INSIDE:• Kuchma plans to proceed with amending Constitution — page 3. • Perspectives on the Shevchenko anniversary — pages 8-9. • Program at Museum of Modern Art excludes Ukraine — page 14.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXI HE KRAINIANNo. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine GettingT a U.S. visa:UUkrainian battalion of experts readyW to deploy in Persian Gulf by Roman Woronowycz myth vs reality Kyiv Press Bureau KYIV – A Ukrainian army battalion that by Roman Woronowycz specializes in the clean-up of chemical, bio- Kyiv Press Bureau logical and nuclear contamination is ready KYIV – Myron Hnatkiv spent to perform what its commander calls nearly four years trying to develop a “humanitarian” or “peacekeeping” work, private farm business. He took parts should war break out in Iraq. However, it from broken-down tractors and com- would be ready for deployment to the bines he found in the former collec- Persian Gulf only after the Verkhovna tive farm depot and patched together Rada’s approval. “As was shown during military exercises working units. He and several rela- [held in December], the special unit is tives then combined their lands into a ready,” said Lt. Gen. Viktor Lytvak, com- single plot in the hope that together mander of the 19th Army Battalion, which they could prod the earth to give them is normally stationed outside of Sambir, sufficient crops for a livable income. Lviv Oblast, and is part of Ukraine’s rapid He also offered his services and his deployment force. machinery for lease to neighbors who During a press conference in Kyiv, Lt. could not afford their own equipment. Gen. Lytvak explained that his troops are in In the end, however, neither the land a state of high readiness and could deploy nor his leasing service provided “even tomorrow.” However, he noted that Ministry of Defense Press Service enough to sustain a normal life. to be on their way the soldiers still would With his two kids soon to enter Soldiers of the 19th Battalion stand alongside an armored vehicle used in han- need a series of vaccinations against dling hazardous substances produced during biological or chemical attacks. high school, Mr. Hnatkiv decided it anthrax and smallpox, which could delay was time to chuck his dream. It was deployment for two to six weeks, as well as However, if the authorization for war comes While they, too, have the technology and time to face reality and join scores of the parliamentary authorization to move from the United Nations, as the United other family men in his village of out. know-how to fight the aftereffects of a Verbiv, Ternopil Oblast, and tens of They also would need to know under States has indicated it would like, then Kyiv nuclear, biological or nuclear attack, thousands more like them in western whose auspices they would serve. would want an invitation from that interna- Ukraine’s battalion has the most extensive Ukraine, and to look abroad for tem- Ukraine agreed in early February to a tional body as well. Also, several other capabilities. Currently the unit consists of porary work to provide for their fami- U.S. request for the utilization of its countries with NBC clean-up capabilities 531 soldiers, none of them conscripts and lies. are under consideration for the operation, nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) all of whom volunteered for service in the He had heard that a firm in Kyiv, clean-up capabilities and the 19th Battalion including Poland, the Czech Republic, with an address on Volodymyrska is ready to make good on that offer. Romania and Bulgaria. (Continued on page 3) Street in one of the city’s most exclu- sive districts, was asking $450 for help in obtaining a job, a visa, shelter and transport to the United States. He was told the agency would pay his Ukraine’s ambassador to U.S. sees new opening in bilateral relations flight and housing costs from the by Yaro Bihun Kyiv on whether it sold the air defense we have tried our best, and we continue money he eventually earned as a Special to The Ukrainian Weekly system to Iraq and not allow the issue to on this path. We know that there are no laborer in the “land of opportunity.” push the relationship into what he called Kolchuhas that Ukraine is responsible for WASHINGTON – Ukraine and the After hearing that several of his a “deep freeze.” in Iraq. We know that there are no con- neighbors had visited the firm in Kyiv United States appear to be turning the Ambassador Gryshchenko said that by tracts, that there are no deliveries, and we and came back impressed with the corner in their bilateral relationship, concentrating on positive bilateral interac- need to establish this as a fact.” possibilities, Mr. Hnatkiv and a buddy which, by most accounts, has been going tion, such as Ukraine’s decision to send a He stressed that the Kolchuha and made the trek to the Ukrainian capital through a difficult period, according to nuclear-biological-chemical (NBC) other unresolved issues must not be to find out for themselves. Ukraine’s ambassador to the United defense battalion to the Gulf region, adopt allowed to remain as a barrier to improv- “When they told me that I needed States, Kostyantyn Gryshchenko. adequate measures against money-launder- ing the bilateral relationship, which is to pay upfront I became suspicious, “Recently, I believe, we have been ing, continue cooperating in the war important not only to the two countries explained the 39-year-old farmer. concentrating more on the positive side against terrorism and in non-proliferation, but to the “dynamics of the political situ- “Then they pointed out that I would, of things to be done, and that should help the two countries can move away from ation in Europe” as well. of course, have to go to the Consulate us to get away from what was the main concentrating on – though not completely “We need to re-establish trust, to myself to obtain the visa, that they theme of problems of the last year and ignoring – the negatives in the relationship. reestablish confidence,” he said. “It can could only help me with what to say,I into the new year of open opportunities,” The recent difficult period in U.S.- only be done through practical steps – knew that something wasn’t right.” he said on February 27. Ukraine relations was “a period of lost practical steps that we have demonstrated Mr. Hnatkiv was luckier than most, Ambassador Gryshchenko’s assess- opportunities,” Ambassador recently.” he did not immediately plop down ment, made in remarks at a forum on Gryshchenko said. It was also a period of Looking over the last 12 years, what would have been a half-year’s U.S.-Ukraine relations sponsored by The “very difficult bilateral debate, of very Ambassador Gryshchenko underscored a income to the shady operators and Washington Group, an association of frank exchanges” that now should serve number of “basic facts” in the U.S.- saved himself the emotional letdown Ukrainian-American professionals, came both countries well as they move forward Ukrainian relationship, among them: of finding out that the U.S. consular two weeks after a senior State on a positive agenda. • United States is an important country office almost certainly would have Department official signaled that One of the lessons learned was that and a major geopolitical force that consis- rejected his application. A consular Washington was willing to put aside the “we cannot hide from problems,” tently supported Ukraine’s independence officer would quickly have seen biggest irritant in their relationship – the Ambassador Gryshchenko said. “If we do and movement toward the West. It was through the canned story that the allegation that Ukraine sold the Kolchuha have a problem, we have to face it, and agency would have prepared for Mr. “crucial in helping us resolve many of the air defense system to Iraq. we have to be frank and open about it, existential problems that we faced in our Hnatkiv. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for because it will not fade away, and we In an interview with The Ukrainian relationship with close neighbors and in European and Eurasian Affairs Steven cannot really run away from it.” setting our goals for the future,” he said. (Continued on page 12) Pifer said then that the Bush administra- “If it is Kolchuha, then we need to get tion decided to “basically disagree” with to the bottom of it,” he said. “And here (Continued on page 16) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 No. 10

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Ukraine begins to deal NEWSBRIEFS Opposition calls for deposing government of two Our Ukraine regional activists – Volodymyr Lavryk in Sumy on February seriously with Soviet past KYIV – A congress of opposition leg- 21 and Vasyl Vasiuta in Mukachiv on islators of all levels in Kyiv on March 2 February 25 – as the latest incidents in by Taras Kuzio Mykhailivskyi Sobor. A presidential decree called on Ukrainians to take part in that terror campaign. (RFE/RL Newsline) RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report dated November 28, 2002, supported the protests to depose the current ruling call by the Ukrainian diaspora to build a far regime, the UNIAN news service report- Miners strike over wages, reforms On February 12-13, Ukraine for the first bigger monument to the famine in central ed. The congress, which attracted some time held parliamentary hearings on the Kyiv on the 70th anniversary of the famine 2,000 people (including 1,405 opposition KYIV – Miners from about 70 question of the famine of 1932-1933 that this year. The new monument will be part deputies as delegates), was organized by Ukrainian coal mines went on strike on led to the deaths of 7 million people. The of a Famine memorial complex housing a the Communist Party, the Socialist Party March 4, demanding an increase in hearings were held in accordance with a museum and research center. and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. Deputies wages and an end to the government-led resolution passed by the Verkhovna Rada Ukraine’s attitude toward the Soviet past from Our Ukraine, including its leader restructuring of the sector, ITAR-TASS on November 28, 2002. rests upon the three-way division of politi- Viktor Yushchenko, attended the congress reported. The Associated Press estimated President Leonid Kuchma first suggest- cal forces in Ukraine. National democrats as guests. Addressing the congress, Mr. the number of miners participating in the ed at the annual convention of the have long held negative views of the Soviet Yushchenko – whose Our Ukraine avoids strike at around 2,000. The protest was Federation of Trade Unions on October 21, past and what they call its crimes against identifying too closely with the radical launched by the Ukrainian Independent Trade Union of Miners, which is led by 1997, that the annual anniversary of the humanity, such as the Famine and Stalinist slogans of the Communists, the Mykhailo Volynets. Mr. Volynets told Bolshevik Revolution, November 7, be terror. National democrats, whose primary Socialists, and Ms. Tymoshenko’s follow- journalists that wage arrears in the coal- transformed into a day of understanding base is in western-central Ukraine, hold ers – called on opposition forces to unite mining sector total 1.3 billion hrv ($244 and reconciliation. Such a step, he suggest- analogous views to their counterparts in the “at any price.” Ms. Tymoshenko told million). According to Mr. Volynets, the ed, should be undertaken by the Verkhovna Baltic states that Soviet rule was an occu- journalists that the problem of fielding a sector’s ongoing reforms “may ruin the Rada. The legislature, then headed by pation by foreign, i.e. Russian, forces. joint presidential candidate from the industry.” The government decided in Oleksander Moroz, with the largest faction According to the national democrats, opposition will be tackled only after the December to reorganize 18 state-owned being Communist, turned down the draft Russia, as the successor state to the Soviet official announcement of a presidential coal-mining holdings and seven produc- law establishing November 28 as an annual Union, is guilty of Soviet crimes. During race. (RFE/RL Newsline) day of understanding and reconciliation. tion associations into 21 joint-stock com- Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Left-wing factions were removed from panies with an eye toward their eventual Ukraine in January to attend the CIS sum- Opposition leaders call for protests control of Parliament only in early 2000 privatization. (RFE/RL Newsline) mit and to begin the Year of Russia in when the center and national democrats KYIV – Speaking from the parliamen- Ukraine, he and Russian Ambassador united for the first and only time. At this tary rostrum on March 4, Socialist Party Did Potebenko seek to close case? Viktor Chernomyrdin were asked by jour- time, Communist symbols on the leader Oleksander Moroz and Oleksander nalists if Russia would pay compensation KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on Verkhovna Rada were finally removed, Turchynov, a leader of the Yulia to the famine victims along the lines under- March 4 asked Procurator General though a statue of Vladimir Lenin still Tymoshenko Bloc, called on “all honest taken by Germany after World War II. The Ukrainians” to take part in anti-presiden- Sviatoslav Piskun to investigate whether stands in Kyiv – one of 500 still standing his predecessor, Mykhailo Potebenko, Russian leaders refused to consider the tial protests throughout the country on primarily outside Western Ukraine. abused his position and asked the matter. March 9, UNIAN reported. The Socialist Ukraine has long held an ambivalent Security Service of Ukraine (known by On the opposite end of the spectrum, the Party, the Communist Party and the Yulia attitude toward its Soviet past. Until now, its Ukrainian acronym as SBU) to close Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) Tymoshenko Bloc are planning to restart only a small monument to the famine has its investigation into the September 2000 acknowledged only as late as 1990 that a the “Arise, Ukraine” campaign intended existed in Kyiv next to the rebuilt death of journalist Heorhii Gongadze, famine had even taken place. At that time, to force President Leonid Kuchma to UNIAN reported. The motion follows an Social Democratic Party-United (SDPU) resign. Specifically, the three opposition Dr. Taras Kuzio is a resident fellow at interview with Mr. Piskun in the parliamentary faction leader and former parties asked the Kyiv city administra- the Center for Russian and East February 28 issue of the 2000 weekly in tion earlier this week for permission to European Studies, University of Toronto. (Continued on page 22) which he said Mr. Potebenko, while serv- hold a 200,000-strong rally in the capital ing as the country’s top prosecutor, sent a on March 9. (RFE/RL Newsline) letter to former SBU Chairman Leonid Yushchenko slams ‘top-echelon criminals’ Yushchenko: stop political terror Derkach ordering him to halt the investi- gation into Mr. Gongadze’s disappear- KYIV – Our Ukraine leader Viktor ance and presumed death. Mr. Piskun for bogus letter aimed at discrediting him Yushchenko on February 27 issued a claimed that he has obtained the letter. strongly worded letter to senior political Mr. Potebenko last month requested that by Jan Maksymiuk Then the letter continues as follows: leaders calling on authorities “to carry out the legislature move a vote of no confi- RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report “It is quite obvious that for me, the rec- their constitutional duty ... and put an end dence in Piskun. (RFE/RL Newsline) ognized symbol and hope of the nation, it to political terror” in the country, reported Our Ukraine head Viktor Yushchenko would be simply indecent to dig person- the Our Ukraine website President of Ukraine honors Husar on February 21 charged that “criminals ally into the dirty ‘sorting out’ between (http://www.razom.org.ua/). The appeal in politics who are in the top echelons of KYIV – Ukrainian President Leonid our homespun oligarchs. Besides, it also was addressed to President Leonid power” are responsible for preparing and Kuchma on February 26 signed a decree to wouldn’t quite be safe. As for Kuchma, Prime Minister Viktor disseminating a false message to voters award Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, head of Tymoshenko, she was eager to launch a Yanukovych and Parliament Chairman that attacks fellow opposition politician the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, the fight. After all the dirty work was done, Volodymyr Lytvyn, according to the web- Yulia Tymoshenko, the UNIAN news order of Yaroslav the Wise for his signifi- Ms. Tymoshenko fully exhausted her site. “Mysterious killings and unsolved service reported. cant contribution towards the restoration of usefulness [in the government]. ... What murders of leading politicians and journal- According to Ukrainian media, spirituality, consolidation of the ideas of is more, she became a serious problem.” ists, [as well as] violent attacks to intimi- unidentified persons and/or institutions mercy and accord in society, and long-time According to the letter, during her last date political opponents, have become disseminated on February 14 in western fruitful religious work. Cardinal Husar cel- month in Mr. Yushchenko’s Cabinet, characteristic of the regime,” the letter Ukraine (and in some other regions of Tymoshenko was more concerned with reads. Mr. Yushchenko cites the beatings (Continued on page 11) the country in subsequent days) a bogus creating her political image than pursu- letter bearing the logo of Our Ukraine ing “modest and quiet management and a portrait of Yushchenko that touches work.” FOUNDED 1933 upon Mr. Yushchenko’s opinion of, and “Everyone to whom our Ukraine is relations with, Ms. Tymoshenko, the truly dear ... will have to admit that for leader of the eponymous opposition bloc. HE KRAINIAN EEKLY our struggle Ms. Tymoshenko was far TAn English-languageU newspaperW published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., The purported letter begins with Mr. more useful when she was incarcerated a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Yushchenko’s assertion that he once was in the Lukianivskyi isolation prison [in Yearly subscription rate: $55; for UNA members — $45. of a high opinion of Ms. Tymoshenko Kyiv],” the letter states. 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Kuchma says he will move ahead UWC urges diplomatic solution to Iraq crisis The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC), as a representative organization of some with amendments to Constitution 20 million Ukrainians residing in 30 countries around the globe outside Ukraine, is by Roman Woronowycz He announced that he would reinvigorate deeply troubled about the possible military invasion of Iraq. Our concern, in partic- Kyiv Press Bureau implementation of the results of a nation- ular, is for the millions of innocent people who will be affected by a military confla- al referendum held then, which the gration. KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma Verkhovna Rada had since failed to bring Unfortunately, the Ukrainian people have first-hand experience in the conse- announced on March 5 that he would to a ratification vote. He also suggested quences of military conflict on the innocent, having seen massive devastation several move forward with a plan to amend the the changes might not need parliamentary times within the past century alone. Ukraine was the pre-eminent battleground for two Constitution of Ukraine to reform the approval. The president said the changes world wars in the last century. We are convinced that not only will the lives of soldiers country’s political system and shift the approved by the nation in 2000 and the be compromised in the event of a military intervention in Iraq, but also the lives of balance of political power towards a par- current Constitutional amendment he was millions of civilians in Iraq, neighboring countries and even in remote areas. liamentary system. He said the amend- proposing complemented one another. Furthermore, we believe that an invasion of Iraq would escalate conflicts through- ments were needed to bring the country The 2000 plebiscite, widely consid- out the Middle East and spark or intensify confrontations that are currently being into step with most other European sys- ered within the country to have been resolved in a peaceful manner. The political problems in that part of the world need to tems. manipulated by pro-presidential support- be solved through diplomatic means, not exacerbated by additional military conflicts. “We need to go to a system that is like ers, called for the development of a two- A war would intensify terrorism throughout the globe and might result in a clash of those found in Europe, a parliamen- chamber Parliament, a reduction in the civilizations spurring extremists. tary/presidential system,” said Mr. current number of national deputies from The world’s economy today is quite fragile. The military option will cost billions of Kuchma. 450 to 300, transfer to the president of the dollars directly for the conflict itself and much more for rebuilding. In addition, bil- The Ukrainian leader explained that right to dissolve the Parliament under cer- lions of dollars more in revenue from trade, business, etc. will be lost. while Ukraine had required strong presi- tain conditions and revocation of the Finally, we concur with the view of countries opposed to military escalation that dential rule in its first years of existence criminal immunity that lawmakers hold. Iraq does not represent an imminent danger. In all likelihood Iraq does not possess to guarantee its sovereignty, peace and In the proposed changes that Mr. nuclear weapons. Regarding weapons of mass destruction, they must be located and stability, now the country must “go fur- Kuchma repeated yesterday but first put destroyed. In this regard, containment in the form of intensified inspections should ther to strengthen the Constitution.” forward on Independence Day, he called address this problem adequately. In a 15-minute address to the nation for the Verkhovna Rada to approve The use of military force should be a final option if Iraq does not comply with United Nations resolutions. It is the responsibility of civilized nations to exhaust all carried by all the major television net- amendments to the Constitution that diplomatic channels. We believe that the international community has the capability of works, the president said he would soon would give Parliament the authority to effecting compliance and ensuring peace. submit a series of bills to the Verkhovna form a government and ratify a prime Rada to begin the process to make the minister nominated by the president. It March 3, 2003 needed Constitutional amendments. He would require, however, that the pressed for widespread debate on the mat- For the Ukrainian World Congress: Verkhovna Rada first establish a working Askold S. Lozynskyj ter within Ukraine’s Parliament and also , President parliamentary majority. Victor Pedenko, Secretary General in the media and on the streets. “Everybody will finally understand For the most part, Mr. Kuchma repeat- who is responsible for what,” explained ed a proposal he had originally made last Mr. Kuchma during the television and $1,000. Should Iraq utilize NBC war- year on Ukrainian Independence Day, address. “If the government and its law- fare requiring a clean-up by the Ukrainian which called for changing the current sys- Ukrainian battalion... makers cannot fulfill their promises, then (Continued from page 1) battalion, salaries would double. tem from one in which the president I know you will vote them out next time.” unit. They have 165 pieces of machinery Ukraine has demanded and received holds the advantage in the balance of Mr. Kuchma said the president would assurance from the United States that the power among the government branches. and equipment at their disposal, including retain his role as guarantor of the laboratories, computers, machine guns and 19th Battalion would not see any direct Just as last August, this time the combat, and Lt. Gen. Lytvak sought to Constitution, and guardian of the coun- armored vehicles. announcement also came days prior to a underscore this during his meeting with try’s sovereignty and the integrity of its The battalion’s mission, as explained by planned demonstration by the “Arise, journalists. borders. The head of state would also Lt. Gen. Lytvak, would be decontamination Ukraine” political opposition movement “If it is a force authorized by the United retain responsibility for the country’s for- and de-gasification of areas affected by an bent on removing Mr. Kuchma from Nations, it will be a peacekeeping force to eign policy. In those roles, the president NBC attack and the extension of specialized power for alleged corruption and criminal would remain the head of the armed fight NBC decontamination; if it is an invi- misrule, including accusations that he medical services to those affected. The bat- tation from a specific country, it will be a forces and continue to appoint the minis- talion has NBC mobile laboratories that can planned the disappearance of the ters of internal affairs, foreign policy, humanitarian force invited by that country,” Ukrainian journalist Heorhii Gongadze. be used to identify lethal materials and ana- explained Lt. Gen. Lytvak. “I repeat, this defense and emergency situations. lyze biological matter, and computerized Several of the political groups involved in Mr. Kuchma underscored the need for would not be a combat force. Its prime the movement, including the Batkivschyna systems to analyze the battlefield situation responsibility would be to maintain its own the Verkhovna Rada to cede some powers and offer recommendations. Party, have long called for parliamentary to the president, as approved in the high level of safety.” government rule. Lt. Gen. Lytvak admitted that much of While several Ukrainian state authori- national referendum, most importantly the equipment was from the Soviet era, but President Kuchma offered a brief criti- the power to dismiss the national legisla- ties, including Yevhen Marchuk, chairman cism of their attempts to bring about simi- asserted that all of it has been reconstructed of the National Security and Defense ture if it failed to form either a working and retrofitted with Ukrainian-built, current lar reforms on their terms, calling them majority or a government within a set Council (NSDC), which authorized the “primitive” attempts to grab a share of high technology. deployment last week, have said no period of time or could not pass a budget The unit consists of slightly older mili- power. by a given deadline. Ukrainian soldiers would be deployed in Mr. Kuchma linked the new, proposed tary personnel who serve under contract: Iraq, Lt. Gen. Lytvak said that such a devel- Mr. Kuchma outlined in more detail his five of them took part in the Chornobyl Constitutional changes to ones that were vision for the changes that should occur opment could not be excluded at the apparently approved in April 2000, but clean-up, 15 percent have previous battle moment. Verkhovna Rada Chairman have lain dormant for the past three years. (Continued on page 12) experience in Afghanistan and another 6 Volodymyr Lytvyn said on March 3 that he percent have peacekeeping experience. had heard Bahrain could be the site of It would cost the sponsoring entity – deployment, but the lieutenant general whether the United States or the United explained that until an invitation is received Judge Futey to testify before Rada committee Nations – about $1 million a month to nothing is certain. maintain the battalion abroad in a state of Mr. Lytvyn said he expects a heated by Yaro Bihun which he will also address and participate in high readiness, including monthly pay for debate by lawmakers on whether to ratify other forums, is being made at the request each soldier in the amount of between $600 the authorization for deployment. WASHINGTON – As the Legal Policy of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, as part of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada launches stated U.S. policy of assisting the democra- a series of hearings this month on legal tization process in Ukraine. reforms in Ukraine, among the witnesses Judge Futey has been actively involved testifying before the panel will be U.S. in that process, working with the State Federal Judge Bohdan Futey. Since Ukraine gained its independence, Department as well as such organizations as Judge Futey, who sits on the U.S. Court of the Judicial Conference of the United Federal Claims in Washington, has on States, the American Bar Association, the numerous occasion served as adviser and International Foundation for Electoral consultant on judicial and constitutional Systems and the International Republican issues to the legislative, judicial and execu- Institute. He has served as an official tive branches of the Ukrainian government. observer during Ukraine’s parliamentary Judge Futey is scheduled to testify on the and presidential elections, conducted brief- question of legislative priorities on judicial ings for international elections observers reform on March 13. The committee will and lectured on constitutional law at a num- also hear from representatives of Ukraine’s ber of universities in Ukraine and Western Supreme Court, the presidential administra- Europe. tion, the Ministry of Justice, the legal pro- The Ukrainian-born American jurist’s fession and non-governmental organiza- assistance to Ukraine was acknowledged Ministry of Defense Press Service tions, as well as international organizations. with two Ukrainian presidential meritorious A soldier decontaminates a helicopter after a simulated nuclear-biological-chemi- His five-day visit to Ukraine, during awards, in 1995 and 1999. cal attack at a military airfield near Novyi Kalyniv, Lviv Oblast. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 No. 10

