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ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXVI No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 $2.00 Kremlin rejects mother’s request Movie about last days of dissident for pardon of Oleh Sentsov Vasyl Stus’s life mired in controversy RFE/RL The deputy speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament, Iryna Herashchenko, criticized The Kremlin has rejected a request by the Kremlin’s response to Ms. Sentsova’s the mother of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh request, calling it “cynical” and noting that Sentsov to pardon her son and release him other prominent Ukrainian citizens jailed from a Russian prison. in Russia – Nadiya Savchenko, Akhtem Ukraine’s Hromadske TV showed the Chiygoz and Ilmi Umerov – were pardoned Kremlin’s written answer to Lyudmyla and released without officially requesting a Sentsova late on August 14 – revealing that pardon. her July 13 request for a pardon was reject- “The Kremlin is lying!... [Russian ed on the grounds that Russian law requires President Vladimir] Putin knows that Oleh that “a convicted individual must ask for [Sentsov] will never ask for clemency,” Ms. clemency personally.” Herashchenko said. “The Russian Mr. Sentsov has previously said that he Federation is implementing the scenario will not ask for a pardon because he for the eventual murder of Oleh.” believes he was jailed on politically motivat- ed charges and has not committed a crime. (Continued on page 10) stusfilm.com.ua Ukrainian actor Dmytro Yaroshenko during a scene in which he portrays Ukrainian poet and human rights defender Vasyl Stus for a movie that is scheduled to premiere “Glory to Ukraine” to become on February 28, 2019. by Mark Raczkiewycz statement published on August 12 on the civic group Ukrainian Choice’s website. official greeting of armed forces KYIV – Controversy is swirling over a Mr. Medvedchuk, a current arbiter in the biopic film about the last days of Ukrainian failed Minsk peace process that seeks to poet and human rights activist Vasyl Stus, end the Donbas war that Russia started, is who died in 1985 at the age of 47 in a under U.S. sanctions for “threatening the forced labor camp, where he was impris- peace, security, stability, sovereignty or ter- oned for defying Soviet authorities and ritorial integrity” of his country. advocating Ukraine’s self-determination. Activists, including members of the legal Civic and governmental pressure fol- community, assert that Mr. Medvedchuk lowed after August 10, when the wider pub- failed to properly defend Stus during his lic discovered that the filmmakers of the second show trial in 1980. The political movie, “Stus,” had excluded courtroom prisoner died five years later in the Soviet scenes with the dissident’s Soviet-appointed gulag. public defender, Viktor Medvedchuk, that Oleg Babanin, the spokesman for Mr. were initially part of the screenplay. Medvedchuk’s Ukrainian Choice group, Ukrainian actor Genadii Popenko, who which also played a prominent role in unsuccessfully tried to be cast for the role of advocating for the Kremlin’s illegal take- the poet, learned that the scenes had been over of the Ukrainian territory of Crimea in Mykola Lazarenko/Presidential Administration of Ukraine removed after talking to the movie’s actors 2014, didn’t respond to a request for com- During a visit to the state enterprise Artem in Kyiv, President Petro Poroshenko and shared the information on his Facebook ment. announces that “Glory to Ukraine – Glory to the Heroes” will become the official timeline the same day. (Actor Dmytro Meanwhile, the dissident poet’s son, military greeting of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Yaroshenko was given the lead role.) Dmytro Stus, reneged on his February The social-media post garnered more KYIV – The words “Glory to Ukraine – duction of the words “Glory to Ukraine” promise to the film’s co-producer, Artem than 13,000 shares in less than three days. Denisov, and director, Roman Brovko, to not Glory to the Heroes” will be used as mili- and the response “Glory to the Heroes” Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman tary greetings for the first time on August (Slava Ukraini – Heroyam Slava) as an interfere with the movie about his father subsequently ordered the Ministry of after the revelation that the scene depicting 24 – Ukraine’s Independence Day – dur- official military greeting was thoroughly Culture and state-run movie company ing the parade in honor of the 27th anni- discussed with servicemen and veterans Mr. Medvedchuk would be included. Derzhkino to ensure that “the history of my versary of the re-establishment of the of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) As the copyright owner of his father’s fellow countryman – a true patriot and fight- country’s independence, President Petro before the decision was made. written works, Dmytro Stus said in an er for Ukraine’s freedom, Vasyl Stus, is con- Poroshenko informed the news media. Mr. Poroshenko noted that the greet- August 15 telephone interview with The veyed honestly, truthfully and without dis- “We have consulted with the minister of ing will be enshrined officially in docu- Ukrainian Weekly that now he won’t give tortion.” defense, the National Security and Defense ments to be approved by the Verkhovna permission to cite his father’s poetry in the The next day, “Stus” filmmakers Council, the government, and I have decid- Rada once it begins its next session in movie. ed that starting from August 24 these early September, as this requires changes announced that they would shoot the cour- “It’s because of moral and ethical rea- words will be heard for the first time as to the statutes of all the troops of the toom scenes that were omitted, according sons,” he said without offering an explana- part of the official military parade ceremo- Armed Forces of Ukraine. After the com- to their official Facebook page. tion. ny on the Independence Day of Ukraine,” pletion of the proper procedures, “these Concurrently, through his lawyer, Mr. In 2013, Dmytro Stus was a jury member Mr. Poroshenko said during his visit on words and this greeting will become the Medvedchuk – a political heavyweight who for a poetry contest that Mr. Medvedchuk’s August 9 to the state-owned joint-stock official military greeting of the Armed boasts Russian President Vladimir Putin as Ukrainian Choice had organized, according company Artem, part of Ukroboronprom, Forces of Ukraine,” President Poroshenko the godfather to his daughter, and who to a YouTube video published on March 27, which unites enterprises of Ukraine’s stated. headed Ukrainian ex-President Leonid 2013. In the clip, Mr. Stus is seen criticizing military-industrial complex. Source: Presidential Administration of Kuchma’s staff in 2002-2005 – threatened a poetess who critiqued Mr. Medvedchuk The president added that the intro- Ukraine. to sue the film’s makers should the scenes misrepresent him. His reaction came in a (Continued on page 22) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 No. 33

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NATO summit puts Black Sea strategy U.N. experts: release Sentsov Maidan protesters by riot police in Kyiv. The pro-European Union protests were trig- United Nations experts have called on the gered by Mr. Yanukovych’s decision to scrap on hold for another year Russian government to “immediately and plans for a landmark trade accord with the unconditionally release” Oleh Sentsov, a composition and contributing countries, EU. Dozens of people were killed when the by Vladimir Socor jailed Ukrainian filmmaker who has been on authorities attempted to clamp down on Eurasia Daily Monitor equipment, training and readiness, or the hunger strike in a Russian penal colony for scale and frequency of exercises. the protests. Shortly after he fled, Russia more than three months. In an August 15 seized Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and Part I The communiqué helps to illuminate statement, the U.N. experts expressed “grave some of those differences. Allied forces in fomented opposition to the central govern- concern” for Mr. Sentsov’s “physical and ment in eastern Ukraine – leading to an The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are mental integrity.” The statement said: (NATO) recent summit in Brussels (July “combat-ready, battalion-sized battle- ongoing war between Ukrainian govern- “Sentsov’s life is in imminent danger. His ment forces and Russia-backed separatists 11-12) was a landmark event whose agenda groups, able to operate alongside national hunger strike follows a trial and a conviction and decisions clearly identified Russia as the home defense forces,” numbering more that has killed more than 10,300 people. that has fallen short of international law. We After closing arguments on August 16, main source of threats and challenges to the than 4,500 troops drawn “from across the urge Russian authorities to unconditionally alliance. The summit’s balance sheet is a alliance.” Whereas, in the Black Sea region Judge Vladyslav Devyatko adjourned the release him as a matter of urgency.” The call Yanukovych trial until September 13. (RFE/ mixture of significant accomplishments and (Romania), “a multinational framework from the U.N. experts came a day after unfinished business left over from years past, brigade for training allies’ land forces is RL, based on reporting by Gordon.ua and Ukrainian Hromadske TV showed the Ukrayinska Pravda) notably in the Black Sea region and NATO’s now in place, and work is under way to fur- Kremlin’s written answer to a pardon eastern neighborhood. ther develop the brigade’s capacity” (Nato. request made on July 13 by Mr. Sentsov’s OSCE posts video of truck convoys int, para. 25, July 11). While the United mother, Lyudmyla Sentsova. The reply said The Brussels Summit decisions turned States, Canada, the United Kingdom and her pardon request was rejected on grounds The official European monitoring mis- out to be unproductive for NATO in the Germany lead as framework nations in that Russian law requires that “a convicted sion in eastern Ukraine has for the first Black Sea region. Brussels marked a barely Poland and the Baltic region, Romania itself individual must ask for clemency personal- time posted video footage showing convoys perceptible advance beyond the 2016 leads as the framework nation in the Black ly.” Mr. Sentsov has previously said that he of trucks crossing from Russia into Ukraine and from Ukraine into Russia through a Warsaw Summit’s decisions in terms of Sea region. And while the brigade’s head- will not ask for a pardon because he believes back road that has no border guards. “The NATO presence, and (on the public record quarters in Romania includes multinational he was jailed on politically motivated charg- Mission’s long-range unmanned aerial at least) showed no staff from other es and has not committed a crime. A vocal vehicle spotted convoys of trucks entering fresh approaches to NATO countries, the opponent of Russia’s 2014 takeover of and exiting Ukraine via a dirt track where strategy in the Black While Russia does troops in place are Crimea, Mr. Sentsov was sentenced to 20 there are no border crossing facilities in a Sea region. Romania, local Romanians. years in prison after being convicted by a not border directly on nongovernment-controlled area of Donetsk the alliance’s recog- The summit’s com- Russian court in 2015 of conspiring to com- region in the middle of the night,” the nized top performer NATO member coun- muniqué opens the mit terrorist acts. Human rights groups have Organization for Cooperation and Security in this region, and tries in the Black Sea possibility of further backed Mr. Sentsov’s contention that the in Europe’s Special Monitoring Mission for diplomatically the developing this bri- charges were politically motivated. Several region on land (as it Ukraine (OSCE SMM) said in a report that most proactive, gade’s capacity. governments and prominent figures have for the first time mentions the convoys could not on its own does at sea), Crimea A lingering notion called on Mr. Putin to pardon Mr. Sentsov. seen in a YouTube video that the mission have moved the that the Black Sea (RFE/RL, with reporting by Hromadske) now provides a deep- later posted on August 10. The video, summit’s decisions framework brigade ly protruding plat- Prosecutors seek 15 years for Yanukovych filmed by a drone, was mentioned in a rou- any farther (see should be a “region- tine report documenting cease-fire viola- Eurasia Daily form for Russia’s pow- al” force is another Ukrainian prosecutors in the treason tions in the conflict between Russia-backed Monitor, July 23). er projection forces discrepancy that has trial against ex-President Viktor separatists and Kyiv forces in eastern NATO staffs had to be overcome. into the region. Yanukovych have asked the court in Kyiv to Ukraine, which has killed more than 10,300 prepared strategic “Regional” implies a sentence the pro-Russian former leader to people since 2014. The video is potentially assessments on the framework for exer- 15 years in prison. Prosecutors Ruslan important because it may document claims maritime situation in the Baltic and Black cising troops from regional Black Sea coun- Kravchenko and Maksym Krym made the made repeatedly by Kyiv and its allies in seas, the North Atlantic and the tries or, at best, southern European ones, request on August 16 during closing argu- the West but denied repeatedly by Russia – Mediterranean, for use by the political lead- unlike the “all-of-NATO” battlegroups far- ments of Mr. Yanukovych’s trial in absentia. that Moscow is supplying the separatists ers at the alliance’s top-level meeting in ther north. The Romanian authorities have Mr. Yanukovych has been charged with high with materials – such as weapons, troops, Brussels on July 11-12. The summit’s final been asking NATO allies to commit at least treason, complicity in an aggressive war and ammunition – needed to wage the con- communiqué mentions those assessments company-sized units that would rotate and against Ukraine, and complicity in premedi- flict against the government. Russia has said having been prepared, but not how they exercise with this framework brigade. Such tated activities aimed at altering Ukraine’s it provides food, medicine and other necessi- were put to use by the allied heads of state commitments are voluntary and initiated state borders. He remains in Russia, where ties to needy people living in the eastern and government, or whether the summit bilaterally, country-to-country, and are then he fled in February 2014 amid rising unrest approved any actions on that basis. agreed within NATO. While Romania hosts a following a deadly crackdown against Euro- (Continued on page 12) Specifically, on the Black Sea, the communi- small number of U.S. troops outside the qué merely says that following the earlier NATO framework, this number does not “substantial increase in NATO’s presence begin to offset the imbalance between and maritime activity… further work is NATO’s enhanced presence and its tailored he krainian eekly FOUNDED 1933 required” (Nato.int, paras. 18 and 25, July presence. T U W 11). The disequilibrium described above An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., Within the limitations of the Montreux stems from NATO’s 2016 Warsaw Summit a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. convention, warships belonging to non- decisions, which were a forward leap at Yearly subscription rate: $90; for UNA members — $80. riparian NATO countries enter the Black Sea that time. 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WINDOW ON EURASIA NEWS ANALYSIS West didn’t want to understand Police suspected of involvement Putin’s 2008 war against Georgia in acid attack on civic activist became clear that Ms. Handziuk’s assailant by Paul Goble understand.” Instead it talked about peace- by Halya Coynash had used a concentrated form of sulphuric making by the sides in the conflict instead Kharkiv Human Rights Vladimir Putin’s attack on Georgia in of about repelling the aggressor and occu- Protection Group acid, which the police reported as being 2008 was the “first of the Putin wars of a pier. It was not prepared to call things, double the density of the acid used in car new kind,” Arkady Babchenko says; and the including war and aggression, by their own The criminal investigation initiated by batteries. After the forensic medical assess- West not only did not understand what the names. And to a large extent, it still isn’t the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) into ment was made, the investigation became Kremlin leader was doing but did not want prepared lest it be forced to act forcefully. the recent attack on Kateryna Handziuk one of attempted murder. to understand because then it would have “As a result,” he says, “we have what we suggests that police officers are suspected On August 3, Prosecutor General Yurii had to do something. have.” And what we will continue to have if of involvement in this truly shocking crime. Lutsenko reported having visited Ms. But the West’s denial, the Ukrainian the world continues in denial about what Ms. Handziuk, a well-known civic activist Handziuk in hospital. He wrote that it was journalist says, meant that Mr. Putin’s Mr. Putin’s Russia is all about. But that dan- and assistant to the mayor of Kherson, after hearing her version of the reason for approach in Georgia – the denials, the use gerous trajectory is not only affecting what remains in the Kyiv hospital to which she the attack that he decided to pass the inves- of “puppet quasi-states, and so on – would Moscow does abroad but what Moscow was airlifted a day after sulphuric acid was tigation on to the SBU. The latter have added become his approach in Ukraine and Syria does at home – and perhaps some will be hurled at her on July 31, leaving her with the case to the Single Register of Pre-trial and will be extended to other places unless concerned about that, Mr. Babchenko con- second and third degree burns over 30 per- Investigations, with it described as being and until Western leaders understand what tinues. cent of her upper body. “over the organization of a murder attempt, This was the latest and most dangerous this approach means (kasparov.ru/materi- In 2008, some Russians were able to go carried out with particular brutality, against of many attacks on civic activists over al.php?id=5B6B38ED04072). into the streets with slogans like “I am Kateryna Handziuk, assistant to the mayor recent months, and Ms. Handziuk’s very of Kherson, and undertaken on the commis- Many have suggested that the West’s Georgia.” Today, because Mr. Putin has public criticism of certain people in or sioning by police or state agency staff, with failure to respond to Russian aggression tightened his grip, few will risk doing the linked with the police made it even more the support of separatist organizations in against Georgia led directly to the annexa- same with ones like “I am Ukraine.” That high-profile. the south of Ukraine, in order to destabilize tion of Crimea, the war in the Donbas, and means that Mr. Putin will not be con- The police initially qualified the attack as the socio-political situation in this southern Moscow’s moves in Syria; but Mr. strained by his own population; and if he is “hooliganism,” however that same day, this region of the country.” Babchenko is making a larger and in many going to be stopped from a repetition of his was changed to “causing grave bodily inju- Lawyer Masi Nayyem, who is represent- ways more important point: the West didn’t war in Georgia, outsiders must help. ries in order to intimidate a person”’ (Article They didn’t do enough in Georgia a understand because it did not want to 121 § 2 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code). It soon (Continued on page 10) understand. decade ago; they aren’t yet willing to do “All the technologies Russia is applying enough in Ukraine now. But if they want to now in Ukraine were forged then. The pres- have a peaceful world, they must face their ent-day DPR and LPR [Donetsk and fears, recognize the nature of Moscow’s Luhansk people’s republics] were forged aggression and take steps to repel it rather UCC calls on international community then. The present ‘we’re not there’ lies than allowing Putin a seat at the table to were forged then. The present zombifica- resolve “conflicts.” to act on cases of Sentsov and others tion was born and began to grow there,” Mr. Those “conflicts” are things he as an Babchenko says. aggressor has created. They must be UCC Act) received Royal Assent and became the “Then the world did not understand repelled rather than become the object of law of the land in Canada. The Magnitsky this,” he continues. “It did not want to talks. OTTAWA – The Ukrainian Canadian Act provides “for the taking of restrictive Congress (UCC) has called on Canada and measures in respect of foreign nationals its allies to demand that the Russian gov- responsible for gross violations of interna- ernment immediately release Ukrainian tionally recognized human rights.” To date, political prisoner Oleh Sentsov and the 70 the government of Canada has taken no Russian occupiers continue to destroy other Ukrainians illegally jailed in Russian action against Russian officials responsible prisons. for the illegal imprisonment and egregious “Canada has taken no actions against the violation of human rights of Ukrainian history and culture of Crimean Tatars Russian officials responsible for the illegal political prisoners, the UCC noted. imprisonment and maltreatment of Oleh Mr. Sentsov’s lawyer, Dmitry Dinze, stat- by Paul Goble these artists have been working only to ensure that Crimean Tatar culture survives Sentsov and many other Ukrainian citi- ed that his client’s “condition is extremely The sacking of Bilyal Bilyalov as head of – something Moscow doesn’t want. zens,” stated Paul Grod, national president bad, and that problems have again started with his heart because of the heat last week the Crimean Tatar Academic Musical- “The Kremlin by all available means is of the UCC. “Statements calling on Russia to release these prisoners are not enough. of up to 40 degrees Celsius. His pulse is Dramatic Theater earlier this month on seeking to show that the Crimean Tatars Canada and the international community very weak, his blood pressure low and his trumped-up charges is just the latest move are a people which does not have its own by the Russian occupation forces to under- need to significantly increase pressure heart is not functioning properly. This is history or culture” and that they are not in against a background of problems that have mine and ultimately destroy the history through increased economic and diplomat- fact “an indigenous people of Crimea.” ic sanctions on the Russian regime in order emerged with his kidneys and liver, and he and culture of the Crimean Tatar nation, Instead, Moscow promotes the notion that to ensure that Sentsov and all other illegally is suffering from anemia.” Zair Smedlyayev says. they are “a diaspora” of the Kazan Tatars imprisoned Ukrainians are returned home.” Mr. Sentsov began a hunger strike on May The Crimean Tatar activist tells Kseniya and thus already have their own statehood In October 2017, the Justice for Victims 14 to demand the release of all Ukrainian Kirillova of Radio Svoboda’s Krym.Realii within the Russian Federation. of Foreign Corrupt Officials Act (Magnitsky political prisoners held by Russia. portal that this latest act has become “yet To that end, the occupation forces are another step by the Russian authorities on not only dismissing important cultural fig- the peninsula intentionally directed at the ures, but they are destroying cultural mon- destruction of Crimean Tatar national iden- uments, often in the name of “restoring” Quotable notes tity” (ru.krymr.com/a/unichtozhenie- them as is the case with the khan’s palace “The Kremlin has rejected the plea from Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov’s krymskotatarskoy-kultury-v-krymu/ in Bakhchysarai, or undermining the sur- mother that Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘pardon’ her son. It claims that the 29421671.html). vivability of the Crimean Tatar nation by request must come from Sentsov, although this was not the case when Putin issued All these dismissals have two things in destroying the environment, including common, Mr. Smedlyayev says. On the one decrees ‘pardoning’ three other Ukrainian political prisoners. It also claims, equally water supplies, the nation needs. falsely, that Sentsov is a Russian citizen. hand, those involved have not been guilty of For Moscow, Crimea is needed “in the “The letter from the relevant department within the President’s Administration is “the crimes” that the occupation forces say first instance” only as “a military base.” dated August 3, but has only now been published by Hromadske. ... they are; and on the other, they have not Anything that gets in the way of that must “Russia has, since soon after the arrest of Sentsov, Oleksandr Kolchenko and two engaged in direct political action. Instead, be destroyed, Mr. Smedlyayev says. Ensuring other opponents of annexation, been claiming that Sentsov and Kolchenko ‘automati- that the Crimean Tatars have access to their cally became Russian citizens’, because they did not use the month provided soon Paul Goble is a long-time specialist on own culture or even enough fresh water to after annexation at just four offices for the whole of Crimea to come in person to for- ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia drink are from the Russian perspective mally reject any but Ukrainian citizenship. who has served in various capacities in the obstacles that need to be eliminated. “The hypocrisy is overwhelming. Russia has deported a very large number of U.S. State Department, the Central The activist also points to another factor Ukrainians from their home in Crimea, which it is illegally occupying. In these cases, Intelligence Agency and the International at work against the Crimean Tatars since there has been no suggestion of them ‘automatically’ taking on Russian citizenship; Broadcasting Bureau, as well as at the Voice the occupation began in 2014: Moscow has quite the contrary, the lack of Russian citizenship is being used as a pretext to drive of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio allowed Chinese farmers to come into the them from their homes. In the case of Sentsov and Kolchenko, Russia is using the Liberty and the Carnegie Endowment for peninsula, and they are poisoning the myth about their Russian citizenship as an excuse to deny the men their rights under International Peace. The article above is ground water supplies by their use of Ukrainian and international law. …” reprinted with permission from his blog chemical fertilizers. “This may seriously – Halya Coynash of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, in her article called “Window on Eurasia” (http://windo- harm the ecological situation in Crimea,” “Kremlin uses blatant lies as excuse to not free Oleh Sentsov,” published on August 15. woneurasia2.blogspot.com/). the activist notes. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 No. 33 Sea of troubles: Azov emerging as ‘tinderbox’ in Russia-Ukraine conflict

