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1NS1DE: ^ Ukraines foreign affairs minister speaks in D.C. - page 4. ^ interview with founding member of Pora - page 5. - A look back at U.S. visits of Ukraines leaders - centerfold. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-profit association vol. LXXIII NO. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL З, 2005 $^^l$2 in Ukraine Rada approves administration's Ukrainian president to address new budget without opposition joint meeting of U.S. Congress by Zenon Zawada pensions to S63 a month, and a 27 per– PARS1PPANY, NJ. - President viktor Tarasyuk's meetings in Washington with Kyiv Press Bureau cent increase in the minimum monthly Yushchenko of Ukraine will address a joint senior administration officials and congres– wage for government workers to S63 a meeting of Congress on Wednesday, April sional leaders, during a visit that was aimed KYiv - Ukraine's verkhovna Rada month, said viktor Pynzenyk, Ukraine's 6, during his official visit to Washington, it at laying the groundwork for the presiden– approved the nation's 2005 budget with– finance minister. was announced on March 30 by Speaker - tial visit and focusing on some of the issues out any opposition, a major victory for Middle-level salaries such as those of the House Dennis Hastert and Senate that will be discussed. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in her paid to doctors, teachers and scientists, Majority Leader Bill Frist. The White House announcement noted efforts to promote President viktor will improve by 57 percent, Mr. Rep. Hastert (R-lll.) and Sen. Frist (R– that the two presidents will discuss how the Yushchenko's reforms. Pynzenyk said. Tenn.) noted in a media release: United States and Ukraine "can intensify The 2005 budget is widely described The budget also increases financial "President Yushchenko's election is our work as strategic partners on a broad as the most socially oriented since aid for childbirths by 12 times to S 1,619 inspiring the spread of democracy range of issues, including supporting the Ukraine's independence, including high– per child, aid for single mothers fourfold, throughout the world, in spite of threats advance of freedom and democracy in er allocations for pensions, government aid to disabled children by 4.5 times and and intimidations. We welcome him to Eastern Europe and the broader Middle wages and financial aid for new mothers. aid to orphans by 5.2 times to S89 per East, and cooperating on non-proliferation." President Yushchenko signed it into law this cathedral of democracy and look for– child each month, he said. ward to hearing from him." The Yushchenko visit was a principal on March 30. Cultural issues also emerged as a pri– topic of meetings in Washington attended Ms. Tymoshenko was exuberant after During his official visits the United ority. Spending to support the Ukrainian States President Yushchenko is to meet by State Secretary Oleksander Zinchenko the confirmation vote in the Rada on on March 28-29. Mr. Zinchenko met with language increased by 50 percent, Mr. with President George W. Bush on March 25, raising her arms in victory White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Pynzenyk said, while spending for the Monday, April 4. Mr. Yushchenko is and thanking the national deputies who Assistant to the President for National Ukrainian diaspora will increase by 11 scheduled to meet also with vice-President voted 376-0. times. Security Affairs Stephen Hadley and other Dick Cheney and Secretary of State 'This is evidence that it's difficult but Diaspora projects would include open– administration officials. Condoleezza Rice. Meanwhile, First Lady possible to find harmony in the ing Ukrainian schools in the During his visit to the United States on Kateryna Yushchenko is scheduled to meet Parliament between big business, entre– Transdniester, Mr. Yushchenko said. April 4-7, the Ukrinform news service with her U.S. counterpart, Laura Bush. preneurs and others in society who aren't More than 200,000 ethnic Ukrainians reported, President Yushchenko's itiner– As previously reported in The Ukrainian entrepreneurs," she told reporters after live in the that region of Moldova. ary also includes stopovers in Chicago, Weekly, the White House announcement the vote. 'Today the balance was found, in order to finance the S22 billion in Boston and possibly New York, where about talks between the two presidents was it was difficult, but it was found." total expenditures - an 18.3 percent rise the president is to meet with business Four deputies abstained and there released on March 11, the second day of were 48 no-votes, mostly coming from (Continued on page 3) Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Borys (Continued on page 13) the Party of the Regions that opposed Mr. Yushchenko's presidential candidacy. Not since Ukraine's independence had a budget been approved without opposi– First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko reflects on her new role tion, garnering even the unanimous sup- by Marta Kolomayets for the USAlD-financed Bank Training from his first marriage. port of the Communist Party's national Program managed by KPMG Barents On January 23, Mrs. Yushchenko deputies, who had spent two sessions KYiv - Kateryna Yushchenko is enjoy– Group and worked as the country manag– became the first lady of this country of 48 attacking the budget. ing her new role as the first lady of Ukraine, er for the company until 2000. million as her husband was inaugurated The budget wasn't prepared by econo– calling it the most wonderful job in the She married viktor Yushchenko in the third president of independent Ukraine, mists, but "astrologists, who don't want world. Born in Chicago on September 1, 1998 and together they have two daugh– after the tumultuous events of the Orange to take into account that the economy is 1961, the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants ters Sophia, 6, and Chrystyna, 4, and a Revolution that brought down the corrupt, in its deepest crisis," said Petro from the Kyiv region and the Donbas, baby son, Taras, who turned 1 on March totalitarian regime of Leonid Kuchma. Katya Chumachenko was a typical first Symonenko, the leader of Ukraine's 24. She is also stepmother to vitalina and She has now been called Ukraine's generation diaspora teenager, involved in Communist Party, after voting in support Andriy, the president's adult children bridge to the West, blending the best of the Ukrainian American community, com– of the budget. two worlds: the democratic principles of mitted to human rights issues, often correct– The significant hikes in social spend– the America she grew up in and the ing the inaccuracies about Ukraine among ing are why many politicians were care– ancient traditions and culture of one of her classmates and teachers, pointing out ful not to vote against the budget, the oldest European nations. that Ukraine is not Russia. observers said. Sitting in her new office on the Podil, in More than 80 percent of the budget's She worked her way through top U.S. the same space that just months ago served expenditures are socially oriented (corn- universities, Georgetown and the as her husband's campaign headquarters, pared to 49 percent in the 2004 budget), University of Chicago, where she earned Mrs. Yushchenko thrives on the positive and criucs accused the Yushchenko an M.B.A., and spent a summer at the energy of the room, but is busy making administration of doling out money in Harvard Ukrainian Research institute in plans to remodel it to reflect her own style. order to garner support in the 2006 par– 1985. in Washington, she worked as the She has already filled the room with pic– liamentary elections. director of the Ukrainian Congress tures of her family and mementoes from the "Everyone wants to be loved by the Committee of America bureau, followed Orange Revolution. Elegant and eloquent, electorate," said Уаіегіі Asadchev, a by a brief internship at the Customs Mrs. Yushchenko, dressed in a classic grey member of the Rada's Budget Service and then politically appointed tweed suit by Ukrainian designer Lilia Committee and the right-centrist positions at the State Department's Bureau Pustovit adorned by a reproduction brooch Ukrainian National Party. for Human Rights and Humanitarian in a Scythian design, paused from her busy What made the budget such a balanc– Affairs, the White House Office of Public schedule to speak to The Ukrainian Weekly, ing act was that it had to meet commit– Liaison, the Treasury Department Office reflecting on her life, her new role and her ments made by the Yanukovych govern– of Policy Management and the Joint hopes for Ukraine's future. Economic Committee of Congress. ment, those declared by the new one, as Balancing the role of a mother, wife, well as commitments made during the She visited the Ukrainian SSR in the first lady, diplomat, career woman, foun– election campaign, said vblodymyr 1970s and returned to an independent dation president, hostess and representa– Lytvyn, the verkhovna Rada's chairman. Ukraine in 1991 as a founder and repre– tive of Europe's newest democracy, she Among the social improvements is a sentative of the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, 17 percent increase in minimum monthly in 1993 she became the resident advisor First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko (Continued on page 12) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL З, 2OOS No. 14

ANALYSIS Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan: Probe reopens into ChornoviUs death between Ukraine's State Committee on Archives and the U.S.-based Holocaust Ukraine debates the next revolution KYiv - The death of Ukrainian oppo– Memorial Museum. The document was sition leader vyacheslav Chornovil in a inked by State Committee Chairman by Taras Kuzio limited space for the opposition, civil traffic accident in 1999 will be investigat– Hennadii Boriak and Radu loanid, the Eurasia Daily Monitor society and independent media. ed once again, according to the internal museum's senior officer. The agreement if further revolutions can only take Affairs Ministry and the Procurator provides for exchanging documents for Last week's violent revolution in place in semi-authoritarian regimes in the General's Office, lnterfax reported on Kyrgyzstan was different from the peace– photocopying and thus replenishing the OS, it limits the number of possibilities March 23. Chornovil, a former political two institutions' archival holdings. The ful transformations in Serbia, Georgia to only Moldova, Armenia and prisoner during the Soviet era, headed the and Ukraine. At the same time, this fact agreement signing ceremony was attend– Azerbaijan. Graeme Herd, an analyst at Rukh party. He was killed when his car ed by U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John has not stopped debates in Ukraine and the Conflict Studies Research Center, collided with a truck on March 25, 1999. the West over whether further "dominos" E. Herbst. The Holocaust Memorial based at Britain's Defense Academy, pre– Many opposition leaders believed the Museum's archives contain over 20 mil- are likely to fall in the Commonwealth of dicted in a January study– that Ukraine's incident was staged for political purposes. independent States. lion important historical documents. Orange Revolution would increase the An investigation at that time by the (Ukrinform) Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister likelihood that OS ruling elites would internal Affairs Ministry concluded that Borys Tarasyuk congratulated the move their regimes towards greater Chornovil's death was due to an accident. Group may have smuggled missiles Kyrgyz opposition on "victory" authoritarianism, making it unlikely Subsequently, the former head of the (Ukrainian Channel 5, March 24). "There future revolutions would take place Security Service of Ukraine, Yevhen KYiv - Ukrainian Foreign Affairs is no doubt that it is difficult to imagine (da.mod.uk7csrc). Marchuk, announced that he had been Ministry spokesman Dmytro Svystkov such processes taking place without a Belarus also lacks a single candidate given a videotape on which internal told journalists on March 30 that the well-organized opposition and popular around which the opposition could unite. Affairs Ministry officers reportedly Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has support," he noted. Comparing Currently there are 10 politicians who admitted the accident had been pre- detected and "neutralized" an interna– Kyrgyzstan, Serbia and Georgia to seek to be the united opposition candi– arranged. Later Mr. Marchuk claimed to tional group of arms smugglers from Ukraine, Mr. Tarasyuk said he believes date. Mr. Lukashenka will exploit this have lost the tape. (RFE7RL Newsline) Russia, Ukraine and Australia who ille– that Ukraine's revolution was different in division (Channel 5, March 26). gally supplied 12 X-55 missiles to China that, "The protests went on for a long Readers of the Ukrainian and Russian Rep named for Chornovil inquiry and iran in 2000-2001 under the pretext time, they were large-scale, and they editions of Ukrainska Pravda believe that of exporting them to Russia, lnterfax were not violent." KYiv - Ukraine's Minister for internal Russia could succumb to a popular revo– reported. Mr. Svystkov added that "in Affairs Yurii Lutsenko appointed Mykola Ukrainian readers of the popular lution. ironically, readers of the Russian May-June 2001, citizens of Ukraine and Stepanenko his representative in the Ukrainska Pravda internet newspaper see edition were more pessimistic (17 per– Australia, using faked documents, ille– investigation of the tragic death of Belarus and Russia as the most likely cent) than readers of the Ukrainian edi– gally exported to iran six more X-55 vyacheslav Chornovil, the ministry's pub- sites of the next popular revolutions tion (24 percent). Perhaps readers of the missiles and equipment for their mainte– (Ukrainska Pravda, March 29). Among lie relations department told Ukrinform on Ukrainian edition were simply engaged nance on behalf of the Rosvooruzhenie readers of the Ukrainian– and Russian- March 24. Mr. Stepanenko chairs an in wishful thinking? state company." Mr. Svystkov noted that language versions of Ukrainska Pravda, inquiry commission of the National Since President viadimir Putin was prosecutors launched a "number of crim– 28 percent and 34 percent, respectively, Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) on the elected to a second term in office in inal proceedings" in connection with the believe that Belarus is next. investigation of the death of the former March 20(W, Russia has increasingly missile smuggling, adding that two Rukh leader. Two weeks ago documents Channel 5, а ТУ channel established moved towards a fully autocratic system. involved smugglers died in road acci– on the case were stolen from Mr. by the current secretary of the National The opposition is finding it more and dents in 2002 and 2004. (RFE7RL Stepanenko's car. (Ukrinform) Security and Defense Council, Petro more difficult to find space for its activi– Newsline) Poroshenko, debated the issue of Belarus ties, and the pro–Western opposition has Chornovil commission to resume work? President wants local government reform on March 26. Since the Orange been increasingly marginalized. Revolution, Channel 5 has dramatically The ability of the opposition to rely on KYiv - volodymyr Stretovych, chair- increased its ratings from the 13th most- KYiv - President viktor Yushchenko independent media outlets proved crucial man of the verkhovna Rada Committee viewed channel to third place. said on March 29 that he is in favor of in the four revolutions cited, in Russia on Combating Corruption and Organized raising the efficiency of local self-gov– Belarus is set to hold its next presiden– the media situation has so dramatically Crime, said on March 23 that he will tial election in October 2006. President ernment through the introduction of rele– deteriorated that opposition and inde– press for reinstating the ad hoc commis– Alyaksandr Lukashenka plans to run for vant constitutional amendments by this pendent journalists are now moving to sion that was engaged in investigating the a third term, after he organized a referen– fall, lnterfax reported. Mr. Yushchenko Ukraine. Savik Shuster, a controversial circumstances of Rukh founder and dum last fall that changed the also stressed that he supports the political Russian ТУ host who was hounded out leader vyacheslav Chornovil's death. Constitution to permit this, if Mr. reform adopted by Parliament in of Russia's NTv, is set to launch a dis– According to Mr. Stretovych, there is Lukashenka's plans to create a presiden– December to switch the country from its cussion show on Ukrainian television. only one eyewitness still alive, among cy for life do not lead to a revolution in current presidential system to a parlia– He observed, "Ukraine today is freer those who could give testimony about the Belarus, then likely nothing will. mentary one. The reform bill will take than other OS countries" (Rossiiskaya road accident, in which Mr. Chornovil effect on September 1 if the verkhovna But is Belarus ripe for revolution? The Gazeta, March 23). was killed. All others died under rather opposition's talk of putting half a million Rada adopts a bill on reforming the self- Mr. Shuster predicted that other strange circumstances, Mr. Stretovych governing system prior to that date or, people on the streets on March 25 should Russian opposition journalists would fol– contended. The National Rukh of Ukraine be contrasted with the 2,000 who actual– failing such passage, it will automatically low him to Ukraine. Olga Romanova, a has appealed to any possible eyewitnesses ly turned up (EDM, March 28). Even the go into effect on January 1, 2006. host on Russia's Ren ТУ, also predicted of the road accident in which Chornovil anti-Leonid Kuchma protests in Ukraine (RFE7RL Newsline) that moving to Ukraine might be "the perished to furnish any accident-related in 2000-2003 attracted rallies of 20,000 only way out" (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, information. (Ukrinform) Leaders call for calm in Kyrgyzstan to 50,000. March 24). Channel 5 is pessimistic about One prominent figure in Russia's Pact with Holocaust museum signed KYiv - Ukrainian President viktor whether Belarus will fall next. At the opposition, Boris Nemtsov, has been Yushchenko and his Georgian counterpart, KYiv - On Tuesday, March 29, an same time, the Belarusian opposition is appointed an adviser to Ukrainian agreement on cooperation was signed (Continued on page 24) seeking to emulate Ukraine's revolution, President viktor Yushchenko. Former and Belarusian and Georgian flags were Russian Prime Minister Mikhail the most conspicuous non-Ukrainian Kasyanov, an ally of Mr. Nemtsov, is flags present during the Orange seeking to become Russia's answer to FOUNDED 1933 Revolution. "The opposition plans to act viktor Yushchenko and the united oppo– THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY out the Ukrainian scenario and put for– sition's candidate for the 2008 presiden– ward a single candidate," Channel 5 tial elections. 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This chair the group. members of the new executive, and that Mr. Wrzesnewskyj noted that: "it is his personal relationships with encouraging to see approximately 40 Ukrainian President viktor Yushchenko parliamentarians from all parties, rep- and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko resenting all regions of the country, will help Canada foster stronger ties joining together in the interest of pro– with Ukraine. moting relations between Canada and The new executive of the Canada- Ukraine." Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group "Canada has long enjoyed a 'special includes: Mr. Wrzesnewskyj, chair; MP relationship' with Ukraine based on the Walt Lastewka, vice-chair; MP inky hundreds of thousands of family ties Mark, vice-chair; Sen. Raynell between our two countries," he added. Andreychuk, vice-chair; Sen. Consiglio "The goodwill of our relationship was Di Nino, treasurer; MP Eleni Bakopanos, further strengthened with Canada's secretary; Sen. 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the improved salaries and benefits pose S1.3 billion, a 21 percent improvement funds from privatization than planned," Rada approves... inflationary threats, casting doubt on Ms. from the prior year's budget. Prime Minister Tymoshenko said. "There (Continued from page 1) Tymoshenko's assurances that inflation However, President Yushchenko and won't be any back-door privatizations, from the prior year - Cabinet Ministers would not increase more than 9 percent Ms. Tymoshenko are characterizing it as and there won't be any entities scld at led by Ms. Tymoshenko targeted perks under the new budget. a non-deficit budget because funds raised half-price. An open auction offers the enjoyed by Ukraine's oligarchic entre– Deputies also said they were con– by privatization will cover the gap. ability to obtain a much higher value than preneurs and industrialists. cerned over the lack of a formidable "We expect to receive much more planned." Such perks are 11 free enterprise opposition in the verkhovna Rada to zones where businesses don't pay any challenge the Yushchenko administration. taxes and 15 technology parks that don't This was evident in earlier recent pay import duties, value-added taxes or votes, in which a Rada majority upheld Bill seeking repeal of trade restrictions taxes on profit, Mr. Pynzenyk said. Ms. Tymoshenko's confirmation as During his budget presentation to the prime minister and the Cabinet's budget on Ukraine gains another co-sponsor Rada, the finance minister pointed out without opposition. "it's apparent there is no real opposi– that the AvtoZaz car maker in Zaporizhia lishment of genuine democratic ideals, a tion in Parliament," Mr. Asadchev told WASHINGTON - Rep. Joseph is a Ukrainian enterprise that earned a free market economic system, and has reporters following the vote. "That's not Crowley (-N.Y) has signed on to a bill profit of Si33 million in 2004. passed legislation protecting religious very good, it's good when there is a con– calling for the repeal of Jackson-vanik Yet the maker of Daewoo, Opel and and ethnic minorities within the country. structive opposition. The political field is trade restrictions with Ukraine. Mercedes cars received a government unclear, and the government controls the Rep. Henry Hyde (R-lll.) introduced Normal trade relations with the United grant of S3 84 million, Mr. Pynzenyk said. parliamentary situation." the bill, HR 885, in the House on States means that Ukrainian imports will in a speech laden with populist rheto– face lower duties than countries with the Perhaps the most significant voice of February 17. Co-sponsors of the bill ric and guilt trips that she delivered just trade restrictions. Ukraine will gain a opposition was the president's own vice include Reps. Tom Lantos (D-Calif), before the budget vote, Ms. Tymoshenko competitive advantage in the United prime minister, Anatolii Kinakh, whose Christopher Smith (R-N.J.) and Howard urged national deputies, the majority of States, which is not available to countries criticism of the budget became a mini- Berman (D-Calif.) if passed, the bill will whom are millionaire entrepreneurs, to without normal trade relations. controversy. He said the budget con– establish normal trade relations between sacrifice their benefits in order to pro- "it is important that the United States tained chaotic changes. the United States and Ukraine. vide social spending for common citi– support the burgeoning democracy and "The changes, which apply to com– The Jackson-vanik amendment, zens. economy of Ukraine. By lifting Jackson- petitiveness, stimulants of our economy's passed in 1974, restricts permanent nor– "if we need to force AvtoZaz to share, vanik restrictions, we can form a lasting development, attracting investment, mal trade relations with all former Soviet which received 2 billion (hrv) from the relationship with the largest democracy innovation, in most cases did not have Union States, including Russia. The budget while earning 600 million (hrv) in the region," said Rep. Crowley. economic justification and a forecast of amendment was implemented in order to in profit, then have a conscience," she "Ukraine is an example to all of the for– consequences," said Mr. Kinakh, who limit trade with countries which restrict said. "1 want for us to finally leam how mer Soviet Union States that there are leads the Party of industrialists and emigration rights for its citizens and have to share with society." great rewards from adopting democratic Entrepreneurs. non-market economies. Ukraine has Ms. Tymoshenko defended stripping ideals," he added. Overall, the budget had a deficit of made great progress towards the estab– these benefits by explaining that Ukrainian entrepreneurs enjoy some of the cheapest electricity, gas and labor costs in the world, and therefore have US. Army cadets conclude visit nothing to worry about. instead, Ukrainian companies and factories need to prepare themselves for to Odesa Ground Forces institute actual competition in the global econo– Embassy of the United States terparts. Cadet Sergeant vasilev and my, instead of creating "these artificial, Cadet Private Kucheryavii will partici– KYiv - Two cadets from the United rosy conditions that prevent them from pate in a reciprocal exchange, visiting standing on their own feet," she said. States Military Academy at West Point, West Point between April 8 and 17. The "The harder these entrepreneurs work N.Y., have concluded a weeklong visit to Ukrainian cadets will be hosted by within the competitive framework, the Odesa Ground Forces institute. United Cadets Peterson and Kaminski, and will stronger they become," Ms. Tymoshenko States Army Cadets Kenneth Peterson also see New York City, the Pen:agon said. "Protectionism makes them weak– and Nathaniel Kaminski were participat– and the White House. er." ing in an exchange program initiated by This exchange program promotes Ms. Tymoshenko's urgings did not the United States Military Academy in understanding and goodwill between the sway her opponents, who insisted the 1998, which also provides for Ukrainian United States Military Academy at West benefit cuts would hurt Ukrainian indus– cadets to visit the United States. The two Point, N.Y., and foreign service acade– try. American second-year cadets, using their mies around the world. The exchange The Yushchenko government is mak– introductory knowledge of the Russian program introduces cadets from nations ing Ukraine's economy hostage to language, attended classes, participated around the world to the values of the transnational corporations and global in weapons training, and shared daily life United States' professional military ethic, speculating capitalists, Mr. Symonenko with Ukrainian cadets from the Air particularly the role of the military in a said. "The government is finishing what Mobile Department at Odesa Ground democratic society, it also allows for a Kuchma started - a deindustrialization Forces institute. cultural exchange of ideals and values, of the nation," the Communist leader Ukrainians Cadet Sergeant Dmitro establishing a common bond between the said. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko reacts vasilev and Cadet Private Roman cadets of the United States Military The prime minister's oppoinents said to the Rada's passage of the 2005 budget. Kucheryavii hosted their American coun– Academy and cadets of foreign nations. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL З, 2OOS No. 14 FOR THE RECORD: Foreign Affairs Minister Borys Tarasyuk speaks in D.C.