OBITUARIES

OlehGENEVA, Nyzhankivsky, Switzerland – An opera and concertopera and concert singer, 79 Leonida Svitlychna, 79, singer, helden tenor Oleh Nyzhankivsky, who had an established career performing as soloist in Swiss opera wife of Ivan Svitlychny theaters from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1980s, “At a time characterized by a general lack of moral for- died in Geneva on January 8 at the age of 79. titude, supplanted by never ceasing complaints with regard Mr. Nyzhankivsky was born in Vienna on July 25, to the difficulties of everyday life and life’s material depri- 1924, into a prominent musical and artistic Galician vations, as well as endless whimpering and general family. After initial studies in Munich, he continued his national self-debasement, she stands out as some leg- education in Belgium at the Royal Music Academy endary figure — illuminated once and for all with the light from which he graduated with highest distinction. Upon of sublime Christian joy and happiness.” coming to Switzerland, where his maternal uncle, the – Yevhen Sverstiuk, in his eulogy for Leonida pianist and musicologist Omelian Nyzhankivsky resided Svitlychna at the time, he won the International Geneva Music KYIV – Leonida Svitlychna, a building engineer by Competition and, as laureate, was awarded a scholar- profession and wife of the eminent Ukrainian poet, literary ship in voice. The scholarship enabled him to study in critic, human rights activist and political prisoner Ivan Milan with Prof. Fernando Carpi, a student of the famed Svitlychny, died on February 18 at the age of 79. Caruso. Mr. Nyzhankivsky’s return to Geneva was Ms. Svitlychna, née Tereshchenko, was born in 1924 marked by the development of his musical career, with in Kyiv. She completed her studies in the department of the encouragement and support of the leading families engineering at the Institute for Mechanical Construction involved in the musical and cultural life of the city. at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, but her primary In the mid-1950s, Mr. Nyzhankivsky appeared as role was as partner and soul-mate to her husband, with soloist with the Geneva Philharmonic Orchestra under whom she shared a life marked by disruptive KGB the direction of, among others, the world-renowned searches, provocations and arrests. Through these tra- Ernest Ansermet and Hans Haug, as well as gave song vails, she was a pillar of moral strength and a source of recitals for Queen Marie-José of Belgium. faith and conviction in the rightness of the cause of the In the 1960s-1970s, at the height of his career, Mr. Ukrainian dissidents in their struggle against the injus- Nyzhankivsky performed in lead roles with the Geneva tices of the Soviet regime. Opera in such operas as “Monsieur de Pourceaugnac” The harsh reality of life did not afford the couple much (after Molière) by noted Swiss composer Franc Martin, time together, but their love and mutual respect enabled which had its world premiere in Geneva in April 1963, them to face the many difficult and trying moments that and in Martin’s “The Tempest” (after Shakespeare) and Oleh Nyzhankivsky in a photograph from the 1970s. came to be an integral part of their life. the oratorio “Ven Herbe” (based on the “Tristan and Tellingly, the couple’s wedding anniversaries were noted Isolde” theme). traveled to the village of Zavadiv, where his grandfather, down by Ms. Svitlychna in the following manner: “10th Mr. Nyzhankivsky also appeared in lead roles in the Ostap Nyzhankivsky a composer, was the parish priest; anniversary (1966) – Ivan in KGB custody in solitary con- prestigious Opera Piccola of Geneva, and with the and visited the Nyzhankivsky Museum in Stryi. finement; 20th anniversary (1976) – Ivan in concentration Collegium Academicum and the Menestrandi ancient A man who loved and appreciated all forms and camp; 25th, or ‘silver’, anniversary (1981) – Ivan in exile, music ensemble. Given his facility for languages, he was expressions of art, Mr. Nyzhankivsky had a series of at last we’re together again; 30th anniversary (1986) – Ivan equally adept in singing classical and modern repertoire. sculptures to his credit and was a fervent supporter of seriously ill, scant mention of an anniversary...” An active participant of the musical life of Geneva, the art of his wife, Zoya née Lisovska, and daughter, In his eulogy the literary and social critic and former Mr. Nyzhankivsky also promoted Ukrainian music in Lada. (whose joint first exhibit in Ukraine was held in political prisoner Yevhen Sverstiuk, referred to Leonida numerous concerts and recitals on tours throughout 1995 at the Ethnographic Museum in Lviv). Svitlychna, or as she was affectionately known, Lolia, as Europe, performing to the accompaniment of his uncle Mr. Nyzhankivsky’s strong and energetic personality “the other half of Ivan Svitlychny,” a woman whose life Omelian Nyzhankivsky, who taught at the Bern coupled with his personable nature marked by optimism was marked by “an epoch of the destruction of churches Conservatory, and his mother-in-law, the first Ukrainian and humor, brought him many friends among and cathedrals, by famine and political arrests, terror, hard woman composer Stefania Turkevych-Lukianovych, as Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians alike who found in him times and war. And all of this came as a prelude to her well as in Swiss radio broadcasts and on the BBC in a loyal friend and colleague. He was a man with strong marriage to Ivan, whose fate and cause she came to share London. ties to his homeland, Ukraine, and to the country of his wholeheartedly.” Mr. Nyzhankivsky’s repertoire often included art settlement, Switzerland, which he held in the highest “In her person,” he continued “let us bow our heads songs by his father, the composer and pedagogue Nestor regard. before the wives of all political prisoners of the 60s Nyzhankivsky, and the song cycles of Dr. Turkevych- Oleh Nyzhankivsky is survived by his wife, Zoya; Generation [Shestydesiatnyky] whose extraordinary Lukianovych, who upon finishing her studies at the son, Roman; daughter, Lada; son-in-law, Christian and patience, courage, steadfastness and fidelity sustained music academies of Vienna and Berlin, received her grandchildren Oleksander and Natalia. those who were driven by the quest for truth and justice.” doctorate in composing in Prague, and whose oeuvre as Funeral services were held at the ecumenical chapel Apart from her inordinate capacity to come to terms composer includes four symphonies, one symphonietta, at St. Georges Cemetery in Geneva, with the Rev. with suffering, Ms. Svitlychna provided for the family, was five ballets and five children’s operas. Mitred Petro Kostiuk of Belgium officiating at the a sister of mercy, and ministered to her husband upon his In addition to his operatic and concert committments, Ukrainian Catholic service which was attended by (Continued on page 5) Nyzhankivsky was a frequent adjudicator at vocal com- members of the Ukrainian community, including petitions and music festivals. Ukraine’s ambassador to Switzerland, as well as by After a successful operatic and concert career, Mr. numerous Swiss colleagues and friends of the deceased. Nyzhankivsky turned to teaching in the mid-1970s, As part of the service, adding to the poignancy of the where his pedagogical skills served to inculcate students moment, was the rendition by a young couple from with his love and enthusiasm for music. Kyiv, the Tymokhyns, protégés of Oleh Nyzhankivsky, An active member of the Ukrainian community in who performed, on the Waldhorn and organ, songs that Switzerland, Mr. Nyzhankivsky served as president of are often sung at conclusion of the funeral service as a the Ukrainian Association of Switzerland. During his final parting, “Vydysh Brate Mii,” and “Zasumui several-term tenure, special emphasis was placed on Trembito,” the latter a composition by the deceased’s public relations in the sphere of culture. father, Nestor Nyzhankivsky. The service was followed While still a student, Mr. Nyzhankivsky was a co- by burial at St. Georges Cemetery. founding member of the Burlaky Plast scouting fraterni- *** ty and is credited with giving the fraternity its name. Oleh Nyzhankivsky came from a long line of promi- The fraternity exists to this day, with the newest mem- nent composers, musicologists, conductors and peda- bers, from both abroad and Ukraine, forming a third gogues. generation of Burlaky. His grandfather, Ostap (1862-1919), devoted much of Mr. Nyzhankivsky was able to return to Ukraine in his energies to the development of musical life in 1991 for the first time after a 47-year absence, during Galicia. A priest as well as a composer by calling, he which time he had occasion to meet with the doyen of organized choral concert tours throughout Galicia, Ukrainian composers and conductors, the then 88-year- founded the music publishing house Muzykalna old Mykola Kolessa, and visit the Musical Academy in Biblioteka (1885) and was conductor of the Boyan Lviv as well as take part in the dedication of a monument Society choir in Berezhany (1892) and of the Boyan to the noted Ukrainian composer Vasyl Barvinsky (1888- choir in Lviv and in Stryi. 1963), with whom Mr. Nyzhankivsky studied piano. Apart from his dedication to music, he brought com- His second trip, undertaken in 1996, was equally parable energies to bear in the economic field as memorable and significant. On this trip Mr. founder of the first cooperative dairy and as co-founder Nyzhankivsky attended the reburial of his father, Nestor and first director of the Provincial Home and Dairy Nyzhankivsky (1893-1940), from Poland to the family Union (later renamed Maslosoyuz) in 1907 in Stryi. He crypt in Stryi. (The avant-garde composer died after was elected to the Galician Diet in 1908-1913. In 1919 falling ill during his flight from Soviet-occupied Galicia; Oleh was 15 at the time of his father’s untimely death); (Continued on page 25) Leonida and Ivan Svitlychny. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 5 TWG announces 2003 internship Self Reliance New Jersey is first donor at Embassy of Ukraine in Washington to Copies for Congress project in 2003 WASHINGTON – The Washington issues and needs may arise, including gen- Group, in cooperation with the Embassy of eral office work. 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NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY “The news from here” Ukraine, Europe, and ... Albania by Dr. Roman Solchanyk Moreover, Ukraine is doing better than Recently we at The Ukrainian Weekly received a telephone call from a reader who Romania and Bulgaria, where real GDP complained that our newspaper did not carry any “news from here.” She asked: Why What do Ukraine and Albania have in growth was about 3.5 percent last year. don’t your reporters cover “the news from here”? Mind you, the caller would not common? Not very much it seems. For Anyone remotely familiar with Romania, identify herself, nor would she say where “here” was. (Come to think of it, she never one thing, Albania is on its way to joining where one-third of the population lives shared with us the news that we were missing...) Nonetheless, her point was well- the European Union (EU) and, by exten- below the officially defined poverty level, taken. Obviously, she had not seen news from her neck of the woods. That allowed us sion, becoming “European,” and, by fur- would be hard put to disagree with the to provide an explanation of just how news from all over gets into The Weekly. ther extension, “normal.” Ukraine, on the prevailing image of the country as char- First off, we explained to our caller, we do not have our own reporters all over the other hand, is not joining anything in acterized by a long- time observer: home- United States and Canada. We have an editorial staff of 2.5 in house (we say .5 Europe in the foreseeable future and is less street children, HIV-ravaged orphan- because one of our staffers is actually not a full-timer) – that’s here at our headquarters well on its way to becoming ... well, you ages and packs of feral dogs loping in Parsippany, N.J. Plus we have one staffer in Kyiv, who reports from Ukraine. If get the picture. around the streets of Bucharest. Yet, you’d like to check, please see our masthead on page 2 of every issue of this paper. For anyone who remembers the inter- Romania (and Bulgaria) will be NATO What you see is what we’ve got. national political climate during the East- members in 2004 and will join the EU in How then do we cover the news from various locations? Well, that’s where local West confrontation of the 1970s and 2007 – i.e., they will be “Europeans.” community activists come in – some of whom have become our regular correspon- 1980s, Albania occupied a rather specific The issue, therefore, seems to be dents. These activists want to share the news about happenings in their communities niche in that environment. Not unlike something other than economic progress. with fellow Ukrainians in North America, therefore, they send in stories, photos, fea- today’s North Korea, no one really knew As it turns out, for Mr. Prodi – and, one tures, items for “Notes on People” or “Preview of Events,” letters, commentaries, etc. much about what was going on inside the suspects, for most of the people who live They call us, fax us, e-mail us, and yes, they even use good old regular mail. We are country, which was widely perceived as in what used to be known as Western thrilled to place their stories, and we love to work with them. What they contribute to being populated largely by goats and run Europe – the issue is identity. In a speech this paper is the local content – the news from their respective “heres” – news that by whackos who were pro-Chinese and to the European Parliament last their fellow readers otherwise would never know about. anti-Soviet. Anyone who was vacationing December, Mr. Prodi made it very clear Take this week’s issue. We have stories from Cleveland, where an exciting new on the Greek islands in those days could that the debate about where Europe ends dance company has been formed; Washington, where Ukraine’s ambassador to the easily avail oneself of the distinct pleas- is a debate about identity, and that “this is U.S. addressed a local group of professionals; East Hanover, N.J., where a group of ure of tuning in to the Maoist gibberish something we as Europeans [read: West northern New Jerseyans have gotten together at a “Ladies’ Night Out” to raise funds offered by Radio Tirana on a daily basis. Europeans], after listening to everyone, for a worthy cause; and Stanford, Calif., where Stanford University is planning to Well, at the end of January, the shall decide ourselves, without any out- expand its Ukrainian studies program. Even the kids get into the act, as this month’s European Union formally opened negoti- side interference.” UKELODEON section features a story about a Valentine’s Dance written by a ations with Albania for a Stabilization Actually, the debate is more or less Newark, N.J., student. Upcoming issues will include news about a ski trip organized and Association Agreement, which is the over, although most Eurocrats in Brussels by the Plast branch in Boston; an art exhibit by Rem Bahautdyn in Wilmington, Del.; first step toward EU membership. are loathe to admit it. Mr. Prodi’s speech and a unique project by cultural activists in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba. European Commission President Romano in Strasbourg in December was titled But, these activities are just the tip of the iceberg as far as our community is con- Prodi was on hand in Tirana to launch the “One Europe,” which, he said, was for cerned. How do we know? Well, we occasionally receive publications, be they proceedings, effusively praising his hosts the most part an “accomplished” fact newsletters or more fancy magazines, that serve local communities. Someone is writ- and expressing “great confidence in after the latest expansion of the EU, ing for these smaller publications, but why not to The Weekly? Albania.” “The vitality you see here,” which will bring in 10 new members next For example, parishioners of St. Katherine Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Arden said Mr. Prodi, “you don’t see in many year. Hills, Minn., know about the grand opening last September of the Ukrainian Cultural other countries.” But the problem for Ukraine is not and EducationÉÓÎÓÒ Center and Museum in their town because their bilingual parish publi- This is the same Mr. Prodi who insists entirely one of Western Europe’s seem- cation called /Voice carried a nice write-up. But does anyone outside their that Ukraine will never (repeat, never) be ingly arbitrary approach to who qualifies immediate community know about this accomplishment? The same goes for the a part of Europe. Last October, referring and who does not qualify as “European.” Ukrainian Culture Institute in Dickinson, N.D., which publishes a journal-newsletter to Ukraine, Russia and Moldova, among Ukrainians themselves are far from united just full of interesting local happenings. A recent issue spotlighted the expansion of a others, Mr. Prodi told La Stampa that as to who they are and where they belong. local Ukrainian radio program and the placement of a Ukrainian flag at the insofar as these countries are concerned Last year, after more than a decade of International Flag Plaza at Dickinson State University. None of these stories appeared “you could link many things – but not independence, a Kyiv sociologist reported in The Weekly, yet all of them have a place on the pages of this paper. Turning farther institutions.” Not long after, in an inter- that only 41 percent of survey respon- north, to Saskatchewan, a newsletter called Visnyk is published by the Provincial