thinks it is Ukrainians who have ed by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial first decades of Soviet rule has become writer or organization taking a public an axe to grind? Council on the topic of the non-Jewish available. position adverse to Israel. Of several victims of the Nazi Holocaust. During a It was stunning for me to learn within thousand Ukrainians before whom I have Moral positioning breakout session, the Jews in the room the last five or so years that in the 1920s lectured, whom I interviewed or with There sometimes appears to be a ten- refused to admit it possible that a and 1930s, the period in Ukrainian histo- whom I had discussions, I have never dency in the Jewish community to pre- Ukrainian who sat before them and ry during which the Soviet war against met anyone who lived in Ukraine during explained that he had been in Auschwitz the Ukrainian population was the most World War II who in any way minimized sume and to portray itself as morally 5 superior. On a general level, one encoun- for his membership in a Ukrainian destructive, a majority of the leadership the Nazi depredations against the Jews. ters claims about how the Jews invented nationalist organization was telling the of the Soviet secret police in Ukraine So where is the putative conflict? ethics, how Judaism is essentially the truth. He rolled up his sleeve and showed was Jewish. Specifically, of the total of If it arises, it arises exclusively in religion of social justice and so on. In everyone his concentration camp number. 550, the ethnicity of 69 could not be reaction against the attempt by some in many Jewish accounts of history, Jews They still didn’t believe him. Finally determined. Of the remaining 481, 261, the Jewish community to bully portray themselves principally as heroes someone said that any Ukrainians who or 54 percent, were Jewish, 106 were Ukrainians into accepting with equanim- or martyrs. But one cannot be morally had been in Auschwitz must have been Russian, 48 were Ukrainian, etc.4 It was ity the status of historically moral inferi- superior in a vacuum; one has to be there on vacation. Apparently, Stepan equally stunning for me when in the late ors. For reasons that should be obvious, morally superior to others, and Bandera’s two brothers and the other 1990s my cousin’s wife managed to that is an outrageous attempt at group Ukrainians, in this distortion of history Ukrainians who died there must have research the details of the Soviet state libel, outrageous principally because it is into a false morality play, are among perished from too much vacationing murder of her father in 1930 and found historically dishonest, but also because it those cast in the role of such others: the there. that a majority of the Soviet secret is politically racist insofar as it is morally inferior. The second encounter occurred in police, “prosecutors” and “judges” who premised on the assumption that Various Jewish leaders and writers New York at an informal meeting with participated in that murder was also Ukrainians are second-class. portray Ukrainians as stupid,1 vicious2 some members of the American Jewish Jewish. Happily, during the recent Orange and evil,3 people who need to kneel until Committee (AJC). The four or five gen- These discoveries bring at least two Revolution even the most obtuse have they bleed seeking forgiveness. tlemen from the AJC were all lawyers or issues to mind. First, if, for example, the been given a vivid opportunity to realize Remarkably, in this era of heightened investment bankers. They were very co-founder of Nazism happened to have that in fact Ukrainians are as first-class sensitivities, there is a kind of unself- highly intelligent and sophisticated peo- been a Ukrainian, and if the second in as anyone in the world. Will they now conscious open season on Ukraine and ple. I spoke about problems related to command during Nazism’s reign of ter- avail themselves of that opportunity? Ukrainians, no matter how preposterous Jewish prejudices against Ukrainians. I ror happened to have been a Ukrainian, 1 given statements may be. In the cover showed them specific, obvious examples, and if 54 percent of the Gestapo’s leader- “[T]he Germans and their local collabo- feature story in the July 14, 2002, issue such as Elie Wiesel’s writings in “Jews of rators here did not bother with statistics. . ship happened to have been Ukrainian .perhaps because Ukrainians have no head for of The New York Times Sunday Silence.” It was as though I were speak- etc., it would, to put it mildly, be disin- figures.” – Elie Wiesel, “The Jews of genuous to pretend that these facts would Silence,” p. 35. UKRAINIAN BUILDERS OF CUSTOM HOMES not have been trumpeted endlessly and 2 For Robert Kaplan, Ukrainian have been the subjects of innumerable “Cossacks” represent the forces of mindless WEST COAST OF FLORIDA books, articles and movies. Yet, the co- and unparalleled savagery. Thus in his essay founder of the Soviet state happened to titled “Euphoria of Hatred,” he reflects upon TRIDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP. have been a Jew; Stalin’s