www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE:• Article by Yushchenko in Wall Street Journal — page 3. • Two special tributes to Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky — page 13. • Miss Soyuzivka 2005 and Soyuzivka dance camp recital — centerfold. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXII HE No.KRAINIAN 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2004 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine EmpireT State Building’sU lights Sen. Lugar isW questioned in Ukraine mark Ukraine’s independence about stalled Famine-Genocide resolution by Andrew Nynka behind the building’s lighting schemes by Roman Woronowycz ator from Indiana replied, “I did not know and the one responsible for granting any Kyiv Press Bureau that. I’ll have to review that to be sure.” PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Empire specific requests. After the press conference, The State Building, one of New York City’s But, in this case, the mistake was KYIV – Sen. Richard Lugar stated on Weekly’s correspondent was approached most prominent landmarks, paid tribute apparently made well before the lights September 1 while on a trip to Kyiv that the by a Kenneth Myers III, a senior profes- to the 13th anniversary of Ukrainian came on for the night. It takes six of the Senate resolution acknowledging the 1932- sional staff member of the Foreign independence on August 24 by lighting building’s staff electricians four hours to 1933 Great Famine in Ukraine as genocide the top 590 feet of the 1,453-foot build- Relations Committee, who suggested that manually prepare a lighting scheme for had not moved from his Senate Foreign The Weekly call Sen. Lugar’s press secre- ing in the colors of the Ukrainian nation- the night. Their mistake was not known Relations Committee because it lacks suffi- al flag. tary in Washington for an explanation. until hours after they had left for the day, cient support among committee members. Andrew Nynka, an editor on The It was the first time the building was lit when night settled on New York City and “We have many resolutions that we to commemorate Ukraine’s independence, Weekly’s staff in Parsippany, N.J., con- observers saw the Ukrainian national flag must address. I would say that this one tacted Andy Fisher, press secretary for but a mistake made earlier that day left turned upside down – which in some specifically is one that has not found the colors of the national flag reversed. the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. instances is a signal that a nation is in widespread support among the committee Asked to clarify Mr. Lugar’s remarks, Instead of what should have been blue, distress. members,” Mr. Lugar said in response to which represents the sky, on top of yel- Mr. Fisher, said: “The issue has been that “Fortunately, the tower was scheduled the question posed by The Ukrainian low, which represents the country’s wheat there is no support for this particular lan- to be white Wednesday evening, so I was Weekly. “It has not made it to the busi- fields, observers saw the building’s 204- guage in the Senate resolution from the able to reschedule the Ukrainian ness committee yet, which is one of the foot tall spire, as well as a number of Independence Day lighting tribute for White House and we’re trying to work it floors under it, lit yellow with a large sec- first steps. It would probably not receive a out to make modifications to the language Wednesday evening and this time the col- majority for passage in any event.” tion of blue below the yellow. ors were displayed in the proper with the supporters” of the resolution. A correction was made the following When informed that a majority of Asked what particular language he sequence,” Mrs. Ruth said in an e-mail members of the Foreign Relations day after some 25 phone calls and four e- message sent in response to one of the was referring to, Mr. Fisher said: “The mail messages were left with the build- Committee had, in fact, signed on in sup- original complaints. That e-mail was sub- port of the resolution, the Republican sen- (Continued on page 27) ing’s public relations office on the sequently provided to The Weekly. evening of August 24. Mrs. Ruth, who has been working at A spokeswoman for the Empire State the Empire State Building for 19 years, Building told The Ukrainian Weekly that said it was the first time a lighting the lighting mix-up was an inadvertent request to commemorate Ukrainian inde- error. pendence had come to her attention. Ukraineby Roman concludes Woronowycz Olympicsnastics, V iktoriawith Stiopina 23 medals in the high “I was very upset, angry and disap- Iryna Liber, executive secretary of the pointed to learn that the colors had been Kyiv Press Bureau jump and the women’s handball team. Ukrainian American Youth Association For Tedeyev, for