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UNA introduces new logo Ukraine in danger: Authoritarianism seen as returning under Yanukovych by Zenon Zawada Kyiv Press Bureau Ukraine’s civil society has begun to report on authoritarian policies and human rights abuses by the administration of President Viktor Yanukovych and the government led by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, which was formed on March 11 with the appoint- ment of the Cabinet of Ministers. This is the first part in a series of articles examining the abuses of power already being observed. The Ukrainian National Association’s new logo, which includes updated ele- ments of its previous logo. KYIV – The administration of President Viktor Yanukovych has begun to repress PARSIPPANY, N.J. – As the 37th feel. This revised logo will appear on all Ukraine’s opposition, mass media and civic Regular Convention of the Ukrainian future UNA communications, represent- institutions, threatening Ukraine’s fragile National Association (UNA) approaches, ing a company that is ready for whatever democracy and allowing for authoritarianism what better time to review past accom- the future may bring. to return to Ukrainian society, say members plishments and set a course for the In addition to a fresh look for the UNA of the opposition and the news media. future? logo, the UNA is updating its official let- “Today Yanukovych is not simply curtail- With this in mind, the UNA will intro- terhead and business cards. Also, the ing democracy, but openly and cynically duce its new look at the convention, to be UNA website will be totally reconstruct- building authoritarianism,” declared opposi- held May 20-23 at the Soyuzivka ed, allowing for access to information in tion leader Yulia Tymoshenko on May 11, Heritage Center. The logo is meant to English or Ukrainian, easy navigation, after the opposition was denied the chance to updated information, and useful tools for reflect the UNA’s forward-looking per- select the Parliament’s first vice-chair, as was members, potential members and agents. spective on members, marketing and the the tradition during the Orange years. Although the new UNA website will not way its does business. Ms. Tymoshenko appeared on May 12 at be completed in time for the convention, The herald of the updated look for the the Procurator General’s Office, which re- the site’s home page will be unveiled, UNA is its revised logo. While staying opened a bribery investigation against her true to the roots of the organization and presenting a glimpse of what will be com- Zenon Zawada ing over the next several months. (Be that began in 2003 but was closed when she not discarding any of the vital elements became prime minister. Her first questioning Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs that have defined the UNA for over 100 sure to watch closely for news about the has employed Berkut special forces (seen debut of the new UNA website.) is scheduled for May 17, the same day she years, the new version of the logo is sim- planned to lead a protest against the visit to above), who have enhanced authority to plified, with cleaner lines and an updated – UNA Executive Committee use force, in dealing with thousands of (Continued on page 21) anti-government protesters. Shamokin parish celebrates its 125th anniversary by Vincent Chesney The children of Transfiguration parish, dressed in traditional folk costumes, greet- SHAMOKIN, Pa. – Parishioners gath- ed the archbishop with bread and salt. ered at Transfiguration of Our Lord Although these children are fifth- and Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in sixth-generation Americans the customs of Shamokin, Pa., on Saturday, April 24. Eastern Europe are observed with pride. That statement of fact is neither remark- In his homily Archbishop Soroka able nor grandiose, except in the fact that spoke of the rich heritage of the Church. parishioners have been celebrating as a He was impressed by the parish’s connec- community in Shamokin for the past 125 tion to music over its century and a quar- years. ter of existence: from choirs to bands. The parishioners celebrated this mile- Supporting the voices of the faithful at stone with a hierarchical divine liturgy the liturgy were two choirs from the bor- featuring Archbishop-Metropolitan of ough of McAdoo and the city of Hazelton, Philadelphia Stefan Soroka. The arch- both from to the Anthracite Coal Region bishop was joined at the altar by a former of Pennsylvania. pastor, the Rev. Daniel Troyan, and the After communion the archbishop current pastor, the Rev. Stepan Bilyk, in blessed an icon written by parishioner addition to others. Vincent Chesney. After the final benedic- Also in attendance were the Sister tion Mr. Chesney was honored for this Servants of Mary Immaculate, who gift and his vocation to the Church, as his served as teachers at Transfiguration’s ancestors were instrumental in the pur- elementary school during its 60 years of chase of the original church. At Transfiguration of Our Lord Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Shamokin, existence. Also in attendance were the A reception followed at Masser’s ban- Pa. (from left) are: Alexa Yonkovig-Zmudzin, Michael M. Yonkovig, Dr. Michael Basilian Sisters as well as the Franciscan quet hall, hosted by parishioner David J. Yonkovig, Vincent Chesney, Claudia Yonkovig-Chesney, Ukrainian National pastor from the neighboring Roman Association President Stefan Kaczaraj and Robert Chesney. They are seen with Catholic church, Mother Cabrini. (Continued on page 8) the Protection of the Theotokos icon. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010 No. 20 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS

Yanukovych administration promotes April 27 riot will cost $1M to be signed between Ukraine and Russia during Russian President Dmitry radical shift to Soviet-Russian identity KYIV – According to calculations Medvedev’s official visit to Kyiv the made by the Verkhovna Rada administra- same day. (RFE/RL) by Taras Kuzio Moscow. Parades in four Ukrainian cities tion for law enforcement bodies, the cost Eurasia Daily Monitor for the first time included 1,000 Russian of damage caused to the Parliament build- Opposition remains divided troops (Ukrayinska Pravda, April 8). Mr. ing during the confrontation of opposition KYIV – Civil Position leader Anatoliy The administration of President Viktor Tabachnyk ordered that school textbooks and coalition deputies on April 27 Grytsenko, who is also the chairman of Yanukovych is undertaking a radical no longer refer to “World War II” but to exceeds $1 million (U.S.). According to the Parliament’s Committee on National overhaul of Ukraine’s national identity the “Great Patriotic War.” In his view, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Security and Defense, said that there can that turns its back not only on the there were heroes from the Great Patriotic Lytvyn, the recovery of technical equip- Yushchenko era, but also on two earlier War and “collaborators,” among which he ment in the session hall will cost about be no single leader of the Ukrainian oppo- sition at the current stage, as “there is no presidents. All three presidents promoted includes Ukrainian nationalists 98,000 hrv, and the restoration of flooring trust among the leaders themselves.” He Ukrainophile national identity that was (Ukrayinska Pravda, April 12). and furniture about 912,000 hrv. Mr. said this on his website, while comment- based on the doyen of Ukrainian histori- Secondly, Mr. Tabachnyk has returned Lytvyn said that the damage will be cov- ing on his refusal to join the Committee ography, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, the presi- to the Soviet-era ideological views of ered, but not at public expense. Therefore, for the Protection of Ukraine, which was dent of the 1918 Ukrainian independent Ukrainian nationalists as Nazi hirelings. he will soon turn to the leaders of the fac- formed by the opposition on May 10. Mr. state who was murdered by the Soviet Attacks on nationalists returned during tions involved in the confrontation with a Grytsenko said that at a founding meeting authorities in 1934. the 2002 and 2004 elections as a way of “proposal” that they pay for the damage. of the committee he felt that the President Yanukovych and Minister of portraying Our Ukraine and Mr. (Ukrinform) Education Dmytro Tabachnyk have out- Yushchenko as “nationalists.” In the 2004 Committee for the Protection of Ukraine lined policies to rewrite school textbooks elections, fake “nationalists” were regis- Committee to Protect Ukraine is founded was a precocious and premature project – in some cases together with Russia created for one person. “Today we have tered as technical candidates and SS-style KYIV – The Ukrainian opposition on (Ukrayinska Pravda, April 27). These street parades were organized in Kyiv, not gotten closer to unity. If the commit- May 10 announced the creation of an would no longer be based on the voicing support for Mr. Yushchenko. tee remains as it is, then let it save [oppo- opposition movement, the Committee to Hrushevsky framework, while also per- These views were then given widespread sition leader Yulia] Tymoshenko. If she Protect Ukraine, RFE/RL’s Ukrainian mitting Soviet-Russian national identity media coverage aimed at reducing sup- draws serious conclusions, and, first of Service reported. The committee is made to influence Ukraine’s education system. port for him in eastern Ukraine. all, if she takes serious and responsible up of opposition parties represented in the The Yanukovych administration is Today, Ukrainian television, which is steps, then there will be a different con- Verkhovna Rada: Batkivschyna, the unashamedly moving Ukraine toward a under the control of oligarchs and since versation,” he said. (Ukrinform) Reforms and Order party, Rukh, the neo-Sovietophile and Russophile view of Mr. Yanukovych was elected has returned People’s Self-Defense party, and the Communist is Rada’s first vice-chair Ukrainian history and national identity. to self-censorship, is again exaggerating This step will be even more divisive than the influence and support of the national- right-wing Svoboda Party, which is not in KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada of that pursued by President Viktor ist Svoboda (Freedom) party as a way of Parliament. Well-known Ukrainian writer Ukraine on May 11 elected Communist Yushchenko. The shift from a Ukrainian mobilizing Russian speakers to remain Dmytro Pavlychko was elected by com- Adam Martyniuk, a member of the major- to a Soviet-Russian national identity is loyal to the Yanukovych administration. mittee members as the coordinator of the ity coalition, as first vice-chairman of the reflected in four ways. The moderate opposition is largely new committee. Mr. Pavlychko Parliament. The position was vacant after Firstly, as Ukraine celebrates the 65th ignored on Ukrainian television; Yulia announced that the committee’s major Party of Regions of Ukraine member anniversary of the end of World War II, Tymoshenko has not been invited to be goals are “to protect Ukraine’s integrity Oleksander Lavrynovych was appointed billboards and posters throughout Kyiv interviewed since the elections. and sovereignty, resist any attempts to justice minister in Prime Minister Mykola and other Ukrainian cities reflect the Thirdly, the rehabilitation of the Soviet establish foreign control over Ukraine’s Azarov’s government. Mr. Martyniuk Yanukovych shift in Ukraine’s national strategic facilities, and fight for the pres- became vice-chairman for the fourth time. identity to one more acceptable to (Continued on page 11) ervation of Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic He had already occupied this post in choice.” The committee planned to gather 1998-2002, 2003-2006 and 2006-2007. thousands of protesters near the (Ukrinform) Parliament building on May 11 to demand the resignation of President Viktor Gryshchenko on policy toward Russia Eastern Partnership? Never heard of it Yanukovych. Former Prime Minister KYIV – Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Yulia Tymoshenko said the opposition by Grant Podelco plain old Friday, with no explanation. Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, dur- would hold another protest on May 17 RFE/RL RFE/RL’s Belarus Service also wanted to ing his working visit to Brussels on May get reactions to recent comments made to unless Prime Minister Mykola Azarov 10, informed European partners about European Commission President Jose Reuters by Belarusian President Alyaksandr gave a detailed report in Parliament about Ukraine’s new state policy toward Russia. Manuel Barroso called it a “new start” in the Lukashenka, in which he said the West had the government’s plans on economic As learned from the Mission of Ukraine European Union’s relations with its eastern abandoned him in the wake of the Eastern agreements with Russia. Several impor- neighbors. Partnership, by failing to deliver on agree- tant economic agreements are scheduled (Continued on page 14) But one year after the signing in Prague ments allegedly forged in Minsk by visiting of the Eastern Partnership with Armenia, EU heavyweights eager to get “Europe’s last Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and dictator” on board. Ukraine, the European Union seems to have Easier said than done. FOUNDED 1933 all but forgotten what was then touted as a THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Former EU External Relations landmark initiative. Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., As journalists often do, RFE/RL’s Belarus one of the architects of the Eastern a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Service wanted to write a story to mark the Yearly subscription rate: $55; for UNA members — $45. anniversary. 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NEWS ANALYSIS: Putin calls for merger of Naftohaz and Gazprom by Vladimir Socor implies leaving Ukraine to its own devices law. A large part of the then-governing Party bypassing Ukraine, unless Ukraine agrees to Eurasia Daily Monitor and Moscow free to deal with Ukraine of Regions had actually voted in favor of merge Naftohaz with Gazprom: through Gazprom. It even fails to note the that law, which Yulia Tymoshenko had “Implementation of the South Stream proj- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inherent contradiction between a Russian authored as opposition leader at that time. ect is about to begin. This would result in has proposed a “merger” of Ukraine’s takeover and the EU’s own stated wish for That move in the Verkhovna Rada came in severe losses to Ukraine’s gas transport sys- national energy company Naftohaz Ukrainy transparency in Ukraine’s energy sector. response to then-President Putin’s public tem and to its valuation. Ukraine [should be] with Russia’s Gazprom. The proposal The EU-Ukraine agreement on reform proposal for shared control of Ukraine’s interested in having Gazprom as co-owner emerged during Mr. Putin’s April 30 meet- and modernization of the gas transit system, energy infrastructure. of Naftohaz, so as to ensure that Ukraine’s ing with Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola signed in March 2009 (meant to be imple- The ramifications of Mr. Putin’s proposal gas transport system continues to operate in Azarov in Sochi, Russia (ITAR-TASS, April mented from 2010 onward) provides extend beyond natural gas, to Ukraine’s oil working condition, is steadily modernized, 30). It was the seventh meeting, by most Ukraine with an incomparably more attrac- industry and its transit to European Union and is supplied with gas” (Interfax, May 3). counts, at the level of Russian and Ukrainian tive alternative than Gazprom’s. By the consumer countries. The proposal also Moscow has invoked this scenario for presidents and prime ministers, since the same token, Western-assisted reform of seems to imply strengthening Gazprom as some time to intimidate Kyiv; but Mr. new authorities took office in Kyiv in early Ukraine’s gas transit system gives the EU a an international player in the oil sector. Putin’s and Mr. Peskov’s statements mark March. far better option, compared with Gazprom’s Along with these novel elements, however, an unprecedented escalation of Moscow’s While Russia’s “integration” of Ukraine capture of that system. Failure to invoke the Moscow’s paramount interest remains ambitions: no longer a “gas consortium” is proceeding apace, Western reaction seems European alternative in Brussels would con- focused on gaining control of Ukraine’s gas with some cosmetic third-party involve- to display little alertness or interest. vey the impression that the EU has taken it transit system. ment, but a union of Ukraine’s gas and oil Responding on May 3, the European off the table, thus undermining Ukrainian Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, sectors with Russia’s, via a Gazprom- energy commissioner’s spokesperson, opposition to a Gazprom takeover. threatened on May 3 that Russia would shift Naftohaz merger. Moscow has apparently Marlene Holzner, characterized the Conversely, the EU could make clear that the gas transit flow, from the Ukrainian sys- Gazprom-Naftohaz merger proposal as “an the March 2009 agreement remains avail- tem into the planned South Stream pipeline, (Continued on page 16) internal matter involving the two govern- able to Ukraine as a key element in ments. What is important to us and the EU-Ukraine relations. Clarifying this for European Union is that Ukraine continues Ukraine’s political forces and public can the reforms to modernize the internal gas forestall attempts to change the 2007 Ukrainian president doubts market and increase transparency” (Interfax- Ukrainian law that bans alienation of the Ukraine, May 3). country’s energy infrastructure assets. Such a response is true to EU form. Mr. The 2007 law and the 2009 agreement Gazprom-Naftohaz merger Putin had struck at the weekend (the favorite are two major tools for avoiding a Gazprom KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor consider the idea.” timing of Russian coups de theatre in takeover in Ukraine. Failure to uphold the Yanukovych said he doesn’t support Gazprom is much larger than Naftohaz Europe), blindsiding the EU. As officials in 2009 offer by Brussels could fatally weaken Russia’s proposal to merge its Gazprom Ukrainy. A merger of the two would like- Brussels returned to work on Monday, the defense of the 2007 law by political par- gas company with Ukraine’s state gas unprepared for such contingencies and lack- ties in Kyiv. It is by no means a foregone ly give Russia some control over company, Naftohaz. Ukraine’s gas-related assets. ing a clear policy, they had to improvise a conclusion that the Party of Regions would The UNIAN news agency quoted Mr. lowest-common-denominator response. This unanimously support changing the 2007 Yanukovych as saying on May 6 that the Meanwhile, the European Union’s proposal, which came from Russian energy chief on May 6 said that the EU Prime Minister Vladimir Putin last week, would play no part in the proposal to was an “unexpected impromptu” idea, but merge Gazprom and Naftohaz, saying the Kuchma against monuments to Stalin in Ukraine that this “does not mean that Ukraine will decision is up to Moscow and Kyiv. Interfax-Ukraine a monument to Stalin was unveiled in Zaporizhia. KYIV – Independent Ukraine’s second Mr. Kuchma said that the number of sol- Quotable notes president, Leonid Kuchma (1994-2004), diers killed during World War II could not said he is totally against the opening of be compared with the number of those who “This is a Russian blitzkrieg.” monuments to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. died in Nazi Germany. He said that Stalin – Vadim Kariasov, who served as political adviser to President Viktor “I’m totally against this... There should “used people as cannon fodder.” Yushchenko, commenting on Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s proposal be at least a local referendum on such issues, “Therefore, we can say that we gained a to merge Russia’s Gazprom and Ukraine’s Naftohaz, as quoted in the Financial but if this is done without rhyme or reason, victory by quantity, rather than quality,” Mr. Times. then I think it’s absolutely incorrect,” he said Kuchma said. “So I think that monuments to at a briefing in Kyiv on May 6, the day after such people should not be built.” “Such mergers are not friendly ones but will lead to the complete unification of Ukraine with Russia.” – Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, commenting on the proposed Moscow Patriarchate: No Soviet merger, as quoted in the Financial Times. “In any merger, Gazprom would dominate – it would be seen as a complete Russian takeover over of the Ukrainian gas system.” achievements can justify Stalin – Chris Weafer, chief strategist at UralSib Capital, an investment bank, as Interfax solidating factor for the peoples of a histori- quoted in The New York Times. cal Russia. On the contrary, this dissociates MOSCOW – No Soviet achievement, our societies,” he said. including victory over Nazi Germany, can As for the victory in World War II, it was justify Joseph Stalin’s crimes, a Moscow won “by our people, not thanks to Stalin’s Patriarchate spokesperson said. guidance,” Father Philipp said. Journalists decry censorship “Stalin established an inhuman system, “Authoritative historians are of the view that and nothing can justify it – neither industri- RFE/RL Mr. Yanukovych’s wife. it is through his fault that we suffered count- Channel 1+1 managers have denied alization, nor the nuclear bomb, nor the KYIV – Journalists at two Ukrainian less victims and laid millions of lives of our they censor the work of their journalists. preservation of the borders, nor even the fellow-countrymen on the victory altar television stations say censorship is Hanna Herman, the deputy head of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, because because of ill-conceived prewar domestic occurring again at the country’s commer- president’s office (and former head of not Stalin but our multiethnic people accom- policy,” he said. cial TV stations. RFE/RL’s Kyiv bureau), met with TSN plished all this,” Father Philipp (Ryabykh), a In commenting on Mr. Prokhanov’s RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service reported journalists and announced afterwards that deputy head of the External Church words that Stalin had reconstructed “the on May 9 that journalists at the STB sta- Relations Department of the Moscow great Russian expanse,” Father Philipp said tion’s news program “Vikna” (Windows) she found no evidence of censorship. Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Stalin in fact planted “a time bomb” by arbi- claimed in a letter published on May 7 The journalists, however, said after the Church, said in a letter on behalf of trarily recarving “the great Russian expanse” that “systemic censorship” is taking place. meeting that Ms. Herman had misunder- Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the and setting up artificial borders between for- Their open letter came one day after their stood them and was wrong in calling their department’s head, to Alexander Prokhanov, mer Soviet republics. colleagues from the TSN news service of complaints a corporate conflict. the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Zavtra. “As a result of Stalin’s policy, we are Channel 1+1 – one of the most-viewed Many Ukrainian observers have said Mr. Prokhanov had earlier asked currently reaping the harvest of extremism, programs in Ukraine – issued a similar the situation in the media – especially on Metropolitan Hilarion to explain his position nationalism and xenophobia. The only still statement. TV – has significantly changed since Mr. on Stalin’s role in history, which he existing binding factor on the historical Both groups of journalists allege some Yanukovych won the presidential election expressed in one of his articles. Russian territory, which is currently the ter- topics are “closed” and some reports are and his pro-Russian Party of Regions Stalin’s regime “was based on terror, vio- ritories of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, edited “upside down” or banned altogeth- took power. lence, suppression of personality, lies and Moldova and some other independent states, er since the election of Viktor Yanukovych Viktoriya Syumar, director of the Mass snitching. This regime devoured itself when is the Russian Orthodox Church. If not for as president earlier this year. The journal- Information Institute in Kyiv, said that the executioners themselves were turned the experiment with the former Russian ists said proscribed topics include the owners of private commercial TV stations into victims, and its success was temporary,” Empire’s ethnic-territorial division, the divi- Holodomor and the Ukrainian Insurgent might be introducing new editorial poli- Father Philipp said. sion of a unified country and its death in the Army, as well as any criticism of the cies to protect their valuable businesses “The glorification of atheists and their early 1990s would not have been relevant at authorities, investigations of politicians’ from being harassed by the new authori- governance methods cannot serve as a con- all,” he said. personal finances, and even reports about ties. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010 No. 20 Demjanjuk trial now into its sixth month in Munich PARSIPPANY, N.J. – As the German Following is an account of recent devel- Busch in German also noted: “I have experi- testified that the identification card that bears trial of John Demjanjuk moved into its sixth opments in the case. enced every minute, every hour, every day, Mr. Demjanjuk’s name matches four other month, his attorney Ulrich Busch filed a every week and every month since May 12, cards believed to have been issued at the German judge testifies motion on May 4 to exclude four witnesses 2009, as a prisoner of war in Germany. I Trawniki training camp. from giving expert testimony because of On March 21 a German judge who in the have experienced this process as a continua- The Associated Press reported that Mr. alleged bias. 1980s had sentenced a sub-commander of tion of my terrible memories with Germans, Dallmayer said the cards were issued by the One of the expert witnesses, according to Sobibor to life in jail told the Munich court as a continuation of the indescribable wrong same person, using the same paper, and the Associated Press, is a historian who in that non-German guards at Sobibor were that has been done to me by Germans. I am were printed on the same machine. the past said Mr. Demjanjuk was a “mon- powerless. According to the DPA news again and repeatedly an innocent victim of However, he also said he could not confirm ster” who “should be hanged.” agency, Hans-Robert Richthof said the the Germans. I feel this as an inexpressible the cards had been made during World War The Associated Press reported it was not guards trained at Trawniki “had no authority wrong that Germany with the help of this II. clear when the witnesses were scheduled to to give orders and were mostly employed to trial is making out of me, a prisoner of war, Dr. Busch said all the cards could be testify and that the Munich court did not guard the outer confines of the wooded site a war criminal. I find it an unbearable arro- fakes, so there was no point in comparing make an immediate ruling on the motion. in occupied Poland where the Jews were gance of Germany, that Germany is misus- them. Mr. Demjanjuk, who turned 90 on April killed, and would not have played a key role ing me to turn the attention away from the 3, has been in German custody since May in the ‘extermination.’ ” war crimes committed by Germans, to make Questions about Danilchenko testimony 12, 2009. His trial on 27,900 counts of DPA also reported: “Hans-Robert them forgotten and against the truth to claim accessory to murder while he allegedly Richthof, who re-tried sub-comman- that the true criminals of the Nazi crimes In mid-March, expert testimony ques- served as a guard at the Nazi death camp in dant Karl Frenzel in the 1980s, said that trial were me, the Ukrainians and the European tioned the value of a statement given by Sobibor, Poland, began on November 30, only touched glancingly on the auxiliary neighbours of Nazi Germany.” Ignat Danilchenko, now deceased, who 2009. guards. But Frenzel did mention during his Dr. Busch told The Weekly, “The reac- told the Soviet KGB in 1979 that he served This is Mr. Demjanjuk’s second trial on trial testimony that there had been a guard tion to the statement was tremendous, with Mr. Demjanjuk at Sobibor and that war crimes charges; the first was in Israel in named Demjanjuk in a perimeter-security almost every newspaper in Germany report- “like all guards in the camp, [Demjanjuk] the late 1980s. team, he said.” ed it by either printing the text or the full participated in the mass killing of Jews.” He was extradited from the United States Later, the retired judge, who specialized story. We read many positive, supportive The AP noted that Mr. Danilchenko, a Red to Israel in 1986, and was convicted of Nazi in trying Nazi war crimes cases, told DPA reactions.” Army soldier, was exiled to Siberia after war crimes and sentenced to death in 1988. that the mere presence of an accused person World War II for collaborating with the Nazi-issued identity card The Israeli Supreme Court overturned the at the scene of a crime was not enough to Nazis. conviction in 1993, after newly unearthed justify a conviction as an accessory. “I don’t Also on April 12, Reinhardt Altmann, a Dieter Pohl, an expert from Ludwig evidence showed that another man was the know of any crime where simply being retired expert with Germany’s Federal Maximilian University in Munich, told the notorious Treblinka death camp guard present amounts to guilt,” he was quoted as Criminal Police Office, compared character- court that people considered collaborators known as “Ivan the Terrible.” saying. istics of photos of Mr. Demjanjuk from vari- by the KGB were routinely hit until they The defense in Germany contends that ous periods in his life to what the prosecu- Demjanjuk’s statement bled during interrogations. The AP reported Mr. Demjanjuk is once again a victim of tion says is his Nazi-issued identity card. He that Mr. Pohl said “I can’t exclude that the mistaken identity, that he was not at Sobibor On April 12, Mr. Demjanjuk’s attorney concluded that all the photos were very like- KGB considered him [Danilchenko] a col- and that, even if he had been there, as a pris- read the defendant’s declaration to the court. ly of the same person, the Associated Press laborator.” oner of war he would have worked as a (The full text was printed in The Ukrainian reported. Mr. Pohl also testified about the condi- guard under duress, fearing for his own life. Weekly on April 18.) In the statement Mr. The AP also reported: “He stressed, how- tions in which POWs were held by the Several sessions of the trial have had to Demjanjuk said he was a victim of the ever, that he was not qualified to judge Nazis, pointing out that millions of them be postponed or curtailed due to Mr. Nazis, who held him as a prisoner of war whether the photos, provided by Israeli and died of starvation while in captivity. He Demjanjuk’s poor health. The usual trial and forced him to become a slave laborer, U.S. archives, are genuine after defense added that if any of the Trawniki men forced schedule, according to Dr. Busch, is Tuesday and of the Germans, who forced him to live attorney Ulrich Busch suggested they could to serve the Nazis attempted to escape, they to Thursday for two weeks in a row and then as a displaced person and now are prosecut- have been faked.” faced certain execution. a break of two weeks. Sessions are limited ing him on false charges. On April 14, Anton Dallmayer of the to two 90-minute sittings a day. Mr. Demjanjuk’s declaration, read by Dr. Bavarian Bureau of Criminal Investigation (Continued on page 16) Chicago-area organizations sponsor panel on “Ukraine under Yanukovych” PALATINE, Ill. – In an effort to put The unique panel included historian Dr. Kuropas was the rejection of future is changing. The United States is losing the Ukrainian National Association on the Dr. Myron B. Kuropas; local radio NATO membership for Ukraine by its influence. Germany and France are map in the Chicagoland area after a multi- announcer and Ukrainian National President Yanukovych and the appoint- opposed to the United States. NATO is year hiatus, the Chicago District Museum archivist Maria Klimchak; the ment of Dmytro Tabachnyk as Ukraine’s not as strong or as important as it once Committee of the UNA decided to spon- Rev. Mykola Buryadnyk, pastor of minister of education and science. was. China is on the rise. Russia and the sor a panel discussion titled “Ukraine Chicago’s St. Joseph Ukrainian Catholic “Tabachnyk is a Russophile who has United States need to unite against China. under Yanukovych: Fighting Church; and historian Dr. Petro aptly demonstrated his disdain for “We Ukrainians are a people (narod),” Defamation.” Potyichnyj, professor emeritus of Ukraine’s culture and traditions,” said Dr. explained Dr. Potichnyj. “We are not yet Held at the Ukrainian Center in McMaster University in Hamilton, Kuropas. a nation (natsiya). We are to blame for Palatine, Ill., on May 1, the UNA event Ontario. The moderator was Col. Roman Ms. Klimchak also voiced concern for what happened in Ukraine, not Poland, was co-sponsored by Ukrainian American Golash, president of UAV Post 35. Some Ukraine’s future under President not Russia, not the Jews.” Dr. Potichnyj Veterans Post 35 and the local Ukrainian 60 people attended. Yanukovych. “The diaspora has always concluded his remarks by focusing on the Congress Committee of America. The first speaker was Dr. Kuropas, who maintained Ukraine’s historical culture importance of Ukrainian-Jewish relations, Chicago’s Selfreliance Ukrainian reviewed many of the recent directives of and traditions and it is more important admonishing everyone, among other American Federal Credit Union gracious- the Yanukovych administration. “Ukraine’s than ever that we continue to do so now,” things, to stop calling Jews “Zhydy.” ly assisted with the local publicity, print- current president waited in the wings for she said. “Ukraine has entered dangerous “They prefer to be called ‘Yevreyi’ and ing and distributing billboards and flyers, five years planning his comeback,” waters, and we must be part of a united we need to respect their preferences.” and running full-page ads in two local declared Dr. Kuropas. “Once elected he front with Ukraine’s opposition forces.” Col. Golash called attention to the Ukrainian-language newspapers. Walter wasted no time in rolling back many of She urged everyone to demonstrate threat of Islamic radicalism in the world Tun of Selfreliance videotaped the event achievements of the past 20 years.” against the Yanukovych administration in today. “We ignore that particular danger and put it on YouTube. The most troubling development for front of the Ukrainian Consulate in at our own peril,” he said. Chicago on May 9. The question and answer segment that The Rev. Buryadnyk explained why followed the presentations was especially he, as a priest, was taking part in a politi- spirited, forcing the moderator to extend cal forum. “Every Christian is called to the session for an additional 45 minutes. live in the world but not be of the world. The consensus among those present was He has an obligation to be an active citi- that, while the presentations were infor- zen of the society in which he lives,” he mative, they barely scratched the surface. noted. “It is obvious that Ukraine’s presi- More such sessions were needed. dent has a preference for the Orthodox “We are pleased with our initial effort Church – Moscow Patriarchate,” contin- to make the UNA more visible in our ued the Rev. Buryadnyk, “and that’s fine. area,” stated Stefko Kuropas, UNA But Patriarch Kiril is noted for his sup- Chicago District Committee chair. “And port of a Russia united with Ukraine and we plan to continue working to bring our Belarus, and this is very troubling.” He honored organization back into the local also expressed his concern that some faith limelight.” expressions were ignored by the The next UNA-sponsored event is Yanukovych inaugural committee. This is scheduled for Sunday, June 20, in another deviation from the past. Chicago, featuring Dr. Volodymyr At the panel discussion on “Ukraine under Yanukovych: Fighting Defamation” (from Dr. Potichnyj took exception to the Serhijchuk, who will present the English left) are: Walter Tun, Col. Roman Golash, the Rev. Mykola Buryadnyk, Maria first three panelists by stating his belief translation of his book “Ukrainian Klimchak, Dr. Petro Potichnyj, Dr. Myron B. Kuropas and Dr. Alexander Striltschuk. that the geopolitical situation in the world Contribution to World Culture.” No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010 5

