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INSIDE:• New wave of migration: challenges, opportunities — page 8. • Budget for 2005 is adopted in Ukraine — page 10. • Messages from the Orange Revolution — centerfold.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIII HE KRAINIANNo. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine YanukovychT resignsU Yushchenko discusses prioritiesW of his administration as PM, continues by Andrew Nynka Kyiv Press Bureau to appeal election Kyiv – Ukrainian President-elect Viktor Yushchenko announced that his by Andrew Nynka first priority after the inauguration will be Kyiv Press Bureau to form a government with a new prime minister at its head and noted that guiding KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor Ukraine toward membership in European Yanukovych, speaking five days after the institutions would be a major focus. conclusion of a long, contentious campaign “Society should see new faces. This is a for the Ukrainian presidency, announced he basic rule. Especially in this case, when was resigning from his government post, top positions are at stake,” Mr. but maintained defiantly that he had not lost Yushchenko said during a 50-minute inter- the presidential race and said he would con- view with the Channel 5 television station. tinue his legal fight for the nation’s top seat. Many of Mr. Yushchenko’s comments “There is no sense in my holding the to the press since the December 26 elec- post of prime minister. I have made a deci- tion have focused on describing his sion and I am formally submitting my res- administration’s first 100 days in office ignation. In the current conditions I find it and the policies on which he will focus impossible to occupy any post in a govern- during that time. ment headed by these authorities,” Mr. Talks have begun with allies about Yanukovych said in an address televised forming a new government and a quarter throughout the country on New Year’s Eve. of the government posts would go to the President Leonid Kuchma accepted Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, Mr. Mr. Yanukovych’s resignation five days Yushchenko said on December 29. later, the presidential press service report- “The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc will ed on January 5, announcing that Mr. have a 25 percent share in forming min- Kuchma has appointed Mykola Azarov as istries, agencies, committees and heads the interim prime minister. Mr. Azarov, of regional administrations,” Mr. who had been the first vice-prime minis- Yushchenko said, adding that he would AP/Efrem Lukatsky ter and finance minister under Mr. nominate Ms. Tymoshenko for the post Ukraine’s President-elect Viktor Yushchenko and visiting Georgian President Yanukovych, has been performing the of prime minister. Mikhail Saakashvili greet the crowd on Independence Square on the occasion of duties of prime minister since Mr. (Continued on page 11) the New Year celebration on January 1. Yanukovych announced his resignation. Earlier, the Ukrainian Parliament approved a resolution that expressed no confidence in Mr. Yanukovych and his Cabinet. But Mr. Yanukovych refused to Diaspora participation makes election monitoring mission unique recognize the December 1, 2004, vote by by Marta Kolomayets Central Election Commission, numbering way and were responsible for making their the Verkhovna Rada and said he would Special to The Ukrainian Weekly 2,408 monitors,” noted Tamara Gallo- own arrangements for travel and accommo- not resign out of principle. Olexy, the executive director of the dations in Ukraine. To be sure, the UCCA As he announced his resignation on KYIV – More than 12,500 international UCCA office in New York. helped out with logistics as much as possi- December 31, however, Mr. Yanukovych, observers converged upon Ukraine for the “And about 40 percent of those we had ble, including negotiating with the Ministry who served as prime minister under December 26 repeat run-off of the presi- registered had been observers before, so of Foreign Affairs for free visas to travelers dential election, setting world records for President Kuchma for two years, said he they understood the process and came to going to Ukraine who have been accredited the size of an official foreign observer mis- would not be chased from politics. Ukraine to make their contribution to by the CEC as observers. But, operating on sion, whose monitors represented close to “I will remain in politics as an inde- democracy in this country,” she added. a shoestring budget made it difficult to offer 50 countries from the global community. pendent politician and a winner in the Perhaps there were more seasoned substantial financial assistance. legitimate elections of November 21. My “This has never happened in history “They came on their own initiative before – ever,” remarked Jack observers in the delegations representing team and I will act using only legal such organizations as the Organization for and with boundless enthusiasm and ideal- methods both on the political level and McDonald, a former congressman from ism, ready to roll up their sleeves and do Michigan, who traveled to Ukraine’s Security and Cooperation in Europe on the level of direct civil action,” said a (OSCE), the International Republican the best job they could offer Ukraine,” somber looking Mr. Yanukovych, sitting eastern oblasts with the U.S.-Ukraine said Ms. Gallo-Olexy. Foundation to ensure that the election Institute (IRI), the National Democratic behind a large wooden office desk. Institute (NDI) or the European Network of “They took this challenge seriously, “As far as the election results, we are was free and fair in that contested region. attending observer trainings in the United But what made this mission unique is Election Monitoring Organizations keeping up the fight, but I don’t have (ENEMO), but there were none as commit- States and/or Canada, and attending much hope for a fair decision from the the fact that some 2,000 observers were the briefings in Kyiv, before being deployed sons and daughters of Ukraine, members ted to this assignment as members of the Central Election Commission and the Ukrainian diaspora, noted Viktoria Hubska, to 17 different oblasts,” said Michael Supreme Court,” he said. of the diaspora community which, through Sawkiw, the president of the UCCA, scores of years, fate had scattered through- the director of the UCCA’s office in Kyiv. During his New Year’s Eve address to “They are some of the unsung heroes based in Washington, during the group’s the nation, which was carried by only out the world. First-, second-, third- and debriefing on December 28. even fourth-generation Ukrainians from of this Orange Revolution, joining their two major television stations (other sta- Ukrainian brothers and sisters on the “And they were very effective as tions carried President-elect Viktor the United States, Canada, Australia, observers, because many knew the lan- maidan [Independence Square] after the Yushchenko’s appearance with Georgian Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, guage, many bonded with their country- December 26 vote,” said Ms. Hubska, President Mikhail Saakashvili), Mr. Poland and Romania (among other coun- men, and many showed our Ukrainians who has been registering observers with Kuchma called on the nation to “accept tries), ranging in age from 18 to 80, came that they are important in the world and the CEC since early August. this democratic choice” made in the to witness history being made in their the world is watching them,” said Ms. Unlike observers from international presidential poll of December 26, appar- ancestral homeland, to serve as guardians Hubska, who has worked with the CEC ently alluding to Mr. Yushchenko. of democracy at this critical time. organizations, who had their airfare, accom- on elections since 1994. But in the face of dwindling support – “The delegation from the Ukrainian modations, meals and per diem footed by “It was, honestly, the first time in my Congress Committee of America was the the sponsoring organization, the observers (Continued on page 14) largest delegation registered by the accredited by the UCCA paid their own (Continued on page 11) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 No. 2

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS The EU’s response to turmoil in Ukraine Ukrainian prime minister resigns ... us relive the moments of joy that we sensed during our own, Georgian, revo- by Kataryna Wolczuk diplomat, was appointed to the post of KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor lution.” (RFE/RL Newsline) and Roman Wolczuk foreign affairs minister to boost Yanukovych stepped down on December Ukraine’s membership prospects. 31, announcing that he will remain in pol- Kuchma: new president needs support As Ukraine became embroiled in the However, any illusions Kyiv had Orange Revolution, the European Union itics as “an independent politician who about its chances of joining were dis- legitimately won the elections on KYIV – Outgoing President Leonid once again denied the prospect of EU pelled at the 1999 EU summit in Kuchma said in a televised New Year’s membership to Ukraine. November 21,” Ukrainian and internation- Helsinki, when no offer of the much- al news agencies reported. “Dear compa- address to the nation on December 31 This is hardly surprising. Since out- vaunted “prospect” was forthcoming that Ukraine “has gone through extraor- going President Leonid Kuchma first triots and friends, in light of everything from EU leaders. Instead, the EU’s rela- that has happened, it would be senseless dinarily difficult times and really has proclaimed his desire for EU member- tions with Ukraine were to be strength- become different,” the UT-1 channel ship for Ukraine in 1996, the EU has for me to stay on as prime minister,” Mr. ened by the “Common Strategy,” a sym- Yanukovych said in a televised address to reported. “There will be a new president shown little inclination to examine this bolic document that failed to add a new in Ukraine in 2005,” Mr. Kuchma said. ambition in a favorable light. On the the nation. “The political role of the impetus to relations. Mr. Tarasyuk’s Yanukovych government – as a stabilizing “And the whole of Ukraine, each region contrary, the institution rebuffed any sacking followed soon thereafter. force over the past year – has been all but and every citizen, should receive this initiatives on the part of Kyiv that might Relations limped on, despite the exhausted. ... I think it will be impossible democratic choice as their very own have helped turn this ambition into a efforts of the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs for me to hold any official position in the choice. This person will need your sup- reality. As a result, Ukraine’s desire to Ministry to imbue them with more sub- new government.” (RFE/RL Newsline) port.” (RFE/RL Newsline) “return to Europe” took on a hollow stance, in the hope that “Europe” would ring, and the authorities were able to be become a stimulant to reform in the ... but refuses to admit election defeat Yushchenko on relations with Russia reject the need for political and econom- country. However, not only did these KYIV – Viktor Yushchenko told the ic reforms (as insisted on by the EU) on efforts fail, but EU enlargement in May KYIV – Viktor Yanukovych has refused to concede his defeat in the December 31 issue of the German maga- the grounds that “nobody wants us in 2004, as a result of which Ukraine December 26 presidential poll, in which, zine Der Spiegel that Ukraine will con- Europe.” became a direct neighbor, deepened its according to preliminary results, he tinue to develop good relations with This somewhat dismissive stance of disillusionment with the EU. obtained 44 percent of the vote compared Russia, spiegel.de reported on January 2. Europe undoubtedly emboldened This is because relations with new to Viktor Yushchenko’s 52 percent, “Russia continues to be a strategic part- Ukraine’s authorities to falsify the neighbors were to be based on the EU’s Ukrainian media reported. Mr. ner in the political, economic and mili- November presidential election results to European Neighborhood Policy’ (ENP). Yanukovych challenged Mr. tary fields,” Mr. Yushchenko said. “Our the extent that they did. And while the ENP has the worthy and Yushchenko’s victory by appealing to the strategy aims to achieve European inte- The history of relations between ambitious objective of “promoting pros- Supreme Court and the Central Election gration and this is the framework in Ukraine and the European Union is perity and stability” among the neighbors Commission (CEC) against the organiza- which we need to resolve all problems instructive. Although Ukraine has contin- along the EU’s newly enlarged borders, tion of the December 26 repeat of the together with Russia,” he said. “We uously failed to introduce much of the in practice, it fuelled the sense of exclu- rigged presidential run-off on November would like to encourage making mutual necessary political and economic reform, sion from Europe. 21, 2004, and of election irregularities. investments, removing trade barriers, and it did institute a series of measures From the Ukrainian point of view, the designed to promote its chances of EU However, his complaints were rejected resolving problems associated with the ENP suffered from a number of flaws. last week. Yanukovych proxy Nestor influx of workers. ... There is, however, membership. For example, in 1998, First, the policy covered all EU neigh- Borys Tarasyuk, a pro-Western career Shufrych told journalists on January 3 one condition: [Russian President bors, whether European or not (e.g. that the Yanukovych election team will Vladimir] Putin must not block our way Morocco). All “neighbors” had been appeal the official election results as into the European Union.” (RFE/RL Kataryna Wolczuk is senior lecturer lumped into one general category, with in East European Politics at the soon as they are announced by the CEC. Newsline) no differentiation between them. Worse CEC Chairman Yaroslav Davydovych University of Birmingham. Roman was the fact that no distinction was made Saakashkvili meets with Yushchenko Wolczuk is a research fellow at the said the same day that the official results University of Wolverhampton, U.K. (Continued on page 17) will be released “within the next few KYIV – Georgian President Mikhail days.” (RFE/RL Newsline) Saakashvili met on January 2 with Yushchenko celebrates new year Ukrainian President-elect Viktor Forging political alliances Yushchenko during a visit to Kyiv, Imedi KYIV – Viktor Yushchenko told a TV and ITAR-TASS reported. Mr. in post-election Ukraine New Year’s rally of his supporters on Saakashvili arrived in the Ukrainian capi- Independence Square in Kyiv on tal on December 31 and held a number of December 31 that Ukraine is a free coun- meetings with Mr. Yushchenko’s advisers. by Jan Maksymiuk might take deeper root in Ukraine, the try following his victory in the December Georgia’s Rose Revolution, which swept RFE/RL Newsline Orange Revolution has instilled in mil- 26 presidential election, Ukrainian media Mr. Saakashvili to power in late 2003, lions of Ukrainians the firm belief that reported. “We have been independent for was hailed as an inspiration for the Ukraine’s Central Election Mr. Yushchenko is truly capable of oust- 14 years, but we have not been free. Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Both lead- Commission has announced that, accord- ing “criminal clans” from power in Kyiv Today we are independent and free. I ers are seen as sharing a defiance of ing to its preliminary figures Viktor and making the lives of ordinary Yushchenko won 52 percent of the vote would like to congratulate you on this, Russian influence. (RFE/RL Newsline) Ukrainians better in the short rather than my Ukrainian people,” Mr. Yushchenko in the presidential ballot on December long term – as he pledged during the Lavrov: no new Cold War over Ukraine 26, 2004 compared to Viktor said. The rally was attended by Georgian election campaign. President Mikhail Saakashvili, who said Yanukovych’s 44 percent. Mr. He will have to deliver substantially MOSCOW – Foreign Minister Sergei Yanukovych has contested the results in an emotional speech delivered to the Lavrov said in an interview with the on his election promises in 2005 if he crowd in Ukrainian that Ukraine’s with the Central Election Commission wants to improve his political position German business daily Handelsblatt on and the Supreme Court, claiming that “Orange Revolution” has changed ahead of the Parliament-approved reduc- December 28 that there is no threat of a amendments to the presidential election Europe. “Good overcame evil in this tions in presidential powers that will take law introduced between the abortive sec- square,” Mr. Saakashvili said. “You had (Continued on page 18) effect in one year and the March 2006 ond-round run-off on November 21, 2004 parliamentary elections. 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Election law in Europe political crisis had been resolved without Ukrainian Congress Committee of America specialists Serhiy Kalchenko and Yarema violence. Bachynsky provided detailed information KYIV – The new chairman-in-office of The chairman-in-office said the 55- KYIV – In response to an appeal from about the procedures involved in serving as the Organization for Security and nation OSCE hoped to build on its coop- the Ukrainian Congress Committee of international election observers. Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Slovenian America (UCCA) for volunteers to serve eration with Ukraine in a number of Greetings were also delivered by Askold Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, pledged as election observers for the repeat run- areas, including election assistance, free- Lozynskyj, president of the Ukrainian the Organization’s continued support for off of the Ukrainian presidential election, dom of the media, education, fighting World Congress; Michael Sawkiw Jr., pres- strengthening democracy and stability in over 2,000 people sacrificed their holiday human trafficking, protecting national ident of the Ukrainian Congress Committee Ukraine in talks with the country’s politi- celebrations and traveled to Ukraine to minorities, strengthening border security, of America; and Stephen Romaniw, presi- cal leaders on January 4 and 5. help ensure a fair and fair election on and disposing of ammunition and small dent of the Australian Federation of On his first official trip since Slovenia December 26, 2004. arms stockpiles. Ukrainian Organizations. took over the OSCE chairmanship from The UCCA election monitoring delega- In the economic dimension, the organ- Following the briefing sessions, hun- Bulgaria on January 1, the chairman-in- tion included teams from the United States, ization aimed to expand activities such as dreds of observers left Ukraine’s capital office met President-elect Viktor Australia, Canada, Great Britain, France, training entrepreneurs and helping to and traveled to various regions of Ukraine, Yushchenko, Foreign Affairs Minister Poland, Belarus, as well as individuals from attract foreign direct investment. primarily the southern and eastern oblasts, Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Verkhovna Rada Germany, Italy, Denmark and Sweden. During the visit, the chairman-in- where many election violations were Chairman Volodomyr Lytvyn and a leading While in Kyiv, hundreds of election office thanked the head of the OSCE reported in the two previous rounds. parliamentarian, Yulia Tymoshenko. Election Observation Mission, observers attended two UCCA briefing ses- sions on December 23 and 24, 2004, to UCCA election monitoring teams were Minister Rupel said the OSCE, which Ambassador Geert-Hinrich Ahrens, for a acquaint themselves with the election law of deployed to the following oblasts: mounted its largest-ever election obser- successful assignment. “The eyes of the Ukraine and their responsibilities in serving Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Crimea, vation mission for the repeat second world were on Ukraine for a month and as independent, objective election monitors. Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, round of the presidential election on the role of the OSCE election observers John Herbst, U.S. ambassador to Kherson, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Lviv, December 26, continued to follow devel- in the process was pivotal,” he said. Ukraine, welcomed the election observers Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Sumy, opments in Ukraine closely. Minister Rupel stressed the objective at the briefing session on December 24, Zakarpattia and Zaporizhia. “I wanted to come here as soon as pos- and impartial nature of OSCE election 2004 and thanked them for their interest in Early reports from the various interna- sible to show solidarity with the observation missions. “We are not in the monitoring the elections. “Many falsifica- tional election observer teams indicate Ukrainian people and to demonstrate the business of favoring one side or another, tions happened in the last rounds of the that there were no widespread voting importance which the OSCE attaches to a we are interested in fair, honest and dem- Ukrainian elections, therefore, the role of an irregularities; however, some technical democratic and stable Ukraine, at the ocratic election processes,” he added. international election observer is critical,” violations were noted. heart of the OSCE community, which The chairman-in-office also thanked enjoys good relations with its neighbors,” Ambassador David Nicholas, OSCE he told President-elect Yushchenko, who project coordinator in Ukraine. “The interrupted his holiday in the Carpathian project coordinator has been instrumental mountains of western Ukraine to meet in providing assistance to Ukraine FOR THE RECORD: UCCA the OSCE chairman. through projects in legal reform, anti- Minister Rupel praised the remarkable trafficking, the ombudsman, media free- dedication of the Ukrainian people to the dom, military reform, anti-trafficking and welcomes victory of democracy Below is the text of a statement on We congratulate the Ukrainian people democratic process and expressed his election assistance,” he said. Ukraine’s presidential election received with the victory of democracy! The entire from the Ukrainian Congress Committee world intently watched the political crisis of America on December 29. in Ukraine and was awestruck by this phenomenal peaceful Orange Revolution. OSCE leader congratulates people of Ukraine The Ukrainian Congress Committee of For a long time the Ukrainian “revolu- Organization for Security and Cooperation fessionalism. America (UCCA) welcomes the results tion” will remain the subject of sociolog- in Europe “The significance and importance of the of December 26, 2004, election. As a ical studies as a unique phenomenon, the ballot was reflected in the high turnout and SOFIA – The OSCE chairman-in- Ukrainian American organization, we highest manifestation of direct people the determination to move towards a gen- took an active part in preparing for power, which ended without bloodshed. office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister uinely representative election,” said the Solomon Passy, on December 29 con- Ukraine’s presidential election. During Ukrainians in the U.S. are very glad to chairman-in-office. “This demonstrates the the pre-election campaign, the UCCA see the spiritual and national resurrection gratulated the Ukrainian people on the democratic responsibility and will of all implemented a civic education project, of the Ukrainian nation in our mother- conduct of the repeat second round of the parties, as well as the wisdom of the while during each round of voting in land, which proudly marches toward the presidential election held on December Ukrainian people in avoiding violence.” Ukraine, international elections observers democratic future. 26, in anticipation of the final official Minister Passy acknowledged the role of representing the UCCA were present at On behalf of the Ukrainian American results. the international mediators, including his many polling stations throughout community, we congratulate Viktor He noted with satisfaction the prelimi- representative, OSCE Secretary General Ukraine. We are glad to recognize that Yushchenko on his victory and being elect- nary findings of the International Election Jan Kubis, in addressing the difficult politi- the repeat of the second round of the ed the president of Ukraine. We wish him Observation Mission, led by the cal situation in the country following the election was conducted with a much less- success in the difficult work ahead and Organization for Security and Cooperation disputed second round of the presidential er number of violations and that its hope that under the leadership of the gov- in Europe, which found a marked election on November 21, 2004. results truly represent the people’s will. ernment that enjoys its people’s trust and is improvement in the electoral process, “The repeat second round on December The December 3, 2004, decision of the guided solely by the national interests, including fairer campaign conditions, a 26 showed the resolve of the Ukrainian Supreme Court to recognize the Ukraine will achieve its final goal of politi- more transparent electoral administration people to let democracy prevail,” said the November 21 second round of presiden- cal and economic stability and independ- and more balanced media coverage. OSCE chairman-in-office. “I wish the tial elections as illegal, as well as the ence, as well as full-fledged membership Minister Passy thanked the team of Ukrainian people to reunite after the elec- mass peaceful protests of the Ukrainian in the worldwide community of developed observers, the largest ever deployed by tions in order to build a democratic and people against the violations of election democratic nations much sooner. the OSCE, for their commitment and pro- prosperous future for the country.” legislation clearly demonstrated that the Glory to the people of Ukraine! civic community in Ukraine is viable and active, and through its support the demo- (On behalf of the UCCA Executive Board): cratic process is gaining momentum and Michael Sawkiw Jr., president Canadian PM congratulates Yushchenko strength. Marie Duplak, executive secretary Office of the Prime Minister with Mr. Yushchenko’s government to further strengthen Canada-Ukraine rela- OTTAWA – Prime Minister Paul tions,” said Prime Minister Martin. Martin on December 30 congratulated FOR THE RECORD: UACC greets Yushchenko “Canadians are proud to have played a Viktor Yushchenko on his victory in the Ukrainian presidential election. With the meaningful role in the democratic elec- Following is the text of a letter sent on of Ukraine has opened up and a new day in disposal of all outstanding appeals by the tions in Ukraine,” said the prime minis- December 29 by the Ukrainian American Ukraine’s bright future has dawned. Supreme Court of Ukraine, the way ter. “The government of Canada is eager Coordinating Council to Viktor It gives us the greatest pleasure to be appears paved for the Central Electoral to work with the new government to con- Yushchenko, president-elect of Ukraine. able to congratulate you on this wonder- Commission to announce the final tinue strengthening Ukraine’s governance ful occasion. We wish you renewed good results. institutions.” Dear Mr. President: health, strength, energy and fortitude for “Today, Canadians are united and con- Canada sent its largest election observ- The Ukrainian American Coordinating this most responsible of all positions. fident about the future of a democratic er delegation ever to the Ukrainian presi- Council, which represents a large segment Slava Ukraini! Ukraine. Our two countries share the dential run-off vote, drawing from volun- of the Ukrainian community in the U.S.A., With our sincerest good wishes and same objectives of peace, democracy and teers who were selected from more than received the news of your election as the deepest respect, the rule of law. Canada has a vibrant 4,000 applications received by CANA- president of Ukraine with great joy! At last Ukrainian-Canadian community that has DEM, a Canadian non-governmental truth and democracy have triumphed in For the UACC Executive Committee: helped shape Canada’s history and per- organization specializing in the selection Ukraine. The people have risen up to Ihor Gawdiak, president sonality. I look forward to collaborating and provision of election observers. defend their rights. A new era in the history Dr. Roman Baranowskyj, secretary 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 No. 2

