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Vol. LXIX No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2001 $1/$2 in Ukraine HE KRAINIANKuchma namesEEKLY Anatolii Kinakh MemorialT to slain journalistsU disappears W by Roman Woronowycz of what would have been Mr. as Ukraine’s 10th prime minister Kyiv Press Bureau Gongadze’s 32 birthday and was one of several actions held on May 21 in memo- KYIV – A damaged memorial to ry of the late journalist, including the by Roman Woronowycz Parliament, however, that a good number Heorhii Gongadze and other slain establishment of a small tent city before Kyiv Press Bureau of leftist lawmakers are ready to support his nomination if he offers to adopt a few Ukrainian journalists disappeared on the Verkhovna Rada building by support- KYIV – After extensive consultations May 23, not fully two days after it was ers of the Patriotic Party of Ukraine. planks of their political agendas. with leaders of most all Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada’s powerful first erected outside the offices of an inde- Few supporters of the Ukraine factions in order to smooth the confirma- pendent news agency in Kyiv. Without Kuchma oppositionist group, vice-chairman, Viktor Medvedchuk – tion process, President Leonid Kuchma whose endorsement is crucial if Mr. The monument had appeared in honor which commissioned the monument, had nominated Anatolii Kinakh to be Ukraine’s believed the four-foot-high black marble Kinakh is to be confirmed by the lawmak- 10th prime minister on May 21. ers – said on May 23 that it would be bet- tombstone-like piece would stand in its “I will propose this candidacy today,” place in the heart of Kyiv for very long. ter if the nominee attained a majority with- Former UNA officer Mr. Kuchma told reporters in the village of out Communist or Socialist votes. And it didn’t, disappearing on the second Yasnoziria, while on a tour of the morning after it was erected. Mr. Kinakh finds himself in a difficult Cherkasy region. situation because he cannot expect votes Walter Sochan dies “This is a national disgrace,” said Mr. Kinakh, 46, a national deputy and Volodymyr Lutsenko, who was one of from the center-right, which might have president of the League of Industrialists supported him had he not been nominated PARSIPPANY, N.J. – News the co-organizers of the effort to honor and Entrepreneurs as well as a close asso- eight Ukrainian journalists – first and to replace the prime minister whose gov- reached the Ukrainian National ciate of Mr. Kuchma, had not been shy in foremost among them Mr. Gongadze – ernment they desperately tried to save. Association’s Corporate Headquarters pushing his candidacy in the days follow- who the Ukraine Without Kuchma group The leaders of the Reforms-Congress fac- here that Walter (Wolodymyr) ing the dismissal of the government of tion and both Rukh factions said they Sochan, longtime supreme secretary believes were murdered because of what Viktor Yuschenko. He had kept his hat in would not take part in the vote for any can- of the UNA, died on Wednesday, May they wrote or reported about state the ring even as the name of Serhii didate except Mr. Yuschenko and would 23, at St. Michael’s Hospital in authorities. Tyhypko, a political colleague with very become an opposition force to the new Newark, N.J. He was 77. The disappearance and apparent death similar political views and support, kept government. Mr. Sochan had been hospitalized of Mr. Gongadze incited a national polit- bouncing around at the top of the list of “We believe the only proper govern- since a heart attack on May 13. ical crisis late last year after audiotapes possible candidates. Mr. Kinakh was ment for Ukraine is the Yuschenko govern- Surviving are his wife, Neonila; surfaced in which President Leonid briefly the first vice prime minister in the ment, which should not have been daughter, Romana Hadzewycz, with Kuchma and other high state officials last days of the government of Valerii removed,” explained Hennadii Udovenko, her husband, Andrew, and sons, appear to be planning the radio and Internet journalist’s disappearance. Pustovoitenko. chairman of the National Rukh of Ukraine Markian and Paul; son, Taras Yuri; Mr. Kinakh’s appointment, which must and brothers, Oleh and Ihor, with their Mykhailo Batih, the president of the faction on May 23. UNIAN news agency, explained that he be approved by a majority of national President Kuchma dismissed Mr. families. deputies in the Verkhovna Rada, is far The UNA Executive Committee (Continued on page 4) from certain. There are rumblings in the (Continued on page 4) noted that the entire UNA family grieves at the unexpected loss of this dedicated UNA’er, an honorary mem- ber of the UNA General Assembly, and tireless community activist. Forum of Ukrainians in the Czech Republic reacts to events in Ukraine Requiem services were offered on by Deanna T. Yurchuk 25-year-old Kalyna Procyk, a Chicago providers such as Pravda.org or Thursday and Friday evenings, May native who has been living in Prague since Korespondent.net.” According to Ms. PARSIPPANY, N.J.– As a response to 24-25, at the McLaughlin Funeral September. Ms. Procyk was interested in Procyk, Ukrainians in the Czech Republic the recent bloody events in Kyiv, Home in Jersey City. The funeral getting involved in the Ukrainian commu- are saddened and maddened by the situa- Ukrainians living in Prague created an liturgy was scheduled for Saturday, nity in Prague when she met one of the tion in Ukraine today. “Most of the new organization called the Forum of May 26, at 10 a.m. at Ss. Peter and founders of the forum, Mr. Zajnullin at the immigrants from Ukraine are in Prague Ukrainians in the Czech Republic. The Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church only a because they could not find work in group had a duel purpose: to unite Jersey City, N.J., with burial to follow few weeks before the protests in Ukraine Ukraine and wholeheartedly agree that the Ukrainians in the Czech Republic and to at Holy Cross Cemetery in nearby intensified. government [back home] is corrupt,” she support the political opposition in Ukraine. North Arlington. “When the Forum of Ukrainians in the said. Although in existence for a mere two Czech Republic was organized,” Ms. A lot has been accomplished by the and a half months, thus far this group has Procyk revealed, “I said that I supported forum so far, Ms. Procyk stated. “The protested twice outside the Embassy of their goals and was willing to help in their organization is now in the process of Ukraine in the Czech Republic; organized a efforts.” recruiting members, gathering contacts, picketing of Ukrainian ambassadors; laid According to one of the founders, Borys financial support and registering itself as a flowers at the memorial to Taras Karmeluk, the organization was created in legal non-profit organization in the Czech Shevchenko in Prague; printed fliers and order to accurately inform and unite Republic,” she said. The forum is affiliated other reading material about Ukraine’s cor- Ukrainians and representatives of other with no particular party but aims to unite rupt state; as well as written public letters to nationalities in the Czech Republic who are Ukrainians in the Czech Republic even the president of the Czech Republic and to concerned with the problems in Ukraine. with disparate political views, according to embassies of countries of the European “By ‘uniting’ I mean to create conditions Ms. Procyk. Union, the United States and Canada, conducive to democratic views and rights in “The group aims to represent all of the which were printed in several media out- the realization that only through their own Ukrainians in the Czech Republic, not only lets. efforts will Ukrainians be able to build an residents of Prague,” Ms. Procyk said, “So The organization supports the opposition independent society of sincere and uncor- far, Ukrainians from Kladno and Brno movement and initiatives for democracy, rupted individuals,” Mr. Karmeluk stated. have also joined in the demonstrations.” To transparency in government, rule of law, “Without access to a computer, there are date about 50 people have attended one or civil society and a Western (pro-European) not many news outlets for Ukrainians in the more of the forum’s events, however, with orientation for Ukraine. The initiators of the Czech Republic, since only the top stories each event more people attend. The com- forum established on March 9, were Oleh make the Czech press,” Ms. Procyk munity of émigrés from the former Zajnullin, Oleksander Zlenko and Borys explained. “Consequently, the public readi- Yugoslavia also strongly supports the Wolodymyr Sochan Karmeluk. ly snatches all of the free news leaflets that Another member of this organization is members of the forum print up from news (Continued on page 6) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2001 No. 21

