INSIDE:• Obituary: Lesawyer, former UNA president — page 4. • Book launch for Mary Mycio’s “Wormwood Forest” — page 8. • Profile: Bishop Emeritus Basil Losten of Stamford — page 12.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIV HE No.KRAINIAN 7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 EEKLY$1/$2 in AmbassadorT OlehU Shamshur visits InternationalW business conference Ukrainian organizations in New York promotes opportunities in Ukraine by Zenon Zawada business, according to the World Bank’s Press Bureau “Doing Business in 2006” report. Such a ranking is far behind Hungary and KYIV – Now is the time to give , Mr. Wolfensohn said, which Ukraine a second look, former World ranked 52nd and 53rd, respectively. Bank President James Wolfensohn told Such problems exist despite Ukraine’s more than 300 international businessmen excellent geographic position, abundance of attending the second annual Renaissance natural resources and educated population. Capital conference. Only 8.4 per 100 are Bankers, investors and their represen- Internet users, an incredibly low number tatives converged upon Kyiv on February for a nation so well-educated, he said. 7 and 8 to feel out the business climate “The problems in Ukraine are not fun- and examine the latest opportunities damental problems,” he said. “They’re available in post-Orange Ukraine. bureaucratic problems.” Ukraine is a nation “with absolutely Mr. Wolfensohn said Ukraine’s agri- enormous potential, yet “there is a lack cultural future is exceptional and pointed of political strength to get things done,” out that Renaissance Capital has already Mr.Wolfensohn said, citing the domina- recognized the opportunity for moderniz- tion of entrenched oligarchs and few ing the sector. “I salivate at the prospects market-friendly systems. of agriculture,” Mr. Wolfensohn said. “The potential here just makes you Andrew Nynka In his opening remarks, Mr. want to cry in terms of what can be Ambassador Oleh Shamshur is presented with bread, salt and flowers by Wolfensohn mentioned that his Jewish done,” he added. UNWLA New York Regional Council President Nadia Sawczuk (left) and grandparents had emigrated from While European Union and World UNWLA President Iryna Kurowyckyj. Ukraine, having been “asked to leave at a Trade Organization membership are wor- less hospitable time.” by Andrew Nynka of 1932-1933 and the upcoming parlia- thy goals, “Ukraine’s problems can be While Mr. Wolfensohn spoke positively Special to The Ukrainian Weekly mentary elections in Ukraine. solved internally in Ukraine by and optimistically of Ukraine’s potential, In visits that stretched throughout the Ukrainians,” he said. Joining those government officials did little to buttress NEW YORK – Ukraine’s newly day, Dr. Shamshur, 49, met with repre- organizations are mere extras. his endorsement and impress investors. appointed ambassador to the United sentatives of various Ukrainian American For example, corruption and bureaucra- President , Prime States, Oleh Shamshur, stressed during a diaspora organizations based in this city. cy continue to plague the economy, despite Minister Yurii Yekhanurov and National visit here on February 4 that his Embassy During his visit, the ambassador the fact that there are impressive govern- Security and Defense Council Chair would “cooperate fully with members of answered questions and touched on a ment officials who are competent and have Anatolii Kinakh didn’t appear at the con- the diaspora,” particularly on issues wide variety of topics, among them the a desire to move the country forward. ference, despite being scheduled to so. involving investment in Ukraine, recog- Ukraine ranked 124th out of 155 nition of the Ukrainian Famine Genocide (Continued on page 6) nations in terms of the ease of doing (Continued on page 5)

Ukraine’sKYIV – The Ukrainian OlympicOlympians team was honored at a honored at send-off ceremony in Kyiv send-off ceremony at Independence Square on February 3, Ukrinform reported. The team, which consists of 53 athletes who will compete in 10 types of sports, will represent Ukraine at the XX Winter Olympic Games to be held in Turin, Italy, on February 10-26. Ivan Vasiunyk, first deputy head of the Presidential Administration, read a message from President Viktor Yushchenko to members of the team. Mr. Yushchenko expressed the hope that the athletes will be worthy representa- tives of Ukraine at Turin. Sports, Youth and Family Minister Yurii Pavlenko, Ukrainian National Olympic Committee President Serhii Bubka, Kyiv Oleksander Omelchenko and UMC mobile communica- tions company head Adam Wojacki also participated in the sendoff ceremony. UMC is the general sponsor of the National Olympic Committee and the Ukrainian Olympic team. President Yushchenko met with the team separately on February 3 to wish the athletes victory and to sign the flag of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Ukraine, Ukrinform reported. Mr. Yushchenko announced that he had signed a decree on the creation of a National Council on Physical Education and Sports a few hours earlier, and that he would head the council. The Ukrainian president said the council would convene its first meeting after the Olympic Games to discuss all urgent issues. NOC President Bubka noted that those include the need Official Website of the for an extensive network of specialized sports bases and the President Viktor Yushchenko and National Olympic Committee of Ukraine President Serhii Bubka completion of the Olympic House. with a group of Ukrainian Olympians before they left for Turin, Italy. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 No. 7

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Terms of new gas deal remain unclear Kyiv removes envoy to Canada Putin, today is neither a democracy by Jan Maksymiuk tal of 5 million hrv ($1 million U.S.) with nor one of the world’s leading economies, RFE/RL Newsline stakes shared evenly between its founders. KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko and I seriously question whether the [Group The same day UkrGazEnergo and on February 7 relieved Mykola of Eight] leaders should attend the [upcom- Officials in Kyiv announced on RosUkrEnergo signed a contract under Maimeskul of the position of Ukraine’s ing] St. Petersburg summit,” mosnews.com February 2 the finalization of a gas deal which Ukraine is to obtain 34 billion cubic ambassador to Canada in connection reported. Sen. McCain argued that “the from January, under which Ukraine is meters of gas in 2006 and some 60 billion with a new job. Mr. Maimeskul had Kremlin ... continues to pursue foreign and now to receive gas from Russia at $95 per cubic meters annually in 2007-2010. served as Ukraine’s envoy to Canada domestic policies strongly at odds with our 1,000 cubic meters. According to Kyiv, Naftohaz Ukrayiny spokesman Eduard since March 20, 2004. (Ukrinform) interests and values.” He noted that Russia’s the price of $95 is to remain unchanged Zaniuk told journalists in Kyiv on “broadcast media are Kremlin-controlled, New Rada session is opened for five years. However, RosUkrEnergo, February 2 that neither gas storage facili- as are the Parliament, the provincial gover- a Swiss-based company that was made ties nor gas pipelines in Ukraine will be KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman nors and the judiciary. All of these were free the monopolist of gas supplies to included in UkrGazEnergo’s charter capi- and independent when ... Putin took office.” Ukraine, signals that this is not quite so. Volodymyr Lytvyn opened the ninth ses- tal. Mr. Zaniuk was thus addressing the sion of the Verkhovna Rada of the fourth (RFE/RL Newsline) On February 2 Naftohaz Ukrayiny, common fears in Ukraine that Moscow is Ukraine’s gas transportation company, convocation on February 7. All members Population below 47 million using gas price as a weapon to gain control of the government, Prime Minister Yurii signed an accord with the Swiss-based gas over Ukraine’s gas transportation network. Yekhanurov, representatives of judicial K YIV – The State Statistics Committee trader RosUkrEnergo in Kyiv on the cre- In a no less important statement, Mr. bodies, the ombudsperson, the Central announced in mid-January that Ukraine’s ation of a joint venture to sell gas in Zaniuk announced that the new gas price Election Committee chairman, the population has fallen to 46,958,740 as of Ukraine. Both companies were obliged to for Ukraine will remain stable for five Accounting Chamber chairman, the State December 1, 2005. As of December 1, do so by a framework gas agreement of years: “Responding to questions from Property Fund chairwoman and other Ukraine’s urban population was 31,886,688 January 4, under which RosUkrEnergo skeptics in Ukrainian political circles, we officials were present at the session hall. (a decrease of 0.01 percent, or 3,534) while became the monopolist of gas supplies to announce that the gas price defined in Mr. Lytvyn said the session will “have a its rural population was 15,072,052 (a fall Ukraine for the next five years. this contract is fixed for five years and is clear election content.” Among the ses- of 0.2 percent, or 25,238). In the January- Ukrainian Prime Minister Yurii $95 for 1,000 cubic meters.” sion’s main tasks the chairman listed pre- November 2005 period, the country’s popu- Yekhanurov praised the five-year accord as If this is really so, then the new contract vention of any spontaneous or uncivilized advantageous for Ukraine. But he told jour- represents a major victory for Kyiv, which lation fell by 0.7 percent, or 322,060. manifestations, which are possible during nalists that he is also fully aware that the had initially been promised the price of According to the nationwide census con- the election campaign. (Ukrinform) document may be bitterly criticized by his $95 per 1,000 cubic meters just for the first ducted in December 2001, Ukraine’s popu- political opponents. “My future political lation was 48,415,500, including half of 2006. The victory seems to be even Yanukovych says SES is solution career is not important here. It is important more significant if one takes into account 32,538,000 in urban areas and 15,877,500 that it will be warm in your apartments that the gas price for Ukraine is lower than – Former Ukrainian Prime in rural areas. (Ukrainian News Agency, Action Ukraine Report) tomorrow. In summer you may curse me to that charged by Gazprom for all other Minister Viktor Yanukovych, head of the your souls’ content. But in winter you may post-Soviet countries except Belarus. For opposition Party of the , told jour- Envoy presents letter of credence find a good word for me,” he said. example, Gazprom set the new gas price nalists in Donetsk on February 6 that the On January 4 Naftohaz Ukrayiny, for Moldova and Georgia at $110 per creation of a Single Economic Space with WASHINGTON – Ambassador RosUkrEnergo and Gazprom signed a 1,000 cubic meters. Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia is “the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of deal whereby Ukraine is to obtain 34 bil- However, the same day, RosUkrEnergo only realistic way for resolving the gas cri- Ukraine to the United States of America Dr. lion cubic meters of gas in 2006 from managers Konstantin Chuichenko and Oleg sis,” the Ukrayinska Pravda website report- Oleh Shamshur presented his letter of cre- Russia for $95 per 1,000 cubic meters – Palchikov cast doubt on Mr. Zanyuk’s ed. According to Mr. Yanukovych, that dence and a letter of recall of his predeces- up from $50 in previous years. The deal words. Mr. Chuichenko said the price may conclusion was reached during recent talks sor to Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza also provided for the creation of a joint be changed depending on the price of between his party and the pro-Kremlin Rice on January 24. As reported by the venture between Naftohaz Ukrayiny and Russian gas for RosUkrEnergo. In turn, Mr. Unified Russia. “Our countries should have Embassy of Ukraine in the United States RosUkrEnergo to sell gas in Ukraine and Palchikov asserted that there is no “price a single energy policy,” he noted. “Russia and Ukrinform, Dr. Shamshur was born in share profits from it. formula” included in the contract, adding is vigorously integrating with the European Kyiv on July 6, 1956. In 1978 he graduated Critics of the deal said it was valid for that the price for Ukraine will depend on economic space, and it is very important from the international relations and interna- only the first six months of the year as the price of Central Asian gas in the total tional law department of Kyiv State regards the gas price for Ukraine, simul- for Ukraine not to let this process bypass gas volume supplied to the country. University. He worked as a counselor of taneously pointing out that it set the gas our state.” (RFE/RL Newsline) And, Andrii Halushchak, Naftohaz Ukraine’s Permanent Representation to transit tariff for Gazprom for five years. Ukrayiny’s representative on the McCain criticizes Putin United Nations headquarters and other Such critics also slammed the govern- UkrGazEnergo supervisory board, admitted international organizations in Geneva. ment for making RosUkrEnergo – a that a change in the gas price may actually MUNICH – U.S. Sen. John McCain told Between 1998 and 2003 he worked as a dubious intermediary created by take place, but only with the consent of both the Munich security conference on Gazprom – the monopolist responsible sides. If there is no such consent, he added, February 4 that “under [President Vladimir] (Continued on page 14) for gas supplies to Ukraine. the sides should appeal to court. Thus, it On January 10 the Verkhovna Rada seems that the deal does not end the gas passed a motion of no-confidence in supply controversy between Kyiv and FOUNDED 1933 Prime Minister Yekhanurov’s Cabinet Moscow and may lead to a renewed row in over the gas deal. Mr. Yekhanurov and the longer run, particularly if Turkmenistan, HE KRAINIAN EEKLY his ministers, however, have remained in a major gas source for Ukraine, moves to TAn English-languageU newspaperW published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., office due to a constitutional reform that increase its price for RosUkrEnergo. a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. 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by Zenon Zawada Ukrainian village, a destination no other Kyiv Press Bureau doctor wanted to go because of the mea- ger conditions. “One Year After” is a four-part series In theory, each Ukrainian village is sup- examining the lives of Ukrainians one posed to have an “FAP” (“Feldshersko- year after the Orange Revolution. This Akusherskyi Punkt”) or a Medical- final installment features Olha Boyko, a Obstetrics Center. However, many lack 23-year-old Lviv resident completing her even one of those. Those FAPs that do exist last year of medical school. (Previous are typically dilapidated buildings that articles in this series took a look at life in often lack plumbing, furniture and win- , eastern Ukraine; Yevpatoria, dows. , in ; and the For water, a doctor or medic would capital, Kyiv, in central Ukraine.) rely on a well that could be as far as 100 meters away. Most FAPs offer no tools or LVIV – The Orange Revolution medicine for the doctors to work with. defined her generation, said Olha Boyko, 23. That’s why she’ll fondly remember On their paltry salaries, some doctors the events and never regret taking part. have to obtain equipment themselves. Yet the revolution did not change the Some villages offer no place for a doc- fact that the Ukrainian government will tor to live, while others offer a very mea- choose her medical specialty and require ger home. her to work, likely by herself, in a village Imagining her internship, Ms. Boyko for her medical internship. has already begun to imagine the hardship. “I talked to the interns who work “Working on enthusiasm alone is very dif- there,” said Ms. Boyko, who is in her final ficult,” she said with a sheepish laugh. year of studies at Lviv National Medical The Ukrainian government was able to Lviv, population 758,500, is western Ukraine’s principal city. Ninety-five percent University. “There’s no medicine, no force its scholarship students to accept of the Lviv Oblast is ethnic Ukrainian. Viktor Yushchenko won 94 percent of the tools, no instruments. In these conditions, such conditions because these people had vote in the Lviv Oblast in the third round of the 2004 presidential elections. you can’t treat or help people.” no other choice. Those students who paid One year after, most Ukrainians who their own tuition had no debt and could- these positions are already filled. Ms. Boyko and others wrote a letter to took part in the Orange Revolution real- n’t be forced into the villages. Meanwhile, small towns and villages are the minister and gathered signatures ize that it was the first step in what will According to the decree, if Ms. Boyko desperate for family doctors, the type that demanding that he rescind the order. be a decades-long process in creating a refused, she would have to repay the could offer broad, basic medical treatment. They refrained from a student strike civil society in Ukraine. government her entire tuition at once. Nevertheless, scholarship students because the Ukrainian government for- It’s a challenge that makes a two-and- When she commenced her studies in were furious that the new government – bids doctors from such taking part in a-half week revolution pale in compari- 2000, annual tuition at Lviv National supposedly more democratic and pro- such acts because they threaten the pub- son. Those graduating, such as Ms. Medical University was about $850 a Western – was limiting their freedom of lic welfare. Boyko, are bracing for the task, admit- year. It has risen every year since then to choice. During the last week in April, Ms. tedly with reluctance and concern. about $2,000 a year, Ms. Boyko said. “I agree that villages need doctors, and Boyko and 30 classmates traveled to Ms. Boyko believes the government Refusing now would require a $12,000 students agree,” Ms. Boyko said, reflect- Kyiv. The boldest demonstrators set up a should have already set as its priority cre- payment – an astronomical sum for stu- ing the position held by most students. tent city at Mariinskyi Park and staged a ating minimal working conditions for dents such as Ms. Boyko. “If the government created acceptable hunger strike. Some protesting students medical interns, the nation’s future doctors. As if that weren’t enough, the Orange conditions to work as a doctor, then we arrived wearing orange scarves, symboli- Instead, upon graduation in June she Revolution brought in more restrictions would go and work there.” cally taking them off and throwing them faces a three-year internship that will for medical students. Shy and gentle to an extreme, Ms. onto the ground in protest. likely pay $80 a month, requiring her to Within a month of his appointment, Boyko doesn’t seem like the protesting “This is not what we fought for!” work at least two jobs, “if not three,” just the new health minister, Mykola type. However, it was the Orange some shouted. to make ends meet, she said. Polishchuk, issued a decree cutting the Revolution that gave her and other med- Eventually, Minister Polishchuk con- number of medical specialties in ical students the inspiration to challenge fronted the students, essentially telling “This is not what we fought for” Ukraine’s universities from 54 to 16. the Health Ministry’s February 2005 them that the government was working both in their best interests and in the Not all Ukrainian medical students are In the same decree he increased the decree. nation’s interest, Ms. Boyko said. forced to accept medical specialties and a length of internships by two years. “Before, we wouldn’t have even had President Viktor Yushchenko also designated assignment. Therefore, an internship would last the idea to strike,” Ms. Boyko said. greeted the students, assuring them he In April 2004, the Ministry of Health between three and five years. “Until the revolution, we weren’t taught would help them reach a compromise. led by Andrii Pidaev forced Ms. Boyko Dr. Polishchuk had good intentions, to do such things. The Orange However, there was no compromise. and all medical students on government most authorities believe. Revolution gave us the inspiration.” Only after Mr. Yushchenko fired his scholarships to sign agreements requiring Students graduating with narrow med- Students from all over Ukraine Cabinet of Ministers on September 8, them to perform their internships, typi- ical specialties, such as ultrasound diag- descended upon the Ministry of Health in 2005, did any change take place. The cally three years, where it needed them nostics or infant neurology, are unable to April to protest the decree. most. More than likely, that meant a find jobs in Ukraine’s large cities because At Lviv National Medical University, (Continued on page 10) POLITICAL BLOC PROFILE: The Our Ukraine coalition by Zenon Zawada most Ukrainian political experts agreed. ably will have to form a coalition with Kyiv Press Bureau Our Ukraine Bloc’s Top Five “Sooner than anything, it’ll be Party either the Party of the Regions or the Electoral List of the Regions,” said Mr. Donii, who is Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, it’s unlikely that During the 2006 parliamentary elec- 1. Yurii Yekhanurov, prime minister on the Socialist Party’s electoral list. Mr. Yekhanurov will return as prime min- tion campaign, The Ukrainian Weekly will “But without Our Ukraine, a majority ister, said Ivan Lozowy, president of the profile the leading political blocs. This 2. Anatolii Kinakh, National Security coalition is impossible.” Kyiv-based Institute of Statehood and week we feature the Our Ukraine bloc. and Defense Council secretary The Our Ukraine bloc is the most pro- Democracy. American and pro-European alternative 3. Borys Tarasyuk, foreign affairs minister Party leadership allocated the next KYIV – “Not Words, But Actions” for Ukrainian voters, political experts two electoral positions to leaders of par- was President Viktor Yushchenko’s 4. Olha Herasymyuk, political and talk said, as it firmly supports European ties that joined the bloc. maxim ever since he formed the Our show host Union and North Atlantic Treaty National Security and Defense Ukraine coalition in July 2001. Organization membership. Following the events of the past year, 5. Ruslana Lyzhychko, pop star Under President Yushchenko’s leader- (Continued on page 17) during which “the bandits” never sat in ship, it strongly supports free market eco- prison and the oligarchs kept their swiped nomic policies for Ukraine, strongly differ- Bloc’s campaign chief. Our Ukraine Bloc’s booty, the phrase required a little tinkering. entiating itself from the other political blocs. Member- Parties So “Action and Force” (“Diya ta Syla”) The Our Ukraine bloc is currently Similar to other political blocs, Our is now Our Ukraine’s slogan in its cam- polling in second place for the March 26 Ukraine supports a high degree of social Christian-Democratic Union Party paign for the March 26 parliamentary elec- parliamentary elections. spending, which was demonstrated in the tions, referring to the pro-democracy However that doesn’t necessarily matter, 2005 and 2006 budgets. Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists said Oles Donii, chair of the Kyiv-based protests that took place in , The Our Ukraine bloc opposes giving the Our Ukraine People's Union and Mukachiv in the past several years and Center for Political Values Research, which official status in Ukraine. resulted in the formation of Mr. is supported by Ukrainian citizens and is The most visible figure in the Our Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Yushchenko’s bloc. seeking international financing. Ukraine bloc is President Yushchenko, People's Rukh of Ukraine “These political forces were the avant Any bloc wanting to form a majority however the electoral list is led by Prime garde that organized the ‘maidan’,” said coalition will have to join with Our Minister Yurii Yekhanurov. Sobor Ukrainian Republican Party Roman Bezsmertnyi, the Our Ukraine Ukraine, said Mr. Donii, a view with which Given that the Our Ukraine bloc prob- 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 No. 7