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Credentials Committee verifies CONVENTION ISSUES: Proposals delegates to 37th UNA Convention for changes to the UNA’s By-Laws by Bohdana Puzyk Puzyk (Branch 325) of Darien, Conn. As per the resolution passed at the 36th qualify for their own delegate. The Credentials Committee verified UNA Convention, the UNA is publishing Lowering the threshold to 50 – and con- PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Credentials the status of all the delegates in accor- proposed by-laws changes as presented to ducting a pre-Convention organizing drive Committee for the 37th Regular dance with the UNA By-Laws. All dele- the UNA Home Office and forwarded to in the year preceding a convention – would Convention of the Ukrainian National gates must be social members or have the By-Laws Committee for consideration encourage branches to grow their member- Association met at the UNA Home Office active policies and be in good standing as at the 37th UNA Convention to be held at ship to an attainable threshold. on Friday, May 7. of December 31, 2009. the Soyuzivka Heritage Center on May Also, since the number of UNA mem- The committee members are: Chairman Nina Bilchuk, an employee of the 20-23. bers has decreased in recent years, so has Bohdan Doboszczak (Branch 59) of UNA Home Office worked closely with the number of delegates to its Conventions. Naugatuck, Conn., Oksana Koziak the committee in helping them confirm * * * Thus, there are fewer members who deter- (Branch 47) of Bethlehem, Pa., Myron delegate records and payment of dues. Proposal for an amendment to the UNA mine the future course of the UNA. This Kuzio (Branch 277) of Glastonbury, The committee confirmed that there are By-Laws from UNA Branch 287 of Jersey proposal would ensure that there is a broad Conn., Oksana Lopatynsky (Branch 194) 64 delegates eligible to be seated at this City, N.J., approved at the branch meeting representation of the membership at UNA of New York, and Secretary Bohdana year’s convention. on April 9 in Whippany, N.J., and submit- Conventions and that the organization’s ted on behalf of the branch by the record- future is not left in the hands of so few ing secretary for the meeting, Roma delegates. We believe that a higher number Hadzewycz: of delegates means a greater number of ideas and a higher involvement of the To amend Article II, Paragraph 9 to read membership. (proposed changes are in bold): The threshold was raised to 75 at a time Every duly established Branch in good when UNA membership was its height in standing in the Association, having 50 or order to decrease the costs of Conventions. more members (as members are defined in Now that Conventions are smaller and the Convention Manual) shall be entitled held at our own center, Soyuzivka, the rea- to representation and vote on all matters to son for the 75-member threshold is no lon- be acted on at the Convention as follows: ger valid. Branches having 50 to 99 members * * * inclusive, one delegate; Branches having 100 to 149 members On behalf of the members of UNA inclusive, two delegates; Branch 327 of Hempstead, N.Y., Bohdan Branches having 150 to 199 members Podoliuk (secretary) and George Soltys inclusive, three delegates; (president) proposed the following change Branches having 200 or more members to the UNA By-Laws, Article II, Paragraph inclusive, four delegates. 9. Roma Hadzewycz Each delegate shall be entitled to one At work at the UNA Home Office (from left) are: Bohdana Puzyk, Bohdan vote. No Branch shall be entitled to more The present requirement for a branch to Doboszczak, Myron Kuzio, Oksana Koziak and Oksana Lopatynsky. than four votes. have a minimum of 75 members in order to elect one delegate to the convention shall be changed from 75 to 50. Mission Statement NB: All further references in Paragraph 9 to the threshold of 75 members should Thus, Article II, Paragraph 9 is pro- The Ukrainian National Association exists: likewise be changed to 50. posed to read as follows: 9. Every duly established Branch in • to promote the principles of fraternalism; good standing in the Association, having • to preserve the Ukrainian, Ukrainian American and Ukrainian Canadian heritage and RATIONALE: As evident from the pub- lished listing of UNA branches that did not 50 or more members (as members are culture; and defined in the Convention Manual) shall • to provide quality financial services and products to its members. reach the current 75-member threshold for a delegate to the UNA Convention, there be entitled to representation and vote on As a fraternal insurance society, the Ukrainian National Association reinvests its earnings are many branches that could reach the all matters to be acted on at the Convention for the benefit of its members and the Ukrainian community. as follows: Branches having 50 to 124 lowered threshold of 50 members and thus members, inclusive, one delegate; those having 125 to 199 members inclusive, two delegates; those having 200 to 274 mem- bers, inclusive, three delegates; those hav- UNA’s Chicago District Committee meets ing 275 or more members, four delegates. PALATINE, Ill. – Breaking with the Each delegate shall be entitled to one vote. precedent of holding all its meetings in No branch shall be entitled to more than Chicago, the UNA’s Chicago District four votes. Committee met in Palatine, Ill., on May A branch having less than 50 members, 1. The meeting was scheduled for 3 p.m. for the purpose of representation at the at the Ukrainian Center recently enlarged convention, may unite with another branch by the Ukrainian American Youth also having less than 50 members and if Association Inc. when combined, the aggregate member- The meeting was called to order by ship of the two branches, shall be no less than 50, they shall have the right to elect Stefko Kuropas, district committee chair, one delegate. at 3:23 p.m. Adhering to the usual agen- da, members quickly elected presiding RATIONALE: This proposal considers officers. The relatively poor showing of the good and welfare of the association. the district regarding the enrollment of The decline in membership of our organi- new members was discussed, as was the zation necessitates the proposed change. upcoming convention. It was agreed that Making this change will result in more Dr. Myron Kuropas would articulate “real” votes and will be more representa- local UNA concerns at the convention. tive of members and their wishes. When Myron Lusczak was recognized for his branches unite with one another for the many years of UNA service as one of the At the meeting of Chicago’s UNA District Committee (from left) are: Dr. Myron B. purpose of representation at the conven- top organizers in the area. Kuropas, Lesia W. Kuropas, Myron Luszczak, Andrij Skyba, Bohdan Kukuruza tion, unless the two branches are in the A consensus was reached among those and Stefko M. Kuropas. same geographical area and can get togeth- present that the UNA had lost its luster in er, the smaller member branch usually the Chicago metropolitan area and that top priority. A first step towards that end which was scheduled that same afternoon. passes its “votes” to the larger branch and, initiating activities that would give the was the UNA co-sponsored panel discus- Another local UNA-sponsored activity is UNA greater local visibility should be a sion titled “Ukraine Under Yanukovych” a book launch scheduled for June 20. (Continued on page 16)

