INSIDE:• Kuchma reacts to downing of passenger jetliner — page 2. • Myroslava Gongadze pushes for independent investigation — page 3. • News about Ukrainian sports clubs — page 10.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIX HE No.KRAINIAN 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine PolishT court: 1949 state seizureUDefense minister says Ukraine’s military involved in jet’sW downing, awaits conclusive investigation by Maryna Makhnonos state,” Mr. Kuzmuk said. said Russia’s deputy procurator general, of Lemko properties was illegal Special to The Ukrainian Weekly The Air Defense Forces commander, Sergei Fridinskyi, speaking at a news Gen. Volodymyr Tkachev, said it is possi- conference in the southern Russian city by Jan Maksymiuk KYIV – Ukraine’s defense minister, ble the airliner was unintentionally hit by of Rostov-on-Don, the Interfax news RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report Oleksander Kuzmuk, said on October 13 a missile fired by Ukrainian forces during agency reported. that Ukrainian forces were involved in military exercises. “Now we are looking at the question PRAGUE – Poland’s Supreme the downing of a Russian TU-154 pas- Administrative Court in the first week of “On the basis of preliminary conclu- of handing over this criminal case to the senger jet earlier in the month, but that sions by experts, the cause of the air Ukrainian procurator’s office in order to October passed a precedent-setting ver- no dismissals are on the agenda until dict in a case over property confiscated crash could have been the unintended complete the case and fully establish the experts release their final conclusions destruction of the plane by a missile dur- guilt of the Ukrainians,” Mr. Fridinskyi by the state in 1949 from Maria Hladyk, about the causes of the crash. a Lemko who was compulsorily resettled ing exercises,” Gen. Tkachev said. said. “We don’t know the cause of this But he did not definitely confirm that Vladimir Rushailo, the chief of the in 1947 from her village in Beskid Niski, tragedy today, but we know that we are a region in southeastern Poland. fact, saying that investigators are “very intergovernmental commission investi- involved in it,” Mr. Kuzmuk said, after cautious in their conclusions.” gating the crash, said on October 12 that In 1999, Maria Hladyk’s grandson, unexpectedly joining his deputy, the Stefan Hladyk, applied to the Polish “If we don’t know the final causes of the aircraft was destroyed when a missile commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s Air authorities with a request to repeal the the accident, how can we determine the exploded 15 meters above the aircraft. Defense Forces, at a news conference. 50-year-old decision by which some 11 parameters of responsibility?” Gen. “The whole of the aircraft was within It was the first admission of Ukraine’s hectares of land (including 7.55 hectares Tkachev commented. the zone of the explosion of the missiles responsibility since a TU-154 airliner fly- of forest) were confiscated from his Shortly after the crash, U.S. officials warhead,” Interfax quoted Mr. Rushailo ing from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk went grandmother. The Agriculture Ministry said the tragedy had been caused by an as saying. down on October 4 over the Black Sea, satisfied his request. errant S-200 missile fired by Ukrainian Investigators found 350 holes in frag- near the Russian city of Sochi. All 78 In early October decision, the forces during military exercises on the ments of the aircraft recovered from the people, most of them recent Russian Supreme Administrative Court rejected Crimean peninsula. Black Sea, as well as missile shrapnel in immigrants to Israel, were killed. The an appeal by Poland’s State Forests, a Ukrainian and Russian authorities at the victims’ bodies. They also determined remains of 15 people have been recov- state-run agency that manages the coun- first rejected the U.S. statement, but both that crew members were killed immedi- try’s forested areas and which had owned ered. have gradually come closer to accepting ately after an explosion on board the Ms. Hladyk’s wooded plot for the past “I arrived here with only one reason: I it. plane, Interfax said. 50 years. The court simultaneously con- offer my apologies to victims’ relatives Russian authorities said on October 16 Pressure has been mounting on firmed Mr. Hladyk’s ownership right to and those dear to them, I bring my apolo- that the Ukrainian military appears to be Ukraine’s leadership to take responsibili- the plot. gies to Ukraine’s president, the govern- responsible for the disaster. “There is ty for the crash. Ukraine’s Parliament ment, the Parliament and the Ukrainian only one theory at the moment – that the (Continued on page 15) people for harming the prestige of our plane may have been hit by a missile,” (Continued on page 3) The Ukrainian Museum celebrates its 25th anniversary by Helen Smindak um] is poised to achieve even more: to become a jewel He noted that the museum is located in a burgeon- in the crown of the Ukrainian diaspora in the U.S.” ing creative neighborhood surrounded by one of the NEW YORK – The largest Ukrainian women’s Mr. Karatnycky attributed the museum’s success to country’s most respected universities, New York organization in the United States – the Ukrainian “the vision of the museum’s founders, the leadership University, in a city that is the cultural center of the National Women’s League of America (UNWLA), or of Soyuz Ukrainok and the high degree of profession- United States – all of this suggesting great potential Soyuz Ukrainok, took time out from its busy schedule alism, energy and perseverance of museum director to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its long-term Maria Shust and her excellent staff and co-workers.” (Continued on page 9) major project, The Ukrainian Museum. Ukrainian diplomats and representatives of many Ukrainian organizations were among some 250 muse- um members and friends who gathered for a gala luncheon at the New York Palace Hotel on Madison Avenue on Sunday, October 14. Over $200,000 was donated or pledged to the museum’s building fund during the afternoon’s proceedings. There was yet another cause for celebration: con- struction of the highly anticipated new $7.6 million museum facility is expected to begin very soon. Museum officials and staff are elated at the prospect of acquiring much-needed space for treasured collec- tions of folk art, fine arts and archival material, as well as for exhibits, workshops and offices. Keynote speaker Adrian Karatnycky, president since 1996 of New York’s Freedom House, a leading advocate of the world’s young democracies, hailed the museum as “one of the pre-eminent Ukrainian American institutions” and said that it enjoys a right- ful place among such institutions as Harvard University’s Ukrainian Research Institute and the Ukrainian Institute of America, and many beautiful Seen at The Ukrainian Museum’s 25th anniversary event are (from left): Consul General of Ukraine Ukrainian churches. Serhiy Pohoreltzev and his wife, Svitlana; Ambassador of Ukraine to the U.N. Valeriy Kuchinsky; Olha He predicted that “with the generosity of the people Hnateyko, president of the museum’s board of trustees; Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States who have gathered on this anniversary and who have Kostyantyn Gryshchenko and his wife, Natalia; Iryna Kurowyckyj, president of the UNWLA; and Maria pledged significant support in recent years, [the muse- Shust, director of The Ukrainian Museum. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 No. 42