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Northern New Jersey District Committee holds fall organizing meeting PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Northern Verkhovyna Youth Festival, at the St. New Jersey District Committee of the John’s Parish Festival in Newark, N.J., at Ukrainian National Association held its Connecticut’s Ukrainian Day in Stamford fall organizing meeting here at the UNA and at the Ukrainian Festival in Baltimore. Corporate Headquarters building on National Secretary Kozak began her Friday, November 5, 2004. remarks with a focus on new ways to Present at the meeting were 13 repre- publicize the UNA, as well as its activi- sentatives of eight of the district’s 16 ties and services. She also spoke about UNA branches, as well as National new UNA insurance plans and described Secretary Christine E. Kozak, who repre- the various plans now offered by the fra- sented the UNA Executive Committee. ternal organization. The meeting was chaired by District Ms. Kozak also spoke about UNA Chairman Stephan Welhasch, who report- affairs in general, including develop- ed that 2004 was more successful for the ments at Soyuzivka, which has reported Northern New Jersey District in terms of an increase in revenue this year, as well organizing activity. The district’s members as about community interest in the pro- sold 36 policies – the second highest num- posed condominiums at the resort. ber among all UNA districts, for a total Mr. Welhasch concluded the meeting amount of $973,000 in insurance coverage. by addressing the issue of planning for The district was second also in terms of the the upcoming months. He asked all dis- amount of life insurance coverage sold and trict members to submit their ideas for met 36 percent of its annual quota. district activities and events, and espe- Mr. Welhasch also noted that the dis- cially sought their input on how to pro- trict had organized a bus trip to Soyuzivka mote the UNA among new immigrants Seen during the fall organizing meeting of the Northern New Jersey District for the annual Father’s Day events at the from Ukraine. Committee are: (seated, from left) Rostyslaw Halaburda, Barbara Tyzbir and UNA resort. The district’s activists also Refreshments were served at the con- Wasyl Maruszczak, (standing) Julian Kotliar and UNA National Secretary manned UNA information tables at the clusion of the discussion period. Christine Kozak.

Young UNA’ers

Kalyna Irena Alexa Yurchuk, daugh- Anna Elizabeth Hlynsky, daughter of Kristina Grace Dzamba, daughter of ter of Oksana and Dorian Yurchuk of Victoria Maria Koziy, daughter of Stephen Z. and Lisa A. Hlynsky of Barbara and Dan Dzamba of Cary, Mount Tabor, N.J., is a new member of Walter and Lesia Koziy of Warren, Lodi, N.J., is a new member of UNA N.C., is a new member of UNA Branch UNA Branch 70. She was enrolled by Mich., was enrolled into UNA Branch Branch 27. She was enrolled by her 88. She was enrolled by her grand- her grandparents Christine and 94 by her parents. grandparents Boris and Ulana Hlynsky. mother Irene Biskup. George Balynsky.

Nicolas Jaroslaw Humennyj and his sister Natalia Katherine, children of Roman Marta Kasiyan and her baby brother Marko Methodius, children of the Rev. and Anna Humennyj of Unionville, Conn., are new members of UNA Branch Andriy and Oksana Kasiyan of Lackawanna, N.Y., are new members of UNA 277. They were enrolled by their grandmother Josephine Humennyj. Branch 360. They were enrolled by their parents.

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Tìo the Honorable Viktor Yushchenko President of Ukraine I(yiv

January 5,2OO5

Dear Mr. President:

The Ukrainian National Association Inc., which represents a membership of over 50,000 Ukrainian Americans and Ukrainian Canadians, rejoices along with the people of Ukraine in hearing the news of your triumphant election as president of our beloved Ukraine, the land of our forefathers.

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In 1991, with great interest we watched ükraine win her independence. Today, we witnessed an even more dramatic victory, a victory for democracy ''n âfrd freedom.

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For the Executive Committee of the Ukrainian National Association: Stefan Kaczaraj, President 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 No. 2 CHRISTMAS PAST: The gift HE KRAINIAN EEKLY by Alexandra Hawryluk note of finality. Gas fumes filled the air. T U W Everyone waved and shouted incoherent Promoting Ukraine through the arts The rumbling of the army truck messages and we were off, at long last. engines ricocheting from the walls of the With gears grinding, our truck zigzagged its buildings surrounding the former military way around potholes, over streetcar tracks, Frankly, this editorial was to be written nearly two months ago, right about the parade ground was deafening. Standing time of the first run-off in Ukraine’s presidential election. Well, dear readers, you and cobblestones and around corners, slow- on my toes at our second-story window I all know what topic has occupied this space since then... ing down only after hitting the smooth sur- could just see the line of their khaki can- Nonetheless, the topic that was to be discussed back in November remains impor- face of an asphalt road patrolled by two MP vas tops parked in a single row starting at tant. It has to do with promoting Ukraine through the arts, and specifically via the coun- jeeps. We rolled through a white square-pil- our four-story building, Block No. 2, and try’s premiere dance ensemble, the Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company, which lared gate, past wide lawns and came to a ending all the way at the other end of the received wonderful reviews for its performances during the fall throughout the U.S. full stop in front of a large, beige stucco square. This was what I had been waiting and in several Canadian cities. Readers may recall that we had no success in securing building adorned with a row of tall paneled for. As my mother murmured unheeded an advertisement that would list all the dates and venues of its performances so that our windows high up under the eves. words of advice, impatiently I thrust my readers would know to search for details in their local media. The tour organizer, New A small group of smiling women wear- arms into the coat she had so lovingly York-based Columbia Artists Management LLC, saw no reason to advertise the com- ing immaculate, sand-colored uniforms, made for me out of a German army jacket plete tour and left it up to local venues to promote Virsky performances. silk stockings and high-heeled shoes dyed blue. Not bothering to wait for my Since then it became clear that Columbia was guilty of an even greater faux pas. greeted us. These must be the ladies, as mother, with red scarf flying, pig-tails We refer to the program information prepared by Columbia Artists some wit in our refugee camp said, who bouncing, I ran down the two flights of Management that was distributed to all Virsky venues for publication. At first worked for “Aunt Unrra” in America – the cement stairs and out toward the growing we, and others, suspected that local organizers were responsible for the ghastly United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation crowd of children gathering just behind errors in the text – everything from identifying dances and customs as Russian, Association. Cheerfully, they each took as the line of trucks. to poor translations (e.g., State T. Shevchenko Premium instead of Taras many children as could hold on to both The clock on top of the Somme Kaserne Shevchenko State Prize), incorrect transliterations (Gutsulschyna), misspellings their hands and led us along a yellow Mess Hall had just struck one, but no one (we’ve never seen so many variations – in a single text – of the spelling for gravel path toward a large set of double was interested in picking up the daily ration Carpathian and Zakarpattia ...) and even horribly deficient English! We could go doors opening into the auditorium of the of thick soup and dark bread. Like clusters on and on citing the examples, but our space here is limited. Augsburg American Officers’ Club. Later it became clear that this was a tour-wide problem, as several readers sent of beads from a broken necklace, little Beige paper blinds were drawn down us copies of the Virsky programs distributed in their cities. Seeking an explana- groups of parents stood just behind the over the high narrow windows and the tion, we called Columbia Artists Management, but the company did not return chattering children. Among them my thin, whole place was enveloped in a shim- our repeated phone calls over the span of several weeks, despite initial assur- pretty mother, hands thrust deep into her mering, golden semi-darkness. At the far ances from a representative that it would. coat pockets, stood in unsmiling, pale end of the vast expanse of the shiny par- The Ukrainian Weekly first became aware of the errors in the Virsky text thanks silence watching as soldiers began to lower quet floor, in the middle of a low plat- to The Community Theatre of Morristown, N.J., whose marketing director, Daniel the backs of the trucks. form, was the biggest spruce tree that I Grossman (no relation to the Andrew Grossman listed on the program as the Virsky Our teacher, Miss Yaroshenko, whose had ever seen. It was all aglitter with tin- tour producer), contacted us to consult about what he had heard were some errors in red lipstick and nail polish met with sel and candles from the bottom all the the text. He sent over a copy for our perusal and asked for input. Our advice was reproving glances from some of the par- way to the top, where a twinkling silver pure and simple: trash the whole text and re-do it. Nothing else could save it. ents, came forward, blew her whistle and star touched the ceiling. This was more Amazingly, The Community Theatre did just that – it printed up a corrected insert to told us to line up. Making herself appear wonderful than I had dared to dream. The the full-color program book that had been prepared well in advance of the show. severe by drawing her black snaky eye- tree back in our room in Block No. 2, Kudos and huge thanks are due to Dan Grossman and The Community brows together, she told us to be very decorated with paper and straw orna- Theatre for caring to present accurate information and for respecting their audi- quiet and to do what we were told. Then, ments made by all the four families liv- ence. Columbia Artists Management, on the other hand, deserves nothing but with a wave of her red-tipped hand, she ing in that room, was my size. disdain; it should be ashamed of such sloppy, ignorant and offensive work. signaled the soldiers. With amazing swift- I was nudged gently out of my daze But the blame does not end there. The Virsky company, after all, must have ness these big men came forward and, and propelled toward a long table, which some control over how it is marketed, and Ukraine’s government also must have carefully picking each of us up into their proved to be almost as magical as the a say since Virsky performances were billed as an “Official Tour of the Ministry arms, handed us over to another set of tree, because my feet did not dangle from of Culture and Fine Arts of Ukraine.” arms just inside the truck, which placed the chair and my chin did not rest on the Hopefully, with the bad experience of this tour behind them, they can do bet- us on the slatted benches along the sides tabletop. It was a perfect fit. ter to promote our beautiful and unique Ukrainian culture. of the tarpaulin. From the dark interior At the sound of a tinkling bell, every- smelling of gasoline and paint we peered one stopped talking. A man in a uniform out, wide-eyed, at the somber group of decorated with many colored ribbon bars, parents gathered on the white gravel. stood in front of the tree and made a very To them, who had survived Soviet per- Jan. short speech. The grown-ups grinned and secution, Nazi labor camps and bombing, Turning the pages back... clapped as one of the ladies, a tall woman nothing seemed certain in the bleak, with a shiny cap of short chestnut hair, misty Bavarian winter of 1946. These the one who had visited our school, stood 9 were, after all, military trucks and sol- at the edge of the platform and wished us diers, who were taking their children to a happy holidays in a really strange 2000 Five years ago, in what most observers saw as the first serious place none of them had ever seen. Ukrainian. Then to the tune of a scratchy effort in Ukraine to form a reform-minded government, President Despite the fact that the doors of the fanfare issuing from a gramophone, a Leonid Kuchma approved the appointment of three new vice- truck cabins were emblazoned with a group of soldiers filed in and, standing in prime ministers and 11 ministers as proposed by his newly con- white star, not a red one, and despite the a semi-circle around the Christmas tree, firmed prime minister, Viktor Yushchenko. A story in The Ukrainian Weekly dated January friendly smiles and dress uniforms of the began to sing unfamiliar songs. Since 9, 2000, noted that Mr. Kuchma, who had been re-elected to a second term, had promised in soldiers, the fear in my mother’s hazel they were such happy-sounding songs, his inauguration speech that Ukraine would begin to move on economic reforms. eyes was real. Wasn’t it the military that pretending to know them, we clapped The president’s appointment of Mr. Yushchenko on December 22, 1999 – consid- had apprehended her and her children on a softly in time with the music. ered at home and abroad as perhaps the person most able and willing to make the need- German country road in the spring of Just as the strain of trying to understand ed changes – brought with it a sense of optimism and a feeling that change was near. 1945? In her mind, she could still see and everything that was going on was begin- The prime minister’s nomination of a Cabinet comprising an eclectic mix of veteran smell those other trucks, see and smell administrators, dedicated reformers and unexpected newcomers bolstered that mood. ning to make me feel sleepy, the choir those other battle-hardened soldiers point- On December 30, 1999, President Kuchma confirmed via presidential decree the began to hum “Oh, Tannenbaum,” my ing their rifles at her and her two children. appointment of Yuri Yekhanurov as the first vice prime minister; Yulia Tymoshenko as grandmother’s special Christmas carol. Her breathing became shallower, her anxi- vice prime minister of energy affairs; Mykola Zhulynskyi as vice prime minister of She had come from Germany to Ukraine ety rising in her throat, as she remembered humanitarian affairs; as well as Ministers Serhii Tulub, fuel and energy; Serhii Tyhypko, to marry my grandfather and to ease her their course, curt Russian commands and economy; Ivan Sakhan, labor and social policy; Leonid Kostiuchenko, transportation; homesickness had taught her daughter this the deadly silence of the other refugee Vasyl Kremen, education; Bohdan Stupka, culture. The president also confirmed the re- song. And last year, my mother taught me. families being herded at gun point into a appointment of Ministers Yurii Kravchenko, internal affairs; Borys Tarasyuk, foreign I hummed along feeling a little less ragged line along the shoulder of the road affairs; Suzanna Stanik, justice; Ihor Mitiukov, finance; and Oleksander Kuzmuk, defense. strange, a little more at home. – a line of refugees that eventually would Lulled by the sweetness of the music, I wind its way from the Soviet sector of Source: “Kuchma approves appointment of reformist Cabinet,” by Roman Woronowycz, did not notice that food trolleys had been Germany all the way to the Siberian gulag. Kyiv Press Bureau, The Ukrainian Weekly, January 9, 2000, Vol. LXVIII,No. 2. brought in until a thick, white porcelain She sighed and tried to tell herself that plate – not a dented billy can - filled with all that was in the past now, that she was steaming food was placed in front of me. safe here in this refugee camp in Although the pretty lady at our table was Augsburg, that she would not lose this urging us to eat, I needed some time to Attention, election observers! child as she had lost her boy, that these The Ukrainian Weekly has begun receiving reports and comments from individuals look. There was a round mound of soldiers would bring her little girl back who have returned from Ukraine after serving as election observers during the third mashed potatoes, tiny little green peas, and bring her back unharmed. round of voting in the presidential election. We welcome these submissions and carrot circles, a big slice of strange, white The backs of the trucks were being encourage others who would like to share their observations to do so by e-mailing us meat, glistening brown gravy and a blob hooked into place, the metal clanging with a at [email protected]. Our sister publication, Svoboda, also is inviting comments of something that looked like red jam. from election observers, but in the Ukrainian language. The Weekly plans to publish Under the kindly encouragement of our these observations (which may be edited and/or abridged) beginning in our next issue. Alexandra Hawryluk is a free-lance writer working in Montreal. (Continued on page 21) No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 7 Faces and Places TheThe thingsthings wewe do...do... by Myron B. Kuropas by Orysia Paszczak Tracz