second in com- Gogol’s (Hohol’s) Taras Bulba and writes • Over 25 years of building experience mand in the 1930s was a Jew; and 54 that, supposedly, the world of the Ukrainian • Bilingual percent of the identifiable leadership of “Cossacks” was a world in which “a fury burns that is beyond the cultivated bourgeois • Fully insured and bonded the Soviet secret police in Ukraine in the • Build on your lot or ours imagination,” a world in which “violence is a 1920s and 1930s was Jewish. But, way of life, an expression of joy and belief, • Highest quality workmanship according to Prof. Himka, it is “improp- unlinked to any strategic or tactical necessi- Ihor W. Hron, President Lou Luzniak, Executive V.P. er” even to mention this? ty,” where the “rare breaks in the fighting are (941) 270-2411 (941) 270-2413 Second, why in 2005 should any of given over to ‘spellbinding,’ prolonged this be of any interest to anyone? In most drunken orgies.” Robert D. Kaplan, Atlantic Zenon Luzniak, General Contractor Monthly, May 2003, pp. 44-45. contexts, it should not be to anyone. For 3 Serving North Port, , South Venice and area example, since I first moved to the New “Babi Yar is not in Kiev, no. Babi Yar is York area in 1971 to attend Columbia, Kiev. It is the entire Ukraine. And that is all one needs to see there.” “Jews of Silence,” p. most of my teachers, students, graduate 43. school friends and colleagues have been 4 Summarized in Taras Hunczak’s Attention, Students! Jewish. We have spent thousands of “Problems of Historiography: History and its Throughout the year Ukrainian student clubs plan and hold activities. hours discussing , Kant and Sources,” Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Vol. The Ukrainian Weekly urges students to let us and the Ukrainian com- Marx, foreign movies, college football, XXV, pp. 134-135; the original research has been conducted and published by Yuri munity know about upcoming events. politics, legal issues and so on. It has never once occurred to me to ask any of Shapoval, Volodymyr Prystaiko and Vadim Zolotariov. The Weekly will be happy to help you publicize them. We will also be my friends or colleagues why there were 5 so many Jews involved with the Soviets I have met one Ukrainian American born glad to print timely news stories about events that have already taken in the U.S. after the war who was a Holocaust in Ukraine in the ’20s and ’30s. Why? place. Photos also will be accepted. denier. Unfortunately, I have also met many Because whatever happened then and Jews who have either denied, minimized or MAKE YOURSELF HEARD. there has absolutely nothing to do with trivialized the victimization of Ukrainians our relationships or our shared interests. during the Holodomor and/or the Nazi I do not anticipate anything changing Holocaust. No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 27

Chornobyl Charity Bazaar slated at United Nations for April 26 SUMA (Yonkers) UNITED NATIONS – On April 26, the bazaar, as well as donation checks for the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the any amount. Federal Credit Union United Nations is organizing at the Those who wish to take part in the United Nations headquarters the annual Chornobyl Charity Bazaar are asked to Chornobyl Charity Bazaar to commemo- send donations to the Permanent Mission rate the 19th anniversary of the of Ukraine, 220 E. 51st St., New York, Chornobyl tragedy, the gravest techno- NY, 10022. Checks should be payable to logical catastrophe of the 20th century. the Permanent Mission of Ukraine with The purpose of this charity event is the notation “Chornobyl Bazaar.” Donors not only to mobilize additional funds to are invited to provide brief information 3 Month CD support the medical institutions in about themselves, so that the list of bene- Ukraine, which provide treatment for the factors is properly presented to all guests children from the Chornobyl zone, but and participants of this event in the APR (3.05% APY) also to renew international attention to United Nations. Those wishing to attend the problems of Chornobyl. are asked to notify the Permanent Mission 3.00% Participation of the Ukrainian commu- of Ukraine, (212) 759-7003 (ext. 100, nity in this event has already become a 118) so that appropriate arrangements for tradition. Anyone can make an individual receiving a pass to the U.N. building contribution to the charity event in the could be made in a timely manner. form of various books, crafts, arts, gift 2 Year CD items, food, beverages and other items – Permanent Mission of Ukraine which will be exhibited for sale during to the United Nations APR (4.08% APY) benefactors to join firms such as Ernst & 4.00% Ruslana... Young, McDonalds and KP Publications, .25% extra for CD deposits $100,000 or more. (Continued from page 3) said Olena Welhasch-Nyzhnykevych, the BONUS! fund’s country director. drew Lviv’s entrepreneurs, who got their Main Office first glance at the work the center was Tickets to Ruslana’s benefit concert doing for children with cerebral palsy will go on sale some time this week, and 125 Corporate Blvd. and neurological disorders. those seeking further information can Yonkers, New York 10701-6841 Since its establishment in 1993, visit the fund’s website at www.chil- Tel: 914-220-4900 Fax: 914-220-4090 Dzherelo has received more than $1 mil- drenofchornobyl.org. E-mail address: [email protected] lion in support from Ukrainian A VIP section will offer comfortable 1-888-644-SUMA Canadians, Mr. Nykolaev said. seating and access to a catered after-party The Children of Chornobyl Relief reception, where concert-goers will have Fund is a U.S.