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS “Bigger mistakes have been made” Ukraine, Belarus to boost cooperation in the future on behalf of the families of the passengers and crew. (RFE/RL KYIV – Prime Minister Anatolii Newsline) – Kuchma’s answer to the air disaster Kinakh and his Belarusian counterpart, by Taras Kuzio equipped with self-destruct systems that Henadz Navitski, on October 16 spoke in Rada seeks accountability for crash went into action if the missiles diverted favor of broadening bilateral economic As the finger was being pointed more from the target. and trade cooperation, Interfax reported. KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on and more frequently at Ukraine last week Finally, a few days later at a press con- Mr. Navitski was in Kyiv on his first October 16 approved a motion to request over its shooting down of a civilian air- ference, Air Force Commander official trip as prime minister. The two the Procurator General’s Office to insti- liner President Leonid Kuchma sought to Volodymyr Tkachev presented video sides signed five agreements, including tute criminal proceedings against play down the disaster by saying “bigger recordings of the Ukrainian-Russian live- on cooperation in the spheres of security, Ukrainian military officials responsible mistakes have been made.” Mr. Kuchma fire exercises that took place at the time nuclear safety, energy conservation, and for the October 4 downing of a Russian told Russia’s ambassador to Ukraine, of the crash of the Russian airliner. He customs and border control. Mr. Kinakh TU-154 airliner over the Black Sea, Viktor Chernomyrdin, that “the missile admitted that one S-200 missile had been told journalists that this December the Interfax reported. Deputy Prosecutor- of the Ukrainian armed forces does not fired at the time of the crash and had two countries hope to resolve the issue of General Oleksander Atamaniuk told the understand the Ukrainian language.” landed about 80 kilometers from the Ukrainian enterprises’ debts to agency that the Procurator General’s This was a bad joke at the wrong time. Black Sea shore. This was further out Belarusian partners, but failed to mention Office will consider opening a criminal This drew bitter condemnation from than the earlier claims of only 30 kilome- what amounts are involved. Trade case on the TU-154 crash after it obtains Israel: “When it’s not your people then, ters, but still far from where the plane turnover between both countries in an official report from the commission yes, you can make those academic obser- had gone down. January-July of this year stood at $422 investigating the crash. (RFE/RL vations,” a spokesman for Prime Vladimir Komoedov, commander of million, down 17 percent from the same Newsline) Minister Ariel Sharon said. “But the fact the Russian Black Sea Fleet, also admit- period last year. (RFE/RL Newsline) Medvedchuk wants resignations is that 78 people, most of them Israelis, ted that two of the missiles “went beyond were killed or died and, therefore, for us the horizon.” One of these may have not Picketers demand minister’s ouster it’s a major tragedy.” self-destructed and hit the airplane. This KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Vice- What does this attitude show us about KYIV – Some 120 people from the also was only a half admission. Chairman Viktor Medvedchuk on the lingering legacy of Soviet political Socialist Youth Congress and the We now know that what the United October 11 suggested that Ukraine’s top culture among Ukraine’s ruling elites? Ukrainian Communist Youth League States had said is true. The airliner was military leaders who are responsible for Ukraine’s leaders and, particularly the (Komsomol) picketed the presidential shot down by a Ukrainian S-200 anti-air- the recent crash of a Russian airliner over president, tried to lie, would not take administration building on October 16, craft missile, which is capable of hitting the Black Sea should resign, Interfax responsibility for their actions and demanding that President Leonid targets at a distance of 250 kilometers reported. Mr. Medvedchuk said he refused to apologize for mistakes they Kuchma fire Defense Minister and at an altitude of up to 300 meters. In expects that those responsible for the have made. Oleksander Kuzmuk over the recent other words, President Kuchma and crash “will find courage to tender their Let us recall that the same thing hap- downing of a Russian TU-154 airliner by Ukraine’s military authorities knew all resignations under the officers’ code of pened in the town of Brovary, near Kyiv Ukrainian air-defense gunners, Interfax along that the missiles being fired in the honor.” Mr. Medvedchuk’s statement sig- last year when the military authorities reported. “[The demonstrators] were try- exercise were capable of hitting the air- nals that Kyiv is apparently preparing to admitted firing a missile into an apart- ing to show that they are deeply sorry liner. admit its guilt for downing the Russian ment building only after evidence was about the tragic accident with the TU- The commission investigating the airliner with a stray missile. Meanwhile, shown to them of the missile parts. 154 plane as well as indignant at having crash admitted that the airliner was with- President Leonid Kuchma said the same Likewise, Russian President Vladimir such a president,” said Yurii Lutsenko, in the missile’s range after all. The S-200 day that he has refused to accept the res- Putin showed no respect for human life the coordinator of the Ukraine Without complex homing system had registered ignation of Defense Minister Oleksander when the Kursk submarine sunk. Kuchma movement. Meanwhile, a group the airliner – instead of the unmanned Kuzmuk over the crash. Without provid- of national deputies said the same day Missile? What missile? reconnaissance plane – as the actual tar- ing any specific date, President Kuchma that Minister Kuzmuk deliberately mis- get. The airliner had a much larger said Minister Kuzmuk tendered his resig- led the public with denials that the The Tu-154 plane flying from Tel- reflecting surface and the S-200 homing nation “immediately.” (RFE/RL Aviv to Novosibirsk with 78 people system caught a stronger signal, which Ukrainian air-defense troops were Newsline) aboard exploded at 1:45 p.m. local time was presented on the radar screen as the responsible for the crash of the airliner, on October 4. When the plane went down Amnesty International slams Ukraine target. the DPA new service reported. the United States immediately pointed The missile hit the airliner within “According to our information, the the finger at a Ukrainian missile. GENEVA – Amnesty International on three minutes of being fired, releasing defense minister and air defense chief However, Kyiv strenuously denied that it October 15 said torture and ill- treatment 10,000 steel contact elements that acted knew on the day of the accident that the was at fault. of detainees as well as curtailment of the as shrapnel. The plane fell to sea killing plane was hit by a missile,” they claimed Russian investigations into the down- freedom of expression persist in Ukraine all on board. in a letter to the Procurator General’s ing of the Russian passenger airliner Office. (RFE/RL Newsline) 10 years after it declared independence. located missile parts in the wreckage a Ukrainian-Russian military exercises “Ukraine’s real commitment to human week ago that confirmed earlier U.S. Sibir Airlines sues Ukraine rights must be questioned. When formal claims that a surface-to-air missile had We now know that the missiles were complaints have been lodged and investi- caused the accident. fired during a Ukrainian-Russian military MOSCOW – Lawyers for the Sibir gations opened in cases of alleged torture The first counterclaim alleged that the exercise in Crimea that involved air Airlines that owned the passenger jet or ill-treatment by police officers, they Ukrainians had no missile test taking force, air defense, navy, missile, and accidentally shot down on October 4 by a have been slow, frequently lacking in place at the time. Although Ukrainian artillery units, as well as coastal border Ukrainian missile over the Black Sea thoroughness, and often inconclusive,” authorities denied on the day after the troops. Surface-to-air missiles were fired announced on October 15 that they have Amnesty International said. “Press free- accident that any of their missiles from S-200, S-300PS, S-125, BUK, OSA filed an initial $10 million suit against dom has also been curtailed through brought the airplane down, the time at and KUB systems. MIG-29 fighters hit the Ukrainian government, RIA-Novosti overt forms of harassment and intimida- which the accident happened correspond- targets and tactical R-300 missile defens- reported. The lawyers said that Ukrainian tion, whereby journalists have been ed to when Ukrainian air defense troops es were fired. New equipment, including claims of poverty are not convincing, and on the Crimean peninsula were firing a new radar system for air defense units, that attorneys will file more damage suits (Continued on page 16) anti-aircraft missiles at artificial targets. a radar jamming battalion and a new Ukrainian officials continued to deny radar station in Cape Omuk in eastern that their missiles possessed the neces- Crimea, were being tested. The missiles FOUNDED 1933 sary range as the aircraft was hit 250 themselves were of Soviet vintage and kilometers out at sea while the missiles unreliable. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY allegedly had a range of only 30 kilome- The Ukrainian armed forces, in con- An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., ters out to sea and one kilometer in the trast to domestic security forces, are very a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. 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by Andrew Nynka Special from RFE/RL Newsline U.S. envoy thanks Hungary for support PARSIPPANY, N.J. – With the case of BUDAPEST – U.S. Ambassador to missing journalist Heorhii Gongadze still Ukraine strengthens eastern border Hungary Nancy Goodman Brinker told the unsolved after more than one year, his wife, KYIV – Kyiv has beefed up security at Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Myroslava Gongadze, continues to push the the Ukrainian-Russian border in eastern- on October 10 that U.S. military aircraft Ukrainian government for an independent, most Luhansk Oblast in anticipation of an and cargo planes bearing humanitarian aid comprehensive and conclusive investiga- influx of illegal migrants from Afghanistan shipments in recent days have used tion into the heart of the matter. She insists and neighboring countries, Interfax report- Hungarian airspace, as authorized by that the ramifications of neglecting the case, ed on October 10. Ukraine’s border guards Parliament. In her first public statement in as well as the cases of other murdered jour- are to establish border checkpoints every Hungary, Ambassador Brinker expressed nalists in Ukraine, include distancing 25 to 30 kilometers along the frontier in thanks for the Parliament’s speedy deci- Ukraine from its desire for European inte- that region. The same day, Foreign sion-making and Hungary’s close coopera- gration and harming its respected interna- Minister Anatoliy Zlenko said he does not tion in combating terrorism. tional standing. rule out the possibility of terrorists infil- NATO accepts Czech offer of TU-154 According to Ms. Gongadze, Freimut trating Ukraine and committing terrorist Duve, the representative on freedom of the acts, UNIAN reported. According to PRAGUE – Foreign Minister Jan Kavan media with the Organization for Security Zlenko, the anti-terrorist action of the on October 11 told journalists that NATO and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the United States and its allies in Afghanistan has accepted a Czech offer of a TU-154 international human rights watchdog group may increase the number of refugees and plane for use in the current operations Transparency International, the illegal migrants in Ukraine as well as against international terrorism, CTK report- Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Myroslava Gongadze speaks at the breed anti-American sentiments among ed. Mr. Kavan said that “for the time being” Europe (PACE), the Committee to Protect Council of Europe Ukraine’s Muslims and anti-Islamic senti- the plane will be used for 30 days, starting Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without opposition politicians in Ukraine. It calls ments among ethnic Ukrainians. at a date between October 15 and December Borders have all issued statements asking on the Ukrainian authorities to ensure the 13. “Theoretically,” he said, “this means Ukraine’s leaders to create an independent, rule of law, to conduct their media policy in ... extends no-fly zone over Chornobyl that our plane could already be used next international body capable of a transparent a way which will convincingly demonstrate week.” He said the TU-154 will be used in investigation into the September 16, 2000, KYIV – Vitalii Tolstonohov, the gen- connection with the transportation of five disappearance of Mr. Gongadze, whose respect of the freedom of expression in the eral director of the Chornobyl nuclear AWACS aircraft and their ground compo- body was later recovered in a wooded area country and to improve the legal frame- power plant, said on October 10 that in nents and “will be used only in Europe.” in the town of Tarascha, just 75 miles out- work for the media and the safety and the event that any planes appear in the working conditions of journalists. side of Kyiv. sky above the Chornobyl area without Turkmenistan mum on military strikes Ms. Gongadze said she continues to hold “In particular, the assembly urges the warning it will be regarded as a terrorist the Ukrainian government responsible and authorities concerned to: 1) accelerate and act, New Channel television reported. He ASHGABAT – RFE/RL’s bureau in stressed that last month’s investigation into complete the investigations of the disap- added that closed airspace has now been Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, reported on the Gongadze case by Kroll associates, a pearance and murder of Mr. Heorhii extended far beyond the 30-kilometer October 8 that Turkmen state media failed private investigative agency from the Gongadze, or initiate – if necessary – a new zone around the Chornobyl plant. to broadcast any mention of the previous United States, is not valid, citing Kroll asso- independent investigation in this matter, “Flights of any aircraft over the day’s international strikes against ciates’ hiring by the pro-Kuchma Labor with the help of international experts; 2) to Chornobyl plant zone are prohibited, and Afghanistan. Turkmen President Ukraine party. She also maintained that conduct a full, transparent and impartial I think that the air-defense forces will Saparmurat Niyazov had said on October Kroll was hired solely to “dismiss investigation of the murder of Mr. Ihor have sufficient time to see to it that this 4 that, in line with Turkmenistan’s pro- Kuchma’s involvement in the case.” Alexandrov and in other cases of journalists plane is downed,” Mr. Tolstonohov said. claimed neutral status, the country will not “There was no effort by Kroll associates who have died in dubious circumstances.” facilitate the transportation of troops and to investigate the case; they were hired to On September 27 PACE also adopted U.S. military specialists in Tajikistan weaponry within the framework of strikes the report of Mmes. Severinsen and dispute the handling of evidence and proce- DUSHANBE – A group of six U.S. offi- on terrorist bases in Afghanistan, or place Wohlwend as recommendation 1538 dures taken by Western organizations in cers arrived in Dushanbe on October 12 to its military bases at the disposal of any which stated: “The assembly recommends order to clear Mr. Kuchma or his staff of discuss with Tajik officials the possible use other state, Interfax reported. However, that the Committee of Ministers ... ask the involvement in the case,” she stated. of Tajikistan’s airspace and military facili- Turkmenistan is not hindering the trans- governments of the member-states of the On September 27 PACE adopted resolu- ties by the United States within the frame- portation of international humanitarian aid Council of Europe to propose assistance by tion 1262, the report of the Committee on work of the anti-terrorist strikes against to Afghanistan. the Honoring of Obligations and their investigators.” Afghanistan, Russian agencies reported. Commitments by Member-States, prepared Ms. Gongadze said: “The involvement Uzbekistan places base at U.S. disposal by co-rapporteurs Hanne Severinsen and of independent, international agencies and Uzbekistan, U.S. unveil agreement TASHKENT – Following talks in Renate Wohlwend, which stated: experts hired by bodies such as the PACE Tashkent on October 5 with U.S. Defense “The assembly condemns the aggression or the OSCE will ensure that, at least in TASHKENT – Under an agreement Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Uzbek against, intimidation and even murder of some way, the truth about murdered jour- signed on October 7, the governments of President Islam Karimov announced that journalists, members of Parliament and nalists in Ukraine can finally be revealed.” Uzbekistan and the United States agreed Uzbekistan will allow the United States the on the nature of the threat posed by inter- use of one of its military airfields from officials involved in the crash should national terrorism and pledged to raise which to conduct search-and-rescue mis- Defense minister... bear legal responsibility – but only after bilateral relations to a qualitatively new sions and air shipments of humanitarian aid (Continued from page 1) Russia’s investigative commission issues level to meet that threat and ensure long- to Afghanistan. He said the two countries term regional stability, according to a its final conclusions. will also exchange intelligence informa- voted on October 16 for an inquiry into joint statement by the two governments Gen. Tkachev said he is prepared to tion, but he stressed that “we are against whether top Defense Ministry officials made public on October 12, the “take responsibility both morally and using the territory of Uzbekistan for ground knew the circumstances of the crash and Associated Press and Russian agencies then lied about them. Officials could face legally.” He added that he and his deputy, operations and we are against carrying out reported. That statement also reaffirms any bombing of Afghanistan from our terri- criminal prosecution. Volodymyr Diakov, who commanded the Uzbekistan’s readiness to make one of its tory,” RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reported. Lawmakers Hryhorii Omelchenko and exercise, have already offered their resig- air bases available for use in humanitari- Mr. Karimov also said that Uzbek forces Anatolii Yermak, who introduced the nations along with that of Minister an or search-and-rescue operations dur- Kuzmuk over “this tragic combination of will not participate in any strikes against measure, criticized Mr. Kuzmuk for mis- ing the U.S.-led anti-terrorist strikes Afghanistan, Interfax reported. leading the Verkhovna Rada by saying circumstances.” against Afghanistan. On October 15 that the missile could not have hit the President Leonid Kuchma admitted ITAR-TASS reported that U.S. military Expert: terrorist attacks a “diversion” plane. publicly on October 14 that a Ukrainian specialists are already installing equip- Mr. Kuzmuk and Gen. Tkachev missile was to blame for the jet’s down- ment at the Khanabad air base, which is MOSCOW – Gennadii Zakharov, the stressed that the Defense Ministry’s prior ing, but warned that “no hasty conclu- some 145 kilometers from the Uzbek- former chief of the special assignments denial of responsibility was not aimed at sions should be made.” As of October 17 Afghan border. center of the presidential security service, confusing the public. They explained that he had not made any decision on dis- told Interfax on October 2 that “the Diplomat warns against overreaching ministry officials never rejected the mis- missals of personnel, according to the tragedy in the U.S. is not a terrorist act but a typical diversion, because no sile version, but trusted the parameters presidential press service. ISLAMABAD – Eduard Shevchenko, tracked during the missile’s descent. Meanwhile, Mr. Kuzmuk suspended demands were advanced and no one took the Russian ambassador to Pakistan, told responsibility for it.” He suggested at a “The defense forces are an extremely Gen. Tkachev and Mr. Diakov from their Reuters on October 10 that the U.S. complicated organism,” Mr. Kuzmuk duties on October 17, a spokesman for Moscow press conference that “the goal should be careful not to get involved in of the organizers of this action [is] to said. “There are situations when you trust the Defense Ministry, Ihor Kholevinskyi, the “quicksand” that is Afghanistan lest it draw the entire world into a war new in only men, there are situations when you said. He explained the step is temporary, find it “difficult to get out.” He added form and content at the center of which trust only materiel and equipment, there allowing both commanders to focus their that “the Americans have good relations of course stands economics, the struggle work on finding the cause of the crash are situations when you don’t trust even in Central Asian states, but they should for the construction of a new world eyes.” “in an unbiased investigation” by an understand that it is a Russian sphere of order.” Ukrainian Prime Minister Anatolii interdepartmental commission created by influence. Our presence there is known Kinakh said on October 16 that all the President Kuchma. and well- recognized.” (Continued on page 14) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 No. 42 UCCA executive board discusses Ukraine-related activity by Tamara Gallo electorate – the 18-35 age group. Mr. mote the activities of the UCCA and the United States. The UCCA president Ukrainian Congress Committee of America Sawkiw also expressed a desire for the encourage the Fourth Wave to become thanked the many executive board members UCCA to open a permanent office in Kyiv involved in the organized Ukrainian who traveled to Ukraine for the World NEW YORK – Members of the execu- that would monitor future UCCA projects American community. Forum of Ukrainians, and for Independence tive board of the Ukrainian Congress and would serve as an information source Mr. Sawkiw reminded members of the Day festivities. The UCCA President also Committee of America (UCCA) met on for activities occurring in Ukraine. Executive Board that next year the praised the Ukrainian community for its Saturday, October 13, to confer on several The discussion further centered on the Ukrainian National Information Service important topics following a three-month diligent efforts in organizing festivals, ban- role of the media in Ukraine during the par- (UNIS), the full-time Washington bureau of summer vacation. quets and public ceremonies marking a liamentary campaign and their objectivity. the Ukrainian Congress Committee of Originally scheduled for Saturday, decade of Ukraine’s restored independence. September 15, the meeting was postponed Motions were offered to enlist the support America, will be celebrating its 25th In attendance at the executive board in the wake of the September 11 terrorist of the Ukrainian American community in anniversary. Meeting participants discussed meeting was Oles Yanchuk, producer of the attacks on New York City. UCCA President purchasing subscriptions to the “non-oli- plans to organize nationwide fund-raisers UCCA co-sponsored film “The Michael Sawkiw Jr. began the deliberations garchic” Ukrainian newspaper Shlakh for the UNIS office and to hold a cocktail Undefeated.” Mr. Yanchuk provided his by asking executive board members to stand Peremohy for their friends and family mem- reception in Washington to celebrate the reflections on film premieres in Ukraine, the for a moment of silence in memory of the bers in Ukraine, as well as to underline to achievements of UNIS. United States and at various international victims of the terrorist attacks in New York, the U.S. government the necessity of sup- An important element of UNIS activity is film festivals, where it was greeted with Washington and Pennsylvania, as well as porting free and independent media through mobilization of community support. Thus, much interest two long-time UCCA activists who have various democracy-building programs in in addition to fund-raisers, traveling round- Mr. Sawkiw reported on the film’s pre- recently died, Prof. Petro Goy of New York Ukraine. table discussions will be held in various miere in Washington on October 11, which and Dr. Myroslav Charkewycz of Chicago. The Fourth Wave of Ukrainian immi- cities to raise the community’s awareness of was attended by many dignitaries, including First on the agenda was a discussion grants to the United States also was a focus the role of UNIS’ in Washington. Ukraine’s Consul General in Washington about the parliamentary elections in Ukraine of attention. In recent months the UCCA Furthermore, a mortgage-burning initiative Valentyn Nalyvaichenko; Minister scheduled for March 2002 and how the has renovated the first floor of its building will have as its goal raising funds to pay off Counselor of the Ukrainian Embassy UCCA should be involved. The UCCA in New York to be used as a resource for the newly purchased UNIS building in Volodymyr Yatsinkivskyi, and former U.S. president reminded executive board mem- programs aimed at teaching English as a Washington. Ambassador to Ukraine William Green bers that since 1994 the UCCA has conduct- second language (ESL), legal services, a job A brief overviewwas given of the Third Miller. ed several civic education projects in and housing bank, etc. Other proposals World Forum of Ukrainians and celebra- The UCCA president also proposed the Ukraine, primarily concentrating its efforts included greater use of media outlets (news- tions of the 10th anniversary of Ukrainian on the youngest generation of Ukraine’s papers, radio, TV and the Internet) to pro- Independence Day, both in Ukraine and in (Continued on page 15)

THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY PRESS FUND: A SPECIAL REPORT