Following is the text of a speech deliv– relatives were put at stake. As viktor Orange Revolution by the former German by Washington. ered by Foreign Affairs Minister Borys Yushchenko succeeded to get safely Minister of Defense volker Ruhe who What was America for us in the Tarasyuk of Ukraine at the international through the circles, instant courage said: watching the Tv broadcast from Ukrainian opposition? it was an ideologi– Republican institute's luncheon reception imbued millions of Ukrainians. His valor independence Square we felt that the cal partner, a guarantor that the demo– at the Madison Hotel and at the Cloyd and fortitude gave him the credentials to heart of Europe was beating in Kyiv. cratic world would not turn a blind eye Heck Marvin Center of George be a moral leader of the nation for the Ukraine's striving for freedom and toward the flagrant violation of basic Washington University in Washington on years to come. justice during the revolution was as human rights. March 10. (Minister Tarasyuk s presenta– Was Europe ready to meet a new strong as that of the Poles at the time of American idealists like John McCain tions at the two events contained the Ukraine? І doubt that. As a diplomat and Solidarity and of the Germans at the time helped the world to keep the Ukrainian major themes and points found in the text politician 1 can observe that the Orange of the Berlin Wall's fall. elections in close focus, while American below, which was obtained by Action Revolution has instilled Europe with new The stereotypes of some European pragmatics like Richard Lugar stepped in Ukraine Report from an assistant to the dynamics while coming for many as a politicians about why Ukraine "does not resolutely to defend democracy in foreign minister, Myroslava surprise. belong to Europe in terms of civilization Ukraine. They were not silent when the Shcherbatiuk. The text here is reprinted After many years of being considered and culture," vanished in a matter of government attempted to rig the elections, from Action Ukraine Report, but has an eternal "ugly duckling" in Europe, days. All references that Ukraine had not and they did not make any concessions been edited for clarity.) Ukraine has suddenly emerged as an lived through the age of Enlightenment behind the Ukrainian people's backs. important actor in the political process. and bourgeois revolutions and, therefore, As the Ukrainian revolution was it is my great honor to be the first Without being either an EU or NATO was not ready to accept modern democ– unfolding, the United States took a pos– Ukrainian official to visit the United member, Ukraine has invoked in Europe racy proved to be inconsistent. The asser– ture innate to the world democratic States after the election of the new a slightly forgotten feeling - the feeling tions that psychologically Ukraine is leader. So, for this - and not for an imag– President viktor Yushchenko and of the wind of change. The unanticipated closer to Asian despotic regimes rather inary "financing of the revolution" - І appointment of the new government. yet peaceful revolution next door to the than European liberal system lost any wish to extend my appreciation. arguments. Ukraine invites the United States to a Ukraine illustrated the belief of strategic partnership. President George Bush that deep inside Democracy, justice and faith bind Why did Ukrainian events unexpectedly puzzle the every person lives a natural desire to be Ukrainians and Americans. We share brightest minds in Europe and the world? My free. common goals: global promotion of However, here comes the ever-lasting democracy, the fight against terrorism, answer is that the brightest minds underestimated dilemma of big politics: how to marry the strengthening of European and trans- personal convictions and geopolitical cal– Atlantic security and ties. We actually Ukrainians as a nation, it was a case when all atten– culations. have no interests that conflict. Our views tion was focused on politics but not on the people. Ukraine has been transformed from a of the future of Europe are converging. European outsider to the European moral Our economic relations could be harmo– leader. But it hasn't alleviated the burden niously intertwined. of international strategists, particularly І can see many arguments in favor of І guess that you expect me to share EU has reminded that this wind still those who are shaping European integra– the elevation of our relations to a strate– my thoughts about the Ukrainian revolu– blows, although sometimes not from the tion. it is easy to decide the fate of an gic partnership. No argument against this tion and which direction my country is windows of headquarters in Brussels. "ugly duckling." However it is difficult idea is in sight. І see the future of our taking after the political miracle we have Let us acknowledge that the year of to do this if the "duckling" comes to be a relations as "partnership for democracy." witnessed through November and 2004 turned out to be a real disaster for prodigy, but the university has no place This is not an alliance against a third December last year. political scientists specializing in for him. party. This is an alliance for the promo– Ukraine. This is one of those rare Being an insider and participant of Some say that at international confer– tion of high human values that have moments when out of 1,000 forecasts this "miracle," 1 would like to briefly ences attended by European officials one become victorious for Ukraine in made in November last year, 999 went to comment on its immediate reasons and of the rules reads as: "say whatever you December 2004. the waste bin in December. The forecasts ensuing consequences, and then 1 shall wish, but do not mention Ukraine." Ukraine presented the world with an ranged from those of "the third term" of move to Ukraine's perspectives. Why is this so? Because the new offi– attractive alternative and a viable concept Kuchma to the "quiet falsification" The first and foremost reason of the cial position toward Ukraine is still in the of "soft power," which could be more Ukrainians would meekly swallow; from revolution: the Ukrainian people have fetal stage, it is clear in the case of the EU, instrumental in making this world a bet– the separation of Western Ukraine to the proved to be better and stronger than since too many voices had to be integrated ter place to live. bloody suppression of the resistance akin their government. The people stood up, in what would later become the EU This should be the ideology to under– to the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. not for a piece of bread, but in defense of Common Foreign and Security Policy. pin our relations. As to its mechanism, it their dignity and political will. However, no one could predict that it is clear that global politics is a "big is obvious that we have to resume dia– The people had the courage to con- the Ukrainian revolution would become, chessboard" where Ukraine is still seek– logue on the highest political level. The front gun muzzles, because they per– as the Washington Post pithily pointed ing its place. But the point is not the forthcoming visit of viktor Yushchenko ceived democracy not as an empty shell out, "something in between the demise game. The point is freedom and justice to the U.S. will be such a mechanism. but a profound personal aspiration. of the Berlin Wall and the Woodstock that are equally shared, for instance, by І see bright prospects for development The second reason is that the middle festival." No one could predict that after Ukrainians and Americans. of our parliament-to-parliament coopera– class has sprouted in Ukraine. Not only widescale falsification the outcome of it is about a nation that has overthrown tion. As a former member of the Ukrainian workers, but also the clerk community, the election would be decided not only tyranny almost at the same time when the legislature, 1 am aware of the crucial role students and small business owners rose on the barricades, but also in the U.S. president spoke about it as he took played by the legislative branches in our up against injustice. Supreme Court that, moreover, would the oath for his second term in office. І nations. І am in favor of stronger relations Ukraine as a nation refused to tolerate take the side of justice and rule a re-vot– believe that this fact turns the Ukrainian between the Rada and Congress. ing. oligarchy - when some individuals con- nation into a natural partner of the United American policy resides in the White trolling the economy are in collaboration Why did Ukrainian events unexpect– States as a recognized global democratic House, but it is born on Capitol Hill. with other individuals controlling poli– edly puzzle the brightest minds in leader. Let me remind you that U.S. Therefore, it is twice as pleasant for me tics. A so called "oligarchic economy" Europe and the world? My answer is that President George W. Bush equated viktor that the U.S. Congress has turned into the might quite well fit a "quasi-democracy." the brightest minds underestimated Yushchenko and his role in Ukraine's his– driving force of the Ukrainian American However, for Ukraine "quasi-democra– Ukrainians as a nation, it was a case tory with that of George Washington. partnership. when all attention was focused on poli– cy" was not enough. Developments in Ukraine revealed not The most encouraging words in sup- tics but not on the people. The third reason is that degradation of only the intensity of the human aspiration port of democracy emanated from the the former Ukrainian government had The decorations on the political stage for freedom. They also exposed how some Congress. The Congress sent unequivo– reached its highest peak. The dirty wave had not changed for years. Ukraine was a people could cynically resort to indiscrim– cal warning messages to those who want– of murders, harassment, corruption, sup– corrupt post-Soviet country that liked to inate tools to suppress this aspiration. ed to subvert democracy. We find the pression of mass media flooded Ukraine. play EU and NATO against Russia for While America was watching the rev– most enthusiastic and influential friends The murder of the independent jour– quite a long time. The country was ruled olution with astonishment and admira– in the Congress now when it is high time nalist Heorhii Gongadze in 2000 by the old Soviet nomenklatura repainted tion, the former administration in to make steps toward each other. revealed that the government was incur– as nationalists. Ukraine concocted a myth that this revo– To clear the hurdles that have ham– ably sick. When in 2004 viktor Except for a growing economy, Ukraine lution was brought from American pered the development of our relations in Yushchenko barely escaped death by poi– still gave the impression of a terra incogni– shores. Absurd as this myth may look, it the past years is an important precondi– soning, this was a sign that cynicism and ta and was considered in practical terms nevertheless captured many minds. tion for our successful relations. The cruelty knew no bounds. The government only as a possible buffer zone. That brings me to a few observations. Ukrainian government is working to crossed the line and as a result was pun– With its European aspirations, Ukraine Modern democracy indeed traces its ensure that every investor could feel con– ished by its people, thereby sending a resembled a person who craves to study at roots to the United States. However, to fident in Ukraine. The Ukrainian warning to all existing tyrannies. the university only because he lives on the say that George Washington and Thomas Parliament is taking up the adoption of The fourth reason is that after long opposite side of the street. That is what Jefferson are fathers of. the Orange intellectual property protection legisla– years of being devoid of true moral leader- one could see "on the political scene." Revolution would be some exaggeration. tion as the highest priority. ship, Ukraine had a strong leader - viktor However, the most important events it is conventional wisdom that the We are aware of the tissue ofj restitu– Yushchenko, a person of noble ideals, were developing "behind the curtains," United States, being a global player and tion of religious communities' property, adamant principles and deep belief. where a new European nation was grow– democratic leader, is important for any and my country will resolve this matter For him the presidential campaign ing - beautiful, strong, civilized even in democracy in the world. However, this in a civilized and consistent manner. turned out to be like nine circles of its rage. does not mean automatically that devel– Dante's inferno, for his life, family and І recall the words attributed to the opments in Ukraine were masterminded (Continued on page 21) No. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL З, 2OOS 5 Founding member ofPora explains organization's roots and its future by Andrew Nynka moments. On one occasion, Mr. vyatrovych for us went on completely normally. laughed as he explained an incident during in all other things we maintained a maxi– NEW YORK - Pora, the Ukrainian the height of the protests. He was at the front mum degree of openness and transparency. non-governmental organization credited of a column of what he said where perhaps Once our movement started we kept noth– for its key role in the Orange Revolution, several hundred thousand people marching ing hidden - who we were, what we were appeared quickly to spring to life last next to the National University of Kyiv doing, etc. This was important because we fall, indeed, the organization appeared so Mohyla Academy when a security guard didn't want to give the authorities any rea– suddenly and was so well organized that came out and saw a throng of people son to wonder what we were doing. The critics of the movement said such a feat descending onto the school. "Sorry gentle- more we made it seem like we were an could be accomplished only with foreign man, but there is no demonstrating here," underground operation, the more we were aid. Allegations surfaced that money Mr. vyatrovych remembered the security likely to feel the authority's repression. But flowed directly to the group from the guard saying. "Demonstration?" Mr. we wanted to be absolutely transparent and United States government. vyatrovych responded to the guard, "in case open. We wanted to make certain that we in an interview conducted exclusively you missed it, there's a revolution happen– weren't labeled a terrorist group. We did all with The Ukrainian Weekly, a Pora co- ing." He also took a moment to explain that kinds of public, open demonstrations. An founder explained that, in fact, the found– the popular chant "Razom nas bahato, nas important thesis of ours was that the enemy ing of the organization dates to protest ne podolaty" (together we are many, and we of safety is paranoia, meaning a fear of actions that took place more than three can not be defeated) was coined by Anatolii someone watching us, fear that there will be years before the Orange Revolution. Bondarenko in 2002 and had sprung from fights with agitators. During the hourlong interview, which the Spanish phrase "Un pueblo unido, jamas took place on March 18, the Pora co- sera vencido," roughly translated as "The How do you reconcile this culture of founder spoke at length on the topic and people, united, will never be defeated." safety - which means being secretive about the history of the organization, its and closed - with your organization's The following is a portion of The role in the revolution and its future. goal of creating an open, transparent Щ Andrew Nynka Weekly's interview conducted with Mr. vblodymyr vyatrovych, who together society? volodymyr vyatrovych vyatrovych. The discussion was held in with some 11 friends created Pora, spoke Ukrainian and has been translated and The safety culture was an internal at the tail end of a three-week trip and look at how they can be eliminated. edited, though the order of the questions necessity. Obviously, the current situa– throughout the eastern half of the United We tried this on a national level earlier. remains untouched. tion doesn't require this culture of safety. States - a trip he says was meant to teach We know this situation must be changed, Many of our members, on their own, people more about Pora (translated A large part of your trip here to the and we hope to get people beyond the understood the sense it made not to know roughly as "it's time"). United States included raising aware– too much. So this was something natural mentality that bringing gifts or money to His meetings in the U.S. included a ness about your organization and, tan– for them, it's not that one person knew your doctor or professor or the traffic discussion with Dr. Ariel Cohen of the gentially, to help raise funds for Pora. very much, while another knew nothing. officer is normal. And we want to show Heritage Foundation, a research and edu– How do you collect funds, and how can people why this is not normal. cational institute. Mr. vyatrovych also people support your organization? The Pora website also notes a first met with journalists, representatives of stage for the organization. Can you What is the future now for Pora? І specifically do not handle those mat– American non-governmental organiza– explain this? And, what are the other ters. We have a saying taken from other We are now registered as a non-gov– tions and the public, including at a panel phases? discussion devoted to the topic of the revolutionary times: the less you know, ernmental organization, and we believe Orange Revolution held in New York the less you're able to say. in other The first phase was to oversee the our job is to help civil society further City on March 14. words, 1 am not aware of any of our election campaign. The next phase, develop and ensure that the new govern– The 27-year-old native of Lviv recently financial matters, and if Fm asked, there which is now under way, is the concept ment doesn't revert back to the old ways earned a doctoral degree in history from is nothing 1 can say on the topic. You can of the de-Kuchma-zation of Ukraine, in - no matter who is in government. We Lviv University, where he wrote his dis– question me, putting electricity to my fin– other words, removing those figures are often posed the question: Will Pora sertation on the Ukrainian insurgent Army gers, but 1 can't answer those questions. from government who were associated go into opposition against Mr. (UPA) and the raids that organization with Mr. Kuchma's regime and removing Yushchenko? And the answer is that Pora undertook beyond Ukraine's borders. As a is this an organization-wide philoso– the mentality of these types of people always has been and always will stand in leading member of Pora, Mr. vyatrovych phy? is it true that the organization does from Ukraine. Our greatest goal is to opposition to lies, corruption and crime. not have a leader? And why is that? was responsible for marketing, coordinat– develop civil society in Ukraine. And, God forbid Mr. Yushchenko turns ing and leading demonstrations. First off, why is that? Because when to lies, corruption and crime, but then we Pora, Mr. vyatrovych confirmed, is is a portion of your work a fight we began this organization we were would oppose him, because there should run by a national coordinating council against corruption? І have in mind aware of people's ambitions to lead and not be any cults of personality. composed of 10 to 12 people and does here not just on the highest levels of the battles for leadership positions. We Mr. Yushchenko at the moment is the not have an individual leader. The coun– government, but at the very grass saw in other situations that people put representative of a solid tendency of cil makes decisions and, depending on roots of society? more of their energy into figuring out democratization in Ukraine. Because of the organization's needs in a given situa– which positions they could occupy rather Absolutely. And one of our projects this, the people supported him. if Mr. tion, will either increase or decrease in than into battling corruption. now is a pilot program to fight corruption Yushchenko goes in another direction, then size. Each member of the council is But this concept did not come from in the universities. What we're trying to we shouldn't be afraid to confront him. tasked with a given area of expertise, Pora, it is something that came from do is examine the causes of corruption whether it be communications, fund-rais– Otpor fthe Serbian organization credited (Continued on page 19) ing, etc. At its height, during the first with supporting that country's revolu– weeks of the revolution, Pora was made tionj. But leadership comes from the up of 12,000 people, though now the DISTRICT COMMITTEE coordinating council, where specific areas organization has some 6,000 to 7,000 of work are overseen by individual mem– OF UNA BRANCHES OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY members. bers. For example, work with the mass announces that its While Pora was officially founded on media, organizational issues, marketing March 28-29, 2004, work and training and public relations, fund-raising, etc. sessions held throughout Ukraine had ANNUAL D1STR1CT СОММІТТЕЕ MEET1NG already begun by November 2003, Mr. You spoke earlier about the need for will be held on vyatrovych recounted. security and a culture of security with Friday, April 15, 2005, at 2:00 p.m. at the "At this point we had not officially your organization. Could you elabo– UNA Home Office come out into the public so as not to rate on that? draw attention to our work," Mr. 2200 Route 10, Parsippany, NJ. vyatrovych explained, adding that calling We had these interesting seminars on this portion of the organization's history the culture of security, meaning how to Obligated to attend the meeting as voting members are similar to an underground movement guarantee the safety of our movement. District Committee Officers, Convention Delegates would not be inaccurate. And here there were some basic princi– and two delegates from the following Branches: One of the very first actions Pora ples. First, that you should not know undertook at the end of March 2004 about that which doesn't concern your 25, 27, 37, 42, 70, 76,133,134,142,171,172, 214, 234, 287, 340 included an informational campaign to area of work. Next, you shouldn't ask explain "Kuchmism," a term the group's these types of questions - questions that All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting activists coined to describe their view of don't concern your area of work. Meeting will be attended by: the state of Ukrainian civil and political And these principles need to become Stefan Kaczaraj, UNA President society. A website - www.kuchmizm.info the culture of the organization so that, Christine E. Kozak, UNA National Secretary - was launched together with the organi– when a person begins to question - Roma Lisovich, UNA Treasurer zation's official unveiling. That website Where does our money come from, and Eugene Oscislawski, UNA Advisor is still active and running, and the com– where do we keep our money? - these puter server is kept in the United States, aren't seen as simply innocent questions. District Committee though Mr. vyatrovych says for security When these questions are raised they are Stefan Welhasch, District Chairman reasons he purposefully is unaware of its already seen as possible provocations. Daria Semegen, Secretary exact location. This is a question of creating a culture of The interview also caught several lighter safety. And because of this structure life Walter Honcharyk, Treasurer 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL з, 2005 No. 14

