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INSIDE:• Follow-up on independent Ukraine’s first cosmonaut— pages 2-3. • Ukrainian Canadians protest possible hiring of former OSI chief— page 5. •A look at Ukrainian church architecture — page 8.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXV HE No.KRAINIAN 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1997 EEKLY$1.25/$2 in Ukraine Pledging conference raises $36.25 million for Chornobyl SupremeT Court JusticeU W by Khristina Lew ECU, approximately $2.75 million, will ference in order to assist Ukraine in the be given a vote in the Contributors shutdown of Chornobyl by 2000. Forty- John Sopinka dies at 64 NEW YORK — A pledging confer- Assembly. Countries that contribute less five countries were invited to participate, ence organized by the United States col- by Christopher Guly will be allowed to join the assembly with- and representatives from countries such as lected $36.25 million from the interna- out a vote. At the November 20 pledging Switzerland, Russia, Indonesia and OTTAWA — John Sopinka “was one tional community on November 20 to of the good guys,” said former Canadian conference held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Ireland heard Vice-President Al Gore and begin rebuilding the sarcophagus encas- New York City, all but two of the 13 Attorney General Ramon Hnatyshyn in ing damaged reactor No. 4 at the Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma, who recalling the man he had named to the countries — Israel and Luxembourg — served as the conference’s honorary co- Chornobyl nuclear power plant in contributed 2.5 million ECU or more. country’s highest court nine years ago. Ukraine. International experts put the cost chairmen, address the gathering at its con- “He was not reticent about expressing As chair of the G-7 this year, the of securing and rebuilding the sarcopha- United States initiated the pledging con- (Continued on page 4) and dealing with important issues,” said gus at $760 million, $300 million of Mr. Hnatyshyn, Canada’s former gover- which was contributed by the Group of nor general. “He had boundless energy, Seven industrial countries and the and it was pretty hard to match him. He European Commission at the G-7 summit was always available and accessible.” in June. Supreme Court of Canada Justice U.S. Secretary of Energy Federico Sopinka died of complications from a Pena, who co-chaired the pledging con- rare blood disease in Ottawa at 6:30 a.m. ference with Ukraine’s Minister for the on November 24. He was 64. News of Environment and Nuclear Safety Yurii his death sent shock waves from Kostenko, called the outcome “terrifically Canada’s capital city, where flags at the successful,” and announced that work on Supreme Court building were flying at the sarcophagus can begin immediately. half-staff, to the Ukrainian Canadian Norway was the largest contributor at community across the country. the conference, donating $5 million to the According to the Toronto-based daily Chornobyl Shelter Fund, a special account Globe and Mail’s front-page story, created by the European Bank for “Friends first noticed Judge Sopinka’s Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) energy begin to falter early this autumn, to collect funds contributed by govern- upon his return from a trip to Ukraine. ments and the private sector. The EBRD An emergency blood transfusion in will administer the entire reconstruction recent days failed to arrest the advance project, called the Shelter Implementation of the disease.” Plan (SIP), and establish a Contributors Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, hosting Assembly that will meet annually to vote Khristina Lew the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation on project implementation. Vice-President Al Gore speaks at the Chornobyl pledging conference as President leaders’ meeting in Vancouver, hailed Countries that contribute 2.5 million Leonid Kuchma looks on. Justice Sopinka as an “exceptional jurist,” while the remaining eight justices publicly mourned losing a “loyal” friend and colleague. The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Chornobyl conference at United Nations Ukraine’s government Liberties Association issued a news release calling Mr. Sopinka an “irreplace- initiates fund-raising for humanitarian aid reorganizes program able advocate and friend.” He did, after by Irene Jarosewich ence sponsored by the U.N. focused on all, work with the UCCLA, when it was a status reports on the current medical and federation within the Ukrainian Canadian UNITED NATIONS — More than 11 environtmental situation, the coordina- for privatization Congress, in representing the community years after the largest nuclear disaster in tion of resources as well as the appeal by Roman Woronowycz at the 1985 Commission of Inquiry on history, several dozen representatives for and identification of sources of fund- Kyiv Press Bureau from U.N. member-states and non-gov- War Criminals headed by Justice Jules ing for humanitarian aid, containment KYIV — After completing the initial Deschênes. ernmental organizations on November 25 and clean-up of environmental damage, attended a conference on Chornobyl, the phase of privatization with only partial Three years later, Mr. Sopinka was and medical research. success, the Ukrainian government is serving as lead counsel at an International first step in a series of programs pro- The president of the U.N. General posed by the U.N. to alleviate the conse- reorganizing its effort as it prepares to sell Commission on the Ukrainian Famine Assembly, Hennadii Udovenko, opened off its largest factories and plants. when Mr. Hnatyshyn invited him to join quences of the Chornobyl explosion in the conference, and reports were present- Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. On November 24 the acting chairman the Canadian Supreme Court. ed by Volodymyr Kholosha, Ukraine’s of the State Property Fund, Volodymyr It was the second time Mr. Hnatyshyn The United Nations, under the aus- vice minister for emergencies and protec- pices of the office of the undersecretary Lanovyi, announced after a meeting of the had offered him a judicial appointment, tion of the population affected by the Council on Privatization, which is headed Justice Sopinka recalled in an interview of humanitarian affairs, is planning a Chornobyl disaster, and representatives series of pledging conferences to fund by President Leonid Kuchma, that in the with The Weekly two years ago. The from the International Atomic Energy second phase of the privatization program these programs in the future. The next first came in the mid-1980s, when Mr. Agency. The U.N. report was presented stated to begin in 1998, the government conference is tentatively scheduled for Sopinka was asked to sit on Ontario’s by Yasushi Akashi, undersecretary for would cease privatizing enterprises April 1998, to coincide with the 12th highest judicial body, the Court of humanitarian affairs. through the issuance of stock certificates anniversary of the explosion, and will Appeal. Mr. Sopinka declined, preferring According to Mr. Kholosha, who to Ukrainian citizens and legal entities. focus on obtaining direct monetary com- to continue his Toronto law practice. spoke also at a press conference at the Instead medium and large businesses mitments from public, as well as private “Not to look too disrespectful, I told U.N. on November 24, teams appointed would be auctioned through sealed cash institutions for U.N. programs. Ray that if he offered me a spot on the by the U.N. visited Ukraine, Belarus and tenders. Supreme Court, maybe I would take a Unlike the pledging conference orga- Russia last year to evaluate the environ- “The certification process has not had different view,” said Mr. Sopinka. nized by the United States and held sev- mental and medical consequences of the the effect we expected,” said Mr. Lanovyi When a vacancy occurred on the high eral days earlier at the Roosevelt Hotel in nuclear explosion. Based on their find- after the meeting. He said rising govern- court in 1988 and the hole that needed to New York, which sought international ings and recommendations, several pro- ment debt due to shortfalls in projected be filled had to come from a candidate in financial support to rebuild the crum- grams were developed. Between eight receipts and defaults on government- bling sarcophagus that covers the dam- (Continued on page 6) aged reactor at Chornobyl, the confer- (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 4) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1997 No. 48

NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS FOLLOW-UP: Cosmonaut’s long journey into space by Philip Chien Yeltsin hails improved ties with Ukraine Special to The Ukrainian Weekly MOSCOW — In a nationwide radio CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Leonid Kadenyuk became address on November 21, Russian the 19th person born in Ukraine to fly into space last week President Boris Yeltsin hailed improved aboard the space shuttle Columbia. But he was the first space bilateral ties with Ukraine, which had traveler from the independent country of Ukraine. soured after the collapse of the Soviet The previous 18, starting with Pavlo Popovych in August Union in 1991, ITAR-TASS and Reuters 1962, had flown as Soviet citizens aboard Soviet spacecraft. reported. Mr. Yeltsin said ties between the Col. Kadenyuk had wanted to become a cosmonaut since age two Slavic neighbors had been plagued by 10 when he watched Yuri Gagarin fly in to space in 1961. “mutual reproach and misunderstanding” After graduating from the Chernihiv Higher Aviation School over the past six years. He acknowledged in 1971 he went to Russia for test pilot training. He was that differences remain, namely over the selected as a cosmonaut in 1976 and was trained as a crew division of the Black Sea Fleet, Ukraine’s commander for the Soyuz spacecraft for long-term space sta- Crimean peninsula and recent Ukrainian- tion missions. In addition he trained for the Soviet space NATO military exercises in the Black Sea. shuttle Buran, until that program was canceled. After the President Yeltsin also accused so-called breakup of the Soviet Union an agreement was reached “demagogues” of fanning nationalistic feel- where an all-Ukrainian crew, commanded by Col. Kadenyuk, ings and warned that Russian foreign policy would fly to Mir. That mission was eventually canceled due is the domain of the president. He added to financial reasons. that “frank discussions” at a recent informal Ukraine continues to supply parts for the Russian space meeting with President Leonid Kuchma of program. The Zenit launch vehicles, Kurs automatic ren- Ukraine had alleviated tensions and paved dezvous system and space welding experiments were all the way for an official visit to Russia by developed by Ukrainian companies. Mr. Kuchma in February. President Yeltsin also confirmed that leading Russian banks An opportunity born of political ties are ready to invest in the production of the Col. Kadenyuk’s opportunity to fly aboard the space shut- AN-70 aircraft, which was designed in tle was born of political ties – not science. In 1995 President Ukraine. The Ukrainian-Russian project Bill Clinton offered President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine the could create thousands of new jobs in both opportunity to fly a Ukrainian citizen on a U.S. spaceflight. NASA countries. (RFE/RL Newsline, Eastern NASA flies three categories of astronauts on the shuttle: Col. Leonid Kadenyuk Economist) pilots, mission specialists and payload specialists. Europe critical of continuing executions The pilots are ex-military test pilots who perform the actu- Collaborative Ukrainian Experiment. al piloting tasks and have overall control of the shuttle’s sys- The National Space Agency of Ukraine has selected five KYIV — Representatives of the Council tems. Ukrainian cosmonauts. Ukrainian space officials are hoping of Europe condemned the continuation of The mission specialists, as their name implies, are respon- to participate in the International Space Station program after the death penalty in Ukraine and Chechnya, sible for the experiments and most of the on-orbit activities. it is completed in 2003, with the Ukrainians flying aboard which executed 13 and four people, respec- Mission specialists are normally the astronauts who operate American or Russian spacecraft. tively, in 1997. A deputy of the Council of the shuttle’s robot arm and perform spacewalks. The mission Even the announcement of which Ukrainian would get the Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly from specialists include scientists, engineers and military engi- opportunity to fly aboard the shuttle was a major political Liechtenstein, Renata Volvend, recently neers with operations skills. Pilots and mission specialists are event, as the announcement was made on May 16 at the first visited Ukraine and insisted that member- NASA employees and career astronauts. In recent years session of the U.S.-Ukraine Binational Commission (the ship on the council should be suspended if international mission specialists from countries cooperating Kuchma-Gore Commission). executions continue in Ukraine. A similar in the international space station program have also been conclusion was made regarding Russia’s trained by NASA. Plant growth experiments membership, as Chechnya is part of the Payload specialists include scientists and engineers flying Col. Kadenyuk and his back-up, Yaroslav Pustovyi, an Russian Federation. Ukraine has until 1998 with their experiments, but this category has also included electrical engineer, trained at the Institute of Botany at the to abolish the death penalty in Ukraine. VIP guests, members of Congress and participants chosen National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv to study Membership on the Council of Europe is through international cooperative agreements. plant growth experiments. dependent on the outlawing of the death While Col. Kadenyuk has the same skills and background During the two-week shuttle flight, Col. Kadenyuk’s pri- penalty. At present, 264 people have as NASA’s pilot astronauts, the decision was made to fly him mary responsibility is to conduct the plant experiments, received the death penalty and are waiting as a payload specialist, performing joint scientific experi- including growing brassica rapa plants. Since the mustard- to be executed. The last of the 13 execu- ments. There were early discussions to fly an advanced ver- family plants require bees to pollinate their flowers for repro- tions occurred in March. Ms. Volvend sion of the Ukrainian welding tool that had been tested duction, Col. Kadenyuk must use a dead bee glued to a tooth- noted that the death penalty remains in aboard the Soviet Salyut 7 space station with a Ukrainian pick to simulate the normal pollination process. He is also Ukrainian legislation because politicians performing a spacewalk along with a U.S. astronaut, but responsible for keeping track of the experiment’s progress. have been reluctant to eliminate it. (Eastern those plans were dropped. To mark the first flight by a Ukrainian citizen in space, Economist) NASA and its Ukrainian counterparts decided that plant Col. Kadenyuk took a Ukrainian flag, a “tryzub,” the state Memorial service held for Lishchynski growth would be an appropriate simple experiment that could emblem of Ukraine, and music by Ukrainian composers. He be prepared in the limited time available. Unlike other inter- said, “I am very proud that it has fallen to me to play this KYIV — A memorial service was held national programs, the Ukrainians are bringing only their role, to be the first cosmonaut of an independent Ukraine. on November 20 at the Canadian Embassy knowledge, without any hardware or funds. NASA spent a And I will do everything I can to be worthy of this honor.” for veteran Canadian diplomat Peter total of $1.4 million on the experiment, plus the training Roman Lishchynski, director of the NATO costs for two Ukrainian cosmonauts. Existing hardware used Information and Documentation Center in to grow plants on previous shuttle missions was used for the Philip Chien is an environmental writer based in Florida. Kyiv, and his driver, Ivan Bunu, who were killed in a car accident on November 13 in the Kirovohrad Oblast. Representatives from NATO headquarters, the Organization Chornobyl conference... FOUNDED 1933 for Security and Cooperation in Europe and (Continued from page 1) the Canadian Embassy, where Mr. and 10 programs dealing with various HE KRAINIAN EEKLY Lishchynski has served since being posted aspects of the disaster’s medical and TAn English-languageU newspaperW published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., to Ukraine in 1992, all spoke, as did rela- health consequences, both psychological a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. tives, friends and colleagues. Condolences and physical, environmental protection, Yearly subscription rate: $60; for UNA members — $40. also poured in from officials and friends in as well as public education and informa- Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, NJ 07302. Ukraine and overseas, among them tion dissemination could be funded (ISSN — 0273-9348) Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister through the U.N. 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Box 280 and Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj (Toronto) currency slipped below its current float rate Chornobyl nuclear power station. Parsippany, NJ 07054 of 1.70 to 1.90 to $1 U.S., Ukrainian media (Nadia Svitlychna, a correspondent for reported. After the bank indicated that it The Ukrainian Weekly, November 30, 1997, No. 48, Vol. LXV the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., con- Copyright © 1997 The Ukrainian Weekly (Continued on page 15) tributed to this report.) No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1997 3

