Inside: l Autocephaly for Ukraine about more than religion – page 3 l Poroshenko calls for Donbas peacekeeping mission – page 4 l New endowment honors Prof. Manoly R. Lupul – page 17

ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXVI No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 $2.00 Patriarch Filaret speaks about effort Hungarian consulate in Ukraine caught to unite Ukraine’s Orthodox Churches granting citizenship to Ukrainians by Yaro Bihun by Mark Raczkiewycz WASHINGTON – Patriarch Filaret, who KYIV – A diplomatic confrontation is heads the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – brewing with Hungary after hidden-video Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), recently visit- footage emerged that shows a group of ed the U.S. capital and a few other Ukrainians taking an oath of loyalty during American cities, in his search for support of a citizenship swearing-in ceremony inside his efforts to unite all Ukrainian Orthodox the Hungarian Consulate in the Zakarpattia believers into one Ukrainian Orthodox Oblast border town of Berehove. Church. After the induction, a Hungarian diplo- This unification, he assured a large gath- mat told the group to hide their new citi- ering at the Atlantic Council on September zenship status from the Ukrainian authori- 19, will not only resolve this unnecessary ties while toasting them with champagne, continuing split within the Church, but may according to the video posted on YouTube also play a major role in stopping Russian on September 19. President Vladimir Putin’s continuing Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo efforts to return Ukraine to the realm of the Klimkin said he will expel the Berehove Facebook/Pavlo Klimkin “Russian empire.” consul if the Hungarian foreign affairs min- Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Patriarch Filaret noted that the re-estab- ister doesn’t recall him in the coming days. Klimkin said the granting of citizenship to lishment of that Russian Empire would not Mr. Klimkin’s comment came after a meet- Ukrainians inside the country by foreign Yaro Bihun be possible without Ukraine, because the ing with his Hungarian counterpart on diplomatic entities is a violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. other former East European member coun- Patriarch Filaret, speaking at the Atlantic September 26 during the 73rd session of Council, discusses the positive effects the tries are now members of NATO. “And, the United Nations General Assembly in a Facebook video that the Ukrainian unification of the Kyiv and Moscow patri- New York. therefore, to prevent the start of this event, archates of the Ukrainian Orthodox Foreign Affairs Ministry posted. “I pro- we need to stop Putin,” he said. “And to do Church would have on Ukraine and in “We spoke for an hour and didn’t reach posed that [Hungarian Foreign Affairs and so, Ukraine has to be a strong nation, with a preventing Russian President Vladimir an understanding of how to interpret this Trade Minister Peter] Szijjarto recall the Putin from establishing a new Russian incident [issuance of Hungarian pass- (Continued on page 14) empire. ports],” Mr. Klimkin told reporters based on (Continued on page 16)

Plaque honoring Raphael Lemkin is unveiled at Ukrainian Institute of America

by Adrian Bryttan attempt to destroy Ukrainian identity and Special to The Ukrainian Weekly the entire Ukrainian nation, adding this was not simply a horrendous mass murder, but a NEW YORK – Back on September 20, genocide – part of the Soviets’ larger plan to 1953, at the Manhattan Center on West 34th get rid of the “Ukrainian problem.” A report Street, an overflow crowd of 3,000 cheered on his speech made the front page in The an impassioned speech by Dr. Raphael Ukrainian Weekly. (The Weekly’s editorial Lemkin that detailed the Holodomor of from September 16 of this year analyzed the 1932-1933. He called it a calculated Soviet significance and resonance of this event.)

Russ Chelak Prayers are offered at the unveiling of a plaque honoring Dr. Raphael Lemkin. At the podium is Rabbi Joseph Potasnik; with him (from left) are the Rev. Vitaliy Pavlykivskiy, Dr. Daniel Swistel, president of the Ukrainian Institute of America, Bishop Emeritus Basil Losten and the Rev. Volodymyr Muzychka. Exactly 65 years later, on September 20, an influential advisor at the Nuremberg the Ukrainian Institute of America in New Trials and later at the United Nations, York (UIA) hosted a ceremonial unveiling of where the Convention on Prevention and a bronze plaque commemorating Dr. Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was Lemkin, a lawyer and internationally adopted in 1948. renowned jurist who devoted his life to the To commemorate this important man, study of crimes violating international law. the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties

Adrian Bryttan He collected troves of relevant documents Foundation in collaboration with the UIA Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation and Olena and coined the term “genocide,” becoming Sidlovych, executive director of the Ukrainian Institute of America, unveil the plaque. an expert in crimes against humanity and (Continued on page 5) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 No. 39

ANALYSIS

Putin and Merkel discuss Nord Stream, Ukraine Ukraine terminates Friendship Treaty Negotiations Kurt Volker named a number of countries that are prepared to send their and Syria in a changing strategic context Ukraine said it would officially notify own troops to the Donbas as part of a now-bitter rival Russia on September 21 United Nations peacekeeping mission. “As criteria. The latter point conforms with that it will not extend its treaty of friendship, for countries, a number of states have by Vladimir Socor cooperation and partnership with Moscow. Gazprom’s and the Kremlin’s position ever already said that they will be ready to make Eurasia Daily Monitor Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo since 2015 that some residual volumes of their contribution. Sweden, Finland, Austria, Klimkin said on September 19 that Kyiv will German Chancellor Angela Merkel Russian gas could continue to transit Belarus, Serbia and Turkey have said so. In notify all relevant organizations, including uncharacteristically interrupted her sum- Ukraine from 2020 onward, subject to nego- my view, this is a good range of countries, the United Nations, about the move. including several states which Russia con- mer vacation to receive Russian President tiation on volumes and tariffs. According to the UNIAN news service, on Vladimir Putin on August 18 at Meseberg According to Kremlin spokesperson siders more than a part of the West, and September 25 Russia’s Foreign Affairs several states which the West considers Castle, near Berlin. It was the second Dmitry Peskov’s readout of the Meseberg Ministry confirmed it had received an official Merkel-Putin meeting within three months. meeting, the two leaders “agreed to defend more than part of the CIS space, and I think note from Kyiv about Ukraine’s decision not that a sense of balance would be logical,” Their meeting in Sochi last May triggered a the Nord Stream 2 project from anti-competi- to extend the friendship treaty. “The note flurry of bilateral German-Russian high-lev- tion and unlawful attacks by third countries” Ambassador Volker remarked. The U.S. rep- was brought to us by a chargé d’affaires on resentative observed that organizational el discussions, which continue to this day. (Interfax, August 19). This is the Kremlin’s Monday,” September 24, the director of the This development reflects a growing, if understanding of the German government’s aspects still have to be discussed. “How the Second CIS Department of the Russian peacekeepers will be deployed, at what chimerical, belief within German govern- resistance to possible U.S. extraterritorial Foreign Affairs Ministry Andrei Rudenko ment and business circles that Germany sanctions on German and other companies stage, will be discussed, but from a basic was quoted as saying by the Russian news perspective, after complete deployment, should seek a rapprochement with Russia involved with the Nord Stream 2 project. agency TASS. “This is formal notification that in response to the United States’ policies The existing transit agreement is due to these should be genuine peacekeeping forc- starting from April 1 this treaty will not be es, controlling the situation in the area of under the Donald Trump administration. expire at the end of 2019, coinciding with prolonged,” he added. The 10-year treaty security,” he emphasized. Mr. Volker also The overall assumption is that Russia’s the planned start of operations on the Nord was originally signed on May 31, 1997, with said that the peacekeeping forces in the cooperation is indispensable to achieving Stream 2 pipeline. A replacement agree- a clause that set its automatic extension if Donbas must act with a U.N. mandate. In Mr. some of Germany’s main policy objectives: ment on Ukrainian transit would have to be the parties did not take action to end it. The Volker’s opinion, the problem with the ending the war in Syria (a generator of mass negotiated and signed by that time, if Russia treaty took effect on April 1, 1999. Neither Minsk agreements is that they are not being party notified the other of the wish to termi- migrations to Europe, with disruptive were to continue using the Ukrainian route implemented. This is why the U.S., France nate before October 2008, thereby automati- effects inside Germany), bringing a political at all. However, the volumes that Moscow and Germany have suggested that peace- cally prolonging it for another 10 years. The solution to “the Ukraine crisis” (Russia’s hints it might deliver to Europe via Ukraine keeping forces with a U.N. mandate be treaty sets out the principle of strategic part- aggression there being a generator of divi- would be far from sufficient for the econom- brought into the conflict region to indepen- nership, the inviolability of existing borders, sive economic sanctions in Europe), and ic viability of Ukraine’s gas transport system dently provide security. In July, the foreign respect for territorial integrity and an obliga- Russian long-term guaranteed energy deliv- (Margarita Assenova, “Europe and Nord affairs ministers of the Normandy Format tion not to use one nation’s territory to dam- eries to Germany. The notion that “Germany Stream 2: Myths, Reality, and the Way countries discussed the possibility of U.N. age the other’s security. “As friendly, equal, needs Russia” is an attitude described by its Forward,” Center for European Policy peacekeepers in the Donbas. The next meet- and sovereign states, the [parties] shall base critics as a German Mantra (Frankfurter Analysis, Washington, June 2018). ing was planned for September. U.S. their relations upon mutual respect and Allgemeine Zeitung, August 20). Ms. Merkel has tasked her confidant National Security Advisor John Bolton said trust, strategic partnership and cooperation,” That belief seems to credit Russia with Peter Altmeier (currently economics and he believes that, by discussing the option of Article 1 of the treaty states. Ties between an interest in cooperative solutions to energy minister, formerly head of the peacekeepers, Russia may be indirectly Ukraine and Russia have worsened since problems that Moscow in the first place Chancellor’s Office under Ms. Merkel) to admitting to involvement in the war. The Moscow illegally annexed Ukraine’s Crimea created or exacerbated, with a view to gain- negotiate with Gazprom toward a possible French foreign affairs minister, however, is region and instigated a conflict between pro- ing leverage through problem-solving on continuation of Russian gas transit via convinced that the time for sending a U.N. Kremlin separatists and Ukrainian armed Russian terms. Berlin has become the pro- Ukraine after 2019. This is not only (if at all) peacekeeping mission to the Donbas has forces in eastern Ukraine in 2014. More than active side in exploring possible joint solu- a political gesture to Ukraine. It is, mainly, a not yet come. The format of the peacekeep- 10,300 people have been killed in the con- tions with Moscow, albeit not uncondition- hedge against possible delays to the start of ing mission is a controversial matter for flict. The United States and the European ally. Moscow, however, maintains a wait- operations on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Ukraine, and for Russia, which supports the Union condemned Russia’s actions in This is officially due by the end of 2019, but militants. Ukraine wants a full-scale mis- and-see attitude for now, content to see Ukraine and have slapped a series of sanc- sion, which will take control of all the occu- Berlin acting as the demandeur. Therefore, seems jeopardized by serious objections on tions against Moscow in reaction. (RFE/RL, pied Donbas territory, including the state the Merkel-Putin meeting in Meseberg varying grounds in Washington, Brussels, based on reporting by the Kyiv Post, TASS borders. Russia is proposing only a “protec- could not be expected to produce signifi- Copenhagen and elsewhere. Berlin and and Interfax; UNIAN) cant decisions. To keep expectations down, Moscow must be equally concerned about tive mission” in order to ensure the safety of the two leaders had decided in advance the possibility of missing that deadline. This Volker: countries ready to send peacekeepers observers of the Organization for Security that there would be no joint communiqué prospect necessitates for Gazprom to pre- and Cooperation in Europe in the region of In an interview with Ekho Moskvy (Echo and no concluding press conference. pare a transit contract with Naftohaz (for an the confrontation line. (UAWire) of Moscow) published on September 25, Instead, Ms. Merkel and Mr. Putin each as yet undeterminable duration) as a back- U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine (Continued on page 14) delivered a statement in a joint appearance up solution, before the existing contract at the start of their meeting, with no ques- expires, which is also December 2019. tions allowed from the assembled press. 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NEWS ANALYSIS Autocephaly for Ukraine about more than religion by Paul Goble something Moscow religious and political that Moscow, because of its illegal interfer- But the looming Ukrainian autocephaly Eurasia Daily Monitor leaders almost certainly will not tolerate ence in Ukraine, can have no voice in what may soon be compounded by other Russian (Rusk.ru, September 12). happens there with regard to autocephaly losses as well. Already, there is some talk The ecumenical patriarch in But if autocephaly is a victory for (Facebook.com/ecumenicalpatriarchate, that the Orthodox in Belarus may seek auto- Constantinople is moving to grant the Ukraine, it is also fraught with a risk per- September 7; Windowoneurasia2.blogspot. cephaly, given that the Constantinople- Ukrainian Orthodox Church autocephaly, haps even greater than the near inevitabili- com, September 8). approved basis for Ukraine’s claim – that its that is, the status of a Church with its own ty of Russian interference. The diversity of Moscow Patriarch Kirill is an especially territory was never part of Moscow’s canonical territory and able to choose its Orthodox administrations in Ukraine (the big loser. With autocephaly, he will lose canonical territory – applies to them equally own hierarchs. This has been a slow-mov- Moscow Patriarchate, the Kyiv Patriarchate about half of his Church’s parishes, nearly (Krynica.info, September 10; Windowon­ ing process until recent weeks, when and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox half of its bishoprics (many of which are eurasia2.blogspot.com, September 11). Constantinople Patriarch Bartholemew I Church, to name just the three largest ones) headed by churchmen he appointed) and a And Moscow’s retreat may not end there: named two exarchs from North America to has both reflected and helped to promote great deal of his Church’s income. He has There are continuing problems having to do oversee this effort in Ukraine itself. pluralism in that country. Whereas, the for- already been shown to be ineffective in pro- with Church subordination in the Georgian As a result, most attention has hereto- mation of a single national Orthodox moting Moscow’s wishes, with breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South fore been devoted to the religious conse- Church carries with it the risk of the emer- Constantinople having turned him down Ossetia; and earlier this month, Moscow was quences of this move. But now that gence in Ukraine of the caesaro-papist flat. And he has responded in a way that sig- forced to give a kind of bribe – $1 million – Ukrainian autocephaly appears imminent, approach of Orthodoxy in many countries. nals his defeat, talking about splitting the to the Orthodox eparchate in Tajikistan in an it is becoming increasingly clear that the Although Kyiv might initially be glad to Orthodox world and creating “an Orthodox effort to counter the opening of parishes conferring of this status is about far more exploit such a consequence, it could ulti- Vatican” in Russia with himself as an there loyal to Constantinople (Credo.press, than religion. Moreover, it will not be a sin- mately lead to the imposition of a kind of Orthodox “pope” – (see EDM, December 12, September 11). gle event but rather a longer string of ideological straightjacket like the one the 2017) threats few in the Orthodox world Finally, for other countries, the prospect developments that have far-reaching social, Moscow Patriarchate has sought to impose outside of Moscow are likely to support for of Ukrainian autocephaly has become part political and even security consequences on Russia. Indeed, some are already warn- long (Ruskline.ru, Politsovet.ru, BBC News – of the broader conflict with Russia and its for all involved. ing of this danger (Facebook.com/ Russian service, September 6, 2018). aggressive policies in Ukraine and else- For Ukraine, achieving autocephaly is a vladislavl.inozemtsev, September 10). The loss of the Ukrainian bishoprics will where. The United States, for example, has great victory – both religious and political For Russia, autocephaly for Ukraine is a tilt the balance within the Russian Church just signaled that it will do what it can to (Dsnews.ua, September 10). Having an major defeat – again, for both political and away from Patriarch Kirill’s more moderate help Ukraine achieve autocephaly, yet anoth- internationally recognized national religious reasons. In the Kremlin’s view, it positions to conservatives like Pskov er way in which that change in the status of Orthodox Church co-terminus with the bor- represents the end of President Vladimir Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov, a former the Ukrainian Church has moved far beyond ders of the country will not only under- Putin’s dream of a “Russian world” spiritual advisor to Mr. Putin and now the the religious realm to the political and secu- score Ukraine’s exit from Moscow’s orbit (Russkiy mir) combining, at a minimum, odds-on favorite to succeed Patriarch Kirill. rity ones (Credo.press, September 12). but promote national integration. Over the three Eastern Slavic nations – Russians, Indeed, there is evidence that the Kremlin By dramatically pouring fuel on the fire time, autocephaly will likely mean that Ukrainians and Belarusians – which he may hasten this process by bringing crimi- of the Ukrainian Church’s autocephaly most of the congregations and bishoprics continues to view as one people. And more nal charges against some of Patriarch Kirill’s question, the Russian military intervention now subordinated to the Moscow immediately, it deprives Moscow of one of subordinates (Credo.press, September 11). in Ukraine four and a half years ago contin- Patriarchate will pass over to Ukrainian its major levers within Ukraine, making it Moreover, some Russians are already ues to generate far-reaching consequences administration. Of course, this process will more likely that Kyiv will be able to contin- talking about cutting Moscow’s losses in the Kremlin apparently did not imagine. take years and is likely to be slowed by ue its course away from Russia toward the the case of the Ukrainian Church and focus- Russian interference and even by Russian- West. In the case of the Russian Orthodox ing inward, exactly the opposite of what Mr. The article above is reprinted from inspired violence because, once it is com- Church, or the Moscow Patriarchate, the Putin – and even more Patriarch Kirill – Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from pleted, the autocephalous Ukrainian defeat is more total. Not only has the want (Snob.ru, September 3; Credo.press, its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, Church will displace the Russian one as the Ecumenical Patriarchate already rejected September 12). www.jamestown.org. largest Orthodox Church in the world (see Moscow’s claim of a canonical territory Eurasia Daily Monitor, July 26). This is including Ukraine, but it has also declared Portman receives Order of St. Volodymyr FOR THE RECORD: State Department from Ukrainian Orthodox Patriarch Filaret on religious freedom in Ukraine Office of Sen. Rob Portman WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Rob The following press statement was issued followers to pursue autocephaly according Portman (R-Ohio), co-founder and co- by the U.S. State Department’s press spokes- to their beliefs. We respect the Ecumenical person Heather Nauert on September 25. It Patriarch as a voice of religious tolerance chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus and a was titled “Religious Freedom in Ukraine.” and interfaith dialogue. member of the Senate Foreign Relations The United States maintains unwavering Committee, received the Order of St. The United States strongly supports reli- support for Ukraine and its territorial Volodymyr medal from Patriarch Filaret gious freedom, including the freedom of integrity in the face of Russian aggression of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv members of groups to govern their religion in eastern Ukraine and the Russian occupa- Patriarchate. The award was given to Sen. according to their beliefs and practice their tion of Crimea. We also support Ukraine as Portman in recognition of his leadership faiths freely without government interfer- it charts its own path and makes its own and continuous support of Ukraine. ence. The United States respects the ability decisions and associations, free of external “I’m deeply honored to receive this of Ukraine’s Orthodox religious leaders and interference. award from Ukrainian Patriarch Filaret on behalf of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. America stands with the Ukrainian people in their struggle to Quotable notes secure a democratic, prosperous and Office of Sen. Rob Portman independent future for Ukraine in the “If one year ago somebody had said that we would come so close to the Tomos, Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian face of Russian aggression,” said Sen. everyone would have said what I heard from the majority of the hierarchs: Mr. Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate Portman. “As co-founder and co-chair of President, you are a naive person... this is not possible. My answer was: Friends, there presents the Order of St. Volodymyr to the Senate Ukraine Caucus and author of will be nothing without God’s help. But I believe that Ukraine has gained this help. … Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio. several provisions authorizing expanded “People criticize me, telling that the Church in a true state should be separated U.S. military assistance – including lethal assistance necessary to ward off Russian from the state. I totally agree with that. Especially when this state is foreign one. It is aid – and establishing the Ukraine aggression and maintain its territorial our task to protect Ukraine from that foreign church. Because we are the largest Security Assistance Initiative, I will con- integrity. Orthodox country in Europe. …The church should be one – Ukrainian. tinue to do everything I can to help the For the past three years, Sen. Portman “…And I am extremely pleased that, among the bearers of good news from the Ukrainians defend themselves and main- has successfully introduced amend- ecumenical patriarch, exarchs who were appointed by His All-Holiness, there was tain their territorial integrity.” ments to the annual National Defense also Archbishop Daniel of Pamphylia and the Western Eparchy of the Ukrainian Sen. Portman, who received the Order Authorization Act that expanded U.S. mil- Orthodox Church in the United States of America. … of Merit from President Petro itary aid to Ukraine. In addition, he has “We have been waiting [for the Tomos] for not four, not a hundred, but 300 years. Poroshenko during his visit to Ukraine repeatedly written letters, delivered mul- This is the highest God’s reward for the long times of suffering that Ukrainians have earlier this year and received the tiple floor speeches, and pressed senior undergone.” Ukrainian American community’s high- administration officials on the impor- – President Petro Poroshenko speaking on September 25 during a meeting with the est honor, the Shevchenko Freedom tance of providing meaningful assistance Ukrainian community in the U.S. held at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New Award, in 2016, has long led the effort in to help Ukraine stand up to Russia’s mili- York, as reported by the Presidential Administration of Ukraine. the Senate to provide Ukraine the kind of tary aggression. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 No. 39