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Th e Uk r a i n i a n We e k l y Ukraine seen Yanukovych against Demjanjuk’s cri de coeur It was just over a year ago, on May 12, 2009, that John Demjanjuk was as region of Russia Ukraine’s interests deported to Germany to stand trial, again, on Nazi war crimes charges. This time Dear Editor: Dear Editor: he is charged with being complicit in the deaths of 27,900 Jews at the Sobibor death camp. The article by Askold Lozynskyj “Mr. Many actions taken recently by the Back in May of last year, his son John Jr. responded to The Weekly’s request Yanukovych goes to Washington” (April administration of Viktor Yanukovych for a comment on the case: “Apart from the obvious difficulties due to my 25) was profound. It also took me a while against Ukrainian national interests were father’s age and illnesses, this chapter of torment ranks behind his surviving to realize what was happening. Simply reported by The Ukrainian Weekly and Stalin’s forced Famine, the Holodomor, at the age of 12, and surviving combat put, Ukraine is internationally viewed as elsewhere. wounds fighting the Nazis and POW captivity as a 21-year-old. Then came six a region of Russia with quaint, but bois- Here is the latest one. In The Weekly’s years in an Israeli prison under the sentence of death for the deeds of others and terous people. On the world scale, it just April 26 issue we read: “The National as a direct result of the reckless disregard for the truth at our U.S. Justice doesn’t matter. University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy has Department’s Office of Special Investigations.” He underscored that what When Ukraine achieved independence, received a digital copy of historic declas- Germany is doing is “calling for my father to hang for the crimes of someone it immediately gave away its nuclear arse- sified documents from the Soviet era else.” nal to Russia. Wouldn’t a power keep (1918-1991) from the Archives of the Now, a year later, the trial that began on November 30, 2009, and was originally these weapons for themselves as chips for Security Service of Ukraine.” That is expected to end this month is projected to continue through September. The prose- further and beneficial negotiations, espe- good news, but then comes bad news: “In cution has said it would prove that Mr. Demjanjuk, a Soviet soldier captured by the cially with a behemoth next door? Most the last few weeks, since the change of Germans, volunteered to serve the Nazis and was a willing participant in the recently, President Viktor Yanukovych leadership at the SBU, the digitizing of Holocaust. His defense attorney Ulrich Busch has countered: “There is absolutely did the same thing with the plutonium – archival materials has stopped.” no evidence for that — it is purely the prosecutors’ fantasy.” The defense maintains becoming the first to give it away rather And that is indeed bad news. It indi- that, once again, Mr. Demjanjuk is a victim of mistaken identity. than use it for some leverage (like ensured cates that the current administration in Thus far, the Munich court hearing the case has heard precious little about the independence?). Ukraine is marching toward neo-Stalin- defendant, as testimony has focused on Sobibor, and the testimony of Holocaust The U.S. and Russia, friends on and ism by suppressing records of atrocities survivors, relatives of Sobibor victims and expert witnesses. There are no direct off, are becoming friends again. So there committed by the Stalin regime against living witnesses who could testify about Mr. Demjanjuk’s alleged activities at must be cooperation. Now U.S. soldiers Ukrainians. Sobibor. Perhaps the most significant testimony thus far was provided by a will be in Red Square together with The political situation in Russia, sur- retired judge, a specialist in Nazi war crimes cases, who said that the guards Russia to celebrate the victory over prisingly, is moving in the opposite direc- trained at Trawniki “had no authority to give orders and were mostly employed Germany. Russia also recently sent its tion. Not so long ago then-President to guard the outer confines of the wooded site in occupied Poland where the Jews military to Kyiv to celebrate Mr. Vladimir Putin had proclaimed that the were killed, and would not have played a key role in the ‘extermination.’ ” Yanukovych’s victory. Same thing? collapse of the Soviet Union was the The Demjanjuk case, it must be noted, dates back to 1977. Mr. Demjanjuk was Western and Central Europe are glad “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the stripped of his U.S. citizenship in 1981 for concealing information at the time he that the mess with Ukraine is over. Now 20th century. Now, President Dmitrey applied for entry into the U.S., and was extradited in 1986 to Israel, where he the gas pipelines will be open to Europe Medvedev claims that the Soviet regime stood trial for Nazi war crimes committed at Treblinka and was sentenced to without some irritating quasi-country was “nothing other than totalitarian,” and death in 1988. The Israeli Supreme Court overturned the conviction in 1993, upsetting the balances. Europe also does a suppressor of elementary human rights after newly unearthed evidence showed that another man was the notorious not want change since it gets protection and freedoms. So it appears that the col- Treblinka death camp guard known as “Ivan the Terrible.” Mr. Demjanjuk was from the United States against Russia if lapse of Soviet Union was not such a bad allowed to return to the U.S. and regained his citizenship in 1998, only to be anything should happen. Defense on the thing after all. accused by the U.S Justice Department of concealing his service at three other cheap. So, if Russia and Europe get The re-Stalinization of Russia was in Nazi camps. He was yet again stripped of his citizenship in 2002, and a ruling in along, the U.S. can get along with both full swing under President Putin. But 2005 paved the way for his deportation to Ukraine, Poland or Germany. sides. But Ukraine? Who cares? now, writes The New York Times of May Apparently pressured by the U.S. and armed with documentation provided by the There recently was a smattering of 8: “The passionate debate over Stalin, U.S. Office of Special Investigations, Germany decided to prosecute him. books on American imperialism. Teddy wartime hero or murderous tyrant, flared Former Congressman James Traficant, appearing on April 30 on the nationally Roosevelt wanted the Pacific to be under Friday when President Dmitry A. syndicated “Alex Jones Show” on radio, stated: “Israel would not convene a trial Korean control with the U.S. controlling Medvedev lashed out against his legacy. on this new matter, so they had to go to Germany. Our government is just trying the Philippines. Without knowing it, the ‘Stalin committed massive crimes against to cover their tracks… they should be charged with attempted murder. They Japanese were excluded. Once they his own people,’ Mr. Medvedev said in knew this man wasn’t Ivan and they suborned perjury, they obstructed justice and found out, Pearl Harbor was the remarks released Friday.” He was also they’ve gotten away with it.” He added, “They’re hoping he dies… They’re hop- result. Roosevelt also felt that Cuba quoted as saying: “In no case is it possi- ing to cover up for what they did in the past.” should not be Spanish, but American. And ble to say that Stalinism is returning to Dr. Busch has said the case against his client is a farce because German SS so it became. In World War II, both our daily lives, that the symbols are members at Sobibor were acquitted in earlier trials. “How can you say that the Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill returning, the posters or anything else.” order-givers were innocent... and the one who received the orders is guilty?” he saw only a world ruled by the same old, This is what is happening in Russia at asked, adding, “There is a moral and legal double standard being applied today.” established powers. The USSR became the same time that monuments to Stalin Mr. Demjanjuk’s first statement to the Munich court was read in German by everyone’s friend. are being erected in Ukraine – the country his attorney (the text of the statement appeared in the April 18 issue of The What now? The only unknown left is that suffered the most from Stalin’s Weekly). In that statement Mr. Demjanjuk said he is a victim of both the Nazis China. Up until recently China had not oppression. and the Germans – the Nazis, who held him as a POW and made him a forced been taken seriously, just like Ukraine. But It is becoming more and more apparent laborer, and the Germans, who made him a displaced person and are depicting circumstances have changed radically. Will that the real threat to Ukrainian sover- him as a war criminal. The statement was, first and foremost a cri de coeur – a China upset the centuries-old order? Will eignty comes not so much from Russia, cry from the heart – from someone who survived the evil regimes of the Soviets it dictate how the world will be run? but from criminal oligarchs that control and the Nazis, withstood more than three decades of prosecution by the U.S. Yet, in the final analysis, what is the the country’s current government. Justice Department, much of it based on fraudulent evidence, and now, at the age real reality? The climate is warming, ara- Almost 180 years ago Mykola Hohol of 90, is forced to fight for what’s left of his life in a Munich courtroom. ble lands are disappearing, clean water is wrote in his Myrhorod anthology reflect- a scarcity, food and fuel are in short sup- ing on his beloved town: “How sad it is ply, and most of all, the population is in this world, gentlemen.” It seems that increasing at an unsustainable rate. Are not much has changed in Ukraine since all the above circumstances irrelevant? that time. It is still a sad world. May Turning the pages back... Andrew Zwarun Ihor Lysyj 18 Austin, Texas Austin, Texas Seven years ago, on May 18-20, 2003, during a visit to Kyiv, 2003 Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Igor Ivanov called for closer strategic ties between Kyiv and Moscow, and for a common eco- Opinions in The Ukrainian Weekly nomic space. “The realization of this very important project would not only quicken the economic development of our countries, but would also strikingly improve our international stand- Opinions expressed by columnists, commentators ing,” explained Mr. Ivanov during his presentation at the International Institute of Kyiv’s Taras Shevchenko National University on May 20, 2003. and letter-writers are their own and do not neces- The economic plan, Moscow officials maintained, included provisions for a single regional currency for Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Kyiv officials believed sarily reflect the opinions of either The Weekly edi- the idea of an economic zone and a common currency was premature. torial staff or its publisher, the Ukrainian National Borys Tarasyuk, chairman of the parliamentary Committee on European Integration, noted that it was nonsense to believe that Ukraine could move politically and economical- Association.

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NEWS AND VIEWS The roots of Ukraine’s Faces and Places by Myron B. Kuropas status as a non-nuclear state Below are excerpts from a statement by ized that position in guiding political docu- Robert A. McConnell, co-founder of the U.S.- ments has never been fully understood or A fraternal full circle Ukraine Foundation, submitted by Rep. appreciated in the West. The 2009 merger of the Ukrainian form a Catholic fraternal insurance society Chris Smith into the Congressional Record. When I first visited Ukraine in March Fraternal Association with the Providence remained undiminished. Ignoring his 1990, I spoke with people of all types, lead- Association of Ukrainian Catholics of Catholic supporters within the RNS, he by Robert A. McConnell ers of Rukh, government officials, the man America marks a 99-year sojourn of the helped establish the Association of on the street, dissidents, leaders of the Jewish CONCLUSION UFA that brought it full circle. Ruthenian Catholic Brotherhoods in 1911. community, prominent writers and religious It all began at the 1910 convention of A year later, the name was changed to the I will not go into Ukrainian stories and leaders. Their universal feeling about nuclear the Ukrainian National Association (then Providence Association of Ruthenian (still examples of the devastating human toll of materials was clear: they wanted their coun- known as the Ruskyi Narodnyi Soyuz) in later Ukrainian) Catholics. Chornobyl’s radiation, there have been many try to be nuclear-free. This was not men- Cleveland. A total of 202 delegates repre- Reflecting its progressive character, reports and the truth of all the dimensions of tioned occasionally, this was mentioned in senting 14,430 adult (and 1,767 juvenile) the “new” RNS changed its name to the destruction – physical, economic, personal – every meeting, in every conversation – pri- members – a gain of over 5,500 members Ukrainian Workingmen’s Association in have not been and can never be fully appre- vate and public. in just two years – were in attendance. For 1918. The original RNS, meanwhile, had ciated. I focus here on the social and political This was a strong and visceral objective the first time assets exceeded $100,000. changed its name to the Ukrayinskyi consequences. of the people of Ukraine. Chornobyl may Consecrated in 1907, Bishop Soter Narodnyi Soyuz, the Ukrainian National There were many elements that brought have made worldwide headlines and been Ortynsky, America’s first Ukrainian Association, in 1915. America’s three people together in 1989 to form Rukh – or as the subject of many studies and conferences, Catholic bishop, was attending as an hon- major Ukrainian fraternal societies it was originally known “Rukh – The and its clean-up may continue as a govern- orary UNA member, and as a regular del- remained separated by occasionally bitter Popular Movement of Ukraine for ment-to-government issue, but the Chornobyl egate from Philadelphia’s UNA Branch sectarian and secular differences for many Restructuring” (Perebudova). But one of the disaster also was a message and a political 239. He was also chairman of the con- years. elements, perhaps the most universally vis- symbol – a rallying point in Ukraine. The vention By-Laws Committee. The UWA fell increasingly under the ceral, was the population’s rage over official Kremlin’s fundamental inhumanity was A number of far-reaching changes influence of certain leftist elements, cre- – that is Moscow’s – silence about Chornobyl exposed when the children of Ukraine were were proposed by the By-Laws ating difficulties for the UNA. During and the cynical desertion of Kyiv and the exposed and their safety was shown to be of Committee. The most significant was to World War II, for example, certain UWA people by Communist Party leaders, both of no interest to the leaders of the mighty Soviet change the name of the Ruskyi Narodnyi leaders condemned the UNA, suggesting which put the lie to Mikhail Gorbachev’s Union. Soyuz (RNS) to the Hreko-Katolytskyi that the UNA was sympathetic to the widely heralded programs announced in Ukraine’s drive to be nuclear-free did not Narodnyi Soyuz, or Greek-Catholic Nazis. The UNA was subsequently inves- February 1986, only months before end with the Rukh founding documents in Ruthenian Association. Opponents of the tigated by the FBI, exonerated by J. Chornobyl, of restructuring (perestroika) and 1989. In July 1990 Ukraine’s Parliament measure argued that the original intent of Edgar Hoover in 1943 and commended transparency (glasnost) in the social and adopted a Declaration of State Sovereignty RNS founders was to establish a secular for its patriotism. The allegations were all political system of the Soviet Union. and prominently included was the declaration association. Following much heated part of a larger Communist smear cam- Continuing disregard for the people by that Ukraine was to be nuclear-free. Then on debate, the resolution passed by a vote of paign orchestrated by Moscow and the “the center” – the officials at the Kremlin in August 24, 1991, Ukraine declared its inde- 218 to 69. A related resolution, also intro- American Communist Party. It took many Moscow – was manifest. Gorbachev’s sub- pendence. Stated prominently in the Act of duced by the By-Laws Committee, years for the bad blood between the UWA sequent palliatives were too little, too late. Declaration of the Independence of Ukraine included language which mandated that and the UNA to dissipate. It helped when The feeling that the center had shown was the call for a “nuclear-free” state, which itself to have no regard for the people, no in the future only Greek-Catholic Rusyns the UWA changed its name to the was the run-up to the December 1, 1991, ref- Ukrainian Fraternal Association in 1978, fundamental morality, no sense of right and erendum for independence that again high- could serve as convention delegates. It wrong, no business having authority over now appeared to many that henceforth Efforts to unite the UNA and the UWA lighted the desire to make an independent (later the UFA) were initiated again in the nuclear materials and no business having Ukraine nuclear-free – a referendum support- the RNS would be subordinate to the authority over Ukraine ran deep. bishop’s chancery. 1970s. Both sides seemed interested. As ed by more than 90 percent of the voters! recently as the 1980s and 1990s, a time This outrage was felt by all citizens of If ever there is a country that has had both Led by former Svoboda editor Father Ukraine, those identifying themselves as Ivan Ardan, delegates from 14 RNS when I served as UNA national vice- a reason and a determination to be nuclear- president, serious discussions were held Ukrainians, or as Russians, or Poles, Jews, free, it is Ukraine. Ukraine’s actions did not branches walked out of the convention. Muslims – everyone. They wanted govern- Calling themselves “progressives,” these annually. A major stumbling block was stop with declarations, but continued after the demand by UFA representatives that mental power and authority removed from independence. Ukraine acted upon its decla- same branches later joined forces with distant Moscow and placed within Ukraine – other disgruntled branches, called a con- the proposed merger create a new organi- ration: officials sought a way to dismantle zation to be called the Ukrainian National where the people of Ukraine could see and and dispose of aging nuclear missiles. As vention in 1911, and gave birth to the get to their governmental officials. “new” Ruskyi Narodnyi Soyuz – Fraternal Association. This idea was mentioned earlier, in the early 1990s, the last rejected by the UNA and enthusiasm for It is this dread of nuclear disaster and the people Ukraine trusted with anything that Ruthenian National Union in English. experience with the health consequences – The name was in contrast to the original the merger waned. As the fortunes of both could endanger the lives of the people of fraternals declined, the merger plan faded the immediate rise in infant deformities, Ukraine were the power elite in Russia, RNS, which still called itself the Little increase in the number of stillbirths, acute ill- Russian Union in English. Father Ardan, into oblivion. under the direction of the Kremlin. Imagine my amazement when I learned nesses and later impotence among the disas- Ukrainian officials wanted to turn over by then a Presbyterian minister, was ter’s clean-up workers, increase in the num- elected president of the new fraternal last year that the UFA, whose founders Ukraine’s warheads to the United States and had originally left the RNS/UNA over the ber of child thyroid cancers, bizarre malig- said so many times, on many occasions. society. He had left the Catholic Church, nancies – that were a strong impetus for the protesting discrimination against issue of Catholic domination, merged Moscow, however, vehemently protested with a Catholic fraternal. citizens of Ukraine to reject the nuclear Ukraine’s position, insisting that the war- Ukrainian Catholic priests by America’s option. Roman Catholic hierarchy. So why didn’t the UFA merge with the heads be delivered to Russia. I was in meet- UNA? I believe there were two major And this is a most remarkable political ings and I was, on occasion, an intermediary Svoboda went into high dudgeon, fact that must be stated: in 1989, in its found- mincing no words in its criticism of the reasons. The first is that there was little to these discussions. sincere enthusiasm for a merger by both ing documents – “The Program and Charter And herein is a serious point of frustration new fraternal. Svododa editors defined of Rukh: The Popular Movement of Ukraine progressives as “those people who soon sides. Executives were going through the and the crux of the perspective on Ukraine’s motions to appease our community, for Restructuring” – the citizen’s movement role that prompts this testimony. after their arrival in America became so called for many things, but clearly and ‘wise’ that some became Protestants, which favored unity. Both the UFA and Many disparaging media reports and the UNA had leaders, however, who were unequivocally called for Ukraine to be a Presbyterians, and a third group became much political analysis at the time suggested reticent to give up their positions. A nuclear-free state. God knows what...” “When a progressive Ukraine had to be cajoled into giving up its merger would have meant that certain Whereas some news media and analysts dies,” Svoboda suggested, “then those nuclear warheads, or that Ukraine demanded positions in both organizations would be at the time considered this point to be of only who share his views should not raise to be “paid off.” I am not going to comment either replaced or eliminated entirely. mild relevance, a type of “feel-good-throw- money for a Christian funeral but let them in detail about this disinformation or its ori- A second reason is that the UNA is away line,” – the reality was that this point put him in a box and ship it directly to a gins, but, again, I think it is important a cer- headquartered in New Jersey, a fraternal- was one of passionate debate among the soap factory.” tain historical perspective and reality be pre- hostile state. I am convinced that the state founders of Rukh. The desire for Ukraine to Changes proposed by Bishop Ortynsky sented. insurance commission was a huge impedi- be nuclear-free was overwhelming. The only were never put into effect. Soon after the During an intense debate throughout ment for the UNA. Since both the UFA real concern within the debate was argued by 1910 Ruskyi Narodnyi Soyuz convention 1993-1994, we, the United States, no doubt, and Providence were headquartered in those who bluntly asked the question if ended, RNS executives were informed by I believe, with outrageous pressure from the Pennsylvania – a far more fraternal-friend- Ukraine was ever to rid itself of its nuclear legal counsel that, according to laws gov- Kremlin – insisted that Ukraine turn over its ly state – a merger was easier to accom- materials, where would those materials go? erning such matters, changes in the charter nuclear warheads to Russia. We insisted that plish. Besides, the UFA had new leaders. To Russia, with its Moscow leadership of the RNS required a prescribed set of pro- they turn over the weapons that they had So there you have it. A fraternal full whom they did not trust? cedures. Since they were not followed, the been wanting off their soil since 1986 to the circle. It just goes to show that in our The fact that, as early as 1989, there were changes were null and void. Subsequent one government, the one country, to which community ironies never cease! those among Ukraine’s political leadership they did not want to give them. We insisted efforts to reunite the “new” RNS with the who knew and understood the full danger of Ukraine turn over its nuclear warheads to original RNS, went nowhere. nuclear materials and, on principle, insisted Bishop Ortynsky, meanwhile, was dis- Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is that Ukraine be nuclear-free and memorial- (Continued on page 19) mayed by the reversal, but his desire to [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010 No. 20