Leonid Kadenyuk and Ukraine’s students become a part of history by Oleh Bula Special to The Ukrainian Weekly CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Col. Leonid Kadenyuk on November 19 became the first Ukrainian cosmonaut to fly aboard a U.S. space shuttle. He will spend approximately 15 days in space at more than 150 nautical miles above the surface of Earth. His main mission is to conduct the Collaborative Ukraine Experiment (CUE), a middeck payload experiment designed to study the effects of microgravity on plant growth. This is truly a historic moment for Ukraine and just one part of the beginning of enhanced relations between the United States and Ukraine in the realm of space exploration and development. As is always the case on launch day for the space shuttle, the crowds at the Kennedy Space Center were enormous. Parents and children of all ages and sizes were here to look and marvel at the wonders of space. The countdown seemed quick. It was only a matter of seconds and the space shuttle was miles in the air. It started with only a light, and then there were large plumes of smoke. We waited for the sound, but it didn’t arrive until after the Columbia was well in the air. When the roar of the shuttle finally enveloped us, we wel- comed it, proud to know that it was strong enough to let out such an enormous sound. This is a normal experience for those of us who live close to the Cape; we can see a shuttle launch almost monthly here in Florida. When the crews return, the sonic booms of their re-entry can be heard as far as Orlando, 50 miles away. For many Americans, however, visiting the Kennedy Space Center can be a unique expe- rience – a visit they make only once in their life. The trip is espe- cially memorable for children. To visit during a shuttle launch is even more extraordinary and unforgettable. There were many visitors at the Kennedy Space Center on November 19. They came from all across the country; many from California, Texas, New York and Ohio had driven hundreds of miles just to watch a launch. There were some from Canada, and several languages from across the Atlantic could be heard. But on this launch, designated STS-87, there was one very spe- cial group: not only was this the first time they viewed a U.S. space shuttle launch, it was their first time in the U.S. The group included nine students and three teachers from Ukraine who were living a dream come true. Thousands of miles away from home, these students, and thousands more in both Ukraine and the United States, have been working for many months to prepare experiments for the CUE. Dr. Vladimir Nazarenko of the National Academy of Sciences, who has led the CUE in Ukraine and trained many teachers and students on the details of the experiments, also was present. The students had come from different parts of Ukraine, from schools that are participants in the CUE. Dr. Nazarenko leads those efforts in Ukraine, and, after two years of preparation, many teachers have now become expert in conducting this curriculum in their schools. In Ukraine as in the United States, these very real research-related experiments have been designed to be applicable in the middle and high school science curricula. On December 1 at NASA 6 a.m. (EST), Col. Kadenyuk will be hooked up by special down- link through a Ukrainian television sta- The Columbia space shuttle lifts off. tion in Kyiv to all the CUE participant schools in Ukraine. This will be the first time a Ukrainian astronaut is talking live from space with students from his own country. Thousands of students in Ukraine will be able to watch and inter- act during a short question and answer period with Col. Kadenyuk. The nine Ukrainian students visit- ing the U.S. were outstanding in every possible way. At times it seemed they hardly had a moment to stop and think where they really were. They met and spoke to local, retired Ukrainians, they answered questions from President Leonid Kuchma about their stay, they partici- pated in an Education Summit, and they were asked countless questions about their thoughts and feelings on the launch and the experiments. They did very well, and when the shuttle successfully launched into space, they graciously posed for photos and received congratulations from Dr. Thomas Dreschel and Dr. Paul Williams, who have led the CUE effort in the U.S. For these students, November 19 was a special day. Col. Kadenyuk became the first Ukrainian astronaut aboard a U.S. space shuttle; on the ground students from high schools all across Ukraine looked on and also Oleh Bula became a part of history. Ukrainian students watch as Columbia lifts off. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1997 No. 48

Columbia, said that his country annually November 4 that breaches of law had Pledging conference... allocates 12 percent of its national budget Ukraine’s government... occurred during the privatization process (Continued from page 1) toward alleviating the consequences of (Continued from page 1) that “have assumed an alarming scale,” clusion. Chornobyl. He told conference partici- backed loans led the SPF and President according to Interfax-Ukraine. Vice-President Gore applauded the pants that since the dissolution of the Kuchma to reach decision. Mr. Lanovyi Responding to the allegations, lawmak- amount of funds contributed to the SIP, Soviet Union, the international communi- said government bonds would be issued ers declared a halt to all privatization in a but noted that more is needed. “I remain ty has been slow to assist Ukraine in com- to cover the debts. legislative resolution. However, it does not very confident that the process will con- bating Chornobyl’s aftereffects. In the first phase of privatization, carry the weight of law. “The resolution is tinue,” he said. The vice-president said “There is no such thing as a peaceful Ukrainian citizens and legal entities had not a moratorium on privatization, since we stabilizing and improving the safety of the atom,” he said. “Ukraine has the full access to stock certificates with which do not ban the SPF from preparing to priva- sarcophagus is “a critical part of the sup- moral right to turn to the world communi- they were allowed to purchase shares in tize. Our objective is to have a permanent port needed to assist Ukraine in meeting ty for support and help.” government-owned businesses being sold chairman of the fund,” said the chairman of the 2000 deadline for closure of Leon Fuerth, Vice-President Gore’s off into the private sector. In many the Verkhovna Rada’s Privatization Control Chornobyl,” and commended President national security advisor, told reporters instances, workers at their places of Committee, Oleksander Riabchenko. He said Mr. Lanovyi has no chance at winning Kuchma on his commitment to close the after the conference that contributions employment formed worker collectives the lawmakers’ approval. plant. In December 1995 Ukraine signed a amounted to what organizers had expect- that bought the businesses. In other cases, Oleksander Moroz, the chairman of the Memorandum of Understanding on the ed. “It’s a start, but we still need a consid- however, investors with larger resources Verkhovna Rada, seconded that opinion Closure of Chornobyl with the G-7 and erable chunk over a number of years,” he purchased stock certificates and then on November 24. The Parliament leader the European Commission. said. bought businesses, which led to much The Shelter Implementation Plan is not illegal maneuvering and shady deals said he has no conflict with Mr. Lanovyi, Not just a Ukrainian problem expected to be completed before 2005, between businessmen and government but that he does not see how the acting and organizers plan to approach the pri- SPF chief will get the needed votes. “I Mr. Gore pointed out that Chornobyl is officials. vate sector for contributions to the have normal relations with Mr. Lanovyi, not merely a Ukrainian problem, but a During the next phase the government Chornobyl Shelter Fund. “We are looking but I know that the legislative body will threat to the environment of the entire will allow foreigners also to take part in for another Ted Turner,” said Hennadii not approve him,” said Mr. Moroz. He planet. “Chornobyl was a product of a the bidding. On November 1 President Udovenko, Ukraine’s minister of foreign also said that if the president wants to end closed authoritarian system that was not Kuchma issued a decree further loosening affairs and president of the United this confrontation with the Verkhovna accountable to its citizens for its actions. Ukraine’s tight control of its assets, allow- Nations General Assembly. Mr. Turner, Rada he should sit down with its leader- It also served as a powerful symbol of ing foreign investment banks to market the CNN mogul, this year pledged $1 bil- ship to agree on a candidate amenable to what can happen when irresponsible lead- abroad large stakes in many state-owned lion to the United Nations. both branches of government. According ers and closed societies approach such companies. Mr. Lanovyi said the SPF does not have the experience that large to Mr. Moroz, President Kuchma has yet overwhelmingly powerful technologies Shelter Implementation Plan to show that he is willing to do so. like nuclear energy with hubris, naiveté international banks do to make sure that According to Carol Kessler, senior Ukraine gets the highest possible price for The 1998 privatization plan calls for and even disdain,” Mr. Gore said. the sell-off of Ukraine’s largest enterpris- President Kuchma, who arrived in New coordinator for nuclear safety at the State its assets. The decision is also aimed at Department and chairman of the G-7 es, including Donbasenergo, an energy- York from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on thwarting another criticism of the SPF: nuclear safety working group, the Shelter producing firm in the heartland of November 19 after witnessing indepen- that too many government properties have Implementation Plan consists of 22 pro- Ukraine’s coal industry, which will be the dent Ukraine’s first astronaut fly into been sold at less than optimum value, jects that have 297 constituent activities. first large enterprise for which foreign space aboard the U.S. space shuttle often in pre-arranged deals with the pur- The plan has four goals: to stabilize the chasers. investors will be able to bid. sarcophagus; to put in shielding so work- In the last week, Mr. Kuchma has sug- Also targeted for privatization are 300 ers in the shelter will be protected from gested that the Parliament also has played grain elevators, the beginning of privati- the radioactive fuel-containing masses a role in creating shortcomings in the pri- zation of the massive agro-industrial com- The donors, that remain inside the sarcophagus; to vatization process. On November 22 he plex of Ukraine. build an environmentally secure shelter said the Verkhovna Rada should look at In addition, the 1998 plan foresees the their pledges over the sarcophagus; and to help Ukraine its own members who hold shares in com- privatization of 954 medium and large devise a strategy to manage the radioac- enterprises valued at 50 billion hrv ($26.5 The following countries con- panies privatized at bargain-basement tive materials inside the shelter over the billion) and the government’s shares in tributed to the Chornobyl Shelter prices before criticizing the SPF for not long term. 300 joint ventures. All together, the gov- Fund during a pledging confer- getting full value for many of the sold-off Yuri Poluneev, EBRD executive direc- ernment has slated approximately 2,500 ence held at the Roosevelt Hotel enterprises. tor for Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, medium and large-scale enterprises for in New York City on November Two days later, after the meeting of the Georgia and Armenia, said the European privatization. 20. A minimum contribution of Council on Privatization, Mr. Kuchma Bank for Reconstruction and In the first 10 months of 1997, Ukraine 2.5 million ECU ($2.75 million reminded journalists that the Verkhovna Development will provide services for has earned 198 million hrv ($105 million) U.S.) gives the donor-government Rada did not approve a privatization plan financing the project, procurement, goods through privatization efforts. Another a vote in the Contributors for 1997 until six months into the year. and services. He said the conference col- 100-150 million hrv are expected to be in Assembly, which will convene The president added that a 1998 privatiza- lected the amount of money expected, but government coffers by the end of the year. annually to determine project tion plan would be submitted to the legis- noted that “in 1999 we will have to look Thus far 6,500 medium and large busi- implementation. The list was lators for approval within 10 days. for more money.” nesses have been privatized in Ukraine – made available by Carol Kessler, Mr. Lanovyi has been a controversial The U.S. contribution to the Shelter more than half of all enterprises slated for senior coordinator for nuclear figure in the struggle between the Implementation Plan is $78 million; Verkhovna Rada and the president over privatization. safety at the State Department and Ukraine will contribute $50 million in- who should head the State Property Fund, chairman of the G-7 nuclear safe- kind to the SIP and $100 million in-kind in essence, who should control the privati- ty working group. to ensure that the necessary infrastructure zation process. He was rejected as the is in place. On November 20 the United SPF chairman by the Verkhovna Rada in Only 4 percent trust Denmark 2.5 million ECU States and Ukraine also signed an agree- April over claims that he had played Norway $5 million ment to jointly complete a 290-megawatt favorites in determining winners of tender Finland 2.5 million ECU heat plant that will serve the Chornobyl offers. President Kuchma has refused to VerkhovnaEastern Economist Rada Austria 2.5 million ECU site after the last reactor is shut down. The submit a new candidate and has kept Mr. Greece 2.5 million ECU U.S. contribution to the project is $10.5 Lanovyi on as acting chairman. At the KYIV — According to a SOCIS-Gallup Sweden 2.5 million ECU million. time Mr. Lanovyi was rejected, the presi- poll of 1,200 people throughout Ukraine, Ireland 2.5 million ECU In addition to addressing the pledging dent explained that the Rada had no rea- 44 percent of those polled said they trust Netherlands 2.5 million ECU conference, President Kuchma held talks sons, beyond political ones, for not con- the Church. The armed forces have the con- Switzerland $4.6 million with Vice-President Gore within the firming nomination. Mr. Lanovyi is con- fidence of 26 percent of respondents; the framework of the U.S.-Ukraine Binational sidered a radical reformer, which does not Spain $3 million Security Service and Ukrainian mass Commission and met with United Nations please the leftist-driven Parliament. media, 17 percent; the Prosecutor General’s Kuwait $4 million Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Adding to the controversy surrounding Office, militia and president, 11 percent. Israel $200,000 November 20. The Ukrainian president the chairman of privatization, Ukraine’s Only 6 percent said they trust trade unions Luxembourg $200,000 and his delegation departed for Kyiv that Procurator General Oleh Lytvak told a and the government, and a mere 4 percent evening. session of the Verkhovna Rada on trust the Verkhovna Rada. No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1997 5 Congress passes foreign aid bill Ukrainian Canadians voice objections with $225 M earmark for Ukraine to possible hiring of former OSI director