LETTERS TO THE ED1TOR THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY І was especially surprised by the fol– Yalta event at U1A lowing statement in Dr. Baranowskyj's A new chapter letter: "Therefore, 1 am sincerely sorry to The upcoming visit by President viktor Yushchenko to the United States may not was a big mistake see that the younger generation of seniory, who hold responsible positions in the be a "first" because it is not the first visit to this country by a president of Ukraine. Dear Editor: Plast leadership, having the best inten– His two predecessors, Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma, both visited the І was one of the patrons of the recent tions, but not familiar with the whole pic– United States during their terms of office - President Kravchuk twice and President photography exhibition and conference ture, are naively susceptible to the persua– Kuchma five times. And, the date of May 6, 1992, has already gone down in history on President Franklin D. Roosevelt and sion of agitators who exploit their lack of as the first time a president of independent Ukraine arrived in the United States. the Yalta conference held at the full knowledge." І am convinced that the However, the dates April 4-6, 2005, will have their own reserved spot in the Ukrainian institute of America, it was a UCCA does not employ agitators to fool history books as Mr. Yushchenko, who won a hard-fought battle for the presiden– eulogy for FDR and a whitewash of the younger generation of Plast seniory. cy of Ukraine amid unprecedented falsifications and machinations - and in the Yalta. The responsibility belongs to the Today we live in wonderful and excit– process secured victory for the Orange Revolution - visits the United States. de facto organizers, FDR promoters ing times for Ukraine. Our community in He will arrive in this country as a hero to Ukrainians who reside in the United (apologists): the Franklin and Eleanor the United States is proud of the election States and as a strong defender of democracy in the eyes of U.S. leaders, includ– Roosevelt institute, the Franklin D. observers program organized and coordi– ing countless members of Congress and the executive branch whose words and Roosevelt Presidential Library and nated by the UCCA. Two other recent deeds offered support for free and fair elections in Ukraine. The leader of the Museum and Freedom House, founded developments promoting reconciliation Orange Revolution will be greeted at the White House, where he will meet with by Eleanor Roosevelt. in our community should be mentioned. President George W. Bush and other members of his administration, among them The "spin" focused on contemporary At the UCCA convention in Philadelphia vice-President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. irrelevance, rather than criminal conse– in September 2004, two members of the He will also address a joint meeting of the House of Representatives and the quences. Some of the more egregious Ukrainian National Association were Senate, becoming the first president of Ukraine to be accorded this extraordinary conclusions reached were that Yalta elected to the UCCA executive board. honor. As he speaks, to the American public he will represent much more than should be forgotten since it has been ren– Most recently, the UCCA executive himself; he will represent the heroic people of Ukraine who took to the streets dered moot due to the emergence of board unanimously elected a Committee and barricades to defend their rights and guarantee their future. He will be the Eastern European democracies oyer the on Reconciliation chaired by Julian embodiment of the Orange Revolution seen by hundreds of millions of people last two decades and that had FDR main– Kulas. This committee also includes rep– around the globe. tained a policy of isolationism, the world resentatives from the Ukrainian National Mr. Yushchenko's first U.S. visit comprises components aimed at both the would have been much worse. Association and the Providence U.S. government and the Ukrainian community, including tens of thousands of Consider some facts: FDR was Association of Ukrainian Catholics. people who have recently immigrated to the United States from Ukraine. accompanied to the Yalta conference by in these challenging times for all of We are sure that U.S. officials are anxious to meet the new Ukrainian presi– at least one advisor and policy formula- us, there is no need to be obsessed with dent, in whom they see the potential of a new Ukraine. No doubt they want to tor, Alger Hiss, who was subsequently the past. We should try to be proactive hear for themselves the Yushchenko administration's vision for Ukraine and its convicted as a communist infiltrator; in rather then reactive. place in the world. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority the short term, Yalta collaborated in the Leader Bill Frist noted in announcing his speech before a joint meeting of forced repatriation (Operation Keelhaul) Congress: "President Yushchenko's election is inspiring the spread of democracy of some 2 million Soviet nationals who ivan Z. Holowinsky throughout the world, in spite of threats and intimidations. We welcome him to were rounded up by American and Somerset, N.J. this cathedral of democracy and look forward to hearing from him." Thus, British army units, forced into boxcars President Yushchenko's every word will be crucial. and returned to face brutal reprisals in As for us, Ukrainians in the United States, well, the excitement surrounding the Soviet Union (many committed sui– Building bridges President Yushchenko's visit is palpable. All of us, it seems, followed the events cide); in the long term, Yalta acquiesced of November-December 2004 - which Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Minister Borys in some 40 years of Soviet tyranny over is most important Tarasyuk recently described as a "political miracle" - with keen interest. All of Eastern Europe, the incarcerations and us were emotionally caught up in the struggle for democracy and truth, and a deaths of thousands if not millions of Dear Editor: better tomorrow for Ukraine. After all, for some of us, Ukraine is our homeland, individuals (i.e., the crushing of the І am writing in response to Prof. John while for others it is the homeland of our fathers and forefathers. Thus, we want Hungarian revolution in 1956 and the Paul Himka's letter published in your to celebrate the heady days of the Orange Revolution and welcome Ukraine's Prague Spring in 1968). FDR's aberra– March 6 edition. new leader, the president in whom so many have placed so many of their hopes. tional behavior with "Uncle Joe" Stalin І agree with Prof. Himka that there is At the same time, we, too, will be listening to Mr. Yushchenko's every word has been ascribed by myriad historians to no place for "national scorecards" in order as we know that what he says here in the United States will carry enormous physical debilitation, political naivete to keep tabs on who did what to whom. weight and will determine how Ukraine is perceived and, as a result, treated by and even criminality. This approach is a relic from a past era. the U.S. and others. A more fitting commemoration of the І have no interest in seeing the Just as President Kravchuk's U.S. visit in 1992 was hailed as opening a new tragedy of Yalta and the nefarious role of hatreds, the bigotry, the anti-Semitism, page in relations between Ukraine and the United States, President Yushchenko's FDR would have been a moment of and the xenophobia of the 20th century 2005 visit will open an entirely new chapter in that relationship, one that we silence, the remembrance of martyrs, (and earlier) passed onto my children. hope will be characterized by renewed contacts on the highest levels of govern– e.g., Alia Horska, volodymyr ivasiuk, Yes, 1 do know my history. My family ment as the United States and Ukraine resume their strategic partnership. vasyl Stus and many from other nations was majorly affected by historical events as well. in the 20th century. Those that survived The U1A has hosted many wonderful bear the scars to this day. Those events events, such as the recent event honoring have also left their mark on me and, І the Klitschkos. However, FDR–Yalta was daresay, on my children. However, І Turning the pages back. a big mistake. І can only apologize to the know the lessons to be learned. The main Ukrainian community for my part. lesson to me is that we have to build bridges to, and find common ground Askold S. Lozynskyj with other groups, to solve the truly One year ago, on April 4, 2004, The Ukrainian Weekly's New York pressing problems of today. top front page story was about a visit to Kyiv by U.S. Deputy І am with President viktor Yushchenko Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who told Ukrainian and Prof. Himka on this one. authorities during his March 25 meetings that future relations between Ukraine and the West are dependent on how the country's presidential elec– Regarding Plast M.Szul tions proceed. Toronto "it's our view that the nation of Ukraine has committed herself to certain standards and the UCCA as she addresses European Union and North Atlantic integration and the NATO action Dear Editor: plan," explained Mr. Armitage during a press conference. "We would be able to devel– The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters My brief comments are prompted by a to the editor and commentaries on a vari– op a political relationship if there were fair, free, open and democratic elections, it's a letter to the editor, "Plast and UCCA, ety of topics of concern to the Ukrainian very important milestone for Ukraine, 1 believe." consider the issues," written by Dr. American and Ukrainian Canadian com– Roman Woronowycz of our Kyiv Press Bureau reported that Mr. Armitage empha– Roman Baranowskyj. it is my personal munities. Opinions expressed by colum– sized that he believed that a good economic and security relationship already exists opinion that two statements in that letter nists, commentators and letter-writers are between Ukraine and the U.S. He added that if Ukraine held democratic elections free are questionable. their own and do not necessarily reflect the of "media intimidation and opposition intimidation," relations between Washington opinions of either The Weekly editorial Dr. Baranowskyj writes: "Plast is a and Kyiv could "get back to the type of relationship we envisioned when Ukraine staff or its publisher, the Ukrainian non-political and non-denominational became free more than about a dozen years ago." National Association. entity and cannot belong to any organiza– Mr. Armitage's trip encompassed nearly all the priority issues in Ukraine's foreign tion that is political." First of all, it policy towards the West, including its participation in the iraq stabilization force; Letters should be typed (double-spaced) and signed (anonymous letters are not pub– business contracts for rebuilding iraq that Kyiv would like awarded to Ukrainian busi– should be emphasized that the Ukrainian lished). Letters are accepted also via e-mail nesses; European Union and NATO membership for the country; and the Odesa– Congress Committee of America is not a political, but a civic organization, in the at staff(g)ukrweekly.com. The daytime phone Brody oil pipeline. number and address of the letter-writer must United States there are two main politi– During a day on which he met with top state and government officials, as well as be given for verification purposes. Please with opposition leaders, Mr. Armitage repeatedly stressed free and fair democratic cal parties, Democratic and Republican note that a daytime phone number is essen– and many Ukrainian civic and communi– tial in order for editors to contact letter-writ– (Continued on page 27) ty leaders belong to either party. ers regarding clarifications or questions. NO. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL з, 2005 і