President calls on U.N. to deploy peacekeeping mission in the Donbas

Presidential Administration of Ukraine is no better way but dispatching such an operation, under the robust U.N. mandate,” UNITED NATIONS – President Petro he underscored. Poroshenko is confident that a United According to President Poroshenko, a Nations-mandated multinational peace- peacekeeping operation would greatly keeping operation whose goal is to restore assist in making Russia fulfill the Minsk Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integ- agreements in good faith. “I am grateful to rity could be a decisive factor in ending the Germany, France and the U.S. for mobilizing suffering of the Ukrainian people. international support of this initiative,” he That was his message on September 26 at added. the general debate of the high-level Action At the same time, the Ukrainian presi- for Peacekeeping meeting held during the dent stressed that Russia is against the 73rd session of the U.N. General Assembly. peacekeepers. “One reason for that is that “It is evident that the world has not the Kremlin is afraid. It is afraid that the become a safer place in the 21st century. peacekeepers will see Russian military We still witness wars and aggression, even manpower and military assets all over the on the European continent. As we speak, occupied territory. They are also afraid of the foreign military aggression against losing control over Ukraine’s border with Ukraine, in violation of the U.N. Charter and Russia – a hostage taken by the Kremlin to contrary to the resolutions adopted by the Presidential Administration of Ukraine keep infiltrating its military into the General Assembly and the Security Council, President Petro Poroshenko addresses the high-level meeting on Action for Donbas,” Mr. Poroshenko said. rages on,” the Head of State noted. Peacekeeping held during the 73rd session of the U.N. General Assembly. He asked: “Is it not for the U.N. to stand Mr. Poroshenko emphasized: “The tem- up to the challenge with courage?” He porary occupation of parts of Ukraine’s ter- rently stands at over 35,000, including very heart,” the president said. recalled that Ukraine’s request to deploy a ritory continues to cause suffering of the more than 10,000 people killed and almost “I am confident that a U.N.-mandated U.N. peacekeeping operation in the occu- Ukrainian people and undermine regional 25,000 injured. The number of internally multinational peacekeeping operation with pied Donbas has not yet been addressed. and international peace and security.” displaced persons is well over 1.5 million. the only clear goal to restore Ukraine’s sov- “We see it as a test for the ability of our He noted that, according to a conserva- “It could look like yet another dry statis- ereignty and territorial integrity could be a organization to act in a challenging conflict tive estimate by the U.N., the number of tic, which this organization is full of, but for decisive factor in ending the suffering of situation. A test that still remains to be conflict-related casualties in Ukraine cur- me and Ukrainians these are scars on the the Ukrainian people. We believe that there passed,” Mr. Poroshenko concluded. Ukrainian warships break Russian de-facto blockade in Azov Sea to create naval base

by Yuri Zoria September 24 at 20:10, the search and res- Euromaidan Press cue ship Donbas and sea tug Korets arrived in Mariupol escorted by Ukrainian armored Ukraine is going to create a naval base in artillery boats Kremenchuk and Lubny. the Sea of Azov amid tensions with Russia Has Russia landlocked in the region. On September 23 the Ukrainian ports? Ukrainian Navy deployed two naval auxilia- ry vessels to the Sea of Azov. The event Beginning in May, Russia imposed a could have been routine if only the Kerch “hybrid blockade” of Ukraine’s Azov north- Strait had not been occupied by Russia ern-coast seaports of Berdiansk and since spring 2014 and the Kerch Strait Mariupol. The Russian FSB’s border guard Bridge had not been completed in early service has been carrying on illegal inspec- 2018. Since May of this year, Russia has tions of all commercial vessels sailing to been illegally detaining and inspecting ships and from the Ukrainian ports. passing between the Black and Azov seas. In June, Ukrainian Navy chief Ihor The passage of the Ukrainian ships Voronchenko called the Russian actions in became a headache for Russia since it the Black and Azov seas, “Further ‘creep- claims the adjacent waters in occupied ing’ annexation of our exclusive maritime Crimea are Russian, while the rest of the economic zone.” world considers them Ukrainian. Ukrainian Military Portal In August, the secretary of Ukraine’s The two ships examined how far Russia The Ukrainian naval vessel Donbas in the port of Mariupol in the evening of National Security and Defense Council, will go. Russia chose to do nothing. September 24. Oleksandr Turchynov, warned that Russia The passage the Russian state news agency TASS, two “A Ukrainian ‘squadron’ entered the planned “further expansion” and sought to ships of the Ukrainian Navy “crossed into channel at 13:50 Moscow time [MSK, the impose a “military and economic blockade On September 16, the Ukrainian govern- of Ukraine’s Azov coast.” ment announced its plans to create a naval Russia’s exclusive economic zone off same time as EEST – Kyiv summer time – Crimea” and were “being escorted by ships ed.] and passed under the bridge at 15:15 One of the clear Russian objectives is to base in the Azov Sea before the end of the undermine the economy of Berdiansk and year. A few days later, President Petro of the Russian FSB Border Service’s Coast Moscow time,” the Russian state news Guard.” agency TASS wrote, citing Alexei Volkov, Mariupol. Shippers, delayed by the inspec- Poroshenko confirmed that intention in his tions, are losing between $5,000 and Two ships of the Russian border guard director general of the Crimean Sea Ports address to the Verkhovna Rada. $15,000 per hour as a result of the Russian patrol started escorting the Ukrainian war- state company. The Ukrainian Military Portal (UMP) checks. The Russian strategy is to make ships as they were passing by the occupied A video shared by the pro-Russian local media outlet reported on September 23 imports and exports from both ports eco- port of Sevastopol. As the Ukrainian “con- news site KerchInfo shows the passage of that the ships of the Ukrainian Navy, search nomically unprofitable. voy” was approaching the Kerch Strait, the the Donbas and the Korets under the and rescue vessel A500 Donbas and the tug Since Russia failed to grab a land corri- Russian escort grew to at least seven mili- bridge followed by two Russian armored A830 Korets, had left the Western Naval dor to Crimea by military force back in late tary sea craft, among them were: the tug boats and two more escort ships. Base in the Black Sea port of Odesa for 2014, it decided to join the occupied penin- SB-739 KChF; two patrol boats of the proj- Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Berdiansk on September 20 to establish a sula with mainland Russia via a bridge in ect 03160 “Raptor” carrying the special welcomed the passage of the Ukrainian new Ukrainian naval base in the Sea of the Kerch Strait. However, Crimean agricul- force of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet; the project warships into the Sea of Azov and noted Azov. No official reports were released at ture and industry suffer without Ukrainian 10410 “Setlyachok” ship of the FSB’s coast that the vessels will be part of a new naval that time and the UMP cited its own sourc- water supplies from the Dnipro River, guard; two “Mangust” boats of the project base of the Ukrainian fleet in that area. es. which were cut off shortly after the begin- 12150; and a boat of the project 21850 The late official Russian reaction was: According to a 2003 bilateral agreement, ning of the occupation. So the issue of a “Chibis” of the FSB’s coast guard. “Ukrainian naval ships Donbas and Korets the Sea of Azov is an inland sea of two land corridor to Crimea persists for Russia. As of September 23, 10:25 EEST (Eastern states, and civil and military vessels under passed through the Kerch Strait, which The Kremlin is trying to destabilize European Summer Time), the warships the flags of Ukraine and Russia can pass links the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, Ukrainian Azov coastal territories via mili- through the strait and travel to their ports. approached the area of the Kerch Strait. with due permission from Russian control tary and informational provocations, With the deterioration of the situation on Later, reports emerged that the Ukrainian agencies that is required under law,” as believes Ihor Kabanenko, retired admiral of the Azov Sea, the command of the small armored artillery boats P177 TASS reported, citing the press service of the Ukrainian Navy. The commercial losses Ukrainian Navy decided to act in accor- Kremenchuk and P178 Lubny, earlier Russia’s Federal Agency for Maritime and caused by Russia to international cargo dance with the needs that have arisen, brought by land to Berdiansk, departed River Transport [Rosmorrechflot] on ships is one of the tools used to undermine explained the UMP. from the port in the direction of the Kerch September 24. According to September 22 report by crossing, to meet the Donbas and the Korets. According to UMP’s update of (Continued on page 5) No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 5