by Michael Sawkiw Jr. sector investment.” Ukrainian News was extradited to Israel in 1986, but was Ukrainian National Information Service Inasmuch as the House of acquitted by the Israeli Supreme Court in EDMONTON — Canada’s Ukrainian Representatives had passed the bill by a 1993. community wants assurances that the WASHINGTON – Nearly a month large majority, the Senate considered the “Mr. Sher is not fit to work within the Department of Justice will not hire Neal and a half into the government’s new fis- issue of the FY 1998 foreign assistance Canadian justice system, period,” Mr. Sher, former director of the U.S. Office cal year (FY 1998), on Wednesday, bill on Thursday, November 13, and Harasymiw said. of Special Investigations (OCI), for its November 12, the House of passed it overwhelmingly. The joint bill Mr. Harasymiw also said the Ukrainian war crimes unit, Justice Minister Anne Representatives passed the U.S. govern- was immediately sent to President Bill community finds it “extremely upsetting” McLellan was told during a meeting with ment’s foreign aid bill. Clinton for his signature. that the government is using immigration Following months of hearings, trips Ukrainian community representatives in hearings as a means of dealing with Throughout the entire foreign aid bud- Edmonton on November 13. by congressional delegations to various get process, the Ukrainian American alleged war criminals. Many people lied parts of the world, on-again-off-again Eugene Harasymiw, a lawyer and about their past upon entering Canada community spent time and effort phon- president of the Alberta Ukrainian Self- Senate-House conferences, and a tremen- ing, faxing and writing letters to mem- after World War II because under the dous effort on behalf of the Ukrainian Reliance League, the lay organization of Yalta Agreement people who lived in the bers of Congress, in particular the mem- the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in American community to inform mem- bers of the House and Senate Foreign pre-war boundaries of the Soviet Union bers of Congress of the importance of Canada, said that reports of Mr. Sher’s were to be deported back to that country, Operations Subcommittees. possible hiring first surfaced in August. foreign aid, assistance to Ukraine passed The newly formed Congressional which meant almost certain death or by an overwhelming margin. He said that in an earlier letter to the exile to Siberia. Ukrainian Caucus also played a role. Its minister he “voiced the strongest possi- Over-all assistance to the new inde- effort included a “Dear Colleague” letter He said war criminals should be tried pendent states (NIS), under which the ble objection to the hiring of Neal Sher, in Canada under Canadian law – not circulated among the members of the or anyone else associated with the OSI.” Ukrainian account falls, totals $770 mil- House of Representatives to gain support deported to a third country for trial. lion. This was a substantial increase over Mr. Harasymiw based his objections on Minister McLellan agreed to accept for the earmark of assistance to Ukraine. the record of the OSI and its method of last year’s assistance level of $625 mil- The letter, which was sent to Chairman any information regarding Mr. Sher that lion. In particular, several countries operation. He said the OSI knowingly the Ukrainian community can bring for- Callahan and subcommittee members, used forged documents, misrepresented received earmarks of assistance: $225 stated, “For the past two years, Congress ward, but was adamant that people who million for Ukraine, $92.5 million for witnesses, pressured the accused and their misrepresented their situation upon enter- has earmarked $225 million in aid to families to accept guilty pleas, and with- Georgia and $87.5 million for Armenia. Ukraine to support the establishment of ing Canada were “guilty of a very serious The two earmarks for Georgia and held evidence from the defendants that breach of Canadian law.” She explained, democracy and help Ukraine shore up its could be used to prove their innocence. Armenia were part of a larger regional “For me it is the issue of defending the nuclear energy program. This year’s ear- He read from the 1993 decision of the Caucasus fund amounting to $250 mil- integrity of Canadian citizenship.” mark will be used for much of the same, United States Court of Appeals for the lion. Established in consultation with However, she added that the govern- but will also include assistance for estab- Sixth Circuit on the John Demjanjuk case, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), chair- ment is considering amendments to the lishing a permanent national law which reversed the earlier judgement man of the Senate Foreign Operations Criminal Code which would allow for enforcement tradition through training under which Mr. Demjanjuk was stripped Subcommittee of the Appropriations the prosecution of alleged war criminals and technical support, and other impor- of his U.S. citizenship “on the grounds in Canada. Committee, and Rep. Sonny Callahan tant legal and economic reforms.” that the judgements were wrongly pro- (R-Ala.), chairman of the House Mr. Harasymiw also suggested that Twenty-nine members of the House of cured as a result of prosecutorial miscon- government resources used to hunt war Appropriations Subcommittee, this new Representatives, many without many duct that constituted fraud on the court.” Caucasus fund was designed to achieve a criminals could be better utilized educat- Ukrainian American constituents, signed Mr. Sher served as director of the OSI, ing people about World War II. peace settlement between Armenia and the letter in support of continued foreign the U.S. Justice Department’s Nazi-hunting Azerbaijan. assistance to Ukraine. unit, from 1983 to 1994. Mr. Demjanjuk (Continued on page 15) Of the funds appropriated under the Freedom Support Act (FSA) for Ukraine, 50 percent of the earmarked funds ($112.5 million) are to be withheld from assistance programs until the secretary of Eighth internment memorial unveiled in Manitoba by Christopher Guly there are two plaques in Ontario (Fort Commenting on the unveiling in state certifies that Ukraine has achieved Henry, near Kingston, and Kapuskasing), Brandon, the UCCLA’s director of special significant economic progress and has OTTAWA – After some wrangling over two in British Columbia (Vernon and projects, Borys Sydoruk, said: “We have resolved American investors’ problems the location of the memorial, the Ukrainian Nanaimo) and three in Alberta (Jasper been very fortunate to have enjoyed the in Ukraine. Such a certification should Canadian Civil Liberties Association National Park and two in Banff National support of both the Department of be completed by April 30, 1998, at unveiled its eighth plaque on November 27 Park at the Castle Mountain and Cave and National Defense and the city of Brandon which time the remaining funds will be on the grounds of City Hall in Brandon, Basin sites). in our efforts to commemorate this unhap- released. Programs for nuclear safety and Manitoba, where about 800 Ukrainian Unlike the camps in Jasper, Banff and py episode in Canadian history. By plac- democracy-building initiatives, specifi- Canadians were interned starting that day Kapuskasing, the one in Brandon was never ing a plaque in Brandon we hope to cally election related programs, are 83 years ago until July 29, 1916. a work site. But like northwestern Ontario’s remind all Canadians of the tragedy that exempt from this certification. Originally, the trilingual marker Kapuskasing site – the largest of them all, befell these Ukrainians and other Though this year’s foreign assistance (Ukrainian, English and French) was sup- where 1,200 prisoners rioted and several Europeans during the first world war, bill does not include subearmarks for posed to be placed on property belonging to were wounded in 1916 – the Ukrainian hopefully to make sure that nothing simi- specific programs, the report language of the Department of National Defense, said Canadians interned in Brandon saw their lar ever happens to any other Canadian the foreign aid bill mentions the need to Brandon City Councilor Jim Reid. “There share of violence. ethnic, religious or racial minority. continue assistance for areas such as were a number of reasons for DND being In June, 1915, 18-year-old Andrew “By unveiling our plaque on the very nuclear safety programs, democracy- reluctant,” said Mr. Reid in a telephone Grapko was among 17 men who tried to same date on which the first internees were building initiatives, and commercial and interview from his office in Brandon. escape the Brandon camp. While trying to brought to Brandon we will also be remind- legal reform in Ukraine. The conference “Partly it’s because it was not just a federal scramble out of a window, Mr. Grapko was ing all those present of just how difficult an committee’s report recognizes Ukraine’s matter at the time and the property that fed- shot to death, becoming one of six people contributions toward eliminating corrup- eral government owns is not the property across the country killed for similar reasons. (Continued on page 14) tion, expanding the privatization of state- that was the location of the camp.” owned enterprises, and the general eco- Since the original holding site, the nomic and political reform process in the Brandon Agricultural Exhibition Building, country. Ukraine received praise for its has become a Safeway supermarket, the introduction of a new Ukrainian mone- city decided to offer space at its own tary unit, the ratification of a new municipal complex a half-block away. Ukrainian Constitution, and the recently Though Mr. Reid says he never knew any- established NATO-Ukraine distinctive thing about the camp’s existence while he partnership agreement. was growing up in Brandon, he says the The importance of the elections in plaque is an “important thing for Canada.” Ukraine also was acknowledged by the The plaque was installed on a Memorial conference committee. In their report, Wall located at the Brandon City Hall by the committee states: “With parliamen- the UCCLA, working with the city of Daily or weekly by fax or e-mail, IntelNews provides comprehensive tary elections scheduled in March 1998, Brandon and the Ukrainian Canadian com- the managers strongly support expanded munity of Manitoba. 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The confer- vidual memorials at the 26 internment ees note that the outcome of the elections camp sites, the UCCLA has financed its a comprehensive weekly review of financial news in Ukraine could have a significant impact on future own plaques through public donations. For subscription or advertising information, call (410) 433-4941 or (310) 452-0959 assistance programs, as well as private In addition to the Brandon memorial, 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1997 No. 48