OBITUARY:PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Joseph Joseph Lesawyer, Lesawyer,baseball for NYU president and took up golf andof ten- the Ukrainian National Associationof the American (1961-1978) Revolution and the former supreme president of the Ukrainian nis after college. For many years he could 100th anniversary of Ukrainian immigra- National Association, died on Tuesday, be seen on the tennis courts of the UNA’s tion to America. January 31, at the age of 94. Mr. Lesawyer Soyuzivka estate in Kerhonkson, N.Y. In addition he was active in the served as UNA supreme president for 17 Mr. Lesawyer served in the U.S. Army Democratic Party, playing major roles on years, and prior to that as supreme vice- in 1941-1945, attaining the rank of cap- both the state and national levels, in the president. tain in Gen. George Patton’s famed 3rd National Fraternal Congress of America, Mr. Lesawyer was born on May 25, Army. He earned the Bronze Star for dis- the New Jersey Fraternal Congress, the 1911, in Northampton, Pa., the son of Ilko tinction in service during the Battle of the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce and and Anna Lysohir. That same year the fam- Bulge. Later he became one of the the Liberty State Park Commission. ily moved to Hudson, N.Y., where Mr. founders of the nationwide organization In 1997 Mr. Lesawyer was honored at a Lesawyer completed his secondary educa- of Ukrainian American Veterans. dinner at New York sponsored by the tion. He enrolled at New York University On June 22, 1946, he married Mary Ukrainian Institute of America, the and in 1933 received a bachelor’s degree in Wallick, originally of Shamokin, Pa., a lyric Ukrainian Congress Committee of America commerce. He was a real estate broker in soprano with the New York City Opera. and the Ukrainian National Association. New York City in the 1930s and 1940s and He was elected supreme vice-president During his many years of service to the was on the Real Estate Board of New York. of the UNA in 1950, serving his first term Ukrainian community, Mr. Lesawyer He was also an avid athlete. He played through 1954; he was elected to another received many honors, among them the Shevchenko Freedom Award, the World Congress of Free Ukrainians Award and the Ukrainian Institute Recognition Award. Mr. and Mrs. Lesawyer, who resided for many years in Scotch Plains, N.J., later retired to the North Port area in Capt. Joseph Lesawyer, U.S. Army Florida, where they were active members of the Presentation of the Most Holy four-year term in that post in 1958. Mother of God Ukrainian Catholic In 1961, after the death of longtime Church (known locally as St. Mary’s). In UNA Supreme President Dmytro recent years they had resided at an assist- Halychyn, Mr. Lesawyer became the fra- ed living facility in the Orlando area. ternal organization’s president. After The Lesawyers were known as sup- serving the remainder of Mr. Halychyn’s porters of various educational and chari- term, Mr. Lesawyer was elected table organizations, among them the supreme president in 1962 to the first of Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute what would be four terms as the UNA’s and the Ukrainian Institute of America. top executive officer. He served as A funeral liturgy was held on Monday, supreme president through mid-1978. February 6, at St. Mary’s Church with Mr. Lesawyer was active in many the Rev. Severyn Kovalyshin, pastor, Ukrainian organizations, including the officiating. Interment was to take place UNA Supreme President Joseph Lesawyer at his desk in the newly built UNA Ukrainian Professional Society of North at Indiantown Gap Military Cemetery in headquarters building, a project for which he was best known. America (president, 1951-1953), the Pennsylvania, where Mr. Lesawyer’s Ukrainian Congress Committee of wife, was buried after her death on June America (treasurer, 1949-1962; executive 13, 2004. vice-president, 1962-1978). In 1967, at the The Ukrainian National Association first World Congress of Free Ukrainians, was represented at the funeral by Martha he was elected a vice-president on the Lysko, first vice-president; Ulana WCFU presidium; in later years he was a Diachuk, former president; Walter member of the WCFU plenum. Hetmansky, former branch secretary in In 1964 he was named by President Boston; and Walter Boyd Boryskewich, Lyndon B. Johnson to serve as a member of secretary of Branch 381 in Florida. the National Citizens’ Committee for the Also present was a delegation of Community Relations Service. As President Ukrainian American Veterans, headed by Johnson noted, the service was established Atanas T. Kobryn, past national com- by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to “assist mander and member of the national exec- communities in preventing or resolving utive board. According to Mr. Kobryn, racial disputes and tensions through reason, among the veterans present were mem- persuasion and conciliation.” bers of North Port’s Cpl. Roman G. Mr. Lesawyer was executive director of Lazor Post 40, led by Post Commander the Shevchenko Memorial Committee of Ihor Hron. UAV members served as hon- America Inc. that was responsible for the orary pallbearers and delivered a final erection in 1964 of the monument to Taras salute to their departed comrade in arms. Shevchenko in Washington. He also served Mr. Kobryn also noted that the local for many years on the board of the Ukrainian American community joined UNA Supreme President Joseph Lesawyer (left) during the dedication of the UNA Ukrainian Institute of America, was a board Mr. Lesawyer’s nephews and nieces – headquarters building on February 22, 1974. Sealing the cornerstone with him are member of the United Ukrainian American Greg Wallick with his wife, Michelle; U.S. Sen. Dominick V. Daniels (second from left), Supreme Treasurer Roman Relief Committee, was an officer of the Kathy Stumpf with her husband, Bob; Slobodian (top right) and Supreme Director for Canada Paul Yuzyk (bottom right). Ukrainian Youth League of North America AnnMarie Curran with her husband, and served on the Visiting Committee for Larry; and Dennis Kivell with his wife, Ukrainian Studies at Harvard University. Nan – in paying their last respects. In 1976 he was national chairman of The family has requested that memo- the Ukrainian Bicentennial Committee rial donations be made in Mr. that sponsored a program in Washington Lesawyer’s name to any Ukrainian chari- on the occasion of the 200th anniversary ty or to the Alzheimer’s Association.

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Andrew Nynka, Ika Koznarska Casanova leave The Weekly’s staff PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Editors Andrew Nynka volunteered to serve at the Kyiv While at The Weekly, Ms. Casanova Nynka and Ika Koznarska Casanova Press Bureau while The Weekly searched prepared such noteworthy series as “On have left The Ukrainian Weekly’s edito- for a new bureau chief. Mr. Nynka served the state of contemporary Ukrainian rial staff effective February 6. in that capacity through mid-January, church art and architecture” (a 17-part Mr. Nynka, an editor with The Weekly covering some of the most important series) and “The Ukrainian Museum and since April 2001 who worked out of its developments of the Orange Revolution. Ukrainian culture after independence” home office in Parsippany, N.J., will In addition to covering politics, both (four parts). continue to contribute to the newspaper in Ukraine and the United States, Mr. She conducted interviews with such as a special correspondent. He hopes to Nynka’s reporting covered religion, notables as former Soviet political pris- find work as a daily newspaper reporter. Ukrainian society, economics, culture oner Leonid Plyushch, Education During his time at The Weekly, Mr. and a variety of other topics. Minister Petro Talanchuk and writer and Nynka covered Ukraine’s participation in While working for The Weekly, Mr. political activist Ivan Drach. the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Nynka earned a master’s degree in jour- Ms. Casanova holds a B.A. in French Lake City, Utah, both as a reporter and a nalism from New York University. He and an M.A. with an A.B.D. in comparative photographer. He also covered Ukrainian also holds a B.A. in political science and literature from New York University. She President Viktor Yushchenko’s speech economics from Muhlenberg College in also studied abroad in Innsbruck, Austria, before a joint meeting of Congress and his Allentown, Pa., and pursued additional and at New York’s Parsons School of meeting in the White House with President studies in photography. Design. She is proficient in French, German George W. Bush in 2005. During one of Ms. Casanova was on The Weekly and Spanish and travels extensively. his trips to Ukraine he reported from a jail staff as an assistant editor in 1980-1981. Ms. Casanova is executive director of in Kharkiv, Ukraine. His reporting duties After working for the journal Suchasnist the Music and Art Center of Greene also took him to the United Nations head- and The Ukrainian Museum in New County, which is based in Jewett, N.Y. quarters in New York City. York, she re-joined the staff part-time as The Weekly staffers bid a fond farewell In early December 2004, when Roman an assistant editor in 1990. She was later to Mr. Nynka and Ms. Casanova during Woronowycz, The Weekly’s Kyiv corre- Andrew Nynka named an editor and assumed the duties the first week of February, wishing their spondent at the time, left the staff, Mr. Andrew Nynka of arts editor of The Weekly. colleagues well in their future endeavors.