by Christopher Miller Ukrainian-registered Crimean fishing ves- RFE/RL sel for illegally sailing under the Russian flag and arrested its captain and crew in MARIUPOL, Ukraine – One recent sum- the Sea of Azov – a move one Russian offi- mer morning, four Ukrainian sea guards, cial likened to that of “Somali pirates.” part of the State Border Guard Service, Since then, Russia has stepped up con- peered out from a speeding patrol boat frontation in and around the Azov in a big nicknamed Little Boy. Bubbly pop hits from way. the 1990s blared over the hum of the In early May, Russian border guards sub- engine propelling them through the chop- ordinate to the country’s Federal Security py swells of the Sea of Azov. Service (FSB) reportedly arrested a The airy tunes contrast sharply with the Ukrainian fishing vessel and its crew in the rising tension in this sea, stoked, Ukraine Black Sea, ostensibly for illegally fishing in says, by its powerful and ever-encroaching what it said was Russia’s exclusive econom- foe lurking in the waters: Russia. ic zone. Around six nautical miles from the port In mid-May, following the Crimean of Mariupol, a symbol of that new tension bridge’s completion, Russia reportedly came into view: the Ukrainian armed cut- moved naval vessels including warships ter-class ship Lyubomir, bobbing on the from its Caspian Flotilla to the Sea of Azov, waves. From its top deck, one guard trained citing a need for stepped-up security his eyes on the horizon as another stood Christopher Miller/RFE/RL around the new structure. rigid behind a heavy machine gun on the A view of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov from aboard a Ukrainian Sea Guard patrol boat. Since then, Russia’s FSB has detained lower deck. more than 148 Ukrainian and foreign mer- No Russian naval or border guard ves- trolled it then, before the Ukrainian mili- Bridge construction chant ships – many more than once – and sels were visible that morning. But both tary and its volunteer battalions dislodged interrogated their crew members, Ukrainian have been increased in recent months, so them. Today, fighting continues to rage just Russia launched the opening salvo here officials, port authorities, local shipping they were out there somewhere. 24 kilometers to the east, in the once-quiet in 2016, with its $3.7 billion Crimean companies and experts told RFE/RL. “We have to always be ready,” said Artem seaside town of Shyrokyne. bridge project to link that occupied Such activities have not led to any shots Poliakov, a sea guard and the squadron’s But now tensions are spilling into the Ukrainian peninsula with southern Russia being fired. But the appearance of armed spokesman. sea that washes the 300-kilometer shore- across the Kerch Strait – the gate to the Russian ships and the increased activity of line Ukraine still controls after the annexa- Azov. The move led to stern condemnation its FSB alone mark a dangerous escalation A new flash point tion of Crimea. and sanctions from Kyiv and Western gov- and highlight an imbalance of power at sea Back ashore, in and around Mariupol, a The Sea of Azov, a rich fishing ground in ernments. The European Union in late July that has put Mariupol on edge again. crucial industrial port city with a popula- Soviet times that has been of great strategic added six more Russian companies “We have Russian vessels floating near- tion of around 500,000 that sits roughly importance to independent Ukraine, has involved in the bridge project to its sanc- by, ready to attack from the sea. And each 800 kilometers southeast of Kyiv, it has emerged after months of growing friction tions list. provocation may turn this situation into a been tense since late in the spring of 2014. as the latest flash point in the four-year In March, with the bridge nearing com- Russia-backed separatists briefly con- conflict between Moscow and Kyiv. pletion, Ukrainian authorities detained a (Continued on page 8)

New initiatives at the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation USUF policy recommendations to: stand with the people of Ukraine, support civil society’s WASHINGTON – The U.S.-Ukraine fight against corruption, allow the people of Foundation (USUF), a U.S. 501(c)(3) non- Ukraine to defend themselves, and help vic- profit, non-governmental organization tims of Vladimir Putin’s war. It was broadly established in 1991 to support democracy, distributed and discussed with key mem- a free market and human rights for bers of Congress and the administration. Ukraine, has recently undertaken a variety The foundation has launched a of new initiatives aimed at assisting Biotechnology Initiative to support the Ukraine in its economic reform efforts and development of the highly promising bio- in building a stable, democratic society. tech sector in Ukraine. Over the next few A new leadership structure has been put years, this initiative will be of particular in place to help move these initiatives for- focus for the USUF. The goals of the project ward, including the election of new mem- are to highlight the biotech capabilities of bers to the USUF Board of Directors. The Ukraine, to establish strong scientific links board comprised Roman Popadiuk, chair- between the U.S. and Ukraine, to help iden- man, the first U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine; tify leading scientists and entrepreneurs in Orest Deychakiwsky, vice-chairman, retired Ukraine’s biotech sector, and to facilitate staff member of the U.S. Helsinki business development in the biotech sector Commission; Temuri Yakobashvili, Georgia’s between the U.S. and Ukraine. There will be former ambassador to the U.S.; George a particular effort on identifying and assist- Adrian Karmazyn Masiuk, a retired senior telecommunica- ing promising start-ups. Irene K. Joseph (second from left) receives an award from the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation tions engineer who has worked in support for her generous support of the its Biotech Initiative. Also pictured (from left) are This project has been made possible of NASA, the Department of Defense and the USUF’s Nadia K. McConnell, John A. Kun and Ambassador Roman Popadiuk. through the support of Irene K. Joseph, co- Federal Aviation Administration; Michael founder of the biotechnology company Snytkin, an attorney at Randolph Law; continue as special advisor for strategic works among all sectors of U.S. and Cygnus Technologies. As vice-president for David Rigsby, defense consultant; Bob communications and development. Vera Ukrainian society, and in spurring mutual sales and marketing for over 20 years, she Heath, retired United States Information Andrushkiw continues in her role as vice- investment and business development.” led the company to its peak growth perfor- Agency officer; William Green Miller, former president for external relations. The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation is the initi- mance and market leadership position. U.S. ambassador to Ukraine; and James The board acknowledged the dedication ator of the Friends of Ukraine Network “We are grateful to Ms. Joseph for her sup- O’Beirne, special assistant to the secretary and service of previous board members (FOUN), a non-partisan, informal coalition port and look forward to working with her,” of defense for White House liaison. Jack Heller, Iryna Kurowyckyj and Renata of former ambassadors, leading foreign stated Ms. McConnell. “Ukraine has a Nadia K. McConnell, co-founder of the Zajac. “The Board of Directors greatly policy and international security profes- strong developing biotech sector, and we foundation, will now serve as president of appreciates the service of our past mem- sionals, and other experts who have dealt hope to help move it forward and make it USUF and as a member of the board. John bers,” stated Chairman Popadiuk. “They with key aspects of Ukraine’s relations with an integral part of Ukraine’s economy.” A. Kun will continue as vice-president and were instrumental in the foundation’s suc- the U.S. and the international community. To initiate the project, the foundation and chief operating officer. Markian Bilynskyj cesses over the years and we look forward In 2017 FOUN had four task force areas Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.S. Valeriy will continue to serve as a vice-president to their continuing involvement and guid- of focus: national security; economy and Chaly hosted a luncheon at the Ukrainian and as head of the foundation’s Kyiv office. ance. As a result of our past efforts, the energy; humanitarian; and democracy, civil Embassy in Washington on June 11, which He will also supervise the Pylyp Orlyk foundation is well positioned to move for- society, media and educational develop- included Ms. Joseph as the guest of honor Institute of Democracy in Kyiv, which was ward in helping to continue strengthening ment. FOUN’s 2017 Priority and members of the U.S. government, bio- founded by USUF. Adrian Karmazyn, for- U.S.-Ukraine relations, in assisting Ukraine Recommendations for U.S. Assistance were tech industries and others involved in the mer chief of VOA’s Ukrainian Service, will in its reform process, in expanding net- produced as a practical and actionable set of biotech sector. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 5 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 No. 33

FOR THE RECORD The Ukrainian Weekly UOC-U.S.A. centennial Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland Celebrations continue to mark the centennial of the founding of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A., with the milestone already marked on July 27-28 in on Russian aggression against Georgia South Bound Brook, N.J. Upcoming celebrations include the UOC-U.S.A.’s centennial Following is the full text of the joint com- 2008 Ceasefire Agreement, to engage in a on September 22-23 in Los Angeles for the West Coast, and the annual Family Fest muniqué released by Ukraine, Latvia, constructive manner into the process of on Labor Day weekend (September 1-3) at All Saints Camp in Emlenton, Pa. Lithuania and Poland on August 7. It is Geneva International Discussions (GID), Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada marked its own centennial on reprinted here from the website of Ukraine’s and to enable access by the European August 9-12 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Union Monitoring Mission and the interna- The centennial celebrations were announced by a proclamation that was issued tional human rights monitoring mecha- in 2017 by the hierarchs of the UOC-U.S.A. – Metropolitan Antony and Archbishop 1. We, the representatives of Ukraine, nisms to the occupied territories of Georgia. Daniel. The proclamation notes how Ukrainian immigrants – seeking freedom from Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, have come to 7. We welcome the fact that Georgian “suppression and oppression they had known in their native land” – formed commu- Georgia to commemorate the 10th anniver- people continue to demonstrate strong nities across the United States, erecting churches in large cities at first, and then sary of the Russian military aggression faith and trust in the European and Euro- spreading into suburban areas. against Georgia and reaffirm our unwaver- Atlantic structures. We reaffirm our strong The proclamation states: “…We commemorate all those hierarchs, clergy, monas- ing support for Georgia’s sovereignty, inde- support for Georgia’s sovereign choice to tics and faithful who came before us, sacrificing so much more than most of us do pendence and territorial integrity within its pursue the ultimate goal of membership in 100 years later, for the extension of God’s Kingdom here on earth. Through those internationally recognized borders. the EU and NATO. Even with the occupation first 100 years of our history, our founders and benefactors gave the best of what 2. Ten years ago, leaders of our countries of 20 percent of its territory, Georgia has they had, in order to endure the preservation of our rich spiritual legacy, inherited travelled to Georgia, a European state made very significant progress in imple- from our ancestors, preserving it in a land free of fear, repression and extinction. We whose sovereignty was being brutally vio- menting reforms and has become a reliable thank God for their conviction, dedication and devotion, which continues to inspire lated by Russia, to stand together with its and exemplary partner of both the EU and us to follow their example.” people. NATO. During these celebrations, that proclamation reminds us of the mission of the 3. Our commitment to the values of free- 8. In 2008, the NATO-Georgia Church to work for the salvation of souls and “…to offer healing, comfort, wholeness, dom, democracy and the rule of law as well Commission was established. Since then, spiritual fulfillment and joy as we work together to reveal the beauty of God’s cre- as our respect for the rights of each individ- the mutually beneficial cooperation has ation by proclaiming and living the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” ual and for every country’s sovereign reached an unprecedented level. We wel- An extensive bilingual overview of the history of the UOC-U.S.A. was included in choice is as firm as it was 10 years ago. We come Georgia’s contributions to the the beautiful commemorative books that were distributed at the centennial celebra- reiterate that all states, including Georgia, Alliance’s training mission in Afghanistan tion’s banquet in South Bound Brook. The book traces the Church’s roots from have the right to freely determine their for- and the NATO Response Force. We Ukraine’s declaration of independence in 1918, to the formation of the Ukrainian eign policy and their alliances. The times of acknowledge that the Substantial NATO- Autocephalous Orthodox Church under the leadership of Metropolitan Vasyl limited sovereignty are over in Europe, but Georgia Package is bolstering Georgia’s Lypkivsky in 1921 in Kyiv, to the arrival of Archbishop John Theodorovich in 1924 to consistency and firmness are required to defense reforms, including with the NATO- the United States, the first Sobor in the U.S.A. and the creation of the Archdiocese of protect these values and principles from Georgia Joint Training and Evaluation the American-Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. those who challenge them, sparing no Center. The book underscored the work of Patriarch Mstyslav, then archbishop and later effort to bring the notion of the ‘spheres of 9. We reaffirm that NATO remains the metropolitan of the UOC-U.S.A., who as president of the Consistory during the 1950s influence’ back. cornerstone of our security and collective and 1960s was instrumental in the creation of the Metropolia Center of the UOC- 4. Revisionist powers are not easy to sat- defense, and that our countries stand firm U.S.A. in South Bound Brook, N.J., where the centennial celebrations were held. The isfy, and even more difficult to rely on. Ten in solidarity, committed to develop our center serves as the spiritual, education and cultural center for all Ukrainian years ago, on their journey to Georgia, our cooperation to address better all security Orthodox Christians outside of Ukraine. leaders had stopped in Crimea, Ukraine. concerns and contribute to the Alliance’s Archbishop Msytyslav was also described as the “driving force” for the unification Today the repetition of this route was not tasks. In this context, we welcome the of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America and the American Ukrainian Orthodox possible because of the illegal annexation NATO Brussels Summit Declaration (11 Church of the U.S.A. during the 1950s into the UOC-U.S.A. of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and July 2018), by which all 29 allies recon- The Metropolia complex today includes St. Andrew Memorial Church, St. Andrew the city of Sevastopol by Russia. firmed that Georgia will become a member Cemetery grounds, the Sisterhood hall, the historic Fischer House and Fischer family 5. Ten years after the Russian military of NATO. graveyard, St. Sophia Theological Seminary building (including Three Hierarchs aggression against Georgia, Russia still has 10. We acknowledge with satisfaction Chapel), St. Sophia Library, the Ukrainian Cultural Center, the Ukrainian History and not implemented its commitments towards that the Euro-integration related reforms Education Center, the Consistory administrative offices, St. Andrew Bookstore and Georgia, as agreed under the 12 August have consolidated Georgia’s position of a St. Andrew Ukrainian School. 2008, Ceasefire Agreement. Consequently, strategic partner of the EU in the region, Patriarch Msystlav’s crypt is located beneath St. Andrew Memorial Church at Holy Georgian regions of Abkhazia and and of a front-runner within the Eastern Resurrection Mausoleum, along with historic personal items. Tskhinvali/South Ossetia are still de facto Partnership, among countries who have The book also includes descriptions of the various Church organizations, a parish occupied by Russia and the creeping annex- concluded the Association Agreement, and clergy directory, as well as descriptions of each parish. ation of these regions continues. Fences, including the Deep and Comprehensive Archbishop Daniel, looking to the future of the Church, called upon the faithful signifying the so-called “border,” are being Free Trade Area, and enjoy visa liberaliza- during divine liturgy on July 29 at St. Andrew Memorial Church to concentrate on erected, and the movement of Georgian tion regime. The Euro-integration process their spiritual journey, raising the next generation of spiritually and morally solid people within their country is being imped- continues to strengthen Georgian demo- Ukrainian Orthodox Christians and citizens of the 21st century. ed. Quasi “agreements” are being drafted cratic institutions, economy and civil soci- “…We must act in faith. We must stand on the promise of Christ that if we are busy and signed between Russia and the occu- ety. We reaffirm our continued commit- going about the duty the Lord has assigned us, just as the disciples were busy getting pied Georgian regions, aimed at further ment to Georgia’s political association and their boats to the other side of the shore as Jesus had instructed them, then He integrating them into Russia’s economic, economic integration with the EU. We reit- Himself will come to us walking on the very waves that threaten to swallow us up. As social and military life. Artificial “recogni- erate our readiness for close cooperation the Church in the modern world, like Peter’s boat, sails through the stormy seas of tions” of their “independence” and the with the Georgian government in order to our time, we need to keep an eye on those very seas for Jesus who comes to bring “establishment of diplomatic relations” further advance the EU-Georgia bilateral deliverance, peace and love…” between them and Kremlin’s proxies are agenda and objectives. The Ukrainian Weekly wishes the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A., its still being orchestrated by Russia. We 11. By commemorating the 10 years hierarchs, clergy and organizations many more blessed years of service. Mnohaya, deplore these efforts and will never recog- since the Russian aggression against mnohaya lita! nize their consequences. The human rights Georgia, which has significantly impeded situation in these regions continues to Georgia’s economic development, we con- deteriorate; ethnic Georgians are being dis- tinue to call on the international communi- criminated and their cultural heritage trac- ty to stand united in supporting Georgia es are being erased. and to continue to demand that Russia fully Aug. Turning the pages back... 6. Therefore, we continue to call on and without any further delay implements Russia to reverse its illegal recognition of its international commitments and starts Last year, on August 24, 2017, U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim the so-called independence of Georgia’s honoring international law and the right of 24 Mattis was in Kyiv to join the celebrations of Ukraine’s 26th anni- Abkhazia and Tskhinvali/South Ossetia sovereign neighboring states to choose versary of renewed independence. Secretary Mattis, who was the regions, to fully implement the 12 August their own destiny. 2017 first U.S. defense chief to visit Ukraine in a decade, reiterated that the United States “won’t accept” Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region and that Washington was “actively reviewing” supplying Ukraine with lethal weaponry. “Have no doubt,” he said at a joint news conference with President Petro Poroshenko, The Ukrainian Weekly “the United States stands with Ukraine. …Defensive weapons are not provocative unless you are an aggressor, and clearly Ukraine is not an aggressor since its their own territory on Facebook! where the fighting is happening,” Mr. Mattis said. www.facebook.com/ TheUkrainianWeekly Love (Continued on page 22) Like No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 7