Yiew from the Cfiembita SfjDunge BY ANDREW FEDYNSKY by Taras Szmagala Jr. Do we put our faith first? Heroes in red robes "Boy, that wedding was odd," my our Catholic faith to spend that money Even at such proximity, it's safe to say co-equal branch of government, along friend Marko said from the barstool next when there are men sleeping under that Ukraine's Orange Revolution changed with the Congress and the executive. to mine. He swirled his drink and contin– benches outside of this classroom?" the course of history. Above all, it thwarted Ukraine never enjoyed the protections ued with his unsolicited review of a Of course, father did not - indeed, he viadimir Putin's aspirations to undo the that an independent judiciary provides, recent Roman Catholic wedding mass could not - propose to have the one cor– outcome of the Cold War by restoring the instead, Russian tsars and Soviet commis– that we both attended, "it was so infor– rect answer to his question. But his chal– Russian empire. Now, the Orange sars ruled by personal whim and brute force. mal, don't you think? Yeah, the 'Ave lenge energized the class, and allowed us Revolution is serving as a model for Throughout the 20th century, mind-boggling Maria' was nice, but the rest of it? Too to begin exploring what it means to be democracy, human rights and independ– numbers of citizens were arrested based on plain for my taste." Having grown up a Christian. What followed was a discus– ence in Lebanon, iran, iraq, Kyrgyzstan their social class, who their relatives were, Ukrainian Catholic, Marko didn't have sion that exposed a certain tension and elsewhere. (Unfortunately, there's no the books they read, whether they spoke much experience in worshipping Latin between the "spiritualists" (those who guarantee that the outcome in those areas Ukrainian and if they did, pronounced the rite-style. stress the importance of ritual and cere– will be as positive as it was in Ukraine.) letter "g." The judges presiding over the "Depends on how you view it," І mony in Church life), and the "social Looking back at the dramatic events of Soviet genocide were merely actors in a responded. "Did you see their church activists" (those who view feeding the November and December 2004, you can giant show trial orchestrated by the secret bulletin?" "No," Marko replied, "what hungry, giving alms to the poor, and see any number of moments when it all police in all its evil incarnations, starting does their bulletin have to do with it?" helping the disadvantaged as being cen– could have unraveled and things might have with the Cheka and ending with the KGB. "Well," 1 recalled, "the mass may not tral to the Church's mission). Students on gone in a completely different direction: if, America, especially my home state of have been ornate enough for you, but the both sides of this classroom debate raised for example, the plot to murder viktor Ohio, has played a key role in helping members of that parish were sure keep– good points: dignified places of worship Yushchenko had succeeded and instead of Ukraine's judiciary develop into an inde– ing busy. Just last week, they organized a are entirely necessary and appropriate, an inauguration, there had been a funeral, pendent institution capable of rendering food drive, a volunteer night at the local and facilitate contemplation, prayer and with Messrs. Kuchma, Yanukovych and history-making decisions, in 1992, a year homeless shelter, and a fund-raising the celebration of the sacraments, in turn, Putin playing the role of chief mourners. after the break-up of the Soviet Union, effort for their sister parish in Guatemala. even the most cursory reading of the What if the call to take to the streets to Chief Justice Thomas Moyer formed a All that, in addition to the women's New Testament reveals Jesus to be a man protest a stolen election had been met with partnership between the Ohio Supreme league, bingo night for their school, and of social action, concerned with human apathy? Or if people had gone home after a Court and Ukraine's Supreme Court and their weekly youth encounter group. That suffering and commanding his followers couple days of winter cold, having decided Rada, with the goal of developing and church didn't seem very plain to me." to take an active role in the world around that winning against entrenched power was strengthening democratic ideals and judi– "So what?" Marko was unimpressed. them. impossible? What if internal Affairs cial institutions in both countries. "Our church does that, too. We sell pyro– The primary lesson that we learned Ministry troops had been unleashed and Justice Moyer took his task seriously, hy to support our elementary schools and that day was that these two sides of the thousands had been killed in a Tiananmen visiting Ukraine five times and welcom– build churches, we send money when same Church are not mutually exclusive, Square-style massacre, or if Russia had ing numerous delegations of Ukrainian natural disasters strike, and we always indeed, they are both necessary, and can intervened and confronted Ukrainian tanks jurists to Ohio. Members of the Ukrainian send lots of money to Ukraine." І con- even complement each other. So what and infantry? What if battles had broken out American legal community - particularly ceded the point, "True enough - our was my lingering problem with Marko? between the drunken bully-boys from my friend and fellow-Clevelander church is good at raising money, some- And what continues to trouble me about Donetsk and Yushchenko supporters? Bohdan Futey, himself a judge in the U.S. times when natural disasters strike, but the current state of our Ukrainian The nation's idealism and enthusiasm federal court system - were invaluable in especially when we need to build more Catholic and Orthodox Churches? during the long ordeal, of course, were gen– this and similar projects. churches." it's not that our Ukrainian Churches uine and deeply held and Mr. Yushchenko Recently, 1 was at a symposium in "What's wrong with nice churches?" are too "spiritual" at the expense of was masterful in steering it all in a positive Columbus, "On the Orange Revolution, the Marko asked, incredulously. "What, do social activism. One need only look at direction. Bolstered by a mandate from Yushchenko Presidency and the Future of you want to worship God in one of those Patriarch Husar's level of involvement in millions of orange-clad people, he showed Ukraine," where Chief Justice Moyer stucco 1970s-style McChurches with a Ukrainian civic life, including his apos– a steely resolve and faith that the rule of chaired a panel that included judges from bare altar and all the spirituality of your tolic mandate to his priests to become law would prevail. And ultimately it did. the Odesa Appellate Arbitrage Court, the local Howard Johnson's? That's your more socially active, to know that the When people finally had a chance on Appellate Court in Luhansk, a Civil Court problem, Taras - you see the Church as Ukrainian Catholic Church is taking its December 26 to vote freely, openly and from the Zaporizhia Oblast and the Supreme some sort of social service organization social obligations seriously. And certain– fairly, the electorate affirmed the decision Court. Near the end of the session, Justice on steroids. But the Church isn't United ly the Ukrainian Churches have played, that the streets had already made. Moyer asked the panel to assess the impact Way with incense - it's a place where and continue to play, important roles With all that, arguably the most momen– of the December 3 ruling on Ukraine's judi– one worships God, receives the sacra– within our community. tous of all the turning points was the judg– cial system and society in general. ments and preserves our spiritual her– But when we say we are "Ukrainian ment that Ukraine's Supreme Court ren– "We're here as judges," Supreme Court itage." Catholic" or "Ukrainian Orthodox," do dered on December 3 invalidating the fraud– Justice Oleksander Potylchak replied. "We І had to admit Marko had a point, but we mean it in that order? in other words, ulent election and ordering a new one. in my just rule on the facts and let the politics flow something was still bothering me. As І are we "Ukrainian" first, and "Catholic" view, that signaled Ukraine's emergence as a from there." Here, Civil Judge viktor pondered my response, my mind wan– or "Orthodox" second? Do we preserve mature society that not only has laws, but Horodovenko interrupted him: "Oleksander dered back 25 years to the first time І our spiritual heritage to enhance our also a courageous judiciary willing to affirm ivanovych is too modest," he said. "Based became intellectually curious about my sacramental life, or our national pride? them, along with a populace that accepts its on the facts and the law, the Supreme faith. І was a freshman at St. ignatius And is our attendance at Sunday liturgy decisions and goes on from there. Court's December 3 decision was correct, to High School, a Jesuit institution located an act of faith, or an act of ethnicity? Following widespread reports of elec– be sure, but it took enormous courage. Thus, in a poor inner-city Cleveland neighbor- Like my Jesuit theology teacher, 1 will tion fraud, the 21 red-robed members of the court gave official voice to the over- hood, and our class was being confronted admit not having the answers to these the Supreme Court gathered evidence whelming desire of Ukrainians for a demo– by a priest who had a question for us. questions - but 1 suggest they are ques– from every corner of Ukraine, evaluated cratic country, one where people and the "What did you see when you walked by tions worth asking. it and then ruled that unequal access to government play by the rules. That judg– our front door into school today?" he in this LentenTEaster season (depend– the media, voter suppression, ballot box ment, in turn, empowered the entire judici– asked. Silence. The question was repeat– ing on whether you observe the Julian or stuffing and other fraud had negated the ary," he said - from the municipal level to ed. Still, silence. Finally, a classmate the Gregorian calendar) as 1 critically election. Reading the decision, Chief the very top, indeed, the entire nation itself- slowly raised his hand. "A homeless guy examine my own approach to these issues, Justice Anatolii Yarema said, "The con- to render fair, impartial decisions in the diffi– sleeping under the bench? was his tenta– it occurs to me that ethnicity, while impor– elusion of the court is that the rules of the cult job ahead of restructuring Ukraine's tive reply. "Yes," the Jesuit replied, tant, cannot be the central focus of one's electoral law were broken and the exact "exactly. Now, did you know that a society from one based on corruption and faith. After all, Jesus never said, "Blessed result of the voters' will across the terri– Catholic parish in Shaker Heights is privilege to one oriented on the rule of law. are the Ukrainians, for they are the best tory of Ukraine cannot be ascertained." planning a multi-million dollar renova– The political and societal impact of that on ethnic group." Rather, ethnicity must only tion to its church building? My question By its decision, the Ukrainian Supreme Ukraine has been enormous. But before complement, not supplant, the call of our to this class today is: is it consistent with Court not only made it possible for the will Judge Horodovenko could finish, Odesa Churches to spirituality and social action. of the Ukrainian electorate to be freely Judge valerii Balukh interrupted him with a By putting our faith first, we can derive expressed and accurately counted, it also one-word assessment of the Supreme Taras Szmagala Jr. is a Cleveland more meaning from the rich mysticism established the court as an honest, neutral Court's work: "Heroyi!" (Heroes!) based attorney and third-generation and spirituality of our Church, and ensure arbiter for the nation. This is a principle Ukrainian history has many warriors, Ukrainian American. Mr. Szmagala may that it remains relevant in American socie– American society has accepted since 1803, scholars, artists, clergy and activists who be reached at SzmagalaQyahoo.com ty for years to come. when the Supreme Court in Marbury vs. became heroes in the struggle for Ukraine's Madison declared an act of Congress freedom and independence. Now we can SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE UKRA1N1AN WEEKLY. invalid, thus establishing itself as the third, add another category: judges who take their Send contributions to: The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund, oaths seriously and have the courage to rule Andrew Fedynsky s e-mail address is: impartially in the face of enormous pressure 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 fedynskyQstratos.net. from powerful interests. Heroes, indeed! 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL З, 2OOS No. 14 Ukrainian Canadian Restitution Act passes second reading OTTAWA - The Ukrainian Canadian Liberal government deal with this issue," Restitution Act, Bill C-331, passed its adding "One million Ukrainian Canadians second reading in the House of Commons have waited too many years for the recog– on Thursday, March 24, receiving the nition that they deserve. The previous support of members of Parliament from prime minister promised to correct this all four parties in the House. injustice and it was a promise broken. Will The measure, introduced as a private this Liberal government leave a similar member's bill by inky Mark, Conservative legacy? Acknowledgment is not too much member of Parliament from Dauphin- to ask. Canadians and the Liberal govern– Swan River-Marquette (Manitoba), now ment must accept our history for what it goes to the House of Commons Standing is, learn from it, and give justice to those Committee on Canadian Heritage before from the Ukrainian community." proceeding for its third and final reading Commenting on behalf of the in the House of Commons. Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Mr. Mark said during debate in the Association, which has been in the fore- House of Commons: "During World War І front of efforts to secure redress for the the Canadian government unjustly 1914-1920 internment operations, interned more than 8,000 Canadians of Chairman John B. Gregorovich said: Ukrainian and Eastern European heritage "The Ukrainian Canadian Restitution Act in labor camps throughout Canada. For 85 enjoys the endorsement of the Bloc years the federal government has refused Quebecois, the NDP and the Conservative to acknowledge that this event occurred. Party of Canada, and even of some My bill is a resolution to the fight for Liberals, like Borys Wrzesnewskyj, who recognition that has gone on for 20 years." was courageous enough to stand up for Dimitns Soudas Bill C-331 has been endorsed by what is right. We are, of course, especial– in the House of Commons on March 24 (from left) are: MP inky Mark, sponsor groups representing Canada's Ukrainian ly grateful to the Honorable Stephen of the Ukrainian Canadian Restitution Act, Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, research direc– community, it has also been supported by Harper for so unambiguously underscor– tor of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and MP Stephen the Conservative Party of Canada, the ing his support, and that of the Harper, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Bloc Quebecois, the New Democratic Conservative Party of Canada, for redress Party, as well as some Liberal members to the Ukrainian Canadian community." of Parliament. Mr. Gregorovich added: "We look for– FOR THE RECORD: Statement Speaking in favor of the bill on March ward to passage of Bill C-331 and to 24 were: Stephen Harper, leader of the negotiating a comprehensive settlement Conservative Party of Canada, Bernard with the government of Canada, hopefully by Conservative Party leader Bigras from the Bloc Quebecois, Borys while the last known survivor of the Below is the text of a statement by Congress, the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Wrzesnewskyj of the Liberal Party, Joy internment operations, Mary Manko, can Member of Parliament Stephen Harper, Liberties Association, and in particular, Smith, Conservative MP from Kildonan– still bear witness to such a historic recon– leader of the Conservative Party of Prof. Lubomyr Luciuk for their tireless St. Paul (Manitoba) and James Bezan, ciliation. As Mr. Harper noted, Mary turns Canada, on Bill C-331 delivered in the efforts to promote awareness of the Conservative MP representing Selkirk 97 this summer, and we would all like to House of Commons on March 24. internment of Ukrainian Canadians dur– interlake (Manitoba). (The text of present her with the gift of closure. She ing the first world war. Without their remarks by MPs Harper and deserves at least that much for what she Mr. Speaker, 1 rise today to address an efforts, we would likely not be having Wrzesnewskyj appear on the right.) and her family endured during Canada's important and dark chapter in Canadian this debate today in Parliament. And, At the conclusion of the debate, the first national internment operations." history. unfortunately, without their advocacy, bill was given unanimous consent by the The Ukrainian Canadian community's І am pleased to give my support for this chapter of Canadian history would House of Commons. campaign for redress has been ongoing Bill C-331. Bill C-331 is an act to recog– be largely forgotten today. Mr. Mark argued that "it is time that the for two decades. nize the injustice that was done to per– І would like to thank my colleague, sons of Ukrainian descent and other the Conservative member of Parliament Europeans who were interned at the time from Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette of the first world war. it is to provide for tlnky MarkJ, 1 thank him for bearing the public commemoration and for redress torch for redress of this historic wrong, which is to be devoted to public educa– And for his leadership in working to tion and the promotion of tolerance. finally close this painful chapter of Ukrainian Summer Please allow me to begin by first rec– ognizing the Ukrainian Canadian (Continued on page 17) Appears May 1 in The Ukrainian Weekly

Travel to Ukraine and learn about your heritage... FOR THE RECORD: Remarks Focus on Ukrainian studies, and І by MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj Or relax and enjo^^^^^^^ tfc^ Following is the text of remarks by up our national mosaic. However, І at the ever-popm^l Borys Wrzesnewskyj, member of mentioned that today 1 rose with a heavy Parliament for Etobicoke-Center heart, it is because 1 also know that to (Liberal Party of Canada) delivered on make our Canada an even greater coun– How will you enjoy March 24 in the House of Commons dur– try, we must have the courage to Read our special section for ing the debate on Bill C-331, the acknowledge the dark episodes in our know on great Ukrainian Canadian Restitution Act. country's past. While some would have preferred to sweep the tragic episode of Mr. Speaker, it is with a heavy heart the internment operations from 1914 to EDITORIAL 8L ADVER– that 1 rise today to speak to Bill C-331, a 1920 into the dustbin of history, the SUBMIT ARTICLES ON UPCOMINO Private Member's Bill that seeks to rec– Ukrainian Canadian community remem– WORKSHOPS AND OTHER EvENTS (j ognize the injustices that were done to bers and through public acknowledge– TYPED AND DOUBLE-SPACED) persons of Ukrainian descent at the time ment by the government it seeks to . 4 І?АКЕ ADVANTAGE OF A FREE ONE-LINE LISTING IN OUR SUMMER of the first world war. Let me begin by bring closure to a painful episode in our тшт CALENDAR (INDICATE DATE, TYPE OF EVENT AND PLACE). congratulating the member for Dauphin- common history. Swan River-Marquette flnky MarkJ for We should congratulate the Ukrainian SEND EDITORIAL COPY TO: the work he has done to bring the issue Canadian Congress and the Ukrainian THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY of the internment of Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association in 2200 ROUTE 10, P.O. Box 280, Canadians to this House. The bill under– their determination to make sure that scores the need to publicly commemo– there is a proper acknowledgement. PARSIPPANY, NJ 07054 rate this tragic event through public edu– OK E-MAIL if то: STAFF^UKRWEEKLY.COM in the decades following Canada's cation initiatives so as to lead to an confederation, thousands of Ukrainians atonement. FORE ADVERTISING RATES SC INFORMATION: were encouraged to leave their homeland І love Canada and believe that CAIX 973-292-9800 (EXT, 3040) and embark on an arduous journey that Canada is unique internationally; the took them to some of the most remote Canada that i've known for the last parts of western Canada. These settlers number of decades has been a shining faced very harsh living conditions under example of multiculturalism. We do not isolated circumstances with little in the THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY just tolerate our differences, we cele– brate the people and cultures that make (Continued on page 22) No. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY APRIL З, 2OOS 9

FOCUS on PHILATELY by lngert Kuzych

Ukraine's first express mail service Background until the fall of the empire at the end of World War 1 in November of 1918. Express mail service has been around Figure 2 is a wartime cover dispatched for a lot longer than most people realize, from Lemberg to Krakow on June 26, in the U.S. it began on an experimental 1917. The 75-heller1 franking is corn- basis in 1970; it was made a permanent postal service in 1977. However, the posed as follows: 20 heller for an over- roots of expedited postal service go back weight letter, 25 heller for registration, much, much further. The Austrian and 30 heller for express delivery. A Empire was one of the first countries to Krakow receiving mark on the reverse of introduce express mailings for domestic the envelope indicates that the item mail on October 1, 1859. The service was arrived the same day. initially only available locally within cer– On November 1, 1918, Western tain cities, but gradually it became an Ukraine (the eastern part of the Austrian inter-city service. province of Galicia) declared its inde– Figure 1 is a cover (a mailed enve– pendence from the Empire. Western Ukraine's first stamps were produced in lope) sent from Lemberg (today's Lviv) Figure 3. Rare cover displays all five stamps released by the Western Ukrainian to vienna on October 16, 1871. The 30- Lviv (the new capital), but the city fell to the Poles just as the stamps were to be government on December 12,1918. The 1076 and 10712 sotyk values in the upper kreuzer franking (applied postage) on the right were produced in very low quantities and sold out on December 23, the day cover breaks down as follows: 5 kreuzer released and so they did not see much 2 this letter was posted. for letter transmittal, 10 kreuzer for regis– use. tration and 15 kreuzer for express deliv– The next Western Ukrainian stamps ery. Although it was not a requirement, were created in Kolomyia. On December most express letters were registered. 12, 1918, five different Western The efficient Austrian postal service Ukrainian stamps were put into circula– continued the express service right up tion. Four of these consisted of the over-

Figure 4. This registered cover sent from Kolomyia to Stanyslaviv has several indications on it showing that it was an express delivery.

print "Ykp. H.P." (UkrfainianJ NfationalJ express delivery 1 hryvnia and 20 Rfepublic) and a new value. The fifth sotyks.4 Figure 1. A 19th century cover showing an early instance of express mail - from was an entirely unique Western Figure 4 is an express cover mailed Lemberg (Lviv) to vienna. Ukrainian registration stamp prepared at from Kolomyia to Stanyslaviv5 on May a local print shop. Figure 3 shows all five 20, 1919. Three things on the envelope of these stamps on a registered letter indicate that it is express: the "exp" mailed December 23, 1918. abbreviation in the upper center, the "x" The Western Ukrainian government through the middle of the cover (short- initially retained the Austrian postal hand for "express"), and the 2 hryvni 10 rates; a letter still cost 20 heller (or sotyk franking (40-sotyk letter rate, 50- sotyks, the Ukrainian name) to send, sotyk registration, and 1.20-hryvni while registry was raised slightly to 30 express fee). The amount is made up sotyks. The cover in Figure 3, therefore, with 1.60 in Austrian heller, which is slightly overfranked (totaling 65 remained valid in Western Ukraine as sotyks) since only 50 sotyks were sotyks, and the 50-sotyk registration required. (This overfranking was inten– stamp. tional on the part of the sender in order Figure 5 is also an express cover, but it to show all the stamps of the set.) Note is harder to detect since there is no the Ukrainian-language boxed "Censor7 "express" inscription of any type. An "x" Kolomyia" marking, since this letter was was applied across the cover, but it is quite transmitted under wartime conditions. (Continued on page 18) Western Ukrainian express mail Also retained by the Western 1 A new monetary system went into effect Ukrainian government was the Austrian in Austria on January 1, 1900; two new heller express mail service, which therefore equaled one old kreuzer. became the first Ukrainian express mail 2 Despite the fact that eastern Galicia was 3 overwhelmingly Ukrainian in population, service. To date, 1 have not come across Poland claimed the territory and set about try– any express mail covers from 1918, but І ing to take it by force. have been able to acquire two from the 3 Although the much larger eastern following year. Ukraine had broken free of Russia earlier (de The ongoing war with Poland created facto November 20, 1917, de jure January many hardships, and the Western 22, 1918), its postal system never had an Ukrainian postal service soon felt it express mail service (neither did Russia). 4 100 sotyks equaled 1 hryvnia. needed more income to sustain its servic– 5 Stanyslaviv at this time functioned as the es. On January 1, 1919, postal tariffs Western Ukrainian capital, but it would fall to Figure 2. World War 1 cover illustrating express service between Lemberg and were raised as follows: letter rate 40 the Poles five days later. Today the city's Krakow. The marking on the reverse indicates same-day delivery. sotyks, registration 50 sotyks, and name is ivano-Frankivsk. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL З, 2OOS No. 14 CONCERT REviEW: Pianist Juliana Osinchuk at the Lyceum by Zdanna Krawciw principles of romantic music. Based on tener at least, this portion of the program final work in the program was Liszt's the writings of Jean Paul, it is a musical was the highlight of the afternoon. Two transcription of the waltzes from ALEXANDRIA, va. - The 2004-2005 description of a masked ball. The varia– pieces from "Glanes de Woronice," Gounod's opera "Faust," and here Dr. Music Series sponsored by The tions are whimsical delightful portraits of "Ballade Ukraine" and "Complainte," Osinchuk had the opportunity to show- Washington Group Cultural Fund under the various characters who participate in which were written under the influence case her spectacular technique. The the patronage of the Embassy of Ukraine the festivities, and the music requires the of Liszt's visits to an estate in western show-stopping performance brought her presented a recital by pianist Juliana performer to quickly change moods while Ukraine, used themes from popular a standing ovation from an appreciative Osinchuk on Sunday, March 13, at the preserving the integrity of the whole. Dr. Ukrainian folk songs and the familiar audience and she responded with an Lyceum in Alexandria, Уа. Osinchuk succeeded in evoking the melodies resonated with this audience. encore, a brilliant etude by Moritz Dr. Osinchuk is a versatile pianist per– excitement of the entire piece, but the con– in the four "Consolations" chosen for Moszkowski. forming internationally both as soloist trasts between the different personalities this program, Dr. Osinchuk exhibited a After the concert there was a reception and as chamber musician. She is also an depicted could have been more dramatic. active educator, developing music work- lovely lyrical tone and created the inti– to provide an opportunity to meet the artist shops for students and presenting lecture- The first half of the program conclud– mate quiet mood that is characteristic of and to honor the Cultural Fund's founder recitals for professional and community ed with two works by American contem– these lovely short pieces of music. The and former director, Laryssa Courtney. groups. As a champion of contemporary porary composers, in the "Raconto for American music, Dr. Osinchuk has pre– Piano Solo" by Lawrence Moss, a mem– miered numerous works to great critical ber of the music faculty at the University acclaim. of Maryland who was able to attend the The recital at the Lyceum showcased recital, Dr. Osinchuk succeeded in weav– her talents both as a piano virtuoso and ing the complex tonal relationships of the as an excellent raconteur. The commen– work into a lovely paysage. tary provided by Dr. Osinchuk about the Philip Munger is an Alaskan composer various works on the program was quite and Dr. Osinchuk, who is also a resident interesting and added to the intimate feel– of Alaska, has premiered several of his ing of this pleasant Sunday afternoon works. The composition presented on concert. Sunday was the "Kokinhenik Toccata, The opening work on the program was Op. 39" which refers to the Kokinhenik the Sonata in C Major by Dmytro island in Alaska. The turbulent beginning Bortniansky, the featured Ukrainian corn- and ending of the work emulate the fury poser, who is well-known for his choral of the water surrounding the island, while works. Hearing this piano Sonata, written the slow brooding middle section sug– in the classical style of Mozart, was a gests its mystery. Dr. Osinchuk's reading revelation, it was interesting to discover of the work proved her to be a particular– that the master of choral liturgical music ly adept interpreter of contemporary also contributed to the wealth of piano music with the ability to analyze and literature. understand its complex structure. A short elegant Rondo by Hummel, The second part of the program was another contemporary of Mozart, was fol– devoted to the music of Liszt. Dr. lowed by a rendition of Schumann's Osinchuk seems to have a particular Pianist Juliana Osinchuk meets fellow Alaskan, Sen. Ted Stevens, following her "Papillons," a work that embodies all the affinity for Liszt's music and, for this lis– concert on March 13 in Alexandria, Ya. DRAMA REviEW: "Koliada: Twelves Dishes" at LaMama Theater of musical arrangements by Mariana bles are placed on a tablecloth reminis– Sadovska. cent of a canvas. Their scents drift Music is important throughout the toward the audience members, causing play. Hutsul koliadnyky ivan Zelenchuk them to reinterpret their perception of and Dmytro Tafiychuk sing and at one everyday objects just as Zhadan's poems point play a trembita from a ramp above do. His poems cause us to contemplate the stage. This adds an especially the associations with objects such as Ukrainian touch since they sing in a tra– "Honey," "Mushrooms," "Fish" and ditional style, while most of the play "Potatoes." in another visually stimulat– seems to transcend specific culture. This ing image, cabbage falls from up above, is one of the play's strongest points, it neon green leaves landing with a thud brings Ukrainian culture to a universal against the black floor. level. At the end of the play, the table is in the play, visual images become pushed toward the audience. The mem– poems in themselves. Upon first glance, bers in the front row are actually sitting the set designed by Watoku Ueno seems at the table. They are given a spoonful of simple, but when the play begins audi– kutia, joining the spirits, emphasizing the ence members discover its intricacies. communal nature of the Christmas Eve Shadows add to the ethereal atmosphere, dinner and of the artistic experience of in one scene, colorful fruits and vegeta– viewing the play.