Nikopol. floating 32 percent of its shares. plified and straightened out in many International business... When addressing the subject of re-pri- Half of the buyers represented the senses,” Mr. Kinach said. “There’s still a (Continued from page 1) vatization policy, Ms. Semeniuk said United Kingdom, and investors from 11 way to go. The tax regime is still rather The highest-ranking official to show she’d like the issue to be off the table other countries bought shares. complex, but it is not abused as often and was 31-year-old Minister of the because no laws currently exist on the The company’s market capitalization frequently in the past.” Economy Arsenii Yatseniuk who offered matter. increased by 20 percent after the IPO, The recent changes, or attempted vague and unclear economic data and “I understand that today, sharp steps to said Mr. Kinach, who serves as a board changes, with prime ministers projects summations. the left or the right aren’t positive for director and owns options in the compa- instability and inconsistency to foreign The 2005 economic results were neu- Ukraine,” Ms. Semeniuk said. ny. investors, added Mr. Kinach. As a result, tral to positive, Mr. Yatseniuk said. “Moreover, even if someone would like Mr. Kinach formerly chaired the many investors are waiting until after the Ukraine’s 2005 Gross Domestic Product re-privatization to occur, we will never Ukrainian office of the European Bank March 26 parliamentary elections to allow it without laws in place.” (GDP) growth was higher than the for Reconstruction and Development. He make decisions, he said. That was an indirect reference to Yulia European Union’s, he said, without nam- gained much of his experience working “I think that’s a big mistake,” he said. Tymoshenko, who had expressed a very ing a figure. for Toronto Dominion Bank and earned a “Conditions are only going to improve in aggressive plan for re-privatization when Earlier in January, Mr. Yatseniuk had master’s of business administration from Ukraine. They will not get worse. Those she was prime minister. Businessmen and reported real GDP growth of 2.4 percent Columbia University in New York. who are fence-sitting are missing the economists blamed this plan for scaring in 2005 as a tentative figure. XXI Century’s main objectives include boat.” off investors, both foreign and domestic. Vasyl Yurchyshyn, an economist at doubling company size in the next two Investors favor the Our Ukraine bloc Ms. Semeniuk is a member of the the Razumkov Center for Economic and years, Mr. Kinach said, as well as careful- winning the March 26 elections, but the Socialist Party, which is running in the Political Research in Kyiv, said a final ly leveraging capital base and assets using bloc will have to form a coalition to secure elections as its own bloc. a wide variety of financial instruments. the majority in the Parliament, he said. GDP figure isn’t yet available. As for privatization of those properties Inflation increased by 10 percent, Mr. Speaking with The Weekly, Mr. Successful and open elections free still owned by the government, Ms. Kinach said the Orange Revolution from abuse will be critical for investors, Yatseniuk said, which was lower than Semeniuk said the State Property Fund 2004. Producer prices were twice as low turned Ukraine’s image around “180 Mr. Kinach said. Then, a coalition gov- will support such efforts but under strict degrees” and put Ukraine on the map for ernment led by Our Ukraine would have in 2005 as compared to 2004 he said. oversight in which the buyer will proper- More precisely, inflation rose 10.3 per- international businessmen and investors. to form an economic and social program ly develop the property. Under President Yushchenko’s leader- that it will implement, he said. cent in Ukraine in 2005 and 12.4 percent “If you don’t execute your investment in 2004, according to Mr. Yurchyshyn. ship, business conditions have improved “The big problem in this part of the responsibilities, the property returns to because there is no longer a risk that the world has been many programs In 2006, the Ukrainian economy will government ownership and is again up grow at about the same rate as the prior government will put administrative pres- announced and very few executed,” he for competitive bidding,” she explained. sure on businesses for political reasons. underscored. year, Mr. Yatseniuk said. During Ukraine’s privatization, 98,000 Though he represented the Ukrainian Foreign investors can expect a faster Renaissance Capital is a -based properties were privatized, Ms. pace of reforms and more stable business investment bank with a Kyiv affiliate. It government and was speaking in Semeniuk said, of which 83,000 became Ukraine’s , Mr. Yatseniuk environment, he noted. is recognized as one of the top invest- small businesses, 11,000 became stock- “The rules of the game have been sim- ment banks in the Russian . delivered his remarks in Russian. holder companies, and 4,000 were Speaking in Ukrainian, State Property incomplete construction projects. Fund Chair Valentyna Semeniuk went to In 2005 the Property Fund raised about great lengths to assure investors that no $4.7 million in budget revenues from pri- foreign investment will be re-privatized. vatizations. Currently, 65 properties are in “Of the properties that were re-priva- the process of privatization, she said. tized, none belonged to foreign Ms. Semeniuk said she foresees the investors,” Ms. Semeniuk said. “This day when stocks for privatizations will involved domestic investors who neglect- be offered and traded on Ukrainian tele- ed to fulfill their responsibilities. I always vision on a Ukrainian exchange, and that tell foreign investors, ‘You don’t have any Ukrainian companies will begin selling reason to fear that your property will be their shares on the world’s major taken.’ ” exchanges. She stressed that the Nikopol She stressed that all privatizations will Ferroalloy Plant was illegally privatized, occur on a transparent basis and foreign which is why the government took back investors are welcome to take part. control. Prominent Ukrainian Canadian busi- While Ms. Semeniuk favors govern- nessman Jaroslav Kinach also spoke at ment repossessions, she is against re-pri- the conference, representing XXI vatizations and opposed the Century Investments, a Kyiv-based real Kryvorizhstal auction, even submitting estate development and property man- her resignation over it. President Viktor agement firm that became the first Yushchenko refused to accept her resig- Ukrainian company to have its shares nation. traded on a major stock exchange. When asked by The Weekly whether On December 12, 2005, XXI Century Cutty Sark Co. Cutty Sark Co. or not she favored re-privatization, Ms. Investments shares began trading on the State Property Fund Chair Valentyna Former World Bank President James Semeniuk said she wouldn’t comment London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Semeniuk assured international Wolfensohn told international investors until the process reached that far. But she Investments Market. The initial public investors that their investments would gathered in Kyiv that Ukraine is worth hinted that she’d be against privatizing offering (IPO) raised $140 million by not be re-privatized. a second look. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 No. 7

LETTER TO THE EDITOR HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T U W would turn a profit. Unfortunately, Mr. Joseph Lesawyer, 1911-2006 Masnyj fails to recognize the change in Reacting to reports demographics. True, the newer genera- tion of Ukrainians, and older ones as “... Whenever my father’s friends got together I would hear discussion about about Soyuzivka well, “with all their Ph.D’s” can afford a Dear Editor: Soyuz. UNA or Ukrainian National Association were terms that were awe- week at Soyuzivka. In fact, they can I read the reports submitted by several inspired in those days. They represented that colossus that stood astride every afford better and that’s the problem. members of the UNA Executive important Ukrainian community in America and like a shining light beckoned all Ukrainians are no longer content Committee and, in a nutshell, the of our people to a better way of life. To become supreme president of that mighty spending days sitting at poolside dis- Ukrainian National Association’s finan- organization could not even be a dream – it was that remote and that far away. cussing President Viktor Yushchenko’s cials need serious shoring up. Some pro- Yet it happened today. It couldn’t have been possible anywhere excepts in mira- policies. Instead they’re vacationing in posed solutions call for hiring more cles countries such as the United States or Canada.” Europe, skiing in Utah and wine-tasting salespeople to sell more insurance poli- These were the words of Joseph Lesawyer in his acceptance speech on May in Napa Valley. In order to be a viable cies and to spin off the deficit-ridden 24, 1961, after he was unanimously elected by the UNA Supreme Assembly as vacation destination, Soyuzivka needs supreme president of the organization following the untimely and unexpected Soyuzivka into a non-profit cultural a massive upgrade and I doubt if there death of Dmytro Halychyn. foundation. are adequate funds to support such a ren- The following year, Mr. Lesawyer, the American-born son of Ukrainian immi- As much as I would like both organi- ovation. A new TV in each room isn’t grants to the United States, was elected to the first of his four terms as president of zations to succeed and prosper, I’m not as going to cut it. the Ukrainian National Association, in his words, “the largest, most dynamic and optimistic as is Zenon B. Masnyj in his Realistically, day-trippers and week- financially the most powerful Ukrainian fraternal group in the free world.” In 1962, letter to the editor in the February 5 issue enders are probably Soyuzivka’s salva- it should be noted, the Ukrainian National Association had 82,000 members in 500 of The Ukrainian Weekly. Basically, he tion. The younger generation of branches throughout the United States and Canada, and assets of $26 million. suggests that Ukrainians forego the Ukrainians are there to socialize and It was a time when the UNA was growing, a time when the organization could $5,000 life policies with the $400 single party. They spend money on parking think large and look boldly into the future. The UNA was a prestigious organization premium, the UNA’s “bread and butter” fees, beverages and food, which are good that played a principal role in the Ukrainian community; it was represented on the product, and “buy policies in real-world cash generators. Current management is boards of other leading Ukrainian community organizations, from the World Congress amounts,” whatever that may be. He sug- to be commended for also of Free Ukrainians and the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America to the United gests that this increase in premiums will promoting special events and weddings, Ukrainian American Relief Committee and the Shevchenko Memorial Committee. enable the UNA to pay a dividend and and catering to local interests to hold Under President Lesawyer’s leadership, the UNA continued to grow, reaching there will be a sufficient surplus to keep their functions at the resort. a peak of 89,200 members. The organization’s assets also grew, totaling $41.6 Soyuzivka afloat. Unfortunately, if Soyuzivka is to survive, million by the end of 1977. Even if this simplistic solution was it can’t rely solely on Ukrainians for During his terms in office, the UNA funded the two-volume Ukraine: A Concise valid, it assumes you can convince financial support. Encyclopedia, and the Svoboda Press continued to publish books on a variety of top- Ukrainians that the life policy is a better ics, especially history, literature and culture. President Lesawyer saw the UNA’s news- investment than the array of competing Walter Pitio papers as major assets in community life, “vital not only to the continued growth of financial products being offered by their Skillman, N.J. Soyuz but to the continued cultural development of our communities” and as “the employers, banks and investment compa- nies, and that the UNA will be around in leaders in espousing the cause of a free and independent Ukraine.” He spoke in favor The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters of more material support for Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly in order to create “a 30 or 40 years to pay the policy benefici- to the editor. Letters should be typed (dou- still more powerful press to carry on its vital work with greater effectiveness.” ary. That will be a hard sell. ble-spaced) and signed; they must be origi- He was a man of the people who cared what the people thought and worried With regard to Soyuzivka, Mr. Masnyj nals, not photocopies. about their welfare; and, although he had no children of his own, he had a special suggests that if Ukrainians spent a week The daytime phone number and address place in his heart for the youth of our community. Soyuzivka was dear to him, vacationing at the resort rather than of the letter-writer must be given for verifi- and he saw the estate as a “center of Ukrainian culture, art and education,” as merely being day-trippers, Soyuzivka cation purposes. well as a mecca for Ukrainian youth. Mr. Lesawyer will perhaps be best remembered for the 15-story UNA headquar- a contact within the Ukrainian govern- ters building constructed in Jersey City, N.J., in the early 1970s. The imposing build- ment to help bring art exhibits that are ing – our Ukrainian “khmarosiah,” or skyscraper – was seen by many as the physical Ambassador Shamshur... (Continued from page 1) based permanently in Ukraine to the U.S. manifestation of the ideal of the UNA as the “Ukrainian fortress beyond the seas.” need for American-based business invest- for temporary exhibition. But, most of all, Mr. Lesawyer will be remembered as a man of vision who After touring the museum, located at could imagine what to others seemed impossible, as a man who dared to dream. ment in Ukraine, a priority that President Viktor Yushchenko repeated during his 222 E. Sixth St., the ambassador signed His words in 1961, when he first took the helm of the UNA, were perhaps most its guest book, noting that he promised to most recent trip to the United States. indicative of his spirit: “Our resolutions that were adopted today set the present do everything he could to help promote Ambassador Shamshur, who was sights for 100,000 members. ‘Impossible,’ say all too many of our people. ‘You are Ukrainian culture. appointed to the post on December 20, shooting for the moon.’Yes, we are, and I might add so is President Kennedy.” Olha Hnateyko, president of The 2005, said he would do everything to Though the UNA never did reach that magic 100,000 mark, Joseph Lesawyer Ukrainian Museum’s board of directors, promote “Ukraine’s strong investment gave it his all. Along the way he left his mark on the UNA and our community in said she spoke with Dr. Shamshur about climate” and to show people in the so many ways. He will always be remembered as a stalwart of the Ukrainian ideas for future exhibits. She said she United States that Ukraine is a stable National Association and the Ukrainian American community. was impressed by the new ambassador’s investment. sincerity. “I believe we have done much to show “His way of thinking is in the overall Feb. that the investment climate in Ukraine is big picture, and maybe that’s why he was strong,” Dr. Shamshur said. “But it is chosen to be the ambassador,” Mrs. Turning the pages back... important that we don’t stay on the level Hnateyko said. of talking about our potential. We must Meanwhile, during his meeting with 15 move from potential to work.” UCCA officials, the ambassador Ambassador Shamshur’s visit here addressed questions dealing with the 2004 Our issue dated February 15, 2004, reported that Ecumenical included stops at the Ukrainian Institute upcoming elections to the Verkhovna Patriarch Bartholomew, leader of Orthodox Churches worldwide, of America, The Ukrainian Museum, the Rada in Ukraine, saying that he did not said in a November 2004 letter that, if the Vatican were to recog- Ukrainian National Women’s League of foresee any problems for Ukrainian citi- nize the Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, America, the Ukrainian Congress zens who want to vote in the U.S. Catholic-Orthodox relations would return to a “climate of hostility.” In his letter to the Committee of America and the Ukrainian At that meeting, Askold Lozynskyj, pope, Patriarch Bartholomew said: “it is necessary that you assure the Ukrainian people and National Home, among others. president of the Ukrainian World all the Orthodox Churches with persuasive force that you have no intention of initiating the While not an essential part of his job, Congress, urged the new ambassador to institution of the Greek-Catholic Patriarchate in Ukraine as Cardinal Kasper’s text alludes.” the new ambassador nonetheless took the be extra sensitive on the issue of recogni- Bishop Basil Losten of the Stamford Eparchy of the Ukrainian Catholic Church wrote time to meet with representatives of the tion of the Ukrainian Famine Genocide on February 10 to Patriarch Bartholomew: “I am most disturbed by this development and Ukrainian American diaspora. People of 1932-1933. Mr. Lozynskyj said the disappointed that Your All Holiness should evince such a cruel and negative attitude who took part in those meetings after- administration of President George W. towards a sister Church – especially one that does not fall under your jurisdiction. Your ward recalled having a positive first Bush had slid backward on the issue and letter ... is creating a new, unnecessary division in Catholic-Orthodox dialogue...” impression of him. he cautioned Dr. Shamshur in his The Stamford eparch also pointed out that “The question of a Patriarchate for the “I like that he’s very energetic and approach of the topic with both the presi- Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church is a matter between the Synod of Ukrainian Greek- understands the issues,” said Michael dent and the U.S. Congress. Catholic Bishops and Pope John Paul II, and concerns no other Church.” Sawkiw Jr., president of the Ukrainian During a meeting with officials from In a letter to Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the council for Promoting Congress Committee of America. “He is the Ukrainian National Women’s League Christian Unity, Bishop Losten wrote: “I prevail upon Your Eminence... to defend the willing and able, and he was very sincere.” of America President Iryna Kurowyckyj, rights and privileges of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, one that has been so “You can talk with him, and he lis- presented the ambassador with a tradition- loyal to the Holy See despite decades-long attempts of the tsarist Orthodox Church to tens,” said Maria Shust, director of The al Ukrainian greeting of bread and salt. vanquish it from the earth. ... Be the bridge builder that you can be, and not be remem- Ukrainian Museum in New York City. “Women have always played a strong bered as one who participated in an attempt to crush a faithful, struggling Church.” “He left here very pleased, and we were role in Ukrainian society overall,” very pleased.” Ambassador Shamshur said. “If this con- Source: “Patriarch of Constantinople presses pope not to recognize Ukrainian During a meeting with UCCA offi- tinues, Ukrainian society will continue to Catholic Patriarchate,” The Ukrainian Weekly, February 15, 2004, Vol. LXII, No. 7. cials, Dr. Shamshur said he would act as move forward.” No. 7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 7 Jackson-Vanik Graduation Coalition appeals for urgent action