-based charity that has the opportunity to meet Ruslana and get worked in Ukraine for the past 15 years, her autograph. delivering more than $52 million worth of Information can be obtained by calling hospital supplies and medical equipment. the fund directly in Kyiv at (044) 494- The fund is looking for corporate 1535 or e-mailing [email protected]. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 No. 17

entire Ukrainian American community; from Ukraine; with their icon and Korovay, ditto; The good, the bad... • the Kennedy staff for caring enough • George and Oksana Kyrychok, • the members of the Ukrainian presi- (Continued from page 8) to make sure that the Ukrainian media had Michael Nosal and Ulana who had the dential staff and security team who Boston UCCA making extended remarks, Ukrainian translations of all documents; unpleasant duty of trying to keep the exclusively spoke Russian amongst the Ukrainian Catholic priest and his wife • the Kennedy Library staff for seeing Ukrainian community behind the security themselves and used it in all of their presenting an icon, and the priest’s chil- that all floral decorations were composed barricades; and radio transmissions. (One perplexed dren presenting a korovai. There was talk of blue, yellow and orange flowers; • Mary Joyce Morris who worked with Kennedy staffer was heard to ask, “Why of a red carpet, a podium and a micro- • the Kennedy Family who spent more the American media. are they still speaking Russian after the phone. There was also talk of preparing than $100,000 on the event; The bad: Orange Revolution and after all that • the Kennedy Family and staff who banners and placards in both Ukrainian • the Ukrainian official who planned Putin and Kuchma tried to do to them”); all wore something orange; and English with messages of welcome. the president’s trip to Boston from • the Ukrainian consul of New York • The Kennedy Foundation staff for Unfortunately, no one thought to Chicago and who did not realize that who personally invited a number of commissioning a special Ukrainian flag check with the Kennedy Foundation staff there was a one-hour time difference prominent Ukrainian Americans, includ- for the podium and for purchasing 300 between the two cities thus making his who believed that the event was theirs ing Church hierarchs, to come to Boston small Ukrainian flags which were given arrival an hour late; and the only people greeting the to participate in the ceremonies and to to the Ukrainian community members • the Ukrainian officials who decided Yushchenkos should be the Kennedy meet the president and then failed to let waiting outside the library for the arrival that there would be no welcoming cere- the Kennedy Library know that they family. No one checked to see if a red of the motorcade; mony at the airport; were coming or to make any provisions carpet, podium or microphone were • Secret Service and library security for • the Ukrainian official who distrib- for them whatsoever; being planned, and no one bothered to dealing patiently with members of the uted invitations to selected Ukrainian • the members of the Ukrainian com- find out that library policy prohibits any Ukrainian community who didn’t think that Americans in Boston and then failed to munity who tried to enter the VIP hall type of banners for safety reasons. the rope barriers were intended for them; tell the Kennedy Library who they were; without proper invitations and who then No one asked if there was material for • the media who stayed in place at the • the Ukrainian officials who, in spite of caused scenes when staffers questioned either the American or Ukrainian press, Kennedy Library even though the numerous requests, failed to provide the them (They fooled no one); no one wondered about the need for Ukrainian president ran more than 1.5 Kennedy Library with a list of the party • Ditto for those who passed their invi- translation of documents, no one thought hours late; traveling with the president so that adequate tations to others to sneak them in; about contacting some of the local politi- • Tania Mychajlyshyn D’Avignon, arrangements could be made for them; • the Boston branch of the Ukrainian cal leaders, and no one thought about get- who translated both Caroline Kennedy • the Ukrainian officials who failed to National Women’s League of America ting any official recognition for the visit. Schlossberg’s remarks and a backrounder make a copy of President Yushchenko’s which suddenly decided to take an inter- As a result of a lack of cooperation into Ukrainian overnight and who also remarks available to