Christine Hruszkewycz Derwood, Md. K. Krywous Toronto, Ontario $100.00 Jaroslaw Jarymovych Cheltenham, Pa. Katherine Kurman Philadelphia, Pa. Bohdan and Olena Michael Kozak Minneapolis, Minn. Mary Lekich Southold, N.Y. Buchynsky Glendora, Calif. George I. and Olga Michael Luciw Melrose Park, Pa. George Hrycelak Chicago, Ill. Lewicky Mount Kisco, N.Y. P. Lutwiniak Sunrise, Fla. Stephen Sokolyk New Braunfels, Tex. Joseph Luczka Hartford, Conn. Theodore Mackiw Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Helena Mann- Michael Makar Shoreham, N.Y. $85.00 Melnitchenko Owings, Md. Leon and Juliane Steve Ilkiw Montreal, Quebec J. McKay Edinboro, Pa. Mazurets Piscataway, N.J. Jaroslav and Vera John Melinyshyn Arlington Heights, Ill. Anonymous Kryshtalsky Forest Hills, N.Y. Nestor Mudry Winnipeg, Manitoba Harry Muryn Chicago, Ill. Juliette and Bohdan Christine Paclawskyj Kensington, Md. $75.00 Ozaruk Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. Lida Pakula Dearborn, Mich. Andrew Pankiw Upper Arlington, Ohio Luba Palashewsky Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Geoge J. Dziadiw Albany, N.Y. N. Pawluk Huntsville, Ala. Juliana Panchuk Chicago, Ill. Maria Hankewych Chicago, Ill. Omelan Pleshkewych Park Ridge, Ill. Leonid Petrenko Sun City West, Ariz. Yurij Holowinsky Sterling, Va. Roxolana Podpirka Whitestone, N.Y. Christine Petri Chicago, Ill. Mykola Hoshovsky Sunnyside, N.Y. Nicholas Prytula Brighton, Mich. Rose Pitula Bergenfield, N.J. Ada Kulyk Washington, D.C. Eva Sacharuk Wenham, Mass. Halyna Polatajko Bethel Park, Pa. Irene Nowak Milwaukee, Wisc. William Sametz Richmond Hill, Ontario Prof. Teresa Thomas Olijnyk Ozone Park, N.Y. B. Sawchuk Scarsdale, N.Y. Rakowska-Harmstone Natick, Mass. A. Rakowsky Wading River, N.Y. $60.00 Steven Shewczuk Brooklyn, N.Y. Tymofij Shtompil East Hanover, N.J. Mary Reszitnyk Jersey City, N.J. Paul Szerszen Arlington, Va. Andrew Simock Las Vegas, Nev. Augustin Rudnyk Monrovia, Calif. Zenon Snylyk Berkeley Heights, N.J. Peter Rudy Toms River, N.J. $50.00 Walter Sosiak Colonia, N.J. Jim Saum Davis, Calif. Mychajlo Seredowych Syracuse, N.Y. Dorothy Chupa Briarwood, N.Y. Wasyl Sosiak Forest Hills, N.Y. Samuel Sosnicky Union, N.J. Stephen Dudiak Madison, Wisc. Oksana Sullivan Palo Alto, Calif. Bohdan Storozuk Gold River, Calif. Roman Goy Baltimore, Md. Samuel Walczuk Stamford, Conn. Ihor Tomkiw Toronto, Ontario O. Wolansky Kerhonkson, N.Y. John Hewko Washington, D.C. S. Tymiak Pittsburgh, Pa. Gregory Woloszyn Forest Hills, N.Y. Irene Hlushewsky Harrison, N.Y. S. Wusowych-Lule Glen Ellyn, Ill. Nina Zachary Richmond, Va. Myron Nowosad Elkin, Ill. J. Wynnyckyj Etobicoke, Ontario Mary Zukowsky Flushing, N.Y. Bohdan Petriv Buffalo, N.Y. Zenon Zachar West Bloomfield, Mich. Bogdan Zurawski Clifton, N.J. Natalie Sluzar Falls Church, Va. Andrew Zakrewsky Middle Village, N.Y. Ulana Sos San Antonio, Tex. $20.00 Phylis Zien Cameron, W.V. Wolodymyr T. and I. Zyla Lubbock, Tex. $45.00 Alexander Lebedovych Eaton Rapids, Mich. Ostap Zynjuk Silver Spring, Md. George Dzerdz Northridge, Calif. $15.00 $9.00 Thomas Coleman Sayville, N.Y. $40.00 Basil Mordowanec Warren, Mich. Ilko Cybriwsky Louisville, Ky. Daria Kurylko New Providence, N.J. Jaroslawa Czyrko Brooklyn, N.Y. $5.00 Jaroslaw Sawka Sterling Heights, Mich. Larissa Dolinsky Westfield, N.J. Yurij Hanas Hamilton, Ontario H. Allen Portland, Ore. $35.00 Jaroslaw Kaczaj Cheltenham, Pa. Luba Bac Chicago, Ill. Jaroslaw Ben Chicago, Ill. Lidia and Orest Bilous Osprey, Fla. Taras Kozbur Buena Park, Calif. Barbara Boyd Lake Suzy, Fla. Christine and Alexander Markian Onuferko Philadelphia, Pa. Bohdan Burachinsky Florham Par, N.J. Hladky Harpers Ferry, W.Va. Morris Prytulak Windsor, Ontario Andrij Cehelsky Rochester, N.Y. Terry Gawryk Chicago, Ill. Roman Tresniowsky Ann Arbor, Mich. Ilko Cybriwsky Louisville, Ky. Russel Kaczmar Manassas, Va. George Yemetz Pasadena, Calif. Eugene and Anisja Gill Ambler, Pa. Andrew Kotliar Toms River, N.J. $10.00 Michael Ilnickij Jersey City, N.J. A. Romaniuk Ottawa, Ontario Barbara Bachynsky New York, N.Y. George Kaniwec Southington, Conn. $30.00 Ellen Barlit North Falmouth, Mass. Roman Kernitsky Colts Neck, N.J. Jaroslaw Bylen Chicago, Ill. Katja Kolcio New York, N.Y. Roman Okpysh Dana Point, Calif. Vera Cready Toledo, Ohio Wolodymyr Kostiuk Woodside, N.Y. Ihor Czuczuk Hamilton Square, N.J. Harry Kowalcheck West Newton, Pa. $25.00 Olga Denysenko Kerhonkson, N.Y. W. Kramarczuk St. Anthony, Minn. William Adamshick Perth Amboy, N.J. Roman Drazniowsky Mequon, Wisc. Luba Nowak Chicago, Ill. Modest Artymiw Philadelphia, Pa. Donna Dykyj Chicago, Ill. Olga Semeniuk Amherstburg, Ontario Jaroslaw Barwinsky Winnipeg, Manitoba Regina Dziubaniuk Norwood, Mass. Paul Shewchuk Latham, N.Y. Christine Bilyk Fort Wayne, Ind. The Rev. Michael Fill, Jr. Lake Ariel, Pa. R. Skrypka Grimsby, Ontario Stefania Bryant Raleigh, N.C. Ivan Galysh Fairfax Station, Va. R. Sluzar Mississauga, Ontario A. Chernikhowsky Vancouver, British Columbia John Halij Vineland, N.J. Walter Strzalka Perth Amboy, N.J. Vera Deychakiwsky Fort Lee, N.J. John Hilla Palm Desert, Calif. George Yurkiw Astoria, N.Y. Paul Fenchak Lutherville, Md. Katheleen Horiszny Toronto, Ontario Orest Gorchynski Northridge, Calif. Leon Jaworsky Pitt Meadows, British Columbia Lydia Hajduczok West Orange, N.J. Arcadia Kocybala Cronton-On-Hudson, N.Y. Total $3,035.00 No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 5 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM For the historical record: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE A look at our aid to Ukraine of the UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION by Ulana Diachuk underscore the importance and necessity announces that the UNA President to aid our brothers and sisters in Ukraine “All UNA members will follow the MONTREAL DISTRICT’S This year Ukraine and the Ukrainian example set by the delegates.” diaspora celebrated the 10th anniversary The experience of the past 10 years FALL ORGANIZING MEETING of the proclamation by the Ukrainian has been that Ukraine had many more will be held on Parliament of the independence of projects in need of financial aid than the SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2001, at 2:00 p.m. Ukraine. After this historic proclamation, Ukrainian diaspora could fund. at the Ukrainian Canadian Congress the Ukrainian citizenry overwhelmingly However, for the historical record, for 3244 Beaubien E. Rsmt., Montreal, Quebec approved independence in the national our own benefit and for those who are referendum of December 1, 1991. not convinced that Ukrainians abroad Obligated to attend the organizing meeting as voting members are District Prior to that date, with the disintegra- have indeed aided Ukraine, this is the Committee Officers, Branch Officers, Convention Delegates and two delegates tion of the Soviet Union being an obvi- proper time to sum up their work to aid from the following Branches: ous fact, the Ukrainian community on the Ukraine. All Ukrainian churches, many 434, 465, 492 American continent was confronted with established Ukrainian organizations as All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. the fact that Ukraine would be in dire well as the newly formed ones – not to need of help and that the Ukrainian dias- mention thousands of individuals – were MEETING WILL BE ATTENDED BY: pora would have to be financially ready involved in aid to Ukraine. Tekla Moroz, UNA Advisor for that task. The list below is published for the DISTRICT COMMITTEE: With this in mind, delegates to the general information of the UNA member- 1990 Convention of the Ukrainian Tekla Moroz, District Chairman ship and the community, which have con- Yaroslava Bachynsky, Secretary National Association unanimously tributed mightily to aid Ukraine. Listed Alexandra Dolnycky, Organizing Director approved the following resolution: are UNA projects supported by both the “In anticipation of the desire of the Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine and the Ukrainian nation for self-determination Ukrainian National Foundation. and independence, and taking into We wish to express our gratitude to all account the foremost wishes of the dele- our members who joined the UNA’s EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE gates of this convention, the financial action by endorsing their dividend checks of the committee recommends to establish at or by directly contributing funds to aid the UNA a fund to aid Ukraine at a mini- Ukraine. Their donations enabled the UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION mum amount of $250,000. The sources UNA to successfully perform the task announces that the for such a fund are to be: assigned the UNA by its 1990 “1. a donation of $100,000 from the Convention. (Lists of donors were previ- UNA to be included in the budget; ously published in the UNA’s two news- ALBANY DISTRICT’S “2. a forceful drive for donations from papers, Svoboda and The Ukrainian the UNA membership; Weekly.) FALL ORGANIZING MEETING “3. appeals to the membership to We encourage our members to contin- will be held on donate their dividend checks to the ue their generosity; the need is still great SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2001, at 2:00 p.m. UNA fund for the rebirth of Ukraine; in order for the Ukrainian nation to be at the Ukrainian American Citizens Club “4. donations from each convention reborn and become a truly democratic 402 25th St., Watervliet, NY delegate of $25 to that fund in order to society. Obligated to attend the organizing meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, Branch Officers, Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches: AID TO UKRAINE 1990-2000: 13, 57, 88, 200, 266 All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting.

Overview of UNA-supported projects$136,988 MEETING WILL BE ATTENDED BY: BOOKS PUBLISHED “Basic Elements and Theory of a Market System” by Oleh Havrylyshyn Ulana Diachuk, UNA President Stephanie Hawryluk, UNA Advisor Four readers for schools in Ukraine Rukh by-laws DISTRICT COMMITTEE: Monograph on Rukh by Ludmilla Ivanchenko Nicholas Fil, District Chairman Walter Litynsky, Secretary Literaturna Ukraina – newsprint supplies Walter Krywulych, Treasurer Children’s book “Ivasyk Telesyk” Paul Shewchuk, Honorary District Chairman Book on church architecture Book on Ukraine by Taras Hunczak Financial-Investment Analysis by Jaroslav Komarnytsky and Ivan Jaremchuk Reprint of “Ukrainians in the Diaspora” by J. Bachynsky “The Repressive-Punitive System in Ukraine, 1917-1953” by Ivan Bilas

AID TO ORGANIZATIONS $342,168 Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund – tri-state committee Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund Foundation for Democracy in Ukraine – Harvard Project International Management Institute, Lviv Sabre Foundation Olzych Research Foundation – National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Stefanyk Library, Lviv Freedom House – Ukraine voter awareness project First World Forum of Ukrainians Kyiv Music Festival Center for Study of Historical Monuments, Institute of Archeology of Ukraine Markian Shashkevich Memorial Fund Lviv Regional Educational and Historical Organization Memorial Nova Ukraina

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NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY The Weekly: our cooperative venture A progress report on construction Every so often, it seems we must write an editorial addressed to our readers (plus potential readers) and community leaders to set out what we do, how we do it and of sisters’ monastery in Hoshiv why we do it, as well as to describe in general terms how this paper functions. Usually by Dr. John Didiuk wife, and I drove to Ivano-Frankivsk for a 7 the need is felt by the editors here at The Ukrainian Weekly when confronted with p.m. meeting. We arrived early so that we reactions of community members that are based on erroneous assumptions, misunder- More than 10 years have passed since could look over the newly completed standings or just plain old misinformation. the Sisters of the Most Holy Family began church. The bishop met us promptly at 7 In recent weeks we have heard some of our “favorite” rumors repeated. For exam- to build their new motherhouse and p.m. and gave us a tour of the museum and ple, there’s the one about how The Weekly does not publish information about SUM, monastery in Hoshiv, Ivano-Frankivsk then invited us into the library of his resi- the Ukrainian American Youth Association. Frankly, thanks to the hard work of dedi- Oblast, of western Ukraine. They began this dence where our meeting took place. cated SUMivtsi, The Weekly has never carried more news about this vibrant project almost immediately after coming Before being named to the Eparchy of Ukrainian youth organization. While there may have been a lacuna in the past, for rea- out of the underground as the Soviet Union Ivano-Frankivsk, Bishop Mudrij was the sons that had nothing to do with The Weekly itself, today that is no longer the case. was collapsing. The order had been sup- director of St. Josaphat’s Ukrainian Incidentally, the SUM example illustrates how any of our community organiza- pressed by the Soviet Communist authori- Catholic Seminary in Rome. He has visited tions, be it a national organization or a local community group, can use our newspa- ties early in the summer of 1946. the United States many times. As it turned per. Yes, the word is “use.” So if your organization has a press person (popularly I recently visited the monastery for the out, he has even visited Boston several known in Ukrainian as the “presovyi referent”), why isn’t he or she sending us infor- fourth time as a member of its fund-raising times, and we have mutual friends. mation? If your group doesn’t have such a person, surely there is someone who can committee and I marveled at the progress Our discussion turned to the monastery act as your contact with us, who can send us stories about your community’s events that the sisters had made under the leader- and we gave the bishop an update on the and achievements that you would like to share with fellow Ukrainian community ship of their indefatigable superior, Sister work completed and asked for his help. We members across North America. Anatolia Dmytryshyn. Under discussion discussed our fund-raising efforts to date A most recent manifestation of the “oh, we didn’t think you’d be interested” genre was the current state of the project and what and indicated that almost all of the money of false assumptions is another reason for this editorial. Queried by a Weekly editor was still needed to bring it to completion. donated, both in Ukraine and the diaspora, about why it had not sent any information on a major cultural/community event in The exteriors of the motherhouse, had come from simple working men and Chicago, a spokesman said it was considered a local event. Well, our answer to that is: chapel, guesthouse and farm buildings have women, and that there were very few large Former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill once said “all politics is local”; so, too, for all been completed, and the monastic enclo- donations. In the United States alone, our the most part, is the news. But what’s local to you may be worth sharing with others, sure has been walled in. However, all of the committee has sent out more than 3,000 i.e. non-locals, and it may have significance beyond its apparent geographical borders. interior work in the motherhouse and individual appeals and has contacted many Consider this also: publicizing your “local” story raises the community profile of the chapel, including the building of walls, ceil- of the clergy and most of our parishes. sponsoring group and increases its reach. ings and floors, and the plumbing, heating Bishop Mudrij said that although he fully There are also those readers who expect us to be everywhere all the time – mind and electrical work remain to be done. supports the monastery project, the current you, that’s with our staff of three editors here in the United States and a fourth in Kyiv, Estimates indicate that this final phase will economic situation of Ukraine basically left who ostensibly covers all of Ukraine (quite a beat that is...). Unfortunately, we are not cost more than of $100,000. his eparchy without funds. Without the help The New York Times or the network news, which have huge staffs that can be sent After carefully looking at all the finan- of several German Catholic charities he anywhere at literally a moment’s notice. That’s why we count on you, dear readers, to cial records and the history of donations would not have been able to finish the work with us in getting the news out to fellow community members. Let us know from both Ukraine and the West, it became restoration of the cathedral and the semi- what’s happening in your part of the world. We already have a corps of dedicated clear that additional help is needed. As a nary, or complete the building of the new community activists who contribute to our paper, as well as some free-lancers who result, the committee decided to appeal to church. cover events in their communities. Why not join these ranks? Bishop Sofron Mudrij, the Ukrainian However, Bishop Mudrij did offer to Another misunderstanding about what we cover stems from a miscomprehension Catholic bishop of the Eparchy of Ivano- write an appeal to all of the Ukrainian of our editorial mission. For example, you did not need us to rush out to the scene at Frankivsk. Catholic bishops in the diaspora asking the World Trade Center to cover what everyone else was covering. However, you We were granted an audience with each of them to call for a second collection should have expected us to look for specifically Ukrainian angles to this horrible story Bishop Mudrij and Sister Anatolia, Sister in each of their parishes for the completion (which is exactly what we have tried to do and are continuing to do). It’s like our Volodymyra, Oleksii Burai, the director, my of the monastery and he asked the commit- motto says: we offer “the Ukrainian perspective on the news” – in others words, tee to continue its work in Ukraine and in something that you can’t find anywhere else. Dr. John Didiuk of Needham, Mass., is the diaspora. Please allow us to use this space also, now that we are chatting, to share a pet a member of the Building Committee of Anyone wishing to aid the sisters in the peeve: information or messages sent to the editors without a phone number (prefer- the monastery of the Sisters of the Most completion of their motherhouse and ably a daytime number). Certainly you’ll agree that it’s just must easier and more effi- Holy Family in the village of Hoshiv, monastery may send a donation to: Sisters cient to pick up the phone and handle any queries, comments, suggestions or com- Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. He of the Most Holy Family, c/o Ukrainian plaints right away. And it doesn’t help when you provide a mailing address, but your had been tapped in 1997 by Bishop Fraternal Federal Credit Union, (Account phone number is unlisted. A formal written reply inevitably takes much more time, Sofron Dmyterko to raise funds for the No. 792), P.O. Box 185, Boston, MA which means that you’ll have to wait much longer for a response. And, if we should new monastery. 02132-0185. require additional information from you about a story you sent in, well, now you’ve held up publication of your own story. So, please do help us be in touch with you. Thanks for listening. We look forward to making our relationship stronger and to improving this cooperative venture of ours. Any questions? Please call (973) 292-9800 to speak with one of our editorial staff members, or e-mail [email protected]. (Please don’t hesitate to leave a detailed and specific message on our voice mail.) Oct. Turning the pages back... 25 1949 Fifty-two years ago, as Stalin’s regime reasserted control over A view of the sisters’ monastery under construction in Hoshiv. western Ukraine, prior to the death of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky in November 1944, the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church saw a few months of nervous truce with the returned occupiers. Later that month, its new primate, Metropolitan Josyf Slipyj, issued a pastoral letter condemning inter-ethnic and fratricidal assassinations carried out by the nationalist underground. Until March 1945, it appeared that the Soviets still sought to neutralize opposition to their occupation via the Church, but when negotiations with the OUN-UPA produced little other than nationalist reprisals against the clergy (and, more importantly, after the Yalta Conference in February ratified Soviet seizure of territories claimed by the Polish govern- ment-in-exile), Moscow decided that the way to direct action was now fully open. Yaroslav Halan was a Galician-born (on July 27, 1902) pro-Soviet scribe who, when not writing socialist-realist plays and short stories, had been defaming Ukrainians of differing political stripe since the mid 1920s. When the Nazis invaded in June 1941, Halan was vaca- tioning in Crimea. By August he was in Moscow begging off service at the front (“the pains in my leg grow ever worse”), and then spent the war as a radio and press propagandist. He returned to Lviv in the spring of 1945, and on April 5 of that year, under the pseudo- nym Volodymyr Rosovych, he fired the first salvo in the Stalinist media’s war against the During a visit to Hoshiv (from left) are: a visiting priest from Zakarpattia, Bishop Sofron Mudrij, Dr. John Didiuk, Osypa Didiuk and Sister Anatolia (Continued on page 7) Dmytryshyn. No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 7