FOR THE RECORD UWC calls for descendants of Holodomor survivors to add their voices to initiatives on 85th anniversary The following call to action was issued by the UWC database being created, we will the Ukrainian World Congress on August 10. share with you information on activities that are either in progress or being devel- Fifty years of peace and love On the 85th anniversary of the oped to achieve our goals. Holodomor of 1932-1933, being marked in Sharing the story of the Holodomor Part II Constitution and impose it on the states. In 2018, the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) widely is in the interest of the entire 1986, dissenting in the Thornburgh deci- is calling for descendants of Holodomor Ukrainian nation. It was a horrific crime in For many of us, the late 1960s and 1970s sion, he criticized the Roe holding that survivors living throughout the world to our history that continues to define us as a coincided with our student years. It is natu- whether a fetus is entitled to life depends add their voice to awareness and education people today. Understanding this history ral to idealize them. But were they really a on its “viability” – that is, the rather initiatives on the international, national or will contribute greatly to finding the way time of “peace and love”? Last month’s col- Nietzschean notion that only the strong local levels. forward. To succeed we need your voice! umn dealt with peace. What about love? deserve to live. Even a Roe supporter like Our goals include: Please be assured that your name will The summer of 1967 was the “Summer Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe was not be shared with any third party or of Love.” A barge in Richardson Bay, north troubled by the court’s hardline approach, Holodomor with dignity; attached to any initiative without your of San Francisco, bore the painted legend ignoring the interests of the fetus and, • remembering the victims of the- express approval. “Love Is.” Was it an existential statement, or indeed, its very humanity (ibid.). vors of the Holodomor respectfully; You may sign up to receive information an unfinished definition? In the city’s It is extremely difficult to separate out • understanding and honoring the survi at this link: http://www.ukrainianworld- Haight-Ashbury district, pacifist, communi- the causes and effects of social history, and this genocide by the international commu- congress.org/index.php/id/835/lang/en. tarian “flower children” smoked marijuana the supposed consequences of the “sexual nity;• achieving appropriate recognition of For further information please contact and explored Eastern spirituality to the revolution” are no exception. Statistics, Irka Mycak, UWC International Holodomor music of the Jefferson Airplane and the moreover, are notoriously tricky. But one Holodomor continues to be shared by Coordinating Committee, by e-mail: Grateful Dead. Free clinics treated sexually can safely say that a society where, between future• ensuring generations. that the story of the holodomor85@ukrainianworldcongress. transmitted diseases as well as lice, while 2006 and 2010, the probability that a first Should you choose to add your name to org. Dr. Timothy Leary sought enlightenment in marriage would last 20 years was 52 per- LSD. Two years later, across the country at cent for women and 56 percent for men Woodstock, N.Y., hordes of hippies frolicked (Sarah Jacoby, “Here’s What the Divorce LETTERS TO THE EDITOR in a blissful bacchanal. Love was reduced to Rate Actually Means,” Refinery 29, February physiological function. The “sexual revolu- 2, 2017); where the number of babies each tion” – Wilhelm Reich’s coarse conjunction woman is expected to have during her notes about diaspora community life (who of the intimate with the political – separat- childbearing years has dropped to a new Congrats on issue knew there was a “vibrant Ukrainian com- ed sex from the tiresome burdens of child- low of 1.76, well below the replacement munity in North Dakota”?). Kudos to the bearing, marriage and family. rate of 2.1; and where 40 percent of chil- dated August 5 editor and authors for entertaining and Purely recreational sex was facilitated dren are born to unmarried parents (Robert Dear Editor: edifying. by “the pill,” developed in the 1950s and Ver Bruggen, “How We Ended Up with 40% approved by the FDA in the early 1960s. of Children Born out of Wedlock,” Institute Tamara S. Cornelison, Just received the August 5 issue of The The significance of oral contraceptives was for Family Studies, December 18, 2017) – is Abington, Pa. Ukrainian Weekly, which I read with great that they transferred the power to prevent a society in trouble. Hardest hit by the social interest pretty much from cover to cover. I pregnancy to women, thus enabling them, malaise since the 1960s have been poor especially enjoyed the wonderful article by equally with men, to avoid the natural con- African-Americans. Affluent whites, after all, Mark Raczkiewycz about the Kyivan Rus’ sequences of their sexual conduct. The U.S. can shield their families from the effects of structures and artifacts unearthed during About the number Supreme Court struck down state prohibi- their own laws, policies and judicial deci- excavation at site intended for an under- tion of contraceptive use in Griswold v. sions. ground mall in Ukraine’s capital. of Holodomor victims Connecticut (1965), thus facilitating the Have women benefited from the sexual I also enjoyed the excellent editorial Dear Editor: separation of sex from procreation. revolution? The physical and emotional about Spirit Lake Cemetery and the efforts It would be unfair to ascribe the sexual harms of abortion and contraception are of Canada’s Ukrainians to preserve a histor- Regarding the recent article about the revolution solely to the baby-boomers, who well known. The commodification of sex ical landmark, the final resting place of number of Holodomor victims (issue date were then in their teens and 20s. Sharing and the proliferation of pornography con- Ukrainian immigrants deemed “enemy July 1-July 8), I would like to point out that the credit (or the blame, depending on tinue. Many “liberated” women still follow aliens” and sent to the Spirit Lake camp in Joseph Stalin thought that the number of your point of view) are the adults of the male models of work and conduct. While the post-World War I era. victims during the collectivization wars “greatest generation”: the businessmen few enthusiasts of the sexual revolution The other articles in this issue of The (lumped together as Holodomor) was 10 who encouraged it for profit; the academics would admit any connection with the scan- Weekly provided the usual comfortable million, as recorded in his conversations who found rationalizations for it; and the dals surfacing today among politicians, blend of information about current events with Walter Duranty (mentioned by Ihor lawyers and judges who enshrined it in entertainers, corporate executives and cler- in Ukraine, news about assorted religious Mirchuk in The Ukrainian Weekly, August law. Some would include – unfairly, per- gymen, it seems undeniable. and diplomatic endeavors and activities, 5). The terms Holodomor and Holocaust haps – the theologians who opposed Pope Meanwhile, back in the USSR, Ukrainians and interesting and sometimes surprising were not used until much later after World Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical “Humanae Vitae.” avidly imitated Western trends. Did East and War II. Stalin repeated the same 10 million “Humanae Vitae” explained the Catholic West share a rebellion against the philo- number to Winston Churchill as recorded Church’s long-standing teaching that artifi- sophical materialism at the base of both in Churchill’s memoirs. Few articles about cial contraception violated the divine natu- Marxism and capitalism? If so, both have Opinions the Holodomor mention this, as though ral order. The encyclical predicted that it capitulated. At the same time, Ukraine has in The Ukrainian Stalin’s delusions about his killing efficien- would lead to a loosening of morals and more than matched the West’s demographic cy have little relevance even though he was induce more men to treat women as mere decline: its population, falling since 1991, Weekly the architect of the project! sex objects. In its call for a social atmo- was estimated in 2017 at 42.4 million, close It is a relief that scholarly studies are sphere conducive to chastity, it challenged to the 1960 figure of 42.8 million. Fertility in The Ukrainian Weekly showing that Stalin overestimated the the ethos of solipsism and self-indulgence. 2015 was 1.51 births per woman. welcomes letters to the editor casualty numbers. I much prefer knowing But what is often overlooked is that, in If the generation of 1968 has done little and commentaries on a variety of that Volodymyr Kubijovyc’s 3 million (see rejecting artificial methods of reducing for peace and love, it can boast consider- topics of concern to the Ukrainian “Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia”) or John births in favor of working with natural bio- able success in environmental protection, American and Ukrainian Paul Himka’s 4 million figures are closer to logical cycles, it mirrored contemporary information technology, and overcoming Canadian communities, as well as the truth than Stalin’s 10 million. These trends advocating “working with nature” discrimination against women and minori- the Ukrainian diaspora. “lower” numbers in no way diminish the through, for example, natural healing and ties. But minority progress cannot mask right of the Ukrainian nation to indepen- biological farming techniques. stagnant working-class wages and growing Opinions expressed by colum- dence and should not be viewed that way. Nevertheless, the pill was seen as disparity in wealth and health. The rich are nists, commentators and letter- Furthermore, there is plenty of proof empowering women. In the companion fitter, the poor are fatter. Meanwhile, the writers are their own and do not that this was genocide, including the cases of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton 1960s ethos has become the orthodoxy of a necessarily reflect the opinions of destruction of the Ukrainian academic and (1973), the Supreme Court in effect assert- dominant managerial elite. either The Weekly editorial staff political elite, and the transfer of large seg- ed a “fundamental” and almost unrestrict- Like the children of over-achieving par- or its publisher, the Ukrainian ments of the Ukrainian population to other ed individual constitutional right to abor- ents, Ukrainian American baby boomers National Association. regions while repopulating and colonizing tion – a categorical approach contrasting grew up in the shadow of two contempora- Ukrainian lands with Muscovites to accel- with the more nuanced and family-orient- neous “greatest generations” – American Similarly, paid advertisements and (as Myron Kuropas once pointed out) erate Russification in order to enhance the ed approach of European law (see Mary do not reflect the opinions Ukrainian. Did we measure up? Hardly. evolution of homo Sovieticus. Ann Glendon, “Rights Talk,” 1991, Chapter of either The Ukrainian or its 3). Dissenting, Justice Byron White ques- publisher. Jaroslaw Sawka, tioned how the court could fashion a new Andrew Sorokowski can be reached at Sterling Heights, Mich. right not even mentioned in the [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 No. 33

To avoid layoffs, the port has shortened Still others say Moscow’s ultimate goal annexed Crimea and took Ukraine’s ships Sea of troubles... the work week to four days for most of its may be nothing short of taking complete with it. 3,000 employees. When RFE/RL visited the control of the waters surrounding annexed RFE/RL counted 14, including the (Continued from page 4) port in late July, only one merchant ship Crimea and all along the Ukrainian coast- Lyubomir, two patrol ships – the Donbas war,” Galina Odnorog, a co-founder of the was present, and the dozen or so workers line. and the Onyx, which were smuggled out of Mariupol Social Movement, a local non-gov- on duty were making repairs to a large “If on [the Ukrainian] side there will not Crimean ports during Russia’s annexation – ernmental organization focused on issues crane and a pipe running from the dock. be increased patrolling, demonstrating the and 12 small patrol boats, four of which related to the Sea of Azov, told RFE/RL. “We Ukraine’s minister of infrastructure, intentions of ousting Russian boats, [and] a were getting fresh camouflage paint jobs to are in a tinderbox.” Volodymyr Omelyan, reportedly said dur- sharp appeal to the Russian Federation and cover rusting hulls when RFE/RL visited. And there might be little, if anything, ing a program on the 112 Channel this the international community, then this may Mr. Slobodyan, the border guards’ Ukraine can do about it. month that there has been a 10 percent become the beginning of the annexation of spokesman, said in July that Ukraine had as decrease in calls to the ports of Mariupol the Sea of Azov,” wrote the Black Sea many as 70 boats patrolling in both the Who controls the sea? and nearby Berdiansk. But he also tried to News’s Mr. Klymenko. Black and Azov seas. “Our boats, of course, Mr. Poliakov said that, while Russia’s downplay the troubles, calling the situation are inferior in their combat power to those Protecting the shore, but not the sea? actions are “provocative,” because of a con- in and around the Sea of Azov “stable.” boats of the Russian Federation,” he added. troversial 2003 agreement on cooperation His comments came after Ukraine’s dep- Ukraine is trying a raft of tactics to Between the sea and a hard place and shared use of the Sea of Azov and uty minister for European integration, respond to Russia’s maneuvering. Kerch Strait, “everything Russia is doing Olena Zerkal, downplayed the situation in It is negotiating with European and U.S. Mr. Melnyk, the political and security here is technically legal.” early July, saying it had been “artificially partners to punish Russia’s Black Sea ports analyst, said Ukraine is in an impossible Signed by Russian President Vladimir created by the media.” over Moscow’s moves in the Sea of Azov, position. Putin and Ukraine’s then-President Leonid according to Ms. Omelyan, the infrastruc- “International law doesn’t work there,” “Lack of reaction from Kyiv” Kuchma in 2003, the agreement makes the ture minister. he said. “Ukraine should apply to interna- Sea of Azov jointly controlled territory, Ms. Odnorog said that is not the case, But it is unclear how persuasive Kyiv has tional courts. But it takes a long time, and, allowing both countries to use it freely. arguing that Kyiv has not paid enough been when so much of the West is grap- as we’ve seen already, it doesn’t help much “Ukraine and the Russian Federation, attention to the escalating “crisis” in the pling with its own problems. against Russia.” two historically brotherly nations, define sea. “There is also a problem with the reac- Activists are also trying their hand at Kyiv has filed cases against Moscow with the Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait as econom- tion of our authorities – namely, a lack of attracting international help. various international bodies in the past, ically important for both countries,” the reaction,” she added. Ms. Odnorog said they had sent a letter with little success. In January 2017, agreement reads. Others in Mariupol also shake their to the Organization for Security and Ukraine brought a case against Russia with And despite the current conflict between heads at official remarks from Kyiv. Cooperation in Europe’s Special Monitoring the International Court of Justice, the high- Kyiv and Moscow, the agreement is still in In explaining the losses his company has Mission (OSCE SMM) – a group of interna- est United Nations court. This month, place. suffered in recent weeks, Anton Shapran, tional observers tracking the fighting on President Poroshenko said he had ordered There have been calls in Ukraine to rip it director at the Mariupol-based Maritime the battlefields of eastern Ukraine – asking the creation of a body to prepare a lawsuit up. But Oleh Slobodyan, chief spokesman for Logistics, a management company and ser- them to expand their mandate to the sea against Russia for damages caused by sepa- the Border Guard Service of Ukraine, ruled vice provider for 70 ships in the Sea of “to monitor and record violations.” ratists whom Moscow supports in the out making any change to the agreement, Azov, insisted the “crisis” was real. It is unclear whether the OSCE SMM is Donbas region and for its illegal annexation saying such a move would only work if Russia He said that owners of “several” vessels considering the proposal. The OSCE SMM of Crimea. also intended to implement the changes. had complained to him about having been did not respond to RFE/RL requests for Moscow has rejected international rul- “We can make such a decision unilateral- detained for longer than 24 hours – a delay comment. ings over its Ukraine-related aggressions, ly, but, in my opinion, this will not have any that can cost between $3,000 and $13,000. Ukraine is taking measured military calling them “biased and politically moti- effect” on Russia’s behavior, he said. Some of the ships have been stopped for actions along the Sea of Azov shore after vated.” more than three days, according to Andriy President Petro Poroshenko warned on July And militarily, Mr. Melnyk said, Ukraine “Sea blockade” Klymenko, editor-in-chief of Black Sea 16 that Russia was building up forces and does not “have the capacities” to defeat That deal, said observers and officials, News, an online information site devoted to weapons in the Black and Azov seas. He Russia. “If we should decide to build up our has allowed Russia to impose an effective covering developments in the Black and said he did not exclude the possibility that navy against Russia, it would probably lead “sea blockade” in the Azov, a measure Azov seas. the Kremlin might prepare for an all-out to a greater confrontation,” he added. meant to achieve several goals. And the delays are growing. attack on Mariupol. ‘I don’t know what Ukraine can do’ “The sea blockade that Russia is con- As they do, several shipping companies The next day, Mr. Poroshenko ordered top ducting is aimed, first, at delivering eco- are thinking twice about trips to Ukrainian military officers to take measures in connec- Meanwhile in the Sea of Azov, as the nomic losses to Ukraine, and, secondly, at ports in the Sea of Azov, according to Ms. tion with the ship detentions and inspec- swells rock the Little Boy, Ukraine’s power- creating greater tensions in cities like Odnorog and officials at the port of tions, including possibly providing escorts ful neighbor, with its mighty flotilla and FSB Mariupol and other small cities and villages Mariupol, who asked for anonymity because through the sea. “We will not tolerate the ille- boats lurking nearby, feels closer than ever. where people are making their living in sea they were not authorized to provide official gal seizure of Ukrainian and foreign ships The Ukrainians and Russians cross paths trade and fishing,” said Oleksiy Melnyk, a comments to media. that are moving toward Ukrainian ports, at sea on an almost daily basis, and some- Ukrainian political and security analyst at “Many vessels already refuse to enter the including Mariupol,” the president said. times even communicate over the radio. the Kyiv-based Razumkov Center, a non- Sea of Azov,” Ms. Odnorog said, adding that In a show of force, the Ukrainian military The Ukrainians’ message: Don’t come any governmental public-policy think tank. the average delay time for vessels detained conducted two-day helicopter shooting closer. It’s a warning that more often than Mariupol and nearby Berdiansk are and searched over the past week of July had drills over the Sea of Azov in late July. not goes unanswered, said Mr. Poliakov. home to Ukraine’s two major steel- and climbed to 54 hours. “The Joint Forces are paying considerable Unless something is done, he predicted, grain-exporting ports on the Sea of Azov attention to the defense of the Azov coast to the situation will grow more tense as a Beginning of sea annexation? and hundreds of private fishing companies prevent the landing of enemy amphibious Ukrainian presidential election nears in that employ more than 20,000 people. And there are other likely reasons for assault troops,” said Commander of the Joint March 2019 and Russia looks to turn up the The ports in both cities have experi- Russia’s sea blockade. Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Nayev. “All units heat. enced steep cuts in cargo handling since Balazs Jarabik, a non-resident scholar at that are involved in the defense of the sea “Honestly,” Mr. Poliakov added with a construction began on the Crimean bridge, the Carnegie Endowment for International coast shall conduct regular training to boost hint of resignation in his words, “I don’t while the waters where fishermen can free- Peace, speculated that Moscow might be the readiness to repel an attack.” know what we can do.” ly move have been reduced due to fears of trying to pile pressure on Ukraine to force it But there seems to have been little done being arrested by Russia’s FSB. to “ease” a ban on supplying water to occu- to boost defenses on the sea itself. Copyright 2018, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted Because of the low height of the Crimean pied Crimea, which appears to be drying up Ukraine has no naval presence in the with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ bridge, 144 ships that rise taller than its at an alarming rate. Azov, said Mr. Poliakov, the Ukrainian Sea Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 33-meter clearance can’t reach the port of Ukrainian state water agencies stopped Guard spokesman, who was tight-lipped Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see Mariupol, resulting in a 30 percent loss in flows through a major canal in 2014, citing about the number of boats available to pro- https://www.rferl.org/a/sea-of-troubles- revenues for the port, according to official millions in outstanding debts from the pen- tect the waters. The country lost as much as azov-emerging-as-tinderbox-in-russia- statistics provided to RFE/RL. insula’s Russian-imposed government. 80 percent of its naval fleet when Russia ukraine-conflict/29417753.html).