Anti-Orange oracles TheThe goat. kozaI forgot the goat! at Last year,Christmassheep and ram are considered stupid – to While most free people in the world are tration during the last two years was actual- in writing about the symbols and images be called “barany” or “vivtsi” is not celebrating Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, ly spent. Mr. Buchanan is more concerned of the Ukrainian Christmas season, I for- complimentary. there exists a minority of anti-Orange ora- about President Putin’s feelings than a free Ukraine. “To bring ‘Kievan Rus’,’ the cra- got to mention the “koza” – the goat. Other than for its milk, the goat is not cles who remain distressed, disturbed and dle of Russia, into NATO would be an For the most part, the koza is not part productive. Its fur, what there is of it, is dumbfounded by this latest chapter in the demise of Russian power. They can be insult and provocation to Moscow,” wrote of “Rizdvo,” or Christmas itself, but of not as lush as the sheep’s – “Ne bude z divided into three groups: the opportunists, Mr. Buchanan in one of the two columns he “Malanka” – the New Year’s Eve festivi- tsapa vovny” (there will be no wool from the misinformed and the ideologues. wrote about the Orange Revolution. “There ties, where it has a major role. Its promi- a billygoat – speaking of someone inca- Leading the first group is Leonid is no vital U.S. interest in who rules in Kiev nence here is strange because, in general, pable of productive work), “Bachyt’ Boh Kuchma and his stooge Viktor Yanukovych, [sic], whether Ukraine is united or divided, the goat is not really considered one of chyi kozel a chyi baran” (God sees parsimonious parvenu, exemplar of all that or who owns the Crimea,” he argued. “Why the “nobler” animals, and is not respect- whose is the billygoat, and whose the is wrong in Ukraine. Former President would anyone think these issues are ... more ed the way the horse, the ram and even ram – who is bringing Him the worthless Kuchma is facing exile, jail time or worse, vital to us than our relationship with the the rooster are. And yet, during the win- and the worthy gifts). And I have not while Mr. Yanukovych will lose an all- largest nation on earth, a power that yet pos- ter festivities, it is the koza that is center come across any recipes for goat meat in important power base that will prevent him sesses thousands of atomic weapons.” It’s stage. As with all our traditions, much Ukrainian culinary tradition. from the kind of avaricious wheeling and worth noting that some of these very same depends upon region, because while in Despite all this, come Malanka, the dealing to which he and his Donetsk clan of atomic weapons were sent to Russia from general the koza is tied to the Malanka koza is prominent in the New Year’s fes- oligarchs have become accustomed. Ukraine under a deal brokered by the U.S. festivities, in some areas “vodyty kozu” tivities, with special songs about it. And (leading or guiding the koza on a leash) Certain Jewish oligarchs were also anti- Joining Mr. Buchanan on the anti-Orange they’re positive! “De koza rohom, tam orange. As Jewish Ukrainian activist Josef right are columnist Doug Bandow, who was done during the Rizdvo caroling, or zhyto stohom, de koza tup-tup, tam zhyta throughout the seasonal festivities. Zisels pointed out in the New York-based repeated the anti-Semite canard against Mr. sim kup” (Where the koza is with its Weekly Forward on December 31, 2004, Yushchenko pushed by Jewish American Usually, the koza is the Rodney horn, there the rye is stacked high, where Dangerfield of domestic animals. Only these Jews understood “that in Ukraine, lobbyist Alex Kiselev, and Republican Rep. the koza hops around, there the rye is in becoming rich has been nearly impossible Ron Paul of Texas who condemned USAID during the winter celebrations does it get seven stacks), and “De koza khodyt, tam any respect. This is not restricted to without unquestioning loyalty to the presi- assistance to Ukraine. Joining Congressman sia khlib rodyt, de ne buvaye, tam vypri- dent.” Included here are multi-millionaires Paul was House Democrat Edolphus Towns, Ukrainian tradition. Throughout Europe, vaye” (Where the koza goes, there the the goat was considered Satan’s animal. Hryhorii Surkis, Oleksander Feldman and who specifically questioned USAID assis- grain/bread grows, where she is not, Viktor Pinchuk, Mr. Kuchma’s son-in-law. tance to the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation. Many images show the devil with cloven there the grain rots). It fertilizes the soil, hooves and goat-like legs and horns, and They supported Mr. Yanukovych not Right. We can support democracy in Iraq after all. Also, its horn is an echo of the with bullets and bombs, but not in Ukraine the male goat’s beard. Even before because they particularly liked him, Mr. horn of plenty. The inverted fur that is with bulletins and ballots. Christianity and the story of Satan, one Zisels informs us, but because he was Mr. worn by the person playing the koza dur- On the left we find such British colum- possibility for the negative image is that Kuchma’s heir. Other Jews, “petit oli- ing these rituals is a symbol of wealth, nists as Ian Traynor (The Guardian) who goats caused disaster in Mediterranean garchs,” Mr. Zisels calls them, “who made fertility and prosperity. At other times, as authored “U.S. Campaign Behind Turmoil vineyards, grazing everything down to their money by being savvy capitalists,” in wedding rituals, it is a reversed sheep- in Kiev” [sic], and John Laughland (The nothing. supported the opposition because they skin that is worn. Spectator) who penned “How the U.S. and Proverbs are not too kind to goats: wanted a man who “would ensure fair In the humorous play carried out in Britain Are Intervening in Ukraine’s “You’ll make as much money as an old competition and reduce corruption.” I say each home, the various masqueraded Elections.” Opining in The Workers’ World, man for his goat” (meaning very little, if more power to them. Mr. Zisels believes characters perform silly actions, all that under President Viktor Yushchenko Fred Goldstein wrote that “Washington, the at all). One proverb of the Hutsuls says, accompanied with special koliadky (car- anti-Semitism in Ukraine “is all but cer- European Union and hordes of imperialist- “Sheep are God’s cattle, but the goat is ols). The gyst is that the goat, after danc- tain to go down, not up.” sponsored NGO operatives have been work- the devil’s.” Other Ukrainian proverbs: ing around, falls dead. The “doctor” and The perception in Israel, however, is ing feverishly to overturn the election of “Goats are the devil’s sheep” and “The others try to revive it, and finally do. By quite different. Alarmed, no doubt, that so Viktor Yanukovich [sic] on the grounds of goat will climb anywhere, because it has coming back from the dead, the goat many Jews are returning to Ukraine, ‘widespread fraud.’ ” An organization which the devil’s feet up to its knees.” Yevhen symbolizes the rebirth of nature in the Jerusalem Post columnist Amotz Asa-El calls itself the Center of Research on Onatskyi writes that in contrast to the spring. All will be all right. These winter reminded Jews on December 2 that even if Globalization posted such tendentious good and beneficial sheep (especially val- rituals with the koza have been portrayed Mr. Yushchenko is elected, Ukraine is Internet articles as: “The Ukrainian ued for its sheepskin), the koza wound up in traditional suites by at least two “where some of the worst-ever massacres Elections: A Dangerous Fairy-Tale,” “IMF among the creatures of the “evil god.” Ukrainian Canadian dance ensembles, of Jews took place ... from the Chmielnicki Sponsored ‘Democracy’ in the [sic] One legend has goats originally being Shumka of Edmonton and Rusalka of [sic] attacks of 1648-9 that nearly wiped Ukraine,” “Washington’s Interest in sheep, shepherded by God Himself. But Winnipeg. out Ukrainian Jewry, through the Petliura Ukraine: Democracy or Energy the devil comes to God and asks Him to Earlier there was not that much pogroms where an estimated 100,000 Jews Geopolitics,” “Shadow of Anti-Semitism share the sheep with him, since God has detailed information available on this rit- were murdered ... to Babi Yar.” over Ukraine’s Disputed Election” and so many. God gave the devil a few sheep. ual, but a book devoted to this subject The second anti-Orange contingent are “Neo-Nazi Organizations in the [sic] But they feared the devil and ran away in was published in Ukraine in 1995. the misinformed, the true-believing “blues” Ukraine.” The most bizarre commentary all directions. The poor devil got angry Oleksandr Kurochkin wrote “Ukrainski of eastern Ukraine who supported Mr. was found in the political newsletter and caught them by their tails. Because Novorichni Obriady: ‘Koza’ i ‘Malanka’ Yanukovych because they had been led to Counterpunch. Chad Nagle suggested that they were so ornery, he cut off their tails, (Z Istorii Narodnykh Masok),” Opishne: believe the worst about Viktor Yushchenko: Mr. Yushchenko’s “poisoning” was self- and now goats have short ones that point Ukrainske Narodoznavstvo, 1995. 375 CIA agent, American shil, Ukrainian inflicted, the result of too much salo, garlic up. pp., illus. ISBN 5-7707-5148-7 nationalist extremist, fascist, anti-Semite, and mare’s milk in his diet. Really? If that The koza was also admired for its wis- [Ukrainian New Year Rites: “A Goat” capitalist supporter of the rich, eliminator were the case, thousands of poisoned dom, cunning and stubbornness, with and “Malanka” (from the history of folk of social benefits, pension-reducer, Russia- Ukrainians would be writhing in the hills “koziachyi rozum” (goat’s wisdom) masks)]. hater, etc. Many of them voted against Mr. and valleys of Ukraine every day. being a good thing. Yet the goat and bil- The New Year’s celebrations have an Yushchenko, not necessarily for Mr. What are we to make of all of this? lygoat (kozel or tsap) were still denigrat- ancient Indo-European connection, with Yanukovych. Once these blues see that Nothing. It’s all bloviating blather by ed: “Durnyi yak tsap” (stupid as a billy- the mummers of Newfoundland, and of President Yushchenko is not the ogre they blowhards. It’s not reporting and it’s not goat). At the same time, the “worthy” England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. believe he is, they will be converted. wisdom. It’s humbug. American isola- They perform slightly different but relat- Finally, there are those who are anti- tionists, Jewish Ukrainophobes and anti- ed rites at Christmastime. Orange for ideological reasons. Leading globalists have found common ground Errata There is also a very timely connection this group is Vladimir Putin, who still for a brief moment in history. The In the “Focus on Philately” column of to goats and billygoats. During the believes that Moscow is the third Rome moment will pass quickly and each will January 2, the first paragraph referring to Orange Revolution, one “gem” from and that Ukraine belongs in the Russian return to their own amoral agenda. Russia’s annexation of Moldavia and Viktor Yanukovych’s mouth was calling empire. With the exception of Mikhail Russian imperialists will always be Wallachia gives the date as July 1953. the opposition forces “kozly.” That did Gorbachev, who spoke favorably about Russian imperialists. Ukrainophobes will The correct year is 1853. not sit well with the Orange masses, and the Orange Revolution, many Russian remain Ukrainophobes. Right-wing and was even included in the rap anthem of leaders probably agree. For them, Russia left-wing extremists will always want to In the caption for the poster by artist the revolution – “we are not kozly,” the means empire. No empire, no Russia. pull us back from the future. Igor Mukomela depicting the Orange lyrics say. Perhaps this year’s Malanka Outside of Russia, there is another band The “antis” are afraid of Ukraine Revolution (December 19, 2004), due to celebrations throughout Ukraine will see of ideological opponents of the Orange ascending, and they will continue their a typographical error it was noted that the goat in an additional light. This time Revolution, a cadre of true believers on mischief. It won’t work. The sun has risen, the letter “Ya” is the first letter of Viktor it is its stubbornness and cunning that are both sides of the political spectrum. On the and Ukraine’s high noon is on the horizon. Yanukovych’s first name. In fact, it is the to be admired. Maybe these attributes are right, we find Patrick Buchanan, who wants first letter of Mr. Yanukovych’s last all right after all, even if we are not Congress to investigate how the $58 million Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is: name. kozly! funneled into Ukraine by the Bush adminis- [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 No. 2

The new migration wave from Ukraine: challenges and opportunities by Oleh Wolowyna legal migrants registered by Derzhkomstat, the numbers are quite The so-called “Fourth Wave” of Table 2.- Selected Occupations of Fourth Wave Migrants similar. Between 1994 and 1999, the migration from Ukraine to the United 2000 census counted 80,714 migrants States is one of the topics of active Occupations Number from Ukraine, while Derzhkomstat regis- debate within the Ukrainian American tered 78,225 legal migrants. Thus one Civil Engineers 172 community. This debate is based on Computer Hardware Engineers 77 interventions by representatives from the can safely say that the U.S. census count community and from the new migrants. is a good estimate of the number of legal Electrical and Electronics Engineers 264 It relies on personal opinions and obser- migrants from Ukraine. Industrial Engineers, including Health and Safety 86 vations, and anecdotal information on The recent migration wave from Materials Engineers 47 experiences from different cities. What is Ukraine to the United States started in Mechanical Engineers 289 lacking is a comprehensive overview of 1989. Before that year, the annual num- Misc. Engineers, including Agri. and Biomed. 156 ber of migrants born in Ukraine fluctuat- this migration wave based on objective Subtotal engineers 1,091 data. In this article we will provide sta- ed between 1,000 and 3,000. In 1989 this tistical information on these migrants, number jumped to 10,000, and it has Clergy 117 based on data from the U.S. 2000 census experienced a steady increase, reaching Post-secondary Teachers 662 Musicians, Singers and Related Workers 143 Dentists 106 Table 1.- Non-migrants and Migrants by Pharmacists 36 Period of Immigration to the US: Persons of Ukrainian Ancestry Physicians and Surgeons 328 Registered Nurses 437 Numbers Percent Subtotal medical professions 907 Total 896,987 100.0% Non-migrants 643,554 71.7% Migrants: 253,433 28.3% tion of Ukrainian ethnic migrants has unlikely to become actively engaged in < 1946 6,007 2.4% experienced a significant increase. The Ukrainian American organizations, as percent of Jewish migrants decreased they have their own well organized com- 1946 - 1952 24,763 9.8% from 54 percent in 1994 to 8 percent in munity in the United Stares. 1953 - 1989 67,875 26.8% 2001, while the percent of ethnic The recent migration from Ukraine is a 1990 - 2000* 154,788 61.1% Ukrainian migrants increased from 27 very important event in the history of the percent in 1994 to 72 percent in 2001. Ukrainian American community. As can * Until April 15, 2000 Based on these considerations, for the be seen in Table 1, this is the largest purposes of this analysis we will define migration wave in the history of the com- the “Fourth Wave” or “new migrants” as munity. Of the 253,000 migrants among NOTE: All tables, with the exception of Table 5, are based on data persons born in Ukraine who stated persons of Ukrainian ancestry in the from the 2000 US census 5% Public Microdata Sample. “Ukrainian” as their ancestry in the 2000 United States, more than half of them U.S. census, and who migrated to the arrived between 1990 and 2000. The sur- United States between January 1, 1992, vivors of the pre-World War II migrants of population and housing. 14,000 in 1999. The sudden jump in and April 15, 2000. According to this constitute only 2.4 percent of all It is important to define precisely what 1989 was due to a special law passed by definition, the total number of new (prob- migrants, and the survivors of the post- is meant by the Fourth Wave migration the U.S. Congress, which allowed migra- ably legal) migrants is estimated in World War II migrants comprise less than in this article. The census data allows us tion from the Soviet Union to the United 107,900. (It is important to reiterate that 10 percent of all migrants. Also the num- to make a detailed analysis of all persons States of persons who suffered religious the available statistics pertain only to ber of new migrants continues to grow, as who declared “Ukrainian” as their first persecution. This opened the door for legal migrants. There is no credible infor- every year since 2000 at least 10,000 new or second ancestry (one had the option of many Jews to migrate from Ukraine, as mation about all the illegal migrants who legal migrants arrive in the United States. recording one or two ancestries) and who well as members of some fundamentalist eventually manage to acquire permanent This is a young, family-oriented and migrated to the United States in recent Protestant sects. According to status). There are two reasons for this mostly economically motivated migra- years. Because country of emigration is Derzhkomstat and Jewish statistics, definition: a) the beginning date is a few tion, with many first-class professionals. not registered by the census, we will between 1989 and 1994, more than half months after the independence of The median age of the new migrants is select migrants who were born in of the legal migrants from Ukraine to the Ukraine, when Ukrainians finally had the 32.5 years, with a high percentage of Ukraine. We will also limit the period of United States were Jewish. Since then possibility of traveling freely abroad; b) families with small and adolescent chil- migration in our definition, for reasons to the proportion of Jewish migrants has it eliminates a significant portion of be explained below. decreased significantly, while the propor- Jewish migrants from Ukraine, who are (Continued on page 9) We will first list some of the limita- tions of census data that need to be kept in mind. Table 3 - Place of Residence: Comparison of Rankings of the First 20 Metropolitan Areas First, the definition used here of a per- of 4th Wave Migrants, with non-Fourth Wave Migrants son of “Ukrainian” ancestry is based on self-reporting. A person is considered Ranking of Ranking of “Ukrainian” only if he/she reported in the census questionnaire that Ukrainian is her 4th Wave non-4th Wave No. of 4th Wave first or second ancestry. Second, it is like- migrants migrants Metropolitan Areas migrants ly that illegal migrants were not captured 1 1 New York-New Jersey, NY-NJ-CT 28,161 by the census, as they probably were 2 22 Sacramento, CA 7,972 afraid to fill out the census questionnaire. 3 13 Seattle-Tacoma, WA 7,876 Third, one may question how many of the legal migrants from Ukraine were regis- 4 4 Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI 7,169 tered by the census. Given that most of 5 20 Portland-Salem, OR 5,871 the migrants lived under the Soviet 6 3 Philadelphia-Wilmington, PA-NJ 5,055 Union, they may have been reluctant to 7 7 LA-Riverside, CA 4,688 answer the census questionnaire. Fourth, 8 11 S. Francisco-Oakland, CA 3,676 the census provides data only until April 15, 2000; it does not contain information 9 9 Cleveland-Akron, OH 3,619 about migrants after that date. 10 12 Boston-Worcester, MH-NH 2,362 Since 1994 the State Statistics 11 10 Washington-Baltimore, MD-VA 1,863 Committee of Ukraine (Derzhkomstat) 12 55 Spokane, WA 1,514 provides yearly statistics about legal 13 6 Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI 1,493 migrants from Ukraine to the United States, and this data is disaggregated by 14 28 Atlanta, GA 1,240 ethnicity of nationality of the migrants. If 15 14 Rochester, NY 1,197 one compares the total number of 16 19 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI 1,178 migrants born in Ukraine registered by 17 52 Springfield, MA 1,031 the U.S. census with the total number of 18 27 Denver-Boulder, CO 940 19 21 Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, FL 879 Oleh Wolowyna is president of 20 17 Syracuse, NY 732 Informed Decisions Inc. based in Chapel Hill, N.C. A demographer, he has written previously for The Ukrainian Weekly NOTE: A full lists of all the cities with persons of Ukrainian ancestry, persons who speak Ukrainian and about the U.S. Census and Ukrainians in number of new migrants, can be found on the website: www.inform-decisions.com\ukrstat\ the United States. No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 9