Allison Hiroto, Andrew Colteaux and Siho Elsmore as the spirits who come to dinner in Yara's "Koliada: Twelve Dishes."

by Olena Jennings The play is framed by the Christmas Eve dinner. A lonely Ukrainian woman NEW YORK - "Koliada: Twelve played by Olga Shuhan prepares dinner, Dishes," performed by the Yara Arts goes outside with an ax, which she taps Group at the LaMama Theater in New against a bowl, calling the spirits and York City on March 4-20 is a collage of past, present, pagan and Christian tradi– bears to the table, "if you don't come tions. Ukrainian and English are also when 1 invite you, then don't come at all," interwoven in traditional folk song and she says. When she falls asleep, the spirits spoken word, which includes the poetry enter her house and prepare to feast. of contemporary Ukrainian writer Serhiy The spirits are played by Andrew Zhadan. Colteaux, Olenka Denysenko, George "Koliada" was created in a theater Drance, Siho Ellsmore, Allison Hiroto workshop that took place in Kyiv during and vira Slywotzky. Even in her silence, the Orange Revolution, but the idea was Siho Ellsmore conveyed emotion in her conceived during director virlana vivid expressions. The confidence of Mr. Tkacz's research travels in the Colteaux's movements stood out as the Carpathian Mountains, where many of spirits danced rhythmically on stage. Ms. the rituals invoked in the play are still Hiroto also stuns with the poignancy of practiced. her voice during the cast's performance Hutsul "koliadnyky" ivan Zelenchuk and Dmytro Tafiychuk. No. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL З, 2005 11 Ukrainian institute of Modern Art to present work of Aka Pereyma CH1CAGO - The Ukrainian institute Ukrainian cultural identity, Ms. Pereyma her family to Ukraine in 1939, and of Modern Art (U1MA) presents the received the Outstanding Ukrainian come to the United States as a post-war body of work of artist Aka Pereyma in a Artist medal awarded by the government refugee in 1959. Her formal art studies comprehensive exhibition of drawings, of Ukraine in 2001, and in 2004 she was were at the School of Art institute of watercolors, oils, mixed media, sculp– a recipient of the Ohio Heritage Chicago, the Dayton Art institute and tures and ceramics - a celebration of the Fellowship for her artistry in ceramics the Hobart School of Welding artist's significant contribution to con- and pysanky. Technology. temporary Ukainian art and culture and The exhibition "Aka Pereyma, 40 Ms. Pereyma has been exhibiting her art in general. Years of Creativity: 1965-2005" opens at work yearly since 1967 in solo and group A versatile artist, Ms. Pereyma the U1MA on April 10, where it will be shows in North America, and in frequent draws inspiration for her work from the on view through May 22. The opening exhibitions - some 30 - in cities through- traditions and artistic expressions of reception will be held on April 24 at 1-6 out Ukraine since the country's inde– her Ukrainian heritage. While deeply p.m., with a gallery talk by the artist at 4 pendence in 1991. rooted in ancient Ukrainian folklore p.m. As part of her frequent visits to and vibrantly colorful folk art, her An exhibition catalogue, printed in Ukraine, Ms. Pereyma has been present work is strikingly contemporary in Ukraine as a publication of Fine Arts at several openings of her traveling exhi– expression. Magazine, Kyiv, with Mykola bitions and continues to study and Her art often draws on the richness of Marechevskyy, editor, will be available at explore the traditional arts of her home- Ukrainian folk art as a symbolic form the opening reception on April 24. Price: land. and is often generated by the power of S20; order requests may be sent to the Every year, since 1986, in order to nature, just as the very rhythms of nature U1MA by mail: 2320 W. Chicago Ave., show the influence of the "pysanka" on defined the visual expression of Chicago, 1L. 60622; telephone, (773) her art, Ms. Pereyma exhibits her works Ukraine's ancient culture found on ves– 227-5522; or, e-mail, uimaФnetzero.net. with pysanky, which were made by her sels, monolithic pre-Christain sculpture, The U1MA gallery hours are sister Tanya Osadca first in the United ritualistic objects, including always the Wednesday through Sunday, noon - 4 States and, since 1991, in Ukraine. simplest source of restorative symbolism p.m. For additional information about the Ms. Pereyma is recognized as a - the decorated egg or pysanka. exhibit contact Ms. Kuchma, chair of the Merited Artist of Ukraine by the Ms. Pereyma has had a distinguished U1MA Art Committee, at (773) 227-5445 Ukrainian government, and holds a place career as an artist and has earned a num– or visit the website www.uima-art.org. of honor in her hometown in the Troy ber of awards recognizing her originality Hail of Fame. of composition, perfection and depth of The artist creates work in seven work- detail, richness of color and her certainty Aka Pereyma (nee Klym) was born stations on the family's nearly 400-acre of vision. For her contribution to Cranes," mixed media, 1995-1998. in 1927 in Siedlce, Poland, moved with farm in Troy, Ohio. Daughter and colleagues share reflections on the artist The egg came first a good future was always present, but the same time she held tightly to what stood the mystery of its fertility, the male was often obscured by the momentous she valued, a Ukrainian island in an and female sexuality implicit in its frag– by Christina Pereyma O'Neal and overwhelming realities of war and American stream. ile oval form. As it was in the beginning, emigrant uncertainty. in 1960 we settled in our home in My mother, Aka Pereyma, was born is now and ever shall be; the egg was Her arrival in New York was accom– Troy, Ohio. Ukrainian traditions were September 30, 1927. Like other Aka's cornerstone, in the Pereyma panied with the usual degree of fear; no always present in our lives. On holidays Ukrainians of her generation, the road to household, there was never any doubt: common language, living on pennies, like Christmas, Easter and the summer a good life was unpredictable. Her early "The egg came first." hard work, solitude and three young chil– solstice, we sang emotional folk songs life was rich in Ukrainian traditions and in the 1960s Aka went to art school. dren to raise in the inner city. While her with unending verses about love and life atmosphere. Her parents were school She was confident and bold. The pysan– husband, Constantine, completed his spe– and even black chickens, in the early teachers in a rural area. They experi– ka's iconography, its vibrancy and mean– cialty training in surgery, she endured years in Troy we gathered Ukrainians enced seasonal rhythms, holidays and ingful lines were part of her personal lex- long hours alone. She lived the sharp together for spectacular celebrations of celebrations, in her first decade she icon. Abstraction of recognizable and not double-edged sword of the immigrant just being Ukrainian. We listened to the enjoyed a stable family life. quite graspable reality is inherent in the experience, where freedom and hope are distinctive complex harmonies of their decorated egg. Aka saw that the leap to The decorating of the pysanka, a tempered with the heartbreaking loss of many voices, in the summers, we became modem forms and sensibilities was easi– Ukrainian decorated Easter egg, was an her Ukrainian home. The family strug– a Ukrainian village for all the city- ly made. Forms derived from nature, like essential annual tradition that was prac– gled with questions of how and where to dwelling cousins, grandparents, aunts on the pysanka, were more interesting to ticed in her home. She vividly remem– build a life for themselves. Aka became a and uncles. At home we were taught that her. The essential forms are constant, but bers the warmth and importance of those resourceful turtle, carrying her home the pysanka was an essential part of our are infinite in their variations. moments. She learned the techniques, as with her wherever she went. Those diffi– ancestral identity, often discussed over She worked and continues to work in soon as she was able to grasp the kystka, cult early years in America formed the plates of borsch and varenyky. many media. Confronting a blank can– the decorating tool. Decorating the egg's beginning of her artistic endeavors. She The legend that places decorating the vas, a lump of clay, a pile of scrap iron, pearly surface taught her the fundamen– repainted the interior of our Brooklyn pysanka at the center of mankind's sur– or that clean surface of the egg never tals of design: the division of space, the apartment to look like a Ukrainian vival was retold many times in our primacy of the line, the use and control schoolroom. She visited metropolitan intimidates her. She steadfastly works on household: The story of the monster in themes that concern seasons, nature, of color and the importance of filling an museums and galleries, her first exposure the mountains bound by chains, each link empty space. Those who have attempted to modern and contemporary art. in quiet home, love, life, death and sex. Aka in the chain magically growing stronger makes literal references to Ukrainian it know how extremely difficult it is to moments at home, she began to draw. At with every egg we decorate. We under– control the line on a small three-dimen– folk songs and atavistic symbols. She sional object. Even for the expert, the art deconstructs her Ukrainianess. form must be practiced diligently to per– Her never-ending series of birds, fect the symmetry and elegance of a sculptural and graphic, could have been masterfully decorated pysanka. This plucked from the face of a pysanka. They work possesses a strong spiritual value; a have the linear quality of the simple sil– legacy that has been passed from genera– houettes that appear on decorated eggs. tion to generation and maintains a conti– The welded birds are part of a folk7prim- nuity of belief that stretches back to pre– itive tradition that uses found objects to historic, pagan times. Aka carries this create art that has a physical and spiritual and other Ukrainian traditions within meaning, viewers recognize individual her; they saturate her sense of self and elements that comprise each bird - a hoe, continuously influence her dreams and a knife, or a sickle - and metaphorically creative impulses. connect these elements to their own experiences. Her life changed dramatically at the in the series of poetry drawings she onset of the second world war. Over the connects the enigma of the written form next 20 years Aka endured an unsettled directly to prehistoric scratchings that are nomadic existence passing through found in Ukrainian archeological sites. Ukraine, Poland, Germany, finally land– Clearly these star lines are a form of ing in America. She endured the same communication, incomprehensible in hardships of other displaced Ukrainians: their specific meanings, but the clear no home and no possibility of return. intent to express is unmistakably there. Running, fear, survival, family, hunger Her ceramic plates decorated using and death were her constant companions. incised and wax resist techniques are in These operatic themes defined her ado– "Girl Picking the Fern Blossom," oil on canvas, from the series "Ukrainian Folk lescence and young adulthood. Hope for Songs." (Continued on page 23) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL З, 2005 No. 14

behavior of the Ukrainian people. There First Lady... were extremes of emotions - from exhila– ration to anger, from joy to fear. (Continued from page 1) prepared for a week of events that includ– Through it all, viktor and 1 never real– ed her son's first birthday. Other items on ly questioned why we were there, it was the agenda were the visit of Georgian clear; there was a reason for it all. We never talked about it. We both knew that President Mikhail Saakashvili and his God had put us and many other people wife with a myriad social, cultural and here at this particular time, in this partic– humanitarian events, a series of meetings ular place. This was a very pivotal time with her foundation, Ukraina 3000, and in Ukrainian history and we were all preparations for her upcoming return to meant to play our little part. the United States - now as a citizen of Ukraine. She will be accompanying І have to admit that 1 often had doubts President Yushchenko on his first official and fears. On November 21, the night of visit to the White House. the second election, 1 asked viktor: "What happens now?" He answered: "it Mrs. Yushchenko, who was inter- is now all in the hands of the people." І viewed in mid-March, spoke candidly asked him: "Do you think they are about her feelings and concerns. (Editor's ready?" He assured me: "They have had note: The transcript that follows was enough. Of course they are." He was given to Mrs. Yushchenko last week for very confident; he never had any doubts. her review prior to publication.) There were a few evenings when І What molded you?; why such a thought 1 should return to our home and strong commitment to Ukraine? pack food and clothes - not to leave the country - but in case we were arrested. There are several factors that made me There were a number of threats to kidnap so strongly committed to Ukraine. The or kill me or the children - not to speak first was my family. As with many diaspo– of threats to viktor's life. All our family ra Ukrainians, our conversations around - children, grandchildren lived in another the dinner table almost always revolved family's home for more than four around my father talking about the months; we had security that would dou– Famine, the Stalin years and the war. ble-up when they feared an armed attack. Discussions about Ukraine were While 1 thought 1 might have to send the omnipresent in our family - both the won– children to close friends, there was never derful and the tragic aspects of our history. a time when 1 thought 1 should leave the And there always seemed to be Ukrainian country. І could never do that to viktor. it music in our home, sentimental, nostalgic. was history in the making, it was just too A second factor was my first two trips important. І had to be here. to Ukraine: in 1975 with my mother and in 1979 alone. These two months really How did the children respond to all changed my life. My first trip here made of this? me want to live in Ukraine, it made me The children were viktor's biggest sup- want to return someday, whether as a port system. All of the family was together diplomat or banker. At that time, it became during the Revolution. І remember that he an overriding desire in my life to come came home after a particularly difficult back; 1 was 13 and had a slightly romanti– day and the three little ones were marching cized version of Ukraine. І met with family around the house, chanting: "Together we Kateryna Yushchenko with her children, Chrystyna, 4, Taras, 1, and Sophia, 6. in both Kyiv and the Donbas, and 1 was are many and we shall overcome" (Razom touched by the folk songs my family sang, nas bahato і nas ne podolaty). That, of When he does ask my opinion or to take Foundation will continue its work on the the green parks, the evening walks in a city course, had to bring a smile to his face. on a project, 1 accept this responsibility Ukrainian Famine-Genocide by sponsoring that seemed so safe and crime-free. Yet, І What made me happy was the fact that very seriously. Through the years, 1 have a massive collection of witness testimonies also knew that 1 was followed everywhere І realized that these children, like chil– come to learn that viktor has a very good similar to the Spielberg Shoah Project. Our І went; my mother and 1 were brutally dren throughout Ukraine, would never be sense of both the strategy and tactics need– foundation will support the government's searched at Boryspil (to this day, whenever overcome, and no matter what else hap– ed for Ukraine. He is a very strong decision efforts to create a Famine museum and a we go through the УІР gates, 1 remember pened, no one on the maidan (square) maker. My advice is often supplemental. Famine monument. We also want to popu– that terrible experience in 1975), there would ever be a slave to a regime again. larize the tradition, initiated by the late Dr. were red banners hanging in the streets, it These young people would be different. How do you see your role as the James Mace, of lighting a candle in memo– was a strange juxtaposition between good That we were on the maidan every day First Lady of Ukraine? ry of our ancestors, so that this great tragedy and evil - something out of a spy novel. becomes a part of our national conscious– was very important to me; we walked І believe that 1 have one of the most The third event that made a major dif– ness. On the 75th anniversary, we hope to around and talked to the people, it gave wonderful jobs in the whole world. І can ference for me was a speech by Gen. organize an international world conference me a lot of strength and positive energy pursue so many interests that 1 have, and Petro Grigorenko (dissident and founder of leaders to commemorate the people who to be among people from all corners of have much more effect than before. І will of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group) on died. We also want to distribute literature to Ukraine. І wanted them to know that we be taking over my husband's foundation, Daley Plaza in Chicago in 1979.1 remem– all Ukrainian families about the Famine so were with them and that we were all in Ukraina 3000, which for three years has ber that he said: "1 believe that 1 will still this together. There was such an amazing that they are aware of their history. see an independent Ukraine in my life- sponsored projects in three areas: Ukraine outpouring of goodness, of positive emo– Yesterday, Ukraine Today, and Ukraine We will concentrate our efforts also on time." І saw so many people, young and tions. God held the hand of every indi– Tomorrow. Under Ukraine Yesterday, we social issues that trouble Ukraine. These old, with tears in their eyes. And, 1 real– vidual there and all of this made each and supported projects on the topic of Ukraine's will include the integration of the dis– ized that if he, in his elderly years, truly every one a better person. Everyone who Genocide-Famine, including a film of eye- abled into society, homeless and exploit– believes that, then it must be possible. participated in the Orange Revolution - І witness testimonies, a book, and a website. ed children, orphans and health issues, As a young adult, 1 kept making choic– want them to never forget the positive We also organized an exhibit of Ukrainian including cardiac, tobacco-related, fill– es in my life that brought me back to feelings of the maidan and to maintain clothing design, a periodical for Ukrainian nessesj and Hiv-AlDS. Ukraine. І believe that God leads you that same active role in society, to keep museum managers, a Trypilian archeologi– We plan to address these issues by down a certain path. Whenever 1 had a fighting for freedom and for their rights. cal dig and "Kraina Mriy," a large interna– providing grants to grass-roots communi– choice, for some reason the best decision tional folklore festival organized by Oleh ty organizations that will tackle these always seemed to involve Ukraine. You have said in previous interviews Skrypka of the rock group W issues locally. Whether they work as that your husband does not listen to individuals, small groups, of churches, Under Ukraine Today, we provided Did your faith in God help you get your advice. How has your relation- we want Ukrainians to begin to think in stipends to the families of journalists through the difficult times of the ship changed? You were his biggest the concept of neighbor helping neigh– who perished, sponsored a competition Orange Revolution? supporter through all of this. bor, instead of constantly expecting the for regional journalists, assisted Father's government to take care of all social ills. Without a doubt, it was our belief in Of course, the horror of his illness, House, a shelter for homeless children, Where possible, we will work with other God that got us through the last few when he was so close to death, changed and responded to more than 12,000 let– organizations. For example, we have months. The whole experience was our relationship. There is always a com– ters from families and individuals who already agreed to cooperate with the strange; often 1 wondered if 1 was in a mitment, largely because of children, but asked for support. Klitshchko Brothers Foundation. dream and would awake to see that none this experience made it deeper. Our Ukraine Tomorrow section spon– of this had really happened r the moving viktor respects my advice, but 1 also sored 18 roundtables that brought together You have always been a very civic- announcement speech on Spivoche Pole, know that my advice is not always expect– non-governmental organizations and indi– minded individual, belonging to SUM the campaign stops that were attended by ed or welcome. He is not one to come viduals from around Ukraine to design a (Ukrainian American Youth thousands of Ukrainians with hope in their home and unload and expect feedback. He strategy for Ukraine's development, which Association), later helping establish eyes, the poisoning and threats and other is an introverted thinker. All day he has produced a document, "Manifesto for the Help Us Help the Children, an orphans' dangerous incidents, the hospitalization people telling him what they think he individual," intended to provide a view of aid association. How do you see a civil and return to Ukraine, the vote fraud and should do, telling him negative things. He Ukraine's future from the point of view of society developing in Ukraine? cruelty in the media, the uprising and the does not need this at home. He wants to its citizens rather than from its authorities. unbelievably courageous and positive come home and receive positive emotions. in the future, the Ukraine 3000 (Continued on page 13) No. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL з, 2005 із