whom these were the reversed on the tower Tuesday evening,” (SUM), said she wanted “to do some- KYIV – Ukraine finished in the first said Lydia Ruth, the building’s director third Olympics, it was the culmination of thing new for Ukrainians to celebrate dozen in both the gold medal standings of public relations and special projects an eight-year effort. He finally achieved and the overall medal count at the Athens coordinator. Mrs. Ruth is the person (Continued on page 12) a gold medal in freestyle wrestling after Olympics with a flurry of wins in the last taking a bronze in Atlanta in 1996 and two days of the Games. then failing to medal in Sydney in 2000. First, on August 28, wrestler Elbrus The Ukrainian wrestler’s win gave Ukrainian American from Detroit Tedeyev took a gold in the 66-kilogram Ukraine a total of nine gold medals for weight class with a convincing victory these Games, equaling its best previous over Jhamil Kelly of the United States. takes up farming in Ukraine effort, which occurred at the Atlanta Then, on the final day of competition, Games, where the Ukrainian Olympic Ukraine finished strongly, taking three by Roman Woronowycz squad finished in ninth place in the gold Kyiv Press Bureau bronze medals with third-place finishes by Hanna Bezsonova in rhythmic gym- (Continued on page 19) TALNE, Cherkasy Oblast – By all appearances, Roman Fedorowycz does not have farm- ing in his blood. He grew up in Livonia, Mich., a middle-class Kyiv market hit by two bomb blasts suburb located west of Detroit, by Roman Woronowycz Four men and one woman were arrest- nowhere near a barn or a field of Kyiv Press Bureau ed over the course of the last week in corn. His parents, Oksana and connection with developing explosive Bohdan, did not work the land for KYIV – The state militia announced devices and detonating them by remote a living. He completed graduate the arrest of five individuals on August control on August 20 in two separate work at the University of 27 suspected in two bomb blasts at the trash bins at the Troyeschyna Bazaar, Michigan, not exactly cow college. largest open-air market in Kyiv in which which resulted in the death of a female Mr. Fedorowycz, 43, a member one woman was killed. Meanwhile, pres- groundskeeper. The explosions, which of Plast Ukrainian Scouting idential candidate Viktor Yushchenko and occurred in the back area of the market- Organization in his youth, never officials in his political organization, Our place, resulted in injuries to 11 other particularly strove for merit Ukraine, continued to deny that political workers, among them citizens of badges in farming as a scout. Even supporters were complicit in any way in Vietnam, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The today he prefers fast cars, stylized, the explosion. marketplace is well-known for the wide mirrored sunglasses and Izod “These people are not associated with spectrum of foreigners who do business shirts to overalls and straw hats. Roman Fedorowycz discusses the harvest us,” Mr. Yushchenko said on August 30 there. Nonetheless, he became a yields with two of his farm managers out- while campaigning in the Kyiv Oblast. Mr. Yushchenko is leading in national side Iowa Ltd.’s farm machinery depot “The incident at the Troyeschyna Bazaar opinion polls in what is becoming a close (Continued on page 8) near the village of Talne, Cherkasy Oblast. is undoubtedly the handiwork of state authorities.” (Continued on page 22) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2004 No. 36 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS A decade of Kuchma: NEWSBRIEFS “Russian Club” opened in Kyiv political-reform bill. In June the Rada pre- liminarily approved another constitutional- success or degradation? KYIV – Ukrainian Prime Minister reform bill, which, according to the opposi- Viktor Yanukovych and Russian presiden- tion Our Ukraine and Yulia Tymoshenko by Taras Kuzio argument is frequently used to imply that tial administration head Dmitrii Medvedev Bloc, is essentially the same as the bill Eurasia Daily Monitor only centrists can maintain a stable on August 31 opened a “Russian Club” at rejected in April. (RFE/RL Newsline) Ukraine as they act as a “buffer” separat- the Premier Palats hotel in Kyiv, the only Ten years ago last month, Leonid ing eastern and western Ukraine, and five-star hotel in Ukraine, UNIAN report- Government pays wage arrears to miners Kuchma defeated the incumbent, Leonid Communists and anti-Communists. The ed. Mr. Medvedev said the club is a “new KYIV – The Ukrainian government has Kravchuk, in the second round of president praised the “evolutionary way” stage” for those wanting to develop rela- paid the last tranche of an eight-year wage Ukraine’s second presidential election. and castigated his left-wing and right-wing tions between Ukraine and Russia.