The Ukrainian Weekly 1989, No.34
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www.ukrweekly.com ubiished by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a frattrnal non-profit associition rainian Weekly Vol. LVII No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20,1989 50 cents Lukianenko forms British UHU branch; First in the Soviet Union a precedent-setting group in the West Management school opens in Kiev LONDON - The British branch of are that of treasurer, Peter Shutak, and GENEVA - The first international, tute in Kiev, Prof. Oleh Bilorus, said in the Ukrainian Helsinki Union held its press officer. Dr. Stefan Krywawych. joint-venture management school in an interview that there were several first meeting on Friday, August 4. Lev The position of secretary will be filled in the Soviet Union was established in reasons for establishing IMI-Kiev. He Lukianenko, chairman of the executive the near future. Kiev, capital of Ukraine, in early July. mentioned that an important change in committee of the Ukrainian Helsinki The British branch of the Ukrainian An agreement was signed between the attitude towards management has taken Union, who was recently on a tour of Helsinki Union, in the same manner as Geneva-based International Manage place under "restructuring" (perebu- Britain at the invitation of the Univer the Ukrainian Helsinki Union in U- ment Institute (IMI) and the Institute of dova). sity of London, formed the branch by kraine, will adopt a position of neutrality Economics of the Ukrainian Academy "Management of industrial produc selecting seven people to join the vis-a-vis emigre and British political of Sciences to create a non-profit tion has ceased to be a political issue executive committee. parties, and will attempt to cooperate academic organization named Interna and is no more regarded as an exclusive The head of the British branch is with all of them. tional Management Institute-Kiev feature of capitalism — it has been ad Mykola Scharegin, a former political The Ukrainian Helsinki Union was (IMl-Kiev) or МІМ (Mizhnarodnyi mitted that the laws of scientific ma prisoner for 10 years in the Soviet gulag. re-launched in Ukraine in March 1988 Instytut Menadzhmentu). nagement are the same for any deve The other two positions already filled as the continuation of the Ukrainian TTie new institute, which begins work loped society," he said. Helsinki Group formed in 1976 but later immediately, is to provide management Prof. Bilorus also pointed out that depleted by repression. Today, the education, research, consulting services "those Soviet concerns which are going Ukrainian Helsinki Union has over and publications for its clients or international without the knowledge of Helsinki Commission 1,000 members in every regional center. associate organizations. The latter can scientific and applied management may The Declaration of Principles and be other educational institutions as well go bankrupt and do great harm to this letter urges freedom Statute of the Ukrainian Helsinki as individual firms — both in and country's national economy." Union were published in July 1988 and outside the Soviet Union — who will The composition of the research staff for Ukrainian Churches cover various aspects of Ukrainian contribute a non-refundable fee for and instructors will be international, membership. by Olena Stercho Hendler society in the national, cultural, inter and the languages of operation will be national, economic, political and social Although the new institute is based in Ukrainian, English and Russian. Ma PHILADELPHIA - In a letter fields. Kiev, it has the right to form branches in nagement education will include a one- dated August 2, the full membership of The Ukrainian Helsinki Union pub other parts of the Soviet Union. year master of business administration the U.S. Commission on Security and lishes a journal, Ukrainian Herald, This initiative will continue through course for those with a minimum of Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) called edited by Vyacheslav Chornovil, winner IMD, the International Institutefor Ma three years' management experience, upon Soviet President Mikhail Gorba of The Sunday Times Nicholas Tomalin nagement Development. and a shorter certificate course for chev to allow unrestricted freedom of (Continued on page 3) The acting director of the new insti (Continued on page 4) worship for Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox believers. The Helsinki Commission letter Tourisf s journal: national spirit in eastern Ukraine emphasized that the continued harass ment, detention and denial of the right by Tamara Stadnychenko Cornelison In a museum of history in Poltava, and Petliurivtsi. of free worship of Ukrainian Catholic Ivan Mazepa and Pylyp Orlyk are In Poltava, the houses near the "It was the best of times, it was the described as traitors to the motherland. elegant and well-maintained Panas clergy and laity contravened Soviet worst of times, ...it was the season of commitments under the Helsinki Final In Kiev, a man speaking Ukrainian Myrny Museum are no better