State are fifth and 20th. The new migrants increase of 15 percent. 200 percent. In Lincoln, Nev., the new The new migration... have tended to settle in the West Coast, A second category is cities with rela- migrants more than doubled the original (Continued from page 8) and are have been mainly motivated by tively new Ukrainian communities that number of persons of Ukrainian ancestry. dren. The impact of this migration can job opportunities, not by the size of received a substantial number of new The new migrants in Bellingham, have positive and negative effects on the Ukrainian communities. migrants, making them potentially strong Washington, Springfield, Mass., and Salt Ukrainian American community. The Another way of looking at the geo- communities if most of these migrants Lake City, Utah, increased the original attitude of the existing Ukrainian graphical distribution of the new are integrated into the community. For Ukrainian ancestry population by 44 per- American community towards these migrants is to see in which cities they example, San Francisco-Oakland went cent to 52 percent. It is important to migrants will determine to a large extent have contributed the largest increase to from 17,000 to a total over 20,000, an remember that these are most likely esti- the number of persons of Ukrainian increase of 22 percent; Atlanta, went if the positive effects outweigh the nega- mates of legal migrants only. If the illegal ancestry already there. As illustrated in from 6,000 to over 7,500, an increase of tive effects. We will present three exam- migrants are included, the impact in these Table 4, the geographical impact of this 19.5 percent; Denver-Boulder, went from ples of the potential for positive effects cities would be even larger. migration stream is rather complex. (A 6,600 to 7,600, an increase of 14 percent. that the new migrants can have. It is safe to say that this new migration complete list of all the cities can be seen A third category is composed of cities The large number of professionals wave has made a radical change in the on the Informed Decisions website: where there were hardly any persons of among the new migrants presents two spatial distribution of Ukrainians in the www.inform-decisions.com/ukrstat/). Ukrainian ancestry, which received a very kinds of opportunities for the communi- United States, as well as the composition There are cities with large and well- large influx of new migrants. There are and dynamics of Ukrainians in different ty: a) they provide a large pool of poten- established Ukrainian American commu- the extreme cases of Sioux Falls, S.D., tial new members for our professional cities. This new situation provides chal- nities that have received a substantial where 378 new migrants were added to lenges, as well as opportunities, to our organizations; b) they bring skills that number of new migrants. The New York the 114 persons already there, an increase are key to some community activities. community leaders. metropolitan area increased its total num- of over 300 percent, and the Johnson However, in order to be able to act Table 2 illustrates these two types of ber of persons of Ukrainian ancestry by City-Kingsport-Bristol metropolitan area opportunities. Among the new migrants effectively on these challenges and oppor- 28,000, an increase of 21 percent; in Tennessee-Virginia, where 211 new tunities, they need to get acquainted with we have more than 1,000 engineers of Chicago gained 7,000, an increase of 18 migrants were added to 109 residents of different specializations, who could be percent; Boston gained almost 2,400, an Ukrainian ancestry, an increase of almost (Continued on page 16) potential members of the Ukrainian Engineers’ Society. This number does not include different kinds of computer Table 4.- Selected Metropolitan Areas by Number of New Migrants as a Percent of the Original professionals and technicians like drafts- Ukrainian Ancestry Population men and others. We also have among the new migrants almost 1,000 medical pro- non-4th 4th Wave % 4th Wave/ fessionals, who could be potential mem- bers of the Ukrainian Medical Consolidated/Primary Metro Area Total Wave migr. migrants non-4th migr. Association of North America. USA 896,987 789,087 107,900 13.7% Among the new migrants there are also persons with professions that are key Sioux Falls, SD 492 114 378 331.6% to some critical community activities. Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA 320 109 211 193.6% There are over 100 clergy among migrants that have arrived between 1992 Lincoln, NE 1,006 434 572 131.8% and early 2000, about 600 post-secondary Sacramento-Yolo, Ca 15,955 7,983 7,972 99.9% teachers and almost 150 musicians and Spokane, WA 3,237 1,723 1,514 87.9% singers. The clergy will hopefully help Portland-Salem, OR-WA 14,417 8,546 5,871 68.7% alleviate the acute shortage of priests in Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA 20,703 12,827 7,876 61.4% our churches. The postsecondary teachers Bellingham, WA 1,446 946 500 52.9% could potentially revitalize the Ukrainian Association of University Professors. We Springfield, MA 3,264 2,233 1,031 46.2% have witnessed many examples of new Salt Lake City-Ogben, UT 2,038 1,415 623 44.0% migrant professional and first-class ama- Asheville, NC 957 690 267 38.7% teur artists and musicians who have S. Francisco-Oakland-S. Jose, CA 20,620 16,944 3,676 21.7% joined existing choirs and orchestras, New York-New Jersey-L. Island, NY-NJ-CT 160,024 131,863 28,161 21.4% sometimes as conductors, perform as soloists and have organized new artistic Atlanta, GA 7,607 6,367 1,240 19.5% ensembles. They have made a significant Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI 46,127 38,958 7,169 18.4% contribution to our communities in sever- Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co., CA 34,489 29,801 4,688 15.7% al cities. However, a good portion of this Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT 17,920 15,558 2,362 15.2% talent remains untapped. With an appro- Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO 7,579 6,639 940 14.2% priate policy on the part of our communi- Cleveland-Akron, OH 29,424 25,805 3,619 14.0% ty leaders, this highly qualified pool of professionals could help revitalize Ukrainian American communities in NOTES: many cities. An important characteristic of this new 1) New Migrants: persons of Ukrainian ancestry, born in Ukraine and whomigrated to the US between migration wave is their geographical dis- Jan. 1, 1992 and April 15, 2000 tribution across the territory of the U.S. As Table 3 shows, in general they have 2) Non 4th-wave migrants: Pesons of Ukrainian ancestry who are US-born, or migrated to the US not been attracted to cities with large before January 1, 1992. Ukrainian communities. Comparing the 3) A complete list of all the cities can be found on our website:www.inform-decisions.com\ukrstat\ rankings of metropolitan areas with the largest number of new migrants, with the ranking of these cities by the number of Table 5.- Number of Persons of Ukrainian Ancestry: 1990 and 2000 Comparisons non-Fourh Wave migrants, we see that, with the excep- 2000 Percent tion of the New York metro- Without With Migrant Change without Change with politan area, Chicago, 1990 migrants* migrants* increase migration migration Boston and Washington- Baltimore, there is little cor- Total 738,422 755,059 896,987 158,565 2.3% 21.5% respondence between the Speak Ukrainian: size of the Ukrainian com- All ages 97,702 66,375 113,691 15,989 -32.1% 16.4% munity and where the new 5-17 7,051 6,704 20,242 13,191 -4.9% 187.1% migrants settle. For example, 18-24 5,299 2,895 7,406 2,107 -45.4% 39.8% Sacramento, Calif., with the second largest number of 25-44 23,971 13,558 32,662 8,691 -43.4% 36.3% new migrants, ranks 22nd in 45-64 20,475 17,484 24,717 4,242 -14.6% 20.7% term of the number of non- 65 or more 40,906 25,734 28,664 -12,242 -37.1% -29.9% Fourth Wave migrants. Similarly the ranking of % Speak Ukrainian 13.2% 8.8% 13.3% Seattle-Tacoma in (persons 5 yrs. or older) Washington State is third for the new migrants and 13th for the non-Fourth Wave migrant population; the * All migrants between Januaty 1, 1990 and April 15, 2000 respective rankings of Source: 1990 and 2000 US census 5% Public Microdata Sample Portland-Salem in Oregon 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 No. 2 Ukraine’s budget for 2005 is approved, with changes expected

by Andrew Nynka Verkhovna Rada and signed into law by Mr. Azarov said two days before the pleased with other aspects of the document. Kyiv Press Bureau President Kuchma, puts the country’s budget was passed by the Rada. “It is not a proper way to use privatiza- deficit at $1.66 billion (8.8 billion hrv). “The next president will refuse the tion proceeds – to finance budgetary KYIV – Outgoing Ukrainian President In presenting the budget before the Yanukovych-Azarov budget and after expenditures,” Mr. Dmytrenko said. Leonid Kuchma signed into law a bill on Parliament, Acting Prime Minister Mykola this, by February the latest, a new budget Asked why the document was passed in the 2005 national budget, ensuring that Azarov said revenues had been set at will have to be prepared and adopted,” one package, Mr. Poroshenko said that the both the government and the country approximately $15.8 billion (85.1 billion said Anatolii Kinakh, leader of the Party decision by the Verkhovna Rada to adopt could begin work as usual this year and hrv). Expenditures would be approximate- of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and an the budget after two readings conformed that schools, hospitals and state militia ly $17.72 billion (93.9 billion hrv). ally of Mr. Yushchenko. to the Parliament’s laws. “I don’t see any posts throughout the country would have The deficit is roughly 2.1 percent of the “Specifically, I was against adopting conflicts here,” Mr. Poroshenko said. the funds needed for the new year. country’s GDP, “and the growing economy the budget,” Mr. Kinakh said, adding that He reminded the government and The bill, adopted by Ukraine’s Verkhovna can allow a deficit of this kind by borrowing the document “is not usable.” members of the Budget Committee that Rada on December 23, 2004, was signed domestically and abroad,” Mr. Azarov said. Adoption of the budget will allow the any changes to the budget need to be into law by Mr. Kuchma, on December 28 He added that the 2005 draft budget government to continue pension pay- brought before the Parliament for their but is expected to undergo significant was based on a 6.5 percent growth rate of ments in 2005, Mr. Poroshenko said, scrutiny and subsequent adoption. changes within the next two months. real GDP to 410 billion hrv, considered to adding that the document increased the The pro-government Social Democrats A number of Ukrainian lawmakers said be a cautious and conservative assess- minimum wage but hurt the govern- United and Regions of Ukraine, plus the they were not satisfied with the document ment of an 8.7 percent inflation rate. ment’s social benefits plan over all. Communists, United Ukraine, People’s and suggested it was adopted so that there “We based it on the presumption of a Mr. Poroshenko said the budget would Agrarians, the National Democratic Party- would be no interruption in the work of 6.5 percent growth rate, yet that’s a very decrease the relief aid given to the agri- Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and government as the new year begins. big growth rate,” Mr. Azarov said. “The cultural sector, but that the move would Labor Ukraine voted for the budget. Most “All of the factions and groups, every current forecast is more conservative, but allow increases to pension payments and members of smaller centrists groups also member of Parliament, understood what the government does hope for a bigger the minimum wage. voted for the budget, with a few abstentions. kind of situation could unfold in Ukraine increase of the GDP.” The government has the resources to The main opposition in the Verkhovna starting on January 1, 2005, if the budget The document passed in the finance social payments, including additions Rada to the budget document came from was not passed,” said Petro Poroshenko, Parliament overwhelmingly, with 339 to pensions in early 2005. But it has no right Our Ukraine, where 62 voted for the the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada’s deputies supporting the bill, 11 voting to finance the payments until the budget law budget, nine were against and 20 mem- Budget Committee and a key ally of against and one deputy abstaining. is passed, Mr. Azarov explained. bers abstained. Two members of the Yulia President-elect Viktor Yushchenko. Another 59 members did not vote, out of The Kyiv-based International Center Tymoshenko Bloc voted against the bill The lawmaker said that adoption of the the total of 410 registered for the session. for Policy Studies, which has monitored and 17 did not vote. Three members of budget was not a final decision and he sug- Ukraine’s Parliament has 450 members. the budget process, put the country’s pro- the Socialist Party voted for the bill and gested that changes would be made to the Mr. Azarov also noted the need for the jected 2005 GDP at 418 billion hrv with a the remaining 17 did not vote. document by mid-February. “I want to Parliament to pass a workable budget before growth rate of 7 percent. Meeting with Mr. Azarov, President assure you that the budget that is adopted on the end of 2004, saying: “The government Andrii Dmytrenko, a research analyst Kuchma said 2004 was a good year from February 15 will be a new budget,” he said, believes it would be highly desirable to pass with the Kyiv-based investment bank the economic point of view and noted the adding that the government and the Budget the budget before the new year.” Dragon Capital, also said the budget would growth of the country’s GDP, the low Committee would work together to make The person who becomes the country’s need to be changed. “It does have lots of inflation rate and implementation of the changes that would be adopted in the Rada’s new president and the government he problems, but it’s manageable,” he said. 2004 budget. next term, which starts on January 11. appoints will have an opportunity to make “What I don’t like is the sharp increase The outgoing president commented on “The 2005 budget will be oriented corrections to the budget, Mr. Azarov said. in revenues as opposed to the projected the 2005 budget: “We all fully understand toward social and economic issues,” Mr. “For our part, we did our job honestly GDP growth,” Mr. Dmytrenko said. He that this budget is very difficult, but there Poroshenko said following the parlia- and objectively, and that’s why correc- said the increase in pension payouts in are no easy budgets, especially during mentary vote. tions will only be needed if the parame- 2004 was “a major reason for the deficit” in The document, as adopted by the ters of economic development change,” the 2005 budget and added that he was not (Continued on page 16) No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 11

tics, which frustrated, twisted and the state – that it protect them in line with radical change of social policy, and mak- Yushchenko discusses... deformed many of Ukraine’s interests in the law,” Mr. Yushchenko said. ing sure that every citizen feels it, I would (Continued from page 1) this region.” Asked during the interview with say this is our second most important pri- However, in subsequent interviews “We must honestly discuss all of these Channel 5 if he knew who poisoned him, ority. I am talking about pensions, various Mr. Yushchenko has backed away from questions and lessen this destructive Mr. Yushchenko replied, “I know, pri- social programs, wages and pensions.” naming a specific person and has instead influence on our relationship which has vately. I have no feeling, no need for Mr. Yushchenko has also repeatedly alluded to a small circle of possible can- taken place these past few months,” Mr. revenge. I want these people to be touched on the outgoing presidential didates for the post. Yushchenko stated. brought to account as the law requires – administration and hinted that he is inter- In addition to Ms. Tymoshenko, Mr. Following a divisive campaign that nothing more.” ested in moving the Presidential Yushchenko has mentioned Verkhovna saw leaders in eastern Ukraine talk of Addressing what he said was the sec- Administration Building, currently locat- Rada Deputy Petro Poroshenko, Party of autonomy, Mr. Yushchenko also said he ond most important priority for Ukraine, ed on Kyiv’s Bankova Street, but said Industrialists and Entrepreneurs leader would reassure citizens there and Mr. Yushchenko said: “We want to show there may be no time to do so. “The Anatolii Kinakh and Socialist Party leader throughout Ukraine who have said his that the social priorities, about which so building needs to be washed with holy Oleksander Moroz. “Maybe two or three presidency could divide Ukraine. much has been said over the past few water,” Mr. Yushchenko said during his other names,” Mr. Yushchenko added. “My government and I personally will years, can be achieved within a year. So a Channel 5 interview. “I think that within several weeks you pay more attention to Crimea, Luhansk, will witness one very interesting political Donetsk and Kharkiv. We will have a explained John Leshchuk, 43, a chip development. As a result of this process, direct dialogue with the people. Let us designer for a telecommunications firm in possibly, many of those people who we have discuss all the issues that are worrying Diaspora participation... New Jersey. Mr. Leshchuk, who had been mentioned will lose the titles of, say, leaders those people. I am confident that our (Continued from page 1) an observer at the Ukraine’s Consulate of this or that party,” Mr. Yushchenko said position, if it is brought to them directly, life that I felt I could make a difference,” General in New York for Rounds 1 and 2, during his interview with Channel 5. will be accepted. It will be accepted,” said Orest Temnycky. didn’t think too long before he purchased Volodymyr Lytvyn, the chairman of said the 50-year-old politician. “I was sent to Bilopillia, in Sumy a ticket to travel to Ukraine on the eve of the Verkhovna Rada, said he believed a In the first attempt since the election Oblast, just 10 kilometers from the the Christmas holidays. new government would be in place by to help reconcile tensions between his Russian border,” explained Mr. Temnycky, Most of the UCCA observers were the end of January. Speaking after a supporters and those of Mr. Yanukovych, 42, a foreign exchange salesperson and meeting with Organization for Security the newly elected president dispatched consultant who traveled from Clifton, N.J., mobilized in 10 to 14 days, and many and Cooperation in Europe Chairman-in- Ms. Tymoshenko to Donetsk, where she to offer his assistance to the people of the scrambled for tickets, paying outrageous Office Dimitrij Rupel, Mr. Lytvyn also appeared on the Ukraina TV television country where his parents were born. “And amounts to travel during peak season to gave some indication of a possible date channel on December 30. In a confronta- I did not know what to expect; I was Europe, The experience also involved for Mr. Yushchenko’s inauguration. tional hour-and-a-half interview, Ms. exhausted and stressed from being away dealing with separation from loved ones “Basing on the position expressed by Tymoshenko fielded a number of antago- from my family at Christmastime and wor- during the holidays, taking time off from the chairman of the Central Election nistic phone calls but assured people that ried that I could not communicate with the demanding jobs and venturing into the Committee, and the terms for considering Mr. Yushchenko’s administration would people because I did not understand cold and dark winter nights of rural possible appeals to the court, we have work to unite the country. Russian.” (He needn’t have worried – Ukraine, instead of enjoying the holidays every reason to expect the inauguration “I do not know a single person who everyone spoke Ukrainian there.) in their family circles. of the elected president between January can imagine Ukraine without Lviv, for What he found were memories to last When Marta Kryvutsky of Silver Spring, 10 and January 14,” Mr. Lytvyn said. example, or without Donetsk or Kharkiv a lifetime and friends that will always Md., requested time off from her boss to go Mr. Yushchenko has spent the past week or Luhansk. We would all become remember how he helped them fight the see the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and observing Christmas, which is celebrated incomplete if we break up our country,” struggle that has now set them free. serve as an election monitor, he basically here on January 7, together with Georgian Ms. Tymoshenko said while wearing an “This incident basically confirmed asked her: “So, what are you still doing President Mikhail Saakashvili in the orange Shaktar Donetsk soccer jersey. everything that the revolution stood for,” here?” and blessed her on her journey. Carpathian Mountains. In addition to “I am one of those Ukrainians who he said, explaining that an intimidating UNA President Stefan Kaczaraj trav- spending time with their families, the two want Ukraine to stay united, whatever the woman, the head of the polling station eled to Ukraine with the support of his politicians have also held a number of circumstances,” she added in Russian. “I committee, was going to have her way at wife and two daughters. “They basically working meetings and have skied together. want Ukraine to become a full-fledged the final count, and it seemed that no one pushed me out of the house, adding that player on the international arena – a was going to stand in her way. One we will have other Christmases together, Jubilation on New Year’s Eve country that has an influence and which young man, also a member of the polling but this Orange Revolution happens once Messrs. Yushchenko and Saakashvili stands up for its interests.” station committee, wanted to challenge in a person’s lifetime (if that),” he noted. also appeared together on New Year’s Mr. Yushchenko, who gave a brief her, but he needed evidence and a shoul- Although Mr. Kaczaraj traveled alone Eve on Kyiv’s Independence Square press conference with Mr. Saakashvili at der to lean on to give him confidence that to Ukraine, many observers with the before a jubilant crowd of several hun- the base of ski run during his stay in the he was not alone. UCCA came with friends, relatives and dred thousand people. mountains on January 5, said three or Mr. Temnycky and his team of co-workers. Husbands and wives, moth- “I am a president and because of my four steps are necessary to bring Ukraine observers provided the young man with ers-in-law with sons-in-laws, mothers official position I couldn’t come here, but into Europe. materials from the CEC regarding ballot and daughters, fathers and sons, brothers my heart was on the Khreshchatyk … I “This includes obtaining market econ- counting, and their presence gave him the and sisters, made the trek to the ancestral must say that these last few days I have felt omy status, membership in the World confidence to confront the woman. In the homeland to make a contribution to this like a native of Kyiv,” said Mr. Saakashvili, Trade Organization, creation of a free end, truth won out and she was not able to fledgling democracy to guarantee trans- who attended university in the city. trade zone with European Union coun- falsify the vote count. And the internation- parent and fair elections. “I wish you a happy new year with your tries and beginning EU membership al observers in Bilopillia got a thank you Among the observers there were also new president,” he said as he stood together negotiations, first as an associate member from the young man that made everything quite a few people who feel a special with Mr. Yushchenko on a stage erected and then full membership,” Mr. worthwhile, recounted Mr. Temnycky. connection to Ukraine, but are not of during the Orange Revolution. The stage Yushchenko said. For Mark Iwasykiw, 43, an IT special- Ukrainian heritage. One of them was James Huntwork, 56, has since been dismantled. “You have a Ukrainian-Georgian declaration ist in New York City, this, his first trip to super president; he is a good friend of mine Ukraine, provided him with a broad a lawyer from Phoenix, Ariz., who has and a great politician,” he said, just The two Eastern European leaders also range of experiences. “I have been met been coming to Ukraine since 1991. moments before an immense display of fire- signed a joint declaration on January 5, with the world my parents used to tell me “I have long since lost count as to how works overhead lit the cold night sky. Interfax-Ukraine reported. The people of about and I was also met with the world I many times I have been in Ukraine – The president-elect, who has stated Ukraine and Georgia “have demonstrated know on a daily basis, by seeing guys probably 16 to 18 times,” he recalled. He repeatedly that he intends to move to the whole world that freedom and that are just like me here,” he observed. came to work on election law issues in Ukraine closer to Europe, also spoke democracy, the people’s will and fair “My experience here simply confirms the late summer of 1991 and came back with various media over the past week elections are much stronger than govern- the fact that no matter how badly we have to observe the independence referendum about relations with Russia. ment mechanisms, however tough they been beaten into the ground, we have now as part of the very first wave of interna- “We must understand that you can only might be,” they said in the declaration. risen from the ashes. And I feel that this will tional election observers in Ukraine. go to the West once you have normalized The declaration, which was signed in be an amazing shift in the world,” he said. “I had to come this time, because this relations with your neighbors. I am confi- the western Ukrainian ski resort town of Although most experiences for the election was the second new beginning dent that Europe will never admit anyone Tysovets, also stated that Ukraine and UCCA observers were positive, interest- for Ukraine, and I think that our work is who brings with them a bag full of prob- Georgia “will continue moving towards ing and educational, leading to new con- not yet done,” he said. lems. We must understand that it is our the building of a united democratic tacts and adventures, some observers in Another person who arrived in task to solve them, not someone else’s,” Europe and development of good rela- eastern Ukraine did not receive such Ukraine and simply felt right at home Mr. Yushchenko said, alluding to the rela- tions with neighboring countries.” warm welcomes. was Texan Brad Bunt, 37, who works on tionship between Ukraine and Russia. Earlier in the week, the president-elect “Why, in Zaporizhzhia, eastern small business development issues with Specifically, Mr. Yushchenko said that also spoke on the topic of corruption in Ukraine, we were basically told: ‘Yankee the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation in the Sumy Russia’s overt support for pro-regime Ukraine. “Corruption has deeply penetrat- go home,’” explained Yaroslav Fedun, a Oblast. This monitoring mission was his candidate Viktor Yanukovych during the ed government structures, the financial sys- pensioner from New Jersey, adding that 15th trip to Ukraine over the last seven presidential election now compels him to tem, the system of ownership and so on. the people at about half of the polling years and, as he likes to point out, “it is focus more closely on Ukraine’s relation- This is a problem that prevents the coun- stations he visited, told him in no uncer- also my most important one.” ship with its northern neighbor. try’s movement toward progress,” he said. tain terms that they could take care of “A few weeks ago, Ukraine finally “We all understand that Russia is “I know that today 98 percent of themselves. became noticed by the world. As I saw Ukraine’s permanent neighbor,” Mr. Ukrainian business was formed in the con- “When I heard Mykola Tomenko speak all the people standing on the maidan, I Yushchenko said. “The politics between ditions of the crooked, distorted legislation on the maidan (over the Internet) soon couldn’t think of a better way to spend our countries, which was under the direc- that existed between 1993 and 1996. But after the November 21 run-off, and he Christmas, but to come to Ukraine and to tion of the earlier government, could be today 98 percent of businesses provide asked people to come out and join the support all these people and their strug- characterized as dark, clan-oriented poli- jobs, pay taxes and demand one thing from crowds, I knew I had to be there, too,” gle for democracy,” he said. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 No. 2