Supreme Court Justice... HE KRAINIAN EEKLY (Continued from page 1) T U W Ontario, Mr. Hnatyshyn found his ideal Sopinka sought justice for all appointee in Mr. Sopinka. “Looking back on John Sopinka’s record, he proved to be a first-rate When he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1988, John Sopinka appointment,” said Mr. Hnatyshyn, who said he wanted to give something back to the community. had spoken to Mr. Sopinka on the tele- In Canadian jurisprudence, Mr. Sopinka’s contribution was enormous. Until his phone a week before Mr. Sopinka’s death. death on November 24, Mr. Sopinka, the third-longest-serving judge on the nine- “When you make appointments to the member high court, wrote 250 judgements – 40 of them dissenting. Supreme Court, you look at the question On October 31, when Canada’s highest court ruled that the fetus has no rights of abilities and competence, and you want until it’s born, Mr. Sopinka called the “born alive” rule a “legal anachronism.” On to make sure the person reflects the diver- that issue, he was considered a conservative. On others, he was viewed as the leader sity of Canada, which was something he of the court’s liberal wing, pushing for the rights of the accused under the Canadian was able to bring to the court as well.” Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He fought for the rights of defendants, too, as in As Mr. Hnatyshyn became the first the decision of Regina vs. Stinchcombe, which gave the accused access to the case Ukrainian Canadian to fill the country’s against them. top job as constitutional head of state The first non-judge to be appointed to the highest court in the land since 1957, seven years ago, Mr. Sopinka became the the former Toronto-based civil litigator vowed to eschew the monastic trappings first member of the community to sit on associated with membership in the Supreme Court. He traveled across the country, the country’s highest court two years delivering speeches on myriad topics, including the legal challenges introduced by prior to that. the Internet, which he addressed in a September lecture in Edmonton. Mr. Sopinka was born in Saskatchewan, As the first Ukrainian Canadian appointed to the Supreme Court – and the first to in the small town of Broderick, where his speak in Ukrainian at his swearing-in ceremony – Mr. Sopinka’s contribution to his ethnic Ukrainian parents, Metro (who died community was equally extraordinary. In 1986 he represented the Ukrainian Justice John Sopinka in 1990) and Nancy (who died in 1974), Canadian Committee (now known as the Ukrainian Canadian Congress) at the settled after arriving from Wislok, Poland, Deschênes inquiry into war crimes. Arguing against the deportation of suspected Mr. Sopinka’s death creates a vacancy in 1928. Only Metro attended school, for a war criminals, Mr. Sopinka said, “If there was only a handful of obscure old men on the nine-member Supreme Court that year, but he and his wife were determined against whom a minor role in Nazi war criminals is alleged, Canada may well be Prime Minister Jean Chrétien will be their son, one of six children, would advised to consider less radical action or no action at all, all the more so if the Nazi nevertheless pressed to fill quickly. receive a first-class education. link to these men’s actions appear dubious. ... It is, in my submission, cruel and On February 16 the Supreme Court is When Mr. Sopinka was 7 years old, scheduled to hear arguments on whether inhuman to uproot an individual from his family and whatever life he has built in 35 his family moved to Hamilton, where his or more years as a productive Canadian on the suspicion that he might have been a Québec can secede from Canada unilater- father was employed as a steelworker. At ally, and Justice Lamer has made it war criminal.” Despite pleas from the B’nai B’rith earlier this year that he recuse 15, young John was becoming somewhat himself from participating in the Supreme Court’s hearings on three war-crimes known that he wants nine judges to hear of a prodigy, playing violin with the historic case. Prof. Edward Ratushny cases, Mr. Sopinka sat. Hamilton’s philharmonic orchestra. “He tried hard to decide cases in accordance with principles of law,” observed of Ottawa University said that Mr. After graduating summa cum laude Lamer’s position makes it likely that David Brown, a lawyer with the Toronto firm, Stikeman, Elliott, where Mr. Sopinka with an undergraduate arts degree from once headed the litigation section. “He tried to avoid getting his own personal views these hearings will be postponed. the University of Toronto in 1955, Mr. Prof. Ratushny remembered Justice too heavily involved in the decisions, which, unfortunately, a lot of judges do these Sopinka was accepted into the universi- days.” Sopinka as a populist judge, dedicated to ty’s law school. To augment the scholar- demystifying the legal process and open- Justice Sopinka never hid his loyalty to the Ukrainian Canadian community, ship he received, he got a job playing however. ing up the court he served on. “He spoke defensive halfback with the Toronto out frequently in favor of judges partici- He served as legal counsel for an International Commission on the Great Famine Argonauts that year. “I missed a lot of in Ukraine and made several trips to Ukraine as a member of a group of foreign pating in society and not cloistering classes, but I would get notes from my themselves in their chambers,” Prof. advisors to the Ukrainian Legal Foundation. Mr. Sopinka last visited Ukraine in classmates,” confessed Mr. Sopinka in autumn, when his health began deteriorating from a rare blood disease. In Canada, Ratushny told the Globe and Mail on 1995, who later went on to author one of November 24. Mr. Sopinka made himself accessible and available to the Ukrainian community. He the most definitive legal textbooks on lent his support to an award for Excellence in Ukrainian Studies administered by the “He made people feel very comfort- rules of evidence. able with a folksy kind of manner that Chair of Ukrainian Studies Foundation at the University of Toronto and recently The future Supreme Court justice almost attended the unveiling of a plaque honoring Canada’s first and only Victoria Cross disguised his brilliant and incisive mind,” missed graduating from law school in the Prof. Ratushny added. recipient, Filip Konowal, in the Vancouver suburb of New Westminster. His contin- process, when he was transferred to a rival uous wise counsel on issues, legal or otherwise, to this newspaper will never be for- The chairman of the Ukrainian Canadian Football League team, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, gotten. Montreal Alouettes. Fortunately, Montreal Justice Sopinka’s passing leaves a vacancy on the Supreme Court, which Prime John Gregorovich, said: “Justice Sopinka never made it to the playoffs, and Mr. was a thoughtful and learned judge, and Minister Jean Chrétien will have to move quickly to fill before the scheduled Sopinka was able to complete his third year February hearing on the federal government’s reference on the legality of Quebec’s yet always a very approachable man. ... in law school. Our entire community joins in mourning bid for unilateral separation from Canada. (With some irony, one of the leading con- Following his 1958 graduation, Mr. tenders for the job, who must come from Ontario, is the province’s Court of Appeal this irreplaceable advocate and friend.” Sopinka began a 28-year career in litigation Justice Sopinka’s body lay in state in Justice Louise Arbour, currently the chief prosecutor at the International War that would make him one of Canada’s Crimes Tribunal in The Hague.) the Supreme Court building on November highest-profiled lawyers. He represented 26; the funeral was to be held in Oakville, But there’s no question Justice Sopinka will be impossible to replace, in terms of the Aga Khan; former federal Cabinet his brilliant legal mind and his humaneness. Ontario, outside of Toronto, on November Minister Sinclair Stevens during an inquiry 29. When he was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, Mr. Sopinka paid tribute to into conflict-of-interest allegations; and his parents, Metro and Nancy, and recalled the reaction of his father, a one-time Mr. Sopinka leaves behind his wife of nurse Susan Nelles, who was charged, and 40 years, Marie, and two children, prisoner of war during the Russian Revolution. “He said, ‘Why do you want to go to later vindicated, in the deaths of four babies Ottawa? Haven’t you got enough work in Toronto?’ Melanie and Randall. at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. Also in mourning are many friends, “It says something about this country that although my mother did not attend a When he was named to the Supreme day of school and could not read or write in either Ukrainian or English, her son including Mr. Hnatyshyn. “He was a Court, Mr. Sopinka became the first non- wonderful and good friend, and I am could achieve this office,” he underlined. judge elevated to the top jurist’s job in 31 John Sopinka was one of a kind. very proud of my friendship with John years. Sopinka,” he said.

tion among some Ukrainian activists that a state of war still existed. Officers of vari- Dec. ous disbanded Ukrainian armed units, such as the UHA and the Sich Riflemen, led by Yevhen Konovalets, established the Ukrainian Military Organization (UMO) to TTurningurning the pagespages back... back... engage in this conflict. Holovinsky was a co-founder. 1 As the “pacification” measures of the Polish government grew more and more aggressive, so did the UMO’s response. In 1924 Holovinsky mounted an assassination 1894 attempt on Polish President Wojciechowski. Yulian Holovinsky was a product of turn-of-the-century Education was a particularly sore point for Ukrainians, as the Poles abolished all strife in Galicia, who lived by the sword and died by it. Born post-secondary Ukrainian departments within various institutions, particularly at Lviv on December 1, 1894, in Radymno, about 20 miles north of University, and radically reorganized the Galician provincial school administration Peremyshl, Holovinsky rose to the rank of captain in the Ukrainian Galician Army in system. the turmoil of the first world war, and in 1920 was interned in the camps of Josefov On October 19, 1926, a team set up by Holovinsky assassinated Stanislaw and Brno in Czecho-Slovakia. Sobinski, the Lviv School Superintendent. As historian Prof. Magocsi tells it, “Ukrainians in eastern Galicia had virtually Holovinsky was also implicated in several other acts of sabotage, including an reached a stage of equality with Poles under Austrian rule during the first decades of attack on the Post Office in Lviv, and was imprisoned many times. In the end, he was the 20th century,” and in the post-war period, “the Ukrainians of Poland, most espe- captured by Polish police and summarily executed, without trial, on September 30, cially those of Galicia, were not about to accept the status of a national minority in 1930, in the Bibrka prison. what they considered their own homeland. That would be tantamount to turning back Sources: “Holovinsky, Yuliian,” Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol. 2 (Toronto: University of the historical clock — which is what Poland tried to do.” Toronto Press, 1988); Paul Robert Magocsi, A History of Ukraine (Toronto: University of The authoritarian practices of the new Polish administration reinforced the percep- Toronto Press, 1996). No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1997 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

these songs but have a family member PERSPECTIVES Thank you for column record him singing on videotape. What a legacy that will be for his grandchildren! BY ANDREW FEDYNSKY on “Mama’s song” I encourage all Ukrainian families to Dear Editor: record on audio and video, or just write down lyrics and music to preserve our When I read the column “Mamyna pis- heritage – your legacy from your loved nia – Mama’s song” by Orysia Paszczak ones. It would be a tragedy to lose all of A justification for Friday night tears Tracz, I cried. My family has always sung those lovely tunes knowing they could be It was Friday evening at our home on Russian Empire. The mere possession of a Ukrainian folk songs, religious hymns and preserved today. Roanoke Avenue in Cleveland. My book or journal written in Ukrainian was a songs my father wrote. Mrs. Tracz mentions in her column younger brother Peter, who was no more crime. Not surprisingly, the most ambitious than 9 at the time, was at the kitchen table and talented Ukrainians were drawn toward My father was born in Ukraine, attended that non-Ukrainian friends are amazed at with our mother doing homework for Russian culture and were lost to Ukraine. a conservatory of music and left our family our ability to sing as a “choir” when we Ukrainian Saturday school the next morn- As a result, Ukrainian culture struggled to with a cherished legacy of music and gather. It amazes my friends as well. ing. His angry tears had stained the pages of get past a folk level. singing. My biggest regret is not having his Singing in harmony was taught at our recordings on tape or in any written format. the Cyrillic primer as he fumed in frustra- It became even more grim in the Soviet parents’ knee – what a gift! My father tion, “Why do I have to go to Ukrainian era when Ukrainian authors and artists were With his passing and my mother’s passing, used to say “when you sing in church, all of the beautiful lyrics and melodies will School, anyway?” My mother, exasperated arrested en masse in the 1930s and were you pray and worship twice.” over what was turning into a weekly scene either shot or exiled to frigid labor camps never be heard by my grandchildren. Thank you so much for publishing Mrs. Fortunately our family has a wonderful with my hot-tempered brother, answered as near the Arctic Circle. As recently as 1985, Tracz’s column. Maybe reading her column calmly as she could, “Petrusiu, I don’t know poet Vasyl Stus died in a Siberian prison and spirited 80-year-old uncle who was will give Uncle Pete the courage he needs born in Pennsylvania. Peter Mazurkevich why. I just know you have to.” cell under mysterious circumstances, just a to record all of the beautiful Ukrainian folk That settled it – at least for that week – month after being nominated for the Nobel has been singing in church choirs since songs that he loves so much. early youth and remembers the Ukrainian and the lesson went on. Thirty-five years Prize for Literature. songs in Ukrainian and in English. We are Mary Orlyk Rakay later, we have the answer. Pete is now host Today, the impact of Russification on trying to persuade him to not only record Detroit of the weekly Ukrainian-language televi- Ukraine is apparent. The Russian language sion program “Window on America” that is is still very prevalent, particularly in most poses for us “to focus on many faces of beamed by satellite to Ukraine every urban areas where it predominates. Ukrainian Orthodoxy ... that encompass Saturday night, where an audience in excess Ironically, Moscow’s heavy hand, so suc- An answer to letter many jurisdictions in America.” of 10 million watches news and features cessful in squeezing Ukrainian out of daily I am baffled by such a statement. that Pete and his co-workers put together. life, might well have evoked a fierce back- on “nationalism” Without those Friday night sessions and the lash that provided a better than 90 percent Dear Editor: Exactly what Churches are encompassed by Ukrainian Orthodoxy? weary Saturday wake-ups, he wouldn’t vote for independence in 1991. Today, peo- In disbelief I read Andrew F. Estocin’s In the very next sentence Mr. Estocin have had the opportunity to have one of the ple who frequently travel to Ukraine tell me that the language is making a comeback. (In letter of October 26 responding to my states that “many Ukrainian Orthodox are most interesting jobs in America. Those who work with Pete include western Ukraine it never went away.) One letter published in the October 5 issue of in the care of the Orthodox Church of George Sajewych from Chicago and Adrian can see that with the visitors who come to The Ukrainian Weekly. America (formerly Russian Orthodox Karmazyn from Cleveland, both of whom America, as well. In his first sentence he accused me of Church) and the Patriarchate of Antioch” also went to Ukrainian Saturday School. I As for national politics, Ukrainian is a calling “... for an uncanonical Ukrainian (Syrian Church). Do these Churches rep- wonder whether they ever struggled with must. President Leonid Kuchma, who Orthodox Church centered on Ukrainian resent “many faces of Ukrainian their mothers about Friday night homework spoke Russian exclusively all his life, nationalism” and ascertained that I do not Orthodoxy” because some Ukrainians are know the tradition of Orthodox Christianity. and Ukrainian school the next day. Did learned the language five years ago to pre- members of these Churches? Marta Zielyk? She translates for President pare for the 1993 presidential campaign and How Mr. Estocin arrived at such a I don’t think so. If some Ukrainians conclusion is beyond me. In my short let- Bill Clinton, the secretaries of State, now speaks it at all official functions. I was chose to be members of non-Ukrainian Defense and others. What about Helen told on good authority that he rebukes his ter I expressed my anger at two patri- Churches, it is their decision. But they do archs who met in Ukraine not for Kryshtalowych? She runs the Kyiv office of own Cabinet members when they speak not contribute anything to Ukrainian one of America’s biggest law firms and Russian. “Christian witness,” but to establish lim- Orthodox life, as Mr. Estocin suggests. its on their respective spheres of influ- flies between Washington, Kyiv, London, It’s also encouraging that the U.S. gov- They only strengthen the non-Ukrainian Paris, Atlanta, Cleveland, etc., putting inter- ernment is committed to the Ukrainian lan- ence and agreed – according to the Orthodox Churches. reports – that Ukraine should remain in national deals together for Fortune 500 guage. “Window on America” is one exam- I respect all ethnic Orthodox companies. Did Mykola Deychakiwsky? ple. At the State and Commerce depart- the Russian sphere of influence. Churches, because we are all united by If my human reaction of anger direct- He works out of Kyiv, organizing projects ments, you’ll find a good number of key one Orthodox faith. But I do not wish to for the Eurasia Foundation. I can’t say officials at the Ukraine desks who speak the ed at those making decisions regarding be “in the care” of any foreign Church. I our destiny without us is nationalism, so whether these people and so many others language fluently. (I know of at least three do not consider myself or the Ukrainian who use their Ukrainian on a daily basis who graduated from Ukrainian Saturday be it. I do not consider the word “nation- people to be less intelligent than others, alism” to be a bad word; in my vocabu- ever questioned why they had to go to schools.) and that we have to be taken care of by Ukrainian Saturday school, but I know I The commitment isn’t firm, however. A lary “imperialism” has that distinction. anyone. Least of all by Metropolitans As to my knowledge of Orthodox did. (I’m director of the Ukrainian recent United States Information Agency Theodosius of the Orthodox Church of Christian tradition, I can only say that Museum-Archives in Cleveland.) tour for Ukrainian journalists used Russian- America, Volodymyr of Kyiv or their Orthodoxy is my way of life. All my For 50 years now, the Ukrainian language translators, despite the fact that boss – Aleksei II, patriarch of Moscow. ancestors were Orthodox Christians and Saturday school network in the U.S. and nearly everyone on the tour – with one I would not have commented on Mr. lived in accordance with the teachings of Canada has been graduating an impressive exception – spoke fluent Ukrainian. The the Orthodox Church. I was raised and I Estocin’s letter had it not been for a foot- number of very knowledgeable students, Defense Department has also softened its brought up my children in a similar way. note to it informing readers that his col- most of them native-born Americans and commitment to Ukrainian. These lapses If that does not give me some knowledge umn appears in the Ukrainian Orthodox Canadians, who speak Ukrainian fluently. must be corrected. of the tradition of Orthodox Christianity, World, the official magazine of the As any of us who went through these It will probably take a generation, at then I would like to know Mr. Estocin’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the schools will tell you, it was not done with- least, to undo the damage Ukraine suffered definition of the term. U.S.A. Such information implies that the out sacrifice from parents as well as chil- from centuries of Russification, but it’s I suspect that my letter was used by opinion expressed in his letter is the offi- dren. Yet the sacrifice we made every something that has to be done if Ukraine is Mr. Estocin as a convenient way to pro- cial position of the Church. Friday and Saturday was nothing compared to find its proper place in the world. In the mote his own agenda. He tries to vindi- That is not the case. to the sacrifice Ukrainians made in the face 1920s, writer Mykola Khvyliovy got into big trouble for leading a movement to have cate those Ukrainians who belong to non- Alla Lehka Heretz of Soviet terror or tsarist repression. People lost their jobs, went to jail or were murdered Ukraine turn from Moscow and orient itself Ukrainian Orthodox Churches. He pro- Rutherford, N.J. because they insisted on the right to use psychologically and culturally on Europe Ukrainian. instead. Stalin drove him to suicide for his There is yet another, and a more impor- Obviously, language in the Ukrainian efforts, but Khvyliovy’s analysis still Not a ‘preoccupation,’ tant, reason why Ukrainians maintain inter- context is not a trivial matter. Moscow’s applies. Because of Moscow’s historic est in Jewish affairs. It has to do with the imperial ambitions required that Ukraine. domination over every aspect of Ukrainian Ukrainian image that remains closely linked with its vast resources, access to the sea and life, he wrote, the nation became backward but reflection of reality to the way the mainstream media presents Dear Editor: large population, remain a loyal and docile and provincial. To reach its full potential, Ukrainian-Jewish relations, both historical part of the Russian empire, whether in its Ukraine must first heal its national soul. To Roman Koropeckyj is disturbed by and present, in Ukraine and in the diaspora. tsarist or Soviet versions. Those ambitions do that Ukrainians must recover their past Myron Kuropas’ “preoccupation with Whether Ukrainians like it or not, it is not spawned a centuries-long campaign of and their language. Jews.” He shouldn’t be. Dr. Kuropas is only yet time for them to become disinterested in Russification: a set of policies that encour- I agree; I can’t say why that’s so, I just one contributor to The Ukrainian Weekly, Jewish affairs. aged and coerced non-Russians to adopt the know that it is. And so, every week my wife and The Weekly certainly does not give Dr. Koropeckyj is free to disagree with Russian language and culture, thereby sits down with our 7-year-old son, Mykhas, more space to Jewish-related material than what Dr. Kuropas writes, but then wouldn’t increasing Russian political domination. to go over the Cyrillic primer. There is allotted to it by the mainstream North it be more constructive (not to say scholar- Russification did enormous damage to haven’t been tears yet, but when they come American media. If some Ukrainians seem ly) to criticize the author for his ideas rather Ukraine’s national fabric. During a period and Mykhas asks why he has to do this, to be “preoccupied with Jews,” they only than to attack him for his choice of subject? when Russian culture was producing giants we’ll be able to say, “Take a lesson from reflect the general environment in which Roman Serbyn like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Turgenev, your grandmother, Babtsia Lesia, and look they live. Montreal the Ukrainian language was banned in the at your Uncle Petro.” 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1997 No. 48