than Light, it was the season of Darkness... it points out the bullet-riddled arsenal Act and the Vienna Concluding Docu was the spring of hope, it was the winter shanties constructed of corrugated tin, ment to respect freedom of religion. building and explains that this was the without running water, without electric of despair." site of the battle between Ukrainians President Gorbachev was urged to With these words Charles Dickens (Continued on page 2) honor the spirit of Vienna and Helsinki, described France in the months pre as well as the policies of glasnost and ceding the revolution. Much the same democratization, by permitting be can be said about people and events in lievers to freely practice their faiths. today's Ukraine, 200 years after the The letter was initiated by commis storming of the Bastille in Paris. sion.member and former chairman Rep. For Ukrainians it is indeed the worst Dante Fascell (D-Fla.) at the strong of times: soap, sugar, school notebooks urging of the Ukrainian Human Rights are in short supply — small quantities Committee (UHRC) of Philadelphia. can be purchased only with ration Orest Deychakiwsky, staff member of coupons. Water in Lviv, which I visited the CSCE, and Meg Donovan, staff July 19-23, was at a premium; between 6 member of the U.S. House of Represen a.m. and 8 a.m. city residents filled their tatives Foreign Affairs Committee, bathtubs and this reservior was to serve were instrumental in shepherding the their needs for the entire day. letter through the offices of all CSCE People ^till wait two or three years for members. government apartments, shelves in The UHRC initiative to again direct stores are empty or filled with shoddy President Gorbachev's attention to the merchandise, street vendors with mar status of the Ukrainian Churches came ketable wares draw huge crowds of about in recognition of the need for buyers, in Kiev, even tourists who stay continuing Western pressure to bolster in the "deluxe" Intourist hotels are the efforts of the clergy and laity in limited to 100 grams of black coffee Ukraine who have emerged from the each. underground to demand freedom of worship. Tamara Stadnychenko Cornelison, a The letter is particularly timely in member of the Ukrainian Human Hunger strikers outside the Kharkiv courthouse on July 3 protest the arrest and view of the removal of Konstantin Rights Committee of Philadelphia, detention of Stepen Sapeliak and Andriy Cheremsky. From left are: Ihor Bovtsalto, Kharchev as the chairman of the Coun- recently returned from a tourist trip to Svitlana Shkumat and OIha Herashchenko, members of the Ukrainian Helsinki (Contfinued osi pmge 3) Ukraine, Union and the Ukrainian Youth Association (SUM). THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20,1989 : No. 34 Tourist's... (Continued from page 1) city. In Odessa, a building whose facade is crumbling and ready to collapse is propped up by two birch logs; in Kiev the columns of the main post office give way and 11 people are killed by falling rubble. And yet there is a spirit rising throughout Ukraine that counteracts i.he poverty, the inconveniences, the shortages, the historical distortions. In many ways it is indeed the best of times. Changes great and small are easily perceived in almost all cities accessible to visit(^rs from abroad. In Lviv the idea of a statue of Taras Shevchenko has been approved by city administrators, a site far from the city center has been chosen, and a grassroots At a public meeting organized on April 21 by the Vasyl Stus Ukrainian Language movement protesting against the loca Club in Kharkiv, works by artist Valeriy Bondar illustrating poetry by the late Stus tion draws huge crowds. The Ukrainian were displayed on a park bench, along with Mr. Bondar's illustrations to Stepan flag is hoisted in the park, speakers ex Sapeliak's book ""Z Hirkotoyu v Kameni" (above). On the right, posted on a tree hort the crowd to fight the city's decision, trunk, are a photo of Stus, the logo of the Vasyl Stus Ukrainian Language Club, the Ukrainian trident or small blue and and a placard reading: ''We demand an investigation into the Chernivtsi tragedy!" yellow pins are proudly and defiantly groups after the sponsored concerts or year-old poet who was exiled to Khar- affixed to jacket lapels and dresses. panel discussions are not discouraged. kiv oblast after serving 10 years in Those who have no pins create their Tourists who wish to skip group own symbols from scraps of cloth. camps and prisons for allegedly, writing activities are free to wander on their "subversive" poetry and engaging in Young married couples coming from own and meet with local residents who their wedding ceremonies bring flowers ''anti-Soviet agitation and propa seem comfortable with these meetings ganda." and leave them at the small shrine and eager to converse fully and freely erected in the central park, the site Now a resident of Kharkiv, he is one about a variety of topics ranging from of the main organizers of political where protesters hope Shevchenko's music, to perestroika, to fashion, to statue will be situated.