Messagesby Petro Rondiak fromcaused by falling asleep the at the keyboard). OrangeOutside the center, you can’t reallyRevolution tell “Ya liubliu Yanukovycha” printed on them. This morning Kalyna wanted the there is anything abnormal happening. He pointed at the U.S. flag that’s hang- Following is a day-by-day account of Yushchenko plate. There is no more Except the various parks and squares ing from my hat and said (in Russian) “In the Orange Revolution written and e- color orange in our house. If you ask around the center that are jam packed with your country elections aren’t falsified? Do mailed to a group of friends outside of Kalyna to list the colors, she will reply minivans, buses and cars. Like St. Sophia you honestly mean to tell me that the peo- Ukraine by Petro Rondiak. blue, red, pink, Yushchenko, green etc. Square, which looks like the parking lot at ple voted for someone that sends their sons Mr. Rondiak and his wife, Ola, lived in This morning we did a walk down the Giants Stadium before a game. People and daughters to fight and die in Iraq?” Kyiv in 1995 for two years and later loop, which has now become the standard cooking, singing and sleeping in minivans The young man was in um... and elevated returned in 2002 with their three children: progression – maidan, Euro Sq, Cab Min, with their engines running. The smell of state. I smiled and said I have to go. Ola, Roman, Maya and Kalyna. Employed by Vr, And Pres Admin. Again amazed by exhaust fumes from old engines is one of our friend and I turned and started leaving the Winner Automotive Group, Mr. the ability of Pora to create huge demon- the pervasive smells of the revolution. the dvir the kiosk was in. They followed Rondiak enjoys expanding the business strations at each place simultaneously. I won’t go into the smells inside Dim us, chanting something about Lenin and with his Ukrainian managers, spending People are arriving and arriving. Ukrainian which has become a crowded, Komsomol. We were relieved when we time with his family, running the Kyiv Pee- Example: Tarasa Shevchenko Boulevard dark and wet shelter where demonstrators neared the exit of the courtyard and there Wee Soccer Program and producing from Bessarabka to Volodymyrska packed can warm up, receive medical attention, were large groups of Yush supporters glar- English-language theater (in which Ola with minivans between the topoli or go to the “Spalnyi Punkt,” which con- ing at our newfound friends. We stopped performs) with the Loose Change Players [poplars]. A massive tailgate party. Mostly sists of a set of chairs where one can sit and they kept going, chanting away in a – Kyiv. Raised in the United States by their western Ukraine. But eastern regions rep- and sleep in a sitting position. The stairs sea of orange: “Lenin, Komsomoltsi.” Ukrainian parents and heavily involved in resented as well. Taras Shevenko Park also to the second floor are also reasonably The house we are in (Danyo K’s) is a Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization, becoming a campground/minivan park. dry, so many people are sleeping in sit- happy (though at times loud) revolution the Rondiaks say the Orange Revolution Growing, growing, growing. ting positions on the stairs with their house with six kids and five adults. Plus has been, and continues to be, a very uni- Going back tonight. More later today. head, on their arms on their knees. an additional three men, family connec- fying and inspirational experience. * * * Ola’s cousin Nazar from Kolomia is tions to Danyo, who arrived from Lviv Mr. Rondiak’s “Messages from the part of the security wall around the tent last night to show their support. Orange Revolution” will appear in sev- Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004, city at the area across from McDonald’s. That’s it for last night. End of Day 6. eral parts. The photos accompanying the 3:42 p.m. What he said about the tent city: Leaving for maidan now to spend the story are the author’s. Pryvit! Passed out last night and never Access is by passport only (checked evening there. Petro Out! Part II finished Day 6 second half. So here it is. against a registration list) PS. Congrats on the NYC Protests!!! Despite the Orange Revolution, ballet All residents are frisked on the way Thanks for the video footage that I will DAY 6 class was not cancelled. In the middle of into the compound (as a result of one guy distribute on CD at the tent city, and Day 6 we took Maya and Kalyna to their that brought in a gun). Yush’s headquarters. Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004, scheduled ballet class. Nothing like ballet All residents take an oath not to drink 7:47 a.m. class during a historic revolution for a alcohol of any kind. Anyone determined DAY 7 (No e-mails.) As requested, attached are family pho- dose of the surreal. I was asked if anyone to be under the influence is removed tos, including Romchyk on maidan (I in the city is working. The answer is yes. from the camp and taken off registration. DAY 8 They are well-supplied and well-fed Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004, with hot food from the field kitchens. In 12:22 a.m. fact, at the border of the tent city the stu- Pryvit! dents are actually feeding other demon- The crowds continue to grow – in my strators that don’t have any food. estimation. Did some driving around in Then to the Pres Admin lower part. the Expedition, beeping and waving Four days ago there was a line of riot orange to crowds of cheering demonstra- police side by side with special billy tors. “Razom nas bahato...” cranked up. clubs and hard black star wars helmets. Windows down. Pretty much a total high. Last night they had soft helmets with no Passed a small party of about 100 Yanuk visors. They had large gaps between each supporters. Slowed down, turned up the cop, and didn’t have the special clubs. volume and gave the victory sign. They Kind of relaxed from the police side. Up were a much more cheerful group than on Bankova things are pretty much the those portrayed on TV. same regarding riot police deployment. Then, while on foot, passed two mili- Around midnight it became a little more tia guys guarding some bldg and gave like we’re used to on Khreschatyk on the them orange ribbons from my pocket. weekend, except hugely amplified by the They smiled and accepted them. I felt crazy amounts of people everywhere. Many like I was a hippie in the sixties. inebriated individuals spotted. We moved While driving, listening to Era Radio quickly and were on alert. Sure enough, 96.1 and hearing all these selos [villages] waiting at a kiosk while a friend was mak- in the east call in and state that their sils- ing a purchase, I was approached by two ki rady decided for Yush and against their The Winner Ford Sales Team, including Petro Rondiak (bottom left), on the Yanuk supporters. Young men, white T- maidan on Day 8. shirts pulled over their sweaters with a blue; (Continued on page 13) took Romchyk out for a few minutes on Day 3, morning. He took it in for about 10 minutes and proceeded to get preoc- cupied with the newly fallen snow). The girls, Maya and Kalyna, you can see on the train photo (train to Lviv). There is also a shot of Ola and myself last night, November 26 our 10-year anniversary! Yes! Military officers, SBU generals, militia, are regularly making appearances on the stage and pledging their allegiance to the people and to Yushchenko, to which the crowd responds “Molodtsi! Molodtsi!” Kravchuk is pretty much clueless [an assessment of the former president’s appearances on TV - ed.] Thanks for feedback! * * * Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004, 5:33 p.m. Hi! Thanks for the anniversary wishes and kind words. Ramada, eh?[Petro’s messages were displayed on posters set up for the Morskyi Bal at the Ramada Hotel on Friday, November 26. The dance is an annual event organized by the Chornomortsi fraternity of Plast. –ed] Should’ve checked my spelling and grammer (and unfinished sentences Day 10: demonstrators clad in orange hard hats and plastic orange “ponchos” march to the Verkhovna Rada. No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 13

sion nixing the election results. That the endless meals and cups of hot tea from all over Ukraine. The uproar in [response Messages from... govt was simply stalling to kill time. It was morning until night. Long lines of people to] Yush.’s speech, when he asked if peo- (Continued from page 12) clearly stated that if nothing comes of the waiting for their turn. Some company ple are willing to tough it out until com- oblast government. VR meeting tomorrow at 10 a.m. then has set up a bunch of tents with rotisserie plete victory is achieved, was deafening. On maidan. What people! The whole political maneuvers will no longer be used. chicken equipment that roasts about 50 No fears here. No longer a demonstration range of demographics. Many have no Effective immediately, the blockades were chickens at time. Trucks deliver chickens – now it’s a full blown “movement.” job to return to if Yanuk becomes presi- resumed at the Cabinet of Ministers and to the first tent where they get butchered, Supreme Court proceedings drag on. dent since they defied their bosses and Presidential Admin. (They were removed they then get passed to the oven tent, Is it me? Or does everyone agree that the then to the serving tent and to the people. came to Kyiv anyway. These people are last night). There was a call to action to procedure is not very understandable. I Long line that’s actually roped off and need a commentator. And what’s with the definitely here for a long term. “Until come to maidan at 9 a.m. and then to pro- orderly. judge using his laptop the whole time? It’s really a high to walk around the What’s on that laptop? We watched what center now that half of western Ukraine looked like closing arguments from four is out here. My peeps. Being surrounded attorneys on Yush side while eating a by that western Ukraine type of chicken grill sandwich at Mr. Snack. Ukrainian language is not something I’m Double chicken, double cheese. Pretty normally accustomed to in Kyiv. Yet here convincing arguments (not surprisingly), it is. Guys from Lviv actually told me especially from the attorney that looks that they are surprised by Kyiv and they like Alan Dershowitz. are finding themselves not immediately Also, after hearing about a Yush repulsed by Russian-speaking Ukrainians defense force being recruited, I saw evi- here. Talk about a revolution. dence of such recruitment tonight. Two Listening to Yushchenko’s speech men were standing near the central post tonight, it’s clear the end is still not at office with signs like the one in the hand. Nothing from Tymoshenko attached photo: “Sign up for the ranks of tonight. the people’s defense – per decree of the National Salvation Committee.” I spoke DAY 11 with one of them and asked who they Sent: Friday, December 3, 2004, 12:33 were looking for. The answer was any- a.m. one under 35 years old with a Ukrainian Pryvit! Druzi! passport and healthy. They gather 20-25 Tremendous day today. Temperature volunteers each, mostly young students actually increased to around 40, which from what I could tell, and lead them made it easy to hang out. over to Yush headquarters building for On Khreschatyk we passed a group of briefings by Yush people. guys from Pechenizhyn, a selo not far I didn’t think Yush would speak tonight A view of the tent city’s “defenses” on Day 10. from Kolomyia where Ola’s mother was since nothing that big happened, but he did born. Spoke with them, bought them cig- do a 40-minute speech (followed by Y. inauguration” they say. ceed to VR at 10 tomorrow. In one part of To give you an idea of how large the the speech the guy said that it’s easy to take crowd is, the organizers made an any building in this city. But it’s not easy to announcement on stage requesting peo- “make it ours,” thus it’s a process that must ple not to use the metro system at Metro go its course. As it turned out, Yushchenko Khreschatyk and maidan due to over- never came out to speak. Still in a meeting crowding. People are walking to Lva I guess. Oh, the band that does “Razom nas Tolstoho and Pochtova Ploscha. bahato...” came on stage and did the song. Another crowd size indicator: while all Everyone went nuts. Including the old- government building blockades are still timers in the audience jamming away, bob- fully staffed, European Square packed, bing their heads. maidan packed, and Khreschatyk packed – It was probably the coldest night yet. simultaneously there was a march of Yush It was really frigid. Ukrainians have an supporters one street lane wide stretching amazing tolerance of the cold. Able to from the CEC, at the top of Lesia stay outside for hours and hours it seems, Ukrainka, all the way down to Bessarabka unlike me, a soft American. and Khreschatyk! Truly a movement. Decisive day tomorrow, I hope, for the I managed to hook up with my Ford sake of all those masses braving the cold sales team from work that managed to night. come down together to participate. Petro out. And one last observation: Pora has PS: Everyone in Kyiv now knows the made attempts to fortify the perimeter of word “Pomarancha,” I think the word their tent village with wooden fencing “Apelsin” is history. The Ukies we work made from used pallets, ropes and scrap with that used to look at us incredulously wood. Also a few buses have been when we use the word “pomarancha” moved to the sides of the encampment, have a new found linguistic respect for for additional protection. us! Heavily snowing – eerie low news day. DAY 10 DAY 9 Sent: Wednesday, December 1, 2004, Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004, 10:37 p.m. 12:55 a.m. Pryvit! Another bitter cold day in Kyiv. At work this morning. First problem: Not much to report here. Spent the banks weren’t working for the first half whole day checking it out. Three person- of the day which makes cashflow um... a al highlights for me: First, Verkhovna little difficult at work. Rada (Parliament) rally. What a rally! Note: Tristan, a British friend of ours, has What a decision! (Lytvyn’s idea to do a posted a short film that captures some of the secret ballot vote was stroke of genius.) feeling of being here right now. It’s on Second, news that Pora blockaded http://www.brama.com/news/press/2004/11/ Kuchma’s house in Koncha Zaspa, deny- 041123Revolution-high.wmv – “The ing access, and lastly, this edited video Revolution” – Film by Tristan Brotherton, clip, shown on stage, of Mrs. Kyiv. Yanukovych doing hand motions to the No photos today as it was really cold “Razom nas bahato.” Ola Rondiak (front, holding sign) with Yushchenko supporters from Pechenizhyn. and dark, and my time was spent walk- Outside our apartment in Ivan Franko ing around maidan trying to stay warm Park, Yush’s people have built inflatable arettes (not exactly a healthy means of Tymoshenko’s speech) that got the crowd and listen to the speeches. It was voice tents that look like a military field hospi- support – but something they valued really psyched. It was educational for me, recorder day, and I recorded a poem that tal. It’s just down the hill from the pres. since they said all their other needs are since he touched on the language and reli- Vitalii, a guy from Lviv, standing next to admin. Hmmm. Also a new stage has more than adequately met: food, vita- gion issue, refuting the propaganda that he me, wanted to recite to me. been built on Institutska directly opposite mins, etc...) They are responsible for the will be shutting down Russian-speaking Energy was high at maidan when at the opening of Bankova St. where the wall of the tent village at the intersection schools and churches etc. For example, he around 17:30 it was announced that demonstrators and riot police are. The of Prorizna, which is now defended with explained how all of Europe was amazed Yushchenko was still in meetings with stage was not used all day today. iron benches in a triangle formation. by the literacy of Ukrainian people Parliament people and would speak in and Hmmm. ... Excellent atmosphere on maidan (including selo men, women and children) hour or so. The speech went on to say that On and around Maidan and today, really packed with people despite as far back as 400 years ago. Bohdan all political moves were exhausted. That Khreschatyk there are multiple field my fears that the crowd might start thin- the Parliament tried to reverse its last deci- kitchens with feeding stations giving out ning out. Saw many fresh arrivals from (Continued on page 14) 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 No. 2

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Call Alexander at (410) 252-1131 law. However he has now flipped and is pushing for a full revote from scratch. OPPORTUNITY Messages from... (Continued from page 13) Tymoshenko had a field day with the Khmelnytsky spoke seven languages, he fact the Kuchma flew to Moscow to con- fer with Putin. She claimed that he was EARN EXTRA INCOME! said. And Anna, when marrying the French king, signed her full Christian name while agreeing with Putin as to who they would propose as a candidate in the new elec- The Ukrainian Weekly is looking the French king signed with an “X” since tion. Putin also said today that Russia is for advertising sales agents. he didn’t know how to write. prepared to help “regulate” the political For additional information contact He got the crowd excited when he crisis in Ukraine. Maria Oscislawski, Advertising warned the “shanovna vlada” that if they Yush said that he will not consider a Manager, The Ukrainian Weekly, use the “hand of strength” on even one of revote from scratch, citing an example of (973) 292-9800, ext 3040. the participants of the “aktsia,” they will an athletic tournament. If the two top suffer at the “full strength of our hand.” teams tie, they have extra time or penalty Again a deafening reaction. Tymoshenko shots, they don’t start the tournament went into more practical explanations of from scratch again. The crowd related. tomorrow’s plan: VR votes in a law in Hopefully some movement tomorrow. Insure and be sure. WANT IMPACT? support of a revote of the second round. PS: Today I confirmed with Yush peo- Run your advertisement here, Kuchma will have two hours to sign the ple that the orange dome tent complex in The Ukrainian Weekly’s bill into law. Furthermore, Kuchma signed (photo attached to yesterday’s e-mail), Join the UNA! CLASSIFIEDS section. a document with all the European leaders near the president’s admin. (Ivan Franko yesterday saying he is ready to sign such a theater side) is in fact a field hospital. No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 15