NEWS AND VIEWS PERSPECTIVES BY ANDREW FEDYNSKY New Jerseyansby Michael Koziupa demonstratePyndus, Chornomorskaunity of Sitchpurpose and Plast Newark/Morris County; Kvitka Earlier this year, a number of people Semanyshyn, UCCA Essex County got together to discuss how the New Branch; Michael Szpyhulsky, SUM Jersey “hromada” should celebrate Newark/Irvington; Vladimir Waskiw, UCCA Ukraine’s 10th anniversary of Terrorism – past and present NJ; Olena Welhasch, Children of Chornobyl As soon as the Verkhovna Rada voted to as the Means of Government Independence. Through the initiative of Relief Fund. It was also decided that the the Ukrainian Congress Committee of approve President Leonid Kuchma’s decree Administration in the USSR (1917-1941)” committee would hold a banquet in to open Ukraine’s airspace to U.S. military by Serhiy Bilokin and asked me to consider America – New Jersey Coordinator September. Council and the Ukrainian National transports for the war against terrorism, the including it in a column. I’m grateful to her A total of 11 meetings was held. The leader of the Communist faction, Petro for sending it, for this magnificent study is Association, realtor Michael Halibej, cooperation and hard work of committee attorney Jerry Kuzemczak, UCCA NJ Symonenko, denounced the decision. “The nothing less than a systematic description members was a demonstration of the Communists are worried about Ukraine’s and analysis of how the Soviet government Chairman John Burtyk, UNA President ability of different groups and genera- Ulana Diachuk and this writer, branch actual participation in the U.S. military used terror on a daily basis, penetrating into tions (members ranged in age from 27 to campaign because the Communists believe the lives of every citizen. A lot, of course, manager of Selfreliance Ukrainian 77) to work together in an apolitical and American Federal Credit Union, met to that the U.S. is a country of terrorists itself,” has already been written about that topic, united fashion. he explained. And with that, Ukraine’s but Mr. Bilokin’s book takes a quantum toss around ideas and gather mailing The banquet was held at the Ramada lists. A letter was formulated and sent out Communists declined to participate in the leap forward. Hotel and Conference Center in East struggle against terrorism and instead, The Communists, no less than the Nazis, to all Ukrainian organizations in New Hanover, on Saturday, September 22, as Jersey to announce an initial meeting to effectively aligned themselves with those kept meticulous records of their crimes. Mr. reported in this paper. Orest Fedash, the who practice it. Bilokin makes extensive use of secret be held on May 17 at the UNA building general Manger, donated the cocktail in Parsippany, N.J. Is anyone surprised? Or for that matter, police archives that have only become hour. Mr. Halibej, Realtor, donated does anyone care? available since the demise of the Soviet Representatives from a number of money for the committee’s production of organizations gathered together to formu- Well, no one should be surprised, but Union. He even taps into the reflections of a video covering the 10 years of unfortunately, it matters a great deal. The individual Chekists (terrorists). Afansii late a plan for the celebration. The execu- Ukraine’s independence. Selfreliance tive was elected: chair – Michael Communists control a significant minority Korzhnytskyi, for example, admits that he Ukrainian American Federal Credit in the Ukrainian Parliament and, therefore, knew the people he tortured were innocent Koziupa, Selfreliance UAFCU Union, New Jersey Advisory Board, cov- Parsippany and Ukrainian American have to be taken seriously. Because of that – of any “counter-revolutionary plot,” but his ered the costs of all the printing. The not to mention his characterization of the superiors ordered him to use “physical pres- Youth Association (SUM), Whippany Ukrainian National Association donated Branch; vice-chairwoman – Martha United States as “a country of terrorists” – sure” to get confessions, so that’s what he advertisements in its official publications Mr. Symonenko invites a closer look at his did. Lysko, Ukrainian National Association; Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly. treasurer – Jaroslava Mulyk, Ukrainian own party’s record on terrorism. Again, no With more than 400 pages of small type, Over $13,220 was collected, and about surprise: not only have they been for it, they the book has an encyclopedic heft to it, con- National Women’s League of America, $13,080 was paid out to cover costs and practically invented it. taining mountains of hair-raising testimony New Jersey Regional Council; secretary – expenses. The leftover profit was donated As the founder and tireless leader of the on the Soviet terror machine. The index Bozhena Olshaniwsky, Americans for to the UCCA New Jersey Council, Bolshevik faction of the Communist Party, alone lists nearly 3,000 names of victims Human Rights in Ukraine; English-lan- which fronted the initial funds for the Vladimir Lenin was the genius of the and perpetrators, but as Mr. Bilokin points guage press – Walter Bodnar, UNCHAIN; committee. October Revolution. His image was ubiqui- out, with tens of millions of victims what Ukrainian-language Press – Mr. Burtyk. As chairman of the committee, I wish tous in the old Soviet Union. A monument seems formidable at first glance is a mere The name “New Jersey Committee - 10th to thank the executive and all the com- to Lenin still stands near the Basarabsky sample. Anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence” mittee members for their hard work and Rynok in Kyiv, a tribute to him as the most The author is quite conscious of the was chosen, and it was decided that the com- dedication. Thanks also to the master of successful terrorist in history. groundbreaking work he’s doing and mittee would consist of representatives of ceremonies, attorney Nestor Olesnycky, When revolution broke out in the describes his methodology with care. His New Jersey Ukrainian community organiza- representatives of the U.S. government, Russian Empire in February 1917, the effort to view the documents is part of the tions. The following people became mem- the New Jersey state government and Bolsheviks were a relatively minor factor, story. Many people have an interest in bers of the committee: Dr. Julian Bemko, Ukraine’s government, as well as the enjoying no more support than the blocking access to critical files. Many Ukrainian American Veterans; Gregory candidates for New Jersey governor who Communist Party does today. Indeed, what archives were moved decades ago from Dobush, Organization for the Defense of the greeted the banquet guests. history records as the “October Kyiv to Moscow. Others were destroyed Four Freedoms of Ukraine; Maria Duplak, Special thanks are due also to the main Revolution” was actually a Bolshevik outright, including those dealing with Organization for the Defense of speakers – National Deputy Hryhoriy coup in the Russian capital, Petrograd. Nikita Khrushchev’s role as boss of Lemkivschyna; Stanley Kmet, 2nd Division Omelchenko and Ukrainian World Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s. Having of the Ukrainian National Army; Jerry Congress President Askold Lozynskyj, From that base, the Bolsheviks went on to denounced Stalin in 1956 in his “Secret Kuzemczak, UCCA Morris County; Leonard all the participating New Jersey destroy all opposition and ultimately seize Mazur, Ukrainian Professionals and Ukrainian community organizations, as total power. Speech,” Khrushchev did not want any Businesspersons Association of New York well as all who took part in this wonder- During the revolution, Lenin knew the evidence of his personal role in mass mur- and New Jersey; Eugene Oscislawski, UNA ful celebration. Bolsheviks did not enjoy popular support. ders that took place during his tenure. Northern Jersey District Committee; Roman God Bless America! Slava Ukraini! However, like the terrorists of today, he Although the book is in Ukrainian, it will didn’t care. He would use force to get his be tough going without a good knowledge way. Six weeks after the November 7 of Russian. Many lengthy quotations in that Turning the pages back... putsch, he sent this message to his follow- language – some an entire page or more – ers: “Until we apply terror to speculators – illuminate Mr. Bilokin’s narrative and illus- (Continued from page 6) shooting on the spot – we won’t get any- trate his main point: that terror works. UGCC, an article titled “Z Khrestom Chy z Nozhem” (With Cross or Knife?), smearing where.” The following June, Lenin ordered As Mr. Bilokin demonstrates and history Sheptytsky and the clergy of his Church as Nazi collaborators. Within a week virtually the his party to “encourage the energy and confirms, a relatively small group of fanat- entire UGCC hierarchy, Slipyj included, had been imprisoned. In November Halan trav- mass-character of terror against counter- ics who are willing to combine terror with elled to Nuremberg to cover the war crimes trials. revolutionaries.” In August, he sent a propaganda can control huge masses of When he returned to Lviv, he wrote plays with such sunny titles as “Pid Zolotym telegram to Communists in Novgorod: “ ... people. That’s why stopping them is so crit- Orlom” (Under the Golden Eagle) and “Liubov na Svitanni” (Love at Dawn), but kept up organize a strengthened guard of reliable ical and that’s why “Mass Terror as the his journalistic polemics with contributions such as “Shcho take Uniya?” (What is the persons to carry out merciless mass terror Means of Government Administration in Uniate Church?), “Na Sluzhbi u Satany” (In the Service of Satan) and “Pliuyu na Papu” (I against the kulaks, priests and White the USSR (1917-1941)” is such an impor- Spit on the Pope). Guards.” And on it goes, ad nauseam, for tant book. It certainly deserves wider distri- On the morning of October 25, 1949, Ilariy Lukashevych, son of a UGCC priest who nearly five years. In March 1922, just two bution, (the first edition is a mere 500 had gone along with the “reunification” of the Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches, and months before the stroke that finally debili- copies) and not only in the original Mykhailo Stakhur, a rank-and-filed OUN member, came to Halan’s apartment, on the pre- tated him, Lenin declared “merciless war” Ukrainian/Russian. It ought to be translated text that Halan would help Lukashevych gain admission to a forestry college. Stakhur hit against the Church. “The more members of into other languages as well. Halan 11 times with an axe, and the pair fled. the reactionary bourgeoisie and clergy we As for Mr. Symonenko, he more than According to the late Prof. Bohdan Bociurkiw, a political scentist among whose fields of manage to shoot the better,” he advised. anyone should read this book. If he does, specialty was Soviet religious policy, “It took the NKGB until June 1951 to uncover and His close aide, Felix Dzerzhinsky, gave he will certainly gain a new appreciation of arrest the assassins using a locally recruited agent who had infiltrated the underground [as it structure to Lenin’s policies with the Cheka, the United States for the role it played in turns out — Bohdan Stashynsky, who later himself assassinated Stepan Bandera and Lev “an organ for the revolutionary settlement the global effort to defeat communism. He Rebet]. During a major show trial presided over by the procurator general of the Ukrainian of accounts.” It dealt in “organized terror,” might even want to start a Committee to SSR, Roman Rudenko... [the killers] were both presented as being inspired by the Vatican.” morphing into the GPU, OGPU, NKVD Remove the Lenin Monument from Kyiv. They were both sentenced to death and executed. Lukashevych’s father was fingered as the and eventually, the KGB. Their story, of You wouldn’t want to destroy it, of course. mastermind of the plot and sentenced to 25 years of hard labor. course, is familiar: the Terror-Famine, the That’s something you’d expect the Taliban Great Terror, the gulag – the horrors organ- or Communists to do. Instead, the statue Sources: Bohdan Bociurkiw, “The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church and the Soviet ized by Soviet secret police organizations should be placed in a museum to instruct State” (Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1996); “Halan, are synonymous with Communism itself. future generations about the dire conse- Yaroslav,” Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol. 2 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988); A few months ago, The Ukrainian quences of fanatical terrorism and what Yaroslav Halan, “Lest the People Forget” (Kyiv: Dnipro Publishers, 1986); Hryhoriy Weekly’s editor-in-chief, Roma happens when civilized nations do nothing Kulinych, “Yaroslav Halan” (Kyiv: Dnipro Publishers, 1977). Hadzewycz, sent me a book, “Mass Terror to stop it. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 No. 42 No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 9

Freedoms for Ukraine. now include an impressive collection of events geared for the general public are UNWLA celebrates... Askold Lozynskyj, president of the folk costumes and accessories, embroi- part of the museum’s educational pro- (Continued from page 1) Ukrainian World Congress, who served dered and woven textiles, kylyms, ceram- gram. In its exhibition agenda, the muse- for the museum’s work in coming years. as the afternoon’s master of ceremonies, ics, woodwork and metalwork objects um has mounted a wide-ranging spec- Mr. Karatnycky pointed out that the read a special citation conferred on The and pysanky (Easter eggs). trum of historical and cultural presenta- problems of Ukraine’s transition from Ukrainian Museum by New York Gov. The collection of fine arts – paintings, tions, among them “The Lost communism to freedom, including its George Pataki and delivered by Orysia works on paper and sculptures created by Architecture of Kyiv” and “To Preserve a cultural development, have placed new Woloszyn, an employee of the New York Ukrainian artists working in Ukraine, Heritage: The Story of the Ukrainian responsibilities on the Ukrainian cultural state government in Albany. Europe, the United States and other parts Immigration in the United States.” Each community in the United States – includ- Mr. Lozynskyj continued with a litany of the world – includes renowned artists major exhibition is accompanied by a ing The Ukrainian Museum – which of warm greetings and good wishes from Alexander Archipenko, Jacques bilingual, illustrated catalogue with fully New York City Mayor Rudolph Guiliani, must continue to be open to the vast vari- Hnizdovsky, Oleksa Hryshchenko researched material; the catalogues are U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, (Alexis Gritchenko), Vasyl Hryhorovych ety of Ukraine’s cultural output, not only now used in many libraries and schools Cardinal Lubomyr Husar and Krychevsky and the naive artist Nikifor. the art and artifacts produced by ethnic as sources of information on Ukrainian Ukrainians, but by the various nationali- Metropolitan Stefan Soroka of the Archival material containing thou- Ukrainian Catholic Church. The list of sands of photographs documenting the history and culture. ties and religious groups that inhabit the While city, state and federal funding country. well-wishers included Eugene and life of Ukrainian communities in the Daymel Shklar of California, to date the United States and Canada includes per- agencies have supported the museum’s He suggested that the museum’s offer- operations through the years, the ings should include exhibits, lectures and largest contributors to The Ukrainian sonal correspondence of noted Ukrainian community in the United publications focusing on the interaction Museum. Ukrainians, programs of events, play- States has provided the most generous between Ukrainians and Russians, Acknowledging that “this great cre- bills, posters, and exclusive chronicles of Crimean Tatars, Jews, Poles and other ation was made possible by the work of organizations and individuals, as well as funds, among these a major donation of nationalities who lived in, and in several many individuals,” Olha Hnateyko, pres- Ukrainian currency, stamps, ex-libris and $2.5 million to the Building Fund and a cases, ruled over Ukraine. ident of The Ukrainian Museum’s Board rare books. $1 million Challenge Grant from Eugene He added: “The legacies of destruction of Trustees, paid tribute to the late Folk craft courses and workshops for and Daymel Shklar of California and a of memory and artifacts that were the Iwanna Rozankowskyj, one of the prime adults and children, lectures on various $500,000 gift from the Selfreliance result of totalitarian communism, the movers and promoters of the creation of topics and community-related cultural Federal Credit Union in New York City. lack of a distinct Ukrainian national iden- The Ukrainian Museum (it was opened tity on the part of perhaps as much as during her term as UNWLA president) half the population of Ukraine – these are and to the museum’s past presidents, all issues that Ukraine’s internal cultural Alexandra Riznyk, Bohdan Cymbalisty, community and institutions like The Titus Hewryk, Joseph Danko and John Ukrainian Museum must address, as I am Luchechko. She praised the leadership of certain they will.” the museum’s director, Ms. Shust, and Mr. Karatnycky said Ukrainian the work of its administrative director, Americans recognize that their main role Daria Bajko, and “all the faithful in helping Ukraine is in telling Ukraine’s employees of the museum.” story in the West and linking Ukraine to For contributions and help in raising the intellectual and material resources of funds for the new building, Mrs. the United States and the democratic Hnateyko offered her thanks and grati- West. “In the years to come, Ukraine will tude to museum members and all need the expertise and insights of The UNWLA branches, as well as to Mr. and Ukrainian Museum and of Ukrainian Mrs. Shklar, the Selfreliance (New York) American curators, art historians and Federal Credit Union, and “our seniors, ethnographers, as much as we need the our youth, the Ukrainian press, our vol- skills and insights of scholars, curators, unteers – indeed, to every person in artists and ethnographers based in our whose heart lies the fate of our Ukrainian homeland.” heritage.” In Mr. Karatnycky’s view, The Extending greetings to the assembled Ukrainian Museum has played a crucial guests, UNWLA President Iryna role over the years in focusing attention Kurowyckyj said the museum’s anniver- on Kyiv’s lost architecture, on artists who sary is being celebrated by all UNWLA fled totalitarian repression, and on cre- Regional Councils throughout the coun- ative traditions and movements that were try. She drew a round of hearty laughter suppressed in the era of socialist realism when she said that Mrs. Hnateyko “must and ideologically driven art. have been born with a gold spoon in her He said he is convinced that the new mouth – money seemed to fall from the museum will see the emergence of a skies when she became president.” prosperous and forward-looking Ukraine, The afternoon included a musical with leaders of unwavering democratic interlude presented by acclaimed artists Askold Lozynskyj, the banquet’s master of ceremonies, with Daria Bajko, convictions, with well-funded museums Natalia Khoma and Volodymyr administrative director of The Ukrainian Museum. and cultural institutions that will be part- Vynnytsky, who offered a highly appeal- ners of The Ukrainian Museum. ing interpretation of Beethoven’s Sonata Mr. Karatnycky spoke before an audi- No. 3, Op. 69 in A major for violoncello ence that included Ukraine’s ambassador and piano. to the United States, Kostyantyn At the start of the afternoon’s pro- Gryshchenko, and his wife, Natalia; gram, mezzo-soprano Kalyna Cholhan Ukraine’s consul general in New York, Boychuk began the opening with ardent Serhiy Pohoreltzev, and his wife, notes of “God Bless America” and was Svitlana; and Ukraine’s permanent repre- joined by the entire assembly in a patriot- sentative to the United Nations, Valeriy ic response to the recent terrorist attacks Kuchinsky, and his wife, Alla. and the country’s state of war. The invo- Ambassador Gryshchenko brought cation was spoken by the Rev. Patrick greetings and a commendation for the Paschak, vicar general of the Stamford Ukrainian National Women’s League of Diocese of the Ukrainian Catholic America and its work from Ukraine’s Church in America, who asked for a foreign affairs minister, Anatolii moment of silence for “all those who per- Zlenko. ished or lost loved ones on that Black Among representatives of Ukrainian Tuesday.” American organizations present at the Based on a small collection of banquet were Eugene Ivashkiw, a vice- Ukrainian folk art objects which were president of the Ukrainian Congress purchased for display at the 1933 World’s Comittee of America; Dr. Anna Procyk, a Fair in Chicago, The Ukrainian Museum vice-president of the Shevchenko was founded in New York in 1976 to pre- Scientific Society; Walter Nazarewicz, serve the cultural legacy of Ukrainian president of the Ukrainian Institute of immigrants in the United States and to America; and Maria Lozynskyj, secretary introduce the Ukrainian experience to the of the executive board of the Women’s general public. Its folk-art holdings, Association for the Defense of Four accumulated mainly through donations,