ised to help us in Paris. thy causes; Laura Bush is eloquent in herr 20 million Ukrainians live abroad. We First Lady... in my capacity as first lady, 1 will be pursuance of an issue close to her heart,, want Ukrainians abroad to be more (Continued from page 12) serving a representative role and my goal literacy. Fve mentioned in the past thatt involved in Ukraine, and invite them to І have always been amazed by the is to show Ukraine's best light to the rest Cheri Blair is very interesting to me - sheЇ return and become vibrant members of commitment to charity in the United of the world, and that includes the best of has been able to combine a career andl our society. Some Americans may feel States. І read that more than 50 percent of our arts, our culture, our costumes, our children very successfully. that 1 have given up America for Ukraine Americans volunteer some of their time crafts, our cuisine. and some Ukrainians might feel that 1 am So, it must be very exciting to be; to chanty every year. І believe this is not Ukrainian enough, but 1 am honored And, who serves as your role model? receiving the Profiles in Courage; wonderful for the soul, for society and by the thought that 1 may be able to be a award from Caroline Kennedy next^ bridge between the two worlds. for our obligation to God. in my teenage І do not have a single role model. There month? years, 1 was involved in Ukrainian organ– are many people 1 admire and think of in Your American citizenship was used izations such as SUM and in defense of different situations. І believe my main The entire U.S. trip is exciting, it is truly' in a mud-slinging campaign against Ukrainian political prisoners, and in high heroes are Ukraine's dissidents, who a unique moment in the history of Ukraine,' your husband. What are you planning school 1 worked with handicapped chil– always stood by their principles in the which is now viewed internationally as a1 to do about your citizenship? is dual dren. І also led tours of the historical most difficult of times. І often thought of carrier of democracy, a carrier of the mes– citizenship possible? association in my community in Mount them during the Orange Revolution. sage of freedom. І am very proud that Prospect, ill., working in the museum and Although we lived in fear at times during Ukraine is being recognized and proud thatt Yes, the issue was used against my learning the history of my neighborhood. the Orange Revolution, we always had a my husband has played a role in this. husband because they had nothing else What started out as a hobby grew into a place to go to get warm and comfortable. it is very sentimental for me, a comingl on him, no corruption charges, no scan– conviction that the best way to show your The dissidents in the 1960s, '70s and '80s together of my past and my present and1 dais, but 1 don't think it was a very effec– faith in God is to do good for others, sat in cold labor camps, far from family my future. tive weapon. The people who were because God judges us by what we do and often ill, often without a glimmer of incensed that his wife was an American when no one is watching. hope. І also must mention my late mother- Your trip includes stops in D.C.,' were the people that would not have The words of my late mother-in-law in-law, a school teacher, who was very Chicago and Boston. What about New7 voted for him anyway - these were the always echo in my mind - "Hurry to do strong and wise, and who accomplished so York? Communists, the oligarchs and those who good," she would always say as we left much good from her native Khoruzhivka. opposed Western orientation for Ukraine. Yes, we will be arriving Sunday her humble home in the village. One of Her words and deeds brought thousands to І According to the polls, this was not an the first things that impressed me about her funeral this past January. evening, April 3; and my husband will meet with President Bush on April 4, fol– important issue in the presidential cam– viktor was that he did so many little Among Ukrainian women 1 admire Lina lowed by a luncheon for the two presi– paign. However, viktor and 1 decided many things for so many people and he would Kostenko, also because she is someone dents and the two first ladies. There willІ years ago that 1 would become a Ukrainian never mention it. І would find out from a who will never compromise her principles. be a series of meetings in Washington citizen, despite all the pension and other third or fourth party that he helped І recently presented a new book titled problems this presents. І put in my applica– rebuild a museum, or gave money to cure with various politial and policy organiza– "Ukrainky v istoriyi" (Ukrainian Women in tions and the media. tion last year to the Kuchma-Yanukovych a child or publish a book and it was all History), sponsored by Natalya Danylenko government, but they returned my applica– After this, we will fly to Chicago, my without publicity. He was doing good for of Philadelphia. Women were often at the tion, citing procedural reasons. hometown, where there will be a dinner, the sake of doing good - it was part of forefront of the Ukrainian intelligentsia. and my husband will meet with the media On March 22,1 received my Ukrainian his moral upbringing. To me, a role model is someone who and speak at the Council on Foreign citizenship. The philosophy of our organization is chooses an issue important to him or her Relations, and 1 will deliver a speech at The Ukrainian Constitution does not that the individual is the basis of a free and works hard to achieve success in that my alma mater, the University of1 allow dual citizenship, in my opinion, the society. І believe that the people of area. І find that my closest friends today Chicago. І was also thrilled to recently diaspora should have the rignt of Ukraine proved during the Orange are people who fall into this category. learn that next year the university will set Ukrainian citizenship, but this is an issue Revolution that they are ready to take up a scholarship in my name. the Ukrainian government and people responsibility for themselves, their com– Are there any first ladies you should decide in the future. munities and their country. admire? Then we are off to Boston, to the Kennedy Library for the award ceremo– You are perhaps the embodiment of Will there be any special initiatives І try to learn from every first lady І ny, followed by a lecture at Harvard. That the American dream; what legacy for the foundation working with the meet. І have had the opportunity to spend same evening, we return to D.C., and on1 would you like the Yushchenko presi– new government? time with Mrs. Kwasniewska of Poland Wednesday my husband will address a dency to leave behind? and Mrs. Roloeffs of Georgia, and learn joint session of Congress and hold many There will be many, but one that 1 am from their experiences. other meetings. І will attend a luncheon І think the American dream is opportu– excited about is a joint project with the І have admired various American first with organizations interested in working nity and hope, a fair chance for an educa– Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of ladies for many reasons: Jackie Kennedy with Ukraine on humanitarian, social and tion and work. A chance to have a :iappy Foreign Affairs. We wish to set up was very committed to her family and cultural issues. family and material well-being. To read Ukraine Houses in capitals throughout through her intelligence and elegance We will return to Kyiv on April 7. it's and learn and have access to information. the world to promote Ukraine, its culture raised the level of culture in the White an unbelievably tight schedule, so it is To receive quality medical care for one's and its people. We will send exhibits, House; Nancy Reagan was deeply com– doubtful that we will make a stop in New family, in fact, the American dream is the sponsor concerts, donate books to mited and protective of her husband; York, though 1 never say never. My hus– dream of every individual in the world. My libraries. Where possible, we will work Betty Ford used liabilities (both breast band intends to come to New York for the dream for Ukrainians is that they can with diaspora organizations and others cancer and alcohol abuse) to bring aware– opening session of the United Nations in achieve their dreams. They should feel that interested in promoting Ukrainian cul– ness to these problems in society; Barbara the fall, and then can meet with business, they have a fair chance at an education and ture. For example, Gerard Depardieu, Bush had great wit and humor in the most media and the diaspora. a job. Too often in Ukraine 1 hear: "1 could who became fascinated with Ukraine difficult of situations; Hillary Clinton was We feel it is important for us to meet never do that," 1 want the Ukrainian dream after playing Balzac in a film, has prom– highly intelligent and committed to wor– with the Ukrainian diaspora. More than to be that of hope and opportunity. И^^^^^^^^^^Ш^^^^^^^ there will be a series of public events in Democratic institute will host the presi– went a six-hour operation, which Ukrainian president.. Washington, Chicago and Boston at which dent at a reception. The Ukrainian increased her survival chances to 75 per– (Continued from page 1) President Yushchenko will appear. American community's banquet in honor cent, and was reported in stable condition. leaders, representatives of non-govern– First on the agenda is a speech in of President Yushchenko will take place When fire broke out at the Ovchar home mental organizations, and activists of the Washington at Georgetown University, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in on March 15, Nastia and her little sister, Ukrainian and Jewish communities. Gaston Hall, on April 4, at 4 p.m. Washington, with a reception beginning Liuda, were alone. Nastia sustained burns The Weekly's Kyiv Press Bureau President Yushchenko will address the at 6:30 p.m. and the banquet at 7:30 p.m. on 80 percent of her body; Liuda suffered reports that the Yushchenko administration Chicago Council on Foreign Relations on At press time, no information was avail- comparatively minor injuries. When it has also confirmed that the president plans Monday, April 4. The event will be held able about the president's possible stopover became clear that the specialized treatment to meet with Mykola Melnychenko, the at 7:30 p.m. at the Palmer House Hilton. in New York. According to the latest infor– Nastia needed was not available in Kyiv, security officer who made secret record– The next day, Tuesday, April 5, Mr. mation gathered by The Weekly's corre– President and Mrs. Yushchenko became ings of conversations in the office of then Yushchenko will receive the JFK Profile in spondent in Kyiv, where Mr. Yushchenko involved, securing both a hospital in the President Leonid Kuchma, including talks Courage Award, which will be presented held a news conference on March 31, the United States to treat her - Shriners hospi– that appear to implicate Mr. Kuchma in the by Caroline Kennedy and Sen. Edward New York trip was cancelled. tals provide care free of charge - and an disappearance of Heorhii Gongadze, the Kennedy at the John F. Kennedy airplane to fly her to Boston. A special visit with Nastia internet journalist found murdered in Presidential Library and Museum at 5 p.m. Nastia is expected to stay in Boston for September of 2000. On Wednesday, April 6, President in addition, the Kyiv Press Bureau several months as she undergoes mutiple The press service of Ukraine's Ministry Yushchenko will attend a wreath-laying reports that President Yushchenko is expect– skin graft operations. The Embassy of of Foreign Affairs told journalists in Kyiv ceremony and deliver an address at the ed to visit 5-year-old Nastia Ovchar of Ukraine in the United States has appealed that President Yushchenko's official visit to Taras Shevchenko monument in Ukraine who underwent life-saving surgery to Ukrainian Americans to help provide Washington will cover all aspects of the Washington. The event begins at noon at the Shriners Burns Hospital - Boston financial assistance for Nastia and her strategic partnership between Ukraine and and is slated to last until 2 p.m. after she was seriously burned while rescu– mother while they stay in this country. the U.S., and will focus on Ukraine's grad– The Weekly's Kyiv Press Bureau ing her 2-year-old sister from a fire. A special account has been set up uation from the provisions of the Jackson– learned that the president will next visit Nastia, whose family lives in the vil– under the auspices of the Ukrainian vanik amendment, recognition of Ukraine the Holocaust Museum and Arlington lage of vbrontsivka in the Kharkiv region, National Women's League of America to as a market economy and Ukraine's acces– National Ceremony, where he will place arrived in the United States via a specially accept donations. Checks should be made sion to the World Trade Organization. a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns. equipped medevac aircraft on March 25. out to the UNWLA with the notation According to the U.S.-Ukraine That evening, the international She was accompanied by her mother and "Nastia Ovchar" and sent to UNWLA, Foundation and the Action Ukraine Report, Republican institute and the National a team of doctors. That day Nastia under– 203 Second Ave., New York, NY 10003. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL З, 2OOS No. 14

A LOOK BACK: UKRA1NES PRESfDENTS 1N THE UN1TED STATES White House meeting for Ukrainian president ends five-year hiatus by Yaro Bihun ber of agreements were signed, reflecting Special to The Ukrainian Weekly the priorities of the two countries: deal– ing with Ukraine's de-nuclearization WASHINGTON - when viktor process - a U.S. priority, as well as secu– Yushchenko and President George W. rity guarantees and economic assistance. Bush begin their meeting at the White During the 1994 Kravchuk visit, House on April 4 it will end a five-year Washington prepared a S700 million aid hiatus in the high-level dialogue between package for Ukraine, half of which was U.S. and Ukrainian presidents that devel– aimed to help Ukraine rid itself of oped and used to be almost an annual Soviet-era nuclear weapons. The remain– event during the latter part of the 1990s. ing S350 million was earmarked for eco– Ukraine's first president, Leonid nomic assistance. Kravchuk, began the process in May in subsequent summits, Ukraine was 1992, when he arrived for a working visit, also given U.S. assistance in working and came on an official visit in March with international trade and financial 1994. His successor, Leonid Kuchma, institutions, and in obtaining much-need– came to Washington for the first time in ed credits from the international 1994 and then returned in 1996, 1997 and Monetary Fund and the World Bank. twice in 1999. During that series of meetings, a num– (Continued on page 15) Roma Hadzewycz President Leonid Kravchuk in May 1992 became the first president of Ukraine to visit the United States. Above he is seen during his working visit at a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House with President George Bush.

Presidents Leonid Kuchma and Bill Clinton pause for photographs prior to their Presidents Leonid Kravchuk and Bill Clinton extend a hand of friendship at the meeting in the Oval Office in December 1999 - President Kuchma's last visit to conclusion of their White House meeting and press conference in March 1994 Washington. Sitting next to President Clinton is his interpreter, Marta Zielyk, during the Ukrainian president's official visit to the U.S. and vice-President Al Gore (second from the right).

President Leonid Kuchma fields jour– nalists' questions following the NATO- Ukraine Commission meeting held during NATO's 50th anniversary sum– Presidents Bill Clinton and Leonid Kuchma, accompanied by the captain of the guard, set off to inspect the honor guard mit in Washington in April 1999. assembled on the South Lawn of the White House in honor of the visiting president of Ukraine on November 22,1994. No. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL З, 2005 15

A LOOK BACK: Y1KTOR YUSHCHENKO1N THE UN1TED STATES

During his visit to Washington as prime minister in May 2000, viktor Yushchenko had meetings with President Bill Following a full day of meetings with the international financial institutions headquartered in Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (above), Washington, with U.S. officials and business leaders in October 1998, Prime Minister Уаіегіі as well as with other officials of the U.S. government and Pustovoitenko (left) and National Bank of Ukraine Chairman viktor Yushchenko continue their discus– international financial institutions. sion during an evening reception at the Embassy of Ukraine. Listening in is Ambassador Yuri Shcherbak.

No longer Ukraine's prime minister, viktor Yushchenko last visited Washington in February 2003 as the leader of the Our Ukraine opposition in the verkhovna Rada, seeking U.S. support for strength– ening democracy in Ukraine. During one of the many viktor Yushchenko, in his last year as chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine accompanied President meetings and appearances during his three-day visit - Leonid Kuchma on his final U.S. visit, in December 1999. Above, members of the Ukrainian delegation are at a reception at the international Republican having a business meeting over lunch at Biair House, the official residence of visiting heads of state, across institute - he found time to talk with Myroslava the street from the White House. To Mr. Yushchenko 9s right is vice Prime Minister Serhii Tyhypko, who, in Gongadze (above), the widow of the murdered the early phase of last year's presidential election, served as viktor Yanukovych's campaign manager. Ukrainian internet journalist Heorhii Gongadze. White House meeting... (Continued from page 14) To facilitate the development of this bilateral relationship, the two governments established the U.S.-Ukraine Binational Commission (also known as the "Kuchma-Gore Commission"), with committees that worked on improving political, economic and business relations between the two countries. After President Kuchma's last visit to Washington in December of 1999, however, the meetings and the momentum stopped. And, despite Ukraine's willingness to send a contingent of troops to iraq, persistent reports about political and economic corruption in Ukraine, official complicity in criminal activities and shady arms sales to renegade states, including iraq, appeared to put a damper on the relationship - until Mr. Yushchenko's hard-fought victory in the presidential election. Mr. Yushchenko was not always in the opposition, of course, and he had been to Washington a number times in the past as part of the Kuchma administration team - as the chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine in the latter 1990s and as the prime minister in 2000. His last visit here, in 2003, however, was as the leader of the Our Ukraine opposition forces in the verkhovna Rada and the expectant opposition presidential candidate in the 2004 election. Then, in addition to congressional leaders and members of Washington's foreign policy establishment, he got to meet with sec– ond-tier administration officials - vice-President Richard Cheney and viktor Yushchenko, then the director of the National Bank of Ukraine, and Roman Shpek, the direc– Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. 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uralized British subjects, but were - will be kept. happened at those locations, so that this Statement by... Canadian citizens, born in Canada, but Former Prime Minister Jean Chretien sad chapter of our history may never be (Continued from page 8) bearing the wrong last name or the wrong had repeatedly promised to officially rec– repeated. Canadian history for the descendants of parentage; even children were interned. ognize the internment operations, but he Many official documents and archival those Canadians who were unjustly Throughout the internment operation, failed to deliver while in office. Former files were destroyed in the early 1950s, interned several generations ago. the civilian internees were transported to Heritage Minister Sheila Copps had simi– but slowly material has been re-surfacing Finally 1 must also thank Joy Smith, Canada's frontier hinterlands, where they larly promised to give official recogni– - again - thanks to many academics of our Conservative Member from were forced to perform hard labor under tion to this historic injustice, but also Ukrainian Canadian heritage that have Kildonan-St. Paul, who gave up her time trying circumstances. Some sites that we failed to act when elected to the govern– been resolved to keep alive our collective today, allowing me to speak on this sub– all know well today include Banff and ment benches. memory of these historical events. We ject and who has done a lot of work in Jasper national parks and the experimen– it is time to put this matter to rest. must go further and officially recognize support of Bill C-331. tal farms at Kapuskasing, first developed By passing Bill C-331, we will finally these events as a historical wrong. The ^ Between 1914 and 1920, Canada wit– by this pool of forced labor. take a step to acknowledge the injustice last remaining survivor of these intern– nessed its first internment operations As Ukrainian Canadians were being of the past - an injustice that would ment operations, Mary Haskett, is still under the War Measures Act. Thousands interned for having been unfortunate never be allowed to be committed today alive. She will be turning 97 this summer. of loyal Canadians were systematically enough to enter this country with Austro– in this great country, which reveres our І sincerely hope that she will live to see arrested and interned in 24 camps Hungarian documents, other Ukrainian freedoms and the rule of law. an official reconciliation of this past throughout our country. Simply because Canadians who had entered Canada on So far, the Ukrainian Canadian com– injustice. different foreign documents were serv– of their national origin, nearly 9000 munity has placed memorial plaques at І urge all of my colleagues in this ing Canada loyally in overseas battle. Canadians were interned - the vast almost all of the internment sites, except House to join me in support of Bill C– Let us not forget Ukrainian Canadian majority of Ukrainian origin. At the out- for five, to remind Canadians of what 331. set of the first world war, western war veteran, Filip Konowal, who was Ukraine was occupied by the Austro– awarded the victoria Cross by King Hungarian Empire, and Canada was at George v for his brave wartime service war with Austria-Hungary, in the midst - a Ukrainian Canadian honored, while JUN J1E (JACK1E) XU of wartime hysteria, everyone with a con– his fellow neighbors were wondering January 1,1986 - March 16, 2005 nection to Austria-Hungary was wrongly why they had chosen Canada to be their deemed a threat to our country. new home. Mr. Speaker, we know we cannot re- ironically, in this case, many thou– All of life is precious and it is filled sands of Ukrainian Canadians had actual– write history. We cannot change the fact ly fled the occupying power in their that an injustice occurred. Only those with brief encounters - some positive; homeland. A knowledgeable assessment who carried out this injustice can truly some negative. Each of us has been of the situation could have only led to held accountable and only those who touched by your smile, by your wit, one conclusion: These refugees of themselves suffered injustice can be Canada's wartime enemy were not ene– properly compensated. But, as heirs of by your intellect, by your sensitivity, mies of Canada. They were new, loyal our society and its institutions, we can but most of all b)f your compassion. British subjects, and allies of our wartime acknowledge injustice, appreciate the les– cause. sons of history and make amends where in fact, in 1915, the British Foreign appropriate. We pray for you, we miss you, we Office twice instructed Ottawa to grant it is time to make amends, if Bill C– love you, we will remember you. Ukrainians "preferential treatment," 331 is allowed to pass, it will be the first arguing that they were to be considered official acknowledgement that Canada's "friendly aliens" rather than "enemy treatment of Ukrainian Canadians during With Deepest Sorrow aliens," yet the dominion government the first world war was wrong, it will be The St. George Academy Family would not change its course. Moreover, the first time that a promise - made many Students, Administration, Faculty and Staff many of those interned were not just nat– times over by Canada's political leaders

With deep sorrow we announce that on Tuesday, March 22, 2005, in Jersey City, at the age of 93, passed away MICHAEL KOWB ASNIUK born in Oriv, Ukraine.