FILM REVIEW: “A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa” revisited by Alexandra Hawryluk Tsar Peter I (Vyacheslav Dovzhenko), fails to reveal anything meaningful about The really interesting questions are their friendship or their enmity. Instead, those that ask us to re-examine issues the brief exchanges between them, that are so deeply imbedded in a given between Mazepa and Kochubey, Mazepa culture that they are taken for granted. and his trusted messenger Bystrytsky, Yuri Ilyenko in his film “A Prayer for and even bed talk between Mazepa and Hetman Mazepa” – which was screened Motria, all sound more like rhetoric, than for North American audiences in 2004 – real conversation. One would think that attempts to lift the veil of historical myth the dramatic tension generated by all draped over the figure of Ivan Mazepa by these gifted historical characters would asking: Who is Hetman Mazepa? offer the writer wonderful opportunities It’s a good question considering that for brilliant verbal matches, acerbic wit, the two most widely held perceptions of biting repartee. Ivan Mazepa are conflicted: Ukrainians The introduction of the deliberately see him as a hero, while Russians believe artificial scenery into real landscape, the him to be a traitor. At the same time, both whimsical costumes, the romantic loca- perceptions are burdened by the political tion shots, give the production a lush, correctness of Soviet historiography. Add imaginative, surrealistic atmosphere. But to this the idea that, “The history of the inserting Serhiy Yakutovych’s well-paint- Hetmanate became a key component of ed architectural sets into too many scenes national history and the nation-building is a little tiresome. On the other hand, myth” (Orest Subtelny, “Ukraine, A things like Kochubey’s magnificent gold- History,” University of Toronto Press, encrusted costume, the blue yellow- 1988), and it becomes clear why the trimmed uniforms of the Swedish sol- A scene from “A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa,” with set design by Serhiy Yakutovych. leaders of that era have become revered diers, Charles’s cumbersome coach, the black-robed, black-bearded priests seen Motria’s christening scene with her national heroes. beautiful horses, the confused cacophony in the film – the infamous anathema. father, General Kochubey, standing Although we don’t mind when histori- of battle, these do give a sense of the era. Even there, it is unclear who exactly waist-deep in the waters of a cross- ans, sociologists, anthropologists and Some costumes, however, (most notably might be praying or why. shaped opening in river ice, seems to be archaeologists deconstruct the past, we the Xena-Warrior-Princess-like leather It is not just this ambiguity, but the striking a balance between artistic are less comfortable when a cinematogra- bikini worn by Ludmilla Yefimenko, the way religious ritual and religious sym- pher undertakes to ask similar questions. Russian general’s quasi-Roman, silver expression and Ukrainian religious tradi- bolism are used, that may well offend the Perhaps it is because during all those padded fabric armor with its orange tion. Yet the carefully thought out effect viewer’s religious sensibilities. Why, for Cold War years, we have had to keep jus- gauze tunic, Mazepa’s red satin toga,) of one scene is often undone by another. instance, are the violent outbursts of tifying to our fellow citizens the exis- would look more at home in a Monty Having Mazepa’s messenger tortured in a Peter I against Mazepa punctuated by the tence of Ukrainian history, Ukrainian Python film than in a historic epic. All cross-shaped well or pool makes little tsar either rushing up to a portable culture, Ukrainian language. Perhaps it is this is filmed with a hand-held camera sense, as political loyalty is the issue in “ikonostas” or making the sign of the because in face of Soviet destruction, using colored and gauze filters favoring that scene, not religious beliefs. cross? The mysterious set of free-stand- persecution and propaganda we have had unfocused, overexposed takes, rapid pan- If this violent scene hasn’t ruffled reli- ing “tsarski vorota” in the middle of what to develop an acutely critical attitude ning and uneven color grading. It’s this gious sensibilities, Mazepa’s death scene seems like a battle scene with minor toward the Communist deconstruction. love for overstatement, this overuse of certainly might. There, Mr. Ilyenko jum- characters crawling out from under them, Perhaps the resulting defensiveness artifice and flamboyance that gives the bles up the sound of religious chant, the the painted paper set depicting generic makes it difficult to review the more film its busy and affected look. sight of sombre black-robed monks, a onion-domed churches (but curiously not painful aspects of history. Whatever the Not surprisingly, the reactions to the crowd of not-so-modest maidens inexpli- explanation, in that respect, Mr. Ilyenko film have been mixed. And naturally the churches endowed by Mazepa), and cably jammed up against a glass wall, is to be commended for having the enough, Mr. Ilyenko is upset at the nega- at least three cross-shaped pools, while with a white-clad Mazepa lying on a courage to question. tive reviews of “A Prayer for Hetman interesting, leave the audience wondering However, the trouble is not so much Mazepa.” In defense of his product he about their relevance. On the other hand, (Continued on page 22) with the question, as with his method of has said that “the avalanche of negative deconstruction. David Stratton evaluated criticism which has buried my film can- the film on April 11, 2002, for Variety as not be called genuine cinematic critique. follows: “This lavishly produced histori- There is no critical thought or analysis in cal epic about Ukrainian hero Hetman these libellous articles.” (Meest, January Mazepa, who in the early 18th century 22, 2004). His supporters have responded briefly secured his country’s independ- in a similar vein, interpreting the film as ence from rivals Russia and Sweden, is a the work of a misunderstood genius. wilfully chaotic picture. Its merits, such Others, in a show of support for as they are, lie in its very craziness, cer- Ukrainian cinematography simply tried tainly not in its utterly confusing way of to explain the film. Yuri Shevchuk in his telling a story which, presumably, is review in The Ukrainian Weekly, August familiar to Ukrainian audiences. The lat- 25, 2002, suggested that the film’s “visu- est film from Yuri Ilyenko, one of the al and acoustic arsenals are designed to most colorful figures of the long-gone shock, to antagonize, to revolt, to make Soviet cinema, is at best a curiosity...” the viewer ... suffer. Small wonder that Despite the fact that the film uses the those who expected to be entertained classical device of telling the story were in for a cruel disappointment.” through the main character’s recollec- That’s, of course, assuming that there are tions of the past, that is, Mazepa’s deliri- only two categories of viewer: serious ous death bed visions, which include Tsar cinema buffs and frivolous entertainment Peter I, King Charles XII, Gen. Vasyl seekers. Be that as it may, it is still diffi- Kochubey, Motria Kochubey, scenes of cult to dismiss Mr. Stratton’s observation clashing armies, floating corpses, flam- that Mr. Ilyenko’s problem is his ing steppes, horsemen riding through “extremely stylized approach reminis- misty forests, plaster body parts, painted cent, at its best of Parazhanov and at its sets, as well as Mazepa’s own funeral – it worst (which is most of the time) charac- is not easy to discern who is fighting terized by an almost amateurish disregard with whom, when, where and for what for audience sensibilities.” (Variety, April reason. However rich and interesting 11, 2002) these images are, especially their juxta- Mr. Ilyenko’s disregard for the audi- position with bits and pieces from an ence is precisely what galls. To begin ongoing “vertep” play, ultimately their with, the very title “A Prayer for Hetman complexity gets in the way of a clean Mazepa” suggests an allusion to religion story line. or a religious context. According to There’s a lot of declamatory speechi- Collins Cobuild English Language fying and shouting over the din,” Mr. Dictionary, “Prayer is the activity of Stratton wrote in his review. The dia- praying to God” or “a set form of words logue between the main characters, which is said during a religious service.” Hetman Mazepa (Bohdan Stupka) and The film, however, offers the audience no perceptible supplication to God on Alexandra Hawryluk writes regularly behalf of Mazepa, unless, the word for Radio Canada International in “prayer” is a cynical reference to the Montreal. excommunication incantations of the 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 No. 2

percent to 45 percent. Overall, the percent The new migration... of Ukrainian speakers for all persons age 5 (Continued from page 9) or more would have decreased from 13.2 the location, composition and growth of percent in 1990 to 8.8 percent in 2000. both old and new communities, and then The influx of migrants from Ukraine develop strategies for establishing better has stopped the process of language contacts with them and help them organize assimilation for Ukrainian Americans. The more effectively. They need to step out of overall percent of Ukrainian speakers in the traditional ghetto-based model of com- 2000 is now 13.3 percent, practically the munity work, and develop modern com- same as in 1990, instead of 8.8 percent if munication and management strategies. there had been no recent migration from Ukraine. The new migrants contributed a Finally, probably the most important total of 16,000 additional persons that impact of the new migrants on the speak Ukrainian at home – a 16.4 percent Ukrainian American community is the increase in Ukrainian speakers in 1990. large number of Ukrainian speakers among A very important characteristic of these them. First, we need to comment on the new Ukrainian speakers is their age distri- fact that, according to the 2000 U.S. cen- bution. Most of them, 13,000 out of a total sus, the majority of new migrants speak of 16,000, are in the age group 5-17, which Russian at home, not Ukrainian; among translates into a 187 percent increase of new migrants age 5 or higher that speak Ukrainian speakers for this age group Ukrainian or Russian at home, 40 percent between 1990 and 2000. The new migrants said that they speak Ukrainian and 60 per- have also made a substantial contribution cent said that they speak Russian at home. of Ukrainian speakers in the age groups Given the large number of recent migrants 18-24 and 25-44, an increase of 40 percent and the fact that so many of them speak and 36 percent, respectively. Due to the Russian at home, this has had a surprising advanced age of most Ukrainian speakers effect on the whole group of persons of in the U.S. and the fact the number of new Ukrainian ancestry in the United States: migrants aged 65 years or more is relative- 13.3 percent of the 854,000 persons age 5 ly small, this age group experienced a loss or more speak Ukrainian, while the percent of 30 percent of Ukrainian speakers speaking Russian is 14.1 percent. This is between 1990 and 2000. probably a unique case in the history of an These numbers show that the new ethnic group in the United States, where migrants can make an extraordinary contri- more persons speak another language than bution to the vitality of the community and the language of the ethnic group. its survival in the near future. They have In spite of the fact that the majority of stopped the process of language assimila- new migrants speak Russian and not tion and, what is more important, given the Ukrainian, the number of Ukrainian young age of most of them, the rate of lan- speakers among them is substantial. It is guage assimilation of Ukrainian Americans interesting to analyze this fact from two is likely to be slower in the near future, as perspectives: a) what would have been the mortality of Ukrainian speakers will not the language assimilation situation in the be an important factor. On the other hand, it Ukrainian American community if there is possible that the new migrants will had been no migration form Ukraine in engage in active language assimilation and the last 15 years; b) the potential contri- thus accelerate the process of language bution of Ukrainian-speaking migrants to assimilation in the future. the revitalization of our institutions. This large number of young Ukrainian Table 5 documents the implications of speakers constitutes a potentially large both perspectives. As we are making com- pool of candidates for Ukrainian schools, parative analyses between the 2000 and the youth organizations and other organiza- 1990 census data, we will consider here all tions in the Ukrainian American commu- the migrants that arrived to the U.S. nity. One should also keep in mind that between 1990 and 2002; thus the number many, if not most of new migrants that of migrants shown here is larger than the speak Russian at home also know how to number of Fourth Wave or new migrants. speak Ukrainian, and many of them are The 1990 U.S. census showed that there also potential candidates for invigorating were 738,422 persons of Ukrainian ances- our schools, youth and other organiza- try in the United States. If we exclude all tions. To a great extent it is up to the cur- the persons that migrated to the United rent organized community to make sure States between 1990 and 2000, the number that this great potential is fully realized. of persons of Ukrainian ancestry would The recent wave of migrants from have been 755,059 in 2000, which trans- Ukraine is a unique event in the history of lates into an increase of 2.3 percent in 10 the Ukrainian American community. It years. Had there been no migration from presents challenges and opportunities, and Ukraine between 1990 and 2000, the num- it is up to us if we take full advantage or ber of Ukrainian speakers would have not of the opportunities it presents. The decreased from 97,702 in 1990 to 66,375 in process of accommodation and integration 2000, a loss of 32 percent. This large loss is has not been easy, but there have been due to the fact that most of the Ukrainian quite a few successes. We hope that this speakers in the United States in 1990 were fact-based description of their characteris- older persons, with a high probability of tics will provide a basis for a better under- dying in the next 10 years. If we analyze standing of some of the opportunities they the Ukrainian speakers by age groups, we present, and will help develop more com- see that in the age groups of 18 to 24 and prehensive strategies for dealing with the 25 to 44 years, the loss would have been 43 challenges that need to be overcome.

military to maintain a 100 percent level Ukraine’s budget... of combat readiness. (Continued from page 10) The bill also received support from an this transition period. We have drafted unlikely ally. “For the first time in years probably the most socially conscious the Communist deputies will vote to sup- port the budget,” said Adam Martyniuk, a budget since independence.” member of the Verkhovna Rada from the Over all, the bill kept spending on Communist Party. defense at the same level as the previous “If we don’t pass it on time, the mini- year, while decreasing it in some areas, mum wage will drop to 237 hrv from 262 Minister of Defense Oleksander Kuzmuk hrv at present, while 10 million pension- said the same day that Parliament passed ers will again be getting 140 hrv,” Mr. the bill. Martyniuk said. “Given the degree to “Everything possible will be done to which people are involved in these prob- implement reforms of the armed forces lems, we’ll most probably support the and social programs,” he said, adding budget,” Mr. Martyniuk said two days that the 2005 budget would not allow the before he cast his vote for the budget. No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 17

tion, the EU refused to make even rela- cated in the murder of a journalist critical to compete openly with its agriculture The EU’s response... tively minor trade concessions to the of his regime in late 2000 – and have and steel sectors. Third, the EU could (Continued from page 2) neighbors, even though economic incen- scarcely declined since. ease its stance on the visa regime with between aspirant states such as Ukraine, tives represent the linchpin of the ENP. At the same time, the big EU member- Ukraine. Owing to enlargement, travel to and non-aspirants such as Russia. Fourth, and perhaps most important, states put a premium on relations with the Schengen area has become an even Second, the ENP added little that was the document made no reference to any Russia, which perceives the former more expensive and time-consuming new and relied instead on the existing possibility of Ukraine eventually joining Soviet Union as its own backyard. So undertaking for impoverished agreement to guide relations – the the EU. The prospect of membership was relations with Ukraine were played down Ukrainians. This has not only resulted in Partnership and Cooperation Agreement effectively excluded. for the sake of better relations with the a sense of alienation among them but has (PCA) – which had long exhausted its Up to a point, the stance adopted by Kremlin. In light of these problems, it is caused real hardship for those in border hardly surprising that the EU has not potential for moving relations forward. Brussels was understandable. Too often regions. been eager to enhance ties with Ukraine. The recent decision by the EU to once Third, the ENP offered few real moti- Ukraine has paid scant attention to the However, by failing to build stronger again deny the prospect of membership vating incentives, at least in the short EU’s insistence on the need to implement ties, the EU deprived itself of an impor- but approve its Action Plan for Ukraine term. The offer of extending the EU’s reform. In addition, the union had been tant lever to influence developments in (finalized in 2004) does not augur well “four freedoms” (of movement of people, concerned about the Kuchma regime for Kyiv and to empower the pro-reform for future relations. The Action Plan, far capital, goods and labor) to neighbors some time. There were real question forces there. Worse, it bolstered Viktor from leading to membership, merely was generous but unrealistic. This is marks over the validity of his re-election Yanukovych, the authorities’ candidate, delineates a series of political and eco- because it failed to take into account in 1999 and his increasingly authoritarian who could justify his decision to aban- nomic criteria according to which rela- Ukraine’s impoverishment, making them undertones. These concerns reached their don EU membership ambitions (and tions are expected to develop; Ukrainians an enticing but elusive prospect. In addi- peak when President Kuchma was impli- with them the need to implement reform) are deeply dissatisfied with it. Negotiated and instead promote closer ties with before the “Orange Revolution,” the plan liamentary elections, which are to be held Russia. relies on “old solutions” to a new situa- Forging political... under a fully proportional party-list sys- The recent visits of EU High tion and, thus, hardly brings a new lease (Continued from page 2) tem and a three percent threshold to qual- Representative for Common Foreign and on life to relations. The EU is in danger ify for parliamentary representation. Security Policy Javier Solana to Ukraine of once more failing to support Ukraine’s and Entrepreneurs – has just 150 to mediate was a welcome sign of the population, which has already demon- deputies, which is well below the 226 The Kyiv-based Razumkov Center con- ducted two interesting polls recently, one EU’s belated interest in Ukraine, but it strated that it is willing to bear the sacri- votes needed to pass most resolutions in simultaneously exposed the vacuousness fices of democratizing and the 450-seat Verkhovna Rada. on December 6-9, 2004 and the other on December 14-19, 2004, on voter preference of Brussels’ policy toward that country. Europeanizing itself. The Orange Revolution has prompted Ironically, had Ukraine experienced the If the EU is to achieve its long-term numerous defections from previously pro- on a hypothetical parliamentary ballot. The first poll offered respondents a list of 20 type of conflict that plagued the Western goal of having a stable and prosperous Yanukovych parliamentary caucuses, but Balkans, and which the West is now try- neighbor on its Eastern border, as out- these defectors – who include a group of parties, while the other presented the same list of parties with the names of their lead- ing to help prevent, Ukraine would have lined in the ENP, it will need to develop a some 50 non-aligned deputies – need yet to been higher up on the EU’s agenda a lot vision and ambition for Ukraine it has be effectively courted by Mr. Yushchenko. ers attached. The first poll found that just four parties – Our Ukraine (with 28.8 per- earlier. thus far lacked. At the same time, it will Still, even absolute success would translate However, it is not too late for the EU need to offer reformists the tools they into a total of 200 votes rather than the cent backing), Mr. Yanukovych’s Party of Regions (14.5 percent), Petro Symonenko’s to exert influence in Ukraine without need to create a society imbued with required 226. Mr. Yushchenko must, there- actually committing itself to offering European standards and values. fore, draw at least two other minor parlia- Communist Party (6 percent) and Mr. Moroz’s Socialist Party (4.5 percent) – membership. Brussels must deprive the authorities mentary groups into his camp in order to Above all, it could formally recognize of their argument that “nobody wants us form a new government on solid footing. could count on overcoming the three per- cent barrier in the current environment. Ukraine’s European aspirations without in Europe.” Only in this way might Presumably, such parliamentary maneuvers explicitly ruling membership out or in. Ukraine implement the political and eco- will lead to offers of government posts to But the second poll – with a list of parties and their political leaders – paint- Second, the EU could make greater trade nomic reforms to realize its pro- people who appear distant from the ideals concessions to Ukraine – an issue that European ambitions – and the EU might of the Orange Revolution – or even who ed a somewhat different picture. It sug- gested that six parties would have has long hindered relations. In particular, just end up with the prosperous and sta- stood by his rival’s side when the revolu- the bloc has not allowed Ukrainian goods ble neighbor it wants and needs. tion was taking place. deputies in the Verkhovna Rada: Party of Choosing a prime minister is a difficult Regions-Viktor Yanukovych (20.5 per- problem, too. Ms. Tymoshenko has made cent backing); Our Ukraine – Viktor little secret of her willingness to accept Pynzenyk (17.1 percent); Socialist Party the job. The same applies to lawmaker – Mr. Moroz (8 percent); Fatherland and businessman Petro Poroshenko, who Party – Ms. Tymoshenko (6.7 percent); supported Mr. Yushchenko’s Orange Communist Party – Mr. Symonenko (6.2 Revolution both financially and propa- percent); and the Popular Agrarian Party gandistically (Mr. Poroshenko owns the – Volodymyr Lytvyn (3.5 percent). Channel 5 television station that took First, the Razumkov Center’s much of the credit for having promoted December polls highlighted the crucial ÉÛðÚÓÍ è·ÒÚ èðËflÚÛ ¥ è·ÒÚÓ‚‡ ëÚ‡Ìˈfl Mr. Yushchenko’s presidential bid consis- role of leaders in Ukrainian politics: ‚ 粇ðÍÛ tently throughout the campaign). party stripes do not appear to be of para- Ms. Tymoshenko is widely perceived mount importance to Ukrainian voters. Á‡ÔðÓ¯Û˛Ú¸ Ç‡Ò Á ð¥‰Ì² ¥ ÔðËflÚÂÎflÏË Ì‡ as a radical and a bitter enemy of pro- Second, the polls disclosed a startling Kuchma oligarchs, so her potential pre- and little-known reality: that the Our miership could exacerbate tense relations Ukraine “brand” belongs legally not to between Mr. Yushchenko and the deep- Mr. Yushchenko but to his political ally, èèããÄÄëëííééÇÇààââ ÅÅÄÄããúú pocketed elements from eastern Ukraine Viktor Pynzenyk. Mr. Pynzenyk appears who supported Mr. Yanukovych and con- to have managed to re-register his former ‚ ÒÛ·ÓÚÛ, 5 βÚÓ„Ó 2005 ð. trol a hefty segment of the national econo- group – the Reforms and Order Party – my. 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Besides, as the polls suggested, Please make checks payable to: PLAST Inc. less made Mr. Yanukovych a natural support for Our Ukraine might be signifi- Irene Turynsky opposition leader in Ukraine. cantly lower once voters realize the astound- 15 Conifer Drive, Warren, NJ 07059 Mr. Yanukovych leads the Donetsk- ing fact that the Our Ukraine party is not run based Party of Regions, which draws its by Mr. Yushchenko. support primarily in Ukraine’s eastern In other words, Mr. Yushchenko should å¥Òˆfl ÏÛÒflÚ¸ ·ÛÚË Á‡Ô·˜ÂÌ¥ ‰Ó 22 Ò¥˜Ìfl. and southern regions. But this regional perhaps be as mindful of his allies in 2005 party has every chance to become a as of his opponents. It is still unclear which major national player after the 2006 par- side will cause him greater troubles. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 No. 2