Plaque honoring... (Continued from page 1) had launched a campaign to commission the bronze like- ness of Dr. Lemkin (sculpted by Oleh Lesiuk) on a quadri- lingual – English, Ukrainian, Hebrew and Yiddish – plaque, to be permanently displayed at the UIA. The inscription under his image reads: “Dr. Raphael Lemkin and the Holodomor. This plaque honours Dr. Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) ‘The father of the Genocide Convention.’ In a 1935 speech delivered in New York City, Dr. Lemkin described the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Soviet Ukraine (the Holodomor) as ‘a classic example of a Soviet genocide.’ This memorial also hallows the many mil- lions of Ukrainians who were murdered by starvation dur- ing the Holodomor, one of the greatest genocides to befoul 20th century European history.” Dedication prayers were voiced by Bishop Emeritus Basil Losten of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford, Conn.; Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive vice-president of the New York Board of Rabbis; the Rev. Volodymyr Muzychka, pastor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Volodymyr in New York; and the Rev. Vitaliy Pavlykivskiy, pastor of All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Yuriy Semenyuk Church in New York. Samantha Power, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the audience via video. A distinguished audience not recognized as genocide by most countries. In his opin- to the U.S. Valeriy Chaly. UIA President Daniel Swistel, M.D., welcomed the large ion, this silence stems from “Western complicity in cover- The audience next saw a video of Samantha Power, for- audience in attendance for the unveiling, mentioning how ing up the Holodomor.” Dr. Luciuk related how the British mer U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Ms. Power as a little boy he had heard his mother recalling the Embassy had recorded a conversation in 1933 with recounted her years of studying Lemkin’s ideas, especially Holodomor. Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty of The New York his warnings about complete destruction of cultures, add- Dr. Swistel introduced distinguished audience members: Times in which Duranty admitted to 10 million Ukrainian ing that “Dr. Lemkin dedicated his strength to helping oth- Kairi Kunka, consul general of Estonia; Khawar Nasim, depu- victims. ers, and so few people came to his funeral [1959] that this ty consul of Canada; Denys Semenovych, consul for econom- Dr. Luciuk also described the problems encountered in memorial was necessary and long overdue.” Ambassador ic issues at the Consulate General of Ukraine; Ian unearthing Dr. Lemkin’s 1953 speech from the archives of Power concluded by saying that she looks forward to visit- Ihnatowycz, Ukrainian Canadian philanthropist; Iryna the New York Public Library. Yet more problems surfaced ing the UIA. Kurowycky, U. N. representative, International Council of in the transfer of the commemorative bronze plaque from A singular part of the program was New York play- Women; Jonathan Brent, CEO and executive director at YIVO the casting foundry in Pittsburgh – it was finally delivered wright Catherine Filloux reading excerpts from her 2005 Institute for Jewish Research; Maria Shust, director, The just one day before the unveiling. play “Lemkin’s House.” These were absorbing meditations Ukrainian Museum, New York; Martha Kichorowska Kebalo, In a conversation with this author, Dr. Luciuk revealed on Lemkin conversing in the after-life with his mother. Ph.D., main representative of the World Federation of that the principal financial support for the plaque came The final speaker was former U.S. Ambassador-at Large Ukrainian Women’s Organizations to the United Nations from Mr. Ihnatowycz, the noted Ukrainian Canadian philan- for War Crimes Issues David Scheffer. Dr. Scheffer declared Economic and Social Council; and Ukraine’s Permanent thropist who also financed last year’s film “Bitter Harvest.” that the Holodomor was a “direct assault on the Ukrainian Representative to the United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko, Many individual Ukrainians and Jews also contributed to people.” He spoke about related genocides in the Sudan as well as former representatives of Ukraine to the U.N., this project. and Cambodia, and said that the Holodomor is currently in Ambassadors Valeriy Kuchynsky and Yuriy Sergeyev. The following speaker, Ukraine’s consul general in New “preliminary consideration” for genocide at the The first speaker was Lubomyr Luciuk, professor at the York, Oleksii Holubov, added that “without understanding International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands. Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. According to the nature of the Holodomor, we cannot understand the Finally Dr. Luciuk and UIA Executive Director Olena Dr. Luciuk, this commemorative ceremony was significant nature of relations between Russia and Ukraine.” Mr. Sidlovych removed the black velvet veil to reveal the because, forgotten for many years, the Holodomor still is Holubov also read a statement from Ukraine’s Ambassador bronze plaque honoring Dr. Lemkin. Dr. Luciuk added that the Ukrainian Institute of America had placed flowers that same day at the grave of Dr. Lemkin in Queens to “thank a righteous man!” Lemkin’s biography Dr. Lemkin was born in 1900 in what is now Belarus. Homeschooled, he was fascinated by mass atrocities and often questioned his highly intelligent mother about the Sack of Cartage, Mongol Invasions and the persecution of the Huguenots. This became the central concern of his life. During World War I, his family was compelled to bury books and valuables, and hide in a nearby forest. Dr. Lemkin studied linguistics at Lviv University (even- tually becoming fluent in nine languages). Moved by the wartime massacres of Assyrians, Greeks and Armenians by the Ottoman Turks, he traveled to Germany to study philos- ophy. He returned to Lviv in 1923 and earned his law degree. Later, he served as prosecutor throughout Poland and Ukraine, and also lectured at numerous universities. Dr. Lemkin’s broader study of accountability for geno- cide led to his convincing analysis of the Ukrainian Great Famine and the Soviets’ associated destruction of the intel- ligentsia and clergy, all cultural and political leaders and Russ Chelak forced population transfers. This culminated in his historic With the newly unveiled plaque honoring Dr. Raphael Lemkin (from left) are: sculptor Oleh Lesiuk, Dr. Daniel declaration that the Holodomor was nothing less than a Swistel, playwright Catherine Filloux and Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk. “classic example of Soviet genocide.”

new international sanctions against Russia, accords are about a peace settlement on expect Ukraine’s ships to risk passing Ukrainian warships... because only Russia considers Crimea and land and there’s nothing about sea warfare. through the Kerch Strait. “We seized the ini- its territorial waters Russian. For the rest of The last option is to let the Ukrainian ships tiative,” Mr. Chmut said. “For the first time, (Continued from page 4) the world, Crimea remains Ukrainian. pass, and Russia has chosen to do just that. we didn’t just react to the Russians’ steps, the economy of the Ukrainian Azov coastal Russia could try to attack the ships in the Such a decision was detrimental only to the but started to set our own game rules.” region. Azov Sea with the so-called “DPR Naval Kremlin’s domestic public image – Ukrainian Force” – a few fishing boats remade to ships coming without any problem through The article above was originally posted by What could Russia do? carry firearms. In this case, Ukrainian “Russian territorial waters” demonstrates Euromaidan Press on September 25 at Russia could try to detain the Ukrainian armored artillery boats would drown the that “Great Russia” isn’t as strong as its pro- http://euromaidanpress.com/2018/09/25/ ships or even arrest them since they were Donetsk “people’s republic” craft, and there paganda image purports it to be. ukrainian-warships-break-russian-de-facto- passing through what Russia believes to be would be no significant consequences even Ukrainian naval expert Taras Chmut blockade-in-azov-sea-to-create-naval-base/. its territorial waters. This could result in for the Minsk peace process, since the believes the Russian Navy most likely didn’t It has been edited here for clarity. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 No. 39