Philadelphia architect designs church for Kolomyia Mazurkevich presents his project Below are excerpts from the archi- tect’s statement prepared by Zenon Mazurkevich to present his project in Kolomyia. The design: The plan of the cathedral is elliptical – the form of a womb – the symbol of sacred inwardness. The circular theme is continued throughout; the curvilinear whole of the composition finds echoes throughout the harmonious parts. The spaces created are elegant and full of surprises. There will be five altars. Skylights throw shafts of light on the curvilinear sail-like walls that dance wildly and exuberantly around the cen- tral space. The building seems to be chaotic — but in fact it is structured, organized and shows a lucid architec- Design for the Transfiguration of Our Lord Cathedral tural inheritance. The everyday materi- in Kolomyia by Zenon Mazurkevich. Floor plan of the proposed cathedral. als are used with sympathy and imagi- nation, and allow for a full set of archi- by Yarema Kelebay giarize the structural forms of the past the result was a Soviet social realism tectural experiences. and to superimpose them on convention- which fostered fear and dehumanization. The building aims to reassert the MONTREAL – Bishop Pavlo Vasylyk al floor plans. The tendency is to borrow It was ugly architecture which produced authority of faith and to impress the of the Kolomyia-Chernivtsi Eparchy, has and reiterate shapes used in previous absolutely boring buildings of monumen- local populace as well as attract interna- announced plans for the construction of a periods. Most of these new churches tal anonymity. tional attention. new Cathedral of the Transfiguration of lack imagination and inspiration. They “Architecture is part of a larger spiritual Our Lord in the city of Kolomyia. Budget: come from nostalgia and memory, rather The cathedral was designed by and cultural environment and any attempt than intuition and creativity. Much of it Philadelphia architect Zenon Mazurkevich. to separate it from this ecology results in The cathedral is budgeted under $1 Mr. Mazurkevich’s design is an avant- is ersatz architecture which does not mediocrity and mundaneness. The new million. The eparchy is capable of garde structure made predominantly of speak to the hopes and needs of our Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our building this church, but without out- steel, glass and acrylic. It is designed to times.” Lord in Kolomyia is an effort to express side help it would probably take about accommodate over 1,000 worshippers. I asked Mr. Mazurkevich what he something new, spiritual and transcenden- eight years. In preparation for his project Mr. thought those hopes and needs were. He tal ... in a time of profound changes on the Many materials must be purchased Mazurkevich traveled across Ukraine, responded: threshold of a new era. in the West, thus, hard currency is visiting Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, “Ukraine is rapidly changing from “The cathedral’s design is intentional- required. If about $300,000 can be col- Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv. He observed a oppressive and stilted reality of Soviet col- ly not universalist, cosmopolitan or lected in the U.S., Canada and proliferation of church construction, yet lectivist totalitarianism and its police state internationalist. It is intended to be par- Australia, the building time can be cut he noted that “architecturally it was a architecture whose hallmark was central- ticular, local and specific. It wants to down to about 16 months. wasteland.” ization, hierarchy and monumentality. express the spirituality and identity of a To this end, the bishop is looking According to Mr. Mazurkevich, “The Architecture was practiced in collectives, unique culture. for benefactors as well as friends to present design trend in Ukraine is to pla- groups, committees and cabals. No archi- “It is antithetical to anything in the serve on the building committees. The tect worked individually. Freedom of Soviet, international, cosmopolitan or World Federation of Ukrainian Credit expression, diversity of opinion, freedom structural-functionalist style. It is an Unions has promised to open accounts Prof. Kelebay is with the department of of religion and non-conformity were con- expression of our unique Christian educational studies at McGill University sidered dangerous, intolerable and beyond Ukrainian cultural identity and of our (Continued on page 14) in Montreal. the pale. Design was state controlled and recently emancipated tradition.” Symposium discusses modern Ukrainian religious architecture

by Walter Daschko Jastremsky, a native Winnipeger who churches to date, who has written extensive- other noted presenters: Anatole received his master in architecture from ly on a wide variety of issues affecting the Senkevich Jr., an associate professor of WINNIPEG – Even though the con- Columbia University in 1942 and then pro- design of modern Ukrainian church archi- architecture and art history at the struction of new Church buildings seems University of Michigan, an expert in to have dropped off dramatically in the ceeded to design more than 20 Catholic and tecture; and Victor Deneka, with eight mod- Orthodox churches, including the Cathedral ern Manitoba churches to his credit who is aspects of Russian and Soviet architecture Ukrainian communities of North and the author of many books and schol- of the Immaculate Conception, Philadelphia about to publish the 400-page book America, judging from a recent sympo- arly articles, among them the work sium in Winnipeg, interest in the archi- and St. John the Baptist, Ottawa; Radoslav “Ukrainian Churches in Canada,” illustrated “Monuments to Faith,” a comprehensive tecture of these buildings continues Zuk, professor of architecture at McGill with more than 1,500 photographs. unabated. University since 1966, with nine Ukrainian The architects were joined by four (Continued on page 10) Over 40 architects, artists, students and laypeople from across Canada and the U.S. arrived at the symposium despite very little promotion for the event. Held at the University of Manitoba on September 26-27, “The Symposium of Modern Ukrainian Religious Architecture in North America,” organized jointly by the Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Center and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Manitoba, was intended to “examine the evolution of style, iconography and building methods in response to liturgy and enculturation in a new land.” While these issues were important, the presen- ters too played a significant role. “It was the first and likely the only time the three most prolific and provocative designers in North America were together,” noted Zenon Hluszok, symposium coordi- nator. Those three were – Julian Julian Jastremsky Victor Deneka Prof. Radoslav Zuk No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1997 9