are reluctant to openly acknowledge the perception and a common diplomatic front ment planning and the command and con- NATO summit... gravity of the situation in the Black Sea presented by the three Baltic states and trol of incoming NATO forces in situations region, or potential threats to themselves Poland most of the time on the major issues requiring a rapid response. The Brussels (Continued from page 2) down the road, as long as Russia selectively within NATO. From the alliance’s perspec- Summit “noted Romania’s offers” to devel- “hybrid” (new type) warfare, all of which targets the non-NATO countries Georgia tive, particularly of its trend-setting coun- op such a capacity on its territory, as part of are ongoing. The Romanian military realis- and Ukraine nearby. Consequently, Bulgaria tries, it makes more sense to consider pro- the NATO Force Structure (Nato.int, para. tically assesses the Black Sea region as the and Turkey are only half-hearted support- posals and arguments from that relatively 29, July 11). NATO’s defense ministerial “soft belly” on NATO’s eastern frontline. ers of Romania’s persistent advocacy for a homogenous group of highly motivated meetings will probably take this proposal NATO’s “tailored” approach does not stronger NATO presence, and have some- countries, as compared with the Black Sea under consideration, en route to the respond to the actual levels of threat in this times disassociated themselves from trio, where one proactive member outpaces Alliance’s 2019 summit. region. It does, however, respond to the Romania’s initiatives in this regard. the other two. declared perceptions of threat on the part Disharmony in the threat perceptions, In order to begin hardening the “soft The article above is reprinted from of NATO members Turkey and Bulgaria in along with poorly coordinated diplomacy belly,” a significant first step could be the Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from this same region. For their own political among NATO’s three Black Sea members, creation of a land component corps-level its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, and economic reasons, Sofia and Ankara stand in contrast with the unity of threat headquarters, to be tasked with reinforce- www.jamestown.org. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 9 Th e Orthodox Church in Ukraine in numbers

by Jaroslaw Martyniuk This article begins with an overview of the struggle for an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church since the declaration of Ukrainian independence and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Second, it aims to shed light on the current situation by examining survey data from a nationwide poll carried out in Ukraine in June of this year. Several of the questions in the survey asked about reli- gious affiliations and practices. The survey also contained information regarding the level of religiosity among adherents of the major faiths. In short, the survey painted a statistical picture of how the people of Ukraine relate to various religions and their branches in Ukraine.

Since 1992 the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) in Ukraine has been divided into several branches, of which two – the

UOC–Kyiv Patriarchate (KP) and UOC– Andriy Dubchak, RFE/RL mospart.ru Moscow Patriarchate (MP) – were domi- Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Nikolaos Manginas Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox nant. The UOC-MP remained attached to Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. Church. Moscow while the UOC- KP, born after the fall of the Soviet Union, reflected the desire Churches,” noted Dr. Sorokowski, “an auto- “The creation of a new unified UOC unit- groups are you a member of or feel closest of the Ukrainian people embodied in the cephalous Ukrainian Church could, as ing all branches not attached to Moscow, to?” Along with this question the respon- August 24, 1991, declaration of indepen- Patriarch Filaret has said, contribute to a the already majoritarian KP will become dents were asked to indicate their attitude dence, reinforced by a nationwide referen- revival of European Christianity.” even more powerful, and the Russian toward religion. The table below summa- dum on December 1, 1991, where over 90 Furthermore, Dr. Sorokowski ventured Orthodox Church (ROC) will lose its zone rizes responses to these questions. percent of the population voted for inde- “if we imagine the community of Ukrainian of influence. Autocephaly for the UOC will The most important takeaway from the pendence. Orthodox Churches to include those also mean that the ROC, cut off from its table is that at least two-and-a-half times as For the next 23 years the situation, ‘Orthodox in communion with Rome,’ oth- Kyiv roots, will no longer be the cradle of many respondents (43 percent) identified although at times confrontational, erwise known as Ukrainian Greco- Slav Orthodoxy” wrote Constance Vilanova with the UOC-KP or the UAOC as with the remained relatively unchanged. After the Catholics, with each Church free to seek ties in La Croix, the daily French Catholic news- UOC-MP (17 percent). Earlier surveys have 2014-2015 Maidan Revolution, relations with Constantinople, Rome, or both – the paper. shown that an approximate 3 to 1 ratio in between the two branches began to turn ecumenical implications are astounding.” According to Gazeta UA, Patriarch Filaret favor of the KP has been consistent acrimonious. As in the political sphere, On the question of church property, said that, even though the MP has twice as throughout the preceding 20 years. Ukrainians have expressed a strong desire Patriarch Filaret remarked that “land, many churches as the KP in Ukraine, the KP In addition, similar surveys conducted in to be free from Moscow’s interference in churches and monasteries illegitimately has twice as many adherents. To help shed Ukraine and Russia suggest that, in general, religious matters. held under the name of the UOC–MP will be light on the complicated religious situation Ukrainians have always been more active Against this background, on April 23, returned to its true owner, the autocepha- in Ukraine and add credence to Patriarch and religious than their counterparts in two weeks after President Petro lous Church recognized by Constantinople. Filaret’s claim, in May I commissioned the Russia. One in six (16 percent) Ukrainians Poroshenko’s meeting with Ecumenical Moscow-controlled shrines such as the Kyiv Kyiv International Institute of Sociology does not associate with any religion; most Patriarch Bartholomew in Fanar, a section Pecherska Lavra – a jewel in the heart of (KIIS) to include several questions regard- of that 16 percent of respondents live in of Istanbul (Constantinople), the patriarch the city – will be transferred to the local ing Ukrainian citizens’ religious affiliation. regions east of western Ukraine. expressed the desire to issue a “Tomos” (a Orthodox Church in due time,” he said. On The omnibus survey was carried out in Respondents were also asked: “How decree or an official church document) June 28, Metropolitan Ilarion, the chair- all oblasts of Ukraine, save for the Donetsk often do you attend religious services?” granting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church man of the Department of External Church and Luhansk oblasts, where interviews Data show that members of the Ukrainian autocephaly. Seemingly Ukraine had Relations and a permanent member of the were conducted only in areas controlled by Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC) and UAOC regained what it had for seven centuries, Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Moscow, Ukraine. It was not conducted in Crimea. In attended services more regularly than the from 988, when Kyivan Rus’ was first reacted with hostility to Bartholomew’s all, 2,025 interviews were conducted. two main branches of the UOC. Nearly half Christianized to 1686, when the Russian announcement, calling Filaret an illegiti- Fieldwork took place from May 18 to June of the Greek-Catholics said they attended Orthodox Church usurped the mate usurper who had created a schism in 5. KIIS had conducted similar surveys in the services once a week, 20 percent once a Metropolitanate of Kyiv. the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, and warn- past, and the present survey reflects the sit- month and 29 percent only on holidays. In The Tomos of autocephaly would unite ing that it will lead to bloodshed and tragic uation as of June 2018. comparison, only around 10 percent of the the Ukrainian Orthodox Church–Kyiv consequences. By asking respondents about their reli- Orthodox said they attended services once Patriarchate and the Ukrainian The archbishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn, gious affiliation, level of religiosity and sup- a week, 12 percent once a month and near- Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), Yevstratiy, countered that “hysteria ema- port of President Poroshenko’s initiative, ly 70 percent only on religious holidays. which means that the Moscow Patriarchate nating from the Moscow Patriarchate is not the poll clarified the attitudes of Ukrainians Three-quarters of those who identified would no longer be able to call itself the unexpected but will not stop the move to all religions. The specific question asked Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Patriarch towards autocephaly.” was: “Which of the following religious (Continued on page 27) Bartholomew made it clear that the control of the Moscow Patriarchate over Ukraine Religious Affiliation Percent Which of the following most accurately was illegitimate. By uniting the Ukrainian reflects your attitude toward religion? I am... Orthodox Churches, the patriarch would be Total Which of the following religious groups righting a historical wrong. Deeply Religious Hard I’m not I’m an Don’t know “The implications of Ukrainian auto- you are a member of or feel closest to? religious to say religious atheist /refused cephaly,” wrote Andrew Sorokowski on the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church 7.5 15 81 1 2 0 1 100 pages of this newspaper in June, “might also affect ecumenism, perhaps even Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) 41.4 3 82 5 8 1 1 100 prompting a re-orientation of the Vatican’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) 17.0 4 82 2 8 1 3 100 Ostpolitik from a Russo-centric to a more Roman Catholic .2 - 100 - - - - 100 multipolar view of Orthodoxy. And togeth- Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church 1.6 8 85 7 - - - 100 er with other independent Orthodox Protestant 1.7 49 49 2 - - - 100 Jaroslaw Martyniuk is a retired research- Islam .3 - 40 - 60 - - 100 er living in Washington. From 1979 to 1991 Judaism .1 50 50 - - - - 100 he worked in Paris, first as an energy econo- Russian Orthodox Church 2.5 2 65 8 24 - 1 100 mist for the International Energy Agency, Other 5.5 5 80 3 7 4 1 100 and later as a researcher for the Soviet Area Audience and Opinion Research, a unit of No particular religion 16.0 - 19 7 41 25 8 100 Radio Liberty. He is the author of the recent- Don’t Know/Refused to answer 6.2 3 65 11 13 - 8 100 ly released book “Monte Rosa: Memoir of an Total 100.0 Accidental Spy.” 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 No. 33

believed to be involved in the attack, pub- is completely outside her scope, she said, in Police suspected... lishing CCTV footage of the person they the end a search warrant was obtained on Kremlin rejects... want to question. The following day, Mr. the bizarre grounds that somebody else was (Continued from page 3) Knyazev’s deputy, Vyacheslav Abroskin, supposedly occupying her office. (Continued from page 1) ing Ms. Handziuk, seems satisfied with the announced that they had established the “Corrupt cops calmly organize court rul- A member of Russia’s Presidential move; he says it suggests that the police place where the acid was bought. He also ings, make life hell for City Council officials, Advisory Council On Human Rights, Zoya probably are implicated in the attack. produced video footage of the person who search, detain, fabricate cases and are very Svetova, told RFE/RL that Mr. Sentsov’s It remains to be seen what, if anything, allegedly purchased it. He has reacted defen- worried about their positions… ,” Ms. health was “bad” as a result of his three- comes of this SBU investigation, with this sively to the reports linking the attack with Handziuk wrote. She said that she hoped month hunger strike in a Russian prison. the police. He writes that none of the people they were right to be going crazy over this, depending both on whether there is the Ms. Svetova made the remarks after she investigating the crime was ever in conflict since she didn’t want to believe that all of political will to carry it through, and on spent two hours meeting with Mr. Sentsov with Ms. Handziuk and also claims, without this could go on with impunity. whether the suspect, detained on August 3, on August 14 at a penal colony in Mykola Novikov, a 38-year-old from providing any names, that “the person who Mr. Antoshchuk took Ms. Handziuk to Labytnangi in Russia’s northern region of Kherson, provides the relevant information. was really in conflict with her did not and court, demanding the retraction of alleged- Yamalo-Nenets. The SBU proceedings were initiated on does not now work in any departments of ly defamatory statements, however, he lost. August 7, a day after Mr. Novikov was the National Police in the Kherson Oblast. On March 13, the Kherson City Court found Ms. Svetova said Mr. Sentsov himself remanded in custody, with the court accept- As reported, Ms. Handziuk has been only one small part of Ms. Handziuk’s posts described his health condition as “pre-criti- ing that there was a real danger of him highly critical of the Kherson regional required retraction, but otherwise rejected cal.” She also said the doctor who treats the absconding if any other preventive measure department of the National Police and the law suit. filmmaker warned that Mr. Sentsov’s inter- were chosen. Mr. Novikov’s sister had appar- other authorities. In September 2017, she Ms. Handziuk has also attacked what she nal organs may stop functioning at any ently said that she and her brother were accused Artem Antoshchuk, who heads the views as pro-Russian circles linked with time unless his hunger strike ends. together at the sea that day, however this economic protection department within Ilya Kiva, the highly contentious former “He does not plan to stop the hunger was not viewed by the police as a reliable the Kherson Regional Police, of demanding adviser to the internal affairs minister. Mr. strike,” Ms. Svetova said. “He believes in his alibi given the close family tie between them. 3 percent as a bribe from all contracts and Kiva has, on at least one occasion, respond- noble goal. He did all he could and says that In court, Mr. Novikov’s lawyer asserted that tenders. ed with foul abuse directed at his critic. now everything depends on a political deci- they could bring in seven to eight witnesses Twelve days later, Ms. Handziuk wrote In an article written shortly after the sion. He does not see any other way at this who would back the alibi. that Mr. Antoshchuk had tried to retrospec- attack on Ms. Handziuk, Yevhen Bystrytsky, point than to continue his hunger strike.” In fact, the National Police are still report- tively write a report, claiming that, on the until 2017 the executive director of the A vocal opponent of Russia’s 2014 take- ing on the progress of their investigation contrary, a bribe had been demanded of him. International Renaissance Foundation, over of Crimea, Mr. Sentsov was sentenced into the attack. On August 7, the head of the Ms. Handziuk also directly accused Mr. spoke of “a real war” under way in Ukraine to 20 years in prison after being convicted National Police, Serhiy Knyazev reported Antoshchuk of seeking a pretext to try to link against civic activists, citing the Handziuk by a Russian court in 2015 of conspiring to that they were looking for a second person her with dodgy budget allocations. Since this case as one of eight examples in 2017-2018. commit terrorist acts. Human rights groups have backed Mr. Sentsov’s contention that the charges were politically motivated. Several governments and prominent fig- ures have called on President Putin to par- don Mr. Sentsov. The 42-year-old Mr. Sentsov has been on a hunger strike at the penal colony since mid-May and is demanding that Russia release 64 Ukrainian citizens that he con- siders political prisoners. He has indicated that he is prepared to die of starvation to press the cause, vowing to continue his protest “to the end.” With reporting by Hromadske. Copyright 2018, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see https://www.rferl.org/a/kremlin-rejects- sentsov-s-mother-s-pardon-request/ 29434914.html).