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS The Chernomyrdin nomination Kinakh pledges to continue reforms called on Moldova to grant the by Jan Maksymiuk is my job, not the place of residence. I Transdniester region “wide authority.” RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report love Russia and respect Ukraine,” KYIV – Anatolii Kinakh, who has been (RFE/RL Newsline) Interfax quoted him as saying. Many named by President Leonid Kuchma as a Russian President Vladimir Putin Russian and Ukrainian media noted that candidate to head the Cabinet of Ministers, Voronin speaks on Ukrainian Communists made a surprising move last week by Mr. Chernomyrdin’s wife is a native told the Ukrainska Pravda website on May appointing Viktor Chernomyrdin as CHISINAU – In an interview with Ukrainian. 22 that, if approved by the Verkhovna Rada, Russia’s ambassador to Kyiv in place of Infotag on the eve of his visit to Ukraine, Many commentators in Russia and he will continue the previous Cabinet’s Ivan Aboimov. President Vladimir Voronin had said his Ukraine see Mr. Chernomyrdin’s “market reforms and move to civil society.” Mr. Chernomyrdin belongs to the country is linked to Ukraine through “our appointment as an openly political move Mr. Kinakh added that this condition is “the heavyweights of the Russian political common history and present-day reality” by President Putin, who is allegedly border of compromise” in his upcoming scene: he was a prime minister in 1992- and by the fact that the Ukrainian minority seeking to increase Russia’s political talks with parliamentary groups. The 1998 under Russian President Boris is Moldova’s largest. Asked to comment on influence in Ukraine and to resolve the Greens, Social Democratic Party (United), Yeltsin and before that post he headed the recent statement by Ukrainian Russian-Ukrainian disputes over Russian Ukraine’s Regions and Solidarity parlia- Russia’s gas monopoly, Gazprom. mentary groups have already declared their Communist Party head Petro Symonenko gas transit across Ukraine and the pay- “The time has come for us to take a support for Mr. Kinakh. Mr. Kinakh’s that Ukraine will become the second ment for Russian gas supplies (accord- serious approach to the development of appointment as prime minister seems to be Communist republic after Moldova in the ing to different estimates, Ukraine owes the relationship with one of our essential dependent on the stance of the 112-strong former Soviet Union, Mr. Voronin replied: Russia between $1.4 billion and $2 bil- partners, Ukraine, and it is essential to Communist Party parliamentary caucus. Its “This is a domestic Ukrainian affair. Will lion). create the indispensable preconditions leader, Petro Symonenko, said the the Communists [there] be second after us? “Of course, this appointment has to for that, including staff changes. ... It Communists will support Mr. Kinakh if he God help them win! Communists, after all, do with the [future] ownership of the would hardly be possible to find a per- agrees to implement their socioeconomic do not wage the worst policy, do they?” But son who knows so well the weak and the gas transport system of Ukraine, and program. A parliamentary vote on the nomi- he assured the interviewer that when he strong sides of the Russian economy and with the fight between Gazprom and nee is expected next week. On May 18, meets Mr. Symonenko during his visit to all of this about Ukraine as well,” Shell for control of this system. President Kuchma had said Mr. Kinakh and Kyiv “we will not be plotting to export rev- President Putin commented on his deci- [Chernomyrdin] is the former head of Serhiy Tyhypko, leader of the Labor olution to Ukraine, the more so as the sion regarding Mr. Chernomyrdin. Gazprom and has always defended the Ukraine parliamentary group, were his two Moldovan Communists have come to Simultaneously, Mr. Putin made Mr. interests of this corporation. His main candidates for the post of prime min- power democratically, as acknowledged by Chernomyrdin the Russian president’s appointment means that Gazprom is ister. He added that First Vice Chairman of the whole world.” (RFE/RL Newsline) “special representative for the develop- very serious in its intention to defend its the Verkhovna Rada Viktor Medvedchuk ment of Russian-Ukrainian trade and positions,” Kirill Frolov of Russia’s CIS had asked not to be nominated for the post Tatars recall 1944 deportation Institute told RFE/RL. because he faces a lot of work in the Social economic ties.” SYMFEROPOL – Some 15,000 Tatars Ukrainian political analyst Anatolii Democratic Party (United), the party he Mr. Chernomyrdin said the proposal gathered in Symferopol on May 18 for a to become Russia’s envoy in Ukraine Hrytsenko told RFE/RL that Mr. leads. (RFE/RL Newsline) Chernomyrdin’s behind-the-scenes expe- mass prayer to mark the 57th anniversary of was “unexpected” by him, but added that the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars by he is “not afraid” to move from Moscow rience qualifies him for finding a prag- Cronies accused of money laundering matic solution to the gas dispute. “He’s a Joseph Stalin, Reuters reported. They called to Kyiv. “It is not the first time I am to KYIV – National Deputy Hryhorii on the Ukrainian government to grant land leave Moscow. The main thing [for me] man who knows all the legal and shad- owy schemes that allowed Russian and Omelchenko told the Verkhovna Rada on rights to Tatar families in Crimea as well as Ukrainian businessmen to build their May 22 that he has received from abroad improve welfare and support for returnees. Jan Maksymiuk is the Belarus, capital in the early 1990s. He’s a man documents affirming “the laundering of “The land issue is the most painful issue for Ukraine and Poland specialist on the hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars by cer- us. Ukraine’s existing laws cannot solve the staff of RFE/RL Newsline. (Continued on page 14) tain persons from the Ukrainian president’s problems of the Crimean Tatar people and entourage,” Interfax reported. Mr. do not take into account that the indigenous Omelchenko said he asked Rada Chairman people are returning to Crimea from where Ivan Pliusch to impart this information to they were deported,” Tatar leader Mustafa The politics of diplomacy President Leonid Kuchma, adding that one Jemilev told the agency. (RFE/RL by Paul Goble ple, the Japanese have been pleased that of the candidates currently being considered Newsline) RFE/RL Newsline the American ambassador there had ear- for the post of prime minister is involved in lier served as senior U.S. senator. money laundering. Mr. Omelchenko did not Moscow protests attack on Russian center Russian President Vladimir Putin’s disclose the name of that candidate. Often these political ambassadors, pre- LVIV – Russia’s Foreign Affairs decision to appoint former Prime cisely because they have a direct line to (RFE/RL Newsline) Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin as ambas- Ministry on May 18 protested an attack on the chief of state at home, are able to Ukraine, Moldova forge closer ties the Russian cultural center in Lviv, calling sador to Ukraine appears to open the accomplish more than professional but door to more such political appoint- on Ukraine to take steps to avoid further less well-connected diplomats. And KYIV – Ukrainian President Leonid ments. That possibility was explicitly incidents, Interfax reported. Moscow said it because they are so perceived, they may Kuchma and his Moldovan counterpart, “expects an appropriate reaction by the raised by the Russian media on May 10. in fact be able to do so. Mr. Vladimir Voronin, pledged in Kyiv on May Citing “an informed source,” the Interfax Ukrainian authorities to the action of west- Chernomyrdin’s ties to Mr. Putin and 18 to forge closer ties and resolve all exist- ern Ukrainian radical right-wingers.” The news agency said Mr. Chernomyrdin’s even more so to the powerful Russian ing problems between the two countries, the appointment reflects a Kremlin interest previous day unknown attackers set fire to a gas monopoly Gazprom may allow him Associated Press and Interfax reported. side door of the center, smashed a window, in making use of former officials who to accomplish more than any emissary Presidents Kuchma and Voronin signed sev- have broad political and economic expe- and painted an inscription reading “The from the Russian Foreign Affairs eral accords, including one on visa-free Revenge of Galicians.” ITAR-TASS report- rience and who have “not lost their polit- Ministry could. travel between their countries. Mr. Kuchma ical weight and personal connections.” ed that the arson attack was staged by the But in another sense, President Putin’s commented that Mr. Voronin’s latest con- “Galician Wolves,” a nationalist organiza- Such reports, in turn, seem certain to action may represent a step toward the tacts with the leadership of the tion hitherto unknown to the police. spark speculation about who might be restoration of the Soviet-era pattern in Transdniester breakaway region have raised Meanwhile, Andrii Bolkun from the Lviv the next such nominee. Among the most the assignment of ambassadors. From hopes for a solution of the Moldovan- obvious candidates is former Soviet the death of Stalin to the end of the Transdniester conflict. 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by Andrew Nynka Shevchenko Place in order to expand the Hewitt site the proper procedure for informing the public. “We’ve five feet onto the street. In exchange for Taras had 15 meetings in the last year. If there’s anyone we’ve NEW YORK – The demapping of Taras Shevchenko Shevchenko Place, The Cooper Union claims to have missed, we’ll keep asking people in,” stated Ms. Place raises deeper questions than just removing a sin- planned a pedestrian space on the rest of the 45-foot- McCarthy. gle street from existence. Residents of the East Village wide alley complete with trees, benches and a plaque Many local residents disagree. Ms. Sawaryn, who fear that The Cooper Union, in an effort to renovate and commemorating Ukrainian’s most famous poet and first found a posted sign about the upcoming meeting modernize its facilities, is commercializing the neigh- national hero. just two days before the April 12 date, said she was borhood with little care for the local residents or the Looking over the Land Use Review Application The shocked when she realized she had just two days to Ukrainian community that is proud of having a New Cooper Union filed on February 28, 2001, with the City inform the community. The Shevchenko Preservation York City street named in honor of their beloved poet, of New York, under the section titled “map change” one Committee has praised Ms. Sawaryn for her effort in artist, humanist and icon of Ukrainian idealism. finds that the applicant has specified the elimination of “plastering the community with information about the Established in 1859 by Peter Cooper, The Cooper Taras Shevchenko Place. Under the heading “establish meeting in so little time.” Mr. Kurowyckyj explained, Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, is a pri- “Ms. Sawaryn is the first individual to notice these vate full-scholarship college, “the only of its kind,” ded- new,” the box for park and the box for public place have been left unchecked. signs and jump to react. Thanks to her we were icated to preparing students for the professions of archi- informed about the April 12 meeting.” tecture, art and engineering. When asked why this was left blank, Claire Cooper’s dream was to “create and nurture a school McCarthy, director of communications for The Cooper for the boys and girls of this city, who had no better Union, commented, “we are not going to make that opportunity than I.” In an effort to continue this legacy, decision [establishing a park or public space] unilateral- “We will not move from this the college continues to offer a free education to all of ly. The Cooper Union cannot declare a park.” issue. We will not compro- its students, “as free as water and air.” When asked for comment, Ms. Sawaryn explained: The college claims that its endowment of $329 mil- “The Cooper Union never had any intention of building mise on the demapping of lion is slowly running out and it has been running a park in place of Taras Shevchenko Place. They are deficits in the last few years. Although ownership of the responding to a community that does not want to lose a Taras Shevchenko Place.” Chrysler building has brought The Cooper Union “46 street by offering us something that will not be.” percent of revenues and 36 percent of its expenditures, Asked to elaborate on Ms. Sawaryn’s comment, – Jaroslaw Kurowyckyj the college continues to operate at a $5 million to $6 Jaroslaw Kurowyckyj, president of the Shevchenko million annual deficit,” The Villager reported on May Preservation Committee, said: “We can put in our own 16. trees and benches. We have no guarantee that after the The Shevchenko Preservation Committee has argued Because of these deficits, the school now seeks to Hewitt Building is expanded they will build this park. that many of these meetings have been by invitation expand its existing buildings in order to provide reno- The main issue here is ensuring that Taras only and controlled. “You tell me how public these vated, modern facilities for its students, along with Shevchenko Place stays on all city maps as an official meetings are,” challenged Mr. Kurowyckyj. leasable commercial and retail space in order to gener- street.” The issue leaves many wondering where St. George ate further income. According to the Land Use Review Application filed Church stands. The Rev. Lawrence Lawryniuk of the “We have ambitious development plans for our real by The Cooper Union, “The application proposes to Basilian Fathers, in a letter dated April 9, 2001, stated: estate holdings, which will yield additional space and amend the City Map as it relates to Taras Shevchenko “I am writing on behalf of St. George Ukrainian state-of-the-art facilities for our academic programs. Place between East Sixth and East Seventh Streets in Catholic Church in support of the proposal by The We’re planning commercial projects and joint ventures the Borough of Manhattan. The proposed amendment Cooper Union to demap Taras Shevchenko Place with that will provide an expanded revenue stream to our would eliminate, discontinue and close the entire length the understanding that the street will continue to be bottom line,” stated Dr. George Cambell Jr., president of of the 50-foot wide Taras Shevchenko Place.” accessible to the public.” The Cooper Union, in his inaugural address on “You tell me if they intend to build us a park,” added Then, on May 10, the pastor wrote: “Please be November 16, 2000. Andrew Lastoweckyj, a member of the Taras advised that I withdraw my support of demapping Taras But many East Villagers, along with the Ukrainian Shevchenko Preservation Committee. Shevchenko Place as stated on April 9, 2001.” community, are asking at what price this development Upon rebuilding the Hewitt site, architects will need Despite repeated efforts, the Rev. Lawryniuk could for a school of 1,000 students will come. to install a service entrance in order to dispose of any not be reached for comment on the matter. Anna Sawaryn, co-chair of the Taras Shevchenko trash and provide a means for delivery vehicles. Many All in all, the demapping of Taras Shevchenko Place Preservation Committee, argued: “They already own residents question the site of this entrance and believe has left many unanswered questions and an understand- the B-bar, the Chrysler Building, the parking lot on the that, when all is said and done, it will end up on Taras ing that the issue is not as simple as eliminating a land- corner of Lafayette Street, Astor Place and Fourth Shevchenko Place. “What kind of a park will we have mark street important to Ukrainians the world over. Avenue, as well as properties on Fourth Avenue when there’s a pile of trash complete with garbage Members of the Taras Shevchenko Preservation between Ninth and 10th streets and on Third Avenue trucks moving in and out of our ‘public space’?” com- Committee urge interested parties to attend the public between Fifth and Sixth streets which are separate mented Ms. Sawaryn. meeting on May 29 at 6:30 pm. from their academic facilities. Now they’re asking for Aside from questioning The Cooper Union’s motives, “We have received word that this meeting will be in the City of New York to give them Astor Place and local residents have questioned the school’s method of The Cooper Union’s 900-seat Great Hall, and we would Taras Shevchenko Place.” disclosure. The Cooper Union stated that it has followed love to fill it,” concluded Mr. Kurowyckyj. Carol Joyce, president of the East Sixth and Seventh streets block association, added that, “it makes the request even though New York City taxpayers are E already providing The Cooper Union with a huge finan- cial subsidy: the city leases the Hewitt site [the building adjacent to Taras Shevchenko Place] to the university for $100 a year.” The Cooper Union will also receive $9.6 million up front and $1 million annually for a 99-year lease to B hotel impresario Ian Schrager for his 20-story hotel that will take the place of the current parking lot located at the intersection of Lafayette Street, Astor Place and C Fourth Avenue. The design, the result of collaboration A between Dutch architects Rem Koolhaas/OMA and the Swiss offices of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, have been described by The New York Times as “a gigantic pair of slacks with asymmetrical legs cut from shimmering, confetti-patterned fabric.” The school seeks to expand its current seven-story D Engineering Building between Astor Place and Ninth Street to a new 15-story mixed-use building. The school is seeking a zoning variance to add 125,000 square feet of floor area in order to build more than the currently allowable space designated by the Floor Area Ratio (FAR). The Cooper Union would own the land but lease out the building, using only the second and third floors for academic purposes. The rest of the building would be used by high-tech companies in order to generate revenue. The current two-story Hewitt Building would be rebuilt to nine stories with retail on the ground floor. A computer rendering shows: (A) The Cooper Union’s historic Foundation Building at the corner of Eighth The height of the new building has aroused the concern Street and Fourth Avenue. (B) The Engineering Building, between Third and Fourth avenues and Eighth and of many St. George Church sympathizers that the height Ninth streets, which will rise from seven stories to 15 and include corporate, retail and public space. (C) The of the new building will eliminate any sunlight the Hewitt Building, between Taras Shevchenko Place and Third Avenue, which will rise from two stories to nine church receives. with retail on the bottom floor. (D) Site of a 20-story hotel located at Astor Place with a ground-floor public Because a larger FAR is more desirable, The Cooper plaza. (E) St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church located at the corner of Taras Shevchenko Place and Union has asked the City of New York to demap Taras Seventh Street. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2001 No. 21