The Jackson-Vanik Graduation pending on Jackson-Vanik graduation for and an indication of Western disinterest. the key U.S. commitments from the April Coalition is pushing to persuade the Ukraine, H.R. 1053 has the greatest • Congress must act now to pass H.R. 2005 Bush-Yushchenko Joint Statement. House of Representatives to pass legisla- receptivity in the Ways and Means 1053 to graduate Ukraine and send a pos- • Early action is supported by a broad tion in February to graduate Ukraine Committee. As of January 31, H.R. 1053 itive signal of support for a democratic, coalition, which now numbers more than from the provisions of the Jackson-Vanik had almost 40 co-sponsors. market-oriented Ukraine that is fully 250 Ukrainian American groups, Jewish Amendment. This is now a matter requir- Coalition co-chairmen Steven Pifer and integrated into the Euro-Atlantic commu- American groups, American business and ing urgent action. William Miller sent letters on February 2 nity. This is not just good for Ukraine; it NGOs. The coalition is urging Congress to to members of the Congressional is in the U.S. national interest. For more information about the take action now, due to concern that, with Ukrainian Caucus who have not yet co- • Moreover, graduating Ukraine from Jackson-Vanik Graduation Coalition, the approaching March 26 Verkhovna sponsored H.R. 1053 urging them to do so Jackson-Vanik is necessary to meet one of readers may e-mail [email protected]. Rada elections, a failure by Congress to and graduate Ukraine this month (see text act will be seen as a failure of the on the right). They also sent letters to the Ukrainian government’s foreign policy co-sponsors of H.R. 1053 and to members and an indication of Western disinterest of the Ways and Means Committee urging Congressional Ukrainian Caucus in Ukraine. Congressional inaction, thus, action this month. could be used by opponents of the gov- The coalition urges all those who are members who are not yet sponsors ernment’s pro-reform, pro-West course in interested in seeing Ukraine graduated the run-up to the parliamentary elections. from Jackson-Vanik to fax letters now Following are the names and fax Sander Levin (D-Mich.) The coalition thus seeks passage of legis- urging Congressional action this month numbers of members of the Fax: (202) 226-1033 lation by the House of Representatives in to their members in the House of Congressional Ukrainian Caucus (list- February, to send a strong signal of U.S. Representatives, to the members of the ed in alphabetical order) who have not Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) support to Ukraine. Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, and to yet co-sponsored H.R. 1053. Fax: (202) 225-1012 The Senate passed by unanimous con- members of the House Ways and Means sent legislation to graduate Ukraine in Committee. The coalition suggests faxing Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) November 2005, but the House of letters to district offices as well as to the Fax: (202) 225-2256 Fax: (202) 226-6025 Representatives adjourned without taking representatives’ Washington offices. parallel action. The House returned to Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) work on January 31. * * * Fax: (202) 225-2947 Fax: (202) 225-9665 Our understanding continues to be that there is no opposition per se to graduat- Suggested points for use in letters or in calls to congressional offices follow. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.) ing Ukraine in Congress; indeed, there is Fax: (202) 225-7810 Fax: (202) 225-5782 general agreement that Ukraine has long • In November 2005, the Senate met Jackson-Vanik’s freedom-of-emigra- passed by unanimous consent legislation to graduate Ukraine from the provisions Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tion requirements. However, the House Fax: (202) 225-1171 Fax: (202) 225-8259 Ways and Means Committee (the House of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. The committee with primary jurisdiction for House of Representatives now must take similar action, and pass the graduation Tim Holden (D-Pa.) Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) Jackson-Vanik) is reluctant to take up Fax: (202) 226-0996 Fax: (202) 225-0816 legislation until it has the opportunity to bill H.R. 1053 by the end of February. • Independent Ukraine fully meets the review the U.S.-Ukraine bilateral proto- Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) freedom-of-emigration requirements of col on Ukraine’s accession to the World Fax: (202) 225-3303 Fax: (202) 225-5879 Trade Organization (WTO). Both U.S. Jackson-Vanik, with an exemplary emi- gration record. This has been acknowl- and Ukrainian government sources report Dale Kildee (D-Mich.) Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) edged by Presidents Bill Clinton and that significant progress has been made Fax: (202) 225-6393 Fax: (202) 225-7822 on the protocol and that only a handful of George W. Bush. issues remain, but it is not known how • Urgent action is required. Ukraine Joe Knollenberg (R-Mich.) Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) soon the protocol will be finished. holds parliamentary elections in March. Fax: (202) 226-2356 Fax: (202) 225-4099 The coalition is urging members of Opponents of the Ukrainian government’s Congress to support and co-sponsor H.R. pro-reform, pro-West course will seize on Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) 1053, introduced by Rep. Gerlach of congressional inaction as a failure of the Fax: (202) 225-5745 Fax: (202) 226-7253 Pennsylvania. Of the three House bills Yushchenko government’s foreign policy Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) FOR THE RECORD: Letter Fax: (202) 226-2722 Fax: (202) 225-2455 from coalition’s co-chairmen Late-breaking news from Kyiv Below is the text of the letter sent national interest in integrating a demo- banner outraged Our Ukraine deputies, who from Jackson-Vanik Graduation cratic, market-oriented Ukraine into President wants new Constitution ran to tear it down, thereby igniting the fight Coalition to Congressional Ukrainian the Euro-Atlantic community. KYIV – In a February 9 address to the with the Communists in which Our Ukraine Caucus members who have not yet co- Ukraine fully merits graduation; it Verkhovna Rada, President Viktor National Deputy Mykola Martynenko suf- sponsored H.R. 1053. has long met Jackson-Vanik’s freedom- Yushchenko called for the creation of a con- fered a broken nose. Mr. Bondarchuk is a of-emigration requirements. Moreover, stitutional commission to draft a new frequent instigator of violence, having torn Dear Congressional Ukrainian it has created conditions in which reli- off its stand Rada Chairman Volodymyr Caucus member: gious minorities can freely practice Constitution. Ukrainian law doesn’t address Lytvyn’s microphone several times during We are writing to urge your support, their beliefs. This has been recognized many of the constitutional changes that as a member of the Congressional by both Presidents Clinton and Bush. went into effect on January 1, such as what the 2005 World Trade Organization brawls. Ukrainian Caucus, for graduating The Senate last November passed by would happen to the government should the He also was at the center of the October 15, Ukraine from the provisions of the unanimous consent legislation to grad- parliamentary majority coalition fall apart. 2005, conflict on the Khreschatyk between Jackson-Vanik Amendment by the end of uate Ukraine from Jackson-Vanik. “Unless these laws are changed, the govern- Communists and Ukrainian Insurgent Army February. In particular, we ask that you Action thus, now lies with the House. ment system cannot function in these new veterans and supporters. conditions,” he said. He told reporters after- join now in co-sponsoring H.R. 1053. The coalition supports H.R. 1053 as Election of judges postponed The Jackson-Vanik Graduation we have heard repeatedly that, of the wards that a national referendum to approve Coalition, which currently represents three House bills pending on Jackson- a revised Constitution is entirely realistic. KYIV – The Rada will not vote to elect more than 250 businesses and Vanik graduation for Ukraine, it has The January 1 reforms sharply reduced the its quota of Constitutional Court judges this Ukrainian American, Jewish American the most receptivity in the Ways and president’s powers, particularly the ability week. On February 8 those elections were and other non-governmental organiza- Means Committee. As of January 31, to appoint the prime minister and many postponed until at least next week by the tions, believes this is a matter of H.R. 1053 had almost 40 co-sponsors, Cabinet members. The president stressed Parliament’s caucus coordinating council. urgency. Congressional action in double the number in November. that he isn’t initiating a constitutional The Constitutional Court has not been able February will send a critical signal of We urgently ask you to please sup- review prior to the March 26 elections. to convene since September, because the support for strong U.S.-Ukrainian rela- port Ukraine’s graduation by joining Rada has thrice failed to elect four justices tions in the run-up to the very impor- now as a co-sponsor of H.R. 1053 and Brawl erupts in Verkhovna Rada to the 18-member bench. The Rada has also tant March 26 parliamentary elections urging your fellow members to take refused to allow the judges appointed by the KYIV – Before President Viktor in Ukraine. Lack of action, on the other like action, with the objective of pass- president and the national convention of hand, will be seized upon by opponents ing legislation by the end of February. Yushchenko addressed the Verkhovna Rada judges to be sworn in. The court is para- of Ukraine’s pro-reform, pro-West gov- on February 9, a brawl erupted between Our lyzed and thus cannot consider a number of ernment as both a failure of its foreign Sincerely, Ukraine and Communist legislators. cases, including challenges to the way polit- policy and an indication of Western Ambassador Steven Pifer and Communist Party National Deputy ical reforms were adopted in 2004 and to disinterest. Congressional action now Ambassador William Miller Oleksander Bondarchuk hung a banner in the immunity from prosecution for elected will have the optimum positive impact Co-Chairmen the Rada that read “Where are the Steps for officials approved by the Rada last fall. in Ukraine and promote the U.S. Jackson-Vanik Graduation Coalition the People?” referring to Mr. Yushchenko’s “10 Ten Steps for the People” plan. The – Zenon Zawada, Kyiv Press Bureau 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 No. 7

Museum hosts book launch for Mary Mycio’s “Wormwood Forest” by Khristina Lew haunting grandeur that should appeal to Special to The Ukrainian Weekly naturalists and fans of the apocalypse alike.” NEW YORK – Over 100 people Ms. Mycio is a longtime New Yorker attended the standing-room-only New who was among the first to move to York launch of Ukrainian American Ukraine with the burgeoning independ- author Mary Mycio’s new book, ence movement in 1989. She worked for “Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of the Popular Movement of Ukraine, or Chernobyl” at The Ukrainian Museum in the East Village on January 24. Rukh, and later began writing for news- New York was the final stop in Ms. papers and magazines around the world, Mycio’s U.S. book tour. Earlier, on including the Los Angeles Times. She has January 19, 150 people attended a launch visited the Chornobyl zone over 20 times. in Washington, and on January 22, 60 Her B.A. in biology, law degree from people met Ms. Mycio in Chicago. New York University and hands-on expe- “Wormwood Forest: A Natural rience in Ukraine put her in a unique History of Chernobyl” is a lyrical position to detail the activities within the account of the former Los Angeles Times “Zone of Alienation” surrounding the correspondent’s journeys through the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. Ms. radioactive wilderness thriving in the Mycio currently lives in Kyiv, where she Chornobyl zone, which straddles the bor- is also director of the IREX ProMedia der between Ukraine and Belarus. The Legal Defense and Education Program book has been favorably reviewed by for Ukrainian journalists. Khristina Lew Discover Magazine, Science, Bulletin of The January 24 launch at The Author Mary Mycio (center) is flanked by Maria Shust (left) of The Ukrainian the Atomic Scientists, National Catholic Ukrainian Museum, in one of the new Museum and Roksolana Stojko Lozynskyj of the Women’s Association for the Reporter and the Moscow Times. building’s expansive exhibition halls, Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine In its review, Discover wrote: was filled to capacity. Ms. Mycio pre- “Mycio’s finely detailed first-person sented a slide show of her photos from investigation of the ecology of the the Chornobyl zone, including images of world’s most famous disaster area has a lush forests, abandoned villages choked

Mary Mycio addresses the audience gathered at The Ukrainian Museum.