political allies according to a system of Mykola Tomenko, Victor Yushchenko’s (Religious Information Service of NEWSBRIEFS “political quotas.” Mr. Yushchenko said, representative, commenting on the death of Ukraine (Continued from page 2) “For example, the Yulia Tymoshenko Heorhii Kirpa and, some time earlier, Yurii UOC-MP: election against revelation new Cold War between Russia and the Bloc will obtain one-fourth of jobs in the Liakh. “Liakh and Kirpa were important ministries, government offices, commit- witnesses not only of the plundering of the West over Ukraine if “the principle of KYIV – A group of priests of the tees, and administrations,” adding “Such national wealth but also of the October 31 noninterference in the internal affairs of Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow a principle will be proposed for the and November 21 election fraud,” he Ukraine is maintained,” according to the Patriarchate (UOC-MP) from Donbas Socialist Party as well.” According to Mr. noted. The people’s deputy addressed the Russian transcript of the interview pub- says that Ukraine awaits “a thorny path” Yushchenko, the new prime minister “still President” Leonid Kuchma with a lished on January 3 by mid.ru. Talking because people did not listen to the should not simultaneously lead a political demand to provide for the security of such about the possibility of Ukraine and Virgin Mary and elected Viktor party or engage in business activities. “In people as “Viktor Medvedchuk, Volodymyr Georgia joining NATO and the European Yushchenko president instead of the one a few weeks’ time you will become wit- Satsiuk, Ihor Bakai and others connected to Union, Mr. Lavrov said that Russia will chosen by God, Viktor Yanukovych. The nesses to an interesting political the crimes of the former government.” He not obstruct these developments as Russia priests announced this in a statement to process,” Mr. Yushchenko pledged. He added, “They must tell everything to the respects “the right of each state, including all Orthodox faithful released on also said he is ready to replace all oblast people and I do not want to see them leave our neighbors, to choose its own part- December 27, 2004. The statement says chairmen after assuming the post of pres- for other countries or, God forbid, some- ners.” The Russian foreign minister added that, before the December 26 presidential ident. (RFE/RL Newsline) thing happening to them.” Mr. Tomenko that in those cases, however, Ukraine and election, the Mother of God appeared to reported that he had documents that Georgia could not rely on privileged eco- church hierarchs of the Donetsk region President-elect sets policy priorities showed the recent increase in the number nomic relations with Russia. It is “their and three times pointed at former presi- of diplomatic passports issued. Thus, 200 choice,” and “we assume they consider KYIV – President-elect Viktor dential candidate Mr. Yanukovych and applications have been received from the how they develop their policy and econo- Yushchenko also said on Channel 5 on said that he is the future president. The presidential administration over the last my and which partners and allies they December 29 that the fight against cor- priests say that the people did not listen week alone and some officials were getting choose,” he added. (RFE/RL Newsline) ruption, social policy and European inte- to the Virgin Mary, so they can expect them in other names as well, he stressed. gration will be key priorities of his presi- great hardships and trials. RUPOR (the Turkmenistan, Ukraine OK gas deal “Even when Taras Chornovil is asking for a dency. Mr. Yushchenko simultaneously Council of Human Rights Organizations German citizenship for his children, I think stressed that Ukraine’s European integra- of Ukraine) reported that Mr. ASHGABAT – Ukrainian oil and gas it necessary to prevent the issuing of diplo- tion should not be a “policy of Yanukovych himself also had a vision. company Naftohaz Ukrainy Chairman matic passports in such situation,” suggest- extremes,” explaining, “We need to He saw two Ukraines: one bright and Yurii Boiko announced in Ashgabat on ed Mr. Tomenko, “I do not want to start understand that we can go to the West joyful, the other grey, poor and full of January 3 that a new agreement on the looking for Ukrainian politicians and only after we have normalized relations sorrow, which Ukraine will become after price for Ukrainian imports of natural gas Ukrainian money all over the world with with our neighbors.” He added, “I am the election of Yushchenko as president. from Turkmenistan has been reached, Yushchenko the president.” (Press Service sure that Europe will never accept some- (Religious Information Service of ITAR-TASS reported. The new agree- of Viktor Yushchenko’s Central one with a suitcase of new problems.” Ukraine) ment follows weeks of negotiations and Headquarters) sets a one-year contract for the import of Touching upon Russia, Mr. Yushchenko UOC-MP faithful seek refuge 36 billion cubic meters of Turkmen gas at said this country is “our eternal neighbor Yanukovych supporters picket embassy with which we are due to have wonderful the new price of $58 per 1,000 cubic KYIV – A group of faithful of the relations.” (RFE/RL Newsline) MOSCOW – Several hundred people meters. The agreement follows a cutoff of Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow gathered on December 24, 2004, at the gas supplies by Turkmenistan on Patriarchate (UOC-MP) has appealed to Moscow’s ‘imperial project’ is finished U.S. Embassy in Moscow to demonstrate December 31, ITAR-TASS reported. the patriarch of Constantinople, asking him against “the interference of the United Although the new price is $14 higher than MOSCOW – Russian political con- to take under his mantle those who “have States in Ukraine’s internal affairs.” The the rate fixed for 2004 and reflects the sultant Marat Gelman told RosBalt on become in discord in the churches of the protest was organized by a number of global increase in natural-gas prices, pay- December 29 that following Ukrainian Moscow Patriarchate.” They ask him “to Orthodox organizations in Russia, includ- ment for the gas imports remains half in opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko’s open in Ukraine a permanent structure of ing the Union of Orthodox Citizens, the cash and half in “goods and equipment” victory in that country’s December 26 parishes of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.” Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods and the from Ukraine. Turkmenistan also reached presidential election, Russia must forget The cause of this appeal is the presidential Christian Rebirth Union. The participants agreement on a 25-year contract with about its “imperial project.” Mr. Gelman election in Ukraine, through which the of the event held banners saying: Russia in 2004 for the sale of between 6 said, “The already improbable scenario clergy and part of the faithful of the church “Yanukovych is the legally elected presi- billion and 7 billion cubic meters of of restoring the empire has vanished and found themselves on two sides of the barri- dent of Ukraine,” “An ‘orange revolution’ Turkmen gas. (RFE/RL Newsline) that is a very serious problem.” He cades because of their civic position. RISU in Kyiv today, a ‘birch revolution’ in added, “Our imperial mentality has been received the group’s letter on December Tymoshenko to be prime minister? Moscow tomorrow,” “U.S. and Poland: constrained and, if we are to talk about 29, 2004. “Over the last months, political hands off Kyivan Rus’!” and its influence on our political processes, events in connection with the presidential KYIV – Viktor Yushchenko, whom the “Yanukovych, do not give up, do not con- we will see a flow of Unified Russia sup- election have entered into the life of every Central Election Commission declared cede ‘victory’ to Yushchenko!” (Religious porters to Motherland.” Mr. Gelman, citizen of Ukraine, to some degree or winner of the December 26 presidential Information Service of Ukraine) election, said on Channel 5 on December who advised the campaign of Prime another,” the letter reads. “They have agi- 29 that his parliamentary bloc, Our Minister Viktor Yanukovych, admitted Greek-Catholics in Kharkiv robbed tated our Church life, which seemed to be Ukraine, will support Yulia Tymoshenko that there was massive falsification of the so quiet and peaceful. Suddenly we felt for the post of prime minister in a new vote on the part of Mr. Yanukovych’s KHARKIV – The Kharkiv apartment ourselves homeless, because in the church- Cabinet that is to be created in the com- staff. He also admitted he and other of Bishop Stepan Meniok, exarch of the es of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – ing weeks. Mr. Yushchenko said a work- Russian spin masters made a lot of mis- Donetsk-Kharkiv exarchate of the Moscow Patriarchate they began to sepa- ing group, which includes Ms. takes, but lamented that Mr. Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church rate us, depending on our civic position. Tymoshenko, is now discussing the for- Yanukovych’s campaign staff did not (UGCC), was broken into the night of Once, entering our church, we heard not mation of the new Cabinet. Asked what heed his advice, but relied instead on fal- December 24, 2004. The kitchen window the preaching of the Gospel, but words in other candidates are being considered for sification. “Falsification is not a cam- was broken and the computer, printer, support of the ‘blessed’ candidate. During the premiership, Mr. Yushchenko named paign technique; it is simply breaking the fax, television and vacuum cleaner were confession, they suggested to some of us one of his election campaign leaders, law,” Mr. Gelman said. “Just like censor- stolen. Bishop Meniok was in western that we do penance because we did not Petro Poroshenko, Socialist Party leader ship in the mass media.” (RFE/RL Ukraine at the time, to take part in vote for ’that’ candidate; others were asked Oleksander Moroz, and Party of Newsline) Ukraine’s presidential election. As previ- to leave the church for this ‘crime.’ ” The Industrialists and Entrepreneurs leader ously reported, the UGCC Chapel of St. authors of the letter maintain that, even Anatolii Kinakh. (RFE/RL Newsline) Tomenko on “political” deaths Nicholas in Kharkiv was robbed on the after the UOC-MP’s Kyiv Metropolitanate night of December 2, 2004, of a Gospel, forbid campaigning from the pulpit, cam- KYIV – “Victor Yanukovych’s decision Yushchenko to divvy up positions candle-holders and a small icon-screen. paigning for the “blessed” candidate con- to appeal to the Supreme Court will pro- Law-enforcement authorities have not to tinued in many churches of the UOC-MP. KYIV – Viktor Yushchenko told long the life of this regime for at least two this day caught the criminals or returned The UOC-MP hierarchy, according to Channel 5 on December 29 that jobs in a more weeks and in this case we could see the stolen items, reported the UGCC these faithful, to this day has not comment- new government formed under his presi- several more deaths of some of the impor- press service. Bishop Meniok has report- ed on the campaigning that was openly dency will be distributed among his tant witnesses of the regime’s crimes,” said ed the recent burglary to the authorities going on in almost all the churches of the and a criminal case has been opened. The UOC-MP before the second round of the UKRAINIAN BUILDERS OF CUSTOM HOMES bishop questioned whether the crime was election on November 21, 2004. The hier- WEST COAST OF FLORIDA simply for profit or if it was a manifesta- archy has also not condemned the massive tion of some religious or political intoler- falsifications of the results of the second TRIDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP. ance. Both crimes occurred at a time of round of the election on the part of the • Over 25 years of building experience political tension in Ukraine and, the bish- “blessed” candidate. “Today we are like • Bilingual op said, it is entirely possible that they sheep without a shepherd,” reads the • Fully insured and bonded were committed with a clear goal against appeal. “We think that today the • Build on your lot or ours the UGCC. A similar thought has Ecumenical Patriarchate can accept under • Highest quality workmanship occurred to those who more than once its mantle all those who have become in Ihor W. Hron, President Lou Luzniak, Executive V.P. have repaired the announcement board discord in the churches of the Moscow located near the building site for the new Patriarchate. We ask Your Holiness to (941) 270-2411 (941) 270-2413 UGCC church in Kharkiv. Unknown respond to our pain and to open in Ukraine Zenon Luzniak, General Contractor opponents to the presence of a Greek- a permanent structure of parishes of the Serving North Port, Venice, South Venice and area Catholic community in Kharkiv often Ecumenical Patriarchate.” (Religious tear down the announcement board. Information Service of Ukraine) No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 19 Watervliet’s Ukrainian American Citizens Club celebrates 75th anniversary

reception and cocktail hour hosted by the ent how the Ukrainian Federal Credit Ukrainian Federal Credit Union – Capital Union and its local Capital District District Branch. Branch had once again shown their sup- The evening’s program, which was port of the local community by under- emceed by Slavko Tysiak, included writing the cocktail reception that every- prayers of thanksgiving offered by Father one so thoroughly enjoyed and by buying Michael Myshchuk, pastor of St. advertising space as did many other busi- Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in nesses and individuals in the program Watervliet, and a number of selections booklet and reminded all present they sung by the Capital District Choir, should reciprocate and support those known as “Ridna Pisnya,” under the businesses and individuals as well. direction of Mykhaylo Tcapar, including During the dinner, Mr. Fil introduced “Bozhe Velykyi Yedynyi” and “God his long-time friend and the current pres- Bless America.” ident of the Ukrainian Club, Mr. Mr. Tysiak paused to give a special Suchowacki, who provided a humorous recognition to the “first ladies of the round of acknowledgements, ranging Ukrainian Club,” Ms. Urban and Ms. from listing the members with more than Bruggerman, whose father, John Urban, 50 years of membership, to thanking the one of founding fathers of the Ukrainian officers of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Club and several times past president, Club, President Anna Gebuza and used his personal funds in 1930 to pur- Treasurer Olga Zendran, for their tireless Seen at the 75th anniversary celebration of the Ukrainian American Citizens chase the building that today houses the support of club activities. He also gave Club are (from left): Melanie Suchowacki, UACC President John Suchowacki, Ukrainian Club. The emcee noted how special thanks to the club’s workhorses – program emcee and trustee Slavko Tysiak and his wife, Cynthia Tysiak. Ms. Urban and Ms. Brueggerman, Wasyl Terlecky, Mr. Demczar, Stanley together with her husband, Warren Mochulsky and Mr. Ilnycky, Mr. Fil and by Slavko Tysiak All-American favorite – the weekly ball Brueggerman, have always taken a per- Mr. Urban – without whom the club game. The Ukrainian Club depends on sonal interest in the club and have shown could not function and prosper. WATERVLIET, N.Y. – In many ways their loyal patronage, as much as it does their commitment many times over the Three speakers then reflected on the the Ukrainian American Citizens Club on the Ukrainian members who visit and years with generous gifts to improve and role of the Ukrainian Club during three never changes. Instead, it adapts to support its many different activities. It’s enhance it. periods of the club’s history. changing times. On the evening of another sign that the Ukrainian Club con- A beautiful commemorative program Member Steve Krill provided cher- Saturday, October 23, honorary members tinues to fill a contemporary role in the booklet was assembled by the anniver- ished memories of the early days before of the Ukrainian club sat at the down- sary committee that included John lives of its patrons and members by World War II. He noted how the club was stairs bar while others arrived by way of Suchowacki, Mykola Fil, Peter Urban, meeting a number of different needs. founded in 1929 by a handful of men the side entrance to attend that evening’s Michael Zavisky, Mr. Tysiak, John On the evening of October 23, in addi- who pledged their personal funds to buy banquet and dance to commemorate the Karafanda, Zachary Zendran, John the building materials required to reno- 75th anniversary of the Ukrainian tion to the local patrons, the members of Zendran, John Uruskyj, Andrij Demczar the Ukrainian Club had come together vate the current building. He spoke of a American Citizens Club, or as it’s com- and Gregory Ilnycky. Also a special time with no television and no cars, and monly called – the Ukrainian Club. with their family and friends, as well as thanks was extended to Christine representatives of other local Ukrainian when everyone lived in the immediate The Ukrainian Club is a neighborhood Kostoroski and Cathy Suchowacki, who neighborhood. In one vignette, he told organizations and groups for a special anchor and icon. A number of local non- assembled the program booklet, sold about a time when the Ukrainian Club night. More than 150 people congregated Ukrainians are honorary members, some advertisements for placement in the sponsored a competitive youth baseball to commemorate the 75th anniversary of for decades, and they come in weekly to booklet, and assembled an exhibit of past team that consisted mostly of non- catch-up on each others lives, to learn the Ukrainian Club in Watervliet. club presidents. Ukrainians but that established a sense of what’s happening in the community, Before the banquet and zabava, the The master of ceremonies also took shoot darts, play pool and to watch that members were treated to a sumptuous the opportunity to remind everyone pres- (Continued on page 21) 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 No. 2 No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 21

drous collection of trucks, cars, toy stoves, The gift little tea sets, kites, boxes of colored pen- (Continued from page 6) cils, wooden train sets, metal wind-up toys temporary guardian, we took tentative and a whole zoo of plush animals. bites of this and that, and then, discover- My eye caught the sight of a beautiful, ing how good it all was, we began to eat yellow teddy bear with a red bow around in earnest. Just as I swallowed my last his neck and eyes so lustrous that they mouthful, my plate was replaced by a seemed to be begging me to take him small bowl of ice cream, not the watery home. Just as I took a step in his direction, ersatz stuff in a leaky cone we bought I remembered my little, black-striped vel- from the street vendor, but real vanilla ice vet bear with the luster gone out of his left cream. Oh, what a delight that was. eye, who had accompanied me faithfully Suddenly, there was the sound of jin- on all the cold trains from Lviv to Vienna gling bells, followed by a man’s deep to Berlin. No, I couldn’t abandon him. A voice laughing. A bearded man, all large doll with blue eyes and blond hair, dressed in red, wearing a kind of red ski the size of a real baby, tempted me. But hat trimmed with white fur, was strolling where would I put it? My mother would down the middle isle toward the certainly object to my sleeping with a Christmas tree. thing that size in my bunk bed. Our teacher had told us that there Just as my guardian was beginning to would be a visit by St. Nicholas. But this despair over my indecision, I spotted a man with a big belly didn’t look anything wooden doll stroller with a bent plywood like St. Nicholas. The one who had visit- seat and little painted wooden wheels. ed our school, wore a bishop’s miter and Now, I knew I had no doll, but even my lit- vestments, carried a golden crosier and tle black Teddy-Meddy would do all right was accompanied by angels drawing a sil- in it. Astounded at my own audacity I ver sled filled with gifts for good chil- pointed at the blessed thing. Almost imme- dren. True enough, the man in the red suit diately it appeared in front of me and with did have a white beard and helpers. my hands grasping the handle bar firmly I Except they were not angels, but ladies then approached the jolly old man in a red wearing red hats with white pom-poms. suit sitting in the large armchair near the And why was the fat man laughing all the tree. Chuckling softly, he stroked my head time? Saints don’t laugh. They are busy gently, said something, and then gave me a praying, preaching and writing down our brown paper bag full of goodies. good deeds in a big book. And then how On the trip back to the displaced per- would this jolly, old man know what I sons’ camp I was gripped by fear of hav- had written in my letter to St. Nick? He ing my precious new possession damaged. didn’t have angels with big wings who So, like a canopy with wheels pointing picked up letters tied with red yarn from straight up, I held the stroller right over second-story windowsills, did he? my head all the way home. When the back Before I was able to puzzle out all of the truck was opened, the soldiers these issues the children at my table were brought us and our cargo carefully down being shepherded by Santa’s helpers to the white gravel of the former German towards the Christmas tree. By the time army parade square. Placing the now we had crossed the shiny floor and stood crumpled paper bag in the stroller, I at the foot of the enormous tree, I had to searched the waiting crowd for a familiar wipe my wet palms on the hem of my face. Before I was able to spot her, my skirt twice. As soon as the children ahead mother, eyes bright with unshed tears, of me had moved off, I saw for myself rushed toward me, swooped me into her what had been holding them up. The arms, threw her head back and laughed, whole floor around the tree, kilometers and laughed. It was amazing, because I and kilometers, was covered with toys. did not know that she could laugh. Nothing was wrapped, nothing was Once she released me, she peered into labeled, and everything was there to be the brown paper bag, took out one of the seen, to be enjoyed, and to be chosen. fragrant oranges and exchanging a con- Our teacher had told us that each child spiratorial look with me, started peeling was allowed to take one thing and one it. As we walked toward Block No. 2, we thing only. As if they knew that our senses didn’t talk because we were too busy were numbed by the sight, Santa’s helpers savoring the sweetness of the fruit and walked us slowly past the whole won- the lightness of joy.

eration woud find new meaning in their Watervliet’s... lives, build common bonds, and even (Continued from page 19) find a way to make the club grow and Ukrainian identity. prosper. Mr. Mochulsky spoke about the The evening was highlighted by the Ukrainians that came after World War II. unveiling of a 75th anniversary com- He told what it was like to come to a memorative plaque with a photograph of strange land, without the benefit of an the current club members and an extended family, and without knowing inscribed listing of the full membership. how to speak English. He stressed how As the senior member of the club, Nick the people “na novii immigratsiyi” relied Zavisky had the honor of unveiling the on the good will and assistance of the plaque, which will be permanently earlier immigration. He concluded by mounted in the club as the members highlighting how the new immigrants await the time when the club will cele- gave new life and purpose to the brate its 100th anniversary in 2029. Ukrainian Club. For many of these immi- As the banquet came to a close with a grants, the friendships made through the reading of congratulatory cards and let- Ukrainian Club enabled them to have the ters from Ukrainian organizations and extended family that they were forced to groups from across the Capital District of leave in Ukraine. New York State, the music started. The The final speaker, John Uruskyj, spoke zabava kicked off with non-stop dance from the “baby boomer” perspective, music by the Lviviany from New Jersey pointing out that, as in the past, the club and continued, in typical Ukrainian fash- is still a place where the new wave of ion, long into the night. immigrants from Ukraine can find friend- All the while the World Series baseball ly faces and their native language as they game between the Boston Red Sox and transition and adapt to life in the United St. Louis Cardinals was watched down- States. He also highlighted the need for stairs by people from the neighborhood his peers – the “molodi” – to become and members who skipped out between active in the club and the greater dances to catch the score. All in all, it Ukrainian American community. By was a time to reflect and a time to look becoming more active, the younger gen- ahead. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 No. 2