Lutsenko. So a private stonemason was retained. But on Memorial to slain journalists... the night of May 19, after the stone had already been (Continued from page 1) inscribed, vandals entered the stonemason’s yard and had arrived in his office early on the morning of May 23 damaged several burial markers, including the memori- to find about 15 men in civilian clothes lifting the mon- al, which was cracked in half. ument, which consists of a narrow foot-wide, four-foot Oppositionist leaders decided to transport and erect high tombstone erected on a four-foot wide base, aboard the damaged marker in Kyiv anyway. In the nation’s a truck. capital, further problems occurred. First the group “The [Ukraine Without Kuchma] people had not transporting the object was detained near the Socialist approached us about putting the monument up,” Party offices, where members were questioned about explained Mr. Batih. “We had very little contact with their plans for the memorial. At the UNIAN site, while them on the matter, so I really did not know what to no more than a couple of hundred supporters of the think when I saw the thing being hauled away.” action, including representatives of the Sobor Party, the In fact, one of the problems the oppositionist group Republican Conservative Party and the UNA-UNSO encountered was resistance by law enforcement officials radical group, looked on, the state militia officials told to the action, chiefly because the group had not the group it was performing an illegal operation by put- obtained the required city permits. ting down a monument on public property without a On May 21, National Deputy Oleksander Moroz and permit. But after several national deputies of the members of his Socialist Party appeared, as they had Socialist faction invoked their immunity from criminal previously announced, at the site of UNIAN with the prosecution and said the erection of the monument was monument, which had just arrived from the western their responsibility, the law enforcement officials Ukrainian city of Rivne, where it had been commis- relented. sioned and constructed after extensive problems. After putting down the heavy base, volunteers used An initial obstacle was the refusal of the local state- rubber cement and support rods to attach the two run tombstone shop to accept the work with the expla- cracked pieces of the tombstone one atop the other. nation that it had no stone on hand, explained Mr. Socialist Party national deputies announced they would stand guard around-the-clock to make sure the monu- ment was not removed, but less than two days later it was gone. At first Ukraine Without Kuchma representatives Russians rememberRFE/RL Newsline Sakharov said they believed the disappearance was the handiwork of the militia, but they now say they believe the 15 peo- MOSCOW – On what would have been Academician ple who moved the monument were hired hands. Who Andrei Sakharov’s 80th birthday, Russians commemo- hired them, however, no one can say, although Ukraine rated the Soviet academician, nuclear physicist and Without Kuchma leaders are speculating it was some- human rights activist, Russian and Western agencies one from the president’s office. reported on May 21. Later the same day the state militia reported they had Human rights ombudsman Oleg Mironov said that found the monument in a wooded area near the banks of Dr. Sakharov made “a gigantic contribution” to the for- the Dnipro River not far from the city center and would Efrem Lukatsky mation of the human rights movement in the former return the property to its owners. Ukrainian opposition members gather in Kyiv to Soviet Union. Kyiv Mayor Oleksander Omelchenko said he was erect a monument to journalists who have been Communist leader Gennadii Zyuganov stressed the ready to consider a proper, permanent place for the killed in Ukraine since 1991. academician’s contribution to the defense of the Soviet memorial – including its original site before the UNIAN Union but said that his political activities had “negative offices – if it is properly erected. lication Ukraina-Center, 1996; Volodymyr Baster, consequences,” which he had failed to foresee. radio correspondent for the oblast government radio * * * Meanwhile, Yabloko leader Grigorii Yavlinsky told station, Kharkiv, 1997; Marianna Chorna, editor of the Interfax that one of Dr. Sakharov’s main contributions On its base, the large, tombstone-like, black marble television network STB, 1999; and Mr. Gongadze, was his stress on the importance of morality in politics. monument with a silhouette of Mr. Gongadze at the top, who was the publisher of the Internet newspaper The Yabloko leader expressed regret that over the last carries the inscription: “To the Slain Journalists of Ukrainska Pravda. He disappeared on September 16, decade “we have not been able to create the foundation Ukraine: Fighters for the Truth.” 2000. of a free democratic society” about which the human Eight names of journalists who were found mur- The name of one other journalist who disappeared rights activist dreamed. “Today the country needs a new dered are listed on the memorial along with their dates under mysterious circumstances was not inscribed on course,” Mr. Yavlinsky added. of death: Vadym Boiko, a Kyiv broadcast journalist, the black marble memorial because officially his death 1992; Sviatoslav Sosnovskyi, editor of the Sevastopol is listed as a suicide. Petro Shevchenko, the Luhansk publication, Tavria, 1993; Volodymyr Ivanov, editor of correspondent for the newspaper Kievskie Viedomosti, THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY the newspaper Slava Sevastopolia, 1995; Borys was found hanging from a rafter of an abandoned Derevianko, editor-in-chief of Vechirnia Odesa, 1996; building near the central train station in Kyiv in March PRESS FUND: Ihor Hryshetsky, correspondent for the Cherkasy pub- 1997. A SPECIAL REPORT new government, failed to receive sufficient backing from $35.00 Kuchma names Anatolii Kinakh... leftist forces in Parliament during their discussions with Lidia and Orest Bilous Osprey (Continued from page 1) President Kuchma. $10.00 Yuschenko on April 28, two days after the Parliament had He said during a press conference on May 23 that, although he initially was shocked at not obtaining the Lusia Halunko Richmond, Va. approved a motion of no confidence. An unlikely alliance of Communists and several centrist parties, including ones nomination, he had gotten used to the idea, was ready to Mary Hanitz West Senega support Mr. Kinakh and would even consider a Cabinet controlled by Messrs. Kinakh, Medvedchuk and Tyhypko, Andrew Lewish Waldorf, Md. position. He added, however, that the only way the new Roman and Juliann Maziak Bloomfield Hills, Mich. organized and supported the no-confidence vote. Many government would be more effective than the old one political experts said the action by the centrists was a $5.00 would be if it learned the process of bridge-building, not strategic move to obtain control of the prime minister post only to the Presidential Administration, but also to the fac- Stephanie Debruin Amawalk, N.Y. and the various resources it allows in preparation for par- tions of the Verkhovna Rada. liamentary elections next year. Mr. Kinakh’s current problem, however, is to devise a Total $80.00 The Yuschenko government was the first one in 10 policy that will appease the Communists and Socialists, if years of independence to make serious inroads towards he expects to be confirmed by the Verkhovna Rada. economic and democratic reform and had stimulated and ... AND A SPECIAL THANK-YOU Communist Chairman Petro Symonenko said on May overseen the beginning of what is becoming a strong eco- 23 that he would expect the prime minister designate to These donations to The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund nomic upturn in Ukraine. incorporate a portion of the Communists’ program on were received during the months of March and April along with Immediately after Mr. Yuschenko’s departure, many of social benefits, while Socialist Party Chairman Oleksander payments for “The Ukrainian Weekly 2000,” Volume I. 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He said his government would nominate several of their own candidates, ended up offer- concentrate on “extensive tax reform and the formation of ing up no one. a goal-oriented, effective, non-populist government policy After a series of meetings between political faction aimed at the gradual elimination of poverty.” Need a back issue? leaders and then with President Kuchma, Mr. Kinakh and Mr. Kinakh will meet with various parliamentary fac- Mr. Tyhypko became finalists before President Kuchma tions through the end of the week to outline his program If you’d like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, made his choice. and discuss the division of ministerial portfolios. The send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: Mr. Tyhypko, who had led the first assaults on the Verkhovna Rada is expected to vote on his confirmation Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, Yuschenko Cabinet when he proposed last year that it on May 29. 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Report of the Auditing Committee From the National Secretary’s Newsletter of the Ukrainian National Association Re: Officers, members and applications The Auditing Committee, in accordance At its meeting in December 2000, the by Martha Lysko gates; 300 or more four delegates. with the UNA By-Laws, on May 8-10 con- General Assembly directed the Standing National Secretary Please remember that the number of vot- ing members in the branch is always chang- ducted a review of the business operations Committee on Soyuzivka to prepare a Branch officers of the Ukrainian National Association for detailed plan regarding the future activity ing. Each branch loses voting members due the year 2000. The previous audit was con- of the UNA resort. This plan, which was After holding their annual meetings all to death, cash surrender and paid-up poli- ducted in late November 2000, covering presented to the Executive Committee on branches should have sent to the Home cies. the first nine months of 2000. April 30 of this year, gives general recom- Office a list of branch officers for the year In order to maintain a constant number The Auditing Committee’s plan of mendations regarding physical improve- 2001. We request this information on an of voting members it is necessary to replace action consisted of reviewing the imple- ments, alternative financial options and the annual basis since it is a by-laws require- all inactive policies with new members. All mentation of decisions of the 34th UNA next steps toward their realization. The pre- ment. We also need the information when secretaries and organizers must work dili- Convention, as well as operations of the pared plan, however, does not provide a working with our branches. Please remem- gently to replace lost business if they wish financial and recording departments, UNA projection of income and expenses for ber that only dues-paying members can to have one or more delegates at the con- publications, the Soyuzivka resort and Soyuzivka after the proposed moderniza- serve as branch officers or delegates to the vention. other matters. tion. Therefore, it is not possible to know if convention. New applications Once again, it is important to emphasize 1. Implementation of decisions the proposed improvements will be prof- itable for Soyuzivka and, if so, when. that we are a fraternal organization and The new applications are simpler to use, of the 34th Convention of the UNA going on direct billing does not change this. but it will take time to get used to them. As 5. Organizing Department of the UNA The delegates to the 34th Convention As a fraternal organization we must contin- you may have noticed, there is only one voted to conduct a referendum on amend- In accordance with statistical data, dur- ue to have strong ties with the membership application for both adults and children. We ments to the UNA By-Laws whose goal ing the report period, the year 2000, the and carry on fraternal activities. no longer have juvenile applications. New applications require one annual, was to alter the UNA’s governance struc- UNA has 27 districts encompassing 249 Social members ture to an 11-member board of directors branches in the United States and Canada. semiannual, quarterly or monthly premium elected by the convention to conduct the During the year under review the organiz- Every June, branch secretaries receive a payment before a policy can be issued. business affairs of the UNA during the peri- ing plan called for 1,250 new members, but list of social members in their branch. Every application has a conditional receipt od between conventions. only 526 new members were enrolled and Fraternal dues of $3 for every social mem- that must be given to every applicant upon On February 12, 2001, all delegates to insured for a total of $7,903,549. The annu- ber must be sent to the Home Office by receipt of premium payment. Please be dili- the last convention were sent copies of the al quota was filled by only 42 percent. July. Those members who fail to pay frater- gent in completing the new applications. UNA Charter and By-Laws with proposed It should be noted that nearly all districts nal dues for the year 2001 will be ineligible Assessment list changes. The delegates were to vote for or enrolled new members during the report to vote or to be elected as delegates to the against the amendments by May 1, 2001. period. When reviewing the work of dis- convention. Only fully paid-up members Annually we send to all branch secre- All ballots returned were examined and tricts, the Woonsocket District surpassed its who have reached the age of 65 or older are taries a listing of all active and paid-up counted by the Auditing Committee, which quota, fulfilling it by 130 percent (District eligible for social membership, all others members in their branches. We ask that you affirmed that the proposed amendments to Chairman Leon Hardink); while the highest must pay regular dues. please verify all information provided on these lists and notify the Home Office of the By-Laws did not receive the required number of new members, 64 members Voting members approval of two-thirds of the eligible votes. insured for $1,860,650, was enrolled by the any discrepancies between your information A detailed report on the voting results was Northern New Jersey District (District This year in July all branch secretaries and that provided to you. The UNA has published in issues No. 19 of both Svoboda Chairman and Advisor Eugene will receive a list of voting members in their many members with paid-up policies that and The Ukrainian Weekly. Oscislawski). branches. Based on this number, every we are unable to reach due to lack of proper branch will be titled to one or more dele- mailing address. 2. Financial Department of the UNA Evaluating the organizing achievements of branch secretaries, the highest number of gates to the Convention. According to our All branches need new members. Take For the 12 months of 2000, the UNA’s new members were enrolled by the follow- by-laws, branches that have 75 to 149 vot- advantage of the lowest premium rates in operating profit was $134,000, as com- ing: 1. Myron Pylypiak, Branch 496, 62 ing members are entitled to one delegate; the history of the UNA and insure someone pared with the deficit in 1999 which totaled members; Lubov Streletsky, Branch 10, 29 150-224 two delegates; 225-299 three dele- today. $1,074,000. The UNA surplus decreased by members; 3. Joseph Hawryluk, Branch $188,000 to the sum of $6,791,000. The 360, 27 members; 4. Advisor Stephanie principal reason for the decline was the Hawryluk, Branch 88, 27 members. decrease in the value of the Canadian dol- Evaluating the organizing activity of the lar. UNA we affirm that during the year under Young UNA’ers One-time expenses associated with the review nearly all new members were review of the UNA conducted by the insur- enrolled by branch secretaries because ance authorities of New Jersey, the Y2K there were no professional organizers. problem, the closing of the Canadian office Thus, secretaries continue to be the founda- and other expenses during 1999, in addition tion of the UNA, for which they deserve to a downsizing of personnel led to a sig- commendations. nificant reduction in expenses during 2000. The Auditing Committee expresses The new UNA Home Office building commendation to the Executive Committee became profitable to the tune of $107,000 for its initiative in stipulating that each new in the year 2000. Additional vacated space member, upon signing an application for rented in 2001 will lead to a further growth membership is obligated to pay the first in profits in 2001 and succeeding years. premium due. 3. UNA Publications, Svoboda 6. Miscellaneous and The Ukrainian Weekly Reinvigorated sales of life insurance cer- As of the end of 2000, the number of tificates and annuities, as well as further Svoboda subscribers was 7,428, while The decreases in expenses, especially those Ukrainian Weekly subscribers totaled associated with Soyuzivka, will renew the 6,812. In comparison with the end of 1999, growth of the UNA. The UNA has the the number of Svoboda subscribers financial strength to support all its actions if decreased by 21, while the number of corrective steps continue and time is allot- Weekly subscribers declined by 47. ted for them to become effective. The deficit of both publications for the The Auditing Committee calls on not Sophia Marta Holowaty, daughter of year 2000 was $175,000. For purposes of only UNA members, but on the entire Andrey Holowaty and Marta Huta- comparison, we note that in 1999 it totaled Ukrainian patriotic community to become $246,000. In accordance with the budget Holowaty, is a new member of UNA Larissa Kateryna Michel, daughter of subscribers to UNA publications and to for 2000, the deficit of both publications Branch 432 in Toronto. She was Zirka Kalynych and Philip R. Michel, donate to their press funds in order to should not be over $100,000 annually. enrolled by her parents into the branch is a new member of UNA Branch 292 decrease their deficit. of which her brothers Andrew Matthew in Detroit. She was enrolled by her 4. Soyuzivka and Maksym Nicholas are members. grandmother Nadia Kalynych. For the Auditing Committee: Summing up the season at Soyuzivka for the year 2000, it should be noted that William Pastuszek, chairman expenses increased by $152,000 and, Stepan Hawrysz, vice-chairman Insure and be sure. despite income that was higher by $48,000, Dr. Alexander Serafyn, secretary the deficit for 2000 totaled $579,000, or Myron Groch, committee member Join the UNA! $105,000 more than in 1999. Yaroslav Zaviysky, committee member 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2001 No. 21

Forum of Ukrainians... (Continued from page 1) demonstrations and expressed interest in protesting with the Ukrainians. Their call to action was “Kuchma=Milosevich.” Among events like the picketing of Ukrainian ambassa- dors and other protests, a manifestation under the call of “I am for a European Ukraine” was held in Prague on Vaclavske Namesti on April 22. Thirty people attended the event, which also attracted many additional onlookers due to the highly visible venue. Czech, Ukrainian and Russian media were present. At the manifestation Ms. Procyk addressed the crowd on current issues in Ukraine and how important it is for Ukrainians in the Czech Republic to unite in action for a better Ukraine. The people present were informed about the latest developments and had an opportunity to discuss ideas with each other, according to Ms. Procyk. “Manifestations like this one are important for several reasons both internal and external to the organization,” Ms. Procyk explained, “It was particularly interesting to hear workers or random passers-by telling their stories about why they were here. There was quite a lot of support at this grass-roots level for other people. “Through the power of unity people have a chance to During a manifestation in Prague, members of the Forum of Ukrainians in the Czech Republic distribute make some kind of difference, speaking as citizens who leaflets to passers-by. care about their country. They can show the Czech Republic and the European community that they are a tries. Ms. Procyk, being a second-generation Ukrainian liv- work for some practical and attainable goals for Ukraine,” vocal, organized force that wants to be heard, present a ing outside of Ukraine, also realizes what an integral part Ms. Procyk added. positive image of Ukrainians protesting legally and show her peers can play in Ukraine’s future. “All the things that were learned in Ukrainian Saturday that Ukrainians have an interest in democracy and a fair “I especially address this to the younger generation of school, the well- paid jobs, the friendships formed over the presidency,” she said. Ukrainians,” Ms. Procyk said, “It is nice to have a cohort years at camps and such really place this second generation “For me specifically,” Ms. Procyk continued, “this is an of friends following you to each monthly ball, but you also of young Ukrainians in an advantageous position to be attempt to engage myself as a product of the older emigra- owe it to your grandparents, who miraculously survived heard. I hope that the importance of this power is not tion that the issues of Ukraine are still current and impor- persecution and upheaval in the country they loved, the 7 ignored, especially considering the present-day situation in tant to the diaspora community. The diaspora has had the million dead from famine and the numerous Ukrainians Ukraine, “ Ms. Procyk said. opportunity to enjoy the privileges of the West – higher erased from history as a marginal borderland people left in For more information about the Forum of Ukrainians in education for children, freedom of the press and expres- Ukraine. the Czech Republic log on to www.ukraine.cz/bezkucmy sion. And it did a good job preserving Ukrainian culture “In the West the diaspora is uniquely positioned as a or e-mail Mr. Karmeluk at [email protected] or write during the cold war. lobbying power and also as a source of information as to to Kalyna Procyk, P.O. Box 545, 111 21, Praha 1, Czech “However, after Ukraine won independence and diaspo- how a democracy works in practice. Now is not the time Republic. The forum’s telephone number is 420-605-748- ra Ukrainians who tried to help Ukraine in one way or for disillusionment, now is the time to unite forces and 975; fax, 1-208-978-70-61. another were disappointed, the interest in supporting the freedoms in Ukraine (that we take for granted in the West) in its difficult path to governance has waned. As more immigrants come from Ukraine, it is obvious that there FOR THE RECORD: Address at April 22 manifestation exists a divide between the two generations. The question Below is the text of an address by a member of the accused of the worst crimes are put in charge of their own is whether the older generation has the capability to renew Forum of Ukrainians of the Czech Republic, Kalyna investigations. Protesters are illegally detained. Students itself in a form that is relevant to both the new immigration Procyk, delivered on April 22. on their way to protest in Lviv are threatened and beaten. and to the people of Ukraine,” Ms. Procyk said. Journalists are threatened, harassed, followed. Newspaper Due to the recent events in Ukraine, with the Gongadze I’d like to sincerely welcome all of you who came out and television station licenses are revoked for a variety of case seemingly solved, with Prime Minister Viktor here to this manifestation organized by the Forum of excuses. Yuschenko no longer in office (save as a caretaker), and Ukrainians of the Czech Republic. I hope that each of you How can you trust a government that commits crimes with the appointment of Viktor Chernomyrdin as Russia’s will have an opportunity to become better informed as to and purposefully and thoughtlessly lies to its citizens? ambassador to Ukraine, the forum feels that it must take the present goings-on in Ukraine and to become acquaint- Kuchma and his government expect that the people of even more action. “We now need active, honest and auda- ed with this organization. Ukraine will remain passive and apathetic as its govern- cious people to work with the ill-informed Ukrainian pub- First, a few words about myself. I, unlike many of you, ment plunders Ukraine’s assets. It is your moral responsi- lic in order to educate it about the advantages of a civilized am not a native of Ukraine. I was born in the United States bility for the sake of your families and your country to society,” Mr. Karmeluk said. and grew up there. However, my parents raised me with a prove them wrong. The forum recently reported on President Kuchma’s profound respect and love for Ukraine and all things At present, there is a strong anti-Kuchma opposition refusal to speak with democratic opposition forces. Its Ukrainian and I spent my formative years surrounded by a movement in place in Ukraine and they are organizing two website states “in the case of Kuchma’s non-compliance to Ukrainian diaspora community. I, like other members of opposition strategies. The first includes demonstrations talks with opposition forces, in the case of possibly tragic, Ukrainian diaspora communities around the world, have and protests gathering public support for the anti-Kuchma illegal acts on behalf of the government in Ukraine, a family in Ukraine, close friends in Ukraine and am not movement. The second includes organizing a popular ref- hunger strike will be announced.” indifferent to the present plight of Ukrainians for a fair and erendum to remove Kuchma from office. Presently, according to Mr. Karmeluk, the forum is uncorrupt government. I speak not only for myself but for Here in the Czech Republic, the Forum of Ukrainians organizing hearings about Ukraine’s problems for diplo- all diaspora Ukrainians when I say that I care deeply about upholds these actions and plans on continuing these matic and government institutions in the Czech the political situation in Ukraine. I want Ukrainians to actions by holding demonstrations in the Czech Republic Republic. The American Cultural Center supplies the have the opportunity to find decent jobs, to have a decent and when the referendum has been formalized, collecting forum with the necessary equipment and a place to hold standard of living and a president that is not dominated by signatures from the 300,000 Ukrainian citizens that the hearings. Also, each Sunday, about 1,000 newslet- mafias, oligarchs and Communists. I am sure that you can presently live in the Czech Republic. If it should happen ters are distributed near the Ukrainian Orthodox and sympathize with these feelings. that forcible methods are used to control opposition forces, Greek-Catholic churches in Prague. In addition the It is possible that you may not be aware of the full a hunger strike will be initiated in Prague. forum is also working on its charter and by-laws, Mr. weight of the critical situation in Ukraine. Ukraine was But besides the organization for the support of the Karmeluk reported. recently listed as the second most corrupt country in the opposition in Ukraine, the forum also has other projects Recently, the forum has proposed a joint action project world, and this fact permeates every aspect of Ukrainian for further action. in order to organize a concert of contemporary Ukrainian life. The corrupt regime headed by Leonid Kuchma has First, the forum has a legal registration for a newspaper rock stars supporting the platform of “Ukrainians Unite!” routinely taken public money and placed it illegally into titled Ukr. Ohliad, which will inform in Ukrainian of the Groups like Mertvyi Piven, Vopli Vidoplasova, Komu private pockets. While pensions and wages were unpaid, latest events in Ukraine. At present, this newspaper is Vnyz, Plach Yeremiyi, Mandry and others support the and foreign investments were falling, the elite oligarchs being distributed free of charge as an info gazette on democratic movement. allied with Kuchma grew wealthier and wealthier, and Sundays outside of the Greek-Catholic and Orthodox The forum believes that such a concert will attract the continue to grow wealthier and wealthier. The Kuchma churches in Prague. Next a concert of Ukrainian stars is attention of the maximum number of Ukrainians who live regime does not allow for normal programs directed at being organized under the slogan “Ukrainians Unite!” to in the Czech Republic and would be a unifying factor for bettering the lives of the people. On the contrary, it func- promote unity and awareness among Ukrainians in the the Ukrainian community. The organization is now search- tions clearly as an organ for extracting the maximum Czech Republic. ing for sponsors for this event. “We are looking for spon- amount of resources for itself. In addition, an international non-profit organization sorship first from Ukrainians living in the Czech Republic In addition, when any attention is called to this blatant soon will have legal status in the Czech Republic and is and later from Czech corporations,” Mr. Karmeluk disregard for the principles of civil society by the media, being organized. This organization has several important revealed. “This will happen in the near future – we believe action is taken to brutally suppress these ideas – the most aims: to support Ukrainian culture through news televi- in ourselves.” important case being that of the disappearance and murder sion, radio, press and the Internet; to support and create Mr. Karmeluk said he encourages all Ukrainians abroad of Heorhii Gongadze. In the aftermath of the Gongadze institutes of higher learning, schools, kindergartens, exhi- to take an interest in the current events in Ukraine and to case, it is obvious that the administration has no intention take action in their own individual cities, states and coun- of keeping even the pretense of propriety. The people (Continued on page 9) No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2001 7