the library and the est in Nastia Ovchar at Shriners’ and who from the Ukrainian side, the Kennedy acted as official photographer for the media either in Ukrainian or in English; even called an emergency meeting to fig- staff had to work all the harder. And they Shriners’ Burn Center, welcomed the • the Ukrainian security officials who ure out a strategy after they learned of succeeded in pulling off a spectacular president to the facility as the only ate and drank at the reception while their Kennedy family interest. Since Ukrainian event against all odds. Press releases and Ukrainian present, and shared in the American Secret Service colleagues independence there have been scores of translations were written overnight and translation duties on site; remained at their posts and did their duty; patients from Ukraine in various Boston last-minute calls were made to all invited • John Didiuk, who worked as transla- • the Boston Ukrainian community hospitals and they all needed help. guests after Ukrainian officials signifi- tor and baby sitter for the government leaders who failed to communicate with Interestingly, Soyuz Ukrainok never got cantly changed the arrival time almost at officials accompanying the president the neighboring Ukrainian communities of involved before. the last minute. from Ukraine; Salem and Woonsocket and invite them; Boston is one of the most cosmopoli- Both bouquets and brickbats are due for • Alexander Gamota, who helped draft • the members of UCCA who were tan cities in the United States. It is a cen- those involved. The following list should proclamations for the mayor of Boston, told twice by phone and once in an e- ter of high culture, finance, high technol- give some insight into their distribution. City Council and State Legislature, got mail that Kennedy Library policy forbade ogy, higher education and medicine. It The Good: them promulgated in a single day, and signs and banners on library property and has an old Ukrainian settlement with • the Kennedy staff for refusing to then worked with the American media at who went ahead and made and attempted many individuals who have distinguished limit Ukrainian attendance to the 17 des- the Kennedy Library; to display them anyway; themselves over the years and who play ignated by the Ukrainian Consulate and • George Gamota Jr., who acted as • the members of the Ukrainian com- an active role in the life of the city and UCCA and who opened the event to the translator and baby sitter for the media munity who made difficulties about their the region. However, almost none of seating assignments; them are active in the Ukrainian commu- • the Ukrainian community leaders nity, and, as a result, it is a community who refused to leave security areas after that is virtually invisible. repeated requests; For the past 125 years the Ukrainian • the Ukrainian community leaders community of Boston has been plagued who wanted the president to meet with with bad leadership and one crisis after local survivors of the Holodomor and lis- another; it has continually lost or alienated ten to their stories; people of talent and ability. As a result, • the local Ukrainian leaders who although there are more than 75,000 peo- wanted UPA songs included in the pro- ple of Ukrainian ancestry in the Boston gram; and area, fewer than 1,000 belong to any of the • the Ukrainian community for failing local Ukrainian organizations, including to say thank you. the churches, and most refuse to have any- The ugly: thing to do with events sponsored by them. • the Ukrainian official who decided to With the advent of the post-Orange move the scheduled arrival of President Revolution government in Ukraine and its Yushchenko to the Kennedy Library up desire to be open to the West, it is more one hour after 2,000 invitations had been imperative than ever that Ukrainian mailed; Americans and their communities act as • the Ukrainian official who decided to interpreters, lobbyists and bridge-builders. cancel a speech at Harvard’s Kennedy Unfortunately, events like the School of Government a few days before Yushchenko visit to Boston show that the scheduled event; community leaders still aren’t mature and • the Ukrainian protocol official who that they still don’t understand the task at tried to tell the Kennedy staff what hand. They continue to conduct business in Kennedy family members should say; the same old ways that clearly didn’t work • the Ukrainian officials who decided in the past. As long as the wrong people that there would be no press conferences are in charge, Ukrainian Americans will and no direct media contact in Boston, continue to wonder why they have no the nation’s fifth largest media market; voice – why no one pays attention to them. • Askold Lozynskyj of New York who The Yushchenko visit to Boston was a broke through Secret Service security success in spite of the efforts of the barriers and almost knocked several Ukrainian Embassy and the official members of the Kennedy family over in Ukrainian American community leaders. his determined haste to be the first to kiss The success happened because a number President