Artist Andriy Yermolenko’s poster depicting Oleh Sentsov overlaid with the names of Ukrainian political prisoners held by Russia. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 11 Miss Soyuzivka 2019 is crowned at Ukrainian heritage center

by Marianka Hawryluk Lemekha, she is an accounting major at Western New England University in Massachusetts, where she is also a KERHONKSON, N.Y. – On a rainy Saturday night at member of the women’s soccer team. Soyuzivka Heritage Center, a new Miss Soyuzivka beamed Ms. Lemekha has a long history at Soyuzivka, and her with pride as she proudly wore her vinok (Ukrainian head- grandmother and mother both worked there. She has dress of flowers) and posed for photos to the sound of attended camps at Soyuzivka, has been a camp counselor thunderous applause inside the grand Veselka Hall. As the at Discovery and Heritage camps, has worked as a life- Tempo Orchestra played a victorious waltz, Anastasiya guard at Soyuzivka’s pool, and has helped manage in the Kaspruk became Miss Soyuzivka 2019 on August 11. snack bar. A pharmacy student at Duquesne University, Ms. Ms. Lemekha recalled in her interview with judges that Kaspruk was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, to Svitozar her parents first brought her to Soyuzivka when she was and Lyubov Kaspruk. She now lives in Colonia, N.J. Ms. only a few months old; she underlined that Soyuzivka is a Kaspruk has been at Soyuzivka for several weeks as a camp special place for her like no other. counselor at the Roma Pryma Bohachevska Dance Camp at Olena Hrynovets, the second runner-up, is from Soyuzivka. Ellenville, N.Y. She is a theater major at Ulster County She is a member of both the Iskra and the Barvinok Community College in Stone Ridge, N.Y., has participated in Ukrainian dance ensembles, as well as an elite dance numerous plays, musicals and choral productions in troupe called the Duquesne University Tamburitzans. She school, and aspires to work for Disney as a voice actor for is active in her church, and is a member of the Ukrainian characters in animated movies. National Woman’s League of America and the Ukrainian The daughter of Hryts and Nadia Hrynovets, she is National Association (UNA). active in raising awareness about Ukraine among her During the Miss Soyuzivka candidates’ interview pro- American friends. Ms. Hrynovets currently is an employee cess, Ms. Kaspruk confided to the judges: “Soyuzivka is my at Soyuzivka. She has attended camp at the heritage center heart. I don’t know who I am without Soyuzivka.” as well. The first runner-up was Alexandra Lemekha of The coordinator of the Miss Soyuzivka contest was Stamford, Conn. The daughter of Sandra and Volodko Stephanie Hawryluk, a longtime secretary of UNA Branch

Soyuzivka Heritage Center Miss Soyuzivka 2019 Anastasiya Kaspruk. 88 in Kerhonkson, N.Y., and a former advisor on the UNA General Assembly. Judging the competition were Soyuzivka Assistant Manager Stefko Drabyk, Maya Lew, office manager and events coordinator, and Marianka Hawryluk, MC and din- ing services manager and herself a former Miss Soyuzivka (1993) Miss Soyuzivka 2018 first runner-up Andrea Hawryluk helped crown the new Miss Soyuzivka and the two run- ners-up. Miss Soyuzivka 2018 Isabella White was not in attendance, but sent words of thanks for the opportunity to represent the beloved Ukrainian heritage center. Manager Nestor Paslawsky danced with the newly selected Miss Soyuzivka, while Mr. Drabyk and Roman Hawryluk, Ukrainian National Foundation board member, took a whirl around the dance floor with the two runners- up. The girls received monetary scholarships, bouquets of sunflowers (selected in memory of Sonia Semanyszyn, for- Andrea Hawryluk mer longtime office manager of Soyuzivka) and floral At the crowning of Miss Soyuzivka 2019 (from left) are: Soyuzivka’s Assistant Manager Stefko Drabyk, Ukrainian crowns as winners of the contest. Natiponal Foundation board member Roman Hawryluk, second runner-up Olena Hrynovets, Miss Soyuzivka Anastasiya Kaspruk, first runner-up Alexandra Lemekha, Soyuzivka Manager Nestor Paslawsky, and Soyuzivka The evening continued to the tunes of Tempo, including staffers Maya Lew and Marianka Hawryluk. a jubilant “Kolomyika.”

Ukrainian Technological Society awards 14 scholarships

by Roksana Korchynsky PITTSBURGH – The Ukrainian Technological Society (UTS) of Pittsburgh presented its 2018 scholarship awards to 14 undergraduate and graduate students from Western Pennsylvania and Ohio in cer- emonies at the Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Building on the University of Pittsburgh campus on Sunday, August 5. Students, family members, UTS members and guests were welcomed by UTS Executive Board President George Honchar, who pro- vided an overview of the UTS – now in its 49th year – and its activities. In his opening remarks, he thanked the many donors who have generously offered their financial sup- port to the scholarship program, which has helped students pursue higher education in a variety of fields. He also acknowledged the friends and family – especially parents – who supported all the scholarship recipients in Roksana Korchynsk their academic pursuits. 2018 Ukrainian Technological Society scholarship recipients (front row, from left) Michael Yourstowsky, Kateryna Kocelko, Andrianna Cycak, Artem Dobrochynsky, Monika Karpa, (back row) Nicholas Hladio, Kateryna Czuczman, Nicholas Spak, Ostap (Continued on page 12) Lutsiv and Stanislav Davyda. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 No. 33

It added, “At both spots, the occupants of the yield nuclear warhead, hikes authorized Budapest Memorandum on Security NEWSBRIEFS parked vehicles... can be seen interacting funding for the U.S. military presence in Assurances, as well as U.S. support to coop- with the drivers of each convoy’s lead vehi- Eastern Europe, and provides new waivers eration between NATO and Ukraine. (Continued from page 2) cle. The convoy seen heading westward into the Pentagon says could wean allies from (Interfax-Ukraine) dependence on Moscow. “This NDAA builds Ukraine conflict zone, but has insisted that it Ukraine was observed driving west and Ukrainian soldier killed in Donbas on the progress we made earlier this year never sent weapons and that Russian natives finally parking at the southern outskirts of in the bipartisan budget agreement, which Ukraine says one of its soldiers has been found fighting in Ukraine have been “volun- Khrustalnyi,” a town in eastern Ukraine 56 provided for the largest year-on-year killed and three wounded as a result of teers” contributing their efforts to the sepa- kilometers southwest of Luhansk that is not increase in funding for American armed clashes with Russia-backed militants in east- ratist cause without backing from the gov- controlled by the government. (RFE/RL) forces in 15 years,” Senate Majority Leader ern Ukraine. The Defense Ministry in Kyiv ernment. The OSCE report describes the Law provides security assistance to Ukraine Mitch McConnell said. The NDAA for 2019 said on August 15 that separatist fighters trucks travelling between Russia and U.S. President Donald Trump has signed authorizes the allocation to the U.S. violated a ceasefire 46 times during the pre- Ukraine in the video as “canvas-covered six- Department of Defense of $250 million for vious 24 hours by firing artillery, machine into law the National Defense wheeled cargo trucks” and said they turned the provision of security assistance to guns, grenade launchers and mortars. The Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year off the main highway about 3.5 kilometers Ukraine, including $50 million for lethal militants said Ukrainian government forces 2019, authorizing $717 billion for national from Ukraine’s border with Russia to take weapons. The document includes the violated the ceasefire 15 times, using the defense. The signing ceremony was held at the unguarded dirt road between the coun- major clauses of the Ukraine Cybersecurity same type of weapons. Since April 2014, the military base at Fort Drum, N.Y., on tries. The convoys in the video were seen on Cooperation Act, which, inter alia, provides more than 10,300 people have been killed in the night of August 8, the report said, with August 13. Earlier, the NDAA was support- assistance to Ukraine in securing govern- fighting between Kyiv’s forces and the one convoy of trucks entering Ukraine from ed by the U.S. Senate. According to the ment computer networks from malicious Russian-backed separatists who control Russia on the dirt road and passing the con- newspaper Washington Examiner, the cyber intrusions, particularly such net- parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. voy that was leaving Ukraine and entering NDAA foresees the allocation of funds to works that defend the critical infrastruc- Ceasefire deals announced as part of the Russia while they were on the paved road counteract Russia’s influence. It also sus- ture of Ukraine. It is also aimed to provide Minsk accords – September 2014 and between the countries. The OSCE said that pends sales of F-35 joint strike fighters to Ukraine support in reducing reliance on February 2015 pacts aimed at resolving the “each of the convoys separately stopped for Turkey until the Pentagon delivers a report Russian information and communications conflict – have failed to hold. A new ceasefire about three minutes next to an off-road vehi- on bilateral military relations and Turkey’s technology, as well as assist Ukraine in agreement was reached in late 2017 and cle that was parked in a field along the... dirt potential purchase of the S-400 air and building its capacity, expanding cybersecu- was meant to go into effect on December 23. track, 1.7 kilometers from the border, and missile defense system from Russia. A raft rity information sharing, and cooperating But both sides have accused the other of again next to two trucks parked at the inter- of Russia measures in the NDAA clears the in international cyberspace efforts. The repeated violations since then. (RFE/RL, section of the dirt track and the paved road.” way for the military to pursue a new low- document also reaffirms the commitment with reporting by Interfax and TASS) of the United States to the U.S.-Ukraine Charter on Strategic Partnership and the (Continued on page 13)

Members’ Funded Scholarship, awarded to TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 Ukrainian Technological... a member with outstanding academic or e-mail [email protected] achievement, was awarded to Nicholas (Continued from page 11) Hladio of Bradford Woods, PA. The featured speaker for the award cere- The Chester and Olga Manasterski SERVICES PROFESSIONALS mony was Michael Haritan, a Pittsburgh- Memorial Scholarship, awarded to a stu- based professional photographer specializ- dent with outstanding academic achieve- ing in corporate, architectural and docu- ment and service to the Ukrainian commu- МАРІЯ ДРИЧ mentary photography. Mr. Haritan present- nity and underwritten by sons Myron and Ліцензований Продавець Страхування Життя ed an abbreviated version of his photo- Gregory Manasterski, was awarded to Nicholas Spak of Pittsburgh. МАRІA DRICH graphic documentary titled, “Chernobyl – Licensed Life Insurance Agent Causes, Cover-Up and Consequences.” Mr. The Ukrainian Selfreliance of Western Ukrainian National Assn., Inc. Haritan visited Ukraine in 2016 and again Pennsylvania FCU Scholarship, awarded to in 2018, and has taken two private tours to a member who has shown excellence in 2200 Route 10, Parsippany, NJ 07054 Chornobyl – site of the world’s worst nucle- both academic studies and community Tel.: 973-292-9800 ext. 3035 ar disaster – and the abandoned city of involvement, was awarded to Kateryna e-mail: [email protected] Prypiat, shooting hundreds of photographs Czuczman of Pittsburgh. that became the foundation of his docu- The Dr. Michael Kutsenkow Memorial mentary. Scholarships, awarded to students with SERVICES During his most recent trip, Mr. Haritan outstanding academic achievement and interviewed and photographed the “babas” active participation in the Ukrainian com- (elderly women) still living in the exclusion munity, were awarded to Katarzyna Goebel zone. Through powerful and moving imag- of Sewickley, Pa., and Ostap Lutsiv of es, Mr. Haritan told the unheard and forgot- Carnegie, Pa. ten stories of the many inhabitants and vic- The Michael and Anna Komichak tims of this ongoing tragedy. He continues Memorial Scholarship, underwritten by Mr. to share this important work with church, and Mrs. Michael J. Komichak and Mr. and school, emergency response, professional Mrs. Raymond Komichak, was awarded to and civic groups across the country and has Michael Yourstowsky of Canfield, Ohio. OPPORTUNITIES raised over $10,000 in donations, in coop- The Ukrainian Cultural Trust Choir of eration with Sister Ann Laszok, OSBM, for Western Pennsylvania Scholarship, under- the children and orphans in Ukraine affect- written by the choir, was awarded to Earn extra income! ed by nuclear radiation. Yaryna Korenovska of Carnegie. The Kateryna Dowbenko Ukrainian The Ukrainian Weekly is looking Following the presentation and a ques- for advertising sales agents. tion and answer session, Mr. Honchar and Language Scholarship, was awarded to For additional information contact UTS Executive Board Member Nickolas C. Kateryna Kocelko of Pittsburgh. Walter Honcharyk, Advertising Manager, Kotow awarded the 14 scholarships total- Ukrainian Technological Society The Ukrainian Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext 3040. ing $9,000. This marked the 46th year of Scholarships were awarded to Andriannna the UTS Scholarship Program, with 469 Cycak of Moon Township, Pa.; Artem separate awards made totaling $222,200 to Dobrochynsky of Coraopolis; and Monika 291 different students. The UTS gave an Karpa of Carnegie. additional $500 to Smoloskyp Inc. to fund A social hour held in the atrium followed scholarships for students in Ukraine. the program. The Maria Hulai Lion Foundation To learn more about the UTS, its scholar- Scholarships, awarded to students who ship program, and other activities, visit the demonstrated outstanding academic per- website at www.utspgh.org. Or “friend” the formance, and made possible through a UTS on Facebook at “Ukrainian grant from the Maria Hulai Lion Technological Society (UTS) of Pittsburgh.” Foundation of Brooklyn, were awarded to Donations toward the 2019 UTS Scholarship Michael Kochis of Coraopolis, Pa., and Program are now being accepted. Stanislav Davyda of Pittsburgh. Donations are tax-deductible, as provided by The Michael and Olga Lisewych law, as the UTS has Internal Revenue Code Memorial Scholarship, awarded to a stu- 501(c)(3) designation. Donations or inqui- dent pursuing engineering with outstand- ries may be sent to the UTS at P.O. Box 4277, ing academic achievement and participa- Pittsburgh, PA 15203. Donations can also be tion in Ukrainian community activities, was made securely via PayPal by visiting the UTS Run your advertisement here, awarded to Dmytri Rakovan of Baden, Pa. website and clicking on the “Support” page. The Ukrainian Selfreliance of Western Readers may contact the UTS by e-mail at in The Ukrainian Weekly’s CLASSIFIEDS section. Pennsylvania Federal Credit Union [email protected]. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 13

ist militants of the self-proclaimed Donetsk at the moment,” Ruslanas Sklepovic, a board Ms. Alexievich said in a video statement on NEWSBRIEFS People’s Republic,” said a statement member of Modus Group, said in a state- August 8 that she learned about threats released on August 8 by Reps. Adam Schiff ment. The group has implemented similar against her and the organizers of the meet- (Continued from page 12) (D-Calif.) and Steve Chabot (R-Ohio), the co- projects in Lithuania and Belarus, and is ing and therefore decided to cancel the Prison service denies Sentsov at risk chairs of the House Freedom of the Press implementing new projects in Spain and event planned at the Green Theater in the Caucus. Mr. Aseyev, who has reported for Poland. The new solar power park will be Black Sea port city. The Green Theater Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service various Ukrainian media outlets, also con- installed in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region by wrote on Facebook that Ms. Alexievich’s (FSIN) has denied the Ukrainian filmmaker tributes to RFE/RL’s Ukraine Service and the second half of 2019 and will produce name was added to a list of “enemies of Oleh Sentsov, on hunger strike in a Russian writes under the name Stanislav Vasin. He 45,000 megawatt hours of power a year. Ukraine” by the Ukrainian nationalist web- prison for nearly three months, has lost 30 disappeared in Donetsk on June 2, 2017, Ukraine has set special feed-in tariffs for site Myrotvorets (Peacekeeper) four hours kilograms. In a statement quoted by the and weeks later, Amnesty International said solar energy and the state buys electricity before her scheduled meeting with readers TASS news agency on August 11, the FSIN it had received information from sources in for them. Last year, solar power plants with on August 8. The Myrotvorets site accused said “As of today he is not seen to be under- the Donetsk region saying that Mr. Aseyev a total capacity of 300 megawatts were Ms. Alexievich of “propagating interethnic weight and a worsening in his state of health was being held by the self-styled security installed in Ukraine, and another 180 mega- discord and manipulating information is not observed.” The statement comes a day organs of the separatists. A friend of Mr. watts were added in the first six months of important for society” in a speech she deliv- after French President Emmanuel Macron Aseyev and a former lawmaker, Yehor this year, bringing the total capacity of solar ered in Brooklyn in 2016. Although the site raised the plight of Mr. Sentsov during a Firsov, in July said the prisoner had declared power plants in the country to 841 mega- removed Ms. Alexievich’s name from the list phone call with Russian President Vladimir a hunger strike and was being “kept in a watts. Renewable energy projects in Ukraine several hours later, the writer and the the- Putin. Mr. Putin promised “to respond and damp room, sick, but does not receive the are funded by the European Bank of ater decided to cancel the event “to avoid quickly release details on Sentsov’s health,” necessary medications” while under sepa- Reconstruction and Development and the possible risks for Alexievich and the audi- the French presidency said. Mr. Macron has ratist custody. Mr. Firsov said the separatists World Bank. (The Baltic Course) ence in the theater.” In her video statement, already brought up the Sentsov case several had accused Mr. Aseyev of espionage and Ms. Alexievich called Myrotvorets’ state- Ukraine seeks ‘Magnitsky list’ times with Mr. Putin, including during a visit threatened him with up to 14 years in pris- ment about her anti-Ukrainian stance to St. Petersburg in May. On August 10, the on. RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service has been Ukraine will insist on urgent consider- “absolutely far-fetched.” She noted: “My European Union urged Russian authorities unable to contact him since his disappear- ation by the European Court of Human mother is Ukrainian. I was born in Ukraine to move Mr. Sentsov to a medical facility and ance and his current condition is unknown. Rights (ECHR) of a lawsuit against Russia and I have always felt my Ukrainian blood... give him appropriate medical care. The Reps. Schiff and Cabot described Mr. Aseyev about Ukrainian political prisoners and It is always important for me to meet with political prisoner’s lawyer, Dmitry Dinze, as “one of the few independent journalists expects that the fact of filing a suit will be Ukraine.” Ms. Alexievich grew up in Belarus said on August 10 that Mr. Sentsov is “ready to remain in the region under separatist the basis for Ukraine’s international part- and has Belarusian citizenship. In her very to die” and after visiting him on August 7 control to provide objective reporting.” ners to impose additional personal sanc- first public statement after she was told AFP that he had lost 30 kilograms. In its Their statement noted: “He has been denied tions against those involved in violating the announced the Nobel Prize winner in litera- August 11 statement, the FSIN specifically visitation and there have been reports that rights of Ukrainians, Ukraine’s Justice ture in 2015, Ms. Alexievich condemned referred to the 30-kilogram weight-loss fig- he may be charged with spying – an accusa- Minister Pavlo Petrenko has said. “As new Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, call- ure, claiming “this information does not cor- tion international observers say is politically information is received for every Ukrainian ing it an armed intervention. (RFE/RL) respond to reality.” The service said it “is motivated because of his reporting.” The who has been illegally incarcerated by taking all the necessary measures” to main- Poroshenko speaks with Merkel statement also noted that Mr. Aseyev had Russia’s law enforcement system, we will tain Mr. Sentsov’s state of health and that he reportedly gone on hunger strike and that supplement our application to the ECHR. does not require emergency hospitalization. President Petro Poroshenko held a his “situation is becoming dire.” Human Our goal is to obtain a decision from ECHR A vocal opponent of Russia’s 2014 takeover phone conversation with Federal Chancellor rights groups have expressed concerns over that enumerates violations of all the speci- of Crimea, Mr. Sentsov was sentenced to 20 of Germany Angela Merkel on August 16. Mr. Aseyev’s whereabouts and said the sep- fied norms of conventions and Russia’s years in prison after being convicted by a The two leaders coordinated positions on aratists must release him immediately if obligation to free Ukrainians, and to return Russian court in 2015 of conspiracy to com- the eve of the meeting between the chancel- they are holding him. (RFE/RL) them to the territory of Ukraine,” Mr. mit terrorist acts, charges he and human lor of Germany and the president of the Petrenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on rights groups say were politically motivated. EU supports public administration reform Russian Federation. Mr. Poroshenko and Ms. August 13. “Ukrainians ...are persecuted in Mr. Sentsov, 42, is being held in a penal colo- Merkel discussed the situation in the The European Union has decided to Russia on grounds of nationality, on the ny in the city of Labytnangi in Russia’s Donbas and further efforts, including the issue 15.5 million euros of budget assis- grounds of religion, ...on the basis of their northern region of Yamalo-Nenets, where he use of peacekeepers, to ensure progress tance to Ukraine for the reform of the pub- political or public views,” Mr. Petrenko has been on hunger strike since mid-May toward a peaceful settlement of the war. Mr. lic administration sector, the press service noted. “We will appeal to our international demanding that Russia release 64 Ukrainian Poroshenko paid special attention to the of the EU Delegation to Ukraine has report- partners with a proposal to form a separate citizens he considers political prisoners. He issue of the release of Ukrainian hostages ed. Based on the results achieved by sanctions list akin to the ‘Magnitsky list,’ in has vowed to continue his protest to the and political prisoners illegally detained in Ukraine in reforming the public adminis- which those persons involved in kidnap- end. Maja Kocijancic, a spokeswoman for EU the temporarily occupied territories and in tration sector in 2017, the EU decided to ping, imprisonment and torture of foreign policy chief Federica Mogehrini, said Russia, in particular the need for the imme- increase assistance to Ukraine in this Ukrainian citizens will be listed,” Mr. in a statement that the 28-member bloc diate release of Ukrainian film director Oleh important area of public policy. Some 15.5 Petrenko said. (Interfax-Ukraine) Sentsov. The president and the chancellor expects Russia “to provide him with appro- million euros of the total amount of 90 mil- priate treatment in an institutionalized Alexievich cancels event amid threats also discussed security challenges related to lion euros that constitute the EU’s commit- the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipe- medical setting.” The EU statement also said: ments to supporting this reform are to be Belarusian writer and Nobel Literature line. The interlocutors discussed the sched- “The European Union expects international transferred to the national budget of Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich says she uling of further contacts in the framework human rights standards on the [Crimean] Ukraine for 2018, the agency said. The EU has canceled her meeting with readers in of bilateral dialogue. (Presidential peninsula to be upheld and all illegally said this is the second payment after the the Ukrainian city of Odesa amid threats. Administration of Ukraine) detained Ukrainian citizens in Russia and on first tranche of 10 million euros that was the Crimean Peninsula to be released with- provided in May 2017. In addition, the dip- out delay.” Mr. Sentsov is being currently lomatic mission noted that in 2016 the EU sustained with water and a drip with glu- approved a special program of assistance to cose and vitamins. Besides losing 30 kilo- reform the public administration sector in grams, Mr. Dinze also said earlier this week the amount of 104 million euros, which that his client’s heart rate has slowed and provides 90 million euros for budgetary his red blood cell levels were very low. A support and 14 million euros for technical cousin of Mr. Sentsov said on August 8 that assistance, which is used to provide adviso- With profound sorrow we share the news that on July 12, 2018, the filmmaker is in a “catastrophically bad” ry services to state bodies involved in our beloved wife, mother, sister and grandmother state and could be close to death. Ukrainian implementation of the reform. “The deci- Ombudswoman Lyudmyla Denisova said on sion to send 15.5 million euros from the EU Sophie Marie Worobec, MD August 9 that “rapid actions” are needed to funds to the national budget of Ukraine for save Mr. Sentsov’s life. Several governments 2018 is our recognition of the tangible passed away in Chicago shortly after completing her clinical duties for and prominent figures have called on Mr. progress that Ukraine made in the imple- the day. She was born in New York City on October 19,1948. Putin to pardon Mr. Sentsov, but Kremlin mentation of the public administration spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said the reform,” Thomas Frellesen, chargé Left in profound sadness: inmate would have to ask for a pardon him- d’affaires of the Delegation of the European husband: John G. Victor self before it could be considered. Mr. Union to Ukraine, stated. (Interfax-Ukraine) Sentsov has said he would not ask for a par- daughter: Adrienne Victor (Derrick Taylor) and children Cassandra don because he has not committed a crime. Investment in solar power park in Ukraine and Aiden brothers: Roman B. Worobec (Catherine) and children Sophia (RFE/RL, with reporting by AFP and Lithuania’s Modus Group, uniting compa- Interfax) nies engaged in the car trade, real estate and (Tom Day) and Thomas R. Thomas G. Worobec and sons Henry and David U.S. lawmakers urge journalist’s release energy, is investing 30 million euros into a new solar power park in Ukraine. Green relatives, friends, and colleagues in the United States and Ukraine A bipartisan U.S. congressional caucus Genius and Modus Energy International, Memorial visitation was held on July 21, 2018, with a Panakhyda sung has called for the immediate release of a part of Modus Group, will implement the 35 by the Very Rev. 0. Kryvokulsky of Sts. Volodymyr and OIha Ukrainian Ukrainian journalist and blogger said to megawatt project, the group said. “We are Catholic Church, Chicago. Interment private. have been imprisoned on spying charges for constantly looking for opportunities to more than a year in eastern Ukraine. “We invest into solar power projects across May Her Memory Be Eternal! are deeply concerned by reports that Europe. Countries which are only starting to Вічная Їй пам’ять! Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev con- actively develop their renewable energy sec- tinues to be held by Russia-backed separat- tors are the most favorable markets for that 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 No. 33 No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 15