He was a member of the Ukrainian National Home, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, Ukrainian National Association, and Prosvita in Ukraine.

Funeral services were held on Thursday, March 24, 2005 at Riotto Funeral Home in Jersey City, followed by a Divine Liturgy at Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church in Jersey City. The inter– ment was held at St. Andrew's Cemetery in South Bound Brook, NJ.

in deep sorrow:

wife Nina nee Pinchuk sons Bohdan with wife Mariyka Peter with wife Natalka Walter with wife Zoriana 10 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren extended family in the US and Ukraine.

Eternal memory!

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Our work right Was safety an issue for you or other "Who was holding our people, and why?" internet, mobile phones - communica– now is to categorically distance ourselves members of Pora during the Orange They'd say: "We don't know." The entire tion is not a problem for us. First of all, from this. Revolution? if so, what steps did you situation was completely laughable - how we're also broken up by oblasts. Within take to ensure your safety? is it that they wouldn't know who was oblasts we're also broken into smaller You've mentioned that the co- holding our people. Come on. subgroups of several hundred people, so founders of Pora were initially if we saw that some of our members it doesn't require that one person call involved in the Ukraine Without were being followed or watched by the Last question for you. The New 6,000. One person who is responsible for Kuchma movement in 2001 and the police, we would try to completely put York Times wrote about the Ukrainian contacts in a region can send out infor– Arise Ukraine movement after that, is the public spotlight on the person being security services' work during the mation whether through the internet or a it fair to say then that for Pora this is followed. We would get them interviews Orange Revolution. Did you have any text message on a phone or by a phone almost a third take at large-scale and then the police would be afraid to official contact with members of call to 25 people and he's covered the protests? Because for many of us in the touch them. We also had a system in Ukraine's security service? country and these people can then call West it appeared that Pora appeared place that if the police arrested a person, their subgroups. rather rapidly, it's not accurate then to then that person was supposed to try to Let me say a word about this report, it say that Pora just sprung up, seeming– call a phone number and say that he was seems to me that it was PR for the SBU But this means that you've created ly out of nowhere, is it? being held at such-and-such a place. We tSecurity Service of Ukraine!. Nicely a very loose organizational structure. also walked in two groups, in the front thought through, but PR for the SBU. Fm Doesn't it become difficult to have spe– That it looked as though this was group there were four people and in the not certain if the SBU generals really cific directives followed? something that fell from the sky was a back group there were two people, if played such an important role in the rev– surprise and this gives a special public No. This isn't a problem if it doesn't go people in the front group were detained olution. i'm convinced that, from a grass- relations effect - a sort of "Ohpa!" that then the second group was supposed to roots level within the SBU, it is correct. past the boundary of our overall strategy. something new has appeared. The general strategy is the building and take down the make of the car and the Many members of the SBU and police development of democracy and the devel– You know, this could have helped you, license plate number and make a note of worked to quietly sabotage any official opment of a civil society. As long as the but it can also have a negative effect. where the car went. After that we'd call orders to go against the people. They work continues in this direction and it does People in the West have said: See, the police officers we knew and start asking understood what their orders meant and not go against these ideals, it's even very U.S. gave Pora money, because how else questions. We had the phone numbers of they just decided not to follow them. good because people in Kyiv will not could an organization form so quickly? police representatives in all regions of Therefore, a quiet sabotage did occur. know what to do in Poltava, as an example. Ukraine and we'd have our people call With regard to our official contacts Therefore, this is a very good principle for OK. But at the moment we are not them over and over, asking why our peo– with the SBU: no, there were no direct us and it's something like franchising for doing this. At the moment we're doing ple were detained, what were the charges, contacts. They would walk through the us. We have a brand, we have several prin– the opposite, in interviews and in our etc. if that didn't help, we'd call politi– streets and quietly tell us: "Hey boys, be ciples, and we give this brand and these work we're showing people logically cians we knew and get them to call the careful. There may be trouble." principles to people who we see already have these same ideals within them. And, in principle, it is one of the rea– Saturday, April 9,2005, 7PM, Assumption of the ВУМ Ukrainian Catholic Church, 6185-10 Ave, Montreal, sons Pora was so effective. We looked for people who had maximum initiative. Sunday, April 10,2005, 2PM, Ukrainian Cultural Centre, 81-83 Christie, Toronto, Ontario You take on maximum responsibility and Monday, April 11,2005, 7PM, Ukrainian Black Sea Hall, 455 Wetland Avenue, St Catherine's, Ontario you do your work. Tuesday, April-12,2005,7PM, Ukrainian Culfcral Centre, 241 Kenilworth Avenue North, Hamilton, Ontario How then do you handle the situa– Wednesday, April 13,2005,7PM, London Ukrainian Centre, 247 Adelaide Street, Souffi, London, Ontario tion of people who abuse this fran– Thursday, April 14,2005,7PM, St vtadirnir and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church, 1505 Langlois Avenue, chise. who abuse the name Pora? Windsor, Ontario Won't you have people who go beyond Friday, April 15,2005, 7PM, St. Pokrova Centre, 8812 Broadview RA, Parma, Ohio your principles? о Saturday, April 18, 2005, 8:30 PM, Yes. This is absolutely logical. We Ukrainian Cultural have our definite principles, and if groups go past them, then we say, "Thank you, gentleman. Sorry, but we're no longer working with you." Sunday, April 17, And who makes this decision? 2005,1PM, St volodymyr and Olha The decision is made by the coordina– Church Centre, tors of all the other regions and the rest of the national coordinating council. So впй Superior Street, there is no individual decision that is Chicago, li made, but these issues are resolved by Monday, April 18, our councils. 2005, 7PM, St josaphat's Ukrainian Can you address the question of Catholic Church, 8624 Pora becoming a political party? This is an example of Pora principles Minister, Ішйта being broken. The principles of Pora Tuesday, April19, include independence from political par- 2005, 7PM, St ties. We worked with those political par- ties that we believed were necessary for Orthodox Church, the revolution and beyond politics, if Pora Army Trail RA, were to become a political party, we would Bfoomingdafe, lL need to adopt a detailed position. We Friday, April 22,2005, would have to turn away those people who would want to work for other political par- Cultural Centre, 4315 ties. We would have to become an organi– Уеігош Avenue, Los zation that fights for power. 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Ukraine, in the '90s we fumbled many civilization. keeps growing, while the Orange Foreign Affairs Minister... opportunities, but that lesson did not pass Where could we place Kyiv Rus' - one Revolution has starkly recalled this (Continued from page 4) unnoticed. The new Ukrainian govern– of the biggest European nations in the process, and given it a powerful impetus. Manifestations of anti-Semitism, racism ment believes that in modern politics the times of Charlemagne? Could we forget When 1 reflected upon attractive exam- and other ideologies of hatred are very main virtue is not simply to say glibly Prince Yaroslav the Wise, who was father- pies that Ukraine found in the post-war rare in Ukraine. what you are expected to say, but honesty in-law for a large part of Europe because Western Europe and Poland of the 1990s, On the whole, it is high time to adopt a and consistency. the kings of Hungary, France and Norway the United States was explicitly and implic– new and overarching agenda for relations For instance, we do not keep secret the married his daughters? Could we ever itly present in both cases. Supporting between Ukraine and the United States. І fact that Ukraine is going to withdraw its erase from European history his daughter democracy in Europe has become a histori– am visiting Washington to declare this troops from iraq. This was the demand of Anna, who was the queen of France? cal tradition for your great nation. aspiration of my nation and to share my Ukrainian voters. This is the promise of Therefore, for Ukraine, European and The U.S. contribution to post-war views on how to bring it into life. І the Ukrainian president to his people. Euro-Atlantic integration is a historical European history is so significant that believe that our ideas find response and However, there are many aspects that we rather than a political move. your nation might be regarded as support, so when the president of are constantly keeping in focus. Second, European and Euro-Atlantic European, as well as Asian and African. Ukraine comes to Washington these ideas Ukraine will remain a partner of the integration will mean final recognition of Some criticize America for its will be blessed on the highest political U.S. in the global war against terrorism. Ukraine as a European nation, it ensures "omnipresence." But millions of people level. Ukraine consistently supports U.S. that Ukraine will no longer be considered have grounds to look at the United States Touching upon the new agenda, 1 can- efforts to prevent the proliferation of as a former colony. with admiration and gratitude. not but expound the most pressing issues nuclear, chemical, biological and other Third, Ukraine in the EU and NATO One American writer joked that should that, to our mind, could be resolved types of the weapons of mass destruction. will be a showcase of success in political an advertising slogan be invented for the already now. We shall not take any step that might and economic terms. U.S. he would suggest: "Twenty million it is with satisfaction that 1 observe an let down the iraqi people and our broth– in this regard 1 would like to address illegal immigrants cannot be wrong!" increasing number of politicians in ers in arms in iraq - the United States American political pundits. І know that To put it more seriously, America is Washington who support the graduation of and Poland, who are Ukraine's most con– recently it has become fashionable to one of the places on the planet where the Ukraine from the Jackson-vanik amend– sistent Western allies. We shall do our mention Ukraine as a "Eurasian country." word "justice" is not a hollow promise. ment, the establishment of normal trade best to ensure that there will be no vacu– it suffices to look at the map to learn that We may agree or disagree with how relations and accession to the WTO. І um of security after the withdrawal. We this is geographically wrong, it is enough Americans understand justice, but we think it is beyond a doubt that application shall substitute a military component to look into a textbook to learn that this is cannot doubt your sincerity. of the Jackson-vanik amendment to with our diversified presence in iraq. historically wrong, in December it was Now it would be just and fair to support Ukraine is to be reconsidered. For modern The new wind coming from Ukraine is enough to watch CNN Headline News to Ukraine - a nation that has overthrown Ukraine to be an object of this legislation bringing changes to Europe. At present, realize that this is politically incorrect. tyranny and is building its statehood on the is like wearing the clothes of a dead per– two parts of one whole have to be mar– So, forget about the Eurasian myth, same principals as America does, a nation son notorious for his dreadful character. ried. These are (1) the European and forget about the European "belt of pover– that can and should be a strategic partner Normal trade relations are as equally Euro–Atlantic aspirations of Ukraine and ty." Forget about "buffer zones." Europe of the United States in the coming decades. an indispensable part of partnership as (2) the non-readiness of the European are normal political relations. Union and NATO to meet them. The spirit of the new Ukrainian gov– We regard European and Euro- UKRAINIAN BUILDERS OF CUSTOM HOMES ernment is to convert a "political mira– Atlantic integration not as a political WEST COAST OF FLOR1DA cle" into an "economic miracle." "it's the fetish. We do not consider it a ticket to an economy, stupid" reflected Ethe ideas of) elite club that would bring a panacea for TRIDENT DEVELOPMENT CORR Bill Clinton during the presidential elec– everything. - Over 25 years of building experience tions in 1996. However humorous this We know that the Orange Revolution - Bilingual principle may sound, it is perhaps still has strengthened our convictions that - Fully insured and bonded universal. only we could be the masters of our pros– - Build on your lot or ours in the modern world the success of the perity and democracy. ' Highest quality workmanship nation is measured not in ideological slo– Under such circumstances the EU and gans, but economic indicators. Therefore, NATO are crucial for us because of the ihor W. Hron, President Lou Luzniak, Executive v.P. whoever wishes success to Ukrainian following considerations. First, in the (941) 270-2411 (941) 270-2413 democracy should think in economic terms. modern world these two organizations Zenon Luzniak, General Contractor The first question that comes to my are equated with Europe and "Western mind in this regard is the accession of civilization" - the one vaclav Havel so Serving North Port, Yenice, South Yenice and area Ukraine to the WTO. The president of well described in the following words Ukraine listed it among the priority back in 1991: issues for this year. "Speaking about us being a part of the Speaking about precious time, 1 would West, we mean being a part of a certain like to briefly reflect on yet another civilization, a certain political culture, aspect of Ukrainian–American relations. certain spiritual values and universal Those closely watching relations between principles. We mean a civilization, cul– Ukraine and the U.S. can confirm that we ture and values that we embrace." have already heard abundant rhetoric on That was said by the leader of the 1RENE D. ROGUTSKY, D.D.S. partnership. That was 10 years ago, when Czech Republic - a nation that had long independent Ukraine voluntarily been an integral part of European civi– The Empire State Bldg. renounced its nuclear arsenal and was cel– lization and then for a couple of decades ebrated in the United States for this step. was parted from it. 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5222 What happened next was an abysmal The alienation of Ukraine from New York, N.Y. 10118 disappointment both for the United States Europe lasted much longer. However, (212)947-1665 and democratic pro-European forces in Ukrainian roots are traced to European ets help Ukrainel Нас багато, нас не подолати!

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Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Remarks by... processes such as denaturalization and (Continued from page 8) deportation show the vulnerability of individual rights when government suc– way of support, yet their desire for free– THE "BOYM" MEN'S СНОШ dom and a better future for their children cumbs to ignorance and fear. and grandchildren sustained them during Mr. Speaker, as the grandson and son their very difficult pioneering years. Out of Ukrainian immigrants, 1 have a partic– of the wilderness of Canada's West they ular appreciation for the significance of carved out golden wheat fields as far as the member's bill. І view this bill as part the eyes could see. Yet, despite having of the process to ensure that this histori– built Canada's West and despite having cal wrong is righted through an honor- been a counterbalance to the expansion– able acknowledgement. After 85 years, ist intents of settlers from the United it's high time that the internment opera– States, Ukrainian Canadians experienced tion against the Ukrainian Canadian com– prejudice and racism in their new home- munity be properly addressed by the land. installment and maintenance of 24 With the outbreak of World War 1, this memorial plaques at 24 internment prejudice and racism was fanned into camps across Canada and by the estab– xenophobia culminating with the imple– lishment of a permanent museum at the mentation of the War Measures Act as a site of the internment camp in Banff result of an Order in Council by the National Park. This museum should pro- Canadian government. 8,579 so-called vide educational information on the oper– "enemy aliens" of which over 5,000 were ation of the internment camps across Ukrainians who had emigrated to Canada Canada and the role of Ukrainian from the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Canadians as one of western Canada's interned. These internees, which in many founding peoples. As well, the minister responsible for Canada Post should А ІііцЬ qu;ilih recording of The (krainian Dnine Liturgy, cases included women and children, were not only disenfranchised, but their homes engage the corporation to issue a set of performed by the acclaimed ^BGYAfv' Men's Choir and homesteads were taken away from stamps to commemorate the contribution them; they were sent to processing cen– of Ukrainian Canadians in building this CD'S: 521.50 ters for internment and then sent to work- great country. 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DAYT1ME PHONE: No. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL З, 2005 23 Ukrainian Folklore Center hosts American specialist on folk culture by Natalie Kononenko preservation of materials will be the task of the future. Rapidly changing technologies demand the creation of EDMONTON - On March 16 and 17, the Kule digital copies of archival materials. We must also digi– Chair in Ukrainian Ethnography and the Ukrainian tize in a format that will allow conversion to new tech– Folklore Center of the University of Alberta sponsored nologies as these are introduced, he added. a visit by Michael Taft, head of the Archive of Folk Dr. Taft gave some examples from the veterans' Culture at the American Folklife Center of the United Oral History Project at the Archive of Folk Culture and States Library of Congress. played excerpts of sound recordings that are already Dr. Taft is no stranger to Canada and Edmonton. He available over the internet. received his Ph.D. in folklore from Memorial Dr. Taft's earlier Canadian experiences include University of Newfoundland and his M.A. in library service as the university archivist and head of spe– science from the University of Alberta. cial collections at the University of Northern While at the University of Alberta, Dr. Taft exam– British Columbia, as well as fieldwork collecting ined the Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore folksongs. Archives, assessing preservation and indexing proce– Among his most notable current projects is Save dures. He then offered advice on procedure improve– Our Sounds, a United States-wide effort to digitize and ment. He met with staff concerned with the digitization preserve folksong recordings. of archival materials, a process which should both Dr. Taft and an international team of folklorists improve preservation and greatly expand public are also working on a thesaurus to facilitate digital access. information exchange. Such a thesaurus would On Thursday, March 17, Dr. Taft gave a public lec– allow people all over the world to search and access ture titled 'The Ethnographic Archive in the 21st digital archives, such as the Bohdan Medwidsky Century." He said that, while collecting folklore had Ukrainian Folklore Archive housed at the University Dr. Michael Taft lectures at the University of Alberta. been the primary concern of scholars in the past, of Alberta.