Yushchenko and Foreign of people with the requisite skills and Minister Borys Tarasyuk in spite of the experience stepped forward and put in fact that it was not his party and he was many hours of effort in a very short time. not the host (His actions did not endear It is clear that the broader Ukrainian him to Boston media who were trying to American community has the resources get a clear picture of the Yushchenkos and to put it on an equal footing with any the Kennedys by themselves particularly other. It is time to redefine what consti- when he did not have the sense to step tutes our community and take full advan- back, and, as a result, ruined every shot); tage of a very talented resource pool. The • Zenoviy Protz, president of the Ukrainian American community can con- Boston branch of the UCCA, ditto; tinue to hold its own against others, or it • the UCCA welcoming committee can remain a backwater. No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 29

people. For more than a decade, our War II. And I suppose it’s rare to find a sub- that all his sacrifices were not in vain. A journalism... homeland was run by corrupt, Russian- urban mom who was willing to protest and Needless to say, President (Continued from page 8) backed puppets who did little for the dig- be arrested for Valentyn Moroz. Even I did Yushchenko’s speech on Monday, April 4, an extra hour before being seated. nity of Ukraine or its people. It took a my part when I rallied for Mr. Yushchenko was an inspiring experience for me. And And, yes, I relished mingling with man who suffered a rigged election and in Chicago and New York. I’m happy to report that – with God’s help reporters from the Associated Press and dioxin poisoning to pull Ukraine out of For three generations my family has – my filming turned out great and my edi- Reuters, something only a nerd such as the mud in which it was drowning. fought, protested and rallied for tors were quite pleased with the final myself would find pleasure in. President Yushchenko was right when he Ukraine’s freedom, and finally that was product. But most importantly, I went But networking wasn’t my goal that said, “This is the kind of country for which achieved through President Yushchenko away from the event believing I had just evening. As far as I was concerned, my our grandparents and parents sacrificed and his administration. Ukraine’s accomplished something worthwhile. As I purpose in life that night was to give their lives.” My grandparents and parents Independence Day does not fall on climb up the journalism ranks in the back to the community that raised me. certainly answered Ukraine’s call. My dido August 24, 1991, but on January 11. future, perhaps I’ll get the chance to report And even though I had grown up in (grandfather) almost lost his life while If only my dido had been alive to see it ... on Mr. Yushchenko again. Maybe then Parma, Ohio, and barely knew a handful of fighting in the Galicia Division in World how satisfied he would have been to know he’ll share a plate of pyrohy with me... the Ukrainians in the audience, there was a bond that existed among all of us that night. I felt as if I, too, was a Chicago Ukrainian. I was one of them as I stood up with the rest of the crowd to chant, “Klitschko Champion!” when the boxer walked into the room. And I certainly was one of them when a security guard nearly grabbed my digital camera out of my hand as I pushed my way through the crowd to snap a picture of the overwhelmed world champion. But it was when President Yushchenko and his wife took the stage that I realized I belonged. As the other members of the press stoically listened to the president’s speech, I cheered with the rest of the crowd, wishing I had brought my orange scarf and mini Ukrainian flag to wave. Tears flooded my face as I watched a video montage of the Orange Revolution, and I yearned to have been in Ukraine when Mr. Yushchenko tore down the country’s own iron curtain. But it was when President Yushchenko said Ukraine was finally free and democratic, that my heart melted in admiration for the man. Ukraine might have gained its inde- pendence officially in 1991, but that was- n’t a complete victory for the Ukrainian

The Power of God.... (Continued from page 6) change the world. We assure you all, our dearly beloved spiritual children, of our continued prayers for each of you as you contribute your efforts to fulfill your part of our mission. We ask to be remembered in your sincere prayers, as well. Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen!

+ Constantine – Metropolitan, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. and Diaspora + John – Archbishop, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada + Antony – Archbishop, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. + Vsevolod – Archbishop, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. + Ioan – Archbishop, Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Diaspora + Yurij – Archbishop, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada + Jeremiah – Bishop Ukrainian Orthodox Eparchy in South America (UOC of U.S.A.)