WINDOW ON EURASIA The Ukrainian Weekly Poroshenko makes his case Moscow has complex system to run On September 26, President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine addressed the United Nations General Assembly. The occasion was the annual General Debate, when agents of influence abroad, says historian world leaders gather to discuss global issues. Mr. Poroshenko strongly made the case by Paul Goble Russian special services work in all the for his country, which has faced unrelenting Russian aggression since 2014, and countries of the world.” And in a lengthy called on the United Nations to stop that aggression. The president also presented As Moscow’s geopolitical isolation has article, Mr. Khmelnitsky presents an effort Ukraine’s position during the high-level Action for Peacekeeping meeting, where he increased, Dmitry Khmelnitsky says, the to classify these various groups in order to repeated his position that the U.N. should send an international peacekeeping mis- role of its agents of influence abroad and aid others in making sense of and then ulti- sion to Ukraine, as well as in his meetings with many world leaders who also were in the enormously variegated organizations mately countering what Moscow is doing. town for the opening of the General Assembly’s 73rd session. that recruit and direct them has increased Since Vladimir Putin came to power, Mr. Poroshenko began his speech to the General Assembly by stating, “We shall far beyond what they were during the Cold Moscow has created several major and never forget that the raison d’être of this organization is to ‘save succeeding genera- War when anti-communism served as a many minor organizations to work with tions from the scourge of war,’ ” and noting, “Unfortunately, my fellow citizens have constraint. Russian and Soviet émigrés. Among the most become a part of that one-fifth of the world population who is experiencing the hor- “The Russian network of agents of influ- important are the International Council of rors of war.” ence abroad is extraordinarily broad and Russian Compatriots (founded in 2002), the He then proceeded to eloquently tell his listeners how the people of Ukraine are differentiated,” the Ukrainian historian liv- World Coordinating Council of Russian suffering because of Russia’s hostility: “Moscow turns Ukrainians to orphans. It tor- ing in Germany says. “It consists of a multi- Compatriots Living Abroad (set up in 2007), tures our patriots in its prisons. Over 1.5 million people became internally displaced tude of organizations created and financed the World Congress of Russian-Speaking persons. …Russia constantly multiplies the human tragedy, which lately received a by Moscow and under social groups and Jewry (established in 2002) and the Russian new dimension: ecological. It poisons the Ukrainian soil and causes an environmen- simulating social, cultural and scholarly World Foundation, a pass-through funding tal disaster not only in the occupied Crimea, but in Donbas as well. This has been a activity” (zn.ua/international/kremlevskiy- group that now operates more than 200 daily reality for Ukrainians for four years now. Thousands of deaths, destruction, dis- maskarad-ili-rossiyskie-agenty-vliyaniya- Russian centers around the world. placement and human suffering.” za-granicey-292019_.html). Of course, Mr. Khmelnitsky says, this list The news media reported that Russian diplomats sat expressionless as the Some of these organizations are directed “is only the tip of the iceberg. There are also Ukrainian president detailed their country’s violations of the U.N. Charter and inter- at the local communities; others at émigrés Moscow agencies which …are involved, national law. from the USSR and Russia, “although some- beginning with Rossotrudnichestvo, a body Mr. Poroshenko made it crystal clear why Russia has invaded and occupied times both these tasks are addressed by that deals with CIS affairs, compatriots Ukraine: “Let us not forget what this war is about. Ukraine made a sovereign deci- one and the same organizations,” Mr. abroad and international humanitarian sion to live its way and promote the Free World based on democratic values and Khmelnitsky continues. But overwhelming- cooperation.” It was set up in 2008 as the rules. Russia punishes Ukraine for this decision. It kills. It ruins homes. It lies on ly, they are specialized and work “with the successor to the Soviet VOKS (All-Union industrial scale. It pretends that Ukraine, as well as Georgia ‘attacked themselves.’ ” most varied political, ethnic, social, cultural Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign He then asked: “Do we know which neighbor of Russia will ‘attack itself’ next? Or and professional communities.” Countries), which was created in 1958. will the world be ‘comfortably numb’ in a hope that ‘the next one won’t be me’?” “Their classification by itself is worthy of “Too often lofty rhetoric on peace, respect for international law and commitment attention because, under this format, the (Continued on page 12) to human rights remains just that – rhetoric, nice-sounding words, politically correct messages, which, however, are not backed by concrete actions,” Mr. Poroshenko observed. Then, most appropriately for a General Debate whose theme is “Making the United Nations Relevant to All People: Global Leadership and Shared Responsibilities for Peaceful, Equitable and Sustainable Societies,” the Ukrainian Warning sign in Donbas: Pro-Moscow forces president challenged U.N. members to take action: “Your silence is exactly what the Kremlin weaponizes against Ukraine – and, ultimately, against all of us. … the beauti- replacing local people with outsiders ful language of the [U.N.] Charter is worth nothing if it is not enforced. No more words, time for deeds!” by Paul Goble are coming from Vorkuta and Irkutsk. They Thank you, President Poroshenko, for your powerful message to the world. are given residence permits and in addition One of the most reliable signs that an to their Russian passports, they are issued aggressor is about to launch a new attack is DPR passports as well. his replacement of local people who might The new arrivals are settled in apart- resist his effort with carefully selected out- ments left vacant by the departure of for- siders who can be counted on to support or mer residents, so there is no problem with Oct. Turning the pages back... at least not actively oppose any new housing. aggression. Second, inflation is increasing, putting Thirty-five years ago, on October 2, 1983, an estimated crowd According to people in the Donbas with ever more products beyond the reach of 2 of 18,000 people gathered at the Washington Monument in the whom U.S.-based Russian journalist the former residents but not so high that nation’s capital to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Kseniya Kirillova has spoken, that is exactly arrivals cannot afford to buy, especially 1983 Holodomor, known at the time as the Great Famine of 1932-1933, what has been happening in the days since given their larger pensions and incomes that killed millions of Ukrainians through forced starvation. the murder of Aleksandr Zakharchenko, and their own recent experiences with The two-and-a-half-hour rally included addresses by Morton the so-called “head of the DPR.” Her report higher prices in Siberia and the Russian Blackwell, a representative of President Ronald Reagan, and Rep. Don Ritter (R-Pa.). The should set off alarm bells in Kyiv (day.kyiv. North. speakers expressed sympathy with the Ukrainians and lauded the Ukrainian nation’s ua/ru/blog/obshchestvo/mestnoe-nasele- And third, DPR officials are doing noth- courage and continued resistance against Soviet Communist subjugation. nie-zameshchayut-priezzhimi). ing to counter a rising environmental disas- President Reagan stated: “…In a time when the entire world is outraged by the sense- One Donbas resident speaking on condi- ter as poisonous substances and even less murder of 269 passengers on Korean Airlines Flight 007, we must not forget that this tion of anonymity says that in the days radioactive materials spill into the water kind of action is not new to the Soviet Union. That the dream of freedom lives on in the since Zakharchenko was killed, the powers and soil of the region. Former residents hearts of Ukrainians everywhere is an inspiration to each of us. I commend your participa- that be in the Donetsk “people’s republic” know about these things; but the new peo- tion in this special observance and the moral vision it represents. May it be a reminder to (DPR) region have increased the number of ple are ignoring them, perhaps because in all of us of how fortunate we are to live in a land of freedom. …On this occasion, we searches and arrests of local people. the Russian regions they come from, these acknowledge the terrible suffering and death that took place during the farm collectiviza- Residents are frightened “but despite that, are considered normal. tion and subsequent forced famine and severe repression. That attempt to crush the life, dissatisfaction is growing” because of three Consequently, the former residents are will and spirit of a people by a totalitarian government still holds meaning for people inter-related developments. leaving, giving more room for the arrival of around the world today.” First, “the local population continues to Russians from elsewhere. Rep. Ritter, who opened and closed his statement in Ukrainian, reminded: “…We are be replaced by new arrivals. Militants come Ms. Kirillova does not say, but it is clear here to tell the story to the world of the people who suffered, the victims, the survivors. with their children, wives and pensioner from her interviews that the DPR officials Yes we want the world to know about this crime against humanity, not that they may feel parents; and in recent times, most of them backed by Moscow are interested in pro- sympathy towards the victims… But even more important is that the world better under- moting the departure of the older residents stand that the disease of totalitarian control over people longing to be free is what creates Paul Goble is a long-time specialist on and their replacement with more malleable holocausts. May the memory of those who died live on in our hearts and in the hearts of all ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia Americans so that the flame of freedom for Ukraine will never die. Long live the flame of and thus reliable Russians from distant who has served in various capacities in the freedom. Glory to Ukraine!” regions of the Russian Federation. Indeed, U.S. State Department, the Central Pawlo Makar of Syracuse, N.Y., arrived by bus with parishioners from St. John Ukrainian it appears that this is very much a con- Intelligence Agency and the International Catholic and St. Luke Ukrainian Orthodox churches, told The Weekly: “As a 22-year-old scious policy. Broadcasting Bureau, as well as at the Voice student in the city [of Poltava], I saw the trucks coming around to pick up the corpses. That it has intensified in the last days I saw death all around me. And through the years I have tried to spread the word about of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio suggests that Moscow and the DPR have the Famine.” Liberty and the Carnegie Endowment for plans to launch a new campaign and are The rally concluded with a protest near the Soviet Embassy. The D.C. Metro Police, who International Peace. The article above is doing what they can to ensure that they were expecting some 5,000 participants, were overwhelmed by the 18,000 Ukrainians reprinted with permission from his blog won’t have the problems in rear areas that called “Window on Eurasia” (http://windo- they would have if the older residents (Continued on page 19) woneurasia2.blogspot.com/). remained in place. No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 7 IN THE PRESS: Geopolitical divorce, COMMENTARY Trump administration, sanctions cheaters A righteous man named Lemkin “The Geopolitical Divorce of the “The tension between what Mr. Trump Century: Why Putin Cannot Afford to Let says and what his administration does – Ukraine Go,” by Peter Dickinson, Ukraine with respect to Ukraine, Russia, Alert blog, Atlantic Council, September 18 Afghanistan, the North Atlantic Treaty (http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ Organization and even North Korea – has ukrainealert/the-geopolitical-divorce-of- baffled the global foreign-policy elite. At the-century-why-putin-cannot-afford-to-let- last week’s Yalta European Strategy confer- ukraine-go): ence, an annual two-day symposium to strengthen Ukraine’s ties to the West, sev- …Ukrainian businesses have begun to eral attendees noted the conundrum. … discover life after Russia. In 2017 alone, “Mr. Trump seems to care little about Ukraine-EU trade grew by almost a quarter Ukraine. He often has told aides that he and India emerged as the largest interna- prefers to distance himself from its fight tional market for Ukrainian agricultural against Russia… exports. On the domestic front, American “But there is little hint of such indiffer- companies are replacing longstanding ence in his overall Ukraine policy. The Russian partners. The first General Electric administration has sold Kiev Javelin anti- locomotive engines recently arrived in tank missiles, which Mr. Obama refused to Ukraine, while the country’s Soviet era avi- do. It has approved a large economic and ation flagship Antonov is now working military aid package and committed U.S. with Boeing. troops to joint exercises with eight other Increasing international mobility is mak- nations in Ukrainian airspace in October. …” ing it much easier for ordinary Ukrainians Lubomyr Luciuk to look beyond Russia. The advent of visa- The plaque unveiled at the Ukrainian Institute of America to honor Raphael Lemkin. free EU travel for Ukrainian passport hold- “U.S. and EU Need to Take on Crimea Sanction Sneaks,” by Maria Shagina, ers in summer 2017 is transforming atti- by Lubomyr Luciuk Despite these cris de coeur, and even tudes toward the rest of Europe and help- Ukraine Alert blog, Atlantic Council, Pope Pius XI’s willingness to organize inter- ing Ukrainians to shed the psychological September 25 (http://www.atlanticcouncil. He was the first to call it what it was. national relief, millions endured agonizing shackles that long kept the country penned org/blogs/ukrainealert/us-and-eu-need-to- Sixty-five years ago, on September 20, deaths. Appallingly, their destruction was inside the narrow confines of the post-Sovi- take-on-crimea-sanction-sneaks): 1953, Dr Raphael Lemkin, a legal scholar, covered up because, as the British Foreign et world. … Despite a comprehensive sanctions spoke in New York City about Stalin’s four- Office’s Laurence Collier wrote, in June 1934: Millions of Ukrainians have turned their regime established by Western govern- pronged offensive against Ukraine. The “The truth of the matter is, of course, that we backs on the Russian Orthodox Church ments barring foreign investment in country’s dismemberment began with the have a certain amount of information about since the outbreak of hostilities, with entire Crimea, many foreign companies nonethe- evisceration of its heart, mind and soul, famine conditions… there is no obligation on congregations switching their allegiance to less maintain operations there. Recent achieved through the murder or deportation us not to make it public. We do not want to Kyiv. … Within the next few months, the reports reveal that a number of companies of Ukraine’s writers and poets, intelligentsia because the Soviet government would Patriarchate of Constantinople is widely such as Visa, MasterCard, Volkswagen, and clergy. That outrage was coupled with a resent it and our relations with them would be prejudiced.” Even more troubling is how, expected to grant Ukraine full Orthodox Auchan, Metro Cash & Carry, DHL, and body blow against Ukraine’s peasantry, the on September 26, 1933, William Strang of independence from Russia. This would Adidas are still willing to continue business repository of the nation’s traditions, orches- trated through a man-made famine. To fin- the British Embassy in Moscow recorded strike at the very heart of Russia’s historic as usual despite the reputational risk. ish off the assault the country’s ethnic char- Duranty admitting: “…as many as 10 million claims to Ukraine, denying Moscow author- The companies’ sanctions-busting acter was diluted through a mass resettle- people may have died directly or indirectly ity over the country’s Orthodox faithful behavior is driven by their commercial ment of non-Ukrainians, particularly along from lack of food in the Soviet Union during while greatly strengthening Ukraine’s own interests: they are reluctant to lose a signif- Ukraine’s eastern marches. the past year.” That intelligence was buried. sense of national identity. icant share of the Russian market. Lemkin, known to history as “the father Western governments were complicit in the …pro-Russian stances have become According to Sergey Aksyonov, Crimea’s of the U.N. Genocide Convention,” under- cover-up of this genocide. politically toxic in today’s Ukraine, with the self-proclaimed prime minister, nearly stood clearly what had been done, brand- Decades passed before Lemkin’s text was country’s few remaining Kremlin-friendly 3,000 foreign firms are currently operating ing it a “classic example of a Soviet geno- located in The New York Public Library. parties obliged to disguise their positions in Crimea. Aksyonov has encouraged for- cide.” He estimated 5 million Ukrainians Published in 2008, widely circulated and in the language of pragmatism. … eign companies to invest in Crimea, as perished during the Great Famine of 1932- translated into many languages since, the there are ways companies can circumvent 1933, now known as the Holodomor. thoughts of the man who coined the word “Surprise – Ukrainians Are Bullish on sanctions and conceal their identities. … Another observer, Fred E. Beal, reported “genocide” tell us he was in no doubt that “… Trump,” by Judith Miller, The Wall Street … sanctions busters are quick learners, Journal, September 24 (https://www.wsj. this same figure in his 1937 book, a famine was necessary for the Soviet[s] and and the U.S. and EU must also respond “Proletarian Journey.” In a conversation so they got one to order, by plan… This is com/articles/surpriseukrainians-are-bull- quickly… ish-on-trump-1537830803): held in 1933 with one of the famine’s archi- not simply a case of mass murder. It is a case … the EU’s decision-making process on tects, Grigory Petrovsky, the president of of genocide, of the destruction, not of indi- “President Trump’s kowtowing to sanctions policy, including monitoring and the ostensibly independent Soviet Ukraine, viduals only, but of a culture and a nation.” Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki enforcement mechanisms, should be signif- Beal asked: “They say 5 million people have Stalin’s offspring, the descendants of those alarmed the world in July. Few countries had icantly improved. Because the EU requires died this year… What are we going to tell who dismissed survivor accounts as the more reason for concern than Ukraine, unanimity to impose and renew sanctions, them?” Petrovsky responded frankly: “Tell ranting of anti-Soviet émigrés, cannot which has defended itself in a low-intensity its ability to act and adapt is limited and them nothing! What they say is true. We ignore Lemkin’s conclusion. war with Russia for nearly four years. Yet slow; this gives targets sufficient time to know that millions are dying. That is unfor- On September 20, with our friends at the despite the U.S. president’s baffling fondness find alternative solutions by shifting capital tunate, but the glorious future of the Soviet Ukrainian Institute of America, the world’s for Mr. Putin, Ukrainians say Mr. Trump’s and payments to countries where legisla- Union will justify that. Tell them nothing!” first and only English, Ukrainian, Yiddish policies are surprisingly supportive of Kiev tion is weak or absent. … Demographers now calculate over 4 million and Hebrew plaque, honoring Dr. Lemkin [sic] and hostile toward Moscow. In some Currently, EU member states lack the Ukrainians starved in just six months – one for recognizing the genocidal nature of the ways they believe Mr. Trump has been much political will to enforce sanctions effective- of the greatest genocides to befoul 20th famine while hallowing the memory of the better than his predecessor. ly; the cost of monitoring is high and time- century European history. millions who perished, was unveiled. “ ‘The Trump administration has a pret- consuming, while the value of illegal And yet, for decades, what happened Flowers were placed on his grave. And this ty sound foreign policy toward Russia, export-import is low. Establishing a sanc- was almost forgotten. Those who spoke out was all done on the 65th anniversary of his Ukraine and the region,’ says Michael tions unit and prosecuting the sanctions were invariably derided, most notably speech, in the company of ambassadors, McFaul, a U.S. ambassador to Russia under evaders will repair the damage inflicted to Gareth Jones, a brilliant Welsh journalist scholars, writers and the public. President Obama. ‘The problem is that the the credibility of Western sanctions and whose first-hand accounts of widespread Remembering a man who spoke truth to president doesn’t agree with the policies of deter companies from breaching them in starvation were suppressed by the “fake power was our privilege, especially at a his administration.’ the future. … news” spread by Walter Duranty, the time when the KGB man in the Kremlin and Pulitzer Prize winning Moscow correspon- his minions not only deny the Holodomor OPINIONS dent of The New York Times. He knowingly but deploy troops against a free Ukraine. bleated the Kremlin line that there was no I was a newborn when Lemkin spoke. The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters to the editor and commentaries on a famine at all. Another truth-teller was the Now I am older than he was when he died. variety of topics of concern to the Ukrainian American and Ukrainian Canadian courageous Jewish Canadian journalist, Yet I know that what happened 85 years communities, as well as the Ukrainian diaspora. Rhea Clyman, whose searing accounts of ago will never again be forgotten, and for Opinions expressed by columnists, commentators and letter-writers are their the horror included a May 1933 article in that we have thanked a righteous man by own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of either The Weekly editorial the Toronto Telegraph. She described a the name of Raphael Lemkin. staff or its publisher, the Ukrainian National Association. peasant near Kharkiv crying: “… we have no Similarly, paid advertisements do not reflect the opinions of either The bread!… we have nothing to eat. Our chil- Lubomyr Luciuk is a professor of political geography at The Royal Military College of Ukrainian or its publisher. dren were eating grass in the spring... There was nothing else for them.” Canada in Kingston, Ontario. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 No. 39 No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 9 Coro Stetsenko performs Kyrylo Stetsenko’s “Panakhyda” to commemorate 85th anniversary of Holodomor

by Victoria Malko FRESNO, Calif. – Coro Stetsenko, an ensemble of the Fresno Community Chorus (FCC) Master Chorale, an outstanding cho- ral group led by world class conductor Dr. Anna Hamre, premiered Kyrylo Stetsenko’s “Panakhyda,” a plaintive memorial service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, in the Chapel of the Holy Innocents at St. James Episcopal Cathedral in Fresno, Calif., in memory of the Holodomor of 1932-1933. This was a centennial world premiere by the 30-member ensemble, the first non- Ukrainian a cappella group singing it in Ukrainian. On Sunday, August 26, in the early and late afternoon, three tolls of the bell sig- naled the beginning of the memorial ser- vices for the millions of innocent men, women and children starved to death by the Soviet regime in the 1930s. The servic- es also ended with the triple tolling of the bell. “The Holodomor for Ukrainians means more than just a famine, because famines Roger McGrady are caused by drought or blight,” said Alan Coro Stetsenko at the Chapel of the Holy Innocents at St. James Episcopal Cathedral in Fresno, Calif., on August 26. Peters, president of the FCC board of direc- tors, setting the tone in his opening friend, the composer Mykola Lysenko. and the Trisagion Prayers, the declamatory gram to highlight this historical atrocity remarks. “It was the man-made famine, During the country’s brief independence, recitations of the deacon/priest were lay- that will forever remain an affront to deliberate, cruel, executed in cold blood. All Stetsenko also became the head of the ered on top of the choral chants in a congre- humanity,” said Dr. Hamre. grain and even seeds for the future crop Music Section in the Ministry of Education gational expression of grief. The Rev. Canon Keith Brown, cross cul- were confiscated, troops were sent to seal of the Ukrainian National Republic. In the Canon section of the memorial ture missioner of St. James Episcopal the borders and prevent the starving from After the composer’s death, the work service, basses and tenors alternated the Cathedral, brought his vision to the project seeking provisions elsewhere. The nation’s vanished from cultural horizons for 70 canticles (legendary-philosophical songs) and helped with arrangement of the venue. food growers were left to starve.” They died years, in spite of its artistic excellence and with the choir’s exhortations of “Grant Catherine Jackson, a Rusyn, helped with silently, without a priest, a prayer, or a its pivotal role in establishing Ukrainian peace, Lord.” The use of only one intonation deciphering Cyrillic script and organizing proper burial. sacred music. In 21st century Ukraine, his model for these songs (given the various the hors d’oeuvres reception. Christie The “Panakhyda” was performed in requiem has been resurrected and per- lengths of the texts) illustrated the compos- Sartor, FCC administrator, and Joungmin memory of the holy innocents. The name of formed during private and public memorial er’s virtuosic technique in creating forms. Sur, rehearsal accompanist, provided time- the chapel was a most fitting descriptor to services; it is a fitting service for the victims The last song of the Canon, “With the saints ly assistance with tickets and notes. remember the victims. Among these mil- of the Holodomor. grant peace,” culminated with the chords of Adriana Etchart, graphic designer from lions were thousands of Mr. Peters’ A local historian and art enthusiast, Dr. the powerful six-voiced forte: “… and to Fresno State, created posters and programs Mennonite brethren. Mennonites were Victoria A. Malko of the Department of eternal life.” Sopranos soared in a forceful using traditional Ukrainian symbols and mostly farmers, and they suffered from History at California State University, stylistic amplitude. imagery. starvation no less than their Ukrainian Fresno, who is also a soprano and member In a dramatic contrast, a velvety alto solo, In appreciation of Dr. Hamre’s talent and neighbors. “The impact of singing this work of the ensemble, used Stetsenko’s original Glady Ruiz, on pedals of choral sonority, on behalf of the Ukrainian National in memory of the numbing reality of the vocal score to create a prosodic underlay quietly sang the prayer “You alone are Women’s League of America, Branch 111 Holodomor will never be forgotten by with the International Phonetic Alphabet Immortal,” emphasizing Phrygian intona- representatives Olga Starow and Deanna those who gave voice to this expression of symbols to help American singers pro- tions “You are the earth…” And the choir Stetzenko Boulton presented the artwork both grief and hope,” said Mr. Peters. nounce words in Ukrainian and understand chanted “Alleluia” with mournfully descend- “The Ukrainian Dance” by Yuri Viktiuk as a Kyrylo Stetsenko (1882-1922), a their meaning via the English translation. ing linear lines. gift. The artist is a prominent American Ukrainian Orthodox priest himself, was a The new edition for all voice parts took sev- Leading soprano Datevig Yaralian recited painter of Ukrainian descent. His works are composer, conductor, critic, community eral months and iterations to complete. a declamatory “Dismissal.” The “Eternal on permanent display in museums activist and educator. He completed his The Rev. Dr. Greg Zubacz, pastor of the Memory” brought the service to the sor- throughout Ukraine, in the Tretyakov “Panakhyda” in 1918 as the national requi- St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Greek- rowful conclusion. Stetsenko enriched the Gallery in Russia, and in numerous private em for the many victims of the Ukrainian Catholic Mission in Fresno, led the service ritual melody of the last movement with collections in Ukraine, Canada, Germany war of independence (1917-1921) and in the roles of both deacon and priest. In folk embellishments and ended it on a and the United States. Deanna Stetzenko, dedicated it to his beloved teacher and the Great and Small Litanies for the Dead major, rather than minor, chord. the daughter of Kyrylo Stetsenko’s cousin, One of the pre-eminent authorities on Peter A. Stetzenko, brought a thank-you let- the subject, Oledsander Koshyts (Alexander ter with good wishes from Ludmila Koshetz) considered “Panakhyda” to be one Wussek, president of UNWLA Branch 111. of Stetsenko’s greatest creations. In his let- The event was organized as a fund-rais- ter to a colleague, dated December 8, 1941, er for the upcoming second symposium, he commented that one would like to sing it “Women and Holodomor-Genocide: like a song “so much does it contain of Victims, Survivors, Perpetrators,” scheduled native humanity.” for October 5 and hosted by the This common humanity brought togeth- Department of History at California State er thirty voices from diverse denomina- University, Fresno, under the auspices of tions: Episcopalian, Catholic, Greek- the Holodomor Committee of California, Catholic, Lutheran, Orthodox, Protestant. and sponsored by the Ukrainian Genocide The Coro Stetsenko singers shared this cen- Famine Foundation-U.S.A., Ukrainian turies-old piece with 200 equally diverse National Women’s League of America, attendees. Ukrainian American Coordinating Council, Conductor Dr. Hamre, artistic director of Ukrainian Heritage Club of Northern the FCC Master Chorale, noted that the California, Ukrainian Cultural Center, selection of choral literature for the reper- Ukrainian Art Center and the Consulate toire has been driven not only by artistic General of Ukraine in San Francisco. merits but also the value new music brings A video recording of the performance of to the community. With an eye to its motto, Stetsenko’s “Panakhyda” by Joe Vigil is “Giving Voice to the Central Valley,” the available by contacting the conductor, Dr. artistic director worked tirelessly with the Hamre, at [email protected]. board of directors and the local community to bring Stetsenko’s masterpiece to life. Dr. Victoria Malko is coordinator of the “It was a privilege to study and learn this Holodomor Education Program, Organizers with the Coro Stetsenko conductor (from left): Lubow Jowa, Olga Starow, incredible piece, but more than that, it was Department of History, California State Victoria Malko, Anna Hamre (conductor) and Deanna Stetzenko Boulton. a profound responsibility to offer a pro- University, Fresno ([email protected]). 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 No. 39 No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 11