view with a Dutch newspaper, Mr. Prodi dents considered themselves to be citi- Council of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. The province is abuzz with activities; posed the far from rhetorical question of zens of Ukraine; almost the same propor- some of them quite unique, like a joint project with the Ugandan Canadian where Europe should end. “The Balkan tion saw themselves as “locals” of one Association of Saskatchewan. But you didn’t read about it here. countries will join,” he asserted, “they sort or another; and nearly 13 percent felt All of the events mentioned in the previous paragraph were done locally and cov- belong. Turkey is officially a candidate, that they were Soviet citizens. ered locally, without a sense of the bigger picture – that there’s a huge Ukrainian com- that is clear. But Morocco, or Ukraine, or A full 56 percent of the population pre- munity out there. And that community should be aware of each other’s successes. Moldova? I see no reason for that.” ferred some kind of “Eastern” orientation Why? So we can all share and learn, and, yes, and even copy others’ successes. And, According to the EU leader, “The fact for Ukraine: the Commonwealth of most importantly, so that we are aware that we are part of a greater whole and that [that] Ukrainians or Armenians feel Independent States, Russia or an East what we do does indeed have meaning and resonance beyond our immediate neigh- European means nothing to me. Because Slavic bloc (Ukraine, Russia and borhoods. New Zealanders feel European, too.” Belarus). About 13 percent favored ties That said, Dear Readers, please consider this an open invitation to send us your What is both ironic and somehow with the West and another 22 percent amusing in a depressing sort of way is wanted to strengthen independence and that earlier this year a Kyiv weekly exten- rely on Ukraine’s own resources. At the sively quoted Bruce Jackson, co-chair- same time, in December of last year more March man of the non-governmental U.S. than a third of Ukrainians felt that Stalin Turning the pages back... Committee on NATO, who admonished was a “great leader.” the Ukrainian leadership for failing to Ukraine’s neighbors in what used to be 9 match its declarations about wishing to known as Eastern Europe view NATO as “rejoin” Europe with concrete initiatives a marker of being European and are stum- 2001 that would make this a reality. Mr. bling over themselves to join what may Two years ago on this date, our Kyiv correspondent reported Jackson was quoted as warning that if well be an institution whose time is past. on a confrontation that occurred on the birthday of Taras reforms were not set in motion fairly But last year more Ukrainians were anti- Shevchenko. As is customary, President Leonid Kuchma and quickly “You could become one big NATO than pro-NATO, 38 percent and 19 other leaders were to place wreaths at the Shevchenko monument. Albania.” percent, respectively. More troubling per- What was not customary was that 3,000 police and intelligence In all fairness, one must admit that haps is that about 43 percent had no clue. service agents swept the park with dogs and cordoned off the area. Albania has made significant progress in As for the EU, only 15 percent were The first major confrontation took place when police tried to move back a large crowd of its transition from the failed experiment against joining, while 44 percent wanted about 300 young demonstrators. Mr. Kuchma, along with other top government and parlia- with “socialism,” specifically with EU membership. But, once again, more mentary leaders, quickly went through a short wreath-laying ceremony before departing. respect to the economy. During the past than 40 percent were clueless. With them and law enforcement officers gone, the demonstrators proceeded to tear apart the three years, real GDP has grown on the At the risk of offending the profession- wreaths left by the delegation. The crowd, which had swelled to nearly 2,000, proceeded to average of about 7 percent. But Ukraine’s al sensibilities of trained sociologists and the Ministry of Internal Affairs headquarters, then to the Khreschatyk, where some 18,000 economic performance has been quite other experts on contemporary Ukraine gathered for a rally, and on to another Ministry of Internal Affairs building and the presiden- respectable as well: real GDP growth was who are well-versed in the arts of theoret- tial administration for a final showdown with the militia that ended with Molotov cocktails 5.9 percent in 2000; 9.1 percent in 2001; ical and comparative analysis, I would being lofted at officers, and the militia hurtling tear gas at the marchers. 4.1 percent in 2002; and is projected by hazard the guess that the main problem The events had actually begun on March 1, 2001, when officials moved on the tent city the International Monetary Fund to be 5 with Ukraine becoming “European” is erected by the Ukraine Without Kuchma movement seeking the resignation of President percent this year. precisely the fact that nearly half the pop- Kuchma in the wake of the disappearance of Heorhii Gongadze and other scandals. ulation remains “clueless.” That, by the Dr. Roman Solchanyk, a long-time con- way, is more or less the same proportion Source: “The Gongadze case: a murder still unsolved” in “2001: The Year in Review,” tributor to the The Ukrainian Weekly, is a January 6, 2002, Vol. LXX, No. 1. security analyst in Santa Monica, Calif. (Continued on page 22) No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 7 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Faces and Places Another Ukrainian And under the skillful and cynical manipulation of Russian President by Myron B. Kuropas Vladimir Putin, the administration of the victim of 9/11 country is sliding back into the swamp of Dear Editor: Soviet/Russian imperial past. In your January 12 edition (2002: The The situation does not look much bet- Year in Review) you published a list of ter in the diaspora. Some in the ranks of Ukrainian victims of 9/11. Newsday of our once proud and intellectually profi- Making omelets at The New York Times Long Island, N.Y., published biographies of cient academic elite have reduced their A recent Gallup Poll indicates that oring Litvinov at the Waldorf Astoria, the victims on a daily basis for months. The potential for positive accomplishments to Americans believe the media is biased; 45 Duranty was introduced as “one of the stories were so personal that you felt you recycling of Soviet propaganda about all percent say the media is too liberal; 15 greatest foreign correspondents of modern had to read each one to honor each victim. things Ukrainian. One has to go no fur- percent believe it is too conservative. times serving a great newspaper of this Enclosed is one of a young Ukrainian girl ther than “Encyclopedia of Rusyn It is no secret that many American city.” He received a standing ovation. who survived Chornobyl only to become a History and Culture” by Profs. Paul R. reporters and correspondents during the According to Duranty biographer S.J. victim at the World Trade Center. Magocsi and Ivan Pop, recently past 40 or so years were and remain politi- Taylor: “The Ukrainian famine of 1932- reviewed in The Ukrainian Weekly. The cally left of center. This became obvious 1933 remains the greatest man-made dis- Betty Towner book parrots the Moscow line regarding during the Cold War, when commentators aster ever recorded, exceeding in scale Levittown, N.Y. Ukraine, and it is hard to say if this is were consistently willing to give the even the Jewish Holocaust of the next due to the intellectual ineptness of the decade ... It was Walter Duranty’s destiny Editor’s note: According to the clipping Soviet Union the benefit of the doubt. authors, or simply to the lack of original to become, in effect, the symbol for the from Newsday (undated) sent by our reader, All of this once had an effect on the thought on their part. But that does not West’s failure to recognize and understand Helen Belikovsky, 38, was an assistant vice- Ukrainian American community. stop Prof. Magocsi, who holds the Chair it at the time.” president of Fred Alger Management, an Ukrainians were constantly writing letters of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Duranty was not the only Pulitzer Prize- investment firm with officers on the 93rd to various periodicals complaining of the Toronto, from adding insult to injury by winning New York Times correspondent to floor of WTC Tower 1. She had arrived in one-sided portrayal of the Soviet Union. proclaiming that: “The book is not writ- adopt the “omelet theory” of explaining the U.S. eight years earlier with her hus- Rarely did such efforts change minds. ten for Ukrainians.” The audacity and Communist viciousness. In 1975, a week band, Boris, and their son, Eugene (now The Great Famine in Ukraine is a classic arrogance of this statement implies that before the Cambodian government of Lon 13), from Kyiv, Ukraine; they settled in example of the leftist bias with which we Ukrainians, to him, are some sort of a Nol fell, correspondent Sydney Schanberg Mamaroneck, N.Y. “Ironically, we survived had to deal. Although there were correspon- separate and intellectually inferior group, wrote: “for the ordinary people of Chornobyl,” Mr. Belikovsky told Newsday, dents – Gareth Jones and Malcolm not capable of comprehending the pearls Indochina ... it is difficult to imagine how explaining that they were on their honey- Muggeridge, for example – who wrote the of his wisdom. their lives could be anything but better moon and away from Kyiv at the time of the truth, they were voices in the wilderness. In this generally dismal and depressing with Americans gone.” nuclear disaster. Angered by the criticism, the media moguls landscape of our intellectual present it Deciding to remain behind as the mur- Ms. Belikovsky is the 10th victim of the retaliated. Muggeridge was vilified for his was refreshing to see a ray of sunshine derous Khmer Rouge evacuated everyone terrorist attack on the Twin Towers who is efforts and couldn’t find work for a time. and hope in a story celebrating the 132nd from the capital city of Phomn Penh – known to have Ukrainian roots. Of all the foreign corespondents who anniversary of Lesia Ukrainka’s birth. It is betrayed their craft with blatant distortions including children, the elderly, bedridden the brilliance of Ukrainian culture reflect- and fabrications, none is more loathsome hospital patients and the physically handi- ed in the works of such literary giants as than the opium-indulging Walter Duranty, capped – and mounted a campaign of Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko and Lesia The New York Times foreign correspon- wholesale slaughter of millions of News from Ukraine Ukrainka that has preserved our national dent in Moscow during Stalin’s genocidal Cambodians, Mr. Schanberg was torn consciousness and identity for so many destruction of Ukraine’s peasantry in between viewing the genocide “through a depressing affair centuries of foreign oppression. And it is 1932-1933. Duranty is the father of the Western eyes or what might be Cambodian Dear Editor: the greatness of Ukrainian culture that “give them a break” journalistic approach revolutionary eyes ... Was this just cold will assure our continued existence as an to communism. brutality: a cruel and sadistic imposition of Reading The Ukrainian Weekly, as ethnic entity for centuries to come. It was Duranty who knowingly denied the law of the jungle which only the fittest well as the other sources of information the famine in dispatches to The New York will survive?” he asked. “Or is it possible about Ukraine, has become a depressing Ihor Lysyj Times with descriptive euphemisms such that, seen through the eyes of the peasant affair lately. This state of affairs is accen- Austin, Texas as “serious food shortage,” “mismanage- soldier and revolutionizes, the forced evac- tuated by the great but unfulfilled prom- ment of collective farming,” a conspiracy uation of the cites is a harsh necessity? ises of national rebirth in 1991. of “wreckers” and “spoilers” who had Perhaps they are convinced that there is no After nearly 12 years of independ- way to build a new society for the benefit ence, the ruling oligarchic cabal under Addendum “made a mass of Soviet food production” Donations to the Ukrainian Eye (i.e. poor Ukrainian peasants who resisted of the ordinary man, hitherto exploited, President Leonid Kuchma is in full con- without literally starting from the begin- trol of all social, economic, political and Project referred to in a letter to the editor collectivization) and the like. “There is no headlined “Eye project seeks support” actual starvation or deaths from starva- ning; in such an unbending view people police levers in the country. And the who represent the old ways and those con- cabal intends to keep a firm grip on the (February 24), may be sent to: Dr. tion,” he wrote, “but there is widespread William Selezinka, (Account No. 10896- mortality from diseases due to malnutri- sidered weak or unfit would be expendable power into the foreseeable future. and would be weeded out.” On the opposing side of the equation, 03083), 12176 Sand Trap Row, San tion.” There was suffering, Duranty admit- Diego, CA 92128. Tax-deductible dona- ted but “to put it brutally – you can’t make In “The Killing Fields,” a Hollywood the inept actions of the democratic oppo- movie in which Mr. Schanberg is por- sition can be best described as being full tions will be acknowledged in writing. an omelet without breaking eggs...” Was The New York Times correspon- trayed as a hero struggling with a moral dent aware of his lies? Absolutely. During dilemma, the culprit is Richard Nixon, COMMENTARY a trip to the British Embassy soon after whose bombing of Cambodian sanctuaries returning from Ukraine in 1933, Duranty of the Viet Cong, one is led to believe, pre- explained that “the Ukraine had been bled cipitated the horrors visited on the people Give peace a chance white. The population was exhausted ... it by an angry Khmer Rouge. Never mind is “quite possible that as many as 10 mil- that the Khmer Rouge did not actually take lion people may have died directly or indi- power until 20 months after the last U.S. by Andrew Kozak tied up and executed. In Africa, the for- rectly from lack of food in the Soviet bomb fell on Cambodia. mer French colonial rulers stood by and Between the Communist horrors of We stand at a historic moment in time. Union during the past year.” Later, at a watched as a million Rwandans died. dinner party for Ann O’Hare McCormick, 1933 and 1975, The New York Times The Soviet Union is fast becoming a U.S. aircraft bombed the Serbs into apparently learned nothing. In both cases, faint memory in old people’s minds. roving correspondent for The New York submission. When they surrendered, the Times, Duranty repeated his estimate of the newspaper of record decided to print Nuclear arsenals have been disarmed and Russians raced in with an armed convoy stories that blamed the victims – “spoilers dismantled. Countries such as Kazakstan, millions dead. to defend the Serbs and, it seems, their and wreckers” in Ukraine, the “weak and South Africa, and Ukraine have voluntar- “But Walter, you don’t mean that literal- right to commit genocide. Fortunately unfit” in Cambodia – rather than the per- ily destroyed their nuclear weapons. ly?” asked Mrs. McCormick. the U.S. got there, too, and our soldiers petrators of the worst crimes (7 million The old European powers desperately “Hell I don’t” he replied. “I’m being still keep the sides apart, and at peace. conservative.” Ukrainians, 2 million Cambodians died) in cling to the past and avoid their responsi- Now there is an opportunity to shift, Despite certain reservations by the edi- the history of the world. bilities to the future. In the former ever so subtly, the Middle East away torial staff of The New York Times regard- Despite its abominable record on five Yugoslavia, Russia backed its historical from dictators, sheiks, mullahs, and ter- ing the accuracy of Mr. Duranty’s dis- continents, Marxism is still alive, still Serbian allies; Germany backed its his- rorists, and toward democracy, equality patches, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize being taken seriously by politicians, torical Croatian allies. Sarajevo was sub- columnists and academics throughout the and freedom. The results are not certain, for reporting that was “marked by scholar- jected to a siege. Serb snipers targeted world, and still creating confusion at and the road ahead will no doubt be diffi- ship, profundity, impartiality, sound judg- women and children. In Srebrenica, a American universities and in the media. cult. ment and exceptional clarity...” Danish battalion stood aside as thousands Not shy about taking advantage of his Leftists just can’t bring themselves to of young men and boys were captured, The French, Germans and Russians admit that for over 70 years their view of continue to protect their valued customer, popularity among the Soviet elite, Duranty was able to book passage on a Soviet ship the world was and remains wrong, wrong, Saddam Hussein, as they have for the wrong. Andrew Kozak is a professional engi- past decade. They looked the other way bringing Maxim Litvinov to Washington neer residing in Canton, Mass. He is a as Saddam slaughtered his own people. to work out the final details of President member of Plast. In World War II his Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s recognition Myron Kuropas’ e-mail address is: father fought for a free Ukraine. (Continued on page 20) of the Soviet Union. Later, at a dinner hon- [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 No. 10 SHEVCHENKO ANNIVERSARY: Bard revered by Roma (Gypsies) in Ukraine