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by Christine Klufas at which re-elections were held. to reviewby Dr. Orest activity, Popovych discussThe tennisfuture championship, projects run by the The newly elected board consists of USCAK tennis director George Sawchak, KERHONKSON, N.Y. – Approx- the following: president – Peter Kurylas; NEWARK, N.J. – Officers of USCAK, involved 57 players. Mark Oryshkewych imately 50 members of the Carpathian vice- president – Zenon Stachiw; treasuer as it is popularly known (based on its and Lesia Bilak won the men’s and Ski Club (KLK) and their friends got – Natalia Kachala; secretary – Christine Ukrainian-language acronym), met at the women’s titles, respectively. home of the Chornomorska Sitch sports together on September 14-16 for a week- Klufas; skiing chairman – Severin Chess Director Dr. Orest Popovych club on October 1 to discuss the current end of tennis and socializing. Palydowych; skiing co-chairman – Orest announced plans to hold the 2001 status and future projects of the Saturday turned out to be a sunny, cool Fedash; tennis chairman – George Popel; USCAK chess championship on October Ukrainian Sports Federation of the day – perfect for some friendly tennis golf chairman – Oles Popowich; special 20 in Buffalo, N.Y. It will be hosted by U.S.A. and Canada. matches and an outdoor lunch during events chairman – Vira Popel; coordina- the Stepan Popel Chess Club at St. The meeting was opened by USCAK which everyone ate, drank and got to tor of external affairs – Andrij Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, know each other. The day ended with a Hadzewycz; honorary president 2001- President Myron Stebelsky, who noted that the activity at USCAK, as in many where the Rev. Marian Procyk is the pas- cocktail party and a sumptuous dinner, 2002 – Orest Slupchinskyj; honorary tor and club director. the dance having been canceled out of president 2002-2003 – Wolodymyr other Ukrainian American organizations, has generally ebbed in recent years. Due to the death of Yaroslav Petryk, respect for the victims of the September Hnatkiwskyj; chairman of the nominat- However, there are some bright spots. the chairman of the USCAK Auditing 11 terrorist attacks on the United States ing committee – Roman Rondiak; KLK One success story, reported by the Committee, Vasyl Ciurpita was appointed Severin Palydowych, the current presi- delegate to USCAK – Severin press officer, Omelan Twardowsky, is the as a new member of the committee. dent of KLK, began the evening with a Palydowych. USCAK swimming and tennis champi- Drawing inspirtion from the example prayer for the victims and their families. Members accepted their posts with onships which took place at Soyuzivka of The Ukrainian Weekly, Mr. Stebelsky It was a somber moment for everyone enthusiasm, full of new ideas for the over the Labor Day Weekend. proposed that USCAK publish a volume present. upcoming year. As the sun set, everyone The swimming competition attracted of the most significant articles that Sunday began with breakfast, then left with pleasant memories of yet one 55 participants from four Ukrainian appeared in print about USCAK since liturgy, followed by the annual meeting more successful KLK event. American clubs and youth organizations. its founding in 1955. The idea is to pro- The club title was won by the swimmers vide future historians with a single of Chornomorska Sitch. The Sitch swim- source of information about organized mers are coached by Marika Bokalo, who Ukrainian sports in North America. is the director of swimming both at Sitch After hearing assurances from the finan- and USCAK. They have obviously bene- cial secretary, Alexander Napora, that fited from their training at the Sitch the USCAK treasury is indeed in good Sports School, which last summer was shape and fully capable of financing held at Soyuzivka for the first time, said such a publication, the project was Mr. Twardowsky. approved unanimously.

Tryzubivka’s fall tournament concludes 2001 tennis season HORSHAM, Pa. – The last Ukrainian a very close match against Pavlo tennis tournament of the 2001 season Rehulyk of Philadelphia, winning 6-3, 3- was held here on the Tryzubivka estate 6, 6-2, while Mr. Sawchak had an easier during a cold and very windy October 6- time in that round, beating Ihor Buhaj of 7 weekend. Tryzub 6-2, 6-1. Sponsored by the Tryzub Ukrainian Third place in the tournament went to American Sports Center, the tournament Mr. Sosiak, a winner of the feed-in final was played in men’s singles competition over Mr. Rehulyk, by a super-pro set only, with full-feed consolation rounds. score of 10-4. To reach that final Rehulyk During the two-day event 15 individ- had to defeat three opponents: Alex Participants of KLK’s fall get-together at Soyuzivka. ual matches were played. The tourna- Olynec, 10-5, Walter Dziwak, 10-7, and ment winner was George Sawchak of Jerry Tymkiw, 10-4. Tryzub, who in the finals of the main In one of the best matches of the tour- draw defeated George Petrykewych of nament, in the semifinal feed-in Mr. West Hartford, Conn., by a very close Sosiak defeated Buhaj 14-12 to reach the Being Ukrainian means: score of 7-6, 6-4. finals. J Malanka in January. In the semi-finals of the main draw At the conclusion of the tournament, J Deb in February. Sawchak beat Steven Sosiak, Colonia, trophies were presented to winners and N.J., 6-4, 6-3, and Mr. Petrykevych, Jerry finalists of the main tournament and J Sviato Vesny or Zlet in May. J Tymkiw of Tryzub, by an identical score. feed-in by tournament director Mr. Tabir in July. In the quarterfinals Mr. Petrykevych had Sawchak. J Volleyball at Wildwood in August. J Labor Day at Soyuzivka in September. J Oktoberfest at Verkhovyna in October. J Morskyi Bal in New Jersey in November. J Koliada in December.

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UNA Branch number ______Seen at Tryzub’s fall tennis tournament are (from left): Pavlo Rehulyk, Alex Mail to: Subscription Department, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 Olynec, George Sawchak, Steven Sosiak, Jerry Tymkiw and George Petrykewych. No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 11 Newark parish celebrates a first: Ukrainian Festival on church grounds

by Ksenia Hapij turns aiming tennis balls at a target, try- ing to collapse the bench and thus sub- NEWARK, N.J. – Several months ago, merge the pastor. the Rev. Bohdan Lukie, CSsR, pastor of The highlight of the day was the music St. John’s Church in Newark, N.J., had a and dance program that took place on an vision of a Ukrainian festival on the outdoor stage specially erected for the church grounds. Since every vision festival. The three-hour program featured requires much effort and a great deal of students of St. John’s School, Roma faith before it becomes a reality, he invit- Pryma-Bohachevsky’s dancers from ed parishioners of all ages to come Newark and Whippany, N.J., as well as together to plan the first festival of its Manhattan, the St. John’s bandura and kind at St. John’s. sopilka ensembles, Mykhaylo and Olia Saturday morning, September 29, was chilly but sunny, and it seemed that the Stashchyshyn, the Roxolana Ensemble, Rev. Lukie’s call for everyone “to believe Oleh Chmyr, Roman Tsymbala and the in this project” had been heard. The Budmo Ensemble from Ukraine. church grounds were decorated with col- Everyone was very much aware and ors of both the Ukrainian and American proud of the richness of the Ukrainian flags. heritage and the warmth of the Ukrainian The kitchen was fully stocked with community, yet it was pleasing to watch “pyrohy, holubtsi, bigos” and an endless the program against the backdrop of the supply of “pampushky.” The beer garden red, white and blue colors of the served both Ukrainian and American American flag. Ihor Rakowsky, the mas- beer, and various organizations, both ter of ceremonies, stressed the impor- church- and community-based, had set tance of community in these difficult up an interesting array of tables and times and the entire crowd joined the per- booths. formers in singing “God Bless America.” Parishioners strolled around the A family atmosphere prevailed during church grounds, admiring Ukrainian the daylong festivities and continued paintings, embroideries, ceramics and through the night to the sounds of the pysanky, as well as various non- Roxolana Band at the dance in the school Ukrainian items. Ukrainian songs echoed gym. through the neighborhood throughout the Parishioners of all ages, both morning and early afternoon, as children Ukrainian and English-speaking, united played with their parents and their under the open sky on St. John’s grounds friends, and took rides on Dusty, the fes- and worked in harmony. Many acquain- tival pony. tances were renewed, and many new In the afternoon everyone raced to the ones were established. The Ukrainian dunking booth to try to “dunk the pas- community had worked and played tor.” The Rev. Lukie sat on a bench over together and this is what made the first Roma Hadzewycz a huge barrel of water, while people took Ukrainian Festival in Newark a success. Boys of Roma Pryma Bohachevsky’s dance group at St. John’s perform.

Master of ceremonies Ihor Rakowsky. Festival-goers of all ages enjoy the program of dance and music.

Ihor Lukiw A quartet of musicians from Ukraine entertains the audience. Dancers from a troupe in nearby Whippany, N.J., on stage. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 No. 42 Ukrainian writer Dibrova among authors at international festival in Toronto by Oksana Zakydalsky The first visitors from Ukraine usually or “internal emigration.” Those who spoke no English and would frequently chose the latter created an underground TORONTO – Prominent Ukrainian escape into the embrace of the local alternative culture, writing “for the draw- writer Volodymyr Dibrova will take part Ukrainian community rather than net- er.” They wrote without any expectation in the 22nd annual International Festival work with other writers. With English- of having their works published under the of Authors at Harbourfront in Toronto on speaking Ms. Zabuzhko and then Mr. censorship then in force and their texts October 17-27. A novelist, short story Andrukhovych, other participating were passed hand to hand in a narrow cir- writer, dramatist, literary critic, translator authors became acquainted with the liter- cle. They publicized their writings among and teacher, Mr. Dibrova was born in ary scene in Ukraine. their friends at informal group gather- 1951 in Donetsk, Ukraine, studied and Mr. Dibrova, who first came to the ings, some of which were regularly held worked in Kyiv, and is now living in the United States in December, 1989 as chief and quite long-lived. Mr. Dibrova headed United States. of the press office of Narodna Hazeta, the one such group which met at a Kyiv Mr. Dibrova will read from his works artist’s studio. on Tuesday, October 23, sharing the stage Rukh newspaper, in Washington, has taught at the Harvard University Mr. Dibrova’s novel “Burdyk” (pub- with best-selling British novelist lished by Geneza, Kyiv, 1998) is about Margaret Drabble and Arab writer Hanan Ukrainian Summer Institute, beginning in 1992 and returning several times. In 1995 this alternative scene of the 1970s gener- al-Shaykh. ation. When freedom and independence Mr. Dibrova follows in the footsteps of he was a visiting assistant professor under the Fulbright program at Penn came in 1991, many of the 1960s writers some of Ukraine’s best known writers were spent as authors but, because they and poets who have been participants of State University and since 1996 he has worked at the Ukrainian Research had established themselves before the the annual International Festival of repressions came, were prominent Authors in earlier years. Institute at Harvard. Mr. Dibrova’s first short stories, enough to go on to play significant roles Preceded by other Ukrainian writers “Texts With and Without Titles,” were in the new state. The new writers, the 1980s generation published in 1990; his “Beatles’ Volodymyr Dibrova Ivan Drach, who read in 1989, was the Songbook,” which came out in Kyiv in of Mr. Andrukhovych’s fictional Stas first Ukrainian writer to participate. He Perfetsky, felt right at home in the newly 1991, became the literary hit of that year. an society through, what Mr. Strikha was followed in subsequent years by Ihor But, according to critic Maksym Strikha accessible Europe and North America. Kalynets, Vasyl Holoborodko and Members of the 1970s generation, of called “an able deconstruction of the var- writing in the magazine Krytyka, the sto- Mykola Vorobiov – all of whom started whom Mr. Dibrova’s alter ego, Burdyk, ious myths surrounding the life of Soviet ries published in the 1990s actually to publish in the 1960s, during the period is a representative, were nowhere. They man.” His heroes are what can be called belong to the “underground alternative” of a relative thaw in Soviet Ukraine. had not yet realized themselves when the Soviet lumpen-intelligensia. The of the 1970s. The most recent participants, Oksana censorship fell on them. The novel inspiration for this “underground alterna- tive” literature was the then-forbidden Zabuzhko and Yuri Andrukhovych, are Conformity or “internal emigration” Burdyk ends with the hero falling under writers who achieved prominence in the the wheels of a trolleybus, but it is never Western modernist texts of writers such 1990’s and fitted more comfortably into When writers born in the 1950s made made clear whether he actually dies. as Beckett and Ionesco. (Mr. Dibrova’s the festival milieu, where there are many their debut, the period of stagnation and Works written by Mr. Dibrova in the translations of their works were finally opportunities for mingling with the other censorship had begun in Ukraine. The 1970s and early 1980s – “The Beatles’ published in the late 1980s.) participants, usually 40 to 50 writers choice for them was conformity – to Songbook” and “Peltse” – are parodies of Latest book of novellas from all over the world. becoming “engineers of human souls” – the existence of everyman in a totalitari- Mr. Dibrova’s latest book, “Zbihovyska” (Get-Togethers, published by Krytyka in 1999) includes four novel- Levytsky’s “birdroom” project exhibited at Toronto gallery las, three of which were written in Kyiv by Oksana Zakydalsky at the beginning of the 1980s and only recently edited for publication, while the TORONTO – Award winning artist Ina fourth was written in the United States in Levytsky exhibited her “birdroom” project the mid 1990s. in the BUSgallery at the end of August in The first three take place when, sup- Toronto. Made up of large-sized prints – posedly, Burdyk was still alive. Each she uses dry point, making three prints in takes place at a different gathering – a each edition – the project began as photos christening, a New Year’s party and on taken at the Royal Ontario Museum’s Bird the eve before Easter – and deals with Gallery of people viewing stuffed birds the same milieu of the “lumpen-intelli- through glass and steel encasements. gensia” of the 1970s. Ms. Levytsky, 28, explained: “While my The fourth novella takes place “after previous body of work explored notions of Burdyk’s death” – in a provincial human/animal sentience – the body, its American university where a philologist movement, gestural language and sense of from Ukraine, invited to the university, presence – the current body of work thanks to a Ukrainian professor there, is explores a kind of stilled life, one which celebrating his 40th birthday. The cele- draws on the setting of museum and gallery brations are seen through the same and which mixes artifice and art, taxidermy absurdist prism Mr. Dibrova applied to and portraiture, the living and the dead.” Soviet society, this time focusing on both In 1998 Ms. Levytsky won the $7,000 the Americans and the transplanted Ernst and Young/Canadian Art Foundation Ukrainians. award – the first prize at the Great The mystery remains. Did Burdyk – Canadian Printmaking Competition – for the 1970s lumpen-intelligent - really die? one of her works in the series “Landscape: Mr. Strikha claims that there is some A Diary of Parts.” That series was complet- doubt. Maybe in his future writings Mr. ed while she was a graduate student at the Dibrova will give readers an answer. University of Calgary in the master of fine The only available translation (by arts program. Halyna Hryn) of Mr. Dibrova’s works – She had spent a term of study at the the book “Peltse and Pentameron” which Royal College of Art in London, U.K., and includes “Peltse,” a story from “The was inspired by visits to various Celtic sites Beatles’ Songbook” and the novella in Great Britain to explore how ancient civ- “Pentameron” – was published in 1996 ilizations expressed their relationship to the by Northwestern University Press in the animate earth. series “Writings from an Unbound A graduate in fine arts from Queen’s Europe.” University in Kingston, Ontario, Ms. At the authors’ festival in Toronto, in Levytsky works in graphic arts, mixed addition to reading from his work, Mr. media and video. With the “birdroom” proj- Dibrova will take part on October 24 in ect, she also showed a series of photogra- an on-stage interview conducted by Marc phy-based works in mixed media that are Glassman. glass-encased. On October 22 Mr. Dibrova will also Ms. Levytsky has exhibited her work be the subject of a discussion about his across Canada – in Toronto, Kingston, work led by Dr. Marko Stech of the Calgary and Edmonton – and has taken part Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies in exhibits in other countries, including and Prof. Taras Koznarsky of the Cuba, Japan, Slovenia and Chile. She lives University of Toronto at a program in Toronto and is currently working on organized by the Shevchenko Scientific video set design. Ina Levytsky with one of her views of the “birdroom.” Society. No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 13 Chicago exhibit showcases works by three photographers