brance of those who built the church. coloring books featuring characters from Founded in 1884, Transfiguration of Shamokin... Because of them, we are who we are.” the anniversary icon written and drawn Our Lord is the second oldest Ukrainian (Continued from page 1) Ukrainian National Association by Mr. Chesney. Greek-Catholic church in the United Kaleta. Victor Boris and his band played President Stefan Kaczaraj also attended Guests also received a copy of the States. Eastern European immigrants lounge music between speeches from for- the liturgy and reception, as it was in icon. seeking jobs in Shamokin’s rich coal A DVD will be available for purchase industry originally worshipped with mer pastor the Rev. Mark Fesniak, who Shamokin in 1894 that the UNA was founded by parishioners of a then young featuring the anniversary liturgy and Roman Catholic Poles and Slovaks, but said, “I have been overwhelmed by the church body. President Kaczaraj under- reception. The DVD will be narrated by their unique religious customs were not love of this parish. From the first moment scored the early years of the UNA and Broadway actor Billy Korbich, whose accepted. In time, the Ukrainian Catholic I was here, I knew I was transferred Shamokin’s connection to the organiza- family members belong to the parish. archbishop in Lviv sent the Rev. Ivan home.” tion. (The text of his remarks appears The Rev. Bilyk pointed out that the Volansky to shepherd a church in nearby Also addressing the gathering were the below.) anniversary “is something to teach our Shenandoah, while holding missionary archbishop, various parishioners and the The parish children performed both children of the traditions and proudly be services in Shamokin. Eventually funds current pastor, the Rev. Bilyk who com- Ukrainian and English songs. Following the offspring of good, hard-working fore- were raised for the construction of a mented, “Every anniversary is remem- the performance they were gifted with fathers.” church in Shamokin.

Archbishop-Metropolitan Soroka with (from left) Vincent Chesney, and the Revs. Stepan Bilyk and Daniel Troyan. Credit A view of the interior of Transfiguration of Our Lord Church.

Shamokin’s Pokrova icon in iconographer’s words In anticipation of the Shamokin At the center of the icon, Mary, the church’s 125th anniversary I decided to Mother of God, extends her veil as a pro- write an icon to commemorate the occa- tective display, an ancient “orans” prayer- sion. My goal was to illustrate our heri- ful stance and a Slavic welcoming ges- tage, as well as our devotion to Mary. ture. She is flanked by angels whose cer- I based this icon on a 10th century emonial fans are adorned with a tryzub icon celebrating an apparition of the and a keystone, the symbols of Ukraine Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Andrei of and Pennsylvania. The couple standing Constantinople at the Church of on the left wears embroidered costumes Blachernae. The holy fool St. Andrei was of the Carpathian region. On the right a Slav by birth, a fact that endeared me stand pioneering Americans symbolizing to the original icon. Having found a the traditional labor of the central proper model, I then replaced the Pennsylvania area. Just as the Carpathian UNA President Stefan Kaczaraj (left) with Shamokin-area residents Michael M. Blachernae Church with Transfiguration couple represents our ancestors from the Yonkovig and Olenka Bilyk. of Our Lord in Shamokin and the saintly Old World, the Anthracite coal miner and characters with our forerunners. factory worker represent our predeces- sors from the New World. The position of the char- acters references master UNA president’s greeting iconographer Andrei Rublev’s Hospitality of to Transfiguration Parish Abraham/Trinity icon. Following is the text of UNA tion – “In unity, is strength” was their Rublev positions three President Stefan Kaczaraj’s greetings banner call. angels representing God delivered at the 125th anniversary cel- And so, the UNA’s first president, the Father, Jesus Christ and ebration of Transfiguration of Our Shamokin’s Teodosij Talpash, joined the Holy Spirit around a Lord Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church with other Shamokin pioneers to orga- table. Anyone viewing the in Shamokin, Pa. nize not only the parish, but the first icon takes the fourth posi- branch of the UNA – the St. Andrew tion at the table, completing On behalf of the the Ukrainian Brotherhood – UNA’s Branch 1. the circle. In like manner, National Association (UNA), I would President Talpash was like many of the coal miner, factory girl, like to greet you all for this special cel- the first Ukrainian immigrants who Carpathian couple, angels ebration – the 125th anniversary of the arrived in Shamokin in 1884 – working and Jesus form a circle in establishment of the Transfiguration first as a coal miner, then a bartender, Shamokin’s Protectress Our Lord Ukrainian Catholic Church. then manager of the Vanderbilt Hotel (Pokrova) icon. The viewer It is a milestone date, not only for after the proprietor perished in the completes the circle by the parish, but for the UNA. Our histo- Titanic disaster; and finally owning his entering the church doors. ries are closely intertwined, as it was own business in Shamokin. His per- At the center of here, in Shamokin’s Columbus Hall, sonal history is not unique, but charac- Shamokin’s Pokrova icon that the UNA was born in 1894 – the terizes the incredible intelligence, is the Blessed Virgin Mary, noble idea of four courageous and industriousness and spirit of our early the Theotokos, as she dedicaed Ukrainian Catholic priests. Ukrainian pioneers. With the meager- accepted God’s call to be These pioneer priests, incuding est of means, they gave back to the His vessel and ultimately Shamokin’s Father Ivan Konstankevych, Church and to their community. the spiritual mother of us understood that, in order to help the Today, we bow our heads to those all. immigrant communities that were pop- Shamokin pioneers to whom we owe a – Vincent Chesney, ping up all over America, they needed great debt of gratitude. Thank you and iconographer to unite together in an umbrella organia- Mnohaya Lita! No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010 9 Myroslav Marynovych speaks at NED about religious freedom by Yaro Bihun in this previously predominantly Catholic region before Special to The Ukrainian Weekly the Soviet occupation that followed World War II, he explained. WASHINGTON – Myroslav Marynovych, a leading Asked what changes could be expected in Church- human rights activist in the waning years of the Soviet state relations after the recent presidential elections in Union and now vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic Ukraine, Mr. Marynovych pointed to one already evident University in Lviv and president of the Institute of “very important change.” He noted that during the inau- Religion and Society, says that religious freedom is a gurations of Ukraine’s two former presidents – Leonid major achievement of Ukrainian democracy – and is its Kuchma and Viktor Yushchenko – representatives of all biggest guarantor. of the country’s major religions came together at St. He described the evolution of religious freedom in Sophia Cathedral to pray for and bless the newly elected Ukraine and some of the problems it faced in the past president. This sent a positive message to the country, he and may well face after the recent election of Ukraine’s said: that the president represented all of the various reli- new president, Viktor Yanukovych, during a panel dis- gions and cultures of the people of Ukraine. cussion here on April 29 at the National Endowment for During the inauguration of President Yanukovych, he Democracy (NED). added, only one religious community was represented at Mr. Marynovych characterized Ukraine as a multicul- this event in the person of the Moscow patriarch of the tural and multireligious society encompassing some 50 Russian – and not the Ukrainian – Orthodox Church. religious minorities, not all of which are Christian. It has “The clear message behind this was: ‘I am the president experienced instances of a lack of tolerance and some of the Orthodox people who belong to the Moscow hatred, he added, but, in general, there have been no gross Patriarch,’ ” Mr. Marynovych said. violations of religious freedom in Ukraine since the re- The Ukrainian Catholic Church called this “a break in establishment of the country’s independence in 1991. tradition which had developed according to the specifici- For the most part, he said, the people wanted religious ty of the Ukrainian situation and which was accepted freedom, but were not ready or prepared for democracy Yaro Bihun positively in Ukraine.” with its principle of tolerance of others. And, he added, Also participating in the panel discussion, moderated Myroslav Marynovych speaks at the National “It was very difficult for the Moscow Patriarchate to lose by NED Vice-President Nadia Diuk, were William A. Endowment for Democracy. its monopoly in the religious sphere.” Galston, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox II, under communism, he added, it became “a wholly Church still has the vision of re-establishing its domi- George Weigel, distinguished senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. owned subsidiary of the KGB, the effects of which are nance over that “common Orthodox civilization” that still with us today.” would, of course, include Ukraine, Mr. Marynovych Recalling what Mr. Marynovych had characterized as One of the youngest founding members of the said, equating this to what he termed “[Vladimir] Putin’s the supposedly “symphonic” Church-state relationship Ukrainian Helsinki Group in 1976, Mr. Marynovych was idea of a reunited Soviet Union.” during the Soviet period, Mr. Weigel called it “a lovely arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison and exile The Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow idea, perhaps, but at least in Russian history it has never Patriarchate is not as “monolithic” as that, he added. managed to be instantiated in any way other than the (1977-1987) in Perm and later Kazakhstan. Today, he is There is a group that dreams about restoring its former Orthodox Church being a chaplaincy to whatever the considered an expert on religious issues and a leading monopoly, he said, but others are ready to compromise. political power of the moment is.” And, after World War moral voice in the current political discourse in Ukraine. Although to a lesser extent, there is also a division among Ukrainian Catholics, Mr. Marynovych said. Some find it difficult to accept that not all of their for- mer faithful in western Ukraine left the Orthodox Church and returned to the Catholic Church when they could Visit our archive online: www.ukrweekly.com after independence. About one-third remained Orthodox 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010 No. 20