by Adriana Helbig from Taras Shevchenko’s “Kobzar.” today is to codify a Romani literary lan- The 1,000 copies of his pocket-sized guage, which he foresees to be a fusion In the past few years that I have been book titled “Dumy Moyi/Dumy Mire” in of the various dialects spoken in monitoring Roma (Gypsy) portrayals in Ukrainian and in Romani, the language Ukraine. the media in Ukraine, there has been a of Roma (Gypsies), turned heads among Because Romani was historically an noted rise in positive attention towards Ukrainian literary critics and the publica- oral language, it numbers between 4,000 the Roma and a movement away from tion has done much to promote the image and 6,000 words in comparison to approx- portraying them as illiterate nomads. of Roma as educated citizens of Ukraine. imately 140,000 words in the Ukrainian This is due in no small part to the efforts I met Mr. Kozymyrenko in Kyiv at a language. In his translations Mr. of Mykhailo Kozymyrenko, a well- conference of Roma community leaders Kozymyrenko is often forced to incorpo- known Roma poet who in 1996 first pub- rate Ukrainian words where an appropri- lished his translations of selected poems from various oblasts and had the oppor- tunity to speak with the poet about his ate Romani substitute cannot be found. work. Mr. Kozymyrenko informed me The importance of translations such as Adriana Helbig is a doctoral student that while there was hardly anything the “Kobzar” cannot be underestimated in ethnomusicology at Columbia published in Romani at the time of the for the Roma population in Ukraine, University, where she teaches in the Soviet Union, the All-Russian Gypsy which according to Roma leaders, num- music humanities program. She was a Union, established in 1925, oversaw bers close to 350,000. The past 10 years 2001-2002 Fulbright Scholar to Ukraine, early socialist initiatives to eliminate have borne witness to a Roma human researching the role of musical culture in illiteracy among Gypsies. While most rights and cultural revival movement in the Gypsy/Roma political movement. programs in Roma education lasted less Ukraine. Cities like Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, than a decade and were liquidated entire- Kharkiv and Uzhhorod have become ly by 1938, the All-Russian Gypsy Union centers for Roma organizations that have did establish a Romani alphabet and the begun to promote Roma culture, lan- Shevchenko’s sketch “Tsyhan” (1851). late 1920s saw numerous publications by guage, education, protection of human Roma in Romani in Moscow. rights and positive media representation. to home among Roma. Roma identify Stronger policies for Russification led Unfortunately, the majority of both with Shevchenko’s pain and the worry to the closing of Romani schools, and rural and urban Roma communities in about the fate of his people. The poem presses for all minorities lacking a Ukraine still are not integrated into “Vidma” (Witch), for example, does not republic were shut down. The national Ukrainian society at large. Historical romanticize the lives of Gypsies which presses that survived did so merely negative stereotypes that view Roma as was often the case in 19th century because they could be transferred from thieves, child stealers, manipulators and Russian and European literature and real- Moscow to a respective republic capital. lazy beggars continue to guide percep- ity is depicted in his artworks Romani simply fell through the cracks, tions of “tsyhany” among the majority of “Tsyhanka-Vorozhka” (Gypsy having neither republic nor capital. Ukrainian citizens. This cycle of stereo- Fortuneteller, 1841, and “Tsyhan” Today Roma in Ukraine use the types actively continues to keep Roma at (Gypsy, 1851). Cyrillic alphabet for written Romani, the bottom of the social ladder – a cycle Shevchenko is considered by Roma to whose root language is Hindi, but the that a growing number of Roma intellec- be one of the most important links regional variations between dialects are tuals are striving to break. between Roma and Ukrainian culture so great that Roma living in various parts Mr. Kozymyrenko speaks of another because through Shevchenko’s poetry of Ukraine often have difficulty under- reason that keeps him at his task of trans- and paintings, Roma have found their standing each other. Mr. Kozymyrenko lating Shevchenko. He says that the place in Ukrainian history and are striv- believes that the most important step in social themes that address freedom and ing to have their voice heard in Ukraine’s Roma poet Mykhailo Kozymyrenko. the Roma cultural renaissance in Ukraine equality in Shevchenko’s poems hit close future.

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by Orysia Paszczak Tracz 1933. Two years later he was conscripted into the Polish army and served in We never knew a thing about it. Even in Zolochiv. Ukraine no one knew, it being 1978 and all. In 1937 he was arrested by the gen- Only after independence did an article darmes and held until 1939. His offense appear in Literaturna Ukraina, on February was reading Ukrainian newspapers, and 20, 1992. And the full story came out as one refusing to call himself a “rusyn” instead chapter of the book “Sviatynia: Naukovo- of a Ukrainian. This was taken to mean Istorychnyi Litopys Tarasovoyi Hory” that he was a Ukrainian nationalist. He (Shrine: an Academic-Historical Chronicle was incarcerated in Polish jails in of Taras’ Hill,” Kyiv: Rodovid, 1998) by Krakow, Drohobych and Tarnowa. Zinayida Tarakhan-Bereza, a researcher at Released when the Germans invaded the Shevchenko Museum in Kaniv. Poland in September 1939, Hirnyk hoped During the night of January 21-22, for freedom for himself and his country. 1978, a man set himself afire at the foot But the Soviet “liberators” exposed of Taras Shevchenko’s grave at the muse- the nationalists imprisoned by the Poles, um preserve in Kaniv, on Chernecha and punished and tortured them even Hora (Hill). By early morning, the militia more severely. Hirnyk enjoyed a month and secret police had secured the site, and a half of freedom between the Polish and had ordered the few authorities and the Russian prisons. His trial was involved to strict silence about the event. held in December 1940, with sentencing All the thousands of hand-written leaflets to eight years in the far labor camps (almost all of them) that the man had [Kuibyshev oblast’], and subsequent five strewn about the gravesite and the whole years of no right to vote. Tarakhan- hillside preserve had been confiscated Bereza writes that only after 50 years of Photo and death certificate of Oleksa Mykolayovych Hirnyk. and destroyed. his first unjust incarceration, and 10 The leaflets read: “Protest against the years after his fiery death in Kaniv, did Russian occupation of Ukraine! Protest the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the “...According to your law (i.e., construction projects... You sent people against the Russification of the Ukrainian Ukrainian SSR withdraw the sentence Russian), one is not even permitted to to Siberia, to Karaganda... throughout all nation! Long live the Independent against him as “there was no evidence of think about any independence of of Russia... You made Ukraine Russian, Sovereign Ukrainian State! Soviet, but a crime committed.” Ukraine. Let us live. Do not give us our and her cities Russian.” not Russian. Ukraine for Ukrainians! On He returned to his village in 1948, own bread, like a master gives a dog. Hirnyk did not involve his family in the occasion of the 60th anniversary of with no one of his family left to await Don’t build! Don’t tell us that we already his actions. His last note to his wife read, the Declaration of Independence of him. He was married at the age of 37 to have all we need. We will build it our- “I have gone to Lviv. Don’t worry, I’ll Ukraine by the Central Rada. January 22, Karolina Petrash, who also had been selves, as good proprietors (hospodari), return in a day or two. To our sweet 1918 – January 22, 1978. As a sign of exiled to Siberia. Hirnyk still was not a just let us live, leave us alone. ... Enough meeting. Oleksa. 19.1.1978.” Back in protest, Hirnyk Oleksa of Kalush self- free man, because of the taint of previous of you...,” he wrote on one leaflet. In Soviet prison he had told a fellow immolated. Only in this manner can one imprisonment. He finally found menial another leaflet he noted: “...A person in inmate: “For me, death for Ukraine, in protest in the Soviet Union!?” work in Stanyslaviv, where he lived with the Soviet Union is the cheapest being. defense of the Ukrainian people, would He was Oleksa Mykolayovych friends, visiting his home only on days You do with him/her what you wish. And be good fortune for me.” Hirnyk, born in Bohorodchany, living in off. People remember him as very indus- with the labor of prisoners you built the Kalush. The investigation showed that he trious, one who loved gardening, bee- White Sea Canal, the Moscow Canal, the The book “Sviatynia” is available had doused himself with gasoline, lit the keeping and pigeons. He provided his northern railway and many, many other from www.Rodovid.net. fire, and then stabbed himself in the children with a higher education, and abdomen. The official decision was that took care of his family. this was a suicide. 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dered his resignation, Interfax reported on mixed now. Data from the last national country for the Nazi invasion in 1941. NEWSBRIEFS March 1, quoting First Vice Prime census indicated that 77 percent of all (RFE/RL Newsline) (Continued from page 2) Minister and Finance Minister Mykola people living in the country are ... as interest grows on 50th anniversary ebrated his 70th birthday on that day. Azarov. Mr. Azarov said the government Ukrainians and 17 percent are Russians, deems the activities of the SPF to have while representatives of other ethnic (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) MOSCOW – On the eve of the 50th been unsatisfactory, adding that the priva- groups made up 6 percent. Independent anniversary of Stalin’s death on March 5, Husar is most trusted hierarch tization process supervised by the fund sources say that 40 percent of the popula- 1953, the Russian State Archive, the “has failed to become an instrument for tion uses the Russian language in every- archive of the Federal Protection Service KYIV – Ukrainian TV channel “1+1” speeding up the economy and meeting fis- day life. (ITAR-TASS, FBIS) and that of the Federal Security Service reported on February 26 that Cardinal cal objectives.” Mr. Azarov added that the (FSB) prepared a unique exhibition cover- Lubomyr Husar, head of the Ukrainian privatization process in Ukraine has yield- A third of Russians view Stalin positively ... ing notable events of the Stalin era, the Greek-Catholic Church, is rated the most ed “only” 6 billion hrv ($1.12 billion) to MOSCOW – Thirty-six percent of RTR news service reported on February trusted hierarch among all the confes- date. Mr. Bondar has headed the SPF respondents in a national survey conducted 27. The exhibition will present for the first sions in Ukraine. February 26 was the since October 1998. (RFE/RL Newsline) cardinal’s 70th birthday. As he was on a by the Public Opinion Foundation on time recently declassified documents and pastoral visit to England after his trip to PM says all citizens must learn Ukrainian February 22 said that Soviet dictator Joseph medical analyses that purportedly refute Canada, the cardinal was to celebrate his Stalin did more to benefit Russia than to the theory that Stalin’s entourage might birthday in Lviv with a divine liturgy on KYIV – All Ukrainian citizens must harm it, lenta.ru reported on February 27. have poisoned him. Other documents con- March 2, with the participation of have command of the Ukrainian lan- The foundation surveyed 1,500 adults in cern the so-called Doctors’ Plot, an anti- Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, apostolic guage and agencies of power must create cities throughout the federation. Twenty- Semitic campaign launched in the last nuncio in Ukraine. (Religious normal conditions for mastering it, Prime nine percent of the respondents said Stalin days of the Stalin regime, purportedly at Information Service of Ukraine) Minister Viktor Yanukovych said as he did the country more harm than good, and the dictator’s personal behest. The exhibi- answered by phone the questions from 34 percent could not say either way. Those tion will also present some of Stalin’s per- First group of Ukrainians leaves Iraq readers of a central Ukrainian newspaper. who view Stalin positively most often cited sonal effects, gifts that he received, and “We, all of us, must be able to speak his role in the Soviet victory in World War letters from Soviet citizens expressing BAGHDAD – A group of 41 Ukrainian,” Mr. Yanukovych said, stress- II and the “law and order” he maintained in their feelings about his death. The state Ukrainian specialists working in Iraq ing at the same time his government the country. Those who view him negative- news agency RIA-Novosti will be selling under Russian-Iraqi contracts on oil-pro- would be doing its best to help the citi- ly blame him for ruling by means of mass rare digitized photographs of Stalin via its duction projects took a chartered airliner zens, especially children, learn other lan- terror, for unleashing genocide against his website (http://www.rian.ru). (RFE/RL from Baghdad to Moscow on February guages. Ukraine’s language picture is own citizens and for failing to prepare the Newsline) 26, Ukrainian and international news agencies reported. The Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry said the evacua- tion of the next group of Ukrainians from Iraq will depend on developments there. (RFE/RL Newsline)

Ukraine to be cited as market economy? KYIV – European Commission official Timo Hammaren hinted that the European Union might recognize Ukraine as a “mar- ket economy” later this month, ahead of any such concession by United States, the Interfax news service reported on March 3. The move presumably would lead to trade benefits for Ukrainian exporters. Mr. Hammaren said the requirements of the EU with respect to “market economy” sta- tus are different from those of the United States. He said the EU might sign the rele- vant document by the end of March. “We promised Ukraine [that we would] give our answer in late March,” he said, according to Interfax, adding that there are grounds for Kyiv to expect a positive answer. (RFE/RL Newsline) Anniversary of Stalin’s death marked MOSCOW – Speaking in Moscow on March 2 at a gathering devoted to the 50th anniversary of the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, Communist Party leader Gennadii Zyuganov said that his party has failed to live up to Stalin’s legacy and “to preserve the great Soviet power,” the RTR news service reported. “But we should raise our heads high because Russia can- not exist without socialism and Soviet power,” he added. Mr. Zyuganov also attacked the U.S. position on Iraq and said that the U.S. administration wants to involve Europe in “a war against itself.” Moscow’s Communist Party leader, Aleksandr Kuvaev, surprised the gathering by proposing cloning Stalin, RTR report- ed. On March 2 ORT and NTV broadcast documentaries about the death of Stalin. On ORT, Stalin’s adopted son, Artem Sergeev, and on NTV political scientist Anatolii Sudoplatov each said that Stalin’s inner circle – including Georgii Malenkov, Lavrentii Beria and Nikita Khrushchev – left Stalin to die without summoning med- ical help. After his rise to power, Khrushchev was particularly cruel toward Stalin’s son, Vasilii, who was imprisoned on charges of “betraying the motherland,” according to recently declassified docu- ments. (RFE/RL Newsline) Privatization chief resigns KYIV – Oleksander Bondar, chairman of the State Property Fund (SPF), has ten- 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 No. 10