DATELINE NEW YORK: An opera star, and a bandurist by Helen Smindak

Stefiuk at the UIA Tsar’s Bride” and Verdi’s “La Traviata.” the Turks in 1620 in the duma rary music. The results can be heard in She has appeared at the La Scala Opera “Sahaidachny” (the duma is an epic the “Paris to Kyiv Variances” CD Opera lovers at the Kyiv Opera House in Milan, and has concertized in Canada genre favored by the blind bards of released last year on the Olesia label. have thrilled to the light, agile voice of and the U.S. Ukraine who were the forerunners of Mr. Kytasty recently appeared at the coloratura soprano Maria Stefiuk for 25 A bandurist on the move today’s bandurists). “Foreign Land” Ukrainian Institute of America in an years. Audiences in foreign countries articulates an exile’s determination to evening of poetry and music celebrating have been charmed by her voice and her Julian Kytasty and his bandura have remember his native land, while “The the publication of a volume of contem- gracious manner. Last month it was the Poet’s Grave” is a folk song about porary Ukrainian poetry in award-win- turn of a capacity audience at the been rambling around the world like the wandering minstrels of old Ukraine, who Ukraine’s hero, Taras Shevchenko, in an ning translations by Virlana Tkacz and Ukrainian Institute of America to see and arrangement by Hryhoriy Kytasty. Wanda Phipps. Sometime toward the hear this exciting Ukrainian diva in per- roamed the steppes singing ballads of glorious Kozak deeds and fabled historic Instrumental works include the enjoy- end of January he will join Ms. Kochan son. able “Moment Musicale” and two short and jazz pianist John Stetch at the insti- With pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky events. A third-generation bandurist, he has been concertizing and teaching pieces written for instructional purposes, tute to present an evening of new strik- providing his usual splendid accompa- titled “Prelude” and “Spring Game.” The ing music. Meanwhile, he will appear as niment, Ms. Stefiuk offered a varied courses and workshops in North and South America, Western Europe, instrumental fantasy “Echo of the a guest artist with the University of program that ranged through operatic Steppes” is a dramatic composition with California Chamber Choir, conducted by arias, sacred hymns, lilting folk songs Australia and Ukraine – all with the goal of developing an audience for the nation- Oriental overtones that brings to mind Marika Kuzma, and take part around and compositions by such Ukrainian images of Tatar hordes, Kozaks on horse- Christmastime in a weeklong bandura composers as Mykola Lysenko and al musical instrument of Ukraine. Now, after a 10-year absence, he has back and winds rippling through tall workshop in Toronto. Anatol Kos-Anatolsky and the steppe grasses. Taking into account the Ukrainian Ukrainian American composer Ihor returned to New York to direct the New York School of Bandura and has released Between CD selections and a few of his Bandurist Chorus’s recent tour (its first in Sonevytsky. own compositions and arrangements, Mr. six years), new CD releases and Mr. Ms. Stefiuk has a strong, beautiful col- a CD featuring songs and music by his great-uncle. Hryhoriy Kytasty, the long- Kytasty gave insight into his uncle’s life – Kytasty’s prolific bandura activities. I oratura that enables her to produce trills a boyhood spent in the Poltava region, would venture to say that this could be the effortlessly, as she demonstrated so well time musical director of the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus. where he grew up hearing “the old ban- start of something big – perhaps a ban- in Kos-Anatolsky’s “Nightingale’s durists,” his training as a bandurist, then dura renaissance, spurred by such youth- Romance,” a work replete with alternat- The compositions featured on the new harrowing wartime years that brought ful bandura enthusiasts as Oleh Mahlay, ing musical tones a diatonic second apart. disc “Hryhoriy Kytasty: Music for Solo conscription into the army, capture, the new director of the Bandurist Chorus, She showed that skill in other selections Bandura and Songs” were introduced by escape from behind barbed wire, flight to Mr. Kytasty and his associate at the as well, for example, in Mozart’s Julian Kytasty to a rapt audience at the the West, a stay in a displaced persons’ Bandura School, Alla Kutsevych of Lviv, “Alleluia,” Cherubini’s “Ave Maria” and Mayana Gallery earlier their month. camp and, finally, freedom in America. and the students and graduates of bandura Kropyvnytsky’s “Soloveyko.” In addition Apart from one composition – a piece He said his uncle seemed to be taken workshops in Emlenton, Pa., and London, to marvelous voice control and an excel- titled “Lviv Fragments,” based on impro- with the idea of using the bandura as it is, lent stage presence, Ms. Stefiuk has a tal- visations created by Hryhoriy Kytasty in Ontario. Add to that the dedicated work ent for conveying the mood of her songs. 1944 in his last days on Ukrainian soil – without embellishments. “He refused to of Nick Czorny-Dosinchuk, the Bandura She was by turns pious, as in Caccini’s all of the CD music was created outside play the modern Ukrainian bandura with School’s administrator and editor of the “Ave Maria”; introspective in a work set Ukraine, most of it comprising poignant chromatics and tuning. His concern was quarterly magazine Bandura, who has to Shevchenko’s poem “Three Wide words and melodies echoing an exile’s to create beautiful music.” been traveling to many countries for Roads”; coquettish in Rossi’s “Tyrolean nostalgia for his homeland. Mr. Kytasty is carrying on the fami- years, compiling interviews, photographs Song” (where she mimicked Tyrolean Mr. Kytasty, who polished his art under ly’s bandura tradition through his teach- and information about bandura ensembles yodeling beautifully); and rhapsodic in the direction of his uncle in the Ukrainian ing and performing, albeit with modern and bandurists of yesterday and today. the famous “Caro Nome” aria from Bandurist Chorus, which he joined in 1978, bandura and chromatics (although he can Who knows, this renaissance could sur- Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” is one of the finest bandura players in play the old-style bandura, as well as the pass the excitement of the 1950s, when That aptitude for expressing deep feel- North America. His voice is mellow and flute). He has combined that bandura tra- the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus gave its ing was also evident in her rendering of well-suited to the narrative style character- dition with formal musical training, earn- first concerts on this side of the Atlantic, Sonevytsky’s sentimental “Stabat istic of many bandura lyrics. Combining ing a degree in music (theory and compo- when Maestro Zinovii Shtokalko gave Mater,” Lysenko’s dramatic work youthful energy with intelligence and sition) from Concordia University in recitals and taught special classes in New “Asters” and the Hutsul-like folk song maturity, he communicated the longing, the Montreal. Furthermore, he is collaborat- York, writer Morris Diakowsky “Zakuvala Zozulia,” arranged by Borys yearning for beloved scenes of Poltava’s ing with other artists in fresh and con- researched and published essays about the Liatoshynsky. On the other hand, she steppes and the sense of loss and isolation temporary musical combinations. He bandura, Guitar magazine devoted an demonstrated equal proficiency in frolic- expressed in his uncle’s compositions. worked with singer/producer Alexis entire issue to the history and development some folk songs such as “Spaty Meni ne Prepare to be genuinely moved when you Kochan to weave together ancient pre- of the bandura, and a group of young busi- Khochetsia.” For encores, after pro- listen to this CD. Christian ritual songs and harmonies nesspeople and professionals constructed longed applause, she offered a humorous Among the compositions are the story inspired by folk polyphony with frag- their own banduras at a weekly workshop folk song with tongue-tripping lyrics, of Hetman Sahaidachny’s victory over ments of medieval chant and contempo- in Elizabeth, N.J. Time will tell. “Ty Do Mene Ne Khody,” that called for clear articulation, and Natalka’s sprightly aria from the opera “Natalka Poltavka.” Paul Plishka to autograph new recordings Some listeners said they noted a cer- tain stridency in the soprano’s high notes NEW YORK – Paul Plishka, star of The when sung fortissimo (a few put that Metropolitan Opera, will make personal appear- down to the natural decline in vocal ances and sign autographs of his new recordings power that comes with advancing years, at Tower Records stores in Philadelphia and New while others blamed it on the “Soviet” York for the Christmas season. style of singing to which Ms. Stefiuk Mr. Plishka has recently released a popular CD was exposed in her training). If there titled “Christmas with Paul Plishka” on the Naxos were any shortcomings they did not pre- label, where he sings a selection of Christmas vent the audience from cheering the songs and carols in a variety of languages, includ- soprano exuberantly for a brilliant per- ing Ukrainian. formance. Also available during the CD signing will be A tall, attractive woman with shoul- the basso’s recordings “Paul Plishka Sings Folk der-length blonde hair, Ms. Stefiuk Songs of Ukraine” and “Paul Plishka sings Verdi impressed concertgoers with her voice, and Mussorgsky Opera Arias,” both on the her poise and her elegant fashion sense. Forlane label from Paris. She opened her program attired in a During his visits to the Tower Records stores, black beaded gown with low-cut bodice. Mr. Plishka will sing, a selection of Christmas For the second half of the evening, carols and Ukrainian songs. devoted solely to Ukrainian music, she Mr. Plishka’s is currently singing in many pro- appeared in a two-piece off-white outfit ductions at The Metropolitan Opera, including in – a floor-length coat over a matching “Manon,” “Don Giovanni,” “The Barber of strapless gown, both accented with Seville,” “Boris Godunov,” “L’Elisir D’Amore, bright blue embroidery. “Samson and Dalila,” “Stifellio” and “Turandot.” Born in Kosiv into a family of singers The bass will sing a solo recital at Alice Tully in 1948, Ms. Stefiuk studied at the Kyiv Hall, Lincoln Center, in New York on March 29, Conservatory and began her singing 1998, sponsored by the Opera Orchestra of New career with the Kyiv Theater of Opera York. and Ballet in 1972, a year before her The signing in New York is scheduled for graduation. She has sung roles in Sunday, December 7, at 1-2:30 p.m. at Tower Lysenko’s “Taras Bulba,” Maiboroda’s Records, Broadway at 67th Street. The “Yaroslav the Wise,” Glinka’s “A Life Philadelphia signing was to take place Sunday, for the Tsar,” Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The November 30. Cover of Paul Plishka’s new CD 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1997 No. 48

tion of the commonly held position that Symposium... baroque domes came to Ukraine, and (Continued from page 8) later Russia, via central Europe. He inventory of Ukrainian churches in argued instead that “Germans and Manitoba; Vera Lazarowich Senchuk, an Austrians adopted the vertical baroque iconographer who has created hundreds domes from Ukraine and Moscow.” of icons and many church iconostases and The centerpiece of the symposium is currently working on major new wall however, was the feting of Mr. paintings for the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Jastremsky and his prodigious body of Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral in work. In his presentation the elder dean Winnipeg; Ben Wasylyshen, a successful of Ukrainian church architecture in North artist and architectural design consultant America stressed the importance of com- who has taught at the department of fortably and innovatively accommodat- architecture and is currently engaged in a ing the liturgical requirements within the Planning a trip to commission for 10 stained glass windows client’s means. The presenters and partic- for the Metropolitan Cathedral in ipants of the symposium thanked Mr. Winnipeg. Jastremsky for his years of work and dedication. UKRAINE? During the proceedings, many inter- Interest in the symposium and indeed esting observations and insights were interest in modern Ukrainian church generated. During his presentation Prof. Personalized architecture, might also be explained at Zuk outlined the role of light, materials, least in part, by the emergence of a new Travel Service at geometric references and the local physi- and independent Ukraine. The new cal surroundings on his modernist Reasonable Rates freedoms have unleashed decades of designs. Of greatest interest to the partic- repressed needs and new churches are ipants however, were the rhythmic pro- being built in large numbers; among •VISAS•HOTELS•MEALS• portions which shaped and organized •TRANSFERS•GUIDES• these are two churches by Prof. Zuk. Prof. Zuk’s designs. These proportions, Among the views expressed was that •AIR TICKETS• derived from his careful analyses of tra- those in Ukraine look to the West for much- •CARS WITH DRIVERS• ditional Ukrainian churches, are, accord- needed financial support. Unfortunately, ing to Prof. Zuk, the true essence of the •INTERPRETERS• both sides have unrealistically high expecta- Ukrainian architectural tradition and not tions and as a result “will, for some time •SIGHTSEEING• stylistic features such as pear-shaped continue to be a source of disappointment domes or iconstases. for each other, architecturally and other- While some participants were pre- wise.” LANDMARK, LTD pared to acknowledge that the highly rec- It was also noted that in Ukraine, as in toll free (800) 832-1789 ognizable domes common to most North America during most of this centu- Ukrainian churches may not be unique to DC/MD/VA (703) 941-6180 ry, the demands for churches to be Ukrainian architecture, they questioned unmistakable descendants of earlier fax (703) 941-7587 the “uniqueness” of Prof. Zuk’s rhythmic Ukrainian Baroque models are so power- proportions as well. It was also noted that ful that opportunities to develop contem- SEIZED CARS from $175. despite Prof. Zuk’s declared “rejection” porary Ukrainian material culture are of the emblematic role of domes, virtual- missed or ignored. Ironically, Ukrainian Porsches, Cadillacs, Chevys. BMW’s, ly all his designs skillfully and success- Baroque, in its time, was a modern inno- Corvettes. Also Jeeps, 4WD’s. fully include domes derived from vation and it developed to play an impor- Your area. Toll Free 1-800-218-9000 Ukrainian precedents, albeit reinterpreted tant role in defining Ukrainian culture for in a modernist aesthetic. quite some time. Ext. A-1871 for current listings. In his analysis of the essence of Hope was expressed by many that – in Ukrainian church architecture Prof. both Ukraine and Canada – architects, Senkevich argued that a predominant artists and laypeople will acknowledge “verticality,” both interior and exterior, that church buildings, as central features was a central and powerful aspect of the of Ukrainian material culture, have a FLOWERS architecture, going on to note that “atten- responsibility to be not only complex uated domes undeniably assert this domi- liturgical vessels and to provide mean- nant verticality.” Prof. Senkevich sur- ingful connections to our past but, just as prised many participants with his rejec- importantly, to establish valuable con- Delivered in Ukraine 1-800-832-1789 Landmark, Ltd.

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Kyiv Chamber Choir to make The Ukrainian Engineers Society – Philadelphia Branch U.S. debut at Carnegie Hall announces that NEW YORK – The Kyiv Chamber The choir is featured on the just- Choir, Ukraine’s premiere a capella choir released “Svyati: Steven Iserlis plays the THE ENGINEERS BALL AND BANQUET which since its founding in 1990, has music of John Tavener” on BMG Classics, WITH PRESENTATION OF DEBUTANTES earned international recognition as one of which has been awarded the Mercury the outstanding chamber choirs in Europe, Music Award for best classical CD of will be held will make its American debut in a series of 1997. The choir is currently working on its performances, including an appearance at eighth recording, “Christmas Evenings” SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1998 the Washington National Cathedral, where featuring traditional and contemporary it will perform a choral prelude on adaptations of Christmas carols and songs AT THE PARK HYATT PHILADELPHIA HOTEL AT THE BELLEVUE Sunday, December 21, at 10:30 a.m., and by Ukrainian composers. Broad and Walnut Sts., Philadelphia, PA a premiere performance that same day at The concert tour was initiated by the Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m.. American Friends for Ukraine. Additional performances will be held at Additional support has been provided COCKTAILS - 6 PM • DINNER - 7 PM • BALL - 9 PM the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational by the Kyiv City Department of Culture, Center in Philadelphia on December 18 at Air Ukraine, The Washington Group ORCHESTRA - “FATA MORGANA” 8 p.m.; George Mason University in Cultural Fund, Ukrainian Congress Fairfax, Va., on December 20 at 8 p.m.; Committee of America, Ukrainian and at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, National Association, Ukrainian Institute For further information and registration of debutantes please contact N.H., on December 22 at 8 p.m.. of America, the Embassy of Ukraine to the Roman or Marie Cyhan at 610-469-6471 The choir, under the direction of United States, the Consulate General of Mykola Hobdych, has gained international Ukraine in New York; and the Permanent renown for performing many of the best Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations. choral pieces found in Ukrainian music New York-based Micocci Productions history and for its high level of profession- represents the choir in America and is alism. Need a back issue? As part of the American concert pro- coordinating the tour. If you’d like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, gram, the 22-member choir will perform For tickets call CarnegieCharge, (212) send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, Ukrainian liturgical and Christmas music 247-7800; for group sales and information 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. from the 17th-20th centuries. call (212) 874-2030. Works performed will include the litur- gical music of 17th century composer of polyphonic music Mykola Diletsky and the outstanding Ukrainian composers of liturgical music of the latter half of the 18th century Maksym Berezovsky, Artem Vedel and Dmytro Bortniansky. The repertoire will also include the works of 20th century composers who wrote church music, Mykola Lysenko, Kyrylo Stetsenko, Mykola Leontovych, Ostap Nyzhankivsky and Yaroslav Yatsynevych; and contemporary Ukrainian composers, Lesia Dychko, Yevhen Stankoych, Volodymyr Stepurko, Yurii Alzhniev and Anatolii Avdievsky. The Kyiv Chamber Choir, was formed in December 1990 by Mr. Hobdych, a graduate of Kyiv’s Peter Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music. Under Mr. Hobdych’s direction, the choir has focused on restoring historic Ukrainian music and performing the contemporary works of Ukrainian composers. The choir has won numerous prizes at international competitions, including the 1992 golden diploma at the First International R. Schumann Choral Competition, held in Zwickau, Germany; 1993 first prize and 1996 grand prix at the International Competition of Orthodox Church Music, held in Hajnuwka, Poland; 1993 grand prix at the International Choral Competition, held in Sligo, Ireland; and second prize in 1994 at the Liangollen international Musical Eisteddfod, held in Wales. In addition, the Kyiv Chamber Choir has performed concerts and participated in a variety of European music festivals, including the 1993 International Avant- Garde Festival of Modern Music (Munich), the 1994 International Festival of Classical Music (Rouen, France), the 1994 Baroque Festival (Kyiv), the 1995 Festival of Ancient Music (both in Cricklade and Canterbury, England), Festival “Copenhagen – Cultural Capital of Europe ’96,” and the 32nd International Festival of Music and Fine Arts “Wratislavia Cantans ’97” (Poland). To date, the group has released seven recordings. The discography of the group includes: “Masterpieces of the Ukrainian Choral Baroque,” “Praise the Lord” and “Wonder of Wonders” on the Sonopress label; “Izhe Kheruvymy: Ukrainian Sacred Music of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries” on Polygram; P. Tchaikovsky’s “Liturgy” on the Naxos label; and “Ukrainian Liturgy” on French label. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1997 No. 48