Harvard announces 2001-2002 Shklar Fellows in Ukrainian Studies by Ksenia Kiebuzinski Washington, will be preparing a manuscript that ana- its regional and national self-identity. lyzes the contemporary sociocultural processes in Mr. Halenko, senior researcher and Candidate of CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Seven scholars from Ukraine through the paradigm of language. Her work Sciences at the Institute of Political and Ethno-National Ukraine, Poland and the United States have been select- studies variations in language ideology in Ukraine, and Studies in Kyiv, will use Harvard’s Byzantine and ed as the first recipients of the Eugene and Daymel how regional, historical, ethnic, gendered and other Genoese resources to complete his study on the politi- Shklar Fellowships in Ukrainian Studies at Harvard social dimensions help shape these beliefs. cal, economic, and social and demographic layout of the University. The first Shklar Fellows, who were selected The issue of nation-building and state-building will Ottoman province of Kefe (Kafa in Crimea) based on through an international competition, will begin their be the subject of two separate studies in the field of two extant tax-registers for this province from the first residency at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in political science. Mr. Shulman, assistant professor at half of the 16th century. His study, which will include the 2001-2002 academic year. Southern Illinois University, will be continuing his graphic and cartographic materials, accompanied by the These scholars boast a wide range of academic expe- investigation of the sources of, and obstacles to, nation- transcription of these tax-registers, will help contextual- rience and research interests in anthropology, history, building in Ukraine. He will investigate economic, ize the Turkish or Ottoman heritage in the history of political science and literature. They include: Laada demographic and cultural factors, as well as foreign Ukraine. Bilaniuk (department of anthropology, University of influences, affecting Ukrainian nationhood. Ultimately, The post-doctoral fellowships are funded through a Washington); Oleksander Halenko (Institute of Political his study will attempt to identify the main obstacles fac- series of annual grants to Harvard University from the and Ethno-National Studies, National Academy of ing Ukrainian leaders seeking to construct a strong and Eugene and Daymel Shklar Foundation, a charitable Sciences of Ukraine); Aleksandra Hnatiuk (Center for unified nation. organization incorporated in California. The foundation Studies on the Classical Tradition, Warsaw University); Mr. Kulyk, research fellow at the Institute of Political is not only dedicated to promoting Ukrainian studies Tamara Hundorova (Institute of Literature, National and Ethno-National Studies in Kyiv, will be preparing a and culture, but also supports outcome-based education- Academy of Sciences of Ukraine); Volodymyr manuscript that analyzes the competing discourses of al, cultural and health-care programs in Ukraine, Puerto Kravchenko (department of Ukrainian studies, Kharkiv those elite groups of writers, dissidents, Rukh leadership Rico and other areas of the world. State University); Volodymyr Kulyk (Institute of and party nomenklatura, who determined the evolution Eugene Shklar, a first-generation Ukrainian-Canadian Political and Ethno-National Studies, National of the Ukrainian state idea during the period 1986 to and an alumnus of Harvard University (class of 1972), Academy of Sciences of Ukraine); and Stephen 1991. He will investigate how the elites presented and together with his wife, Daymel, established the fellow- Shulman (department of political science, Southern publicized their discursive ideas, and how these ideas ship program in recognition of the generation of his par- Illinois University). led to the emergence of independent Ukraine, as well as ents, who strove to preserve Ukrainian culture and her- Prof. Roman Szporluk, director of the Ukrainian to the state’s incomplete democratic transformation. itage in the diaspora. This same generation, through a Research Institute, noted: “This is a most impressive Of a more historical nature will be the studies pro- fund drive guided by the late Stephan Chemych, founder group of scholars. All of us at the institute look forward posed by Messrs. Kravchenko and Halenko. and former president of the Ukrainian Studies Chair to their arrival at Harvard University. I am sure that for Mr. Kravchenko, who is a professor at Kharkiv State Fund, helped to raise an endowment at Harvard to sup- every one of them the time spent here as Shklar University, will work on a book on the role of the his- port three professorial chairs, the Ukrainian Research Fellows will be a significant chapter in their intellectu- toric region known as “Ukraine of Free Communes” Institute, library acquisitions and a significant publish- al biographies. I am also sure that by interacting with (Slobidska Ukraïna), whose center is Kharkiv, in the ing program. The Shklar Fellowship program carries on Institute associates and a broader Harvard community formation of the modern Ukrainian nation during the the charitable spirit of past generations, as well as marks they will make us aware of the important work that is period 1750 to 1850. He will focus on the administra- the philanthropic potential of a younger generation being done in the area of Ukrainian studies elsewhere tive, political, social, economic and cultural changes of which, thanks to the efforts of their parents and grand- in the world.” this region in the course of its integration into the parents, continues to be deeply interested in the future “For the institute, and also on behalf of the current Russian Empire, and how these changes affected both of Ukraine. and future Shklar Fellows, I thank and salute Eugene and Daymel Shklar for their most generous and imagi- native gift,” Prof. Szporluk added. “The establishment of the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellowships in Ukrainian Studies is a major event not only in the histo- Western Kentucky University raises Ukrainian flag ry of the institute and of Harvard, but also a develop- by Xenia Piaseckyj Ukraina.” ment of great importance for the international commu- Ukraine’s is one of 25 nations’ flags comprising a BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Western Kentucky new “International Plaza” located on the campus of nity of scholars in Ukrainian, Slavic and East European University has become the latest American institution studies broadly defined.” one of Kentucky’s eminent state universities. The to raise the Ukrainian national flag on its premises. The Eugene and Daymel Shklar post-doctoral fellow- assemblage was created by the administrators of Western’s two matriculating Ukrainian students, Olga ship program, first announced in November 2000, pro- WKU’s International Programs and International Pryymak of Lutsk and Ivan Vlasiuk of Kyiv, acted as vides support for scholars in Ukrainian studies to per- Center as a way of tangibly honoring the school’s form research at Harvard and to complete publication their country’s official representatives in a special, growing multicultural and multi-ethnic student body. projects. Each of this year’s fellows will write a book- on-campus flag-raising ceremony which took place Though as many as 50 countries from around the length manuscript for future publication on subjects Friday, April 27. world are represented by Western students and facul- concerning Ukraine’s history and the continuing devel- In the presence of students, faculty and curious ty, the 25 nations chosen to have their flags displayed opment of its political and cultural identity. onlookers, the blue-and-yellow flag was formally at the plaza this year signify the countries with the While in Cambridge, the Shklar Fellows are expected raised atop its designated flagpole accompanied by a highest student enrollment and, therefore, the greatest to participate fully in the intellectual life of the Harvard recording of the national anthem “Shche Ne Vmerla impact on the university. community, including interactions with Harvard faculty, graduate students and undergraduates. They will also make use of the extensive resources of the Harvard University Library, which holds the triple honor of being the oldest library in the United States and the world’s largest academic library, and includes the largest collection of Ukraine-related books and other library materials outside Eastern Europe. Among the projects to be undertaken by the Shklar Fellows are two studies on Ukrainian literature and one on Ukrainian language. Ms. Hundorova, a principal research fellow at the Institute of Literature in Kyiv, will be analyzing the cul- tural reality of Ukraine and its correspondence to the post-modern condition in the aftermath of the Chornobyl disaster. More specifically, she will consider how the Chornobyl accident, when read as a cultural and apocalyptic “text,” serves as a metaphor of post- modern consciousness as it developed in Ukraine during the 1990s in the works of writers such as Volodymyr Dibrova, Oksana Zabuzhko, Yurii Andrukhovych and Bohdan Zholdak. Ms. Hnatiuk, associate professor at Warsaw University, will also be considering through the prism of literature the transformation of Ukrainian cultural identity. Her study, however, will look at the transformation of Ukrainian national identity throughout the 20th century and its relationship to notions of Europeanness. She will particularly focus on the place of Ukrainian culture in the East-versus- West debate in the works of writers from the 1920s, 1930s and 1990s. Also interested in questions of identity, but from an anthropological and sociolinguistic point of view, Ms. Participants of the April 27 Ukrainian flag-raising ceremony at Western Kentucky University. Bilaniuk, assistant professor at the University of 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2001 No. 21

NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY The Kinakh nomination Defending our languages The Year of Europe’s Languages was from any sphere of activity. Since it is unlikely that Viktor Yuschenko will again head the Ukrainian govern- [officially] opened on April 19 in Riga, “We will be only as strong as our lan- ment any time soon, Anatolii Kinakh, nominated by President Leonid Kuchma to be Latvia. The following are excerpts from Ukraine’s 10th prime minister in as many years, may well be the best alternative. He guage,” wrote Juris Alunans. We indeed the address at the pan-European meeting is relatively young at age 46, is a committed free marketer, if not an avid exponent of need a strict and well-defined language delivered by Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga, radical reforms, and has a strong background in management. policy that would satisfy the needs that President of Latvia. This statement was This is not to say that if confirmed Mr. Kinakh will continue the dynamic policies our language requires today. That means of his predecessor. Ukraine will probably see a return to a Pustovoitenko style of gov- issued by the Executive Office of the greater care in training teachers of ernment, where the prime minister is simply the chief government apparatchik. President of the Latvian Republic, printed Latvian and improving their working However, when considering that the next prime minister will merely be a transitional in the Latvian newspaper LAIKS on April conditions, greater coordination among figure, regardless of who is finally confirmed, the choice of Mr. Kinakh is not the 28. It was translated by Biruta Cap. national institutions charged with devel- worst that could have been expected. The president of the League of Industrialists and ... Language is an element of man’s opment of the Latvian language, ade- Entrepreneurs is also not closely associated with any single business clan, and this will identity, which bears witness to belong- quate financing for the publication of allow him to play off their various interests and balance their demands. ing to an ethnic, social or age group. The various dictionaries and manuals for the It seems that because the oligarchs could not agree on a candidate from among relation to language is the relation to use of Latvian in cybernetics and many themselves, President Kuchma decided to nominate someone who has their respect, if one’s identitity: we can be proud of it, other [projects]. not their endorsement. Most important for the president, Mr. Kinakh is a long-time indifferent to it, or perhaps at times Having encouraged the learning of political partner and trusted confidante. No less important is the fact that Mr. Kinakh, ashamed of it. In Riga, which commem- many languages which found real use who is not the sort that evokes strong emotions among people, has the best chance of orates its 800th anniversary [in 2001], after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Latvia anyone who was in the running to receive parliamentary approval. Some experts have Latvian [became the official language] needs to encourage the development of said that Mr. Kinakh’s confirmation is crucial because the president must show he can its own language, which was seriously get his nominee approved or risk not only the chance that the next prime minister will only 82 years ago. Among our ancestors there were some who were ashamed of suppressed during the Soviet occupation. officially become a caretaker, but that the president may become a lame duck with This has demanded new programs in leg- three years still remaining in his second term. their language and preferred the lan- islation and in the schools. To obtain the 226 votes he needs for confirmation, Mr. Kinakh now must convince guage of the master of the moment – various ideologically opposed factions in the Verkhovna Rada that he can deliver the German, Swedish, Russian. They were ... Not only Latvians [need to cultivate goods they desire. He must persuade the Communists he will pay heed to their lost to our nation, but, fortunately, there their own language]. Russian, Polish, demands for more social protection programs and the return of subsidies, which the were few of them. The majority treas- Jewish, Estonian, Lithuanian, Belarusian, Yuschenko government did away with. If he succeeds in gaining their support, it will ured their mother tongue through the Ukrainian and Gypsy children have the give them influence over the budget and could signal a return to deficits, increased borrowing and economic stagnation, trends that would quickly bring an end to his government. He must also be ready to hand over key ministerial posts to the Social Language, like any living organism, has to Democrats (United), Labor Ukraine and the Democratic Union factions, which means they will have sway over the energy sector they so desire and the economy in general. fight and defend its place under the sun. In the end his need to appease very different interests will leave the new prime min- In the 21st century languages do not per- ister with very little room for movement. His lot would have been much easier if he could have convinced the center-right factions to vote for him. Then he could have ish so much by fire and sword, [but rather] dispensed with the leftists and concentrated on a pro-business program, which in all likelihood both the center and center-right would have supported. Because the centrist from economic and political pressures. factions that represent the major business clans not only voted for, but also organized, the ouster of the Yuschenko government, Mr. Kinakh will receive no support from the center-right for whom the outgoing prime minister was a hero. course of the centuries, and, cultivating possibility to learn their native language Even if Mr. Kinakh is approved, he will take the reigns of what will be in practice, their Latvian identity, transferred it to and culture [today in Latvia]. That is an if not in fact, a caretaker government – effectively a doomed government from the their successors. achievement that our renewed country start, unless he attains unexpected and unsurpassed success in the months he has The Latvian language that we have can be proud of. before the parliamentary elections in March 2002. Few political experts doubt that inherited is an inestimable treasure. [We We wish to integrate Latvia’s popula- after a new Verkhovna Rada is seated the government will be dismissed in favor of have] a huge responsibility to cultivate tion in which every fifth person does not one that will support the whims of the new majority that will assume power. In the and nurture this heritage [as we] transfer know Latvian. This is but another chal- months before the elections, those who will be pulling his strings will demand policies it to the next generations. lenge to our nation and our language that intended to optimize their potential to take a majority of parliamentary seats in 2002. The historic epochs have not been requires well-considered and strict action President Kuchma could have done worse than Mr. Kinakh. He could have buckled kind to the Baltic languages, whose one- – first of all by Latvians themselves with to the demands of the business clans and nominated a person who would have given time extent reached far beyond the [cur- respect to their own language. Only them control over the government and a good seat from which to steer themselves rent] territory of Latvia and Lithuania, when we ourselves care for and honor toward overwhelming victory in the 2002 elections. However, he has nominated a the home of the last two surviving Baltic our language, can we expect others to do person who may be able to temper their insatiable political appetite, while continuing languages. so. to keep the Ukrainian economy at least pointed toward reforms. Language, like any living organism, The Baltic languages are a unique cul- has to fight and defend its place under tural treasure – all the more so, if we the sun. In the 21st century languages do remember that from the formerly thriv- not perish so much by fire and sword, ing Baltic branch of the Indo-European May [but rather] from economic and political language tree, only two [twigs] remain: Turning the pages back... pressures. The above mentioned threats Latvian and Lithuanian. In order to hand to language do not pertain only to down this precious heritage, we have to 30 Latvian: even languages spoken by tens use it and cultivate it. of millions often encounter serious prob- Latvia is also responsible for the sur- 1940 Narodna Volya, the newspaper of the Ukrainian Fraternal lems today. vival of the small remnant of the Liv lan- Association (then known as the Ukrainian Workingmen’s Among [these problems is] globaliza- guage. This language of the Finno- Association) reported on May 30, 1940, that The Washington Post tion: a process one may applaud or con- Ugrian group, one of the languages of of May 25, had published a “Postlude” on the concert of the demn, but which takes place regardless the earliest occupants of our land, was Ukrainian chorus under the leadership of Prof. Alexander Koshetz. Following are excerpts of our attitude towards it. The character- spoken only by a few dozen when Latvia from Ray C. B. Brown’s article about the concert, sponsored by the American Ukrainian istics of this process are cultural regained its independence. Thanks to the Congress Committee in the Washington Hotel Hall of Nations. exchanges and the dominance of certain efforts of enthusiasts and government languages in international communica- * * * support, a national program for the sur- tion. Inability to react is tantamount to vival of Liv culture is now being imple- Alexander Koshetz, well remembered here as conductor of the Ukrainian National irretrievable loss. It has been estimated Chorus when that organization was at its prime shortly after the World War, was the guiding mented. that in the course of this century the ...The new era comes with new chal- spirit of an enjoyable concert last evening in the Washington Hotel. The audience that filled number of languages will be reduced by the Hall of Nations was predominantly composed of delegates to the American Ukrainian lenges. Science and technology offer one-half. possibilities today that could not even be Congress, with a large percentage of resident music-lovers. The singers whom Dr. Koshetz Over 100 years ago Latvian humanists directed were selected members of folk choruses in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Yonkers, dreamt of not long ago – among them, had to defend the view that the Latvian [possibilities] for language researchers. Newark, Jersey City, Elizabeth and Perth Amboy. language was rich enough not only for Dr. Koshetz has made a life study of the folk music of his native Ukraine and is one of its However, “there is no bread without social use, but also for science, art, phi- crust,” according to an old Latvian most authorized exponents. His skill in choral conducting has been manifested so conclu- losophy and every human endeavor. We sively as to be beyond argument, and it was demonstrated afresh on this occasion by his adage. The globalization of the economy, have to thank Atis Kronvalds, Krisjanis a direct result of progress in science and handling of the voices. The singers were cooperative in some admirable effects of reso- Valdemars, Janis Rainis and many others nance and in the finer points of shading. technology, brings with it consequences for neologisms which made it possible to that raise well-founded concerns. One of It was genuine folk singing imbued with zest and the interesting program was entirely demonstrate that our language was ade- devoted to Ukrainian music. ... them is the feeling that one’s own cul- quate to meet all contemporary needs. I ture, one’s identity is threatened. Europe Source: “More About Ukrainian Concert in Washington,” Narodna Volya, May 30, 1940. (Special believe that today we also need intelli- is home to all of us, and we cannot let thanks to Honorary Member of the Ukrainian National Association General Assembly Anne Chopek gent and enterprising people to ensure for sending in this historic clipping.) that our language is not be excluded (Continued on page 17) No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2001 9

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

initiatives – all excellent. PERSPECTIVES I could list more, but it would merely Weekly essential BY NDREW EDYNSKY read like the list of the table of contents A F to our survival that everyone could peruse on your web- Dear Editor: site. Ukrainian journalism, as many of us in Recently had the pleasure of receiving the community know, is imperiled on your April 15 issue. From the front page both sides of the ocean: here in the dias- Vietnam era nightmares to the back (yes, the “Events” mentioned pora, by publishers with a narrow, short- It was 1969, and I had just graduated ring dream – a nightmare, really – that I’m were cool, too), a superlative display of term vision; in Ukraine, by murderous from college. Not yet 22, I stood in line teaching, the students are fooling around journalism. thugs who would drag the country north with scores of other guys on one of the and it’s my job to control them. It’s a RomanWoronowycz’s coverage of the of the Black Sea back to the indisputably upper floors of Cleveland’s Federal wrenching, frustrating dream. The more PACE decision/adoption of the Criminal bad-old-days of “Soviet Ukraine.” Building undergoing my draft physical. stress in my daily life, the more likely I am Code/Kyiv’s threatened archeological The Ukrainian Weekly is, and always That morning my mother had given me to have it, even now more than 20 years treasures; the RFE/RL interview with the has been, a bastion of the kind of report- some highly caffeinated drink that was sup- after I left the profession. lamest duck in the world of democracy; ing that is essential to our identity and, posed to raise my blood pressure to Some of those who ended up in the Oksana Zakydalsky’s coverage of the even, our survival. unhealthy levels. National Guard, as it turned out, didn’t have Venice Biennale controversy; the con- Kudos on a job well done! What kind of mother wants her other- an easy time either. The day I was trying to tending screeds concerning the wise healthy son to have high blood pres- corral the kids demonstrating at West, mem- changeover to a corporate-style board of Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj sure, you ask? A mother like mine who bers of the Ohio Guard killed four students directors for the UNA; UCCLA/UCC Toronto loves her children and knows war. She had at Kent State near Cleveland. seen more than her share of it: the Nazis The War in Vietnam grew out of a Cold came to her village in 1942. Two years later, War consensus that communism was evil it was the Red Army. Both used guns, fists, and had to be stopped. Growing up a hangman’s noose and obscenities, my Ukrainian in America, I shared that view: it FOR THE RECORD: Rep. Bonior’s letter mother recalled. In five years of war and was hard not to. I had heard the stories of occupation, she had witnessed lots of bru- murdered poets and imprisoned priests. tality and seen many dead bodies. “Only a The Soviets had sent my father’s brother to in support of a federal charter for the UAV miracle will spare us,” she wrote to my Siberia because he was a Catholic seminari- Following is the text of a letter sent allow the Ukrainian American father. an. He died there in 1940. They also hanged to The Ukrainian Weekly by Rep. Veterans to better address the needs The miracle happened, of course, and we my mother’s brother-in-law, exiled her sis- David E. Bonior of Michigan. and concerns of its members. ended up in America. Twenty years later, ter and would have shot her husband if he Ukrainian Americans have fought Dear Friends: she didn’t want her son to die in Vietnam. hadn’t found a way to escape their clutches. for our democracy since the That’s why she gave me that potion to Despite that personal history, my parents As a veteran, I have always fought Revolutionary War, and they deserve drink. I doubted it would work, but I drank opposed the war in Vietnam, particularly for the honorable treatment of our vet- recognition for all they have done to it anyway because I didn’t want to go to my mother. She hated communism, but she erans. As a friend of the Ukrainian protect American freedoms. Those of Vietnam either. Unlike my Mom, though, I hated war even more. She was relieved American community, I know that tens us who have served our nation in the never considered the possibility of being when I became a teacher and, like most of thousands of Ukrainian Americans military know the sacrifices that veter- killed. What bothered me, instead, was the Americans, she welcomed the Paris Peace have given their lives to protect our ans have made. All of our veterans idea that I would have to kill someone else. Accords that finally ended the war in 1973. nation. I feel that it is time to honor deserve the utmost respect for their These memories of 1969 come uninvit- By then, everyone was heartily sick of it these veterans by granting Ukrainian service to our country. Granting ed as I ponder Sen. Bob Kerry’s nightmare and most agreed it had been a mistake. To American Veterans a federal charter. Ukrainian American Veterans a federal in the village of Thanh Phong in February many, it was a bitter revelation but really no charter is the least we can do to That is why I recently introduced the of the same year, when he became involved surprise when five years ago, former express our gratitude. I will be work- Ukrainian American Veterans Charter in the massacre of Vietnamese women, chil- Defense Secretary Robert McNamara wrote ing hard with the Ukrainian American Act. dren and old men, just a few months before in his book, “In Retrospect: The Tragedy community to bolster support for this Throughout my years in Congress, I my draft physical. and Lesson of Vietnam,” that already in legislation. have worked with Ukrainian American That day, I recognized a few guys from December 1965 he had advised President As issues of importance to the Veterans to improve benefits and the high school, recent college graduates like Lyndon B. Johnson that the war was essen- Ukrainian American community come quality of life of our nation’s veterans. me. We exchanged greetings and wished tially unwinnable. before the Congress this year, I will be From helping ill members pay for each other luck. That translated into “I hope Perhaps – but still the war went on. sure to keep you updated on our medical bills to providing scholarship they find something wrong with you so And so, more than three years later, Mr. progress. Please feel free to contact me at money for continued education, the you’ll flunk your physical.” Kerry, under enormous stress and mired in any time if I can be of assistance to you. Ukrainian American Veterans have That’s how President Bill Clinton’s spe- the “fog of battle,” was forced to make the always served their community well. David E. Bonior cial prosecutor, Kenneth Starr, avoided mil- split second decisions in Thanh Phong that Receiving a federal charter would Member of Congress itary service. He had psoriasis and was clas- led to the massacre that put him on the sified 4-F. Bill Clinton, a year older than evening news 35 years later. me, got a graduate school deferment (2-S) It’s gratifying to me that after the war Most importantly remember that you to go to Oxford. I considered graduate ended I found a proper outlet for my anti- Address at April 22... are not an apathetic mass, you are not a school as well – I had been offered a schol- communism. Along with many others, I (Continued from page 6) passive minority in this country, but a arship to Notre Dame Law School – but my helped organize blood bank drives and vig- bitions, concerts; to create bilateral trade force to be reckoned with. You have a his- senior year, graduate school deferments ils dedicated to political prisoners, lobbied and economic ties; to create a charitable toric chance to influence the existence of were eliminated, so I declined the offer. my congressmen and senators to support fund for the Ukrainian minority in the Ukraine. Do not hide. Ideas have the Had I taken it, I now realize, I might have the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Czech Republic which would provide not power to unite people. Choose to stand up ended up in the Indiana National Guard to fund the Commission on the Famine in for the ideas of fairness, democracy and only moral support but juridical and finan- with Dan Quayle (1-D). George W. Bush Ukraine and to write letters to Amnesty ethical conduct of government leaders. was in the Texas Guard (also 1-D). Newt International. cial support as well. Your country’s future depends on it. Gingrich and Dick Cheney got out because I became friends with Baltic Americans, Concretely, this translates into assurance We also call upon the governments of they were fathers (3-A). Muhammad Ali Jewish Americans, Polish Americans and of jobs for normal legal wages and reform the European Union, the United States and went to jail. Bob Kerry volunteered (1-C). others who did the same. Amplified by of the visa application and residence pro- Canada to support ties with the Yuschenko As for me? Whatever my mother gave global communications, the message about cedures and travel requirements without government and condemn the actions and me didn’t work. I passed my physical and freedom and democracy got through to the complicated and unpleasant consequences. practices of Kuchma. Tomorrow, April 23, was classified 1-A, so the day after Labor ordinary citizen in Central and Eastern So, we turn to you and ask you to rec- the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council Day in 1969, I reported to West High Europe. Eventually, in all the great capitals ognize the importance of the events of the of Europe will vote whether to suspend School in the shadow of downtown of Central and Eastern Europe, millions previous months in Ukraine. It is of the Ukraine from membership in the Cleveland to teach English and coach track. took to the streets, proving yet again that all utmost importance that Ukrainians stand Assembly. We strongly call upon the coun- My draft board reclassified me 2-A – an the armies in the world can’t stop an idea together united in these days. Together we cil not to embrace this course of action. occupational deferment. For the next nine whose time has come. have the power to change the course of a The nation should not be punished because years, I taught at West. Not much older than Vietnam was a trauma for the entire corrupt and out-of-control government. of the faults and misdeeds of its leaders; my students, I had become an authority fig- nation and, as the Bob Kerry story illus- Together we have the power to stop the instead it needs the help of European coun- ure. As someone with “good rapport” with trates, we’re still trying to come to terms persecution of journalists who aim to bring tries to support Ukraine’s pro-European the students, the principal looked to me to with it. I make no judgments about the war us the truth. Together we have the power to agenda and democratic initiatives. help keep order during turbulent walk-outs, or Bob Kerry. For what it’s worth, though, a support a government, that will bring a At this juncture, Ukraine needs strong particularly in May 1970 when we invaded couple weeks ago I had another one of my better life for us and our families. support from these countries and so we are Cambodia. teacher nightmares: I was alone, teaching a To do this, support the government of advocating a more flexible position from Like most men of my generation, I used stadium full of kids – they were screwing [Viktor] Yuschenko, whose reforms have this organization. When the strong will of the rules to avoid serving in Vietnam. around and I couldn’t find my place in the brought a degree of economic growth and the people and strong ties with Europe are Although I thoroughly enjoyed teaching, I lesson plan. It was very unpleasant, but you social reform and stability, and support us, realized, then we will see positive results learned quickly that an inner city school is know what? I wouldn’t trade my nightmare the Forum of Ukrainians of the Czech for Ukraine and Ukrainians. no picnic. The experience has stayed with for Bob Kerry’s or Bob McNamara’s, in a Republic. Glory to Ukraine! me ever since. For years I’ve had a recur- million years. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2001 No. 21 Ukrainian Heritage Room proposed for WSU UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION by Stephen M. Wichar Sr. capacity audience learned about the many variables that must be studied and imple- ANNUITY RATES DETROIT – The Ethnic Heritage mented in the Heritage project. Exhibit EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 2001 Rooms located at Manoogian Hall of tables were prepared to demonstrate the Wayne State University, exemplify the room’s current status and long-term plans character of Greater Detroit by melding cul- Single & Flexible Premium Annuities for its future development; and the plans ture, beauty and learning. Collectively, they were explained by Messrs. Kozak and First year rate (new money) represent many lands. Now, after the first Mayorchak. More than $20,000 was col- decade of Ukraine’s national independence, (rate locked in for one year) lected during this introductory fund-raiser. 6.50% Ukrainian Americans who are scattered The committee will coordinate fund-rais- across counties of Metro Detroit stand ing campaigns between the Ukrainian com- ready to present the history and artistic Single & Flexible Premium Annuities munity and WSU Community Affairs. treasures of their forbears via a Ukrainian As WSU is a recognized, charitable edu- (EXISTING) room at WSU. cational institution under Section 501(c)(3) $100,000.00 and over The Ukrainian Graduates of Detroit and of the IRS Code and is licensed in the State 5.75% Windsor have undertaken a long anticipated of Michigan donations may be tax- project at WSU named the Ukrainian deductible. Dr. Serafyn, a committee mem- $50,000.00 - $99,999.99 Heritage Room. The room, an artistic cre- ber, detailed for the audience the advan- ation, will not be a museum but a function- (EXISTING) tages of making donations through match- 5.50% ing, fully utilized classroom. ing funds connected with industries such as Co-chairing this project are Olga Daimler-Chrysler, Ford Motor Co., and oth- Dubriwny Solovey and Stephen M. Wichar $100.00 - $49,999.99 ers (current and former employees may Sr. The Steering Committee includes Prof. apply). (EXISTING) 5.25% Vera Andrushkiw, Alberta and Oleh Cieply, Eventually, the Ukrainian Graduates of Dr. Paul Dzul, Ivan Halich, Cathy Koneya, Detroit and Windsor will be seeking Jaroslaw Konopada, Bohdan and Lydia Historic landmark status for the Nationality Flexible 10 Annuity Nehaniv, Joe Elnick, Olga and Tom Meyer, Rooms at WSU. The grads will also strive Dr. Alexander Serafyn and Iryne Torrance. to have the site listed in the National 5.50% The basic details for the room have Register of Historic Places by the U.S. already been planned and given to WSU for Department of the Interior. final approval. The map relief of artwork Once the Heritage Room is completed, it originally crafted by the late noted will provide a showcase of Ukrainian cul- Ukrainian artist Edward Kozak has already ture in both Detroit and the state of been restored by one of the project’s partici- Michigan. Recognition will follow with pating artists, Jarema Kozak, (a son of the receptions, lectures, seminars and the like. late Mr. Kozak), and is ready for mounting Send contributions to: Olga Dubriwny- on a dry-wall coverage. Another wall will Solovey (UHR co-chair), 27221 Wilson have a pre-fabricated but permanently Drive, Dearborn Heights, MI 48127. mounted showcase with a gate entrance Checks should be made payable to Wayne adorned with woodcuts and carvings. State University – Ukrainian Fund. Your Best Place to Save and Borrow One of the existing chalkboards will be completely removed and dry-walled. A JOIN US floor-to-ceiling mural depicting the histori- HIGH INTEREST SAVINGS cal periods of Ukraine has already been LOW INTEREST LOANS/MORTGAGES commissioned and will be executed by Former forced laborers Lviv-born artist, Volodymyr Mayorchak. A SHARE DRAFT/FREE CHECKING dramatic corridor entrance will feature and VISA CREDIT CARD suggest traditional Ukrainian designs with must file applications heritage ornaments. The floor tile will be by Myroslaw Smorodsky CHECK CARD/ATM CARD selected by the participating artists in order RUTHERFORD, N.J. – On October 24, CD’s and IRA’s to complement the overall artistry. A cast 2000, Austria agreed to compensate former bronze wall tablet with the names of donors slave and forced laborers of World War II will be permanently mounted at the who were deported from their homelands to entrance area. what is now the territory of Austria. Those When the UHR/WSU Committee com- former forced laborers who reside in pletes the Ukrainian Heritage Room, it will Belarus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, be a gift from the Ukrainian community to Poland, Russia and Ukraine will file appli- Wayne State University. Thus, funds for the cations through the reconciliation funds Ukrainian Room must be raised by the located in those countries. Ukrainian community. 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All applications must be filed with the Austrian Reconciliation Fund by February 15, 2002, two years from the enactment of the Austrian reconciliation law. Although all survey forms submitted by Austrian slave and forced laborers with this writer at the law firm Smorodsky Stawnychy or the International Organization for Migration are being for- warded to the Austrian Reconsideration Fund, each victim must complete the offi- cial forms in order to qualify. It is recom- mended that all former Austrian forced laborers file the official applications with the Austrian Reconciliation Fund directly as soon as possible. No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2001 11