visa while in fact intending to work, for avoid the Warsaw trip and simply go to Getting a U.S. visa... instance, cannot adequately explain where the Pimonenko Street consular offices in (Continued from page 1) he will be staying and who his hosts are to Kyiv to complete their particular require- Weekly, U.S. Consul General Lisa Vickers be, he could be turned away even once in ments. the United States. Ms. Vickers underscored emphasized that the United States does not Multiple-entry visas available work through any third parties in issuing that in the post-9/11 era, customs and immi- visas to Ukrainians, whether they are con- gration officials are particularly wary of The consular section already has begun sulting firms, employment firms or travel travelers’ intentions. to issue five-year multiple-entry visas to agencies. She explained that all Ukrainian 16,000 visas in 2002 Ukrainians who qualify via a reciprocal citizens desiring to travel to the United agreement with Ukraine’s Ministry of States need to be prepared for face-to-face While there are those in Ukraine who are Foreign Affairs. Ms. Vickers stated that, not interviews, and that honesty is the only way certain that the U.S. consular service rejects only frequent visitors to the United States, that the prospective visitor has a chance to all Ukrainian applicants except for the very but all those who could show “a good pat- obtain a visa. rich, on the contrary, last year 16,000 visas tern of travel,” could qualify for the extend- “We want the message to get across that were issued to persons among 31,000 appli- ed visa. we absolutely do not have any agency with cants, which means that slightly more than “We will issue a visa even to a first-time which we have a relationship,” explained half of those who applied were successful traveler [to the U.S.] if their pattern of trav- Ms. Vickers. “Every applicant is looked at in obtaining permission to travel to the el is good,” said Ms. Vickers, which she on their own merits and no one can guaran- United States. explained meant that during previous travel abroad the person had returned on time, tee them a visa.” “We issue to a wide variety of people, stuck to the requirements of his visa and did Ms. Vickers said she was familiar with U.S. Consul General Lisa Vickers and yes, including to farmers,” Ms. Vickers not violate the laws of the countries he had the firm to whom the Ternopil farmers had explained. But not before they have blown hundreds visited. turned, as well as with several others like it. Nonetheless, she also pointed out that, of dollars of their precious money for the unfortunately not everybody can meet the She said that such operations are illegal Information for U.S. citizens agency’s “services.” requirements. But that does not mean that both in Ukraine and the United States. Most Ms. Vickers said that, contrary to popu- Ukrainians are not continuing to try. While importantly for applicants, consular officers And, finally, Ms. Vickers said that the lar opinion, the U.S. consular service wants the number of applications dropped last often recognize the paperwork and that Consulate also continues to improve servic- to issue visas and is happy when it can do year by 25 percent to 31,000 from a high of hurts the applicant’s chances. es directed at U.S. citizens living abroad. so because this is the most effective and 42,000 in fiscal year 2000, this year the Recently it had held town meetings in sev- Bogus documents straightforward type of cultural exchange. number of applications is up by 20 percent eral Ukrainian cities, most recently in Lviv However, applicants must come for their over last year and on pace to meet the fiscal and earlier in Kharkiv, Donetsk, “With some of these agencies, because interviews ready to answer questions hon- year 2000 numbers. Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa. The meetings we see them so frequently, the documents estly and to be upfront with their intentions. As for Mr. Hnatkiv, the villager from are intended for public instruction, to better they provide to the applicants we recog- Potential visitors should remember that Ternopil, he is happy that he did not waste inform U.S. citizens of the support the con- nize,” explained Ms. Vickers, “and we they have to convince the consular officer his hard earned money on the misrepresen- sular section can provide. know they are not true.” who reviews their request that they will tations of the fraudulent employment She also noted that she was trying to She also said that the coaching the com- return in a timely manner and give hard evi- agency. And while he may never have need develop a wider network of wardens of panies provide their “clients” often works dence that they have reason to return. for the services provided by the U.S. consular services – volunteers who dis- to the applicant’s disadvantage. Finally, they must support that they are Consulate – he has no chance of obtaining seminate information to U.S. citizens who “For example, if I were to ask you where going to the United States for the purposes a visa because it would be obvious that he live near them. This could include provid- you work, would you tell me without look- stated on their application. intends to travel to the U.S. in order to ing travel advisories and worldwide warn- ing at a piece of paper? They should, too,” She also noted that a visa does not pro- work illegally and does not have the neces- ings or simply informing the Americans added Ms. Vickers. vide a guarantee that at the U.S. entry point sary “proof of return” – he remains about specific consular services. For She went on to explain that some appli- customs officials might not turn away a visa undaunted in his effort to find work to sup- instance, in Lviv one of the points of the cants abandon their agency’s canned stories holder who they deem is entering the U.S. port his family, whether in Ukraine or gathering was to explain that the consular and answer the consular officers questions for purposes other than what their visa abroad, legally or not. section now has a tax advisor to help with truthfully. Some find, to their surprise, that allows. This means that if a person, who For applicants desiring to travel to the tax filing questions and paperwork as the they qualify for a visa on their own merits. has fooled the system and obtained a tourist United States with honest intentions the April 15 income tax filing deadline nears. U.S. Consular Office is preparing to contin- Ms. Vickers said that a warden’s main tatives of the presidential administration ue to improve and broaden its services to responsibility is to develop a list of tele- better accommodate them. phone numbers, e-mail and mail addresses, and mayors. Kuchma says... Later this year it will begin transferring or simply methods of contact to dissemi- (Continued from page 3) In a radical break with the consensus to Kyiv some of the workload still carried nate information. She requested that inter- as a result of the 2000 national referen- among politicians for the three years out in Warsaw, where nearly 7,000 visas ested U.S. citizens living in Ukraine e-mail dum. He said that one chamber of the since the national referendum was were extended to Ukrainians last year. In or telephone the Consulate if they want to new Parliament structure would retain the approved, the president suggested that the first step, it will begin processing volunteer. name the Verkhovna Rada and would parliamentary ratification was not needed fiancé applications at the Kyiv office, For detailed information on consular consist of lawmakers elected based on a to implement the four proposals. which will allow Ukrainians to avoid trav- services and requirements, applications, proportional electoral system. The other “The referendum should not have to be eling to Warsaw for their exit interviews interview appointment schedules and chamber would be called the House of ratified by a government body,” declared and processing. Lottery visa winners and telephone numbers, readers may go to the Regions and would consist of seats Mr. Kuchma. “The voice of the people those who file for immigration visas for website of the U.S. Embassy and reserved for both elected and appointed should not be subject to further themselves or for adopted children and Consular Section in Ukraine: www.usem- officials: oblast chairmen, local represen- approval.” married spouses also will soon be able to bassy.kiev.ua.

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Albena Denkova and Staviyski of took second place in 3:44.83, and Bulgaria took second place. Navka and Belgium’s Jurgen Vandewiele took third SSPPOORTSRTSLLIINENE Kostomarov took third place. place with a time of 3:44.96. • In the women’s event, Ukraine’s Basketball Boxing Liashenko took sixth place while her Union world champion from 1997 to teammate, Halyna Maniachenko, fin- • Ukraine will play in Group B with 2000, is regarded as one of the most dan- ished in seventh place. Russia’s Belgium, Spain, the Slovak Republic, • With his November 23 win against gerous boxers in the heavyweight divi- Slutskaya took first place and her team- Russia and Hungary at the 29th Women’s Larry Donald, the World Boxing sion. The South African, who is 6 feet 3 mate, Elena Sokolova took second place. European Basketball Championship in Council’s No. 1 heavyweight contender, inches tall, also has an impressive fight Hungary’s Julia Sebestyen rounded out Greece. The 16-team tournament, which Vitalii Klitschko, earned the right to fight record at 38 wins and two losses. Sanders the medal podium with her third-place for the WBC belt, currently held by runs from September 19 to 28, features a has won 18 of his 28 knockout victories finish. first round of round-robin competition to Lennox Lewis. However, the 31-year-old in the first round. • In the pairs competition at the Ukrainian has been unable to nail down determine the match-ups for the follow- Soccer European Championships, Ukraine’s ing rounds of single elimination play. the highly anticipated fight with the Tetiana Chuvayeva and Dmytro WBC heavyweight champ. The top three teams from the • Turkey and Ukraine played to a 0-0 Palamarchuk, who finished in 10th place, Klitschko started proceedings recently Women’s European Championship will draw in Izmir, Turkey, on February 12. were beaten by teammates Tatiana with the WBC to force Lewis to fight qualify for the 2004 Olympics. Greece The match was the last tune-up before Volosozhar and Petro Kharchenko, who him by June, Klitschko’s camp said on qualifies automatically for the Olympics Ukraine faces a critical Union of took seventh place. as the host nation, therefore, if Greece February 6. The WBC has the authority The Russian pair of Tatiana to order a Lewis-Klitschko fight, as European Football Associations (UEFA) finishes in the top three of the European European 2004 qualifier against Spain on Totmianina and Maxim Marinin took Championship, the top four teams will Vitalii is the mandatory challenger. first place, while their teammates, Maria The AP reported that Vitalii, who says March 29 in Kyiv’s Olympiyskiy stadi- qualify for the Olympics. um. Petrova and Alexei Tikhonov took third Marathon he has a signed contract for a bout with place. France’s Sarah Abitbol and Lewis, wants the WBC to strip Lewis of The Ukrainian men will then move on to the Ukraina Stadium in Lviv for their Stephane Bernadis took second. his last remaining title if he doesn’t make Track and field • Tatyana Pozdnyakova, a 47-year-old the mandatory defense against the No. 1 next home qualifier against Armenia on Ukrainian, became the oldest woman to challenger. June 7, before welcoming Northern win a big-city marathon, prevailing in • Anatolii Dovhal of Ukraine won the Ireland to Donetsk’s Shakhtar stadium on Los Angeles. Pozdnyakova finished the “We should receive the final answer men’s 60-meter race at the International September 6. race in 2 hours, 29 minutes and 40 sec- from the WBC’s management by March Association of Athletics Federations “This is the first time in history onds while Lioudmila Kortchaguina of 15 at the latest,” Klitschko said of a fight (IAAF) international indoor meet in Ukraine will play in three different cities Russia took second place with a time of with Lewis that was initially scheduled Budapest, Hungary, on February 8, with across the country,” said Ukraine’s head 2:30:18 and Zivile Balciunaite of for mid-April but now may happen some a time of 6.63 seconds. A photo finish time in June. coach, Leonid Buriak. “The arenas in the Lithuania took third place with a time of country are getting better and now fans saw Gabor Dobos of Hungary take sec- In a similar situation, Lewis lost his ond place with a time of 6.64. Andrea 2:33:22. International Boxing Federation title outside of Kyiv can see the national team Rabino of Italy was relegated to the third With her win Pozdnyakova received because he did not want to fight a as well.” spot with his time of 6.64. $28,000 plus a 2003 Honda Accord EX mandatory bout against Chris Byrd. Ukraine is also scheduled to play • Ukraine’s Anzhela Kravchenko and V-6. If Lewis refuses a bout with Klitschko, friendly matches against Latvia on April Skiing Germany’s Gabi Rockmeier, who both the title would become vacant and 2 and Denmark on April 30. Additionally, finished their 60-meter race in 7.20 sec- Klitschko would fight against the WBC’s an agreement has been reached to play a onds, shared second place at the Erdgas • Mykola Skriabin of Ukraine came in No. 2 ranked boxer, Evander Holyfield, return friendly game between Ukraine indoor athletics meet in Chemnitz, 31st place in the men’s combined event to determine who would hold the WBC and Turkey on April 26 or 27, 2005. Ice Skating Germany, on February 8. Karin Mayr at the Alpine skiing world championship title. took first place with a time of 7.17. in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on February Klitschko’s camp said they signed a • Zhanna Block, who officially 7, with a time of 3 minutes and 34.06 contract with Lewis manager Adrian • Sasha Cohen, the 18-year-old dropped the Pintusevich from her name, seconds. Bode Miller of the United Ogun for a fight originally scheduled for American figure skater who has a set the fastest time in the world this year States took first place with a time of April 12, in Las Vegas, or April 19, in Ukrainian mother, beat Irina Slutskaya in in the 60-meter event at the Flanders 3:18.41. Lasse Kjus of Norway took sec- New York City. the Grand Prix Final in St. Petersburg, Indoor Energizer international indoor ond place, finishing just .07 seconds The contract for a fight between Lewis Russia, on March 1. Cohen won the final meet on February 9 in Ghent, Belgium. behind Miller. Kjus’s teammate Kjetil- and Klitschko was apparently signed by free skate portion of the competition, Block, the reigning world outdoor Andre Aamodt took third place with a Klitschko, Hans-Peter Kohl and Lewis’s worth 50 percent of the total. She won 100-meter champion, won in 7.09 sec- time of 3:18.54. business manager Adrian Ogun but not the short program and placed second, on onds to beat 42-year-old Merlene Ottey, Biathlon by Lewis himself. February 28, in the first of two free pro- who clocked 7.18 and took second place. That apparent loophole has allowed grams. Muriel Hurtis of France took third place • Andrii Deryzemlia of Ukraine won the world heavyweight champion to side- Ukrainian Olena Liashenko came in in 7.20. Ukraine’s Anzhela Kravchenko the 15-kilometer mass-start event in step the challenge and concentrate fifth place, while Russia’s Viktoria took the fifth spot with a time of 7.30. Antholz, Italy, on January 26, earning instead on a contest with Tyson, which Volchkova took third. Block decided to drop her maiden him his first ever World Cup victory. would earn him more than double the For Cohen, who finished fourth at the purse he would earn in a fight against Olympics in 2002 and at the world cham- Klitschko. pionships last year, the result marked her “There can only be one answer,” first victory in a major international com- Klitschko said recently. “Namely, that the petition. Slutskaya is the defending world WBC tells Lewis to go ahead with the champion and was the leader going into fight against me. Either Lewis is to the event’s final free skate. defend his championship title in a fight The six competitors in the Grand Prix with me, or, otherwise, the title will have final, which gathers the top scorers from to be taken from him and declared the six Grand Prix series events held in vacant.” the fall, were required to do two pro- Lewis’s trainer, Emanuel Steward, grams on February 28 and perform a dif- said on January 30 that Lewis will fight ferent long program on March 1. Cohen both Klitschko brothers, Vitalii and won two Grand Prix events to qualify as Volodymr, after his rematch with Mike the top scorer. Tyson and then retire. Fellow Americans Michelle Kwan and Reuters reported on January 21 that Olympic champion Sarah Hughes did not Vitalii confirmed he would fight Lewis in take part in the competition. The next Las Vegas on April 12. But prior to that, major challenge for Cohen is the world the BBC reported that Lewis appeared to championships, which begins on March be wavering about fighting the elder 24 in Washington. Klitschko. • Ukraine’s Olena Hrushyna and Britain’s Observer newspaper said that Ruslan Honcharov came in fourth place Lewis would earn $10 million from a in the pairs ice dance event at the Grand Klitschko-Lewis fight, while the British Prix, while Russians Irina Lobacheva and Andrew Nynka boxer would earn around $25 million for Ilia Averbukh took first place and Tatiana Ukraine’s Andrii Deryzemlia pictured during a training session in Sun Valley, a Lewis-Tyson bout. Navka and Roman Kostomarov took sec- Idaho, prior to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. Lewis last boxed on June 8, 2002, ond place. The Bulgarian team of Albena against Mike Tyson, defeating the former Denkova and Maxim Staviyski took third name, Pintusevich, and race under her Deryzemlia’s time of 37:00.26 beat world champion by knockout. place. married name of Block. The original pur- Russia’s Pavel Rostovtsev by 0.7 sec- • In other news, Vitalii Klitschko’s • Hrushyna and Honcharov also came pose of using Pintusevich-Block was to onds and Germany’s Ricco Gross by 1.2 younger brother, Volodymyr will defend in fourth in the ice dance event at the allow the public to get used to Block seconds. Deryzemlia’s teammate his World Boxing Organization title on European Figure Skating Championships before settling on Block alone. Viacheslav Derkach finished the race in March 8 against Corrie Sanders. The held in Malmö, Sweden, on January 23- • Ukraine’s Ivan Heshko took first 11th place, 51 seconds behind the gold fight will take place in Hanover, 25. place in the men’s 1,500-meter event, medalist. Germany, at the Preussag Arena. Lobacheva and Ilia Averbukh of finishing the race in 3 minutes and 42.75 Sanders, who was World Boxing Russia took first place at the event while seconds. Germany’s Wolfram Muller (Continued on page 16) 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 No. 10 MoMA symposium and publication on art of Eastern Europe excludes Ukraine