Hromovytsia... (Continued from page 13) As it reflects back on the last 25 years, one thing has remained evident and unchanged. Hromovytsia is a dance ensemble based on talent, heart and soul. It prides itself on a 25-year history made up of unique choreography, varied styles of dance, diverse talent and deep friend- ships that form a family-like environ- AN OPEN INVITATION TO LOCAL COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS ment in which to create and learn. As it looks toward the future, the Would you like fellow Ukrainians know about events in your community? Hromovytsia Ukrainian Dance Ensemble Would you like to become one of The Ukrainian Weekly’s correspondents? Then what are you waiting for? hopes to continue to reshape the very The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes submissions from local community activists. definition of Ukrainian dance, deliver You may reach The Weekly by phone, (973) 292-9800; fax, (973) 644-9510; e-mail, [email protected]; or mail, innovative works that will reach new 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. choreographic heights, and surprise and delight audiences everywhere. 30 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 No. 17 No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 31

Students who have already completed techniques and their impressions of pro- Series will be back next year by popular Ukrainian Folklore... their degrees returned both to attend the fessional conferences that they had demand. Student and community interest (Continued from page 14) seminars and to give talks. Brian attended. Both hope to have a chance to has been high. Students want to present Other video presentations included a Cherwick spoke about Ukrainian present their research in the future. their latest work, and the community premier of a video produced in Ukraine Canadian popular music. He focused on Gregory Forth of the anthropology wants to find out about the interests of the about an interesting and unusual the duo Mickey and Bunny and their department spoke about the Wildman on next generation of scholars and to offer Christmas custom that involves leading a understanding of tradition. the Island of Flores in Indonesia, probing their own ideas through formal presenta- horse into the home. This video was pre- Faculty and retired faculty also spoke. the relationship between narratives told by tions and through discussion of the topics sented by Mariya Lesiw. Several talks Andrij Hornjatkevych talked about tradi- the island inhabitants of today and recent presented by others. Everyone is welcome were based on published sources. Roman tional musical instruments, specifically archeological discoveries. The grand to attend the lunch and lecture series and Shiyan discussed prose stories about the the kobza and the bandura, and the rela- finale was Jars Balan of the Canadian organizers will be happy to receive sug- Kozaks, while Greg Borowetz presented tionship between them. Andriy Institute for Ukrainian Studies speaking gestions both for future guest speakers folklore elements in Ukrainian Canadian Nahachewsky and Natalie Kononenko about the Kalyna Country Ecomuseum, a and for future topics. For information calendars. These sources of folklore data spoke mostly about practical matters, project in which he played a pivotal role. readers may call (780) 492-6810 or log on have been neglected in the past. specifically archiving principles and The Graduate Lunch and Lecture to http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvpl.

It was a happy day for St. Wolodymyr And, much to the delight of audiences St. Wolodymyr... Parish, yet a somewhat solemn one. The 40 Maria Burmaka... in Philadelphia, New York and Toronto, (Continued from page 9) to 50 parishioners joined together during a (Continued from page 12) make good on that promise they did. coffee hour that followed the service and Families later came one by one to per- music is different from what the diaspora * * * form the Ukrainian tradition of “blessing shared their feelings and desires to perse- is used to hearing. It shows us that maybe the food baskets.” While there was no vere in keeping St. Wolodymyr Parish alive. there is something called Ukrainian pop Maria Burmaka’s tour was the first of priest present to perform the ritual, fami- The hope of finding a priest is not gone, music. It is now our turn to send one of what its organizers hope will be many lies used holy water blessed in the previ- nor is the parish commitment after nearly a our young musicians to Ukraine, and to such tours of various visiting