Ludmilla Yefimenko, wife of Mr. a glimpse of Hetman Mazepa in his full sion of the film can attest that the film, “A Prayer...” Ilyenko). Mazepa then rises from his glory, if for no reason but to give a while highly imaginative and inventive, (Continued from page 15) watery cross, and enveloped in an undu- greater sense of drama to his fall, the neither uncovers historic truth, nor most original of death beds – a shallow lating toga-like, red satin sheet walks off film inundates the audience with a frenzy makes a convincing connection between the screen. Even if this sleazy, tawdry cross-shaped bathtub cut into a white of action that explains little about the Eros and political power. All the horses interpretation of Mazepa’s death were man or the conflict. The demonization of marble floor. What does this hetman, this and all the king’s men in the film cannot acceptable, there is no justification for Tsar Peter I does nothing to address the leader of a nation, this prince of the Holy put Mazepa’s deconstructed picture debasing the cross, the symbol of conflicting historic perceptions of either Roman Empire, this consummate politi- together again because Mr. Ilyenko sim- Christianity. The film’s dabbling in reli- Hetman Mazepa, or Peter the Great, for ply does not provide enough insights to cian and negotiator think of at life’s end? gious images, without an apparent under- that matter. What’s more, the demonic create a new, convincing portrait of a Despite his musings over the Battle of standing of their meaning, trivializes and violence is allowed to dominate the film, complex man. To my mind, that’s a curi- Poltava and Peter the Great, his mind is insults religious faith and religious sym- so much so, that it is difficult to discern ous way to go about getting support for fixed on sex and “a climactic orgy bols. whose point of view is the story propa- the comeback of the Ukrainian film epic. sequence which seems to have no appar- In the end, “A Prayer for Hetman gating: Mazepa’s or Peter’s. Neither the Conor Humphries in evaluating the ent purpose” (Stratton). In fact, he dies in Mazepa” offers not so much a new vision violation of Mazepa’s portrait, sarcopha- state of the Ukrainian cinema quotes a sexual embrace with a nearly naked or a new myth, as a vigorous variation on gus and effigy, nor the untrue and often Mashenko, the director of Kyiv’s blond warrior goddess (the ubiquitous the old theme. Instead of offering at least repeated story of Mazepa being tarred Dovzhenko Studio as saying “We have and feathered (see Theodore Mackiw, had 10 years of an uncensored, free cre- èãÄëíéÇÖ èãÖå’ü “English Reports on Mazepa 1687- ative process, with nobody controlling it. 1709,” Ukrainian Historic Association) ... Occasionally, however, we confuse ◊èÖêòß ëíÖÜß“ contribute to a better understanding of creative freedom with an absence of the Kozak era leader. After decades of responsibility for what we do. We need Soviet obscurantism, one would think to decide whether or not our audience Á‡ÔðÓ¯Ûπ ÛÍð‡ªÌÒ¸ÍÛ „ðÓχ‰Û ̇ that what the Ukrainian community needs something without the aid of cen- needs is clarification, not more dema- sorship” (The Ukrainian Weekly, August gogy, albeit one tinted with nationalism. 25, 2002). While Mr. Mashenko’s frank- á ì ë í ê ß ó True enough, no one expects a film of ness is refreshing, it is also very interest- á ì ë í ê ß ó this magnitude to offer the audience, as ing that the studio which produced “A Prof. Shevchuk puts it, “the shallow sat- Prayer for Hetman Mazepa” is more con- ¥Á ÒÔÓÒÚÂ𥄇˜‡ÏË ‚Ë·Ó𥂠3-Óª ÚÛðË ‚ ìÍð‡ªÌ¥, isfaction of a proverbial happy ending.” cerned with the choice between a cen- flÍ¥ ÔÓ‰¥ÎflÚ¸Òfl Á ÔðËÒÛÚÌ¥ÏË After all, it is about history and history sored and an uncensored product, than Ò‚ÓªÏË ‚ð‡ÊÂÌÌflÏË Ú‡ ÔÂðÂÊË‚‡ÌÌflÏË. offers few happy endings. But, neither is with defining its objective, that is, defin- it necessary to subject the audience to so ing its responsibility in the development much violence and anger that the theater áÛÒÚ𥘠‚¥‰·Û‰ÂÚ¸Òfl of Ukrainian culture. seems redolent with their miasma. An Yet, culture is the most accessible of even-handed, dynamic evaluation of the ‚ ̉¥Î˛, 16 Ò¥˜Ìfl 2005 ð., Ó „Ó‰. 2-¥È ÔÓ ÔÓÎ. nation-building tools. Mykola Ryabchuk, two main characters and their conflicting who is passionately interested in the interests played out against the colorful ‚ ·Û‰ËÌÍÛ çíò, 63 4-Ú‡ A‚ÂÌ˛, ‚ ç˛-âÓðÍÛ. development of a national Ukrainian tapestry of the shifting European identity, believes that in the transforma- alliances, large-scale wars and fiery rebellions, could have produced an tion of, as he puts it, “an inert, amor- unforgettable, tense drama in which the phous mass into a developed civic socie- clashing of wills and swords changes our ty, united not so much by its common perception of that part of history. past, as by its common future. ... can What is new in Mr. Ilyenko’s interpre- only be achieved through the implemen- 79 tation of Mazepa’s story is the introduc- tation of progressive economic, political Á‡ ÙÛÌÚ¢ tion of nudity and sex. Some critics, ... reforms together with various con- most notably Olha Briukhovetska, sug- sciousness-raising cultural programs” gest that Mr. Ilyenko wants to jolt (Dylema Ukrainskoho Fausta: Hromadske Suspilstvo i Rozbudova Ç Ì‡¯Ëı Íð‡ÏÌˈflı ÏÓÊ̇ Ôðˉ·‡ÚË ‡‚¥flÍ‚ËÚÍË ‚ ìÍð‡ªÌÛ Ukrainian audiences out of their prudish- Derzhavy, Krytyka’, Kyiv, 2000). There Ú‡ Á ìÍð‡ªÌË, ÁðÓ·ËÚË ‚¥ÁË ‰Ó ìÍð‡ªÌË. ness. Surely, no one is so naive as to ÑÓ ‚Ë·ÓðÛ 99 ‚Á¥ðˆ¥‚ ıÛÒÚÓÍ! believe that Ukrainians go rigid with is no better medium than cinema for íÂÎÂÙÓÌÌ¥ ͇ðÚÍË: 100 ı‚. ðÓÁÏÓ‚Ë ¥Á ìÍð‡ªÌÓ˛ Á‡ $10. shock at the mention of sex. Even in the bringing the achievements of history, lit- puritanical Soviet movie industry Serhii erature, art, geography, religion, econom- NEWARK, NJ CLIFTON, NJ PHILADELPHIA Paradjanov’s characters in “Shadows of ics, music and science to any audience. 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The men in the film are comings of the film, as the passion that it inevitably violent and virile, while the elicited because all the hot debates, criti- women are categorized as either sex cal reviews, allegations and denials, are objects, or as vague figures in witnesses to one fact: culture matters. diaphanous white robes being carted off “Molytva Za Hetmana Mazepu” (A to the nunnery. One cannot help but won- Prayer for Hetman Mazepa). Kyiv: der: just how do these ideas fit in with Vision XXI Media Group and Alexander the creation of a new nation-building Dovzhenko National Production. myth? Produced by Ihor Diakovsky; written and Ukrainian communities in North directed by Yuri Ilyenko; production America are upset with “A Prayer for designer: Serhiy Yakutovych; music: Hetman Mazepa” for other reasons as Virko Baley; costume designer: well. While the process of deconstruc- Volodymyr Furyk; time: 2 hrs., 34 min. tion is interesting and Mr. Ilyenko is having a lot of fun, it is, one suspects, at the expense of the community. For one thing, apparently different versions of the film were seen by different audi- UUARC to aid ences, with the result that one never knew which version of the film was tsunami victims being discussed. For another, Mr. PHILADELPHIA – The United Ilyenko’s insistence during his personal Ukrainian American Relief Committee appearances and in his interview with Inc. (UUARC) is accepting donations for Valentyn Labunsky (Meest, January 22, aid to victims of the tsunami that has 2004) that “making a film is above all a devastated Asia. search for truth” and that “erotica Readers may donate online at enhance the portrait of Mazepa,” alienat- www.uuarc.org or mail donations to: ed many people. UUARC Inc. – Tsunami Victims, 1206 Anyone who has seen the uncut ver- Cottman Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19111. 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Hillside children welcome St. Nicholas with special program HILLSIDE, N.J. – St. Nicholas made a spe- Sorokas sang several Ukrainian Christmas cial visit to children and adults at Immaculate “koliady” expressing the great joy of the Conception Ukrainian Catholic Parish here on Savior’s birth. Sunday, December 5, 2004. He was especially Odarka Polanskyj Stockert further nurtured pleased to see so many good children and “lit- the Christmas spirit by playing several inter- tle angels” waiting to greet him. national Christmas carols on the harp. A high- In honor of St. Nicholas, several children light of her performance came when her and adults presented a bilingual holiday daughter Sophika joined her by playing her entertainment program. Children’s perform- very own harp. ances included the following: reading of “The Mike Szpyhulsky served as emcee. Russ Legend of the Christmas Tree” (Krista Pencak served as liaison to St. Nicholas. Erakovic and Nadia Szpyhulsky); recitation of Jessica Boudreau, Alexa Curren, Ariana and the poem “The Cat and Snow” (Julianna Julianna Shatynski, Marichka Soroka, Sophika Shatynski); singing of “Silent Night” (Sophika and Ariadna Stockert and Oksana Zaviysky and Ariadna Stockert); musical performance served as “angel helpers” to St. Nicholas. St. of koliady with a harp (Sophika Stockert); and Nicholas commented that it was a great privi- Christmas greeting and skit (Sofiyka and lege to have so many “angel helpers” this Marichka Soroka). year. The Christmas greeting and skit were a spe- Hillside’s beloved new pastor, Father Joe cial addition to this year’s program. The Szupa, was present to lead the group in prayer Soroka sisters essentially brought the audi- and koliady. At the end of the program, Father ence back in time to over 2,000 years ago. In Joe asked the audience to sing the Ukrainian Ukrainian, Sofiyka and Marichka recreated a national anthem, “Shche Ne Vmerla conversation between an angel and a shep- Ukraina,” in honor of our brothers and sisters herd heralding the birth of our Savior – Jesus. in Ukraine who were experiencing difficult Sofiyka and Marichka Soroka perform a skit. Throughout the spirited conversation, the times during the presidential election. Mishanyna To solve this month’s Mishanyna, played a key role in formulating vote, while Mr. Yanukovych had 44 Mr. Yushchenko is married to a find the words capitalized in the fol- Ukraine’s monetary policies. percent. The candidate whose cam- Ukrainian from the United States, lowing text hidden within the He was appointed PRIME MIN- paign slogan was “TAK!” (Yes) suc- KATERYNA Chumachenko, and Mishanyna grid. ISTER of Ukraine in December ceeded in winning, but he credited the Yushchenkos have three chil- 1999 and in that post succeeded in the people of Ukraine – hundreds dren. (Mr. Yushchenko also has two On December 26, the people of spurring the country’s economic of thousands, and even millions, of children from a previous marriage.) UKRAINE elected VIKTOR growth. However, his policies were whom came out to support him in Just last month TIME magazine Yushchenko as president. He is disliked by too many people who public demonstrations in Kyiv and named Mr. Yushchenko one of the Ukraine’s third PRESIDENT since were interested in keeping things as other cities throughout Ukraine. “PEOPLE Who Mattered 2004.” the country proclaimed its inde- they were and Mr. Yushchenko was pendence in 1991. dismissed as prime minister in Mr. YUSHCHENKO, who is 50 April 2001. O A R E T S I N I M E M I R P years old, was born in the SUMY During the elections for N O R T H I S I S N V O A L R region of Ukraine – that’s in the Ukraine’s Parliament in March country’s NORTH. His father was a 2002, Mr. Yushchenko’s coalition, A R K A N D R E A M I O N V E soldier in World War II and was called OUR Ukraine, succeeded in T L A Z R O L B A N K R Y I S sent to the Auschwitz Nazi death winning many seats. The coalition camp as a prisoner of war. has acted as an OPPOSITION to I A N N U P E L E N T T R Y I Mr. Yushchenko graduated from the administration of President O N A I O I L E E O O R E Y D Ternopil Institute of Finance with a Leonid Kuchma. degree in accounting and econom- Mr. Yushchenko ran against the N P D E N E E H L U R I T A E ics. He also completed a graduate CANDIDATE chosen by President degree in FINANCE and credit at Kuchma to succeed him, Prime A O P A R T C I E R A R A U N the Ukrainian Institute of Minister Viktor Yanukovych. It was L O N O C H A R C O D A K R T Economics and Agricultural a tough and bitter campaign, and Organization. Mr. Yushchenko suffered DIOXIN A C D I S I D U T R A R O D O He then worked as an accountant poisoning, apparently as a result of E R T U S I D T I R A Y M U S at a collective farm before going an attempt to either kill him or into banking. After working in that remove him from the campaign. R K Y I V A T H O I R O I D T field in the Sumy region and then On December 26, in the THIRD K Y I V O I T I N I X O I D A in the capital city, KYIV, he became round of voting in Ukraine’s 2004 chairman of the NATIONAL BANK presidential ELECTION, Mr. O I R O M S E E O R G A N I R of Ukraine. In that position he Yushchenko won 52 percent of the O V L E T A D I D N A C R E W 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005 No. 2

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Wednesday, January 19 which was founded in Philadelphia in Soyuzivka’s Datebook 1925. NEW YORK: You are cordially invited February 4-6, 2005 February 19-20, 2005 to attend the New York debut of Trio 56 – WINDHAM, N.Y.: An exhibition of Church of Annunciation Family Family Winter Weekend and Ski Trip Vladimir Valjarevic, piano; Stephen paintings and sculpture by Natalia Weekend, Flushing N.Y. Miahky, violin; and Ole Eirik Ree, cello. Pohrebinska will open at the Roshkowska March 5-6, 2005 Trio 56 will appear in performance at Gallery, 5338 Main St. The opening of the February 11-13, 2005 Plast Kurin “Khmelnychenky” Steinway Hall in a program of works by monthlong exhibition will be held at 4-6 Valentine’s Day Weekend Annual Winter Rada Brahms, Martinu, Sheng, Mozart and p.m. For gallery hours and more informa- Schoenfield. There is no admission tion, call (518) 734-9669. Ms. charge, so bring along your family and Pohrebinska, an artist and antiques dealer, friends to hear these fine musicians. lives and works in Lexington, N.Y., in the Steinway Hall is located at 109 W. 57th Stone House. St.; performance time is 8 p.m. For addi- tional information contact Mr. Miahky, Thursday, January 27 (908) 420-2748. EDMONTON: The Canadian Institute of Saturday, January 22 Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) will host a lec- ture by Dr. Natalie Kononenko, Kule CARTERET, N.J.: St. Demetrius Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography, depart- Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral and St. ment of modern languages and cultural Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church are co- studies, University of Alberta. The lecture, sponsoring a New Year’s Eve dance or, which will be accompanied by a digital Malanka, which will be held at the St. presentation, is titled “Soviet Ritual/Post- Demetrius Community Center, 681 Soviet Ritual: Undoing Social Roosevelt Ave. Music will be by Fata Engineering?” It will be held in the Morgana. Tickets, at $40, include admis- Heritage Lounge, Athabasca Hall, at 3:30 sion, choice of sirloin beef or stuffed capon p.m. For additional information call CIUS, dinner, beer, wine, soda, midnight hors (780) 492-2972, or e-mail d’ouevres and a champagne toast. There [email protected]. will also be a cash bar. St. Demetrius Center is located just blocks off of Exit 12, ADVANCE NOTICE N.J. Turnpike. There is a Holiday Inn right off the exit for accommodations. Doors Saturday, February 5 will open at 6 p.m. Dinner will be served at LOS ANGELES: The California 7 p.m., with music starting at 8 p.m. For Association to Aid Ukraine invites you to table and ticket reservations, call Peter plan a weekend getaway in sunny, southern Prociuk, (732) 541-5452. Tickets will not California in February. CAAU will host the be sold at the door. Deadline for ticket annual Ball and Presentation of Debutantes sales is January 15. on Saturday, February 5, at the Hilton Hotel, in Glendale, Calif. All proceeds are designat- MANALAPAN, N.J.: Ukrainian National ed for the support of the “Wheelchairs for Women’s League of America (UNWLA) Ukraine” program. The formal affair includes Branch 9, Holmdel-Middletown, N.J., and cocktail hour, silent auction, dinner and danc- the Monmouth County Library are co- ing to the music of Vorony. Tickets: $95, sponsoring a Ukrainian Arts and Crafts adults; $85, students. Mail checks for tickets exhibit in the upper lobby of the library to CAAU, c/o Marta Mykytyn-Hill, 1219 Via during the month of January. The exhibit Arroyo, Ventura, CA 93003. Lodging is opened January 4 and will be on view available at the hotel, subject to availability; through January 30. Library hours: call (818) 956-5466 for reservations (please Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.- 9 p.m.; Friday- refer to group “CAAU”). With other Saturday, 9 a.m-5 p.m.; and Sunday, 1-5 inquiries call Luba Keske, (818) 884-3836, pm. On January 29, the documentary film or Shannon Micevych, (818) 774-9378. “Harvest of Despair,” which deals with the 1932-1933 Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, CANCELLATION will be shown at the library, 125 Symmes Drive, (off Route 9 South). A discussion SOMERSET, N.J.: The New Year’s Eve and refreshments will follow the film Malanka sponsored by the Committee for screening. For more information call the Aid to Ukraine, Central New Jersey library, (732) 431-7220, or the UNWLA Branch, which was to have been held branch office, (732) 441-9530. UNWLA Saturday, January 15, at the Ukrainian Branch 98, which was established in 1988, Cultural Center, 135 Davidson Ave., has is hosting the program in celebration of been cancelled. For information call Being Ukrainian means: the 80th anniversary of the UNWLA, Michael Shulha, (908) 534-6683. J Malanka in January. J Deb in February. PREVIEW OF EVENTS GUIDELINES J Sviato Vesny or Zlet in May. Preview of Events is a listing of Ukrainian community events open to J Tabir in July. J the public. It is a service provided at minimal cost ($20 per listing) by Volleyball at Wildwood in August. The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian community. J Labor Day at Soyuzivka in September. 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New Jersey UCCA sponsors gathering for election monitors SUBSCRIPTION PASSAIC, N.J. – The New Jersey of those who supported the elections in NAME: ______Coordinating Council of the Ukrainian Ukraine, and offer a special thanks to the NAME: (please type or print) Congress Committee of America is invit- volunteer election observers for their ADDRESS: ______ing all election observers from the state efforts in securing the a democratic elec- of New Jersey who took part in the first, tion process for Ukraine. CITY: ______STATE: ______ZIP CODE: ______second and third rounds of the presiden- The event will take place at the tial election in Ukraine, as well as every- Ramada Hotel, 130 Route 10 (west- PHONE (optional) ______one in the Ukrainian American communi- bound), East Hanover, N.J., on Sunday, J J UNA member subscription price — $45.00/yr. Non-member subscription price — $55.00/yr. ty, to a “thank you” gathering. January 9, beginning at 2:30 p.m. The purpose of this meeting, accord- Complimentary coffee and sweets will UNA Branch number ______ing to John Burtyk, president of the New be served without cover charge. Mail to: Subscription Department, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 Jersey Coordinating Council, is to foster For information readers may call the exchange of thoughts and experiences Michael Koziupa at (973) 451-0200.