by Ika Koznarska Casanova photo essays and interviews in English European visual culture.” some countries were unintentionally translation. According to the editors, “the criteria omitted (such as the [sic] Ukraine, NEW YORK – The Museum of The result of a three-year collaborative for inclusion were straightforward: we Belarus, Moldova, Albania, East Modern Art in New York has organized a editorial effort in consultation with cura- chose landmark texts that labeled move- symposium titled “East of Art: Germany).” tors, scholars, and artists, the book incor- ments, challenged received ideas, and Transformations in Eastern Europe,” A response from the co-editors was porates materials from the majority of changed the way art was made and not received by the time The Weekly exploring the region’s historical, politi- post-Communist European countries, thought about by influential writers cal, and artistic contexts. went to press. including Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech respected in their communities and The symposium will be held on Presented by the MoMA’s international Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, nationally.” Tuesday, March 11, at the MoMA program and the department of education, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, When the question was raised as to the Gramercy Theater, 127 E. 23rd St. (at the symposium takes place on March 11 Slovakia and Slovenia, as well as Russia. reason for Ukraine’s omission from the Lexington Avenue), at 6:30 p.m. in conjunction with the museum’s recent- Excluded are Ukraine, along with, as list of countries under consideration in ly published “Primary Documents: A noted by a MoMA representative, the publication, given its status as one of *** Symposium admission: $7; MoMA Sourcebook for Eastern and Central Belarus, Moldova, Albania and East the largest post-Communist countries members $5; students with current ID, European Art Since the 1950s.” The work Germany. with an indigenous artistic tradition and serves as an introduction for English- The omission of Ukraine is all the vibrant cultural presence, Joanna $3. Tickets are available at the MoMA speaking readers to the region’s major more glaring and acute given that in the Raczkiewicz, assistant to the director of QNS Lobby Ticketing Desk, 33rd Street artistic and critical movements of the lat- introduction to “Primary Sources” the co- the International Program at MoMA, at Queens Boulevard, and at The MoMA ter half of the 20th century. editors state that the overriding reason noted “The publication was not meant to Design Stores, 44 W. 53rd St. and 81 Moderated by co-editors Laura for publishing these essays and texts was be a comprehensive or encyclopedic Spring St., Manhattan. Any remaining Hoptman and Tomas Pospiszyl, sympo- to provide a much-needed context for the account of the art production of the peri- tickets will be available at the door on sium panelists include Boris Groys, English-speaking readers to comprehend od; rather, it was intended to introduce to the evening of the program. Tickets may Katarzyna Kozyra, Bojana Pejic and and appreciate the art of the period in an English-speaking audience the con- be used as same-value vouchers when Slavoy Zizek – cultural historians and question, which evolved under specific text, and pivotal ideas that shaped art in purchasing the publication at the event. artists whose writings appear in the book. historical and political conditions. To this this region. Because of this, and because For information call (212) 708-9476 or e- With is emphasis on primary source end, the book provides translations of of the circumstances of the collaboration, mail [email protected]. material, the publication brings together “original historical documentation, pri- an array of texts and manifestos by artists mary source materials for serious aca- and critics, as well as poems, lectures, demic research on the subject of Eastern Slava Modern Dance Company debuts at Cleveland Public Theater Lecture series kicks off program by Nadia Tarnawsky Ms. Kapeluck wanted a name for her and Michael Flohr company that reflected her beliefs and to expand Ukrainian studies at Stanford heritage – not just another company STANFORD, Calif. – A series of studies since the 1920s, and has a sig- CLEVELAND – As the lights slowly named after its choreographer and seven distinguished lectures titled nificant commitment to international come up in the intimate hall, the sounds founder. She is proud of her Ukrainian “Ukraine: Emerging Nation” kicks off studies. Prof. Nancy Kollmann of the of cello and voice combine as a trio of heritage, and “slava” is a word that a program-building effort in Ukrainian history department twice served as the dancers enter into the space. A distant embodies her feelings about her culture, Studies at Stanford University this Chair of the Visiting Committee to the village comes to life as the orchestration beliefs and life work. She added that it is spring. Sponsored by the Center for Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute builds. Strong vocals, sung in Ukrainian, also a word that reflects all that she Russian, East European and Eurasian (1998, 2002); Prof. Amir Weiner’s fill the hall as dancer/choreographer desires her ensemble to be. “Slava” is a Studies, the series features political recent book, “Making Sense of War: Natalie M. Kapeluck becomes a bride Ukrainian word that means “glory.” This scientists, historians and public figures The Second World War and the Fate of preparing to leave her family and word serves a dual purpose. It is a testa- speaking on various aspects of the Bolshevik Revolution” is based on friends. The dance motifs represent the ment to Ms. Kapeluck’s ethnic heritage, Ukraine’s current development. the historials archival research in Kyiv, braiding of the girl’s hair, the placing of as well as a reflection of the depths and As part of the series, Prof. Michael Vinnytsia and other Ukrainian collec- the yoke upon the bride and groom, the strength of her Ukrainian Orthodox faith. McFaul (February 10) of Stanford tions; and political science Prof. parting of a young girl and her childhood Ms. Kapeluck strives for her work to be a University is joined by Prof. Olexiy McFaul is engaged in a research proj- friends. She is not a part of them any- means of giving glory to God. This work Haran (February 24) of the University ect on comparative post-Soviet politi- more. will come to fruition in an evening of of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Adrian cal transitions, including Ukraine, These dance images were seen at dance choreographed by Ms. Kapeluck at Karatnycky (June 2) of Freedom funded by the Carnegie Endowment Cleveland Public Theater in December Cleveland Public Theater. House in addressing Ukraine’s domes- for International Peace. 2002, when Ms. Kapeluck and members It is fitting that Cleveland Public tic and international political situa- The goals of the program-building of the newly formed Slava Modern Theater is the venue for this dance con- tion. Prof. Laada Bilaniuk (April 21) effort are to establish endowed teach- Dance Company performed as part of the cert. Cleveland Public Theater, or CPT, of the University of Washington, an ing positions in Ukrainian studies, to Theater’s Vaudeville Night. Upon com- has become a space known for contem- anthropologist, will address the poli- fund fellowships for Ph.D. students in pletion of the piece, the audience cheered porary theater and dance events. It is a tics of language, while historian Dr. disciplines including history, political and applauded enthusiastically for these space that continues to renovate and open Frank Sysyn (March 10) director of science and anthropology, and to performers. This was not the first time new theaters, all the while pushing the the Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian enhance the teaching of Ukrainian that Cleveland audiences had warmly boundaries of theater and dance in Historical Research at the Canadian subjects through visiting professors. received Ms. Kapeluck’s choreography. Cleveland. Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the The teaching of the Ukrainian lan- Ms. Kapeluck served as choreographer The works to be presented originated as University of Alberta sketches the guage is also targeted. and dancer for MN2 Productions’ three separate pieces that were set on background to modern Ukrainian The center director Prof. Kollmann, “Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors,” a dancers with Pittsburgh’s Southwest Ballet nationalism in examining the ideology said, “Students are really interested in dance-theater piece based on the Company. These modern dance works of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Ukraine’s issues such as economic, social and Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky novel of the have been reworked and expanded for the ambassador to Canada Yuri Shcherbak political change in Eastern Europe, same name which premiered at dancers of Slava as a further development (April 7) addresses international and Ukraine offers an excellent focus Cleveland Public Theatre in January of of the choreographer’s vision. “Gracias a issues, and George Chopivsky (May of study. We would like to integrate 2002. Ms. Kapeluck was also instrumen- la Vida,” “Static” and “Miranda” will be 19), CEO of Ukrainian Development further the study of Ukraine into our tal as choreographer and dancer in the performed. MorrisonDance, a Cleveland Corp. and an entrepreneur active in curriculum, so that students interested premiere of “Ancestral Voices,” another based modern dance company, will present Ukraine, will speak on the current in modern cultural trends, modern MN2 Production, which took place at two works in the concert: a work in business climate. international politics and other such INSIDE Gallery in 2000. progress by Sarah Morrison, director of The series inaugurates Stanford’s issues will automatically consider She serves as resident choreographer MorrisonDance, and a work choreo- drive to expand teaching and research Ukraine one of the important players at Pittsburgh’s Southwest Ballet and is in graphed for MorrisonDance by Ms. in Ukrainian studies. The university in this dynamic, expanding part of the her seventh season as a dancer with the Kapeluck. has significant resources already in world.” Mary Miller Dance Company. Ms. Much like the young bride preparing Ukrainian studies. The Hoover For additional information, access Kapeluck has also created choreography for a new life with her husband, Ms. Institution Archive has valuable http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CREES/ for the Kyiv Ukrainian Dance Ensemble Kapeluck has taken the first steps in her archives and is expanding its collec- UkrainianStudies.html, or phone since her appointment as director. With life with this new company. The Slava tion through cooperative agreements CREEES (650) 723-3562. all of this experience behind her, she Modern Dance Company will begin this with archives in Ukraine. Stanford’s *** decided to channel her artistic energies journey with two concerts on Saturday, Green Library has an excellent collec- All lectures will take place at into a company of her own – the Slava March 15, at Cleveland Public Theater’s tion of monographs and current jour- Hartley Conference Center, except for Modern Dance Company. Mainstage Theater at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. nals in Ukrainian history, literature and the April 7 lecture, which will be held CPT is located at 6409 Detroit Ave. in current events. at the SIEPR Conference Room A, Nadia Tarnawsky is a faculty member Cleveland. Tickets are $15 for general The university has been teaching Landau Economics Building (corner of at the Cleveland Institute of Music. admission, $12 for students and seniors undergraduates and training graduate Galves and Serra streets). Lectures Michael Flohr is a freelance director and and may be reserved by calling (216) students in East European and Russian begin at 4:15 p.m. union musician. The couple resides in 749-0060 or by sending an e-mail to Cleveland. [email protected]. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 15

DATELINE NEW YORK: Filmmaking, writing and directing 101 by Helen Smindak

Art exhibits and other events are making film about the Syzokryli Ukrainian their bid for attention, but films and film- Dancers of New York. makers are in the forefront of Ukrainian Ms. Toporowych, 26, who’s been cultural activities in this round-up of arts involved with ballet and Ukrainian folk and entertainment news in the Big City. dance since age 5 (she was a member of Lisa Cholodenko’s latest feature film, Cleveland’s Kashtan dance group), has “Laurel Canyon,” opened in New York and started work on a feature-length documen- Los Angeles this past Friday. Brooklyn- tary that will bring “one of the most beauti- based filmmaker Roxy Toporowych has ful, exciting and spirited dance forms in the begun work on a documentary about folk world” to mainstream audiences in the dancing that focuses on the Syzokryli U.S. and abroad. Film festivals, cinemas Ukrainian Dancers. Hollywood filmmaker and public television broadcasters such as Paul Maslak, whose work was discussed in PBS and BBC will be the screening tar- the January 26 “Dateline,” tells us how he gets. got into filmmaking and offers tips on She is excited about showing the world breaking into the film business. the beauties and variety of regional “Laurel Canyon” Ukrainian dance forms and the emotions registered in folk dances, from the clown- Set against a background of sun- ish “Povzunets” to the celebratory “Hutsul bleached southern California landscape Wedding” and the glorious “Hopak.” From and Brit-pop band music, a rigorously hon- her years with the Kashtan dance ensemble est exploration of relationships between and the past 18 months as a Syzokryli Neal Preston people with wildly divergent world views dancer, Ms. Toporowych is well acquainted Lisa Cholodenko directs Christian Bale and Natascha McElhone in her latest is the focus of Lisa Cholodenko’s second with the exuberance as well as the foot- feature film “Laurel Canyon.” feature film “Laurel Canyon.” work and movements involved in Ms. Cholodenko, a Manhattan-based Ukrainian dancing. extended stops in London and Prague, try.” writer and director whose grandparents Embracing the history of Ukrainian Ms. Toporowych began work in the art With a B.S. in business and public came from Ukraine, says this film is about dance here and abroad, the film will department of NBC’s “Saturday Night administration and a minor in fidelity, all aspects of it – fidelity between include the founding of Syzokryli by Live” show. She also pursued art depart- journalism/English from the University of parents and children, and fidelity between renowned prima ballerina Roma Pryma ment/set decorating work on feature films Maryland, he moved to California to be lovers. She notes that there’s a connection Bohachevsky, Ms. Bohachevsky’s career, such as “Party Monster,” starring near his brother in the San Francisco area between “Laurel Canyon” and her first fea- Syzokryli workshops and dance camps, Macaulay Culkin and Seth Green (to be and began working in the manufacturing ture film, “High Arts,” since both deal with and the participation of Ukrainian dancers released this spring) and worked on post- operations of an aerospace and computer the complications of intimacy. in various professional productions of the production editing at New York Times electronics company. On the side, he wrote The new film, released by Sony Christmas classic “The Nutcracker.” Television on the shows “Code Blue” and a theoretical book on martial arts, “Strategy Classics, stars the eye-catchingly attractive Ukrainian dance classes in public schools “Trauma: Life in the ER.” in Unarmed Combat,” analyzing the effec- actress Frances McDormand as Jane, a vet- will also be covered. She’s now writing her second screen- tiveness of different fighting styles relative eran record producer with a carefree Almost 24 hours of footage has been play (set in 1950s Cleveland), and contin- to physical stature, and freelanced maga- lifestyle who’s trying to come up with a hit shot at rehearsals and performances since ues to do freelance work on feature films zine articles. single for a British band whose lead singer, September, and more work will be done while working on the Syzokryli documen- The book led to an offer to edit Inside Ian (Alessandro Nivola), is her much this spring and summer at the Ukrainian tary. Kung-Fu magazine on an after-hours basis, younger lover. Festival in the East Village and at various The film business allowing Mr. Maslak to take a day job at Her serious, conservative son, Sam dance camps and workshops. Interviews Disney in San Francisco as a project plan- (Christian Bale), and his equally conserva- and shadowing of individual dancers will “Dateline” introduced filmmaker Paul ner on EPCOT and Tokyo Disneyland. tive fiancee, Alex (Kate Beckinsdale), both be scheduled. Maslak in the January 26 issue of The During this period he met and interviewed recent graduates of Harvard’s medical Ms. Toporowych has turned to two Weekly but failed to provide his Ukrainian many of Hong Kong’s New Wave film- school, are thwarted in their plans to live in friends for assistance in her yearlong proj- background (as noted in a recent e-mail makers, including Jackie Chan, as well as Jane’s soon-to-be vacant home when Jane ect – Michael McDonough does shooting from a reader) or his film training. Reason: American filmmakers like film star Chuck decides to continue her work with the band if the necessary equipment is provided for the information, through no fault of Mr. Norris, director Hal Needham and screen- in her home recording studio. Alex begins him, and Eric Gold is planning to put Maslak, arrived too late to be included in writers Joe Hyams and the late Sterling to feel seduced by Jane and Ian, while Sam together a five-minute teaser to screen to the story. Silliphant. becomes vulnerable to the attractions of potential funders. To make up, this “Dateline” is offering He also set up a system of ratings for fellow medical resident Sara (Natascha She estimates that the documentary will information about Mr. Maslak’s Ukrainian martial arts competition, which brought McElhone). cost about $8,000, covering everything ancestry and his early career, and for good him a job as martial arts casting director The film takes its name from its from DV tapes to rental of additional measure, is presenting his views on how to when the Hong Kong producer who made California setting, Laurel Canyon, a hippie equipment and post-production editing, break into the film business. He says there Mr. Chan’s first film decided to produce in area between Hollywood and the San and says she is looking for financial assis- are roughly three ways. the United States. Mr. Maslak helped cast Fernando Valley that Ms. Cholodenko tance. “Maybe someone works at Apple One (usually the best way) is through Jean-Claude Van Damme’s first theatrical describes as “attractive to people who are computers and can get me a discount on the front doors of a major studio, talent film “No Retreat No Surrender.” less conventional or are interested in being equipment; perhaps I’ll throw a fund-rais- agency or entertainment law firm, by get- With that experience, he began to work identified with a culture that is less conven- ing party with Soomska vodka supplying ting hired as a youth into some entry-level as a freelance story analyst, principally for tional. It held an endless curiosity for me the drinks,” she muses. Neither she nor her administrative or clerical job, then working HBO/Tri-Star Pictures. He started taking when I was a kid.” friends are receiving any payment for their your way up through the ranks. film school courses and screenwriting sem- Ms. Cholodenko is familiar with work. Another way: have a relative or mentor inars, and audited acting classes. Using a California; she was raised in Los Angeles Ms. Toporowych has just opened a non- in the business who uses his/her influence few industry contacts, he began to find and worked as an assistant editor on studio profit status account at the Selfreliance to open a door for you (usually the easiest positions for friends from the martial arts features before moving to New York in Federal Credit Union of New York so that way). Witness all the offspring of entertain- world, a project that evolved into a man- 1992. She made short films, including anyone interested in helping to fund this ment families who became filmmakers – agement business. “Dinner Party,” which won the UK’s ambitious undertaking can lend a hand. Sigourney Weaver, Rob Reiner, Mr. Maslak joined forces with an estab- Channel 4 TX prize, while working for an Checks should be made payable to Jane/Peter/Brigitte Fonda, Ron Howard, lished partner, Neva Friedenn. As man- MFA in screenwriting and directing at Ukrainian Chorus Dumka Inc. (“Syzo Sean/Michael/Chris Penn, Charlie Sheen, agers, they developed screenplay projects Columbia University. Documentary” may be included in the Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Hudson. for clients to help them get more work: “High Art,” screened at the 1998 memo section) and mailed to Roxy A third way is to break in through any they sold the story idea, a star or two and Director’s Fortnight at Cannes, won sever- Toporowych, 73 N. Eighth (No. 5), and every unorthodox manner you can possibly the script at one fell swoop. Ultra- al awards that year, including The Jury Brooklyn, NY 11211. All donations are find, such as a fad cycle of specialty films busy film executives were more likely to Prize at Deauville, France, and the Waldo tax-deductible; a receipt with the tax- that let in people from new fields. buy a story idea or a script when most of Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance. The deductible ID number will be mailed to all Examples of this method include dance what they needed came in a package, sav- film received several Independent Feature donors. movies, which gave entry to Fred Astaire ing them time and work. Project (IFP) nominations, and its star, Ally The Ohio native, who became involved and Gene Kelly; musicals, to Shirley Jones His martial arts clients, who often had Sheedy, won the IFP Best Actress award in making short films and videos during and Julie Andrews; comedies, to first trouble with inexperienced independent and other honors. her high school years, came to New York vaudevillians like W.C. Fields and stand- directors who were unable to shoot a prop- Ms. Cholodenko has directed episodes to study and graduated from New York ups like Jim Carrey. Muscle-man movies er fight scene, asked him to show the direc- of NBC’s “Homicide,” HBO’s “Six Feet University’s Tisch School of the Arts in served Sly Stallone and Arnold tors a sensible approach. Using the knowl- Under” and ABC’s “Push, Nevada.” 1998 with a B.F.A. in film and television. Schwarzenegger, while martial arts movies A documentrary on dance edge he had picked up from director Yuen Her student films were shown at independ- paved the way for Bruce Lee, Steven Kwai on “No Retreat No Surrender” and ent festivals, including Johns Hopkins Seagal and Paul Maslak. from interviews with other Hong Kong Independent film writer/director Roxy University Fest and the Athens Mr. Maslak says he did not start out to filmmakers, Mr. Maslak began teaching the Toporowych, who hails from Parma, Ohio, International Festival. be a filmmaker. “I drifted into an opportu- directors about montage theory, camera and now makes her home in New York Following several months of travel nity by dumb luck (perhaps that’s provi- City, has started work on a documentary across Europe and Eastern Europe, with dence) and only then decided to give it a (Continued on page 19) 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 No. 10