New Jersey Ukrainian Americans confer with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ukrainian National Association Estate by Walter Bodnar She asked Mr. McGreevey as the Foordmore Road, Kerhonkson, New York 12446 future chief executive of New Jersey, to Tel.: (845) 626-5641 • Fax: (845) 626-4638 NEWARK – A group of Ukrainian www.soyuzivka.com • e-mail: [email protected] intercede on behalf of the victims. Mr. Americans met with Jim E. McGreevey, McGreevey was taken aback by this Democratic Party candidate for governor modern-day slavery happening in our of New Jersey, at the Newark Airport backyard and promised to research and 2001 camps and workshops at Soyuzivka Marriott Hotel on May 6. The group of investigate the possibility of New 10 discussed public affairs and concerns BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ CAMP SATURDAY, JUNE 23 – SATURDAY, JULY 7 of the Ukrainian American community Jersey’s involvement in fighting this international and domestic crime. Recreational camp for boys and girls ages 7-12 for about two hours. The meeting was featuring hiking, swimming, games, Ukrainian songs and folklore, supervised 24 hr. coordinated by the League of Ukrainian In addition, Mr. McGreevy promised, when elected, to reactivate the New Room and board: UNA members $330.00 per week/non-members $380.00 per week Voters (LUV). Counselor fee: $30.00 per child per week. Limited to 45 campers per week The main topics of discussion were: Jersey Ethnic Advisory Council, which Insurance $15.00 per child per week international trafficking of women and became defunct when Gov. Christine CHEMNEY FUN CENTER SUNDAY, JULY 8 – SATURDAY, JULY 14 Todd Whitman transferred all of its funds reactivation of the N.J. Governor’s Geared to exposing Ukrainian heritage to the English-speaking pre-schoolers, ages 4-6, Ethnic Advisory Council. to another agency. 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City State Zip Code 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2001 No. 21 A film preview: Ilyenko’s Mazepa by Oksana Zakydalsky KYIV – Yuri Ilyenko’s film about Hetman Ivan Mazepa is eagerly awaited. Because Bohdan Stupka appears in the role of the Hetman, people assume it will be a Ukrainian “Ogniem i Miecem” (in which Mr. Stupka played Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky). They are in for a surprise. Mr. Ilyenko’s film, titled “A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa,” is based on a script he wrote in the 1970’s and is more of an art film than a historical epic. Although the major weight of the role of Mazepa falls on Mr. Stupka, the hetman is played by three actors – the young boy is played by Serhiy Ilyenko, the director’s son; the adult Mazepa – by film actor, dancer and one- time Cirque du Soleil performer Serhii Marchenko. In the film, feeling betrayed by Mazepa, Peter I search- es all over the world for him finally finding him in his grave. Peter disinters the body and the corpse comes to life. But all this takes place in Peter’s dream. With the ghost of the old Mazepa as guide, Peter and his nemesis embark on a phantasmagoric journey. The story is not told in chronological order – sometimes two or even all three Mazepas appear together. The film is not yet finished; although most of the interior filming has been done, an expedition to Poland for exterior filming is being planned. Scene from “Prayer for Hetman Mazepa,” Bohdan Stupka and Serhii Marchenko.

Serhii Marchenko (above and on the right) in the role of the adult Hetman Ivan Mazepa Pianist Rudnytsky once again on world tour Video recalls newspaper’s 90 years YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Concert Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Livorno (Italy), has been invited to play a recital for the pianist Roman Rudnytsky is set to resume Calvi (Corsica) and Gibraltar. Mr. assembled participants of the world WINNIPEG – Ukrainian Voice, a news- a busy schedule of concerts which will Rudnytsky has performed as classical “Titanic Convention 2002,” to be held in paper established in 1910 in Winnipeg, has take him to various parts of the world in pianist on 25 P&O cruises in the past. Bangor, Northern Ireland on the 90th launched a 90th anniversary video of its the next months. A graduate of the From mid-June until the end of August, anniversary of the disaster. Mr. Rudnytsky, history titled “Headlines: 90 Years of the Juilliard School in New York, he has now Mr. Rudnytsky will fulfill his 12th tour in with a strong interest in this subject, Ukrainian Voice Weekly (1910-2000).” performed in 75 countries more than most Australia, playing 20 concerts in all. In belongs to three Titanic historical societies The video presents the historical back- other classical performers of any kind. mid-September, he will return to Britain and owns several rare and genuine Titanic ground to the newspaper and indirectly Mr. Rudnytsky was on tour from for further recitals and will also play a artifacts. also the history of Ukrainians in Canada. April 12 until May 2 in Britain, recital in Iceland in the newest concert hall Last year, Mr. Rudnytsky’s concert The official unveiling took place on Thailand and Malaysia, giving a total of of that country, the Salurinn. Late October- tours included Britain, Venezuela, New May 6, at R.B. Russell High School Auditorium, in Winnipeg. seven recitals. In Thailand, he played in early November will see his eighth tour of Zealand (seventh tour with 13 recitals), The video producer is Bill Wsiaki, an Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Hat Yai. His Chile and in November he will also play two P&O cruises, six countries of Central award-winning videographer. He carefully and West Africa (Chad, Benin, Togo, Malaysian concerts took place in in Canada, at the Conrad Grebel College chose historic film footage and included Penang, Subang (both in peninsular in Ontario and in Maryland. Guinea, Burkina Faso and Mali), and here over 200 historic pictures in the 72-minute Malaysia) and in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah For the first part of 2002, there will be in the United States. Featured in his con- video. The video incudes footage of inter- (on the island of Borneo). a recital tour of a number of Pacific islands certs last year was one of the most difficult views with 12 prominent Ukrainian From May 11 through l8, he performed of Micronesia (in February). March 2002 and landmark works for the piano: Canadian scholars and community mem- recitals in Scotland and on four of the will see concerts in Britain and in April Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata. He bers. A number of historic scenes were Channel Islands (Alderney, Sark, 2002 he will perform in Poland as soloist has just completed his 29th year as a recreated for the video. Guernsey and Jersey) and, following that, with the Sudecka Filharmonia orchestra in member of the piano faculty of the Dana “Headlines” was made possible due to he performed six recitals aboard the cruise the city of Walbrzych near the Czech bor- School of Music of Youngstown State the funding of the Canadian Millennium ship Arcadia of the British P&O Line on a der. Other recitals will be at several col- University in Ohio, from which he Partnership Program and the donations of 12-day Mediterranean cruise from leges in the United States. received a “Distinguished Professor supporters of the newspaper. Southampton. Ports of call will include For early April 2002, Mr. Rudnytsky Award” in 1990. No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2001 13

Askold Melnyczuk receives UFU honors poet, writer and artist PEN award for magazine editing Emma Andiievska on her 70th anniversary by Ika Koznarska Casanova Derek Walcott, Robert Pinsky, Chinua by Ika Koznarska Casanova has published 15 collections of verse. The Achebe and Seamus Heaney, as well as first collection “Poezii” (Poems) came out NEW YORK – Askold Melnyczuk, MUNICH – The Ukrainian Free early work by such diverse authors in 1951 and was followed by seven collec- editor of the literary journal AGNI – one University (UFU) hosted an author’s now nationally recognized as Jumpha tions that appeared between 1958 and of the leading university journals pro- evening and reception for poet, prose writer Lahiri, Ha Jin and Tom Sleigh. As an 1983. moting the best of contemporary litera- and artist Emma Andiievska on the occa- example of the journal’s continuing The collection “Arkkhitekturni ture – received the PEN/Nora Magid sion of the her 70th anniversary. commitment to emerging writers, its Ansambli (Architectural Ensembles) was Award for Magazine Editing as part of The event was held March 28, with 25th anniversary issue was devoted published in 1989, with illustrations by the the 2001 PEN American Center Literary UFU Rector Prof. Leonid Rudnytzky open- exclusively to previously unpublished author. More recent works include “Znaky Awards. The presentations were held on ing the evening, welcoming the honoree writers. Tarok” (Tarot Signs, 1995, Dnipro) and Monday, May 21, at the Walter Reade and guests and giving an overview of the Each issue of the semiannual publi- “Mezhyrichchia” (Between Rivers, 1998, Theater at Lincoln Center. work and critical reception of the promi- cation includes the works of at least 40 Vsesvit), both published in Kyiv, as well as Since its inception in 1972, AGNI has nent and multi-faceted writer and artist. writers and artists, and most issues “Segmenty Snu” (Dream Segments, gone through many incarnations, includ- Ms. Andiievska read from her latest works include works translated from eight or Munich, 1998) and “Villi nad Morem” ing tenures at Antioch College where it and upon request, also from her earlier more languages. Translations in AGNI (Villas on the Sea, 2000). was founded by Mr. Melnyczuk while ones. have appeared from Chinese, Dutch, Ms. Andiievska has also published four still an undergraduate student, as a pri- French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, * * * collections of short prose, the latest titled vate publication in Western Italian, Latvian, Polish, Slovene, “Problema Holovy” (Head Problem), Ms. Andiievska was born in Donetsk in Massachusetts, and, since 1987, at Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu and which came out in Lviv in 2000; and four 1931. She emigrated to Germany in 1943, Boston University, where it has been Yiddish. novels, two of which have been reissued where she completed her higher education, supported by the graduate Creative Among the Ukrainian writers who recently in Ukraine. then lived in France and the United States, Writing Program. have been published in AGNI over the Her first collection of short prose, and later returned to live in Germany where As stated in AGNI’s mission state- years were émigré writers like Vasyl “Podorozh” (Journey, 1955) was published she now resides. ment, the journal derives its vision from Barka; members of the New York A highly original and prolific writer, she (Continued on page 15) the premise that literature and the arts Group Bohdan Boychuk, Bodhan “are part of a broad, ongoing cultural Rubchak and Yuri Tarnawsky; dissident conversation that every society needs to writers Mykola Rudenko and Vasyl remain vibrant and alive. ... Writers and Stus; established Ukrainian writers artists hold a mirror up to nature, such as Ivan Drach; as well as repre- mankind, the world; they courageously sentatives of a younger generation of reflect their age, for better or worse; and writers such as Yuri Andrukhovych, their best works provoke perceptions and Oleh Lysheha, Yuri Vynnychuk, Oksana thoughts that help us understand and Zabuzhko and editor and literary schol- respond to our age.” ar Solomea Pavlychko. In publishing both emerging and On the initiative of Mr. Melnyczuk, established writers as well as works in the Vasyl Stus Award is presented annu- translation, AGNI has been recognized ally by PEN New England, with this for its high literary standards, and has year’s award going to Iranian writer attained a profile that is global in and human rights lawyer Mehrangiz scope. Kar. AGNI has published many of the AGNI also gives the annual Solomea world’s leading poets and fiction writ- Pavlychko Award in literary criticism, ers, including Joyce Carol Oates, sponsored by a grant from the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. The award’s first recipient was Susan Sontag, while this year the award was accorded to John Leonard. Ukrainian contributing editors to Osyp Rozhka AGNI have included Ms. Pavlychko, as Writer and artist Emma Andiievska at the 70th anniversary celebration held in well as Dzvinia Orlowsky and Ms. her honor at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich. Zabuzhko. The list of translators of Ukrainian works for the journal includes Halyna Hryn, Michael Naydan, Virlana Takcz, Iranian writer and rights lawyer James Brasfield and Mark Rudman, as well as Mr. Melnyczuk, who translated the poetry of Bohdan Boychuk. named as recipient of Stus Award