SYRACUSE, N.Y.

by Lida Hvozda Buniak On a pristinely clear and sunny August 24, a diverse crowd of Syracuse University students, pillars of the Ukrainian America community, retirees and multigenera- tional professionals with their families, donned their Ukrainian shirts to attend a Ukrainian flag-raising ceremo- ny at Syracuse City Hall to mark the 27th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence. As people gathered for the morning’s program, the youngest 5- to 8-year-old members of the Odesa dance ensemble and their director Christina Bobesky, Ph.D., had an opportunity to meet the newly elected mayor of Syracuse, Ben Walsh, and take a picture with him. Later on, the danc- ers’ charming performance of “Little Hopak” delighted both At the Ukrainian Independence Day celebration, in the the assembled crowd and onlookers passing by. front row (from left) are: Father Mykhaylo Dosyak, Lida H. Buniak The event was organized by Ukrainian Congress Borys Buniak, M.D., Father Mykola Andrushkiv and Mayor Ben Walsh with Odesa Dance Ensemble mem- Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh. bers and its director Christina Bobesky, Ph.D. Committee of America Syracuse branch members Orest Dr. Buniak also described in detail the agonizing physio- Hrycyk and Hryts Lisnyczyj. Mr. Lisnyczyi also emceed the logical stages of starvation and how millions suffered this program. Father Mykhaylo Dosyak, pastor of St. John the agonizing form of death during the 1932-1933 genocide Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, and Father Mykola known as the Holodomor. He indicated that the imprisoned Andrushkiv, pastor of St. Luke Ukrainian Orthodox Church, filmmaker from Crimea, Oleh Sentsov, has been on a hunger both offered prayers for peace in Ukraine. strike for over 100 days to gain the release of dozens Mayor Walsh read the proclamation designating August Ukrainians currently held in Russian jails on politically moti- 24, 2018, as Ukrainian Independence Day in the County of vated charges. “[Vladimir] Putin has decided to let Sentsov Onondaga and the City of Syracuse. Mayor Walsh also die despite worldwide efforts asking for his release. We can noted the rich cultural impact the Ukrainian residents have only imagine what he is going through,” he said. made over the years in the city of Syracuse and outlying Dr. Buniak ended his address by underscoring Ukraine’s areas of upstate New York. indomitable spirit: “Each time the Russian government Lastly, a comprehensive keynote address by former thinks they can destroy our culture, it seems that the President of the Ukrainian Medical Association of North Ukrainian citizens’ determination for survival brings them America Borys Buniak, M.D., touched upon such issues as even closer together by buttressing their resolve… As the Russia’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the dissemination of online “content polluters” by Yevhen Masniy hands out flags before the ceremony. automated bots and trolls to sow social discord. Ukraine,Ukrainian long national may you anthem live!” proclaims, ‘Ще не вмерла Україна’ – ‘Ukraine has not died’. Quite the contrary,

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sion for the OSCESMM, and only within the as a “moderating influence” on Damascus mission. On July 24, Ms. Merkel and Mr. Putin and Merkel... latter’s highly restrictive mandate, and fur- (Bundes­kanzlerin.de, August 27). Such a Maas conferred in Berlin with Russia’s thermore conditional on Ukraine’s approv- demarche implicitly accepts the Kremlin as Foreign Affairs Minister Lavrov and Gen. (Continued from page 2) al of a “special status” for the Donetsk and arbiter in the theater, potentially crediting it Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the General tactic of feigning disinterest and playing for Luhansk “people’s republics” (see Eurasia with moderation, and petitioning it to exert Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. Syria time. Nevertheless, in what seems to have Daily Monitor, September 22, 2017) its influence in line with such hopes, all was the foremost topic in that meeting, but been a prior arrangement, both leaders Mr. Putin’s Berlin performance also pres- while awarding it leverage. “they also addressed the conflict in eastern stopped short of even alluding to the mat- ages a continuation of stonewalling by his Exploiting the German vulnerability on Ukraine” (Bundeskanzlerin.de, July 24). ter of economic sanctions in their public assistant, Vladislav Surkov, in the informal this front, Mr. Putin asked Germany in Upcoming actions this autumn include the remarks (Bundeskanzlerin.de, Kremlin.ru, consultations with the U.S. State Meseberg to support Syria’s post-conflict St. Petersburg Dialogues and the Potsdam August 18, 19). Department’s special envoy, Kurt Volker, reconstruction, so as to make possible the Encounters, annual high-level political The European Union introduced and about the proposed U.N.-led peacekeeping repatriation of “millions” of refugees from events sponsored by economic interests via periodically prolongs the sanctions on mission. Mr. Surkov has been feigning dis- Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, as well as from the Germany-Russia Forum. Russia with Ms. Merkel’s decisive support. interest in, or disengagement from, those Western Europe back to Syria. In the name Berlin’s search for a rapprochement However, the lifting of sanctions is made consultations since January of this year. of stabilizing that country, Mr. Putin asked in with Moscow is still in a tentative, explor- conditional on the fulfillment of the Minsk For his part, Russia’s Foreign Affairs Meseberg for German inputs into rebuilding atory stage. A German strategic design can “agreements” by both Russia and Ukraine, Minister Sergei Lavrov has ruled out any min- basic infrastructure, electricity, water supply hardly be discerned behind it. However, instead of registering the fact of Russia’s isterial-level meetings in the Normandy for- and communal services in Syria. Overall, Germany’s pre-existing strategic depen- aggression in the Donbas and conditioning mat in the foreseeable future, citing the assas- Moscow takes the position that internation- dence on Russian oil and natural gas sup- the removal of sanctions on the cessation of sination of “Donetsk republic” leader al assistance to Syria’s post-war reconstruc- plies can lend further impetus to an incipi- that aggression. Aleksandr Zakharchenko as an alibi (Interfax, tion is a prerequisite to the return of Syrian ent political rapprochement – particularly Both leaders reconfirmed, as usual, the September 1). Mr. Zakharchenko, however, refugees to that country – one in which one as improvised as this one seems to be. “indispensability” or “irreplaceability” of the did not participate in any negotiations and Moscow now holds a major stake. The German government attempts this rap- Minsk “agreements” and negotiations in the had no decision-making role in this regard. Ms. Merkel and Mr. Putin have agreed to prochement from weak internal political Normandy Group (Ukraine, Russia, Germany, create an expert-level working group of positions, following painful electoral set- “Peace order” in Syria France) and the Minsk Contact Group four countries – Russia, Germany, France, backs and “left-right” polarization, all exac- (Ukraine, Russia, Organization for Security As she did with regard to Ukraine, Ms. Turkey – to deal with migration, recon- erbated by migration-related clashes for and Cooperation in Europe), albeit from dif- Merkel also offered to work with Russia on struction and related problems posed by the first time in this country’s history. ferent standpoints. Mr. Putin does so a “peace order” in Syria at her joint press Syria, bypassing the United States. The Berlin seems to act as if “needing Russia” because that set-up (whether “successful” by conference with Mr. Putin in Meseberg. Kremlin wants to upgrade the level of this in reaching out to Moscow. Still, Ms. Moscow’s criteria, or otherwise paralyzed by Bowing to the facts on the ground, Berlin expert group, and suggests holding a high- Merkel’s government holds firmly to the Moscow as it currently is) works in Russia’s no longer links a political solution with the level meeting in this quadripartite format European Union’s economic sanctions on favor in the Donbas. For its part, German removal or departure of the Kremlin- (Deutsche Welle, August 18). Germany is Russia, and it plays a key role in ensuring diplomacy professes allegiance to Minsk and backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad already a member of the “small group” on that sanctions are prolonged while Russia’s Normandy because it is trapped in that set- from power. This shift in Berlin’s position Syria, a format initiated by France that also military intervention in Ukraine continues. up, of which it is a co-author and could not can be traced to Ms. Merkel’s meeting with includes the United Kingdom, Germany, the At the same time, Berlin’s outreach to come up with more creative ideas of its own. Mr. Putin in Sochi in May (Bundeskanzlerin. U.S., Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Moreover, Moscow is a national sovereign policy, not Germany intends – as Ms. Merkel told Mr. While Ms. Merkel pleaded for a stable cease- de, Kremlin.ru, May 18), when the chancel- one coordinated with the EU. The EU no Putin in Meseberg – to take up its share of fire, or at least a ceasefire timed to the start lor implicitly accepted a negotiated solu- longer has a coordinated policy (let alone a responsibility on Syria when Berlin joins of the school year in the Donbas, Mr. Putin tion with Mr. al-Assad’s participation. In common policy) toward Russia, except on the U.N. Security Council as a nonperma- did not mention the desideratum of a cease- Meseberg, Ms. Merkel confirmed, “As we the Ukraine-related economic sanctions. nent member for the 2019-2020 period. fire in his remarks. Low-intensity but already said in Sochi, the priority [in Syria] Energy market legislation, centered on the unabated warfare with threats of escalation is, before anything else, getting started on a High-level meetings EU’s Third Package, could have (and can is Moscow’s pressure tool on Ukraine as well political process, constitutional reform and still) form the basis for a common The meeting of Mr. Putin and Ms. Merkel as on the Normandy negotiators (Bundes­ possible elections” (Bundeskanzlerin.de, European external energy policy in relation in Sochi in May triggered a flurry of bilater- kanzlerin.de, Kremlin.ru, August 18, 19). Kremlin.ru, August 18, 19). to Russia, but Berlin is instead acting bilat- al German-Russian high-level meetings. Beyond Minsk and Normandy, the two Germany fears that a continuation of erally with Moscow in this area. For its part, That same month, Economics Minister leaders disagree over the proposed peace- fighting in Syria (and Turkey’s overconges- Moscow seems prepared to respond by Peter Altmeier (a Merkel confidant) and keeping mission under the aegis of the tion with refugees from that war) would restoring Berlin to its earlier status in Foreign Affairs Minister Heiko Maas United Nations in Ukraine’s east. While Ms. continue generating migration to Europe, Russian foreign policy – that of a privileged (Social-Democrat) held talks with their Merkel suggested that they should discuss where Germany is the destination of choice. European interlocutor. Russian counterparts in Moscow. In June, a the possibility and the role of a U.N.-led Destabilizing Germany’s political system Bundestag delegation conferred in St. The article above is reprinted from mission, Mr. Putin omitted any mention of and society, mass migration has become the Petersburg with Russian Duma members, Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from the U.N., reaffirming instead that he would most sensitive political issue in the country. who proposed creating a high-level its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, only consider some additional support to Ms. Merkel and many other German politi- Russian-German inter-parliamentary com- www.jamestown.org. the Organization for Security and cians are keen to demonstrate a start to a Cooperation in Europe’s existing Special process of repatriating migrants, at least Monitoring Mission (OSCESMM) in symbolically in small numbers; but they To coordinate all this activity, Moscow Ukraine. Ms. Merkel suggested that Russia cannot do this until the areas of those refu- created in June 1999 the World Association and Germany should work together on gees’ provenance are stabilized and desig- Moscow has... of the Russian Press, a group that has held peacekeeping in Ukraine when Germany nated as safe. A start to repatriation is a (Continued from page 6) annual meetings throughout the world and joins the U.N. Security Council as a nonper- short- to medium-term goal, however. In the “In the USSR,” the commentator contin- sought to impose a common agenda on all manent member for the 2019-2020 period. immediate term, Berlin fears that a Russian- ues, “ties with abroad traditionally were Russian media regardless of where they are Mr. Putin, however, gave no answer to that backed assault by Syrian government forces within the competence of state security… In located, Khmelnitsky continues. offer. His performance confirms the on Idlib (the major remaining opposition post-Soviet times, this situation hasn’t Another arrow in Moscow’s quiver in Kremlin’s position of rejecting a full-fledged stronghold) could result in another exodus changed and therefore Rosstrudnichestvo, this regard is the Russian-Speaking U.N.-led peacekeeping operation. Instead it of war refugees. Berlin is therefore urging if you will, can be considered a bureaucrat- Academic Science Association, a group set proposes a lightly armed police escort mis- Moscow to prevent an escalation by acting ic subdivision of the FSB.” up to cover Moscow’s industrial espionage It has 95 foreign representations; in 62 in the West but also an organization the countries, it operates 72 Russian centers of Russian authorities use to identify potential science and culture. “Besides propaganda agents of influence and to direct their activ- work in the emigration, its tasks include ities. attracting foreigners to study in Russia.” And yet a third are the organizations the “Immediately after Putin came to power, Russian special services have set up to his government began to undertake a sys- work with targeted nations such as the tematic and very successful effort at subor- Germans. Two years ago in Berlin some- dinating to itself the mass media, both thing called “The Dialogue of Civilizations inside Russia and Russian media abroad.” It Research Institute” was opened; this is a bought existing outlets, like Russkaya Mysl group headed by Vladimir Yakunin and in Paris, transforming them from dissident supposedly independent, devoted to outlets to pro-Kremlin mouthpieces and research and interested in international taking their archives to Moscow. security. Indeed, today there are few Russian “But all this generates great doubts,” Mr. media outlets outside Russia that are not Khmelnitsky says. “There is no basis for loyal to the Kremlin. But in addition to sub- talking about its independence, its research ordinating to itself pre-existing newspa- or its commitment to international security. pers and journals, Moscow has created a In fact, everything is exactly the reverse. large number of new ones. Golos Germanii This is just another specific organization is typical. It publishes translations of dreamed up specially for work with Moscow articles and the writing of German German political and business circles” to agents of influence. promote Moscow’s interests. No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 13 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 No. 39