James Temerty named chair of newly created UCC Advisory Council WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Ukrainian Grod. “I am grateful that Mr. Temerty has Mr. Temerty will be the inaugural Canadian Congress President Paul Grod agreed to serve the community in this chairman of the Ukrainian Canadian on May 4 announced the appointment of important capacity and I am confident Congress Advisory Council. The James C. Temerty as the chairman of the that Jim Temerty will provide invaluable Advisory Council to the UCC will pro- newly established Ukrainian Canadian advice and perspectives, while contribut- vide strategic advice to the president and Congress Advisory Council. ing to the work of the Ukrainian Canadian board of the congress. “I am proud to announce the appoint- Congress. I look forward to his insight Mr. Temerty is chairman of the board ment of such a prominent Canadian to and assistance in implementing the priori- of trustees of Northland Power Income this important advisory body,” said Mr. ties of the organization.” Fund. Previously, Mr. Temerty owned and operated the world’s largest privately held chain of ComputerLand stores. Prior to that, he held numerous positions with IBM in Canada and the United States, and assisted in the founding of Softchoice Corp. and served as its chair for 15 years. Mr. Temerty has been an active com- munity leader and has played instrumen- tal roles in philanthropy. He was chair- man of the Ukrainian Centennial Fund- Raising Campaign, a member of the Sunnybrook Hospital Foundation Governing Council, co-chair of the Havergal College Capital Campaign, a James C. Temerty director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Canadian Psychiatric The Ukrainian Canadian Congress is Research Foundation. Internationally, he was instrumental in the voice of Canada’s Ukrainian commu- launching the Kyiv Mohyla Business nity. The congress brings together under School, which he serves as chairman of one umbrella all the national, provincial the Advisory Council. He chaired the and local Ukrainian Canadian organiza- Ukrainian Election Observers Campaign, tions. Together with its member-organiza- facilitating the development of 500 pri- tions, the UCC has been leading, coordi- vate-sector election observers to the 2004 nating and representing the interests of one Orange Revolution presidential election. of Canada’s largest ethnic communities – He is a donor and trustee of the Children’s numbering1.2 million people – for 70 Hospital of the Future in Kyiv. years and instrumental in shaping Canada’s From 2002 to 2009, Mr. Temerty social, economic and political landscape. served as chairman of the Royal Ontario The UCC Advisory Council comprises Museum Board of Governors. Mr. prominent and exemplary supporters of Temerty is a recipient of many honors, the Ukrainian Canadian community who including the Order of Canada. He has provide ongoing advice and support to been married 42 years to Louise Arcand help the congress and by extension the Temerty, and has two daughters, Melissa community, to realize its potential and and Leah. ensure its future success. No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010 11

Ukrainians opposed Stalin monuments comed his election. As the April 27 riot in bership aspirations. Yanukovych administration... and only 10 percent supported this step. the Ukrainian Parliament has shown, a Perception is everything in internation- (Continued from page 2) Those opposed ranged between 76 per- radical shift in Ukraine’s national identity al affairs and the Yanukovych administra- leader Joseph Stalin, whose ideology the cent in western Ukraine and 57 percent in towards a Soviet-Russian framework will tion is not perceived in Brussels as Parliamentary Assembly of the Council the country’s Eastern regions. (www. bring turmoil and conflict while deepen- “European.” Brussels and Washington of Europe (PACE) placed on par with uceps.com.ua). ing its regional polarization. may gradually realize that Mr. Nazism in a resolution last year, is taking Fourthly, as in Russia, a rehabilitation Moreover, Ukrainian foreign policy Yanukovych will not bring either stability place. A Stalin bust was unveiled in of Stalin comes with a downplaying of will be affected by the shift in national or reforms, regardless of the name of the Zaporizhia on May 5 and further busts Stalinist crimes. President Yanukovych identity, as revealed by the agreement on pro-government parliamentary coalition. are planned in Odesa and other Russian- said to PACE that the Famine was a trag- the long-term basing of Russia’s Black speaking cities. Billboards greeting Stalin edy for all Soviet peoples, not only Sea Fleet and further pro-Russian poli- The article above is reprinted from Ukrainians, denying that it was “geno- were erected earlier in Luhansk and cies. These have not only closed Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission cide.” The new Yanukovych position is Donetsk. Ukraine’s path to NATO membership but from its publisher, the Jamestown the same as the old Russian stance on the As the PACE representative from also damaged its European Union mem- Foundation, www.jamestown.org. issue. It was, “like pouring oil on an Luxembourg asked President already simmering fire in Ukraine’s polar- Yanukovych: “It seems that in Ukraine a ized politics,” the former U.S. Deputy process of the heroization of Stalin and, Assistant Secretary of State for European The Ukrainian Institute increasingly, a return to the Soviet inter- and Eurasian Affairs David Kramer wrote of America pretation of the second world war, is tak- in the Kyiv Post (April 28). ing place. Could this trend be supported On the day of his inauguration, the presents by your government too, and particularly section on www.president.gov.ua estab- by the minister of education? What are lished by President Yushchenko about the Cabaret Evening with you doing, Mr. President, to stop this 1933 Famine was removed. The chairman most disturbing process?” (http://assem- of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), bly.coe.int). Valeriy Khoroshovsky, closed the agen- CHERES Mr. Yanukovych’s response was to say cy’s archives department, which had that there should be a local referendum to released documents about Soviet crimes determine whether the city’s inhabitants against Ukrainians and the Famine. Folk, pop, and jazz fusion support a Stalin bust (UNIAN, April 26). The Party of Regions and CPU did not He could not openly condemn the bust as vote for the November 2006 law on the Andriy Milavsky, woodwinds and piano the Communist Party (CPU), on whose Famine which, together with a January Victor Chobotar, accordion grounds the bust was unveiled, is a mem- 2010 Higher Appeals Court ruling, ber of the Stability and Reforms defines the Famine as “genocide” against Ihor Shablovsky, violin Coalition. The 2006-2007 Anti-Crisis Ukrainians. Mr. Yushchenko condemned Guest vocalists Deanna Kirk, jazz, Coalition also included the CPU, many of Mr. Yanukovych’s “cynicism” for violat- and Marianna Vynnytsky, Ukrainian pop whose voters have re-aligned with the ing both at PACE (www.razom.org.ua, Party of Regions. April 27). The Stability and Reforms Party of Regions national deputies Coalition plans to overturn the Famine Saturday, May 22 at 7:30 pm defended the Stalin bust by countering law (Ukrayinska Pravda, April 29). at the Ukrainian Institute of America that there are statues of the “Nazi” nation- This four-step shift to a Soviet-Russian alist leader, Stepan Bandera, in western identity has ramifications for Ukraine’s 2 East 79th Street, New York City Ukraine. This is a false comparison, as domestic and foreign policies. western Ukrainians support Bandera Domestically, it undermines Mr. Admission: $25 monuments while eastern Ukrainians do Yanukovych’s claim that he will bring not support Stalin statues. An April opin- stability to Ukraine, which was believed For information call: 212-288-8660 ion poll found that 57 percent of in Western countries that largely wel-

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Some — although doubtless not many — of the neighbors of the National Cathedral may not have seen Canadian Ukrainian violinist Vasyl Popadiuk per- form at the Flower Mart, but they must have heard his many loud jazz-Latin- pop-style renditions throughout the two-day event.

Two Ukrainian Kozaks conduct a TV-style quiz of the audience on Ukrainian his- tory, geography and culture.

Among the many art and informational exhibit tents and stands at this year’s Dozens of white tents housing Flower Mart exhibits, gift and food vendors sur- National Flower Mart was one hosted in the children’s play area by the round the National Cathedral. Washington Ridna Shkola Saturday Ukrainian School. No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010 13 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010 No. 20

or group of blood.” He expressed gratitude NEWSBRIEFS to war veterans, nurses, home front work- CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS (Continued from page 2) ers, as well as mothers and widows who to the EU, foreign ministers and diplo- “took on their shoulders the whole weight TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI (973) 292-9800 x 3040 matic representatives of 13 European of male job and brought into the world semi-orphan children, having taught them or e-mail [email protected] Union states from among the so-called “Group of Friends of Ukraine,” with to live according to conscience.” The presi- whom Mr. Gryshchenko met, viewed the dent said that this year Victory Day in SERVICES improvement of relations between Kyiv Ukraine coincides with the celebration of and Moscow positively and sympatheti- Mother’s Day, and there is a deep meaning cally. The Ukrainian foreign affairs min- in this, because “without our mothers there ister spoke in detail about the content of would not have been our victory.” Earlier in Kyiv’s new policy towards Russia and the the day, Mr. Yanukovych, Verkhovna Rada essence of the Ukrainian-Russian agree- Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn, Prime ments signed and prepared for signature. Minister Mykola Azarov, government Mr. Gryshchenko also stressed that members and veterans took part in a cere- European integration remains the priority mony of laying flowers to the Tomb of the for Ukraine, but the new Ukrainian gov- Unknown Soldier in the Park of Eternal ernment considers it impossible to imple- Glory in Kyiv. A monument was unveiled ment it without having a predictable, con- to Ivan Kozhedub, marshal of aviation and PROFESSIONALS structive and economically profitable three-time Hero of the Soviet Union. relationship with Russia. 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Seventy-five KYIV – Ukraine will remain a sovereign cadets of Lviv’s Academy of Land Forces To reach The Ukrainian state where representatives of all nationali- of the Armed Forces of Ukraine marched ties will feel themselves at home, President through Red Square carrying the state Weekly all (973) 292-9800, Viktor Yanukovych, who is also supreme flag of Ukraine. (Ukrinform) commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces and dial the appropriate of Ukraine, said during the military parade Sevastopol marks liberation extension (as listed below). marking Victory Day. Addressing veterans, KYIV – The Hero City of Sevastopol, the president, particularly: “You, dear veter- Crimea, marked a dual holiday on May 9: ans, preserved and presented to us, living the day of victory in the Great Patriotic Editorial – 3049, 3088 now, Ukraine. Now we are building its War and the 66th anniversary of its liber- Production – 3063, 3069 statehood. And that’s great, because each ation. It was May 9, 1944, that the nation seeks self-fulfillment through its own Crimean strategic offensive operation WANT IMPACT? Administration – 3041 state.” He added, “We stand for a sovereign ended with the liberation of Sevastopol. Run your advertisement here, state, under the sky of which in our blessed The Crimean Operation was the first Ukraine all nations without exception in The Ukrainian Weekly’s Advertising – 3040 among the major offensives of World War would feel at home. When soldiers freed us, II, when the losses of Soviet troops were CLASSIFIEDS section. Subscriptions – 3042 often at the cost of their own lives, we did not ask them what was their religion, nation (Continued on page 15) No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010 15

Federation and President Alyaksandr NEWSBRIEFS Lukashenka of Belarus, on May 9 (Continued from page 14) unveiled in Moscow the Cities of Military much smaller than those of the Nazis: Glory memorial in the Alexander Gardens about 17,000 versus 33,000. A total of near the Kremlin. The City of Military 240 servicemen were awarded the Hero Glory title was conferred on 27 cities. Mr. of the Soviet Union title for the liberation Yanukovych was on a one-day working of Sevastopol. (Ukrinform) visit to Moscow to take part in the infor- mal summit of the Commonwealth of Yanukovych at ceremony in Moscow Independent States. He was also sched- KYIV – President Viktor Yanukovych uled to conduct a bilateral meeting with of Ukraine, together with President President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov Dmitry Medvedev of the Russian of Turkmenistan. (Ukrinform)

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extend their deepest sympathy to our revered member Charlie Popdirka and his sons, on the loss of their wife and mother,

ROXOLANA PODPIRKA

who entered into eternal rest on Saturday May 1, 2010.