CHICAGO – The exhibit “3 Views 3 1986 to 1992 she worked with National Continents,” featuring the work of Tania Geographic Magazine staff writers and D’Avignon, Yarko Kobylecky and photographers on various assignments in Myrosha Dziuk, was featured at the the former USSR. Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in In 1995 she was an interpreter and Chicago on September 9 through liaison with the White House Press October 13. during President Bill Clinton’s tour to As noted in the exhibition announce- Ukraine, and in 1996 served as person- ment, the photographers presented at the al photographer for Secretary of State exhibit “shared more than their Madeleine K. Albright’s visit to Ukrainian heritage; they are descendants Ukraine. of all those who succumbed to the lure of Since 1976 she has been associated the ‘other’ and set off to document that with the Harvard Ukrainian Research experience.” Institute in Cambridge, Mass., photo- The announcement also notes: “The documenting and illustrating the works history of exploration is replete with of the institute. chronicles of the greedy pursuit of tro- Her photographs, have been exhibited phies. However, these are journeys pro- in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, pelled instead by a hunger for knowledge Poland and Belarus, and have been pub- and understanding. When the motives are lished in numerous books, periodicals for clarity, not conquest, the results and newspapers. enrich us. In 1998 “Simply Ukraine,” a book “What the viewer might initially per- of Ms. D’Avignon’s photographs was ceive as foreign in the details of lives published by Artex Management, Kyiv. within other cultures emerges instead as Ms. Dziuk received her BFA from the a shared sympathy. University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana “Tanya D’Avignon’s Ukrainians, after completing studies at the Institut für Myrosha Dziuk’s Guatemalans and Europäischen Studien in Vienna, Austria. Yarko Kobylecky’s images of the She worked as a freelance photo styl- Egyptian dessert reflect the common his- ist while pursuing independent photo tory of need, ritual and decay. Families essays in Guatemala, Ukraine, Iceland continue to celebrate and mourn in every and Italy. language, and the traces of civilizations Since 1997 she has been a freelance fade as the desert reclaims itself, the sun photographer specializing in portraits casting the same shadows observed cen- and documentary photography. turies age.” Her work has been exhibited in *** Minneapolis, Boston and Chicago. Ms. D’Avignon has worked as a free- lance photographer since 1972. From (Continued on page 15) Blessing of Easter baskets in Boyarka, outside Kyiv, photo by Tania D’Avignon.

Dumy, fado and salsa on the bill in Montreal by Dr. Christine Sochocky his studies at the Kyiv Conservatory. He has several recordings to his credit MONTREAL – The department of featuring traditional, classical and ethnomusicology at the Université de original works, and is author of Montréal hosted a most unusual and numerous articles on the history of the captivating concert, featuring Victor bandura. Mishalow, Filipe Batista and Carlos During the concert Maestro Placeres in a concert program offering Mishalow performed “Duma of the three distinct musical traditions: the Poor Widow and Her Three Sons,” bandura and dumy, the Portuguese gui- which belongs to the older cycle of tar and fado, and the Cuban trouba- dumas, characterized by a lyrical qual- dour tradition and salsa. ity, mournful tone and profound moral The concert, which was held insight; “Marusia Bohuslavka,” which September 28 in the Salle Claude- belongs to the cycle of dumas that deal Champagne, was organized by with the struggle with the Tatars and Department Director Dr. Monique Turks, in this instance, with Turkish Desroches. It was recorded by Radio captivity; and “The Captives: the Canada for future transmission. Market in Kaffa” by composer and A scene in Guatemala, photo by Myrosha Dziuk. The concert was preceded by an modernist writer Hnat Khotkevych informative presentation by each of (1877-1938), who throughout his life the performers on the particular instru- worked at perfecting the art of ban- ment and musical genre featured in the dura-playing. Maestro Mishalow’s concert program. Concurrently, an selections were chosen to indicate the exhibit from the university’s collection various possibilities of the bandura as of rare ethnic instruments was present- a solo instrument. ed in the foyer of the auditorium. For his part, Mr. Batista spoke of Maestro Mishalow, a native of the Portuguese fado, the haunting Sydney, Australia, was introduced to songs of destiny, love and death the audience by Dr. Claudette which, having evolved from a type of Berthiaume-Zavada, a French- popular song initially associated with Canadian scholar at the department’s the element of dance, interweaves ver- Research Laboratory of Music of the bal dialogue with the guitar. World, who also acted as translator The fados were performed by Mr. into French of the dumy that were per- Batista and two other singers, dressed formed. in the long black capes traditionally Maestro Mishalow established him- worn by the students of the University self as a bandurist of note in the West of Coimbra – a major center of fado through concert tours in North since the end of the 19th century – America in the 1980s, as well as solo who are among its most enthusiastic appearances with the Ukrainian propagators. Bandurist Chorus. He graduated from the University of Sydney and furthered (Continued on page 15) Egyptian desert series, photo by Yarko Kobylecky. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 No. 42

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authorities decided in 1947 on a mass á „ÎË·ÓÍËÏ Ê‡ÎÂÏ ÔÓ‚¥‰ÓÏÎflπÏÓ ðÓ‰ËÌÛ, resettlement of Ukrainians to the so- Polish court... ÔðËflÚÂÎ¥‚ ¥ Á̇ÈÓÏËı, ˘Ó Á ‚ÓÎ¥ ÇÒÂ‚Ë¯Ì¸Ó„Ó (Continued from page 1) called Recovered Lands (Ziemie 26 ‚ÂðÂÒÌfl 2001 ð. ‚¥‰¥È¯Ó‚ Û ‚¥˜Ì¥ÒÚ¸ This precedent-setting verdict by the Odzyskane) — the former territories of ̇ 68-ÏÛ ðÓˆ¥ ÊËÚÚfl ̇¯ ‰ÓðÓ„ËÈ Supreme Administrative Court admits the Third Reich incorporated into post- that the nationalization of Lemko prop- World War II Poland. The Polish army åìÜ, ÅÄíúäé ¥ ÑßÑé erties 50 years ago was illegal. The ver- performed the drastic and violent dict paves the way for other Lemkos (or Operation Vistula, or Akcja Wisla, which their heirs) to regain what was confiscat- resettled some 150,000 people. The oper- ed from them by the Communist authori- ation, according to the General Staff, ties. contributed to “the final solution of the According to the PAP news agency, Ukrainian problem” in Poland. Polish courts are currently going over The dispersion of Lemkos following some 200 lawsuits by Lemkos seeking to the 1947 resettlement immensely acceler- have their properties in Beskid Niski ated the process of their assimilation. returned to them. Some Lemko activists joined the Ukrainian movement, but many others *** chose Polishness to avoid being identi- ·Î. Ô. Following is an excerpt from an fied with Ukrainians. RFE/RL editor’s note providing some his- In 1949 the Polish government passed ÔÓÎÍÓ‚ÌËÍ torical background to the case. a decree on the nationalization of proper- ties remaining after the resettlement of In a bid to deprive the Ukrainian the Ukrainians and Lemkos. Following ÇÄëàãú ÄçÑêûä Insurgent Army (UPA) – which fought the decree, local authorities passed the Polish Communist government in appropriation decisions with regard to Ç ÔÓıÓðÓÌÌÓÏÛ Á‡‚‰ÂÌÌ¥ Demaine Funeral Home ‚ ̉¥Î˛, 30-„Ó 1944-1947 – of support among resettled owners’ land plots and belong- Ukrainians inhabiting their ethnic territo- ings remaining on their administrative ‚ÂðÂÒÌfl 2001 ð. ‚¥‰·ÛÎËÒfl ‚¥‰‚¥‰ËÌË ‚¥‰ 6-Óª ‰Ó 8-Óª „Ó‰. ‚˜. ries in southeastern Poland, the Polish territories. èÓıÓðÓÌ̇ ëãìÜÅÄ ÅéÜÄ ‚¥‰·Û·Òfl ‚ ÔÓ̉¥ÎÓÍ, 1 ÊÓ‚ÚÌfl ‚ ÒÓ·Óð¥ Ò‚. êÓ‰ËÌË Û Ç‡¯¥Ì£ÚÓÌ¥, ÓÔ¥ÒÎfl ̇ ÛÍð‡ªÌÒ¸ÍËÈ ˆ‚ËÌÚ‡ð – Cedar Hill Ukrainian Memorial. Egypt; the British Museum, Department of Antiquities, El Kab, Egypt; the Bardo Chicago exhibit... á‡Î˯ÂÌ¥ ‚ „ÎË·ÓÍÓÏÛ ÒÏÛÚÍÛ: (Continued from page 13) Museum of Roman Mosaics for the Getty ‰ðÛÊË̇ – åÄêíÄ Conservation Institute, Tunis, Tunisia; Mr. Kobylecky received his B.A. from ÒËÌË – ‰-ð éãÖäëÄçÑÖê the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the Art Institute of Chicago; the National – åÄêäé his M.F.A. from the School of the Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Institute of Chicago. National Museum of American Art, – ÄçÑêßâ Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ Äççéû Since 1993 he has worked at the Washington. ‚ÌÛÍË – ãìäÄ ¥ ãÖÇäé Chicago House in Luxor, Egypt, for the Mr. Kobylecky’s work has been exhib- ·ð‡ÚË – ¥ÌÊ. Ñåàíêé Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ ÄçÑêÖ∏û Oriental Institute at the University of ited at the Chicago Cultural Center, the – ÄÑÄå Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ ÖãàëÄÇÖíéû Chicago. Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in ÒÂÒÚðË – ëíÖîÄçßü Á ÏÛÊÂÏ ÖÇÉÖçéå ëàêéíûäéå Previous positions include: the Cairo Chicago and the Carnegie Museum of – åÄêßü ëäéí Museum, for Chicago House, Luxor, Natural History in Pittsburgh. – ûãßü Á ÏÛÊÂÏ ÇÖâÑéå ÑéÇÑã ¯‚‡£Âð – ‰-ð ûêßâ äìãúóàñúäàâ Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ ÑÄêß∏û style and later added songs of various ¥ ÒË̇ÏË ãÖÇäéå Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ ÄêÖíéû ¥ Dumy, fado... other genres to their repertoires, which ÑÄçàãéå (Continued from page 13) were passed on to others. ÔÎÂÏ¥ÌÌËÍË – ëíÖîÄç Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ ëìáÄçéû Mr. Placeres spoke of salsa, a popular Bandurists were the keepers of the col- – èÖíêàä Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ çÖçëß form of Latin-American dance music, lective memory and the national con- – ûêßâ ëàêéíûä Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ Ñß characterized by Afro-Caribbean sciousness of the people. They were per- – ¥ÌÊ. ÑÄçàãé ëàêéíûä rhythms, Cuban big-band dance secuted by the Soviet regime, as they had – çÄíÄãäÄ Á ÏÛÊÂÏ ¥ÌÊ. åàïÄâãéå melodies, and elements of jazz and rock. been in the tsarist period, and the art é'ãéîãàç In focusing on Cuban salsa in the general began to wane. In the 1930s many – ‡‰‚ÓÍ‡Ú ‰-ð ãßçÑÄ ëäéí renowned bandurists were repressed and context of modern troubadourism, Mr. – ëìáÄç Á ÏÛÊÂÏ ÎÚ. òÖâç ¢Äíêß deported, and some were executed. In the Placeres brought to light the surprising – ¥ÌÊ. êéÑßüç ÑéÇÑã links and influences with Senegalese early 20th century bandura playing – Ñéìç ÑéÇÑã music which it reveals. revived and was actively persued on both The Cuban salsa, featured in the sec- the amateur and professional levels. ·ÎËʘ‡ ¥ ‰‡Î¸¯‡ ðÓ‰Ë̇ ‚ ìÍð‡Ì¥ ¥ êÛÏÛÌ¥ª. ond part of the program, signaled a dis- The Ukrainian contribution to the con- tinct change of atmosphere marked by a cert may be credited to Dr. Berthiaume- Ç¥˜Ì‡ âÓÏÛ Ô‡Ï'flÚ¸! dynamics and vibrancy that directly Zavada. Her doctoral thesis dealt with –––––––––––––––––––––– engages the listener in its rhythms. this general theme, focusing on the study Mr. Placeres was joined in perform- of music as an important factor in forging á‡Ï¥ÒÚ¸ Í‚¥Ú¥‚ ðÓ‰Ë̇ ·Û‰Â ˘ËðÓ ‚‰fl˜Ì‡ Á‡ ÏÓÎËÚ‚Ë ¥ Á‡ ‰‡ð ̇ ‰¥ÚÂÈ ance by the Senegalese artist Youssou and maintaining the collective identity of óÓðÌÓ·ËÎfl (Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund). Seck. the Ukrainian people. This French-Canadian scholar chose to óÂÍË ÔðÓ¯Û ÔÂðÂÒË·ÚË Ì‡ ‡‰ðÂÒÛ: *** write about Ukrainian music. Perhaps she Andriuk Family, 1 Chasmars Pond Rd., Darien, CT 06820. At the concert the bandura was intro- was influenced by her husband, Juriy. duced to the audience as an instrument of Perhaps this was a gift to her two sons, wandering bards, very often blind men, Ivan and Roman. known as kobzars, who originally com- Whatever her reasons, the concert was posed and performed their own lyric-epic another gesture she has made to make DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS historical songs (dumy) in the recitative Ukrainian music known and appreciated. to be published in The Ukrainian Weekly – in the Ukrainian or English language – are accepted by mail, courier, fax, phone or e-mail. tion in Ukrainian schools of computers, whose operating systems are be in the UCCA executive... Deadline: Tuesday noon before the newspaper’s date of issue. (Continued from page 4) Russian language. 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ning of a process by which the United Newsbriefs States and NATO will seek to “oust Russia” The VOLOSHKY (Continued from page 2) from its influential position in the countries physically attacked by unknown of the Commonwealth of Independent assailants, sometimes resulting in death. States. He suggested that the withdrawal of The circumstances surrounding many of Russian peacekeepers from Abkhazia with Ukrainian Dance Ensemble these attacks remain unresolved and only NATO peacekeepers taking their place will occasionally have those responsible been be the next step, and then Azerbaijan will brought to justice,” the world’s human seek to have NATO forces on its territory to cordially invites you to their rights watchdog said. (RFE/RL counter what Baku sees as “Armenian ter- Newsline) rorists.” (RFE/RL Newsline) Bandera monument in Drohobych Kuchma notes domestic terrorism DROHOBYCH – A five-meter granite KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma also monument to Organization of Ukrainian urged tighter anti-terrorist measures in Nationalists (OUN) leader Stepan order to eliminate “manifestations of ter- Bandera was unveiled in Drohobych, rorism” within the country. “I have no AutumnAutumn BallBall western Ukraine, on October 14, Interfax right to think that there is no [terrorism] on Saturday, November 10, 2001 reported. The unveiling ceremony was in Ukraine,” Mr. Kuchma said in attended by Bandera’s relatives, as well Chernivtsi, southeastern Ukraine. He sug- at 9:00 p.m. as representatives of local authorities and gested that the violent clashes between at the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center national deputies. The OUN hoped to police and anti-presidential demonstrators build Ukrainian statehood after the in Kyiv on March 9 were such manifesta- 700 Cedar Road, Jenkintown, PA 19046 German invasion of the USSR in 1941. tions of terrorism. “Terrorism seeks to On June 30, 1941, in Lviv, the OUN fac- intimidate the authorities, to cause panic tion led by Bandera proclaimed “the in society, to stir people to oppose the Orchestra: “KHVYLIA” renewal of the Ukrainian state.” The authorities, and so on. We see this in Germans reacted by arresting Bandera Ukraine or we saw this in Ukraine – But and other OUN activists and placing we called these things different names,” The evening will be highlighted with a performance by the them in a concentration camp. Bandera 1+1 television quoted the president as was murdered by a KGB agent in saying. (RFE/RL Newsline) Voloshky Ensemble Munich in 1959. (RFE/RL Newsline) EBRD to lend Ukraine $600 million Investments in the Chornobyl zone? KYIV – Andrew Seton, the director of Admission for Adults - $30.00; Students - $25.00 KYIV – Kalman Mizsei, the head of a the European Bank for Reconstruction and United Nations mission working on (Light buffet included) Development (EBRD) in Ukraine, said on Chornobyl-related problems, told jour- September 26 that the bank intends to nalists in Kyiv on October 15 that the issue $600 million worth of credits to Please contact Mrs. Katria Kowal for ticket sales and mission will recommend that the interna- tional community invest in the Ukraine to finance various projects in the table reservations at (215) 413-2504 Chornobyl zone, adding that the site is country’s food industry, financial and clean enough for economic development, industrial sectors, and in its transportation, the Associated Press reported. Mr. Mizsei telecommunications and municipal infra- Evening Attire Required said the risk to investments in the structures. (RFE/RL Newsline) Chornobyl area “has significantly Kyiv resumes talks with Paris Club decreased” and the radiation-contaminat- ed zone has been reduced to a very small KYIV – Finance Minister Ihor Mitiukov territory. The mission studied the prob- on September 26 said that following the lems of the 30-kilometer exclusion zone recent resumption of International around Chornobyl in July-August and Monetary Fund and World Bank loans to will report its final conclusions regarding Ukraine, Kyiv has renewed talks with the its development potential to the U.N. Paris Club on restructuring Ukrainian debts General Assembly and donor countries to the club’s member-states, Interfax later in October after visiting radiation- reported. (RFE/RL Newsline) affected areas in Belarus and Russia. Patricia Pochenko Stillman According to Mr. Mizsei, the world’s Russia-Belarus to have radio station assistance policy should be shifted from humanitarian aid to concrete economic MOSCOW – The Russian-Belarusian rehabilitation projects around Chornobyl. radio station Union will begin broadcasting (RFE/RL Newsline) soon, as questions of financing are worked out, Interfax reported on September 25. ART EXHIBITION Moscow, Kyiv don’t agree on sea border The station is to broadcast 24 hours a day across the territories of the two countries, MOSCOW – Russian and Ukrainian the news service said. (RFE/RL Newsline) paintings and sculpture negotiators over the course of several years have been unable to define the Ukrainians earn $61.50 per month legal status of the Azov and Black seas, Interfax reported on October 11. Ukraine KYIV – The State Statistics OCTOBER 25-30, 2001 seeks to have the border between the two Committee on October 1 said Ukrainian countries precisely defined across these workers earned an average 327.31 hrv GALLERY HOURS bodies of water, while Russia wants the ($61.50 U.S.) in August, Interfax report- two to agree on joint exploitation of the ed. Bank employees, subway construc- 12 TO 6 P.M. DAILY entire water area. (RFE/RL Newsline) tion workers, aviators and sailors are among the highest-paid, earning an aver- Russia lobbies for unified electric grid age of 850 to 900 hrv per month. The MOSCOW – Viktor Glukhikh, the lowest-paid include farmers (178.0 hrv), head of a business group uniting entre- medical workers (197.10 hrv), and teach- OPENING RECEPTION preneurs from the post-Soviet states and ers (227.20 hrv). (RFE/RL Newsline) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 the Baltic countries, said his organization Bulgaria chosen over Belarus at U.N. is pushing for unifying the electric power 5 TO 8 P.M. grids of Russia with those of Ukraine, UNITED NATIONS – Bulgaria has Belarus, Lithuania and Armenia, RBK been elected to a non-permanent seat on reported on October 13. Meanwhile, the the United Nations Security Council, chief of Russia’s Unified Energy receiving almost twice as many votes as Systems, Anatolii Chubais, also is push- Belarus, an RFE/RL correspondent in ing this idea, Mr. Glukhikh said. New York reported on October 8. (RFE/RL Newsline) Bulgaria received 120 votes in the ballot, Russia seen as losing influence in CIS while Belarus, which also ran for the seat UKRAINIAN 2 EAST 79TH STREET representing the Eastern European INSTITUTE NEW YORK, N.Y. 10021 MOSCOW – In an analysis carried by region, received 52 votes. Bulgaria will OF AMERICA (212) 288-8660 the pravda.ru website on October 13, succeed Ukraine, which now holds that Anatolii Baranov said that the presence of regional seat, at the beginning of next American forces in Uzbekistan is the begin- year. (RFE/RL Newsline) No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 17 Washington conference analyzing U.S.-Ukraine relations is rescheduled