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DVOU organization completes first humanitarian project in Donetsk PHILADELPHIA – The Disabled and tract signing between Dobrota and the Vulnerable Orphans of Ukraine (DVOU) orphanage, ensuring the accuracy of the has completed its first humanitarian proj- amount of purchased goods and its distri- ect to support severely mentally disabled bution. Mr. Higgins also assisted with orphans in Torez, in the Donetsk region supplies packaging at the warehouse in SOYUZIVKA of Ukraine. DVOU was able to execute Donetsk, where the materials were organ- its first task to help Torez’s orphanage ized and stored just before delivery. SUMMER CAMP SCHEDULES through a partnership with the Ukrainian Dobrota is a charity organization in charity organization Dobrota in the Donetsk whose mission is to combat Donetsk city. The DVOU-Dobrota rela- Tabir Ptashat, Session #1- June 22- 29, 2003 poverty through charitable social partner- tionship was formed to assist the Donetsk ships in the Donetsk community as a region’s orphanages for special-needs means for solving the most urgent social Tabir Ptashat, Session #2- June 29- July 6, 2003 children through humanitarian aid, med- Rooms still available in Uzhorod and Odessa problems in the area. The foundation ical relief and children’s rights advocacy. financially supports and aids local educa- Dobrota effectively assisted in project Tennis Camp- June 21- July 3, 2003 tional, health care and social protection management, which included orphanage institutions, in addition to public organi- Children's Camp- July 6-July 19, 2003 assessment, cost accounting, plus moni- zations for the sick, disabled, families toring and control of the distribution of with many children, needy families and Chemney Camp, Session #1- July 13-18, 2003 goods. DVOU contributed $837 to the individuals. Torez orphanage, and more than $300 For more information on Dobrota and its Chemney Camp, Session #2- July 20-25, 2003 was donated by Dobrota for a total of activities, visit the website at www.dobrota. over $1,100. Various items purchased donetsk.ua and click on Donetsk city chari- Sports Camp- July 20-27, 2003 with DVOU funds included food, medi- table fund “Kindness” for the English ver- Dates still tentative- may become a 2 week program cines, clothing (diapers and hats) and sion. miscellaneous items such as towels, DVOU, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organi- Scuba Diver Course- August 3-8, 2003 lamps, switches, basins and plug sockets. zation located in Philadelphia, aims to Monetary contributions were used to identify and resolve critical issues and Dance Camp- August 10-23, 2003 locally purchase needed supplies for the emerging areas of need in the lives of Torez orphans, instead of buying and special-needs orphans suffering from Labor Day Week- August 25- September 1, 2003 shipping items from the United States. HIV/AIDS, cerebral palsy, Down Rooms still available in Uzhorod and Odessa “In addition to supporting the special- Syndrome, tuberculosis and other dis- needs orphans in Ukraine with donations, eases. Services offered include humani- To Reserve Call: (845) 626-5641, ext 141 we feel that purchasing goods near the tarian aid, health care, advocacy, educa- orphanage assists in stimulating the local tion and training. 216 Foordmore Road • P. O. Box 529 • Kerhonkson, NY 12446 economy,” explain Lillian Horodysky, DVOU may be found online at (845) 626-5641• Fax (845) 626-4638 DVOU’s executive director. www.dvou.org. For more information, Email- [email protected] • Website- www.Soyuzivka.com Greg Higgins of Newtown, Conn., an please write to: DVOU, 1245 Rhawn St., American Peace Corps volunteer work- ing at Dobrota, was present at the con- (Continued on page 25) No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 19

Grammy producers selected the women Dateline... of AntiGravity for the Madison Square (Continued from page 15) Garden show after seeing their stunning speed and angles, best lenses and specialty poses in an eight-page photo editorial in the camera moves. February issue of Shape Magazine. Ms. This activity was noticed by famed Petruk, who was pictured at the Grammy “King of the B’s” director Roger Corman Awards in last week’s People magazine, (the “entry” door to the film industry for tells me she and the other girls spent a full more than 60 Academy Award winners), day with photographer Richard Corman who invited Mr. Maslak to work with him shooting the Shape Magazine spread. as an associate producer and direct fight • Gogol Bordello, the Gypsy punk band sequences. Other independent producers led by the gruff and extravagantly mus- followed suit and Mr. Maslak eventually tached Ukrainian singer, Eugene Hutz, per- directed entire films. But the story’s not formed its songs at Northsix in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg section on February 28 and over yet. 29. Roaming the New York night club Deciding that his temperament was bet- scene, the band translates Eastern European ter suited to producing, Mr. Maslak and his cabaret and works up to a frenetic oom-pah partner released their management clients that’s the makings of a rowdy party, says and formed a production company in 1994 Jon Pareles in The New York Times. to produce the HBO World Premiere • Mariana Sadovska, well known to Movie “Red Sun Rising.” They have been New York’s Ukrainian audiences as a col- producing films together ever since then. lector and singer of varied and evocative Mr. Maslak’s conclusion: “I found that Ukrainian folk songs, was in New York my background in manufacturing produc- last month. In mid-February she and Israeli tion control provided a more practical singer Victoria Hanna joined forces with understanding of how to run a film produc- Fringe Theater director Ruth Kanner to tion than did a film-school only back- create a new work-in-process titled ground for other producers.” “Callings” at the Jewish Community Oh, yes, his Ukrainian background. He Center in Manhattan. Ms. Sadovska is the son of the late Samuel Maslak, a appeared with musicians Anthony first-generation Ukrainian American and Coleman and Doug Wieselman at the Club onetime senior manager at the U.S. Census Europa in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint section Bureau in Suitland, Md. His mother, Mary on February 28, reprising ancient music L. 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family showering money on Al Qaeda and the average citizen can imagine what lets, we will be heard. So here is what I Give peace... operatives living in the United States. a new future can bring. They cannot wait will do and I urge you to commit to simi- (Continued from page 7) They cannot imagine mosques that for U.S. liberation, for the end of lar actions. They argued against the embargo. Now preach peace and love rather than jihad European colonialism and Saddam’s dic- I will tell my friends, my family and they argue for more inspections – busi- and hatred. They cannot imagine the tatorship. my children that the hands of the French, A century ago Europe was on the path the Germans and the Russians are stained ness as usual. world, speaking with one voice, telling to the slaughter of World War I. Later, with the blood of mankind and will soon They fear U.S. success. They fear risk- Saddam to disarm, to get out of Iraq. Europe tried to give peace a chance and be stained with the blood of our soldiers. The French, Germans and Russians ing a shift to freedom and progress for they got Hitler. They backed their old I will not purchase their products. I claim there is no smoking gun, no crater the peoples of Iraq and possibly the allies and got Milosevich and Srebrenica. will not visit their countries. I will not entire Middle East. They cannot seem to in New York City that can be tied directly If it were not for the United States there buy a Volkswagen, BMW, or Mercedes. I imagine a Middle East without Yasir to Saddam, and that no force of arms can is a good chance they would all speak am sure most of us will never buy a Arafat, without Hezbollah, without sui- be justified. However, in Iraq, the stock Russian. By giving Saddam a way out, Renault and certainly not a Lada. I will cide bombers, without the Saudi royal market is up, land prices are climbing do we really give peace a chance, or do not take that ski trip to Chamonix. The we sentence future generations to the Paris museums have no signs in English task of dealing with terrorist regimes, and are not worth the effort. I will urge dictators and nuclear catastrophe? our friends not to return to Martinique. The threat of a U.S.-led war has By paying attention to what we buy pushed Saddam to make gestures of we can all help our own local economy, Always with personal care.. compliance. The lack of credible com- ourselves and the future of our children. mitment by our “friends” has given him Look at the label. Buy a few less items, hope that gestures alone are sufficient. but spend a little more when it says Ukrainian-Speaking The French, Germans and Russians are “Made in America.” Invest the rest. U.S. Dentist in Westchester County. hoping to further extend a deadline that companies will then be able to afford passed over a decade ago. By denying more research and development. Your kid the world the united voice needed to may one day have a job with them. Dr. Ruslan Korobeinik, D.D.S. convince Saddam to disarm, they are I will ask my congressman why drugs forcing the U.S. toward war. Our sol- discovered and manufactured in this • State of the art facility. diers stand prepared to make the ultimate country should cost less outside of it? $29 • All dental specialists on site. sacrifice, while the French, Germans and Should it not be the other way around? Russians continue to pursue their own German and French consumers should 9 • Payment plans available narrow self-interests. pay a premium for these drugs, not get a • Examination • Open evenings & Saturdays When Libya ordered the destruction discount. Their health care systems are • X-rays of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, built on the backs of our innovation and • Cleaning Scotland, the French denied U.S. planes investment. • Examination 1 Byram Brook Place overflight rights from bases in the United I wish the world was a different place • Consultation Armonk, NY 10504 Kingdom. Libya was also a good cus- and that our soldiers did not have to (reg. $345) tomer of France. The French have repeat- fight. But, if they fight, I want them to (914) 765-0093 edly made it clear who their friends are. win 100-0. Those Iraqis who surrender 24 Hr. Emergency # (646) 489-8111 Their actions make peace less likely; should have an opportunity to rebuild an they put our soldiers lives at risk. ancient and once-great nation. To those Visit us on the web. Our soldiers deserve our support. It is who believe in Saddam, I wish a speedy time we each took personal action, made meeting with Allah. www.guerrinodentistry.com some small sacrifice. If in the end we When this is over we should never for- speak with 280 million voices and wal- get who our real friends were. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 21

USCAK officers gather Second “Ladies’ Night Out” benefits Plast camp to plan general meeting by Dr. Orest Popovych NEWARK, N.J. – Executive officers of the Ukrainian Sports Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada (USCAK) met at the home of the Chornomorska Sitch sports club here on February 13 to plan USCAK’s next general meeting. Myron Stebelsky, president of USCAK, reported receiving 18 replies to his ques- tionnaire about the planning of USCAK’s general meeting, which had been sent to all Ukrainian sports and youth organizations in North America. Replies came from nine organizations and nine individual activists. The clubs that responded were: Chernyk, Detroit; Chornomorska Sitch, Newark; Lviv, Cleveland; Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization; Poltava, Rochester, N.Y.; SUM-Krylati, Yonkers, N.Y.; Tryzub, Philadelphia; Ukraina, Montreal; Ukrainian Sports Club, New York. In accordance with the preferences expressed by the majority of the respon- A view of participants of the second “Ladies’ Night Out” held at the Ramada Hotel in East Hanover, N.J. dents, it was decided to hold the general meeting of USCAK on Saturday, May 24 by Sonia Slobodian Bokalo Organization’s Vovcha Tropa camp. ensuring that everyone present was com- (during the Memorial Day Weekend), The evening began with a cocktail hour fortable and nothing impeded the enjoyment EAST HANOVER, N.J. – For the sec- beginning at noon at the Ramada Hotel at during which the ladies had an opportuni- of the event. Even after the conclusion of ond time, an informal fund-raising event 130 Route 10 West, East Hanover, NJ ty to renew old friendships and establish dinner, no one was in a rush to leave and 07936. Detailed information will be mailed now known as “Ladies Night Out” was held here at the Ramada Hotel. On January 17, new ones. Good humor was abundant as many attendees continued their conversa- to all declared participants. Following the evidenced by the mirthful sounds emanat- tions long into the evening. afternoon meeting, the program envisions a 75 women of all age groups coming from across the tri-state area filled a comfortable ing from the group. As dinner was served It appears that Ladies Night Out is banquet in the evening, with a keynote the conversations continued, interrupted becoming a regular event, with proceeds address and entertainment. Irenaeus Isajiw, room at what is affectionately called “The only by a few words from the organizers going to well-deserving causes. As they a vice-president of USCAK, is in charge of Hromada Inn.” The goal of the evening was the evening program. to socialize, network, catch up with old of the evening and a 50-50 raffle, which were leaving, many women expressed their In preparation for the elections, a nomi- friends and generally enjoy oneself in an was won by Ksenia Salewycz and gener- anticipation of the next “night out” and said nating committee was formed, chaired by atmosphere of congeniality and cama- ously donated to Vovcha Tropa. they looked forward to receiving the e-mail Omelan Twardowsky, president of Sitch. raderie. A by-product of this event was The Ramada Hotel’s General manager, message that would inform them of the next The proposed committee members are $1,800 raised for Plast Ukrainian Scouting Orest Fedash, paid attention to every detail, date and beneficiary of the evening. Yaroslav Kozak (Tryzub), Dr. Volodymyr Hnatiuk (Chernyk), Mark Howansky (SUM-Krylati) and Roman Kucil (USC Rochester). THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION In addition, officers heard reports on the ANNOUNCES THE 2003 ANNUAL DISTRICT MEETINGS sports federation’s latest activities. For the third time, USCAK has sponsored an inter- DISTRICT ADDRESS DATE TIME DISTRICT COMMITTEE national chess tournament in Lviv dedicat- ed to the memory of Stepan Popel. CENTRAL NEW JERSEY St. Michael Church 3/15/03 1:00 PM Michael Zacharko The bilingual book “USCAK and Sports 1700 Brooks Blvd. Ivan Kushnir in Ukraine,” published in 2002, is being Manville, NJ Stefan Zacharko distributed free of charge to major libraries and sports organizations in Ukraine. In the CONNECTICUT St. Michael UCC Hall 3/15/03 1:30 PM Ihor E. Hayda 569 George St Myron Kuzio U.S. it may can be ordered for $30 (ship- New Haven, CT Stephan Tarasiuk ping included) from USCAK, 680 Sanford Taras Slevinsky Ave., Newark, NJ 07106. MONTREAL Ukrainian Canadian Congress 3/15/03 2:00 PM Tekla Moroz 3244 Beaubien E. Rsmt. Alexandra Dolnycky Position at Montreal, Quebec Serguei Djoula The Ukrainian Museum NEW YORK "Selfreliance" Association 3/21/03 6:00 PM Barbara Bachynsky 98 Second Ave. Nadia Sawczuk Curatorial assistant/educator New York, NY Jurij Kostiw Motria Milanych The Ukrainian Museum is seeking a John Choma public spirited, highly motivated and Joseph Lesawyer energetic individual for a full-time Dr.Vasyl Luchkiv curatorial assistant/educator. PITTSBURGH Ukrainian Club 3/22/03 noon Nick Diakiwsky The candidate will be responsible 2152 Sheffield Rd. Osyp Polatajko for working with the Director and Aliquippa, PA Slava Komichak Curators, assisting in the development Eli Matiash of exhibitions, publications and related ALBANY Ukrainian American Citizen's Club 3/29/03 2:00 PM Nicholas Fil materials. In the position of educator 402 25th St. Walter Litynsky the responsibilities will entail organiz- Watervliet, NY Walter Krywulych Paul Shewchuk ing educational and public programs for Stephanie Hawryluk adults, children, families and schools, including lectures and guided tours. ROCHESTER St. Josaphat School 3/29/03 1:30 PM Christine Dziuba Candidate must have at minimum a BA 940 E. Ridge Rd George Malachowsky degree in a related field, computer skills, Rochester, NY Mary Sweryda be fluent in English and Ukrainian, Peter Dziuba strong writing, organizational, commu- BALTIMORE Holy Trinity Church 3/30/03 2:00 PM Martha Lysko, First Vice-President nication and people skills. 16631 New Hampshire Ave Eugene Iwanciw, Second Vice-President Please send cover letter, resumé and Silver Spring, MD Paul Fenchak three professional references to: Paul G.Fenchak Maria Shust, Director, The Ukrainian SYRACUSE St. John Church 3/30/03 2:30 PM Dr. Ivan Hvozda Museum, 203 Second Avenue, New York, 207 Tompkins St Mykola Welych NY 10003 • 212 228-0110 Syracuse, NY Mykola Krzywyj E-mail: [email protected] 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 No. 10

class and all of Ukraine’s poets, artists Ukraine, Europe... and songwriters have not been able to (Continued from page 6) create is a Ukrainian nation. that considers itself to be “local” rather Europe has responded accordingly. The than citizens of Ukraine (or the USSR for EU, in its recently published “General that matter). Report on the Activities of the European The leadership of Ukraine is very good Union,” states that in pursuit of some- at, among other things, creating perfectly thing called the “New Neighbors useless bureaucratic structures. Last Initiative” – the meaning of which no one August, President Kuchma created a State can fully explain – it will take an “inte- Council on Questions of European and grated and differentiated approach” to Euro-Atlantic Integration, which began new neighbors like Ukraine, Belarus, and “functioning” this January. Also in Moldova. January, he created a National Center on “Integrated and differentiated.” I must Questions of the Euro-Atlantic admit that I am clueless as to what that Integration of Ukraine, which is headed might mean. by former national security adviser At this rate, it looks like, with a bit of Volodymyr Horbulin, who does not have help from France and Germany, Iraq much else to do these days. could become a member of the EU before What Mr. Kuchma, the entire political Ukraine.