Brian Reilly Yaroslava Halyk presents the winners of the Lemko Vatra soccer tournament, FC Brian Reilly Karpaty Passaic, with their trophy. Na Lemkowyni performs at the Lemko Vatra. Piecing back together a community at the Lemko Vatra

by Diana Howansky Reilly ELLENVILLE, N.Y. – Speak to a Lemko and the conversa- tion will inevitably turn to the fact that their mountainous homeland, Lemkivshchyna – or the Lemko region in cur- rent-day southeastern Poland – and the tight-knit commu- nity that lived there was destroyed by a series of deporta- tions organized by the Polish and Soviet governments in 1944-1951 to force assimilation. It is as if someone broke a glass and now is trying to piece it back together, said Yaroslava Halyk, the president of the World Federation of Ukrainian-Lemko Unions (known by its Ukrainian-based acronym as SFULO), during her talk at the Lemko Vatra fes- tival that took place at the Ukrainian American Youth Association camp in Ellenville, N.Y., on July 7-8. The festival, which has been organized for the past 18 years by the Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna (OOL), is just one way that Lemkos remember and celebrate their heritage. It’s a weekend of music, dance, sports and camaraderie against a backdrop of rolling hills reminiscent of the Lemko region. The festival’s honored guests this year included not just Ms. Halyk, whose family hails from the Lemko villages of Krzyzówka and Rostok Wielka, but also folk singer Julia Doszna, who was born in the Lemko village of Bielanka. Ms. Halyk’s family was deported from Lemkivshchyna to Soviet Ukraine during the Soviet-Polish population exchange of 1944-1946, while Ms. Doszna’s family was thankfully included mixed Polish-Lemko marriage. spared resettlement during Akcja Wisła in 1947 because it

Brian Reilly The lighting of the ceremonial “vatra” (bonfire). Ms. Halyk’s experience eventually led her to publish “The Memory Books of Lemkivshchyna 1944-1946,” an archival resource compiling the names and villages of all A new Lemko folk group the Lemkos deported to Soviet Ukraine during that period, while Ms. Dozna channeled the sadness she felt over the Na Lemkowyni is a new Lemko folk group in the resettlement of the Lemkos into her natural singing talent, United States that was created in 2017. It started which can be heard on her albums “Tam na Lemkovyni” when the members of the group – Katarzyna (There in Lemkovyna), “Choho Plachesh” (Why Are You Crying?) and “Immigrant.” Korbicz Faria, Darek Kuzmiak, Marzena Kuzmiak, Below are excerpts from conversations with both Ms. EmilChomiak, Skalski, Petro and Chomiak,Krystyna Skalski Mychał – Chomyk, were asked Irena to Halyk and Ms. Dozsna, translated into English, about their sing at a 70th anniversary commemoration of Akcja visit to the Lemko Vatra in Ellenville and their interactions with other Lemkos in the United States. they could represent such an important yet tragic What are your impressions of the United States, eventWisła in history,Manhattan. which The forced singers the were Lemkos pleased to leave that including the Lemko community in the United States their homes and beloved land. and the Lemko Vatra in Ellenville? In the past, members of the group have performed throughout Europe and the U.S. with other folk Ms. Halyk: First of all, I would like to warmly congratu- ensembles, such as Lemkowyna and Kyczera from late the large and, as I witnessed, friendly and cohesive Poland. Dressed in traditional Lemko attire and sing- Lemko community in the United States, and to wish them ing original Lemko songs taught to them by their par- further successful work in preserving Lemko heritage and ents and grandparents, the members of Na supporting Lemko issues in the United States and around Lemkowyni would now like to introduce and re-intro- the world. This was my first visit to the United States, as duce the younger generation to Lemko culture well as my first visit as president of SFULO at the invitation through music and their love for their native land. of OOL, which is headed by a young, energetic and very responsible leader, Mark Howansky, who is also a member Recently the group performed at the New Jersey of the presidium of SFULO and the deputy chairman of Devils Ukrainian Heritage Day on March 4 at the Julie Wislocki SFULO for North America. Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Na Lemkowyni is At the Lemko Vatra (from left) are: Yaroslava Halyk, also currently working on an album. Darek Kuzmiak and Julia Doszna. (Continued on page 16) 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 No. 33

er generation, as well as to people, not only Piecing back... in the United States, but everywhere in the world. After all, the level of information (Continued from page 15) about the tragic, complete exile of autoch- It should be noted that, starting from my thonous Ukrainians, including Lemkos, arrival to Syracuse, N.Y., on June 30 and from ethnic Ukrainian territories in Poland throughout my 10-day visit, my work was from 1944 to 1951 is still too low. clearly planned and well thought out. Therefore, all forces must now aim to raise Responsible people from OOL were appoint- this issue to the surface for the worldwide ed everywhere, for every part of my meet- audience, in memory of our ancestors and ings or talks, and performed their duties in order to condemn crimes against clearly and correctly. What is also very humanity that must never be repeated. important is that next to the older, experi- America’s Lemkos have great potential to enced Lemkos worked younger generations. carry out these tasks. At the 18th annual Lemko Vatra in What would you most want readers Ellenville on July 7, many people gathered, of this article about the Lemko Vatra to the weather was wonderful, and the cele- know about you? bration was extremely nice. There was a Ms. Halyk: I would like people to know solemn opening ceremony, traditional light- Julie Wislocki that I am a Lemkynia going back to my fore- ing of the bonfire, sports competitions, Lena Howansky (left) and Ania Pregner display the Lemko Vatra T-shirts that were fathers and I have no other ancestors except beautiful performances, including by young available for purchase. artistic groups, the Lemko ensemble Na Lemkos. My father was Ivan Halyk, son of Lemkowyni and the inimitable Julia ed that, at a time when many organizations Despite the dispersal of Lemkos after Daniel from the village of Krzyzówka, and Doszna, exciting Ukrainian dances, heartfelt have problems maintaining themselves, expulsion from their native land, they have my mother was Stefania Repel, daughter of Lemko songs, etc. The whole concert pro- OOL is resurrecting its branches. It is shown that they can unite and do much to Peter from Roztoka Wielka (both near gressed in one breath – which was fun, important that Lemkos in the United States, preserve their cultural heritage. It is just Krynica). My relatives terribly missed coordinated, and professional. The Vatra as well as Canada, work through a single necessary to unite all of us through work Lemkivshchyna their whole lives, where hosts, Darek Kuzmiak and Halyna Ukrainian channel, and in youth organiza- and to attract young people to this work. It they left not only their houses, churches, Semenyak, contributed to the liveliness. tions, and in public-cultural activities. is necessary to show young Lemkos their family graves, mountains and forests. It I also had interesting interactions by the hometowns, villages, churches, cemeteries, seemed to me that they left their souls Ms. Doszna: I was surprised by my own Lemko History and Heritage Tent with graves, etc., to help them find their family there, and they lived in exile in only their thinking about Lemkos in America – how journalists, scholars, genealogy researchers roots and to restore the memory of their physical bodies. They told us daily about life different it was from 13 years ago, when I and Lemkos who just wanted to talk about native Lemkivshchyna. “at home,” sang Lemko songs, spoke Lemko recorded my album “Immigrant” in their families, about Lemkivshchyna and For example, I am extremely inspired by and survived very bitter times in the Soviet Pennsylvania and New York and I was per- about Ukraine. On Sunday, I had an infor- the example and eternal memory of Dr. Union. This pain, this hard injustice burns forming concerts. It seems to me that I felt mal talk with guests of the festival, coordi- Ivan Hvozda from Syracuse, N.Y., who unit- me, as it once burned them. the rhythm of this land. I understood the nated by Mark Howansky and the presi- ed politicians, public figures, intellectuals Therefore, when Ukraine became inde- phenomenon of life in America, which was dent of the Lemko Research Foundation, and all the Ukrainian-Lemko forces in pendent and it was possible to write about well-illustrated by Andriy Khomyk’s Lemko Andriy Khomyk, which was interesting and America to work together to establish the this, I wrote my first book “Lemkivshchyna – lively; the conversation was open and sin- truth about the deportation of Ukrainians The Land of Our Ancestors,” which outlined cere and, I hope, left a good impression. from their ethnic lands, and to restore and the brief history of the region, as well as the Thing”)Vatra T-shirt – if everyone design does“Keep their Calm job and without Лем And there was a delicious borshch, pyro- preserve the identity of Lemkos. The genealogy of our big family starting from criticizingРоб Своє” others,(“Keep thenCalm weand can Just move Do Your for- hy and a roasted pig. Adding to the fun was United States is a free country that offers our expulsion from Poland to Soviet Ukraine ward. the evening outdoor dance, with wonderful great opportunities for such work, and through the present day. And, in 2015-2016, And those smiles, which help a lot dur- Ukrainian music by the live band America’s Lemkos can help a lot in con- I published the “The Memory Books of ing contact with people and, above all, in Cheremosh. But the hospitable, sincere, demning the criminal eviction of Lemkos Lemkivshchyna 1944-1946” in three vol- life. In America, I smiled more often and heartfelt people whom I met in America left from their native land. umes, where I compiled lists of all Lemkos more spontaneously than in Lemkiv­ the biggest impressions on my heart. I am who were evicted to the USSR from 1944 to shchyna, where one can feel the great sad- How do you believe that Lemkos in endlessly thankful to you all. 1946 (143,610 people). Nowadays, I try to ness and the burden of a tragedy connected the United States can best learn about do everything possible so that the expulsion Ms. Doszna: I understand that the and preserve Lemko culture, music and of Lemkos and all Ukrainians from our Lemko community in the United States is the sadness that I brought to America dur- history? native land will be recognized as a crime, made up of descendants of emigrants from ingwith my deportation, previous trip with and Akcja the sadnessWisła. This that is I Ms. Doszna: The world has grown small and so that those exiled will be recognized both the turn of the 19th-20th centuries recorded on my album about the first now, so it is not difficult for young as victims of repression by the totalitarian and those who arrived in the 21st century. Galician emigrants. In retrospect, I under- American Lemkos to come to their little Communist regimes. I do this so that exile Both are very close to me. Among the first stand more and I know that, today, I would homeland in the Beskid Mountains and get will cease to burn each of us, the descen- emigration is my family (which currently sing these songs differently, more optimisti- to know their ancestors’ land, so that they dants of those exiled, and the souls of those numbers over 200 relatives in the United cally and not so melancholy. can participate in various gatherings and who have already left this world will rest States). They speak beautiful Ruthenian, Although, at the Vatra in Ellenville, I pre- workshops in which they can get to know easier after all their difficult earthly trials. with a wealth of words that no one remem- pared old, forgotten, happy songs, I was the mysteries hidden in the hills of the Also, I would like to express my heartfelt bers anymore. most moved when I began by singing my northern slopes of the Carpathians. Young gratitude to all the Lemkos of America for During my stay, Lemkowyna, the musical lyrical songs a cappella and a wonderful people get to know each other best when their great effort in preserving their culture group that I came to America with in 1987, silence fell across the audience, which was they are walking in the mountains, singing and identity. In particular, I would like to was reborn in me. Why? Because I met listening. I did not expect that. It’s the most and talking with each other. Such activities thank the OOL leaders: Mark Howansky, wonderful young members from the old beautiful thing when listeners – even in the will certainly lead to learning about and Andriy Khomyk and Mykhailo Chomyk, Lemkowyna group here, who have now difficult environment of an open camp- keeping the culture of their grandparents who are members of the presidium of founded the musical group Na Lemkowyni ground space – can listen so wonderfully. and great-grandparents in their hearts. SFULO, as well as to other members of OOL and who sing songs that I know from child- For this moment, I particularly thank all the and other Lemkos in America for their sup- hood. This was a wonderful encounter – festival-goers. Ms. Halyk: Current scholarly and infor- port of Lemko and greater Ukrainian meeting through song. We were so insatia- mational levels provide an opportunity for causes in the United States, Ukraine and ble in terms of singing together. I had not The Lemko community has been torn the creation of electronic databases to pre- apart, so how do you believe Lemkos in around the world. Visiting the United sung many of those songs for over 30 years serve the cultural heritage of States, as well as Canada, contributed to my and, here in America, there was someone to the United States can stay connected to Lemkivshchyna, since our cultural trea- other Lemkos around the world? study of the work of these organizations, sing with. Thank you very much to all the sures are scattered all over the world. For their needs and achievements, and promot- members of Na Lemkowyni. We have plans Ms. Doszna: I think that they not only example, Lemko icons can be found in vari- ed new, interesting ideas and problem-solv- to record an album together in the future. can, but they should. The American Lemko ous museums around the world, and in pri- ing. I am sincerely grateful to all those who The Lemko Vatra in Ellenville is very community radiates across the world and I vate collections, and in churches. It is nec- organized my visit, and wish you all a big, friendly and family-friendly. This beautiful put it in first place in terms of positive essary to create electronic catalogues and place in the woods unites all generations. actions on behalf of Lemkos. We need sup- to add each icon to these catalogues in kindness, sincerity and work! The people were very kind and cordial. I port and help in various areas concerning order to specify where it is stored. Then, it Lemko “Боже заплат” (God bless) for your Ms. Doszna: Above all, I would want have never had such wonderful fun at a our creative activity. For example, I am is necessary to constantly search and them to know that I warmly think about dance and I danced the night away. When always looking for old songs in the collec- update. The same goes for paintings, books, we returned for the night, there was no songs, clothing, etc. This is a huge amount them and that I would like to support them of work, but it is possible. In this way, we in their efforts to build good relations with sleeping, but further singing around the Olesko, Reinfuss and others, but I cannot will be sure that nothing will be lost. We Lemkos in the old country in particular, but campfire, with an accordion. It was an affordtions to of publish Kolberg, these Kolesa, songs. WacławI apologize from for need people who understand these issues, also with Lemkos around the world. Let’s amazing time. I will always treasure it. speaking about such mundane matters, but as well as financing. It is necessary to create build bridges, build friendly relations, meet this is the prose of life with which I struggle. What surprised or impacted you most programs and projects, and to work. and enrich each other. I am happy that I about your visit to the United States? Ms. Halyk: Undoubtedly, the Lemko Regarding Lemko history, first, we need could, for a moment, be with you and pres- Ms. Halyk: I was surprised and excited community in the U.S.A. is very powerful to restore it and establish the historical ent you with a part of my heart and my life. that, in the United States, there is such a and friendly. It has great potential and can truth about the criminal eviction processes. Thank you for the great atmosphere that I large number of Lemkos who hold firmly to and should not only stay in touch with, but And, of course, we need to publicize this experienced at the Vatra and for showing their authenticity. It was greatly appreciat- also unite, Lemkos around the world. truth to all Lemkos, in particular the young- me America and your achievements. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 17 Ukrainian Catholic University graduates 270 students