WARREN, Mich. – The Washington near Constitution Avenue and Second conference analyzing U.S.-Ukraine Street NE. Registration begins at 8 a.m., strategic relations that was postponed due and the first presentation starts at 8:50 to the terrorist attacks on America, has a.m. been rescheduled for Wednesday, The second day’s events will be held October 31, and Thursday, November 1, in the U.S. Capitol Building, Senate in the nation’s capital. Caucus Room 5 (SC 5). (The entrance to The organizer of the conference, the the Capitol Building is situated near Organization for the Defense of Four Constitution Avenue or Independence Freedoms for Ukraine, has also Avenue.) Registration begins at 8 a.m. announced that the Prime Minister of Ukraine Anatolii Kinakh is expected to and the first presentation is at 9 a.m. appear. The Embassy of Ukraine, 3350 M St. The first day of the conference, called NW, will host a pre-conference reception “Ukraine’s Quest for Mature Nation on Tuesday, October 30, at 7:30-9:30 Statehood: Roundtable II – Taking p.m. The embassy is located at 3350 M Measure of a U.S.-Ukraine Strategic St., NW, Washington, D.C. Partnership,” will be in the Hart Senate For attendance information, contact Office Building, Room 902. (The the Organization for the Defense of Four entrance to the Hart Building is located Freedoms for Ukraine at (810) 757-7910.

WTC attacks cause Philatelic Society to change convention-exhibit’s venue The Ukrainian Philatelic and Shevchenko Scientific Society headquar- Numismatic Society (UPNS), an interna- ters in New York. A temporary postal sta- tional collectors’ organization of some tion, called Shevchenko Station, was to 300 members, is celebrating its 50th have been set up at this locale. This name anniversary this year. For this special will be retained for the new temporary event it had scheduled two UKRAINPEX postal station to be set up at the convention-exhibits this fall – one in Homestead in Lehighton on November Canada, the other in the United States. 10. Taras Shevchenko was an outstanding The first event, held in Edmonton, on spokesman for freedom. September 14-16, went on successfully Finally, the third tie-in is the selected despite the fact that the terrorist strikes theme for the FREEDOMPEX name had occurred in the United States earlier which is the 10th anniversary of that week. The second show, scheduled Ukraine’s independence. for early October, however, had to be The original cancellation design for cancelled because its venue was to have New York City honoring Ukraine’s inde- been downtown New York City. pendence will be retained, but the name Due to security concerns, transporta- of the show, date, and location on the tion problems to and from Lower cancel will be changed. The new cancel- Manhattan, and a lodging scarcity (to lation (currently being designed) will be house rescue workers), the New York applied to two specially designed show had to be called off. However, soci- ety members were determined not to let envelopes that will be available at FREE- their anniversary celebrations be stymied DOMPEX. Various collectable dealers by the terrorists. Alternate plans were will be at the show as well as UPNS quickly explored and a new show has president and The Ukrainian Weekly’s been scheduled for November 10-11 at “Focus on Philately” contributor Dr. the Ukrainian Homestead resort in Ingert Kuzych. Special philatelic exhibits Lehighton, Pa. will also be available for viewing by Called FREEDOMPEX, the new show guests. Admission to this special get- has a threefold tie-in with this name. The together is free. first, obviously, has to do with current The Ukrainian Homestead is at 1230 developments and the society’s support Beaver Run Drive, Lehighton, Pa., (610) for the worldwide struggle against terror- 377-4621. For directions to Lehighton or ism and for the preservation of cherished more information about FREEDOMPEX, freedoms. please contact show chairman Mike The second connection has to do with Matus at (610) 927-3838 or by e-mail at the original venue of the show, the [email protected]

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Mr. Kuchma has not once indicated in “Bigger mistakes...” his presidential position that he should bear (Continued from page 2) responsibility for his disastrous record in Service, presidential guard, Ministry of office, the illegal actions he has undertaken Internal Affairs and Border Troops. (as suggested by the Melnychenko tapes) Such a low military budget makes it and the impoverishment of the population. impossible to either purchase new arms When protests have taken to the streets, as happened in March, the president described In Association with Air Ukraine or maintain research and development them as “manifestations of terrorism” that into new programs. Hence, Soviet-era seek to “intimidate the authorities, to cause Direct Flights arms and missiles are still being used by panic in society, to stir people to oppose the from JFK Airport both the Ukrainian and Russian armed authorities.” These comments show how he on a comfortable forces, making it likely that further acci- does not understand what a liberal demo- dents will occur. Boeing 767-300 aircraft cratic system is and does not understand Soviet political culture the rights and responsibilities that the state on Fridays and Sundays and citizens have to one another. In an opinion poll conducted in “Kuchmagate” shows that President New York, Kyiv, Tashkent September by SOCIS in Ukraine only 10 Kuchma and Ukraine’s ruling elites are still percent of respondents said they trust Mr. Soviet – not Ukrainian – in their political Departure at 6:00 PM Kuchma – and this was before his attempt culture. Remember how many different lies at shirking blame for the shooting down were told in reaction to the Melnychenko New York Kyiv Tashkent of the civilian airliner. The number tapes? And, the murder of journalist Chicago as as reflects the degree to which the elites and Heorhii Gongadze still has not been solved. Detroit low low the population live two different worlds, How long did it take the president to finally Miami as as just as in Soviet times. Ever since the admit that the voice on the tapes was his Los Angeles “Kuchmagate” scandal, President Toronto $499 $969 but that it was allegedly edited to make him Kuchma has been living cut off from the sound bad? public, in a world that has little to do with This culture of lying is coupled with an reality or the concerns of ordinary inability, left over from the Soviet era, to Ukrainian citizens. take responsibility for one’s actions. Its To his credit, the vice-chairman of the never the head of state who is at fault; it’s Verkhovna Rada, Viktor Medvedchuk, always the government, the Parliament, demanded on October 11 that Ukraine’s mil- Russia or the communists. Add to this a New York - Kyiv - New York as low as $499 itary leaders resign and take responsibility. culture of secrecy that still pervades any- ROUND-TRIP However, President Kuchma refused to thing remotely related to military affairs – a accept the resignation of the defense minis- ridiculous state of affairs considering the FOR INFORMATION ter, saying he refuses to let “valuable peo- fact that satellites know everything that is ple” go. The commander of the air defense going on (as we saw with U.S. finger- Office (212) 489-3954, 489-3956 Freight reservations and shipping forces, however, did resign. As is usually the pointing at Ukraine after the downing of Fax (212) 489-3962 Tel.: (718) 244-0248; Fax: (718) 244-0251 case in Ukraine, he will probably obtain a the TU-154). Tel.: (718) 376-1023; Fax: (718) 376-1073 Reservations (212) 245-1005 new, no less important, position elsewhere. The least Ukraine can now do is apolo- President Kuchma’s response was to gize officially to Israel and pay compensa- 1-800-995-9912 admit that “somebody will have to bear tion to the victims. Let us hope this will responsibility.” happen. MONDAY - FRIDAY FROM 9 AM TO 6 PM

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generally not mindful of one another.” Author pens book Only through conscious effort can we start to communicate in a meaningful on ‘mindful listening’ way. COLT’S NECK, N.J. – In the modern These ideas are the basis of Dr. world, where most communication Polewchak’s doctoral thesis, which she occurs not face to face, but in hurried recently reworked into a book. Dr. conversations over the telephone, email Polewchak hopes that her book, “The or voice mail, Dr. Evan Polewchak, an Therapeutic Effects of Mindful expert in theocentric psychology, under- Listening,” will help people rediscover scores the importance of something most the simple, but lost art of listening. of us take for granted – being a good lis- Dr. Polewchak also earned a master’s tener. degree in business management from After an illness drove her to re-eval- LaSalle University while waiting for her uate her life eight years ago, Dr. book to be published. She hopes that her Polewchak felt a spiritual urge to pur- business education will help her market sue lay ministry, or to help others live a her book more intelligently and will be better life by finding strength in God. useful in her plans to start a business in Even during an extended period of spiritual counseling. medical treatments, Dr. Polewchak A native of Elizabeth, N.J., Dr. studied theology, biblical counseling Polewchak and her family are faithful and psychology, refusing to let her ill- members of St. Vladimir Ukrainian ness thwart her goal of a doctoral Catholic Church in Elizabeth. Dr. degree. In 1999, Dr. Polewchak Polewchak, who moved with her family received a Ph.D. from LaSalle to Texas during grammar school, began University in theocentric psychology, a her undergraduate education at the field in which Christian and biblical University of Texas, but after two years principles are applied as a counseling transferred to Monmouth University in technique. West Long Branch, N.J., where she grad- According to Dr. Polewchak, her stud- uated with a degree in English. ies and her own personal struggle taught Dr. Polewchak is a member of the her that what people need most in life is American Counseling Association, the to “feel accepted, to be understood, and American Association of Christian to be heard.” Counselors, and the New Jersey Thus, we must learn to listen if we Association for Spiritual, Ethical and want to help one another. In the modern Religious Values in Counseling. world, explains Dr. Polewchak, “we rush To buy a copy of “The Theraputic through important conversations, finish Effects of Mindful Listening,” contact other people’s sentences, interrupt, think Dr. Evan Polewchak at (732) 780-0916; of things other than the speaker, and are or e-mail [email protected].