tion of 12 more Russian companies to the and territorial integrity, according to the the U.N. General Assembly on September NEWSBRIEFS list of sanctioned entities. (Presidential statement. Relations between Moscow and 25, U.S. President Donald Trump said that Administration of Ukraine) the West have deteriorated to a post-Cold Germany “will become totally dependent (Continued from page 2) War low over issues including Russia’s sei- on Russian energy if it does not immediate- Russia’s ‘malign influence’ is discussed Poroshenko, Volker meet at U.N. zure of Crimea in March 2014, its role in ly change course” on the construction of A top U.S. State Department official has wars in Syria and eastern Ukraine, its the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which aims to During the 73rd session of the United met with the Ukrainian foreign affairs min- alleged election meddling in the United double the capacity of an already existing Nations General Assembly, President Petro ister in New York to discuss “cooperative States and Europe, and the poisoning of a pipeline. (RFE/RL) Poroshenko of Ukraine met on September efforts against Russia’s malign influence,” Russian double agent and his daughter in 25 with U.S. Special Representative for Senate Committee OKs Holodomor resolution among other things, the State Department Britain in March. Fighting between Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker. They dis- reported. A statement released by the Ukrainian government forces and Russia- U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), co- cussed the latest developments in the department said the September 25 meeting backed militants has killed more than founder and co-chair of the Senate Ukraine Donbas and the prospects for the deploy- between U.S. Deputy Secretary of State 10,300 in eastern Ukraine since April 2014. Caucus, announced that his bipartisan res- ment of a multinational peacekeeping mis- John Sullivan and Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Moscow’s support for the “separatists” and olution marking the 85th anniversary of sion under the aegis of the United Nations Minister Pavlo Klimkin on the sidelines of its illegal annexation of Crimea prompted the Holodomor passed the Senate Foreign in its occupied part. Messrs. Poroshenko the U.N. General Assembly also touched the United States, the European Union, and Relations Committee on September 26. The and Volker also stressed the need for the upon Russia’s “use of energy projects to others to impose sanctions on Russia. resolution would commemorate the anni- immediate release of all Ukrainian hostag- extort and intimidate Ukraine and other Washington has also threatened to impose versary of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, es. Particular attention was paid to cooper- European allies,” as well as Kyiv’s progress sanctions over the construction of an Joseph Stalin’s intentional starvation of mil- ation in the field of security and defense in implementing political and economic underwater natural gas pipeline to deliver lions of people in Ukraine, and recognize between Ukraine and the U.S., as well as reforms. Mr. Sullivan reiterated that the Russian natural gas directly to Germany the Soviet Union’s role in perpetrating this interaction on further implementation of United States “will never recognize Russia’s under the Baltic Sea, circumventing the tra- reforms in our country. Ambassador Volker attempted annexation” of Ukraine’s ditional route through Ukraine. Speaking at (Continued on page 15) also informed the Ukrainian president Crimean peninsula and reaffirmed “strong about the increasing sanctions against the U.S. support” for the country’s sovereignty Russian Federation, in particular, the addi- Ukraine will not give away Crimea.” Patriarch Filaret... “And this will be the result of the weak- ening of Russia,” he said, adding, “We are (Continued from page 1) not against Russia and the Russian people. strong army and a strong spiritual base. We are against the aggressor.” Because without this base – which is the “When Russia stops being an aggressor, TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 Church – the strong nation is not possible.” we will be co-existing peacefully,” the patri- or e-mail [email protected] That is what his Church is doing right arch noted. now, he pointed out. It is building this spiri- He thanked the United States for its sup- tual base of freedom, human rights and port of Ukraine, and said he hoped that it SERVICES PROFESSIONALS democracy. But the Ukrainian Orthodox will help Ukraine finish its religious war, Church today is divided into two major hopefully, this year. parts: one – the Kyiv Patriarchate – defends Patriarch Filaret began his religious МАРІЯ ДРИЧ the interests of the Ukrainian government career in 1950, when he was ordained in Ліцензований Продавець the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). After Страхування Життя and country, and the other – the Moscow Patriarchate – defends the interests of graduating from the Moscow Theological МАRІA DRICH Academy two years later, he taught at semi- Licensed Life Insurance Agent Russia. There is also a third Church – the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church naries and held various posts within the Ukrainian National Assn., Inc. – that supports joining with the UOC-KP. 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The other one- to independently appoint a priest to a par- third will remain in Ukraine as is, with ish,” he explained. “Any nomination for the Earn extra income! WANT IMPACT? equal rights as the Ukrainian Churches. priesthood by a bishop would have to be The Ukrainian Weekly is looking He pointed out that, currently, 44 per- coordinated and approved by the special for advertising sales agents. Run your advertisement here, cent of Ukraine’s population are members KGB unit in charge of religious issues in For additional information contact in The Ukrainian Weekly’s of the 5,000 Kyiv Patriarchate churches, Ukraine.” Walter Honcharyk, Advertising Manager, CLASSIFIEDS section. and only 16 percent of the country’s popu- “Our Church survived those Soviet times. The Ukrainian Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext 3040. lation go to the 12,000 Moscow And the Soviet Union fell apart as an atheist Patriarchate churches. state, thanks to the Church,” Patriarch As for the history of Moscow’s and Kyiv’s Filaret underscored. control of the Orthodox Church in that The discussion with Patriarch Filaret at region of the world, Patriarch Filaret point- the Atlantic Council was moderated by the ed out that in 1948 Moscow celebrated the director of its Eurasia Center, John Herbst, 500th anniversary of the autocephalous who served as the U.S. ambassador to Russian Orthodox Church, while the Ukraine from 2003 to 2006. Ukrainian Church has a history that tran- Upon coming to Washington on scends 1,000 years. “So who is the mother, September 18, Patriarch Filaret paid a com- and who is the daughter?” memorative visit to the capital’s Asked about the chances of resolving Holodomor Memorial, as he did during his Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and the previous visits here in recent years. current military crisis in the Donbas region, He was also welcomed and honored Patriarch Filaret said he is optimistic: “We with a reception at the Embassy of Ukraine. anticipate that Russia will be forced to leave His U.S. schedule also included visits to Donbas. Then it will leave Crimea, because Chicago and Cleveland. No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 15

porarily occupied Crimea, in spite of the anti-corruption television program by RFE/ cent. For all of 2018, estimates range from NEWSBRIEFS current legislation of Ukraine, and those RL’s Ukrainian Service and Ukrainian Public the government’s 3.2 percent to the World that sell these products on the territory of Television. The “Schemes” program report- Bank’s 3.5 percent. By contrast, the total (Continued from page 14) other countries,” the ministry said on ed on several investigations involving senior economy of the Organization for Economic genocide. The resolution builds on a num- September 25 in a statement on Facebook. Ukrainian officials, including Prosecutor Cooperation and Development (OECD), a ber of congressional actions to condemn The manufacturer of chemical products in General Yuriy Lutsenko, during the period group of 36 largely high-income countries, is the Holodomor and honor its victims, the city of Armiansk, Titanium Investments in question. The United States, the forecast to grow by 2.5 percent, Ukrainian including the 2015 dedication of the LLC (Russia), is currently under sanctions. European Union and international media Business News said. (Ukrainian Canadian Holodomor Memorial in Washington. The The ministry believes that chemical prod- watchdogs had expressed concern over the Congress Daily Briefing) resolution now awaits a vote on the Senate ucts were manufactured in violation of the Ukrainian court ruling. The U.S. Embassy in USAF to join aviation exercise in Ukraine floor “We must never forget the atrocities established legal regime of temporarily Ukraine posted on Twitter on September 5 committed against the Ukrainian people at occupied territories and using minerals that it could have “a chilling effect on press Stars and Stripes reported on September the hands of the Soviet Union during the illegally extracted from the fields belonging freedom and anti-corruption efforts in 18 that the U.S. Air Force and eight other Holodomor,” said Sen. Portman. “This only to the Ukrainian people, in particular Ukraine.” (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) nations will participate next month in inde- natural gas and water from underground important resolution honors the memory Ukrainian, Bosnian among kidnapped crew pendent Ukraine’s largest aviation exercise, of the millions of Ukrainians who suffered sources. Therefore, the production of these which aims to promote regional security and under Joseph Stalin’s cruel policy of using products threatens the life and health of Pirates off the coast of Nigeria have kid- improve that country’s cooperation with starvation as a weapon to try to break Ukrainian citizens both in the government- napped 12 crew members of a Swiss vessel, NATO members, the military said. Ukraine’s yearning for independence from controlled and the occupied territories. The including workers from the Philippines, Announcement of the Clear Sky multination- Soviet oppression. Ukraine continues the list of companies, for which sanctions are Slovenia, Ukraine, Romania, Croatia and al exercise comes days after Ukraine said it fight today to defend its independence and proposed, include: Letan Investments Bosnia-Herzegovina. The crew members would establish a new naval base along the sovereignty in the face of Russian aggres- Limited (Cyprus), Titanaktiv LLC (Russia), were abducted on September 22 from a Sea of Azov to counter a more assertive sion, and this resolution serves as an Optimum Technologies Center (Russia), vessel traveling between the cities of Lagos Russia. Stars and Stripes reported: “The U.S. important reminder of the horrible atroci- Okhna Holdings Limited (Cyprus), and Port Harcourt. The Nigerian Maritime plans to send about 450 personnel from ties inflicted upon Ukraine and the perse- Khimkomsnab LLC (Russia) and Tolexis Administration and Safety Agency bases in the States and in Europe, a U.S. Air verance of a people whose spirit cannot be Enterprises AG (Switzerland). “The intro- (NIMASA) said on September 23 that seven Forces in Europe spokesman said… About broken.” (Office of Sen. Rob Portman) duction of sanctions against all the involved of those abducted were from the 250 will participate in the exercise, including legal entities will make economic relations Philippines and one from each of the other pilots and maintainers; the remainder will Court to review amendments on EU, NATO with Ukraine impossible and will allow five countries. The 12 workers were still be in support roles. Clear Sky is one of sever- Ukrainian lawmakers have voted to sub- restricting or terminating economic rela- missing. Kidnapping for ransom is a com- al joint and multinational exercises being mit draft bills to the country’s top court ​that tions with the EU countries,” the ministry mon problem in parts of Nigeria. A number conducted in Ukraine this year aimed at pro- would enshrine Ukraine’s course toward said. (Interfax-Ukraine) of foreigners have been kidnapped in the moting regional security, defense officials last few years in the southern Niger Delta Euro-Atlantic integration in the Constitution. NATO chief, Lavrov to continue contacts said. …A total of some 950 personnel are A total of 321 lawmakers voted on region, the source of most of the oil that is slated to take part in Clear Sky. Besides September 20 to appeal to the NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg the mainstay of the West African state’s Ukraine and the United States, Belgium, Constitutional Court to review the proposed says he wants a more constructive relation- economy. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by Denmark, Estonia, the Netherlands, Poland, amendments. After the court issues its judg- ship with Russia, even as the alliance is tak- Reuters and AFP) Romania and the United Kingdom are partic- ing steps to respond to Moscow’s increasing ment, the draft bills will return to the Ukraine’s economy grows in Q2 ipating.” The exercise will take place mainly Verkhovna Rada, where they will need at assertiveness. Speaking after meeting at Starokostiantyniv Air Base, located about least 300 votes to pass. Earlier in the day, Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Ukraine Business News reported on 150 miles southwest of Kyiv, and other ven- President Petro Poroshenko told lawmakers Lavrov on September 25 on the sidelines of September 19, that Ukraine’s economy grew ues in Ukraine. Training is to focus on air that Ukraine needs the constitutional the United Nations General Assembly in by 3.8 percent in the second quarter (Q2), as sovereignty, air interdiction, air-to-ground amendments to make European Union and New York, Mr. Stoltenberg said, “NATO and compared to the same period last year. integration, air mobility operations, aero- NATO membership its long-term goal. In his Russia have serious disagreements on a According to information from the State medical evacuation, cyberdefense and per- annual address to Parliament on Ukraine’s number of issues, which make our dialogue Statistics Service, the new information sonnel recovery. (Ukrainian Canadian domestic and foreign policy, Mr. Poroshenko even more important.” He noted, “Today, we updates its provisional estimate of 3.6 per- Congress Daily Briefing) said the Ukrainian armed forces will meet discussed military posture and exercises, the criteria for NATO membership by 2020. including Russia´s recent exercise Vostok, as well as NATO’s upcoming exercise Trident The move comes amid continued fighting With deep sorrow, woven with deep between Ukrainian government forces and Juncture.” The NATO chief said: “I also raised Russia-backed separatists in a conflict that NATO’s concerns about Russia’s ongoing love, we share that our beloved has killed more than 10,300 in eastern aggressive actions in Ukraine, and Ukraine since April 2014. Accords signed in expressed NATO’s strong solidarity with the Halya Salak Odulak Belarus’s capital, Minsk, in September 2014 United Kingdom following the attack in and February 2015, have failed to put an Salisbury,” referring to the Novichok poison- passed to a place of peace and serenity end to the fighting. (RFE/RL, with reporting ing case in the English city of Salisbury that on August 11, 2018. by Reuters, Interfax and AP) the West has blamed on Russia, and which Moscow has denied having anything to do Halya was born in the Halychyna region of Ukraine Poroshenko notes ‘risk’ of eased sanctions with. “Minister Lavrov and I agreed to con- and immigrated to New York in 1949 with her tinue our contacts,” Mr. Stoltenberg conclud- family. Upon settling into the East Village, she built Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ed. In a statement before the talks, Mr. her own family with husband Johnny, and made life-long friends. has warned that there is a risk of interna- Stoltenberg also cited Russia’s support for The Ukrainian community was Halya’s heart, rst with raising a family tional sanctions imposed on Russia for its Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and the in the city as well as upstate New York. Halya furthered her passion actions in Ukraine being eased. In his annu- build-up of naval forces in the eastern for community by helping to form branch #113 of Soyuz Ukrainok. al address to the Verkhovna Rada on Mediterranean as the main disagreements Ukraine’s domestic and foreign policy, Mr. Deep friendships were formed, while supporting Ukrainian art and between the alliance and Moscow. (RFE/RL, culture. Her career revolved around fashion in the garment district Poroshenko warned on September 20 that with reporting by AP) making concessions to Russia before it had on Seventh Avenue. handed the Crimean peninsula back to Rights court order on cellphone data Halya’s roles as wife, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, sister, Ukraine would be a defeat for international The European Court of Human Rights aunt, cousin and friend left a mark on us all and will never be law. “We will consistently oppose attempts (ECHR) has ordered the Ukrainian govern- forgotten. to ease the sanctions pressure on Russia,” ment not to access any data from the cell- Left in profound sadness are: he told the Verkhovna Rada. “But know that phone of RFE/RL investigative reporter there is a risk of softening [sanctions].” Natalia Sedletska. The September 18 order Husband and soulmate: John Odulak Moscow’s takeover of the Crimean penin- is in effect until October 18 to give Ms. sula in March 2014 and its support for sep- Children and grandchildren: Dr. Taras Odulak and wife Roma Sedletska time to prepare a full complaint to Slobodian-Odulak with daughters Elena and Ruta of New Jersey; aratists in eastern Ukraine prompted the the court. The ECHR pledged to consider United States, the European Union, and her appeal “as a matter of priority.” On Alexandra Odulak-Petrenko and husband Taras Petrenko with others to impose sanctions on Russia. August 27, Kyiv’s Pechersk district court daughter Julianna and son Christian of Toronto, Ontario (RFE/RL, based on reporting by Reuters, approved a request from the Prosecutor Sisters: Zwenyslawa Lebedovych and Zoriana Stawnychy with Interfax and RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) General’s Office to allow investigators to their families Sanctions initiated against Crimea companies review all data from Ms. Sedletska’s phone from July 1, 2016, through November 30, Memorial visitation and panakhyda were held in New York City on Ukraine’s Ministry for Temporarily 2017. The ruling stems from a criminal August 16th at Peter Jarema Funeral Home, followed by funeral Occupied Territories and Internally investigation into the alleged disclosure of liturgy held on August 17th at St. George Ukrainian Catholic Displaced Persons (IDPs) has initiated the state secrets to journalists in 2017 by Artem Church. Halya was laid to rest beside her parents at Pine Bush introduction of sanctions against compa- Sytnyk, director of the National Anti- Cemetery in upstate New York. nies from temporarily occupied Crimea Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. Radio Free Memorial donations may be made to: that produce and sell chemicals, the minis- Europe/Radio Liberty spokeswoman try’s press service has reported. “The min- Joanna Levison said earlier this month that The Ukrainian Museum, 222 E 6th St, New York, NY 10003 istry has prepared proposals on the appli- the court’s ruling is “inconsistent with cation of sanctions to a number of legal Ukraine’s own commitments to promote OUR BELOVED HALYA WILL BE WITH US ALWAYS, entities that promote the production of and protect a free press.” Ms. Sedletska is FOREVER REMEMBERED IN OUR HEARTS. chemical products on the territory of tem- the host of “Schemes,” an award-winning 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 No. 39