by underbrush, herds of Przewalski hors- three launches, and by the types of ques- es, and a solitary moose wandering tions asked. All the questions, she said, through a peat bog. “were knowledgeable and demonstrated Many of the photos were taken in a genuine concern for the subject. Some Belarus, and Ms. Mycio described the dif- of the questions were provocative, but ficulties she had in gaining entry into that not in a negative way. I expected some- country, including crossing the Ukraine- one to ask me why I used ‘Chernobyl’ Belarus border several times in order to get the necessary stamps in her passport. (Continued on page 16) Ms. Mycio also explained that while the Chornobyl zone was abandoned, for the most part, by humans in 1986, many of the animals currently living there are growing in number, like the nearly extinct Przewalski horses. “Wormwood Forest” is primarily an exploration of nature in the zone and details the flourishing of plant and animal life there. Ms. Mycio took many questions from the audience, and later signed copies of her book during a reception. She said she was “pleasantly surprised” by the number of peo- ple who attended the Mary Mycio signs copies of her new book. No. 7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 9 Immigrant family in New Jersey seized by federal officials, faces deportation by Camilla Huk his ideas for improving the device were. that this was the reason they had come. entrusted him with their papers, and he Special to The Ukrainian Weekly “It’s my parents we worry about. My They searched the house, every corner, and promised everything would go smoothly, poor mother. I don’t want to upset her – I would not let me change from my sleep- just as their present lawyer promised ELIZABETH, N.J. – The floor-to- wish we could hold her. Our parents feel wear and slippers. They handcuffed us and them they would be released within three ceiling mural, hand-painted on the cin- so guilty and responsible that this hap- took us out. My mother was hysterical. We days of January 6. They paid the first one derblock wall, depicts the Statue of pened to us, because we came here as wanted to call friends to tell them to take $10,000, but he “mislaid” their papers at Liberty. To the left is a dedication to the children – and they wanted to improve care of her but they would not allow it.” least three times. This caused a delay in firefighters who perished at the World our futures, give us a chance to prove And so she sits, with her rosary beads renewing their work visas, which brought Trade Center, which is seen below the ourselves. And now they blame them- on her neck, swollen eyes, still praying them into the labyrinth they now find statue. And, to the right, a sign on the selves,” Sviatoslav says. for a miracle. “Only God can help us themselves in. wall proclaims: “United we stand.” Vassili, 44, the father, holds back tears now,” she says, as I try to reassure her The wall faces a corridor of windows, Yet, the Karnaoukhs didn’t go “under- and words, but they come out anyway. that miracles are possible, that this is not each connected to a phone – one behind ground.” You see, they really believed that He came from Ukraine in 1991, working the way Americans treat people, that we the glass, the other before it. This is the “all men are created equal.” They really night shifts so he could pay for his are a humane nation. I tell her encourag- INS Detention Center at 625 Evans Ave. in believed that when are you willing to work schooling in computer programming. ing stories and she laughs out loud and Elizabeth, N.J. After waiting for over 45 hard, pay your taxes and not take anything The boys’ grandmother (Maria’s moth- then is surprised – because she has done minutes, having our credentials checked, I from the government (they sent their chil- er), Olga Khoma, showed a picture of nothing but cry. “You know, my husband accompanied Bob Braun, columnist and dren to Catholic schools, paying the tuition Igor graduating from St. Nicholas and I were frightened but we tried to reporter for the The Star-Ledger, to visit a themselves), that there is fairness in the Ukrainian Catholic School, in his cap and keep that fear from the boys. I prayed for family of Ukrainian detainees. American justice system and that they There, in that corridor, on February 2, gown, at the same time his father earned a miracle, for the law to change, because would join the ranks of all those immi- we waited for all four members of the his associate’s degree. it had changed so many times since we grants who came before them. They came family to be brought to their respective “Our children wanted to bring friends first arrived in 1991.” legally, and their hope was to remain so. windows, where we talked to them on the home and so we struggled, but we took Maria and Vassili came to the U.S. and “Igor wants to be [a] cardiologist and telephone. They are separated by gender. out a mortgage for 30 years and bought a were granted valid work visas. Later their Sviatoslav was doing so well in school. Vassilli Karnaoukh and his sons, home three years ago in Little Falls. You sons joined them here. Maria’s grandfa- He is very gifted, and the students from Sviatoslav and Igor, were housed in one can’t imagine how happy the boys were. ther (her father’s father) was an Stevens Institute have written an appeal cell in the men’s quarters, while their They were free. They had friends visit, American citizen. And even though he for him to remain, to finish his studies. mother, Maria, was housed alone on the they worked on their computers, they had died when she was little, she dreamed of My sons can offer much to America.” women’s side. their own room. They tell their grand- America since then. Having lost her Maria tells me. “We wanted them to have They were arrested on Ukrainian mother to be sure to take pictures of it all father at age 12, it was a connection for their chance.” so that they can still have the memories her, part of her to be here. Christmas Eve, January 6, when they * * * were surprised by 10 security officers at 6 in Ukraine, after their deportation. We Now her every night is spent in agony. a.m. and led from their home in Little worked so hard. And now all the years “You know, we are a close family. Each I am reminded of a visit by an Irish Falls, N.J., in handcuffs. The family was are lost,” Vassili says. And he waves night before we went to bed, I would go friend at home the night before, when he waiting to welcome Christ into their across the room to his wife. to the boys’ bedroom, bless them with told me stories about his ancestors. His home that day. They had begun preparing Maria, 43, apologizes to me that she [the] cross, kiss them good night, but grandfather was only 9 when he stowed the traditional foods for the Christmas looks so pale and that her hands aren’t here I cannot even touch them,” Maria away on a ship, not even knowing where Eve celebration. The “kutia” was ready. manicured. “I’m sorry. They did not let me relates. it was headed. When the ship stopped, he Since then, the boys and their father dress. They came at 6 in the morning. I They were planning to become certi- have not been allowed to comfort their woke up and thought there was fire and fied Americans. They hired a lawyer and (Continued on page 14) mother or even to touch her. They wave to each other across the room from one window to another when visitors come to see them at the same time. Each is allowed one visitor at a time. Along the other windows there were other families, other people with their visitors. I recognized a beautiful Turkish girl, who was once my waitress, and with whom I spoke at length about the educa- tional opportunities for studying English in New Jersey. At another window, a young mother holding an infant places her hands on the other side of the glass on which her husband places his. I thought they might be Greek. Children that are housed at the deten- tion center are separated from their par- ents and are housed in the children’s quarters, I was told. The parents are allowed two periods during the day when they can visit these children. Once they turn 18, they are moved to the gender- segregated adult quarters. Sviatoslav, 20, and Igor, 23, are Vassili’s and Maria’s sons. Sviatoslav is a student at Stevens Institute, and was slated to graduate this May. Igor was studying at Bergen Community College. Both boys were working full time to pay for their education and received no federal aid. The family is slated for deportation. This means the boys will not have a chance to finish their semesters. For Sviatoslav it means a dim future, after so much effort and accomplishment – he has been working on a medical device for spinal dislocation at the small compa- ny where he did everything from the physical labor to drawing up plans. If he is deported, since he has not studied in Ukraine all these years, he will not have a diploma and would have all those years to have to catch up. “We will survive,” he assures me. “We are hard-working people. We will do what- ever we have to do, but I really felt so challenged by the project I was working on ...” He continues in an animated voice, telling me how much he learned and what 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 No. 7

The April 2004 decree remained in place. square-foot) eighth-floor apartment, warmly out. When asked about the inflation that Residents of Lviv... Students such as Ms. Boyko still face the defended against the frigid, minus 6 degrees accompanied that pension increase, “of (Continued from page 3) likelihood of working in the village. Fahrenheit weather outside, the Boykos course prices will have to change a little new minister of health, Dr. Yurii reflected upon their Soviet upbringing while bit,” he commented. “We’d have to work until death discussing their daughter’s situation. Mrs. Boyko agreed with her husband Poliachenko, canceled all the provisions to earn that kind of money” of the February 2005 decree the very If the Ukrainian government paid for that the government’s policy assigning same month. To Ms. Boyko’s parents, Volodymyr, 50, her education, Mr. Boyko figured out medical students to villages was fair. The students had their victory, but it and Tetiana, 49, the system makes sense. loud, then, in return, it has the right to ask “You have to work because that is the was moot to a large extent. Sitting in their 64-square-meter (689- her to serve where it needs her help most. law,” Mrs. Boyko told her daughter as Incidentally, when Mr. Boyko had they talked in their living room. “The completed his degree in hydro-technical state provided the education, and we studies in 1978 at the Ukrainian Institute have to be thankful for that.” of Water Management Engineering in But Olha wasn’t entirely on the same , he faced a situation similar to the page. “For three years of my life I’ll have one his daughter faces. to thank them!” she retorted. “It’s like the The Soviet government had assigned Communist system.” him to Cheboksary on the Volga River to Her mother reminded Olha that they’d plan, build and improve hydro-technical have to pay the government $12,000 if structures and dams. “It was my duty,” she were to back out. “We’d have to Mr. Boyko said. “There was no ‘want to work until death to earn that kind of or don’t want to.’ We had to go. There money,” she said. “Those are the laws.” was no choice.” The generation gap that has emerged “Just like I’ll have to go!” Olha Boyko between the current university students said, then laughing at the irony. and their parents is enormous. The prior After 10 years in Cheboksary, the generation knew questioning the Soviet Boykos decided to return to western government meant trouble, if not prison. Ukraine to be closer to family. They trad- “Our parents were used to submit- ed apartments with a Lviv family; no ting,” said Khrystyna Didyk, 23, a class- money was exchanged. mate and close friend of Ms. Boyko who Fifteen years after Ukrainian inde- also studied on a government scholarship pendence, the Soviet mentality remains and faces a similar fate. ingrained in the Boykos, despite their The Orange Revolution was a direct upbringing in the village of Kryliv, result of their generation having grown Rivne Oblast. up in an independent Ukraine, Ms. When beginning the interview, Tetiana Boyko said. “Our generation had its iden- Boyko apologized that they were going to tity formed in an independent nation,” speak Ukrainian (instead of Russian). They she said. “We didn’t know what a didn’t want to comment much on politics. Communist, totalitarian regime was. However, Mr. Boyko participated in Without our generation, the Orange the Orange Revolution. Currently work- Revolution wouldn’t have happened.” ing as a professional photographer, he At least 80 percent of Lviv’s universi- proudly displayed thousands of photos he ty student population was on the maidan took during the first days of the revolu- (Independence Square in Kyiv) the first tion in Lviv, and then in Kyiv when he few days, she estimated, providing that was there for three days. Zenon Zawada critical bedrock that later proved vital in His reasons to join the revolution were launching the Orange Revolution. Volodymyr Boyko, a photographer, with his daughter Olha. simple. He went “to defend our freedom.” Ms. Didyk said she’ll never forget the As for the current divide in the Orange sight when she arrived at the tent city for forces, “Let them sort it out,” he says. the first time. “I suddenly realized that After living in Russia, he said Ukraine people were conscious of what was hap- is better off having an independent econ- pening,” she said. I was happy that I was- omy and military. n’t alone in this world, and that others Both he and his daughter Olha stayed at felt as I had.” her brother Anatolii’s single-room apart- The people on the maidan all had differ- ment in Kyiv, where he is working as an ent reasons and causes that brought them economist in the Metro supermarket chain there, she said. But they were all united in Yuri Khymych and raising a child with his wife. Olha slept the desire to change Ukraine. “We all want- on the floor alongside a friend from Lviv. ed change for the better,” Ms. Didyk said. 1928-2003 Like most residents of Halychyna, the Ms. Boyko’s generation has also quite Boykos are satisfied with the revolution readily, and rapidly, adapted itself to the and thankful that it happened. Ukrainians principles of free will, individualism and have more freedom now, and at least global capitalism. there’s more truth in the media, Mr. Boyko She estimated that about 50 percent of ART EXHIBITION said. Pensions were tripled, he also pointed (Continued on page 11)

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UKRAINIAN 2 EAST 79TH STREET INSTITUTE NEW YORK, N.Y. 10021 OF AMERICA (212) 288-8660 Olha Boyko and classmate Khrystyna Didyk stand in the halls of Lviv State Medical University's Department of Social Medicine, Economics and Defense of Health, which celebrated its 65th anniversary in December. No. 7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 11

limited, he said. They often can’t even “Then they will tell me that’s not avail- “We have a closer church, but for me, Residents of Lviv... provide the doctor a place to live. able. And then I will be told to be a family it’s worth a half-hour on the road,” Ms. (Continued from page 10) “Nobody is talking about offering the doctor for three years in a certain village.” Boyko said. “My soul is calm there and I her classmates won’t pursue medicine doctor a Jacuzzi!” he said. “But he needs Once the government assigns a spe- gain strength from the divine liturgy.” after graduating. a place to live. That’s why they don’t cialty, it’s extremely difficult to switch One sixth-year medical student, iden- want to go.” out, Ms. Boyko said. tifying himself only as Volodymyr, is Dr. Polishchuk deserves recognition When asked by The Weekly at a considering pursuing business instead of for being among the few ministers of January 25 press conference whether the becoming a doctor – a decision quite health to take decisive steps, he said. Ukrainian government had plans to common among the male graduates. But the mechanism for implementing improve conditions for medical interns, But the majority of Ms. Boyko’s class- family medicine was not effective, as Prime Minister Yurii Yekhanurov said he mates are female. Some are deciding to get evidenced by student outrage. “Several had been working on the problem of married, create fake marriages, or one way months after the maidan, the same young accommodating young professionals or another give birth to a child so that they students came out against the indecisive, while serving as oblast council chair. can’t be separated from their family to thoughtless steps of the ministry,” said Programs are under way to build resi- take a village assignment, Ms. Boyko said. Dr. Ruden. dences and facilities, funded by local city “I can’t imagine giving birth to a child just Had Health Minister Polishchuk and village budgets, the prime minister for that reason,” she added. planned his reforms better and reached said. an understanding with the students, he In his response though, Mr. “In the villages, family medicine would have had success, he believes. Yekhanurov acknowledged that keeping practically doesn’t exist” Of the 2,500 graduates he wanted to young professionals in Ukraine’s towns Dr. Vasyl Ruden will be the first to go to villages, between 600 and 800 and villages will be difficult, if not admit that the medical education system would have even volunteered, he said. impossible. needs improving. He is Olha Boyko’s “They understand what’s needed,” Dr. Ultimately, “people will decide for themselves where and in which center they will settle and which of those will Dr. Vasyl Ruden, the director of the become centers for future young profes- Lviv National Medical University’s sionals,” he said. Department of Social Medicine, To find peace and hope, Ms. Boyko Economics and Defense of Health. attends liturgy at Lviv’s Dominican Cathedral in the city center. Constructed She also enjoys hanging out in the in the Baroque style, its magnificent altar cafes of Lviv, where between classes she is adorned with marble columns and sips coffee with fellow students. robust statues of muscular saints. On one such occasion, when asked On an icy January Sunday, during what her ideal situation would be with which temperatures plunged well below her career, her face lights up as if she had zero, she rode the bus for 20 minutes already envisioned the scenario a hun- from her apartment complex on the city’s dred times over. outskirts to the downtown cathedral in “I am working in my own clinic, which order to pray. offers qualified, specialized medical Frost turned the bus into a roving icebox, help,” she said. “And it is outfitted with forming a thick sheet of ice against the win- the newest equipment: computer tomogra- dows that prevented passengers from view- phy, ultrasound diagnosis and a lab with ing the street outside. The cold from the the newest methods of diagnosis.” metal floor penetrated thick rubber soles “Wow! You’ve really asked for quite a and rendered the riders’ toes numb. situation,” said her friend Ms. Didyk When she was 16 years old, Ms. upon hearing Olha’s dream. Boyko began attending the divine liturgy But then Ms. Didyk said she essentially on a consistent basis, either once or wants the same thing, with one crucial twice a month. At about the same period requirement. “I want my work to be appre- in her life she realized she wanted to ciated in such a way that my salary would Olha Boyko prays at the Dominican Cathedral in downtown Lviv. become a doctor, in order to help others. cover my living expenses,” she said. professor of social medicine. Ruden said. “But administrative pressure More importantly, as the director of doesn’t work anymore in Ukraine. And the Lviv National Medical University’s that was the problem. You need to talk Department of Social Medicine, with people, particularly in the field of Economics and Defense of Health he said medicine. People want changes, but they he’s been trying to propose educational have to be constructive and wise.” reforms for years, but his suggestions The frustration Dr. Ruden bears for draw little response from the bureaucrats. Ukraine’s medical system became appar- He even submitted an article to a ent as he began rattling off a list of the Ukrainian medical journal, whose editor critical problems it faces. rejected it out of concern that some con- Patients don’t have the means to treat tent might offend its pharmaceutical themselves. Doctors don’t have the abili- advertisers. ty to earn an honest salary. When approached by The Ukrainian Those doctors who don’t have the abili- Weekly, Dr. Ruden immediately ty to earn a living are forced to seek bribes launched into a cathartic speech on the from their patients in order to feed their problems his students face. own families. Last year’s 57 percent Students like Ms. Boyko aren’t ready increase in doctor’s salaries meant nothing to become family doctors because the uni- because inflation eliminated those gains. versity hasn’t adequately trained them for Meanwhile, government officials and family medicine, Dr. Ruden said. They hospital administrators lack training in have been trained as specialists, he said. management and marketing, he said. “It’s nonsense!” he said. “Nothing will “Today, here in Ukraine, there isn’t a come of it. They must start from the first single position as to guiding the family year of study.” Such students need more doctor,” Dr. Ruden said. “There hasn’t practical experience on live patients, but been a single program for reforming their studies are limited to pathology, Dr. health care after 14 years of Ukrainian Ruden said. independence.” Since many of the medical students “I gain strength from the divine liturgy” themselves know they aren’t ready to become family doctors, and are aware of For Olha Boyko, Judgment Day is the fact that poor conditions await them February 20. On that day she will sit in the villages, they will find ways to face-to-face with representatives from avoid the assignments, he said. the government commission that assigns “In the villages, family medicine prac- graduating students to their internships. tically doesn’t exist,” Dr. Ruden said. She has already imagined the scenario “No one has developed it. Financing is in her mind. “They will ask me what miserly.” kind of specialty I’m interested in,” said City and village councils are responsi- Ms. Boyko, who would have liked to ble for funding medical centers in vil- specialize in infections. lages, but their budgets are extremely She continued in a downcast tone. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 No. 7