musicians ous year to sprinkle their own Easter bas- quarter of a century. The parishioners keep the exchanges going, on our genera- from Ukraine. Anyone interested in kets. Afterwards, participants approached respectfully wait, and wait, for a message tion’s terms,” said Ms. Helbig. becoming involved in volunteering to each other with the traditional Ukrainian or response from the Archeparchial Office. As for the tour’s conception, Lubomyr assist with future initiatives may contact greetings, “Khrystos Voskres” – Christ is To contact St. Wolodymyr Parish read- Konrad, another organizer explained: the Brooklyn Ukrainian Group via their Risen – and “Voistynu Voskres,” – ers may e-mail SaintWolodymyrTheGreat “While in Ukraine in December, Yuri website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ “Truly, He is risen. [email protected]. Pylyp introduced me to Maria, and we BrooklynUkrainianGroup/. met up with her to discuss the idea of her For more information on “Folk!,” log touring some cities in North America. on to http://www.kinorox.com. observances at the Ukrainian Orthodox When we returned home, we got to work For Help Us Help the Children, please Northern New Jersey... Center in South Bound Brook, N.J., as on planning the logistics of her trip, visit: http://www.chornobyl.ca/page-hel- (Continued from page 5) the event attracts thousands of people. because we saw that we had no choice pus.htm. and that there are many Ukrainians in Mr. Welhasch read a notice from but to make good on a casual promise For the Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation, please Brooklyn who can be approached. National Secretary Kozak about a special made at Bar Baraban in Kyiv.” visit: http://www.kmfoundation.com. At the conclusion of the meeting, Mr. course on annuities that is planned to be Staruch mentioned that there will be a held at the UNA Home Office. Ms. Trytjak, Ukrainian Day at Giants Stadium on who is president of the UNA Seniors, dis- Notice to publishers and authors September 17 and that the UNA should tributed leaflets about the organization’s It is The Ukrainian Weekly’s policy to run news items and/or reviews of newly published books, participate with an information table. annual seniors’ conference, which will take booklets and reprints, as well as records and premiere issues of periodicals only after receipt by the edi- place at Soyuzivka on June 12-17. torial offices of a copy of the material in question. Likewise, Mr. Bohdan suggested that a Send new releases and information (where publication may be purchased, cost, etc.) to: Editorial UNA information table be set up at St. Once the meeting was adjourned, dis- Staff, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Thomas Sunday (Providna Nedilia) cussions continued over refreshments. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 No. 17

PREVIEW OF EVENTS Soyuzivka’s Datebook Sunday, April 24 Monday, May 2 WARREN, Mich.: The Ukrainian CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard April 23, 2005 June 26-July 3, 2005 Graduates of Detroit and Windsor Ukrainian Research Institute will host the “Holiday Cooking in the Ukrainian Tabir Ptashat – Session #1 (UGDW), an international organization Bohdan Krawciw Memorial Sym- Tradition” organized by Plast with a tradition of over 50 years of service posium given by George G. Grabo- Kurin “Spartanky” June 26-July 8, 2005 to the Ukrainian communities of wicz, Dmytro Cyzevskyj Professor of TAP New York Beer Festival at Tennis Camp for ages 10-18 Metropolitan Detroit and Windsor, Ukrainian Literature, Harvard; Halyna Hunter Mountain, round-trip bus Ontario, will meet at the Ukrainian Hryn, senior editor, HURI; and Tamara from Soyuzivka, special room June 27-July 1, 2005 Cultural Center in Warren at 2 p.m. Guest Hundorova, corresponding member, speaker at the meeting will be Dr. Ina M. Institute of Literature, National Academy rate – $60/night Exploration Day Camp – Session #1, for ages 7-10 Daniv, chiropractor, who will discuss of Sciences of Ukraine. “Ukrainian Klitschko Boxing Night at Suzy-Q pub holistic health and nutrition, and will take Modernism Reconsidered: The Literary questions. (The speaker is bilingual, Dimension” will be held in the Kresge April 29-May 1, 2005 July 3-July 10, 2005 Tabir Ptashat – Session #2 Ukrainian and English). The public is Room of Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., at Immersion invited to attend. For additional informa- 4-6 p.m. For further information contact Weekend offered at State July 4-July 8, 2005 tion contact Joseph Elnick, UGDW presi- HURI, (617) 495-4053, or visit