* * * NORTH CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The bail, she was tried in secret before the recipient of this year’s Vasyl Stus Award, Revolutionary Court, whose procedures Mr. Melnyczuk’s latest novel, presented annually by PEN New consistently fall far short of international “Ambassador of the Dead,” was released England, is Iranian writer, editor, human standards for fairness. as a publication of Counterpoint Press on rights lawyer, and women’s rights activist Currently, Ms. Kar is fighting cancer May 1. Mehrangiz Kar. The presentation was and there are grave concerns for her health. His fist novel, “What is Told,” held on May 20 at the Radcliffe Institute. Named after the poet who was the last received extensive critical acclaim and The author of many books on social Ukrainian writer to die in the Soviet was selected as a New York Times issues, Ms. Kar was among the first gulag, the Vasyl Stus Award is intended Notable Book in 1994. women attorneys who voiced deep con- to honor international writers who have Mr. Melnyczhuk’s poetry, fiction, cern against the Islamization of gender shown exemplary courage in the face of translations and reviews have appeared relations in Iran following the revolution. physical harm, imprisonment and other in many national magazines, including In particular, she opposed the Islamic forms of brute coercion. The award Cyntha Locklin The Nation, Partisan Review, Grand government’s policy forbidding the prac- comes with a $500 honorarium and hon- Askold Melnyczuk Street, Poetry and The Southwest tice and study of law for women. orary membership in PEN New England. Review. His work has been anthologized Ms. Kar was arrested and charged with In related news, PEN New England’s in “The McGraw Hill Book of Poetry, “acting against national security” for her Freedom-to-Write Committee recently Under Thirty-Five: The New Generation participation in a conference titled “Iran hosted three award-winning international Omission of American Poets” (1989) and “The After the Elections,” held in Berlin last writers who discussed the topic – In the article titled “New book com- Four-Way Reader.” April to discuss political and social “Soldiers at the Gate: Writers in memorates 100th anniversary of Lviv He is the recipient of the numerous reforms in Iran. Conference attendees, Enforced Exile.” Featured were Faraj Opera,” which appeared in the May 13 awards for fiction, among them the comprising prominent Iranian intellecu- Sarkohi, an Iranian fiction writer and issue of The Weekly, mention of where Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund, the tals, were detained and interrogated for magazine-editor, who came from his to obtain the book was inadvertently Massachusetts Cultural Council, the their attendance at the Berlin conference, place of exile, Frankfurt, Germany; Bei ommitted. The book, which came out in McGinnis Prize and PEN. considered by members of the Iranian Ling, Chinese poet and editor of 2000 as a publication of Svitlo iy Tin Mr. Melnyczuk teaches in the judiciary to be aimed at overthrowing the Tendency Quarterly, now living in publishers in Lviv, is available by plac- Bennington Graduate Writing Seminars Islamic regime. Boston; and Alejandra Matus, Chilean ing orders on the Internet at: and at Boston University. This fall he Ms. Kar was among those charged and journalist and author of “The Black Book www.BRAMA.com/shop/lvivoperabook; will take a new academic post teaching was incarcerated in the notoriously harsh of Chilean Justice,” now living in Miami. the cost is $49, plus $8 for shipping and fiction at the University of Evin Prison for a month. After being The panel discussion was held at handling. Massachusetts in Boston. released on payment of $60,000 (U.S.) Harvard’s Bunting Institute. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2001 No. 21

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Gongadze. Mr. Zhyr noted that the investi- Newsbriefs gation is being conducted by the Procurator Ñ¥ÎËÏÓÒfl ÒÛÏÌÓ˛ ‚¥ÒÚÍÓ˛ Á ð¥‰ÌËÏË, (Continued from page 2) General’s Office and the Security Service, ÔðËflÚÂÎflÏË Ú‡ Á̇ÈÓÏËÏË, ˘Ó Á ‚ÓÎ¥ ÇÒÂ‚Ë¯Ì¸Ó„Ó Oblast Administration said the attackers not the Internal Affairs Ministry. Socialist ‰Ìfl 23-„Ó Úð‡‚Ìfl 2001 ð. ‚¥‰¥È¯Ó‚ ‚¥‰ Ì‡Ò Û ‚¥˜Ì¥ÒÚ¸ wanted to thwart the visit of Pope John Paul Party leader Oleksander Moroz said “top ̇¯ ̇ȉÓðÓʘËÈ ¥ ÌÂÁ‡ÒÚÛÔËÏËÈ åÛÊ, í‡ÚÓ, Ñ¥‰Ó, Åð‡Ú ¥ ë‚‡Ú II to Ukraine, the Eastern Economist Daily leaders of the Internal Affairs Ministry have reported. (RFE/RL Newsline) become so entangled in lies” in the Gongadze case that now they need to find ·Î. Ô Kyiv opens embassy in Baghdad some credible explanation for them. (RFE/RL Newsline) ÇÓÎÓ‰ËÏËð üðÓÒ·‚ ëÓı‡Ì KYIV – Ukraine opened an Embassy in Baghdad on May 20 in a ceremony attend- Kyiv increases economic growth forecast ̇ð. 7 ÎËÒÚÓÔ‡‰‡ 1923 ð. ‚ ïÓ‰ÓðÓ‚¥, ìÍð‡ªÌ‡. ed by Ukraine’s First Vice Prime Minister Yurii Yekhanurov, Reuters reported. Earlier KYIV – Minister of the Economy Vasyl è‡Ì‡ıˉ‡ 24-„Ó ¥ 25-„Ó Úð‡‚Ìfl 2001 ð., in the day Mr. Yekhanurov delivered a mes- Rohovyi on May 16 said the dismissal of Ó „Ó‰. 8 ‚˜. ‚ McLaughlin Funeral Home. Prime Minister Viktor Yuschenko’s Cabinet sage to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from èÓıÓðÓÌÌ¥ ‚¥‰Ôð‡‚Ë 26-„Ó Úð‡‚Ìfl, Ó „Ó‰. 10 ð‡ÌÍÛ Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma. Iraq’s has so far not affected Ukraine’s economy, Interfax reported. The State Statistics ‚ ˆÂðÍ‚¥ Ò‚‚. ÄÔÓÒÚÓÎ¥‚ èÂÚð‡ ¥ 臂·, ÑÊÂðÁ¥ ëËÚ¥, leader said Baghdad is keen to develop ties ‡ ‚¥‰Ú‡Í ̇ ˆ‚ËÌÚ‡ð¥ ë‚flÚÓ„Ó ïðËÒÚ‡ ‚ çÓðÚ ÄðΥ̣ÚÓÌ, ç. ÑÊ. with Ukraine in various economic and trade Committee reported that the country’s GDP areas. (RFE/RL Newsline) in January-April increased by 8.5 percent compared with the same period last year. LJÊÍËÏ „ÓðÂÏ ÔðË·ËÚ¥: Rada fails to overcome veto on election bill Mr. Rohovyi said the government has increased its economic predictions for 2001 ‰ðÛÊË̇ – çÂÓÌ¥Îfl KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada failed on and now expects GDP to grow by 6.2 per- ‰Ó˜Í‡ – êÓχ ɇ‰Á‚˘ Á ˜ÓÎÓ‚¥ÍÓÏ Ä̉ð¥πÏ May 17 to override President Leonid cent. The government announced previous- ÒËÌ – í‡ð‡Ò Kuchma’s veto of a bill that would have ly that it expects the economy to grow 4 ‚ÌÛÍË – å‡ðÍ¥flÌ ¥ 臂ÎÛÒ¸ ɇ‰Á‚˘¥ permitted only political parties to field can- percent in 2001. (RFE/RL Newsline) ·ð‡ÚË – é΄ Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ ã˛·Ó˛ ¥ ‰¥Ú¸ÏË ÅÓ„‰‡ÌÓÏ, didates for the legislature. The measure was á¥ðÍÓ˛, éðÂÒÚÓÏ ¥ Ç¥ðÓ˛ Á ªıÌ¥ÏË ðÓ‰Ë̇ÏË Moldova’s leader explains quest for union supported by 259 deputies, 41 votes short of – ß„Óð Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ ã¥Î² Ú‡ ‰¥Ú¸ÏË å‡ð¥ÈÍÓ˛ íËÏˈ¸ the required two-thirds majority. The cur- CHISINAU – Russia and Belarus will Á ˜ÓÎÓ‚¥ÍÓÏ ÅÓ„‰‡ÌÓÏ Ú‡ é΄ÓÏ Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ éβ rent electoral law stipulates that 225 law- form a single economic space by 2007, Ò‚‡ı‡ – ä‡Úð¥fl ɇ‰Á‚˘ makers are elected under a proportional and by joining the Russia-Belarus Union, party-list system, while the other 225 in Moldova will be able to receive energy Ú‡ ðÓ‰Ë̇ ‚ ëòÄ, ìÍð‡ªÌ¥ ¥ ä‡Ì‡‰¥ one-seat constituencies. This was President deliveries from those countries at prices Kuchma’s second veto of the election bill. considerably lower than world market üÍ ıÚÓÒ¸ ·‡Ê‡‚ ·Ë ‚¯‡ÌÛ‚‡ÚË Ô‡Ï’flÚ¸ ·Î. Ô. ÇÓÎÓ‰ËÏËð‡ ÔðÓÒËÏÓ The Parliament had sidestepped the former prices, President Vladimir Voronin told ÒÍ·‰‡ÚË ‰‡ÚÍË Ì‡ ÙÓ̉ ¯ÍÓÎË Ûβ·ÎÂÌËı ‚ÌÛÍ¥‚ èÓÍ¥ÈÌÓ„Ó: veto by adopting an amended version of the the Japanese Sankei Shimbun daily St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic School, vetoed bill. (RFE/RL Newsline) newspaper, according to an ITAR-TASS 746 Sanford Avenue, Newark, NJ 07106 MP surprised at Gongadze case statement report of May 18. He said he considers Russia “a strategic partner” and sees the KYIV – Oleksander Zhyr of the bringing of “Moldovan-Russian relations Reforms-Congress parliamentary group to a new stage” as one of his main tasks said on May 16 that he is surprised it was as president. Mr. Voronin also said Internal Affairs Minister Yurii Smirnov who Moldova should study the reform experi- In Memoriam made public the results of an investigation ence of the Chinese Communist Party. into the death of journalist Heorhii (RFE/RL Newsline) Walter Y. Sochan November 7, 1923-May 23, 2001 Andiievska’s works has been mixed and UFU honors... even contradictory. Danylo Husar Struk, The Executive Committee of the Ukrainian National Association regrets to (Continued from page 13) referring to work written up to 1983, noted: announce to the Members of the General Assembly and to the UNA member- in a second revised edition by Dnipro pub- “The hermeticism of her poetry and the ship at large that Walter Sochan, former Supreme Secretary of the Ukrainian lishers in Kyiv in 1995. Second editions of self-imposed and strictly adhered-to struc- National Association, who served our organization for 45 years, died on the novels “Roman pro Dobru Liudyny” (A tural constraints of her prose do not lend Wednesday, May 23, 2001, at the age of 77 after a brief illness. themselves to easy comprehension. Novel About a Good Person, 1973) and The Executive Committee and the entire UNA membership wish to express “Andiievska’s poetic world consists of “Roman pro Liudske Pryznachennia” (A their sincerest sympathy to his wife, Neonila; his children, Taras Yuri Sochan surrealistic landscapes rooted in real Novel About Human Destiny, 1982) and Romana Hadzewycz, with her husband, Andrew; his grandchildren, descriptions of nature, which Andiievska Markian and Paul Hadzewycz; and his brothers, Oleh and Ihor, with their fam- appeared in Kyiv in 1993 and 1992, respec- views from various dimensions and to tively. Ms. Andiievska was awarded the ilies. which she provides exquisite instrumenta- Funeral services are scheduled for 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 26, at Ss. Tatiana and Omelan Antonovych literary tion. The multidimensional imagery pro- Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church in Jersey City with interment at award for “Roman pro Liudske duces an effect of simultaneity of events, Holy Cross Cemetery in North Arlington, N.J. Pryznachennia” in 1984. Her latest novel, coinciding with the notion of ‘round time,’ The entire UNA family mourns the loss of this great UNA’er. “Kazky” (Stories) appeared last year. whose laws govern the multiepisodic but Ms. Andiievska is a member of PEN monolinear (chainlike) novels.” Ç¥˜Ì‡ âÓÏÛ è‡Ï’flÚ¸! Club and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts (Encyclopedia of Ukraine). and Sciences (Germany). She is the wife of Equally original and prolific as an artist, the late eminent émigré literary scholar and Ms. Andiievska has exhibited her works in critic and founding editor of the journal the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil Suchasnist, Ivan Koshelivets (1907-1999). and, since 1992, in Ukraine — with over The critical reception of Ms. 70 exhibits to her credit. The Executive Committee of the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council èÓ‚¥‰ÓÏÎflπÏÓ êÓ‰ËÌÛ, èðËflÚÂÎ¥‚ ¥ á̇ÈÓÏËı, ˘Ó ‚ ̉¥Î˛, 10-„Ó ˜Âð‚Ìfl 2001 ð., is grieved to share the sad news with members and supporters of the UACC Ó „Ó‰. 4-¥È ÔÓ ÔÓÎ. and the general public that ̇ ˆ‚ËÌÚ‡ð¥ Ò‚. Ä̉ð¥fl èÂð‚ÓÁ‚‡ÌÓ„Ó, on Wednesday, May 23, 2001, ‚ ë. Ň‚̉ ÅðÛÍÛ, ç. ÑÊ., ‚¥‰·Û‰ÂÚ¸Òfl ÔÓÒ‚fl˜ÂÌÌfl Ô‡Ï'flÚÌË͇ ̇ „ðÓ·¥ Wolodymyr Sochan Vice-President of the UACC, Ò‚. Ô. long-time Supreme Secretary of the Ukrainian National Association ‰-ð‡ ω. and community activist fell asleep in the Lord. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, May 26. ûêßü Ñàñúé Sympathy and sincere condolences to his beloved, grieving family are herewith extended by the Executive Committee ÑðÛÊË̇ åÄêßü Á¥ ÒË̇ÏË ¥ ªı ðÓ‰Ë̇ÏË of the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2001 No. 21 Тіштеся надзвичайними цінами в Україну