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It was a situation Mark Messier, who was also his pal for so tailor-made for resentment and, make no 551 Fifth Ave., Suite 1002, 1005 – New York, NY 10176 many of those formative Edmonton days), mistake, Lemieux was resentful if not of or whoever Mario spent his time with.” He Gretzky himself, then of those who expect- added, “Just for whatever reason, our paths ed him to be like Gretzky. never really crossed.” “I don’t think (the resentment) was the “I wouldn’t say we had a lot in com- way some people made it out to be,” Air Ukraine - Cargo mon,” Lemieux told THN. “He played Lemieux said. “I think most of it came 2307 Coney Island Ave. (Ave. T), Brooklyn, NY 11223 most of his career in Edmonton. I played from the fans and media. I really believe in Pittsburgh. There’s a bit of an age dif- tel.: 718-376-1023, fax: 718-376-1073 we both just went out to do the best we ference. Maybe it was a little surprising to could. some people, but our lives just took differ- “Sure, we competed. I knew what I was ent directions, that’s all.” doing, I’m sure he knew what I was doing. But last season, as Lemieux played out I’m sure we pushed each other to do better. what was his final NHL season, the pro- But there were never bad feelings between jected 25th and last regular season meeting us. Wayne was always one of the players I between the game’s two greatest hockey looked up to. I learned a lot from watching minds took on added significance, a rare him,” Lemieux commented. opportunity to reflect on what never was But there were bad feelings nonetheless. and what might have been for two players Lemieux bristled at comparisons he felt whose careers, in spite of everything, were were stacked in Gretzky’s favor because of inexorably truly linked. No. 99’s tremendous supporting cast on an The opportunity was there, or so it Edmonton Oilers’ club that became a seemed, for Gretzky and Lemieux to dynasty. Lemieux was seen by many as the become something other than rivals. The poor country cousin who was a great tal- year was 1981, and 20-year-old Gretzky ent, but didn’t know how to win. Gretzky was represented by player agent Gus won four Stanley Cups in Edmonton in the Badali. Badali and his associate in 1980s; Lemieux none in Pittsburgh. It Montreal, Bob Perno, also represented 16- wasn’t until the Pens won it all in 1991 year-old Lemieux, who was set to begin his and 1992 that Lemieux finally got his due. major junior career in Laval. Gretzky was “That was a little difficult for me to in Montreal that August for Team Canada’s accept,” Lemieux said. “In my mind, I training camp for the 1981 Canada Cup knew I had to win a championship to be when Badali and Perno insisted Gretzky recognized with Wayne. But that was come see the young phenom play. unfair, too. The team I was on in “I remember Bob Perno saying to me, Pittsburgh, it was difficult for us to com- ‘You’ve got to come see this kid play. pete. Wayne had lots of big-time players He’s going to shatter all your records,’” with him in Edmonton. I was just starting Gretzky said. “I went to see him, and he out in Pittsburgh. It was difficult for me to just dominated. He was that spectacular at keep up with him.” that age. I remember saying to Gus and The honors would suggest as much. Bob, ‘You’re right, this kid is going to Gretzky has won 10 scoring titles and nine shatter everything.’ ” Hart Trophies (league MVP), compared to “The one thing they bragged about on Lemieux’s six scoring titles (including the the way there was, ‘Watch this kid’s puck Art Ross Trophy in 1996-1997) and three sense, watch his skill level.’ The thing they Hart Trophies. Gretzky won four Stanley didn’t really talk about was his size, which Cups in Edmonton; Lemieux won two in was such a factor. Until that time, we Pittsburgh. Gretzky has all the most mean- hadn’t seen a guy come into our sport who ingful records (not only career but single was 6-foot-4 or 6-foot-5, who had the kind season, too): 215 points, 92 goals and 51 of hands he had. All the guys with those consecutive games with a point, compared kinds of hands were the size of a (Guy) to Lemieux’s personal bests of 199 points, Lafleur or (Marcel) Dionne. He was the 85 goals and 46 consecutive games with a first to be special that way.” point. Even now, Gretzky couldn’t help but Yet the numbers are misleading, and marvel at Lemieux’s wingspan. As much Gretzky is the first to admit it. “If he as Gretzky has accomplished with a body hadn’t gone through all the back problems that had no business being in the NHL, he has always wondered what it would have (Continued on page 13) No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1997 13

records that year so much as shatter them,” Pro hockey... Gretzky said. “I was at a movie one night (Continued from page 12) and I came home and turned on the TV and the cancer, he might have been the guy and saw that Mario had injured his back who statistically could have shattered all and that ended his streak. I said then, ‘If my records,” Gretzky said. “I mean all of there’s one guy who could (break single- them, 215 points, 92 goals.” season records for goals, points and con- Lemieux won his first Art Ross Trophy secutive games with a point), it would be in 1988. Then he won five more (through Mario. I mean, there are some guys, say the 1996-1997 season). How many more Peter Forsberg, who might get 160 assists, would he have won if not for his back but he won’t get 93 goals. Then there’s woes and cancer-related absences and guys like Hullie, who might get 93 goals, fatigue? Put it this way, since 1988, during but won’t get 160 assists. A guy like any season in which Lemieux played 60 or Mario, though, could have gotten 93 goals more games, he won the scoring title. It’s and/or 160 assists and that’s why I always quite possible a healthy Lemieux could thought he’d be the one to shatter my have had as many as 10 scoring titles to as records.’ ” few as eight for Gretzky. Who knows how Didn’t happen. Super Mario has called many more MVP trophies that would have it a career. He admitted the game didn’t translated into? hold the same allure for him in his last sea- What if ... sons like it did before, but he denied that “Sometimes I think about it,” Lemieux he always lacked a Gretzky-like passion said. “But I like to think everything hap- for the game. pens for a reason. I think about the back “I had (passion) for most of my career,” problems, my sugeries, the cancer and Lemieux said. “The last two or three years, what I might have done. But the important yeah, it did slip away from me. Maybe it thing for me was to win the cup. I won two was the back injuries. Maybe it was the cups. As long as I live, no one can ever Hodgkin’s, because having cancer does take that away from me.” change your priorities. Whatever it was, I Lemieux would be kidding himself, didn’t feel the same as I did in the early though, to suggest he and Gretzky haven’t ‘90s. The last couple of years was a strug- pushed each other – sometimes unknow- gle at times to get up for games. That’s ingly. An example: Lemieux, unaware of why I knew it was time to step aside.” potential history in the making, scored two Now that he’s retired from the game, goals against the Phoenix Coyotes last Lemieux clearly has a better grasp on his February 1 to come within one game of relationship with Gretzky than he did equalling Gretzky’s record for fastest 600 when the two were in competition. At this goals. Gretzky reached that milestone in point, they’re no longer a threat to each 718 games; Lemieux did it in 719. other. Each one’s place in hockey history “That’s why we got to be the athletes has been determined. It’s a little like the we are in our career, because we have relationship between basketball arch-rivals pride and we want to excel, but I have to Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, who bat- tell you there was never any point that tled so hard for so long that they couldn’t either of us would hope the other guy bring themselves to have a relationship wouldn’t do well,” Gretzky said. “If Mario until they were both set to leave the game. got 215 or 216 points, I’d be the first one And yet Gretzky-Lemieux is nothing to send him a telegram.” like Bird-Johnson. Time and again, Bird The bottom line, though, is Lemieux and Johnson crossed paths, starting with never got 215. He never even got 200 – the NCAA showdown between Bird’s but not for lack of trying. During the 1988- Indiana State team and Johnson’s Michigan 1989 season, when Lemieux scored 85 State squad. From there, they became the goals and 199 points, he thought he might National Basketball Association’s two mar- surpass Gretzky’s bests of 92 and 215, quee players on the two marquee teams, respectively. Boston and Los Angeles. They waged war “I thought I had a shot at it, but my pro- on an individual basis, and their teams bat- duction dropped off the last 15 games of tled for NBA supremacy. the season,” Lemieux said. “Wayne and I never even met in a play- Gretzky thought his marks might fall that off game,” Lemieux said. season, but figured them to be in extreme Still, there’s a parallel. It’s not as if they jeopardy the next year, when Lemieux was became bosom buddies, but both said on his 46-game point scoring streak. shared moments at last year’s All-Star “I figured he wasn’t going to break my Game in San Jose were special.

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people classified prisoners of war) interned Eighth internment... across the country. Two internees, Mary (Continued from page 5) Manko Haskett and Stefa Mielniczuk who experience this was for these unfortunate were held at the Spirit Lake facility in men. Although they were completely inno- Quebec, are the only known remaining sur- cent of any wrongdoing, they became the vivors. victims of a state that defined them, unjust- About 80,000 out of a population of ly, as ‘enemy aliens’ and forced them to 171,000 Ukrainian Canadians were also abandon their families, friends and commu- branded “enemy aliens,” losing their voting nities in the dead of winter to be interned at rights and being to ordered to regularly Brandon.” check in with local authorities during World In addition to Brandon, Winnipeg was War I. In early October, Inky Mark, the the other Manitoba site for internment oper- Reform Party member of Parliament for the ations. The UCCLA plans to establish a southwestern federal riding of Dauphin- similar memorial in the provincial capital Swan River (near Brandon) called on the city. federal government to support the intern- Starting with the first camp in Montreal ment redress awareness efforts of such in 1914, some 5,000 Ukrainian Canadians groups as the UCCLA. were among the 5,441 civilians (plus 3,138 So far, Ottawa hasn’t replied.

preservation. Mazurkevich... To satisfy the uneasy feeling of home- (Continued from page 8) lessness in the diaspora it was popular to in all of the credit unions to facilitate surround ourselves with history. That is no small donations. longer relevant here and much more so in In Ukraine a first-class construction Ukraine. In Kolomyia what we see is a manifesta- worker earns anywhere from $50 to $100 tion of culture of our time. Yes, we can per month. So a dollar will go a long way. learn from the past, but we must make our Design philosophy: own interpretations now and hopefully into the future. But to get so precious about try- I realize that in Kolomyia, as in all of ing to reconstruct Byzantium or Kozak Ukraine, the impulses of history, tradition Baroque today just doesn’t make much and romance are still powerful generators of sense. In fact it’s scary to see because it is church architecture. After all “the church is ostrich-like. It denies the world we live in. tradition” and we architects are the custodi- ans of that tradition. This, however, does Construction: not mean that we should slavishly copy it or The structural system for the cathedral in impede its development. On the contrary, it Kolomyia is called rolled steel, which will is our solemn duty and obligation to foster be fabricated on site in the Selmash plant, a the development of our architectural tradi- giant factory employing 1,000 people in tion so that it may always remain relevant Kolomyia. and in step with the changing times. The walls are of “Dryvit,” a German In art and architecture — the Ukrainian wall system consisting of rigid insula- church aspires to be contemporary — of its tion, fiberglass reinforcing and layers of time. This was achieved during both the acrylic stucco. The factory will provide Princely and Kozak eras when Ukraine training, as is customary. This will take Share The Weekly with a colleague. built most modern churches for their time. place in Germany or in the U.S., where Order a gift subscription by writing to: Subscription Department, The prime paradigms of this are none other the material is manufactured under The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. than the St. Sophia and St. Andrew Sobors. license. Roofing will be skylights and Cost: $60 (or $40 if your colleague is a UNA member). As we lost our independence, a siege polyurethane membrane. Floors will be mentality took over and the focus was Ukrainian granite.