the HURI University of New York New Paltz Exploration Day Camp – Session #2, dent, (586) 751-5607. website at http://www.huri.harvard.edu/. May 1, 2005 for ages 7-10 Traditional Blessed Ukrainian July 8-10, 2005 Easter Day Brunch, doors open Ukrainian Language Immersion at 11:30 a.m., $17++/per person Weekend offered at State Up-and-coming filmmaker’s work at Tribeca festival NEW YORK – A new Ukrainian film – contacts, including Americans who opened May 20, 2005 University of New York at New Paltz “Zimove Vesilya” (Snowblink) – co-direct- up a production company. Since shooting Ellenville High School Junior Prom ed by Andrij Parekh and Sophie Barthes, is his thesis film there, he visits Ukraine fre- May 20-22, 2005 July 10-July 16, 2005 currently being shown as part of the Tribeca quently to work. His thesis film subse- Girl Scout Troop 856 Camp Out Discovery Camp – Session #1, Film Festival in the short film category. quently won a student Academy Award. for ages 8-12 The film, described as “A couple’s In the Filmmaker profile, Mr. Parekh May 27-30, 2005 honeymoon journey across the snow- credits Harris Savides (“The Game,” Memorial Day Weekend BBQ July 17-July 22, 2005 covered steppe of Ukraine [that] is inex- “Elephant”) with instilling in him a passion and Zabava Chemney Day Camp – Session #1, plicably troubled by a bleeding finger” – for cinematography when he served as his Adoptive Parents Weekend, sponsored for ages 4-7 will be screened on April 25 at 10 p.m., apprentice on James Gray’s “The Yards.” by the Embassy of Ukraine and April 27 at 8:15 p.m. and April 30 at In his cinematography, which he charac- the UNA July 17-July 23, 2005 11:30 p.m. Screenings are held at the terizes as “very director-bound,” Mr. Parekh Discovery Camp – Session #2, Regal Battery Theatre, 102 North End underscores that it is essential for him “that June 1, 2005 for ages 8-12 Ave. (at Vesey and West streets). the image feels like something – that it is Ellenville High School Adventure Camp – Session #1, A Minnesota native of Ukrainian and soulful. If not, there’s nothing there.” Scholarship Banquet for ages 13-16 Indian descent, Mr. Parekh, 33, studied Among Mr. Parekh’s cinematographic cinematography at the FAMU film credits are such feature films as Jessica June 2, 2005 July 22-24, 2005 school at the Academy of Performing Sharzer’s “Speak,” Philip Farha’s sci-fi Wedding Ukrainian Language Immersion Arts in Prague and at New York thriller “Messengers” and Kirill Weekends offered at State University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Mikhanovsky’s Portuguese drama June 6, 2005 University of New York New Paltz Highland High School Senior Day where he received his M.F.A. in 2001. “Sonhos de Peixe” (Dreaming of Fish), He has made more than 50 films, shot last year in Brazil. July 24-July 29, 2005 music videos and commercials, many of Co-director of “Zimove Vesilya” is June 6-9, 2005 Chemney Day Camp – Session #2, Clergy Days which have won awards. “Zimove Sophia Barthes, a 1998 graduate of the Paris for ages 4-7 Vesilya” is his fourth short film, follow- School of Management (École Supérieure June 10-12, 2005 July 24-July 30, 2005 ing “Mertvi Pivni” (Dead Roosters), shot de Commerce de Paris) in media and cultur- Ukrainian Language Immersion Discovery Camp – Session #3, in Ukraine, which won the Grand Marnier al management. Ms. Barthes worked for Weekend offered at State Prize at the New York Film Festival two years as a journalist for the press University of New York New Paltz for ages 8-12 Adventure Camp – Session #2, (2004) and the Future Filmmaker Award agency Medialink in the Philippines, at the Palm Spring Film Festival (2004). Mongolia, Lebanon, Turkey, United Arab June 11, 2005 for ages 13-16 Wedding In its annual survey of new talent, Mr. Emirates, Greece, and Colombia. July 24-August 6, 2005 Parekh was recently named one out of Tickets for “Zimove Vesilya” June 12-17, 2005 Teachers Seminar, Ukrainian the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” (Snowblink), at $10, general screening, UNA Seniors’ Week and Conference Educational Council by Filmmaker Magazine (summer 2004), may be purchased online at tribecafilm- of New York City where he was ranked No. 5. festival.org (24 hours) or by phone, (866) June 18, 2005 Mr. Parekh, whose connection to 941-FEST (3378). For additional infor- Wedding July 29-31, 2005 Ukraine is matrilineal, has been spending a mation access the website: “A day in the life of a UPA Partisan lot of time in Ukraine, where he has many www.tribecafilmfestival.org. 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