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Debutantes with their escorts and organizers of the 47th annual Engineers’ Ball in Philadelphia.

by Metodij Boretsky Society of America, opened the event and Harkins and Dmytrij Vosnij, and Lida P. dinner began with an invocation deliv- greeted the guests gathered in the hotel’s Pastushak and Jaroslaw Dobriansky. ered by the Rev. Orest Mychajliuk. About PHILADELPHIA – The 47th grand ballroom. He also introduced the The debutantes and escorts were greet- 250 people attended the dinner, and more Engineers’ Ball of the Philadelphia master of ceremonies, Stefan Bilyk. ed by Mr. Zacharczuk and introduced by than 500 persons enjoyed the dance held Branch of the Ukrainian Engineers’ After the formal opening, nine debu- the master of ceremonies. Mr. afterwards. Society of America (UESA) was held on tantes and their escorts were presented: Zacharczuk congratulated each debutante The committee that organized the Saturday, February 10, here at the Park Nataliya S. Hud and Pavlo Mulyk, and pinned ribbons on them with the 2001 Engineers’ Ball was composed of Hyatt Hotel. This year’s ball included the Alexandra R. Bida and Mykola Pylyp, assistance of Jaroslava Halaway. The Mr. Zacharczuk (chairman), Osyp presentation of debutantes, a banquet and Natalka C. Kuzla and Orest Ivanytsky, committee consisting of Ms. Halaway, Nimylovych, Dr. Larysa Zaika, Ihor a ball to the music of the Tempo orches- Nataliya C. Prociuk and Adrian Korduba, Andrea Kalyta, Marijka Cyhan, Marusya Kovaliv, William Kaminsky, Ira Stefaniv, tra. Yulya Wenderwort and Adrian Cyhan, Oksana Povzaniuk and Volodymyr Horbovyj, Olenka Chabursky, After the cocktail hour, Borys Oryshkevych, Stefania A. Homyk and Volodymyra Povzaniuk prepared the Metodij Boretsky, Myron Bilas, Dr. Zacharczuk, head of the Philadelphia Roman Hankevych, Christina A. Porter debutantes for the presentation ceremony. Alexander Bilyk, Nestor Smolynets, Ivan Branch of the Ukrainian Engineers’ and Gordon Justice, Alexandra G. After the debutantes’ presentation, the Tymchuk and Petro Shtompil.

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A team, say, ready to hop across that,” said Blues’ GM Larry Pleau. the free agent checkerboard and yell, “King Many would agree St. Louis got an me!” awful lot closer after acquiring power for- Can you imagine J.R. (Jeremy Roenick) Oleh Slupchynskyj, M.D. ward Keith Tkachuk from Phoenix for in Hollywood ? Michal Handzus, Ladislav Nagy, prospect Reborn Bondra at home in D.C. Jeff Taffe and a first-round draft pick. Pleau flirted with the idea of adding Eric Lindros, Peter Bondra would like to make one but Philadelphia wanted more than he was thing perfectly clear: He never wanted to Facial Cosmetic willing to offer (center Pierre Turgeon) and leave the Washington Capitals. Oh, there the Blues preferred Tkachuk anyway. was the little matter of that trade he Unlike Lindros, who could be one hit away demanded last summer, but that, he said, & Reconstructive Surgery from retirement, Pleau knows what he’s get- was a complex issue. ting in the 6-foot-2, 225-pound Tkachuk. “Why would I want to leave?” asked the “St. Louis was going for the big one, and Capitals’ born-again sniper. “I never said I 171 East 74th Street they got it,” said Coyotes’ Coach Bobby hated Washington. I grew up in Francis. “They acquired an excellent hock- Washington. I love it in Washington.” New York, NY 10021 ey player who’s really going to help them.” And Washington is where Bondra, who Tkachuk said the trade was bittersweet. turned 33 last February 7, remains. In fact, 212-628-6731 “I wanted to stay and win a Cup, but I’m he re-emerged as one of the league’s top going to a better situation,” he said. “I’ll scorers with 45 goals and 81 points playing definitely miss it here (Phoenix), but the in all 82 of his team’s regular season games. www.facechange.org Blues are committed to winning and they Compare these numbers to his 21 goals have some great players.” over 62 games in 1999-2000. With injuries having sidelined three of His return to form enabled Bondra to the Blues’ other top players (Chris Pronger, join a group of players that truly made Al MacInnis and Pavol Demitra), it’s no 2000-2001 the best comeback season the certainty the gateway to the Cup will pass National Hockey League has ever seen. through St. Louis. But if they get healthy, How can we make such a claim? Two watch out. And get healthy they did, as the words: Mario Lemieux. Blues gained the Western Conference final Other top comeback candidates (listed round of this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs, alphabetically) include: matched up against the aforementioned • Jason Allison, Boston. Injuries con- Colorado Avalanche. spired to keep Allison in the dark in 1999- In Tkachuk, the Blues greatly improved 2000. Now he’s the brightest light in their power play, toughness and traffic in Boston. front of the opposition’s net. The two-time • Donald Audette, Atlanta/Buffalo. After 50-goal scorer, who had 35 goals and 44 a couple of mediocre years, Audette sur- assists for 79 points in 76 regular season passed his career-high of 31 goals (notching games, adds an element GM Pleau said St. 34) with Buffalo in 1991-1992. Louis was lacking. “We needed to change • Theoren Fleury, Rangers. No player did the personality of our team,” he said. so little for so much in 1999-2000. This past So did the Coyotes, it turns out. They regular season Fleury contended for the also had to trim Tkachuk’s $8.3 million scoring lead, finishing with 30-44-74 points salary, which he’s assured to make for at in only 62 games. least the next two years after he becomes a • Mario Lemieux, Pittsburgh. Comeback restricted free agent again next summer. “(A player of the century is more like the title he trade) was inevitable, if not now, then at deserves. Mario scored 35 goals and 76 some point after the season,” he said. points in 43 games. “Obviously, (Phoenix) is having financial • Brian Leetch, Rangers. He’s a solid trouble or I don’t think they would have Norris Trophy (league’s top defenseman) made this deal.” candidate after suffering through his worst While Phoenix didn’t get a headliner in return for Tkachuk, the deal wasn’t a (Continued on page 23)

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perated he became. Pro hockey... “Peter has very high expectations for (Continued from page 21) himself,” said Washington Coach Ron NHL season a year ago. Wilson. “Rather than just relax and let the • Sean Burke, Phoenix. The league’s game come to him, he tried to force the issue and it just ended up compounding the 26th-ranked goalie last season, Burke fin- frustration.” ished 2000-2001 third in save percentage Bondra worked harder than ever last off- (.922) and 10th in goals-against average season with the hope of getting back on (2.27), making lots of people forget about track. And while one would imagine the unsigned goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin. return of Mario Lemieux would have made Bondra, meanwhile, never wanted to Jagr the odds-on favorite to win his fourth UKRAINIAN SELFRELIANCE uproot his family. What happened was this: straight scoring title (it did), Bondra serious- Bondra met with Washington GM George ly challenged for the Rocket Richard goal- FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, McPhee after last season to discuss his scoring trophy (Bondra finished fourth with future. He’d just completed his worst offen- his 45 goals). PHILADELPHIA, PA. sive season since his rookie campaign in Wilson admitted his one concern enter- 1990-1991 and had one year left on his con- ing this past season was Bondra’s presence Serving and Supporting the Ukrainian Community Since 1952 tract, at which point he’d get his first crack being a distraction to the team, but that was at unrestricted free agency. To him, signing certainly not the case. an extension following a poor year made no “He embraced the team game,” Wilson WE WANT TO GIVE YOU sense. said. “He scored 52 goals my first year and, “I said, ‘If you’re going to trade me, do it though that tied him for the league lead, now,’ ” Bondra said. “I am a family man he’s a better player now. I don’t have to hide A and I wanted to get my family established in him against other team’s best players ... I SECONDIf youCHANCE! purchased a new car another city.” play him in every situation.” There was a time, not so long ago, when Coach Wilson hopes to have that option within the last 12 months, Bondra could have run for mayor in for many years to come... you can re-finance with us at our Washington and won hands down. From And he will ... The Capitals put many 1994-1995 through 1997-1998, no player in rumors to rest once and for all by signing LOW New Car Rates: the NHL scored more than his 184 goals. right-wing Bondra to a four-year deal New Car (0% down, 3 yr. term) 7.350% Philadelphia’s John LeClair was second potentially worth about $18 million. It is New Car (0% down, up to 5 yr. term) 7.450% with 178, and Pittsburgh’s Jaromir Jagr was actually a two-year deal with the Caps hav- New Car (0% down, up to 6 yr. term) 7.650% third with 176. ing options on the next two at an annual Twice Bondra led the league in goals, but average salary of $4.5 million. slipped to 31 in 1998-1999 and then 21 in Bondra scored a hat trick in a 5-4 win 1999-2000, a year in which knee and shoul- over Toronto the day the deal was publicly All savings insured by the National Credit Union Administration, a federal agency. der injuries limited his effectiveness. announced. “You try to tell yourself to just play “I grew up here, I want my kids to grow 24th Street Branch: Ukrainian Center Branch: through it, but sometimes it doesn’t work MAIN OFFICE: up here and maybe I’ll retire here,” he said. 1729 Cottman Ave. 2307 Brown St. 910 Henrietta Ave. out that way,” Bondra said. “I think when The signing was rumored, but still came Philadelphia, PA 19111 Philadelphia, PA 19130 Huntingdon VL, PA 19006 you’re hurt you hesitate sometimes. Hockey as a surprise. A very pleasant one at that – Tel.: (215) 725-4430 Tel.: (215) 232-3993 Tel.: (215) 379-0400 is a game of inches and if you hesitate, for all parties involved. Fax: (215) 725-0831 Fax: (215) 379-2757 sometimes what was there disappears.” What also disappeared was Bondra’s (Thanks to Bob McManaman and Mike enthusiasm for the game. The more he Brophy of The Hockey News for quotes on struggled, the harder he tried. And the hard- Keith Tkachuk and Peter Bondra, respec- Toll free: 1-888-POLTAVA er he tried without success, the more exas- tively.) 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2001 No. 21

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Saturday, June 2 with flag-raising, opening ceremonies, and commendations and awards for active mem- TORONTO: The Ukrainian Bandurist bers of the SUM branch. Sports will include Chorus, conducted by Oleh Mahlay, will soccer, volleyball and track-and-field events. present a “Concert of Sacred Music” at The artistic program begins at 3 p.m. and will Our Lady of Sorrows Church at 8 p.m. feature the winners of national competitions. (The church is located at 3055 Bloor St. There will also be a performance by the W., one block west of Royal York Road Vesna dance ensemble, Yurko Didach, artistic and at the Royal York Subway Station.) director. Throughout the day, there will be a Part of a sacred music series, the concert picnic with plenty of delicious food and will feature the mystical sounds of Eastern drinks. There will also be music in the Europe’s finest church music, including evening for the public’s entertainment and works by Berezovsky, Dyletsky and dancing. Everyone is invited to attend. Bortniansky, along with the sounds of the bandura. Admission: free-will offering. Saturday-Sunday, June 16-17 For more information call (905) 206-9963 or visit the website www.bandura.org. NEW YORK: Yara Arts Group will present “Midsummer Night Songs” workshops in Sunday, June 3 Ukrainian folk singing with Mariana PHILADELPHIA: The Ukrainian Sadovska, who for the last 10 summers trav- American Youth Association (SUM), eled through villages in Ukraine collecting Philadelphia branch, invites the community songs and documenting rituals. Discover the in the Philadelphia area to attend its tradition- folk voice in you. Learn ancient songs for al annual Youth Day and picnic which will Kupalo, the pagan Midsummer Night ritual. take place on the grounds of Tryzub You do not have to be able to read Ukrainian Ukrainian American Sports Center located at or music to participate. The workshops will Lower State and County Line Roads in be held at 2-5 p.m. on both days. Fee: $20 Horsham, Pa. The program will begin at 11 per session. You must pre-register. Call (212) a.m. with a divine liturgy that will be cele- 475-6474 if you want to participate in these brated by Metropolitan-Archbishop Stefan Kupalo events, e-mail [email protected]. or Soroka. The official program will commence vist the website http://www.brama.com/yara/. The Ukrainian Weekly PLEASE NOTE REQUIREMENTS: Preview of Events is a listing of Ukrainian community events open to the public. It is a service provided at minimal cost ($10 per submission) by The WeddingWedding Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian community. Payment must be received prior to publication. To have an event listed in Preview of Events please send information, in AnnouncementsAnnouncements English, written in Preview format, i.e., in a brief paragraph that includes the will appear in July 2001. date, place, type of event, sponsor, admission, full names of persons and/or organizations involved, and a phone number to be published for readers who For a wedding announcement to be included in the July issue, may require additional information. Items should be no more than 100 words all information must be received in our offices by July 6. long; all submissions are subject to editing. Items not written in Preview for- mat or submitted without all required information will not be published. Along with wedding announcements, we will include greetings from friends, Preview items must be received no later than one week before the desired family members, bridesmaids and ushers – from all those date of publication. No information will be taken over the phone. Items will be who wish to share in the excitement of a new marriage. published only once, unless otherwise indicated. Please include payment of $10 for each time the item is to appear and indicate date(s) of issue(s) in which We hope you will announce your wedding in the item is to be published. Also, please include the phone number of a person The Ukrainian Weekly, or send a greeting to your favorite newlyweds. who may be contacted by The Weekly during daytime hours. Information should be sent to: Preview of Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, Rates for announcements and greetings: P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. One-column wedding announcement: $100 Two-column wedding announcement: $200 Wedding greeting: $75

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