Funeral Liturgy was held on Thursday May 6,

at the Holy Cross Ukrainian Church in Long Island City,

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that there are inconsistencies in his story, were forced by circumstance to do so. escorting prisoners being sent to the gas Demjanjuk... with some of it “being historically impossi- chambers. Survivors and historians testify (Continued from page 4) ble.” The AP reported: “While there are many Claims by Sobibor survivor Mr. Walter was questioned by defense Earlier this year, the trial featured testi- accounts of violence by the guards, few of attorney Dr. Busch about the Trawniki ID mony by survivors of Sobibor. In late those can be attributed to individuals, the In early February, reports surfaced about card purportedly issued to his client, noting January, two witnesses who were teenagers historian said. He conceded that documenta- a Russian survivor of Sobibor who told that he had seen “conflicting” examples of when they were sent to Sobibor – Thomas tion of the guards’ use at Sobibor is ‘frag- Czech public radio that he could identify such identification cards. According to the Blatt, 82, of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Philip mentary.’ ” Mr. Demjanjuk. Alexei Weizen, 87, of AP, Dr. Busch asked Mr. Walther how the Bialowitz, 84, of New York – testified about The AP also noted: “Pohl noted that Ryazan, Russia, reportedly said he recog- original came into the hands of U.S. prose- the brutality of the guards at the camp, but Germans tended to view them as ‘rather nized Mr. Demjanjuk from a photo pub- cutors to be passed on to Germany. Mr. neither, the Voice of America reported, could unreliable personnel,’ with poor education lished in a Russian newspaper, but German Walther replied that he did not know. remember actually seeing the defendant at prosecutors were skeptical about his claim. The defense argues that the Trawniki card the camp. and poor German. As well as Ukrainians, Thomas Walther, who led the investiga- bearing Mr. Demjanjuk’s name is a fake. According to reports by the Associated they included former prisoners from the tion that resulted in Germany’s decision to “We question the ID card’s authenticity and Press, Mr. Blatt referred repeatedly to Baltic states and elsewhere, and Soviet citi- prosecute Mr. Demjanjuk told the Associated maintain it is a false document made by the Ukrainian guards at Sobibor, noting that zens of German background.” Press that if Mr. Weizen remembered Mr. KGB,” Dr. Busch was quoted as saying by they outnumbered Nazi SS men 10 to one at No direct living witnesses Demjanjuk that would have come up before the AP. that camp. during the 30 years Mr. Demjanjuk has Other witnesses who testified in January A January 12 story by the Associated Former guard’s testimony faced investigations and trials. included experts, like the historian Mr. Pohl Press explained: “There are no direct living “When now there is a trial and he sud- In late February, the court heard testimony of Ludwig Maximilian University, who tes- witnesses to Demjanjuk’s alleged activities denly says ‘I know him’ I’m very skeptical,” from a former Soviet soldier taken prisoner tified that “The sole purpose of the Sobibor at Sobibor but prosecutors say if he was a Mr. Walther told the AP. “Why did he not by the Nazis. Alex Nagorny, 92, said he did camp was to murder people.” According to guard there it means he was involved in the remember him when there was the trial in not know he would be used as a concentra- the Associated Press, Mr. Pohl also spoke of Nazi machinery of destruction.” The AP also Israel, or when it was all over the press in tion camp guard. The Associated Press quot- the role of the “Trawniki men,” many of noted: “Demjanjuk is accused of serving as the U.S.?” ed him as saying that he was recruited from a whom were Soviet prisoners of war held by a ‘Wachmann’ or guard, the lowest rank of German investigator’s testimony POW camp and agreed in order not to go the Nazis and used by the Nazi machinery the volunteers who were subordinate to hungry. “I was simply asked if I wanted to of destruction, including as guards at death German SS men. It is the first time a convic- Mr. Walther was called to testify at the work and I was hungry,” Mr. Nagorny said. camps. The historian said that 100 to 150 of tion has been sought against someone so trial in mid-February. He questioned the The Demjanjuk defense stated that mil- these “Trawniki” were stationed in Sobibor accounts given by Mr. Demjanjuk of his lions of Soviet POWs died in captivity and and noted that witnesses were active in all low-ranking without proof of a specific whereabouts during World War II, noting that those who agreed to serve the Nazis parts of the camp – unloading trains and offense.” The Demjanjuk trial is expected to wrap up in September, instead of May as first pro- jected.

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Proposals... (Continued from page 5) thus there is no proper representation. This proposal was submitted to the UNA By-Laws Committee prior to the 2006 Convention, but for some reason it was never presented to the convention for action. * * * On behalf of the Detroit District Committee, Alexander J. Serafyn (chair- man) submitted the following proposal for a change in the UNA By-Laws.

Article II, Paragraph 11, Delegates’ Qualifications: Starting in line 6, delete: “to which the member pays dues to the Fraternal Fund for a period of not less than six months, next preceding the final day of the Convention to which he is elected.”

RATIONALE: This phrase limits the choice of potential delegates who other- wise are active and well-qualified mem- bers of the UNA.

Putin calls... (Continued from page 3) decided to drive the process into an end- game phase on its terms. Ukraine’s new leaders are apparently tak- ing the threat potential of South Stream at face value. During the presidential election campaign, as well as since taking office, President Viktor Yanukovych, and Prime Minister Azarov have been telling the coun- try that it would lose its transit role in favor of South Stream, unless the Ukrainian sys- tem is ceded to Russia through some “con- sortium.” With this, Messrs. Yanukovych and Azarov have simply echoed Moscow’s rhetoric from their Ukrainian state offices, instead of educating the Ukrainian public to South Stream’s lack of prospects (EDM, March 17, April 30).

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Fleet on the territory of Ukraine in behind Ukraine in passing necessary legis- The roots... Turning the pages... Sevastopol would remain there, but he lative reforms. The two ministers also (Continued from page 7) (Continued from page 6) did not address the potential that, if signed an addendum to the border treaty Russia when Russia was demonstrably the ly toward the European Union while Ukraine was serious about joining NATO, that was approved by President Kuchma greatest external threat to Ukraine’s indepen- simultaneously maintaining membership Ukraine would be forced to remove all and his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, during dence, fomenting political unrest in Crimea in a Eurasian common economic space, non-NATO forces from its territory prior the latter’s visit to Kyiv. The addenda had through various military and political agen- as President Leonid Kuchma proposed. to entry into the organization. been criticized by national democratic cies of the Sevastopol-based Russian Black “It is time to decide: it is impossible to Ukraine’s and Russia’s foreign affairs forces because they did not specify a dead- Sea Fleet. integrate simultaneously in the EU and ministers signed a declaration on a new line for ratification by the respective bilateral strategic partnership and signed a Parliaments of the two countries or how The United States government surely the Eurasian Economic Community. It is summary document on the results of their the demarcation process would take place. knew this, but our obsession with non-prolif- also impossible to integrate into the discussion on membership in the World eration at any price and traditional infatua- European Union together with Russia, Trade Organization. Moscow indicated Source: “Russian foreign minister pro- tion with Moscow led us, embarrassingly, to which has not even set that as a goal,” try to isolate Ukraine and turn the country that the two countries should be admitted motes closer Moscow-Kyiv partnership,” Mr. Tarasyuk said. at the same time, but Russia lagged far by Roman Woronowycz, May 25, 2003. into an international pariah. Ukraine had a During Mr. Ivanov’s visit, Ukraine’s long history and publicly stated commitment and Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministries to become nuclear-free, but not under the held their first ever formal gathering – the absurd conditions we demanded. We dispar- Ukraine-Russia Collegium of Foreign aged Ukraine’s resistance to being coerced Ministries. into acting against its best interests. Any hes- “I believe there is no alternative to Frustrated by poor postal delivery itancy, all reluctance, on the part of Ukraine Ukraine’s perspectives regarding mem- was because of our insistence that it not give bership in the European Union. However, of your newspaper? its nuclear warheads to us or any Western we have no choice but to strengthen our power but instead turn them over to Russia! friendly, neighborly relations with In the end, Ukraine agreed to send the Russia,” said Ukraine’s Minister of missiles on its territory to Russia for disman- Foreign Affairs Anatolii Zlenko. Check out Th e Uk r a i n i a n We e k l y online at tling, but, as a security measure, insisted that Mr. Ivanov said it was necessary for the enriched uranium found in the warheads Kyiv and Moscow to coordinate their www.ukrweekly.com be returned to Ukraine. Ukraine’s indepen- approaches in international relations and dence was not yet solidified and the fear of a interaction in international organizations. resurgent Russian imperialism was palatable He said the basing of Russia’s Black Sea and the evidence of Moscow’s disruptive proclivities readily apparent. Ukraine also insisted the United States participate in the transfer and dismantling of the weapons, to which the United States agreed and the ura- nium was returned modified as fuel assem- blies for power plants. In December 1994, the Budapest Memorandum of Security Assurances was signed in which Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom agreed, to respect Ukraine’s borders in accordance with the principles of the Helsinki Final Act and agreed to abstain from the use or threat of force against Ukraine, including economic coercion, and to bring any incident of aggres- sion against Ukraine by a nuclear power before the United Nations Security Council. Any record that hides these facts or implies anything different is wrong and a disservice to both Ukraine and to the historic and important lessons to be taken from Moscow’s negligence in its nuclear program and its indifference to the consequences of the failure of that program, as well as a con- tinuation of our ostrich-like foreign policy toward the Kremlin. We properly speak about the danger of nuclear weapons and materials falling into the wrong hands and hypothesize about potential consequences to make our case. We don’t need hypothetical examples, we have a genuine example in Ukraine, and Ukraine provides the honest example of people’s reaction and the choice they made. We cheapen our arguments and diminish the human costs of a lesson learned by not recording clearly that Ukraine and her citi- zens have led the world in voluntary nuclear disarmament and why. We continue to expose a certain degree of bad faith in our own policies as long as we do not fulfill all of the promises we made to Ukraine in return for its action in sending its nuclear missiles to Russia. And finally, we miss a very important sig- nal from the Yanukovych administration if we do not prominently acknowledge and honor that he is continuing to pursue a genu- ine and uniquely Ukrainian policy of volun- tarily disposing of nuclear materials. This policy, born of tragedy, is one that originated with the desire of the people of Ukraine and one that in significant part led to Ukraine’s independence and the collapse of the Soviet Union. This continuing Ukrainian policy also is one that each government of Ukraine has pursued since independence despite the overwhelming evidence that the United States treats those countries that are problems better than we do those countries that cooperate with us. 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them to employ far more force than standard tor of Ekspres, who was allegedly physically Rubicon after which silence is impermissi- Ukraine in danger... police officers. The same rights to wide- removed from his apartment and forced to ble. Selling your people’s memory, pain and (Continued from page 1) ranging use of force are extended to plain- leave his 6-year-old and five-month-old chil- suffering for a salary is a crime!” Ukraine of Russian President Dmitry clothes officers. dren unattended, for questioning in what Presidential Administration Vice-Chair Medvedev. Wide-scale deployment of plainclothes journalists said was related to the newspa- Hanna Herman dismissed Mr. Otkovych’s During its two months in office, the new officers at public demonstrations was rare per’s exposure of corruption among local accusations as “unprofessional,” claiming government has demonstrated authoritarian during the Orange era. politicians. President Yanukovych never denied the policies by threatening and arresting opposi- The day of the May 11 protest, the Five police officers allegedly beat the Holodomor. tion leaders, imposing censorship in the Segodnya newspaper, which is the propa- newspaper’s journalists, including the editor- Her statement was misleading since Mr. media, eliminating citizens’ oversight of gov- ganda arm of the Party of Regions, published in-chief, when they showed up at the State Yanukovych did recognize the Holodomor ernment organs, hiding critical information an interview with Minister Mohyliov, Tax Administration office, where the director but denied it was genocide. He clearly stated from leading journalists, reinforcing the Ukraine’s police chief, in which he was being held, to gain information about the before PACE: “To recognize the Holodomor supremacy of the Russian language and cul- announced his intention to push all opposi- arrest. The police also allegedly destroyed as an act of genocide against one or another ture, and restricting opposition protests with tion protests to a specially designated field the newspaper’s videocamera. nation, we believe, is incorrect and unjust. aggressive tactics and tight controls. beyond the city limits of Kyiv. Just three days later, the Parliamentary This was a tragedy, a common tragedy of Officials have revealed plans for more “You can yell there as much as you want, Committee on Freedom of Speech issued a people who once belonged to a single state – extreme measures, including Internal Affairs like in Hyde Park in London,” said the inter- statement claiming the police never attacked the Soviet Union.” Ms. Herman also didn’t appreciate Mr. Minister Anatolii Mohyliov’s proposal to nal affairs minister, who oversees all of the the Ekspres journalists. Otkovych’s confirmation in his May 7 state- restrict all opposition protests to beyond the country’s police. “Those who are interested It was only a matter of weeks before alleged pressure and censorship reached ment that the practice of “temnyky” under city limits of Kyiv and to establish nighttime in your ideas can go there, and you will culti- Ukraine’s major television networks. the authoritarian presidency of Leonid curfews for teenagers (who are often politi- vate your followers without interfering with Protesting reporters at the 1+1 network on Kuchma had returned to the Ukrainian cally active), and Emergency Situations the lives of others.” Mr. Mohyliov apparently was unaware that Hyde Park is located in May 7 released a statement that included a media. Instead, they are being called “dyrek- Minister Nestor Shufrych’s proposal to sur- London’s center. list of specific incidents showing a consistent tyvy” (directives) and are being passed down vey and monitor protests, and their partici- The new police chief stressed that the pattern in which their editors and news direc- verbally rather than in written form. pants, for potential terrorism. main requirement of public meetings under tors directly censored or skewed their news (“Temnyky” were instructions on how to Restricting the opposition his tenure is that they’re “not violating the reports to unreasonable degrees that indicat- present the news that were issued by the public order.” ed political motivation. Presidential Administration when it was led The Yanukovych administration has “That’s nonsense, of course,” said Ivan The list consisted of a dozen tainted news by mega-millionaire oligarch Viktor begun employing fierce, sometimes aggres- Lozowy, president of the Institute of reports, including those from which criticism Medvedchuk between 2002 and 2004.) sive tactics, in dealing with opposition lead- Statehood and Democracy in Kyiv. “Whether of the government was removed. By then, Reporters Without Borders had ers and their supporters since the new gov- they violate public order or not, freedom of These included a March report on the new issued several statements warning the ernment emerged on March 11, with the speech is a right guaranteed by the Cabinet of Ministers, another March report Yanukovych administration about its alleged selection of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov Constitution. In this respect, the minister is on the new ministers that revealed their luxu- pressure and censorship of the mass media. and his Cabinet. demonstrating a lack of respect for Ukraine’s rious vehicles, and an April report on the Reporters at the Novyi Kanal network Such tactics were not employed by former Constitution, because that provision of the Yanukovych-Medvedev pact, in which 1+1 complained of violence by law enforcement President Viktor Yushchenko or his prime Constitution is inconvenient.” correspondents were told to “not analyze the authorities, while STB television reporters ministers, Ms. Tymoshenko and Mr. The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and Svoboda agreements, but find the positive in them.” alleged censorship at their studio. Yanukovych, during his five years in office. nationalist party reported that the Internal The statement also demanded that 1+1 In mid-April, opposition leader Ms. When more than 3,000 demonstrators Affairs Ministry demanded they submit lists General Director Oleksander Tkachenko Tymoshenko complained the major televi- emerged on April 27 to protest the of protest participants, which wasn’t required admit publicly what he acknowledged pri- sion networks were denying her appearances Yanukovych-Medvedev pact to extend the of the opposition during the Orange era. vately to his news staff – that his staff engag- and interviews, portraying her activity only basing of the Black Sea Fleet, hundreds of Meanwhile, at least a dozen incidents es in censorship and the practice of “jeansa,” in a negative light. patrol police and Berkut special forces were have been reported in which demonstrators, which involves editors and reporters taking One of Ukraine’s top news-gathering deployed to ensure the protesters didn’t come ranging from those opposed to illegal real bribes in exchange for favorable news cover- organizations, the Ukrayinska Pravda web- close to the Parliament, which was surround- estate construction to Ukrainian nationalists, age. site, was prohibited from attending an April ed by more than 1,500 Party of Regions sup- have reported illegal arrests in which they’re Most notably, 1+1 correspondent 21 press conference at which President porters and could have resulted in physical detained without knowing the charges and Myroslav Otkovych went public with an Yanukovych offered an assessment of his fights. released without any charges being pressed. article published on the Ukrayinska Pravda first 50 days in office and took questions In various pockets of the protest, demon- website on May 7, revealing that his supervi- from journalists. strators pushed against the police, while at Censoring the media sors censored his news report in which he Ukrainian media expert Otar Dovzhenko other moments the police appeared to pro- At first it was independent Internet jour- attempted to offer a legal analysis of of the Telekrytyka website declared on May voke the protesters by initiating shoving bat- nalists and bloggers reporting pressure from President Yanukovych’s April 27 statement 7 that censorship had returned to Ukraine, tles that succeeded in pre-emptively pushing the Yanukovych administration, among them to the Parliamentary Assembly of the the source of which was the nation’s media back the demonstrators. Olena Bilozerska, who publishes two inde- Council of Europe (PACE) denying the moguls who “attempt to build up or maintain Surrounding a government building with pendent news websites. Holodomor was genocide of the Ukrainian good relations with the government and gain party supporters is another tactic not used On March 27 the district police visited people. benefit from them.” during the Orange era. Ms. Bilozerska’s residence, searched her In his report, Mr. Otkovych wanted to (The pro-Yanukovych Inter television net- Protesters also reported the police beat computer for documents and photos, and offer viewers the perspectives of legal experts work is owned by mega-millionaire Valerii their legs with sticks and used tear gas, which confiscated two DVDs containing video as to whether President Yanukovych had vio- Khoroshkovskyi, who leads the Security were tactics not employed during the Orange footage of the Autonomous Resistance orga- lated Ukrainian law, which states, “The pub- Service of Ukraine; the STB, Novyi Kanal era. As a result, a handful of injuries and nization that staged a protest of a Kyiv fur lic denial of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in and ICTV networks are owned by Victor arrests were reported. shop in mid-February by throwing smoke Ukraine is considered a dishonor to the mem- Pinchuk, son-in-law of authoritarian former When protesters returned to the and paint bombs. ory of the millions of victims of the President Kuchma; and 1+1 is owned by bil- Parliament on May 11, the police took even Police also confiscated two computers, Holodomor, an abasement of the dignity of lionaire Igor Kolomoisky, an absentee land- more preventive measures to ensure they four cameras and 50 DVDs from Oleksii the Ukrainian people and is illegal.” lord who spends most of his time abroad, were contained and rendered ineffective. Furman, a photographer for the Fotolenta Mr. Otkovych’s editors informed him, including his residence in Switzerland.) Besides surrounding the Parliament with photo service. All his materials were report- ahead of the May 10 news program, that “The current news on the Inter, ICTV their own 2,000-plus supporters, many of edly returned. legal commentary about Mr. Yanukovych’s and First National television networks differ whom were paid, the government established Few, if any, searches of journalists’ resi- statement would be removed. little in form, meaning and methodology of metal barricades on the side of Hrushevsky dences were reported during the Orange era. “In this manner, the Holodomor theme servility from what was produced under Street opposite the Verkhovna Rada, behind “We deplore the way these two journalists was censored,” Mr. Otkovych wrote. “It was ‘temnyky,’” Mr. Dovzhenko wrote in which the opposition, numbering more than have been treated as suspects, not as witness- then that, for me, this theme became the Telekrytyka. 2,500 protesters, was required to stand, being es, although they just did their job by cover- significantly restricted in its movement. ing a news event,” stated an April 3 press The barricades consisted of a narrow release issued by Reporters Without Borders. entrance and exit that was tightly guarded by “The confiscation of journalists’ files is a Yanukovych sacks Shamshur the police, who were able to control who violation of Ukrainian law. We urge the WASHINGTON – Ukraine’s ambas- [sic].” could enter and leave. police to respect the law and to put a stop to sador to the United States, Dr. Oleh Mr. Morrison pointed out that Dr. Party of Regions supporters were not sub- practices of this kind, which endanger media Shamshur, has been sacked by President Shamshur “was closely associated with jected to such controls and restrictions. Not freedom.” Viktor Yanukovych, The Washington the pro-Western government of former only did they enjoy free movement behind The international organization demanded Times reported on May 13. President Viktor Yushchenko, whose elec- protest lines, but radicals of the Ukrainian the immediate return of Ms. Bilozerska’s Writing in the “Embassy Row” col- tion victory after the 2004 Orange Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate DVDs, adding that “the methods employed umn, James Morrison noted: “Ukraine’s Revolution signaled a break from were allowed to march down the center of by the police seem to have been designed in pro-Russia president sacked the country’s Moscow’s sphere of influence.” Hrushevsky Street with their religious icons. part to encourage journalists to censor them- ambassador in Washington on Wednesday Dr. Shamshur, a career diplomat, was Not only were Berkut special forces selves.” [May 12], as part of a shake-up of the Ukraine’s envoy to the U.S. since 2006 amply represented, but so were dozens of More reports of government pressure on diplomatic corps to reverse the pro-West- and was vice-minister of foreign affairs law enforcement officers dressed in suits and the media surfaced, including attempts by ern policies of the former government. under President Yushchenko. He joined with earpieces who surrounded the the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) to President Viktor Yanukovych announced the foreign service in 1993. Parliament building, including Mariyinskyi control the TVi television network, as well as the dismissal of Ambassador Oleh The Washington Times reported that Park, and monitored the activity of protesters the alleged April 12 beatings in the Lviv Shamshur on his presidential website but President Yanukovych also dismissed and the press. Oblast town of Horodok of reporters from did not cite a reason for his action, Ukraine’s ambassadors to Afghanistan, The presence of Berkut special forces is the newspaper Ekspres. according to press reports from Kiev Austria, Israel, Poland and Portugal. significant because Ukrainian law allows In this incident, police arrested the direc- 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010 No. 20