PROFILE: Bishop Emeritus Basil Losten, builder of the Church in the U.S. and Ukraine by Andrew Nynka Rev. Ivan Kaszczak, the pastor of St. John the Baptist and in June 1953 he received his bachelor’s degree from Ukrainian Catholic Church in Syracuse, N.Y. St. Basil’s College in Stamford. PARSIPPANY, N.J. – When Bishop Emeritus Basil “His spirit affects the morale of the clergy, and that Bishop Losten went on to earn a master’s degree in Losten was 8 years old he was asked one Sunday morn- filters down to the parishioners,” said the Rev. theology from Catholic University in Washington, ing what he wanted to do with his life. “I want to be like Kaszczak, regarding the general role a bishop plays before being ordained a priest at the age of 27 at the you,” he told the late Bishop Constantine Bohachevsky. within the Church. “He has a tremendous amount of Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate influence and he can change an entire diocese.” Conception in Philadelphia. In that regard, Bishop Losten’s career left a deep At age 41 he was elevated to the episcopate by Pope mark on the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Specifically, in Paul VI, and was appointed titular bishop of Stamford, Bishop Losten was credited with bringing a Arcadiopolis in Asia and auxiliary to Metropolitan- certain degree of discipline and organization to the Archbishop Ambrose Senyshyn of Philadelphia. In this eparchy. capacity Bishop Losten seemed to be in line to one day “When Losten came in people were more account- take over as the next metropolitan of the Ukrainian able,” said the Rev. Kaszczak, who has known the bish- Catholic Church in the United States, but since that time op for over 20 years and, as a former vice-rector of St. three other men have taken the helm of the Church in Basil College, the Ukrainian Catholic seminary in the U.S. Stamford, is familiar with the bishop’s work. Bishop Losten’s elevation to the episcopate was “Ukrainians knew he was a hospodar [master of the announced by the Most Rev. Luigi Raimondi, the for- house],” the Rev. Kaszczak said. “From lawnmowers to the salvation of souls, you always knew who was in charge – you always knew who was at the helm of the ship.” Indeed, in the 35 years he spent as a bishop – a dis- tinction unsurpassed by any active Ukrainian hierarch – Bishop Losten was influential in the creation of a semi- nary in Ukraine and in bringing Ukrainian priests to study at the seminary in Stamford. “He is a very powerful and influential individual,” said John Kurey, a board member and the legal counsel for the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, which is based in Chicago. In keeping with church law, Bishop Losten was required to submit his letter of resignation upon turning 75. On rare occasions, the pope has rejected resigna- tions and asked that a particular bishop continue work- Bishop Basil Losten in his official photograph from ing for the Church. Bishop Losten, who spoke with The 1977, when he was installed as eparch of Stamford. Ukrainian Weekly on several occasions over the past month, said he is able and willing to continue working A bit stunned by the response, Bishop Bohachevsky told for the Church, but said there is much work he can still the young boy that he first needed to become a priest. “I do as a retired bishop. never forgot that,” Bishop Losten said on a recent after- Yuliya Komar, a UCEF associate who holds a mas- noon in January. ter’s degree in theology and Church history, said it was Several years passed after his encounter with Bishop normal for the pope to accept the resignation of a bish- Bohachevsky, and the young Basil took his first step op age 75. The Stamford eparch in 1987. toward a life in the Catholic Church, leaving his fami- “He’s always told me, ‘I’ll be retiring, and you need ly’s sprawling farm in Chesapeake City, Md., to attend to be ready for that.’ He’s been preparing us,” Mr. St. Basil School, a grade school, in Philadelphia. Kurey said of Bishop Losten. mer apostolic delegate in the United States, on May 4, Many years later, in 1977, he would become the third Because of its role as a fund-raiser for and promoter 1971. In addition to Bishop Losten, the Rev. Raimondi eparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford, of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the UCEF has relied announced that Msgr. John Stock would become a bish- Conn., a position he held for 28 years, until Pope on men like Bishop Losten. While the bishop has had op. Benedict XVI accepted his resignation on January 3. critics among the laity who say he comes off as too The announcement of the two bishops-elect became a Spanning 49 years, Bishop Losten’s career in the Americanized and too focused on business, his support- focus of controversy as the Society for the Promotion of Church included a number of achievements: he helped ers say those traits have helped make him successful. a Patriarchal System for the Ukrainian Catholic Church foster the rebirth of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in “Sometimes he did things that were unpopular, but he protested against the method of nominating the bishops, Ukraine, developed ecumenical relations with figures had only the best intentions of the Church in mind,” stating that it was done by the Apostolic See over the outside the Ukrainian Catholic Church, and raised funds said Mr. Kurey, the UCEF official who also called the head of then Archbishop-Major Josyf Slipyj and thus in to support the Church both in the United States and bishop a good friend. violation of his rights as the leader of the Ukrainian Ukraine. Catholic Church. Youngest of 10 children As the leader of an eparchy, Bishop Losten’s respon- The move at that time so enraged people that several sibilities extended far beyond the spiritual realm. A Born on May 11, 1930, Bishop Losten is the thousand demonstrators gathered outside Immaculate bishop must also look after the day-to-day business of youngest of 10 children. The son of dairy farmers Julia Conception Cathedral in Philadelphia to protest the the Church and all of its various needs, said the Very (nee Petryshyn) and John Losten Sr., he grew up in enthronement of both bishops on May 25, 1971. Inside northeastern Maryland, near the the church, while the cathedral choir sang “axios” (wor- banks of the Chesapeake Bay, thy), some 300 protesters chanted “anaxios” (unworthy) often helping his brothers with in reference to the bishops being consecrated. daily chores. The family later In addition to their disapproval with the way in sold the dairy business but kept which the bishops were appointed, supporters of a the farmland, giving the bishop a Ukrainian Patriarchate questioned whether Bishop place to stay whenever he needed Losten would respect the idea of an autonomous to be in Washington, D.C., for Ukrainian Church. On December 7, 1977, Bishop Losten was installed work. as eparch of Stamford by the new metropolitan-arch- Though the drive from the bishop for Ukrainians in the United States, Joseph farm to Washington took Bishop Schmondiuk, who had been installed just six days earli- Losten two hours, it gave him a er. rare opportunity to visit family. In the years that followed his elevation to the episco- His oldest brother, Peter, died pate, Bishop Losten appears to have overcome the skep- of influenza during the Great ticism that greeted him as a newly tapped bishop and Depression before Bishop Losten has shown strong support for the idea of a Ukrainian was born. In the years that fol- Partriarchate. lowed, Bishop Losten would see Among the protesters at Bishop Losten’s enthrone- his oldest sister, Stella, die at 92, ment ceremony in 1971 was Dr. Leonid Rudnytzky, while another sister, Mary, died then a 36-year-old press spokesman for the Society for tragically in a car accident some the Promotion of a Patriarchal System for the Ukrainian 15 years ago in Jersey City, N.J. Catholic Church (known in shorthand form as the As a grade school student in Patriarchal Society). the 1940s, Bishop Losten moved “He has been a great bishop and embraced the patri- from his home in Maryland to Khristina Lew archal ideal,” Dr. Rudnytzky said of Bishop Losten. “He Philadelphia, where he attended has been a very good leader for his priests.” Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk, a leader of the Ukrainian Catholic St. Basil School. He was later Dr. Rudnytzky, who is now professor emeritus at La Church in Ukraine, with Bishop Basil Losten during a visit to the editorial accepted into St. Basil’s offices of Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly in 1991. Preparatory School in Stamford, (Continued on page 13) No. 7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 13

Bishop Losten said one afternoon after after class. “So we went to Archbishop Bishop Losten said. “We have to enlight- Bishop Emeritus... serving a Julian calendar Christmas litur- [Volodymyr] Sterniuk and said, ‘I’m here en the people about this faith. It’s not the (Continued from page 12) gy in New York City. “I always tell the now; let’s go look for a place.’” bishops; the bishops are all in union Salle University in Philadelphia, stressed bishops: if the people don’t see you, they Bishop Losten said he and others went about uniting to create one Church.” that the goal for protesters was to high- don’t know you.” in search for a suitable home for what There is a strong undercurrent among the light the autonomy of the Ukrainian Those who have worked with him per- would later become a portion of the Lviv people in Ukraine who are opposed to Catholic Church. sonally say Bishop Losten is a decisive Theological Academy. They came upon a the idea of uniting Ukraine’s Orthodox man, though one who keeps close tabs “Most of us admired Bishop Losten, dilapidated summer camp in the town of and Catholic Churches, Bishop Losten on the flow of money to all churches and still do, for his dynamic personality,” Rudno, and Bishop Losten remembered said, citing this as among his Church’s under his jurisdiction. greatest problems. Dr. Rudnytzky said. “You didn’t have to saying, “Let’s buy it.” “The archbishop thought I was nuts, With his resignation officially accept- worry about diplomatic niceties. He Helping the Church in Ukraine but I said, ‘Don’t look at the buildings. ed, Bishop Losten said he would contin- spoke the truth, both here and in the As a fund-raiser and advocate for the Look at the land; look at all of the land,” ue to work as the bishop emeritus of the Vatican.” Church, the bishop said that his work has Bishop Losten said. Stamford Eparchy. Bishop Paul “Among the bishops, he has definitely resulted in much help for the Church in It took some four months to repair Chomnycky, who will succeed Bishop been the most active and, I think, has Losten, will be enthroned by Cardinal shown himself to be in favor of the Lubomyr Husar during a ceremony on Ukrainian Church,” said Mykola Haliv, February 20 in Stamford. one of the organizers of the 1971 protest Bishop Losten will continue to over- and a member of the Patriarchal see the administrative needs of the Society’s executive committe. “He cares eparchy until the new bishop is about his priests,” Mr. Haliv added. enthroned. Once the new bishop is in “While some people still don’t speak place, Bishop Losten will stay on in about the leader of the Ukrainian Church Stamford and spend a portion of his time as a patriarch and many newspapers still in retirement helping the new bishop get don’t use the term, Bishop Losten does – acquainted with the eparchy. he uses the term,” Mr. Haliv. “It’s not going to be easy,” Bishop For his part, Bishop Losten told The Losten said. “Getting him introduced Weekly that Ukrainian priests who come into how things work in New York – it to America from Ukraine are deeply reli- will be very new and difficult for him, gious men, but they lack patriotism. but people are going to really like him.” What makes the Ukrainian Catholic Church unique is its Ukrainian tradition, Contemplating the past the bishop said. Maintaining that tradi- Speaking to a crowd of 150 people who tion and ensuring that priests also recog- gathered in Stamford, on January 14 to nize it, Bishop Losten said, is a great celebrate St. Basil’s Feast Day, the bishop concern for him. said he is often asked what he will do next. Moments of doubt “I will have an opportunity to contemplate my past,” he said. While in hindsight Bishop Losten’s He is planning to write a memoir of decision to pursue a religious life his life in the Church, but said he will appears destined, there have nonetheless Fotografia Felici need help with certain technical aspects. been moments of doubt. Bishop Basil Losten with Pope John Paul II in 1993 in Rome. “I have an old IBM typewriter – I can’t “I believe each and every one of us even start a computer,” he said jokingly. has that temptation to go into other Ukraine. On one occasion in the early buildings, raise money through collec- During the recent celebration, Lubow fields,” said Bishop Losten, who once 1990s, Bishop Losten was behind the tions from the community and move into Wolynetz, curator of the Ukrainian wanted to be an opera singer. In fact, his effort to purchase new cars for bishops the new facilities. “We were slowly able Museum and Library of Stamford, love for classical music still runs so deep and priests in Ukraine. The Church at to get ourselves together. That’s how we recounted the tale of Sisyphus, who was that a radio in his office is constantly that time was struggling, having priests started – very, very slowly,” the bishop condemned forever to roll a huge stone tuned to 96.3 FM WQXR, the classical cover multiple parishes throughout west- said. up a hill in Hades only to have it roll music radio station of The New York ern Ukraine. Bishop Losten helped pur- Among the pressing issues facing the down again on nearing the top. Times. “But I didn’t have the money to chase cars so that clergy could drive Church in the future, Bishop Losten “Our own Bishop Losten has been go to opera school.” from congregation to congregation. stressed during one interview with The pushing this great stone up the hill for 28 He was, however, able to use what “I say that I myself did not do it, but I Weekly the need to keep “the face of our years,” she said. skills he had to work tirelessly for the was instrumental in getting others to do Church evident.” When the moment came for him to Ukrainian Catholic Church. Throughout it,” Bishop Losten said of the purchases. One Church address his audience, Bishop Losten, his career, the bishop maintained the rep- On another occasion, the bishop was pushing the podium toward the center of utation of a dedicated hierarch, often lecturing a group of Ukrainian seminari- “My whole vision for our Church is one the room, said: “You are my family, and answering his own phone calls, traveling ans in Lviv in what he said was a freez- Church,” Bishop Losten said, stressing the with you I have lived through the great- on weekends to parishes within his juris- ing cold church. At the time, the semi- idea among all Ukrainian Churches of est moments of my religious life.” diction and taking part in fund-raisers to nary did not have its own buildings. ecumenism, or the idea of promoting “I think in retirement I will continue benefit the Church. “This can’t be,” Bishop Losten worldwide unity among religions. to push that boulder,” the bishop said, “I “Our job is to be there and be seen,” remembers saying to himself one day “Volodymyr only had one faith,” still have 75 years of work left.” Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense honors retired American officer WASHINGTON – Retired U.S. Since 1992 he has been work- Army Col. Stepan Oliynyk, ing as a consultant and senior Ph.D., was decorated on January counselor for national security 28 with the Meritorious Badge by with the Consultative-Advisory the Defense Ministry of Ukraine, Council under the aegis of the in recognition of his personal Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and contribution to the establishment the Ukrainian Ministry of and development of Ukraine’s Defense on matters of mobiliza- armed forces. tion readiness. He is often invited The award was presented by to lecture at the Ukrainian Armed Ukraine’s new ambassador to the Forces Academy and for the edi- United States, Dr. Oleh torial board of the journal Viysko Shamshur, who thanked Dr. Ukrainy (Ukraine’s Army). Oliynyk for his many years of Dr. Oliynyk also participated work in promoting American- in activities of the International Ukrainian bilateral relations and Institute for Global and Regional military cooperation. Security, the Taras Shevchenko Dr. Oliynyk, who was born in Scientific Society, and other pro- the Lviv region on July 18, 1930, fessional societies and organiza- resettled in the United States after tions both in Ukraine and the U.S. World War II. His military career He is the author of many scien- spanned 35 years. After retiring tific papers and books on military, from the U.S. Army, Dr. Oliynyk literary and historic subjects. He Embassy of Ukraine was engaged in research work in has been awarded the Ukrainian Retired U.S. Army Col. Stepan Oliynyk (left) receives the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s the realm of national security for Education and Science Ministry’s Meritorious Badge from Ambassador Oleh Shamshur (center) and Col. Yuri Syvokon, defense the U.S. Department of Defense. honorary diploma. attaché at the Embassy of Ukraine to the United States. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 No. 7