against humanity. In this, they hold similar Ukraine begins... views as the national democrats that the (Continued from page 2) famine was a “genocide” on par with the President Leonid Kravchuk was in charge Nazi Holocaust. During the Verkhovna of Communist ideology and propaganda. Rada hearings, centrist and former Rada Many of today’s “political scientists,” such Chairman Ivan Pliusch blamed the “cruel as Vice Prime Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk, and godless Bolshevik regime” for the lectured on Marxism-Leninism in the famine. Soviet era and wrote articles condemning At the same time, the center disagrees the diaspora for raising events such as the with the national democrats over whom to 1932-1933 famine. blame for Soviet crimes. Centrists blame The CPU was banned in August 1991 Marxist-Leninist ideology and Stalinism – and then a new CPU was allowed to reg- not Russians – for crimes, including the ister in October 1993. During the Famine. Both centrists and national Verkhovna Rada hearings on the famine, democrats see the Famine as directed CPU leader Petro Symonenko denied that against Ukrainians. the famine was artificial and blamed it on The timing of the Verkhovna Rada hear- disastrous weather conditions, low har- ings remains suspicious. On the one hand, vests in 1931-1932, the pre-Soviet agri- President Kuchma undoubtedly wanted to cultural heritage and local mismanage- deal with the issue early in the year, as it ment. may cause difficulties with the Year of Socialist Party Chairman Moroz argued Russia in Ukraine. National democrats that Soviet Ukraine reunited Ukrainian ter- have already complained that the Year of ritories and, in contrast to the tsarist regime, Russia in Ukraine should not be held in the it at least recognized Ukrainians as a sepa- same year as the 70th anniversary of the rate ethnic group. The Socialists blame Great Famine. Stalinism for crimes committed in Ukraine, The hearings also took place a month not Soviet rule as such. This view is similar before planned opposition protests. In his to that espoused by former Soviet leader November 2002 decree, President Kuchma Mikhail Gorbachev. sought to inflame the already difficult rela- What has most held up Ukraine’s inves- tions between Our Ukraine and the tigation of Soviet crimes against humanity Communist Party by putting them to yet has been the centrist camp, which hails another test. Our Ukraine has refused to from the top levels of the pre-1991 CPU. join any joint opposition platform with the In 1990-1991 the Communist Party began CPU and has only agreed to cooperate to split into “sovereign-national commu- with the Socialists and the Yulia nists” and “imperial communists.” In the Tymoshenko Bloc. 1990s sovereign-national communists A final factor is next year’s presiden- evolved into centrist oligarchs who first tial elections. With stable popularity rat- appeared as political parties in the 1998 ings over the last three years of 25 to 30 elections. percent, Mr. Yushchenko will inevitably The attitude of centrists is the most con- advance to a second round. If he faces fusing, as they, unlike national democrats, Mr. Symonenko, Ukraine would have a refuse to condemn the Soviet regime as a rerun of the 1999 elections, but this time whole, perhaps understandably, as they are pro-Kuchma centrists would be forced to themselves a product of that regime. Since rally behind a national democrat like Mr. Mr. Kuchma faced Mr. Symonenko in the Yushchenko. If Mr. Yushchenko faces a 1999 presidential elections and used the pro-Kuchma centrist, the CPU will back “Red Scare” to encourage Ukrainians to the centrist oligarch and thereby repeat vote for him in order to thwart a its tactics of April 2001 when its mem- Communist comeback, centrists have been bers voted with the centrists to remove comfortable attacking Soviet crimes the Yushchenko government. 30% ÁÌËÊÍË Ì‡ ˆÂðÍ‚Ë fied people placed in a number of public Yushchenko slams... places in Lviv posters depicting President Ú‡ (Continued from page 2) Kuchma and Mr. Yushchenko in a scene in reference to Ms. Tymoshenko. known from Rembrandt’s famous paint- Óð„‡Ì¥Á‡ˆ¥ª Reportedly, 2 million copies of the letter ing “The Return of the Prodigal Son.” were disseminated primarily by the state The inscription under the scene reads: postal service, Ukrposhta, following an “Bless me, father! Yushchenko asks Mr. order from the Ukrainian Television Kuchma for permission to launch an anti- At Makar’s we carry a wide selection of Ukrainian emblems, as well as religious medals. Agency, a bogus body apparently devised presidential revolution.” You will also find a variety of fine jewelry, including domestic 14kt gold items and 18 kt gold for this action. “The distribution of the posters is a imported from Europe. If you’re looking for something special, we have unique engagement On February 20 the Verkhovna Rada subsequent attempt at discrediting Viktor rings and custom-made wedding bands. 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She entered the Basilian Order in January 1953 and professed her vows in August 1958. She received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from Villanova University and taught in Hamtramck, Mich., Auburn, N.Y., Philadelphia, and Parma, Ohio. Since 1985 she has served as the dean of students at Manor College. She also serves as a member of the Provincial Council of the Sisters of St. Basil. As dean of students, Sister Francis supervises all aspects of student life at the college, specifically as the director of Campus Ministry, Health Services, the resi- dence hall, security and Manor’s on-cam- pus Ukrainian Heritage Studies Center. She also oversees the director of counseling, the The choir of St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Yonkers, N.Y. director of athletics, the coordinator of stu- dent life and the residence life coordinator. YONKERS, N.Y. – On Sunday, Maria Kiciuk recited a traditional holiday Balaban sang an expressive and powerful “My whole life is dedicated to service to January 26, St. Michael’s Ukrainian greeting to the audience at the start. The 14 solo in the traditional “Ne Plach, Rachyle” God and being a Sister of St. Basil the Catholic Church Choir presented a con- selections heard in church that afternoon (Don’t Cry, Rachel). Conductor Bryttan Great,” said Sister Francis. “I truly enjoy cert of Christmas carols and religious included compositions by Stetsenko, took up the violin to play his arrangement being the dean of students at Manor music here in its hometown. It has been Liudkevych and Barvinsky, along with the of “O Holy Night.” College and the sharing and the fellowship quite a few years since the choir has beloved carols “Silent Night” and “Away Every choir member worked hard and associated with this position. The duties are appeared in concert and a large part of the in a Manger” sung in Ukrainian transla- devoted many rehearsal hours towards this sometimes endless, but also challenging, success is due to the enthusiastic support tions. concert. They were warmly applauded by enlightening and invigorating.” of the Rev. Philip Weiner, pastor at St. Soprano Maria Oliarchyk sang the solo the audience, which included Prof. Victor The Sisters of St. Basil the Great are Michael’s. in the charming Lemko carol “Oy Zashly, DeLisa, director of the Lakeland located throughout the world. They came to Conductor Adrian Bryttan prepared a Zashly” (Angels Came Down from Conservatory. The Rev. Wolodymyr Kucaj, Fox Chase, Pa., in 1911 and for over 85 varied program that spotlighted several Heaven) and also performed “Shcho to za the new assistant pastor at St. Michael’s, years have been doing missionary work and soloists. The appreciative public was treat- Predyvo” (What a Miracle). A heartfelt solo greeted the choir members at the conclu- providing educational facilities for the ed to many of the traditional melodies, as of Schubert’s “Ave Maria” was contributed sion of the concert and encouraged more neighboring communities. well as some more rarely heard carols. Dr. by alto Halyna Tytla. Bass baritone Bohdan parishioners to join this ensemble. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 No. 10 No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 25

periods of time, causing myriad physical, DVOU organization... intellectual and emotional disturbances. (Continued from page 18) “Ultimately, they develop a combina- Philadelphia, PA 19111, or call (215) tion of dysfunctions such as aggressive 725-1003. U.S. contributions are tax- or passive behaviors, sensory disorders, deductible. attachment problems, learning disabili- *** ties or consequential invalidity, on top of In related news, DVOU and the their own special disability,” commented Toronto-based Ukrainian Cradle Ms. Horodysky. “This is why we need to Adoption Agency (UCAA) announced join forces and form one voice to build their partnership to build awareness of awareness of the plight of Ukrainian dis- poor conditions faced by institutionalized abled and vulnerable orphans.” special-needs orphans in Ukraine. Ukrainian Cradle Adoption Agency, a With the lack of government funding, licensed international adoption agency, is orphanage administrators and medical a non-profit corporation that assists personnel find it increasingly difficult to Canadian parents in all aspects of their support disabled and vulnerable orphans. adoption process in Ukraine. Information Through understaffing, ignorance or dis- about UCAA may be obtained online at interest, these children have very little http://www3.sympatico.ca/soniak/ucaa.ht contact with adults who can provide the m.or via telephone at (416) 622-7677. stimulation they need for healthy devel- The UCAA’s director is Sonia Kondrat. opment. Special-needs orphans are often The DVOU-UCAA partnership went left lying in their beds alone for long into effect in December 2002.

Soviet-occupied Galicia. Oleh Nyzhankivsky... Oleh Nyzhankivsky’s mother, Melania (Continued from page 4) Semaka, was a writer and journalist. he was summarily shot by the Polish The oldest known forebear of the authorities. Nyzhankivskys was Andreas Nizankovius AÖROSVIT CARGO who was born in 1592 in Galicia. A UKRAINIANAIRLINE Oleh Nyzhankivsky’s father, Nestor ÉÂÌÂð‡Î¸ÌËÈ ‡£ÂÌÚ ÔÓ ‚¥‰Ôð‡‚ˆ¥ ‚‡Ìڇʥ‚ ‚ ìÍð‡ªÌÛ (1893-1940), was an avant-garde compos- Dominican, he was a student of the Italian er who received his doctoral degree in his- organist Girolamo Frescobaldi, the most ÇßÑèêÄÇäÄ ÇÄçíÄÜßÇ Ì‡ Åéßç¢Äï-767 åË ‰ÓðÛ˜ËÏÓ ‚‡Ìڇʥ tory from Vienna University and graduat- important keyboard composer of the peri- – ‚¥‚Ú¥ðÍË, ˜ÂÚ‚Âð„Ë, Ô’flÚÌˈ¥ ¥ ̉¥Î¥ ÔÓ Ï‡ð¯ðÛÚÛ ‚ ìÍð‡ªÌÛ Á‡ 9 „Ó‰ËÌ Û ä˪‚ Ú‡ ‰‡Î¥ ‰Ó ÑÌ¥ÔðÓÔÂÚðӂҸ͇, ed from the Prague State Conservatory. od. An established organist in Rome and a çúû-âéêä – äà∫Ç – çúû-âéêä é‰ÂÒË, 㸂ӂ‡, ï‡ðÍÓ‚‡, virtuoso in his own right, he emerged as He was a professor of music at the èêüåß êÖâëà ‚ ìäêÄ∫çì ÑÓ̈¸Í‡ Lysenko Music Institute and active organ- an alleged rival of Dietrich Buxtehude (c. izer of musical cultural life in Lviv. He 1637-1707), the greatest organ composer AeroSvit CargÓ AeroSvit died after falling ill during his flight from of the period preceding Bach. Ç¥‰Ôð‡‚‡ ‚‡Ìڇʥ‚ èðÓ‰‡Ê Í‚ËÚÍ¥‚

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UKELODEON exclusive: Petro Pytaye interviews young fan UKELODEON reporter Petro her a few times because I was in Pytaye recently caught up with con- the middle of the stage right next to cert-goer Petrus Chudolij, 8, and her. We all had a good time up conducted the following interview to there. I even started to clap and get his observations about a concert dance a little on stage. by pop singer Oksana Bilozir of Another very important man Ukraine. came up on stage and made Where was the concert held? speeches, too. His name was Viktor Yushchenko. He is a very important The concert was in Brooklyn, person for Ukraine right now N.Y., at the Millennium Theater. because he wants Ukraine to be My parents and I went by bus with free from all bad things. He seemed other Ukrainians who were going to to be a good man. Oksana Bilozir see her, too. What was the theater like? told us that he is a Kozak – just like me – so he must be good. He It was big, nice, fit a lot of peo- hugged me on his way back to his ple, had comfortable seats and was seat. a good place to perform. How did all of this make you Why was it so special for you Petrus Chudolij (second from right) and other children on stage with pop feel? to see Oksana Bilozir? singer Oksana Bilozir during her concert in Brooklyn. Very special and lucky. It was so special to me because What was the best part of I’ve known her songs since I was “Prolitaly Leleky,” “Rospitayu few songs. One song I really liked the concert? young. This was very exciting to me. Pro Libov,” “Oy Zelene Zhyto, was “Adrianna.” We have his CD The best part was when Oksana How did you get to know her Zelene” (both versions) now and we play it all the time. His Bilozir came down from the stage songs? “Ukrainochka” and “Pshenychne” name is Vitaly Sachok. He signed and into the audience and stood My parents, mostly my Mama, “Pereveslo” are my favorites. my CD just for me. That was cool! next to me for a long time. She said would go to stores like Dnipro and Was it just Oksana Bilozir on Did anything special happen hello to me, “Dobryi Vechir,” and I buy Oksana Bilozir music. My par- stage all the time? at the concert? just waved to her and smiled and ents play only Ukrainian music in No. She had a live band, stage Yes. At the end of the concert, thought to myself “Oh my God! the car and at home all the time. dancers, lights and even a fog Oksana Bilozir asked all of the This is the real Pani Oksana That’s how I learned Oksana machine. It was awesome! children up onto the stage with her Bilozir! Not some picture. Not some Bilozir songs by heart. Was Oksana Bilozir the only to sing and be with her. Then she tape or CD, but the real thing!” She Do you have any favorite person singing all evening? gave out a little fuzzy gift to each of is so beautiful and so talented, and songs? No. Another singer, a man, sang a us. I even got to hold hands with so Ukrainian.

Report from the scene: Valentine’s Dance was excellent! by Danylo Szpyhulsky played by throwing heart-shaped rings onto an called “The Valentine’s Blues” as it plays on the octopus’ tentacles. guitar. In order to win I had to guess how many NEWARK, N.J. – St. John’s Ukrainian The DJs played all kinds of music, even the candy hearts were inside a glass tube. Thanks to Catholic School hosted a Valentine’s Dance on February 22. Many children from the host “Kolomyika.” The food was also great. The vol- my teachers who taught me to estimate, I guessed school, as well as St. Nicholas School in Passaic, unteer chefs served a full course meal that was that there were 190 candies in the tube. and other schools attended with their parents. home-cooked and included borsch, chicken fin- All my friends and I had a great time. Overall, When you first entered the school gym, the gers, pasta, salad, dessert and more. the dance was excellent! first thing you noticed was the barrage of hearts. The selection for the raffle was amazing Danylo Szpyhulsky is a seventh grader at St. They were in many forms: heart-shaped bal- because they had 51 prizes. I managed to win the John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic School in loons, hearts on the tables, and even a game door prize, which was a bear that sings a song Newark, N.J.

Scenes of the Valentine’s Dance held at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic School in Newark, N.J.: dancing, games and activities, and friends. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 27

Parish youths pay annual pre-Christmas visit to the needy PARMA, Ohio – Members of St. Vladimir’s Junior Ukrainian Orthodox League chapter in Parma, Ohio, together with guests and their clergy, gathered on the rectory grounds prior to departure to St. Herman’s Monastery and House of Hospitality in Cleveland. For more than 10 years now, before Christmas the youth of the parish go to St. Herman’s, where they vol- unteer to prepare meals and sing carols to the needy of the communi- ty of Greater Cleveland who use St. Herman’s facilities.

Troupe of dancers in the spotlight at Ansonia event ANSONIA, Conn. – This group of young dancers was among the troupe of 25 young artists between the ages of 3 and 18 that per- formed at the “Schedryi Vechir” gathering held here at Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church on January 5. The evening included the traditional meatless meal, fol- lowed by a program that began with prayer and carols, and spotlighted Ukrainian folk dances. Seen (from left) are: Chrystyna Martyniuk, Taras Bidkovskiy, Sara German, Michael Klapyk, Kellie German and Miroslaw Klapyk.

Mishanyna AWAKENING of his people. M A R C H E R T O M A N T A H Below is an outline highlighting Shevchenko’s life and works. O R Z A N O J O E U R O S S A Date of birth: MARCH 9, 1914 D T O R U U Z Z T O A T I H I Birthplace: MORYNTSI, Kyiv region, Ukraine E I T A S M A L S O P D D K D Most famous collection of poetry: KOBZAR Studied in: ST. PETERSBURG E S O T A K I A N E O I I O A Some of his most notable poems: R T I N V E N T T O R S S I M SON (Dream) KAVKAZ (Caucasus) F C A A L N E E T R I F R L A VELYKYI LIOKH (The Great Dungeon) E C K A R O R O A D D O O I K TOPOLIA (The Poplar) HAIDAMAKY (i.e., participants of popular uprisings of the S C O O I S T N Y R O M Y Y Y 18th century who rebelled against Polish rule and serfdom) A T R A B L A I L O P O T K T ZAPOVIT (Testament) Themes of his works: M A S U L Z A P O V I T I Y R FREEDOM B A R D A K A N T Y L Y N L A JUSTICE HONOR O G O H O N O R O O T E G E S DIGNITY BROTHERHOOD G N I N E K A W A K A N I V U Date of death: March 10, 1861 M O B R O T H E R H O O D O M Final resting place: KANIV, Ukraine To solve this month’s Mishanyna, find the words capitalized in the text and outline below. OUR NEXT ISSUE: UKELODEON is published on the second During the month of March the Ukrainian community traditionally hon- Sunday of every month. To make it into our next issue, dated April 13, ors Taras Shevchenko, our nation’s greatest POET, and an extremely tal- please send in your materials by April 4. Write to: UKELODEON, The ented ARTIST, who was born a SERF. In fact, Shevchenko is known as the Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. national BARD of Ukraine in recognition of his key role in the national 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2003 No. 10

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