Fifith annual Ukrainian evening scheduled at Cornelia Street Café NEW YORK – The fifth annual Metropolitan area and has given recitals Ukrainian Literary Evening at the in Spain and Brazil. He teaches at the Cornelia Street Café will take place on University of New Haven. Friday, May 21, at 6-7:50 p.m. Prof. Motyl is the author of “Whiskey The evening will feature the prose and Priest, Who Killed Andrei Warhol,” poetry of Vasyl Makhno and Alexander “Flippancy,” “The Jew Who Was Motyl, and the piano music of Victor Ukrainian,” and a work in progress, “My Markiw. Orchidia.” He teaches at Rutgers Mr. Makhno is a Ukrainian-language University-Newark. Books will be avail- poet and author of “Thread,” “38 Poems about New York and Other Things” and able for author signings. “Cornelia Street Café.” He is poet-in-res- The cover charge is $10, which idence at the Shevchenko Scientific includes one free drink. No reservations Society in New York. are accepted. Mr. Markiw is a classical and modern The Cornelia Street Cafe is located at pianist. He has performed with area 29 Cornelia St., New York, NY 10012; orchestras throughout the New York for information call 212-989-9319.

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Through June 4 Art show and sale, featuring prints and paintings New York Voices and the New York Bandura Ensemble, The Cleveland, OH by Catherine Rozmarynowycz, 216-871-4329 Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110

May 19 Gala reception, 70th anniversary of the Ukrainian June 12 Golf outing and banquet, Ukrainian American Washington Congress Committee of America, Rayburn House Horsham, PA Sports Center Tryzub, 215-343-5412 Office Building, [email protected] or 202-547-0018 June 12 Kozak Tournament, Ukrainian American Youth May 21 5th annual Ukrainian Literary Evening, featuring New York Alex Motyl, Vasyl Makhno and Victor Markiw, Yonkers, NY Association, Ukrainian Youth Center, Cornelia Street Café, 212-989-9319 [email protected] or 914-476-6781 or www.corneliastreetcafe.com June 18 5th annual Ukrainian Crab Feast, Baltimore May 21-22 Ukrainian Festival, featuring live music by Perry Hall, MD Ukrainian Festival Committee, Columbus Gardens Wilmington, DE Halychany, Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Hall, 410-591-7566 or Church, 302-798-4455 [email protected]

May 22 Concert, featuring accordionist Mike Platosz and June 18-20 25th Yonkers Ukrainian Heritage Festival, St. New Britain, CT guitarist Stefan Doboszczak, Trinity-on-Main, Yonkers, NY Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church, 860-229-2072 http://www.brama.com/yonkersukrainianfest/ May 22 Pub night with Zuki and Mike, Ukrainian American June 20 Father’s Day festival, Ukrainian American Sports Whippany, NJ Cultural Center of New Jersey, 973-585-7175 or [email protected] Horsham, PA Center Tryzub, 215-343-5412

May 22 Film screening, featuring the life of Ukrainian July 2-5 Lemko Vatra, Organization for the Defense of New York intellectual Borys Antonovych-Davydenko, Ellenville, NY Lemko Western Ukraine, Ukrainian American Youth Shevchenko Scientific Society, 212-254-5130 Association resort, 845-647-7230

May 28-31 Ukrainian Nationals Invitational Soccer July 2-4 Independence Day weekend, Bobrivka, Horsham, PA Tournament, Ukrainian American Sports Center North Colebrook, CT www.bobriwka.org or 860-883-1391 Tryzub, 215-343-5412 July 9-11 Volleyball tournament, Ukrainian American Youth June 6 Children’s Festival of Ukrainian Art and Culture, Ellenville, NY Association resort, 845-647-7230 Brooklyn, NY Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church, [email protected] or 646-894-8534

June 11 Pub Night, featuring accordionist Matthew Dubas, Webster, NY Ukrainian Cultural Center of Rochester, Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events 585-872-0240 advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors June 12 Concert, “Seven Deadly Sins,” Ukrainian Women’s and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected]. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010 No. 20

PREVIEW OF EVENTS Saturday, May 22 Saturday, June 6 NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific BROOKLYN, N.Y.: The second annual Society invites all to a viewing of the film Children’s Festival of Ukrainian Art and about the Ukrainian writer Borys Culture will take place at Holy Ghost Antonenko-Davydovych (1899-1984) pro- Ukrainian Catholic Church, 160 N. Fifth duced by the National Television Company St., Brooklyn, NY 11211 at noon to 6 p.m. of Ukraine. Antonovych-Davydenko was The festival venue is in the heart of the one of the victims of the wave of terror most eclectic place in the U.S. – the unleashed against Ukrainian intellectuals Northside of Brooklyn, between Bedford by the Soviet authorities in the 1930s. In and Driggs avenues. The highlight of the 1935 he was convicted in a Soviet show event is Ukrainian dance, singing and trial, receiving a death sentence that was instrumental performances, and arts and commuted to life in the gulag, where he crafts expositions by talented Ukrainian spent the next 22 years. The brief political children from all over the country. Also thaw in the USSR following Stalin’s death featured: food vendors of Ukrainian and enabled Antonenko-Davydovych to return international cuisines, workshops, exhib- to Kyiv in 1957. The film screening will its, screening of Ukrainian cartoons, take place at the society’s building, 63 clowns, games and fun for all – adults and Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and 10th children. For information log on to http:// streets) at 5 p.m. For additional informa- nationalpearls.org/festival2010 or call tion call 212-254-5130. 646-894-8534.

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