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resentative of the Simon Wiesenthal Ukrainian Canadians... Center claimed that 2,000 war criminals (Continued from page 5) (again veterans of the 1st Division, origi- UABC to expand programming Taras Podilsky, president of the nally known as the Galicia Division) had found a haven in Alberta. Edmonton Branch of the Ukrainian Mr. Levytsky said the division was a with new morning radio show Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said military unit formed in order to create the FORT LEE , N.J. – The Ukrainian information and entertainment needs,” said the Ukrainian community is for the prose- nucleus of a future Ukrainian army in American Broadcasting Co. (UABC) is Ihor Dlaboha, UABC director, in announc- cution of all war criminals – not just Nazi case both Nazi Germany and the Soviet expanding its programming by launching ing the program’s launch. war criminals – providing there is evi- Union collapsed after the war – as did a new hourly, five-day-per-week live “The community calendar segment of dence to back up allegations and that they both the German and Russian empires fol- radio program in the metropolitan New our show will be offered free-of-charge are tried under Canadian criminal law. lowing World War I. The division fought York City area. to legitimate civic organizations to Minister McLellan agreed and said the only against the Soviet Union, surren- Called “This Morning with Us,” the announce their upcoming events,” Mr. government is moving towards more dered to the Western allies and did not program will premiere Monday, Dlaboha continued. prosecution of “modern” as opposed to participate in any war crimes. December 1, at 8 a.m. on WNJR – 1430 He added that Ukrainian and non- “historic” war criminals, and said her He noted that the division was cleared AM. The program will be aired Monday Ukrainian businesses will also have an eco- department would be willing to look at of any war crimes by Canadian officials to Friday, 8-9 a.m., and will reach nomical medium for advertising their goods any evidence the Ukrainian community not once, but twice: in 1950 when they Ukrainians from Queens and Brooklyn in and services to the entire New York metro can provide about Soviet war criminals were first allowed to come to Canada, the east to Hunterdon County, N.J., in the community. in Canada. and again in 1986 by the Deschenes west, and from point Pleasant, N.J., in “ ‘This Morning with Us’ is an addition Mr. Podilsky also voiced the UCCLA’s Commission on war crimes. the south to Ramsey, N.J., and Yonkers, to the UABC daily satellite-delivered radio objections to the charitable tax status of the Mr. Levytsky added that the majority of N.Y., in the north. network, which brings radio programs from Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, division members settled in Ontario, not Xenia Piaseckyj will host the show, Ukraine and the diaspora directly to our lis- based in Toronto, noting that the UCCLA Alberta, explaining that this was just anoth- which will offer listeners an easygoing teners’ homes anywhere in North does not have such status, nor does it desire er example of how Mr. Littman had twisted morning format consisting of bilingual America,” Mr. Dlaboha noted. a charitable tax number. the facts in order to get media coverage. newsbriefs, vignettes from Ukrainian life in The UABC is an affiliate of the Ethnic- He produced a copy of a recent fund- He compared Mr. Littman to U.S. Ukraine and the diaspora, music, a commu- American Broadcasting Co., L.P., the lead- raising letter sent out by the Friends of the Sen. Joe McCarthy, who in the 1950s led nity calendar and listener participation. ing distributor and producer of foreign-lan- Simon Wiesenthal Center soliciting contri- an anti-Communist witch hunt. “Like “As the largest Ukrainian broadcast guage radio and television programming in butions “to help us pressure world leaders, McCarthy he manipulates the media, and media outlet in the United States and North America. For more information about ... step up our approaches to the media, ... like McCarthy he has found himself a Canada, we believe this radio program will the new AM radio program, or to subscribe convince Canadian officials at the highest convenient scapegoat, in this case – enhance the UABC’s efforts to serve the to the all-day satellite-delivered radio pro- levels ... to take immediate action against Ukrainians,” he said. Ukrainian community by satisfying all of its gram, call (201) 461-6667, ext. 190. these war criminals (veterans of the 1st Division of the Ukrainian National Army, Romania will collaborate in the fight members of the Patriotic Union of Youth also known as the 14th Waffen-SS Newsbriefs against organized crime, RFE/RL’s staged a rally in Miensk on November 23 Division) living on Canadian soil.” (Continued from page 2) Chisinau bureau reported. A formal dec- to mark the first anniversary of the refer- Mr. Podilsky said such literature could would raise key interest rates and also laration on this collaboration follows an endum on amendments to the be construed as defamatory to Ukrainians accord on jointly combating organized increase the reserve requirements for banks, Constitution that expanded the powers of and thus fall under the classification of crime that the three countries’ presidents President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. the hryvnia rebounded from 1.97 to $1 early hate literature. signed at the first meeting of the Almost twice that number of opposition in the day to close within its range at 1.883, Ukrainian News Editor Marco Moldova-Ukraine-Romania trilateral supporters later marched through the city Levytsky said the media often runs slant- ITAR-TASS reported. (RFE/RL Newsline) meeting in Izmail, Ukraine, in early July. to demand the reinstatement of the ed stories that are used in order to exert Three states to jointly fight crime (RFE/RL Newsline) Parliament dissolved by Mr. Lukashenka one year earlier. The oppositionists car- pressure upon Canadian officials. Patriotic youth march in Miensk He cited as an example a recent story CHISINAU — The internal affairs ried the banned red-and-white national in which Sol Littman, the Canadian rep- ministers of Moldova, Ukraine and MIENSK — Between 2,500 and 3,000 flag. (RFE/RL Newsline) 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1997 No. 48

PREVIEW OF EVENTS Ukrainian American Broadcasting Co. is expanding its community service by offering Ukrainians Tuesday, December 2 able prices starting at 11:30 a.m. Admission: in the New York-New Jersey area $10 for adults; $5 for children age 12 and NEW YORK: The Yara Arts Group will under. For further information contact present bilingual performances of Ukrainian Bohdan Malaniak, (818) 249-6741. poetry with music at “The World of Poetry” weekday radio Reading Series hosted by Bob Holman, poet SILVER SPRING, Md.: The Ukrainian from 8 to 9 o’clock in the morning and producer of “United States of Poetry” on National Choir presents “A Celebration of PBS. Yara will be performing Ukrainian Carols” at St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox poetry at Tribeca’s Biblios Cafe Bookstore, Cathedral, 15100 New Hampshire Ave. Listen to ‘This Morning with Us’ — 317 Church St. (one block south of Canal Tickets: adults, $10; seniors, $8; children 16 the Voice of New York-New Jersey — Street), on Tuesday at 7 p.m. For information and under, free. For further information con- call (212) 475-6474. tact (410) 828-6922. Monday to Friday on Saturday, December 6 Saturday, December 13 LIVONIA, Mich.: Maestro Volodymyr LAS VEGAS: The Ukrainian-American Schesiuk, conductor, and The Livonia Social Club of Las Vegas will hold a WNJR — 1430-AM Symphony Orchestra present their holiday Christmas cocktail party. There will be hors BEGINNING MONDAY, DECEMBER 1 concert, “The Nutcracker Ballet,” with the d’oeuvres and finger food. The festivities participation of The Dearborn Ballet Theater start at 5:30 p.m. at 2704 Beachside Court. * Newsbriefs * Music * Vignettes * Community Calendar * Listener Participation * and the Churchill High School Choir. The Admission is free. Dress is very, very, casu- concert will be held at 7 p.m. at Carli al. To make reservations or for more infor- * Businesses can reach Ukrainian consumers from Auditorium, Churchill High School. mation phone Steve, (702) 434-1187. (If Newburgh Road, north of Joy Road. Tickets there is no answer, please leave your mes- Queens County to Hunterdon County and from are $12.50. For tickets and information call sage on the answering machine.) Point Pleasant to Ramsey with their commercials. the LSO Office, (313) 421-1111. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.: The Tidewater Saturday-Sunday, December 6-7 Ukrainian Cultural Association (TUCA) * Civic groups can announce local events for free. will hold its second annual Christmas party HARTFORD: The Ukrainian National in Virginia Beach at 7 p.m. TUCA extends Women’s League of America, Hartford an open invitation to all Ukrainians in the Ukrainian American Broadcasting Co. branches, will hold a Holiday Food Fair and Tidewater area and especially to all armed Bazaar on Saturday, December 6, 10 a.m.-4 Satisfying Ukrainians’ information and entertainment needs everyday! forces personnel stationed in the area’s p.m., and Sunday, December 7, 9:30 a.m.-1 military installations (Norfolk Naval Base, p.m., in the school hall, behind St. Michael’s Langley AFB, Oceana NAS, Little Creek, * ‘This Morning with Us’ — The Voice of New York-New Jersey — WNJR — 1430-AM Ukrainian Catholic Church, 125 Fort Eustis, etc.). For directions and further * Ukrainian Radio Service — All-day, everyday satellite radio from Ukraine and Diaspora Wethersfield Ave. Delicious Ukrainian food information call Olena Boyko, (804) 843- and baked products will be available as will * Ukrainian TV Service — All-day, everyday satellite TV from Ukraine and Diaspora 4533. crafts, white elephant items and much more. Ample parking; free admission. Friday, January 9 We’ll bring you closer to Ukraine! Sunday, December 7 TORONTO: The University of Toronto For information call: Ukrainian Students’ Club (USC), the Desna ROCHESTER, N.Y.: Ukrainian National Dance Company and the Ukrainian Bandura 1-800-75 UKRAINE Women’s League of America Branch 47 Chorus presents a “Pre-Malanka Pub” begin- will host a slide lecture by artist Lida ning at 8 p.m. at the Ukrainian National 1-800-758-5724 Mychajluk-Suchy at the Community Room Federation hall. Tickets at the door: $15. of the Rochester Ukrainian Federal Credit Ukrainian American Broadcasting Co. * One Bridge Plaza, Suite 145 * Fort Lee, N.J. 07024 Advance tickets for $10 ($7 for USC mem- Union, 824 Ridge Road E., at 3 p.m. The bers) are available at: Arka West and the presentation will include Ms. Suchy’s pho- USC office (St. Vlad’s). The event features a tographs of the Hutsul region of Ukraine and DJ and live bands, Kari Ochi, Zahrava and Ukrainian communities in America. others. I.D. is required. For more information Recently, an excerpt from Ms. Suchy’s call (416) 968-9222. PACKAGES TO UKRAINE ongoing work was published in National Geographic (November issue). Ms. Suchy ONGOING teaches photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She received an MONTCLAIR, N.J.: Central Presbyterian as low as $ .69 per Lb M.F.A. in photography from the Yale Church will present “Celebration of Faith,” an University School of Art. The event is free exhibition of paintings by Christina Saj. The DNIPRO CO of charge, refreshments will be served. exhibit opens November 30 and runs through January 6, 1998. Christina Saj’s current NEWARK, NJ PHILADELPHIA CLIFTON, NJ LOS ANGELES: The Kobzar Choir, under exhibit is a collection of modern religious 698 Sanford Ave 1801 Cottman Ave 565 Clifton Ave the direction of Gregory Hallick-Holutiak, icons which will fill the sanctuary at Central with Dr. Lesia Wachnianyn-Kurylenko, Presbyterian throughout the holiday season. Tel. 201-373-8783 Tel. 215-728-6040 Tel. 201-916-1543 piano accompanist, presents a Christmas These bold abstract paintings echo Byzantine *Pick up service available carol benefit concert at 1:30 p.m. at the icons. They combine ancient precepts with Ukrainian Culture Center, 4315 Melrose contemporary geometric abstraction to create Ave. Proceeds from the concert will benefit a new and fresh reinterpretation of images orphanages in Ukraine through the such as “Nativity.” The artist’s reception for California Association to Aid Ukraine Inc., a “Celebration of Faith” will be on Sunday, non-profit organization. Traditional November 30, at 11 a.m. For more informa- Christmas foods will be available at reason- tion call (973) 744-5340 or (973) 338-5039.

Museum schedules Christmas workshops NEW YORK – The Ukrainian Museum will learn about the customs and traditions has announced a series of Christmas pro- that are part of the Ukrainian Christmas grams beginning on December 6. holiday. Fee: adults, $15; seniors and stu- They are: dents over 16, $12.50. Museum members • Traditional Ukrainian Christmas Tree receive 15 percent discount. Ornaments Workshop, Saturday and • Christmas Bazaar: Sunday, December Sunday, December 6-7, 2-4 p.m. Children 14, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Ukrainian of all ages and adults will learn how to Museum’s Christmas Bazaar will feature make traditional Ukrainian Christmas tree beautiful one-of-a-kind Christmas tree decorations such as stars, spiders, chains decorations, embroideries, folk art objects, and mobiles. Materials to be used are foil, unique gold, silver and costume jewelry, colored paper, nut shells, beads, etc. Fee: paintings, etchings, ceramics, woodwork adults, $10; seniors and students over 12, objects, exhibition catalogues, art books, $8.50; children under 12, free. Museum beautifully illustrated children’s books members receive 15 percent discount. from Ukraine and home-baked goods • Ukrainian Christmas Traditions: (medivnyky and makivnyky) – all avail- Baking Christmas Breads Workshop, able for purchase. Also, the museum’s lot- Saturday, December 6, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. In tery drawing will be held at 3 p.m. The this hands-on workshop participants will bazaar will include a holiday musical pro- learn how to bake traditional Ukrainian gram and surprises for the whole family. Christmas breads such as the medivnyk The Ukrainian Museum is located at (honey cake) and the makivnyk (poppy- 203 Second Ave. For information call seed cake). During the session they also (212) 228-0110.