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with Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister 1944, once held the posts of defense min- closest neighbors cannot in any way NEWSBRIEFS Borys Tarasyuk in Brussels on February 1 ister, deputy chief of Ukraine’s Mission harm our policy on post-Soviet territory.” (Continued from page 14) that consultations on a new, “enhanced” to NATO and ambassador to Iran. He was He added that “on the contrary, I am sure Vitalii Potemskyi, in 2005 the company’s partnership accord between the EU and appointed chief of the Mission to NATO that it will help us achieve our foreign- performance made it Ukraine’s leading air Ukraine may start as early as this year, on November 5, 2005. (Ukrinform) policy goals ... [Russia has been using] RFE/RL’s Brussels correspondent report- non-market pricing methods, or in fact carrier. Mr. Potemskyi noted that AeroSvit Opinions split on gas deal carried 1,461,000 passengers in 2005. The ed. However, she made clear that the new subsidizing the economies of the former accord – to replace the current Partnership company operates one dozen planes, 10 KYIV – According to a January 15 Soviet republics, at the expense of and Cooperation Treaty which expires in medium-range aircraft and two long-range survey ordered by the National Institute Russian consumers, Russian citizens, for 2008 – will not offer Ukraine an EU mem- planes, which service 61 air routes. for Strategic Studies and conducted in 15 years. Subsidies to the Ukrainian bership perspective. Ms. Ferrero-Waldner According to the AeroSvit chief, by 2011 , Donetsk, Lviv, , economy alone cost Russian citizens $3.5 stressed that EU relations with Ukraine the company means to boost air carriage to Odesa, and Kyiv, the Ukrainian billion annually. For comparison, as far will for the foreseeable future be pursued 4 million passengers a year. The company’s population’s appraisal of the gas deal as I remember, the U.S. provided $174 under the EU’s European Neighborhood plans also envisage increasing the number with Russia is rather balanced. Thus, million worth of aid to Ukraine last Policy, which does not provide explicitly of routes to 85 and boosting its fleet to 42 25.4 percent of the respondents view the year.” The president argued that “we for membership. (RFE/RL Newsline) planes. AeroSvit is among those Ukrainian Ukrainian-Russian “gas conflict” as hav- have our own economy, our own country, our own citizens, our own pensioners, companies that allowed foreign capital Anti-monopoly body approves gas JV ing been prompted by the Russian party’s investment. Since 1994 AeroSvit has been wish to secure more money for its gas; our own military servicemen, health relying on Boeing planes; currently KYIV – The Antimonopoly Committee 29.9 percent view it as Russia’s desire to workers, teachers and other government- AeroSvit’s fleet is composed of one Boeing of Ukraine (AKU) has given its go-ahead influence the outcome of the upcoming employed workers. And we have been 737-200, two Boeing 737-300s, five Boeing for the creation of UkrgazEnergo, a joint elections in Ukraine; 24 percent think talking about switching to a market- 737-400s, two Boeing 737-500s and two venture (JV) between Naftohaz Ukrayiny Russia is seeking to get control of based price system for a long time ... Boeing 767-300ER aircraft. (Ukrinform) and the obscure Swiss-based gas trader Ukraine’s gas transportation system; and We’ve been talking to Ukraine about it RosUkrEnergo to sell gas to Ukrainian 23.8 percent interpret the “gas conflict” for several years.” (RFE/RL Newsline) Children evacuated from frozen city consumers, UNIAN reported on January as having been meant to “punish” Ukraine-Romania commission created 31. A controversial January 4 deal Ukraine. Over half of the respondents ALCHEVSK – Low temperatures between Gazprom, Naftohaz Ukrayiny view the deal as a compromise or a tran- burst two heating mains in the city of KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor and RosUkrEnergo made RosUkrEnergo sient truce, while 22.5 percent view the Yushchenko and his Romanian counter- Alchevsk, Oblast, on January the monopolist of gas supplies to Ukraine deal as Ukraine’s defeat. The poll further 22, leaving hundreds of buildings, includ- part, Traian Basescu, signed a protocol in and obliged Naftohaz Ukrayiny and showed that 26.2 percent of the respon- Kyiv on February 2 on the establishment ing schools and hospitals, cut off from the RosUkrEnergo to set up a joint venture on dents whose vision of Russia was previ- heating system, Ukrainian media report- of a joint Ukrainian-Romanian presiden- a parity basis for selling imported gas in ously favorable, worsened their attitude tial commission, Ukrainian news agen- ed. The Emergency Situations Ministry Ukraine. Last month the Ukrainian to that state. In addition, 41.2 percent of has said the breakdown was primarily the cies reported. Both presidents told jour- Parliament sacked the Cabinet, charging respondents think the gas deal with nalists that they also created an intergov- result of long-term neglect of Alchevsk’s that the January 4 gas deal is disadvanta- Russia should be revised in favor of heating pipes, which are more than 25 ernmental commission to study coopera- geous to Ukraine. Some Ukrainian oppo- Ukraine. Only 17.9 percent of the tion in exploring and exploiting gas and years old. “About 70 percent of Ukraine’s sition politicians and media have demand- respondents said the deal must be imme- oil deposits in the continental heating system is worn out and needs to ed the disclosure of information about diately denounced. (Ukrinform) shelf. Mr. Yushchenko said they also dis- be renovated, while about a quarter of it is RosUkrEnergo shareholders. The AKU cussed issues related to the Romanian in critical condition and must be replaced said on February 1 that it has received suf- Putin: no more subsidies minority in Ukraine and the Ukrainian immediately,” the February 2 issue of the ficient information about RosUkrEnergo MOSCOW – Russian President minority in Romania. “We jointly pro- Kyiv Post quoted Vasyl Kvashuk from the in order to approve the creation of Vladimir Putin said during his January ceed from a principle of equality and Emergency Situations Ministry as saying. UkrgazEnergo. However, the AKU added symmetry in organizing cooperation in President Viktor Yushchenko visited that it cannot make this information public 31 news conference broadcast live on Alchevsk on January 30 and said the need since the law obliges it to remain silent on RTR state television that “switching to a this issue,” Mr. Yushchenko noted. for reform in the housing and communal commercial secrets. 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Ukrainian American Association of University Professors elects officers by Assya Humesky Zhmuta (University of Missouri). Auditing board members are: Osyp KENT, Ohio – In December 2005 Martyniuk (Kent State University) and members of the Ukrainian American Yuri Chakovsky (Community College, Association of University Professors Cleveland). (UAAUP), voting by mail, elected a new The UAAUP brings together board of directors, headed by Lubomyr Ukrainian university professors of the Wynar of Kent State University, presi- United States and Canada and cooperates dent. with various universities in Ukraine. Its Also elected were: Assya Humesky members regularly participate in interna- (University of Michigan), first vice-presi- tional congresses and conferences. The dent; Vsevolod Isajiw (University of UAAUP Research Endowment fund sup- Toronto), second vice-president; Z. Lew ports publications of its members as well Melnyk (University of Cincinnati), third as other worthy scholarly projects on vice-president; Myron Melnyk (Kent Ukrainian subjects. The UAAUP is a State University), secretary-treasurer and member of the Scholarly Council of the director of research endowment. Ukrainian World Congress. Other members of the board include: In 2006 the association is planning a Yaroslav Bilinsky (University of conference on the English-language text- Delaware), John Fizer (Rutgers books dealing with Ukrainian subjects University), Wasyl Janishevsky which are used in U.S. and Canadian uni- (University of Toronto), Janna Ratych versities. It will also be represented at the (Rutgers University), Martha Trofimenko international conferences on Ukrainian (University of Delaware) and Russel subjects.

Ukrainian Congress Committee of Museum hosts... America, commented: “We are proud to My mother, father, brother and sister (Continued from page 8) host Mary Mycio and the launch of her with an ‘e’ in the title, rather than book, ‘Wormwood Forest.’ The good will of the sponsoring organizations and ‘Chornobyl’ with an ‘o.’ No one did.” and the rest of the family have life the number of Ukrainian Americans Ms. Mycio explains in the first chapter who attended the event show that the insurance. What about me? of her book that the 1986 accident and community is proud of her success as the nuclear station have commonly been well.” Rates are low. See the chart on the referred to by the Russian spelling, The launch was sponsored also by The “Chernobyl.” She refers to the town Ukrainian Museum, the Brooklyn itself, and the herb, as “Chornobyl.” Ukrainian Group and the Women’s next page for more information. Event coordinator Tamara Gallo Association for the Defense of Four Olexy, speaking on behalf of the Freedoms for Ukraine. Ukrainian National Federal Credit Union The shortest way to your first million!

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word “maidan” in it. Our Ukraine... “It carries with it the essential message (Continued from page 3) – nostalgia to their own electorate, mem- Council Secretary Anatolii Kinakh, who ories about brotherhood and the unity leads the Party of Industrialists and that was on maidan,” he said. “The Entrepreneurs, is second, while the third essence that they could have and should spot belongs to Borys Tarasyuk, the min- have included in a slogan is there.” Another Our Ukraine slogan to emerge ister of foreign affairs and leader of the is “Ukraine is One With Us!” – a People’s Rukh of Ukraine. response to what many Ukrainians per- Since Ukrainian voters will see the top ceive as the divisive campaign platforms five names on each bloc’s electoral list, of the Party of the Regions, including celebrities are more involved in official status for the Russian language The UNA has a single payment plan Ukrainian politics than ever. and federalism for Ukrainian oblasts. Our Ukraine is no exception. Rather than trying to reach out to new that will insure your child’s life at $5,000 Talk show host Olha Herasymiuk, who voters, Our Ukraine is effectively cor- is considered Ukraine’s version of ralling those who came out on the maidan for one low payment. Barbara Walters, is fourth on the list, and during the Orange Revolution, Mr. Donii pop star Ruslana Lyzhychko is fifth. said. “There’s no sense in them proposing Find your child’s age below and that’s all In fact, Our Ukraine has four women anything radically new,” Mr. Donii said. in the top 10 slots of its electoral list – “They need to gather their electorate and you have to pay. more than most other political blocs. that’s what they’re doing very effectively.” The other two women are National The New Year’s Day natural gas crisis Call today for your application. 1-800-253-9862. Deputies Ksenia Liapina and Lilia and subsequent attempt by opposition Hryhorovych, the Ivano-Frankivsk native forces to sack Mr. Yekhanurov and his AGE PREMIUM who gained popularity after she threatened Cabinet has had a reverse effect, boosting to set herself on fire in the Verkhovna Rada Our Ukraine’s ranking ahead of the Yulia 0 $ 300.00 when it voted to remove Mr. Yushchenko Tymoshenko Bloc, according to recent as prime minister in April 2001. polls. 1 $ 300.00 All of Our Ukraine’s political advertis- Our Ukraine commands 22 percent of ing and propaganda is focused on portray- the electorate, according to the National 2 $ 310.00 ing itself as the bloc representing the maid- Institute of Strategic Research, compared 3 $ 310.00 an (Independence Square, the focal point with 24 percent for the Party of Regions and of the Orange Revolution) and its values. 15 percent for the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. 4 $ 320.00 Orange remains the color of Our The National Institute of Strategic Ukraine and the gray horseshoe with a Research is a government research 5 $ 330.00 red exclamation point remains its symbol. agency that often performs work for the 6 $ 340.00 A new campaign bombarding radio and president and his Secretariat. television advertising repeats the slogan However, according to the Western- 7 $ 355.00 “Don’t Betray Yourself. Don’t Betray the financed Democratic Initiatives Maidan.” Foundation, the Our Ukraine bloc has 8 $ 365.00 Typically, any negative campaigns or about 13 percent of the electorate, while slogans are a bad idea in politics, Mr. the Party of the Regions commands 31 9 $ 380.00 Donii said. However, it’s important that percent and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc 10 $ 395.00 at least one Our Ukraine slogan has the has 16 percent. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 No. 7 CCRDF’s Kharkiv initiative helps city’s hospital for children

KHARKIV – Nurse Irina Slobodyniuk Western remission levels of 85 percent. tor with eight channels, aqua-distiller will never forget her first day on the job in “We used to have absolutely nothing to and other critical components. the hematology ward of the Kharkiv City work with,” said Dr. Lyudmyla Rakovska, On November 9, 2005, CCRDF Children’s Hospital No. 16. “I just began the assistant to the medical director in Executive Director Alex Kuzma and my shift when a child died on my floor. Kharkiv. “Now we have a Cobe Spectra CCRDF’s Kyiv project administrator There was more commotion in an adjoining hematology analyzer and blood cell sepa- Evhenia Medvedenko met with hospital room and a second child passed away. On rator that enable us to reduce by half the staff in Kharkiv to plan the next steps in this the floor below, we lost a third. Three chil- number of hemorrhages, infections, throm- new partnership. Besides visiting the hema- dren in the span of one hour,” she recalled. bocites, myeloid depression and other tology laboratory, CCRDF monitors met It was a horrific start for an aspiring complications during chemotherapy.” with some of the children who are benefit- young nurse who wanted to save the lives In 2005 the Philip Morris Co. awarded ing directly from this new technology. of children suffering from leukemia. the Children of Chornobyl Relief and Among the most poignant encounters That was 16 years ago, and Nurse Development Fund a $150,000 grant to was a little girl named Karina Izotova who Slobodyniuk has not lost any of her zeal further strengthen the diagnostic capacity at age 2 has endured two major operations for combating this dreaded illness. Since of this hospital and especially its hema- and is on her second round of chemothera- 1989, Kharkiv City Children’s Hospital tology ward. This was the fourth grant py. “This kid is a fighter,” said her treating No. 16 has made dramatic improvements Philip Morris awarded for the Kharkiv physician, Dr. Bilousova. “We’ve in its treatment and diagnosis of children hospital. never seen a child this small fight this hard with leukemia, Hodgkins lymphoma and CCRDF used these funds to modern- for her life. She wants to live.” aplastic anemia. ize the hematology laboratory with six CCRDF representatives were impressed Thanks to an infusion of technology new microscopes, diagnostic kits, with the strong rapport between doctors from Western aid groups and major grants reagents, a spectrophotometer, testing and children, the patients’ remarkably from Philip Morris, the survival rates for kits, a Roche biochemistry analyzer and cheerful demeanor, even as they had to children’s leukemia at this hospital have many additional supplies that no undergo what had to be very difficult and risen steadily from a dismal 5 percent in leukemia treatment center should be sometimes painful treatment. 1992 to over 70 percent in 2005. The hos- without. The fund also procured a cen- Despite the progress they’ve made, the pital staff is working hard to reach trifuge, an adjustable micro-dose calcula- doctors at the Kharkiv hosptial face enor- mous challenges in the months ahead. Karina Izotova, 2 1/2, has undergone “í‡Í! ìÍð‡ªÌˆ¥ ÔÂðÂχ„‡˛Ú¸ ÒÏ¥˛˜ËÒ¸” They noted a sharp increase in the number several operations on her kidneys and of new leukemia cases which rose by one- (Yes,es, Ukrainians Win Laughing”) a grueling round of chemotherapy to third just in the past year. The hospital is help cure her leukemia. A unique publication about the events that took place during the 2004 presidential in dire need of a new roentgen machine as their 30-year-old Romanian-built model is elections in Ukraine. The book features the Ukrainian people standing up for honest shift, they met a strapping teenager on its last legs, and each year the demand named Ruslan Lomaka who has been in and transparent elections as well as combating the flagrant fraud of the vote by the for services is increasing. (The number of long-term remission, but returns to the government. Abundant in illustrations, it conveys the spirit of Independence Square in patients in need has risen steadily from hospital for periodic check-ups to avoid Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, during the peaceful Orange Revolution. “í‡Í! ìÍð‡ªÌˆ¥ 1,307 in 2003 to 1,406 in 2004 and to any relapse in his disease. ÔÂðÂχ„‡˛Ú¸ ÒÏ¥˛˜ËÒ¸” became possible thanks to the financial support by Alex, 1,753 in just the first 10 months of this For more information on CCRDF’s Halyna, George and Nina Woskob and the Ivan Bahriany Foundation. The project was year.) CCRDF hopes to negotiate a large Kharkiv initiative, or to support the administered and coordinated by Oleh Chornohuz and Yuri Zadoya, respectively. discount on a new unit in the coming year. fund’s charitable mission, readers may As expensive and challenging as it can call (973) 376-5140 or write to: Children To order the book, please send $25 and your requests to: The Ivan Bahriany Foundation, be to combat leukemia, the effort is well of Chornobyl Relief and Development Attn.: DeEtte K. Riley, AW & Sons, 309 East Beaver Ave., State College, PA 16801 worth it. As CCRDF representatives Fund, 272 Old Short Hills Road, Short toured the hospital late into the evening Hills, NJ 07078. No. 7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 19