Plast senior sorority of Chornomorski Khvyli meets at biennial conference

by Olenka Makarushka Kolodiy GROTON, Conn. – Members of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization’s senior sorority of Chornomorski Khvyli attended their 13th conference, which was held by the sea in Groton, Conn. The conference, which is held every two years, took place on September 14-16, and was attended by zaloha (branch) members from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut. The primary goal of Chornomorski Khvyli is to acquaint and inform others about the traditions and specifics of Ukrainian sea scouting. Two of the tradi- tional greetings used by the members are “Ahoy” and “Fair winds” (Dobroho vitru). The officers read their biennial reports, which were discussed and accepted. Since 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the raising of the Ukrainian flag by the Black Sea Fleet and Plast has dedicated this year to Ukrainian sea scouting to commemorate this important historical event, the various celebratory events were reviewed and dis- cussed. During the conference, the members experienced a first for the Chornomorski Khvyli. The sorority approved the first zalo- The Chornomorski Khvyli at their conference in Groton, Conn. ha of senior members from Ukraine with the name of “Ozero Nesamovyte.” Members Head Vera Kosovych, First Assistant Adia Heimur. tional ceremony at the water’s edge, there- of the new branch participated in the con- Fedash, Secretary Marusia Darmohraj- This year the sorority had the privilege by ending the conference in an atmosphere ference via Skype. Mulyk, Treasurer Orysia Dmytryk-Buzzetta, of accepting a new candidate. The Khvyli of fun, laughter, companionship and sand The newly elected officers are: Chapter Archivist Lida Celuch and “Hospodar” Lesia welcomed their new member with a tradi- between their toes.

the parliamentary National Security and The new measures mandate obligatory themselves if they receive education in two Hungarian... Defense Committee on September 27. Ukrainian-language instruction starting in languages.” Dual citizenship is illegal in Ukraine. the fifth grade. “Those attending schools There were 71 educational institutions (Continued from page 1) There is no criminal or administrative pun- where instruction is in their native lan- that offer Hungarian-language instruction consul, but as I understand, he doesn’t ishment for the offense. Certain elected offi- guage will be able to continue learning it in in the 2016-2017 school year, according to agree. If a corresponding decision isn’t cials, public servants and military person- separate classes,” The Ukrainian Weekly the Ministry of Education and Science. made in the coming days, he will go home – nel are subject to administrative penalty if reported on October 6. Hungary also opposes the automatic this is certain.” they hold more than one passport. Before, the opposite was the case as renewal of EU sanctions on Russia for its Adding that the Hungarian didn’t accept Mr. Szijjarto called the video footage of regards minority languages, including war-mongering in Ukraine, Mr. Szijjarto any of Ukraine’s arguments, Mr. Klimkin the citizenship ceremony “a secret service Hungarian or Russian, while study of told Russia’s state-run, English-language said that Hungary’s latest statements operation” on the part of Ukraine. Ukrainian was relegated to separate cours- propaganda channel RT (formerly, Russia regarding the incident are “similar to ones More than 100,000 Ukrainians of es for up to four times a week, Yegor Today) earlier this month. Russia makes, but I don’t want to speculate Hungarian descent reside in the western- Stadnyi, an analyst for the Kyiv-based non- And Mr. Orban’s government this sum- how they came about, perhaps after meet- most Zakarpattia region. Most live in towns profit education, migration and urban mer created a ministry that is responsible ings with the Russian leadership.” and cities that border Hungary, including development center CEDOS, told The for developing the Transcarpathian region In New York, Minister Szijjarto told jour- Berehove, where the passport ceremony Ukrainian Weekly. and a kindergarten program in the nalists that Hungary won’t recall its consul. took place. Thus, Hungary, Romania and Russia pro- Carpathian basin that may encompass He also denied that the Hungarian In addition to Berehove, Hungary has tested the law. Budapest subsequently parts of Ukrainian territory. Consulate violated international norms or Consulates in Zakarpattia’s regional capital promised to hinder Kyiv’s attempts to fur- The move prompted Foreign Affairs Ukrainian laws by issuing Hungarian pass- of Uzhhorod, the Carpathian city of Ivano- ther integrate with the 28-nation EU and Minister Klimkin’s office to summon the ports to Ukrainian citizens, according to a Frankivsk and Lviv, as well as in Kyiv, where NATO. Hungarian ambassador for an official report in the Ukrainian-language Radio its embassy is also located. However, the Venice Commission – a explanation, including one in writing. Svoboda. Most signage in Berehove is bilingual constitutional advisory body of the Council Hungary also provides economic assis- “It is false and a lie to affirm this by the (Ukrainian and Hungarian), and clocks of Europe – upon review of the education tance to small business owners to about a Ukrainian side,” the Hungarian foreign often show Hungarian time – one hour law, stated that it disagrees with fifth of the ethnic Hungarian population in affairs minister said. behind Ukrainian time. Some 70 percent of “Hungary’s demand to keep in Ukraine the Zakarpattia, Mr. Klimkin said. Moreover, Mr. Szijjarto said his country primary school graduates in the city didn’t possibility of teaching exclusively in He stressed that a new law on Ukrainian would reciprocate should any of its diplo- pass their final Ukrainian language exams Hungarian,” according to the body’s secre- citizenship must be passed. He also noted mats be expelled from Ukraine. in the previous school year. tary Tomas Markert. that Kyiv “doesn’t have a clear strategy of Speaking to journalists on September 24 Hungary’s relations with the European The advisory body believes that the stu- how to support Ukrainians with Hungarian before boarding a plane for New York, he Union, of which it is a member, and dents of the region should also study the heritage.” While visiting Zakarpattia, Mr. said he would meet with his Ukrainian Ukraine, have gradually soured since 2010, Ukrainian language. Klimkin observed that business owners counterpart “in view of the fact that the when an anti-immigrant, nationalist gov- “We do not share this [Hungary’s] posi- didn’t know enough Ukrainian “to complete drumming up of anti-Hungarian sentiment ernment led by Prime Minister Viktor tion,” he said, as cited by Interfax Ukraine a tax declaration form.” has gained further impetus in Ukraine Orban took power in Budapest. He was re- news agency on January 25. “We believe He called for devising a policy to cooper- recently.” elected in April. that the state can switch from a purely ate more with Ukrainian Hungarians. “The Before departing for the U.N. assembly, “Since returning as prime minister in Hungarian-speaking system to a mixed one, other option is a road to nowhere. I want to Mr. Klimkin said during a 1+1 channel 2010, Orbán and his Fidesz party have where part of [school] hours will be taught ensure that more of Ukraine is found there morning show that the granting of citizen- chipped away at Hungary’s democratic in Hungarian and part in Ukrainian. [in Zakarpattia] with each year,” Mr. ship to Ukrainians inside the country by checks and balances, curbed judicial inde- Moreover, it is even better for the students Klimkin said. foreign diplomatic entities “violates the pendence and clamped down on the inde- Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.” pendent media,” the British newspaper The “We knew they [Hungarians] were Guardian reported on April 9. “Hungary’s doing this… but now we have proof and we democratic backsliding has been accompa- Want to keep up to date on developments in Ukraine? need to act on this evidence,” Mr. Klimkin nied by a drumbeat of xenophobic rhetoric, said in a Twitter video blog. directed against refugees, Brussels and A criminal case on the incident has been George Soros.” The Ukrainian Weekly opened and the Security Service of Ukraine Kyiv-Budapest relations worsened in on Facebook is investigating it, Prosecutor General Yuriy particular when Ukraine passed a new law Like to read the latest! Lutsenko told journalists after a meeting of on education in September 2017. No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 17 Interdisciplinary perspectives on the Holodomor to be topic of conference at U. of North Carolina

by Donna Serna Goldstein analysis of the Holodomor. tle known aspects of the Holodomor.” Ukraine and Russia: (Nataliia Levchuk and Other participants include scholars from Natalya Naumenko). CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The Center for fields such as demography, history, cartog- Famine in Ukraine” with Nataliia Levchuk, The program will conclude with a Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies raphy, political science, economics, epide- Institute• “Regional of Demography Dynamics andof the Social 1932-1933 Studies, roundtable on “Research on the Holodomor (CSEEES) at the University of North miology and psychology, who have Ukraine, whose topic is “What is Behind the by Different Disciplines” featuring nine Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), in collabora- advanced understanding of the Holodomor Regional Cariation in Holodomor Losses in scholars. tion with the Harvard Ukrainian Research from the perspectives of their respective Ukraine: The Role of Grain Procurement The conference is part of CSEEES’s Institute and the Ukrainian Association of disciplines. and Collectivization”; Arturas Rozenas, Spotlight on Ukraine Initiative to promote North Carolina, and with support from the The fact that half of the conference par- New York University, “Mass Repression and Ukrainian studies at the university. In Holodomor Research and Education ticipants are non-Ukrainian scholars is an Political Loyalty: Evidence from Stalin’s launching this initiative last year, CSEEES Consortium and the Ukrainian Studies Fund, indication of the growing recognition by ‘Terror By Hunger’ ”; and Natalya has taken its first steps in developing is organizing an international scholarly con- the international scholarly community of Naumenko, Brown University, “The 1933 Ukrainian studies at the university. The ference in commemoration of the 85th anni- the Holodomor as a subject of general Soviet Famine.” center sponsored the university’s first versary of the 1932-1933 Holodomor in interest that should be researched and bet- course on the history of Ukraine and sec- Ukraine. The conference will be held on ter understood. A goal of this conference is 1932-1933 Famine,” with presentations by L. ond course focused on the modern history October 5-7 at the FedEx Global Education to put these scholars into dialogue with one H. Lumey,• “Interdisciplinary Mailman School Approaches of Public Health,to the of Ukraine and the events of 1980s – Center, 301 Pittsboro St. in Chapel Hill. another in order to encourage more inte- Columbia University, “Long-term impact of 2000s; workshops for UNC students on The conference will spotlight new inter- grated interdisciplinary research on the exposure to the Ukraine Famine of 1932- Ukrainian folk art and music; and a four- disciplinary research on the Holodomor Holodomor, and on famine more generally. 1933 during Gestation on Type 2 Diabetes at month exhibit on Ukrainian embroidery within the context of other man-made fam- A second objective of the conference is to Later Age”; Vitalii Ogiienko, Ukrainian and Petrykivka painting. ines. As part of the conference, a workshop compare the Holodomor with other man- Institute of National Memory, Ukraine, CSEEES also facilitated the production of on the Holodomor for middle and high made famines. “Defining the Holodomor Trauma: “culture kits” comprising artifacts that illus- school teachers will be conducted by Highlights of the program include the Definitions and Methodological Approaches”; trate Ukraine and its rich history and cul- Valentina Kuryliw, director of education at following sessions. Serhii Cipko, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian ture, which are available to teachers in K-12 the Holodomor Research and Education Studies, University of Alberta, “Western schools in North Carolina to teach about Consortium (HREC) in Canada. 1933 Holodomor, with George Liber, Responses to the Holodomor: The Cases of Ukraine. The keynote address will be presented University• Historical of Alabamabackground at Birmingham,of the 1932- Canada and the U.S.” The conference is free and open to the via Skype by Anne Applebaum, columnist speaking on “The Origins of the Holodomor: public. More information can be found at for The Washington Post, Pulitzer-Prize The Soviet Domestic and International Perspective,” with Sarah Cameron, https://cseees.unc.edu/event/holodomor- winning historian, Professor of Practice, Context” and Oleh Wolowyna, University of University• “The 1932-1933 of Maryland Famine – College in Comparative Park, “The conference/. Institute of Global Affairs, London School of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presenting Kazakh Famine and the Ukrainian Famine: A Economics and author of “Red Famine: the topic “Holodomor Losses by Nationality Comparison”; followed by a roundtable on Donna Serna Goldstein is co-president of Stalin’s War on Ukraine,” a comprehensive and the Surge in Mortality in 1933: two lit- Ukraine and China (L. H. Lumey), and the Ukrainian Association of North Carolina.

New Ukrainian language endowment honors Prof. Manoly R. Lupul

CIUS EDMONTON, Alberta – The boards of three Ukrainian Canadian foundations and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies announced the establishment of the Prof. Manoly R. Lupul Endowment to Advance Ukrainian Language Education, co-founded to support programs in Alberta and beyond through the activities of the Ukrainian Language Education Center (ULEC) at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), University of Alberta. This unique initiative has been undertaken jointly by the Alberta Foundation for Ukrainian Language Education Society (AFUES; Vlodko Boychuk, president), the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies (CFUS; Olga Kuplowska, president), and the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF; Victor Hetmanczuk, president). The new endowment was established to honor Prof.