settled in the United States, she adopted Daughter and colleagues... the lifestyle of one seeking creative (Continued from page 11) adventure. She found artistic inspiration this body of work that uses ancient sym– in her childhood memories, her heritage bolic forms and archetypes as decoration. rising to the forefront of consciousness. The pysanka in all its myriad designs She uses the rich tapestry of Ukrainian folklore as the basis of her creativity, but and regional styles was always a form of where Ukrainian folkloric art is tradition- communication, in a fluent link to her ally realistic, the highly imaginative Aka past, Aka passes them through the prism Pereyma combines Ukrainian influences of her own experience. She understands with current trends of Western art. the ancient language and meanings found The exhibit at the Ukrainian institute there and translates them to modern of Modern Art in Chicago includes draw– idioms. She will never exhaust the ings, watercolors,. oils, mixed media, Ukrainian sources of her inspiration and sculptures and ceramics. The displayed she continues to mine rich meanings works incorporate originality of compo– there. At her seven work-stations spread sition, perfection and depth of detail, throughout the house and barn, she con– richness of color and the artist's certainty stantly generates new work from seeming of vision. turmoil. Her excitement spreads with in the 1960s Ms. Pereyma created a each new idea and with each new solu– series of figurative compositions in pen– tion. Pysanka, the written egg, inspires cil, pen and ink, and watercolor on paper. Aka to write in her personal ancient Most expressive are "Life's intimate script, to tell her own stories and to pre– Moments," depicting the artist's own Aka Pereyma at work. serve our stories that need retelling. emotions; "When We All Lived in Peace" and "Ukrainian Madonna," which are pipe, saws, chains, pitchforks, scythes is on display everywhere. Troy is graced Christina Pereyma O'Neal is a well- remarkable for their individual composi– and the like, that are welded to create the not only with her sculptures but also with exhibited artist who lives and works in tion, yellow-orange brightness and crys– intended sculpture. an enormous wall mural of her design in Troy, Ohio. tal-clear minute ornamentation. Later Ms. Pereyma's ceramics interpret the center of town. works in the series "Ukrainian Folk Ukrainian traditional painting on dinner- At the approach to the Pereyma home- Songs," "My Pysanky" and "Ukrainian ware, with plant-inspired ornament of stead on the outskirts of town stands a dis– A certainty of vision Legends" are filled with folkloric content. black applied to red clay on bowls, tinctive metal bird sculpture, inviting you to further visual delights. Ms. Pereyma's by Alexandra D. Kochman Graphic clarity dominates in these works; plates, pitchers and gourds. the works are monotonal, unidimensional, Her contribution to a worldwide work in metal and wood, harmoniously The world of art in the Western world is stripped of all unnecessary elements. Ukrainian cultural identity was recognized installed among the trees, seems to emanate ever-changing, with artists seeking some- Their intensity and range of color imparts in 2001 by the government of Ukraine, from the land itself, in her home, color and thing new, that which best reflects the the viewer with a sense of heightened which awarded Aka Pereyma with the pattern identify her roots and resources. spirit of the times. The result is eclectic. energy, full of life and vitality. Outstanding Ukrainian Artist medal. The Ukrainian tradition is ever alive and Aka Pereyma is a multi-talented artist. Sculptures included in the exhibit por– in 2004 Ms. Pereyma was awarded an vibrant in this family. Ms. Pereyma is an Growing up in a Ukrainian family, she tray various birds. The artist creates these Ohio Heritage Fellowship by the artist whose creative center of gravity is the was exposed to Ukrainian art. Having from assorted metal, such as lengths of Heritage Foundation of Ohio for her egg; aspects of this image are manifested in artistry in ceramics and pysanky. every medium she employs. As an artist she is very much respected Alexandra D. Kochman is a Chicago and has received myriad honorifics in artist and educator, and a member of the Ukraine and here in the United States, it U1MA art committee, and has sewed as is significant that in my last three trips to curator at U1MA. Troy 1 have had the special pleasure of being able to attend exhibits in which she participated. Her activity as an artist is, in Artist who lives her art a word, formidable. During an exhibit by Lialia Kuchma held at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center she also amazed us with renditions of More than 40 years have passed since folk songs before her paintings. Aka Pereyma participated in the 1963 The work of Aka Pereyma, whether "Monolith" Exhibit of Ukrainian expressed through the medium of paint, Contemporary Artists in Chicago. This metal, the calligraphic delicacy of ink, or significant event was instrumental in the through voice, gives credence to the impor– founding of the Ukrainian institute of tance of her artistic cultural contribution. Modern Art (U1MA) eight years later, in 1971. Lialia Kuchma, a Chicago artist When the U1MA invited Ms. Pereyma known for her stunning abstract and to show her prolific body of work, 1 real– expressionistic works in tapestry?, is chair ized that a journey was required. My first of the U1MA Art Committee and curator trip to Troy, Ohio, was an overwhelming and organizer of the "Aka Pereyma, 40 introduction to the life of an artist who Years of Creativity: 1965-2005" exhibit "Leda and the Swan, 1," 1964, woodcut and colored pencil. indeed lives her art. The evidence of this tion at the U1MA. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL З, 2005 No. 14

arrived in Kyiv on March 25 to inaugurate question (of whether Yushchenko will go of the 2004 presidential election, told NEWSBR1EFS the "Year of Georgia" in Ukraine. (RFE7RL to Moscow on 9 MayJ," Ms. Heraschenko interfax on March 24 that the "scenario (Continued from page 2) Newsline) said. (RFE7RL Newsline) in Kyrgyzstan was similar to that in other post-Soviet states," except that the Mikheil Saakashvili, urged the Will Yushchenko be in Moscow May 9? israeli detained on suspicion of trafficking Organization for Security and Cooperation Ukrainian revolution was non-violent. "The election observers from the OS in Europe in a joint statement issued in KYiv - President viktor Yushchenko KYiv - Ukrainian law enforcement Kyiv on March 26 to prevent violence in came to one conclusion fin Kyrgyzstan J said on March 26 that he is not planning to agents have detained israeli citizen and those from the OSCE came to a dif– Kyrgyzstan, Ukrainian news agencies attend the victory Day parade in Moscow Yevhen Kanevskyi on suspicion of organ– reported. "We were deeply concerned by ferent one, and in this way duplicated the on May 9, to which he was invited by izing an international ring for trafficking Ukrainian example," Mr. Yanukovych the news that the situation in Kyrgyzstan is Russian President viadimir Putin, but will in women with the aim of prostituting assuming threatening signs of violent con– told interfax. Communist leader Petro stay in Kyiv for a local v-Day parade on them, reported Ukrinform on March 24. Symonenko told interfax on March 24 frontation," the statement reads. "We laud that day and visit Moscow on May 8, Another israeli citizen, volodymyr the courageous step of the former president that in Kyrgyzstan, as in other post- Ukrainian and international news agencies volodarskyi, was detained earlier. The Communist countries, "authoritarian of the country f Askar AkaevJ not to order reported. "As we cannot postpone com– two israeli citizens were wanted on suspi– the use of force against his own people in regimes allowed for the enrichment of memorations that will take place in cion of human trafficking, as well as small segments of society, enraging the first days of the public uprising." Ukraine on May 9, including a parade and acquiring valuables through deceit, falsi– Presidents Yushchenko and Saakashvili many citizens." Mr. Symonenko blamed other events, 1 would feel most uncomfort– fication and active involvement in the the United States for the unrest in also urged Mr. Akaev to "immediately able if war veterans are gathering here and operations of a criminal gang. A influence his supporters so that they show Central Asia. "1 am convinced that the І am on a reviewing stand elsewhere," Jerusalem court issued a warrant for the hand of the Americans is visible in high responsibility for the sake of peace Reuters quoted Mr. Yushchenko as saying. arrests of Messrs. volodarskyi and and calm in the country." in a joint declara– Kyrgyzstan. The Americans are defining "1 think the Russian president, viadimir Kanevskyi on November 11, 2004. The their strategic interests and surrounding tion on strategic partnership, the two presi– viadimirovich Putin, and our other col- Procurator General's Office will decide dents announced that their countries will Russia as if it were a bear caught in a leagues can easily understand that," the on their extradition to israel. (Ukrinform) trap, and placing little flags denoting that support each other's aspirations regarding Ukrainian president added. Meanwhile, NATO and the European Union. They also this geopolitical territory belongs to Mr. Yushchenko's spokeswoman iryna Leaders comment on Kyrgyzstan events them," he said. (RFE7RL Newsline) underscored their mutual interest in devel– Heraschenko told journalists on March 28 oping transit capacities to supply Caspian that his official schedule for May 9 has not KYiv - viktor Yanukovych, the leader Kyiv complains about naval incident oil and gas to Europe. Mr. Saakashvili yet been set. "Fm not ready to answer the of the Party of the Regions and the loser KYiv - Ukrainian officials have lashed out at Russia in connection with an incident in the vicinity of the Crimean town of Feodosia on the evening of March 23 when a Russian landing vessel assigned to the Russian Black Sea fleet landed 142 assault troops during a train– ing exercise without informing the Ukrainian authorities beforehand. Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Borys Tarasyuk told the Ukraine's Channel 5 tel– evision on March 24 that the incident con– stituted a serious violation by Russia of the lease agreement regulating the activi– ties of the Russian Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol. He added that Ukraine has often stressed that the Russian fleet should not use Ukrainian territory for any training purposes. Security Service of Ukraine Chairman Oleksander Turchynov told Ukrainian television on March 24 that the stationing of the Russian Black Тільки Аеросвіт Українські Авіалінії пропонує Sea fleet on Ukrainian territory runs counter to Ukrainian national interests. безпосадкові рейси літаками Boeing 767 (RFE7RL Newsline) НЬЮ-ЙОРК - КИЇВ, КИЇВ - НЬЮ-ЙОРК Kazakstan supports Kyivys gas proposal ASTANA - Kazak Prime Minister Akhmetov told journalists in Astana on А також через Київ: Львів, Івано-Франківськ, Одеса, March 24 that the Kazak government Сімферополь, Донецьк, Дніпропетровськ, Харків, supports Ukrainian President viktor Yushchenko's proposal, voiced during a Запоріжжя, Луганськ, Чернівці Ужгород, Москва, visit to Turkmenistan earlier this week, that Turkmenistan, Kazakstan, Russia Санкт-Петербург Мінськ, Кишинів, Рига, Баку, Ташкент, and Ukraine should establish a consor– tium to export gas via Kazakstan and Алма-Ата, Ашхабад, Тбілісі, Делі, Тель-Авів, Пекін, Russia, interfax reported. "We think this project has good potential," Mr. Дуба! Афіни, Софія, Белград, Бангкок, Каїр, Стамбул Akhmetov commented, adding that "the export of Kazak gas beyond the OS is of major economic interest to Kazakstan." Mr. Akhmetov said the proposal will be discussed in depth during a visit to Kazakstan next month by Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and that a decision will probably be made by the end of April. (RFE7RL Newsline) 1.888.661 . 1620, 1,212.661.1620 Turkmenistan trip yields no gas deal sales(2)aerosvit.us KYiv - Ukrainian attempts to con- elude a deal with Turkmenistan for a або звертайтесь у Вашу агенцію long-term delivery contract for natural gas did not materialize during President viktor Yushchenko's visit to Ashgabat on March 22-23. Despite this, the head of Вантажні перевезення Naftohaz Ukrainy, Oleksii ivchenko, told interfax that he is confident that Ukraine 1.718376.1023 will continue to receive 30 billion to 40 express^ а erosvitcargo.com billion cubic meters (bem) of gas per year after the present contract ends in Повинна! Тепер у Вас є можливість замовити December 2006. When asked how the і оформити білет на нашій веб-сторінці 25-year Russian contract signed with www.aerosvif.eoni Turkmenistan, which foresees deliveries (Continued on page 25) No. 14

NEWSBR!EFS UOC-MP primate meets with Putin states concern about the abnormal state of (Continued from page 24) KY1Y Щ an official affairs ,„ the Ukrainian Orthodoxy presidential elections in Ukraine, Mr of upto 60 bc of gas per year beginning TTV '?Ґ visit to Kuchma said accusations that had been m 0 March 19 Russian Presi Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in leveled against h,m of "betrayal" and "pas– n 2007, would affect deliveries to vtZ p ' dent turn, stressed during the meeting that the Ukra,„e Mr. ivchenko replied hat viadmur Putin met with Metropolitan sivity" had been concocted by the posmon of the Church of Consfantinopl Yanukovych election staff. Mr. Kuchma Turkmenistan has the capacity to produce volodymyr (Sabodan), head of the hasn t changed, and that the issue of enough gas to service both Ukraine and Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow ІП игкте church schism in Ukraine must be resolved disclosed that he was approached by some fn2004 ^'І " ^ Production Pat"a^ate(UOC-MP). "We always sup persons who suggested that he turn author^ 200? 7^ 58'8 bCm' a decrease from ЄПСІ У ГЄ,аІІ0П8 With the exclusively through canonical channels S3.S ' К conical h 0,d Canonical sta ity over to viktor Yanukovych before the 2003 sftgure of 59.1 bcm. in the first Putin a the meetmg, "and Orthodoxy is t nX " Af" ^es of elections, but he rejected this scenario month of 2005, production fell by 14 pe - the Orthodox Church," the UOC-MP press one of the important cornerstones of our service reported. At the end of the meeting because ,t might have caused a profound spiritual relations." Metropolitan political crisis in Ukraine. Mr. Kuchma ^^fnuailytoastDpmgasddiv– п?оГяГ? eXChanged ^ (Religbu USSla0veradisputewith volodymyr said that interdenominational also referred to rumors about a tacit agrS Russi 4r information Service of Ukraine) Russia sa Gazprom over a new price for relations ,n Ukraine today are difficult and ment regarding viktor Yushchenko's victo– Jobless exceed 1 million gas. Another drawback to Turkmen gas Лаі he . . ^ ry in the presidential elections as "childish hopes the situat on win conjectures." What was going on in the deliveries is that the trunk pipeline is with the new government. (Religious ІІЬяТпУ " ThS ""^P!oyment rate in country was a stiff political struggle 8 ї50Ьст information Service of Ukraine) Ukraine increased from 3.5 percent in between the party in power and the opposi– ^(^"ЕІv - ^VVYJUUCеГJ - tion, Mr. Kuchma said. He offered hs Sab0danm C January to 3.6 percent in February, going ^kchenkomeetswithjewishcongress ^ ^noplerePs shghtly over 1 million people LeS opinion that the Yanukovych team lost the гч!^^ Г ^etroPoHtan volodymyr reported on March 16, quotfng'the S race because it erroneously believed that Ukrainian hCad 0f the Y.S. l President viktor S? н k Ukrainian economic k0 mCt With the hea hUrCh M0SC0W Patriarc Statistics Committee. (RFE7RL Newsline) - TTu" acvances out- S f ? d of the ШО? MP^ " hate Kuchma comments on scandals weighed all other problems that exist in board of trustees of the European Jewish of ?HTPT– ^ WUh tWO rePre^ntatives Ukrainian society. (Ukrinform) Congress, vmcheslav Kantor. During the of the Patriarchate of Constantinople on Є ШЄ Fund s res meeting Mr. Yushchenko stressed that March 22 at his residence in the Kyivan iceS "? ^ ' P ^ serv– Presidential supporters regroup here:wdl never be'a "national question" Monasterv of the Caves. The representa– ice (the fund was founded and is led bv ex– n Ukraine and expressed his condemna– W Archbi Pres.dent Leonid Kuchma) circulated a ТЬ икгаІШап National Ра and яп Л manifestations of xenophobia лУг , ,T shop vsevolod statement that sheds some light onMr амтУн"к І Лу and anti-Semitism. Messrs. Yushchenko (Majdansk,), head of the Western Eparchy Kuchma s visit to the Procurator General's (UNP)ledbyYuniKostenkohasleftthe and Kantor discussed the possibility of of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Office on March 10 in connection with the parliamentary pro-presidential Our U.S.A., and Bishop ilarion (Rudnyk) 26 Г W3S asked there a Ukraine bloc and created its own caucus Forum8 thMSeCrW0r,dH0l0ca^t wTaffh T, " bout of 19 deputies, the Ukrainska Pravda assistant bishop for the metropolitan of what they had to ask me, that is, the Forum ,n November 2007 in Ukraine Portugal and Spain, in the course of the website reported on March 16. Mr The president said the forum should be Melnychenko tapes' authenticity, and І Kostenko said the UNP will continue sup^ meeting, the parties discussed a number of repeated what 1stated on earlier occasion accompanied by an educational program porting President viktor Yushchenko's to turn the attention of society to this issues regarding Church affairs in Ukraine hhat 1 do not view the tapes as genuine," electoral program oriented toward page in history. Mr. Yushchenko said he Among other things, an old and painful Mr. Kuchma was quoted as saying. The European integration and the creation of is convinced that "Ukraine can under subject for Ukrainian Orthodoxy itl former president said he never hampered the investigation, which was difficult Ukraine EarHer in March JJjnd the Holocaust through understa„d– schisms, was discussed. Church-state rela– Mr YusTb " "!0 S su -orter ' ons m Ukraine were also discussed in because, he noted, to this day nothing is O,'r п? PP s created the mg the Holodomor," the artificially creat– known about who ordered Ше Pe0P e S Union and ln Fam'n(r:Genocide perpetrated by light of recent political developments. ?ush,Yushchenkh І'"o suggeste" ' d' that the UNP maMrv, g t0 hC UOC MP ress Melnychenko tapes operation. He said that У Joseph Stalin in Ukraine in 1932-1933 Ar,hh b w - P ^ice, the scandal must be uncovered, though either be absorbed into the new рапГ0 г An honest evaluation of these events is' Archbishop vsevolod said, while com! quite a few experts established that the go its own way. Meanwhile, OUPU oar according to Mr. Yushchenko, "a guaran: mentag on a recent visit by a Ukrainian liamentarians on March 15 created their delegation headed by State Secretary topes had been formed from isolated frag– ee of national health." (Religious nd r Zinchenko own parliamentary caucus consisting of information Service of Ukraine) Sa, ll; fT t to Constantinople" Mr ї, ь emng'0 the Ko,chuha """"Н 40 deputies, l„terfax reported, cifing that the Ukrainian government demon– ^milTSaidithadstemmedfrom similarly false tapes. Touching on the latest OUPU Executive Committee head Yurii Yekhanurov. (RFE7RL Newsline) -^^т"^^^^^Ч^^^^^ЩвЩ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ viv4^'K.biNewsline) C Baster JwlleoSSS^i сгЛємйеч^ "t Soyuzwto Mayl Brunch featuring a traditional Doors open 11:30 am blessed Ukrainian S17n per person Easter meal AND... Escolar (fish) Lamb Rack Chops Duck Breast Flat iron Steak

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tion to democratic development by government bodies. He told journalists in "My impressions are that the opposi– Turning the pages... Ukraine. his last appearance in Kyiv that he sup- tion is very tense, very dedicated, trou– (Continued from page 6) "We didn't have a high-level dialogue ported a limited ban on government over- bled," explained the U.S. official, "it elections as the benchmark that would with the president, and one of the reasons sight of opposition organizations, includ– wants to be sure that the interna:ional was that we had some real questions ing by the State Tax Administration and community is watching very closely to determine Ukraine's future integration about the commitment to democracy," the various law enforcement bodies, until see that generally recognized European with the West. explained Mr. Armitage. after the elections. standards for elections are upheld." The deputy secretary of state, the high– The U.S. undersecretary of state Mr. Armitage said the opposition lead– est ranking U.S. official to visit Ukraine emphasized that Ukraine's commitment ers with whom he had met - viktor Source: "Armitage to Kuchma: free since the iraq war, said the reason that so would be further tested through the Yushchenko of the Our Ukraine Bloc and and fair elections will be benchmark of few top level Bush administration repre– October 31 presidential vote. He noted Yulia Tymoshenko of the eponymous U.S-Ukraine relations," by Roman sentauves had visited Kyiv in the last few that he had discussed with President political bloc, along with several top sup- Woronowycz, Kyiv Press Bureau, The years had to do with what Washington Kuchma the intimidation of the Ukrainian porters - impressed him with their dedi– Ukrainian Weekly, April 4, 2004, Уоі had perceived as a questionable dedica– mass media and the opposition forces by cation and sincerity. LXXH, No. 14.

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