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by Lev Holubec current and future (those in training at St. Josaphat Elementary) Ukrainian students PHILADELPHIA – Mike McLaughlin at St. Ignatius, came upon the Ukrainian of Cleveland’s Ukrainian American Sport American community no sooner than Club Lviv was recognized on Friday, 1981, when he followed Andrew Futey as January 20, as the National Coach of the only the second freshman to make the Year for Private/Parochial High School varsity soccer squad at St. Ignatius. Boys at the 59th NSCAA (National In his four years, Mr. McLaughlin Soccer Coaches Association of America) teamed with a number of Ukrainians Banquet in Philadelphia. including Mr. Futey, John Tymkiw, Mike He follows in the footsteps of coaching Danylo and Lev Holubec, among others. legend Gene Chyzowych of the Ukrainian Upon graduating in 1985 he pursued a Sports Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada degree in theology and bettered his soc- (USCAK) who was named National Coach cer career at Quincy College. He later of the Year in 1986 and 1990. earned his master’s in theology from Mr. McLaughlin, 38, guided the St. John Carroll University. Ignatius High School team to a perfect It was in the mid-1990s that Mr. 23-0-0 record on its way to a second McLaughlin was swept back into the straight Ohio state title. It marked just the local Ukrainian community – with no third time in state history a team went turning back. He began dating Motria undefeated, and it was the second such Oryshkewych, a Holy Name High School instance of a team winning back-to-back coach and John Carroll University soccer state crowns. Mr. McLaughlin has a player. Always thinking about the suc- career record of 174-29-26. cess of the local Ukrainian soccer club, Mike McLaughlin (left) receives the National Coach of the Year award from St. Ignatius High School is an all boys President Taras “Guga” Oryshkewych cut NSCAA President Schellas Hyndman. Jesuit Preparatory School that has helped to a deal that that “allowed” Mr. educate over 100 Ukrainian children, span- McLaughlin to date his sister Motria – field during the annual Great Lakes Cup Communities in the United States. ning each of the Ukrainian emigrations but only if he agreed to join UASC Lviv tournaments and helped lead the Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin and their two throughout its 120-year history. The school, and lead the soccer team. Cleveland club to win the Over 30 Great sons Matthew, 3, and Patrick, 6 months, with a mission of forming “men for others,” In March 1999, on a “Ukrainians from Lakes Cup in 2001. are parishioners of St. Josaphat Ukrainian is known for its academic excellence America” soccer trip to Paris to support Mr. McLaughlin is the sophomore serv- Catholic Church in Parma, Ohio. demonstrated, for example, by consistent the Ukrainian National Team in World ice director at the high school. The pro- A dedicated husband, father, teacher and recognition from the National Merit Cup qualification against (See gram gives each second-year student an soccer coach, Mr. McLaughlin is a role Scholarship Corporation. This year’s class The Ukrainian Weekly article experience in serving the less privileged model and an inspiration to the high-achiev- boasts 25 National Merit Scholarship Semi- “Springtime in Paris,” April 1999), Mike members of the local community. He ing children of the Ukrainian community. Finalists, the most of any Ohio high school and Motria were engaged atop the Eiffel began his St. Ignatius career 14 years ago, We are all proud of his success on the soccer and among the highest in the country. Tower. They married in May 2000. teaching theology to students of all four field, but even more so of the example that Mr. McLaughlin’s 2005 soccer team, liv- Mr. McLaughlin was a key representa- years. Twelve years ago he took the reins he provides the current St. Ignatius students ing up to and above the school’s high stan- tive of the U.S.-Ukrainian Soccer Selects of the soccer program, as only the second including the Dobrianskys, the Fedynskys, dards, achieved All-Academic status – at the U.S. vs. Europe Ukrainian soccer head soccer coach in the school’s history. the Holowatys, the Kleks, the Rabosyuks, recognition reserved for high school athletic challenge during the 1999 Paris trip. He Prior to his current role, he was the direc- who look up to Mr. McLaughlin as their programs that excel on the field and carry is most easily recognized among the tor of the Arrupe Neighborhood Partnership teacher, or to the countless others who look an average team GPA of 3.5 or higher. UASC Lviv players and USCAK chal- program which the Society of Jesus has rec- forward to their future sophomore experi- Mr. McLaughlin, well-known among lengers for his subtle flair on the soccer ognized as a Model Project Building Just ence with “our” Mr. McLaughlin. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 No. 7 No. 7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 23 UKEUKELLODEONODEON FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

Hartford SUM branch gathers for double celebration HARTFORD, Conn. – Members of the Ukrainian American Youth Association (known by its Ukrainian acronym as SUM, for Spilka Ukrainskoyi Molodi) gath- ered in November 2005 to cele- brate the feast day of St. Michael the Archangel, the patron saint of SUM. At the same time the youths marked the 15th anniversary of the priesthood of the Rev. Ihor Midzak and his elevation to the rank of mitred archpriest. Father Ihor is a member of SUM and pastor of St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Hartford. Seen on the left are the members of Hartford’s SUM branch with Father Ihor.

Mishanyna Parma parish’s children To solve this month’s Mishanyna, find the words on the list below in the Mishanyna grid. The place names, or toponyms, that follow are the names of remember Famine victims many of the oblasts and the autonomous republic that are part of Ukraine. (Next month: another Mishanyna covering the remaining oblasts of Ukraine.)

Cherkasy Crimea Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Ivano-Frankivsk Kharkiv Khmelnytskyi Kyiv Kirovohrad

I V A N O F R A N K I V S K E S T A V Y S H A H O R I K H Y Y E R E V A N A N A T I S O A M X V K H E R S O N S S V D R F A I L I K U T I T K T O O O E S H R I R Y A V R I N R R S R S I V A E M I R C E E T O L PARMA, Ohio – Parish youths had an important role to play at St. O O N U R O N O V T V E E V A Vladimir’s Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral during memorial services offered in memory of the victims of the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 in P O R A S R I G S T I L P A V Ukraine. The special prayers were offered during both the 8:30 a.m. and O L E H E A N K I E R A O S A 10:15 a.m. liturgies at the request of the Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation. As seen above, during the earlier liturgy, children were invit- L O H H O D A R H O V O R I K ed by the clergy to come to the front of the church and light 33 candles, O M C H E R K A S Y E R P D R symbolically uniting the congregation with the 33,000 candles that had been lit the previous day in St. Sophia Square in Kyiv. R A C H U U M A K A D S I D A

K H M E L N Y T S K Y I N I V OUR NAME: UKELODEON: it rhymes with nickelodeon. Yes, K R A K R I V T S I E D D I S that’s a kids’ network (spelled with a capital “N”), but the original word referred to an early movie theater that charged a nickel for admission. According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, OUR NEXT ISSUE: UKELODEON is published on the second the root of the word, “odeon,” is from the Greek “oideion,” a small build- Sunday of every month. To make it into our next issue, dated March 12, ing used for public performances of music and poetry. Our UKELODEON please send in your materials by March 2. is envisioned as a public space where our youth, from kindergartners to UKELODEON, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, teens, can come to learn, to share information, to relate their experiences, Parsippany, NJ 07054; phone (973) 292-9800; e-mail, [email protected]. and to keep in touch with each other. Its contents will be shaped by the (We ask all contributors to please include a daytime phone number.) young readers of the next generation. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 No. 7

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Friday, February 17 Kazimir before he leaves to start his docu- Soyuzivka’s Datebook mentary “More Shoes” on a 2,500-mile walk VENICE, Fla.: The Ukrainian Club of from Madrid to Kyiv. The party takes place February 17-20, 2006 April 16, 2006 Southwest Florida presents “Art Ukraine in the main gallery of UIMA at 7p.m.-9 p.m. Family Winter Weekend Traditional Ukrainian Easter Day 2006” – an exhibit of Ukrainian icons and Mr. Kazimir will be speaking at 8:30 p.m. Brunch, doors open at 11:30 a.m. other art forms, at the Venice Art Center, 390 about his plans, and the trailer for his docu- February 18, 2006 Nokomis Ave. S., in Venice. Comprising the mentary will be screened. For more informa- Pub Night with music featuring April 22, 2006 exhibit, in addition to icons, will be the fol- tion visit the website at www.uima-art.org. Zukie & Friend Alpha Kappa Sorority Formal lowing Ukrainian folk art forms: bead work Dinner Banquet (“gerdany”), ceramics, Easter eggs Saturday, February 25 February 24, 2006 (“pysanky”), embroidery and wood carv- ings. Lectures on the exhibited art forms will NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific April 23, 2006 KAFAS Banquet, Kerhonkson Accord be presented during the exhibition; and, Society invites the public to a lecture by Dr. First Aid Squad Installation Traditional Ukrainian Easter Day there will also be live performances of Oleh Tretiak, professor of electrical and Banquet Brunch, doors open at 11:30 a.m. Ukrainian music. Gallery hours: Monday- computer engineering, Drexel University, Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 on the topic “Ukrainian Engineering March 10-12, 2006 April 28, 2006 p.m. The exhibition opens February 17 and Education at the Crossroads.” Dr. Tretiak Plast Kurin “Khmelnychenky” and Ellenville High School Junior Prom will be on view through March 7. For addi- will discuss the ongoing wave of reorgani- “Chornomortsi” Annual Winter tional information contact Club President zation at the universities in Ukraine, with Rada April 28-30, 2006 Daria Tomashosky, 941-426-2542, or “Art goals of achieving recognition of equivalen- UNWLA Branch 95 Spa Weekend Ukraine 2006” Committee Co-chairs cy of degrees offered by Ukrainian and March 31 - April 2, 2006 Christyna Bodnar Sheldon, 941-460-9890, European universities. The lecture is based or Klara Szpiczka, 941-423-6590. on Dr. Tretiak’s experience during a Plast Kurin “Chornomorski Khvyli” Fulbright visit to the Kyiv and Lviv poly- Annual Rada Sunday, February 19 technical institutes. Following his talk there will be a panel session at which Dr. Roman CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Business and Kuc, professor, electrical engineering, and Professional Group of Chicago invites director of the Intelligent Sensors members and the community to a presenta- Laboratory and director of educational tion by Dr. Michael Flier on “The Harvard affairs, Yale University, will discuss the new Ukrainian Research Institute: History, ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 that To book a room or event call: (845) 626-5641, ext. 140 Mission Goals.” Dr. Flier is the fourth and affects U.S. engineering education, which current director at the Harvard Ukrainian 216 Foordmore Road P.O. Box 529 could be of interest to the engineering com- Research Institute, and a renowned philol- Kerhonkson, NY 12446 munity in Ukraine. The program will take ogist and author of numerous books and place at the society’s building, 63 Fourth E-mail: [email protected] articles on Slavic linguistics and the Website: www.Soyuzivka.com Ave. (between Ninth and 10th streets) at 5 . In his presentation, p.m. For additional information call 212- Prof. Flier will discuss how the institute is 254-5130. adapting to meet changing needs and reali- ties in Ukraine and Ukrainian scholarship. Wednesday , March 1 To subscribe: Send $55 ($45 if you are a member of the UNA) to The Ukrainian Weekly, The presentation, at Selfreliance Ukrainian Subscription Department, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 American Federal Credit Union, 2332 W. OTTAWA: The Chair of Ukrainian Chicago Ave., will include a 1 p.m. brunch Studies at the University of Ottawa in reception and a 2 p.m. presentation. association with the Ukrainian Canadian (212) 614-3283 Admission: $10 for UBPG members; $15, Professional and Business Association of non-members and guests. For additional Ottawa presents the 20th Annual Ivan information call 847-359-3676. Franko Memorial Lecture. Prof. Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto, Ukrainian T hursday, February 23 will deliver a lecture titled “Where Does Europe End? Ukraine? Turkey?” The NEW YORK WE SERVE : The Ukrainian Studies event is a public lecture. It will be held at Program at Columbia University will host a WONDERFUL FOOD 7.30 p.m. at The Lounge, New Residence, lecture by Prof. Alfred Stepan about 90 University Private, on the campus of East Village Restaurant Ukraine and the concept of “nation-state” the University of Ottawa. Admission is BUFFET-STYLE CATERING vs. “state-nation.” Prof. Stepan is a Wallace free. For more information call the coordi- Sayre Professor of Government at nator of the chair, 613-562-5800, ext. Columbia whose teaching and research 3692; or e-mail [email protected]. 140 SECOND AVENUE interests include comparative politics, theo- TH TH (BET. 8 & 9 STS.) NEW YORK, NY 10003 ries of democratic transitions, federalism, Sunday, March 5 and the world’s religious systems and democracy. This lecture will be held in NEW YORK: New York Plast’s tradition- Room 1219 (12th floor) of the International al Children’s Costume Party, or Affairs Building at Columbia University, “Kostiumivka,” will be held at 2 p.m. in 420 W. 118th St., starting at noon. Free and St. George School Auditorium on Sixth open to the public. For more information Street. This year’s theme is “Museum,” contact Diana Howansky at 212-854-4697 and children will be dressed as characters or [email protected]. and items found in museum paintings. Supervised games will follow, and all chil- CHICAGO: The Young Friends of the dren are welcome to attend. Food and Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art are host- refreshments will be available. For more ing a launch party for filmmaker Lee information call Plast at 212-982-4530.

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