Manoly Lupul on the occasion of his 90th birthday for his Oleksandr Pankieiev/CIUS work as a national leader in multiculturalism and founder At the announcement of the new Prof. Manoly R. Lupul Endowment to Advance Ukrainian Language Education of CIUS in 1976. Annual revenues from the Lupul are: (front row, from left) Irene Jendzjowsky, Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies; Anna Biscoe, Ukrainian Endowment will help to fund ULEC projects in Ukrainian Knowledge Internet Portal Consortium Association; Olenka Bilash, Ukrainian Language Education Center; (back language education. row) Alla Nedashkivska, Ukrainian Language Education Center; Vlodko Boychuk, Alberta Foundation for A descendant of Ukrainian pioneers who settled in the Ukrainian Language Education Society; Roman Petryshyn, Canada-Ukraine Foundation; Bohdan Horich, Lupul Willingdon district of east-central Alberta, Dr. Lupul played Endowment Committee; Andrea Kopylech, University of Alberta – Advancement; and Jars Balan, Canadian a key role in CIUS’s founding and was responsible for suc- Institute of Ukrainian Studies. cessfully leading the institute through its “pioneer” era – the first decade following its establishment in 1976. A graduate and a key lobbyist for the adoption of multicultural policies by the current ULEC director, Dr. Alla Nedashkivska. of the universities of Albert and Minnesota, and Harvard in Canada and the 1988 enshrinement of multiculturalism Documents establishing the Prof. Manoly R. Lupul (Ph.D., 1963), Dr. Lupul was a prominent activist in the in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Endowment to Advance Ukrainian Language Education Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Federation Prof. Lupul documented his career as a public intellectu- were signed on July 23 by foundation representatives Ms. al and academic in “The Politics of Multiculturalism: A Kuplowska (CFUS), Roman Petryshyn (CUF), and Mr. Ukrainian-Canadian Memoir” (2005). He was appointed a Boychuk (AFUES), as well as by University of Alberta rep- member of the Order of Canada in 2003. resentatives Jars Balan (CIUS director) and Dr. ULEC is the only university center in North America Nedashkivska (ULEC at CIUS). dedicated to advancing Ukrainian-language teaching, The alliance of three donor foundations will coordinate learning, and research. Revenues from the Lupul annual community fund-raising in order to maintain the Endowment will be used to develop new Ukrainian digital endowment and promote Ukrainian bilingual education and other learning resources, as well as to provide profes- programming, which has grown in prestige since Ukraine sional development for educators and researchers that will gained its independence. Ukrainian is the official state lan- benefit primary, secondary and post-secondary students in guage in Ukraine, and is mandated for use in its education- schools and educational institutions across Canada. al system. In Canada, Ukrainian has been taught since the The first major donation to the Lupul Endowment was arrival of the first pioneer settlers in 1892, and is now made by the Ukrainian Knowledge Internet Portal taught to thousands of students in both public schools and Consortium Association (UKiP-CA). Established in 2003, private community programs across the country. Knowing

Marusia Petryshyn UKiP-CA has been a leader in creating Ukrainian digital the Ukrainian language provides speakers a link to the cul- resources for the Ukrainian bilingual program in Alberta ture’s ancient traditions, folk heritage and fine arts, and Roman Petryshyn (left), board member, Canada- Ukraine Foundation, is seen with Olga Kuplowska, pres- schools. Then-director of ULEC Marusia Petryshyn identi- ties Ukrainians in Canada to the people of Ukraine and to ident of the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies, fied the need for such an endowment, and in 2017 the Ukrainians in over 40 countries around the world. and Vlodko Boychuk, president of the Alberta board of UKiP-CA, chaired by Dr. Olenka Bilash, approved Further information on how to support the Lupul Foundation for Ukrainian Language Education Society. the $25,000 donation, which was supported and received Endowment can be found at https://tinyurl.com/ycwcs6yg. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 No. 39

UNWLA branch sponsors “New Dimensions” art exhibit in New Jersey by Irka Sawchyn Doll WHIPPANY, N.J. – “New Dimensions” is an upcoming art exhibit that features two acclaimed contemporary artists, Orest Poliszczuk and Olya Powzaniuk, as well as a collection of artwork from several artists in the Petrykivka style. The exhibition and sale will take place on Sunday, October 14, from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey (UACCNJ) in Whippany and is sponsored by Branch 75 of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America. Visitors will have the opportunity to “meet and greet” Mr. Poliszczuk, who will Yuri Mischenko be available to discuss his artwork and Orest Poliszczuk “Sunrise Firebird” by Iryna Kuzmytska, one of the Petrykivka artistic direction. Natalia Pawlenko, who “Ukrainian Wedding” by Orest Poliszczuk. artists whose works will be featured. represents a group of Petrykivka artists from Ukraine and who will be displaying Mr. Poliszczuk is a well-known Ukrainian at the college level while developing his throughout the United States and Canada, their work, will also be present during the American artist from the Baltimore area. interests in sculpture as well as painting. In most recently in the Philadelphia area at the showing to answer questions about the art- After obtaining his undergraduate and mas- the past 50 years, Mr. Poliszczuk has exhibit- Ukrainian educational and Cultural Center. ists and Petrykivka history. ter’s degrees in fine art, he pursued teaching ed extensively in galleries and museums His one-person shows include an exhibit at the Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago and the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York City. Mr. Poliszczuk’s art themes range from graceful pastoral landscapes, still-lifes and animals to a variety of Ukrainian-themed painting. The works to be exhibited in the “New Dimensions” exhibit will be predomi- nantly in gouache and photo-silkscreen media. Ms. Powzaniuk started her career in art at the Ukrainian Art Institute in Philadelphia, where she took workshops in drawing, woodcarving, watercolor and lithography. When her artistic focus turned to pastels, she studied with master pastellists in the United States and abroad. In addition to her studio work, Ms. Powzaniuk also paints “en plein air” (in the open air), where the artist cap- tures landscapes and views in natural light. Her art is notable for the impressionistic use of soft colors and shimmering light on a variety of themes, including Ukrainian landscapes, cityscapes and abstracts, as well as commissioned portraiture. Ms. Powzaniuk, who now resides in Basking Ridge, N.J., has received a number of awards for her work, including first place for one of her pastels in the 2018 Tinicum Arts Festival in Pennsylvania. She is an active member of several pastel societies and national art organizations. The UNWLA exhibit will also show a col- lection of artworks in the Petrykivka style. Ms. Pawlenko is a passionate collector of Petrykivka art and represents artists from Ukraine who specialize in the Petrykivka art form.

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October 4 Holodomor commemoration, candle-lighting ceremony, October 6 Pig roast, Ukrainian Sportsmen Association, Ukrainian Miami Torch of Friendship, Bayfront Park, 305-798-0190 or Hume, NY American Youth Association camp Cholodniy Yar, www.bayfrontparkmiami.com [email protected]

October 4 Holodomor commemoration, “Candle in Remembrance,” October 6 Piano recital and art exhibit, “A Celebration of the Arts,” Whippany, NJ Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey, Tolland, CT featuring pianist Victor Markiw, artist Halyna and [email protected] embroiderer Marta Markiw, Arts of Tolland, Tolland Town Hall, 860-871-7405 October 4 through Exhibit, “Anastasiia Podervianska: High Textile,” November 11 curated by Dr. Walter Hoydysh, Ukrainian Institute of October 6 Film screening,” The Secret Diary of Symon Petliura” by New York America, 212-288-8660 or www.ukrainianinstitute.org New York Oles Yanchuk, Ukrainian National Home, 212-529-6287 October 5 Symposium, “Women and Holodomor-Genocide: Victims, October 6 Cabbage Festival, Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Fresno, CA Survivors, Perpetrators,” California State University at Trenton, NJ Church, 609-538-1992 Fresno, Henry Madden Library, [email protected] or www.fresnostate.edu/womenandholodomor October 6-27 Gerdany (bead-strung necklaces) workshop, with October 5-7 National convention and 85th anniversary celebration, New York instruction by Olha Lesko, The Ukrainian Museum, Amherst, NY League of Ukrainian Catholics – Niagara Frontier Council, www.ukrainianmuseum.org or 212-228-0110 Hyatt Place Hotel, www.stnbuffalo.com or 716-839-4040 October 7 Film screening with filmmaker Matej Silecky, “Baba October 5-7 Conference, “New Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Brunswick, NJ Babee Skazala,” New Jersey Film Festival, Vorhees Hall Chapel Hill, NC Holodomor Within the Context of Other Man-Made Rm. 105, Rutgers University, www.njfilmfest.com or Famines,” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, [email protected] FedEx Global Education Center, https://cseees.unc.edu/event/holodomor-conference October 7 Concert gala, “Ukrainian Stars in America,” featuring New York baritone Oleh Chmyr, sopranos Oksana Krovytska and October 6 Lecture by Alla Korzh, “Trans-Atlantic Youth Activism of Marta Zalizniak, Art-Strings Quartet NYC, pianist David New York Young Ukrainian Immigrants,” Shevchenko Scientific Maiullo, Dumka Ukrainian Choir of New York and Iskra Society, 212-254-5130 Ukrainian Dance Academy, Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center, [email protected] or 973-993-8090 October 6 Fund-raising gala, Achievement Award presentation to Chicago Alexandra Diachenko Kochman, with special guest October 7 Film screening, “The Secret Diary of Symon Petliura” by Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Passaic, NJ Oles Yanchuk, Ukrainian Center, 973-778-9734 Art, 773-227-5522 or www.uima-chicago.org

October 6 30th anniversary concert, “From Khreshchatyk to Manhattan,” New York featuring violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv, violist Steven Tenenbom, Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events cellist Marcy Rosen, pianist Amy Wang and soprano Karen advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions Slack, Music at the Institute, Ukrainian Institute of America, from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors 212-288-8660 or www.ukrainianinstitute.org and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected].

Ukraine, such that in 2013 the intergov- UNWLA branch... ernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage added the (Continued from page 18) Petrykivka art form to its list of Intangible Petrykivka is a Ukrainian folk-art paint- Cultural Heritage of Humanity in recogni- ing style that originated from the village of tion of its value as an indigenous folk art. Petrykivka in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk More than 10 Petrykivka artists will have Oblast of Ukraine, where it was traditional- their works presented at the “New ly used to decorate house walls and every- Dimensions” exhibit. day household items. Marked by vibrant Visitors to the exhibit will be hosted in colors, exuberant curves and inherent sym- the traditionally gracious style of UNWLA bolism, Petrykivka was mostly unknown to Branch 75, with champagne cocktails, a art ethnographers until the beginning of light lunch, hors d’oeuvres, tasty sweets the 20th century when it was “discovered” and coffee. in villages along the Dnipro River valley. For more information readers may Since then, Petrykivka art has enjoyed a e-mail Marta Popovich at popovichmarta@ resurgence of interest in and outside gmail.com or call 908-759-1771.

Hall on October 2. Performers included the Turning... Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, the Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York, the Ukrainian (Continued from page 6) Chorus of Washington and the Ukrainian who came to protest. The first to arrive at Bandurist Chorus. the Embassy was a 1,000-strong uniformed The Holodomor was commemorated in formation of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Washington with other events during “Great Organization. Many of the groups were Famine Memorial Week” (September 25 forced to fan out, as the crowd continued to through October 2), and included a candle- swell. light vigil near the Soviet Embassy, exhibits Three days earlier, the Rev. Peter Galadza, at the Russell Senate Office Building and at a Chicago-area priest of the Ukrainian the Cannon House Office Building, a scholar- Catholic Church, and the Rev. John Shep, a ly symposium at the American Enterprise Lutheran minister from Madison, Wis., were Institute, as well as a special orders ceremo- arrested for disorderly conduct after serving ny at the House of Representatives, followed by a reception in the Capitol building. a requiem service at the wrought iron gates The Ukrainian Weekly issued a book of the Soviet Embassy during the Friday eve- marking the 50th anniversary of the ning rush hour on September 29. Non- Holodomor, titled “The Great Famine in Ukrainian onlookers cheered the move by the Ukraine: The Unknown Holocaust,” which clergy members as they were being arrested, was published by the Ukrainian National boosting their morale. Even the police admit- Association. ted they were reluctant to arrest the clerics. More than 2,800 audience members Source: “18,000 attend famine memorial attended a commemorative concert that events in D.C.,” The Ukrainian Weekly, was held at the Kennedy Center Concert October 9, 1983. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 No. 39

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Thursday, October 4 at the Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey, 60 N. “Soviet Americana: The Cultural History of Russian and WHIPPANY, N.J.: Marking the 85th anniversary of the Jefferson Rd., Whippany, NJ 07981. The $20 admission includes Ukrainian Americanists” (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, Holodomor, the New Jersey Chapter for Ukrainian Holodomor a champagne cocktail, hors d’oeuvres, a light lunch, sweets and 2018). Dr. Zhuk’s compelling account draws on a wide range of Genocide Awareness is sponsoring a “Candle in Remembrance” coffee. Visitors will be able to “meet and greet” Mr. Poliszczuk understudied archival documents, periodicals, letters and dia- commemoration honoring the victims of the 1932-1933 and Natalia Pawlenko, representative for the Petrykivka artists. ries, as well as more than 100 exclusive interviews with promi- Famine-Genocide. The commemoration begins at 7 p.m. at the For information e-mail [email protected] or call nent Americanists to take the reader from the post-war origins Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey, 60 N. (908) 759-1771. of American studies, via the extremes of the Cold War, thaw and perestroika, to Vladimir Putin’s Russia. This event will take Jefferson Rd., Whippany, NJ 07981. The program is specifically Tuesday, October 16 dedicated to the over 3 million children who perished in the place at noon in the Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room Holodomor. A survivor will recall some of the events of that NEW YORK: Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the (Room 1219, International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th St.). time. The program will include a performance by the Iskra Harriman Institute, Columbia University, for a presentation by The event is free and open to the public. For additional infor- Ukrainian Dance Academy. Sergei Zhuk (Ball State University) of his new monograph mation call 212-854-4697. Saturday, October 6 NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Society invites all to a PREVIEW OF EVENTS GUIDELINES lecture, “Trans-Atlantic Youth Activism of Young Ukrainian Immigrants,” by Dr. Alla Korzh (International Education at the Preview of Events is a listing of Ukrainian community events open to the public. It is a service provided at minimal cost ($20 School for International Training [SIT] Graduate Institute) and per listing) by The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian community. To have an event listed in Preview of Events please send Dr. Serhiy Kovalchuk (University of Toronto). The lecture will information, in English, written in Preview format, i.e., in a brief paragraph of several sentences that includes the date, place, take place at the society’s building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between type of event, sponsor, admission, full names of persons and/or organizations involved, and a phone number and/or e-mail Ninth and 10th streets) at 5 p.m. For additional information address to be published for readers who may require additional information. Items must be no more than 100 words long. call 212-254-5130. Preview items must be received no later than one week before the desired date of publication (i.e., they must be Sunday, October 14 received by 9 am Monday morning). Please include payment for each time the item is to appear and indicate date(s) of issue(s) in which the item is to be published. Also, senders are asked to include the phone number of a person who may be WHIPPANY, N.J.: Branch 75 of the Ukrainian National Women’s contacted by The Weekly during daytime hours, as well as their complete mailing address. League of America is sponsoring the art exhibit “New Dimensions,” featuring artists Orest Poliszczuk and Olya Information should be sent to [email protected]. When e-mailing, please do not send items as attachments – Powzaniuk, as well as a collection of Petrykivka art from sever- simply type the text into the body of the e-mail message. Preview items and payments may be mailed to: Preview of al artists. The exhibit and sale will take place on at 12:30-4 p.m. Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054.

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