by Oksana Levantovych LVIV – The Ukrainian Catholic University this year grad- uated 270 students, celebrating their accomplishments at a commencement ceremony on June 30. A few hours before the ceremony, near the newly built Sheptytsky Center, work was under way for the outdoor ceremony – something new for UCU. The graduates of the bachelor’s and master’s programs started to gather. All were attired all in long gowns with hoods of different colors depending on their program of study. I manage to catch a few graduates for their com- ments. All generously share their joy, talk about studying at UCU and, of course, what they think of the format of this year’s graduation. Hryhorii Trotskyi, a veteran of the ATO (anti-terrorist operation) in Ukraine’s east, today is a graduate of the mas- ter’s program in public administration of the UCU School of Public Management. He ended up studying at UCU thanks to a scholarship program for former soldiers. “The atmo- sphere at UCU is very different from that at other universi- ties in Ukraine: dedicated teachers, unique students, a pro- fessional program and, most importantly, real communica- tion,” says Mr. Trotskyi. Lesyk Urban Mariana Nikolaienko is receiving a bachelor’s degree in Graduates celebrate their achievement. social pedagogy. Smiling and a little excited, she is glad to share her impressions of her student years. She says that was convinced that here my daughter would receive a her studies were full of many opportunities but the most foundation of knowledge that is truly useful and necessary valuable aspect of the program was that it was very practi- in life. A university cannot give all knowledge, and that is cal. “We regularly met people who work in the social not its task, but the foundation is a must.” sphere, and this was very inspiring. So I soon started vol- The ceremony begins unteering at parishes and now I work with children in the early grades,” she notes. Finally the moment has come. After a service in the Volodymyr Khitsyak, who in 2004 graduated from UCU University Church of the Holy Wisdom of God, guests, vice- after majoring in theology and philosophy, today is a grad- rectors, teachers and UCU President Bishop Borys Gudziak uate of the master’s program in technology management of take their places. With ceremonial music, the name of each UCU’s Lviv Business School (LvBS). It seems to be an educational program and its director is announced. The unusual combination of degrees, but it’s actually very rele- graduates come into the tent and sit in the first rows in vant, for the technology field today needs people with an front of the stage. understanding of ethics in the broad sense of the word. UCU’s rector, Father Bohdan Prach is invited to speak. “In today’s technology world, we see a demand for man- He has words of gratitude and prayer: “Dear graduates, agement at another level: with a very good philosophical, your teachers and parents or guardians throughout the theological or humanitarian base,” Mr. Khitsyak comments. years were like these candles – on fire for your sake, giving “In any event, at the center of it all stands the human being, all their love. So I call you to pass on all the knowledge, humaneness and love that you have received. And this also our connections with one another, with God, with society. Boris Lushniak delivers the commencement address. This understanding is increasing on an ever larger scale in means: Do not be afraid to go forward, to fight for truth, for the whole technology business.” starting a new stage in their lives. “A person simply starts Ukraine, for values, to serve our nation. You have studied “Today I head the LvBS Center of Ethics and Technology. studying at university; he studies all his life. So my greatest for this purpose,” the rector underscores. There we study the influence of new technologies on soci- wish for the graduates is that they not only confirm this Then Bishop Borys Gudziak addresses the graduates: ety, in particular, the ethical aspects of this influence. In this truth each day, but that through their actions and bearing it “You are a new generation for a new Ukraine. Under this area, my new studies helped me see business aspects, pos- is evident that they are graduates of UCU,” he answers. slogan a great fund-raising campaign was conducted which sibilities for forecasting,” he explains. Today is a celebration not only for the graduates but also has given us these buildings all around and which rallied I ask Myroslav Marynovych, UCU’s vice-rector for uni- for their parents. Bohdan Troyanovskyi is the happy father tens of thousands of friends and benefactors of UCU from versity mission: “How do you like the new graduation for- of Ksenia, who is about to receive her bachelor’s degree in many countries. And the only way to thank them for their mat?” He replies: “It is something very natural for UCU. I psychology. They chose UCU because of its environment. openness, courage, ability to communicate, to witness is to recall how at the rectorate meeting we talked about this “Ksenia once studied at St. Sophia School. And they be worthy of their service.” square in front of the church. We imagined that sometime often asked my wife and me why we sent our daughter to Bishop Borys introduces the invited guest of the com- ceremonies would be held right here. And that ‘sometime’ that kind of school. I answered: ‘Here is an environment mencement ceremony. Dr. Boris Lushniak is an American is today.” that we trust.’ The Ukrainian Catholic University has some- of Ukrainian descent who was acting surgeon general Mr. Marynovych was a Soviet-era dissident who in his thing similar: it has its own environment, teachers and stu- under President Barack Obama; he is a retired rear admiral youth sat in jail many years for his pro-Ukrainian position. I dents who are very serious about life,” says Mr. of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. ask him what he wishes for all those who here and now are Troyanovskyi. “I had very great trust in the university and “This celebration has particular beauty for me because the main speaker is one of my old friends and the former sur- geon general of the U.S.A.,” says the bishop. “I am very pleased that this professional, this servant, this doctor, a human being who was an example for me, a source of joy, can be together with us.” Dr. Lushniak comes to the microphone and delivers an incredibly humorous but no less meaningful speech, which more than once brings forth applause, smiles and surprise. “Today is your day. In English we use the word ‘com- mencement’ for the ceremony that culminates a certain chapter of academic life. Fairly often this is incorrectly interpreted as the completion of the educational process, the culmination of which is receiving a degree and gaining status. However, this term comes from Latin and means ‘a beginning,’ not ‘an end.’ So today is for you the start of your way in life. It is truly an honor for me to be invited as this year’s main speaker,” Dr. Lushniak begins. Then he muses about why he was invited to speak at the commencement: “Perhaps the decision to invite me was influenced by the fact that I was a rear admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and played a role in the administration of former President Obama. Perhaps my academic role had an influence – dean and

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Movie about... (Continued from page 1) while a banner reading “Ukrainian Choice” hangs on the stage. “It’s a movie about Vasyl Stus, not about Viktor Medvedchuk,” the dissident’s son commented. Producer Mr. Denisov whose 50-percent partner is the Ukrainian State Film Agency (Derzhkino), said he is “feeling pressure from all sides.” In a telephone interview with The Ukrainian Weekly on August 15, Mr. Denisov said the scenes with Mr. Medvedchuk and the courtroom were part of the original screenplay. Then he and the director, Mr. Brovko, decided that the movie would be “highly politicized if the scenes were kept and that it would be difficult to distribute in the movie theaters,” among the reasons for stusfilm.com.ua their decision to omit the courtroom seg- A line at a fruit stand along Kyiv’s main thoroughfare, the Khreshchatyk, during the Soviet era, as seen in the upcoming film ment of the story. about the last days of Ukrainian poet and Soviet dissident Vasyl Stus’s life. Now, “we are feeling public and govern- ment pressure, as well as litigation threats key.” trial, Mr. Medvedchuk didn’t object or file received a three-month forced labor sen- from Medvedchuk and [copyright refusal Together with co-screenwriter Serhiy any motions in his client’s defense, accord- tence in a Soviet prison camp for refusing from] Stus’s son,” the producer said. “As a Dziuba, they crafted a plot where Vasyl Stus ing to a legal analysis based on the original to give testimony. producer, the main goal is to get this film is in the gulag during his second incarcera- court documents that was conducted by “I won’t respond to any questions in a released and into the movie theaters.” tion and living out his final days before Kyiv lawyers Roman Tytykalo and Illya court that Stus doesn’t recognize as legiti- “Stus,” whose budget is 1.375 million, is dying of heart failure while examining his Kostin. mate,” she said. “I will give testimony in a scheduled to premiere on February 28, life through biographical scene flashbacks. The dissident, who spent his formative court where Vasyl Stus will be the accuser 2019. “We built a screenplay of conflict. Stus years in Donetsk Oblast, had actually and not sit in the dock.” Co-screenwriter Artemiy Kirsanov told fought the Soviet Union, the system… one requested that Mr. Medvedchuk, as well as Again, Mr. Medvedchuk deferred to the The Ukrainian Weekly that the courtroom flashback was the courtroom where his any other “Soviet attorney,” cease repre- judge’s ruling. scenes with Mr. Medvedchuk where the lawyer Medvedchuk was present – and this senting him, according to court documents. Mr. Medvedchuk agreed with the prose- poet was being tried “for anti-Soviet agita- scene portrayed the essence of what the Instead, Stus asked for an “international cutor that Stus was guilty of the charges tion and propaganda” wouldn’t have been USSR was,” Mr. Kirsanov said. lawyer from an international organization against him, but in his final argument asked initially included if they weren’t “important Stus, who was a member of the human like or from [the human rights group] that the maximum sentence of 10 years’ and needed,” adding, “although they’re not rights monitoring organization the Amnesty International.” imprisonment and five years’ exile be Ukrainian Helsinki Group, was a In response, Mr. Medvedchuk deferred reduced due partially to the defendant’s nominee for the Nobel Prize for lit- to the judge’s ruling; Stus’s request was health and employment record. erature at the time of his death. denied. Stus wasn’t allowed to address the court His Soviet-appointed public Stus also said that the KGB had tortured with a concluding statement as foreseen by defender, Mr. Medvedchuk, has him before the trial – he was kept in a pre- law. He received the maximum for “anti- always asserted in interviews and trial detention center operated by the Soviet agitation and propaganda.” even in video blogs that he proper- Soviet police. He wrote afterwards: “I do not acknowl- ly represented the poet’s rights. He It is noteworthy also that the Stus trial edge or confess guilt. Until my death, I will has also denounced the Soviet was closed. Not even his spouse was stand for the defense of truth from lies, Union and said the legal system allowed to attend the proceedings during honest people from murderers, and Jesus was rigged to such an extent that which the human and national rights advo- Christ from the devil.” no lawyer could succeed in win- cate said he didn’t acknowledge the court’s Vasyl Stus died on September 4, 1985, ning his client’s acquittal. authority or its ability to give him a fair trial. after he went on a hunger strike in the “Viktor Medvedchuk always One witness, Svitlana Kyrychenko, notorious Perm Camp 36. spoke and stands for the preserva- tion of historical truth, and objec- tive coverage of historical facts,” his lawyer Ihor Kyrylenko said in Noting the support from Ukraine’s allies, the August 12 statement released Turning... Mr. Poroshenko thanked defense ministers and troops from Britain, Georgia, Estonia, by Ukrainian Choice. “Therefore, in (Continued from page 6) the event of the release of the film Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, ‘Stus’… with inaccurate informa- Sanctions against Moscow, added Mr. Romania and the United States for attending tion about Viktor Medvedchuk, I Mattis, will remain in place until Russia or marching in Ukraine’s Independence Day reserve the right for appropriate stops supporting separatists in eastern parade. legal action, including those aimed Ukraine and returns Crimea, the Black Sea President Donald Trump sent a letter of at prohibiting through litigation peninsula seized by Russia in March 2014. congratulations to President Poroshenko on The Ukrainian Weekly file photo the screening of such a film.” Mr. Mattis accused Russia of not abiding the occasion, underscoring that the United Vasyl Stus (January 1, 1938-September 4, 1985). During Stus’s second and last by the February 2015 Minsk agreement States will continue to support Ukraine’s that was meant to be a framework to put an “sovereignty and integrity” and the coun- end to the conflict. “Despite Russia’s deni- try’s “aspirations of becoming a truly als, we know they are seeking to redraw European nation.” international borders by force, undermin- The Pentagon recommended a package ing the sovereign and free nations of of lethal defensive military aid to Ukraine Europe.” worth $47 million. The package was The United States, continued the secre- reported to include 210 Javelin shoulder- tary of defense, is committed to “building launched anti-tank missiles and 37 Javelin З ДНЕМ НЕЗАЛЕЖНОСТИ the capacity” of Ukraine’s armed forces. launchers. Mr. Mattis refuted Moscow’s claims that The first deliveries of Javelin missiles РІДНА УКРАЇНО! the conflict is an internal one for Ukraine, arrived in Ukraine on April 30 of this year, and were confirmed by the U.S. State Вітаємо saying that Russia fomented separatism before it broke out and Russia has sent Department. The White House approved український народ на рідних землях і в діяспорі troops, weapons and other support to the the sale in December. The U.S. is planning to separatists. send an additional $200 million in defense President Poroshenko said, “Ukraine is funding for Ukraine. Since Russia’s invasion ready to give a tough military response to and annexation of Crimea in 2014, the U.S. the aggressor if he tries to go on the offen- has provided nearly $1 billion in aid to sive,” but Ukraine’s priority is a “peaceful, Ukraine. diplomatic, political and law-based path to Source: “Mattis emphasizes support for the return” of Crimea and separatist-held Ukraine, says U.S. is considering lethal weap- [email protected] territory in the Donetsk and Luhansk ons,” (RFE/RL Ukrainian Service), The regions. Ukrainian Weekly, September 3, 2017. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 23 Basilian Sisters’ mission trip brings volunteers to Ukraine

by Sister Ann Laszok, OSBM This year’s Basilian mission trip to Ukraine consisted of the most volunteers ever, as 14 people joined the Sisters of St. Basil the Great Basilian Volunteer Program to teach English to children and visit the needy in Ukraine. The volunteers who joined Sisters Ann Laszok and Joann Sosler hailed from five different states and three different eparchies: Michael Haritan, Stephanie Manasterski from Pennsylvania; Yurij Shevchuk, Olya and Jerry Tchir, John and Daria Catrobon, Helen Fedoriv, and Zenovia and Anastasia Van Sise from New Jersey; Sophie and Ivanna Kultytsky from North Carolina; Patricia Mackiw from Illinois; and Dennis Drost from Oregon. The mission trip encompassed three English catecheti- cal camps in Drohobych, Ivano-Frankivsk and Mukachiv, as well as visits to seven different orphanages, psychiatric institutions, a halfway house, homeless shelters and reha- bilitation centers. The Drohobych camp was held at a newly built eparchial retreat center run by Zoryanna Dubravski. While in Drohobych, on May 27 to June 3 volunteers visited Bukovo Psychiatric Institution, a rehabilitation center and a home- less shelter, where they interacted with residents and dis- tributed the gifts brought for the children and needy. Our visit coincided with the 25th anniversary celebra- Sister Ann Laszok, OSBM tion of the Drohobych Eparchy. Patriarch Sviatoslav cele- Farewell after a week of English catechetical camp at brated a pontifical divine liturgy and then, at the banquet, the Syniak retreat center. took time to pose for a picture with our volunteers. Michael Haritan, our professional photographer volun- ate every single day spending with your team. Team of pro- teer, left us for Kyiv after the first week. His dream of film- fessionals, team of great people, team with the same goal – ing the “Babas” of Chornobyl and the wounded soldiers of to serve God and help people. …P.S. These days we have a Ukraine finally materialized with Sister Dia, OSBM, and camp where there are a lot of children from your camp. Father Yurij Lohoza as translator and guide. They remember all the songs, all the prayers!!! We are so On June 4-8, in Ivano-Frankivsk, we held an English day happy! They ask when will you come again! They miss you! camp. Since the classes all finished by 1 p.m., we visited the We do too! Hope to see you soon,” noted Ms. Dubravski, of Buchach House of Mercy, St. Nicholas Village, a halfway the Drohobych resident camp. house, the Pohon Psychiatric Institution and made a call to Ms. Manasterski offered these observations: “This was Father Roman Mirchuk in Odesa. my first visit to Ukraine, and it was an unforgettable one. I On our one day off we took a sightseeing tour to the enjoyed meeting the people, seeing the beautiful country- Yaremche and Bukovel area. side, and challenging myself to learn the Ukrainian lan- June 10-15 found us in Syniak, a retreat center near guage. I taught English grammar to small groups of chil- Mukachiv for the last English overnight camp. Teaching in dren who were 7-16 years old. Sister Joann was the prima- the beautiful Carpathian Mountains was a pleasure. Father ry teacher, and I learned a lot about teaching from observ- Vasyl Kopyn and his wife, Anhelina, were our local coordi- ing her. Most of the children were engaged and eager to nators. On June 15 we returned to Lviv after tearful good- learn English and about the American culture. …They were byes to do some final shopping and visit the crypt at St. very entertained by our rudimentary Ukrainian language George Cathedral, where we prayed at the tomb of skills, and we laughed and learned together. They are very Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky for all our benefactors Sister Ann teaches reading using the divine liturgy text similar to kids in America, even though they live 6,000 and friends. at the Drohobych retreat center. miles away. I continue to maintain contact with some of the “This mission trip would not have been possible without friends I made through social media, and I hope to return the help and support of all our benefactors and volunteers. inspirational thing for the children was your volunteering. in the not-so-distant future.” The children and needy of Ukraine are grateful to all who You came for free, taught for free and spent your time with Mr. Shevchuk commented: “Ostensibly, we were going to supported us. May God bless you for your generosity,” them. This example is most memorable to them and it Ukraine to teach – to teach the children some American Sister Ann commented. impressed them. Thanks for the inspiration, you gave joy to English. While we did hopefully accomplish some or much Volunteers and local coordinators also weighed in about the children and their parents. We also received very good of that, we probably came back having learned more than their experiences. reviews from the parents. Therefore, we look forward to we taught. We learned how vibrant the life is in Ukraine, “Your presence was an incredible experience for the seeing you next year,” said Sister Yermiya, OSBM, coordina- how religious the people there are; learned that there are children: they could communicate with you in English and tor of Ivano-Frankivsk day camp. wonderful religious and laity who provide for the many learn at the same time some American culture. The most “We appreciate all the work you have done. We appreci- needy children where the government support falls short; learned how varied the divine liturgy is from one location to another, especially the different melodies and songs of the Transcarpathian region; the warmth and friendliness of the children and staff; and finally, learned that those of us who speak Ukrainian here in the states have a lot of catch- ing up to do with the current Ukrainian vocabulary, picking up some new catchy words like ‘frikadel’ka’ (meatball). The opportunity to meet personally with our Patriarch Sviatoslav during a celebration in Drohobych was a real bonus.” “For me, this experience was vital, fun, and long lasting... Vital because as Americans, Ukrainian Catholics, and adults, we were role models and example setters. Fun because in addition to the task we were undertaking, we had loads of laughs, sang plenty of songs, and ultimately bonded deeply in ways that don’t happen in just serious situations... And finally, long lasting in the sense that even after we left, relationships had been initiated and memo- ries had been formed that transcend time/space and will last forever. …it’s my hope and desire to volunteer again next year and years after that, too. ...I’d like it to become an annual event in my life,” were the words of Mr. Drost, the volunteer from Oregon. A presentation of all the camps and orphanages visited is available upon request by calling or e-mailing Sister Ann Bishop Dimitri and volunteers pose with some residents at the House of Mercy in Buchach. at 412-260-1607 or [email protected]. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 No. 33