friends. Chicagoan retires Upon graduation from DePaul University in 1963 with a B.S. in busi- ness administration, Ms. Eliashevsky fromCHICAGO Customs – Larissa Service Eliashevsky, began her federal career as a tax techni- assistant director of the Mid America cian with the Internal Revenue Service. Customs Management Center, Mission She went on to become a personal Support, retired from the U.S. Customs staffing and employee relations specialist Service on March 31 after 38 years of within the IRS. service to the federal government. Later she began working for the U.S. Active in the Ukrainian community, Customs Service as a personnel manage- Ms. Eliashevky has raised funds for the ment specialist and in 1981 was promot- Gift of Life Foundation, providing chil- ed to supervisory personnel management dren affected by the Chornobyl disaster specialist. In 1986 she was promoted to an opportunity to receive life-saving supervisory executive management spe- heart surgery in the United States. cialist, and in 1991 she was promoted Born in Kalush, Ukraine, in 1940, yet again to the position from which she Ms. Eliashevsky came to the United retired. States as a teenager with few posses- sions and speaking no English. After arriving in Ellis Island, N.Y., her family traveled to Union Station in Chicago, here they were met and taken in by

Family participates inHAINES annual FALLS, art show N.Y. – Taras Schumylowych took part in the 54th annual art exhibition at the Twilight Park Clubhouse in Haines Falls, N.Y., on Saturday and Sunday, August 11-12. The artist exhibited three works: “His Holiness Pope John Paul II” (graphic sepia), “Where Patriarch Cardinal Josyf Slipyj Lived as a Child” and “Portrait of My Son.” A children’s art show also was part of this traditional exhibition. Three of Mr. Upstate NY Long Island Queens 6325 Rte 209 226 Uniondale Avenue 32-01 31st Avenue Schumylowych’s grandchildren, Xenia, Kerhonkson, NY 12446 Uniondale, NY 11553 Astoria, NY 11106 Justin and Larissa, displayed their new Tel.: 914 626-2938, Fax: 914 626-8636 Tel.: 516 565-2393, Fax: 516 565-2097 Tel.: 718 626-0506, Fax: 718 626-0458 paintings in the Clubhouse Tea Room. The Schumylowyches are members of Ukrainian National Association Branch 86. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 No. 42 No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 21

Toronto educational institutions Detroit/Windsor grads’ society to honor Shesiuk DETROIT – The Ukrainian Graduates of Detroit and The students at Immaculate Conception Elementary Windsor have selected Volodymyr Shesiuk to be the School in Warren are very fortunate this year to have to pay tribute to Burstynsky recipient of the 2001 Ukrainian of the Year Award in Maestro Shesiuk as their music teacher. Thus, he is recognition of his outstanding contributions to the sharing his love of music and vast music expertise with Ukrainian community and culture. a new generation. Maestro Shesiuk has had a lengthy and illustrious The scholarship and awards banquet will be held on music career beginning in Ukraine. In 1975 he was Sunday, November 4, at St. Josaphat Banquet Center on selected to be the conductor of the Lviv Philharmonic Ryan Road and McKinley in Warren, Mich., beginning Symphony Orchestra. During this time, he was also the at 2 p.m. For ticket information, call Olga Solovey, Conductor of the Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater. His (313) 274-7319. talent took him to Moscow in 1983, where he was appointed the conductor-in-residence of the Bolshoi Theater. In 1985 his career took him to Central Asia when the Kyrgyzstan government appointed him chief conductor of the National Opera and Ballet Theater. In this position, he conducted over 100 performances per year with various orchestras and theaters throughout the former Soviet Union. Maestro Shesiuk immigrated in 1991 to the United States, where he has continuously promoted his Ukrainian heritage. He was appointed music director and conductor of the Livonia (Michigan) Symphony in 1994. During the seven years he has held this position he has often featured Ukrainian music and musicians. One of his most notable concerts, presented in 1996, was titled “Chornobyl Remembered,” which also included an art exhibit. In May 2000, Maestro Shesiuk conducted the world premiere of Myroslav Skoryk’s Prof. Edward N. Burstynsky Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with Volodymyr Vynnytsky as soloist. TORONTO – Toronto’s Ukrainian community will pay Maestro Shesiuk also has a deep appreciation and tribute to Prof. Edward N. Burstynsky, 65, on the occasion love for Ukrainian choral music. As choir director of the of his retirement, after a 34-year teaching career in the St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church Choir in department of linguistics at the University of Toronto. Warren, Mich., since 1994, he has perpetuated the beau- More than 250 guests, friends and family members are tiful tradition of Ukrainian church choral music. To cel- expected to attend the banquet at the Great Hall of Hart ebrate the 2,000th year of Christianity, Mr. Shesiuk con- House, University of Toronto, on October 28. The event is ducted a concert of religious music presented by a choir being organized jointly by St. Vladimir Institute and the composed of members of Ukrainian Catholic and department of linguistics. Orthodox churches in the Detroit metropolitan area. The Proceeds from the banquet will go to support the estab- concert was very well received and an enthusiastic lishment of the $100,000 Edward N. Burstynsky Ontario standing ovation followed. Maestro Volodymyr Shesiuk Graduate Scholarship, which was announced by the depart- ment of linguistics at a reception for Prof. Burstynsky in June. St. Vladimir Institute and the department of linguis- tics have each made a commitment to raise a total of $50,000 toward the scholarship, with the university match- ing an additional $50,000. The testimonial banquet provides the institute with an WeddingWedding AnnouncementsAnnouncements opportunity to formally acknowledge Prof. Burstynsky’s decades of dedication and support to the institute, said St. Vladimir President Victor Krisel. “For years we have wanted to pay tribute to Ed’s incredi- Congratulations ble work and support of St. Vladimir Institute. And for years Ed has resisted our invitation to celebrate his contri- to the anniversary butions. The ideal opportunity has presented itself, with his retirement and with the establishment of the Burstynsky Scholarship,” said Mr. Krisel. couple! Prof. Peter Reich, chair of the department of linguistics, said the testimonial banquet provides friends and col- May they have the best leagues at the university with an opportunity to recognize Prof. Burstynsky’s distinguished contributions to the study of fortune and share the joy of love of linguistics in Canada. “There’s no doubt that with his retirement Ed leaves throughout their life together! behind an academic gap that will take some time to fill. For more than 30 years he has been an incredible inspiration to students and faculty alike. In fact, many of his former grad- — The Ukrainian Weekly uate students have gone on to post-secondary teaching careers themselves. That’s quite a tribute to the joy he * * * brought to his subject,” said Prof. Reich. Wedding and anniversary A native of Toronto, Prof. Burstynsky was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1967. That same 20-„Ó ÊÓ‚ÚÌfl, 2000 ðÓÍÛ ‚ Ñ¥ÚðÓÈÚ¥ – announcements are year he was appointed assistant professor to Victoria Û ˆÂðÍ‚¥ çÂÔÓðÓ˜ÌÓ„Ó á‡˜‡ÚÚfl published several times a year in College and the Center for Linguistic Studies at the University of Toronto. He was appointed acting chair when ‚ ðÓ‰ËÌÌÓÏÛ ÍÓÎ¥ ð‡‰¥ÒÌÓ„Ó Ò‚flÚ‡ The Ukrainian Weekly. The next the Center of Linguistic Studies became a permanent ‚¥‰·ÛÎÓÒfl ‚¥Ì˜‡ÌÌfl ÏÓπª ‰ÓÌ¥ Wedding Announcements section department of the Faculty of Arts and Science. In the years since Prof. Burstynsky has held virtually äÒÂÌ¥ êÓÍÒÓÎflÌË Á ÇÓÎÓ‰ËÏËðÓÏ will be published in December 9, every office within the department, including undergraduate ÉÓðÓ·˜ÂÌÍÓÏ. á ˆ¥πª ̇„Ó‰Ë ‚¥‰ χÚÂð¥ secretary, graduate secretary and acting chair of the 2001. To include your announce- Curriculum Committee. Since 1993 he has been the associ- ÏÓÎÓ‰Ó„Ó ã˛‰ÏËÎË ÉÓðÓ·˜ÂÌÍÓ Ú‡ ment in this section, please send us ate chair and undergraduate coordinator. ̇¯Óª ð¥‰Ì¥ ÔÂðÂÒË·πÏÓ ÏÓÎÓ‰¥È Ô‡ð¥ His influence has extended beyond the university com- your information by November 30, munity. Prof. Burstynsky is a former member of the Ì‡È˘Ë𥯥 ÔðË‚¥Ú‡ÌÌfl: 2001. To receive a brochure about Ukrainian Liaison Committee to the Toronto Board of ÅÓÊÓ„Ó Å·„ÓÒÎÓ‚ÂÌÌfl, ë‚¥ÚÎÓª ÑÓÎ¥ Education, and Chair of the Linguistics Advisory placing an announcement, or for Committee of the Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies. Ú‡ TðÓfl̉ÌÓ„Ó äÓı‡ÌÌfl ̇ ¯ÎflıÛ further information, please call: He is a former member of the executive committee of St. ªıÌ¸Ó„Ó ÔÓ‰ðÛÊÌ¸Ó„Ó ÊËÚÚfl... Vladimir Cathedral in Toronto, and for several years in the (973) 292-9800, 1970s and 1980s was a member of the Board of St. Vladimir Institute. ext. 3040. Tickets to the testimonial banquet are $150 and may be å‡ÚË – чð¥fl êËıÚˈ¸Í‡ reserved by calling St. Vladimir Institute, (416) 923-3318. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 No. 42 No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 23

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(Continued from page 24) information contact Roman Juzeniw, (609) ADVANCE NOTICE 987-1062, or the Rev. Michael Loza, (905) 469-1113. Sunday, November 4

NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific WARREN, Mich.: The “Ukrainian Society is sponsoring a presentation by the Graduates of Detroit and Windsor” are Rev. Borys Gudziak, rector of the Lviv pleased to announce that Maestro Theological Academy, titled “The Many Volodymyr Shesiuk, music director and Ukraine’s of John Paul II.” The Rev. Dr. conductor of the Livonia (Michigan) Gudziak is the author of “Crisis and Symphony, has been selected to be the Reform: The Kyivan Metropolitanate, The recipient of the “2001 Ukrainian of the Year Patriarchate of Constantinople, and The Award.” The award will be presented to Genesis of The Union of Brest,” which Maestro Shesiuk at the annual Ukrainian came out as a publication of the Ukrainian Graduates Scholarship Banquet to be held Research Institute, Harvard University. November 4 at the St. Josaphat Banquet The presentation will be held at the Center, Ryan Road and McKinley. Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Festivities will begin with cocktails and Ave. (between Ninth and 10th streets) at 2 appetizers at 2 p.m., followed by dinner at 3 p.m. For additional information call (212) p.m. Banquet tickets: $30 per person ($35 254-5130. Canadian); for tickets call Olga Solovey, (313) 274-6319 by Tuesday, October 30. NEWARK, N.J.: A benefit concert for the One Dollar for Ukraine Fund of the World Saturday, November 10 Council of Ukrainian Social Services – featuring Ivan Bernatsky, national artist of NEW YORK: The New York City and Ukraine of theater and film, Stephania New Jersey chapters of the Ukrainian Dovhan, soprano, and Laryssa Krupa and Engineers’ Society of America (UESA), the Daniel Shleyenkov, pianists, in a program Ukrainian Medical Association of North of Shevchenko recitations and musical America (UMANA) and the Ukrainian selections, will be held at St. John the Institute of America invite their members Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, and the general public to the first annual Sanford Avenue, at 1 p.m. The benefit is Fall Zabava in New York City, with music organized by the One Dollar Fund by Luna. The event will be held at the Committee of New Jersey. Suggested Ukrainian Institute of America, 2. E. 79th donations: $10; students, $5. Proceeds will St., starting at 8 p.m. Admission: members, benefit needy families in villages through- $35 in advance, $40 at the door; non-mem- out Ukraine. For additional information bers, $45 in advance, $50 at the door. For call (973) 763-1165. additional information call (212) 288-8660; e-mail [email protected] or [email protected]; or Monday, October 29 view the website at www.uesa.org.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard JENKINTOWN, Pa.: The Voloshky Ukrainian Research Institute will present a Ukrainian Dance Ensemble is hosting its special symposium, titled “Pope John Paul annual Autumn Ball at the Ukrainian II in Ukraine: The Religious, Ecumenical Educational Cultural Center, 700 Cedar and Political Ramifications of the June Road. The dance will begin at 9 p.m. with ASSISTANT PROJECT DIRECTOR, WASHINGTON, D.C. 2001 Papal Visit.” Symposium speakers music by the Khvylia orchestra. There will are: the Rev. Borys Gudziak, rector of the be a performance by the Voloshky ensemble The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation seeks an Assistant Project Director for its Community Partnership Project. Lviv Theological Academy in Ukraine; the at 8:30 p.m. Tickets: $30, adults; $25, stu- One year position with possibility of extending. Responsibilities include: Rev. Dr. Andriy Chirovsky, director of the dents. Included in the price is a light buffet. managing activities of U.S. partner cities, submitting project reports. Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Evening attire is required. For table reserva- Qualifications: BA/MA in International Relations or related field, program management experience. Studies at the University of St. Paul in tions call Katria Kowal, (215) 413-2504. Ottawa, and the Rev. Dr. Andre Ukrainian language preferred, local government experience a plus. Travel required. Salary in the 40s. Partykevich, pastor of St. Andrew SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.: Ukrainian National Send cover letter, resume, salary history and writing sample to: Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Jamaica Women’s League of America Branch 3 cor- Motrya Mac, Manager of Human Resources Plain, Mass., and an associate of the dially invites the public to its annual Autumn e-mail: [email protected].; fax, (202) 347-4267 Ukrainian Research institute. All are wel- Ball to be held at the Doubletree Paradise come. For more information contact the Valley Resort in Scottsdale. Please call (480) institute, (617) 495-4053. 991-4656 for tickets and information.

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TO REGISTER SATURDAY, UKRAINIAN ENGINEERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA THE PRESENTATION February 9, 2002 PHILADELPHIA BRANCH The Grand Ballroom of the Park Hyatt Hotel OF A DEBUTANTE, at the Bellevue WILL HOLD ITS ANNUAL Broad and Walnut Streets PLEASE Philadelphia, Pennsylvania CONTACT Orchestra TEMPO ENGINEERS’ENGINEERS’ BALLBALL Mrs. Slava Halaway WITH THE PRESENTATION COCKTAILS at 6 PM, BANQUET at 7 PM 714 Charette Road BALL at 9 PM OF DEBUTANTES Philadelphia, PA 19115 For additional information please contact: (215) 671-9418 Mr. Metodij Boretsky ON 8302 MacArthur Road, Glenside, PA 19038 FEBRUARY 9, 2002 (215) 233-4528 By December 17, 2001 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001 No. 42

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PHILADELPHIA: The Shevchenko NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Engineers’ Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Society of America (UESA) will hold its American Seniors’ Association of 2001 general meeting (zahalni zbory) at Philadelphia, under the aegis of the the Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, 79th St. The meeting will begin at 11 a.m. invite the public to a presentation by the and include election of new executive offi- Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak, rector of the Lviv cers. All current UESA members are invit- Theological Academy, who will deliver a ed; refreshments will be served. For more lecture titled “Pope John Paul II in information e-mail [email protected] or Ukraine and the Future Ukrainian Catholic [email protected], visit the website at University in Lviv.” The lecture will be www.uesa.org. or call (212) 288-8660. held at 11 a.m. at the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center, 700 Sunday, October 28 Cedar Road, Jenkintown, Pa. Admission is NEW YORK: The Orden Khrestonostsiv free. For further information contact Dr. Plast fraternity, in conjunction with the Eugene Novosad, (215) 357-2175, or Iko Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, Labunka, (773) 680-2637. is pleased to welcome to New York its fel- low member, the Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak, Friday, October 26 rector of the Lviv Theological Academy. WASHINGTON: The Washington Group The Rev. Gudziak will celebrate a divine Cultural Fund invites the public to a read- liturgy at St. George Ukrainian Catholic ing by Askold Melnyczuk from his latest Church, 30 E. Seventh St., at noon in com- novel “Ambassador of the Dead.” The memoration of the 100th anniversary of event will take place at Chapters Literary the enthronement of the fraternity’s Bookstore, 1512 K St. NW, at 7 p.m. For patron, Servant of God Andrey more information call Chapters, (202) Sheptytsky, as metropolitan of Halych, 347-5495, or Larysa Kurylas, (202) 797- and in honor of the 55th anniversary of the Plast fraternity’s establishment. For further 8236, or visit the website www.chapterslit- erary.com (Continued on page 23)

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