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www.UkrNatFCU.org (866) 859-5848 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 No. 33 Columbia University announces offerings of Ukrainian Studies Program for fall semester NEW YORK – The Ukrainian Studies post-Soviet space since 1991. tion, the monograph “Soviet Americana: Program at the Harriman Institute will be A body of select films by The Cultural History of Russian and offering seven courses at Columbia Soviet and post-Soviet direc- Ukrainian Americanists” (London and New University in the fall 2018 semester. The tors which exemplify the func- York: I.B. Tauris, 2018). At noon on program will also organize several events tion of filmmaking as a tool of November 1, Bohdan Vitvitsky (former focusing on reform in today’s Ukraine and appropriation of the colo- special advisor to the prosecutor general of will hold a meeting with prominent nized, and their cultural and Ukraine and a former assistant U.S. attor- Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych. political subordination by the ney) will give a talk titled “The Rule of Law, Markian Dobczansky is a historian of the Soviet center, will be exam- Corruption and Ukraine.” All three of these Soviet Union who will be a post-doctoral ined in terms of post-colonial events will take place in the Marshall D. fellow in Ukrainian studies at the Harriman theories. Schulman Room (1219 International Institute of Columbia University for the sec- The course will focus both Affairs Building). ond year of his two-year appointment, on Russian cinema and on On November 13, writer Yuri which is generously supported by the Petro often overlooked work of Andrukhovych will present his recent pub- Jacyk Fund. Dr. Dobczansky’s specializa- Ukrainian, Georgian, lication of essays in English translation “My tions include Russian-Ukrainian relations, Belarusian, Armenian, etc. Final Territory: Selected Essays” nationalism, the politics of culture and national film schools and will (University of Toronto Press, 2018) togeth- urban history. examine how they participat- er with one of the volume’s translators, This fall he will teach a course titled ed in the Communist project Mark Andryczyk. This event will take place “Eurasian Urbanisms: From the Imperial to of fostering a “new historic at 7 p.m. in the Harriman Atrium, 12th the Post-Soviet” (Wednesdays, 4:10-6 p.m.). community of the Soviet peo- floor, International Affairs Building. This course explores the institution of the ple” as well as resisted it by Dr. Shevchuk, who is also director of the city across Eurasia from the 19th century generating, in hidden and, Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia to the present. Before World War I, rapid since 1991, overt and increas- University, will continue to provide fans of urbanization began to significantly alter ingly assertive ways, their film with consistent programming featur- how the Russian Empire was run, how its own counter-narratives. Close ing Ukrainian cinema, both on and off cam- economy functioned and how its various attention will be paid to the pus, this fall. Yuri Andrukhovych peoples interacted. With the rise of Soviet new Russian film as it re- Courses at Columbia are open to stu- socialism, the “socialist city” became an and independent Ukraine. invents itself within the post- dents from other universities in the New object of intense discussions, while experi- Ambassador Valeriy Kuchynskyi will Soviet imperial momentum projected on York metropolitan area seeking credit. mental architecture, massive public works teach a course titled “Ukrainian Foreign the former Soviet colonies. This course will Readers are advised to contact the univer- projects and the Soviet forced labor econo- Policy: Russia, Europe and the U.S.,” which meet on Tuesdays at 6:10-10 p.m. sity at which they are enrolled to deter- my changed the face of cities across will be held on Tuesdays at 2:10-4 p.m. The Three levels of Ukrainian language mine whether it participates in this manner Eurasia. The Cold War ushered in a new era course examines the political crisis in instruction will be taught this fall by Dr. with Columbia University. Some courses of state-sponsored nuclear research, com- Ukraine and looks at how Moscow has Shevchuk: Elementary on Mondays, are also open to outside individuals inter- petition over consumer goods and a new challenged the basic principles of interna- Wednesdays and Thursdays at 11:40 a.m.- ested in non-credit continuing studies. Soviet role in the so-called Third World. tional law, numerous bilateral agreements 12:55 p.m.; Intermediate on Mondays, Additionally, through the Lifelong Learners Finally, with the collapse of Soviet social- and how Moscow threatens global peace Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10:10-11: program, individuals over age 65 who are ism, cities were simultaneously national- and security. It considers whether there is a.m. and Advanced on Mondays and interested in auditing courses may enroll at ized and globalized. anything the world community can do to Wednesdays 1:10-2:25 p.m. a discount rate as Lifelong Learners. Please On Wednesdays at 2:10-4 p.m., Prof. stop the aggressor and whether diplomacy Several events have already been sched- visit the Columbia University School of Alexander Motyl will teach “Ukraine in New can still play a role. These and other issues uled for the fall semester. On September 25 Continuing Education (http://www.ce. York,” a course that offers a multidisci- are dealt with in a newly revised course, at 4 p.m., Volodymyr Kulyk (head research columbia.edu/auditing/?PID=28) for more plinary exploration of the Ukrainian delivered by a career diplomat. The instruc- fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethnic details. American community in New York City tor will share his own diplomatic experi- Studies, National Academy of Sciences of September 4 is the first day of classes, from its beginning in the late 19th century ence, trace the trajectory of Ukraine’s for- Ukraine) will deliver a talk titled “Language and September 14 is the final day to regis- to the present. The course focuses on the eign policy and analyze the current interna- Politics and International Relations: A ter for a class. For more information about history, demographics, economics, politics, tional crisis. Controversy over the New Ukrainian courses or the Ukrainian Studies Program religion, education and culture of the com- Dr. Yuri Shevchuk (Department of Slavic Education Law.” On October 16 at noon, at Columbia University, readers may con- munity, devoting particular attention to the Languages and Literatures) will teach the Sergei Zhuk (professor of history, Ball State tact Dr. Mark Andryczyk at ukrainianstud- impact thereon of the New York setting, course “Soviet, Post-Soviet, Colonial and University) will present his latest publica- [email protected] or 212-854-4697. shifting attitudes towards American poli- Post-Colonial Cinema.” The course will dis- tics and culture and homeland politics and cuss how filmmaking has been used as an culture, the tensions encountered in navi- instrument of power and imperial domina- the opportunity to play many roles and gating between America, Soviet Ukraine tion in the Soviet Union, as well as in the Ukrainian Catholic... each has certain obligations. Lesson 5. Start serving others. (Continued from page 17) “Treat what I told you as a hypothesis. professor at the University of Maryland But I challenge you to test it in your own Ukrainian Sports Federation School of Public Health. Perhaps it was lives…” he concludes. influenced by my role as a member of the of U.S.A. and Canada («USCAK») A few minutes after the ceremony board of directors of the Ukrainian Catholic Labor Day Swimming Competition Education Foundation in the U.S.A.” Immediately after the ceremony, every- “Or perhaps none of the factors above one gathers near the Sheptytsky Center for mentioned were as important in the pro- a group photograph. One, two, three… The cess of my selection as the status ‘F of V’… rector and the graduates toss up their caps. You ask: ‘What does that mean?’ And that, The photographers capture the moment. perhaps, is one of my greatest blessings… ‘F Everyone smiles and hugs. of V’ is an abbreviation for ‘Friends of Melania-Maria Podoliak, one of two stu- Vladyka’ – the bishop. Perhaps it all dents named valedictorians this year, now Saturday, September 1st, 2018 depends not on what you know but on who has a master’s in mediacommunications you know,” he quips. from UCU . She admits that what lies ahead Warm Up 9:00 AM Dr. Lushniak proceeds to gives UCU stu- is unknown, that she is a little scared, but Meet Begins 10:00 AM Sharp dents five lessons that influenced the pros- “the UCU environment gives certainty that pects in life of one person named Boris you will never be left alone.” Lushniak. Dmytro Palchykov has graduated from REGISTRATION DEADLINE - AUGUST 26th, 2018 Lesson 1. You never know when and the UCU Journalism School. He is now shar- NO POOLSIDE REGISTRATION where you will meet a better friend, so ing impressions with his parents, who joy- always foster friendship. fully look at their adult son. “During my Lesson 2. Remember your roots. Cherish studies I received much more than the Registration Fee: $25.00 your contacts with your family, ancestors, technical skills to work as a journalist. I history and nation. gained a certain philosophy and mastered For registration form please contact Taissa Bokalo Lesson 3. Make healthy choices. The important disciplines which, at first glance, 107 Manlove Ave., Hightstown, NJ 08520 majority of illnesses in the world can be are not related to the work of a journalist,” Tel.: 609-286-8699 avoided, and this depends on your personal he says. “UCU gave me what will stay with choice. me when all the superficial knowledge has email: [email protected] Lesson 4. Be ready to wear various hats, been forgotten, namely: a positive and per- including the hat of humor. In life we have sistent way of thinking.” No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 27

August 23 USCAK Beach Soccer Tournament, Ukrainian Sports August 25-26 Ukrainian Village Independence Day Parade, with Wildwood Crest, Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada, beach in front of Parma, OH festival at St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, NJ Pan Am Hotel, [email protected] or www.uscak.org https://ukrainianvillageparma.org or 440-886-2108

August 23 Ukrainian Independence Day Flag-raising ceremony, Ukrainian August 25-26 Babas and Borshch Ukrainian Festival, Lamont Recreation Binghamton, NY Congress Committee of America – Binghamton branch, Lamont, AB Center Complex, 780-365-2434 or www.babasandborshch.ca Binghamton City Hall, 607-978-9148 or [email protected] August 25-26 Ukrainian Days Festival, Ukrainian Congress Committee August 24 Fund-raiser dance, with music by Torn Boots and DJ Orest, Chicago of America – Illinois Division, Chicago Avenue between Wildwood, NJ Khmelnychenky Plast fraternity, Wildwood American Legion Western Avenue and Leavitt Street, http://uccaillinois.org hall, www.facebook.com/xmeli August 25-26 Ukrainian Festival, Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox August 24 Gala concert, marking the 27th anniversary of Ukraine’s South River, NJ Church, 732-257-0102 or www.facebook.com/srukrainianfestival Jenkintown, PA independence, Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center, www.ueccphila.org or 215-663-1166 August 26 Ukrainian Independence Day Festival, Ukrainian American Horsham, PA Sports Center – Tryzub, www.tryzub.org or 267-664-3857 August 24 10th Ukrainian Beach Volleyball Tournament, Ukrainian Wildwood Crest, Sports Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada, beach in front August 26 Vyshyvanka Run, Ukrainian Running Club New York, NJ of Pan American Hotel, www.uscak.org or [email protected] New York Central Park, [email protected]

August 25 Concert, featuring pianist Stanislav Khristenko, Grazhda August 26 Pilgrimage to Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Jewett, NY Music and Art Center of Greene County, Centralia, PA Ukrainian Catholic Church, http://ukrarcheparchy.us/event www.grazhdamusicandart.org or 518-989-6479 August 26 Ukrainian Independence Day celebration, Ukrainian August 25 Ukrainian Day in the Park, Rotary Park, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX American Society of Texas, St. Sophia Church, www.uast.org Saskatoon, SK [email protected] or www.ukrainiandayinthepark.ca August 26 Ukrainian Independence Day concert, Ukrainian San Francisco American Coordinating Council, Spreckles Temple of August 25 Ukrainian Independence Day celebration, Austin Music, Golden Gate Park, 650-281-6927 or Pflugerville, TX Texas Ukrainians, Blackhawk Amenity Center, www.facebook.com/events/1733627536704557 www.facebook.com/events/204045730284057 August 26 Independence Day dinner, St. Michael Ukrainian August 25 Ukrainian Festival, Capital District of NY, Ukrainian-American San Francisco Orthodox Church, Ukrainian Event Center and Music Cohoes, NY Citizens Club, www.capitaldistrictukrainianfestival.org or Hall, www.facebook.com/301240230409742 [email protected]

August 25 Independence Day Banquet, with guest speaker Lesia Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events Montreal Chyczij, Ukrainian Canadian Congress – Montreal branch, advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions Rosemount Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors hall, 511-259-7162 and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected].

ity of Protestants (66 percent) lived in The Orthodox... western Ukraine. Finally, respondents were asked to what Ukrainian Sports Federation (Continued from page 9) extent they supported President of U.S.A. and Canada («USCAK») themselves as Protestant, however, attend- Poroshenko’s April initiative to create a Labor Day Tennis Chempionship ed services at least once a week. unified Ukrainian Orthodox Church – i.e., Regional breakdown of the data also completely support, generally support, gen- showed that, as expected, 95 percent of the erally do not support, do not support at all. Saturday, September 1-3, 2018 UGCC adherents lived in western Ukraine, Over all, 42 percent said they supported while 46 percent of those belonging to the such an initiative, while 31 percent did not. UOC-KP resided in central Ukraine. Significantly, over one-fourth said they had Curiously, slightly over a third of those who difficulty in deciding whether to support identified themselves as UOC-MP lived in the initiative. western Ukraine, while the remainder were The highest level of support for the pres- 216 Foordmore Rd., Kerkonkson, NY 12446 spread out more or less evenly throughout ident’s initiative was in western Ukraine, the central, southern and eastern oblasts of where 56 percent supported it, followed by For registration information please contact Ukraine. Interestingly, the largest portion of the central region with 45 percent. Support Yuri Sawchak at: those who said they belong to or feel clos- for the initiative was only 25 percent in the email: [email protected] est to the Ukrainian Autocephalous south and 22 percent in the east. Nearly 40 Orthodox Church, nearly 40 percent, lived percent of the respondents in the southern in eastern Ukrainian oblasts and the major- and eastern oblasts said it’s difficult to say.

USCAK 2nd Annual USCAK 10th Ukrainian Beach Soccer Tournament Beach Volleyball Tournament

THURSDAY, August 23, 2018 FRIDAY August 24, 2018 Wildwood Crest, NJ during Ukrainian Week. Wildwood Crest, NJ, during Ukrainian Week. Contact Bo Kucyna, [email protected]. www.uscak.org Contact Roman, [email protected] 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 No. 33

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Thursday, August 23 Ensemble, Iskra Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, violinist Innesa Tymochko Dekajlo and the WILDWOOD CREST, N.J.: USCAK, the Vox Ethnika orchestra. Special guests Ukrainian Sports Federation of the U.S. and include singer-songwriter from Ukraine Canada, will host its second annual Beach Iryna Lonchyna and talented local singers Soccer Tournament during Ukrainian Week. Yuliya Stupen, Vika Slobodyan and Philly Youth games will be played on Thursday, friends. A social dance to the live music of August 23. Youth teams or individuals can the Vox Ethnika will follow the concert at sign up to compete. Please notify your 4:30 p.m. Delicious Ukrainian foods and sports clubs and the general public in case baked goods, picnic fare, cool beverages and they are interested. Older players age 18 refreshments will be plentiful. Vendors are through 75 can also compete, but USCAK welcome. An arts and crafts bazaar and a needs to know how many are interested. children’s fun area will be open all day. Bohdan Kucyna from the U.S. and Chris Admission: $15, $10 for students, free for Czupiel with Max Holowaty from Canada children under age 15; parking is free. A lim- are the point persons. Readers are advised ited number of discount tickets is available to contact Bo Kucyna at boksoc@optonline. online. For further information: 267-664- net or see www.uscak.org. 3857, [email protected], or www.tryzub.org. Saturday, August 25 The sponsor is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non- COHOES, N.Y.: The Ukrainian Festival of the profit charitable organization. Proceeds Capital District of New York will take place benefit youth and adult amateur sports and at 1-10 p.m. at 1 Pulaski St., Cohoes, NY cultural, fraternal and community programs. 12047. Come join us for some delicious Wednesday, September 5 Ukrainian foods, a concert exploding with traditional dancing, amazing music and gor- NEWARK, N.J.: St. John’s Ukrainian geous ethnic costumes. Various vendors will Preschool will re-open with Ukrainian- be present selling food, drinks, and tradi- language Montessori sessions each weekday tional arts and crafts, and there will be plen- morning from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ty of activities for the kids, including face- Extended hours from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. are painting, games, a bounce house and kid- available to serve working parents. friendly delicious treats. Admission is only Minimum age is 2 years, 6 months in $5 for ages 18 and over; free for kids. September. We emphasize respect for the There’s plenty of parking and the evening child, individualized learning and promo- will conclude with a traditional Ukrainian tion of the child’s independence. For more “zabava” (dance). We hope to see you there information, call Olenka Makarushka- for lots of Ukrainian fun. For more informa- Kolodiy, 973-763-1797. Visit our website at tion go to http://www.capitaldistrictukrai- http//tinyurl.com/zaxoronka. nianfestival.org or e-mail capitaldistric- Saturday, September 8 [email protected]. CARTERET, N.J.: The St. Demetrius Sunday, August 26 Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral family is HORSHAM, Pa.: The Ukrainian American sponsoring a Ukrainian Festival at the St. Sport Center Tryzub will host the 27th Demetrius Banquet Center, 691 Roosevelt annual Ukrainian Independence Folk Ave., Carteret, NJ 07008. Festival time is Festival and Outdoor Summer Concert at noon to 8 p.m. Featured will be ethnic food, Tryzubivka, County Line and Lower State drink and vendors. For your entertainment roads, Horsham, PA 19044. Doors will open pleasure, the Ukrainian dancers Yunist will at noon. The concert in the park will begin perform at 1-2:30 p.m. Bring your dancing at 1:30 p.m. It is an integrated, dynamic pro- shoes for the Chris & Ronnie Polka Band at gram titled “Celebrate Liberty and Unity,” 3-8 p.m. Facilities are handicapped-accessi- another collaborative effort of prior per- ble. For information call 732-541-1530 or formers: Voloshky Ukrainian Dance go to www.stdemetriusuoc.org.

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